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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
Some Authorizations.
:. cwt., dwt., @. a/c.

Viz. o.. cwt., dwt.. q. a/c.
Do you know why we write these
everyday signs and what their origins
are? Viz. is derived from the first two
letters of the Latin word "videlicet.'
meaning namely" The z is a cor
ruption of an ancient sign something
like 3 that, in the middle ages, was
always placed at the end of an alb
breviated word to mark it's incomple-
tion
In course Of time this sign became z.
The same applies to o.. our abbrevia-
ton for ounce.
The letters h.. standing for pounds
in weight, are the first and third letters
of the Latin word '1ibrae." Cwt
(hundredweight, and dwt penny.
weight are also authorizations Of Latin
words The is the Latin mineral
for a hundred: the d the initial letter
of denarius penny, and the W.T. is
short for the word weight.
A/c stands for account current
the stroke only being put to separate
the letters The q stands for "ad-.'
the Latin word for lat" or "to."-Lon
don Standard.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

in the affairs of the Government. Per-
haps both assertions are true. The
South's turn was long time coming.
But this reminds one of Gov. Bob Tay-
lor's remarks on the Mason and Dixon
line. He said it was the dividing line
between cold lightbread and hot bis
cults and it was good line destined to
remain as long as those north of it con-
tinued to say "You hadn't orter done
it" and those south of it say 81 done
done it," That line has faded some
what since Gov. Taylor's day. Hot
biscuits are eaten now as far north as
Boston and almost every one in the
South knows cold bakers bread may
soon be selling at 10 cents the loaf,
though few seem to be excited about it.
The Republican campaign committee
hadn't orter send out such literature.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
Recine For Flower Garden.

Take twenty square yards of sand
and pebbles. stir in sufficient clay to
make compact water tight mass. ram
down hard and score the surface with
a rake. Add carefully ten packets of
seeds of the most magnificent flower
known that will grow anywhere and
under any conditions, throwing up q
continuous succession of enormous
flower trusses from March to Novem
Der each petal five inches across and
of the richest and most glowing tints
This Is the commonest of all lowers
and will he found listed on any page
of any florists catalogue. Set the
whole out to rise. keeping it moist and
warm After allowing the mass to
rise four months sprinkle red spiders
and green aphides plentifully over the
top and soak we'll with tears. The
net result may be preserved in small
bottle of alcohol for future reference.
philadelphia North American.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

guns $50 ohHce nd mem os sound
good, the
craft The battehp Pennsylvania, recently launched,
400 displacement 600 long,
i4inch She biggest bateshp
smaller cbre
with 5nh
1000 officers and Her speed is
The old South Carolina called
still useful ship kmishng with old
But it will be the capital ships
than the Pennsylvania
Congress has begun naval that will
will US the second navy the world the the world
present resulting in the sinking Engans
the oathps that have been England showing
M when the war is Oft her hands She lighting for
nation for the same valued trade that Germany taking Col
peoples like the United
has authorized OO worth OF fighting
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
An Empire Sold at Auction.

The Roman empire was once sold to
the highest bidder. On the death of
Pertinax in 1913 the Praetorian guards
put UP the empire for sale by auction.
tween Sulpician and Julian it was
Knocked down to the latter for G.250
drachmas. The Romans held auctions
of various kinds. the proceedings being
much the same in all cases. The auctio
sub Lasta. which was Il sale of plumber,
was held under a spear stuck in the
ground. The magister auctions, or auc.
tioneer, was chosen from among the
argentarii. or money changers, and his
assistants were the cashiers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

The French and English continue t.
bore slowly but steadily into the Ger
man lines on the Somme battle front il
France. This battle has now been OF
for nearly three months and the Allie,
have made about the same rate of prog
re5s as the Germans made at Verdun
The superior concentration of artillery
fire destroys the trenches and thu
infantry takes possession of the groune
the artillery has won. That is modern
trench warfare. But if there is not ;
Sufficient superior weight of artillery or
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
Col. Henry Watterson says he does

Col. Henry Watterson says he does
not entirely like Mr.. Wilson because he
is an opportunist. The great editor has
the same objection to Theodore Roose-
vet He might make the same objec-
ton to all successful public men. II
public men are not opportunists they
are not wise politicians and statesmen
and could never become Presidents in
this land of opportunity. The Kaiser
was born to his job, but deeming him.
self an opportunist he has cotton his
country into an awful mess. We do not
want poor guesser like that. Oppor-
tunity knocked once at Teddy's door and
he was delighted. When the same Wis
itor called on Mr.. Wilson he was just as
cordial. Would Col. Watterson have
those gentlemen act rudely to oppor-
tunity. We trow not!
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
Orphanaee Work Day Named.

Mr.. J. N. Shealy, superintendent of
the Lake Charles Baptist Orphanage,
has furnished the Banner with several
copies of a printed circular which calls
attention to Monday, October I'd, being
fixed upon as Work Day for that insti-
tuition, and asks that publicity be given
the cause in print. Mr.. M. S. Bolinger
of Plain Dealing has also sent in a copy
of the circular and makes a similar re-
quest. The Banner cheerfully complies
with their wishes.
The circular states that the 'shome''
was fittingly dedicated August 31st, and
is absolutely free of debt. There are
within its charge sixty-five children to
be fed, clothed and schooled.
Mr.. Sealy closes by saying:
eve have not the money on hand to
pay cash for all we need. Keep Mon
day, October, 2, 1916, in your minds
and help to make this day the best day
we ever had in its financial history. Put
it on solid foundation. Let eyery
lover OF destitute, homeless children,
dependent on you and others like you
for their living, give this day what you
earn. Help pay the cost of these fair
children who have never had but this
one single chance in life to try to prove
to Louisiana their moral worth. They
are a great asset to our society and
state when given this chance.
"Send all money and gifts to the Bap-
fist Orphanage, Lake Charles, La"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

High priced cotton may be the peace
maker inasmuch as all the explosives
being used in the World War are made
of cotton. 1t costs those people in Eu-
rope just twice as much to fire q gun
now as it did when the war began. If we
can manage to give them 30-cent cotton
next year they may be willing to arbi-
trate. The South, however, is for peace
at any price. Our own civil war did not
end until cotton had advanced to 70
cents per pound, and those people in
Europe seem awful stubborn. 1t might
be we'll to hist the price on them to the
not at all unprecedented figure of 80
cents in 1917. Such fighting as they are
doing is cheap at that price. We will,
most likely, apply the pressure grad
.ually until the nations are either all
broke or repentant.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

Fifteen cent cotton is paying off some
mighty old debts in Bossier Parish. The
people raised this crop with the hope of
realizing 10 cents per pound for it. The
good Lord took the business in hand,
destroyed half the crop and raised the
price of the remainder. No human has
that much sense about financial affairs.
All of which inclines human beings to
lean more and more on the Lord.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
ROOD SWEAT AND GUN GREASE

A few hundreds of years ago-mayb'
it was thousands of years ago-wher
our ancestors we're a semisavage people
sometimes at war with other barbarians
the biggest, fiercest and most cunning
man of the tribe was chief in the villag'
councils. He led the war bands in for
rays against the hostile villages and hl'
club was a comfort to his folk in tn
days of home defense. To admire an'
p.orifv such leader when he returned
victorious from the fight fourishing hi
bloody club was but natural to savages
The changes that civilization has mad
in human beings are more seeming thai
real as far as leadership and persona
idealism is concerned. We still like th'
strong man and delight to honor hind
his bidding and hear him boast. Yes
hear him boast. There are many way
of boasting and the man who can boas
pieasingly is still entertaining. Their
is no profit in denying it; we like it.
In writing of an African hunting trii
an American politician-statesman,
YOU will-relates the use made by hir
of few books taken on the trip. H
called 1t his pigskin library. The book
would stand cleaning after being soileo
He writes of sometime pausing in tn
hunt to sit in the shade of thorn ire
and read. If the book became sole,
with blood, sweat and gun grease it d.
not matter.
"Blood, sweat and gun grease" Wa
what the statesman went to Africa t.
compose, and he came back to Americ;
radiating the appealing sentence. l
caught the imagination of the descend
ants of a war-making ancestry, and i
came very near to making Mr.. Roose
welt President of the United States.
There was more or less humbug abon
the supposed utter fearlesness of the BIZ
savage chieftains who used to lead tn
more or less timid villages to war. The,
had way Of marrying their sisters an
daughters to each other in order tina
they might not be expected to kill thei
distinguished connections in battle. Tn
most artful and valiant thus and other
wise outwitted and overaWed others
and kingdoms were formed. The ad
mirers of each great chief danced at tn
weddings and shouted for the king, an
paid the taxes. That was the purpos
they served under the old order of thing
and their descendants still pay the take
and admire their rulers under what the
are proud to believe is higher state c
civilization upheld by freer institutions
Mr.. Roosevelt was great statesma
in his day. But there were others almos
as cunning as he, and more of then
They have married him to their daugh
tiers and taken hostage of him. Whe
he goes forth to fight now the old battle
cry is not so full and free and it doe
not ring true. The great confederate
of big chiefs has added him to the
number and they hope for the return
the old tax gathering days under the o.
untaxed rulers of the property-rule
Republic.
Teddy, they say, never was Progre
sive at heart, But who can read vel
human heart? He was leader OF me
He loved to lead and people loved
follow him, because he was such a plea
ing boaster.
Blood, sweat and gun grease!
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
DR. FREDERICK RATZBURG
Dentist
Levy Building SHREVEPORT, LA.
Telephone, No. 1850.
SheriH'S Sale.
Mrs. Mamie D. Carson VS.. Estate of J. A. Hill.
No. II ,405. In District Court, Caddo Parish,
Louisiana.

Mrs Mamie D. Carson VS.. Estate of J. A. Hill.
No. 81 ,405. In District Court, Caddo Parish,
Louisiana.
DY virtue of writ of seizure and sale,
ID issued in the above entitled suit,
and to me directed, l have seized, and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door of the Court House, in the town OF
Benton, La, on Saturday, October 81,
1916, the following described property,
to-wit:
Lots 7 and s of the billiard place, as
per map recorded in the Clerks Office Of
Bossier Parish, Louisiana, with all i'm
provements thereon; containing 4 acres.
Terms of Sale-For cash and on terms
of credit, without the benefit of ap-
praisement, to pay and satisfy the sum
of S212.50 (note) now due, and a note
for $21250, due March 16, 1917, and a
like note due March Is, 1918, and like
note due March is, 1919, with per cent
per annum interest on each of said notes
from March Is, 1915, until paid.
J. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, Sept. IA, 1916. oct 10
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is
Mr.. Wilson for President.
He is a Republican but does not seem
to fancy Mr.. Hughes. In abiding to
the Republican nominee he says: ellis
for hindsight, as we learn from
his speeches, is highly developed, but
as to his foresight we are not equally
well informed"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

The time of year is approaching when
sportsmen become interested in the
game laws and the game hogs devise
ways to eVade them. There should be
an organization of hunters in Bossier
Parish whose chief aim might be to
make the observation of the game laws
interesting to the transgressor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

The Bossier Parish acorn crop is the
most abundant for many seasons. The
deer will travel many miles for q feed of
this kind and some are expected to make
nightly trips to the oak groves of this
parish during the hunting season. Those
who claim to know the language are
asked to spread the news.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

Rev. James Evans requests the re-
porter to say that he will fill his regular
appointments at the Baptist Church
Sunday. The morning service will be
held at the usual hour. The evening
service will begin ateight o'clock, some
what earlier than heretofore.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
POSted!

4 LII persons are hereby warned that
n my plantation and pasture prop
erty located near Benton are posted, and
this notice is being published to further
comply with the trespass law. Hunting,
fishing and promiscuous trespassing will
not be tolerated and prosecutions will
follow if such are persisted in. This
means to include all.
r. w. w. STINSoN.
Benton, La, Sept, Il, 1916.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
His Experience.

Pa" said the boy. looking up from
his book. what does a mars better
half mean?"
Usually. my son." replied his father
from behind the evening paper. ''she
means exactly what she says."-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
PERKY COMBlnGTI0N1

Out Of 175 models chosen as repre-
sentative of correct fall neckwear this
one illustrated was picked for its nov.
city and charm. The cape is of white
organdie, from which depend taffeta
ends that fold and tie in chic bow.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
Shop Talk.

THE great trouble nowadays" began
the curbstone philosopher. lis that no
man is satisfied with his Job
MY job SCOTS me-" interrupted the
chimney sweep.
"And I'm stuck ON mine." yelled the
tar spreader from the adjoining roof.
Wlereupon the orator turned his
theme from economics to preparedness
Puck.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
AUTUMN'S MODEL.

Experts say the French dressmakers
are favOring the long silhouette instead
of the hourglass. This corset was de-
signed to support such DEGREES. 1t is
made of fine fillet Il medium low bust
and long skirt without much boning. 1t
is especially adapted to slender figures
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21
Warming to the Public.

THIS notice is inserted to give legal
L warning to the public that the tim
Der on the Abney plantation (the orig
inal tract and adjoining acreage since
purchased) located in Ward Six, Bos-
sier Parish, and on all other lands own
in the parish, is not for sale. No one
has authority to sell timber from my
lands. Depredations must cease or pros
e'"''on' VIII io''o"' w. H. SCANLAND.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

The campaign literature being sent
out by the Republican campaign COM
mittee points to the charges that the
North is paying most of the taxes and
the South has preponderant influence
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

This charming tea gown is put up In
flesh colored chiffon and metal en-
broidered chiffon cloth. This forms an
effective jacket. which Is fur edged.
an added richness to the fabric. The
accordion plated front contrasts well
with the drapeI train Of the back.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-21

Sugar is bringing a good price, cotton
is high, there is a good market for every
thing to eat. We have all those things
n Louisiana and ought to deem this a
prosperous year.
The Washington times., 1916-04-15
UNCLE SANS uNDRRPAlD RM-
PLOYES

For Washington people, at least,
the most entrancingly interesting
human document that has been writ
zen into a Congressional hearing in
many years, is the series Of hearings
on the Nolan bill.
This bill, aiming to fix minimum
wage for Government employees that
shall permit Uncle Sans workers to
live in something like decency, has
been the subject Of an investigation
in which large number of the un-
derpaid employees Of the Government
have told intimate stories of how
they live-or exist, here. A vague
notion of these stories has been con-
veyed in the dsy-by-day newspaper
reports Of the hearings; but it has
necessarily been only fragmentary
and inadequate.
Tomorrow, in The Sunday Evening
Times, will be presented an adequate
statement of the startling conditions
under which thousands of people in
Washington live; Of how the wages
Of 81, $1.50, and $1.75 are made to
serve the purposes of families living
under the circumstances Of large
and expensive city.
: The Times has for years urged at
tention to the distressing state of a
great proportion of the people of
Washington, marooned in Government
jobs, paid under schedule two gen.
erations old, never readjusted to
recognition of modern living condi-
tions. The Nolan committee has de-
veloped mass of human facts about
these thousands of Uncle Sans un-
fortunate employees; people of all
grades and stations in life. 1t is a
story that every Washingtonian
ought to read.
The Washington times., 1916-04-15

day of the vacuum cleaner? AS for
the easily donned corset, the man
who invents an article Of dress for
women whose only recommendation
is that it saves trouble is a fool for
his pains.
Here are few substitute sugges-
tions which we commend to rising
young Eds, }:
1. A corset which is twice as much
trouble, but guaranteed to make the
dowager look as IL she weighed 125
pounds.
2. A shoe which makes a "D" foot
look like an "AAA," no matter il it
takes two maids half an hour'to put
it on.
3. A device to turn the pages of a
newspaper and hold it comfortably
while one clings to a subway strap.
a. An envelope which makes it
impossible to forget to mail a letter.
8. A system which makes it easy
to get nineteen nickels from a sub
way ticket booth ledge before the
ninety-three persons behind begin to
growl.
6. A false superstructure which
will make the most popular brand
of jitney bus look like $4,000 motor
car
But why enumerate twelve ways
to make a million, when the man that
will devise any one of these can
make twelve millions, and the lucky
inventor of the last twelve times
twelve millions?
The Washington times., 1916-04-15
"STABAT MATER" AT
CHURCH OF COVENANT
Dvorak's Composition To Be Pre-
sented for First Time Here.

At the Church OF the Covenant tomor-
row at 3:@ the Triple Quartet will pre-
sent. for the FIRST time In Washington.
at their twelfth special musIcsl service.
Dvorak's "Stabat Mater" under the ,ii-
Iecuon of Sydney Lloyd Wrightson, with
Harvey Murray at the 1rgan
The excerpts IRON ''Statat Mater"
will be: Heavenly Father" quartet
and chorus: 'FDr Our Sake" bass solp
and chorus: HE Hath Risau,' con-
tralto solo; Blessed Jesus" chorus.
At the evening service at 8 o'clock a
choir OF 100 voices with double quartet,
will give the following numbers: Or
gan prelude. Salome; AT Rest" Wes-
ley; baritone solo. THE Palms" Faure.
Mr.. wrightson; Come Unto Him.
Godnod; "Iiow Lively Are the Mes
senGers." Mendelssohn; organ postlude
Handel.
Good Friday night the evening choir
will give Staine- 3 cantata, Tho Cruel
fixion." The regular solos VIII be sung
hy Richard r Backing and Arthur
Chester Gorbaoh, and the incidental
solos by w. Roland Carter, Harry Hell
wig, and George Rollings
The Washington times., 1916-04-15

clared; and yet we have not the
privilege of conserving our own in
terestsI effectively. ~
These conditions require to be
looked squarely in the face. They
are the result of hesitation and vacil-
lation; of a national failure to real
ize the implications Of events, the
urge of inevitable forces. The time
is past when we may continue to
wabble along in the hope that we will
at length wabble into the right path
and wabble through it to safety. We
are going to get to safety only by
adopting a direct course and mean
ingful policy. Have we the national
conception, earnestness and realiza-
tion that will enable us to adopt and
stick to such a course? Have we
the leadership, or the confidence in
our leadership, that will save the
situation?
These questions can only be an
swered in the course that the Ad-
ministration shall pursue in the next
few days and weeks. It is a time
pregnant with tremendous possibili-
ties for all the future of this nation.
The Washington times., 1916-04-15
COMING EVENTS ON
CAPITALS PROGRAM
Today's Amusements - Schedule
for Tomorrow.

Meeting. with dinner. executive council o; the
Sigma Nj Phi Fraternity. TO form a Wash
ington Alumni Club. National Press Club
Beneit sale. Washington Eye. Ear and
Throat Hospital. S22s Eleventh street north
Motion pictures. "a Trip Through Alaska"
and "MskinL a Watch" American unl>er-
Dinner iS 't students q M of Central High School.
Meeting Mount Pleasant Citizens Associs-
ton, Brown Betty Inn. Sixteenth street
and Park road northwest, s,, ,s,,pL Sp; m: ~,u,,,
Dream. by students of Eastern High
Address. 'The Sculptures of the New Central
High School Building" before studio as
senbly OF the District Art Snd Arrhaeol-
ogy League. by q. J. Zolnay. 1880 street
northwest, 3 p. m.
Dedication OF milestone, under auspices OF
District Daughters of the American KeNo-
luton, Chesapeake Junction. 2:3O y. IN.
Polo Association, Potomac Park, ?:3o y. m.
Rifle practice, under auspices OF tho National
Rife Association. rife range. Winthrop
Meetins, Independent Life Saving Corps Of
American Red Cross, Denpsey's boat
Res,tsI' DAYS OF Old South" Miss Louise
odd FoIlows-Canton Washington. No. I.
Patrlarchs Militant.
Daughters Of America-Wheeling Club, resi-
dence OF II. F. Homer SelS Warder street
Nationsi UnIon--Joseph Henry. Ea gles' Hail.
Census Perpetual Hall.
Socialist Party-Soclal supper. p. m.