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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-11-26
IMPORT OF GOOD ROADS.

Points In Legitimate Support Of Build
ing and Maintaining Them.
Good roads are benefit to the farm
ers because they render transportation
of farm products easier; they facilitate
travel and shorten the time to and
from town or city markets: they are
humane in that they tighten the draft
for horses: they make driving on pleas
ure or business trips more enjoyable:
they foster neighborly spirit through
communication: they are an aid to the
federal government in establishing
free rural delivery mail routes: they
are business promoters and a credit to
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-11-26
4ap:,iic:.t;5Is For Pardon.

NOTICE is hereby given that jim
~ Russell, convicted at the Septem-
Der Term of 1903 of Bossier District
Court, Bossier Parish, La, and now
serving six months sentence in the
State Penitentiary, has made applica-
ton to the proper authorities for a full
and complete pardon. 90
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-11-26

STATE OF LOUISIANA, III, IL hereby isn &c, certify
PARISH OF BossIER. foregoing IS true rue
and correct copy Of the original act as the same
now appears on file in this office, duly recorded
Octoter l9, 1908, On Mortgages, Volume f. page
5gI. ct seq.
Given under my hand and seal, officially at my
office in the town CT Benton on this, the 2st Ca
Of October, A. d. 1905 !, mr.
Deputy Clerk and ex-officio Dep Recorder
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-11-26
Notice.

4 II. persons are hereby varied not
= to tfesf;.ss Of hant On my lands III.
Ross.ef PariSs., IT in the A.uiilssnt.t pas
tiiit, .si.k-;a haze rented. Hunting or
fishing fcs.,iFciy prohibited.
Get - e. Is. HERNDDN.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-11-26
for Administration,
Notice.

A LII parties are hereby warned not tc
n hunt, peddle or in any wise tres
pass upon the plantations OF the under
signed, located in Ward 1, Bossier Par
ish, La. Mrs. A. CURTIS.
A. CURTIS.
nov 1-6 m JOHN r. HALL.
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S. H. DOWELL, Notary Public.

STATE OF LOUISIANA, -, Having examined
pAhisH OF BoSslER incorporation, and
finding nothing contained therein contrary to
law, hereby approve the same.
1903. Jot1N ~ csnrDII,r
Dist Atty Sec. Judicial Dist of Louisiana.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26
The Anti-Noise Movement.

Maj. Sylvester's declaration of war
against unnecessary noises brings JOY to
most citizens, who have been for years
afflicted with the useless disturbance of
the atmosphere by all sorts of cacophony
There are some people who scoff at such
municipal movements, but they are not in
tune with the harmony of modern
thought. The spirit Of this day IL that of
economy and public comfort. Why should
the citizen who desires peace be afflicted
with f1fty-seven sorts of ear-spitting
sounds during the day? Why should the
vendors of produce be allowed TO bawl
their wares through the street? Business
is better organized nowadays than it
used to be. The buyer and the seller
come together in well appointed markets
easy of access. The street car and the
telephone and the mail service enable the
man who wants something to get 1t with a
minimum of bother and delay No longer
is it necessary to fare forth with pack
on back seeking for customers This
civilization has passed beyond the ped
dler stage. and should emancipate itself
from the abominable nuisance of the
peddlers outcries and bell-ringing and
horn-blowing and other methods of at
tracing attention.
What is true of the peddler of all classes
is true of the voluntary emitter of dis
agreeable sounds. The whistler, for ex-
ample is nuisance whose suppression
should be the business of every guardian
of the peace. Then there is the itinerant
musician with his ill-tuned box of wills
ties or other instrument of torture Street
music is all right for certain classes of
music lovers, but 1t should at least be in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26

seduced high officials from their loyalty
to the sultan. They have preached Sc
cretly but effectively the doctrine of rep
resentative government. and it now ap-
pears that they have with marked sue
cess appealed to the Albanians in the
name Of a progressive Turkey.
The mere grant Of the constitution does
not necessarily signify that Turkey is to
emerge at once from the gloom of medi-
eval autocracy into the daylight of rep
resentative government. The experiment.
1t is to be remembered. was tried over
thirty years ago. when the present sultan
proclaimed a constitution. by virtue OF
which a parliament was assembled. There
came then much the same sort of reaction
That has occurred In Persia. and, in a
way. In Russia as we'll. The Turkish par
lament lasted eleven months and accom-
plished nothing. Possibly had it not been
for the war with Russia the parliament
might have justified its existence The
constitution now proclaimed is revival OF
that Of 1876. declaring the indivsibility
Of the empire, the supremacy of the sui
tan. individual liberty, the freedom of
all creeds, of the press and of education
equal and legal taxation. quadrennial
elections and irremovable judges.
1t has been said that there was never
q monarch more facile in the making and
breaking of promises than Abdul Hamid
II. present ruler of Turkey. The stua-
ton today presents him to a somewhat
skeptical world rather in the role of his
satanic majesty in i'll health. Whether
Abdul Hamid will prove to be devil
OF monk remains to be disclosed by
the events in that always interesting re-
zion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26
SURPRISING NOISES.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
When New York suppresses noise on
Sunday 1t is to be supposed youthful cit
les that regard 1t as a mark of metropol-
itanism will pause and consider.
From the Augusta Herald.
If the Society for the Prevention of Use
less Noises will include campaign spell
binders 1t will greatly increase in well
deserved popularity.
From the Chicago Record Herald.
New York is trying to suppress unnec-
essary noises. This can never be accom-
plished as long as actors are permitted TO
stroll up and down the Rialto telling one
another about the salaries they received
last year and the parts that are now be-
ing written for them.
From the Baltimore News.
While New York is engaged in SUPP
pressing unnecessary noises Tim Wood
rufus vests should not be overlooked.
From the Chicago Journal.
Somebody is thinking of starting an
anti-noise crusade in Chicago. This is
not intended. however. as slap at Col.
Jim Ham Lewis, the big noise Of the DEM
ocratic party.
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Threats.

A man was arrested In New York the
other day on the charge of writing
threatening letter to his mother. demand
ing $1,000 on pain of having her head
blown off in case Of refusal. He came OF
a well known, once highly aristocratic
family In Manhattan and the arrest
aroused great interest. His wife declared
that her husband had written the letter
only as joke. but the case appeared to
warrant his detention, and he was later
sent to an institution for examination as
to his sanity. This case revives memory
of crime committed recently in New
Jersey. A man uttered threats against
the recorder of the village. who had sent
him to jail for wife beating. Nobody paid
attention to the threats and yet every
body was shocked when they were exc
cuted. The Star commented upon this
matter of idle. vicious. criminal talk and
suggested that it was far better to arrest
before than after a crime. The process
followed in New York is Of the preventive
character. The utterance Of threats.
whether by mouth or letter, is practice
that should be severely discouraged by
police measures. ~and whether the New
York man threatened his mother as joke
or seriously it is we'll to take the precau-
ton of arrest in order to demonstrate that
1t is unsafe to trifle with human life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26
CUTTING DOWN.
From the Toledo Blade.

From the Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Taft is cutting down his letter Of
acceptance which goes to show that he
wants the people to read it
From the Birmingham Age Herald.
Mr.. Taft could make a hit by confin-
ing his acceptance speech to these words !:
Thanks: I'll run
From the Buffalo Evening News.
Mr.. Taft will win votes by cutting his
1O,OOO-word speech to 1900, but 1t does
seem like taking an unfair advantage Of
Mr.. Bryan.
From the Des Moines Capital
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Bryan will
emulate Mr.. Taft in boiling 1t down.
From the Sioux City Tribune.
The candidate who can make one word
grow where two grew before is going to
be a winner this year.
From the Syracuse Herald.
Mr.. Taft is taking enough pains with
that speech of acceptance to indicate that
there Is something more than my poll
cies in it.
From the Memphis News Scimetar.
Nj. Taft Is trying to make 1900 words
do what he had already assigned to 10000
Success to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26
A Constitution IN rurksy

Had Sultan Abdul Hamid not0ehut him
self go tightly within his palace walls at
Constantinople. had ne Travelled more
widely and placed himself more closely
I'm touch with his people. he would long
ago have seen the certain signs of revolt
against his unqualified rule. But 1t was
contrary to the spirit Of the sultan and
. Turkeys traditions that the monarch
should consider II necessary ever to con-
suit his subjects on any question 1t has
been apparent for many years that there
were two forces at work in Turkey. the
reactionary and the liberal. and that the
liberal party was constantly growing in
strength. Yet there were few who haz-
arded opinion that liberalism could
win, inUomuch as the sultan maintained
his army upon the basis of religious
leadership. and. moreover. at all times
had reason to rely upon the fidelity OF
his Albanian subjects. The Albanians
are the most truculent Of all the Turks
and have virtually held the balance OF
power in the sultan's dominion From
them the army has been chiefly recruited
in recent years. They have been the bull.
wark of his throne. Consequently when
they became infected with the bacillus OF
liberalism. nothing was left the sultan
but to abdicate from his position Of abso.
lutte autocracy and grant a renewal OF
the constitution of 1875.
The Young Turks have been at work
as party for years in an effort to under
mine the suitans authority. They have
fomented rnutiny in the army. They have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26

Tho recent celebration by the st. Louis
Republic Of its hundredth birthday has
called attention pointedly to the fact that
this country is acquiring an historical
perspective. 1t now has several Journal
istic centenarians. The passing by the Re-
public Of It's hundredth milestone il, how
ever. an especially interesting event. The
paper from which the Republic of today
grew, the Missouri Gazette. was started
shortly after the Louisiana purchase.
Thus the Republic represents a century OF
empire building. as evidenced today in its
results by the thickly populated. prosper
Gus industrially and agriculturally impor
tant middle west Throughout its change.
the Republic has voiced the sentiment OF
national expansion and growth and in it,
prosperity it has reflected the forces tina,
have made for American greatness.
The centennial edition of the Republic
press 1t called for a heavy expenditure
of time and money and 1t is a substant
contribution toward the newspaper litera.
ture of the nation. With q circulation OF
1000 copies. each copy consisting Of IS:
pages made up into eighteen parts, the
centennial edition involved the use Of over
''p IONS OF white paper. Inls 1act IL elO'
quent of the manner in which the news
papers of today discharge their obligations
to the public and meet the expectations
of their supporters. In its contents the
centennial edition Is a most interesting ag
gregation Of facts relative to the growth
of ST. Louis and of the Republic. the
whole edition epitomizing the western
enterprise which has achieved such re.
markable results for the American peo-
pie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26
The STEAM SHOVEL NAN.
From the Syracuse Herald.

From the Syracuse Herald.
Mr. Taft has been elected a member Of
the Steam Shovelmen's Union. When
are the Steam RoIlermen going to get to-
gether and take action?
From the Newark Evening News.
You can see for yourself that Steam
Shovelman Taft is bound to make the
dirt fly. However. he has not announced
his intention to take anybody's dust.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat
Nj. Taft has been elected a member of
the International Society of Steamshovel
Men. The International Society of Steam
rolle- Men, If there is such an organiza-
ton seems to have excellent ground for
a protest.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
Candidate Taft Is to be a union man
Huh says somebody, he is pretty nearly
two now.
From the Hartford Evening Post.
Candidate Taft is now a member of the
Steam Shovelmen's Union. Immediately
after his election to that honor he pro-
ceeded to give Bryan another dig.
From the indianapolis Star
As a member of the Shovelers' Union
Mr.. Taft will feel justified in continuing
to call a spade spade.
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PERHAPS.

Oh. perhape yOu think the city doesn't have
welcome sound
When one comes back from the country, very
rested up and Drowned
And perhaps You think the subway and the
trolley and the IL -,
Don't appeal to one who's been away from OLD
New York q spell.
Oh perhaps the crowds Of people and the music
and the lights
Don't look great to who's gone to bed At
1880. nights.
And the hustle and the tumult and the highways
melody
Oh, perhaps you think that doesn't make an
awful hit with me.
HAPPY. maybe. peradventure. 1t may chance. and
exc perhaps
You opine that one is sorry when one has to
leave the yaps
Oh perhaps you think wishes one might
travel back tonight.
And perhaps, o gentle reader. you have guesse1
exactly right.
New York Evening Mall
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A New Shouting Record.

The prohibitionists have not received
sufficient credit for the sobrety-no pun
tntended-which characterized the pro-
ceedings at their national convention.
Everything was done quietly and in order.
No long-distance shouting record was
made. There was del.beration, and to
spare. And yet today. only two weeks
later. not one man in a hundred can
give the names of the prohibition nomi-
nees. Query: Does noise serve to fix the
personnel of national ticket in the
memory?
We shall probably witness something
different at Chicago Monday. The indie
pendence leaguers are ex-democrats or
ex-republicans. trained in the old school
of politics. They have noted the Roose-
welt record at Chicago and the Bryan
record at Denver. and must have been
stirred by them. What more likely, there
fore, than that they will try to make a
record of their own, exceeding the Bryan
record by as much as the Bryan record
exceeded the Roosevelt record?
The opportunity will come early in
the action. Mr.. Hearst is to preside over
the convention. and the bare sight of
him should set the delegates off, He is
fully as much to them as Mr. Roosevelt
Is to the republicans or Mr.. Bryan to the
democrats. In fact, a little more. AS
there were brave men before Agamem-
non, there were republicans before
Roosevelt and democrats before Bryan.
But there were no independence leaguers
before Hearst. He is, indeed, the father
of his party-first In its wars. first in its
peace and first in the hearts of it's fol-
lowers. Is he not worth two hours of
lung power? That would set him ahead
of Mr.. Bryan, and entitle him to the
horns.
The great parties are fast coming to
the necessity Of employing chorus mas
ter. II they insist upon show features
at their conventions they must
adopt show methods. Shouting crowds
should be drilled. In that way Threats
could be brought to stand longer strain.
and while busy do more effective work
There is art in making noise-a system to
be studied. For amateurs, without prac-
tice or a director. those fellows at Chi
cago in June. and two weeks later those
fellows at Denver, did very well. But
both crowds, under the eye and baton
of a master spieler, would have done
twice as well. and maybe have held
out twice as long. Has the Hearst crowd
been drilled?
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The FIRST CHAPTER.

president Roosevelt will get dollar Q vcf1J
We nwo plunks, q buck that's FOUR
And then tsix dollars. pieaseD
l fired that's eight o shot 1.-TWO moreD
And brought him to his knees.
The hunting scene THAT makes nineteen)
IL something really nne:
The junEle'e all a vivid green.
II think that's twenty -nine.)
Tonight we lie beneath the sky.
Zone. two three. four. i've, eix>:
It's great tseven, eight: the moon ia high,
The woods full of big sticks!
so what We do uhat's twenty-twoD
Let's do with all might,
Come. Kermit count. whate er you %!
Yes. twenty-eig is right!b
II II great sport tiny words short,
But why should I waste ink?D
I thought / heard a rhinO snort
In coming down TO drink.
I'm on his track KERMIT. 70 back
And count these words again.
The night is still and raven backl
Loeb, come and hold my pen)
Bang Bang! Bang! Bang! They'll hate to pay
For four bangs in q
dollar each. but that's the way
The contract reads, l knowo
loeb. ekin the rhino while ! add
These wordsl What heavenly breeze!
We're OF to bed! land Kermit. lad.
Mail this first chapter. pleaseJ
j. w. Foley, in the New York Times.
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BOARDING The LION.

Half hoping to he creditor
Unto a certain editor.
sought his sanctum high.
I've here" said ], I'm manuscript.
A spicy story" and I slipped
II underneath his eye.
What's about? % he turned his head.
about a Thousand WORDS" ] said.
1t was a sorry Qulb.
The sheets he seized at me to ding.
But spicy had called the thing.
And 70 he took q dip.
"Why. this 10 stun about bear.
He grOwled-'there's nothing splcy here.
yamoose! Be on the rum
Hold ont" said L; don't 6agty -.
The bears a cinnamon"
Chang! came upward from the gtseoe.
.'TN take his head. you take his feet"
Family I heard one say.
A lift-a long. swift ride-Tve ossn
Three solid weeks IN Ward Thirteen
I'm limping home today.
Boston Ttanscf1p
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Tom Watson.

Tom Watson would bring back the
reign of democratic principles as they
were practiced IN the 4Us and sos" AS
easy as bringing back the democratic
leaders of that period The country is
not to be faced about and headed for the
dead past. This is the year of grace 1903,
with human slavery gone. wealth multi
piled beyond the dreams OF men who lived
half q century ago. the desert that was
then beyond the Mississippi now a fruit
full empire and eighty-odd millions Of
people prospecting under the Stars and
Stripes Today's conditions demand prin-
ciples OF today. Mr.. Watson should adj
dress himself to things that are alive.
What remedies for the living present?
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BRYAN and the Judiciary.

The Charleston News and Courier.
r:hch was opposed to the nomination
OF Mr.. Bryan at Denver. and will not
be inconsolable If he is defeated, is plying
him with questions about his course in
case of election. This Is one:
I'm the selection and appointment of
United States judges for the supreme. cir
cult or district benches. would you be
controlled by political or factional con-
wards for assistance given to you ana the
party you represent in the presidential
election?"
Why, Mr. Bryan would follow the rule.
A1i the rule is for a President to appoint
to the bench men whose views on the
larger propositions liable to come before
the court agree with his own. All Presi-
dents have done this Some years ago
President Harrison appointed a democrat
to the supreme bench, but the appointee-
Senator jackson Of Tennessee-was sound
on the money question. which was the
great question of that day. And Presi-
dent Roosevelt appointed Col. Jones of
Alabama. democrat. to the district
bench, but Col Jones was in agreement
with the President on the money question
and several other questions.
A most conspicuous case in point was
the appointment Of Mr.. Lamar to the
supreme bench by President Cleveland.
The Mississippian, who was q brilliant
and an estimable man. had no standing
among lawyers. When a young man he
had been a law lecturer at a small college.
bur had been in politics ever since. The
country. and particularly the lawyers.
heard of the appointment with amaze
ment. 1t was made largely because of
Mi. Lamar's record on the money ques-
ton. Mr.. Cleveland attached great i'm
portance to that, and remembered that
Mr.. Lamar had defied the legislature of
Mississippi on the greenback issue, throw
Ing his influence in the Senate to sound
money. He was the one southern man
in the democratic party who had taken
that stand.
We may all be sure that Mr.. Bryan If
elected President will appoint to the
bench only men who agree with him on
the larger questions Of the day. And, In
the last analysis, that Is probably the
most important issue in this campaign.
Several vacancies on the supreme bench
are impending by reason Of age. A number
OF others for the same cause are likely
to eccur in the near future on the benches
Of the subordinate courts. Shall Mr..
Bryan or Judge Taft I'LL such vacancies?
Organism in the White House will mean
Bryanism on. the bench. And II Mr..
Bryan reaches the White House he is
likely to remain there eight years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26
A Calculating Man.


He couldn't afford to have most of the
That people go after. When business was
done
He simply went home: and the knowing
ones say
That he surely missed many a headache
that way
He had no big house to be kept in repair
And no. automobile to cause doubt and
despair.
He figured that when he had run one and
stored it.
He couldn't afford It.
He couldn't afford to go travelling far.
He felt not the terrors of steamship and
car.
He couldn't afford TO be sporty" and
find
That along with his cash he had lost
peace Of mind.
He sometimes would yearn for thor
oughbred steed
That would startle his friends with its
grace and its speed,
But he said. when they told him the
charges to board it.
He couldn't afford It,
So he lived in a peaceful. industrious
style,
With time for song and with mood for
smile,
And noted how many mid struggles for
wealth
AS in fortune they gained became bank
rupt in health.
With modest abundance existence seemed
fair:
Superfuous treasure meant discord and
care
Since he couldn't expend it with comfort
nor hoard It,
He couldn't afford it!
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tune. and the police should be authorized
to give warning to the persistent crank
grinder whose ear tormentor has fallen
below par. Some day, perhaps a way
will be found to soften the noises Of
street cars and garbage carts and other
disagreeable but necessary appurtenances
of city life. Some respect will be paid
then to the man whose ideal of good gov
eminent centers in the freedom from use
less noise.
Sociologists are inclined to aver that
noises are an excellent factor in over
coming the city drift. Certainly the de-
mand for peace and the difficulty of And
ing it in the urban region may be re-
sponsible for large percentage Of the
outgoing tendency of humanity today.