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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-09
Uncle Sans Human Hinges.

In other cities the doors Of pubic
buildings are set on springs and slap
to and fro as the visitor wills, but 10
Washington 1t appears necessary TO
have special man to open and close
the doors-human hinges, rs II were
no undignified banging of doors there.
This custom has died out IN other
places, but there are many vetcran NJ.
groes in Washington who have srril
years Of such service for the covers.
ment They have u stately way %
performing this Office. which gives .
door an official and unofficial swing
Joe Mitchell Chapple In National Mag
aZine.
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1T HELPS.-In answering advertisements III .'ic
Banner please say: =. saw your al. III .hc
Bossier Banner"
FOR SALE-A first-class family horse. wiz
work anywhere. About Is hands high, youns
and in good condition. See or write Y. r. JONES'
Plain Dealing, La.
Zone dime a line" under this head means w
the first insertion; each subsequent inserto"
without change, 3 cents per line. When INC
same matter is run continuously without change
for ten or more weeks the rate, after the n's'
Insertion Is 3,S cents per line.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-09
Education.

Herbert Spencer: Education is the
preparation for complete living.
Ruskin: Education is leading human
minds and souls to what is right and best,
and making what is best out Of them;
these both go together.
James Mill: The end of education is to
render the individual, as much as possible,
an instrument Of happiness, first to him.
self, and next to other things.
John Stuart Mill: Education includes
whatever we do for ourselves and whatever
is done for US by others for the express
purpose of bringing us nearer to the per-
lection of our nature.
Milton: | call, therefore, a complete
and generous education that which fits a
man to perform justly, skillfully and mag
unanimously all the Offices, both private
and public, Of peace and war.
Whewell: Education is the process Of
making individual men participators in the
best attainments of the human mind in
general, namely, that which is more
rational, true, beautiful and good.
Hallam: knowledge will be spread over
the surface of nation in proportion to the
free circulation of books, to the emolu-
ments and distinctions which literary at
tainments are found to produce, and still
more to the reward which they meet in the
general respect and applause of society.
Omar: Four things come not back
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-09
DR.. e. G. Allen, of Shreveport,

Obs e u HI1Cus VI OUTCVSF'7
Announces that he has opened an once
in the Cooper Building. DR.. Allen -
graduate of both schools and carries
full line of homeopathic remedies.
Special attention given chronic diseases
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FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

Ground was broken last Thursday at
New iberia for new railroad.
The Atlantic armored cruiser squadron
will greet President Taft at New Orleans
October 3Oth.
Because of the shortage of funds the
schools of Lafayette Parish may not open
until January 1st.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
chartered steamship to take a cargo of
New Orleans made goods to Mexico.
J. B. Brown, ex-Mayor of Pearl River,
st. Tammany Parish, was drowned at that
place by falling from the drawbridge.
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LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

WV - 1i> ~sANOEAfNa 10"
Eight States have placed ban on Gig
arettes.
Scientists accept Cooks North Pole
discovery.
The floods in Java last week caused the
loss of 800 lives.
Several towns were destroyed by floods
in Mexico last week.
Railway earnings for the second week
in August broke records.
Oklahoma people don't want any more
big herds of Texas cattle, but farmers.
Caddie Harmon suicided with poison at
Aberdeen, Miss, after shooting at his
stepmother.
Commander Peary, of the United States
Navy, says he reached the North Pole
April 6, 1909.
Smokers in the United States last year
consumed 5,5OO,OOO,OOO cigarettes excu-
sive of imported goods.
1t is estimated officially that 5000 lives
were lost in the flood in Northern Mexico
on Saturday, August 28th.
The Government spent $28 Zoo, 900 more
than its revenues in the past two months.
The receipts were greater this year than
last, however.
More than forty thousand tons of high
grade pig iron for steel making were or
dered in Germany last week for export to
the United States.
Three persons were killed and another
probably fatally injured when train struck
the automobile in which they were riding
Sunday at Bay City, Mich.
The official statistics for the second
quarter of 1909, at Berlin, show that 1851
dogs have been slaughtered for food under
Government inspection, and 9,785 horses.
Wealthy men plan to buy Fishers Hill
battle ground in Shenandoah County, Va,
as reunion park. The Battle of Fishers
Hill was fought on September %, 1854.
Rain fell over the drouth belt of North
ern Virginia Saturday, the first of any
consequence since July list. All crops
have been cut short and the loss to the
farmers will amount to thousands of dollars.
Statistics published by the British Ad-
miralty on the expenditures of the seven
great powers on naval ornaments in 1909
| 1910 show the United States in second
place. The total will amount to S6O4, 100, :
600.
Statisticians who are eminently qualified
to form estimates believe that the United
States census to be taken next year will
show a population of between $4,000, 900
and 95,O00,0O0. They would not be sur
prised if the figures ran as high as 1OO,-
100000.
Heavy rains last Thursday broke the
protracted drouth in some sections of the
Middle West, while frost did extensive
damage to garden products and the tobacco
crop in localities in Indiana, Michigan and
Wisconsin. The loss caused by frost in
Muskegon and Oceana Counties, Mich,
amounts to at least 100000.
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CONFEDERATE DEAD.
From Alexandria Town Talk, May, 1905. |

CONFEDERATE DEAD.
From Alexandria Town Talk, May, 1908
The following list Of Confederate Veter-
ans, buried in the cemeteries in Pineville,
was furnished US by Mr.. w. W. Whiting /
ton, Adjutant of Jeff Davis Camp, United
Confederate Veterans, Alexandria. There
are others, but this is all that he could re-
member.
BURIED IN RAPIDES CEMETERY.
j. A. McWaters, Lieut.. Col. I'd La. Cav
airy. Killed in skirmish on Bayou Teche.
E. G. Randolph, Lieut.. Col. 9th Regt.,
Louisiana Infantry.
M. A. Grogan, 1t. Col. I'd La. Infantry.
F. M. Raxsdale, Major 18th La. Infantry.
J. L. Nolan, Capt. McMahon's Battery.
H. H. Parker, Co. D, list La. Cavalry.
]. H. Ransdall, Co. D, 1st La. Cavalry.
DR.. James S. Fish, Surgeon at Hospital
near Pineville.
VIM. Hustmyre, Co. B, I'd La. Infantry.
J. A. Crawford, Co. B, I'd La. Infantry.
L.C. Sanford, Benjamin's Cavalry.
G.. L. Zimmerman, &c
C. E. Ball, 6
Valentine Gurie,
James F. Garner, Louisiana Infantry.
J. w. Prescott, Co. K, La. Crescent Regt.
Robert Durham, Co. K, 6
Joseph Fellows, Co. K, 9 9
J. W. Freeman, CO. l, 4th Texas Cavalry.
w. H. Simms, Co. l, Consolidated Cres-
cent Regiment.
John M. Barrett LIST Lieut.. Co. l, Con-
solidated Crescent Regiment.
Col. Robert A. Hunter, Independent
Louisiana Cavalry Company.
Phil Spotten, Co. B, I'd La. Infantry.
BURIED IN MT. oL1vEr CEMETERY.
Thomas Overton Moore, Governor of
Louisiana from 1861 to 1854.
Mercer Garfield, Major Crescent Regt.
John Routh Williams, Capt. Co. D, 1st
La. Cavalry.
Capt. j. G. White, 18th La. Infantry.
Lieut.. James Fitzpatrick, Co. B, I'd La.
Infantry.
W. E. Taylor, Co. G, I'd La. Cavalry.
John Robinson, Co. G, &c
c. C. Weems, Co. G, g g
H. P. Osborn, Co. G, g 6
John Swartzenberg, G 6
A. Jarreau, Co. B, g 50
A. w. McLaurine, Texas Cavalry.
E. B. Pendleton, Major on Gen. John B.
Magruder's staff.
N. L. McGinnis, Col. I'd Texas Infantry.
Capt. j. J. McGinnis, I'd &c g
Henry Leckie, Co. K, Crescent Regt.
B. c. Duke, Co. K, 6 g
Louis Abadie, Co. l, 60
Capt. Harvey S. Losee, &c 50
Capt. w. K. johnson, 9Th La. Infantry,
and on Gen. H. T. Hays staff.
DR.. S. H. Rushing, Surgeon Florida
Brigade.
DR.. r. l.. Luckett, Assistant Surgeon
Army Of Tennessee.
D. D. Rogers, Co. D, list La. Cavalry.
Capt. J. G. P. Hooe, Kentucky.
Lieut.. Mitchell Neal, Co. I, Consolidated
Crescent Regiment.
Levi Stewart, Con. Crescent Regiment.
Ben B. Swami, Ordnance Department.
James w. Orsborn, g
John d. Orsborn, Benjamin's Cavalry.
Robert C. Hetherwick, Commissary De-
partment, Alexandria.
BURIED IN JEWISH CEMETERY.
Edward We'll, Co. B, 3rd La. Cavalry.
Bernard We'll, Co. D, list La. Cavalry.
Julius Goodman, Co. K, Crescent Regt.
Moses Rosenthal, Co. K, g
Mires Rosenthal, Co. K, 6
Isaac jackson, Capt. Company B, 18th
Mississippi Infantry.
Sam We'll, Benjamins La. Cavalry.
Bernard Meyer, Company E, 18th Lou
isiana Infantry.
Education.
Herbert Spencer: Education is the
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-09

Omar: Four things come not back:
the spoken word; the sped arrow; the past
life, and the neglected opportunity.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-09

DR.. George H. Bailey, last survivor Of
the Battle of Sabine Pass, died in Anaheim,
CAL, on August 3rd. On September 6,
1858, Gen. w. B. Franklin's army of in
vasion-five gunboats, twenty-five troop
ships and $1,000 men-attacked the fort,
which was defended by Lieutenant Richard
W. Bowling and forty-two men. The bat
tie ragged fierce and strong and was soon
over. The Confederates captured two
gunboats, crippled third, killed ninety
seven Federal soldiers, took $50 prisoners,
thirteen cannon, many small arms and
large quantities of ammunition and pro-
visions. The fort lost not man.
New York Herald: The supposition that
Christianity has to do only with the life of
the world to come is altogether a mistake.
AS every one knows, the Bible, and, above
all, the teaching Of Jesus Christ, abounds
in good advice as to right living now and
here in this world, which if fully put in
practice would make human life thousand
times better, safer and sweeter than it is.
Take the teaching of the text for an ex-
ample: ''Let every one of US please his
neighbor for his good to edifcation, for
even Christ pleased not Himself Think
what blessed thing it would be if every
man, woman and child the world over
would begin doing this to-day. Why, in
such case every house and home on earth
would be lightened and sanctified and
glorified, and Gods will would begin to be
done on earth as it is done in heaven.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
own and partly the essence Of your
youth and innocence"

own and partly the essence Of your
youth and innocence"
"Now, you are making me very
cross" said I. II won't hear you
talk SO. You may laugh at me, be-
cause we've known each other such a
short time, but really and truly you
are the best friend I've ever had.
wouldn't lose you for any one or any
thing in the world, and I don't mean
to, unless you get tired Of me-so.
therew
"TIred Of you! Good heavens, I tired
Of your
Every well, then," said l fippantly,
$50 far as I'm concerned you needn't
say goodby' to the Valley farm until
you feel the first symptoms coming
on"
Lady Betty" remarked Mr.. Brett,
81 wonder II there's another girl like
you in the world?"
According to my mother, there isn't
another SO vexing," replied.
We both laughed, and then he sud-
denly said, Here is Aristo."
stared about wildly. where,
where?" asked.
he laughed great deal more. why,
you're looking right at the postof1ce
and the grocery and dry goods store"
Sure enough. there was brown
wooden building at the top of dusty
hill we were just climbing. butthere was
nothing else anywhere, except clear
brown creek and some sweet smelling
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09

A man OF ffty uds coming toirdrd the
house.
served strawberries, and goodness
knows what all besides, while, IL We
stopped eating to breathe or speak,
Patty hew in with plate Of freshly
made things of the most heavenly M
turc. called corn fritters. Mrs. Trow
bridge beamed all over when said !
should like to live on them for 0
month.
We were obliged to eat good deal
OF everything. otherwise Mrs. Trow'
bridge would have felt hurt, and fell
sleepy when we had finished. but re
fused 10 go and lie down to rest. ms
they wanted me 10. 1t seemed such n
waste Of time. At last Mr.. Trowbridge
offered to show Cousin Jim" around
the farm. and maybe looked wistful.
for when they found that was deter
mined not to take nap. they asked II
would go with them.
Mr.. Trowbridge had on a linen coat
now, a long. yellow one, which should
laugh at II l saw 1t on the stage In q
play, but 1t suited him. and he looked
quite impressive in It. He famed him.
self with large straw hat. without
any ribbon. and talked splendidly to
US, as we three walked together under
the trees.
If any English person should write
a novel and make farmer In 1t talk
Ike Mr.. Trowbridge. every one who
:ead the book would say he was i'm.
possible. His way Of speaking was a
little slipshod sometimes-thouSh not
bit more than ours when we drop our
"g's" and things like that, only more
guileless soundng-but without seem
ing q bit as II he wanted to show OIL
what he knew. which is so boring. be
quoted Shakespeare and Wordsworth
and Tennyson and In mentioning his
work ut the hives In the morning asked
IL We had read Maeterlinck's Life o!
the Bee. From that he fell to dis
cussIng other things Of Maeterlinck's :
with Mr.. Brett and incidentally talked
Of Ibcen. There wasn't the least ar
fectation about It all.
BY and by he left us alone for few
minutes while he went to speak to
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
The Ben Davis Apple.

Probably no variety of fruit has caus-
ed so much argument as the Ben Davis
apple. In the last few years the vio-
lence of this argument has somewhat
subsded, but it has not altogether died.
There are still some men who consider
it criminal to grow Ben Davis, while
others are very sure that it Is the most
profitable apple that can be planted.
Some of those who are opposed to the
variety, but who will admit that it is
usually profitable, content themselves
with predicting its early downfall.
Such predictions have been common for
forty years, yet Ben Davis has gone on
increasing it's hold in every direction
throughout this time.
Some figures which the Massachusetts,
Experiment Station has recently collect
ed give intimation that possibly the
ong-looked-for check in the planting of
Ben Davis has almost arrived. A cir
cular letter of inquiry was sent out to
nursery men in all parts of the United
States and Canada, asking how the sales
of Ben Davis at present compared with
those of other varieties, and whether the
sales of Ben Davis are now increasing or
decreasing. A large number of replies,
covering the continent, give very in
teresting results. About 8 per cent OF
the nurserymen report that the sale Of
Ben Davis trees is still increasing.
About 29 per cent report no change,
while 62 per cent report decreased sales
of this variety. In some cases the de-
crease is very marked.
While it Is unsafe to draw any very
sweeping conclusions from correspond
ents of this sort, these figures are sufi-
ciently striking to merit some attention.
IL seems all the more probable that
there Is some truth in this inference,
from the fact that many other varieties
are specifically mentioned ss taking the
place of Ben Davis. In reply to ques-
ton on this head, about 20 different
varieties were named. Jonathan led the
whole field by large majority, and this
very fact would indicate that the con-
clusion regarding Ben Davis is well
founded, since Jonathan is popular In
the territory where Ben Davis has al
ways been prominent.
The second most important variety
being used as substitute for Ben Davis
is Gano. This substitution is entirely
intelligible, but will strike many readers
as being very small change for the bet
ter. It indicates, however, that the
tendency away from Ben Davis is still
localized in that section where the
variety has reigned most supremely. =.
The same observation would hold true OF
the other leading varieties mentioned as
su Institutes, these being Mammoth BLACK
Twig, Winesap, Grimes and York lm'
perial.
for all those persons who hope to see
higher standards of quality prevail In
American pomology. The tendency In
this list is distinctly upward. Jonathan,
| Winesap and Grimes are everywhere re,
corded as of the highest quail ty. and all
sources of information indicate clearly
the strong tendency towards the increas'
ed planting of these varieties through
out the central and south central states
this is in the Ben Davis country
Country Gentleman.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09

A Dover, N. H., item in the Man,
chester Union says: John Lucas sold
a cow to Mr.. Beach last Saturday and
drove her through here attracting
large crowd of people. The cow was
the largest one ever driven through the
streets here. She was weighed on the
scales in front of F. W. Meals hardware
store aud tipped the beam at 1915. she
was shipped to Brighton, Mass, to-day
with lot of other COWS, where she VII
be killed. The COW was one OF the fat,
test ever seen here. Mr.. Lucas received
S93 for her.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09

down the middle. 1t wasn't quite :
O'Clock, but II turned out that tue fam.
fly had had their dinner al noon exact
ly, and this was meal only for Mr.
Erett and me. with Patty aud lde To
bring us things from the kitchen and
wait upon us. while Mrs. Trowbridgr
fitted in smiling from time 10 time TO
ask how we were getting along" II
was she who was cooking for us. and |
felt quite distressed at the trouble |
was giving. on such a hot day, too. bat
she said she was enjoying 1t.
1t was very funny dinner. accord
ing TO my ideas, for never had meal
like II Mt home. even when ] was small
ard tined in the daytime with the gov
rrness. But 1t was tremendously good.
though noEe Of the things went to-
gether properly. We had delicious
young chicken-quite babies they were.
poor dears-fried with cream. and
wreathed all around our plates In a
semicircle were n quantity of tiny
dishes. Each one had big dab OF
something different in it; mashed po
tatoes. succotash, green peas. a kind
Of vegetable marrow to which they
gave the unworthy name Of squash"
raw tomatoes. sweet green pickles. pre-
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09

seeming to PIT herself forward as II
she were afraid Of not being noticed.
and then she was dressed so much
more elaborately. Perhaps, thought,
Patty was poor and In more depend
ent position than Ide.
The stairway. very steep and mar
row, leads straight up from the "livins
room," which is apparently In the cen.
ter of the house and fills the place OF
q hall. There are no balusters. but a
whitewashed wall on either side,' and
only one person can go up at time.
At the top is landing. with bare
painted floor, and doors opening from
It. One of the doors Is mine, and AS
they showed me In I could see that
Patty and lde both waited breath.
lessly for my verdict, their faces look
ing Quite strained and anxious until
exclaimed:
How fresh and pretty 1t is here!'
I meant 1t too. 1t is dear room.
with something pathetic about its sim
pie sweetness, and the kind thoughl
to give me pleasure which shows In
every little innocent detail. The fioor
Is covered with white straw mating.
and there are no two pieces OF furni'
ture that match. There's a wide wood
en- bed Of no particular period that |
can recognize, yet with an air of being
old fashioned. and there are stiff.
square shams to hide the pillows ana
turn down over the top of the sheeJ
with futed frills round tie edges. The
scent OF dried rose leaves and aven
der ming!es with the perfume Of the
pinks, and some Of the summer house
pagodas ON the wall are hidden with
old fashioned steel engravings and
photographs in homemade frames.
| didn't stop to examine the pictures
at first, but after Patty and Ide hat
tripped away cto see about ms din
ner," they said, ! was attracted by
faded cabinet photograph framed wit.
shells. 1t was a full length figure OF
q young man OH horseback. He was
dressed something like those splendid
cowboys they took me to see at Earis'
court when | was little girl. and the
face was Mr.. Bretts. 1t was so hand.
some and dashing could hardly stop
staring at II while | washed off the
dust of motoring. Evidently the pho
tograph in its frame, has been Oh the
wall long time. am glad they hap.
pened TO put it in what they call the
spare ROOM" so can look at it when
ever like without any one noticing.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09

During the past year an average OF 4lS
gallons Of milk was shipped daily from
The Boston & Maine railroad station at
Gorham to q. W. Hood & Sons, Boston,
for which Gorham farmers received
s28. 700. In addition to this large
quantity of milk Is sold by Edward A.
Roberts for Gorham village consump-
tion, mauyother parties sell for whole
sale and retail, while good deal is re-
ouired for homo use. Besides this q
large quantity is converted into butter.
More than 1900 COWS are kept by the
farmers for dairy purposes, making
Gorham one of tho largest dairy towns
In tho state.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
fro BE Continued
a Willing Victim.

"well, Mr.. Bickers." said Lawyer
Breef. "your wife sues for divorce and
asks $1,000 n year alimony. OF course
we will defend it,
mo. Mr.. Rreef we will not defend"
replied Mr.. Bickers.
But that Is an enormous alimony.'
"That's all right. but am for peace
at any price."-Detroit Free Press.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
A Dry Pen.

The pens of many pigs are not dry
and with wet pens come dirty. pens.
So long as the pen of the hog is dry, he
will be clean, for he is by nature clean
animal. The hog quarters should be so
we'll drained that they Will never 90
even damp, and they should be cleaned
ont often. 1t is a mistake to use the
hog yard as place in which manure can
be made. Keep everything dry and
save conditions that invite disease.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
Juvenile Wisdom.

"What did people do before steel
pens wer. inventedT' asked the teach
ep.
THE pinions Of one goose were used
to spread the opinions OF another" an
swered The wise boy at the pedal ex-
tremity Of the class.-Judge.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09

While it may not be advisable TO
spread manure on side bill neid whes
the ground Is frozen, 1t Is we'll enough
to spread 1t ON q plowed field that 10
nearly leyel.-Fsrm Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
AMONG THE FARMERS.
" SPEED THE PLow."

on practical agricultural topic
is solicited. Address all communications IL
tended for this department to HENRY ID
ocrst, Paris. Ne.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
Beef or Dairy Cattle ?

THE oUEsTIoNER MUST DECIDE FOR
HINsELF, BUT SHOULD NOT CHOOSE
BOTH IN ONE.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
7 ggzAauterI., :,

Hen | went downs;ai
dinner was ready in II
cool, shady dining room.
with a bare floor painted
brown and Il loig table
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-09
%zAaot@M =

'FTER all, Mr.. Brett's
ticket was different from
mine again, but I sup
pose he couldn't arrange
to have the same kind