The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-06-03
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


High grade apples retail in Ceylon at a
81 dozen.
Plans are under way for the erection of
large shipbuilding plant at Mobile, Ala.
One hundred and thirty British ships
have been sunk to date by German war
craft.
Fresno County, California, produced last
year 81 900 900 pounps Of raisns, nearly
twice the auanty produced in Spain.
The Germans on the San River were
beaten back Monday by the Russians, who
reported the capture of 1000 men there.
Gov Rye of Tennessee vetoed the bill
abolishing capital punishment on the
ground that to do so would increase lynch
ing.
American foodstuff exports in the ten
months ended with April amounted to
$4,000 more than in the same period of
the previous year.
A contract for 500 900, 900 feet of lumber
is to be placed in British Columbia for
building two-room houses for war sufferers
in Northern France.
Washington, May 31.-Julius Baumgar-
ten, who designed the great seal of the
Southern Confederacy, died at his home
here tonight, aged eighty one years.
w. c. Stuart, who served through the
war with the Rockbridge Artillery, Stone
wall Brigade, and was wounded at Cold
Harbor, died on May 22d, at Lexington, Va.
Charleston, S. c., May 29.-Reports in
dictate that at least twenty negro fishermen
have been drowned in the storm off Charles
ton. Eight fishing boats are known to have
been lost.
Kansas City, May 28.-Eighteen persons
are known to have lost their lives as the
result of storms and floods in Kansas,
Western Missouri and Eastern Oklahoma,
which reached their height last night and
early to-day. The number of injured is
placed at twenty. The property loss will
be heavy.
The Country Doctor.
From the Commercial Appeal
The country has never entertained full
appreciation of the country doctor. At last
the newspapers are paying him tardy
tribute. The Chicago Post thoughtfully
comments upon the conspicuous part he
plays in the service of his fellow man.
The country doctor may not dwell in
stone veneer residence. He may not travel
about country roads in an expensive tour
ing car. He may not number among his
patients men of many thousands. But he
faithfully applies himself. He is con-
sistent worker in the vineyard Of humanity.
When Grover Cleveland was president
Of the United States he attended meeting
Of members of the medical profession. In
his after dinner speech Mr.. Cleveland paid
tribute to the doctor-particularly to the
country doctor. He said that there never
had been proper appreciation OF the work of
the physician, and that as for the country
doctors, their work, their quick sympathies
and their unselfish devotion never rightly
had been recognized by the world to which
they ministered.
In recent years doctors who markedly
advanced their science have been given
full recognition and honor. Perhaps from
the very nature of the case, however, the
praise has been given to the individual
rather than to the greater body of physi-
clans.
The country physician does not occupy
a profitable field. His patients are usually
poor and his fees are paid with considerable
irregularity. He is constantly called upon
to visit at all hours the most isolated Sec
tons. He wins the confidence of his neigh
bors. He is closer in the confidence Of the
average family than the minister. He is
something more than the mere medical ad-
wiser. He is the family conidant. He risks
health and often his life. He goes into the
unknown On his mission of mercy.
Plodding patiently through life, he fills
position Of vital Importance in the COM
munity in which he lives.
Too much cannot be said in behalf of the
country physician. His lot is not altogether
an unpleasant one. Ties are knit which
never wear out, and there is a certain sat-
isfaction in knowing that you are person
ally responsible for the physical welfare of
so many people.
City folks may shake their heads when
the name of the country doctor is mention,
ed, but it is we'll that they should remember
that the country doctor is potent factor
in the future Of society.
Rain Breaking Drought, Worth $2,5OO,OOO.
New Orleans Times-Picayune Saturday, May 10Th.
Two million and half dollars is the
value placed by crop experts on the rainfall
in Louisiana and Mississippi Thursday af-
ternoon and Friday morning. This figure
is the average and in manv cases the esti-