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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-11-27
Was In Love.

A man crippled aud blind man Who
conld scarcely crawl along the street.
fumbled his way into lawyers ONCE.
What can lido for you sirp the lawyer
asked.
Oh my dear sir, implored the beggar
have mercy pity on me.
Well state your case. Any body been
robbing you.
No sir.
Kicked out of a boarding house.
Oh no.
Refused admission into ashowp
Nothing of the sort sir.
Turned out Of the chnrch.
No sir.
Lost your hand organ Isuppose.
No my organ is at the hotel.
Forgot how you went blind, l reck-
on?
Oh, no, sir, I was struck by light.
ming.
OF course. Well, what do you want
Of mep
want dollar"
Here you are, handling him q dollar.
May heaven bless You sir. II you
have ever been In love you know how 1t
is.
In lover
Won cir Vou ooe hovo n llan In lovo
with blind and crippled lady and am
around 70 get mp money enough to
buy my marriage licenss.-Arkanssw
Traveller.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-11-27
The Lion and The Lamb.

Bobby Bancroft got too sharp the other
day. He called bis new step-mother .
stranger" when he addressed her at the
table. Informed the company present that
his father liked good cooking and mar
ried again for that reason. but was kick
Ing on too much deviled tongue; but
subsided when his father asked him
about the Sunday school lesson.
l think Il was about the lion and the
lamb cir" he said humbly.
You do chr Well my son, l happened
to Sc you fishing 1t the brook and was
at the Sunday-school myself to day. You
just come down to the woodshed and I'll
give you . practice demonstration Of
the lying and the Chicago Led
ger.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-11-27
A Dynamite Gun Cruiser.

VIM. Cramp& Sons Of Philadelphia
have made arrangements to construct fos
the government . dynamite gun cruiser
which will be capable Of making Do
knots an hour and Of firing . 200 pound
dynamite shell every tvO minutes. The
vessel IL to cost not more than $4,000
but should It fail to meet the require
ments when flushed the contractors are
to refund the sum expended BY the gov
ernment Cnmp q Sons have agreed 10
finish the contract in six months. The
requirements - olicislly set forth are
that the cruiser shall not be less than
go feet long. . feet breadth Of beam.
N feet draught and 3.s0O horse power
II must be guaranteed to 60 20 knots IN
hour. The three purllmstic dynamite
guns are to be. Of l01i In caliber and
guaranteed to throw shells Of 800 pounds
Of dynamite q other high explosive st
least eae mile and capable Of being
discharged ct least once In two min
utes.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-11-27

We offer to our readers, and the
public the grandest offer ever made in
this parish. We will furnish the Mes
senger and The Maynower, Of Var
moathport, Mass, an eight page .-r1ily
paper, for one year, for Sl.36.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-11-27

J. A. HITTER,
SADDLES, CARRIAGES
Firemen's Equipments.
Marble work and Tombstones
Carved.
Samples Of work oan be examined.
Moderate Prices.
St. Hartinsville, La.
NEWSPAPER AGENCY.
The Postmaster will receive
subscriptions for all American
and Foreign Newspapers and
Magazines.
For particulars apply at the
Post Office.
Martial Bisnvsnu,
Dealer In
Dry Goods. Shoes. Hats, Fancy Goods.
and Family Groc aries.
A specially Of Ladies fancy goods, such
q Flowers, Feathers, ornaments and all
kinds Of trimmings for ladies hats,
Mrery and Feed Stable.
Main Street, st. Martinsville, La.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-11-27

All work will be neatly and
promptly executed.
We guarantee entire salts
faction.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-11-27

We have just received a
fine assortment of light tinted
cards of all sizes.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
A Contractors Ghost Story.

81 never go much on ghost stories,"
begun Contractor Van Dyke ut the
Clinton House the other evening. The
old gentleman had been listening with
more or less attention to series of
fables being told by the guests of the
hotel.
"You don't believe in spooks, thenp"
suggested one of the gathering.
"Well, l don't know" the old con-
tractor replied. my experience in that
able. don't suppose you will believe
me, but the story will tell you is true.
| can produce living witness to it, and
l will at any time make affidavit to its
accuracy. Two years ago was build
ing piece of railroad down in the
eastern part of this state. Among the
people who furnished me with ties was
an old trader in whom / had little or
no confidence. AS the bills for the ties
came in paid them promptly and took
receipts from every man, l knew to the
tie the number used. After my con-
tract was completed the old trader sued
me for the price of fifty ties The case
was tried and L was compelled to pay
the money. The old man had sworn to
his bill, and little or no defense could
be made. When / paid the money I
warned the old fellow. | told him he
had perjured himself. l predicted for
him an unhappy ending. About six
months ago l was awakened at l
o'clock in the morning by this same old
trader. 1t was dark in my room. just
as plainly rs l see you now he was there
in life. He Weakened me by calling me
by name. My partner was in bed in
the same room Just few feet from me.
1 called him and told him of the visit
or's presence. He said he could not
see him, and laughed at me. He told
me was dreaming, and suggested that
l 90 to Sleep While we were talking
the old trader called ME by name. He
said he had been mistaken about the
ties, and offered 10 return me the money.
The vision then vanished. My partner
talked with me of the matter before we
went to sleep again. The next morning
he told the story on me as joke, but
while we were at breakfast the news
reached us of the old traders death.
He had died within ten minutes of tho
time of his visit to me. l have no idea
how many more calls of the same
character he had to make, but l am
satisfied his visit to me was the last
one. That story is true rs holy writ,
the old man concluded. A distressing
silence followed its telling and the party
broke up before all Recommendations
tooon NeOS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
A Plea for the Education of the
Body.

Many old theories of education are
being mercilessly discussed. Many new
theories claim the places of the old.
The classical scholar still claims for the
ancient languages the greatest educa-
tional power. The advocate of modern
languages says life is too short to study
dead things, and that modern languages
furnish enough discipline, and are, be-
sides, useful. To the scientist, science
is god of all, even of education. To
him no man is properly educated un-
less his mind is stored with scientific
methods of the nineteenth century.
Languages, ancient and modern, ma
thematics, science, philosophy, all ad-
vance their claims to be the best educa-
tors of the coming man. Meanwhile
the coming man is nothing but child,
and must submit himself to his elders
to be experimental upon according to
the theories of teachers and parents.
For men, women, and children alike,
l wish to enter plea for part of them
much neglected in most discussions on
education, and too much left out of
sight in most theories of education
the body. In fact, for centuries past,
many educators have seemed to regard
the body as rival of the brain, if not
an enemy of it. They have apparently
been filled with the idea that strength
and time given to the body are strength
and time taken from the mind. Un-
fortunately for the cause of good educa-
ton, this erroneous idea is not held by
teachers alone, but is q very prevalent
one generally, the current dictum being
that, representing by unity persons
force, whatever part of this unit is taken
from the body leaves necessarily just that
much less for the mind.
TO combct this idea, and to replace
it by much more reasonable idea, l
had almost said by the Very opposite
idea, shall be the chief though not the
only aim of these pages.-Prof e. L.
Richards, in Popular Science Monthly.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
Early Use OF Artillery.

When Romulus was marking out the
limits of his new city, gunpowder was
already known, and 1000 years before
the birth of Schawrtz, pieces of ord
nance had been cast in China. The
Moors used guns in Spain in the begin
ming of 1900, if not 100. The claims
of the Chinese having now been gen.
orally admitted, it is supposed that ord
nance reached Europe through the
Moors of Spain or the Venetians. Mel
ther, however, had any connection with
China. 1t is unaccountable that it
should not have been perceived by the
Turks, who conquered the northern por-
ton of China in the early part of the
thirteenth century, and were established
all around the Black sea with the ex-
ception of a strip between Verna and
the Bosphorus.
1t is now doubted whether, indeed,
the Black Prince did use guns ut the
battle of Cressy; but there is no doubt
that Murad l. had before then employ
ed them at the battle of Cossova. On
both sides they were used, the Turks
having already instructed the popula-
ton with whom they were at war. En-
ploying artillery in the field, it was easy
reversing the process in Europe) to APP
ply it in fortresses; the peculiar nature
of tho Straits of the Bosphorus and the
Dardaneles invited its use. To the
batteries placed above Constantinople
is attributed the fall of that city, the
supplies from the Black sea being cut
off, National Republican.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13

1t seems now to be settled that under
existing conditions it does not pay to
grow grain or raise cattle in the best
part of the Continent and the British
Isles. For this curious and alarming
state of things the world is indebted to
the extension of steam navigation to all
parts of the earth. Wheat, barley, oats.
ETC., can be grown on almost any arabic
land. 1t follows that wherever The
factors are most favorable that region
gets the benefit of this cheap access to
the consuming market A few years
ago India contributed but 80, 900 bushels
of wheat to countries outside of the PEN
insula. Its export supply is now about
5000, 900 bushels, and with the extern
sion of the railway system it will have
fully 100000 for outside consump-
ton.
The secret of midas ability to sell in
distant markets is the extraordinary
cheapness of labor, which does not COM
mand more than 10 cents day of our
money. The United States, Australia,
and New Zealand can produce wheat
and lay it down in Liverpool at price
which is simply ruinous to the English
because of cheaper and more fertile
lands and the use of machinery on the
broad prairies and plains, which dis
penses with costly LABOR. Recent statis-
tics show that tenant farmers in the
British Islands who confine themselves
to cereals and cattle-raising cannot
make both ends meet if the undertake
to pay their rent. This accounts for the
distress among the agricultural classes
in the Old World, and more especially
for the abject misery of the Irish people,
who have no diversified industries, be-
cause the island is without coal or iron,
and British laws discourage manufact-
ures of any kind in that unhappy coun-
try.
This inability to raise grain is effect
fatal blow at the authority and prestige
of the PEERS who are the great land
owners, and it will end in agricultural
land being transferred to the peasants
in England and Scotland as we'll as Ire
land. These agricultural workers, hav-
ing no rents to pay, will be able to
make living out of the soil, for they
can raise perishable vegetables. poultry,
eggs, and dairy products. as these are
safe from foreign competition. In the
meantime the cities of Europe are grow
ing rapidly, and are yearly consuming
more and more, not only of the grain
and cattle raised in distant regions. but
also of the vegetables, poultry, fruit,
and dairy products of nearby produc-
ton. This explanation of the agricult-
ural situation throws n good deal of
light upon the political and social
changes now taking place in the Old
World. Dem0reStS Monthly.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
BUCHANAN'S TRAGEDY.
How Two Lives Were Wrecked by Chance
and Cruelty.

The extract from Washington letter
TO the Chicago Ne,0S headed "Buchan-
ans Tragic Love Story" copied into
the Tribune recently, is called by people
here who claim to know mass of
errors. His love story as told by them
and they assert they have often heard
the particulars from his own lips, and
further that it can be verified by many
still living in Lancaster-is to this
effect: The young lady to whom Mr.
Buchanan was engaged to be married
was Miss Anne Coleman of Lancaster,
not of Philadelphia. Mr. Buchanan at
this time was not ''practicing law in D
remote part of Pennsylvania" but was
q member of the Legislature, residing
in Lancaster, next door to the Colemans
in East King street. He was lawyer
by profession, and went to Lancaster
from Franklin county, to study for the
bar when boy. His engagement to
Miss Coleman was long before no pur-
chased his country-seat of "Wheatland."
The Colemans were quiet, early-go-
ing-to-bed family, and Mr.. Buchanan
was never allowed to see his fancee
after 0 p. IN. The young couple were
accustomed to take regular evening
walks, but it was always required that
the lady be at homo by 8. They were
noted throughout the city as the hand
soonest and most affectionate pair the
place could boast ra
One night, coming from Harrisburg,
the stage was DELAYED (no railroads
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
Preserve your Sight.

l will be at o. Q. Houses bakery,
Washington ST., Owosso, every Satur-
day, with an assortment of superior
glasses. A speciality is made of fit
ting any case of defective eyes not
understood by the general dealer.
Measurement ofeyes, also oflens taken
with instruments of my own con-
struction. Everything as represent
ed, no fancy prices, you always know
where to find me. Consultation free.
J. L. MONKEY,
Practical Optician.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
A Professors Surprise.

When Professor Tults, of Phillips
Exeter Academy came into the recita-
tion-room this morning his face was
rs dark as q thunder-cloud. Fifty or
more young gentlemen sat facing him,
and from the appearance of the profess
sor, it was evident that storm was
brewing. Immediately after prayer it
burst.
Gentlemen" said the professor, 81
am panied to hear that some persons,
who consider themselves gentlemen,
have been guilty of contemplate ac-
ton. / do not make any specific charge
against any particular young person,
but l have every reason to believe that
within twenty-four hours shall be in
possession of facts that will lead to tho
detection of the person or persons who
locked up that horse in my room. "
The fifty students listened with bated
breath, and when the professor had
concluded every face was the personifi-
cation of child-like innocence. Each
man personally condoled with the pro-
fessor, and said the affair was bastard
ly.
To your correspondent the professor
told the following story: "Some time
during the night some Of those young
men went to my stable, and, taking my
best horse, brought the animal into the
academy, out into the dormitory, and
up two flights of stairs into my sleeping
room, where / found it this morning.
How they managed to get the animal
there l am at loss to see.
1t took three laborers over half
hour this morning to get the animal
down while all the youths In the village
stood around and cheered themselves
hoarse. = Pittsbarg Comm erciaI- Ga.
aeffe
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13

tnen), ana Mr.. Buchanan aid not reach
Lancaster until after 9. Knowing that
he would not at that hour be permitted
to see Miss Coleman, he called upon a
friend, Mrs. Jenkins, and accompanied
her sister, Miss Harriet Olds, to ball
ut the house of Mrs. Rosanna Hubley.
The Colemans of course heard of this,
and, being very proud, they felt that an
indignity had been placed upon their
daughter, and insisted that the match
be broken of. The young lady herself
wished to keep faith with her lover,
and was so much distressed and so un-
willing to accede to the commands of
her parents that she was sent to Phila-
delphia. Mr.. Buchanan never saw her
alive again, nor could he attempt to
communicate with her, for he did not
know where she was. He called at her
house the morning after the ball, but
was denied admission, and all he could
learn was that she had left the town.
She came to Philadelphia by the stage,
which took nearly two days for the
journey, stopping over night at Down.
ington at what was called the Halfway
House. The same stage in few days
brought her dead body back. Mr.. Blu
charan never doubted that she took
poison and often expressed that belief.
1t Yves also the general opinion. The
C0lemans never spoke to Mr.. Buchanan
after the ball, even declined further ac-
quaintance with those who remained
his friends, and would have prevented
him looking upon the corpse. The
weman. however, who prepared the I'M
fortunate young lady for her coffin let
him into the house disguised in female
attire at o'clock in the morning, and
he had the melancholy satisfaction of
seeing once more the features of the girl
he loved so fondly. He is said to have
had the sympathy of everybody in his
deep sorrow. He was greatly affected,
and for two years, in his own words,
twas scarcely himself" There is
probability that this sad experience in
tluenced all his after life, and it is cer-
tain that he never again thought of
marriage. There were no intercepted
or delayed letters, and the story of the
broken leg is all Imagination.
1t may be worth while adding that
Miss Odds, the innocent cause of all the
trouble, remained single, and that only
about ten years ago she was burned to
death at her home in Lancaster, her
clothes taking fire at u grate.-Phila-
deLphiG Letter TO NeaO York Tribune.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13

Tor supplies silouid De intercepted Inere Dy
dispatches directing their course to the
gulf. AS TO our other available naval ma
terial, there are three or four ships at Port
land that might be ordered off in similar
way, but II Is not believed that they have
been as yet. AS for troops, there are now
between four thousand and five thousand
soldiers In the southwestern territories
which could be easily marched to the Mex
lean frontier, but IL any such movement
We're contemplated 1t would probably be
directed by sealed orders, unless the pur-
pose OF the government were to Overawe
and brighten Mexico. But no public orders
have been issued, and II there are any seal
ed orders ell route the war department
would of course keep them secret.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l1.-Secretary Bay
ard writes in reply 10 Gov. Ireland's letter
relative to the murder of Arresures by Mex
lean officials:
$50 far as relates to the guilt in this great
crime of Mexican officials or citizens, all
diligence has been and will continue to be
used by this department and the United
States minister at Mexico to cause prompt
and thorough investigation to be made by
the authorities of that country, with view
OF bringing to justice under the laws of that
country all persons within the jurisdiction
connected with and answerable for this
treacherOuS and cruel murder OF Francisco
Arresures. L observe that 1t is stated in
public prints that Arresures was not
tention to become a citizen of the United
States. This, however, has no bearing ON
the present aspect of the case, for, as a
resident of Texas, Arresures was entitled
to the protection OF its laws while within
its Jurisdiction and due observance of the
requirements of the extradition treaty at
the hands of those with whom its execu-
ton Is expressly connected" Gov. Ireland
replied, reterating the demand of his pre-
vious letter.
There is still a good chance that Secretary
Manning may return to active service in
the Treasury Department. 1t Will be re-
membered that Iii May, when his sickness
promised to be permanent, he sent his
resignation to the president who requested
him To let it remain in allegiance until Octo-
Der. Since then his health has been slowly
improving, and the president has lately re-
ceiyed advices which give him renewed
hopes that Mr.. Manning may be able, after
all, to reconsider his determination to retire
from public life. His health, it is said, has
become decidedly better during the past
week or two, and If the present rate of i'm
provement Is maintained his physicians are
inclined to think that he can resume the
secretaryship. Mr.. Manning himself has
not yet decided what to do about it.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
Farm for sale.

offer my farm of SO acres for sale
upon the Shiawassee river I miles
north of Vernon. Said farm is beau
tifully situated, with 10 acres of inn
.provements, good buildings, good
orchard, we'll and cistern. Inquire
on the premises Immediately for /
am bound to sell. Terms easy,
would take house and lot in Owosso
as part pay. ]. w. CLARK.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
MATRIMONIAL FREAKS.
Remarkable Cases That Have Come ia
the Notice of n CIergyman-The Trag-
edy of Chorus Girl.

Speaking of the many features which
enliven the matrimonial market, we'll
known Clergyman said to Boston Globe
reporter: "One. of tho many remark
able cases recall is that Of q beautiful
Young girl who was married to
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
DYSPEPSIA

Causes Its victims to DO miserable, hopeless
confused, and depressed IN mind, very irrita-
Bile, languid, and drowsy. 1t Is disease
which does not get well Of itself. 1t requires
careful, persistent attention, and remedy 10
throw on the causes and tone up the diges-
tive organs till they perform their duties
willingly. Hoods Sarsapariila has proven
Just the required remedy In hundreds OF cases.
"Ihave taken Hoods sarsaparilla for dys-
pepsia, from which 1 have suffered two years.
i tried many other medicines, but none proved
SO satisfactory as Hoods Sarsapariila."
THOMAS Cook, Brush Electric Light Co..
New York City.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
CARD,
SOmerVille School { Young Ladies

st. Clair, Mich
Three courses of study. Thoroughness In every
Department. Building elegantly furnished.
Heated with steam. Lighted with gas. Water
from st. Clair River. Superior advantages in
Music and Art. Address for circulars,
SOMERVILLE SCHOOL, St. Clair, Mich
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13

Michigan Bronze or Diehl-Medit.
terranean hybrid seed wheat, hardy
and productive. possessing all the
characteristics of the parent stock.
Price, $I.s5 per bushel; Bags, 20
cents. MCBRIDE Bros,
Burton, Mich.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
Sick Headache

"For the past two years I have been
afflicted with severe headaches and dyspep-
STA. / was induced to try Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, and have found great relief. cheer
fully recommend it to ALL" MRS. Z. +.
ANNABLE, New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Mary G. Smith, Cambridgeport, Mass,
was a sufferer from dyspepsia and sick head
ache. She took Hoods Sarsaparilla and
found it the best remedy she ever used.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81 six for So. Made
only by G. /. HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar.