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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1899-01-07
letter, Salt.Rheum and Eczema.

The intense itching and smarting in
cident to these diseases, is instantly al
isyed by APPLYING Chamborlain's Eye
and Skin Ointment. Many very bad
cases have been permanently cured by
1t. 1t is equally efficient for itching
piles and favorite remedy for sore nip
pies, chapped hands, chilblains, frost
bites and chronic sore eyes. 25cts per
box. For saleby T. j. Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1899-01-07
DIVERSIFICATION.
Shreveport Outlook.

i.
so far as the abandonment Of cot
ton, is the panacea for low priced
cotton, which is being suggested
on all sides to the cotton grower.
Diversi6cation, that is, the rails
ing of more corn, potatoes and
vegetables, is the unavoidable, for,
the first thing that the cotton
grower who sees that he is DOOM
ed to get less than the cost of pro-
duction for his cotton, will have
to do, is to raise things to keep
hunger from his door.
This, however, cannot be the
permanent policy of the Southern
farmer, beyond the raising of the
food crops to meet his own wants
and to supply the towns and cities
in the South. There are certain
things, he may also. do; supply
the Northern and Western cities
with early fruits and vegetables.
This policy would unquestiona-
bly, bring comfort throughout the
South but not wealth. Cotton, at
least in sharply reduced acreages,
will still remain the chief source
of the South's wealth, progress
and prosperity. But to make the
staple fulfill its destiny, which is
q glorious one. the merchant, the
banker and the public men Of the
South-in fact the entire popula-
ton, will have to join forces.
This concentration of forces
must aim at the erection of facto-
ries throughout the South and, as
each one is put in operation there
will be formed group of consul
mers for the surplus of the food
crops produced by the Southern
farmer, for which he will natural
ly receive better prices in the
home markets than in the often
glutted ones of the North and
West. stiEtf 80
The cotton raised in reduced
quantities will bring better prices
at the mills, and the money expen-
ded in the manufacture of the
cloths will also remain in the
South to increase its wealth.
Every town or city in the South
should give immediate and serious
to the matter of
erecting cotton factories, and plans
ofco-operation should be devised
without delay.
To our mind, therefore, the 81
tuation is not dark, if it is proper
y, and intelligently handled.
Organization should be perfec-
ted to reduce the cotton acreage
throughout the South, and the
movement for the erection of cot
ton factories be awakened and
pursued with ceaseless activity.
The South must get all the mo-
ney that can be got out of its cot
on. 1t should'not persist in the
violation of the plainest dictates
If economy and business princi-
'les. 1t must not only work for
better prices for the raw material,
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1899-01-07

but to earn the fifteen and twenty
five cents which foreign manufac-
turers get from every pound of
the staple.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1899-01-07
Notice
By order of the Board Of Directors of
the St. Martinville Building and Loan
Association, the undersigned will sell
$4,000

at the Office of the Association on TUES
DAY JANUARY 10th 1899. At z o'clock
Z. III. c. GREIG, Secretary.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
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SPRUCE-GUM HUNTING.
The Rough and Adventurous Maine
Woodsmen Who Carry 1t On.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
Although chewing gum of various kinds
pepsin and special digestion aids-can be
procured at every city corner from the
penny slot machine, nothing has ever taken
the place of the genuine spruce, and it still
sells at a high price. 1t cannot be ini-
tated, nor is there any counterfeit which is
anything like it. Some of the druggists in
eastern Maine have contracts for spruce
gum aggrag eating thousands of dollars.
Some of them have "staked' gum hunters
and sent them into the woods. Most of the
Maine gum finds its way to the city mar
kets that demand for consumption the
round red Jumps that gleam with inner
fires like the boodstone. This choice gum
is readily sold by the Mains wholesalers
al $50 pound.
Gum hunting has many elements like
rubber cutting in the tropics, the men bury
ing themselves in the w1lds Tor months.
The expenses of the hunter ara almost
nothing and the receipts from his quest
are likely to be in the nature of small
Klondike find Some tobacco. few BUSH
els of beans, soma coffee. flour and fat
meat, with the game he kills, furnish him
bodily fuel for the season, while he will
frequently in single day secure gum that
will net him $40 in the market. He is in
dependent, too. with. hiSI canoe, his snow
up during the winter. hut when the rivers
open he will bring down his winters finds.
He is not likely, however, to work any too
industriously in gum hunting, but rather
to make short days, and. fish and hunt the
balance of the time. A few days hard
work will furnish hi IN, a 4cozy shack in the
deep forest near the bank of a stream,
and with wood unlin2itedaand a sharp AK he
is not likely to suffer. and when a storm
is on he does notfoleaNs his comfortable
camp. 81,
+ The solitude of the thing would drive
many men mad, but the northern woods
man is different from most men. He car
ries pack with him. at all times, even
when hunting, so that should he run across
an old gum scar he can take advantage of
1t without making another trip When
spring opens he returns to civilization
tough. rugged and hard as seasoned oak
and he may have pack of gum to the
value of several hundred dollars; but long
long before the next season the money is
all gone, and probably some ons will have
to grubstake" him if he is to go for gum
again.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
1t Marked a Turning Point in Ad-
miral Schley's Career.
FIRST news OF TEE CIVIL WAR
Reached His Ship After Long
Cruise at Sea.
d f CT D ED HIS COU RS Z
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
Away back in the year 1879. during the
administration of Mr.. Buchanan an en-
bassy from the Japanese empire visited this
country 10 return a Visit made by the squad
ron under Commodore NJ. c. Perry num-
ber of years before.
Their visit of ceremony being at an end,
our government determined to send this
embassy back in a national warship and
as the frigate Niagara was at that time
the largest. as we'll as one of the most
formidable war vessels af1oat, she was Sc
lected by the Navy Department for this
mission and sailed early in July, 1860. for
Japan with the embassy on board.
Ii was the privilege of the writer to serve
on board the Niagara during this cruise,
and she left our shores just after the prin-
cipal conventions had nominated their cam
didates for the presidency.
As our way out to the China station was
made mainly under sal. notwithstanding the
ship had been equipped with auxiliary ma
chinery of considerable power. voyages to and
from that distant station, as we'll the
transmission of mail matter, consumed the
best part of a year going and coming. Let
Evening star., 1899-04-01

preston too surely upon my heart. Those
uncovered heads, those fearful eyes, those
loving. loyal looks of the faithful old bronz-
ed faces, who had known no other love and
who We're too old then to begin anew, had
fashioned my young fancies, too. ana after
l had renewed my allegiance in the cabin
of the dear old commodore I looked UP and
found i bad done so standing directly un-
der scuttle leading to the poop deck. ard
directly under the folds of the Old flag
it was gracefully unfolding itself TO the
light breeze, all the more dear to me now
after the exposures we have undergone and
the perils OF service to which our lives have
been devoted il helping others to uphold it
the world over, for those of our land who
in their time and turn are to follow us n
holding fast to the teachings of our faith
ers. and, Ike them, to preserve the inher-
itance of this blessed land of liberty Tor
those to follow them.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Carpets, &c.

White. Gray and Black Skin Rugs;
worth $500 to $500. 0.................... s.. 10
large line of Stock Rugs, Tapestry Brus-
sells. Body Brussels. Nelvets, Wilton and Az
ministers.
1900 Turkish Hassocks; worth 50c.,
75c. and 81 30. Observation-Disclosures. 29c.
Administer Carpets, lengths 5 to 40
yards. goods worth $1.l0; this sale. zoe.
300 rolls Extra Heavy China Mating;
worth S12 to SIS a roll; this sale .. $3.50
Extra Super Ingram Carpets; worth
T5c. to 9Oc.: this sale. Observation-Disclosures .6212c.
Wilton Velvet Carpets; worth $1.50;
this sale ................... 79c.
800 Milton Rugs, worth s1.00, S1.25,
81 So this sale ale.................... 49c.
Smyrna Rugs 9x12 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s21.75
Smyrna Rugs. 7.6x1O.6 $17. 20
Smyrna Rugs, 6x9. ...............S S11 20
SMYRNA Rugs 4x7 Observation-Disclosures. s.. "a
2,180 yards Curtain Swiss. ............ Sc.
$500 yards Silko1ine. ..-........... &c.
30 doz. Oiled Opaque Window Shades,
with improved spring rollers, So inches
wide, IT. long. ........... &c.
"a doz. Tapestry Table Covers, four
quarters-heavy fringe. .........-.... S9c.
Fire Screens ............... T5c.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
China Closets

IS Quartered Oak China Closets, with glass
front and ends Worth $50. $11 SO
10 Q1arterad Oak China Closets, with mirror
lopsI glass eiius. .SlEoU
Quartered Oak China Closets with round
ends and mirror top. large size. Worth
large CHARTERED Oak China Closets. swell
ends. fine mirror top; very handsome. $1,000
very handsome Corner Closets. polished
quartered oak, with shaped front Worth
Evening star., 1899-04-01

terS We're several months old when they
reached US, and our SwcetheartS and wives
Were fortunate if answers came back to
them in year. 1t must be remembered
that there We're successful subma rine
cables engirdling the earth as now. so that
letters and papers We're looked for most
eagerly in that far off land.
For those who live always at home or
enjoy the advantages and comforts of con-
stant home association in this blessed land
of liberty it is not easy TO comprehend how
weary the heart grows in waiting three
long. long years before returning from
what seems to US almost banishment, hon
orable, 1t is true and yet more difficult to
understand how the altars of ones patri
otism are kept burning and how the love
of country and its flag may live and grow
in hearts that are obliged by the circum-
stances to pass most of their lives away
from and outside the dearest associations of
education and friendship.
Evening star., 1899-04-01

decide whether man has right to pre-
serve his property from one open season to
another. That would be the true test case.
PHEASANT & QUAIL.
March 80 1899.
Evening star., 1899-04-01

II have come to pay my court!'' exclaim-
ed the prince, bowling low.
Have You paid your washerwoman ?'
asked the princess courteously, hut firmly
Manifestly. if all girls were as sensible as
she. there would be fewer unhappy mar
riages.-DetroH Free Press.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
ChiffOniers.
6 Solid Oak Chiffon

d Solid OAK ChiffOn-
iers, with s large
drawers. Worth So
S3.&.
12 Fine Oak Chiffon
iers, of large size,
with cast brass trim
plings, S6.So.
s Polished Oak Chif-
foniers, with mirror
tops. Worth SIG
$S.S5.
4 Antique Oak Cbif-
foniers, with mirror
top; splendidly made
-$9.35.
Evening star., 1899-04-01

1t pays to read the want columns of The
Star. Hundreds Of situations are filled
through them.
Evening star., 1899-04-01

Perry's T0othache Wax does the work
Get Perry's, not 1ubstitutes All druggists. 10 cts
Evening star., 1899-04-01

Sale of the Olsen Stock of Lansing, Michigan, Bought
Undoubtedly the Most Sensational
Sale <Of the Decade.

lit rarely happens that merchants have chance to
offer new goods==goods that are the very latest
novelties in their meat the commencement of the
season.
at just half the actual value.
That is what the purchase of this Olsen stock
enables to do. The last ten car loads were un=
loaded last week, and every floor is crowded with
goods Never was more brilliant opportunity for
refarnisFHing the house.
Evening star., 1899-04-01

Parlor Suites.
Is 5-piece Parlor Suites, covered in about a
dozen different styles of tapestry: handsome
mahogany finish frames. Sale price. S13. 60
is Very Fine Tapestry Suites, with spring
edges, mahogany finish frames. ......... SD 30
Silk Damask Suites, r large pieces, tufted
backs, spring edges. Sale price. ......... $34 So
Fine SILK Plush Suites, embroidered backs,
1nlaid mahogany finish frames, pieces; spIen-
didly made. Worth $50. Observation-Disclosures S21 90
SIX painask Suites, very pretty inlaid
frames; beautiful designs of damask tufted
Fine silk Plush Suites, with tufted hacks
and spring edges. Worth 500. SJ25
! Handsome silk Damask Suite: very beauti-
ful design, carved frame. ................ .S57 80
lnlaid Mahogany Suites, covered In fine silk
udiHsish. worth SlZo. ..-.--.........-..S .S6l.S1
= % piece Suites, covered in Il dozen different
patterns of silk damask; very pretty mahogany
IL Odd Dtvans, richly upholstered in damask
and tapestry. Your choice at.............S7.9
A great many odd Paror Pieces Easy Chairs
parts of Suites. Pedestals, &c, at less than half
price.
Evening star., 1899-04-01

CHARTERED Oak Sldebcard of very rich de-
sign. Two shaped mirrors, shape top drawers
"a 50 yalie. Observation-Disclosures s27 so
handsome CHARTERED Oak Sideboards, with
large shaped mirror and swell front. $34 so
extremely fine Quartered Oak Sidehoard
with two large shaped mirrors and shaped
front. Worth 500. ......................S55 S55. 90
Many others. in Golden, Antique and Quar-
tered Oak, Flemish, Mahogany, &c, at all
sorts of prices.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Hall Racks.

10 Fine Oak Hall Racks, with brass brackets
and shaped mirror. r.......................$ $500
Splendid Racks, with shaped mirror and box
seat sac price 81 30
1 Very Handsome CHARTERED Oak Hall Racks.
large mirror and box seat. t...............S1 S14 SIS
different styles in CHARTERED Oak Racks,
very handsome. Worth $40. ............. $40. 80
Antique Oak Hall Rack. with very large
mirror. Worth $50. ......................$2 $2j. IS
And hundreds of others.
Evening star., 1899-04-01

Large Swell Front Chiffoniers. very fine pol
ished oak. Worth $25-$1275.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Sideboards.

IS Excellent Polished
Oak Sideboards. Worth
Sl2 1855
10 finely made Side
boards, carved oak,
bevel plate mirror.
Worth $50. .S9.15
4 very b a n d S o me
CHARTERED Oak Side
boards. with 2 shaped
mirrors, swell front;
handsome carvings. Oh
sens price was $40.
Sale price. .$21. 80
4 fine Carved Oak
Sideboards, with swell
front and large shaped
mirror. Olsen's price
was $35, Sale price,
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Couches.

$40 Couches. in corduroy and velour.
$40 Couches, heavily tufted. the new
style oak frames for. ............... 49, s975
$25 Couches. heavily tutted, the new
style oak frames-go for. $3.50
$50 Couches, heavily tufted the new
style oak frames-go for. r...............$14.S So
$50 Couches. very handsome. inlaid ma
hogany frames, velour. heavily tufted. =. 675
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Extension Tables.

Extremely Massive 6-foot Tables, with very
heavy legs Observation-Disclosures. S11 .35
l Large Round Table, S-foot; beautiful quar-
tered oak. Worth $50. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .S14SO
) Very Massive S-tOct CHARTERED Oak Tables,
heavy fiuted legs. SIS. 90
Very Fine Golden Oak Tables, 10-foot. with
hand-carved legs and claw feet. t........ So. so
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-21
English Wisdom In Epvpt.

One principle deserves special notice.
1t Is that of using English heads but
Egyptian hands. says the Spectator. In
practice this means the policy OF never
putting an Englishman into any post
which could be just rs we'll filed by
native. In other words. the English
man is only used in the administration
where he is Indispensable. Where he
Is not, the native, as is only just and
right, is employed. The outcome of
Egypt has been carried out by "a body
of officials who certainly do not exceed
100 in number, and might possibly. If
the figures were vigorously examined,
be somewhat lower" Lord Cromer
adds, however. that these 100 have
been selected with the greatest care"
In fact that principle has been-never
employ an Englishman unless il is
necessary In the interests OF good
government to do so, but then employ
first-class man.
The result Is that the inspiring force
In every department Of the Egyptian
state is a first=class English brain. and
yet the natives are not depressed by
being deprived of their share of the ad
ministration. The Egyptians that Is.
do not feel the legitimate grievance
that is felt by the Tunisians and AL
gerians when they see even little posts
OF couple of hundred a year filled by
Frenchmen.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-21
SMYRNA.

Roy Ring is able TO ride out.
Grandpa Skellenger is visiting his
son Henry.
Miss Cora Hoppough returned to
Olivet last week.
MIR. and Mrs. Floyd Totten OF Bel
ding Sundayed in Peach avenue.
MIR. and Mrs. Barker Of Otisco visited
ut III. Skellenger's last Saturday.
Joe JOolin and Bud Chase attended
the reunion at Big Rapids last week
We had hard frost here last week
which injured the potatoes that are not
ripe yet. Apples are falling very bad
~. Where there is one orchard that
hangs full there are about six that
haven't any at all, aud there is no
other fruit To speak Of. There will be
short run but the dryers are very
busy at present.
Mrs. Osgood, who has been sick for
some time, died Saturday morning.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-21
Orleans.
Mrs. Robt Hill was guest of Mr,.
f. Alderman Thursday.

Mrs. Robt Hill was guest of Mrs.
II Alderman Thursday.
Mrs. John Currie is making her son
and family Of Cadillac visit.
Chas. Purdy and mother, OF Grattan,
spent Sunday at Oren Purdy's
J. M. York driving horse died Fri
day Of Inflammation of the lungs.
Claud Roosevelt and Carl Drumond
Of Belding were in town Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wood rejoice
over the arrival OF nice baby girl
Mabel and John Palmer visited their
Grandma Close, at Palo, over Sunday
Mrs. Frank Jankoski is entertaining
her sister from Grand Rapids this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Il. Grant Sundayed
with his brother and family at Six
Lakes.
Mrs. Il t. Mcdonald and Mrs. G.. G..
Purdy spent Tuesday with Belding
friends.
a great many OF our citizens attend
ed the NJ. T.. conference at lonia the
past week
Mrs. A. Alderman is making a visit
to her daughter, Mrs. ID. Walch, and
family, at Ionia.
Frank Hannah and family attended
the funeral Of their friend, Mrs. w.
Briggs, at Bedding, Sunday.
Misses Mabel Allen aud Ada Hunt
ley returned to Holland Saturday nj.
ter spending delightful week with
the Mcssrs Spanogles and fami lies.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-21
NEW THEORY OF THOUGHT.
Thinks That Thoughts Are Vibrations Of
Ether, As Light


In his new work, entitled "The
Drones Must Die" Mr.. Max Nordau
gives the following as the opinion or
one of his characters regarding the
properties of "ether," that subtle force
which Is believed to convey the vibra-
tions set up by wireless telegraphy
from one point to another:
He held that thoughts are vibra-
lions Of ether, exactly like warmth,
electricity. and light Their sum in the
universe is unvarying, like that OF all
other forces. They are diffused in
space like rays of light or electric cur
rents. Millions and billions of various
vibrations strike necessarily upon the
human brain, constituting the innumer-
able thoughts that have been thought
In all the stars. i'm all the depths or
space, now. or in aeons OF inconcelV-
able remoteness. If brain be prepared
for a vibration of certain duration
and wave-length, an equal vibration Is
aroused within it, and the thought
which this vibration represents, be-
comes conscious. In the ascending
portion of the circular course, which
we call development, the brain be-
comes capable of ever shorter ana
more rapid vibrations; in the descend
ing portion it becomes coarser and
more sluggish. Every invention. ey-
cry discovery. every enlargement OF
the bounds OF knowledge is due to the
attainment by some brain Of that de
gree of vibratory capacity, which en-
ables it to receive the corresponding vi
bration of thought flashed upon 1t from
space, and TO convert it into conscious
ness. Hence 1t follows that no thought
originates in the BRAIN that thinks 1t;
for every thought has been thought be-
fore, and will be thought again and
again to all eternity; every brain acts
like relay i'm an electric system; II
receives an impulse from eternity, and
retransmitS il to eternity after its pass
age. The whole ocean Of possible
thoughts surges round us, but we are
only conscious OF them to which our
brains are sensitive. The differences
in wisdom are differences in the vibra'
tory capacity of the molecular mass of
the brain. Character, temperament a
talent, are the expression Of wave
lengths and periods Of vibration. Ev-
cry individual is a rhythm. Attraction
and repulsion between individuals are
caused by the harmony or dissonance
Of their rhythms. their reinforcing or
disturbing effect upon each other"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-21
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