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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-14
HUMOROUS.

--Guest-"You haven't got mahog-
any board about six by four. have
you?' Hotel Clerk = what do you
want 1t for?, Guest-sT want to have
It put on top the mattress in my room"
Yes, said the business man to the
clergyman, 1--WE lost good deal Of
time in my life" by frittering IL
away. l suppose?' mo, by being
punctual to my appointments "-Bos-
ton Courier.
-"If you have anything to say.why
don't you say it, and be done with it?r
II never cast my pearls before swine"
well, don't know ~ l can blame
you; it would be an insult to the
swine. "-Boston Transcript.
Doctor - Countess, I should be
glad II you would let mo hear you
cough Countess-''I don't feel dis
posed to do it just now. Go her maid
Eliza, please cough as did this
morning. Motto per Ridere.
Miss Gushington-''D Do ron not find
DR.. Smalltalk entertaining? He il such
. mimic" Mr.. Sneerington (who de-
tests the doctor)-.sI have often mo-
ticed that the doctor takes people on
cleyerly."-Town and Country Journal.
These yachtsmen don't seem very
different from other people, she said,
as she laid down the picture paper.
That's true. excepting Is to one
fact" "What is that?s None Of
them wear yachting caps Washing
Ton Star.
"A strong-minded woman who sup
ports her husband remarked recently
that she wouldn't have the condition
reversed. You've no idea, :" she said,
''how sweet and affectionate q man II
when he Is dependent upon you for his
spending money. '-Arkansaw Thomas
Cat.
"A young lawyer talked four hours
to jury, who felt like lynching him.
His opponent, grizzled old profess
sional, arose. looked swcetly at the
Judge, and said: "Your honor, ! will
follow the example Of my young
friend who has just finished, and SUBJ
nit the case without argument Then
he sat down. and the silence was large
and oppressive Tit Bits.
Hard to Please. - Discouraged Lover
--"Its going to be . bard winter and
I'm afraid your father will object TO
my coming mp every EVENING"" oh.
no, dear; forgot to tell you- There's
: new electric light right across the
street, and 1t makes tho parlor ~ light
Is day" Discouraged Lover--''That
has its disadvantages. too Detroit
Free Press
Cause for Thanks. The indignant
father ragged and stormed over tho din
ner table. Little Mabel he'd cried out
that she didn't like the meat why,
ron ought to give thanks" cried the
outraged pster. when WAS boy
Il delighted In the crusts and never
used sugar" The little one thoughts
moment. How thankful ron must BE-
that you ere now living with mamma
md me-" she lisptd Philadelphi6
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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-14
LIKE A HORSE.
How = FIy's Trottinx Sounds In . Micro.
phone.

AAOW - = ~ AIOtthUK 6OQuOY III y mICkO>
phone.
The improvements which w. II. Soul
by has lately added to the microphone,
or sound magnifier," makes it one of
the most marvellous mechanical con.
trivances of the age. The special con-
struction of this instrument is of NO
particular interest to anyone except
experts, but what is told of its wonder
full powers as magnifier Of sounds
will entertain the young and old. as
we'll as the scientific and unscientific
After the instrument had been com.
pleted, with the exception of few an
ishing touches, Soulby found 1t abso-
lutely necessary to keep the door Of
his workshop tightly closed SO as to ad-
NIT no sounds from the outside, other
wise the inarticulate rumblings given
off by the ''eiector" would have be-
come unbearable. Even with closed
doors the cap had to be kept constant
ly in place on the receiver to keep the
instrument from sending forth roar.
which previous investigation had
proved to be a combination of sounds
produced by watch beats, breathing,
the hum of flies, etc.
A fly walking across the receiver OF
the instrument made q sound equal TO
a horse crossing bridge. and when
Mr.. Soulby laid his arm across the box
the blood rushing in his veins gave
forth q sound which much resembled
that made by the pump of large
steam engine. The playing of a piano
in house across the street was, when
elected from Soulby's machine, like
the roar OF an avalanche, and the
washing of dishes in the kitchen of a
house across the alley made q sound
which the inventor of the machine says
was "a burden to his soul" When
anyone entered the room, walked
about. coughed. touched the table or
door handles, the shrek which issued
from the ejector was most painful to
hear.
Hundreds Of uses have been sug.
gested for the microphope, the most
practical being those of blood ciYcula-
ton and lung tests. Louis Re-
public.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Tasso's mother was peculiar.
Is believed by some writer's that the
madness with which he was amicted
was inherited.
--Alphonso v. OF Aragon and Naples
was entitled The Ma9nanimous, be
cause on more than one occasion he
released prisoners taken IN war, In
stead Of putting them to death or hold
ing them for ransom.
George Francis Train. 'the sage Of
Madison square" Rev York. is said to
be undergoing remarkable change
His snowy white hair is turning black
again. The change was first noticed
by one Of his youthful playmatss about
. month ago.
-.Sadi Carnot's monument by Roul-
lean has been unveiled ut Nolay. where
Lazare Carnot was born. From the
description it must look rather absurd.
The figure of France Is receiving In
he. arms The mortally-wounded presi-
dent in modern dress, with look OF
resignation on his face.
DE BrEzza's bride. who Is to accom-
papy him to Africa, Is almost an Amer
lean. Her father, the late Marquis de
Chambrun. was for years resident OF
Washington as q legal adviser OF the
French legation. and his daughter,
who was brought up there, has hosts
OF friends at the American capital
--Fifty-four members of the new
British house of commons-about one
in twelve-have written books. Most
of them are on subjects on social and
political economy, and next In number
are those on history and philosophy.
The marquis OF Lorne figures "a tho
author of . Guide to Windsor Castle,
though he has written poems and 1T
least one romance.
Sims Reeves, the famous English
tenor, has married . second wife.
Reeves is now seventy-three years of
age, and his wife is nearly Afty years
his junior. Reeves began his career as
q baratone. but he made his reputa-
ton later as tenor. He sang in pub.
lie long after he lost his voice, but his
reputation has been sufficiently elas-
tic to keep him before the English
public
--Zola has just won . lawsuit about
''Lourdes" against Gil Bias The news
paper had agreed to pay him ten thou-
sand dollars for the story for It's feuil-
Teton, but refused to keep the agree-
ment. on the ground that tho novelist
had at the same time allowed the story
to appear in foreign papers, and that
It had been published in book form
month before It could be completed in
its columns. As there was nothing IN
the contract to prevent this, lola got
his money.
st. just, the rev olutionist's hithcr-
TO spotless personal character, has been
attacked by victorien Sardou, who
says that he has the record of the
picpus prison showing that the ter
rorist, three years before the outbreak
Of the revolution, had spent six months
| In Jail. He had beaten his mother.
who refused him money, broken into
her cabinet, from which he stole silver
and jewelry, and was arrested in dis
orderly house where he was spending
proceeds During the reign Of terror
he revenged himself by having his
prosecutor guiifotined.
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"A yoke 2

One exceedingly warm day neigh
Dor met an old man and remarked that
il was very hot.
YES" said Joe; '1f it wasn't tor one
thing should say we were going to
have thaw."
what is that?" inquired the friend.
There's nothing froze, /" said joe
Tid-Bita
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-14

Shirt waists of wooden materials will
be in existence this winter as much as
those of wash goods were in summer.
Plaids are much liked for misses and
young women; changeable effects are
eagerly sought for in all kinds of
goods. For instance, red and blue
changeable waist may be worn with q
red or blue skirt. varying the stock
collar to match the skirt One of
rhangeable green and gold may be
worn with . black Or green skirt
IYumaHkiHd
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Anal Had No Resurns.

'Odd about that killing Of Smelly,
wasn't it?''
Il hadn't heard"
Eyes; took out q hve-thousand-dol.
lar policy only last week and yesterday
was shot and killed"
"Well. some fellows were born lucky
1--we been paying premiums for TWEEN
ty-fve yearsr'-Chicago Record.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-14
PARIS READY FOR a SIEGE.

Preserved Food Now In Storage Sufnclent
TO Feed the Population for Many Moutha.
Taking into account the remarkable
advances that science has made in the
way of preserving and COMPRISING
food so that it can be stored in an In
fnitely small space in proportion to its
nutriment. it is not likely that any be-
sieged city In the future will undergo
the horrors of starvation. Paris has
learned substantial lesson from the
experience she had in 1870 and 1871,
when the German invaders completely
surrounded the city and prevented
any food Whatsoever from going in.
II, in fact, an attack should como at
moments notice, the Parisians
would now find themselves well sup
piled and with everything In their
warehouses necessary to support lie
for an indefinite time. The war de-
pertinent has made the accumulation
of an enormous stock of provisions its
especial hobby. Not only meat. -four,
biscuits, preserved vegetables and
solid soups are stored away In the gov.
eminent magazines, but also milk,
'.Pasteurized," and petroleum, wood,
chemicals and coal. Even the horses
have been kept in mind. for there are
packed away great stocks OF COM
pressed fodder and grass preserved by
the silo system.
That all these supplies can be kept
on hand in the comparatively small
space the war department has for the
storing of provisions is not SO remark
able when it Is remembered that forty
thousand rations of preserved vege-
tables can be stored In space measur-
ing forty inches each way. Milk, the
scarcity of which was q great canse Of
distress during the siege of Paris, is
now well provided for. DR. Autefage's
method Of "Pasteurizing" milk, which
the government has adopted. will pre-
serve this important necessity of life
for almost any length-ef time, render
ing 1t pure and sweet after months and
even years.
BY new chemical methods ice can be
dispensed with in the storage rooms.
and by the use of ammonia machines
1t can be readily made for household
and garrison use. This is extremely
important as regards preserving meat.
One special feature of the policy of the
war department is that it has all its
arrangements perfected toward immc-
diately collecting. in the case Of inn
pending danger. hundreds Of thousands
Of fowls. In few hours, almost, the
city could be substantially provisioncd
for nearly . year in this regard. Be
sides this, thousands Of pounds Of pre-
served meats are kept continually on
handy. Y. World.
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HER EYES.

From her eyes the 'prisoned sunSeams,
Shining bright.
Send their message to the dark soul.
Through tbs night.
Till the encirclins gloom is pierced,
And there is light
but within the deep recesses
OF those eyes.
Beyond the sunbcams' realm,
A shadow lies
To loving ones sad
Yet sweet surprise
Fer sympathy is deepest
Where tho pain
Has passed from soul to soul,
And back again:
1he Comfort like the sunlight
Sfter rain
AS undcrlies the sweetest song
The saddest strain.
&C Lewerenz, In DETROIT Free PrcsA
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An Interesting Expsrimsnt.

Jackson-They talk Of putting some
of the messenger boys on bicycles.
Jenkins-Is that SO? Then we W Ill
End out inst how slowly . bicycle can
go without falling down--Puck.
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The manufacture Of bicycles has In
the last few years engaged an enor.
mous smount Of capital. Thu y . CON,
2aratlrely new business
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lyon have = bad cold. he said. ~
have. she replied, huskily. II I'm 70
hosrsa that II you attempted 70 kiss me
I sopldn't ereu soreemn
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Tho engagement is broken Them
Her face was drawn and pale.
A river Of pathos surged in eddyine
whirlpools about her fsltering tones.
Blankly she gazed At the sullcn sky,
but. true to its condition, the sky re-
manned sullen and answered not
The young man shifted uneasily,
standing first on foot then on the
other.
"Yes,s he falteFed, crushing his ha:
into . shapeless mass under the IN.
tense pressure Of the moment.
very WE'LL" she said 1T length, sup.
pressing . groan.
..Tell your mother not to disap'
point me next week, Claudius.
With . weary sigh She returned 70
the kitchen and proceeded to do the
weeks washing elQpe md upsided. :
n y World
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-24

need no fertilizer. but if very poor use
some fertilizer of some kind-rotten
wood or leaves are the best if they can
be had.
There is quite an art in treating the
bushes after they are in bearing to
make them yield to the best advantage.
In the picking season, or Immediately
after, go through the patch and cut off
the top CT every new growth to about
four feet from the ground; they will
then send out branches to bear fruit the
following year. BlackberrieS are differ
ent from almost all other kinds of small
fruit. in that the first year the stock
grows and the next year it bears its
fruit and then dies. About the first of
January is the right time to prune out
the dead stocks. which can best be
done with long single-handed clippers.
BlackberrieS should be irrigated every
two weeks during the season, and while
ripeninS twice every week. There are
numerous varieties of blackberries, all
of which are more or less prolific. but
experience teaches that the Kittytana
variety will produce the best results.
1t is a large and very productive berry
and seems TO be just suited to this eli
mate. A small patch of this variety,
scarcely one-third of an acre, originally
five-hundred roots brought the owner in
the neat little sum of $40. There are
other varieties which commend them
selves. however. The early Crandall is
a very prolific bearer and just the thing
for the early market, but 1t is not so
good for canning purposes. as there is
too much acid in it, requiring too much
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-24

man crouching in doorway, but
thought nothing of it, as there was
downpour of rain. He had taken but
few steps when he heard two pistol
shots just behind him, and felt that he
had been wounded. It happened that
he was walking with his right arm be-
hind his back, a habit of his. His as
sailant fired from so short a distance
that the burning powder set Mr.. Pink
erton's coat on fire and he must have
been killed but that both balls were re-
ceived in the protecting arm. Wounded
as he was he captured his enemy and
held him with his left hand until
assistance came. The assailant was
sent to prison. He had planned the de-
tective's death because the latter had
been instrumental in sending his ia
Their and brother to the penitentiary
for counterfeiting.
Once at Rockford, Ill, a criminal
named Blinn, whom he was taking to
the Jail, suddenly struck him on the
head with a pair of iron knuckles,
knocked him down and started to es
cape. Mr.. Pinkerton, although dazed
by the blow, recovered himself and
hurried in pursuit, firing as he ran.
Blinn turned upon him and fired at
close range, the bullet Whizzing by the
detectives head. Then Pinkerton, TAX
ing a more deadly aiIl-he was fine
shot with the revolver-fired again and
Blinn fell dead.
In 1868 the Reno and Anderson gangs
of train robbers were captured. Allan
Pinkerton was returning one day by
boat from Windsor, Can, to Detroit,
when just as the boat was coming into
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-24
THE BERRY PATCH.
varieties to PLANT, and How to plant

Varieties to Plant, and How to Plant
Having determined to grow at least
one-quarter acre of berries, having
good papers with a supply Of horticul-
tural reading. having selected the best
well-drained land available, and de-
cided to use only the best plants, let
us now make a drawing or plat OF the
new garden. The boys and girls may
do this work. Take a piece of heavy
paper or a clean, smooth board and
draw ten straight main lines, one inch
apart and twenty-five inches long, 10
represent ten rows of fruN plants
seven feet apart. ow draw cross lines.
plat, making fifty lines. The intersec-
ton of each cross line, With main
lines, represent the exact point of set
ting plants. This gives fifty plants to
the row, plants three and one-half feet
apart in the row, and rows It's feet
long.
Set strawberry plants just half this
distance, each way-twenty-one
inches apart in the row, and rows
three and one-half feet apart.
Now make selection Of varieties, the
number OF each variety. and the row
they are to occupy. Write the name
of berry and number of plants on tho
line selected. From. long experience
and general cultivation the following
varieties are recommended as doing
well in most localities.
First rows Briton blackberries,
% Snyder blackberries.
Second rows Nemeha black rasp-
berries. So Ohio black raspberries.
Third rows Palmer black rasp-
berries. % Shaffer Colossal.
Fourth rows Cuthbert red rasp-
berries, 25 Marlboro red raspberries.
Fifth rows Victoria red currants.
25 red Dutch currants.
Sixth rows White grape currants,
% gooseberries. Downing and Hough-
ton.
Seventh row-1OO warfeld strawber-
ries.
Seven and half row-1oO Michels
early strawberries.
Eighth row-1OO Haverland straw
berries.
Eight and a half row-1Oo Bedes
Wood Strawberries.
Ninth row-100 Crescent Strawberries
Nine and a half row-1O0 VanDeman
strawberries.
Tenth rows grapes. Moores Early,
Worden, Concord, Brighton and Del
aware.
as varieties to be selected, may be
varied to suit different soils, localities,
methods of cultivation, or fancy of the
grower. Make your order for plants
at once. and from responsible growers
only. Plants to be sent and set out as
early in the spring as ground can bs
we'll prepared. AS soon as the ground
is free from frost, prepare IL thorough
ly. Stake off the rows and set plants
by line following the plan exactly. You
will then have plants true to name,
and on your plat a complete record for
future reference. Learn name and 10
ca ton of each variety. form of leaf,
habit of growth, tint of bud. flavor of
fruit time of ripening. etc. Mark well
the varieties that do best for you, and
in future settings you may have with
out cost, best plants and best fruit
from your own garden.
NJ. A. THAYER
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were involved. but an unworthy fellow
detective named Sam Felker, who
had been bought over by them.
Pinkerton's Skill in the Capture of
Express and Bank Robbers.
1t was in the capture of express
thieves and bank robbers that Pinker-
ton achieved his most remarkable sue
cesses. Beginning with the Maroney
robbery in 1858, where after months or
persistent shadowing, he recovered
nearly $4,000 for the Adams Express
company, he conducted the work in
scores of similar cases and was usually
successful. He captured the notorious
Carbonate bank robbers, recovering
$50 900. Then came the great robbery
of the Adams Express company on
the New York & New Haven railroad,
January 6, 1866. when gang OF six
thieves burst open the safe ana Sc
cured nearly $4,000 Allan Pinkerton
secured the conviction of the guilty
men and got back all but very small
portion of the money. The following
year he succeeded in breaking up the
formidable Reno and Anderson gang,
who had for years been the terror OF
the west, plundering trains, robblng
stores and blowing open safes with ap-
parent impunity. So greatly was pub
desperadoes that after their arrest
they were taken from the Jail in New
Albany, Ind, by hundred masked
men and hanged.
Perhaps the greatest feat of Allan
Pinkerton's career, certainly the one
that will live longest in history, was
his safely conducting Abraham Lin
coin through Baltimore to Washington
when the president was to be inaugur-
ated in 1861. 1t had been discovered
that there was a plot to assassinate
Lincoln as he passed through Balti-
more, and Allan Pinkerton was
charged with the duty of guarding
him safely from his enemies.
Rarely Wore n Disguise.
Although in his time Allan Pinker
ton was regarded as one of the most
szillful Shadows" he rarely resorted
to DISCUSSES. In one instance, though,
he went to the length of shaving off
his heavy black beard. This was when
he was investigating a series Of hotel
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years took much pleasure and spent
much of his spare time in literary
work. In all he produced seventeen
books of his thrilling experiences as
detective, the first one being the story
of his pursuit and capture of the eX-
press robber, Nathan Maroney. This
case had attained almost national i'm
portance and the book had such a
tremendous sale that he was encourag-
ed and urged to write the others. Al
though he did not go to the theatre
very frequently, he enjoyed seeing
play now and then, but did not care
much for tragedy or heavy pieces,
what pleased him most being scream
ing farces, which he enjoyed as keenly
as anyone of the gods in the gallery
he was also passionately fond OF
music and of flowers
PinkertOn II Thrifty Man.
In everything Mr.. Pinkerton had rare
foresight A few years before he died
he had his large farm containing 800
acres planted with perhaps 100000 larch
trees whence the name 'Larch farm"
What in the world do you want to
plant all those trees for major?" asked
superintendent Robertson one day.
'I am looking ahead, my boy" he
answered. 1.-The trees won't do me
any good, but in fifteen or twenty
years they Will be worth 81 or %
apiece for railroad ties"
Anyone who visits Larch farm today
and who knows the value Of timber
will see that the detectives canny
Scotch mind had thus contrived sure,
though slow way to fortune. In his
lifetime, although very free with his
money, never refusing applicants,
whether worthy or unworthy, and CIV
ing to all public charities, vet he
managed to lay by a goodly store and
died worth about $350,00O
So robust was his health that he
never wore an overcoat even in the
most severe weather, declaring that it
hampered his movements and was I'M
necessary. The only overcoat he ever
owned was, to his great amusement,
almost Immediately stolen from him.
81 am glad of it," he said. What
does a man like me want with an over
coat?"
At the age of so his splendid consti-
tuition was shattered by stroke of
paralysis, which kept him an invalid
for a year and left its effects through
the rest of his life. After that a slight
limp. betrayed his infirnity, his body
settling more heavily on his right leg
than on the left as he walked. Never