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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01
THE COMBINE.

The sugar Republicans at their
meeting held in New Orleans on
Monday have endorsed the ticket
named by the Populists at their
meeting held at Alexandria. There
is no doubt but that the regular Re.
publicans will endorse this ticket,
and that the Democratic party OF
our State will have the combination
to fight.
"Thus it is" says the Picayune,
''that the sugar Republicans, after
nominating Mr.. Pugh, and the Pop
TTullsts, after putting up Mr.. Booth,
to head their respective tickets,
have pulled down both, and agreed
on a mongrel ticket, made ont OF
material from both, and by this
means the Populists virtually be-
came sugar Republicans, or the
sugarites became Populists, and in
either case the one or the other sect
abandons its entire position and
principles.
But, really, it does not make any
difference how the matter is settled,
although it would be difficult to find
anything more ridiculous than the
men who are fighting for a bounty
forming a coalition with the Popu-
lists of North Louisiana, who are
bitterly opposed to all bounties.
Then there are the men who have
heretofore most actively and osten-
tatiously stood for white supremacy
now as actively fighting against it,
all of which shows what strange
sorts of people become bed-fellows
in politics, thereby establishing the
truth of an ancient proverb.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01
Cotton Prospects.

As the times goes by the evidence
that the cotton crop of 1856 is a
very short one becomes more and
more plain. Up to the present time
the receipts are just about half what
they were at the corresponding sea,
son of last year, and marked up,
ward tendency is the natural result.
That this tendency viii continue and
increase as the disparity becomes
greater is logical conclusion, and
may carry cotton to much higher
point than it has attained for many
years past. Many influences have
operated TO depress the market, as
the persistent efforts of manufacture
ers and spectators to misrepresent
the production and the universal un-
certainty and commercial confusion
consequent upon the threatening OF
wars and complications with foreign
powers, especially England, which
is our chief cotton market. This
condition of doubt and insecurity is
fast giving place to a more settled
feeling, aud when it becomes as
sured that the peace of the world is
in no danger of immediate rupture
and the certainty of an inadequate
supply of the staple is recognized,
the price must necessarily advance
to very remunerative figures. Much
of the cotton produced during the
past year has already been marketed
and sold, the good prices which it
commanded at the opening of the
season having proved too strong a
temptation to be resisted. There
are bright hopes ahead, however,
for such planters as have been
enabled or chosen to hold their cot
ton, and it is probable that, should
the warning of the Convention be at
tended to, the opening of the fall
season of 1895 may see cotton COM
handing from to 10 cents. Should
the crop Of 1895 be excessively large,
of course this will not be the case.
The choice between cotton at and
10 cents seems to be with the plan
tiers themselves. As past experience
has demonstrated, it is In their
power to control the market instead
of being controlled by it, and surely
such an appeal to the common sense
of a body of intelligent men will not
go unheeded. -Greenville Times.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01
Gathering of the Bnzzards.



Whenever there is State election
approaching in Louisiana the old
time carpet. bag, scalawag and mig
ger buzzards hover in our skies and
gather on our back fences, in our
alleys and misty old halls. They
come from Washington, from South
America, from New York and
dozens of other localities to which
their starvation through Democrat
ic rule has driven them. II is said
that the buzzard has no sense of
smell but that be has an eye keener
than that of an eagle, and can see
carton or the dead or dying beast
from an immense distance. 1t is
well that he has no sense of smell
that is a wise provision of a be-
nevolent Creator. If the buzzard
could smell he would no longer be a
scavenger, and his use in the econo-
my of nature would be null. The
carpet-bag, scalawag buzzard, ON
the contrary, has both a keen eye
and a we'll developed sense of smell,
and when his eagle eye discovers
the coming of political campaign
in Louisiana his olfactories are
quickened and delighted by the
odor of the niger, and hence he
comes in his flight from every
section of the country in the dim
hopes of renewal of the feast of
plumber and rascalIty he fiourished
on from 1868 to 1878. The buzz
yards are here now in all their
force, and are quite jubilant. they
realize that they have never in many
years before had so fine an oppor-
tunity to gorge themselves as they
have now. No doubt they are re-
joicing over the prospects of negroes
IN the State House, In the country
court-houses and in the Offices of
bonds and taxes. Even a company
of eagles that erstwhile were their
most relentless enemies have put
their archaeological handkerchiefs
to their noses and are actually flock,
ing with them.
| But alas for the buzzards, their
day is ended, and ended for ever.
The white winged spirit of Democ-
racy and White Supremacy is In
vincible and though the old time
carpet-bag buzzard and old time
scalawag cormorant be joined by
the new time bounty grabber, the
whole flock must ''git up and git. /"
The white Democracy of Louisiana
is gong to rule the State, and Meth
er bnzzard, nor oermorant nor boun-
ty grabber can prevail against it.
States.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

Money had the longest poll anf
got the persimmon, and will succeed
Senator George in the U. S. Senate
from Mississippi.
The latest reports say that tht
Insergent leader Gomez, is dying o.
consumption, and has only a few
more months to live.
At Pittsburg there is loaded and
waiting shipment South on the frs
rise of the river between 100000
100000 bushels of.coal.
The silver men at their conference
in Washington last week, SAID thai
gold was responsible for all the coun.
try's ills and the free coinage Of
silver the only remedy!
Only per cent. of the population
of Venezuela are white. The other
81 per cent. are Mulattos, Negroes,
Indians and Zambos-the offspring
of Indians and Negroes.
The air line distance between
Chicago and New York is 700 miles
by rail it is 96l miles. From Buffa-
Ia to New York it is 295 miles in an
air line and by rail 422 miles.
The Danube flows through coun-
tries in which fifty-two languages
ard dialects are spoken. 1t is 2 ,00O
miles in length and bears on its cur
rent four-fifths of the commerce OF
eastern Europe.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01
Four Thousand Dollars Per Page.


The highest rate for space in any
publication of the country is at the
rate of $4,000 for the small four-column
page (ifteen inches by ten in size,) Of
the Ladies Home Journal in Philadel-
phia; this is at the rate of 6 2-3 dol
lars per inch for single issue.
People advertise because it pays
The shrewdest and most successful
business men advertise the most, and
as a rule confine themselves to news
papers and magazines. The more
they pay the more they prosper, and
the more they prosper the more they
pay the printer, and so the business
grows even more rapidly than the cir
culalion. II is hard for those who
have not been educated in the business
to comprehend how profitable judi
cious, persistent and liberal advertis-
ing is; how any firm can afford TO pay
$4,000 for small page in monthly
magazine year; how the merchants
of New York can afford to pay $25-,
600 for the use of the Herald's adver-
Using columns 8 single day how those
in Manchester Can get back even the
comparatively small amounts they pay
for having Tue public informed as TO
what they have to sell but they ali do
it aud make big profits IN doing ii.
In this, as we have already suggest
ed, is the secret of the cheapness OF
newspapers, which, all things consid-
cred, are cheaper than any other
article that people bny with money =
Manchester, N. f., Mirror.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

The Pittsburg (Ohio) Post says
lit is fact that certain vocations
in the North, which in the years be-
fore the war and emancipation, were
filed almost exclusively by colored
people are now monopolized or rapid
ly becoming so by the whites. The
colored workmen are being. driven
out. We do not see how this is to be
helped. 1t lis unjust. but preaching
its wrong will rot cure it. The
lesson of it all is that the colored
people should stay at the South,
where their chances of getting along
are better than at the North. OF all
things they should be persuaded not
to come North to take the places OF
white men engaged in a strike OF
q lockout, for as soon as they have
defeated the strike they are sure to
be turned adrift. White men will
not work with them, and employers
do not find them as serviceable OF
profitable workmen as the whites. =
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01
Address to Tia Cotton Growers.
ITO the Cotton Growers of America:

Ito the Cotton Growers of America:
The Cotton GrSwers' Protective
Association of America, IN conyen-
ton assembled a; Memphis, Tenn,
on the 2 LIST day Or January, 1896.
again come to you with an urgent
appeal for cooperative action in
planting the crop for 1896 1t is a
matter of extreme congratulation
that the appeal made to you last year
was so generally responded to and
that the crop of 1885 made upon the
diminished acreage has had the
effect of greatly increasing the price
and bringing prosperity to the coun-
try. The crop of 1925, though esti-
mated to he 3,400, 00d bales short of
the crop of 1894, I'm the mark
cts of the world worth more by
nearly $50, ooo, 900. In the face of
this result, to abandon the idea of
diminished acreage would be to
sound the retreat in the face of
victory. 1t .is the concensus of
opinion among the best thinkers
that if by any means the cotton crop
of America could be held within ten
years, the people of these Southern
States would be the richest aud most
prosperous agricultural people in
the world. How can this be
brought about? The answer Is with
you.
eve appeal to your self-interest
and to your patriotism to do all in
your power to keep down the pro-
duction of the staple. DO not
abandon the ground you have won.
So fight on upon the lines laid down;
make the cotton States self-support-
ing; put more land in clover and
grasses for your hogs to run on;
diversity your crops, and when you
have done all this the area devoted
to cotton will yield more profitable
returns than if you sought to in
crease the number of bales.
s'It is felt by the most thoughtful
men that we are entering upon a
year of great uncertainties, and that
even a small cotton crop may fail to
give adequate returns for its produc-
ton. The mutterings of a storm
are disturbing the country and IN
settling all business calculations.
The prudent man will trim his sails
to meet it. With the commerce of
the country interrupted by war
and it may come cotton would
be unstable except at nominal
prices. Every consideration then,
OF patriotism, of self-interest and of
prudence dictates that you adhere
strictly to the rule of diminished
acreage. Earnest men are earnestly
working to lead you and to guide
you into prosperity. Do not let
them labor in VAIN, but cheerfully
and hopefully respond to their APP.
peal"
Signed by Hector d. Lane, Ala.
bama; w. II. Stovall, Mississippi;
William A. Brongbton, Georgia; J
w. Corcoran, Arkansas;''F. L. Max.
well. Louisiana; W. W. Stone, Mis-
sissippi; j. M. Cattleman, Texas;
I. F. T. Ellison, Tennessee;
Charles Scott, Mississippi.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

At last combine has been made
between the Pops and Republicans.
Booth has been pulled down and j.
N. Pharr of st. Mary placed at the
head OF the ticket, and the following
named persons composed the rest Of
ticket: Lieutenant Governor, j. B.
Kleinpeter, of East Baton Rouge
Secretary of State, j. w. McFar.
land, OF Claiborne; Auditor, H. P.
Kernochan, of Plaquemine Treasurer
John Pickett, of Bossier; Attorney
General, L. F. Suthen, OF Terre.
bonnie; Superintendent of Public
Education, S. A. M. Cook, OF St.
Landry.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01
Secretary Hester's weekly New

Secretary Hester's weekly New
Orleans Cotton Exchange statement,
issued before the close OF business
on Saturday last shows falling off
in the movement into sight, compared
with the seven days ending this date
last year, in round figures, of 1871 900
bales, with the same days year be-
fore last OF $4,000, and an increase
over the same days in 1898 of II, eco.
For the twenty-four days of January
the total shows a loss from last year
Of 200, 900, from the year before last
LAG, 900. and an increase over 1898
Of 80, 900. For the LAG days of the
season that have elapsed the aegre-
gate is behind the l4s days of last
year 2,S53,0oo, OF the same days
year before last $50, 900, and is
ahead Of the same time ia 1898 by
1Se, 900. The total movement for
the LAG days from Sept. to date is
SAT- 500, against 7.77o,591 last
year, s ,098, o87 the year before last
and ) ,2s5 ,028 in 1898.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

eaking Of the latest move on the
pa 4 the Populist party, the New
Oriss Republican says that cit
oh.y pains now for the sugar Re-
pu'n and the regular Republic
cans Net sensibly, indorse the
NC, and we will have the last of
Fosterlsm after April next" When
this happens, you'll be wearing a
linen buster in the month of JAM
uary. You ought to know it now as
well as later on--that there is only
one party that can win in Louisiana
and that is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

The war department, at the re-
quest of Senators Blanchard and
Gallery, has detailed Lieuteuan,
LATTE for duty in this State as In
speetor of the State National Guards.
His headquarters will be in New Or
leans, but it will be his duty toyisit
the different cornpsnics over the
State and instruct them in the man
ual Of arms.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01
Court Terms.

EAST CARRoLL--
The jury terms oftile fih District Court
are 6xed for tie frsi Mondays in January
and June.
The civil terms are fixed for the second
Mondays in March and October.
MADISON
Jury terms 10 begin on 4th Mondays IN
January and june Civil terms 10 begin Oh
lsE Mondays in April and November
TENSAS-
Jury terms to begin on 3rd Mondays in
FEBRUARY and July. Civil terms to begin on
4th Mondays in April and November.
By order of his Honor, +. F Montgomery.
Judge 7th District Court.
j. d. Tompkins, Clerk.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

The Evening Judge is making war
on the gamblers, and says there is
more gambling going on in Shreve-
port than in the big city of st. Louis,
and right under the nose of the
police.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

New Orleans amt very healthy
place to visit just about now. You
are liable to get slugged at any time
and on the thickly traversed streets
at that.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

The railroad company las row SIDE
tracked at this station something over
500 cars of grain that they haven't
room for IN their New Orleans eleva-
tors. Several hundred moro cars will
be stopped st this place within the
next few days. Brookhaven Miss
Citizen.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

The next Legislature will be called
upon to set aside the 18th day of
January, the anniversary of the birth
OF General Robt. E. Lee, as legal
holiday.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

The vicksburg Post says that the
vally road pay car thar arrived last
week added $50, 900 TO the local cir
culation.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

Miss Clara Barton has sailed for
Armenia, where she viii distribute
theIrelief fund collected in the United
States.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

In the State of Indiana the tax on
each msle dog is 500; female dog
$500; and each additional dog
$500.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

For Senator, 25th Senatorial District,
w. Nj. Murphy.
For Judge, eth Judicial District,
F. F. Montgomery,
For District Attorney It'll Judicial
District,
w. S. Holmes.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

Arnrdsd Medal 81 WorIds Erposition
For Syseem Or Bcok-keepinF aisa General
BUaAn0on Ed0OnttoU, 0e6. Cost TO complete
Businsss Course about $50 including tuition, books
and board fnenSqrsPny. TyPeEfitlne and
100 In banks and 100 officials. No yacattoD.
EN1E1 NOW. Kentucky University diploma
awarded our graduates. te95- AssSstancs gissn onr
graduates N occurring situations.
- IN order hat pour letters may reach sSs College
WILSON 4. sMiTH. LGxiNoToM, Nv.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

job work neatly executed al this !
Office.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-01

tuo HiOu iOl IcicdSiHS uliu anu u uCiiy
ing Christ, and Simon of Cyrene bears
the burden of that cross under which
the Son of Man did faint
On reaching tIolgotha, the three
crosses are laid upon the earth, the
victims are nailed upon them, and with
a heavy thud. the crosses are sunk into
their sockets. The Syrian sunlight,
glasing, bright and hot at midday,
streams down upon the figures, and
parches the flesh of those being cruel
fed.
Among the vast cruel multitude al
men and women gathered upon Cal
vary. is one woman more cruel than
the cruelest man. tits Judith Iscariot,
maiden beautiful, with the rich,
gorgeous beauty Of the East; dark.
brilliant eyes, auburn hair and flushed
cheeks. There is thrown about her, a
fame coloured mantle. She hears the
Nazarene, and taunts and insults
His sufferiBgs. She hates Him, for il
is He that has made her brother
Judas forsake the religion Of his fash
ers. and wander, with . few ROACH
fishermen all thronga the coasts Of
Gallilee and Judea, preaching the
fanaticai doctrine of love to man and
love to God. She hates the Nazarene
Tor having made Judas lore him oetteF
than his Kindred. The scene Of the
crpcifxion continues for honrs. Dark
ness comes over the face Of the earth
and many men believe III Christ's
divinity.
Melciior IS an Egyptian sage, ard is
one Of the three wise men who. at the
birth OF Christ, saw the star in the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-06-05

do, Unc' Torm2"
"Des so so" He laid the rabbit on
the single step beside her feet and con-
tinued facetiously:
Spec dat rabbit knowed wha' l
wuz gwine, an DIES git right en- de way
ter come erlong too" The woman
laughed again. She stole look at Tom
as she sat up with both hands over her
head engaged upon a final knot
"How 'e know"
Tom raised his eyebrows and scratch
ed his ear
HE knowed 1 warn gwine home, "
he said slowly, and meeting the comic
look on his face with one of intellig, nee
she threw her head back and gave cx
preston to her mood again. She did not
thank him for the gift, but took it up as
she rose and turned it over. rabbit
fat, she said and laid it on the water
bucket shelf just inside. "How yer
lef' Aunt Tempy?"
"She putty we'll" said Tom careless
ly. He was studying the toe of his foot
visible through a rift in his well Worn
brogan. Again the laugh of a woman,
this time from the inside of the house,
reached him.
"Tempy gwine ter be heah en- dis
worl' Wen you an me done gone, " she
called out. Tom passed his hand over
his face and looked as if the idea was
not pleasant one. Better bring yo'
cher enside, " added the woman after a
few moments, and he complied. Then
she began to busy herself strengthening
things in the simple room, and as she
worked the conversation went on.
"Unc' Josh Sims gwine ter preach
Tomorrow, " she said. "He come erlong
heah DIES now an he low dat he wuz
gwine ter turn all de niggers over bout
heah, count er dey debblement. "
"Dey es er needin hit, said Tom.
''Ef 1 had er seen inn I'd er got squar'
wild some, sho's you born.
"Oom-hool An l reck'n some seen
i'm TO now an ten ter dat head er
you. Maybe some done got squar' wild
ole man Torn" She was passing him
as she spoke and gave him sharp slap
ON the jaw.
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hands III well a1ected establishment.
'Man, night ketch yer TO yer git half
way DER! No, sab; yer come erlong wild
me- Tempy'll be proud ter see Bre'r
Sims, an. 'spect by now dat possum
W at wuz er-coolin while back done got
DONE. Tom laughed and slapped his
companion ON the back. The Rev.
Joshua Sims was large, heavy man,
with round, full jaw and well fed
look. 1t really mattered little to him
where he spent the night and the pos
sum decided the point. He suffered
himself to be led off. Tom, having got
himself well under way, continued
gayly;
81 knowed dat possum up ter sump'n
Las night de rooster call me ter run
der quick. Bre'r Postum was squattin
en- de henhous' DIES like e been sont fur
an come, an heah tits" Tom wagged
his head sagaciously. "Oompl Eff
c'u'd des jump Bre'r Rabbit now, 'spyct
he'd hep brc 'llfus nightly" And he
began to peer aroun dwith great show
of eagerness
Didn't yer shoot erwhile back? Heah
somebody over yonner bout Sis ebay
ney's."
Tom shook his head. aspect dat wuz
one dem Gillus boys. Dey all time bang
in way over DER. When Tom shoot,
sump'n gwine hang bout lis clo'es. ="
He lifted the gun quickly and sighted
it toward a clump of bushes, then took
it down.
dat MULLEN leaf down DER fool me.
Look mighty like er molly coffin" But
Brother Sims plodded along behind the
loquacious little man-his mind on 9TH
er things again.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-06-05
MISCELLANY.


Peace.
The golden age of peace has come on earthl
Lo, in the blood stained fields the lilies bloom,
And softly on the alien soldiers tomb
Is laid the wreath that owns his manly worth.
No more, thank Cod the cannon thunder4
forth
Or saber flashes in the smoke and gloom.
Peace, peacel For snowy mantled Peace
make room,
And Love, that in the heart of God had birth.
Henceforth let children on the bastions play
And wild flowers blossom in the cannon 4
throat;
Let every banner over brothers float;
Let bitter memories be washed away.
Rise, Star of Love, on every land today
And bugles, blow the sweet evangel motel
Youths COMPANION.
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Nausea,
# Sea=SiCkness.

Both due to an unnatural con-
dition of the vital organs, caused
by unwonted surroundings or
excuses, either an unnecessary
generation of the gastric juices
or partial suspension of the
natural functions of the life
generating parts, in other words
a state of mal-nutrition with its
ever accompanying unpleasant
sensations. For such a sickness
get nourishment, take