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the local Federation Of Labor, which
adopted a resolution calling upon all
labor unlonists and their sympathizers
% abstain from eating meat for a pc
rod OF ore month as protest against
tie high prices Of that article OF food.
Thousands of these buttons have been
ordered by the leaders in the move
meDt
In Pittsburg. where the boycott
against meat has grown to large pro-
portions. pledges were distributed on
the streets. reading:
1--WE. the undersigned. pledge our
word Of honor that from Jan. % and
continuing for a periOo Of thirty days
fherefrom we viii buy no meat Of any
kind. II AZ the expiration Of the said
thirty days there is not a material re-
ducflon in prices we further pledge
o1rselves 20 abstain for sixty OF nine
" days"
In Boston the boycott was inauGa
rated bv the formation of small clubs.
the members Of which agitated the
matter at mass meetings called 10 pro
test against the high prices and en-
Iarred the movement in other ways
In Indianapolis and other cities
many Of the owners Of restaurants
sri boarding houses helped the boy
cor along b. dispensing with tns
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Probably of late years Cleveland
McGeu has become better known as
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William f. George in his new book.
''The Junior Republic" tells much of
interest concerning the republic where
the too hilarious youth IS made n good
citizen. Very much apropos of a sub
ject OF public interest just now is the
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able result of the
country wide boycott against meat
nay be stretching it a bit. there is
every Indication. however. that before
the matter ends even the vegetarians
may be crowding the butcher shops.
At any rate. from Maine 10 California
the battle against exOrbitant prices Of
food has been taken up. and the trusts
are getting the scare Of their lives.
Down with the higher cost Of liv-
mgr Is the cry, and it's nation wide
slogan.
Uncle Sam, too, has put Il fine edge
on his sword and is ia the very thick
of she fight. his first opponent being
the Dig meat trust. This trust includes
Armour & Co, Swift & Co.. Nelson
Norris & Co. and the National Pack
ing company. all of Chicago. The last
company is the selling agent for the
Other three. and through it. it is said,
the trust dictates the price of meat
To the retailers all over the country.
The proceedings were ordered insti-
tuted Ina Chicago after vast amount
of evidence gathered by the depart
meut OF justice during the past six
months had been considered
The increased cost of living, as eyi-
densed by the high prices for meat,
are directly responsible for the govern
menfs action In addition to the Grim
inal proceedings, civil suits to dissolve
the trust will probably be brought
later.
i
ago sought to prosecute the beef trust.
but defeated its own object by OBJ
tanning evidence on which to convict
the corporations and their officers from
the latter themselves. The immunity
clause in the act prevented the prose-
cutioas. and the whole proceeding col
lapsed
Fhe special agents of the department
of Justice have collected a mass Of
data in Chicago and elsewhere on
which the authorities are confident OF
procuring convictions. The evidence
is said o be Overwhelming that the
firms named absolutely control the
meat industry of the country and die
tate prices both TO the producer and
the consumer. Their operations are al
legged to be in fragrant violation OF the
sherman act and in restraint of trade
The suit will be brought before Judge
KeaeSaw NJ lands OF the United
States district court for the northern
district of Illinois. the jurist who i'm
posed the S29. 100000 fine on the Stand
ard Oil company.
Whether Uncle Sam comes out Veto
rious or not in his fight. the beef trust
VIII long feet the effect OF the big
boycott now spreading over the entire
and In many cities and towns
novel schemes are being adopted 20
help the good work along and gain re-
cruhs- In Baltimore buttons bearing
the inscription II Don't Buy Meat-Do
YOay' are being worn on the streets in
large numbers, following the action Of
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years he has made -
his home in France
and now spends about half Of his tine
there He has a villa in Paris. SHUT OF
from the world outside ijy high walls
and tail trees. During his long resi-
dence in Paris. where he did much
newspaper work. be acquired a famil
larity with the French tongue which
enables him to use it. both in speech
and in writing. practically as well and
as easily as be does English. IN fact
he has now selling In France a move
written in collaboration with a French
man. called Ia Femme Bien Aimee de
N. Queench.~ The central theme Of this
Is the same as that IN one o. his forth
coming plays. Esther Frear.~ On the
other hand. Through the Wall" writ
ten first In English In Paris. has been
translated into French. and with 3
few notifications It is being brought
out by a wei known French nove!ia
in that language as Il collaboration.
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story be tells OF
how the republic
encountered the de-
mand for votes for
women" at its very
first election The
girls supposed they
would have the
right to vote as q
matter Of course
and were indignant
when they found
{ b ey could not.
They declared they
paid taxes the same
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scribeS interesting
~ his bunting ex-
petitions and also
African conditions
as they exist today
In his chapter on
Nj first Lion" he
says:
who shall at
tempt to describe
the feelings of a
man who after long
waiting. when the
z old en- c b Il n C e
c o II q s to him .
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rs the boys and therefore ought TO
have the ballot.
The question was discussed with the
greatest interest. all the girls and
many Of the boys favoring suffrage for
them. but some of the boys opposed.
Finally one Of their champions intro
duced a bill in their legislature confer
ring the ballot upon the girls. and IL
was carried enthusiastically by a two
thirds vote
In a suggestive final chapter Mr.
George expresses his conviction that
boys Of ali sorts ought TO have the Op-
p0rtuuity Of some such training in
practical citizenship as the young peo-
pie get at the JuuicR Republic.
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he heard an American phonograph 81
another rather out OF the way town au
official played merrily on an America
typewriter 10 the tune Of the conn.i-
ated Russian alphabet. la Moscow
shopheepers galore ring up the &c.
pecks on Yankee made cash registers
To cap the climax of this apprerii
tion fer Uncle Sans wares the auikeI
adds that in certain Siberian town
in a shop window-as jaunty as when
she made her debut IN Detroit. Mira.-
"TIiawatha" looks down from the COY
er OF piece Of music. while next 20
her stood -'aiumblln Nose" in philo-
sophical contemplation Of the strange
and diversified multitude that Co2Cc
by IN this faraway land
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playwright than as
a novelist He has
four plays In hand
at present. and all
Will be running I'm
New York next win
ter. There is The
y attIe.~ which is
now IN its second
5 e son. and AIr.
afonett IS actively
engaged in the pro
duction Of tire q
other plays lately
come from his pen
For a uumbeT OF
| years he has made
u H 49,. g.. 90. o..
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knows. as he stead
lily presses the yielding trigger home,
that be is -on?" That triumphant IT.
slant may be the result of some dark
survival of barbarism within him All
the same be is Ilvingl Ii is glorious.
1t was mine and is part of me for
ever"
DR. Rainsford's lion measured ten
feet and. Eve inches from the tip of the
nose to the tip of the tail.
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Books
and
Authors

FREDERIC
ISHAM. whrsc

book "iIaif 4
Chance" hsS tce..
SO widely read d ai.
indefaiic8b,e irVe,-
or. lie reports BAY
ing seen during i,l.
recent wish 60 EU
sia many articles ia
dicatlVe Of the cyei
growing activity %
American exports
At a small place
near 81 tsefcrsbdle.
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Uncle Sans
War on the
TruStc ~

"NHy AFTER. sou
w have made
no charge
for that juicy por
terhouse."
NO. sir. there's
no charge for that"
"W-h-a-tr'
That's right. sir.
Meat is so cheap
now that we are
giving it away"
While this fore
-. a.
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In his new book. The Land Of tie
Lion" the Rev. w. :. Rainsford de.
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nance OF the principles OF popular sover-
eighty, of which he was the constant and
consistent advocate. The fatal mistake of
Mr.. Douglas life, according to our author,
was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
which was accomplished through his efforts,
not for the purpose of introducing slavery
into the Territories, but, as he hoped, to
remove the agitation of the question from
Congress by leaving it ODE decided by the
people of the new States. Precisely the
opposite effect resulted; instead Of being
taken out of Congress the agitation became
more intense in that body, and extended
throughout the country.
g 1t is interesting to reflect says our
author, "upon what might and upon what
might not have been, but for the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise. Had that Com
promise not been repealed, it is probable
that the Democratic party would have gone
on in the control of the government, as it
had done so long. In 1856, at farthest in
1850, Stephen A. Douglas would have be-
come President. The old Wing party
would have dragged its lazy length along.
Ulysses S. Grant would have continued to
weigh raw hides on the back alley of a
leather store at Galena, and Abraham Lin
coin would have continued to ride the cir.
cult and tell stories in Central Illinois.
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FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

The Louisiana Press Convention will be
held May Ord, 4th and 9Th at Opelousas.
The Donaldsonville Chief and the Don
aldsonvile Times have been consolidated.
Lake Charles will have twenty five miles
of cement sidewalks on seventeen streets.
Julian Waller, eleven years old, was
drowned in the Ouachita River, at Monroe.
The Louisiana Farm Land Congress will
be held April Goth and 21st at Alexandria.
Louisiana hogs reached 10 cents at New
Orleans Stock Landing Friday, breaking
all records.
B. S. Dunbar, night clerk at Hotel
Bentley, Alexandria, is alleged to have
abscounded with $500.
The Standard Oil Refinery at Baton
Rouge will be completed in four months,
and regular employment will be given 175
men.
large tract of land has been purchased
near Gueydan, Vermilion Parish, which
will be occupied by Belgian colony OF
thirty families.
The twenty fourth annual convention OF
the Louisiana Sunday School Association
will be held in New Orleans next Wednes-
day and Thursday.
Federal Judge Boarman Monday fined
R. L. Rusca, Shreveport merchant, $500
for offering oleomargarine for sale without
special government tax.
During the past year the Church Point
acadia Parish) community shipped 1875,
900 bushels of corn, 1000 worth chickens
and eggs, and five car loads of seed pota-
toes have been planted.
Representative L. E. Thomas, of Shreve-
port, in an interview Monday, announced
that he will introduce a bill at the next
session Of the Legislature providing thai
the law creating the State Game Commits
sion be repealed. He vote for the present
law, but is now convinced that the com
mission is practically farce.
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Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston.

A close friend and man of prominence,
writing to Col. William Preston Johnston,
pays this tribute to the Hero OF Shiloh,
which we reproduce from "The Life of
Gen. A. S. Johnston" page 1876:
81 have never known the man who held
in such nice equipoise qualities akin and
yet in a measure antagonistic-the genial
and the reserved, the gentle and the grand,
the humane and the heroic. He would
have gone days journey to reclaim an
erring brother, and would have turned out
of his path to avoid crushing worm; and
vet he would have sacrificed his life and all
he held dear in it rather than deviate one
hairs breadth from the strictest line OF duty.
There was no cant in his composition, for
he was cavalier of the strictest sect; but
| have never met the man who combined in
himself more of the elements of follower
of the Unerring Teacher. In his company
the humblest felt at ease, and yet crowned
head would not have ventured upon free
dom with him. In the course of an event
full life and extensive travel, ! have come
in contact with many of the historic per-
sonages of the day; and yet scruple moi
to say that of them all, but three, to my
thinking, would stand the test of the most
rigid scrutiny. Of these, by singular
coincidence. the colonel and lieutenant
colonel of cavalry regiment in the United
States Army, afterward respectively the
ranking officers of hostile army, Alder
Sidney Johnston and Robert E. Lee, were
two; the third was Mr.. Calhoun. No time
serving or self-seeking entered into thei
calculations. Self abnegation at the bid
ding of duty was the rule of their lives
Could our much maligned section lay ne
| further claim to the consideration of man
kind, the fact that it produced, almost il
the same generation, such triumvirate
typical of their people, is enough to place
it among the foremost nations of the eartf
in the realms of thought, honor, patriotism
and knightly grace"
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LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Two men in a boat were swept over
Niagara falls.
Fifteen Fall River cotton cloth mills shut
down Saturday.
A ninety foot whale was caught in the
gulf off Sabine Pass.
Van Davis was beaten to death by a
negro at Burnside, Ga.
Peary, the North Pole fraud, refused to
submit proofs to Congress.
Five persons were killed in race trouble
near Palmetto, Fla, Monday.
Floods in New York and Ohio last week
did great damage. Four thousand per-
sons were rendered homeless in Ohio.
Thirty three miners were killed by the
explosion of powder magazine in Alaska.
c. G. Martin, at Houston, Texas, shot
and killed Mrs. Agnes Payne and suicided.
Eight or ten persons were killed and
many injured in an explosion in factory
at Roby, Indiana.
Thomas Collier Plat, former United
States Senator, died suddenly in New York
Sunday afternoon.
What is believed to be the largest cargo
of rubber ever received in New York is
valued at Sc, 600, 600 to 81 900, 900.
An estimate in the Seattle newspapers of
Saturday puts the number Of persons killed
by the Wellington landslide at 1875.
Live hog prices advanced Tuesday at
Chicago to s10.25 hundredweight; at Gin
cinnati to s1O.45, and at indianapolis to
$1,000.
Earl D. Thomas blew his brains out in
Colorado Springs, after spree. He was
son of Gen. Thomas, commander Of the
Department of Colorado.
The rural free delivery service had it's
appropriation increased ST, SOC, 900 largely
through the efforts Of Congressman Wat
kins and Ransdell of Louisiana.
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The School Ring.
Morgan City Outlook. !


The trouble is not so much that the
schools have got into politics as that poll
tics have got into the schools. The poison
is working from the inside, and, like case
of Bright's disease, has been passing
through its progressive stages since Mr..
Aswell was elected State Superintendent.
He got troublesome bee in his bonnet
quite early in his career, and began to
court popular favor in strenuous en-
deavor to use the school system of the
State as an instrument for accomplishing
his designs. He is not deep, and he is
deficient in scholarship, but he cunning.
His early habits of mind enabled him to
make his energy appear in the guise of
disinterested zeal; and he received much
earnest assistance from persons and from
the press under the erroneous impression.
A large and honest class Of citizens, with
many women of culture, are still unde-
ceived. No man in the State has been
treated with more indulgence, and no man
in the State has abused it more. He has
used this misguided confidence to build up
a machine that is fatal to the highest in
terests of the public. And his work cannot
be too soon undone by the General AS
sembly. The Outlook speaks on this sub
ject with certain knowledge and without
regard to the consequence Of using plain
speech.
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THE STATE PRESS.
speech.

Louisiana Democrat: Although Super
intendent Harris and his committee of I'M
savory memory, forced the Brumbaugh
Readers on the school children OF Louisi-
ana, they are refused recognition in his
home city of Philadelphia.
Donaldsonville Chief: The centralized
system of having everything controlled
from Baton Rouge ought to be broken up.
Each community ought within general
limitations to be allowed to run its own
schools so that they do not fall below a
fixed standard of efficiency.
Claiborne Guardian journal: At the
present rate it will not be long till the Con-
gress of the United States will have in
vaded the rights of the States to the extent
that the police powers even will be taken
away, and our whole legal machinery
rendered inefficient and secondary to the
General Government. 1t is high time we
were calling a halt before we render null
and imperative States rights guaranteed
by the organic law. The constitution is
becoming the fundamental law in name
only. We have strayed away from our
sheet anchor.
East Carroll Banner Democrat: The
Democrats of Indiana have started in to
boom Gov. Judson Harmon of Ohio for
President. Ohio will join in the boom.
The Democrats have a better chance two
years hence in electing President since
Cleveland, and if Bryan can be kept from
spelling the broth the Democrats are going
to win. Any good man, such as the Gov
ernor of Ohio, or the Mayor of New York
will have the whole party together and win
votes from the Republican side. Right
now it looks as if change from extrava-
gance to one of economy is demanded.
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Gems of Thought.

Shakespeare: O. weary reckoning!
Horace: Whatever precepts you give,
be short.
Shakespeare: There is small choice in
rotten apples.
Cotton: The most successful knaves are
as smooth as razors dipped in oil, and as
sharp.
Gen. A. S. Johnston: l hate grumblers
SO much that dislike to make any COM
plant.
Chesterfield: An able man shows his
spirit by gentle words and resolute actions
he is neither hot nor timid.
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There would have been no Republican
party, no secession, and no war. Brilliant
as was his victory in the mighty struggle,
who can not now see the repeal OF the
Missouri Compromise, on the part OF SEN
tor Douglas, was mistake"
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Estrayed or Stolen

ONE Sorrel Mare PONY, about 10
~ hands high, white face WITH sss
on nose, foretop cut, small DUMP
back from saddle, small mule-sn
foot. $50
One Bay PONY, IA hands high, IT,
falls to left side of neck, left o.
notched by barb wire, black name
tail, Texas brand on left hip.
Any one taking up said stock ano
tifying me will be freely rewardea
6. T. MAfst ssS
RID. No. 2, Plain Dealing
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-03-10

Fully nine out of every ten cases OF
rheumatism is simply rheumatism Of the
muscles due to cold or damp, or chronic
rheumatism, neither of which require any
internal treatment. All that is needed to
afford relief is the free application of Cham
beriain's Linament. Give it trial. You
are certain to be pleased with the quick
relief which it affords. Sold by all dealers.
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East Carroll Banner Democrat: Hey.
burn of Idaho and jeff Davis of Arkansas,
one Republican and the other Demo-
crat, are pair hard to beat, and as United
States Senators they are disgrace to their
States. They are not the kind of men that
carry dignity and honor to the high posi-
tons they hold.
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ORDINANCES

ADOPTED by the Police Jury in Extra
Session Convened Jan. 2S, 1910.
By Mr. McDade.l
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
Bossier Parish, That the ordinance
adopted July 10, 1907, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
AN ORDINANCE
Relative to contract to be entered into
between the City of Shreveport and
Parish of Bossier, providing for the
building of a traffic bridge across
Red River.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury OF
Bossier Parish, in legal and extra ses-
sion convened, That the said parish
enter into a contract with the City OF
Shreveport, said contract to embrace the
following provisions:
The City of Shreveport and the Parish
of Bossier agree jointly to erect traffic
bridge across Red River, said bridge to
be an overhead bridge, not to cost more
than $780, 900, and to be paid for as
follows:
All the money which the City OF
Shreveport now has on hand to the
credit of the bridge fund shall be used
as part payment on the said new traffic
| bridge; all the tolls over and above he1
share of bridge expenses which the said
city shall collect on the present Vicks-
burg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway
Company bridge shall be used in part
payment on the new traffic bridgs, and
all the tolls which the said city shall
collect over and above her share Of
bridge operating expenses on the new
traffic bridge after it is erected shall be
used as part payment on the said new
traffic bridge until it is paid for;
That Bossier Parish shall use all Of
her share of the tolls of the present
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Rail-
way Company bridge, less her share Of
expenses, until the completion OF the
new bridge.
All the tolls which shall be collected
from the Bossier Parish end of said new
traffic bridge over and above her share Of
bridge operating expenses shall be useC
as part payment on said bridge until il
is paid for.
1t is further agreed, That after sale
new traffic bridge is paid for, it shall
thereafter forever be simply a mainten-
tenance bridge; that is to say, only sc
much in tolls shall be collected from
time to time as will be necessary tt
maintain said bridge. No tolls what
ever shall be collected for revenue.
That the Mayor of Shreveport shall
secure from the War Department recog-
milton of Bossier Parish as an equa
party at interest in the bridge over Rec
River in permit signed by Robert Shaw
Oliver, Assistant Secretary of War, said
permit bearing date January II, 1910
Further, That the City of Shreveport,
shall pay into the bridge fund referred
to in this contract all accrued interest or
the amount on hand May ia, 1907, to-
gether with all amounts that have &C.
cumulated since that date upon which
interest has not been paid, as the records
will disclose.
Be it further ordained, etc., That the
President of the Police Jury be, and he
is hereby, authorized to sign new con-
tract, embodying the contract as here
amended, in the name of the Parish Of
Bossier, which contract shall stand in
lieu of the contract of August 10, 1907
J. w. ELSTON,
President Police Jury Of Bossier Parish.
r. B. HILL, Clerk.
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Pope: Fine sense and exalted sense
are not half so useful as common sense.