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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23
-~kLkED IN THE TRENCHES

BYA KENTUCKY GIRL.
rebel soldier killed in the trenches before Petersburg
a., April Is, 1865"
"Killed in the trenohes!" How cold and bare
The inscription graved on the white card there
IT'S photograph, taken last spring, they say,
Ere the smoke of battle had cleared.away-
OF a rebel soldier-ust as he fell,
When his heart was pierced by Union shell;
And his image was stamped by the sunbeam's ray,
AS he lay in the trenches that April day.
Oh Godl Oh Godl How my woman's heart
Thrills with quick convulsive pain,
AS view unroled by the magic of Art,
One dreadful scene from the battlez plain:-
White as the foam from the storm-t tossed wave,
Lone the rocks those pillows lave
Gray sky above-cold clay beneath
A gallant form lies stretched in DEATH
With his calm face fresh on the trampled clay,
And the brave hands clasped DER the manly breast
Save the sanguine stains on his jacket gray,
We might deem him taking soldiers rest
All no! Too red is that crimson tide
Too deeply pierced that wounded side;
Youth, hope, love, glory-manhood's pride
.Hava.all in vain Deaths bolt dehed.
His faithful carbine lies useless there,
Asitdropped from it's master'snerveless ward:
And the sunbeams glance on@his waving hair
Which the fallen cap has ceased to guard
Oh Heaven! spread DER it thy merciful shield,
No more to my sight be the battle revealed!
4Oh fercer than tempest grim Hades as dread
>On .voman's eyes flashes the field Of the dead!
The sceReis changed: In a quietroom,
Far from the spot where the lone corpse lies,
A mother kneels in the evening gloom
To offer her nightly sacrifice,
The noon is past, and the day is done,
She knows that the battle is lost or won
Who lives? Who died? Hush! be thou still!
The boy lies dead on the trench barred hill
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

The Commercial Journal, published by Dupre
Brethers at Thibodaux, has entered uponlts second
year. It labors earnestly to promote the best in
tegests of one of the most hourishing and rapidly
growing towns in Louisiana.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

With territory about as large as Maryland and
q population of 100000, Belgium ranks fourth
among the commercial nations of the world.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

Yes, we've had some winter, but the Oldest In
he bitant can still tell you of years when folks had
much more winter than we have had.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

The representative farmers OF Bosser parish are
determined to do everything in their power to re-
duce the acreage of cotton in this parish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Twenty men were killed by the explosion OF an
oil barge at Baku, Russia.
Iowa provides q school teacher when only three
pupils can be got together.
The ice gorge in the Ohio river at Cincinnati last
week was 100 miles in length.
w. D. Hardwood dropped dead on the streets OF
Liberty, Miss, last Thursday.
Wade Powell was drowned while trying to cross
a swollen stream near Mt. Olive, Miss.
In fight with Turks at Kuklitch, the Bulgarians
lost twenty men and the village was burned.
The Standard Oil properties have yielded profit
of S348, 900 600 to stockholders in nine years.
The severest storm in years was reported
in the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Saturday.
Mrs. Sarah Bowling burned to death as the result
ofan accident near Woodville Miss, last Thursday
Persons are killed at the rate of for every day
lin the year in the New York city streets by vehicles
Exports from the United States to Cuba in 1904
show an increase of 1873 per cent exports for
1903.
Twenty five factories in LODI, Poland, agreed
last Thursday to close down indefinitely. About
40, 1000 men were dismissed.
Grand Duke Sergius, who was responsible for
the troops firing on workmen at st. Petersburg re-
Gently, was assasinated at Moscow Friday.
The House Committee on Military Affairs voted to
return to Confederate States the Confederate flags
now in the custody of the War Department.
Four men were killed and fourteen more or less
seriously injured last Thursday by an explosion on
British submarine boat near Queenstown, Ireland.
Gen. Lew Wallace, author of "Ben Hur" and
several other volumes, time Governor of the
Territory of New Mexico, Minister to Turkey and
veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, died at
his home in Charlottesville Indiana, on the night OF
the 10Th instant, aged 78 years. General Wallace
commanded division at Fort Donelson and Shiloh
under Gen. Grant in 1862 prepared the defenses at
Cincinnati and resisted the advance of the Confed-
crates under Gen. E. Kirby Smith in 1868, and when
Gen. Jubal A. Early advanced on Washington Gen
Wallace opposed him at the battle of Monocacy,
Maryland, July 8, 1854.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

The Nile is AGO miles long, and it is the longest
river in the world.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

Homestead Entry No. 1922.
Department of the Interior,
Land Office at Natchitoches, La,
February is, 1861
NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
IN lowing named settler has filed no.
tice Of his intention to make final proof
in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Register
and Receiver, at Natchitoches, La, on
April 4, 1905, viz:
Homestead Entry No. 7s22-Charles T.
Floyd, of Emma, Ea.-for the So OF
ne14, sec. II, tp. q north, range II west,
La. Mer.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz:
S. P. johnson, Jud Logan, Charley "A.
Anderson, Jr., and Luther Cole, all OF
Emma, La.
j. ERNEST BREDA, Register.
February %, 1905. mar 50
Homestead Entry No..812G.
Department of the Interior, I
Land Office at Natchitoches, La,
February is, 1905.
nNIOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
EN lowing named settler has filed no
tice Of his intention to make final proof
in support Of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Register
and Receiver, at Natchitoches, La, on
April 5, 1905, viz:
Homestead Entry No. 1925 Whit
jackson, of Emma, La.-for the nw4 OF
sell, sec. 81, tp. % north, range II west,
La. Mer.
He names the following ,witnesse to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation Of said lant, VIZ:
Charley Harris, Wesley Thomas, Dan
Alexander and w. F. Mcclellan, all OF
Emma, fla.
j. ERNEST BREDA, Register.
February %, 1905. mar 80
Homestead Entry No. 9663.
Department of the Interior, !
Land Office at Natchitoches, La,
February Is, 1905. J
NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
~ lowing named settler has filed no.
tice of his Intention to make final PROOF
in support of his claim, and that sale
proof will be made before the Register
and Receiver, at Natchitoches, La, or
April 8, 1905, viz:
Homestead Entry No. 1868 Calvin
Walker, of Allentown; La.-for the ne]44
sec. 20, tp. 10 north, range II west, La
Mer.
He names the following witnesses t.
prove his continuous residence upon ant
tcultivation of said land, viz:
c.. L. Taylor, Young Mckinney, E. B
Harrell and Andrew Jackson, all O
Allentown, La.
]. ERNEST BREDA, Register.
February %, 1905. mar 80
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

New Orleans Picayune: There are growing up
two antagonistic although similar, political forces
in this country. One is imperialistic socialism or
paternalism. The other is communistic. or mob So
cialism Both are equally thefoes Of individualsm,
of Democratic citizenship sovereignty. Between
these two must stand the Democratic party to
the country from either or both of the radical, au
tocratic and mobocratc forces.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23
Advertising
THERE ARE TWO WAYS
to advertise--in reliable
y neWSnanerS and the other

THERE ARE TWO WAYS
to advertise-in reliable
newspapers and the other
way. The best way and the way
to be assured Of results is through
the columns of the above-the-
average country weekly. A dollar
spent in such "a way brings ten
times the results it would if spent
in advertising in a daily news
paper. Why?
4 Because the daily's rates are
usually from twice to four times
that Of the weekly.
4 Because the daily is the paper
of day, while the weekly is read
(by each member of the family
from the day of it's publication
until Sunday night and then care
fully laid away. for. reference.
4 Because the columns of the
daily belittle its customers, read
ers and friends, while the weekly
extols them.
Il Because the city editor is a
stranger in the midst of his read
ers, while the country editor is
one Of his community-he mixes
and mingles with his readers and
knows them all.
Because readers have learned to
discredit much that appears in the
sensational daily, while they have
the same faith in the country
weekly that they do. in their best
friends.
7 There are other good "reasens
why" but space forbids.
! I Weca especial attention to our
OPEN-SPAcE CONTRACT
which permits OF the annual ad-
} vertiser using as many or as few
inches of space as he likes in any
particular issue. In other words,
: large. ad. can be run when the
) advertiser feels so inclined and
smaller. one at other times. No
, additional charge is made for
J composition type setting) except
when changes are made oftener
than once a month.
5 The Banner
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

n O. Item: If Arizona will give bond to elect
two Republican United States Senators, she will be
given cordial invitation to join the sisterhood of
States. There is no sentiment in practical politics.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-23

Atlanta Constitutions The ground hog went
hack in his hole. Would that the railroad car hog
would emulate him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26
Piles IA Years
Terrible Case Cured Painlessly With
Only One Treatment of Pyra-
mid Pile Cure.
Free Package in Plain Wrapper
Mailed to Everyose Who Writes,

Il have been a terrible sufferer of
all this time YOU can have an idea or
how many kinds OF medicine L tried But
/ found 80 relief that could cure me
without having to undergo an operation
which might Kill me.
Now, after trying but one treatment
of your Pyramids, I am free, free to tell
all sufferers of this dreadful disease to
Try this medicine-the Pyramid Pile Cure.
IL will cure when all others fail. Sim
cerely yours, George Braneigh, Schell-
burg, Pa.
Anyone suffering from the terrible tor
tCre. burning and itching OF piles. will
send out free. at our own expense, in
plain sealed package, 10 everyone sending
name and address.
Surgical operation Tor piles is suicide,
cruel unnecessary and rarely a perma-
nent success. Here you can get a treat
meuI that is quick, easy TO apply and in
expensive. and free from the publicity
and humiliation you suffer by doctors
examination.
Pyramid Pile Cure is made in the form
OF easy 10 use supposiLOrles. The
begin TO use II, and your suffering ends.
Send your name and address at once TO
Pyramid Drug Co, 921G Pyramid building.
Marshall, Mich, and get, by return mail.
The treatment We VIII send you free, IN
plain. sealed wrapper.
After seeing for yourself what IL can
do, you cdn get q regular full-Size pack
age OF Pyramid Pile Cure from any drug
gist at 30 cents each, or on receipt Of
price, We viii mail you same ourselves
Il he should not have Il.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26
CLEWS THAT SOLVED
MYSTERIOUS CRIMES
CT. P. O'Connor. N F., in Chicago
Tribune.)

CT. p. OConnor. NJ. F., in Chicago
Tribune.)
One recent murder mystery reminds
me of a case that made an immense
sensation in France three years after
Waterloo. In the year 1918 a NJ. Mar
tin, receiver of taxes at Bilguy, was
murdered ON the high road and at mid
day-shot through the heart--While re-
turning TO his home. The motive for
the crime was obviously robbery, as NJ.
Martins purse, his watch and his ring
were carried of by his ASA ssin.
Though the murder was committed on
the public highway and in broad day
light, no one witnessed the crime, heard
the shot or noticed in the neighbOrhood
any suspicious stranger.
After the most exhaustive investiga-
tiOn only a slight single and singular
ciew was discovered bv the police. Part
of the Paper waddinS with which the
charge of the gun had been rammed
down was found i'm the wound, a kind
of palimpsest stained on the surface,
with blood and beneath with powder;
but underneath these stains some writ
ing was discerned OF a curiOusly tech-
nical character. Under the date of
1908 words and phrases which were
used only in glass manufacture became
legible Armed with this little bit of
blackened and blood-stained paper, the
police interviewed the proprietor OF a
Bilguy glass factory and begged to b.
allowed 10 inspect his books. Under
date Of 1903 they found an entry of
the delivery of some glass. of which the
fragment of wadding was a scrap of
the invoice. This suggested to the de-
tectives a suspicion of the sOn-in-law of
the proprietor. who had been for ten
years out of the country Search was
made for him and he was found on
his knees in prayer When arrested he
not only confessed the crime but
showed the officers the missing watch
and ring.
II is curious TO find similar case re-
ported thus in Lord Eldon's "Anee-
dote Book" Il remember a. one case
where ! was counsel for a long time
the evidence did not appear to touch
the prisoner at all, and he looked about
him with the most perfect unconcern,
seeming to think himself quite safe.
At last the surgeon vas called, who
stated that the deceased had been
killed by shot. Il gunshot in the head
and he produced the matted hair and
stuff cut from and taken out OF the
wound II was all hardened with blood
A basin of warm water was brought
into court. and as the blood was grad
ually softened d piece of printed pa
per appeared-the wadding OF the gun
which proved 70 be the half Of =
ballad. The other half had been found
in the man 3 pocket when he was TAX
en- He was hanged
Here is another odd case Of unlocked
for conviction: I remember one man
taken up twelve years after the murder
he had committed. He had made his
escape and though every search was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26
Assessment No. 16.

THE SILVER SHIELD MINING u
Milling company, principal place of busi-
ness Salt Lake City. Utah. Notice IS
hereby given that at q meeting of the
board of directors of the above named
company. held on the 18th day OF De-
cember. 1906, assessment No. To- Of cents
per share. was levied on the capital stock
Immediately tc T. III. Mead secretary, al
5l4 Mccormick building, Salt Lake City,
Utah Any stock upon which this as
sessment may remain unpaid on Saturday
Jan. l3, 1906, viii be delinquent and ad-
vertised for sale at public auction, and.
Unless payment is made before, viii be
sold on Monday, Jan. -, 1906. at 10 a. M.
at the office OF the assistant secretary,
81 Mccormick building, Salt Lake City,
Utah. to pay the delinquent assessment
together with cost of advertising aud ex-
penses of sale. F.. H. MEAD,
Secretary.
81 Mccormick Building Salt Lake City
I Jan
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26

made he could not be found. Twelve
years afterward the brother of the muir
dered man was at liverpool in a public
house. He fen asleep and was aWak-
ened by some one picking his pocket;
he started, sxclaimins. Good God.
The man that killed my brother twelve
years agot" The murderer had en-
listed as a soldier and gone to India
Immediately after the deed was COM
mitted, and he had just landed at Liv-
erpool on his return, When the first act
was TO pick the pocket of the brother
nishing meals for about 1900 track Ia
years before
Scotland Yard would no doubt scorn
TO take Sir Conan Doyle into its coun-
sells as an American detective consult
ed X. l.. Stevenson. Arthur tombstone.
IN his Stevenson in the Pacific" tells
the striking tale. As they sat together
one evening III the veranda of an inn
at Waikiki the detective confded 10
Stevenson a case of extreme difficulty
he had IL hand. and also his theory of
its solution. As Stevenson hardly
seemed to attend, for he sat looking
dreamily at the seq. the detective left
him TO have a chat with the more re-
sponsive landlord. on his return to the
Yeranda. however. Stevenson suddenly
solved that riddle of yours. You see.
it's just like writing a story. If you
so at it right, It viii work out all
right. Now. your theory does not do
at ali, because ii will never work out.
Let me give you my theory Of the case,
and then tell me what you think Of
it. The detective did not at first think
anything Of Stevenson's theory OF the
case. IL was daring. even for a the
DRY, and dangerous 10 work If It did
not happen 10 come off. But on think
ing il wen over, with Stevenson's shin
ing eyes fixed intently on his face, the
Professional beean 10 believe there was
something in it. When Stevenson at
last asked. tFiumphantly, 'Well?" he
replied: We'll sir, / shall try your the
Dry. but if it don win you and ] win
lose between us the 81 900 fee l am TO
be paid for a conviction" At this
Stevenson laughed and said: ''Sir, if
IL doesn't win I will pay you the 81 600
and throw you the theory for nothing"
But it won.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26
A KANSAS BEAN STORY.
a Travellers Method of Getting Even
With Tom" Grier.
Topeka Correspondence Kansas City
starr

Topeka Correspondence Kansas City
starr
John o. Crockett, who until yester-
day was general superintendent Of the
southwestern division of the Chicago,
Rock Island q Pacific railway. tells
this story about Tom Grier. which
is worth repeating. Mr.. Grier is assoc
Ciated with his brother. John j. Grler
who has the general contract for Eur-
of the man he had murdered twelve
borers now employed on the various
lines of the Rock Island system. He
also has several eating houses. one Of
which is in GOOdland Some time ago
Tom Grier was i'm charge of he
Goodland house. 1t was the time when
the Shriners were having q large con-
clave in one of the large western Ci;i les
All the trains stopped in GoOdland for
meals. As each person passed out 70
cents was collected. IN one of the
crowds was a man who when he came
10 The cashiers desk objected 20 the
charge of six bits" saying that lee
was able 10 get only a plate of beans.
Tom" GVier, with his customary
pOliteness. explained that the man was
unfortunate, but that the rule of 20
cents a meal could not be broken, as it
might lead to all kinds Of cOmDlica-
tiOns with other passengers. The man
paid the price Of the meal without fur
Their comment.
In a few days Grier received a tele-
gram from salt Lake City collect" It
was from the plate-of-beans man. 1t
read
81 think YOU charged me too much
for those beans"
Tom" paid the charges and re-
lieved his mind.
\ week later there came another tel
egram to the hotel. 1t also was col
lect' and it was from Los Angeles. II
read:
II still think you charged me too
much for those beans"
This time Grier began to sit up and
notice things. lie gave orders that TO
more collect messages should be re-
ceiVcd
Ii was fully two weeks later and the
bean man had been entirely forgotten.
when boy handed Mr. Grier a mes
sage. II was collect" and the amount
was large, Grier handed the boy the
amount and opened the telegram. II
WAS from the City Of Mexico and read:
The more ] think of if the more I
am convinced that you charged me too
much for those beans"
The joke was getting beyond the
laughing point. In fact. those living
I'm Goo6land ut that time say that even
the railroad men, with their large and
varied vocabulary, We're startled at
the language heaped upon the bean
man.
once more the order 10 receive no
more collect" messages went forth. A
month later John Grier was in the east
and his brother Tom was daily ex-
pecting q telegram from him. A mes
sage came and IL was collect" but il
was not from Brother John" II was
from the bean man who was in Bos-
ton. II read as follows:
'NOW / know that YOU charged me
a great deal too much for those BEANS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26
REPORT u. P. WRECK
Meager Details of Rum IN Path Of
Runaway Freight Cars at Leroy
-Trainmen Are Injured.

Reports received in Ogden from passeu-
gers arriving over the Union Pacific last
evening give meager details of a serious
freight wreck that occurred shortly be
lore midnight Sunday at lie Roy station
about lU0 miles east of Ogden. Ii Is
stated that a portion of a train, consist
ing OF six water ears, four empty and one
loaded freight car. was left standing by
an east bound train at Spring Valley
The air from the brakes escaped and al
lowed the cars TO move down steep
grade. The runaway cars covered a dis
r-uce of ten miles when they crashed
into Il westbound freight train that was
about to pull In on a siding at lie Roy
station. The engine was t0ppled over
Iuu the runaway cars were piled into a
mass OF Wreckage- The collision DELAYED
I I'D traffic about fifteen hours. Wrecking
horces were sent from Evanston ana sue
Ceeded in getting the track clear about
o'clock yesterday afternoon. To was re-
ported that one Of the employees ON the
freight train had been killed and another
badly injured. This report, however, can
not be verified.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26
CHRISTMAS OBSERVED.
Inmates of State institutions Were
Not Forgotten.

The inmates of the state industrial
school and the stale school for the deaf
and blind We're not forgotten yesterday
Christmas celebrations were held al both
institutions. Al jhe industrial school
Christmas trees We're placed iu the two
departments and presents We're given 20
each of the inmates. There were ma
SiCai programmes, speeches and other
things which went toward making the
day one TO b. enjoyed by an. In the aft
ernOOn the girls were permitted 10 20
skating and the boys We're taken to Wit
ness. a performance al one OF The local
playhouse.
There We're presents, candy. nuts and
all the dalntles of the season distributed
among the pupils ~ the state school for
the deaf and blind. There was dlso q
Christmas tree, from which the presents
and good things We're distributed After
The tree had been stripped am entertain
4ent was given. The programme consist
Ell Of songs, recitatiOns and addresses.
The latter being given 10y the facultS.
The prisoners at the city and COUNTY
1ails We're reminded OF Christmas bV
Icing served with regular Christmas
chicken dinners.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26
WOMAN PREFERS DEATH.
inmate of House of IlI-Repute At.
tempts to End Life With Pistol.

Eva Carson, 10 years Of age an inmate
OF Electric alley. attempted suicide about
6:S0 o'clock last evening. in the Fashion
rocming house on Twenty-fifth street, by
face. The womans hand was unsteady at
the time the shot was fired and this fact
probably prevented the attempt from be-
ing successful, The Carson woman had
been drinking heavily and had repeatedly
threatened 10 take her life TO Patrolman
MOrrissey. about O'Clock yesterday aft
ernOOn. the girl exhibited the revolver,
and. pointing it toward her breast. init
mated that she intended 10 commit sui
Side' she was alone IN her room ABOUT
her right cheek and fired. The ball
struck her teeth, and. aside from disloeat-
ing several molars, did but little injury.