The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-08-17

| Setfe otiCCt difOduf1S Is only
about ten years old, and yet it has been
found by careful investigation that of
the lines first laid every one has changed
nearly all the appliances then used
Practically everything has gone to the
scrap heap, and new appliances have
been adopted. In few fields has the ex-
perimental stage so quickly given place
to Improvements.
The world is waiting impatiently for
the maker of the perfect pencil and the
| perfect pen. He is not in sight now.
The incompatible genius who is to dim
inish the toll of the present crude pro-
cesses OF transferring thought to paper
may not yet be born. When he energies
into the full glare of publicity and re-
nown he will be greeted with welcome
that few inventors ever received
DIR. Edward Everett Hale tells how 4
curious error crept into the translation
of the Lords Prayer into the Delaware
Indian tongue. The English translator
had as an assistant an Indian who knew
English. What is 'halow' in Della
ware" asked the translator. The In
dian thought he said 'halloo," and gave
him the equivalent Therefore the
Delaware version of the Lords Prayer
reads to this day: Our Father, Who
art in Heaven, hollooed be thy name!" |
The census reports on the great towns
OF England other than London, resemble
the reports on the metropolis in that |
they show the same apparent retardation
of growth which is due solely to restrict
ed boundaries. For example, Liverpool
increased only from Co., 48 to 685,276
between 1891 and 1901, and Birmingham
from 478II3 to 522,I82. The gain in
each case was about nine per cent. which
is decidedly low from the American
standpoint. But in neither case is it
fairly indicative of the vitality of the
lily.
In almost every walk of life there have
been great women. But has there ever
been woman who has reached the very
highest pinnacle in any field? In the
cosmopolitan Ella Wheeler WILCOX an
wers this question in the negative and
declares that even in the essentially
eminine vocation of cooking, dressmak-
ng and millinery men excel women.
Women" says Mrs. Wilcox, shave not
he concentration which gives a clear I.
respective. They lack system and pa
fence and are distracted by details or
arned aside by vanity"
Austria and Mexico have shaken
ands and made up, automatically
after quarrel dating from the
cath of Prince Macmillan, younger
rother Of Francis Joseph /. The prince
stoned to Napoleon Ill, of France.
I'D accepted the crown of Mexico. in I
ine, 1864, supported by French troops, s
1t had a stormy career as emperor
an unwilling empire. The twin trag- t
lies of the insanity of Carlotta. and the t
secution of Macmillan, left feeling t
deep resentment against Mexico in b
c courts of both Austria and Belgium.
was often awkward, at neutral capi- I,
Is, when diplomats representing these b
tions met, or. rather, refused to meet t,
DIV. all is forgotten, and ministers will o
exchanged between the capitals. b
A plan is being turned over for a a
ating exhibition of American products =
every sort, to be sent in due course "
all the principal ports of the world. :,
le merchants of Hamburg Germany, =
We had such an exhibit afloat for sew =
! years and it has resulted in selling =
lions dollars worth of goods in new
rkets. The idea is to have steamers
ded with specimens of our bread
ifs, textiles, agricultural implements,
licies, tools and machinery and iron mi
steel wares of every sort, household nj,
lveniences, hnkee notions" etc. =,
to send theniRo markets where our -,
ducts are not appreciated, experts :,
1g along to give explanations, quote 20
:es, get samples of competing goods
learn the needs and tastes of the me
rket. The expedition would do for VII
country-at~large what drummer he
5 for single commercial house. Iay