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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-09-04
SATURDAY SEPT. 4, 1897
AT IT AGAIN.

Another piece of deviltry has
broken out again in the Cade Sec
zion. Last Saturday, at one of
those country balls, 80 prolific in
6rswls and general cassedness.
CASTOR Theriot, who, it would
seem, wants to be considered as
the cyclone terror FROM the head
Waters of Bitter Greek, got into
an alteration with Louis Hulin.
From a jawirg match it was but a
step to fisticuff, aclinch, and when
the combatAnts were separated it
was found that Theriot, had been
badly cut, being stabbed in sever
81 places, aud the wounds were
quite serious. Hulin Immediate
" after the affray came to town
and surrendered to the Sheriff and
hooked up in Jail.
The section in which this fight
took place, has earned most IN
enviable repution for lawNssness.
It was but a few days when MUIR
der was committed, and such little
pastimes as .brawls are SO common
as 10 scarcely call for any notice.
The MESSENGER does not pos
sess the personal acquaintance OF
the parties engaged in this little
diversion, and coDnot say what is
their reputation for peace and
sobriety, but judging from the
hooks of some of the friends, OF
the. prisoner, who were on oui
streets Sunday morning, we dc
hot hesitate to say they look fol
all the world like people who
would enjoy going into the open,
jump up crack their heels, crow
Justify and play game cUck on the
dung hill!
Something must be done to
curb the evil propensities of these
people. Steps should be taken
to teach them that they have 60,
to keep the peace. Let our public
officers prosecute vigorously, and
allow no let-up until this deviltry
disappears.
We understand that Theriot has
requested that Hulin be not pro-
secuted, as he, Theriot, was the
aggressor. If such be the case
and Theriot RECEIVERS from his
wounds, he should be afforded ar
opportunity to reflect on the evi
ways of the transgressor. The
opportunity in the shape of push
ing a wheelbarrow on the Louisi.
ana levees for some months would
fit his case.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-09-04
II Saves the croupy Children.

Seaview, Wave have a special sale
on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. and
our customers coming from far and
near. speak of il in the highest terms
Many have said that their children
would have died Of Group II Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy had not been 81
ven.-kellam Il Ourren. The Is and 81
cent sizes for sale by I. j. Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-09-04

matter his nationality will feel
proud TO be a citizen of and our
jails will hardly be needed to hold
prisoners. The money collected
for the public school should be
faithfully and honestly used for
the education Of the children need
ing such institutions and none but
competent and efficient teachers
should be employed in them, If
any good results are expected, and
the politician who wait until the
schools open to be employed will
hunt some other occupation, and
will not impose their ignorance on
the public. -VindicatOr.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-09-04
Valuable to Women.

Especially valuable to women lie Browns
Iron Bitters. Backache vanishes, headache
ness, and the glow of health comes TO the
pallid cheek when this wonderful remedy ID
taken. For sickiy children or overworked
men il has no equal. No home should he
without Browns Iron Bitttrs. For sale BY
"All Dealers"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-09-04

oERFEcT and permanent are the
cures by Hoods Sarsaparilla, be-
cause it makes pure, rich, healthy,
life and health-giving BLOOD.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-09-04

Educate Your Bowels with CAscarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
i0c, &c. II O. c. c. fail. druggists refund money.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-09-04

Mrs. LOUISA HALE,
Of JEFFERSON. e., sats:
''When 6rst took Wine o. Cafdui
we had been married three years, but
could not have any childre0. Wine
months later had lne Girl baby"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-09-04

For advice IN cisss REQUIRING special
directions. address. giving symptoms,
the Ladies' Advisory Department -
The Chattanoosa Medicine Co.. Chatta-
nooga. Tenn.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
ENCOURAGING siGNs.

Interviews with leading merchants In
various lines of trade In New York show
o consensus Of opinion that there will be
n marked improvement In business with
the opening of spring and that lf there
is judiclous revision of the tariff
by the next congress there will
be, before the summer is passed, Il
general revival of Industrial activity that
must give the country prosperity. The
business men who express this opinion
have trade all over the country and
therefore keep themselves well Informed
Regarding the conditions everywhere
one of these said: "Cool-headed business
men can reach no other conclusion than
that good times are ahead of us. One
reason for such a conclusion is found
in last years trade balances. In 1879,
one of the most prosperous years in our
history, we congratulated ourselves that
there was over S3OO,0O0,000 to our credit
in the international trade balances. This
year our credit will be millions more
than that Our exports during the past
year have been heavy and our imports
light. For the first time the United
States heads the list of the creditor ma
tions OF the world. This means national
prosperity" Another said that what
we most need to bring back a revival of
business Is the enactment of protec-
tive tariff measure, which would in
crease the demand for American goods,
stimulate trade and provide a revenue
sufficient TO meet our expenses.
1t is certainly not lack of money that
prevents business revival. In the last
ten weeks the deposits in the clearing
house banks of New York Increased con-
sidernbly over Sl0000O000 and accord
ing to the last weekly statement the
reserves of these banks We're S4I,0O0,00o
in excess of the legal requirement. There
is cheaper money in the United States
than in the European money markets
and instead of borrowing money from
Europe. as was the case a year ago, we
have been loaning money abroad.
Whereas at this date last year gold was
| flowing to Europe and the treasury was
| preparing to issue bonds to replenish
| the depleted reserve, now that reserve
is nearly S140O00,OO0 and growing. Our
| exports continue on liberal scale, as
suring unless there should be an uneX-
pected increase in imports, II still larger
balance of trade in favor of the United
States.
All these are Dlost encouraging condi-
tions and amply justify the opinion that
the country is at the threshold of an era
of great business activity and prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

tion Of loanable capital that would tend
to equallze tho rates of interest gener-
ally. But how far this is TO be promoted
by legislation Is question. Banks will
be established only where there Is prom
Use Of profitable business and loanablc
capital will go only where the credit of
the people is such as 10 invite It, This
Is the case under present conditions. 1t
is matter of business, not to be mate
rally affected by legislation.
The suggestion of n monetary commits
sion to be appointed by authority of con-
gress Is not likely to be adopted. In
that case a commission to be named by
the executive committee of the Indian
apolis convention will formulate a cur
rency bill. 1t probably cannot get such Il
measure before congress before next
December and it may be year and a
half hence before it can receive any con-
sideration. In any event n measure
framed on the liues suggested by the
indianapolis convention is certain to fail.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
-- 7---7==----
PROPOSED NOTHING NEW.

The deliberations of the indianapolis
monetary convention contributed moth
ing new toward the solution of the prob
lem of currency reform. The conven-
ton declared for the maintenance of
the gold standards for the ultimate re-
tirement of United States notes by some
process that would avoid injurious con
traction of the currency; and fora bank
ing system that would give an elastic
circulation and better distribution of
loanable capital 1t suggested a none
tary commission to be authorized by con.
gress to consider the currency question
and report to congress, or if such legisla-
ton cannot be secured an executive
committee appointed by the chairman
of the convention shall create com
mission to devise a plan of currency re-
form to be presented to Il meeting of the
convention called by the executive com
mittea.
Such is the outcome of n conference of
representative business men from which
Il good deal was expected, and it is dis
tinctly disappointing. 1t has not re-
moved any of the difficulties of the prob
lem which the convention met to con
slider, it has not shed any new light on
the currency question, and it has not
shown that these practical business men
have any more or better ideas ON the
subject than the politicians in congress.
There is not "A proposition in the resolu'
tions adopted by the monetary conven-
tion which has not already been pre-
scented in congress and freely discussed
in the press. There is nothing new about
them and they do not acquire any added
merit or strength from the declarations
of the indianapolis convention.
So far as the maintenance of the gold
standard is concerned, that has been de.
creed by the people. That standard has
been the basis of our currency for many
years and it will continue to be for
many years to come, The most impor-
tant feature of the indianapolis declara-
tion relates to the retirement OF the legal
tender notes. The convention, as was
expected, favored getting rid Of these
notes, but II did not suggest how this
could be done without iHjuliously con.
tracing the currency or disturbing the
business of the country. 1t recognized
this danger, but offered nothing to avert
it. 1t is IA proposition that is opposed
by large majority Of the American
people and which no political party will
adopt. Retirement of the legal tender
notes as condition precedent 10 eur.
rency reform is at this time utterly Out
of the question and its agitation use
less, 1t is undoubtedly desirable that
there should be better banking facilities
in portions of the country and distribu'
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
PARTING OF THE WAYS.
Prediction of Triangular Fight
Four Years Hence.
st. Louis REPUBLIC tsiIver-dem.)

St Louis htpuplC NSlNer-uem.D
what will the popuists do?" is one of
the interesting questions growing out Of
the recent alliance campaign. An intimation
of the answer as to a part of them at least
is contained in the address of George f..
Washburn of the populst national executive
committee.
Mr.. WgShburn calls upon the popuists to
reuyganize for an independent campaign on
a greenback platform His address and the
utterances of the leaders comforting in this
city emphasize the fact that the democrats
anu populists We're not held together by an
enduring bond. Many populistS revolted
against fusion before election day and re-
ioiced over the defeat of the democracy.
The bulk of these who clung to fusion re-
garded the silver issue merely as a make
shift and, as Mr.. Washburn expresses it,
IAN entering wedge" to the main issue of
greenbacks.
Populist members of the legislature in this
and thus signihed their intention to act
with the party. 1t is probable that in this
and ether states many democrats who had
wandered into populism will not return to
it, but will stay in their own party. But
certainly all of that crowd of political wild
steers known as the middle-of-t -the-roaders
will probably get together on a platform
which will embrace fiat money and all the
isms of the extremists.
As hard money is a basic principle of
democracy, this action on the part of the
populists must signify the parting of the
ways Of the late allies and a triangular
fight four years from now.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
A WINTER SERENADE.
ChiCnrO nccord
HE FOUND 1T AT LAST.
Now York Hornld.

New York Herald
He found he had a liver-just by accident,
one day,
And his life grew blank and lonely, and he
was heard to say
That marriage was a failure and life an
empty dream;
That hopes and high ambitions were far
from what they seem,
While endless strife and struggle to gain
n distant goal
Was like reaching after moonbeamS that
would ever further roll.
4 foolish, fond delusion-these words he
heard to say,
When the doctor introduced him to his
liver one bright day!
He found he had liver and the sun re-
fused TO shine,
And, drinkless and cigarless he was forced
to peak and pine;
The earth was overloaded and the sky no
more was blue,
Though all else round him seemed of that
ccrulcan hue
And there was no fun in living-even ex-
iStCnce seemed a bore
Why did foolish poets sing of 1t in old and
modern lore?
Did not youths Illusions vanish, just as
summer roses fade?
This was after the acquaintance with his
liver had been made,
He had always known his liver was located
somewhere near
He had read lot about it during many
college year;
But an intimate relationship quite different
became,
After that unhappy meeting he never was
the same
He forsook his wife and children and left
his happy home,
And started on a pilgrimage, about the
world to roam:
And he got him to montery and donned
cowl of gray,
Just because he found his liver acci.
dentally one day!
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

Disastrous Eject Of IdIencss in Penal
Institutions.


A Sing Sing N. Y, convict has taken his
life being induced thereto, it is said,
through the influence of the enforced idle
ness to which the new state law condemns
convicts Other conyicts complain bitterly
of the idleness, claiming death is preferable
to life in prison with absolutely nothing to
do. The legislation which prevents con-
yicts from engaging in useful labor is an
error born of -mindedness and dem
agogism. Why should convicts be exempt
from the rule, I'm the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat brcad?" Why should men
who have violated the laws of society be
supported thereafter by the labor of their
lawabiding fellows instead of by the work
Of their own hands? Convicts should earn
their living as well as other folks
Men convicted of crime are kept in prison
not in vengeance but for the protection
of society and for their own good. Society
is not benefited by driving convicts crazy or
making their Hives miserable and useless.
Their possible reformation Is an object to be
kept steadily in view Work Is a great aid
to discipline, ana helps keep the men in
good health and Counteracts a disposition
to mutny and make trouble. When men
learn in prison useful trade the chances
of their becoming decent citizens when they
get out OF prison are fairly good. If, how
ever. they are kept in idleness they in
evitably go out OF prison worse criminals
than when they entered.
Humanity and sOupd economy both dictate
that eonvicts shall be engaged daily at some
thing which will occupy their time, atten-
ton and energies and contribute to their
maintenance The competition OF men in
jail need not be more formidable to other
workmen than the competition OF the same
number of men out of jail II a shoemaker
in wrath cuts a man the shoes which he
makes in prison will not be more competitive
in the market than the shoes he made when
out of jail, unless they are placed on the
market at less than the price at which free
labor can make shoes with profit. This
should be forbidden.
The only valid objection to convict made
goods is the low price at which,
under the contract system, these
articles have been placed upon the
market. Protection from this form
OF cheap labor is legitimate demand. but
that is quite different thing from absolute
prohibition of convict labor, which some
agltators are always urging and which some
legislators have provided, to the great EN-
barrassment OF their state penal institutions
and the injury of those confined there In
idleness.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Weyler Is well satisfied with his work in
Pinar del Rio, or says he Is, and II really
does appear that he has cleared that province
OF everything except insurgents.
Governor Leedy, the new executive of Kan
sas, recently had a unique experience. Two
years ago, when the governor was senator,
he befrlended small newsboy. He recently
received and accepted an invitation from the
same boy to supper.
If Senator Morrill, of Vermont lives until
March next he Will have served FIVE full
terms In the United States senate which no
man has yet done His nearest competitor
was Senator Benton OF Missouri, who served
four terms and a half.
Prof. Rudolph Falb. the celebrated meteor
ologist OF Vienna, Is lying bedrldden in that
city. He has wife and Ave children and
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

Georgia's governor, William Y. Atkin-
son, Is at present making tour of the
Pacific coast and is expected TO make his
way east by way of Ogden and Denver.
He ought to be induced TO include Ne
braska and Omaha in his route so as to
secure an impression of the magnitude
and prospects of the great Transmissis-
sippi Exposition. While Georgia is not
one of the transmississippi states, its
good will and cooperation in this en-
terprise is something worth cultivating.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
SPOoNER or WISCONSIN.

The republicans of Wisconsin are to
be congratulated upon the nomination
of ex-senator John G.. Spooner to sue
ceed Senator Villas in the United States
senate. This action will be heartily well
coined by republicans everywhere who
know of the great ability of Colonel
SpoOner and of the excellent record he
made in the national senate. During
the one term he served in that body he
became a recognized leader on the repub-
lican side and there can be no doubt
that he will resume that position when
he returns to the senate. Colonel
Spooner is one of the ablest men. in the
country. He is distinguished as law
yer, he is n forceful ana eloquent orator,
and his repubIcanism is of the most
sterling quality. 1t is not too much to
say that he is the peer Of any as an eX-
ponent and advocate of republican prin-
ciples. That he will be an earnest sup
porter of the next administration of
course goes without saying. His nomina-
tion by the joint republican caucus
was unanimous. Such men as Colonel
SpOoner elevate the character of the
national senate and improve its claim
to public confidence.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

The collapseEof the uncompleted White
Paper trust may be justly attributed to the
exposure of its plans in the hearing the other
day of claimants for tariff taxation for the
protection of paper makers before the ways
and means committee of the house of rep
resen:atves, and that being the case, Chair
man Dingley is to be congratulated on hav-
ing achieved one useful purpose by his
tariff hearings. The best results to the
public are obtained by free and open compe-
tition in the manufacture of white paper as
in other products of industrial enterprise,
and the failure of an effort to form a trust
Is to be welcomed as a healthful sign in the
commercial world. When a trust fails
individual operators have a chance to COM
pete in the open on a fair field, and as compe-
titon is the life of trade, the death of trusts
is the quickening of enterprise.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
Governor DrnI.e's Dilemma.

NtW lOTK Null anu T'NNTVSs'
1t Is certainly an interesting position which
Governor Drake of Iowa is alleged to have
assumed as a result of a mandamus to compel
him to commission John X. Prime as a
brigadier general in the National guard,
after decision by the courts that Prime was
duly elected. The governors attorney is
on record with declaration that If his client
is committed for contempt he will pardon
executive ard judicial branches of govern
ment in Iowa suggestive of the executive
legislative tension at the national capital.
An easy solution would be to place the gov
ernor in solitary confinement. and have the
prison authorities carefully avoid all service
by him of pardon papers.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

the entire family are in state OF extreme
dcstitution. a number OF Berlin scientists
and savants have started fund for their
relief
Prof Won Bcrsmann, the great Berlin ply
siclan, recently celebrated his Goth birthday
when a portrait OF himself by Lenbach was
given to him by his present and former as
sistunls Many OF the old pupils OF Berg
mann attended the celebration, some from
distant cities.
former emperor OF Russia wanted rail-
road built from 81. Petersburg to Moscow.
Learning that engineers could not agree upon
a route lie called for map. Taking ruler
and a pen he drew a straight line between
the two cities, saying: "That is the route;
now bald the road" And II was built.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

one of the farmer members of the Ne
braska legislature has the temerity to
propose to repeal the law enacted to put
down the Russian thistle pest. We
thought the Russian thistle law was
passed in response TO unanimous de.
mand on the part of the farming popu-
lation of the state. Can it be possible
that the law has accomplished all it was
designed to attain within the brief period
of two years?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
The Georgia Antitrust Law.

There has been talk of the way the new
antitrust law in Georgia is smashing the
monopolies AS matter of fact it is not
affecting the monopolies at all, so far as
anybody can see. Some of the trusts have
released the wholesalers in Georgia from
their contracts to buy only of the trusts,
but as the latter are in pretty full posses
sion of the field this simply means that the
wholesalers must continue to buy of the
trusts and pay trust prices. They can cut
prices in Georgia all they please, but it
will be at the expense of the Georgia deal
ers and not the trusts. The Georgia law
is a copy of the Illinois antitrust law,
which has not proved to be more effective
than the federal antitrust law.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

The Transmississippi Exposition bill
prepared by the Department of Promo
ton and introduced by Representative
Dudley Smith is framed in the best in
terests of the enterprise and should be
favorably acted upon by the legislature
without unnecessary delay.