The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-26
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Sumpter Is. c. News: Sumpter boasts her
The most important line along
which she can progress is schools.
Atlanta Constitution: Now that the~war is over,
it is officially disclosed that Japan captured 1927
Russians, while Russia captured about 1866 Japa-
nese.
Raleigh Christian Advocate: Durham prohibi-
tonists are demonstrating the fact that the law
against the sale of liquor can be enforced as nearly
as is possible in world of sin.
Arkansas Gazette: President Roosevelt said at
Richmond that he now has on his staff the grand
sons Of Gen. Grant, of Gen. Lee and of Gen. Sher-
idan and that it is midding good staff. Mddling
good and good in the middle.
Boston Transcript: Despite Southern competi-
ton, the conditions in New England cotton manu-
featuring are said to be good. The plain fact is
that more and more people the world over are now
wearing clothes, night and day.
ST. Louis Republic: Texas already leads in rail-
road mileage, and some 1900 miles of new line are
building or planning. At this rate it will not be
long before Texas has twice the railroad mileage of
the next best railroad State, which is Illinois.
San Antonio Express: Leslie's Weekly remarks
that it is day of short thngs-short sermons, short
letters, short editorials and short speeches. Yes,
and also of short men and short accounts, but not
of short Investigations short sessions of the Leg
islature.
Ashland Standard: We hope our next Congress
will pass law allowing each State to have the
public land remaining in its territory for the use OF
public schools. We are assured that this will be
done. If it is, Alabama will be greatly benefited
thereby.
| Arcadia Argus: Our Congressman, Judge j. T.
Watkins, favors the passage of the Brownlow bill
for national aid to highway improvement. If the
bill becomes law the Judge will see to it that the
parishes of which his district is composed taken
care Of
Baton Rouge Truth: monument will be erect
ed by white people of Rayville over the grave of
negro named Frank Williams, whose exemplary
conduct through life earned the respect and good
will of the best class of whites. A man is what he
makes of himself.
Sumpter Is. CO. News: To sell cotton now is tc
contribute 1.-THE of your income to the speculator
If the farmers everywhere would hold cotton as
Marion county is doing, they could get what they
pleased for the crop Two bales were sold in Marion
Friday and none since.
st. Louis Republic: That diversfcation of crops
is taking care of itself in the South is again illus
trated by the news that rice culture has been sue.
cessfully started on the Arkansas prairies neal
Little Rock. There are not many parts of thu
Southwest in which thrifty and Industrious mar
cannot grow, from few we'll tended acres, enough
to support his family in comfort.
Darlington Is. c. Era: A law and order organ
ization properly conducted would be most valuable
auxiliary in the effort to ferret out every blind tge
who installs business. The illicit sale of whisk,
can be largely prohibited by organized and per
sistent watchfulness and it is both the privilege ant
; duty of every who loves law and order to keel
these law breakers under its rule.
Aniston (Ala.) Star: Sunday is Gods gift t.
+mankind. That there are some who do not an,
others who cannot rest on that day is misfortun
to them. The more rest one gets on Sunday, tn
better one spends Sunday, the more one sincerel,
worships on Sunday, the easier and better and NOR
satisfactory will be the days that follow until anothe
Sunday; therefore, as business proposition, it i
well to spend Sunday we'll.
Minneapolis Journal: President Dewitt Hyde O
nounced hazing in vigorous manner. He calle
the hazer the greatest coward and most consummat
8 scoundrel on earth. He said hazing was devoid Q
, he asked Bowdoin undergraduates to uphold them
selves as gentlemen and to keep their college clean
: The essential cowardice of the hazer has not bee
:, dwelt upon. Ittakes not only coward, but brute
to be good hazer.
= Referring to the lamentations of the Picayun
because theFquarantines in this State have not bee
conducted to suit that paper, regardless of the pub
. lie health, the Shreveport Caucasian well says
NJ .~,. IL
New Orleans is that they imagine or assume tina
New Orleans is the whole State to whom alleganc
is due and that it is disoyal for any one to exercs
his personal freedom of action and of thought whic
! may not respond to the Picayune's view of com
mercia interest," of humanity or of sane or insan
quarantine"
), Cherokee Is. CO. News: Did you ever stop
think when you haul your cotton to market and &c