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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-07-06

signs upon the gold and silver
money unearthed from among the
ruins, the existence of the town
dates back to some centuries be-
fore the birth of Christ. The I'M
derground Bokharan city is to
versts hong, and is composed OF an
enormous labyrinth of corridors,
streets and squares, surrounded by
houses and other buildings two or
three stories high. The edifce
contain all kinds of domestic at
ensils, pots, urns, vases, etc. In
some of the streets falls of earth
and rock have INSTRUCTED the pas
sages, but, generally, the visitor
can walk about freely without SO
much as lowering his head. The
high degree of civilization attain
ed by the inhabitants of the city
is shown by the fact they built in
several stories, by the symmetary
of the streets and squares, and by
the beauty of the baked clay and
metal utensils, and of the orna-
ments and coins which have been
found. 1t is supposed that long
centuries ago this city, SO careful
ly concealed in the bowels of the
earth, provided an enter popula-
ton with refuge from the incur
sions of nomadic savage and rob-
bers. --Ex.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-07-06
HOW's ThiSl

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of CataOrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
r. j. CHENEY & CO.. Props. Toledo. o.
We the undersigned. have known +. j.
Cheney for the last 10 years. and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions anu financially able to car
ry out any ALLEGATION made by their
firm.
West & Trunk, Wholesale Druggist
Toledo. o. Walding. Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood aud
mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address +, j. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. o
sE Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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Don't Snub the Boys.

Don't snub a boy because he
wears shabby clothes, When Edi-
son, the inventor, first entered
Boston, he wore pair of yellow
linen breeches in the depth of
winter.
Don't snub a boy because of the
ignorance of his parents. Shake
speare, the worlds poet was the
son of a man who was unable to
write his own name.
Don't snub a boy because his
home is plain and unpretending.
Abraham Lincoln's early home
was plain and unpretending log
cabin.
Don't snub boy because he
chooses an humble trade. The au-
thor of the Pilgrims Progress
was tinker.
Don'tsnub boy because of his
physical disability. Milton was
blind.
Don't snub boy because his
dullness in his lessons. Hogarth,
the celebrated painter and engra-
yer, was stupid boy at his books.
Don't snub a boy because he
shutters. Demosthenes, the great
OIL ator of Greece, ovrrcame harsh
and stammering voice.
Don't snub him for any reason.
Not only because he may some
day outstrip you in the race OF
life, but because it is neither kind
nor right.-Morming Star.
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The Free State of DeSoto.

When it comes to Democratic
primaries for parish officers, De-
Soto can take the cake. Here a
nomination by the Democrats de-
cides the election months in add
vance of the time appointed by
the laws of the State. The suf-
frage is universal. Democrats,
Republicans and Populites enjoy
the same privilege. Nor are the
lines very tightly drawn as to citi-
zenship. Patriots from Texas and
adjacent parishes, on several Oc-
casions kindly lent assistance and
swelled the vote. Minors and ex-
convicts have been recognized as
qualified electors, and they, also,
had say. All a voter has had to
do was to give a semi-prOmise, If
asked the question, which has not
always been done, if he would
support the nominees. Ii he an
swered in the affirmative he voted,
and if he hesitated his conductor
to tie polls pledged his loyalty to
Democracy and he voted anyhow.
-Democrat-Journal.
And yet, strange to say, such
elections, which prescribe no qua
lifications whatever for votes have
for years been by authority and
direction of the Parish Democra-
tic Executive Committee. When
it comes to making Democratic
nominations III DeSoto the bars
are let down and with the candid.
ates it is a-Get-there Eli race, you
bet. Such practices are not known
nor would they be tolerated by the
executive authority of the Demo
cratic party in other parishes
than DeSoto.
The Democrat-Journal is strong
ly opposed to the DeSoto plan o
making nominations by primary
election, and favors the system
which obtains in other parishes
viz: That only known white De
mocrats be permitted to vote il
Democratic primary elections
And this plan SHOULD be adopted
by the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of DeSoto parish.-Shreve
port Judge.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-07-06
An Underground City.

The Russians have made a sin
eular discovery in Central Asia,
says Public Opinion English J..
In Turkestan, on the right bank
of the Anon Daria, in chain of
rocky hills near the Bokharan
town of Karki. and a number of
large caves which, upon examina-
ton, were to lead to an under
ground city, built apparently long
before the Christian era. Accord
ing to effgies, Inscriptions and de-
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-07-06
ABOUT CHAP BOOKS.

ALEADING book emporium OF New
York has decided to meet the demand for
cheap books. by coming very close to the
prices quoted by the great Department
Stores in that city.
The discussion of the subject has
brought out this disclosure of how GER
tain great publishers have been supply
ing the reading public: A Ons-dOllar
book is billed to the retailer with forty
per cent of, or at 60 cents; and the re-
taller is allowed an extra ten per cent
off for cash, making the cash price OF
the book to the dealer ii cents.
There is, however, a publishing house
in New York City, that not only avoids
this excessive profit to middlemen, but
gives to the great American reading pu-
bile supply of frst-class reading mat
ter on such easy terms of payment that
hundreds Of Thousands Of American
homes are now enjoying first-glass Eng
lish Literature. that would never have
been supplied in the old way. This Is
the great ONCE WEEK publishing
House, 523 W. Thirteenth Strdet, New
| York.
As an illustrations: Suppose you want
to obtain Milton Paradise Lost" a
centre-tabIe volume of rare artistic ex-
cellence that is usually sold at 5000
cash. Subscribe for the high class illus
trated weekly, ONCE WEEK, and the
volume of Paradise Lost is delivered
at your residence. You pay $l.C0 then.
Afterward YOU pay so cents per month
until the total subscription Of $500 is
paid in full.
All of the standard authors are for sale
Oh easy terms Of payment by this Pub
fishing House. Full particulars will be
sent on application.
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STRAYED.

Notice is hereby given that have il,
my possession.
One red COW about 4 years old. not
branded.
One sorrei colt ubout 3 years old.
branded about thus +.
One sorrel colt about years old, not
branded.
The owners are hereby notified. to
come. prove properly and pay costs. or
else. they will be disposed of according
to law. LOUIS Y. Liable.
June 3]d BrOussard 7. O.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-07-06
LOST.

Between Lafayette and st. Martinville,
an ornament (urn) belonging to hearse
that conveyed the remains of the late
Alfred VOORHEES, to st. Martinyiile.
The person finding same will be COM
pensated by returning same to the Mes
senger Office st. Martinville, or to the
proprietor, JEAN VIGNBAUX,
May %. Lafayette. La.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-07-06

I'VE had an epidemic Of dysentery in
this vicinity last summer" says Samuel
S. Pollock, of Briceland. Cal. II was Ia.
ken with it and suffered severely until
some one called my attention to Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. Iprocured a bottle aud felt
better after the first dose. Before one
half Of the bottle had been used was
we'll. | recommended il TO my friends
and their experience was the same. We
all unite in saying it is the best" For
sale by 7. j. Liable, Druggist.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-07-06

NfDAL Axr rTFlexA awarded this school by
Worlds Columbian Exposition, for great excel
fence aud improved methods in Book keeping,
making over 100 awards by American and
Foreign EXpositons. Iias English, Academic
and Shorthand schools.
For ~ wears renowned for its High Grade
Courses, philosophic Systems, Advanced
Accounting, Practical and Ethical Lee
lures.
1t practices no charlatanisn, and makes
no false statements and s.luring promises to
deceive and DUE The unsuSpecting. Many
thousands OF it, students laxders In all lines
OF busiurs..
Commercial Course Guaranteed Higher
and Superior to any other in the United states.
Write for FREE Specimen Pages OF Soules
Great Work, 1l6 PIP, ON Book keeping.
Address. GRO. SOULS 4 SONS. New Orleans.
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broke out. / could
not account for them
and my physician did
not seem to do mo
any good. The erup-
tions would spread
to the size of o half
dollar, and the flesh
would become ulcer
ated nearly to the
bone. I finally de-
cided to try Hoods
Ssrsaparilla, and af.
ter taking several
hOtfvou ~ tho made
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-07-06
Impure Blood
ScrofuIa Breaks Out IN Running
Sores

The Poison Perfectly Cured by
Hoods SarsaparIIIa.
GA year ago sore came on one of my
limbs. 1t spread, and soon four Others,
which proved to be as bad as the first,
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24
CASLEp FROM ENGLAND.

THE English government has ado pied
the Bertillon system Of identifying
criminals by measurements.
ACCORDING TO the method which Is
now adopted for reckoning leap years
IN England, December, January and
February will be the summer months
about seven hundred and twenty thou
sand years hence.
AT a recent civil service competition
for the position of sorter in the Eng
lish post Office, with a maximum pay Of
nine dollars a week, there were six
hundred and eight female candidates
to fill ten vacancies.
LONDON is agitated over the threat
ened downfall of a great institution
which for years has excited the daily
wonder Of travellers. The county coun-
ell proposes to abolish the cab radius,
which extends for four miles from
Charing Cross, ard to have but one
scale Of fares for the whole county Of
London.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24
A WAITING CONDITION.
Hesitation Still Noted i'm the Business
Situation

New YORK, Jan. 2l.-R. q. Dun Il
Co.'S. weekly review of trace says:
There are some good signs, but they do not
as yet extend to business generally, which
hesitates much as it has for months. Gold
continues to go abroad, SS,55O,0OO having gone
this week. and the deficit OF revenue is
already over 500 for the month. This
state of facts, with the failure Of congress to
make provision for borrowing or for increas-
ing revenue, still operates to retard a whole
some recovery, and the volume of domestic
trade represented by exchanges through
clearing houses is again about per
larger than last year, AS it was IA the
first week Of the month, but is 3l7
per cent smaller than two years ago. a higher
rate OF decrease than for some time past. The
industries are meeting a larger demand for
some products since the new year began, but
rather less for others, and nodetinite improve
ment appears in prices OF manufactured prod
uctS or in wages. In the main, 1t is a waiting
condition, with much hope that positive i'm
provement is not far of, but not very satisfac-
tory evidence of IL as yet.
Prices OF stocks have grown slightly
stronger for railroads, Go cents per share,
while the average for trusts is five cents higher.
A reduction in freight rates has started a bet
ter movement of grain eastbound, and the ton
mage of live stock and dressed meats is also
larger than a year ago, but the westbound
traffic has become unusually light.
Speculation has not been exceptionally ac-
tive nor generally encouraging. Wheat has
sagged OF one cent again, with western re-
ceiptS only, about half last years Corn has
declined lasc, in spite OF the very low gov
eminent estimate of yield, receipts being
now larger than OF wheat Cotton has re-
NAMED steady at 5A cents, with a fairly large
movement, but efforts OF southern planters to
contract the acreage this year receive some
attention Petroleum has touched 81 again in
nominal price, but wit out activity.
There is somewhat more doing in the iron
and steel business, enough to cause a shade Of
lifting in prices for Bessemer iron and biIlets
at ! Philadelphia. where there is also improved
demand for finished products, but at Pitts
Lurgh, all changes reported are downward.
Embarrassment in boots and shoes does
ting near the end OF their orders, while the dis
position to restrict orders at the advanced
prices demanded seem to be growing more
general. Shipments are nevertheless larger
than in any previous year to date-163, 913
cases, against las, $40 two years ago.
Exports from New York for two weeks OF
January have fallen but slightly behind last
years, while imports are about 81 100 90 larger
owing mainly to the increase in dry goods.
Failures this year to January 10 were in
amount Of liabilities 1900 3l, OF which 81
l33, 42s were OF manufacturing and So, 1856, 1903 OF
trading concerns. Failures for the week have
been 373. n the United States, against 497 last
year, and 70 in Canada. against 46 last year.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24
Bad Sign.

"How's your boy Jeems gettir' along
down to BOSTON," inquired a Center.
vile resident of Mrs. Peter Ricketts,,
Familiarity known as the Widow
Peter"
We'll, Jeems says he's gettin' on
fust-rate,' answered Mrs. Peter, an
mes allus been a truthful boy. But
there's one thing worrits me, an l de-
clare ! might jest as we'll out with it,
SEEM you're s.ch an old friend.
lie come on from Bocton with a col
ored shirt on, an a white collar. He
brought a white shirt in his bag, SOS
TO appear matched up whilst he was
here; but it come over me jest like a
fash when / stood off to take n good
look at him. hat my boy Jeems, that
had a father that wouldn't owe a cen
any more'n he'd steal one-my boy
Jeems has fell behind with his washer.
womanr'-Youth's Companion.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24
News in Brief.

Mrs. Devan, of Bryant, a patient in
the insane asylum at Yankton, escaped
and was frozen to death. The temper
AZURE was 20 below zero.
The annual meeting of the Farmers
,iutual Insurance Association of Sioux
Falls, shows that the association has
533 members, 1873 joining last year.
Total insurance written up to date,
1857, 632, of which $166, 915 was written
during 1894.
Word reached Pierre that the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad had de-
cided to pay Immediately it's taxes,
which it would not be required to pay
until March. This road pays South Da-
kota about 500, 600 yearly, and Presi-
dent Miller has given instructions to
pay the taxes as soon as the county
treasurers give notification of the
amount.
l.. E. Kruger. owner of the Salem
roller mills, and one Ct the best machi-
nists in the state, suicided.
Luca Chahals was bound over to the
grand jury without bail for the murder
of John Glide, who was three weeks
ago found stabbed to death near Lead.
The case will be hotly contested.
The coroner of Brule county has been
called upon to hold an inquest on the
body of Carl Hetland, a settler who was
found dead in his claim shanty, IS miles
west of there. He refused to do SO, the
commissioners not caring to go to the
expense.
p. j. Germ has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Chamberlain Electric
Light Company. There are several
liens, and the foreclosure of the mort
gage would have shut out these claims.
For years parties living near the big
Indian reservations, have made a prac-
tice of cutting and selling wood from
the Indian lands. Officers propose to
put a stop to this practice and James
Ii. Frink, charged with the crime. is in
Jail at Chamberlain. There is no in
tention or disposition to modest any
settler who finds it necessary 10 cut
timber for his own use.
An i%ncendiary fire six miles south Of
Huron, destroyed a large barn and
stock sheds on the Houghton farm.
Sixteen head of horses, several cows,
hogs, and other stock were burned:
also farm machinery, tools, agons
harness and 40 tons of hay, aggrega.
ting between 81. 900 and S., 900 worth.
1t is learned that among fraudulent
DO DIS ioated by Pierce the Yankton
%swindler, were forged bonds to the
amount of many thousands of dollars
on townships in Brule county.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24

There is a clash of authority between
the caretaker of TT. Sully military res
e~rvation and the land office in this city
II. f. Cutting was appointed caretaker
on the abandonment of the post and in
structed to eject all intruders. The
office has been furnished with a copy
of the act of congress, approved Aug.
%, 1894, which clearly gives settlers a
right to take possession for entry, but
Mr.. Cuttings instructions compel him
to eject him. A number of settlers in
the vicinity of the reservation, a por-
ton OF which is well timbered and wa
tered, are looking out for the best To-
cations, and will attempt to secure
them regardless of the caretaker's or
derS-
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24
Precious Metals.

During the past year the Black Hills
have made rapid strides to the front
rank as a producer of the precious
metals. Statistics of the gross, output
are not obtainable, as the great ma
jority of the producing mines are
owned by individual or close corpora
tions, who never give publicity to their
affairs. 1t is safe to say hat the
Black Hills during the past twelve
months have produced between $1,000
900 and So. 900, 900 in gold alone. Divi-
dends have been regular and promptly
paid by the larger corporations, the
Homestake company alone distributing
$500, 600 in this manner to its stock
holders. Huring the year a number Of
rich discoveries have been made in old
and almost abandoned camps hat ri
val in value the ore of the so-called
high grade camps of other states and
territories.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24
The Nicaragua Canal.

The project of the Nicaragua Canal has
been debated in the u. S. Senate very vigor-
ously. One thing should be remembered
about that climate, it is death to almost
every foreigner who goes there, and labor-
ers especially succumb. 1t is said that the
Panama Railroad cost a life for every tie.
What an idea Of pains and aches is in this
sentence. 1t is mostly due to carelessness.
Every laborer provided with st. Jacobs Oil
would be armed against these troubles.
Mems muscles there are cramped with rheu-
matte pain and they ache all over. That's
just the condition where this sovereign
remedy can do it's best work. The fearful
malady is very much like the break-bone
fever in certain parts OF America.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24
STREET CAR MEN STRIKE,
Five Thousand Employees o. Brooklyn
Trolley Lines Are Out.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. l6.-At S
o'clock Friday morning all the trolley
cars ir Brooklyn were tied up, the
employees refusing to take out the cars.
Over 5000 men quit work This
includes motormen, conductors, cleo
tricians, switchmen and others en-
ployed at the various power-houses.
All but one of the surface roads,
and that a comparatively minor on
Germ, are affected.
The mems grievances and demands
are thus stated: The state law pro-
vides hat a days work of street
railway employees shall be ten
hours, within twelve consecutive
ho"rs. 1t is alleged that the corpora
tons have required the men to
work eleven hours, and even, latterly,
tweve hours, with no interval longer
than ten minutes for lunch, and even
depriving them of that brief time in
most instances. The wage rate agreed
upon a year ago was two dollars for the
statutory days work; the companies, it
is alleged, have made no allowance for
overtime. The men demand adherence
to the law regulating III in a days
work, or S2.25 for a day of twelve
hours.
An address issued by the executive
committee of District Assembly No.
IS, alleges that the trouble was pre-
cipitated by the Brooklyn Heights
company in excluding their cleo
trio workers from work. The
statement goes on To say that the ia
grant violation of the ten-hour law has
mentally and physically i~ncapacited
the men for their work. All the COM
panies run their trippers SO that the
men can make only from forty to sixty
cents a day.
BROOKLYN. Jan. 2l.-The failure of
the state board of mediation and arbi-
tratiOn to secure a settlement, and
the fact that the officials and employees
of the trolley roads have been unable
to come to an agreement after numer-
Gus attempts to reach satisfactory con-
illusions, have not helped to allay pub
lie apprehension of impending labor
troubles of the first magnitude. Mayor
Schieren's requisition for military adds
to the feeling.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24

odd through druggists, at the price OF the
cheaper made pills.
Pleasant Pellets cure biliousness. sicI
and bilious headache, dizziness, ~costive-
ness, or constipation, sour stomach, loss Of
appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, ordys-
pepsia, windy belcliings, heart burn"
pain and distress after eating, and kindred
arrangements of the liver, stomach and
owels. Put up i'll sealed glass walls, there
fore always fresh and reliable. Whether
as a laxative, or in larger doses, as a gently
acting but searching cathartic, these little
Pellets" are unequaled.
As a dinner pill, I" TO promote digestion,
take one each day after dinner. To relieve
the distress arising from over-eating, moth
ing equals one of these little Pellets"
They are tiny, s~ugar-coated anti bilious
granules. ANY child readily takes them.
Accept no substitute that may be recon-
mended TO be Just as good" II MAY be
better for the dealer. because Of paying
him a better profit, but he is not the one
who needs help.
A free sample "a 10 = doses) on trial, is
mailed to any address, post paid, on receipt
of name and address on postal card.
Address WORLDS DIsPENSARY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N Y.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-24
Fastest Time Ever Made from Chicago to
jacksonville, Fla.

The Monon Route H., n. A. q c. R'y) has
placed in effect the fastest schedule ever
made between Chicago and Jacksonville,
Fla Train leaves Chicago at 1892 p. m, ar
irving at Jacksonville. Fla at . :55 a. IN. the
second morning, making direct connection
at that point with the morning departures
Of all diverging lines, and arrives at Interior
and Southern Florida Points by Daylight;
st. Augustine and Palatka before noon;
Ocala, Orlando, Sanford, Winter Park. Bar
tow and Tampae early in the afternoon Titus
vile and Rockledge before supper, and Lake
Worth before bedtime. The trains are YES
tibuled, Pintsch lighted and steam heated,
with the finest Dining and Sleeping Car
Service in the world.
For further information regarding Rates,
Pamphlets and Through Sleeping Car
Tickets, address FRANK j. REED, G. p. A.,
Chicago.