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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
Sergeant Jasner nj Fort Noultrie.


When Charleston built FOR the Britons
sport
The spongv. hardy palmetto fort,
And the >Lips with thor topSai!s taut and
thin
Stcrlnc,I over the bar at lreak oi day,
Gun AMI swivel and ,ulv,rn
Shouting their IuurleroG> roUEGelav.
When the kissing ,Aot was hnm.rel for
good,
Time after time, in the soft, sly wood,
A ventdrous shell. from the Moreland's deck
Struck the patriot staff and snapped 1t
quite,
Neat in the middle, without one heck,
And whirled the flag from tie rampart's
height.
Put William Jasper saw from his post,
And, HIS young blool seething, s;ill as n
ghost,
Straight through the perilous fire leapei
down,
Ieaped down, and back, 10y leopard spring,
The smoke in his eyes, erect and brown,
All in the beat Of a swallows wing.
And held close, close, a. he climted alone,
The banner sacred and overthrovn;
And quick, with that steady hand of his,
Notching its loops on his ramrod bare,
With $50, my beauty and one frank kiss,
Flung it again to the glad, free air
Then the friendly tides turned clean about,
AMI slipped from under the friGates stout,
And Sir Peter Parker's crippled feet,
With its disembarking, bewildercd crew,
CROPPED and fumbled, and got its feet,
And reeled off into the seas anew.
lis the old tale; how ours sat down
At dusk in their fair, beleaguerel town,
We seal their valor. repeat their vows;
We keep their memories east anG west;
We sing their praise through the happy
house;
But Of Sergeant Jasper, who knows the rest!
Who asks it! Peace to his ashes cold
The Carolinian grasses fold,
To the fond boy heart, in its little hour
Symbol and vision of loyalty,
Homage The root whereof he was flower
Bears hundreds, happily, such a. he.
Let emperors sleep in their gorgeous fame;
For us, forever, some quiet name.
in which no armorer's skill Is Versel,
To mock at history's calendar.
And once through its ordered page TO
burst
Like headlong, glorious August star,
Louise !. Quincy in Boston Post.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
Nasal Voices. Catarrh and FaI,.
Teeth"

A prominent English woman says N.
American women all have nigh, Shri,i nssa'
voices and false teeth.
Americans don't like the constant tyi,t;,-
they get about this nasal twang, and vet ~
a fact caused by cur dry stimulating atmos'
phcre. and the un.veTsa, Presence OF cata,.
rial dii!ulties.
But why should 81 many OF our won,s.
have false teeth:
That Is more of a poser e. the English. IA
is Guite impossible - account for II eyco,s
on the theory of deranged stomach acti%
caused by imprudence in eating and oy wan,
Of regular eSercise.
Both conditions are unnatural
Catarrhal troubles everywhere prevaa
and end in cough aud consumption, wb,cs
are promoted by mal-nutritOn induced i,
deransed stomsch action. The condition
modern one. one unknown to our ancesto,,
who prevented the catarrh, cold, cough ana
consumption by abundant and regular uss ~
what is now known as Warmers Log Cabin
Cough and Consumption Remedy and Loo
Cabin Sarsapariila, two old fashioned reme
dies handed down from our ancestors, ana
now exclusively put forth under the strono
ct guarantees Of purity and efficacy byts
world famed makers of Warmers safe cum
These two remedies p!entifully used rs tn
spring and summer seasons advance give
positive assurance of freedom both from
catarrh and those dreadful and, if neglected
inc, liable consequences, pneumonia. lun,
troubles and consumption, which so zen.
orally and fatally prevail among our peops
Comrade Eli Fisher. of Salem. Henry Ca
Iowa. served four years in the late war and
contracted a disease called consump:ion by
the doctors. He had frequent hemorrhagss
After using Warmers Log Cabin Cough aud
Consumption remedy, he says. under date q
Jan. 18th, ISIS: &" | DO not bleed at the lunu
any more, my cough does not bother me, and
l do not have any more sniothering spellss
Warmers Log Cabin Rose Cream cured hs
wife Of catarrh and she IS sound ANA we'll
OF course We DO not like 10 have our women
called nose takers and false teeth ownerx
but these conditions can be readily overcom,
in the manner indicated.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14

The following is told as having &C.
cured at a diplomatic reception in
Washington the other night, though it
has the look of an old acquaintance:
As the presiding officer of the leading
dining club of the world lett the white
house wag on the portico shouted:
''The Irish minister's carriager The
policemen took up the cry seriously, and
m a moment every attendant il the
grounds was bowling for the equipage
OF the representative of poor Erin.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
Fate Of John Ramsay, M. D.
FY w. y. s. ATKINSON.

! am physician. have made life
long study OF the human brain, and
may, perhaps, be pardoned If say that
my opinions upon diseases Of the mind
now carry considerable weight among
members of the profession.
1t is only week or two since / was
called to large asylum for the insane in
Northern Ohio 10 examine a case which
bafiled the skill OF the local doct ors.
After disposing of that matter took an
unprofessional stroll through the insti-
tuition in company with my old friend,
the superintendent.
The asylum over which I now made a
tour Of inspection was most beautiful
building, resembling in its appoint
ments the homes of the wealthy and
opulent. We wandered through room
after room and along successive halls
and corridors where men and women in
every stage of insanity passed the time
in various harmless amusements, or were
rest!essly confined in the care of ward
crs and nurses. OF ali the mist ortunes
to which humanity is heir, this loss of
reason is, to my mind, the saddest by
far; ard, though might be expected to
have grown hardened by long years of
familiarity with all phases Of weak in
tellect, never cease to feel devoutly
thankful for that greatest of Gil benefits
conferred upon men by bene6cent Gre
ator-a sound brain.
We had passed through the greater
part of the enormous institution and
were approaching that portion of the
building set apart for the residence OF
the experimenting physician-my
friend, DR.. Habershon. Taking from
his pocket key, DR.. Habershon in.
serted it in the keyhole of door. Be-
fore turning it, he looked at me in q
strange manner and said: If you
were not an old med, Hartly, and as
familiar with strange cases as am my
self, should warn you TO keep your
countenance and betray no surprise on
entering here. And l speak, anyhow,
so as TO be on the safe side" So say
ing he turned the key in the lock and
opened the door. We quietly entered 1
very neat but plainly furnished room,
and confess that, although I have
witnessed queer, weird, wild and, oft
times blood curdling sights, never Eel
so startled in al. my life as l did at thai
moment. The room was not by an.
means dark, for it was we'll lighted b,
large window running all along on
side, bu: placed above the reach Of
man, even though he should stand upol
a chair; yet at the farther end Of tn
room noticed a students lamp burnin!
! over plain pire-wood table, rpo'
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
Bartholdi's GrPat Work.

The statue of Liberty enlighteninc the world,
which stands on BcdiOe's Island, in the hsrbof
tie conceptions of modern times. The torch Of
the goddess lights the nations o. the earth TO
peace prosperity and progress, through Liber.
~. But liberty is an empty wOrC 10 the
thousands of poor women enslaved by physical
ailments "A hUndredfold more tyranuical than
any Nero. To such sufferers DIR. Picrce's Ia
vorite Prescription holds forth the promise Of
n speedy cure. IL il "A specific in all those de
rangements. irreguiarii les and Nt,aknesses
which make life burden 10 many women
The only medicine sold by druggists. unders
positive guarantee from the manufacturers
that il will give satisfaction in every Case.or
money will he refunded. See guarantee printed
on wrapper enclosing bottle.
Eleven thousand nine hundred aud forty
seven British soldiers in India are ~ sinben
of the Soldiers Total Abstinence Assa.ia
ton.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
Origin Of Buckeye"

The interest concerning Ohio nnd her
coming centennial has awakened in
quiries in everything connected with
the state. The idea of giving 10 all
visitors buckeye as souvenir has very
naturally led to the inquiry, Why are
Ohio people called Buckeyes" A
brilliant after dinner speech by the
celebrated DR.. Drake, the eminent
physician and botanist OF the Ohio val
ley, at a public dinner, given in Gin
cinnati on the occasion of her forty
fourth anniversary, is SO appropriate
and so happily expressed ihat no i'm
provement can be made upon il. DR..
Drake said:
why arc the natives o. our valley
called Buckeyes, and to whom are they
indebted for this epithet? Mr. Presl-
dent, the memory that can travel few
years into the last century. and IT only,
can supply the answer. As the buck
eye has sof; wood, and IS peculiar to
the valley of the Ohio, later emi9fants
to both banks OF the river thought it a
TT emblem for the native children,
whom they found untaught and awk-
ward. amusing themselves in the shade
of is luxlriant foliage or admiring the
beautiful dyes OF is ripenius nuts, and
Buckeye was, therefore, at first, a nick
name--a term OF derision. Those very
children have. however. raised it into
a title Of homer -. Columbus Journal
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14

A correspondent from New York.
writing of the employment of
governesses in this country, says: Il
found that governess must be young
and, preferably, pretty. She must be
able TO help in entertaining company, if
desired, but she must be an upper SER
want, sometimes eating with the other
servants, often clashing with them and
subject to unpleasantness, because of
her equivocal position between kitchen
and parlor, and less we'll paid than the
kitchen. / heard many governesses
speak well of their employers and talk
of kindnesses bestowed, bU: the
strongest impression which received
was that one of the worst results of the
prevailing anglomania is the revolution
it has produced in the position Of tho
American governess. We have reduced
her 20 the condition Of the English
governcss, who, of a.! women, is not
least to be pitied.f
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14

A few months ago it was reported in
flaming headlines in many newspapers
that French genius had perfected an
aerial car, upon which the French mill
tary authorities had secured the patent
Vght which would turn the science Of
war as now understood into an involu-
ton by the side of which sickiy UNI
breila in healthy wind storm would
be as nothing. But the mind of the
French genius cannot have triumphed
over the matter, or We should have
heard some more about his great
achievement. Aud now modest
Brooklyn inventor announces that lie
Las found the missing screw ard viii
have an aerial car sailing through space
Qimitcd) in short while. A number
Of reporters have seen his machine work
in small room, but wien he per-
focts the e0O-pound one he has in
contemplation we shall, bc better able
TO Judge of the ability of his device.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14

The is2d anniversary of the birth of
Ben amin Franklin was remembered in
Philadelphia by formal banquet OF
prcssmen. There has never been a
period 80 full of membranes of Frank
lin. His literary life by MacMaster, his
life in France by the Hales, and minor
publications have caused Franklin TO be
better known than ever before, and in a
more Intelligent manner.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
The New Universal Language.

al love, thou lowest. she loves" in
Volapuk, the new universal Ian guagc, is
'Lofob, lofous, lofot,' and They will
have been loved' Is "Pulofoms. :"
The knowledge Of ones self is the best
undation of all virtues" is, in Vol
apuk, "Itisevam ebinom s,abin gudikin
tngas valIk."
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14

uO ICI al l'NonApiO SSoN. ~ 'O''O'
morning l shall try to do til, work"
Then turning more particularly to
Ilabershon, he continued: ed, you
and both love Grace Thorncy
Now, in the presence of Hartly. here, /
want You to promise me that, whatever
the consequences of my operation, you
will care for Grace as long as she lives,
and, if necessary, care for me, too"
Think neither liabcrshon or myself.
understood the purport o. these words,
when they were spoken, though their
meaning was clear enough later on.
However, Habcrshon gave the request
cd promise and We parted for the
night.
The next day, in the forenoon, RAM
say, in the presence of the two physi-
clans who had been in charge OF Grace,
began his operations. l was an inter-
ested observer from distant part of
the room, but Habershon could not be
induced to be present. Ramsay told
the older doctors that If bis theory
proved perfectly successful in practice
he would be able to give his method Of
cure in writing for the benefit of the
medical world-at present, he said that
it was utterly impossible for him to in
diligently explain his ideas. However,
he guaran teed that the attempt would
be perfectly harmless to the patient and
tho doctors stood by ready to pre-
vent any undue or dangerous expert
ment. For myself, ] have not the least
idea to this day just what the means
were which Ramsay employed to pro-
duce the cad he had in view. nor have
any theory to advance. The whole
thing was strange affair to me then
and appears just as strange when look
back upon it from the present moment,
with all the experience which l have
gained with fifteen years. practice.
Ramsay first of all administered
draught to Grace Thorneycroft, who
was seated in a reclining chair. A few
moments later he made a small incision
in an artery in the patients right arm,
which movement he followed by max
ing a similar incision in an artery of his
own left arm. The two arteries he
then conn ected by means Of small sill
yer tube. Facing his subject, Ramsay
tapped her head, near the base of the
brain, two or three times with his
knuckles, and then gazed into her eyes.
Ten minutes passed slowly by and no
perceptible difference was noticeable in
Grace's condition. Ten more minutes,
and glcam OF intelligence seemed to
be forcing its way into the face of the
poor girl-but, strange to relate, wild,
PARKWAY look was settling upon RAM
say! Another ten minutes, and Grace
Thorneycroft recognized every one in
the room, including myself, while John
Ramsay was led away from the newly
conscious girl, raving maniac!
As have before remarked, have no
explanation to offer-I can only chron-
icle bare facts. Ramsay was a man of
genius. surely. though in the one act of
his life in which he proved that genius,
he partially failed; and, in that by
losing his mind he was unable to give
his theories to the world, his genius
Will never bencfit posterity.
Habershon married Grace Tho,Acy-
croft two years later, and they have al
ways taken the best of care of the man
who saved a woman's reason at thu ex-
pense of his own Detroit Free Press.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
The Five Sister.

There were i've fair sisters. and each lad an
aim
Flora would fain lie p fashionable dame;
Scholarly Susan's selection was books,
Coquettish Cora cared morr for good looks
Anna, ambitious, aspired att" wealth;
Sensible Sarah sought first for good health.
30 she took DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and grew healthy and blooming. Corai
beauty quickly faded: Sus8n's eyesight failed
from over-study: Flora became nevous and
fretful in striving after fashion and a sickly
family kept Annals husband poor. But sens.
BILE Sarah grew daily more healthy, charming
and intelligent, and she married rich
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
Chr lcsekIn AlesseNerr
Published Weekly
IT
ST MartinsviiIe, la.
~
EASTIN & RIENYENN.
EASTIN & BIENVENO.

FRINGE Bismark, according to the New
York sun, wants 200, 600 more men and
SO, 600, 600 rs the first installment Of the
increase IN the German army. He makes
no secret Of what this means. IL means
being able to face France with million
soldiers and Russia at the same time
wiki another million.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14

A saloon can no more be run withou
using up BOYS than q Touring mill vithou
wheat, or a sawmill without logs. The onlY
question is whose boys-your boys or mine
our boys or our nighbors. Will you give
your husbands and sons. or must other women
give their husbands and sons, that the mil q
ruin may grind on!
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
Cou.umption surely Cured

To the Eitor:-Please inform Your reader
that have "a positive remedy for the abov.
named disease. BY lis timely use thousands o.
hopeless cases have been permanently cured. !
shall he glad TO send two bottles of my remedI
FREE to any of your readers who have con.
sumption If they viii, send me their Exp-es
and y. o. address Respectfully.s
Il. A. SLOCtM. VI. C.. Isl Pearl s.. y. y
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14
What SCOTS Emulsion Has Dom
Over 2S Pounds Gain in Ten Week.
Experience OF q Prominent Citizef
TEE CALIruRSIA SocTTrT ToR TIE
SUTpHEssIo,s OF VICE.
SIs FR.SCIsCo. July Eth, 1886.

SAS FRANCISCO, July 'th' ISS'I
I took q severe cold upo!'
my chest and lungs and dig
not give it proper attention.
it developed into bronehitiS
and in the fall of the Sams
year 1 was threatened Wit
consumption. Physicians Of
dered me to q more congen]
al climate, and / came to Saj
Francisco. Soon after my
arrival ] commenced takiD3
Seott'S Emulsion of Cod Live
Oil with Hypophosphites re-
ularly three times a day.
ten weeks my avoirdupod
went from 1853 to 1870 poun9
and over; the cough mea
time ceased. c. r.. BENNETT
SOLD RY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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'sIl1oq Lsd ~: lr Ilas sIslrSnIQ 'LelcA.9SI uu
.duoqL Jee>I III ASH soAo aIo- UllS. psIJ! wv II
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-04-14

The wedding ring is woman's sphen
and also mans ear.-ED0ch.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-02-18
Poor Economy.

The primary object of twenty-four
out of every two dozen men of the
present generation is to make money.
That day when men did efficient SER
vice for others just for fun, or for
glory, has passed, if indeed it ever
existed. If individuals, companies,
or corporations want work done
promptly and properly nowadays
they must pay for it in proportion to
the time and labor required to &C
complish it. No one can Faithfully
deny the facts set forth above, and
granting these, one is bound to adj
NIT that the corporation of McMinn-
vile is losing money every year by
not paying the Mayor and Aldermen
for their services as such. 1t is not
our wish or purpose to bring a word
of complaint or censure upon the
present Board. They are doing as
well as any Board would without
compensation, and great deal bet
ter than ought to be expected of them
under the circumstances. Much more
time and work is required of the
members of the Board than many
people are aware of, and it is of vast
Importance to the corporation that
all of its business should be promptly
and properly attended to, but as the
members of the Board receive nc
compensation for their services, they
must attend to their own business
matters first, making the corporation
business a secondary consideration
and leaving it for "a more convenient
season." Thus it frequently happen:
that quorum cannot be had wher
there is some business before thu
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-02-18
Flour Corn.

Mr.. j. r. Oliver, of Daylight, has
placed with E. Webb twenty-five
pounds of -four corn, which will be
sold at % cts. per pound for seed.
This corn makes flour, when properly
ground and bolted, equal in every
respect to wheat -four. The -four
bakes and rises well, making splen-
did light biscuit, bread or cakes.
1t produces about fifty per cent,
more than ordinary corn. 1t should
be planted and cultivated the same
as ordinary corn, in hills or squares
about three and half feet apart.
The stalks have from two to five long,
slender ears, with very small cobs.
The grains are small and odd shaped,
and have a soft, starchy substance.
1t makes fine roasting ears. A sam
pie of the flour can be seen at Mr..
Webb's. Any farmer who tries 1t
will continue to raise it, for it
makes better -four than much of the
wheat that is raised, and two or
three times as much of it can be
raised on the same land as of wheat.
Call al Webb's and get package
before it is all gone.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-02-18

Mead & Ritchey, on the 28th and
Goth inst, will pay 43c for Hens,
Ducks and Turkey Hens, 33c for
gobblers, 2! for BOOSTERS per pound,
and 25c per head for good fat geese.
They will continue to buy every
Wednesday during the month Of
March. 4w
w. p. Collier, successor to Gross
& Collier, requests all indebted to the
old firm to come forward and make
settlement Immediately. This is i'm
portant, and may save you costs to
attend to it at once. He is also offer
some big bargains in dry goods, cloth
ing, notions, boots, shoes, hats, etc.
"A combination Leap Year and
Valentine party was given at the
residence of DIR. j. S. Harrison last
Tuesday night. There were just an
even dozen couples present, and the
evening was most pleasantly passed
by all. The Valentine drawing Gre
ated much merriment.
Mr.. ii. w. Rumbley, general
agent for the National Garment Cut
ter, is at the Warren House, and will
make this his headquarters for several
months. He has secured the old Odd
Fellows Hall, in Faulkner building,
southeast corner of Square, for an in
struction room. Mr.. Rumbley's
mother is also here to assist him in
the work.
-Messrs. j. II. Wilson & Co., pro-
prietors of the Mountain City Marble
Works at this place, received an or
der for monument from one of theil
agents in West Tennessee, which
was secured in competition with
agents of Nashville, Memphis and
Louisville Works. The monument
is to be fourteen feet high, and thu
price is 5000. The same agent hai
sent them over $4,000 worth Of order
from West Tennessee, including this
within the last few weeks. We ar
glad to note such success and pros
perity on the part of a McMinnvill'
enterprise.
The aggregate tax assessment o
Warren county for 1887 was a littl
! over $4,000 for State, county ant
school purposes. Of this amour