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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Daniel Donohue is again on duty. afte:
enjoying a furlough to Worcester. Mass
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

The Old South League will meet with
Miss Florence Harding this afternoon
at the usual hour.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Mrs. Ralph Dyer and Miss Helen Coop
er are on n trip to Washington. D. c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Charles +. Newhall returned Sunday
from furlOush 10 Lynn. Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Rev. NJ. s. Hill will leave Monday for
Boston TO be gone a week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08
OAKLAND.

o. III. Thompson of Dover has been
visiting his sister. Mrs. M. +. Burrill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Important rehearsal of the Baseball
Ministries at X. OF p. hall Wednesday
evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Began At Sick Bed, Ended At Altar.
A courtship that sprang from the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08
NEWPORT.

The Changers are planning to have
fair the first day of May.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Elmer ana Fred BiloGeau visited their
sister in Watcrville Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Nay S. Varney left Saturday for Bos.
ton. where he will attend the Sportsmen 5
show.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

john Mcllroy is making extensive re-
pairs on his residence on Central street
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Frank Savage. Jr., has arrived hom
fl0rn a stay o. u few days in Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

John A. Wyman is at home from
Union on visit to his family.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08
SKOWHEGAN.

Joseph Symonds passed Sunday with
friends in Fairfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Mrs. J. II. Bates passed Sunday with
hhr son. George Encll at Fairfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Mrs. John Cover of Portland ha
been visiting friends in town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

There will be a supper in the vcstry
OF tn" Pleasant street Methodist
church Friday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Frank O'N"il passed Sunday Mt hi
homo in Lewiston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Mr;. Harry Hanahan of Madison passed
the lay Saturday with Mrs. j. Il. Rod
crick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Charles Osborne Is very sick at the
home of his sister in Dover
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Cart. Frank II. Wing left Saturday t.
visit friends in Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08
LOST

IADy,s HAND BAG, CONTAIN
- ,-rrsn with a sum of money some
Were on Water street. Letter with own
er's nan1a in bag. Finder will receive re-
ward on its return TO J. l.. Peacock, COM
, " shoe factory apr1d1V
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Mrs. Clarence III. White has return
ed from a visit of several days in Bos-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Funeral of Late Fred w. Lynn.
The funeral of the late Fred Weston
Lynn, occurred from his late home W
Loudon hill, Sunday afternoon. Rev. e..
A. Hayden officiating.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Miss Jennie Emery. Miss Grace War
rem. Miss Vera Shorey, Miss Foss and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

LAW renee Btrnes and james Trainol
passed Sunday with friends in Bath
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Ernest PrOSser returned Sunday from
New York, where he has been visiting
4 relative.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

There Will be drill of Dorcas Re-
bekah degree staff Tuesday evening,
April ..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

The ice has now entirely left tht
river below the HollingsWorth & Whit
nCy dam.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Miss Marion Wilcox passed Sunday
with friends in SkoWhcgan
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08
FAIRFIELD.

Mry. Ila Arnold is IL, suffering from
the grip.
THE village scaools Will all commence
this morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Mrs. Celia L. Tufts went to Portland
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Mrs. Harry IIanahan Of Madison, is
visiting Mrs. j. 3. RoderiCil.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Mrs. Emily Watson Of Hinclilcy. is
visiting Watcrvill1 friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Parker Foas passed Sunday VIII
friends i'll SNoWheGan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08

Weller McAlary visited friends in
Augusta Sunday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08
WATERVILLE.

Weller McAlary visited friends in
Augusta Sunday.
Parker 7oss passed Sunday WIKI
friends i'll SKoWhesan.
Mrs. Emily Watson Of Hinclllcy. is
visiting Watcrvillr friends
Mrs. Harry IIanahan Of Madison, is
visiting Mrs. J. 3. Roderick
Miss Marion Wilcox PASSED Sunday
with friends i'll Skowhcgan.
Mrs. G.. G. Scott. who has been report
ed seriously III, is noW better.
The regular rehearsal of the Cecilia
Club viii be held this evening.
Rev. Father N;,rrissr Charllna was
il Portland Oh business Saturday.
Law renee E.rnez and james Tranor
passed Sunday with friends III Bath.
Mrs. Clarence II. White has return
ed from a visit of several days in Bos-
ton.
There will be drill of DOrcas Re
bekah degree staff Tuesday evening,
April O.
The ice has now entirely left the
river below the HOllfngSWOrth s: Whit
ncy dam.
Ernest PrOsSer returned Sunday from
New York, where he has been visiting
4 relative.
a WCil-a1tcnded meeting for men was
held in the Eldcn block at 3 o'clock
sunday afternoon.
There will be a supper in the VcStry
OF tn" Pleasant street Methodist
church Friday evening.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22

On the Tombigbee River. Alabama, is
enough limestone to supply cement plant
for 100 years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22
"Asweilian Policies"
st. Landry Clarion.


The Abbeville Meridional, edited by DR..
G.. j. Edwards, as staunch Democrat as
ever lived, is not in love with the methods
of State Superintendent of Public Educa-
ton j. B. Aswell. Doc thinks Mr. Aswell
has the bad habit, of poking his nose into
other peoples business, which, according
to the Doctors way of thinking, is not in
accordance with democratic government.
"Our esteemed Baton Rouge State either
acting under a special commission or as a
self-constituted champion, has taken up
the cudgels in defense of the educational
autocrats of the State capital" says the
Meridional of last week.
"Our brothers mental vision must be
obscured by the closeness of his view
point to the autocrats. He should get out
and mix up with the people if he wants to
know the popular opinion of the Aswell
system of public education.
''He evidently belongs to that large class
of persons who hold that their doxy is
orthodoxy, the other fellows heterodoxy.
Aswell's non-partisan methods are so
thoroughly relished that the other day at
Plaquemine the people by vote of two to
one refused to vote tax to build a school
house, which they sadly needed. They
felt the greater need of shome rule and
freedom from official dictation."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22
THE STATE PRESS.

DeSoto Progress: If half the money
Colonel Schuler is spending on his quest of
European dagoes were to be spent in the
north and east Of these old United States
of ours, Louisiana would easily get the
kind of citizens she needs.
Bastrop Enterprise: Three months of
some schools are worth more than nine
months of others. When it comes to
judging schools, quality counts for more
than quantity Long terms are not so
much desired as good teaching.
Monroe News: There is no question that
Mr.. Aswell has created many and just
antagonism by dictatorial methods and the
people would hail with delight the candi-
dacy of some such broad and scholarly ed
ucator as Col. Nicholson or Col. Geo. Soule.
New iberia Enterprise Leader: Long
drawn out political campaigns are detri-
mental to the country. Yet from presi-
Dental candidates down to those for the
very cheapest office in the gift of the peo-
pie the tendency now is to begin on the
next election the moment one is over.
Lines are laid for the next election before
the ballots are counted and thus the politi-
cal disturbance is ever present.
Alexandria Democrat: The Baton Rouge
episode, in which a shoulder strapped
gentleman, inflated with insolent arrogance
from little brief authority, sought to de-
grade and humiliate an enlisted man by
tieing him to the floor because he failed to
obey an order of ''his Royal Highness, -
ought to be sufficient to discourage enlist
ments in the future, as we'll as to cause all
privates to refuse to re-enlist at the expi-
ration of their present terms of service.
Arcadia Argus: "The records of the
courts and observation of men everywhere
show beyond doubt that prohibition pro-
hibits just as much as regulation regu-
lates." The above is from the Natchitoches
Enterprise, which paper is supporting the
prohibition movement in that parish.
Bienville has tried both regulation and
prohibition and is in a position to know
that prohibition is much the most satisfac-
tory. There isn't a town or community in
this parish that would tolerate the licensing
of saloons again, after an experience of
several years with prohibition. It is true
that entire prohibition is not experienced,
but there are no more attractions of this
law than of several other misdemeanors
and there is no longer any contention on
the part of our citizens for return to
open saloons.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22
EDUCATIONAL ERRORS.

The country schools, in fact the primary
and common schools, have lost their grip,
or at least their quantity and quality are
not equal to the demand and higher edu-
cation has been fed, forced, CO xed, pushed
and philanthropied out of all eair proper
ton to primary and lower in auction.
This means that the State and the phi
lanthropists have been improving educa-
ton at the top instead of at the bottom.
We are so overwhelmed with colleges that
we are at our wits end to supply them with
pupils. So meagre is the supply of pupils
compared with the collegiate demand for
them that it seems colleges must soon pay
pupils to attend them.
Upon the other hand, the need of the
masses for primary forms of education,
especially out of the cities, never was so
poignant or SO great. When boy or a
girl is fitted for college it is but fair to pre-
sumo that he or she possesses a working
capital of education. The fact that young
men and women are fitted for and are about
to enter college is, ipso facto, proof that
they are people of some means, at least
not Children of the Abyss. Therefore, the
colleges are for the greater part only for
the chosen and elect.
States levy taxes and philanthropists
levy glory by erecting, establishing and
maintaing colleges for the few and fortu-
nate. Meanwhile the many and unfortu-
ate are neglected. If the country school
is losing its efficiency and power, it is be-
cause the country school teacher is neg
lected of the State and despised of the
philanthropist. Mr.. Carnegie, Mr.. Rock
efeller and others have begun wrong.
They are cultivating the Tree of knowledge
at the top by spraying the leaves, while
the roots are perishing in unfertilized soil
This is contrary to all sound principles of
arboriculture. First, sound root. Then.
a sound tree. Begin at the bottom.-.Sf.
Louis Republic.
Here in Louisiana the trainers Of our
Constitutions have attempted to protect the
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22

Personal affairs are private affairs. Into
our private relations the government shall
not pry unless our own conduct shall have
invited the inspection, and then only in due
process of law and under the direction of a
competent court. But Trust cannot
claim this privilege of privacy. It is de-
personalized. 1t is the creature of the
State which has granted the charter. Pub
icity is the remedy for the absence of those
moral restraints which personality pro-
vides. Insisting upon knowing the truth
and the whole truth and divulging this
truth, the State will protect society against
those evils with which the depersonaliza-
ton of industry and finance is beset.
Association may be for evil and for good.
The legitimate ends and operations never
need shun the light of day. The microbes
of corruption, of illegitimate greed will be
killed by the sunshine of enforced publicity
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22
AN ORDINANCE

Ordering an election within School District No. s
OF Bosser Parish, La, as established by the
school Board OF said parish, to take the sense of
the taxpayers on the question of reducing the 5
mill tax for ten years to 21s mills for the same
period OF time for the purpose of supplementinp
the salaries of teachers and building and repair
ing school houses in said district.
Whereas, petition signed by the required num-
Der OF property taxpayers of School District No. 5.
as established by resolution of the School Board
OF Bosser Parish, La, has been presented to this
body asking that special election be ordered in
said District No. to take the sense of the tax
payers upon the question Of reducing the special
school tax OF mills upon all property situated in
sad district for period of ten years to 81 mills
Tor the same period of time, for the purpose,of sun
plementlng the salaries of teachers and building
and repairing school houses in said district there
fore,
Be it Ordained by the Police jury. in regular
session convened, That there be- and it is hereby
ordered, special election to be held in and for
School District No 5, created by the School
Board OF Bossler Parish, La, for the purpose of
ascertalnng the sense OF the taxpayers of said dis
trct on the question of reducing the special school
tax OF mills on the dollar the assessed property
OF said district for period of ten wears to 81 mills
Tor the same period of time on the assessed prop
erty OF said district for the purpose Of supplements
ing the salaries OF teachers and building and re-
pairing school houses in and for said district.
The Board OF Election Commissioners is hereby
ordered to issue proclamation calling said cleo
ton according to law, and appointing commission
ers and naming polling places.
That said special election in said school district
is to be held without expense to the parish
j. G. LOGAN, President Police jury:
T. B. Hill, Clerk Police Jury.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

California has $500 artesian wells.
The bubonic plague has again appeared
in San Francisco, Cal.
Missouri poultry sales for the last year
amounted to S4O,O0O,OOO.
The United States is now the second
largest naval power in the world.
Four fifths of the commerce of Eastern
Europe is carried on the Danube.
A bale of new cotton was sold in New
Orleans for 26 cents on the 18th inst.
An Italian in Chicago killed his former
fiancee, wounded her counsin, and COM
mitted suicide.
Alabama cleared S118,OOO on her con-
victs last quarter, an increase of $50, 900
over the previous quarter.
Robert R. Gill, cashier of National
bank in Stapleton, L. l., has been arrested
on charge of embezzling S125,0O0.
1t is reported in st. Petersburg that 274
persons throughout the Russian Empire
were exiled during July for political Of
fences.
Five persons were killed and eleven
others were injured in the collapse Friday
of wo-story frame building in Chicago,
occupied as boarding house.
Work is to begin next spring on the canal
to connect the lakes with the Ohio River.
1t will require six years to complete the
ditch, which will reach the river at Beaver,
Pa. The cost will be S75,0OOOOO.
Locked in each others arms in death
grip, the bodies of Ben and Bruce Bryant
were taken from Licking River, near Myers,
KY. One of the brothers was drowning
and ther other attempted to save him, both
meeting death.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22
An Important Question.
| New Orleans States. |

Thirty years have passed by since the
white Democrats of the State reclaimed
their State governments from the control
OF the carpet baggers and negroes of the
reconstruction period, and yet the debt
saddled upon the people during that reign
of debauchery still hangs over us. During
his incumbency Governor Foster made a
good beginning by retiring million dollars
OF that debt, but since that time no serious
effort seems to have been made in that
direction, notwithstanding the constantly
increasing assessment experienced. 1t is
now time that the people of the State should
address themselves earnestly and inteli-
gently to that task. Nearly half million
dollars are required every year to meet the
interest on that debt, and SO long as only
the interest is paid the principal remains
the same and the burden is undiminished.
Our government must be conducted in the
interests of the people and not so largely
for the benefit of bondholders and excess
sively compensated public officials. These
are burning issues Of the present State
campaign and on these two questions the
press OF the State stands practically as a
unit.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22
IMPATIENCE.

The value of patience may be indirectly
shown by exhibiting some OF the evil con-
sequences of Impotence. The impatient
man is seldom, if ever, just; he has no
control over his temper or his tongue, ana
saws and does things for which he is Obliged
to repent. whether he acknowledges his
repentance or conceals it by persistence IN
an unjust course. Such man not only
inflicts injury upon others, but damages
his own reputation. He loses the respect
of his fellow-men by his hasty and ILL
considered sayings or acts, so that IN time
little attention is paid to him or ne is re-
garded as ot2no more consequence than a
mailman. is Impotence, in fact. borders
upon madness, and it is quite common for
people obliged to do business with him to
wait for his paroxysms to pass, saying to
themselves that when he comes to his
senses he will act differently. Such a
reputation is a great drawback to any
man. If he should occupy subordinate
position he will be in danger of losing it
in consequence of the quarrels his impa-
tience engenders; if he is an employer
of labor he will lose the service of the best
men, who, being relatively Independent by
reason of their skill, will refuse to work for
one who is abusive through his Impotence
and hot temper. If in commanding posi-
ton he will get only surly obedience and
suffer from the want of a hearty disposition
to second his designs. Impatience, when
it is characteristic and not merely the tenn
porary consequenceof illness and suffering,
is a really sign of weakness. The man
who exhibits it has lost control of himself
and is, of course, untitled to control others.
He is whimsical and can accomplish little
because he cannot face and overcome diff
culties and discouragements, but can only
rail against them. The man of patience
possesses a virtue which may be regarded
as a resultant of other good qualities. To
be patient he must be just and considerate;
he must have control over his temper and
be at all times on his guard against forming
or expressing opinions until he has weighed
and considered subject in all its aspects.
Such a man inspires the respect of all who
know him; his opinions are counted as of
value; he has large influence, and, whether
as subordinate or principal, achieves what
is known as success. Even men whose
natural temperament makes them impatient
can school themselves to command Of their
temper. 1t is no easy task, it is true, but
it is worth trying, for the man with we'll
governed temper is better than one whose
lack of spirit constitutes his claim to
patience. The highest character exhibits
strength of will along with composure and
a well-governed temper, which flashes only
upon great provocation, when justice de-
mands such an exhibition. The patience
that comes of weak submission and the
Impotence that results from lack of con-
troll of ones passions are alike to be
avoided, and to do this one must cultivate
independence of spirit and gain mastery
over himself
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22
Nashville Christian Adyoca

Nashville Christian Advocate: Readi-
ness to take up an evil report against
another is bad sign. 1t not only shows
want OF that charity which hopeth all
things, but betrays also lurking self
distrust. Men suspect others of doing
what they suspect that they would do UNI
der similar circumstances. And unhappily
this suspicion of themselves is only too
often the outgrowth of self knowledge.
They are conscious of their own moral
unsoundness.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-22

common schools by putting a curb on the
greed of the higher educational institutions
in the State, but their wise inhlbltlons have
been over ridden by Constitutional Amend
ments in favor of the privileged few, who,
like the horseleech's daughters, are ever
CRYING smore, more" The big institutions
seem to want the earth, and it enclosed
with wire fence. They always have lob
twists on hand to help them in the legisla-
t,re in their raids on the school fund,
while the common schools have few, If any,
friends at court, except when primary
elections are on.
The following paragraph, from the New
Orleans Item, indicates what the friends OF
the common school system of our State
will have to contend with in the next Leg
islature:
"It is known that the General Assembly
will be called upon in 1908 for big appro-
preparations, as several Of the State lnstl-
tutions want increases in their allowances. .
So the privileged few swami increases in
their Allowances Our already stop
heavy" school system must have more
"spraying the leaves, while the roots are
perishing in unfertilized soil.'' More out
of the school fund, which is already mad
equate to the demand.
"Those who would be free themselves
must strike the blow" 1t is sup to- the
people to protect, foster and build up their
schools and make them as good as the
schools of any State. The way to do it is
to "begin at the bottom THE founda-
tion--and give the poor boys and girls OF
Louisiana better opportunities than they now
have. The people elect their Legislators
and they control the purse strings of the
State.