The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-09
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

WHAT The PAPERS ARE SAYING.
Bonnie Terre Democrat Register: Zeal
without wisdom is work without wages.
GAINESVILLE Piker: Truth, mercy and
charity give peace and long life to the
good citizen.
Neosho Times: A whole lot of men who
are always taking about their willingness
to die for their rights won't even take the
trouble to go to the polls and vote for their
rights.
Philadelphia North American: There is
a poverty which passes that of the pocket
a poverty of the heart or the spirit which
is more CALLING than pauperism in its COM
monty accepted sense.
Grenada Sentinel: The farmer bends
the knee to none, and is less disturbed by
the worldwide reign of graft and greed
than any of his fellows. May he live long
and prosper-this son of the soil, who is
the balance wheel of the universe.
Richmond News Leader; In regard to
peace conferences, a rough ready
Kentucky Colonel tears off this often de-
monstrated proposition: "The best way
to get peace is to show the other fellow
that you don't give hurrah whether you
get it or not"
White County lMo.) Democrat: The
life Of no political party depends an eleet-
ing incompetent or unworthy men to local
offices. 1t is more important that public
business be conducted with due regard
for the people than that any set Of men
should be rewarded with the places.
Brookfield Argus: After all, the most
we can get out of life is it's discipline for
ourselves, and its usefulness for others.
Life is divided into three parts-that which
was, that which is, and that which will be-.
Let US learn from the past to profit by the
present, and from the present to live better
for the future.
Sardis Reporter: When President Roose-
welt relinquishes his hold on the White
House he will carry with him the record of
having dubbed more men liars during his
incumbency Of the Presidency than all the
other Presidents combined. We rather
think, however, it is record to be ashamed
of, and not one to be proud of.
La Belle Star: The world is full of
kindness that was never spoken, and that
is not much better than no kindness at all.
The fuel in the stove makes the room warm,
but there are great piles of fallen trees
lying on rocks and tops Of hills where no-
body can get them; these do not make
anybody warm. Just SO in a family; love
is what makes the parents and children,
the brothers and sisters, happy. But if
they take care never to say a word about
it; if they keep it profound secret as If it
were crime, they will not be much hap
pier than if there was not any love among
them.
Linneus Bulletin: AS rule the world s
harshest critics are people who are them
selves most deserving Of criticism. The
man who habitually speaks evil of his
neighbors deserves watching, It has been
truthfully said that we often make mirrors
of the people with whom we come In con-
tact and discover in them our own deform.
tiles or virtues. 1t is natural for the "pure
in heart'' to see Good, and for the impure
in heart to see the reverse Of Good. 1t
pays to discover and appreciate the good
qualities in your neighbor even If you do
it through self-interest. Nobody likes a
pessimist
Richmond Times Dispatch: Prayer
must be natural, because it is universal.
Never yet has a nation been found but that
in some form or other it exists. Races of
men have been discovered without raiment,
houses, manufactures or art, but never
without prayer. 1t is found always where
there is speech, human features and human
passions. Prayer scars beyond the eagles
flight. It travels further and faster than
light. Rising in the heart of the believer,
it enters into the very ear Of God. It is a
telegraph which connects heaven and
earth; the sinner and the Saviour; the
humblest home of piety and the throne of
grace. And the reply is on the road be-
fore the want is expressed. Hear the voice
OF the Lord: Before they call l will an
swer, and while they are yet speaking |
will hear"
Narrow Escape.
G. W. Cloyd, merchant of PUNK, NO., had a
narrow escape four years ago, when he ran Unison