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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11
Don't Worry.

Don't Worry.
Whatever you do, don't worry.
If you fret, the wrinkles will grow.
A bright, cheerful smile will trouble be-
guile
And dispel even mountains Of woe.
There's nothing so catching as laughter
1t drives death oft back to its lair.
1t acts on the nerves. it good health pro-
serves
And annihilates loads of despair.
Then let 1t come out when you feel 1t.
Don't check it, but give it full play.
1t will drive away grief if there's any
around
And illumine like sunshine your day.
TITS like silvery moonlight at evening.
1t lights up life's dark. stormy way,
Does good honest laughter. 'Tis that that
we're after.
Then let US give it full play
Frank Marion.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11
Applyjnu the Story.

The young minister addressing
gathering of Sunday school teachers
among whom We're many maidens of
uncertain age. sought to drive in the
gospel Of soul saving with Il story
He told about a battle in the civil war
where the armies of the north and the
south were drawn up on the opposite
sides of valley.
The commander Of the brave boys
in blue" said the preacher. warming
to his subject. ordered his men to
charge. They did so, rushing Down
the hillsides like a mighty wave and
up the opposite slope to the very
crest. There they were beaten back,
all but one brave hero, who. graphing
with the leader of the Confederates.
tore him from the back of his horse
and carried him by main force back to
the reforming lines of his comrades
saying: If you all had done the same
we would now have all of our enemies
in bonds. There was a man for each
Of you
"And that is what l want to impress
upon you this evening"" continued the
minister Brothers, there Is mar
for each of you if you but show the
determination to get him. Sisters,
there is a man to be captured by eacf
of you But here the preacher.
tongue failed him for an instant
When he recovered he realized tina
another battle bad been lost.-Phila
Aelphia Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11

suit. The father was in an agony OF
perspiration. Toward the end of the
third act on walked the son, carrying Il
gun. but with nothing to say for him
self. He was merely a super. He
strutted up and down the stage a
couple of times. But the father could
stand it no longer. Becoming excited.
he leaned over the balcony and shout
ed: For heavens sake, Jim, do some
thing! If they won't let you speak.
shoot the gun off,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11

in fact, he had
procured a splen-
did engagement
with a gentleman
named Henry IT.
wing. The father
was so overjoyed
that he mustered
a large party Of
friends, and they
attended in a
body at the Ly-
ceum, which is a
theater S I'm e :
where in London.
The first act end
ed, but that mans
son had not put
in an appearance.
The second act
o~Io1 CD~o@ M
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11
Something on His Mind.

S0motUJuY OF TITS "I1Iu.
The man from next door dropped in
while the company were discussing
dreams.
"Some one has discovered that If the
hand of a sleeping person is placed in
salt water that person will reveal the
secrets of his past life said the host
ess, and the visitor Immediately began
a hurried search for his hat.
"Where are you going?" she asked
in alarm.
"Going home to hide the saltcellar.
replied the visitor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11

for illustration q
glass of water, a
glass Of whisky
and a box of live
worms. He would
drop a worm into
the water and
show how it wrig-
gled. Then. drop
ping it into the
whisky. he would
exclaim: There!
o ne cOnVulSlve
shudder and it Is
all overt"
"Haud on, there
MASTER! Are ye
sure It's the liq.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11
Limited Power,

An American concert manager tells
of an English singer whose voice. Of
great sweetness Of tone and wonder
full compass. was yet so powerful that
no orchestra could drown it's tones.
On the occasions when this singers
husband acted as her musical manager
he appeared especially anxious to i'm.
press the audience with this fact Of
the great power of her voice and more
than once displayed his desire in an
amusing way. At ono time the lady
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11
Wanted Action.

A young fellow in England left home
and was not heard of for three years
At the end of that period he returned
and said that he had become an actor
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11

FRIEND. uOr Killed. the pUir
worm?' a voice in the audience asked.
Quite sure, my friend" replied the
lecturer. mo doubt villa ,vrr.'
"A-weel, then. just pass over the
whisky. I'm bothered wi VOLS"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11
The -
Scrap Book
Ready For the Slaughter.

There was famous temperance
lecturer in Scotland who was noted Tor
his spectacular methods. On one &C.
casion in a lecture in Glasgow he used
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
HIS own MEDICINE BITTER.

Tt is doubtful that any considerable
number of citizens were much dis
turbed by the tarring of DR.. Ben
Reitman, manager of Emma Goldman,
the anarchist agitator, near San Diego,
Cal. At the same time it must be
recognized that the actions of the
'vigilantes'' who perpetrated the out
rage-for outrage it certainly was
have clouded the fair name of the
Golden State For any number of
American citizens to take the law into
their own hands strikes at the very
foundations of the republic.
But that does not give Reitman much
right to complain of the treatment he
received. His attitude is inconsistent
almost humorously so. He advocates
the adjustment of all laws-a society
devoid of organization. That is the
theory of anarchy. The 'vigilantes''.
by tarring and feathering him in de-
fiance and contempt of the law, We're
applying in a practical way the theory
of anarchy, however unwillingly. And
Reitman, in complaining that the au-
thorities show a Discrimination to ar
rest and prosecute his tormentors, viz
tually admits that laws and their or
derby and systematic enforcement are
not only desirable but necessary.
To be wholly consistent, Reitman and
the Goldman woman should applaud
the "vigilantes'' and the recalcitrant
law officials and hail them as con-
verts to their own cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
says UNCLE CAV

The human race may be hurled
back, but it never turns back.
Whatever may be the cowardice of
individuals, the race as a whole, is as
brave as its bravest, and it counts life
of little worth when cast into the
scales against progress. Wherefore,
now that the horror of the Titanic dis
aster has already been softened some
what by time, we begin to understand
that we have not paused for an instant
in our race for ocean records, and that
we will not pause until the sea shall
have become as dry land and London
as near to New York as Chicago.
There is nothing new nor more than
ordinarily appalling in the sinking of
the Titanic. We have fed the sea since
the dawn of time, and have counted
our measure of mastery cheaply
bought. We have offered up to it such
heroic sacrifices as those men who
stood at salute while the ship went
down. And tomorrow or the next day,
or next year, we shall, offer up other
such sacrifices and think no more of
giving over our fight for speed on the
seas than We do of abandoning our
railways because their tracks are
drenched in the blood of those who
have Jared to and fro upon the land.
We do not pause-not though We ball
last our roadbedS with industrious
slain and bridge the seven seas with
the corpses of the drowned. The race
never turns back.
Speed may have ha- much to do with
this latest oblaticn to progress. Care
lessness may have had more But what
ever it was, whatever may be the ac-
ton of congress whatever the lessons
drawn by the builders of ships, the
transatlantic record is to be broken
again and again.
The race knows neither caution, cow
ardice nor fear. 1t does not know how
to hesitate. 1t only knows the cost and
the goal And when the sea or the land
takes toll manhood stands at salute,
upon its manhood's law, Women and
children first and in it's eyes the vi
sion of its sons who yet shall give of
their kind a sacrifice to progress
Copyright, 1912, by w. E. Williams.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.J

From the Chicago News.1
Right-headed men are always good
hearted
Always meet people with smile-if it's
your treat
Pessimists may be men who are disap-
pointed in themselves.
Love recognizes the frigid mitt when 1t
gets the shake,
Nothing surprises some people more
than the antics of an alarm clock
A man may express opinions in his
wife's presence-but what's the use?
The leap year girl who leaps before she
looks is apt to look foolish later.
Occasionally you meet a man who ac-
tually believes he understands his wife.
A woman is willing to let a man have
the last word if it comes in the form OF
an apology.
Some men impress US as being so wac
awake we wonder If they don't suffer
from insomnia.
Every time minister announces that
the Lord has called him to a new fell
some inquisitive person is sure to ask
how much the salary increase is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24

Homer strfding toward the house. She
recognized him instantly. although she
had not seen him for a number of
years.
She expected him to pass by. To her
surprise he ran up the steps to the
front door and rang the bell vigorously.
Amy told the maid to say that she
was out, and then as quickly changed
her mind and raced down the stairs
before the maid could reach the bot
tom.
Homer's face was animated as he
TT seems good to see you after such
long time" He. shook her hand
warmly. --.----.----.--
Amy gasped. This was hardly the
greeting she had expected.
You got my note congratulatfng you
on-on your marriage %
Yes. 1t was kind of you, but
haven't married Miss Kartholl.''
You haven't married Miss Kar-
tholl?'' Amy,s heart pounded wildly.
That advertisement said you had
But I haven't for the very simple
reason that there isn't any Miss Kar-
thol. She is purely an imaginative
parsonage formed in my own brain
I'm the only Grace Kartholl there is,
and invented her to sell women's
brushes and combs after I saw what
hit my bachelor advertising was
making. I married her as the simplest
way of explaining. the consolidation
of the two stores, for found that I
could run the two of them much more
cheaply together, than as two separate
establishments"
A warm glow overspread Amy's body.
she felt happy, inexpressibly happy,
rather thought" continued Homer.
that the we are married ad might
bring some word from you. You see
knew when L started in business that
you lived here. I started here ON the
chance of seeing you again"
I'm SO glad" Amy declared.-(Conv-
=" i7f"S. LII, by sz-,
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
EVENING CHAT
BTRUTH CAMERON.

Mrs. Emily Bishop, a notea cban,n,or
u women their rights and their abilitfes
tttondIesseo the other day that in one par
other sex, and that was in the matter of
relevance of thought. women" con-
evant." Aiei-
6oW about 1T, Mrs. American woman?
10 you own the soft impeachment?''
really think you should.
For although I also am a sturdy cham
plon OF my sex, must confess that 7 also
nave frequently been tried by the irrel-
eVance or Womankind.
Let US play the harmless eavesdronner
at an average family dinner table, The
husband and father is telling about a
ofs I'M uIsned visitor who came to his
ONCE that day. The story is so Interesting
that his young son actually suspends the
business of eating to listen. His wife
interest, but in a moment or two fine
peculiar expression comes across her face
mat someone has APPLY called "house-
wires eyes: Her husband concludes his
story. and her comment is, Wasn't that
nce!-thls absent mindedly, and then
with fervor, John, DID you remember to
bring home that extra umbrella Won
took?''
Women sometimes complain because
their husbands do not tell them more
ABOUT their business interests and Nwfat
they see In the big world. I wonder If ex-
periences like these may not have some
uning TO do with such reticence
At home where I sometimes visit all
10 extinction by the housemother's well
meant Interruptions. No matter what aaly--
one-guest or member of the fanaily-Inay.
be saying, he is likely to be interrupted
or at least answered by Now, do have
some more pudding" James, why don't
you give Mrs. c. some more potatoes?''
etc, etc. There is no doubt whatever that
this good woman's intentions are the best
In the world, but her attention most
emphatically is not, and the two really
need not be incompatible.
In very clever essay on the danger of
being too good a housewife, modern
writer explains the feminine habit of ir-
relevance thus:
Realizing that there is no hour in the
twenty-four when the boiler may not
burst, the little ones MAIN themselves or
tradesmen present hypothetical bills, she
soon learns that she must either abandon
the home in some greater or less partic-
ular. or give up all forms of concentrated
thought She usually chooses
touches even the subjects of ordinary
conversation as lightly as a humming
bird, which knows If humming birds do
know such things, that at any moment it
may have to go winging away to its
cellar or its medicine chest. You
drop into tea. The silver is bright, the
food delicious, yet your hostesss sees not
you, but the dent in the tea-kettle; hears
not you but the voice of strange man
in the Kitchen
1 think we have all known this type of
woman; perhaps we have visited her;
perhaps we sit across the table from her;
perhaps we even sit in her chair. How
about it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
.rHE VANISHING HUsBAND.~

In an article in the June woman's
Home Companion, entitled 1.-THE Van
ishing Husband" the author presents
in interesting study of the inequality
that exists between men and women.
Following is an extract showing how
men will leave the finest homes imagi-
nable and go off by themselves to en-
joy each others society
I'm the community where my friends
live the saloon was unknown, and
mans love of enjoying himself with
men undisturbed by the-female-of-the
species was symbolized by a meager
and virtuous pool-table at the back of
some grocery store. Yet that pool-table
was frequented daily by a coterie of
law-abiding men, married and other.
The men of the town for want of
club gathered themselves together at a
BARRIERS or at a fruit store, or, after
the days work was finished, stood in
groups at the end of wharves, splitting
out to sea and conversing, far away
from the unsocial feminine atmos-
phere. In these various uncomforta BILE
and. unsympathetic spots they talked
together about politics, the days catch
Of fish, the National and American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
INCREASE THE MEAT YIELD.


If Kansas farmers in the localities
tapped by the lines of the Union Pa
cific Railroad company use little of
the wisdom of which they are pos
sessed, they will turn out in goodly
numbers next week to hear the ex-
perts of the State Agricultural college
discuss the advantages of the right
kind of dairying and livestock culture.
A dairy and livestock special train is
to be run over the most of the Union
Pacific track in Kansas during the
coming week, making its start from
Culver on Monday morning.
That Kansas is not producing nearly
as much m4Fssz- rs it should is a fact
that is patent On all sides. There were
nearly 200. 900 fewer cattle in Kansas
in the year 1911 than there We're in
1910. And if the agriculturists of Kan
sas were up to snuff these figures
would have been reversed and there
would be a large yearly incre--e for
many years to come in the number of
cattle raised here.
OF course, there's a reason for the
falling-off in the raising of livestock
in Kansas, The big cattle ranges of not
so many years ago are things of the
past. They have been cut up into
farms large and small. And the farm
er has as yet failed to adjust himself
to the changed conditions in the mat
ter of raising, cattle. The Kansas farm
er has been specializing in grains and
with generally excellent results. He has
overlooked the fact though, that while
he has been growing grains, he could
just as well have had a herd of cattle
on his farm proportionate with its
size. Not only would he have received
large returns from such cattle. but his
farm itself would have been benefited
immeasurably by the presence of the
cattle on it,
These matters will be pointed out in
emphatic fashion by lecturers who will
accompany the livestock and dairy spe-
cial. They are more than lecturers, too.
They are not mere theorists. They are
practical agriculturists. And they will
show that the most profitable farming
is that where livestock raising is not
neglected for grain culture, no matter
how small the farm may be. The
farmers in the densely settled Euro
pean states have already learned this
lesson, and to their great pecuniary adj
vantage.
No longer can the United States
make the proud boast that they pro-
duce all the things that their people
eat. Why, in one month of the present
year, no less than 100000 bushels of
potatoes were imported from Europe
And during a recent period of eight
months the value of the meats, dairy
products and food animals imported
from other lands was $9,172, 905.
Is it any wonder that the cost of liv-
ing here is high and growing higher?
There is only one way to reduce the
cost of common foods, meat included,
and that is to produce more of them
And it is up to the Kansas farmers to
do their full part in this important
particular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
AYHAWKER JOTS

Sneakina of having a Fathers Day,
remarks Editor Roberts of the Oska-
loosa independent, make it a night ana
we are with you
One of the women living at Pratt is
quoted as having said: Il just love TO
tell the truth-when it makes people
sQuirm."
Surely there is nothing in a name.
AIDA Strayer, of Horseshoe, Wasnlng-
ton. county, is reported by the Had
dam Clfpper-Leader, to have spent
Sunday with homefolks-
We received notice this week of an
other advance of ten per cent IN the
cost of paper, says the Wamego Tlmes.
If this thing keeps up the publisher
who is struggling along trying to put
out a paper for a dollar Will be com
PEELED either to raise the price. refuse
to accept new subscribers or go over
the hills to the poorhouse.
A young friend of the South Randall
correspondent of the Colby Tribune
handed in the following which is de-
scribed as a beautiful little poem"
A little boy with a baseball bat.
Stiff is the joint of his left hand
thumb,
He SHES stone at the brindle cat,
But the voice of the sobbing sea So
dumb.
Something classy in the way of a
D1rCh nOt1ce IN the Lyndon HeOp1e
Herald: The legendary stork, satiSfac-
torily assisted by DR.. c. w. Beasley.
bestowed, on Friday, May 10th, to the
welcoming parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Markley, a precious bundle of
femininity that will in her developing
womanhood, more than likely exhibit.
all the virtues and pleasing attributes
of the agreeable and happy parents.
Mother and child are doing well.
A special car for women's hats will
be carried on the club special going
to the biennial at San Francisco,
notes Mrs. Cora G. Lewis. the associ-
ate editor of the Kinsley Graphical and
she adds: Which reminds us that
neither clubs, literature, the ballot,
trouble or joy, can change the prirni-
tive woman, and thanks be to provi-
dence for that. The winsome woman
is the one in whom feminine vanity
along legitimate lines which means
looking as we'll as she can afford TO
look, is an immemoria; quality And
yet, women cannot afford to run to
extremes in these matters and it looks
like special trains for hats might be
carrying things too far.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
KANSAS coMMENT
THE TITANIC WAY,


Dave Leahy pleads for the retention
of the inheritance tax, because the
state acquired such d good slice from
the fortunes of the victims of the IT,
tanic. With glee he points to the many
thousands of dollars which the Kansas
treasury has received from this I'M
parallelled disaster. The giant Iceberg
became a partner in the Kansas law
and wrenched from the drowned a nice
bit of their estates. 1t causes Dave to
chuckle as he thinks of the desperate
struggle those men made to 1.-Two that
they might deprive Dave and his phi
lOSopherS from possession of uaoney
that never was in Kansas and had
never been subject to taxation. There
are just as many miles of railway in
Kansas, just as much value to tax
as there was before the shareholders
got between Dawes pet law and the
iceberg. But the part of the inheri-
lance which 1he Beacon cannot defend
is that where the widow and orphaned
minors, after an exemption of $4,000
must be squeezed as a part of their
heritage. Deprived of the daily earn
ingS of husband and father and in dire
need of every dollar in sight. Dave
again chuckles as he sees the state
gathering in the widows mite to help
along its extravaganza. If the chance
of partnership with gigantic iceberes.
earthquakes, plaques, railroad wrecks,
and other tremendous disasters, is
worth more to the state than the sus-
tenance of its widows and orphans. the
law may be defensible. But why not
cling to the Titanic chuckle and amend
the law SO as to spare the widows
The man who deliberately robs the
widow is called an unmftigated
scoundrel; that state that does ii can
not afford to chuckle.-Wichita Bea-
con.
KANSAS ROAD STATUTE A MODEL.
That the road law in Kansas pass
ed by the last legislature has proved
to be a success is indicated by the
interest that has been exhibited by
people who live in other states who
have written for copies of the road
statute. More than 1000 copies were
terest is second only to that of the
now famous 'Blue Sky law of Kan
sas. The greatest change made was
that in regard to overseers, who are
no longer elected for definite periods.
The township board is now made a
road board and can elect the town
ship trustee as a road overseer or
the board can hire some one by the
day or job. In some cases the work
has been turned over to the county
engineer. In some counties the law
is working out in fine shape, and
great improvements have been noted.
Where the township board is able to
get hold of some one who likes the
work and will make a study of it they
can continue to hire him from one
job to another. Especially is this
plan helpful in the building of small
bridges and culverts, many of the lat
ter being built of rough stone and
cement Horton Headlight-Commer-
cial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

People don't forgive hardly as much as
they say they do.
Our notion of hard luck is to tackle
good meal with a poor appetite.
Being busy is being healthy. Not bad
one for Doc. ~rumbine's Health Almanac.
A loafer has time enough to be a social
favorite, but he isn't, although she may
be.
Don't give the cow-catcher too much
credit. The advance man rarely owns the
show.
Even in the rough old Roman days, a
gladiator had a better chance than an
aviator has now.
You are expected to remember your
friends a good deal better than they will
remember you.
This is a tough old world for those
whose sensibilities are easily shocked by
bush league grammar.
Money doesn't look as large to anyone
else to the woman who has to touch
her husband for 1t.
People are pushed or pulled or moved
by their own efforts. In which class do
you belong, young man?
A guardian can't show much of his au-
thority and give satisfaction to his ward;
he has almost as much trouble in this
way a COUNCILMAN.