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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13
DEATH OF A LOUISIANA CONGRESSMAN.

Representative Robert Charles Wickliffe
of the Sixth Congressional District of this
State, was run down on the tracks of the
Southern Railroad in Potomac Park, Wash
ington City, Tuesday, and instantly killed.
The engineer of the train said he saw Mr..
Wickliffe too late to avoid the accident.
Congressman Wickliffe, whose home was
at st. Francisville, was born in Bardstown,
KY, May 1, 1874, while his parents we're
on visit to relatives of that State. He
was son of the late R. C. Wickliffe of
West Feliciana Parish, who was Governor
of Louisiana from 1856 to 1850, being sue
ceeded by Gov. Thomas Overton Moore of
Rapides Parish-both nominees of the
Democratic party.
Mr.. Wickliffe graduated from Center
College, Danville, KY, in 1895. In 1898
he was elected to represent West Feliciana
in the Constitutional Convention of that
year which framed the present constitution
of Louisiana. In 1900 he was elected Dis
trict Attorney of the Twenty fourth Judi
cial District, and in 1908 he was elected to
the Sixty first Congress and reelected to
the Sixty -second Congress.
Mr.. Wickliffe entered public life with
clean hands and was called from his high
trust with them still unsullied. His career
was manly, statesmenlike, and pure. Il
has left its impress on the history of his
State and country for good. His party
honored him for his courage, ability and
integrity. His State mourns his sudden
death, and honors him for his devotion tc
her institutions.
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The Plain Truth.
From the Temperance Annual

From the Temperance Annual
You, the men who by your vote make
the laws of our country, do for paltry
sum of money license other men to station
themselves with their hellish wares along
the public highways, and tempt every
passer-by to purchase their goods, which
so poison the brain that man is not him.
self at all, and may without intent become
criminal. He may even be wholly I'M
conscious of what he does while under the
influence of liquor, and yet you arrest him
for crime committed while in this condi-
ton, pronounce him guilty, and sentence
him to ten or twenty years. imprisonment
And you and the men whom you stationed
along the streets to tempt this youth, go
free.
The life of the victim of the trap set by
your consent to ensnare him is eternally
wrecked, and his friends are given intense
sorrow and shame, because your vote gave
the town the licensed saloon. Should not
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13
INDEPENDENCE.

An unattained and unattainable aspira-
ton of nearly every man is Independence
freedom to do as he pleases without regard
to other people. He might obtain it in SOL
itude, but cannot in society. All kinds of
bonds bind him to other people and require
him to respect in some degree their wishes.
The boy in school longs for the day when he
shall be free from the dominion of his
teacher or master. When he goes to work
he finds that he is still under control and
that his hours of coming and going are
regulated. Then he becomes ambitious to
have business of his own, 80 that he may
rule others instead of being ruled, but more
especially that he may have plenty of leis-
ure time and be able to come and 90 at will.
When, however, he has attained this posi-
ton, he soon finds that he is not free, but
is more of slave than ever. His customers
areexactinga and his moneyed interests COM
pei him to give them full attention, so that,
for some years at least, he has less leisure
than when he was an employee. In the mean
time he has very likely married, and wife
and children soon claim his attention dur
ing the hours free from business hours. He
cannot live in society under any circum-
stances without being in some measure con-
trolled by those about him. Complete inde-
pendence he cannot attain. The boy who
deems it hardship that he should be COM
PEELED to obey his teachers and parents is
more nearly free and independent than he
will ever be in later years. Even the man
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Immutability of Human Nature.

The doings and sayings of the ancients
have vital force for US, and are not life
less records, simply because of the identity
of their motives with our own. The story
of Joseph and his brethren, the fables OF
Aesop, the proverbs Of Solomon, the phi
losiphy of Socrates, the sayings of Marcus
Aurelius, the poetry of Shakespeare, are
as true for US to-day as they were for the
world to which they were given. Perhaps
the highest value of the Bible is the fact
that its portrayals of human nature,
though among distinct and peculiar race,
and in an environment utterly foreign to
that of to-day are absolutely faithful to
our own times. And this is true as far
back as we can catch the faintest glimpse
of mans activities on this planet. We
study the ancient philosophers and find
them likewise discoursing of their San
cients'' very much as we discourse oil
them. "Khowest thou not this of old since
men were placed upon the earth. ''-Atlan-
TIC Monthly.
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an outraged public rebel against the infa-
nous crime of licensing men to do that
which works only injury to their patrons?
A man who had been county clerk, pri-
vate secretary to one Governor, State Ii
brarian, and good attorney was in GER
tain town few months ago, and one cold
night asked to sleep in the filthy calaboose,
saying its moving blankets we're better
than no blankets outdoors. He had slept
in the open among lumber for several
nights previous. One of your licensed
saloons gave this promising man start in
the downward path, and other similar
dens all along the way kept him travelling
toward the drunkard's grave, the goal
placed before every saloon patron. You
by your vote are responsible for his
wrecked manhood.
A widow with two noble boys traded her
country home for a cottage in one of our
towns. The cottage>was near little shoe
shop, where the honest workman piled his
honest trade to the hurt of no one. These
boys went and came in their daily toll,
and were innocent and happy about the
cottage door of their widowed mother.
But saloon took the place of the shoe
shop, and the music in the saloon attracted
these boys. A while they stood on the
outside and listened, and then they stood
on the inside, and then the saloon got on
the inside of them, and you know the old
story. The mother wept over her drunken
boys. The older, Intoxicated on the public
square, picked a quarrel with man, drew
his knife, and started toward him, and vas
shot down on the street. His bleeding
body was carried to his brokenhearted
mother. 1t was but short time until the
other boy came to his death through that
same saloon. And this widow joined the
great army of suffering mothers who make
contributions of the precious boys to this
Internal traffic. Shortly after her last
boy was buried, the saloon took fire, and
from it her cottage caught fire, and she
barely escaped with her life. But why
cite individual cases? You know OF
thousands of similar ones. And you know
that the licensed saloon is directly respon-
sible for them. And you know that your
vote created the licensed saloon. You
then are an accomplish in all the evil
wrought by the saloon. Whether prohi-
bition proves a success or not, neither you
nor any body of men can rightfully give
permission for the establishment of an
institution that can bring only ruin to your
fellow citizens.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13

The announcement of Judge John N.
Sandlin to succeed himself for Judge of
the Second Judicial District, will be found
in this issue of the Banner. Judge Sand
Inns record-won by ability, industry and
integrity-is familiar to all, and we need
not dwell upon it. His reputation is that
of wise, enlightened and courageous
official, whose sense of duty has ever been
his guide and the limit of his action. He
has gained the solid confidence of the peo-
pie whom he has faithfully served for nearly
eight years as District Attorney and Dis
trict Judge, and his whole public life justi-
fies their confidence in him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13

New Orleans Christian Advocate: In
the last thirty years the South has increas-
ed in population 77.5 per cent; in manu-
featuring $50 per cent; in value of farm
lands 3O5 per cent; in the resources of ma
tional banks 891 per cent, and in expend
itures for public schools, 525 per cent. Last
year her farm products sold for more than
600, 900, and she raised 1,270, 900, 900 bush
els of corn. The population of the thirteen
Southern States is 100000 and she
spends more than S78, 000, 900 on education
No wonder that our hearts swell with pride
when we contemplate the fair Southland
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13

You can't build character in day or a
week. 1t is made up of countless little
thoughts and words and deeds, each OF
which must dovetail into the phase of man
hood or womanhood. And the inner man
must be fashioned as carefully and as
strongly as the outer man. All of which
a great many persons do not remember
And when they have floated around aim
lessly on what is called the sea of life,
they wonder why they have never got to
any place; why they have been passed by
so many craft that didn't look bit better
than they look-that didn't look so good in
some instances.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13
From Over Our Great State

Louisiana courts recognize an arpent as
5-1OO of an acre.
Fire loss in New Orleans during May was
but 1892, with insurance of S693, $50 in
volved.
While reading a newspaper, DR.. T. j.
Satcher, member of the Police Jury in
Sabine Parish, died suddenly.
A lumber company has just purchased
100000 worth of timber lying west Of
Franklinton. Washington Parish.
During severe thunder storm Wednes-
day night of last week at McNary, John
Hayes, colored, was killed by lightning.
A contract was awarded by the State
Board of Engineers for the building of an
improved earth road in Grant Parish to be
thirty eight miles long and to cost SIS, OOO.
More than seventy persons have COM
mitted suicide or attempted to do so during
the first five months of this year. The total
number of suicides, including the first week
of June, is thirty four.
Miss Sophie B. Wright died Monday af-
ternoon in New Orleans at the Home Insti-
tute, the school with which she has been
identified throughout practically the whole
of her useful life. She was noble woman
and had notable career as an active work.
err in charitable and educational work.
The May rainfall in New Orleans was ex-
cessive and reached 1920 inches, against
normal rainfall for May of 1892 inches.
The records Of forty-two years show that
1888 inches of rain fell in May, 1873, and
only .02 of an inch in May, 1899. May,
1912, had thirteen clear days, while April
had but three clear days in New Orleans.
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Announcements
For judge District Court of Appeals.

We authorized to announce Judge B. P. EDWARDS
of Arcadia Bienve Parish candidate for Judge of the
Court Appeals for this district subject to the action OF the
Democratic party.
We are authorized to announce Judge R. C. DREW Of
Mnden Webster Parish candidate to succeed himself as
Judge of Appeals for this district subject to the
action of the Democratic party.
For District judge.
We are authorized announce Judge JOHN N SANDLlN
of Mnden candidate succeed himself Judge for the
Judicial District composed of Bosser and Webster
Parishes subject to action of the Democratic party
For District Attorney.
We are authorized to announce Hon. w. R. PERCY OF
Mnden as District Attorney for this the sec
ond District composed Of the parishes of Bosser
Webster subject the action of the Democratic party
The Banner is authorized to announce
THOMAS W. ROBERTSON
as candidate for reelection District Attorney for this
the Second subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic voters at the approaching primary election
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13
A Former Citizen Claimed by Death.

Mr.. H. H. Wheeless died suddenly Tues
day morning at his home, No. 861 Jordan
Avenue, Shreveport, aged fifty-seven
years.
Mr.. Wheeless came to BOssier Parish
during 1891 and located at Alden Bridge,
where he was engaged in the lumber bust
ness as member of the firm of Whited &
Wheeless. Two or three years ago he
moved with his family from Alden Bridge
to Shreveport, but continued in the lumber
business there. He owned $3.50, 900 of
stock in the Frost-Johnson Lumber Com
pany OF St. Louis, who are the owners of
several large saw mill plants. He was
Secretary Treasurer for that company, a
director and the principal owner of the
Allen Manufacturing Company of Shreve-
port, and owned the controlling interest in
the South Alabama Lumber Company at
Salco, Ala; had large ranch in Texas,
besides half interest in a large tract of
land in this parish, and large interests in
the Cedar Grove Addition to Shreveport.
Mr.. Wheeless was we'll known in this
parish, where he had many warm friends
who are panied to learn of his sad death,
which is not only a severe loss to his
estimable family, but a great loss to his
friends and country. He was gentle
man, without blemish, generous and true
friend, great captain of industry, devoted
not only to his own success but also to the
prosperity of the country, sincere chris
tan and an honest man. In an eminent
degree he gained and kept the affections
of his own fellow citizens. His active and
useful life was truly benefit to his peo-
pie. He was one of those to whom hearty
exertion was healthy. Joyous existence
and his life was all continuous, active,
we'll earned achievement. His mode of
adding to his own wealth was beneficent
to others. There was nothing ignoble or
sordid in it. His life was busy one, and
none have been more faithful in the work
given them to do.
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Bible BrlIliants.

Do myself no harm.-Acts xvi, %.
The strength of the hills is his ALSO
Psalm kew, 4.
l will not again pass by them any more.
Amos viii, 2.
And they said, the Lord hath need of
him.-Lukc xix, "a.
We shall not see my face, except your
brother be with you.-Genesis xiii, 3.
l have chosen the way of truth: thy
judgments have laid before me.-Psalm
cxix, 80.
o give thanks unto the God Of heaven
for his mercy endureth for ever.-Psalm
cxxxvi, 26.
We wait for light, but behold obscurity !;
for brightness, but we walk in darkness
Isaiah lix, 8.
That whatsoever We shall ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John XIV, 16.
So the last shall be first, and the first
last, for many be called, but few chosen
Matthew Xxx, Is.
My covenant will not break, nor alter
the thing that has gone out of my lips
Psalm xxx, "a.
Let them praise the name of the Lord
for he commanded and they were created
Psalm cxlviii, 5.
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne,
0 God, is forever and ever: a sceptre OF
righteousness is the sceptre of thy king.
dom.-Hebrews j, 8.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who
have spoken in the name of the Lord, fol
an example of suffering affection, and oil
patience.-James v, 10.
And now, little children, abide in him
that, when he shall appear, we may have
confidence, and not be ashamed before hin
at his coming.-I. John ii, %.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13
Sherif,s Sale.

Louis Lehman vs. Lucian C. Snider. No 54lS.
In Second District Court, Bosser Parish, La.
PY virtue of writ of seizure and sale,
- issued in the above entitled suit
and to me directed, l have seized, and
will proceed to sell at public auction to
the last and highest bidder, within the
legal hours Of sale, at the Court House,
in the town of Benton, La, on Satur-
day, June %, 1912, the following de-
scribed property, to-Wit:
The undivided one-fifth interest in
and to the following land, to-wit: All
OF section 3, less the southeast quarter Of
northeast quarter and northeast quarter
OF southeast quarter, northeast quarter
OF section -, north half of southeast
quarter southwest quarter of southeast
quarter and east half Of northwest quar-
ter OF section 4, northwest quarter of
section and east half of southeast
quarter OF section 6, township IS, range
IL; southeast quarter of northeast quar-
ter, east half of northeast quarter, east
half OF southeast quarter, southwest
quarter OF southeast quarter and south
east quarter of southwest quarter OF SEQ
ton 81 and south half of southwest
quarter and northwest quarter of south
west quarter of section "a, township 10,
range II, containing in all 1902 acres,
more or less, and known as the s.Wilds
place." Also, the east half of northeast
quarter OF section 9 and southwest quar-
ter OF northwest quarter of section 10,
township IL, range IL, containing i2O
acres. The northeast quarter of north
east quarter and north half of southeast
| quarter of northeast quarter of section
Is and west half of northeast quarter Of
section 22, township 10, range II, con-
tanning 14O acres. All OF the above de-
scribed land containing 1862 acres, more
or less, the undivided one-f fifth being
372 2-5 acres.
Terms of Sale : Cash, without the
benefit of appraisement, to pay and sat-
isfy the sum of $500, with per cent per
annum interest thereon from May Is,
1910, and all costs of suit, including 10
per cent on said sum and interest as at
torney's fees.
J. F. EDWARDS, Sheriff.
May %, 1912. june q
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A DESERVED HONOR.

A resolution authorizing statute of the
late lamented Francis Tillou Nichols to be
placed in the Hall of Fame in the National
Capitol at Washington City, has passed the
Legislature. The Legislature deserves the
thanks of the people of this State for thus
honoring her distinguished son-"the gal
liant Nicholls," as he was termed by Gen.
Robert E. Lee in his official report Of the
Battle of Charlottesville.
Gov. Nichols was a great man and a
good man, and an exemplary patriot and
statesman. He had tender feeling in his
heart for the people of his State, who, in
sunshine and storm, he twice led to certain
success. AS soldier and statesman he
was faithful to every detail of duty. He
brought to the discharge of that duty Pc
culiar fitness, to the wisdom of which each
year intervening has brought gratifying
vindication.
The private life of Gov. Nichols was
stainless, and the record of his long public
service is without venal blot. In the
fierce heat of party warfare in which he
was a leader, no man has ever dared to
couple with the name of Frank Nichols
the suspicion of corruption. The fact that
he maintained so long the clear leadership
~
IRENE needs it always called for him-is
convincing proof that he possessed in a
high degree those qualities of mind anc
disposition that attract the love of men and
inspire hope and confidence.
But as Louisiana is entitled to place the
statutes of two of her most honored citi.
zens in the Hall of Fame, the Banner
would suggest the name of the peerless
Henry Watkins Allen-colone) of the
Fourth Louisiana Regiment of Infantry, &
gallant brigadier general in the Confeder'
ate Army and Louisiana's second Wa
Governor during 1876. He was hear
and soul a Confederate. He thoroughly
believed in the South and its principles
and like Nichols, shed his blood in the de-
fence of his country. No public man evel
lived in Louisiana who deserves more to b.
thus honored, and no public man eve
lived to whom the favor and approval O
the masses were sweeter than they were t.
Gov. Allen, for he was the earnest, faith
full, devoted champion of the people,
rights. He consulted the peoples interes
just as he would have consulted his owl
interest. AS Governor of louisiana during
the last, trying days of the Confederacy
he was helpful and attentive, and to thu
needy and unfortunate he was always &C
cessible, listening patiently and never re-
! fusing aid, if in his power to grant it.
Allen and Nichols! The two best Gov
ernors the State has ever had, and tn
noblest type of Southern manhood-incor
ruptible in public life and pure in privat
life-we honor ourselves in honoring them
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LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

year Oh HIS OeeC sugar crop.
Cairo, ILL.,, spent s50, 900 in keeping out
the greatest flood on record.
There are in this country 229 cities with
more than $4,000 population.
Frenchmen are considering the feasibil-
ity of flooding the Sahara Desert.
of the strike in London has been rise in
the cost of food.
The Alabama Supreme Court decides
that liquor cannot be shipped from 'wet"
to "dry" county in that State.
The German Emperor sent cable mes
sage of thanks to President Taft for the
welcome extended to the German fleet.
The General Assemblies of the Southern
Northern, and United Presbyterians have
all arranged to meet in Atlanta next May.
Europe devotes from 5000, 900 to G, 900, :
600 acres of land to sugar beets while the
United States only has 40O, 900 acres under
cultivation.
There we're during the past year 1898
accessions to the United Presbyterian
Churches in the home field and 6,5O8 &C.
cessions in the foreign field.
The Thompson Steel Works of Pittsburg,
Pa, subsidiary of the United States Steel
Corporation, will spend eight or ten mill
lion dollars in enlargement of its plant.
Hayti used to produce considerable
quantities of sugar while the French occu-
pied the land, but at the present time they
only produce the bare necessities used at
home.
The membership of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in China is increasing at the
rate of little more than one thousand a
year. The present total membership is
81, 900.
At Martinsburg, w. Va, several hundred
gallons of whisky and beer were emptied
in the public square by Women's Christian
Temperance Union, who bought the liquor
at auction.
In weeks time thirty thousand mem
bers of the Pocket Testament League were
enrolled in Scotland. The membership
pledge is to read chapter or more in the
New Testament daily.
The English Baptist Mission at Wathen,
Africa, was organized in 1889 with seven
members. 1t now numbers ITO members,
and these African Christians support
seventy seven evangelists.
AS the sugar consumption in Porto Rice
is only twenty three per cent of the amount
manufactured, the Island has to export
over three-fourths of its product. In the
last four yeals the sugar production has
increased fifty two per cent.
The Nashville Baseball Association by
its defiance of the law in playing Sunday
games forfeited it's franchise, financial
loss of twenty thousand dollars or more
The franchise was given to other Nashville
parties, and the announcement is made by
the new owners that the law will be re.
spected.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-13

When your child has whooping cough
be careful to keep the cough loose and ex-
pectoration easy by giving Chamberlain g
Cough Remedy as may be required. This
remdy will also liquify the tough mucus
and make it easier to expectorate. 1t has
been used successfully in many epidemics
and is safe and sure. For sale by all
dealers.