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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22
pITH AND POINT.

Shadows have no claws, hat they
have frightened many people to death.
Rams Horn.
fare these solors fastq" she asked
Of the new clerk. Yes, indeed. lou
ought to see them when they once start
to run. '-Washingto Star.
The Summer Vacation. what
makes you take summer vacation.
For change and rest" Eyes, the hotel
walters get the change and the land
lords get the restl"
81 think have increased in weight,
but decreased in height. ION, no!
One never knows how short ne Is TIL
he returns from his summer vacation
Boston Gazette.
--Yeast-sDoes Gullivanss wife al
ways have the last word?" Crimson
beak-ssYou seem to forget, man, that
lGullivan is q professional pugilist!-
Yonkers Statesman.
-Maud-"Of course the Englishman
that Sibyl married had coat-of-arms
and a crest?'' Marie-"He had coat
of-arms, but had lost his crest; he had
been married before. brooklyn Life.
u-Figg-sW What peculiar man Dun
der is. He has q sovereign contempt
for ANYBODY who doesn't know as
much as he does" Fogg-I should
think he would. boston Transcript
i Tailor Ito collector who has just
returned from dilatory customer)-
aWell. did he seem very much annoyed
to see you?' CollectorssOn the con-
| IL H0J1 QNAin -
Fliegende Blaetter.
DE Hamme Back TO town so
soon?n Barnes Tormer-"Yes We
PLAYED in Plunkville to deadheads, and
two of them brought suit against Y sfor
; loss of their time in witnessing the
play. "--Indianapolis journal.
Mamma - s'Oh, Frank! I've just
heard that smallpox is about. What
i ever would you do If baby caught it?''
. Frank-sBy Jove! Never thought OF
that! Give me my hat, I'll go and get
vaccinated at oncev-St. Paul Pioneer
! Press.
S Mrs. Anderson-"Soyo your daughter
5 is studying for the stageY Mrs. Brown
s Eyes, and she is progressing very
}; rapidly" How far has she gotY'
c .She has already had her photograph
a taken as Lady Macbeth. "-Texas Sift
!. ings
t -Teacher-s'What is the largest city
i in the world?" Scholar = Chicago.
. Teacher "Oh, no; London Is tn
+ largest" Scholar-sT guess not, and
ought to know; we've got q Chicag'
drummer boarding at our house. de
troit Free Press.
ID -s.I thought had me man, said tn
New York detective. "But it didn'
IS take him long to convince me that b
s, had never been here before" How di
TO he do it?" "Unconsciously. He aske
d, me where you could get drink o
es Sunday. Washington Star.
be -sWillie has taken to smoking cigal
y. ettes," said Mrs Closegrip, to her Tor
OF and master, when he came home frel
p the Office. sAll right" growled Il
en- old man, s.let him smoke 'em II he wan
IT, to. Cigarettes are cheap, and he won
es be outgrowing his clothes SO fast"
le- indianapolis Journal.
IN Jack (rapturously) Nov, darlin
will you please name the happy day
&C. Minnie r(blushingly}- Three weel
M from Thursday, Jack" Norah, u
m kitchen-maid Through the keyhole)
en- "Av You PLACE. miss, that's me reg'l
en- day out. Yen have to get married
OF the early part of the wake. "-Tit-Bi1
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22
A GREAT CAT, THIS.


uov Maltese Circumvented STA Ware
house Rats.
Custom House Broker Jones tells .
good cat and rat story, and he vouches
for the truth Of it. The fact is, he has
told it SO often that he really believes
It himself, if no one else will.
Mr.. Jones formerly had charge Of
grain warehouse that was infested
with rats-great big gray fellows, with
bobbed tails and ears fringed from
fighting.
III had to get rid of them in some
way" says Mr.. Jones, ''for it cost too
much to feed them and repair the dam
age they did. Why, one Of those fell
lows would gnaw the side of burglar
proof safe out in night. tried traps.
but l think one rat would hold open
the trap while another stole the cheese.
Then they would spring it. Finally, l
left the traps open, and occasionally
would find one set and baited with an
old chew Of tobacco or cigar stub.
| / think those rats had some idea OF
trapping me.
II was telling friend about my
troubles one day, and he volunteered
to lend me his Maltese mouscr, q great
big nervous fellow, with plenty Of cum
nlng. / was afru3d the rats would be
too cunning for him. but his owner as
sured me that he would clean them out
in . hurry.
''The first morning put him in the
warehouse / heard some racing and
running, and on peeking out saw that
cat playing with q great big rat They
we're rolling over and over each other,
and enjoying the fun hugely. That
made me hot, but left them to their
fun. The next morning there was more
noise than before. and saw twenty or
thirty rats chasing around having run
with that cat. On the third morning
there must have been couple hundred
/ Of them, and everyone was having
barrel of fun with that cat, pulling his
whiskers, his ears and his tail.
"The next morning there was nc
( noise, but there were three hundred
+ and seventy-two victims OF misplaced
: confidence lying on the warehouse hoo1
: dead. The cat was cutter than the rats
. He waited till he got all of them out
5 playing and killed every rat In ths
: place.--San Francisco Post.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22
BY AND BY.

Down she stream where the tide Is clearer,
Further on where the shores are fair.
Are the gracious forms we would fain be
nearer,
The names we breathe In the voice OF prayer
BE the voyage long they will be the dearer
When after awhile we shall greet them there.
Further on, where the tide is clearer,
Down the stream where the shores are fair
BY and by when the sun Is shining,
After awhile when the skies are blue,
When the clouds unfold their silver lining
And the peaceful isles drift into view;
We shall free our tongues from dull repining.
And our hearts with the joys OF youth re-
new,
After awhile when the sun Is shining.
BY and when the skies are blue.
Nixon Waterman. In Chicago Journal
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22
Commercial value Of the Heart.

II am not rich. . he said, ''but Il the
devotion of true and tender heart
goes for anything with you, dear
Clara"
at goes well enough with me. Mr..
Spoonful, interrupted the lair maiden
with pensive look on her sweet face
But how will it go with the butcher,
the baker, the grocer? Those people
must be considered, you know. "-Bos-
ton Home Journal.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22
Keeping.

without this radiant idea-this de.
liqhtful morning star, indicating that
the iuminary of eternity is going to
rise, life would, to my view, darken
into midnight melancholy. The ex-
pectaticn of living here. and living
thus always, would be indeed pros
meet of overwhelming despair. JOHN
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22
THE SIZE OF ATOMS.
They Can Not BE Discovered BY the Nake'
Eye.

They Can Not Be Discovered BY the Naked
Eye.
Science informs us that all bodies
are composed of atoms and molecules,
atoms being the smallest particles into
which matter in general can be divided,
and molecules the smallest particles
into which any particular body can be
divided without losing it's identity.
For instance, the smallest particles OF
salt which are able to retain the prop
critics of salt are. molecules, but such
molecules may be split up into parti-
cles composed of sodium and PARTICLES
composed of chlorine, and these ele-
mentary particles, which can not again
be divided, are atoms.
But no one has ever been able to see,
or distinguish, a molecule or an atom.
Yet the possibility of their being rem
dered visible has more than once been
discussed. Only a short time ago such
discussion occurred at a meeting OF
the Physical society in London, and
reasons were then shown for believing
that molecules are not indefinitely
small in comparison with the wave
length of light, which averages some
thing like one-fifty-thousandth of an
inch.
Ten or eleven years ago Sir William
Thomson, now Lord Kelvin, investi-
gated the question of the actual size OF
atoms and molecules, and came to the
conclusion that, at the largest, they
might be one-twenty-fve-millionth OF
an inch in diameter! That would make
them so small that five hundred could
lie in a row within the length OF q
wave of light.
1t is difficult to imagine that parti
cles so minute should ever be rendered
visible to human eyes, and yet, as hal
lust been remarked, the possibility O
seeing them is occasionally discussed
By men of science.
Buff such a feat of seeing ever i
performed, it will certainly prove t.
be something more than a mere graft
fication of curiosity. Many OF the mos
reconcile questions in science woul'
be suddenly illuminated by the discov
cry of a means of watching an atom a
we can now watch rotifer under tn
microscope. Youths Companion.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22

A man standing in store door In
Texas town called out to countryman
sitting on wagon:
.sfIow are all your folks coming on?'
"Your brothers bay mule Is dead,
but all the rest Of our kin folks are
alive and kicking. - Alex Street, IN
Texas Siftings.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22

The travelling bag known as the
dress suit case was originated about
thirty-fve years ago. For about thirty
wears it was used almost exclusively
for the purpose indicated by its name.
About five years ago it began to grow
in favor as bag for general use and
its sale as such has since increased
rapidly. It's thinness made it easier to
carry and it was less wearing on the
clothes of the person carrying it.
Things packed well in it and it was a
convenient bag to stow under berth
in a sleeping car; and it commended it
self generally as an all-round bag. 1t
was said at weIl-known trunk and
bag establishment that of all the trav-
cling bags of that size now sold, proba-
bly, fifty per cent. are dress suit cases.
Probably less than ten per cent. OF
these are bought for use as regular
travelling bags. They are made in vari'
Gus sizes and depths, the deeper ones
being known as deep dress suit cases
They are sold at various prices up to a
high as twenty-five dollars for dnt
allipator.-N. Y. Sun.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22

The talented zimmerman, the au-
thor of Solitude ended his days in Q
condition OF torpid dementia.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-22

n y
not love Him? Come around this laver,
old and young. 1t is SO FURNISHED You
can see your sins; and so deep you can
wash them all away. Oh. mourner,
here battle your bruised soul; and sick
one, here cool your hot temples in this
laver. Peace! Do not cry any more,
dear soul! Pardon for all thy sins,
comfort for all thy Affections. The
black cloud that hung laundering over
Sinai has fioated above Calvary, and
burst into the shower of Sayiour's
tears.
saw in Kensington garden picture
of Waterloo a good while after the bat
tie had passed, and the grass had
grown all over the field. There was a
dismounted cannon, and lamb had
come up from the pasture and lay SLEEP.
ing in the mouth of that carnon. So
the artist had represented it-a most
suggestive thing. Then thought
how the war between God and ths
soul had ended; and, instead of the an
nouncement, "The wages OF sin il
DEATH" there came the words, my
peace give unto thee;' and amidst the
batteries of the law that had once
quaked with the fiery hail of death,
beheld the Lamb of God which takett
away the sin of the world.
went to Jesus as was,
Weary and worn, and sad;
Hound in Him resting place.
And He has made me glad
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-30
AN UNTENABLE CLAIM.

The troubles hiatt have come upon the
country through the decentralization of
silver by the Republican party in 1873,
have found no stronger portraiture
anywhere than in the columns of the
Salt Lake Tribune That paper has
taken great credit to itself for this.
And The Herald is willing that it
should have all the credit to which it is
entitled. But we are not prepared to
admit the claim Of that paper that its
fight for silver has been at least a
Ipublic question has been inconsistency
advocated, it is the silver question by
the Salt Lake Tribune. That paper
has declared that the restoration of the
white metal as money at the ratio of 16
to l with gold was absolutely essential.
Then it has taken the ground that
the ratio did not matter 1t has
demanded free silver coinage as the
only thing that could possibly be
acceptable, and then accepted the
straddle substituted for a free coinage
demand and declared it to be sufficient
1t has traced every i'll that flesh is
heir to up to the crime of 1873 as its
source. and then denounced the threat
Of free trade as the great and SUI
preme cause of all the troubles of the
times. Tt has admitted one day that
the Republican party was responsible
for the fatal policy that killed silver.
then shifted It's ground and affirmed
that the Democrats were as bad as the
Don HI; 10 -
avowed that the Democrats alone were
responsible, wholly and solely for all
the mischief, the panics and the pow
erty. It has gone so far as to say that
the throwing away of half the money
Of the world"-an absurd way of put
ting the matter by the by-was the
cause of the decline in marriage, the
decrease in the proportion of births. the
increase of insanity, pauperism and
crime, as well as the tramp nuisance
and the immortality of the times.
All these inconsistencies and exagger-
atoms can be. produced from the
columns Of the Tribune and have done
damage to the silver cause instead of
fading it. And the idea has been put
forth in the same paper that the tariff
question did not cut any figure in the
prevailing disasters. but that silver de-
monetizaition did the whole business.
But before the ink was. dry that print
ed that assertion, the Democratic party
would be blamed for all the SORROWS
and evils of the age because of the
threat of free trade which that par
ty. certainly never uttered.
The claim Of consistency in its deal
ing with this subject, therefore, is I'M
tenable. And those Republican orators
who are angry with The Herald for
showing up this fact are doing their
cause no good. Nor will the Tribune
help itself by whining about its ''con-
sistent" advocacy Of a cause which no
one disputes 1T has supported to the
extent of its ability
If the Tribune will keep on showing
sound reasons why silver should be
placed back to its former position, and
combat the errors of the gold monomet-
|allists and bogus bimetallists, it will
receive all the credit that is its. due;
and it will have no need to try to shift
Republican misdeeds to the shoulders
of the Democratic party.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-30
DREAMS.

"In the first dream that comes with the
first sleep,
1 run. ] run, 1 am gathered to thy
heart"
Unworthy yea,
So high thou art above me
l hardly dare to love thee,
But kneel and lay
All homage ard all worship at thy feet,
o, lady sweet
Yet dreams are strong;
Their wordless wish suffices
To win them paradises
Of sun and song.
Delight our waking life can never know
The dreams bestow.
And in a dream,
Dupe of its bold beguiling.
watch thy blue eyes smiling;
I see them CLEAN
With love the waking moments have for
hidden.
And yelled and hidden
o, brave deceit
In dreams thy glad eyes glisten,
In dreams I lie aud listen
Thy bosom beat,
Hiving hot lips among thy temple-hair,
o, lay fair!
And tho 1 live,
Dreaming in such fair fashion,
1 think. in thy compassion,
Thou wilt forgive,
Since but dream, and since my heart will
When / awake.
Ronald Campbell Macfie in the Yellow
Book.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-30
JUDGE MINER ON UTAH POLITICS.

/. Ex-Judge James A. Miner. of Ogden,
has been interviewed by the Chicago
Inter-Ocean. The interview was
devoted chiefly to Utah politics. The
Judge expressed the opinion that the
republicans would elect the delegates to
the Constitutional convention and also
the delegate to Congress. 1t is natural
the Judge should express such an
opinion but the reasons he assigns for
it are truly astonishing He said there
were many reasons why he thought the
territory would go Republican. He
said:
One is bhe decentralization of silver
by the present administration, which
has destroyed or greatly impaired the
silver mines of the territory, which be-
fore the law was repealed We're turning
out immense quantities of silver.
Many reckless statements have been
made about the decentralization of sill
yer, but none more reckless than this.
Judge Miner should know that silver
was demonetized in 1873 and by the Re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-30
DUTY OF THE DEMOCRACY.

Two years ago the Democratic party
entered the campaign and went before
the people of Utah and asked their
support. That support was given. cheer
fully, heartily, and the party in this
territory, through its Delegate in Con-
gress, has fulfilled all its promises, full
filed them beyond the expectations Of
the most sanguine. What has the
Democracy of the nation done for
Utah? 1t has done all those things for
which the people have been vainly ask
ing the Republican party in the pleHi-
tude of it's power to do. 1t has recog-
nized their rights as American citizens,
it has passed the enabling act that enl-
powers the people to form a constitu-
ton and to be admitted to the Union
on the same footing of equality with
all the original states and all the other
great states that go to make up this
great nation.
We ask the young men of Utah who
have never cast a vote for the chief
executive of the nation, but who have
seen presidential election after presi-
Dental election pass while they were
held in territorial bondage, mistrusted
in word and deed, if they in the hour
Of their proudest triumph win spurn
away the hand that was stretched out
to them to lift them from this bondage?
VIII they turn a deaf ear to the voice
that has led them out Of the wildern-
ess? Is there a young man born in
Utah who today is of age that does not
recall the hostility, the bitter hostility,
of the Republican party to the people
of Utah? When did the Republican
party ever do kind or a generous
thing to the people of Utah?
Compare the records of the two par
ties towards Utah. Since the Demo-
cratic party has been in control of ma
tional affairs the people of Utah have
not made a request that has been de-
MED. Will the people of Utah be un-
grateful? Will they say to those who
were friends in need, and the friend in
need is the friend indeed, that they
know them not? They viii never do
that
But it is the duty of the Democracy
TO go to the people and lay the
facts before them, dispassionately and
without color. 1t is the duty of all the
committees of the party to be active
and energetic and to be ever vigilant.
The people dc. not forget their friends
and are not ungrateful, but they are
not to be treated as though they could
be counted ON whether treated we'll or
indifferently. This territory must be
saved to the Democracy that the brand
of ingratitude may never be placed
upon it. The Democracy of this terri
tory, rank and file, must bestir them
selves, for the Republicans are alert,
watchful and working incessantly
That which is worth having is worth
fighting for. Let the Democrats remem-
her this and act on it, and act imme-
diatelyi
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HERE ARE THE PROOFS.

Judge Judd appears to be an irritating
thorn in the sensitive side of our Re-
publican neighbor On Tuesday it de-
voted considerable space to that gentle
man and showed just as much vexa.
ton. He has been talking to the peo-
pie, in his homely, straightforward and
forcible fashion, on the questions of
the hour and has replied to the chief
Republican pleas for the suffrages of
the voters of Utah. The Tribune does
not like that. One of the main Repub-
lican campaign topics is the terrible
troubles which came upon the country
about the time that the Democratic
party had to take hold of the reins of
government. Imagining that their hear
ers do not use their brains, those ora
tors have endeavored to impress the
public with the transparent fallacy,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-30

"The partisan spirit in which the
question of apportionment has been
dealt with by the committee of the
Constitutional convention having the
matter in charge has been very plainly
shown by the manner in which they
have dealt with it. The Republican
majority of the committee have taken
the matter in hand and prepared their
plans without consulting with their
Democratic colleagues, and they have
so grouped counties and prescribed as
esmblv districts as to give manifest
advantages TO their own party" This
IS said Of the New York Constitutional
convention by the Times. There is in
this a lesson for the people of Utah.
Let the people Of Utah beware that
they send no men to the Constitutional
convention With souls so small that
they viii seek TO rob the people of any
part of the territory of their rights
,or mere partisan purposes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-30

Publican party. Prior to that tine it
had had free access to the minis the
same as gold. The restoration of silver
to free coinage is the demand of the
Democratic party in Utah today.
Having made this statement about
/, the decentralization of silver, Judge
Miner next turns his attention to WOOL
He repeats the Republican story about
wool, ignoring the fact that it has gone
down and down as the Republicans
have put the tariff on it up and UP.
1t will be time enough to blame the
Democratic tariff for this decline in
the wool industry when it has been in
force sufficiently long TO have any eff
feet on wool Do not attempt to place
the evils resulting from Mckinleyism
on the Democratic party.
Judge Miner shows great deal of
zeal in his statements not to say reck-
lessness. Speaking of the sugar indus
try, and it should be remembered that
he is talking of Utah matters solely, he
says:
The sugar industry, which had been
fostered and had grown to great pro-
portions under former laws and the
bounty system, has been destroyed by
the Wilson bill.
Not in Utah by any means. 1t is
strong and healthy and the beet crop
will be one of the best ever raised.
Judge Miners statement regarding
sugar is absolutely without foundation.
If it We're true then the Wilson bill
would have proven that the cultivation
of the sugar beet was not an industry
adapted to Utah and that it needed the
support of the taxing power of the
government to make it return a rear
sonable profit on the capital invested
in it.
The Judge told the reporter further
that the followers of Brigham Young
were strong protectionists, having been
taught to manufacture every article
they needed and which it was possible
for them to make On this subject we
shall have something to say at a fu-
ture time, when we shall demonstrate
that the home industry of the Mormons
was purely religious question and
was urged for the purpose of making
the Mormons independent of the world,
/. e. of all who were not of their faith.
No one knows this better than the old
non-Mormon residents of this territory.