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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-02-19
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. r. Martin went to Lake
Charles Sunday; returning Mon
day evening.
Bishop Sessum was in town
Monday, and preached at the Epi-i
scopal church.
State Treasurer A. V. Fournet
returned home this week, after an
absence of several weeks.
Our friends of Breaux Bridge
are rejoicing at the prospect OF
having steel bridge in the near
future.
Postmaster l.. G.. Vautier has
received his commi ssion and will
take charge of the Post Office on
the 1st of March.
DR.. Eugene FL. Baylies left
Wednesday for Abbeville, which
place he intend to make his future
home.
The rain Wednesday night came
lust when our streets had been put
in fine condition, and they are
again spoiled to some extent.
Mr.. Frank Blackjack who keeps
the store adjoining the bank, will
close his establishment Monday,
He will locate either in Jeanerette
or Franklin.
Miss Marie Grevemberg, Of
Adeline plantation, st. Mary pa
IRISH, is the guest of Miss Stellt
Durand. Miss Grevemberg will
be here for the Carnival.
-Messrs. A. V. Fleming, Louis
j. Fournet, G. p. Fournet, B. L
Fournet and Misses Mercedes
Bienvenu and Clara Tertrou lef
for New Orleans last Sunday.
There was an Impromptu soire'
at the residence of District Attor
ney James Simon last Friday
which was quite largely attended
1t was most pleasant reunion.
The Greig Junior brass ban'
treated the public to sweet must
last Sunday evening from the bal
cony Of Duchamp's hall. The boy
are getting ready for Mardi Gras
The road machine did goo
work Oh our streets this week.
few days more of fine weather t
allow the filling of holes, and til
streets of st. Martinville will b
once more in good condition.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-02-19

No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC, 81. AL druggists
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-02-19
Probate Docket No 1862.

10Th Judicial Distric { Court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
THE SECOND CALL.

The second call of the President for vol
unteers will meet with the approval of all
those who have not assumed the role of
is more of an affair than many believed at
the outset it would be. The occupation of
the Philippines will require quite an army,
and, now that the insurgents do not mus
ter In large numbers, more men are needed
for the capture of Cuba than was generally
expected. Another seventy-ive thousand
men means a larger outlay of money, but it
means a smaller sacrifice of life 1t means
that when the blow shall be struck it will be
with force that cannot be resisted In
| deed. there is no policy so unwise so calcu-
| lated to prolong war and so destructive of
life as that which pushes an inadequate
| force into the country of an enemy to con-
quer It. To make sure of a short war pre-
pare for long one; to insure victory, have
an overwhelming force, and have it an or
| ganized army rather than a promiscuous
assemblage of men bearing arms To have
an abundance of men, to take time to have
them hardened and disciplined Is the one
way to secure speedy and satisfactory
conclusion of the war. There are those who
seem not to believe this, but in time most
people will BY the time the men already in
camp and on their way to rendezvous are
equipped and practically drilled, the next
seventy-five thousand can be enrolled and
put into camp. With such an army, when all
things are in readiness and the season Is
more propitious, the war can be speedily
terminated with much smaller loss of life,
and. in the end, with smaller expenditure.
The moral effect of raising and disciplin-
ing a larger army will go long way to
convince Spain that the conflict is hopeless
for that country. Numbers and the delay
necessary to make numbers effective is the
wise policy to pursue in regard to Spain.
which cannot increase it's army in Cuba,
and which has no money with which to meet
war expenditures. If Spain, under the pres
sure of European advisers, shall find some
way to give up Cuba, the one thing which,
more than all others, will lead the Spanish
leaders to see the hopelessness of their
cause is the raising and disciplining of over
whelming armies by the United States.
In calling out the next quota, all Nthe
States will profit by experience COMPANIES
viii be examined where they are raised and
no men will be taken to the State rendez-
vous who are not able to make good SOL
diers. The haste with which the men under
the first call were FASTENED to camp will be
avoided and less expense will be incurred.
In this State many more men have been
enrolled than will be needed. so that the
first question to be settled will be that of de-
termining which of the numerous organiza-
tons shall be called to fill the quota The
State can have the best in officers and men,
and it is probable that in the next selection
the aim of Governor Mount will be to OBJ
tain the best
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
rHE PARIs EXPOSITION.
Appropriation for the American Ex-
bibft May Be Cut Down.


WASHINGTON. May 25-while the pro-
vision in the sundry civil appropriation bill
for the proper representation of this coun-
try at the Paris exposition which was in
serted by the Senate, has not yet been taken
up in a formal way by the conference COM
mittee which is considering the bill. the sub
ject has had more or less attention from the
members of the committee as individuals.
The members appreciate the delicacy of the
situation They realize that they are acting
largely in a diplomatic capacity in dealing
with this subject, and accordingly are i'm
pressed with the necessity of proceeding
with caution. Their attention has been
called to both sides of the question, and the
fact has developed that there is an element
in this country quite opposed to making any
appropriation at all because of the alleged
partiality of France towards Spain In the
present war. The fact has also developed
that at least one member of the committee
is personally of the opinion that no appro-
priation should be made under the circum-
stances The indications are, however,
quite strong that this view Will not preVal
unless some open act of hostility should De
committed by the French people. The pre-
Vailing opinion among the committeeman
seems to be that the wise and proper policy
is to proceed in the matter just as would
Some of the representatives of the House
on the conference are of the opinion that
the Senate provision looking to the ultimate
expenditure of about $3.50, 900 on the exposl-
ton is too liberal, and that 1t would be at
any time more than this country would pc
justified in expanding upon foreign ex-
hibition. They are advocating a reductlon
to the extent of third Of that amount,
placing the limit at 100000, and 1t appears
probable that this change may be MADE
However, this is not decided upon, nor is
anything in connection with the provision.
All that can be said definitely now IS that
the committee whole is favorably dis
posed to make provision for an exhibition
of American products at Paris that will do
credit to our country and be an earnest OF
our good will towards France 1t may be
added that some members of the committee
even feel that the diplomatic situation IS
such as to render it more expedient than
ordinarily would be the case to act literally
in the matter now, and it is understood that
the administration has quickly presented
this view. There is a feeling that the APP
preparation should be made and that II
subsequent developments should prove its
expenditure unwise the President can be
trusted to act in accordance with the pest
interests of the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26

Kings" 'The Abduction of Prince william
Henry and a Study of the First Ma
puleon.' There is also chapter on the
not yet flourish in this country A num-
Der of short stories and sketches lend va
riety to the pages.
The Wide World Magazine contains ac-
counts of thrilling adventures and curious
happenings in all parts of the earth; also
descriptions of natural curiosities and Of
notable achievements of men. In the June
issue is an article describing the King of
the rUgandas, another telling how the Malay
takes MS pleasure, thrilling lion story, an
account of weird ceremony of the South
seas ana chapter entitled The Romance
markabla things seen by missionaries
something new in the, way OF marvellous
kumar Ghosko. This magazine is handled
in this country by the International News
Company.
In the Pail Mall Magazine Mr.. A. T.
Quiller-Couch asks and answers the ques-
ton why do we read poetry?" and Incl
dentally drifts into a discussion of the
methods Of teaching literature. He charges
that the tendency OF the schoolmaster is to
extract from poetry the one distinctive
thing which differentiates it from prose and
which would make it of value and interest
to the student. IT believe" he says, that
II, Tor one na1-nour day, teacher were
to read good poetry aloud with his pupils
not fretting them with comments, not har-
rying them with too frequent questions, but
doing his best by voice and manner to hold
their attention, encouraging them to read in
their turn, pauSing only at some salient
beauty or some unusual Uilticulty above
all giving the poetry time to sink in-I be-
lieve thoroughly that at the end of a year
he would find himself rewarded beyond all
his calculations. For a child's mind is a
wonderful worker, il only we trust it. Do
but interest a child in what he hears, and
out of school hours, too-though it be
against his principles. And let such pas
sages be chosen as contain points of inter-
est around which the chid's thoughts and
imagination may gather and play. Only be
sure that they are also such as cannot pos
sibly defile that imagination" Mr.. CUTLER
COUGHS remarks are directed toward the
English schoolmaster, but they might be
read with profit by the American instructor
also.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26

The great States in which the savings
banks hold hundreds of millions of the de-
posits of the masses did not vote for Mr..
Bryan-is this the real reason which impels
the Popocrats in the Senate to tax savings
bank deposits? The laws of those States
discriminate in favor of the millions of
small depositors exempting them in part
from taxation. The Bryan party in the
Senate has no such consideration for saw
ings bank depositors, but would make them
the special objects Of federal taxation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
REMEMBER THE MAINE"
Inscription Must Not Appear on Hard
Tack or other Supplies.

ST LOUIS. May 25.-The Globe Dem
ocrat's Washington correspondent says:
The secretary of the navy has given in
structions that contractors shall not put
upon the supplies furnished the navy the
words Remember the Maine" 1t is sup
posed Secretary Alger will issue like direc-
ton. This action was prompted by the story
that a baker of bareback at ST. Louis had
led off with a stamp with this motto on
every cracker he turned out. A Boston bak-
err adopted the same idea. The story was
published in the newspapers. Church bodies
have been memoralizing the government to
discourage TINS appeal to the revengerul
the war is humanitarian The purpose, they
say is TO put an end to conditions at our
doors which have grown intolerable. The
President and the secretaries take the
ground that the protest is we'll founded.
They will stop the Remember the Maine"
on the hard-tack
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26

A decision of the Supreme Court prac-
tlcally annuls all the laws of States de-
signed to restrict or prohibit the sale of
oleomargarine, on the ground that such in
reference IS a violation Of the constitu-
tional provision regarding interstate COM
merce. The cases went up from New
Hampshire. where the law requires that
oleomargarine shall be colored pink. and
from Pennsylvania, where the sale is pro-
hibited. The New Hampshire law was no
more prohibitory than that of Pennsylvania.
Tor the reason that pink butterine could not
be sold. The legislation in both these States
proceeds upon the assumption that oleo-
margarine IL a deleterious food. The con-
trary has been established; consequently all
that the State can do is to provide that 1t
shall not be sold for butter 1t is all right
Tor States to provide that oleomargarine
shall not be sold as butter. In fact, con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
CURRENT PERIODICALS.

Miss Laura A Smith has short story,
illustrated by Miss Anna Hasselman in the
June number of What to Eat.
The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing
Company is furnishing for 20 cents a very
convenient war atlas prepared by Rand &
Mentally, Chicago. 1t contains sixteen
pages of colored maps.
The June Art Amateur contains a. full
page supplement portrait of General Miles.
Drawing studies of animals forms another
supplement, and the color plate of the num-
Der shows a basket of cherries.
How to Get Beauty from Athletics" is the
title of an article in the June Metropolitan
Magazine which should attract the attention
of young lady readers. 1t is in the shape of
an interview with DIR, Anderson director
of the Yale gymnasium.
All properly constituted boys know how
to white, but few of them know that whit
Ting may be made an art. A writer in the
June ST. Nicholas tells how some curious
and interesting objects may be made by a
Skilful of the jackknife.
The National Geographical Magazine
washington, d. CO for June is Cuban
number. 1t contains description by Robert
T. HILL member of the United States Geo
logical Survey. of the situation and geo.
graphic relations of the island, statement
of the dimensions and configuration and an
account of the flora, climate, agriculture,
mineral products, etc, that may be re-
garded as official. The article is illustrated
by diagrams and maps.
The Current History Quarterly for the
first quarter of 1898 is classified summary
of the leading topics of the first three
months of the year. 1t covers the Cuban
question, the trouble between China and the
powers, the Hawaiian question, the Zola
| trial, currency reform, the Klondike de-
| velopments, national and international poll
| tics congressional proceedings, labor inter
ests, sports, ETC., and is altogether an in.
valuable book of reference New England
Publishing Company, Boston.
On account of the special timeliness OF
the June Century. the day of issue of the
magazine has been pushed forward from
the LIST of June to Saturday. May 49, This
number is to contain a paper on 1.-THE
| Spanish Armada" with an introduction by
Captain Mahan Ten Months with the
Cuban Insurgents" describing the expert.
ences of a major in the Cuban army; and
an article by the electrician of the torpedo
division in the Confederate navy, who laid
| the mine which blew up the first gunboat
ever destroyed by this means.
In the matter of illustration the English
illustrated Magazine is inferior to a mum.
Der of the American pictorial monthlies. but
| II contains very good reading matter
| Among the features of the current number
are papers on Field of Mr.. Gladstone's
First Campaign" Men Who Would b
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
CAUCUS POSTPONED.
House Republicans Delay Action on
the Hawaiian Question.


WASHINGTON, May 25.-General Gros-
venor. chairman of the Republican caucus
of the House of Representatives, said to-
day. after the adjournment of the House.
that no caucus on the Hawaiian question
would be held this week. Many of the
members have social engagements for
Thursday evening"" said he. "and are OPP
posed to a meeting then. Friday night is
set apart for private pension legislation;
Saturday night is impractcable for a eau
Gus; Monday is Memorial day. Hence. you
see, there is no time at which we could
conveniently get together before next Tues
day. BY that time" he added I'VE may
get together, and it is possible that no eau
Gus Will be necessary" He declined to say
whether there was any intention OF poStpon-
ing the matter long enough to permit the
Senate to dispose of the revenue bill Pre-
Vious to making this statement General
GroSvenOr had been presented with a formal
request to him to issue a call for a eau
signed by the necessary number of Repub-
lican members and asked that the caucus
be called for tomorrow afternoon or night.
Chairman Hit and others of the foreign af-
with Speaker Reed in behalf of a rule and
represented the strong majority of the
House in its favor, but while not making
a definite refusal he has not indicated his
assent. The members of the foreign affairs
committee are not disposed to join in the
caucus movement, but they assert their be-
lief, though not entire confidence, that a
rule will shortly be forthcoming and, pend
ing that, are not inclined to force matters.
The indications are that the question will
be delayed long enough to get the revenue
bill out of the Senate in accordance with
the understanding in that body.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26

per warrior. A press dispatch from Wash
ington printed yesterday. reported General
Miles as saying:
With regard to the invasion of Cuba
have nothing to say, except that the United
States will in due time bring Cuba under
its control by Judicious methods and with
out a useless waste of life. The United
States is too great, too strong and too DOW
erful to commit any foolish act in connec-
ton with the proposed invasion. AS for
myself / have only to say that no officer
is fit to command troops who from any mo-
tive whatever would needlessIy risk the life
of a single soldier, either from disease or
the bullets OF the enemy. have never sac
rificed the lives of men under my command,
and do not propose to subject them to any
unnecessary risks in the present campaign.
This is spoken like a soldier who under
stands his business and realizes his respon-
sibility. The American people, especially
the fathers and mothers of the volunteers,
will not think any less of General Miles be-
cause he wants to give them the benefit of
complete equipment and a few weeks drill
ing before leading them on an expedition
in which. they may encounter unexpected
opposition and unknown dangers.
The truth is, we were almost wholly I'M
prepared for the war when it began. The
regular army, scattered from Maine to Cali
fornia, was not sufficient when concentrated
to justify an invasion of Cuba. Since then it
has been materially weakened. as has the
volunteer force also, by the Philippines ex-
petition. 1t was some weeks before the
volunteers were mustered in, and now that
they are in camp they are raw recruits and
not yet equipped. Nothing but the most
pressing emergency could justify sending
such recruits to the Philippines, and as
good a soldier as General Merritt insisted
on large addition of regulars to the force
The administration is in no way to blame
for this situation. 1t IS the result of the
cheese-paring policy of starving the gov
eminent which has been pursued for years
past, in which politicians of the II object"
school were leaders, and which made it i'm
possible in time of peace to prepare for war.
1t is poor sort of patriotism which, after
helping to push the Nation into a war for
which it was not prepared, criticises the
administration for not accomplishing in a
few weeks results which other governments
reach by years of preparation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26

The local organ of free silver and ION to
Cuba is trying to make political capital
out of the fact that Cuba has not yet been
invaded with land force. 1t declares that
the invasion could easily have been made
with the troops available" and charges the
administration with vacillation and incom-
petence because it has not been 1t Is pos
sible the President. the commander of the
army and their military advisers under
stand the situation better than this newspa-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
COMBINATIONS by the Senate.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-The Senate to-
day confirmed these nominations:
J. G. Reid to be Indian agent, Cheyenne
River Agency S. D.; j. Jeffries to be sur
veyor of customs, Memphis, Tenn; r. T.
Greener, of New York, consul at Vladivo-
stok, Russia; G. H. Jackson of Connect
lieut. consul at La Rochelle, France; o. J.
d. Hughes, consul at Coburg, Germany;
V. E. Nelson, consul at Bergen, Norway;
H. H. Morgan, Of Louisiana, consul at
Aarau, Switzerland: Rounsevelle Wildman
of California, consul general at Hong-Kong
George F.. Lincoln. of Connecticut, consul
general at Antwerp; H. j. Hagerman, OF
Colorado to be second secretary of the en-
bassy at st. Petersburg; A. r. Lane. OF
California, to be secretary of the legation
to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador;
w. w. Rockhill, of the District of Column
bia, minister to Greece, Roumania and
Servia, TO take effect July L.
Army-ASsiStant QuartermaSterS, with
rank of captain, G.. h Holden of Mlnneso-
ia and C. B. Worthington, of Iowa; COM
missary Of subsistence, with rank of cap
tain, Eben B. Fenton. of Michigan; M. M
Marshall, of Iowa, and r. H. Beckham, OF
Texas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
General Notes.

WASHINGTON. May 25.-The President
to-day nominated John Jensen. of Okla
homa, to be Indian agent at the Ponca,
Pawnee. Ottoe and Oakland agency, in
Oklahoma.
To-days statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash balance
$2O4. 9l3, 057; gold reserve. $173.363643.
The negotiations designed to bring about
a settlement of all controversies between
the United States and Canada were begun
at the State Department at o'clock this
afternoon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26

Il is no time for the American Congress
to consider the question of coming a vacu-
UNI. which will be done when As cents
worth Of silver is stamped one dollar or a
piece of paper worth nothing is printed to
represent dollars which will not be paid on
presentation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26
Nicaragua Canal Bill.

WASHINGTON. May Ex-senator Stew
art to-day introduced a bill providing for
the construction of a canal across the 18TH
mus of Darien by the Nicaragua canal bill
route. The bill looks to the construction
and ownership of the canal by the govern
ment of the United States, which is au-
thorized to secure right of way from the
countries through which the canal would
pass. and to purchase the property of and
pay for the work done by the Maritime Ca
nal Company on the Nicaragua canal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26

If Boston should be found to be really
in danger she should station row of her
specialized maidens along the sea coast. The
Boston girl has ever been reputed for her
napproachableness. Yet, judging from the
Bacchante incident, man-of-war stripped
for battle" would cause retreat of such
a coast defense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-26

The effort of the Popocratic leaders in the
Senate to stop gold payments would, if sue
cessful, help those New York banks which
hold 1854. 1900 Of the yellow metal. But it
will not be successful The worst enemies
the country now has cannot force it to
suspension of gold payments.