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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

The mulberry crop this year is
something emo rmous. One day this
week we saw a tree on the farm of
Gustave Trahan, just beyond Coulee
K inney bridge. which is a freak of
nature 10 the way of proli6cness> It
is actually breaking down with its
weight of berries and the ground is
thickly covered, even the lea YES are
stained where the ripe berries have
hit them in falling. A few such
trees would keep fat a big lot of
poultry aud pigs for several months
in the year.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

OF late The dust has been a terri-
BILE nuisance in town. 1t floats in
dense clouds whenever a team passes
and travelling is very disagreeable
unless one happens to have the wind
in the right direction:
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

Leopold Demary had the misfor-
tune this week to lose a child about
8 years old. The little one was sick
only a few days with measles and
pneumonia.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02


The members of the Epworth
League gave a lawn social at Mrs.
Chevis' Thursday night. DE lawn
was well supplied with lights and
a large number of the young people
attended. Ice cream and cake was
served to all.
Officers and members of Protector
Fire Co. No. 2, are requested to at.
tend an important adjourned meet
ing Of the company, which will be
held at Kellers store opposite the
the Masonic Hall on Monday even
ing May 4th at 7:3O o'clock.
While in Stockton, Cal, some time
ago Thos. F. Langan of Los Banos
that state was taken very severely
with cramps and diarrhoea: He
CHANGED to meet G. M. Barter who
was similarly afflicted. He says: Il
told him of Chamberlain's Collie.
Cholera andD iarrhoea Remedy and
we went to the Holden drug store
and procured a bottle Of it. It gave
Mr.. Garter prompt relief and I can
vouch for its having cured me-"
For saleby r. FL. Mills Drug
Co., Limited.
Contests are the talk of the day.
From street rumors one would think
that every Office in the State from
governor do wn would be contested.
Old Pharr has already signified his
intention of making a contest, and
report has it that several of our To-
cal candidates will also enter con-
test.
Mulberries have been In their
prime for more than a week. This
fruit which is not considered worth
very much in the north, is very de-
%licious as grown in this genial cli-
mate. It has plenty of tart, and is
equal in favor to the raspberry.
One or two trees will bear abund-
ance Of delicious early fruit for a
common family.
Any one who has ever had an at
tack of inaamatory rheumatism will
rojcice with Mr.. j. A Stumm, 220
Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, over
hi fortunate escape from a seige Of
that distressing ailment. Mr.. Stumm
ia foreman Of Merriam's ~confection.
cry establishment. Some months
ago, on leaving the heated work
room to run across the street on an
errand, he was caught out in the rain
The result was that when ready to
go home that night he was unable
to walk, owing to inhamatory rheu-
matism. He was taken home, and
on arrival was placed in front of a
good fire md thoroughly rubbed
with Chamberlain Pain Balm.
During the evening and night he
was repeatedly bathed with this lini-
ment, and by morning was relieved
of all rheumatic pains. He now
takes especial pleasure in praising
Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and al
ways keeps a bottle of it in the
house.
For sale by r. II. Mills Drug
Co., Limited.
There comes to our table every
week, what is undoubtedly one of
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

Now that the election is over the
question agitating the public mind
is "who will be the parish treasur-
err" From what we hear there will
be several candidates in the field.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

Leodias Trahan, son Of Eraste
Trahan the saloon keeper has just
opened mp a very neat barber shop
in the building lately occupied by
G. K. Darling as e jewellery store.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

Eloi Broussard was killed on Sat.
urday night in Iberia parish when
returning from a ball. His body
was found next morning. Eight me-
gro suspects have been arrested and
Jailed.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

Tuesday was q disagr eeable'
windy and dusty day.
The politician who lost in the late
election il getting natural again.
The warm weather Of The past few
days is just what is needed. A rain
would be welcome.
The railroad has q light freight
these days but its passs niger business
appears to be very good.
From all present indications the
bayou bridge will not be built any
ways soon. What's the matter?
The boys and girls Of town gave
q hsh party out to Lake Siminonet
last Wednesday night and all had q
good time, not excepting our friend
Smith, the deputy postmaster.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

Tuesday was q disagr eeable,
windy and dusty day.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

Officers and members of Protector
Fire Co. No, 2, are requested to at.
tend an important adjourned meet
ing Of the company, which will be
held at K oilers store opposite the
the Masonic Hall on Monday even
ing May 4th at 7:30 o'clock.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02


There comes to our 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
and general news. Subscription
price, One Dollar a year, in advance
Send for sample copy. The Ameri-
can has just issued a handsome
Special on Southwest Louisiana
which everyone should see, sent
postpaid for Seven Gents.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-02

The politician who lost in the late
election il getting natural again.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
.-Give him dollars worth of bean,

'tGive him a dollars worth of beans
and put it in the storehouse. Salt it
WE'LL" said HILL He was disappointed
in the Indian. After such showing of
secrecy he had expected a theft of some
consequence and profit of size ac-
cording thereto.
Eight days passed and once more was
the vision of the trader gratified by tie
apparition of the larcenous Indian. He
carried bundle, which, as before. he
guarded carefully from scrutiny.
''He asks said Yellow Bird, ''that
this be opened in secret place for of
certainty he is satisfied that he has
the most magnificent hide ever cut
from governmental supplied steer.
Alas. however. it is stolen"
Hill viewed the hide in the rear room,
where the light was poor and where
there was a chance that he might La SIS
over defects unseen AS a protection
against this faulty inspection, how
ever, he cut the price from So to So so.
In his success and prosperity Hollow
Horn Antelope was becoming more OK
acting and insisted on cash to that
amount. 81 desire to inform you" yell
low Bird spoke, confidentially, that in
removing this hide it was necessary to
somewhat disguise it, and he has cut
off the left fore leg. He is an honest
and candid man. 1t was stolen from
Thomas Fast Horse. Keep it concealed
when Thomas Fast Horse is about.
This is my disinterested advice" Hill
told him to salt it and put it in the
warehouse.
Hollow Horn Antelope did not sue
coed in stealing any more hides for
six days. At the end of that period
he appeared limping in the presence
of Hill and related that in committing
larceny at the tepee of Red-White-ald-
Blue Mustang the latter had sent a
1890 after him and had caught MIN
in the fieshy part of the leg. But as he
carried the hide with him the bullet,
striking it, seemed to have been divert
ed. However, in honesty, he was COM
PEELED to say the ball had cut hole
in the neck of the skin. AS before it
went to the warehouse. Hill eXaInin-
ing it carelessly and relying on Yellow
Bird to look after details. The pur-
| chase price was six dollars.
Thus it continued for three months.
Hollow Horn Antelope making weekly
visits in the shadow of the night to
| Hills trading store with hides stolen
| from here and there. They were all
sorts of hides, but always the frank
| Indian foolishly recited-through Vel
| low Bird-the needless facts that were
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Pref. Nathaniel Schmidt, who has
oeen appointed to fill the chair of Sem
tic languages at Cornell university, was
born in Sweden, of German parents, and
educated in Stockholm, Berlin, and New
FORK. He is familiar with the Ethio-
plan, Assyrian, Arabic and many other
languages.
Princeton university will celebrate
its sesqui-centennial anniversary with
elaborate ceremonies, ending October
p, just $50 years from the day the char
ter was signed in 1746. President Pat
ton will figure prominently in the eNer-
Uses. A celebration committee has sent
out budget of pamphlets bearing on
this and other Princeton matters.
Vertical penmanship, which has
ong been required in many county
clerks offices and came into vogue in
the fashionable schools in New York
couple of years ago, superseding the
English style. has just been adopted by
the Kansas City board of education as
the system which must hereafter be
taught in the public schools.
Most Rev. Sebastian Martine1li,
prior provincial of the Order of Hermit
Fathers of ST. Augustine, who is now
said to have been chosen as the sue
>essor of Cardinal Satoll, visited the
i Augustinian monastery at Villa Nova,
Pa, in 1894. He is about five feet
five inches in height, has dark
eyes and dark hair, and intel
Ilectual countenance. He has a
high reputation for learning, speaks
English f1uently, has been in close touch
with the Irish Augustinians in Rome.
and is said to be fond of Americans. He
lives in the Augustinian convent of st.
Monica, which is not far from St.
Peters in Rome.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
DON'T BODDER me-.

Ady papa says he's busy n mustn't bodder
him,
Cause he's fixin' up We door-yard fence to
make it slick and trim
IN mammals got caller n she says:
Don't bodder me-
IN what a little boys to do. can't istzakly
see
-My sister hain't got home from school.
N baby is asleep
~ if stay about We house. 1 dasn't hardly
peep
Ware isn't any place 'roun' here for lone
some little boys
As wants to play n have some run n make
a little noise.
L guess go to uncle's n see what can
find.
Perhaps vey'u let me make some noise, n
maybe vey won't mind
If some little questions bout hngs vat
puzzle me,
fink III ist go over for little while n
Oh, dearie me, vat shall do7 never see
such times!
Uncle said: Don't bodder inches busy
maxim rhymes
IN auntie, she was busy. n she said; ware,
away;
Ware hain't nobody anyvare vat wants a
boy to-day.
No! ware hain't no one wants boy, so ]
know vat I'll do
III slip into our pantry, get a piece OF pie
or two,
IN get some cake and cookies II eat list all
So can hurry up n grow to be great big
Arthur J. Burdick. in Chicago Record.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
German Device to Save the Pines.

Circling the trunks of trees with
sticky substance to prevent noXious
insects from ascending to the leaves
is a familiar method of protection
which has been applied on large scale
in the pine forests of Germany. For
merly the pine moth was a most de-
structive and dreaded enemy CT these
valuable forests, but now it is no long
er feared. The caterpillars of the pine
moth, being born at the end of August.
do very little damage before the autumn
frosts set in and compel them to &C
into winter quarters in the moss-car-
peted ground at the foot of the trees
But in the spring, unless interfered
with, they ascend the trunks and fall
upon the green needles with ravenous
appetite. 1t is estimated that single
caterpillar consumes, on the average
1000 pine needles. BY scraping a
smooth band in the rough bark around
each tree trunk, and then smearing the
band with a mixture of tar, grease and
glue, an insurmountableb barrier is pre-
scented to the caterpillars, and in this
simple MANNER the great pine forests
of middle and northern Germany have
been securely fortified against their
insect enemies.-Youth'sC Companion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17

for mankind the Creator in the begin
1.ing used an especial kind of gumby
clay for Indian traders, and when the
generic batch was baked it was found
that the palms of the hands were still
moist, and whatever came in contact
Herewith stuck fast Hill, therefore,
dleing an Indian trader, was not a man
of undemonstrative integrity or acute
conscience. Empowered so to do by
--watpommiEy,' which is the govern
Inent of the United States, he followed
out the ancient custom of this kind,
and bought the goods of the Indians for
one-tenth their value and paid for them
in material from his store at ten times
its cost. 1t was the regular thing.
There was no singularity or adventure
about it. His life was simply a monot-
Onous rut of robbery.
One day Hollow Horn Antelope
came into the trading post and offered
for barter a hide. Hides were worth
eight dollars, and Hollow Horn Ante
lnpe knew it, but he also knew that IL
persons could not subsist through q
month of Indictment weather on n hand
full of coffee and a tablespoonful of
beans-in other words, the ration is
sued to him. Hollow Horn Antelope
had seven wives, but he was virtuous
and acknowledged only one of them.
and so was enabled to draw rations
only for the one noted down. Verify
AN acceptance of the tradition of the
missionary had worked sore distress to
Hollow Horn Antelope, and the six of
his wives who were not counted in, but
who had appetites. Being in need of
food for his harem, the Indian had
brought hide to Hill, expecting to be
"A sufferer from official larceny, but hop
Ing TO get at least one-sixth of the value
zof the commodity. Hill looked at the
hide contemptuously, and, remarking
that it had been poorly skinned, he di-
rected Yellow Bird, his Sioux clerk, to
Y1ut it in the storehouse and give Hol-
How Horn Antelope six bits worth of
Goldfish.
The Goldfish was spoiled.
Yellow Bird was Hollow Horn Ante
1ope's cousin.
The next week Hollow Horn Ante
1ope appeared secretly and mysterious
ly unto Hill. The trader realized that
something important was about TO
eventuate, and he called upon Yellow
Bird to come back into the rear room
of the trading store and interpret. Vel
low Bird had been educated at Carlisle
and was proud of it. His conversation
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
A Rural Court Scene

A couple applied to rural justice OF
the peace for total divorce. The justice
called the bailiff aside and asked in 4
whisper:
whats the law on that pinto
''You can't do it, replied the bailiff
lit don't come under yer jurisdiction
Were willin' ter pay cash fer it, =
said the husband, not understanding
the nature of the consultation. I've
got the money in this here stockin'."
The justice looked grave. Then, adj
justing his spectacles, and addressing
the man, he said:
You knowed fore You come here
that 'twarn't fer me ter separate hus-
ban an wife, an yit you not only take
mp the time er this here valuable couri
with yer talkin', but ackchully perpose
ter bride me with money. Now, ho-s
much has you got in that stockin'?''
bout six dollars an a half, yeI
honor
''All right then. I fine you five do
lars fer bribery, an dollar an hal
fer takin' up my time with case whaI
my jurisdiction is out of, an may the
Lord have mercy on yer souls!"-Chi
cago Times-Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
HUMOROUS.

-Friend-"Why do you drink
whisky?" Col. BloodE'I don't know of
any better use can put it to-'-Town
Topics.
-Parke-'sI don't suppose, old man,
you can really appreciate how bright
my children are" Lane-'No; have
never met your wife.''-N- Y Herald.
Mrs. Wiggles-'.Was that good
box of cigars, Ephraim, that J bong ht
for your birthday" Mr. Wiggies
craftily)-.I never saw a better box
Somerville journal.
"A Poor Rule, Etc.-Radbourn-
dear fellow, it is always better to begin
at the bottom of ladder" Chesney-
Nonsense. How about when you are
escaping from a fire ?'-N. Y. World.
-"Well, the bicycle has been the
means of closing our church" rs that
so? Did they really fight over it P'
"Fight over it? No; the minister has
gone on a wheeling tour Cleveland
Leader.
Just the Thing.-''I intended this
poem merely as pot-boiler," said the
young man in lofty explanation. That's
a good idea. Take it right home and let
your folks start the fire with it. "-Wash-
ington Star.
-Farmer-'I guess there's somebody
fishing in our trout stream behind tie
barn." Farmers Wife-'How do you
know? Have you found a line and
hooks?" Farmer-No; found I; whisky
1ask."-Boston Courier.
Teacher (about to eNpatiate on the
virtues of the dog)-''Now, children,
can you tell me the animal which is
capable of the greatest attachment to
man?" The Brightest Boy in the Class
II know: the leech.'-EXchange
The Bellies Strategem.-''Isnt it
rather annoying to you to have them
both call on you at once?" asked her
dearest friend. NO; perfectly de-
lightfuP' said the young woman with
two devoted slaves. You see, dear. !
seat one on each side of me-" ''WeE?''
''And there is such delightful GOODNESS
between them'' "Ohi'-Cincirnat ii I'm
ouirer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17

Lii Hung Changes career is strikingly
Interesting to young people. Not of
distinguished parents, he first leaps
into prominence by carrying off honors
at an examination where there are co.
600 competitors. The subjects are not,
as with us, mathematics, geography,
arts and sciences, but the teachings of
Confucius, theory of government, and
Chinese poetry and history Passing
this examination promotes Ii into Of
fetal circles, and he becomes compiler
in the imperial printing office But the
TAPPING rebellion breaks out, and the
student is soon called upon to become a
soldier. He raises a regiment of home
militia, and enters upon the field of war
In less than five years he achieves honor
and distinction, and then Imperial Gen
eralissimo Tseng Kwo-Fan appoints him
on his staff-Harper's Round Table.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
BUY YOUR coAT-oF-ARMs.
How This interesting Proceeding Ii 40
complained I'm Grea. Britain.

How This interesting Proceeding Ii 40
eonnplished In Great Britain.
The practice of granting arms is
still in vogue in England, Ireland, Scot
land, Austria. Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Germany and so forth. and that at
times the pope, as sovereign pontlff,
exercises the power is witnessed by
Leo XIII. granting arms to the Cathohc
see of Westminster by decree dated
the 30th of June, 1894.
Indeed. it is by patent or grant alone
that a new family can legitimately &C
ouire a coat-of-arms.
The modus operandi in England, for
example, is as follows: The applicant
for a patent of arms (from the crown)
may employ any member he pleases OF
the heralds' college and through him
present n memorial of the earl marshal
of England (who acts for the crown In
these matters), setting forth that he,
the memorialist, is not entitled to arms
or cannot prove his right to such and
praying that his grace the earl marshal
will issue his warrant to the kings OF
arms authorizing them to grant and
confirm to him due and proper armorial
ensigns to be borne according to the
laws of heraldry by him and his de-
scendants. This memorial is present
ed and warrant is issued by the earl
marshal, under which a patent of arms
is made out, exhibiting painting OF
the armorial ensigns granted, the royal
arms of England, the arms of the earl
marshal and those of the college, and
describing in official terms the pro
| eeedings that have taken place and a
correct blazon of the arms. This pat
| emit is registered in the books of the
heralds' college and receives the sigma
lures of the garter and one or both of
the provincial kings of arms.
A grant or patent of arms is made to
a man and his male descendants; this
gives him a fee simple of them, that is
to say to him and to his male descend
ants equally and altogether and to his
female descendants in a qualified man.
ncr-i. e., for life, to bear the arms in
lozenge or impaled with their hus-
bands arms (if the husbands have
arms, as arms can only be brought in
by arms), or, if they be heiresses OF
| CONGRESSES, on an escutcheon of pre-
tense upon their husbands shield, and
in the last case their descendants IN
herit such maternal arms, but only as
quartering.-Ni Century.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
Happy KIinsenberx.

The happiest place in Europe is said
to be Klingenberg-on-the Tt is
the one prosperous spot where every
body has work and an income, and
where there are no taxes, either local
or imperial, because the income of the
municipality suffices for everything and
leaves bonus for distribution besides.
Happy Klingenberg! 1t is all due to
a little wisdom and foresight on the
part OF the local administration many
years ago. There are valuable beds of
freclay in the neighborhood and these
the municipality had the prudence not
to sell to make the fortunes of other
people, but retained for the benefit of
the town. The profits pay all taxes and
the inhabitants get the surplus divided
among them. Young men going into
the army received this year a present
of Is marks each.-Tit-Bits.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17
ARE YOU LEFT-HANDED
Were the Aboriginals Ambidextrous In
Their Practice of Art?

Their Practice of Art?
DIR. Daniel G. Brinton discusses the
question of left-handedness in North
American aboriginal art. If hands
worked in the past as they do to-day.
then in primitive times the left-handed,
it would be supposed, were not many.
Take 100 Americans, and from two to
four per cent. only are left-handed.
This two or four percent. may do gem
era1 work better or more easily with
the left than with the right hand. In
the 90 per cent. of right-handed peo-
pie there may be some few who are am
bidextrous. ''Has this proportion al
ways been the same in the human spe-
cies, and does it obtain to-day among
savage tribas?" DIR. John Evans, as
quoted by Sir Daniel Wilson, believes
that there was a manifest predomi-
nance of right-handedness among the
paleolithic f1int-worSers of southern
England On the other side, De Nor
tillett, after a careful study of asa stone
scrapers coming from France and
Switzerland, arrives at the contrary
opinion. In the University of Pennsyl-
vania, among a collection of fints of
the very earliest types, found on the
Libyan plateau, near Abydos, there are
two, both of which, DIR. Brinton writes.
are made for a left-handed man. 1t is
difficult to describe, without giving
great space to the subject, how the
archaeologist can exactly determine
whether a tool was to be used in the
right or the left hand. Studying 200
stone or flint blades coming from vari-
Gus parts of the United States, the
largest proportion was made for the
right-handed. But, nevertheless, there
was ''33 per cent. for" probably left
handed persons, or, as DIR. Brinton
writes it, ''for persons, as I prefer to
believe, who were ambidex-
trous.' That there must have been
left-handed artists becomes more clear
in this way. Ask anyone to draw
profile, and almost invariably the right
handed person makes the face looking
to the left, while the left-handed per-
sons sketch is to the right. In ex-
aiming, then, a collection of Amer
lean aboriginal rock drawings there is
a predominance of profiles looking to
the left, but not infrequent occurrences
of profiles in the opposite direction.
DIR. Brinton comes to the conclusion
that De Mortillet was correct, also that
there were more left-handed or am
bidextrous American aborigines than
Europeans. Perhaps, as DIR. Brinton
indicates it, the specialization of hands
came with a more recent culture
American Anthropologist.