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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04
POPULAR SCIENCE.

There is to be new electric light
house placed on Fire Island. of Long
island, that will have the estimated
power of 5000. 900 candles, making
I the most powerful artificial light in
la world.
II the inhabitants of the fixed stars
powerful enough telescopes to
US, they would not see us as we
ire to-day, but as we were, fifty, 100
Fears, or even longer ago, for it would
AXE light that long to travel to them.
One of the attractions of the Paris
Exposition in 1900 will be huge pic
lure of the coronation of the tsar. The
canvas will contain 900 nearly life -size
portraits, and odd devices will be re-
sorted to in an effort to produce an at
nosphere of realism.
,Rhe radiation of the heat from the
sun is not eternal; it had its beginnalg
and will have its end. If the sun rad
.ates light aud heat in all directions it
cannot be more than 100, 900, 900 years
Did. This is Lord Kelvin's estimate.
At the present rate the sun will con-
iinue from seven to fifteen millions OF
years, but the end will surely come.
The nervous system, says Professor
". H. Thomson, has greater store OF
reserve vitality than all the other bod
lily systems together, and is the only
texture that does not lose weight in
Heath by starvation or other cause. 1t
is the last to grow old. As to the
mind, it need not grow old at all, pro-
sided it be supplied with mighty slim
ulous called interest, by which it will
grow steadily. even while bone and
sinew are wasting through age.
According to reliable computation,
single tree is able through its leaves
to purify the air from the carbonic
acid arising from the respiration of q
considerable number of men--as many
as dozen or q score. The volume OF
carbonicacid exhaled by a human being
in the course of twenty -four hours is
estimated at 100 gallons, and single
square yard of leaf surface, counting
both the upper and under sides of the
leaves, can decompose about gallon
of carbonic acid day.
According to German publication,
q chemist of that country has prepared
fluid that has the power when in
iected into the tissue of plant near
it's roots of anesthetizing Elephant. The
plant does not die, but stops growing,
maintaining its fresh, green appear
ance, though its vitality is apparently
suspended. 1t is also independent of
the changes in temperature, the most
delicate dollhouse plants continuing to
bloom in the open. The composition
Of the fluid is shrouded in the great
est secrecy, but it is said to have q
pungent odor and to be colorless.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04

"Darlingw he cried, and threw HIM
self at her feet. The naughty damsel
shivered, as in apprehension. That
low Princeton tackle!' she muttered,
striving to be calm.-Life.
She (reading)-"Mice are fond Of
music, and will get as close to it as
they can" He-"Just cut that out and
I'll send it to the girl In the next
fat."-Yonkers Statesman.
Recruiting Sergeant-"Do you know
anything aboui the drill?" Recruit
CAV coorse. Didn't Oh jist tell We OF
wurked in a quarry these foive year
Observation-Disclosures Record.
Beginning early: Bridegroom =.
''Where shall we go, dearest-Niagara
Falls or Washington" Bride-"We
might go to both places and see which
we like best."-Brooklyn Life.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04

cried she raising herself to look at him
with timid tenderness
"And have You really accepted my
simple word-wh CHI is no proof"
Il have not been so generous, Enge-
londe," answered the Earl sadly. "My
stubborn pride fought against my yearn-
ing love; we men are hard and stern,
sweet soul, not like you gentle beings,
whose love makes you so self-forgetful.
In reading your narrative, | saw that il
was In my power TO prove one point
when that was proven | accepted all the
rest joyfully. and entirely"
"And that point"
"Was one which could be proven by
John Sircombe-and which WASP"
She considered moment, then the
whole scene. came back to her; she
turned with burst of joy, and threw
her arms about her husbands neck
Sand you believed NE through that
one trifling piece of evidence?" she cried
exultingly; "because these few words OF
mine were corroborated you could q :cept
the whole all. your heart could not
have bcel very cold or hard towards me,
or you would never have come back t.
me on such insufficient testimony, which
the world would only laugh at, Now,
indeed, am happy, for | know how
great your trust is! l thank God. oh,
how gratefully, for the gift he has given
me to-day is without one flaw, my nus
band not only loves but trusts me-"
For a moment she gazed with stream
ing eyes towards heaven, then turning,
gently laid her arms around her hus
bands neck. her face upon his shoulder.
Another sweet silence, then she looked
up with wondering face.
"You say you have read my story; how
can that be? In my happy bewilder-
ment / looked at everything through a
mist; did not realize what You had said.
But how did you receive that manuscript
which thought lost?"
81 received it from the faithful hand
to which you confided it." said Inchcape
gently; "you chose your champion well,
my Engelonde!"
She uttered charmed, wondering cry,
half terrified though she was.
"Did Captain Edgar escape after al.
then? is he alive? but how can it be? oh,
/ am awake. hope!"
"Yes, he is alive; he escaped by mir
acle: aud the first use he made OF his
safety was to fulfill his promise to you.
TO BE CONTINUED
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04
Strange Money in tn. Mountains.

''The strangest money L ever saw"
said a drummer for Main street house
the other evening, twas in the noun
tain districts in Kentucky and West
Virginia. Last summer Twas making
my semi-annual tour through this dis
trict and 1 stopped one day at little
grocery and saloon, not to sell goods,
but to get drink of the mountain
dew While L was pouring out my
drink big husky mountaineer en-
tered the place and called for a drink.
As he finished gnlping it down he
reached into big bulky pocket and
drew forth what looked to be COON
skin. He laid the skin on the counter,
the barkeeper took the skin and open
ing drawer, hauled ont rabbit skin,
which I suppose was the change. The
mountaineer picked up the rabbit skin
and started to the front part Of the
store, which was the grocery. He
there bought twist of tobacco and
rendered the rabbit skin in payment.
He received big twist of long green,
and was surprised to see the store
keeper reach in another drawer and
tender him squirrel skin. The noun.
taineer tucked the squirrel skin in his
pocket, walked out. unhitched his
horse and rode away.
81 became interested and engaged
the proprietor in conversation. He
told me that sometimes he would &c
months without seeing any real money,
and that the mountaineers used tbs
skins in all kinds of trades. such as
buying horses, etc. He said that foui
times year hide buyer from Lex.
ington or Cincinnati visited this coun.
try and bought up all the skins, which
were generally concentrated in the
few stores in the vicinity. Louis
Vile Dispatch.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04
CHAPTER XX.
~ OWN TRUE WIFE

Lady Inchcape and her daughter were
seated in heathery dell, sheltered by
the stuntei frs of Sleat-na- Vrecken; for
the summer flies carly from the bleak
Northland, and already winters moan
ing winds echoed the hoarser roaring of
the sea.
allow fond you are of this spot, love."
said Engelonde, tenderly smoothing the
pale cheek of Viva, whose head lay upon
her breast; "why is it? There are many
lovelier views on our roor Sleet ma
Nrecken, and many softer mossbeds;
and yet it is to this one dell that you
come day after day, as to a shrine."
"And is it not shrine?" answered u
va, family, her dark, mournful eyes,
grown larger and deeper than of old,
fixed upon a certain spot of the rocky
Path, which passed near by. "For here
| saw for the last time one whom shall
never see again till the sea gives up her
dead. Over there-there, mamma, our
hands touched each other for one little
moment feel the clasp upon this poor
wasted hand yet And here, where we
sit alone, / stool when / met his eyes
for the last time-for the last tina"
Her low, sweet tones broke, and sank
into silence
Lady Inchcape WATCHED her with
yearning gaze.
Yes, Ulva, we lost true friend when
Captain Edgar died: truer, God never
made!" she sighed, while her heart
swelled with unforgotten grief
She would not tread closer to the
sacred ground of Ulva's hopeless love,
for by no spoken word had the maiden
ever confessed her secret; though her
long illness, followed by this settled
apathy of grief, had long convinced
Lady Inchcape that Ulya's heart was
buried with the dead.
Heavy Indeed had been my lady's sor-
row for the brave man who had taught
her how to hope: but she saw with ter
ror and SET reproach that Ulva's was
heavier yet and woald last her life long.
In the silence which fell between
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04

trying to keep up with their devilment
and their insults to the south? The
New York Evening Post has recently
uttered truth ebout the negro post
masters, and denounced the admins
tration for appointing them to any
civil office in the south while they
would not dare to do it in New York.
But am going to work in my garden.
King Ahasuerus got very mad one time
and walked out into his garden to let
his choler down. I am doing that al
most every day. When Tread malig-
nant piece in paper l throw down
the paper and rush out into the garden
and go to digging. 1t relieves me and
I soon come back all calm and serene
in fact, think Mr.. Shakespeare ought
to have made the sixth age the garden
age and the nursery age-the period
when an old man begins to love flowers
and children and raise vegetables.
Everybody who lives to see three score
years comes to that age. He mellows
down to nature and to the true, the
innocent and the beautiful and he gets
uelloWcT rs tnc years Toll Oh.
I was reading about the
great Emperor Diocletian the
other day how he reigned with great
success for twenty-one' years and en-
riched his people and secured their
love and confidence when suddenly, in
his sixtieth year, he abdicated his i'm
perial crown and retired to farm at
Solona, and went to raising fruit and
vegetables. His subjects were asst
ounded. In about two years his king
dom got into trouble, and when they
sent for him to come back and take the
reins of government and guide them
out of trouble he said. "No, oh, no.
Look at these cabbages which my own
hands have planted. Look at these
fruits and flowers, and don't ask me to
leave them. cannot make such sac
rifice.''
But let the procession proceed. We
can stand anything that anybody else
can. IN fact, we have already stood it.
BILL ARP. in Atlanta Constitution.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04
A New Industry in the Bahama Island

A New Industry In the Bahama Islands
J. For years the inhabitants of these
islands have been making living by
fruit and sponge culture, and spend
ing their energies trying to exter
inmate a pest in the shape of a
flbrous plant that has overran the
islands. Recently sensible man,
who was sent there by Great Britain,
discovered that this tlbrouS plant was
a remarkably fine specimen of the
sisal grass, whose cultivation, of an
inferior quality, in Mexico, for the
use in rope making. has built up large
fortunes in the business. Now the
people are going into the business of
manufacturing Bahama fiber" 1t
makes an excellent rope, and the
threads are so fine it is believed it
will go into fabrics. They will begin
the export of the fiber next year.
This fiber plant is of the cactus order
and takes four years TO mature.
After that, leaves from the same
plant can be gathered for from twelve
to fourteen years. The leaves are
from five to six feet long. This fiber
promises to find ready market in
the United States.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04

A MODEL schoolhouse will be erect:
ed on the Worlds Fair grounds. If
1T Is intended to represent city
school, there ought to be peculiarly
dlngy and disreputable saloon within
100 feet of it.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04
oldest Woman Writer.

Nine. Du Bots d'Elbhecque is the
Oldest living woman who earns her
living with her pen. She is ninety
wears old and lives in convent near
Anglers, France. Ia the seventy nine
wears in which she has been writing
she has published over forty books.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04
Double Daily Trains
Fast Time
Close Connections.

Through Pullman Palace Sleepers
between New Orleans aud Memphis,
Kansas City, st. Louis and Chicago
without change, making direct connec.
lions with first-class lines to ell points
The great steel bridge spanning the
Ohio river at Cairo completed, and all
trains freight and passenger) now run
ming regularly over it, thus avoiding the
delays and annoyance incident to trans.
fer by ferry boat.
A. II. HANSON. Gen. Pas. Agt.,
Chicago.
Jxo. A. ScoTr, d. P. A.. Memphis.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-14

We oondemn - traftorous conduct Of those
officials, wherever responsibility may rest. to
whose culpability Is due the death by starva-
ton and disease Of several thousand of our
men. We demand that tho awful scandals in
Volved In the conduct of the war be impair TALLY
and completely investigated, and that adequate
punishment be Ineted wherever due.
The people of Nevada justly proud Of
their University. We commend the efficient
management which has made it an institution
of infinite usefulness and widening possibilities.
Its IL fiuence is already felt as a potent factor
for the intellectual and economic development
OF the State. We pledge to 1t generous sup
Tort and hearty co oneration along every limo
t1at VIII tend to maintain its present high stan
lard, or conduce to its Improvement.
This convention pledges its nominee for Gov
ernor that he wi approve Of such legislation
as will carry into effect the sixth sec
ton OF Article 10 of the State Con-
ttitution which provides that tho Leg
islature shall provide special tax which
shall not exceed two mills on the dollar
Of all taxable property in the State in addition
to the other means provided for the supl ort
and maintenance of the State University and
common schools. This convention recon-
mends all county conventions of the Silver
party to pledge their nominees for the State
Legislature to carry into effect the State Con-
stitution by passing bill levying tax of one
mill on the dollar OF all taxable property in this
State in addition to the other means now pro-
vided by law for the support and maintenance
of the State University and common schools of
this State.
We invite comparison of the four years dur
ing which the Silver Party has been in control
of the State Government with the last four
years of the Republican regime. The eSpen-
ses of the last Republican Legislature amounted
to S5l0O, that of the last Silver Party Legi Ia
ture, Sz9,5O0. Tho expenses of the Executive
Department for the last year Immediately pro
ceding Silver Party control amounted to
over S}s, 500 while but S2G SO were tn expen-
ses of the Executive Department for 1897. For
the last four years of Republican management
SS,UW were expended in public buildings as
against S97C by the Silver Party. And dur
ing the periods i'll comparison, in support of the
public schools of the State, the Silver Party
exp nded S3110U0 rs against S256500 by the Re
publ, an party. No one can examine the fore
going and many other facts and figures which
might he adduced. without the resulting con
Victlou that the Silver Party has fulfilled its
Promise of retrenchment with reference to .;-
aries Of State officials and tho curtailmcnt of
rnneco- sary expenses, while, tho other
Ean1 1T has generously fosterod the eiuca-
tional and charitable institutions of tho State
and wisely contributed to its pubic improve
ment.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-14

When the baby grows up or the per-
ambulatCr becomes too shabby fore
further exhibition in public, it does
not follow, by any means. that the lat
ter's period Of use fuiness is ended. In
fact, it has just graduated from one
season OF utility Into another. as may
De ascevtaiEcG OF The secondhand fur
liture dealers Oh the east side, says
the New York Herald.
These merchants deal heavily in
cast-off baby buggies," as they term
them, and from Offering conveyance
to infants the vehicles pass on % en-
oloymentS at cnce multifariOus and
surious!y inappropriate. The Italian
tinerGEt musicians purchase The IN 0
trunGie .heir small barrel organs
about the city; the Greek flower SO Hers
stock them with their fragrant wares
and push them in every direction;
washerwomen, too, are good custom
ers and use the versatile rcrnmbula-
tor as a means of conveying bundles
of linen to and from their customers
homes.
But the list would not be complete
Unless the rowing candy merchants
were included. These vendors are COW
ering long stretches of city territory
every day. wheeling before them sec
ond-hand perambulators on which
rest tiny showcases filed with confec-
tionery. So, too, the "nice-a-banan"
men are, in instances, discarGirg the
, heavy pushcarts fer the ligh! and cas-
lily moved baby carriage, which i'll time
bids fair 10 supplant all vehicles of the
hand power variety now in general
service.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-14
Queer Streets of Manila.

The streets of Manila are so modern
rs to be quite out of keeping with the
general appearance Of the town. They
are perfectly straight, macadamizcd,
and provided wiki ample granite walks.
Of these the Esconta and the Rosario
Ire the best. In hotf these are excellent
shops, kept principally by Chinese
merchants, most Of whom come from
Annoy. Tin-roofed houses line each
side of both thoroughfares.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-14
Platform.

1'hr Silver Party OF Nevada pledges its I'M
Tav"'ing devotion to the principles of govern
ment cid down by jefferson and Lincoln:
That the highest duty Of government is to so
regulate its laws that tho spirit Of equality
shall follow men through life giving each am1-
lest opportunity to work out to tho fullest
measure his possibilities, unrestricted by law,
ana unaffected 10y the conquest of his dOmin-
ion of Opportun ty 10y other men. We indorse,
rs expressing the demands of the American
people In cpn'onan"c with the foregoing, tho
platform of the National Silver party formu-
lated a. st. Louis, July -, 1886. and the finat-
cial plank of tho National Democratic party
adopted at Chicago, July :. 1898.
Tho history of the movement for the rcstorn-
tion of bimctallism is the glorious story of Ne
vada's leadership. Tho educational work so
periodically undertaken six years ago has
spread throughout the entire country On tho
issue that tho value of money is quantltativo
md not Qualita i've, the intellectual and pOiti-
ral forces Of nations are now battling. Mind
tul Of her glorious record Nevada will take her
place again in tho conflict, not rs the ally Of
Hold, but on the sdo of those who struggle iii
the fields of advcrsity
We reaflirm our devotion to the free and I'M
limited coinage Of silver ut the ratio Of 10 to
by the independent action of the United States,
ana we are una. tCrably opposed to the Repub-
lican policy of increasing the bonded debt: Of
transferring the sovereign power Of the gov
eTnment TO ISSUE money to banking inStitu-
lions; OF contracting the circulating medium
TO the single gold standard, and of increasing
taxation while contraction is diminishing tho
means Of payment.
Our faith In the loyalty, ability, and wiso load
ership of William J. Bryan is undjminisbed
md we predict for tho silver forces OF tho Uni.
ted States with 10 to va their motto. and
William j. Bryan rs their standard bearer, an
overwhelming victory in 1910
We invite tho cooperation of tho Republican
party Of Nevada who declared in their plat.
form Of May ~, ID o. as follows:
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-14
SILVER PARTY
State Ticket

For United States Senator
WILLIAM NJ STEWART
OF Ormsby
For Congress
FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS
or Washoe..
For Governor
REINHOLD SADLER
or Eureka
For Lieutenant Governor
JAMES r JUDGE
OF Ormshy
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
CHARLES II BELKNAP
OF Ormsby
For Secretary of State
EUGENE HOWELL
OF White Pine
For State Treasurer
DAVE RYAN
or Storey
For State Controller
SAM p DAVIS
OF Ormshy
For Attorney General
WILLIAM d JONES
Or Lander
For State Printer
ANDREW MAUrE
OF Nye
For sSurveyor-Gcneral
EDWARD ID KELLEY
Or WaShOe
For Superintendent Public Ins'tion
HENRY G CUTTING
Or EsmcYalln
For Regent State University
Urng TERM
- Z L DEAL
OF Storey
For Regent State University
(ohort Tcrn)
HENRY : STARRETT
Of Lander
For District Judges
First Diatrict
CHARLES T. Mack
Of Storey
Second District
y T. CURLER
Of Washoc
Third District
IL FITZGERALD
Of Eureka
Fourth District
G Il TALBOT
OF Elko
Fifth District
SAMUEL j BONNIFIELD
OF Humboldt.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-14
Political announcements.

Announcements under this head will BE-
published up to the General Election for
elO. payable invariably in advance.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-03-19
SHOOTING AT WARREN
Engineer Robinson Pumps Led Into
 an Offensive Negro Porter.
(From the Warren sentineI.)

Last Tuesday night a few minutes after the passenger train pulled into the yard, five pistol shot were heard at the depot. The news soon spread that P. J. Robinson, the engineer. had shot Green Lawson, the col0red porter of the train. It seems from what we can learn that Green was some what under the influence of whiskey ank became very abusive to Mr. Robinson, when the latter pulled his pistol and fired five shots, four of which took effect.
 He is very badly wounded, having his right arm broken, also shot in the back, stomach and left shoulder. He was taken last Thursday to the St Louis hospital for treatment. Doctors Martin, Barnett and Gamma way cut two bullets of his body and set his arm Tuesday night Mr. Robinson went on home after the shooting and then went after Sheriff Clary and surrendered himself He was placed under $2.o00 bond for his appearance before the Mayor We'd nesday night, when he appeared with his counsel. W.S. Goodwin, who waived examination and asked for bail. Mayor Barnett fixed the bail at $2,000 for Mir. Robinson's appear anee at circuit court, which was promptly given.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-03-19
BUTCHER SHOP sol D.

The MeCormick meat shop on Main street has been sold to Mir. I. !. Bloom. MT. Bloom on yesterday as sumed control of the shop owned by himself and brother. His purchase of the Mccormick shop gives him two first-class shops, which he will likely consolidate for the convenience and benefit of his customers.
 We wish him success in the enter prise.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-03-19
MON TGOMERY
 WITHDRAWN WILL STEAM OUT OF HAVANA HARBOR TODAY. Will Be Replaced by the Fern al Headquarters for Capt
 sigsbee

HAVANA, March 16.-The Fern will arrive here tomorrow and re- place the Montgomery as the head quarters of Capt. Sigsbee and others who are supervising the wrecking work on the Maine. The Montgom- cry will go to Key West shortly af- ter the arrival of the Fern.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-03-19
CHANCERY COuRT.

The Chancellor today rendered a decision in the ease of Cornelia E.. Fining vs. NJ. (. Cross. Tbe suit is one Of long standing and involves the title to the vacant lot on the cor ner of Sixth avenue and Olive street. opposite the public school. Thecase was decided in favor of the plaintiff. Mrs. Vining