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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-12-25
A1rarx Worth While.

"You say you encouraged our friend
IN make another New Years resolu-
tion?"
81 did" answered the slangy man,
whose heart is all right.
But don't you know he'll break II
at the end of six weeks at the least
calculation"
Il hope not. And even if he does
he'll be six weeks ahead of the game.
Washington Star.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-12-25

she saw the policeman. well. you're
too late. Some of your pards got
ahead of you this time. He's gone.
They got him this afternoon. For
what ! don't know"
81 didn't come TO get your husband,
Ferguson said. 81 know where he Is.
l came to see if you needed help"
I'VE wouldn't need help if you'd let
Mack alone. You mugs worry the life
out of him and me, too. He amt so
bad as YOU think he is. Just cause he
was once doesn't mean he's always 60
ing to be the same, does it?'
The woman was shivering with the
cold as she spoke, and Ferguson no-
ticed it.
Ibid Mack tell you anything about
going to work tomorrow" he asked.
Eyes. He had good thing offered
him, but l suppose it's all off now"
As the officers eyes were directed
about the squalid, dingy room they
rested for a second on the pile OF
ragged blankets in the corner which
served for a bed, and they discovered
| that the fire in the little coal stove
was almost out and that the coal box
was nearly empty. Their owner
! heart was touched.
do you suppose it would do any
good if l brought Mack back to-
night?" he asked of the brave little
woman near him.
Gould you do it?" she exclaimed,
anxiously, laying her thin, withered
hand on the policeman's arm.
81 think So" was the answer. HE
hasn't been booked yet"
Then, for Gods sake do SOL" she
cried, breaking down and sobbing. u
can't do without him now" she con-
tinued later. I'm almost sick. Be-
sides. it'll encourage Mack. He means
to do right now, | know, for he prom
ised me he would, and I'm sure he'll
keep hi7 word if he's given a fail
show"
''I'il do it," said the policeman, rush
ing from the room.
Half an hour later Mccarthy wa'
Ddtk III HIS dHN ""N
bucket of coal and a basket of foo'
there, too. Ferguson had hurried t.
the patrol box, called up the desk ser
geant, explained matters to him ant
asked that the prisoner be sent hom
in the wagon.
PUT in scuttle of coal, and bas
ket of grub, too" he added; THE.
need it, And tomorrow have some
body go around to see if anything
else can be done. l won't be in to
night, bill. Happy New Year. Good
night"
what kept you so late, Fred?'' Fer
guson's wife asked him when. h
reached home. you said you woul
be here to watch the Old Year on
with me, so l sat up for you. But it
after one o'clock now"
81 know it," he answered, "but wa
unavoidably detained. Sorry, though
But you'll forgive me, l know" he &C
ded, when l tell you that by stayin
l believe have helped to give man
! fresh start on life. It's good way t
begin the New Year." he said as h
, put his arms around the little woma
4 and gave her violent hug.-Chicag
Evening Post.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-12-25

The old year is not dying. 1t is SIM
DIV about to GO aside into the witness
room of Gods court, there to await
the iudgment.-Chicago Interior.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-12-25
Tshe Old. Old story.

Blinks-I suppose you will swear
off the first of the year.
Jinks-Oh, yes; off and on, as usual
Chicago Daily News.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-12-25
same OF story.

"Some people" said Uncle Eben,
..turns ovuh a new leaf on de fus' o. de
year. But befo' Febrairy dey's writln
de same oil story on it."-WsshingtoE
Star.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-12-25

"I wonder if l did do wrong in lock
ing Mccarthy up" Ferguson said to
himself after he had walked several
blocks. thinking of the matter all the
time. Don't really believe did. I've
had orders to bring in all the suspi-
cious characters l find during the hol-
idays, and if Mccarthy isn't one don't
know who is. Guess I'll go around and
see the family anyway. Maybe they're
in hard lines and need help" he con-
tinued. after a moments reflection.
Funny that man should spring the
same gag on me that Mccarthy did
about that job"
Mrs. Mccarthy wasn't very deeply
prieved that afternoon when one OF
her many children came running into
the house and told her that police
man had taken the father away in the
patrol. 1t had happened so often be-
fore that the novelty of it all had worn
off. But she couldn't understand what
he had been doing, for only half an
hour earlier he had left her as cheer
full as could be over the prospect OF
getting permanent work the next day
lie was only going over to the corner
to get some tobacco, he told her, anC
would be back soon. Perhaps he got
into a fight, she thought, and let it &c
at that.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-12-25

Mrs. Mccarthy had so much to do
that she was kept up very late that
night. Three of the children had the
Group. which called for much doping
and rubbing after they had been put
to bed: another of them hadn't n
whole piece of clothing to his back,
and the patient little mother was
forced to spend considerable time
patching and darning. In addition to
this she was making dress for wom-
an which had to be delivered the first
thing in the morning. 1t was close
on to midnight when she finished it.
Just as she was putting away her work
there came rap on the door.
"Oh, it's you, is it p she said when
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The SOCIAL WORLD an0 WOMAN'S DOMAIN

Token flowers that tell,
 What words can never speak so we'll" We also know that, at their banquets the Greek jewellers crowned themselves and their cups with roses, while tht Romans were not less partial to the royal flower Horace. when dwelling or the pleasures of life, desiderated it's con. stant presence at the feast-'nec desin. 1t epulis rosae." Christian art, in duo time, took up the rose symbolically and
 ornamentally; in the sixteenth century
 it was placed over the confessional. as
 the symbol of silence. and in the eigh- tenth century, was adopted by the Jaco- bians, who nursed their loyalty to the
 exiled Stuarts in secret. Alma-Tadema in one of his greatest creations, has vhown us how Heliogabalus half-smother- ed his guests in rose-blooms. while we
 read how Cleopatra strewed the floor oi
 her banquet hall with roses to the depth of eighteen inches. There are the famous roses-the red and white. "the pale and bloody petals" once plucked in Temple Garden, which were scattered over many an English battlefield. And we have the golden rose, which the Pope gives as the most precious of gifts, to some favored Catholic sovereign-symbolical at once of fading earthly life, and of un' fading life in heaven.
 The liberal use of the rose, in sculp- tures carvings and painted glass. as a sweet symbol, is richly attested in the old cathedrals. It was selected as the attribute of Saint Dorothea, whom the early painters represent with roses in basket: Saint Elizabeth of Portugal carries them in her hand, and Saint
 Rosaiia and Saint Angelus wear them for coronal. Milton has shown LIS his
 Eve, in the unfading bowers of Paradise,
 standing half hidden by a veil of rosy
 bloom and fragrance, "so thick the blush-
 ing roses round her blow"
 In the realms of prose. the rose has
 been consecrated by the pretty legend,
 which Sir John Vaudeville relates. A beautiful Jewish maiden of Bethlehem. named Zillah, was beloved by Hamuel. a youth of evil passion. who had sworn revenge. when she rejected him. She
 was accused as a demoniac and con demned to the stake, but Providence drove the flames aside and the stake
 budded; the virgin stood uninjured be- meath rose tree, full of white and red
 roses-then first seen on earth since
 Paradise was lost.'' We can all recall
 in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss
 where Stephen Guest is moved by the
 shapely whiteness of Maggie Tulliver's
 extended arm, as she bends it "a little
 upwards, toward the large half-opened
 rose. that had attracted her."
 But the beautiful garlands with which
 the poets have invested the queen of
 flowers. are among the immortal gems of
 literature. Think of those rose gardens
 of Persia and the loves of the rose and
 the bulbul, celebrated by Hafiz and Jami.
 What a gorgeous picture Tom Moore has
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introduced in "The Light of the Harem," in the feast of the roses (Gul Keazee.) } Sir Philip Sidney, when he invoked the coming of Sleep, prepares to tempt her with "a rosy garland:" and Marlowe's S Passionate Shepherd" promises to pre- pare for his love beds of roses and a tho CCHand fragrant posies." Fletcher speaks of "the new startled blush of Flora" while Shapespcare's sweetest son nets might be called, Marston says, "a whisper of roses" Chaiicer's Emelie "thrusts among the thorns her little hand" to gather her favorite rose, while Spenser has crowned Acrasia's bower of bliss with "the snowy white roses" of which Mrs. Browning also sings so sweet ly in the Lay of the Early Rose" Leigh Hunt, in Francesca da Rimnfs garden places roses in heaps, both white and red" Shelley's beautiful suggestion "of musk-rose twined with jasmine, soul dissolving odour' was the same rose in which Keats rejoiced as "Mtd-Mays eldest child" Swinburne describes Proserpine as the white rose of the rose white water" Hood sings of 'the time of roses:" Beddoes of Loves love. the rosc;" Cowlcy, "I saw rose bud ope this morn;" Herrick, gather Ye rosebuds while ye may" Lewis Morris of young maidenhood. "Opening like rose in loves mysterious honey air, and the red, all-conquering rose" Of Aubrey DeNere.
 This is only a hasty journey through the poets, from whom we have plucked q few buds and blooms, in passing leaN- ing however. an immeasurablc crop Tor more careful and assidious hands. who may wish to do further homage to the Queen of flowers. For, throuNAout the realm of poetry, and in all lands. we are sure to catch the scent of roses.
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| history. as well as enriching the lltera-
 ture of prose and poetry with some of | their most transcendent gems.
 | We know. from mythology of Cupid having given a rose to Harpocrates, the silent god. as bribe not to babble about the fickle loves of Venus. From this circumstance, the flower was adopted as the emblem of silence, and carved on the ceiling of the guest chamber, to indicate that whatever was spoken sub rosa (under the rose) was not to he repeated sub dvo. Venus we know also finds in its fresh blown petals, an emblem of her self, while the Graces have long reared 1t in their tuneful shades. When Aurora draws aside the curtain of the East it is with rose-tpped fingers.
 In classic times. the rose was conse- crated to the impersonation of beauty Aphrodite. Homer sees it's bloom on the cheek of Helen; Theocritus lays 1t on the grave of Bion; and the blush of the rose kindles through all the poetry of Anacreon, who devotes one of his most graceful odes to its praises.
 In sacred history, the Hebrew prophet, when he would reveal to mankind the blessed influences that are to follow the coming of the Gospel, tells us that "the wilderness shall bloom as tho rose" In the Canticles, the church compares her self to "the rose of Sharon" and, in the Apocrypha, the son of Sirach likens wis dom to a rose-plant in Jericho and holi- ness to a rose growing by the meadow stream.
 In profane history, we know that the Lesbian poetess is the first to celebrate the rose as the queen of the world of flowers: that Aristophanes was so attach ed to it, that he invented a pretty com pliment to graceful speaker you have spoken roses" that the young Athenian | lover. when too timid to declare himself | in burning words. revealed his love by q | posy of roses.
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memory of youth is not in them.

VI, ih the list of red letter days, April Fool comes, but comes from where?
 When some one can tell why this one day in all the year is set apart for the playing of pranlxs. the gratitude of the scholars. the world over. will be his. For the origin of April Fool Day is an un- known quantity lost in the shuttle of the sges that have come since.
 All manner of suggestions have been made. One is that it was on the first of April that Noah entered the ark, and fooled all the rest of the world. In com rnenting on this, some one has suggested that this theorist should have gone a step further and stated that when the day on which Eve ate the apple at the suggestion of the serpent was the first of April, and that the willy beast cried April fool" It would be as easy to know this as to know the day on which Noah entered the ark.
 Another theory suggested is that when, sn 156f. the calendar was reformed in France by changing the beginning of the year to January 1st instead of April 1st as 1t had been, those ignorant of the change who sent or expected the New Near gifts on April 1st were joked by their wiser fellow citizens. The first traces of April fool capers in modern aimes are to be found in France where the person fooled is called poisson d'avril." April fish. either. it is said. be- cause he swallows the bate like fish or has the proverbial fisherman's luck-gets nothing for his pains. Some hold that the fish go to the bottom of the streams 10 deposit their eggs on April l, and he who goes fishing on that day never catches any fish-hence the name April fish,
 In Scotland there is a time honored custom of giving an unsuspecting boy a pote to deliver to a neighhor- and in the hote are written the lines:
 ! 'The first and second of Aprile,
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"An opportunity will be given club women to see all that is of interest The city will remain en fete during the en- tire week; decorations will not be re- moved until after May and each even- ing tho city will be brilliant with special illuminations incidental to the carnival.
 Thursday evening" May l. the club wo- men will be entertained with formal re- ception at the Woman's Clubhouse, and Wednesday. May 2. an all-daY excursion to Long Beach and San Pedro has been arranged. The program for the biennial meetings is not yet ready for publication but will be in another week.
 There are many points of interest within the State of California which will attract visitors. but the most noteworthy are, perhaps, the Yosemite Valley, thc High Sierras in immediate vicinity. and the Mariposa grove of Big Trees" all of which may be seen upon the same jour ney. The Yosemite is situated little south of east from San Francisco and Is about l55 miles from that city. Travel through the valley is usually possible in May. often earlier, and June is an ideal month for visiting this region of granite precipices, with a carpet strewn with millions of flowers, from which spring huge trees centuries old. This valley has been termed one of Natures four most wonderful works and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado In Arizona, which may also he seen by the visiting club women. Is another. The beauty of the Grand Canyon is too Elusive for description, but is attracting the attention of travellers from all over the world. Its rock forma- tions, petrhed forests. narrow chasms. red and yellow boulders. precipitous cliffs over which the sightseer catches glimpse of streams flowing half a mile
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QUEEN OF FLOWERS.

tBy Andrew James Miller.)
 Ages ago, in the blooming gardens of the East, the rose was crowned the Queen of Flowers, and no rival has ever suc- cesded in deposing her. Indeed. her majestic supremacy is a truly just and rightful one, by virtue of her exquisite and gorgeous colorings and that deli cious fragrance, which survives even her beauty.
 The rose has played a most conspicious part in mythology, profane and sacred
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V < < < < 4 4 < < < - K ORIGIN OF THKAPRIL FOOL. < - << ~ 4 4 < < < < .

April fool!
 N Go tc school.
 Tell you. mamma you're fool!' will be the cry of the child to the older grown on Tuesday as the real or assumed prsuspecting elder is caught by some trick over which the little beam has been puEzling for perhaps weeks. It is one uf the marked mile-stones in the journey through the year.
 There is Christmas with its wealth of gifts, the promise of which has kept him trying and trying again to be good; there is New Years which is part of 1t in a childs mind; there is St. Valentines Day with the excitement of it's missives. comic ones to a certain age. tenderly, loving a little later. and fine and pretty still later. Then comes April Fools Day, with its tricks and snares. its soap candy, cotton pies and mysterious packages.
 The man or woman who refuses to be caught by the juvenile traps for April Fools Day is hardened wretch and the
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where the Tax Shoe Pinches.

The The abolition of war taxes to the extent S UL ,o 1he masses Most of the taxes wiped out were trihes which the country hardly fell. felt Meanwhile the taxes on trust made gooos taxcs cost them cents. remain to remind the ranntrv that small details are being attended to by Congress.
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Something new, The Donnybrook Fair, April 2, 8, 4, Auditorium.
HOW We Can Destroy Liberty,

Rochester Herald.
 Ali that Cuba needs to realize the dream Of fndependence is that we keep faith with her
 If we refuse to open our markets 70 cuoan goods we shall destroy liberty by slow starNa- ton Shall We be more or less contempuoie
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Mrs. !. N. deCottes.
Hunt the hawk another mile!"

Hunt the hawk another ml1e!
 The recipient of the note sends the hawk on with a note containing the same lines. The plan is to repeat this opera. ton until the tired boy sees the joke and when that happens the last one to re- ceive the note cries:
 "Rin for your mither. boy, rin, rin, rin. The eggs are ready but she hasn't a hin, And If you wait till the eggs grow cool. Then all your life you'll be April fool!"
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than the Spaniard who. for the sake of his purse, was brave enough to try to destroy the same cause and the same people with the sword?
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Morris & stuckey, Dellacatassen headquarters. Dill Pickles, Sour Kraut. Salty Mackerel, and all kinds of genuine French Imported sardines. Phone 324.
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Some people undo with their tongues all the good they can do with their handS.
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The celebrated Alabama Fertilizer at Marks & Gayle's Warehouse. Same price as at the factory.

The women of Galveston. Tex, the city su nearly destroyed by the terrible storm few years ago. have organized to beautify the town They give entertainments to raise funds. and with the proceeds buy and plant trees along the streets and in the parks.
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Order Ice Cream for dinner today from The Noe Redit.
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Edward Has His Own Troubles.


 The king appears to be afraid to go to Ire land lest he be nsuted and now his advisers, it is said suggest that because of the misfor- tunes to the British arms in South Africa he retreat from the appointed date for the coro- nation. Edward Is early verifying the fact that uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, and that. too. before the crown is formally on his head
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Social caste frequently turns out to ss very wild trow.
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 Prices for the asking.
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Continued on Page 13.)
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-07-12
A New ENGLAND story.

Hester Blair" by William Henry
Carson, is tale of common people
from the common life of older New
England, mingled with characters
quite up with the times and all pic
tured with Shakespearean vivid
ness of detail and feeling glowing
from each page declares that we are
in touch with real life, though at the
hands of a new and young author
The comic character of the book is
Slack, an old fisherman full of funny
sayings and trenchant resources
The hero John Carey, loses the
maiden in the first instance, and she
loses her proof of marriage, but under
the protection of her guardian angels
Slack and Carey she comes through
the breakers uninjured and the vii
lain, Fenton, is foiled all around
The literary style is sprightly and
entertaining, and the illustrations are
The c. NJ. Clark Publishing Co.,
Boston.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-07-12
A Sweet Home Book.

Under the title of Home Thoughts
Mrs. James Farley Cox has written
one of the sweetest tempered books
about home matters-such as will
please the heart and soul of any clean
rlght-minded man or woman with any
ideas of the better side of humanity
The literary treatment is sparkling
and breezy. with the relapses into
pathetic not too frequent nor too eX
tended. The best chapters treat OF
the parental relation, of children and
husbands and wives, and then again
of women in general. The book is
full of such sentences as: The girl
whose heart is open to her fathers
ever-eager interest has safeguard in
her judgments of the men who will
influence her after life, which is of
incredible value" It's philosophy
may be summed up in this "Sor.
row. wrecked hopes, separation, loss
are but the incidents of the hearts
winter immortal, unquestionable life
is ours forevermore." The publishers
are A. S. Barnes & Co.. New York
They are to be congratulated on
that will brighten and improve every
some and rereshing collection of es
says on the commoner, homely topics
that will brigten and improve every
family circle where It is read.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-07-12
A Love Story.

The Love Story of Abner Stone
is written in the reminiscent auto
Geographic vein and cast in rural
scenes that go far to redeem a skele
ton of romance and clothe il with
living interest. The sketching from
nature is done with fine touches OF
poetic skill and well-keyed power
of imagination. Some of the descrip-
tiOns OF homely scenes are almost in.
spired and will win the young Ken
tucky writer a place in literature. The
beautiful setting for a slender thread
Of romance would have been far more
effective If the heroine had not died
in the end OF typhoid fever 1t seems
that the microbe Of the supposedly
pathetic is still cultivated and proba.
bly, most readers prefer having some
one die in the pages Of a book, al
though in real life IL is the last event
that people clamor for. The demand
for the death product is probably over
estimated by literary workers gener
ally Edwin Carlile Iitsey is the
author, and A. ) Barnes & Co, New
York, are the publishers.