The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-06-16

without costly OutWaiu duoAAAnee
rs hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: save money. and plant corn
and potatoes. and husband everything
that will make food. Let us sacrlhce
our selfishness. and vanity. and con-
secrate all to the cause of the Church
and the country-to God and Liberty"
The editor who wrote the foregoing
was certainly more far-seeing than the
everage citizen sixty years ago. Every
body expected war Of but only Few
months-to end by fall, perhaps. BUT
long struggle followed and the old
clothes the editor advised were worn
and the big crop of corn was needed.
In fact. as many living to-day will tell
Won. clothing was made over again and
again and the South became hard
pressed for foodstuffs, especially what
might be referred to as luxuries.
Coffee" was made from parched
sweet potato chips and many other sub
stitutes, and sweetened with home |
made syrup-long sweeting they called
It. But at home the people lived on.
and complaints were rare. The South
met defeat because of lack OF food,
munitions and medicines for Its armies.
not to mention the brutalities practiced
toward Confederate prisoners OF war.
In truth, so utterly despicable was the
policy of the Federal administration
during the war that requests for medi-
cines for Union prisoners held in the
South We're disregarded, for fear. 1t
would seem, that some OF the medicines
| might be used by the Southerners.
Charleston. June THE Mcrcnry's
special Richmond dispatch says
sharp and brilliant fight occurred Mon
day. near Phillip, in the northern part
of Virginia. Nine hundred Confederate
troops were suddenly attacked by three
Thousand Federalists. At first the Con-
federate forces were thrown into con-
fusion, retreated two miles, rallied
three times and repulsed the Federal
lists. notwithstanding the disparity Of
numbers. About seventy Federalists
were killed during the fight The loss
. on the Confederate side amounted to
|, only six. The Federalists We're well
provided with artillery. manned by
regulars from Carlisle Barracks. The
Confederates were without cannon
: The Southern troops in hattie. as a
rule, were greatly ontnumbered; but
E they fought valiantly and, accustomed
= to the saddle and the use of firearms
made good soldiers. The hest fighters
b of the four years Of struggle were from
n the South During the first stages Of
Y the war the South led in its victorie.
e and would have won the war but fol
e the lack of railroad facilities. funds
v etc. It's people We're ready enough t.
+ fight-and did so, splendidly-and 1t
government was quickly and firmly es
r tablished and it's army soon becam
q pliable in it's hands. The pity is tina
SO splendid. valOrous and fair peOpl
N lost their cause, opposed by foreig
Il mercenaries and the like, and followin
i an interstate war were so prosecuted
l. Fifty Years Ago.
!! The Banner of June II, 1s71-Bcllevue.l
- The following odd news paragraph
,e credited to the Fayetteville tenn.
Observer:
;. a few miles south of Memphis. las
- Saturday. the train on the Mississippi
- and Tennessee Railroad was stopped h
:. caterpillars. Swarms of them covere
:. the track for miles, and when crushe
y by the wheels the grease made I'll
- track SO smooth that the train coul
- not proceed. 1t was necessary. II
- several miles. to send a force ahead I
= the train to sweep the track, In ord
- to get along at all, especially on asceh
=. ing grades"
20 In regard to caterpillars. the san
~ thing has been known of grasshoppel
~ positive TRUTH. Perhaps their sea
.ra city to-day is due to Paris green, e,
ha These caterpilars were probably know
,rt as cotton caterpillars.
:, "No Ku-Kluxes' is the heading til
>. appears over the following bit Of CT
an. respondence:
80 "a Northern settler in North Cal
81 lima. Republican in politics, writes
plf the New York Tribune:
he I've can say in truth that not OF
ces persons and property are safe in t
pys sections Of Virginia and North Cal
the lima in which we reside, hut that
ing never lived in more orderly or Ia
us abiding community. We have be
hes kindly received by the entire poop
nse respects as agreeable as we could la
re- desired We have seen no disposlt1
the to distrust or even slight us on acco,
- of our politics. On the contrary.
have uniformly been treated W
civility and respect by every one "
whom we have come in contact. 1t
but an act Of Justice to ourselves
to the people living In the state OF
adoption that we would say what
have said. and we trust that you Y
give It place in your paper.
That Yankee would receive the 50
sort OF treatment in the South tod