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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

By unanimous vote the House of Representa-
tive has passed bill to pension Edmund G. Ross,
former United States Senator from Kansas, who
cast the deciding vote for acquittal in the trial of
Andrew johnson. Although Republican, Ross
was severely punished by the Jayhawker State for
supporting the President in defiance of popular
clamor. He lost his seat in the Senate. His news
paper property ruined. He was ostracised by
his constituents, and was finally driven from Kan
sas. For the last ten years he has kept soul and
body together by setting type in country printing
offices in New Mexico and now, at the age of 80, he
is practically incapacity for earning his living. In
voting him penson, although it may be illegal to
do so, Congress will make tardy reparation for
the vengeance that political hate and prescription
has wreaked upon him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
FROM OVER THE STATE.

Louisiana is to experiment extensively in the
raising of Hereford cattle for Northern markets.
Senator Murphy j. Foster, of this State, will ac-
company Secretary of War Taft and party to the
Philippines this summer.
The Louisiana Sunday School Convention con-
cluded its three days. session at Shreveport last
Thursday night. selecting Alexandria the next
place of meeting.
Handy Williams, son of Mayor J. l.. Williams,
was shot and killed at Mansfield by Douglas Thig-
pen, who claimed that Williams cheated him out of
a dollar in a card game
Major General A. B. Booth, commanding the
Louisiana Division, U. G. ", has appointed Miss
Marie Celeste Eshleman sponsor and Miss Louise
Hays Mix as chief maid of honor for the reunion to
be held at Louisville beginning June 18th.
The right of way is being secured for railroad
to be built by the Texas and Pacific along the Atch
afalaya River, from Melville to Simmsport dis
lance of about twenty three miles, BY filling in
this gap the T. and P. will have line of road from
Bunke to Marksville and Smmsport, connecting
their Avoyelles tap with the main line of the T. and
P. at Bunkie and Melville.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Millinery Department.
Millinery talk is good talk when
"the goods are the 'sreal thing" and
not too high. What we are doing to
Hats is plenty.
Ladies Black Chiffon Hats, in all
styles, sell
.-...s3.5O, $3.50 and $50
Ladies' Chiffon Hats, in red, pink,
blue and green,
choice ...-................. 1888 and $3.50
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
Underwear Department.

Don't stop till you see what we are
doing to Ladies', Misses and Chill
dren's Underwear. Not again in
many moons will you see such a
slaughter of fine Underwear. Every
thing in the stock is marked down
for quick selling.
Big lot of Ladies' and Misses
Union Suits, choice 38c and 25c
Childrens' Vests and Pants, these
are samples, choice,
per garment . Csc, 15c and 10c
Infants wool and fleece lined
Vests, choice. .25c and 15c
Boys Shirts and Pants,
choice ............-...25 and t5c
Bingham Aprons ..-.-,....-.--.......... Zoe
Bingham Bonnets ...-.-....-...--.-.--. Soc
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
THE LAST WORDS OF sToNEwALL JACKSON.
BY MRS. J. WILLIAM JONES.

BY MRS. J. WILLIAM JONES.
Brilliant, complete, but how brief
Were the chvarous deeds of the worlds great chief!
But crowded within that little span
Were records of glory scarce known to man.
Two continents watched with wonder and awe
AS he sprang, full-armed, from the god of war;
That quiet Professor, unknown to the world,
This offspring Of thunder was suddenly hurled.
Into the arena, with God as his guide,
He fearlessly charged the great odds he dehed;
And victory followed that old coat of gray
Till furrowed by bullets that ll-fated day.
On Sunday he heard that the end was SO near,
When calmly he said, without tremor or fear:
81 have always wanted to die on this day."
So the way OF his Father was Stonewall's way.
With feverish brain he's soldier still
Crisp orders he sends to A. p. Hill.
The fire of battle burns in his eyes
A warrior grand, though he lowly lies.
The soldier grows weary, the camp is in sight,
His countenance beams with celestial light
j" Let us cross over"-into heaven he $685.
1.-THE river and rest meath the shade Of the trees
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
The Most Dangerous Enemy.

General Stonewall Jackson's opinion of the use
of intoxicating liquors is forcibly illustrated by
the following from Capt. David Humphreys in his
admirable little book, Heroes and Spies of the
the Civil War"
"After General jackson with sixteen thousand
men, inclusive of General Stuarts cavalry and the
horse artillery, had captured Manassas in the rear
of Gen. Pope, which took place at daybreak after
long forced march, received an order from Col.
Dulaney to report with one hundred men to General
Stuart, and was informed by adjutant that Gen.
Jackson had sent order to Gen. Stuart asking for
an Officer who did not use liquor at ALL General
Stuart sent the order to brigadier who sent it
to Col. Dulaney. He named me in his order, and if
the same requirement had been exacted as to the
men of the DETAIL it could not have been obeyed, as
very few soldiers declined liquor if showed at them.
81 called out the men; found out where General
jackson was and told him why came.
"sDo you ever use iquor?' he asked.
"'No,' answered.
s'sNot under any circumstances?' he asked.
81 answered that if to keep sober was what he
wanted, could fill the bill. He mounted, told me
to follow him, and rode few hundred yards from
where his staff huddled around the fire, then
halted and pointed to large warehouse saying:
You that large building? In tits stored very
large quantity of liquors. You take your command
there, take as many of the prisoners you need;
make them roll barrels of bread down to that point
of the railroad crossing, so that my men get
bread, and then destroy every drop of the liquor
No man is to have particle; this order is of the
FIRST importance, as fear that liquor more than
General Pope army
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
MEMS ODD PANTS.

MEMS ODD PANTS.
Mems wool Pants, So and $3.50
values, choice ...-..................S1 so
Mems fine worsted Pants, So and
$3.50 values, choice .-..........--- $3.50
Mems worsted Pants, the newest pat
terms, S. and $3.50 ones,
choice .....-..... ...... . $3.50
Mems fine wool Pants, 81 and
$3.50 grades, choice. $3.98
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

The Gateway Magazine, new monthly magazine
of "a pages will be issued, April /, from the Office
of Seabury Bigelow, at Livingston, Montana.
The publishers announce distribution of 500 art
pictures, suitable for framing to the first 500 per-
sending them yearly subscriptions at the special
I price of ST.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
OUR SHOE BARGAINS

Talk of the Town.
Regal Shoe-Such a bargain never
was known before. All toes, black
and tan feathers, lace and congress,
sold in their stores for $3.50 n1 90
and 81, on sale at......-..-.~ P1.JO
Counter of Boys Shoes, patent kid,
a regular Dress Shoe, sizes a. RI
~ to 81, per pair ---..-.. PI.0U
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Memphis Commercial Appeal: There is crop
of sixty five Grand Dukes in Russia, and according
to French paper their revenue, exempt from tax
alton, amounts to $1,000, OOO,O OO Think of these
vampires getting such sum, while the great mass
of the Russian people have barely enough to eat.
The Grand Dukes ought to be conhscated.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Do the Chinese spell our names as ignorantly as
we spell theirs?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
Clothing Department.

What do you think of this?
During the great Clothing business
in our history, have all the boys COM
ing our way, from the "a to 81 inch
waist. They look US up first.
That big stock Of highly tailored
Clothing,
prices. SIS, $3.50, $40 and S.
Mems Melton Overcoats, the sis
kind, o. -
choice .....-............ ................ J .OU
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
SPECIALS
In Wash Fabrics.

5000 yards of Figured Lawns
5000 Remnants of Colored Lawns
some worth 1211lc and 15c,
Monday, per yard -.---.-...--.-. DC
1900 yards of Dotted Swiss in short
lengths, Csc and 35c quality,
for .....-................... 121sc
5000 yards of Plain and Fancy
Voiles, fast colors,
per yard ......-.... 1Oc
5000 yards of best English Long
Cloth in short lengths, some worth
15c and Zoe, Monday,
per yard 1Oc
40-inch White India Linon, the Zoe
quality, special for
Monday ....,.-......... &c
40-inch White India Linon, t5c
quality, Monday for ....- Zoe
36-inch Linon Lawn, SOC quail
ity, for acknowledgements. Csc
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Housefurnishing Department.
3x7 Opaque Window Shades, all col
ors, best grade spring rollers,
for Pic, 3Sc and Soc
Brass Extension Teleseoped
Sash Rods. ....... Toe
White Curtain Poles, fixtures
complete ...........-.....-............- 1Oc
Drapery Swiss, small and large
dots, ,........-......-. TIC and 81sc
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
Corset Proposition.

VOTOCC = IOpOS1UIOus
Good comfortable Corsets are the
make we sell. Made not like sad
die, but for comfort and grace Of
women.
w, B. Corsets, high bust, long hips,
in different styles,
choice .........-..........-S1.5O and S1.OO
Warmers Rust Proof Corsets,
all styles 80, 81 and 50c
Queen Regent, short hip and
low bust .......S1.5 81 and 81. OO
Just received a lot of Girdles, also a
lot of tape girdles,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Ladies' Shoes.
Counter No. 1-Choice of Ladies'
Sample Shoes, sold regularly for
$3.50 and So,
choice ..- ,.......... -.-..........-.-.-. 81 .5O
Counter No. 2 Choice 800 pairs
Children's Black Lace Shoes, sizes
8 to II, sold regularly for $3.50,
choice .......... S1.00
Counter No. 4 -Choice of one lot
Box Calf School Shoes for
Children, choice. 75c
Counter No. 800 pairs Hamilton
Brown Children's Shoes,
special 5Oc
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Linen Department.
17-inch bleached Roller Towel
ing, red border, for. Be
Red Table Damask, the 25c kind,
for ...-.......-...--.. announcement, 1sc
Bleached Table Damask, the CSC
kind, for ........ 25c
100 doz. Is Sc Honeycomb Tow
els, red and blue border, for, &c
Saline Pillow Tops, size 20x2O,
special .-,.....,..-............. SC
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Hammering down prices in
Bags and Purses.
Big assortment Of Ladies' Bags and
Purses on sale
at. ......,-......,3 Csc, 25c and t5c
One lot of Ladies' Belts, some made
of silk, some leather,
choice. 25c and 15c
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Hats and Caps.
Big lot of Mems Sample Hats, some
swell shapes in this lot,
One counter of Mems Sample
Hats, choice --...................50s
Mems and Boys Scotch and
Serge Caps, choice Sic and DC
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30

Monday Specials in
Black WOOlens.
26-inch Henrietta, regular price
4Oc, ..-.-,.---.25c
38-inch black Henrietta, the Soc
quality, for-..-.-..-.---,,-. ------,,.---.---3oc
52-inch black Sicilian, worth 81,
special for .-..,....-.. -.......-...-....-.59c
36-inch black Batiste, regular
price Csc, for. ...-- 48c
36-inch black Granite
Tor -........-. .------....-------.-.-- -...--10c
48-inch all wool black Voiles and silk
warp Eolienne; our regular price
is $50; Monday
44-inch all WOOL black Serge, reg
ular price 75c, for ................... Soc
Monday Specials in
Our Silk Department.
36-inch guaranteed black Taffeta,
ST quality, for.---.-...-....-..-,-.,-..75 Toe
19-inch Taffeta, all colors, the Soc
] quality, only
, 24-inch White Wash Silk, the 75c
quality, for .-.-..--- 339c
.. 19-inch black Taffeta, the 65c quail
ity, special for
] Monday ..-.....-.....-..-...--. 39c
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-30
Staple Department.

Staple Department..
1900 yards of unbleached Domestic.
36 inches wide, per
36-inch Percale. light and dark
colors, per yard .-..-........ .-..-.81Sc
1Oc kind Shifting Cheviots, stripes
and solid colors,
per yard . .,...--.:-.... -. ..----..81Sc
! case Dress and Apron Bingham,
the Size kind,
per yard .--..,.....-..-...--.,.. ...-,--... SC
liza Pepperell Sheeting, un-
bleached, per yard 18c
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24
INDIAN JUGGLERY.

Here Is a tale of Indian jugg1ery. The trick described is new to me, and is given on the best authority, in a letter from India:
 'March 15, 19O5
 1T tell 1t as it was told to me the day after. Witnesses-Mr. s. S., Ms. ditto, three English girls from fourteen to eleven, American dentist called Durand, and half a hundred villagers. Locate-a roadside in Saugor. s. s. says:
 { Yesterday we were all marching in from Khimlasa when we passed a v,l- lage, and on the roadside a juggler was resting. We said to him.. "Juggle!p and he did the finest trick I've ever seen on the bare maiaen. We stood within six feet of him, all round him; all the time, and he was half naked. He took a rudely carved little boat, empty and unlocked, about inches by A inches, with one thwart across it With hole for mast. We all examined this boat, and handed it round. It was empty. He then stuck a thin bamboo stick about two feet long in the bole, and then took a cocoanut and handed 1t round. This cocoanut. was empty, with three holes in it.. It was small one. and we all saw and felt it was empty He then stuck the nut on the bamboo, and stuck a little bamboo spout in one hole of the nut, and stood five yards off, and said, Spout And 1t spouted water like o'clock, for a long time He said. Stop and it stopped; Spout" and it sprouted. Tt spouted much more water than could ever have been in the nut or boat. ] When it stopped and the man was go- ing Durland said. 'You can't get an other drop out of it now" So the old man called for one of Mrs. s. s. break fast cups, put it under the sput, went away as before, said, "spouts," and it filled the cup over the brim. All the time the old man, who had monkeys s skull with him kept on saying, Ban dar ka korpra" (''monkeys skull') over and over again -'
 T asked them if the ground was wet with the overflow, and the S. SIS said Yes, but one of the little girls. No, . looks very fishy."--Andrew Lang ir Longman's Magazine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24

.
 twenty carpet, let us say. she must go on and weave at least two yards more, because it will shrink that much. or even two yards and half. Having been stretched at high tension on the loom, 1t contracts when lit is taken off, so that Mrs. Baldwin must, as a matter of fact, produce a tcarpet twenty-seven or twenty seven and a haIf yeards long. to satisfy a customer who has ordered twenty-five
 yards. Unusually the warp is of black finished 8 hit-or-miss pattern, in which the strands are alternately or lange and black This is considered by those who know all the ins and outs of Irag-carpet schemes. very effective ieombination It would be just the
 thing for Princeton students room.
 Mrs. Baldwin's house is q modest one
 on hillside, few hundred yards from
 the whirring trolly that connects Wes-
 terly with the villages to the westward.
 There was a mass of cherry blossoms
 lover the little house the other day when
 a Sunday Journal writer called, and in
 the front yard great bush of flower ling quince outdid the colors of the
 wood and field Inside the house the
 ponderous machine kept up it's indus
 trious chatter. chatter, telling the old lstory of arduous toll in humdrum cir lcumstances and yet weaving a pattern las gay and bright as tho spring world jout of doors. Providence Journal. l
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24
S8 s#5#s 5s5a
 RHODE ISLAND RAG CARPETS.

N Two generations ago the household loom was a familiar sight in New Eng Hand. but it is seldom in these days that one can anywhere be found. Yet occasionally a ragcarpet loom may be discovered In some rural neighborhood still in active use.
 Such is the case at Wequetequock, a fsnlall Village not far from Westerly, in which at least two looms are now employed. One is owned by Mrs. Boss, and the other is the property of Mrs William R. Baldwin. Mrs. Baldwin is far actoive producer of fine rag carpet, and so popular has the produce of her industry become, that she has found a market far and wide. She sends some of her variegated work to Rhode Is- Hand customers, but most of 1t goes to purchasers on the Connecticut side of Ithe line, to Willimantic, Norwich, New | London, and other places
 This loom,'' said Mrs. Baldwin, in describing her work, belonged to my
 Husbands mother when she was a
 young woman and wove for factory.
 She's in her ninety-seventh year now,
 So you see it must be pretty old. She lwoVe on it as long as she was able, and then she gave it to me, and I've been
 usfng it for thirty years"
 Thirty-years of rag-carpet weaving
 on a loom of primeval type That signi- fies great industry, painful labor, and
 an intimate patience that is not cast
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24

and of late years there has grown up men who deal in specialties.
 Only the fences that handle plum der of all sorts are operated under the guise of junck shops. The fence men who deal in a special line of plunder conduct their business. more often lthan not, in flats in reputable apart ments houses.
 Some astonishing finds have been made by the police in raids upon sus- peeted flats, but the character of the finds did not astonish the police half as much as the revelation of the char acter of the fiat occupants amazed their fellow tenants. , One of the raided and and pinched fence men had been posing among the other fiatters, with whom his wife and daughters had been on the chummiest terms, as broker. The other women in the fiat had for a long time been envying the brokers wife and daugh- ters their magnificent jewels and furs -especially furs. :-.e, -
 This man had been suspected by the detectives of unwisely holding out on them, and when they swooped down up- lon his luxurious flat they sprung thousands of dollars worth of furs which he had succeeded in keeping un- der cover. He was fur specialist, and he had. of course. got the furs from the thieves at the merest fraction of their value. .-.... <,...s.a .s.
 There are quite number of wo- men proprietors of fences in this town but they do not enjoy the same im- munity as a rule as is shared by the men who follow the business. This has an answer, too. ....-... .-s ...-s.s.s s.. The women fence proprietors, are far less disposed to deal on the leyel with the police when their plants are searched, Every little while some fence run by woman is raided il New York, and on these occasions. too lthe naighbors in the flat houses come , in for startling shocks.
 Some of the women who follow the business run fences under the mask iof dressmaking establishments. The women fence proprietors, as rule dea lenly with women thieves, mostly witt shoplifters, dishonest female servant: and the like: ;,5, ~
 ''Thieving doesn't pay as it used to | and a lot of the old timers are might.
 bitter about it, too. In the old day l the thief could take this sWag to {
 paWnshop and, get the regular one
 third or even one-half loan on it tha is made folks with, legitimate goods t
 pledge. Now he has to duck the pawn
 shops altogether, and the fence mel screw him down to the merest chickei feed in diekering for oot."-New Eorl Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24
Local weather Report.
Brief Mention.
High water to-day, 5:o1 p. m.

High water to-day, 5:o1 p. m. s
 Harper's Magazine for July at the Pease. Lewis Co.'S; also the July Me- Clure's.
 Judge Hobart L. Hotchkiss starts to- day for European trip of two months. 5t1} @
 Mrs. Laurens Lenox gave a lawn whist party at her home on Willard street yesterday afternoon.
 Rev. MT. scovill of Trinity church has taken Mrs. E. W. Cooper's house on Whalley avenue and with his family will occupy it during the summer
 Levi Lauber, a veteran tobacconist of 776 Grand avenue. is critically i'll at his home having been stricket with apo plexy Wednesday night. MT. Lauber is the father of Goodrich Lauber, a to- bacconist on Chapel street. { ' To-day the Connecticut PomologicaI society will hold a field meeting at Hamden Plains to view the strawberry fields and garden crops in the vicinity which are in fine condition this season. A basket lunch will be served at noon at the ladies aid society at the chapel of Hamden Plains church.
 Last evening at the home of the { bride in Northampton, Mass. Dr. Charles Lester Curtiss of Manchester, N. H., son of MT. and Mrs. Myron w. Curtiss of Whalley avenue, was united in marriage to Miss Lota Norton, daughter of MT. and Mrs. William P. Clancy. Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss left on Thursday to be present,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24
NOT DISSATISFIED.
The College Girl at Home and Her

The College Girl at Home and Her
 Occupations There.
 It has been objected that the inde- pendence and exhilaration Of college. the association with culture and wealth render a girl dissatisfied with her Thome, writes a Smith College student. There is some truth in this. but it has been over emphasized, and the other side of the medal needs to be looked at. A girl does not truly appreciate her home until she sees it in perspective. From childhood she has accepted it just as it is. with no thought or re- sponsibility or effort. The love and care was as much a matter of course as the three meals day or the pictures in the parlor, and while she is not always satisfied. she has no definite idea of improvement.
 College opens her eyes more or less perceptibly. She discovers other ideas and ideals than the ones she has known and other ways of doing things. In visiting her college friends, many wide ly different homes are seen, and furnish distinct standards with which to com 1 pare her own home life.
 Naturally on her return she looks at her surroundings with differing eyes but her comparison is more an appre- citation. If college has taught her any thing, it has taught her personal re- | sponsibility and the recognition that a I home is not something final and un- alterable, but an elastic environment that changes with every change of in- dividual relations and atmospheres That the clear-eyed graduate sees much to alter is only another way of saying that we are none of us perfect, after all. But 1t is just here that her great est danger turks for it is at once the folly and the glory of youth that ii rushes too readily to reform.
 , would urge the girl graduate tC walk softly in the paths of her home duties. Do not snap at the fathers table manners, nor make proof simple Bridget wear a cap. Your academic Eyears have surely fitted wou for deepel things. If your ways are better ant your insight quicker and keener, do no
 proclaim 1t with shrill voice and un lovely emphasis. Remember that the cluttering ornaments that seem so un. ornamental and tawdry to you have Egrown beautiful in association to ths
 hands that placed them there. Littl
 by little, you can make for simplicit! If it be needed, but no beauty in deco lratioa is worth pain to the sensitive
 home hearts-Good Housekeeping.