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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30
Too Suggestive.

my poor man, said the kind house
wife, as she handed out cut Of prune
pie, how did you come to fail If you
owned a condensed milk factory"
"Ah, ma'am," responded the tall
tramp, 1T was de fault of me partner.
He called de milk de Globe brand
and we went up"
"And the name ruined it?"
Yes. ma'am. Yeh see, de globe is
two-thirds water"
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

Venus was observed to be rising
from the sea.
How in the world did you lose your
arms?" asked the inquisitive mermaid
Don't ask me, sobbed Venus, ask
these abominable motor boats. Now
won't be able to button my waist at
the back"
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30
still That Kind.

When went away you we're In
love with a certain woman and"
Il married her"
THE marriage turned out well I
hope2"
We'll, she is still a certain woman;
so certain that can not tell her any
thing"
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

MY, but the old lady from Holland
is mad! Somebody ought to tell her
1t is not considered the thing to show
such emotion in public"
why, she is Just In the style"
I'm the style?"
Certainly. She is merely showing
OF her Dutch choler."
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30
Many chndran are sloklx.

Mother 0ray's Sweet Powders for children
usedby Mother Gray, a nurse In Chidren's Home
New York, Break up Colds IN Ahours. cure Fever
ishness Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teethng
Disorders, and Destroy Worms. At all druggists
25c. sample mailed Free. Address, Alien s.
Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30
That Would Fix Him.

Alfonso's far tenderer
Than what / am. I'm free to own.
II that pretender bothered me
I'd move and let him have the throne.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

How can you best drink IN the
beauty Of starry night7" be asked.
Il suppose" she replied. with the
Great Dipper."
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

Dr. Thomas Electric Oh Is the best
remedy for that often fatal disease
Group. Has been used with success in
our family for eight years. Mrs. /.
Whitesore, Buffalo, n. Y.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

John. aged s. was a poor speTer but
q good reader. One day be had spelled
q hard word correctly ct first trial and
his teacher praised him for a.
Purely accidental" be said.-Iifa.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

Agent-Sir. have a patent burglar
alarm in which you might be inter
ested.
Smoggs-Well, I'm not What I
want is a device that will put burglars
to sleep instead OF alarming them.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

The Real Things.

The aviators rise and make
New records with their slanfinE wings
And then the Wrights win come along
And outdy an the bloomin' things.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

She-You seem to think it very fun
ny that | should refuse you
He-Jones bet me Aver you would
not refuse anyone, and / win.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30
sosroN MARkEr REPoar.

Mondays Quotations Furnishes BY
z. ?. DeerIna & Co., Quincy Market
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-30

Mondays Randolph Market.
The following prices were realized by
sellers at Randolph stores and markets
last Tuesday mot retail):-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
Items of Interest.

The annual production of wine in this
country averages from 100000 to So
100000 gallons.
Counting individuals and not admins
trations, Taft is the twenty sixth President
of the United States
Liverpool is the third city in the world
in the manufacture of flour, being exceeded
by only Minneapolis and Budapest.
The human eye is said to be subjected
to more different diseases than any other
organ of the body. The list numbers forty
eight.
Beginning with Ohio, admitted to the
Union in 1903, and continuing to Wisconsin,
admitted in 1913, Congress gave section
No. Is in every Congressional township Of
the public land States for the use of public
schools. Beginning with California, in
1850, and continuing to the present, it has
given sections Is and SO in every township
for thatpurpose.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15

repining and complaint 1t is excellent
discipline to keep the heart light though
the burden be heavy. 1t is impossible to
assuage some griefs, but it is possible to
bear multitude of small ills with more
courage than many of US summon. Robert
Louis Stevenson in his striking essay,
"Ordered South" referring to his ex-
periences when suffering from the disease
that finally carried him off, says:
ut is not altogether ill with the invalid
after all. There is something pathetic in
these occasional returns of a glad activity
of heart. In his lowest hours he will be
stirred and awakened by many such, and
they will spring perhaps from very trivial
sources; as friend once said to me, the
spirit of delight comes often on small
Wings
Such indestructible cheerfulness as this
touches the heart and fortif1es US against
DESPAIR.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
To Confederate Veterans.

All veterans who enlisted from Louisiana
in the Confederate Army, are earnestly
requested to forward their names and post
office address to the undersigned, with the
view of furnishing them blanks to be filled
out, and thus assist in compiling correct
list of all who served in the Confederate
Army, from this State, as provided in Act
No. 1856 of the Legislature approved July
2, 1908.
Any veteran or any member of a vet
Grams family, having in his or their pos
session, or know Of any muster roll Of any
company organized in 1876 from Lou
isiana, the loan or donation of the same
will be highly appreciated.
Respectfully yours,
T. w. CAsTLEMAN,
Commissioner Of La. Military Records,
6O4Canal-La. Bank Building, New Orleans.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
Clerk or aricklayer2

you often hear clerks say they would
rather be bricklayers on account OF the
pay, but they don't know what they're
talking about. Clerking beats brick
laying every day in the week and
twice on Sunday"
He took another cheese sandwich IN
his long, pale, ink stained fingers and,
perched on the lunch counters high
stool, detained warmly:
Clerks, however poor, are popular
with the ladies on account Of their Tine
clothes, but bricklayers, when they So
sparkling, get the cold shoulder.
"A bricklayer, no matter how much
he makes, has trouble In getting into
swell boarding houses, for his clothes
soil the fine furniture, but clerk, with
his white hands, Is welcome In any
house he can afford.
Il know what I'm talking about, fof
l bricklaid two years before took 70
clerking. And you'll find lots Of young
bricklayers forsaking the trowel for
the pen; but, though clerks often say
bitterly that they'd rather lay bricks
than push pen, they don't really
mean it-they never turn."-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
Gems Of Thought.

French: No one is bound to do impos-
sibilities.
Racine: | fear my God, and l fear
none but him.
Rambler: 1t is happier to be sometimes
cheated than not to trust.
Lavater: The more honesty man has,
the less he affects the air Of saint.
Ausonius: Nothing more detestable
does the earth produce than an ungrateful
man.
Cotton: Men will wrangle for religion;
write forit; fight for it; die for it; anything
but-lire for it.
La Bruyere: The most delicate, the
most sensible of all pleasures, consists in
the pleasures of others.
La Rouchefoucauld: Our repentance is
not SO much regret for the evil we have
done as fear of its consequences to US.
Montesquieu: Those who have few
affairs to attend to, are great speakers.
The less men think, the more they talk
South: He that is good man, is three
quarters of his way towards the being a
good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or
whatsoever he is called.
Houston Chro2icle: Righteousness,
which is the greatest treasure in the world,
is free to all; it may be had Of heaven
precisely in proportion as we ask for it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
Louisiana Military History.

On this page will be found circular
letter recently issued by Gen. T. W. Cas-
tleman, Commissioner of Louisiana Mill
tary Records, asking all veterans of the
war of 1865 who enlisted from this State
in the Confederate armies, to assist him by
forwarding statements of their own SER
vice and any other information they may
have. Referring to the important work to
be done by Gen. Casteman, the New Or
leans Times Democrat says:
cit is hoped to secure material upon
which may be written concise and ac-
curate history of the organization of every
Louisiana command mustered into the
Confederate service, with as complete a
list as it is possible to secure of the officers
and enlisted men of each command.
''The value of such record, it is readily
seen, will be very great. 1t is highly i'm
portant that the data be collected for pres
ervatton without loss of time. for every
year that passes diminishes the number of
living veterans who may contribute to the
fund of information regarding the Louisi-
ana soldier and his achievements. Other
States of the Confederacy have undertaken
similar work OF the ''Official and Statis-
teal Register of Mississippi for 1905"
compiled by the Department of Archives
and History, nearly 900 pages are devoted
to a military history of that State by DR..
Dunbar Rowland. The sketches of the
various commands and their movements
during the war are of exceptional interest
both to students of history and to the fam
lilies and defendants of the gallant men
who participated in the struggle. Had
Mississippi delayed a few years longer,
much of the information secured by DR..
Rowland must have persisted. 1t is so in
Louisiana's case. There is no time to be
lost, and it is earnestly to be hoped that the
surviving veterans will cooperate with
Commissioner Castleman in the collection
of all possible data and information relat-
ing to the gallant Louisianians who bore
arms in defense of the Confederacy.''
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
Strong Attack on Game Commission.

COLUMBIA, La, July 1O.-The Police
Jury passed the following strong resolution
in regard to the State Game Commission !:
Whereas, the game law of 1908 has been
demonstrated to our complete satisfaction
that the Game Commission and the game
wardens created by that law have not only
been Of any benefit in the protection of the
game of our parish, but, on the other hand,
have been detriment to it; and
Whereas, we believe that the license of
81 extracted from the citizens of the State
for the privilege of hunting in our forests
is unjust, undemocratic and sumptuary;
and
Whereas, we believe that the game of
the State can be better protected by leaving
the matter of such protection in the police
juries of the several parishes of the State;
and
Whereas, we believe that the State Game
Commission has already assumed authority
not conferred upon it by the law, and that
if allowed to go unchecked and unrebuked
it will become oppressive and tyrannical to
the people; and
Whereas, We believe that the greatest
scope of liberty consistent with good order
should be granted to the citizens of our
State; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Police Jury of the Parish
of Caldwell, in regular session convened,
That it is the sense of this body and the
great majority of the citizenship Of our
parish that that part of the State game law
which provides for the payment of hunt
ing license, creates State Game Com
mission and game wardens for the several
parishes of the State should be abolished
and repealed, and that we, as representa-
tlves of the Parish of Caldwell do hereby
memorabilia the Legislature of the State of
Louisiana to repeal and abolish this obnox-
ious law at the session of that body which
will assemble in the city of Baton Rouge,
La, in the month of May, 1910, and that
we especially instruct our Representative
and Senator to work and vote for the re-
peal of said law.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15

Every Price Should Have a Reason.
1t must be remembered always that
1t is not the price of an article which
Is important, but the reason for the
price
The bankrupt stock, the fire sale, the
manufacturers remnants, the annual
clearance. the removal sale, the disso-
luton of partnership sale-what are
these and many more but arguments
for the price? And note this one point
that without the argument the price
IS powerless. Reduce fur lined over
coats from 500 to $50 and your liberal
discount attracts little attention. Why z
Because there is no reasonable expla-
nation for the reduction Why should
you present overcoats to the public?
But announce that owing to an ex-
piratiOn of your lease and the impera-
tive command that you vacate your
present store within two weeks you
will reduce the price Of your fur lined
overcoats from 500 to $50 and you
may sell easily all you have to offer.
Instinctively the public sees the whole
picture--the proprietor's anxiety. the
inevitable removal. the lessening days,
the final sacrifice and the store full of
eager buyers, quick to seize such an
opportunity. This is only half the
reduction previously considered. But
one is business without Imagination.
and the other is business with it,
Lorin e. Deland in Atlantic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Wills Point Chronicle: Just little kind
ness may help some fellow creature when
it is most needed-and it will make YOU
happier provided you do not do it from
some selfish motive, expecting something
in return. Try it to-day.
Houston Post: 1t may be boldly avowed
the man who dares to do right under any
and all circumstances for rights sake, here
or anywhere, even though it brings him to
poverty, will in due time receive his re-
ward, and he won't have to wait until he
dies for its coming, either.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
The Characteristic National Meal.

1t is not only in Scotland that break
fast is the characteristic national meal.
Travel where you may, the first meal
Of the day is the one that strikes the
foreign note, luncheon and dinner hav-
Ing gradually absorbed cosmopolitan
qualities that are not even confined to
hotels. But you never feel SO much of
an Englishman as when Switzerland
gives you rolls and butter and honey
and nothing more with your coffee or
when France makes this into one ex-
quisite crumbling ''croissant," with an
inch or two from yard long loaf, or
when Denmark adds cream instead of
milk to the coffee and a dangerous
piece of pastry to the black bread and
round white roll. Yet our English
breakfast became an institution only
In the eighteenth century Before that
only royalty breakfasted Off meat.
bread and cheese and ale. The COM
moner. such as Pepys, took merely a
morning draft Of buttered ale.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
FACTS ABOUT THE FLY.

The common house-fly is car
rier OF disease. Typhoid fever,
diarrhea, dysentery and tubercu-
losis are carried by flies.
Flies feed on food and also on
filth. They go fran the one to the
other. In this way they carry dis
ease germs to the table. One fly
may convey six million bacteria.
Flies breed in manure heaps,
outhouses, refuse, ash-pits and all
decomposing animal or vegetable
matter, and unclean places. Do
not allow decaying material of any
sort to accumulate on or near your
premises. If such exist, cover
with lime or kerosene oil, and re-
move as early as possible.
See that your sewerage system
is in good order.
Screen all food; cover food after
a meal; burn all scraps and refuse.
Screen all windows and doors.
Burn pyrethrum powder in the
house if flies should gain entrance.
If there is no filth there will be
no flies.-Harper's Weekly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
A Compromise,

A struggling art student, a native of
Pont Aven, went to Paris to study and
occasionally visited an uncle there. an
elderly shoemaker on the Rue Waugh
rari. The shoemaker was to be count
ed on for square meal and sometimes
even for small loan. One morning
the uncle welcomed the student far
more warmly than was his habit.
Just in time" he said, rubbing his
hands. "The kitchen door wants paint
ing. and was about to give the job to
the comnissionnaire for 3 francs. But
you can have it now. I'll pay you So
The student flushed and bit his lip.
Hard up as he was, he could not SO
degrade his art as to paint kitchen
door. Yet he needed money badly
Uncle" he said. smiling as happy
thought came to him. ''Pll tell you
what to do. Let the commissionnaire
paint the door for 3 francs, as you had
intended. and give me the francs diff
ference"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

New Orleans June exports show slight
falling off.
Francois Bergeron of Thibodaux was
drowned while bathing at Morgan City.
There were three heat prostrations in
New Orleans Monday, two of them fatal.
Sixteen New Orleans people were tenn
porarly on the hospital list Monday from
eating poisoned ice cream.
Good corn crops have been made in East
Carroll Parish, and the Banner Democrat
says no corn will be bought next year by
planters in that parish.
Mosquitoes are so bad in the low sea
marshes along the coast of Vermilion Par
ish that an average of ten cattle are killed
each night by bites of the pest.
Hon. J. A. Dormon, prominent law
yer and leading citizen of Bienville Par
ish, died suddenly at his home in Arcadia,
on the Both ultimo. The superb character
and sterling worth of this estimable gen.
tleman is we'll illustrated in the following
paragraph from the Claiborne Guardian
Journal: "Mr. Dorman had no patience
with the dishonest tricks of the pettifogging
lawyer, but stood boldly for the truth,
which shining virtue adorned his whole
life from the cradle to the grave
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
THE STATE PRESS.

Mansfield Enterprise: Sheriff Smith
says that he is determined to demonstrate
that prohibition does prohibit, as far as
DeSoto Parish is concerned
New Orleans Item: The greatest swamp
known to our forefathers was the great
Dismal Swamp of Virginia; much of this
has been drained, and some of the truck
lands theirs are now selling as high as one
thousand dollars an acre.
Gibsland News: State wide prohibition
will be the slogan in Louisiana until not an
open saloon will remain in the State. A
conference, to be called in Shreveport in
the near future, is now being agitated for
the purpose of organizing and beginning
an active campaign for prohibition. The
travelling men are using their influence in
this important movement, and prohibition
is likely to be the issue in the next political
campaign.
New Orleans Picayune: The misfortunes
of the Confederates at Gettysburg brought
Washington some good news, and it was to
the effect that the British Government had
at last interposed to prevent the armored
ram that was built by the Lairds from be-
ing sent to sea; and another item was that
on September Goth a Russian war fleet had
arrived at New York to forestall any pos
sible recognition by England and France of
the Confederacy. There is no question
that the position taken by Russia prevented
the recognition by France and England of
the Confederacy. That the Confederacy
was much nearer final success than was
known even to the authorities there is good
reason to believe, and had Stonewall
jackson survived his great victory at
Characteristic, to take part in the battle of
Gettysburg, that would have been another
victory eliminating in the capture of Wash
ington, which, with the popular opposition
to the draft, would have brought a settle
Element putting an end to the war and es-
tablishing the independence of the South.
But Divine Wisdom has some other use for
the American nation, and preserved it for
that purpose, whatever it may be, while
the South made record for soldiership
and honor that has never been surpassed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
This Bargain Left

. During the past two weeks | have alyer-
tised three bargains in the Banner. They
were that in fact. The lawns advertised at
So cents are not yet all gone. Enough are
left to afford a desirable selection
. Some pieces in this lot cost me 22 cents.
This well illustrates my idea of a bargain, and
the buying public should in future bear it in
mind. | want you to learn to expect bar
gain when my advertisement promises it.
You will not be disappointed
I If you have not made all your dress goods
purchases for the season, you would do well
to take advantage of this offer in lawns at
80 cents.
Yours for a booming big business,
Benton, La, July Is, 1909.
Watch for change Id. OF August
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-15
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS In PARAGRAPHS.
Twenty men were killed in a mine dis
ter in Spain.
Nine horse buyers were killed by out
laws near Alton, New Mexico.
Six persons were killed and fifteen hurt
by a tornado at Ortonville, Mimi.
Fourteen. lives were lost in collision
of two steamers in Lake Superior.
San Angelo, Texas, "dry" town, has
$1,000 population and not a policeman.
Maj. j. W. Long was run down and
killed by an automobile in Washington.
Eleven passengers were injured in a
railway wreck Saturday at Etowah, N. C.
Three persons were killed and a fourth
injured by a cyclone at Hermleigh, Texas.
John Wilson was killed by allgators
while swimming near Camp Walton, Fla.
J. S. Lamb was stabbed to death by his
son when he attacked his wife, near Mans
field, Texas.
J. W. Parks, of Waco, Texas, after
murderously assailing his wife, suicided
by hanging from tree.
We grow one-fifth of the worlds wheat
crop, three-fi fths of its cotton crop, and
four-fifths of its corn CROP
Eighteen million feet of lumber, valued
at between s45O.0OO and 100000, burned
at Duluth, Mimi, Saturday night.
M. Sa1ao, president of the Japan Sugar
Company, and under sentence of impris-
onment, committed suicide in Toxic.
A cloudburst at Oraziba, Mexico, Mon
day, caused the loss of six lives and prop
erty damage to the extent of S1,O0O,000.
The tariff bill, as it passed the Senate,
means an increased yearly expense of
S200,O00,0OO to people who buy wooden
goods.
Five hundred travellers were tied up at
Kansas City Sunday owing to the floods.
The Mississippi had reached the flood mark
at st. Louis.
The heavy rains in Southern Indiana
have caused heavy losses to farmers. 1t
is estimated that the loss on crops in Scott
and jackson Counties will reach S1OO, 900.
A tornado swept over a part of Butler
County, Ohio, Monday. At one point a
funeral procession encountered the storm
and twenty persons were more or less in
jured.
1t is estimated that the tobacco crop in
the Green River district in Kentucky has
been damaged from 40 to so per cent. by
floods. Plants in the lowlands are under
several feet of water.
John Madison, wanted for bigamy in
nearly every large city in America, and
in many of the smaller ones, is in the hands
of the police at San Francisco. The au-
thoritios have established his marriage of
ten women and his engagement and pos
sible marriage to fourteen others.
We had on January /, 1908, 71,OOO,OO
cattle, worth S1,25O, 100000; $4,000, 900
sheep, worth s211 100000; 100000
swine, worth $685., 100000. The census of
1900 showed S137, 0O0,OOO worth of poultry
in this country, which produced in 1899
293, 900, 900 dozen eggs.