The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-03
From Our State Exchanges

New Orleans Picayune: What strange
world this is. While we are laughing at
everybody, everybody is laughing at US.
New Orleans Picayune: A petrified hog
has been found in Kansas. 1t is supposed
he was petrified by seeing another hog on
train occupying only one seat.
Mansfield Star: The farmer who gets
right down to business and runs his enter
prise on purely business principles is the
one who is going to win out in the final
windup of the game.
Merryville News: What do you think
of this? Chicago's new hotel, the LaSalle,
from the second floor up, is finished in
Louisiana gum made to initiate mahogany.
1t looks beautiful and wears we'll. The
Hotel Bristol, Genoa, Italy, is entirely
finished in Louisiana wood.
Lake Charles Times: Chattanooga has
more than 300 manufacturing plants turn
ing out 700 different products of common
use throughout the civilized world. The
annual value of these manufactured prod
ucts is more than S65,OOO,OOO. The 800
plants employ about 5000 people.
New Orleans Christian Advocate: The
great need OF the Christian world to-day
is not more voluable takers to tell others
how to do things, but more real workers
who, without saying much, teach by a
shining example. In other words, we need
less religious "babbling," but more relig-
ious ''doing.''
Thibodaux Commercial Journal: There
is nothing equally as destructive as the
spirit that seems to dominate the Lonkon
| c,,ffr With oil %hoir
destroying and denunction, they accomp-
ing them is the spirit that is undermining
the home and lowering the standard of
citizenship.
Natchitoches Enterprise: Aprohibition
campaign was launched in Alexandria
Sunday at a mass meeting, the consensus
of opinion being that Rapides Parish had
temporized long enough with the liquor
traffic that has now become moral issue
and an organization was formed to begin
the formal fight and ask for an election on
the subject when the police jury meets
next month.
Mer Rouge Democrat: No man or sci
of men should have the power to override
the verdict of an impartial jury unless
new evidence is produced of an extenuat-
ing character. The ease with which MUIR
derers and other criminals escape the full
penalty of their crimes is one reason of the
great prevalence of crime, and especially
murder, in this country to-day. When
the criminal knows that he must pay the
full penalty for his crime, and that his
money or influential friends cannot save
him, he will not be SO quick to go wrong
Lafayette Advertiser: The idea prevails
in most communities that the only way tt
get factories is to induce outside capital to
come and build them-for consideration
That is twin to the notion that fortune
dwells just few miles beyond where we
live. In other words, many of US have ar
unfortunate way of overlooking what is
lying at our feet, and very much given te
initiating the little boy who chased the
rainbow to find pot Of gold at the end
If we would put aside this thought tina
there is better just beyond or s'way of
yonder," and focus our attention upon VIVA
is about US, it would not be difficult to dis.
cover that opportunities in plenty are lying
in reach of our hands ready and and wait
ing to yield bountiful returns to intelligent
effort