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THE BANNER, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1907.
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DOLLARS AS SOUVENIRS
ON MONDAY, DEC 16th
With every purchase of $1.00 a Hand-painted Plaque.
FREE OF CHARGE TO THE 5,000 CUSTOMERS
Who so liberally patronized the L. B. FLATOW CO. Formerly known as Globe Racket Store
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TtLe Sensational
At 2 l-2c a Yard
At 7c a Yard
Screens for windows, Cambrics, Lin-
A wide range of yard wide Percales
ings, Sattins and a lot of other rem-
of the Ifc grade. '1 Ii-re are none
nauts
better iu «[uality,however 25c grades
At 4c a Yard
in short lengths from 5 to i(» ^ards
Outings, in iight and dark colors,
plaids, stripes and small figures tor
go also at 7e a yard.
At 9c a Yard
Kimonas, Waists and Dresses.
For 20c values go all the English
At 5c a Yard
Imported Twill Outings in finish like
Yard Wide Bleaching e<pm! to fruit
Velvet, colors, pink, light, blue,
of loon.; 12c grades.
cream, navy and black.
At 5c a Yard
At 2c a Yard
Linen finish and Cambric finish
All Linings, Brd Ouiliiugs and a
Bleachings and Suitir g-», such grades
number of Cotton goods we cauuot
as you pay 12c a yard.
describe.
At 5c a Yard
A small lot on'y of 2(V, Mohair
finish suiting in a range of plaids,
stripes, and a tew solids of the latest
grey gowns only.
At 16c a Yard
A £1500 stock: all the 20c to 0 c
value, double wi Itli Arnold Manufac
turing Co.’s Merceri/rd Waistings.
Dr-sses, for I.ad e>' and Children's
wear, such as p'aids, stripes and
plain colors of ev.-ry description.
These Goods at 16c Yd.
Arnold Manufactu i :g Co.’s Flannels
for Waists and Dresses, just such grades
as our late arrivals oil contract before
we rented our store. Those we had
were sold at 5('c a yard.
Shoes
High grades, men and women, at
50e a pair. Odd lots, odd sizes. No
guarantee on sizes ot any kind. Yet
you may find some for man, woman
or child. Pick choice of 5' c a pair.
Our Christmas goods—Dolls, Musi
cal, Toys, Fancy arricles. I's. ful
Household, ai d all good things— are
at proportionate prices.
Call, get [dices, and you are at the
bottom ground.
LUCIEN B. FLATOW COMPANY
Few People Rcaiz: the ir mendous (ro>ti of Ihi>
Great Crop. Fortunes Ha«e Been Ma e an! Are
Still Being Made by 1 hose Win Grow It.
The Many Uses of the Banana.
.easiest to oat, anti one of the easiest
j to digest of all fruits. It lias no seeds
• to search f..r. no hull to crack. no
j hones to hot her, no worms to watell
I for, and is the most compactly built.
bunch of goodness of its size in the 1
wcrhl. It is i*at» n in the field, on the
stnet. in the office, in tlu* lunch room, |
in the homo .three times :i day an l
between meals, raw »;r coolod in ev
ery conceivable manner. It may n*-
* pose on a pushcart or loll oil a coun
ter in the dust, days at a time, yet
without washing it may be peeled ami
conies out absolutely clean and sum
t try. It is immune from insect pests,
although it thrives in countries
s\\ lining with poisonous insects. Th--
banana stands alone as a fruit that
By R. M. Cheshire.
Washington, I). U. December 11.
Don’t lock with contempt upon the |
Dago man who engineers the push- I
cart and calls out. "Pina fresha da
banan, on la five centa dozen.” He j
is doing his part in making worth to j
the retail trade of the United States
a business of $200,000 a day. or over
$60,000,000 annually, for that is iln*
tremendous sum now n cognized as
coining from the sales of lutn inas, the
vegetable wender <f the world, the
golden fruit, of the tropics, the. culti
vation cf which is simply an ocupa
tion for the promotion of laziness, hut
with an iron-clad certainty of im
mense returns of wealth.
The quantity of bananas now con
sumed in the United States Is sur
prising, the figures from the Burra 1 :
of Statistics showing that during tlu
year ended June 30, 1007. imports oi
bananas (the sums paid growers
bananas being duty free) amounted t«
$11,833,168, divided:
Central American States and
British Honduras $5,328,678
British West Indies 4,6.81,810
"Cuba 1.273,820
8outh America 161,00t
Other countries 437.850
These sums exceed the value o:
imports of bananas for 1006 by $1.-
503,866, and for 1905 l»y $1,935,347. yei
still the demand for the ‘‘fruit ot
gold* is constantly larger than the
supply, notwithstanding the fact that
they are brought into the United
States free of duty.
A little more than four decades ag^-
the banana was entirely unknown in
this country, and there was practical
ly none for export from its native
countries until a little ginger wa?
thrown into their cultivation by enter
prising Americans. Years ago some
men—Americans, of course—bought a
cargo of bananas on the coast ot Hon
duras, paying twelve cents a bunch,
ami l»:ni»uh! them to rho United
States. The cargo was rapidly sold
i aii ia meiise profit, and this was thy
beginning of a great industry .an in
dustry spreiding out at jumps of
nmr»* than $1,500,000 yearly.
Only a very taw years ago th*’
banana was regarded as a luxury, bu*
now it is known to possess all the
essentials for the sustenance of hu
man life an i is regarded as a most
valuable article i» f f<od. becoming
one of the n<*ccssities of life. Th *
demand and consumption, of the ban
ana must increase, for it can be con
verted into flour, making bread as
palatable and substantial as that made
of corn or win t. and can be used a
pastry, pies, cakes, puddings, etc.
Delicious confections and sauces oi
various kinds can be made from th-
fruit, and it can be dried and stli.
r etain all the qualities of the fresh
fruit. The banana has been used to:
ages by the natives of the tropics foi
these purposes, hut not until withir
the past few years have those direct
ly interested and engaged in the traf
fic of feed products realized the im
portance of this part of the value o*
the banana. Now packers, growers
confectioners, and commissioners are
searching the tropical world over for
a supply o fevaporated bananas for
making banana coffee, bread, shred
ded dessicited and crystalized fruits
and other products. Evaporating and
milling plants are being established
to manufacture these products, utiliz
ing for the same such fruit as may be
undersize, overripe or bruised.
All nations, races and classes have
found the banana to be a cheap, nour
ishing and satisfying food, and the de
mand must increase and continue as
the population of the earth increases.
The taste for the banana does not
have to be acquired. (Most people take
to it as readily as a <&ild does to
candy. It is the easiest .to peel, —».e
has no enemies, and this gives some
justification frr one of its names, tne
"Fruit of l\tra lise.” It is said that
some people believe the banana to he
the "Ferbi h'en Fruit” which caused
the downf.: 11 of our fore-parents. But
that’s an unjust reflection i n the uni
versal goodm ss of this fruit. It. is
just ]possible that Adam may have
stepped oil a discarded banana pee!
when promenading in the Garden, and
the reporters made a mistake in giv
ing out lhe incident.
To the value of the banana as \
fool' should be added the fact that
the stalks and leaves furnish excel
lent material for paper and cordage;
fine vinegar and essential oil are matta
from tlu* skin of the fruit: the juice
of the stem makes a magnificent med-
::ine f.r intestinal troubles: the stem
•nd leaves furnish a good forage;
*Tom the young leaf a salve of ex
cellent healing quality is obtained for
i.eut or wound: from the stalk is or>-
ained a most beautiful fiber, from
vhich can he made a fine dress goods,
resembling closely the Irish polin:
the sap of the stalk is used as writ
ing fluid and indelible dye. which no
series cf washing will remove; the
rind is greedily eaten by all manner
of live stock when mixed with straw,
the husks which cover the fruit make
beautiful bouquet holders that one
can hardly tell from the finest Japan
's? red lacquer ware: and, in fact,
every jx>rtion cf the plant is of com
nereis 1 value.
The banana is the dependence of the
shiftless .the support of the poor* an 1
a source of wealth for the thrifty, it
yields mere profit with less expendi
ture of cost and energy then any oth
er fruit or vegetable. Among all known
plants that produce a wholesome and
agreeable food 1 the banana offers the
greatest return for the least labor,
life being so easily sustained by-its
bounty in those favored regions where
it flourishes cm* of tin- chief incen
tives to exertion is removed, and pec- |
pie are content to sit down in idle,
ness, knowing that when hungry a
never failing supply of bread hangs
over them ready to be plucked an l
eaten.
Chemically there is hut liitie differ
ence between the banana as a food
and the potato: but in the quantity
of food produce 1 per acre, tin* banana
is far ahead of the potato <»:• any oth
er food product. The av- rag** annua!
production of an acre of bananas is
about eight tons, a quantity sulTich tit
to feed 3.000 person./ for one day. As
a source of profit, no other agricultural
product can equal tlu* banana, and no
crop in the world is more certain than
that of the banana; a plant produces;
marketable fruit within a y«ar afte *
planting: replanting is not necessary
oftetier than every twenty live or t hi * -
ty years; the* h irvesi is continuous
and the cutting of fruit goes on ev
ery week in the whole twelve months,
the demand for the fruit is steady
and always exceeds the supply; the
planter gets cash for his fruit every
w< ek right at his plantation: they
are brought into the* United State?
free of duty; they have become a sta
ple article of food in every civilized
country into which they have been
introduced; more thin $l20.0f)»).00() ;v
capital is now invested in growing
and marketing bananas. and more
than 120 steamships transport nothing
hut bananas; there are no failures ot
the banana crop: and every push-cart
man. every owner of a fruit stand, ev
ery confectioner, every grocer, every
commission man. nine-tenths of the
adult inhabitants cf the United States,
and eovry baby with a banana in its
fist, is working for the banana grower,
who rests perfectly secure in the
knowledge that his crop will continue
without interruption from frost, rust
or insects; that the demand will al
ways be as steady as is the demand
for wheat*or corn: that overproduction
cannct occur, and that no agricultural
endeavor will excel the banana as a
source of profit to its producer.
Like the American peanut, also
known as the “pindar,” “goober” and
“groundpea," the banana is a great
big item in the finances of our country,
and to the push-cart man must credit
be given for “pushing it along.!
For any of the ordinary diseases
of the skin Chamberlain’s Salve Is ex
cellent. It not only allays the itching
and smarting but effects a cure. For
sale by H. R. Palmer & Sons, Warren
J. Smith & Bro., L. P. Canning, E. C.
McEvoy, Orr Drug Co., Athens, Ga.
MUCH BUSINESS
F0R_SEG. TAFT
big Secretary of War to
tla>e Plenty to do on
His Return.
Washington, I). Dt-ci-inher ii.
St-cn-laiy Taft nxpocts to 1h- at hi.
It sk nt-xt. Monthly, following an ah
st n<v of several months eceupieil h..
his journey around tin- world. Con
sitlerulilo business has accumulated
at the War Department during liis ab
sence and lie will necessarily be on -
of the busiest men in Washington tim
ing tilt* next few weeks: The story
lias gained currency that there is
"something the matter with tin-
army." and Secretary Taft will be ex
pecteil to tell congress what is tile
trouble. Many senators and repre
sentatives have the old-f.ishione 1 idea
that the Secretary of War should
aave Such au intimate knowledge cf
the service as to be able to point cut
unerringly, in the confidence of the
committee room at least, the cause-
of any peculiar conditions within it
As the present conditions in the army
have resulted in developments that in
terest the whole country. Secretary
Taft will hove to hock up rapidly.
During his absence tlu* oattl -w* of sol
diers has become acute and the in
ability to, secure suflScient recruit-
pronounced, while the squabble ove
the pay Dill lias occasioned strained
relations. There is much for Si ore
tary Tafi to do and. when he see
the program events have prepare!
for him. he may wish he cut out bis
Kurrpean journey altogether.
About Digestion.
It is not the quantity of food take:,
hut the amount digested and assent-
laled that gives strength and vitality
to the system. Chamberlain's Stom
ach and Liver Tablets invigorate the
stomach and liver and enable them
to perform their functions. The re
sult is a relish for your food, increas
ed strength and weight, greater en
durance and a clear head. Price. 25
cents. Samples free. For sale by
H. R. Palmer & Sons. Warren J.
Smith & Bro., L. P. Canning, E. C.
McEvoy. Orr Drug Co., Athens, Ga.
NEWS FORECAST
FOR COMING WEEK
Washington, D. C., December 14.—
Little business of importance is ex-
ported from congress during the com
ing week, or for that matter, until
after tin* holiday recess.
S. <• ret ary of War Taft will again be
at liis desk after an absence of sev
eral niontbs spent in his journey «o
tlie Philippines and return. His re
turn will doubtless bring out a new
crop of political stories and miners
in regard to liis candidacy tar tin*
l»r* sid» ntial nomination.
The fleet of sixteen American bat
tleships will leave Hampton Roads
Monday morning bound on the 14.00)
mile jourtn\\ around (Tape Horn to
San Francisco. Tile departure* will lie
witnessed by President Roosevelt and
an official party aboard the Mayflow-
Announcement is made from Koine
that a Mcret consistory will he held
Monday, followei by the usual public
consistory three days later. Several
pr* lates will be elevated to the car
dinal lie. but no Americans will be
among the favored ones.
The secifnd trial of Maximiliinn
Harden, editor of Die Zukunft, on the
charge of having criminally libeled
(’onni Kuno von Moltke, will begin
in Berlin Monday.
The trial of some of the Colorado
land fraud cases will begin Monday
in the United States district court at
Denver.
The first hearing in the suit recent
ly instituted by the United States
against the so-called Powder Trust
is scheduled to take place Tuesday
at Scranton. Pa.
Not ible observances will he held )•»
New England and ether parts of tlr*
country Tuesday in commemoration
of tlu* one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier,
the “Quaker poet.’
The Harriman-Fish fight for control
of the Illinois Central will be resum
ed at the adjourned stockholedr*'
meeting in Chicago Wednesday.
At Trenton, N. J., Thursday. Rev.
Edward J. Knight will be consecrated
Bishop of the Episcopal Missionary
district of Western Colorado.
A national convention of the Far
mers’ Co-operative Congress will as
semble in Des Moines Tuesday and
remain in session three days.
Nice rooms and board. Bon Air.