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YFrat mrnixn 1a rd W H BUCK Editor and Proprietor J JM EALY Local Editor and Business Manager The European warghost is vanishing into thin air The Missoulian has entered ut on its sixth volume The Mis soulian is one of our most valued exchanges and we consider it one of the best cotinty papers in the Territory Ouir advices from the North in dicate a row between the Sioux and Nez Perces on one side and the Blood family on the other After they have quarreled among them selves for awhile they will prob ably shake hands and agree to fight it out with the whites The reported surrender of a few Indians to General Miles command is considered a sure indication that all the Sioux intend to lay down their arms and again submit themselves to the tender mercies of the Indian agents but the Bozeman Times probably comes nearer the truth in stating that the penitent Indians are out of grub and ammunition Samples of wool from the Ed wards Bros flocks taken to Boston by Genl L S Willson of this place and submitted to wool men for classification were pronounced not Montana wool and on
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THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPERI A Lecture on its Use and MisuseIts Ex istence as an Educating Factor Defined The American newspaper is the best in dex of American life and the fairest represen tative of the people Whoever would form a correct estimate of the spirit genuis and life of Americans must study the newspapers Our virtues our vices our thoughts and opinions our politics our trade our push and pride our weakness strength creeds customs and civilization all are imagined in our periodical publications The American newspaper has no rival on earth in the volume and variety of its issues More than 10000 papers appear each week from our newspaper press More than 1000000000 copies are circulated annually They cover the whole field of human thought and interests Every department of business manufacture and trade has its advertiser Schools scientific moral educational religious political and charitable societies and organizations publish newspapers devoted to their interests and filled with their ideas But stating the num ber of newspapers does not tell the whole story One must note well THE GREAT ARMY OF WRITERS who help to fill their columns the editors assistants reporters correspondents critics and contributors of all kinds which
MUTANTER Cool and palmshaded from the torrid heat The young brown tenor puts his singing by And sets the twin pipe to his lips to try Some air of bulrushglooms where lovers meet 0 swart musician time and fame are fleet Brief all delight and youths feet fain to fly Pipe on in peace Tomorrow must we die What matter in our life today be sweet Soon soon the silver paper reeds that sigh Along the Sacred River will repeat The echo of the darksoled bearers feet Who carry you with wailing where must lie Your swathed and withere body by and by In perfumed darknesswith the grains of wheat THE NEWSPAPER The Editors Sanctum Fits t After the Church Says The Rev Robt Uollyer The steam engine does no days work so marvelous in its whole result as that which is done by the steam printing press the wire flashes no such weight of interest the railroad carries no such freight as the last edition while the artist has no such opening as this that transfers work at once to the block and then sends the picture flying into the hearts and brains of a million men As the
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Established July 1 1859 A Map cf Busy Life Its Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns Subscription 1 a Year in Advance VOLUME 32 BENTON LA MARCH 30 1893 a o s JA ttonicy at Law i iti v Louisiam Snifter Bellevue Bossier jtar A Joan n es Sm i fh ttoruey at Law lieaton Bossier parish A J Ai u rtf Will J pruetiee in the Courts ol Bossier amt adjoitiiut parishes A If Lowry A ttoruev at Law Benton La Will prae tioeintho Courts of Bossier Bienville and Webster parishes Dr AY r AI Abney Physician and Surgeon BENTON LA Office at Drug Store of Benton Drug Co CITY HOTEL MILAM STREET SBBE VEPOll T LO UISIA NA A J REYNOLDS Proprietor Omnibusses Connect with all Trains G W SENTELL W B MCLEAN L K BARBER G W SENTELL JK Gr W Sentell Co Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants No 190 Gravier St New Orleans T M COMEGYS DEJYTIST Offiee on second floor in Zoiliaips Building Adjoining the Opera House Shreveport La O ffice hours from 9 a m to 5 p in ami trom 2 I m to 5 p in Telephone con nection Dr C Ratzburg OFAtlST
1053t ct fan W H Scanland Editor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA TlwridayFebruary 91899 A terrific cyclone in Lowndes Co Kiss Friday blew down cabins and injured several negroes In the Missouri House Saturday there was a fierce attack on the school book trust and its lobby Robert P Porter advisee that nearly all the United States troops be removed from Cuba by April By a unanimous vote the Minneso ta Senate has declared in favor of the election of Senators by the people Senator Daniel of Virginia made a strong speech in the Senate Friday against expansion and the ratification of the peace treaty Over 818 bills have been introduc ed in the Arkansas legislature up to date The fool killer is not doing his duty up in that State The House Judiciary has decided that General Wheeler and other Con who volunteered in the late war vsoated their seats in Congress A dispatch of the 5th says Texas cattle are dying by the thousands on aeoount of the chilling rains and long oontinned windstorm of last week Reports of thirty persons killed by snowslides Friday came from Bredkenridge Colorado Train ser vioe was still suspended in the mount ains
mt mmt W H Scanland Bditor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA Thureday t February 16 1899 Cleveland Ohio will model her school system after that in vogue at St Louis________ Friday the Senate passed the House bill to establish a national military park at Vicksburg Miss Baltimore has about twofifths of the population of Maryland and pays about twothirds of the taxes The report of the United States treasury for January shows a deficit of about 9500000 for that month The North Carolina Legislature has passed a law making all contracts made by or with trustt null and void An epidemic of spotted fever or cerebro spinal meningitis was re ported raging at Morgantown Ky last we ek _ The Amerioan forces in front of Manila made an attaok on Calooean village last Friday and reduced it in short o rder _ It was so cold in Pittsburg Penn Friday that the ears of bogs in stock oars were frozen so stiff that they dropped off William Laird of the shipbuilding firm wbieh built the Confederate war Teasel Alabama died at Liverpool on the 7th inst The cost of the addmistration of the affairs of Cuba during the month of January