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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
Know tho Stars In the Ora aouf

t\uO" GU0 SedTS WI Su0 1TA9OVB
Winding in and out between the
stars of the Great and Little Dipper
Is the constellation Of the Dragon.
The tip Of the tail lies between the
pole star in the Little Dipper and the
pointers in the Great Dipper. but
much nearer the latter and only few
degrees below the pointers. The rest
of the constellation. outlined with
faint stars. curves downward and
around the Little Dipper. when with
final coil 1t terminates with the two
bright stars Gamma and Beta, which
mark the head of the Dragon. or. in
fact. its eyes. Aratus In describing
the consultations speaks of the Dragon
as with eyes oblique retorted. that
askant cast cleaning fire."
Its leading star. Alpha, near the tail
Of the Dragon and halfway between
Mar (the middle star in the handle
Of the Great Dipper) and the lowest
star in the bowl of the Little Dipper
IS known by the name of Thuban.
Four thousand years ago 1t was the
pole star.-Mary Proctor in Chicago
Tribune,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05

Mr.. }. B. Aswell, in an address at re-
cent meeting at Baton Rouge is quoted as
saying "that az the school sentiment in
the communities increases the centralized
power should just in that proportion de-
crease, and that the high schools, the ag-
ricutural schools and Institutes should be
conducted by the local authorities, giving
the State school authorities more time to
devote to the development of the rural
schools" This admission of s' centralized
power" in school management by Mr..
Aswell is unexpected. The next we NAV
hear is that there is School Ring and
that all the "fool parents" who want to
control their schools are sensible, praise
worthy citizens. When you go a-humbue-
gin, go a-humbuggin'.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
BENTON, LA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 10
JACKSON DAY.

The Sth of January is observed as
jackson Day." not because it is Jackson's
birthday, but because it is the anniversary
of the victory that restored the self-respect
of his countrymen after the poor figure
that our land forces had made in the war
of 1912, and gained for the General in
command the Presidency and the director
ship of his party. The treaty of peace
with England was signed at Client on
Christmas Eve, 1914. But the news was
slow in crossing the ocean, and more than
two weeks later an army of Wellington's
Peninsula veterans, under Packenham,
marched against the breastworks of cotton
bales at New Orleans, behind which were
Jackson's frontiersmen. Each one of these
frontiersmen was marksman, and they
moved down the unprotected British ranks
with great slaughter. Clay had felt greatly
humilitated about the terms of the treaty
he had signed, and when the news of
Jackson's victory reached him he remarked
that now he could GO home through Eng
land without feeling ashamed.
Jackson was born leader of men, mas
terful and imperious, product of frontier
life. With none of the advantages of family
influence or of education, the son of hum
bic parents, he by the sheer force of will
and natural force of understanding and
the natural qualities Of leadership, raised
himself to the most exalted place. He
stopped to none of the acts and devises
OF the demagoge. He did not seek to
follow public sentiment or to ask what
men were thinking. He told them what
to think and commanded. His early life
was among frontiersmen and he speedily
commended himself to them and became
their leader. His temper was not only
imperious, but violent, and he would brook
no contradiction. His rugged manners,
his honest, sincere and masterful way cap
tured the inauguration of the great mass
of the people, and perhaps no man in pub
lie life in this country ever aroused such
passionate hatred or such passionate devo-
ton. The plain people had confidence in
him and believed there was nothing be-
yond his powers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
Left to q Worse Fate,

The business man was sitting in bis
Office thinking Of starting for home
when suspicious looking person
came in with leather bag In his
hand.
IF you don't give me f5.'' said the
visitor. coming at once TO the point,
Il will drop this on the tioor''
The business man was cool. What
is in ity' he asked.
Dynamite" was the brief reply.
what will it do If you drop it,"
BLOW you up"
Drop it, was the instant com
mand. My wife told me when left
home this morning 10 be sure to send
up a bag of -four. and forgot It. |
guess it will take just about as much
dynamite as you have there to prepare
me for the blowing up III get when
she sees me-
I'm i married man myself" said
the dynami,er and quietly slipped out.
illustrated Bits
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05

Among the subjects discussed at the
meeting of school teachers and officials at
Baton Rouge in December was "Needed
School Legislation" What is most needed
in school legislation is the repeal of all
legislation depriving the people of the free
and unlimited control of their schools, par
ticularly the Aswell- Marks law enacted in
1908. Reform school legislation should be
made an issue in the next campaign and q
majority of Legislators elected who will re-
store to the people the rights of which they
have been deprived.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
A Year Without A Summer.
Rockville (Md.) Sentinel

The year 1916 has been called the year
without a summer, for there were sharp
frosts in every month. January was mild;
so was February, with the exception of
few days. Greater part of March was cold
and boisterous. April opened mild, but
grew colder as it advanced, ending with
snow, ice and winter cold. In May ice
formed one-half inch thick, buds and flow
ers were frozen and corn killed. Frost, ice
and snow were common in June. Almost
every green thing was killed and the fruit
was nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the
depth of three inches in New York and
Massachusetts and ten inches in Maine.
July was accompanied with frost and ice.
On the 9th ice as thick as window glass
was formed in New York, New England
and Pennsylvania, and corn was nearly all
killed in certain sections. In August ice
formed one-half inch thick. A northwest
wind prevailed nearly all summer. Corn
was so frozen that much was cut and dried
for fodder. Very little ripened in New
England and scarcely any even in the Mid
die States. Farmers were obliged to pay
50 or S. bushel for corn in 1915 for the
next springs planting. The first two weeks
of September were mild, the rest cold with
frosts and ice fourth inch thick. o.
tober was colder than usual, with frosts
and ice. November cold and clustering,
with snow enough for good sleighing.
December quite mild and comfortable.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
THE STATE PRESS.

New Orleans Times Democrat: The
total expenditures on the schools OF Lou
isiana for the session of 1909-1O were
81 ,27O, 1888. IS. Of this amount $685., 1921
came from the State apportionment, $685.
663 from the police juries, S172,479 from
poll taxes, sos, 032 from special taxes, etc.
For the New Orleans schools the expendi-
lures were S1,179, 600.54.
New Orleans Item: Gov. J. M. Brown
of Georgia strnck a keynote when he said:
"The universal demand for executive Glenn
ency in capital and other criminal offenses
tends to put premium on crime" The
governor might we'll have added that mawk-
ish sentimentality contributes more to the
defeating of justice, particularly in the
South than any other cause.
New Orleans Picayune: The greatest
crime, and the almost universal crime of
which the American people are guilty, is
their fragrant neglect of their public duties.
They fail to register as voters, they fail to
pay their poll tax, they fail to go to the
polls and cast their ballots, leaving the
most important public interests often to a
minority of the possible voters and that in
country where all public affairs should be
settled by majority. To contemplate
such state of affairs among free citizens,
who are charged with the duty of taking
their part IN a government of the people,
by the people, is truly disgusting.
Morgan City Outlook: Rural School
Inspector Brown reports 126,34O pupils
enrolled in the fifty parishes that have
supplied him with statistics, and 1904 of
these are enrolled in the country schools.
The teachers of the 126,340 pupils draw
ST 500, 900 year in proximate numbers;
and the teachers of the $4,000 pupils in the
country schools draw 5000, OOC in proximate
numbers. About 8, 900 of the $4,000 pupils
in the country schools are above the seventh
grade. This system involves too much
power to be centralized, and put under the
practical control of even the best of school
men. The electorate should keep, firm
hold on its main elements.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
Teachers Institutes WastefuI and Unuec
eSSary.
[St. Francisvilie True Democrat.

[St. Francsvilie True Democrat.
An article by this writer some time ago
is still going the rounds of the State press,
fact which is very gratifying, not from
the standpoint of self-conceit alone, but
that the articles opportunity for good is
thereby increased. For we should like for
every voter in Louisiana to read it that he
might have the thought borne to him per-
sonally of certain great waste in the
school system, namely that of spending the
public money in holding teachers insti-
tutes.
Large sums of money are set aside for
this purpose and are paid to favored insti-
tute conductors and their assistants. We
say favored advisedly, for while some of
these are competent, the majority are not
expert educators by any means and do not
even use good English. In some instances,
they acknowledge their ignorance of the
subject treated. One case we have in mind
when the instructors theme was ''School
Gardening" she admitted to ignorance of
the most elementary principles of seed
planting.
From such conductors as these the school
teachers can get no benefit, and even when
able and inspiring men like DR.. Coffee lee
ture, it is a question whether the benefits
which the teachers derive counter balance
the expense and the break in their school
duties. Moreover the time allotted to in
stitutes during the school term, is neces-
sarily too short for any serious work on the
part of the teachers. What can any one
learn of history or geographs in two days
or even week, and particularly when the
conductor CD begins with such rudimen-
tary questions as In what directions did
Columbus sail from Spaina" Question
actually put to teachers in all seriousness
at an institute at st. Francisville.) If
teachers of this State need such elemen-
tary instruction, it is obvious that the grade
is too low and that another source of waste
lies in the salaries paid.
But we do not believe that even mi
nority of the teachers need such primary
instruction. and if salaries and grades are
raised we feel assured that teachers will
respond to all educational requirements,
on their own initiative, without the States
one cent for Institutes which are
a part of a pernicious system, treating the
teachers as if they were common soldiers,
to strict discipline, instead of captains
and leaders in education. The free agency
OF the teacher is curtailed in every in every
way, and especially so when she must drop
her school work and attend an institute as
like to every other she has attended as
peas in pod.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
THE CRY TO THE WATCHmAN.
Waterman, what of the night?

Waterman, what of the night?
The Waterman said, The morning cometh,
and also the night.-Lsaiah ari, 1I-I2.
The incident is typical. That is why
these old records live and have such a
strong power to move US. The man who
comes out of the camp of the sleepers is
every man who has ever faced eternal
issues and pressed for their solution. Such
man is not satisfied with material things;
abundance of bread and large measure
OF worldly prosperity bring him no abiding
satisfaction. His soul, soaring aloft and
outdistancing the eagle in his flight, knocks
at Heavens gates and implores an expla-
nation of LIES problems from Him who
alone can give it-life's Maker and Pre-
server. What is life? What opportunity,
destiny, responsibility, tewardship-these
words with which we conjure? What of
the night which shrouds us in darkness?
What of its hidden secrets, its measureless
spaces, its vast silences? Tell US of the
future. 0 Waterman, what of the night?
This attitude is natural. No man who
has sought for light need reproach himself
because he has done so; rather should he
reproach himself if he has never sought
for it, never felt any desire for it, nor given
utterance to passionate cry for enlight-
eminent. Sooner or later every man worthy
Of the name comes into close quarters with
the power above him, in whose presence
he feels keenly his own weakness and his
own insignificance, asks for solution of
the things he does not understand.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05

Houston Chronicle: The wisdom of men.
as 1t is written, is foolshness with God.
All the learning Of all the books of all the
sages can not help US. There is UNDER
standing, truth and wisdom only in the book
OF BOOKS, the inspired Bible, which begins
with, "In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth," and ends with
'',Ihe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
with you all. Amen"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS In fAKAuNAIho'
An Illinois man married his mother-ln-
law.
The cotton crop in India is reported to
be short.
Forty cities in Texas show more than
5000 population.
Washington, D. c., is to be made the
location of an AVIATION school.
tits estimated that last years cotton crop
was worth 1915, 600, 900 to the South.
The cost of army rations has increased
about 10 per cent during the past year.
Mizzie Shelton was burned to death in
residence fire at Macon, Miss, Monday.
Sixteen lives were lost last Thursday
near Pittsfield by the explosion OF boiler
Hundreds of cattle have been killed in
Texas by the freezing weather in that State.
The loss of life in the recent mine dis
aster at Bolton, England, was about 36O
Kentucky shows more people killed dur
ing the Christmas holidays than any other
State.
The Federal Supreme Court has declared
unconstitutional the Alabama labor con-
tract law.
The drouth in Missouri, Kansas and
Oklahoma was broken by a general rain
last week.
United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins
of West Virginia, died last night at Wash
ington, D. c..
During last year 1893 banks were organ
lied in the South with aggregate capita'
of 81, 100000.
A stranger in Chicago was robbed three
times within half an hour after his arrival
the other day.
Taylor Durrett, aged thirty-two years,
committed suicide at Atlanta, Ca, Tues
day, by shooting.
The report of the Director of the Geolog-
ical Survey shows an increase in coal pro-
duction in Kentucky last year.
The mails from England to the United
States are heavier by 80 per cent since the
postage was reduced to two cents.
An unknown thief at Tampa, Florida,
smashed heavy plate glass window and
stole So, 900 worth of diamonds.
Little Rock, Ark, was swept by mil
lion dollar fire Tuesday. An entire block
of business houses was destroyed.
Nearly one million cabbages near Mo-
bile we're killed by the cold weather of this
week. The loss is estimated at 100000.
a group of millionaires will pay the
S24O,O0O which the Bank of North America
in New York lost while they were its direc-
tors.
After eating one hundred and forty four
oysters at single seating at Van Vleet,
Miss, J. L. Morris was denied further
supplies.
1t is said that the Chinese in Manchuria
hove organized secret society with the
object of driving the Japanese out of the
country.
James Gallagher, who tried to assassi-
nate Mayor Gaynor of New York, has been
convicted and sentenced to twelve years.
imprisonment.
Edward H. Wilson, of Crab Orchard,
KY, fired bullet into his brain in st. Louis
last Sunday. Lack of work is believed to
be the reason for the suicide.
Arch Hoxsey, holder of the world s
| record for altitude, fell 563 feetin his Wright
biplane and was killed in view of thousands
at Los Angeles, CAL, last Saturday.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05

Have you weak throat? If SO, you can
not De too careful. You cannot begin treat
ing too early: Each cold makes you more
liable to another and the last is always the
harder to cure. If you will take Chamber
iain's Cough Remedy at the outset you will
be saved much trouble. Sold by all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
Oarnlne Stockings on a SEWING Machine

Inc Singer Darner is the greatest device
OF Its kind for darning stockings, knit un-
derwear, etc. 1t holds the stockings firmly.
so 1t can be darned at any point. Shown
IN use and for sale at Singer Store,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
Trespass Notice.

THIS notice is to give warning to tns
general public that hunting WI
not be allowed on the Poole plantaticas
located in Ward /, Bossier Parish, La
"a r. T. POOLE.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05

l, C. O. Gayle, President. and !, r. 7. Stins0l
Cashier Of the above named bank, do solemng
swear that the above statement is true, TO W
best of my knowledge and belief.
C. o. GAYLE, President
r. T. STINsoN, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me THIS, "
10th day of December, 1910 B. A. KELLY,
Clerk District Court.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05

We come to love our duty ii we do it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
STATEMENT

OF the condition of the Bank of Benton, BerD
La, at the close Of business Dec. 2s, 1910. e.
RESOURCES.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-02-02
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT.

The steel industry cuts such a large
figure in the business OF the country
that the condition OF trade in this line
IS very properly taken as kind Of in
dex OF the general business state Of the
country.
According TO reports made at the an
nual meeting Oh the steel trust" in
New York this week, the earnings OF
the corporation in 1910 were s141.144,-
900 as compared with sls1.14l,4i in
1909 and Ss1.S47,7tO in 1905.
Judge f. H. Gary chairman Of the
executive board, gave out the follow
Ing optimistic statement
The reports of general managers oi
sales which we get weekly are very
favorable. more SO than at any time
during the last six months Our last
daily report Of booking was Jan. q
md including that day the booking per
day, not including any Of the large or
ders for rails. which we have been re
ceiying during the last two days and
which are not reported yet, compare
favorably with 22,0OO tons a day in De
cember and similar amounts in Novem
ber
Tin plate business and the wire bus
ness are particularly very active
also the export business, but in all
lines there Is marked Improvement and
We have witnessed an increase in oper
atoms. The percentage of operation
has considerably increased
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-02-02
(First' published Jan. 13, 1910
NOTICE OF SHERlFF'S SALE OF
LAND.

State Of Oklahoma, Grady county.
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suant of an order Of sale issued out
of the district court Of Grady county,
Oklahoma, on the 18th day Of Decem-
Der, 1910, in an action wherein L.
Brau was plaintiff and w. Bach was
defendant directed to me, the under
signed sheriff Of Grady county, com
manding me to levy upon and sell the
following described property;
Lot No. is in block No. 2, in the
town of Pocasset, Grady county, Okla
homa, to satisfy a judgment and de-
cree of foreclosure in favor of said
plaintiff and against said defendant OBJ
tanned and made in said court on the
7th day Of June, 1910, for the sum Of
s7s9.5s and costs, s13.95, with in
terest thereon at 10 per cent per an
mum from the 18th day Of June, 1910.
and cost accruing.
Will on the 18th day Of February,
1911. at the hour of 10 O'Clock a. m.
on the said date, at the front door Of
the court house in the city of Chicka-
sha, in said county and state, offer
for sale and sell to the highest bidder
for cash tne said property above de-
scribed, or so much thereof as will
satisfy said judgment with interest
and cost
Witness my hand this the 18th day
Of January, 1911.
JOHN c. LEWIS,
Sheriff Of Grady County, Oklahoma
Bond & Melton, Attorneys for Plain
tin 1-1S-3Od
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-02-02
THE GENTLEMAN IN POLITICS.


Christian Register: Our words will
have no immediate effect: the most we
can hope for them is that they may in
some degree foster sentiment which
is less prevailing than We could wish.
We have heard much of the scholar
in politics; we wish to magnify the
gentleman there. OF course we know
that the gentleman is there, men who
in the heats Of political contention rel
member the chastities Of speech and
pen.
The gentleman is in politics; bur in
politics there is a license that is wide
Of the standard OF a gentleman To
Derate, TO disparage, to malign, as
between man and man, is not gentle
manly; one may do thus in politics all
most with impunity. In society the
rights OF character, if not absolutely
secure, are yet to a good degree safe
guarded; one is likely to lose caste if
he outrages them. One may outrage
them in politics and hardly be consid-
cred outside the rules OF the game.
One whom We have long met in the
social walk may know many things
about US not pleasant to be told--foi-
bles of temper. errors of judgment,
deeds not wrong in intent, yet better
not done, TO gather these up and ac-
quaint the world with them would al
most surely be to fling a boomerang
that would return upon himself Yet
this is an ordeal to which any one
who is a candidate for Office must look
forward You call your neighbor a
time-server and a hypocrite, with the
risk Of being Judged a blackguard You
may call your governor such without
any risk az all. To give the lie is in
many quarters to invite blow: al
most everywhere it brings an end to
social intimacy. On the hustings. or
through the party press one may thus
insult a senator without danger to his
person or his fame. Such is the con
trast between the social and the politi-
cal standards. There are gentlemen in
politics. but politics do not exact the
behavior Of gentlemen.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-02-02
ANOTHER WAY TO GET THE
GAMBLING SHARKS.

According to a press dispatch from
Memphis, Judge Jesse Ellington Of that
city has discovered new way of at
tacking the sharks who rob the UNI
suspecting In gambling games. He has
instructed the grand jury to the effect
that when man entices another into
games where the latter has no chance
TO win he is guilty OF larceny In his
instructions To the jury the court said
III one induced another to gamble at
a crooked roulette wheel or in poker
game where marked cards are used or
in craps where crooked dice are used,
or in shaking poker dice where crooked
dice or electrical batteries are used.
nr Il man plays In fair or crooked
game with a man so intoxicated that
he has no chance to win. the courts
instructions TO the grand jury are to
return indictments charging larceny
and not gambling"