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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
How Ii Is Done.

Dear Sir-Will you kindly publish
directions for tying bow tie? Roger
Coot."
Welf Roger, you hold the tie In your
left hand and your collar In the other.
Slip your neck in the collar and cross
the left hand end of the tie over the
right with the left hand, steadying the
right end with the other hand. Then
drop both hands, catching the left with
the right and the other with the other
Reverse hands and pick up the loose
end with the nearest hand. Pull this
end through the loop with your unen-
gagged hand and squeeze. You will find
the knotsall tied. and all you have to do
is to untangle your hands.-Dartmouth
,Iack-o' Lantern.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
A Mica Distinction,

A congressional committee went to a
certain state to assist in opening an
exposition. There was a parade in
the morning In which all the visiting
statesmen rode In automobiles. The
local committee brought the cars
around to the leading hotel. The
scheme was to- have two senators or
representatives and two local men in
each car
After the vice president and his party
had been sent away n local notable
who was acting as major domo came
into the lobby of the hotel, where the
1.-TWO congressman and two gentle
men, pleaser'-Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16

esting point Of law involved, and the
lawyer came up well prepared to drive
his argument home. The books were
piled On table in front OF him.
The jurist had been sitting on the
bench at the outset. and the attorney
had reached the point where he wish
ed to make the court realize the i'm
port Of the matter by reading from
United States supreme court decisions.
He leaned over the table and hurried
through the tome to where he wished
to read. .-- $751;.
Looking up. the lawyer discovered
the seat on the bench was vacant He
gazed into space for a second. then
asked right out loud:
"Where's that Internal fool gone
now?'
And then he looked around, and there
was the judge directly behind him.
peering into the lawbook from which
the now rather embarrassed legal light
wished to read.-Case and Comment.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
Charlotte Rooster.

Samuel O'Keefe, a retired Wall
street man. is almost daily visitor at
Il hospital for joint diseases. where a
friend is receiving treatment There
are many invalid children at the hos
pital and Mr.. O'Keefe often takes them
candy, and on one memorable occasion
imported consignment Of charlotte
russo.
A day Or two following the charlotte
russo festival he visited the children's
ward again and was greeted by loud
shouts of approval His arrival was
first noted by little boy. said by the
nurses to be las smart as whip"
who shouted gleefully:
"Oh. look! here comes the charlotte
rooster!'
Under the circumstances Mr.. O'Keefe
felt that any further refreshment
ought to be ION him"-New York Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16

publican successor, Harrison. There was
the 'sBlack Friday panic and general
hard times when Grant, Republican, was
President, and in Theodore Roosevelt's
time-everybody remembers the panic
of 1907 followed by continued hard times
under Taft, both Republican admins
trations. Good times with Wilson as
President should dispell the deep i'm
preston of Mark Hanna's advertising in
the campaign of 1896. The Democratic
Presidents acquired from France and
Mexico two thirds of the territory out
of which the United States were formed,
and thus laid the foundation for all the
prosperous administrations that have
followed. With Wilson as President
during the next four years we hope to
have such prosperity that Mark Hanna's
false doctrine will be forgotten. The
Republican party, as now controlled,
stands discreditcd with the American
people. It was Theodore Roosevelt who
made the campaign just closed a hopeful
one for them by swinging IS per cent OF
more of his Progressives into line fol
Hughes and thus apparently reunitine
the old Republican party. But the line
of cleavage is there. A head cut off is
a head that will not grow ON again
Roosevelt took the life out of his party
when he bolted its convention in 1912
Able man and politician that he is, thai
life cannot be restored by him. The
Republican party ought to be good ant
dead, and we of better ideals trust ane
believe that it has passed forever from
the stage of American politics.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
Getting Full Value.

I Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the pianist, tells
the story of a pupil who came to Har-
old Bauer and asked his terms for les
sons. After the fourth lesson he said
to her:
."''Why. madame. do you always bring
rhapsodies, etudes swift music? Why
not a quiet number. something that
shows your phrasing-some andanteT
"Mr Bauer" replied the pupil. "your
lessons are too, expensi, e-I can't at
ford to play the slow music" ~
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
Lumber for Sale

4 ! have purchased all the remaining
buildings, trans, sheds and foundations
at Bolinger, as well as enough of the
new lumber to take care of the local
trade. Any one wanting lumber viii
find stock on hand there, at low prices.
Will handle Windows, Doors, Lime,
Brick, Cement and Shingles. 1 expect
to handle all kinds Of building material.
/ Come and see me. Yours truly,
45-tf R. C. PURCELL.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
Poor Little Goose!

Seems as if / can never flnd de-
cent quill in the house, growled the
eighteenth century author.
Il think it would pay you to keep q
goosew sharply retorted his wife.
"You mean one that would be Of
some help to me, don't your chortled
the brute.-Eetroit Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
SHARPENING a Pocketknife.

Cutters have certain rules for sharp,
ening razors. pocketknives, etc. "A
razor" said one of the craft quoted
by the Scientific American. must be
laid fiat on the hone. because it Is hol-
low ground and requires a fine edge.
But pocketknife requires a stiff edge,
and the moment you lay it fiat on a
stone, so as to touch the polished side,
you injure the edge. 1t must be held
at: an angle of twenty to twenty-five
degrees and have an edge similar to Il
chiSel"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
Sweet Content.


Sweet are the thoughts that SAVIOR OF con-
tent.
Tho quiet mind Is richer than a crown
Sweet are the nights In careless slumbers
spent.
The poor estate scorns Fortunes angry
frown.
Such sweet content, such minds. such
sleep, such bliss.
Beggars enjoy when princes Oft do miss.
The hornely house that harbors quiet rest,
The cottage that affords nor price nor
care, -,
The mean that 'grees with country music
best,
The sweet consort OF mirth and modest
fare
Obscured life sets down type of bliss.
mind content both crown and kingdom
.. is Robert Greene.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
Coyotes.

The annual losses Of live stock on
the national forest ranges Of the west
due to predatory animals are over
100000. approximately IS per cent
of the sheep losses are due to coyotes.
Mountain lions are charged with kill
ing only. a few head of cattle and sheep.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
a Real Puzzle.

Ezra Haskins, constable of New
England village. had an exalted opinion
of his ability as a detective. He also
read everything he. could find on the
career of Sherlock Holmes. until he
imagined that he had thereby acquired
wonderful deductive abilities. Now.
gentlemen. said he. on one occasion
TO his assistants in particular case,
Eve have traced these clews-tllc foot.
prints Of the horse and the footprints
OF the man. right up here to this stump.
from the stump on there's only the
footprints Of the horse. Now, gentle
ren, the question arises: What has
become of the MANI"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
AN UNANSWERED QUESTION.

The Lawyer Who Asked It Was Willing
to Forego Any Reply.
There is a judge on the circuit bench
who hears testimony and listens to ar
guments after any manner he chooses.
Sometimes he does q marathon around
the courtroom, at other times he takes
q flier out into the corridor, and again
he goes into his chambers. -......
A certain eminent legal light wasn't
on to all these curves, and he was try
ing an important case before the wan.
dering judge There was most inter
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
Best Way to look at Life.

Make the most and best of your lot
and compare yourself not with the
few that are above you, but with the
multitude which are below you.-Sam-
uel johnson.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
Individual Verdicta.

The lady jury had been out for hours.
The judge looked tired, the clerk
yawned. the loungeTs slept
The bailiff. after listening at the key
hole several times, shook his head with
a discouraged air.
And then. quite Unexpectedly, the
jury announced it was ready to report.
and the twelve ladies fled in.
"Have you agreed upon verdicty'
the demanded. 80
The forelady smiled.
I'VE have agreed upon twelve YER
diets, your honor" she told him in her
flutelike voice. -:*.
you are dischargedr' reared the
judge.
isn't he horridT' said the ladies'
Exchange.
The Woman In the Case.
A mother-in-law had stayed SO often
with her daughter as to cause quar-.
rel with the husband
One day she found her. daughter
weeping in the drawing broom.
What's the matter? Gracious me,
don't say that George has left your
she exclaimed.
He has," replied the young wife
tearfully.
Then there's woman In the case r.
mater asked. her eyes lighting up ex.
pectantly.
YES"
who is 1T"
Your
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16
RETRosPECTlVE
Fifty Years Ago.

From the Banner Of Nov. II, 1S6G-Beilevue.l
"Maximilian is reported as saying
that he "would he hanged if he would
leave Mexico without fight" He was
not hanged but shot.l
ga gentleman recently returned from
New Orleans said that in hotel in that
city he heard the following toast pro-
posed and drunk:
Here's to the hand that drew the trigger,
That shot the man that freed the niger"
THE Banner reproduces the foregoing
paragraph for the same reason that it
was published by the editor fifty years
ago-for its news interest. The man
who killed Lincoln dealt the South a
heavier blow than Lincoln was capable
of dealing. 1t gave the Radicals at the
North the pretext they wanted for severe
measures in dealing with the Southern
people. The actor who shot Lincoln was
insane or criminal, according to the taste
OF the reader, but some of those at least
who were hanged for his crime were
innocent of the completely with which
they were charged, and among them was
woman. 1t was the bitterness engen-
dered by this and hundreds of other
unjust acts that followed that inspired
the doggerellines, and not admiration for
the
"Cotton in the value of $4,000, 900
was run through the blockade during the
Confederate War;" THAT would not
be great deal of cotton this season at
IL cents per pound and upwards, but it
was still less then. Cotton reached the
market altitude Of 70 cents per pound
during the last months of that war.1
"The Supreme Court of Indiana, by a
unanimous vote, has decided that the
Thirteenth Article of the State Consti
tuition, called the Black Article which
forbids negroes from coming into the
state, to be in conflict with the Consti
tuition of the United States, and void
constitutions change as the interests
and sentiments of the people change. L
million negroes were moving TOWARD
Indiana with a view to locate in tina
commonwealth there would be short],
found or made clause to see that the,
didn't do it.
LOCAL.
"Last Wednesday night we were
favored with very heavy frost-the frs
OF the season. Weather cool and bracine
with quite a demand for fires, warn
blankets, ETC."
"Thc health of our parish hasimprouct
rapidly during the past few weeks. w,
hope the early appearance of His High
ness, Jack Frost, will quash the furthe
reign of King Qainine in our midst"
"Died, on the 7th day of November
1866, at the residence OF his parents, il
Bellevue, Asourry Alexander Abney
son OF Hon. A. A. Abney and his con
sort, Mrs. Louisa Abney, aged fou
years, eleven months and ten days"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16

Il you have something on your farm
you would like to convert into money
advertise it in the Banner.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-11-16

Number IS.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
THINKS GOLF is BENEFICIAL
Jack coombs Of Brooklyn Dodgers,
Says Game Helps Ball Player
in Securing Control.

Il cannot agree with these men
who say golf is bad for ball player,
says Jack Coombs of the Brooklyn
Dodgers. ut helps him more than
an ordinary man realizes. One of the
greatest assets of the game is abso-
lutte control of oneself, in which
confidence plays an important part.
Thus, the mind being under control,
one thinks of the importance resting
upon him. There only is one thought
succeed.
at is true the swing in golf is far
different from that used in baseball.
There are few ball players, however,
who do not bring that stroke of their
profession into golf. If you will look
back to the games 1 pitched for the
Athletics on Mondays, you will notice
from the box scores that my batting
was far superior to that on other
days. I played golf every Sunday,
rain or shine, and as l often said to
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
MOTHER! LOOK At
CH|LD'S TONGUE
If cross, feverish, constipated,
give california Syrup
of Figs"

A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste. liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour.
Look at the tongue, mother! II coat
ed, or your child is listless, cross, few
| erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat
Heartily, full of cold or has sore throat
4or any other children's ailment, give
teaspoonful of California Syrup of
Figs" then don't worry, because it is
perfectly harmless, and in a few hours
III this constipation poison, sour bile
hnd fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels. and you have
II well, playful child again. A thor
.opgh INSIDE cleansing" is ofttimes all
that is necessary. 1t should be the
drst treatment given in any sickness.
I Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
ASK at the store for 50-cent bottle Of
kCalifornia Syrup Of Figs" which has
FULL directions for babies, children of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
DAIRYING ON BUSINESS BASIS
and Record Book-keep Account
With Each Cow.

In order to put dairying upon a bust
ness basis every farmer needs to use
the milk scales. the tester and the rec
ord book Farmers must come to this
proposition and do little simple book
keeping to know where they are.
Every successful business man has a
ledger to guide him in his transac-
lions.
Every dairyman needs to enter a
separate account with each of his cows
so that he may have an indicator to
tell him at the end of the year just
how much feed each has consumed,
the amount of milk produced and the
percentage it tests.
Too many farmers of this country
are still keeping scrub cows, feeding
and milking them twice each day,
fourteen times each week and sixty
times each month.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04

| been showered with on the football
field. Once Jim Savage gave me two
black eyes and they stopped the fight
because 1 looked bad, and once Gun
boat Smith knocked me down. That
is all the damage I ever suffered in
the ring. But on the gridiron-
Wheel" laughed Moran.
Them was the rough days. I was
laid out more than once and suffered
bruises and bumps galore, and bro
ken rib, too.
And they call fighting brutal" went
on the blond Pittsburgh boy. well,
do you imagine for an instant that
chap could play in 200 football games?
Many Of cur boxers, past and present,
have engaged in over eco fights. Cans,
Dixon, Baldwin, Attell and others
have done so. No football player
could play two hundred games unless
he possessed feline number of lives.
Boxing is large and successful
profession. Professional football is
failure. Why? Because football is the
tougher of the two"
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
Innocent Merriment.

The following conversation was
overheard between two of DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw's little nieces. who were
seriously discussing votes for women:
II shan't tell the girls at school that
I'm a suffragist," confided the older
sister.
"I don't mind If they know I'm one,"
burst out the smaller girls. What
do you care for?"
Because they will all laugh at me-"
her sister admitted.
"Why, don't you know" came the
solemn reply, that people have been
laughing at Aunt Anna for hundreds
and hundreds of years?"
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
In the effort to eradicate
HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA

Hoyt's Headache and Neuralgia Cologne
bow heads the list as successful remedy
for the relief of headache, nervousness, IN
tomnia, car sickness, etc.
Z The dangerous tablet has had it's day.
Hoyt's Headache and Neuralgia Cologne
j. harmless, refreshing, fragrant prepa-
$ation, marvellous in its action, reliev-
ing nervousness, sleeplessness, exhaustion
and all head and nerve ailments by ex-
fernal use and inhaling. 1t is not nerve
Good, but a nerve soother. By giving the
nerves rest they furnish their own food
And tone, and all nerve pains disappear.
Z For children's colds and catarrh it is
ust the remedy, harmless and efficient and
10 pleasant to use. For men a pleasant
%emedy to relieve and clear the head "the
morning after the night before" This is
not an expensive preparatio at so cents
bottle, because it brings the relief. 1t has
1pany imitators at less price, but if they
10 not bring the desired results they are
bot cheap at any price.
I Get Hoyt's and you will be satisfied.
Tor sale at all drug stores.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
8 sIt${IIiiEIs|sl|fti aEI1s
:. :. !S!4;!!aH|E,f|',s,:fl|'t,,';3;.
with the systesY, fpiI sua<
Of po;1MHd .IH

Millions of folks battle Internally
how instead of loading their system
with 1pUss "Whattsa n inside bath ?"
you say. Well, it is guaranteed to per-
form miraclee sid Hou could believe
these hot water enthusiasts.
= There are vast numbers of men and
women who, Immediately upon arising
IN the morning, drink glass of real
bot water with teaspoonful of lime
btone phosphate in it. This is a very
Excellent health measure. 1t is in
fended to flush the stomach, liver, kid
Meys and the thirty feet of intestines
of the previous days waste, sour bile
and indigestible material left over in
the body which, if not eliminated every
day, become food for the millions of
bacteria which infest the bowels, the
quick result is poisons and toxins
which are then absorbed into the
blood causing headache, bilious at
tacks, foul breath, bad taste, colds,
stomach trouble, kidney misery, sleep
lessness, impure blood and all sorts
of ailments.
People who feel good one day and
badly the next, but who simply can
not get feeling right are urged to OBJ
tain quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from any druggist or store
keeper This will cost very little but
is sufficient to make anyone a real
crank on the subject of internal sani-
tation.
Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin, cleansing. sweetening and
freshening, so limestone phosphate
and hot water act on the stomach,
liver. kidneys and bowels. 1t is vast
ly more important to battle on the in.
side than on the outside, because the
skin pores do not absorb impurities in
to the blood. while the bowel pores do.
ADV
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
Harvard's ROWING Plans.

Harvard's plans for the rowing sea-
son include races with Princeton, Cor
nell and Yale. The race with the
Tigers will be rowed ON April %,
during the spring recess, coming as
a climax of a weeks practice at
Princeton. Cornell will be rowed at
Cambridge probably on Saturday, May
20. The announced regatta with Yale
is scheduled for June %.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
URGE CLEANLINESS IN DAIRY
Mechanical Mixer Admits No Dust or
Dirt, but Must Be Kept Scru-
pulousIy Clean.

Much is said of the cleanliness of
milk. Most people like to use pail in
milking that has as small an opening
mechanical mixer has no opening
that can admit dust or dirt into the
milk except where the milk is taken
into the tubes. These can be packed
with clean cotton if necessary, thus
prev enting the entrance of dirt or
dust.
But the milk taken into the ma
chimes may be contaminated by the
dirt left in the machine from the
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
Tennis Games Prove Profitable.

officers of the National Tennis asso.
citation are highly gratified with the
financial report OF the year, including
its net profits of almost $4,000 for
The first national championship tour
nament held outside the Casino courts
Of Newport. Now that the stands used
for the David cup matches of 1914 and
the titular tourney this season are en-
tirely paid, the net gate receipts at
the 1916 championships should estab-
lish new record If the contests are
held in either New York. Chicago or
Philadelphia.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
SAFER THAN FOOTBALL
Frank Moran Compares College
Game With That of Boxing.
Rough Handling In Ring Pleasant
Dream Compared to Treatment
Received on Gridiron-Fiqht-
ing Supposed to Be Brutal.

Frank Moran, who is leading con-
tender for the heavyweight title, was
perusing the football results recently
in New York. The football columns
receive Franks attention first in any
newspaper.
"Ah, that's the game for you'll" en-.
Unused Moran. Football is one Of
the greatest games in the woodland
the toughest. Boxing is a cinch when
compared with football. know.
have played at both games. played
football regularly for three years
and pardon me if say I was a pref
ty fair player. In 1908 1 studied dem
tistry at the University of Pittsburgh
and played with it's football team. Al
ter that | played left tackle on the
Pittsburgh Lyceums, high-class pro-
fessional team that toured the sur
rounding country and met the best
pro teams as the Easter Superbas,
Canton Tigers and the Columbus Pan
handle eleven. So you see l know
what 1 am talking about" concluded
Moran.
yes, sir fighting is supposed to be
brutal sport and is being legislated
against in some parts of the country,
but let me tell you that 1 have been
battered and banged more in one foot
ball game than during all my career
in the ring. II the ring you fight one
man, on the gridiron you have eleven
to battle.
1.-THE worse beating l ever received
as boxer was pleasant dream COM
pared with the rough handling have
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-02-04
censors on the seashore.

Irwin Cobb, looking over an Atlantic
City paper when he was there for the
trial performance of Back Home,
was reminded of the fact that the sea-
shore papers are as careful never to
mention drowning as San Francisco
paper is to avoid mention of earth
quakes, relates the Philadelphia REQ
ord, and he told of finding one day the
following sentence in story evidently
doctored by the censors: \
"Mr. So-and-So died Of shock, in shah
low water. The body was not recov-
cred"