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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1896-01-18

less than a year, but she seems to
have a natural genius for the game.
She has had little coaching in bill
lizards, and she has never been
known to get ratified. She does
not care for dolls or toys; her only
amusement lies in handling fif-
teen ounce billiard cue, and. with
the stick in her hand and a smooth
table, she is a..perfect onder.
A famous professional billiardist,
who saw the little mite play, said
of her: ''She is remarkable. l
think she can beat anything in the
way of woman billiard player. l
believe she is able to beat almost
any of our local pool champions.
Of course, she don't do any heavy
hard work, and doesn't understand
calculation, but she seems born
with an understanding of the
game, and has a rare ability for
making points" She is the queer
est little genius in all the world
and she doesn't know it.-Brook-
Ign Recorder.
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Sugar Cane as a Farm
Crop.

The Gulf States are all of them
we'll adapted to the production OF
sugar cane. While it is true that
in Louisiana the production of su-
gar cane has developed to its lar
gest proportions, there are tens OF
thousands of acres of good sugar
cane all along the line of the gulf,
reaching from Western Texas to
Eastern Florida. The diminution
of the profits of the cane planting
business, as carried on by the cid
school of planters, will unques-
tionably give an impetus to the
cultivation and selling of cane along
farming lines, just as cotton, rice,
tobacco, corn, oats and other crops
are now produced.
AS in the history of the sugar
industry thus far the manufacture
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A CHILD EXPERT.
She is Lacuta Shelenberger of
Hyde Park, Chicago.

In Hyde Park, which is at the
far end of Chicago, just as Ford
ham is at the far end of New York,
lives a Aaxenhaired girl who has
been on earth but seven short
Winters. Her name is long. 1t
is Lacuta Shelenberger, and she
can play billiards with skill that
makes old time wielders of the cue
marvel and grow envious. Lacuta
lives, of course, with her parents,
and she is so small that she can
scarcely look over a billiard table,
and billiard table is very low you
know. To see this mite stand on
a chair and send the ivory balls
clinking around the green baize
cloth is sight to dream about.
She can actually make run" OF
a larger number than she is able to
count.
Very frequently she goes into
some billiard-room in Chicago, &C
companied by her papa and a pet
dog called Spot, and she never he
states to play pool with a stranger
in which case she invariably makes
every ball on the table in one
game.
Lacuta has been playing pool
under her fathers instruction fol
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to the delinquent In the manner provided
by law. advertise for sale the property on
which the taxes are due In the manner
prescribed by law and on the day of
sale he shall sell Zach portion of the
property as the debtor shall point out.
and In case the debtor shall not point
out sufficient property, the collector shall
at once and without further delay sell
the least quantity of property which any
bidder will buy for the amount of the
taves. interest and costs.
The sale shall be without appraise-
ment. and the property sold shall he
redeemable at any time for the space of
one year. by paying the price given in
Guiding costs. and twenty per cent there
on.
No sale of property for taxes shall be
annulled for any informality In the pro-
Vced:nes until the price and all taxes
paid with 10 per cent interest be rendered
to the purchaser.
All deeds Of sale made or that may be
made by collectors of taxes shall be
received by courts in evidence as prima
facie valid sales
Sec. g. Be II further resolved. etc.
That Article two hundred and forty
two OF the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana be so amended as to read as
follows:
Article 242. The General Assembly
shall have power to enact general laws
authorizing the parochial or municipal
authorities of the State. under certain
circumstances. by vote of a majority
OF the taxpayers in number and in value
voting at the election, to levy special
taxes In aid of public improvements. or
railway enterprises undertaken by pri-
vate corporations: provided that such
tax shall not exceed the rate of five mills
per annum. nor extend for a longer per-
Tod than ten years. and provided further.
that the foregoing provisions shall
not apply to public buildings,
bridges and works of public Improvement
mentioned I'm Article 200. II being the in
tent and meaning of this proviso that
parishes and municipalities shall have the
right to tax themselves to any limit sub
ject to the restrictions of Article 209.
G. W. BOLTON,
Speaker of the House OF Representatives.
II. r. LOTT
President Pro Tempore OF the Senate.
A true copy:
T. s. ADAMS. Secretary Of State.
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There is more Catarrh i'm this section
of the country than all other dieases put
together, and until the past few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
local disease, and prescribed local re-
NEEDLES, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proven Ca
tarrh to be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufac-
tured by j. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to teaspOOnful. 1t act
directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. They offer one hun
dred dollars for any caae it fails to cure,
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address +. j. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, o.
tE Sold by Druggists. 75c.
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Attention Sugar Planters.

FOR SAIL AT A BARGAIN.
One steel tank on barge. capacity about
100 barrels, style Of tank same as used
on tank cars. Good for transferring
syrup and mOlasses to Central Sugar
Houses or Railroad Stations. Tank one
year old and i'm perfect condition. Was
used to transfer Cotton Seed Oil from
Mill to Railroad Station. Apply to Law
Ter & Chaery. No 226 CarOndelet Street,
New Orleans, La.
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Ais Grist To the Mill.
Failed to Put Up the Shades, but
She Sold the Story for IS.

Failed to Fut Up the Ohades, Dut
She Sold the Story for IS.
A half dozen newspaper women
were exchanging shop" expert
ences the other afternoon, and one
of them contributed this: about
once is SO often" she confded' II
get a notion that 1 can be thrift
ty housekeeper as we'll as a news
paper worker, and l give myself
up to the pleasurable novelty of
the experience. In housekeeping
of last autumn one room needed
new shades, and l undertook to
supply the need from a pair that
had been discarded from the par
lor floor. From luncheon till din
ner time / toiled over those
shades, cutting them down, and
then hanging them over and over
again, till at 5 o'clock, reduced to
a state of despair, l sent for a
man, who fixed them in five min
utes, and charged me IS cents"
81 hope you saw your foolish
ness" commented one of the lis
teners, "and put that afternoon S
performance down to profit and
loss account"
"Well, it wasn't exactly unpro-
fitable after ALL" returned the first
speaker, "for l wrote up the shade
story and sold it for $5.''-Phila-
delphia Press.
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The Pops are great pie-eaters
themselves and know a thing or
two about politics in general and
dickers in particularly. lafayette
Gazette.
Yes. taught 10y that postmaster
in trickery and dickering, the sain-
ted Murphy Foster, Proof: the La
fayette compact.
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~Subscription 81 year in advance.
SATURDAY JAN. Is, 1896.
Superstitions About Babies.
Yorkshire People Bind the Little
Ones Hand that it May
Become Rich.

The superstitions attaching to
newborn babies are numerous. A
Yorkshire { England) notion is
that the infant should be always
placed in the arms Of a maiden
before being touched by any one
else, and in some instance it's right
hand is bound in a cloth during
the first day of it's existence, in
order that it may gather riches
when grown to manhood or wo-
manhood.
In England, France, Germany
and many parts of this country it
is considered essential that an in
FAINT should 'go up" before it goes
down in the world. Thus, if a
child is born in the lower story of
a house it is instantly bundled up
and carried upstairs, if the event
occurs in the upper chamber, than
the woman in charge is supposed
to climb on a table, chair or other
article of furniture with the baby.
In the north of England, when
q child is taken from a house for
the first time, it is given an egg,
some salt and a small loaf of
bread, and, occasionally, piece
of money, these gifts being sup
posed to insure the child against
its ever standing in need of the
necessities of life. Yorkshire peo-
pie add matches to slight the
child to heaven" In the coutry,
az we'll as in many others, book,
a piece of money and bottle of
liquor are placed before the infant
the day it is one year old, the OBJ
ject being to ascertain its bent in
life.
The Manx people have a num-
Der of superstitions conc erning
babies. Hall Caine tells us no
one is allowed to step over it or
walk entirely around it, lest it be-
come dwarfed and wizened. Until
baptized all babies are supposed
to be quite at the mercy of the
fairies. The baby will remain
lucky through life if it first han
dies a spoon with its left hand,
but it will come to perfect estate
if it shall have repeated falls out
of its mothers arms, cradle or bed
before it reaches its first birthday.
One of the protest of the Manx
superstitions is the custom of re-
firing early on stormy nights, so
that the good fairies may enter
unobserved to find a place of shell
ter and repose.-Chicago Inter
Oooo,
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ers have, as a rule, grown their
own supplies of sugar cane, there
has not been any market for sugar
cane as farm crop, and this has
prevented its culture in the farm
ing way, excepting for its manu-
facture into syrup, as is done to
the extent of many thousands of
barrels annually throughout the
southern tier of States. One esta-
blishments in Chattanooga said
some years ago that within two or
three years ago they had sold TO-
600 little cane mills in the South
ern States, which were to be used
almost exclusively for converting
tropical cane into syrup for do
mestic use.
Whenever sufficient sugar cane
is produced there will now gradu-
ally arise the demand for better
work, resulting in central facto-
ries, large or small, in which the
neighborhood's sugar cane can be
converted into sugar and syrup
more cheaply and of better quail
ty than can be done by each indi-
vidual farmer in the way that the
work is now done. 1t would be
desirable for all agriculturists in
the Southern States to endeavor
to appropriate some portion of
their land to cane culture, if for
no other purpose than to produce,
as is now so largely done, a small
quantity of cane syrup for domes-
tic use. The familiarity with the
culture will quickly enable an ex-
pansion of it to such an extent as
to furnish supplies for central fac
tories, and the factories are bound
to come wherever they can secure
cane supply.
A very notable thing connected
with cane culture is the fact that
sugar cane grown upon sandy
lands, or in the pine flats, or in
any of the various kinds of soil
that are not considered very desi-
rable for its growth, is found to
be of very superior quality, having
an intrinsic value say from 10 to
80 per cent, greater than the bulk
of the grown in the alluvial lands
along the Mississippi river.
If cane be worth So per ton and
a farmer can produce fifteen tons
per acre on ten acres of land, he
would have therein a crop worth
$3.50 delivered at the adjacent fac
tory. Experiences have shown
that the central factories are be-
ginning to appreciate the impera-
tive necessity for an adequate
supply of sugar cane, and the pro-
ducers of small lots are almost
certain to find a quick market if
there be any sugar house what
ever within reach.-The Southern
Farmer
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CONSTITUTION
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
GENERAL LcSESsLY CT 1894.
STATE OF LOUISIANA.

STATE OF LOUISIANA
cFrrrv or Tue SrcrrT,Ry oF STATE I
IT pursua nee Of the provisions Of the
Constitution. publication is hereby made
and given IL the qualified electors of the
Ni9i. OUis,apa OF the D-oDosed
amendments to the Constitution, which
have been concurred in by two-thlrds Of
all the members elected to each House of
the General Assembly Of this State, at
the rogular session thereof. held at the
City Of Eaton Rouge, in the year 1894.
and which are required to he published
for the information OF the qualified cleo
tors of this State for three months pre-
ceding the general election for Repre-
sen;ativos. and which proposed amend
raenis wore fully appear I'm Joint Resolu-
tons 1872 TO 2n2, inclusive, of the Regular
Session Of 1884; which are hereinafter
officially published for the information of
tie qualified electors Of this State, and
which will be submitted to them for
their approval or rejection at the next
general election. to be held on Tuesday.
the 2lst Cay Of April. 1896. II being the
Tuesday rext following the third Mon
day of ra.d month. in such manner and
form that the qualified electors may vote
for or against said amendments; and IL a
majority of the qualirIed electors voting
at said election shall approve and ratify
said proposed amendments, then such
proposed amendments. SO approved and
ratified. shall become a part of the Con-
stitution of this State.
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JOINT RESOLUTION.

Proposing amendments to Articles 81. q.
40. l7s. 1a2. 25i. 21O and 242 Of the Consti-
tuition of the State of Louisiana and
also an amendment relative to suspen-
sion of officers.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-20
N Office to Mortgage
Creditors,
East Carroll Parish.

Sheriff and Tax Collectors Office. Parish OF
East Carroll. Lake Providence, La,
June 10. 1895.
In Conformity with the laws OF the State
of Louisiana and the parish OF East Carroll,
notice is hereby given to all parties hold
ing mortgages upon real estate in the 4th
Ward Drainage District OF the parish o.
tax for the year 1893 has not been paid, that
| will begin the sale OF same at the Court
House door. on Saturday, the 18th day Of
pieces of property SO delinquent are now
being advertised in this newspaper in con-
formity with the law, preparatory to such
sale. The attention OF the mortgage cred
itors is especially called to these advertise
ments of tax sales. aud they are warned tie
take such steps prior to the sale as may be
necessary to protect their rights.
j. w. DUNN,
Sheriff and ex-of1cio Tax Collector, East
Carroll parish. La.
Providence, La, june ID, 1885,
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thence north seventy-two and one quarter
degrees f1211, west seventy 100 feet,
Hence south seventeen and three quarter
degrees Tf79<.l west eight and sixty hum
dredths Is 6c-lOo] chains. thence north sew
enty-two and one quarter degrees l7214.l
west twenty-one and ninety hundredths
ri 90-1001 chains. thence south forty and
Sfteen hundredtns fa0 l5-l0O1 chains 10 the
point of-beglnning containing nlnety-iour
acresTa4 lmore or less. and described by boun-
darles as follows: bounded north by the
f20l twenty acres sold to Mrs. b. +. Brown.
and by the town of Providence. west by the
west Bagdad plantation, belonging to n. .;
Ingram. south by the place formerly ownec
by Henry Frellsen. now belonging TO the
estate OF M. s. Powell, and east By DAVIS
addition to the town OF Providence, and by
said town, all being in sec fourteen la
fifteen [l5.l sixteen [l6] and seventeen Y
township T211 twenty-one. north range lSJ
east together with all the buildings ma
chinery improvements and appurtenances
tbereunto belonging on in aDywlse apper-
tanning, selzed in the above suit.
Terms OF sale cash without the Denent OF
appraisement. ,,vN Sn.r;r
sherif's Office, Lake Providence, La,
June IL 1S96.-6t.
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lV0'I'lCEl


l will stand at Gaillard plantation my
Jack, BLACK HAWK. Price for the season
TEN DOLLARS. viii keep mares in good
pasture free OF charge at owners risk.
Black Hawk is the largest and finest Jack
ever brought 70 this parish. He is black
Jack with white points etc.. etc.
Black Hawk is black Jack with white
points, foalded Ia October 1892; his sire is
Grover Cleveland he by Mammoth 4th, he
by Mammoth Bird, first dam Hamiltons 2nd,
second dam by Hamiltons Mammoth, third
dam by imported Mammoth. fourth dam by
Imported Warrior, fifth dam by Imported
Spanish Jennet bis dam was sister OF the
famous Black Hawk. She was sired by
Compromise out of Black Warrior Jennet.
Black Hawks dam was a Black warrior
Kentucky Jennet. Grover Cleveland took
first premium at the st. Joseph Exposition
in 1858 for the best Jack of his age. and nrst
premium at the st. Joseph Fair IN iSyS-55-94.
w. p. BURNEY.
Gaillard.
Lake Providence. La. May Sotb. 1896.
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Hundreds Of Cuban women have
joined the insurgent cause and are
Drawing the dangers Of the field
rather than submit to certain shame
at the hands Of the Spaniards. An
American eve witness to the most
terrible treatment OF Cuban women
writes that if the people of the
United States knew to what they were
subjected, they would not wonder at
the women going TO the field of bat
tie rather than surrender to the Span
iards.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-20

The cost Of making bicycle, even
the highest grade ones, is all out of
proportion to the price for which it is
sold. The New York World, speak
ing on The subject Of high priced
machines, soys: lone Of the best
known manufacturers in the country
is quoted as saying that the wheel
made BY him to retail at 500 costs
less than $50. OF course great
deal Of this difference goes for push
ing the goods on the market, for
retailers profits and in other ways.
But conceding that, it still remains
probable that the highest grade bicy-
Gle now sold might easily be manu-
featured and retailed at $50 with q
handsome profit for all who handle
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-20
CONGRESSMAN BoArNER AGAIN

Col. G. j. Boatner was elected
by an overwhelming majority of
nearly six thousand Wednesday
week by the Democracy Of the Fifth
District. Contrary to general ex-
pectatIon here, bis majority was
much larger than had beer expected.
The Democrat prophesled
his eventual success all along, but
the Pops bad been making such
boasts OF what they intended to do,
that we thought Benoit would roll
MP much larger vote than he did.
This manifest falling off in his sup
port shows the inherent weakness
both of the man and bis cause. NO
true Democrat could have voted for
a Populist for Congress any more
than he could have voted for he
publican. The inconsistency was
too glaring. There was some fail'
INC off here in the white vote, but
nothing to amount TO much. A great
many SAID they would not vote ior
Boatner on account Of his financial
views, but party ties were too strong
20 be resisted and they stuck to the
party.
1t was due to Col. Boatner that
he should be reelected, regardless
of his views on the money question.
The people of the Fifth District
owed 1t to him and TO themselves te
send him back TO congress. A prin
ciple was at stake, and the people
arose in their might and placed the
stamp Of their dlspleasure on th'
factlonal rulings OF the elections
committee that declared there wal
no election in this district. Boat
ner has been vindicated, the people
have been INDICATED and we now
have congressman from this dis
trict who cannot be ousted by an.
charge of fraud.
In the next election let the finan
cial question cut some figure, 1t dit
not belong in the one just past.
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Court Terms.

EAST CARROLL
The Jury terms ofth It'll District Court
are fixed for the first Mondays In January
and June.
The civil terms are fixed for the second
Mondays in March and October
MADISON
Jury terms to begin on 4th Monoays ~
january and June. Civil terms to begin on
lst 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 eth District Court.
j. d. Tompkins, Clerk. !
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POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS.

Lake Providence, La, June IL, 1896.
The Hon. Police Jury of East Car
roll, met this day in special session to
pay jury and witness claims OF the
present term of court.
Presentation. p. d. Quays, Presi-
dent; Yancey Bell. Clerk; Messrs.
Robt. Nicholson, Phil McGuire, C. A..
Voelker.
Absent-H. X. Barwick.
The President stated the object OF
meeting, after which the Finance Com
mittee made the following report
which was adopted.
We have examined and recommend
the payment of the following approved
claims. and that the Parish Treasurer
be authorized to warrant for same:
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On June the 18th Draughon's Prac-
teal Business College. Nashville, Tenn,
will open a branch school in
TExARKANA,
under the management Of Prof. x. II
Luman, who has not only served ne
Principal Of Draughon's NaAhyiIlo
College twelve months, but be has for
years kept books for some Of the
largest firms in Tennessee and KEN
lucky. He will be assisted BY other
competent teachers.
This branch school became neccs~
sity, as the Nashville College found u
difficult TO accommodate its large at
tendance from the West and other
sections. 1t will give the same
advantages as given in the Nashville
school. Ii is generally known that
Prof. Draughon's course Of book
keeping is considered by business men
by far the best in the Union, while the
other departments are second TO none.
Prof. Draughons College guarantees
positions under reasonable conditions.
Those who enter the Texarkana
school within reasonable Time will
receive special discount.
For catalogue, etc, address,
J.F. DRAUGHON,
Pres't. Nashville, Tenn,