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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30
Gen. Kirby Smith Dead.

Special to the Times Democrat
Sewanee, Tenn, March 2S.-Gen.
E. Kirby Smith, professor of mathe-
mates in the University of the South
since 1876, died here this afternoon
at 1926 o'clock. For some years
his health has been gradually
failing. He was taken i'll in New
Orleans two weeks ago, and was con-
fined to his bed with fever, butrecov-
cred sufficiently to travel and report
ed for duty at Sewanee on Monday
March 10.
Two days afterward he caught
cold. A relapse ensued, congestion
of the righth lung set in, and despite
all care and attention he sank rapidly,
his physicians recognizing from the
first that the chances were against
his recovery. Once or twice during
Temporary periods of semi-conscious-
ness his mind wandered through
past scenes, and he ordered "the bat
teries" to de brought up. Early this
morning he became totally uncon-
scious, but not before he had shown
himself to be strong and confident in
his Christian faith. One of his very
last connected utterances was verse
from the twenty-third Psalm :
Though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of DEATH" etc. Gen.
Smiths wife and six of his family
were with him when he died. His
eldest son, E. Kirby Smith, Jr., is
absent in Mexico, where he is serving
as civil engineer. Gen. Smith mar
ried, in 1868, Miss Cassie Selden, of
Lynchburg, Va, by whom he had
eleven children, all of whom survive.
The funeral will take place on Friday.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

The Baltimore Weekly Sun is one
of the best and most complete
newspapers in the United States;
It containa all tile news of the week
at home and abroad, with special
dispatches from all news centres,
correspondence on all subjects of
interest from various points; also.
editorials discussing and explaining
current events, and full and correct
market reports especially of interest
to farmers. Terms-0ne dollar per
year; clubs of six, s. a year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

Mr.. Ben Holman, one of the lead
ing and wide-awake retail merchants
in Shreveport, is offering special in.
ducements to every one seeking bar
gains in dry goods, dress goods, nov
elites, boots, shoes, hats, etc. When
in New York recently his selections
were made with care and with the
view of meeting competition from
every quarter both as to quality and
prices. He is now ready to supply the
wants of his friends and customers
and invites every one to call and see
his selection.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

When DR.. Chalmers said: every
man is missionary, now and forever,
for good or for evil, whether he in
tends or designs it or not" he stated
a great and solemn truth. No one
can occupy neutral position, and
every act we perform tells, however
remotely, upon the destiny of human
beings. Not only are be building up
characters in ourselves, but we are
influencing for veal or woe the char
acter and destiny of others. "No
man lives unto himself" Our words
and actions affect those with whom
we come in contact, and they are
better or worse for the influence
which goes out from us to them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

The following places have been
selected for the Peabody Normal
Institutes of 1898: Thibodaux, June
S to 8; Crowley, June 5 to 8; Bas-
trop, June S to 8; Opelousas, June
II to Is; Plaquemine, June II to 16 ;
Minden, June II to 16; Baton Rouge,
June 10 to %; Mansfield, June 10
to %; Ruston, June 26 to 30; Mont.
gomery, June 26 to 80.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

A special extra session of Congress
has only been called by a newly in
augurated President four times in
the last fifty years. Such extra ses-
sions at the beginning of new ad-
ministration are exceedingly rare
OF the four that were called, three
were made necessary by the failure
of the outgoing Congress to pass
appropriation bills. The other was
called by President Lincoln at the
outbreak of the war.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30
Cyclone in Richland.
Special to the Times-Democrat

Special to the Times Democrat
Rayville, La, March rs "A terri
BILE cyclone visited the southern part
of this parish Thursday afternoon
about 4 o'clock, passing near the
town of Archibald, a small station on
the N. o. and N. W. Railroad, about
twelve miles south of here, travelling
in northeasternly direction blowing
down houses, uprooting large trees
and completely demolishing every
thing in its path for distance of
several miles and about half mile
wide. Several negroes were killed
and wounded, four being the last
number reported as killed and six
more or less injured. Mr.. J. B. Arch
ibald's dwelling house, near Archi
bald, was blown several feet and
completely turned bottom upward,
but fortunately he and his family
were visiting neighbours at the time,
whose house was also blown down,
only slightly injuring Mr.. Archibald
and lis mother. No other whites
are reported injured and none kile4.
There was great destruction to sew
eral plantations through which the
storm passed, destroying numerous
houses, fences and everything in its
path. The New Orleans and North
western Railroad was completely
covered with fallen timber for nearly
half mile, rendering it impossible
for trains to pass at all Friday, con-
sequently no trains from Natchez
reached this point until yesterday
This was the severest and most de-
structive wind storm that ever visited
this section of country. It is impos-
sible to obtain a correct estimate OF
the loss, as several exaggerated re-
ports have been received, though
the loss is very great and will cause
suffering among the families who
lost their property by the wind.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

It sounds strange, but they say it
will be feasible by and by. Engineer
Huchingson has already made the
surveys which show that road via
Alaska and across bridge over Ber-
ing Strait, to connect with Russian
railroad, is feasible.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

The two devils which are working
our country harm are the devil of
party spirit and the devil of money.
Beware of the man who places his
party above his country or his pocket
above his conscience. Remember
the stories of Julius Iscariot, of Ben
edict Arnold and of Panama.-Henry
Waterson.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

Macon county Citizen: Georgia
has 3O2 newspapers and the editors
OF nine-tenths of them would be will
ing to swap them off for a summer
buster and lunch basket and devote
their talents and energies to hunting
rabbits, fishing, or accepting coun-
try postoffice."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

A COW caused wreck of freight
train last Monday two miles north of
Meridian on the Alabama Great
Southern Railroad, ditching seven
cars. No one was hurt.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

Boston Transcript: There is only
one sensible way to run a newspaper
against a thousand ways, more or
less, not to run it; and there is none
so poor and lowly who does not
believe that he has exclusive knowl-
edge of that one sensible way.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

AS men are to-day, success in
money lies nearest to their desires.
Mammon has been immoderately
praised and as immoderately con-
demned. Money in itself is neither
good nor bad; its use gives it char
acter. Wealth abused and wealth
not honestly got are curse. All
these operations which are in COM
mon parlance called "short cuts" to
wealth, no matter how successfully
carried on fall under this condemning
verdict. What induces man to try
the "short cut" road to fortune? 1t
is the excessive, slavish reverence we
pay to the millionaire. It is our
conversation Which turns upon moth
ing except money and again money.
Let US emphasize a little more the
responsibilities of money. Let us
show by our conduct that while the
possession of wealth presupposes
often more than usual ability, econo.
my and sacrifice in the original career,
yet there are things more valuable
than money and the luxuries it buys.
There is education, there is charity,
there is honesty, there is culture.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

Sparta Ishmaelite: "Cleveland's
administration will not do GEORGIA
half the benefit that would come to
her from frst-class public roads"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

Atlanta Constitution: "The Co.
lumbus Enquirer Sun thinks that vii b
Speaker Crisp presiding over the
House of Representatives, and Sena-
tor Harris, of Tennessee, elected
President pro TEN. of the Senate, the
South certainly has a front seat in
the national legislature"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

They say out up in Montana that
it cost Marcus DAILY, the copper king
and turfman, and ". A. Clark, the
mining millionaire, 100000 to pre-
vent the election of democrat SEN
ator by the late Legislature of that
State.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

The organization of a company
for the purpose of establishing a
canning factory at Natchez, Miss, is
about perfected. A factory with a
capacity of 10000 cans daily will be
built in time for doing some work
this season. It will give the vegeta-
BILE industry boom in that section.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

Sheriff A. A. Brown, of Iberville,
is the first collector to make final
settlement with the State for trxes
of 1892. He turned iuto the treasury
SO per cent. of his roll.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

Dallas News: This country needs
more productive labor and less mon
keying after advantages
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

The thriving village of Benefits
vile, in Rapides parish, is to have a
tanning factory.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-30

Georgia has a third party paper
called 1.-The Wool Hat"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14
SQUEEZING.

Whatever may be said to tine con-
trary, It is absolutely certain that the
small farmer is rapidly disappearing
from among American farmers.
One company owns all the oil.
Seven companies own ail the railway
lines,
Fhe smaller merchants haye been
squeezed out in the cities.
One company owns Amsrica's tele-
graph lines,
Part of the late financial furry was
designed to squeeze out all the smaller
and weaker banks.
Operatives and mechanics largely
live i'll tenement houses,
There is but very little left to
squeeze but the owners of farms.
Hitherto, the rapid increase OF ten
ant farmers was due to widespread
depression, but now We believe that
the capitalists a,e directing theil
attention to the buying up OF large
tracts of land.
If the small farmer has not bean
able to hold hjs Gwa in the past. com.
petiDg with his neighbor of small
means, how will it be when large bod
les OF land are farmed with cheap Labor
and improved machinery?
This is not intended fol IL scare, Thu
emergency IS upon US. Whatever may
be said to the contrary by the lyin,
EpiutOcratic press, We know that thOus
ands of farms have been. and will he
sold under mortgage. The loan CON
panies, having obtained these farm
for an average of one-third their value
can afford to sell cheap. The land
will lie offered to whomsoever will buy
Foreign capitalists will be-are bein
Induced to purchase, and cheap fol-
eign labor will till the land, supposip
that cheap American labor cannot b
bought. Alien land laws will nc
avail. With plutOcratic courts it
easy to evade laws. 1t is safe to sa
that the old world land system is we
on its way to successful inauguration
i and then. with all other wealth, in til
hands of few men, the America
masses will be rs completely subjl
gated as the subjects of the Russia
Empire. Aiitotor.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14
THE EXTRA SESSION.

President Cleveland has succumbed
to the cry that has gone up, and has
called an extra session of congress to
convene August 9TH. And theA what?
The snpp0sitiOn Is that when congress
meets the Sherman law will To re-
pealed, but there is no assurance that
such will be the case. No one who
has heretofore been opl.o. sd to the
repeal of this law has signified lis
Willingness to change his action. But,
taking it for granted, for arguments
sake, that the Sherman law will be
repealed, what will be done to give
something else 10 the country?
The extra session will possibly have
one good effect. Many people think
the country needs something" to help
it in its present time of uncertainty,
and this something" has come in the
shape of iii extra session of congress,
Just what that ''something" will do
for the country no one knows, but it
has come, and the people, as a rule.
will breathe easier.
But there is ANOTHER news item in
the paper this morning that the people
must not overlook. Read that New
York dispatch about the bears on
Wall street concerning cash. Did you
ever see plainer EVIDENCE of a bold con-
spiracy on the part of few men to
break down the credit of nation. if
necessary, in order to bring about a
condition that will make money for
the jnstigators of the scheme?
These men have deliberately bor-
rowed all the money in sight, paying
exorbitaEt interest for it, simply that
they may lock it up away from those
who need it in the actual requirements
of their business. Was over before in
the history of the world such a brazen
and criminal conspiracy heard of?
Does it not plainly Indicate the whole
cause for the present financial fur,
that has almost brought PANIC to the
whole country aud has brought ruin
to many who have been dealing beyond
their means?
The people should laok this matter
straight III the face. This is no time
to talk about the '.politics IN it," but
every man should see that it is n mat
ter where few mOneyed men, in COL
fusion with England, our hereditary
enemy, have forced the president to
call congress, together in order that
they Iay haze an Opportunity to wiring
fortunes out of those who were caught
in the squeeze.
Tie Sherman law has nothing to dc
will, the financial troables excep.
ia 81 far rs i, is against the interests OF
Wall strset.-Ka9sa. City Journal
tRep.l
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14

RICHARD L. ELY will deliver SER
les of lectures OH the redistribution o.
Wealth" before the assembly ut Chau-
tauqua, New York, this summer. The
Chautauqua association is using its
influence to induce the common people
to investigate economic science. In
addition to Prof. Ely's lectures, Prof
". L. Scott will discuss s.Monopolies., .
Labor organizations" etc, in five
lectures before the same assembly.
The ChadauQudn for July confirms the
opening chapters of Il novelette, by DR..
George II. Hepworth, SPECIALIST and
Lover" which promises to be of much
interest, as it presents the laborer's
side of the social question.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14

THE asssts exceed the liabilities,
sbnt 1t was impossible to secure money
to, meet maturing obligations" is d
st$eotyped phrase accompanying near
.ly every report of bank failure.
Certainly; there is no luck OF property
of real wealth, but the obligations OF
firms. corporations and individuals are
not payable in property, they ;sre pay
able in money, and the contro, of the
money is in the hands of private imdi
opportunity. of doubling and treblIns
their wealth.-I0ra Formers Tribune
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14


and agricultural products generally
and the price of silver. Our state
ments have not been rsfuted, and they
are irrefntable. The farmers who are
selling wheat to-day ut forty cents per
bushel on the kansas farms have
vastly more interest in this question
than the silver miner of the mountain
states. On both general and special
grounds it is to the interest Ut every
farmer in Missouri and Kansas and
the west generally that silver should
be rehabilitated, and it. is also TO the
interest of all other classes. And it is
for that reason that the Journal is out
spoken for the white metal,-Kansds
City Journal tRep.)
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14

a CONTEMPORARY appears tn be IN
so much trouble about the parity
business chat 1t hastens to ask the
CONSULTATION whether 1t is in favor of
free coinage of a silver dollar that is
worth dollar or III favor of the free
coinage of the "present sixty-four cent
dollar" To which we reply that the
Constitution is in favor of the free coin-
age OF Il silver dollar that is worth a
dollar. and, as the present silver dollar
: in spite of the market value of the bull
pion thai. enters into it, is worth a
dollar and il received Us such by every
body, We are IN favor of the free coin
age Of the present silver dollar. 1t
nail ba time enough, when silver bull
lion is remone:ized and restored to, its
place as money metal, to readjust
the ratio. In point of fact, it cannot
Se .knoYn whether REIMBURSEMENT is
necessary until the two metals are
made equal before and at the minis
Atlanta Consolation.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14

Poor countries use SILVER, because n
man who gets ten cents day car
carry q weeks wages in his pocket,
while rich countries use gold to relieve
q man who gets So Il day from the
weight, says The New York 7rituse
AproposS of which the st. Louis R.r',b-
lsc rises to remark: Next gold Gi.!ss
give way, ior the psopie who laake 500
an hour cannot be d9ssnsiy ASKED u
break their suspenders With hat.
pound 81 metal. In order to make
on the mos.ey standard question ali
you have to do is to furnish him with
carefully selected sieTentagy ii,forma-
tinn. It would naix up tho Tribune
siiouirliis Ieasiers 70 tell ihe.p that
lnetal co:,,s xJo not carried by men IL.
..:srge Quantities, whether the stsndsrs.
~ s.,lA or silver. Paper, whom tue
l,Asis is scen,l. Is usrd IL eommoa
trsllsa:t,ons. Even teen the day las
aser is Yet 10 he found sho woa;d
s<gard The weight OF the uees's wages
81. silver as TOO heavy for his One spun
.seili7sttnas.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14
BOLTON KICKS OUT.

The Lawrence Journal says the
republican monetary system is all right
and good enough for any country.
You bet it isl The real republican
system advocated by Lincoln, Thad
Stevens and Chase is as near perfect rs
possible for s system to be, but the
abortion Known rs the national bank
ing system, daGdiad by the cheap hire
'ings Of Wall street and foisted upon
the republican party by such political
mendicaIts as John Sherman, is not
Ill right, never was and never will be
for republic where each and every
man is guaranteed the same AMI equal
right Of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. Yes, the true republican Is
all right. But ia the name of justice
do not support the bogus brand
0reeasbu,y Signal Rep.)
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14
TIE FARAERs AND SILVER.

The Times Of this city, and many
other papers of its kind are fond Of
asserting that the silver question only
interests the silver miner, and that the
tai niers ard other classes have Iru
Interest III It, except TO oppose every
:hiDE taas is favorable 10 The white
metal. OF course the 7f.,es knows
better than til IS, bat the truth would
not suit the end it has in view. Ii it
were as the Times states, the Joxrnal
would lave very little to say on this
subject. for, while the interest of the
miners is entitled TO liberal regard, it
could not be considered in opposi, ion
30 the general veal: but While the
2rssa OF silver Is necessarily OF gI.a;
.tstsssS. - ste lrooccer OF it, il i %
vastly a'eEs interest 70 she wheat rais-
ers, tie cet>osf pisitSrs aus al glasses
of tie gust. Yves. and south.
We have repeatedly z..awu in taese
columns the intimate connection be-
tween tie values Of hex: and cotton
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14

pOwDERLY, speaking in favor of u
consolidation of the forces of organized
labor in the country, says: u believe
that the labor union OF tine present and
past las seen its day of usefulness. 1t
Ian win no great strikes; it can accom-
plish no great reform. In the future.
, the power of the labor union viii bs
its great strength as IA political factor
The MAN who, with the lessons Of the
past to guide him, says that labol
,lniUnism without politics can he Il sue.
eess IL u fool.'
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14

THE farmers of the eastern part of
tie state. of Washington have combin-
Ell to erect Il warehouse at Tacoma,
where thew will store their grain in
readiness for the worlds markets
They have organized giant stock
company with capital Of $3.50, OG0
The business men of Tacoma have
. donated six acres for the site and $50,
fssDe towards the cost Of erection. Tbs
farinars have petitioned the Legislature,
for the appointment of state gr;liI
INSPECTOR.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14

SOME fifteen years ago when chr
Yency Yeformers were making fuss
abou. the destruction of the green
backs, they were told by the ruling
politicians that nothing could be made
into money out gold and silver, that
.Hod Almighty made gold and silver
money. These politicians are now
considerable ahead of God Almighty
and refuse to allow silver to he real
m3ney, though they formerly declared
God made il money. All, well. stick
to party! What is the use fo: ling
about i;?-Mout Feraoa, U.S., Progress.
size Faypcr.