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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28
ACADIA. THE BEAUTIFUL LAND.
Scenes in Southern Louisiana Where the
Rich Rice Fields Lie.

W AYOU NEE PIQUE, Acadia,
* Lain Southern ! Louisiana
q you may sit under an Jun
j brella tree" look at green roses
- and eat white blackberries. You
may watch the chameleon turn scar.
let, blue, green, brown Or gray, OF
hear the mocking bird pour forth its
wild melody from the roof of veranda,
or see fight of white cranes descend,
like great snowfakes, on distant
ricefeld.
This suhtropical land, with its trees
ghostly with Spanish moss, its bayous
ablaze with scarlet LEAKAGE, out OF
whose fire of color leaps the Louisiana
red bird; its pale green prairies, its
intense sunlight, orange sunsets,
swift twilight and brilliant moonlight,
is weird and enchanting.
It looks as if it had been borrowed
from fairy book and did not belong
to geography at all.
It is midwinter, yet the dooryards
OF Acadia, st. Landry and Calcasieu
parishes are abloom with roses.
Christmas trees OF live oak or holly
or mistletoe, still bright in the little
farmhouses, were dressed on Christ
mas Day with fresh flowers gathered
out of doors. ~
The umbrella tree is common.
Every farmer has half a dozen to
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28
"Silencing q Cum"

There is a great deal of ignorance
as to what "silencing a gun" means.
A gun is silenced when the gunners
are disabled or driven back and the
gun or guncarriage damaged. It is a
common enough phenomenon for
weapons which have thus been 81
fenced to reopen fire after repairs
have been made, the gunners rallied,
or fresh gun crew obtained. 1t is a
rare thing for gun to be so damaged
by hostile fire that it cannot be refit-
ted and brought into action again. 81
saw" says Prince Kraft, of the Ger.
man Artillery in the battle of Grave
lotte, ''many guns during the cannon
ade lying miserably on the ground
winged that is, with a broken
wheel. But not one was withdrawn;
the injured guns were always speedily
repaired with the help of the wagons,
which were near. so that at the close
of the battle I could not tell exactly
how many pieces had been put tenn
porarily out of action. Army and
Navy Journal.
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Tommy as q Hum orist.

''Tommy Atkins is regular hum
orist at times" the snbaltern con-
tinued with grin. Did you ever
hear the story of the court-martial in
the Hussars? No? Well, you
must know that, just as in the ordin-
airy trial, prisoner may object to the
presence of a juryman whom he thinks
has already some prejudice or grudge
against him, SO at court-martial he
is always asked if he is satisfied with
the officers selected to try him. Well.
this particular Tommy, when the pres
ident asked him the regular question,
looked at the officers sitting solemnly
before him and answered Certain
ly; I object to the ole blooming lot of
YER 1 believe that they were so
astonished at this startling reply that
they had to pnt off the trial till they
could make out what was the right
thing to do under the circumstances. +"
st. James's Gazette Correspondence.
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ur.pp,n. up -. Coin !. r.p.r.

One Of the lesser, but established
newer customs Of the city IL that Of
wrapping UP In paper coins thrown to
the organ grinder, says the Sun. There
are no monkeys now to climb up and
take the money; they are not permit
ted to be carried In the city, and II
they were they could not climb to the
upper stories of the tall OATS and tsns-
ments. The money from them must DO
thrown down. The organ-Srinder can
not leave his organize carries about
nowadays big organ on wheels-to
pick up or to hunt for the money; that
work is now attended to by somebody
else who goes about with the organ
grinder. to help, II necessary, to pull
the organ and to look after and pick
up contributions. And even SO, with
somebody doing nothing else but looE
for them, some coins would be lost ii
thrown from windows high In the air
to strike upon the pavement below and
bound up and away. Hence the COM
mon practice In these days OF doing
up in q piece Of paper the coin thrown
from a high window. The paper dead
ems the fall and keeps it from bound
ing, and 1t serves also to mark where
tha coin lies
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28

lend. 1t is easy to borrow the use of
ono on arainy tree, and as it is chained
to the ground by its roots no one ever
forgets to return it. Its branches
radiate from the trunk like umbrella
stays. Its foliage forms a waterproof
covering like an umbrella top. It's
trunk is the handle. 1t will keep one
entirely dry in subtropical storm.
In summer it affords perfect shade
from the sun. Atramp once explained
his wanderings through Louisiana by
saying that he was a travelling tinker,
mending umbrella trees.
The green rose, the only one I have
ever seen, is not as large as the red
rose, nor does it display its petals
as fully. but it is distinctly a rose. If
some Northern foriculturist would
develop the green rose further it
might become a priced and unique
bloom in the beautiful sisterhood of
flowers. Boutonniers and bouquets
of green roses might become feature
of st. Patrick's Day in New York.
White blackberries are much
esteemed in Acadia and Calcasieu, BE-
cause they are superior in flavor to
the black kind. Some regard them
as a concession of nature to the color
prejudice. They differ from the black
blackberries mainly in complexion.
In Louisiana is what popularity is
known as the "dishcloth plant" 1t
produces a green pod, which yields,
when opened, large piece of cellular
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28
1t Purifes
the Blood.
Cures
All Eruptions.
Eradicates
Scr0fufa.
INDIAN VILLAGE LOST.

Apparent Ruins That Puzzle tho Mich
igan Historians.
Historians are at a loss to account
FOR the apparent ruins of an Indian
village in Silver Creek township, this
county, about half mile west OF In
dian lake, says the Detroit News. In
1S4s. when William Gilbert, one OF the
wealthiest farmers in this section.
built his house in this locality, he
built upon the ruins Of what had evil
IDENTIFY been church. In fact, settlers
In the twenties claim to have attend
ed church there, the service being con-
Quoted by priest from Bertrand or
Notre Dame. Other settlers state that
In the early thirties one Slater taught
school there, later going to the vicinity
OF Yankee Springs, and continuing
that occupation there. The fact of its
being a schoolhouse would not pre-
clude its being used occasionally as a
church. and there are in existence in
this city records of baptism of Indian
children at the Church of the Indian
village" On the same farm were ruins
OF nine sugar camps, each about IL
by 16 In size, with holes bored in a log
at the back, in which sticks had been
driven on which to make their beds.
Copper kettles were used, and copper
knives, nails and hatchets. Of poor
temper, have been plowed up there.
There is not an Indian in the vicinity
who knows anything about this church
or school, yet the evidence that one
did exist is indisputable. Indian lake
was named from the fact that this To-
cality was the favorits resort Of the
Indians in the maple sugar season.
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Her Cinch.

Mildred" said her mother, 81
don't believe that young man cares
for you at all. In my opinion he comes
here to see you merely because he has
no place else to CO."
ooh, mamma" the girl replied,
"you are mistaken-you wrong him.
I have proof that he loves me-"
"What is it? Has he asked you to
marry him?"
"No. but I accidentally said
had saw the other evening, and he
Immediately afterward said something
about having came, just to make me
feel that he was somewhat shy on
grammar. You needn't tell me that
anything less than love-deep, soul.
full, lasting love-would induce q
man to do that Chicago Times.
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the lace tree; to be more explicit,
from a lace-like fibre, which grows be-
meath the bark. The outside of this
curious tree very much resembles the
white and notified mistletoe boughs
one sees exposed for sale during the
holidays, but the inside of the younger
limbs and branches is mass of the
lace fibre, sometimes pure white in
color and again yellow, tending to
brown. Though the lace tree is ap-
parently very hard wood, the interior
fibre may be unwrapped in sheets.
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which the Puerto Rican ladies convert
into drawn work or embroider in bright
colors.
Whips are made of the branches, a
part of the branch being left for the
stock and the fibre lace drawn out to
form topknot rosette. A long lash
is plated at the other end.
The manufactured lace fibre is very
expensive, but nothing can be more
beautiful than the effect of light
through the lamp shades. The cocoa
nut palm grows sheets of fibre on the
outside, so that it looks as if it lie tied
up in old mats, but the lace tree grows
its delicate textile fbres inside, with
vast improvements in texture and
color.
The women of Puerto Rico do beau
tiful decorative work with this natural
lace, the net of the fibre being 80 fine
that it lends itself to the most delicate
designs. 1t is dyed the brightest hues
and made into flowers, which are ap-
piled to the lamp shades of the same
or arranged in shapes of brilliant
moths and butterflies. The large fire.
fly of the tropics is exquisitely simu.
lated. On the centrepieces for table
adornment, the Spanish rose is fire.
quently initiated. This rose is white
in the morning, pink at noon and
deep crimson at night. hence there are
three roses to go with the centrepieces
and these are daintily attached by
means of minute fibres to correspond
with the hour of the day. Each color
of the rose has meaning. The white
rose signifies that the daughters of the
house are too young to think of mar
riage; the pink rose that they are So
ciety debutantes, and the red rose That
they are married,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28

eye ~ CaEcasisu. The Calcasieu
I prairie II the lssgest in the State
about 6fty miles bong and from five to
forty miles Wide. The parish itself,
which u also the largest in the Com
nAonwsalth. comprises 1000 square
mixes. and II shoat two-thirds the size
of Ocnpecticuk
Here the lard is firm and solid. In
digging wclssSs the farmers have to go
deeper to find water than they do in
Wisconsin. The land, which is now
fifty to sixty feet above the Gulf of
Mexico, was once its bed, and con-
tains great deal of sand. The roads
are sometimes dry within twelve
hours after semi-tropical rain. There
is SO little mud, except in proximity
to rice marshes, that one may ride a
bicycle along highway covered with
water.
This is the upland, and yet it is the
rice country. The explanation is sim
pie. From foot to two feet under
the soil lies bed of clay which is i'm
pervious to water. Wherever land
lies in shallow saucer shape, so that
it's edges are slightly higher than its
interior, the falling rain will fill it to
the rim and form marsh, because the
water cannot percolate through the
underlying bed of clay and escape. In
Louisiana you will find the low
grounds hard and dry and marshes on
the ridges.
The alluvial land which lies in the
Mississippi bottom seems to be plan
tations part of thc time and part OF
the time Mississippi River. Swamps
are not unknown there.
"We are having Louisiana biz
zard," said Northern settler in Cal
casieu parish. ''The thermometer
has fallen to seventy degrees above
Zero"
The children in the country go to
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in any kind of soil. The varieties of
sweet potatoes are almost innumerable.
They yield from 200 to 500 bushels to
the acre, and usually sell for fifty
cents barrel or twenty cents bushel,
though in seasons of scarcity they are
thirty and even forty cents a bushel.
They are the daily food of the farmers,
and are fed to horses, cattle, swine
and poultry. The Louisiana sweet
potatoes are wholesome, but lack the
fine flavor of those raised in Virginia.
Irish potatoes are regarded here as q
luxury, and the people have them on
Sundays and holidays.
It is supposed generally in the North
that Louisiana is a swamp country, q
network of morass and bayou, and
that there is little ground in its
limits that is firm beneath ones feet.
This is mistake.
- North of the Red River, in the
northwestern part of the State, lies
the famous hill country of Louisiana.
Here the land is upheaved in innumer-
able little mountains, which rise sixty
or seventy feet above the surrounding
landscape. The highest peak in the
State is in this wild district, and it
towers $50 feet above the Gulf of
Mexico
The hill country might make the
mountaineers of the Alps or the Andes
smile, but it is as serious fact in this
State as are the Highlands in Scotland
or the CatskiIl Mountains in New
York; X This mountainous country is
the lumber belt. It is full of sawmills,
and turns out vast quantities of hand
some yellow pine lumber for the North
ern market.
In the southwestern part of the
State lies the Acadian country. It is
land of beautiful prairies and of
magnificent yellow pine forests that in
the distance look blue. This is the
upland of Louisiana, the foothills of
the little Switzerland to the north.
1t is the rice belt and cattle country
of the State.
In Acadia the prairies are small.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28
The Art of. Pufhng.

The writing of 'spuff'' is an art in
itself. 1.-THE effort abounds in honeyed
words, overAows, so to speak. with
praise and commentator, a large
portion of the reading public is in
telligent enough to take it with the
proverbial grain of salt, or perhaps
reject it entirely as unreliable. If,
however, it is paragraph or article
that actually gives some information,
and only incidentally commends the
firm upon whose instance it is in
serted, it may be expected to accom-
plish some good. The majority of
putfs overlap themselves in the desire
to make of the personages or COM
modities of which they deal, creatures
90 bright or good for human natures
daily food"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28

Erich In the historical and literary
associations accumulated during two
centuries Of existence" says the
Ladies' Home Journal for Septem-
Der, 1.-THE Waysids Inn. kuilt by
David Howe still stands remote
among the wooded hills In South Sud
bury, Mass. The Londlord' OF Long
fellows famous tales was the dignined
Squire Lyman Howe, justice OF the
peace and school committeeman. who
lived a bachelor and died ut the inn
in 1S60-the last of his line to keep
the famous hostelry. Besides Squire
Howe, the only other real characters
In the Tales who were ever actually at
the inn were Thomas w. Parsons. the
poet; Luigi Monti. the Sicilian, and
Professor Daniel Treadwell OF Har-
ward, the theolog;an, all three OF whom
were in the habit of spending the sum-
mer months there. OF the other char
acters, the musician was Ole Bull, the
student was Henry Ware wales. and
the Spanish Jew was Israel Edrehi
Near the room In which Longfellow
stayed Is the ballreom with the dais at
one end for the fddlers. But the pol
ished floor no longer feels the pressure
Of dainty feet In high-heeled slippers
gliding over it to the strains Of contra
dance, cotiIlon or minuet, although the
merry voices OF summer visitors ana
the jingling bells of winter sleighing
parties at times still break the quiet
nf the ancient Inn"
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Always Ready For q Meal.

Perhaps you fancy the birds don't
work. Just watch them next time
you have chance, and you'll find
they are busy every minute of the
day.
During the summer thrushes get
up before o'clock in the morning,
and don't go to bed uptil after 9
O'Clock at night, so they work nearly
nineteen hours. Blackbirds are not
nearly SO industrious. They only
work seventeen hours, but during that
time they feed their little ones be-
tween forty and Fifty times.
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Northern farmers came here to settle
they found that the Creole ponies
would not eat corn or oats. Both re.
manned untouched in their feed boxes.
In some cases the native horses had
to be starved for days before they
would touch either.
A Northern farmer threw an ear Of
corn among a herd of wild cattle.
They came up to it, looked at it, shifted
it and walked away again. Not a
steer would eat it. The colonists
from the North inferred that to the
horses and cattle of these parishes
corn and oats were an acquired tssteA
The bread frnit Of Louisiana is the
sweet potato. 1t will grow anywhere
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school barefoot all winter. In coun-
try schoolhouse, on sharp midwinter
day, there was only one child who
wore shoes. All the children had
shoes at home, but they did not care
to wear them.
The well-to-do French farmer, with
land by the league and cattle by the
hundreds, with money buried in the
ground or hidden in hollow trees or
deposited in the bank, goes barefoot
the year round, except when he visits
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the parish town. His winter dress is
q straw hat, a calico shirt and pair
of blue cotton trousers. He goes with
out collar, cravat and shoes. His feet
are as insensible to cold as are the
hands of Northern man who never
wears gloves. 1t is a common sight
in Acadia, on winters day, to see o
man from the North, in a heavy ul-
ster, talking to a barefooted French
farmer in his shirtsleeves.
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There fs more Catarrh In this section o. the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
lncurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced It in.
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be .
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by z. J. Cheney G Co., Toledo,
Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure On the
market. 1t Is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to teaspconful. It acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
1t fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address FL. CHENEYS Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, roc.
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28

Dashaway-Now. 1t order any
clothes from you, l want to be sure
beforehand that you won't dun me. l
want it understood. Can you suggest
any way to avoid this?" Tailor-Weil.
you might pay me a deposit now, and
the rest when the clothes are deliver
d.-Detroit Free Press.
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The Balaclava Can.

In England just now women are
busy knitting comforts for the British
soldiers in South Africa-sleep:ng he'll
NETS, tam-o'-shanters, cardigan jack
cts, cuffs, scarfs. mittens, socks and
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28
3. 8. 3. FOR BAD BLOOD.
Bot.l. rrss to sunsrers.

II you have old pinples, distressing erup-
tons, painful sores on hands, arms or legs,
itching sensation, Irritating skin troubles.
eczema, scrofula, ulcers, Blood Poison, fever
sores, rheumatism, cancer or any blood
taint-then give B. B. B. trial, because
B. D. 3. -Botanio..Blood Balm-is made for
just such cascs, and 1t cures, to stay cured,
all stubborn blood diseases that other rems-
dies fall to benefit. si per large bottles At
drug stores. Trial bottle, free to sufferers.
Medical advice. free. Write today, Blood
Balm Co., 1 Mitchell st., Atlanta, Go.
But few men are proof against the hatter,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28
Blood HumOrs
Are Cured by
Hoods
Sarsaparilla

II was troubled with
blotches on my face,
and began taking
Hoods Sarsapariila.
After taking one bottle
l was entirely cured"
Miss ETHEL MIXER,
Clarksburg, Mass.
MY brof her had a
humor in his blood
which broke out in
frightfui sores. He
began taking Hoods
Sarsaparflla and It per-
manently cured him."
n. L. ELLIS, Mount
Laurel, N. J.
"My little boy had a
large scrofuia sore on
his neck. Ipurchased
a bottle OF Hoods Sar-
saparil!a and 1t cured.
/ take Hoods as my
spring tonic" Mns.
MINNIE SPEAR, Parish
vile, N. Y,
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being ten or twelve miles long and
FIVE or six miles wide. They are
girded round by yellow pine forests,
through which run bayous. 1t is a
fertile parish, but not as pretty to the
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-04-28

Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chiidrea
teething so items the gums. reducing nfammu
ton. allays pal .ctces wind colo. 300 botel q
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Insanity in ENGLAND.

For the last ten years there has been
an increase Of 1000 annually in the
mum bar Of Great Rritain's insane.
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vegetable tissue, often used in kitch-
ems as "disbeloth. !"
e ~ The native horses aud cattle in this
part Of the State formerly lived on
sweet potatoes, grass and hay. When
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PUTNAM FADELEss DYES are fast "a
sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold BY
ell druggists.
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VITALITY low, debili,ated or exhausted cured
b Klines IDyixors.in{ Tonic. FRxE d trial
bot lie for weeks treatment. DR.. KlipA Ltd
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W0Sskzzx7u
Women

are Envsfea TO 4,5ko ia
Mrs. Pzssstssasss for free
advice aAossf their health.
Mrs. Pink1isass7 Is a wo-
Ka2afss
IF you have painful
pors0as, backaches or
any Of tho moro serious
IFS Of wosssen, write to
Ms.s. PfSk5a1ss she has
helped sssszlkifzdes. Your
letter wifi 10 sacredyy
confidential,
Lydia e. PInkhansSs
Vegetable COMPOUND Is
known wherever the Eng
Msb Eenggsags Es spoken.
Nothing else can p0ssE-
bly, be SO sure to help suf-
fcs,Ang women No Other.
medicine has helpod 90
many
Remember this when
something else IL sug-
gssfeds
MrS. PfnkhanSSS adj
dress Is Lyssn, Mass.
Hs- helping hand ks
always cvfsfret0ksod "a
s.yEfeakfsy women
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A Wonderful Germ.Killef.

Skin diseases, such ~ letter, eczema,
ringworm, salt-rheum, or anything OF
the kind, are cured by Tsttsrins. It
kills tho germs, and the skin becomes
healthy. It's efficacy Is we'll estab-
lished. Hundreds of testimonials can
be shown by J. 7. Shuptrine, Savan-
nah, Ga. Send 60c. for q box post
paid il your druggist doesn't keep il.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day.

The average girl can fall in love lot Quick
er than she can do up her back hair