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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-07
Personal Mention.

Antonio Reyes Gavilan has been ap-
pointed first secretary of the Cuban
legation at Washington.
Septimus Grove, a we'll known Eng
lishman and formerly British consul
general at Christiana, Norway, is dead
at Mexico City.
Maj. John Wyatt Jones, one of the
last Confederate staff officers, died in
st. Louis Maj. Jones was eighty
three years OF age and served with dis
tinction during the Civil war.
Congressman Robert H. Foerderer,
OF the Fourth Pennsylvania district,
died at his home in Torresdale, a sub
urb OF Philadelphia. He had been i'll
for some time from a complication of
diseases.
Baron Stephen Burian, who has
been Austrian minister at Athens,
has been appointed finance minister
and administrator of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, succeeding the late DR..
Benjamin Kallay.
Peter Wolf is dead after a lingering
illness at his home in Hoosick Falls,
N. 7. He was well known among
farm machinery manufacturers
throughout the country. He was sew
e~nty-seven years of age.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-07

~. 1. he was Well KnOWn among
farm machinery manufacturers
throughout the country. He was sew
enty-seven years of age.
Casualties.
Twelve men were injured in q rail-
road collision at Cleves, Ohio.
Thirteen persons were injured, n
fatally, in a street car collision at St.
Louis.
Three persons were injured In q col
lision between the flyer on the Big
Four and a freight train near Whining
ton, Ohio.
Reuben Lilly, aged sixty, was killed
on his farm at Pawpaw, ILL.,, a derrick
which he was using in making hay
falling on him.
The engineer and fireman were Kill.
ed and two express messengers injured
in a wreck on the Santa Fee neal
Princeville. Ill.
A switch engine collided with a pas
senger train at Columbus, Ohio. Sew
eral passengers and members of the
crew were hurt.
F. B. Fouts died at st. Joseph, Mo-,
from injuries sustained from an elec-
trio fan which broke from it's fasten-
ings and struck his head.
A carriage containing Joshua But
Ter, wife and child, was struck by an
express on the Lehigh Valley railroad
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, killing all three.
A loss of 100000 was caused by a
fire at Philadelphia, which seriously
damaged a four-story building occu-
pied by the Atlanaic & Pacific Tea
company.
Seventy-eight passengers were in a
rear-end collision of the Worcester
Consolidated Street railway a mile
west of Northboro, Mass. Thirty-eight
people were injured, but only four Sc
riously.
1t has been learned that the death
OF John ]. Mooney, a well-known Cath
Ollie author OF New York, was the re-
suit of an accident. He was passing
along a ravine and stepped into a hole,
falling twenty feet.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
An Unfortunate Remark.

One pleasant day last fall, so the
story goes, Prof. Hadley, of Yale,
was strolling through the beautiful
campus of Dartmouth college with his
wife on his arm. They were admiring
the beautiful buildings which dot the
campus, several of them having been
erected by wealthy alumni. Present.
" they came to an especially noble
hall, built of stone, and occupying q
commanding site. Over the main en-
trance was marble tablet which an
nounced that the hall had been erected
by John C. Blank as a memorial to his
Beloved Wife,
President Hadley stood and looked
at the noble pile for moment. Then
he heaved a sigh that was almost en-.
vious.
"Ah," he said, "that is what / should
like to do for my college"
And to this day, the boys declare
President Hadley cannot understand
why his wife should have looked Sc
horrifed.-St. Louis Mirror.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
WIT AND WISDOM.

When you hear man complain be-
cause there is nothing doing" the
chances are he's fond of doing moth
ing.-Chicago Daily News
Hope is always liberal, and theythat
trust her promises make little scruple
of reveling to-day on the profits Of to-
morrow.-Johnson.
His Assumption.-"Scri such a
queer fellow" "Is hep "Yes. He
sent the manuscript of his new book
by express and labeled it Valuable
Detroit Free Press.
She-''And what did father say when
you asked him?" He-"He said he
didn't want any fool in the family"
She-"And he really doesn't know you
at ALL" He-"Except that want to
marry you. boston Transcript.
II hear said the boss, ''that you've
been kicking because you've got Sc
much to do" "Well-er-yes. replied
the clerk. 81 did think "Well, well
have to give you so much more to dc
that you won't have time to kick
Philadelphia Press.
Plenty of Her.--A friend of ours
who is what is known as a fine won
an, got servant from remote
country district the other day. One
afternoon a lady called at her house
and rang the bell. Orinthia Scagbacl
answered the call. "Can Mrs. c. be
seen?" the visitor asked. "Can she be
SEEM" snickered Orinthia. "Well,
rather think she can. She's six fee
high and four feet wide. Gracious.
You can't see much of anything elst
when she's d!'-Pick-Me-Up.
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MOLESKIN NOW THE RAGE.
King Edward Sets the Fashion By
Wearing q Waistcoat Made
Of the Fur.

The fashion of wearing moleskin
was recently revived by the king, who
has been wearing a oieskin waistcoat.
Mole catchers all over the country are
straining their energies to collect the
skins, and thousands are reaching the
great furriers every day from all parts
of the United Kingdom and the con-
finent. Four thousand came in one
consignment to Bond street firm,
which says it cannot be too many. The
women are also having moleskin muffs,
stoles, jackets, motoring garments,
and even gauntlet gloves made out of
this skin. One pair of the gloves con.
tains 40 skins.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
FELDsPAR In CONNECTICUT.
ouick Discovery of the Mineral Is
Made at Leesville and 1T Will
Be Developed.

A rich discovery of feldspar has
been made at Leesville, south OF
East Hampton, Conn.,
For some time New York con-
tractor and a gang of men have been
drilling into the rock preparatory to
blasting. When the blasts were
touched off about $50 tons of rock
and earth were discovered.
A New York syndicate has been
backing the prospecting operations,
and as result of the tests it is un-
derstood that mill will shortly be
erected. The feldspar industry has
been conducted on a small scale at
various points in the Connecticut val
lev for some time, but the present
discoveries surpass any previous
ones.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

A set of the first edition of Scott's
novels. in IA volumes, was recently sold
in London for $4,000. The owner had
paid 81, 100 for it in 1899.
Always carefully read the preface
of book; it will enable you to under
stand the contents better. In some
eases it will make it unnecessary to
read the book at all ll!-Wellspring.
The widow of Z. P. Whipple, of Bos-
ton, the noted essayist, critic and
editor, has had to sell her husbands
valuable library and autograph col
lection to assist in supporting herself.
Wolf Won Schierbrand, formerly a
newspaper man of Chicago, but now
residing in New York, is the only
American press correspondent who
ever interviewed Bismarck, and he ac-
complished the feat four times.
The oldest Greek papyrus which Dr.
Borchardt has discovered in Egypt
dates we'll back in the fourth century
b. c.; that is, Alexander the Great was
still living when it was written, and
the great Alexandrian library had not
vet been founded. 1t is, therefore, by
a long time, the oldest Greek book in
the world
One of the peculiarities of Tolstoi
is that he always wears boots OF his
own making, and they are the admira'
tion of the shoemaker who taught him
the trade. But the latter was certain
that the count would starve did be
endeavor to earn living by boot
manufacturing, as the work put into
each pair was too excellent and slow
to prove profitable. Some time age
Count Tolstoi tried to persuade two
of his disciples, young men of educa
ton and culture, to turn shoemakers
but they declined.
John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet
once in describing the usages Of th'
Quakers in regard to speaking il
meeting" said that sometimes th'
| voluntary remarks were not quite t,
the edifcation of the meeting. /
once happened that certain Georg
| c. grew rather wearisome in hi
exhortations. and his prudent breth
rem, after solemn consultation, passe'
the following resolution: ut is tn
sense of this meeting that Georg
| c. be advised to remain silent un
| til such time as the Lord shall speal
through him more to our satisfaction
| and profit"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
WOMAN AND THE PROVERBS.
Sayings OF Different Countries That
Are Anything But C0mpli-
mentary to Her.

A wonderful similarity exists in
the sayings about women current in
the various nations, says the New
York Sun.
The Spanish rhyme has it: Were
woman as little as she is good, a
pea pod would make her a gown and
hood
Anold English saying: IF man lose
woman and a farthing, he will be
sorry he lost the farthing."
The French adage: "A man Of
straw is worth a woman of gold"
The German: There are only two
good women in the world-one dead
and the other can't be found
The Scotch say: Honest men
marry soon, wise men never"
In Fife they say: "The next best
thing to no wife is good wife,
The Arabian declares: Words are
women; deeds are men,"
The Persian sage says that WON
ans wisdom is under her heel.
| The German affirms that every
beautiful daughter of Eve woult
| rather be beautiful than good.
| The German also asserts tina
| whenever there is mischief brewing
a woman and a priest are at the bot
tom of it.
The Persian asserts that wome1
and dreams are best out of tn
world.
The Corsican says: "Just as goo
and bad horse both need the spun
good and bad woman both nee
the stick"
| The Hindoo: "A man is not obeye
by his wife in his own house, no
does she consider MIN her HUSBAND
unless he beats her" Another Hill
doc proverb says: "Drive out won
ans nature with pitchfork, and
will return again and again."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
THE WRONG MAN.
He Had a Wooden Leg and COuldnt
Very Well Climb the
Ladder.

Every time we clean house we gen.
orally have little spring excite
ment," said married man, according
to the Detroit Free Press; either
somebody falls off step-ladder, or
somebody else, in burning up trash,
sets chimney on fire.
"Our chimneys are good and thick,
SO no serious results can happen =
but nothing makes my wife SO beside
herself as having chimney get afire.
One day, actually, she hurried on her
hat, got into street car and came
down town, rushing into my office,
to tell me to come home at once, the
parlor chimney was on fire. Ibid not
90, Of course; and the chimney, in the
meantime, blazed away awhile and
then went out.
"Still, we must all admire her idea
that, when anything unusual hap
pens, the first thing to do is to secure
the services of some man. The other
day, as usual, one Of the chimneys
caught fire, and poured out smoke
and blazing sparks at great rate.
NY wife was cured of running after
me in such straits; so she and cook
managed to drag big ladder out OF
the shed and set it up against the
kitchen wall. Then she began look
ing around for man to go up the
ladder, to see if the shingled roof
was all right.
"Jane,'. she said to cook, run over
to DIR. Parker's and tell him please
to come over immediately
"Jane sped away, and in few min
utes good, portly, clever DIR. Parker
appeared on the scene.
"'What can l do for you, Mrs.
Jones?' he asked.
"'Oh, DOCTOR my agitated wife said,
our kitchen chimney is on fire; won't
you please go up this ladder, and see
! il the roof is safe?'
"Then my wife said DR.. Parker
began to laugh, and he laughed until
he had to hold on to the ladder. My
wife was indignant. 4 don't see any
thing to laugh at she said, in an of
Tended tone.
/ "sMy dear lady, said DR.. Parker,
mopping his purple face and steam
ing eyes, 4 couldn't climb this ladder
to save my own life. You've forgotten
my wooden leg.
'I don't know how my wife apollo
gized, but wasn't that great? The
, idea Of asking one-legged man tc
/ climb a ladderi"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
SEND MESSAGES FROM TRAINS.
Ing Wireless System to Cars in
Rapid Motion.

Experiments in carrying on COM
munication between moving train and
various points by means of wireless
telegraphy have been successfully car
ried out on the military railway be-
tween Berlin and Zossen. Active cor
respondence was maintained between
the train and Marienfeld and Rangs-
dorf stations with absolute accuracy
throughout. A message was also ac-
curately transmitted from the train
to the Tageblatt Office in Berlin re-
cording the results of the experiments.
The Braun & Siemens system was
used.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
wATERCREsS AND ITS WORTH.
In 1t There Is a Pleasant Means OF
Providing the BLOOD with
New Life.

There is always an appetizing ap-
pearance about a plate of fresh,
green watercress, dainty and cool,
tender and pungent. When made up
into tempting sandwiches, the plate
usually leaves the table empty.
When the watercress season begins
in spring, peoples systems are
usually a little run down through
want of green garden vegetables and
fresh fruit. There has been strain
put upon the organs of the body by
the cold. The blood has used up
many of its acids and salts and
needs to replenish them, says the
Washington Star.
In watercress there is pleasant
means of providing the blood with
a good supply of natural salts. pot
ashes and acids. This quick-growing
water plant is more largely en-
dowed with such matters than any
other vegetable, excepting alone
spinach, the notable mineral giver.
One would not consider the water
cress to be possessed of more salts
and acids than the sour rhubarb, an
other of springs food medicines,
yet it contains twice the quantity.
Rhubarb contains oxalic acid and
also malic acid, the mixture giving
its excessive sourncss. The acids of
watercress are various. They arc
not nearly so keen as in rhubarb,
and their action is somewhat COW
cred by the sharp taste of the
volatile oil in watercress, such oil
being entirely absent in rhubarb, so
that the work of its acids is not
softened or altered at all
This oil in watercress is in some
| what fair quantity, though not in
amount enough to make its pres
| ence felt as oil. 1t is distributed
| about the tender leaf and stalk in
the shape of tiny flavor bodies, each
small mite of oleaginous nature.
The pungency owned by these flavor
bodies is derived from the keen ma
ture of the race whence the water
cress springs.
This race is that of the cross; hence
the word "cress." which in one of its
meanings has reference to the cross
shape seen in the flowers of all the
plants of the extensive family Of
Crucifera, the cross carriers.
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y y
there had been that about her; She
knew when to talk to him, and when
to be silent. In his eyes, tonight, tho
quality took the form of an angelic at
tribute. Until the coming of Elsie Les
ter into his life, he had thought her
the sweetest thing the world held.
They made their way slowly down
the long room, Doris making notes,
OCCASIONALLY, in little black book. At
one side, deep door opened into q
smaller compartment.
'Let US go in," Nolan said.
They sat down on one of the semi
circular seats in the middle Of the room.
Back of it, and dividing it from its
duplicate, which faced the other way,
was bank of tall palms. The room
was deserted.
Doris was making lengthy notes on
small picture opposite, with the black
book on her knee, when the electric
lights, exercising their inaliena BILE pre-
rogative, fickered and went out, ex-
cept the tiniest glimmer.
Still in the dusk, soft garments
swished across the floor, and two wom-
en- seated themselves back of the shad-
owing palms. They chartered softly
for few minutes. Presently there
was an exclamation of surprise and ad-
miration from one of them; then Ell
sic Testers voice answered, sweet and
vibrating, but with an unfamiliar ring
in it that went through Nolan like the
anguish of the rack.
"Pretty! Well, Ishould say so! And
it cost fine sum! I only got it to-day.
Such an outrageous fib as I had to tell,
to get the money, about sick mother,
and debts, and that But it went, all
right"
There was ripple of mocking laugh
ter, echoed by less musical but SYM
pathetic one; few words Nolan's
strained senses did not catch. Then
Elsie's voice, again.
Nonsense! They're only pair of
lovers. spooning in the dark. don't be-
lieve they even know we are here"
A moment of silence ensued; then
| Elsie said
''Mac is late tonight. Perhaps he's
| sulky; I won't let him come to the
house, lest my golden goose find it out.
Mac hates to play second fiddle. Won't
he fume, when he sees my bracelet"
The words had scarcely left her lips
! when the lights flashed up dazzlingly
They revealed a man just entering the
doorway. He was cheaply and show.
lily dressed, and all over his handsome
| face was written the roue. Nolan's
dazed eyes had taken in so much, when
Elsie rose She went smiling to meet
the intruder, and he tucked her arm
with its blazing circlet, within his own
Turning, they left the room.
Doris gaze had followed them. She
withdrew it to meet Nolan's. Hel
cheeks were scarlet.
"But, oh! Burt!" she breathed
hadn't she perfect face! Iwish, will
all nv soul, sometimes, that l wer,
beautiful"
"Thank God. you're not, little WON
ami" he burst forth, impulsively
"There!' !''-breaking suddenly into tn,
wholesome laughter that has save,
countless reasons to their thrones
''isn't that compliment the like o
which you never received before in al
your days2"
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BENTON, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 49, 1903

ing without a glance the house
where Elsie Lester lived. Fever be-
gan to burn in his veins where, halt
an hour ago, the blood had seemed
ice. 1t flushed his face and set his
eyes aflame as he hurried up the
long fight to his room and flung
himself in chair by the window
He sat there motionless for an hour
staring out through the gathering
dusk.
81 will do it! There is yet time! It
is a coward who fears weapon! If
he stands out-well! 1t is better to
send one soul to he'll alone than wait
till it drags another with it!
He got up, white and haggard, and,
going across the room to his trunk,
knelt down and opened it. Nervous
searching brought out something small
and shining. He turned to the light,
with shaking fingers, and examined
it carefully, cooking and uncocking
it softly. Some one tapped at his door.
'Lady in the parlor to see you, sir,
said the maids voice.
Like a flash, the thought came to
him, unreasonably, he told himself
that it might be Elsie. He thrust the
| pistol hastily into his pocket, and went
down, trembling in every limb.
4 little figure in brown got up from
| the divan, and ran to meet him. Nolan
| leaned back against the door post, sick
with revulsion of feeling. 1t was like
a burst of morning air, after a night
spent in fever-tainted room.
"Doris!" he calculated.
She stopped short, with half-extend'
ed hand.
| 'Did you know that it was 1?' she
said, with laughing pretense of injured
feeling. 81 supposed you would guess
| directly. And / came to ask special
| favor"
Some semblance of their normal ex
preston was creeping back into Nolan's
bloodshot eyes.
"You know you have only to name it
Doris" he said. reaching out for he1
hesitant hand. when did you come
I did not know you were in town."
"Of course not, Burt. You know
always told You the sixth sense wal
lacking in your makeup" (How tact
fully blind to his perturbation th'
clear brown eyes wereD "Aunty came
in to shop, but our main errand wa
to see the art exhibit" Doris contin
ued. "She went back at three, will
a terrific headache, however, insisting
I should stay, as it was my last oppor
tunity, and get you to take me. thi
evening. So I have come, forlorn ant
unchaperoned, to prefer my request
that is. if you have no other engage
ment"
Nolan WINGED. and his face grew hot
He thought of that shining thing in hi
hip pocket, and wondered why, on this
of all nights. she had come. Well, h
must go with her. that was all, an
trust to fate for the outcome. Grant
note to Elsie burned above his hear
like a living coal. There would yet b
opportunity.
, They were early at the art roof:
A quiet group here and there, an artis
, or two, heavy-haired and thin-facet
discussed with friend the hangin
or treatment of some favorite study.
Doris and he were cousins severe
times removed, and tacit sweetheart
ever since the mud-pie era of thei
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
WHAT GRANDMA KNOWS.

Did you ever know the spot
Where the mint is to be got,
Where the pennyroyal grows7
Grandma knows.
Did you know that goldenrod.
Crown of August, bane OF SOD,
Just to cure the fever grows!
Grandma knows.
Did YOU know, when April rain
Brings hepaticas again,
They're a hidden cure for pain!
Grandma knows.
Smartweed, eatnip. boneset, sage,
Plantain, mullein-Tll engage,
Cures for every ache and age
Grandma knows.
WHY do children's faces brighten!
WHY do tired hearts seem to l1ghten
When she comes? Well, | suppose
Grandma knows.
-Phila Butler Bowman, In Goo
Housekeeping.
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Apxiety for an Inventor.

Prof. Alexander Graham Bell thinks
he has solved the air ship problem.
1t is to be hoped, however, says the
Chicago Record-Herald, that Prof.
Bell will get some cheap man to make
the first trip.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-18
Eruit Punch.

Crush one cup of ripe Strawberries
and mix with one-half cup of water;
powdered sugar is better than
granulated. Add half pint of cold
water and let it strain through q
fine wire strainer until clear; add
the strained juice of one lemon and
one and one-half pints of cold wa
ter; mix and set in the refrigerator
until needed.-Detroit Free Press,
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The Manitoba potato crop amount
ed to 3,459,325 bushels and the root
crop to 3,23o,995 bushels. There are
1924 thrashing outfits in the province.
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Mexico and Diax,

Diaz is nearly 70, and has begun to
feel the weight of his years. 1t will be
sorry day for Mexico. says the Chi
cago Tribune, when he lets go.
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Echo Answered.

Gilson-As public speaker how does
Watkyns rank?
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
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WHO WITH NO MONEY AND NO EDUCATION, AND NO
PARTICULAR INTELLECT, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF
SIMPLE HUMAN NATURE, SHALL LOOK OVER THE
EARTH AND SEE NO SPOT WHERE HE is WANTED
In the body obscure glands that have puzzled phyo
og they obvious function Since nature seldom
creates anything useless these glands have been studied until
has been made seemingly their Office to take dis
germs 1t the attainment
the ideal of democracy there shall exist people healthy
strong its national fe that afraid to take in and hea
disease?
WOULD SOONER RISK RECEIVING EVEN REFUSE
AND DISEASE GERMS FROM EUROPE THAN LOSE, AS
WE MUST BY PUTTING UP THE BARS THE POOR, UNIN
TELLECTUAI, HONEST FOLK WHO MAKE UP TFE-MASs
OF HUMANITY; whom need and who need chances
free growth and evolution.
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Increase in Canadian Trade.
Canadian trade with Great Britain
has increased over $6,0o0,000 in the
past year.