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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-11-12
In MemOriam.

Mrs. jamie (Cabeen) Ivey, wife of Mr..
W. E. Ivey of "Linwood, passed from
earth to her heavenly abode on Wednes-
day, October 21st, at her home. She
was converted early in life and was a
faithful member of the Presbyterian
Church. Long ago dear jamie found the
beautiful life," and by her sweet
Christian spirit, her gentle charity,
proved her sincerity. AS Christian
she had that humility and love which
drives out all pharisaical pretense.
OF all her virtues the ehief and crown
was her devotion to her. husband, her
children and invalid sister. Her home
life was exquisite in its love and gentle
ness. For many weary weeks her de-
voted husband bent over her day and
night, doing all that love could devise to
relieve her suffering and prolong her
life.
Last Christmas Their last with her dear
ones) she was SO happy. The mood Of
praise was domi1ant in her heart and i,
never lost it's sweetness through all he1
long weeks Of patient suffering until she
joined the throng in the Beautiful City
of God"
A loving wife, devoted mother, a
gentle sister, a faithful friend, an I'M
pretentious Christian is gone from US
forever, and because she has gone there
is less OF cheers less Of love, less Of
brightness for u.s. but let us not grieve,
for "What is ourloss is her gain.'
The funeral services were held in the
Presbyterian. CHI ch at Cottage Grove
and were conducts by Rev. J. K. Smith
of the First Presbyterian Church o.
Shreveport. A Large eonceurse of friends
and relatives badea farewell to her earthly
form at the Collage Grove Cemeter,
where, under q mass of magnificent
floral offerings, We laid away the tiret
body to await the resurrection. AS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

and to overseen protectorates and DOS.
sessions consigned to our fostering
care by the force of arms.
And, after all, what tax does an ade.
quate navy impose?
Measured per capita, it is much less
than that borne with so much patriotic
willingness by our forefathers more
than hundred years ago. Standard.
lied by relatively imperilled interests,
( it is UNNECESSARILY less. Here is what
a secretary of the navy has said on
the subject:
80 The pecuniary BURDEN, he reports
to the president, imposed on each in.
habitant of, the United States for the
maintenance of the navy may be esti.
mated roughly, but with fair approx.
imation to accuracy, at one-third of
that borne by each inhabitant of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the burden OF
personal service to the like end at
about one-seventh. Expressed in fig.
ures, one may say that the cost of the
navy amounts to about $133 per annum
for each inhabitant Of the United
States, and that about six men out Of
every ten thousand inhabitants are at
present bound by law to naval service
Surely such burdens, or even some
slight increase of these burdens, will
be accepted without reluctance or muir.
muir by the patriotism and good sense
Of the American people,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

1t should not be amiss to point out
as lesson Of the loss of the Maine
that battleships are always cheaper
than war, and that the possession Of
an adequate number of such units in
vests q nation with the inbulnerability
that is the surest guarantee of peace.
None of these great instruments is,
it must be confessed, the cheap crea-
ton of an hour. . They are expensive
contributions to national defense, but
we must keep in mind that the total
outlay will be spread over a number Of
years, that the burden should not be
OnerOus, and the whole sum asked for,
multiplied three times, will be less
that what our lack of preparedness
cost us in the conflict with Spain. Had
four more battleships been available
in 1898 the unhappy hostilities with an
old friend would have been averted,
because with such a proved superiori-
ty in strength, even a nation so sensi-
tive and SO gallant as Spain would
have been justified in her refusal to
appeal to the arbitrament of arms.
That sudden, short and swift con-
flict, inferior as it proved to be in so
many Of the elementary energies of
modern warfare, cost this country
$500, 00o-that is, when the actual
money expended, the resultant in
crease in national debt, the burden
some taxes and the pensions are in.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
GEN. SLOCUM NOW A LUMBER BARGE
ll-Fated Steamer Once Used as an Excursion Boat
Is Remodeed

the cargo of the Inflated excursion
steamer converted into a barge instead
of the thousands Of happy excursion
lists who Travelled on each trip of the
old General Slocum between ManIlat-
tan and Rockaway, or on the special
Sunday school excursions, one Of
which ended in such a tragic manner.
There is not much to be said about
the Maryland, said Capt. Joseph.
"You see all there is to her and she'll
go in the service at the end of a.
haWser and be pulled along by a tow
boat. AS a lumber barge the Maryland
will do first rate. The sharp bow and
the low rail to which the fire on the
General Slocum reached is all that
makes the barge look like the steam
boat that she once was. Superstitious?
Not bit of it. The crew and nell
be careful and therell be no fire
aboard the Maryland if we, can help
it."
Typical of the ugly end that was
hers the converted General Slocum
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

teresting group, Sir Joshua Reynolds
''The Graces," in which were seen
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Henry
Rogers Winthrop and Mrs. Edward R.
Thomas.
Mrs. James B. Eustis made a start.
ling appearance as "salammbo" in a
gorgeous Eastern costume of rich bro.
cades and jewels and with live boa
constructor around her neck.
The charming little pantomime, lie
Revelion de Pierrette,' In three tab.
leaux, was somewhat suggestive of
'L'Enfant Prologue, :" produced there
in pantomime some years ago. The
chief characters, those of the impov-
erished artist and his model, were act
ed by Mrs. Waldorf Astor and Mr..
Lydig Hoyt.
Mrs. Howard Gushing executed an
Oriental dance, and there was series
of national dances and tableaux in
costume. In Greek dance were Mrs.
Frederick 6:--Beach;;BMrs. James B.
Eustis, Miss Maria Moran and Miss
Cornelia Bryce. In a group Of Span
ish dancers were Mrs. Ernest Iselin,
Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. William K.
Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Natalie How
land.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

Surrounded by coal barges and canal
boats, in the black and odoriferous
ooze of Gowanus canal, which even a
two-weeks' frost never can freeze over,
the lumber barge Maryland, formerly
the excursion steamboat General Slo-
cum, last week discharged her cargo.
The sharp bow of what once was a
popular pleasure craft is all that links
the Maryland to the vessel on which
more than a thousand lives were lost
in one of the most dreadful marine dis
asters in the history Of the world.
Above the water line, to which the
General Slocum was consumed by the
flames off North Brother island, every
thing is typical of the regulation lum-
Der barge
On the after deck stands a pilot
house which is the home of the seven
men who constitute the Maryland's
crew under Capt. Ben Joseph. A mill
lon feet of lumber will hereafter be
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

MAGISTRATE QUIZZED BY WOMAN DEFENDANT
Judge Peter F. Barlow of New York Is Placed in an
Unusual Predicament

ment that the woman made her state
ments to the Judges. Despite Interrupt
lions by the presiding judge and pro-
tests of the prosecuting attorney she
told her story in high pitched voice
that was heard by every one in the
crowded court room, and when she
had finished shook her head defiantly.
Court was quickly adjourned and
word was sent to Magistrate Barlow
at the Union club to appear as wit
ness at the afternoon session. There
was a unique scene when the Poillon
woman, acting as her own counsel,
and spurned offers of legal representa-
ton, questioned the distinguished ap-
pearing magistrate.
"Peter Townsend Barlow, do you
know me?" she asked
II do" was the reply.
How long have you known me?"
Since the night before the Dewey
parade-about ten years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

There was a fashionable audience
in the ball room of the Plaza in New
York recently for the tableaux wants
and pantomime entitled lie Reveillon
de Pierrette," given for a charity in
Virginia, at the suggestion of Mrs.
Waldorf Astoria, who was also an i'm
portant actor in the pantomime.
These tableaux were among the most
notable given in New York, and were
arranged by Prince Pierre Troubets-
koy, William Metcalf and other paint
ers OF that city, with suggestions from
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, whose expert
ence on the dramatic stage was of no
small help. Nine. Lima Cavalieri of
the Metropolitan Opera company per.
sonally applied the stage makeup
necessary to tone the faces of the
women who posed in the pictures,
which had been chosen from masters,
ancient and modern. Those who
posed were among the beauties in So
ciety> in New York.
For the tableaux there were shown
Nine. Vigee LIE Bruins 1.-THE Girl With
the Muff," by Miss Elsie Rowland;
Mary Grows "Phyllis.Dzin which Mrs.
Edward R. Thomas posed; Burne-
Jones aesthetic Hope" with Miss
Cornelia Bryce in TIE picture; Rom
ney's Lady Hamilton as "Thais," one
Of the most striking of the pictures,
posed by Mrs. John Jacob Astor; Mrs.
Frederick o. Beach in Romney's "Na-
ture," and Mrs. William Payne
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21


sneaked into port from Baltimore on
Saturday night. For the want Of dis
charging berth, the one time excursion
craft, with her million feet Of lumber,
lay at anchor off the Statue of Liberty
and not one of the harbor boats once
took notice Of their old comrade Of the
bay. Then she was towed to the 1um-
Der dock in the Bowanus canal and the
work of discharging her lumber was
begun.
The vessel on which more than
thousand men, women and children
lost their lives, and which caused des-
olation to hundreds of homes, will end
her days going UP and down the Allan
tic coast between New York, Baltf-
more and Boston,. Some day, in all
probability, when a hurricane snaps
the hawser and the seas wash over the
deck load of lumber, the erstwhile
General Slocum will find her final
berth in water good deal deeper than
she ever sailed during her existence
as an excursion craft
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

Asserting that she had lent Magis-
trate Peter F. Barlow $4,000 to help
buy seat on the stock exchange; that
the magistrate had agreed to pay her
hotel bills, and that there had been an
intimate acquaintance between them
for ten years, Katherine Poillon, CEN
trail figure in many episodes, created a
mild sensation in special sessions in
New York, where she and her younger
but equally well known sister, Char
lotte, were convicted of defrauding the
Hotel Bristol out of board bill of
$135.
Friends of the magistrate character
lied the statements of the woman as
absurd, and declared that she was
striving to injure him because Of her
belief that, as a magistrate, he had
added to her troubles during the last
four years.
It was with show Of bitter resent
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

cluded. Indeed, should we go further
afield, the withdrawal even for so
short period, of thousands of our
citizens from the fields of productive
industry, multiplied beyond all ap-
praisement the direct or indirect out
lay and waste caused by our unpre-
paredness. z
Nor are external examples lacking
to substantiate the Inevitable lessons
of such wars. An equal unreadiness
ashore in the Boer war cost Great
Britain $1,1OO,OOO,OOO in very hard
cash, and, apart from the pathetic
sacrifice of life, Russia and Japan ex-
pended in their struggle a sum so
much greater that it staggers the i'm
agination. It seems, therefore, SIM
pie duty, when the memory Of our lost
battleship, lying bruised, with it's dead,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

in the channel ways of a friendly har-
Dor, comes home to us with fresh
poignancy, to point out that. the cost
of SPANS unftness, in all save cour-
age, and unpreparedness, except in
patriotism, was so much greater than
: the expense of the instrumentalities
that would, because of force majeur,
have made the conflict impossible.
It should be remembered, moreover,
that the money appropriated is, under
the law, money spent at home. The
outlay will give employment to Ameri-
can labor, teach American mechanics
new and honorable trade and stimu-
late many co-ordinating home indus
tries. The final result of such COM
bined effort should be not only a
source of pride to our people, but a
bulwark of protection to our ittoral
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

The woman asked one or two other
questions, as she said, Ito show the in.
timacy that existed between myself
and the magistrate" District Attorney
Jerome, who had taken personal
charge Of the prosecution, objected to
the statements Of the woman, and she
was instructed by the court to ask
what questions she wished and then to
remain silent. Mr.. Jerome asked the
magistrate one question.
Have you at any time;" he said, cor
in any place within the last two years,
in conversation with the defendants
or in the presence of any one else, said
that in consideration of Miss Poil1on
not suing you for $4,000 or $500 you
would pay her hotel bills?"
II have not ..
Within two minutes after this an
swer was given the judges declared
the Poillon women guilty and remand
ed them to the Tombs.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
WHY WOMEN RIDE AsTRIDE.

Not to Follow Fad, but Because
Many Physicians Advise It.
1T is the general opinion among the
physicians with whom associate y
writes a correspondent of the New
York Medical Journal, shat the fash
ion of women riding astride has not
had its origin in fad so much as it has
in the advice of physicians Of our
modern type.
.'The fact that a person riding
astride can have more freedom from
jar and jolt than one riding on side
saddle should be point in favor of
the astride method, aside from the
fact of it being safer and easier for
the rider.
"The fact that it might be consid-
cred immodest by those who are not
familiar with the astride method of
riding is no reason; why it should be
condemned. The main reason why it
Is becoming more popular is because
physicians in general see it's good
points over the old method and are
thus advising it"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

Thompson as Davids famous portrait
of Mime. Recamier," which also was
noteworthy.
Miss Edith Deacon, who had been
expected to pose as Sargent's Car
mencita," was prevented by delayed
train from appearing in the afternoon,
and instead Of her Mrs. William K.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
Steel Cars.

The advantages which were present!
ed by the advocates Of steel freight
cars when they were first used in this
country have been well sustained by
ten years experience with increasing
numbers of them.
The wooden car is shown to be
more and more inefficient with each
advancing year. The capacity is low
and good lumber is scarce and high
priced. The cost Of repairs to ordinary
wooden coal. cars is nearly 500 a year
and the time wooden cars are out OF
service undergoing repairs is about
six times that of steel cars. The quail
ity of the material in steel cars is near
ly uniform, and good material can be
secured by competent test and inspec
ton.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
RiaIto Condolences.

How do you get through the sum
mer?" INQUIRED Yorick Hamm.
II hire out on a farm near a literary
colony" andswered Hamlet Fatt, "and
novelistA oh. I supply long-feIt
want
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
Highest Finance.

Miss Tessie Rector-Ain't it fierce
the way the price Of everything has
gone up!
Miss Trixie Shanley-Fferce! It's
the limit! Why. cut Of my eighteen
per I have 70 pay dfty Just fos twin
expenses. can hArter sava = cent
Puck.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21

-, wv.
vanderbilt, Jr., was seen as Spanish
dancer. One of the most gorgeous of
the pictures was that of "Semiramis,"
In which Mrs. Benjamin Guinness
posed in a. costume of Oriental mag
nificence, with jewels of great value,
including some belonging to Mrs.
Astor. There was a graceful and in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
No Uncertainty.

BriggsI hear you've been specu-
lating In Wall street.
GriggsThere was no specializing
about it. was dead sure thing from
the start.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
Getting II All.

What can I bring you to- day, sir"
II hardly know. The doctor says /
need carbohydrates and proteids, and /
want something heterogeneous, think"
''Yessir. How about an order Of
hash?"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
A Hint.

Mrs. A.-There are times when I
wish were a man.
Mr.. A.-For instance?
Mrs. A.-When pass milliner's
window and think how happy ] could
make my wife by giving her new hat.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
Sweet Sorrow.

IT can't please my friends" sobbed
the young bride.
Whats the matter, pet?"
"They insist that I can't be happy
with fathead like you. but, oh, hus-
1band. ami"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-03-21
This is a Bad one.

New York is first Republican and
then Democratic. chameleon state"
"Ah, yes. And can the chameleon
change its Hughes q
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1908-01-02
Changes in Route I.

Starting at the postofice the carrier
will 60 thence:
East to the northeast corner of Sec
tion 80, north on the east line of Sec
tions 10 and 18, south to the northeast
corner section 10, east to the northeast
corner section q, south to thu northeast
corner section q, south to the northeast
corner section 80, east to the northeast
corner section "a, east to the northeast
corner section IS, north to the northeast
corner section IA, west to the northeast
corner section Is, north to the northeast
corner section 10, west to the northeast
corner section T.. west to the northeast
corner section II, south to the northeast
corner section %, west on the north line
section q and % southwest to the post
Office. Length of route 274 miles.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1908-01-02
Doctor Hale on Woman's Work.

Doctor Hale on Woman's Work.
In his Monthly Talk in The Woman's
Home Companion DR.. Edward Everett
Hale says:
''Will you please to remember that
the bottom rock of American success is
the habit or determination that every
place, village, town, neighborhood, or
whatever you call it, shall have home
rule. If and Mr.. Goodchild want to
have road and a bridge which shall go
back to the rhododendron swamp, we
build the road and we build the bridge
with such help as we can get from Mrs.
Tucker or from Mr.. Chaplin, and we do
not write to sub-perfect who writes
to perfect who writes to an assistant
commandant who writes to another
commandant who writes to an intendent
who writes to secretary of engineers
who sends word to US from the seat of
government whether we may build the
bridge and how we may build it. Lift
where you stand expresses the founda-
tion principle, the subsoil, the hard pan,
the bed rock of American life.
CHOW, very queer thing has de-
veloped in the evolution of this prin-
ciple. It has proved that where the
men Of the country have been too busy,
or have thought they were, to attend
to their own affairs, the women have
been able to attend to them better
than the men do.
''Take this business which have re-
ferred to, Of a neighborhood library,
feeding region Of not more than four
or five thousand people. The affairs of
that library, if they are well conducted,
are conducted by the women Of the
neighborhood. They know what their,
children want, they know what their
husbands need. And it is very fortu-
nate for the neighborhood and the
library that they can harness the horses
and can drive themselves to the meet
ings Of trustees and select the books
and tell Miss Dorcus how many she
may buy"
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1908-01-02
Swedish Lutheran Church.

SWe0lSn Lutheran CnQfC0.
New Years services were conduc ted
last Wednesday morning.
The Luther League will meet this
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Swanson at 7:3O O'Clock. All
members are requested to be present
as this will be the annual meeting and
important business will be conducted.
A short program will be rendered. All
friends are cordially invited.
Regular morning service next Sunday
at II o'clock. Evening service at 7:30.
The evening service will be conducted
in the English language.
The Sewing Circle was entertained
by Mrs. Nels Hanson last Friday after
noon. This was the annual meeting Of
the Circle and the reports were very
encouraging. During the past year the
society has realized something over $3.50.
The Sewing Circle will meet with
Mrs. P. Bergstrom a week from next
Friday forenoon at II O'Clock.
All the qualified voters of the congre-
cation are requested to meet next Sat
urday afternoon at l o'clock for the
annual meeting. The church council
will meet with the pastor at Ben Bow.
mans at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
Swedish service in the Clement church
next Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
&C. w. Samuelson, Pastor.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1908-01-02
Real Estate Transfers.

List of transfers furnished by A. l..
Beggs & Son, Abstracters, Glendale,
N. D.
Morris willet to Roy O'Neal, lots 10
and II, block z, Monango.
John w. Tyler to Charles T. Ander-
son, nw4 II 132-61.
Fred Phillips to r. w. S. Blackwell,
lot a 3O-132-6O.
T. E. More to John Thorn. mel
7-131-62.
James Killeen to Charles Kendall ct
al. nw4 32-130-6O.
c. w. Bruce to James E. Bruce, mel
9-129-64 and other lands.
Nellie Grain to Charles w. Grain. sci
29-131-63.
Laird Norton Co. to Stephen w.
Teal, lots 13 to 18. block 9, o. P,
Cakes.
James E. Ricketts, to ]. M. Stahl
nw4 14-13O-63.
Marshall McC Cartney Co. to H. J.
johnson, set 24-1S0-61.
Ranka johnson to Andrew White
lots 10 and 20 block II, o. P. Oakes.
A. G. Ramharter to J. H. Lindland
lots 16 and IL, block 18, Mccarthy
Add to Oakes.
E. s. Thomas to Frederick w. Luke
lot 6, block 8, Park Add Fullerton.
Clara B. Denniston to George Reid
sw3 81, 129-59.
B. s. Kingsley to Frank E. Val
Middlesworth, lots s and 6, block 4
Fullerton.
Oscar d. Beggs to Hosea S. Ballou
Part of 81, set 17-131-60.
Marshall-McCartne Co. to Evan Moe
lot 1s, Marshall McCartney's Subdiv
ision of 81 block z of Washburns Add
to Oakes.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1908-01-02
School Report.

The pupils not absent from School
No. 8, Clement district, for the month
ending Dec. Goth, are as follows:
Clarence Jacobson, Alfred FROZEN, Ben
ME FROZEN, Arthur jacobson, Carl
FROZEN, Norman Beckwith, Albert
Berggren, Harris Jacobson, Oliver
Blazer, Enoch FROZEN, George Adams,
Henry Adams, Ovidia FROZEN, Alma
FROZEN, Ruth jacobson, Clara Gemar,
Margaret Adams, Ruth Berggren.
Alice Mahoney, Teacher.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1908-01-02
The Presbyterian Church.

Special attempt is being made by the
pastor to have two services of special
interest next Sunday morning and
evening. The subject of the morning
sermon will be .'Our Plain and Present
Duty" in the evening, ''The Greatest
Work in the World" All are invited
to these services.
All members of the Sunday School
should be present next Sunday to get
into line for diploma at the end Of
the year.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1908-01-02
Estrayed.

strayed from my place two bay colts,
(full brothers) coming 2 and years
old in the spring. Both have halters
on and also white star in the head
Finder please notify Emil Glowik for
reward, Forman, N. D.