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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-03-12
LOCAL NEWS.

Miss Lizzie Knapp, of New
Iberia, is visiting Miss Norma
Guirard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oswald Fournet
of New Iberia, spent last Sunday
in town, visiting relatives.
This Office can furnish we'd
ding invitation in any and all
styles desired, from the cheapest,
to the most elaborate and costly.
Call and see samples.
The ready trimmed hats at
Mrs NJ. Bienvenu's millinery store
are beauties that are attracting
the attention of the ladies. The
prettiest 60 first, so if you want to
look at them, call early.
Miss Sidonie Simon, of Opel
ousas, after spending two months
here with relatives, left last Sun
day for New Iberia, where she
will spend a few days visiting
friends before returning to her
home.
We were again visited by
quite heavy rain Monday morn
ing. The rains have fallen regu-
larly every week for nearly four
months, and it looks as if it will
just keep on for the balance of the
year.
Work was commenced this
week on the switch at the inter-
section of the Breaux Bridge ex-
tension, and we learn the laying
of the cross tie and rails will COM
mence about the 18th inst. The
laying of the track will be COM
pleted to Breaux Bridge inside of
sixty days.
The war talk continues and
the opinion prevails that the Court
of inquiry is delaying its report
in order to give time to the
government to prepare for hostili.
ty Immediately after its report
which will show that the Battle
ship Maine was blown up by Spa
nish treachery. We have q few
people here who are anxious for
war.
District Attorney James 81.
mon, Miss Aida Mouton and Mr..
and Mrs. Rene Durand left yester-
day for New Orleans. Mr.. Simon
is now acting grand dictator of
the grand lodge, Knights of Ho-
nor, and Mr.. Durand is represen-
tative to the grand lodge, repre-
senting the st. Martin lodge. The
grand lodge meets in New Orleans
next week,
The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, bought last week a strip
of land from Mr.. M. Bienvenu, 30
feet wide, from Main street to the
bayou, and fronting on the bayou,
bought half of the lot known as
the Gueriniere saw mill. We nm.
derstand that the Company will
soon enlarge it's yard switches,
build a new passenger depot, and
also enlarge the freight warehouse,
and enlarge and improve their
wharf hosting accommodation.
These improvements are made me-
cessary by the increased business
of the town.
AS proof that real estate is
improving in value in st. Martin
vile, Messrs Liable and Gardemal
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-03-12
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

The intense itching and smarting Incl.
dent to eczema, letter, salt.rheum, and other
diseases ofthe skin is instantly allayed by
applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment Many very bad cases have been
permanently cured BY it. It is equally
efficient for itching piles and favorite rem
edy for sore nipples; chapped hands, chill.
blains, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes.
For sale by druggists at Is cents per box.
TryDr. Cady's Condition Powders, they
srejust what horse needs when in bad condi.
ton. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge.
For sale by T. ]. Liable. druggist.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-03-12

In the matter of the Succession Of
WILLIAM q. LIVINGSTON.
Probate Docket No 2962.
10th Judicial District Court.
State Of Louisiana, Parish Of st. Martin
By virtue Of IN order and . commits.
sion from the Honorable the Nineteeth
Judicial District Court Of the State Of
Louisiana. In and for the Parish Of st.
Martin. and to me directed, I Louisa CO.
zine widow Of the late VIM. II. Living
st0n and Administrative of his Success
sion. will offer for sale and will sell or
cause to be sold by the proper officer, at
public Auction for Cash, at the Court
House door 10 the Town Of st. Martin.
vile. Parish Of st. Martin, La. to the
last and highest bidder between the 10
gal sale hours on
THURSDAY the SEVENTH Of the month
Of April 1893,
the following described property situa.
ted IN said Parish Of st. Martin. TO pay
the debts due by said succession. to Wit:
The E n Of the s E n and the 8 4 Of
the N E i Of Section IS in Township 8
South Rouge 8 East, containing 100
acres, in the Parish Of st. Martin, South
Western Land District of Louisiana.
Lots 3 and 8 Section % in Township
II South Range 10 East, containing Six.
ty Eve acres, in the Parish Of st. Martin,
South Western Land District Of Louisi-
ana.
Terms and Conditions. Cash. -
St. Aartinville. Louisiana, this End
day Of March A. D. 1893.
LOUISA t'OZINE, Admx.
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ally directed toward a large photograph
of the Press club monument in Mount
Hope cemetery, and the lists of depart
ed members which hung in black
frames beside it. He scanned the lists
until his eyes rested on the name of
Frank R. e. woodward. Then he
flushed and turned to trio who sat
spinning yarns near the center of the
room.
you've made a mistake here. I'm
not dead he said, addressing the pres
ident, Mr.. Knox. The three men looked
at the man before them, but none ap-
peared to recognize him for a. moment.
I'm Frank Woodward. You ought
to know me- all of you fellows" he
said.
The trio recovered from the pleasant
shock following this announcement,
and each Jumped to his feet and gave
Woodward a hearty handshake.
Il see you've got me on the In
Memoriam' list" he said, and all
laughed. Woodward was Immediately
besieged for an explanation of how he
happened to be alive in contradiction
of the clubs records.
After explanations had followed
President Knox dug up some dusty rec
ords of the club and presented Wood
ward with his death notice, which was
published in all the Chicago papers of
May &c, 1896 After this notice had
been put into the clubs records resolu-
tions regretting the death of Mr. Wood
ward were passed, and for more than
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two years Chicago newspaper men
mourned him as one dead. But Wood
ward is very much alive. He announced
his intention of remaining in Chicago,
and said he would resume his mem
bership where his ''untimely death"
ended it. In Minneapolis, where Wood
ward formerly lived, are church rec
ords showing that he had crossed the
dark river, and that his friends
mourned for him at a full-fiedged fun-
eral minus one corpse, which at that
time was eating sugar cane with the
insurgent army in the interior of Cuba.
Woodward was well known as a re-
porter in Chicago four years ago. About
that time he went to New York and
became special correspondent OF the
New York World in Cuba. He went to
Santiago with proper credentials and
secret messages to Maceo, the Cuban
leader This was in the spring of 1895.
He was taken prisoner by a gang of
Spanish guerillas while trying to force
his way into the interior to the inSur
gents camps. The sentence of death
was passed on him, and his captors in
formed him that on the next morning
he would cross the river Styx via the
Mauser bullet route. But Woodward
decided during the night that he was
too young to die, and by hard work he
succeeded in breaking away from the
way. After riding several days he
Joined Maceo, delivered the MESA geS
he carried and was made captain of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
Immense Cost of Luxurious Living
In Expensive Hotels.
RATES SOARING SKYWARD
IN NINE YEARS PRICES HAVE
MORE THAN TREBLED.
Royal Suite of Waldorf Astoria Costs
500 Day-How Money Can
Be Burned Up.
Cspecial Corresnondence.l

New York, Nov. 23.-We were sitting
in carved chairs. upholstered in tapes
try. At our feet We're stretched two
tiger skin rugs, whose fierceness of
expression was almost lost in a look of
vague establishment at the splendor OF
their surroundings. On the walls were
hung paintings of renown- Through a
portiered doorway was the dining
room, massively elegant, and smaller
exit led from the drawing-room to a
bedroom furnished as & queens cham
Der was furnished when there were
thrones in France.
One of the managerial staff of the
big Waldorf-Astoria hotel was showing
to me the beauties Of the royal suite. -
Which has recently sheltered the visit
ing princes Of Belgium and Italy.
This suite costs 500 a day." said
Mr.. Thomas, the assistant manager.
Nine years ago The writer prepared
an interview with one of the best
known hotel men in the metropolis, in
which it was stated that $4,000 a year
was all that man, wife and maid serV-
ant could spend in board and lodging
in the highest-pTiced hotels in America,
occupying the most expensive suite of
rooms to be found, eating the costliest
food on the menu. and drinking the
most expensive wines. It was pre-
sumed that the man was not a glut-
ton, nor a drunkard; neither did he
throw money away in extravagant tips.
He>simply lived up to the limit and
SARe0o was the limit for mere food and
Shelter in the most expensive hotel the
new world had. Let us see what it
would cost today
There is more money today than
there ever was before in this country,
if one may judge Of what is spent in
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hotels continued Mr.. Thomas. big
fortunes are being made nowadays in
the street, in mines and in business,
and the money is rapidly being put into
circulation. Ten years ago you very
seldom saw two men on a mans trap.
Now it is the rule. Men spend more
for food, for Wines for apartments,
jewelry; theatres cost more, entertain
ments are more lavish, and the accom-
modations in hotels have grown ac-
cordingly. Money can't buy anything
better than what you're looking at.
The furniture in this suita cost more
than $4,000. Hotel service has i'm
proved. One is served now in a public
restaurant as he could only have been
served ten years ago in his own home,
and in very few homes was the service
as nearly perfect as it is now in most
really first-class hotels.
Nine years ago the highest-priced
suite of rooms in any hotel in this city
cost 500 a week.
Our suites cost from $40 a day up
to S40,' replied Mr.. Thomas, land we
have large ones for families that run
from that figure UP to 500, We have
one suite now occupied by a gentleman
and his family which costs SSS per day,
and that is exclusive of food and serv-
ice. Those are ordinary prices for
people of wealth who demand the very
best that is to be had and are willing
to pay for it,
A comparison of the present prices
with those of a decade ago offers a
significant and startling contrast. If
the opportunity to spend money in
hotels is q fair criterion of the pros
perity of the times, this country was
never so prosperous as it is now.
Nine years ago, as before mentioned,
the price of the costliest suite of rooms
in an American hotel was 500 a week
Allowing the man the most epicurean
tastes consonant with reason and the
chefs resources, his breakfast could
not cost him more than SO a day on an
average; his luncheon, with Wine. S.
and his dinner, with wine. $10 The
board of the servant was put down at
50 a week. This did not take in tips,
cigars. liquors except wines, OF the
entertainment of friends, because these
expenses would be the same whether
the man lived at a hotel or at his own
house. The total expenses for six
months, which is All the time this man
was supposed to stay in New York,
may be summarized as follows:
Breakfast, per week ..............$ q
Luncheon, per week. ....... So
Dinner, per week .............. 20
Rooms, per wee,t. Observation-Disclosures. 100
Maids board, per week. 8
Total -. Observation-Disclosures 2S5
/ Total for six months. sc, 40
Now let us look at the prices of to-
day. The same man takes the royal
suite at the Astoria for 500 day OF
/ course this is a trifle large for a man
! and wife. but it is not even as large
as private house conducted in similar
] style would be. He would have his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
LINENS.

Two Extra Va1ues in this Department for this wee
5 pieces Cream Satin-fnsh Table Damask,
heavy weight choice designs; well worth 6oc yard On
sale this week, per yard,
20 dozen Huckaback Towels from the best
flax yarn full fringed 1886;
week at, each
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Maceo's staff. While ON night march
Woodward lost his papers OF identif-
cation in swimming a river. A few
days later, as he afterward found out,
an American bearing his lost creden-
tials was killed in battle between the
Spanish and insurgents. The body was
buried and the papers confiscated by
the Spaniards, who reported the death
of Woodward at Havana, and from
there it was cabled to New York and
all over the United States 80
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
No Need of Fain.

Mans most painful Affections are
promptly relieved by Billiards. Snow
Liniment. You will never know all that
a liniment can do until you try this one
Cures rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains,
Bruises, etc, as by magic. The most
penetrating compound ever devised.
This case is but one of thousands: II
had a, severe attack of rheumatism.
Could not work by day or sleep at
night. Three applications of Ballard S
Snow Eminent cured me within TWEEN
ty-four hours. c. w Ford (of Lyon
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Sold BY 4. C. NJ. /. Drug Department.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
BLANKETS AND QUILTS.

Our blanket and quilt stock has
been greatly reduced during the past
week, but we have still some very
choice quilts and blankets on hand,
which we are bound to close out and
now is your golden opportunity.
Here are a few items:
Red Wool Blankets, ia, 1925,
$3.50, $e.75, $3.50.
Union White $3.50 1925, 1878.
ALI wool, $500, $3.50, $4.75.
All wool, $3.50, 1878, $725.
Quilt wool filed, 75c, $1.oo, $1.15,
S1.25, $1.5o.
White cotton, s1.75, 1925, $3.50,
S2.75, SO. SO.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
Your Best Interests

will be served by making sure of
health. 1t will be a loss of time and
money to be stricken with serious ill
ness. Take Hoods SarsaparilIa and
purify your blood. In this way all
germs of disease will be expelled, sick,
ness and suffering will be avoided, and
your health viii be preserved. Isn't
this a wise course?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
He READHIs oWNDEATH NOTICE.
A Reporters Return to the Club That
Mourned Him as One Dead.

IChlcag0 inner OceanJ
A short, thick-set, boyish-looking
man walked into the rooms of the Press
club in this city few days ago, nodded
pleasantly to President w w. Knox,
and Immediately began to make him.
self at home. The stranger seemed
much interested in the new paintings
hanging on the walls, and he began a
circuit of the big reception room, adj
miring the hangings and stopping for a
minute before each. His gaze was fin
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

Now let us look at The prices Of to-
day. The same man takes the royal
suite at the Astoria for 500 a day. OF
course this is a trifie large for a man
and wife. but it is not even as large
as a private house conducted in similar
style would be. He would have his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

The oldest brand in the market is.
the III. & M. tea; it is second to none
in quality and flavor. Try a pack
age and be convinced. Hewlett Bros.
Co., sole agents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

Hoods Pills are the only pills to take
with Hoods Sarsaparills- Price, 25'
cents.
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Grand total for year 49,. $751; COS so
OF course these figures represent the
highest amount a man can possibly pay
for such accommodations. There is no
attempt made in these calculations to
economic. The man deliberately seeks
for the highest priced articles he can
find, and it costs him $4,000 year.
Nine years ago he did the very same
thing, he spent all that he could, but
$4,000 was the limit.
We are supposing an extreme case.
Men can live at these same expensive
hotels modestly and at moderate cost.
Rooms with bath may be had at the
Waldorf Astoria, and at all the other
hotels mentioned at from SIS to 81 a day,
and the meals may be made to cost
pretty nearly what a man chooses to
pay.
But the man who wants to spend
money in hotel living never had as good
a chance to do so as he has today.
BENJAMIN NORTHROP.
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20 per cent Reduction ON all Lace
Curtains at 2. G. M
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meals served in his own dining room.
This would necessitate the services of
g. butler furnished by the hotel at So
a day The board of the maid would
be S25 per week. The breakfast would
cost $3.50 (this is precisely the same
meal as was described in the interview
nine years ago); the luncheon, with
wine, would be 81, and the dinner,
with wine, S12. The price of ordinary
dishes has not advanced to this extent
in the past nine years, but special
dishes have been added to the bills OF
fare Each hotel nowadays has its
own speciality, and it is usually
costlier than the same dish prepared
in the ordinary fashion Then, too,
the improved service which hotels offer
today costs more than the old style.
Wages are higher and the grade of
men employed is higher, and therefore
more expensive. The cost of six
months of this sort of living may be
set down as follows:
Breakfast, per week. .....S, 26 60
Luncheon; per week. ......... 49 90
Dinner, per week.. ............ "a w
Butler, per week. Il w
Maid, per week ...-...... % 90
Rooms, per week. 700 90
Total, per week. 905 90
Total for six months. .$23,545 60
This makes a. difference of $17,435 60
for the six months in New York.
In the interview of nine years ago
it was supposed that a man did not
go to Europe, but spent the months be-
tween May and Nov. l, in this coun
try at various seaside and inland re-
sorts The expenses during this period
We're thus summarized:
Old Point Comfort, thirty days at
80
Elberon, twenty days at $40 per
Richfield Springs, forty days at $40
per day NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SUI
Saratoga, thirty days at SIS per
day ................ ............. 100
Newport, thirty days at $40 per
day ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6o0
Cranstons, thirty days at $40 per
! day -...--..........- 60O
Total for six months. ...$9, $50
4 This made the entire yearly expenses
! of the man, his wife and maid for food
and shelter, $3.50.
/ Surprising that the man went to the
same out-of-town places now as then
/ and paid the same prices, his annual
expenses would be $29, 1850. But there
are far more expensive places than
| those mentioned. Since that interview
was written magnificent hotels have
been erected in the far south and on
| the Pacific coast where the expenses
are about as high as they are in town.
A man bent on paying the highest pos
sible prices for his rooms should have
no difficulty today in finding accommo-
dations during his six months away
from home that will cost an average
Of $40 a day. In some instances the
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price may be greater, but that is fair
average The maids board will aver
age SIS a week and the services of a
butler SIS more. The meals will cost
$40 day It figures up as follows:
Arizona republican., 1898-11-25
ARIZONA TIMING ACTIVITY
New Mines Being Opened and Old
 Ones Started tIN Again.

An experimental run of the steam shovel is going on in Walnut Grove on the placer hanks there.
 The old Crook mine in Yavapai coun- ty is to have stamp mill placed on it. The property is said to be looking we'll.
 Lyons new quartz mill on the Hassa- yampa is about completed. MT. Lyons has also lately purchased several claims in the neighborhood Cs the mill.
 Colonel BrOdie is said to have or dered a steam hoist and new quartz mill for the Crown Points mine. below Walnut Grove. J. E. Clark, formerly of the Jersey Lily, has been appointed foreman Of the mine, and is now on the ground.
 Superintendent Clark of the Fools Cullen mine still pushes work on that property, having q force of twenty-five men at work sinking, says the Jour nal-Miner. He has reached a depth of nearly 8G0 feet so far, and will continue until 1000 feet has been reached, when the mill will be started. A vein of ore three feet wide and running $30 per ton is said to have been recently struck.
 Inc Storm Cloud mine, situated but twelve miles from Prescott, is proving ,o be a fine piece of property, and the steady development work given it of late has determined the fact thas it has a good future. It is so well opened up that new machinery will be placed on it, according to the JCurnal-Miner.
Arizona republican., 1898-11-25
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS WAY
 OF HELPING.

''I was once an eye witness said a visitor from New York the otb.,r day, "of an occurrence !shat I wQul6 have regarded as remarkable had ~, Bt un- derstood it. Late one afternoa was sitting on 8 bench in Madison square. On another bench near by were a man and a woman, both young. The man was, thin and pale, and I gathered from such of his talk as l overheard haI4 he was recovering from a long iSness; that the woman was his wife, ant that they were in desperate need Of money.
 George Francis Train came along and sat down on the bench beside me. I knew him well, and told him about the young people and their troubles. Presently he went on his way, and 1 saw him go into a store on the south side of the square. A few minutes lat CT he came back to the square and took path that led past the young couple. As he passed them a shower Of gold and silver coin dropped from his pock- ct directly at their feet, jingling musi- cally on the asphalt. MT. Train walk ed right along, paying no heed. The young man sprung up and called MT. Trains attention to his loss, saying: You've dropped lot of D.oncy, sir You're very much mistaken, young man. Train replied, and he walked rapidly away.
 The young people were utterly dumb founded, and, after they had gathered up the coins, seriously talked of turn ing the money over to the police. Fear ing that they would really be so fool ish. 1 went to them, and advised them to keep the wealth. as the man who had dropped i; had a way of doing just such eccentric things, which he could well afford. as he possessed a great for tune. They left the square soon after with smiling faces.
 Train had undoubtedly gone to a store, obtained 9 lot of coin, cut the Inning of his pocket. holding the gap tose her with his hand to keep the ccin within, until he reached the young coup Q, when he le. go and the coin fell at trelr feet It was his way of help Ing them without embarrassing them with an offer of charity. Washington star