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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-17
HOUSE PARTY A SUCCESS.
The Lovers Furnished High-Class En-
tertainment for the Ell
derly People.

"Was the house party great success ??
Magnificent. There wasn't dull
moment all the time we were there. Yon
see, the most elaborate plans were made
for our entertainment" was the reply.
according to the Brooklyn Eagle.
Boating. tennis. golf, dinners, and all
that, suppose?"
"Oh, they were mere incidents to the
main show, assure You. no pains had
been spared to give something really in
teresting."
what was the main shown"
Lovers
Lovers"
Sure. What is there surprising In
that? Don't you know anything about
house parties? Why, she had taken the
pains to get the finest assortment of
love affairs under one roof that You ever
saw, and all we older people had to do
was just to sit back and watch develop
ments. We had the jealousy, devotion.
spite, quarrels, reconciliations, flirta-
tion-in fact, everything that goes with
high-priced emotional drama. II peo-
pie only knew it, that's about all there
is to house parties. anyway, and the wise
hostess makes her plans accordingly.
Everything else is in the nature OF
scenery for the big show. OF course,
there is an occasional advertisement in
the shape of married fiirt with a jealous
husband, but the main thing is the exhi-
bition of real love In the real way that
real youths show 1t in rustic surrounds
ings. Oh. it beats the dramatic imita-
Il gtions all to pieces, and hostessess know
it. If the real lovers had any sense
they'd make charge like any other en-,
.ertainers."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-17
Cranberry suet Pudding.

To one cupful of finely chopped suet
add one cupful of cooked cranberries
(the berries must be very sweet, one
cupfnl Of molasses, three cupfuls Of
flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der, salt and spice to taste: butter bak-
ing powder can well. pour the batter in
1t, cover tightly and boil in hot water
three hours. turn out the pudding
when done by inyerting the can with a
jerk; serve with hard sauce of butter
and sugar.-Gcod Literature.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-12-17
Large Field for New Industry,

Denver doctors have discovered that
a germ is the cause of that tired feel
ing. They should put the germ up in
packages for the trade. says the Chica-
go Daily News, SO that all who can
affcrd the luxury may he CON fnrtabla
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
TWO sENATEs IN CoLoRADo.

Something approaching a revolution
airy situation exists at the capital of
Colorado. The Senate has divided in
to two bodies, and each sits behind
closed doors and is guarded by deputy
sheriffs. 1t is the understanding that
there will be no change in the situation,
as far as the Senate is concerned, until
it is decided finally what the House
will do in the contested seat cases.
The entire trouble grows out of the
contest for the United States senator
ship made vacant by the expiration of
the term of Senator Teller. Mr.. Tel
Ter is a candidate for reelection, being
supported by the Democrats. The Re
publicans seem determined to defeat
him, and so they have set up the claim
that seventeen Democratic members of
the House were elected by fraud. If
the seats of these seventeen Democrats
were given to Republicans the latter
would control the Legislature on joint
ballot, and elect the senator. Accord
ing to the dispatches yesterday some
of the Democrats, who, II was alleged,
were elected by fraud were seated, and
the seats of others were given to Re-
publicans, but enough Democrats were
unseated to give the Republicans con-
troll of the House by a majority of
two.
1t seems that the Republicans have
a majority of the senators in their
part of the Senate obtained probably
by giving to Republicans seats which
are contested. On the face of the
returns the Democrats had a majority
of the Legislature on joint ballot. The
Republicans hope to get a ma jority by
unseating Democrats in the House. and
filling their places with Republicans.
The real merits of the claims of the
two parties will of course be disclosed
as the contest progresses. 1t will doubt
less appear that the claim set up by
the Republicans that large number
of the Democratic members of the
House were elected by fraud has little.
II any. foundation. They want to get
control of the state and they will leave
no effort untried to accomplish their
object. The situation is something like
that which existed in Louisiana in 1875
when there were two Legislatures sit
ting at the same time. Doubtless the
trouble in Colorado will be settled by a
complomise, at it was in Louisiana.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Washington Post Qnd) says:
The only female member of the Utah
Legislature voted for Apostle Shoots
nomination in the Republican caucus.
The fact that she is Gentle and the
executive head of the Fedora ton of
Women's Clubs in that state may tend
TO ice water the claims of some of the
folk who are expecting to overturn the
situation out that way
The New York World (Dem) saws:
What could Mr.. Hanna have meant
by saying that Ohio is an. incubator
OF Presidents and the industry still
thrlves% Mr.. Hanna himself will be
II years old in 1908, and there are
many possibilities between now and
then. Is a dark horse being groomed
for the presidential sweepstakes, or is
the entry list for 1904, in Mr.. Hanna 5
opinion, still open?"
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) SAYS;
Mr.. Belmont, 1t seems. did not be-
gin to look upon Col. Gates as an
unsafe man until Col. Gates got Mr..
belmont into corner and squeezed
him until he oozed currency at every
pore. This episode, however will not
particularly impress the rest of the
community as evidence of Col. Gates
iniquity, since everybody knows that
Mr.. Belmont would have done exactly
the same thing to Col. Gates if he had
had the necessary brains-and nerve"
The Philadelphia Record Dem1
says: 1.-THE establishment of close re-
ciprocal trade relations between the
United States and Cuba, while essen
tial to the prosperity of Cuba, for
whose products this country furnishes
the nearest and natural market. will
be of hardly less advantage to orr
own manufacturers, farmers and mer-
chants. To repel this nearby trade
by hostile tariffs instead of inviting II
by preferential rates would be a mol
icy alike so injurious to the Cubans
and TO ourselves as to pass under
standing. Were there no other induce.
ment than the mere advantage of good
neighborhood and the preservation of
peaceful and sanitary conditions In a
populous island almost within sight Of
our shores, this great nation could moi
excuse itself from lending a helpine
hand; but our pledged faith no less
than our self-interest binds us to the
adoption Of the reciprocity treaty now
under consideration in the Senate"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
S------------------
Told bY LiYin&stOn.

Representative Livingston of Geor-
gia told story in the Appropriation
Committee room the other day of his
narrow escape once from Yankee SOL
diers during operations at Atlanta
says the Washington Post. He and a
Texas scout were sent on a perilous
mission, in citizens clothes. ct knew
every path leading to the city and the
streets as well as I did the hogpaths
around my own farm, and Gen. Hardee
directed me to ascertain information
about the enemy, which l believed
could do from a woman living in the
CITY," said Mr.. Livingston.
1--WE rode up to the back gate, but to
our establishment, the Yankees were in
her house. l sprang back into my sad
die, and we galloped away, the Yam
KEGS hot after US. Years afterward,
the late Gen. Coggswell of Massachu-
sets and I met here in this commit
tee room. and happened to learn that
he was the military commander at At
lanta at that time. Then l told him
my story.
"When I finished telling 1t Gen.
Coggswell put his arm ON my shoulder
and said:
Let us be friends through life. I
am mighty glad the boys did not catch
you. AS soldier, you know what
would have been your fate under the
circumstances, and we never would
have met under such delightful con-
ditons.'
From that day until his death, Gen.
Coggswell and myself were as fast
friends as any two men who ever wore
the blue and the gray. l was one of
his pallbearers, and saw him laid to
rest among the people he served so
WE'LL"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21

Missouri paper revives an anec-
dote illustrating Senator Vests read
mess of wit and sarcasm. On one &C.
casion, twenty-six years ago, the
doughty little Senator used this gift
with crushing effect on a man who in
terrupted him while he was making a
speech in the Johnson County Court
House, at Warrensburg, the home of
his colleague, Senator Cockrell. The
room was packed. Vest was speak
ing in a particularly happy vein,
when a Warrensburg editor who did
not like him arose and asked him a
question. 1t was courteously an
swered, and the editor followed it up
with another and another. To the sur
prise of most of his hearers, Senator
Vest kept his temper and continued
to reply courteously. Finally the edi-
tor asked a long and very involved
question. The Senator listened to it
with the same attention as he had
given to those that preceded it, but
just as he seemed read to reply, land
while" says Frank Frayne, who tells
the story, 1.-The audience was perfect
ly quiet, awaiting Vests answer, a lit
tie yellow, bench-legged cur came
jumping up the aisle Immediately in
front of the judges stand, in which
Vest was standing, barking furiously
at him. AS quick as flash Vest
turned and, pointing his finger at the
dog, said: One at a time, sir. You
are out of your turn. Wait till 1 get
through with the other one; then I'll
reply to you"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
Butler and the Butcher.

Judge Powers of Massachusetts, tells
an anecdote of the late Gen. Ben But
Ter and butcher. who thought he was
shrewd enough to get ahead Of that
shrewd lawyer, says the Washington
Post.
General inquired this butcher, IF
my dog should snatch a piece of meat
from the stall of another butcher,
would l be liable for the damage?
Certainly answered the great le-
gal light.
d" But if that butcher had put the
meat down at the doorstep of my
1eighbcr's house, and my dog SWITCHED
it from there. would 1 still be liable
for damages?'
d" Certainly replied the general
again.
Then you will please pay me IS for
the meat which your dog has just
snatched from the doorstep of one of
your neighbors. where / had left it
"'Wait minute rejoined Gen. But
Ter. 4 owe you s. for the meat my dog
has snatched away. But you have
just had legal advice from me, for
which I charge so. The balance due
from you is therefore exactly S. "
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
Personal.

Gossip is connecting the name Of
Miss Angie ]. Graham of Wheeling
with that of Prince Eniwha, second son
of the King of Corea. Both are stu
dents at Wesleyan University in Ohio.
Miss Graham is the daughter of a
Wheeling clergyman and the Oriental
prince has been paying her marked at
tention.
Senator Hanna has sent out invita-
tons to dinner to be given at the Ar
Iington Hotel in Washington on Feb.
II, in honor of Gen. William Booth,
head of the Salvation Army. Those in
Vited are President Roosevelt. all the
members of the cabinet, the British
ambassador. Sir Michael Herbert, and
several intimate senatorial friends of
Mr.. Hanna.
President Cassatt Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad is just "a years old, and
ne counts on thirteen years more of ac-
tive work. He looks as though he
might live to be a hundred He hopes
to put the road all through New Eng
land, Long Island and New Jersey and
he does not want to see a pound of coal
used on the entire system between
Philadelphia and the sections named
The motive power will be electricity
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
what Miss sI,eeters SAYS.

When Jhon d. Long was Secretary
of the Navy one of the chief civil Of
ficers of the department was a man
whose name closely resembles Shelters,
says the Baltimore Herald. Shelters was
a dapper little man, apparently quiet
and reserved, but who in reality liked
the right kind of a good time about as
well as any one. One day while he
was in the secretary's office Mr. Long
ran across the papers in the case of a
man who had been dismissed from the
service because of drunkenness. Mr..
Long, who is himself a teetotaler, found
in this a text for little sermon on
temperance, during which a close OBJ
server might have noticed Skeeters
grow fidgety. At last the secretary
turned to his subordinate and said: "Of
course, Mr.. Skeeters. you don't drink
"Oh, of course not, Mr.. Secretary"
replied the other with increasing nerv-
BUSINESS. THAT is only for medicinal
purposes"
Medicinal purposes!" exclaimed the
secretary, 'and how often does this
occur?"
well, not often; just little toddy
before breakfast each morning." ex-
planned the little man, who was now
perspiring freely.
"Skeeters! Skeeters!" continued Mr..
Long, reproachfully, land what does
Mrs. Shelters say?'
'She generally says" was the reply,
"here's your toddy, Skeeters."
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
index 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Georgia Chapter No. 3, r.
A. NJ: Francis S. Barlow Camp No.
SO, u. S. c. V.
Special Notices-Dr. Paige Has Re
sumed Practice: Notice to City Court
Jurors: Free Lunch for Ladies, Savan-
nah Steam Cooker Company; Third An
nual Ball, Retail Clerks Association;
THE Corner" James j. Egan; Keep
Warm, CornweIl & Chapman.
Business es-Extraordinary Cot
fee, C. H. Monsees; Wedding Gifts, r.
Van Keuren & Co.
SILK Waists Given Away $2.9S-At
Foye & Eckstein's.
Here's a Tip-B II. Levy & Bro.
For Sale-H. II. baltimore.
2,0Oo Pairs Ladies' Shoes-Globe Shoe
Company.
Pride of the South-Ludden & Bates
Southern Music House.
The Gas Heater Is Adapted for all
Work--Mutual Gas Light Company.
Grand an-Sweep Sale-Daniel Ho-
gan.
Opportunity Knooks-B. H. Levy &
Bro.
The Best Shoe-M. Wilensky.
You Need One Now-Wm. & H
H. baltimore.
Savannah Theater-Tolson Stock
Company; alice in Wonderland"
Tuesday. Jan. 81.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted; Employment Wanted;
For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
TOnN Did Ii.

she was a Kindergarten and he was
a morsel of a boy years old, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. The scene was a
kindergarten room in a large school in
West Philadelphia. On the table was
a geranium plant, with it's blossoms
broken lying beside the broken pot.
Miss Gray and Tony sat in low chairs
facing each other.
Now, Tony, tell me who broke this
plant. said Miss Gray, who already
knew.
Tony--It was Sammy Brown.
Miss Gray-No, Tony, l do not think
it was Sammy. Tell me who did it.
Tony-I guess it was Jacob Spahr.
Miss Gray-No, Tony, it was not ia
cob. I am sure.
Tony-Then it was Willie Burns
And so Tony went on until he had
named all of his little playmates he
could think of.
Then Miss Gray, looking sternly into
the small culprit's eye, said: Now.
Tony, you must tell me who broke the
flower"
And Tony looking as innocent as a
lamb on spring morning said: God
broke it,
Miss Gray, in low voice, but still
hopeful: mo, Tony. you know thar
God did not break it,
Tony, nearly at the end of his rome
but still full of fight; well, then. if
it wasn't God it must have been the
other fellow!"
After few seconds Miss Gray re-
covered from a severe fit of coughing
Little children must be handled some
what like other little wild animals are
handled by the trainers in the circus
they must never be allowed to con-
a oh N4HaN l..
more. and Tony, looking bored because
OF his teachers persistency, said
Wen, If you must know, 1 broke IL
myself"
And Miss Gray went away 10 rest
and mediate.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21

The Rev. Mr.. Banks of New York
denounced gambling by society women
in a sermon in Grace Methodist church,
that city, the other evening. He de-
clared he had good authority for say
ing that gambling i1ommon among the
Four Hundred. and that he had heard
OF young society girls who boosted of
having won as much as $1,000 at cards.
The evil, he said, was progressive. 1t
degraded not only the society women
who engaged in it, but ruined young
men who got their first taste of the
excitement of gaming from the draw
ing rooms; and not only that, but
there were great number of persons
in the middle classes who copied the
follies and foibles of the Four Hundred
II women would stop gambling, he as
serted that there would be much less
OF the vice among men.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
BRINGING COAL DEALERS TO
TERMS

| The grand jury Of Cook county, Illi-
nois. in which county Chicago is situat-
| cd is OF the opinion that the surest and
/ quickest way to bring down the price
I Of coal in that city is to indict the coal
/ dealers. According to our dispatches
| yesterday about fifty of the dealers
nave been indicted for conspiring to-
gether TO restrict the coal supply and
thus keep up the price Of that article.
If it is proved that the dealers were
guilty of combining TO keep up the
price of coal the court will win the
/ hearty approval of the public by pun
ishing them to the extent of the law.
1t is asserted that a number of
! deaths have occurred in Chicago from
! exposure to cold due to the scarcity
and high price of coal, and If deaths
have occurred from that cause it is
safe to say that hundreds have been
made i'll by the same cause Accord
ing to the action of the grand jury,
therefore, coal dealers of Chicago are
directly responsible for a number of
deaths and a vast amount of suffer-
ing.
The grand jury reported that as far
as it was able to find out the rail-
roads had DONE and were doing, their
part in getting coal to the city. There
was no unnecessary delay in trans
porting the coal. The whole trouble
was with the dealers.
1t does seem as If there would be
more humanity displayed where life
and health were so much involved as
in the case of the present
fuel famine, but it appears that
there has been an extraordi-
nary effort by those controlling
the local coal situation in many local
tiles and those who, to some extent,
control the general coal situation, to
coin money at the expense of life and
health. The making of a few dollars
is considered to be of much greater
Importance than the saving of life and
the preservation of health.
1t will not be known of course what
kind of a case the state has against
the coal dealers until the dealers are
brought to trial, but we venture to
say that there will be ample proof in
troduced to show that the indicted par
ties resorted to all sorts of subter-
fuges to keep coal scarce and the
price of 1t high.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
BRIGHT BITS.

Oh, winter Is a base deceit,
Hl-humor still displaying;
Just snow enougiht to wet your feet,
And not enough for sleighing.
Washington Star.
-Church-Those Western editors
have strange ways. Gothman-What's
the matter now? Church-Why, in a
paper published in Nebraska I saw an
obituary of golf player which ended
like this: He's made his last hole
Yonkers Statesman
-She-But are you sure you will al
ways love me? Are you certain you
will never change? He-Tolerably. 1
still love the things to eat and drink
that l did when I was a boy Why
should l change in less important mat
ters?-Boston Transcript.
Alexander was clustering around
demanding more worlds to conquer,
when his wife called him aside. ALEC, -
she whispered, tenderly, mother dear
is coming to visit US for a month -
With a Shrek of despair he fed into
the night, and organized another cam
paign into Asia.-New York Times.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21

Our dispatches a day or two ago
gave some account of experiments be-
ing made in New England of telephon-
ing over steam railroad tracks: that
is. using the rails instead of wires as
conductors. The experiments are said
to have met with a fair degree of
success. The rails are wired together
at joints, just as electric street rail-
way rails are for the purpose of re-
turning the current to the power
house. It is believed that the idea
will prove practicable, and that as
one development of it, it will be pos
sible to establish telephone commune
cation between moving trains and sta
lions along the line of road. The con-
nection between the train telephone
and the main conductor (the raid will
be through the wheels. The advan-
tages Of such an apparatus are too OBJ
Vious to need to be ,eoounted. With
1t the danger Of collisions would be re-
duced to a minimum.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-21
THE CRUMPACKER REsOLUTIo

THE CNUMPACKER RESOLUTION.
1t would have been strange indeed If
Representative Crumpacker of Indiana
had not interfered in the Indianola,
Miss, postoffice case. He seems to re-
gard it as his mission to bring the
race issue to the front whenever the
opportunity to do so presents itself.
He is sure that the Indianola post
master was driven from the office
which she resigned by threats of
bodily harm. 1t may be that he thinks
the whole population of Indianola was
ready to rise up and throw stones at
her. Anyway, if he can make it ap-
pear that she was driven from her
Office because there was prejudice
against negroes, and that the entire
population of Indianola was in a con-
spiracy against her, he will be much
better satisfied than If it should appear
that she resigned of her own free will
Senator McLaurin has assurances
that there was no conspiracy and no
concerted effort to force the postmas-
ter out of office. 1t is not known
from the postmaster's evidence or from
any other source just what the reasons
of the postmaster were for resigning.
1t may be that two or three people
sent her threatening letters, people
acting in the interest of some one who
wanted the Office or because they were
opposed to the office being held by a
negro, but the whole population ought
not to be punished for the acts of two
or three people, or even half a dozen
or a dozen. II there was a. conspiracy
the Department of Justice ought to
search out the guilty parties and pun
ish them.
Mr.. Crumpacker wants a subject for
a sensational debate and doubtless he
hopes to find it in this Indianola case
He wants a chance to express his
opinion of race prejudice in the South,
but 1t is worthy of notice that he does
not recommend negroes for postmast-
ers in Indiana. There are many ne
groes In his state. Why is 1t that he
does not bestir himself to have some
of them appointed to federal offices in
Indiana? He ought to answer that
question during the debate on his res
oluton.