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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01
A Noted Knight Temp|ar
Owes His Health to Peruna.

Colonel T. P. Moody, a prominent
Knight Templar, is well known in every
city in the United States west of Buff
falo, n. Y, as jewelers. Auctioneer.
In the city OF Chicago as a prominent
lodge man, being a member of the K.
It's and also of the Masons. The cut
shows Colonel Moody in the costume
of the Oriental Consistory Masons,
a2nd degree.
In a recent letter from 5000 Mich
igan avenue, Chicago, Ill, Mr.. Moody
says the following:
"For over twenty-five years I
suffered from cafarrh, and for
over ten years / suffered from
catarrh of the stomach terribly.
"Ihave taken all kinds of n7edi-
cines and have been treated by
all kinds of doctors, as thousands
of my acquaintance are aware
i'm different parts of the United
States, where I have Travelled, but
my relief was only temporary,
until a little over year ago 1
started to take Peruna, and at the
present time / am better than 1
have been for twenty years.
"The soreness has left my sfOm"
ach entirely and / am free from
Indigestion and dyspepsia andwiH
say to all who are troubled with
catarrh or stomach trouble of any
kind, dom put 1t off and suffer,
but begin to take Peruna right
away, and keep 1t up until you
are cured, as you surely will be If
you Persevere.
"My wife, as many in the southwest
can say, was troubled with a bad
cough and bronchial trouble, and doc
tors all over the country gave her up
to die, as they could do nothing more
for her. She began taking Peruna with
the result that she is better now than
she has been in years, and her cough
has almost left her entirely. The sore
ness has left her lungs and she is as
well as she ever was in her life, with
thanks, as she says, to Peruna. Yours
very truly, I. P. Moody.
Catarrh in its various forms is rapid
~ becoming a general curse. An I'M
doubted remedy has been discovered
by DR.. Hartman. This remedy has
been thoroughly tested during the
past forty years. Prominent men have
come to know of it's virtues, and are
making public utterances on the sub
iect. To save the country we must
save the people. To save the people we
must protect them from disease. The
disease that is at once the most preva.
lent and stubborn of cure is catarrh.
Hone were to make list of the diff
ferent names that have been applied
to catarrh in different locations and
organs, the result would be astonish
ing. We have often published partial
liss of these names, and the surprise
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01
PURE MILK SUPPLY.
Upon 1t, Say Sanitary Authorities
Depends the Health of Entire
Communities.

In nothing that is bought for human
food is the necessity of cleanliness and
purity more manifest than in milk.
Meats and vegetables are for the most
part thoroughly cooked before they
are eaten, fruits are peeled and nuts
are shelled; but milk is more or less
injured in flavor and in nutritive prop
critics by boiling, and has no protec-
tive cover to keep it clean. 1t is there
fore essential for the consumer to
know the history of the milk he gets.
In view of the Importance of this
question the provider for the family
should if possible himself inspect
the dairy his milk comes from,
and should satisfy himself that
perfect cleanliness is the rule
in every stage. The cow barn
should be well ventilated and sunny,
the cows should be healthy and clean,
the mixer should have well-washed
hands, and the udder should be washed
before each milking.
In many dairies and farms all these
essentials are now strictly observed,
and if the milk is then bottled at once
and the bottle is kept sealed until de-
livered, one may feel reasonably GER
tain that the milk is fit to drink. If
this certainty is denied one, especially
if there are young children in the
family, the only recourse is steriliza-
ton. Boiling for a few minutes will
lii oil oermS. hit at the same time IL
kills the milk, which becomes a diff
ferent fluid and, as many physicians
| believe, less nutritive than raw milk.
Another and less Objectionable pro.
cess is what is called "Pasteurization, ;,
by which is meant keeping the milk at
a temperature of about ITO degrees
for 20 minutes, but never letting it
come to boil.
Either boiling or Pasteurization will
destroy the germs which cause acid
fermentation or putreaction, as well
as the germs of tuberculosis; but il
these changes have occurred, boiling
will not annihilate the poisonous prod.
ucts already formed; it will not make
bad milk good.
The addition of any Of the various
representatives." to milk is only an ex
/ change of one poison for another, and
should D9 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Com.
psnioq.
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DEHORNINt3 CATTLE.
the Operation Can Be Performed
without Trouble.

In response to inquiry the National
stockman republishes the subjoined
description of dehorning cage:
Dimensions, 6 feet long, feet high,
3h feet wide at top in front and 4h
feet wide at top at back end; bottom
or foot board a foot wide, with seven
cleats 1h inch thick, foot long,
nailed across it to keep cattle from
slipping; footboard 2 inches thick
and rests on three by cross-pieces
feet long. To these are bolted up
right pieces feet long, by inches,
for nailers for sides of cage. Across
the top cage are used two strips by
4 inches for each set of uprights,
bolted one on each side of upright.
The inside of this frame is boarded
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

caused by the first publication of it to
all people. both professional and non
professional, was amusing. And yet
we have never enumerated all of the
diseases which are classed as ca
tarrh. 1t must be confessed, however,
to see even this partial list drawn up
in battle array is rather appalling. If
the reader desires to see this list, to-
gether with short exposition of each
one, send for our free catarrh book.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Co.
1umbus, Ohio.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

Dropsy treated free by DR.. 81. H. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, GA. The greatest DIR psy
specialists in the world. Read their adver-
tisement in another column of this paper.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01
Earliest Russian MiIlet.

Will you be short of hay? If SO plant a
plenty of this prodigally prolific inlet
TO TONS OF RICH HAY PER ACRE.
Price SO lbs. 81 90; l00lbs. $50, low freights
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever
used for all affections of the throat and
lungs-Wm. 0. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind,
Feb. 10, $780,.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

Sweat or fruit acids will not diseolor
goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES. Sold by druggists, lOc. package.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

The man who sprawls all over the street
car would shrink like 20-cent shirt if he
had to pay two fares.-Baltimore News.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

Many a man who thinks he is a martyr
is only chump.-Chicago Daily News.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

Woman's love is like an ill-spent fortune
we never know its value till we lose it.
London Answers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

Nothing is so hard to do as-nothing.-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-05-01

Most things are easier to learn than to
unlearn.-Ram's Horn.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
nird. Are Like Human Beings.

Canaries, like human beings, vary
very much in character. some cocks be-
ing so Indifferent and idle that they
will let the hen do all the work of
building and rearing, while they them
selves sit and plume their feathers.
Others, again, are perfect gentlemen in
their manners, waiting on the hen with
a quiet courtesy and seeing that all she
requires is at once brought to her.
Again, the hens vary in disposition,
some hens behaving in quiet modest
way, attending to their young ones
with regularity, while others are in II
constant state of chatter with their
husbands, pecking and arguing with
them every time they 90 near. Thus
we see that these little birds have their
tiffs and domestic quarrels, not unlike
ourselves Chambers Journal.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
HOME NOTES..

Try adding tablespoonful of lcro-
scne to a pail of clear hot water to
wash The windows.
One or two good sized mirrors In
brass or gilt frames will do much to
tighten n dark hall or room.
To clean cut glass wash articles, let
them dry aftcrward, rub them with
prepared chalk and soft brush, care
fully going into all the cavities.
To make Il mahogany table shine like
mirror dip woolen cloth into n ta-
blespoonful of vinegar mixed with
three of pure inseed oil and rub Wig
orousy.
Lemon peel (and also orangc) should
be all saved and dried. j is Il capital
substitute for kindling wood. \ hand
full will revive Il dying fire and at the
same time delicatcly perfume a room.
To rcnovate black satin ribbon heat
some ale, and in it steep the ribbon
for some time. After rnSing the rib
bon iron it while wet between two
cloths, and it will be stiff and glossy
like new
In spongiag out bureau drawers and
those of sidcboards use tcpid water
containing II l per cent solution Of car
bolic acid, or, If preferred, use I; small
quantity of tllyincne in the tepid WA
ter instead of the acid
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
Drain Weights.

The average weight of a Scotchman's
brain is sixty ounces, an Englishman's
forty-nine, a Frenchman's little over
forty-five. The weight of Dutch, Frisi-
an, Italian and Lapp brains come near
that of the Englishman, while the Ger
man brain is in many instances heav-
icr. The Polish brain is fo-ty-seven
ounces. Among Hindoo and other races
in India 1t is from forty-one to forty
four ounces, but Mussulmans average
more and the Khonds, one of the abo-
riginal races of india, much less-not
quite thirty eight ounces. Travelling
toward China, the brain weight of the
tribes there settled increases. In Afri-
ca the average weight is from forty
three to forty-eight ounces; in America
that of the Indian averages forty-seven
ounces; in Australia from forty to for
ty-twO ounces.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
FLOWER AND TREE.

Palms and ferns should never be all
lowed to stand in Il draft.
When moss is seen on fruit trees, it
may he taken as evidence of lack of
thrift i'll the trees.
The ideal soil in which to set plant
is one that is moist. without being wa
ter soaked, neither 100 dry nor too wet
Dust is great enemy of window
plants in connection with dry heat.
Care must he taken to keep the air
moist
In India the tea plant is naturally a
tree, but by means of pruning it is kept
SO small that it seems to be only Il
bush.
For setting in n dry soil the plant
should be we'll rooted and stocky, as 1t
must depend on the roots it already
has to make Il start.
Vines of all kinds flower and fruit
freely only after they have reached the
top OF their support. When they have
arrived" they set about blooming.
Pe0nies should be planted i'm October
Once planted they should not be dis
turbcd, but should be allowed to form
strong clunps. Thus treated the flow
crs increase i'll size and beauty with
each succeeding season.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
The Force of cyclones.

Careful estimates of the forcc Of 81
cyclone and the energy required to
keep Il full tlcdgcG hurricane in active
operation reveal the presence Of Il pow
er that makes the mlslticst efforts of
men appear as nothing in comparison
A force fully equal TO over 40o,0OO,H 900
horsepower was estimated as develop
ed in a West Indian cyclone. This is
about fifteen times ilc power that can
be developed by all the means within
the range of mans capabilities during
the same time. Wac steam, water,
windmills and the strength of all men
and all animals combined they could
not ut all approach the tremendous
force eXcrted
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
DlslNFEcTLNG a sHIF.
Moist Heat, Thorough Cermtcidal
Agent. LII Used.

When the vessel has tied up to the
the removal of the bedding. clothing
md cushions and other cloth fabrics To
the quarantine shed. Here they arc
hung ON Il framework consisting Of
series of racks suspended from Il long
cur running on IL track and so arranged
that wllcn the racks are filled the
whole thing may be run inside one of
the three great disinfccting cylinders
with which the station is equipped.
These cylinders are enormous steel
boilers fifty feet in length by eight feet
in diameter and fitted inside with con-
tinuous coils of steam pipe. The cylin-
derS are covered With asbcstus and
swathcd i'll felt, and when the cylinder
caps are ON they are airtight When
the clothing has been placed inside and
the cylinders closed, dry heat is forced
through the pipes at Il temperature of
$50 degrees, and this is followed by
moist heat raised to IL temperature of
230 degrees. The pressure of from six
to eight pounds put upon thie steam
heavy mattresses or handles of cloth
ing
After period which varies from
thirty minutes to an hour the cylinders
are opened, the racks are run out, and
the rapid evaporation which follows
causes the clothing to dry almost inn
mediately. The clothing is unharmcd
by this process, and the moist heat is II
thorough gcrmicidal agent. Ii is an in
tcrcsting fact that if a freshly launlcr
ed linen shirt or COLLAR is put into the
cylinder it will emerge thoroughly
moist and apparently in need of nnoth-
err starching. The evaporation is 50 rap
i'd, however, that it is Immediately re-
stored to its original condition, not
even the gloss being removed Leslie's
Monthly.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
OUR CONSCIENCE FUND.
II was Started with IA Dollar In the
Yenr 1911

''In the year 1S11," says II. L. Arm
strong in Ainslees Magazine, Ian
anonymous citizen of New York sent
dollar to the treasury department at
Washington with an avoMel that he
had defrauded the government and
wanted to make restoration. \ dollar
meant something to Uncle Sam i'll
those necessitous days when the coun-
try verged on war with Great Britain,
and it was a patriotic as We'll as n pen
itent act. The contributor was the
founder of the conscience fund, and
probably he died in the odor of sane
tity.
During the preceding thirty-five
years of the life of the republic no one
had despoiled the government, or the
private conscience WAS callous. This
New York man, indeed, seems to have
been the one blemish on a golden era
of national virtues, for fifty years were
to elapse before there was an addition
to the fund.
In 1861, just after Sumter was fired
on, the sum of $4,000 i'm bonds was re-
ceived by the treasury department,
with a letter explaining that a sorely
tried conscience could no longer cn-
dure its burden of guilt. The plain in
ference WAS that the sender, realizing
the United States would need mint
of money to carry on the war, Judged
1t not TO be Il time to defer repentance.
Think of the bounty jumpers who prof
itcd by his contribution.
ut was really useful to the country
In another way. The conscience fund,
which had languishcd for want of n
shining example, now became active.
1t has been quoted pretty steadily ever
since. At the present time it amounts
to more than $3O0,0O0. Indeed, restitu-
ton is getting to be the fashion, and
the time may come when no one will
take advantage of the government or
do so only with the l;ludable design OF
swelling the conscience fund when any
emergency confronts Uncle Sam"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
HOW THE CHINESE GET RAIN ]!
Peculiar Precticc. In Vogue In the
Celestial Kingdom.

1t is one Of tlle peculiarities of the
Chinese that. while they have develop
ed elaborate PHILOSOPHERS. none of them
has led to any confidence in the uni
formity of nature. Neither the people
nor their rulers have any fixed opinion
as to the causes of rainfall. The plan
In some provinces when the need OF
rain is felt Is to borrow Il god from Il
leighboring district and petition him
for the desired rain. If his answer Is
satisfactory, he is returned to his home
he may be put out in the sun us hint
to wake up ana do his duty. A bunch
Of willow is usually thrust into his
hand, as willow is sensitive to mois-
ture
Another plan in extensive use is the
building of special temples in which
are wells containing several iron tab
lets. When there is scarcity of rain,
messenger starts out with tablet
marked with the date of the journey
and the name of the district making
the petition. Arriving mt another city,
he pays sum of money and is allow
ed to draw a new tablet from the WE'LL
throwing in his own by way of eN-
change. On the return journey he is
supposed to eat only bran and travel
at top speed day and night. Some
times hc passes through districts as
greatly In need of rain as his OWL
Then the people in these places way
lay him and, temporarily borrowing his
tablet get the rain intended for anoth
er place.
Prayers are usually made in the fifth
and sixth months when the rainfall IS
always due, and a limit of ten days
is set for their effective operation. Tn
der such conditions rain usually falls
during the prescribed time. When the
prayers are i'll progress, the umbrella
among other objects, comes under the
ban. In some provinces foreigners
have been mobbed for carrying this
harmless article at that time.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
Consistency.

They had been married but two
months. He came home one evening
to find his Wife i'm tears She had
found an old scrnpbooll of his in
which were pasted some poems he had
written to some one else and published
i'm the college papers. II thought She
said, you had never loved amy one but
me" And lie promptly rcassurcd her
that She had thought truly, and burned
up his old scrapbook in the furnace
I'm tie basement.
And the next day he found tina, she
had distriluicd on the mantcl and the
dresser not less than five photographs
OF rs many former bcauX of hers and
invited two of them who were in town
TO dinncr the next Sunday st. Louis
Mirror.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
GONE METALS.

Iridium, worth more than $3.50
pound, is the hardest metal known and
is used to tip gold pens.
l.ithium, worth more than S1,1OO a
pound, is used only in medicine, it's
Salts being valuable in rheumatic af-
fcctions.
Tungsten. worth 80 cents pound, is
largely used in matallurgy and gives
to steel qualities similar to those i'm
parted by molybdenum.
Molybdcnum, worth S1.4l pound, is
used i'll met;illurgy. Molybdenum steel
possesses the rare quality of prcserv-
ing its h.tr,lncss even when heated to
rentesS.
Selenium. which lins the curious prop
efty ot losing its resistance to the elec-
trio current under the influence Of
light, is used in the telclectroscope and
is worth So. Il pound.
Uranium, worth Ss6 a pound, is used
in the glass and porcelain industries.
1t has been found thnt uranium car
bieie is superior to nickel or tungsten
in the manufacture of high grade steel.
Palladium, Which has the smallest
coeilieient of dilatation, is used for tho
mounting of astronomical instruments.
The standard meter of France is made
of palladium. The pure metal costs
SIS il pound
Nanadium oNiGiZcs in air with great
difficulty. mclts at 1000 degrees and
becomes rcdhot in hydrogen Neither
hNdrorhlorir acid nor nitric acid at
tacks it. II costs S592 Il pound and is
used in cooring glass and in making
indclible inks.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
YOKOHAMA BY NIGHT.
Lantern illumination Makes the Cit,
Akin to Fairy land.

AKIN vO fI1ryINnu.
A row of paper lanterns in the black
shadow of Il wall lis the first impress
sion the newly arrived traveller has of
Yokohama as he steps from his SAM
pam on TO the wharf ut night.
The lanterns hang low and almost
motionlcss. but at the word 'rcEshaw''
they begin to sway, and With Il silent,
almost rliytlImical movement they
come rushing toward him. n moment
later he discovers that each lantern is
attached to Il rickshaw, which offers
for less than half Il ven an hour to CON
Ncy him anywhere his fancy may lead
him. But 20 where lie will the lantern
is always there, dangling and swaying
and dimly finishing.
The lantern on the rickslaw is Il
characteristic detail of the night pic
ture of Yokohama 1t is IL series of
brilliant dashcs of color under II cloud
less starlit Sky, famed by a soft
breeze which seems half OF the sea and
half of the tropics, with smiling, doll
like people gliding about everywhere.
1t hardly seems real. 1t isn't iail,ylaml
exactly, because fairies are not sup
posed to be always as picturesque as
are these .Iapancse. Certain it is that
few things anywhere in the round
world can be more beautiful than IAN
tern lighted Yokohama.
AS the occidental crosses the bridge
over the canal from the foreign quar-
ter and enters the native city he secs;
81 bcwildcring maze of lights. Through
out Yokohama gas lamp posts are few
and far between, Il fact which makes
the lantern Illumination all the more
conspicuous. They are not hung nj reg
ular heights or intervals, but make II
sort of t;nglc of soft colorcd lights
over the front of the buildings and
even across the street. New York Mail
and Express.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-03
SAMOAN COSTUMES.
Made with Ratchet. a Club and a
Pot of Paint.

In the south seas dresses are made
with hatchct a club and pot of
paint Evyry housewife is her own
robe and habit maker. When she feels
the need of a new gown, She goes and
chops down Il tree. When he. husband
needs IL new suit. She chops WDwn am
other tree. That is easy, for men and
women are clad exactly alike-a plain
fold OF cloth caught about the waist
and hanging loosely to the knee or
shin. The races inhahiting the islands
of the tropical Pacific are almost alone
in having no idea of the loom and the
various arts of the spinner and weaver
This lack is undoubtedly due to the
natural provision of material which
renders a woven cloth unnecessary to
this primitive people. The only fabric
crude, tough paper made of bast. The
tree from which the material is derived
is the paper mulberry or Broussonetia
papyrifera, which is grown III planta-
tionS under the sole charge of women
and is also found Wild in all parts of
the islands. In arcllipclagoes so high
ly advanced as Samoa and Tonga,
where women have none of the coarser
work to do. the entire care ol the null
berry plantations rests with the wonl-
Ell of each village.
The trees are planted closely to Ia
sure a spindling growth without lat
cral branches. The plant will grow
from seed. In such IL climate there is
no difficulty about getting things to
grow. but experience has shown that
better results follow the planting uf
twigS from the sturdicr wild trees In
about tllre. years from planting the
tree will be i'm the best condition for
the clothmakcrS. In that time it will
attain Il height of twelve feet OF moro
and the trunk will have Il uniform di
anlcter of rather less than two inches.
About four feet of the trunk is waste
and not available for the particular
purpose for which the tree is grown;
the first two feet from the base is too
tough 10 work we'll. ANA the two feet
at the top is too soft. lf tile tree is.
properly grown and left to mature,
there will be available for the clotsl,
maker Il sticl. of eight feet i'm the clear
and ms straight as Il measuring rod.
without Knots or branches and of uni
form girth throughout = New York
Tribune.