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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-08

Joe McGinnity. who will attend the
game meeting. declares that there will
be no fight for class IA representa-
ton. as the truce agreed upo a few
years ago does not expire until next
summer The Eastern n American
leagues should be granted the proper
rating. At the present time the small
er minor leagues, by their greater mum
her, can beat the big minors in every
thing on which a vote is required. 1t
is not a fair situation at all.
@
sff Christy Mathewson has signed for
s15,000 a year. he is one good ball player
that is beginning to draw from the
~p1agnates something like the pay he is
birth. When you think of the money
Y owners get from the efforts of ball
/ ayers and what the latter pull dowb,
q new third league" is not an impos-
sibility. if the promoters of that pro-
posed organization pay the money. Do
you think Ban Johnson would be at
the head Of a baseball league now it
he hadn't worked on that principle?
@
Harry Lewis, who knocked. out Dick
Nelson, of Brooklyn, at Schenectady
last night, was carried out of the ring
as the welterweight champion. Nelson
beat tho Dixie Kid in a limited round
battle. just as the Dixie Kid" got his
disputed title from Joe Walcott. That's
a great way to decide championships.
.
1t looks now as If the Philly-Cincin-
natl Red controversy is about over. and
that the trade, as originally arranged,
will go through. After all, was this a
press agent stunt? 4s.r. T.
You know Mr.. Foge1 was a newspaper
man.
8President Lynch will act as arbitra-
tor in. the difficulty. and the meeting
of Hermann and Fogel will take place
at the end of this week.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-08

Jim McVeigh, the local %scrapper, to-
day made answer to Murray Allen, vino
challenged the Down Neck boy to a
fight. McNeigh is ready to meet Allen
at either TroXler's or McGuigan's at
any time, if proper inducements are
lade. McVeigh says he'll make lis
.ounds ringside, Allen to get down to
the same for the fight.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-08

To the Sporting Editor of the Evening star:
Did the Cincinnati Reds ever win Il
pennant? ROBERT HAYES.
The Cincinnati Reds won the cham
pionship in the old American Associa-
ton in 1882. They have never won a
pennant in the National League.-Ed-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-08
Thanks for your advice.-Ed.

ARTHUR NEwMAN-Your query
has been referred to the Margery Door
column as it is not a sporting query.
ED.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-08

A pitcher can make a motion tt
throw to third without committing g
balk and he can throw to first after
doing Sod.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-08

To the Editor OF the Evening star;
There is a man ON first base and a
man ON third base. Pitcher stands in
box with the ball. He steps out OF
box toward third. but does not throw
to third. but whirls around n throws
to first base Is that a balk?'
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-11-19

\ half hour before midnight the Iini-
lowcen party was al the height ~ its
merrimcnt. When the grandfather i
clock in the hall should strike II then
Flora Lee. bewiiching indeed In hei
red cloak with pointed black hat atop
- sunny hair. would command the
dancers To unmask-
She was watching a couple who had
recently arrived and ~ whose identity
she was quite ignorant.
Flora watched the newly arrived
couple dancing toward her The man,
unusually tall. wore dark suit OF
clothes. gray wig. aud his face was
quite hidden behind II black mask.
His companion WAS small and slight.
gowued in bridal robes. faded ana yell
lowed china silk. creased rs II long
laid aside. \ veil of white Illusion
fioated all about her. ana her face
was also concealed behind mask 0f
white.
The clock struck II. aud the music
stopped.
~ ufllheks tTttN tbld NAaiit
And there was rustic and then uni
versal laughter as they recognized one
another. Floras eyes were "n the
bridal couple.
The man tossed aside his mask and
wig and becamc-Anson Cook. He
assisted the little bride TO remove her
mask and then led her TO Flora Lee,
blushing like u rose.
Emily Paine laughed Flora rather
loudly. That Is disguise. Emily.
No one would have expected to see
You In bridal robes
Arson Cook stiiIened little aud
drew Einily's hand within his arm.
He turned to the company. with his
old familiar smile. They had all
known him from boy
Friends and ncighbors." he said
proudly. This is not disguise You
see. Emily and were married at II
o'clock. Halloween Is the night TO
peer into the future and zee what u
holds for yon. You see I've gone q
far MS 10 make sure ~ my future beN.
plness"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05
New Orleans, April 26, 1910.
THE STATE PRESS.

Mansfield Enterprise: The idea of max
ing public education compulsory is an
absurdity in this State. We have not suf-
ficient schools for all the children to attend,
and until that is accomplished, compul-
sorry school law is ridiculous and absurd.
Haynesville News: Louisiana is great
State and is filled with great people, but
it needs good cleaning up in many of its
departments and reduction of officers.
This State conducted properly along bust
ness lines, and less politics, would be one
of the richest in the Union.
Mansfield Enterprise: In conversation
with the leading educators of this parish,
we learn that there is no serious expecta-
ton that the suggestion by State Superin-
tendent Harris, authorizing the School
Board to levy special taxes in school dis
tricts, will be considered by the next Leg
islature. In fact the school officials, es-
pecially in the country parishes, realize the
absurdity of the proposition and know that
the people would not tolerate any such
suggestion. The people are ever ready to
vote for special school taxes, and they will
put no such power in the hands of the
School Board.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05
The Right Man in the Right Place.

In this issue of the Banner will be found
q letter to the voters of the Second Su-
preme Court District from Judge Alfred D.
Land, who is candidate to succeed him.
self in the office of Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of this State. Judge Land
is an eminent jurist and fearless and I'M
compromising in his devotion to duty.
With an aptitude for research, imbued with
energy, armed with clear, trained and
discerning intellect, and dominated and
controlled by the single purpose of fair
and honest heart to do equal and exact
justice to all, Judge Land is justly re-
garded by those who know him best as an
ideal Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Reports from Texas received in New
York indicate considerable increase in
the cotton acreage of that State.
Statistics made public in Washington
tend to show great decrease in produce
ton of paper in the United States.
Reports from North and South Carolina
are to the effect that the outlook is for an
increase in the cotton acreage in the two
States.
There were 1873 business failures in the
United States during the week ending
April 28th against 1913 for the same period
last week.
Nine circus elephants ran amuck in
Danville, Illinois, damaged more than one
hundred homes and caused injury to a
number of persons.
Caught in the hold of steamship and
literally boiled to death with escaping
steam, five men met horrible end on the
night OF the 23d of April while the vessel
was 40 miles off the Mississippi bar.
The "Bull clique" took over 100000
bales of cotton last Friday on the New
York Cotton Exchange, for which they
paid about $3.50 100000. 1t was the big
gest day in the history of the exchange.
For the week ending Monday, May I'd,
there was less than the normal precipitation
over the entire Cotton Belt, and none was
reported from the western and south
central portions. Light showers occurred
over the north central and eastern portions
during the early part of the week. The
greatest weekly rainfall reported was 1.20
inches at Goldsboro, NC.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05
Gems of Thought.

Theodore Parker: The most useful is
the greatest.
John Weiss: The laughter of man is
the contentment of God.
Hazlitt: Great thoughts reduced to
practice become great acts.
Hare: The greatest truths are the SIM
plest; and so are the greatest men.
Bulwer-Lytton: Time, o my friend, is
money! Time wasted can never conduce
to money well managed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

Western capitalists have been inspecting
the territory adjacent to Morgan City.
The Louisiana General Assembly will
convene at Baton Rouge for two months
session next Monday.
Plans are on foot to drain more than
35, 900 acres of prairie land between Bayou
Terrebonne and Bayou Lafourche.
For the week ending last Monday, no
precipitation occurred at any weather
bureau station in Louisiana. The mean
temperature was below the normal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05

the love and sweetness of existence, so
and sustains the fabric of
social union, and so elevates the quality of
human work that the disappointing strug-
giles of stimulation are an incongrulty
which causes wonder. Why do men strive
to impose upon their fellows with the false
when they can deceive nobody but the
ignorant, whose opinion is nearly worth
less? Why do women seek a Difference
they do not deserve, an admiration they
cannot win, when it is plain that their place
is determined by the attributes which are
"within their power?'
In the perfect balance sincerity and
charity ever tread the earth with clasped
hands. Truth asks of kindness, Shall
speak? 1t is not insincere to curb and
cover harshness of speech. Sincerity looks
at the speakers honesty, not at the defects
of others. If the plainness of comment
which offends is sometimes necessary, its
duty is first to inquire of charity whether
the moment is one for reproof or for silence
or for soothing. Only in single depart
ment of life does compassion withdraw and
leave sincerity untrammeled. In mans
own work there is no excuse for compro-
mise. Absolute sincerity can there do no
harm to others, but only good. That is his
contribution to the material world and his
example to the world of morals. That it is
which he sells for the labor of other men ;
in that should appear his inmost truth and
his eager conscience. Merchant, doctor,
lawyer, manufacturer or handworker, what
he sells must be what he represents it to be
and the best he can do. II the poet OF
orator gives not honest work, he is not an
honest man. Hei not faithful to himself
he cannot, as we have learned, be true tc
any man, and his work perishes with the
hour of its creation.
Sincerity and charity-together the bet
terment, the solace, the grandeur of life
the emergence of the soul from drOss anc
faint; the encouragement and instruction
of the weak and the softenng of the
strong to meet the fine sentiment that thu
bravest are the gentlest Straightness o
word and deed is rectitude in the spirit al
we'll as in the analogies of language. Cul
tivate sincerity and flavor it with love, ant
we have the true living of the simple life
!, the fruitful life, the life which touches tn
earth with divinity.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05

Never hesitate about giving Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy to children. 1t
contains no opium or other narcotics and
can be given with implicit confidence.
AS quick cure for coughs and colds to
which children are susceptible, it is un-
surpassed. Sold by all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05

DE Elsewhere in this issue of the
Banner appears record of subscrip-
tions paid us during the past month. If
your name should be in this list, look
for it. If it is not there, write us, stating
the amount paid, and we will be pleased
TO make corrections on our books, when
found necessary. Please be prompt to
write. The best time to correct an error
is when it is first discovered.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05
Churches and Lodges
BENTON METHODIST CHURCH.


Services held second and fourth Sundays in
each month, at II am. and 1880 pm. Rev. j. A.
Parker, D. D., Pastor.
PRAYER and lecture service every Wednesday at
7:3O pm. Epworth League meets in connection
with the Wednesday evening exercises.
Sunday School held every Sunday at 9:A5 am
DR.. B. Wise, Superintendent.
BENTON BAPTIST CHURCH.
Services held every third Sunday at II am. and
7:3O pm. Rev. B. C. Conant of Gbsland, Pastor
Sunday School held every Sunday at pm.
Mr. w. A. Fortson, Superintendent.
BENTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services held every first Sunday at II am. and
7:3O pm. pastor to be supplied)
PLAIN DEALING BAPTIST CHURCH.
Services held first Sunday in each month at II
am. and 1880 pm. Rev. A. J. Wharton, Pastor.
Sunday School held every Sunday at 10 am.
]. Perry, Superintendent
PLAIN DEALING METHODIST CHURCH.
Services held fourth Sunday in each month,
morning and evening. Rev. J. L. Lay, Pastor.
PLAIN DEALING CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Services held second Sunday in each month,
morning and evening.
CYPRESS LODGE, F. AND Am.
Meets in Benton monthly on Thursdays, on or
before the full moon. E. M. Laughlin, W. M;
]. M. Brown, jr., Secretary.
HAUGHToN LODGE, F. AND A. M.
Meets in Haughton on the second Friday of
each month. W. C. Scales, WI M; w. H. Bled-
soc, Secretary.
RED LAND LODGE, F. AND A. N.
Meets in Carterville on the fourth Saturday in
each month.
Meets in Plain Dealing on the third Tuesday in
each month. N. w. Sentell, W. M; J. Perry
Secretary.
ATKINS LODGE, F. AND NJ.
Meets in Atkins on the second Thursday Of
each month.
BELCHER LODGE, F. ANDA.M.
Organized in Belcher August 10, 1908. Meetings
held monthly.
COTTON VALLEY LODGE, F. AND AN.
Organized in Cotton Valley October Z, 1908
Meetings held monthly.
BossIER LODGE, x. OPP.
Meets in Plain Dealing on the fourth Tuesday
in each month. E. R. Mading, c. c.; w. B
Boggs, K. of R. and S.
IVY CAMP, W. o.W.
| Meets in Plain Dealing on the third Saturday
night in each month. E. r. Mading, C. c.; W. c
Banks, Clerk.
| HENDERsoN's CAMP, w.o.w
Meets in Rocky Mount on the first and thru
Saturday nights in each month. L. M. Burks
C. c.; ]. M. Henderson, Clerk.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05

The splendid work of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets is daily coming
to light. No such grand remedy for liver
and bowel troubles was ever known before
Thousande bless them for curing constipa-
ton, sick headache, biliousness, jaundice
and indigestion. Sold by all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05

DR.. e. G. Allen, Of Shreveport,
Announces that he has opened an Office
in the Cooper Building. DR.. Allen is a
graduate of both schools and carries
full line of homeopathic remedies.
Special attention given chronic diseases.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05

Hazlitt: The measure of any mans
virtue is what he would do if he had neither
the laws nor public opinion, nor even his
own prejudices, to control him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05

Noah Webster-Preface to Dictionary:
Language, as well as the faculty of speech,
was the immediate gift Of God.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
UNIQUE WILL FILED
Impossible Conditions Imposed
Upon a 12-Year.OId Boy.
Robert st. George Dyrenforth Must
Graduate From High School at
Age Of Fourteen and Get Har-
ward Degree at Eighteen.

Neutrality-suspicious. probably is the
etrangest will ever filed in court in
the District of Columbia is to be con-
tested and in the next few months it
is likely that much will be published
relating to the legal battle.
1t is the will of Co.. Robert St.
George Dyrenforth, Civil war hero,
and ex-patent office official who left a
ortune Of $25O,O00 to his twelve-year-
Gid grandson providing he carried out
what seems to be impossible pro-
visions. In fact two or three of them
ere impossible and the lad will not
make any attempt to abide by them.
Colonel Dyrenforth cut off his wife
with whom he had not lived for some
time and made his grandson, Henry
st. George Dyrenforth, second, his sole
heir.
According to this strange will the
grandson will win the fortune if:
He bewares of women.
He graduates from the high school
at fourteen.
He studies manual training, dan
cling, and music.
He receives his degree from Har-
ward at eighteen.
He follows this with six-months'
study at Oxford.
He enters the military academy at
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
FREAKS IN C|RCUSES
People Are Strangely Fascinated
by the Monstrosities.
When the "Domestlcated Gorilla" Got
the Show Into TroubIe-Hot
Water Spells "Mermaid"
to Uncover Fake. y. ...

London.-It seems strange that
freaks, from the legless wonder to the
two-headed calf, should possess such
strange fascination for nine people
out of ten. yet this is undoubtedly
the case.
OF course, there are many so-called
freaks which have no business to be
called by such an unpleasant name,
for if one argues from the dictionary
a freak is monstrosity, and mon
strosity, in the generally accepted
sense of the word, is something hor-
rible., The giant and the dwarf are
interesting and unusual, but certainly
should not be called freaks"
Hunchbacks were an exception to
the rule, for all kinds Of powers were
attributed to them. There are some
very sensitive people to whom the
sight Of anything in the nature Of a
monstrosity is absolute pain, and
women are fortunately few and far
between who fall in love with mon
ster because Of his monstrosity, as
in the case of Victor Hugo's "L'homme
qu1 Rit."
The ordinary individual comes
across very few physical freaks, and
one cannot but wonder whence the
showman's rank and file are recruited.
Perhaps, if the truth were known,
more than half Of the show freaks are
flakes" There are many good stories
told Of these sham freaks, who, owing
to some contretemps, have "given the
show away" The two following are
good examples:
Among the freaks Of certain show
was a "domesticated gorilla" to quote
the handbills, and he proved one of
the finest draws the show had ever
had. After the performance no one
could have recognized the gorilla, as
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06

woman is allowed to vote and condi
tons will continue the same Women
should be allowed to hold any office
OF trust that man does, provided she
is qualified for the position and gets
the votes"
Mrs. Anderson is an advocate of the
great farmers cooperative movement
which Is sweeping the country, espe
c1ally in the great grain states. The
state of Iowa alone having 1926 farm
ers' cooperative companies, which buy
and sell grain, stock and lumber. In
the state alone more than $4,000, OOC
worth Of business was done last year.
AS far as is known Mrs. Anderson
is the only woman doing lecture work
for this organization, and being a farm
woman, is heartily in sympathy. with
the movement. Mrs. Anderson deliv
ers addresses at Fourth of July, Deco
ration day and all such gatherings
She is member of the editorial staff
OF the American Cooperative Journal
one of the greatest organizations oil
Ill
in this country.
Mrs. Anderson was born in Topeka
Kan, August Is, 1879, but moved tt
Iowa at an early age, where she
has since resided. She is a graduate
of the Eagle Grove high school and g
rural teacher. She was married while
quite young to farmer, who died
some four years ago, leaving her with
four children, three boys and girl
Donald, Carlyle, Max and Averil, the
oldest ten and the youngest five years
old. She farmed for time after he1
husbands death, but the hired man
problem and the wet" years com
PEELED her to abandon this.
Mrs. Anderson made practically 6
"house-to-house" campaign and drove
livery wagons and automobiles and at
tended township school picn1cs in hel
work. She was treated courteously BY
the men.
Some were under the impression
the campaign was conducted for the
purpose of securing a husband, but
she thinks 1t was rather an expensive
way to find a husband, and knows Of
no man who is worth hiring an auto
mobile at the rate of $40 per day tt
pursue. She is out for Office because
of the fact that wages paid womer
teachers and other lines of work Ii
not adequate to support family.
Mrs. Anderson expects to go on ir
political work and If not able to vote
will try for the highest Offices tina,
women may acquire, at least will con
tinue to talk and persuade men to vote
for the right, silent influence woman
can and Is already welding.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
GETS BACK HIS OLD TURTLE
New Jersey Bather Recaptures Pet
That Wandered Away Several
: 81 -~'@*a Years Ago. ...

Upper Montville, N. IA swapping
turtle that Hilliard Throckmorton had
lost % years ago returned to him
when he was bathing in Green pond.
He long had mourned his loss, but he
mourned its return still more
Throckmorton was having his daily
swim when suddenly a toe of his left
foot was caught and held. He tried to
shake of his new attachment, but it
refused to let 60. He swan to the
shore, almost fainting from pain and
exertion.
"A cold chisel and poker were nee
essary to make the snapper let 60.
Then the following inscription was
found carved on the shell: III. T..
1885,
why" gasped Throckmorton, IT
made that on pet turtle when was
fifteen years old"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
AIfonso's Narrow Escape.

Madrid.-Few men of his age had
so many narrow escapes as King Al
fonso of Spain, who was twenty-four
May II. His life has been attempted
twice, in Paris during a state visit
there, and in Madrid on his wedding
day. He has been in several motoring
accidents and on one occasion nearly
succeeded in killing the Spanish min.
lister Of education as well as himself.
When trying reaping-machine at La.
Parda some years ago he became en-
tangled In the machinery, and might
have been killed If the engineer had
not stopped the movement instan.
taneously.