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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-09
THE OFFICE SEEKERS MECCA.
The Little White House." the Present
Homo of the Cleveland Family.

The Little white House." the Present
Homo of the Cleveland Family.
Lakewood, n. j., is not j very large
place, but it il nevertheless the Mecca
toward which the eyes and in many
cases the feet of all good Office seekers
who ike to set what they are after are
just now turning The exact spot which
attracts these people, and which is Of
great interest to everybody in the United
States, was known last year as the Cleve-
land cottage, but Is now designated by
the more high sounding title of the
Little White House, for the double rea-
son that it is the present home Of the
president elect and his interesting fam
lily and was treated to coat Of inno-
cent looking white paint some time ago.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-09
Home Cooking.

MICE HOMEMADE CAKE, PLAIN
~ and Fancy, made to order in guam
titles to suit. Also Nice Mayonaise from
the best of materials.
1l6 BERETANIA ST,
3303-Im Bell TELEPHONE 169.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25
BOSE IN HARD LUCK.


/ -
Knowing 1t Was Loaded.
A sample rat-trap was in Gerrish' s
drug store in Lewiston few days ago,
waiting for customer. 1t was a new
tangled rat-trap which someone had
left there for fun or sale, or to be
called for.
The trap was set and was in the
open shop, where it coAd be seen.
About half past ten o'clock big dog
came in with little girl, or vice versa.
although the dog was bigger than the
girl. The little girl bought some
thing and the proprietor was tying up
the package, while the dog went
prowling around after the manner OF
dogs and was in moment forgot.
"Please, thir. has you got any car
just then. "Wboop la! Rip-p-p. s-s-t.
boom-ah, Ki-yi-yi." out came the dog
with about seven inches of tongue pro.
truding, to which dangled rat trap,
full size, hanging to the tongue with a
Acknowledgements grip. In an instant
there was fun in the apothecary shop.
You have seen a dog-fght with eleven
dogs in it? No? Well, may be you have
seen a rooster with his head cut off?
No? Then you haven't any idea the
way this hog did up the drug store.
Why, he fairly owned it. Over the
boxes, in behind the counter, out again
seven laps around the stove, three trips
into the back shop, kicking up his heels
until the dust few, knocking over bot
ties, opening up cases of last years al.
MANAGES, bowling like calliope, clank
ing like threshing machine. Fol-
about two minutes they gave him full
swing. The clerk tried to corner him
but it was no Use.
'sBothe! Bother cried the little CIR :,
but Bose didn't know her. He regarded
her as an utter stranger. He had a
nearer and closer attachment than any
mere family affair. He had too much
business to bother with little girls. He
was too much sin it, to waste his time
in responding to mere friendly calls
Twice he dashed at the door, but it was
shut and the proprietor didn't want te
lose the trap.
Hell run a week." said man who
was climbing into chair in order tc
give the dog more room.
"Chloroform him." said the newspa-
per man from behind the soda foun
tain.
"Give him a dose of fly powder
shouted the clerk.
''Snap!'' The dog had stopped sud
denly. had shaken his head and the
trap had been flung three feet away
taking with it a dainty morsel of his
tongue.
"Poor Bothe," said the little girl, as
she opened the door, but Bose never
ever wagged his tail, as with one de
spairing look on the inside of the store
so that he could remember it nex'
time. he fed like wild whooping de
moniac witch on broomstick down
Lisbon street And he may be going
yet-Lewiston Journal.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25
AN ExAcTlNo CRITIC.
she Knew the Kind of Picture sh
Wanted.


she Knew the Kind of . Picture She
Wanted.
Appearances are often deceptive, !"
said Theophilus Greathead, as he set
tied himself comfortably in his chair
and lighted fresh cigar. 81 have
lived much as other men have, and
pride myself on being an exceedingly
keen observer. / must admit, however,
that there are times when make most
serious errors in judging persons and
things. / was in large art room the
other dav, when a young woman OF
most distinguished appearance entered.
She had come to the place in a hand
some equippage, and footman had ac-
companied her as far as the door of
the establishment. Her maid followed
at respectful distance. There was
such an air of noblesse oblige,
admixed with even hauteur, about the
young woman, that at once felt that
was in the presence of a person of the
most aristocratic pretensions Invol-
unfairly rearranged my necktie, adj
justed my coat, and took a survey of
myself in convenient mirror. The
majestic creature seemed greatly in
terested in the works of art about her,
which she surveyed through her
lorgnette in the most critical manner.
There was frown upon her aristocratic
features. 'Ah,' said to myself, here
is young woman who has so high an
ideal of the great in art that the splen-
did paintings here sseem to her to be
but mere tawdry.' The superb woman
turned and, stamping her foot petulant-
ly, said to the proprietor: Them is all
very fine, but l wants a oblong pic
ture.' IN. Y. Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25
AN ACID DIET,
There Are Various Reasons why It Il Ad.
visab1e.

There Are Various Reasons Why 1t Il ADJ
visablc.
Acid is death to the cholera germ.
With that monster on neighboring
island down the bay it is advisable to
vary the diet with sour dishes made of
lemon and vinegar. 1t is almost inn
possible to refrain from drinking raw
water. Every mother knows that the
present supply is unwholesome, but
even in wealthy families it is often in
convenient to have cooked and properly
iced drinks. If the raw water is drunk
the danger will be lessened by adding
q little lemon juice. not more than q
teaspoonful to glass of water. For
convenience, particularly in the morn
ing when everybody in the family
wants drink, the lemons might be
quartered and sent to table in COW
cred glass bowl or dish.
People who prefer more lemon juice
should take the bitter draft through a
straw for the protection of the teeth.
Tea, hot or cold, is better just now
with lemon instead of milk. Lemons
are cheap, and until the water supply
improves, Swinburne island Is vacated
and the cool weather arrives, they
should form part Of the decoration OF
every dining table and sideboard. Har-
ricot, lettuce, beets, chicory or toma-
toes, with plenty of sharp dressing,
should follow every dinner.
Too much lemon juice and vinegar il
not advisable for children, but they
should have little. Lemon ice will
do them no harm. Housewives who
are in the habit of serving cold meals
will show their wisdom by change Of
programme. ''Steaming hot food and
drink" Is the advice given by the health
commissioners of New York until all
danger Of the scourge has passed. IN
Y. World.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25
He Took a Sensible View.

A young, tired, honest and kindly.
looking couple sat beside me on the
boat the other morning, exposition
bound, and they had much to say tc
each other.
] overheard this:
Frank, how much money you got
left?'
eThirty-eight dollars"
what? Do you mean TO tell me.
Frank Whipple that it cost us sixty
two dollars already?"
"That's what mean"
"Oh, frank, and we could have
bought that lovely parlor set"
ssOh, confound the parlor set, Myra.
Why we've seen enough here to last us
all our lives in thinkin' and talkin'.
I'd rather sit on a tub o. butter an cal
my meals of the top of the sink than
to have missed this"
And applauded Frank very quietly
for his good sense.--N. Y. Recorder.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25
LIMITATIONS OF OUR SENSES.
These Place Perfect knowledge 1T an In
finite Remove from Us.

Those Place Perfect knowledge ut an In-
finite Remove from Us.
We gain our experience of the world
through our senses. Man is born with
intellect, and through the senses the
intellect is trained. The newborn baby
possesses already some knowledge Of
touch acquired before birth, and this
knowledge he afterward rapidly ex-
pands by constantly feeling his body
over and over, as If in exploration Of
unknown territory. Later he acquires
the faculties of hearing and seeing.
and likewise of tasting and smelling.
Now, these senses, five IN number, ara
they which train the intellect They
are all very imperfect. Sight: but tho
greater part of the solar spectrum Is
invisible-that is to say, more rays
which come to us from the sun are in.
visible than those which our eye can
see: Hearing: but there are sounds so
low and sounds so high that they are
inaudible. Taste and smell: very Inn
perfect. Touch; but there are millions
of particles of dust to the square inch
Of the hand which we can not feel.
Yet, even with these imperfect means
of education, many men have reached
the conclusion satisfactory to them
selves that they are clever; but the
wisest man knows nothing in COMPARE
son with perfect wisdom.
The whole of the known universe
consists of matter in motion. All sem
sation, everything we know of the out
side world, comes to us through mo-
ton. The motion sets up movement
in the nerve ending, on the skin, on the
retina of the eye. or wherever the prop
or ending capable Of receiving the par
ticular motion may be situated. This
motion is carried from the nerve end
ing along the nerve to the special CEN
trail organ of the brain where 1t is in
terpreted. Light, sound, touch, taste
and smell are the only forms of motion
we are capable Of appreciating, because
for each of these forms OF motion We
have special apparatus which can re-
ceive, transmit and interpret. There
are other forms of motion which we
can not appreciate-magnetism, for ex-
ample--and this simply because We
have no nervous mechanism which re-
spends to that kind of motion. In like
manner there can exist around MS
forces in infinite variety OF which we
have absolutely no knowledge what
ever.-Prof. Graham Lush, in Popular
Science Monthly.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25
LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
Affection Grows Stronger More Often Than
Weaker After Marriage.

Affection Grows Stronger More Often Than
Weaker After Marriage.
Depend upon it, as you grow older
you will see more and more instances
and proofs of the reality and the depth
of the love of husbands and wives for
each other in the most ordinary, COM
monplace couples. / have heard of
marriages where love has died out from
some canker or selfishness or worldli-
ness at its heart; but have oftener
seen unexpected proofs of love
stronger than death in all sorts
of people in whom 1 had never
before discovered any signs of senti-
ment or romance. Nor must we for
get the many loving couples in whose
case love has come after marriage
which seemed to have had no higher
than prudential motives of one kind or
another.
Love, indeed, must be kept alive by
love-love deep in the heart. yet cours-
ing through the minutest veins, and
giving to every power of life new and
double power. Love must show itself
living in the great occasions of life, in
some supreme moment calling for mu-
tual sympathy in great joy or grief;
it must show itself in all the thousand
little daily and hourly thoughtful
nesses, courtesies and forbearances of
common life. These things, the re-
lection of which we call good man.
ners, the manners of the lady and
the gentleman, should have with hus-
band and wife reality as of sun
light compared with moonlight. They
alone can know and share these things
in their fullness, and they should be
to them as the atmosphere they
breathe.
think the author of "Obiter Dicta"
says the husband and wife should take
care to have and to keep up common
interest in some subject of reading or
action which they can always share to-
gether. 1t is good, practical advice.
To many it may be unnecessary, and
especially to those who have children
as the objects of their common love and
care. 1 once heard nobleminded
lady say sadly. 1--WE were very much in
love with each other" speaking of the
old days of courtship; and she added,
land it might all come back again fonly
he would show me some love-" They
were not selfish or ungenerous, but
their life was cold and dreary because
they had not learned rightly the arts Of
welded love. A wise and prudent re-
serve in all other affairs of life is SO
right and needful that there is always
danger of its growing up in the one re-
lation in which there should be no re-
serve; and so it may grow and harden
till it becomes an impossible barrier
between the hearts that should be one.
When Maurice was asked whether we
shall know one another in the life to
come, he answered, in his favorite so
cratic fashion, and the further ques-
ton: do we know one another
here?'-Sir Edward Starchey, in At
lantic.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25

The state school appropriation
made by the last Pennsylvania legis-
lature was s5,379,61s. This exceeds
any previous appropriation by over
s., DOC, 900, the figures for the year 1891
having been s2,ss0, $50. This great
sum must be divided among 2,35S dis
tricts in the state, representing 90, 43e
schools. with the cost of tuition com.
puted at 81. 76o .o57 and in Philadelphia,
where there are 2.7SS schools main
tanned at a cost of q, 7Ss, 637. The mum
Der Of pupils is given by the June re
turns as e77 .52s for the state and 1l4,-
oss for the city.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25
IN THE NEW FOREST.
strange superstitions Entertained by the
Peasants Of England.

Strange Superstitlons Entertained by the
Peasants Of England.
There is scarcely village or hamlet
in the New Forest but has its pixy field
or mead, or its pixy's cave. That mis-
chievous spirit, which is known under
the name of Laurence" still obtains
possessions of those whom 1.-THE Gods
wish to rum "Laur ence has got on
him." they say Of one who is lazy. A
tricky fairy, the forest folk believe to
this day, tempts their rough native po-
MES to stray. Also, they say that he
lives in boys, into which he entices the
unwary. Colt pixies" such as he re-
termed; only the frstborn may con-
slider themselves to be free from his
spell. The caterpillar is known, as in
the days of the first translation of the
Bible into English, as the palmer.
worm" A woodlander talks of feeling
lear-like when he is hungry, using a
corruption of the word "learnes," old
English for emptiness, which reminds
one of the German ''leer." But one
might fill pages with examples show
ing how much nature, in humans as
well as in wild life, has been allowed
to remain as she was so many genera
tions ago. There is q potent charm
about this old-word state of things
which seizes on one, and seems for a
time to fill one who enters the forest
precincts with a sense Of rest that is
soothing to both heart and brain.
The poor little shrew is considered to
be creature of i'll omen by the peas
ants here; yet the shrews are supposed
to die instantly if they attempt to cross
a road where man has been, just as a
witch is judged to be incapable of cross.
ing running water. The bite of a fe-
male shrew in young is considered most
dangerous, and even If she but runs
over the limb OF horse or a COW it
will, they say, cause paralysis. If this
catastrophe befall beast, the forest
farmer, as soon as possible, drags the
afflicted animal through a loop OF
mble-that is, a long spray that has
rooted itself, or been rooted so inten-
tionally, at both ends. This is often
done by the end of a trailing branch
being trodden into the ground by the
hoofs of passing cattle.
Another remedy is to rub the parts
affected with the branches of shrew
ash, that is, an ash tree that has been,
in many cases, planted purposely near
the farm stealing, into which, when
the trunk is large enough. hole Is
bored with an augur, and then the
poor little live mouse, or shrew, is
thrust into this with many senseless
lamentations. The hole is plugged up
and the shrew thus buried alive.-The
Cornhill Magazine.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25

AT the exhibition at Antwerp next
year, for an original feature, after the
manner of the Eiffel tower and the
Ferris wheel, two captive balloons will
be put together and form a stationary
erial castle big enough to hold one
hundred and fifty guests about one
thousand feet above the earth. twill
be held to the ground by four stout
cables. 1t will be reached by two
smaller captive balloons which will go
mp and down every quarter of an hour.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25
SUN HEAT.



ssns Curious speculatIons i'm Regard 20
Our Solar Luminary.
So far as our present knowledge goes,
II would seem that the brightness OF
any sun-like body is to be attributed
solely to the transformation in some
fashion of mechanical power into heat.
To take our own sun as an example, 1t
is now an assured doctrine that the
heat SO necessary for our welfare 10
sustained by the gradual contraction
of the solar volume. The energy avail
able for transformation into heat in
this process seems sufficient to supply
the radiation Of the sun, not only for
ages such as those which we reckon in
the human period, but even through-
out lapse of time so vast as that which
geology demands for the formation OF
the earth's crust. But it is certain that
the quantity of possible light and heat
to be dispensed by the sun is limited in
amount
The sun can not shine on forever. A
time must assuredly come when tho
mighty orbat present SO brilliant, will
have no more potency for the radiation
of light than is at present possessed by
the earth or the moon. In like man
ner it can be shown that the materials
constituting the sun have not always
been luminous. We can not indeed say
with certainty by what influence their
brightness was kindled. 1t probably
arose from collision, or an approach
to collision, between two dark masses
which happened to come to an encoun-
ter with enormous velocities in their
progress through space. 1t is, how
ever, plain that the ages-during which
the sun has been brilliant form only an
incident, SO to speak, in the infinite
history of that quantity of matter Of
which the solar system is constituted.
Notwithstanding the millions, or
thousands of millions, of years for
which that matter has existed, 1t has,
perhaps, only once become SO heated,
owing to circumstances which we may
describe as accidental or casual, as to
have acquired the ample light-dispens-
ing power of sun. 1t Is, however,
possible that such periods of light
radiating capacity should have oc-
Cured more than once-they may pos
s;blv have occurred several times
throughout the ages of time past. Nor
is it likely that the last phenomena of
this kind have vet arrived.
T,,o en- &C., tha ,.rse ~ rrco,rt.d
ua.rs u.;l, 1osa n, ;ts beat and mas
80 I'll. III. rass T., that tr-r,
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4a.ay AZ. AZ. ..,I a,,r;r ,rb;aL :.
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. as Iii. Iii 800 h,,t ,ao,rant :, 49,,
S...;so,s III tho da,.,. ras ,rb;.h s,,.-
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25

Billy Brushem-I want or bottle q
alcohol
Careful Druggists it for mechanic
III purposes?
Billy Brushem-N Nav. Artistic Want
to mix it wild shoe blackin'. = Good
News
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25

"A fool is about the only man whs
knows at all times just what he ~
lieves Galveston News.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25

"A Christian should make his
Saviour perpetual companion every
where and on every day of the week.
Christ offers to walk with him m every
days journey of life. What compan-
ionship so enlivening and SO purifying
as His? end what else can so make our
hearts .sburn within us by the way?"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-25

Who has greater combat than he
that laboreth to overcome himself? This
ought to be our endeavor. to conquer
ourselves and to make . fnrther growth
in holiness
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-08

Hone does he feel9-He has
irregular bowels and peculiar
stools Ang,tst HoiCer the rem
.edy. io-isiy
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-08
VOTING CONTEST.
4 Cool Opportunity toTest the Popu-
lari J d Tour Friends.
4-
YOU CUT OUT YOUR BALLOTS
And Send Then In al Once, Properly
Filled Up
-----
YOU CUT OUT YOUR BALLOTS
i PRIZE FOR EACH VICTOR
That IS Well Worth Trying for G.
10 Work al Once.

IN order 10 increase its already large
circulation, and become more popular
with tile people. THE World has in
angurated the following method.
Each successful contestant will b
awarded a handsome prize, well worth
working for. This will be good op!
portunity to test the popularity q
your friends.
The contest will be 10 vote fol The
following:
list. The most popular lady in Mar
tlnsbnrg-
End. The most popular man il
Martinsburg.
To the successful lady receiving the
highest number of votes viii be award
ed fine sewing machine.
To the successful man receiving tbs
highest nun Der of votes will be award
"a handsome gold-headed cane.
This contest will be confined TO Mar
tinsburg exclusively, and each ballot
must be signed BY the full name o.
tile voter. The contest viii be closed
% August 81, 1893, at 10 o'elock 4
N. Ballots not properly signed vii
be thrown out. No ballot will Re az
eepted excepting The official one below
Any one can vote as often as they
choose, just so the ballots are taken
from The woRLp. Each name mus
be plainly written, and sent to thu
ofiico. The following ballot only viii
be recognized:
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-08

The decision Of Mgrl SatolIi that
there shall be no German or French or
Irish Catholic Churchesin America. but
that English IS the language Of lie
Church as well as 81 the politics and
the institutions Of the country is III
the right line.
Neither the Pope nor His Delegate
has given encouragement to any ele-
ment among uswhich would antagonize
American ideas Of education and ma
tionality and which is to that extent
hostile to American institutions. The
Pope had the sagacity to discern
the injury to the Church oecasioned
By this hostility, and the necessity
Of reconciling lis aspiration and
thought with the dominant de-
sires aud irresistible sentiment
OF the American people. He realized
the important fact that foreigners, to
enjoy the full blessings Of free govern
ID e T. .
ment and to become useful agents HI
ITS development and progress, must Be-
come assimilated IN both sentiment
and LANGUAGE, and tile sooner this re!
suit Is achieved the better for both,
4 the smaller as well as the lager body
This Is America, and all it's citizen,
n 90 II .I ]
should be Americans ii sympathy
thought andaction There must be Il
divided duty Az our Gbyernmen
does not interfere with religious right
neither must religious zealots perver
political rights, directly or indirectly
Tor the furtherance 81 church dogma
q the preservation IF alien languages
habits Of IDEAS.