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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-12-04
The Manning Scandal.

If the stories that come to us from the
city Of Mezico. relative to all alleged de-
bauch of Minister Manning, are false as
we trust and believe they are, we are
confronted with another instance of
that reckless and disgraceful sensational
ism that resorts to ISLANDERS and lies to
feed the demands Of the depraved taste
of the public, and which is dragging the
American press down into the mire of
indecency. The Sedgwick story was
traced directly to the Mexican correSpon-
dent OF the New York Times. Here was
an opportunity, il that scandal was really
lying sensation, for great newspap
to strike blow at this indecent phase of
Journalism 10y exposing, denOuncing and
kicking out of its service an unscrupu-
Ions liar. The New York Times did no
such thing, ana on the other hand the
State Department has given the public
no definite Information to enable it to
Judge whether the correspondent of the
Times was q liar or Sedgwick really
disgraced himself and his mission by the
exhibition he was alleged to have made
of himself. We submit that it was
the duty of the State Department to sa-
tisfy the country whether the story was
true or false.
The case of Minister Manning is still
worse. That gentleman has filled the high
Office of Chief Justice of Louisiana, he is
a man of family and distinguished So
elal connections and position, and is
something more than mere ambassador
of Mr.. Bayard. IL the correspondent has
had the indecent audacity to make so
respectable and distinguished man and
eminent an official the subject of false |
an indecent sensation, such correspon
dent should be dragged before the public |
and made the object of common con-
tempt, the paper he has imposed upon |
should dismiss him in disgrace, and no
iecent journal in the United States
should allow bin to befOul its services
N. o. States.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-12-04
Some Experience.

What do you want? shouted a citizen
OF Fort street east to person knocking
at his door at midnight.
Wanter (hic) come in was the drunken
reply.
Now. you skip, you loafer? Police!
Police!
Zactly my friend, said the drunkard
as he sat down on the steps. I've been
drunk often huff to know can't outrun
EN- and I'm going to sit here and wait
Shorty to disturb you, old fel, but wish
you'd wake me up when er wagon comes.
Detroit Free Press.
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Prof. Wiley's Critic.


hundred and forty tons of cane which
were secured by the Item for the For
Scot station is attracting attention AM
comment Throughout the country.
Unfortunately there are among infu-
entail Northern papers, Democratic al
VIII as Republican. some who are dispo
sed to make war on sugar. The Chicago
Times, for instance, closes long editO
rial entitled, "rhe Sorghum Humbug,"
with the regret that any attempt was
ever made 10 make sugar in this country
out OF beets, sorghum or cane. 1t com
plains that many millions have been
lost on sorghum and beet experiments,
and that ito foster the business of max
ing sugar in Louisiana We pay about
twice as much for our sweets as they are
actually WORTH"
Such being the animus, it is not sur
prising that whenever occasion offers,
with or without a pretext, attacks are
ma lie on the prominent workers in the
canse Of sugar industry. Not a few
dispatches ascribed the spelling of the
Fort Scott water to Wiley's spite. But
the latest is recent dispatch from
Washington to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette. which says: 1t is very clear
that the country has been badly fooled by
the dispatches from the West representing
that Prof. Wiley had attained great sue
cess. 1t is stated here without qualifi-
cation that he presented to Commission
er Coleman lot of sugar which was not
its product but much better article.
Such reckless Misrepresentation would
he ludicruos if it were not for the malice
that prompts it and the evil that may
result from its being accepted as truth
by the credulous and ignorant. Putting
aside entirely the high character OF Prof.
Wiley, 1000 pounds of sugar could not
be changed by trick of magic, watched
as it was by a corps of disinterested ex-
perts. The charge by the Washington
correspondent was, therefore, simply an
INSCRIPTIONS effort of an inventive ge-
Mus.
1t would be waste of time and effort |
to point out and contradict all the wan
ton fabricatiOns which are leyeled at
Prof. Wiley. These instances are given
to show the ven0mOus assaults to which
he will be liable in future and from
which no Government officer having the
experiments in charge would be exempt.
AS has been shown such attacks are part
and parcel Of the attack on sugar and
no one i'm Louisiana has the
east interest in joining in the hue and
Try.
Ii our enemies in Congress can only
'Oint to divided cOunsels in Louisiana it {
will be a very effective argument for {
blocking the diffusion experiments which
re promised here for another season.
III classes here are interested in this
uestion and all should give the govern
lent hearty support. The Item wishes
remind its friends Of the sugar mills
hat it is not committed to diffusion. q
mt it does desire decisive test of diffu-
ION. Some Of them seem to think that r
illusion is doomed to failure. Then let
lem give it cordial support that the p
after may be the sooner settled, parti-
llarly as the experiments will cost them a.
,thing. a
If the experiments fail to teach us 81
hat to do it is something if they shall 81
ach rs what we must not don. o. CT "
Item.
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All work will be neatly and
promptly executed.
We guarantee entire salts
faction.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-01

cook him. A preserving kettle OF the
finest porcelain is best, but if 8
have nothing but an earthenware bin.
kin, it will do, with care. Seethatthe
linen in which you wrap him is nicely
washed and mended with the required
number of buttons and strings nicely
sewed on. Tie him in the kettle by 9,
strong silk cord called comfort, as the
one called duty is apt to be weak. They
are apt to fly out OF the kettle and Be
burned and crusty on the edges, since.
like crabs and Holsters, you have to
cook them while alive. Make
a clear, steady fire out OF
love, neatness and c~heerfulness.
Set him as rear as seems to agree with
him. Ifhe sputters and fixes do not
be anxious; some husbands do this
till they are quite done. Add a little
sugar in the form of what confectioners
call kisses, but no vinegar or pepper
on any account. A little spice Inn
proves them, but it must be used with
judgement. Do not stick any sharp
instrument into him to see if he is be-
coming tender. Stir him gently, watch
the while, least he lie too dat and
close to the kettle, and SO become use-
less. You cannot fail to know when
he is done. If thus treated you. will
find him very digestible, agreeing very
nicely with you and the children, and
he will keep as long as you want, un-
less you become too careless and set
him in too cold a place.
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Out Door Exercise.

We compel a boy to conform to
certain rules in the education Of his
mind, We certainly do not leave ma
ture alone here, for if we did, we know
what the consequences might be-eith-
er a mischievous excess OF brain exer-
else or a mischievous deficiency.
A boy cannot be trusted to follow
nature. and SO take the right amount
or kind OF bodily exercise, any more
than he a be trusted to take the
right amount or kind Of mental exer-
cise-precisely because his life is not q
natural one. In this case, as in the
other there will belikely to olIowam mis-
chlevous excess OF exercise or a mis-
chievous deficiency. One thing, and one
only, is requisite, and then we shall
hear no more about letting boysman-
age the education of their bodies
themselves, while we concern ourselves
mainly with managing the education
of their minds. And the one thing is
this. We must get it clearly into our
heads that the education ofthe body
is not OF less Importance than the ed
ucation OF the mind, but of equal i'm
portance. And those OF us who are
most deeply interested in the educa-
ton OF the mind ought to be the very
persons who should be the most deep
ly interested in the education of the
body.-Cottrell's Reforms in Public
Schools"
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The Hog Scare,

Breeders complain that hog stock
is not selling we'll nowforsomereason
and we have heard so many COM
plants OF that character that we ara
compelled to believe it to be general.
Farmers feel poor, and many are
afraid OF disease. Pork has been sell
ing low, in keeping with many other
farm products, and there il little
money in raising it. This will con-
tinue for awhile, until we fairly re-
cover from thecommercialdepression.
Now, however, is a good time to buy,
for the dullnessA of the business makes
many anxious to sell, and to do so at
very low prices. We know as a mat
ter of fact that some are selling for
half what they would take last year.
The raising of pork cannot stop. the
world wants it, and must and will
have it, and the farmers have a n
abundance of corn with which to make
it. Those who are neglecting to keep
up their usual number of breeding
sows will certainly lose money
Western Rural.
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Temper At Home.

have peeped into quiet 'parlors,"
where the carpet is clean and not old,
and the furniture polished and bright;
into "rooms'' where the chairs are
neat and the floor carpetless; into
kitchens" where the family live and
the meals are cooked and eaten, and
the boys and girls are as blithe as the
sparrows in the thatch overhead, and
l see it is not SO much wealth and
learning, nor clothing, nor servants,
nor toll, nor idleness, ncr town, nor
country, nor station, as tone and
temper that render homes happy or
wretched. And | see, too, that in
town orconntry, good sense and Gods
grace make life what no teachers or
accomplishment, or means of society
can make 1.-THE opening stave OF an
everlasting psalm; the fair beginning
OF an endless existance; the goodly,
modest, we'll proportional vestibule
to q temple Of Gods building that
shall never decay, wax old, or vanish
away.-Dr. John Hall.
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Very Rich Young Ladies'.

The daughters OF the late Francis A.
Dreyel, who are worth says the
Philadelphia Press, nearly 81, 900 900
each, and are consequently the richest
three young ladies in Philadelphia,
have erected a supurb marble altar
over the cryptin the chapel at Torres
dale, in which the bodies of their par
ents lie. The chapel is close to their
country place, and has been wonder
fully beautiiied at their expense. The
young ladies are unostentatiously re-
ligious and charitable, giving away as
their late mother did, to the poor, five
times as much MS they spend upon
themselves. Withal they are trained
business women and thorough book
keepers. and themselves maintain the
records incidental to the care of their
vast estate.
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The Pale, Wan Clergyman.

During the recent lecture here in
Pastor Conwell's church, at Berks
at Mervine streets, the Rev. 7. De-
Witt Talmage related u little incident
that will bear repeating. He was
speaking OF a brother clergyman who
was very thin. Zone day" he added,
"as the preacher was walking along
the street near his home he was
stopped by II man of robust proper
hons. Are you the clergyman living
in this neighborhood who the people
say is dyingofconsu,nption?' inquired
the hearty-looking individual, at the
same time taking an ample survey Of
the divine's meagre frame. Il don't
know, brother meekly replied the
clergyman; but | have:been preaching
the gospel at this weight for fifteen
years, and many's the time | have
conducted funeral services over Just
such a big, healthy brother as YOU
The robust Individual said not a word.
but thoughtfully walked away
Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Entertainment Of Friends.

The decline of hospitality is largely
due to the increased demand (sup-
posed demand) for outlay and expen-
diture, for decoration and display. In
older times people were honestly and
heartily hospitable, because it was not
customary to make much changefrom
the ordinary custom of the house.
Then a ho~usekeeper hearing of the
coming OF guests. vas not discouraged
at thenews; an additional desert per-
haps, orone or two additional dishes,
would be all that she need add to the
clean table-linen to be in readiness
for the guests, whose coming she did
not dread because she felt they didnot
come to criticise but to enjoy them
selves. II the same feeling on the part
OF both hosts andguests could now be
general, how much greater pleasure,
freedom, and benefit would be found
i'll the interchange OF hospitality!
If we could be willing to enter
tain Jul friends with whatever
means and appliances we have on
hand, we could greet our guests
with cordiality instead ofthe frequent
eA' wv - abihlstS. Sc dEG lOo
anxious about the appearance Of the
"best room,' about the display OF
rare china, and about the display OF
our culinary arts; too DESTROYS to put
out of sight the little "homely," com
Portable ways ofdaily life, and to have
everything in company parade, to be
able to enjoy ourselves or give enjoy
ment to others. A guest who receives
an earnest. hearty welcome. who feels
that his coming does not disarrange,
or greatly add to the household plans
or cares. is q e%uesbatonce at ease.
1t is from having every outward
want supplied that one derives the
greatest enjoyment; but from being
made sensible that ones presence is
dear and desired. What matters tiff
our guests can purchase q dozen luxu-
ries to our none? Had they chosen
to enjoy their luxuries they might
have remained at home to DO SO; but
they nave come to us. 1t would be
simple courtesy, at the very least, to
suppose they have come for ourselves.
for what we can givethem. Cleveland
Teacher.
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The Lord Mayors Show.

1t is said that the Lord Mayors
show Ill London was more popular
than V e this year, notwithstanding
it's barbaric character. The number
of spectators was immense. Various
trades We're represented in the pro-
cession, besides the usual medieval
display. The London correspondent
OF the Liverpool Mercury remarks:
",The delight OF our populace in this
BIZ OF color, the only piece of pagean-
try still remaining to us, is mani!estly
growing. All sneers against the pro-
cession tall flat. People who say that
it is nonsensical go to see it, and. if
they are pleased ut nothing else. they
are pleased by the music and the
liveries. The new Lord Mayors
livery is very steep 1t is white and
blue with silver lace, and is as cor
eeous a uniform as ever was produced
by atailor.
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Keep out of Debt.

;. If Americans could have rooted out
of them the ruinoug and pernicious
habit of living beyond their means,
one of the active agencies in producing
panics, business collapses and depres-
sion of trade would be removed. We
never know how general this habit is
till n crash like that OF 1873 comes on
the country. These crashes are sharp,
peremptory notices to pay up, ad-
dressed to every person in debt. The
demand has to be complied with, and
the bankruptcies and breakups in ev-
cry community that follows reveal
the large number of persons who have
been living onfavor. 1t is easy enough
to live beyond ones means when times
are prosperous. Credit is promptly
extended to all who can make a show
OF property, and not a few make use
OF credit to C a show of wealth,
mortgage property which they do not
really own, and the interest charge on
which swallows up a large fraction of
their income. Debts are inexorable.
and sooner orlaterthey must be paid,
either during life, by selling the unfort-
innate debtors mortgaged possessions
and leaving him u bankrupt, or at his
death, by stripping his family of all
their imagined wealth and leaving
them destitute.
There is no class OF persons who can
less afford to go into debt than farm
ers, and this because, when once in
debt, they rarely get out. In many
counties III Missouri, the American
farmers are being gradually displaced
by Germans, and the process is SO
complete as to have entirely trans
formed the community from what it
was twenty years ago. The explana-
ton is simple: Germans do not 90 in
debt o live beyond their means, but
they buy the farms Of the Americans
who do. Missouri farmers should re-
member the lesson OF 1873, andprofit
by i. That disasterous collapse,
which involved so many persons in
ruin, was brought about by extrava-
gance, and the next II that comes
will be in a very large measure, the
product of the same cause. The only
safety, when it comes, will be in free
dom from neutrality-suspicious. and
money-lenders. Financial revulsions,
panics, depressions and all that sort
OF things have nc effect upon the farm
er who is out of debt. They pass over
his unmortgaged roof without dis
turbing a shingle.-Missouri Republi-
can.
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Horses,

To match a team is a problem and
an undertaking which has vexed the
soul of many an ambitious owner. A
horse may be perfect in gait, style,dis-
position and driving qualities, and be
a paragon of n g~entleman's horse in a
single harness. To find another that
will match him in every particular is
the difficulty. To match speed is easy
enough, but to match the gait is the
rub. Color is the secondary object;
style and gait are the primary points.
Every horse has adlstinct individuali-
ty and it is ~ hard matter to find an
other OF the same characteristics.
Edward and "~Swiveller" match
well for speed, and SO do MARY
Cobb" and meta Medium" Mr.. Van
derbilt's team, 'Aldine" and early
Rose" re a close match at all points.
This is what the roadman wants. 1t
is the harmony OF color and style and
the rhythm OF movement that charms
the senses. When gentleman secures
this he is indeed fortunate. If great
speed goes with the other requisites he
is thrice fortunate. To drive such a
team is one OF the greatest privileges
of this earth. 1t gives one the sense
OF power, re juvenates the clreworn
nan OF business, and fills the eye Of
the looker-on who has II love for the
beautiful. 1t is possible to bring such
pairs together, but it requires long and
patiert research. When secured they
ure beyond price.-Spirit ofthe Times.
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borers, known to the writer, number
ing eight individuals lived through
last winter on thirteen shillings a
week-equal to about 2 3-4d. each per
day for everything-1and without
running into debt. They could afford
neither fresh meat nor butter, and ate
hardly anything but bread and pota-
toes, which were very cheap,
especially in the country, and
as this laborers buy wheat
from his master, has it
ground at a neighboring mill I'm re-
turn for the branj and his wife is a
good baker, their bread costs them
much less than it would if they We're
nearer town. And it is but fair to
mention that. owing to their eldes,
sons illness, they were worse off than
usual last winter. He is now at work
again, and as their cottage is rent
free, and the father, during hay and
corn harvest can earn twenty shillings
a week, andthe children make some
thing by cleaning, they consider them
selves to be in quite flourishing cir
cumstances. Ii all farm laborers
We're equally well off, there would be
little cause either for compassion on
the one hand, or complaint on
the other. But most OF them in this
part of England are much worse off:
for the laborer in question, as the fact
OF his having thirteen shillings q week
with q cottage and bit ofgarden rent
free, shows he is a superior workman;
he Is sober, too, spending little, if any
thing, at the public house, and his
wife is a wonderfully good manager.
How the many live who are less fav-
ored by fortune, having perhaps only
eleven or twelve shillings q week, pay
ing a rent Of two or three, and being
sometimes out of work is a mystery.
Except during the summer they must
always be on the verge of starvation,
and ii they had not the parish to fall
back upon, could not live at all.
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How to GROW Hy.c,utt,. In Glass.

Hyacinths intended for glasses
should be placed in them during Octo-
Der and November, the glasses being
previously filled with pure water, so
that the bottom of the bulb may lust
touch the water, then place them in a
dark closet, box or cellar, at SO or
go degrees temperature. The water
should be changed as it becomes i'm
pure; draw the roots entirely out of
the glasses, rinse off the ibers in clean
water. and wash the inside Of the
glass well. Care should be taken that
the waterdoes not freeze, as it would
not burst the glass, but cause the
fibers to decay. Whether the water is
hard or soft is not a matter of much
consequence-soft is preferable
but must be perfectly clear, to
show the fibers to advantage.
Avoid a low-water mark in the glasses
by keeping it to a level with the base
OF each bulb. Never place the glasses
upon mantel.piece or shelf within the
influence OF fire heat during the process
OF growth. To stimulate and strength
en- the growth dissolve a pinch
of sulphate OF ammonia occas-
ionally in the water after the bulbs
areexposed to light. When heglasses
are well filled with roots, and the flow
er stem we'll out of the bulb, gradually
expose to the light and sun at a high
er temperature. Ii kept too light and
warn at first, and before there is suf-
ficient fibre, they will rarely flower
well. They will bloom without
sun, but the colors OF the flowers will
be interior. To insure vigorous
growth. a favorable exposure to light.
and occasional fresh air, when mild,
is essential.
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A British

An admiral ofthe fleet ia the author
of the latest alarmist letter on the
British navy. He tells a woiui story
of the condition the queens floating
tortresses, ever asserting that a Brit.
ish commander would not dare to
meet a French squadron on equal
terms. The boasted ocean greyhounds
he sneers at as mere floating hotels,
utterly unfit for the uses of war, and
he draws q dreadful picture of the
famine which he predicts would follow
hostiiities with a maritime power. 1t
is, moreover, strongly limited Tint the
am ofthenavy aremere unframed
boys-a fact specially significant, he
holds, since the merchant ships of Eng
land-and this is no less true of those
of the United States-are Mt present
manned by unreliable foreigners.
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APreservfng Virginian.

From the Petersburg, Index Appeal.
A correspondent writing rom Green
vile county says: I'VE have in our
county a character 80 unique that he
deserves honorable mention. He is
IS years OF age. has been farming for
himself 65 years, has had but two
horses during that period, and the
one 0 used by him is 3333 years old.
He has had the am cook for So
years. free negress OF the old issue.
He has never married, but it is; said
has addressed all the grandmothlers
and mothers in his Northumberland
still shows his admiration Of the fair
sex in his devotion to their daughters,
and il now paying special attention.
to q girl fourteen years of age