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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
FUN.
The horse car driver is a non-conduc.

The horse-car driver is a non -conduc
| tor.
Making love by telegraph is described
as an electric spark.
Why hasn't the debt of nature been
paid, she's got the rocks?
The lady says "plcase" to her servants,
and sometimes to her husband if there's
anybody around.
SHE is mean man who, on meeting
an acquaintance who is afflicted with the
ague, says, "Shake."
A man may not be afraid of danger,
but lie looks down in the mouth when he
prepares to descend into mine.
1t is the man who takes but one trip
year who passes down tine main street
of town with the largest valise in his
hand.
"Can women be carpenters?" is dis
cussed in The Womens Journal. We do
not know, but they can undoubtedly be
joiners.
Young men should not depend upon
the Government alone for fat places.
There may be openings for them in a
tallow factory.
First Doctor-''I hear you treated nv
neighbor for typhus fever. Was it a bad
case" Second Ditto-"Very bad; the
man never paid his bill"
Said the fiax-haired maiden to the
dapper young man behind the counter:
"Have you any nice, soft muslin that will
suit my complexion and hair?" Clerk
"Bleached or unbleached2"
1t is a pity that people do not know
who invented the mouth organ. MANY
modern sufferers would like to erect a
high monument over the mans grave, so
as to be sure to keep him down.
The honeymoon is that part of married
life when the bride spends her time in
trying to find out what her husband likes
to eat, and he spends his time in trying
to eat it after she has cooked it.-.AteEison
G[GJs.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Electric cabs are now being run in the
streets of London, England.
A new preventative of iron and steel
appears to have been found in modifi-
cation of the wellknown gum lacquer, of
the East.
Fusible metal, which liquifes at the
same temperature as boiling water, is a
compound of eight parts of bismuth, five
Of lead and three of tin.
The Westinghouse Electric Company
has been chartered by an English corpo-
alton, and will be independent of the
company in this country.
The length of North America is nearly
5000 miles, its greateat breadth about
5000 miles and its area about one-sixth of
The land surface of the globe.
Greenland, more than 1400 miles long,
IS probably the largest island in the
world. Some geographers think it is
cluster of islands frozen together.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28

We recommend ''Tansill's Punch" cigar.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
Two Big Walnut Trees.

The Calaveras Cali Prospect, tells of
an English walnut tree in Chile Gulch,
Calavcras County, that State, which it
describes as follows: This walnut
tree was planted twenty four years ago,
and was thought to be about two years
old at the time of planting. The tree
measures s feet and 6 inches in circum.
ference 2 feet from the ground and
above the bulge of the roots. 1t is
about IS feet high. and has spread of
branches which cover a circle of IS
feet IN diameter"
This moves the Tuolumnc, (Cal In
dependent to come forward with big
ger one, of which the following de-
scription is given: "Our tree was
planted from the seed thirty four years
ago. near the town of Columbia,
on the we'll known Jarvis ranch, now
the property of Mr.. G. F. Mcpherson.
1t is II feet in circumference feet
above the ground, and about rs feet
high, with spread of nearly 100 feet.
One branch measures 6 feet in circumfer-
ence, one feet aud two others feet
each. On the same ranch there is a
mighty oak with a circumference of 80
feet inches from the ground"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28

A man who, has practiced medicine for ~
years ought to know salt from sugar; read
what he says: go
,, ToLxpo, O., Jan1l0, 1857. =
Messrs +. J; Cheney d Co.-GentJem
for most 40 yearss and would ssy tbaf IA s', ali
my Practice and experience, have never seen
preparation that could prescribe with ~
much confidence Of success az can Hallh CA
scribed 1t great many times and It's effectis
wonderful, and would say in conclusion that.f
have yet to find a case of Catarrh that Il
would not cure, II they would take II Accord
ing to directions. III
Yours Truly, 'Sxt
L. L. GoRsucu. NJ d. HI
Office, 2l5 Summit 81,
We will give 500 for any case OF Catarrh
that cannot be cured with HALLS Catarrb
Cure. Taken internally. Np
II. j. CHENEY e Co., Props. Toledo, o.
az Sold by Druggists, sc.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
A Noted Female Pirate Dead.

The notorious character known as
"Spanish Belle" who has fiourished on
the Pacific coast since. 1S49, has lust
died IN Idaho. There is scarcely a min
ing camp on the Pacific coast that she
has not visited. Her history, if correctly
told, would fill large volume: and if
would be volume of bad deeds ONLY.
for no good deeds have ever been attri.
buted to her in the knowledge of those
few who have known her history for the
past forty years. 1t seems that she
glorled In the crimes she committed. and
during her convivial moments wsuld re.
late some incidents of her past life. From
this source it is gathered that ar carly
age in her native land she became allied
with a noted sea nitrate named Valzai
whose vessel was a terror to the merchant
ships plying the waters of the Pacific
Ocean. She boosted that her duty was
when The ship anchored at port of
prominence, to decoy rich men aboard the
vessel, where they would surely be robbed
and murdered. She followed this crimi.
nal career until the discovery of gold in
California, when size left her pirate partner
and landed in San Francisco in the sum.
MGR Of 1919. At the time of her death
she was eighty-five years old, although
she could pass for woman twenty-five
years younger.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
Unique Pay for Writers.

Maurice Thompson, in an article en-
titled "Adventurcs with Editors" pub.
lished in Anerica, gives three instances
of authors who were satisfied with their
pay. He says an "cditor told me of a
poet who sent him. some verses, and di-
rcctcd him 10 invest the value thereof in
fiddle strings and forward them by mail.
[ know of writer who was glad
to trade story for a meerscnaum pine.
Another took a guitar in barter, and still
anotherswappcd poetry for lottery ticket
and actually drew prize of $1,000"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
Cultivation of Peppermint.

The cultivation of peppermint says
Lyons On. " letter to the New York
Sun, is simple, but requires a great deal
OF labor In Keeping it free from weeds.
lac ubiquitous daisy rears its dainty
blossom among the peppermint rows,
as much at home as it is in the mead.
ows, and the aesthetic golden rod en-
riches the mint borders with its color.
But while the daisy and the golden rod
may be indispensable in my lady's cor.
sage. their expressed oil min cling with
the pungent juices of the peppermint do
not add to the efiicacy of the latter in
curing her baby's stomach ache. An
other weed, unknown in New York
State until the Wayne County farmers
began to cultivate peppermint, and
which is still unknown outside of the
peppermint fields, is a perpetual menace
to the purity of the farmers prod.
uct. This is locally known as
rag weed, but it is not the old-fashioned
rag weed that grows everywhere. 1t
looks something like lettuce, and Yields
OF Itself an abundance of bitter and
pungent oil. 1t does not REQUIRE a
great deal of this weed if distilled
with the mint, TO diminish greatly the
value of a farmers crop. No new in
sect pest has followed the cultivation of
peppermint, unlike almost every other
product of the farm. Insects do not
interfere with the growth of mint.
Keeping the crop free from all weeds is
the principal care that attends its cult
walton.
a field of peppermint yields two
crops. The sets, or parts of old plants,
are planted in April and May, in rows
two feet apart. They grow to the
height of two feet. Any one who had
never seen peppermint growing would
suppose it was the common spearmint
Of the julep and sauce for lamb. If he
press leaf between his finger, howey.
er, the odor of the oil will at once re-
veal the difference. The gathering of
he peppermint begins in August and
he harvesting is now in progress. The
plants are cut close TO the roots with n
cythc or two-fngered cradle. They
ire cured or wilted in the sun like hay
or twelve hours, the oil beirg expressed
more freely with the plants in that con.
Iltion than when they are fresh. From
he roots the next years crop springs.
The distillation of peppermint oil is
cry simple. The still is a wooden vat
Il heavy slaves hooped with iron. 1t
about four feet deep and six in diam
ter. Into this the mint is closely .
acHed and pressed down by treading.
When the vat is full it is covered steam
ght. Steam is forcel in By a pine
ear the bottom of the vat. The steam
the oil of the mint, and its
apor is condensed in worm. as in Or
mary stills. The mixed oil and water
&c collected in a receiver, and the
'ual separation by specific gravity en-
les. The oil is skinned from the
atei and placed in large tin cans.
omc farmers distir their own oil, but
lie crop is generally treated by regular
stillers, of whom there are about 100
Wayne county. They toll the crop J
r the distilliny, as a miller does the |
rmers' grain for the grinding. The
nstc of the distilling watts is fed by
me farmers to their stock, cattle be-
r.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
A Wonderful Pooc anS Medicine.

hHc''h and used by Ply sicians all over the
world. SCOTS EMULSION not only gives flesh
ana strength by virtue of its own nutritious
prope ties, but creates an appetite for food
that builds up the wasted body Il have been
using SCOTS Emulsion for several years, and
am pleased wi h its action. My patients say il
Is pleasant and palatable and alt grow 81 rong-
err and gain flesh from the use of it. use il In
all cases of Wasting Diseases, and ii is special
y useful for children when nutrient medica-
non Is needed. as in Marasmus."-T. w.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
Did You Read

The large advertisement of THE YoI-ru,s Cont
PANIoN which we published last week? This
remarkable paper has the phenomenal circn-
journal is more welcomed by Old and vonna,
IN the families throughout the land The pub.
fishers make a special 1Ger once a year and IN
all who subscribe now will send the paper free
70 JdhnMrB |, lS9J. and for u full near from fbGf
date. The subscription price is Sis. Ad-
The YOUTHS COMPANION. Boston. Mass
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28

from ourylng us, we should all have
been dead men. As for the Co sacks
'hey got up, shook themselves, and
went on as if nothing had happened.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
Oregon, the rarndise of Farmers.

Mild, equable climate certain and abund
ant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock
country in the world. Full information free,
Adreess Oregon lm'igrat'n Board, Portland.
Ore.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28

II afflicted with sore eyes, use DR.. Isaa
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell q
25c per bottle.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28
IL Done Paw

To experiment. with uncertain remedies. when
nmic6ed With any Of the ailments for which
DR.. Psrcss Golden Medical Discovery ia rec
om2e0oed, a. u b 80 positively certain ia its
ers u guaranteeing it TO benefit or cure. or
mensy paid for 1t Is returned. 1t is warranted
70 cure all blood. skin and scalp diseases, salt
ne I'm, tester, and all scrofuious sores and
swc iings IS well as consumption (Which ia
scr1fuia of the lunys) IL taken In time and
given fair trial
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28

Mr.. Gladstone says that he brought
his children up without constraint.
"They have never been governed at aoy.
period of their lives by force. = -
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-12-28

Doo't hawk, hawk. blow. spit and disgust
everybody with your offensive breath. but nse
DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and end it. N''
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-05-31

winged cap, and restless eyes that ever and
always glanced at the open door, as II in
search of something they never saw. What
| was she TO any one? But in her there was
| fidelity that never wavered; and honest,
that never faltered with wrong, but scorne,
| it for the thing 1t was; and curious, far
| seeing judgment that had shamed and 81
fenced Rose Michel's slanderous tongue whe
she sought her with the gossip Of the village
fresh on her lips.
"Listen," she said. 81 am an old woman,
and not over wise, SO they say; but know
this: the girl loved Pierre as well as he loved
her-I know it. She has in no way wronged
him. He Is my SONNY all. love him bet
ter than anythinglelse; so did she. Could
do aught that would pain him. think you:
mol Well, and she could not either. Some
evil has come between them. He is SO good
and she-she loved him, Some day
it will all come right. The young, you
see, are not over-patient; it is only the old
who know how to wait" And then she spun
on again, and would listen to no more; and
Rose Michel and other gossips skunk away
from her presence, abashed by q faith they
could not shake, and a love they could not
fRthom.
But evil things were told and believed o.
the girl.wife who had fed from her husbands
home and driven him out to the warfare that
was devastating the land, and widowing
hearth and homo in every quiet village, as
we'll as in every populous town.
The story Of Roso Michel lost nothing by
repetition. 1t was sweet to the gossipers,
who had hated Ninette for her radiant beauty
and her graceful girlish ways. 1t was re-
ceived by old and young alike with an avid
ity only second to the expression Of entire
belief in its truth and had Ninette appeared
in her old home there would not have been
one friendly voice to give her welcome Ole
face to smile on her again.
But she never came.
How, or why, or where she had fed, none
knew, though rumor invented hundred
different tales on the subject, each equally
removed from the truth. Meanwhile, Pierre
Leroux lay ill and helpless In the hospital
ward at Metz, and tho old, simple minded,
faithful woman ordered the household and
attende to his mill and his crops as best she
could. and spun on untiringly in her nook in
step that never came-for voice that never
greeted her.
1t was we'll that she did not know he was q
prisoner in the hands of the enemy. Had
she done so she would have run all risks, and
with her bundle slung across her back and
her wooden shoes on her feet, have tramped
untirngly through the country far and wide,
until she reached his side, there to nurse and
tend him back to health. But Of his fate she
was in total ignorance, for scant news ever
reached that quiet little village, and though
terrible events were happening and the fate
of whole nation was at issue, they spun and
hoed and reaped their harvests and imagined
every soldier, son and lover II hero, and
looked for his triumphant return with the
rising of every sun that ushered in new
days birth.
(TO he c0ntjuue1l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-05-31
Stanley's Machine Gun.

The prints of the English speaking
world have been full of stories about
the machine gun which Henry M.
Stanley carried with him in his last
desperate venture in Africa. And yet
it is an old story. 1t occurs to this
paper to properly tell it: The weapon
so much talked about is Maxim gun.
1t was invented by citizen of these
United States. He was poor and
sought encouragement from our gov
ernment. He got none. He went to
England, where they saw its merits at
once and made him rich. So his gun
is under control of the British govern
ment. At the time when he COM
menced his Investigations the three
great machine guns of the world were
the Gatling, the Hotchkiss and the
Nordenhoff-the first two American,
the last English. There was little diff
ference in their merits, save that the
Hotchkiss was lighter and made for
ready transportation. Maxim, an
American boy, said to himself, there
are faults about these machine guns:
|. The turning of the crank prevents
anything like an aim. 2. Often the
cartridges hang fire little, but the
crank turns on, and they explode at
the wrong time. 3. Most of all, the
rapid firing heats the gun SO that it is
useless and even dangerous in a few
seconds. The Maxim gun overcame
all these defects. 1t is automatic. 1t
needs no crank Pull the trigger once
and it continues to load and lire itself
SO long as the supply of cartridges
lasts Thepower Of THE recoil" does
all the work, even to shooting a jet of
water along the barrel to keep it cool.
1t fires 700 shots in Il minute, and all
that the operator has to do is to aim it.
This is the Stanley gun. You cannot
see it in the United States now, for it
is owned by the government of Great
Britain. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-05-31
A FINE TALKER.
John Bright In Social IntercOure-His Ex-
cellent Language.

John Bright In Social Intercoure-His Ex-
celient Language.
He ALWAYS talked we'll, but think
he never talked better than after his
practical withdrawal from public life.
1t seemed as though his powers as
speaker, no longer used for the in
struction of the world at large, were
employed all the more unresevedly
for the benefit of his personal friends.
1t was upon books and literary sub
jects generally that he chiefly liked
to talk. His knowledge of English lit
erature was in certain directions Won
derfully wide and deep. imagine
that there are very few men who
tive examination in our English poets
from the days of Milton to those of
Wordsworth. His literary tastes were
as simple as his personal habits, and
no doubt he would have fallen under
the contempt of the superior critics of
certain cliques if they had been aware
of his opinions on many subjects.
But even they, if they had enjoyed the
privilege of his friendship, would have
been charmed by hearing him recite,
as he was very fond of doing, favorite
passages from the poets he loved so
well. One evening in the spring of
last year, shortly before his illness be-
gan, ! was sitting beside him in the
smoking room at the Reform club,
when he began to talk about English
hymn and hymn writers.
By and by, carried away by his
theme, he repeated TO me many of his
favorite hymns. AS he recited them
in measured tones the charm of that
beautiful voice which had SO often
thrilled the house of commons, and
subdued a hostile majority, made it.
self felt even in u club smoking room,
and from all parts of the room men
drew quietly near to the spot where
we were sitting, and listened with
bated breath as the old man eloquent
repeated verses of a kind which, !
fear, are not often to be heard within
the walls of a club. There was one
noticeable characteristic of his voice.
Though the. tone was low, it was SO
clear, and so skillfully was it modu
lated, that when speaking in his ordi
nary tones he would be heard with
distinctness at the further end of
large room, even although several
groups of takers occupied the apart
ment. And then, how admirably
chosen was the language in which he
spoke, even in ordinary conversation !
have said that some superfine critics
might, perhaps, have sneered at his
taste in literature. There is not an
English writer now living, however,
who would not be the happier if he
could write as we'll as Mr.. Bright
habitually spoke. For his words, even
in the most commonplace converse
ton, were chosen so well that, as he
talked, you seemed to be listening to
some masterpiece Of our literature
London News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-05-31
Couldn't Tighten That Gloom.

A few days ago some one sent up to
the local room of The Herald sing
ing canary in pretty prison of brass
wires, with water, seed, cuttlefish all
complete, and directed that it be raf-
fled off for the benefit of the poor
fund. 1t was to be supposed that
bird in such strange quarters would
be frightened out of its voice, but not
SO this little songster. He made him.
self at home at once and proceeded to
fill the room with melody. A young
reporter sat watching the pert little
stranger and listening to his liquid
notes, when it occurred to him that he
had great chance to write pretty
article upon the way in which the
song of a happy bird could tighten up
any gloom. He sharpened his pencil
first, losing some of his sentimental
thoughts when the point broke off
twice, and then started. "How sweet
is the innocent melody of the warbling
bird" he wrote, when a messenger
boy fell through the door, spilled
lot of rain water from his rubber coat
onto the reporters shoes, and said:
Sign fer dis" He signed for the tele-
< gram anu lHcll SIdl'pcu W COllplcIc Ills
sentence, but before he could think of
word a man came in and asked if he
could have an old pair of pants. Then
another entered with ''notice of our
next party-the Octopus Pleasure
club, you know" and asked him to
''send reporter up" A man who said
he had ''read The Herald every day
for thirty-four years" dropped in on
the reporters train of thought and
wanted to leave q communication on
the drainage question. He signed it
"Vox Pupuli." By this time the re-
porter had written one line and an
swcrcd the telephone four times
Guess | was off on the melody of
one bird tightening up any gloom like
this, he said. 1t would take whole
- aviary. ."-Chicago Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-05-31
Elevated Railroad Paralysis.

Residents along the lines of the ele-
veted railroads and persons whose
business has brought them Oh or near
these lines have developed singular
periodicity in intervals of speech as
the result of enforced habit during a
considerable portion of their waking
existence. Involuntarily they cease
speaking, even in the middle of a sen-
tence, at the end of each accurately
measured term of four minutes.
Should not their attention be called to
the habit by the remark of others,
they will remain silent for u few Sec
onds-the length of time an elevated
train ordinarily takes in passing-and
then go on with their speech, unaware
that there has been any break in it.
During those few seconds there seems
to have been entire cessation of
mental action. The interruption is
like wink in steady visual contem-
plation, only that it is little moro
protracted. The cause of the habit is
the compulsory stoppage of speech, or
increased effort, during the regularly
recurrent deafening roar of passing
trains. Only a portion of those sub
jected 10 this influence are affected
by it to the extent described, but
those who are have been noted
in sufficient numbers to call
attention to this new malady o.
the nerves of action. Instances of its
manifestation among women are in-
frequent-the deduction from which
fact is obyious.-New York Metropolis.