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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

GETTING THE GROUND IN hEADiNIS0'
submitting cheerfully to their crampeo
quarters. but never losing sight OF the
plan to build themselves home as
soou as there was money enough 70
pay off the hateful mortgage.
BY the third year their clothing nov
too abundant when they came, began
to need replenishing in every direction.
Some things had to be bought LOT
Harry and John, now thirteen and ten
years old, and growing, as their mother
used to say, Sin genuine western fash-
ION But the family were careful IN
their OUTLAWS, and this summers crop
would give them at least the satlsfac-
t;on of an unencumbered homestead.
AS early in the spring as possible ne
act to work to get the ground in readi.
NESS and pu5 in the seed. lie had
learned by this time how to do things
ON a large scale. He as well as ms
neighbors had an unusual amount o.
,round planted in corn; for 1t had
been too dry in the early spring for oats,
So TINT the ground intended for that
cror was taken for corn. Day after day
thew had gone back and forth through
the long field until hundred acres
were planted.
Hardly was the work finished when
n Gentle rain fell; and though 1t lasted
hut an hour it furnished the requisite
moisture at the right time. In re"
DAVIS the long rows could De traced y,
a faint line of green which grew darker
and broader almost while one wa
looking upon it. Soon the nice wori
81 the farmer began to appear. Which
erer way one looked, forward or acros
or diagonally, as far as the eye coui'
see the lines were as straight as
nm nv a surveyor. He had done Ia
part well. .ur
Soon people began to say: onies
we have more rain there won't be hal
a crop" But again there was shgn
shower, and again they were nopeiu
still all longed for a copious downpoul
Things were becoming somewna
dry. and pastures as we'll as crops WEI
BEGINNING to suffer, when there wa
noticed. one morning, soft soul
wind which Mr.. Carter had been
customed in Ohio to regard as q SUI
indication of rain. They were iairl
iubilant at the prospect. one go,
rain would insure the crop. Graduai
and steadily the wind increased p,'
in velocity and Temperatures; IL W.
somethipg new. No rain! And stiil
blew stronger and hotter and witho'
cassation. Everything was being arg
un. hut still Il blew strorg and steaS
and straight from the south. II mn
surely stop when the sur goes aoW
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria
h.. announced that on the occasion OF
the fiftieth anniversary OF his accession
TO the throne in 1898 he will present to
the city of Vienna the Prater, the Ia
mous park of Vienna, and the Angar-
ten, a royal park in densely-populated
mart of the city, to which the public
was first admitted by the Emperor Jo-
seph II. Both Prater and Angarten
are to be preserved forever as public
recreation grounds for the people Of
Vienna,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

There is an active principle in the
human soul that will ever be exerting
its facilities to tn utmost stretch In
whatever employment, by the accidents
of time and place, the general plan OF
education, or the custom and manners
of the age and country it may happen
10 find itself engaged. Blackstone.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30
THE HOT WIND.
DY FLORA X. REGAL

lis was Mr.. Car
ter's third year
in n c b r aska
II Q h ad g o t
tire d of h i $
small farm in
Ohio. with its
9 low returns;
and when there
C a IN t to him
what he regard
ed as a good
opportunity to
sell it, he lost
no time in clos
ing the bar
gain. He in
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30
Fatal Obstacle.

Gilgal-Young Rondo will never
make famous poet
Mullins-Why not?
Gilgal-He has no middle initiai IN
his name to spell out-Judge.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

-"If l were pretty" she sighed.
"You can easily become SO, y said her
best friend. Howl" Disappear
mysteriously. Inever read OF girl who
disappeared mysteriously who was not
pretty."-Chicago Post
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

-"why don't you marry that girl?
She is q real pearl" "Ah. yes, but
don't like the mother ps psarl"-Ells'
gende BlstteE
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

-"Yes.. said Mrs. Hunpimune, II
learned to cook without q difficulty At
ali. There was only one trouble about
;tn ..What was that?" Educating
NV husbands appetite. Washington
Star.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

The future does not come from be-
fore to meet as. but comea streama
inr up from behind over our headA-
naheL
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

An Albert medal has been awarded
to Mr.. Hereward Hewison, Of New
castle. New South Wales. fer saving
his brother from q shark last year.
The brother was seized by the arm
while swimming, whom Mr.. Hewison
swan to him and fought the shark till
it bit OF the arm at the elbow, releas'
ing its prisoner; he then swan ashore,
pushing his brother before him.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

Vice Is contagious, ind there IS No
trusting the sound and the sick 70
rether,- Seneca
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30
IF YOU DON'T BREAK DOWN.

IOo 6StN ohANN
Oh, toilers in lifes vineyard
In the country, In the town:
Keep courage. You will get there
IL you
Downi
The futurc's sun is giving
All the hills silver crown.
Stand steady! You will get there,
Hyou
Downi
There's merry song Of rcapers
Which no stormy winds can drownt
Have faith! You'll ind the harvest
II you
Down.
Let the pillows beat the vessel
Let the skies in anger frown!
You'll anchor safe in haroos
Ifyou
Frank L. Stanton. In Atlanta Constitution
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04
HONEST WOOD-SELLER.
Mr.. G.. W. Collins Takes the Cake for
Good Wood and Honest Measure.

When we see load OF wood we generally
10 seldom that we find the length up TO the re.
ouirement-eight feet. It seems 10 us that II
fSere ia one thing on the face OF the earth
where honest measure could be given 1t is In
the length of sticks Of old field pine. Unless
~ he an Inherent desire to cheat We have not
been able 10 account for wood being cut 81 feet
or I feet. or 7H feet, when 1t ought TO be cut
eight feet. Old field pines are about as
nlentifuI as clay, and we do not see why
Honest measure should not be given. II q
merchant were TO cut Off seven feet Of cloth
for two Yards he would likely be denounced
by these some short wood sellers az thief.
Rnt when Mr. G. w. Collins sells wood, ne
pives good wood aud large loads. He doesn't
cut it Seven feet when It ought TO be eight
feet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04

day and stopped over here till today. then on
10 the home of the named In Monterey.
Thursday, Thanksgiving day, was observed
here by the closing Of stores aud other places
OF business.
EPwoRTH LEAGUE AND CHARITY.
That night at y o'clock Rev. f. w. Mason
In the Methodist church preached an appro-
pirate Thanksgiving sermon, at the close OF
which at the request Of the good ladies In
tercsted in the Epworth Orphanage, q collec-
tion was taken for 1t, which amounted to
81 50 which was quite creditable considering
the small crowd In attendance. The ladies
had already prepared box of needed articles
for the some worthy object, estimated value
of which was $1,000.
Mr.. E. R. Horton has built q telephone line
from his store to Messrs Allen & Cooley's
store near the depot and messages are now
passing TO and fro.
The Baptists have built a Baptistery ad-
joining, and in rear Of their church in this
place, which is quite an improvement
The law upon lynching as established by
the couvent2n ia pretty good life insurance
in that the representatives of those who are
hereafter lynched will be entitled to $1,000.
That class of our citizens who most frequent
ly get free ticket across "the river by the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04
ROARING ROCKY RIVER.
Troupe's Talk of the Incidents in
About the Seven Killed city.

LOWndesV1ITe, DEC. z, 1876.
Mr., Beatty Sherrard OF Motiatsville, Ander-
son County, was here Monday.
Monday night during thunder storm q
bolt Of lightning struck the telegraph wire
near the depot, run along the wire into the
depot. burning a considerable hole in the
wall, then to some papers, which were burn
There being no one In the depot at the time,
II It had been burned, that would have been
another fire. with which "old Ann Incendi.
ary" would have been blamed.
Mr.. w. l.. Kennedy MIR. c. T. Baker and
Mrs. J. B. Franks went TO Atlanta Tuesday.
Messrs ]. A Hawthorn and Irwin Cleck-
ley went to Anderson c. H. Wednesday.
Miss Lena Booker OF Barnes came Friday
and was the guest OF Miss Lucia Moseley till
today.
Mr.. J. G. Thomas was called to Anderson
G. 81. Friday.
Miss Mamie Baskin and Miss May John
son came down from Anderson q. H. Satur-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04
SHOES AND PRETTY FEET.
Almost Any Woman Can Shew the
Chickens, But It Takes Charlie
Hammond to Shoe the Human
Family. ...s..

There is not more energetic man In town
than G. P. Hammond, and no man will
claim to be more public spirited. He has
and by good judgment and the employment
OF SIX killed labor be makes the best shoe that
ever kept foot warm, or made that part Of
the human anatomy q thing Of beauty !:
dom for horse, and there are many men,
and women, Too. In this day and time, who
would give kingdom for a pretty. foot.
This fact accounts for the great rush to get
Hammond's shoes. They give almost any
foot pretty shape. No woman is half dress
ed, II she wears shabby shoe. The prettiest
thing In shoes this year is pretty foot.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04

morning, and the streets were with but few
exceptions, deserted which was In direct con-
trast with the day before when they were
crowded with horses, wagons and people,
stores were also closed at Deans. Starr and
Barnes, but the planters along the way, were
rs busy az usual blowing, picking and GIN.
time to assist DR.. j. 3 Moseey and family in
making away with thanksgiving turkey
elc. Troupe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04

Judge Lynch route can be easily persuaded
or bribed, by those who will be their repre-.
sentives in case OF "an accident" to do deeds,
which will bring about the usual results and
those left behind will get rid OF some that
they do not care for, and get paid for 1t too.
"AFrER CHRISTMAS
In the last Press and Banner Is the follow
ing Lookout for two or three weddings after
Christmas" We are looking for good
many. There are quite a number of young
people In and around here. of both sexes, who
will marry "after Christmas" II they ever do,
as they are too young to marry before.
TIA KsGIvING.
Mr.. Ellis Huckabee and this writer took a
trip by the dirt road to Anderson c. H. Wed.
nesday. We found some cotton and corn still
to be gathered. Although the road had been
we'll work ed, yet when we reached six miles
Of that place. we discovered a very marked
improvement In the road. attributable 70 its
having been worked by road machine.
The road la in splendid fix. We spent a part
OF day and night at the very pleasant
home of Mr.. W. B. Magruder. We are al:
ways glad to be there. as we feel free, easy and
at home, the stores were closed the next
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04

You can get 8 bars OF soap each weighing
l Id at Aug w. Smiths for Is cents.
II never fails what don't why Harrison
Games Ruby Lintmeni try bottle only 25c
Bruce's restaurant keeps a fail line Of fine
ciears and cigarettes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04
Wood for Sale.

HAVE lot of WOOD, PINE and OAK
i for sale at 81 so q cord. or 75c q load OF q
half cord. Orders left at the store6 of W. Joel
Smith d Sons, or given to my driver Sam Ad-
ans, Will be filed promptly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04

Go to Smith & Sons for the best and genuine
buckwheat -four ; q lot OF 1t just In.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
Mr.. James n. T.awson's Most Beaud.
fal Stock Of Christmas Goods.

Some are ornamental. Some are usefuf.
And some are ornamental and useful, too.
60 70 his establishmenta and feast your eyes
for loved ones. In case your heart does not
go out to Others, Just buy something pretty to,
ornament your own quarters. No man ever,
opened prettier goods than Mr.. Lawson; and.
no man is more liberal In q trade. Call now
before the stock is picked over, and before the.
rush takes place. 1t will pay you to be IN
time. His goods are so pretty that the stock
Is sure TO be broken. 80 III ..is7'' 3
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04

Pure fresh mountain buckwheat for sale by
W. Joel Smith & Sons. o..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-04
Neil Hours

Msil Hours.
Hours that the mails close at the Abbeville
Post Office:
lilo q. m. i2.l5 p. m. Ito p. N.
$50 p. m. 4.2 p. m. 3.4o pm.
Robert 8. Link, P. NJ.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.

Chemistry as. the handmaiden OF
agriculture has achieved wonderful
success. Fertilizing the fields has not
only become we'll understood bust.
ness, but is an exact science. There
are methods of recovering waste
products and utilizing heretofore use-
less matter. 1t is known what is re.
quired to produce the best potatoes
and other crops, each one having sup
ing supplied to it the chemical neces.
sites OF its existence. Land, sea and
the elements are taxed to furnish the
constituents necessary to the best
growth of vegetation. 1t would have
been surprise to our ancestors had
they been told that there are common
plants which derive very small por-
tion of their subsistence from the
soil, but are fed from the air and
water; therefore, to understand the
theories of drainage, rainfall, evapora-
tion and absorption are matters of the
utmost moment. To nothing does
agriculture owe such debt as to
science, for by its means the waste
places of the earth can be made pro-
ductive, and by the introduction of
new chemical elements malarial and
unwholesome soils are made fertile
and transformed into healthy and
agreeable dwelling places. New York
Ledger.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
A Princess's Costly Hobby.

The Duke OF York is an ardent
philatelist, the Duchess of Fife, is an
enthusiastic amateur photographer,
and the Princess Maud of Wales has q
passion for ivory. This somewhat
rare and costly hobby has been ridden
by her to such purpose that, accord
ing to the London correspondent of
the Manchester News, it would be no
misuse of words to speak of her COZ
lection as museum. The specimens
most priced are the full-sizod tusks of
elephants shot In India by her father
and by the Duke of Connaught. Not
long since the Emperor Of Russia sent
to his cousin some wild boar tusks,
taken from animals shot by himself.
The Princess has large number of
tusks and teeth of other animals, most
ly the gifts OF the hunters of her family
and of her large circle Of acquaint-
ances, and among these walruses ard
lions, sharks and seals, alligators and
swordfishes are amply represented -
Westminster Gazette.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
INEXPENSIVE PILLOWS.

If you live in locality where cat
tails grow abundantly. you may have
all the pillows you want at small ex-
pense. Gather cat,tails when ripe,
pick carefully to pieces and put in a
case of heavy muslin or ticking. This
makes a pillow as soft as down and
much more durable.
Paper torn into tiny pieces, as
small as can be pinched off with the
thumb and forefnger, makes a very
good pillow. This is excellent rainy
day work for the children and will
often keep them happy and amused
for quite long time. Newspaper
should not be used, as the odor of the
ink soon becomes dlsagreeable, but
any other clean white or MANILA pap
er will do nicely, the softer, of course,
the better. American Farmer.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
A Fake Broken Show Window.

The fake broken show window adj
vertisement is now popular along the
West Side avenues. BY the skillful
application of " number of strips OF
glass radiating from a common center,
where u bit of paper is pasted. the
pane is made to appear as if it had
been struck with stone and badly
cracked. This draws crowd, and
when the observer sees he or she has
been fooled they are even more inter.
ested than If the break had been n gen
nine one. New York Mail and EA
press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

inside. Don't. however, keep it 50
warm that it will fairly steam when
the doors are opened. For keeping
the air pure, box ventilators reaching
from near the floor to the roof, are
excellent. They can be made by
boarding up between the silo studs
down to within foot or two of the
floor. Choose some kind of fastener
that will keep the COWS clean. The
stanchion is most generally used and
will answer in most cases. Arrange
the floor four to five feet in length,
as there will be that much difference
in length between the smallest heifer
and the aged COW. Let the gutter be
sixteen inches wide and six inches
deep. If possible have the walk be.
hind the gutter wide enough to allow
a wagon or sled to be drawn over it.
Make the manger twenty-four inches
wide and the feeding floor six inches
above it. The ceiling should be 81 or
seven feet high.
Among the necessary implements
about COW stable is the broom. Get
two. one for sweeping the feed floor
and the other to clean the walk be-
hind the gutter. Keep the floor clean.
and occasionally 60 over the walls and
ceiling to remove dust and cobwebs.
Use plenty Of straw for bedding. If it
is cut, SO much. the better, as it Is
then superior rs all absorbent. Be
sure the gutter is water tight, and use
road dust. sifted coal ashes, sawdust
or land plaster to absorb the liquid
the straw docs not take up. Plaster
is also first-class for keeping down bad
odors. Sprinkle few pounds in the
bedding before each milking and note
the effect. 1t will also enhance the
value of the manure.
Have regular hours for feeding and
milking and rigidly adhere to them.
Plan your work SO the COWS can be
left to their dreams part of the time.
Be kind to them; do nothing that will
excite them, for it will always result
in q loss of milk. Salt every day, or
better still, have salt where they can
have constant access to it. Our cat.
tie are out of the barn short time
each day. Thoy go about sixty rods
and get water from spring and l
have seer no i'll effects from it. How
ever, they are not out long-not over
thirty to forty minutes on stormy
days. Yearling and dry cows are Civ
en- more exercise. OF course this
takes little more feed, but it pays.
Exercise the bull in tread power. -
American Agriculturist.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
FARM AND aAPDEN NOTES.

All grain should be cut before be-
coming dead dry.
Blue and purple flowers are pre-
ferred by bees and buttel flies.
The most profitable way to market
your corn is by feeding it to stock.
Honey is wholesome, strengthening,
cleansing, healing and nourishing.
In long-cultivated soils potash is
the element most likely to become ex-
hausted.
One good Italian queen bee will lay
100, 900 eggs, producing three swarms
in one season.
The freshly cut green bone from the
butcher is very different article
from the ground bone.
AS rule, the more acid the fruit
the better for drying. Only perfect
fruit should be selected.
Nearly five pounds moro of tho
corn in bushel is saved by feeding
meal than by feeding whole corn.
The good layers are active and gen.
orally on the move, the first birds out
in the morning and the last to roost at
night.
Italians are the best for beginners,
but the most successful business bee
is cross between black and an
Italian.
A tsaspoonful of honey stirred into
raw egg is an excellent corrective
for cough and should be continued
for several mornings.
1t has been proven that sunshine
will kill disease germs as quickly as
anything. It will also destroy foul
brood germs in couple of days.
All seeds intended for planting to
which any portion OF the flesh is cling
ing should be washed. Afterwards
spread out in the sun and dry quickly.
Don't forget that teaspoonful of lin
seed meal in the feed of dozen hens
once day while moulting. In fact.
it will help fill the egg basket any
time.
The temperature of the store-room
for honey should be about that of the
living room-seventy degrees. A
higher temperature would do no harm,
but is inconvenient an expensive.
While it is true that queen bee
can and does feed herself when occa-
sion requires, during the busy time of
egg laying she is always fed by the
workers with food SO prepared that
she has even very little digesting to
do.
Potatoes and apples are SO low in
price that they are this year allowed to
rot in the hills and in the orchards.
This is all wrong. They will bring
better price before spring. A num-
ber of cold storage warehouses can
well be filled with such fruit at profit
at present prices.
There is no such thing as alternate
fruit bearing seasons for trees. The
reason they do not bear in successive
years is chiefly from the fact that
they have been allowed to overbear
the previous year. There is us much
reason for thinning out the apples and
pears. if needed, as for hoeing out
surplus corn or potatoes.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
RH!a!!! q! Rskassz RRskiaRs
ARSOLUTELY PURE /
New Method OF Increasing the Flesh

NCW IuCvuVsA VI AhSA O0cAAS sho AOons
1t is now declared that while cleo
tricity is known to be cure for vari.
ous ailments, it is also possible by
slight faradic current applied morning
and evening to the face, neck and
shoulders, to increase the flesh and
greatly improve the complexion, the
application of the current for this
purpose being, it is asserted, natural,
and based on the simplest laws of
electrical and physiological effect, a
small pocket battery meeting all the
requirements. The modification of
the muscular tissue produced by this
means is said to be, primarily, the re-
suit OF the influence of the current
upon the nerves, the muscles being
controlled by the nerves, both in their
movement and in their nourishment,
the healthfulness of the skin following
On improved condition of the blood,
and the increased flow of the latter in
volving augmented nourishment, and
capacity to eliminate deleterious ma
terial.- New York Tribune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
SOME DoN'Ts.

Don't expect to buy $25 pig for
S15.
Don't keep we'll bred but poorly fed
pigs.
Don't write letter when you are
angry.
Don't ship good pig that is in poor
condition.
Don't say any thing against your
neighbours herd.
Don't try to sell q customer pig
that he doesn't want.
Don't fail to say so if you are
pleased with your purchase.
Don't sell n pig for breeding that is
not good specimen.
Don't try to keep more hogs than
you can give the best of care.
Don't expect pig to show up we'll
after long ride in crate.
Don't blame q man if he don't agree
with your judgment in selecting the
best pig. Farm, Field and Fireside