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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18
A POOR MEMORY FOR DATES.
MI. Staybolt's Earnest Endeavor to Re.
member Mrs. Staybolt's Birthday.

4
| member Mrs. Staybolt's Birthday.
"My friend, Mr.. Staybolt," said Mr..
Gratebar, has such a poor memory
for dates that he can not tell offhand
what year he was born in. Neither
can he tell without little thought how
old he is. But the year of his enlist
ment in the army and his age at that
time seem to be indellibly impressed
upon his mind, and reckoning from
that year he arrives easily at the date
| of his birth and at his present age.
lie doesn't remember his children's
birthdays; they would come and go
without his knowledge if he were not
reminded of them by his wife. Prompted
by her he takes his son George, for in
stance, by the hand upon the proper
date and gravely wishes that seven
teen-year-old youngster happy birth.
day and many happy returns of the
day; and the innocent child doesn't
suspect that his father never would
have thought of it at all if his mother
hadn't kept nagging at him.
$50 about the date of his wife's BIRTH
day. 1t did seem to Mr.. Staybolt as
though he ought to be able to remem-
Der that, but he couldn't; he tried for
years, but he failed every time. On the
day his wife would say:
did you-er-forget something's"
'When Mr.. Staybolt heard that year
before last he made up his mind that
he wouldn't forget it again and
he tied string around his finger forth
with, and when he got to his Office he
made memorandum. His wife's
birthday is October 80. He got down
his book for notes payable, or some
thing of that sort that has dates away
ahead in it, and he put down under the
date of October 30, 1892
"'Cynthia's birthday
'Then he laughed to himself and
went on with his work.
Months rolled by, and Mr.. Staybolt
forgot things as usual, but he couldn't
forget the date of Cynthia's birthday,
for he had that down in the book. As
the time drew near he laughed again
as he saw staring at him from the top
of the page for October 90:
'Cynthia's birthday
"And when he read it there, on the
morning of the day, he made up his
mind that when he went out to lunch
he would buy a nice birthday present
for his wife. That night he ate dinner
comfortably, as usual, in his pleasant
home, and in the morning, as he was
about to start for the Office, his wife
said:
Did you-er-forget something?
HE had, he had, he had forgotten
not only the day, but the present. Then
he tied another string around his finger
and made another memorandum in his
book. And this time he engaged a
steady young clerk in the Office to keep
track of the date, too, and to see that
On October 30. 1898. Mr.. Staybolt takes
a package home with him; and it is un-
derstood that the clerk is not to leave
him until he has actually seen him de-
liver the package into Mrs Staybolt's |
hands. IN. Y. Sun.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18

OF Marie. She seemed to be swaying
to and fro. / rushed to catch her in
my arms. As if from q distance heard
her voice in sad, fearful whisper say:
Dear Horace, FAREWELL" and when
would have clasped her in my arms, the
shadowy form / took for her, evapor-
ated, faded out, became part of the
mist 1t cleared as l uttered cry Of
despair, and at my feet lay, in small
glittering heap, the Indian scarf which
had been wrapped around her.
stopped to put it up, and remember
no more until found myself hammer
ing at the door as your men have de-
scribed to you.
"A strange story said, but
Strange, but true-my God, too
truer he exclaimed.
81 was not about to question it, I
said, but the house where the police
found you is half a mile from Praed
street, and has been unoccupied for
twenty years induced the young
fellow to allow me to take him home in
my cab. then went to Cartwrights
and saw the written order they had re-
ceived from Dufoy, which had been the
cause of Dewar going to the old mans
house. 1t was written in curious,
foreign hand, the words spelt in the
Oldest English fashion, the missive
sealed with quaint seal, having what
seemed to be an Arabic word engraved
between the coils of serpent. The ar
ticles required were such as might be
used in neurological experiments. Sat
isfied that l had now clew sufficient to
unravel the mystery, / went to the adj
dress the writer gave-to the address
where Dewar had been so often and
under happy circumstances-bu Praed
street only deepened the mystery;
there was no such house, no such
as that given in the letter, no
house at all like the one which Dewar
had described, and the house where he
was knocking and asking for Marie
was as already described half a mile
away, dilapidated and untenanted.
From that hour to this have never
found the smallest trace of Dufoy or
Marie. though Dewar, as ] tell you, is
we'll known. is not insane, never has
been. he says, and still adheres to the
truth of his story"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18
BUCKET SHOP GHOSTS.
Miserable Men Who Cling to the Skirts q
Wall Street.


Wall Street.
A feeling of regret can not always be
depressed at the view of the broken
down merchants and small, timid. i'm
pecunious Spectators who frequent
bucket shops, SO called, in hope of
gain. These people do, indeed, dig
their own pitfalls, since so long as
there exists saloon in New York
where stranger is allowed to sit and
read the papers at the price. of glass
of beer, there is no excuse for holding
down chair in a bucket shop.
The proprietor's game is, on the face,
fair enough; but the customer is so in
tent on digging his own pit that he
fails to calculate the factors of the
game. The margin required is one per
cent, and you pay one-eighth commits
sion to come in and one-eighth to come
out Therefore, when you lose dollar
you lose whole dollar; when you win
dollar you collect seventy-five cents
The odds of one hundred to seventy
five are thus continually against the
customer.
Again, the customer goes entirely on
guess work. If he were to toss a cop
per as to whether to buy or sell, he
might be right something like half the
time; but if the odds are one to two
that stock will move in given direc-
tion, and also one to two that guesser
will guess right, the guesser starts in
with actual odds of four to one against
him. The bucket shop customer may
not be familiar with this feature of the
calculus of probabilities, but the math-
ematical professors lay it down, and
Mr.. Proctor mentions it in his treatise
on gambling, and the prosperity of the
bucket shop seems to bear it out as
fixed truth.
In some of these by-ways of finance
you can buy one share. In others,
where five shares are the smallest gam
bic, two, three, sometimes five small
spectators will share in five-share
lot. These facts are not stated as evil
dences of depravity nor as the basis of
sneers at honest and laborious poverty;
they only tend to show that where peo-
pie are unable to dig larre holes to
bury themselves in they win dig small
ones. Philadelphia Press.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18
sToRE-RooM AND CLOSETS.
Pains Should BE Taken to Keep Then
Clean and Sweet.

SnOut0 DO 18R0n co Aeep Tnem
Clean and Sweet.
The store-room in winter and spring
is of greater Importance than in sum-
mer and fall, when fruits and vegeta-
bles are plentiful and cheap. The store
room should be well-lighted and VEN
tilated. Take everything from this
room. Examine all the stores and take
note of those which should be used
first. Have all the receptacles for food
washed, wiped dry, and put into the
sun to air. Brush every nook and cor
ner of the room, then wash all the
paint and woodwork. Let the room
stand the greater part of the day with
the windows and doors open. Mean
while make list of the amount and
kind of stores you require. and assign
a place for each thing. From time to
time, as these articles are obtained,
check off the list. 1t is not yet too late
for the housekeeper who wishes to do
SO to put up peaches, pears, ounces,
apples, tomatoes and many other
things. Every store-room should have
q supply Of rice, tapioca, macaroni,
barley, graduated and cut sugar, whole
spices, whole herbs, some canned peas
and corn, dried peas and beans, gela-
tine, fiavors, etc. 1t saves the house
keeper great deal of time and trouble
to have these things on hand in such
quantities as she can use to advantage
in her family. If she has cold room
in her cellar it will be wise to put in
potatoes and apples by the barrel. The
closets in the house should be taken
singly, the contents examined, and
aired or washed as the case may be,
and the closet thoroughly cleaned and
aired. Ladies' Home Journal
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18
DESERTED NEVADA.

Citizens of the, Silver State Now TIL It's
Arid Farming Lands.
Nevada is the only state in the union
that has decreased in wealth and popu-
lation during TIE last decade, and,
considering her reputation as part of
the great American desert few per-
sons would suspect that she could hope
to arrest the fading out process by be-
coming. like California. an agricultural
state. So long as Nevada was the great
reproducing region in the world
few of her inhabitants troubled them
selves about the future of her arid soil.
She produced more than $40, 900, 600 of
gold and silver in 1875 BY 1880 her pro-
duction was reduced to s17,300, 600, and
by 1889 to 90. 100000 The census Of
1890 showed that she had lost more than
26 per cent of her population in ten
years. Her assessed wealth had greatly
decreased, and in almost every material
respect she is poorer than when she en-
tered the union in 1869. Her population
of AZ, 600 was $50, 900 below the popula-
ton of a congress district.
So long as Nevada was regarded SIM
ply as great silver mine her arid soil
was esteemed useless for agricultural
purposes. Anew river valleys were
but enormous almost rain
less areas grew nothing but sagebrush.
When the mines began to lessen their
output the Chinese, those Bedouins Of
the west, began to emigrate to newer
mining districts along with miners,
prospectors and all sorts of loosely
attached persons Some men who had
the instinct of local attachment advo-
Gated irrigation of the arid soil, and for
years it was tried with success on small
areas Nevada has now about 1,400
farms, and of these about 1900 are
irrigated in whole or in part.
1t has been found that the pro-
duce per acre of corn, wheat, oats,
barley, potatoes and hay grown upon
irrigated lands in Nevada is much
above the average of such products
throughout the country, as q whole,
and higher than in many states of
much Ieputed fertility. Nevada stands
among the ten or twelve highest states
in the production of potatoes per acre
planted, and half a dozen states east of
the Alleghenies are below her in the
average production of wheat per acre.
The cost of irrigation in Nevada is
lower than in several other arid regions
Of the west, and the variety of climate
in the state makes possible a remark
able variety of vegetable products
Nevada's area of more than 100, 900
square miles extends from about the
parallel that runs through Spartans-
burg. $. c., to that which runs through
Ct. Oranges and other sub
tropical fruits flourish in the southern
with the so-called Mojaye
desert on one side and the Colorado
river on the other.
Nevada cuts little or no figure as yet
in the aggregate of the country's agri-
cultural products, but she has demon
strated her ability to grow crops wher-
ever the land can be irrigated. When
she shall really undertake TO become
IN agricultural state, she will have ono
advantage over some new agricultural
regions in possessing railway system,
IN inheritance from che days when she
all the rest Of the country
n her output of silver.-N. Y. Sun.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18
Charms Of Courteey.

A person can hardly visit the Japan
csc house at the Chicago exposition
without finding out for herself some-
thing of what Sir Edwin Arnold means
by his insistence upon the politeness of
this nation The charm of it is that it
does not appear to be mere outside
suavity of demeanor. 1t seems, wheth-
er it be really SO or not, to be the out
come of genuine kindness Of heart.
This kindness, joined TO an ingratiat-
ing gentleness. is wonderful power.
There could not be better manners irn-
agined. Is it not true that there il
certain atmosphere about all buildings
where there are human beings? OF
course, it is really the human beings who
make the atmosphere, but we rather
forget that 1t is . great compliment,
from my point of view, to say that the
woman's building and the Japanese
house give the pleasantest feeling of all
the houses we have entered. Perhaps
that is fanciful But we all have some
pet notions n. Y. Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18
Saddle On the Wrong Horse.

An emaciated dude applied to Har-
lem livery stable and wanted to hire
horse, but deposit was demanded.
You want $50 deposit Do you think
am going to run of with the horse?"
asked the dude.
No but I'm afraid the horse will
run on with you, responded the livery
stablemau. Texas Siftings
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18

$50" he said, after few minutes of
silence, you reject me.''
Il do" she replied, calmly.
After these years of devotion to you
that / have shown"
She maintained naughty silence.
But beware he went on, 1.-THE worm
will turn
Then she gave shriek-an ear-pierc-
ing, heart-rending mixture of gurgles
and vowels.
oh" she gasped, you were right
when you said the worm would turn. ),
What do you mean?'
A caterpillar has just done somer-
sault and landed on my neck. Wash
ington Star
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Marriages are like manners sell
dom noticed unless they are bad. =
Rest Islander. 8.
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WHY GO TO THE SEASHORE2
You Can Be just MS Miserable II You Nov
Into Your Own Carrot.

You Can Be Just MS Miserable II You Move
Into Your Own Carrot.
"Are you going to the seashore this
summer?' Jones asked of Brown.
"N-not exactly" said Brown, 'but
we're going to accomplish the same re-
suit without going away from home at
all"
What do you mean?"
'Why, it's this way: You see. when a
person of my means takes cottage at
the seashore he of course gets q poor
sort of shanty, because he can't afford
large, finely-finished and well-fur-
nished house. You know the sort of
place the usual summer cottage is.
Well, we've decided to accomplish the
result in another way. We're going to
move up into the attic for the sum-
mer.''
Move up into the attic?"
Why, certainly. 1t is unfinished,
just like seashore cottage. The sun
beats down on the shingles and raises
the temperature above one hundred
degrees every sunny summer day; that's
just like a seashore cottage. There
i
for our large family, and that's like
seashore cottage, too. When it rains
the water doesn't beat through our
ROOT, to be sure, as it does through the
roofs of seashore cottages, but we can
remedy that by poxing few holes in
the shingles here and there, and get
ting the roof mended in the fall. 1t
will smell little stuf1S, but that is
eminentiy like a seashore cottage. We
shall keep clothes basket full of un-
washed clam shells standing in the
corner to produce a realistic effect. On
the whole we shall be ever SO much
more comfortable in our own accus-
toned garnet than we would be at the
seaside, and we shall have this inesti-
Unable advantage, that when we get
sick of it we can simply move right
down into our own comfortable home,
whereas if we were at the shore and
paying a high price for cottage we
should feel bound to stick it out to the
bitter end. Oh, i tell you, it's great
schemem-B Boston Transcript
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ONE ten or if
teen years ago, /"
said my friend
Fox, lighting a
cigarette I Of
fered him, and
sitting d o W n
before a choice
example of the
The state chronicle., 1893-04-15
The Cotton Market.

New YORK. April 14.-Liverpool this
morning reported fair business doing
in spot cotton, with sales Of 5000 bales
at unchanged quotations. Futures
were very steady at an advance Of 2
points, but sitter day of rapid fuctu-
ations the market closed barely stea y
at last nights prices. The early ad-
vices were encouraging and the first
transactions were st decline of 2
points on the early months and an i'm
provement CT | point on next crop de-
lveries, and it seemed likely that the
buying demard would further enhance
values. There was in fact a temporary
squirt Of about points, but on reports
CT hard rains in Texas this was lost. to-
getber with 6 points additional. June
sold at 100, which was the lowest point
reached on this decline. Advices we-e
received this afternoon Of lower range
of temperature in the cotton districts Of
Texas, attended with rams IN some sec
tions, which was considered as threat
ening to the cotton crop. and upon good
buying, both for long account, as well
as to cover shorts, there was q quick
advance of 9 points, the market closing
firm at l 10 2 points above last nights
| prices. While 1t cannot be said that
any decided bull enthusiasm has been
aroused as yet. there is very nervous
feeling apparent along the bears, and
anything that indicates an improvement
in prices causes q quick covering of
| shorts
LA MokrAGNE CLARKE & Go.
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Kew YORK Produce Market.

New YORK, April l4.-Southern -four
dull and steady; common to fair exit s.
S2.10a3lO; good to choice do s3.15a
325.
Whest-Spot quiet and strong; No 2
red in store and elevator 77sa773;
ahoat 78.a783; options irregular and
closed dull at advance to ] decline;
No. red April II; May 77s; June 78l;
July 79s.
Lard-Quiet and stronger; western
steam closed at $l0.40 asked; city So
options sales none refined firm and quiet
to the continent Sl0.6Gal0.90.
Pork-ln better demand and firm, old
mess $l775; new mess Sl9.25; extra
prime nominal.
Rosin-Quieat AM easy; strained
common to good Sl.27iaL3O.
Cotfee-Options closed steady and
5a2o points down; april SIS 15al5.35
June $l4.95s15.C5; august $l4.9os
l4.95; spot Rio more active and stea y
at decline; No. Z, 1Sa.
Sugar Raw dull but firm; fair re
fning st; centrifugal, 96-test So; refined
firm and more active; No. 643a411.is
standard 4 4 l5- 6a5}; granulatel
4 Is l6a5! cubes 3-l6aa2
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

June in the Allegheny and: Virginia
Mountains.
Allegheny Springs, Blue Ridge
Springs, Buffalo Lithia Springs, Char
lottesville, Graham, Hot, Warm, and
Healing Springs, Lursy Caves, Max
Meadows, Natural Bridge, Bockbridge
Alum Springs. Book Enon Springs,
Shawsville, Stanton, Variety Springs.
Stribling Springs, Sweet Chaly ybeate
Springs, Yellow Sulphur Springs.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Aurora, Berkeley Springs, Red Sui
phur Springs, Sals Sulphur Springs
Sweet Springs, White Sulphur Springs
Printed matter describing any Of these
resorts or any others may be had free
by mail, by special arrangement will
the Recreation Department, the Chris
tian Union, if you address the Sta.'
Chronicle, Raleigh, n. c.
The state chronicle., 1893-04-15
Personal.

Personal.
MIR. Dave Page, Of Aberdeen, was
il the city yesterday.
Mrs. J. ". Watson and daughter,
Hiss Daisy, Who have been spend
inc the winter in Florida, returned
to the city yesterday.
Prof. j. L. Ludlow passed through
the city yesterday going home to
Winston from Wilson where he is
doing some important work in the
improvements going on there.
A telegram from Baltimore yes
terday announced that Florence
Boylan had had comfortable night
and was doing we'll and the doctor
said that she was recovering.
It is announced that Rev. DR..
Dixon, the retiring President Of the
Greensboro Female College, will
make his home at Shelby, and will
engage in the practice Of medi-
cine.
Hon. Z. ". Mason, Of Raleigh.
| will deliver the address at the com
| mencement exercises of Buie's
| Greek Academy on May 1lth prox
A very choice effort may be expec
ted. There were 154 students en-,
rolled during the present session oi
this fourishing school.
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Dispute Over a Floating Island

JAMESTOWN, n. Y, April 13.-Sav-
eral months ago a tornado struck
Chautauqaa Lake and broke eff a
corner Of the Stoneman fam, st
least an acre in area, with trees, and
cattle grazing on it, and swept it out
into the lake just above Lakewood.
It foated down and lodged against
the shore at Burtis Bay on..the margin
OF Q. D. Gihord's farm. Mr.. Clifford
sold what interest lie might have
in it to Chas. 81. Wicks for S5
| Three young real estate men of this
town, Jay Butler, John Prather
and Charles Nerdhart, coveted the
island and secured q quit claim
from the original owner. rrean-
while other parties applied to the
State for title, claiming that as
soon as it became detached from
the mainland the island became
State property. Thus there were
three parties claiming the island up
to last week, now there are four.
During the storm which swept
across western New York last Fri
day the waters Of the lake rose, and
bore the island away from Clifford E
property, to which it had been
moored, and carried it down still
further, this time landing it or
Fred A. Bentley's farm. Mr.. Wicks
claims that as he bought the island
and anchored it, it is his. The three
real estate men still hold that they
have priority of title, while MIR
Bentley argues that possession il
nine points of law, and he has an.
chored it tight to his farm until tht
matter of ownership is settled b,
the courts.
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a Pretty Marriage.
Ok RIDGE, n. c., April u

OAK RIDGE, n. e., April II.
Miss Claudia L. Dicks, the accom-
plished and beautiful daughter OF
DR.. D. G. Dicks, was married here
today at 3 o'clock to Mr.. Oscar J.
Gates, popular young merchant Of
Madison, n. G. The Methodist
Protestant Church, in which the
ceremony took place, was tastefully
decorated, and the marriage service,
conducted by Rev. Dr.. Brooks, Of
the I'll. E Church, was simple, but
beautiful and impressive. Miss Josie
Case presided at the organ. The
bridal party left for Madison IS
soon as the ceremony was over. The
attendants were Dir. james Ksrner,
of Kernersville, and Miss Mary
Hamilton, Of Oak Ridge; Mr.. Dal-
ton and Miss Birdie Stockton, OF
Kernersville; DR.. Banner, Of EEadi-
son, and Miss Lille Dicks, Of Walk
ertown; Mr. J. B. Webster, of Win
ston, and Miss Allie Lcwrey, OF Oak
Ridge; Mr. j. B. McGehee, of Madi.
son, and Miss Ella Benbow, Of Oak
Ridge; Mr.. ". @. Jones, Of Madi
son, and Miss Cora Donnen, Of Oak
Ridge; Dr.. Ashwortb, OF Kerners
Vile, and Minnie Dicks, of Oal
Ridge.
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A Handsomely Furnished Tonsoria1 Sa-

A Handsomely Furnished Tonsorial Sa-
loon.
When one walks into the tonso-
rial establishment of W. G. Otsy
now he can easily imagine himself
in one of the most sumptuously fur
nished saloons on Broadway, New
York. He has just had put in five
elegant revolving chairs, of the Ia
test improvements and Of the hand
soonest finish to be found anywhere.
They can be whirled about 80 as to
face in any direction and have a
patent extension foot rest attached,
which can be adjusted to suit the
comfort of tall Or short man, as
the case may be. All five are up
holstered in different eolors Of the
costlest velvet, old gold, peacock
blue, olive, maroon and green. The
wood work is handsomely finished
in cherry, nickel plated and brass
mounted. They are the costliest
and handsomest chairs in the State
ard the progressive proprietor has
cause to be proud Of his handsomely
| furnished tonsorial palace.