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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07

A STARTLING Test.

To save a life DR.. L. G. Merritt, of
North Mehoopany, Pa, made a startling
test resulting in wonderful cure. He
writes: "A patient was attacked with
violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcera-
ton of the stomach. l had often found
Electric Bitters excellent for acute
stomach and liver troubles, SO l pre-
scribed them. The patient gained from
the first, and has not had an attack in
fourteen months" Electric Bitters are
positively guaranteed for dyspepsia, in
digestion, constipation and kidney trou-
bles. Try them. Only so cents at George
Douars
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07
THE OLD MISSISSIPPI,

The Inauguration of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition is likely to bring
about q revival of the old time activity
on the Mississippi when passenger
boats We're crowded and the haut ton
travelled by steamboat preferably to
riverman's memory when Mahk Twain
was Mississippi pilot and the trade
and traffic of the territory, the acqui-
sition of which the exposition cele-
brates, surged up and down the great
river in racing, roaring steamboats,.
Those were great days on the river and
of business next year that will bring the
flush times of the river back again for a
season at least.
The steamers will carry many pas
sengers to the exposition, but the river
as highway for travel is one of the
bygones. The squirt of activity which
is likely to prevail during the ST. Louis
fair will serve only to awaken memory
of the long lines of great RATS of logs
and lumber and the crowds of singing
deck hands at the boat landings once
familiar from st. Paul to New Orleans.
The old river times can 10 more come
back than the waters return again from
the gulf. The pressing need of the age
and the development of rapid transit
has rendered such recurrence impossi-
BILE The great lumber woods of the
northwest are fading. Beef Slough has
become Renaissance compared to the
old times when the river drivers herded !
their acres of pine logs inside Its booms
and the fierce Mackinac- clad lumber
jacks took forcible possession of the
river towns from Lacrosse to Hastings.
Then freight boats loaded to the rail
with wheat at Red Wing, the greatest
wheat market in the world. All this
has changed. The lumber mills that
made SO much of the prosperity of the
river towns are slowly dropping out one
by one. The wheat centers have moved
farther west. The railroad whisks the /
traveller from st. Paul to ST. Louis,
while the steamboat takes on freight at
a half dozen landings. Vale the river.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07
Very Low Rates to California and
Return.

Via the North Western Line. First
class round trip tickets on sale May
Sd. and 18th. to 18TH, to Los Angeles
and San Francisco. Favorable limits
and stop-over privileges and choice Of
routes. The Overland limited, most
luxurious train in the world. leaves
Chicago daily 500 p. m. Less than
three days en- route. Drawing room
and compartment sleeping cars, OBJ
servation cars, dining cars, buffet-i-
brary cars (barber and bath), electric
lighted throughout. Three trains day
from Chicago to the Coast through
without change. Daily and personally
conducted tourist car excursions to CAL
ifornia, Washington and Oregon. For
particulars apply to ticket agents Chi
cago & North Western R'y.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07

proved that this bacillus might live sus-
pended over suIphuric acid 20S days
| Placed in a vacuum they remained alive
| for more than six months and in a
closet lived more than seven months
| One to two-tenths of carbolic acid
added to a culture of the typhoid bacil-
lus failed to affect its growth. The
value of sunlight as a germicde was
| thoroughly shown by these experiments.
exposure to the sun having within two
hours killed IS per cent of the typhoid
killed them all. With tie exception of
high heat sunlight appears the most eff
fective agent to the destruction of the
typhoid bacillus In ordinary water the
life of the bacillus is also shortened by
the saprophytes which prey upon it, and
aided possibly by the infiltcation of
Thus while a tainted water supply is
the most frequent cause of typhoid epi-
denies, the water has within itself the
elements necessary to its own purifica-
ton.
DR.. Koch's theory of complete isola-
ton of the patient in city or country
seems the true solution IF the question
of typhoid fever suppression. Careless
handling of a single sporadic case may
cause an epidemic that may affect
thousands. The milkman may bring in
fection into the kitchen. the grocer de-
liver typhoid with vegetables which
have been exposed to the air on the
bench before his door, or wandering
breeze carry the fatal bacillus here or
there in search of a new victim.
simple handshake or breath may con-
vey contagion. All we eat, drink or
breathe is possible vehicle of contain
nation.
Thus it would seem that DR.. Koch's
advice is sound and should be followed. |
Complete isolation practically means
quarantine of the person affected and
the disease, the average mortality of
which ranges from 10 to so per cent, |
seems fit object for rigid isolation |
by the state. The mortality in pro- |
onged epidemics of Asiatic cholera falls |
as low as so per cent of those affected; |
tirulent smallpox claims no more than
from 20 to So per cent of it's victims,
while varioloid rarely kills. Mild cpl
lemics of scarlet fever Kill from to 10
GER cent and since the introduction of
the death rate in diphtheria
has fallen to from to % per cent
These are the types of dangerous and
disease and are so readily
md quickly controlled by quarantine
measures and isolation of the patient
hat they rarely become epidemic and
hen only thru carelessness. None of
hese diseases except Asiatic cholera
$ more readily communicable or
of such wide distribu-
ion as is typhoid Few are more
atal. If typhoid epidemjcs may be
tamped out and its germs destroyed by
he rigid repressive regulations which
ave been effective in other diseases .
hat are prone to become epidemic let
IS have legislation provie.ng strict iso.
alton of patients under the direction of
properly appointed health officers and
It such isolation continue until a bac-
geological investigation has proven
eyond doubt the impossibillty of fur /
her infection. $
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

AS showing the effect Of competitive
| journalism upon naturally sweea dis
position the following from the Creston
Gazette is interesting: "A rutfianly up
country newspaper whose editor is
demonstrably thief and changes his
political whereabouts with every piece
of pie refers to Lafe Young as a politi-
|cal desperado Anything but words OF
commentator from such 4 source is the
sincerest fiattery."
Look, papa! The duke has brought
his coronet.''
Tell him to ahead and play it. don't
mind the noise" Life.
The Oldest family in the world, not in
point of pedigree. but Of longevity, is
said to live in Bell county. Kentucky.
Lewis Green is 93 years old: his wife.
Virginia Green, is 80 years old. They
we're married seventy-three years ago.
and went 10 live on a farm at the mouth
OF Bingham's creek, in a bend of the
Cumberland river. They are still liv-
ing in the same house To which they
went as bridegroom ard bride three
ten children, the youngest of whom is
now 43, and there has never been
death in the family.
$50 you resent these fints of dishon-
esty in the government
~
Corntossel I've been buyin' postage
stamps from the government fur years
and never got cheated yet"
Washington Star.
Wherever rural mail delivery routes
lead from city under the free delivery
system it appears that considerable en-
might be afforded the ru-
raj carriers by putting them first in line
for promotion to city partnerships. The
wages of the rural carriers are so low
and their expenses so comparatively
high that many of them ere resigning to
take work more lucrative than their
employment. There is too
much difference between The pay of ru-
ral and city carriers and while city men
ire not overpaid the country carriers
stipend is beggarly.
Secretary Wesley Greene, of the State |
Society, estimates the
iamage to the fruit crop by the recent |
reezes at about 10 per cent. While I
'.her newspapers were publishing /
care-head stories of almost total de- |
truction of the fruit the careful esti-
mates made by the special corresponds
nts of the Times-Republican appear to
lave been quite as precise and valuable |
IS the reports now coming in to dis
redit the loud talk Of great damage /
The T.-R.. with its army of high-clas
correspondents over Iowa, may be de-
'ended upon to furnish reliable news
he earliest. 1t is question of class in
and the IRIS Iowa
ervice is unequaled in efficiency and
eliability.
AT the Woman's Seamen's Friend So
iety convention, Boston. recently, the
rev. Winfred CheSney Rhoades, pastor
E the Eliot Congregational church,
nade an address on the American
ailor." Among other things he said:
We hear so much about the banker,
he financier and the soldier, but of the
DOR, humble sailor there is very little
aid. AS q matter of fact, the sailor
ias one of the chief factors in the
uilding of the United states. Promi-
ent men were sailors in the early days.
.obert Treat Paine, one of the signers
{ the declaration of independence, was
ne commander of vessel, and from
he time when the first ship built on
merican soil was launched on the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
WOES OF JOURNALISM.
IColfax Clinner.l

INsUIIdN VIIUUeI.I
After a country newspaper man has
followed himself hoarse in efforts to
persuade people to patronize the home
merchants, and accidentally stumbles
onto the fact that some of the fellows
whose interests he is endeavoring tc
protect are sending away for their job
printing, it rather shakes his faith in
mankind and makes reciprocity look
like penny with hole in it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

IF Mr.. Perkins can't determine upol
anything else to talk about in his con,
vention speech suggests the Nonpa.
reil he might repeat his now we'll
| known address on The Moral Influence
of the Press
| The Northwood Anchor is no friend t.
saloons, but says: IF we must endure
one we say give us the one that is con
trolled by law. A aw-abiding citizen is
better than a criminal any time. The
proprietor of Il mulct saloon would be
more credit to the community than a
thousand boot-leggers would be-"
The optimistic Ottumwa Courier be-
lieves Temporary Chairman Perkins
will not have to work overtime to put a
speech together that will satisfy the
Iowa republicans
President Baer, the insufferable
growler, hates to be rushed" remarks
the Des Moines Capital.
Editor Perkins, of the Sioux City
Journal, will be temporary chairman
says the Washington Qowa) Press,
and, three years hence, governor So
the stars read, and the stars shine their
brightest. George will hitch his wagon
to star. G'lang!"
The Cedar Rapids Republican thinks
slot machines the most insidious en-
TIGERS imaginable. The gambling in
stinct is latent in everybody These
seemingly innocent devices call out this
instinct and cultivate ii. They ought
to be thrown OUT
The Sioux City Journal notes that
Senator Baily hates the corporations
so emphaticaliy that he gouged one of
them for 100000 fee in a case in
which he was successful in upholding
the corporations interests" The Jour-
nal thinks few victories like that
ought to come near settling the hash of
any old corporation"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07
PREVENTION OF TYPHOID EplDEMIcs.


Epidemics of typhoid fever have been
general over the United States this
spring; so general, in face. as to bring
forth an article on typhoid and typhus
and the better methods of fighting these
fevers from Herr Professor Doctor Rob-
ert Koch, perhaps most eminent of the
German psychologists. Dr. Koch at
tributes the cause and spread of epi-
denies to personal carelessness and un-
cleanliness. City people he says, are
less subjected TO these diseases on ac-
ties for obtaining hot and cold water
and for bathing give them opportuni-
ties for cleanliness not enjoyed by the
average country dweller. According TO
DR.. Koch, suburbs waiting for sewerage
and depending upon cesspools and the
older portions of cities where anti
quated systems of drainage and def
Client plumbing obtain are the natural
hotheds of typhoid epidemics. In i'm
proved sections, where cesspools for
merly We're in vogue. wells are prolific
cultures for the typhoid germs, and ILL
trapped water closets and defective
sewers are breeders of typhoid bacilli
and dangerous as filing the air with
these germs. DR.. Koch advises removal
from the dwelling until oil defects of
the nature mentioned above have been
remedied.
Isolation of the patient. as in other
contagious diseases such as Asiatic
cholera, is strongly urged as an ordi-
nary sanitary precaution. The profess
sor-doctor tells of a district comprising
seyen small towns and villages where
more than 800 cases of The disease de-
veloped and thirty-two deaths had oc-
typhoid and considered doomed to re-
main a prey to the scourge. Koch re-
moved the worst cases to a lazaretto !
outside the infected district the sick |
left at home were thoroughly isolated |
by trained nurses and a disinfector APP
pointed to 'care for every two houses.
Under the ordinary medical treatment
every patient recovered and within
three months the epidemic was COM
pletely stamped out and has not since
required. 1t is noteworthy that isolation
of cases was continued Until three dis
tinct meteorological tests revealed, no
trace of typhoid infection in the dis
charges. Not only had the epidemic
been controlled, but the possibility of
future infection insured against by the
complete destruction OF the germs
which had caused and continued it.
Typhoid is now generally admitted by
medical men to be caused by the short,
rod-Hke bacillus discovered by Eberth
no longer ago than 1880. The resisting
powers of this bacillus are great and to
It's power of resistance may be attrib-
uted its capacity to cause epidemics. 1t
lhrives at the temperature of the ordi-
aary living room, while freezing and
-hawing fail to kill it. 1t resists heat ;
ip to 156 degrees Fahrenheit Buried
n the soil, it may retain its vitality and
lower to cause disease for six months. {
They are known to have lived upon
men for seventy-two days and upon {
ouekskin for eighty-five. Hermetically I
sealed cultures have been kept alive for {
more than a year. Experiments carried
IN in the University of Pennsylvania
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07

The optimistic Ottumwa Courier be-
lieves Temporary Chairman Perkins
will not have to work overtime to put a
speech together that will satisfy the
Iowa republicans"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07

President Baer, the insufferable
erowler, hates to be rushed" remarks
the Des Moines Capital.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07

$50 you resent these fints of dishon-
esty in the government"
Most emphatic!" answered Farmer
Corntossel. I've been buyin' postage
stamps from the government fur years
and never got cheated yet
Washington Star.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24

Merchants and Farmers Bank, corner
Spring and Texas streets, Shreveport.
The savings deposits Of this bank is
one OF its deservedly popular features.
Interest at the rate of three per cent per
annum is allowed on all sums Of one dol
lar and upwards remaining on deposit
three or more calendar months.
When made during the first three days
of any month, interest is allowed on
these deposits as if made on the first day
in the month. Interest on all sums not
drawn will be payable on the first days
of February and August, and interest
not then withdrawn is added to the prin-
ciple, thereby giving depositors COM
pound interest.
Deposits may be made by married
women or minors in their own names.
Facilities are given depositors to draw
money.
Deposits made for a longer period than
six months draw higher rate than or
binary savings deposits.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24

j. D. Rogers Justice Peace, G. T.
Mays Police Juror. Elected Ex-
ecutive Committeeman, H. L.
Boggs and A. j. Demoss.
Ward 5-J. F. Mckinney menu
Der School Board, j. P. Gleason
Justice Peace, T. W. Heath Con-
stable. Elected Executive Com.
mitteemen, W. W. Lay and j. NJ.
Mccall.
Ward 81. N. Plat and L. c..
Biggs members School Board !;
H. Barnacastle, j. P, LIST Pre-
cinct; W. M. Vickers, J. P, End
Precinct; J. W. Oneal, Constable,
LIST Precinct; Walter White, Con-
stable, End Precinct; C. D. San
didge Police Juror. Elected Ex-
ecutive Committeeman, Loye Nc
Dade. A. B. Murff and P. P.
Cook to run over.
LIST OF CANDIDATES TO RUN OVER
OVER FOR WARD OFFICES.
Ward 2-T. J. Tidwell and c.. H.
1rion for members School Board.
T. ]. Tidwell and j. W. Wallace
for Police Juror.
Ward &c. B. Garrett and G..
E. Rogers for Constable.
Ward 5-R. B. Martin and T..
P. Larkin for Police Jury.
Ward 81. C. Biggs and W.
NJ. Burch for Police Jury.
On motion, duly seconded, a
Primary Election was ordered to
be held throughout the parish be-
tween the hours OF 8 A. M. and 5
P. M, on Tuesday, September 20,
1908; that the same commission
ers hold said election under the
same rules and regulations as
governed the first; that the re-
turns Of said election be made to
w. B. Boggs, Chairman, at Ben
ton, La, on Or before Friday, Oct.
2, 1908, who, together with the
Secretary, will compile same and
declare the result of said election,
unless there be contest, in which
event the whole committee will be
notified to meet.
On motion and second, no one
will be allowed to register prior to
this election, the 10Th day Of Sep
TENDER, 1903.
Whereupon the committee adj
journed.
w. B. BoGGs, Chairman.
r. B. HILL, Secretary.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24

The vastness of our material
resources, the immensely of our
mineral wealth, the superior skill
of our citizens and all those adj
vantages on which we depend for
world-conquering progress in the
victories of peace are not going
to be neutralized or minimized by
conflicts between labor and capt.
tai. Without compulsion, by their
own volition, for their mutual in
terest, wageworkers and employ
ers will quietly settle their oc-
casional disputes. Strikes will
steadily decline to the vanishing
point.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24
New Y0rk's Enormous Wealth.

N. o. Times Democrat.
The new assessment of New
York, which has just been COM
pleted, shows the immense total
of So, 432 ,39s, 91s of property, real
and personal, in that city. Last
year the assessment was S3,857, )
O47,71O, SO that in twelve months
the wealth of New York city has
apparently increased ST, 575, 351, :
200, or 40 per cent; in one year it
has added to its assessed wealth
five times as much as the entire
State of Louisiana is valued at,
or as much as the States of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Arkansas and Florida.
II a true valuation could be
made of the personal property,
stocks, bonds, etc., there is little
reason to doubt that the total
wealth of Men York would run up
to between seven and eight billion
dollars, the greatest aggregation
of wealth the world has ever seen,
and nearly all acquired by max
ing the rest of the country pay
tribune to New York. So con-
WINGED is Manhattan that it ought
to get enormous tolls from every
ton of goods shipped from this
eountry or received here that the
New York press is even now raw
ing in its denunciation of the
Southern cotton growers and
dealers,because it is not allowed
to buy cotton at from five to eight
cents pound and sell it to Liver
pool at from ten to fifteen cents.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24
News Items.

There are II cases of bubonic
plague at Rio de Janeiro.
Fifteen sailors were lost in the
storm on the Maine coast.
Six masked men robbed a bank
at Douglass, o. T., of S5577.
Frost was general in Kansas
Wednesday night of last week.
The loss of life in the Jamaica
stormis officially placed at ninety.
The internal revenue receipts
during the month of August were
S18, 784, 514.
More than fifty lives were lost
in the gale from Long Island to
Delaware last week.
France is preparing to swallow
the empire of Morocco, Great
Britain giving her a free hand.
One man was killed and another
will lose an arm by falling into a
vat of boiling rosin near Mobile.
Stuyvesant Fish, President of
the Illinois Central Railroad, says
the South is the most prosperous
section of the United States.
Three thousand five hundred
men have been thrown out of en-
ployment by the shutting down of
the Superior Lake Lumber Com
pany, and a panic has been caus-
ed at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
The town is overrun by an army
of penniless men.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24
Application for Administration

In District Court, Bossier Parish, La.
Succession OF John Lewis, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that L. G.
~ Biggs has this day filed his appli-
cation to be appointed administrator OF
the succession Of John Lewis, deceased.
Now, this is to admonish all persons
concerned, that If opposition be not
made thereto within the time prescribed
by law, the said applicant will be APP
pointed administrator of said succession
as prayed for.
Given under my official signature and
seal of Office, at Benton, La, on this.
the 23rd day Of September, 1903.
B. A. KELLY, Clerk.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24

John R. Camp, editor OF the
Bushnell (Ill.) Record, says: Il
have received more advice on
how to run a newspaper than /
ever thought was lying around
loose and have followed less Of it
than one would imagine possible"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24
Homestead Entry No. Cola.
Land Office at Natchitoches, La, !
nona t,ror% IS 49,, yc4or:.

Department of the Interior,
September |, 1903.
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 October "a,
1908, viz: Homestead Entry No. co.'s
John A. Goodwin, Ivan, a.,-for the
southwest quarter of northeast quarter,
west half of southeast quarter and south
east quarter Of southwest quarter of
section 30, township q North, range II
West, Louisiana Meridian.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: A. Carr,
J. B. Wilmington, J. F. Adair, J. d.
Campbell, all of Ivan, La.
J. ERNEST BREDA, Register.
September 10, 1903. oct q
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24
BENTON, LA.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER "a, 1903.
The growth of Oklahoma has

The growth of Oklahoma has
been one of the marvels of west
ern development. For an agri-
cultural territory, the population
is already large, while the farm
products have reached almost in
credible proportions. The min
eral resources, which are almost
untouched, are believed to be most
bountiful. The future of such a
field is not hard to estimate in a
country in which great develop
ments are now but a repetition of
recent history.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-24
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Assessor.

We are authorized to announce Mr..
L. G. SMITH as j candidate for the
office of Tax Assessor of Bossier parish !;
subject to endorsement by the Demo-
cratic purity.
We are authorized to announce Mr..
E.. r. MADING as a candidate for the
Office OF Tax Assessor Of Bossier parish;
subject to endorsement by the Demo-
cratic party.