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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26
PEARLS OF TnoYcnT.

Delicacy is to the affections wnas
grace Is to beauty.
We cannot Judge for each other. We
have each our peculiar weakness, ana
temptations.
Sympathy Is easy to get. but when
you need help you will find that is q
Inherent question.
Instruction is q teacher, but Exam
ME is an artist. and our emotions are
The colors he mixes on the hearts pal
cite.
The people who help us most are
those who make light Of our achieve
ments and have faith In our possibili-
ties.
For things never come quite right
IN this world. The threads seem 70
slip out of our hands as we are 60
ing to tie the knot
The inward Influences and illumin-
atoms which come to us through those
who have loved us are deeper than
any that we can realize; they pene'
trate all our life, and assure us that
there must be a fountain OF HE and
love from which they and we are con-
tinually receiving strength to bear
and hope.
It is seldom that a man loses his
temper, even under the greatest prov
ocation, without having cause, sooner
or later, to regret hts want Of self
| command. There are few Of our Eel
| low creatures 80 important that 1t Il
not worth while to conciliate them
none that may not some time have !
In their power to infiict on US an In
I fury.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26
a story NJ the Iron bike,

The Great Duke-the Iron Duke
"the Dock" whom Corporal Gregory
Brewster so often quoted, was not only
a great soldier, but was scarcely In 0
lesser degree great diplomatist; this
was seen notably in his dealings witt
the King and political wire-pullers OF
the day. In private life, too. he wal
equally wide awake. and on one occa
sion when accosted by his brother-in
law, Dean Pakenham, with the sug
gestive words: Now. my dear Duke
one word from you viii get me mad'
a bishop" .Not one word, my dea
DEAN" was the diplomatic, not to sa!
nigmatical. reply with which the DnE
st the dean bordering .-Londol
.sdy's Pictorial.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

lawyers wife screamed. sprang up from
her chair and sunk back in it, and yet
the bell rung. Together the lawyer
and the doctor carried her to her room
and the lawyer hurried away to the
drug store on the corner.
"Doctor. / wish you would finish
that ghost story" said the lawyers
wife the next day as she was sitting
up from her siege OF Mysteries and the
telephone man had come around and
Strengthened the wires. what did the
engineer hit?'
snow, the train did hit something
that night. but when the crew went
back to look all they could find was
Davis spotted cow, which had been
making her way to the old home. The
moonlight made her look odd, and.
after all, there may have been BIZ
of superstitious blood In the engineer.
At any rate, he resigned his run when
he got into Chicago that night. I saw
him bit ago pulling freight on the
New York Central. But the liant had
left him. Harry A. Armstrong, in the
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

through the sands of the hill, stood the
red house and barn of Graham Davis.
Some time before this a scourge of
small pox had visited the community.
Two of the Davis children had died
almost on the same day. Anyway,
they were buried In the same coffin
and in the same grave. The graveyard
was In the orchard. as great many
graveyards Of the early settlers were.
"As the railroad company pushed in
its siding against the hill Graham
Davis found himself short of room, so
in the course of time he sold that COR
ner of his farm to the company, and
moved from his house and barn, for
getting all about what he had in the
orchard. The neighbors remembered,
and 1t was not long before weird stor-
les of slamming doors and grewsome
noises were told about the country
side. Some people went so far as to
declare they had seen the two children,
hand in hand, going through the or
chard to the school. as they had often
been seen in life to do. This happened
only at midnight when the moon was
high and the air clear, so there was
little chance of making mistake. The
sidetrack made Its way farther and
farther into the hill. The crew of this
gravel train consisted of Irish SHOW
elers, Yankee conductor and Scotch
engineer. One by one the trees of the
orchard fell as the gravel was dug
from beneath, and loaded upon the
fat cars by the red-shirted gang, who
talked and joked and idled away their
time like flock of geese.
Zone day the crew came upon the
box buried in the orchard. A shout
went up from the Irishmen, for they
had found the skeletons of the children.
Down on the siding stood the long train
Of fiat cars, with the engine smoking
away at the end. Robert Watson, IA
miliarly known as Bob. was tanning
himself in the window of the cab.
Conductor Thompson was somewhere
along the shady side of the box car,
which did duty as the caboose. On
the hill there was a big commotion,
and the sand and gravel came down
faster than 1t had ever done before,
following the heels of the shovelers.
These Irishmensranged themselves by
the side Of the train, painting and jab-
boring !, way few could understand.
Bob Watson stuck his head far out
from the cab window and inquired the
cause OF the trouble. Conductor
Thompson went leaping up the hill
like kangaroo until he got to box
half covered with sand beneath tree
in the orchard. Then Thompson went
back faster than he had gone I'D. and
sat down on tie. No color was In
his face. and his hands trembled.
Surrounding him crowded the Irish
men. who made so much noise no one
heard the lightning express as it went
laundering by. Nor would the men go
back to work, as long us the box was
on the hill. Engineer Bob Watson
called the conductor to him and learned
the situation.
III take the things out OF there.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

"The incident on the hill was for
gotten, almost, perhaps entirely by all
except the Irishmen, who seldom lost
a thing of this kind from their men,
cries. Time wrought many changes.
Bob Watson was advanced until he
was given charge of a night express
between Chicago and the East. Con-
ductor Thompson controlled the des-
TIMES Of the passengers on this same
train. One night they were coming
into Chicago, with the moon shining
full and the face Of the country almost
as clear as at monday. OF to the
left was the schoolhouse, and to the
right, coming down the road over the
crossing, were two children, boy and
a girl, with tin dinner bucket swing
ing between them. Evidently they did
lot see the express. and reached the
centre OF the track at the same instant
the engine struck the crossing. En-
gineer Watson threw ON the air brakes,
blew the whistle, and the whole train
shuddered to standstill. Watson
grabbed q fare and sprang past the
wide-eyed fireman out into the night.
From the coaches the white lights of
the brakemen dropped down, and the
blue lantern of the conductor waited
until the yellow flare of the conductor
came up to 1t. Then the conductor
and the engineer went back. looking
under every car the full length Of the
train, and to the crossing; even on the
crossing there was nothing. no sign Of
an accident. neither to the right nor to
the left.
$50 the train went ON.
"a month later the moon shone
again. Again Robert Watson's train
came to the crossing. Again he saw
the two children, the boy and the girl,
coming down the road to the right
with their dinner bucket between them.
Again they stepped on the crossing as
the train reached 1t. and again that
flying mo- ster was brought to stand.
The engineers flare mingled with the
ligh.~ of the brakemen. and the con-
ductor carried hiG blue lantern back
to the crossing. There the men faced
each other.
".Look here, Bob Watson. said Con-
ductor Thompson. do you remember
what place this is? Do you remember
the orchard that once stood on the hill
over there behind the schoolhouse!
Do YOU remember what the Irish SHOW
eler said to you? I'll tell you you've
hit the hant.'
together the men walked back to
their posts.
~once more a month rolled around
and the moon shone on the little school
house and on the crooked trees of the
orchard held in existence by the school
land. Engineer Watson saw the chill
dren coming down the road long be-
fore the train reached theNcrossing.
He signaled to his fireman for more
steam and opened the valve wider as
the engine swung up on the crossing.
There was jar as the wheels passed
over
At that instant the telephone bell
rang us it had never rung before The
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26
Lift only For Going Up.

A well known New Yorker. who re-
Gently returned from London, says.
that he had funny experience there.
He was stopping at family hotel
that had wheezy elevator. or elf"
as the English call it. His room was
on the third floor, and he used the
"lift' several times every day. After
he had been stopping at the hotel
about four days he discovered. one
morning. a neatly written sign posted
up alongside of the elevator shaft on
his floor. The sign read:
'sGuests will please walk down stairs.
as the lift is only used for ascend
ing.n-New York Times.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

Many people have the impression
that Valley Forge Is wild glen high
among the mountains where winter
frosts and SHOWS hold unrelaxing
sway for many long, dark months
every year. But really its situation is
neither lofty nor remote, and the rig
ors Of the cold are not nearly what
they would be In our more northerly
states. Comparatively little snow
falls, and often there is not weeks
sIeighing the winter through.
The valley is only % miles from
Philadelphia. with which it has direct
communication by a railroad tina,
skirts along the Schuylkill river
Woman's Home Companion.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26
COSTLY SODA FOUNTAINS.
Some of onyx Worth 814.00o or $4,000
=Irnprovernents ine Them.

Some OF onyx worth 814,VOV OF OsVsvvv
=Inprovernents fns Them.
.The great majority OF the finer
soda fountains Of today" said soda
fountain manufacturer, "are built OF
Mexican onyx: Some run in cost up
to $4,000 or $4,000:
"A $4,000 soda fountain would be
made of the finest materials and would
be of great size. 1t might have 30
draft tubes and hundred syrup cans.
VERY beautiful onyx fountains OF
the dimensions more commonly used,
say with 10 syrups and three draught
tubes, can be bought for from 1850 to
$1,000 In fact, handsome onyx
fountain can be bought for $500:
But everybody wants an enyx
fountain. There are yet purchasers
who prefer one of marble. A marble
fountain with onyx trimmings could
be had at say $3.50. An old style
marble fountain might be had for 800.
Fifty years ago or Whereabouts soda
water was drawn from silver tupe
rising out of the counter. Then came
the first visible soda fountains. small
marble boxes placed on the counter.
From these developed the elaborate
and often costly fountains Of marble
that preceded the onyx fountain of
the present.
beautiful and costly marble was
brought from all parts Of the earth
to be used In the construction OF soda
fountains. But now the fashion is
onyx, with canopy or superstruc-
ture of wood.
"Along with its great development
in beauty has come a corresponding
Improvement in the soda fountain
working parts. The contemporaneous
fountain is far more convenient and
efficient in operation than its old tins
predecessor.
"As to the consumption of soda
water, It is far greater now than ever
before. This is due in very consid-
cradle measure to the widespread In
PRODUCTION of ice cream soda. II
would probably not be unreasonable
to say that where ice cream soda I.
sold at low price the sale OF soda
water has been, within 10 years, quad
rupled.
"At the same time some share OF
the increase must be attributed to- the
far greater variety and attractivenes:
OF the soda water and other beverages
now supplied at the soda water coun
ter; to the great improvement in thu
compromising, made possible by i'm
proved fountains, and to the vast i'm
provement in all the appliances an
utensils used about the fountain.
1--WE expert some soda fountains. IL
fact, we have been sending some t.
England for the past Is years, su
more within the past five years. Eng
land is great for bottled waters. b,'
not for fountains, but 1t is buyinI
more fountains than 1t did. It has
until recently, been taking fountain
| of marble; but it Is now beginning t
buy onyx fountains.
I'VE sell also soda fountains in III
English colonies. as in Australia, an
some in Germany and in France; wit
our exports of them, In general, in
creasing."-Sun.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26
Story of Stick

The reformers who hold up the Ger
man army as pattern to be admired
will perhaps allow that even its excel
lent discipline has some drawbacks.
Among the many regulations of the
military code is one which forbids any
body to present himself before a re-
cruiting officer with a cane in his
hand. Some days ago reservist SO
far forgot himself as to enter the Office
of a recruiting sergeant-major accom-
panied by his walking-stick. For this
heinous offense the unfortunate reserv-
list was promptly court-martialed and
sentenced to ten weeks Imprisonment
for insubordina tion.-To Day.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26
State Government Of Louisiana

Governor-w. w. Heard.
Lieutenant Governor--Aibert Este
pinal. ,,.
6nperintendont of Education-johs
Y. Calhoun.
Apd,tor-W. 8. Frazee.
Treasurer-Ledoux T.. Smith.
q. S. SENATORS.
DON Cafforsy and 8. D. McEnery.
REPRESENTATIVES.
1 District-R. G. Davey.
Q District-Adoiph Meyer.
8 District-R. +. Bronssard.
District-p. Trazeale.
District. i. Kausdell.
8 Districts. nj. Robinson.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26
Dihiculties of Writers.

sThe lack of observation, or rather
the lack of opportunity for observa-
ton, among women writers produces
queer results at times" said the
thoughtful man. 81 was reading a
story not long ago where the sharp
crack of a rifle was followed by
hailstorn of shot. Now hailstorm
of shot coming from the small bore of q
rifle is rather a tax on the, magma
ton. This reminds me Of another rife
story wherein deadly duel with rifles
took place between the hero and the
villain. The hero when they met fired
quickly and without taking aim. This
was not suicide, but strategy, as the
authoress was careful to explain, for
the hero, hidden by the smoke Of his
and potted him while he was chewing
his mustache in impotent rage. Now
a rifle that produces smoke enough at
a single discharge to conceal a man
must be something of smoker; be-
sides, / don't exactly understand how
the smoke concealed the hero, put left
the villain in plain sight.
"Some time ago l ran across a
friend of my youth, the good but poor
little boy, with widowed mother and
a mortgage on the house, who discov-
cred that the railroad bridge had been
swept away, and tagged a train in
time to save the passengers from an
awful death, whereupon the grateful
passengers paid Off the mortgage.
Then a section crew came along and
replaced the bridge In a few minutes
and everybody was happy. A section
crew than can build bridge in a few
minutes ought to be able to get po-
sition anywhere at good wages. -
Detroit Free Press.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

EE' ONE people do not believe
the stories they hear of
y ghosts" said the doctor, as
he leaned back in his chair
on the opposite side OF the table from
the lawyer and his wife, whose guest
he happened to be for dinner. The
lawyer leaned back, too, but the law
yer's wife could not because the tele-
phone was up against the wall behind
her seat. But they do believe them
down In the country where 1 came
FROM" continued the doctor, while
the lawyers wife crumbed up crack
er and let the pieces fail in her finger
bowl. For instance, a story was cur
rent when was about fourteen years
old that was realistic enough and had
proof enough to have been SO even
IL 1t was not.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad-known
then as the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago-was building. and the right
of way cut through a sandhill less than
quarter Of a mile from our front
gate. In building the line there were
several places to be graded, and no
better material could be found than
the gravel In this hill. Next to the
wagon road. which wound away
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

The gypsy moth costs the World s2,-
100000 a year. and the sugar-eating
Ait doubles that sum, while termites.
ant-like, we6d-eatins insects, destroy
property In North Africa valued at
more than SJ,ggg.00O in twolvemonth.
The wire ropes fastened to some OF
the most dangerous places In the noun
tains of the Alps, while they form an
important safeguard, have been found
to present new danger as well. They
net rs lightning conductors, and sew.
eral tourists were stunned during the
past summer. but hone Of the casual
ties proved fatal.
While making the foundation for
new house at Biebrich, on the Rhine.
few weeks ago. the workmen discov-
cred q well-preserved grave with
skeleton lii crohching position. To-
gether with the skeleton were found
number of stone and wooden fmple-
ments, such as hammers, axes. etc.
Skeleton and tools are said to be at
least $500 years old.
DIR. A. A. Common, the English us
tronomer, in illustrating recently what
the telescope and the microscope have
done in extending the powers OF vision,
employed the following figures: Imag-
inc the size of an eye, and therefore
of a man capable of seeing in natural
way what the ordinary eye sees with
| the aid Of large telescope, and also
| the size Of man who could see plainly
with his natural eye what we see with
a powerful microscope. The first man
would be giant several miles tall, and
the second midget very small frac-
| ton of an inch in height.
Recent studies Of the geology Of Vel.
lowstone Park have led to the opinion
that the waters of Yellowstone Lake
now the head of Yellowstone River
once flowed OF southwark into the
Snake River. At that time compare
lively small stream followed the course
of the magnificent Yellowstone Canon
which had not then been excayated to
its present great depth. The head OF
this stream gradually gnawed its way
back until it cut the divide enclosing
the basin of the lake, and by thus di
verting the waters Of the lake formed
the Yellowstone River.
The science Of clouds has attracted
many devotees within the past Few
years, and photography has greatly as
sisted in advancing it. Clouds, like
stars, become far more interesting t.
the non-scientific observer of nature
when he knows the names attached t.
them. While the grandest and mos
imposing form of cloud is the domet
and pinnacled cumulus which frequent
ly accompanies thunderstorms, thu
most beautiful is the feathery cirrus
Cirrus clouds sometimes exist at enor
nous elevations. While their meal
height is about $4,000 feet-the heigh
of Mount Everest-they have beeI
measured at an elevation Of 10000 feet
or more than nine miles. They NOV,
with great velocity. about ninety mile
an hour on the average, and in white
sometimes more than 200 miles al
hour.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

Western Australia is making heroic
efforts to develop farming industries,
especially the growing of grain.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

IT'S the sorriest error to measure our gold
By the number of dollars. It's better
To think of their quality; find if they hold
A genuine JOY for their getter.
For coin that is good when we win 1t
Alright,
With conscience and heart in our deal
ing,
Is only counterfeit, p,easureless quite
To him who obtains it by stealing.
Nixon Waterman, in the National Maya
zine.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26
TWO KINDS OF DOLLARS

There's difference In dollars, for some
are SO pure
And wholesome and big and delightful;
While others which men in their hurry
procure
Are little and furnished and frightful.
The good kind bring riches that stand
for success
With honest, intelligent striving;
The others bring only that sense of dis.
tress
That comes of humanity conniving.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-26

Through Pullman Palace Sleepsrs
between New Orleans aud Memphis.
Kansas City, g. Lonis and Chicags
Without change, making direct eonnec
Mons with Arst-class lines to eli pointa
The great steal bridge spanning ths
ohio river 1t Cairo completed, and al
trains freight and passenger now run.
sing regularly over il TINS avoiding ths
6slays and annoyance inoident 70 trans
lss ~ fairy bsat
A. 81. HAssoS. Gen. Z AgA.
Chicago
II. 4 aooss- n p H.. MeApAks
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-09-10
REPUBLICAN STATE PLAItORM.

REPI SlAlE FLAl oA>Nh'
The unparalleled prosperity OF our coun-
eirn trade we believe is due to the wise
craftsmanship of our republican leaders
and IL faithful adherence to the natlonai
policy of protection and reciprocity: as out
lined and promulgated by VIM. Mckinney
and SO emphatically endorsed and inter
preted by President Roosevelt. We COM
mend the president of the United States
for his straightforward and manly course
on all public questions and for his untlrlng
zeal and patriotic devotion to the principles
of his party and the welfare OF the Ameif-
We point to the harmonious cooperation
of our states representatives in congress,
and their courageous stand upon public
questions, with much satisfaction, and ex-
press our confidence in their Judgment, and
ability.
ton as having been wise, economical and
honest. II the party pledges its candidates
to a continued faithful observance of the
best interests of the state in all depart
Proud of the achievements OF our army
and navy. and mindful of the glorious
record of the North Dakota volunteers, we
resent the attacks on our army by demo-
cratic leaders in congress, and characterize
them as unAmerican and unDatriotic.
The republican party stands for good
government and the faithful enforcement
of all existing laws.
bly, and urge upon its members the serious
consideration of such amendments of the
election laws Of this state as shall perfect
the system Of primary elections in accord
ance with enlightened public sentiment and
needed reform.
Uninfluenced by corporate interests, we
favor the enactment Of laws beneficial to
the masses, and especially such laws as
and control of all public franchises and
public utilities in this state.