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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
Expeditionary Force of 200O Men Held in Headlines
 At Manila
STRENGTH OF REBEL
 ARMY IS DECREASING
Military Dispatches From Hankow Say 5000 Rebel Troops Have Mutinied and Shot Two
 Officers

Washington, November 2e.--1he United States is keeping ready at Manila an revolutionary force from 300 to POGO sol diers for immediate dispatch to China to protect foreigners and keep open the railway to communication between Pc firg and the sea. This. it was declared l.y the state department, is not to be considered an intervention force in favor Of either the rebels or the imperialists, but is merely this country's part in com plying. together with the others powers signatory to the Boxer protocol, with the provisions of that document.
 ihe order for starting the troops awaits only the word from American Minister Calhoun at Picking. MT. Calhoun was to- day instructed by the department to con- vey the instructions to his diplomatic col leagues. The force will be kept in readi- ness and advance immediately upon noti- flcation. if found they are needed
 In view of the announcement of the state department that the force from Manila might reach 2500 men, it is pos sible that the army transport sherman which has been ready to sail for San Francisco with the Seventh infantry since November 15 and the transport Thomas which is due at Manila Friday next with the Fifteenth infantry, both will be kept in the Philippines. It was the plan or the war department to have the Sher- man come home as soon as the Thomas arrived in Manila. The other transport will accommodate about thousand men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
Rebels Threaten Boycott

Picking, November 29.--Thes foreign le- cations here have received nrinted cir culars purporting to come from the revo- lutionary organizations tllreatening to boycott the merchandise of aty nation making loan tof the government.
 Premier Yuan sti skai to'iay informed a member of one sof the legations who visited him that the crisis would be ter mlnated in eight days. !As ne endeayor- ing to obtain a loan. hs sta teaiaent may Ia1iean tlsat De expects 1,e asss':s ,sat,ti
 Yuan Slri Kai is showing q desire to oonciliate the rebel provinces It. is be lieved that he will safeguard the consti- tuition.
 No direct private or press telegrams are permitted to leave Hankow. Only gov ernment and consular dispatches are now forwarded.
 Military dispatches from Hankow say the strength of the revolutionary army is decreasing. Hu Nan troops on the rebel side have refused to attack and 300 rebel recruits in the province of Hu Peh have become insubordinate and shot two officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
Republic Company and the Steel Corporation Ad-
 vance Prices
BIC CORPORATIONS
 ARE NOW ESSENTIAL
Head of Steel Corporation Advocates Less Politics in Business and Government Control
 of Corporations

Washington. November 29-Elbert H. Gary, executive head of the United States Steel corporation made a plea for "big business" today before the Senate com qhittee on interstate commerce, which is searching for a solution of the present trust problem in the United States
 Big corporations are essential to the development and jhe maintenance of busl- ness prosperity, he said. To prevent their snsusing the enormous power that comes with wealth and control of industrial agencies, he thought the government should take control of them, through corporation with absolute powers to con trol their affairs. Add to this clear law as to what can and what cannot be done; the strong light of publicity on all the af- fairs of corporations, and the elimination of presidential and other political issues from the business world, and the unrest that has spread over the United States win largely disappear. MT. Gary said.
 The coming election is already disturb ing business, he added. He said that members of the courts ought to be elected for eight years without the privilege of reelection, so that he would "be in po- sition and frame of mind where he would not be tempted to look in any direction or toward vested interests seeking re-elec tion.'
 Mp. Gary dwelt at length upon the po- ltical situation. He said he had no par ticular presidential nomination in mind, but he believed fewer elections and -ess reason for seeking or pandering for pub lie office would keep business at level. At the present time he said there was a great curtailment of business activity ow- ing fn the anrroachinlr election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

information they will give will be treated confdentially.
 More than ordinary interest attaches to the increase by reason of the tes- timony offered by Judge Gary 'before the Senate committee on interstate commerce today. Chairman Gary was quoted as saying that many manufac turers were at the moment selling be- low cost and were threatened with bankruptcy If the situation continued.
 At the office of the United States Steel corporation no details concerning the rise in bars were obtainable all in quiries being referred to Pittsburg.
 Little surprise was expressed at the increase announced by the Republic company, one of the largest independ- en't producers It was known that that company was getting considerable share of new business under the re- duced price schedule,
 E So far as pould be learned no price advances in other products are con- templated immediately.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
COLD WEATHER HAS
 ENTIRE COUNTRY Snow Falls In Louis jana TO BE COLDER TODAY Temperature in Latitude of St. Au- gustine Records Temperature of 1s-Tropical Vegetation Killed
 In New Orleans

Cold weather prevailed yesterday over practically the entire country from the Rocky mountains plateau to the Atlantic coast. Freezing tempera- lures extended to the west gulf coast and as far east as New Orleans. Lower temperatures are reported from the Texas panhandle, New Mexico and west ern Kansas. In San Antonio. tempera- ture of 23 degrees is reported. Light snowfalls extended as far south as Louisiana.
 Clearing and in some places warmer weather is in prospect for Thanksgiv- ing Day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

New Orleans, November 29.-Freez- ing weather was recorded this morning along the middle gulf coast, while along the Texas coast minimum temperatures ranged from 2S to 30 degrees. Over northwestern Texas temperatures as low as to IA degrees were recorded.
 Early today there was a light fall of snow in northern Louisiana, reaching as far south as Baton Rouge.
 The forecast is for continued low tenn peratures tonight with freezing again to the coast. ...
 The minimum temperature In New Orleans this morning was 31. As re- suit of the freeze here most of the banana plants and other tropical vege- tation has been killed.
 Minimum temperatures as low as 24 to 2S degrees are forecasted for tonight in the sugar and trucking region.
 Dallas, November 2-The tempera ture here last night dropped to IS de- grees above zero
 At Houston the minimum was 23 de- grees with ice plentiful. No damage was apprehended to the orange crop in that section and IS degrees above zero has been successfully withstood in the past by the orange trees.
 San Antonio experienced the first freeze of the season with the tempera- ture at 26 degrees. There was suffer ing among the poor. The associated charities was busy today supplying necessities for their relief. Del Rio Tex, on the Mexican bor- der and in the same latitude as St. Augustine Fla, officially reported a temperature of IS above zero.
 Huntsville. November 29.--A light snow fell over the greater part or northern Alabama this morning.
 Baton Rouge, La. November 29.--A light snow fell here this morning, the first recorded in eight years past .'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

Huntsville, November 29.--A light snow fell over the greater part or northern Alabama this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

Baton Rouge, La. November 29.--A light snow fell here this morning., the first recorded in eight years past
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
Gems of Thought.

Donne: Friends are ourselves.
1t is so easy to talk too much.''
Napoleon: Ask me for anything but
time.
"Try hard work as remedy for hard
luck"
Stonewall jackson: Truth is mighty
and will prevail.
Goethe: And scandals busy still, do
whatsoever one may.
Eliot: The reward of one duty is the
power to fulfil another.
Ruskin: God never imposes a duty
without giving the time to do it.
Christian Herald: Sin is short word,
and often makes short work of its victims.
Confucius: Hold faithfulness and sin
cerity as first principles; have no friends
not equal to yourself
Bacon: Histories make men wise; poets,
witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural
philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and
rhetoric, able to contend.
Bishop 0. P. Fitzgerald: Call it by what
name we may, the religion that does not
make tsprofessors more thoughtful, patient
and helpful is not that of the New Tesla
ment. "By their fruits We shall know
them"
Holland: 1t is not question how much
man knows, but what use he can make
of what he knows; not question of what
he has acquired, and how he has been
trained, but of what he is, and what he
can do.
McDonough: The conclusion to which
| have arrived, after years of observation
and experience, is that without temperance
there is no health; without virtue, no order;
without religion, no happiness; and that
the sum of our being is, to live wisely,
soberly, and righteously.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16

Was the recent meeting of high school
principals at Alexandria meeting of edu-
Gators for educational purposes, or an As
we'll love-feast? From newspaper reports
it seems that it was for the purpose Of in
augurating boom for Aswell for Governor,
rather than non-political meeting
Grand Cane Item.
Mr.. Aswell having made political ma
chine of the school system Of the State,
worth, unless preventing from doing so by
the people.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
AN ENROLLING VIEW OF LIFE.

The man who always looks down cannot
aspire. There is purpose in our noble
aspirations. The unattained beckons US
onward. To look up means to lift up.
"'Tis not what man does which exalts
him. says Browning, "but what man
would do.'' Our standard will rise higher
and higher as we go from strength to
strength. Our longings foretell our des-
tiny.
We must look down at times to get a
clear idea of life's details, but if we wish
to see their proper relation to the great
issues of life we must look up. If we
simply look at our feet, how limited be-
comes our vision! By lifting up our eyes
on high we see the vast arch that spans
the heavens. 1t is then we see with Emer-
son "what majestic beauties daily wrap
us in their BOSOM" or with Ruskin study
"the mystery of distant mountain blue; )"
hear with Tennyson the sea waves break
upon "the cold gray stones" or stand
entranced with Newton until the stars rise.
Isaiah calls men to look at the stars be-
cause mans vision broadens as it length
ems. This wider view enables US to un-
derstand the ways of God and the proper
relation of the lesser to the greater issues
of life. Here we find inspiration for our
nobest endeavors. This upward and out
ward vision will often explain the mystery
of trouble and the great perplexities of
life. 1t does not require large object to
hide the wide landscape from our view if
we stand close enough to it. To UNDER
stand the things of to-day we must get a
right view of them. We see them best
from above.
How it ennobles our work when we realize
that it is part of the great plan of God
By bringing our Hottest visions to bear
upon the practical things of life we learn
to do our best and work and bring forth
evidences of the divinity within US. Our
work will not be merely for time but for
eternity. In that way we may become
one of the "Immortals. The great He
brew poets sublime conception of man
shall yet be realized: "Thou hast made
him little lower than the angels and hast
crowned him with glory and honor. Thou
madest him to have dominion over the
works of thy hands" BY lifting up our
eyes on high we shall better understand
both God and man and learn to appreciate
more fully life here and life hereafter.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16

GUNPOwDER: IT'S ORIG1N.-"The use and
explosive power of gunpowder," says the
Louisville Courier-Journal, "were first
discovered at Bagdad as an agency in war.
Thither the secret of it's manufacture had
been carried by Arab traders from China.
In the Far East it was used by the Chinese
in making fireworks as early as the Seventh
Century, but its earliest adaptability to war
was not known in China but at Bagdad
In China the place and date of its origin
and the name Of its inventor are unknown. y
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
HELPING HUMANITY.
Father and Son Viewed Conditions
From Opposite Standpoints.

Father and Son Viewed Conditions
From Opposite standpoints.
Twenty years ago. says the Chicago
Advance. a discouraged young doctor
In large city was visited once by his
old father. who came up from a rural
district to look after his boy.
well. son." he said. "how are you
getting along?
'tI'm not getting along at ALL" was
the disheartened reply. "I'm not do
ing a thing"
The old mans countenance fell. but
he spoke Of courage and patience and
perseverance. Later in the day he
went with his son to the free dis
pensary. where the young doctor had
an unsalaried position and where he
spent an hour or more every day. The
father sat by. silent but intensely in
terested spectator, while twenty
poor unfortunates received help. The
doctor forgot his visitor while he bent
his skilled energies to the task. but
hardly had the door closed on the last
patient when the old man burst forth:
II thought you told me that you
were not doing anything! Why. If l
had helped twenty-five people In a
month as much as you have In one
morning I would thank God my life
counted for something"
There isn't any money in 1t.
though" explained the son. somewhat
abashed. Money!" the old man shout
ed. still scornfully. Money! What
is money in comparison with being of
use to your fellow men? Never mind
about money. You 60 right along at
this work every day. I'll go back to
the farm and gladly earn money
enough to support you as long as !
live-yes. and sleep sound every night
with the thought that I have helped
you to help your fellow men,"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
sHREWD VICTOR HUGO.
ouist Way In Which He Bullisd the
Theatrical Managers.

0uiet way IN which no bulIieo the
Theatrical Managers.
Here are the methods which Dumas
the elder and Victor Hugo employed
when they had a new play to offer to
the theater. Dumas would write to
the director Of the Porte st. Martin:
MY Dear Friend-I shall bring you on
Monday play in five acts l shall need
Mile. Georges, Nine. Dorval. Bocage. Lock-
roy, Provost and five new scenes.
This extravaganza would alarm the
director. who would put off the pro-
duction Of the play till better days.
Then Victor Hugo would appear and
shyly draw a manuscript out of his
pocket. He would agree to everything.
The stock company would play his
piece admirably. since all he wanted
was good ensemble: no new decora-
lions would be needed nor any change
at all.
So the piece would be read. and as
the roles were distributed Hugo would
say musingly. 'Dieu. how fine Freder-
lex would be in that partw ''That is
true" Horel would murmur. and few
days after he would announce that
Frederick was engaged. Hugo would
then demonstrate that this destroyed
the equipoise of the cast, and Raucourt.
Laferriere and Mile. Georges would
be engaged. Then Hugo would attack
the stage setting. Old scenes that
the public had tired of were almost
an insult to these great artists. II
Horel showed reluctance Mt this. Hugo
would threaten to withdraw his piece
And so the game would go on till.
little by little. Hugo had obtained ev-
erything he wanted. even to the
changing of the paper hangings In the
stage boxes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

New Orleans January exports came
close to S26,OOO,OOO.
An eleven ar-old boy of Gueydan was
killed by an automobile.
Forty-seven Westerners bought farms
near Jeanerette last week.
James Mobley killed his wife and then
shot himself to death in Alexandria.
A New Orleans negro shot three blacks
in revenge for criticism upon his dancing.
The acreage planted in sugar cane in
Vermilion Parish will be more than double
that of last year.
Twelve German farmers from Illinois
recently purchased cut-over pine lands
near Lumberton.
Cotton exports through the port of New
Orleans last month trebled in value those
of January, 1910
1t is said 10000 demonstration farms
have been established in Louisiana for the
current years work.
Stephen Emery of Natchitoches Parish
won the first prize at the national corn
show at Columbus, Ohio.
Euphemi Broussard, nine years old, was
killed at Crowley by falling through the
sky light of an office building.
Louisiana stands second as timber and
lumber producer among the States of the
Union and her lumber interests amount to
Sal, 100000 a year.
Wednesday of last week 125 farm buyers
from the North were guests at banquet
in New Orleans in which the speakers told
of the vast opportunities in that section of
Louisiana.
Chief Chris O'Brien reports that the
total property damage by fire in Shreve-
port last year was only $780, 37.15, the
lowest since he has been chief of the fire
department. The insurance paid on losses
last year aggregated only S28, 388.43.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
Australia's Stony Desert.

The great stony desert of north Aus
tralia was discovered by Captain Sturt.
an Australian explorer. in 1856. 1t
Is north of the river Darling and is
about 300 miles long and 100 broad.
consisting Of sandy dunes or ridges.
Its want of trees. except along the
creeks. gives the country a sterile ap-
pearance. These ridges were probably
formed by the joint effect of winds
and gradually retiring sea. Accord
Ing to Captain Sturt. these waters
We're gradually lost by evaporation or
carried to some undiscovered sea. Tie
only vegetation. growing scantily. is
prickly acacias In full bloom, all OF
stunted growth Water is scarce ex-
cept in the creeks which are sheltered,
and this is generally brackish. Few
travellers care to traverse this inhos-
pitable desert.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16

Louisiana Democrat: Good schools.
good churches and good roads are grand
thing to have in community. In order
to have these things people must be edu-
Gated to take pride in all these. Your home
paper can and will do more to encourage
all OF these things than any other agency.
The school children read with pleasure the
home happenings, and as they grow up
become interested and make useful citi-
zens. Give the children the home paper
to read. It costs you but trifle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
LATEST NEWS In PARAGRAPHS.

Seven persons were killed by gas in a
home in Philadelphia.
Ten persons were killed in railroad &C
cident in France last Tuesday.
During last year New York City con-
sumed 81 100000 pounds of poultry.
Seventeen lives were lost in mine ex-
plosion at Triniday, Colo, last Thursday.
The grand jury in Danville, Ill.,, review
ing the political corruption probe, returned
216 true bills.
Enrage by jealousy, a Roanoke, Va,
man killed his eighteen-year- sweet
heart and then killed himself.
Within the last seven years the trade of
the United States with it's non contiguous
territories has doubled in value.
Carrying out an agreement with her
husband on his death, Mrs. L. s. Keene
killed herself and son at Oxford, Me.
An actress had her right ear chawed off
at Baltimore by Agnes Waller in quarrel
over who had the most lovable disposition.
Of $50 midshipmen in the Naval Acad-
envy at Annapolis, Md, 152 failed to pass
the mld-year examinations and thirty nine
will be dropped.
The House passed bill making the
membership of the body 433 after March
8, 1913. The Democrats and the Insur-
gents combined and defeated the machine
organization.
Ten railroad shop employees were torn
to fragments and eleven others were in.
jured Wednesday of last week when an
engine under repair exploded in the yards
at Smithville, Texas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
The System We Should Abolish.
Lake Charles Americana Press. |

Gov. Jared Y. Sanders returned Satur-
day from Washington after an absence
from the State of fully month, and the
wheels of government, which came fully to
a full stop when he crossed the State line,
will now begin to revolve again. The State
Railroad Commission will be able now to
select secretary; the State Commission
of Agriculture will now be in shape to re-
place Secretary J. L. Knepfler, and divers
and sundry positions of clerical nature
under the various boards and commissions
can now be filled without danger of giving
offense to the Chief Executive.
This is the system that the voters of Lou
isiana should pledge the incoming legisla-
ture to abolish. Until it is abolished, the
legislature will unite with the various
boards and commissions to make a smooth
running machine by which the Governor
may pass such laws as he pleases, and
enforce them as he likes, without scintilla
of control by the people or anybody else.
The State Railroad Commission is elected
by the people of the State. tits in no sense
vassal or dependency of the Governors.
Why should it wait meekly until he returns
home to select an officer for whose actions
it is directly responsible? The Commits
sioner of Agriculture also owes his position
to the voters of Louisiana. Why should
the business of his office be interrupted
and brought to standstill until the Gov
ernor can be consulted with regard to the
selection of clerical assistant?
Gov. Sanders is not to blame for the sys-
tenn. 1t is no more Objectionable for him
to WELD this power than it was for the
other Governors to WELD it, and we do not
say that he does not exercise it as wisely
as any of his predecessors. But it is part
of the machinery that makes the Governor
an absolute monarch in Louisiana political
affairs. 1t classes the citizens of Louisiana
as either too ignorant or too weak to exer-
else the right of self-government. If the
truth were known it is probably to the fact
that Louisiana is absolutely governed by
one man, who makes and unmakes laws as
he chooses and handles every State Board
and its finances as though its members
were his clerks, that we owe the loss of the
Panama Exposition more than to the per-
suasiveness of the Pacific Coast boomers
or the political exigencies of the admins
tration. A State that can be dominated in
any such manner cannot look for respect
from it's sister States.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16
The Aftermath.

Mrs. DuPuy-1 was so surprised to
hear that Edith and Mr. Sissingham
were married. You know they always
used to claim their attachment was
merely platonic. Mrs. Kolkremes-
Yes. | remember. But now. fear.
they wouldn't claim 1t was even that.
-Lippincott's.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16

You are probably aware that pneumonia
always results from cold, but you never
heard of cold resulting in pneumonia when
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was used.
Why take the risk when this remedy may
be had for trifle. For sale by all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-16

cramp over this much, and can't stand
much more.
We sail for Cherbourg, France, next
Thursday morning. It's about sixty-two
miles; short run.
Your devoted son,
F. w. SCANLAND.