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Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
Mother sFriien(I

we know that in thousands Of cases
IL mas proved more than blessing to
expectant mothers. 1t overcones morn.
Ing sickness. 1t relieves the sense Of
tt&htness. Headaches cease, and dan
ger from Swollen. Hard and Rising
Breasts 10 avoided. Labor itself IS
shortened and shorn of most of the pain.
We know that many doctors recon-
mend it, and we know that multitudes
OF women go to the drug stores and buy
1t because they are sure their PHYSICIANS
have no objections. We ask trial
Just a fair test. There is no possible
chance of injury being the result be-
cause Mothers Friend is scientific
ally compounded. 1t is sold at 81 a bot.
tie, and should be used during most Of
the period of CESSATION, although great
rellet is experienced If used only Short
time before childbirth. Send for our H.
Illustrated book about Mothers Friend.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR co.
ATLANTA, GA.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
PopulIsl Nominee.

On last Saturday a week the
convention met at Natchitoches
and nominated Hon. Fl. l.. Brian
for candidate for congress for the
Fourth Congressional district. and
from present appearances we think
he will be elected. Mr.. Brian has
friends in all parties as be is not a
hide bound partisan. He has shown
himself to be broad minded and
ready to recognize merit NO matter
where it is found. He has always
given the opposition parties credit
Tor I all they have done, therefore
from honest democrats he does
not receive that partisan antago-
nlsm usually accorded a strong
man in an opposing political party.
lie is brainy and we'll posted on
the status Of politics in the nation
and State. We will give d longer
sketch of him next week.--Sabine
Free State.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
CONGRESSIONAL
Joint Debate.

lhe nominee of the Peoples par
ty for Congress, Hon. Fl. L.
Brian of Natchitocbes, viii address
the people at the following dates
and places, at 10 o'clock a. M:
Minden, Monday, Oct. 3lst.
Leesville, Wednesday, Nov. End.
Many, Thursday, Nov. 3rd.
sodus, Friday, Nov. 4th.
Gibsland, Saturday, Nov. 9Th.
Coushatta, Monday, Nov. 9TH.
Hon. Phanor Breazeale, the
democratic nominee, has been in
Vlted to accept a division of time
and jointly discuss the issues Of
this campaign.
The public IS cordially invited.
Hon. + ;, E: G; Dillon, Many.
DR.. [. J. Tabor, Minden.
Hon. }. W. Williams, LeesyilIe.
Hon. J. E. Billiard, Sodus.
DR.. Z. H. Langford, Gibsland.
U. M, Giddens, Cousbatta.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
Another Turn OF Tho Screw,

A few days since a bit of politi-
cal history was made in this par
ish which is in keeping with the
political methods in vogue here.
We refer to the removal from Of.
fee of Mr.. j. T. Means, one of
the supervisors Of elections, and
the appointment of Mr.. j. Fl. Ma
bors in bis stead. Mr.. Means had
no intimation Of bis impending
doom and does not know even now
Of any legal or sound political
reason for his removal. The only
one we have heard given is that his
term had expired. This is rot, his
time was out only at the will OF
the powers that be. He is not as
rabid q machine politician as the
faction here which has the govern
or's ear wanted on the board of
supervisors. He is not an extreme
partisan, but he is as true Demo
crat as there is in the State and
has never been any thing else. He
can give some Of the instigators of
his removal pointers on Democru-
cy which they have not yet learned.
1t is such acts as this that makes
Governor Fosters administration
unpopular in this parish. There
was no good reason, so far as hon
est elections and the welfare Of the
Democratic party 60, for the re-
moval Of Mr.. Means. Mansfield
Journal.
Governor Foster and his faction
are just preparing to stuff Brea-
zeale in at the general election as
they did at the primary. They
know that they are not popular
enough to get the votes any other
way But | have promised my
friends to contest ali frauds in this
and ! defy Mr.. Breazeale
and his Foster henchmen to stuff
n or out the votes of white men.
The white men of North Louis
ana have sacrificed the votes of
many old soldiers, neighbors and
friends, in order to disfranchise the
negro and secure fair elections and
honesty IN politics, and Shy the !
,ternai they are going to have it,"
stuff if you dare Mr.. BreazsaIe /,
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
Happy Railroads.

"The railroad people are entire
y satisfied with the selection 0.
MIR. De Fuentes as railroad com
missioner for the first railroad dis
trlct. Indeed the local railroad Of.
ticials are pleased all round with
the selections made in the three
districts, and they feel now on
EASY Street. daily States.
Pleased with Will Foster ! on
course ! Why not? Didn't thew
put up the money to get the nomi-
nation for him. And the New Or
leans Daily States, which is the
Democratic Bible. assures US that
inc railroads are pleased all round
with the Democratic nominees
put wouldn't they howl if Prof.
Calhoun or Capt. Marston should
get elected, and wouldn't the peo-
pie all laugh.
Oh, II the people only had sense
enough to vote for themselves IN
stead of the railroads /! The peo.
pie would soon be rich instead 80
he railroads.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
In Easay Circumstances.

We are told that Peace Commits.
sioners Day and Reid get fee OF
$751; 900 each at the start. Com
missioner Moore's fee is put down
at $4,000. The other commission
ers get $50 day and this with
what is paid interpreters, stenog-
raphers and other attaches foots
up neat littlesum of S1O25 day.
But although the French govern
ment will do the bulk of entertain
ing in Paris, Uncle Sam proposes
to 90 we'll fixed on his own ac-
count. Out of politeness he will
pay the expenses of the women
who are invited members of the
party and there are said to be up-
wards of twenty. Allowance is
made for q good time in Paris
which is not liable to cost less than
$40, 900. In short, there is a bill
easiill III signt OF not less than a
quarter of million dollars for
the coming ninety days, aud who
knows how long the proverbially
slow business of making a treaty
may last a--Boston Globe.
And the farmers are told to
buckle up their belts a little tight
er and economize with cotton at 4.
cents and wheat at 40, and the
merchants who supply these farm
ers must beg and push and crowd
and drive and sue and mortgage
and foreclose, to get part of the
bill.
And yet you'll 90 on and vote
for lawyers who have brought on
these fat salaries, and low prices. |
Mr.. Breazeale believes in RAISING
salaries TO the highest notch, and |
voted that way i'll the Constitution
Il convention. Elect him to con-
press.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
Perjury and Fraud in Rap,des as
well as Natchitoches,

Now, Mr.. Editor, the Democrat
ic voters Of Big Island were sur
prised at the statement in Town
Talk of the 18th, in which it stat
eel that on the 9Th of Oct, the
Hon. Phanor BreazesIe received
IS votes ut the Democratic prima-
ry election at this precinct, when
1t is well known fact that no cleo
ton was held on that day at said
precinct. We had neither poll
book, taIley sheets nor ballots.
Now, while we don't cure for get
ting credit for any thing but what
is Justly due US, we are at a loss to
know who has voted us. Blythe
by, they must lave voted all the
registered ypters on the Big Island
poll book, Pops and all, for 80
registered voters is about all that
is on sud poll book.
BIG ISLANDER.
In answer to "Big Islander" we
desire to state that the Town Talk
got its information about the vote
at Big Island from the original re-
furns, which were kindly shown us
by Judge Hunter. member of the
Congressional Committee. If we
remember correctly, the name of
the writer Of the above letter was
signed to the returns as one of the
commissioners, SO it seems that
not only was ''Big Islanders" vote
stolen but his name forged as we'll |
.--EDIToR.l
And yet they will claim that
democrats are bound by such a |
nomination, and will expect white |
men and christians to vote for the |
regular nominee"
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
OBITUARY,

DIED-in Clontiervil|e, La., Oct.
10Th, 1898, Marie Brossett; aged
% Years and IS days.
One more soul has been called
above, and brave kind heart has
ceased to beat; all that was mortal
has been consigned to earth, where
the winds will mourn Il sad re-
QUEEN and birds and flowers play
around the quet tomb. A devo-
ted daughter and sister; a sincere
friend to all; she has left us, and
with her heart-breken mother.
brother and sister, we mingle our
tears for one whose place will be
SO hard to fill.
Yes she has left us all forever,
This beautiful one so dear,
But gone to a loveier life above,
80 we should not she'd tear.
But how can one suppress the
tears when she thinks of that moth
er sad, and brother too, who miss
her voice, and the friends whose
love she had, But our father calls
the beautiful from this world to
his realm above where strife and
care are never known-only peace
and love.
Good bye beloved Marie, tits
hard to part. But God his own
will claim, his flower garden must
be filled. So we submit in his
name.
A Eprrsrn W
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
Correct Abuses.

There seems to be q set deter.
mination on the part of the people
since the negro has been eliminated
from our politics, TO break away
from the party lash and be more
independent in casting their bal
lots. This is us it should be, and
| believe that you, as we'll as all
honest voters will agree with me
when | say that it is impossible
that we could have fair elections
under the present one party ring
methods. | for one am opposed
to ring rule. | am opposed to the
outlandish manner in which our
late congressional primary was
conducted. 1t is charged on all
sides that votes were openly bought
aud paid for. II this Is u fact. the
man or men who did it, should not
only not represent q free people in
Congress, nor anywhere else. but
should be looking from behind
prison walls, dressed in the suit of
n convict. A VoTER.--Coushatta
Citizen.
Vote against and defeat the nom
inee every time the Democratic
party uses such methods and puts
mp such candidates as they have
now, and the party will soon learn
to put up it's best men, and do it
decentIy. !
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
II Word
TO Doctors

We have the highest regard for the
medical profession. Our preparations
are not sold for the purpose of an,agon-
izing them, but rather as an aid. We
lay 1t down as AN established truth that
internal remedies are positively ;aiur;.
Gus to expectant mothers. The distress
and aiscomforts experienced during the
months preceding childbirth can be al
leviated only by external treatment-by
applying a liniment that softens and re-
lakes the over-strained muscles. We
make and sell such a liniment, COM
bining the ingredients in a manner
hitherto unknewn, and call il
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
Law Observance.

1t is difficult to conceive of apy
species of being, without annex
ing the idea of law. Matter has
Its laws, animals their laws, and
men and angels laws suited to their
capacities. And what is more re-.
markable, if any of those several
laws be violated by accident or
design, confusion, misery, or dis
tress is the sure consequence. This
proves to demonstration that
there can be no law, without either
a natural or annexed penalty. Thus
when a leaf is torn from it's parent
stem, the laws of it's nature are vi.
olated, aud it's destruction is the
result. When physical laws are
violated, pain, disease or death is
the result. When the civil law is
tranSgressed, in proportion to the
lufpltude OF the crime, the penalty
is incurred. Prior to the violation
of the moral law, there was no dis
ease, pain or death. Since that
the world is full of strife and I'm.
Happiness. The natural trend of
human nature seems to be toward
lawlessness and ruin. Were the
civil law to-day observed to the
letter, there would be no necessity
for jails nor courthouses, nor State
prisons, nor heavy taxation to re-
munerate officers to enforce the
law. Bitter and demoralizing DO.
lltical campaigns would be no more.
The doors Of our dwellings might
stand ajar at night, and the mer-
chant and the banker would feel
at all times secure. tn short.
prlmeval Eden would be restored.
Sacred writ says: "The way of
The transgressor is hard.D
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
Died {;

On the eve Of Oct. 18th, 1898,
the spirit of our beloved friend
Marie Brosset, passed into the
Great Unknown. She was strick-
en- down with swamp fever just "a
hours previous to her death. She
was the twin sister of Mrs. Rosa
Brosset, she was Is years and %
days old she leaves a host of rela.
tlves and friends to mourn her un-
timely death. She was of a bright
and cheersuI disposition, and loved
by all who knew her, and uncon-
scloasly had twined herself around
her father and mothers heart as
no others had done, and who could
not realize they had to give her up,
even in the cold embrace of death.
LIS SAD FOR one 50 young to die.
A FRIEND.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
Democratic Nominee.

10 you know how Dir. BreaZeal
got the nomination for Congress
Capt. Jim Foster and nearly al
the prominent men of Shreveport
fought the Railway Commission
while Breazeule was advocating
in the convention. They promises
Sutherlin their support for con
gress. But they must control th,
Railway Commission after the,
failed to defeat it. Capt. JIM
put up his son for Railway Com
missioner, and he and nearly al
the prominent men Of Shreveport
backed him with votes and money
He lacked 10 votes of enough tc
nominate him. Breazeale lacked
several primary votes Of enough tc
nominate him. Their managers
meet, the swap is made. The con.
yention and primary pass. With
the aid of much money each trader
lands. The Railway Commission
passes into the hands of it's en-
mics by a corrupt deal between
them and the faher of it-Mr.
Breazeale,
Whatever good it might have
done, it thus destroyed by its au-
thor for seat in congress.
Outside Of this claim, what are
his merits for congress. He voted
for all higher salaries; for all in
crease of offices; for the appoint
i've power OF the Governor; for
the exemption of corporations from
taxation; for the limitations on
suffrage and the emasculation of
our jury law. His campaign was
one chain of abuse of fellow Dem
ocrats, and a series of swaps, dis
graceful dickers, and the outright
purchase of votes. He obeyed
not a single rule laid down by his
party. Voted unregistered per-
sons in his primary, despite the
of the constitution and
MS party. Voted known Popu
lists and Republicans, then claims
to be the nominee of the Demo
Gratis. To gain a few votes in
Protestant sections, he or his
friends declared him a strict mem
Der OF the Methodist church, when
t is we'll known that he is Catho-
&c. What sort of congressman
will this man make9 Will the peo
'le go on forever voting for law |
1ers, and such rotten lawyers as
bis! Has the Democratic party |
descended to such a poor level as
hlss Beat such men, and the
'arty will put up better next time.
All good people should join to de.
eat this man who continues fraud
mong white men after the negro
as been disfraDchised. Vote for
I'M and you indorse all the rotten
ess and corroption of the recent
rlmarles and of the Constitutions
convention. Stay al home and
on give it half your Endorsement.
Strike one blow at corruption /,
y voting the straight, honest
opulist ticket.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28

!. Alter promising not to bind you
I you'd vote for their man in the
primary, the BreazeaIe crowd will
~ 20 persuade you to support the
~. IN the general election.
o'l 81 70 Your own ticket boys, and
we'll carry this parish and tia dis.
trict, and | defy MIR. Breazqala t.
count you out.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28

Most of the Populists have to
stick to the pillow for living.
stick it" to the pillow at the head
OF your ticket when you vote, and
there will be easier times for the
pillow.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28

Breazeale defeated SutherIin in
the Fourth District /; but what
honest man would not rather be
Sutherlin yanquished than Brea-
zeale victor, if reports from the
Fourth are true G--Mer Rouge
Democrat.
They are true. Mansfield Dem
oerat-Jonrnal,
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28

A few weeks ago Breazeale's
campaign sheet had Hardy Brian
managing Sutheriin's campaign
for him, Now comes his cam
align address and declares the
said Hardy Brian an ally Of the
Republicans. Verify, Hardy Bri-
80 il = wonderful fellow--an I'M
hn0wa quantity, indeed.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
NOT Pledged.

The vernon News" of las
week says | voted in the democrat
: ic primary on the 18th of Sept
and signed pledge to support tn,
nominee and now refuse to do so
and it therefore acknowledges tc
being mistaken in the man, etc.
Now if the News" can reat
and understand the English Ian
gnage it must know that it's state
ment that | signed a pledge" /;
untrne, / signed only the voting
list at the top of which was print
ed the rules Of the committee fol
the guidance Of the commissioners
In holding the election. (
The rules provided that the com.
missioners permit none to vote ex-
cept those who would pledge them
selves to support the nominee.
which pledge however, was only
required in the event of a chai-
lenge, and if any mans vote Was
challenged, | am not aware Of it.
furthermore, there was no nomina-
ton made on the 18th of Sept. [
am sure no intelligent person
would contend that | am under
obligations to support the nomi-
nee Of primary election in which
| took no part.
In a Peoples Party mass meet
ing called to nominate a parish
ticket III Nov. 1895, at Leesville.
some Of the leading democrats of
Vernon went into the meeting and
voted tickets by the "handsfull,"
yet they did not support the Peo-
pies party nominees. Ii demo-
Gratis are under no obligations to
the Peoples party after voting doz-
ems Of tickets each in d Populist
nominating mass meeting. | fail
to see where they have any right
to kick at being fed just a little
out of the same spoon.
All this noise about people hay
ing signed a pledge to support the
Democratic nominee is very good
party talk to hold "weak- kneed"
men in line and is the same argu-
ment put forth in every campaign
as far back as my recollection goes.
1t is but the mutterines of a sly |
and Shiny old serpent with which |
this country has been cursed for
many years. The peculiar whang
to his his Kissing is too well known
to the citizens of Vernon for him
to be able to hide his identity.
He is too hide bound with pre-
udlce to tell the whole truth when
mixed statement will answer his
purpose better.
The Democratic press even charg-
IS fraud and corruption all over
he District, even our own parish
S not free from charges Of ballot
'ox stuffing. Fraud vitiates all
contracts therefore every voter
hould feel free to vote as he choos-
IS in the general election IN tha
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28

Breazeale has got to~pull his new
constitution through congress. If
he stufs his way into congress and
gets exposed in a contest, what
will become of his constitution?
Let him stuff if he dares.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28

When the plow fourishes all
n ! business prospers, SO vote
for the pIow and save the country
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28

The army Of Germany boasts of
eight women colonels.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-10-28
LEE MCALpIN.

Lee McAlpin was sheriff of Yer
ron parish for s years, and was
elected in the national election OF
1896 as a Presidential Elector, cast
ing his vote for Bryan and Wat
son, and is pretty good authority
on the subject he handles above.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-07

She VIII Emulate New York's Famous Off
cial, Col. Geo. +. W'aring-Decides to APP
ply the Housekeeping system to Her Dis
trict-Does Away With Contractors.
First of all cities in the country to
employ woman as street-cle1 ning in
spector, is Chicago. But the woman,
Mrs. A. e. Paul, is not Chicago-born.
Like many other people of worth in the
Western metropolis, Mrs. Paul is a
York Slater. She was born in the
western part of the State, and was ed
ucated in a seminary in Canandaigua.
In youth. with the rest of her family,
she went West and grew up with that
boundless country.
Long ago Mrs. Paul became convinc-
ed that the streets of Chicago, partic-
ularly the side streets, could be kept
far cleaner, with no more expenditure
of public money. In her domestic life
Mrs. Paul is not the woman to sweep
the dust into a pile under the sofa and
leave it there. Much less would she
undertake to clean the parlors and
leave the kitchen, into which visitors
seldom stray, a mass of filth. And
now that she is in the employ of the
city Street Cleaning Department, she
will tolerate nothing which would be
abhorent to her as clean and order
ly housekeeper.
Mrs. Paul is not a clubwoman-that
is to say, she undoubtedly is a MEM
Der of women's clubs, but she writes
no essays on the women of the
French Salons" nor does she debate,
airily, on theories of how great cities
should be governed. She is a plain
spoken, matter-of-fact business wo-
man. All her life she has been accus-
toned to talking of the things and
doing the things that lay nearest to
her hands, and that is just what she
purposes doing in this instance.
Mrs. Paul went into this work not
without experience. She was volun-
teer inspector for a long time, & hide
Gus nightmare to the official inspec-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-07
The Part Machinery Plays in Farming.

The smallest implement upon a big
wheat farm is plough. And from the
plough to the elevator-from the first
operation in wheat farming to the
last-one is forced to realize how the
spirit of the age has made itself felt
here, and has reduced the amount of
human labor to the minimum The
man who ploughs uses his muscle only
incidentally in guiding the machine.
The man who operates the harrow has
half dozen levers to tighten his la
Dor. The "sower who goeth forth to
SOW" walks leisurely behind a drill
and works brakes. The reaper needs
quick brain and a quick hand-but
not necessarily strong arm nor a
powerful back. He works sitting
down. The threshers are merely as
sistants to a machine, and the men
who heave the wheat into bins only
press buttons. The most desirable
farm hand is not the fellow who can
pound the "mauling machine" most
Justify at the county fair. He is the
man with the cunning brain who can
get the most work out of machine
without breaking it. The farm laborer
in the West to-day, where machinery
is employed, finds himself advanced to
the ranks of skilled labor, and enjoys
position not widely different from that
of the mill-hand in the East. Each is
a tender of a machine
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-07
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