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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-18

Fresh, sweet butter. lbs for 25c.
Fresh eggs. doz for 25c.
Sample shoes retailed at wholesale
prices. Red Front Racket, Main anG
First streets d1O4-5r
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-18
Hack Line

Take the Ferguson stage from Perry
10 Pawnee. Meets all trains. 14S If
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-18

] stands for Johnny.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-18

Prices 81. so, s1.OO, 75c. SOC and CSC
according to location. Sale will open
on Friday at 8 o'clock.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-18
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.

Teachers Treasures and Clerks Rec.
o1ds, Warrant aad Classis-
cation Records.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

Laundry Registers
Loan Registers,
Remittance Records,
Notary Records,
Poll Books.
line OF Blanks and
City. Jzstice Of the
OEcers.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

The Richmond Dispatch well says:
1--WE earnestly advocate the
gold standard, but see no
reason for alarm or praise. or ruin if
silver is remonetized. The CONNER
cial world will soon adopt itself to any
curreDcy that may be declared legal
by the government. That's the way
to talk. mo reason for alarm p
What is the matter with Mexico?
Nothing-nothing at all, Ny boy has
lived there for nearly two years and
says it is a good country and pros
perous people, and improvements and
new industries continue to come and
English money continues to pour into
that country building railroads and
factories and buying coffee plantations
and silver mines. The American pop
ulation is increasing every day and
now q Chicago firm is building an
American hotel that is to cost half q
million dollars. And yet Mexico has
silver standard. Gold may be the
best standard for us when We get use
to it, but it is au awful ordeal we are
going through in getting broke in.
It is like the fellow who experimental
with his horse to train him to do with
out food. He gave him q few grains
less every day until the horse died.
believe that if we can live through
the trial we can get along on gold,
but had rather place silver back where
it was and quit the Sherman exper-
iment. But [ am not paying much at
tention to money now, nor is it paying
much attention to me. l am comfort
ing myself now By studying arithmetic
and perusing history. One of the
Rome boys who grew up with mine
and made mud pies and worked the
dog in harness, has long since got to
be man and took his degrees. at An
napolis. Mathematics is his specially
and he has just published an arithme-
tic that has been for six years his labor
of love. / am no critic of modern
textbooks, but I like this little book
of Ernest Vests and believe I could
master it if / was boy. l worked
hard on sum lest night which was
something like: s'If rabbit runs six
miles and finds hollow tree and stops
there half an hour and hound dog is
after him and takes two leaps while
the rabbit takes three, and three of
the dogs lesps are equal to five of the
rabbits, and the dog gets to the tree
fifteen minutes late and finds the rab-
bit gone, when will the dog catch the
ua1l>,k and PC
The history that now so deeply in
terests me is the life and times of Will
liam l.. Yancey, an admirable book
written by J. w. DuBose. A grand
man has been portrayed by a thorough
ly competent author and the book is
literary and historical treasure
BILL ARP in Atlanta Constitution.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
This Wolf Died OF JOY.

NJ. de Candolle, the great naturalist,
celebrated as lecturer on "The Ma.
tional History of Geneva" tells re-
markable story of a pet wolf which
seemed to have had greater affection
for its mistress than most children
hale for their parents. The lady had
owned the wolf from the time when it
was cub SO small that it could be
carried in the pocket of an overcoat,
and by the time it was three years old
it was more greatly attached to her
than spaniel would have been. Once
she had occasion to leave home for
several weeks. From the first night
the wolf evinced the greatest distress,
and for almost week absolutely re-
fused to taste food of any kind, aud
during the whole of the time she was
absent the creature remained cross
and detected. On her return, as soon
as the animal heard her footsteps he
bounded into the room in an ecstasy
of delight. Springing up he placed
one paw on each of her shoulders, and
then, looking into her face, as if to
assure himself that it was really his
beloved mistress, he fell back and in
stantly expired. Louis Republic.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
KEEP THE cULTIvAToR GOING.

Far too many farmers consider that
one or at most two CIVILIZATIONS are all
that are needed in the corn, potato and
other fields. No greater mistake could
be made. One misses half the value Of
the crop by ceasing cultivation soon aft
er the plants begin to grow. The culti-
vator should be kept running between
the rows every few days until the
plants get too high TO admit the horse
and culrivator going through the rows
safely;j but of course as the plants in
crease in size, and the roots begin to
stretch out across the space between
the rows, cultivation must grow shall
lower and shallower, SO as not to
disturb root growth. 1t Is the surface
Of the ground that needs stirring, for
this destroys weeds, lets in the sun
light and warmth, and greatly helps a
crop to withstand lack of moisture.
This manner Of saving crop from the
injurious effects of drouth is not suffi-
GENTLY appreciated by farmers. One
can take crop through a severe
drouth with less than half the loss he
would otherwise incur,by this constant
stirring of the surface soil.-New Eng
land Homestead.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
A Human Chameleon.

81 have a friend who might be
termed q human chameleon" said H.
L. Richardson, OF Manchester, N. H.,
ct the Cochran. "While not so pro.
nounced as in the case of the chame-
leon, she nevertheless takes on the
color Of the thing next to her. It is
caused by disease, of course, but the
physicians have never been able to de-
termine the nature of the complaint.
The color of her eyes remains brown,
and her hair black, but her face and
hands change to suit the color OF her
clothes. She does not dare wear rib.
bons nor any of the shades of blue,
red, green or yellow. In pure white
her face is CHASTITY, and the color Of
her hair and eyes makes it even more
so than it would be if they were
lighter. Black renders her SO dark
brunette that there might be strong
suspicion that she was not of the eau
casian race. She, therefore, wears
none but subdued grays and browns,
which render her less noticeable. The
affection, for it is q great affection,
came upon her gradually, and is stead
lily growing more pronounced. -
Washington Star.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
ROSE BUGS.

BY their numbers and their indiffer-
cnce to ordinary measures, the rose
bugs seem to inquire stolidly, What
will you do about It'll" What indeed!
The gardener looks dubious and consults
his encyclopaedia. He finds that rose
bugs have been known In this country
for the last fifty years; the eggs are
laid in the ground, and the worms
larvae retire during the winter below
the reach of frost, coming up to the
surface in the spring to undergo their
transformation The beetle on emery
ing with wings makes its way to the
nearest rose bush, where, in the COM
pany of its kind, 1t is soon Graded In
the opening roses, repeating the canker
of last year.
Clearly, il we would take the defen-
sive-offensive now is the time, and we
must be quick about it. In order to
secure the survival of what is fittest
In our estimation, 1t is necessary to lend
a hand promptly. This is not case for
poisons. SO, while the bushes are
hoary with morning dew, and the bee
ties wings heavy with dsmpness, go
through the rose garden, here shaking
OFF bug or two into ready pan, there
cutting away half-eaten bud or flower
crowded with the beetles; then, with
the aid of shavings, the gathered
nyriads are speedily consigned to
fiery holocaust. Not d very agreeable
process, to say the least, but extreme
measures are sometimes necessary IL
we would enjoy the beauty and frag-
rance of the summer roses, and one
seasons patience and thoroughness at
the proper time Gas soon as possible
after the beetles make their appear
ance, and before the eggs are laid for
next seasons beetles), will probably
keep the flower garden free from the
pests for several years to come.-Homs
Queen
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
Arrick Of the Trade.

Ata recent fair in Paris, one Of the
stall holders, who, despite the good
weather and. the multitude of passers-
by. had done very little business, had
recourse to an original method of clear
ing out his stock. While delivering his
usual speech on the excellence of his
dfty-centime articles, a gentleman, in
state Of the greatest excitement,
pushed his way through the crowd, and
exclaimed:
~There you are, you rascal No won
der you can sell these things at ten sous
when you still owe me a franc and a
half apiece for them. But the matter
shall be looked into. / am going
straight to fetch the police"
The excited gentleman disappeared.
Our salesman trembled in his shoes and
entreated the bystaniers to relieve him
of his wares. This they were ready
enough TO do, believing that they We're
about TO get all sorts of nice bargains
at a third of their real value. And the
trick was done. for the pretended
wholesale merchant was merely an ac-
complete Of the cheap jack. "-Le
Temps.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
The Length oil Lille.

A we'll known English physician and
student of hygiene, Sir Benjamin
Ward Richardson, announces that the
threescore years and ten generally
supposed to be the term of human life
is forty years short of the time aver
age people "who take care OF them
selves" ought to live.
Sir Benjamin, who is himself over
seventy, and in excellent health, ex-
plains how this age may be reached.
He would deny to his superannuated,
not to say superfuous veteran, both
alcohol and tobacco; the flowing bowl
in both kinds would be forbidden him.
AS some people eat to live, so he
would neither drink nor smoke with
the same object.
Great temperance In the eating of
meat is also necessary. Regular exer-
else must be taken at all ages. Sir
Benjamin himself rides bicycle.
His rules are not very sensational
or exacting, but he points out that
very few at present attempt to follow
them. If they did, he is sure that
seven out of ten persons would live to
be ITO. Apparently, they prefer eat
ing, smoking and drinking during g
shorter life. New York Journal.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
THE sor A SUICIDE.

Tho Right Rev. Monsignor Thorpe, OF
Cleveland. during sermon on tho great evil
0f modern days, said man who will
squander his money in destroying his health.
who will ruin his constitution. who will burn
his liver and corrode his stom ich by insoxl-
en- ing drinks, is murderer; he murders
himself. Those to whom my words would
apply are, perhaps. in this precious time OF
Sunday, hanging about some saloon, wasting
their time AMI desscraiiDg the Lords day
while wife and family are at home, cod ana
cherries aud hungry, because the money OF
the fathers earnings is being spent fordrnk.
Wat spectacle for little children growing
up 10 see drunken father. There is no
Struggle to meet him st the door WITH a kiss
Of innocent childhood. 10 ciifnb hfs knee aud
raress him as he sits down by his humble
iira@ide There is no supper. no food, and
ali becanse Of tho unthiEking, marching
fathers desire for drink. Tue responsibility
OF man to man is exaciing, at the resnonsi
6ility OF parents to children ~ a thousand
times more exaeiIng. Put temptation rom
you; say that you will not desfa'e oarself
70 rs 10 destroy the soul that Cod tas given
you, AMI which one day You viii have to
render ia account f91
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
UTTERLY usFrs.ss.

At temperance mass meeting in ST. Paul
tie Rev. John Gmciner called attention 10
tho utter use!es5ness OF the liquor traffic.
Liquor was hot nourishing. God could no
more be blamci with creating alcohol than
with creating carton, for alcohol was the
product of corruption. Nor. again, was al
cohol a medicine. Within the last twenty
five years some OF tho worlds greatest ply
sicians have declared that there WAS no dis
ease, no surgical case, that could not be
treated better without alcohol. Doctor Davis,
known to all his profession, had declared,
after long observation. that alcohol afforded
but temporary relief at the most, and that
persons who recovered under its administra-
ton wouli have recovered sooner under
other Treatment.
The saloon had been called 1.-THE poor mau's
club" Sc il would always be. Its constant
patron would indeed remain poor mao.
Intemperance was especially the curse of
the laborer Yet Terence Powderly OF ME
Usiled States. and John Burns, OF Englan,.
mad said 10 the workingmen. Unless you
give up drink, there is no hope for you.
When you had given up drink, the labor
question is solved" Liquor was not a food,
not medicine, not permanent source OF
pleasure.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

The State Department, Washington,
las received consular report on the
new rolling steamboat designed by
the French marine engineer Bazin,
which is attracting the attention OF
prominent experts In the shipbuiIding
line. By this marked innovation in
marine architecture speed of about
sixty miles an hour is promised,
which closely approximates that made
by the fastest express trains on the
Continent.
The trolling boat" as its name in.
dicates, will not slide, as is the case
with ships now IN existence, but will
roll on the water by means of huge
hollow wheels or rollers. The vessel
consists of large platform, holding
the boilers, machinery, saloons, cab
ms, etc., which is supported on each
side by movable hollow wheels. The
power is used partly to propel the
whole by means of screws or paddle
wheels, but principally to propel the
rollers. NJ. Bazin asserts that this de-
vice gets rid of water friction and re-
sistance, and with minimum of ex-
pense and power attains fifty-knot
speed. The results which he has OBJ
tanned with a model about four feet
long on the Lake of Vincennes have
encouraged him to undertake expert
ments on much larger scale. and he
now has under construction at the st.
Denis dockyard a rolling boat of $50
tons displacement, to be driven by
$50 horse power, which will be util-
lied by screw and three pairs of side
rollers, each about thirty-three feet
in diameter. This boat will make its
first trial trip in few weeks on the
Seine, thence across the Channel and
up the Thames to London. New
York Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
SOME DON'TS.

Don't fail to notice whether your
horse sweats as freely an he should do
or a hot day. A dry skin, dilated
nostrils, dragging gait and painting
breathing, often precede by several
days a bad attack of sunstroke, says
DR.. H. +. James in the St Louis Re-
public.
Don't get a measIy piece of Ice to APP
ply to your horses head, if he does go
down. Play the hose all over him until
he IL in a regular pool of water. Get a
few hundred pounds of ice, apply a
large piece to the pool, and make large
quantities of ice water with the rest.
Sponge freely with this over the body
AMI legs, ard inject as much as possible
once an hour.
Don't attempt to give any medicine
by the mouth until the animal has re-
gained consciousness. If you attempt
to force medicine down him while de-
windpipe into the lungs, and even if he
RECEIVERS from the sunstrOke, he will
probably die in q few days from me-
chanical bronchitis.
Do not give up 4 case too quickly. l
have seen horses make good recoveries
that have been on the ground fighting
and delirious for eight hours, and
drenched with ice water all this time.
Abstraction of heat is the main thing in
the treatment.
Don't let your horse eat grass for
more than ten minutes the first time of
the season, and then only when he is
n00I
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
How Railroads Originated.

The origin of railways, says Cas-
sells Saturday Journal, has been
traced to a continuance for simplify
ing the transit of coal from the Eng
lish mines to the places OF Shipment.
The invention consisted of a double
parallel line of wooden beams or
trans, fixed to the ground and fur.
nished with fanges to prevent the
wheels of the cars from slipping aside.
The motive power was furnished by
horses. The date at which these roads
were first used is set down as between
1902 and 1649. in 100 long slips Of
iron were placed on the wooden beams
in order to prevent the excessive wear
and tear.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
Rebuilding The TemnIe.

After period of some 1900 wears
the fourth grand fire temple is being
built in Bombay, India, from public
subscriptions. The sacred fire to be
perpetually burned in it must be a
composite of sixteen distinct kinds of
fire, which are to be amalgamated af.
ter many ceremonies of publication.
The first kind of FIRE is that obtained
from the burning corpse of high.
class Brahmin boy. The FIRE produced
by lightning is another kind of fire re-.
quired for the new fire templr. and
zoroastrians are on the lookout for it.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


s.Is the young man safer Not if his father
Is a moderate drinker.
Sorrow is supplied with life preserver
that makes the effort to drown 1t in rum i'm
possible.
The devil tries tc write the Lords name
on every barrel OF whisky he ships to the
heahen.
In Zurich. Switzerland, 279o Of the insane
patients were aggravated cases of alcoholic
Insanity.
One of the signs of the times that the devil
OF drink is about to be Gust ont is that 1t is
crying so hard to be let alone.
OF the nine thousand five hundred and
loriy-two in-pa.ieats OF London Temperance
Hospital, alcohol has been used in seventeen
cases only.
Michigan has passed law fixing heavy
penalty upon railroad companies for the EN-.
ployment OF persons addicted 10 tho use OF
intoxicants.
California liquor men organized under the
title of the State Protective Association are
aiming to bring ABOUT the abolition OF Tree
lunches in San Francisco saloons.
A San Francisco girl deems the suicide OF
q young man in her presence after he had
cen on weeks spree a case Of accidental
shooting because, she says, he was too much
OF Il gentleman deliberately TO DO so ugly an
act under such circumstances.
The Board OF Aldermen OF Barre, vt, ex-
tended clemency to a man who had been ar
rested for keeping dog without paying the
license fee, on condition that he abjured in
toxieants.
The G. e. A. q. OF America during the past
year gained by the organization OF 12) soc;e.
ties and the addition OF new membership OF
5761 10 the rolls ofthe National organization.
This. aided to the previous years records,
makes an addition in three years OF 312 So
cieties and Is. 1872 of a new membership.
Daring the past five years a number oil
careful tests have been made in English and
French mills and workshops, and in every
one the total abstainer has been shown to be
the superior in every material point. He en-
joys better heath, has greater powers OF en-
duranne and is more profitable to his en-
rloyer, to say nothing of his superior doines-
Tic and social qualities.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

There Il more Catarrh IN this section Of Il. q
country than all other diseases put together,
ana until the last few years was supposed TO / o
incurable. For great many years doctors
pronounced It @ local disease and prescribed
local remedies, end by constantly failing 10
cure with local treatment, pronounced 1t In
durable. Science has proven catarrh TO be n
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by 4. j. Cheney d Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the mar
ket. mistaken IN ternally 10 doses from 10 drops
TO teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous SURF aces OF the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case IL fails TO
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address h. }. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 55c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

The subsistence department, of the
United States Army, has received
from the War Department permission
to Issue a new cook book. 1t is in.
teresting to note that an appropria-
tion has been made for printing sew
eral thousands of these books for the
use OF the militia. Brigadier-General
Greedy is to have charge of distribut-
ing them TO the militia.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

1t takes over 5000, 600 month to
pay the police of Chicago. and it is
claimed that the wagon which carries
the money around has never been held
up. From the number of ''hold-ups"
in that city of late, the New Orleans
Picayune thinks there is reason to be-
lieve that the police may eventually
be minus their pay.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

Surgeon Colonel W. Taylor, princi-
pal medical officer of the southeastern
military district in Great Britain, de-
olared in q recent lecture that the
medical arrangements OF the japanese
army for saving life were perfect, no
expense being considered too great to
save soldiers life.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

The water supply of Philadelphia
is said to be the most impure of any
first-class city in the country. 1t il
now proposed to remedy the evil by
tapping" the Delaware river above
Trenton, the water to be conveyed in
steel tubes, capable of furnishing
175, 900, 900 gallons per day.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

There is class of peop.e, rational enough In
other respects, who are certainly monomani-
acs ia dosing themselves. They are constantly
trying experiments upon their stomachs, their
bowels, their Ilvers and their kidneys with
trashy nostrt1ms When these organs are
really ont OF order. if they would on'y use
Hos.ette stomach B.ttsrs, they would, II
not hopelessy insaGe, perceive ssuperiority.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

An anonymous donor has given
$500, 600 to the city of Edinburgh for
the purpose of building town hall
''Auld Reekie" has received 81, 900.-
900 in gifts during the past few years,
and the Scots are not backward in
publishing the fact to the world.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

Since the discovery Of photography
m immense amount Of silver, esti-
mated by some persons to exceed 3d.
600. 600 year. il used and lost in this
business.