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The emancipation celebration of
the colored people in this city Fri
day was failure as far as the parade
was concerned, only two floats, one
containing TIE band, and the other
the Goddess of Liberty and the
two maids of honor, were in the pro-
cession which was led by two
marshals and followed by crowd of
small boys. There was several cele-
bretions in other portions of the
county hence there was not as many
N attendance on the first day as are
expected during the second days
celebration.
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to the stockholders
of the First National Bank of BRENNAN to
meet at Office of said bank on June 25. 1891,
at 10 o'clock a. M, to attend to such bust
ness as may be brought before them.
Fl. K. HARRISON, Cashier.
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The streets are insufferable dusty,
but no sprinkling save an occasional
sprinkle from naturs water works
relieves us of the dust.
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LOCAL NEWS.

MISS Tische Fordtran, of Waco,
is in the city visiting the family of
MIR. NJ. a. Healey.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

Instances of the perforation Of
lead pipes by insects have not been
unknown, but in a recent German
case, a plumber. called to repair the
second leak in a pipe, found the
worm "a wood wasp actually at
work upon the hole.
Remarkable magnetic variations,
greatly exceeding those of England
and Wales, have been noticed in
Russia, where places separated by
less than 80 miles show difference
of as much as 29o in the inclina-
ton of the needle and of $50 in
declination.
A swamp earth is used by natives
of the New Hebrides for smearing
the points of their arrows. Dr..
Ledantec finds the poinonous agent
to be the organism that develops
tetanus, and that this is devitalized
by keeping, so that old arrows lose
their virulence.
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The fishing party composed of
Messrs B. S. Rodgers, Jno. G. Ran
kin, L. F. Grasmuck, r, L. Ammons
and DR.. T. o. Hynes, returned from
their fishing trip up on the 1egua
Thursday evening and report that
they had an excellent time and
caught an abundance of fish and
killed some game.
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The BANNER force tenders thanks
to Maj. Lauraine for a couple of
fine watermelons, which were deli
cious and heartily enjoyed.
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IN THIN IBILByE COUNTRY
The Farmers of Southern Texas can buy
CHEAP HOMES ON FAVORABLE TERMS.

Chls and evers aud other diseases everp rvail
produces in
the
n Southern
schools of the
eican White people
We the farmers OF exaso
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Emil DUBOIS, formerly of this
city and known as the little French
man." was found dead in Cedar
creek near Nayasota Thursday.
Supposed to have suicided as he
had been suffering with mania
apotu.
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Investigate the Opportunities

offered Abilene
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THERE was a good attendance at
the emancipation celebration at Eel
der and Spaun's pasture, eight
miles southeast of here Friday. DR..
j. T. Spann delivered the Grafton,
which the reporter had the pleasure
of reading. 1t was a splendid eff.
fort, and one calculated to do much
good among the colored people, be-
ing replete with facts connected
with their history and political
pointers, which, if needed, will do
much good. They had a grand bar
becue and good time generally.
The colored people were well
pleased with the Doctors speech.
Remocratic as it was, because, it
proved that the democrats were the
colored peoples friends.
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The second day of the emancipa-

The second day of the emancipa-
ton celebration at the Fair grounds
in this city Saturday was better at
tended than the first day, in fact
the most interesting features of the
celebration were reserved for Satur-
day evening when they had some
races and Other, prize contests
which drew a large crowd. There
was not SO many colored people in
the city as usual on Saturday even
ing, all of them, very near, being
out at the "Juneteenth siIiibration. )"
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The approach to the new iron
bridge across the Yegua, on the
Washington county side has Just
been completed. The approach is
120 feet of woodwork with 60 foot
approach of dirt built up with rock
sides and covered with II inches of
crushed rock. The work was done
by Mr.. Robert S. Farmer and has
been accepted by the commissioners
who pronounced it one of the best
pieces of work in the county. A
BANNER representative examined it
and reports it first class piece of
work.
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At meeting of the committee
representing the Baptist churches
of Washington county held in the
city Wednesday evening, it was IN
animously decided to hold the camp
meeting determined upon at some.
place in the couniy-at the Fire
mems park in this city.
The meeting will commence Sat,
urday night July 18th, and continue
perhaps two weeks
Red Sid Williams, of Mississippi,
~ evangelist of no small reputation,
AWill be secured to conduct the
services, assisted by local expounders
OF the gospel.
{. The meeting promises to be an
Interesting one, as every church in
the county is interested in its sue
cess and will endeavor to make 1t a
success.
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FRENCH TREATMENT OF pHTH1s1s.

Since August last ten cases of
consumption have been submitted
to the treatment of DR.. Germain-
See, consisting in shutting the
patient up for two or more hours
daily in Theoretically closed metal
lie chamber, into which is slowly adj
mitted a current of compressed air
saturated with the vapor of creosote
and encalyptol. Return of appetite,
gain of weight and strength, fall of
temperature to the normal, and
diminution Of cough, are among the
results obtained. Even advanced
cases were relieved and some actual
" cured
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ALLEN PERRY, colored, was in the
city Thursday and on his way to his
home in Pleasant Hill, the horse he
was riding stepped in hole in a
bridge about mile and-a-half south
of this city and fell, catching Perry
under him and falling in such man.
ner that it was some time before the
negro could get his leg from under
the horse. He returned to the city
for treatment and was talking of
starting suit for damages.
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GUTTA PERCHA IN SURGERY.

DR. B. ". Richardson has found
that gutta percha softened in hot
water, OF in hot water and glycerine
may be made to absorb almost any
desired styptic and antiseptic sub
stances. The mass can then be
drawn out or moulded into any re-
quired shape, and as surgical dress
ing will serve the purpose both of
adhesive plaster and splint
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WHILE there was nothing raised
here Thursday on the Davis monu-
ment fund Brennan was one of the
first places in the South to appoint
a monument committee and start q
fund for the erection of monument
to his memory. On the list Of that
committee is some S130 or $40
and more will probably be sub
scribed before the amount is for
wardei to the secretary of the mon
ument association.
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1 & 3 3 3 { 4 & 8 & .
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
VEGETABLE SILK.
Tho Spinning Worms Product Rivalcd
by an Alaska Flt I.

Tho Spinning Worms Product Rivalcd
by Alaska Flt. t.
The latest addition to William Bendt's
collection of curios from the North is a
bunch of fluffy little bolls that are de.
serving of more than the casual inspec-
ton of tho curious, for the reason tn at
they may lead to a new industry of valu.
able proportions. Wild cotton. the
sailors call them, but much more ap.
propriate name would be vegetable silk.
No material more resembles the floss
that bursts out of the pod at the tips OF
the stalks of this strange Alaskan plant
than would a similar-sized bunch of the
finest cocoon silk. The bolls are from
an inch and half to two inches in di.
ameter. and the threads have about the
same length. There are thousands OF
such threads in each boil, and each
thread is as flne as the finest thread OF
the silk-worm. They possess great
deal more luster than silk. and the
threads have just about as much tensile
strength.
The coloring is as rich as that of o
south-sea sunset. A breath parts the
ball to the very heart just as the fur OF
a sealskin separates under the same in
fluence, and the roots of the threads are
shades through a rich tea-rose color to
silver-gray at the tips.
The support Of the bolls is single
slender stem, hollow and leafiess, and
of a pale-green color. a tiny pod. scarce
ly a quarter of an inch thick by half
long, incloses the floss until it burs is
under the influence of the sun.
The plant was discovered by party
of deer-hunters, from the sealing
schooner c. II. White, while visiting
the interior in quest of fresh meat. They
pluckcd few specimens, and report
that it grows so thickly that pedestrians
can not help treading it under foot, and
that beds of it cover countless miles OF
Alaska soil.-Chicago News.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
HoME-MADk BOB SLED.

and bench. and keyed The draw pieces
are three-by-four-inch timber, fitted to
the inside Of the crook and fastened
with an inch-and-s-quarter pin passing
through the rave, runner and draw
piece, and wedged as before. The
tongue is round pole, with head
block of three-by-tour-inch timber with
slots cut in the ends to receive the
brace irons which pass through about
six inches with hook that fastens in
an eye in the draw-piece and can be
taken of. They are coupled together
with chains about six feet long, with .
hook on one end fastened to q ring in
the bench Of the front bob. and can be
taken up or let out at pleasure. Any
farmer handy with tools can easily
make such o pair of bobs, the use Of
which will soon pay him for his work.
American Agriculturist
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
POULTRY P,ck,NGs.

BOILED potatoes mashed and mixed
with cornmeal and bran makes an ex-
cellent feed for fattening turkeys
WHEAT, corn and oats are good grain
diet, but fowls, especially the laying
hens, need some green food in addition
SELL off all of the cockrels not wanted
for breeding. There is no economy in
wintering more than is needed for that
purpose
GROUND or crushed bone is a valuable
feed for poultry during the winter. 1t
can be given two or three times week
with profit
IN fattening fowls it is not good econ
omy to feed any thing or the ground.
Provide clean troughs and boards. They
will save feed.
Now is the time to RENE IN Dor that rs
hens we'll cared for will return much
better profit than SO allowed to take
care of themselves.
FROM now on until towards spring
well-dressed poultry will pay better
than those marketed alive, but the
work must be carefully done.
SUNFLowER seed and sorghum seed
make good feed to add to the variety
during the winter and can be given two
or three times q week with benefit.
THE Plymouth Rocks are compare
lively small eaters and are good for
ayers. They are Of good size, hardy
and vigorous, and are desirable breed
on the farm.
AFTER the poultry are carefully
dressed they should be hung up until
all of the animal heat is cooled out be-
fore they are packed to ship. A little
care in this respect will often avoid con.
siderable loss.
A RAIL pen covered with straw and
banked up on the sides with corn fodder
will make comfortable shelter for the
fowls during the winter at very small
cost 1t is far better than allowing
them to roost in the stables or stock
sheds.
A HANDFUL Of linseed meal given in
the feed twice a week will be q benefit
during the winter. Mix and let stand
until it is thoroughly soaked. tits bet
ter to feed with bran or cornmeal. Some
use a teaspoonful Of Venetian red
mixed in with pint of meal made into
a stiff dough and feed to the fowls as a
preventive of cholera. The cost is
little and preventive is much better
than any cure.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
distinguishing Fires on vessels.

Investigation into the causes OF the
recent fires on steamships has shown
that the use of o very simple means OF
fire extinction, the injection Of carbonic
acid gas into the hold, is very often not
Sasorted to when it would be of the ut
most service. 1t is matter of surprise
that this effective safeguard, which re-
Quires for its generation only few bar
ee1s Of marble dust and twenty or thirty
gallons of hydrochloric acid, with hogs
heads for the conf finement of the gas and
hose for it's injection, is not universal
ly employed for the preservation of life
and property on the high seas, especial
ly as in the hold of vessel, which can
be tightly closed. the principle OF chem
lcAl extinction can be applied with al
most certain success. The adoption Of
such a system would result not only in
tie saving OF property, but might at
any time Prove the means of averting
loss Of EIA.-N Y..v--~ld.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
4 HOMEMADE SLED.

uev to Construss . ssreag aAA Cheap
Pair Of Bobs.
The homemade sled illustrated here
with, after sketches sent US by Fred c.
McConkey. Niagara County. N. Y. has
runners four feet long, natural crooks,
Aewn out six inches broad and four
inches deep and placed the same dis
lance apart ~ those Of An ordinary
sleigh. Tho benches are six-by-eight-
Inch timber hewn out in the middle to
tour-by six incheA. The raves are two
by-six-inch plank four feet long. The
whole Is fastened together by two two
inch pins ON each end passing through
the rave, bench and runner, and firmly
wedged At both ends. A notch is cut in
the top OF the bench at the end two
inches deep and six inches back to re-
eeive the raves, leaving the top per-
fectly smooth to receive the holsters
which are fastened on by an inch-and-a.
quarter bolt passing through the bolster
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
TWELVE GOOD RULES.

II You Follow Them You Can Make
POu.try-Raising . Success.
/. Make hens lay when eggs are
dearest
q Breed stock when eggs are cheap.
s. Keep non-setting breed to lay
when settlers are Matching, and pay ex-
penses OF the latter.
4. Breed as many chick ems as possible
and as early as possible. They all rep
resent SO much money.
5. Keep all the pullets. They are
worth two dollars each as prospective
winter layers.
8. Kill or otherwise dispose Of all hens
after three years Of age.
Z. Breed the best fesh-formers for
market Keep them up to as great a
weight as may be possible.
8. well-fattened, well-dressed poultry
will always bring the best prices from
the best customers.
Q. If not accustomed to poultry, be-
gin with small number. Learn to
make a success of the few, and then go
on with large number.
10. Do not neglect the little essentials
to success, such as lime, gravel, meat,
plenty of clean water, green food, dust
bath, ETC., regularly supplied to layers.
IL. Keep strict account Of every cent
of expenditure and receipts Charge
the poultry with all expenses, and
credit them with all receipts. The
droppiDgs at seventy-five cents per bar
rel will go a long way to pay for feed.
12. Market gardeners and dairymen
are particularly we'll situated to permit
of their dealing proftably in poultry;
the former have spare time in the win
ter, the latter are among the best Gus
toners in the city every day.-Western
Rural
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
The Best Horse to Raise.

There is much discussion going on be-
tween breeders as to what kind of a horse
is the most profitable to raise for m arket
If a farmer wants to make money in
raising horses, the first idea to get rid
of is that he can make money in raising
trotters, for not one in 100 will succeed
in it. There is always demand for
draft horses. both the big, heavy horse
of 1000 to q 900 pounds and the lighter,
more active one of 1 200 to /, 400 pounds
in weight. Other classes which are al
ways in demand at good prices are
coachers, cobs and roadsters. First find
out what the market demands and then
raise that kind of horse to which your
farm is adapted. On the small farms oi
the East where horses are required ta
do all kinds of work it is not practical
to raise heavy draft horses, for they are
too clumsy, but any OF the other kind:
can be raised with profit aud advan tage.
Never use poor mare to raise colts
from and always use the best stallicr
obtainable. 1t is hardly possible to ge,
a s400 colt from $40 stallion and $;5t
mare.-Farm and Home.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03

q 'sYou haven't heard any thing until
you have heard both Sides" says .
writer. This may be pretty logic, but
the base drum refutes it.-Bingham.
ton Herald.
Wanted One More.-customsr-
What is this waiter? Waiter-Lust
what you ordered, sir-pea soup. Gus
tomer-Please bring me another pea as
. side dish. Boston Herald.
knowledge must be gained by our
selves. Mankind may supply us with
facts; but the result, even if they agree
with previous ones, must be the work Of
our own minds. OF Beaconsfield.
DUTY is never uncertain at first. It
& only after we have got involved in
the mazes and sophistries of wishing
that things wore otherwise than they
-are that it seams indistirct- Robert
son.
Said a-matter-of- tact man to an ses-
thctic damsel who was talking about
ssLeautiiying property" The most
charming decoration for a plate is good
beef-steak, with well-cooked potatoes,
and iw,t sufflciency of gravy. It will
beat Trailing vines or a sunflower any
dag in the week.-Newcastle Chron-
iele
Having an easy tlme OF IL, Is the
hardest life man can live. Hardship
and struggle are essential to that dcvel-
opment OF character that alone makes
life worth living, or that can command
admiration and regard from others.
King Alfred the Great said wisely: mo
wise man should desire a soft life. il he
careth for any worship here FROM the
world, or for eternal life after this life
is over" Yet how few OF us are afraid
Of ''soft life. for ourselves or for our
children, or are longing for q hard cne.
Tho s. S. Times.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
SHOULD grain be fed wet or dry? That

SHOULD grain be fed wet or dry? That
depends upon the condition of the other
food. says the Jersey Bulletin. II the
cow IL on grass, without dry hay, or
silage Is fed instead of hay, the grain
(which should be ground) need not be
wet But If the remainder of her food
is dry hay it should be cut fine, moist
ened and the ground grain sprinkled
over and mixed through it. Otherwise
1t may happen that the grain becomes
impacted into hard balls in the stomach
and produces serious cases of indiges-
tion. But noistened does not mean
sloppy.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03

Tho lunRs play most important part ~
the machiheft 9f life. II is essential thar
fSsy ps this hkispo r. With
derful rccuperative power. Many instances
nre on record where the lungs have been shot
through with q leoden bullet and the wound
quickly healing Therefore none should
despair when they discover that their lungs
are affected. Frequently the lungs become
sore and liberated and by an ignorant doc
remedies applied, with serious. results.
When the lungs feel sore and breathing
painful the proper remedy is DR.. John Bulls
uicerations % either internal or external.
Many an invalid whose case was pronounced
hopeless has been restored to vigorous
health by a timely use Of this excellent com
pound. II You will not try this remedy you
have only yourself to blame If you do not
get we'll
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
Petty Art SwindlinS.

There is good deal of sham and OF
swindling done in this Chinese and Jap
anese art, not so much by the Cinnamon
and Japanese who do business here as
by some of the American firms which
pretend to deal only in the choicest OBJ
tainable examples. A piece of bronze
that in Japanese shop costs So or 81,
in middle-class American shop will
cost SIS to SIS, and in the establishment
OF firm of alleged connoisseurs will be
marked at from $50 to $500, according to
the rapacity of the dealers and the cre-
dulity of their customer. In one case,
a bit of rare porcelain, said to have cost
Sl75, was sold to an innocent" but ex-
ceedingly wealthy collector of this city
for S12, 600. The collector presumably
bought it because it was held" at such
high price, and because its rarity un-
der the circumstances might be consid-
cred as phenomenal. Actually, this piece
of porcelain was neither of the most
rare nor the most valuable type.-N. Y.
Star.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03

BEFORE the use of Pricily Ash Bitters
became general throughout the South and
West, it was fearful dose of ''Blue Mdss,"
and daily doses of quinine, that was forced
down the throats of sufferers from all ma
larial troubles. In place Of such obnoxious,
narrowing curatives. Prickly Ash Bitters,
supreme sway, aud after one trial, it's use
when necessary, is forever established.
You who have Hick-headaches, sour stom-
achs, diseased liver or kidneys, can do no
better than to give it a trial.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
EXHIBITION COOP.

with strong cotton cloth, and three o.
these frames are hinged to fold, for
back and sides. A similar frame is
fitted to the top The front is made OF
round pieces, the three center strips
slide up through holes, being held firm
by a cross piece working on two of the
rounds. The coop, when opened, hooks
on a light solid base. All can be very
readily knocked down fat for shipment
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
Rornc Down with Inf,rm,ties.

Ago finds its surest sol.'ce in the benignant
tonic aid afforded by Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which conuteracts rheumatic and
malarial tendencies, relieves growing
OF the kidneys. and Is the finest
remeiy eXtant for disorders Of the stomach,
liver and bowels. Nervousness, too with
which old people ere very apt to be aflict-
ed, is promptly renewed by it.
Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-03
EXHIBITION COOP.

1t Enables Poultry Men to show Fowls
to Good Advantage.
The illustration herewith presents
clearly neat and attractive exhibition
coop, such as all who purpose a fine dis
play of poultry should possess. In de.
scribing it the American Poultry
Journal says: A frame is stretched