The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-07-21
disreputable men? observes the Altar
ia Journal.

Ia Journal.
Merchants identified with Turkish
trade are not at all concerned over the
question involved between the two
countries. While there Is yet little
direct business the information arriv-
ing indicates that the chances for the
expansion of business are encouraging.
A large share of the trade which has
arrived is due to the efforts Of Euro
pean merchants and also to American
agents in the leading
European centres.
Socks and undershirts have q great
future in Western China. The WELL
TODD Chinaman wears socks himself,
and spends a good part of his income
for them, and he likes to know all
about your socks, The American I'M
dershirt is something that interests
him, too. There is no national preju-
dice against 1t. 1t is out of sight, of
course, and as its primary object is to
keep the body warm, the Chinaman
will buy the American undershTt If
he can get it cheaper than his home
weaver can make it.
After six months of trial the munich
pal pawnshop in Chicago is pro-
nounced a success by its advocates.
Not only does it yield fair return on
the investment, but 1t is reaching ex-
actly the class of persons it was in
tended to benefit, as shown by tie
fact that large number of the loans
are for small amounts. The results
have surpassed the expectations Of the
State Pawners' Society, and as a con-
sequence it's members are doubling the
capital put into the business, while
plans are being made to secure legisla-
tive sanction for the establishment of
like institutions in other illinois cities.
The State of Illinois Is taking hold
Of bird protection in earnest. The
has new statute max
ing 1t a misdemeanor punishable by
fine and imprisonment, for any per-
son to have In possession the body,
living or dead, of any wild bird. the
crow, the English sparrow and the
excepted. Had this law
been enacted half a century since the
State would have been benefited al
most beyond conception, for she has
lost many millions of dollars In fruit
and grains through their destruction
by insects, against the ravages of
which birds were, perhaps, the only
protection-surely the greatest.
Recently Parliamentary return was
made of all the sentences of corporal
inflicted upon persons con-
victed in England and Wales Of vic.
lating the larceny act of 1861, bringing
the record up to December 81, 1899. 1t
shows a total of sixty-flve sentences
and the number Of strokes ordered
with the cat-o'-nine-tails 1912. The
law under which this form of punish
ment was introduced was created for
the suppression of garrotlng, which at
the time of its enactment had become
q common crime In London.
The Socialistic Cooperative Associa.
ton, publisher of the New York Volks
Zeitung, has secured from the Appel.
late Term Of the Supreme Court in
New York city a reversal of the iudg-
ment awarded against it to Samuel
Prince, who claimed to be damaged
by the publication in the volks Zeituns
of an alleged libelous letter addressed
to the members of the Cigarmakers'
Union. In this letter his
manner of conducting business was
and he was called a "tene.
ment house boss" and miserable
scab." Justice Beekman of the Appel.
late tribunal referred to the fact that
was given on the trial rs to
the significance of the word "scab," as
a person who was an out
cast to be Stunned by his fellows. 1t
was unnecessary, he said, to have re-
course to evidence of that description.
The term was one Of ancient origin In
its application to persons Of disrepute,
''paltry or shabby fellow" II
was entirely free from doubt the
Court said, that the publication was
per sc. The reversal was
ordered, mainly, because Of the i'm
proper admission In evidence on the
part of plaintiff of the report Of COM
mittee favorable to him in reference to
certain charges.