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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-06-25
Confederate Deaths.

J. H. Nelson, a Confederate veteran, was
struck by Texas and Pacific passenger
train near the union depot in Shreveport
Saturday night and died of his injuries a
few hours later.
Rev. S. NJ. Cherry, for fifty-five years an
active minister of the Southern Methodist
Church, and Confederate chaplain during
the Civil War, died in Sumner County,
Tenn, last Monday.
George Mitchell, born near Londonderry,
Ireland, July /, 1881, died in Richmond,
Va, last Thursday. He participated un-
der Generals Pickett and Armistead in al
most all of the principal battles fought in
Virginia during 1875; was wounded twice
and captured just before the surrender of
Gen. Lee. =
Mr.. W. F. Chase, a native of New Or
leans and resident of Shreveport for
many years, died in Shreveport last Friday
morning. When in his nineteenth year
Mr.. Chase enrolled in Company A, Orleans
Cadets, Dreux Battalion, on April II, 1861.
This was the first company in the State
which was enrolled in the South. "This
battalion achieved great renown in the
service of the Confederacy," says the eau
casian. cit was in division commanded
by Gen. Bankhead Magruder, who with
about $4,000 men of all arms held at bay
for nearly three weeks McClellan's army,
officially reported as having 100000 men
for active service. This battalion for days
and nights was at the front resisting the
Federals, and it was only after Johnston
had transferred his army from the valley
to Richmond and had reinforced Magruder
that the battalion was given brief rest.
During all this fighting by day by night
w. F. Chase was at the front doing his
dutyo
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-06-25

Tenn, November 80, 1926. Two of his
brothers were killed in the Battle of Shiloh.
Mrs. Martha Medley was crushed to
near Ceredo, w. Va, Friday night after
and pushed her four-year- daughter to
safety. Three other children witnessed
their mothers death.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal of
last Monday says: Good progress has
been made by the cotton crop during the
past two weeks. Exception to the general
progress should be noted in that part of
Arkansas outside of the St. Francis basin.
much Of West Tennessee and some of the
hills of Mississippi. In the remainder of
the belt much improvement is shown over
conditions that prevailed two weeks ago.
Kansas City, June 2O.-Ten prostrations
were here to-day and ten at Atchison.
Prostrations in the harvest fields of Kansas
and Missouri were numerous. At Salina,
Kas., G. E. Mulvane collapsed in field
and died from heat prostration. Warren
Sheldon. working near Pawnee Rock, Kas.,
succumbed and was taken to hospital.
Immediately twenty-five men working in
the vicinity left the State on the first train.
Offers of higher wages failed to tempt them
to stay.
Driftwood, Pa, June 17-While playing
near his home last night, Harold Jordan,
aged eleven, fell into an abandoned we'll.
His cries attracted the attention of Rodney
Ives, aged seventeen, who climbed into the
we'll in an attempt to save him. Finding
he could not bring the boy to the surface,
Ives called for help and was answered by
John Jordan, Harold's uncle. When he
reached the boys, they chung to him SO
that his hold on the rough sides of the we'll
was broken and the three fell into the water
and were drowned.
Hillcrest, Alberta, Canada, June 90
Flames broke out at a. m. to-day in the
tunnel of Hllcrest Mine, wrecked by a
terrific explosion yesterday, and all rescue
been working on the debris and carrying
out bodies rushed from their work and
barely escaped with their lives. The re-
vised figures given out by the company
to- day show that of 236 miners who enter
ed yesterday morning only Al came out
alive, leaving 1875 entombed. OF these 143
still remain in the mine.
New York, June 20.-What is said in the
financial district to have been the greatest
transfer of gold ever made between sub
treasures occurred during the week, when
S43, 0O0,O 900 of the prescious metal was de-
livered at Subtreasury here. The gold, in
bars and coin, came from other branches
of the United States Treasury, and the
shipment, it was said, was prompted by the
fact that for the last six weeks this country
has been losing gold to Europe on large
has gone, and since the beginning of the
year s69, 100000. Bankers say that little
if any of the gold just shipped here is likely
week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-06-25
MIR. Watkins Work.


In the news columns Thursday was print
ed brief dispatch from Washington an
nouncing the passage of the Watkins Bill
to ''codify, revise and amend the laws re-
lating to the judiciary" To the average
reader this may not appear at the glance to
have been much of an undertaking; to the
legal fraternity, and to all who have to do
with the courts of the land, the codifcation
of the laws relating to the judiciary is an
accomplishment worthy of special note.
Congressman j. T. Walking, represent
ing the Fourth Louisiana District, is chair
man of the house committee on revision of
the laws, and the bill which has just been
passed by the lower house represents a
vast amount Of labor and energy on his
part; for more than two months the Wat
kins Bill was considered each Wednesday
in the house, sitting as committee of the
whole and was passed with very few amend
ments, indicating that the work of the COM
mittee had been very thoroughly and care
fully done.
Section two of the committee report &C
companying the Watkins Bill, which has
just been received at this office, is one of
the most complete documents of the sort
ever furnished by the Government. It
presents the law as passed by the house,
with the corresponding law as it now exists
printed on the opposite page. Decisions
OF the Supreme Court are also given with
each and every section, thus enabling in
terested persons to trace any statute desir-
ed. All lawyers, judges, clerks of court,
marshals, district attorneys and others
connected with the Federal Courts have
taken great interest in the progress of the
codification of the laws relating to the
judiciary, and will hear with pleasure of
Congressman Watkins success in getting
the measure through the house in the pres
ent session of Congress in spite of the great
mass of other important legislation which
has been occupying the attention Of the
members.
Representative Watkins, while engaged
almost constantly in the preparation of this
new code, which will be of such vital i'm
portance to the Federal Courts of the coun-
try, has still found time to look carfully to
the interest of his constituents in all mat
tiers of local concern, and has been press
ing vigorously his cotton claims legislation
which means ultimately the repayment of
many thousands of dollars to Louisiana
citizens for cotton confiscated shortly after
the close of the Civil War. Congressman
Watkins has stood squarely with the Will
son administration and the Democratic
party upon every one of the big tests that
have come since Congress met fourteen
months ago, and his record is one in which
his constituents of the Fourth Louisiana
District feel justly proud.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-06-25

Well said by the Louisiana Democrat:
Instead Of raising the salaries of the Con-
servation Commission. as proposed, it would
be preferable to legislate it out of office. II
it is any Improvement, either from an
economic standpoint, or as to results at
tanned, over the much decried game warden
system which flourished under the Sanders
regime, no proof has been adduced in sup
port of such contention.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-06-25
Application for Administration.
In District Court, Booster Parrish. La.

In District Court, Bossier Perish, La.
NOTICE is hereby given that Mamie
~ =. Holloway has this day filed her
application to be appointed administra-
trix OF the succession of John E. Hollo-
way, deceased. Now, this is to admonish
all persons concerned, that if opposition
be not made thereto within the time pre-
scribed by law, the said applicant will
be appointed Administrative of said sue
cession as prayed for.
Given under my official signature and
seal OF office, at Benton, La, on this,
the 10Th day of June, 1914.
JAS. M. HENDERSON,
2s-2 Clerk Bossier District Court.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
The Falling Leave0L

There is no more thrilling, solemn
sight in all the range of nature than
the falling of leaves. In the begin
ming, few at time, they come drift
ing, circling downward, utterly care
less and unobtrusive, yet deeply pur-
poseful. With sigh they seek the
warm, pungent earth which is to each
one Of them the ultimate breast Of
God. Then more and more of them
come. By and by the dim, shining
temple is full of the soft stir of their
passfng-frail shapes, crossing the mo-
tionless lines of the trees, floating
athwart the shadows, animating the
inner gloom. Their faint, signing whis-
per voices the silence of the forest
more poignantly than the hymns of
the hermit thrush. If the wind still
forgea-s, they fall slowly, freeing them
selves of their own accord, knowing
the uttermost joy of self-abandonment.
Multitudes fall together, however, go
ing hand in hand to their common end.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of
decision. They know what they want,
and they take it together, deeply salts
field.-The Atlantic.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
Wand That Puts to Sleep.

The story of the Sleeping Beauty,
particularly its eastern versions, has
been traced conjecturally, to hypnotic
practices. A wand or rod often APP
pears in the eastern tales; placed I'M
der the feet of the woman or man it
kills or sends to sleep primitive folk
scarcely distinguish between sleep and
DEATH, under the head it restores to
life or waking. Sometimes there are
two wands, silver and gold respective
ly. In Scandinavian versions sleep
thorn takes the place Of the wand. In
Ireland this appears as pin, and
very possibly the sleep of the hero
inc of Grimm's "Briar Rose" when the
spindle pricks her, is connected with
this. In the Arabian story it is
ring placed upon finger that causes
slumber.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20

So the average profit per COW instead
of being S22.92 as in the first year
jumped to $76.79 or an increase in
profit per COW of $3.50, the increase
alone being double the original proat.
These results were secured simply by
testing the COWS for production, and
selling the improbable or boarder
cows.
Of course, dairyman with special
training can make his own tests and
get his own conclusions. Better re-
suits come, however, to the average
dairyman from helping to form Cow
Testing Association, whereby trained
tester can be employed at a cost Of 81
per COW year to make regular calcu-
lations of feed used and milk produced.
In such a case, the tester who is
usually an agricultural college gradu-
ate, arrives at the farm in the after
noon. That evening he weighs and
takes a sample of each cows milk.
The next morning, he again weighs
and samples the milk Of each COW.
After the morning milking, he tests
the samples of milk for fat according
to the Babcock method.
The tester also weighs the feed con-
sumed by each COW, and estimates the
cost. So after he determines the value
of the milk or fat, he is able 10 cal
culate the profit or loss per COW for
the month. Further than this, he cal
culates the returns yielded for one
dollar expended for feed; also the cost
of producing 100 pounds Of milk and
one pound of butter fat for that
month. He leaves copy of his rec
ords with the owner of the herd and
then goes on to the next farm. Fuller
accounts of methods of cow-testina
will be found in the Maryland Experi
ment Station Bulletin No. 1863, which
may be had for the asking.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
Middletown Waiting Room Aflre.

Fire Sunday night destroyed the wait
ing room of the East Station OF the Hag-
erstown and Frederick Railway Com
pany, Middletown, but through the efforts
of the Middletown Fire Department the
fire was confined to the room, and the
warehouse in which the room is located,
was saved. The fire was discovered at
about O'Clock, and at that time the fire
seemed to be confined principally to a
seat under which there was an electric
heater, and it is supposed that the heater
was the cause of the trouble. Vice Pres
ident E. L. Coblentz of the Railway, was
loud in the praise of the Middletown fire.
men and stated from an inspection of the
waiting room, the fire had gained con-
siderable Roadway. The railroad com
pany owns large number Of frame
buildings above the station, which, if the
fire had gotten into. would have made a
most serious conhagration for Middle
town.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
Niece Attacks Buesing viii.

Mrs. Eta Houck, of Baltimore, re-
Gently filed caveat to the will of her
uncle, Mr.. Theodore Buesing, who died
in this city on January 18th, and asks
that it be set aside and that the dlstrbu-
ton OF the property be made as if Mr.
Buesing had died intestate
In her petition. Mrs. Houck alleges
that Mr.. Buesing died intestate and that
the will which was admitted to probate
was not his will, and that at the time
the will was made he was not OF sound
and disposng mind and memory. She
states that the heirs of Mr. Buesng are
as follows: Frederick Buesing, a
brother; Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, sister,
who is widow; George Buesing, Min
ME Buesing and Eta c. Houck, the
children of deceased brother.
The will, which was made April I,
1913, was witnessed by Albert A. Schroe-
der and George A. Pearre. Jr., named
Mrs. Elizabeth Miller and Frederick A.
Miller, as executors, and they were so
named by the Orphans Court Mrs.
Houck asks that the will be annulled.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
Too Expensive to Open tn,
County Roads.

The bnzz of the telephone kept the
County Commissioners and their clerks
constantly on the jump on Monday morn
ing, February 18th. Appeals poured in
from all parts of the county, begging the
commissioners TO send help to clear away
the snow blockade in the roads.
1T would cost $4,000 at least" said
one OF the commissioners. Ito start in
clearing away the snow on all of the
roads throughout the county. The County
Commissioners undertook to do that
several years ago, when the roads
were blocked as they are now, and the
total expense OF the work was consider
ably over $40. ooo." LIN
The commissioners are inclined to
leave the work OF clearing away tine snow
to the farmers and to the residents who
have to use the roads. Individual mem
bers of the board themselves have start
ed at work upon the roads adjacent to
their own farms, and great results are
said to have been accomplished.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
Origin Of the Word Alcohol.

In the second century B. c., the
Egyptians had an eye salve contain
ing anthony sulphide, which, in
Arabic, was called "kol," or with the
article 'al kol" Originally the word
denoted any remedy for the eyes, and
specifically liquid collyrium, made
from burnt incense and burnt almond
shells. Later any fine powder was
called al kol," and by extension, any
fine or subtle substance, whether in
powder form or not Since the fine
ness and volatility Of wine were called
IT'S spirit" the latter was also
termed al kol," OF. alcohol. This sig
nificance of the word has persisted to
the present time, in the expression
"alcobolisatus," used for drugs in very
fine powder.-The Pharmaceutical
Era.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
FREDERICK CITY.

Frederick City = Mayor, Lewis H.
Fraley.
Register and Tax extraordinarily
T. Nicodemus.
AIdermen-LIoyd c. Cutler, Elmer
McC Phebus, John H. Grove, Henry H.
Abbott, George Shoemaker. Clerk,
Jacob Schmidt. Board meets third We'd
nesday Of every month
City Health Officer-Dr. Ira j. Nc
Curdy.
Policemen-George Hoffman, Adam
Bruchey, Charles r. Hoffman, William
H. Fraley, John Henry Adams. Thomas
Filby, John Blumenauer, John P. Quinn.
Engineer Electric Light Ptant-Samuel
Abrecht.
Fireman Electric Light Plant-William
D. Bruchey.
Electric Light Linemen-George Wal
lace.
Market Master-J. Henry Schmidt.
Superintendent of Water Works.
George A. Burck.
Police Justices-George R. Dennis, IT,,
Aaron r. Anders and Fabian Posey.
City Attorney-Edward J. Smith.
City Election Supervisors-M. S. Mob
erly, P. Tobias Kuhn. Republicans; c.
Thomas Eckstein, Democrat; Clerk, w.
c. Roderick.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
WITH THE BREAK OF DAWN
Birth of a New Day as Seen and De-
scribed by One Who Had the
Vision of the Poet.

AS we proceeded, the tfmid approach
of twilight became more perceptible,
the intense blue of the sky began to
soften, the smaller stars, like little
children, went first to rest; the sister
beams of the Pleiades soon melted
together, but the bright consultations
of the west and north remained I'M
changed. Steadily the wondrous trans
figuration went on. Hands of angels
hidden from mortal eyes shifted the
scenery of the heavens; the glories
of night dissolved into the glories of
the dawn. The blue sky now turned
more softly gray; the great watch
stars shut up their holy eyes; the east
began to kindle. Faint Gtreaks of
purple soon blushed along the sky;
the celestial conclave was Allied with
the inflowing tides of tho morning
light, which came pouring Gown from
above in one great ocean g radiance,
till at length, as we reache@ the Blue
hills, a flash Of purple fra Nlazed out
from above the horizon and surned the
dewy teardrops of flower and leaf into
rubies and diamonds. In o few Sec
onds the everlasting gatge of the
morning were thrown wi0D open and
the lord of day, arrayed in glories too
severe for the gaze of maEo began his
state.-Everett.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
New Market Ne We.

The Womens' Christian Temperance
Union held their regular monthly meet
ing on Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Miss Isabel Boyer.
The Loyal Temperance Legion met
on Friday evening at Mr. VIM E. Fall
coner's.
Owing to the Indictment weather, Rev.
Hart, of Mount Airy. was unable to fill
his regular appointment here in the
Methodist Episcopal Church on Sunday
morning.
Rev. P. M. Boyden has returned from
a ten davis visit to his daughter, Mrs.
Rosa Clary, of Richmond, Virginia.
Mrs. Johnson Downey, of Alexandra.
Virginia, was the week end guest of Miss
Nettie Jones.
Mr.. R. B. Rumble, one of our under
takers. had two funerals on Monday.
Mrs. John Downey's in the Central Gem
eterv, and Mrs. G.. F. Sponsellor's
daughter. Mrs. c. w. Metcalfe. of East
Orange. New Jersey. DR.. George Spon-
seIlor, of Martinsburg, West Virginia.
and Mr.. Clifton Sponsellor and wife OF
Mount Airy. all were here on Monday
to attend the funeral of their mother.
The heavy snowfall has brought pleas
ure to many despite the bitter cold. for if
is the first sleighing snow, and we hear
the merry sleigh bells and the shouts OF
the boys and girls coasting as soon as
school is out.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
OPEN DAIRY BARN
FOUND A WINNER
Pennsylvania Dairyman Enthusiastic
Over Maryland Fresh Air Stable.

L. W. Lightly, of Adams county
converted by a visit to the Maryland
Experiment Station, writes as follows
1.-THE cold, open barn for the dairy
COW is a bitter dose to an old dairy
man, but maybe he might as well take
it and be done with. AT the Mary
land Station their stable is not only
open in front, but open on three sides
A protecting wall nearly five feet higt
goes all the way around, with an opeI
space of over three feet above it, the
whole being covered with good roof
The COWS are loose in this covered
pen with nothing in the way of fix
lures and with plenty Of dry bedding
Here they spent all the winter except
that, when being MIXED, they are pui
in clean, comfortable milking room
"Close by is an old style closed barr
with windows, ventilators, etc., up tt
date. The COWS in the open stable
produced more milk at less cost thar
the COWS in the warm stable and tbs
milk from the open stable graded
higher because it was cleaner. Ever
in the winter of 1911-12, with it's eXtr;
severity the open stable COWS were
ahead in profitable production. Thai
is what the COW says about the oper
air COW stable, compared with the
closed one, and the cow, after all, is
the final authority in spite Of ideas OF
theories" The saving in manure and
the lessened cost of caring for the
open barn cow are worth knowing
about also. Write for Maryland Elk
pertinent Station free Bulletin No. lit
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
Liberty Items.

Mr.. Walter R. Curfman is home from
Saint Johns College on the sick list
Miss Gertrude Wright, after a pleasant
visit to friends in Washington City, and
is now visiting friends in Baltimore City.
Mr. Leo Smith spent Sunday in Fred
erick City.
Hon. Frank R. Sappington accompa-
MED by Mr.. t. Simpson, were in Fred
erick recently on business trip.
Mr. Roland Simpson has completed
the erection of new fence at the home
Of the Misses Yingling. 1t is beautiful
improvement
Services were held in Saint Peters
Roman Catholic Church on Sunday.
February 18th. at a. m. and 6. 80 p. m.
Rev Father Cavanaugh officiated
DIR. Thomas Myers was in Frederick
recently on business.
Mr.. Frank o. Smith, our manufacturer,
is on business trip throughout Western
Maryland.
The young men OF Liberty are now
preparing for the coming Civil Service
Examination. Who will win?
Miss Edna Eader has returned from a
pleasant trip to Sparows's Point.
Miss Norton, Of Baltimore, is a guest
of Miss Edna Jones.
Mr.. Maynard Buckley, OF near Mount
Pleasant, was a visitor to our town on
Sunday.
Mr.. F. Lorraine Simpson has had new
poultry house, s by 20 feet built.
Miss Beulah Sweadner was guest of
Mrs. Maynard Buckley, near Mount
Pleasant, the past week.
Miss Lulu Deck, OF Norristown, Pa,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. ], w. Paris.
Master Charles Carter, who sustained
a broken leg while skating on the ice a
few weeks ago, is able to be out again.
Mr.. Jack Brennan and Miss Louise
Huntaman. of Washington, d. c.. were
the guests of the family of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. J. Hitselberger for couple of days.
Mrs. Rachael Ann Roberts, wife of
Albert G. Roberts, sdied at her home
near town.
Miss Edna Jones entertained the Matt
nee Euchre Club. Among those pres
ent were Mesdames-J. c. Sappington,
Edward Hobbs, c. F. Smith, Frank
Hammond, Eugene Hammond. William
Hobbs, Hal. Stone; Misses Angela and
Eva Sappington, Gertrude Wright and
Miss Norton, of Baltimore.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-02-20
KNEW TRICK OF ADVERTISING
Book Publisher Of the Year 1867
Would Have Had Little to Learn
From His Brothers of Today.

The advertising of chfldren's books
does not seem to have advanced in
ingenuity since the time of old John
Newbery. Here is a specimen of his
art, from the London Morning Chron-
icle in December, 1867: This day
was published Nurse Trueloves New
Year Gift, or the Book of Books for
Children adorned with cuts, and de-
signed as a present for every little
boy who would become a great man
and ride upon a fine horse, and to
every little girl who would become
great woman and ride in lord
mayors gilt coach. Printed for the
author, who has ordered these books
to be given gratis to all little boys
and girls at the Bible and Sun in
st. PauTs churchyard, they paying for
the binding, which is only I'd each
book"
John Newbery, who so ingeniously
advertised his children's story books,
used them in turn to advertise other
commodities in which he was inter
ested. One of his side lines" was
the famous DR.. James Powder, in
which Goldsmith placed such faith,
and illusions to that specific are plen-
tifully sprinkled through the pages Of
the books. In "Goody Two-Shoes,"
for instance, the heroine's father dies
miserably because seized with a
fever in a place where DR.. James
Powder was not to be had"