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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
Malt Liquor Licenses.

The attention of all persons in .Bossier
Parish dealing in malt liquors containing
less than per cent alcohol is called to the
following sections of Act No. 178, of the
Louisiana Legislature, approved July II,
1912:
Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That every retail dealer in malt liquors
containing less than 2 per cent alcohol
shall pay an annual license tax on said
business graded as follows:
First Class: When the gross sales are
$1,000 or more the license shall be 500.
Second Class: When the gross sales are
under S., 900, and more than $4,000, the
annual license shall be SIS.
Third Class: When the gross sales are
less than $4,000 the annual license shall be
$50.
The said license shall be collected by the
Tax Collectors of the State in the same
manner and at the same time as are COL
lected other license taxes.
Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That whosoever shall sell at wholesale or
retail any malt liquors containing less than
2 per cent alcohol without first obtaining
the license herein provided, or without first
obtaining the license which may be i'm
posed by any municipal or parochial au-
thority for the sale of altliquors contain
ing less than 2 per cent alcohol, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic-
ton shall be fined not less than 500, nor
more than $500 or imprisoned for not less
than sixty days nor more than six months,
or both at the discretion of the court.
Section4. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That the provisions of this act shall not be
construed as conflicting with the present
law touching the sale of intoxicating malt
liquors and shall have application exclu-
sively to malt liquors containing less than
2 per cent alcohol.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That this act shall 60 into effect from and
after it's passage, and that all laws or parts
of laws in conflict with the provisions
hereof, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
The State Auditor has ordered the col
lection Of a half year license for 1912, as
follows: State license $25 and parish IL
cense S25. j. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff and Tax Collector
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
Hot Air Built Town.

1t is told of an old printer that he went
into the wilds of Dakota, before the terri
tory was divided, taking with him an army
press and box of type. He built him a
sod house and began to publish a paper,
filling it with news of an imaginary COM
munity, he being the whole community.
He sent his paper to real people who read
it. In time they began to straggle in and
after few years he had surrounded him.
self with real community. The story
may not be true, but here is the under
lying fact that hot air will sometimes assist
materially in the building of cities. Hot
air is not such bad asset, when used with
moderation, and it serves to agitate the
homefolks into activity and attracts atten-
ton on the outside. So far as we know a
lot of hot air was expended before the
steam engine was made success.-E9.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Robbers blew the vault of bank at b.
gard, Mo-, and escaped with So, 800 in cash.
The October report of the Department of
Agriculture shows American crops to be
the best on record.
The State of Alabama received s1,O73.-
286 profit during the fiscal year just ended
Express companies and railroads claim
they will lose 1888, 100000 annually if the
proposed new express rates go into effect.
William B. Mckinley testified he spent
S265, O00 for Taft's campaign fnnd in 1908
and that three brothers of Taft contributed
$3.50, 900.
The overnment Printing Office at Wash
ington, with its $500 employees-a large
proportion of them women-under one roof,
is one of the largest factories in the world.
Eight old wolves, ten cubs and six foxes
were killed at the annual wolf hunt near
Fenton, Illinois, Wednesday of last week.
Three hundred farmers participated in the
hunt.
William Finn, of Pittsburg, Pa, testi-
fled before the Senate Committee that he
contributed S144, 3O8.29 to the Roosevelt
campaign fund previous to the Chicago
Convention.
A local paper states that Montgomery
County, exhibited at the recent Missouri
State Fair a prize squash weighing ninety
seven pounds and two pumpkins weighing
1876 pounds.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President
of the United States and again candi-
date for that Office, was shot in the breast
Monday night by would be assassin as
he entered an automobile in front of the
Hotel Fitzpatrick, in Milwaukee, Wis, to
start for an auditorium, where he was to
! speak. The bullet passed through Col.
Roosevelt's army overcoat and other cloth
ing, and through manuscript and spec
tacle case in his breast pocket, and its
course was nearly spent before it pene-
trated his chest. Only superficial flesh
wound in the right breast resulted. His
surgeons permitted him to continue his
journey to Chicago, where he entered the
Mercy Hospital His assailant was John
Schrenk, said to be Bavarian. He viii
not be brought to trial until after the
Presidential election.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
Playinu Cards For a Treaty.

Years ago was in America and
went down with the English minister
In the United States to small inn in
Virginia where we were to meet Mr.
Marcy, the then United States secre-
tary Of state. and a reciprocity treaty
between Canada and the United States
was to be quietly discussed. Mr.. Mar
cy, the most genial of men. was as
cross as a bear. He would agree to
nothing what on earth is the matter
with your chief?" l said to secretary
who accompanied him. HE does not
have his rubber of whist" answered
the secretary. After this every night
the minister and l played at whist
with Mr. Marcy and his secretary. and
every night we lost The stakes were
very trifling. but Mr. Marcy felt fat
tered by beating the Britishers at
what he called their own game. His
good humor returned, and every morn
ing when the details of the treaty were
being discussed we had our revenge
and scored a few points for Canada
Henry Labouchere in London Truth
April II, 1877.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
The Best Retreat.

From the New York Herald.
Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him.
Psalm xxxvii, I.
We are a hustling people. We are al
ways in hurry, for time is money, and to
make time is the earnest endeavor in all our
activities. These conditions have brought
our nation into state of restlessness and
inquietude which cannot be found so pro-
nounced in any other nation.
Man was not built to endure such con-
tinuous strain, and the consequences of
such unreasonable haste and excitement
are manifest in breakdowns and nervous
collapse. To counteract these evil effects
of our business and social life those who
have the means will eventually go into
retreat, in the absolute quietude of which
they will seek to regain their exhausted
energies.
The annual exodus into the country is
nothing else but such going into re-
treat. But what good is the most quiet
spot to man who, like Thales Of old, car
ries with him all his troubles, cares, ankle
ties and whose restless spirit is to him
source of constant irritation and excite
ment?
King David in our psalm tells us of a
better retreat, saying, Rest in the Lord,
and wait patiently for him." Why was his
soul so quiet and content? Because he had
sought his SOULS reconciliation with God
and found it. "The wicked" says Isaiah,
care like the troubled sea when it cannot
rest.'' And st. Augustine, judging from
his own painful experience, says, "The
human soul is restlessness until it reposes
in God" Most people do not recognize
that the source of all their restless is in
their own heart.
If we faithfully seek and find this safe
retreat in the grace of the reconciled God
then the cause Of all our restlessness will
be removed and there will be- fulfilled what
the Saviour says: "Come unto me, all We
that labor and are heavy laden, and l will
give you rest"
Has not God Himself recognized the ne
cessity of such retreat by setting aside
one day out of seven to give time and oc-
casion for seeking recreation for the body
and rest for the soul? Has not the Church
recognized it by fixing the Lenten season,
which is retreat into the hottest of holes,
full of rest and blessing to the soul? And
does not the State recognize it by eagerly
watching over quiet Sunday as essential
to the welfare of the people?
Let US thank God that He has given us
this retreat, in which even the poorest can
partake. Let US rest in the Lord and wait
patiently for Him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Thibodaux Commercial Journal: Moth
ing done is nothing gained, and nothing
gained or attained, can but make one feel
tired and disguised with himself.
Claiborne Guardian journal: We be-
lieve the tax commission uttered great
truth in saying that an occupation tax on
a praiseworthy pursuit is vicious in princi-
pie. No man ought to be made to pay for
the mere privilege of earning living.
New Orleans Christian Advocate: The
Baltimore and Richmond Christian Advo-
cate says: "The Youths Companion is
authority for the statement that during
the last year eight churches were built and
thirty saloons went out of business each
day. Thus does Gods kingdom march
triumphanty on.' Still there are those
who are such thorough pessimists that they
insist that the world is growing worse in
stead of better.
have been SO indulgent that what they did
but the senders Of the stuff seem to think
they are doing favor to the newspaper
Publicity Bureaus" usually consisting
writing machine, turn out this trash by the
Jot ", o'lA ouo" Ct ~ pOI Vic COuutty ucWS.
papers. 1t also comes from So called COL
leges, land syndicates and other concerns,
seeking something for nothing, as if the
country newspapers were run for their
special benefit.
New Orleans States: It is estimated
that in the Southern States there are about
$4,000, COO acres of land susceptible to re-
clamation by drainage and dyking with a
promise of results as great as those already
obtained here in Louisiana. 1t is the habit
of some people to wonder how the rapidly
increasing population of the United States
is to be sustained, but it will be many 9
year before the richest land in the worlc
now waste and susceptible of improvement
has been brought under cultivation, bu
with the drainage of the swamp lands oil
the South no fear need be felt for many
generations of any overcrowding in this
country.
New Orleans Times Democrat: Nose!
said, many hundreds of years ago, tina
every seventh year should be one of grea
plenty and rejoicing, in which the abund
ance of the crops should overwhelm thu
people with prosperity. 1t is a striking
coincidence, then, that despite the grea
lapse Of time since Moses lived and laugh
and the diversifcation of human pursuits
with agriculture hardly greater than man.
others, the same rule should apply. Fo
the United States in 1906 was truly lant
of flowing milk and honey, q commercial
Canaan, and this year, 1912, is due to SCI
repetition, perhaps an eclipse, of tina
full season.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
weioht of Brains.

According to some scientists, every
human being gets complete new out
at of brains about every two months
They estimate that the duration Of a
nerves life is approximately sixty days
and that every brain cell is destroyed
and renewed that often. In other
words, we all have six brand new sets
of brains each year. The following fig.
ures. Showing the comparative weights
Of persons Of different nationa Iities. are
interesting. According to Bastian and
other brain experts, the average Scotch
brain weighs 50 ounces, German brain
496 ounces. English brain 49.5 ounces.
French brain 47.9 ounces. Zulu. brain
AIS ounces. Chinese brain 47.2 ounces.
Pawnee brain All ounces. Italian brain
469 ounces, Hindoo brain 451 ounces.
Gypsy brain 44.S ounces. Bushman
brain 44.6 ounces and Eskimo brain
439 ounces.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
From Over Our Great State

ST. Martinsville was visited by an S8,OOO
fire on the 9th instant.
Owing to shortage of cars the planning
mills at Kentwood shut down last Thursday.
Judge c.. K Schwing of Plaquemine
committed lawerJ. H. Pugh to Jail for con-
tempt.
Typhoid and malarial fever are still prev
alent in the overflow sections OF Catahoula
and Concordia.
The next annual conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, will be held
during the second week of December at
Monroe.
/ Mansfield has adopted new ordinance
prohibiting the blowing of any whistle
within the city limits for more than five
seconds.
The Police Jury of Plaquemines Parish
recommends segregation of taxes, holding
that it will afford the parish more money
for schools and improvements.
The epidemic of Charlton has become SO
serious in Lafourche Parish as to cause
the Parish Board of Health to order all
owno"s Of stock to keep them off the public
roads and levees.
Under the present system of taxation, il
is said, Alexandria, with more than 1000
more population than Monroe, pays a little
more than half the amount of State taxa
ton paid by Monroe.
Sugar cane is reported by forty one par.
ishes at II 1871 per cent, while sixteer
sugar parishes report III per cent. Cow
peas are placed at 1902 3-47 per cent fol
forty seven parishes.
A Baton Rouge special to the New Or
leans Picayune says: A ballot about E
yard and half long, the longest eve1
known in this State, and the equal, it il
believed, of any in the United States, il
what the voters of Louisiana will have tt
face in the Novem Der election, unless some
scheme of compression is found.
New Orleans Times Democrat: 1t is {
matter of official record that during twelve
months of the killing season of 1909 1911
the enormous total of 4 ,265, 585 game birds
were slaughtered in Louisiana. Nor doe
this tale of terrible carnage include thu
robins and other crop protecting birds tina
were killed by thousands by the negroe
and whites for food. Around New iberia
short distance north of Marsh Island, a
least 10000 robins are killed for food ever,
winter.
The sulphur mine situated in Calcasie,
) Parish, which is owned by the Standar'
. Oil Company, the wealthiest men in tn
United States, sells a very small Fraction
/ of its product in Louisiana. The paris]
/ assessor assesses the mine at $4,000, 600
) but he has never beeu able to get it to hol
> at over 1915 900, on which assessment
, it pays tax of only S38, 1886. If assesse
4 at SIC, 900, 900, the mine will pay under tn
t tax reform amendment S154 500 at the rat
: 15-9-2 20 mills.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
Cost Of Floral Decorations.

Millions of dollars are spent on floral
decorations in America every year. 1t
Is said that the amount spent for deco
rative purposes each year is sufficient
to build three battleships and place
them in commission. 1t is considered
nothing unusual for 81 600 to be charg-
ed by florists for decorating banquet
hall, while as much as $15, 200 has been
paid for home decorations. The deco
rator has to 60 through hard and long
school of experience before he is able
to command the salary of an expert. for
the materials at his command are OF
fragile nature, and it is next to I'M
possible to experiment with them. Ger
tain set forms are known and prescrib-
ed for certain occasions, but when q
carte blanche order is given then the
art of the decorator comes into play
and his artistic sense is we'll tested. fol
It depends upon him to please his pa
irons In an artistic way. and also by
the wonderful blending of his flowers
New York Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
Faces Over the Doors.

Those who visit Pompeii for the first
time are struck by one significant fea-
ture Of those little houses whose own
ers have been dead for 1000 years.
That is the faces which are often carv-
ed over the door or in the atrium and
intended to convey welcome or de-
fiance to the entering guest. The New
House, as it is called. because 1t is the
last rescued from the tomb OF ashes,
has before it two marble heads on pill
lars rising from beds of roses Their
faces are turned to greet the stranger
with gay. friendly smiles. No one could
enter house which gave him so cor
dial welcome without happier throb
Of the heart. In the entrances of some
Of the other houses are set angry.
frowning heads of demons.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
The Question of Ambition.
ey Thomas Reed Bridges in New York Herald
NEho L. tho orroa tocf2- lIoffhP1n a1ti1i.

Rev. Thomas Reed Bridges in New York Herald
Who is the greatest?-Ildtthe,u rciai, I.
Our Lord does not condemn ambition,
but he defines it's true object. True am
bition, according to Christ, is distinguished
by humility and service. The first quality
demands that we be unconscious of self.
The second demands that we be conscious
of others.
Early in His ministry Jesus uttered the
beatitude, "Blessed are the meek Now
to these ambitious disciples He said:-
"You must humble yourselves and become
as little chldren.' Weakness is thought
by many to be the same as weakness. 1t
is, on the contrary, the noblest kind OF
strength.
Men cling to the idea of personal impor-
lance. Flattery is the surest road to
favor We are never so happy as when
people praise US and bow down before US.
We have not learned the greatness of
humility.
Nor have we learned the further great
ness of service. Our Lord and Master
was servant of all. The poorest and the
humblest could command Him. He went
about looking for the people that needed
Him. Worldly ambition makes us look
at men in other lights. They are beggars
to be ignored, they are tools to be used,
they are rivals to be crushed. But the
spirit of service puts them all in one class.
They are brothers to be loved and helped.
Who, then, is greatest? The man who
does the greatest amount of good. Help
| fulness is the highest quality of human
life. Service is the browning glory OF
man. All honor to him who floods the
world with great affection, who stirs the
world with great thoughts, who moves the
world to deeds of heroism.
Service is the thing that lasts longest
1t has an earthly Immortality. When oul
names have persisted and our memory is
forgotten the good deeds we have done
will live on. "Charity never faileth.'
The beauty of the beneficent deed, the
widows two mites, the alabaster box o.
ointment, Sir Philip Sidney's cup OF cole
water, the passing shadow of Florence
Nightingale which the dying soldier strovt
to kiss-these are pictures which this
world, bad as it is, will not let fade. Tht
suns Of centuries rise and set upon them.
The beauty Of this ideal of service il
that it is within the reach of all. Every
city is full of poverty, suffering, ignor
ance, degradation. Everywhere oul
brothers lie before US, as of old they la,
before the eternal Christ, most miserable
yet most noble. They need our help ant
they are worthy of it. Their hearts will
thrill with new life at the touch of kindnes
and they will rise and stand upon thei
feet.
Jesus Christ offers the world new roa,
to greatness. He travelled it Himself an
thousands praise Him in every land. Hi
name is above every other name. Their
is no other way. You cannot rise b.
cunning and deceit. You cannot gain
; success worth having by selfishness. Blu
if you follow Him you will reach the snow
clad summit: you will win the favor G
men and God and leave the world at last
little better than you found it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
Self SACRIFICING.

'I'm glad to make your acquaintance,
major. hope you'll pardon the ques.
ton. but is your marriage with my di
vorced wife happy?
oh very. | don't understand how
you could separate from SO charming
q woman. Don't you want 10 take her
back Y'-Pittsburgh i'ress
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-17
The Oriuin of Jack Tar,

Jack Tar apparently is considerabl
older than Tommy Atkins for the use
of Jack to signify sailor is at any
rate as old as 1859, and old Tar is a
nautical character in play of about
the same period. The origin of the
name is not very romantic, for the
sailor is supposed to have got the title
from his tarred clothes and hands.
Jack being merely sort of generic
name for a man--London Standard
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When you have bad cold you want the
best medicine obtainable 80 as to cure it
with as little delay as possible. Here is q
druggists opinion: 81 have sold Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy for fifteen years, -
says Enos Lollar of Saratoga, Ind, land
consider it the best on the market" For
sale by all druggists.
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SoIlcits Funds of Louisianlans.
To the Democrats of Louisiana:

To the Democrats of Louisiana:
Having been selected by the Demo-
cratic National Campaign Committee as a
member and chairman for the State of
Louisiana of its finance committee, l hereby
solicit campaign contributions from all
Democrats and earnestly urge each to con-
tribute as literally as he is able to do. It
is his party duty thus to assist in winning
the great victory promised by the nomina-
ton of Gov. Wilson.
The people of Louisiana have pecu-
liar interest in this campaign as result
of the advanced position taken by the party
in its platform in relation to the subject OF
the Improvement of the Mississippi River
and in committing the party to the policy
of assuming charge of the great work Of
protecting the people living along its course
from inundation.
All contributions may be made directly
to me or through any newspaper in the
State undertaking to receive contributions
L. f. HALL.
a~ Send the Banner your contribution
and we will see to it that the amount il
promptly forwarded to Gov. Hall.
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No. 81
Bids Invited.

dds are hereby invited for repairs
- and improvements to be made on
the east end of Stroud's bridge, which
spans Lake Bodcau between Bossief ana
Webster Parishas. The east five benches;
are to be raised from to feet. Also,
a dump approaching the bridge, 100 Iees
in length and graduated up to Z feet IN
height, is necessary. Address BIDS 70
E. N. Payne of Spring Hill, or n: W.
Stewart of Plain Dealing. The right Is
reserved to reject any and all bids.
J. G. LOGAN,
President Police Jury of Bossier Parish, La.
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Unkind.

Ella-Live and learn Steila-If you
had been learning all the time you
sixteen volume encyclopedia look like
a pocket dictionary ~ New York Press.
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Here is woman who speaks from per-
sonal knowledge and long experience, viz.
Mrs. P. H. Brogan, of Wilson, Pa, who
says, 81 know from experience that Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy is far superior tc
any other. For Group there is nothing thai
excels it." For sale by all druggists.
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oct17-6m
Notice to Taxpayers.

4 LII State, Parish and Poll Taxes iol
n the year 1912, as set forth on tne
rolls on file, are now due and Will oe-
come delinquent on movable properly
October list, and on immovable properly
December 3tst. J. F. EDWARDS,
40 State and Parish Tax Collector.
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NOtice.

4 Ii persons are hereby warned not %
IA hunt, peddle or in any wise tres
pass on the plantations of the under
signed, located in Ward /, Bossier Par
ism La. Mrs. A. CURTIS.
A. CURTIS.
oct,7-em JOHN T. HALL.
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Alfalfa Hay for Sale

In wagon or carload lots. Apply at
Willow Chute plantation, write or
phone. Telephone, No. 847, one ring.
A-u GREY STNsoN, Benton, La.