The Herald du lieu suivant : Shreveport, Louisiana • 5

THE HERALD WONDERFULLY PROLIFIC NORTH LOUISIANA Shreveport Route Shreveport January 201897 EEnSSf ffLABELy of other States and our bottom lands are unsurpassed in the world At one time the prevalent idea abroad was that Louisiana was a low-lying country in whose lagoons and swamps lurked the deadly malaria but a9 the tide of immigra-lion rolis southward it is learned that this belief is a fallacy and that in the northern portion of the State thousands of acres of high rolling lands of wonderful fertility can be purchased cheap and on easiest terms The section of country crossed from east to west by the Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific Railway anJ a number of navigable livers makes transportation cheap and reliable and incluues every variety of soil the rich alluvial lands of the Mississippi Tensas Macon Boeulf Ouachita and Red livers are unsurpassed for their fertility Then we have thousands of acres of productive uplands of many varieties and grades and with deep subsoils and these lands are for sale at from $3 to per acre We want your patronage and we are usinsj our best efforts to get it Pharmacy GOSSIP OF THE TOWS: North Louisiana is not subject to overflow Crop failures are Hie rarest of occurrences from drouth or olhvr causes The present drouth conditions existing in certain parishes of north and central Louisiana is unparalleled and a condition which has not existed for over a quarter of a century Its hills are covered with timber valuable for manufacturing purposes The soil is fertile yielding 30 bushels of corn to the acre without the useof fertilizers Sugarcane grows luxuriantly one acreproduc ing 2000 pounds of sugar and 200 gallons of molasses From 300 to 500 pounds of cotton to the acre One acre of highland rice gives sii to eight barrels Mr Cunningham has taken I One acre of land in north Louis-charge of the subscription lists and iana yields 15 tons of sorghum routes of the Herald and will see I Tobacco growing introduced re- that every subscriber gets his paper I cently into this section has proved He will take new names with bis a great success oue acre of hill pleasantest smile and book an land yielding from 100d to 1500 James Orr ol Rapides Has 144 Descendants Liring grandchild of Air James Orr who was born in Mecklenburg coun-ty on February 10 1810 and moved to Rapides parish in 1839 furnishes the Alexandria Town Talk with the following interesting facts He settled permanently in the edge of the hill country south of Alexandria on a small stream called Bayou Clear in the year 1847 lie is now almost 87 years of age and though blind he enjoys fairly good health After the death of his wife Sophia Jordan in 1882 he continued to live on hi9 me place with Nancy Atkinson a widowed daughter till the total loss of his eye sight which occurred late in the full of 1893 The next summer he went to live with his son Orr of Cedar Grove Sabine parish La where he will likely spend the remainder of his days Ills family of nine children six of bom are et has increased to forty-nine grandchildren forty-one surviving 101 great grand children eighty-seven surviving and ten grand-children Thus we see he is the ancestor of 144 living descecdents all of whom know and honor him Most of these live in Rapides parish a few in Sabine parish and one family in Texas A KC EXCURSION Stops Oie? to Size Up ShreieporL A party of prominent business men of Kansas City and a party from Poteau Oklahoma Territory left Kansas City last night on a trip over the Kansas City Shreveport and Gulf road to the southern terminus at Port Arthur The party includes from Kansas City Topeka Fort Scott Wyandotte City Okla homa City and other prominent places and numbers some 50 to 65 prominent and representative men who are under the escort of the officials of the road The party which will probably arrive tomorrow will stop over a short time to take a look at the Queen City and we will feel as proud as a babe patted on the head by a candidate for Congresp It is not an official visit to Shreveport but the visitors will be accorded a warm welcome and kind reception whilst in our city and every courtesy will he shown them individually and collectively THE PEOPLE ARE ASKING IIow many of the call men of the Fire Department are earning one-half of thir salaries? If the voluntary tax in aid of public school buildings has been abandoned? IIow many thousands of dollars it will coat the city to raise the street grades up to a raised grade of the old horn track? If there could be any better argu ment in favor of paving the avenue than the late rain was able to develop? What constitutes a and who gets the benefit of it that side walk owners along Texas avenue are not compelled to put their sidewalks in passable condition? Prohibition may not prohibit bu it puts a man to lots of inconvenience to get a drink FACTS AND FIGURES FOR HOME SEEKERS pounds of cured tobacco From one to three tons of hay can be cut from one acre of Bermuda which with many other kinds of grass is spontaneous growth One hundred to 150 bushels of potatoes is the average yield of one acre The climate is genial and as statistics prove Louisiana has a better health record than Indiana New York Missouri Texas Kansas and 18 other Northern and Western States Natural springs springs of chalybeate water branches and creeks ate abundant in every section of north Louisiana The climate permits of gieen crops every month of the year for forage purposes making this section xcelled for stock raising In no country can hogs be raised so cheaply These are no fancy figures but solid facts substantiated by the beet practical and scientific farmers of the country Rev Patterson formerly a resident of Terre Haute Ind says speaking in regard to the healthful-ness of north Louisiana: myself I can say I have been here 19 years brought a family of small children with tue all of whom are now grown and we have not had as much sickness in the 19 years as we had in Indiana in 19 months We have never left the State in summer on account of Hon Charles Schuler of DeSoto parish says: Louisiana is the poor paradise With a climate that compares so far a9 health is concerned favorably with that of any other section and which permits the planting and harvesting of crops nearly every month of the year with competitive transportation facilities unequalled in other sections with markets for everything we can grow at our doors with advantages of education both religious and otherwise it seems to me the hill farms of north Louisiana are not only a place of refuge for the industrious immigrant but can and will be the most prosperous agricultural section of the State when fully developed Hon John Dj mond president of the Louisiana State Agricultural fcoeiety sat is scarcely an acre of land that should not be worth $100 when compared with the value of similar lands in other States Our poorest sandy or pine flat lands are comparatively fertile when compared with the farmlanas -S RR RT THE BEST AND QUICKEST LINE TO ALL POINTS IN SOUTH TEXAS Through Pullman Sleeping Carp between Shreveport and Houston and GalvestoD Texas Through tickets sold to all points Lw rates to New York via Galveston and Mallory Line DonohoeT A Shreveport La A Cheesman A Shreveport La Downey 1 A Houston Texas I Hardy G- A New Orleans When Traveling MAKE no mistake BUT SEE THAT TOUB TICKET READS VIA Queen and Crescent Route Rev Orleus I Xortheasten Riilrosl Alabrat I Yicksbirg Riiliaj Yictstmrg Shmeport I Pacific Riilroit THROUGH TICKETS TO ALL POINTS Fast Time Close Connection Throagh Sleepers and For full information call on your nearest Queen and Crescent ticket agent or address McGroirty TPA Jackson Miss Gabkatt AGPA New Orleaai I Har PA New Orleans The Port Arthur Route tv AN AS CITY SHREVEPQBT AND GULF AND TEXARKANA AND FT SMITH RAILROAD Is 2 1-2 Hours the Quickest Route BETWEEN Shreveport St Louis Citt Chiga6 and All Points North and East Kansas Double daily vestibuled trains Before you start on your trip call on or write for information to Scovell General Agent Shreveport A Williams General Manager Texarkana PATRONIZE UNION PAPERS The Shreveport Typographical Union requests all who are friendly to union labor to patronize only those newspapers bearing the union label By so doing you will encourage good workmen and benefit the cause of honest labor The union label in a newspaper indicates that all the worn on said paper is done by union labor Respectfully the Shreveport Typographical Union- with cordial thanks Mr Cunningham is an energetic young gentleman and we trust the people will receive him kmd'y and encourage him in assisting us to continue and expxnd the best local paper published in the city The Evening Herald Fashionable Fitting LATEST STYLE BEST MATERIAL LOWEST BOHE PRICES A Zoril 208 Milam A ALSTuNI COTTON FACTOR And General Storage aud Warehouse Rusiuess Liberal cash advances 011 Warehouse corner of Cfrockett and Spring streets PIC JOHNSON FIRST CLASS BARBER SHOP Hot and Cold Water Baths first class service Hair Cutting 25e Shaving 15c Satisfaction guaranteed 527 Market street WIMBISU General Contractor All kinds of Grading Filling and similar work at lowest contract Address by mail or use Telephone 115 S0UUMFKKT Physician and Surgeon Office at Charity Hospital Telephone 47 GEO KENDALL NOTARY PUBLIC Abstractor of Titlfs and Land Agent Office at the Courthouse Job Printing Briefs Pamphlets Bill Heads Letter Heads Envelopes Cards in fact all kinds of commercial priuting doue with neatness and dispatch The Caucasian Job Printing Office LEATOiN ALL KINDS OF -BOOKBINDING 858 Fannin street Telephone Like winp the Herald with age will grow better was on the Grand Jury said a prominent advertiser in the Herald among the witnesses we had before us was a darkey The foreman went through the u-ual formality and asked him if he would promise to tell the tiuth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and answer all questions pro pounded to him in a straightforward manner without any equivocation or mental reservation what soever The darkey answered what did I ask inquired the foreman wanter kDow if I kin tell the truth fer half an replied the darkey Subsequent developments led us to doubt whether he could even tell the truth for that length of male hog is a favorite subject with the newspapers of the large cities and they ali pitch into hi for his rudeness He is generally depicted as the animal wlio occupies room for two or more seats in street cars while female passengers stand Every now and then the Times-Democat and Picayune are deluged with a symposium of communications on doings There is not a single man in Shreveport but who has euough gallantry and self-tespcct to olfer bis seal in a -treet car to a ladv From acareful study of the differ- ent trades professions and callings we have armed at the opinion that tbe tiling to make lots of money in is in the writing of poetry A XXX grade is what is needed Shakespeare left an excellent situation open when he died The man who carries a concealed weapon should himself be concealed in a dark dungeon for at least one year If such punishment were meted out to him it might save him from a longer term in the penitentiary A society reporter speaks of a local belle having a like a We suppose a Chicago foot would be called a night- mare The invention of gunpowder is considered a great one But its discovery has caused more human misery made more widows and orphans and criminals than all other discoveries combined Poker playing is the card- inal sin.