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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
DOGS AND TRAMPs.
One OF the Latter Skaters Fsvcrits
Belief.


Belief.
"Am 1 afraid of dogs?" repeated tbs
tramp, as lie leaned against the wall IA
rub his itching shoulder. swell, that's
queer question to ask a Teller who's
been on the tramp fur Is years! What's
dogs got to do with ftp"
ut is said that dogs have an in
stinctive aversion to tramps," replied
the interviewer.
"Mebbe they hev. but the tramp hain't
worryin' about that as knows of. II
dogs was all we had to look out fur we'd
be a happy lot. Who's bin stuffin' you
about dogs?"
weren't you ever bitten by dcg?"
"Of course, but that was when was
green at the biz. After the first six
months no dog ever hankered arter my
legs. When you read about farmers
dog humpin' a tramp over the fence,
don't you take no stock in it. It's all
CUFF"
swell, how do you protect yourself?''
I'm the first place, dogs are afraid OF
tramps. Nine out of ten of 'em will
growl few times and then sneak away.
They seem to jest figger that tramp
wouldn't be sloshin' around like he 10 il
he wasn't loaded fur dogs. The books
all tell We to look dog in the eye, but
no tramp is fool huff fur that. If we do
he'll figger that we are defying him and
bite We fur sure. Jest look at his paws
instead. That'll bother and annoy him
and make him turn tail. II dog rushes
out on me of sudden l stand still.
When he sees don't run he argues that
I'm dangerous. I've had so farmers
sic a big dog on me, but simply bacl,
slowly away and never get bite. I've
run onto dogs in yards, barns and sheds
and skeert 'em half to death by making
'buz-z-z-z-z-z' with my teeth shut"
But you do find a dangerous dog
once in awhile?" persisted the ques-
TONER.
"Oh, of course" replied the tramp, as
he scratched his shoulder. Eyes, we
find dog now and then who lacks good
sense and we bev to help him out"
''How do you do it?"
with handful of dry sand or fine.
cut tobacco. AS he jumps we throw the
stuff into his eyes, and if the owner OF
the dog hain't clus behind him Teller
kin hev ten minutes of solid fun watch
in the circus. That dog may live fur
ten years srter that date, but he'll never
meddle with another tramp. Dogs
humph! Say, gimme q quarter and
bring on yer bulldog and tell him to
climb fur me!"-Detroit Free Press.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

I'm seven months Gen. Booth has
travelled $1,000 miles.
The official directory of the Roman
Catholic church in the United States
puts the membership of the church at
3,41O,790.
A minister of Ceresco, Mich, has
bought steropticon with which he will
in future illustrate his Sunday night
sermons.
Martin Brimmer, who died recently
Mt Boston, left $4,000 to Harvard uni.
versity, to become available upon the
death Of his wife.
AT the Papal Gregorian university
there are over 1000 students-e24 in
theology, s3s in philosophy, and IS in
canon law. They represent "a different
nations.
The fourth woman to obtain the
doctors degree at the University of
Goettingen is Miss Alice Luce, grad
uate of Wellesley. She has been made
doctor of philosophy, cum multa laude,
by Goettingen. She had spent two
years in pathological studies at Leipsic
and has been at Goettingen through
one semester.
An attempt is about to be made by
joint committee of Presbyterian.
Wesleyan, Congregational and Bap-
list missionaries to reach the Chinese
literad by means of a Christian daily
newspaper printed in Chinese. 1t is
thought many of these would read a
newspaper who would not on any con-
sideration attend Christian service.
Prof. Woodrow Wilson, who has
been delivering a series of lectures at
the Johns Hopkins university, con-
tends that American city governments
are inefficient because they copy too
closely the structure Of the federal
government, with it's two chambers and
executive. The system of checks and
balances and division of power Is not
suited to municipal needs.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
GOING-AwAY GOWNS.
Alpaca Is Conceded to Be Cool and Quits
Dressy Enough.

Dressy Enough.
At this season of the year i always
get fit of longing for somewhere else
anywhere that is not the same place
that have seen all winter, and think
nine out of every ten women know feel
the same way. Now, what to wear
when the fit comes on, and the grip is
to be packed for the brief outing that
brings you home refreshed and better
satisfied with yourself and your be-
longings. You want to look well, the
home gowns are out of the question,
the real summer ones too dressy, SO
that there should be costume dc.
signed especially to suit the occasion.
OF course there is always the shirt
waist, but there are women unfortu-
nate enough to look but i'll in them,
and SO they are not to be considered
Alpaca is conceded to be cool, and is so
if made up properly, with not too heavy
Innings. 1t has splendid qualities to
recommend it for travelling, because
it sheds The dust and does not soil read
lily.
n kONA vi PdCd,
with finish as glossy as silk, is made
into an attractive gown that can be
worn equally well for shopping or Wis
iting. The spreading skirt is as plain
as possible, but has an interliniDg OF
mode tinted silk and lot of silk dust
ruffles as a set-off.
The bodice is round and drawn at the
waist by the narrowest of belts in liz
ard-green kid, with small oval kid
buckle. A narrow pointed waist of
black satin set in at the throat IL fin
ished by q crushed stock of black satin,
with enormous pointed ears standing at
each side. Broad lace in butter tint Is
draped artistically over the tops of the
bouffant sleeves and along the edge of
the vest to point at the waist.
With this gown are worn mode-tinted
gloves, heavily stitched with black. and
a small capote of coarse black braid,
trimmed simply with smart bow Of
black satin ribbon directly in the front.
There are patent leather boots and Eng
lish CATERS of mode-tinted cloth to
match the gown.
AS model this pretty gown will
serve admirably for the purpose spoken
of, and look not too smart on boats and
trains also. Appropriate dressing is
the secret of charming appearance,
and nowhere and at no time is it more
desired than when the runaway feeling
takes possession of you.-Philadelphia
Times.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
where We Diner from England.


"Any man of an observant turn who
visits England can't help but notice the
different ways they have from the peo-
pie of this country in the construction
of houses, bridges, vehicles, and inn
plements of every kind" said DIR. C. L.
Phelps, of Boston. The Englishmen
go in for durability beyond everything
else. I went into q concern that makes
agricultural machinery after the pat.
tern Of wcll-known house in the
United States. couldn't help but con-
trast the British and American makes,
and saw in them the characteristics of
the two nations. An English harvester
was big and heavy and clumsy. / told
the owner that we wouldn't have such,
for it would kill our horses to draw It.
He smiled and said, with proud en-
phasis: But it will last Is years.
fright here is where we are smart
or than our cousins across the sea. A
Yankee farmer doesn't want q ma
chine that will wear q quarter of q
century, for he knows that in two or
three years greatly improved one will
be on the market, and his implement
will be obsolete. The English seem to
take no account of this, and whatever
they build is for gssser1tion. In this
way they have oeen distanced In many
lines OF manufacturing by their Amer
i'm competitors, but that doesn't af.
feet their system in the least, aud they
will keep on imagining theirs the su-
perior policy."-Washington Star.
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HIS Discovery.

Eyes" he said ina tone that had >
shadow of disappointmentjn it, Il went
to Washington. / had some business
in the east, ard I thought it would be
. rood time to get a little insight In
the way the affairs of the government
are conducted"
81 guess q man can pick up good
deal that il interesting and obstructive
there. What place in the capital ini-
pressed you mostY'
"The senate restaurant"
"You don't say so."
"Yes. 1t was there discovered that
IMAM can eat huckleberry pie with
his knife and still be leader OF has
fellow-citizens.v- Detroit Fred Press.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
LOGGING RAILROAD RAvAoEs.
How the For osts of the Lumber States
Are Being Rapidly Denuded.

How the Forests of the Lumber States
Are Being Rapidly Denuded.
The rapidity with which the forests
of the remaining lumber states are be-
ing denuded of their trees is something
which calls for not only earnest protest
but prompt state or national Interior
.nce. The introduction Of the logging
railway has done much to accelerate the
slaughtering.
Under the old method of numbering
the destruction of the forests was sure
enough, but it was slow in comparison
with the work as now carried on in the
regions where the logging roads are in
operation. One of the roads now tap
ping the great lumber region at the
headwaters OF the Mississippi river will
illustrate the case. The pine trees are
cut down in the same manner as under
the old method of work. They are
loaded upon low sleds called "go-devils"
and drawn to the side of the railroad
track, where they are piled up awaiting
the loading.
Formerly the logs were hauled to =
certain point and there loaded upon
great sleds which carried the logs to the
bank of some adjacent stream. The
logs were unloaded upon the streams
icy surface and allowed to remain there
until the ice broke up in the spring,
when the logs would be fioated down to
the mills. The logging railroad does
away with all this. 1t runs directly in
to the timber country, and then
stretches out spurs in every direction,
four, five or even ten miles in length,
each spur tapping a separate region.
Thus it makes no difference whether the
timber is located alongside stream or
not. The logs are loaded upon the cars
on one of these spurs and drawn by
stout engines down to the main track
from which the spurs diyerge. Here
long logging trains are sent out to some
point down the Mississippi, perhaps rs
miles from the spurs.
The trains are unloaded directly upon
the Mississippi, and the shipment down
stream from this point in the spring
is rendered very easy. The cars are
wide, short affairs built expressly for
the logging trade. They are supplied
with air brakes, for sometimes the
grades are heavy, and il one of these
trains of 30 or sometimes IS loaded cars
got away from the engineer, serious re-
suits would be bound to follow. The
engines are small but powerful, some of
the Observation-Disclosures. as they arc
called, in use in mining work in the
mountains being used.
The estimate made that in ten years
there will not be left a piece of available
timber in the state of Minnesota II the
Indian reservations, containing vast
quantities of timber, are opened up to
the ak, seems to be rendered all the
more probable in view of the enormous
energies of the logging raiiroads.-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
A SHY DANCER.
Stories Told by westerners of the Antics
of the sand Hi Crane.

Stories Told by westerners of the Antics
of the sand Hill Crane.
The sand hill crane is very bright
bird. It's very name is Synonymous
of vigilance and alertness. 1t feeds on
the treeless plains or in the barren
wheat stubble, where it can see long
way beyond gunshot. Or one of flock
is posted as sentinel, and this bird
stands, with bill half open, ready to
give an alarm. 1t can be killed by de.
coying it with pasteboard figures cut
to proper size and shape and painted,
but mounted birds are better. A pit IL
dug deep enough to conceal man, the
deccys are put out, and the cranes are
shot as they come over. The best re-
gion to shoot them is in the Columbia
river watershed and south of 1t in the
Pacific coast states.
When one shoots bird of the size and
build of crane in midair it collapscs,
like cardhouse or tent. But such APP
parent collapses are sometimes decep.
tive, as, for instance:
Before could reach him he scared
off into the air with wheeling fight.
Again he hit the ground with fearful
violence, but again he got on his feet.
Running up, thinking to get him alive
for a decoy, tried TO tap him on tho
head and stun him. He showed fight.
and used my gun as backed on, and
he took to his wings"
The sand hill crane is something of
fighter of men if wounded, and the
only safe crane is a dead one. Their
bills are long and sharp, and are capa-
BILE of putting out mans eye.
The sand hill crane has some curious
habits that make him of more than
passing interest to the student of birds.
Out on the prairies parties of them
have balls in the spring, to which the
select birds seem to be invited. These
balls are picturesque affairs from thc
human standpoint. There are curious
dances, which are sort of solitary
waltzes or pretty slow jigs. Sometimes
the birds leap over one another's backs
and flop their wings. giving their pecul-
lar cry. Sometimes rival birds have
fierce duels, using their keen bills like
lances, battle axes and swords.--.s,s-
reation.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
A Convenient fesst:

Take two cakes of good dry yeast and
dissolve them in teacrp of tepid water.
Scald three tablespoonfuls of -four, add
one-haif cup of sugar, two-thirds cup
of salt. Boil IL large potatoes in two
quarts of water, adding enough to have
that amount. When done mash them
fine, and add to them two more quarts
of warm water, the scalded -four. sugar
and salt. When the mixture is barely
W arm add the dissolved yeast. Stand it
In \ warm place for IL hours, then bot
tie. This should make q quantity sui
ficient to fill five quart fruit jars, and
should be at once placed in cool, dark
place. To make your bread, take one
jaI of yeast in the morning, work 1t
moderately stiff with some -four, and
set to rise in q warm sheltered place.
1t win usually be ready to bake by noon,
and will make three good loayes.-N. \.
Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
BURIED IN A TREE.
A Curious Mausoleum Recently Discov'
cred In Saxe-Altenbure.

A Curious Maus0leum Recently Discov>
cred In saxe-Altenbure.
One of the most curious mausoleums
in the world was discovered recently
in On orchard at the village CT Noeb-
denitz, In Saxe-Altenburg. A gigantic
cak tree, which storm had robbed
Of it's crown, was up for public auc-
ton. Among the bidders happened TO
be Baron Won Thummel, scion OF n
family of ancient lineage that has
given the world of literature one
charming poet and the fatherland
many distinguished statesmen. The
baron, who lives on a neighboring es
tate, had ridden to the auction place
quite accidentally. Finally the tree
was knocked down to him for 200
marks. Upon his arrival at TIL: castle
ne told an old servant of his purchase,
describing the tree and Its situation.
The old servant said he remembered
attending the funeral Of Baron Thum-
mel 20 or so years ago, and that the
body had been buried In a thousand
year-old oak, belonging &c the parson-
age. Investigation clearly proved that
the orchard had once been the proper
ty of the village church, and that AT
enc side of the old oak was an iron
shutter, rusty and time-worn, that the
people of the town had always sup
posed to have been placed there by
some Joker or mischievous boys. The
iron shutter proved to be the gate to
the mauscleum of Baron Hans Will
helm Won Thummel, at one time minis
ter of the state of Saxe-Altenburg, who
died in 1924, and wished to be buried
''in the thousand-year-old tree he loved
so WELL" In the hollow Of the tree
T,aron Hans caused to be built sep
ulchre OF solid masonry, large enough
to accommodate his coffin. The coffin
was placed there, as the church records
show, on March 8, 1924, and the opening
was closed by an iron CRATE. In the
course of time wall of wood grew
over the opening, which had been en-
larged to admit the coffin and the work
men, and for many years It has been
completely shut, thus removing the
last vestige of the odd Use to which
the old tree had been put. The tree
has still some life in 1t, and it's rich
verdure is only now turning a violet
tint. The coffin in which Baron Hans
reposes has on one side grown to the
tee, the dead and the live wood joining
together in eternal embrace.-Public
Opinion.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27
TIC STORM Blowed Over.

It would seem like everybody got rat
tied and went to pieces that night
everybody exceptin Bud Newton. The
family records will show that Bud was
born in the dead of winter. He was born
cool. The higher the storm rises the
cooler you will find Bud Newton. He
takes things as they come and go, and
Jest naturally don't give durn."
When it come Buds time to give in his
opinions in regards to what had come
to pass he lowed he didn't give durn."
lie didn't go over there that night to
git married and he never did ask Miss
Mandy to have him, but if the game
lad to stand where it was and 1.-THE gal
was willin," it didn't make a continent
tial durn bit of difference with him.
The parson said he was mighty sorry
that he made the bad break, but the
knot was then tied hard and fast and
nothin but death or the chancery court
could cut it in two He couldn't Spite
out and start over, hut he could proceed
with the proceedins, tie another knot
and make Rams and Miss Temple man
and wife il they WAS still in the notion.
Naturally of course Rams and .n1ss
Temple was still in the notion, and the
rarson then put in and spoke his little
cut-and-dricd piece to them, which
made TIVE souls happy and two hearts
glad.
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"rhe bridegroom Cam. rp M,..ln..

Now m them days it also come to
pass-in less time than a week after the
storm at Reed Level church-that they
had the most gonebyest wcddin smash
up and scandalation ever heard tell
of or read about, do reckon.
The news had been goin about for a
long time to the general extent that
Tim Logan and Miss Babe Skinner
would soon jine their right hands and
work out the sum wherein you add two
together and it don't make but one.
If people in general thought as much
of men as they do of horses-if they
would put up a large reward for the
best man at the next state fair, would
enter Tim Logan for first money and
land the pile as smooth and easy as
pickin 1t up in the big road. Tim
stands six feet two inches in his socks
and pulls up the beam at $50 pounds,
risin weight. But, at the same time, he
Is straight and round and smooth as
the butt cut from hickory tree. His
hair is black and curly, his eyes are
blue and bright and his skin as white
as milk. To anybody that don't know
Tim Logan it is thousand wonders
that he didn't git married long ago.
But to them that know him the where
fores and the whenceness thereof stands
out as plain as painted HORSEBACK in
three acres Of burnt woods. He Is the
weakest and most scarryest man have
ever saw in regards to girls and women.
He never could stand the very shadow
of any livin female human thing.
From general appearments and what
little 1 have picked up around amongst
the neighbors, it would seem like the
weddin match which had been worked
up between Tim Logan and Miss Babe
went on as nice and smooth as batter
cakes and molasses up to the very last
pinch of time, and then bless the
heavens if the mainest man didn't come
up missin. The news was first brung to
me on the lips of white man by the
name of Lucas-Andy Lucas-and can
tell 1t to you as it was give unto me.
What makes the smashup so internal
hard and hurtin on me, you understand,
Rufe," says Andy, II had put my own
finger right tolerable deep into the
weddin pie. l had went in like the
blasted idiot, which 1 am, and worked
things up to the stickin pint as
thought, between Tim and Miss Babe.
Now as you know, Rufe, whilst do
love to see the earth multiply and re-
plenish, for common thing 1 don't
blow in any precious time to speak of
to bring on weddin matches for other
people. But knowed and everybody
knowed that Tim was dead gone, heels
over appetite in love with Miss Babe.
He never had told her SO, he never had
told me SO and he never had told any
body SO. Hit was also plain as daylight
that Miss Babe had some tender spring
like feelins for Tim. If Miss Mandy
Singleton was willin over at Red Level
the other night, you understand, Rufe,
Miss Babe was more than willin. So l
went to work and got up two or three
picknics and moonlight parties and let
down the fences between Tim and Miss
Babe, as it were, and then by dom a
whole lot of the courtin myself 1 got
things to swingin right"
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Florida Indians.

sour Indians" says DR.. Brecht. In
dian commissioner in the state OF
FLORIDA, tire not multiplying rapidly,
This is due to physiological and social
reasons. Still. there has been an In
crease. In 1859 there were but lip. Now
there are something over 500. The chief
social reason for their slow propoga.
ton is the custom of countenancing no
marriages of persons who have drop
Of the same blood IN their veins. This
is sometimes hard on the girls. Ore
leader ]. know has two beautiful daugh-
tiers, who cannot get married because
the eligible young men are almost all
akin to them."-Chicago Chronicle.
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fusionments
that have ever
come to pass in
this green and
w i c k e d old
world-we had
it right down
here in the
Rocky Crock
settlement. in
the run/Of the
last two weeks.
In the spring
is theripht and
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proper time, it raley seems to me, for
young people to fall in love and go
courtin and git married and settle down
to business. But yet still at the same
time when the sap is up and the freshets
fall and the creek Stops over, there is
trouble in the land and weepin and
wailin in the lowgrounds,of sorrow.
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Parrott-Im thinking Of starting
paper whose mission will be. to fight y
our modern corruptions and abuses an
frauds-but don't know what NAM
to give it.
Wiggins--Call 1t the earth.
Parrott--Why?
wiggins-Becanse II WILDE one en-
lasting bewl.-Bay City Chat