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The Bossier banner., 1894-09-20
Benton Nlgh School.
StTNy Sale.

THstrayed before me, r. C. Stinson, Justice of
II Peace tor Ward 2, by Mobile Butler, one
Light Bay Horse Pony, about fourteen hands
high, two stocking feet-both hind feet-had
bell on when he came to Bossier City.
The owner will please come forward, prove
property and pay charges, or the same will be
sold at Bossier City. La, on Saturday, October
IL, 1894, according to law.
w E. MORRIS, Constable.
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Through thee will We push down
our enemies; through thy name will
we tread them under that rise up
against us. For | will not trust in
my bow, neither shall my sword save
me. But thou hast saved us from our
enemies, and hast put them to shame
that hated us.-Ps ilms Xiv, ), 6, z.
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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Because a girl puts on frills IL doesn't
follow that her temper is rVffled.-Phila-
delphia Record.
1t begins to look as though the Lease
of the fair Kansas Populist has expired.
Philadelphia North American.
The report that whisky is being made
out OF wheat may be all In your rye.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
1.-The brides father gave her away, did
he not?' More than that. He threw in
$4,000 to boot-"-Tammany Times.
California Democrats have nominated j..
H. Budd for Governor. He will never
Observation-Disclosures North American
The Western farme need not burn his
corn as long as Mr.. Quay's frank Is
honored without limit.-Detroit Tribune.
The trusts have had fine weather this
summer for their crops. Everything else
has gone TO the dogs.-New York Tribune.
1t doesn't make any difference TO the
summer girl how often she gets engaged.
she never loses Observation-Disclosures
Record.
Prophetic-"Has she given you any en-
couragement?' "Oh, yes. She says. she
will get all of her fathers money when he
dies. "-Life's Calendar.
A town isn't really putting on airs until
the girls begin to demand a chaperone
every time they go out TO the pasture to
hunt the cows.-Atchison Globe.
If fault is being found with Carnegie's
armor 1t must be remembered ii was never
expected to be called on to stand such
charges as Observation-Disclosures Times.
Wife~And did Mr.. Gray really say /
was positively dovelike? H~usband-Some-
thing of that sort. He said you were
pigeon-toed. l believe.-Boston Transcript.
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GOOD

One of the most significant conventions
ever called in this State meets this
morning at 1890. at Masonic Hall. 1t may
not prove to be large in numbers. but its
significance consists in the purpose avowed.
II is not to form a political party, nor to
specially favor any party already formed.
but TO emphasize the duty Of every good
citizen TO look well to the men who are
chosen to make laws and administer them.
One feature of special interest is that it is
TO be composed largely. IL not chiefly, of
young men. The good citizen movement
was born of the zeal of that class of young
men who constitute Christian Endeavor
and other church leagues and associations
whose purpose is to apply their Christian
principles to the affairs of life, and certain
" there is no direction in which Christian
energy can be better applied than in the
choice of good men for the responsible
duties OF official life. The time is past for
good men TO r~elegate the management OF
political affairs TO men of doubtful morals
and OF corrupt habits. Ii Is Well 10 meet
as these young men do to-day and resolve
not to support bad men for office. but it Is
much better for them to attend the prima-
ries Of parties and see that good men are
nominated. We say the primaries of par
ties. In a Republic like ours political meas
ures must be carried through parties. 1t
does not follow that all who cooperate
with any given party must heartily in
dorse every measure of thst party. He
may not agree 10 any one measure in all
its details. yet he more nearly agrees with
this party than that, hence he co-operates
with it. for such is the genius of our gov
-nment; our laws are not often the exact
embodiment OF any one mans views. but
the resultant of the views Of thousands,
and the average expression of the senti-
! ment Of the whole people. If by accident
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ington. 1t is now certain that the people
OF this country will lose all the trade they
have gained under the Harrison treaties.
which the Democratic tariff law wipes out.
Already 1t is given out that Spain will i'm
pose the old tax of s. a barrel on our -four
instead Of the much lower tax imposed by
the reciprocal treaty-a tax, moreover,
lighter upon American flour than upon any
other except that coming from Spain. The
same is true of Brazil. Now the United
States supplies all of the -four sold in that
market-7Oo.O 600 barrels last year-because it
pays no duty, while all others pay a duty
of 10 per cent. Now that duty will be inn
posed upon American -four, inc the Argen-
tine Republic, which is much nearer. Will
take the market from us as an equal COM
petitor. Mr.. Flint, of New York, a trader
in South America, says that we have been
gaining there under the Harrison arrange
ment. and would soon nave had a large
trade, but this action of Congress will undo
all that has been done. Because of this
adverse action $50, 600, 900 of exports. largely
farm products, will be lost during the next
wear.
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NOW THE WIZARD OF OGDEN.
Inventor Edison Engaged on a Great Ex-
pertinent at the New Jersey Town.

OGDEN, N. j., Aug. 2S.-Wizard Edison,
of Menlo and Llewellyn Parks. has become
the wizard of this place. Before he made
his appearance here there was nothing but
a few scattered farmhouses, a station and
some holes in the ground. Now everything
is changed. A half dozen big buildings
filled with machinery are scattered about.
freight cars are on the sidings, teams of
oxen and draught horses haul heavy loads
here and there, and the whole place is full
of activity. Inventor Edison has spent, it
is said, nearly s., 1000, 600 in Ogden. He has
erected, abandoned and torn down build
ings and machinery with extraordinary
prodigality, and thus far his hackers have
realized not a single cent from their in
vestment. Just when it seemed that his
magnetic process of refining ore was a sue
cess and a return for the stockholders was
in sight, Mr.. Edison became dissatisfied
with the ponderous rollers in which the
ore was crushed. and one fine morning he
tore them all out and sent them away.
Then he set to work and made new and
more ponderoOs rollers after ideas of his
found that the belts would not move them.
and it was necessary to invent a new
method TO set the great wheels in motion.
Briefly stated, Mr.. Edison's process is this:
He proposed with his great rollers to grind
iron ore into powder and pass the powder
longitudinally over a rubber belt and over
u series vi mdSnets, ne HidShelS dTe eA-
pected to separate the iron from the rock.
The whole process is to be much cheaper
than smelling. There is TO be millions in
1t for the company. New Jersey is TO be
restored to the first place among iron-pro-
ducing States, and another laurel wreath
is to be added to the brow of Thomas Ed
iSon.
will he succeed. do you think?' one of
the brightest men in his employ was asked
the other day.
II think he WILL" was the answer. He is
a great deal smarter man, though, than /
am, or he could not"
No thought of failure clouds the brow
of the inventor. He is the same frank,
smooth-faced. boy-like Edison that he was
ten years ago. When he is not busy he
visits all the nearby country hotels and
tells funny stories. When he is busy he
works as of old. thirty-six and forty-eight
hours at a stretch, without intermission or
sleep.
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NONPARTIsAN OBSERVATIONS.

The people always do love fair play and a
square d~eal.-Columbia City Mail.
There would be "ery little trouble in this
world If it were not for the fools in tia
Porte Herald.
Remember it is always easy to find fault
but that fault finding never aided in right
ing wrongs.-Frankfort News.
1t is hard for a person without a good
name to make success in life as it IL for
him 10 carve a thing OF beauty without
tools of any sort, out OF the hardest stone.
Madison Courier.
Ballooning. even If practiced by expert
enced aeronauts. is dangerous enough with
out adding the eXtrahaZardous descent by
neutrality-suspicious. with trapeze accom-
paniment.-Evansville Journal
We have come TO the conclusion that a
circus is no particular benefit TO any town.
1t takes away four times as much money
as IL leaves. Ii also makes a town dull for
a week afterward.-Elwood Call Leader.
II your local paper has trod on your toes
a little in performing its mission. don't get
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GRESHAM WAKES UP
AND TURNS HIS ATTENTION To THE
BLUEFIELDs INCIDENT.
Under Certain Conditions He VIII In
tervene I'm Behalf of the Americans
Arrested and Tnkcn TO

WASHINGTON. Aug. S.-The State De-
partment is watching the developments OF
the situation in Nicaragua with a firm de-
termination that every American citizen
who has incurred the III Will Of the Nicara-
guam government shall receive justice. To-
day a cablegram was received from United
States Consul Braida, at Greytown, stating
that the prisoners taken by the Nicara-
guam troops at Bluefields had arrived at
Greytown. Included in the number were
two American citizens-wftbank and
Lampton-and Mr.. Hatch, the British con-
sular agent at Bluefelds. The State De-
partment has been seeking to establish
communication with United States Minister
Baker at Managua, but so far without
success, and 1t is feared that he may be
i'll. 1t is the desire OF the department TO in
struct Mr.. Baker to look into the clrcum-
stances Of the arrest of these Americans
and report promptly TO the department.
While all Americans in Bluefields were
warned by our government TO keep out OF
the squabble between Clarence and the
Nicaraguans. under the penalties OF Mica
raguan law, still there is no Disgusting the
fact that so far as known here the arrest
OF Wiltbank and hampton was made UNI
der ugly conditions. If the men have vio-
lateu the local law AFTER due warning the
State Department cannot consistently OBJ
ject TO their punishment. But If the arrest
was Illegally or improperly made. and Mr..
Baker is expected TO report upon this point.
then the State Department will promptly
and energetically intervene in behalf OF the
prisoners.
The whole incident was unfortunate,
coming, as 1t did. at a time when the
United States was putting forth its inhu-
ence towards the recognition of Nicara-
gua's sovereignty over the Mosquito reser-
walton, and it is felt here that the Nicara-
guans would have done wisely in temper
ing their victory over the Mosquitoes with
liberation from the foreign residents OF the
reservation. Should they lose the sympa-
thy of the United States through persecu-
ton OF our citizens and arouse the ire OF
Great Britain by unjust treatment OF her
consular representative, the situation will
be so complicated that an early and peace
full solution of the Mosquito situation can
scarcely be expected.
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any measure finds expression in a Law
ion it either becomes a dead letter or is
at once repealed.
One feature of the convention must
strike every rejecting man favorably. They
do not propose to ask any political party
to :ndorse any of the measures which they
regard as essential to good citizenship. No
measure which becomes a party measure
can succeed unless the party indorsing it
succeeds and then abides. The measures
which these young men seek to promote
affect The people of all parties and must
find supporters in all parties or they will
be short lived. Their objective point is to
antagonize 1he saloon and its kindred
vices. Let them learn from their enemy.
The saloon has never organized a party in
its interest, neither has it always required
the individuals it supported to say shibbo-
leth just as they do. When they cannot
find a man who measures up to their ideal
they take the man who comes nearest to
IL. Hence their success. They have been
feared and courted by men of all parties
though rarely by any party. AS we under
stand the purpose of this convention it is
to make candidates, not parties. feel that
there are other voters to be feared and
courted besides the saloon interests. In
this respect the meeting is a most signif-
can't one and if wisely managed it must
be felt in it's influence. The saloon as a
political factor must go, but it never will
go until men of all parties continue as
these young men propose. That it cannot
be overcome by a party devoted to its
overthrow is plain from the fact that such
a party has existed more than twenty-five
years and now numbers less than 3 per
cent. of the voters of the Nation. The sa-
loon has had nothing to fear as much as
this good citizens movement. Outside of
all parties and in the hands of young men
it will be felt in the near future, if not
Immediately.
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THE LAW AND THE LETTER.

What, another letter? Well, talk is cheap.
Cincinnati Enquirer Oem.)
1t wasn't signed, which is the reason why
the mugwumps have a halo TO spare.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
The new tariff bill will reta-d tie indus
trial progress of the South at leas; twenty
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Democratic party is a colossal fail
ure. Every word of the Presidents letter
confesses it.-Detrolt Tribune.
At first Mr.. Cleveland thought of vetoing
the perfidy and dishonor bill, but ne looked
1t all through and found no pension appro-
prlation.-kansas City Journal.
n bill that is allowed to become a law by
default is as effective as one which is
signed. Party perhdy is just the same in
either case.-New York Tribune.
In letting the tariff bill become a law
without his approval. Cleveland displays
the kind of courage that leaves a great deal
to the imagination.-St. Louis Globc-Deaao-
crat.
The difference between signing the tariff
bill and doing as Mr.. Cleveland has done
doesn't count in practical results. 1t may
have weight in the political Campaign,
though.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The only significant utterance in his last
unhappy letter is the disturbing threat
that the fght is not ended, and that tariff
agitation must be continued. 1t occurs TO
us that our Democratic friends should know
wFlen they have enough" Cincinnati
Tribune.
Well and truly spoken, We welcome the
President to the ranks Of tariff reformers,
in which he says he takes his place. May
the result of the new campaign be more
satisfactory than the outcome of that in
which he has been the leader.-Louisville
Courier-Journal CDem.)
The President would not sign the tariff
bill. but permitted it TO become a law by
the operation OF a hidden and abhorrent
| force The climax OF the farce was this
attempt to shrink from the responsibility
OF approving an act ne had the power TO
ve~to.-Louisville Commercial.
So far as Ohio is concerned, the interests
which will suffer most severely are those
terry wares. The sheep industry will prob
ably be destroyed within a few years save
in those sections where grazing LANES are
so cheap and abundant that sheep may be
raised for food purposes with proit.-Cin-
cinnati Tribune.
The letter, while perhaps less bitter and
| personal than the one he wrote to Mr.. Will
son, is not such a communication as the
President of the United States ought to
have written. 1t has been an American
boast that, though a man may be elected
by a party 10 the office of Presid eat, when
he once takes the oath Of Office he Is the
chief executive of the whole people, and, in
10 be a partisan. Mr.. Cleveland, however.
writes as the chieftain of the Democratic
party, and not as the President OF the
United States.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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believe it confers the right to break the
laws. The occurrences OF the past few
women to consider this voting OF aliens
and to understand the danger which it in
wolves. To-day a meeting will be held to
organize in behalf of good citizenship.
n more practical work can be done TO
promote good citizenship than to take steps
to annul the provisions which authorize
benighted and vicious as well as inte.. gent
ahens to vote?
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CAUSE FOR THANKFULNESs.

Some practical philosopher has said.
Things are never so bad but they might
be worse" OF course there is a fallacy
hidden in the statement, because when
the worst comes, as it must and does some
times. there cannot be any worse. Never
theless, the statement contains a good
sized nugget of consolatory wisdom.
The condition Of business during the last
year has been so bad that it seems impossi-
bic to conceive of it as being worse, and
yet it might be. Even now there are some
notable causes for gratitude. Congress has
adjourned, the tariff agitation has ceased.
at least for a time, and the new law is not
as bad as it might have been. The sitting
of Congress is always more or less of a
disturbing factor in the business world.
This is not a pleasant and perhaps not a
patriotic thing to say. but ii is neverthe-
less true The power of Congress for mis-
chief through reckless, ignorant or hasty
legislation is so great that conservative
business men are in a state of nervous
apprehension from the time it meets till it
adjourns. And yet Congress does not Go
nearly as much mischief as it might. Ev-
cry session there are SO many vicious meas
ures introduced which are instantly stran-
gled that there is always room for graft
tude that it does not do worse.
The new tariff law is bad enough, but
not as bad as it might be. 1t is positively
bad, but not superlatively so. Comparing
it with the Chicago platform there is room
for gratitude that it is not worse. The
Mckinley bill is dead, but protection still
lives and gets considerable recognition in
the new law. 1t is the protection in IL
that saves IL from being utterly bad. II
will Kill some industries. cripple others,
throw a great many persons out of employ.
ment and bring a reduction OF wages TO a
great many others. and yet IL is not as
bad as it might be nor as bad as the leaders
of the Democratic party threaten to make
it if the party is continued in power. There
is always room for thanhfulness when the
Democratic party fails to do all the mis-
chief it is capable of. In the present case
it was afraid to do what 1t had threatened
and promised a thousand times that IL
would do, and It's cowardice has become
a cause of national gratitude.
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WOUNDED HIS CHILD.
Then Killed the Little One to End Its
Suffering-A Doctors Deed.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, Aug. 2s.-Last
night. about $50. DIR. Anderson O'Malley.
a young New York physician, who had
been in San Antonio three weeks. shot his
three-year-old child accidentally. and then
killed 1t to put 1t out of the pain. His wife
and himself have been very nervous about
burglars and have been kept awake several
nights. They heard the door in the chill
dren's room creak. The father went in
with a cooked pistol. He saw no one. and
poked his little nephew and his own son
with the pistol TO cause them 10 turn over.
Tie pistol went off. shooting the child in
the side, and the father then put the pistol
TO its head and killed IL 10 release ii of its
misery. as ne said he knew the wound was
fatal. He is under arrest. and is almost. if
not quite. insane.
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THE FREE-TRADE WAR TO GO ON

The last words of the last Cleveland let
ter. like the last declaration Of the ultra
Texan free-trader, Senator Mills, are an
appeal 10 carry on the war for free trade.
But an opening wedge say the Millses.
the Crisps. the McMillins. the Warmers, of
New York, referring to the present Demo-
cratic tariff. 9TH millions of our country
men who have fought bravely and well
for tariff reform should be exhorted to con-
tinue the struggle" shouts the free-trade
President in his last unseemly letter as
sailing members of his own party and pre-
senting the disproved arguments in favor
OF free trade. In the contest for the next
House this war for further tariff reduc-
tons and for free coal and ores will be the
issue. If the next House is Democratic a
tariff bill making further reductions in du-
ties which are now partially protective
will be made The appeals of business men
will have no avail; the dogmas of the free
trade theorists of the Golden Club must
be carried out to the end. Factories may
close and wage-earners may be driven to
idleness and want by tens of thousands.
but such calamities are OF no account COM
pared with the putting in force in this
country the theories of British free-traders
and manufacturers. The truth is, the
Cleveland element of the Democratic party
mean to turn a deaf ear TO the mass Of
business men who ask that the free-traders
call a halt until business shall. in some
measure, adjust itself 20 the present tariff
and the losses which it is sure TO impose
are remedied. They no longer listen to the
intelligent business interests Of the coun-
try. The theoretical free-trader and the
importer are all-powerful with the Cleve-
land element. and so intent is this element
in doing the bidding of this foreign interest
That they plan to prevent that tranquility
in regard to future tariff legislation which
is essential TO anything like business pros
perity. Such is the order Of Grover Cleve-
land.
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The following is from Mr.. Cleveland's let
ter to Representative Catchings:
II take my place with the rank and file
OF the Democratic party, who believe IN
tariff reform and who know what IL is, who
refuse to accept the results embodied in
this bill as the close of the war, ,xho are
not blinded to the fact that the livery Of
Democratic tariff reform has been stolen
and worn in the service of Republican pro-
lection, and who have marked the places
where the deadly blight of treason has
blasted the councils of the brave in their
hour of might
No doubt many persons have remarked
upon the figurative Language used in the
closing part of this sentence, but not many
are aware that it is borrowed from Moore's
Fire Worshipers," in which occur the
following lines:
Oh. for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes Ger the councils OF the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might!
The sentence above quoted is long and
clumsy and seems to have been constructed
mainly for the purpose of Juggling in the
plagiarism at the close. 1t reads like the
effort of a high school pupil turning verse
into prose.