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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

Woman, why lose your freshness
and beauty through chills, biliousness
and general debility? Try Plantation
Chill Cure. Sold by j. s. Guenard
drug store.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

Have you tried Plantation Liver
Pills fer habitual constipation They
are perfectly splendid and e sure cure
Sold by j. s. Gnenard .drugsiors.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

Canon Wherefore of England,
believes that animals have immortal
souls.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02
A Hand Made Cypress Cistern,

1000 Gallons, SIS. 1900 Gallons,
$40. 200 Gallons, s26. 5000 Gallons,
$35. A. RIGGS & BRO, No. so
Perdido street. New Orleans. La.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

Leaving balance in Treasury. 10 AZ
III. X. Barwick,
G.. A. Voelker,
Finance Committee.
The meeting then adjourned to meet
on the second Wednesday, July IL,
1894.
P. D. QUAYS. President.
YANcEY BELL, Clerk.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

YOU buy any Providence and
We bought Charity Hospital Qpgram fed and
comfortable homes We will make
of the NEW PROVIDENCE; going that and
we viii sell cheap for cash.
from $000up Come
9s~sesssfafI
- MIILIKIN &c HAMLEY.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

We have examined the report of the
Sheriff & Ex-offico Tax Collector and
Treasurer, find both correct and re-
commend their approval
The Treasurer's report shows:
Balance on hand. 1851 80
From which deduct amount claims
recommended paid at this meet
ing Observation-Disclosures. 345 s6
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

The Ferris wheel will be brought
to New York in $50 cars, and it will
cost s150, 900 to take down, trans
port and re-erect it.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

We recommend the payment Of the
following approved claims. and that
the President be authorized to warrant
for same !:
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

Pencils are made at the rate OF 20
minute, or As, 900 day.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

drug store
The Bossier banner., 1894-12-20
He Well Remembered 1t.

'Was there ever time in your life.
Mr.. Gartley,a asked Miss ltley, when
all the world seemed dreary waste
to you; when your heart was starving;
all the sweet springs of your life were
turned to bitterness, and death seemed
the sweetest boon the gods could offer
you?" Indeed there was" said Cart
ley earnestly; Il remember it we'll; |
was only fifteen years old at the time,
and was enduring the lniseries of my
first seasickness just after l had
smoked my first cigar, which hap
pened to DE strong one. Tx combi-
nation was tremendous and nearly
finished me. boston Home Journal.
The Bossier banner., 1894-12-20
"WHEN | WAS A GIRL"

Aunt Clarissa wears her snow white hair
In the fashion OF long ago,
With three little curls each side of her face.
Arranged in spiral row.
But she looks askance at my frizzy bangs
When their fluffy kinks unfurl
AND mutters, with disappearing air:
''LR me, when I was girl"
She gowns herself in skinny frock
That is fearfully short in the waist
But opens her eyes at my high-cut sleeves,
And thinks them devoid OF taste
It fairly gives me fit of the blues
And sets my head in whirl,
When she arches her brows and says with
scorn:
la me, when I was girlI'
You'd think the girls in Aunt Clarissas time
Were angels from top to toe,
10 hear how grimly she lectures me
When chance to mention beau. e
And if just venture to speak of love,
Her lips take an upward curl,
And she says, in prim and prudish way;
La! me, when was girl!''
But found her reading letter once;
1t was tied with ribbon blue;
The writing was dim and blurred by time.
But know twas billet doux
For saw flush on her faded cheek,
Half hid by the spiral curl,
And heard her murmur in accents low:
La! me, when l was grill"
Helen W Clark, in Good Housekeeping
The Bossier banner., 1894-12-20
1T WAS STEALING A RIDE.
Deadly Tarantula Captured in a Rail-
way Car.

Deadly Tarantula Captured in Rail-
way Car.
A young man wearing seersuclzer
coot. and with much excitement
mingled with big beads of perspiration
on his face, came into the smoking car
of an Erie railway train as it was get
ting along toward the meadows of
Orange county the other day He car
ried dinner bucket in one hand and
pressed it's lid down with the other.
He was the express messenger.
"I've bagged something" he ex-
claimed. Can anyone tell me what
kind o; a pup it is?"
A big man with long whiskers and
hair and a cowboys hat, who was
smoking strong plug tobacco in clay
pipe, said;
"Lemnie see it?"
The young man held the dinner
bucket at arms length and raised the
lid. The big man looked into the
bucket.
"a t'rantuly, by cedar" he said, and
took the bucket from the young man.
"a t'rantuly, as sure as guns!' he
continued. "a citizen of Bermudy,
this chap is. And a beauty tool"
The big man got out of his seat and
passed the dinner pail around among
the passengers. 1t was nearly full of
something that seemed to be all ha ir
and claws and eyes. No one seemed
at all pleased with the sight except
the hisute big man. 1t was taran-
tula sure enough. A unanimous re-
quest was made by the rest of the
passengers that the hideous spider be
pitched out of the window, but the big
man gazed at the ugly thing with un-
disturbed interest.
''Where did you run ag'in him?' he
asked the express messenger.
"Came out o bunch O. bananas in
my ear" replied the young man. II
cornered him, and he jumped into my
dinner bucket and l shut him in.
What is he good for?'
lies a frst-class benefactor of the
coroner when he's to home," said the
big man. ''If there's any feller citi-
zen of yourn that you'd like to see
have a funeral at his house take this
stowaway from Bermuda home with
you and turn him loose in your fellow
citizens garden. If your fellow citi-
zen fools around much in his garden
you'll see crepe on his door in less
than two days. The t'rantuly is pizan
for keeps to them as hain't been vac
cinated for trantulies. If l was you,
young man, I'd take this chap and let
your locomotive run over him. A good
strong locomotive is about the only
thing that kin tackle one O these
chaps and make success of it"
The big man handed the dinner
bucket back to it's owner, who took il
and carried it away. When the train
left the next station he came and said
the train had met the tarantula and
that twenty feet of grease spot and q
pint or so of legs and hair had indi
Gated that the locomotive had won.--
n. Y. sun.
The Bossier banner., 1894-12-20
brazen, do please gloss it over as much

brazen, do please gloss it over as much
as you can"
eff l had thought it at all out of the
way for you to accept my offer l never
should have ventured to make it, for in
that case | should have had no right"
he replies; and l wonder that never
thought of that before
81 should have been both disguised
and disappointed if you had declined
my slight service" he continues. II
will tell you just how it was. walked
behind you for about half-block, de-
batting in my own mind what / should
do. We were both going the same way,
and ] saw there was no shelter you
could seek excepting doorway, which
involved tedious waiting, and would
have been an impcssibility if you had
an engagement. To pass you seemed
impossible, and to walk behind you,
too selfish to be thought of for mo-
ment.
" If she takes my offer the way l
mean it, | thought, Il shall respect
her and admire her good sense. If she
- W. ~ "9 al ILL pei GillcACo IL CdIlIiO0
hurt me, and it will not prove that my
impulse ought to have been suppressed.
Judging by the independent poise of
her head I think she possesses judg-
ment, and Will be grateful to me.
II must acknowledge / felt some
trepidation as l approached on, and 1
voted you, in schoolboy vernacular, "a
regular trump when. after a search
ing look from pair of beautiful eyes,
you smiled SO sweetly and allowed me
to hold my umbrella over YOU"
glanced at the doctor
WAS it not strange that we should
have met again that very day?' be-
gin, hastily.
Il think it was fate" inte rrupts DR..
Burke, audaciously.
And then he goes on and says so
much that | quite lose track of it all
But we agree wonderfully; and / have
great respect for-fate. S
Magazine.
The Bossier banner., 1894-12-20

Lieut.. Guyot, of the French al my
who recently rode on bicycle To Con-
stantinople and back, had hard ex-
perience in Turkey, where he was only
able to make thirty miles in tn, ea
days. In that time he had nothing la
eat but four hard-boiled eggs with vim
egar, and muddy water with a little.
raki to drink The natives insisted oa
getting upon L.s maeEine, and he had
great trouble with the dogs. In Bul.
garia there were no roads at all, though
some were pegged out. and ths mud
was very sticky. He rode one thousand
eight hundred and sixty miles without
stopping, except to eat, sleep and have
his machine mended, yet he was sevv
enty-three days on the way e
The Bossier banner., 1894-12-20


"And shall be able to walk with
out a crutch this week?" ask,
anxiously v F
1t is a month since that never-to-be-
forgotten luncheon at Lulu Rradley's
and my foot is still in statu quo, as il
were, although I can get around the
house and am in the parlor, now, with
DIR. Bernard Burke. 1t is the first time
have seen him alone, and we have
never mentioned our rather unconven.
tional walk.
II am quite sure you will be out by
Saturday. Perhaps you will still need
slight support-a cane or"--his eyes
twinkle-''an umbrella"
We both laugh.
Ibid you expect me to retase your
help that day? Tell me what you
thought Of me, But if you think ! was
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
Her Long Sleep.

The Paris correspondent of the
London Chronicle t~elegraphs that a
woman named Marguerite Bouyen-
val, who fell into a state of catalep-
sy on May 25, 1882, is still alive
and asleep. Her parents refuse to
allow her to be transferred to the
Salpetriere. The story would be
scarcely credible if not attested by
medical authority. Marguerite
Bouyenval was delivered of a male
child, which died two days after its
birth. Suspicion was aroused, and
a Magistrate, accompanied by two
gendarmes, visited the cottage of
Bouyenvals, at Thenelles, a village
near st. Quentin. The girls fright
was so bad that she had a terrible
fit OF hysteria, followed by eatalep.
tic coma, in which condition, not
witbstanding the efforts of doctors
and electricians, she has remained
for more than II years. On such
occasions she has moaned audibly.
She is fed on milk and peptone, and
removed once a day from one bed
to another. In 1898 an American
Snowman offered a large sum to be
allowed to take Marguerite Bouyen-
val to the Chicago Exhibition. The
parents AT first agreed, but they
were eventually dissuaded by the
parish priest and local doctor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
"Niiey" Hall Feeling Very Good.

EFDn Tue haIisaS lily Guar
Uriel Sebree Hall came to town
to-day. He is flushed with victory.
He will have the biggest majority
of any Democrat VINO pulled through.
II am satisfied that the result
on the State ticket" said Hall,
twas caused by the stay'at-home
Democrats. Missouri will give 49,
600 majority for the State ticket two
years hence. | have been censured
by the State Committee because
declined to give one month of my
time TO the Stste campaign outside
of my district. | told the commit
tee | had a potato patch of my own
to look after, and ] made seventy-two
speeches in it. If had not done this
would have been defeated"
BANDS overthrow is still the alb
sorbing topic of astonished com.
ment. Although Hubbard's plural.
ity has apparently dwindled from
104 to 10, it is conceded that the
apostle of free silver is defeated and
that he will stay at home two years.
His defeat is ascribed to ''sixteen
to one" Apparently there are
more hard money Democrats in the
agricultural districts than BANDS
philosophy dreamed of. These
.'sound money men" went fishing
on election day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15

X 81. Jacobs Oil is made to cure n
j Ri e ID M At S IN 4
T~ALHAGE'S
Advised Against Rebuilding the T8ber-
nacir-May Go Elsewhere.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov. s.
Leonard Moody, President OF the
Brooklyn Tabernacle Board of Trus-
tees, called on DIR. Talmage and dis
cussed with him the future of the
tabernacle congregation and of DR..
Talmage's passionate. To reporter,
Mr.. Moody said:
Il strongly advised Mr.. Talmage
against rebuilding the Tabernacle. |
told him that in the face ofthe pres
ent hard times it would be difficult,
if not impossible, to raise the nee
essary money, and he agreed with
me. | do not know whether a build
ing will be rented for DIR. Talmage
in Brooklyn or New York. do not
know whether he will preach here at
all Or not. | think he will make
Brooklyn his home, though | under
stand he has received calls from
other cities. He has not made up
his mind yet just what to do. He
will await developments before de-
Gliding on any course of action
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
Who IL tG Blame.
From the Kansas City Times

The Democrats of interiorMissouri
have no one but themselves to blame
for their present plight. The catas.
trophe by which Missouri has been
transferred from the Democratic to
the Republican column a not be
charged against The cities, st. Louis
AID Kansas City. both Of which went
Democratic. The rural Democrats
are responsible, and while they can
not be censured for an over.conf-
dence which was but a reflection of
that in the minds of the State lead,
ers, they will have plenty of time to
think it over before they have a
chance to redeem themselves. The
Democrats otMissouri are chagrined,
and they ought to be over Tuesdays
Waterloo. The Republican victory,
Of which they will never hear the
last, consists of three parts Republi.
can gam and eighteen parts Demo,
cratic loss. The Populists cut no
figure at all.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
! he Bees Load.

Careful weighing shows that an
ordinary bee, not loaded, weighs the
five thousandth part Of a pound, so
that it takes 5000 bees, not loaded,
to make a pound. But the loaded
bee when be comes in fresh from
the fields and flowers, loaded with
honey or bee bread, weighs nearly
three times more-that is to say, he
carries nearly twice his own weight.
Of loaded bees there are only about
1900 in a pound. An ordinary hive
of bees contains from four to five
pounds of bees, or between 10000
or $4,000 individuals, and some
swarms have double this weight and
number of bees.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
RUSH HILL ITEMS.

Correspondence of the Ledger
RUSH HILL, Nov. 81. E.Kreu-
tel is taking treatment for drinking
and bis many friends are glad to
see him make an effort to brace up.
Doolin & Torbert are having a
new brick smoke stack built to their
elevator.
l.. T. Paisley hauled the first load
of corn up the dump here this year.
Ed. Baptist moved to Farber
Wednesday.
The Indian show and the Medi-
cine Co. will be in our town next
week. Everybody come as it is a
free show.
A literary society will meet and
organize Friday night. A meeting
will be held every Friday night in
each week.
Miss Annie Belts is visiting her
brother, A. A. Belts and wife.
A large vote was polled here
Tuesday. l.. D. Uzzell and c. L.
Stewart polled the largest vote on
the ticket for township offices.
Right men in the right place.
Rev. Rice and Rev. Bib are still
conducting a series of meetings.
They will likely continue owe Sun
day. Great interest is taken in the
meeting,
Sutherland & Larue will increase
their stock of dry goods, having pur-
chased a $4,000 stock of Harper &
Rixey, of Mexico and viii move it
to Rush Hill. In connection with
their stock now on hand they will
have everything else in the dry
goods line.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
THE RETURNS IN BRIEF.
They Indicate Republican Success ALI
Along the Line.

Official returns from some States
and incomplete counts from the MAJ
jority have changed the result in
some instances, but, generally, it is
unaltered. 1t is but a serial story
of Republican success.
The Northern and Eastern States
remain as reported heretofore.
But in the South and West accu-
rate reports have taken the place OF
estimates, and it is in those sections
that the few changes from the first
reports are noted.
Texas elects the Democratic State
ticket by about 10000 plurality.
The Populists made gains on the
State ticket, but did not succeed in
electing a Congressman.
The delegation to Washington
will be Democratic, with the excep-
ton OF Noonan (Rep.), who defeat
ed Houston in the Twelfth District.
In Nebraska Holcomb defeated
Majors by 1900. The Legislature
in that State will be Republican by
40 votes. Five OF the six Congress
men elected are Republicans.
Waite of Colorado is beaten by
$4,000 votes and the Republicans
have Is majority in the Legislature.
About the only brand saved from
the bonfire of Populist aspirauts is
Bell, who was reelected to Congress
from the Second District.
The Legislature of Wyoming is
Republican, and Senator Carey and
ex-senator Warren are already work.
ing for the long term Senatorship.
California elected a Democrat to
the Governorship, but the rest OF the
State ticket is Republican and six Of
tut etNcb SUHSiceoiICu hIo Va thO
same stripe.
!, Republicans in Washington State
have So majority on joint ballot.
Ten OF Missouri's Congressman
are of the prevailing political faith
} and the State ticket was elected by
=, the same party.
Twenty-one Of the % Illinois
Congressman are Republicans, and
the official count may make the del
egation a solid one.
,, Both parties are claiming victory
on the State ticket in Tennessee.
2 with chances, on the latest returns,
favoring Evans (Rep).
Alabama elected n Populist to
:, Congress-Howard, in the Seventh
District. The others areDemocrats.
5 The six Louisiana Congressmer
are Democrats.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
What tile Democracy Neads.
From the Kansas City Star.

FlOiii Ia hdLiSiS StLS Guar.
"'As to the future of the Demu-
cratic party it must depend entirely
upon those men who have the cour-
age CT their convictions. We need
men who will consider public ques-
tons without regard to their own
future preferment and popularity.
We have had too many in high posi-
tons to whom the question How
shall [ be renominated and re elect
ed has been paramount 10 all
other issues. In short, We have had
a great many in public life 'for
revenue only We need a real
sincere patriotism which shall study
the good Of all rather than the ad,
vancemenl of one. That sort of
patriotism is genuine Democracy.
We need leaders who prefer to die
with their self-respect rather than to
live and retain office without ito
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
CAUSE OF DEMocRAcy's DEFEAT.
Sam B.. Cock, Chairman of the State Gen.
trail Committee, Tells Truly the Cause
of Demaeracy's Defeat in This State.

In an interview with Sam b. Cook
to-day he explained the Republican
tidal wave to a LEDGER reporter as
follows:
"The national Democratic Admins
tration fell heir to a depleted Treas
ury. The party YVES confronted at the
very outset with a condition of affairs
for which Republicans were solely
responsible.
1.-THE business failures and wide
spread financial distress which par
alyzed industries of the States and
forced commodities to the lowest
point reached in the history of this
country came to us as a part OF II
heritage from the preceding Republic
can administration.
1.-THE great mass of our people, how
ever, simply look at conditions and
give but little thought to causes.
The result was that the average
voter simply remembered that during
this period of business depression and
llud4Cldl oSy Woe
in power.
In Missouri the Democracy never
had q better state ticket than that de-
feated last Tuesday.
The Republican victory in this State
is due solely to the stay-at-home vo-
tiers.
think that the figures will show
that $4,000 Democrats failed to go to
the polls Tuesday in this State.
There is no reason, however, why
Missouri should not be found in the
Democratic column two years hence
The defeat of '94 will rouse the
Democracy oil this State to the impor
lance of active work in the future ano
the Estate will be safe for State
Congressional and National ticket il
! 1862
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
D. HIT DEFEATED.
He stood High With His People but
Fell Before the Avalanche.
To A. C. HIT. Mexico. Mo.

To A. c.. Hit. Mexico. Mo.
LAS ANIMAs, Colo, Nov. T.
Dear Sir: The returns show the de-
feat of your son, Mr.. Hit, and my
self. 1t has occurred to me that it
might afford you some satisfaction
to know from me who has been
Judge OF the court of which he has
been the prosecuting officer for the
last three years; how faithfully and
efficiently he has discharged the
duties of his Office. l say without
hesitation, that he is the ablest pros
ecuting officer IN Colorado, and that
he has faithfully and efficiently dur
ing III three years association as
Judge and District attorney, dis
charged all the duties of his office.
| have never known him derelict in
any duty; he has never, under any
influence, departed In the slightest
form what he believed his duty. The
people of the district will not know
until he is out of office the value of
the officer they have lost. Although
the district is strongly Republican,
and he had a Republican and Pop
uilst adversary, he loses the district
by only a small plurality. He must
have received six hundred Republi.
can votes in this district.
Permit me to add that our rela-
tons have been most pleasant and
our official relations terminate with
my having for him the highest re-
spect and the warmest friendship.
With much respect,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-15
A BRIEF INTERVIEW.
Eli Perkins,, the Famous HumOrist
or New York, Braced by a Ledger
Reporter, the--Oniy Newspaper
Man on the Grounds.

Hardly had the first Wabash train
from St. Louis Stacked up to-day
when the porter swung Off, and
grabbing the LEDGER reporter whis-
pered in his ear: "Eli Perkins is
on the train, next to the last coach"
and then ran up to the tank.
We mounted the platform opened
the coach door and saw a well dress
ed, low set, stylish and ~middle-aged
man wiping his face in the toilet
department of the smoking room.
BeiDgtappedl lightly nthe should
er Mr.. Perkins Gas he is generally
known) looked around to see an
inquisitive youth confronting him
with a pencil yer his a and a
note book in hand.
"This is Mr.. Perkins? | repre-
sent the press, sir, and take this adj
vantage to meet you. My name is
B."
"Glad to know you, Mr.. B,
glad to know you. How's Mexico?
How's she thriving?" asked the ia
nous humorist.
The reporter replied that the citi'
zens were in a non'heavenly mood
Just now, the majority of them, and
that the place itself was becoming 6
city every day, and surprising Full
ton in every respect except il
challenging duels.
by the way" said Eli, as he
puckered his lips into a sort o.
humorous shape and braced him
self against the wash bowl, "what'E
the matter with you Missourians.
anyhow"
"Why, the Republicans have sur
prised US and themselves too, and
Democracy will now sleep a couple
of years." answered the LEDGE
man. "Well, Mr.. Perkins, where
to-" we said, anxious to forget pol
itics. "I'm going to lecture al
Brunswick to- night; then | go to
Kansas City. Later I'll lecture tc
the students at Columbia. Say,you
fellows haven't forgotten those truths
l told you in Mexico and all Missouri
about 3 or 4 years ago, have you?"
He was told that we had not. He
said that at home in New YorkDem'
ocracy had likewise taken a short
rest, as Hill he thought probably
was aware.
The train moved and we babe the
famous humorist bon voyage and
jumped from the platform, thinking
how nice it would have been If WE
could have said to Mr.. Perkins in
referring to Democracy: "We goI
there, Eli"
May Mr.. Perkins pass this way
again in '96 and see the change.