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The Progress. Published Every Batnrday. SD. C S---------------- Editor Saut d_ in the Postofice at Shreveport as Second-class Mail Matter. ,:wjr 206 Milam Street, between Mar ket and Spring Streets. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES. O~i Year.......................One Dollar x Months .............S..ixty-five Cents k eh'e Months..........Twenty-five Cents SOmciatJ Journal Caddo Parish Farmers Alliance. G , LA., - - JANUARY 80, 1'711 PLEASE EXPLAIN. PROGRESS bows profoundly baton Rouge Advocate for g four copies of its weekly, of the same issue. The first made us feel like congratu Bro. Chevis for his enter in starting a weekly in con nwith his fine daily; the 1 =made us jubilant because i there must be some it good about The Prog he wanted us to pass it among our friends; the caused us to begin to suspi was cussin us about some Syou all this time no t us had been discover tourth put us intoa state of mind, and gol t, we don't know what to '',ill you kindly explain the United State is rant-) strugling Cuba and -' .o itles; that Nation 't, are for your own a asuffering thousands, Ameruica; protect and Sthem from the #ou f plutoorats, e by yoar President 'o * the Shrevepor asil`s .&act, we lost the Ino oiurageas to the correspondent 4 hallladfret us to S-er t the or on than that asap, for the -`.Btonuge Ad Srather thought that h:jrog cable at B:ro. Cherest u. to give It l ot it. *bn in ,. beMr. N 2 therefore begging among the true I and tried and faithful.-Evening n Herald, Shreveport. tl Oh you Kruel man! How can you make up your mind to say anything agin the exalted Murphy J. and the eminent James M.? Friend! friend!! we fear you are bordering on sacrilege to speak C thusly of such grandiloquence. S'WE APOLOGISE PROFOUNDLY. In a squib in the last issue of The 1 Progress, Brother C. D. Hicks I makes quite a stir about "a lazy r man or one devoid of the elements of high minded manliness"credited ' 7 to Ex. Yet in another place of his brilliantly edited paper he does us the honor of copying one of our paragraphs (concerning The Prog- i r ress) and extends the right hand of r fellowship but regrets that he don't know who is the editor of the En * terprise. Now it is not a blow to t t our pride because we are certain - that every body else who reads the . Enterprise does know, but it has filled us with profound sorrow to learn that such a gifted man should 1 3 be blind or else not know how to a a read, because were it not for one of - these misfortunes, he certainly I would have seen our name in regu lar box ear letters at the top of our .t editorial page as editor and pro e prietor. Then again, isn't it - rather strange that the president of - such an important organization as the Louisiana Press Association is not familiar with the personnel of - the Association ?-Natichotoches z Enterprise. 1 Well now Sister Breazeale I you ) have placed us in an awkward po a sition truly, one from which we blush profoundly. Yes, your name is at the mast - head, and since our attention has I been called to it, the Enterprise a seems to be more spicy, enter n taiing and forcible. We had {, taken little interest in Natchitoches i Enterprise lately because we had e heard that a political demagogue , of the the most contracted partisan it school did the editorial writing for it; but since our eyes have been opened, our laziness exposed, The r Progress will look forward with a e great deal of pleasure to each issue of Natchitoches Enterprise as o they come. Again The Progress tips its hat to Enterprise and thel h president of the Louisiana Press Assooiation bows profoundly to our ever bright and most worthy e sister, Mrs. Camilla Breaseale. The 8hreveort Progress is cer t tainly "soared up., It imagines terrible things are about to happen. As an illustration of its state of ! mental disquiet read this: "We It must elevate our citizenship; we connot afford to allow to be estred or lost in Louis iana." Will The Progress kindly . let us know what sort of a hyenais to "destroy "in th" end e of the mo vineyard? We hope g The Progress will hunt the animal s up and put a dirk in its carcass? . It will never do to lose patriotism a in Louisana. There ar ae too many swamps.-Bastrop Clarion-Ap r, peal., The Progress is certainly surpris ed at the query oomidngr~ai suchl aa Intullgent source. Bauswhile assa-ed that CliaueaAp The Progress has said and inti mated is true, yet for the sake of the courteous query we will make reply, that the State administra- I tion, applied to the first and t second head, with the New Orleans hoodlum gang as an appendent, is certainly striking heavy blows at the citadel of our patriotism. We took it for garnted that our esteem ed Bastrop contemporary has not heard of the intended pardoning of boodler aldermen, and appoint ment of the ring to ofice, or it would not have asked the question. 1 A REPORTER BLUSHES. A good joke is related at the ex pense of a modest young newspa per man not many miles away. It is to the effect that the pusher of the pencil was sent out to report a party the other evening, where the home has been recently bless ed with a new baby. Accompanied by his best girl, he met the hostess at the door, and after the usual salutations asked after the baby's r health. The lady who was quite deaf and suffering with grip, thought he was talking about her t cold and told him that though she " usually had one every winter, that was the worst she had ever had; - it kept her awake a good deal s at first and confined her to her bed. Then noticing that the scribe was I getting nervous, she said that she - could tell by his looks that he was going to have one just like her's and asked him to go in and sit down. The paper was out as usual i the next week, but the local editor s has quit inquiring about babies. New Iberia Enterprise. Brother Hicks has made a decid s ed improvement in The Progress, I that is neat and pretty. With such a man as Hicks at the helm, The Progress is bound to be a suc cess. Good luck to him and his r paper.-Banner-Democrat. a Thanks for the neat compliment, e Bro. Turner. IWRlONG, COMRADEI e Brother Hicks takes exceptions s because in reproducing an article s from The Progress we also repro Sduced a comment from the Ban ner, in which The Progress man is called pretty severely to task for D supporting Foster in the late State - campaign. No ill will or unfriendly feeling prompted the reproduction of com -ment referred to, and if The Prog s ress man will sin no more by sing ingpraises to the honor of the fname of such traitors as Foster, e then we take off our hat with apol e ogy.-Winnfield Comrade. 4 You are wrong, Bro. Bailey! it was not because of criticism for s voting for Foster, but the general charges we believe pou will say are B o trye, and further, we believe 1 you will trust the editor of The " Progress as far as you will that of - Banner of Liberty. You have nothing to fear in re apoct to our own supporting Fos - ter again for anything; and if you! ]tellers connectyourselves with the s ame knd- of gang you did before -wltheil i,best if we know wha t Mwadam Rumor Says That the person who is most re luctant to take a joke, is usually the one who is readiestto perpetrate one. That the humbug thinks he is the bug of all Bugology. That some folks do not like to be wallowed in the snow, but down in the snow they go for all that. That the grasshopper usually. keeps his long legs out of other people's way, but-but guess She'd better hush right now. SThat some folks-- mind you now She says some folks are always complaining of being poor, but for all that--s-o-m-e h-o-uo they always manage to scrape up enough'spons' to pay for the entertainmentof abig politician, or his family. That the average congressman never grows tired of telling his con stituents how extremely poor he is. Yes? That our Chief of Police should be allowed to select his patrolmen; then make him responsible for their conduct. That the` boy stood on the burn ing deck because he was skeered if he jumped overboard he'd drown: That the ladies at the post-office are thinking seriously of enteringa complaint against the editor of The s Progress for coming into the stamp 3 department, on cold days, andleav t ing the door open. 1 That Hicks Bro's have better bar gains in real estate than any firm in Shreveport. That the 4th July will come after the 3rd of that month, this year. 1 That She intends to throw Her in fluence to the immigration move ment recently started in Shreve poet, and this guarantees it's suc cess. That She thinks Texas avenue should be paved first, but this does s not make that opinion absolute. e That the frosty air hath influ ence to persuade some aspirants to , abandon their desires to go on the r police force. That a day of reckoning, on po litical lines, will come some time; and then Murphy J. Fosterism will - get abreakneck blow in Louisiana. - Hasten the moment. That a voice from the depths of Texas avenue is frequently heard calling out, " help, oh help ere I t peris"! and it is "in ginerly" a r choked sewer pipe "whcats allen." That The Progress has cause to e feel complimented over the unqual ified indorsement given it's recent editorials on selling liquor to mi nors. This came from both men and women. That the Fire Committee is cor rect in it's idea remodeling the fire department. That it will be a holiday in our Stown whenMaj. He makes boes An dy step down a~d out. r.: ."C *