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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-12-08
A Financial Deadlock.

.Wh0 Is that man who has been sit.
ting behind the bar day after dayr'
inquired the stranger In Crimson t;uich.
That's Stagecoach Charley. He's
In peculiar predicament. He went to
town last week an got his teeth fixed.
Then he come here an. bein' broke.
ran up a bill on the stren'th Of bis
81 worth Of gold fllin'. Charley won't
submit TO havin the nuggets Eried out.
an the proprietor won't let him git
away with the collateral. an there you
are. Washington Star.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-12-08
His Mistaks.

They were in the thick of their frst
quarrel.
II thought your tastes were simple"
said the husband. II didn't expect to
fnd you such high nier."
"Yex. you did" she answered You
knew all about my being high fiicr.
as you call 1t. but you thought I'd be
dirigible"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-12-08

A sprained ankle will usually disable
the injured person for three or four
weeks. This is due to lack Of proper
treatment. When Chamberlain's Lini-
ment is applied cure may be effected in
three or four days. This liniment is one
Of the best and most remarkable prepara-
tions in use. Sold by all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-12-08
The Change Of a Letter,
NUMBER 40.

At the period when British Columbia
was threatening to withdraw from the
Dominion Of Canada because the Car
narvon settlement had been ignored
BY the Mackenzie administration the
late Lord Du6erin took part In a pub
hc function In Quebec. While the pro-
cessiou was moving through the prin-
cipai streets gentleman. breathless
with excitement. hurried up to his ex-
eellency's carriage to say rebel"
arch had been placed across the road
% an to identify the viceroy with the
approval Of the disloyai Inscription
thereon. "Can you tell me what words
there are on the arch?'' quietly asked
Dnfferin. ''Oh. yes" replied his IN.
formant; they are 'Carnarvon Terms
or Separation ''Send the committee
to me" commanded his excellency.
"Now. gentlemen" said lie. with 4
smile. to the committee. ''l'lI 20 under
Jour beautiful arch on one condition.
l won't ask you 10 do much. and beg
but trining favor. | merely ask that
ron alter one letter in your motto.
Turn the 3 into an R-make II Car.
narvon Terms or Reparation' land
will gladly pass under IT, 'rbe COM
mittce yielded. and eventually DufFerin
conirived 10 smooth over the difficult
ties and to reconcile the indictments
Saving the Oil.
"ln Cairo" said journalist, n
beard queer yarn about the fella-
hin. The fellahin are the native ru.
ralists. They are very poor. Well.
when the British built the Egyptian
state railway the officials were as
founded at the enormous quantities OF
train OH that disappeared They knew
that all this oil couldn't be used for
lubricating purposes. % they made an
investigation and found that It had
beconA. the staple food OF the poor
sellahin. The railroad detectives re-
ported that the fellahin all over
Eyps were using rhe Esyptian state
railways train Oh a. their chief sup
pori. They UTTERED their bread with
trnln oit. they fried their Dish 10 train
oil. They made Kind of suet pudding
with train oil az q base They drank
train oil heated as tiesh ps0tlucer OF
builder IN. So the railway officials
mixed castor oil with The stun. and
the feilahln after years torturinl
and vain effort to acclimate their sys
tens 10 the mixture decided to give
| train oil an.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-12-08
Colt Stick and seyshs.

Colt STICK and 6cytho.
"Your boy Josh il something Of mn
expert at golf."
n reckon. replied Farmer Corntos-
sci disconientedly. ''Fsut be can't make
two licks with the scythe without foo
xlin'."- Washington Star.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-12-08
Barred the Rcd Heels.

Once actors used to say that they
were going Ito study part for per-
formance:" now the saying is that one
gets up in part" which may be one
of the reasons why there were once
more studied performances than there
are now. AS an example of how much
can be safely left to the intelligence
Of even tried actors is the case OF the
Napoleonic play that Charles FrOhman
was once rehearsing. In the midst Of
the dress rehearsal an actress of sup
posed all around experience. cast for
one of the Paris street lenizens. one
Of the mob of revoIutionists. was dis
covered gayly decked out III patent
leather shoes with jolly red heels. mo.
my child" said Mr.. Frohman. mot
red heels and revolutionist too.
"Fut they look ever 50 much prettier
and give color to the scene" persisted
the actress THAT may be." continued
Mr. Frohman. ''but. the mob did not
wear red heeled shoes; get your color
with red handkerchief or from your
makeup table. but not with red heels !"
Successful Trap Shooting.
Aim your gun little above the shed
protecting the traps Give. the call
Pull" Do not get ratified. Get your
bird rs It is going up or at its maxi
mum height and then fire. aiming
about six or eight inches ahead aud II
trifie below it. : The tendency Is al
ways to shoot too high. not allowing
for the speed Of the descent. Above
all things fire. even II you know you
are going to miss. There Is nothing so
disconcerting or fatal to the poise as
to allow a fairly thrown target to get
altogether away, without shooting ut Il
at all. When calling ''Full' put some
ginger intoit. "Bark It: an old trap
shot used to say Don't fafter It. rs
thougls.apologizing for being alive. II
hurts your confidence and rattles the
trap pullers II you stand with ySui
grn, ready and humble ''rulf three Of
four times before the target Is thrasn
the chances are overwhelming thai
yos will miss-C. q Peters in Outing
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
WOULD RAISE PAY
OF STATE TEACHERS
WISCONSIN, ASSOCIATION AFTER
NEW LAW TO INCREASE
SALARIES.
PROF. PATZER'S STATISTICS
Statement Shows That Many Ar,
Earning Only 52 Gents a Day.
Men Leaving Profession
Rapidly.

Milwaukee.-To the end that a bill
may be introduced at the next SEES
sion of the Wisconsin legislature es-
tablishing minimum salary law for
rural school teachers of the state,
Prof. G. E. Patzer of the Milwaukee
Normal school has compiled num-
Der OF rather startling statistics
which are to be used in the interests
or bringing such a law into effect.
The Wisconsin State Teachers as
ISOLATION has for number of years
known some of the conditions which
existed regarding the salaries of ru-
raj school teachers, and also saw that
some legislation should be secured to
remedy them. At the last annual
meeting of the association held in
Milwaukee the legislative committee.
consisting of G.. e. Patzer of Milwau-
kee, chairman; Supt Leo P Fox of
Chiffon, Supt. John Callahan of Me-
nasha, II. P. Landgraf, president of
the association, and State Supt. C.
P. Cary, was directed to secure sta
tistics on rural school teachers sal
aries.
From State Supt. Cary's report of
1908, in which was published the
teachers salaries based on eight
months of teaching, Prof. C. E. Pat
ger made authentic deductions using
the twelve-month basis instead of the
eight-month basis. AS the result of
his deductions he found that there
were 81 teachers who worked for
S162 year, or for So cents a day;
$40 teachers who worked for 1892
a year, or 62 cents a day; 1920
teachers who worked for $23S a year,
or n cents a day; 2,691 teachers who
worked for 1921 a year, or 90 cents
day; 2, 164 teachers who worked
for 1929 year, or $1.04 a day, and
1890 teachers who worked for 1865
year, or SLIT day The general
deduction made was that there was
about 5000 rural school teachers in
Wisconsin working for an average of
80 cents a day.
In gathering the statistics Mr.. Pat
ger found that between the years of
1900 and 1908, 500 men who had
been teaching rural schools resigned
their positions principally on account
of the extremely low prices paid to
them. Mr. Patzer stated that he be-
lieved it would be but a short time
when the presence of a male teacher
in rural school would be rare
sight.
Mr.. Patzer stated that the next step
in securing the much needed legis-
lation would be that the legislative
committee of the Wisconsin State
Teachers association would consult
with a special committee from the
state Legislature, so that bill would
be drawn up establishing a minimum
salary law for rural school teachers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
BUTTERMAKERS GATHERING
Cities Wishing to Secure Convention
Urged to Make Applications. Are
Urged to Send Exhibits.

Milwaukee, largest gathering
of buttermakers that has ever shown
interest in the state fair will be
rounded up by the Wisconsin Butter
makers association on Sept. Ia
and IS at the University of Wiscon-
sins dairy exhibit, when a special
programme of educational character
will be carried out In a circular sent
out by George II. Benkendorf, secre-
tary of the association, he SAYS that
the executive committee and officers
of the Wisconsin Buttermakers' assoc
citation will meet on Thursday, Sept.
next state convention. Several cities
are already making bids for the same
Headquarters for the buttermakers'
association will be in the dairy build
ing. Members of various county as
sociations also expect to attend the
fair. He says:
THE state fair board is putting up
very liberal prizes again this wear.
and we believe~that buttermakers if
they possibly can, ought to enter their
butter, have it scored and participate
In the large premium fund. In addi-
! ton TO the exhibitions of butter.
cheese, etc, arrangements are being
made to hold a judging contest. This
| will be good opportunity for but
| termakers to try their hand at scor-
| ing butter under competent Judges.
! A similar contest is promised the
! cheesemakers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
MILL MAY GO TO APPLETON
Commercial Club Plans to Erect
81, 500 Building for Use of Gov
ernment's Pulp Experts.

Appleton.-H. Stanley Bristol of
Madison, of the United States fores-
try department at the state UNIVERSE
ty, has been in Appleton in consulta-
ton with officers of the commercial
club for the purpose of determining
whether the proposed pulpwood ex-
perimental station to be established
by the government is to be located
in this city
About a year ago Mr.. Bristol Wis
tied Appleton with view to securing
building in which to install the ex-
perimental station. At that time it
was the intention of the government
to purchase or lease a building on the
local waterpower, and it was believed
the plant would be located in the Pat
ten pulp mill.
1t developed later, however, that
the appropriation for the establish
ment of the station was not sufficient
and for that reason the department
at Madison has been dickering since
for a building to be provided by the
city aud rented by the government
The necessary building. 1t 5 esti-
mated, will cost about $4,000.
Officers of the Commercial club
believe they have devised a plan
whereby the building can be fur
nished.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09

Des Moines.-Carl Kuehnle of
Denison. former law partner of Les
lie NJ. Shaw and past grand chancel-
Tor of the Knights of Pythias of Iowa
was suspended on charges preferred
by Ben l. SalIinger of Carroll, charg-
ing that he and four other members
made false statements at the last
Grand lodge when they charged Sal
finger with misappropriating the
lodges funds to further political am
bitions The grand tribunal here
heard the evidence and viii make a
report to the grand lodge at its next
meetin =.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
CRIPPEN ON TRAIL
PROSECUTION TELLS OF POISON
FOUND IN WOMAN'S
REMAINS.
MISSILE NEVE AS ACCESSORY
Accused Americans Typist Not
Charged With Fore-Knowledge of
Crime, Is Declaration of Crowns
Prosecutor

London. At the opening of the
trial of DR. Hawley H. Crippen,
charged with the murder of his wife,
Belle Elmore, the prosecution an
nounced that large quantities of poi
son had been found in the woman's
body and that there were evidences
that she had been subjected to an
operation.
Ethel Clara lie Neye, the doctors
typist who accompanied him in his
flight to Canada after the disappear
ance of his wife, and who has been
held on the same charge, also was
brought to the bar but the crown
stated that it had been decided to
confine the allegations against the
girl to being an accessory after the
fact.
This relieves Miss LIE Neve of any
foreknow1edge of the crime and is
in line with the belief of her family
and friends that she did not share
Crippens confidence up to the time
that his wife dropped out of sight
In the course of his remarks the
prosecutor definitely stated that the
physicians who made the postmortem
examination Of the mutilated parts
unearthed in the cellar of the Grip
pen home in Hilldrop Crescent, Cam
den Road. N, had discovered the
presence of large quantities of hyo-
scin, colorless liquid poison, and
also detected evidence that an OPP
Grafton had been performed.
January 10, said the prosecution,
Crippen purchased five grains of hy-
drobromide Of hyoscin, a poison of
such character that the person to
whom it was administered would be-
come unconscious almost instantly
though life might remain for several
hours.
Counsel said that the disappear
ance of Belle Gilmore was fortunate
for Crippen from a monetary view
point
January 2, he said, the accused
had pawned jewelry for which he re-
ceived $500, and on another day
pawned other jewels, receiving $557.
All of the property pawned had been
recognized as the property of Mrs.
Crippen.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
$4,000 VOLTS ARE NOT FATAL
Patteville Mining Student Receivers
After Receiving Heavy Electric
Charge Through Body.

Platteville.-E Elliot Mcmillan re-
ceived $4,000 volt electric charge
at the electrostatic ore separating
plant here and was able to play a
game of billiards short time after
He brought his hand near one of the
high voltage separators and the cur
rent broke from the machine, pass
ing through his body and leaving
through his foot A fellow work.
man broke the circuit and Mcmillan
fell unconscious to the floor, the
workmen of the plant believing him
dead. In a few minutes, however
he suddenly sat up. and was found
uninjured except in his hand and
foot
The hand the current entered was
badly burned, and the foot through
which the current left was likewise
burned and the shoe torn off and a
hole in the big toe through which
the current left the size of a ten
penny nail Mcmillan is a student
in the mining school here, and his
home Is in California.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
SEE BLACK HAND IN MURDER
Former New York Policeman, His
Wife and Six Children Slain
in Home in Italy.

Reggio.-To the vengeance of the
Black Hand society in New York is
ascribed the revolving murder of ex-
Policeman Rovolino, his wife and
six children in the little village of
Pellaro, which lies eight miles south
of Reggie on the Strait of Messina
AT a. m, some of the townspeo-
pie Of Pellaro were awakened by
shrieks of child, and rushing to
the cottage occupied by the Rovolino
family found the 3-year-old daughter
of the policeman lying with her
throat cut before the open door of
her home, screaming piteously.
Villagers carried the child inside
the house, where they found the re-
manning members of her family ly-
ing dead, all of them having been
terribly mutilated by blows from an
AK.
The RovOlinos suddenly returned
from the United States short time
ago and since then, it is said, two
attempts have been made to poison
them. Royolino himself had spoken
of possible ven geance.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09

ie' right, an de farmer he say de-
mean ting, be gosh! and tell us go to
we'll, anyway he tarn mad. Now"
and then he waved his hand again
towards the fields, II ave no bodder,
no cardin' mill, no girls mill, no cheese
factor l am now de farmer man an
when me want to, me can say to de
oder fellow! you go! Well, we
like him-the farmin'." And that was
good definition of independence.
Throughout trip of several hun
dred miles in the agricultural district
of Western Canada, the writer found
the farmers in excellent spirits, an
optimistic feeling being prevalent
everywhere. 1t will be interesting to
the thousands on the American side
of the line to know that their rela-
tives and friends are doing we'll there.
that they have made their home in
country that stands up so splendidly
under what has been trying conditions
in most of the northwestern part of
the farming districts of the continent.
With the exception of some portions
VI oOA~HSAu AloSIths anu dlSO a pOr-
ton of Manitoba and Southern Sas-
katchewan the grain crops could be
described as fair, good and excellent.
The same drought that affected North
and South Dakota, Montana, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and other of the
northern central states extended over
into a portion of Canada just men,
toned. But In these portions the
crops for the past four or FIVE years
were splendid and the yields good.
The great province of Saskatchewan
has suffered less from drought in pro
portion to her area under cultivation
than either of the other provinces. On
the other hand, instead of the drought
being confined very largely to the
south of the main line of the c. P. r.
it is to be found in patches right
through the center Of northern Sas-
katchewan also. In spite of this. how.
ever. Saskatchewan has a splendid
crop. A careful checking of the aver
ages of yield, with the acreages in the
different districts, gives an average
yield Of 15I5 bushels to the acre.
In Southern Alberta one-ffth of the
winter wheat win not be cut, OF has
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
WISCONSIN PIONEER DIES
Noted Woman Who Died in Madison
Recently Had Lived 70
Years in State.

Madison.-Mrs. Ellen A. Shower
man, who died of paralysis in Madi-
son, was one of Wisconsin's pioneer
women. She had been a resident of
Wisconsin since 1897
Mrs. Slovenian father, Luther
Parker, drove from Indian stream,
New Hampshire, to Milwaukee in
1887, and was tie first white settler
in the township of Muskego His wife
came the next year with the three
children, among whom was the little
girl. Ellen Augusta Parker, who had
been born in 1888, and who in 1854
became Mrs. Nathan Cobb and in
1859 Mrs. Hiram Slovenian. her
first husband dying one year after
their marriage.
Luther Parker was a member of
the state legislature in 1916 and in
1916 was active in the campaign for
the formation of Waukesha county
from Milwaukee county. Hiram Show
erman was an early settler in Brook
field and was one of the first station
agents and postmasters of that place.
He died in 1884 and Mrs. Slovenian
lived in Brookfield until 1897.
The Parkers are descended from
the Puritan deacon, Thomas Parker,
who came to America from England
in 1886 and settled in Reading,
Mass. Another branch of the same
family included Theodore Parker,
the famous clergyman, and Capt
John Parker, who commanded colo
NAL soldiers at Lexington in 1775
About 500 descendants of the Read
ing family of Parkers fought with
the colonial army during the reyo-
lutionary war.
Mrs. Slovenian is survived by a
brother, Charles d. Parker, River
Falls, Wis, former lieutenant gov
ernor, and member of the board of
regents of the state university and
of the board of control, and three
sons, E. n Cobb, Monmouth, Ill.,;
H. P. Slovenian, Walla Walla,
Wash, and Grant Slovenian of the
faculty of the University of Wiscon-
sin,
Funeral services were held at the
residence of Grant Slovenian in
Madison. Interment was at Prairie
Home cemetery, Waukesha.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
Bogus Officer Sent Up.

Mathematician A. Kaphen, a
youthful forger, who posed in this
and other cities as an army officer
and a nephew of Senator Tillman.
was found guilty of forging checks
and was sentenced by Judge Donovan
to five years in the reformatory at
Green Bay. Kaphen has reputation
for talking himself out of his many
troubles and in this case he sought
in long speech to convince Judge
Donovan that the sentence should be
suspended The judge listened and
then passed sentence without any
comment
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
Oesier Larger Hospital.

La Crosse.-Because many believe
that $4,000 or $4,000 hospital for
tuberculosis patients woald not be
large enough 10 meet the require
ments, there is adverse sentiment to
an appropriation at this time. and
The call for a special meeting of the
county board may not be issued.
On the other hand there is a de-
mand for a separate building for pa
tients at the county inRrmary and q
number of supervisors are dster-
minel on the present CLANS.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
INDEPENDENCE
ON THE FARM
SPLENDID RESULTS FOLLOW
FARMING IN THE CANADIAN
WEST.
Americans In Canada Not Asked TO
Forget That They Were Born
Americans.

Farm produce today is remunera-
tive. and this helps to make farm life
agreeable. Those who are studying
the economics of the day tell us that
the strength of the nation lies in the
cultivation of the soil Farming is no
longer a hand-to-mouth existence. 1t
means independence, often affiuence,
but certainly independence.
Calling at farm house, near one of
the numerous thriving towns Of AL
oerta, in Western Canada, the writer
was given definition of "indepen-
dence" that was accepted as quite
original The broad acres of the farm
ers land had a crop-and splendid
one, too. by the way-ripening for the
reapers' work. The evenness of the
crop, covering field after field, attract
ed attention, as did also the neatness
OF the surroundings, the well-built sub
stantial story-and-a-half log house, and
the well-rounded sides of the cattle.
AAS DAOASA H4iSiISu- was french
Canadian-was easily understandable
and pleasant to listen to. He had
come there from Montreal a year ago,
had paid $40 an acre for the 320-acre
farm, with the little improvement it
had. He had never farmed before. yet
his crop was excellent, giving evil
dence as to the quality of the soil, and
the good judgment that had been used
In its preparation. And brains count
in farming as well as Draw" Asked
how he liked it there, he Strengthened
his broad shoulders, and with hand
outstretched towards the waving fields
of grain, this young French Canadian,
model of symmetrical build, replied:
BE gosh, yes, we like him-the
farmin-well, don't we, Jeanette 2"
as he smilingly turned to the young
wife standing near. She had accom-
panied him from Montreal to his far
west home, to assist him by her wifely
help and companionship, in making a
new home In this new land. eyes. we
come here wan year ago, and we never
farm before. Near Montreal, me
father, he KEEP de girls mill, an de
cardin' mill, an be gosh! he run de
cheese factor too. He work, an me
work, an us work tarn har, be gosh!
Us work for de farmer; well den,
sometin' go not always wat you call
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-09-09
4 one Bandit Rohs Train.

st. Iouis-The Pacific coast ex-
press on the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy. was boarded at the Union
station by lone robber, who killed
and threw overheard the flagman,
held up the porter, who came back
to let the fiagman in. and ordered
him to turn out the lights in his car
The robber then entered, robbed four
passen gers and got of the train at
the Carr street station on the levee
and made good his escape.
The entire time consumed in the
murder, robbery and escape was not
more than ten minutes.