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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
AND ANARCHY.
N, 1, Enterprise.

W. L. EuteTpiiSc'
The public school must educate
for law-loving, law-abiding citi-
zenship. The children of to-day
are destined to live in organized
society, with laws and regulations
that demand respect and willing
obedience.
Those who have no respect for
law and who profess no allegiance
to government are branded as an
archists. There are social anar-
chists and civil anarchists; neither
class likes the public school, be-
cause it emphasizes the idea of 30
cial and civic order through the
agency of law. Those who de-
nounce the public school as una
chine" "straight-jacket," "pri-
son." or anything else that is op-
posed to their idea of liberty, are
opposed to institutional life. This
is the first step in anarchy and ma.
turally leads to the Remuneration
of government itself in the name
of liberty. The public school sys'
tenn is the child of the republic
and its deal embodies reverence
! for law, because that law is thu
human expression OF Will Di
vine; respect for government, be.
cause that government is an agen
CIV in the Divine Economy of thu
world; faith in organized society
because it is the sphere in which
every child is destined to live
The ideal of the public school EN-
bodies that higher type of citizen
ship which not only processes. bu
; practices the subordination of tn,
individual will to the rational vii
of the social whole. Anarchy j
the expression of unrestrained in
dividualism, whose final fruitag
, is the wild impulse to murder men
institutions and law. When tn
ideal of the public school is real
lied. anarchy in all its hideou
forms will become extinct.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30

from the payment of the poll tax,
the States hopes that no gentle
man in New Orleans, who is tinan-
cially able to pay his poll tax, will
neglect to do SO on the ground
that he is exempt. A proper in
terest ought to characterize the
man of sixty years of age and over
Just as much as it does any other
person. That one is exempt un-
der the law does not make the
duty from the standpoint of the
public interest any the less bind
ing, and for one who is able to pay
this tax to plead exemption on
account of age, is to present a very
low standard of public spirit. Lei
everybody pay this tax, cid ano
young alike-the old because Of
the interest they take in public
education, and the young for the
same reason, supplemented by thu
fact that they will lose their RICH
to vote unless they pay the pol
tax.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30
A Violent Attack of Group
Cured.

Last winter an infant child Of mine
had Group in violent FORM" says Elder
John W. Rogers. aChristian Evangelist,
of Filley, Mo. Il gave her few doses
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and In
short time all danger was past and
the child recovered. This remedy not
only cures Group. but when given as soon
as the symptoms appear, will prevent
the attack. 1t contains no opium OF
other harmful substance and may be 81.
ven as confidently to a baby as to an
adult. For sale by T. j. Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30

Chamberlain's Stomach aud Liver Ia
blets cure biiiousness, constipation and
headache. They are easy to take and
pleasant in effect. For sale by I. J,
Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Lafayette Gazette.

Lafayette uaZette.
The system of waterworks has
cost the town less than $4,000.
Does any one doubt that on the
18th instant the waterworks saved
from $4,000 to 100000 worth of
property?
Surely no one will dispute this
fact.
Without the waterworks the fire
de partment would have been help
less. It could not have done any |
effective work. Without an album
dance of water possibly a third or
half of the town would have been
reduced to ashes. Hence, it is true
that on the morning of the l4th
instant the plant more than paid
itself.
Those who are opposed to NUM-
cipal improvements ought to think
about this. 1t is plain business
proposition.
Had not the fire been extinguis-
he'd before being allowed to spread
to Nicholson's store or Feazey'sI
stable, it is impossible to tell how
many people would have peen rem
dered homeless, and some of them
completely ruined. Nothing short.
of a calamity was averted.
While those who live within the
reach of the water-plugs are con-
graduating themselves upon their
good fortune, they should give a
moments thought to their less
fortunate fellow.citizens who are
too far from the water-mains to be
protected in the event of fire.
These people have to pay taxes,
yet they are deprived of one of the
greatest benefits derived from the
municipal government. They have
been the sufferers from one OF the
unavoidable inequalities of the
system. The town administration
has done its best to place both wa
ter and light within the reach OF
as many people as prevailing con-
ditions would permit, and it is no
exaggeration to say that they have
done we'll. The experiment here
has proven more successful than
at New Iberia, Crowley and other
towns and the municipal admins
tration deserves full measure OF
praise for it.
An opportunity will be presen-
,, ted to the taxpayers OF the town
to extend the water and light plant
so as to place it within the reach
of those who have been paying
their share for the plant, but who
have been denied the enjoyment
of the privileges resulting from it.
Only a brutal egotism will cause
those who already enjoy the pri-
! vileges to oppose their extentior
to others, and surely no one who
; is not receiving the benefits of the
plant will be found among the op
position. 1t should require very
. little argument to prove to the lat
! ter that it is to his interest to vot'
: and work for an addition to tht
: plant.
: Under the circumstances it i
Z not possible that any tax-paye
. will oppose the proposition t
' bring about more equal and jus
distribution of the benefits accru
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30
Spread Like Wildhre.

When things are ''the best" they
become "the best selling" Abra-
ham Hare, a leading druggist, of
Belleville, o., writes: Electric
Bitters are the best selling bitters
l have handled in 20 years" You
know why? Most diseases begin in
disorders of stomach, liver, kid
neys, bowels, blood and nerves.
Electric Bitters tones up the sto-
mach, regulates liver, kidneys and
bowels, purifies the blood stength-
ems the nerves, hence cures null
titudes of maladies. 1t builds up
the entire system. Puts new life
and vigor into any weak, sickly
rundown man or woman. Price
so cents. Sold at T. J. Liable
drug store.
\
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30
THE POLE TAX.
States.

Mates.
The agitation on the part of the
Poll Tax Association and the press
of the city on the subject of poll
tax payment has resulted in a very
perceptible increase SO far in the
number of persons paying their
tax Still there is room for grea-
ter activity in this respect, and
unless more interest be taken, a
great many persons will find
themselves disfranchised in the
next election. 1t is reported that
many have not yet paid, being un-
der the impression that the Poll
Tax Association will employ can
vassers to go around and collect
the tax. This is mistake, and
and it should not lead any person
to neglect the opportunity to pay
his tax at once. 1t would require
a large fund to carry out such a
plan of poll tax collections, and
the association has no such fund
at its disposal and therefore could
not, if it would, employ canvass
ers.
The duty of every man who is
really man is to pay his poll tax.
1t should not be necessary to urge
one to perform a duty SO manifest
and SO important, but the tenden-
cy to representation is SO deep
seated in the human race, that it
often becomes necessary to nrge
men to 10 that which, not having
done, they would feel greatly
humiliated. While the law ex-
empts those over sixty years of age
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30
LEyERT, BURGUIERE & CO.,
LOUIS CARLOS OLIVIER,

BY virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias
issued in the above entitled and num-
bered suit, and to NE directed by the
Honorable, the 10th Judicial District
Court In and for the Parish Of st. Mar
tin, dated this 10Th day OF November.
1901, have seized and will proceed to
sell at public auction to the last ard
highest bidder. at the Court House door
In the Town of st. Martinville, between
the legal sale hours Oh
Saturday the 18th day of De-
cember 1901,
the following described property to-wit;
All the rights. titles, and interest, as
part owner of lot No. of plat of sur
vey, annexed to the act Of partition Of
the Olivier lands, as per act. befort Ro-
bert Martin. Notary. Of October 2Sth
1901, lot situated in st. Martin Parish
La. and measures in all AZ 83-l00 ar.
penis and the interests therein of defen.
dant. being II 82-l00 arpents.
Said lot bounded North by land Of LIE
vert and Brcussard. West by Public road
East by Public road and land of Pau
Olivier and Br0ussard.
Sold to satisfy said above mentioned
writ.
Terms and cOnditions-CA
Sheriff'e Office this 10th day of Novem
Der A. D. 1901.
%. BADON, Sheriff
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30
.SHERIFFS SALE.

State of Louisiana, Parish of st. Martin
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-30

10Th Judicial District Court,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22
STITCHED HIS HEART.
Surgeon Performed Remarkable
Operation ON a 81. Louisan.

ST LOUIS, April 2l.-Dr II. l.. Nietert.
superintendent of the City Hospital. has
just performed one OF the most remarkable
operations ever recorded i'm the annals OF
surgery. 1t consisted OF taking three
stitches in the heart of Philip Gum. who
had been stabbed in "A saloon brawl- The
point OF the knife blade had entered the
right ventricle and had pierced to the cav
ity of the heart. Luckily. the knife had
entered the heart obliquely and the re-
suit was that the opening between the cav
ity and the pericardium. or covering Of
The wound acted a valve and at each
pulsation of the blood through the heart
but a small quantity escaped through the
artificial opening.
The task Of stitching this unusual wound
was very difficult one DR. Nietcrt first
removed a section of the breast bone, ex-
posing the pericardium ihe motion OF
the heart cannot be reDressed and Dr.
Ntetert was forced to make the stitches
while the heart was shifting about. IL
required three sutures TO effectually close
the gap. This delicate operation finished,
the pericardium was sewed together. The
portion of the breast bone removed could
not be replaced, and the operation was
concluded by stitching together the skin
and the outer tissues which cover the
breast
Gum is still alive. and, he has a strong
constitution, the physicians predict his re-
coVery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22
Personal and Financial Aspect.

PITTSBURG, April 2l.-The storm, which
was the most widespread and destructive.
from a material point of view, known in
years. has passed. 1t has left zone of
ruin two hundred miles in diameter. 1t
was unusual in that it possessed so many
different features. Cities seventy miles
from Pittsburg were tied up by one OF the
worst snowstorms ever known. While the
snowfall was from eighteen inches TO three
feet deep. which is not extraordinary. the
snow was so wet that it chung in weighty
masses 10 shade and fruit trees and cleo
tric wires and poles, bearing them to the
Garth. 1t settled on steam and street rail-
roads like wet sand, stopping all traffic
The fail was so heavy and spontaneous In
some places that the residents declare II
seemed like the bursting of a snow cloud
A few miles away from these unfortunate
towns were municipalities in just as dlre
straits from ram, but with speedier prospect
for relief, as the rain will run OH laster
than the snow can melt. Yet mere. 700,
traffic practically suspended water
overlooked and washed out railroad tracks
and hillsides came down and buried the
rails. In addition nearly every town on
the Ohio river between Pittsburg ana
Wheeling Is in darkness tonight. Electric
light plants or their wires are damaged:
ard the gas in the mains is generally turned
eff. in previous floods this precaution was
with loss of life and property. The gas
companies will wait until the water sub.
sides sufficiently to permit an Inspection OF
the pipes and to repair any leaks
a remarkable feature of the storm Is That
but few fatalities directly attributable TO
this cause have been reported raiiroader
caught in a wreck caused by landslide
and the death of an old woman from shock
. re the only ones known so far. Ihere
may be others, but as communication Is
cut off from many p0pulOuS places IL
will be the end of the week before the
total can be footed UP.
The money loss is just as difficult to foot
UP. 1t may reach $1,000 900. The railroads
think they have lost S1,000.0O0 The loss OF
wages 10 the army of workers in manu-
featuring plants up and down the rivers
will mount up to $500. 600. and the repairs to
plants will be large sum. The damage
TO stores stocks residences and furni-
ture PittSburg, Allegheny and towns ana
cities down the Ohio probably will reach
100000 The telegraph companies have SUI
fered severely, but cannot yet compute
their losses.
In addition there is the enormous Indirect
damage caused by the almost complete sus-
PENSION of trade. What that amounts to no
one can determine exactly, and estimates
simply reflect the conservative or radical
character OF the cOmputer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22
NEW ENGLAND FLOODS.
Rivers Booming, Railroads Washed
out, Towns in Danger.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. April 2l.-Reports
from the State tonight show that the dam
age done by the floods is serious. The
worst situation is at Winsted, where High
land lake threatens an overflow at almost
any hour. If such occurs, it is feared a
terrible loss of life and property will ensue.
a score of washouts have occurred on the
Central New England Railroad between
Winsted and Hartford Trains are unable
to reach Hartford as a result of two land
slides, which have covered the tracks. The
tracks of the Naugatuck division of the
Consolidated Railroad and also those of the
Winchester Street-railroad are submerged,
and travel has been suspended.
The Connecticut river at Hartford is six
teen feet above the low water mark. and
is rising al the rate of inch an hour.
Two landslides are reported along the line
of the Central New England, one at Tariff
Vile and one in the open country between
that town and Hartford.
At Derby the Naugtuck river has flooded
factories and cut off communication in
several directions. The lower portion OF
the city, inhabitated by the foreign col
ony. is completely under water. and on sew
eral streets boats are used. Three funerals,
in attempting 10 reach this city and An
sonia this afternoon, were obliged to turn
back.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22
ANARCHY DEFINED.
Prince krapotkin Addresses Chi
cage Audience on the Cult.

CHICAGO. April 21.-In an address at the
Central Music Hall tonight on philosophy
of Anarchism Prince Peter krapOtkin
said: 1T is with deep emotion that | adj
dress an audience on anarchism in a city
that has been the scene of a tragedy that
has lost 10 four of our excellent COM
rades, whom we regret not 10 have with
US tonight. fighting for the emancipation
Of mankind. Their names are not forgotten
in Europe. nor in any place where the fight
is being carried on in the cause for which
they bravely died.
when your Millionaire. Mr.. Carnegie,
gives away his millions he does not give 50
much one man of science gives when he
risks his life 90 add TO the knowledge OF
mankind in exploration or otherwise. When
We talk of anarchy those unfamiliar with
our ideas assert tina we are preaching VlO-
lence and the destruction OF civilization. 1t
Is not true. Violence is something that Is
not characteristic of Anarchists or the
Anarchist party. In the thirty years IN
which / have been affiliated with their prin-
ClpeS the violence has iiOt been of our
doing When some man in a moment of in
sanity commits a crime, then your doctrines
teach that society also must commit muir
der. We proclaim the principle that no
man nor society has the right to take
another mans life. When you believe in
these principles, then you have become an
Anarchist D."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22
Lively Time in Indiana.
Detroit Free Press.


One of Detroit's ambitious young news
paper men did not go farther than county
In the northern tier of Indiana TO tempt
fate and defy fortune as the architect and
arbiter of his own publication. Extracts
from a correspondence with one of the
craft In this city will serve TO tell how he
is getting on.
III admit. old man, that / have raked
the hair of In getting out of some of the
holes they've put me In here. The as
SCISSORS refused to take cabbages in pay
ment for taxes. / have pretty nearly frozen
when the wind was from the north the
hobo who lifted my overcoat could not
have known that our town tailor never ad-
vertises. and my landlady. who is a moth
erly old soul, loses money and time in dis
posing Of the surplus stun that make over
TO her in payment OF board.
But the real hard bump came on Easter.
That bow-legged bulldog you gave me got
1t into his ugly head that Lent was over
and that he must celebrate He whipped
four or five dogs before breakfast. and I
was a little uneasy when / heard OF IL.
put him at the end of chain and took him
out for a walk before church just 70 indi-
cate that | didn't sanction his blo0dthirsty
propensities. He broke away and the very
first thing he did was TO mix up with a
brindle dog belonging 10 Jack Porter, and
Jack is the bad man of the county. IL was
an awful fight, but Jacks dog was trimmed
and he was the raaddest man ever called a
Hoosier.
ITO make things more interesting our
dog tangled his chain up with team or
colts, and when IL ran away there was a
continuous streak of misfortune in its
wake. My best friends told me TO take a
vacation until they brought things to a
peace basis. Ii was certainly the liveliest
Easter we have had this century L am
way back I'm tall timber waiting for news.
Could you spare tenn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22
society mt Buffalo.
The New Yorker.

The New 1Orher
As / said last week. IL will be as fash
ionable TO go TO Buffalo as TO Europe or
Newport Indeed. a good number OF the
Newport colony have already arranged ID
spend some time at the Pan-American. Mr..
Willie X Vanderbilt is manifesting great
interest I'm the Buffalo exposition. This. L
suppose, is natural, owing TO his large in
terests in the railroads which extend from
here to Buffalo. Just before he left for
Europe he exacted a promise from Mrs.
Astor that she would visit the Pan-Ameri-
can. Mrs. Aston already has quarters en-
gagged for her In Buffalo. and she may go
there Immediately upon her return from
Europe instead Of going direct 70 Newport
Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Oelrichs and other leaders
have also promised 10 follow Mrs. Aston
This will surely set the fashion and make
Buffalo social center, for whatever tho
New Workers do will certainly be imitatei
By society people of other cities And all
will be delighted with Buffalo. IL is sum-
mer city Next 20 Washington IL Is the
most beautiful city in the country. Society
people there are exclusive. and are a cross
between those OF Philadelphia and Boston
They want TO know not only who your
grandfather was but also what you
know Still they are sure TO welcome our
400 with open arms. Besides. there are
many newy-rich social lights I'm Buffalo.
who only want 10 know how much you
are WORTH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22

PORTSMOUTH. o.. April 2l-The Ohio
river reached stage Of forty-nine feet
here at Z o'clock tonight. 1t rose steadily
three and one-balf inches an hour till I
o clock, when it jumped to four and one
half inches. which was maintained tonight.
1t rained and showed alternately all day,
and IS raining tonight. The Scioto river is
running ont heavy. IL is expected that
ffty-eisht feet will come here, and the city
l. protected 20 that stage by dykes. Above
that stage over half the town. including
many business houses. will be under water.
AT 10 j. IN. the river passed fifty feet here,
and was rising four and a half inches per
hour with both the Scioto and the Little
SciotO rivers out of their banks. Rivermen
predict five feet more rise in the Ohio. All
are moving from the lower lands. y evee
near Lucasvlle is weakening. Should il
burst solid wall OF the Scioto will play
havoc in that section. Watchmen are Civ
ing warning TO the people. Residents of
small river towns in this county tonight
are taking to the hills. At SciotOville and
Wheelersburg the situation is serious All
of the people at New Boston are in tents.
over 500 families i'm these districts have
been driven from their homes The Norfolk
q Western Railway is cut off west of
kenOva.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22

HUNTINGTON. w. Va. April 21.-At 6
o'clock this evening the rain and snow,
which have been falling for seventy eight
hours, ceased. The Ohio has passed the
danger line of fifty feet and /; still ris-
ing 3.9 inches hour, with the Guyar-
dotte Big Sandy. Tug and Twelve Pole also
rising rapidly at all points. Fully ten feet
more water is expected here. The Kanawha
and New rivers also are still rising
Great damage has resulted throughout
the southern and central portions of the
State. There is much suffering among peo-
pie compelled TO seek quarters in the hills
along the Guyandotte and Twelve Pole
Carter Slatington was drowned I'm Tug
river and John Swanson drowned In Guy
andotte while enGeavoring TO save prop
erty. Catlettsburg. Ceredo. Central City,
Dingess, Dunlow. Barboursvile and many
smaller towns are suffering heavily. Owing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22
WEATHER FORECAST.
Clearing skies Promised To-D.y
Higher Temperature To-Morrow.

WASHINGTON. April 21.-Forecast for
Monday and Tuesday:
For Misunderstanding on Monday: north
cry winds. brisk to high near the lake.
Tuesday fair and warmer
For Ohio-Rain or snow on Monday; brisk
to high northerly winds. Tuesday fair ana
probably warmer.
For Kentucky-Fair on Monday. except
probably rain snow in mountain dis
tricts; warmer in western portion. Tues
day fair and warmer in eastern portion:
northerly winds.
For Illinois-Fair on Monday. except
clearing In northeast portion; warmer in
southern and western portions northerly
winds. brisk to high near the lake. Tues
day fair. with warmer in northeast por-
tion-
For Lower Michigan-Rain on Monday.
brisk to high northerly winds Tuesday
fsir; probably warmer.