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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

Mansfield Enterprise: Five hundred an
sixty bales of cotton have been ginned to
date at this place, but very little of it has
been sold. The farmers generally turn it
over to their merchant for storage, or they
carry it back home, and are holding it for
better prices.
New Orleans es-Democrat, 4th: The
heavy movement of grain to New Orleans
has begun and the North and South lines
have pressed into service all available cars.
The elevators are kept full, and ships are
busy loading, and as The movement is con-
tinuous, the traffic officials have no fear of
car shortage or congestion.
A 320-pound shovel nose sturgeon, a
decided rarity in New Orleans, says the
Times Democrat, was caught recently in
the Gulf of Mexico a short distance of the
coast, in seine. This big fish measured
about six feet in length. The eggs of the
sturgeon are used in Russia to make caviar,
one of the greatest delicacies of the fish
world. The flesh is coarse and is cut into
steaks for broiling. 1t is considered fine
fish for courtbouillon.
Louisiana Planter: Fail blowing is un-
der full Roadway throughout the entire
Loulo'aha sugar ulstFlcC ana IN many cases
some fall planting has already been begun.
The weather has been generally fair and
somewhat cool, which has been ideal for
the prosecution of field work and also for
the increase of the sugar contents of the
cane which has increased but little in size,
though ripening rapidly. All work is well
up to date on the plantations and prepare
tons are being made for considerable
increase in acreage for next year. The
beginning of the grinding will no doubt be
witnessed generally throughout the sugar
district about October 25th.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
Items of Interest. =

France is the chief wine producing
country in Europe.
Thomas Kinsey, purser of the St. Paul,
has crossed the Atlantic 1867 times.
Immigrants arrived at our ports at the
rate Of almost three thousand day during
the first ten months of the last fiscal year.
French scientists have found that a cac-
tus growing prolifically in Algiers can be
made to yield about IA per cent sugar and
from 45 to so per cent alchohol.
Western Australia produces more gold
than any American State, sends more
pearls to Europe than any other country
except Ceylon, and is said to have the
richest belt of hardwood timber in the world.
The Philippine Islands produce approx
mately ten million gallons of alcohol year.
ly. Almost all of this is made from the
sap of the nipa palm that grows in great
abundance in various swamps of the
country.
The Republic of Uruguay has an area of
nearly $4,000 square miles, being larger
than the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzer-
land and Greece combined. It has pop
ulation of 1,279,000. There are 681 miles
of its border line on navigable water.
1t is predicted that by 1916 Western
Canada will produce 600, 900, 900 bushels of
wheat annually. The population is in
creasing more rapidly than the railroad de-
velopment, and there is serious apprehen-
sion that it will not be possible to handle
the enormous crops.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

There can be no doubt that while many
of the German soldiers are just as iingois-
tic as the Emperor, there are many others
who are not in sympathy with the war.
This war is terrible thing" said one
Saxon infantryman, with tears in his eyes.
" left there pointing to the tiny
wife and children. Do you think am here
willingly? What do We want here?''
We cannot but think that just now there
must be hundreds and thousands of Ger
man soldiers in France who are asking
themselves the very same question, "What
do we want here?' and we think they will
find it hard to get satisfactory answer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

Great Britain has prohibited the expor-
tation of raw wool.
The Belgian Government has been re-
moved from Antwerp to Ostend, on account
of the bombardment of Antwept by the
Germans.
The Austrian Army in Galicia has been
placed under the control of the German
staff, despite the opposition of Emperor
Franz Joseph.
A Paris dispatch of yesterday says four
Austrian torpedo boats and two torpedo
boat destroyers have been lost off the coast
of Dalmatia, as a result of coming in con-
tact with mines.
Contracts have been placed at Memphis,
Tenn, by representatives of the French
Government for the delivery of 10000
horses at New Orleans. Yesterdays ship
ment of $50 head was the first consign-
ment.
The Shreveport Times of this morning
says: While the world awaits news of the
great battle in which the British and allied
forces and the Germans in Northern France
have engaged for twenty six days, meager
official reports from the front vouchsafe
little information Of the actual operations.
To-day it is a small piece of GROUND lost
and to- morrow the same ground has been
regained Meanwhile the French forces
are moving northward, but are gaining
little to the east, which would be essential
to the outflanking Of 1.-THE German right wing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
Kentucky Drying Up.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Kentucky, supposedly the "wettest"
spot in the Union, the habitat of the iulep
and the mother of Bourbon whisky is ''dry-
ing up
1t is one of the astonishing things of
modern State movements that this a fact.
When the antiiquor men, after long and
apparently hopeless fight, won the con-
cession of a local option election, the sur
prise outside of the State was great. But
the surprise depended to amazement when
at the election which fell only a few days
ago, nine out of the twelve counties most
rockbound anti prohibition voted for a
"dry' regime. Even Bourbon County,
the stronghold of the famous liquor that
takes its name, the heart of the bluegrass
country, where the colonies are supposed
to be as full of corn as the corn is of
"kernels even Bourbon voted itself
into the dry column, and forfeited its chief
industry.
Louisville and Lexington, jefferson and
Fayette counties, respectively, are the
fortresses in which John Barleycorn has
most strongly entrenched himself. They
are still "wet to the skim" and will make
the last and strongest fight for the saloon.
luO OtuCt COuult0S tIldI are uOtQlI1g OUT
against the prohibition movement are not
so important, having in them no large or
Influential cities.
1t is not only the astonishing fact that
the Kentucky counties are voluntarily
going dry that calls for comment; it is the
significance of the fact as it bears on fu-
ture legislation, agriculture and trade in
the bluegrass section. Shutting up the
saloons is a more radical change there
than almost any other State, for the pro-
duction of liquor has been leading indus
try. Not only the men who sell and buy
whisky, but the men who manufacture it,
will face new conditions. These latter will
be obliged to seek new methods of making
living.
Few people ever thought the time would
come when the Kentucky saloonist would
be veritable Othello with his occupation
gone.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
Ambition.
Letter of Chesterfield to his son.1

Letter or Chesterfield TO his son.
Everybody has ambition of some kind
or other, and is vexed when that ambition
is disappointed; the difference is that the
ambition of silly people is silly and mis-
taken ambition; and the ambition of peo-
pie of sense is right and commendable
one. The ambition of silly young man
would be to have fine clothes, and money
to throw away in idle follies; which would
be no proofs of merit in him, but only of
folly in his parents, in dressing him out
like a jackanapes and giving him money
to play the fool with. The ambition of a
silly fellow is to have fine equipage, a
fine house; things which anybody that has
as much money may have as we'll as he.
They are all to be bought. But the ambi-
ton OF man of sense and honor is to be
distinguished by character and reputa-
ton OF knowledge, truth and things
which are not to be bought, and that can
only be acquired by good head and a
good heart.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
There Have Been Others.

Editor of tie Baltimore SMe-Sir:: In
your issue Of September 25th read with
interest the letter of Henry E. Shepherd,
and indorse all he wrote upon the war OF
1876. 1t is, as he says, a good thing
for people who have skeletons in their own
closets not to open the closet doors of 9TH
ers. While we can only pity those who
are the victims of the barbarism OF war,
we must not too harshly condemn the Ger
mans. When we look back upon the burn
ings of Sheridan in the Valley of Virginia
and the atrocities of Sherman on his march
through Georgia, eliminating in the burn
ing of Columbia, S. c.; nor can we forget
that by official order of Edwin M. Stanton,
United States Secretary of War, 900 Con-
federate prisoners of war were taken from
Fort Delaware military prison, all COM
missioned officers of the Confederate
States, and placed on Morris Island, South
Carolina, under the fire of their own guns
Smelling that island, which was in the po-
session of United States troops. These
Confederate officers, prisoners of war, were
kept ~ days and nights under the inces-
sent fire of Sumter and the other Confed-
crate batteries, fed on four rotten bareback
army crackers, half a pint of grits soup
and one ounce of fat meat every twenty
four hours as rations. And subsequently
these prisoners were sent to Fort Pulaski,
Ga, where their ration was ten ounces Of
rotten cornmeal and half pint of onion
pickle each twenty four hours, with no
salt, grease or vegetable matter save the
rotten cornmeal. was one of the 900 VIC
tins and know whereof write.
We cannot forget the days of Recon-
struction, and yet to my knowledge, the
Government has never repudiated this
awful thing, nor tried to remove the odium
of being violator of the cartel of nations
and civilized warfare. AS matter of fact,
the United States Government in 1861-65
set the precedent for cruelty to prisoners
Of war and the burning of private property
Before we open the closet doors of our
neighbors it would be we'll for us to repair
our own wrongs. j. H. DARDEN,
First Lieutenant Company A, Third North
Carolina State Troops.
Kinston, N. c., Sept. %.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
Isaiah.

Take counsel together and it shall come
to nought; speak the word, and it shall
not stand: for God is with us.-vii, 10.
And they shall look into the earth; and
behold trouble and darkness, dimness Of
angish; and they shall be driven to dark
ness.-viii, %.
And when We spread forth your hands,
will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when
We make many prayers, will not hear:
your hands are full of blood, Is.
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy
mighty in the war. And her gates shall
lament and mourn; and she being desolate
shall cit upon the ground.-iii, 1926.
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of
hosts, send among his fat ones leanness;
and under his glory he shall kindle q
burning like the burning of fire., 16.
And he shall snatch on the right hand,
and be hungry; and he shall eat on the
left hand, and they shall not be satisfied:
they shall eat every man the flesh of his
own arm.-ix, 20.
The shew Of their countenance doth wit
ness against them; and they declare their
sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto
their soul! for they have rewarded evil
unto them.-iii, 9.
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in
their young men, neither shall have mercy
on their fatherless and widows: for every
one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and
every mouth speaketh folly. For all this
his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still.-ix, II.
In that day man shall cast his idols of
silver, and his idols of gold, which they
made each one for himself to worship, to
the moles and bats; to 60 into the clefts Of
the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged
rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth.-ii, 20-21.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

ner sanctum, and for many years after the
war it was on our exchange list. The Reg
lister, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and
Edgeheld Is. CO. Advertiser are the only
newspapers now being printed that Eek
changed" with the Banner in ante bellum
days, the latter still being on our exchange
list. The New Orleans Picayune, Louis
Vile Journal and Louisville Courier were
also on our exchange list before the Civil
War, but they have since been consolidated
with other papers. Iempus fugit.'
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

The story is being retold now of the
Kaiser discussing some German maneu-
vres before the war with General Sir Ian
Hamilton. The Kaiser asked the general
what he thought of the "close formation -
in attack, and the Englishman suggested
that it would needlessly sacrifice lot of
lives. son. said the Kaiser, carelessly,
"we can afford to lose them" This ap-
pears to be the true spirit of militarism,
and it is intolerable to thinking democ-
racV,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

On Tuesday of last week the Mobile Reg
lister reached and passed the century an
niversary of its birth. During 1859 and
1860 the Register (then edited by the
talented John Forsythe, who was at one
time Minister to Spain from the United
States) was a welcome visitor to the Ban
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

At a meeting of Bossier and Caddo farm
ers held in Shreveport Tuesday motion
offered ''that it was the sense of the con-
vention that the total elimination of the
cotton crop for 1916 was the only solution
of the present crisis, and that the conven-
ton pledge itself to that policy" was en-
dorsed by a vote of SO to Z.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

The French routes ndtaOnaies, several of
which run along the very line the German
armies advanced, are among the finest
roads in the world. They are ffty-four
and one half feet wide, perfectly crowned
and kept in the best of repair by the Re-
public. The routes departmentales, built
by the department governments, are also
macadamized and almost as good.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
WAR NEWS.

London, Oct IA German torpedo boat
destroyer in the North Sea has been sunk
by mine.
Toxic, Oct. THE belief was expressed
at the war office to-day that the German
cruiser Cormoran and two German gum
boats had been sunk in Kiao Bay.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
Homestead Entry No. O:s.:sgY.

~
Department of the INTERIOR
U. s. Land Office at Baton Rouge, La,
September 49, 19i4.)
Proof to be made under law of June 6, 1Si2.l
NOTICE is hereby given that Luther
~ E. Busby, of Adner, La, who, on
April 20, 1911, made Homestead Entry
No. O3399, for lots 4, 81 and 9 and the
northwest quarter OF southwest quarter
OF section 80, township 10 north, range
IL west, Louisiana Meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make three year
proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before the Clerk of
Court, at Benton, La, on the 18th day
OF November, 1914.
Claimant names as witnesses: Rob-
ert L. Young, M. w. Finuf, r. O..
Busby and E. F. Davis, all of Adner, La.
JOHN F. NuTTALL, Register.
October |, 1914. nov
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

On August 1st, one month after the be-
ginning of the prohibition era in West Vir-
ginia, the Wheeling workhouse was with
out a prisoner. The monthly payroll of
this prison has been reduced from S484 to
S74
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08

The Bull Moose candidate for Congress
in the Third Congressional District of this
State will have nice, cool shower bath on
November 3rd.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-08
EStrayed

From Walnut Hill, Ark, red mare
about 8 years old, long name and tail,
and mouse-colored horse mule, years
old, lame in fore shoulder. Were last
seen between Kizer and Bradley, Ark,
going 10 the direction OF Plain Dealing.
A reward of $40 will be paid for Their
return to me, or for information leading
to their recovery.
DR.. Mcknight, Walnut Hill, Ark.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-06-26
MINES MAY Be SEIZED
PRESIDENT WANTS NEW RELA-
TIoNS BETWEEN CAPITAL
AND LABOR.
Agitation May Cause Action, and Arbi.
tration of Colorado Strike Re-
ported First Move In
Program.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. = 1t is stated that
the plan adopted by former Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt to settle
the Pennsylvania anthracite strike
by military seizure of the mines
has been adopted by President Will
son in the Colorado strike situa-
ton at the ernest solicitation OF his
advisers.
After giving both sides to the con-
troversy one more chance to arbitrate.
through five arbitrators-two to be Sc
lected by the mine owners. two by the
miners and one by the President-the
United States. If necessary, will seize
the mines and operate them as a
military necessity"
In taking this step the President
finally yields TO his advisers. who have
pointed out to him that the situation
demands drastic treatment Their ar
gument probably would have been inef-
condition of disorder at Butte. This
has brought home to the President as
well as his advisers the fact that the
time has come when conclusive step
must be taken to establish the rela-
tions OF labor and capital on a safer.
saner basis than appears to prevail at
present. Recent developments, mainly
the activity of red flag agitation. are
responsible for the growth of this con-
viction.
Another way of putting 1t is that the
administration sees the need of head
ing off the ''inconsiderate rich and
the radical labor agitators from pre-
cipitating condition of chaos which
would work havoc in the industrial
world for years to come, and the Colo
rado situation presents the logical op-
portunity for the application of the
necessary preventive measures and the
psychological occasion" for making an
example of the individual it is desired
to reach
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-06-26
AsouITA SEES DELEGATION.

London.-A nearby artificial lake
gave a big crowd an unique opportun-
ity to vent their wrath on suffragette
interrupters of David Lloyd George.
chancellor of the exchequer, who spoke
at Denmark Hill, in the south of Lon
don. but chivalrous discrimination was
employed as between the men and
women disturbers, the women being
chased off the ground and the men be-
ing ducked in the lake.
Premier Asquith fulfilled the prom
Use to receive deputation of suffra-
gettes. which he made to Miss Sylvia
Pankhurst, the militant leader
party of six working women,
members of Miss Pankhurst's East
End federation. visited the prime min
lister at his official residence in Down
ing street.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-06-26
INSIST" HUERTA YIELD
ACCEPT PEACE PLAN OR. MEDIA
TON ENDS, is ULTIMATUM
Reported carranza-viIla Split Has
Made No Change in U. S. Plans
Seems But Little Hope from
Longer Farley.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Niagara Falls, Ont, June 20.-Jus-
tice Lamar's memorandum to Emilio
Rabasa. head of the Mexican delega-
ton, announcing that the United
States must insist on the accept
ance OF the plan for the pacification
of Mexico, is an ultimatum. Unless
the Huerta delegates yield, mediation
will end
This is the firm determination of
the United States as it was conveyed
to the mediators Friday. Ambassa-
dor Da Cana of Brazil and Minister
delegates IL their position had
changed in view of the Carranza-Villa
split. and the reply was in tho mega
tive.
1t was an informal talk, but served
to advise the mediators that the pub
lished statements of the American and
Huerta delegates, with their opposite
views on the type of man to be se-
lected for provisional President, de-
fined the unalterable attitude of the
American government
Just what the policy of the United
States would be in the event of the
failure of mediation or what disposi-
tion it would make of the American
troops at Vera Cruz Is unknown even
to the American delegates.
The Huerta commissioners say
they do not know what course of ac-
tion General Huerta may pursue.
Those conversant with the Ameri-
can viewpoint, however. believe Presi-
dent Wilson is determined that, mas
much as there could not be pacifica-
ton in Mexico unless the constitutions
alists accepted any plan that might be
adopted here. the interests of peace
would not be conserved by a continu-
ance of mediation negotiations.
The mediators held no formal ses-
sion Friday because Minister Naon
of Argentina stopped in Washington
instead of returning directly from the
universities where he has been receiv-
ing honorary degrees.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-06-26
MINE BLAST DO0MS 236
Thirty-six Of Fifty Taken Out Die
$50 of 600 in Alberta Shaft at Time
of Explosion Escape.

Lethbridge, Alberta-A terrific ex-
plosion, coming without warning, en-
tombed $50 miners employed in Mine
No. 20 of the Hillcrest Golfers, Ltd.
or the fifty rescued. only fourteen
were living. Despite efforts of the
two-score mine experts laboring amid
the poisonous gases and debris. hope
of rescuing alive the 200 men yet in
the mine is waning.
Men in tho mine when the explo-
sion occurred, GOO. Of whom $50 es.
capped
Number rescued. fifty. of whom
thirty-six died later.
Miners still entombed, 200. probably
killed by fire. which followed the ex.
plosion.
Liege. Belgium.-Two hundred coal
death in the Vielle Marinaye colliery,
near here. when fire broke, out. -Four
hundred men were in the pit, but 200
managed to get out.
Ninety-four Dead Taken From coIIiery
Lethbridge, Alberta.-The bodies of
"a OF the 1877 miners entombed when a
terrific explosion wrecked the inner
workings of mine No. 20 of the Hill.
crest (Alberta) Golfers. Limited, have
been removed to the surface. All hope
of rescuing alive any of the remaining
10s members of the Inflated crew that
entered the mine have been aban-
doned. That the explosion was due to
the forming of gases in the lower
levels of the mine has been generally
accepted.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-06-26
WEST WINS
RATE FIGHT
DENVER AND COLORADO WILL
GET GREAT BENEFIT FROM
CHANGE IN TARIFF.
RAILROADS WIN LANDS
PROPERTY WORTH s7oo, 900, 10000
INVOLVED BY A SUPREME
COURT DECISION.
ws.,sra Nsvrpap.er unIon Nsw. ssrvIe..
Effects Of Rate peeIslon.

United states Supreme Court de-
cision In intermountain rate cases
reduces materially rates on more
than 100 household commodities.
Gives Interstate Commerce Com
mission power to fix zone rates.
Permits higher rates for short
hauis than for long hauls.
Paycs way for future reductions
In freight rates to Denver from
eastern points
Some Of commodities which are
reduced about Csc per hundred
weight: Cotton, wool. silk. meats.
canned goods, flour. coffee. tea.
syrup. furniture. wire, nails. gro
ceries, fruits.
Cluss rates not affected by de-
ctslof
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-06-26
pay,s Deaths BY water and auto.

Denver.--Man falls from canoe and
browns In Washington Park lake. Girl
injured In motorcycle accident dies.
Syracuse, N. Y.-Twelve drown
when their launch strikes submerged
log In Oswego canal.
Chicago. bathers go to
their death during storm on Lake
Michigan.
Los Angeles.-One dead. two In
jured, when auto overturns. Relative
of Gen. Huerta dies of injuries when
struck by auto.