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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24
PASSING OF THE STAGE COACH.
Old Driver on the Santa Ynes valley AAns
VIII Soon Be Out Of . JOB.

Old Driver on the Santa Ynex valley AAns
win Soon Be Out of job
The last ditch in which staging is 70
die is in Southern California. The
line now consists of a. double daily
service Of six-horse coaches, running
betw cen Surf, at the southern terminus
of the Coast Line division OF the
Southern Pacific Railway, and Santa
Barbara, CAL, which is now the north,
ern terminus Of the Southern Pacific.
The filling of the gap. now only sew,
enty miles wide, will complete another
trunk line between San Francisco ana
Los Angeles.
A days ride through the most en-
trancing scenery saw in California
brought me from San Francisco TO-
Lompoc, ready for the stage ride on
the well-equipped line that piles across
the mountains to Santa Barbara,
writes q correspondent now in the
West.
Promptly at 6 O'Clock in the morn.
ing the stage, drawn by six spirited
horses, swung in graceful curve to
the porch of the hotel, its great body
tossing on it's leathern springs IKE
ship in billowy sea. The Weiis.
Fargo Express treasure box was stoweo
in the boot beneath the drivers seat.
the United States mail sacks piled
M on top of it. climbed to the high
seat beside the driver. Charley Jen'
nings.
| Sharp "crack- cracks" punotuated
the swish of the long lash through the
mountain air. Twenty-four iron-shoc
hoofs smote the hard, smooth foee
and we were off in good old-fashionet
stage-coach style. ).
(Which way lies the city OF SAINT!
Barbara?" asked the driver %
looked up long valley that scenes
: completely walled in by towering tree
, and manzanite shrub covered noun
: tains. -.
Cup the Santa Ynes' Valley" b
3 said. land over the mountain righ
a where you see that white cloud q
r there that has set down on the Top
4 the mountain to rest"
It "How is the railroad to get ovt
s these high, steep mountains?" askes
}. s'They don't go over; they go aroun
II them. The railroad will follow II
J. beach of the ocean most OF the wa,
l. but they have some pretty stiff VOL
t. in one canon. It's deep and stet
to and mighty rocky. When Fremo
ID came in here from the South with b
II army in the forties the Mexicans 10
TO tilted that canon. They thought
would have to go through it, and thu
~ we're prepared to give him bait
ID there. But he was too cute Tor 81
re he came over the mountains on tr'
We that this wagon road we are on folio
i'd very closely"
Dinner at "Cold Spring Ranch
he perched near the mountaintop-fri
.c- trout, fresh caught, hot biscuit, hone
d. golden butter and hot coffee. With
he appetite whetted by the light ar OF
sh altitude half mile above the ocean
Ip, was not to be despised.
De- A dash down the steep and roc
ng seward face of the "Santa Ynez"
zee a road that clung to the giddy sides
yawning precipices, down. down,
=" six horses on sweeping gall1p, do
on to the foothills. clothed in yell
Ich mustard bloom. Down in the val!
ng ON to broad country road, sixty
The wide, and then we came TO santa 2
| hAra
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24
wealthy Monounaniacs.

It is we'll known that many rich men
are haunted by the fear that they will
become poor, the dread being SO
strong in some cases that it amounts
TO a mania. An Englishman whose
income is twenty thousand pounds q
wear is now impressed with the belief
that he has not enough to live upon,
but is comforted by finding on his
plate at the breakfast table each week
day morning a sovereign. OF which,
most likely, he is careful not to spend
more than half, or perhaps one
fourth. Some few years ago ricn
man. who had devoted all his life to
making q fortune-which he fancied
that he had lost twas employed in his
own garden at one pound week, and
attained q great age, with perhaps al
much happiness as he had ever en-
loved. After all there is not mucf
need to pity such men, and no especia
reason to blame them. They had NJ
opportunity in their young days 0
learning how to enjoy recreation, AM
| they never knew the duty OF having
, hobby. Waverley Magazine.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24

by sections, by companies, by bat
talions. Hour after hour, it is moth
ing but the raising of legs till they are
at right angles to backs, erect as posts,
while subulterns and captains direct,
correct, repeat-do the work when
our subalterns and captains leave to
their drill sergeants. -,
But the German officers are the drill
sergeants of their army; they are the
schoolmasters of people whose edu'
cation is war; the guardians OF Ger
many whose safety is her military
supremacy-of country which is pre-
pared for war because it wants peace.
In the afternoon, from one to Six
there is an incesant musical drill: the
men. keeping their feet firm, sway
their bodies backwards and forwards,
or to left and right, or else they ad-
vance or retire on tiptoe, or on all
fours or they double to their front OF
to their rear. You wonder as you
look, that no more agreeable means
has as vet been found in Germany by
which the bodily activity OF her sol
diers and the mobility of her mllltar!
"units" can be increased.
Those of more than years service
shoot and shoot at the butts, and Shoot
again all the morning till they have
attained certain standard OF marks
manship in every possible attitude; OF
else they are drilled in less elemen
tary formations; or else they garrison
the outpost forts. And in the even
ings all are instructed by the non com
missioned officers out Of the ot1cia
manual of field service; and thus I'll
2 nine when the long day is done.
And SO the great war-machine Is KeI
oiled and smooth-running, and tn
0 German army marks time. But ye
u in spite of all this, Metz and Strasbur
!, convey no threat; they seem merely
II be recognition of French instablilt.
a they are just a proof that German
/ cannot forget Bismarck MAXIM
"Never trust France" The swoi
q hangs over France, but 1t will be Il
;, fault of the French themselves alol
q if the thread which upholds 1t is Gu
p I-Boston Transcript.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24
Hot Springs in Uganda.

The following Is an ia. eresting story
concerning the hot springs at Ruwen-
xori, in the Uganda. as related by Bish-
op Tucker
"As the sun went down, expecting
the cold, we had fire lighted outside
our tent, but to our ACCOMPLISHMENT the
heat became so great that we had to
remove the fire, and, sure enough, as
time went on, 1t seemed to get worse
and worse. 1t was impossible to sleep
jim fact, it was worse than the worst
night on the Red Sea, and the same dis
tressing kind of heat. Unable to sleep,
we Law perspiring as If we were 10
Turkish bath. Next morning we spent
in inspecting the wonderful hot springs
which lay about one hour away to the
left. The boiling water was bubhlinS
up all over a space of. about ~ yardA
Down the center is channel IN wnicn
the hot water collects and runs away,
forming a good-sized stream as 1t gets
free Of the springs.
| We found a number of people bathing
At the time, as they believe the water
sure cure for almost every disease. we
placed few potatoes in one OF the
largest springs and had the pleasure Of
eating them beautifully boiled in about
ten minutes. am told that the natives
living round here boil their potatoes
here every day, and are thus saved dre
wood and water. The .bathers hav'
their bath by diverting one of the no
streams in a large hole dug IN tn
ground
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24
LOCAL ADVERTISING.
Views of a Successful Iowa Hardware
Merchant.


Merchant.
AT meeting of the retail dealers OF
Iowa. held at Des Moines, recently,
r. M. Doxsee, a hardware dealer, OF
Algona, said that the whole story OF
Advertising could be fummed up IN
the parable of the sower, "Some seed
fell by the wayside"-that is, good
money has been paid by hardware
men to have their names and places
of business displayed on fences ana
barns.
"Whoever," asked Mr.. Doxsee,
chad customer come and say: saw
your name on Jim Hills cowshed and
thought would come and see what
You had? This kind OF ADVERTISING
continued Mr.. Doxsee, ''may have de-
veloped country marksmen so that cur
armies are able to whip any country
on earth, but for advertising purposes
Il Ia q failure. Some fell on stony
around'-that is the handbill. whicn
Is tossed into the ditch or underdeatn
the sidewalk, and which uniformly IS
denied admission to the house. But
some fell on good ground and brought
forth. some hundred fold, some sixty
fold. some thirty fold'-that is news,
paper advertising properly prepared
and inserted in the proper medlum.
The speaker was emphatic in his as.
sertion that the newspaper is the best
and cheapest medium of reaching the
customer He offered the following
points for the local advertiser to con-
slider:
s"To fight successfully the depart
ment stores and the catalogue houses
Won will have to advertise judiciously
and psrsistently. These places hne
Il profitable to advertise, and hav'
seen country papers in which their
we're no local hardware ads, bu
one or more of these catalogue houses
Yet the local dealers have compliance
because their people would patronlz'
the range pedler, the catalogue hous
and the department store.
1.-THE question of how much none
a merchant should spend in advertis
ing is hard to answer. l have near
Of one who determined to expend hal
, of his net profits in this method. l
less than one year he had such
; volume of business that he could ne
, find means Of advertising enough
. which to expend the whole OF tn
amount set aside for the purpose.
, saThe character of the paper in whic
he advertises. The paper having tn
: largest circulation may not be the, be-
: advertising medium, for it may ha1
;. fewer considerate readers than OF
= not 80 pretentious in that respect. II
, character of the paper gives the'read
!. his opinion, either good or bad, OF Il
= advertisements in its columns.
!. sThe advertisement should
= changed often. The merchant shou
: always have his space filled with ne
- - matter if he would have them read.
" saw one advertisement of hardwa
5 dealer in this State being run IN
:. paper when the thermometer wasltwcn
70 70 degrees below zero. Itstated that
~ had the most complete line OF la
u mowers, hay rakes and fly screens
~ the market. It evidently had been
:. constant use since the spring before
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24
The Anchors For Ships.

sb,ns' anchors cost from five to
seven cents a pound, 80 that q 60O0-
pound anchor, which would be very
large one, would cost, even at the
lowest price, about $500; and the big
ship that required an anchor OF that
size would carry two of them. The
two big anchors carried by q ship OF,
sav. 1000 tons would weigh from 4SO0
70 5000 pounds each.
The anchors of merchant vessels are
rainted or tarred. Whenever the
vessel is painted the anchors are
painted also to preserve them from
rust. But on yachts and various
smaller pleasure craft galvanized
anchors are used, which, OF course.
do not require painting. Galvanized
iron anchors have been made for tor
pedo boats in the navy, but, general,
snaakinQ. their use is confined x
pleasure craft. A galvanized anchor
cost nearly as much again as one no
galvanized.
The galvanizing preserves the an
chor from rusting and makes the an
chor more slightly in appearance, an
Il prevents the anchor from dripping
rustv water and 80 staining and MAJ
r;no decks or other surfaces wit
which 1t might come in contact. Ar
ohors weighing 140O pounds have pee
galvanized, such anchors being fe
1erv large steam. yachts; anchors 81
-slyan;vad in various sizes from thi
down to the very small anchors use
for sailboats and small yachts. {
small galvanized anchors many q
: sold.-New York Sun.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24
German Governments Employs wom

herman
Consul Liefeld writes from Freiburg
that the experiment of employing
women in Germany as clerks and
directors of small postofices has been
satisfactory. The departments now
going step further, and Is appoint
| ing women assistants in the telegraph
and telephone Offices. A great many
women have also been appointed 70
take full charge of small postoi1ces,
preference being shown to the widow
and daughters of deceased postmasters,
Those who have been in the employ
~ the Government long time are q
receive salary of $2S5 per year, vl'l
an extra allowance of $ll9 for HOUSE
lrent.-New York Tribune
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24

Clothing stores all report steady
increase of Alaska business. The
most noteworthy changes in the buy
ers' wants from last year are the de-
mand for furs instead of woolens and
for lighter footgear. Moccasins are
popular. Heavy blankets are unsala.
bic. -Tacoma Ledger.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24

The railways of Australia are nearly
all the property of the State, and IN,
Guiding the mileage in New Zealand
have an extent Of 1857 miles.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24

Harry Lockwood, Of Newark, ONO
has been arrested for trying TO blow up
his mother-in-law with dynamite. MI.
lockwood shouldn't take 80 seriously
what the funny papers say about tne
ununeannrhnrlDW.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-06-24
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
RAILROAD,
THE GREAT TRUNK LINE
Between the
North and South.
Only direct route to
nenphIs, ST. Leafs. Chicago. Kansas Cill
and al points
NORTH, EAST And WEST.
Only Direct route ~
Jekssn, vleSshurg. New Grimm
| And al points in Texas and Inc bouth'
west.
| - NH M.>s~nA
Double Daily Trains
Fast Time
Close Connections.

Through Pullman Palace BleePer'
betveen New Orleans and Memphis,
Kansas City, st. Louis and Chicago
without change, making direct sonneo
lions with first GLASS lines to al points
The great steel bridge spanning tbs
Ohio river at Cairo completed, and al
trains freight and passsnger) now run
ming regularly over il, Tins avoiding inc
delays and annoyance incident TO trans
Ter By ferry boat
Chicago.
J~n A Soorr. d. p. A.. Hemphia
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
document, if the members are willing

document, if the members are willing to do so."
 In the issue of the Daily Alaskan referred to, we also find the following editorial mention:
 "The man from Skagway will assist in arranging a new call for a conven. tion. and he regrets that the original call was published before he had signed it. The Douglas Island News will kindly explain this matter to its readers"
 We have carefully scanned our Alaska exchanges aud the only excep- tion taken to our view of this matter is from the Dispatch. Whether the editor of that paper wrote, or assisted in getting up the "A Call" we are not informed, but he certainly con- sidered his interest in the matter so great that he was unwilling to discuss the subject in fair and manly man. ner, and felt called upon to indulge in dirty little filings and insinuatiOns that were entirely unnecessary if he was a seeker after the truth.
 The editor of the Dispatch cannot hoodwink the people upon this matter. He will always have credit for posses sing sufficient knowledge and judg- ment to know that the "A Call" was in an unfortunate form," and should be remodeled. However, MT. Russell is a young man and abnormally possesses that peculiar characteristic incident to youth which manifests itself in the proneness to unduly exhibit that part of the body which age, wisdom and discretion seek to conceal.
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
The Brewers.

The brewers of Alaska are getting the worst of it on the high license law. They are required to pay $500 besides the internal revenue tax. The brewer ies in the coast cities are doing business in this district without paying this license tax, and we understand the district attorney has advised them that there is no law requiring them to pay the $500 that Alaska brewers pay. So far as brewers license is concerned this may be correct, but how about agents coming into this district and sell ling? Does the interstate law apply to this district as it does between the states?
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
Prof. Kelly.

Prof. Wm. A. Kelly, assistant super intendent of schools in Alaska, was in the city last Thursday. He has also been appointed special agent, twelfth census, for southern Alaska, with head quarters at Sitka. He took look over our school grounds and ordered some needed improvements. Prof. Kelly would not consent to be interviewed, but from his general conversation we believe that he is not pleasedwith our present school site and that he will not recommend the construction of a new building on the same.
 Prof. Kelly was delighted with Doug las City and expressed great surprise in finding such splendid town on this side of the channel. Like all others not acquainted with our city he expect ed to find Juneau the only wide-awake town on Gastineau channel.
 The Prof. will visit Douglas again in about 30 days, at which time he expects to spend day or two in town and will get acquainted with our people.
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
Tell the Truth.

The Dispatch says the committee made up the convention call. That is a mistake. The committeeman from Skagway did not assist in getting up the "a call" as shown by extracts from the Daily Alaskan. We arc also in- formed that the Ia call" was prepared in Juneau and presented to Judge How ell in this city and that he attached his name to the same, but took no part in it's construction. The Dispatch man should not be so reckless in his asser- tions.
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
Douglas Island Mails.

Douglas City is deprived of proper mail facilities. The third largest city in the district must receive her mail hours after it is taken past our town. We think the Pacific Coast Steamship Company should be willing to treat our people fair. Nine-tenths of the freight for Douglas City is shipped over that line. Will not Supt. Robin son recommend that justice be done to our people.
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
Col. WhoIley and Gov. Rogers.

The New York Sun praises Col. WholIey, the colonel of the Washington regiment that did such good fighting in the Philippines. It was very fortu- nate that Gov. Rogers appointed Col, WholIey to command the gallant Wash ingtonians and, if we are correctly in- formed, man named Mcintyre would have been given the place had it not been for an act of insubordination on his part just before the regiment was recruited.
 Shortly after Gov. Rogers was elected, this man Mcintyre and his excellency made a trip to the eastern portion of the state to inspect some irrigation ditches. He talked "wild-eyed" popu- lism to the chief executive until Gov. Rogers concluded that Mcintyre was the "genuine thing" and forthwith put him at the head of the Washington National Guards with title that was way up to general" if our memory serves us right.
 When a call for troops was made, this "wild eyed" general rushed into print and declared that his orders must come from the President of the United States, and the governor who had ap- pointed him was no longer worthy of consideration, and of course when the time came for selecting colonel for the Washington boys, the general" was left. The general" got few ot the boys to recommend his appoint ment, but Gov. Rogers would not have it that way, and it is a very fortunate thing, for he would probably have fur ther disgraced himself and the regl- ment too.
 Whether this would-be soldier still holds commission we are not inform ed. If he does, Gov. Rogers ought to promptly revoke it.
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
A Pleasant Time.

A very pleasant birthday party was tendered to Miss Alice Coggins, at the residence of her parents, MT. and Mrs. Peter Coggins, on Tuesday evening, Aug. 29, celebrating her twelfth year. A large gathering of friends spent pleasant evening in singing and merry making and an elaborate supper was then enjoyed by the little ones. Miss Coggins then thanked her friends for the numerous presents she received. The list of guests is as follows:
 Sabino Bonino, Annie Williamson, Rosie Stephens, Oracle Day, Blanche Day, Francis Shepard, Flora Phelps, Bertha Phelps, Lillie Peng5ase, Rosie Penglase, Gertrude Landsberg, Clara Jones, Ruth Jones, Murley McWilliams and Angus Museth, and Masters Cog gins, Bonino and Landsberg.
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
That "A Call. "
Is the Position the News has Taken Correct? A Question
 of Right and Wrong.
THE PRoNENESs OF YOUTH.

When the IA Call" for the convention first appeared in the Dispatch, the News at the earliest opportunity criti- cised it and insisted that the com mittee should issue a new call. It was to us objectionable for number of req sons and while it's inartistic construc- tion might have been overlooked, the attempt to initiate the report of the recent grand jury was so apparent and the imitation so bungling and out of place that, as a matter of pride for our people and district, we thought it best that different call be issued.
 The News indulged in these criti- cisms in a spirit of fairness and pointed out the defects so that the people might judge whether we were right in our contention, and from numerous interviews with citizens of Juneau and Douglas City, we are led to believe that the News is backed by the senti- ment of the people in the objections we have urged.
 In our last issue we called attention to the fact that the Skagway News had remodeIed the "A Call" before publish ing it.
 We also observe that the Miner and Truth have failed to give it space in their reading columns and we have reason to believe for the same cause that has prevented it's publication in this paper.
 The Daily Alaskan, in it's issue of the 27th uIt., published our criticism in full and commented thereon as fol- lows:
 Contrary to the understanding of the Douglas News, that call was the work of one or both of the Juneau and Douglas members; it was signed by both of them; and it never was signed | by MT. Thos. Whitten, the member of l the committee from Skagway.
 When MT. Whitten received the origl- nal call, signed by the member of the committee from Juneau and also by the member from Douglas, he at once saw, as a blind man might have seen, that the call was in an unfortunate form, and he withheld itfor the purpose of proposing a change which would have avoided the criticism of the News; but, before he had time to arrange 1t, the call was published in all the Juneau papers as if all the committee had signed it, and was in that form copied into the Skagway papers. A repre- sentative of the Daily Alaskan talked with Mir. Whitten at the time about the unfortunate form of the call; but it was feared the other members of the committee would misunderstood his motive if he made objections to the style of the cali after it had been pub Iished. Since others have called attention to it, Mir. Whitten is free to say that he will sign more polite
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
APPoRTIoNmENT OF DELEGATES
To the Convention to be Held at Juneau, Oc-
 tOber oth, 1899.

The following apportionment of dele. gates was agreed to, and full attend ance is especially requested:
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
The "Genuine Thing"

Gene Bertram is back from Dawson and reports a most pleasant trip in and out. He looks well and the outing has been beneficial to him. His many friends will be glad to see him behind the counter again.
Douglas Island news., 1899-09-06
The News Endorsed.

The Alaska Miner, Truth, Daily Alas kan and Daily Budget are not publish ing the Ca call" The News is we'll backed in it's efforts to secure the is- suance of suitable call.