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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-02-27
Final Account,

Succession of Mrs. M. B. billiard, de-
ceased.
In District Court, Bossier Parish, La.
Notice is hereby given that Joannes
~ Smith, executors of the succession
of Mrs. n. 3. billiard, deceased, has
this day filed in my Office his final &C
count in said succession, and if opposi-
ton be not made thereto within the time
prescribed by law, the said final account
will be homologated and made the judg-
ment of the Court.
Given under my official signature and
seal of Office, at Benton, La, on this,
the Goth day of February, 1902.
B. A. KELLY, Clerk.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-02-27
THE MAN OF MEN.

The day we do not celebrate
passed much as usual in this
country last Saturday; with no
more public attention or observ-
ance than its numerous predeces-
sors. The national flag was dis
played only in rare instances; that
flag which, but for him might
never have taken its place among
the ensigns of the earth, and been
seen only in museums as an in
teresting relic of an unsuccessful
rebellion.
Yetit would be wrong to assume
that because Americans treat with
respectful Indifference the natal
anniversary of ''the greatest of
good men and the best of great
men," therefore they fail to ap-
preciate either his services or his
character. Possibly there may
be here and there one who feels as
did the Athenian who would not
vote for Aristides, because ''tired
of hearing him always called 'the
Just; " but with such insignifi-
cant exceptions he is, and always
will be, to his countrymen the first
and foremost in their reverence, if
not in their affection. No other
man approaches him in that high
e-eminence; he stands alone
among all the heroes of history,
without a rival and without copy.
"a soul supreme, in each hard instance
tried,
Above all pain, all passion and all pride,
The rage of power, the blast OF public
breath,
The lust of lucre and the dread of death. !"
He is not merely an honor to
his country, but to human nature;
and wherever civilization has pen
etrated the name above every
other name is that of WASHINGTON.
The New York Indians have this
tradition of him:
''Alone Of all white men, he has
been admitted to the Indian Heav-
en-, because of his justice to the
Red Men. He lives in great
palace, built Ii Ike a fort. All the
Indians, as they 60 to Heaven,
pass by; and he himself is in his
uniform, a sword at his side,
walking to and fro. They bow
reverently, with great humility
| He returns the salute, but says
nothing"
Such man can we'll afford to
dispense with birthday celebra-
tons.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-02-27

London'spolice force comprises
15,847 men-32 superintendent,
$40 inspectors, 1877 sergeants
and 1928 constables, who patrol
an area of 6S8 square miles. Their
pay amounts to Sc, 469, 100.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-02-27
Taken Up

Taken Up
py Minor Davis, on T. c. Barrett
II place, on February 1, 1902, one
Bay Horse Pony, described as follows:
Both hind feet white, also right front
foot; little white spec in face; no brand
or mark; small sore on back; PAGES when
riding; looks to be about 10 or IL years
old: about 13 hands high. Appraised at
So. Will be sold at Court House on
Saturday, March q, 1902.
&C. ay1N6Q9E j. 2:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-02-27
w. C.. PERRIN.
Cotton Factor and Real Estate
Agent.

AScHC,
1t8 Texas Street, Shreveport, La,
Eives his personal attention to the
VI sale of all consignments Of cotton.
Makes liberal cash advances on consign-
ments, and purchases goods for custo-
mers in the country free of charge.
Has for sale large list of City prop
erty, consisting of Business Houses,
Residences, Vacant Lots and Suburban
tracts. Rents houses and farms, collects
rents, pays taxes for non-residents, and
makes prompt remittances to owners.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-02-27
VOLUME FORTY-ONE.

ters upon its forty-first volume.
The editor of the Banner is
impressed with the idea that much
of the success and encouragement
that has attended its long career
and made it a welcome visitor to
the homes of its patrons is due to
a proper estimate of public wants
and the avowal of principles-the
determination to have no personal
obligations to repay, no private
injuries to revenge through its
columns; in short, so to guard its
conduct as to to keep it always
steady in the interest of truth,
firm and decided in the advocacy
of the right, and never abandoned
to an unrestrained license.
The man whose life has been
we'll spent has the reward of a
clear conscience and of public
and private esteem. Literary and
artistic productions of merit have
this advantage over the quickly
passing human creators of them,
that they do not grow old and
that they become stronger and
more influential with the lapse of
time. A good newspaper, for in
stance, one founded on principles
of right and truth and justice,
and conducted conscientiously in
the spirit Of those principles, con-
stantly increases in power, and
each year adds to all the elements
that combine to give it strength
and stability. In the case of a
paper like the Banner, which
was founded forty-three years
ago next July, such results were
inevitable, both from it's own
character and the character of
those among whom it was estab-
ished. It still counts among it's
readers some veterans who re-
member it's first issue and who
have continued their support
many years, and have done it the
honor frequently to bear cheerful
and gratifying testimony to the
community of purpose, principle
and sentiment which has existed
from the beginning between the
Banner and the people of Bossier
parish. But as a matter of record,
and for the benefit of those who
arenot conversant with the history
of the parish or the influence
, bearing upon the growth in the
long period during which the
Banner has been one of its intel
lectual and business factors. it is
interesting to recall how closely
interviewer have been the relations
between the parish and the paper,
and how clearly each has reflect
ed the life, the influence and the
development of the other.
In its relation to the moral and
higher life of the community the
Banner is happy to feel that its
influence has been for good-for
whatever is healthy and clean,
honest and of fair repute. 1t has
not always been able to agree
with all of its friends on every
subject and it has not hesitated to
say 80 when it believed the welfare
OF the parish and the country re-
CURED it, but it has never sup
ported a political principle or
cause that it considered wrong
or hurtful. Working faith
fully and intelligently week by
week all these years for what it
believed the best interest of this
parish, it is happy on the begin
ming of its forty-first volume, in
the consciousness that it has tried
to do "the thing that is right, y
and in the knowledge that its
history is written not only in the
business development of the
parish, but in the industrial and
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23
Christmas Customs in the
Hawaiian Islands

For thin gowns are the order of the
day in Hawaii, even in midwinter; and
the maidens, with their organizes and
grass linens, their quantities of fresh
flowers. their big sun hats, look like
SO many picknickers rather than par
takers in Christmas festivities.
What to give for Christina" in Ha-
waii is indeed perpleNing. When one
cannot make any use of furs, velvets,
sleds, skates or the hosts of things app
preciated in ''tne states" it is easily
ceding Christmas, the Chinese and
Japanese stores are haunted by
anxious would-be-givers-of-gifts, and
every year the orientals do thriving
business. Thin silks, crepe shawls,
lovely, lustrous cloths Of banana and
pineapple tibers, carved sandal wood,
and ivory bits of cloisonne. are hung
on the Christmas tree in lieu of the
heavier articles so popular in cold
cline.
The real Hawaiian will banquet on
pig and poi ia pasty mess), and feel
confident his. is the choicest food of
the land. Bread-fruit will also grace
his board and perhaps the deyilfsh,
| too, will have place in the Christmas
fare. But you must not judge the ma
tive a savage because he eats strange,
outlandish food; you will find at his
feast, in the wreaths of ferns and
| flowers that are strewn about so Law
ishly. evidence of keen love for
beauty.
Whatever they eat, whatever they
drink, however queer some OF the ob-
servances may seem, there is much
| good fellowship abroad, much Christ
mas cheer.
There is one thing about Christmas
in Hawaii that is like Christmas every-
where; the chief part, the best part
of the festival, is the JOY the children
have in it. And how the tots out there
do enjoy it! There are the little Ha-
waiian girls, dressed only in cotton
slips, legs and feet bare, hugging tic
their breasts dolls, white as they are
brown The moon-faced Chinese kid.
dies stand about the wonderful tree
the heather Christian has trimmed
for them and with pleasant calm ac-
cept of the striped candy and popcorn
balls. The Jap small things laugh soft
ly and smile. sweetly as their portion
of goodies is bestowed. The shrill.
happy voices of the white youngsters
fill the air. And in Hawaii, Christmas,
Children's day, has full swing.
KATHERINE: POPE.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23

"The American publisher is sup
posed to be very thrifty person"
said the Bostonian who had been
making a European trip, ''but in
Paris l came across an instance to
prove that the Yankee isn't in it. 1
was stopping at hotel where Il
workman was sent to solder Leak
ing water pipe, and he had only got
to work when he fell dead of heart
disease. 1T was matter of two
hours before his body was discovered,
and it had hardly been taken away
before the plumber sent in his bill.
He had tackled on for the two hours
that the man had lain dead in the
house. The landlord refused to pay,
and the case went to court and the
verdict was: AS neither the EMPLOYER
nor the landlord were to blame for
the mans dying when he did, the bill
for extra is to be reduced one-half."
Boston Globe.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23
could return it. How much do
you charge herr"
81 don't see that that's ANY,

you charge her?"
81 don't see that that's any"
'sOf my business? Right. So it
isn't! Now I'll tell you what I'll do
with you. I'll go back to town, and
do my night work, and bring testi-
monial from my employer, the editor
of the paper, and the manager, too,
if you like, and I'll agree to pay $50
week for the room and board, if
you'll let the young woman CO."
l had never let the room for any
thing like that sum- 1t was a back
room and much smaller than the one
occupied by j. A. d. AT once it
seemed to me that had let her have
hers too cheaply, and 1 sighed, and
decided to raise the price the follow
ing week.
II couldn't turn her out" I said
"She is so tired-almost i'll, 1 think
1 really couldn't"
WELL" said the stranger, perhaps
had better try it for a week. If
she's noisy, 1 shall go myself" He
deposited pad and several pencils
on the table and Invested his pocket
of papers, among which were the
morning and evening editions of the
Star Union. He saw me looking at
the paper and picked it up, holding
it towards me and pointing with an
inky forefnger to column on agri-
culture. He ran his finger down the
page to the signature, Henry NAL
lard"
Here" he said with pride in his
tones.
| "Where?" said I.
There, that's me, my nom de
plume. 1 wrote that" He looked at
the printed name with a conceited
air. He ceased the contemplation of
the mystic words suddenly and
turned quickly to me.
| 'This room seems cold,' said he.
That's because there's cellar
underneath it," said l. SIT will soon
warm up with fire."
"a cellar!" he exclaimed quickly.
''How do you get to it?"
From the lady's room,'' said I.
He laughed. That's capital" he
said.
"Capital?' said 1.
"Yes, capital-that it doesn't open
out of mine. 1 hope she'll see her
company down there. Very we'll,
then, off I go. You'll see me back at
this time tomorrow with Il pile of
credentials that high" He measur-
ed foot of space between his hands,
walked quietly along the mating
covered hall, went out of the door
and down the steps, retraced his way
over the grass, mounted his wheel
and was gone. AS | came back into
the front hall, the new boarder was
standing in her doorway.
81 heard voices" said she. .sWhere
were they?"
''It-it must have been in the back
room,' said 1.
what back room?"
"The room back of this"
rs that where that door leads to?"
"Yes,' said l shamefacedly.
you never told me there was a
room back of this. Have you any
other boarders? l thought that l
was the only one"
ITO Be Continued
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23
BATTLE OF wALLOOMSAC.
The Engagement known ns "Ben-
nington" Was Really Fought
in New York.

Some years ago Richard Curran, of
Rochester, introduced into the assem-
bly, a bill to provide for the erection
of monument in the town of Hoo
sick, Rensselaer, county, where was
fought, on the 10th of August, 1777,
az engagement with detachment of
Burgoyne's army, and named by New
England historians as the battle of
Bennington.
The bill, says the Rochester Demo-
crat, did not become law, but it
was discussed in New England and
New York with considerable energy.
New England newspapers exhibited a
sense of injury because New York
proposed to mark the battlefield
within her territory. 1t was then
suggested that the name of the sec
ond engagement be taken from the
beautiful stream that ran through
the field, the Walloomsac. The field
was six miles from the village of
Bennington, and the principal battle
was fought on the summit of sharp
spur, covered with hemlocks, that
rose abruptly from the valley of the
Walloomsac. 1t is beautiful spot,
but not known to the self-deceiving
New Highlander as the battlefield
where the Hessian barren was cap
tured with his whole command.
Hereafter the battle will be known
in some quarters by it's true name,
Walloomsac.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23

fancy, for the girl was sound asleep,
felt sure. I went in at the front
door, and looked around to see if he
was following. Yes, there he was,
right behind me.
Now, back of the room which I had
just rented to j. A. D. was another
room, somewhat smaller, it is true,
but very comfortable withal. Its
back window looked out upon the
wood-shed and chicl1en-coop; it's side
window upon the veranda.
"Have you other boarders in the
horse?" he asked me, after cursory
survey of the room.
1 hesitated.
II see you have" he said in his
soft voice. Very well, then, it
won't do for me. 1 detest racket
WELL" 1 acknowledged haltingly,
81 have one boarder."
81 may as well CO." said the stran-
ger; "some noisy fellow, 1 suppose
81 should not let my room to a
noisy fellow" said I. at is young
woman. She came only this after.
noon. She is lying down in there"
"In whereof"
"In there, in that ROOM" said L
pointing to door which made the
rooms communicating ones.
"Never do in the world! What's
her name?" The softness of his
voice robbed the words of their bit.
terness.
81 do not know
"What! Not know the name OF
your own bcarder?"
1t sounded SO like Aunt Jane Mary
that could but smile.
mo, don't know her name," saic
1. "She came up here a while ago
tired out, poor thing, and 1 didn't
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23
THE OLD HAND ORGAN.

The old hand organ in the street
The new ones have-but oh, the sweet
Old tunes it plays with limping Tilt!
'"The Harp That Once Through Tara
Halls"
Jim Crow and "Annic Laurie" too
And, answering its bugle calls,
The old times rise for me and YOU
"Then You'll Remember Me-" it plays
And straight our memories go back
Through all the dead years mellow haze
Il With frequent pause along the track
And then we see the grass-grown streets
The orchards cleaning in the sun,
Where grooming bees seek out the sweet
And shadows DER the grasses run.
we see the flash of merry eyes;
We see the CLEAN of old-time smiles;
And, ere the old-time music dies,
i We live again the old-time whiles.
we walk the pathway in the lane,
And day-dream as we used to then,
For on the ripping old refrain
The old times come to life again.
Play! Old hand organ in the street!
4 Play every song we used to sing,
And let our hearts in cadence beat
With each glad memory they bring.
Play, in your hating, careless way
The fine old tunes that softly tell
OF every God-made happy day
In those old times we love so we'll
w. d. Nesbit, in Baltimore American.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23

one not at all orthodox.
conventional. And that is just about
what it is.
The newcomer is apt to consider it
very like the Fourth of July. Upabove
there's a bright sun shining, under
meath green grass waving, flowers
blowing; and all about is the fire
cracker with small boy attached. Pop,
pop, goes the cracker; boom, boom
goes the cannon, from midnight of De-
cember "a to midnight of December 25
Just what its significance is, on that
date and out there, am sure do not
know. Probably the many Chinese.
rather than the Americans, are respon-
sible for the outrageous noise. The
Hawaiians have long had the Celes
tials within their borders, and they
have been not a little influenced by
contact therewith; and the Chinese.
you know, celebrate their New Year
holidays with the festive cracker.
The Hawaiians' queer medley of a
Christmas is made up from the obsery-
ances of many peoples. The Portu-
guese form a large per cent of the
population in Hawaii, and these Latin
folk have loaned to the native born
their way of keeping the great holi-
day. Gay clothes, presents of flowers
and sweets, winedrinking with ones
friends, attendance at church. tinsel
gifts; in this manner the Portuguese
keep Christmas, and the Hawaiians fol-
low in their footsteps. sometimes Il lit
tie OVERRIDING the wine drinking.
But the Hawaiian never seems to
reach the quarrelsome stage of in
temperance; he only gets gayer and
more good-humoreG, hilariously greet
ing all whom he meets. The Christmas
reyeller, in cotton trousers and shirt.
a wreath of red posies about his neck
or around his hat, who mounts his
steed and gallops up and down the
streets throwing ''Mer' Christmas
right and left, in appearance is quite
a contrast to his palefaced neighbor.
The haeole (white), attired very cor
rectly, may be seen driving in stately
fashion hither and yon, also bent on
the exchange of Christmas greetings
Well-appointed earring the au-
tomobile-pass up and down the whit
ish coral ronds, the ladies dressed in
the height of fashion, that is as fashion
can be copied in summer stuffs.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23

ask her name. Her initials-at least
OF her dress-suit case-are j. A. d."
81. A. d. said he, 81. A. d. Well
that doesn't tell me anything. Some
Cabling girl, 1 suppose! She'll have
half the village here in the early
evenings, on the side veranda, when
l am trying to sleep. And she's GER
tain to have them in the daytime. l
work hard and late at the Office of
the Star Union, and l must have my
sleep"
"Then you are newspaper MANI"
| said
What else?" said he.
OF course | knew it. l don't know
why l asked. William was re-
porter when l married him. / knew
the signs but too well.
"Did-did- you come with any par
ticular object about the-the family
on the-the hill, because if you
did" He started There! What
a fool l always was. Why couldn't
l have kept quiet? putting him on a
scent which 1 was only too anxious
not TO nave talked about.
"The family on the hill? and who
pray, are the family on the hill?"
Then he didn't know.
''And who, pray, are the family on
the hill?" he repeated.
"Oh, then you don't know? The
Darlingtons. 1 thought perhaps
since the Squire has just died, and
the papers want so much to get at
the news if his will, and where he
left his property, that"
The stranger laughed very merrily.
"Hush!' said /, putting up my
hand; ''she is asleep"
"Who? Oh, the girl! Oh, no, mol"
he said, smiling broadly and shak-
ing his head. 'sYou mistake me en-
tirely. | get my living by much more
difficult ways than writing scandals
and society news. do hard, legiti-
mate work for my daily bread, but
l see 1 may as well be going on. If
l can't have a quiet place, there is
Don't you call this room a quiet
one?" asked 1.
"Well, possibly. But that girl in
there's an uncertain quantity. How
long is she going to stay?"
81 don't know" said 1.
Doesn't she?"
"That 1 can't tell you, and she
must stay her week out; besides,
why should l turn her out to please
you?"
She had paid me in advance, but /
considered that none of his business.
care you sure she's quiet?"
CHATS just what she asked about
the house. l wouldn't dare take any
one who wasn't equally so. She
came first, you know"
"Yes, l know she did," said he, smil-
ing.
II should-have toto ask some
sort of reference" said /, hesitat-
ingly you know l am alone here,
with my invalid aunt. We are far
from the next farms, and l must
know whom l take into the house"
why, certainly" said the stranger.
you are perfectly reasonable in
that. I'll tell you what I'll do with
you. / won't come to-day, but III
come out tomorrow, at about this
hour, and you'll have time to send
the lady away. You say She has paid
for week in advance" CT had not
said SOY, "but l really don't see why
that should stand in your way. You
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23
NEWSPAPER LAWS.

Any person who takes the pa per regularly from the
postofice whether directed to his name or whether
ne Is subscriber or not Is responsible for the pay
fhe courts have decided that refusing to take
newspapers and periodicals from the postotfce, OF
removing and leaving them uncalled for is p,ina
Jdcde evidence of INTENTIONAL. FRAUD.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23
M IiOn tn Her

Mrs. Muggins- That woman's hus-
band is quite a literary lion.
Mrs. Buggins- Why, she told me he
was perfect bear.-Philadelphia
Record.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-23

N n EDITOR once said to me:
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-12-17
How to Prevent Group.

1t will be- good news to the mothers
of small children to learn that Group
can be prevented. The first sign OF
Group is boar seness. A day or two
before the attack the child becomes
hoarse. This is soon followed by a
peculiar rough cough. Give Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy freely as soon
as the child becomes hoarse, or even
after the rough cough appears, and it
will dispel all symptoms of Group. In
this way all danger and anxiety may
be avoided. This remedy is used by
many thousands of mothers and has
never been known to fail. 1t is, in
fact, the only remedy that can always
be depended upon and that is pleas.
and and safe to take.
For Sale by Foss & Strong, Hyde Park
Hall & Cheney, Morrisvie; NJ. ]. Leach, VOL
colt; j. ]. Vearen, Stowe; c. Campbell, Cen
terville.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-12-17
A Cold Wave.

The forecast of sudden changes in
theweather serves notice that a hoarse
voice and a heavy cough may invade
the sanctity of health in your own
home. Cautious people have bottle
of One Minute Cough Cure always at
hand. E. Fl. Wise, Madison, Ga,
writes 81 am indebted to One Min
ute Cough Cure for my present good
health, and probably my life" 1t
cures Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe, Bron-
chitis. Pneumonia and all Throat and
Lung troubles. One Minute Cough
Cure cuts the phlegm, draws out the
inflammation, heals and soothes the
mucous membranes and strengthens
the lungs.
Foss & Strong, Hyde Park; Slayton
Sanders, Morrisville; M. j. Leach, Wolcott
F. l.. Laraway, Watervile; c. P. Jones
johnson; E. W. Smith, No. Hyde Park
battuck & Son, Eden.