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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-04-03
Practical Men VS. Petted Oar
lings.
Daily Item.

Daily Item.
President Mckinley has, because
of some of his diplomatic and con-
sular appointments, earned the ill
will of certain set of men and a
certain class of journals, which
will only serve to commend him
more highly to the average Amer
lean citizen.
The immortal Lincoln once said,
that God must love the common
people, He made SO many of them.
The great emancipation of those
common people, and SO is his par
ty successor, President Mckinley,
and he is proud of it.
SO long as MIR. Lincoln lived he
was, in the eyes Of the dilittante,
the "baboon and the ape from H.
linois. When he was martYred
he became the hero to be worship
ped by those classes who now OBJ
ject to "Hoosier" Gowdy, of Indi-
ana, and who protest against his
coming between them and the
wind of official patronage.
The exquisite" Times-Demo-
crat, Maurice Harris petted and
curled darling, objects to Mr..
Gowdy's appointment to the con-
sui generalship of Paris as 'mal-
appropriate" and classes the gen.
tleman Mr.. Mckinley has thus
selected as genuine type of the
hay-seed," who does not know a
ga word of French" and is as "au
fait of French ways and manners
as hoosier farmer might be ex-
pected to be-"
The Item is not aware that such
exquisite qualifications are at all
necessary in a consul general, how
ever much custom, at least, might
demand them in a diplomatic Sc
lection. The position to which
Mr.. Gowdy has been assigned is
one embracing purely connections,
and we can assure our sensitive
and delicate neighbor that il its
finical management visit Paree
during the next eight years they
need have no direct communion
ton with the ''hOOsier from Indi-
ana" His business will be to
wise" their passports, perhaps,
which they can send to the cons u
late by the hands of lackey or
poke at the "Hoosier" with a pair
OF tongs.
Mr.. Gowdy is an honest, capa-
bic business man, and goes to
France as consul general to attend
to the business affairs of the
American people. If he does not
please the LIGHTHOUSE growth of
our civilization" SO much the bet
ter, for their displeasure CON-
mends him only the more to
Americans, aud they are the "com-
mon people"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-04-03
mon people,

Mrs. A. Tween, residing at 72O Henry
st., Alton, ILL.,, suffered with static rheu-
matism for over eight months. She doc
tOrcd for it nearly the whole of this
time, using various remedies recOmmen-
ded by friends, and was taeated by the
physiciani, but received no relief. She
then used one and a half bottles of
Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which effec-
ted complete cure. This rs published
at her request, as she wants others SINH
larry afflicted to know what cured her.
The Is and 30 cent sizes for sale by T. j.
Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-04-03
OFFICIALLY CUT.

Daily Item.
The statement that Engineer
Wellington, of the Desha Levee
Board, cut the levees in order to
save that portion of them known
as the "Laconia Circle has been
confirmed.
This settles the all-levee system.
When an engineer, employed by a
levee board, the president of which
is the accredited agent at Wash
ington of all the levee boards, cuts
a levee by order of that president.
and cuts it to reduce the flood tide
and protect other levees from
break, and other sections from
overflow in consequence, We have
a direct and positive condemnation
of the system.
The Item suggests that before
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-04-03
NOTICE TO LICENSE PAYERS

NOTICE TO LICENSE PAYERS
of the Corporation Of st. Martinville.
License payers of the COporationof st.
Martinville are hereby notified that Ii
censes for the year 1897 are Row due and
cOllectable. aud must be paid before
April LIST 1897.
All licenses not paid at the date will
be turned over to the License Attorney
and collected with costs.
A. ". FLEMING, Collector.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1897-04-03
Cause Of Low Wages.

BY studying the history of the
land system of the world we find
in all quarters of the globe that
the land was once considered COM
mon property, the same as the sum
shine, the air and the water. We
find that during the period of free
land men were free; that as the
system of private ownership in
land grew, freemen disappeared
and their places filled with slaves.
We find that it was during the free
land period that ancient nations
were in their glory, and that their
decline commenced, in every in
stance, after the land had been
monopolized. In England in the
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, land was practically,
Free and during that time the law
makers of England were occupied
principally in enacting laws to re-
gulate wages and to punish labor
ers for refusing to work for the
wages fixed by law. Even the
death penalty was not sufficient to
keep down wages, but finally Eng
land parasites discovered the cause
OF high wages, and then the land
question and taxation claimed the
attention of the lawmakers, and
restrictive laws for the regulation
OF wages were unnecessary.-In-
dianapolis Workman.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
The Impending Crisis.

Eds. Record Union: The mer-
chants meeting of last night is to-day
the talk of the town. 1t is now only
10 a. m. and have heard views ex
pressed pro and con, the affirmative de-
claring that the way things are tending
the mercantile business will soon be
confined to department stores and the
railroad shops, at least as far as Sac
ramento is concerned, which, in their
line of reasoning, is just as ii should be,
for why should the public pay the ex
orbitant rent of S25, 900 per month that
is exacted Of the tenants between
Fourth and Seventh streets only, on the
storerooms from south side of K to the
north side of ] street, comprising alto
gether two and on-half squares. These
tenants, they say, must make this SO,
0O0 out Of the profits on their goods,
thereby robbing Ito use their term) the
public of so much clear gains. while the
department stores own their premises
pay no rent. less than halfwages to
clerks, therefore are able and do sell
for less profit, thereby benefiting the
purchasers. Now that is one view of
the situation.
Now the other side, and to that side
l belong, takes quite a different view
and indorses most emphatically Mr.
Frankel. The more equally trade is
distributed the greater number engage
ed, the more universal the benefits. If
every farm in California comprised but
fifty acres, the cultivation would be
many times more thorough, the produc-
ton far greater. the benefits to the
manufacturers, to the merchants and
every line of business would thrive far
beyond the estimation of the narrow
minded. conservative economist. If
every merchant in Sacramento carried
but one line of goods, it is evident that
there would be not a single vacant store
room on ] and K streets to-day but to
the contrary, many new ones would
have to be built to meet the demand
also new dwellings would have to be
constructed instead of the hundreds of
ITO Lets" that are on every street, and
on the increase. 1t is true, as Mr.
Frankel states. that instead of 81
and Sc weekly, and weakly clerks
that do the hard work of these "octopii'
stores. twice and three times the wages
would be the compensation of en-
ployes. Then look and see the result
ch CNIiS Siue MOI SfuSle
enterprise but what would be benefited
The farmer in every line Of product
| would get an impetus of the reciprocal
wave of the city's growth and prosper
| ity.
| The evil of these mammoth octopus
establishments are upon us and is con-
| tinually growing. We are all sufferers,
property are sufferers. the pro-
| fessional men are sufferers; the poorly
paid clerks are sufferers; the mechanics
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
CITY RACE TRACKS.
How the Streets Are UnlawfulIy Used
for Racing.

The police force has done such good
work in compelling cyclists to obey the
law relative to use of the streets and
the danger to pedestrians, and the act
ion Of the Chief and his force is so thor
oughly commended by the people in
| that matter, that it would be an ex-
| cellent thing for a similar experiment
to be tried relative to reckless driving
in the streets.
| Saturday night vehicle was driven
| from Tenth TO Second streets down K
early in the evening" a breakneck
| speed, yet no one was arrested, and the
fellow driving was not even called up
| on to halt. But such scenes are of
daily occurrence. Yesterday tab"
| was kept as the result of a resolution
to ascertain how far people go in vio-
| lating the law and in one hour, about
dusk, fourteen buggies, single and
| double, passed a given point on a resi-
/ dence street in the center of the town,
driven at from ten to twenty miles an
| hour.
OF thirty-two others only five were
| estimated to be within the law fixing
the speed at five miles an hour-ad-
mitted to be too low a speed rate 1t
ought to be seven miles. However, it
| is the law that five miles is the allow
able rate, and whoever drives faster
than that violates the law, and the city
authorities do not seem disposed to
change it,
Last night at quarter after eight
two buggies drawn by spirited animals,
went tearing down Sixth street from K
| starting III at l. street to race. One
| team was driven by a man with a child
| beside him, the other by two young
men. The race was a hot one, side by
| side, and the speed easily twenty miles
an hour. A citizen mounted on a BIZ
cycle called to the men to halt, and he
took after them to ascertain their iden-
| tity. They went through the dark
| street like a flash, but finally slowed
down at o street. One gave his name
mumblingly as Bones or Jones, or
something like that, but the others re-
fused their names. The wheelman was
alone, could not make out the faces
In the dark, and though demanding the
names and addresses of the parties, had
to be content to see them drive off
without being able to identify them so
as to procure their arrest
- NOGSll cltlZellS came 10 the cycl1St
afterwards and offered freely to tes-
tify to the speed of the driving
warrant will be taken out to-day
and an endeavor made to find the men
and have them arrested. Fast driving
! has become such nuisance and dan
| ger that determination has been
reached among several citizens to put
a stop to 1t if possible. A few exam
pies would serve the purpose
Had any team or pedestrians last
evening, at S:15 been crossing Sixth
street at NJ or n streets when the rae
ing drivers made their mad run. moth
ing could have prevented a collision.
| one crossing is SO dark that it is i'm
| possible to see an approaching team
twenty feet away, and one in vehicle
would have been prevented by the
| noise of his own buggy from hearing
| the light buggies that We're raced on
| the soft cross-street
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
A GAY DECEIVER
Holcomb's Engagement With Miss
AdeIine Hills Broken Off.

A San Francisco paper says that Miss
Adeline Mills of that city, who an
nounced a week ago that she was en-
gagged to Chester Holcomb of the Chin
csc Legation at Washington, now an
nounces tl.at her relations with Mr.
Holcomb are at an end. Miss Mills
telegraphed her aunt, Mrs. A. NJ. Eas-
ton to that effect on Friday last with
the request that the news be conveyed
Immediately to her friends.
Mr.. Holcomb is well-known for his
works on China and the Chinese people,
While in San Francisco last year he
met Mrs. Florence Moore a young and
attractive widow. Her fortune was not
large, but she had expectations, for her
father, P. B. Cornwall, is wealthy
man. The wedding of Mr. Holcomb
and Mrs. Moore was set for next month
and the lady was asked to make the
necessary arrangements while Hol-
comb returned temporarily to Washing
ton.
Meantime Miss Mills and her sister.
Miss Florence Mills, and her brother
Edgar Mills, visited Washington during
the Inauguration ceremonies. There
Miss Mills met Mr. Holcomb, and all
though he is nearly fifty years of age
he was accepted by the young lady
Miss Mills informed her friends in San
Francisco of the engagement and the
announcement was published.
To Mrs. Moore it was a great sur
prise, but she was soon convinced of
the authenticity of the engagement
Then frigid dispatch was sent to the
recreant lover. He did not deny the
fact but asked Mrs. Moore to suspend
Judgment until she received letter in
which he attempted an explanati ton
The relatives of Miss Mills investigat-
ed the matter and upon receiving as
surances of Mr. Holcomb's engagement
to Mrs. Moore communicated the fact
to Miss Mills. She broke the engage
ment at once. Mrs Moore acted with
equal promptness, and now Mr. Hol-
comb is at liberty to make all the en-
gagements he desires.
Miss Mills is the eldest daughter of
the late Edgar Mills. the banker of
Sacramento, and is a niece of D. O.
| Mills of New York and San Francisco
She is one of three orphans. The chill
dren resided for a short time at the
corner OF California and Octavia
streets, but have spent most of the
time since their fathers death in tray-
ell. Two years ago they went to Eu-
rope, but returned to enable Miss Flor
ence Mills to act as bridesmaid at the
wedding of Charles A. Baldwin and
Miss Ella Hobart at San Mateo last
July. The family remained in San
Francisco few months and then left
for the East, where they have been
since.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03

are all sufferers. What can be done to
check the evil? That is what puzzles
the wisest heads. Like the phylloxeria
and Goblin moth, hard to exterminate,
though possibly to some extent con-
trolled, it seems to me as a layman
that mercantile departments should be
classified into three or four grades and
each department should pay quarter
ly license (not in advance) according to
the amount of its sales. This system
would compel each and every merchant
to present a sworn statement of his
quarterly sales. The license, of course,
would be proportionate. Now, if there
can be more salutary plan to equalize
the mercantile trade than this, l, for
one, would like to hear of it and see it
adopted. AS it is, another decade will
see, 1 peradventure, three-fourths of
poor Sacramento in ruin and maybe it's
people numbered with the nomadic in
dustrial army DR. q. SMITH.
sacramento MAY 1St.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
CENSUS MARSHALS' RETURNS.
The City'S Population Put Down al
Close on $4,000.
An Increase of School Children of
More Than 200 Since
Last Year.

The City and School Census Mar
shalS have completed their labOrs and
submitted their returns to City School
superintendent Erlewine, but have not
yet been thoroughly gone over by him.
1t is possible that the official results
may show some changes from the face
of the returns.
The population of the city, as taken
by wards, is put down at 29,635, and
the ward figures are: First Ward, p
6SS; Second, 2,S55 Third, 2,19S:
Fourth, 3,071; Fifth, 1921; Sixth, g.
1852; Seventh, 4,040; Eighth, 1881;
Ninth, >, 169
The total is several thousand less
than the general estimate, but it must
be remembered that there are two or
three thousand people now living just
outside the corporate limits who have
moved out of the city, where they can
more easily keep COWS and poultry,
have vegetable and fruit gardens, and
likewise escape the excessive city rate
of tax.
At the city election in 1895 the total
vote cast was 6,502 1t has been Gus
tomary all over the country to allow
five persons for each voter, and at this
rate the city's population would be
nearly $4,000.
The school census just completed of
children between the ages of and II
years shows:
First Ward, $50 as against 1917 in
1886; Second Ward, 610 as against 552;
Third Ward, 46S as against 00S; Fourth
Ward, 4o1 as against 419; Fifth Ward
100 as against 100: Sixth Ward GIL as
against 800; Seventh Ward, 946 as
! against go; Eighth Ward 693 as
against G62; Ninth Ward, 666 as
against GA. This shows an increase
over 1896 of 204.
Children under ) years-First Ward
10 as against 50 in 1896; Second Ward
oh as against 267; Third Ward, 80
as against POP; Fourth Ward, 10 as
against 113; Fifth Ward, 34S as against
Al; Sixth Ward, 26S as against 257;
Seventh Ward, 81 as against 33S;
Eighth Ward, 33S as against $50: Ninth
Ward, 316 as against 26S This shows
falling off of 103 in this class of chill
dren. The total number of children
under II shown by the present census
| is I,115-an increase of Ill over 1896
The census figures for the last five
years are: Children between the ages
Of and II years-1S93, 5.034; 1894
DIGS; 1895, sos; 1896, 5.236. The
number of children under the age of
D was, in 1898, 2.00U; 1894. 2,021; 1895.
2,OSS, and in 1896, 2,36S. The total
number of children under II was. in
1898, 1904; in 1894. 7,1S9; in 1895 =.
$50, and in 1896, 1904.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STATE
Capitol commissioners, Sacramento, Cal
ifornia, April 49, 1897.
Bids are invited for painting the Agri-
cultural Pavilion building, and for plow-
ing, leveling and filling in the lot on the
southeast corner of the Capitol grounds
bounded by the sidewalk on n and Fiji
teenth streets and said Agricultural build
ing, also lot on north side of east wing of
the Pavilion.
The building to be painted white, in a
good workmanlike manner with first-claSs
materials samples to be furnished with
bids All materials, labor and appliances
to be furnished by the contractor Roof
paint to be OF the kind and quality used by
the S. p. Co. on their depot buildings, or
other equally as good to be specified and
samples furnished with bids.
Lots to be first plowed, then filled so as
to slope to grade of sidewalk, and leveled
in good, workmanlike manner with good
garden soil. under direction of the State
Gardener, NJ H. Dunn.
Bids for above will be received up to l
o. clock p. m. May 10, 1897 at the Office of
the Secretary of the State Board of Capt.
toll Commissioners, at the Governors Of
flee, to be considered thereafter, the board
retaining the right to reject any and all
bids. All bids should be addressed to the
Secretary of the board, at the Governor s
office. and marked Bids for painting State
Agricultural building" or Bids for filling
in grounds j. M TODMAN,
Secretary Board of Capitol Commissioners.
my2-1w
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
The Blessing of Strong n erves

Is recoverable, not by the use of mineral
sedatives, but by a recourse to effectual
tonic treatment Opiates and the like
then as sparingly as possible Vigorous
nerves are quiet ones, and the most direct
way to render them so is to reinforce the
vital energies. That sterling invigorant,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. will be found
all-sufficient for this purpose, since it en-
tirely removes impediments to thorough
digestion and assimilation of food, so that
the body is insured its due amount of nour-
shment, and consequently of stamina
Rheumatic tendencies and affections of
the kidneys and bladder are also counter
acted by the BitterS, which is besides q
thorough medicinal stimulant, infinitely
purer than the raw excitants of commerce,
which react injuriously upon the nervous
system.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
THE FESTIVAL. TUESDAY.

INSTITUTE BAND, 10 A. NJ; INFANTRY
Band. p; m; Militant Band, p. M, Baby
Awards, 2:30; Club Bicycle Contest, 3l0 D. m:
Business Mems Races, 3:3J p. M; Ladies' BIZ
cycle Awards Immediately after; new award
for Boy and Girl Graceful Riding of the
Wheel. Games on the road leading from
center east Wheel Races on outer path, be-
ginning just east of toboggan. Carriages adj
United, but not to drive on outer road until
p. III. Children in arms free, children under
IL, % cents, with fare to and from park
adults, so cents. Bowling under charge Sac
ramento Bowling Club. Toboggan under di-
rection .. +. Dodge. Order under direction
G. H. Smith. Guards under direction Detec-
tive Max Fisher. Booths under direction of
the ladies. Games under direction of Tom
Scott and committee 1t
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
PRESTON SCHOOL.
A Change in Its Management About
to be Made.

1t seems to be generally understood
that Governor Budd intends making a
change In the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
Preston School of Industry at lone, and
that }. Carl Bank. the efficient Superin-
tendent, will be asked to retire to make
room for a Democrat.
Ex-Sheriff Thomas O'Neil of this city
is said to have the Governors favor for
the place, and that the change will
shortly be made
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
EVERYBODY'S COLUMN.

Cnder this heading the Record Union"
will publish short letters from CORE
spondents on topics Of interest to the
general public. The matter in these COM
munications will be understood to repre-
sent only the views of the writers. All
communications must be accompanied by
the name OF the writer, not fo- publica-
ton unless so desired, but as guarantee
of eyood faith-EdS
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
Fertile i'm Expedients.

CraWford-Do you mean to say he
swallows half pint of whisky at a
time?
Crabshaw-Aboutt that You know he
promised his wife to take only one drink
a day during Lent-New York World
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03

MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over fifty years by mill
ions of mothers for their children While
teething with perfect success. II sootheS
cures wind collie, regulates the bowels, ana
is the best remedy for diarrhea, whether
arising from teething or other causes for
sale by druggists in every part OF the
world Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup. Twenty-Five cents
a bottle.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03

Sacramento Lodge, No. H. o. Of H. S., Sunday, May 9th,
IN CONNECTION WITH THE GRAND
Festival of Concordia Lodge No. 20, of
Woodland, in honor of the Grand Lodge of
California. TICKETS FOR THE ROUND
TRIP, 81, including admission to picnic
grounds. Children under II years of age,
soc. Trains leave r. r. Depot at $50 a. m.
sharp. Returning, leave Woodland at
p. M, arriving at Sacramento at p. m.
m3-3t MFrSa
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03

The very interesting and instructive
statement furnished herewith ac
credited by Mr.. Shepard to the report
just presented by the California Citrus
Growers Tariff Committee to Congress,
and it may be relied upon as being cor
rect
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
81 IS A GALLON.

PURE ICE-CREAM, MADE FROM
genuine cream and favored with the
costliest extracts, delivered at your resi-
dence at 81 35 per gallon. Ice-cream soda
THE OAKLAND, IA X Street.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
SPECIAL NOTICES

Vehcles-Baker & MISUNDERSTANDING
Carts, Buggies, Carriages. Phaetons, BAN
Farm and Header Wagons, wholesale
Hardware. Send for catalogue.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
ANNUAL CATHOLIC PICNIC,
EXCURSION TO WOODLAND,

TO BE HELD AT ARCADE GROVE THURS
DAY, May Z, 1897. Tickets, 70 cents. Trains
leave al $50 sharp. my3-4t
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
MRS. WINsLow,s SOOTHING SYRUP

KENT BROS, 1917 Third street, for car
riages, buggies, rigs of all kinds at short
notice Telephone New. 215; old, 511.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03

coronado water, Stockton Sarsaparil-
la and iron. champagne cider. ginger
ale. orange cider. j. McMorry. agent
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03

T. A LAUDER-Carriage buggies
Buckeye, Crown and Osborn mowers anc
all-steel rakes. Call, before purchasing, al
1905 K.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03

Quick-meal Gasonne and Blue Flame
Oh Stoves. S. ]. Jackson, 423 ST.