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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
A Great Jananese Image

The Dai Butsu, the great bronze
image of Buidha, has kept Kamakura
from sinking entirely into obscurity
during the centuries Of its decay, and
pious pilgrims, students of history and
curious foreigners hav. made it the OBJ
jects Of journeys at all seasons of the
year. The statue stands in tiny valley
a half mile back from the beach in
temple garden tco small to show the
great image with any effect. BuddEa
is seated on the lotus flower with his
head bent forward in meditation and
his thumbs joined, and wears an express
sion of the deepest calm, most benign,
serene and placid. 1t is one of the four
great show pieces in Japan that is badly
placed, end lacking a proper setting
and approach. If ono saw it like the
temple gateways and pagodas of Nikko,
at she end of long avenue of trees, or
silhouetted against the sky on some
height, Dai Butsu Great Buddhn)
would count for far more In ones men,
Dries. There are no giant trees to
shadow it in its little glen, and Bud
dha's head with surrounding trees of
the same height suggests a huge doll
quite as much as a sacred image. In
the interior of the image is temple
the corresponding forty-nine feet in
height, and through the thick atmos-
pherc OF incense one cat read tho
chalked names of ambitious tourists who
have evaded the priests and left their
signatures on the irregular bronze walls.
i Globe Democrat.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
The Echo Maker.

Tho popular Science Monthly de-
scribes curious and ingenious device
called 1.-THE Echo Maker to be used on
ships at sea. A fiaring funnel is screwed
to the muzzle of rifle. When sup
posed obstacle is near the vessel, tho
rifle is fred in its direction, and if the
obstacle is there the beam of sound pro-
jected through the funnel strikes the
obstacle and rebounds, and as the echo
is more or less perfect il proportion as
the obstacle is more or less parallel to
the ship from which the qua is fired,
and as it is near OF remote, the position
of the obstacle may be inferred. Tho
inventor claims that a sharp sound pro-
jected at or nearly at an object, and
ly when so directed, will in every case
return some Of the sound sent, so that
theoretically, there will always be an
echo, and the difference In the time be-
tween the sound sent and tie echo
will indicate the remoteness Of
the object The Naval Board tried the
echo maker and found that a return
sound could be heard from the side Of .
fort half a mile away; from passing
steamers a quarter o. mile off if broad
side too; from bluffs and sails of vessels
at about the Same distance, and from
spar buoys 200 yards away.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
Docking Horses Tails.

The president of the American Soci-
ETY. for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, Henry Bcrgh (uephew of the
recently deceased roted parsonage of
that nance, writes in the New YORK
Epoch as follows:
Il regard the docking of horses tails
as one Of the wors. forms of cruelty, not
so much on account of the pain inflicted
in cutting the tails of, though tina:
mus. be considerable - the tail
being a continuation os the verte-
bral column-but because the animal
is thus deprived of tho only means he
has of protecting himself against insects.
How would it be if mans arms were
cut off short at the shoulders, and he
had no means of brushing the flies from
off his head o. his nosel Would not
the torture be create A person suffer.
ing from such deprivation would re.
alize the cruelty of cutting of horses
tail.
1.-THE people who resort to this prac.
tice are simply aping fashion that has
come from England. They sometimes
use as an argument that the horses tail
gets over the lines and that is annoying.
If horse has fly or an insect on his
back, biting and worrying him, he
naturally swings the tail around to rid
himself of the aggravation, and in so
doing he will sometimes get the tail
over tho lines; but 1 do not think
little annoyance of that kind is a suf-
ficient excuse to inlet such suffering
on the animal.
This cutting Of the horses tails is
one of those dictates of fashion that to
my mind is simply hideous, and ] am
sorry to say that it is done as much nov
as formerly. The society is doing all it
can to prevent it. If we found any man
engaged in docking horses tails we
would cause his arrest, for we could
proceed against him for such an offense
as that. A veterinary surgeon, how
ever, who vii! perform operations of that
kind will go to a stable and without
any previous notice will dock a horses
tail, and OF course we have 70 means of
catching him in the act of doing so; the
work is done in the seclusion of the
stable. believe the operation itself
hurts as badly as the cutting off of
PERSONS finger; perhaps it hurts more,
as the spinal marrow extends 20 that
portion of the verte bral column.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
The Value of Advertising.

Everybody has heard of Frank Nlillst
He paints pictures and writes magazine
articles in times of peace, but when 4
war is con" he becomes ''war cora
spon&ent," and is likely to turn up in
the Soudan, the Transvaal or the Bal.
kans. But there was Il lime wen
was not kaown. He sent pictures to e1.
hibitions, to be sure, and good one,
but no one paid any particular attention
to them or said ANYTHING about them.
One day he conceived an idea. h
painted picture of lady in black sit
ting on bright red sofa standing
against vivid yellow background. The
effect was just trifc startling. Friends
who saw it il process of production ez.
postulated with him, and asked what
he was going to do with it. They were
simply astounded when he announced
that he was going to send it to the s1.
hibition. They laborcd with him, but
in vain. They told him that the critics
would ''wipe the floor" with him.
"They can't do that without mention
ing me-" said Frank, quietly, ''and
they've never even done that yet" To
the exhibition the picture went. Il
killed everything within twenty feet on
either side of it. You couldn't help
looking at it. 1t simply knocked you
down and held you there. The critics
got into a towering passion over it
They wrote whole columns about it.
They exhausted the English language
in abusing it. They ridlculed the com
mittee that permitted it to be hung
They had squibs and gibes about it, but
every time they spoke of it they men.
toned Frank Millet. He suddenly be-
came the best known artist in town.
Somebody, because of the stir that it
had made, bought the picture at good
price, and removed it to the seclusion
of his own home. When the next exhi-
bition came off Frank had another pic.
ture ready, one Of very different sort
and very coed, lut no better than
others which had been exhibited be-
fore. The critics had much to say
about it, and "1oted with pleasure the
marked improyement" that Mr.. Mllet
had made, IAN evidence" as they mod
estly put it, "of the value of criticism,
even though severe, to young artist"
And a majority of them never saw that
Frank had simply compelled their ..
tention by a clever trick. Il osta
Herald.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13

The case against the dynamiters in
Chicago, remarks the New York Graph
ic, brings up once more the question of
how much credencc and value should
be given to tho testimony of detectives
in cases where they are interested. This
is no new ISSUE. For moro than ten
years past III, Federal judiciary have
practically discredited the evidence of
men whose living depends upon the
successes of their prosecutions. 1t was
a United States Judge in Philadel phia
who took tine initiative in case of the
kind. The Pu.lmans had employed
spoilers on their cars, and one Of
their conductors was arrested on charges
mado by ono of these men. The
Judge refused to convict on the un-
supported testimony of the spotter,
giving as his reasons that the employ
ment of such detectives by the company
presupposed the existence of crime, and
the man who failed to make cases was
liable to be charged with negligence,
incompetency or conspiracy, and it was
fair to presume he might make cases in
his own interest. Itreminded the judge
of this old story. and he told it from
the bench: "What are you arrest;ng
me forlr said the man to the officer who
grabbed him. Il aia't done nothing"
''Nor have I for q month. and if don't
will be getting my discharge replied
the guardian of the peace.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13

Mr.. Monnier, who has been exploring
the upper Amazon, has visited near its
Eeadwaters, 1875 miles from the Pacific
coast, tribe of remarkably lazy Iu-
dians, for whom even gold has no at
fractions, though they know its value
He says they live in Undesirable pow
erty and squalor. When he asked them
why they did not collect the gold, of
which considerable quantities may be
found in their country, they replied that
it would be far too much trouble. 1t is
rare indeed, says the New York Sun,
that savage peoples do not open placer
gold mines when they have a chance.
The gold regions of Africa and India
show many vestigcs of ancient diggings,
and far toward the Zambesi, in inner
Africa, the women still wash the sands
of dried up-river beds, preserving the
precious dust they find in quilts until
the next trader comes along.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
A Chain OF Events.

Last year out in Iowa a mad dog bit .
steer, which in turn bit pony, which
tried its teeth upon bull, which, upoi
going mad, chewed up fence rails "
though they were hay. and wound upoJ
biting and goring his owner. So far the
man has escaped rabies, but his neigh
bors have raised a purse to send him 70
Pasteur for treatment, and he is now
on his way in charge of . local ply
sician.-lClisAgo Times
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
9be neeklp Alessen9sr
Published Weekly
AT
St M artinsviIIe, L a.
BY
EASrIN L. BIENvENU.

The mouse pest in Australia il much
worse than the rabbit pest. TIE eli
mate is so soft that they have thrived
enormously, and there is said to DO
''hardly residence or store that is not
pestered by the plague. In some places
they are so thick that, in order to get
livestock properly fed, men have to
watch while they are eating their pro-
vender. The week before the Coolah
races the vermin got into the boxes at
the station, and actually ate the band
ages off the horses legs, while from
every side come tales of crops devoured
SO rapidly that many fields have had to
be abandoned, what was left not being
worth reaping."
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13

Although New York uses daily about
one hundred and thirteen million gal
Ions of Croton water, those figures are
from fifty to sixty millions less than
they would be if there were a sufficient
supply. In the month of June the
water in the reservoir fell about two
feet, showing the large additional draft
upon them caused by extra bathing,
street and yard sprinklias, and other
demands for water during the intensely
hot weather. The difference in con-
sumption between cool, rainy day and
a dry, hot day is about ten million gall
Ions. The consequence is that, as water
will run down hill, the people in tho
lower portions of the city are supplied,
while those living on higher ground
find that their faucets refuse to act dur
ing large part of the day. Engineer
Birdsall of tho aqueduct recently de-
clared that New York needs supply
now of not less than one hundred and
seventy-fve million gallons daily, and
every year, with increasing population
and moro and constantly charging
manufactures and industries of every
kind, the demand grows greater.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
A Great Mistake.

Spa" said Johnny, who is persist
ent knowledge seeker, "what is law
giver9'
"The-e isn't any such thing, Johnny"
replied the old gentleman, who had
been involved in considerable litigation.
but this book says a man was a great
lawglver."
Its mistake. Law is never given.
It's always retaile ed in mighty small
quantities at mighty high figures."-
Merchant Traveller.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
Knew What She was After.

Mrs. Scheimer (mother of two mar
riageable daughters): Really. Mrs.
Sharpe, l can't decide whether to send
Edith and Lila TO Saratoga or the
mountains this summer. What would
you advised
Mrs. Sharpe very ingenuouD: Why
not send them to Sulphur Springs Mrs.
Scheimer3 You know they use sulphur
in making mstshes. 1.-THE Judge
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13
A Restaurant Highly Recommended.

Waiter (excitedly)-"Have you eaten
the meal bought you!"
Patron-''CertaInly, have"
Good heavensl You are lost!'
"What do you mean"
81 gave you toadstool., thinking they
were mushrooms"
'1Don't let little thing like that
worry you. I've been boarding at this
restaurant year, and toadstools soak cd
in arsenic would have no effect on nv
stomach. "-Ne6rask0 State Journal
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-10-13

''You look hot and desperate.
Brown. Are you waiting for the cool
wave2'
''Naw; I'm waiting for the man who
predicted itr'-[Epoch.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-23
PERSONALS.

To. Church. son Of Gov. Church, Of Da-
kota, is i'll the city.
j. NJ. Brown, Philadelphia insurance
agent, is at the Ryan.
George F. Potter. of La Crescent, was at
the Merchants yesterday.
John W. Plummer, the silver-tonged orator
of Montana, is at the Ryan.
Hon. j. X. Toole. delegate from Montana,
arrived in the city last evening.
S. A. Grocer. Jr., of Philadelphia, is visit
ing Col and Mrs. Rockwell at the Ryan.
Attorney General Clapp was suddenly
summoned to Fergus Falls yesterday by the
advent of a son.
William Schmmel. of St Peter, trustee of
the insane hospital at that city, called upon
Gov. McGill yesterday.
II. Ward Leonard, a Chicago electrical ex-
pert, was in the city Yesterday ana will leave
this morning for Oshkosh.
E. H. Morphy young Englishman who
settled in this city about two years ago, hos
been appointed British consul at st. Paul.
T. W. Teasdale. general passenger and
ticket agent of the Omaha road, who has
been at Chicago for several days, will return
to-day.
C. s. Bartram, a well-known newspaper
man of the Twin Cities. was chosen exalted
ruler of the st. Paul lodge of Elks Wednes-
day evening.
Secretary r. Fl. Laird, of the Young Mems
Christian association, left for st. Cloud yes
terday to attend the fiftieth annual conven-
ton of the associations of Minnesota and
Dakota
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-23
DRAMATIC NOTES.
ST. PAUL REAL ESTATE.

Twenty-one deeds were fled yesterday
with total consideration of S59, Coo, as fol,
lows:
F Wilder to A Wiloer It's A. ., 6, blk
Cd, West st Paul Syndicate add
b Wilgus to Clarke its 10 20, ''0'
q and %, blk =, Clarke & Wilgus'
add -. ..............-.:-...2 .oO0
L X Stone to |. Peterson, Ii 10, blk 4,
Stone IL Morton's add. ................ 100
Chute to " II Davis, 1t .. Chute
Bros Div No Is add 800
st Anthony Park Co to II Cannon, Its
5 aud q, blk 27 st Anthony PARK 49,. 200
F9I Clarke to W Hinma,l, Ii S. blk S,
Sylvan Park add ........... 49,. 500
WW Bishop to l. J Bromquist, 1t Il.
:. blk l. Bishops add. 49,. ....... 49,
" Wurzcll to NJ Gerlich, 1t 4. blk l,
Ramsey's subd. ................1,c0 900
A Olson to I. schyman 1t l. blk ., Lock
woods add; ..-;...;..;-i 1910
I Pearson 10 L Cochran, DR.. 1t =,
Pearson's rearr =. =. -. ....,.. 1.60o
e Sargent 10 Wamacb, Its aud
5. blk 4, Sargcnts add. .....-....-...2, 100
L Peterson to C A B .Weide, 1t Il,
Wede rearr blk 2. Nelson's add. 200
B boswell to Bensberg. part 1t IL.
blk 5, Dayton's add. 10000
r Kempton to J Chem. Its II and Is,
blk s. Merriam Park, Cd add ...2, 400
j Wa son TO A a Howard, 1t 10, sum
T
tlkl, Elicit, b d A ;. .....- -. 1880
y II IIebe to o W Johnson. II II,
Weide's rearr blk 6, Nelson's add :. 500
-Four unpublished deeds. .......... ....G.50o
Total, 81 pieces. $50, SOC
BUILDING PERMITS.
The following building permits were issued
yesterday:
NJ Imhoff. 2-story frame dwelling, Jes-
samine. near Walsh. go. -. $50
3 kaItenhauser. History frame dwell
Ing. Fremont near Earl -. .....1 800
Oscar B. Hills, 2-story frame dwelling.
Victoria nesr Lincoln ........... IS, 900
Henry Jurgensen, 1t2-story frame
dwelling, Charles, near Kent. 49,. 600
Henry Lingren, 2-story frame dwelling.
Mt. Ida, near Otsego..-... 49,. ....:: l,o0o
John jacobson, 2-story frame dwell
ing, Dooley, near County road q. 900
O Powell 2-story frame dwelling,
Pennsylvania. near Olive. 900
Two minor permits. .....-... ........ 800
Nine permits, total. .......$ $40, 500
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-23

more in the power of the legislature to
pass law taking from man, without
bis consent and without process of law,
property which he may hereafter ac-
qilire, than it has to pass a law depriv-
ing him of property which he had &C
quired before its passage.
"Althongh not important by itself, it
may be added that the eleventh section
of the act is clearly ynid. 1t provides
that when any doubt exists as to the
construction OF the law, it shall be the
duty of the court to construe it so as to
give the person performing any labor
the full amount of his claim over and
above costs and attorneys fees. This
js a clear invasion of the functions of
fthe Judiciary. The legislature enacts
the laws, but it belongs TO the courts
alone to construe them. Other proyis
ions of the law OF at least doubtful
validity might be referred TO, but we
do not deem it necessary"
1.-The important question remains
whether the remainder OF the statute
can stand, or
o. WHETHER IT MUST FAIL.
9cThe rule laid down by COrIy, and
adopted by this state. is that if the pro-
visions of the act are so mutually con-
nected with and dependant oil each
other as conditions, considerations Or
campensationS for each other as to
warrant the belief that the legislature
intended them as q whole, and ii all
could not be carried into effect, the leg
islature would not pass the residue i'll
then il some parts are un-
constitutional all the plO is ons which |
are thus dependent, conditiOnally, Or
connected must fall with them. APP
plying this rule to the case we think |
the whole statute must fall.
1.-THE great object of the act, mani |
festly, was to give greater rights and |
fuller protection to laborers and ma
teral men than they had under the old |
law, and the provisions which we hold |
invalid were evidently those which the |
legislature specially designed to effect |
that purpose. and which constituted the
chief iiducelneDt to pass the act. |
1t is hardly possible to con-
cieve that, had the legislature !
that those provisions were |
invalid, they would have enacted the !
remainder OF the act as substitute for |
the old law. The whole act must. there
fore, fall, LEAKING General Statutes 1878. |
aware that the court ought not to &C. |
clare invalid the solemn act of a CO. |
ordinate branch of the government eX-
cept in very clear ease; but this seems |
to us to be such case. Ii the act |
could be sustained it is so imperfect |
and obscure in many respects that much |
and litigation over its con-
struction would inevitably follow,a state
of things which would be especially dis
astrous to the very class which the law
intended to benefit. Therefore. looking
merely to practical results, it is better
for all parties that they be left under
the provisions of the old law. and if it is
defective in any particular, the legisia
tnra ran amend -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-23
GLOBULES.

One birth, three deaths and four marriages
were recorded at the health Office yester-
day.
Maj Hjortsberg, of the department of
state. yesterday issued bonds to the newly
elected county officers.
The congregation of the House of Hope
will take tea and break missionary jugs in
the parlors of their church this evening at Z
O'Clock.
The st. George Snoyshoe club will meet
this evening i'll the chamber of commerce
building to perfect plans for the ensuing
carnival season.
special meeting of the city council will
be held this evening, to consider the matter
of the unpaid wages of the laborers on the
Maryland street grading contract.
State Treasurer Bobleter was confined to
his be d yesterday, and is suffering from an
affection of the heart. He hopes to return
to his Office III the course OF week.
Willis S. Monroe, well known real estate
man of this city, has been appointed special
agent for Minnesota and the Northwest of
the Union Debenture company Of Boston,
Mass.
Members of Garfield, Acker, Birchard and
Ord posts, G. A. r.. will meet at Garfield
committee of arrangements on department
encampment.
Brigader Evans, who has had charge of
the Western division of the Salvation army,
will be rendered farewell reception at the
temple, corner Ninth and jackson streets,
this evening,
The management of the Peoples theater
announce that costumed flower girl will
present every lady who attends the perform
ance this evening with rose Immediately
after the close of the second act.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to-
Gilbert Philip and Mary Leslie, Frank Satter
and Emma Danielson. w. A. Waddiil and
KittIe Wilkins John DuderO and Mary RO-
deion, P. j. Bark and Ida johnson.
A masquerade ball will be given at Market
hall Thanksgiving evening for the benefit of
the colored band. Prizes will be awarded to
the finest costumed lady and gentleman, aud
to the homeliest male and female present
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-23
SAINT PAUL.
Additional city News on the Eighth Page
CR,CksMEN GAGGED.
SeoueI to the Robbery of a Fur
HOuSe.

Sequel to the Robbery of Fur
House.
The fur establishment OF Matheny,
Haynie & Co., at 3IS Robert street, was
entered by burglars Wednesday night
soon after business hours, and eight
fur-lined coats and a lady's sealskln
dolman, valued i'll all at $1,000, were
stolen. An entrance was effected from
She rear of the building by the use OF an
axe and an iron bar, the thieves secur-
ing their booty and escaping from the
building without attracting the atten-
ton of any one. The goods were taken
to the house of Charles Merritt. on
Cedar street, between Seventh and
Eighth, from which place they were
afterwards taken to Minneapolis and
disposed of. The matter first came to
the knowledge of the police when hack
man informed Officer POttgeiser that a
suspicious looking individual had made
overtures to him to take a load OF furS
to Minneapolis. The officer ascer-
tanned the whereabouts of the man. VINO
proved to be James Jenner, and arrested
him on suspicion. AT the station Jen-
ner confessed the robbery, stating
where the goods could be found and I'M
plicated his pals. On the arrival OF the
police at Merritt'S place. however, the
goods had disappeared, the thieves nav
ing learned of Jenner's arrest. The
Minneapolis authorities were notified
and Inspector Hoy found seven pieces
of the stolen goods in North Minneapo-
lis and got track of another coat, which
he recovered License Inspector Ray
and Inspector Doyle caught one of the
thieves in the act of selling coat at
Grieye's pawn shop, on Washington
avenue. The men and goods were
turned over to the st. Paul authorities.
who now hvae James Jenner. L. Hol-
land, Chris Merritt, Ed Carlson and
James McCaffery.