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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

The public road neas old C3alee
Kinney bridge is still in a horrid COM
dition, Bonifaee Bigat has removed
bis fencing but the road verse er has
failed to tackle the huge holes which
only await a big rain to become i'm
passible bog.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27
Some Quarantine Humbug.

The outbreak Of smallpox in ths
parish near Gueydan bids fair to entail
an expense of upward Of one thousand
dollars upon the parish. Thistis all
due to the inefficiency of the Acadia
health authorities, if we have been
correctly informed. The Vermilion
Board of Health have acted promptly
il the premises, and endeaTored to
control the disease by the most scien-
tific and practical methods. The
eases of small pox were is olated by
being placed in a camp with immune
nurses, and properly guarded. All
persons exposed to the disease were
vaccinated and placed under guardin
( adetention camp. just asthe disease
was about stamped out, aIl those in
the detention c amp discharged and
the last small pox patient convaleseihg
q new case develops ina negro who
had been exposed to the disease in
Acadia parish. From all accounts
this case is due to the gross careless
ness of the Acadia health authorities
and their crude methods of handling
the disease. We are told they do
not employ the detention camp as Q
means of stamping out the disease,
nor do they vaccinate the people who
have been exposed, nor do they re-
port cases occurring when requested
nv our health officials. Ii this be
true and it has been publicaly charg-
ed, the health authorities of Acadia
are deserving of censure in liberal
doses. The city of Crowley has al
ready acquired quite a widespread
reputation for smuggling out its
small pox patients and shipping them
to the neighboring towns and would
appear thai the parish is anxious to
rival the towns reputation. The
attention of the State Board of Health
has been officially called to. the matter
by our Health Board and@ we trust
our neighbors will do better here
after.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27
Personal Mention.

Col. Gus. Braux was in town this
week.
Bob H~ilderbrant Of Sulphur city
Texas is here on a visit.
Mrs. w. o. Pipes of Gueydan was
visiting her mother this week.
DR.. N. D. Young of Royville was
in town on business Wednesday.
DR.. W. G., Young Of Crowley,
spent Wednesday in town, returned
early next morning.
N. o. Bourque left Wednesday for
New Orleans where he will probably
enter into business.
James Wyche of New Iberia, rep
resenting machinery dealers of New
Orleans was in town several days this
week.
Eli Wise has been laid up several
days and sympathizes with Job of old
whom We are told the Lord %tsmote
sore with boils.o
Mrs. L. sokoloski left yesterday
for New Orleans, to meet her daugh-
ter Miss Myrtle who has been attend-
ing school at Nashville Tenn.
Mrs. Sidney Andrus Of Milton re-
turned home this week having success
fully undergone several very delicate
surgical operations at the hands Of
DR.. Robert J. Young.
DR.. F. F. Young and his assistant
Miss Margaret Creary, left last
Saturday for Orange, Texas, where
the doctor goes to fill a number Of
professional engagements
A. f. Duhon, Horace Trahan and
a number of others who went to South
west pass on a seashore tripr eturned
last week, bronzed and weather beaten
but all pleased with their outing.
DIR. Theirot'of Houmas a brother Of
Mrs. A. j. GODDARD has decided te
locate here for the practise Of his
profession Of dentisty and is having
"a neat. office fixed up mite Bourqae
building overTed Bauesas store.
J:sP. Guesdan and ii T, Gueydar
were ia townsWednesdaE They re.
port quite a boom at Gueydan.
While here they sold nine lots Of the
little rice town for $1,400, cash. Seve-
raj of our townsmen talk ct investing
in the Gueydan country.
Our neighbor Jos. S. Ewell tells
quite a fish story about himself and 9
few friends catching 1900 perch the
other day on Little Bayou. Had be
brought us a nice string Of them We
would have had no further doubt in
the premises as it is-well
Deputy Sheriff 2. B. Broussard of
Vermil;on parish passed through here
this morning en- route for Baton
Rouge with aanegro prisoner sentenc-
ed for Is years in the penitentiary
the prisoner was placed in charge Oh
Sam Points the jailor OF this parish
for safe keeping waiting the arrival Of
the evening train going to New orle-
aps.-Iberian.
Fourth at The Lake.
NH eEEE &E-
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Hall and Slutz started up their big
pump last Saturday at the pumping
plant on Little Bayou and are pump
ing plenty of water. Some thing
like four miles more of canal have
been built this season and the termi-
nus is at Aurelien Theall's.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Cattle on. the range are, fat and
sleek, but the horn fly is d~istressingly
plentiful and renders the poor animals
quite miserable.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

The candidates for public Office are
coming forward. One. Of the latest Is
our friend John Nngier Of Perry. Tho
one ofathe last to announce, he does
not propose to be last IN the race.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27
white Enaneled Iron Beds

of all sizes, and prices, anything and
everything you can needsin furniture,
and at bottom prices. My prices must
be right, and | must buy and sell right
or / couldn't cary the stock | do.
Come over and see it.
My show rooms comprise two floors
49xl07, and | use five other floors for
storage. | only keep house furnishings
and vehicles, and don't attempt to
carry green salt shoulders, and straw
hats. Only two lines we'll carried out,
and not twenty lines with no assert
ment in any.
Only trying to do a few things well,
and devoting my entire time, floor space
andcarital 10 only two lines enables
me to. offer you a better selection and
lower prices than you will find in any
country store.
/ have the best vehicles in a long
way around, and offer better values in
Velicles and Harness than you can OBJ
tain in the South.
You can come over and'see tle stock
and I will pay freight on any quantity
of goods you buy over $1,000.
Sole Agent for Columbia, and Hartford
Bicycles for New Iberia Abbegille, and
St Martinsville,
II S. MCMAHON.
New iberia. La. Foot of French St.
r
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Humiliating Examinations by ply
III clans are avoided by use Of Simmons
Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets, which
cure 50 out Of every 100 cases Of
Female Disorders.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

You cannot accomplish any work
or business unless you feel we'll. If
you feel aUsed Up-Tired Out"
take DR.. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Street sprinkler keeps down the
dust very well since the rain gave it
8 soaking.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Mrs. j: E. Taylor, Montgomery,
La, writes: For 10 years DR.. M. A.
Simmons Liver Medicine is the only
remedy that relieves me of Palpita-
ton of Heart, Poor Appetite, Female
Troubles and Family Ailments. Be
lieve it far superior to Zeilin's and
Black Draught.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

A dance was given BY the young
folks last Wednesday night in Bauer's 5.
new store.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Health, Strength and Nerve Force
follow the use of DR.. M. A. Simmons
Liver Medicine, which insures good
Digestion and Assimilation.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

We have received an invitation to
attend the Louisiana Industrial Insti-
.tute to be held at Ruston, La. on June
l0-l4, but we regret that We willie
unable to- attend.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

This week r.. H. Mills received
the rest of the machinery for his
pumping plant on Coulee Kinney and
expects to have it in running order in
a few days. Every thing about it
is strictly fr~st-class, the very best
that money could purchase, and when
installed will be the finest pumping
plant on the bayou Vermilion or its
tributaries, the capacity of the big
Ivens double suction pump being
j ,O00, 900 gallons per hour.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27
Pure Mexican June Corn

at 81 Is per bushei COO per half
bushel 35e per quarter bushel, t. Q.
b. here. Don't order less than one
peck. Also Indian Game cocks at
$500.
r.. Nj. Leonard,
Joshua, Tex. /
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Rose Hill plantation and central
sugar fatory is to be sold to day noon
nj tae courthouse
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Attention Vet erans-Election of
officers and other important business
will take place on June 8. 1899.
w. d. GoocH.
Commander.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Cards r out for the marriage of
n Of our sweetest and most popular
girls, Miss Leah Leblanc to Leodias
]. B~roussard, a progressive young
merchant of Erath. The happy event
takes place next Wednesday evening
at 6:15, at the Catholic church.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Tuesday night a delightful soiree
was given at the home Of Mrs. r. D.
Smith. Everyone present had a most
enjoyable time and wish their charms
ing hostess the return Of many such
occasions. To give a party is an
easy thing, to render everyone happy
IS reserved for those who have the
special gift Of Mrs. Smith.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27
MATTINGS

$50 rolls from I0e
to 75ee Any color
you wish.
Any price you
want to afford.
Any number of
yards you need.
New styles,
New colors.
New weaVes,
New prices.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Blackberries are ripening and the
recent showers will ensure a fine crop
and an abundance of the poor mans
dainty the blackberry pie,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

The number of census supervisors
appointed for the State Of Louisiana
is six, each representing a separate
district. P. Fl. Segurashas been APP
pointed as supervisor ofthis, the sec
ond district. The work of obtain
ing the census viii probably occupy
sixty days for which the supervisors
receive a.salary of $1,000.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27
MONEY ADVANCED ON CANE.

The Lafayette Sugar Refinery Co,
sc now prepared to make liberal cash
advances on contracts for cane to be
delivered this falls Cane planters de-
string to cur advances are request
ed to call upon Gus Godchaux, Z.
o. Broussard or Eli Wise who repre-
sent the company here and will make
contracts. 18tf I
Pimples, Boils and other HumoFs
appear when the blood gets impure.
The best remedy is DR.. M. A. Sim
mons Liver Medicine.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

We are requested to state that
Rev. G. @. Kramer, Of New Iberia,
will bold services at the courthouse
tomorrow night. All are invited.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27

Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or
Tablets soften, relax and expand
muscles involved, Decreasing Labor
Pains and Shortening Labor.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-05-27
North wind since the rain.

North wind since the rain.
A dance was given by the young
folks last Wednesday night in Bauer's $.
new store.
Street sprinkler keeps down the
dust very well since the rain gave it
q soaking.
Rose Hill plantation and central
sugar fatory is to be sold to day noon
at tae courthouse,
Cattle on the range are fat and
sleek, but the horn fly is distressingly
plentiful and renders thepoor animals
quite miserable.
~Blackberries are ripening and the
recent showers will ensur a fine crop
and an abundance of the poor mans
dainty the blackberry pie,
Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or
Tablets soften, relax and expand
muscles involved, Decreasing Labor
Pains and Shortening Labor.
We are requested to state that
Rev. C. @. Kramer, Of New Iberia,
will bold services at the courthouse
tomorrow night. All are invited.
We have received an invitation to
attend the Louisiana Industrial Insti-
.tute to be held at Ruston, La. on June
10-l4, but we regret that We willhe
unable to- attend.
The candidates for public Office are
{ coming forward. One. Of the latest.is
our friend John Nngier Of, Perry. Tho
one ofathe last to announce, he does
not propose to be last IN the race.
You cannot accomplish any work
or business unless You feel well. Ii
you feel "Used Up-Tired Out
take DR.. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine.
The public road nea2 old C3alee
Kinney. bridge is still in a horrid COM
dition, Bonifaee Bigat has removed,
bis fencing but the road overse er has
failed to tackle the huge holes which
only await a big rain to become i'm
passible bog.
Humiliating Examinations by ply
aI.ians are avoided by use of Simmons
Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets, which
cure 50 out of every loo cases Of
Female Disorders.
The shaft in the satmine at Weeks
Island is down about 100 feet below
the surface. It rests on solid rock
salt. The management will now
make a %s'joint' to prevent leakage
and the work of deepening the shaft
will then go on.-Iberian.
Hall and Slutz started up their big
pump last Saturday at the pumping
plant on Little Bayou and are pump
ing plenty of water. Some thing
like four miles more of canal have.
been built this season and the termt
nus is at Aurelien Theall's.
Cards are out for the marriage of
I one of our sweetest and most popular
girls, Miss Leah Leblanc to Leodias
]. B~roussard, a progressive young
merchant of Erath. The happy event
takes place next Wednesday evening
at 6:15, at the Catholic church.
The number of census supervisors
appointed for the State Of Louisiana
is six, each representing a separate
district. P. Fl. S~egurahas been APP
~ TNns~A-I = AL~H 80.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-27
THEY HEARD FROM DAVIS,
But the PLANT Tools of the Octopus
COnspired to Him.

Memphis Commercial Appeal.
When Attorney General jeff Davis, of
Arkansas, concluded his speech before the
Chicago. peace conference. he, went to the
telegraph office and telegraphed his chief
clerk or assistant in Little Rock: Just
finished speech. Audience went wild. Gave
'em hades. Watch the papers" In his
speech he said the courts were legislating
and usurping the functions of the legis-
Il iat %ouiid a be the ina1 result IS sve of E Iudge sho%ie i Home
This has been said before. He also said
that If the whitening blight" Of some
land" something else or otherest would
happen. This was never said before.
But there was an evident conspiracy among
the gold-bug subsidized press of Chicago
to prevent the plain people from reading
what Attorney General Davis, of Arkansas.
had to say, and the thunderbolts that he
hurled in the teeth of the money devil were
concealed. The speech that set the audience
wild, and in which the distinguished attor-
ney general gave 'em hades, was consigned
to the waste basket, with the exception Of
ten lines, and the painting and feverish
millions who wanted to read it watched the
paper in vain.
The octopus tickled himself with his ten
tacles until he fell into a violent fit of laugh
ter, and the money devil curled his tail in
triumphant vanity and ~sandpapered his
horns in an ecstacy of arrogant delight.
But the joy Of these monsters will be short
lived. The voice that gave 'em hades In
Chicago will not be still and will be heard.
No such speech is going to dissolve into thin
air because ii possesses the elements of i'm
mortality. The chortling and ordinations
of the octopus and the money devil will yet
be changed into wailings and mutations, be-
cause the plain people will never permit the
whitening blight of anything to over
shadow our land" This land of ours, where
the eagle screams defiance to the world,
might permit itself to be overshadowed by
a burn or a pinch or a pain or a pale green
howl; but, before 1t will submit to being
thrown headlong into such a Dense, opaque
and almost palpable adumbration as the
shadow OF a blight. and of a whitening
blight at that, it would start something and
make of mundane existence one perpetual
rough house. The terrible meaningfullness
of Attorney General Davis's metaphors
should not be misunderstood, and they need
no carpenter to work on them, because they
are unique and stand alone. like Adams
recollection of the good thing he traded for
half an apple. which he only half swallowed.
There is a time coming for Attorney Gen.
eral Davis. He will yet convert a dry goods
box into a Sinai, and by the thunders of his
voice cause the money devil to tremble, and
by the lightnings of his intellect dispel the
shadow of the menacing whitening blight.
He cannot fail. because from the structural
elegance of his periods we see that he reads
his Nashville American regularly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

President Kruger maintains his domestic
establishment on an allowance of $1,000 of
what is called coffee money" out of which
he also requires Mrs. Kruger to suquestrate
her pin money.
Prof. Lombroso has at last discovered a
man OF genius whom he can acquit of the
charge of insanity. In a recent article In
an italian literary journal he speaks of
Goethe as a normal, healthy and sublime
poet.
A fve-year-old boy, of Brentwood Eng
land. has received the Royal Humane So
ciety's diploma for jumping into the water
He is believed to be the youngest certi-
hcated life-sayer on record.
Johanna Stein. teacher in a Vienna school,
undertook a few weeks ago 10 make a trip
in the painless Save valley from Ponca to
the weissenfels lake without a guide. She
lost her way and fell off a precipice 600 feet
high. Her body was found the next day.
Professor Totten. formerly a lieutenant in
the army, but for the past few years a pro-
fessional prophet of the end of the world.
is out with a new prediction. He says that
tn infant son of the Duke of York is des-
tined TO gather the Jews from the four
quarters of the earth and to unite them
under his banner.
Probably the easiest college examination
on record is that recorded in the Life of
Dean Liddell." Christ Church was the re-
sort of many gentleman commoners.' who
passed on their family. not their scholastic
attachments. Still. they had TO be exam
ined." and one of them who had been sent
TO attend a course of lectures on the at
mosphere came before Osbourne Gordon for
an inquiry into his very human understand
Ing. "Well. Mr.. -, said Gordon. what
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-27
MANY NEW CANALS PLANNED.
Waterways Proposed That VIII
Change Map of the World.
London Mail.

Canals for irrigation and navigation are
as old as the Oldest civilization. of which We
have any knowledge, and so long, at any
rate, as ships pillow the seas, or until aerial
navigation revolutionizes all present means
of transport, canals will never become alto
gether obsolete, and many OF them, joining
as they do one twin sea TO another, will al
ways be of vital Importance, particularly
to maritime countries.
OF the canals that have been cut, the most
notable examples are the Suez canal. be-
tween the Mediterranean and the Red seas,
i'm the old world, and the Sault Ste. Marie.
between Lakes Superior and Huron. in the
new.
Some natural channels. such as the CAST
uuiare, one of several branches which unite
the Orinoco with the Rio Negro, a tributary
of the Amazon, are ready-made canals.
Others. like the Lukuga. which discharges
into Lake Lanji ian expansion of the Upper
Congo the overflow from Lake Tangan-
of canals yet to be cut or completed, prob
ably the most important are the Panama
and the Nicaragua canals, both across the
narrow neck of land which unites the two
great Western continents.
OF the Panama canal. which has finan
cially proved so disastrous to THOUSANDS OF
thrifty Frenchmen. about two-ffths are
finished. and the rest will be completed
doubtless by English. energy and capital.
The Nicaraguan canal Is, Tor the most part,
ready made-of a total length OF about lt
miles. Not more than thirty miles will have
to be ~excavated. 1t will extend from Grey
town, at the mouth of the San Juan river,
on the AIldnllC u Iiitc Oh thV -
cifc coast, and will have six ~locks-three at
the eastern and three at the western divide.
The United States has got what may be
termed an exclusive option on this yet-to-
be-cut interoceanic waterway, and has
warned the world that its banks will be
regarded as virtually a part OF its ocean
line and an extension OF Its frontier.
A '.short cut across the Isthmus Of Krah
would enable vessels TO pass directly from
the Indian ocean to the Gulf of Siam and
the China seas, and thus save the long pas
sage through the Straits of Malacca and
round Singapore. Some enterprising Amer
lean capitalists propose TO cut a canal right
across the narrowest part of Florida, and
this, no doubt. Will soon follow the compile
ton OF the Nicaragua canal.
The Japanese. prompted by naval exigen'
cies. are about to cut d sea-to-sea canal
SO that their smaller vessels can pass quick
ly from the Pacific to the Sea of Japan
and vice versa. Russia. by her new Blacl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-27
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES.
They Are Superior to the English
Ones for Use i'm New Countries.
The Engineers

Inc Engineers.
From various parts of the world state
ments reach us to the effect that the COM
paratively roughly-made American engine
is a more satisfactory machine than Its
beautifully finished English or Scotch-made
brother. We see no reason why such state
ments should be made If they are not true.
We have read specifications fo- engines and
we have made ourselves acquainted with
the practice of inspectors. and bringing our
own knowledge of the facts to bear we are
certain that the engines which result from
the best adapted to the intended work. We
do not wish to ~criticise individuals, and We
find it hard to state cases by way of illus
tration, which will not seem to press hard
" on this man or that; but we may say
that we can call to mind one instance in
which six-wheeled engines, with rigid plate
frames and a comparatively long wheel base,
were set to work against American engines
of a much rougher make, with four wheels
coupled and a bogie.
The English engines burst the road, ran
off it and did such mischief that they were
thrown on one side and the American en-
gines did all the work. We can call to
made engines. built to special design for the
5 feet 3 inch gauge, played such havoc
with a very bad road that they had TO be
practically rebuilt, the wheel base short
ened and the axle boxes cut away to give
side play before they could be used. We
have seen engines with the cylinders thrown
so far forward to get a short wheel base
that the engines literally jumped them
selves off a bad road and could not be used
till they were fitted with pony trucks, which
the designer would not have at any price.
The highest excellence of material and the
utmost beauty of Workmanship will not
compensate for such defects of design.
We need scarcely say that ii affords us
no particular pleasure to write thus. But,
on the other hand. we have the best inter-
ests of the locomotive builders of this coun-
try at heart, and we should wholly fail in
our duty If we said pleasant things and
maintained that the typical English loco
motive must be the best for Australia, or
South America. or China, or Africa, just
because it is the best for the railways of
Americans more fully understand what is
wanted for railway service in a new and
cheap country than we do, and that We
ought not to be too proud to learn from
them. The MISUNDERSTANDING firms in
this country are by no means numerous.
and we venture to say that they have moth
ing to learn from Americans or any one
else. But this is not true of other people
in this country, and 1t is the other people
who settle what the locomotive for distant
lands shall he