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The Penn's Grove record., 1900-03-02
! AGRICULTURAL !
&c tanning Abandoned FAR,

90 AdAmAuE AD&nuOuCU
A farmer in Paxton, Worcester
County, Mass, who settled upon an
abandoned farm about two years ago,
Is reported to have raised on eight
acres this year 1900 bushels Of pota-
Toes, 5000. cucumbers-the latter
from a single acre-8OO barrels Of
cabbages, 700 bushels Of tomatoes,
$50 barrels Of carrots, 600 bushels Of
parsnips, 100 bushels of turnips, 400
bushels of beets and 100 heads Of
cauli6ower. besides squashes and some
other truck ad libitum, and all the
vegetables used by the family. OF
course it is Presumed that these pro-
ducts were marketed at a profit, and,
that being the case, It is easy to see
why many Of New England's aban-
doned farms are being reclaimed
Boston C~ultivator.
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Plum Cured the Hiccourhs.

The life OF James f. Buck, the hiccough
victim of Vineland, has been saved by q
plum after his case had been pronounced a
fatal one by three physicians. The pub
LEGATION OF the story Of Mr.. Bucks afdic.
ton brought many odd remedies by mail
to his home. Mrs. Buck decided to try the
plum cure as advised by a correspondent,
and she gave to her husband a preserved
plum. Mr.. Buck has not ~hiccoughed since.
He will recover unless there is a recurrence
OF the trouble. He is badly wasted away.
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WAR CLOUD IN THE BALKANS.

Bulgaria and Servia Massing Troops, But
Too Poor to Fight
LONDON (By Cable).-The Vienna cor
respondent of the Standard says:
Strange rumors are aaoat In Vienna,
and still stranger things undoubtedly are
occurring. Rumors point to impending
lostilities between Bulgaria and Servia.
There is no doub. that both are massing
.roops ON the frontiers.
ut looks impossible, however, that a
war should occur, because neither country
possesses the necessary financial sinews,
and neither Russia nor Austria would
sanction such an outbreak"
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7 APPEARANCES.

The widest river may not be
The best to navigate:
The sfairest words may be the ones
That hide the deepest hate.
The loudest laugh may only serve
To Keep away a sob;
The sweetest kernels do not grow
Upon the longest cob.
The keenest edge may not be found
Upon the longest blade;
The sweetest songster may not Sing
Within the fairest glade.
The widest seat Is not the one
Who're mightfest men have sat;
Sometimes the greatest mind Is not
Beneath the biggest hat.
IS. E. Kieser, In Chicago Times Herald,
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Killed Another.s wife ana Himself.

DR.. Franklin D. Caldwell shot and killed
Mrs. Ephraim P. Hayes, wife of another
dentist. at the Hotel Endieott in New
York City and then killed himself.
Sudden insanity. superinduced by over
indulgence in alcoholic stimulants, aud
that provoked by a hopeless ~infatuatfon
tor a woman who was the lawful wife Of
another man, is the reason advanced for
the murder.
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'CHAPTER OF FATALITIES.
Many Persons Killed in Various Sec
tons Of the Country.
STARTLING SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.
Five Killed at a Railroad Crossing-One
and Four Children Drowned in o Storm
-Others Killed by Boiler and Powder
Explosions and in Other Ways.

LII htlltu Dy DOflef ana fOW06E
Explosions and in Other Ways.
BUFFALO, N. Y. 9pecial).-A little after
midnight Saturday night the midnight ex-
press on the Lehigh Valley Railroad struck
4 carriage containing seven persons at
Tuttle's Crossing, about twenty-five miles
east from Roche-ter, instantly killing five
'f the oc .upants, fatally injuring another.
and badly bruising the other. ALI were
members OF one family.
The dead are Mrs. Amy Smith, forty
eight years old; Bert Smith, twenty-three
years old; Miss Miranda Smith, twenty-four
years old; Glee Smith, fourteen years old,
and Catherine Smith, eight years old. The
injured are Poreer Smith, husband OF Mrs.
Smith, and father of the other victims, and
Gardner Smith, twenty-one years old.
The family had spent the evening at q
friends house, n started home a little
before midnight. The carriage in which
hey rode was a three-seated affair. Porter
Smith "a his son Gardner occupied the
front seat.
Before reaching the crossing the carriage
was stopped and Mr.. Smith listened for
The train, but did not hear It In the howl
ng gale. The horses had just crossed the
rack In safety when the engine of the
express crashed down upon the carriage
and its occupants.
Gardner Smith, who was the least In
ured. crawled to q station near by and
secured assistance.
The bodies of Mrs. Smith and her daugh-
.er Miranda were carried for a mile on the
pilot of the engine. The bodies OF the lit
lie girl and her two brothers were found
near the scene Of the accident.
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"Coals to Newcastlel" A South
Carolina cotton mill is importing from
Egypt all the cotton 1t consumes, id
order to manufacture yarn Of a quality
that cannot be made out OF the Ameri.
can product,
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Concerning the late Jay Gould, it
cannot be said that he was lacking id
foresight in making his will.

A marriage club in West Virginia
selects partners for life by drawing
names from q hat. Thus do its mem
bers succeed in talking through that
useful vehicle.
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Accept, rounder Bradley's offer.

Founder James A. Bradley's offer to sell
his mile beach front and boardwalk to the
city Of Asbury Park for $50, 900 was form
ally accepted at q meeting OF the Council,
after the proposition a been read by DR..
George F. Wilbur. The members OF the
Council were enthusiastic in praise OF Mr..
Bradley's generosity, and a resolution was
adopted directing the preparation of an
enabling act to be passed by he present
fye0Islntur0.
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Lizzie Cohen, seventeen years old, q
pupil In the New Jersey School fer Deaf
Mutes. at Trenten, fell from a second-story
window OF that institution, sustaining in
iuries from which she died. The girl bad
rone to the window to close the shutter
during the storm, and, losing her balance,
fell to the ground. Miss Cohen's parents
1--we in Newark.
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Powder MIN Explosion xrIs Three.

P~LArTEvILLE, Wis. (Special).-Two mills
81 the LaEin & Rand powder plant here
exploded with disastrous results The
mills were blown to atoms. Thomas D..
Bass, Frederick GeLtfe and William Rot
ticker were killed.
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u.nv nr.n4 Carbolic Acid.

The little son OF Alfred s. Schayer. eight
cen months old, while playing In bis
fathers barn in Newark found a bottle
containing carbolic acid. The little chap
put the bottle to his mouth, thinking II
was milk, and died shortly after.
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Seven Killed in Boiler ExpIosion.

T~ExARKANA, Ark. (Special).-News has
been received from Pullman, Ark. of the
explosion of a sawmiil boiler at that place,
oy which seven men were killed The
building covering the engine was blown
Town upon the workmen.
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rema killed at a Detroit Fire.

DETROIT, Mich. Especial 1.-The Detroit
Steel and Spring Works at Michigan ave-
aue and Bay City Railway crossing burned
,ntailing a loss of 800, 900, which Is partly
covered by Insurance.. Timothy Keohan,
fireman, was killed by the falling Of .
aEnOkn stuck.
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Boy Accidentally KIlls Brother.

MONTPELIER, vt. (SpeciaI).-Frank Mar
lin, ten years old, was struck in the neck
~ an axe which slipped from the hands OF
ais brother while they were working In "a
rood lot in Berlin, and died before medical
assistance could be obtained.
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Exhausted Soils.

Professor Z. 81. Bailey, of Cornell
University Experiment Station, says
that impoverished soils are usually
those that have been neglected. MOI
having been titled they have become
cloddy, hard and foul. They may
lack in humus, which can be rene
died by stable manure or plowine
under green crops, or they may lacl
sonA one Of the three important fer
tiliz lg elements. An average o!
thirty-four analyses of soil shows
that an acre of land may contain il
eight inches of the surface soil 321;
pounds of nitrogen, 1896 pounds Of
phosphoric acid and II, 597 pounds Of
potash, beside what may be in stones
and gravel which will not pass through
messes one-ffth of an inch square.
This would be enough to grow abcui
200 ordinary crops If it was all avail
able. It becomes so by action oil
kheaalIs "flm water, " that is the
ing tothe smaller particles
6aiEf&3Ewater mingIes with the
hurnas Sfcp humic acid. But
this watefst be drained down
through the sufface soil to the water
bed befowsthat the aiE1nay penetrate
the soil. IF it does not, it absorbs
heat, evaporates and leaves the land
cold. Whoa the water drains off and
the surface Is we'll titled it becomes
warm, and the water is drawn up by
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e~elluloid Dust Set Atire; One Man Deas

WORCESTER. Mass. (Specia). - Sparks
rom an emery wheel falling in celluloid
lust, which covered thickly the DOR of the
Joseph Wilcox Comb Works, set the shop
iire. The dust blazed like gunpowder and
The thirty employees rushed through the
lanes FOR life. Pierce J. Sullivan, a rub
Der, married, was afterward found dead
rom suffoeation. The left arm OF Fred
NcGuinness was nearly burned of. A
1ozen others suffered loss of hair and eye
crows from singeing,
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Feed to q Finish.

Never before in the history Of the
trade has there been SO wide a margin
between half fat andprime, ripe beeves
as exists at present. The situation
offers every inducement for feeders to
make their cattle fat, and on the other
hand the wide range in value plainly
points to the penalty that must he
paid by those who disregard the law
Of supply and demand and persist in
crowding half-tipe cattle oil q market
already ver-supplied with that class.
Many Of the unfinished cattle marketed
during the past few weeks would with
sixty to ninety days. longer feed have
brought seventy-fve cents to 81 more
per hundred pounds, which would be
almost all clear profit. as the increase
in weight would nearly offset the corn
and labor. While we do not antici-
pate any further advance. except for q
few fancy holiday cattle, we do look
for q good steady demand and salts
factory prices for well-fattened cattle
Tor an indefinite period. Where .
man is feeding a considerable number
Of cattle it is an excellent plan to keep
topping out the bunch and sending in
q load or two of the latest as fast as
they are ready. This not only divides
the risk and gives the. cattle left be-
hind q better chanco4to mature but
also avoids the dead loss Of holding
ripe cattle, as there is no profit in
feeding a steer after he is ready for
market. It is poor Hplicy to hold .
big drove of cattle simply because
there is q light end of one or two loads
that is not finished. The feeder who
q(refully watches his drove and ships
" latest steers as fast as ripe anc
6fen pushes the others along to the
same condition is, other things being
equal, the successful one.
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open Switch Wrecks Two LOGON

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Special).-At 5 o'clock
Sunday morning, while two engines were
pulling the north-bound passenger train
No. 2 on the main line OF the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad near Flomaton, an open
witch was encountered. Both engines
we're overturned as was also the mail ear.
None of the other cars LETT the track. San
Adams, a negro fireman, wa crushed to
Heath, and Engineer Going was injured In
.ernaliy. No one else was hurt.
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cycling Notes.

The United States owns a railroad In
Luzon, p. l., and is buiiding another
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Death Follows Wait to a Grave.

GENEVA, N. Y. tSpeciar.-While return
ing from the grave of her daughter the
wife of Dennis Mccarthy fell into a small
stream and was drowned. The daughter
committed suicide a week ago by taking
,arbolic acid, procured for her by a friend
FAMED Mary Sullivan, who has since twice
attempted her own life, once by jumping
into the river, and Saturday night by cut
ting her throat.
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h proposes to p
world and the next
h%unication with the
It offered one reason
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-08-02
A. D. SCANLAND,

Things were done during our
own Civil war which put civili-
cation and humanity to the
blush. A distinguished comman-
der, Phil Sheridan who, under
the pretense of military necessity,
carried the sword and torch into
the Valley of Virginia, boosted
that crow flying over the de-
wasted country would be compel
led to take its rations along with
it: Possibly the eminent Japanese
editor and ex-offcial cited by Mr..
Stead had a sort of Valley cam
paign in mind when he outlined
the conditions under which Jap
anese troops should march to
Pekin. Western civilization might
give even the Oriental a few
points on the art of savagery in
war.-Baltimore San.
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News Notes.

The shortage in the State Land
Office may exceed $4,000.
Houston received Texas first
bale of cotton July 20. The bale
brought S205.
It is said King Humbert carried
life insurance policies aggregat-
ing 100000.
Snow fell for a few minutes,
during windstorm, at Marshall,
Michigan, Friday, July 20.
Two hundred and fifty persons
were killed and many injured by
the eruption of Mount Azuma in
Japan on July II.
King Humbert, of Itlay, was
assassinated at Monza, Italy, Sun
day, by Angelo Bressni, who shot
the King three times as he enter
ed his carriage.
Former Lieut.. Governor Fell, of
Kansas, a prominent Republican
for twenty years, and Hon. Geo. L.
Wellington, Republican Senator
from Maryland, declare against
Mckinley.
The negro murderer and arch
fiend, Robert Charles, was shot
to death in New Orleans Friday
by citizens, after he had killed
six and wounded seven officers
and citizens who were attempting
to arrest him.
James L. Fitzgerald, chief pay
master of the Choctaw, Oklahoma
and Gulf Railroad, was killed by
lightning at Little Rock, Ark, at
2:35 Sunday afternoon during a
severe rainstorm.
The Times-Democrat of Sunday
says: The drouth and hot weather
in London has been broken
During the past twenty days all
records for the past forty three
years for high temperature were
surpassed.
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" THE FREE STATE OF BOSSIER. >

This is the way some one, long
since, has nicknamed the great
parish in which we live, and 1,
in turn, have adopted it as the
most appropriate name for Bos-
sier's new paper.
To learn of this venture is, no
doubt, a surprise to the readers
Of the Banner-a pleasant one, I
hope. The story of the "young
hopeful is briefly told:
The Free State of Bossier is to
be its name-an original one for
q newspaper, and certainly odd
enough. AS to our politics, etc.,
!" am a Democrat" but we are,
collectively, pledged to no par
tvs arbitrary dictates"
The nature of the new paper
will be unlike that of any other
that I have ever seen or of which
/ have ever heard. It will be pub
ished annually; solely for the
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-08-02

The exercise of courage always
invokes the risk of losing some-
thing we would like to keep; and
so, because we do not like to
strain pleasant relations, we leave
the wise and honest word I'M
spoken. Deliver us from the So
called "candid friend" He is
almost always nuisance, and his
friendship is simply a guise under
which he can say unpleasant
things without mourning the con-
sequences; but to almost every
one there comes a critical moment
when the brave and true word
might open the eyes of one we
love. To leave that word I'M
spoken, through fear of a mis-
understanding, is not coura-
geous.-Revseav and Herald.
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Savings Deposits.

Merchants and Farmers Bank, corner
Spring and Texas streets, Shreveport.
The savings deposits of this bank is
one OF its deservedly popular features.
Interest at the rate of three per cent per
annum is allowed on all sums of one dol
lar and upwards remaining on deposit
three or more calendar months.
When made during the first three days
Of any month, interest is allowed on
these deposits as if made on the first day
in the month. Interest on all sums not
drawn will be payable on the first days
Of February and August, and interest
not then withdrawn is added to the prin-
ciple, thereby giving depositors CON-
pound interest.
Deposits may be made by married
women or minors in their own names.
Facilities are given depositors to draw
money.
Deposits made for a longer period than
tx months draw higher rate than or
mary savings deposits.
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Bible Brilliants.

Thou shalt call, and l will an
swer thee.-Job xiv, Is.
Thy prayers and thine aims are
come up for a memorial before
God.-Acts x,4.
Cease not to give thanks for
you, making mention of you in my
prayers.-Ephesiansi i, Is.
My words shall be of the up
rightness of my heart: and my
lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
job 80, 8.
If We keep my commandments,
We shall abide in my love; even as
I have kept my Fathers COM
mandments, and abide in his love.
John XIV, 10.
And we shall tread down the
wicked; for they shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet in the
day that / shall do this, saith the
Lord of hosts.-Malachi iv, 8.
Let US go, we pray thee, unto
Jordan, and take thence every
man a beam, and let us make a
place there, where we may dwell.
And he answered, Go yell.
Kings vi, 2.
Thou hast not given water to
the weary to drink, and thou hast
withholden bread from the hun
cry. But as for the mighty man,
he had the earth; and the honor
able man dwelt in it.-Job %, 7, 8.
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Commissioners and Clerks,

At a meeting of the Parish
Democratic Executive Committee
held at Benton on the 23d day of
July last, the following named
commissioners and clerks were
appointed to preside at the pri-
mary to be held on August 18th:
WARD ONE.
Curtis-J. NJ. Stacey, H. P. Moore and
L. M. Pruitt, commissioners; T. N. Bra
den, Jr., clerk.
Knox Point-A. J. Moss, w. B. Ora
ham and ]. w. Atkins, commissioners;
T. D. Cornell, clerk.
WARD Two.
Benton-C. O. Gayle, J. G. Ogden and
J. H. Belcher, commissioners; R. B.
Hill, clerk.
Vanceville--S. w. Vance, w. Boney
and Curtis Scovill, commissioners; w. S.
Tidwell, clerk.
Bossier City-W. B. Mccormick, w.
E. Coleman and ]. N. Sutton, commits
sioners; F. I. Creswell, clerk.
WARD THREE.
Plain Dealings. J. Caldwell, A. P.
Davis and w. @. Jones, commissioners;
T. 2. Barnett, clerk.
Alden Bridges. r. Strayhan, w. l..
Adger and w. C. Campbell, commits
sioners; F. T. Whited, clerk.
WARD Four.
Carterville-M. A. Love, L. F. Bogga
and A. w. Heifner, commissioners; J. e.
Rogers, clerk.
Mot. J. Albums, S. P. Johnston and
J. D. Mcclellan, commissioners; F. r.
Garrett, clerk.
WARD FIVE.
Rocky Mount-G. B. Wilson, ]. F.
Ford and J. I. B. Kirk, commissioners;
E. B. Martin, clerk.
Midway-L. R. Bumgardner, A. G.
Lay and M. r. Merritt, commissioners;
R. E. Pilkinton, clerk.
WARD SIX.
Bellevue-R. E. Wyche, w. NJ. Nor
row and w. M. Vickers, commissioners;
J. r. Snider, clerk.
Haughton-J. G. Hodges, ]. F. Ed
wards and F. NJ. Britt, commissioners
c. w. Edwards, clerk.
Allentown. w. Elston, John Allen
and T. H. Snider, commissioners; WI
Wadley, clerk.
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Estes G. Rathbone, formerly
one of Mark Hanna's political
''hustlers'' in Ohio and more re-
Gently Director General of Posts
in Cuba, was arrested Saturday
and held in $4,000 bail on the
charge of embezzlement and sun
lawful drawing" of money
Justice to the thieves may dimin-
ish this looting as a campaign
issue.
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Human Life.

After a while busy brain
Will rest from all it's care and pain.
After while earth's rush will cease,
And wearied heart find sweet release.
After while a vanished face,
An empty seat, vacant place.
After while man forgot,
A crumbled headstone, unknown spot.
H. M. ARNOLD,
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Old Kentucky Home.

Zone version.)
Kentucky! Kentucky!
l love your classic shades,
Where fit the fairy figures
OF the dark-eyed Southern maids
Where the hooking bird is singing,
Mid the blossoms newly born.
Where the corn is full of kernels,
And the Colonels full of corn.
st. Louis Republic.
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Judgment.

No. 1905. In District Court, Second
Judicial District, Bossier parish, y.
Tn this case, by reason of the law -
i evidence being in favor Of plainil!
and against defendant, it is ordessd
adjudged and decreed, that then u
Judgment in favor OF Annie 3. Middleea
against defendant, H. P. Middleton, g..
solving the community OF acquets -
gains heretofore existing between The
separation of property be and e here
decreed, and the said Mrs. Anne -
Middleton is entitled to the free adm
istration of her estate, and the en1e
ment of all her future earnings ana 8.
QUESTIONS, with the right to acquire =
hold property for her own e1cls1ss
right and benefit.
This done, read and signed IN o.
Court, this April ii, 1900.
j. IT. WATKINS, District Judge d
Judgment filed April Il, 1900.
r. B. HILL, Deputy Glen.
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$40 Reward,

Escaped from me, the undersigned, on
IL July 23d, one negro boy, described
as follows: Copper colored, pop eyed,
about 81 feet high, Is years old, weighs
lis pounds, he had on a pair OF black
jean pants, a check shirt and two hats
Zone sewed in the other and sewed to-
gether with white thread.
SIS reward will be paid for his deliv-
cry in the Benton Jail or to my camp on
the public road. J. F. Afford.
July 81, 1900. tt