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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
THE
ADVANCE

Congregational Weekly
GNontinues to enlarge it's circulation and to
~ imprOvein contents. One reader says,
The Advance grows better every week.
Another says, 1--WE have taken it since it's be-
ginning, and could not keep house without it.
Among the good things which it will contain
during 1897 will be its Sunday-school exposi-
ton by DR.. H. NJ Scott, DR.. S. j. Humphrey,
Mrs. Roxana Beecher Preuszner and Miss
Mary Louisa Butler. The Prayer Meeting will
have the attention of DR.. n Boynton, and
| Rev. W. H G. Temple of Seattle, will continue
| his slant Lights on the Christian Endeavor
| Topics.
new serial, entitled "IN HIS STEPS" by
| Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, was begun in our
| issue of Nov. 5th, his Robert Hardys Seven
| Days" and "Phllip Strongs Crucifction"
appeared in the Advance some time ago and
aroused much interest.
| Articles may be expected from the pens of
the best writer's of our denomination, while
articles are already ON hand by DR.. j. G. John
son, DR.. s. ]. Humphrey, DR.. E. +. Williams
and others.
Ample space is given from time to time for
reports of the various State and District AS
sociations, and the great Annual Meetings of
our Benevolent Societies.
Regular yearly rate, $500.
| To NEW subscriber the paper will be sent
from now to Janaury l, 1898, for $500.
| Trial subscription, three months, 25 cents
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
Notice.
Stray Sale.

Fstraycd before H. Barnacastle, Justice of
Il Peace, ward G. by e. II. Coombs, and will
be sold at Haughton, La, within the legal
hours of sale ON Saturday, the 18th day of
March, 1897, One Strawberry Roam Colored
Cow, about 10 or ~ years old, marked crop in
left ear and crop and split in right ear. bob
tailed and holes bored in horns.
Appraised at Sc.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, ETC., or the same
will be sold according to law.
j. W. ONEAL. Constable
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

In some of the cities of Europe the
cost of putting out fire is made a
charge upon the property of the
person for whose benefit the fire de-
Partment IS called out.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Appointment philosopher says: "a
vile book is published. Who is to
blame? The publisher? No. The
buyer" Are not both to blame
"For it must needs be that offences
come; but woe to that man by whom
the offence cometh."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

There can be no doubt in the mind
of any man at all in touch with the
spirit of the time that one great thing
needed now is regulation by law of
the trusts and "combines which
have so exasperated the people. II
one law proves powerless for rene
dy, then we must devise some new
regulation that will reach. This is
the way Of peaceful reform and de-
velopment.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

One-twelfth of the people of Eng
lang suffer from govt. A Berlin
physician says that this malady is
often due To The excessive use OF
meat.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

The New York health board will
have detectives on street and elevated
railway cars in that city to arrest
those who spit on the floor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Sooner or later every purely selfish
combination in politics is bound to
come to grief by two causes, treach-
cry among its members and the force
of public opinion when aroused.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Arkansas may have a new State.
house. A bill to authorize adver.
tisement for plans has been intro
duced.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

There are thirty eight ex-Govern-
ors Of States in the present House at
Washington, but very few of them
have attained distinction there.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Eighty years ago SPANS territory
in the new world amounted to
100000 square miles. OF this
empire Cuba and Porto Rico are the
only remnants, $4,000 square miles.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

A bill providing for calling State
Constitutional Convention passed the
Alabama House of Representatives.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

The cotton mills in the South will
not close, notwithstanding that the
mills of Now England have been Or
dered shut down two days in every
week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

In France when a railway train is
more than ten minutes late the CON-
pany is fined by the government.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
Jury Scrip.

Following is correct table show.
ing number, to whom issued and
amount of all jury scrip paid by the
Parish Treasurer during the recent
January term of Bossier District
Court:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

A bill has been introduced into the
Indiana legislature exempting forest
lands from taxation.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Postmaster General Wilson has
been elected President of Washing
ton and Lee University.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

The inhabitants of the United
States consume more than half the
quinine produced in the world.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

The Cumberland river above Nash
vile will receive 100000 worth of
improvements.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Out of sixty arbitration treaties
among the nations OF the world since
1916, the United States has borne a
part in thirty -two--far more than
any other nation.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Massachusetts has the largest for
eign born population. New York is
second.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Exports for the last seven months
exceeded those of the same period
last year nearly a hundred million
dollars.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

When a dentist in China is pulling
q tooth for a patron an assistaL
hammers on gong to drown the
cries of the victim.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

The Shiloh battlefield will be made
a splendid park. Sixty thousand
dollars was appropriated last week
to continue the work.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
BENTON, LOUISIANA,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1897.

The Post Office Appropriation bill
has been completed by the Commit
tee of Post Offices and Post Roads,
and will be submitted to the House
in few days. 1t carries an appro.
priation of s95,6ll,7l4, this is
1,903,69 below the estimates and
5000, $50 greater than the amount
for the present fiscal year. There is
on increase in the allowance for free
delivery service and also for letter
carriers in new free delivery Offices.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Why is kissing pretty girl like
new sewing machine? Because it
seems good.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Illinois farmers are suffering heavy
losses by corn rotting.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

The Wisconsin Odd Fellows Nut
ual Life Insurance Company has
failed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
Teachers Examination,

4 IL applicants for positions as teachers in
n the public schools of this parish, and all
those holding certificates from this Board who
desire to raise their grades, are hereby notified
that an examination will be held in Benton on
the 9Th and 9th days of March next No other
examination will be held this session.
j. a. w. LOWRY,
w. c. MARTIN,
A. J. MURFF.
Board of Examiners
February Is, 1897. mara
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
Homestead Entry No. 6o6l

Land Office at NatchitOches, La, !
February TO- 1897.
Notice is hereby given that the following
~ named settler has filed notice of his in,
tention to make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made before
the Clerk of the District Conrt, at Benton, La,
on March &c, 1897, viz: Homestead Entry
No. 6O6l-George w. Durdin-for lots 10, Ii,
l6and II in fractional southeast quarter, Sec
ton 20, township 20 North, range il West.
He names the following witnesses to prove
of, said land, viz: X. A. Fox, w. r. Bumgar-
dner, j. w. Faircloth and A. L. Byram OF
Midway, La.
EDW'D PHILLIPS, Register.
February 10, 1897. mares
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
Sheriff 8 SAFE.

Equitable Securities Company of New York,
VS. James Nj. Moore. No. 1885. Iu District
Court, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Dy virtue of writ of seizure and sale issued
ID in the above named suit and to me di-
rected, have seized and will proceed to sell
at public auction, to the last and highest bid
der, at the front door of the Court House, in
the town of Benton, La. within the legal hours
of sale, on Saturday. March 27, 1887, the fol-
lowing described property. tO-wit:
The south halt of northwest quarter, north
west quarter of northwest quarter, southeast
quarter and northeast quarter of northwest
quarter of section &c, southeast quarter of
northeast quarter of of section y, township ~
North, range l2 West, containing 800 acres,
more or less; with buildings and improve
ments thereon; situated in Bossier Parish, La.
The above described property seized as the
property of defendant, j. NJ. Moore.
Terms of Sale-Cash, without the benefit of
appraisement to pay and satisfy the sum OF
$l359 10 and per cent per annum interest on
$50 - from Dec. /, 1894, and on like sum from
Dec. l, 1895, AID on like sum from Dec. | 1896,
and 6per cent on $lO45 As from Dec /, 1896,
and all cost of suit including 10 per cent on
said sum and interest as attorneys fees, and
~ Ar. THOMPSON, Sheriff.
Benton, La, Feb II 1897. mar Is
Notice.
S. w. Vance } No. 4O72. In I'd Judicial
VS.. }District Court in and tor
His Creditors. Bossier Parish, La.
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the
~ creditors Of s. w. Vance, insolvent will
ba held at the office of the Clerk of District
Court in the town of Benton, Bossier Parish.
La, on Monday, March sth, 1897, at ~ o'clock
NJ, for the purpose of determining the manner
and terms of sale of the property of said in
solvent, and any other business properly CON-
ing before said meeting
Witness the Hon. J. T. Watkins, Judge of
said Court, this the 81 day of February, 1897.
B. A. KELLY. CLERK and
ex-oficio Recorder and Notary Public.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
1897. THE SUN!
BALTIMORE, MD.
1897

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PEOPLE AND WITH THE PEOPLE.
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FEARLESS IN EXPRESSION.
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RIGHT THEORIES AND
RIGHT PRACTICES.
VTNTIE SUN publishes all the news all the
L time, but it does not allow its columns to
be degraded by unelean, immoral or purely
sensational matter.
Editorially, the Sun is the consistent and
unchanging champion and defender of popular
rights and interests against political machines
and monopolies of every character. Independ-
ent In all things, extreme in none. 1t is TOR
good laws, good government and good order.
By mail, fifty cents a month. six dollars
year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18

Owing to the fall in the price Of
iron an immense number of orders
have been placed with rail-makers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
Notice TO TresDNsSe,'s.

No hunting or fishing on my place will be
~ allowed. Trespassers will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.
A. CURTIS
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StrNy Sale.

Stray Sale.
ENstrayed before II. Barnacastle, Justice of
IL the Peace, Ward 6, by Harry Wright,
and will be sold at Haughton, La, within the
legal bonrs of sale, on Saturday, March q.
1897, one Dark Bay Mare Mule Colt about
years DID, IL hands high.
Appraised at SIS.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, &C., or the same
will be sold according to law.
J. w. ONEAL, Constable
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Notice.

Notice is hereby given that Thomas Gilliard,
~ who was convicted before District Court
in Bossier Parish, La, Jan. &c. 1885, of the
crime of petit larceny, will apply for a pardon
THOMAS GILLIARD.
Benton La Feb g. 1897
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Total. 1856 60
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
A HAMMOCK SCHOOL.
How TO Learn to Swim without Go.
ing Near the Water.

How to Learn to Swim without Go.
ing Near the Water.
Madge was determined to know how
to swim. To be sure, there was no water
within many miles of her home, but
fortnight was shortly to be spent by
her close to that most lovely swimming
ground, the Long Island sound. She
had firmly made up her mind that, in
all the bravery of her new bathing
suit, she would calmly walk in waist
deep and then strike off, swimming like
frog, before the eyes of the aston
ished family, all this to take place the
very first day they all went bathing to-
gether.
Such picture, in the minds eye,
formed the most delightful surprise
that any girl of 12 could possibly i'm
agine, but how was it to be managed,
with no place for practice? This is
the very question I am setting out to an
swer, for, as Madge accomplished her
design and became an expert swimmer,
and yet obeyed the command, Don't
go near the water" there is no reason
why other girls-and boys-should not
prepare themselves 1Or summer run,
and also lose forever all fear of drown
ing, by practicing the same means used
by her.
This wonderful swimming school was
held on the back veranda; the apparat-
us that held her in position to prac-
tice to nicely the most practical leg
and arm movement imaginable was
nothing more nor less than an ordinary
hammock. The only teacherwas a silent
one, consisting of few directions she
had read, given by DR.. Walker, written
out and hung where she could consult
them. When 1 first saw this figure
with its arms and legs moving sc
strangely, it seemed as if the back
veranda had suddenly become the play.
ground of a crazy girl, instead of the
Madge who, from toddler of two, hat
made this the jolliest sort of a spot a.
soon as mild weather began. My conf
dence in this rather tomboy child wa
very great, so I uttered not sound, bu
watched and listened. There she was
in her gymnasium suit face downward
and just now was practicing the Les
stroke. The legs were tucked under tn,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
HOMEMADE CORN CUTTER.

will cut; eight-inch plank should do.
Mortise three crosspieces of two by
four into top of runners. Nail boards
on cross ties to make a platform 3O
inches wide and nearly six feet long.
Get a good steel knife and make it very
sharp, say % inches long and five inches
wide. Bevel the edge from the bot
tom or underside. Have a rod made
with an eye in the center and curved,
in order to fasten either end to run
ner and hitch horse in the center.
This rod should be of one-half inch
round iron, and long enough to work
nicely, as shown at a. Bore a hole III
platform or runner, and put in stake
about six inches high (b) even across
with the base of rod (c). Another stake
of the same size, but 20 inches high,
on the right side of platform near the
edge, and 81 inches from the front of
platform (d) Take rod of five-eighth-
inch iron 67 inches long and weld a
piece of fiat iron one-half inch thick
and eight inches long to the end of it,
bolt the fat piece to platform (13 inches
from center to back of PLATFORM, and
bend the rod forward II inches above
the platform, as in e. Bend the rod so
as to have it extend out over the edge
of the platform. over and back of the
knife CHI, then bend the rod in so as
to extend about two inches over the
platform at the center two hy four
cross brace (D. From there bend the
rod out to g. Be sure to have 1t carry
the same height all the time.
The bends in the rod are made in
order to bring in the corn and Kay il
across the platform without the help
of man. In this way the danger OF
standing over the knife is averted
Nail small stick something like q
lath from top of stake to the out
side runner few inches ahead of the
knife. Bolt the knife to platform
about 26 inches from back part of plat
form with two bolts, and have the knife
slant back considerably. I put SCRAP
piece of two-inch plank under the plat
form at and h, to make the platform
more solid where the large rod anf
knife were bolted fast. The large roc
from to should be with bends 81
inches long. Directly across it is 4'
inches, thus using two inches for bends
The large rod is outside of stake {
about five inches. Hitch on quiet horse
hang the lines on d and ride on real
of platform. and when a large pile o,
corn is cut and laid across the sled
stop and shock it up.-Farm and Home
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

abdomen and first strolse) then both
quickly flung out, wide apart (second
stroke), just as one has seen a frog
do-who, by the way, is the best swim
ming master in the world The last
stroke was to draw the legs together
while still out straight with all the
strength the practicing swimmer pos
sessed. One, two, th1ee, she counted,
and the legs were submitting so well
to the training that longed to try it
myself. Why had | never thought to
have my boys learn swimming this
way? What blessing such practical
work would have been on a rainy day.
AS 1 watched the gyrating legs with a
kind of fascination they suddenly be-
came still, and now the arms were in
play with a motion reminding one Of
the movement of oars. Madge by this
time knew was there and beckoned me
nearer. Now watch my hands and
arms, aunty," and with the palms down
ward she held them to her chest, the
elbows close to her sides. First move
ment," she called out; then out shot
the arms forward, side by side; now
second movement" was called, then
with the hands turned thumbs down.
ward she swept them as far as possible
away out into the sea of air, and third
movement" was accomplished.
Over and over again the girl prac-
| ticed these movements, and day after
day it was kept up until arms and legs
became flexible and were ready to take
as naturally as ducks to water. The
exercise was soon followed out with
as little thought as one gives when
walking "leg over leg as the dog went
| to Dover" After all, this is the true Sc
cret of learning to swim-to use the
arms and legs in the water with as lit
| tie thought as one gives to their mo-
| ton on land, and if this has been at
tanned while beating against the air
only think of the pleasure of using
these motions in the cool, clear water.
Once the leg stroke is conquered in
learning to swim more than half the
battle is fought; the arms afterward
fall in naturally to their share in the
water propelling. DIR. Walker says this
may be attained to perfection by those
| WIZ can manage W practice III d NAM
mock by lying across the wooden foot.
board of a bedstead, using a pillow un,
der the body and clutching the mattress
with the hands to preserve the proper
balance. Beware lest anyone come
across such a scholar in SUCH a swim
ming school, for he will surely be
elapped into straightjacket and car
ried off to Bedlam. Practicing in due
seclusion, however, there is no reason
why young and old should not come tt
their hoHeay-mal1ing this year armed
yes, and legged = for speeding
through the water as speedily as on &
bicycle going downhill.-Emily Ford
in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
AN ELEPHANTS FOOT.
One of the Most Ponderous Pieces of
Animal Anatomy.

One of the Most Ponderous Pieces OF
Animal Anatomy.
Anyone who ever glanced at the foot
of an elephant must be aware that it is
ponderous piece of anatomy, but it's
actual size is best illustrated by an
anecdote.
Two men in the Central park zoo were
speaking on this subject, and one of
them thought the circumference of the
foot must measure at least four feet.
His friend laughed at this, but the
younger man, after a second time gaug-
ing the size, insisted that his guess was
correct.
"Nonsense-quite impossible!" ex-
claimed his friend.
And then, as the younger man still
claimed that he was right, they laid a
wager and referred the matter to the
keeper.
What is the circumference of the
fore foot of that big elephant?" they
asked.
The circumference of an elephants
foot is very nearly half the animals
height" replied the keeper.
VIII you ue So SOOu as 10 LltdSuTc
it?" asked the amazed visitor.
And the keeper got long cord and
went in beside the monster, Bazzle, who
stands eight feet five inches in height
"Of course 1 measure while the ami.
NAL is standing squarely on all fours,
he said. ''If / were to take the foot up
from the floor, it would not be quite sc
large; small part of that size is
caused by the spreading out of the soft
matter of the foot by the pressure oi
the animals own weight"
He drew the cord around the monster
foot, held it up, and measured it with 6
tape line. The figures showed -four
feet two inches.
The man who had lost the bet paid it
with the remark that he did not thinl
he was paying too dearly for that curl
Gus bit of nowledge.-Golden Days.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
AROUSED HIS CURIOSITY.
She Had Never Heard of the Cathny
But IL Must He Good.


mo" remarked the young man who is
very much given to interspersing his con-
versatiou with quotations, 81 shall not go
away for the summer"
THAT is too bad" exclaimed the young
Not at all This thing of sitting around
on piazzas and doing nothing except wishing
that there was some other way of killing
time faster is not at all to my taste. AS a
matter of fact, it isn't any warmer in the
city than it is elsewhere, and there is always
something going on. | like the hustle and
the hurry and the hum"
But you must have rest, you know. You
will wear yourself out if you don't"
ooh, WE'LL" he went on, with that come
what-may manner which can usually be re-
lied on to impress a very young woman,
"it is better to wear out than rust out"
But there is no need of doing either, is
there?" she inquired, apprehensively
Perhaps not. But it is my disposition.
My motto is: Better 20 years of Europe
than a cycle of Cathay."
why, Arthur, How suddenly you
change the subject
II wasn't aware that / had changed the
subject
why, yes You said Better. 20 years
of Europe than cycle of of G C(at,hays;,,,"
No" she reluctantly confessed; "I be
lieve you made it up"
"Oh, no; that isn't nine"
We'll, anyhow, I'd like to see one"
Zone what?"
"a. Cathay. never heard of it, but il
must be very fine make of cycle to cost al
much as a trip to Europe. ."-Washingt
Star.