The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-08-19


HE themselves to cafes at ntghtfall.
This applause OF the rebel" air in
northern city does puzzle little, but
it Is not iilsolvable. The war with
Spain, many years generous mint and
watermelon crops, few long shot
winners at the New Orleans race track
and the brilliant banquets given by the
Indiana and Kansas citizens who CON-
pose the North Carolina society have
made the south rather "fad" In Man.
haitian. Your manicure will lisp softly
that your left forefinger reminds her
so much Of gentleman's In Rich.
mond, Va. Oh. certainly! But many
lady has to work now-the war, you
know
When Dixie" was being played a
dark haired young man sprang up
from somewhere with Mosby guer-
rilla yell and waved frantically his
soft brimmed hat Then he strayed
through the smoke, dropped into the
vacant chair at our table and pulled
ont cigarettes.
The evening was at the period when
reserve Is thawed. One Of us men.
toned three Wurzburgers to the wait.
err The dark haired young man &C.
knowledged his inclusion in the order
by smile and nod. fastened to
ask him a question because I wanted
to try out a theory l had.
"Would you mind telling me-" be.
gan. whether you are FROM
The fist Of E. Rushmore Coglan
banged the table, and | was Jared into
silence
Excuse me-" said he, 'but that's
question I never like to hear asked.
What does 1t matter where man Ia
from? Is 1t fair to Judge man by his
postoffice address? Why. I've seen
Kentuckians who hated whisky, Vir-
ginians who weren't descended from
Pocahontas. Indianians who hadn't
| written novel, Mexicans who didn't
wear velvet trousers with silver dol.
lars sewed along the seams, funny
Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold
| blooded southerners, narrow minded
| westerners and New Workers who
We're too busy to stop for an hour on
| the street to watch q one armed grO-
GERS clerk do up cranberries In paper
bags. Let man be man and don't
handicap him with the label Of any
section"
| Pardon me-" said. "but my curios-
ity was not altogether an Idle one,
| know the south, and when the band
| plays Dixie like to observe. have
formed the belief that the man who
| applauds that air with special violence
and ostensible sectional loyalty Is In.
variably native of either Secaucus,
| n. j., or the district between Murray
Hill lyceum and the Harlem river, New
| York. was about to put my opinion to
the test by inquiring Of this gen
tleman when you interrupted with
your own-larger theory, must con-
fess."
| And now the dark haired young man
spoke to me, and 1t became evident
that his mind also moved along its
own set of grooves.
4 should like to be a periwinkle." :"
said he mysteriously, ION the top Of a
valley and sing too-ralloo-ralloo."
This was clearly too obscure. SO l
turned again to Coglan.
1--WE been around the world twelve
times" said he. II know an Eskimo
| In Cpernavik who sends to Cincinnati
for his neckttes. and / saw goat
herder In Uruguay who won a prize In
a Battle Creek breakfast food puzzle
competition. l pay rent on Il room In
Cairo, Egypt. and another in Yoko-
hama all the year around. I've got
slippers waiting for me in tea house
In Shanghai. and I don't have to tell
'em how to cook my eggs In Rio janet
TO or Seattle It's mighty little
world. What's the use of Dragging
about being from the north, or the
south, or the old manor house in the
dale. or Euclid avenue. Cleveland. or
Pixies peak. or Fairfax county, Va, or
Hooligan's fats. or any place? It'll
be a better world when we quit being
fools about some mildewed town or
ten acres Of swamp land just because
we happened to be born there
You appear to be genuine cosmop-
olite," l vsaid admiringly. But II
also seems that you would decry pa
triotism.'
"A relic of the stone age" declared
Coglan warmly I'VE are all brothers
I-Chinamen, Englishmen. Zulus. Pata-
gonians and the people in the bend OF
the Kaw river. Some day all this
petty pride in ones city or state OF
section or country will be wiped out
and We'll all be citizens Of the world
as we ought to be-"
But while you are wandering in
foreign lands" persisted, ''do no,
your thoughts revert to some spot
some dear and
"Nary Il spot" interrupted Il. r
Coglan fiippantly. "The terrestrial
globular, planetary hunk Of matter
slightly flattened at the poles and
known as the earth is my abode. I'vt
met good many object bound citi
zens Of this country abroad. I've seer
men from Chicago sit In gondola ir
| Venice on moonlight night and bras
about their drainage canal. I've seen 9
southerner on being introduced to thu
king of England hand that monarch
without batting his eyes, the informa
tion that his grand-aunt OH his moth
er's side was related by marriage t
the perkinses Of Charleston. knew I
New Yorker who was kidnapped fol
ransom by some Afghanistan bandits
His people sent over the money, ant