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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-20
Sheriff'S Sale.

j. M HicksOn VS.. Rachel A. jackson. No. 54O9.
In Second District Court, Bossier Parish, La.
pY virtue OF a writ Of seizure and sale,
- issued in the above entitled suit
and to me directed, I have seized and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door of the Court House, in the town Of
Benton, La, on Saturday, July 6,
1912, the following described property,
tO-Wit:
A certain tract of land east Of Red
River, commencing at the northeast cor
ner Of section and run south on line
between sections and 4, distance
OF 1881 chains; thence run west So
links north of line dividing section 4
in north and south halves to the bank Of
Red River, at two sycamore trees, stand
ing near the corner; thence up the me-
anderings of said river to the north line
of said section 4; thence east 1929
chains to the point of beginning, con-
tanning 1877 acres, more or less; also,
north half Of north half Of northeast
quarter and north half Of northeast
quarter of northwest quarter of section
10, containing 60 acres, more or less; all
in township % north, range IA west,
with all buildings and improvements
thereon.
Terms of Sale Cash, without the
benefit Of appraisement, to pay and sat
isfy the sum of $1,000. Is, with 8 per cent
per annum interest thereon from Octo-
Der |, 1908, and all costs Of suit, includ-
ing 10 per cent on said sum and inter-
est as attorneys fees.
J. F. EDWARDS, Sheriff.
Benton, La, May 80, 1912. iuly4
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-20
The Arfan Trees.

Among the most remarkable trees OF
the world is the argan, which abounds
in Southern Morocco, but is seldom seen
elsewhere. A "forest" of argans has a
curious scattered appearance because
the trees grow singly and far apart.
They are very leafy, but seldom exceed
twenty feet in height. The branches
put out horizontally and begin yard
above the ground. Sheep, cattle and
camels feed on the leaves, and goats will
stand on their hind legs to reach them,
but horses and mules refuse to touch
them. The wood is very hard and ex-
tremely useful to the natives, who make
charcoal from it. The fruit, resembling
large olive, is used to feed cattle and
to manufacture a valuable oil. It also
furnishes the principal sustenance OF
many of the poorer natives.-Scientifc
american.
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Confederate Memorial Day.

Fifty years ago to-day the First Mary
land Regiment was engaged in the battle
near Harrisonburg, Va, in which Gen
eral Turner Ashby fell. The very name
of Ashby brings back to memory that
gallant company of born commanders
and brave soldiers who made history in
Northern Virginia. Were there ever
troops that, man for man, could surpass
them? 'sWhen can their glory fade?"
Decoration Day" in the North, in
the South the time when veterans, their
sons and daughters strew flowers on the
graves Of the dead is "Memorial Day.
The Confederacy itself lives only in
memory, but its glories can never die.
AS the bitterness of civil war fades away
the fame of the Confederate soldier
grows brighter. ''The storm Graded
nation that fell" produced military
genius of high order. Lee, Jackson,
Stuart and others are ranked with the
ablest commanders Of the Anglo-Saxon
race, honored North as well as South, in
England as in America. Explaining the
devotion of Southerners to their heroes,
a Southern woman said to Boston
friend, "You admire your generals, we
worship ours.'' It was the brave women
of the South who cheered the Confed-
crates and inspired them to keep up the
unequal struggle for four long years. II
is the Daughters OF the Confederacy
who to-day keep green the graves Of the
Confederate dead. AS long as they
teach their children to honor the men
who wore the gray the fame of the Con-
federate soldier is secure, 'sfrom genera
ton unto generation '-Bdltim6re sam
June 9th.
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Subscriptions Paid.

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The Real Guide.

You may bring to your Office and put in
frame
A motto as fine as its paint,
But if you're crook when you're
playing the game
That motto WON'T make you saint;
You can stick up the placards all over
the hall,
But here is the word I announce.
1t isn't the motto that hangs on the wall
But the motto you live that counts!
II the motto says "Smile" and you carry
frown,
"Do it now and you linger and wait
II the motto says "Help" and you
trample men down,
It the motto says ssLove" and you hate
You won't get away with the notices
you stall,
For truth will come forth with q
bounce;
It isn't the motto that hangs on the wall
But the motto you live that counts!
Selected.
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Benton, La, May 30, 1912. iuly4
Stray Sale.

FSTRAYED before w. H. Bledsoe.
IL Justice of the Peace, Ward 6, Bos-
sier Parish, La, by Laura Howell, on
June 6, 1912, and will be sold at Haugh-
ton, La, within the legal hours of sale,
on Saturday, July 20, 1912, one brown
and black speckled COW, marked crop in
right ear and under half crop in left ear,
about ten years old; appraised at $40.
The owner is requested to come for
ward, prove property, pay charges, ETC.,
or the same will be sold according to law
"a J..W. ONEAL, Constable. +
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-20
The Friendly Sycamores.

There is no better subject for grave
and kindly discourse among friends than
trees. Bring together group of tree
lovers and how soon will they take sides
each for his favorite! No good tree
man will disparage the affection which
another may have for particular tree,
any more than he will disparage that
mans affection for his wife, and there
fore an argument between tree lovers
about trees is always contest of praise.
If one man knows sugar maple in
some Ohio valley where they grow best,
that carries above its sixty feet of trunk,
erect as Grecian column, another fifty
feet of round and billowy green with
every branch hidden in foliage, and says
it is the finest tree in the world no par
tisan of the white elm will deny it.
Rather, he will say that for himself he
likes the careless grace Of the elms, their
feathered boles and waving pendant
branches. He will say they are the
most individual and most picturesque of
all the North American sylvia.
In every group of tree men the oaks
will have a champion. He may take
the whole of that varied family and call
it one, or choose single representa-
tive like the live oak or the white oak.
All he may say in praise will be true.
This shock defying timber ribbed all
the ships of our navy before the day of
steel, and in massive trunk and sturdy
branches the oak still breathes strength
and defiance.
If some man from the northern border
chants hymn to the white pines and
the birches, another from the land Of
bay trees and sweet gum may sing an
antiphonal chorus for his favorites and
stir no rancor.
But there is one tree which, though it
may not be preferred by any, will stand
high in the affections of all. From
Southern Maine it spreads westward
across lower Canada, Michigan, Wis
consin and Minnesota to the Great
Plains, 1t follows the Mississippi
southwark to the Gulf and makes its
way westward in Kansas almost to
desert land. All of the Atlantic Coast
to northern Florida is in its territory
and there is scarcely a stream between
the sea and its western limits that has
not its representatives on its banks. In
the Central States along the Mississippi
and its tributaries it gains it's greatest
growth.
There the white tops of the sycamores
CLEAN in the sun above all the other
trees of the forest. Their pied branches
surmounting everything else in the land
scape mark the courses of thousand
wandering rivers. They are pre-emi-
nently landmark trees. Everyone knows
them and anyone can recognize them at
any distance.
Their many-angled branches stand
out against the gray background of a
winter forest with a bare pallor that is
strangely suggestive and uncanny. But
in the summer, arching the quiet
streams beside which they love to grow,
the sycamores become the most friendly
and inviting of trees.-St. Louis Re
| nMhlic
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Press Opinions of Lincoln in 1860.

Press Opinions of Lincoln in 1860.
"May, 10, 1860.-The Republican Con-
vention at Chicago has nominated Abra-
ham Lincoln of Illinois for President OF
the United States-a third-rate western
lawyer, poorer than even poor Pierce.
They pass over Seward, Chase, and
Banks, who are statesmen and able men,
and they take a fourth-rate lecturer,
who cannot speak good grammar, and
who, to raise the wind, delivers his
hackneyed, illiterate compositions at
$500 apiece. Our readers recollect that
this peripatetic politician visited New
York two or three months ago on his
financial tour, when, in rcearn for the
most unmitigated trash, interlarded with
coarse and clumsy jokes, he. filled his
empty pockets with dollars coined out of
Republican fanaticism."
'May q, 1860.-The candidate for
President, Abraham Lincoln, is an I'M
educated mana vulgar village politi-
clan, without any experience worth men,
tioning in the practical duties of states
manship, and only noted for some very
unpopular votes which he gave while a
member of Congress. The comparison
between Seward and this illiterate wes-
tern boor is odious-it is as Hyperion co
a satyr."-New York Herald.
|
'sMay q, 186O.-Mr. Lincoln was first
heard of in politics year ago last fall,
when, limping with wounds and bowling
with anguish, he was driven through the
State of Illinois by Douglas and defeated
with the tacit approval of the majority
of his own party, and with the publicly
expressed gratulations of Greeley,
Weed, and others. Last spring he made
his debut in this State as an orator, and
commenced charging for his speeches at
the rate of $500 apiece, and was forced
to desist amid such public expressions
of contempt that he may be said to have
been fairly Kissed out of the State. He
has never held public Office of any
credit, and is not known except as a
clang- whanging stump speaker, of a
class with which every party teens and
of which all parties are ashamed."-
Albany atlas and argus.
"May 81, 186O.-Lincoln has merely a
talent for demagogue appeal that was
thought to be worth in New England
$50 or $500 a speech by those who hired
him; but some who heard him were sur
prised that he should be considered
anywhere great man. He can only be
the fanatical tool of the fanatical host
he will lead on. This is the truth of the
case, let the blowers of his party swell
him as they may into tremendous dimen-
sions. BY this means, and by initiating
in every locality the trickery and dema-
gogism that won Lincoln his local popu-
larity, and at length the nomination, his
partisans may attempt to secure his
election. But such is the intelligence
of the country that this attempt must
fail. boston Post.
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14

modern agriculture They number IN
the aggregate hundreds Of thousands,
and accur all the way from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and from the Mexican line
to the Canadian border,
By far the most remarkable, however,
are the so-called "effigy mounds" which
are made to represent various animals.
In Wisconsin there is an extraordinary
group, designed to a great extent in imi
tatiOn of lizards and birds. There are
hundreds of them on bluffs overlooking
the Miss sippi, and hundreds more
across the river in Iowa, 1t is obvious
that they have an emblematic signifi-
canoe, and the supposition is that the
animals concerned were the "tOtems,'
OF heraldie devices of various clans. Thus
of a bear; the mounds of the snake
clan took the form OF a serpent, and
so on. Very likely these tumuli served
aneiently as sites for council houses.
The whole valley of Prairie du Chen
township is dotted with deer, bears,
antlered elks, etc, in droves, all heading,
ike the river, to the southwest. Some
of the birds have a spread of ESQ feet
from wing tip to wing tip. Certain
mounds long supposed to represent men
are probably swallow-taied birds.
Effigy Mounds the Oldest.
The bureau of ethnology believes that
the effigy mounds are the Oldest of all
the mounds-whioh idea IN itself is
enough to render them highly interest,"
ing. Doubtless many of them date back
for tens of thousands of years-if they
are -ot much more ancient. A remark
able feature of them is the initiative
cuFving and rounding of the bodies OF
the animals. Tt is evident that they
could have been built in such numbers
and of so great 3 size only by a Sc
dentary population. and that they must
have been the work of many centuries.
In a group of mounds near Ohillieothe,
Ohio, were found hundreds of skeletons
wearing copper masks. These doubtless
had some ceremonial significance. To-
gether with the skeletons we're diseov-
cred immense quantities of pearls lit
orally quarts of them. There were dOz-
ems of pearls nearly as big as English
walnuts and fit for crown Jewels. That
is to say, they must once have been
suitable for royal regalia, but all of them
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14

about it, thus causing it to split in frag-
ments and release the metal, and then
beat the latter out into sheets. To make
masks from it was a matter of no special
difficulty.
So thorough has been the study of
this interesting subject that the govern
ment experts are even able to guess with
reasonable assurance of accuracy what
tribes of indians were aneientlY respOn-
sible for the building of many Of the
groups of mounds. They say that the
mounds in the valley of the Delaware
and in Ohio were constructed probah "
the DelawaTes. Those IN Kentucky
and northern Georgia were built BY the
Shawnees. The tumuh in northern Mis-
sissippi are attributed to the Chicka-
saws. and those of the gulf states else
where to the Muskogee tribes. The
mounds of east Tennessee and west
North Carolina were mostly built BY
the Cherokees many centuries ago. and
the same tribe was probably responsible
for the ancient works of the same sort
in the Kanawha valley of West Virginia.
Rene Bache.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14

IDENTIFY many centuries old. In one near
ChillicOthe was dug up a hollow metal
.ird with many perfOratiOns. Its use Is
a mystery, but probably it had some
magical significance, and belonged to q
prehistoric medicine man. The famous
Hope mound, in Florida, yielded copper
breastplates set with pearls; and IN
other mounds in the same state the ex-
cavatOrs came across copper snakes Of
highly artistic Workmanship.
Vanished Race a Myth
Now. whatever may be the truth in
regard to the early inhabitants of the
YazOo- Mississippi delta, and the origin
of the bayous, It Is not believed BY the
bureau of ethnOlOgv las a result of its
Investigations that the mounds so Dlen-
tifully scattered over other parts of the
United States were built by a lost race,
antedating the indians. Undoubtedly,
most Of them are prehistorie-dating
back that IS to say, to a period before
Columbus it is thought that the
ancestors OF the indians themselves were
responsible for them.
In other words (if this idea be ac-
cepted). the vanished race of mOunG
builders Is a myth pure and simple. In
10 percent of the mounds dug By the
government experts were found articles
of white mans manufacture, such as
brass Kettles, steel KNIVES. etc. showing
that they were constructed after the
whites came. Early explorers found in
ians living on top of such mounds,
burying their dead IN them, and holding
religious ceremonies on them.
In fact, the building of mounds by the
indians Is still going on. The late Mar
J. W. Powell himself saw two mounds
in process of construction-on by the
Piutes, in Sante Clara county. Utah;
the other in the Pitt river valley, Cal
Both of these were intended to serve as
cemeteries.
Evidently Work of Indians.
Objects found in the mounds. other
than those of white mans make. are
nearly all exactly like those manUfae
tured bV modern indians. Mai. Powell
made a careful study of a number of the
copper articles known as thunder
birds" using a magnifying glass, anO
decided that thew had been turned out
by machinery e., struck with dies
Which means, of course, that they were
made by the whites for the indians. In
early DAYS the white men made qUanti-
ties of stone knives and hammer By ma
ehinery, for sale to the aborigines;
likewise she'll money (wampuml, with
which they inflated the currency of the
red man.
As for the copper masks, the indians
knew how to get copper long before the
days of Columbus. Having found a rock
that contained copper, they built a fire
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14

both for number and size, is the famous
CahoBia group, opposite st. Louis, in
Illinois. Man sucyh tumuli contain thou
sands of skulls, showing that they were
us~d for burial purposes. In an Iowa
mound was found the skeleton of a giant
who must have been six inches over
seven feet in height. Around his neck
was a collar of bears teeth. A skull
from a mound in Alabama was entirely
filled with small snail shells. The puz-
zle Is to imagine why. In another mound
large central chamber, In which were II
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14
E. PASO HERALD

skeletons, arranged in a circle with their
backs against the walls, while in their
midst was a great sea shell which had
been converted into a drinking cup.
A farmer in Bollinger county, No.,
while blowing over a mound, struck a
stone coffin containing a skeleton and a
gourd-shaped vessel filled with lead ore
so pure that he turned it into bullets. It
was not uncommon for the builders of
such tumuG to inter their dead in eof-
fins of the kind-eysts, that Is to say,
walled with slabs of stone Some of the
mounds hold caches filled with corn, evil
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14
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HElMlE pEckLES CHVASSER WAS
LEARNING TO FOOT An OBOE.
He WA > PAYING OUT 5000
hALE TO. a 5000 WHO FOUGHT
shy or 8ARBEPS, 50 That
SOME DAY ne COMP L EAO 4
LITTLE DUTCH 6ANO- He HAo
LEARNED ENOUGH TO
Disturb The NEfGH9oQS WITH
AND AS He TOOK The OBOE OUT
OF THE CASE FOR THE DAY.
PRACTICE tbs PEEPER5 LIT UP
WITH JOY He SAT OOW@ AND
STARTED TO 8LOsv Up THE O6Ol
WHEN 1T SQUEAkEo-HEH
HEIMiE. TO MAKE CLAUSES OFT
OF PHRASES, DO ToO
AONER8S ? "
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14
lie GENDER oF ARKANsAs.

aThe life of a school teacher would
be sOrely mOntonOus.' said a teacher Of
a bows school not 100 miles from the
city hall IF it were not for his sense
of humOr and the really funny things
which happen every dav in the school
room. One day, for instance, I had my
smart class in grammar and set the BOYS
parsing. I called to Moses. a colored
bov. to parse Arkansas, and he said
Arkansas with emphasis on the second
syllable. I corrected his pronunciation
and he went on;
" Hark- en-saw is a noun, objective
case, Indicative mood, comparative de-
gree, third persons, and nominative case
to scissors.
You haven't said what gender,
Noses ] remarked
g feminine GENDER quickly remarked
my smart scholar
q why, sir2' asked, somewhat puz-
zIed.
'Becos it's got Miss Souri, On the norf.
Louisa Anna on the souf, Mrs. Sippi on
the east and ever so many more she
males on the west
at was so well done I Joined in and
encouraged the laugh which followed the
smart boys humor."-New York Press.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14
ARE MISSISSIPPI BAYOUS THE / -By-
WOpV M BBFUTGTODTC pEOpT FL Rene
Longs
-By-
Rene Bache

They Were Artificial Waterways for Early Americans
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14
O. &

8fG BEN, TIE TALL DETECTIVE
WAS LOOKING FOR A CLUE.
He WAS WORKING ON The
SENSATION, The kiONAP-
PING OF MIKE, The cock-ENEp
SWeEp SUDDENLY
.HE Fl oOPEO TO HIS hHEES,
AND, NlHIPpiNG OUT MS H0fE
MAfMF1Wf GLASS, ne CRawLfl
ALL OVER THE FLOOR, STILL
HUNTING FOR A Clue Al LAST,
ne SIGHED As ne SLANTED
THROUGH ms Glass ATA FAINT
fMpRE SSi0W on THE HkA0'0F A Pm.
on CLOSER INSPECTION Of THE
PUMPKIN TO A HYORANT?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14
WILSON RECEIVES
|. NEWS OF VICTORY
WITHOUT ELATION
President-elect Weighed Down
by Thought of His Vast
Responsibilities.
TRIUMPH OF A CAUSE u
Next Executive Refuses to
Take Democratic Landslide
as a Personal Success.
TRIUMPH OF A CAUSE.
NJ, QUITcHAKlOOlN

PRINCETON. n. J.. Nov. e-FT can't
realize that it's true"
Woodrow wilson. PreSidept-eleet. thus
greeted forenoon visitors to-day. who
swarmed 90 his house 70 pfEer eongrat-
ulations. Among thea were many
members OF the Princeton faculty.
II can't realize that IT'S .trne.s re.
peated the Governor. st hasn't qlIlte
davned on me. 7 bad been 81 an I'm
personal atmosphere for the last three
months. reading about myself, reading
that Eas 70 De elected, and now can
hardly behave that its true"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14

We ., BOYS = SAD THE FISHER
MAN A S Ne RELATED A LATE
.EXPE RIENcE TO some OF MS
'FELLow CLUB MEMBERS, - WAS
PJf1 ING EN- OUT SO FAST
THAT m THREE /1LYDTES
TINE HAD Al READY Used
Bp ny SRTIE II And L Asst
CAN OF BAIT But NfYLVCK
WAS 50 GREAT THAT DECDEC
10 Try IT WITH A BAjTAESS
Hoax no SOONER HAD MY
HOOK STRUCK The WATER,
THAN IT CAUGHT THE STPAN5
EST FISH EVER SAM, FOR
II SAD -" CAN 70 u
TEL e GRAM From An ONCE p
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14

had been rendered worthless by decay
eident to long burial.
The most remarkable assemblage OF
prehistoric mounds in the United States,