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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-04-01
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.


! Cream sauce: Beat the yolks o.
swu esgs' aad . saitspoon OF salt and
nan as mncn wnite pepper, and one
cup u no. cream. LOOK IN uouole
Dol,er un'ii tnick and smooth. Add q
.aolespooniui OF lemon juice. Boston
nugget
| Hard Gingerbread: Two cups Of
/ moiasses, two-thirds OF q cup of butter
or lard, one-half cup OF warm water,
two teaspoonfuls OF soda, one of GIN
ger, hour to roll as soft as you can; wet
the top with milk and sift sugar over
before baking. Farm, Field and Fire.
SIDE.
Lemon Marmalade: Squeeze the
lemons and boil the peels in water till
soft; then take out the pith, and pound
the remainder in mortar till quite
fine, mixing with it little of the juice.
Pass it all. with the rest of the Juice,
through sieve into q preserving-pa
To every pound of pulp add three-quar-
tiers OF pound of loaf-sugar. Boil It
for half an hour or more, so that it sets,
when cold, into jelly.-Country GEN.
tleman.
Boston Brown Bread: Three cups
of sour milk, one cup molasses. one Gun
corn meal, three cups graham flour,
one tablespoon salt, one teaspoon soda;
mix thoroughly. pour into buttered
pan, set in closely-covered steamer
over . kettle of boiling water and
steam four hours Empty tomato cans
make nice molds in which to steam the
bread, and three cans will hold the
above amount. If they are covered
closely to keep the steam from settling
on the loaves it will be all the better
Farm, Field and Preside.
Pigeon Pie: For crust take one-half
cup butter rubbed well into the -four,
one cup sweet milk, little salt; roll
out and line pudding dish. Boil the
pigeons in little salty water till al
most done, place a layer of pigeons in
boftorn ~ d,eh sf,.oxv (,,-o,. 41,e,,, !. 1s<xI.
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me. but kept on pulling the trigger
and holding to my hat to keep it from
getting clean off my head AS the las,
cartridge went off and began to think
of my 'now-l-lay-me' the panther
turned tail. and, with one long, despair
ing squall. he hustled into the woods,
not a hair touched by my bullets,
though I'd fred seven thirty-two's at
her. I didn't wait for her to come
back and call en- me again. / Just
showed some more cartridges into the
revolver, and stuck my spurs into the
little mare under me. The way she
went down the mountain was a eau
ton, and I'm pretty sure she smashed
Nancy Hanks record into smithereens.
No, sir, l don't mind hunting moon
sinners and throwing their whisky
away and risking being got the drop
on sometime, but beg to be excused
from entertaining a full-grown and
apparently healthy panther, again.
with an exhibition of my fancy shoot
ing. It's too much like work! She was
afterwards killed, / believe. but / am
still thanking my stars that 1 did not
wound her while was doing the Buff
falo Bill act and holding on to my am
bilious hat a. the same time. ~ Ever
ard Jack Appleton, in Detroit Free
Press.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-04-01
A PERFECT CURE.
Efficacy OF Homemade Tincture OF Irs
Strikingly Manifested.

Efficacy OF Homemade Tincture OF Tror
Strikingly Manifested.
A Bridgeport lady, who was in the
habit Of taking large quantities of tine.
i ture of iron, found great benefit from
!. the medicine, but also incurred large
bills at the druggists, which her hus-
band found it rather difficult to meet.
Instead of brutally cutting off her
medicinal supplies, this ingenious man
conceived the plan of manufacturing
tincture of iron in his own house.
He, therefore, procured pail, placed
in it two pounds Of old iron nails, three
drains of old barrel hoops, and four
scruples of miscellaneous iron.
To this he added one gallon OF aqua
pura, and stirred the mixture with a
pitchfork three times day for q week.
at the end of that time he drew off the
water with a syphon, placed it in pint
bottles, and labeled it ssTinct. ferri.
Use as directed"
His wife took his homemade tincture
without any suspicion that it was not
purchased at the druggists and derived
all the benefit from it which she had
derived from the medicine mans own
tincture.
Although she had been afflicted for
several months with extreme weak
ness, her strength revived under the
influence of the tincture to such an
extent that az the end of three weeks.
when she accidentally caught her hus-
band in the act of filing her bottle
from the pail in question, she was able
to lift heavy pitchfork, and after
yielding it with great vigor for ten
minutes, to assist neighbor in drag
ging her husband into the house. where
she subsequently applied arnica and
brown paper to nearly two-thirds OF
his entire surface. = Chicago Inter
Ocean. ~
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rbe Beauty Of yylndows,

There are three things the ideal par.
lor should contain-music, books, and
flowers. There should be plenty OF
light and warmth and spacious win
dows, not chopped up into squares OF
12x14, but a veritable mirror bringing
to view landscape scene by the grand
old artist Nature. There should be =
place in which to sit, or by which to sit
and read or dream and think, with the
blue sky looking down upon you and
the clouds floating above you. Give us
big windows, with the sunlight stream
ing in, adding richer luster to the vel
vet and plush and elegance, and warm
ing up the whole room. Deliver us
from darkness in the parlor, in the cell
lar, or garnet, or anywhere. Christian
at Work
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A suRAT SCHOOL.

Teacher and Pupils OF q Native Institu.
ton In India.
In the biography of Behramji M. Ma.
labari, noted worker in the social re.
forms of India, we find description oil
a native school Mt Surat. 1t is held in
commodiops little shop, the floor OF
which is strewn with street dust. On
an elevated square squats the master,
and on the floor squat his flock, Hindoo
and Parsi. The fee for instruction is
only handful of grain, few flowers,
or some fruit now and then. There are
no table nor benches, nor states nor
pencils, nor books nor maps
Each pupil has wooden board, patti,
which serves him for slate, and a
pointed stick, lekhana, which he uses
as a pencil With a rag he sits dust
over the board, and on that he traces
figures, letters, petitions, and so forth.
The boards are submitted every noon
to the master, who holds rod in his
hand, with one end pointed CHANGING
over the dust work he gives a grunt OF
approval. if pleased, and strikes the
board with the pointed end of his
stick, whereupon the figures of dust
disappear. If, unluclxily, the task has
been badly done, the butt end of the
rod makes the acquaintance of the
pupils back.
All the work of the school is don on
the versified plan. The different FRO.
cesses-addition, subtraction, multipli.
cation and division-are drawled out in
verse The process is a powerful aid to
memory. In dealing with the heaviest
and most intricate figures, the native
accountant merely sings verse, and
there the result is, ready to his hand.
The alphabet is learned in the same
way. Every letter has a nickname and
a familiar versifed description.
The methods of punishment are char
acteristic; the sharp and supple cane
the thong, the pebble under the knee
the stone across the shoulders, fht
twisting of the nose, the shaking by
the neck or by knot made with the
tuft of hair in the center of the delin.
quent's forehead.
Whenever the master wishes to ad.
a fiogging, he orders the class
to pray vocifcrously in order to drown
the victims cries. His favorite way of
dealing with the refractory girls of the
school is to selze the unfortunate sub
ject of his displeasure by the hair and
whisk her about in the air Is il
she were a lifeless marionette, while
the room resounds with innovations &c
Ahuramazda recited by her school-fel
owS Youths Communion.
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PITH AND POINT.

sy ...x.os, .sxy A-x
= JACK nele .o-n' n.s p:ss ~. ~.
~ -. IL :" S's..s",'a,. -, -
80 - ~ $500. .sa4a. = ms ~
sou 20 A'.sr
-ra.ner-m mere ana mr; Teverssop
Jake ms sex. TINS morning.. Daugnscl
oon snlnk anyone seayeo s"eAc
20 "ascn. IN eer-ocean-
I'm spite OF modern improvements
itstiii takes the average young man
long time to put on pretty girls
skates -Somerviiie journal
Cultivation. Papa 'Minoner Is
rich; you ought to cultivate him, my
dear" Daughter-"Yes; / noticed he
needed it badly. Detroit Free Press.
Helped Of. DIR. Nogood- did my
medicine help your husband?" Mrs.
Gladwidder-"Yes he was only dying
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-04-01
A NOVEL IDEA.

How n Pennsylvanis Farmer Kept the
Woodpeckers from His Cherries.
There is a certain Pennsylvania farm
err who is a lover of birds, yet at the
same time likes to raise fair proper
ton of fruit; SO last summer he was
greatly troubled when the woodpeck-
ers fairly swarmed ON hischerry trees.
eating their I'LL and carrying away
large quantities to their nesting places
Something must be done to save his
cherries, and, as he could not bring
himself to kill the birds, he invented
another method. He noticed that the
woodpechers never flew among the
limbs until after they had alighted on
the trunk and pecked around for a
short time. So he got . lot of poles
that were taller than the cherry
trees hoisted a pole among the
branches of each tree, rested the
butt on the ground and let several feet
stick out above the topmost twiSs The
woodpeclers soon got into the notion
of clinging to the upper ends of the
poles before they made a raid on the
cherries, and while in that attitude ths
farmer would run under the tree with
an AK and hit the polo IS hard as he
could on the opposite side from which
the bird was clinging. The sudden
blow invariably stunned the wood
pecker and made it tumble to the
ground, and before it had chance to
come to its senses the farmer picked it
mp and put It into basket. In this
way he captured four dozen woodpeclx-
crs inside Of fortnight, without kill
ing or even permanently injuring
single bird Then, when the cherry
crop had been gathered, heturued them
Ioose. II o1den Dags 81 e
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a STRANGE SIGHT.


Shed HIS Horns.
We sat in the dingy, but coy little
camp sitting-room. which was lit by .
single oil lamp, whose efforts TO dispel
the darkness were almost totally de-
feated by the clouds of smoke that arose
from half dozen pipes. But there was
rafting thunderstorm going on ont
side. late as it is in the year. and old
Bald mountain was hurting back terrific
reverberations OF the mighty peals that
accompanied the binding flashes Of
Uncle John sat and watched
the storm in silence a long time. putting
automatically away at his pipe. Uncle
John is one of the oldest guides in this
part of the Acknowledgment, 'sin the
woods" as everyone says here. He
came in as q boy away back in the early
'40s. 1t soon became apparent that
Uncle Johns memory was busy with
recollections of those days that would
come no more.
II suppose, he continued, 81 can say
what no other man in those woods can
say, and that is that I've seen buck
shed bis horns. Oh, it must ha' been
nigh twenty years ago, and Twas worry
ing out at White Lake Corners. Wall,
1t was Christmas day, and there was
four foot of snow on the ground,
cal'late. 1t was blisterin' cold, but
made up my mind I'd take my gun and
go out and see il couldn't kill deer.
Wall, bundled up and OF went I
didn't have to tramp very fur before I
came on deer's trail, and 1t was big
one, too. struck the signs in the lit
tie valley and they led up to the side
of hill where there was purity steep
climbin'. Invent along easy like almost
mp to the top of the ridge, lookin' out all
the time mighty sharp. come to .
place where there was q lot of big rocks,
and slid down on my knees in tryin'
to get up over them. was movin'
mighty cautious, We know, bit MS slid
down on my knees grabbed holt Of =
little sapling, and just then, right be-
yond the rocks, see the buck. HAhad
been lyin' there in q little sort of hol-
low. and when shook the snow of the
sapling he saw the motion. Quick as
fash he threw his head back to get
better view, and Ms he did, by gosh! on
tumbled one of his horns into the snNw.
He hadn't catchcd sight of me yet, but
you can carlate / knowed didn't have
no time to lose. / had to let 20 that
sapling again, and as did it up jumped
the buck as If he was on springs and
OF went the other horn. And just
about that identical instant, although
was sliding down that rock, | got my
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-04-01
To stew Chickens.

Skin and cut your chicken into small
pieces. Lay them in warm water for
sixteen minutes; then dry them with a
cloth and put them in a stew pan with
some milk and water and let them boil
until quite tender. Take one pint Of
cream and one-quarter Of pound Of
butter, and stir until thick. Allow to
stand until cool; then add q little salt,
q gill OF white wine. a few mushrooms.
Stir all together. Take the pieces
from the pan, put away what they
were boiled in, clean the pan and put
the sauce together. g-e< ssAs pan
shaking about until they are qnitx hot,
and dish them up You may edl sxes
e desired Chicago NewA
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-04-01
LOVE PASSED BY.
] was busy with my blowing

! was busy with my blowing
When Love passed by.
Come" she cried, "forsake thy drudging;
Lies delights are few and grxdging;
What hath man OF all his striving,
All his planning and contriving,
Here beneath the sky?
When the grave opes TO receive him
Wealth and wit and honors leave him.
Love endures for aye!'
But answered.: 81 am blowing
When with straight and even furrow
All the field is covered thorough,
I will follow
Love passed by.
Twas busy with my sowing
When Love passed by.
Come" she cried, ''give DER thy toiling,
For thy toll thou hast but moiling
Follow me where meadows fertile
Bloom unsown with rose and myrtle,
Laughing to the sky:
Laugh for joy the thousand flowers,
Birds and brooks-the laughing hours
All unnoted fly"
But answered: ~ am sowing.
When my acres all are planted
Gladly 10 the realm enchanted
will follow"
Love assed by.
was busy with my reaping
When Love passed by.
Come she cried, thou plantest grieving,
Ripened sorrows art thou sbeaving.
II the heart lie hollow, vain is
Garnered store. Thy wealth of grain is
Less than Loves least sigh.
Haste thee--for the hours fast dwindle
Ere the pyre of hope shall kindle
In life's western sky
But answered: II am reaping.
When the song Of youth and maiden,
Home the farm cart comes, full laden,
will follow
Love passed by.
had gathered In my harvest
When Love passed by.
"Stayi" l called to her. swift speeding,
Turning not, my cry unhceding
'Stay, O Love / fain would follow;
Stay thy flight, o ficet-winged swallow,
Cleaving twilight sky
am old, and worn. and weary,
Void my fields and heart-and dreary,
With thee would fly.
Garncred woe is all my harvest,
Sad ghosts of my dead hopes haunt me,
Fierce regrets, like demons, taunt me
Stay! follow.n
Love passed by.
Amusing Journal,
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Heading Him on.

Mrs. Small" said Mr.. Hunker, az
the boarders sat down to dinner, .smay
/ ask what the turkey is stuffed
with?"
ut is stuffed with chestnuts, Mr..
Hunker.n
.sThen, Mr.. Dolley," said Hunkcr,
turning to that young man, ..you will
see that to tell any Of your stories dur
4R9 the meal would be work Of ssl-
perolption. I'll take some Of the
breast, >yrs. Small Detroit Free
Press
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Absont-Minded.

'sJohn," said Mrs. Norton, as she
seated herself at the hotel breakfast
table, did you call = waiter?''
Yes, said Norton, looking up from
his paper. II called him and he had
tray full. Life.
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HE gentle art of
catching''m moon
sinners" b i d S
fair to soon be
n u m b e r C d
a m o n 6 t h e
things of the
past, but while
it lasts - and
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THE MARCH OF THE CARAVAN.
Weird and Impressive Experience Of
Travel In the East.

Weird aud Impressive Experience OF
Travel In the East.
Perhaps the weirdest and most inn
pressive of the many unwonted mem
| cries that the traveller carries away
with him from such like travel in the
east is the recollection of the camel
caravans which he has encountered at
night. Out of the black darkness is
heard the distant boom of a heavy
bell Mournfnlly and with perfect
regularity of iteration it sounds,
gradually swelling nearer and
louder, and perhaps mingling with the
tones of smaller bells signaling the rear
guard of the same caravan. The big
bell is the insignia and alarm of the
leading camel alone. But nearer and
louder as the sound becomes, not an
other sound and not a visible object APP
pear to accompany it. Suddenly. and
without the slightest warning, there
looms out of the darkness, like the APP
partition of a phantom ship, the form of
the captain of the caravan. His spongy
tread sounds softly on the smooth sand,
and like a great string of linked ghouls
the silent procession stalks by and is
swallowed up in the night
And how wonderful and ever-present
is the contrast in eastern travel to all
life and movement at home. No heavy
carts and numbering wagons jolt to and
fro between the farm yards and the
fields No light vehicles and swift
equipages dash past upon macadam-
lied roads. Alas! there are no roads:
and if no roads, how much less any
vehicles or wagons. Thatched roofs
and tiled cottages, lanes and hedge
rows and trim fields, rivers coursing
between full banks, beyond all the
roar and sudden smoky rush of the
train-these might not exist in the
world at all, and do not exist in the
world of the Persian, straitened and
stunted, but inexpressibly tranquil in
his existence. Here all is movement
and hustle, fux and speed; there every
thing is imperturbable, immemorial,
immuta bic, slow. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Paper, as we learn from recent dis
coveries, was ia use in Egypt as far
back as 1900 B. c., and not merely, as
old Pliny thought, from the time OF
Alexander the Great The ancient, Il
appears, knew more about pens and
inks than they usually have credit for
The Greeks made silver and other me-
tallic pens, and latin manuscripts show
. great variety of inks-red, purple,
green, blue, silver and gold
Simon Yandes, of Indianapolis, last
spring offered Wabash college $50, 0oo,
on condition that $50, 900 be raised be- |
fore December Is. The condition. has
been complied with, and the $50, 600 OF |
Mr.. Yandes isznow available. The col
lege is pledged by one Of the gifts to co |
education within three years. Simon |
Yandes has, up TO this time, given over |
Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-19
WON RY THE RIYaL.

The Kun Of thc Atlantic Yacht club
 From New London to Shelter Island Was in a Succession of Flukes. SHELTER ISLAND, N. Y, July IS In s fresh southwesterly breezs the sloop Rival led the yachts of the Atlantic club into Deering's cove this afternoon, winner oi the special race from New London. Only few lengths behind her came the forty. footer Ava, also a winner In her class. The run across the sound had been & huke until the yachts were well within Gsrdiner's bay, when the breeze freshened into almost Q gale and it was a close reach up to the finish line.
 When the starting signal was fired from the flagship, Water Witch, the wind blew fresh from the southwest. It was a dead beat the entire way, even under the most favor. able conditions of wind and sea. There were two classes in tho race the forty and forty.six footers. The entries in the former were Ava, Mocoasin and Choc- tsw; and in the latter class the Athens, Daphne, Rival, Penguin and Roamer. The Athens first crossed the line, followed closely by the Roamer, Pengnin, Rival, Moccasin, Ava, Daphne and Choctaw. After the yachts had crossed they started
 out in line about 800 yards apart. with the Penguin we'll to windward. About halt an hour afterwards the wind died away to
 fiat calm and breezss sprsng up in all | directions. The run to Plum Gut was 6 succession of hukes. After thi' point was reached, however, the breFzt | freshened and 1t WAS seen that the Riya was leading The Graylinz in the mean time away off to the leewsrd had slipped ahead and was the first to anchor in the | cove. But she was not in the race. The Rival led among the rscers, followed closely | by the Ava and Penguin.
 The Rival won in her class and the ASs in hers Commodore Sanford will not, il
 is thought. accept the cup, since it was of fered by him.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-19
BRANDED AS LOTTERY.

Judge Bosworthss Decision is a De- cided Setback to the Endowment Diamond Association of Spring. field.
 SPRINGFIELD, Msss., July 1s.-In the police court this morning Judge Bosworth handed down his decision in the case of Jeweler Coe and others who were organ ized as the Endowment Diamond associa- tion, and 1t was decided setback, fer 1t officially stamped the organization ss a lottery. With the exception of two sll who were summoned to court at the pre- vious trial got taste of the law, Mir. Coe being fined s100 and the nine others who were engaged in the drawings S20 each. The case was appealed and bail furnished in the sum of $200 for MT. Coe and s1OO for each of the others, Mir Coe becoming surety in each case. The case will be tried at the September term of the superior court and msy eventually go to the su- preme court to test the constitutionslity of the Bay state lottery law.
 MT. Coe insists that the Endowment Diamond association is not lottery in the meaning of the law but a regularly organ ized body, having @ set of officers and whose members are banded together for mutual benefit. Next he claims he has no connection with the association other than to furnish it with diamonds or watches at a stated price. These are the points upon which the case rests and which competent legal advice says frees the association from the lottery clause.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-19
SIVA,S GOOD TIME.

seven Thousand People at the De-
 trOit Races Witness Good Trotting.
 DETROIT, July 1S.-The merchsnte' and manufacturers' stake attracted 1000 people to the driving park today. At the opening of the betting Fides Stanton was the favor ite. Just before the first heat there was 8 disposition to make Silver Star favorite. Chimes Girl famed herself while exercising and was withdrawn.
 The first heat was taken by Siva with no trouble. In the second heat Siva led ss far as the three quarters, where she broke badly, and Silver Star shot into the lead. Coming into the stretch Siva outfooted Silver Star. winning by length. Fides Stanton was poor third. The next heat
 was simply procession, as far as the frst was concerned. There was a struggle be- | tween Membritonian and Pearl McGregor for second and the former was victorious. Sivs, by making the time in faster than 2;14 gets the $500 offered by the club fo, tho feat.
 The three -oh class trotting was ts
 ken by Fantasy in straight heats. In the
 first heat Double Cross came up fast in the
 first quarter, but could not overtake the
 leader. The next heat showed that Fan
 tasy easily outclasssd the others, and tht
 last was also tame. The 2:21 pace was no
 finished when darkness fell, and went owe, | till tomorrow after four heats had beer ! naca5
Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-19
WANTED-

WANTED. A SITUATION by 6 cunueieut girl tso do zen. Lh eral hoDssgotE. InqFiire nf iylg ltt 3ss JAMES STREET.