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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23

THE MOI.EI. BARBER College Of
Ibnu>t.n. Tex. wants men - learn
barber trade. They offer splendid in
udccnrnt> and a short term com
plelc>. They mail free a beautiful
ra'ai"smc aud ash all onr readers IN
send for il .1i.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23

FOi. SAIE:-My II room hotel. fur
ni>hcd complete. Wagon scales aud
rent cottage. Best location in town.
Il .H1 cash will handle. balance terms
Ia suit. If YOU want n good business
and i nice humc. Address y. II. Gcor.
Rio Hondo. Texas. o. Ut.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23

ErfcrdiHg BHiLdiRg-Thc building "c
cnpicd u, the store Of Farias Bros. near
Twelfth and Washington streets. j. he
In. extended to the alley. a distance ot
about twenty fct. Brick j. being used
in The construction.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23
COUNT OF MONTE cHHISTO.

An enormous crowd was Thar which
greeted the proslurtion IN MOTION pie
lures Of the Count Of Monte Christie.
with James ONeill. the famous actor.
in the title role ~ the D%rcamland thea
ter. All through the evening and until
late ~ night the thea,rr was crowded
Ia its seating capacity. Only comments
If entirely complimentary nature for the
picture were heard. and this production
by the Famous PLAYER Film company H.
another of the several produced bv the
concrrn that has been well received in
Brownsville. f
Nearly everyone has read the Count ~
Monte Christie. aud not only were the
Americans ~ the performance entirely
familiar with the various S,rnr> from
havin. read the book. hut The Spanish
| speaking "lcmrnt was It's" familiar with
il. In proportion the book has had a
larger number IT readers in Spanish
possibly than IN English.
The picture Was in five reels. and
every scene was splendid, portrayed,
with Il strict regard for the setting ~
outlined IN thar famous story.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23
CITY-NEWS

The Grcnfrsf PLAY ~ im'ricns history
e Arizona with Cvril Scott in six reels.
Tomorrow matinee aud night Dreamland
ADV.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23
Il'li;I.l, NOTICE.

ready. aud Ia acc,adamoc with the recent
orlinanrr PASSED ~ The at, council.
taxes for the schooiS Are now PAYABLE
AZ my office. MI property owners are
requested Ia make their pa, mcnts Ice
forc February = ~ the, will IT, declared
: delinquent
Macedonia \. Garcia.
1lii5t. city Tax C"llccNtu.
school taxes are nov dine
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23
ga
MZZZZlW
N11HEKzREgvW
PROGRAMME TONIGHT

FEOM OFT OF THE STORM-Tuo
part Broncho fcNture.
THE SCENARIO WEITER-comcly.
An insin-ht into n film factory.
Tomorrow rATHE'S WEEKLY.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23

Ny thoughts today are far away.
%sriling the Ncsuvian Bay. quoted Con
gresham Wombat.
PITY YOU can't collect the mileage on
that proposition" commented Congress
man WooZc. t~#
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS


FOUND.
FOUND-I.adie>' coat ON Sixth aud 1t.
Francis street. Owner ma, have same
ly railing nj Herald office and pa, ine
for this al letf
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23

q. W. Carter of Fort Worth j.
Brownsville TO-DAY.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23

$40 CyriI Scott in "iri:opa" tomorrow
matinee and fight Drramland Nd
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-23

Schoof RoHfiRc-Thc various classes
in the grammar school are being al
justcd following the examinations aud
promotions. and %bcginnin. Monday. the
work will be resumed in orderly shape.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
r. p. MORTON
dealer in

Saddles, Harness, Buggies
Wagon and Buggy Umbrellas. Special attention
given to CUSTOM WORK and repairing Saddles
and Harness. Give US trial. Store and Work
Shop at No 303 Texas Street. SHREVEPORT.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

Lake Charles American-Press: The
exposition Of "big ideas" has already been
pulled off. 1t took place in Baton Rouge
two weeks ago, when trainload of bust
ness men appeared before legislative
committee to tell it's members that city of
100000 people was absolutely dependent
upon the restoration Of race track gambling
for its prosperity.
Mansfield Enterprise: The careless
tongue causes much misery in this world.
We hear something about our neighbor
and instead of trying to suppress what We
have heard we give it wings by whispering
it to another neighbor, and when it leaves
him the story is greatly magnifed. And
thus it passes from tongue to tongue and
in many cases results in the destruction of
an innocent person.
Vermilion News: Editors of country
newspapers make mistake in mentioning
this or that officeseeker as ''probable
candidate" etc. The editors should pub
lish something of interest to the readers,
instead of giving publicity to office -chasers,
who do not even thank them for it. Let
candidates bring themselves out, and de-
mand payment Gin advance) for the pub
LEGATION of their cards, circulars, etc. The
candidate is after the office for the money
there is in it. If there was no salary at
tached he would not be so patriotic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
Confederate Deaths.

Roe Black, Confederate veteran, died
Friday near Toccopola, Miss.
James Warden, Confederate veteran of
near Purvis, Miss, died last Thursday.
Judge James w. Alcorn died Sunday at
Stanford, Ky. He joined Gen. John H.
Morgan's command when the Civil War
began, following his famous leader in all
his daring raids. He was captured with
Morgan on the raid through Indiana and
Ohio.
Hon. Edwin Harper, who served four
years in the Confederate Army and was one
of Gen. Lees couriers, and for four years
was member Of the House of Represen-
tatives from Williamsburg County, died
Saturday at Kingstree, S. C. He is sur
vived by twelve children.
Minden, June 25.-Wesley J. Reams, one
of Minden's oldest citizens, died at noon to-
day. Major Reams was commander of the
local camp of Confederate veterans, was
the Oldest steward in the Methodist Church
and a member of the Masonic order. Born
at Jackson, La, seventy four years ago,
Major Reams was very young man when
the Civil War began, but he enlisted and
served throughout the war in the Second
Louisiana Volunteers in the Army of North
ern Virginia, and before the surrender had
attained the rank of captain. Major Reams
married Ida Palmer. of Claiborne parish,
and he is survived by her and one son,
George Earnest Reams of Shreveport.
Lemuel B. Phillips, lieutenant in the
Eleventh Missouri Infantry during the
Civil War, died Sunday morning at his
home at Flournoy, Caddo Parish. At the
close of the war he surrendered at Shreve-
port and made his home in Bossier Parish
until about 1879, when he removed to Caddo
Parish. Mr.. Phillips was q member of the
Democratic Executive Committee from
Ward One in 1879, and at primary cleo
ton held August 10Th, during that year,
was nominated as one of the candidates for
the Legislature from Bossier Parish by the
largest vote polled for Representative (493)
but was defeated by his Republican oppo-
nents. Later, he served as member of
the Police Jury.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
ShiIoh-Man
Mansfield Enterprise.

Mansfield Enterprise
The New Orleans States announces that
a private soldier who served in the Crescent
Regiment, C. S. A., has erected a monu-
ment to the memory of the members Of that
regiment who died on the battlefield at
Shiloh. The monument stands at the
bloody angle, where the Crescent and the
10Th Louisiana infantry so signally distin-
guisned themselves.
However, if it was at Shiloh that the
Crescent showed the metal they were made
of, it was at Mansfield that they showed
what they could and would do.
At Shiloh they fought for two days and
lost twenty three men killed, eighty four
wounded and twenty missing. At Mans
field they fought for twenty minutes, lost
fifty-five men killed, 120 wounded, and
none missing, for next morning they were
all present or accounted for. One company
Capt. Moore's, the color company, was
practically annihilated, only five survived
the charge, and two of these were wounded.
Notwithstanding the terrible shock, from
single volley, fired at point blank range,
with every field officer dead, with no flag
to follow, the regiment rallied, overwhelmed
the foe, captured the entire 130th Illinois
regiment and eleven pieces of artillery,
turning the right flank of the Federal Army,
and winning one of the most glorious VIC
tories of the war.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

John F. Louis, young butcher, was
drowned Friday while swimming in Bayou
st. John, New Orleans.
Joseph Ponjaun of New Orleans, eighty
three years old, fearing death from heart
disease, last Sunday put bullet into his
brain.
Sunday was the hottest day of the season
in Shreveport. The thermometer at four
pm. reached 100 degrees at the weather
bureau office.
The Louisiana Planter of Saturday
says: The weather. in the Louisiana sugar
district has been intensely hot during the
past week, and if the high temperatures
could have been accompanied by rain fall
the belated cane crop would have received
a wonderful impetus. AS it is, the ex-
tremely hot sun has drawn the moisture
out of the ground rapidly and the great
need of practically the whole Louisiana
cane belt now is a heavy, soaking rain
Without it, the conditions cannot be con.
sidered very satisfactory.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
All That Glitters Is Not Gold.
Natchitoches Times.

Natchtoches Times.l
The postmastership at Ruston has been
the bone of contention ever since the Demo-
Gratis. and near Democrats, went into office
at Washington.
Our sanity Congressman, J. B: Aswell,
had the unmitigated gall to step outside
his district and undertake to choke his
brother-in- law, Mr.. S. S. Gullatt, down
the threats of the people of Ruston, not
withstanding the fact that they wanted
saw in the matter, and against the wishes
of Senator Ransdell and Congressman
Elder, in whose district Ruston is.
Through Aswell's influence with Presl-
dent Wilson and Postmaster General Bur-
lesion he was able to make stubborn tight,
but the Senate turned the appointment of
President Wilson down cold-and Gullatt
was forced into primary.
The good people of Ruston turned
down this brother-in Having proposition
threw the President of the United States,
Postmaster General Burleson and the spot
less Aswell in the dust! Oh, me, US and
company, what is this old world coming to?
The very idea of set of plain old com
mon people-simple people, turning the
magnificent and grandilloquent represen-
tatiyes of the true and undefiled Democracy
down in the dust.
| Simply another lesson. Aswell will not
| do, He doesn't "wear WELL" We never
did take any stock in all the stories about
| his power and influence with President
Wilson and the other powers. We knew II
he had any power and influence it was only
temporary as it was based on cheap vanity
showey appearance and deep dyed polit-
| ical hypocrisy; and while these qualities
make pretty good first mpression-they
do not wear. The small, cheap methods
the selfshness, the insincerety and hypoc'
risy of all such men will crop out in spite o
the bravest fight within them. Thei
friends and neighbors find them out, ant
in time the public finds them out and in th'
discard they go.
/ When Aswell ran for Governor, RustOI
and Natchitoches went wild over him ant
gave him handsome votes; when he raj
for Congress he had hard time carrying
the town of Natchitoches, lost the parish
and Ruston has turned his brotherin Law
down.
There is every indication that the goot
people of this district are finding this mai
out every day, and a job as Congressman
from Louisiana's Eighth District is waiting
for some good man.
}, Aswell was elected last time, whether Q
not on straight count We do not know
but, we together with lots of other peopl
in the district have our doubts; and yo
3 can just get ready for something else thi
t time.
In the first place, he landed good man
politicians in his active fight last time b
making them believe that his election wa
simply a fornality. They should hav
known better than to have been led int
such trap. This time, of course ther
will be flies to fan off their own politics
2 loins and it will be sad song of 'Na
Pauline when j. B. comes driving aroun
with his band wagon.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
Save Us, Save Us!
Natchitoches Times. |

NatchltocheS Times.
Although the election for parish officers
is nearly two years off, we are beginning
to hear talk of candidates for this and that
office. So far, we have heard of five can
didates for Assessor, some speculation for
Sheriff and few feelers for other Offices
Weprotest. We object. We kick. Let
the people rest. Let every blooming can
didate and prospective candidate shut his
mouth for a whole year yet--and then we
will listen; and we do not know but that it
would be good thing to postpone the dis
cussion for more than year.
Everlasting agitation of political matters
is tiresome and disturbing to our industrial,
commercial and agricultural interests and
should be discouraged. Let every citizen
carry good big hickory club and bat
every candidate that bobs his head up for
the next few months at least and the thing
will die down.
We are bound to elect Congressman
this summer and fall-but let's confine our
political agitation to that and let the next
State and parish elections go for the pres
ant
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
Looscness of the Tongue.

Monroe News Star.l
"And thou shalt be hid from the scourge
of the tongue
Thousands of years ago this is what
Eiphaz, the Temanite, one OF the three
'Job's Comforters;' come to condole with
him for seven days and seven nights, said
unto Job. This man placed this ''scourge
of the tongue in the same list with famine
and s'the power of the word.'' That was
many years ago, but the scourge of the
tongue still prevails. 1t is not peculiar to
any race of people, to any period of time,
to any cline or condition, and no one is
immune.
Eliphaz, the Temanite, placed this scourge
third in his list of calamities. First there
came famine and then war and then 'the
scourge of the tongue" But like all
scourges that have been checked, this pes
thence has grown until if Eliphaz were
! living to-day he would probably place it
| first For famine is brought about through
conditions that are more or less under the
control of man. When the drought comes,
or the flood, or the freeze, nearly always
there is some prescience of its coming.
some chance for preparation, some oppor-
tunty for anticipating the result. Or else
when the ''lean days" are at hand there
are ready neighbors, kindly friends of a
generous government to come forward FOL
the relief of suffering.
The power of the sword can be combattec
by the power of the sword. But who may
be hid from "the scourge of the tongue?'
Like the thief in the night, it preys upor
the innocent. Like the pestlence that il
born of impurity and the offscourings o
the earth, it reeks to heaven and no on
is immune.
! Science has learned to combat with dis
ease. 1t has said to famine and to pesti
lence: Il am your master,,' and it ha
proved its proud boast. Modern warfar
is not yet except in exterior ways. yer,
different from ancient warfare. But Of
the battlefield one faces danger in fai
fight.
But the ''scourge of the tongue cal
not be met in open fight, because it is neve
an open enemy. tits born in the dark an
is the offspring of evil minds. Like death
cit loves shining mark" Its instinct
for this scorge has always animal life
to pull down that which is high, to degrad
that which is pure, to debase that which
innocent.
This is one of the curses that scienc
=, cannot combat and which civilization ha
failed to cure. For ."the scourge of tn
tongue continues, in spite of our boaste
Christianity, and those who are low sti
= shoot their venom-tipped arrows at thos
who are high, and direct their evil shaft
9 at the pure and innocent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02

The Lake Charles American Press OBJ
jects to ga system under which educators
are obliged to become lobbyists every two
years" The Louisiana educators who are
lobbyists are not lobbyists from necessity
(for the State is as liberal as it can afford
to be in its appropriations for education)
but they are lobbyists from choice and in
ordinate greed. They want the entire
State, securely wired. Like the horse
leech's daughter, at every session Of the
General Assembly, they cry, Give give!"
If the day ever comes when Louisiana
shall have q Legislature which will repre-
sent the taxpayers and not special interests,
then my princes shall no. more Cypress
my people.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02

THE WAY IT FEELs.-The schools are
closed. Study is impossible. The little
children sit on the porches listless. They
cannot play. Their tongues hang out a
foot long. The birds fall off from their
perchs on the trees-roasted. They peep,
"Hell-up!" And so it is. Waves Of fire
roll along the street. The asphalt turns
liquid. The car tracks glow red-hot. The
paint on the houses is bIistered. The tele.
phone wires melt Flames crack the glass
of the windows. Beer boils over in the
stein. 1t is hot day in Baltimore
Baltimore Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
MINOR MORALS.

No one who reads newspapers or maya
zines or listens to the small talk and gossip
that passes current in society can fail to
have noticed how much more there Is OF
criticism and condemnation Of people, and
what they do and say, than there is of COM
mendation 1t is difficult to understand
WHY this should be SO, unless it is due to
an unloveIy trait of human nature. La
Rochefoucauld says that we "derive GER
tain sort of satisfaction even from the mis-
fortunes Of our friends" and it certainly
appears on the surface that we find it at
least more entertaining to recount and
dwell upon the faults and foibles of the
people we talk about than to say anything
of their good qualities and actions, or to
discuss those of whom only good can be
said. Why is it thought interesting and
spicy to listen to recital of discreditable
or doubtful doings and sayings of our ac-
ouaintances, and of those in any way con-
spicuous in the public eye, when mention
is rarely made of their good attributes or
praseworthy deeds, and then they receive
little attention?
A deliberate change of attitude on the
part of individuals and Of society at large
in these respects can be made with the
greatest benefit to every one concerned.
Every man and woman will be entitled to
think better Of themselves and will have
stronger claim to the regard of others, If
they cease to be on the lookout for some
thing to find fault with, to treasure up and
repeat and magnify every scandal, little
and big, and to retail and spread every
small item of gossip, which carries with it
ridicule or censure for some one. Suppose
all that were dropped, and really it is I'M
worthy of intelligent, we'll meaning people,
and the habit formed of only speaking well
of Others Would it after all be as stupid
as some seem to think, if we refrained
wholly from wanton, ill-natured criticism
and made it point to tell whatever we
know that is creditable to other people, and
to speak of them only pleasantly? OF
course where there has been public exhibit
bi,ion of moral turpitude, it cannot and
should not escape condemnation. Would
not such an attitude speedily produce a
more wholesome, sweeter, social atmos-
phere than we have been accustomed to
breathe? To think about and talk about
things that are lovely and of good report
and which imply virtue and deserve praise
tend to raise our own standards, as we'll as
those Of others with whom we are brought
in contact,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Two trainmen were killed Sunday in a
wreck near Trenton, KY.
Heat prostration caused the death OF
John Swarens Saturday at Louisville, KY.
Statistics show fewer babies born in
France last year than in any similar period.
A cloudburst at Lanesboro, Mimi, FRI
day night made the village lake six feet
deep.
Half of the city of Salem, Mass, was
destroyed by fire last Thursday night,
causing loss of S20,OO0,00O.
A Chicago contractor has asked assist
ance of the district attorney to end alleged
bIackmail by business agents of unions.
! The bodies Of ten fishermen drowned in
sudden storm were recovered Wednesday
of last week from Lake Constance, Ger
many.
Gen. G. N: Whistler, retired, inventor
of smokeless gunpowder and system of
fire control, died last Thursday in Pensa-
cola, Fla.
People slept out of doors Sunday night
at Rock port, Ind The furniture and walls
in houses were heated as if they had been
near fire.
Farmers of Todd County, Kentucky, de-
clare that they will feed their wheat to the
hogs rather than accept Is cents bushel,
the current price.
i Opelousas, La, June 25.-The st. Lam
dry Grand Jury, especially charged to in
vestigate Sunday law violations, has re-
turned a report including thirty lone true
{ bills.
} Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the
Austro Hungarian throne, and his wife,
the duchess of Hohenberg, were assassi-
mated Monday while driving through the
) streets of Sarayevo, the Bosnian capital.
Princeton, KY, June 26.-The thermom-
eter registered 112 in the shade here at
noon to-day, the hottest weather ever re-
corded. The drouth remains unbroken
and much sickness prevails throughout the
country.
Florence, Ala, June 25.-Nine negroes
we're killed and two white men seriously
, injured this afternoon when a dynamite
drill, operated on the dredging boat at the
head of Coger Island, in the Tennessee
: River, exploded prematurely.
Four persons were killed, two fatally and
a score seriously injured and a property
9 damage of more than 81 200, 900 was caus.
q ed by windstorm which swept over NORTH
! Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota anc
/ Wisconsin Wednesday of last week.
e Birmingham, Ala, June 25.-Extreme
S heat drove Henry D. Waller, wealthy
real estate and business man of Bessemer
to shoot himself to death as he lay in bee
this morning. His physician brother sale
to-day Waller had not slept for the las
e three nights because of suffering from in
n tense heat.
e Batavia, Java, June 26.-Many were
: killed or injured to-day in violent earth
e quake which caused widespread damage
# in Southern Sumatra. Sumatra is tn.
It largest island of the Malay archipelago ex'
g cept Barneo. 1t has number of volca
noes, some active and some believed extinct
IS The population is estimated at $500, 900
|. among whom are about 5000 whites.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-02
Items of Interest.

New York City adds to it's population
100000 people every year.
Great Britain established a record coal
production last year of 287, All, 1859 tons.
The Congo River and its tributaries fur
nish more than 5000 miles of waterways
navigable for flat bottomed steamers.
The total length of the James River is
$50 miles. It's chief affluents are the APP
pomattox, on the right, and the Chicka-
homony, on the left.