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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21
ATCHISON CLOBULES,

We would all be good II our bread
and butter depended on it
How FEW people there are who haven't
something "again" them.
WITH some peoples religion, there is
more hobby than principal.
The most inveterate sober man is the
man who was drunk the day before.
EVERY man is suicide: he has some
habit that is shortening his life.
A MAN has six temptations to one day
for repentance: six week days and one
Sunday.
GIVE q man o dollar, and he will
finally hate you because you do not
give him another.
II is very hard for man to recognize
any genius in a man whose years are
less than his own.
THERE is one consolation in being
wicked: oppressively good people won't
associate with you.
A MAN might build boat to tide him
over his troubles, while waiting for his
ship to come in.
SOME men who totally abstain from
the use of evil things, make hogs VI
themselves in good things.
If woman has a good husband, she
should not fail to take good care of him.
Good husbands are so rare.
No MAN knows when he is acting the
fool, but he usually has funny feeling
IN him that tells him of it afterward.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Ducks are so much clumsier than
chickens that it is not a good plan to
keep them together in the same yard.
After the chicks are three weeks old
the cake may be omitted, the food be-
ing scalded instead, but the quantity of
bran should be reduced one.half.
During the summer, especially, there
is no better grain to feed the laying hens
than whole wheat. If they are given a
good range, however, only a light feed
will be necessary.
After the chickens are old enough to
be given free range the feeding coops
should all be gathered up and stored
away until needed another season. A
little care in this respect will save ex-
pense.
Spring blowing is always advisable,
but there are occasions when the pul.
yerizer will not only serve the purpose
of the pillow, but also save labor in the
rapidity with which the land can be
rendered fine.
A large proportion of the poultry sent
to market from now on until cold
weather will be in a very poor condition,
and this is one leading cause for poor
prices. A little better feed aud care
would greatly improve the quality.
Weeds are certainly troublesome to the
careless farmer, but when rightly con-
sidcred are a gentle reminder by be-
neficent nature that some one is neglect
ing work which should be done. And
as virtue is its own reward, that of care
ful attention to business opportunities
always pays she farmer handsomely.
Weeds are thus an inducement for the
farmer to do his whole duty in the thor
ough cultivation of the land, which
would be apt to be neglected otherwise.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
TOMATOES AFTER A PEA CROP.

With care to choose moist time
stocky tomato plants may follow a crop
OF green peas. II the vines are dried it
Is better to pull them than to pillow them
under, as they might make the soil too
dry even for tomatoes. Few crops stand
drought better than tomatoes, and they
are less likely to produce dccayed fruit
when the weather is dry. Early tomatoes
cannot be grown after pea crop, but
quite often late tomatoes have as good
sale as any, except the very earliest, and
even green tomatoes are marketable
most years at fair price.-Boston Cult
Cdt0r.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

4 unique character in English public
affairs to-day is William L. Stead. A
North Country Nonconfermi,t. with
strong religious tendencies, he got hi,
first newspaper training in provincial
journalism. aud finally came to London
on the stan OF John Morley, when that
gentleman was editor OF the Pail Mall
Gazette.
Succeeding him in that position, no
made sensation after sensation, tho
most notable of which, the Modern
Babylon business, finally landed him
in Jail. lie some time after this left
Chat paper to hoist his flag in a brand
DOW venture of his own, the Reuielu of
GerielCS.
With college training, great facility
with the pen, much power of organiza-
tion, the gift of making friends as well
as enemies, immense energy, and more
than the audacity which the English
have attributed to the American iourn.
alist, he Is ever attempting the thing
unheard of II England, and ever sue.
ceeding.
He daShes IN where others fear to
tread. He views everything pretty
much from the journalistic standpoint.
but no idea is too big for him to enter
tain and no project too startling for
him to attempt.
Who else IN all England would have
set ont 10 interview the Pope or the
Emperor OF l;ussia? Only a Stead. is
the common remark, could have con.
ceived OF such publication as the
RcCieC OF HerieiCS, or could have run
itup to the circulation of 10000 copies.
lie is, in short, in strength and weak
ness, what IS popularity termed genius.
His intimate knowledge of men and
affairs, aud his quick penetration of
motives, made him for years on the
Pail NdH Gazette one Of the shrewdest
of political b-ervers, while his caustic
pen and Uncea.ing activity made him
one OF the most terrible Of political
enemies.
Mr.. Steals personal workroon il
large and attractive, filled UP in the
most convenient and luxurious STYLE.
BE is 4 man o. about forty-two. above
the medium height, with plenty OF
glossy brown hair, full beard, bright
eyes and Il nervous manner, maaife.t:ng
Itself most cosricuouslv in his striding
about his room a he talks to strangers.
-BOSfDn & ole
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

Nothing can be said
in favor of the best medicine in the
world that may not be said of the
most worthless. In one case, it's
true; in the other, it isn't;-but how
can you distinguish?
Judge by what is done. There's
only one blood-purifer that's guar.
anteed. It's DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery-and this is what
is done with it; if it doesn't benefit
or cure, in every case, you get your
money back. Isn't it likely to bs
the best?
All the year round, as we'll at one
time as another, it cleanses and pur-
flies the system. All blood-poisons
must 60. For Dyspepsia, Bilious
ness, Scrofula, Salt-rheum, letter,
Erysipelas, or any blood-taint or dis
order, it is an unequaled remedy.
It's the cheapest, too. With this,
You pay only for the good you get.
And nothing else is "just as good"
1t may be better-for the dealer
But he isn't the one that's to be
helped.
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"Tho Star->pansIed rapncr.~

In Lassin9's Pictorial Field BOOK Of
the war e iSl2' it is recorded that the
"Star-Spang.ed Banner" was first sung
in a restaurant in Baltimore. next door
to the Holiday Street Thc1ter, by
Charle' DUraag to Oh agsembace Of
the patriotic defenders Of the city, and
after that nightly at the thea;er.
This statement is slightly inaccurate,
and, though 1t IS one OF no great his.
tOrical importance, it involves a matter
OF sufficient interest to Justify cor.
rection, says a writer in Kate Fields
Washington The first person to sing
that spirited song-whlch, though given
foreign air and commemorative
single episode in our country's history.
has filled millions of American heart.
with patriotic emotion-was lad II
years of age, the scene of his childish
effort being neither restaurant nor q
theater, but the open street in front of
Capt. Benjamin Edes' printing Office in
Baltimore, on the second day after the
bombardment of Fort McHenry. 1t is
worthy of record too, that the person
who first set up the song, printed it,
and distributed it to the citizens of
Baltimore was also a boy-an appren-
tice of Capt. Edes-the whole thing
being done while the gallant CAPTAIN
was still out Of the city with his regi.
ment. the Twenty-seventh Maryland
infantry, which three days before had
acted with conspicuous bravery at the
battle OF North Point.
The nama Of the apprentice boy,
then L. or Is years old. was Samuel
Sands. He lived q much respected
citizen of Baltimore, to a very old age.
This little singer was james Lawrea-
son, who afterward for nearly seventy
years was connected with the postafiice
department, aud was also employed for
probably half taat time as writer for
the National Itiei'igencer, the Phila-
delphla Ledger, AID the Baltimore SIR.
He died last wear. nearly 30 years old,
at his home in Baltimore, universally
loved and honored.
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Gratifying to All.

The high position attained and tie universe,
acceptance and approval of the pleasant LIQUID
feni' remedy Syrup of Figs. as the most excel.
len laxative known, illustrate the value Of
the qualities OF which its SUCCESS is based and
are abundantly gratifying to the California
fig Syrup Company.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

Miss Antoinctte Knaggs, college
educated young woman Of Ohio, OWES
and manages farm of 200 acres.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

There are teo many people in the church
who always look as though they had been
baptized i'll cold water.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

w VIII give elA' reward for any case OF 81.
tarrh that cannot 30 cured with Halls O..
tIrru cure. Taken internally.
+. j. CnENEY ~ 30, Props, Toledo, o.
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"WELL, wasn't at all startled 70
learn of your marriage; L knew YOU
were very attentive TO the Misses
Dolimers. but say! What did you marry
Lucy for? F.ash-Thought she'd make
good match.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

FITS stopped free by DIR. KIIyE's GREA7
NERVE IcEsrOBEH. No FitS after FIRST dag
use. Marvellous cares. Treatise and 81 tria
bottle free. DIR. Kline. s3l Arch 81. Phila.. Pa
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

II looks rs though there are some things
that the devi! coHld learn from a hyDocrita
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

II you are ashame OF your religion, you
can write i down for fact that You ought
to b", for vug'vs rot the wrong kind.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-11-21

ate very little of the pomace.-C Chicago
Herald.
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If afflicted with gore eyeN use DR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye water. Druggists sell a. &c per bottle
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Nine women out II ten would rather have
sou praise their Judgment than their beauty
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-26

parched meal coffee, and these were
rare delicacies in those days and had
salutary effect on John, since with
full stomach some of his old-time pride,
independence and courage returned,
and after partaking of that breakfast
he felt that he could face great deal
more trouble than he then had, and
come off victorious.
breakfast over, John harnessed up
the two horses to the old wagon, and he
and Mary drove off to the little town
where Scraggs kept his Office. The
day was warm and clear and the roads
dry, and the trip, though embracing
ten miles each way, was not disagree
able one. The two talked great deal
as they went down, about one thing and
another. but neither of them limited at
the matter about which they were
making the trip. They grew quite
cheerful after they had been out
awhile, owing, no doubt, to the fresh
air and change of scenery.
Arriving at the town, which, by the
way, was called Paradise Park, though
there was nothing resembling park
within hundred miles of it. and it is
safe to presume that it bore little enough
resemblance to paradise, with its one
street and four or five Stacking old
board buildings half buried in the sand
and alllali drifts-arriving at this young
metropolis of the west, John Green and
his wife had little difficulty in finding
Solomon Scraggs' Office, for it was the
most prominent building in the place,
being post Office, printing Office and
real estate and loan Office all in one and
all under the control and guidance of
Scraggs.
Mr.. Scraggs was in his Office when
the Greens entered, but being deeply
engaged at the time in writing an edi-
torial for his paper, the Western
Breeze. on the multifarious advantages
in coming to western Kansas to live
and invest capital, John had to wait
some time before he had an opportuni-
ty of stating his business. In the mean
time he had a chance to take survey
of the office and to observe the wonder
full ears of corn and stalks of millet and
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Then John and Mary, with their
child who had been born to them the
first year after their marriage. collected
together the small possessions that
were left them and joined the swarm of
eastern people who were on their way
to Kansas to take up claims and make
homes on the great western prairies.
They went away out near the west
line of the state before they were able
to find any government land that had
not been granted to some railroad
company or other corporation, or had
not been leased to some cattle king.
whose right to make fortune off pub
lie land must be considered and pro-
tected no matter what became of the
poor man who wanted Il few acres of
land for a home.
At last. after driving for days and
days across the green. rich prairies in
tested by the cattlemen. and marked
about by the stakes of different cor
porations, John Green, with his wife
and child and their Stacking old white
topped wagon, halted on the sandy
plains of western Kansas and preempt-
ed claim in the all<ali desert and set
tied down to combat with drought, hot
winds and malaria.
When John had selected his claim and
got his presumption papers all arranged,
he began the construction of sod
house, and in short time the new
house was ready for occupancy. lie
was disappointed in the result of his
trip. and he knew that Mary was also
though she had never breathed a word
to that effect. He felt that they had
better remained east, and had ominous
doubts of the outcome of the move.
But it was done, and since to retreat
was impossible. he resolved to go on
and make the best of it.
So he plowed the sod and planted the
crops, and in time the seed sprouted
and came up. Then he cultivated the
fields early and late, and as the growing
corn sprang up higher and higher and
the field became a sea Of waving green,
Johns courage returned and hope rode
high in his breast.
I'VE shall come out all right yet,
Mary" he remarked one evening as
they walked out to look at the crops.
I'VE shall come out all right. and soon
have a nice home; and it will all be
ours. 1t will only take a little time and
little patience"
who cares for the time, john
Mary replied. I'm sure that don't
mind the waiting and the work, only sc
we get home at last
And thus contcnted to work and wait
these brave pioneers, like thousands of
others, submitted cheerfully to every
hardship and Inconvenience, and bore
uncomplainingly on against adversely
and misfortune.
For three years they kept steadily to
their purpose, contending against
drought and hot winds, which every
year destroyed their growing crops and
left their fields parched and brown.
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CHAPTER III.

GIVING THE MORTGAGE
AS has been stated, neither John nor
Mary slept much that night after they
had concluded to mortgage the farm,
and SO, worn out with a restless night,
John was astir in the morning at an
uncommonly early hour. Upon dress
ing and going out the first object that
met his eyes when he opened the door
was a small bag of corn meal sitting
on the door step.
He and Mary wondered great deal
at this, and many suggestions as to how
it came there were offered by one and
the other, but after due consideration
they were all dismissed as untenable,
and eventually they decided that old
Markham had become convinced of
having acted wrongfully and had in the
night stolen over with the meal, being
ashamed to let his presence be known
Louise had another and more correct
opinion regarding the matter, but as in
all other cases where Paul was con-
cerned she resolved to keep quiet.
However the meal came there, it
proved very acceptable gift, in fact a
perfect Godsend to the Greens, for
otherwise their breakfast would have
been q very meager affair. As it was,
they had some corn cakes and some
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TO DE CONTINUED.
Georgia's Fayorite Daughter

All Georgia is proud of Mss Cue Dis
mulSes, daughter of State Senator Dis
mulxes, of Griffin. She keeps pack Of
forty hounds, which she looks after her
self. Miss Dismukes is often seen can
tering on a thoroughbred hunter in the
neighborhood of Griffin, in the rear of a
troop of hounds, whose music makes the
wclkin ring. She takes brick wall or
a tive-barred gate with the greatest
ease, and is always in first at the death.
Miss Dismukes is fine wing shot with
five-shooter and has made some very
brilliant scores with the rifle. 1t is said
on good authority that the young lady
on one occasion exhibited her skill by
shooting an apple off the head of a boy
at forty PAGES. Miss Dismukes is also
an expert diver and swimmer, and a
skilled angler, and can land the trick
lest old trout that ever swan. In the
way of polite accomplishments, such as
music, dancing and conversation, Miss
Dismules is equally talented.
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A FARRiER LASS IS SHE.

/ The Unusual hut Profitable Trade Fol-
lowed by a Young Tennessee Girl.
When Amelia Rives was doing some
good work which gave promise Of some
thing better than has yet been fulfilled
| for her she gave to the world of fiction
rather strong and interesting char
acter in THAT Farrier Lass o Piping
| Pebworth," character which one will
the same day with THAT Lass O Low
rie's" and Blanch Towards ''Guenn"
| A unique feature of the Farrier Lass
was that ''she could shoe horse as
well as any man" A girl
even in these days of advanced woman
hood. was something not yet reckoned
of in social philosophy. ana many peo-
pie, while conceding that the 'Farrier
Lass o Piping Pebworth" was good
and well-written story, yet criticised
the fair young authoress for straining
| after unknown conditions and striking
effects. Whether or not this farr.er
lass was purely creation CO Miss
Riyes' fancy the fiction is now justified
by fact in the person of Miss Frances
Cunningham. of Memphis, Tenn.
Miss Cunningham owns and manages
smithy and wagon manufacturing and
repair shop. She can do anything from
lifting up a horses foot and mailing on
shoe to putting together the newly
manufactured parts of a carriage. road
cart or wagon. The history of this
young woman is an interesting one, and
one which should stimulate the courage
of many another poor girl who finds
herself suddenly left on the world, not
only dependent upon her own resources
for self-support, but with a family de-
pending upon her for all the necessaries
and comforts of life.
Five or six years ago Miss Cunning
hams father, manufacturer of the 'Cun-
ningham wagons" much used through
out the South, died at his home in
Memphis, leaving a widow with two
sons and three daughters to mourn his
loss. For q number of years before his
death fortune had not been kind to Mr..
Cunningham. Reverses beset him on
every side, and he found himself when
he came to die several thousand dollars
in debt Being man of much pride
and of honest principles, he chafed
under this Indebtedness 1t seemed the
strongest regret of his deathbed that he
should leave his finances in such an en-
barrassing condition. His last request
was that his eldest unmarried daughter,
Frances. should clear his name from
debt Strange that the father should
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-26
TN WOMAN,S BEHALF.
WHAT SHOULD A WOMAN BE7

We would have her gracious and gentle,
With a kindness TO walk side by side
With sympathy's smile for the sunny,
With sympaihy's tear for the tried.
We would have her tender and truthful:
voice with sincerify's sound.
And. above every act II her earth-life,
These virtues TO exer abound.
With the air OF the earnest and fhou-htfui,
Which can merge into merrier words.
And win with her warmth and her wisdom,
All persons her presence includes
With spark OF the fire Of tho fearless,
That can frankly and firmly defend
The right in its hours OF oppression,
And steadily stand by a friend.
with conscience so carefully cntered.
And OF such delicate mold.
That naught OF a ubt-tainted nature
This crystalline chalicc could hold.
We would have her womanlv always
With tn coyness that close - her clingss
For TO be womanly woman.
Is the crown OF all womanly things.
We would wish her fervent and faithful.
Faithful and fond to the end;
And, strange tho IL seem. have found these
Ave, al OF thcse-sn friend.
Josie Frazec Cappioman. in Detroit Ere
Press
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EVENING SONG.
Bright eyes.

Bright eyes.
Two little eyes.
Full OF mischief and wondrous wise,
Changing and bright az the summer skies.
Whose eyes can they be.
Sweet lips,
Two little lips,
Plump as berries and red as cherries
And sweet ~ the pink the honey bee sips.
Whose lips can they be.
Brown hands,
Two little hands.
Playing at work and working nj play,
Brown hands busy the livelong day.
Whose hands can they be.
Busy feet,
Two little feet,
Rap o tap tap their footballs beat.
Quick foot and light foot, small and feet.
Whose feet can they bcy
Two little bright eyes-closed.
Two little sweet lips--shut.
Two little brown hands--at rest
Two little busy feet--still.
AL my dar,ings they be.
Sleep. my pretty one. sleep,
Gods angels watch and keep.
Sleep. my little one. sleep.
Harvey ". Bloomar, in Western Rural.