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The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

One of our popular young mer-
chants, Mr.. A. Z. Simon, left
Tuesday on a months summer tour
at Hot Springs, Nashville and Mil
wauke.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28
Straw Hats !!

Largest assortment, best seiec-
tion for Men, Boys and Children
at CUT prices, at D. A. Du-
cOurnau & Son.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

Young man, when walking down
Front Street with your best girl,
it is quite the proper thing to drop
in at Burnside's and get q glass Of
Milk Shake, or any other cool
drink.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28
Grammar School Commencement
Natchitoches, May 2Sth, 1897.

M CI11AALAStl SSA4SOA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Natchitoches, May 2Sth, 1891.
l. Grand March, Prof. Trichel's
Orchestra.
2. Grammar School Glasses in
Tableaux.
3. Reading of an original compo-
sitioa on Natchitoches. Minnie
Porter, A. Glass,
4. Dialogue by the Grades.
5. Reading of original compost
tion on Public Schools. Rose
Holston, A. Glass.
81 Recitation christmas day in
the work hour.) Bell Johnson.
Music, Orchestra.
TRIP AROUND THE WORLD.
In this play, Negroes, Indians,
Gypsies and japanese, will be in
troduced in national costumes, and
a japanese and an Amazon drill,
and several tableaurA, songs and
dances.
Characters-Lewella, (Am. Heir
ress Gertrude Genius.
Her faithful old servant, Uncle
Tom, Joe Kile.
Maid, Bell johnson.
Gypsy Queen, fortune teller
Lee Cartel.
Jim (the dandy dancer)
Oscar Dranguet,
Indian Chief, Edwin L'Herisson.
Awarding of Testimonials.
Gentlemen, buy your Linen
Crash Suits and Cassimer Pants at
j. 4. Ducournau & Son, where
you can get sizes, and a sure fit.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

Cut hay while the sun shines,
and get your Hay Forks, Mower.
Rivets and Sections, at j. A. Du'
cournau & Son.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

Mr.. Ambrose Hertzog of Derry,
was circulating among friends in
this city Wednesday.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

Try Burnside, Coffee 9 pounds
for Csc. He has just received a
large line of Fancy and Staple
Groceries.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28
THE BOSS BARBER.

CHARLEY TUCKER, who
presides over the FAMOUS Ton
serial Parlors on End Street, near
the Courthouse, will give you the
best and quickest shave in town.
Hair-cutting in all the latest
styles done to perfection. Call on
him.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

Just opening up a large and
fine assortment ofGlass and Crock
eryware, at Burnslde's.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28
Pythfan Promotions.

We are pleased to note the cleo
tion by the Grand Lodge, Knights
of Pythias of La, as its Grand
Chancellor Commander, Henry
Bernstein, Esq, of Winfield,
Past G. G.. Of Eastern Star, No.
81, in which Lodge we hold our
membership.
This is an exceptionally fine Sc
lection, for we have served with
this brother and know him to be rs
earnest and Jealous in Pythianism
as it is possible for an earnest and
honest man to be. He also takes
into the position an ability and
culture that have never been ques-
toned by those who know him
best.
Mr.. Bernstein's promotion left
vacancy on the committee of
Law and Supervision, of which he
had been a leading member for 3
years. To this vacancy the Hon.
r. f. Milling Of Franklin, former
ly of Winfield, and Of the same
Lodge, was appointed.
We have no doubt that all the
selections for officers We're excel
lent, but we especially congratu-
late these two friends of ours up
on this splendid recognition Of
their faithfulness to Pythianisln.
It will be to the interest of those
desiring Oats to call at P. S. Pru-
dhomme's before purchasing.
Our genial fri end, DR.. S. H.
Scruggs Of Clouticrville, was in
town Wednesday,
Mr.. r. @. Walters Of Chaler,
was in town Wednesday.
| ----s-~-s-----
Try us on JOB Work, neat and
cheap.
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rom
70 quickly relieve Sept 1886
Edwards Wis He has had chest suffering deal
aeeg he has ana. the the eminent phyans but found relief
taking medicine April
Rheumatism which had for 40 also for heart taking
every
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Mr.. Milton Cunningham is home
again, having closed his term of
school at Greenwood.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28
"a YEARS OF SUFFERING.

81 YEARS Or SOttEHJVG.
DEAR SlR:- JANUARY 2, 1897.
Over "a years ago, had Typhoid Fever,
and barely escaped with my life. It left my
3 system so shattered that have had. ever
since, Rheumatism and Throat Trouble.
unable to find any relief for these diseases,
until learned Of your IS DROPS". which
commenced taking only two months ago,
and my cure has been indeed WONDERFUL.
Already my cough has entirely disappeared,
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ever discovered. lam more thankful to you
than words can tell and want everybody to
know what "5 DROPS" has done for me.
Although am OVER 10 YEARS old. am feel
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shall be glad to answer any questions re.
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TGssns %Rs SAMUEL AziMs@R RBhs Bd.s!Ss Essched Mich
cATARRH AND HAY FEVER.
lind the bottle Of "5 DROPS to be very
good and Just what you claim Ny wife has
over 16 years. She has tried everything and
d0ctored much, but no cure until she tried
"5 DROPS" which completely cured her.
March 81, 1898. Milbank, S. D.
NEURALGIA AND SCIATlCA.
For twenty long years my wife suffered un.
told tOrtures from Sciatica and Neuralgia,
and thank God for the day that y0ur heav.
en-sent remedy fell into my hands, for It
completely cured her lam a minister of
the Gospel, and when | find any who suffer.
cannot help but recommend "6 DROPS, for
If you have not sufficient confidence afte
tie, send for q sample bottle, which contains S
This wonderful curative gives almost instd
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The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

Our genial fri end, DR.. S. H.
Scruggs of Cloutierville, was in
town Wednesday,
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

It will be to the interest of those
desiring Oats to call at P. S. Pru-
dhomme's before purchasing,
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

Gentlemen, buy your Linen
Crash Suits and Cassimer Pants at
j. i. Ducournau & Son, where
you can get sizes, and a sure fit.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-28

know It Will DO more than You claim Tor It.
REV. F. N. COOPER Washington Center, Mo.
PARALYSIS AND RHEUMATISM
DEAR SIRs; NoyEMBER 9, 1895.
II is with pleasure speak Of your price.
less remedy and Of the good 1t has done me.
For the last eight years have been an incur
able cripple from paralysis and rheumatism.
able to earn penny nor able to walk or step
on the ground without the aid of something
to lean on. Heaven bless the man who dis.
covered this remedy, for, thanks to him and
to God, lam able to walk and able to work.
I have only taken two.thirds Of bottle, but
have not had any pain In my back since
took the first dose, and after the second
walked across the floor, which I have not
done In years. have thrown dway my cane
sending me two-cent stamp will send my
affidavit. have another bottle Of ~
DROPS" and value it at 81 90 per drop.
Thankfully yours. EDWARD CASTLE.
zoos Wall Street Sioux City. Iowa.
INFLAMMAToRy RHEUMATlsM:
wish to tell you and suffering humanity
how much good '5 DROPS" has done me.
On the beginning Of this year took down
bedfast with Infammatory Rheumatism. and
wss dostSS ey ss good Physss as es
August 4, began to take "5DROPS," At
that time every joint in my body and my
limbs were stiff, go that could not be
moved. Even my tongue was getting 90
that could hardly speak 60 any one could
understand me, but to-day, only seven weeks
from that time, am absolutely cured, and
thank you and God for my recovery.
HORACE F. 1MDERsoN. lsisEi'ss SJS Mccracken, Kans.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-11-11
A MAID OF WINCHESTER.
She Rccites an Epith n amiu Before
Queen Mary and Philip of Spain.

She Rccites an Epithnlamium Before
Queen Mary and Philip of Spain.
Rosamund could scarcely believe it,
when Ned came rushing in and told her
that she, too, must go and recite before
the queen. The quick walk through
the streets with her father and Ned
seemed like dream to her. So, too, did
the arrival at the bishops palace. and
the great hall where the long tables
were spread, and where the English
and Spanish courts were, for the pres
ent, making the best of each other,
though regarding with ill-concealed dis
taste each others foreign looks and
ways.
Presently, Rosamund had reached
the CARS, and had kissed the hand of her
sovereign, and of the king of Naples:
for such had Prince Philip been created
by his father, according to paper read
aloud that morning in the cathedral.
Thy name, my little maiden?" the
queens deep tones were saying.
"Rosamund Walton, your majesty"
answered Rosamund, scarcely recognize
ing the sound Of her own voice.
Thy brother saith thou hast COM
posed certain lines in honor of our mar
riage, Rosamund; and the king and
would gladly hear them. Canst thou
say them to us?'
Rosamund looked up, glanced from
Mary's radiant face, with its dark, shin
ing eyes, to Philips cold and mysteri-
Gus, and wearing a forced smile, and
somehow, she felt very sorry for the
queen. This feeling made her forget
her embarrassment, and added a thrill
to her voice; ard so she stood up
straight and rec:ted her simple verses,
not knowing what pretty picture she
made, nor that all eyes in the hall were
fixed on her.
And when she finished speaking,
there was first a little pause, such as
Ned had made when she had recited it
to him; and then the queen bent for
ward to say, cordially: "Thank you,
my DEAR and buzz of praise was
heard to pass around
Philip spoke in Spanish, and Mary
turned to Rosamund again.
The king is very much pleased with
thy verses" she said, as if there were nc
higher pride in all the world than that
He says the English maids are as
clever as they are fair; and he gives thee
this Jewel to thank thee for thy fine
poesy. And this" she added, taking very
beautiful and valuable bracelet from
her own arm, II hope thou wilt veal
sometimes to keep thee in mind of how
much Queen Mary was delighted by
thy poem upon her wedding day
She spoke also some kind and en-
couraging words to Master Walton, ant
then the audience was over.-Virginis
Cabell Gardner. in St. Nicholas.
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HOW GRAIN is HANDLED.
The Seeming Mysteries Of the OPP
Grafton Fully Explained.
Valuable Account of n Visit TO the
Great Sea-Board Export Eleva-
tors of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad.
Especial Baltimore Letter |

Spectators do not control the price
of wheat except within very narrow
limits. This is an interesting discovery
have made during the past week, after
several visits to the Pandemoniacal ex-
change, and after climbing through the
number of mighty export grain eleva-
tors in the city of Baltimore-a city,
by the way, which certainly holds the
palm to-day as being the greatest grain
export center in the western hemis-
phere.
One million eight hundred thousand
bushels of wheat and corn are being
handled in Baltimore's largest elevator
about every four days, and during the
months of July and August this as
tcundingly high-pressure condition of
affairs has been practically constant.
BY the courtesy of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad company | have been
privileged, during the past week, to un-
ravel the seeming mysteries, CONNER
cial and mechanical. of how grain is
handled in these largest of large sea-
board export elevators located at their
great marine freight terminal, Locust
Point.
The outside dimensions of the larger
of the Locust Point elevators, which
1nay be considered as among the finest
ever built, are 4O7 feet long, 81 feet
wide and ITO feet high (the height from
the car floor on the pier to the top of
the machinery loft above). Everyone
is familiar with the peculiar offset con-
struction of an elevator which makes
it look like huge barn with little
barn rising from its roof. In the solid.
| windowIess structure beneath the grain
| is stored, while in the attenuated, win
| Jow-bedecked superstructure all the
machinery, weighing bins and scales,
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To the Point.

Africa always has been afflicted with
drought, and among the Beers prayers
are regularly offered up-usually when
the drought already has begun-for
relief from this evil, and the author of
ION Veldt and Farm tells story of a
pastor who pointed out the futility Of
assisting people who would not assist
themselves. A Presbyterian congrega-
ticn once pointed out to the minister
that, in view of the impending drought,
it were well to approach the Almighty
ON the subject of the rainfall. II will
not insult the Almighty replied the
sturdy Scot, "by asking such favor
OF Him, after the way in which you
have let His past mercies run away
from you" The rebuke was leveled at
the iuadequacy of the water storage
and it is to be hoped was not without
due effeet.-Youth's Companion.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-11-11
THE GREAT B. & O. ELEVATORS AT POINT BALTIMORE

the grain falls by gravity, and the dirt
and dust are thrown to one side by the
air. Here also the grain is run through
a series of screens when necessary, to
remove sticks, clods of dirt and stones.
The next two floors are known respec-
lively as the circle floor and the bin
tico or, and it is here that one sees the
most apparently inextricable confusion
Of ramifying grain chutes which di-
verge in every direction from great
centralizing circles, and permit the
grain 10 be distributed far and near to
tie various storage and shipping bins.
| These two floors are wild and weird,
with little footpath bridges and hand
rails running from circle to circle ana
disappearing far away in clouds OF hy-
ing dust.
Before the vast bulk of grain in the
storage bins can be placed in the steam
ers' holds it must go through COM
plete rehandling. 1t is dropped from
the bottom of the storage bins to the
shipping bin leg and again carried to
the top of the building to the scale floor,
weighed by the shipping scales, and
then stored in the outside series of bins
known as the shipping bins.
When a steamer is to be loaded will,
grain these shipping bins are drawn
upon by long cEutes hung upon the
outside of the building, which fairly
well adjust themselves to the varying
position of floating vessel.
The energy and motive power required
to accomplish the constant refllng and
depletion of these stupendous granaries
is simply appalling, and as an exempli
fication of this fact it may be said thai
the Locust Point elevators herewith il
Illustrated can unload, at their maxi
mum capacity, 800 cars averaging l,20(
bushels each day.
To do all this necessitates the con
certed action of an army of employe:
and two 1000 horse power engines. Th'
belts, by the way, which run the hun
dreds and hundreds of feet of stee
shafting in these mazes of gigantic
machinery are alone astounding, fo
) they measure no less than six feet il
, width and it takes two sections of Is
feet each to reach to the top of a singl
building. In fac; the exhibition o
these tremendous forces, working a
they are to-day at herculean pressure
: is profoundly impressive, gaining il
! strength by the mental comparison
! with what commerce and mechanica
J devices were only short so years age
y WILLIAM p4NWIDDIE
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farmer, in spite Of the sign: Don't
nail this door," and the patent locking
devices, will persist in driving every
thing from railroad spikes to shingle
nails in the edges of the door to insure
the safety of his precious grain, most
lamentab!e proceeding. as it wears out
the car, and the worse than thread
bare expletives of the grain handlers.
This lghtning-change act of unload
ing a full car in few minutes is ac-
complished by the use of automatically
driven shovels in the hands of two men.
These shovels look much like sheet-iron
lined snow shovels, minus the long
handles, and are attached by long rope
and small chains to a clutch IN re.
volving shaft. The men handling them
alternately recede to the extreme cor
ners of the car, bury the shovels deep
in the grain, and then twitch the rope
with the free hand, which throws the
clutch automatically in the gear, winds
up the rope, and pulls the shovels for
ward to the door, where they are auto
matically released again. This recip-
rocal shoveling by first one and then the
other is done with exceeding rapidity,
and the grain pours from the open door
| in an almost constant stream, finding
its way through the hoppers beneath
and up the great legs into the weighing
bins or "receivers," as they are called.
which each hold 500 bushels.
The scale floor, next to the highest
point in an elevator-only the driving
machinery being above-is where all
the grain is weighed. both when re-
ce:ved and at the time of shipment.
There are "a receiving scales and the
same number of shipping scales. run
ming from one end of the building to the
o1Eer. each scale carrying an immense
rectangular box nicely balanced upon
its platform, which has a capacity of
over Is tons or 500 bushels of wheat.
Below the scale floor comes the blower
floor, where the grain is freed from dust
and dirt and other foreign accumula-
tions which may injure its standing or
grading as set by the inspector of grain
for the city of Baltimore. This blowing
is done by huge centrifugal fans in
large rectangular boxes, across which
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NO. 81.
DAMPNESS ABOUT THE HOUSE.
Fires Should BE Kindled Early in
the Fall.


After wet summer the greatest care
should be taken to kindle fires early in
the season and fight the insidious damp
which penetrates the house by every
means in our power. If the cellar has
been properly ventilated at night and
shut during the day, the walls will
probably be found dry. If not, the eel
lar is almost sure to be damp, and that
uncanny vegetable growth called
mold is present on the walls. 1t should
be destroyed at once. 1t is not possible
for us to tell how nearly related the
germs of certain diseases are to some
of these fungous growths. 1t is almost
certain that many of them arise from
the same conditions of the atmosphere.
Two coats of whitewash put on damp
cellar early in September will do more
than a stove could do to dry it out. 1t
will do no harm and much good to leave
pieces of lime about the edges of the
cellar walls after it has been carefully
cleaned.
An open fire of light pine sticks and
pine cones, for the sake of their aromat-
ic fragrance, kindled early in the morn
ing and evening, will help to keep the
house dry. Open the windows freely
while these fires are burning if it is
warm. If there is no fireplace, a light
wood fire kindled for few moments in
the heater or in some stove, where the
heat can circulate through the house,
will be a propitious offering to the
Penates who guard the health and well
fare of the house, and ward off the
demons of zoomatic disease which lurk
in dampness and the decaying vegeta-
ton of late summer and autumn. Such
wet season as this, cesspools and gar
bage pals should be kept scrupulously
clean, and every place that may be a
culture spot for the germs of disease
should be disinfected. Use disinfect-
ants literally. The vicinity of the house
and all parts of the dooryard should be
kept clean. The refuse of decaying
plants and herbs should be burned early
in the fall in pit, with all old bones,
wooden and any material possessing
nitrogenous material M;&ed with the
proper amount of sal soda and lime,
such refuse becomes valuable fertlliz-
er. Old-time farmers, who often raised
crops from the stoniest and least prom
ising soil, always kept refuse pit at
distance from the house, where all de-
bris, which if left ungathered would be
| a menace to the health, became under
| proper treatment valuable means OF
| fertilizing the ground. These pits are
not as common as they once were, when
the commercial fertilizers were un-
| known.-N. Y. Tribune.
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and the multiplicity OF criss-cross,
transverse chutes are found. In this
particular elevator there are 254 stor-
age bins alone, each one being some IL
let square and 90 feet deep, with ca
bacity of about $500 bushels. AS 1t is
Necessary that this enormous weight OF
grain should be supported above the
tops of the railroad cars which run un-
der the entire length of the granarics
on two separate lines of track, the tim
bering and snoring and studding are OF
magnificent proportions. To withstand
tie frightful lateral strain of the grain
each bin is built of heavy pine plank
ing, two inches thick and eight inches
wide, spiked together on it's greater
width. Outside Of the storage bins, rum
ming along the entire length of both
sides of the building and connected with
outside chutcs for steamer lading, are
the "shipping bins," more than 10 in
number. Each of these contains over
500 bushels. At the end of the build
| ing. which has been erected upon WON
| d, rful foundation of piles, far out in the
| water, is to be found what is known as
| the steamer Leg" an immense two
legged pendulum device which sticks its
nose into the very bottom of steamers
hold and gathers up the grain in end
less travelling buckets to be stored in
the bins far above.
How to get grain from a loaded
freight car in the yard into the ship
ping bins, and from them into the
steamer to be carried beyond the sea is
quite problem to the uninitiated but
simple enough to those whose lives are
an endless routine of grain, grain.
| Twenty-four loaded cars are run into
the building on the two tracks, each one
being centered over large. barred graf
ing occupying both the center and one
side of the rails. These holes lead to wha
is again known as receiver leg, thai
is, an upright wooden chute some 2K
feet in width, reaching from this foo
to almost the very top of the building
containing an endless travelling belt car
rying sheet-iron buckets eight inche:
apart, and emptying their content.
above into q weighing bin on the tol
floor.
The modern, large freight car will
hold 1000 to 1000 bushels Of wheat, an(
it can be unloaded from the elevate
floor by expert handling and with th'
mechanical contr1vances in vogue il
about five minutes after the door i
opened. The opening OF the door first i
F! stipulated, - the average Waysia'