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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

Last Saturday. Tag Day receipts in New
Orleans amounted to So, 100.
Peter Hollins, telegraph operator in
New Orleans was arrested for Turing girl
from Washington Parish. @a
The Mississippi rifle team defeated the
Louisiana team by score of:968 to 958 in
the Interstate Rifle Match. + -
Robert Follansbee, of the United States
Geological Survey, is studying reclamation
of swamp lands in the State
Mrs. Martha P. Foster, eighty-one years
old, mother of United States Senator NJ. j.
Foster, died at Franklin Sunday.
John Parker, escaped negro convict from
Little Rock, was arrested in Minden and
returned to the Arkansas Penitentiary.
The postof1ce safe at Helm, Webster
Parish, was blown open recently, and
500 in cash, and also valuable papers and
stamps were taken.
The total assessment of the State of
Louisiana for 1908 is S523, 800, 478. against
an assessment of s507, 1872 ,01O for 1907, an
increase during the year of SIC, 1908, 1853.
Of the S1,608,468 increase for this year
81 498, 1881 comes from the Parish of Or
leans, and the balance from the country
parishes. The assessment is $4,000, 900
below what was established by the Board
Of Equalization. -.----- -.--.-..--.
New Orleans States:e Louisiana pros
duced during 1907 two'thirds of all the
cypress lumber in the United States, The
value of it's output for the year is placed at
ST., 734, O44, as against total output OF
SIC, 1853, 482 for the entire country. Proper
foresight on the part of our people quar-
ter of century ago would have made the
cypress swamps of Louisiana a veritable
mine of wealth to the State. Unfortunately
we did not understand the value of what
we had, far-sighted corporations willing to
take chances and with money to invest
came along and millions of acres that at
the present time are worth from $50 to $3.50
an acre were disposed of by the State and
by the Levee Boards for ten cents and
twelve and half cents an acre.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03
THE STATE PRESS.

Franklin Waterman: If the next Leg
islature fails to abolish that gigantic farce
known as the State Board of Equalization,
every member of that body will deserve a
dinner composed entirely Of ancient eggs.
This is the most useless and expensive
body drawing pay and doing nothing
within the whole State.
Louisiana Democrat: While Bryan will
never again be nominated, unless we pro-
pose to chant the funeral obsequies OF the
Democratic party-we have nearly or quite
reached that funeral stage under his lead
ership already-any future attempt made
by him to dictate its policies or nominees
must be effectually rebuked and repudiated
at the very moment of its manifestation, as
anything conceived by or emanating from
him, is viewed with suspicion by the peo-
pie and will otherwise react upon the party.
New Orleans States: Trouble only ac-
cumulates about him who seeks to run
away from it, while danger flies before the
face of him who resolutely adheres to his
purpose through sunshine and through
storm. The man who has the right stuff
in him can and will prosper in spite Of the
boil weevil. 1t may require little time
for him to adjust himself to the more rigid
economy enforced, to the different methods
to be persued and to the different products
he must cultivate; but he will not starve,
nor will he suffer serious deprivation if he
but trust in God, and, in figurative sense,
keep his powder dry. Let our North Lou
isiana friends depend npon it; these hard
ships, if courageously and intelligently
met, will develop sturdy manhood and
ultimately eventuate in making the section
stricken by the boil weevil the most prosper
Gus and progressive sections in the country.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03
German Authors on Education.
ok: Education is progressive

Radestock: Education is progressive
habituation.
Kant: To develop in the individual all
the perfection of which he is capable is
the great object of education.
Rosenbranz: Education is the influence
of man and it has for it's end to lead him to
actualize himself through his own efforts.
Pestalozzi: To engage the attention of
the child, to exercise his Judgment, to open
his heart to noble sentiments, is, | think,
the chief end of education.
Stein: Education is the harmonious
and equable evolution of the human facul-
ties Of the soul, for stirring up and nour-
ishing all the principles Of life.
Waltz: Education is systematic exer-
ton of an influence upon the still formable
inner life of another whereby a definite
form is to be given to this life and is &C.
tually given.
: Froebel: The education Of man is the
awakening and training of his humanity
to consciousness and reflection, so that
this outward life may be an expression of
this inward law.
Comenius: The object of education is
the perfecting of man in his entire nature
and thereby to fit him for eternal life,
where the work begun here on earth shall
reach it's fullness.
Diesterweg: The fashioning Of life ac-
cording to the principles of truth, beauty,
goodness in the highest energy of self-ac-
tivity, is, think, the problem which man
is called upon to solve.
William Van Humboldt: The end OF
man, or that which is prescribed by the
eternal or immutable dictates of reason.
and not selected by vague and transient
desires, is the highest and most harmonious
development Of his powers to complex
and consistent whole.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

notwithstanding the people and press
are earnestly demanding that all officials
in the State shall be elected by the voters
of the State, the Legislature continues to
create more offices, and invaribly makes
the officials appointive instead OF elective,
thus adding more strength to the political
machine which Is now almost all-powertul
in louisiana Is the Legislature "totlng
fair with the people?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Cuba heads the list of countries in cane
sugar production in 1867 with l,42|,625
tons. Java is a close second best with
1.011 .546 tons: Hawaii is third, with 39O,-
600 tons, and Louisiana fourth. with pro-
duction of 230, 900 tons. Hayti and San
Domingo stand at the foot of the list with
10000 tons. The total is 4 ,518, 1886 tons.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Andrew Carnegie, in an article IN
magazine, says that the steel industry does
not now need protective tariff, and that
the rates should be reduced to a revenue
basis. He says that steel is produced for
less cost in the United States than in any
other country.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

The editor of the Todd County Times
is opposed to what he calls the ''fool'
game law of Kentucky, which, he says,
"owes its passage to the powerful lobby OF
the Louisville Gun Club. The farmers had
nothing to do with it..
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Stevenson: The world must return some
day to the word duty and be done with the
word reward. There are no rewards and
plenty of duties. And the sooner a man
sees that and acts upon it like gentleman
or fine old barbarian, the better for him
self.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Manhattan Island has increased in pop
ulation at the ratio of 1900 persons to the
square mile in the last year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Plutarch: 1t is the usual consolation of
the eavious, if they cannot maintain their
superiority, to represent those by whom
they are surpassed as inferior to some one
else
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Nearly all the Greeks now coming to this
country are settling in New York City and
not more than twelve per cent are coming
to other places. There are now in that
city about 81 900.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Plato: God is good-and no other must
be assigned as the cause of our blessings:
whereas of our sorrows we must seek some
other cause, and not God.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Homer: Few words, but in very clear
and musical tones, since he was not a
babbler nor random talker, though young
in years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

. Fuller: Cowardice asks, Is it safe?
Expediency asks, Is it polite? Vanity
asks, Is it popular? but conscience asks,
Isit right?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

President Frank M. Miller, of the Game
Commission, who is an interesting speaker,
will lecture on birds in every parish in the
State
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Rechefoucauld: Mans chief wisdom
consists in knowing his foIlies,', Z.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03
SHREVEPORT

The report of vital statistics for the week
ending November 18th shows seven births,
eleven marriages and thirteen deaths.
In the District Court Friday. Judge Bell
fined John Merriweather $40 for shooting
two ducks before sunrise, innviolation of
the game law. ~ ''f, .'@.'
A suit to recover over 100000 was filed
in the Clerks Office Friday blythe Rapides
Bank OF Alexandria ct al vs. the Lena Saw
Mill Company dorniciled in Shreveport,
In the District Court last Friday suit
to.recover $4,000 as damages for the loss
of leg was filed by Bias Nieratka against
the Kansas City Southern Railroad Com
pany.
The W. F. Taylor Company, by it's con-
sent, was placed in the hands of receivers
Saturday morning. The Company have
assets of over S950,OOO with liabilities of
some S465, 900. D. B., Hamilton and r.. R.
Lawhorn have been OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
DR.. Randall Hunt, retiring surgeon of
the Shreveport Charity Hospital, was pre-
sented last Thursday by the nurses who
had served under him with "a beautiful
loving cup, as mark of esteem and rec
ognition Of his eight years. efficient public
service.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Baltimore Sun: 1t is love for our fellow
men that is like love for God, and that
draws men close to God; and uplifts the
world. The old rabbis relate this beautiful
story: ''In the land of Judah dwelt two
brothers, who titled different fields on the
inheritance of their family. One night
after the harvest was gatheredin one Of
them said to bis wife: MY brother is a
lonely man, having neither wife nor chill
dren; / will go and carry some Of my
sheaves into his~feld.' It happened that
on the same night the other said to him.
self: My brother has wife and children,
and needs the harvest more than 1. will
go and carry some of my sheaves into his
field So the next morning their respec-
tive heaps were unchanged. And thus it
went on, night after night, until, at last,
one moonlight night, the brothers, each
with his arms full of sheaves, met midway
face to face, and each folded the other in
his arms. That spot, made So sacred by
human love, was chosen by God as the
most fitting place for the special culture of
divine love, and SO, in vision to Soloman,
He pointed out that very spot as the site
for the Great Temple. The presence and
favor of God could draw and dwell most
near to man in the place which mans love
to man had SO sanctihed. The temple was
built there, because it was esteemed to be
the. spot of earth which was nearest
heaven 800
That story may not be true, yet it utters,
all the same, deep lesson of truth, well
for us all to lay to heart; that where love
to man is, there loveto God glows warm
est. And where mans love to bis fellow
man abides, there earth is nearest to
heaven. For loveis the divine force which
will make earth alheaven at Iast! z4
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26
SAVANNAH NOT 4 STATE


Judge Samuel B. Adams, of Say
annah, made a speech at bankers
banquet a few nights ago in which
he declared in feryid language for
the principle of home rule for Say
annah His remarks were supposed
to be directed at recent successful eff
forts of Judge Speer to stamp out the
locker clubs.
Judge Adams seems to overlook the
fact that Savannah is a part of the
state of Georgia, and incidentally of
the United States. The city is not
yet an independent state. Hence it
may be of considerable concern to
the rest of the country how Savan-
nah acts. AS long as this is true,
and as long as Savannah insists in
flying in the face of the wishes OF
the rest of the state, just so long
will that city have to be reproyed
and reminded of her dependence.
Savannah and Mobile should get to-
gether
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26
POPULISTS REPUDIATE SMITH

Another blow has fallen on the bat
tered helmet of Gov Smith. The
Populist state committee on Tuesday
adopted a resolution deploring fthe
disastrous policies of the present state
administration as exemplified by the
present governor, and we think the
best interests of the farmers, and
business men will be we'll conserved
by a change in the administration"
1t is well known that the Populists,
under the leadership of Tom Watson,
were generally supporters of Gov.
Smith in his last campaign. His ma
iority over his four opponents was
something like 100000 He no doubt
received more than this number of
Populist votes His winnings, if any,
from the 10000 who opposed him in
1906, are not a drop in the bucket
compared to his losses from his
former supporters who have declared
all over the state mo more Hoke
Smith for mine"
A resolution endorsing Hon. Joseph
E. Brown was introduced but was
voted down.
With Populist candidate for gov
ernor. which is promised by the &C
ton of the executive committee in
adopting a resolution that a state
convention Should be called, the
prospective majority of Gov. Smith
would melt away like a SNOWFALL on
July day.
The easy thing" of which the Gov
ernor's personal friends have been
speaking when referring to his
chances of reelection, has changed
it's composition within the past ten
days.
It will be a desperate fight for Gov.
Smith for reelection And the bitter
part about it is that governors have
generally been given a second term
without opposition. Its almost like
without opposition. At least this is the
construction the friends of Governor
Smith are compelled to acknowledge
after they have claimed that second
term was the precedent.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26
Hayti's Turbulent Career
New York WorId.)

The republic of Haiti is boiling over
again. It is one of the most diligent
of small political kettles in this res
pect Since the eastern seven-eIev-
enths of the island of Santc Domingo
the Hispaniola of Columbus-set up
for itself in 1914 the western four
elevenths, now again under discussion.
has scarcely been free from turmoil.
There was a period of depotism in
Haiti from 1S49, lasting ten years,
when he who had been President Sou
lOque ruled with an iron hand as the
selfproclaimed Emperor Faustin I.
This black tyrant was succeeded in
1859 by the mulatto Geffard, who re-
stored the republic and kept his
place till 1867
Civil war ragged in 1SS8-S9, when
Hipploite defeated Legitime at arms
for the presidency, and again in 1902.
when Gen. Firmin was overthrown at
ter having established a provisional
government in the northern part of
the country.
Between these two wars came the
administration of President Simon
Tiresias Sam. Following the fall of
Firmin was the elevation of the aged
Gen. Nord Alexis, who was proclaimed
by the arm. 1t is the Nord Alexis
administration which is now disturb
ed Gen. Firmin is a refugee in the
Frech consulate at Gonavies, the city
where he established his capital six
years ago.
Temperament and a local phase of
the color line amounting to caste hat
red cause most of the Haitian compIi-
cations. Hot blood makes fierce poll
tics. In the present case the blacks
accuse President Alexis of favoring
the mulattoes, and are themselves
charged with conspiring with Firmfn
for the overthrow of the government.
The victims of the many hurried
executions of the last few days have
been blacks. Almost fifty years ago
so shrewd an observer as Anthony
Trollope predicted the eventual reign
Of the mulatto in the West Indian col
or belt, to the exclusion of both blacks
and whites.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26
Smith and Watson
(Meldrim Guidon.)

Two more interesting characters do
not exist in the state. They are the
compliments of each other. Smith
IS large and truly veritable giant.
Watson is small delicate and ema-
ciated The voice of the one is coarse
and monotOnous while that of the
other is high pitched, sharp and clear.
Smith is argumentative, fOrcefuI and
convincing. Watson is dramatic. inn
aginatiye and persuasive. Smith deals
in facts, Watson in fancy. Smith has
no humOr, while Watson has a briIli-
ancy Of wit. Smith is without literary
finish, while Watson is scholarly
Smith is a materialist. Watson an
idealist. Smith knows little Of the
people, their customs, habits or leg
ends. Watson is from and of the
people and knows, as few men do
the secret springs that move them ia
action. Both men are ambitious and
strange as it may seem both have
to a large degree, the monev-makine
faculty. Smith has grown rich in
Atlanta real estate contingent
ices, while Watson has amassed
wealth defending criminal cases and
acquiring farm lands.
0HllLI mas rev loyal friends, Wat
son has a legion of devotees, who
follow him with a blind idolatry When
Smith visited Watson it was the
mountain going to Mahomet, and the
mountain labored until it brought
forth a propaganda that was pleasing
to Mahomet But the mountain has
ceased to labor and those who do not
dwell in the shadow of the mountain
or follow the teachings of Mahomet
are wondering if the mountain will
go back to Mahomet-or Mahomet to
the mountain
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26
EVERYBODY SATISFIED BUT !
HUGHES"

Hon. Dudley Hughes, having failed
to stir up a candidate for Congress
to oppose Mr.. Lewis, has taken the
job himself. 1t looks like everybody
but Mr.. Hughes is satisfied, but then
some people seem to never know
when they have enough.-Macon
County Citizen.
The mass of the people throughout
the Third District were satisfied to
let Mr. Lewis return to Congress for
another term to finish up his work
there. He has given good service at
Washington, has been faithful in the
performance of his duties, Jealous in
his attention to the interests of his
constituents, and until Mr.. Hughes
began to stir up opposition there was
no one who felt that it was not
good thing for the district to let Mr..
Lewis go back unopposed, and two
years from now have free field for
a race for all of the favorite sons of
the district to enter.
Mr.. Hughes candidacy does not
enthusiasm. The fact that he is
in favor of putting trust magnates
behind the bars and revising the
tariff does not seem to have stirred
the pulses of the voters to any ap-
preciable extent. AS the Macon Coun-
ty Citizen says, everybody but Mr..
Hughes seemed satisfied" and the
prospect is that the election returns
will show the great majority of the
people Of the Third District continued
satisfied right up to the putting of
their ballots in the boxes.
Mr.. Hughes has not strengthened
himself politically by his course in
this campaign. The effort to induce
others to run against Congressman
Lewis, and his own announcement
when no strong man could be brought
in to the field, have not helped him
with the people. And another defeat
now will throw cold water on his
prospects in the future unless he is
in another congressional district four
probable as the census of 1910 will
probably result in changes that may
throw Mr. Hughes out of the Third
district entirely, living as he does
almost on the extreme border line
of the Tenth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26
SUPREME COURT AN ISSUE.

For lack Of better issue the Re-
publicans are going to plead that the
election of their candidate is needed
to insure a conservative Supreme
Court. Four justices will likely be
retired during the next Presidential
term, and the party in power will
have the selec ton of their success
ors.
1t is pointed out by those who pro-
pose that the issue be made largely on
this question, that the Republicans
have few distinctive points of differ
ence in present issues-the Republi-
cans having stolen a good share Of
the Democratic thunder-that there
is danger in having radical judges ap-
pointed, as the court makes law and
does lot of other things of great
Importance to the country.
This is an admission of weakness
on the part Of the Republicans in that
they have no issues upon which they
can appeal to the country which the
Democrats cannot urge with as great
force as their own. The best thing in
sight, according to the prOposers of
the Supreme Court issue, is based on
a probability of the retirement of the
four Justices, and the alleged danger
that new judges might reverse estab-
lished precedent and overturn things
in general.
But even this loses its force large
ly when it is remembered that only a
few days ago the old question of
states rights was before the court
and the three Democratic Justices
held in favor of the Federal power,
while the lone dissenter was the old
est Republican member of the court
The truth of the matter seems to be
that the Republicans have been
brought into the light of Democratic
day, but that they still insist in hold
ing on to the offices, even after con-
version to Democratic doctrine. With
trusted leader, the Democrats
might be able to recapture their am
munition and IN the cannon on
their foes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26

1t is worthy of remark that JUS
tice Harlan, a Republican, was the
only member of the Supreme Court
to dissent from the finding in the
Minnesota and North Carolina cases,
which held that the railroads had
a right to appeal to the Federal
Court even in the face of state
laws providing heavy and confiscatory
punishments for so doing. The three
Democratic members of the Court
thus favored what Justice Harlan, a
Republican, was pleased to designate
as an invasion of states rights.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-03-26
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