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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-17

quarter Of section Is, township 10, range
Is, and fractional east half of southeast
quarter and fractional southeast quarter
of northeast quarter Of section is, town.
ship 10, range IA, east of Red River and
west Of public dirt road, containing 7t.60
acres; also, 5 acres in the bend Of Willow
Chute Bayou, located in southwest quar-
ter OF northwest quarter and northwest
quarter of southwest quarter of section
II, township 10, range IS, situated in
Bossier Parish, La, and that part Of
east half of section Is, township 10,
range ID, south and west of Red River,
containing 1852 acres, situated ID
Caddo Parish. Containing in all 685.8
acres, together with all buildings and
improvements thereon.
Less the following strip of land, which
has been appropriated by the Police Jury
OF the Parish of Bossier against Heirs
OF w. G. Vance ct al No. 6091 on Docket
Second District Court, Parish of Bossier,
Lay to-wit: A strip of land go feet
wide adjoining the rightofway OF the Sc.
Louis Southwestern Railway on the east
side thereof, and being in the east half Of
section t8, township 10, range 10, and
containing 51S acres.
Terms OF Sale-For cash, without the
benefit of appraisement, to pay and sat-
isfy the sum Of $500, with per cent
per annum interest thereon from De-
cember |, 1909, until paid, and all costs
of suit, including 10 per cent on said
sum and interest as attorneys fees.
j. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, Dec. II, 1914. Jan ii
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Sherif's Sale.

j. G. McDade VS.. Louisiana Land and Immigration
Compay. No. 60S1. In Second District Court,
Parish Of Bossier, Louisiana.
pY virtue of writ of seizure and sale,
- issued in the above entitled suit
and to me directed, I have seized and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door OF the Court House, in the town of
Benton, La, on Saturday, January %,
1915, the following described property,
to-wit:
Southeast quarter of southwest quarter
and west half of southwest quarter OF
section 3, being lots 1, 2 and 8; lots 1, 3,
6, Z and and south half Of southwest
quarter OF section A; east half OF south
east quarter of section 5; east half OF
northeast quarter and southeast quarter
OF section g.; all of section g.; all OF
section 10, except south half of northeast
quarter; all lying in township II, north,
range IL, west, known as Skannals Bluff
plantation, containing 1856 acres, more
or less, together with the improvements
thereon and the appurtenances thereunto
belonging, lying in Bossier Parish, La.
Terms of Sale-For cash, without the
benefit of appraisement, to pay and sat-
isfy the sum of $1,000, with Z per cent
per annum interest thereon from January
l, 1914, and on terms of credit to meet
three notes, each for the sum of $40, COO,
due respectively on or before January |,
1915, January 1, 1916, and January |,
1917, with 7 per cent per annum interest
from January 1. 1914, as set out in act OF
sale from w. E. and j. 6. McDade to
Louisiana Land and immigration Com
pany. J. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, Dec. II, 1914. jan q
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Sl,erif,s Sale.

Napoleon 3. Murff vs. W. A. Jones. No 6O44. In
Second District Court, Bossier Parish, Lou
isiana.
DY virtue of writ of seizure and sale,
ID issued in the above entitled suit
and to me directed, / have seized, and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door of the Court House, in the town of
Benton, La, on Saturday, January %,
1915, the following described property,
to-wit:
The southwest quarter OF southeast
quarter of section 8, west half of Sec
ton and west half of southeast quarter
of section is, and that part of the north
east quarter of section Is lying west of
the Gregg's landing road; west half of
northwest quarter and south half of sec
ton II, north half of northeast quarter,
southeast quarter of northeast quarter,
north half of southeast quarter and
southwest quarter of southeast quarter
of section Is, south half of northwest
quarter, southwest quarter of northeast
quarter, east half of northeast quarter,
northeast quarter of southwest quarter
and southeastquarter of section 10, south
west quarter Of northwest quarter of sec
ton 20, west half of northwest quarter,
north half of southeast quarter and
northeast quarter of section q and north
west quarter of northeast quarter of Sec
ton 80, all in township II, north of range
ii west, Louisiana meridian. Also, the
west half of east half of section and
southeast quarter of northeast quarter of
section "a, township II, north of range
IL west, Louisiana meridian. Containing
~, oil 4o1
provements thereon and the appurten-
ances thereto belonging, except the fam
ilygraveyard, which was reserved in said
sale.
Terms of Sale-For cash, without the
benefit OF appraisement, to pay two
notes, for S3472.47 each, due respectively,
November 80, 1918, and November 80,
1914, with Z per cent interest thereon
from November 80, 1912, till paid, includ-
ing the interest on one note for S3472.47,
due November 80, 1915, at per cent
thereon from November so, 1912, to Mo-
vember 80, 1914, subject to credit of
1922 paid January 20, 1914, and includ-
ing 10 per cent attorneys fees on full
amount sued for, to-wit: SIC, 417.41 and
interest as above set forth, less credit
of $329.2t paid January 20, 1914, and all
cost of suit, and on terms of credits to
meet and satisfy the note of $3472.4 AT,
due November 80, 1915, and interest
thereon from November 80, 1914, till paid,
as shown by the plaintiffs petition and
all orders in said cause on file in Clerks
Office in said parish, with recognition of
plaintiffs vendors lien and privilege.
j. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, Dec. II, 1914. jan 81
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An Appropriate Christmas.
tho q uic hI,rO fTonn Eo7ntfn I

From the Lewsburg Tenn.) Gazette
Don't send your money away to buy
liquor at this time of the year. You ought
never to do such a thing, but at this sea-
son, of all others, don't do it. Let US cele-
brate the birth of our Savior in an appro-
pirate way. Let the spirit of charity have
full sway in our deliberations during this
month. Cultivate the spirit of brotherly
love. Spend your spare money in helping
the unfortunate you meet every day. Give
them something that will help them to
have real Christmas, and when they have
had your consideration, you will have your
reward. And in this fact you will feel that
you have in measure done something for
humanity, and to this extent you will have
properly celebrated the birth of Him who
came to ''call not the righteous, bnt sin
ners, to repentance"
Don't spend your money for liquor this
Christmas. Be man and you will reap
the reward that comes with the satisfaction
of having done right.
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The Production Of Food.

From the Baltimore Sum-
Our contemporary the Frederick Citizen
tells of a contest among Frederick County
boys for prizes offered for the best yield OF
potatoes. The boy who won the first prize
raised 1872 bushels on an acre. The aver
age yield in the fertile county OF Frederick,
according to the last census, was eighty
seven bushels to the acre. That careful
culture conducted by boy in accordance
with methods recommended by the Federal
Department of Agriculture can increase
the average yield more than fourfold
teaches lesson that farmers eventually
must heed. AS the population OF the
country increases the number dwelling in
cities and towns is increasing in far
greater proportion. With our slovenly
methods of farming the amount of food for
export is decreasing and the time will sure
ly come, unless the farmers make the soil
produce more abundantly, when we shall
be compelled to buy food from other lands.
The Citizen says that one of the contes-
tants made profit of S211 on his acre of
potatoes. Such profits as that will surely
attract people to the farms and bring
greater intelligence and energy into the
work of farming. The Importance to the
farmer of raising large yields is manifest,
for in that lies his profit. 1t costs almost
as much to plant and cultivate poor crop
as it does good one. And unless the
yield reaches certain figure there is a
loss instead of gain. In crops nearly all
that is produced over certain amount is
profit. When that amount is not reached
it is loss. The times are very favorable to
those farmers who produce food-in fact,
for all farmers except cotton and tobacco
planters, and the outlook for them seems
to be improving.
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Sherif,s Sale.

Crawford, jenkins & Booth Limited, vs. Mrs.
Mary A. Vance, Natural Tutrix. William Calvin
and Larry A.Vance Minors. No 6ll5. In Sec
ond.District Court, Bcssier Parish, louisiana.
DY virtue of writ of seizure and sale,
ID issued in the above entitled suit
and to me directed, | have seized and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door Of the Court House, in the town of
Benton, La, on Saturday, January %,
1915, the following described property,
to-Wit:
That part Of Riverside plantation for
merly owned by w. G. Vance, deceased,
now known as the south half of said
Riverside place, acquired by this mort
gagor in a partition with his sister, Miss
Este!le Vance, as per act in Conveyance
Book %, page 694, and map made by G..
D. Alexander, Parish Surveyor, recorded
in said volume, page 729, comprising the
south part Of section Is, township 10,
range Is, for SO chains deep north and
south, lying between the public dirt road
leading from Benton to Shreveport and
the east line OF said section, containing
400. & acres; also, that part of fractional
west half of southwest quarter and frac-
tional southwest quarter of northwest
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Abolish These OfficeSi
From the Vermilion News

From the Vermlion News.
The State Board of Equalization, the
Railroad Commission, and the Conserva-
ton Commission, should be abolished.
There is considerable complaint about
the ''equalizing' by the Board of Equaliz-
ers, and there does not seem to be any
necessity for its existence.
The Railroad Commission appears to be
about as useful AS a fifth wheel to wagon.
When the railroads encroach upon the
rights of the people, redress can be had by
application to the Courts. The one legal
body; the other political.
And, as for the Conservation Commits
sion, the work can be done as we'll, and at
less expense, by the Police Juries.
These Boards, and several others, were
created in order to build up a political
machine, and furnish fat salaries for office
chasers. They should be abolished.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-17

Ours is well called the progressive age.
More discoveries indispensable to human
welfare these fourteen years of the twen-
tieth century than during the same number
of years during all proceeding centuries
more inventions-labor- saving, time saw
ing, making for ease, wealth. health-than
dreamed of by the widest flights of fancy
fifty years ago. Biologically, psychologi-
cally, sociologically, science has revolu-
tionized the worlds stereotyped conclu-
sions.
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Improved methods are good, but improv.

Improved methods are good, but improv-
ed men and women are better, and the soul
of Improvement is the Improvement of the
soul. Are you better man to-day, kinder
to those about you, fairer to opponents in
controversy, more just to rivals in busi-
ness, more anxious to render obedience to
all the claims of good citizenship, more
willing to 60 out of your way, take trouble,
make sacrifices to help good movements
and to help your fellows? If not, some
thing il lacking.
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Isaiah.

Now will rise, saith the Lord; now will
be exalted; now will lift up myself
xxxiii, 10.
The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on
high: he hath filled Zion with judgment
and righteousness.-xxxiii, s..
And the ransomed of the Lord shall re-
turn and come to Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads.-xxxiii,
10.
And your spoil shall be gathered like the
gathering of the caterpillar: as the running
to and fro of locusts shall he run upon
them.-xxx, 4.
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring
man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,
he hath despised the cities, he regardeth
no man.-xxx, s.
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Austrian war losses were reported at
over 100000 men up to December 1st.
After being held by the Austrians twelve
days, Belgrade has been retaken by the
Servians.
The cruiser Dresden, sole German sur
vivor of the South Atlantic sea fight, is
reported to have reached Punta Arenas,
on the Straits of Magellan.
Since the war opened Great Britain has
lost two battIeships and twelve cruisers,
and Germany's has totaled one battleship
and twenty three cruisers.
A dispatch reports two German subma-
rine attacks we're made on the Firth of
Forth, Scotland, on the 9th, but they were
repulsed, and the submarines destroyed.
Berlin, Dec. ia retreat of the Ger
Warsaw from the north was acknowledged
in an official communication given out to-
day at army headquarters.
London, Dec. 15.-The offensive move
ment of the French and British has be-
come general, and is being pushed with
strong forces, particularly in Flanders, the
Argonne, the Woevre and Alsace.
A Turkish battleship, which carried 600
men, was destroyed by British submarine
which dived under five rows OF mines in
the supposed impregnable Dardanelles,
torpedoed the battleship and then escaped.
"Italy is preparing to defend herself in
case any nation infringes on her interests,
and she also is preparing to be in posi-
ton to speak when peace terms are being
made,' said the Italian Consul in Chicago
last Saturday, explaining the enormous
purchases of army supplies in the United
States by his government. According to
the Consul, the Italian army will number
2. 2O0, 900 men within few months. Five
million bushels of wheat we're bought in
Chicago Friday by the Italian Government.
and commission now in New York will
purchase %, 900 horses for the Italian army.
Other buyers are in the South and West
buying saddles and other supplies.
Poland is fast becoming another Bel
GUM in point of suffering, while the op-
posing armies drive each other back and
forth, occupy and re-occupy cities and
villages and inflict upon the inhabitants
commandments similar to those suffered in
Belgium and Northern France. More than
500 Polish towns have been ruined, &C.
cording to various accounts from the cor
respondents. Each army accuses the other
of looting and cruelty. The flight of the
civilians from Lodz was one of the most
tragic episodes of the war, while one cor
respondent pictures the fate of Kalisz as q
repetition of Louvain, with the slaughter
of 400 civilians and the sacking of the city
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We rejoice in specialization. Good, for
it means big attention to little things.
But all specialization is narrowing down of
energy. We exclude other interests. But
we include one interest, include it deeply.
1t is because of this tendency to narrow
ness, necessary for deep rootage and
because of almost infinite possibilities
ahead, that the call to enlargement should
be needed.
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WAR NEWS.

London, Dec. 16, 10:45 p. m.-For the
first time in centuries, England has been
struck by foreign foe. A squadron of
swift German cruisers crept through the
fog last night and turned their guns against
the Brittons, bombarding the towns OF
Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough. Ac-
cording to official estimates, the casualty
list totals 10, of whom thirty lone are
known to be dead.
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This world would be better place to live
in if the people who pass resolutions would
go forth to carry them out, and when they
have planned the work do it and say moth
ing about it.
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SKILL AND PATIENCE.

If you haven't read Carlyle's French
Revolution" you have missed one OF the
most stirring and wonderful books ever
written.
AS history and as literature, it is II clas-
sic. To read it for its style alone is worth
twice the time it takes.
1t is an imperishable monument to the
skill and patience of man who was
plagued by dyspepsia, and the skill and
patience of certain bricklayer.
What had bricklayer to do with Car
lyle's French Revolation'?" you ask.
Let US answer by quoting Frank T. Bay
ley:
He didn't write it! He never saw nor
heard of it. l can't tell you his name
nobody knows it. He was just brick
layer, for whom nobody cared enough to
ask his name. Yet if it had not been for
him, the great book might never have been
printed.
"The bricklayer never could have writ
ten it; he didn't know enough. Nobody
could have written it but Thomas Carlyle,
who was great man. Let me tell you the
story of that book.
"When Carlyle had finished the second
volume, he lent it to another great man to
read; and that man left it lying on his
table. 1t had not yet been printed; the
pages were only in writing. The house
maid, looking for something with which to
start fire, saw the loose papers and used
them for kindling.
1T was the only copy.
"When Carlyle learned of it, he was in
despair. He was so discouraged that he sat
idle for many days. And Carlyle knew
how to grumble.
''But one morning, sitting by his open
window, he saw the bricklayer building a
wall, brick by brick, and singing as he
worked.
He said to himself: What fool
am! That humble workman puts me te
shame!'
So with fresh courage he began his
task again; and after many, many days
the great book was written once more anc
given to the world"
That day laborer never knew what he
had done for men and the ages.
He went home to his simple evening
meal without the least idea that he had in
spired great spirit with the fresh courage
that was needed to take up discouragine
task.
He just did his work as we'll as he could
and sang.
And the finest part of the matter is this
that if we could look into the lives of al
who have done great helpful things TO
humanity, we would find, no doubt, tina
many of them were inspired or helped b,
the patience and singing of humble folk
And we might find our own faithful
efforts, however hid from fame, servin,
stronger hearts and minds in their large
efforts to bless and benefit.
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10 t

4 LII persons are warned not to trade
"A for one mortgage note given Dy
T. M. Yarbrough, dated May Is. l9a4,
and due one year after date, for SID,
with s per cent per annun interest.
sos H. H. MONTGOMERY.
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De needed

The whole trend of our political philoso-
ply and our political life is toward not the
welfare Of the individual, but the welfare,
The improvement and the betterment of
society at large.
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Living right, on the dead level of LIES
plain, daily duty is the highest and hottest
requirement of the Almighty and the climax
of mans spiritual attainment.
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Warming to Trespassers.

HUNTING and trapping on my home
IL property, located in Ward -Four,
Bossier Parish, are forbidden, and legal
publication is hereby made for the BEN
eft OF the public. Trespassers will be
prosecuted. G.. CHEETER BARNETT.
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Seneca: Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Winter Seizes Nation.

Monday cold wave swept over the
country from the Maine to the west Gulf
Coast, bring heavy SHOWS and winds as
far South as Tennessee and Alabama.
Freezing temperatures hit all Atlantic and
Gulf States except Florida. The Mssis-
sippi Valley and the Lake region suffered
in the bitterest weather of the season.
Unusually severe weather prevailed
throughout Iowa, Missouri and Kansas
Sunday night. In Kansas temperatures
ranged from three degrees below zero to
ten above. Two deaths and much suffer-
ing were reported at Kansas City Sunday
night. One man was found frozen to death
in doorway and another died while SHOW
cling snow from the street.
Charitable organizations in Chicago were
swamped Monday with appeals for aid as
result OF cold wave which swept the
great lakes region Sunday night. The
temperature dropped thirty lone degrees to
zero in seventeen hours. All municipal
lodging houses were packed with homeless
men during the night.
Chattanoogans waded in six inches of
snow and the people of Nashville spent the
morning shoveling off the sidewalks. APP
proximately 1000 telephones in Chatta
nOOga were rendered useless by reason OF
wire breakage, and about $685. 900 damage
was done to telephone property.
The coolest place in the United States
Monday was Huron, S. D., where the mer-
curry stood at eighteen degrees below zero.
In Moorhead, Mimi, sixteen degrees below
zero was registered. Meridosa and VIM
nipeg, Manitoba, reported twenty-five de-
grees below zero.
The first heavy snowfall of the season
covered Western Pennsylvania and West
Virginia Sunday. In Pittsburg six inches
fell. Grafton, W. Va, reported twelve
inches, while mountainous sections of the
State estimated the fall at nearly twenty
| four inches.
At St. Joseph, Mo-, the Missouri River
Tuesday was bridged with ice for the first
time in five years.
Five inches of snow fell at Knoxville. 1t
was the first snowstorm of any consequence
this winter.
| Fifteen inches of snow fell at Oswego,
| N. Y.
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Among the several interesting features
in ''The Southern Woman's Magazine" of
Nashville, Tenn, for December, is a letter
from the Baroness de Charette, of Brittany,
France, giving details of the sufferings of
the people, especially of the Belgians, who
are crossing the border by hundreds. She
asks for contributions to aid these home
less people. The money may be sent to
the Southern Woman's Magazine"
Nashville, whence it will be forwarded:
The Baroness de Charette was formerly
Antoinette Polk, daughter of Andrew Polk
of Columbia, Tenn, and niece of General
Leonidas Polk, the " Fighting Bishop of
the Confederate army.
The bee., 1914-02-20
CLEANSES YOUR HAIR
MAKES 1T BEAUTIFUL
1T Becomes Thick. Wsvy. Lustrous and
AN Dandruh Disappears-fair
Stops Coming out

Surely try "Danderine Hair.
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utes you will be amazed. Your
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Besides identifying the hair,
one application of Dandenne
dissolves every particle of dand-
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Danderine is to the hair what
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shine are to vegetation. 1t goes
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You can surely have have pret'
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