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points net higher. Sales, 10,S0o barrels.
Prime crude, &c nominal; prime summer
yellow, spot, 7.10a7 .1Sc; April, 7.09c; May,
7.asc; June, .10c; July, 7.12c; August and
September tic; October, 692c; Novem-
ber. 6.65c; prime winter yellow, TAI. SOC !;
prime summer white, 7@7.75c
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New York. April 1s.-The Financier to
a. co
Hubbard Bros. & Co.

Cotton Merchants, Hanover Square, N.
change, New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
New York. Produce Exchange Asso.
i citation. Orders solicited for the pur-
I chase and sale of Cotton Iand Cotton
SQod Oil for future delivery. Special
Attention and liberal terms given for
consignmeDts OF spot cotton Tor Dc.
Svery. Correspondelce invited
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Fish and Sea Foods

Red snapper, lie in bbl. lots; 121sc In
small lots; groupers, &c in biol. lots, Sc in
small lots; Spanish mackerel. 1oc In Dbl.
lots 121ac in small lots; sun perch or
Dream, S1ac in Dbl. lots, 10c in small lots.
pompano, 1Oc mixed fish. &c in Dbl. lots:
croclsers. &c in Dbl. lots 1Oc in small lots:
fresh water perch, 8QlS1ac.
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Dry Goods

New York, April 19.-7Cotton goods mar
kets were easy today with trading OF
moderate proportions for nearby delivery.
Linens ruled steady. Burlaps were quiet.
Yarns ruled barely steady.
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Kansas City Grain

Kansas City. April 19.-Receipts.
Wheat, 1900; corn, $4,000; oats. $4,000.
Shipments: Wheat, $1,000; corn, $4,000;
oats, 1900. ---
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Flour and Breadstrffs

Self rising flour, s6.1O; Tennessee
flour. $3.50; Indiana flour. $40; Okla
homa flour, s5.3; Infallible. $3.50; pure
wheat shorts, $50; pure wheat bran, s97; C.
s. hulls. per ton. SIS; prime c. S. meal, per
ton, $50; c. S. feed meal. per ton, S2e.
No. timothy hay, per ton, S22: mixed
alfalfa and Johnson grass. per ton, SEQ.
corn, Soc per bu.; corn chops. per 100 lb.
sack. 81 so; alfalfa hay. per ton. s25; john
son grass. per ton, s15; mixed feed. ss1;
oats, SIC bu.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Pig Iron
Local Cotton
Meat

Lard, 13Nc; compound. 95sc: dry salt
short ribs, 13hc; bellies, 14lc; ham
butts, 15c; Boston butts, 13.S21sc; pork
loins, 171sc; spare ribs, 1S1ac; breakfas st
bacon, 22@ 24c; smoked bacon, Ice: reg
ular ham. 19c; skinned ham, 1870.
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New Orleans Exnorts

New Orleans, April 19.--The weeks ex-
ports of wheat to Europe, 144,O00 bushels;
corn to Europe, 31.4s3 bushels. The weeks
arrivals of Brazilian coffee, 1920 sacks.
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Voice Of Discouragemcnt

from the Washington star
EVERY man ought to save up enough 10
nuy himself a good big farm. said tue
thrifty citizen.
Yes renlied Farmer corntossei' and
then DO something else with the money
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Rice Market

New Orleans, April 19.-Rice, steady.
Quotations unchanged. Receipts, 2272
pockets clean. Sales, 1016 pockets clean
Honduras at 25sG4ssc; 725 pockets clean
Japan at 3 1-16dI3 11-16c
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Poultry and Eggs

Hens, 45I50c; i've, per pound, 14015c:
large fryers, 1692oc; medium fry
crs, 22iis125c: small fryers, 50I50c; ducks.
z0d00c; guineas, 30c; roosters Csc; geese,
406i50c; liye turkeys, 1sQ20c; fresh eggs,
case candled. lsc; extra graded candled
eggs. zoe.
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weekly Review of London Stocks

London, April 19.-The event of the
week in financial circles was the reduc-
tion of the bank rate from the abnormal
5 per cent level imposed at the conf
Inencement of the Balkan war. The action
of the directors of the bank was taken
as an indication that the political cloud
which has overhung the market since the
outbreak of hostllities is gradually but
surely Dispensing The reduction had been
practically discounted early in the week
when the money market lowered rates
in anticipation of the cut and stock mar
ket professionals bought in the hope of
outside- support. But the latter is still
lacking and some disappointed dealers
realized at the end of the week, thereby
reducing earlier gains and consols closed
an eighth lower than last Saturday
The Az per cent rate which 1t Is expect
ed will be followed by per cent as soon
as peace is concluded. while appreciated
by the trade of the country is not exact
" a bull point for Capel Court, as cheap
er money is already bringing out new is
sues, this weeks totallng Si0,0o0,000,
while the Chinese loans, the prospective
$50, 900 600 Brazilian issue and the require
ments of the Balkan states are sure to
attract much spare capital later.
The weeks trading on the stock ex-
change was somewhat irregular, without
special feature. Balkan stocks hardened
en- peace prospects, but speculative issues
lost part of their early strength and
American shares closed fractionally low
er on balance after a week OF duh trad
ing.
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Wool Market

ST. Louis. April 19.--Wool steady;
231xa26c; light fine, 19u21c; heavy fine,
13Q1Sc; tub washed. 27Q36c.
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Foreign Exchange

Paris. April 19.-Three per cent rentes,
SO francs, 65 centimes for the account
Exchange on London. 25 francs, 20 CEN
times for checks. Price rates OF discount
per cent.
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London, April 19.--Consols for money,
7ssi for account, IA 1916; Illinois Cen
trail, 1231h; Louisville and Nashville, 1871;
Southern railway, 267s. Bar silver, quiet
g7isd per ounce. Money. 2@2% per cent.
Discount rates. short bills, 31sq3 9-16 per
cent: three months. sss@S 11-16 per cent.
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; Two Dollars a Week

Will secure one share of railroad or
Industrial dividend paying stock,
yielding at present prices over so
per cent 1t win pay you to write to-
day for Booklet No. so.
ELLSWORTH BUTLEH e. co.
Old stock Exchange. Pb10ndelph1n. Pa.
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Berlin, April 19.-Exchange on London
20 marks, 47ia pfennigs for checks. Money,
4 per cent. Private rate of discount, AZ
per cent.
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Coffee and Sugar

Coffee. Arbuckles, $25.O5 per 100
pounds: Luzanne. 27c per pound. Sugar
Standard granulated. 4s4c per pound.
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Cotton Seed Oil

New York. April 19.-Cotton seed oil
was firn1er today early on covering OF
May shorts and outside speculative buy
ing on account of the strength In lard,
but toward the close prices cased on
slightly under week end realizing.
Closing prices were generally to 3
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Live Stock Market

Chicago, April 19.--Hogs. Receipts
1900; market mostly SC up; closed
weak; bulk of sales s9.05@9.25, light
sS.95@9.3o, mixed sS9O@9So, heavy
Ss.75@s.25, rough ss.7o@s.s5, pigs 81
@9.15.
Cattle: Receipts oo0 market dull, un-
changed; beeves s7.25@9.25. Texas
steers 1915 @790. western s7@s1o,
stockers $1,000 $40, cows and heifers
Ss.s0@s.40, calves s6.5O@s60.
Sheep: Receipts 2000; market slow
steady; native s6@7.15. western $50
7.15. -yearlings $e.5o@7;s5. native lambs
sG.GO@S.75, western $6.75@S.75.
Kansas City, April 1s.--Cattle: Re-
ceipts 100, no southerns; market steady
dressed beef and export steers $3.50
as, southern steers $6.25QS.35. south
ern cows s4.25@7.25.
Hogs: Receipts 1900; market firm;
bulk SS.So@S.95, heavy $S75@sS0.
packers and butchers $S.S0Q9. light
$S.S5Q9. pigs $7.75@S.
Sheep: Receipts 500; market steady:
Colorado lambs $7.25@S.5o, yearlings
S607.75, wethers $5.50@7, ewes $50
6.75, stockers $45o@6
ST. Louis, April 19.---Cattle: Receipts
5000. including 200 Texans; market
firm; choice to fine steers ss.5oQ9 o,
good to choice steers $7@S.50. dressed
and butcher steers $5.75@7.50, stock
crs $5.25@s. Texas and Oklahoma steers
$6.50@S.45, cows and heifers $4@7.
Hogs: Receipts $4,000; market &c
higher; pigs and lights $7@9. mixed
and butchers 80 @920, good heavy 1906
@9.15.
Sheep: Receipts 2400; market steady;
muttons s5@7. ysarlings $7@S.50, lambs
$7@S.70.
Louisville, April 19.-Cattle: Receipts
25; market quiet; range $2.5O@S.25
Hogs: Receipts 2000; market slow
10c higher; range $4,000.
Sheep: Receipts 25; market for lambs
Sc down; sheep &c down.
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Bank Statement

i NEW j OTk, April lJ-IH Hc rtdtSHSfit VI
actual condition of clearing house banks
and trust companies for the week shows
that they hold $19.0S5,s50 reserve in ex-
cess of legal requirements. This is an
increase of S4,1S1, 400 from last week.
The statement in detail follows:
Actual Condition: Loans. S1,Ss9, ,623, 900;
decrease, $10 07s6.000. Specie, $334.916.000;
increase, $6517,000. Legal tenders, $79,-
153, 900; decrease. $3,344000. Net deposits,
s1747, ,295 900; decrease, $6. 2Ss, 600 Circulation,
s46262 900; decrease. $65000. Banks cash
reserve in vault, s34s, s,216,000. Trust COM
panies' cash reserve in vault. $65. 5000.
Total cash reserve, $lli,069,000. Excess
lawful reserve, $l9,OS5S50: increase A1Sl.-
400. Trust companies reserve with clear
ins house members carrying 20 per cent
cash reserve. $53,107O0o.
Summary of state banks and trust COM
panies in greater New York not included
+ in clearing house statement: Loans. $685.
633, ,10O;. decrease $2,5O3,900. Specie, $64, 72s,-
500; decrease. $141,0O0. Legal tenders. sS.-
\ 2i3, 800; decrease. $134.3O0 Total deposits,
SE2S, ,976, 200; increase, s3,034,000.
New York. April 19.-The Financier to-
A~ ~ says:
Following the strong statement of April
Il, the New York clearing house banks
made an exceptionally favorable exhibit
sfor the week ending April 10. 1t had
been estimated that the banks had gained
during the past six days something like
S6,000,0O0 as result of the interior move
ment but the statement of Saturday
showed an increase in cash of only SS,1'3.-
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Coffee Market

New York, April 19-Coffee futures
opened steady at an advance of to G
points In response TO steady European
cables and reports of steady cost and
freight market. Milreis prices In Brazil
were somewhat Irregular, but offerings
were very light and the market improved
another point or two during the morn
ing on scattered covering with the close
steady. Sales, 1900. April. 10.7Sc; May,
10. S3c; June. 10.95c; July, II 1.07c; August,
.19c; September October pnd November
11.31c: December and January. II .S2c;
February, 1l.33c; March, II SAC. Spot cof-
fee steady; Rio Is. Ike; Santos As. 13c
Mild. Gull Cordova, 14lsI175sc nominal.
Havre, A@1s franc higher Hamburg.
1sQ3z pfennig higher. Rio. IS reis lower
at 6sx 60O Santos As unchanged: rs, 50
reis higher at 5sx900. Brazilian port re-
ceipts 5000. against 5000 last year. jun
diahy receipts 1000, against 5000 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20
LOCAL SECURITIES

Total sales for the day, $500 shares.
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New Orleans Cotton Futures

open. High Low. CT Bd.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03
Good Roads and How to Get Them.


Correspondent in Louisville Courier-Joumal.]
There is but one way to build roads. No
man, however eloquent, ever talked bad
road into good condition. Whenever the
people are ready to 60 into their pockets
and bring out their money to do the talk
ing, the roads of Kentucky will improve
and not until then.
was recently in Cleveland, Ohio, and
was taken in an automobile seven miles
from the city to golf club and every mile
of the way over brick paved road better
than some of our local streets. To my in
quiry if the city limits extended 80 far into
the country, was told that we were on a
country road and far beyond the city limits.
In newspaper article published since the
date of my visit the following statement is
made:
8" Four hundred miles of rural brick high
way have been laid in Cuyahoga County
surrounding Cleveland, Ohio, during the
past two years. Good roads have raised
the valuation of real estate in the county
from S29,000,00O to SOL 100000, and the
taxes on the increased value much more
than pay the cost of the roads. Contracts
have been let for 10 miles of brick road
for the current year, although the city and
county now have more than 1000 miles of
brick pavement.
AS we in Kentucky hesitate to incur the
expense of putting the present mud roads
into even passable condition, it is unreal
sonable to expect that any Kentucky farmer
will ever drive to market on brick road.
Certainly he will never do so while the
present Fiscal Court system prevails.
The. little State of Florida, the land of
winter tourists, sand, mosquitoes and citrus
fruits, has some of the best roads to be found
in the South, and with these as an object
lesson, is now proposing bond Issue of
$4,000 to build the finest system of State
highways in the country. Fifty millions
Think of the Kentucky Legislature consid
ering for moment a bonded Indebtedness
of one-fifth of that sum for the purpose of
lifting the country roads of the State out of
the Slough of Despond. 1t is asking too
much of such Legislature as we usually
have to even hint at such an expenditure.
If it were asked to provide new and high
salaried commission in order that political
debts might be paid, there are abundant
reasons for the belief that the subject would
receive immediate and respectful consid
Grafton.
We Kentuckians are not the hot headed
ready for a. scrap race the outside world
believes us. To the contrary, we are a
patient and long suffering people.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03
Bible Brilliants.

Serve We the Lord.-Joshua xiv, IA. T.
Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the
Lord will do wonders among you.-Joshua
iii, 5.
Slack not thy hand from thy servants !;
come up to US quickly, and save US and
help us.-Joshua x, 6.
And the people said unto Joshua, The
Lord our God will we serve, and his voice
will we obey.-Joshua xiv, "a.
And have given you land for which
you did not labor, and cities which We built
not, and We dwell in them; of the vineyards
and oliveyards which We planted not do We
eat.-Joshua xiv, 10.
Sun, stand thou still upon Gideon; and
thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And
the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
until the people had avenged themselves
upon their enemies.-Joshua x, 1918.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

More women and children persisted in the
Dayton flood.
Tee flood made $1,000 persons in the vi
entity of Cincinnati homeless.
j. Pierpont Morgan, the great New York
financier, died Monday at Rome, Italy.
The almost total ruin of the Ohio wheat
crop is predicted, as result of the flood.
A negro who assaulted Jail officials at
West Point, Miss, was lynched inside the
prison.
A bank robber killed a cashier at Barnes,
Kansas, Saturday, who was subsequently
shot to death by citizens.
Two Ann Arbor, Michigan, students and
girl were drowned in the Huron River
rapids Monday when their canoe was
wrecked.
The Governor of Indiana threatened to
declare martial law to stop the charging of
extortionate prices for food in West In
dianapolis.
Despite the flood disaster in Ohio and the
great storm in the Middled West, trade
conditions generally remain unchanged, it
is reported.
Miss Isabel G. Temple, daughter of H. N.
Temple, of Chattanooga, Tennr, committed
suicide while in department store at New
Orleans Friday.
William H. Rankin, editor of the New
York Clipper, died Saturday on Brook
lyn Street car while on his way to his office
in New York. He was sixty years old.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03
About Good Roads.

West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter: 1t is
universal experience that one mile of good
road breeds another mile. Put State
wide good road down anywhere in this
country, and in ten years there will be
dozens Of good roads reaching it from all
parts of the State
Amite Florida Parishes: Why talk and
write everlastingly about this one subject?
Build roads, then toot your horn until your
neighbors think Gabriel is calling together
that last grand assembly, when the good
road to heaven will be about as rocky for
some of US to travel, as the roads we are
now travelling.
Donaldsonville Chief We have modern
schools, up-to-date railroads, telephone
and telegraph lines, advanced method of
agriculture and general business, improved
machinery appliances in all branches of
manufacturing and mechanics we
have the same poor kind of country roads
that have been in use in this parish for
more than hundred years. We don't
need anything else as much as we need
improved roads, and the chance to get
them is offered through the medium of the
special election to be held next Tuesday.
Vote for them!
Winfield Comrade: The people of the
North have come down among us and
created untold wealth out of what we long
considered worthless pine forests. They
are anxious to see the country prosper.
They are willing to put up their dollars for
the upbuilding of the country, and we
should accept the offer and proceed. We
need good roads and must have them. To
offer our lands to the incoming population
we must show them we are progressive.
In the next five years this parish should
have tie best roads found in the South.
we have the material at our very door to
make them of, and it is very necessary that
we should proceed to make them.
Rayne Tribune: One of the surest signs
of progressive people is the building
of good roads. This is an age of rapid
transit, of improved methods in every
enterprise, and the use of labor-savi
machinery in every industry. No one is
satisfied with the snail pace of travel any
more. No one wants the "whoa. gee.
haw OK CART with its worry and cussed-
ness in dog holes, as in the days of old.
The farmer wants good teams, good ma
chlnery, good wagons, good vehicles-nay
automobiles, where his finances will allow.
And all these conveniences of travel call
for good roads. Without them we will re-
main in the slough of despair" We will
stick in the mud and cry in vain for Jupi-
tier to help US out. We will say bad words
only to be laughed at. Get up and keep
step to progress by voting for the road tax
Get your neighbor to come out and vote for
it. The increase of your land values will
pay for the tax fourfold. Besides, you will
keep your temper and be better citizen.
Let the slogan be: "Good roads all over
the parish!''
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03
Tax Ordinances

as adopted by the Bossier Levee Board
For the Year 1913.
An ordinance levying 10 mill tax on
all property in the Bossier Levee Dis
trict subject to taxation for levee pur-
poses for the year 1918.
Be it ordained by the Board of Com
missioners of the Bossier Levee District,
in regular session convened, That dis
trict levee tax of 10 mills on the dollar of
it's assessed valuation be and the same is
hereby levied on all property situated in
Bossier Levee District subject to taxa
ton for levee purposes for the year 1918.
An ordinance levying local assessment
of 10scents per acre on every acre of
uncultivated land within the Bossier
Levee District for the year 1918.
Be it ordained by the Board Of Con-
missioners of the Bossier Levee District,
in regular session convened, That local
assessment of 10 cents per acre on every
acre of uncultivated land within the
Bossier Levee District, subject to taxa
ton for levee purposes Tor the year 1913,
be and the same is hereby levied.
On ordinance levying local assessment
OF 70 cents per acre on every acre OF
cleared or cultivated land within the
Bossier Levee District for the year
1918.
Be it ordained by the Board of Com
missioners of the Bossier Levee District,
in regular session convened, That local
assessment of Is cents per acre on every
acre of cleared or cultivated land within
the Bossier Levee District for the year
1918 be and the same is hereby levied.
An ordinance levying local assessment
of ST per head on all horses and mules
within the Bossier Levee District for
the year 1918.
Be it ordained by the Board of Com
missioners of the Bossier Levee District,
in regular session convened, That local
assessment of ST per head on all horses
and mules within the Bossier Levee Dis
trict for the year 1918 be and the same is
hereby levied.
An ordinance levying local assessment
of $1OO per mile on all railroads within
the Bossier Levee Dirtrict for the
year 1918.
Be it ordained by the Board Of Com
missioners of the Bossier Levee District,
in regular session convened, That local
assessment of S1OO per mile be and the
same is hereby levied for the year 1918.
H. N. CARLTON,
President Bossier Levee Board.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03

Thousands of newspaper columns have
been filled with pleas for good roads in the
past decade; an unlimited amount of hot
air has been expelled from the lungs of
more or less eloquent speakers; thousands
upon thousands of dollars of good tax
money have been spent on our highways,
and the roads of Louisiana, with few ex-
ceptions, are still as they were at the begin
ming, unspeakably bad, with small prom
Use of immediate betterment. Money spent
in building permanent good roads is money
we'll spent, for no public improvement will
rebound more to the prosperity and general
betterment of conditions in this parish than
good roads,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03

The Louisville Courier Journal of March
25th-the "Southern Prosperity" num-
ber-was perhaps the greatest newspaper
ever issued in the United States. The one
days issue contained 1872 pages, and all
the subject matter was we'll selected and
splendidly edited. It contained a most in :
teresting history of the vast concerns of
its home city, and was compiled by masters
of the work. Withal it is the greatest ad-
vertisement any city ever had, and if it paid
the publishers in proportion to the way it
will pay Louisville and every interest in it
everyone should be happy.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03
Items of Interest.

Germany will spend S37, 800, 900 for an
air fleet.
The United States consumes in a wear
$500, 900 tons of sugar.
Of the people of Mississippi 1885, 1903
live on farms, while but 207, 311 live in
cities.
Mississippi and South Carolina are the
only States in the Union where the negro
population outnumber the whites.
Sugar consumption in the United States
to the head of population is about eighty
one pounds. England leads US with con-
sumption of over eighty-six pounds per
capita.