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homestead Entry No. 32l7,

Land Ofice at Natchit0ches, Louisiana,
August 26, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
IN named settler has fled notice of her
intention TO make final proof in support of her
claim, and that said proof will be made before
the Honorable Judge or Clerk District Court
at Benton, La, on 18th October, 1891 viz:
Homestead Entry No. 32l7-Eliza Dayis-fOr
the west half Of northwest quarter of section
80, township Is North, range II West Louisi-
ana Meridian. She names the following wit
nesses to prove her continuous residence upon,
and cultivation of said land, viz: Joe Dudley,
Frank Smith, Rias Davis and Watt Davis, Of
Haughton P. O., La.
September 2, 1891. oct .
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Homestead Entry No. 99s3.
Land Office at NatchitOches. La, !

Land OtfiCe at NatchltOches, La,
August 81, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
IN named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made before
the Honorable District Judge, or Clerk of the
District Court, at Benton, Louisiana, on 18th
October, 1891, viz Homestead Entry No.
2982-Preston Williams-for the west half
of southwest quarter of section 36, township
81 North, range ~ West Louisiana Meridian.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation Of
said land, Wig: Miles johnson, Price Smith,
Hardy Cook, Edmund Bryant, Of Midway T.
D., La,
L. DUPLEX, Register.
September 3, 1891. oct 8
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People in Print.

- %A' SoWaA was IN Town yes
terday.
Mr.. T. r. Heron, of Shreveport.
was in town yesterday. =
Messrs. W. Q. Hughes and R9M.
Underwood were in town Saturday.
Mr.. John 7. Pickett, from Hayti
plantation, Caddo parish, was in
town Saturday.
Mrs. NJ. E. Caldwell, from near
Plain Dealing, is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. E. Hall.
Mr.. Wiley O. Keith, of ward 5.
was in Benton last Thursday en-
route to Shreveport.
Mr.. L. D. Arick returned Friday
from Pearlington, Miss, to his plan
tation on Red River.
Mr.. j. s. Dixon, from Natchito-
ches, is visiting his brother, Mr.. j.
W. Dixon, at Rush Point.
Mr.. w. G. Belcher, of ward 5, has
accepted clerkship in the store of
Messrs. Zeigler & Belcher.
Mr.. W. W. Belcher, of ward 5,
was in town last week aud stopped
with his son, Mr.. John M. Belcher.
JOannes Smith, ESQ.,, and Mr.. L.
@. Biggs, of Bellevue, were in Ben
ton yesterday en- route to Shreve-
port.
Mr.. A. G. league has been ap-
pointed agent for the st. Louis
Southwestern Railway at Willow
Chute.
Mr.. j. w. Dixon and wife, of
Rush Point, and Mr.. W. A. Steed,
from Cottage Grove, were in Benton
on Monday.
Capt. W. G. Vance, Hon. Fl. W.
Ogden, Messrs. w. N. Doles, W. E.
Morris and j. M. Shaver were in
town Tuesday.
Mr.. Marcus L. Ella, who has been
afflicted with rheumatism for the
past few weeks, left last Sunday
for Hot Springs.
Mrs. M. E. Hughes and daughter,
Miss Mildred Hughes, from Natchi-
toches, are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. r. Thompson.
Mrs. j. M. Belcher returned home
Monday after a pleasant visit to
her cousin, Mrs. j. s. Swami, of
Cottage Grove neighborhoOd.
Mr.. J. Fl. Cabeen, Deputy Sheriff,
leaves for jackson, La, to-day, with
Nancy Griffin and Frank Graham,
insane prisoners, who have been
interdicted.
Mr.. Il. j. Lenoir was in town again
yesterday from his plantation on
Willow Chute, and says the peo-
pie of Benton treat him so well that
he can't stay away.
A well attended and successful
complimentary dance was rendered
Tuesday evening at Linwood to Miss
Mildred Hughes, of Natchitocbes,
Miss Claudio SenteIl, of New Or
leans, Miss Ruby Martin and Miss
Alabell Martin, of Dixie.
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aCa' Indemnity Association.

- J. ]. Scott, ShreVeport,
Agent the COnnccticut In
association, Waterbury,
'lank your Company for
snent Of my claim, under
zoos, on the life of WIN.
Word for $4,000. You paid
0aey Immediately on sat
evidence of the justuess OF
and as soon as proper in
aaa could be completed. |
! Jour action square and
aRe, and can recommend
" friends,
SARAH II. CRAWFORD.
GEO. GUNTHER.
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: ben Holman, one of the lead
la Elde-awake retail merchants
'''sspOrt, is offering special in
'a's to every one seeking bar
= Ory goods, dress goods, nov
0OOss' shoes, hats, etc. When
W iOrk recently his selections
nade with care and with the
. meeting competition from
quarter both as to quality and
nsisn now ready to supply the
y hls friends and customers
every one to call and see
lection.
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announcement.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

We are authorized to announce A. j..
MURFF, ESQ.,, as candidate for District At
tOrney of the Second Judicial District COM
posed of the parishes of BOssier, Bienville and
Webster; subject to nomination by the Dem@
ocratic party.
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A IL State, Parish aud Poll taxes for the year
n 1891, as set forth in the rolls on file are
now due and will become delinquent on nova
BILE property, September l.
A. R. THOMPSON,
State and Parish Tax Collector.
Benton, La, August 81, 1891.
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Ihs atmosphere Tuesday was a
mile reminder that the summer
h not ret met with fall.
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ARy move calculated to give us
sIter roads will receive the support
tlhe people of this parish.
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The backbone of the summer is
II set broken. 1t is difficult to
hsk anything possessing the con-
aeBcy Of a warm Jelly.
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possier parish is taking its De-
urraey staight.
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GoOd rams fell at this place Sun
|hraud Monday nights.
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furnishing our correspondent
aaOt visiting veterans at the
l0n 90 the 10th August, j. V.
s'e' OF I'd Arkansas Cavalry,
= W. DOdson, of 9Th Arkansas,
omitted by the secretary, and
names we're handed US too late
publication in last issue.
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thermometer Registered 80 de-
..ss at 2P. M. Tuesday
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ssstsx notice of Mr.. A. r. Thomp-
m. Tax Collector, in another COL
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|. rsined again yesterday after
,na We are having too much
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r.on Haas will pay the highest
.,,Est price for cotton.
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Died:

At his residence in BOssier parish, on Suu-
day at 6:l5 p. NJ, August 80, 1891, JAMES G.
PILKINGToN.
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ERJ. 7. Heron is our regular
hofised agent to solicit and re-
a Tor subscriptions to the Bos-
Il Banner.
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Kahn, 2O7 Texas street, Shreve
Is the sole agent for the cele
aed Charter Oak Stoves and
and always keeps a large
pS Tor bis customers; also, g9n.
house furnishing goods, cutlery,
asry, glass, chinaware, etc.
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Yesterday was decidedly a warm
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The FIRST bale of new cotton from
aectiOn vas received here Mon
It vas raised by Hughey Gill
u, colored, weighed 467 pounds
vas sold to Mr.. Leon Haas, one
SenlOn's enterprising merchants.
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ISTTCLOTHES YOU MANT7

your kind attention for brief matteroct talk on matter
supply with suitable o the F an a Wn,s
The idea uppeost minds gets omehg good
seceab at the very lowest price With all Of
want good clothes cheap but great deal of trouble deciding
what Clothing House will do the best
WE WILL That's to the point notf And why when
we have good and make the prices that will back this statement
esxy awe
Fall on this basis giving good honest goods at ae prices You
will find prepared please and carry promises
And what stock have for choose We
overlooking with the complete elegant
and Winter Styles shown this locality and
selected and bought figures all grades and vae
ties represented this stock with the choicest and
that line From one end the other from to bottom
all the sameust the best buysu the Of
the styles and all bought that makes possible
EASY to sell at the lowest of low prices
To be we'll dressed from be
noma well satisfied buyer We do Corners
and do well and thoroughly Our clothing
strength and durability that makes suit stay by It's hone
good CLOTH strong buttons trimmings and Innings
these points apt when buying but you
when Suits made sell that look nearly
well in the kind made you think more
of when have had suits months
We also greatest can lust as
well be the times little behind make you no
to be in style than otherwise Shapey all sizes and
all builds is thing we will have
We prepared you with carefully cut in the
latest fashions Our assortment large and complete that the
greatest latitude possible in gratifying individual tastes He will be
hard please who fails satisfaction
Winter display Our stock grades we'll from high Should YOU
low priced suit for work and hard service please you
perfectly and from that point through the intermediate grade
the finest dress suit will find well prepared and willing
better by than else And you prepared
and prices represented Of ask
claim bargains quality and prices merely
will proceed prove thoroughly completely
with high grade goods and the as of fair prices bargains
and buying your Fall and Winter Clothing Extend
ing invitation all call early wonder
you that we have line Of wonderfully fine goods at wonderfully
moderate prices
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They Will Get There

The great Ecumenical Council of
Methodists, composed of representa-
tive men from all parts of the civil
lied world, is now in session at the
National Capital
One of the significant features of
this distinguished body is the pres
ence of representative women sitting
side by side with representative men,
and on equal terms.
Ten years ago.. when this Council
met, no woman graced the occasion.
1t was not thought of. The idea OF
her occupying the seat of a delegate
in SO distinguished body would
have appeared ridiculous. The near
est approach she could make to such
presence was seat in the gallery
as a spectator. Ten years have pass
ed and she takes q seat on the first
floor and is invited to part in the
deliberations of the most distinguish
ed, dignified, and able body of Metho-
dists that could be gathered from
the four quarters of the globe. No
body exclaims; nobody is surprised;
it is matter of course; it is the ma
tural order of things.
Thus Methodism is recognizing and
utilizing the talent and influence of
woman in all departments of her
work. Only one barrier remains and
that is being battered down deliber-
ately and effectually. At the next
quadrennial meeting of the chief
body of this church, the General Con
ference, the question will be deter
mined whether the only dividing line
founded on sex as recognized by the
church, shall not be obliterated and
woman admitted not only to all the
privileges but all the activities of
the church. The vote ON this ques-
tion in the Fall conferences so far as
they have been held, shows major
ity OF 852 in her favor, and the trend
Of sentiment is all in this direction.
If the Conference was four years re-
moved it would be almost unani-
nous.
When Methodism, which has al
ways been foremost in the advance.
ment of women, has thus opened its
doors to her activity and influence,
1t will be equivalent to doubling its
membership and more than doubling
|the power Of the church in christian
king the world.
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AFai1ure All Around.

The Mckinley tariff, which it's au
thor is defending in Ohio, and which
the Republican Convention in this
State asked the voters to indorse, is
a demonstrated and confessed failure
in all that was claimed for it.
l. The bill was supported Oh the
plea that it would cause an increase
Of wages. The workingmen know
that it has not done this. Wages
have been reduced in many more in
stances than they have been advan-
ced.
2. 1t was claimed that this law
would check imports and prevent the
flooding Of the home market with
foreign goods" Protection organs
now boast that our imports have in
creased the past year-in other words
that the home market has been
"fooded"-$55, 10000 over the year
before.
I 3. 1t was the theory of the bill
that prices would advance under it,
so that the manufacturers could af-
ford to pay more to their beloved
workingmen. "A cheap coat means
cheap man." said President Harri-
son. Let US elevate men by raising
prices, said the McKinleyites. Now
they are trying to prove that prices
have not advanced If this be So
if the importer can change no more
on account of the increased duties,
and the home manufacturer can get
no more on account of increased pro-
lection, and wages are stationary or
lower-is not the Mckinley law an
all-around failure.
Let sensible men answer.-N. Y.
World.
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DR.. Kelley's cure for drunkenness
is doing more for humanity than
Koch's lymph promised to do, al
though 80 much noise has been made
over it.
The fact is demonstrated that
Kelley can reform the drunkard.
He can take him out of the gutter
and make gentleman out of him in
three weeks. He can turn him away
from his cups and destroy his APP
petite for intoxicants. He can make
it easy for him to abstain. He re-
stores him to sober man without a
struggle.
This is a greater boon than tn e
prevention of small-pox-as much
greater as whisky isa greater curse
than small-po We count it among
the greatest discoveries of modern
times. And it is no longer an expert
ment. 1t is demonstrated fact
that drunkenness can be effectually
cured. If it sets man on his feet
for a year or two, there is no reason
to doubt but that it is permanent.
Even if the appetite should return,
the victim who has had year or
two of release from its grip ought
to be able to stand of his own will
There are thousands of grateful
examples of the efficacy of the treat
ment now scattered over the United
States. They are in almost every
cityand locality. They number among
them some of the most distinguished
and reputable men. They freely
and unhesitatingly testify to the
fact of the cure. There ought to be
agencies in every town The medi-
cine ought. to be on sale at every
drug store.
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Whereas it has pleased Almighty God
in his great wisdom and all-wise judg-
ment to remove by death from our midst
our dear friend and classmate Maud d.
Anderson, in her tender youth, therefore
be it
RESOLVED, LIST, that we, the members
of the Mcclure Chapel Sunday School,
recognizing in her regular and worthy
attendant and true friend of the school,
have by her decease sustained an ire
parable loss.
Resofced, End, that her amiable and
loving disposition, her womanly demean-
or and her unwavering faith are traits
worthy OF our emulation.
Resolved. 3rd, that while we tenderly
sympathize with the family in their hour
OF affection, we share with them hope
of reunion in that better world where
there is no more parting and where Joy
unspeakable excludes all sorrow.
RESOLVED, 4th, that copy OF these re-
solutions be preserved by the school
copy presented to the family and copy
published in the Morgantown papers.
S. ii. Morris,
G. f. Dorsey,
SUSIE BuNNER,
KATE Dorsey,
Ida NORRIS,
Committee.
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The Wells Case Goes to the Grand Jury.

The hearing of Harry Wells before
Alderman McMasters was somewhat
lively yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Wells modified his testimony given
before Commissioner Smith by stat
ing that he did not consider the Civ
ing him of the billiard table brush
by Mrs. Durr as a present, as she
was having a room cleaned out, and
told him he could have the brush to
clean his shoes, appearing to consid-
er the gift as a radiance of rubbish
He also said that when she present.
ed him with an umbrella it was given
as Christmas present, and he got
one in common with several other
employees Of the hotel, and no signi-
ficance attached to it other than the
usual courtesy incident to holiday
occasions. He said he had taken
the brush with him to Morgantown,
but not to Montana, and did not at
tach any significance to the gift.
The Alderman decided to send the
case to the grand jury.-Ptttsburg
Dispatch, Oct. 10Th.
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Robbrng the Poor.
W. L. Wilson in st. Louis Republic.

w. L. Wilson in st. Louis Republic.
American papers in the past few
days have contained an Associate
Press dispatch from London care
fully reviewing the effect of the Nc
Kinley bill upon British manufac-
turers, and nothing could confirm
more fully than this review the
charges which tariff refoi mers have
always made against their bill. The
whole matter may be summed up in
the single sentence, THE cheaper
grades are efecually shut out, but
the higher priced articles are little
affected" The same is true of wool
ems. "The class of Leeds goods the
tariff keeps out is the cheap grade
the poor bought" SO also as to linen
and textil goods generally. While
ordinary buyers are paying the in
creased cost of tin plate, we read
that attn plate is still sold freely to
the Standard Oil Co., which pays
little duty on tin plate, getting SO
per cent refunded on the tin cans it
exports.
This is the old story as to the
working of a protective tariff. 1t
concerns itself chiefly with the ar
ticles the great masses of the people
are compelled to buy, and gives little
heed to the luxurious grades which
higher people are able to indulge in.
Its authors knows full well that for
one man that can buy Leeds broad
cloth one hundred men must content
themselves with the cheaper wooden
or so called wooden. Hence we read
that it is the cheaper grades the poor
bought that are kept out by the
higher rates Of the Mckinley bill.
The poor are the many, the rich are
the few. The tax gatherer knows
where his profits lie For the labor
ing man his necessary clothing is
higher in price or inferior in quality.
He must work more days to clothe
his family in comfortable wooden
goods, or he and they must face the
winter and take the chances of health
and disease in shoddy or bogus
woolens; but the wearer of broad
cloth is little, if at all, affected by
the bill.
The workingman who roofs his cot
tage with imported tin plate, and he
can get no other, pays his two and
two-tenths cents per pound tariff
upon it, and the Government refunds
nothing to him. The great Stand
ard Oil Co., exports it's oil in tin
cans on which the Government re-
funds to it 80 per cent of this tax,
not only discriminating in its favor,
but enabling it by this provision to
furnish light cheaper to foreigners
than to our own people.
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this outcryofthe mothers heart shows
into what herd it is to be branded,
and in moment more the smoke of
the torment arises IS the huge red
hot branding iron is pressed down
on its quivering, shrinking flesh. A
stock man told me be had seen a
brand as big as meat platter burnt
into the sides Of calves only two
weeks old
0 the crimes and the cruelties of
men in the pursuit of gain,
NJ A Y
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NOT DOWN ON THE BILLS.
An Unexpected Scene in the burr Di-
vorce Hearing Yesterday.


There was little scene yesterday
that was not advertised on the bills
of the Durr divorce case, Frank w.
Smith, the commissioner to take
testimony, was jogging along pleas
antly, while G. F. McKenna for j. X.
Durr, Philip G. Pedleton for Mrs.
Lucy j. Durr and S. A. Ammon for
Mrs. jarrett were diminishing for
points in the triangular fight, when
all at once q witness testimony
made the fight quadrangular and
gave fourth lawyer employment.
Harry Wells, formerly a night
clerk at Durr's Hotel, had come all
the way from Montana to set Mrs.
Durr straight on the record concern
ing certain allegations made degro-
gatory to her by Mr.. Durr. Wells
testified that Mrs. DUR had not Civ
en- him certain fancy billiard
brush.
No sooner had he made the state
ment than Mr. DUR quietly arose
and walked ont. He returned short.
ly after with AL Heiner, from Alder
man McMasters' office and at the
conclusion ofthe hearing Mr.. Heiner
informed Wells that he wanted him
on charge Of larceny, and the two
repaired without and demonstration
to the aldermans office, and after
short powwow, Attorney Joseph NJ.
Friedman came into court and went
on Mr.. Wells bond to insure his APP
pearanee at ajhearing this afternoon.
Up to the point named Mr.. Wells
testimony went to put Mrs. Durr in
good shape as to the charger of cruel
and he also averred that
on one occasion Mr.. Durr, during
Mrs. Durr's absence, had given "a
supper to Mrs. Jarrett.
1t would appear that Mr.. Durr
proposes that if it be shown that
Mrs. Durr did not give Wells
certain property he shall ex-
plain the manner in which it came
into bis possession The whole affair
was so quietly conducted that some
people in the building did not know
a hearing was in progress. The
case promises to make large amount
of grist for the lawyers ittsburg
Dispatch Oct. 9th.
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The West Virginia editorial asso-
citation met in Parkersburg yester-
day. The business meetings of the
association will be concluded to day
and the editors will go on an excur-
sion to Cincinnati, Louisville and
the Mammoth Cave to morrow morn
ing. The present meeting promises
to be of more than usual interest to
the craft.
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Standard -four so cts. a
sack at Victor Elevator & Mills
Co.
The best grade of -four at
10 cts a sack at Victor Eleva-
tor & Mills Co.
Buy your flour and feed at
the Victor Elevator & Mills
Co., we will sell it to you dirt
cheap.