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| Shreveport land Metal Roofing Wo rks Manufacturers and Jobbers... "Dux-Bak" Metal Shingies, Tin* ners' Tools, Roofing Cement and anything in Sheet Metal Shreveport e3e#a®®®©**®«cs®®®®®©aess©®©©e®o©©®©©e®*®®®®®®®®®®®®® 9 • g Send Mail Orders to ; I WILLIAMS BROS. PRINTING CO. ? SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA 9 U. U. WiLLIArtia, manager anncvcrwni, Luuigmun 0 a • o3eo®a«s9eeo®3®0as®e9®ooooaeeseo0oc®sc®c99eoe®oe®®0®® 4DTHÏID I WEWMAIM Invites the g° od people of Bossier Äi\lSlUI\ O* llC »11*1 All Parish to inspect his stock of GRANITE MONUMENTS, the finest ever shown in SHREVEPORT Splendid Offers Here Desirable Bossier Properties That Offer Exceptional Opportunities. <f 130 acres—within one mile of Rocky Mount. 20 acres under fence; 100 acres second bottom Und. On public road. Only $10 per acre. Terms can be had. «f If you want 40 acres of first-class farm land (about 25 acres in cultivation) within three miles of Plain Dealing, on a public roal and rural mail route, at $10 per at r ', see me. "ij A bargain!—200 acres of well im prove!. fertile land, 120 in cultivation, 29 wilt grow ribbon cane; four good houses; near school and church. Six' ari l a half miles east of Plain Dealing. ^ 109 acres —A good stock farm. 70 acres under good wire fence. Running water the entire year. A comfortable dwelling; good water. Good orchard and barn. IUst bargain to be found in Bos Ur if you want a desirable home. Only $10 per acre—one half cash. 1 169 acres—30 under fence, 130 in orig inal timber, less pine cut off. Enough tie timber on the land to more than pay for it. A four-room house and other improvements. Fine cattle and hog range. Three miles from Red Land Graded School; free transportation for pupils. Price, $6.50 per acre. 1 For Sale or Rent.—A house and lot located in the town of Bolinger. Ten acres of land adjoining can be rented cheaply. The house has four rooms; barn and good well of water on premises. Telephones, on transportation line to Plain Deeding High School, and other conveniences. Will be rented at a mod erate figure to desirable tenant. J. T. Manry, Plain Dealing, La. I Office • Stationery Yours should tour some stamp of individuality. If net that., then it should at least bear the mark of painstaking and skillful workman ship. V.'e print to please, and the most, modem fixtures known to the craft enable us to achieve that end. Lot us have that r est order. ; CASTLE PRINTING CO. : Î 319-21 Spring Street Shreveport I LORSHEIM ! j Brothers Dry Goods Co. WHOLESALE D ry Goods j Notions, Furnishing Goods | $ t ; 510-12-14-16 Commerce Street j { SHREVEPORT, LA. j Book Bindery Art Treasures, Pamphlets, Mag azines, Music, Law Books, Records, Blank Books and Catalogues bound. T. J. Leaton 1340 Jewell Street, SHREVEPORT New 'Phone, 595. ïsar S tore Bill On® Half Tens of thousands of fanners as well as town and city folks cut down their store bills one-half last year and saved money in spite of generally short crops and re duced wages. Absolutely millions of dollars were saved and countless families lived better than ever before in the face of the cotton crisis and general business depression. Iiow were these burdensome store bills cut down? By the real money-saving power of good home gardens, rightly planted and kept planted and tended through the season. Hastings 1016 Seed Catalogue tells how to cut store bills down; tells about gar den and farm seeds of kinds and a qual ity that cannot be bought from your mer chant or druggist. It's full of garden and farm information. It's free if you ask for it Write for it now. H. G. HASTINGS 29., Atlanta, Ga.— (Advt) j Old Folks kaz'ed Suffering Mrs. Mary . in her Sîth : was beyond U Foley Kidr.cy beneficial hi : Mr. Kara N. C., writes: worse at rig! from five to seven thr: , Taunton, Mass., •.s: 'T thought I i c" medicine, but .aye proven most :v?r, Align Point, l ad to get up I do not have to gc t v;> c.t night, ar.fl con sider myself dition, which r.cy Pills, as else " truly normal co: attribute to Pole:. Kid I have taken nothing Mis. Ï.: . A. Bridge s, Bob inson , Mass., says: j. suffered from kid •. y ail merits f r two yes LI'S. X com moneed taking' i 'cloy Kidney Fill.: ; icn months ago, ami though I s m Cl ; rears cf age. X feel lit :o a 10-yea r-old girl. ' Foley Kidney Pills are tonic. strength cning and up-b\ l i ) d i n g. and restore ; normal mil ion to t He kidneys and to a disorder. 0 1 a >d 1 ainfi tl blad der. They act on ieVtly and contain no dang*< .rous or 1 a rmfui drug 3. Sold by VV. I. GAYLE, Benton, La. bails U I have for sale at Paty, La.: 1 mare mule, coming six years old, sound; 1 3-inch Weber wagon, 1 disk cultivator, 2 B. F. Avery turning plows, 2 double shovels, 2 single shovels, 1 section har row, 1 John Deere 2-horse corn and cot ton planter, 1 John Deere side fertilizer, 4 good forks, 4 good hoes, 3 pair double trees, 1 pair triple trees, 1 set of breech ing harness, 1 set of hip-strap harness, 1 set of backhand and traces, 6 good col lars, and 1 saddle. Address me—Box 754, Shreveport, or Haughton, La. e-tf T. H. Lee. Lumber for Sale ^ I have purchased all the remaining buildings, trams, sheds and foundations at Bolinger, as well as enough of the new lumber to take care of the local trade. Any one wanting lumber will find a stock on hand there, at low prices. Will handle Windows, Doors, Lime, Brick, Cement and Shingles. I expect to handle all kinds of building material. 1 Come and see me. Yours truly, 45-tf R. c. PURCELL. Homestead Entry No. 05,030. Department of the Interior, j U. S. Land OfUce at Eaton Rouge, La., ;• February 5,1918. ) f Proof under Act of June 6,1912 ] XJOTICE is hereby given that Van -Lx Brazil?, of Linton, La.,who, on .January 23, 1913, made Homestead Entry No. 05,050, lor lots 8, 9, 11 and 12 and the southeast quarter of southwest quarter of section 2, township 19, north, range 12, west, Louisiana meridian, has filed notice of intention to make three year proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before the Clerk of Court, at Benton, La., on the 18th day of March, 1916. Claimant names as witnesses: L. R. Bumgardner, W. G. Faircloth, Dave Brooks and Jim Ford, all of Benton, La., R. F. D. No. 3. E. D*. Gi.aneli.om, Register. February 10,1916. mar 16 Homestead Entry No. 0-t,0<>4. Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at Baton Rouge, La., > February 19,1910. ) Proof under law under which entry was made. | N OTICE is hereby given that Lillie Taylor, widow of Judge Taylor, of Bellevue, La., who, on February 20, 1911, made Homestead Entry No. 04,G64, for lots 8, 9 and 16 and southwest quar ter of southeast quarter of section 22, township 19, north, range 12, west, Lou isiana meridian, has filed notice of in tention to make five year proof, to es tablish claim to the land above describ ed, before the Clerk of Court, at Benton, La., on the 1st day of April, 1916. Claimant names as witnesses: P. L. Davis, Lewis Carter, J. W. Jackson and Frank Vickers, all of Bellevue, La. E. D. Gianelloni, Register. February 24, 1916. mar 30 Licenses. A LL Parish and State Licenses are now due and should he paid during January or February. If paid later than February 29ih a penalty will be at tached. Automobibe licenses must be secured (from the Secretary of State) during January. Owners of automobiles may secure blank applications forregis' ■try at the Sheriff's office. J. F. Edwards, -8 Sheriff and Tax Collector. Notice! A LL hunting and trespassing is for bidden, udder the penalty of the law, on any land "belonging to me in Bossier Parish, the same being occupied by Jeff Reiston, M. L. Porter, Henry Lyles, Henry Lewis and others, and, in fact, all land owned by me in Bossier Parish, which has been regularly posted according to law. E. B. Herndon. Smoke Bellew. Continued from Page One. hear all of It. Her hand fumbled and groped in the hood of her parka, and she drew forth a pouch that she placed in his hand. "And now your lips, my lover. Your lips on my Ups and yots? hand on my heart" And in that long kiss darkness ctUBS upon him again, and when again be was conscious he knew that he was to die. He was wearily glad that lie was to die. He found his hand resting on the pouch. With an inward smile at the L & y /A 4 m I -a jAtK.gr> Three Deys, With No Further Food, He Fought West. > ) curiosity that made him pull the draw string. he opened it. Out poured a tiny flood of food. There was no par tide of it that he did not recognize, all stolen by Labisbwee from Laliiskwee bread fragments saved far back; strips and strings of caribou meat, partly gnawed; crumbles of suet; a himl leg of the suuwshoe rabbit, untouched; a hind leg and part of a fore leg of the white weasel: a wing, dented still by her reluctant teeth, and a leg of the snowbird—pitiful remnants, tragic re nunciations. crucifixions of life, mor sels stolen from her terrible hunger by her incredible love. With maniacal laughter Smoke flung it all out on the hardening snow crust and went hack into the blackness. He dreamed. The Yukon ran dry. In its bed. among muddy pools of wa ter and ice scoured rocks, he wandered, picking up fat nugget gold. The weight of it grew to be a burden to him till he discovered that it was good to eat. And greedily he ate. After all. of what worth was gold that men should prize it so. save that it was ;ood to eat? He awoke to another sun. His brain was strangely clear. No longer did his eyesight blur. The familiar palpita tion that had vexed him through all his frame was gone. The juices of hiS body seemed to sing as if the spring had entered it. Blessed well being had come to him. He turned to awaken Labiskwee and saw and remembered. He looked for the food Hung out ou the snow. It was gone. And he knew that in delirium and dream it had been the Yukon nugget gold. In delirium and dream he had taken heart of life from the life sacrifice of Labiskwee. win* had put her heart in his hand and opened his eyes to woman and wonder. He was surprised at the ease of his movements, astounded that he was able to drag her fur wrapped body to the exposed thawed gravel bank, which he undermined and caved upon her. Three days, with no further food, he fought west. In the mid third day he fell beneath a lone spruce beside a wide stream that ran open and that he knew must be the Klondike. Ere blackness conquered him lie unlashed his pack, said goodby to the bright worid and roiled himself in the robes. Chirping, sleepy noises awoke him. The long twilight was on. Above him among the spruce hows were ptarmi gan. Hunger bit him into instant ac tion. though the action was infinitely slow. Five minutes passed before he was able to get his rille to his shoul der. and a second five minutes passed ere he dared, lying on his back and aiming straight upward, to pull the trigger. It was a clean miss. No bird fell, but no bird flew. They ruffled and rustled stupidly and drowsily, nis shoulder pained him. A second shot was spoiled by the involuntary wince he made as he pulled trigger. The ptarmigan had not flowu. He doubled and redoubled the robe that had covered him aud humped it in the hollow between his right arm and his side. Besting the butt of (he rifle on the fur. he fired again, and a hi.-d fell. He clutched it greedily and found that he had shot most of the meat from it. The large caliber bullet had left little else than a mess of mangled feathers. Still the ptarmigan did not fly. and be decided that it was heads or noth ing. He fired only at heads. He re loaded and reloaded the magazine. He missed; lie hit. and the stupid ptarmi gan. that were loath to fly. fell upon him in a rilin of food—lives disrupted that his life might feed aud live. The first he ate raw. Then he rested and slept, while his life assimilated the life of it. In the darkness he awoke, hungry, with strength to build a fire. 'FHE BANNER'S subscription price is $1 per * year. Terms, cash in advance to all. The change became effective January 1st. Grant ing credit on subscriptions does not pay, and we have permanently abandoned the practice. And until early dawn he cooked and ate, crunching the bones to powder be tween his long idle teeth. He slept, awoke in the darkness of another night and slept again to another sun. He noted with surprise that the fire crackled with fresh fuel and that a blackened coffeepot steamed on the edge of the coals. Beside the fire, within arm's length, sat Shorty, smok ing a brown paper cigarette and intent ly watching him. Smoke's lips moved, but a throat paralysis seemed to come upon him, while his chest was suf fused with the menace of tears. He reached out his hand for the cigarette and drew the smoke deep into his lungs again and again. "I have not smoked for a long time," he said at last in a low, calm voice. "For a very long time." "Nor eaten, from your looks," Short/ added gruffly. Smoke nodded and waved his hand at the ptarmigan feathers that lay all about. "Not until recently," he return ed. "Do you know. I'd like a cup of coffee: also flapjacks and a strip of bacon." While the one cooked and the other ate they told briefly what had hap pened to them in the days since their separation. "The Klondike was breakin' up," Shorty concluded his recital, "an' we just had to wait for open water. Two polin' boats, six other men—you know 'em all, an' crackerjacks—an' nil kinds of outfit. An' we've sure been «-corn in'—polin'. linin' up, an' portagin'. But the falls "1 stick 'em a solid week. That's where I left 'em. a-euttin' a trail over the tops of the bluffs for the boats. I just had a sure natural hunch to keep a-comin'. So I fills a pack with grub an' starts. I knew I'd find you «-driftin' an' all in." Smoke nodded. "Well, let's get start ed," he said. "But you're feeble as a kid baby. You can't hike. What's the rash?" "Shorty, lam going after the biggest thing in the Klondike, and 1 can't wait, that's all. Start packing. It's the big gest thing in the world. It's bigger than lakes of gold and mountains of gold, bigger than adventure and meat eating and bear killing." Shorty sat with bulging eyes. "In the name of the Lord, what is it?" he ! queried huskily. "Or are you just sim- j ply loco?" "No, I'm all right. Perhaps a fellow has to stop eating in order to see j things. At any rale. I have seen things | I never dreamed were in the world. 1 j know what a woman is—now." Shorty's mouth opened, and about ' the lips and in the light of the eyes was the whimsical advertisement of the sneer forthcoming. "Don't, please." Smoke said gently. "You don't know. 1 do." Shorty gulped and changed his thought. "Hub! I don't need no hunch to guess lier name. The rest of 'em has gone up to the drainin' of Sur prise lake, but Joy Gasteil allowed she wouldn't go. She's stickin' around Dawson waitin' to see if l come back with you. An' she sure swears if I don't she'll sell her boldin'» an' hire a army of gun fighters an' go into the caribou country an' knock the ever lastin' staffin' outa old Sr.ass an' his whole gang. An' if you'll hold your horses a couple of shakes 1 reckon I'll get packed up an ready to hike along with you." THE EM). The Conductor's Baten. According to the investigations of a Frenchman, the credit of Inventing the conductor's baton belongs to Lully, the composer, who eventually had cause to regret his invention. Before he adopt ed the baton conductors were in the habit of pounding on the floor with their feet or clapping their hands to mark the time. Lully found it weari some to keep his foot constantly in mo tion aud so used a stick to strike the floor and boat time. He used a pole six feet long. One day he brought down the pole with such force that it struck his foot and made a deep wound. He paid no attention to the matter. The wound grew worse and ultimately caused his death. After his time conductors tried more and more to improve the baton, and it was ultimately brought to its present form. The Praetorian Guard. The Praetorian guard was a select body of troops instituted by the Em peror Augustus to protect his person aud consisted of ten cohorts, each of 1,000 men, chosen from Italy. They had peculiar privileges and when they had served sixteen years were retired on a pension of about $500. * Each member of the guard had the rank of a captain in the regular army. Like the bodyguard of Louis XI., they were all gentlemen and formed gradually a great power, like the janizaries at Con stantinople, and frequently deposed or elevated the very emperors themselves. Getting to a Busy Man. "It's a mistake to call on a busy man at his office If you can possibly avoid it." "That's right. Go out and ring him up on the telephone. If you call aud send in your card lie hasn't the slight est curiosity to know who is trying to talk to him."—Washington Star. Of Coursa George Would. Married Friend—My husband says stock speculation is dangerous if you get on the wrong side of the market The Fiancee—But George lias prom ised to he very careful not to get on the wrong side of the market—Kan sas City Star. Another Way. Student—I want some information about the bronzes. I suppose I had better write to the keeper? Attend ant—Yes, mlks, or you might see him verbal!vl— London Punch. AUTOMOBILES AN3 GOOD GOADS Use of Motors Has Resulted In loipronod Highways. A LENGTHENING TRAIL A Number of Auto Highway« Now Un der Construction Which Will When Completed Provide Special Facilities For Transcontinental and Interna tional Travel by Automobile. The almost universal use of automo biles as vehicles of utility and pleasure in recent years has resulted in the gen eral improvement of highways and the construction of motor roads, especially on the American continent, where scientific road building is a compara tively recent accomplishment. In addition to the development of great industries employing hundreds of thousands of men. one of the impor tant features of the automobile busi ness is the interest aud activity it has created in constructing and maintain ing good roads. There is scarcely a state in the Union that is not building highways and improving roads already constructed, while the counties, com munities and municipalities in the vari ous commonwealths are spending large sums annually for Improving streets and roads In which the activities are m ' "■ ' < -■* ROADS HAVTS CPANOFT» HtXCR THESE DAYS inspired by a desire to compete with other localities for the motor traffic that comes with good roads. Among I ho more important motor highways irow in course of construe ricn which, when completed, will pro vide special facilities and great, in durement for transcontinental mid in ternational travel by motor, is the IJncoln highway across the United States, following for a portion of the distance the old National road, and furnishing a continuous trail suitable for automobile traffic across the con tinent. This is the first of the great motor road projects in America, not only as a special highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but also as monument to the memory of one who represents the nonsectional, continen tal and unified idea «if American nn tional, social and «-oramercial life. Other projects are the Pacific Coast highway from San Diego, Cal., to Brit Isb Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska covering several thousand miles of country that is unexcelled for beauty and variety of scenery; and the Cana dian Motor highway, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the several sectious of which are now being con nected. Another important link in the chain of automobile highways Is one extending from Florida to Canada. According to United States Consul General R. E. Mansfield, stationed at Vancouver, B. C.. the interest in mo tor highway construction that has cen terod in these several international and transcontinental roads during the past few years is now being focused upon another project of greater mag nitude. one that contemplates the con neeting of the several important sec tions into one great system encircling the North American continent, the Great Horseshoe highway, which will be the longest motor trail in the world. "It will have an approximate length of 8.000 miles through the United States and Canada." Mr. Mansfield writes. ' "The route will Include the scenic beauties and attractions of the sunny south, quaint New England, the great lakes and streams of Canada, the broad prairies and agricultural dis tricts of the middle west, the Rocky mountains and the Cascade ranges, tin valleys and forests of the far west and the panorama of the Pacific coast from Alaska to California. The Pacific section of the road will pass through the coast cities of Vancouver. Seattle. Portland. Sacramento. San Francisco. Los Angeles and the resorts of south ern California, giving to the trip a va riety of scenery and climatic condl tions sufficient to satisfy the most ex acting motorist" Harrow a Good Road Implement. For the newly graded earth road that contains no sod an ordinary straight steel toothed harrow is one of the very best machines that can be used to set tle the loose earth and level off the humps and fill up the holes. On roads where sod and lumps of tough earth have been graded up a disk harrow should !>e used to thoroughly cut them up, and It should he followed by a road drag or a straight tooth harrow to level and settle the loose material. Culvert of Cement. The culvert made of cement is more often seen now than in past yearn The good road with good drainage and good culverts is a joy in every season. When Traveling North Insist that your Ticket be routed ' via the—— gansas Çity §outhern Railway A Pleasant Journey Is Thereby Assured OBSERVATION CARS Through the Ozark Mountains UNEXCELLED PULLMAN SERVICE Special through Sleepers between PORT ARTHUR and KANSAS CITY LAKE CHARLES and SHREVEPORT For information address W. W. AVERY S. G. WARNER Ass't Gen'l Passenger Agent (Kansas City, Mo.) General Passenger Agent S. G. HOPKINS, Division Passenger Agent, Texarkana, Texas Mardi Gres New Orleans One Fare Plus 25 Cents for the Round Trip via the 4* * * 4* * * 4* 4* * Edenborn Line (Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company) T ICKETS on sale February 29th to March 6th, inclusive. Re turn limit March !7th, with privi lege of extension to April 3d. * * * * * * * * * 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ? $ 4 4 [ * 1 **^ 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 * 4 *^ For Sale by W. I. GAYLE, DRUGGIST, Benton, La. Have a Well Filled Purse Next X-mas Don't let scanty means stand as a barrier to the happiness Christmas should bring to you. Follow the easy and simple plan we offer for accumulating funds.... Join Our Christmas Savings Club It allows you to start with 1, 2 or 5 cents and increase the samo amount each week. Write us for folder describing how you can become a member of this club by mail and the logical way It offers for every man, woman and child to easily provide Christmas money. Write right away. Commercial National Bank —--of Shreveport PROFESSIONAL CARDS JOANNES SMITH Attorney at Law Office at Court House, Second Floor Benton, Louisiana C LAUDE B. PROTHRO Attorney at Law Office at Caddo Parish Court House Shreveport, Louisiana j^DWIN W. DORAN Attorney at Law Office in Court House, Second Floor Benton, Louisiana D R. FREDERICK RATZBURG Dentist Levy Building Shreveport, La. Telephone, No. 1160. Where the Big Crowd Eats When in Shreveport... The Columbia Restaurant and Lunch Room 521 Market Street Dining parlor for ladies in back por tion of the room. Native Game, Oysters and other Sea Foods when in season. Courteous treatment, clean linen, and wholesome food at popular prices. 6-tf R When in Shreveport Get Shaved at Rettig's and Read Signs of Good Times 44-tf R. 0. SHUMAN ...General Blacksmith Benton, Loulslaaa I make a specialty of overhaul ing gins — putting the entire plant in first-class condition. Grinding Only on Saturday* Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Mr, A. L. Beaumont, formerly of Plain Dealing, has opened a nef jewelry store at Konawa, Oku., and is prepared to deliver all kind* of Watches and Jewelry. Repairing of watches the samo day delivawd guaranteed. Mail Order Work a Specialty For Sale A good combination horse, gentle, will work anywhere. Dun in co * or ' f L, black mane and tail—marks horse trw* j ers look for—about 14 or 15 hands ni?*j. weight about 1000 pounds; old e® 00 ?* Irnnn« Lin Ln Cl VIDQC l -T' to know his own business. (Soon j comes attached to the man who cat"** the crib key.) For price and pedaF* apply at this office. At Stud A 3-year-old Black Mammoth J®** Weight, about 800 pounds; hands in height. Fee, $10. Breed«* good mules and all others intere#*®- ^ \ invited to call at Reeky Mount ana him. 7-4-p T.A. McKWJ®'