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men and boys. who have as little right
to the rabbits-do the same. I do not
suppose that in this way fewer than
10000 to 10000 rabbits are annually
picked up," or 'poached"-if any one
likes that word better-in the county
Probably a larger number. The exist
ence OF pair of rabbits on an estate
OF luooO, 1000 or 10000 acres would
not add much TO the loss. No doubt
the raven kills other creatures that are
presented for sport. but it does not ap-
pear that it's determination has i'm
proved things In Somerset.
Ihlrty years ago, when black game
was more plentiful than it is now. the
raven was to be met with throughout
the county, and was abundant on Ex-
moor and the Quantocks. The old head
keeper on the forest of Exmoor told me
that When he took the place twenty five
years ago, ravens, carton crows, buz-
yards, and hawks of various kinds
were abundant, and that the war he
had waged against them for a quarter
OF a century had well nigh extermin-
aited all these species. He had kept a
careful record of all birds killed. not
ING the species in every case, as he was
PAID Tor all, but the reward varied, the
largest sum being given for the largest
pli'ds-ravens and buzzards. His book
SHOWS that one year, twenty-three years
ago, he was paid for fifty-two ravens
shot and trapped. After that the num-
ber annually diminished rapidly. and
fer several years past not one raven
mad been killed.-Longman's Magazine
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His Creditors Found Him.

George Washington Jones, a colored
gentleman, was sad very sad. He was
a calciminer when he had work to do,
says "Harper's Round Table" but. as
he expresses it:
Dem dere white trash hab gone into
de trade an now Use got no work to do. !"
But this was not what made him sad.
Dis yere life he said, ''am not wuth
livin'"
What's the matter, George?" in
qured his friend
why. Use got a little money on dat
last job, an Use went around to settle
de bills Use owed"
Didn't you attend to ii all right %
Oars de strange part of it. De
butcher he wuz out. an de grocer he
wuz out, an every one Use wanted to
pay wuz out, an den what did / do but
lose dat money"
We'll, that was unlucky and no mis-
take. But still you showed your good
intention and no doubt they won't press
their claims"
Press dere claims, Yah, dats de
trouble. When Use got 'ome found
cherry one of dem waitin' to press dere
claims. an as Use couldn't fix dem dey
done fixed me-
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dled from hard work. says a writer in
the Pail Mall Gazette The diff
Guilty of procuring food is naturally
very great, and horses feel the depriva-
ton, as we'll as want Of rest, far more
than men. They have very little re-
serve fat to draw upon. and they have
not the moral stimulus of the soldier.
When Murat reproached Nansouty for
the spiritlessenss of his cavalry charges
that General wittily replied that it was
due to the horses want of patriotism.
The men might fight without bread,
but the horses would not work without
oats. So excessive is the exhaustion
sometimes that toward the close of the
day at Borodino the French charged at
a slow trot. Half the horses that were
landed in the Crimea never returned,
and most of them owed their death
to starvation and exhaustion. Five
hundred artillery horses were killed un
der fire, 1000 died of want and disease.
They fed on each others tails and at
the bottoms of carts and the spokeS of
wheels. During Wellington's arduous
retreat from Salamanca the only food
OF the horses was twigs and the bark
Of trees. In the Afghan war of 1888,
owing to the scarcity of food, 1900
oamels and 30 per cent. of the cavalry
horses were lost in three months. Ma
poleon crossed the Niemen on his way
to the assault on Russia with go, 600
cavalry, and recrossed it, six months
later, with 1,600. He attributed his
losses to the cold, but starvation had
more to do with them. One can imagine
the great warmaker crying: "Oh, for
an automotor that does not require
OATS Starvation and fatigue are eSpe-
cially destructive in retreats. Even If
there is food to give, there is no time
to give it. While retreating from Por-
tugal, Massena lost more horses from
starvation and fatigue in ten days than
he had lost in the preceding five
months campaign. Disease disables
at least l. per cent. of the horses en-
gagged in a campaign, and sometimes
much more. AS many as 40 per cent.
were invalided at one time in the
Crimea. OF the 5000 horses that were
landed in Egypt in 1882. over 1900
came under veterinary treatment, and
600 were killed, .l3 only being slain in
action. One regiment is said to have
had 200 horses on the sick list simulta-
neouSly.
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SETTING THE RIVER ON FIRE.
Origin of This Popular and Express
sive Phrase.

Sometimes when a person wants to
make an unpleasant remark in a pleas
ant sort of way about a dull boy he
Will say: That boy will never set the
river on fire" says "St. Nicholas" Now,
that is all very true, for even the
smartest man in the world could never
set a stream of water on fire, and so
perhaps many of you who have heard
this expression have wondered what is
meant by setting the river on fire.
In England, many, many years ago,
before the millers had machinery for
sitting -four, each family was obliged
to sift it's own -four. For doing this it
was necessary to use a sieve, called a
tense, which was 50 fixed that it could
be turned round and round in the top
of a. barrel If ii was turned too fast
the friction would sometimes cause it
to catch fire; and as it was only the
smart hard-working boys who could
make it go so fast as that, people got
into the way of pointing out lazy
boy by saying that he would never set
the tense on fire.
After awhile these sieves went out Of
Use but as there We're still plenty of
on saving that they would never set
the tense Cn fire. Now. the river
Thames is pronounced exactly like the
word tense; and 50, after many
years. those persons who had never
seen or heard of the d-fashioned
sieve thought that setting the tense
On fire" meant setting the river Thames
On fire. This expression became very
popular and Travelled far and wide. un
Ill the people living near other streams
did not see why il Was any harder for
a sIuthful boy - set the Thames on
fire than any ether river. and 50 the
name Of the river WAS dropped and
everybody after that simply said the
river" meaning the river of his par
ticu.ar city OF town. And that is how
II IS people to-day talk of setting the
river or fire.
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Bicycling and Women's Feet.

1t is curious how the bicycling craze
has already altered the size of ladies'
boots. Year after year doctors have
been preaching against the high heels
and the compressed toes of the French
shoe. They have preached, but they
have not been listened to; and all sorts
OF little limps and shuff1es have got to
nave kind of vogue, and girls have
treated their toes as disrespectfully as
II they We're their waists. And now
comes the bicycle and sets things right
The myth of the very small foot has
been exploded. Indeed, it was almost
inevitable it should When YOU see
almost level with your eye a thing you
were accustomed to look at far beneath
1t, you get a true idea Of it's size A
girl S foot on pedal, now a common
Wayslde object, shows that good-Iook-
ing girls have generally fairly proper
toned feet. There has come a reaction
against the Chinese defornfty, and a
sympathy with nature. You cannot
pedal with a foot like the castor of a
pfanoforte. If you do, you risk your
life, or, what is more thought Of your
appearance And so fashion rushes in
where physicians may not tread But
the doctors bear no malice Indeed, they
order the bicycle for their patients,
many of them being surgeons as we'll as
observation-disclosures stminster Gazette
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TOM PAINE AND ROBESPIERRE.
Evidence That the Terrorist Relented
in His Hostility to Paine.

The recent neutrality-suspicious. on
Robespierre in the Dropmore volume
of the Historical Manuscripts Commis-
sion have led Paris correspondent of
the "Athenaeum' to examine a note
book which has been strangely over
looked, even by French writers, and in
which, during three out of ten months
covered by the reports of Francis
brakes spy, RObespierre jotted down
his ideas and Intentions" Seized as
Robespierre's papers were at his lodg-
ings at the carpenter Duplay's, Rue ST.
Honore, they were intrusted by the con-
vention to Courtois, one of its members,
to report on them. Courtois made a vol
luminous report He then endeavored,
after the restoration, by offering to re-
store this and other documents to the
Bourbon family, to procure exemption
from the banishment pronounced on
regicides, and the letter is now in the
French Archives.
Courtois gave in his report only five
short quotations, scarcely eighty words
in all, from Robespierre's notebook, but
one Of these extracts has attracted much
4
with the guillotine. On page Robes
pierre wrote: Propose (demander)
that Thomas Payne (this was the spell
ing of the name in France) be put on
trial, in the interests of America as
much as of France; and on page g.:
Departure of Carnot for the army (can-
celedD. Force by terror the towns lately
in rebellion to reveal the arms which
they have hidden"
The "Athenaeum" correspondent ar
CUES that the entry against Paine must
have been made before October 9th, as
it was made before Carnot's departure,
and the minutes Of the Committee Of
Public Safety, though they do not show
when Carnot started, show that he was
absent from the 9th to the Goth of Oc-
tober Yet Paine was not arrested till
December 2Sth. Did Robespierre
change his mind?" asks the correspon-
America or at the instance of Danton,
who was Paine's stanch friend? Dan
ton, it is true could not. or would not,
prevent Paine's arrest, but that arrest
was not the corolary of the arrest of
Anarcharsis Cloots The two men had
been expelled together from the con-
vention as foreigners. They were ar
rested simultaneously. Their lodgings
were searched on the same day the
morrow of Cloots' execution) and by the
same commissaries.
Now, Robespierre detested Cloots,
and, If we could discover a later note
book, we should probably find Cloots in
his black (or rather red) book: but il
his resentment against Paine had con-
tinued he was not the man to nurse his
wrath to keep it warm. He had only
to remind Fouquier-T -Tinville, and, as in
La Marliere's case, Paine's head, at
least after his expulsion from the con-
vention, would have fallen. When we
find Paine left undisturbed for three
months, arrested only because he stood
on the same footing as Cloots. and left
undisturbed in prison for seven months
OF Robespierre's life, the supposition of
Robespierre's unrelenting hostility falls
to the ground and my belief is that
Paine's life was no longer in danger
from him. New York Times.
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Wine hath drowned more men than
the sea.
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LOSS OF HORSES IN WAR.
Napoleon Entered Russia With 90, 900
and Returned With 900.

During the Prussian campaign in
Bohemia the killed and wounded
amounted to less than 900, while / 400
died of exhaustion and disease and over
] 700 We're cast after the campaign. At
the beginning Of the siege of Plevna
the Russians had 10000 draught horses
bringing up supplies from Sistova. and
at the end of it they had only 1900,
the enormous number OF 22,000 having
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ONLY A FEW RAVENS LEFT.
The Famous Bird Will Soon be Only a
Memory.

The Whole domains. the large timber
and the ancient families survive but
the raven has vanished 1t occasion
ally takes young rabbit. But the hui
man ravens OF Somerset, to-wit, the
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ROBERT D. WRENN.
Champion Lawn Tennis Player of the
United States

Robert D. Wrenn, United State lawn
tennis champion, is about ~ years or
age and one of the youngest players in
the country. He has held the champion
ship for some time.
The record-union., 1896-12-15

A French chemist has made q blue
soap which will render unnecessary the
bluing in the laundry. In ordinary
soap he Incorporates a solution of an
lime green in strong acetic acid The
alkaH of the soap converts the green
into blue
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Whooping Cough.
L. S. SCoTT,
Secretary.

There is no danger from this dis
case when Chamberialn's Cough
Remedy is freely given. 1t lique.
fees the tough mucus and aida its ex.
pectoration. 1t also lessons the se-
verify and frequency of paroxysms
Of coughing, and insures a speedy
recovery. There is not the least
danger ia giving the remedy to
children or babies, as it contains no
nj urious substance.
For sale by R. Fl. Mills Drug
Co., Limited.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Orange Blossoms.

As was announced last week the
marriage of Mr.. Arthur Leblanc to
Miss Cora Guidry took place in Lafay-
cite, last Wednesday evening at $3.50
o'clock, at the Catholic church, Rev.
Father Forge officiating The wedding
was a most beautiful one and was at
tended by a large ~concourse of friends
of the bride and groom, many having
gone from this place to be present. The
couple returned to Abheville the
same evening where they will make
their future home. THE MER1DIoNAL
extends congratulations and best
wishes.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
What the KAn0ck.about Man
Says.

If the honest vote sellers of Vermilior
are c%ultivating their votes for sale al
the next election.
He would like to know how many Of
the honestly voters of Vermilion sold
their votes at the election.
Ii the mar I'VE the bayou who got
16 gallons of whiskey from Mr.. candi-
dates to buy votes is sober nowadays.
How the ladies on the Abbeville
Ranch get along through the filth and
COW pen slush, on the walks of the
Ranch. :
Whether Grover and John G. got any
share of the profits made by the syn
dies that robbed Uncle Sam in the
bond sale.
If there is any ordinance in Abbeville
to prohibit throwing slop from the up
per windows and balconies down into
the streets on passers by. If not there
should be.
A better quality of votes will haye to
be put on the market at the next cleo
ton or they Will not sell. Idiots votes
will not pay the cost of transportation
under the Australian system.
Which has the right of way on the
of the Abbeville Cow Ranch
the lady or the COW as he observes the
lady was frequently to get off the side
walk to get along while the COW seems
at home. $50
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
North and Northeast,

If you have any intention of going
to the North or East this fall or
winter, you should advise yourself
OF the best route from the South and
West. This is the Louisville a.
Nashville Railroad, which is run~
ming double daily trains from New
Orleans and Memphis through to
Louisville, Cincinnati, Nashville,
Birmingham, Atlanta, Montgomery.
Townsville, t'ensacoly, jackson.
vile and all Florida points; Wash,
ington, Philadelphia, New York.,
Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo and all
points North and East. PuIlmani
Sleeping Car Service through. For
particulars as to rates and through
car service, write
T. Fl. KINGSLEY,
Tray. Pass. Agent, Dallas, Tex.
JNo. Kilkenny,
Div. Pass. Agt., New Orleans, La.
G. P. ATMoRE,
Genl Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
PACIFIC co

The shortest and most direct
route to all points in Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona. Colorado, Califor~
MIA and On the Pacific Coast. The
Standard Gauge Short Line to Mon
terey, and Mexico City, via Eagle
Pass.
Unezcelled track and train equip
ment, including superb Pullman
Sleeping Car Service to Galveston
Houston and San Antonio Texas
and the City of Mexico
and to California.
For full information. apply to
L. Bassich, Agt.. /. & v. r. R..
Abbeville La, or to-
Kruttschnitt. Genl. Mgr.
s. F. B. Morse, G. Pc i.
New Orleans, La.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
New Work. Fashion Notes.

The wash dresses Of this year are
more beautiful than " in colorine,
design and texture. The novelties in
grass cloth, which is extremely fash
ionable. are remarkably varied in de-
sign. Gay and bright effects as well as
the daintiest subdued tones appear in
these fabrics. The skirts of summer
gowns are trimmed with a narrow elus-
ter of %rufles, puffs, tncks or lace on the
bottom. The waists are made in a
very simple fashion, with yoke or fcau
effects. Cotton materials with m
broidered designs are much in vogue.
Sometimes the skirt has an additional
trimming or insertion, or it is plain
with a beautifully embroidered waist
Ribbons as belts and sashes are gener-
ally worn.
One of the great features in summer
millinery, is a certain combination of
green and blue brought out in a mix
ture of delicate tulle, Dresden ribbons,
Bluets or a conventionalized flowers of
blue and green. Hats of plated straw
in bright colors are much in vogue.
Aigrettes in peacock %colors, spangled
lace and every imaginable garland of
adorn this gaiy eolored head
year. This Mcdowell Fashion Maya
zine of the month furnish abundant il
Iustrations of the new fancies. If you
are unable to procure these journals
from your n~ewsdealer do not take anyl
substitute, but apply by mail to Mesrs.
a. Mcdowell & Co., 4 West 18th Street,
New York.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Police Jury Proceedings.

Abbevllle, La, May, 70, 1896.
The Police Jury met this day pur-
suant to adjournment.
Present.. t. Broussard, President
ahd Jules Thibodeaux, J.. Alcee LIE
Hlanc, NJ. Sarver, G.. Godchaux, A.
Lacour and Ernest Broussard.
The clerk not being present w. P.
Edwards was elected clerk pro tenn.
On motion of Mr.. Godchaux second
ed by Mr.. Sarver, Resolved that the
bridge committee as constituted by res
olution of this body dated March 9th
1895 be and are hereby continued and
are further empowered and fully auth
orized to supervise the construction of
the bridge, to receive or reject any
material or work not conforming to con
tract, and also to employ experts
should they deem it necessary to assist
them in the inspection of said work,
without further authorization from this
body and that a copy of this resolution
be furnished to chairman of said COM
mittee. Adopted.
The Tax Collector being absent on
official business no settlement was eff
fected.
The Police Jury then adjourned to
the next regular meeting.
j. T. B~RoUssARD, President.
j. N. WILLIAMS, Clerk.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Beware of Oimtmemts for G8
GarrI that contain M escrrv.w.

tarrla that contain Mercury.
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense OF smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enters
ing it through the mucus surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputs
able physicians, as the damage they
will do is ten fold to the good YOU
can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.,
contains Do mercury and is taken in:
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucns surfaces of the sys-
TEN. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine
It is taken internally and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.. Cheney &
Go. Testimonials free.
Sold by druggists, price 75c. per
bottle.
Halls family pills are the best.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
FOUND.

In the public road leading from
Abbeville to Pfaire Greig last Fri-
day morning Apr. II, a saddle, al
most new. The owner is hereby
notified to come forward. prove
property and pay costs otherwise
said saddle will be disposed of ac-
cording to law.
JOS. SoNN1ER.
ApiI Is, 1895.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

While IN Stockton, Cal, some time
ago Thos. F. Langan of Los Banos
that state was token very severely
with cramps and d%iarrhoea. He
CHANGED to meet G. NJ. Barter who
was similarly afflicted. He says: Il
told him Of Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera andDiarrhoea Remedy and
we went to The Holden drug store
and procured a bottle of it. 1t gave
Mr.. Garter prompt relief and | a
voueh for its having cured me-"
For saleby r. FL. Mills Drug
CO., Limited.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

There comes to orr table every
week, what is undoubtedly one of
the best family papers of the South
The American, published at Lake
Charles, Louisiana, devoted to
Southwest Louisiana, home circle
ard general news. Subscription
price, One Dollar a year, 10 advance
Send for sample copy. The Ameri-
can has inst issned a handsome
special" on Southwest Louisiana
which everyone should see, SEN
postpaid for Seven Cents.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

Fighting in dead earnest and calling
it for fun is something we never heard
of, nevertheless this occurred in Able
vile last Monday.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

The young people have been enjoy
ing themselves during the fine moon
light evenings boat riding.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

Prairie Greig notes were given the
wrong credit last week, it should have
been 'tNapoleou."
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

During a shower last Wednesday
afternoon VIM. Labauve, of Glen Roy,
had an OK killed by lightning. The
animal was in the pasture about 40
rods from M. V. Marsh's residence.
The stroke of lightning shocked sever
al members of the family severely.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

We think this is the time of year for
enthusiastic base ball fellows to organ
ize their club for the coming season.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Town and Parish.

Nlllle CuWdIuS siolIOd III NCH Aoollo
Sunday.
!. R. Kitehel was a New Iberia Wis
itor Sunday.
S. M. Massey came in from New Or
leans Tuesday.
". w. Minor went to New Orleans
Tuesday on business.
L. L. Bourges returned from Baton
Rouge Monday evening.
W. D. Gooch and daughter visited
in New Orleans this week.
DR.. F. F. Young made a business trip
to New iberia Saturday.
DR.. C. j. Edwards went to the sea-
\ shore this week IN a fishing tour.
Chas. Clerc Of New Iberia, was trans
acting business in town this week:
j. P. Gueydan was circulating
among his many friends this week.
Mrs. Lewis Laporte returned home
from New Orleans after a. short visit.
julius Beer was taken suddenly i'll
Sunday night but is out of danger now.
F. L. Melebeck returned from New
Orleans Sunday accompanied by his
wife.
Mr.. A. A. Campbell and Miss Gin
|derella Foster of Henry were visiting
lin town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Feray attended
the wedding of A. J. Leblanc at Lafay
|ette, Wednesday.
Mrs. W. R. Ell returned from New
Orleans Sunday after a very pleasant
visit in that city.
Mrs. Geo. Caldwell was taken sudden
by i'll Wednesday night but at present
writing IS better.
Mrs. Pauline Fontelieu came over
from New Iberia Saturday and is visit
ing Mrs. Bergerie.
Louis Dutel who has been clerking
for Leon Feray, quit last week and
Robert Theriot has taken his place.
Burt Jones returned to his home in
Patterson, Sunday after working at the
carpenters trade for..some time here.
L. o. Bourque and Miss Onezia
attended the wedding Of Ar
thur Leblanc at Lafayette Wednesday.
Jas. Naneah representing Myer Is
real Clothing Co. of New Orleans, was
n town the first of the week taking
Bascum White who has been attend
college at Arcadia returned home
Sunday and has accepted q position
with A. J. GODDARD in the drug store.
Joe Hebert of Beaumont, Texas, ar
rived Tuesday to attend the wedding
Of his cousin, Arthur Leblanc and is
The guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Feray.
Archie Leblanc and his expert en-
,ineer Julius Beer of this burg, lett
lere enroute to Coulee Kinney last
in search of a pump and boiler
sprinkle the streets and as they are
endowed with great energy we feel sat
SIZED that they cannot but succeed in
endeavor, then no more dust
here shall be.
What town can produce nor dogs
han Abbeviile.
A couple Of our bicyclists took a spin
0 Erath Saturday night.
Are the people of Abbeville going to :
CELEBRATE the 4th of Julyg
Rumor has many tongues, and each
ries to outlie the other one. j,
The train came in Wednesday even :
g with only one passenger aboard. !.
Our tpyo went blackberrying this
eek and ate blackberry pies for two !
ays.
Eggs are now SO cheap that the farm
s have almost quit bringing them to
arket. :,