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Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-11
Mr.. Petition. Arrives

Mr.. and Mrs. H. N. Pettibone are
the proud parents of a son who ar
rived Monday, Mother and son are
getting along splendidly.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-11

The question of permitting base-
ball games and moving picture
shows in Bogalusa will be settled
next Tuesday evening at Mass
meetings held in various parts Of the
city, and all who are interested in
the questions involved are urged to
attend the meeting nearest their
section of the city. Three meet
ings will be held, and for this reas-
on it will be necessary to begin the
meetings at the appointed minute
and limit the discussions to one
hour or less. The first meeting of
the evening will be held in the
City Hall in North Bogalusa at 7.30
Residents from North and Northwest
Bogalusa are requested to attend
this meeting. At $50 the second
meeting will be held at Pleasant
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-11
MASS MEETING To DISCUSS SUNDAY BALL
AND PICTURES ON NEXT TUESDAY EVENING

Hill in the Starn's Hall and resi-.
dents of South Boealusa and Pleas
ant Hill are requested to attend this
meeting. The third meeting will be
held in the new Bienn building on
Columbia street, or in the open if
the crowd is too large. Richardson.
town and Columbia street citizens
are expected to attend this meeting.
If you are in favor of Sunday base.
ball and picture shows or if you
oppose them, attend these neiehbor-
hood meetings and state your views
Following the meetings the council
will then decide whether a majority
want these Sunday amusements or
not, and they will act accordingly.
Tell your neighbors to attend the
meetings and be on hand promptly
at the appointed hour.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

NIT. Henry, he said. had been wounded in Wash.
ington, but was recovering. Letters from the
griefstricken girl and boy came within the fol.
lowing week to Salome, and we're so warm and
affectionate that she responded Immediately, but
first to Washington. Return letters from the
brother came steadily and were as steadily an
swered.
Even when Camp Letterman opened and a
hospital of sufficient size to care for all of the
human debris which Gettysburg left had taken
all the invalids from the private homes, Salome
did not give up the work. She followed her sol,
diers over to their new quarters and nursed
them there.
With the advent of winter the nursing was
completed and Salome at last freed from the ex-
acting duties of her new occupation. Her CORE
spondence was still very large. Many of the men
whom she had cared for in the home and who
had heard of her wrote often. Henry Stewart
from the front maintained a continuous chain
of letters. These Salome for some reason an
swered first and bent over the longest. He was
out on furlough in July If all went well, he wrote
in the early spring, and his sisterin-law was
coming with him to see the woman who had made
their loved one happy in his last moments, If
they might. Salome answered Immediately that
they might, and so it happened.
They came early in the morning almost a year
to the day from the Gettysburg conflict. They
came straight to the house, for Salome had writ
ten exact directions. Henry was much like his
brother, and for a moment Salome was touched.
She spoke not. The hair and forehead Of the
man before her was the same as that of the dead
man; the lips had the same curve as those
which had told the pathetic love story that night
close to her cheek. All three were too moved to
speak, and for a time there was a fearful silence
between them Then the little widow went to
the great-hearted embrace of the nurse and Henry
came near to following her, but held the firm,
warm hand instead.
Salome took them over the battlefield, the
church and scenes sacred to Alexander's memory,
and swayed them so completely by her brave,
womanly sympathy and strength that they chung
to her in their grief like children to their moth
ers skirts.
The widow did not let her sorrow so completely
dominate her but that she saw things that led
her to find various excuses for staying away,
when a walk or expedition was mentioned. She
managed to leave the two, Henry and Salome,
more and more alone.
When they plighted their troth 1t is not for
the world to know, but the beautiful romance
came to f%ruition in marriage and Rev. Henry
Stewart and Mrs. Stewart lived happily in Gettys
burg for many years.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Slowly he told her of the verse his father had read
to both him and his brother when they had left
for the front. She turned to the place and read it,
all the while bathing his flushed forehead. He
seemed relieved and talked much of his father
and brother. Then he looked up at her and spoke
In a strange, strained voice as though something
almost too sacred for mention were being talked
of. Girl, you know can't-why, I'm married
Just two days, and she'll never see me. Oh" he
groaned and shut his eyes.
She found, from the doctor, that no wounded
man could be removed from the hospital. How
ever, she urged so affectingly for the privilege of
bearing the young soldier into her fathers home
that he consented, and sent two attendants to
carry him over.
On the spare bed he was placed and his bloody
clothing removed. Between the cool, clean sheets he
breathed easier and seemed by contrast to be in
veritable comfort.
Once as Salome sat by the bedside of her first pa
tient she learned his name was Alexander Stew.
art. Stewart, while she leaned across tanning
steadily, told in long, dragging breaths of his
brother. Henry and he had been inseparable all
their lives and had gone off together. Henry was
the finest man God had ever made, and he had
hoped they might be together when they came to
separate for the last time, but his head sank and
Salome said nothing. There was nothing for her
to say. She ran out, got a pencil and paper and
wrote to Henry in Washington, then to the timid
bride back at home, and to the father and mother.
When she had finished Stewart was asleep.
Salome returned to the hospital and labored on.
The second day of Gettysburg was beginning to
send in its terrible toll, and there was more and
more work to be done.
Her own home was crowded, and her mother,
still calm and wonderfully skillful, cooked and pre-
pared necessities and delicacies with magic ce-
lerity.
She scarcely knew when the three days fight
was over, so intent was she upon caring for her
patients, and 80 steadily did they come in. AS
many as they could find room for were brought
into the Myers home. Fourteen were provided
for. For weeks the house was full. and neither
woman slept in a bed.
On the sixth of July young Stewart died. Sa-
lone was with him to the last, for he had been
her first patient, and she had held his head
tight against her when he had talked of his young
bride. But she had no time to weep. A man in
the next room was calling for water, and she
had merely. time to close the dead mans eyes
and fold his hands across his chest. But that
night she wrote long letters to the young widow
and to the brother In Washington. In a few
days the father came to claim the body, and ne
thanked the girl as well as his grief would per.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
URGED CULTIVATION OF TREES
Henry Ward 5eecher, Fifty Years Ago,
Sought to Awaken New England
to Its Possibilities.

Henry Ward Beecher in Norwood"
so years ago, said: 81 have often mar
veled that, in a time of such taste and
liberality, so little should be done
with trees. New England might be a
magnificent park, with but a slight ex-
pense, if only n dedicated himself to
doing good through the love of beauty.
Every great road, every by-road, o
Meeting towns and villages, or neigh
borhoods, if concert was secured,
might not only be judiciously plant
ed, but, by a little study and care in
the selection, all the fine trees might
in time be employed until every u
ty would become an arboretum. Such
is the spirit of emulation that if a
single town should perfect this work,
other towns would catch the inspira-
ton, and the work would go on with
energy until all unclothed road would
become a %reproach."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Roses for Oregon School Yards.

Many Oregon school yards that have
been without flowers will blossom
with roses in a year or two, and others
that have not been altogether stran-
gers to roses will have more of them,
if $500 hardy little bushes that are
to be sent out from the university gar
dens this spring manage to survive
the trials Of being transplanted. Each
spring at pruning time thousands Of
rose slips cut from the bushes on the
university campus are planted for dis
tribution the following spring to high
schools of the state, to public build
ings, libraries, hospitals and other
suitable institutions. From twelve to
twenty bushes are sem in each pack
age
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

give me my chance TO go to a decent
school, instead of shutting me up
here"
why don't you look at the chair
man when you speak to him, you In
solent girl?" demanded the matron.
The girl raised her sullen eyes to
his, and Holmes saw-Lillian's. He
saw the soul of Lillian looking at him
directly out of the eyes of this way
ward girl of the slums. He saw the
appealing gaze of Lillian, and 1t
seemed to say:
"She is not /. She is the product
of her environment, but l am l, and
we know each other across the bridge
of death"
The chairman spoke presently, in a
s~ingularly self-contained and quiet
voice.
"Matron, l will be responsible for
this girl. ] will have her educated,
and see what l can make of her"
The matron thought that the heat
had affected him. So did the secre-
tary and the st~enographer. But
Holmes and the girl left the home
together.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

G~MMN
o0 w.
FIRES AND TOWN PLANNING
Many Instances May Be Cited Where
a Little Foresight Would Have
Saved Much Money.

Paris, Tex, which recently jumped
into notice because fire destroyed the
greater part Of the town, is busy with
plans for rebuilding according to a
systematic town plan. A town planner
has been imported, and when Paris
rises from its ashes it will be a better
built and more convenient town to get
around in than it ever was before, If
what is accomplished m up to the
expectation Of the people.
The people of Paris show a remark
able spirit when they are able to sur
vey their ruined town and still have
mind and foresight left to think of
town planning along modern lines; but
the chances of success would have
been better if the plan had been
evolved before the fire, when Paris
had more time for deliberation and a
gradual u%pbuilding of public sentiment.
When the village of Detroit was re-
planned, more than a century ago.,
after a fire that burned every building
in the place, mistakes were made that
plague the city to this day. San Fran
cisco ignored its great opportunity a
decade ago. If Chicago had had a
town plan back in the seventies Chi
Cages present planning problems
might not be half so formidable, and in
this country of big fires any city may
have it's melancholy chance to make
new street lines or lay out new parks
owe its ashes.
The remoteness of the chance that a
conflagration will visit any city may
seem to make this consideration but a
weak argument for town planning, but
it is not necessary to burn a whole
town down to give the well-matured
town plan a chance. In Cleveland not
many years ago the burning of a sim
gle building gave the city an oppor-
tunity to make an extremely valuable
street extension in the downtown dis
trict. If that particular extension had
not been in the public mind for a long
while the chance might have been
overlooked and a heavy bill for a
wrecked building would have been the
result when the street was finally
0pened.-Chicago Herald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
III


Amusement, mingled with scandal,
greeted this action on Holmes part.
His new ward excited the bitter ami
mostly of his own children. They
guessed that he was infatuated with
Laura Dean. When he spoke of send
ing her to school, they imagined it
was to fit her to take her place at
the head of the household.
For a month he kept her in his
home, but then the mutual recrimina-
tons became too strong, and he sent
her to a boarding establishment for
young ladies. During that month,
however, Holmes had satisfied himself
that Laura was by no means bad.
She was naturally a woman entitled
to the good things of life. The
pinched and tawdry environment of
her home had been impossible for a
girl of her type.
Her temper was violent, yet some
times, when they were alone togeth-
er, Holmes would see the old look of
Lillian in her eyes. And it seemed
to him that this girl was Lillian re-
born on earth. Once he questioned
her. b
do you know the name Lillian
Huntley?" he asked.
The girl looked amazed, almost stu
pefied. The look of Lillian, the love
of Lillian shone in her eyes and was
reflected in every feature.
81 seem to remember it." she muir
INJURED, passing her hand across her
forehead.
Holmes was sure then. But would
she remember? If he gave her the
advantages that Lillian had had,
would she come to know him as her
destined lover. destined through all
the ages? He resolved to try the ex-
pertinent.
The school to which he sent her
was a special one, guaranteed to in
culcate refinement among the chill
dren of parents who had suddenly
risen in the world. When Laura came
home at the end of the first year. with
excellent reports, although she was
considered a little headstrong, Holmes
found that she was as well bred as
his own daughters.
This only increased the i'll feeling
They thought their father was going
to marry her at once. But Holmes
had other plans. He meant to send
Laura to the same university that Lii.
liam had attended, that her dormant
soul might be awakened there.
And it seemed unnecessary to speak
of love, because the calm and stead.
fast eyes of Lillian seemed always in
Laura's face. and their love was toe
real to require utterance.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
4gyIl Exev Nothing But saulnt.

1t is probable that the EVIL eye,'
for which many hapless old women
were harried to their death on the
suspicion of witchcraft in 'the good
old days" was no more than a common
squirt, a east" in the eye. OF boss
ing" as it is called in many parts OF
the country to this day, writes DR.. N,
Bishop Hartman in the British Journal
of Children's Diseases. Not only was
the squirt thought to be of evil sig
nificance, but the defect itself was COR
sidered to be the work of evil spirits.
In king Lear" we find the following
in the scene ON the heath at night:
"This is the foul iend Flibbertigib
bet: He begins at curfew, and walks
till the first cock; he gives the wet
and the pin. squints the eye, ami
makes the harelip; mildews the white
wheat, and hurts the poor creature Of
earth"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Just
a Dream
BY H. M. EGBERT
Copyright, 1916. by w. G. Chapman.)

Gerald Holmes was what the world
called a successful a At fifty he
had won a place in the estimation of
his community. He was rich, a wild
over of several years standing, and
the father Of grownup children. And,
like many successful men, he knew
that life had been for him a failure.
His marriage had been happy
enough. Hardly anyone knew, and
none of his own children knew, the
story of his early love affair with Lii
lian Huntley. They had been class
mates at college, they had loved each
other since they first saw each other.
They were engaged to be married as
soon as Holmes had established him
self in his profession as a scientific
engineer. Often in a~fterdays, when
he was called from end to end of the
great continent to achieve success at
this profession where other men
had failed, Holmes would recall how
he and Lillian had fought i've those
problems together in her little room,
where she, with her trained mind, was
able to aid even him, the first in the
class at the university.
Their lives had had such prospects
of rich fruit; they were so perfectly
satisfied with each other, that Holmes
had always felt their Joy was to be
snatched from them. Lillian fought
for five days against pneumonia.
Tomorrow will be the crisis said
the doctor.
But when the crisis came Lillian
could not withstand it.
He was called to her bedside in her
last hours. The struggle for life had
ceased, and her beauty, her strength,
her faculties were going out swiftly
on the ebb-tide.
Il want you to be happy, Gerald"
she whispered. And. seeing the look
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
"

Holmes was counting the days until
Laura's return. He meant to ask her
to become his wife. He had no antici-
patton of a refusal. His children,
after protracted quarreling, had
talked of leaving him. Holmes did not
care. He felt that he had resumed
that early life which Lillian's death
had broken off. Only two weeks re
manned till her return.
He read her letters. Affectionate
they were, such as a daughter might
write to a father; yet Holmes read
something dearer into them. In his
%infatuation he could hardly wait for
the time to expire.
That evening a telegram was put
into his hand. He tore it open, while
the messenger waited; and, as he did
so, he felt a sudden chill foreboding.
1t read as follows:
Professor Murray and I were mar
ried this afternoon. Dear father. will
you send us your blessing?"
The man, retaining full self-control
in that moment of stunning shock,
penciled: God bless you as l do"
upon the form. Then he turned away.
And it came to him then that life is
for living and not for dreaming. Lii
liam, If she had ever come back to
him, required his strength, his cogni-
ton, to make her know herself. He
saw that she was lost to him in life
forever,
But afterwards he saw, with a great
gladness, that love was never lost,
and that what part of Laura's person
atty had been his would remain his
forever.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
When Charity is Offensive.

Charity is offensive in its publicity
and its givings, 1t destroys the re-
ceiver's sensitiveness, then his use
fulness, then his manhood. Persist
ence in receiving charity will create
a nation of paupers. If the money now
spent in charity could be expended in
educating all, rich and poor, in the
ethics of justice in the distribution of
wealth, the seeming necessity for
charity would disappear when these
ethics were applied TO the conduct of
society.-Detroit Journal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
cultivate Good Manners.

From a wide experience, / believe
this matter of manners to be one for
the most earnest consideration, and a
noted writer well expresses it thus.
Good in the household are
like oil on complicated machinery
like cushions spread over rough and
winding ways-but they are more
important than anything else in their
strong influence on character. The
result Of a refined early life shows IT,
self in ali that a man or woman be
comes.'-M. A. Moore.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
K FROM

A large number Of wood pulp fac
tories in the north Of Sweden have
been forced to shut down on account
of the exorbitant freight rates prevail
ing.
Ireland has S4,s69 land holders hav-
ing plots not exceeding an acre, 61.-
$50 who hold more than one acre and
not more than five acres; 1929 UNI
der 10. and 136.05S not exceeding 80.
A. TRANSPORT workers. battalion Ia
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

A Pennsylvania inventors combina-
ton billiard and pool table that a be
folded compactly is featured by a bed
made of heavy rubber instead Of slate.
Mai. Charles Young OF the United
States army. to whom the Spingarn
medal was recently awarded, is a full
blooded negro.
Steam railroads ia this country burn
1876, 900, 900 tons of coal a year.
President Ryan Of the Anaconda
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

In general health schemes, looking
to the ultimate benefit of municipali-
ties, the importance of clean streets
is not being overlooked. Intelligent
treatment of questions OF this charac-
ter iss responsible, in large measure,
for the d~windling death rates in big
American cities.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Foolish Question and Pert Maid.
I'D like to get off tomorrow after
noon to go to my uncle's funeral"
is your uncle dead. Mary?"
mo, ma'am. We're just buryint
him because its the custom"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

The garden house illustrated here is
complete and needs vines only for en-
Enlistment. A skeleton roof of rafters
only, no sheeting or shingles, could
be put up and covered with vines, max
ing an arbor rather than a house. Seats
may be built in Or movable benches or
chairs used.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

"Belong to Whom7" Inquired Holmes.
on his face, she added, with a faith
that amazed him:
81 know all good comes TO those
who wait. l know that some day the
perfect life will unfold for us. | want
you to marry and be happy in this
life, Gerald. and, some day, IL will
come to you again."
Then her eyes closed and she began
to pass into that place from which
none return, so far as we positively
know, though we all hope that we may
meet there.
For days after her death Gerald
shut himself up in his o and re-
fused to see anyone. Then, all of a
sudden, just when his friends had be-
gun to despair of him, he changed.
Something had been at work to
change the nature Of the man. 1t
seemed as if he had resolved to for
get all his memories of the past. He
worked hard and he played hard. He
was now called callous. He married,
- SOhAoCi LIN oOAo III udu6iHCIo
were born to him. Then his wife
died, and he lived with his children
in his fine house in a suburban dis
trict, undertaking only occasional
work of a highly remunerative and
national character. At fifty his life's
interests had closed. He did not
know what to do with himself. His
eldest daughter wanted him to marry
again. She brought suitable ladies
to the house: but she soon saw that
her father did not look upon her
scheme with approval.
II
Among Holmes civic interests was
that of the Girls home. He was sit
ting in his capacity as chairman of
the board when n Of the inmates
was brought to him. She was a girl
of about eighteen, and apparently in
corrigible. He listened to the ma
irons story as the girl stood sullenly.
with downcast eyes, before him.
She was not bad, but hayward.
Her parents, poor laboring people, had
never been able to control her. She
had a passion for finery. and had been
caught pilfering from one of the de-
partment stores. She had been com
mitted to the home, and had refused
to obey any of the rules, and had de-
fled the authorities.
The matron requested permission
to have her sent back to the court
for sentence for the theft.
"A prison sentence will stamp her
irredeemably as an outcast," suggest
ed Holmes.
She's that now, sir" said the ma
tron angrily. There's no way to dis
cipline her"
What is the ~trouble?" Holmes
asked the girl.
STE began to speak without raising
her eyes They hain't treated me
fair" she blurted out. II don't belong
to them"
Belong to whom?' inquired Holmes.
That lot down to the East side.
I'm a lady. l amt goin' to mi with
that crowd Of loafers and shop girls.
| want my chance. For Gods sake.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-02-19
FOR RENT VERY CHEAP

2 houses with barns and
other outhouses in Garland
Addition to the town Of Ope-
lousas. Those two houses are
situated on a lot $40 It. long
by 200 1T. wide. The place
for the party who may have .
horse or COW. Will rent cheap
For further particulars apply
to Alfred Vidrine, Mail Car
Ter. OpeIousas. La. nov ~