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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24
The Care OF the Ears.

Never put anything into the car for
the relief Of tootEachr.
Never wear cotton in the ears il they
are discharging pus.
Never attempt to apply poultice to
the inside of the canal of the ear.
Never drop anything into the car
unless it has been previously warmed.
Never use anything but syringe and
warm water for clearing the ears from
pus.
Never strike or box childs cars;
this has been known to rupture the
drum and cause incurable deafness.
Never wet the hair if you have any
tendency to deafness; wear an oiled-silk
cap when bathing, and refrain from
diving.
Never scratch the cars with anything
but the finger if they itch. Do N OF use
the head OF pin, hairpins, pencil-tips
or anything of that nature.
Never let the feet become cold and
damp, or sit with the back toward n
window, as these things tend to aggra-
vatc any existing hardness Of hearing.
Never put milk, fat or any oily sub
stance into the car for the relief OF pain,
for they soon become rancid and tend TO
inci;c inflammation. Simple warm water
will answer the purpose better than any
thing else.
Never be alarmed If a living insect
enters the ear Pouring warm water
into the canal will drown it, when it
will generally come to the surface and
can be easily removed by the finger. \
few puifs o! smoke blown iato th3 car
will stupety the insect.
Never ricddlc with the ear if q fcrcign
body, such as bead, button, or seed
enters it; leave it absolutely alone, but
have physician attend to it. More
damage has been done by injudiciOu'
attempts at the extraction of foreign
body than coUil ever come from IL
presence il the car. - Health and Home
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24
Pearl Oysters.

The business of getting the pearls out
of oysters is a tolerably disagreeable one.
The oysters are thrown into large YES
sells and eft to die, when the shells open
of the'- own accord. The shells are
then removed, but the oysters them
selves &c left IN buckets till they be-
come decomposcd, when they are well
stirred. The pearls sink to the bottom,
and the remainder is poured off. 1t
may be readily inferred that the odor
in the camp of the pearl seekers is
more powerful than pleasant.
The pearl had its origin in the efforts
of the oyster to protect itself from the
irritation caused by the presence of
some foreign body between the shell
and its mantle, as the soft skin of the
oyster is technically termed. To nit
igate the suffering caused by this vcx-
atious INTRUDER, the oyster deposits
thereon a coating of the same material
as that of which the shell il composed,
and when once this process has begun
it continues, till in tine the pearl grows
large enough to kill the oyster,
Linn9us, the father OF naturalists,"
received the honor of knighthood for
demonstrating the possibility OF artifi-
cially inducing the formation OF pearls
in the pearl-bcariag mussc. But, as
has been the case with other European
inventions of which we have thought a
good deal, it has since turned out that
John Chinaman has been doing this thing
for couple of thousand years or so.
The Chinese method is to take the mus
sci from the river, carefully force tho
shells little way apart, and insert be-
tween the mantle of the oyster and one
of the shells few little pellets Of clays,
tiny pearls or foreign bodies of some
kind. When this has been done, the
oyster is turned over, and the poor fell
low is obliged to submit to similar I'M
comfortable, process on his other side.
He is then put back into pond, where
he is kept well and fat by diet more
nourishing than nice. After few
months, or sometimes year or two, he
is AGAIN taken from his bed, his pearls
are taken out and he is eaten i Boston
Herald.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24

gathering in the United States, Boston
included laughter, and he would
draw like a prize fight. This man gets
up with graded emotion and he says:
II am called NJ suddenly, sir, and am in
deed not prepared to speak l was not ex-
pecting to be called up, but will, with what
effect may, add my voice TO the iamenta-
tons of this spirit-crushing occasion. Death,
death, sir, is after all the palladium OF our
spiritual principles. By it we may be said to
live and move and have our ending. All thai
we have, all that we are, all that we
hope to he, was, is, and must
continue TO be. While we have
life, while we have souls, let us with gener-
GUS accord attune our hearts to songs of
praise for that most patent boon by which
our otherwise sterile existence is turned with
the far-reaching grace, and piety and purity
and loneliness, the least of us knows, the
least of us feels, and the humblest among us
will confess we are, We are, we are-t5e hour
il lota-o
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24
THEY MET AFTER MANY TEARS.
A Soldier and His Daughter, Long
Separated. Again See Each Other.

When Monday afternoons expires
went West from Bronson, Mich, 1t con-
tanned pair of as happy people as are
ever met in the ordinary course of lie.
The couple consisted Of proad and
happy father who WAS taking to his
wealthy Western home daughter whom
he had not seen since she was babe,
until he found her here, and the daugh-
ter was in happy mood, since she was
leaving the life of domestic FOR one OF
independence. The father was William
Wood, and lie went into the army over
twenty-five Years ago from New York,
leaving Young wife and baby daugl4
ter.
Shortly after his departure the wife
was fatally injured in . railroad disaster,
and the little girl at her death was placed
among strangers. AZ the close Of the
war Wood heard Of his wife's death fcr
the first time. but could find 10 trace of
his child further than that the family
which had adopted her had removed to
the West. The father exhausted every
resource and every cent OF his then lin
lied means to discover his child, bus
without avail. At length he settled in
Minnesota, went into business. accunu-
lated a fortune, and married Il second
time. Some time ago his second wife
died, and then Wood, to make one more
effort to find his daughter, revisited his
Oil home IN New York. There he learned
that woman signing herself Mary
Rider had written from Bronson, Mich,
making inquiries regarding his where
abouts. He went to Bronson, and after
n weary search of three weeks found his
long-lost child employed in a family
seven miles from there. The meeting
was an affecting one, and father and
daughter ut once set out for his home.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24
GDium Suicides in China.

A Catholic paper published III China
prints statement Ola startling dcscrip-
ton with respect to Opium poisoning.
Oplum is the general medium for sui
eide il China. and the remedy which is
recommended, namely, TO make the
would-be suicide swallow the blood of a
live duck as an emctic, may be passed
by with a smile although, should ii
act rs an cmctic, it my p:rhlps BE- as
useful as any other. The statement
that follows, however, il more worthy
OF atteation, for: the native paper says
that there is reason to doubt if the sup
posed successful suicides actually die at
all, as the ofiicial cxhunatioa OF many
bodies shows TIL after the fumes have
evaporated the dead persons have strug-
glcd violently to free themselves. There
are in this and other countries may
well-attcstcd instances of persons hav-
ing been buried alive, and it is gcncr-
ally supposed that they have been th-
victims of sort OF trance,
closely Stimulating death. Nat
uraliy in country like China,
where medical science does not exist,
and where burial' take place very
few hours after death, the proportion OF
mistakes will be vastly larger than with
us and the heavy torpor iaducel by a
large dose of opium would frequently
be mistaken Cor death. 1t would. how.
ever be .tcresting to know whether
there are any facts to support the CHI
nese view that, at lelst, a considerable
number OF persons Lu:led as dead, after
taking opium. recover when the poison
has to some exte t cvapOrateG- - Lon
don Sta ndard.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24
A Natural Selection

An intelligent man, while in strange
town, needed medical advice. He APP
piled not to the landlord of the hotel,
nor to the local druggist, but went
straight TO the postmaster. "TeN me-"
he said, (which of the doctors of the
city takes the largest number of jour
nals?' The postmaster told him, and
the gentleman replied: "a MAI who
takes the journals of his profession 10
well read, and up with the times, and
that is the doctor l want to treat me
and my family. - Philadelphia Call.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24
LADIES AS SHOpKEEPERS.
Some Of Them are Going Into Busi-
ness with Great Success.

We have rereivad the following CORE
spondence upon Miss Faithful's article:
"May 1 add q word" says a CORE
spondent ''aDout the two well-known
society ladies who have just opened the
charming art and bric-a-brac shop III
Davies street, Berkeley Square. They
have braved the anger and disapproval
of friends and relations, and they have
settled down to real hard work. And
so in shop, like and yet unlike all
other shops we know SO well, they have
established themselves for the sale of
work that is as beautiful and refined as
it is thorough and perfect in design and
execution. 1t is not the work of incap-
Sble destitAtes, who imagine that be
cause theirs is the work of ladies'. there
Gore it must find ready sale. Il is real
honest work, conceived i'll tbs spirit of
true art, and which repays the closest
inspection. Oh tapestry, wonderful
imitations Of medieval Italian damask
work, quaint blotting eases, artistic
newspaper racks, are scattered about in
endless and richest profusion. And,
Gays Mrs. Hussey Vivian, as she dis
plays her wares; 1T is all my own
work, ,"
Miss Kate Thornbury writes: "Under
this title I find i'll your issue of this
evening an article written by Miss
Emily Faithful in Gd'igHdni, and copied
by you, i'll which Miss Faithful describes
the enterprising career of Miss G, Rob
inson. 70 my great astonishment, I
find no mention whatever of Miss Rob
inson's elder sister, Mrs. Atherton, who,
as Miss Faithful is well aware, had
started large business under her own
superintendent in New Bond street,
London. under the title of the Society
of Artists, for the sale of all kinds OF
artistic work, house decoration, ETC., in
the year 1883. Mrs. Atherton it was
who first braved that bugbear which
terrifes most women-the loss of social
status, and the great success which at
tended (and still attends) her venture
induced Miss Robinson, twelve months
afterward, to open a similar business IN
Manchester, under the same name. In
Miss Faithfull's zeal for the prestige OF
the younger sister, with whose success
she is identified, she has shown a strange
forgetfulness Of Mrs. Atherton's claim
rs the originator of the movement which
finds such merit in Miss Faithfully
ewes"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24
A Weak Mind.

Miss Bowland taught school at Nor
way, Me-, and she evidently understood
how to make the boys and girls put the
best foot forward. One day she was
putting the class through the toe-the-
line drill in the presence of two Young
gentleman visitors from out OF town.
These lively spectators, 1T some feat of
the Youthful squad, iadui"ed in a ciggle.
children, exclaimed Miss Rowland in
her loud, clear tones, "What is it sign
OF to see pepoia ialching." "a weak
mind" short,'i 'v"ry voice, aud the
young men S;ihs;.i" !. - i!p.son Iracell,s
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24
One Way to Get More Padding.

After the midday meal was over little
Ethel was observed with her head hum
down and her hands claspcd, motionless
in her place.
why, Ethel" said hop mother,
"don't you knew dinners over now9r
Don: talk. ma" sail Ethel. Pm
a prayin' to Col FOX more puddin'."
She get it.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-24

IT is said that the big cattle ranches
of the far West and Southwest are break
ing up. A year ago the Niobrara Land
and Cattle Company, which has become
bankrupt, refused Sl,G00,0CO for It's
property. Instead of the big C )mpanies
swallowing the little ones. it is thought
that the tendency is toward tie breaking
up of the big RANCHES into smaller ones.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05
THURMAN AND ELISHA.
A Bible Lesson for Republican Scofferi
and Scrlbblers.

A Bible Lesson for Republican Scoffers
and Scrlbblers.
Thurman is full of years. A grand
and honorable career is drawing to its
close. Called again to the service of
the people in whose behalf he has
labored nearly all his life, and for
whom he may die in he harness, OPP
ponents less discreet than Jealous
mock and deride him because his
years are ripe and the hand of time is
upon him.
Let them have care!
The mantle of Elijah, the terrible,
fell upon Elisha, son of Shaphat of
Abel-Meholah. Taken from the plow,
Elisha filled the prophetic Office for
nearly sixty years. When Elijah went
up into Heaven in the fiery chariot
drawn by horses of fire Elisha passed
on to the work that still lay before him
in Israel. He had healed the waters of
Jericho.
And he went up thence to Bethel and. es he
was going up by the way, little boys came out
of the city and Knocked him. saying: Go up,
thou bald head; go up, thou bald head
And looking back he saw them, and cursed
them IN the name of the Lord: and there came
forth two bears out OF The forest, and tore Of
them tvo-and-forty boys
And from thence he went to Mount Carmel,
and from thence he returned TO Samaria-
Now, Humans head is not bald,
nor is it known that Elisha's poll was
nude. After the manner of the modern
monk he may have worn his hair close
cropped, but to the lads of Bethel the
prophet of the Lord was not venerable,
and curses lighting on them they were
torn by wild beasts. Let the modern
scorners of Thurman's whitening hairs,
these nineteeth century sons of Bethel
and Baal, take warning.
The woods are full of Prohibition
bears, and when these will have fed
upon the scoffers the venerable Thur
man, like Elisha, god-beloved, in old
Judea, will go upon his way-from
Columbus to Washington. - Chicago
Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05
FOOD AND HUMANITY.
The Influence That EmRnRtes From the
Kitchen of Every Household.

The Influence That EmanAtes From the
Kitchen of Every Household.
Good conduct and good food go hand
in hand in the California State prison.
The convicts are chiefly employed in
quarrying and dressing granite. The
new arrivals are supplied with rather
poor fare, as are, also, those who are
ill-behaved, and they get boiled beans,
salt meat, cabbage, mush, bread and
coffee without milk. Within smelling
distance from this table is another
table where fresh beef and mutton, va
rious kinds of vegetables, rice and
and many other toothsome articles OF
food, are served to all convicts who
have earned the privilege by diligent
and faithful conduct. Those who eat
at the better table are allowed consid-
cradle liberty. 1t is said that the in
mates of this prison SO order their con-
duct that, within few months after
their entrance they win the better food
They have an incentive to attend
strictly to business, to respect all the
rules and to observe constant propri-
ETY.. Good food is a moral force with
them.
We may add that in many house
holds, in different way, good cooking
and good food are a moral force. From
the culinary skill of the housewife or
her assistant, emanates an influence
that makes of children better men and
women than they would have been if
i'll kept-a material influence that
makes stronger bodies and stronger
minds. But in the household, unlike
the State prison, this goodness is not
given out as bait or reward; II
comes from the native duty and love
of the noble housewife, who works
without ceasing and without price -
Good Housekeeping
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05
IN THE SWING.

Here we go to the branches high!
Here we come to the grasses low!
For the spiders and flowers and birds and
Love to swing when the breezes blow
Swing little bird, on the topmost bough;
Swing, little spider. with rope so fine;
Swing, little flower, for the wind blows now;
But none OF you have such a swing as mine.
Dear little bird, come sit on my toes;
I'm just as careful as can be;
And oh, tell you, nobody knows
What fun we'd have il you'd play with mel
Come and swing with me, birdie dear,
Bright little flower. come swing in my hair;
But you, little spider, creepy and queer
You'd better stay and swing over therei
The sweet little bird, he sings and sings,
But he doesn't even look in my face;
The bright little blossom swings and swings,
But still II swings in the self-same place.
Let them stay where they like it best;
Let them do what they'd rather do;
Ny swing Is nicer than all the rest,
But may be it's rather small for two.
Here we go to the branches hight
Here we come to the grasses low!
For the spiders and flowers and birds and
: Love to swing when the breeZes blow.
Swing, little bird on the topmost bough;
Swing little spider. with rope so fine;
Swing, little flower, for the wind blows now:
But none of you have such a swing as mine.
-Eud0ra S. Blgnstedd. in So. Nicholas
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05
.scANoALous LlsEl-.
The Infamous Calumny Circulated By 40
Anonymous SHindler.

The Infamous Calumny Circulated By 40
Anonymous SWIndLer.
Among the enlivening contributions
to the political literature of the day is
a circular sent in large quantities to
the St. Louis convention [professing to
be written by Democrat representing
President Cleveland as a debauchee
and a wife-beater. This precious
brochure has been heralded by word
of mouth for several weeks, the story
being peddled out from Washington
that Mr. Cleveland has been ION a
spree" several times during the past
winter, and on one or more occasions
he has struck his wife; that she and
her mother had been driven out of the
White House by his cruelty, and that,
although Mrs. Cleveland had been in
duced for political reasons to return
and put herself within reach of her
husbands fist, Mrs. Folsom had fed to
Europe with the declared determine
ton never to return. New York society
had been shocked with this narrative,
which has been repeated with many
grave particulars on the authority of a
United States Senator, not named, the
Senator, so the story goes, having been
present at one of the wffe-beatings,
and having interfered in 3 gentlemanly
way to rescue the prosecuted lady from
further ill-treatment. OF course, SO
monstrous tale as this could not be
contradicted by either Mr.. or Mrs
Cleveland. But the Herald has inter
viewed Mrs. Folsom on the subject at
Paris, with the following result:
"An that is beneath notice." said Mrs. Fol-
som, with quiet dignity, " and is matter best
treated with contemptuous silence. Who was
so foolish as to start a story easily dis
provedi
"Isuppose they counted on the fact that
neither the President nor his wife would detRn
to utter q word in reply. What woman, hap
PLY married. will consider it necessary TO say:
My husband is kind to mer, What husband,
devoted to his wife, will say: i am not unkfnd
TO herr? But they were so foolish as TO bring
my name In That was not clever, was itf But
let us talk oil something else. 1t is all foolish
campaign story without shadow OF founda-
ton. Ionly wish all American girls were half
as happy in their welded lives as is my good
daughter in the love and care OF her worthy
husband"
The fabricator of this infamous cal.
umny undoubtedly reckoned that, al
though the story would eventually be
denied and disprOved by perfectly sat
isfactory evidence, yet the public would
say that where there is SO much smoke
there must be some fire, aud that even
if the President did aot knock his wife
down he must have abused her in somr
way, and if he did not get beast|'
drunk he must have been under the il
huence of liquor. We trust that step,
will be taken to trace the authorship Of
this early campaign lie in order thai
| the United States Senator who started
it, if there be such a monster, may
reap the harvest of loathing of every
decent man and woman in the world
NJ Y Post
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

There is nothing wrong with
Cleveland and Thurman. They are the
stamp of men in whom the people trust.
philadelphia Record.
With Cleveland and Thurman the
verdict of the people in November next
will not be doubtful. NOt-to-be-
beaten" would be the universal judg-
ment on that ticket from the moment it
was made.-BOStOs Globe.
MIR. Cleveland will be the next
President of the United States, the
trundle-bed, small-caliberd, smooth
bored, peanut politicians who now con-
troll the Republican party to the con-
trary notwithstanding.-BufaIO Times.
Where's the difference? Pud-
dlers were paid $3.50 per ton under
what was called the ''freo trade tariff
of 1916. They are now paid $3.50 per
ton under the blessed protective tariff
of 60 per cent. Yes, there is differ
ence. Under the tariff of 1916 the cost
of living to the puddler was at least a
third less than it is now.-HaTrFS6ur0
Patriot.
Il
in touch with the people He has al
ways been a Democrat, socially, per-
sonally, humanity, as well as political.
ly. Always of the people, with the
people and for the people, Allen G..
Thurman at this time is receiving, in
the hearty respect paid to his name
and character by his countrymen at
large, sterling evidence that charao-
ter tells.-N. Y. Graphic.
-" It Is fact" says the begging
circular sent out by the United States
Republican League to the manufacture
ers of the country, THAT the manu-
facturers of the United States are most
benefited by our tariff laws" "Ohl
they arer' exclaims the Kansas City
Times. From a casual reading OF
Republican literature we thought that
high protective tariff was main
tanned exclusively in the interest OF
the worl1ing-men-"
Mr.. Thurman in the years OF
darkness vivified Democracy. To-day
in the richness of years and in his de-
votion he glorifies the party whose
| able champion he has been. When it
n
was in the mire of defeat he exalted il
with the words of hope and record OF
consistency. No party ever had I'm
ADLER and a truer champion when II
needed one most. The Democracy OF
Thurman is that of Jefferson and OF
jackson and OF the peoPle---Iroy
| Press.
Thus, against the dangers OF a
surplus revenue the Republicans of the
House would place the decentralization
of sweeping and unjust expenditures;
| against the complaints of excessive and
needless taxation they would place the
claims of pension agents and the pros
pect of liberal rewards for spoils hunt
ers. There is strong wall and but
ting of heads locked up In this plan
which it would seem the blindest might
see- The times are Gut of joint at TIA
capital.-SpriaQfeId Republican Qndl'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05

There is a woman's Democratic
club in Milwaukee. This is the first
organization Of its kind in the United
States, its object being to assist hus-
bands, fathers, brothers and sweet
hearts in their campaign labors. The
club prepared the badges which the
Wisconsin delegation wore to St. Louis.
Chicago Nss0s.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05

1T was In Boston private school
of fashionable repute, and the class of
young ladies who had been studying
the history and Constitution of the
United States were under examination.
How is law made?" said the instruct
or. ''Oh," said tailor-made dam
sci, cheerfully, 1.-The Senate has to
ratify it, and then the President has to
veto it"