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Personal.

Miss Rebecca Beasley is the
guest of Mrs. Sue T. Abney.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Smith visited
relatives at Blanchard last week.
Mrs. J. A. Abney, of Uni, Wis
tied Mrs. Sue T. Abney last week.
Mrs. Kate Wyche returned
Tuesday from a visit to Bellevue.
Mrs. M. L. Merrill, of Coushat-
ia, is the guest of Mrs. W. H.
Scanland.
Mrs. Thos. Hickman is the guest
of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. j.
M. Hickson.
Mr.. E. J. McDade and family,
of Haughton, have moved to pu-
rant, Indian Territory.
Miss Annie w. Johnston re-
turned Saturday to Arkansas,
where she is teaching school.
Miss Tabitha Holmes, of Mack's
Bayou, was the guest of Miss Sue
G.. Steele Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heidi Kendall, of
Bossier City, were the guests of
Mrs. Lila Belcher this week.
Misses Ethel Hungerford and
Ileta Gayle, of Robson, were the
guests of Mrs. I. W. Gayle last
week.
DR.. C. H. Irion returned Tues
day from a visit to his father,
Judge A. B. 1rion, in Avoyelles
parish.
Mrs. E. E. Simpson, who has
been visiting friends in Alabama
and Florida, returned Friday to
her home at Taylortown.
i Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Thompson
! of Roswell, and Mr.. and Mrs. J
A. Sewall, of Shreveport, were
the guests of Mr.. A. R. Thomp'
son, last week.
Mr.. T. w. Allen, of Abilene
Texas, who has been visiting hi
brother, j. /. Allen, of Sarepta
was the guest of his mother-in
law, Mrs. M. L. Raspberry, Tues
, day and Wednesday.
J Mr.. Guy Stinson, Mr.. Arthu
Z Wise, Misses Ada Bumgardner
Minnie Montgomery, Toinett
Wyche and Mabel Scanland, VIII
have been spending the holiday
' at home, have returned to schoo
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Pay the Bills.

The new year comes laden with
bills, and the more quickly they
are paid, the more quickly will
the latest scion of time smile upon
those who meet them. 1t is a bad
thing to postpone the discharge of
obligations, small or great. The
new year ought not to be called
on to carry the burdens of the
old. Sufficient for the day is the
evil thereof. 1908 will have
troubles enough of its own to
wrestle with. 1t should not have
to carry on it's shoulders the obli-
cations of 1902. The prudent
debtor has doubtless arranged to
pay off old scores and to make
both himself and his creditors
happy by the settlement of all
indebtedness incurred during the
last year. Those who are so un-
fortunate as not to be able to wipe
out the whole of their indebted
ness should at least pay as much
as they can and pay it as promptly
rs possible. The charitable max
i'm that he gives twice who gives
quickly may be applied with a
slight change of phraseology to
this subject. He certainly helps
to pay twice who pays quickly
The bill that is paid promptly
Monday pays another on Tuesday,
and so it goes on doing it's helpful
work through the days Of the
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week and the month. Money
makes the mare of trade and BUSH
ness 60, and the more quickly
she is fed the faster she travels.
Everybody should try to assist in
the revival of prosperity by pay
ing promptly the bills now due, so
that 1903, freed from the handicap
of debt, may fully realize the
hopes and predictions of better
times.
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Red Lapd Reports.
A Happy New Year!

"A Happy new year!
All report a merry Christmas,
which was Quilted by the misfor-
tune of our neighboring town,
Plain Dealing.
Misses Jessie Hudson and Eta
Johnson spent Christmas week at
home. Miss Johnson has holiday
until New Year.
Miss Browne returned from
Arkansas last Saturday, and re-
ports a happy holiday
The entertainments at Mr.. A.
D. Hudson's and Mr.. G. N. Good
wins were much enjoyed.
Mr.. Robert Keoun has gone
across Bodcau to witness his un-
cle's marriage.
Rev. j. D. Moore and grand
son left Wednesday for Milo, Ark
We wish them success in the new
home. Mr.. Radcliffe has rented
Mr.. Moore's place.
Mr.. Will Mizelle has rented Mr.
Winget's place, and will be 6
neighbor of Mr.. Goodwin's, mex
year.
Mr.. Luther Winget has left Rel
Land.
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Homestead Entry No. 1886.
Department of the Interior,
Land Office at NatchitocheS

December 5, 1902.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
IN ing named settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Clerk of the
District Court at Benton, La, on Janu-
airy II, 1903, viz: Homestead Entry No.
7lS6-Spencer Cook, tutor for minor
heirs of Sarah Mcconnell, deceased
for the west half of southwest quarter,
southeast quarter of southwest quarter
of section 5, and northwest quarter of
northwest quarter of section 8, township
20 North, range II West, Louisiana
Meridian.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: E. ].
Bryant, Jenkins Gay, Sam Johnson and
David Woodland, of Ivan, La.
ERNEST BREDA, Register.
December ii, 1902. jan Is
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Homestead Entry No. 6SO6.
Land Office at Natchitoches, La,

Land Office at Natchitoches, La,
Department of the Interior, :
December 10, 1902. J
Notice is hereby given that the follow
IN ing named settler has filed notice of
his intention to make final proof in sup
port of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Clerk of the
District Court at Benton, La, on Janu-
airy %, 1908, viz: Homestead Entry No.
6806-Randal Coleman-for the south
west quarter of southwest quarter, north
half of southwest quarter and northwest
quarter of southeast quarter of section
20, township q North, range II West
Louisiana Meridian.
He names the following witnesses tc
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: Sampson
Crawford, Alex Long, Henry Hammond
of Mot, La; James Northcott, of An
trim, La.
]. ERNEST BREDA, Register.
December Is, 1902. jan %
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Homestead Entry No. $3.50.
Department of the Interior,

AOPoA eahOlAe VI VIC AAVOAAOI9 /
Land Office at Natchitoohes, La,
December II, 1902.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
IN ing named settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Clerk of District
Court at Benton, La, on January q,
1903, viz: Homestead Entry No. 6839-
Arthur Hawkins-for the north half Of
northwest quarter and southwest quarter
of northwest quarter Of section 36, town
ship 10 North; range 12West, Louisiana
Meridian.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: John
Jackson, George Fullwood, Jr., A. ].
Wagner and Arthur Hawkins, Jr., oil
Haughton, La.
J. ERNEST BREDA, Register.
December 16, 1902. jan %
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NOW /!

is the time to see the Benton Mer-
camille Co. They have the largest
stock of dry goods and groceries
ever kept in Benton. They are
anxious to buy the peoples cotton,
cotton seed, corn, potatoes, eggs,
chickens, etc., and will pay
Shreveport prices. Their Star
Brand Shods guaranteed. A trial
is all the boys ask of you.
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List Of Petit Jury

DRAWN TO SERVE AT JANUARY TERM OF
DISTRICT COURT, 1903.
State Of Louisiana, Purish Of Booster.
Deitremembered, That on this the 18th
ID day Of December A. D. 1902, we, the
undersigned Jury Commissioners, whose
names appear hereunto affixed, met at
the Clerks Office, in the town Of Benton,
La, and proceeded to draw from the
General venire Box previously pre-
pared by us) in the presence Of two law
full, competent witnesses, the following
thirty (36) names of persons to serve rs
Petit Jurors for the first week of the
January 1903, term of the Second Judi
cial District Court, in and for Bossier
parish, which term begins Monday,
January Is, 1903. All which was done
in accordance with provisions Of Act No.
1876, of the General Assembly Of Louisi-
ana, approved July 10, 1893, to-wit:
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LIST OF GRAND JURORS SELECTED FOR
JANUARY. 1868, TERM OF Dis
TRICT COURT.
State of Louisiana-Parish of Bossier.
Be aforementioned, Tlat on this the Is b
day of December A. D. 1902, we, the I'M
dersigned Jury Commissioners, whose
names appear hereunto affixed, met at
the Clerks Office, in the town Of Benton,
La, and proceeded to select from the
genera, venire box (being previously
prepared by us) in accordance with the
provisions Of Act No. 1875 of the General
Assembly of Louisiana, approved July
10, 1888, twenty (20) citizens possessing
all the qualifications under said act
(taken from the different portions of said
parish) to serve as Grand Jurors for the
term Of six co. months from date of en-
paneling of the January, 1903, term OF
District Court, and until succeeding
Grand Jury shall have been duly empan-
eled.
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Homestead Entry No. 6S4S.
Department of the Interior,

L
Land Office at Natchitoshes,
December 5, 1902.
Motto is hereby given that the following
IN named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof win be
made before Clerk of District Court at
Benton, La, on January II, 1903, viz:
Homestead Entry No. 6848-John
Jackson--for the northwest quarter of
southeast quarter of section 2, township
Is North, range IL West, Louisiana
Meridian.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: George
Fullwood, Jr., John Hawkins, Arthur
Hawkins, Jr., and A. J. Wagner, OF
Haughton, La.
J. ERNEST BREDA, Register.
December II, 1902. jan Is
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1903.

Now that the Ola year mas pass
ed away with all its joys and sor-
rows, its prosperity and adversely,
its heart-burnings and pleasures,
and the new year is ushed in, let
us, as the old saw goes, 'turn
over q new lear" and bank upon
the capital Of our experience in
the past. Every mile stone passed
in this life brings us "a days
march nearer home," and every
act committed by us has been
passed to our credit or debit, as
the case may be, in the Lambs
book of Life" As to which side
of the ledger this entry goes our
conscience will tell us, and also
will it tell us how the balance
stood as the old year died. If it
was to our debitle US make repair
alton as far as possible by turning
over a new leaf and avoiding a
repetition of a like offense this
year. If it was to our credit let
us continue to add to it until our
assets will be sufficient to afford
US a happy entrance into "a
peaceful harbor, where the wicked
cease from troubling and the
weary shall find rest" when the
time comes.
With the new year THERE'S room
for work, none for despair. Our
misfortunes should rather nerve
the arm, fire the heart and give
us terminated courage and vigor.
It is we'll known that the highest
and noblest qualities of our hui
man nature are brought out by
trouble and sorrow-the greatest
men have been those who have
overcome difficulties. The mighty
oak could never be monarch Of
the forest if itgrew in hot house
and never wrestled with the
storms. It is not best for us tina
our life paths should always b
perfectly smooth. Sahara is level
while Italy is rugged. Life means
duty done and progress made AM
character developed, and thes'
demand difficulties to be overcom,
and victories to be won. Tru
that many a sobbing heart looke'
forward with hope to the year tina
is dead and found only grave
true, the chilling winds of adver
sity and trouble may have para
lyzed ambition and hushed ever
song of the heart, yet these mis-
fortunes and disappointment
should nerve us to meet the grea
emergencies that are to overtak
US during the dawning year. Ii
US bear in mind that adversely
resolutely met, strengthens III
but weakly yielded to, it destroy
us.
The old year has gone forever
The new year is before us, an
another leaf in the volume of tin
has been turned.
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The perfect way Of laundering
is the Excelsior way. represent
the Excelsior Steam Laundry, OF
Shreveport. Basket goes off
every other week.
N. N. BKLCHEn.
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DENTIST

DENTIST.
DR. r. s. TERRY has removed from
IL Cooper building to Zodiac building,
over New York Dry Goods Company,
Rooms 3 and 4; Phone 1884.
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E. w. JACKSON.
MERCHANT TAILOR.

Quits from $10up; pants from So. % up.
- Cleaning and dyeing done; all work
guaranteed. Anything made to order.
SO Market street, Shreveport.
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A. L.wALLIcK, DDS. C. S. FULLER, IDS.
DRS. WAIllCk x FULLER,
Dentists,
Dooms and Simon Building. Office
IL hours: 9-12 A. NJ; Is P. M.
Phone: Office, 1853,
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Hunters, Take Notice.
MO hunting will be allowed on my
~ place, under penalty ot TIE 1ew.
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+. r. Land,

4 ttorney at Law, Benton, La. Will
n practice in the courts OF Bessie,
and adjeining parishes.
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i. z. Johnston,

j. e. Johnston,
A ttorney at Law, Benton. La. VIII
~ practice in the Courts OF Louisiana
and Arkansas, and in the Federal Courts.
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Ward.

Done and signed officially, this 18th
Commissioners being present except H.
legally notified.
Attest: R. s. DOLES,
J.F. EDWARDS W.J.JOHNSTON,
R. B. HILL. ia. BUMGARDNER,
Jury Commissioners.
B. A. KELLY,
Clerk and ex-oficio Jury Commissioner.
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Ward

At the same time, place and manner.
we proceeded to draw the names of thirty
persons to serve as petit jurors for the
second week of said term of Corut, COM
mencing Monday, February 3, A. D.
1908, to-wit:
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A. M. McWilliams,
GENERAL LIVERY AND FEED STABLE
BUSINESS CONDUCTED.

MOOD Horses and Vehicles to let az
" all times. A few select buggy
horses and thoroughbred saddle horses
for sale. "Tie up" with US when you
come to town. Corner OF Spring ana
Travis streets, Shreveport.
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for Administration.

Application for Administration.
In District Court, Bossier Parish, La.
Succession OF jerry Jackson, deceased.
Notice 10 hereby given that Jane
~ Jackson has this day filed her appli-
cation to be appointed administering OF
the succession of Jerry Jackson,
deceased. Now, this is to admonish ali
persons concerned, that If opposition be
not made thereto within the time pre-
scribed by law, the said applicant viii be
appointed administrative Of said success
sion a. prayed for.
Given under my official signature and
seal Of ONCE, at Benton, La, on this,
the Oath day Of December, 1902.
B. A. KELLY, Clerk,
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NORMANDY FISHERS
A Quaint and Interesting People of
the French Coast.
Their Peculiarities and Traits That
Mark a Difference Between Them
and Others in Similar Callings
"A Talkative Lot.

The Normandy fisher folk are among
the most unique and interesting of all
the peoples of Europe.
There is nothing very extraordinary
perhaps in the scenes that meet the
eye at the French seaports of Nor.
mandy, and yet they always have an
aspect of form and color that we do not
find in the same things at home. One
of it's strongest points, no doubt, is the
shape and color of the women's head
gear-the white bonnets, good alike
for shelter from cold wind or hot SUM-
Then they get hold of peculiar tint OF
blue for the dresses of the women and
for the smocks of the men, that we do
not often see elsewhere. The "clang
of the wooden shoon" is echoing off the
cobblestones. There are plenty of ma
terial differences. The prevailing type
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ated. And one calls this neglect very
strange in a land that, in 1897, pro-
duced a crop of 100000 bales, averag-
ing 400 pounds in weight, a crop that
to-day in quantity ranks next the
crop of the United States. Experiment
tai farms are now being worked with
the idea of arriving at a knowledge of
conditions best suited to the growth of
cotton in India. In Egypt cotton is
grown under irrigation, and the Brown
Egyptian cotton is very highly priced
because of its silky luster and smooth
finish.
Germany's possessions In Africa
land perhaps her Pacific island depen-
denotes should also be counted inn
furnish considerable lands suitable for
cotton growing. German coionists
have begun cotton cultivation in the
Quito district in German southwest
Africa; and in German New Guiana
there are in operation plantations of
cotton. In Frances holdings in Asia,
especially in Tonking and Laos, cot
ton is valued product; and in NADIA
gascar, in French Africa, it is under
cultivation. Russia raises considera-
BILE cotton in her southern territory;
in Trans-C aucasia and Turkestan.
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THE HOME OF AN OWL
How He Captured the Abode of a
Big Gray Squirrel.
A Tragedy Of the Forest as Told by q
NatUralist-A Nest Full of Little
Owls In the EARLY
Spring.

One afternoon last winter, after
Iong stretch of very cold, snowy
weather, the storm clouds parted and
The sun shone out bright and warm.
And as it shone, it lighted up the top
of a dark pine tree which stretched
upwards out of a gloomy wood, and
it warmed the south side of large
nest of leaves and twigs which rested
in the upper branches. And big gray
squirrel who had been curled up asleep
inside for many days, felt theggrateful
warmth. and arose, stretching and yawn-
ing, to take look from the doorway, a
round hole in the wall of the nest.
By and by he jumped to another tree,
and thence to the ground to hunt for
nut, which he seemed to remember hav-
ing hidden somewhere nearby. And he
found it, too, under the snow, close to
the base of rock, and when he had eat
en- it he raced through the tree tops for
time before hunting for another one.
Within the wood it was already grow
ing dark when he started for his home
and his bed in the top of the old pine tree.
He had not far to gO-some Is feet, per-
haps-and he was bounding along over
the snow, when dark shadow fell across
his path. For one instant he heard the
"fuff-fiuff' of mighty wings, and had one
glimpse of pair of fierce yellow eyes,
and then came a moments terrible pain,
before his life was crushed out by the
talons of great horned owl.
Holding the limp squirrel with his
feet, he bent over, and, half shutting
his eyes, began lingering the body with
his bill. Presently ne found the place
he was feeling for, and there was dis
tinct ''crack" as he broke the backbone
with single bite: Again and yet again
! came that ominous cracking sound, and
then the owl began to devour his prey
piecemeal. When he had finished his
meal, nothing but the hind quarters re-
NAMED, and these he picked up in his
bill and flew off with. The first conven-
lent landing place happened to be the
now deserted nest of his victim, and here
be alighted and tucked the remains of
his supper firmly between the nest and
one of the branches which supported it.
The following afternoon, as the horned
owl was roosting in a large dark
evergreen tree, he slowly opened his
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TELEcRAPHlc BREWTIEs.

The corn crop for 1903 is announced
at Washington as 2,244, 176,925 bushels,
valued at $685., 1868, SO1; winter wheat,
1895, S67 $50, worth S2S6, ,849.
There is possibility that a presi-
Dental boom for Mayor George B. Nc
Clellan will be launched at the ban
quet in New York next Monday night.
The pneumonia epidemic at New
York is being investigated by a spe-
cial physicians corps. There were 272
deaths reported last week, breaking
all records.
Dreyfus was granted rehearing on
the discovery that German military
attaches telegram, used as evidence
against him at the court martial, bore
a forged date. -
The New York city supreme court
holds that labor union has the power
to- discipline it's members and even
force them to leave their places. A
Jersey City tribunal finds strikers in
contempt for making it uncomforta-
BILE" for employees who work in a
strike
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Brief Notes.


Two st. Paul Italians fought a
duel with daggers.
Henry Zodicke, 81, St. Paul, was
found dead in bed
The White Bear Beach school dis
trict is at war with itself.
Emil Constans, 1S, st. Paul, ended
his life by taking carbolic acid.
Confidence men are working very
strongly on the trains around Wi
mona.
When William Frazier entered the
central police station of Minneapolis
to report the absence of his son, Otto,
who had been missing since Friday
night, he found him locked up under
the name of Frank Sommers, with
two companions, charged With horse
stealing.
Alice, the four-year-old daughter OF
Jacob Anderson, 465 Olive street, st.
Paul, fell down the cellar steps Of
her home and broke her neck.
The herring catch on Lake Superior
was about 100000 pounds less this
season, which was about IS per cent
less than the season q year ego.
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fiction, Victor Hugo, has painted Sc
powerfully.
And tongues! One does not know
what the intellectual grasp and range
of these good people may be, but one
may conjecture 1t to be limited, ex-
tremely limited. Yet, within that re-
stricted range it is very certain that
their minds range with great quick
ness, as is evidenced by the exceeding
volubility of their tongues If any SUBJ
ject of dispute arises. One hardly
knows whether their vocabulary ID
very large, but, at all events, it Is very
ready at hand for use when wanted
That, there is no doubt of. And the
want arises often, as it would appear
One does not like, as a good patriot,
to confess any inferiority for ones own
people, but it is hardly to be claimed
even for a Scottish fishwife, though
she is clamorous dame, that she has
the same fluency, nor an equal shrill-
ness of vituperation, as will come. on
little provocation, from the lips of the
fisherwomen of Normandy. The men
can say things too; but the women seem
to be able to say two things for every
one that man can say.
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COTTON FOR EUROPE
That Continent Proposes to Try to
Raise Its Own Supply.
Africa and Asia Offer Fields for Ex-
perimenting-We Produce Three
FOurths of the worlds Sup
ply and Set the Price.

Practically all the European coun-
tries that have possessions with CHI
mate at all adapted for the cultivation
of the cotton plant are attempting TO
establish cotton-growing industries.
If they succeed, King Cotton some
time may lose his present rank in the
United States.
England, France, Germany, Russia,
Belgium and Portugal, as we'll as other
nations of Europe, are zealously ex-
perimenting in their several available
territories with cotton culture; and, as
we suggested above, hope some day to
be at least partially independent of the
United States as regards this very i'm
portant staple. For long we have been
the cotton producers of the world.
often supplying three-feurths of the
worlds demands, and sometimes four