The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-12
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

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out huge sign board of this fact.
St. Louis Republic: Illinois is doing pretty well
in the enforcement of its game laws II other States
do not emulate this example we shall have no game
left at all after while.
Columbia State: John Quincy Adams said in
1915: 1.-THE Government of the United States have
no system of diplomatic gradation.' But it now
shave" system of diplomatic degradation.
Columbia State: The New York Time says:
"We can not build the Panama canal with dubbed
labor" This is mean way of poisoning the pub
lie mind against the methods of the administration
Alma News: In the garden of Jack c. Rogers is
pumpkin vine that has fifty 1.-TWO welgrown pump
kins on it-enough to make pies for the family
month. Who says Arkansas not great country.
Arkansas Democrat: Above all, the street-fair
fakrs of the past should never again be allowed
to hold forth in Little Rock. They worse than
pestence and the general public is alive to the
fact The public morals we'll as the public
health should be preserved.
Montgomery Advertiser: Clay, Blount and Coosa
counties have voted for local school taxation by
handsome majortes. This speaks we'll for the
patriotic voters of these counties Very nearly one.
half the counties of Alabama the honor roll.
Kansas City journal: Two McCracken (Kas.)
men went over to La Cross and filled up bottled
dizziness. One tried to tip dumb waiter in
restaurant and the other ran two blocks from
lightning bug, believing it was the headlight of
locomotive.
Coumbia State: Candor compels the admission
that the Republicans have made effective though
silent argument against government control Of rail-
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government affairs, where opportunities are COM
paratively scarce, makes cautious persons fearful
lest while regulating the freight rates, the regula-
tors appropriate the freight-or the railroads.
! st. Louis Republic: That Texans have long
memories is prettiy illustrated in the movement to
found home for negro slaves who were faithful to
their owners during the Civil War. This charity
will take in nearly all the surviving slaves in the
State for in nearly all parts of the South the negroes
during the war went on with their accustomed mode
of life as quietly and contentedy as they had done
before.
! St. Louis Rebublc Missouri produces more
zinc than all the other States combined, and yet
the zinc output brings only half as much money as
the products of Missouri forests. In her native
forests Missouri has that will be wealth
producer for centuries if properly cut to keep up
the succession of growth; besides regulating the
rainfall and otherwise keeping the climate up to the
high Missouri standard of the past
| Norfolk Virginian- Pilot: With community as
with individual health is the one important thing,
/ md no one should be allowed to commit any act,
whether of commission omission, which is certain
to prove detrimental to the public health. Such
.cts are as criminal as any other act against the
public welfare and should be punished as such. No
time should be lost in making them criminal by
statute, and the statute should be rgidly enforced
when enacted.
| Nashville Christian Advocate: Chime own
friend, and thy fathers friend, forsake not, is an
admonition we wish were generally needed. The
reckless way in which people, young people especial
ly, and sometimes those who old enough to know
BETTER sacrifice friendships is horrfying. friend
is the most precious thing on earth. Yet some
through Indifference, others in cold sefshness
or by reason of hasty tempers wreck friendships
that have been more than generation in the max
ing. 1t is both pitiful and shocking.
II Spartanburg Is. CO. Herald: The Spartanbure
Law and Order League is now duly organized. L
for its officers of the most prominent citi
zens of Spartanburg, men whose loyalty Spartan.
ourgs known of all men and to the city
is of that high type that would make of the city
place free of temptations and vices that make fo
e the destruction of the young men, the coming mer
Of Spartanburg. They want the coming men O
I Spartanburg to be clean and pure and free from
faint, physical and moral, and to this end they will
work.
Florence Is CO. Times: We told yesterday of
Florence farmer who is making good pile of money
this year off of sweet potatoes. Last fall we told o
another who had sold wagon load after wagon LOAF
of cabbages at a good profit in the city, and W.
also remember telling you of another who had sole
many hundred dollars worth of pork and sausag
and who had established good paying business 81
that he will have to equip himself with powe
: plant to do this work. From time to time we tel
i you of the things which ought to point out to yo,
ne factthat no man need starve in this country VIII
n is willing to work and who can move his head an,
hands.
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