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New-York tribune., 1901-05-19

Widow-Ah. then We must have arrived in
India about the same time
General-Yes. but not by the same route,
ma'am.
Widow-But it was in England that / knew
you Don't you remember Wilsford. Captain
General-Major- General. maam-Major- Gen
eral retired, Yes. do remember Wilsford. but
ages ago-ages ago.
Widow-You We're at home on sick leave. and
We played croquet
General-Croquet, I? Never, Croquet,
Widow-Indeed you did. And when l was
croqued into the bushes you used to help me out.
General-God bless my soul. Why, you're
never little Mary?
Widow-Yes. / am-little Mary.
General-Eut you've-grown.
Widow-People do grow in thirty years. Gen
eral.
General Major-Generar So you are little
Mary? Well well, I've forgotten what your
other name was.
Widow-lt does not matter. have changed ii
since those days
General-You're married?
Widow have been.
General Caside)-I was right then. l thought
SO. she is q widow.
widow-And you are much older than you
were.
General-Not a bit! Al our family turn gray
young Thirty years ago. thirty years ago
Perhaps You're right. Why. / must be getting
a battered old thing I've had fever and ague
sword wounds from the Afghans and bullet
wounds from the DerVishes. I've got a slug
about me now.
Widow (start nc)-t;Ocd heavens The horrd
creature, How you touch such a horrid,
Shiny thing? Don't let it loose. General,
General Maj0r-General! Is she mad? wish
could get at il. \ man doesn't carry a bullet
in his body if he can gel rid Of it,
Widow-A bullet? ! thought you said a slug,
General-So / did. They're the same thing.
aren't they? She's mad
Widow-rm SO glad it's only a bullet!
thought it i slug. ana never could bear
snakes: they get on my nerves 50.
General side)-Snakes? Get on her nerve 5 ?
She's not mad. She's 4 dipsomaniac. and old
Thingamaj.s IS treating her for it. And little
Mary has come to this, \ dipsomaniac;
WidoW-My nerves are - shattered,
Ceneral-Th,y call it nerves, do they?
Widow-And tie doctor is 50 clever with
nerves.
General dare say. He tells You what t.
avoide
Widow-Yes. one or TWO things
Gener;u-Of course, ,AsideD Nips between
meals Well. she doesn't mind acknowledging il.
But fancy little Mary ending as a dipsomani4c,
widow-And you-are you also patient?
General-Yes. but not for the same complaint.
Widow-No. of course not, Men never suffer
from nerves
General-Don't they? I've known one two,
But then. its called by another name when
men suffer from IT,
widow-Ah. l suppose 50. 1t isn't your com
plant?
GeneraI-Good Lord. no, have a touch Of
liver
Widow-Ah. you want to be taken of,
You ought TO have married. General.
General-Maj jor-fieneral, Not J. ma'am Bad
thing To marry too young. Nothing ages man
much.
Widow-But a lonely old is a very sad
thing. don't you think?
General-Perhaps perhaps; but not so bad
a henpecked old man. A man should never
marry until he's come TO years Of discretion.
Pause) DO you know. I've sort of recollec-
tion-weren't we-a-um-engaged in sort of 4
kind of a way?
Widow-In the usual way. / believe. You
surely hadn't forgotten that?
Generator course not! But thirty years is
a long time ago.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
OBJECTIVE IND SUBJECTIVE.

From The Detroit Journal
a young person called herself syelte-
'Tis thus. / believe. il is spelt-
Thin was the way
She looked, let me say,
While sYelte was the way that She felt.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
CUPID, NJ. ID.

scene-The waiting room at medical spe-
cialst's.
characters-The Major-General; the Widow
QEnter the Major-General. c.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
A School For Detectives.

In France the art of being a detec-
tive is taught In a regularly graded
school with lessons and examinations.
The students are first trained in the
use of their eyes and hands. One Of
the lessons consists in placing a pupil
in the middle of brilliantly lighted
room full of furniture. He is left for
a few seconds, when the room is dark
ened, and he Is required to sketch
hastily a complete map of the room.
indicating the position Of the furni-
ture. After this he is allowed to look
at a face for a moment or two. The
student is then required to describe
the face and the color of the hair and
eyes. He Is afterward required to
recognize a photograph Of the face
among several hundred others.
The education Of the hand follows.
The pupil is placed in a darkened
room full of curious and unusual OBJ
jects. he is required to touch them
rapidly and afterward to recall exact.
ly what he has touched and write a
description of them. He must remem.
Der even the slightest details. One of
the exercises consists in placing jew.
oled knife before him in the dark.
which he Is allowed to touch only for
a moment. Afterward he must tell
by touch what the jewels are-wheth-
CIR rubies. diamonds or opals-
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
The Largest Ship Afioat.

The new White Star liner Celtic
heads her class Of passenger steamers
In size and magnificence. Her cabin
capacity is 1850 passengers. yet to
give an idea of the roominess and
comfort of the boat, 1t Is estimated
that 10000 men could stand on one
of her spacious decks. She Is 700
feet long, has a beam Of seventy five
feet and a depth of forty-nine feet.
Although not so long as the Oceanic
by five feet. she has seven feet more
beam, and measures 5000 tons more.
Her tonnage is 10000 gross, and her
displacement, at load draught, Is 49,
220 tons. With engines of the quad
ripple expansion type, twin screws.
great depth of beam and huge keels,
she ought to be the steadiest craft
afioat. The staterooms are large and
comfortable; and suites, including liv-
ing room, chambers and bathrooms,
are furnished for families. The steer
age Is said to be as luxurious as the
first-class accommodations Of twenty
years ago.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
States Weather Bureau have tried .
number of notifications of the design
in matters Of detail. So have Mr..
CLAYTON, Of the Blue Hill Observa'

tory; Lieutenant Hugh Douglas Wise,
u. s. A., and others. Some men have
the tops and bottoms Of the cells hori.
zontal. Others turn them up corner
wise. Again. one experimentr I'M
parted diamond shape to the big cell.
For the Potter. or diamond. kite the
United States Weather Bureau gives
these dimensions: Four corner sticks.
forty-four inches long. five-eight inch
wide and quarter inch thick. Upright
braces, or struts, fifteen inches. ana
horizontal braces thirty eight inches
long. The cells are Of cloth. hemmed
on both edges. thirteen inches wide
and eighty-one inches long. Two OF
these are needed, Of course.
Eddy kites are easily sent up with
out assistance. To raise box kite 1t
is wise to let out $50 or 200 feet of
string; have this lie exactly In line
with the wind, and get some one to
hold the kite lightly until the wind
catches it and begins to lift. At the
instant 1t is released fifteen or twenty
feet Of cord should be pulled in. That
performance has the same effect on
the kite as running. II the kite shows
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
BLOSSOMS THAT EMIT LIGHT.
Whom the Pollen Bursts Electricity
Genersted with Faint Flashes.

OcuoE8tCu WIN EoAns 'S~AcD'
To a woman belongs the honor of
having first discovered flowers that
emit light. This woman was the
daughter Of Linneaus, the celebrated
Swedish naturalist. One evening,
when the aged man and his daughter
were walking in their gardens. she
called his attention to some nastur-
tiums glowing with a faint phospho-
resent light. They removed these to
a perfectly dark room and there
viewed the ghostly illuminated flowers
for hours, trying to solve the mystery.
Since that time. says the New York
Herald, a number of different flowers
have been found to give forth light,
among them being the corolla OF the
common sunfower; also a species Of
tagetes, called by the French botanists
the rose d'Inde," and the large and
beautiful compound flower called In
this country the dahlia.
Luminous nasturtiums." writes Pro-
lessor A. Frederick Collins" have
been frequently observed in Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco. 1 observed
one evening a number Of persons
bending over an iron pot full OF mas
turtiums. Curious to know what the
attraction was I fell into line until it
became my turn to inspect the flow
ers at closer range.
Il was surprised to see fash Of
light dart repeatedly from the yellow
petals. The next day / photographed
It.
"a strange fact regarding the phos-
phorescent light emitted by certain
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
Rsware Of Old Potatoes.

A timely note of caution may be
given at this season of the year In re-
gard to the use of old potatoes, says
Leslie's Weekly. 1t has always been
known that new potatoes partly o.
wholly turned green by exposure to
the sun while growing are poisonous
1t seems that this same poisonous sub
stance has been discovered in old
potatoes, especially when they begin
to sprout. The substance is known as
alkaloid solanine. In 1892 and 1898
there was almost wholesale poisoning
among the troops Of the German army.
The symptoms were frontal head
ache, collie, diarrhoea, vomiting. weak
ness and slight stupor. and in some
cases dilation Of the pupils. Meyer
Investigated the matter, and found IL
old potatoes kept In damp place and
beginning to sprout twenty-four times
as much solanine as In new potatoes.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

tricity of a storm cloud has also been
employed for carrying up self'register-
ing thermometers to great attitudes.
The United States Weather Bureau,
by simultaneous observation over
wide area, has learned much about
atmospheric conditions at an eleva-
ton of nearly ten thousand feet. At
the private observatory of A. Law
renee Rotch, near Boston, kites have
been sent up twelve thousand and fif-
teen thousand feet. Photographs have
In the same way been obtained far
above the earth's surface, and mum
Der Of daring and ingenious army Of
ficers have sought to sustain them
selves in the air at q sufficient eleva-
ton to reconnoitre. These last men
toned ventures. though rather promis-
Ing. have not been attended with any
marked success. Still, the vast ma
jority of those who fly kites do so for
recreation and not for purposes Of re-
search.
At the shops one can find great
variety Of kites. Some are shaped
like yachts. and others like eagles.
These are rather expensive. however.
The more common forms, both in the
toy trade and among scientists, are
the Eddy and box kites. Both Of these
are tailless, which fact simplifies the
work Of flying them, though calling
for a little greater precision in con-
struction.
1t ID possible for a person endowed
with a fair amount Of mechanical
skill to make his own kites. Inasmuch
as it Is common to fly several at once,
tandem. and as there Is more or less
loss from breakage sooner or later,
one naturally wishes to have any
where from two to a dozen, and IL
nat number were purchased ready
made the cost would not be trifling.
For the Eddy kite two sticks are
required, one upright and the other
crossing it at right angles, one-fifth
Of the way from the top. The proper
ton Is eighteen per cent. to be exact.
Straight grain white pine or spruce
Is the best wood, and for kite three
or four feet high the sticks should be
half an inch wide. and quarter OF
an inch thick. At the intersection the
sticks should be fastened together
with brads or Irvine. The ends being
suitably notched, Irvine or fine wire
should be tightly stretched around
them.
Before this stage Of construction is
reached certain other measures must
be taken. in order to give the kite a
slightly bullying front. The cross stick
should be bent backward like an
archer's bow. and the curvature pre-
served by string from end to end.
Thin manila paper, silk or light mus
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

the coronation of King George l., by
the champion, Dymoke, whose fee 1t
became after the ceremony. The suit
was made for Sir Christopher Hat
ton, and is the work of the armorer.
jacob. The breastplate, Of markedly
peascod form, is Of great size, with
two laminated plates at the bottom.
and on the left hand side FIVE staples
for the attachment of the lance rest.
The decoration Of the breastplate is Of
great interest, as at the top of the
centre band is the crowned reverse
cipher, represented by capital e and
beside 1t the same letter reversed, q
symbol which was used, no doubt, In
compliment to. Queen Elizabeth; above
the monogram Is a strapwork panel,
containing the figure Of Mercury; al
the base of the breastplate is an oh
long cartouche, with the date 1855.
The same theme of ornament Is re.
peated on the back plate. The legs
are small in comparison with the rest
Of the suit. 1t was purchased by the
presentation committee from a New
Bond street art dealer.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
svimminr Pheasants.

The pheasant, everybody knows, is
a non-aquatic bird; therefore Pro
fessor Lloyd Morgan's observations
that newly Matched birds Of the age
of thirty hours swim easily, show apt
leg movements and exhibit few signs
of distress. is Of singular interest. Is
this swimming habit q throw-back or
reversion to an antecedent state in the
history of this land-giving species, or
is 1t to be regarded as an example Of
a direct and sudden adaptation to a
new environment ?-London Chronicle
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

lin will make good covering. This
should fit little loosely, so that on
each side Of the upright stick the
wind will make shallow pockets. A
bride for flying Is made by tying one
string to the bottom Of the upright
stick and another to the intersection
Of the two. their lengths being such
that the upper end will go out at right
angles from the face of the kite. The
bride terminates in loop. and the
kite string Is tied to- the latter.
Hargrave, an Australian, is credited
with originating the cellular or box
kite. But the experts Of the United
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

flowers, 1t has been observed. Is that
those in which the yellow and orange
predominant exhibit the greatest
amount. of light. Professor Haggern.
the naturalist, pronounces the light of
electrical origin, declaring that when
the pollen bursts electricity Is pro-
duced, and light follows"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

Graduates hold leading positions all over the
country. Instruction all personal.
Having numerous business connections and
being universally and reputAbly known, we
have superior advantages n aiding students to
secure Situations.
AEA store is connected with soule College
in which students do actual business with
real Foods and actual money, and they keep
the books In the latest labor saving forms.
Students enter 1t any time. English, Aca-
demic, Shorthand and Business schools. All
separate facultjes. Send for catalogue.
Address GRO. SOULS * SONS
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

Boone County. No., has q sort OF
hoodoo bird known as "the belled
buzzard" which has returned to the
neighborhood at intervals Of q few
years since before the days Of the old
est inhabitant. 1t carries a bell at
tached to an iron collar. The bird
has just come back very gray and
sluggish. II IL believed to be at least
Z century old.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

In the continuance shown here any
number OF mice may be caught In Q
single night, and each of them dis
posed of In a cylinder Of water. 50
that 1t is completely lost sight OF.
The mouse. entering ut the bottom,
tries to get at the bait. which Is en-
closed In a wire netting and Is inac.
cessible. Its efforts set In motion Q
balance movement, which closes the
door Of the trap. There is wire
netting passageway. apparently al
fording an exit, which the mouse
naturally follows, only to spring o
second balance and thus precipitate
itself into a water tank. This same
operation opens the door OF the trap
automatically for the next victim. The
tank Of water can be easily detached,
emptied and refilled when required
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
State Government Of Louisiana

Governor-W. W. III, ard,
Lieutenant Governor-Albert Este
pinal.
Secretary of Staie-John Michel.
superintendent of Education--Johz
v. Calhoun.
Auditor-W. s. Frazee.
1reasurer-I.edoux E. Smith.
u. 8. SENATORS.
DON Caffsrey and s. ID. McEnery.
REPRESENTATIVES.
District--R. G. Davey.
2 District--Adolph Meyer.
8 District-R. +. Broussard.
4 Dietrict-P Brageale.
District. E. Ransdell.
District-S. NJ. Robinson.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

Rural Postman who Kaows Greek.
At the village of Void Newton, In
England, the rural postman, who is a
Wesleyan local preacher. has taught
himself Greek during his long and
solitary walks between the village
and Canton on his daily round.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

a disposition to dive. let out q little
twine quickly.
When flag is to be sent aloft by
means of kites. one edge should be
tackled to stick sufficiently heavy to
hang vertically, and the upper end
of the stick tied to the kite string
when the kite or team has gone up
only a short distance.-New York
Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

model little the Samoan Islands, accord
United States Philadelphia sent from
drilled
look the soldier business
they
perfection military
white undershir and blue dun
around the hem
The legsan feear bal
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

The sweets of family life are not to
be found In family Jars.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

The disadvantage Of the usual
mouse trap Is that 1t Is not automatic
In its action, and even when the aver
age woman has caught mouse In 1t
she is at loss to get rid Of the mouse
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

The fellows who always notice when
a girl has on a new hat don't always
make the best husbands.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
ATTEND COIJLE

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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

Very few of Us would be willing to
take our own advice.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16

British colonies are seventy times a:
large as the area of the United King.
dom
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
Double Daily Trains
Fast Time
Close Connections.

Through Pullman Palace Blespsrs
bstvsea New Orleans aud Memphis,
Kansss City. ek Louis and Chicago
Without change, making direct sonnee-
Mons With Axst-slass lines 70 al points
The great stssl bridge spannisg The
oAie river q Caifs completed, and eli
trains freight ed passsEgsrl now ran.
n1ng Regularly evsf u TINS welding the
6elayB ana anneyAnes incident 70 txans
- ~ lersy bsaA
4. b. HANSON. Gen. Z - Ask.
Chicago
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

r y TIE flying Is no longer a
* boys amusement merely.
Mature men enjoy the sport
greatly. though the oppor.
tunities for it may not be afforded ex-
cept during their annual vacations.
Kites are used great deal nowadays
Tor scientific purposes. too.
The device which Franklin found so
for investigating the cleo
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-11-16
Armor Presented to the King.

The sixteenth century suit Of arrnor
presented to the King on June 13 by
number Of gentlemen, headed by the
Duke of Marlborough, was worn at
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-26

Cheese it" is in an English slang die
tionary of 1911, and the definition
shows that the phrase was then used
in the same sweet sense as that of to-
day. And the phrase came banging
and humping down the last century.
The ingenious George Augustus Sala
in his "Gaslight and Daylight" 1850
wrote in the chapter "StrOllers at Dunn
bledowndeary" about young Harry,
who held earnest parley with members
of the upper gallery who were pelting
him and his friends with nutshells and
broken piles. Two or three 'hallOs"
and now. thensn accompanied by a
strong recommendation to cheese it
Ii. e., act of CESSATION, cause these tri-
fling annoyances to cease" You see
that NJ. Sala thought it necessary to
explain the phrase to his genteel audi
ence. The dictionaries all say that
cheese it, is thought TO be a cOrTup-
ton Of cease itr' Maybe they think
so. We are inclined to believe in q
more remote derivation. Cease it!'' is
too easy.-Boston Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-26
Bpoken az the Wheel,

In the diary of that remarkable man,
General Patrick Gordon, who left
Scotland in 1851 a poor, unfriended
wanderer, and, when he died, in 1893,
had his eyes closed by the affectionate
hands Of his Borrowing master, The
Car Peter the Great, the following en-
try is to be found, under date Ham
burg. March %, 1886;
This day. man and woman. a
burger of the towne being the wom-
ans master. for numbering. were cart
ed from the prisone to the house where
the murder was committed; and there
before this house, with hottie pinsers,
the flesh was torren out of their arms,
and from thence were carted TO the
place of Justice without the towne, and
there broken and layed on wheeles."
An instance fifty years later than
those quoted at the last reference IS
recorded in the Correspondence Of
Mr.. Joseph Jekyll" Murray, 1894. In
April. 1775. from the balcony of his
lodgings at Orleans, Jekyll saw Grim
inal broken on the wheel. In a letter
to his father (p. 49, he enters infinitely
into the sickening details, adding that
the crime of the unfortunate creature
was burglary. as we learnt from his
sentence. which is posted up at every
corner of the streets. Notes an
Queries
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-26
Pill Anthnnv's Coolnes-,

Bill Anthony was one of the best
examples that came out of the Spanish
war of the man who can keep his head
wren others have lost theirs, says
Richard Harding Davis in Everybody's
Magazine. His coolly indifferent an
nouncement to Sigsbee that the Maine
was sinking. either showed a soul dis
ciplined to the condition of an auto
nation. or q spirit which nothing could
dismay. I once asked Captain Sigsbee
if the popular version of Anthony's
speech was correct. He said il was.
but that Anthony did not salute him
as was generally told. nor preface his
speech with 1 beg to report, sir" I'VE
bumped into each other in the dark"
SigSbee said, and if he had saluted
and spoken with that formality, ne
would have been thinking of himself
and OF making an effect. and not OF his
duty. What he really said and did IS
better without any of the advantages
which came later"