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The Meeker herald., 1898-04-23

Hnnaso 1soss - tAs Wss9A.
The eaA tfess of Victoria are he
tallest trsss b tAs world. averasias
~ fss4 ~.
The Meeker herald., 1898-04-23

EA.eass Your bowels WITH Oasearsss.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
~. 10 nC G. c. fail. druggists refund money
The Meeker herald., 1898-04-23

..Any signs OF spring out your wayr'
Eyes: I have had to buy d new step-laddei
because my wife can't recolect who Dor
fowed our old one last fall"
The Meeker herald., 1898-04-23

~. llspefsl- How duh 1t M =
WukinE party last night. sAseYD:
n ths early part # the evening". =
~ tsioAtee a1tee yoa ls3t-SeanAa2
The Meeker herald., 1898-04-23

The French soldier will shortly carry
aluminum cooking utensils.
The Meeker herald., 1898-04-23

War is hell" but human slavery j.
Worss.
The Meeker herald., 1898-04-23

"Dou you like that Salesladies' Home
yourns1T" Yes. It's lovely; this last num-
Der tells how to make a grand piano out
Of q cheese box
The Meeker herald., 1898-04-23
BELIEF IN BUDDHA.


n jolly. youthful.
gay and all
that.
And I wear my
hair In . braid.
! know no more
than how to
spell cat
But I'm danger
Gus. sttll I'm
afraid:
For l know you
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
Great war Predicted.

-
Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews, who
is now superintendent of the Chicago
public schools made an address a few
days ago at Lakeside assembly, near
Madison, Wis, in which he predicts
that Europe would 500 be plunged
into a great continental war into
which the United States would be
dragged. He declared:
II am for peace, but | believe a
continental war is impending. And
Great Britain, | believe, has the great
est chance of coming out first in the
convulsion. But a still greater fac
tor, significant for Great Britain, is
the constant bent of the British mind
for conquest, though Gladstone con-
sistently combated further British inn
perialism in his later years. Cecil
Rhodes is working northward with q
great British empire in South Africa,
and the Dutch republic there win soon
be English territory. Then will come
British expansion through Turkey in
Asia toward India, and the signiii-
canoe of this will be that Great Bri-
tain will soon be at the back door of
Constantinople and will say to Rus
STA: You shall never have the Bos-
phorus.' The result of this stipend
chess-playing will be that the
oriental question will be shifted to the
Pacific coast of Asia, which Russia
has already recognized, and to which
she is moving with significant strides.
"This brings US to the question Of
our own attitude in the final adjust
ment. We are now a great nation,
that must be reckoned with in the
future affairs of mankind. There is
no choice open to US. The world has
become 50 small through steam and
electricity that we must take a hand.
We are 10 longer a hermit nation, and
our future attitude, especially in the
Pacific waters, will be watched with
the greatest interest and significance. I
believe it is no violation Of the Monroe
doctrine to take an aggressive part
when compelled to-"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
Down on the Country Brother.

A great many people in New Or
leans are very sore because the Sun
day law was not repealed. The Mas
cot, as will be seen by the article
following, imagines that the city is
the whole push. II the country could
be cut off from the city by a huge
trocha we would soon see who stood
most in need of the other, and we
opine the country would be found
doing business at the old stand long
after New Orleans disappears from
the map:
1.-The people of the parishes should
feel proud of New Orleans, they
should glory in her prosperity and
sound her name with reverence and
honor whenever they are afforded an
opportunity. for outside this State all
that is known of Louisiana, with any
credit. Is New Orleans. 1t is true
that the Eastern and Northern papers
occasionally tell Of how some persons
in some God forsaken district of
Louisiana, roasted some unfortunate
nlggers to death-that is all that is
known of Louisiana, excepting the
grand old city of New Orleans, out
side the State. The majority of the
hayseed legislators are Jealous Of our
prosperity and do everything in their
power to mar us, But, pshaWl there
is 40 need saying any more, our tac-
ties must be changed. It would be a
pity to see a warfare between Rus ct
Urbe, but such must be the case if
the hayseeds continue in theft jeal-
ousy. The parishes should be proud
of the Crescent City and should do
everything in their power to make her
uphold the proud title she has always
enjoyed-that of s.tile capital Of the
South"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
Will Russia Relinqulsh.

Unless Russia backs down it is
quite probable that q serious rupture
will occur between that country and
England over the Chinese situation.
Lord Salisbury has proven decidedly
limpbacked in his dealings with the
Bear, and upon two occasions has GOT
ter the worst of it. One was In fail
ing to back up Japan and allowing
Russia to take Port Arthur, and again
England tried to compel Ia Sien Wan
kept open as q treaty port. The pres
ent difficulty grows out of the fact
that an English company has been
granted concessions to build a rail-
road from Picking to New Chwang d
port on an arm of the Yellow Sea. in
Shing King province. Russia for
bid the hy~pothecation Of the road.
and England has notified the Chinese
government that it would not tolerate
any interference with the contract by
a foreign power. Now it is to be seen
what Russia will do, It is hardly
probable that England will allow Rus
STA to obtain any more advantages in
and viii fight if she is opposed
in her plan to head OFF further Rus
sian aggression.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
Be Not Faint Hearted.

While our Police Jury is founder
ing around in the quagmire of debt
which is threatening to swallow them
up whole, boots and breeches it viii
no doubt rekindle the faint spark of
hope, which some of the estimable
gentlemen of that body, probably
entertain, of seeing the parish on a
cash basis before the dawn OF another
century, to tell them that the parish
of Grant has reduced the rate flax
alton This by the way is a Popllist
parish, where they raise 5 cent cotton,
and finger tail ponies, sreyel in drouth.
and dream of railroads that never
come, Of fiat money, government
banks and the universal brotherhood
of man. But the Police Jury is all
The Demands says:
"They find that they have been able
to run the parish for the past two
years and pay up seven thousand dol
lars in debts left by the old body, and
with a shortage in Dir. Kemp, ex-tax
collector, Of some thousands Of dollars
10 mills. With no old debts
and good collection Of taxes, 8 mills
would be ample, but they give Colfax
$500 for an artesian well, $500 for a
bridge and also are having the clerk
Of court to make a parish abstract Of
all land titles. With these matters off
Of hand, it will be easy to put the
parish tax at s mills in 1899.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
Facts About Cuba.

It is 100 miles from Havana to
Porto Rico.
1t is $500 miles from Porto Rico to
Cape DeVerde.
1t is 876 miles from Cape Deyerde
to the Canary Islands.
1t is 700 miles from Canary Islands
to Spain.
It is 1850 miles from Hampton
Roads to Porto Rico.
1t is 1000 miles from the United
States to the Philippine Islands.
It's greatest length is 800 miles,
twice as long as Mississippi, north
and south.
Its area is 4s, 900 square miles, a
little larger than Ohio.
It's width varies little from 25 to
135 miles.
The coast line. aggregates $500
miles.
Its ports number 200, of which
Havana is chief.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
The Lafayette WaterWorks.


Unfortunately n neighbors of
Lafayette r having considerable
trouble over their new waterWorks
and electric light plant and a law suit
is the result. The city council has
ordered the contractors the Consoli-
dated Engineering company Of New
Orleans to remove the present boilers
in the w~aterworks and electric light
plant and install others that would
comply with requirements of the con-
tracts. The action of the authorities
is based upon q report of an expert
which shows a most serious and dam
gerous condition of affairs as regards
the machinery. The plant has but
recently been completed and turned
ove to the city under the superin-
tendence of Robt. Eel, Of New Or
leans. Mayor Caffery claims that
the terms of the contract viii protect
the city in spite Of the acceptance Of
the job by the council, and will fight
the matter in the courts. The de-
fective condition of the boilers, etc.,
If ~substantiated, indicate culpabiIitY
almost criminal, as an accident might
occur any moment.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
A Most Magnificent Fraud.

Despite the efforts OF the admins
tration and a truculent press to create
4 great hero ont Of Admiral Sampson,
the truth is slowly oozing out that he
is a very ordinary nobody, and a lot
of newspaper correspondents are the
biggest liars unhung. For many days
during the exciting period of Cerye-
ra's stay at Santiago We were RECALLED
with brilliant descriptions Of the ter
rife bombardment of Moro Castle by
SIMPSONS feet. Sampson himself
reported with considerable gusto how
he was knocking the daylight out OF
the Spanish Notifications. Now that
Santiago has fallen we discover that
the fort mounted d lot Of old smooth
bore cannon, some Of them two CEN
turies old, and. hence utterly unable
to cope with our modern equipment.
What about the damage? Unfortu-
nately for him and the fame he got
out of his commandments of the bate
ries about Moro at the expenditure Of
So, 900, 900 in ammunition, everything
was left quite intact after the evacua-
ton. All the guns are there that ever
fired at II of his ships, and-think
of it!-there is nothing in Moro or on
the ridge east Of it except a half-dozen
of these ancient smooth-bores! Yet
this is where Admiral Sampson always
directed the fire of his flagship New
York, and the stories Of slaughter and
devastation authorized in his 'ssquad-
ron bulletin would have done credit
to a Spanish commander. But there
is nothing to indicate that his shoot
ing did any damage except to dis
mount one gun and tear down a por-
ton Of the lighthouse.
The only modern battery at the en-
trance to the harbor is the one located
on the west side. 1t was supplied
with three Krupp guns mounted on
cement. This is the battery which
Commodore Schley repeatedly en-
gagged. It shows much hard usage,
and must have been frequently hit.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
Sheriffs Sale.
STATE OF LOUIsIANA-parish
,of Vermillon-,I7th Judicial Dis
trict Conrt-No. lilo.
Gus Godchaux
vs.
Mary Broussard ct ais.

Mary BronsSard ct ais.
By virtue of an order oi seizure
and sale issued in the matters Of the
above entitled and numbered snIl,
and to me directed. fully authorizing
and empowering me in The premises !
will proceed to sell at public anctioa
to tho last and highest bidder, at The
principal front door. Of the court
house in this parish on
Saturday, September 5, 1885,
between hours prescribed By laH
the following described property
seized to satisfy said writ. 10 wit
One certain tract Of land situated
in Vermilion parish and being deslg
mated and known az The north east
quarter Of section "a, tp IL, soaih q
range 3 east, containing ISL acres
more Dr. less, together with all the
improvements sitnaten thereon.
said property being ordered TO ha
seized and sold for cash 10 satisfy
the sum Of ($l359, 1907 thirteen
hundred and flty-Dine 70-l00 dol.
lars with interest at the rate OF SM
per annum from May l, 1897, unill
paid andlO ner cent on said amount
for attorneys fees to he c~ompnted'ol
the whole
Terms-Cash.
sheriff's Office, AbbevilIe, Ia
July 80, 1898.
J.. O.. HEBERT, Sheriff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
Red Cross Ice Plant.

Some weeks ago ladies throughout
the country received anonymous let
ters asking them to participate in an
s'endless chain for the purpose of
raising money for an ice factory plant
for the National Red Cross society.
Each person addressed was asked to
send 10 cents to Miss Natalie Schenck
Of Babylon L. T., and to renew the
request upon three of their friends.
The result is that the postotfice at
Babylon, a little village where several
rich New York people have their sum-
mer residences, has been buried under
the replies, and Postmaster Dowden,
who has been in the habit of handling
a few hundred letters and half as
many newspapers daily, now receives
his mail in bags, packed full of letters
addressed to Miss Schenck. They
average $500 Q day, and the number
is increasing. Miss Schenck is a
school girl less than II years old.
Her family is rich and well connected
and lives in one the handsomest man
sions on Long Island. Her mother is
a cousin of Mrs. August Belmont and
her father is manufacturer Of chemi-
Gals in New York. Miss Schenck is
amazed at the success of her UNDER
taking and has called in all the young
ladies in the neighborhood to assist in
opening the letters and taking care of
their contents. Many of them con-
tain no money. Some of them pro-
nounce the scheme a swindle, and
several writers have threatened to
prosecute Miss Schenck; but among
the number are many interesting au-
tographs,, which Miss Schenck pro-
poses to bind and sell for the benefit
of the cause. One is from Mrs. Me-
kinley, who sent a dime with a pleas
ant message. Another is from Mrs.
Garfield. President Mckinley res
pended through bis secretary, Mr..
Porter. Mrs. y. S. Grant, Mrs.
Sartoris, Mrs Fred Grant, Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer, Miss Sherman, Mrs. Ho-
bart and all the ladies of the cabinet,
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi P. Morton and all
their daughters, ex-Secretary Evarts
and thousands of people in public and
life have forwarded dimes.
Miss Schenck has already sent a check
for s., 800 to the Red Cross society,
and the receipts r still coming in at
the rate of about $500 a day.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
NOTICE.

In accordance with the rules Of ING
Board of Pardons and law / do herr.
by give notice to all whom It may
concern that am applying for par
don from the sentence pronouneea
upon me in the case entitled State o.
Louisiana vs.. Henry Thurman, Eo.
595, Criminal Docket of the Distrles
Court for Vermilion Parish, La.
Henry THuRMAs
July 16, 1898
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

Governor Stephens of Missouri is
one of the staunehest friends of silver
in the West. In q recent published
article he defines his position very
elearly and predicts that free coinage
at the ratio of Is to / will be the
leading issue in 1900, notwithstand-
ing the wal with Spain.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

The Populists and Democrats of
North Dakota have united on a joint
State ticket headed by D. NJ. Homes
of Grand Forks, as candidate for
governor. Col. H. M. Creel, of
Devils Lake was named as candidate
for congressman.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

The steamer Berlin having on board
Hoods regiment is reported to have
arrived safely at Santiago. It is about
time we were hearing from some of
our boys who are with chat command.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

In his report to Admiral Sampson,
on the great naval battle Of July 3rd,
Captain "Bob" Evans says: | can't
express my admiration for my magni-
ticent crew. So long as the enemy
showed his flag they fought like
American seamen but when the flag
came down they were as gentle and
tender as American women.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
4. |. ADDISON. ...... Publisher.
Saturday, August 10, 1898.

Judge Debailion has admitted Weig-
1ie, vino shot Frintz at Lafayette, to
bail nj the sum of $500.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

Two soldiers, a Texian and Louis
ianian Of the lst regiment were killed
by lightning at Miami, Florida on
Monday. That pest hole is accused
of God.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

The government at Madrid is sur
prised at the extent Of General Toral's
surrender and is talking Of court-mar-
failing him. 1t may as well be con-
fessed that it was a surprise to most
Americans also. The peruasive pow
ers OF General Shafter must be very
great when he can secure the surren-
der of an army superior to his own in
numbers, thousands of whom had
never seen the American troops.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

It is said that when schley and
Sampson were young officers on board
the same ship a number Of years ago
the latter ordered severe punishment
inflicted on a marine for an offense
Of which the man was guiltless. schley
protested, a QUARREL ensued and the
mar who is now commodore slapped
SIMPSONS face. Since then they
have never been friends.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

The sweeping cut in the salaries
paid constables and Justices Of the
peace has awakened the sympathies of
some Of the editors in the State. One
Of u exchanges remarks: 1.-THE
police jury has passed an ordinance
making the salary of ward constables
twelve dollars and fifty cents a month.
Not enough hardly to pay for the
feed Of q team. Why don't they cut
down their own salaries? They can
better afford TO work at reduced rates
4 couple Of hours i day, once q
month, than . poor constable, who
has to work every day in a month"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13


Brother Moss of the Bloomfield
(Ind.) Democrat is a man who stands
up for the square thing and win do to
tie to. Some 'hireling scribbler' NAV
ing termed him a kicker Moss declares
most emphatically: sWe are not the
kind Of a Democrat who win vote for
a yaller dog if he gets on the Demo-
cratic ticket. We denounced Repub-
licans in this county for electing to d
county office q very ordinary nom
resident negro v an old Democratic
soldier. 1t is better for the Demo-
cratic party to be defeated than to
succeed in electing incompetent or
corrupt men. We shall not vote for
an unfit man, a corrupt man, a man
who secures his nomination by bribe-
ry or other fraudulent means, or who
was s.too Democratic to support
Bryan, 0 ask others to do so. If
this is not Democratic make the most
sat Of it,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

The members of the comn,issio,
who are to proceed to Hawaii to make
final pa IS, ETC., for the admission i
that group of islands into the United
States as a territory are not men i
great prominence, but Of sterlinc
worth and usefulness-such men !
Senators Cullom and Morgan, the az.
pointment of the latter being in tie
nature Of a very graceful compliment
for his neyer-ceasing efforts for The
annexation Of the islands; Represen-
tative Hit, Sanford P. Dole, The
the present ruler of the islands and.
and W. R. Freas, Associate Justice
Of the Supreme Court Of Hawaii.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13
Spain Accepts.

The latest adyices are to the efFs..
that Spain has accepted peace On 4,
terms offered by the United Stat.
Late Tuesday evening the reply IS.
handed to the President by Mr.. Cam.
bon the French Ambassador. i
not known yet just what the contents
are, but it is stated with assl,r.nss
that the terms r accepted in eere,.I
and the peace commission are asked
to stipulate the time for w~ithdrawin.
from Cuba and Porto Rico, also ! :
the responsibility for the Cuban dam
and the final disposition ofthe Pbilin
pines.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

That white-winged dove 81 peace Il
supposed to be lightin' wl6le General
Miles is supposed to be fghtin'.
When Miles takes San Juan, suppose
we Ameriearize it by calling it Sam
Jones.-Crowley Signal.
Not much, Sam is q rank fraud
though it IS possible he may do some
good.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-08-13

DR.. A. A. Forsythe, mayor Of
Monroe, has made some startling
charges Of corruption against the
members Of the recent session Of The
Legislature. He openly charges that
it required free use of money to Get
some important bills passed, and that
this was notably the case in the lower
House.-signal.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-06-04

The great powers Of Europe, actu-
.ted chiefly by commercial ideas, ere
still diyicing among themselves the
territories of non-progressive and non-
Christian potentates. Commercial
privileges are the modern incentive to
empire, not land hunger, or glory, as
In former ages. Africa, at the door
Of Europe, has already been pretty
completely appropriated. There re-
main for division Turkey, Persia, ST.
an, China and Corea. AS to what
Is left of Turkey the division proceeds
but slowly, owing to the inability of
the powers to agree upon their re-
spective shares. Siam has recently
lost largely to France. Corea is in
dispute between Russia, and Japan.
China is in the process of distribu-
ton. Japan, Russia, France and
England have all recently had
swhacks" at it's vast area, and Ger
many is now seeking, it seems, to get
aver with its rivals. China is the
coming Africa. Its distribution
among the powers is 10 be the next
great problem Of European politics.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-06-04

Boston continues to hold it's posi-
ton of the third largest of Atlantic
grain-exporting points. Exports 1897
and 1896 are: New York, wheat and
-four, 46, 235, 900 bushels and 40, $780,.
900; corn, SO, 2oe, 900 and 10, 100, 900;
oats, : 81, liza, 900 and Is, $50, 900.
Baltimore, wheat ndfour, Is, TO, 600
and 20, 1885,, 900; corn, 43,O48, 900 and
1882, 900; oats, 5,270, 900 and 6,92O,.
900. Boston, wheat and -four, 49,
O30, 900 and IL, 1898, 900; corn, 9,425,-
900 and 1893, 900; oats, 1852, 900 and
1919, 600. We here find totals in
bushels of all grains the past two
years: New York, ia, 155, 600 and
rs, 100, 900; Baltimore, "a, OS8, 900 and
So, 68S, 900; Boston, 20, 037 900 and
2 ,210, 900; the three ports showing
respective increases of 50, 80 and 20
per cent, the bulk of which is corn
and oats.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-06-04

The French Government, in order
to crafty the curiosity of the literary
class, who have doubted whether the
bodies of Voltaire and Rousseau are
really buried in the Pantheon, has
ordered their graves and cofins to be
opened. This was done on December
Is in the presence of a crowd so push
lngly inquisitive that the officials were
nearly jostled out, and the skeletons
were found intact. The skull of Vol
taire indeed still sneered, and was
recognized at once. That of Rousseau
also corresponded with his bust, and
was not shattered, as a legend had it.,
by any pistol-bullet. One wonders,
If Voltaire and Rousseau were look
ing on. what they thought of the pro-
ceeding. If they are unchanged in
their present world they are delighted,
for nothing could be mora gratifying
to their intellectual vanity.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-06-04
A New Wrinkle For Foundrymen,

One of the New York printing ma
chine builders, says Engineering. has
succeeded in producing extremely &C
curate gear-wheel castings by the
simple device of using a machine-cut
metal pattern. and baking the mold in
a core oven before the pattern is re-
moved. Under these conditions the
metal mold expands while the clay
tends to shrink, with the result that
on cooling, the pattern can be with
drawn, leaving behind it a perfect
mold. Wheels cast in this way show,
it is stated, the tool marks on the
original pattern, and customers have
accepted them as m~achine-cut wheels.