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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25
News Items.

A Mobile blacksmith has fallen
heir to $50. 900 in Ireland.
Within a few days the cable
line to Manila will be completed.
August 6 has been fixed as the
date of the Mississippi primaries.
Cardinal Vaughn, head of the
Catholic Church in England, is
dead.
Harry Templer was killed by a
bolt of lightning at Adrian, Mo-,
Sunday.
Bishop Glennon confirmed 800
children at st. Leo's Church, st.
Louis, Sunday.
Two members of a swimming
party were drowned at Galveston,
Texas, Sunday.
One man was killed and three
others injured in a railroad acct
dent in California on Sunday.
Small pox and yellow fever
have disappeared from Cuba, but
consumption is on the increase.
Col. Maschin, head assassin of
Queen Draga, was actuated by
motives of personal vengeance.
j. G. Scott, of Osceolo, Mo-,
was killed by lightning while on
his way to church last Sunday.
Four persons were killed and
eight were injured by runaway
train Monday at Spokane, Wash.
Judge Mcmillan of the Supreme
Court of New Mexico has been
dismissed for general immortality.
VIM. J. Atkinson dropped dead
at Exmore, Va, while attending
to his accustomed duties, aged IS
years.
Six men were killed near Cam
bridge, O., Saturday, by a bolt of
lightning striking a dynamite
house.
At Grassy Springs, Tenn,
father and son were killed by son
and brother in law in a domestic
quarrel.
Miss Kate Atkins, of Laurel,
Md, was killed by her discarded
lover, who also shot himself, per-
haps fatally.
According to the Treasury
Bureau Of Statistics, the years
foreign trade will surpass all pre-
vious records.
M. Witte, Minister of Finance,
declares the limit of taxation has
been reached in Russia, and that
fetrenchment is necessary.
The textile strike in the Lowell
mills has been called off. The
1900 men involved have lost
more than a million in wages.
The famine in Kwang-Si Prov
ince of China is growing worse
by degrees, the starving popula-
tion being estimated at zoe, 900.
Edgar N. Bachemin, q we'll
known haberdaaher in New Or
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Little U. S. Grant is a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Vice-President. He might as
we'll be candidate for custodian
of the equator
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25
Annual Convention Y. Pm. of America

Annual Convention Y. Pm. of America.
Atlanta, Ca, July 9th to 18th.
Account Y. P. N, OF America, The
Cotton Belt Route will sell round trip
tickets to Atlanta and return at rate of
one fare, plus 50, for the round trip
Date of sale July 7, s and 0. Return
limit, July 18th, with privilege of ex-
tention.
o. r. DENTON, Agent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

The consumption of sugar in
the United States increased to
1913 pounds per capita in 1902
from 69.7 pounds per capita in
1901. The quantity consumed
reached the stupendous total of
1855, 10S tons in 1909, of which
2,O92, 657 tons were imported from
foreign countries. Ten years
hence there will be a different
story to tell.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

Barbecue and Picnic, Garfield, Ark,
July 10-t1th.
For above occasion the Cotton Belt
Route will sell round trip tickets, Benton
to Garfield and return, at rate of $40
for the round trip. Date of sale, July
10 and II. Return limit, July IL.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25
Thirteenth Annual Meeting Southern

educational Association, Ash
vile, N. c., June 80, July 8.
For the above occasion the following
round trip rates and arrangements are
authorized to Asheville, N. C. Rate,
one fare, plus 81, for the round trip
Dates of sale, June q, q and %. Return
limit, July 10, with privilege ofextension.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

Longfellow: If we could read
the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in each mans life
sorrow and suffering enough to
disarm all hostility.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

Fifty years ago the annual out
lay for church purposes was
$500, 900. Now according to the
last estimates, it is fully 81, 900,
DOC. 900.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

Lake Charles Press: In a New
Orleans church last Sunday a
modest looking stranger careless
~ tossed $3.50 in the plate and the
church officers have not caught
their breaths fully yet.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

The present population of Lon
don is 1851, 1872, greater than the
combined population of New York
and Paris, the worlds two next
largest cities, and greater than
the combined population of the
three largest cities in America.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

In 1850 Great Britain produced
1880, 900 tons of pig iron; more
than four times as much as the
United States did at that date
In 1902 the output of Great Britain
was less than one-half of that of
this country.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25
Summer School of the South,

0UUUoI 0CUUUI VI GU6 OUUCUI
Knoxville, Tenn, June 23rd to July 81.
For above occasion The Cotton Belt
Route will sell round trip tickets to
Knoxville and return at rate OF one fare,
plus So, for the round trip. Date OF sale,
June 81, q, %, q, 20, and July 5. 6, 10
and 20. Return limit, Is days from date
of sale, with privilege of extension.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

When your home printer cannot do
the work. we recommend the G. G.
WILLIAMS PRINTING CO. ltd,
Printers, Binders and Blank Book
Manufacturers, Shreveport, la.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

No achievement is so great that
somebody does not belittle it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

Captious criticism is the chief
resource of small minds.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

Strayed.
Taken up by L. c. Biggs, at Bellevue,
1 La, on 18th day of May, 1903, and
strayed before w. M. Vickers, j. p,
Ward 6, Bossier parish, one Bay Mare, s
or years old, white spot in face, white
on end Of nose, scar on left shoulder,
about AZ hands high. Appraised at
S25. Owner will come forward, prove
property, pay charges, or she will be sold
according to law, on Saturday, August
1, 1903.
w. M. vICKERS, ]. P.
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leans, committed suicide Monday
by shooting himself in the head.
Two engineers and two firemen
were killed in a head-on collision
on the Illinois Central railroad
near Raymond, Iowa, last Thurs
day.
Orlando johnson shot his sweet
heart, Ruby Dickerson, and then
killed himself at Whitehall, ILL.,,
! Monday. Miss Dickerson will re-
cover.
At st. LOUIS Sunday the last
service was held in the Carondelet
M. E. Church, South, which is
forty-six years old. The old
structure will give place to new
one.
Mrs. Louisa Pernot, while
watching fire in st. Louise Mon
day night, suddenly threw up her
hands and sank to the ground,
dead, from heart failure due to
excitement.
| DR.. Isaac Newton Love, who
only a few hours before had re.
marked that he expected to pass
his hundredth year, died sudden
~ last Thursday morning in New
York while making an address.
Kansas farmers are calling for
$4,000 hands to harvest the wheat
crop. The State Employment
Bureau can supply only one
fourth of the number, and the
farmers are appealing to the large
cities.
Exports of boots and shoes
have shown enormous increases
in the last decade, the year about
to close being the banner year of
history. st. Louis manufacturers
are now in the lead in this great
industry.
Mrs. VIM. Carow, of Hunting
ton, W. Va, walked the floor for
hours with the lifeless body of
her year-old babe in her arms,
refusing to believe the child was
dead. When the body was taken
from her arms stiff in death she
had a violent attack of Mysteries.
| Mrs. Jockey Perry, 101 years
old, died last Monday at Waverly,
Iowa. Until Sunday she was in
excellenthealth, receiving visitors
and talking of her girlhood days.
The events of the war of 1912
were especially vivid in her mem
Dry. Her husband, who died %
years ago, was a first cousin of
Commodore Perry, here of Lake
Erie.
| Severe storms of wind and hail
prevailed in Eastern and Central
Nebraska Sunday evening near
Hastings. Small buildings were
blown over and hail practically
ruined growing crops in a strip
two miles wide and several miles
long. Hail between Milford and
Beaver Crossing, for a distance
of u miles, cut vegetation to the
ground and smashed window
lights. Near Ulysses, Melville
Crawford, a farmer, was struck
by lightning and killed. There
was heavy rain over nearly half
the State.
| The consumption of sugar in
the United States increased to
| J.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25
The State.
Daily, ! Semi-Weekly,

COLUMBIA, S. C.
Nhe only morning paper for two thirds
i of the State Of South Carolina
Eleven railroads radiating from the
city-the capital of the State.
Full State news service.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25

COnStable's Sale.
Whited & Wheless VS.. Lizzie Alfrodv
No. 206. In Justice J. P. Gleason'e
Court, Ward S, Bossier Parish, Ia.
by virtue of writ OF fieri facias issued
- in the above entitled suit, and to re
directed, have seized and win process
to sell at public auction to the last ana
highest bidder, at Rocky Mount, Las
within the legal hours for sales, on sat-
urday, June q, 1903, the following &C.
scribed property, to-wit:
One old mule.
The above described property sei5ed
as the property Of defendant, Lissie
Alfred.
June 1, 1903.
T. w. HEATH, Constable.
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j. E. Johnston,

4 ttorney at Law, Benton, La. Will
"A practice in the Courts of Louisiana
and Arkansas, and in the Federal Courts.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25
T. r. Land,

4 ttoney at Law, Benton, La. Will
IA practice in the courts OF Bossiel
and adjoining parishes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
Changes in Growth.

Census Bulletin. -
 During the twenty years, 1880 to 1900, the rates of growth in the two sections of the country have been practically identical; in the South the growth was slightly more rapid for the period 1880 to 1900 than 1t was for the preceding period 1880 to 1880. while in the north 1t was much less rapid. During the three twen- ty-year periods prior to the civil war the growth in the north was about one and one-half times as rapid as that in the South.
 In 1790 the population of the two re- gions was about the same; in 1860 the pop ulation of the North was greater by three fourths than that of the South; in 1890 1t was almost double. During the entire century from 179O to 1890, allowing for the omissions in the South at the census of 1870, the Northern States in- creased more rapidly, while in the last ten years they have increased less rap idly than the Southern.
 The only two States and territories hav- ing what has been called frontier rate of Growth-that is, an increase of more than 10 per cent-are Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Aside from these, the
 conspicuous regions of growth more rapid than that of the surrounding territory are the manufacturing and commercial States about New York harbor. the man ufacturing State of West Virginia, the States of Illinois and Wisconsin, North Dakota and the Northern States of the Western Division.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

"No Man Is Lost-There is a Surs
 Cure for Syphilis. ."-Dr. Ferris. and peace and hope and help. Unbetiev. CTS may scoff and cry fake" but heed them not. My work has just begun and am saving men.
 The secret of this mighty healing pow CT this marvellous fluid is known to me alone It is mine to give to whom will and my works go before me. Doubt noti | ask no man to believe me, but I give to every man free this priceless boon and it restores him instantly to perfect health With this marvellous mysterious compound, which I have discovered only after a lifetime devoted to search through all the realms of science, and the archives of the ancients, it Is possible to heal at once the awful sores, clear the com plexion of the copper spots, dry up the mucous patches, heal the ulcers and leave the body clean and healthy and wholesome. With this mysterious com pound no man or woman will ever again be troubled with syphilis or any of ita evil effects.
 Remember 1t matters not what stage your case may be in. It matters not how long you have had it, how you got 1t or when you got it. It matters not what doctors or scoffers say. This is no ordi- nary drug or medicinal method of treat- ment, but 1t is the vital life spark itself, and 1t matters not how many remedies or doctors have failed have repeatedly and instantly cured the worst old cases, heal- ed the sores and caused the mucous patches, copper colered spots, and other evidences of this terrible poison to dis- appear like magic. My secret compound never fails, and its cures are lasting; never again are any of my people troubled with Syphilis. My private address Is Dr. C. Sargent Ferris, S057 Strawn Building, Cleveland. Ohio, and I urge every per- son suffering from syphilis to send to me and l will forward by first mail, prepaid, a package of my marvellous discovery. My wondrous discovery has startled the world by its miraculous effects, and yet l seek not fame or glory. It sufices me If I may be the humble instrument of Natures greatest power in bringing all men to the enjoyment of perfect health and I do it free. In the time allotted to me here on earth I shall do all that in my power lies to give my fellow-men the benefit of this great secret and my reward shall be in the knowledge that I have done unto others as I would that others should do unto me. eosu
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
THE WOMAN IN THE CASE.

Since the day that sinful Adam turned States evidence on Eve, And a timsy web of guilt around his Wifey tried to weave, Down through all the countless ages time has left along her trail Has the female had to suffer for the do- ings of the male. "'Twas the woman! Twas the woman!" rang the cry through Eden bowers, " Twas the woman!' yet we hear it in these modern days of ours. As the false beWhiSkered sinners deSper- ately try to place All the blame unpn the shoulders of the woman in the case. So twill be till time has ended, till the sun is stripped or hgnt And the earth Is in the blackness of the never-ending night, Till the sounding of the trumpet calls the dead from earthly sleep And the heavenly inspectors separate the goats and sheep. Even at the bar of judgment when we're The eXtenuating features or our slhhlnS
 here below , There may be full many towards who
 will stand with brazen lace And attribute their transgreSslons to the
 woman in the case.
 James Barton Adams.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
Alabama at Departments.

Pensions granted to Alabam1ans; Margaret E. Stockton, Annie Taylor. John NJ Ayres. Albert E. Eggleston. sS each; Thomas Sellers, SIP.
 Postmasters appointed:
 Massey, Morgan County, J. c. Sheets, vice George D. Freeman, removed. Trickridge, Limestone County William Mcclure Hughes, vice A. J. Burlington, resigned.
 Rash, Jackson County, I. M. sentill, vice P H. Coffey. resigned. Ajah Conecuh County (new off1ce) Samuel T. Riley.
 Rural letter carriers appointed to be- gin October l: Boaz, John II. Holland, Allen F. Whit ley, regulars; Jesse D. Holland, w. A. Bailey, substitutes.
 Centerville. James c. Church, vice John E. James. resigned
 Ozark, Hart E. Bowling, with Myrtle M DoWling substitute.
 Rural free delivery established to com mence October 1:
 Fruithurst, Cleburne County, length of route, 21 3-4 miles; area. 19 square miles; population served, 750; number of houses, 160.
 Abel, Cleburne County, length of route, 22 7-S miles; area, g square miles; popu- lation served, $50; number of houses, l4),
 R. H. Watkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
Boom in Steel is Ended.

James M. Swank, General Manager of the American Iron and Steel Association, says that the great boom in the iron and steel trades has come to an end. In the forthcoming bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association, MT. Swank will say: Tt has been recognized for some time that the boom in the iron trade of this country, which began with the early weeks of 1899. has come to an end. It would be chronologically correct to say that it ended with the close of the first half of, 1903, when it became evident to all observers that the urgent demand for iron and Steel in nearly all forms was slackening and that some iron and steel prices were weakening.
 "These indications of the subsistence of a boom that was then exactly four years and half old have since been still more noticeable. But 1t is an error to assume that the end of the boom means an end of prosperity for the iron trade. Con- sumption still continues at an enormous rate few works have been closed even temporarily by a lessened demand for their products and prices are simply being adjusted to more normal conditions. This is the story up to the present time. !"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
The Best Cure.

Houston Post.
 There are many who are justly sur prised at the attention which John Tenn pie Graves has succeeded in attracting to himself by delivering lectures prnpos- ing the deportation of negroes. Among others, The Nashville Banner thus ex- presses itself with regard to the elodlent Georgan's deliverance and the hysterical controversy which has followed it:
 Tt Is a degree strange that the propo- sition made by MT. John Temple Graves to deport the negro population of the Cni- ted States. as means of settling the race problem, should attract so much atten- tion. Northern newspapers have devoted columns ot editorial space to pointing out its fallaces and public speakers and emi- nent divines make 1t the subject of their orations and discourses. Yet the propo- sition is old straw several times rethresh- ed and MT. Graves is nou so eminent or influential as to give it any new weight. The interest his recent speech has aroused seems to emphasize the very acute phase the public interest in the so-called race problem has taken on. President R1ose- velts famous dinner with Booker T. Washington and several lynchings In Northern States have been the chief causes of the revival of the discussion.
 but nothing new is being suggested. All
 that has been recently said or written is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

but q repetition of the old arguments and tneories heard many times since the care or the black man became an impeachment 70 the country's peace and a handrance to
 The deportation idea was first broach- ca when the republic Of Liberia was cre- ated. under condition of gradual eman- cipation probably this might in some de- gree nave succeeded, but after the sudden liberation of the slaves produced by the civii war such a plan for lessening the black population In the United States was necessarily a failure.
 About fifteen years ago a pamphlet calied An Appeal to Pharaoh by Charles Mckinley of the staff of The Charleston News and Courier. advocated negro de- presentation of the plan ever made. The pamphlet was well written and, being puolished anonymously, was widely at- tributed to Senator John T. Morgan, who promptly denied its authorship while ad- hitting its force of argument and ele- gance of diction.
 Since that time the chief exponent of q negro exodus has been Bishop Turner of the African Methodist Church. Bishop Turner has been quite persistent Hl the idea of sending his black brethren to Af- r1ca. but he was never so much Moses as to take the initiative in the proposed hegira. He, like Mir. Graves, lives in Att lanta, and 1t was probably from the col- ored bishops suggestion that MT. Graves absorbed the idea.
 1ho OIuy LnlnS mover aDOuL MT. GfdVeS proposition, and that is by no means en- tirely new, is that the negroes be sent to the ...lippines. That would be more off hcult than sending them to Africa. The transcontintntal journey would be added to the voyage across the wide Pacific. but the idea in any light is too fantastic and basurd for serious consideration. very heavy emigration of negroes from the United States would be required to carry away so much as the natural increase, and the immediate deportation of 10 900 0OJ people of all ages, sexes and conditions from one continent to another. or tor any great distance beyond seas is too stupen- dous an undertaking to be seriously pro- posed by mind altogether rational
 Besides all this, the dark. unwritten history of Africa and such modern exper- iments as Liberia and Hayti 70 not en- courage the makingsof other ntgro coun- tries.
 Any satisfactory solution of the race problem seems hopeless and it grows no better from frequent discussion. The trou- ble is well understood, but as The New York Times aptly remarks, 'diagnostics are more advanced than therapeutics. Under such conditions it might be well enough to try the rest cure."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
IT IS NOT ORGANIZED. Inc Raleirh. M q pos< .ovo.


 The South is being organized against the only Democrat who is, according to the best Judgment of the best Dempcrats the most available candidates: and this too. when the South, of all sections, Is most ton. The masses of the party who want results should do as was done in is92-stt down upon the spoilsmen of the party and demand the nomination of the man who can carry the most votes in States nec- essary to insure an election.
 We don't know so well about the South being organized against MT. Cleveland, any more than it is organized against Mr. Bryan. As we look at it there is no or ganixation against or for any man. The South Is In 8 waiting condition. hoping for the best and fearing the worst. It is not by any means solid for any man who has been mentioned, and will vote for the man who is nominated, as it usual ly does.
 There are two classes in the South, as there are elsewhere. who oppose MT. Cleveland. There are those who have never forgiven him because he could not as a conscientious man subscribe to a financial policy which he had steadfastly opposed. nor give his support and endorse ment to a man who embodied in himself all the extremes of that policy. In other words, he could not stultify himself and act the hypocrite by supporting a man who was opposed to his ideas of right and of Democracy. For this honesty and independence he has not been forgiven.
 Then he is opposed, both North and South, by certain politicians who know they cannot use him and for that they hate him. The very qualities which should win for him the respect and sup port of all good Democrats and of all good citizens,i are the qualities for which he is most bitterly fought. Personal hon. esty, firmness and indepedence. and devo- ton to his standard of Democracy are accounted grievous faults in him and for these qualities there seems to be no for giveness. It is not an encouraging out look, and it is not fiattering to those who display such enmity, but facts are facts and there is no good in trying to deny them. At the same time. We do not be- lieve the South can be organized against him. He has too many staunch Friends in this section to permit anything of that kind to be done.