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and streets-Elizabeth L. Lavender ct
vir, Fleming j., to Samuel S. Hoover, lot
13, square 1852; $40 (stamps, 50.
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PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION
Established .,ineteen Years.
Asset, 81 l05 .03. Surplus, sIO2 477.o1.
Largcsr Building A ssocia tion In the City.
Advances 81 900 for q monthly payment OF a
Dollars. Advances 81. 900 FOR a monthly
payment Of dollars. Advances 81 900 for
monthly payment OF 10 dollars. or any
Larger um ou may desire 10 pay. The
Interest Is reduced so cents monthly a. soon
As you have credit on the debt OF half q
Share. $s7.50 thus reducing the debt and the
Interest ali at one time. Only SO Expenses
When you borrow 81 900. No expenses at ali
When yoI borrow 81 800 or over. We are the
Greatest dividend paving institution in the
City We pay out S10.od0 In dividends every
Month We pay interest deposits every
Three months az the rate OF 80 per annum.
lBteres. counts from the LIST OF each month
On dep sits made late the 10th. 81
To IS 600 lived. Office at sos l1th at.
From s am. 40 p.m.
c. c. DUNCANsoN President.
JOHN COOK. Secretary. de5-tf
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"Guide to Investors"
w Washingt0n
Loan s. Trust Co.

OFFICE COR. 9TH AND r SIS
PAID-UP CAPITAL. 81 .0Oo. 600.
Loans in any amount made on approved real
estate or collateral at reasonable rates.
Interest paid upon deposits on monthly bal
ances subject to check
This company acts executor. administra-
tor. trustee, agent. treasurer. registrar and
in all other nduciary capacities.
Boxes for rent in burglar and nreproof
Vaults for safe deposit and storage OF vaiu-
able packages.
Real Estate Department IL prepared to a.
- sumo the management Of your real estate.
- Careful attention given to all details.
JOHN JOY EDSON. ON......................P President
JOHN A. SWOPE.. Vice President
ELLIS SPEAR. Second Vice President
ANDREW PARKER................. Treasurer
BRICE J. MOSES. Assistant Treasurer
THOMAS BRADLEY....... Real Estate Ofhces
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Colored Shirts to Order.

Negligee style with stiff bosom; collar and
cuffs attached separate. you may fancy Es-
pecially appropriate for negligee early the
season shirts made Of Scotch cheviot, with mar
cuffs attached. We need about couple of
weeks TO make them. A little later We VIII not
be able to make them quickly.
A very ha ldsome line Of patterns Is displayed,
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To Desirable Tenants.

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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-07-13
nu,,a. House Over Wits Grave

Colonel Elijah De Board. OF Gilmer
County, Georgia, is probably the only
man in the United States whose home
Is over a grave. This unusual haDifa-
tion is not due to eccentricity. or for
the purpose of attracting notoriety,
but is simply case of loyal devotion
shown in a visible way to the memory
of his wife.
The recent loss of his partner in life
affected him deeply, since which time
he has become a recluse. His devo-
ton has been carried to an extreme,
1t is thought by his neighbors, as he
has given up living in his large home
and has Just built house on the spot
where his beloved wife rests, ON the
beautiful mountain side near his home.
The structure is a small but substan-
tial octagon of stone, and on the iron
door opening into the single room Is
the following inscription: "One in llfe'
and one in DEATH"
In the right hand corner is the grave
of his wife, while secondary space
near by he has reserved for himself,
where, at the end he can find repose.
Around the windows flowers have
been planted, and the venerable patri
arch spends the days in beautfyine
the surroundings of his strange home
On the anniversary of her death
with the assistance of local pastor
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SURGEONS SEWING MACHINE.

probation by awarding to the inventor
the Barber prize. destined for the in
yention Of any instrument of general
utility and superior to any employed
or suggested previously.
To stitch q wound the surgeon has
hitherto had to pass needle through
the edges of the skin, then pass the
wire through, take the needle out,
press the edges of the wound together,
make knot, make a second knot, and
cut the wire-in all eight distinct
movements. The operation was long
and painful, and in many cases an
anaesthetic had to be administered.
With the sewing machine the opera
ton Is quick and simple. With the
left hand the surgeon draws together
the edges of the wound, and holding
the machine in the right hand, he
presses the forceps or the edges of the
wound. From twenty to thirty stitches
can be put in in less than minute,
and that number is sufficient to close
wound of twelve inches in length.
The stitches are little clasps of
nickel, the ends OF which have minute
points in order to prevent slipping.
When in position they take the form
Of V, the little points penetrating
the epidermis, but not the dermiS. This
renders the operation almost painless,
and does away with the need for
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-07-13
The Port of London.

That the port Of London is the most
picturesque port in the world is I'M
deniable. Far out at sea You may be.
hold the shipping of the world all con-
verging toward the entrance to the
narrow channel that makes the lower
reaches of the Thames navigable to
ocean-going vessels. Wonderful as the
sight is by day, its beauty and It's i'm
pressiveness are multiplied tenfold In
the ruddy afterglow of summers
evening, OF the velvety luminous dark
ness of frosty winters night. But,
unfortunately for the artist, the pic
turesque is of little avail in the utili-
tartan days, and the port of London
has for years been falling from its
proud position as the facile princeps
of the shipping centres of the world.
Years ago. in its heydey. the port
of London was far and away the most
prosperous in the world. Judged by
tonnage or numbers of vessels or value
OF cargo, the shipping passing through
the port was not merely far ahead
of all the other ports, but was more
than double that Of any other port of
the world. Tive years ago New York
equaled, and this year bids fair to sur
pass, the old marine capital Of the
world; other ports are rapidly creeping
up-even in our own country, Glasgow
and Liverpool are becoming formida-
BILE rivals; Hamburg, Baltimore, Mar
settles abroad are all gaining on the
British capital
These indications of feebleness de-
manded immediate attention. Last
year n royal commission was appoint
ed to inquire into the causes of this
decline in supremacy. 1t has held
many sittings. and all witnesses have
borne out the obvious fact that natur-
ally the Lower Thames is utterly un-
suited to the requirements of a mod
ern shipping centre.-London Black
and Whit.
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A Horse ON the Peddlers.
"Sic-em, Billw


The pedestrians on Cadillac SQua.
who heard this command naturally ex-
pected to see dog respond. Great
was their surprise. therefore, when
they beheld a horse prancing along the
curb. He was nosing at a banana
vender, who was excitedly trying to
get his cart Of fruit out of harms way.
The vender kept moving, too, and the
horse returned to his post In front of
his owners fruit and peanut emporium
to wait for further interlopers. The
merchant has twoo of these horses, both
Of which exhibit wonderful intelli-
gence in protecting their owners In
terests from the encroachment of no.
madic rivals. 1t is against the ordi-
nance for street peddlers to stand ON
the public thoroughfare longer than is
necessary to make sale, SO the horses
are really relieving the policemen on
that beat of an unpleasant duty. 1t Is
an advantageous corner, and many
peddlers try to do business there. The
horses, which are kept for delivery pur-
poses, are stationed at the curb on
busy nights. and when a peddler an
proaches the merchant slips the weight
and "sics" 'em on. Then he gives the
-irate peddler. the equine ha, ha.-De-
troit Free Press.
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ROLLING TEA.

ritory. Oklahoma Territory, Missouri
and other border States. Climatic
conditions, rainfall and soil must,
however, all be favorable to conduce
to successful tea culture, and the
American tea growers have already
discovered that 1t is useless to try to
propagate the plants where the winter
temperature Is lower than fifteen de-
grees above zero. An average of an
inch of rainfall every week in the
year is also essential, although it is
hoped to overcome this necessity by
means of irrigation.
One of>the most tedious tasks which
has confronted the pioneer tea grow
ers has been that of determining what
species of tea plants give the best re-
suits when transplansed to this con-
tinent. In order to demonstrate this
a number of miniature tea gardens
have been provided, and In each some
particular variety is carefully nursed
under special treatment. Thus the
visitor to this romantic nook in South
Carolina may see, growing side by
side. japanese, Chinese, Ceylonese and
American tea. The difference in the
quantity of tea yielded by single
bush presents as wide range in the
case of the different varieties as is
the case in the Orient, where the pro-
duct varies from one ounce from each
bush in Japan, to eight or ten ounces
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oxidation, which involves certain
chemical changes. To such an extent
has mechanical genius entered the
field Of tea production, that the black
tea secured at Pinehurst may now
fairly be said to be largely machine
made. The sitting. rolling, oxidation
and firing are all done by mechanical
process. A phase of the handling of
the tea in which the American grow
ers have exercised exceptional care Is
found in the curing Of the leaf. No
direct sunlight Is allowed to strike the
leaves, either when they are being
withered or during the process of final
drying.
The possibilities of tea culture in
this country would seem to be almost
infinite. Not only may the standard
grades be raised in quantities, but it
is believed to be possible to produce
some Of those marvellous teas known
only to jewellers in the Orient, for the
reason that no means has ever been
devised to successfully transport them
to this country.
1t costs upwards of fifty dollars an
acre to set out and raise the tea plants,
and thousands Of dollars must be ex-
pended for factory in addition to
the constant outlay for labor. A tea
garden, when once established, how.
ever, represents an institution that
will stand for centuries.-The Book
World
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How Money Grows.

Some poor relations Of Christopher
Columbus are said to be living in
Spain ut this time. One or two OF
these have intimated that, If the lib
eral American people would take up
collection for them. the same would be
received as a fitting expression of
gratitude to their great ancestor. But.
If we consider, there would 1--we been
nothing impossible in it. and it would
have been really considerable in Col
umbus, to have saved dol.S-,--only
one dollar.-and placed it at compound
interest at the very reasonable rate OF
six per cent. BY this time-four hun
dred years after-that dollar would
have increased and multiplied to the
muniicent sum of over $4,000, 600. 600,
a sum sufficient to pay some Of the
gambling debts of his poor descend
ants.-Success.
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the pioneer tea plantation established
in the New World.
AS soon as the Secretary of Agricul-
ture became convinced that tea culture
in the South was not only practicable
but might be made profitable as well.
he arranged for the institution of an
experimental plantation in South Caro-
lima. The site selected has proven a
most admirable one. Pinehurst, as it
is called, consists of about seven hun
dred acres of beautiful rolling country
thickly strewn with woodlands. About
fifty acres of the splendid estate were
transformed into tea gardens. and this
apportionment has gradually been ex-
tended. The tiny seeds which had
been brought from the Far East were
left to repose in earthly beds, prepared
and sweetened with all the care which
could possibly be bestowed upon
couch of soil. Diminutive shades were
even provided to screen these babies
of the plant world from the glare of
the sun. and then the tea planters
anxiously awaited results
AT first the little immigrants did not
appear to take kindly to the foreign
cline. and the investigators became
so discouraged that they were well
nigh ready to give up the experiment,
when, just in the nick of time, fate
smiled. with the result that these
American tea gardens now contain
thousands of bushes, each composed
of many separate stems. Better still.
the practical side of the enterprise has
commenced to make favorable show
ing. The yield of the plantation is
increased by one-eighth each year and
the tea produced is so vastly superior
10 the black tea which comes over the
ocean that it sells for dollar pound
or three or four times as much as the
importations from China or Japan, and
thus nets the Government a very
handsome profit on its investment.
But because the tea which has thus
far been produced In Dixie has sold
for three or four times the price Of
the crisp leaves which have been car
ried half way round the world, it must
not be supposed that the argument re-
garding the ultimate cheapness of
American tea is without foundation.
The Government officials have demon
strated that under ordinary circum-
stances four hundred pounds of tea
can be counted upon as the yield of
each acre In plantation. The tea
can be grown and put on the market
at fifteen cents per pound. Thus II
the shop keepers sell this superio,
grade Of tea at the same prices that
are now charged for the inferior i'm
ported teas. they win almost double
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from the average bush in India and

from the average bush in India and
Ceylon.
One Of the problems which has puz-
zled the American tea planters not a
little is that of securing helpers at
wages low enough to enable competi-
ton with the ridiculously cheap labor
of the Mongolians. Machinery now
does much of the work of preparing
the tea Cor market, but the leaves
must be picked by hand, and with all
the economy that can be exercised it
costs just about eight times as much
to secure the harvesting of pound of
tea in South Carolina as 1t does in
Asia. Even as 1t is the cost would be
greater had not the projectors of this
initial tea plantation happily hit upon
the plan Of employing colored school
children as pickers.
A school house is maintained on the
plantation, and In the intervals be-
tween learning to read and write the
youngsters are taught how to pick tea.
None of these juvenile toilers can ap-
proach In rapidity the records of the
expert pickers of Asia. but it is
claimed that they are far more careful
In the selection Of the leaves than
their rivals on the opposite side of the
world. About three days are required
Tor the force of pickers to make the
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ten to twenty pounds Of fresh leaf a
day. Some of the little pickers earn
fifty or sixty cents a day, but the ma
jority do not receive more than twen-
ty or thirty cents.
The method of procedure after the
tea leaves have been picked is not q
very intricate one. The crisp leaves
are gathered, as plucked, into Swiss
trout baskets. where they are per-
mitted to lie as loosely as possible lest
they become heated Each basketful,
as it is brought Into the factory. is
carefully examined and after being
weighed is spread 70. dry in a cool,
clean place. Tea manufacture proper
consists Of two proossses. In the one
the tiny oil cells m the leaf are broken
and the contents extracted by hot
water, while by the other the leaves
are once more dried thoroughly.
The product OF such a method of
handling Is the green tea of commerce.
If 1t Is desired to produce black tea.
two additional stages Of evolution must
be introduced-the whitening. or prep
aration of the leaf for rolling, and
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-07-13

Negotiations of the McVickers Sons
and Maxim Company of England. for
the parchase of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, have been abandoned.
Attorney General Knox and Score
tary of War Root will prepare an
opinion of the decisions OF the Su-
preme Court in the insular cases.
In game of baseball at Lexington,
XIV. between two college teams, tho
umpire was attacked and 80 badly
beaten that he had to be taken fiom
the field by policemen.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-07-13
origin of st. valentip.,s Dar

The origin Of st. Valentines day Is
obscure. Saint Valentine was priest
Of Rome. who was martyred in the
third century. Douce says that 1t was
the practice in ancient Rome, during
a great part Of February, to celebrate
feasts in honor of Pan and Juno. At
these times. amid many ceremonies,
the names Of young women werO put
int a box, from which they vOre
drawn by men. The pastors of tho
early church, striving to eradicate pa
gan superstitions, often substituted the
festival Of some Christian saint for
that Of heathcn deity. In this case
they probably chose that Of St vaien-
tine. which occurred at nearly the
same time. but though the name OF
the day became Christian. relics Of the
old pagan ceremonies still cling to It,
yuAta N malta Eaus
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-07-13

ryHE century which has re-
Gently been ushered in,o
existence will see an ao-
dition to the already ions
;ist of reasons why there can
never be q repetition OF that IA
nous "Boston tea party" which helped
TO bring on the Revolutionary war.
This new preventive is found IN tne
fact that long ere the present cycle Oh
hundred years is rounded out, Uncle
Sam will. in all probability, be produc-
ING within his domain sufficient tea
leaves for all the soothing beverage
which his people can possibly drink
and mayhap will have some to spare
10 his brethren across the sea.
THAT this will be highly desirable
rensummation must be appreciated
even by the person who never slpped
n cup of tea in his life. For one thing,
II will enable the poorer classes to 0D-
tain good tea at lower prices, and for
another 1t will keep in the Golfers OF
the American people fortune,
amounting to many million dollars an
nually, which now goes to feed and
clothe men and women on the other
side of the globe. Under present con-
ditions every man. woman and child
In the United States consumes about
twenty cents worth of tea each
twelvemonth, and the immense aggre-
gate sum is divided among the tea
growers In China, Japan and Ceylon,
several middlemen and agents, and the
vessel owners who carry the precious
product to market.
The best feature of the new era
which is coming, however, Is found in
the fact that finer tea can be grown
in the United States than in the
Orient. This has been conclusively
proven by some interesting expert
ments which the United States De-
partment of Agriculture has been con-
Quoting during the past few years at
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to withhold issuance of the proclama-
tion opening the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache and the Wichita lands to
settlement until congress has had
time to act on a proposition to repeal
tho act authorizing the opening and
to send the agreement with the In
dams as amended by congress back to
them fo- ratification. An application
to she courts here to enjoin the seq
rotary of che interior from proceed
ing With the opening may be filed
soon.
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John d. Rockefeller has given sSOo'
600 for an association to be incorpor-
ated as ..The Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research.
British soldiers found asleep on
dutv in South Africa, when released
from prison, will be given tickets
of leave.
Count Won Buelow has advised the
state departments in Prussia 70 4aa0
stems 70 meet the unfortunate situa-
ton caused by the failure y '
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-07-13
a F.teful Month For Royalty.

January has been fateful month
In the life of the English royal fami-
~. 1t is a singular coincidence that
Queen Victoria passed away on the
eighty-first anniversary of the death
of her father, the Duke of Kent, which
event occurred just six days before
the death of his father, George ILL.,. in
1920. 1t was on January 20, 1896,
that Prince Henry of Battenburg
passed away. and it was also in Janu-
airy that the Duke of Clarence, the
direct heir to the throne in the second
generation, came to his untimely end
New York Tribune.
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anaesthetics. The revolver is COM
posed of forceps fixed to magazine,
which contains fifty stitches. When
the forceps close little lever sends
forward the magazine, which places
one stitch between the teeth OF the
forceps, and retires. A little pressure
fixes the stitch in the skin.
They leave no scar, and this advan-
tage, it will be recognized, is often Oh
considerable Importance.
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Ground Plan Completed.

Naggus Qiterary editor)-"How is
your new society novel getting on,
Borusg'
Borus (struggling author)-"Splen-
didly. I've got the French phrases ]
am going to use in the story all Sc
lected. There's nothing to do now bot
to fill in the English and divide it into
chapters, Chicago Tribune.