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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-04-18
TIE FORSAKEN GRAVEYARD.

No costly granite marks the graves,
No fresh-cut flowers grace,
No new-made footprints in the clay
To tell a well-loved place;
Only a few old, tottering stones
Grown weary with the years.
With faded letters worn and dim,
But more with rain thar tears.
Across a grave with sunken breast
A timid wild rose creeps;
Who knows but meath its perfumed leaves
A plying heart 1t keeps?
Sometimes wild bird rests upon
A crumbling rock and sings;
Who knows but from plying heart
That tekder note he brings?
Here lies grave so short and small,
'Twould touch mothers heart;
Within some breast at some sweet time
1t held a larger part.
And here around faded name
Are green and clinging vines;
Who knows with what a plying touch
The tender ivy twines?
And here's long and narrow grave.
With naught to mark the place
Except blue forget-me-not
That lifts its dainty face:
But who can say 1t blooms less fair
Upon the pauper's bed
Than where yon tottering stone Is seen
Above his neighbor's head?
The wind blows sadly through the pines;
Alone, it seems to sigh.
Forgotten, whisper low the leaves
That rustic softly by.
But ah! We do not need to lie
Beneath stone to be
Forgotten and alone; perhaps
They live in memory.
May Rapley McNabb, in Boston Tran
script.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-04-18
An Unfinished story.

It. was at dinner the other night.
The host, a man of middle age, was
telling the story. "The letter came to
nv office the other day." he said,
"along with my regular business mail.
1t was dainty little envelope of blue,
with a seal, and scented. 1t was in a
woman's handwriting, and the sigma
ture was apparently that of young
and unmarried woman. She wrote as
though she knew me. She wanted to
know if I wouldn't go shopping with
her. She said she would meet me at
the-well, I've forgotten the name of
the hotel-it was one of those on
Broadway in the thirties. Then she
said: You remember, I telephoned
you the other day. I asked my Office
boy about it, and he said: Yes, there
was a woman who telephoned, but she
wouldn't give her name It was a cu-
rious thing, wasn't it? didn't take
the trouble to follow out the story"
"Why, Charles" spoke up the hostess
from the other end of the table, 'you
never told me about this" II think
I'm pretty good to tell about it at all,
said the husband. "Some day." put
in one of the men at the side of the
table, "some day tell me the real
story."-N, Y. Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-04-18
AGE PENSION IN GERMANY.
One of the Greatest tAccOmplishments
Of the Great Iron Cham
cellOr.

Bismarck, who thought to do some.
thing in the name of humanity be.
fore he died, declared in the pre-
amble for his scheme for old-age in
surance in Germany that every man
who had served the state faithfully
throughout his life and fallen VIC
tim to honest poverty in old age
might claim support from the state,
not as charity, but as right. This
idea has stamped itself upon the law
of the land in Germany already, says
the Boston Globe. Ambassador White
has recently published the more inn
portant provisions of the German
law for the use of American students
of sociology, as it relates to what is
known as the disability and old-age
insurance law which has been
passed by the German parliament.
In the German scheme, which has
been organized with the greatest
care and carefully fortified by stat
ute law, every wage-earner who has
completed his sixteenth year is en-
rolled under compulsory pension
law which insures against disability
in old age and relieves every wage
Garner of the dread of being a
"pauper," while sparing him the ex-
hibition of foolish pride which is 50
often seen in the United States. I'm
der this law the laborer has earned
the right to support in old age, nc
matter how mercilessly the slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune
may assail him.
The details of the organization o1
German laborers under the disability
and old-age pension law will be found
chiefly interesting to students Of
sociology. 1t includes all classes
servants, teachers, clerks, secre
taries, waiting ladies, companion:
| and persons employed in Offices ant
business establishments of all de
scriptions. All these employment:
are classified and graded, and tn.
scale of assessments is fixed accord
ing to wages and salaries, with ever.
possible provision to make the Law
work smoothly and equitably. Ever.
member may pay his assessment il
stamps provided by the government
which are furnished by the chiefs o
police. The whole system is very in
geniously contrived, and of cours
being under the patronage of tn
government the scheme is little like
ly to fail of fulfilling its promises.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-04-18
A Sure Indication.

Mrs. Witherbee-I guess that family
who have moved in next door do not
amount to much.
Witherby-Why not?
"Well, I see them paying cash for
g."-Brooklyn Life.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-04-18
In Evidence.

Richfello-That Miss Fortescue be-
longs to the blue bloeds, doesn'tshe?
Rival Believes, indeed. You ought
to see her nose on acold dsy.-Tit Bits
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-04-18
A Gentle Hint.

Mr.. Nicefellow-What do you think
is the proper age for girls to marry?
Miss Lena--Oh, about 10.
Indeed! and how old are you?"
.Oh. about l9."-Towu Topics.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23

| issuance of an ultimatum to the mine
owners of the district that unless the
| mines are unionized general strike will
be ordered"
There also promises to be hot fight
over the choice Of a president for the en-
suing term President Boyce stands an
excellent show of reelection, it is
claimed. but there are some good cam
didates in the field against him. 1t is
further claimed that the advisers of
Boyce III Denver are not in favor of ex-
tending the strike further and their
counsel may have good deal of weight.
In any. event it is not believed that
the executive board VIII order strike
but will lay the matter before the fedora
ion convention for it to take what ac-
tion pleases a majority of the delegates.
The expenses of one delegate from
each of the unions will be paid by the
federation; the expenses of the others
will be borne by the unions of which they
are members. Governor Orman and
Mayor Wright will be asked to address
the convention at it's opening.
The Western Labor union has been in
existence for four years and is in a
most prosperous condition. 1t is similar
in it's organization to the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and is composed Of
trades organizations of all branches
west of the Missouri river.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
TENNESSEE VALLEYS SWEPT BY
A RAGING TORRENT.
HOMES AND LIVES WIPED OUT
Fourteen Dead Bodies Already Found,
and Rumors Of Many More Deaths
by Drowning-Highest Water for
Quarter Of Century-Bridges and
Railroads Are Wrecked.
(BY Associated Press.)

Knoxville, Tenn, May 23.-The Knox
vile sequel to the terrific food in upper
East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia
is being realized today. This morning at
10 o'clock the Tennessee river here had
reached 33 feet the highest known since
1875, when it was 80 feet above low water
However, no great damage is being done
here, as river men had been prepared for
the high water, having anticipated it for
SO hours.
The greatest damage will be the flood
ing Of some industries and lands along
the river front and stopping river traf
fic more or less. Much debris is floating
down the river and considerable is being
caught here.
Conservative estimates from upper
East Tennessee place the dead actually
found at fourteen. Speculation, however,
exists as to the number that may be
found dead after the water recedes.
The two road steel viaducts in WASH
ingtOn county over the Nolachucky river,
the Sullivan county steel bridge at De-
vaults Ford and the Ohio river and
Charleston railroad bridge near De-
vaults Ford are reported swept away in
addition to the twelve bridges reported
yesterday.
The loss at Elizabethton due to the flood
is conservatively estimated at about
$500 The damage to the town OF Wa
tauga is estimated at about $l50,000.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23

If Little Whirlwind. the Cheyenne IN
dian who has been in the penitentiary at
Deer Lodge under life sentence for mur-
der since 1888, is innocent, it is likely that
executive clemency will be exercised in
his favor and that he will soon breathe
the air of freedom.
Govrnor Joseph K. Toole has been in
yestigating the case for more than u
month. and while he is cautious in ex-
pressing an opinion as to the guilt or
innocence Of the man, says that he will
make up his mind before many days
elacse.
.This is rather a difficult case on
which to pass Judgment" said the gov
ernor this morning at the Thornton,
"hut have been at work on 1t now for
more than a month. 1t was first drawn
to my attention by Bishop Brewer ana
Col. Sanders of Helena. The case was
taken to the supreme court and the
transcript of testimony is voluminous.
OF course. I must read it all and con-
slider the evidence therein contained in
Connection with subsequent developments
before shall feel warranted in arriving
at a definite conclusion as to the guilt
or innocence of Little Whirlwind.
THE interest taken in the case seems
to be very keen, especially throughout
the east. I shall not only try to do my
duty regarding the prisoner, but as ex-
peditiously as possible on account of the
interest manifested in the matter by
humanitarians generally"
Governor Toole is one Of a party which
includes Secretary of State George M.
Hays, Attorney General James Donovan,
s. c. Ruger. D. E. Swinehart and 8. c.
Ashby. who left for Deer Lodge this
morning to make an official inspection
of the state penitentiary. If time enough
is given by the Northern Pacific sched-
ule. the party will return to this city
tonight. Provided the officials are oblig-
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23

probably be so delegates in attendance
from all parts Of Montana, and a special
car will be attached to the regular Shor,
Line train, which will run through tt
Denver over the Union Pacific and re-
turn by way of the Rio Grande.
President Edward Boyce and the men,
bers of the executive committee of the
Western Federation Of Miners are al
ready at Denver. They have taken
charge of the arrangements for the
miners convention, which will probably
last a week or ten days.
1t is expected that the conventions will
be the most important in the history
of western labor organizations. Many
questions or grave moment in the realm
of labor are to be settled, while new
problems will in all likelihood arise DUR
ing the progress of the sessions.
The conventions of both bodies will
be held II the same building. There
will be about $50 delegates at the annual
convention of the Western Federation
of Labor and perhaps $50 at that Of the
Western Labor union.
"One of the propositions to be dealt
with" said President Boyce of the
Western Federation of Miners is the es
tabishment of a miners home. A sue
cessor must also be chosen to succeed
Secretary James Maher, who has lately
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
4 PERMANENT EXPOSITION
New York Will celebrate Her Rapid
Transit System With
$7,OCO;OOO Show.
(By Asso oiated Press.) }

NY AsSOclateO freSS.)
New York, May 2S-Plans are under
discussion for jubilee exposition in this
city. in 1905, to commemorate the physi-
cal consolidation of the bOroughs of the
metror oils by the completion of the ra,.
Id transit system. 1t Is further planned
to give to New York a permanent expo
sition structure. with accommodations
sufficiently extensive to house the great
est conventions.
While the en- er. rise still is in an en-
tryo state it has been considerably fav-
ored. A corporation will be formed for
the purro-e Of bringing the project to
its fiuiti n and amorg hers who are
considering it's advisability are August
Belmont, A. j. Cassatt, Senator Chaun-
cey M. Derew, Thomas F. Ryan, H. H.
Vreeland, w. c. Oliver, John B. McDon-
aid. Nathan Straus and Aired G. Van
derbflt
Those who are now mos. actively pro-
noting the exposition, shall be in a sense
in practi al commercial enterprise, or
Ccnized on business principles, for the
Purpose of bringing New York into closer
relations with the broad interests Of the
c. untry. Although an expenditure of ST.
COO 600 VIII be involved, no subsidy Mill
lie solicited from city. state or nation.
Announcement has be- made that a
site has been selected and r, al estate has
been obt aimed on Long Island Sound near
the Typographical center of Greater New
York.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
\By Associated Press.)


Philadelphia, May 23.-The important
question of revising the creed, which for
the past two years has been agitating
the Presbyterian church, came before the
general assembly today and a lxlgthy
debate on the question is expected.
The controversy regarding revision has
led to the formation of three groups
among the $40 commissioners to the gen.
eral assembly. First, there is the con-
servative group composed of those op-
posed to any change whatever in the doc
trinal standards Of the church. Then
there is party desirous of setting aside
the confession of faith as not truthfully
expressing the belief of the church. Be-
tween these stands the centrists who
favor maintaining the old confession
with a few notifications and who desire
the adoption of clear ''daclarative"
statement, setting forth the most import
ant doctrines and laying special empha-
sis on the love of God for mankind and on
the work of the Holy Spirit.
Fully an hour before the doors Of CAL
vary church opened crowds thronged the
entrances, and before the exercises conr-
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23

ed 10 stay at Deer Lodge tonight, how
ever, they will go to Warm Springs and
make an inspection Of the asylum for
the insane before returning.
The governor will devote the most of
his time at Deer Lodge to consideration
OF Little Whirlwinds case. He SAYS that
confinement, as rule, Is more injurious
to the health of an Indian than a white
person, but at present he does not know
whe her or not Little Whirlwind is in
good or bad health.
When Governor Toole was asked if
there was any logic in the statement that
asrardon would be an insufficient remedy
In the case of an innocent man he laugh
ed sood-naturedly and answered:
well. If the man is innocent, I'd like
to know how else he can secure his re-
lease from prison. Under the law he
stands convicted of murder, and whether
he committed the deed or not. unless he
should be pardoned. fail to see how his
release can be secureed.
Secretary of State Hays says the peo-
pie who are working to secure freedom
for Little Whirlwind are urging his case
in systematic style. If the Indian should
be pardoned, the board OF pardons would
have to confirm or nullify the govern
or's action, and three weeks is the usual
period elapsing after a pardon before the
board passes on it. The present board
consists of Attorney General Donovan.
Secretary of State Hays and Auditor ].
III. Caderhead.
1--WE have already secured number of
letters conncerninf the case" said Secre-
tary Hays, (which are intended to
make US SO thoroughly acquainted with
the details that If the action taken by
Governor Toole should be favora BILE as lit
tie time as possible may be lost before
the board passes on the pardon As for
Governor Toole. he is daily in receipt of
letters from all parts Of the country, ask
ing for the release Of the Indian"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
WRECKED The SECOND TIME
Ship Willamette Keeled Over as Soon az
Raised From Where She Had
Gone Down.

Victoria, B. c., May 23.-News has been
received from Union. B. c., to the effect
that the steamer Willamette. which went
on the rocks some time ago. was fioated
on Monday, and as soon as she was lift
ed from where she had been lying she
heeled over and had it not been that she
was hurriedly put in shallow water. she
would have turned turtle. AS it was she
fell over until her bilge caught on the
beach and lies half over, with the water
up to her matches. With her hull
empted, it seems the heavy wreckinng
apparatus on her made her topheavy.
The union mach nists and boiler makers
who have been at work on the Villa
meta have struck in consequence OF
advices from the machinists executive
officers in Seattle
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
REMAINS WILL BE ANALYZED nv
A CHEMIST.
STANLEY HELD ON SUSPICION
Coroner's Jury Will Issue No Verdict
Until After the Report-Prisoner
Must Wait Week or More ON Bail
Thieves Who Tried to Learn Mrs.
Stanley's Identity.
(By Associated Press.)


New York. May 23.-Dr. Kirrke STAN
ley. the masseur arrested in connection
with the death of Father Phillips. has
been arraigned before Coroner Bausch
and ihs examination set for May 81. The
bail was reduced to s5OOO Stanley was
taken back to the Tombs in default of
bail.
At the hearing before the coroner,
Policeman Redmond told of finding the
priests abdly decomposed body and of
the subsequent arrest of Stanley. After
the policeman had testified, Assistant
District Attorney Garvan asked for an
adjournment Of the case until q report
on the chemical analysis of the stomach
and intestines of the dead man could
be received.
Abraham Lew. counsel for Stanley,
protested against any adjournment, de-
claring there was absolutely nothing
against Stanley.
There is no criminal charge against
him." said the lawyer. "and it is a hard
ship to hold a man on mere suspicion.
I don't care for any discretion he may
have been guilty Of in not reporting the
death of the man to the police. That
is matter with which the court has
nothing to do. We all know that DR..
Witthaus, the chemist. is not active in
furnishing an analysis in such cases. !
ask that you proceed with the examina-
tion or discharge the defendant"
Coroner Bausch granted the adjourn
ment
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
Hot Debate on the Presbyterian Creed
shall a L0OphOlc Be Left for
the Escape Of N0n-Elcct
Infants.

menced the galleries were filled to over
flow ing. The debate on revision was de-
layed by the report of the committee on
bills and overtures and other matters.
Rev. DR.. Asa s. Fisk of Washington,
D. G., offered a resolution congratulating
President Mckinley on the prompt re-
covery from an apparently fatal illness
Of Mrs. Mckinley and offering thanks
to God at the prospect of her early re-
turn to her home. The resolution was
unanimously adopted.
Rev. DR.. Dickey, chairman Of the re-
vision committee, read the report of the
committee.
The minority report, signed by Rev.
DR.. McKibben of Cincinnati and E. w.
Humphrey of Louisville, was read by DR..
McI<ibben. In presenting the report, DR..
McI<ibben said he would like to say a
word regarding the spirit which pre-
vailed at the meetings of the committee.
He declared that sensational reports had
appeared in the newspapers which were
without one iota of truth. DR.. McKib-
ben said the meetings of the committee
were conducted under the most harmont-
Gus conditions.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
KL0NDIKE PAYS ITS WAY
"A Great Source of Revenue for the
Dominion Government in the
Past Five Years.
(By Associated Press. !

10Y Associated Pr6SS)
Seattle. May 23.-An official statement
received at Dawson from Ottawa shows
that up to the first of this year the total
royalty collected from the Klondyke
placer mines by the Canadian government
amounts to 5000, 1921.
The statement also contains the in
formation that the total revenues receive
ed by the Canadian government from Yu-
kon territory since 1896 amounts to $4,-
376.673.16
This includes public works receipts,
fisheries. royalties, customs duties, fees
IN various departments, land sales, rent
ais. timber dues, placer grants, sales of
miners certificates and the like.
The excess of receipts over expendi-
lures of the consolidated fund for the
entire period since 1896 until the first of
this year is $679,3S2.
With the public works capital added to
the expenditures, the excess of receipts
over expenditures is $12S,52S.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
GERMANS ACTIVE IN CHINA
Operating Wherever There Is a Show
OF Resistance-Battle With Boxers
Near Pekin

Berlin, May 2S.-Count Won Waldersee,
IN dispatch from Pakin says that along
the southern line of demarkat ton his gen.
erals are now operating in conjunction
with General Bailland and CAPTAIN
knoerser.
Two companies of the German regi-
ment surprised and dispersed four hum
dled esca. ed boxers fourteen niles north.
west OF Pskin. FIVE Germans We're
wounded.
The German force in China after the
withdrawal of troops, will amount to
three or four thousand men, exclusive of
the American legation and the detach-
ment between Pekin and the sea. The
purpose of this small force is to watch
the enforcement of the stipulations be-
tween China and the powers.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
Upton ASKS FOR LONGER TIME
TO GET READY FOR GREAT RACE,
Gloomy Forebodings on the Part of
British Yachtsmen-New Yacht a
''Hoodoo" From the Day She
Was Launched-May Not
Send Her Over, But Build
New Racer for 1902

Sir Thomas Upton takes the accident
phllosophically. but the comments of
the men show that this eliminating mis-
fortune coming on top OF the minor acci-
dents which have happened at nearly
every trial has quite taken the heart out
Of the crew. Past mishaps which were
glossed over at the time of the occur
renee are now magnified and not one of
the crew has a good word to say for the
.boar. Ie is now admitted that all are Bit
terly disappointed with her form as
against that Of the old boat. and the gen.
eral hope is expressed that Sir Thomas
Lipten will decide to build a new yacht
before sailing of his challenge.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23
REV. ST0NEH0USE WAS KILLED
Ten of His Boxer Murderers Have Been
Arrested and Tried-Confessed
to Their Crime.
(By Associated Press.)

(By Associated Press.)
Boston, May 23.-Rev. NJ. S. Ament, D.
d., the missionary of the American board
now in Boston has received letter under
date OF April 20, from his associate mis-
slonary in the North China mission, in
which is given an account of the massa-
ere OF Rev. Jos. Stonehousc of the
missionary society, Mr.. Wilder says:
About ten of Mr.. Stonehouse murder
ers have been arrested and tried. Some
Of them confessed. One of them helped
to Kill one Of the North China mission
aries Of the American board and his wife
last fill. We have not heard of any
punishment being inflicted"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23

to the home Of Irving NJ. Scott, where
ne had breakfast. Immediately after
yards he attended reception given by
Che heads of the federal department of
this city. He then went to the Preside,
where he reviewed the troops, including
the regiments which have recently re-
turned from the Philippines.
The president was met at the entrance
Of the reservation by. a detachment of
artillery and cavalry and escorted to the
reviewing stand on the parade grounds.
All the troops passed in review, the late
returning volunteers passing in close
marching order in fatigue uniform and
unarmed. General Shafter and the men,
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-23

The Montana delegation to the annual
conventions Of the Western Labor Union
and the Western Federation o. Miners,
which begins at Denver next Monday,
will leave for the Colorado metropolis
on tonight's train. President Dan Nc
Donald Of the Western Labor Union ac-
companied by his wife, took the train
for Denver this morning. There will