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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-02-14
PUBLIC SHE
OF Valuable
PERSONAL PROPERTY,

OF Valuable
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Intending to discontinue farming viii sell at
ed by II Wneusi ~ mile north oil Martinsburg.
w. Va, on Wiiliamsport pike on
Thursday February 20 1908
beginning at 10 O'Clock a. m. the following prop.
erty to-wit
7 Head Horses
Moliie. brown N arc in foai, weight 1000 lbs. bar
she ar leaaer work anywhere htched; Bird. bay
mare in ioal w.t. 1900 los. work anywhere pitched
has been worked with single inc; Daise, bay mare
In foal w.t. 400 lbs work anywhere hitched and .
number one wagon and barshear leader and
good driver; Maud, bay mare in foal. weighs 1000
work any wbtre hitched has been driven sinke Nell,
brown mare IN 10 weighs lsoo lbs. batshcar and
wagon leader and work anywnere htched; Polena,
good driving marc vt. IFS lbs. one Of the best IN
CHI ron Stallion years old. ight l3oo lbs. has
been worked some is daprle iron gray one 81
King Mobiles colts,
Head Cattle
All milk cows. Jersey cows. Durham cows.
10 Head Hogs
brood sows, will pig In March, Chester male hog
shoats will weign from 90 10 ~ IDS.
Farming implements
Brown wagon and bed new, in tread, low truck
wagon, Success, manure sprcader, new, Deering
binder foot cut good new, dobbe corn planter
Black III .wk and i;}o rod OF chains; Deering corn
harvester, good as new, roller new Osborne hors e
FAKE, new; osborne disc harrow, new, 2 baIsheaI
p.cws dag narrow. laEc CON planter bas ket eigh
a sets hay ODER, ics castu's Dbl, sled, hay
toiks. proug sud prong. 100 Get Of inca rope.
pui.t s., Abb trees horse stte,sher, 3-hofe
tsee sing e frers, nth chsin. crowd sticks,
log 10 -iiains, d prosg piich forks,
prong; scoops, platform scales, Jones make;
weigh 1000 los. pail Of 500 ID. scales, PAIR ice
tong, superiorgraiD dill, gcee as new
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-02-14
PUBLIC SALE
OF Valuable
REAL ESTATE

By virtue Of authority vested In the
undersigned attorney he will offer fol
sale at public auction at the front door
Of the Courthouse, in Martlnsburg,
West Virginia, on
Saturday, February 10Th, 1908.
at 1.30 p. M, tie following real estate
Lot No. 1. in Block ~, on plat Mol
of the Martinsburg Mining, Manufaci
uring and improvement Company'l
addition TO said town Of Martinsburg,
| w. Va, being the real estate conveyed
to w. E., Grove by John r. MAIDEN
boush and wife, said lot improved by q
good new
Five Room House,
new barn, hogpen, and other necessary
out buildings and lot fully fenced in by
good fence. This property will make
anyone
Good Home
or good Investment.
Terms of Sale.
One half of The purchase money cash
on day Of sale and the balance in one
year from date OF sale, the purchaser to
give his note, bearing interest from
date, for the deferred payment and
deed OF trust TO be given on the proper
ty to secure the payment OF same.
y. w snyder, Jr., Attorney.
Geo. w. kecsecker, Auetioneer.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-02-14
PUBLIC SALE
or Valuable.
Personal Property

defending discontinue farming will Sell the
following personal properly at my home the
Wiilianisport pa, taTee miles l. ON haftinsbufg,
an =
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

You may take advantage of as many of the offers
as you wish to, provided one years subscription to
the Banner is included in each instance. Make all
remlttances to this office. Well make your order.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

be strictly and honestly enforced, or let it
be repealed. Let there be no stacking
of the cards. on the people and the hastily
deposed treasurers. Economy has been
promised. Let US have it in good faith.
A square deal for everybody. No man
should object to that. Genuine reform and
true economy will always command our
sincere admiration; but political legerde-
main and flushing will always
meet with our condemnation. In our opin-
ion Act II will prove to be veritable Gold
Brick, and it will not be repealed, at least
until it has served its purpose, which is the
upbuilding of the One Man-Power in our
political system.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

| As long as there is something doing
there will continue to be somebody done.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30
RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.
| Alexandria Town Talk.


There has been a tendency for number
of years past with Legislators, both State
and municipal, to interfere with the rights
of the people, rights which they have en-
joyed without interruption, since the adop-
ton of the Constitution of the United
States.
Nearly every month sees further en-
croachment on personal rights, and it is
about time to call halt, or it will soon
reach condition where a citizen will have
to get pass from some official before he
can leave his his home to visit neighbor.
In many. European countries, under
monarchial forms of government, the per-
sonal rights of the people have been taken
from them little by little, until they are
driven here and there, at the beck and call
of government officials, just like SO many
cattle. Our forefathers left Europe for the
purpose of freeing themselves from these
conditions, placed on them by the kings
and ..e nobility Of the old country.
For years after the establishment of this
Republic no legislative body would have
dared to have passed law interfering in
any way with the personal rightsof citizens.
1t would have caused an cutlery which
would have been heard the length and
breath of the land.
The men who made this Republic posi-
BILE were jealous of their personal rights,
and if need be would have defended them
with their lives.
The proudest boast of an American citi-
zen in the past has been that he has not
been made jumping jack by law and
practice as are the people of Europe.
The personal rights of the people Of this
nation must not be taken from them. The
tendency of the times is in that direction,
and has been in progress for twenty or
more years. It must cease, as the people
are beginning to see the danger, and when
they are aroused the Legislators they put
in office will be held accountable for the
passage of laws interfering with rights
which belong to the people under the
National Constitution, and which they en-
joyed unmolested for more than three
quarters of a century.
The next Democratic national platform
could not have more popular plank, nor
one breathing truer Americanism, than a
demand that personal rights be no further
encroached upon by aw-makers, national
State, county or municipal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30
Something to Read.

We show below a list of Magazines and News
papers with which we have made arrangements to
club the Banner. If you have not made up your list
for the year, we would be pleased to have you make
your selections from our list. You may depend
upon 1t that everything offered below contains en-
tertalning and wholesome matter and is easily
worth more than the publishers regular prices.
The list will be added to from time to time, SO if
you DO not find what you want, perhaps it can be
found there week or so later.
The first column shows the prices demanded by
the publishers when the periodicals are subscribed
for singy; the second column shows our price for
both the Banner and the respective publications.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Leading financiers are agitating the
question of currency reform.
Fire in the business district of Portland,
Me-, caused loss of 100000.
1t is said the British Government is be-
coming alarmed over the growing unrest
in India.
Four public schools we're closed in Pitts
burg, Pa, on account of an epidemic OF
measles.
Four firemen were killed and fifteen in
jured by falling walls in conflagration at
Baltimore.
Louisville, KY, annually exports to
Cuba over ST 200, 900 worth of flour, plows,
wagons, etc.
1t cost $4,000 to remove the snow OF
last Thursday nights storm from the
streets of New York.
China appointed delegates for the first
time in history to represent her at the next
national telegraph conference.
! Charles v. Patterson, a prominent resi-
dent of Natchez, Miss, committed suicide
Saturday by asphyxiating himself.
The most recent estimated cost of the
Panama Canals $500, 900, 900, as compared
with the first estimate of S184, 100000.
The shipping summary for 1907 shows
the United States to be second for the year
in the total tonnage of ships constructed
| Louisville's newest hotel, the Seefbach,
costing 81, 100000, is said to be the best
hotel in the United States outside of New
York City.
| Five men were injured and 100000
worth of property was destroyed by the
elD losion of 500 pounds of dynamite at
Das Moines, Iowa.
The value of the shipping passing
through the Suez Canal in the course of
the year is SOB, 100000, and the great bulk
of this is English.
Joseph c. Bloch, senior member of the
whisky brokerage. firm of Bloch Brothers,
shot and killed himself in his office at
Louisville, KY, Saturday.
The orange crop harvest of California,
now in full season, in quality and quantity
promises to break all previous records.
The fruit exchanges of the State estimate
that the total output of oranges will reach
$1,000 carloads, about 100000 boxes.
The Census Bureau last Thursday issued
a report shpwing that the total amount of
cotton in the United States ginned from
the growth of 1907 to January 16 was
10, 337 ,607 bales, as compared with IL, 1885,
1879 bales for the same period last year,
and $3.50, 1884 for the same period in 1905.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

A colony of Jewish farmers may be To-
Gated near Hammond.
negro carpenter at Alexandria fell ten
feet and broke his neck.
A negro was killed at Port Hudson while
trying to get on a train.
The first frost of the season occurred at
New Orleans Friday morning.
A. Royal is under arrest at Winnsboro,
charged with killing his wife.
| Frank Lane, member of the Town Coun-
Gil at Roseland suicided by shooting.
Nearly one-third of the people of Alex
andria were on the sick list last week.
Three men were killed and four injured
in saw mill boiler explosion at Gillian.
The New Orleans School Board declares
it has no money to raise the salaries of
teachers.
The annual convention of the Louisiana
Horticultural Society will be held Feb. 20,
81 and % at Minden.
the contract has been let for the con-
struction of the First Methodist Church at
Mansfield. The building is to cost S12, 900,
and the contract calls for its completion
not later than Oct. 1, 1908.
A farmer named Mcleod, who is charg-
ed to have punished his 5-year-old sister
in-law by forcing her to sit on a hot stove.
was given 100 lashes on the bare back by
angry citizens near Angie.
While standing on the gallery at the
home of his cousin, Henry SUR, near
Gueydan, Sunday, watching dogs chase a
rabbit, y. Broussard, fourteen years old, let
the weapon slip from his hands, and the
hammer struck the gallery floor. The gun
was discharged, and the entire load enter
ed the boys face at the point of the nose.
Part of the face and skull was torn awav
and the brains were spattered on the gall
lery ceiling. He lived but few minutes
after the accident.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30
Gems of Thought.

Latin: testers must be content to taste
of their broth.
Severus: What you would not have
done to yourself never do unto others.
Sanscrit proverb: They know not their
own defects who search for the defects Of
others.
Cato: Men whose counsels you would
not take as individuals lead YOU with ease
in a crowd.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30
Only $4.25 Gets This.

How is this for liberal clubbing offer
Western Field, Success Magazine Cloth
monthly and the Banner, together with
the Library of English Fiction, for S4.25.
If subscribed for singly the price of the two
magazines and the Banner (not including
the Library Of English Fiction) would be
$3.50. The offer is made to all new SUBJ
scribers paying in advance. Make remit
tances to this office. Well make the order
for you promptly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

motion to censure the Government
was defeated in the lower house of the
japanese Diet by 1T votes to 1866.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

We think the next session of the Legis.
lature should repeal the act providing fol
travelling Auditor with handsome sal.
airy and travelling expenses enacted by the
recent extra session. A travelling Auditor
is an utterly useless officer and his salary
and expenses will be waste of public
money. We had too many officers before
this one was created, and the act ought to
be repealed at the earliest possible moment,
claiborne Guordian-yownal.
And, in our opinion, the next Legislature
should either compel the honest, rigid and
impartial enforcement of the highly in
pired Peterout Act No. II, or repeal the
Haunting falsehood. There will be no
saving to the school fund of the amount
formerly paid to Parish Treasurers by
giving the same to Parish Superintendent
In increased salaries or extra pay for Sec
retaries. With great blowing of trumpets
and much self-advertising generally by
the real father of Act II. the people were
promised saving to the school fund of
say $4,000 annually, which had formerly
been paid as commissions to Parish Treas.
urers. Act II, which is supposed to go
into effect next Saturday, says Parish Su-
perlntendents shall receive no compen-
sation' for this service. Now, let this law
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

has- A telegram received by the Banner
at late hour this evening from New Or
leans states that Sanders has carried that
city and the State by $1,000 majority.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30
SEEKING ONES EASE.
baltimore Sun. ]

One of the social evils that has grown
up with the development of what is called
higher civilization and contempora-
neously with a minute division of labor
and an increased use of machine tools is
disinclination for manual labor, so that
it becomes difficult to persuade young men
of good attachments to engage in mechani-
cal employments. If as pupils of manual
training schools or apprentices in shops
they learn to be mechanics it is not with
the idea of remaining as workmen. They
expect to become engineers or to abandon
the shops altogether for Office work, which
is cleaner and, in the eyes Of some people,
more respectable. Shop training is sup
posed to be useful to those who occupy adj
ministrative positions connected with
shops, and for that reason only the boy
consents to learn trade. There is scarce
ly any one who is not more or less infected
with the desire to escape work-to get
some kind of employment which is appar-
emily free from the drudgery of mechani-
cal employment. A recent writer says:
Instead of feeling pride and obliga-
ton in service, men and women through
all the grades are debauched by the visions
of escape from service, or, what amounts
to the same thing, exchange of work for
state that seems to require less work.
Not how to do we'll the work of our present
condition, but how to get into condition
which seems to promise relief of work, is
the question which leases the least re-
spectacle and sometimes the more respect
able of those who make the social move
ment,"
Ambition is commendable, even that am
bition which seeks ease rather than labor,
but the ambition to advance to higher
plane should be accompanied by an am
bition to excel in the plane that is to be
left behind. The unrest of which so much
complaint is made and which has rendered
so many workmen unhappy arises from
a neglect OF present opportunities. The
sure path to preferment and to the sup
posed ease of the higher occupations is
through the faithful performance of duty
in that which one now occupies. We con-
Germ ourselves altogether too much about
the future to the neglect of the present;
whereas the future will take care of itself
and of the deserving among us if we are
faithful in the present. It is mistake,
also, to suppose that there is greater ease
or less servitude in the higher employ
ments than in the lower. AS matter of
fact, the common laborer has fewer cares
than his employer and very much less re-
sponsibility. The latter may appear to
be his own master, but he is the servant
OF his customers, of the public, and his
master is more tickle and exacting than
any with whom the laborer has to deal.
In aiming at ease through higher occupa-
ton the boy or young man who avoids
mechanical employment is pursuing mere
''wil O. the wisp." His ambition should
be directed to perfecting himself in the
work that is at his hand, whatever it may
be, in the confident assurance that in
that course only he can find satisfaction,
such promotion as he may deserve and
such ease as may be won by the Jealous
worker,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Atchison Globe: Don't trust your Sc
crets to age; it is said that age tells on a
man.
Atchison Globe: A man can excuse
meanness in himself, but how he dispises
it in others.
American Farmer: There is general
feeling that the country needs rest from
so much strenuosity. We can stand it
occasionally, but national senation every
day or two gets in on the nerves. Let's
slow the train down, stop the boats head
way and give the passengers time to catch
their breath.
Chattanooga Tradesman: The secret of
good government is good citizenship and
this truth should be the burden of our song
until all are brought under its benificent
rule. Under any and all forms Of govern
ment corruption will appear when good
citizens fail to perform their civic duties.
Under any and all fomrs good government
will follow the intelligent use of the elective
franchise. This is only another form of
expressing the old truth that, External
vigilance is the price of liberty
Holton Signal: Regular reading makes
man balance up we'll. Everybody ought
to read every day, even if only for a few
minutes. The information thus cleaned
tends to wisdom, and broadens the charac-
ter An acquaintance of ours-a very
busy man-began to read regularly and
systematically. He devoted thirty minutes
each evening, just before retiring, to books.
That amounted to 1922 hours of reading
in year, during which time he became
familiar with the Bible, Shakespeare and
several books of travel.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

II you lose horse, advertise for it. If
you want to sell, buy or barter anything,
advertise in the Banner. Don't wait for
customers to hunt you in your obscurity
Advertise
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

It costs $1,000 to fire a single shot from
the largest guns in the French army.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-30

Harpers Magazine (monthlv) ......... 800 $40
Harpers Weekly ...................4 400 10
Harper's Bazaar {monthly) ................1 90 165
Review of Reviews (nonthy) ........ 800 am
Cosmopolitan Magazine (monthly) ......... 90 e5
McClure's Magazine {monthly) ..........1 80 I 10
Success Magazine (monthly) ............. 90 In
Hollands Magazine monthly ............1 100 70
American Homes and Gardens (monthly)..... 800 so
Scientific American weekly ............. 900 $50
The Rural Route Republic daily ...........2 200 $50
Shreveport Times daily ............75o 75o
Shreveport Times Sunday only ..........2 200 $50
Shreveport Times (semiweekly) .......... 90 IL
Cincinnati Enquirer weekly edition. ....... 90 so
SPORTING.
Forest and Stream weekly ........... SO 90 81 q
The Outing Magazine tmonthly) ............ 900 235
Western Field (monthly) ........... / ~ 175
The Cutters Book (monthly) ..... 1 "a i *
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm ana Ranch weekly 81 90 ST.
Home and Farm (semimonthly).. ....... 10 Ok
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Vote for I. w. McAdory. AN ATTEMPT TO PREJU-
 DICE VOTERS!

A card with the names of five candidates for the Board or nevenue, including mine, is being circulated among the voters with the intention of making it appear that these five candidates have formsd 3 "slate," or combination.
 This is the work of political tricksters in an attempt to in- jure my candidacy and the can didacy of those they connect me with. I most emphatically denounce such statements or action as false, and beg my friends to do likewise.
 I have waged a clean and honorable campaign, and no man can say that I have struck a blow in the dark.
 It seems to have become usual for such dirty politics as this to be indulged in at the close of a campaign, and I be- lieve the vote l shall receive on Monday will be sufficient to forever silence such efforts as this. VIM. M. BURGIN,
 Candidate Board of Revenue.
 The tenth name on the ticket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice of Sale,

In the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division Birmingham, Ala.
 No S319. In re- Prowell Hardware Co.,, Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy.
 Under and by virtue of an order of the Hon. Felix E. Blackburn, Special Referee, upon petition duly filed, and in accord ance with a resolution passed at a meet ing of the creditors of the said estate, the estate of the said bankrupt having been duly appraised, the undersigned trus- tee of the said estate will receive sealed bids for the property of the said estate up to and inclusive of Friday. May P, 1908 at 12 m. .u
 1. A sealed bid for all the goods, wares and merchandise of said estate as shown on the report of the rec ,ivers, on file in this cause.
 2. A sealed bid for the leasehold inter- est of the store house formerly held by the said bankrupt, and now held by the trustee.
 5. A sealed bid for the accounts and bills receivable, as shown by the said report of the receivers, less the amount collected therein, as shown by the books cf the receivers and trustee.
 A. A sealed bid for all of the store house fixtures of said estate, including shelving, and other articles, as shown by the said report of the receivers on file. D. A sealed bid for 20 shares of stock of the Riverside Brick company.
 6. A sealed bid for the horses the mules. wagons and harness belonging to said estate. as shown by saio- report of said receivers st>
 '. A sealed bid for all oG the above com bined.
 All parties desiring to, bid upon the said property will apply to the under signed. who will furnish all assistance and information needed.
 All bids will be reported to the court for confirmation or rejection.
 This May 8, 1908. w. H. KETTIG,
 Trustee 5-9-7t-eod Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
East Lake Today.

There will be a free attraction at East Lake this afternoon and tonight by let swuari's Flexible Japanese Wonders, and every afternoon and night this week.
 There will be a band concert this aft ernoon and tonight and every afternoon and night this week by Herschs Union band.
 Tuesday night the Volunteer Firemen's association will have a grand ball in the pavilion. Wednesday will be labor union day and all union menrand their families will be admitted free of charge on pre- sentation of their cards. There will De a monster fireworks display on the lake Wednesday night.
 Thursday night the prizes won in the Firemens Tournament will be awarded, and a large house will be burned on the lal.e, spectacular event. Saturday night the United Commercial Travelers will visit the lake in a body and there will be a special fireworks display for them. The Japs at the lake this week are one of the Imperial Troupes of Japan.