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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25

foreigners and natives without dis
elimination on the slightest provoca-
ton, and oftentimes on no provocation
whatever. Occasionally Boxer is exc
cuted by order Of the provincial govern
or, but these punishments are only half
hearted affairs, which, in view of the
proverbial disdain of death common
among the Chinese, have little effect.
Something more than diplomatic rso-
tests will probably be necessary before
European and American missionaries
will be perfectly safe in China.-Chica-
go Times Herald.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25
A QUESTION OF AGR
At Certain Periods of Women's Lives Truth
Disappears.

OiouPPSolbs
Experienced enumerators have found
that the tendency of people is to rep
resent themselves younger than they
actually are. This impulse seems to be
irresistible between the ages of twenty
five and sixty. The greatest proportion
of errors is at the sixtieth year, but
the greatest number is at the thirtieth
year or fortieth year. At this fatal
Rubicon people usually falter. In 1890
there were 61S,641 persons reported as
thirty-nine years of age, 1,O37,3 1886 as
forty, and 4S6,S53 persons at forty
one. Among women 50O,744 were re-
ported to be forty, 29O,977 thirty-nine.
and 224,551 forty.
With a fairly steady flow of immi-
grafton and stationary or increasing
population there ought always. to be
fewer persons of given age than of
any single age preceding; less people
fifty years old than forty-nine. and so
on. But census age tables Invariably
show the reverse. At the last census
24O,SSO persons were returned as fifty
nine years old, while the number re-
turned at sixty was 5O2,7SS
Where immigration is slight the nor.
sons of given age at one census must
necessarily be less than the persons
ten years younger at the preceding cen.
sus. Thus in 1890 the persons twenty.
i've years old are necessarily fewer in
number than the persons fifteen years
Did in 1880, because the twenty-five.
year class of 1890 is composed of the |
of the fiftten-year-cIass in |
1880. These are facts, but English |
women are not abashed by facts. In
England the number of women return
ng themselves as between twenty and
twenty-five years of age is always
greater than the number of girls repor.
ID at the preceding census from ten to
fifteen years old, and yet people can't
'e born twenty years old.-Chicago
record.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25
Advice to Beginners.


1t Is really fortunate for beginners
In keeping hens if they do not have
much money at first. What mistakes
they make then will be lnexpensive
ana the experience gained will he
worth as much and probably more
than 1t would be if they had been
maze on larger scale. A COMPARE
lively small house twenty-four feet
long and twelve feet wide will accom-
modate fifty to sixty hens through the
winter. In the summer, when the hens
are producing young chicks, this num-
Der will be largely increased, but the
mems with chicks will have crons NJ
their own during the summer. so that
the roosts will accommodate all that
want to roost in the henhouse So
soon as the males can be distinguished
all or these should be sold for bNhiI-
ers, as there is more net profit in tbem
tnen there could be In keeping tin
'ater' All the pullets that are slow in
coming into laying condition should
also be sold for broilers. The great
secret in making egg production profit
aoie is to weed from the flock the
fowls that are poor egg producers so
Lar as these can be discovered. The |
lo"is past three years old shouId also
De Killed, as after this age they do NOT
produce enough eggs to pay for their
keep. If an incubator is not used for
iatchlng the eggs, very few of these
nens may be kept until they are seven
IF eight years old. They are moro
aithful sitters than young hens can
'e. But If the best egg-producing
'reeds' are kept the hen must give way
o the incubator as every way better
lhd cneaper.-American Cultivator.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25
The incest Man In Africa.

OF all the communications with
which General Roberts was deluged
while in South Africa the briefest and
best he says is one he received from
three Duh lin admirers. 1t read:
Dear ord Bobs-We are Irish, ant
we think you are the incest man there
ever was, except daddy. Aunt Mel
likes you lreadfully; she has pictur,
of you and she kisses it and says 'bles
little admirers, Franc.
Muriel, Molly and Eileen"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25
Double Daily Trains
Fast Time
Close Connections

Through Pullman Palace Sleepers
between New Orleans and Memphis.
Kansas City. st. Louis and Chicago
without change. making direct eonneo.
lions with Arst-class lines to ell points
IN: great steel bridge spanning the
Ohio river at Cairo completed, and ali
kains freight and passenger) now run.
eins regularly over it, TIM . avoiding the
aeiays and annoyance incident to trans
Ter by ferry boat
A. H. HANSON. Gen. r. Agk.
Chicago.
yva. 4. AuozT. y. p. 4. MemphiA
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25
TO AVOID DANCER,
HE.
would you love me NV dor,,,r -

HE.
Would you love me, my darling NV
sweetheart,
Would you love me as dearly Ms now
the fortune have were to dwindIe.
or slip through my fingers somehow
Il the millions my grandfather left me
Were ruthlessly taken away
would you love me, my sweetheart INV
darling,
with the love that lou give me TO-
day?
SHfu :;
y, ia love you ms dearly MS ever
III You hadn't dollar to claim:
put why not get rid of all danger
ny putting your wealthin ms narnee
a love you, l know. just as fondly,
IL l had to be put to the test
out dearest, suppose that carry
Inc poeketbook-thatT be bestI
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25
Fifty Years Without Water.

Some animals can live many years
without water. A paroquet lived fifty
two years In the London zoo without
taking drop of water. A number of
reptiles live and prosper in places
where there is no water.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
United States Senators.

!. d McEnery, term expiring or the 4th OF
March, 1900.
DON Caffery, term expiring on the 4th OF
March, 1901.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25

The goat is native of the high
lands of Asia.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25

The lawyer who attends to his own
business is SOFT of legal tender.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-08-25

All this, however, would not account
Tor the murderous attacks on the mis-
sionaries which have made the very
name of China an abomination. The
masses of the people In that country
are stepped in ignorance. They are
easily influenced by their intelligent
and educated countrymen. The latter
have been at very great pains to instill
into the minds of the vulgar an intense
hatred for the white preachers of tho
gospel. They influence the passions of
the villagers by telling them that the
adopt Chinese children
for purposes of witchcraft. Orphan
asylums founded by the missionaries.
they say, are used as covers to conceal
the murder of the little ones. whose
bodies are cut up to obtain certain
parts very valuable to the witch doc.
tor. AS the belief that some organs
Oh the body are very potent in magical
operations is a popular superstition |
with the Chinese, it is easy to see how
readily the cultured among them can |
impose on their simpler fellows nv
lslng SO powerful lever as this.
In the society of the Boxers the edu-
'ated Chinese found an efficient instru-
nent with which to vent their hate for
he industrious missionaries. Boxers
the new name for the Society of the
treat or Strong Sword Gn Chinese tn
100 Why). Its members kill aud loot
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
BULLS ANO BEARS.
A Week Of Generalization in the
Market Winds Up in the Dumps.
Sugar Failed 10 Hold Recovery Prices Made
Early In tha Session.

Wall street, Jan. 13.-Sugar down
from 137 and up on "A recovery nine
points from li2 failed ~ hold, for all
a favorable bank statement came out
in the last half hour, ana dropping
nearly five points sent the whole mar
ket again into generalization
a. has ben a disastrous week ana
Sugar has been the sCapegoat.
sugar trust stock was up around 49,
when the week started in. II slumped
10 nearly ll2 when President Have
meyer of the big monopoly failed 90
give any assurances OF the March diVi-
dend. Ii has recovered. net, four points
ana closes something more than twenty
points below the high price made on
the recovery from the Christmas panic.
The balance of the list may be said
TO have held fairly well under the bear
raid on Sugar. Brooklyn Transit and
American Tobacco suffering the most
seriously. But the whole list has been
shaken and for all yesterdays and this
mornings recovery still looks ragged.
The pronounced bearishness In the
market. coming SO sooa after the Christ
mas panic, suggests however that the
day may not be far distant when the
market will find itself heavy oVersold.
That is the tendency at present and
the bears had last week "A squeeze cal-
culated To make them cautious.
There was no redeeming feature ~
the list this week, although the stand
ard railroads and the steel stocks did
not run into decentralization as Sugar
did, while Baltimore and Ohio issues
actually went up i'm the midst of the
rafdiug
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
FINANCIAL.
SUGAR AND BROOKLYN TRANSIT.

I'm the big tumble which stocks have
takenNled by Sugar. the past week.
Duplicating In Intensity If not IN the
amount lost TO values the forever MEM
! orable Christmas panic" which closed
the boom year of 1899, the customers OF
Lewis A. May ~ Co.. who under the
management of Mr.. VIM. Ii. Wood, Jr,
have offices at PA and 2l5 Banigan
building, have been particularly fortu-
nate In the advices they received from
,, New York headquarters.
The house OF May a Go. has already
established a rather unique reputation
among brokers for calling the turn OF
a market sut the right time. Clients OF
thelrs who traded with the New YORK
house before the estabiishmeIt of a
Providence wire recall that they called
the turn at the extreme of the big bun
market which ci-fminated last Febru-
airy. Their adviCes this week were as
accurate and fortunate for their Gus
toners as anything they have ever pub
lished. They gave early warning or
the slump In Sugar and despite The bull
tips given out by manipulators on the
eve of the meeting ~ directors OF the
Sugar Trust told their customers 10
sell Sugar around 30 and 40 keep on
selling around 12S where there was a
stopping place that tempted many
unwary traders 20 'go long with con-
fidence.
The weeks story OF Sugar has now
passed into the history OF Wall street
carrying with IL many large losses As
Is wen known II struck H. and has
since recovered but 4 points of its loss.
While bearish on the market az
whole, May a Co. particularly select
ed next TO Sugar, for advice To their
customers 10 sell Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit which was then around a.. IL is now
matter of record that next 10 Sugar.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit has made the
most serious loss of any stock ON the
boaSi falling points OF which only
have been recovered.
IL is safe to say that few offices even
in New York had the advantage OF such
first class tip service as this. While
cautious and conservative about giving
lips az general practice, il Is policy
OF this brokerage firm 10 state frankly
their opinion when something big Is
really about 70 happen. Stocks huctuate
up and down day after day over a
range of a few points shaping for their
movements To predict these move
ments and be i'm them is the ambition
OF every trader but only long expert
ence can achieve the happy result. II
il just such experience associated with
a constant study of conditions affecting
market prices that cradle May a Co,
TO guard the interest OF their customers
and get them into an occasional good
ching as they have done so notably this
week. For a new concern i'm this toNn
they are rapidly establishing an envia-
BILE record among their fellow brokers.
on Monday next Lewis a. May * Co.
issue a special market letter on Sugar,
RrpnlSlNn and the EraaseEs, --1
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13

PROMOTE
BARNETT.
They Make Him Vice President
Of the Consolidated Rail-
road Today.

New York. Jan. ia meeting OF the
directors OF the y. Y, n. II. q IL. X. r..
was held today. After the meeting the
following statement was given out:
AT the regular monthly meeting OF
the board Of directors Of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company. held in New York today, Mr..
William T.. Barnett was elected vice.
president OF the company. Mr. Barnett
was born in Charleston, s. c., in 1s45,
and graduated from Yale college in
1864 In 1889. he took the position OF
presidents secretary and attorney Of
the New Haven railroad, and served in
that position until 1897, when he was
made executive secretary. In 1898 he
was placed in charge OF department
Of law, real estate and taxes
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

Steamers WHlihad. from Bremen. and
Marquette, from London. have arrived
ata New York.
The Canadian government has ac-
cepted British COlumbia's offer OF "a
company OF mounted scouts for South
Africa.
Charles Townshend formerly score
tary % state FOR Ohio. is dead. aged 90
years. Tie had been commander ~ the
O. a. r.. Tor the department W Ohio.
and was once a competitor Of General
q. IL. Grosvenor Tor Congress
The Ohio society OF California. has
appointed a committee ~ devise plan
FOR appropriately celebrating the
laurching OF the battleship Ohio. which
is now being constructed AT the Union
Iron Works IL is expected President
Mckinley win attend
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
UkBAl lANcED BY ll-HEAlTH
ROGERS COMMITTED SUICIDE.

Marblehead. Mass. Jan. 13.--Wliliam
T.. Rogers, OF this town. employed at
suicide by shooting, this forenoon He
did not get up as usual this morning
saying he was ILL., While his wife was
attending 20 her household work she
heard the sound OF a pistol She went
10 her husband and found a revolver
by his side and indications that ne had
placed the muzzle of.it i'm his mouth
aud fired a bullet through his brain. He
was % years old and leaves widow
ana two children. n is believed he was
unbalanced mentally. owing TO des-
pondency and ill-health.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
TlDINGS OF LOSS OF MOFFAT
PARTY BROUGHT TO DAWSON.

Victoria, T. c.. Jan. 13.-News has
been received from Dawson that Cor
poral Sklrving, who was i'm charge OF a
party detailed by the Northwest
Mounted Police to go in search of the
missing Moffat party, who left Daw-
son August 90 last returned on Decem-
ber 49, Corporal Shrving confirms the
report of the death OF three persons
who constituted the Alcffat party. \. f..
Moffat OF Pembroke, Paul Bellcview of
Duluth and one Holmes of Fresno, Cal.
They were what remained OF a party
numbering originally twenty-five per-
sons enroute to the Klondike over the
Edmonton trail during the fall of 1897.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
RELIANCE MILLS ca.
LOSES $4,000 SUIT.
CONTINUED on page Two)

CONTINUED on page Two)
erng n period of between two and three
years. Judge Rogers holds that II was
necessary for the plaintiffs TO show, as
a right 10 recover that they were ready
10 receive the freight on their private
track
The proof shows. his honor says. that
the plaintiffs notified the railroad COM
pany 10 deliver ears as soon as they
themselves We're notified OF the arrival
of the cars i'm Providence, without any
regard as 10 whether their private
track was clear. and that Weaver. the
ttring team man. who moved the cars
TO plaintiffs track. was frequently
ready 10 haul cars 10 the mill and was
prevented FROM SO doing because OF tho
glut OF loaded cars on the private track
The burden OF proof was on the plain
tiffs TO show they were ready To receive
freight at all reasonable times after
they ordered IL, and this the court
thinks thex failed TO do.
The suit was to recover $4,000
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
BOERS STORM THE HEIGHTS
ABOUT LADYSMITH
Continued from page one)

There was another herculean effort
on the Part OF the police and the de-
tac, nent resumed its march. TO Tia ac-
conpanin,ent of pushing, screaming.
cheering and singing. The column had
hardly covered hundred yards when
IL again intermnigled with the surging
crowds who had undisputed sway along
the route. Many of the volunteers cs-
caped through side streets and others
struggled on in Indian file, twos and
threes by the time they reached the
Thames embankment, the detachment
had become conglomeratloa. women :
hats being as numerous in the ranks as
the volunteers headgcar SO slow was
the progress tha, over an hour vas con-
sumed IN traYersing the mile 80 Wesg-
minister
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
The Cotton Market.
Chicago Markets.
Financial Notes.

Boston Clclriug nous. statement:
Exchanges S24OSi. .N61.
For the week xi4l. 1890.
Corresponding week last year tllo- q
,9l e0u.
Balances S29No ill.
For tho ,yc.k Sl2 .9i. f0,
corresponding week last year $3.50
43S
Money per cent.
New York hank statement.
Surplus reserve increased Siq4gG2S
Looms drCrp1e r ~ S-S. 900
spec Increase 81 2Gi. 400
legal tenders incrcag d s3.16S. 500.
Deposits Increased - POO
IirCu' -n increased ESQ 300
The banks ntv hold SlG. tO,. $50 'u *.
cess uf legal requirements
Money ON call steady at uer cent.
F"iw' mercantile p8rar 166 u.r cent.
~fof'lng cvch1r~o etCndv with aptuaI
hue ness in bankers billie af SlSgs. s,
4 81 To- demand and tlS8nAs3G Tor 90
days
pcstod rates SlIGASrs ana siSs,s0
ass
commercial bills NS2-alN..
Var iNar llO
Mexican dollar. f4f.r
Government bonds irregular.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
WHY RUNGaRllNS CARRY AND
U.s. REv1LVERS AND KNIVES.

New York. Jan. 13.-Testimony in a
murder trial given at New Brunswick
y. j.. brought out a queer fact as to
the customs and beliefs Of Hungarians.
one Of the witnesses and the defend
ant testified that II is the general be-
lief i'm thi rnative country tha in Amer
lea everyone carries a revolver or
knife. and that In every quarrel in
America an American is ready TO xiii
his opponent.
All Hungarians intending to go to
the United States are warned to carry
a weapon, and to use IL at the first OPP
portunity. SO as to prevent the other
man from getting the drop" on him.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST
cubans eat Missouri csss.

Cubans cat MitSouil eggs.
The French government has added
two shirs to tho instruction fleet in - b.
der o. save the wegr and tear "a ,a:-
tlVships for mere instruction purposes.
Japan will not restore ca ptured shirs
10 China. but will sell her new ally
10000 Mauser rifles and $4,000 900
rounds 90 ammunition az low rate.
Am imperial institute FOR "0ccano-
graphy Is planned at Kiel and Ger
man government viii be asked for the
funds at the next session of the Reich
stag.
Nearly 500 claims for pensions made
by persons who served in the spanish
American war have already been al
lowed by the United states govern.
mont
The technical school az Leicester has
Two rooms devoted 90 shoemakinr I'm
one nf whicn good collection OF the
latest rnac hinery in Use for manufac-
curing purposes may hs seen at work,
propelled by electric motor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
COPPER IS KING
CAL UMEI OF INDEX, WASH,
The RIVAL OF BUTTE.

Copper Belt OF the Cascades, is a nat
ural developed mine. with an ore expo
sure. OF $50 feet. from three TO fourteen
feet In width, assaying from IL to 231s
per cent. Copper. Now. shipping ore.
a tig PRODUCER. The demand for Cop
per Is % per cent. greater than the sup
ply. Now is the time TO buy good low
price stocks. We offer "A limited amount
of treasury stock at 20 cents a share.
win be a dividend payer by April. 1900.
Exhibit or orc at 2i1 Washington street.
Boston. For further information ad
dress
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
MISS ROSE REGAINS SENSES AFTER
BEING IN TRtNCE SINCE TUESDAY.

New York, Jan. 13.-Eva Rose of AS
bury Park, ". j.. who dropped into "A
deep trance last Tuesday, has at last
awakened. ner return 70 consciousness
was quiet and tranquil. She recognized
her mother and is now cNite herself
again. During her long slep the young
girl was able to hear everything tha.
was said in her presence. she saws but
was poNerless To make the fact known
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
THE DANIELS STORE in
HANDS OF us. MARSHAL
Latest Phase i'm the Bankruptcy
Proceedings--A Number of Bank
ruptcy Petitions Filled To-day.

In the creditors petition FOR bank
ruptcy brought against George f. Dan
iels by the White Warner company, nj
Taunton. Mass; the New England
Spring Bed company Of Boston. and
T.. +. Pierce & Co. of Boston. further
steps were taken before Judge Brown
this morning. In the United States
court. on the petition of the Congdon.
Carpenter company, one Of The credit
ors OF Daniels. who is furniture deal
er at Nos. l22-l26 North Main street.
Providence. writ OF seizure was is
sued and placed in the hands OF United
States Marshal McCabe. This Will hold
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13

the property in the hands Of the court
pending adjudication on the creditors
petition and the appointment of trus-
tee.
In the office OF Clerk Cross OF the
United states district court. there were
filed this morning, voluntary petitions
I'm bankruptcy by the following per-
sons: Louis Feiner, OF Providence. Ii
abilities Sii7639; assets. $40 Henry
Bernstein Of Providence. liabilities.
siO72 Sc assets 1862. Moses Bander Of
Providence. Liabilities. s259226: no as
sets. Aaron Feiner Of Providence. LA
bilities, S4093 So; assets, $40. An OF the
petitioners make affidavit they
are unable 20 pay the regular fees.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
E[ENMoOR ABANDONED II SEA

London, Jan. 13.-The Norwegian
steamerHirundo. from Pensacola and
Norfolk FOR Antwerp, passed Dungeness
today, and signalled that she has on
board the crew OF the British steamer
EdenmOor. which sailed from Pensa-
cola December s. via Norfolk Deem
ber rs FOR Amsterdam. The EdenmoOr
had been abandoned.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
cluesI WHILE Trying 10 RrR.

Lynn, Jan. 13.--Robert NJ. Jones. cap
tured in an attempt 10 enter the liquor
store of Thomas r. Ldndregan early
this morning. was held for the grand
jury in $500 In court. Jones had forced
rear window when capturedby "A pa
trolman and had the combination to the
safe. which contained about $500. hav-
ing been a former emploNc OF the plnce.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-13
PUBLISHERS
SEVERELY
WOUNDED.
Double Shooting in the Office
Of the Denver Post
al Noon.

Denver, Jan. iS.-H II. Tammen, one
OF the proprietors of the Denver Post
was shot several times in the office OF
that newspaper at noon today by WV.
Anderson. an attorney. The cause OF
the shooting is unknown. Anderson al
so shot Mr.. Tanners partner Fred
erick q. Bonills. Both the publishers are
severely wounded