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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09
FROM OVER THE STATE.

Fire caused loss of SIS, 600 at New Iberia Feb. l.
The cotton ginners of Louisiana met yesterday at
Monroe.
The Banner Democrat says Lake Providence is
growing rapidly.
An electric railway will be built between New
Orleans and Mobile.
A modern hotel, costing S100, 900 and having 100
rooms, will be erected at Alexandria.
Poison was discovered in cakes sent to Hazleton.
suspected hold-up in New Orleans Parish prison.
Fire at Ruston last Thursday destroyed nine store
buildings and hotel Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$25,25O.
E. w. c. Maybin, Confederate naval hero, and
founder of the New Orleans Stock Exchange, died
in that city Sunday, aged rs.
st. Bernard parish rendered feast to Editor
William F. Roy, in honor of the fifteenth anniver-
sary of the S. st. Bernard Voice."
Contracts were closed last Thursday for drilling
seven new Oil wells at Caddo City, in Caddo parish
Ten acres of land brought $1,000.
Independent 2. VIM, veteran Mason and citizen
of New Orleans, was killed Sunday by trolly car
while returning from the bedside of his dying mother
The American Portland Cement Company last
week bought sight at Lake Borgne Canal, New
Orleans, for central factory to cost $780, Oys-
ster shells will be used.
The Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company
will operate trains over their own tracks from
Shreveport into New Orleans before January 1.
next, and probably thirty days before that time
The Lake Providence east Carroll parish) Ban
ner-Democrat of the 18th instant says: "a very
large amount Of cotton is still unpicked, and on the
line of the railroad to Talulah one sees large cuts
that have never been touched by pickers. It is
doubtful If this cotton will evar he savod
"'Would coal be cheaper than wood is question
now up for solution among the business men of this
place. says the Mansfield Journal. although
there are immense forests all around the town. is
at times difficult to get load of wood, even at
prices that are out of all reason when the question
of supply is considered
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09
Succession Sale.

Succession Of Charles Robinson, decd.
In District Court, Booster Parish, La.
DY virtue of an order of sale to me
ID directed from the Honorable Dis
trict Court in and for the Parish Of Bos-
sier, La, l will, on Wednesday, March
Is, 1905, in the town Of Benton, La,
within the legal hours for sales, proceed
to sell at public auction, to the last and
highest bidder, the following described
property, to-wit:
The s1a of sw14, sec. "a, seL Of sell,
sec. 80, tp. 10, range ii; ne4 Of neL4,
sec. 4, and nw1 Of nw14, sec. 3, tp. Is,
range ii; containing in all 200 acres,
more or less, and situated in Bossier
parish, La.
Terms of Sale-Cash, if the appraise-
ment or two-thirds thereof be bid, else
on credit of twelve months, according
to law. J. F. EDWARDS.
Sheriff and ex-of6cio Auctioneer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09
NOTICE !!

ON Monday, February 10Th next, six
" of the mules belonging to Bossier
parish will be sold at public auction at
Bossier City. Four Of these mules are
from Wyche's camp and two from Bar
nett's. They are all large, we'll develop
ed, well muscled and in good condition.
Bidders are invited to be present.
S. r. STRAYHAN,
Member Police Jury, Ward 8.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09

Brooklyn Eagle: Crime is increasing in this
country, and the reason is that the law is not re-
spected and the for that that it is enforced
with injustice and Partially, and the reason for
that is that thousands of lawyers live by defeating
the law and are never called to account by the
judges for misdoing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09

A Washington dispatch to the Baltimore Sun
says there is possibility that every measure that
President Roosevelt desires to be passed at this
session of Congress will fail of passage
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09

N. o. Item: Congressman Broussard has intro
duced bill in Congress to create another board to
do something or other. The opinion prevails in
Louisiana that it requires at least five men to do
anything.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09

Charges of "graft'' by Representative have
caused great scandal and much bitter feeling in
the Illinois Legislature
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09

N o. Item: Robbing stores in New Orleans is
as safe and easy as stealing from blind cripple
who is hard Of hearing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09

N. o. States: It is time that the farmers of the
South stopped working and spending their money
only to feed speculative bears and cotton insects
Diversifcation, -operaonand intelligent cultva-
ting will enable the farmer to thrive despite all the
enemies that can be banded together against him,
whether insect or human being.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09

Bastrop Enterprise: The oldest Confederate liv-
ing is Peter Clark, of Lucky Hill, Va, who was
born in Ireland in 1894. He was soldier of 1912,
enlistng in the American Army at the age of 49,
He was also in the Florida Indian war and the war
with Mexico. In 1860 he volunteered in the Sixth
Louisiana regiment, with which he went to Virginia,
where he participated in many of the severest bat
ties. He is said to be quite active and cheerful.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-09

Very we'll said by the Mansfield Journal: "The
Russo-Japanese war is the bloodest in the world
history. The losses are conservatively placed at
100000 men. Why this slaughter of human beings?
To crafty the ambition of one man, urged on by
coterie of selfish and desolute grand dukes not one
of whom could pass muster good citizen in free
America. The American spirit is badly needed in
some parts of Europe
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08

OF all the diseases known, with
which women are afflicted, kidney dis
ease is the most fatal. In fact, unless
early and correct treatment is applied.
the weary patient seldom survives.
Being fully aware of this, Mrs Pink
ham, early in her career, gave exhaust
i've study to the subject, and in pro-
ducing her great remedy for woman's
ils-L Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound-was careful to see that it
contained the correct combination of
herbs which was sure to control that
fatal disease, woman s kidney troubles.
The Vegetable Compound acts in har-
mony with the laws that govern the
entire female system, and while there
are many so called remedies for kidney
troubles. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound is the only one espe-
cially prepared for women, and thou
sands have been cured of serious kidney
arrangements by it. arrangements Of
the feminine organs quickly affect the
kidneys, and when a woman has such
symptoms as pain or weight in the
loins, backache, bearing down pains,
urine too frequent. scanty or high col
ored, producing scalding or burning,
OE ucpOcAtS LIKE ofAck OuSt III 1ts u0-
usual thirst, swelling of hands and feet,
swelling under the eyes or sharp pains
in the back running down the inside
of her groin. she may be sure her kid
neys are affected and should lose NO
time in combating the disease with
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, the woman's remedy for wo-
mans ills.
The following letters show how
marvelously successful it is.
lydia E. Plnkham's VEGETABLE Ccupound
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
TOLD IN ENGLISH SCHOOLS
stori IS Of Answers Given by Pupils
Not Lacking in Originality
Some Replies.

From an English paper is gathered
bunch of schoolroom stories, some
of which are so good as to have their
genuineness doubted, as, for example,
the definition of lie: "An abomina-
ton in the sight of the Lord. but a
very present help in time of trouble"
To be received with equal skepticism
is perhaps the boys answer to the
question why David preferred to be
doorkeeper in the house of the Lord:
Because If he was doorkeeper he
could walk outside while the sermon
was being preached" More natural,
however, is what a child said of Eli
iah: ..As Elijah went up to heaven
he dropped his mantle and Queen
Elizabeth walked over It," It need
hardly be explained that it was an
Irish boy who gave the text: "He that
himself shall. be exalted, and
he that exalteth himself shall be a
haste" 1t was q small boy of eight
who. asked why Moses took OF his
shoes in the presence Of the burning
hush. gave the novel explanations:
..Please, sir, to warm 'ees feet"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
BIZ HENRY ~ ,,p,-

eCopNrieh. ~ buccaneers" Etc.o
.sm,,m 1sA by Joseph B. Bowies,
ther,. ~, - llnd me tn loan ay a quar-
- :, asked old man Hogan ..rh a
=. NOW, whin We git thiraG ar i tnnn
lest az make me pay We back am :ar-r.e
a. ,ra.. ae ready to cross tn ,ouarther
dr.s sour books, I'll git We tn intbro-
iaa 49, me % Casey as a good ravliah1e
a. ~ That he kin lind hair = .do,,ar ~
sa.' n per clint. month vita nareat
IN nov IA git tn half. an out av It
,casa pay back your quarther Wbin
man glts anxious for his money IN
.o.I nim recommind me to soma
chae ioan shark that's ;lookin. for -
NJ. 70 lind whole dollar If 1his
W" ia-a-d wants more than Won r;f
..v, II send him to see you
u.s. you'll say. I've lint Hogan
W.. an .ne's always paid me back. !,
s.m nat Use Kin We say? So 4 Git tn,
ho,s f an out av it pay Casey his
na.t Worhin' along tn same ca-ef,1
- conservative lines / gradually oit
th.,e sIeolt up to tn pint where it's no
LICK at all to borry tin thousand on
t;s ~ no,e backed be TIL ricomminda-
.., ns aV all TIL .feenanceers wbo have
A'9.a me on me upward progriss.
ne this time they're beginnin' to
= - aDout saycurities, SO L wrap up
oundie av Sunday supplemints in
'nlck brown paper, tie it wild red tame
81 sea- 1t wild lot av wax, pastin' a
slrip av paper, wild my name wrote on
:. across the knot in tn tape. l take
~, .,.lS DOWN to tn vice presidunt av tn
0'eeifen national bank. a litthle, BALD
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08

coorse, that it should be wanderin'
around this way loose, widout amy
guardeen. But II don't take IT,
feathers somebody ilse will, an 1t
might as will be me. It's shame t.
take TIL money. It's like Robin IT,
babys bank. But, after all, thera
ar-r-e la-a-ds that'd threat it worsa
than / will. It's q good thing fer it
that it happened to run across me.
"Whin this la-a-d wakes up an finds
his bag is full av imitation feathers ye
kin hear nim yill for miles in ivry
direction. It's dastardly crime he
says, for a stuffed duck, covered viii
artificial p;umage, to allow itsilf to BE-
plueked he a respectable, tin-Ler-cint
a-mnnth-in-advance feenanceer like
me. Wiring it's nick he says.
Il cant see so much difference be.
chune raisin' money on paper that
amt worth annythin' an on paper
that you know amt worth mere than
tin yer clint. av what We git for it. II
it's wrong to pay gint tin dollars fol
loanin' we twinty on saycurity that
all's wather, why should it be right te
git money from people on stocks in
which there is jist enough solid SUBJ
stance dissolved to form a thin scum
on Ia top av tn wather?
"Bachune tn two I'd rather do bust
ness wild tn gold brick artist. For:
whin it's all over We sthill lave tn
brick Lift to throw st him"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
Cuba Uses Our Currency

Cuba has NO currency of it's own coin
age. The official money of the republic
Is United States currency, and all taxes
or public debts are payable in the same.
except fees Of registrars OF property.
which are collected in Spanish gold. In
commercial circles Awholesale) Spanish
gold is the basis Of calculation, and in
the retail trade and in the country Span
ish silver is almost entirely used.
United States currency is always at n
premium over Spanish gold, but this
premium fluctuates according to demand
for Spanish gold and silver. During the
year ended June 80, 1904. the American
dollar was on an average equivalent to
$1.09 Spanish gold, or $1.3S Spanish sill
yer, the fluctuation being from 81. 1OM
to $1oS71 in gold, and from SLAP to 81, IS
In silver.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
NATIVES LIPS ARE CUT OFF
Savage Ladrones of Philippines Thus
Mutilate Sympathizers with
Americans.

Details received concerning the opera
tons of Montalon and Felizardo, the
ladrone leaders, show that frightful
atrocities have been committed. Ma
hves who have expressed or shown syn
pathy for Americans have been ham,
strung and their lips cut off, Justices
of the peace have been abducted and
killed.
Among the papers captured at Monta-
Ions camp was a document offering a
reward for the head of Gov. Trias and
also placing prices on the heads of other
supporters of the government
The two bandits are now operating
separately and the troops are on the
trail of their bands. Persons familiar
with the situation declare that drastic
measures are the governments only re-
course.
The indications are that the disaffect-
ed element is confined to two provinces.
Gen. Allen has reported that the situa-
ton in the island of Samar has greatly
improved.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
OTHER FELLOWS GRASS.
It Always Looks Sweeter Than That
Growing in the Home
Pasture.

Everywhere We find people who are
dissatisfied with their lot, who think
they would be happy if they could only
get somewhere else, into some other
occupation. writes o. S. Marden, in Sue
cess Magazine. They see only the thorns
in their own vocations, the roses in those
of others The shopgirl would be an
actress; the cook would change places
with her mistress; the butler with his
master. The lawyer would be doctor;
the doctor. a lawyer. The farmer be-
means his hard lot, and longs Ito ex.
change his life of drudgery for the
career of the merchant or the manufac-
turer. The country boy leans on his
plow-handle and looks toward the city
with hungry eyes. If he could only be
free from the slavery of the farm, he
thinks, wear good clothes. get hold of a
yardstick and stand behind a counter!
Happiness, opportunity, fortune-every
thing. lies yonder. Around him misery
toll, poverty-nothing desirable. The
city youth, behind a counter, OF sitting
on a high Office stool. rails at fate for
and the dreary details of merchandise
buying and selling-or of figuring up &C
counts. Oh, if he could only go to sea
and travel to distant countries, become
a captain in the navy, or skipper OF
owner of merchant vessel! Life would
be worth something then. But now
How much energy has been lost; how
many lives have been spoiled by this
fruitless longing for other fields, other
opportunities out of reach. What is the
use OF signing, or dreaming of what you
would do. if you were in somebody else's
place? What is the use Of trying to reach
into your neighboT's pasture when you
do not know what bitterness may lie at
the root of 1t. hidden from your sight;
when you have never tried to develop
or to call out the sweetness and juiciness
which thrive in your own?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
CRITICAL ABOUT READING.
Soldiers in the Philippines Object to
Publications Containing
I. Beauty Hints.

Religious weeklies and household
Journals telling how to be beautiful
are not wanted by the soldiers in thu
Philippines. according to Mrs. H. C
Chadbourne, of this city, says thu
Chicago Tribune. Ever since thu
islands were occupied by the army she
has been sending boxes Of books and
magazines to the regiments doing sery-
ice there.
Mrs. CEadbourae has collected the
literature and the government has for
warded it without expense and has ex-
pressed much gratitude. For its part,
the public has had standing invita-
ton to contribute its cast-off reading
matter to Mrs. Cladbourne. There is
where the trouble has come in. Mrs.
Chadbourne has been shOwered with
periodicals upholding the tenets of all
the religious sects of the land. Their
volume has been only less than that
of the prints devoted to the different
| ways of making Children's clothes, Of
doing embroidery and fancy work, and
OF keeping always youthful and beau
tiful.
The fighting American, maintains
Mrs. Chadbourne, cares not for theol-
ogy, is not interested in children's gar
ments, or the mailing of lace, and is
not disturbed ether by his beauty or
his ugliness. The: efore, she asserts,
the time has come Wnen she must halt
q useless food.
THE Philippine soldier" Mrs. Chad
bourn declared, "is all right. He is
worthy of admiration-but he is not
religious, and does not care to study
the fashions in a dressmaking jour-
nal. / knew right at the beginning
that the women's reading would not
do, and l never sent them on, but just
Stacked them up and threw them away
when the heap got too big.
Il thought, however. it would be
a good thing for the boys if they would
read some of the religious papers, and
| sent several lots of them, expert
mentally. l found the test was al
failure. The papers were not read
either by the officers or the men. The
government was paying the freight
and did not feel justified in having
1t cart out useless matter.
II concluded at first not to take the
public into my confidence, fearing the
feelings of some good persons might |
be hurt, but do not feel justified any
longer in making my home in store
house for religious papers. I re-
solved to be frank and tell the peo-
pie not to send me matter cannot
use.
"They can send me all other kinds
of periodicals and bound books, no
matter of what age, as long as the
covers hold together and the contents
are interesting. cannot receive too
many. Those boys out there need
to be entertained, and 1 want read
ing that will divert their minds Maya
zines are fine. The lot l now am
making up is to go with the Sixth in
fantry on a transport which sails on
March l. l want reading enough to.
while away the hours of the long
Journey out, and also to last after the.
Islands are reached. Anything for the
boxes must reach me before the last
Of the week, as l will nail them up
md send them to Fort LeavenWorth."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
For Education in Philinnines-

The house committee on consular at
fairs recently authorized favorable
report on the bill providing for the
setting aside Of Is per cent. Of the
proceeds of all public land sales here
after made in the Philippines for the
purchase of sites for construction and
maintenance Of primary and indus
trial schools, and an additional five
per cent. for higher education in the
islands. 1t is provided that this
measure shall not apply to the pro-
ceeds from the sales of friar lands.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
Drink in the Philippines.

"Forty-f1ve per cent. of the deaths of
American soldiers which have occurred
in the army hospitals in Manila during
the last five years have been due to the
liquor habit" declared Fredirco Sarabia,
Filipino student in the Chicago uni
versity, in an address on the liquor
traffic in the Philippines before the first
division of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union of Cook county. There
were no saloons, strictly speaking, in
the Philippines prior to the advent of
the American soldier5' he said. "Since
the American invasion over 1900 sa-
enjoying a prosperous trade. Chicago
Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
Z Haze Did Up Ne Stocks an Bonds.

.hided, ,dried-up la-a-d, who likes to
make two cints grow where they was
only wan .bayfure.
.Misther Jones' i say, Il have been
very ,extravagant. Me .illegitimate
great-grandfather u. Vanderfelle-
Or0esus, has often seeded me FIR
spendin' so much money. Now ]
says, i am :goin' to rayform. / lave
did up all me stocks an bonds. to the
thriflin' figure av -twinty swim million
dollars, in this bundle, an want you
to sind thin down to grandpax agint
in New York. Here's a list av tn
stuff says Will you please sign
this rayceipt for thim?
9TH MKT week tn la-a-d in New
Work that you've fixed things wild,
sinds back to Misther Jones q rayceipt
for tn stuff, signed wild tn name av
Croesus. Along wild It comes a letther
sayin' that grandpa insists on sindin'
his notes for tn same amount. You
leave it all wild Misther Jones. whose
ears ar-r-e wigglin' at TIL smell av SO
much money. Tin 'da,a-ys lather We
come back to see him.
I'm ashamed 10 say 1t, Misther
Jones' you say. but can't s.-op me
extravagant habits. I've got to have
City thousand dollars right away to
spind in gratifyin' me taste for dia-
mond rings. II you kin find me some
wan who has fifty to Lind l will pay
you tin thousand dollars for dom it.
-Misther Jones thinks that he might |
as will have that tin thousand as amy
wan ilse. But he's goin' to be careful
about it. Will we assign me wan AZ
thin notes yere grandpa STINT back! he
says.
"'Yis,' you say. I suppose must. 4
you insist. BIT wouldn't leave grand
ma find out about It for An1yth1ng'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08
Hen Do It Rather Than .0'e
He's Lint e Alridoy'

~, =. avful mad at me- ye say los
1e ao 60 ts s,sa1Iss ). ' ali right say, MIS-,
.,ar = tones .Ye kin trust me. -
VERY 1n yes sign note ss for YOU ss9s
sas pay fs for bis s and ~ sst s ~ ~
ST., scared sss .ses. i: forty ss,. y Z: IN
thousand. a,% pronis,n' =, @.! Pay % IT. Il r.tner
out av III proceeds; Il, - :. Il slriddy, an
70 van "a day there: :! 't eslr sss' ava!
. oui = Thin there's the o'''
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-04-08

Mrs. Samuel Frake. Of Prospect
Plains, N. j., writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
cannot thank you enough for what Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done
forme. When FIRST wrote to you had suf-
fered for years with what the doctor called
kidr > trouble and congestion of the womb:
suffered SO with that bearing down feeling I
could hardly walk across the room. did NOT
get any better, SO decided to stop doctoring
with my physician and take Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and am thank
ful to say 1t has entirely cured me. do all
my own work, have no more backache and
all the bad symptoms have disappeared.
cannot praise your medicine enough, and
would advise all women suffering with kidney
trouble to try it.
Mrs. J. W. Lang, Of e2e Third Ave.
nue., New York, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
have been great sufferer with kidney
trouble. Ny back ached all the time and
was discouraged / heard that Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound would cnre
kidney disease, and began to take it; and ID
has cured me when everything else had failed.
have recommended 1t to lots OF people and
they al praise it very highly.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing In.
vitatiOn.
Women suffering from kidney
trouble, or any form Of female weak
ness are invited to promptly communi-
cate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn,
Mass. Out of the great volume Of exc
perience which she has to draw from,
It is more than likely she has the very
knowledge that will help your case.
Her advice 10 FREQ and always help
full.
, . Nlawan,s nemeAx fne llnmansa m