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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-09-05
The ssSDrinkle Dollar -

Hardly any one knows what the
Sprinkle dollar" was. Josiah Sprin-
kle, the man in question, lived in one
of the toughest sections OF Lewis Coun-
ty, Kentucky. Washington, the coun-
ty seat of Mason, was then thriving
town. One day Sprinkle, then as old
man, appeared at Washington with a
buckskin pouch full of silver dollars
of his own make.
In every respect they appeared the
equal of the National coin. The
weight was more than at present, and
The quality and ring were all that
could be asked for. He spent them
freely, and everybody accepted them
upon the assurance of Sprinkle that
they were all right, except that they
were not made by the United States
mint. Upon being asked where he
got the silver, he replied: "Oh, it
don't matter. There is plenty of it
left" The inscriptions on the coins
were rudely outlined, and in no wise
was an attempt made at initiating the
National coin. On one side of the coin
was an owl and on the other o six
pointed star. The edges we're smooth.
The coins were considerably larger
and thicker than the United States
coin. Whenever Sprinkle came to
town he spent the dollars of his own
make.
At one time he volunteered the in
formation that he had q silver mine
in the West, but the old man refused
to tell any one where it was located.
Finally the Government agents heard
of the matter, and came on to investi-
gate. Sprinkle was arrested and
brought into court, but the dollars
we're proved to be pure silver, without
alloy worth, in fact, trife more
than 81 each. After an exciting trial
he was acquitted. When the verdict
was announced Sprinkle reached down
in his pockets and drew out bag OF
fifty of the coins and paid his attorney
in the presence of the astonished Of
ficials. Sprinkle was never afterward
bothered, and continued to make the
dollars until the time of his death. He
died suddenly and carried the secret
of his silver mine with him. This
was in the early '30's, and it has been
twenty years since Sprinkle dollar
has been found.-Ohicago News.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-09-05
A Birds Queer Death.

One of the strangest monuments in
existence is situated near Cold Spring.
N. Y. It is slowly disappearing and
in q short time will have entirely van
ished, but IL tells a marvellously true
tale OF the life and death of the being
which caused it to be erected.
It is composed Of the bones Of q
swallow which met Its death on the
weather vane OF a barn while in full
fight. Every one has noticed the pc.
culiar diving motion which swallows
make while on the wing. It was this
method of flying that caused the birds
death. In making its quick dive it
evidently miscalculated, or else did
not see the vane, which was arrow
shaped, pointing directly toward the
swallow.
The farmer who owned the barn no.
ticed a bird perched on his weather
vane. The vane was swinging in the
wind, but did not trouble the bird,
which apparently refused to beun-
seated. The next day the bird was
still there. and the day after as well.
The farmer determined to investigate.
He found the bird impaled on the
vane. He left it where it was and it
swung there for months. Why in did
not fall to the ground seemed a mys-
terry until when only the skeleton re-
NAMED it was found that the sharp
point of the vane had penetrated the
breast bone. Then the bones dropped
apart one by one, and now nothing
but the breast bone remains, swinging
with the vane, like the glbbeted form
of a malefactor in olden times. New
York Journal.
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Nerve Saved His Life.

Len Henry, well known pioneer,
relates an adventure that is out of the
usual order. He was travelling on q
narrow trail above the raging Grande
Bonde River when he came to land
slide about twenty feet across, that
left no trail or even O niche in the
smooth, PERCEPTIONS rock. The trail
was SO narrow that the horse could
not turn back. He was trapped.
Above the twentY.foot break in the
trail was sharp crag OF overhanging
rock. On his saddle bow was strong
RATA sixty feet long, and Henry is in
expert in the use OF it. He steadied
himself upon the saddle, swung the
rope over his head, and hurled IL high
into the air. It settled firmly over
the craig. He tried ii carefully. Il
was Arm. His saddle was new and
strong one, with double cinches.
Around the horn he wound the rope.
He urged the horse on to the edge of
the precipice.
The faithful beast stood firm. He
would not step over, but the rider
drew up the slack and pulled it with
all his power. Inch by inch he drew
the straining horse forward till his
feet slipped and he swung over the
chasul. The rider held his breath as
he looked at the river below and the
slender rope above, but he was across
the gap. He,sprang up the trail and
tugged ct the reins to aid the horse in
gaining his feet. He pulled and the
horse lunged mp into the trail with
the chasm back behind.-Anacon
Standard.
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cape from the enraged mother bear.
He has acquired the sobriquet, "Mus-
cular," from his many feats on the
athletic fields.
About six miles south of Bingham
ton, there runs road from Hawley-
ton, N. Y, to Brackney, in Pennsyl-
vania, four miles of which lead
through wood. Coming from Penn
sylyania, q good part of this road is
down hill, at places crooked and I'M
like the highways that the Good
Roads Association would like to see.
Root left Brackney about 6 o'clock on
his homeward journey, and was riding
slowly through the woods, his wheel
making no sound. He had just made
a sharp turn down the hill, when he
saw three small black bear cubs, which
were sporting in the middle of the
road. He slackened his speed and
looked around for the mother bear.
He ''iocated" her by the sound OF
breaking twigs.
The bicycle was near the playing
cubs. Root sprang to the ground.
dropped his machine, and grabbed
one Of the fat little fellows. The other
two squealed Justify, and started
toward the woods. "Muscular," al
though he heard the she bear coming,
ran after the other two cubs. A
second cub vas captured, but not be-
fore the cyclist had looked into the
eyes of the irate mother.
1t was desperate race to reach and
mount the machine. Muscular"
drew further away before endeavoring
to mount. Root found it difficult to
mount his bicycle with the cubs in
his arms. For a. time it looked as if
the handicap was too great. He also
had an uphill course. At last he got
mounted and started up the hill.
The bear was close behind. When he
reached the summit, and saw the long
stretch OF down grade, he felt easier.
He coasted.
By this time the larger of the. cubs
was giving trouble. Squealing and
squirming, it repeatedly made efforts
to get away. The distance between
the mother bear and the bicycle
gradually had been increased to about
hundred yards, when one of the
cubs succeeded in jumping from under
Roots arm to the road. The escape
was not unnoticed by the cubs
mother. "Muscular" was eager to re.
gain the cub, and quickly turned and
caught the fugitive, only to see the
distance between the she bear and
himself greatly reduced. Down hill
he rode again. He reached Hawley-
ton, on the outskirts of the woods,
with bruin nowhere in sight. To say
that the natives were greatly aston
ished to see a bicycle rider go through
the village with black cub bear un-
der each arm is putting it mildly.
Root stopped at the hotel, where he
obtained supper for himself and the
cubs, male and a female. The two
captives he placed in bag, which he
swung over his left shoulder. In this
way he reached home without further
trouble. In few weeks they will be
presented. to Binghamton, to be
added to the Geological Gardens at
Ross Park.
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TIE coMING OF SUMMER.

The woods are astir " it'll the fiutter ofw,nps
Each thicket resou Ids with the. notes OF
song;
.Iha NAPLES gres N banners unrurl TO the
breeze.
AnGshither the iryads como trin,,nc .,on,,
Whose chanting has startled The sor;rro,
thats springs
From bou adh um o, bough of the wbp.ner.
ing trees.
The uplands, bose. pastures o, emerald bue
Laugh low at abe fro;, 90 ~ lor,hp;r. .,
play,
nio "'i'ip 4 expectant for some one to
co re,
W.. at in their holiday fnefy gay
M pu' groups yellow and harebells of blue,
Lsdnkle and chime when we think
they are dumb.
A' brook is aglad with hilarious siea
And CANDLES and leaps as it runs to the
lake.
''She's coming! she's comingi" it shouts
to the field;
The cranes have come back and the wood
chuck's awaken
Like any young madcap from durance set
Free
And singeth for Joy till its lips shall be
sealed.
The lake as her children run into her arms.
IMPATIENT to tell the good tidings the first.
Takes each to her heart. and there rocks
1t to sleep;
And while on her heaving, full bosom It's
nurs'd,
Sne croons soft lullaby, speaking the charms
vi summer, high carnival coming to
keep
William 7. James, in Demorest's.
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POPULAR SCIENCE,

he new huSSthu COnbumpt1Ou CuIo
is the inhalation of analine vapors.
Cold meats require longer time to
digest than warm meats, and are not
30 satisfying to the appetite.
A Dane named Sven has invented
an electrical process for painting in
delible pictures on glass surfaces.
Lenonhoek and humboldt say that
a single pound Of the. finest spider
webs would reach around the world.
Edison now claims that the x ray is
sound wave and its photographs are
simply shadows of sound vibration.
A granite saving machine has been
tested at Montpelier, VT, with salts
factory results. The teeth of the saw
are diamonds, and cost $4,000.
Nearly one-half the towns and cities
of England, which are lighted by cleo
tricity, own and operate their own
plants, and save the big profits to the
taxpayers.
Physicians of Montreal have made
an x ray picture of o girls brain to
find bullet. They found it, but
could not get at it, as it is about the
middle of the brain.
Professor Brouardel, of the Paris
Municipal Laboratory, has made re-
port to the Academy OF Sciences on
the use of the Roentgen Photographic
process in investigating bombs and in
fernal machines. 1t is no longer
necessary to run any risks in discov-
ering what these trick boxes may con-
tain.
Observation-Disclosures is
the name of new antiseptic discovered
in Germany, though it is called anti
nounin for short. It is said to be
sure death to all parasites injurious
to plants, and to all bacteria, to be
odorless and cheap. 1t is harmless
taken into the stomach in small guam
titles.
At factory in Taunton, Mass,
there is manufactured what is said to
be the finest wire in the country, a
cobweb of one-five-hundredth part of
an inch in thickness, finer than hu-
man hair. In making it ordinary wire
is drawn through holes drilled in dia-
monds, as ordinary steel plate would
not answer.
The great telescope of the Berlin ex-
hibition, when completed, will have
two objectives of forty. three
inches aperture and about twenty
feet focus, the other of twenty-eight
inches aperture and sixty-eight feet
focus-in one mounting. twill have
no dome. but will be curiously mount
ed in an immense cylinder, supported
only at the inner end.
From comparison OF tables it is
learned that in the past two decades
the mortality from tuberculosis in Vi
emma, Berlin and Hamburg has de.
creased. In Munich there has been q
decrease of eighteen per 10000.
Formerly -third'of all post-mortem
examinations were of subjects who had
died of some form of tuberculosis.
while now the number has diminished
one-fourth.
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STORY OF THE SEEDS.

zone Loves" a pretty faco
Bending DER the CRATE;
Two I love," soft, sweet voic
Measures out her fate.
"Three love, say" and still
Other seeds galore.
-Four love with all my heart
What need is there OF more?
nFive cast away
All, no! Fortune thus we're wrones
Should the count thus ended be;
Loves ties are too strong.
"Six he loves" a dimpled smilo;
''Seven she loves" blush;
eight both love;" sweet look steas :.
Ger the fair face flush.
sNine he comes he tarrfes ten,
'Eleven he courts"-but wait!
Anxious search has failed to find
The seed where rests her fate.
Carefully she looks them DER,
Then, as brow grows light,
twelve he marries. Mercy!
Nearly died from frlghtr'
Puck
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The robins and jays were clamoring
and feasting over the last remnant OF
fruit in the long strawberry be- !, when
pretty Sybil stood coquettishly smil-
ing at the anxious look on Bernard
Bramble's handsome, sun-browned
face.
81 want my answer, Sybil," he was
saying, patiently, but decidedly. els
it yes or nor
''Yes, then I" pouted Sybil.
For the grave voice warned her that
no further trifing would be allowed.
AMI before the old strawberry bed
was red with another seasons ripened
fruit, the wish of Aunt Serefina's
heart had come to pass, and pretty
Sybil Sweetfern had plighted her VOWS
'for better or worse" to honest,
manly, true-hearted Bernard Bramble.
Saturday Night.
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A White Coon.

A white coon that hasn't dark
hair on its body is owned at Weiser,
Idaho, and is kind Of town pet. Il
has distinguished itself by whipping
all the dogs in the neighborhood, and
is sure death to cats that stray into its
vicinity. II spends most OF its time
chained to the sidewalk outside its
owners store.
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without offering any apology for his
erratio behavior.
"Humph!" shifted Miss Serefna.
when Sybil had explained the situa-
ton of affairs. 81 hope you've got
enough of your Spanish dons now. I
told you they were shifies', no.
count SET"
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Bennington Center, Vt, with
population never exceeding 400, hes
luyn!shed four Governors 10 the State
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A Basket of Strawberries.
DY HELEN WHITNEY CLARK,

HE long strawberry bed
OF the Sweetfern Farm
was blushing with its
ripened fruit, and the
pinks and ionquils in
the little garden beds
looked fresh and smil-
ing. as we'll thew MIGHT.
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Cyclist Kidnaps Bears Cubs.
"Muscular" Root, one OF the fastest
bicycle riders in Biughamton, N. Y,
se,ently captured two cub bears whila
ous On 9 ride. ne had . narrow u.
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Princess Maud'a tsousasau viii b
wholly made IN Tnsland.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-04-16
1t May Do as Much for You.

Mr.. Fred Miller, of Irving, ILL.,, writes
that he had a severe kidney trouble for
many years, with severe pains in his
back aud also that his bladder was af-
fected. He tried meny so called Kidney
cures but without any good result. About
q year ago he began to use Electric Bit
ters and found relief at once. Electric
Bitters is especially adapted to cure of
all Kidney and Liver troubles and often
gives almost instant relief. One. trial
will prove our statement. Price SOC and
$500 At Blakeley & Houghton's Drug
Store.
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Probable H1urderIn. Linn County.

ALBANY, April l5.-Fhis morning at
Halsey, Owen Bond and John Pearl
quarrelled. Pearl accused Bond of be,
slowing too much attention on. Mrs.
Allingham, PEARLS daughter The men
had fight and afterwards met in PEARLS
livery stable and renewed the quarrel.
PEARLS son, Elmer, and brother, Silas,
were with him. Bond called to the city
marshal to protect him, saying there
were too many against him. AT the
same time he drew a revolver and fred
at John Pearl. As he did so, PEARLS
son seized Bonds arm to prevent a
murder. The ball missed Pearl and
struck Ira Stroud, a cattle buyer, of this
city, who had at that moment entered
the stable and alignted from lis horse.
The ball entered the lower portion of his
abdomen. 1t is believed Stroud will die.
Bond and Pearl are under arrest and
their preliminary examination com
menced. this evening.
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KILLED BY AN ELEorKIo CAR.
seattIe's Third Fatal Accident within
Week.


SEATTLE, April 15.-The third fatal
accident to occur in this city within the
past four days occurred this morning.
William O'Brien, the 9-year-old son of
Contractor M. G. O'Brien. came out of
school at the Pacific school building a
few minutes before noon, and started
across the street toward his home. A
car on the Union Trunk line was coming
in from Rainier Heights. and another
was going in an opposite direction. tow
ard the lake. The boy got out of the
Rainier Heights car, only to plunge head
long in front of the lake car. He vas
frightfully cut about the abdomen by
the wheels, and died in less than two
minutes, without recovering conscious
ness
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MAY BRAR eooD FRUIr.
Spain shows Signs of Accepting Cleve-
lands Offer.

SPS@'HA o-AO"S iop5"S, VI <AcOek'SAHB CAeNe-
lands Offer.
CHICAGO, April ia special dispatch
to the Times Herald from Washington
says:
There is now hope that the efforts of
the United States to mediate between
Spain and the Cuban insurgents will
result in the bringing about of negotia-
tions between the rebel leaders and the
Spanish government. At least, Spain
shows signs OF acceding to the request
recently made by President Cleveland
for the acceptance of the good offices of
the United States.
The negotiations are in the hands of
Secretary Olney and Senior Dupuy de.
LONE, the, Spanish minister at, this cap
ital. Senior de LONE, acting under in,
structions from his government. has
made certain inquiries as to the method.
which the president proposes to follow.
If the Spanish minister of foreign af-
fairs finally accept the good Offices of
this government, General Fitzhugh Lee,
our new consul general at Havana, will
be instructed to sound the insurgent
leaders as to their willingness to accept
reforms in Cuba, and on these being
guaranteed to lay down their arms. Z
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You hear it almost everywhere, and
read it in the newspaper that Simmons
Liver Regulator is the best liver remedy,
and the best Spring medicine, and the
best blood medicine. ''lhe onlv medi-
cine of any consequence that use is
Simmons Liver Regulator. $50 wrote
Mr.. r. A. Cobb, of Morgantown, N. G..
And w. F. Park, M. D., OF Tracy City,
Tenn, writes: Simmons Liver Regula-
tor is the best. .''s
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Through trains on the o. R. & N will
run via Umatilla, Walla Walla and PEN
dleton. Through sleepers, first and sec
ond class will run in connection with the
Union Prcific. the same as heretofore.
A through irst-class sleeper from Port
land to Spokane, connecting with the
frst-class sleeper to st. Paul and a
through tourist sleeper from Portland to
st. Paul, will be run in connection with
the Great Northern railway.
E. E. LYTLE, Agent
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ENGINEEKs MUKDERED.
Three Americans Massacr by Hos
tile Nj atabeles.

Three Americans Massacr ed by Hos
tile atabeles.
CHICAGO, April l5.-A cable message
from Cape Town reports the killing OF
three engineers near Buluwayo. The
names of two of the victims are given as
Hammond and Palmer. Miss May E.
Squire, manager of Handel music hall,
has grave fears that the third is her
I cousin, Richard Lyle Mason, who was in
the vicinity of Buluwayo when last
heard from. The last letter received
from him gave his address as Scare A.
r. Hammond, Buluwayo, Matabeland,
South Africa. The letter was dated jan
uary 18, and was received here March 1S.
It was written in the heart of Matabele-
land, 500 miles from the coast, and was
taken by native courier 80 miles to
Buluwayo to be posted. Mr.. Mason was
given exclusive charge of the, mines in
the Zambesi district, Matabeleland, and
at the time he wrote was engaged in
moving, with a force OF 20 men and 100
mules, some heavy machinery required
for the development of tae mines. They
had passed beyond the fever districts,
and were 40 or SO miles distant from the
uprising in the Transvaal. He went
there last Septem
Though the party was go miles or more
from the scene of the,fir trouble in the
Transvaal, Mr.. Mason wrote that he had
no desire to get nearer, because t'those
niggers shot too straight to suit him -
He thought the natives had been melted
by the Dutch to rise against the English
in the first place.
Mr.. Mason is a native of Australia,
but America is his adopted country.
His parents live in Australia, and he has
no other relative except Miss Squire in
this country. She has made every effort
to secure Information in regard to Mr..
Mason and his possible fate, hut with
little success so far. The United States
Town, the newly accredited consul,
James II. Muligan, being now en- route
to his post.
Mr.. Mason, though only 81 years old,
has acquired fine reputation as an ex-
pert mechanical and mining engineer.
He is graduate of the school of design
in Melbourne, and fret practiced his
profession in the Australian gold fields.
Then he came to America and remained
here nine years. In that time he was
employed in every large m lchinery man
ufacturing plant in the country, from
San Francisco to Philadelphia.
An offer of $4,000 a year decided him
to go to South Africa. He is one of the
one hundred expert mining engineers
whose services have been secured by the
English capital invested in the South
African fields. The head of this force
is John Hays Hammond of San Fran
cisco, cousin of A. r. Hammond, in
whose care Mr.. Mason's mail was to be
sent. 1t seems probable that A. R.
Hammond and Mr. Mason were two of
the three victims of the natives. Mr..
Mason, it is known, had two other en-
gineers associated with him in the Fam
besi mining district.
Burned to Death.
SALEM. Or, April Is Across the
Tl..lA- 4 1 y
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REBELLIOUS NATIVES
They Hold the Entire Coun-
try About Buluwayo.
GREAT FORCE MOVING NoRTHwARD
Large Numbers of troops Necessary to
DIslodge Them-Three EngI-
neers Murdered.

LONDON. April IA dispatch from
Buluwayo says:
The whole country is in the hands of
rebelious natives, and they are moving
in great force northward. 1t will require
large force of troops to dislodge them,
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Burned to Death.

burhed Co Death'
SALEM, Or, April Is Across the
river in Polk county last night an old
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Councilmen-First ward, ]. r. Stipe !;
second ward, Charles LOCUS; third ward,
L. H.Tarpley; fourth ward, David Dali
gleish; sixth ward, John Robinson;
seventh ward, t. G. Malone; eighth ward.
7. A. Davey; ninth ward, Samuel L.
Woodward; tenth. ward, J. M. Pitten-
ger; eleventh ward. M. A. Share.
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Helloi HeIIof

This is the County Treasurer. He
wants all county warrants registered
prior to April /, 1892, presented at his
Office, corner Third and Washington,
or he is ready to pay the same. Inter-
est ceases after January 18th.
VIM. MIcHELL,
County Treas.