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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

A bulletin of the Agricultural I,e-
partment at Washington shows the
peach and apple crop prospects to be
from good to excellent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

The State of Illinois ranks next to
New York in Masonic statistics. It's
jurisdiction is composed of TIC lodg.
es and over $4,000 members.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20
Notice TO Teachers.

There are, ut present, no available funds in
l. the Treasury to pay salaries Teachers
will send in their reports, and same will be
registered in their order, and paid Immediately
on reception Of the money by the Treasurer.
j. A. w. LOWRY,
Parish Superintendent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

Remember that if the opportuni.
ties for great deeds should never
come, the opportunity for good deeds
is renewed for you day by day
Farrar.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

st. Louis Republic: The Alton
Telegraph holds this paper response
BILE for the pro-slavery riot in that
place 30 years ago. This is going a
long way back, but it affords relief
from the discussion of the silver
question.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

The Grand Lodge Of Texas has a
fund OF $4,000 to invest in a Ma
sonic home.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20
Cotton Mills In the South.

COCCOU Mills LII LU0 OOUIus
For some time New England
cotton mills earnings have been
going South for investment in new
factories. The Manufacturer Rec
ord reports that the Massachusetts
Mill Company, Zone of tue oldest
and strongest corporations in that
State, is building a 5000, 900 mill, to
have 10000 spindles and 1900
looms, at Rome, Ca" The Dwight
Company, another Of New Eng-
lands big cotton manufacturing con-
Germs, is putting up a $500, 900 mill
at Gladsden, Ala. And as much
may be said of half q dozen other
companies in the East. Instead Of
charging their old mills in New
England they are building new ones
in the South.
The growth of cotton manufacture
ing in the South in the last Is years
is unprecedented. Her spindles
numbered but 667, 900 in 1880, and
now they foot up over 100000 in
Guiding those about to I'D operated,
Her looms have increased from H.
1923 iu 1880, to over 100, 600 10 1896.
More spindles aud looms have been
started in the South since 1880 than
in all the rest of the country. In
percentage of gain the East and
West have been distanced BY the
South. The latters per centage Of
increase since 1880 is over 42O, and
that of the rest Of the United States
only %. The difference has been
even greater since 1890, and great
est of all since the beginning Of the
panic two years ago. The panic
had very little effect on this indus
try in the South. The cotton mills
Of that section of the country kept
running on full time and new mills
were planned and erected Just as if
there had been no panic. Nearly
300, 900 spiudlss and $4,000 looms
were added last year, and as many
more are now being put in. Some
thing like s12,ooO,OOO will be in-
vested this year in new cotton mills
10 the Southern States.
Nor Is the end in sight. Many
millions more will be put into sim
liar investments next year, the year
after and for many years to come.
This movement is not going to stop
until the South has the bulk of the
cotton manufacturing business of
the country. Sixty per cent of all
the cotton grown in the world is
raised in the South, and yet the
of her mills is only about 4
per cent of that of all the cotton
factories in the world, and not over
20 per cent, as yet, of the capacity
Of the mills in the United States.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

These will be twenty-five contested
election cases for the next House to
decide, all from the South but one.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

Says Bishop Hall: Moderation is
the silken string running through the
pearl chain of all virtues.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

St. Louis Republic: Officials say
the rule forbidding railway employees
tosnter saloons, while on or off duty,
hos already resulted in increased
efficiency. The rule will probably
Be adopted By ell roads.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

A large decrease in exports for the
last nine months is shown,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20

Says DR.. Draper: There is no
human institution so important as
the home; no human relationship 60
sacred rs the family. You will be
reasonably safe in the world il your
course Of personal conduct be de-
termined By the interest and secari-
" Of the home.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-06-20
Wisdom in q Nutshell.

Time is the herald of truth.-Cice-
10.
Let the end try the man.-Shaks-
peare.
Only home can found state
Cook.
Duty by habit is to pleasure turn
ed.-Brydges.
Suspicion shall be all stuck full Of
eyes.-Shakspeare.
Agreeable advice is seldom use.
fal advice.-Massillon.
The love of heaven makes one
Observation-Disclosures.
Ill company will make this earth
a hell.-Omar Kbayyam.
A kind voice is to the heart what
light is to the eye.-Burritt.
All powerful souls have kindred
with each other'-Coleridge.
In temperance there is ever clean
illness and elegance.-Joubert.
Those who would make us feel
must feel themselves.-Churchill.
He'll is as ubiquitous as condemn
ing conscience.-F. w. Robertson.
No man was ever written out of
reputation but by himsclf.-Monk.
have fire-proof perennial enjoy
ments, called employments.-Rich-
ter.
We should accustom ourselves to
self-denial and patient waiting
Scott.
When one associates with vice, it
is but one step from companionship
to slavery.
Conquer a vice today and you
save your descendants untold mis-
ery.-Anon.
A sharp tongue is the only edge
tool that grows keener with constant
use.-Irving.
The desires and longings of man
are vast as eternity, and they point
him to it.-Tryon Edwards.
So great is the effect of cleanliness
upon man, that it extends even to
his moral haracter.-Rumford.
Never rail at the world, it is just
as we make it. We see not the flower
if we SOW not the seed.-Swain.
The passion of acquiring riches in
order to support vain expense cor
rupts the purest souls.-Fenelon.
When the devil brings thee oil,
bring thou vinegar. The way to be
safe is never to be secure.-Quarles.
Drunkenness places man as much
below the level Of the brutes as rea-
son eleyates him above it.-Sinclair.
Neither picty, virtue nor liberty
can long flourish in Q community
where tue education of youth is neg
lected.-Cooper.
A wise man will desire no more
than he may get justly, use soberly,
distribute cheerfully, and leave con-
tentedly.-Anon.
Argument, as usually managed, is
the worst sort of conversation, as in |
books it is generally the worst sort
Of reading.-Swift.
If honor be your clothing, the |
suit will last lifetime; but if cloth
ing be your, honor, it will soon be
worn threadbare.-Arnot.
Of all the cants in this canting
world, though the cant of hypocrites
may be the worst, the cant of criti-
cism is the most tormenting.-Sterne.
We are, in our search for happi-
ness, like an absent-minded man
looking for his hat, while all the
time tits on his head.-Sydney Smith.
The excessive pleasure we feel in |
of ourselves ought to make
US apprehensive that we afford lit
tie to our auditors.-Rochefouca
Auy one intrusted with power
will abuse it if not animated with the
love of truth and virtue, no matter
whether he be prince, or one of the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
BEFORE JUDGE J. J. EGAN
To Get Them Out Of the City
Hall and Court House
/ Commission.
A. SHARP LEGAL BATTLE.
The e Assembly Muddle Being
RevieWed--TWo Sets Of
Records.

Judge Egan is now engaged in an
attempt to unravel a knotty prob
lem. The hearing of the quo war
ranto proceedings by which it is
sought to GUST Aid. Ehrmanntraut
and Hare from the joint city hall
and court house commission began
before him yesterday The title of
the case is The State of Minnesota
ex rel. H. W. Childs, Attorney Gen
eral, VS.. Joseph Ehrmanntraut and
Robert N. Hare. Attorneys Palmer
& Berryhill appear for the plaintiff,
and John H. Ives and Attorney
Michel for the defense. In the hear
ing the whole muddle over the or
ganization of the assembly is being
threshed over, the plaintiff claiming
that the record Of the proceedings is
not correct, and submitting another
record kept by members interested
in that side of the case.
The question really hinges on the
Interpretation Of certain sections of
the charter that seem to be ambigu-
Gus if not contradictory, relating to
the powers of the council in joint
session. The position of the plain
tiff is that the appointments were
not lawfully made for the reason
that the assembly was not legally
organized at the time, the appoint
ments having been made during the
split in that body. The defense is
that the president of the joint body
has power to make the appoint
ments, and President Parker hav-
ing made them, that the appointees
are therefore legally entitled to hold
the positions.
There was a good deal of legal
sparring over the introduction of
testimony yesterday. The PLAINTIFF
attorneys did not seem to be salts
fled with their own record much
less the official record of the assem-
bly,, and placed Assemblyman John
son on the stand to testify to what
took place the night Van Slyke was
elected president. Mr.. Ives objected
that the witness testimony was not
the best evidence.
What is the best evidence then? ?"
queFied Attorney Berryhill.
:'Fhe records, returned Mr.. Ives,
with modest bow
Yes, your records" retorted Ber-
ryhill.
you seem to want to impeach
your own as we'll as ours" replied
Ives.
Judge Egan finally decided to have
all the members of the assembly
called and hear their testimony as
to what took place at the meeting
without regard to the records. 90
The hearing is of more than usual
interest in view of the fact that on
the final outcome depends who shall
be acting mayor, assessor, plat COM
missioner, custodian of the city hall
and court house, janitors, and last
but not least, who shall have the
cigar stand privilege.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.

France follows Germany, Austria
and Belgium in excluding our cattle
in retaliation for the discrimination
against their sugar products in our
differential tax of one-tenth of a
cent a pound on sugar from countries
paying an export bounty. Nelson
Morris says this has knocked SO a
head off the value of cattle. He eX-
poets it to be followed by an inhibi-
ton Of imports of our canned meats,
which will be the far severer blow
to. our farmers, as the export of
canned meats is an immense trade.
The reason why this action is
taken by these governments now,
and why they did not retaliate when
the Mckinley act imposed the same
differential tax, is that under that
act the raw sugar was free, and the
tax amounted to nothing, as we i'm
ported an Insignificant quantity of
refined sugar. Now, however, it ap-
plies to all grades, and, when sugars
are sold by points, each a hundredth
of cent, so small a tax as one-tenth
of a cent gives Cuba a large adj
vantage over those countries.
The injury that will soon come
heavily to our Western farmers by
reason of this action of these coun-
tries is the result, first, of the
stupid action of the house in retain
ing the Mckinley diTerential, and,
secondly, of the partisanry of the
Republicans in the senate and the
command of them and few Demo-
Gratis by the sugar trust. The house
perceived it's error and corrected it
by passing bill repeating the tax,
but it is killed in the senate by the
Republicans represented by Aldrich
and the band of footpads among the
Democrats led by German, he and
Aldrich being the retainers of the
trust.
When the effort was made to call
up the repeal bill, which the senate
finance committee had reported IA
vorably, Mr.. Aldrich gave notice of
an amendment, the adoption of which
would be the price Of the passage of
the bill. This contemplated the res
toration of reciprocity, the tax Oh
wool and several other features,
each of them unthinkable What we
want to make clear now is that when
the prices of meat products begin to
fall sharply our Western farmers,
who voted SO stiff1y to restore Re-
publicanism, should know that it is
to the Republicans in the senate
that the shrinkage is due, caused by
their refusal to permit the repeal of
the tax.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
TRIBUTES TO DOUGLASS.

The death of Fred Douglass re-
moves the only really great colored
man this country has produced
sas City Journal. -
To the colored men of the country
the example of his life is invaluable,
illustrating, as it does, how ability and
character win honor despite of all oD-
stacles that poverty and race preJu-
dice may array against it.-Cincinnati
Times-Star.
AS an author he took high rank, as
a journalist he was a force in anti
slavery times, and as a type of Afro
American citizenship he was conspicu-
Gus in the largest degree.-Syracuse
Courier ms. !
He was distinctly the national repre-
sentative and spokesman of the col
ored people, and his death leaves in
this respect a gap that they will find
it very hard to fill.-Boston Herald.
Grander names are embalmed in the
record of suffering and heroism, with
it's dark and splendid chapters, but
none is more symbolical of the great
wrong and the great eXpiation.-Syra
cuse Standard.
Born slave, his skin was black, but
in his breast beat as white and as
great a heart as ever throbbed.-NeW
York Recorder.
To the masses for whom he toiled so
incessantly and riSked so much, the
memory of Frederick Douglass should
be especially precious, yet he cannot
be regarded as wholly theirs; he was
an American, of whom the whole PEG,
good, and of whose friendship no hu>
man being-no matter what his racial
origin-could be otherwise than proud.
Washington Star.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
BIGoTRY VS.. BIGoTRY.

The riot of Catholics in Savannah
caused by their determination that
the bigot, probably the fraud, Stat
terly should not discuss Catholicism
in a public meeting, shows a spirit
of bigotry and intolerance that is
of precisely the same type as that
which forms the motif of the A. P. A.
movement. Strip from each the
name and creed and the same black
kindred spirit animates each. Dip
these opposing fanatics ill the wa
tiers of Lethe and when they
emerged they would clasp hands in
mutual recognition Of kinship of
soul and mind. The delegation that
waited on the mayor of Savannah
and requested him to prevent the
lecture were possessed Of the same
spirit that enacted the law recently
invoked in New Jersey to prevent In
gersoll from lecturing on the Bible.
For with this intolerance, on which
ever side it shows its hateful face, we
have nothing but impatient con-
tempt No one imbued with the
true spirit of Americanism but so
regards it. The intelligent men of
all denominations, as well as those
of no denomination, take no part
in these antagonisms, regret and
deplore them. Only those moving
on the lowest strata of intelligence
participate in them. The mayor of
Savannah did right in calling out
the military to quell the rioters who
would deny the liberty of speech on
American soil. That right is great
er than creeds or dogma, and Slat-
terly and his screed sink into in
significance before the real question
raised
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
SHE POSED AS A MRS.
Sensation Develops at the We'd
ding of Il Chicago Society Girl.

Sensation Develops at the We'd
ding of 81 Chicago Society Girl.
CHICAGO, Feb. 27.-Myrtle B. Hois-
sington, a beautiful young woman.
who early in the winter while going
under the name of Mrs. NJ. B. Ray
mond, created quite a stir in Chicago
society, was married in this city today
to Thornton Woodbury., of San Fran
cisco. Monday afternoon Miss Hois-
sington registered at the Great North
ern, giving her name as Mrs. Ray
mond. She aroused much interest
among the guests, by her beauty,
elegant wardrobe and jewels, but she
kept her room very closely. This
morning Woodbury. appeared at tbs
hotel, registered as M. B. Raymond, of
New York, and asked to be shown to
Miss Hoissington's room, saying that
he was her husband. In a few min
utes the two entered a carriage and
were driven to the Lexington hotel,
where Rev. DR.. Stives, of Grace
Episcopal church, was awaiting them.
Miss Hoissington had formerly lived
at the Lexington under the name of
Mrs. Raymond, and she did not enter.
v
them in the church and the carriage
was quickly driven there.
DR.. Stives had frequently met the
prospective bride in society, but did
not recognize her until they alighted
at the church door. He explained to
them that the ritual of his church
prohibited the marriage of divorced
people 81 think 1 can explain this
satisfactorily to you,' Miss Hois-
sington interrupted.
when you met me I was living in
Chicago as Mrs. Raymond That was
my step-father's name, and L posed as
a married woman simply because 1
thought it would serve me as a pro-
lection. AS long as people thoughtFme
to be married [ knew I would be COM
paratively free from insult. 1 have
never been married. This eXplana-
ton occurred as the trio were standing
on the sidewalk, near the carriage.
They entered the chapel and there the
two were made man and wife.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
FEMININITY CROPS OUT.
National WOmen7s Convention
Discusses Dress and Fashions


WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Dress re-
form was the theme of the discussion
throughout today's session of the IA
tional council of women. The hall was
crowded, as result of the announce
ment of the topic, and many of the
prominent members of the council con-
tributed their views.
The ethics of dress were reviewed by
Rev. Ida G. Hutton, of Moline, ILL.,,
who regarded the body as a tool or in
strument of the person, and said that
to make the body beautiful, as well as
strong, was plain duty; the time spent
in the consideration of dress had been
so extensive that too little thought had
been bestowed upon the development
of the mind and body.
Martha Strickland, of Illinois. held
that artistic dress was based on artistic
thought, knowledge, work and the con-
struction of many important principles.
The modern dress she pictured as a
gross violation of unity, specially in
the exaggeration of the shoulders and
the minimizing of the waist.
Frances E. Leavy, of Massachusetts,
spoke on the ideal costume of a female
bicyclist, and Mrs. Ellen A Richard
son, of Massachusetts, advocated looser
clothing of a porous material.
Mrs. Annie White Johnson, of Chi
cago, made an earnest plea for the
emancipation of women from their
fashion plates, and asserted that the
adoption of a national dress reform
would allow the development of the
body on natural lines, and accordingly
have becoming and beautifying results.
The session closed with a plea for
dress reform by Julia Pauline Leavitt,
of Maine, who referred to dressmaking
as profession in which stupidity was
colossal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
SCISSORED POINTS.

If George Washington could come to
life today, it would pe fun to introduce
him to the telephone.-Boston Globe.
The rumor that members of the legis-
lature would refuse to draw pay on
Washington's birthday proves incor-
rect.-Leavenworth Standard.
Take it all in all, the theater hat is a
small thing to legislate over, though it
must be admitted that some of them
are pretty big.-Cieveland P1aindealer.
The final victim of corrupt campaign
ing is the long-suffering taxpayer who
tries to be honest at least in the cast
ing of his ballot.-Columbu Dispatch.
How can gold be at premium when
there are over fifty millions of it in
the treasury that anybody can get dol
lar for dollar in exchange for legal
tenders New York Times.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that she
owes q good deal to corsets, for she
feels so much better after she has
taken them off that it is certainly a
pleasure to wear them.-McKeespo
Times.
The immortal youth who could cut
cherry trees but couldn't tell a lie
would have cut a poor figure, even in
the way of dead wood before a mod
ern investigating committee.-Philadel-
phia Times.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
Would Be Expensive for Policy
Holders.


To require the insurance organiza-
lions of other states doing business in
Minnesota to pay for publishing state
ment of their condition, similar to the
ones they submit to the insurance COM
mission several times annually in
some daily or weekly paper in every
county of this state, would be pleas
ant little contribution for the papers to
receive. But it would be considerable
of a tax upon the company funds, and
for no special benefit to the organiza-
tons themselves.
House Bill No 159 calls for this to be
done, and the people who are insured
in the various life, fire and other in
surance companies may possibly be
waiting with some curiosity to see If
they are thus to be required to help
support a good part of the newspaper
press of Minnesota.
ANY great added expense to an insur-
ance company always means extra cost
to the insured. If Minnesota should
have a law of this kind, there is no
reason why all the other states in the
Union might not do the same. Multi
ply the eighty odd counties in this state
by forty-four, and we will have lair
approximation to the total number in
the United States. Such law would, If
all the states were to call for this sort
of advertising, thereby require every
insurance organization to pay for its
statement in about thirty-five hum
dred county papers. AS before noted,
this wouldn't be unpleasant for the pa
pers, but 1t would do no little toward
cutting down the dividends Of life pol
icy holders, and so make their insur-
ance extra and unnecessarily expens-
i've.
The tendency Of legislation, and prop
erly so, is to favor rather than injure
life insurance Even the searching
national income tax law eXempts the
life companies from the two per cent
levy on all mutual policies. The gen
eral feeling seems to be that an ins1-
tuition which in these troubled business
times stands as bulwark between hun
dreds of thousands of homes and the
dangers of trade depression, and Oft
times of absolute want should not be
hampered by demands for any in
creased useless expense.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-28
SEED FOlS oE rTLERS.
Generous Offer of Chicago Board
of Trade.

OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 27.-The desti-
tute farmers Of Nebraska are accepting
the proposition of Chicago board of
trade to furnish them seed grain, to be
paid for when the crop is sold. This
will involve over million. The board
has formed a syndicate to handle the
matter Mass meetings all over the
state indicate disposition to accept the
offer. F. f. Paxton, the Omaha philan-
thropist, TO-DAY received this telegram
from p. d. Armour: "Hhe Chicago
board of trade is making movement
to raise large funds to supply seed
wheat to Nebraska farmers. DO you
think it is the proper thing to do, and is
such relief necessary"
Mr.. Paxton wired a favorable re
Spouse. "Such shipments Of seed as
these men can make, OIL account of their
resources, would he God send to the
people of this state" said he. ''ln one
sense the furnishing OF seed would be
matter of self interest to the board of
trade, as we'll as the farmers. They are
concerned IN having crops raised.
look upon this as definitely indicating
that all the farmers will be supplied
with seed grain"