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fly to study fashion as 1t may apply 70 your
special needs. In other words fashion in dress
should be taken seriously. The artistic In not
easy 10 accomplish when you are handicapped
by conditions which are immutable, but the most
deporable failures arc usually the result ot care
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-17

Long coats Of velvet. half fitting loose sacqur'
in shapes withoutany scam in the middle OF the
back are one Of the spccialtes in winter garments
Wide bands Of stitched pannc are the uimmlhg;
and distinguishing feature in tins style pI
garment whether Of cloth or velvet are ulme
Tev.rs, one Of cloth LIKE tho coat, one 81 whiis
satin embroidered with lace on the cdgc ana
one Of colorcd cloth covered with STITCHING
The combination Of mink and crminc appears
among the novelties in fur ncckwcar.
The weekly messenger., 1899-03-11

We publish in this edition, the
"Vehicle License" adopted by the
town, read it, for it may be OF
some interest to you.
"A trip in the country at this
time is interesting, because all the
fields are being worked with q full
force it is the busy season of the
planters.
The store of Mr.. NJ. Bienvenu,
now occupied by Fournet l. Gary,
is for rent, possession to be given
after the first of April. 1t is one
of the very best locations in town.
For terms apply to Mr.. N. Bien-
venu.
Mr. Sauls, the jeweler who lived
here q month or so some time ago.
after visiting several places in the
state with a view to locate perma-
nently, has decided to return to
st. Martinvilie to make 1t his
home. This is an indication that
st. Martinville as a place of busi-
pess is as good as the other places
that are doing q great deal of
boasting. We welcome Mr. Ssals
and lady amongst us.
Mayor Liable is somewhat ia
ken up with the idea that tobsbco
could be made a money crop in
this part of the state, and has So
cured quantity of seed which he
is distributing among the planters
free of charge, for experimenting
purposes. We have no doubt that
with proper cultivation, that to-
bacce would grow we'll in this sec
ton, and particularly on the sandy
hills.
The Shreveport Daily Progress
lis new venture, with our good
friend, C. D. Hicks, as editor. We
trust that the daily will be as po-
pular as the weekly Progress, be-
cause Hicks and his associates are
gentlemen who command the In
fluence and respect OF the peoplt
of the growing city of Shreveport
The Daily Progress has our bes
wishes for a successful and pros
porous career
Mr.. A. A. Morrow sent Us go
veral stalks of windrowed cane
picked up at random in his field
and they are as fine as can be de
. sired. They are sound from on
> end to the other and will withou
doubt make q fine stand. Th
above was our impression afte
. looking at the apparent health
cane, but the planters who locke
: at these stalks, say they are goo
e for this year, but greatly damaged
Q and will not make q good stant
y We believe there is more guessin
u in this cane matter than there
o real knowledge.
The weekly messenger., 1899-03-11
NOTICE.

hereby notify the public in general.
that will not indorse for Francis D..
Chretien.. II any papers are presented
by him with my name they must be re-
fused. PAUL CHRETlEN.
st. Martin Parish, La. Feb. 22nd 1899.
Feb-25-2-m.
The weekly messenger., 1899-03-11
We learn that thus far, the

road masters are doing good work
on the public roads in draining
and filling the big mud holes. Our
people look upon the new system
very favorably, and expect to have
first class roads in a short time.
Road Master Badon, of the upper
district was in town Monday, and
said in six months he expected to
have all the roads of his district
in FIRST class condition; we hope
Mr.. Maraist, the road master of
the lower district will be able to
do the same with his district.
The condition of the cane is
the most discussed subject at this
time, and from all accounts, the
damage will be great; but the da-
mage was not done by the heavy
freeze as many suppose. as we had
the proof of this fact, from the
cane that was showed us, all the
cane, particularly the windrowed
cane, roted from the bottom, and
the head of the cane, most expo
| sed to the cold, is we'll preserved.
The prevailing opinion is the da-
maged was done by the cane be-
ing green or diseased when wind
rowed, and to the continuous damp
season. The cane acreage in this
parish, according to close estima-
ton, will be about two thirds that
of last year.
| Tomorrow evening the Greig
Brass Band will give its first free
public concert on the church
square, and will continue to give
them every other Sunday. If our
people would come together and
display little of their public en-
terprise by providing the means
of embillishing the music stand
and to secure iron benches, and
|, some other improvements on the
square that would make in a place
of promenade in the evening, and
particularly the evenings of the
concerts. The place is in the cen.
!, ter of town and would be a most
pleasant place for ladies and chill.
dren to visit if it was properly ar.
ranged. Why not make an effor'
. to secure lights and seats for the
, square during the summer wher
we will have free public concerts
n during all the summer months
which we know will be the great
o est attraction of the town. Th'
musicians are doing their share
let our citizens do the rest.
| We publish elsewhere an arti
Gle from the Valley of the Tech
in regard to the running OF tn
, train to New Iberia. The Valle
y is right from it's standpoint,
" gives more time to the peopl
coming from above, to spend i
. st. Martinville, that is true, bu
> have you thought that the trave
ling public have to wait two hour
+ before they can take any train o
a the main line, and that ell passen
l. gers going west have to stop nea1
s, ly three hours at Cade, and whe
10 there is any delay, they have t
le wait three and four hours. If the
n want to spend that time in Ne
Or Iberia they have to pay their We
g. to that town, and is somethir
like 60 cts. just to have the pie
le sure of riding to and spending tv
ce hours in New Iberia This wi
r do we'll enough for the fellow wi
ke is killing away time, but for Il
IN business man three hours, ol
in third of day waiting for a ira
nd is certainly more than he Ct
The weekly messenger., 1899-03-11
LOCAL NEWS.

Senator r. Martin made a bust
ness trip to New Orleans this
week.
Mr.. Frank T. Guilbesu made
. business trip to New Orleans
this week.
The town authorities have been
using the road machine this week
with good result.
Mrs. Dan. w. VOORHEES, and
children spent part of this week in
New Iberia.
"A grand musical and dramati-
cal entertainment to be given by
the pupils of Convent School Eas-
ter week.
Mr.. Dan. w. Voorhies left for
New Orleans Thursday, to appear
before the Supreme Court in the
case of Solini Haynes.
Grand Dictator James Simon
left Thursday for New Orleans to
attend the annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge which will be in ses-
sion Monday.
Mr. F. z. Power left for New
Orleans Wednesday. He gees as
q delegate of st. Martin Lodge
Knights of Honor, to the grand
lodge meeting.
Do not fail to attend the grand
public concert ON the church
square tomorrow evening, at six
O'Clock, it will be real treat. See
the program which we publish
elsewhere.
Mr.. Jules Francois who is now
located in Franklin, was in town
last Sunday shaking hands with
his numerous friends. We learn
that Jules is coming back here il
. week or two to open his shop.
The st. Martinville Building
wnd Loan association made q loar
of $1,000 to Mr.. j. A. Hitter, Tues
day, at a premium of 554. An
other loan of 5000 was made, bu
at the meeting of the director
which followed the loans, the lat
ter loan was rejected.
Crowley has suffered heavil.
Tuesday night from a disastrou
fire. In four weeks that town ha'
four fires that destroyed propert
to the amount of over $4,000
with light insurance on the pro
perty destroyed. The fires ar
supposed to be the work of incen
diaries.
Cotton seed hulls which
extensively used as a feed for ca,
tie has gone up from Is to 25 ct
per 100 pounds, and yet at thu
price, the demand. isTmore tha
the Oil Works can supply at thi
time. Cotton seed hulls are bein
recognized as the best and cheal
est feed for cattle.
1t seems to US that St. Ma
tinville is big enough to have
telephone exchange, all the small
er towns have their exchange
why not us. We believe if tt
managers Of the two telephoi
companies would put q move {
them it would be an easy matt
to establish an exchange her
Why not try it2
Cant some one of our peop
establish a good Fire Insuran
agency in st. Martinville, and CO
ry the business in a business Ii
manner. We are of the opini,
that there is enough insurance
this town to support an Office, al
The weekly messenger., 1899-03-11
FOR SALE.

Having decided to withdraw from the
Hotel business, I will sell the contents Of
the Castillo Hotel.
For details and particulars apply to
MRS. A. BUbtiAKD.
The weekly messenger., 1899-03-11

The GR1Ea CoRNEr BAND, of
st. Martinville. will begin its open
air Concerts on Sunday, March
18th, at 6 o'clock p. M. on the
"Kiosque" erected on tho church
square, for the public's benefit.
The following is the program to
be rendered: n.
MOI Overture Harlequin" (opera)
No 2 Grand Pot POurri, Excelsior.
Nos Serenade whispered HoJ'es".
No4 Characteristic Fantasia and Song
Nos Andante and Wilts "vslitia".
Nos Serenade Sweet Songs.
NOT MIXED Selections.
Nos Dewey's Victory March.
The weekly messenger., 1899-03-11
NOTICE
TO LICENSE PAYERS. TOWN OF ST.
MARTINVILLE.

Take notice that your License for the
1899 are now delinquent and must be
paid on or before the 18th day Of March
or they will be Collected with Costs.
st. Martinville, La, March 4th 1899.
A.V. FLEMING, Collector.
The weekly messenger., 1899-03-11

See our prices for JOB work.
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ing was done In America q generation ago.
There is no improvement in railroading which
has added more to the comfort and safety Of
passengers than that made to the roadbeds
and rails. One official OF the r. and d. B.
Railroad said one day. after the road had
been In operation twenty years:
I'VE have never killed q passenger, except
through the passengers own fault. and yet
there has never been a day in twenty years
when we escaped except by tho grace Of God.
In all that time our roadbed and rolling stock
have never been at to USE"
The day before he said this he had been In q
car which was derailed and rolled down an
embankment. but no one was killed. In these
days. on even the best roadbed laid. the pas
senger could estimate his progress pretty ao-
ourately by the series OF bumps which marked
depressions in the track at the end Of each
rail. and as long as iron rails were used. the
battering down OF the rail ends and eliyering
Of their tops were considered inevitable. With
the advent Of steel rails virtually began the
improvement Of our tracks, and with that Of
the rolling stock. which taken together has
made the railroads OF America the most lux
nrious Of all the travelling facilities of the
world and the safest. Those who are con-
cerned in the railroads only as travellers lean
back in soft seats. watch the quick changing
landscape and enjoy the smooth speed OF the
train, and few except railroad men ever give a
thought to the ingenuity and multiplicity Of
inventions which have been made and utilized
to bring about this result.
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FIRM SPLICING OF RAILS.
PROBLEM THAT HAS LONG PUZZLED
RAILROAD MEN.

Max Barschal's Invention Successfully
Tried on n Section of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and Its Use IL Now to BE Ex-
tended-He Avoids Former Mistakes.
Not 30 very many years ago a large number
OF our railroads were not inaccurately de.
scribed by the picturesque term. An en-
bankment and q couple OF streaks OF rust"
and the general condition OF their tracks. as
II affected the riding public. found express
sion in plays upon the initial letters Of the
companies which were amusing perhaps to
everybody except the officers OF the roads,. but
were not complimentary. One road which
was the first to take New Workers 10 Long
Branch and down into the Jersey pines where
Lakewood and Its Deighboring villages now
stand was the II. and d. b. Railroad. All OF
It's regular patrons know IL rs the Rough
and Damn Bad" while q neighboring road.
whose initials were 4. and j.. was known as
the Fits and Jerks" for twenty years or more.
These names indicate more clearly than could
easily be done in so few words otherwise the
condition OF the tracks over which railroad
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ont with canned vegetables and fruit and all
that W S9Tt OF d thing n.y. orocorv un,own, bo said.
His prices, were low. His groceries we're
we have been In the neighborhood he has hired
a clerk and has bought a horse and n delivery
wagon with his name In gilt letters all over
this prosperity out OF us. but he made II out OF
people whose custom he had attracted and kept
by the same methods by which he did ours, by
for US to come to hts store 20 buy things.
ence FOR Somebody iT I SdESG and t seems seems to me- that the
somebody Is the small shopkeeper Who is al
ways complaining that the d apartment stores
lesson OF my neighborhood may be profitable to
the people who say the saloon thrives because
One day In the midst OF our Ice troubles we
had asked some folks In TO watch us make a
5;tS2w. and T 4 sGsy ys dared pS ict tG % s eS5I t Hs G Ssot il
II was 10 o'clock at night. There was ap:
n]nHHnreenntelY mo no PRO- Prf9sTseSc s 81 al getting Win Any ! ice @ld |
fierce resolution 70 get ice somehow some
where. went to the nearest saloog. .co.
tainly. we've got ice. How much do you wantf'
showed hun. and he gave me a piece
twice as big as / indicated.
How muchY 2 said l
How much ?" he said in an insulted tone.
Nothing: we don't sell ice. Takeit, -
the house, oSSs IN q q I s!at sy u W TO@0 Ny INV wife thought
had bought the cheese. and / thought she
nhll. mere was no Cneese.
| balk at cheese l said.
Cant you try the saloon again p she asked.
1 couldn't help snickering at the idea Of her adj
wishing me to go to a saloon, but l had to admit the
strength OF the suggestion. l didn't quite like
to go to the same one that Ihad been to before.
l had never. been in the place before in my life.
and two calls in one night. one. for ice and one
for cheese. particularly after the ice, was ten
dered as a free gift. seemed too much, l W mt
TO another saloon. where l had never been be-
fore. also. for the cheese. and l got 1t. a pound
How much do I owe your I asked the
bartender.
he; We don't. sell cheese. Some day we'll
ask you to do a favor for u.s.
Now my moral to this whole sad tale is this:
That N the corner grocer. and the iceman. and
the dairyman. and the newsman. and the
butchers tail OF whom knew that l was almost
certain to become a profitable customerl had
taken the trouble to make themselves pleasant
to me. as had those two heather saloopkeep-
ers neither OF whom had ever seen me before
and neither OF whom knew whether l was n
visitor in the neiRhborhood or a househoiderl,
then my friend. the italian. vegetable man.
would not have cut into the business OF three
of them and have his eye on the rest. II. as Ia
altogether possible. he becomes the proprietor
Of a department storei in the next few years. it
Is altogether probable that the rest Of them will
be petitioning the Legislature to pass laws to
keep him from absorbing their business"
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STORM IN THE SUBURBS.
A limo When Nature Again Takes Posses
sion of the Advancing City's Territory.

S"S
There are in these parts suburban nights
entertainments that differ greatly from the
semi-rural moonlight plcnics Cd mosquito
haunted headlands Of the Sound and the
small and early suburban hops ending In a
mad scramble for the last train into town..
Whatever the season. when night descends
upon the suburbs. like Sunday. it brings to
the region a renewal Of youth. a seeming re-
turn to the tina when country lanes were not
called streets or country highways avenues;
When tenement dwellers removed out OF town
did not suspend the Monday wash from the
attic windows; when the Bowery dialect had
1ot penetrated more than half way to Yonkers.
Spring frogs in the suburbs peep Just as their
ancestors did In the damp lowlands Of Vest
chester. Tn hum and murmur OF the sub
urban summer night is as clamoring, yet
est rural thicket -:side. Suburban rainy
nights in April are downshod and narcotic. iunt
man that built his adventurous homo above
the Harlem. Late October nights beneath
keen stars nour their frostbitten atmospheric
predecessor. when no encroaching city threat
ened 10 break the truce long established be-
passing in. some:respects the suburban nights
entertainment of all other seasons arc those
s sIi9sq9 IS 6s sne wind Winds ni aTe sjjr6 SeId In is t shsr .%p.
come upon the suburbs in the true midnight
VI VIZ bodls bhp " u Is DuI u
memory and spring, flowers are months dis
tant. come with all. oblite rating power and
carry the region straight back to stage.coaoh
dayE. snow-blocked highways, and midwin
ter isolation. Then tho suburban. seated by
his glowing hearth. which pours through It's
chimney a hot breath OF defiance into tho very
bosom of the storm. hears. borne in mufled
tones from tho Sound. the momentary, long,
low pitched groaning boot Of the fogholh.
fort of the hearthside doubled. He sees
through frosted window panes the woodlsn
wall faint In the haze Of falling flakes. Ma
ture has repossessed her own. not by the sooth-
ing quiet OF Sunday evenings. not by the en-
ticement and glamourot moonlight. but by the
storm and cold. The footprints OF the
advancing town are buried and obiiterated,
m pertinsnt electric lights are choked and
9uenched in the mealy downpour, and even
the perpetual dawn of the great city, which
hovers 30 degrees above the southward hori-
zon. is dimmed and dissipated.
Bedtime finds the chamber windows sealed
with snow against too intrusive cold and wind.
The raving OF the storm. the boot of the siren
are merely soothing music. Wrapped In that
most harmless form Of luxury which comes OF
contrast between t~oziness within and storm
doyecotes and woolly. sheopfolds. of warm
rooms lit only with blazing logs, OF close
curtained windows and tufted carpets, OF slip
pered ease and cushioned rest. Of urban fur
MOL stilled and rural peace supreme.
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merly such sections we're carried down TO the
main rat. fihnge and clamped upon and against
this, Held In. that way the result was that
Ehh e ra NE eve Weight Of . passing dTn Wheel came r nh4 Ip9
rail piece was forced up, and tho Joint was 80
worked at each passage that in n little while
the bolts were loosened and worn and the
whole Joint racked to pieces,
In the invention OF Mr.. Barschall the third
rail piece Is carefully separated from tho
nanges OF the main rails. and then to maintain
THIS, separation. and to make the whole Joint
solid a filing piece Is inserted whose carefully
designed form. II is declared. so supports the
rail ends as to give the whole Joint more stiff
ness than the solid part Of the rail has, and to
transmit the strains from a Passing load IN
working or racking Of the Joint. This filling
piece touches the third rail section and the
heads and tlanRes OF the main rails only ut Its
drawn across it from shoulder to shoulder
the lines of the transmission of the load
strains, and thor distribution. The joint Is
lnvaria5 ply to have the support of under plates
bearing to maintain its integrity. The cost OF
the Joint Is said TO lie about $50, as against
about $3.50 FOR the ordinary tishplate joint.
There IL another distinct adv vantage which
considering in these days when steam rail-
roads are being converted to electric lines. as
said TO be likely to happen to the elevated
roads IN, this city soon. This Is the facility
under the Joint cleo trIcally. where the copper
bonds are entirely protected. Although IL is
the custom to use. six bolts to a Joint with or
binary fshplates, Mr.. Barsehall says that four
method, Of electrical bonding he utilizes the
bolt hole In either rail end for inserting
The copper bonding wire and then bends the
wire over and around the two inner bolts so as
With the expansion and contraction of the rails
under changes OF temperature.
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ment as a disiointed. dlscordant element
which stands in the way OF the real army.
Any proposal In Congress Of late years to ad-
vance the efficiency Of the latter is instantly
loaded down with special riders providing for
additions or advancements in the several siafT
corps. already relatively expanded and promot-
cd far beyond the requirements Of the estab-
llshment The opposition now 10 the Army
bill lie founded largely In nntagonism TO the
stsff rather than the proposed line increase.
The stan departments favor the Increase OF
the army and the stan. The best military
authority in the country, all the leading of
foers in the army approve Of the proposed in
orense in the line aud favor a radical reor-
Ranlzation OF the stan department by which
II shall again become an integral part OF the
military establishment.
LESLIE ]. Penny,