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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-02

three hours past the appointed time be-
then we moved to the hotel in body
10 find the widow gone She had taken
a train al the very hour she was to
meet MS, and with her had gone our
cash. Old Jones called her an adycn-
turess and voted 60 pursue and arrest
her, but we voted him down by d large
majority and decided not to make fools
of ourselves any further. In fact, we
decided TO become liars instead. and
during the rest Of our stay we boldly
denied that any Of us had cared any
thing for the widow or had lent her
dollar.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-02

y III IuItHV IIdUt TtVVNWIKtH IlIN n
ans only claim TO distinction ia the
fact that he Is the biggest disaster this
country ever escaped. An additional
fortunate part OF the affair Is that the
country ~ fully aware Of what IL cs-
capped, and Is going to keep on escaping
this bowling calamity. Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-02

Five years later, while / was at an
other spring this time a cold one for
the benefit Of my digestion, a lady and
gentleman drove up one evening from
the depot, and nj once recognized the
Widow Hendricks. She was just as
young and cute and pretty as ever. but
l took il that she had been married
since ! saw her last | didn't put my
self forward at all, but after supper
she ran across me on the vcranda. and
uttering a little exclamation of glad
surprise reached out both hands and
said:
why. Mr.. Renfew- George how do
you do" Why, haven't met you
since"
MADAM. beg your pardon, /" inter
rupted, but you seem 10 have made a
mistake"
but you are are George2"
NO. madam. Ny name is Boggs-
Abraham Boggs, Esq, dealer in grind.
stones, green hides and guano."
"And you never lent me a thousand
dollars 20 pay my drcssmaker2"
Never! That isn't Abraham
BogRs!"
but you"
"Boggs, madam I3oggs. I simply
happen 20 look like Mr.. Renfew, who
was probably some sentimental idiot.
and your mistake Is excusable. Try
some one else, madam good nighti"
DAVID wEcHsLEn
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-02
THE coLoReD MANS ANSWER.
Always the Way when Republicans
Are I'm Power.

Des Mones has business man who
is well to do, but who was nevertheless
carried away with the free silver move
ment last year He was not making
money as fast as he thought he ought
TO make IT, and so he cast his lot with
the free silver men, thinking thereby
10 improve his condition. lie talked a
great deal Of hard times and he sworc
a great deal at the gold standard. This
man has colored man as the driver
OF his carriage. The colored man heard
all about the iniquities OF the gold
standard. but 10 did not divert his nf-
fections from the republican party The
republican party with protection and
the gold standard thrown i'm was good
enough for him. Tie reasoned and re-
allied that the republican party has
never led this country astray. Tie was
still willing 20 trust il with power.
Recently wheat went up and silver
went down. The farmers have been
making more money than they did be-
fore in many years, and the laboring
people Of Des Moines MS well rs Of the
country generally are well employed.
The colored man thought the time had
come to remind his employer OF these
improved conditions: "Now what have
YOU TO say2" he asked; "whcat's Co
Ing up, everything else Is going up cx-
cept silver, which none Of Us have 10
sell, and the laboring men are all en-
ployed." The free silveritc was stu
unwilling 20 yield. He explained that
our better times are not due TO pro-
lection, nor 10 the gold standard. and
finally that our better times wcrclarge-
~ imaginary.
"But wheat Is higher" said the col
ored man.
"Why, Of course tits; but thnt is not
due TO the gold standard or 70 pro-
lection, nor 20 the republican pnrty."
"What Is IL due to2"
1T Is due to the fact that there are
extensive crop failures IN Europe"
tits mighty strange" said the col.
orcd man 10 his employer, "that there
should be crop failures IN Europe and
higher prices In America every time
the republican party is in power. Guess
the old republican party Is all right
yet. gold standard and protection
thrown in"
The free silverite was at the end OF
the conversation Iowa State Regis
ter.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-02

ryThe lows silver calamity platform
has one or two holes in IL where the
planks have druppcd through. One Of
The plnnks reads: Prosperity has not
made IFS appearance; the mills and
shops are closed down; the army OF tho
unemployed IL growing larger. and the
farmers OF Iowa arc marketing their
crops az lower prices than ever before"
This IL one Of the planlss which took a
big drop. II was written In June.-Cin
cinnau Commercial Triiune.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-02

alt Is especially unfortunate for
last years silver orators that the one
article towhich they were especially De.
voted Is the only one which dies not
enjoy the general advance In prices.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-02

EvThc sockless Simpson told the
farmers Of his district that if Mckinley
were elected money would increase in
value and farm products would de-
crease; that condition resembling
slavery would result among the people
OF Kansas, with wheat nj IS and corn
az ten cents per bushel. And now the
Kansas farmers are doing some fcorn.
ful laughing.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
THE DANGER POINT.

Times Democrat.
The action of the United States
Weather Bureau in raising the
danger line of the Mississippi at
this point three feet is most signi-
cant, and call attention to the i'm
proved condition of the levees
here. The danger line is now Is
feet over low water mark as COM
pared with 13 feet heretofore.
The danger line here has gener-
ally been four feet below the top
of the levee. When the water was
that near to overflow it was natur-
ally regarded as dangerous and
the people warned to be on their
guard and keep a sharp lookout.
To-day the levees are we'll over 19
feet, aud even at that height there
is likely to be very little wash.
The absurdity of continuing the
danger line at ID feet, when there
is margin of six or seven feet
between the river and the top OF
the levees, is manifest, and the
danger line has been advanced to
Is feet, and will be reported on
that basis from this time forward
In other words, it is recognition
by the United States government
that the levees can stand three
feet more water now than in pre-.
vious years.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
NEGRO WHIPPED.

We have learned that a negro
named Clay Robertson, living in
the Barras section or near Cata-
houla, was badly whipped by some
white men, and is now in bed suf-
fering from the effect of the whip
ping.
We understand that the offense
of the negro was no other than
that he wanted to buy a piece of
land that one of the white neigh
bors wanted, and for this crime he
was mobbed and severely beaten.
This is case of objectionable
lawlessness and brutality that
should be thoroughly investigated
by the authorities. The negro we
presume knows who are those who
composed the mob, but is undoub-
teddy afraid to give out their
names or to make the proper affi-
davits to bring them before the
court to answer for the criminal
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
,READ WITH BEST FLOUR.

First see that a knowledge of tho
principles is acquired, and their
application later will become not
pleasant, but profitable.
No occupation is better calcula-
ted to call forth the learning OF
the man of science than that of
agriculture, and none in which
man can engage with more honor
or to which more honor should be
attached. Good farming is the
handspring of national progress.
The farmer who calls to his aid
the light Of modern science and
doubles his crop per acre is justly
entitled to more praise than he
who build cities.
When the first general assembly
of the agriculturists of France was
held its first president, NJ. Drouyn
de rHuys, in his opening address,
said:
Agriculture is the noblest Of
professions; stable as the earth
which is its base, pure as the sun
shine which enlightens, free as
the air which gives it life; it RI
pens reason, fortifes the charac-
ter and elevates the soul toward
the Creator by the continued spec
tacle of the miracles of creation.
Agriculture is seated upon the
granite upon which the state the
reposes."
All honor, then, to agriculture
as science, as an art, and as the
mainstay of the nation.-W. NJ.
King, an Washington Post.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
assault upon him.

upon him.
We would like to see Sheriff
Rees do in this case as he did IN
the case at Cade, take the matter
in hand and investigate it, and If
the reports are correct to bring
the guilty parties to answer for
their effense before the district
court.
The sheriff can put a stop to
lawlessness if he wants, and IT he
tries, he will have the full support
and assistance of the whole CON-
munity.
Our parish is a very peacable
one now, and the few cases of law
lessness that we hear of are liable
to occur everywhere and at any
time, but if suppressed at the be-
ginning by the strong hand OF the
law. no bad result will follow.
Let the Sheriff make it his duty
to maintain peace and to protect
all citizens from mob vengeance.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20

As prattling infant might have
foreseen, the President is seeking.
or is having thought for him, a
lvop-hole for the evasion of the CT
vii service regulations. The plea
is that the late appointments of
Cleveland were made in partisan
spirit and can therefore be proper
ly disregarded.- States.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20

The reports indicate that we
will have high water this Spring
that may possibly trouble those
people who live on the edge of the
wood, but fortunately the rise is
early enough to allow the water to
retire in time for them to make
corn and cotton crops, which gen.
orally grow we'll after an overflow.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
Agriculture the Mainstay OF
the Nation.


It has been well and truthfully
stated that agriculture may well
be studied both as science and
an art. 1t is science because it
is based on natures laws, and an
art because it can be made produc-
tive of those articles that contri-
butte 30 much to the welfare of
mankind.
Agriculture is a science which
explains the mode of cultivating
the ground so as to cause it to
produce in plenty and perfection
those grains, fruits and vegetable
products which are useful to man,
and to such animals as are reared
by him for food and labor.
For those reasons, if for nc
others, the principles of agricul.
tural science should be taught in
all schools and colleges, as well az
any other of the sciences and art
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
GOLFERS WEEKLY.

OF all Weekly Papers there must be
one which is the best; Golfers Weekly
is that one.
II is made by a combination Of the
greatest writers and the greatest artists
In the world, who are regular cOntribu-
tors to its pages, and each Of whom oc-
cupies a rage every week.
1apo w. Hazeltine writes the EditO-
rails. There is no living man who sees
clearer, thinks straighter, and can con-
vey thought with such cOgency and
charm az he.
Edgar Saltus writes Our Note KOok.'
The wide scope and brilliant quality Of
this famous writer's mind peculiarly at
him for this function.
Julian Hawthorne does our "Vita-
scope" These papers add week by week
to the wealth Of reputation already
wOrld-wise.
Last. but not least, Edgar Fawcett.
In his Men, Manners and Moods" finds
himself at his best; and that best In IN
surpassed by any contemporary author.
His social philosophy, his satire. his hu-
NOR and his poetry constitute him the
favorite writer Of men and women Of
the world.
As for our Artists words cannot de-
scribe pictures. and those drawings will
speak for themselves. So bright q gal
axy of famous names az We expect to
present never before sh0ne together In
any journal.
This Incompatible paper goes to every
subscriber for $500 year, payable 50
cents every month. On receipt Of your
order the paper will be sent you for one
month; then our collector will call on
you for the 6rst payments Of 50 cents.
and he will call for similar sum every
month, until the full subscription Of
81 90 is paid. In no other way can the
money be invested to secure such ample
returns Of intellectual profit and plea.
sure. Address
GOLFERS WEEKLY,
52l to $40 West Thirteenth Street, and
$50 to 532 West Fourteenth Street, New
York.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20

The Washington Post is autho-
rity for the rumor that a red-ear-
ed rrbbit weighing eight pounds
was recently killed in a Boone
county, Missouri graveyard, and
that the left hind foot was at once
dispatched to William j. Bryan
States.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20

Will there ever come a time
when Populist can reach a plane
where he will be safe from the as
saults-and we think in many in.
stances uncalled for, venal attacks
from the press of his own par
ty? Just now some of these news
papers are abusing Senator Ste
wart who has done as much for the
Populists and their success as any
man in the party.-S. Progress.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
Deafness Cannot be Cured

SAAsASSS
BY local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There Is only one way to cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness IL caused by an infiamed con-
dition of the mucous lining Of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube gets In
famed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when 1t Is entire
" closed deafness is the result, and IN
less the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out Of ten are caused by
Catarrh, which Is nothing but an infia'
med condition Of the mucous surface.
We will give One Hundred Dollars Tor
any case Of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
Price 75c per bottle. Sold bv all drug
gists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20

Sheriff Isaac Broussard made an
assault upon d. G. O'Malley pro-
prietor of the Daily Item, last
week, because the Item had pu-
blished him some time ago as a
defaulter. Broussard struck O'Mal-
lev on the head with his fist, knoc-
ked his hat off and put O'Malley
OH all fours.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
SATURDAY MARCH 20, 1897.
TROUBLE AT CADE.

Some trouble has been brewing
at Cade, this parish since a few
days, growing out of a difficulty
between one of the Fuselier boys
and a negro. The negro involved
in the difficulty when he thought
his wife was in danger took re-
fuge in the house of another ne
gro, Mani Daniel, who refused ad-
mission to the white man into
his house in pursuit of the negro.
This angered the two or three
men engaged in this trouble, and
they ordered both negroes to leave
the country under threats of death
and the burning of their house.
Sheriff Rees was notified of these
facts, and accompanied by deputy
Ernest Beslin, visited Cade, but
saw that it was nothing but per-
sonal difficulty between two or
three white men and q negro.
Tuesday evening the Sheriff was
again notified that mob of white
men was to gather at Cade and
set fire to some buildings there,
probably belonging to the negroes
and ordering them away and per-
haps doing some bodily harm to
some of the negroes of that little
town. Sheriff Rees with deputies
T. L. BrOussaard, Ernest Beslin
and J. E. Bertrand arrived at Cade
Just in time to meet a mob of about
twenty white men all armed with
shot guns. In that mob were on
ly three or four persons from
Cade, the others being from thu
Parish of Lafayette.
We learned that Sheriff Rec,
handled the mob pretty roughl!
and dispersed them.
We are pleased at this action o
the Sheriff, and we hope that a
any cost he will preserve peace il
the parish and crush lawlessnes
and mob law.
With the enforcement of tn
law and the administration of jus
tice in the hands of our perple a
it is today there is no reason 70
the existence of mob law, and th
Sheriff should make it his duty t
crush all snch move in its ince
piency.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
Bilious Collie.

Persons who are subjects to attacks of
bilious collie will be pleased to know that
prompt relief may be had by taking
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarr-
hOea Remedy. and il taken as soon as
the first indication Of the disease ap-
pears. it will prevent the attack For
sale by L. j. Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

In our last issue we said no po-
litics would be involved in the town
election, and it would be conside-
red by our people simply as
business matter, but since things
have taken turn entirely politi-
cal and the wires are being pulled
for all they are worth.
Tuesday night a mass meeting
was called by a petitioned signed
by forty three voters, and held at
the Court house for the selection
of five candidates as Town Trus-
tees. The meeting was organize
by calling A. r. French as presi-
dent and Mr.. Il. j. Bienvenu as
secretary.
The following names we're selec-
ted:
Albert Bienvenu,
Eugene Olivier,
j. A. Guerin,
Adolphe Cormier,
j. III. Bienvenu.
The opposition ticket is compo
sed of the following persons:
Albert Bienvenu,
George Eastin,
w. H. Livingston,
Leonce Pellerin,
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
FOR SALE.

Improved aud unimprOved town lots
on both sides of Bayou Teche in st. Mar
tinviIle. Apply to CAB. CARDINAL,
Oct-14-96. st. Martinville, La
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
No GRIPPE

When you take Hoods Pills. The big, Oldfash-
toned, sugaf-c0ated pills, which tear you all to
pieces, are not In II with Hoods. Easy 10 take
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20

druggists &c. C. I. H0Nl & Co., Lowell Mass.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-03-20
Hoods

and easy to operate, Is true
Of Hoods Pills, which are
up to date in every respect.
Safe. certain and sure. All
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-11-26
Embossed in Gold.

To buy and reproduce famous paint.
ings involves an expenditure that
could hardly be borne unless, as in
the case of The Youths Companion
the enterprise is sustained by the APP.
prevail of more than five hundred
thousand subscribers. The Compan-
ions Souvenir Calendar for 1898, a
series of charming figure pieces, faith.
fully copied in colors and embossed in
gold, is recognized as one of the rich
est and most costly examples of this
form of art. Yet every new subscrib-
er receives it without additional charge.
Moreover, the paper is sent free to
new subscribers every week from the
time the subscription is received until
January, 1898, and then for full
year to January, 1899.
The popular price of the Companion
S1.75 year, and the character of its
contents, make it paper for every
household. Exceptional attractions
are promised for the fifty-two num-
bers to be issued during 1898. The Rt,
Hon. w. 4. Gladstone. the Hon. Thos.
b. Reed, Rudyard Kipling, Lillian
Nordica, John Burroughs, w. ID. How
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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-11-26
SALE.

Whereas default having been made In the
conditions of a certain mortgage made by
Sarah Ashby TO Grace Hamet dated June 10Th,
ISg5 and recorded In the Office OF the register OF
deeds for the County of ST. Clair, State OF Mich
iSan. ON the 2lst day of June, A. d., 1896, in
mortgage there is claimed TO be due at the date
nj this notice the sum of one Kindred and
lightweight and 52-iOO dollars, principal, inter-
esf and taxes, and "a reasonable attorney fee,
nroyded for in said mortgage and no suit or
proceedings at law having been instituted to re-
cover the moneys secured by said mortgage or
any part thereof.
Now therefore, by virtue of the power of sale
contained in said mortgage, and the statute In
such case made and provided, notice is hereby
given that on Monday, the 10Th day of December
1897 at ten o'clock in the forenoon Of SAID day. l
shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder
mt the front door of the city hall. in the city of
Port Huron, st. Clair County, Michigan, that
being the place where the Circuit Court for st
Clair County is held, the premises described in
said mortgage, or so much thereof as may be
necessary TO pay the amount due on said mort
gage with eight per cent. interest and all legal
costs The premises being described in said
mortgage as follows: A piece of land in section
two in town two north OF range sixteen east, and
Kendall, on the east by the channel bank OF st.
Clair river on the south by a line running par
allel with said north line from the channel
bank of st. Clair river, TO a point one hundred
and siXty-fOur feet west of the public highway
and on the west by line parallel with SAID
highway and one hundred and sixty-fOur feet
therefrOm; said land being i'm width of one
hundred feet measured on said highway.
Dated Port Huron, Sept. Is, 1897.
GRACE HAMET,
JOHN L. BLACK, Mortgage.
Attorney for Mortgage Pills
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-11-26
DROBATE ORDER.

State of Michigan, County of st. Clair. IS.
AT a session of the Probate Court for said
County OF st. Clair, held at the Probate Office in
the City of Port Huron, on the 22d day of Nov
em6er IN the year one thousand eight hundred
and ninety seven
Present, Hon. Frank T. Wolcott Judge of
Probate
In the Matter of the Estate of Martin Med
augh, deceased. On reading and filing the petl-
ton, duly verified, of Eleanor j. Medaugh pray
ing that she may be licensed TO sell the real
estate of SAID deceased.
IL is Ordered That Monday, the goth day of
December, 1897. at ten o'clock i'm the forenoon,
at said Probate Office, be appointed for hearing
said petition, and that all persons interested in
said estate appear before said court, at said time
and place, TO show cause why license should not
be granted TO Eleanor j. Medaugh TO sell real eS-
tate as prayed for in saidlpetition. And it is
further ordered, that copy OF this order be pub
liShed three successive weeks previous TO said
day of hearing, in the Yale EXpostOr, a news
paper printed and circulating in said County of
st. Clair.
3O-4 FRANK T. WOLCOTT,
"a true cOpy) Judge of Probate.
GATES & RAPLEY, Attorneys for Petitioner.