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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-17

The Cumberland Telephone

The Cumberland Telephone
Company is Unfortunate in the
selection of its managers, as du-
ring the past few weeks four of
them have been short with the
Company AMI have skipped. The
manager from Jeanerette skipped
q few weeks ago with the Compa-
ny's money, but he was arrested
and is now in Jail at New Iberia,
awaiting trial, the manager j. G.
johnson of st. Martinville skip
ped short time ago. being short
in his account something like FIVE
hundred dollars. The Alexandria
manager was short the past week,
and disappeared, leaving letters
indicating that he had suicided,
and now comes the news that Hsr-
ry Turner. manager of New Iberia
was also short, and skipped for
parts unknown.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-17
New Century Comfort.

New Century Comfort.
Millions are daily finding q world
of comfort in Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. 1t kill pain from Burns,
Scalds, Cuts, Bruises; oonquers
Ulcers, and Fever Sores; cures
Eruptions, Salt Rheum, Boils and
Felons; removes Corns and Warts.
Best Pile cure on earth. Only 25c
at T. j. Liable drug store.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-17

The executive committee on
water works and electric light is
now at work, and will shortly re-
port to the board of managers on
site and other details in order to
come to final conclusions on mat
ters that are necessary to go to
work on the plan and speci6ca-
tions.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-17
Finds Way to Live Long.

Finds Way to Live Long.
The startling announcement of
q Discovery that will surely leng-
then life is made by editor o. 81.
Downey, of Churubusco. Ind. II
wish to state" he writes. "thst DR..
Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption is the most infallible re-
medy that I have ever known for
Coughs, Colds and Grip. It's in
valuable 10 people with weak lungs.
Having this wonderful medicine
no one need dread Pneumonia or
Consumption. Its relief is instant
and cure certain" T. j. Labb6
guarantee every 500 and u, 90 bot
tie, and give trial bottles free.
The Knights of Honor will have
their annual dinner at the Flem-
ing hotel tomorrow evening, and q
large attendance is expected to be
on hand to enjoy the good dinner,
and also the social pleasures Of
the gathering of q large number
of the members.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-17

The Valley-of-the-T -Teche says
the people of Bresux Bridge have
an erroneous and inflated value
placed upon their empty lots, and
it requires almost q gold mine to
be able to touch one of them, and
says prospective investors who
would like to locate in that town,
are scared away and leave DISCUS
ted, and suggest, as q remedy for
this mossbackism, q side walk or
dinance that would force the pro-
perty owners to. build sidewalks
around their property, improved
or not. We believe the Valley is
right, q strick sidewalk ordinance
that would be enforced to the let
ter, would have the tendency of
forcing these land owners to place
a lower value on their lands, and
it would also teach some people
lesson, that if they want planta-
tions they should remove to the
country and not expect to have
them In incorporated towns.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

The farm labor problem is looming
up. and becoming frightful speeter.
not only at the present, but the future
is greatly obscured by the same un-
seemly ghost. In the west the grain
harvest is the trying time; in the
south 1t comes twice year, at cotton
chopping time and at cotton picking
time. Western farmers have had to
pay $1.50 per day and board for har-
vest hands, and hundreds of eastern
college students have spent their sum-
mer vacations in the harvest fields in
stead of on the football field or base
ball diamond. Under present condi-
tions in the south farmers can hardly
afford to pay such prices. 1t is true
that expert cotton pickers sometimes
earn $1.50 per day picking cotton at
so cents per 100 pounds, but this is
paying by the piece for work actually
done. The only remedy for this con-
dition is better farming, which will en-
able the farmer to pay such wages as
will attract the best class of farm help.
1t can not be done on cotton and
corn farm under present conditions. 1t
is only high-class farming that can
pay for the class of labor that makes
high-class farming possible. Therefore
only progress can solves the farm la
Dor question and the farming and the
labor must progress together-Texas
Farm and Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

A Canadian writer on swine says:
Some of us seem to think when we
see pig stretcheing out and growing,
and not getting fat, thai it is an ex-
pensive feeder. But this is not neces-
sarily the case. 1t does not necessarily
cost cent more to produce pound Of
gain in a pig of the right bacon type
than it does in any other type. l have
tried to prove it, but could not dem
onstrate that the bacon type of hog
Is expensive to feed. find it is an
economical producer of bacon. There
is no proof that it costs more to pro-
duce the bacon hog. II you get the
right type and have healthy, grow
ing, thrifty pig, that will stretch out
instead of getting fat ard dumpy, You
will have hog that will feed econom-
ically. There may be some difference
In regard to their suitability for pen
feeding and grazing. ! think some Of
the best grazers are the American
breeds, and possibly the Berkshires
That is my experience SO far as we
have gone, but we have not followed
II up very thoroughly vet"
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

Gentle reader, didst thou ever order one
plate of ice cream with two spoons? Honest,
now,in the dear old days when you were young
and there was only one girl in all the world,
and she had a round face like the full moon
and as full of freclles as the skin of brook
trout? Did you, now? Come, own up! 1t
was down in the little ice cream shop, the
only one in the village, and you were dread
fully angry when the lady who waited on
have been glad to get along with one spoon
and take turns in licking, but you were too
bashful for that. Still, you used to share
licks when you thought the smiling lady
was not looking, and love went with them,
and the ice cream was twice as sweet and
aavorsome. What! You never did? You
really never did, Well, then, son, you have
never known what Heaven on earth is. Your
education has been neglected.-N. Y. News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
MusscaI 0eni1s Of the Poor.

~ has frequently been noticed that
musical gifts, and especially that of
ine voice, are more frequently found
among the cottages of the poor than
among the rich and learned classes.
vocalists are seldom born in the pur-
ple, and cases like that of Mario, who
was count, are altogether exception
al. "Stars" of lowly origin, on the
other hand, are plentiful in the oper-
attic welkin. The incompatible Ban
IT," the delight of our great-great-
grandfathers. was the daughter of a
gondolier and began life as a street
singer. Nine. Christine Nilsson, the
Incompatible Marguerite of the '7os
,snd now a Spanish countess. is de-
scribed as daughter of "very small
farmer" Theodore Wachtel, the fa-
nous German tenor, who died at
Frankfort five years ago at the age
of 20, was the son of jobmaster in
Hamburg and an excellent whip before
he discovered that he had a voice
Chicago Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

Crossroads, Tenn. j, Sept. l4.-Orbra Young,
the ten-year-old SON of Lester Young, of this
place, is,a bright boy, and one who is very
well liked by all who know him.
For some years Orbra has suffered great
deal with form of Kidney Trouble which
was very annoying, and which made him mis-
cradle all the time. He had to get up three
or four times every night, almost all his
life.
His father heard of remedy called Dodd's
Kidney Pills, and bought some for the lit
tie fellow with the result that he is now COM
pletely cured of the old trouble. He says:
'Dodd's Kidney Pills soon gave me great
relief, and now can sleep all night without
having to get up. We will always praise
Dodd's Kidney Pills."
There are many children suffering from
Kidney and Urinary troubles. These dis
orders should be promptly corrected. Dodd's
Kidney Pills is a safe and sure remedy for
all such arrangements.
Master Orbra Young conquered bis trou-
bles and made-a well boy Of himself by using
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and any one may do
the same by the same means.
Parents should see to it that their children
are given fair chance in life, and there is
nothing that can undermine the health of
. growing child as much as Kidney and Uri-
nary arrangements.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
CARE OF FARM ANIMALS.
Wen Cared For and Sheltered AMI
~ mails Means Reduced Cost
3 of Feeding.

By actual experiment 1t has been
. demonstrated that the saving of food
Inv means of good shelter is equal. in
Sshort time, to the cost Of the shelter.
lPigs. when provided with good shelter
.Hnd warm quarters, by the experiments
made, fattened on much less food than
was required to simply keep them alive
Tin an unprotected state. The compari-
SON is an important one. In the drst
>Dlace, the animals not properly pro-
ks,idcd with suitable accommodations
&dId not gain in weight az all, but really
destroyed or wasted ali that had been
.hrovided for them: for the food was
onverted into heat, in order to give
he animals protection that should
1xe been furnished with boards and
hingles. This seems TO answer the
duesfion whether feeding an animal on
! ne products of the farm. which require
labor TO produce, is cheaper than the
ohclter which, when once erected, lasts
Tor number of years, and does sery-
lce for successive seasons Such facts
prove that quality of shelter is as inn
portant as the quality of the feed.
Furthermore. as a pound CT flesh, or q
quart Of milk. is easier saved than re-
eAincd after Il has been lost. 1t is poor
policy trying to make cattle gather up
the dried waste blades OF fodder In the
eornneld. or the late grass in the pas
turr. Frost-bitten grass, especially,
1o6ks In iaiciness and In nutritive quail
1sie~. and cows having TO depend upon
n until very late tn the fall are not
oofy In Sanfer of losing t'.eir calves.
t1f their rvss. during the coming
~iuf<f Thy esn be carried through
ougd1fIon than they eAn n they ere
&e1 Il - = 80 ~ tanlnoee
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
DRUNKENNESS IN FRANCE.
ern Leprosy of Its Bibulous
People.

Drunkenness in France is steadily on
the increase, and there is not village,
however small, which does not possess
several habitual drunkards. says an
eastern paper.
Alcoholism is the modern leprosy of
France. Medical statistics, compiled
by the authorities from the hospitals,
asylums and prisons, show that the
great increase in pulmonary consump-
ton is almost entirely due to alcohol-
ism. and two-thirds of the inmates OF
French lunatic asylums are there from
the same cause.
Throughout France there is a great
demand for cheap absinthe, which is
adulterated with diacetate of copper.
The effect of this beverage, If taken
regularity. is to drive the drinker in
sane.
Common spirit, generally known az
"eau de vie," is consumed in large
quantities in the north of France.
This liquor can be bought at Is cents
per pint. Such cheapness is great in
centiye to drunkenness.
Various public bodies are doing their
utmost to bring home to the people the
awful physical ravages caused by alco-
holic excess, but hitherto their endeav-
ors have produced the effect of a rain
drop on furnace
The efforts OF temperance societies
based on philanthropic or religious
principles have no influence on the
French character.
The only real remedy for checking
the alcoholic curse in France lies in
prohibitive legislation and the creation
of state monopoly of alcohol.
This would mean that pure alcohol
only would be served. and that at high
price.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
The LrEht OF the Sec.

A Dutch investigator, Beyerinck, has
lately made special study of the
little organisms called photo-bacteria,
to which, in large degree. the phos-
phorescence of the ocean is due. n.
has been unable TO discover that the
luminosity of these singular creatures
plays any important part in their VI
tality. 1t appears to depend chiefly
upon the food that they are able to
obtain. When they have plenty OF
carbon they shine brilliantly. and the
ocean surface glows with their mys-
terious light. When fed with sugar OF
glycerine, their phosphorescent power
IL increased.-Youth's Companion.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

Burned corncobs, il you have no
charcoal, mixed with some wood ashes
and a very little salt kept where the
hogs can get it, is one of the best reg
ulators that hogs can be given to keep
them in healthy condition. AS to the
manner of burning these cobs, one
breeder says to dig a hole in the
ground five feet deep, one foot in di-
ameter at the bottom and five feet at
the top, using this hole as a charcoal
pit. Into this pit place some COM
bustible matter ar1 ignite. To this
gradually add dry corn ccbs until the
pit is full. After the flames have thor
oughly penetrated these cobs, place
over the pit sheet iron cover SO as to
exclude the air. II there ara any crew
ices around the edge there should be
covered with soil. In the course Of ten
or twelve hours the charcoal will be
ready for use. This charcoal may be
fed alone to hogs or mixed in-the fol-
lowing way: Six bushels of corncob
charcoal, eight pounds of salt, two
bushel of wood ashes. The charcoal
should be broken up tine and these
substances thoroughly mixed together.
One writer adds to this mixture one
and one-quarter pound of copperas.
which he dissolves in hot water, after
ward sprinkling this over the mix
ture. The mixture may then be fed
to hogs at certain intervals, or, what
is better, it may be placed where the
hogs may have free access to it at all
Farmer.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
The Only One.

"What do you call that eminence?s
asked the tourist.
1--WE don't call it nothing" answered
Pieface johnson. 'Tha: there, l guess,
is the only bluff in this country that
ein't been called."-Cincinnati En-
Cuirer,
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
HERE AND THERE.

-Coarsely- y-ground beans or peas of
almost any variety constitute the best
substitute for insects or meat scraps
In feeding fowls.
Cotton seed meal is an excellent nj
trogenous feed for fowls. T. should be
fed miexd with bran, corn meal or
chops. and well wetted.
There can be no fixed rule for the
number of times a crop should be cul-
tivated or plowed. This work should
be done whenever it is needed. and
not whenever the farmer can get
around to 1t.
Who profits by the use of machines
and improved implements: The un-
thinking farmer can not use them.
Many such do not know that there are
good machines for their peculiar work.
The farmer who cells beef. pork,
mutton, milk or butter, made from his
own crop, judiciously fed to well-bred
animals, always makes more money
than he who grows crops and sells
them to others who do the feeding.
Fruit is not merely luxury. 1t is
one of the necessities of life. There
are substitutes for bread that are just
as good, and meats may be dispensed
with without harmful results. But for
fruit there is nothing just as good
no, nothing half as good.
Wells and windmills, which every
farm should have, will enable farmers
to 1rrigatea good garden plat, II moth
ing more, and then there need not be
a day in all the year when fresh vege-
tables from the garden can rot be had
for dinner.
If it is too dry to plcw the fall
garden ground, 1t is not too dry to
haul onto it the manure, and then when
the ground is ready sor the plow and
the harrow there will not be so much
work to do that much that is needed
must be omitted.
"A very few surplus ioosters will
eat up all the profits of the flock. They
should be marketed while young, or
eaten at home. 1t would lie better to
give them away than 10 keep them
through fall and winter. Surplus roos-
ters are an expensive nuisance.
The best preventive of bad luck h
good management-on farm or else
where. Haven't you known. during q
general failure OF crops. some one
farmer Who made good crops? Go and
talk viii that man sn} ,earp how b
~ y 80 g uksvtsA
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
QUILT MADE OF scALps.
by Iowa Indians for Over .
Hundred Years.

Matt" Durr. who calls himself the
Daniel Boone of Oklahoma. has
lived with the Indians and followed
them in their wanderings so long that
he is probably better versed in their
traditions than any other white man
In this country. He lives near Stroud,
0. T., and spends the greater part Of
his time among the Sac, Fox and
Ozaukee Indians. on their reserva
tions, reports the Kansas City Journal
Seventy years Of age, his hair is al
most snow white. and he has many Of
the habits and customs Of the red men.
He is Frenchman, and a descendant
of old French traders. who went south
to trade with the Indians in the early
colonial days. He can speak French
fluently, and is one among the few
white men who can talk with the diff.
ferent tribes of Indians in their own
tongues. He tells many interesting
stories of the Indians traditions and
superstitions. His latest story is that
of quilt in the possession of the
Iowa tribe. which is made of scalps
of white men. In telling of this relic
of their barbarism. he said:
THE Oklahoma Iowas own one Of
the most gruesome. hair-raising tribal
heirlooms in the world The repul-
sive looking relic of barbarism is q
five-foot square. composed of red and
kinky scalps. 1t is claimed that the
scalps were jerked from the heads of
good and friendly whites, blacks and
reds, about $50 years ago, and that
the trophies were secured by the spe-
ciaf command and direction Of the
Great Spirit.
"The horrible quilt is kept and
guarded with reverential and super.
stitious care in the sanctum sane
forum Of the chief medicine man. and
is only once publicly exhibited every
year, and on the first day of the wild
onion feast. None but Iowas are con-
sidered worthy of viewing the vari.
colored quilt, and only two-thirds
drunken Iowas ever venture to tell
white men that there is such q scalp
quilt in their possession. The chills.
producing savage heirloom is consid.
cred a talisman, charm. a cure-all
for and preventer of all ills that red
skins are heir to- They have i'm.
plicit faith in the healing virtues Of
the scalp, and they even say that it
brought some dead Indians to life.
The miraculous quilt is never wrapped
around the naked body of a sick per-
son afflicted with smallpox, as through
its agency the first case of that loath-
some disease among the tribe, scat.
tered all over the once populous Iowa
nation, and more than 300 died from
the complaint.
"All the Iowas. even those that pro-
fess the Christian religion. have un-
shaken faith in the ancient curealls Of
their ancestors. The pontifex max
linus, or chief medicine man of the
tribe. wraps the quilt around his Sc.
verely afflicted patients. when all the
adults surround the sick person and
offer fervent prayers for their relief.
Those who were near the sickening,
sickness-killing thing. say that l.
smells somewhat skunkish and like
wild onions. Those who ought to
know claim that the wonderful quilt
has often been picked and embalmed
In wild onion Juice and the malodor
GUS perfume of hydrophobia CATS"
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
Treatment Of Lockiau.

AS to lockjaw. the Pasteur labora
tories send out steady supply Of
anti-toxine serum that will prevent
the outbreak of this disease very
much as hydrophobia. In both cases,
1t Is true. the treatment is only pre-
ventive, not curative. but this Is usu.
ally sufficient, since the danger Is
plainly indicated in advance. II by
some sad oversight hydrophobia dees
break out it always has killed; but
with lockjaw there is still chance of
saving life. even after an outbreak,
by inoculating lockjaw anti-toxine di.
rectly into the brain. The record of
recovery is 40 per cent.-Cleveland
Moffet, In McClure's.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
whee,lng in the Alp..

Mrs. Joseph Pennell in her recent
volume OIL wheeling in the Alps"
states as curious fact that in pre-
pairing material for the book her hus-
baud and herself met nine Americans
taking bicycling trips through Switzer-
land. Frenchmen, Swiss, Italians and
Germans n-plenty, but no Englishmen
at all. There are abundant indica-
tions that the Americans are becom-
ing what the British have been, the
nation of globe-trotters par excel.
lence.-N. Y. World.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

when put up for the winter. Their
quarters should therefore be made
ready for housing them as soon as the
first cold days and nights arrive. This
applies to all the stock on the farm;
1t will do as much as the best of feed
to keep them in thriving, improving
condition. More comfor-, more flesh.
-Agricultuarl Epitomist.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
A Natural Conclusion.

Teacher-Parse the sentence, "Yu-
catan is peninsular."
Pupil (who never could understand
grammar anyhow)-Yucatan 10 .
proper noun, nom'tive case, second
person singular
"How do you make that out?"
"First person Icatan, second person
Yucatan, third person Hecatan;
plural, first person Wecatan, second
per-"
go to your seati"-Truth.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
sounded That Way.

We know that Richard Wagner was poet,
philosopher and musician. A man Of such
varied genius must also have had humor.
Jugend records one witticism of the great
composer.
"Your son conducts with his baton in his
left hand," said friend to Wagner.
yes" he sadly answered, II can hear il. |"
Youths Companion.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
Downright Oppression.

"Bigley's wife seems to rule him -
with a rod of iron."
II should say she did. It's an out.
rage the way she treats him. Why, do
you know that she made him account
for every cent he saved by letting his
whlskers grow while he was In the
army? He had TO reckon it up at Is
cents a shave and turn the amount
over to her when he got home!"-
Chicago Evening News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

DKKnFIELD, IxD.-"It was
called rheumatism. Ic0uld
get no relief from the doc
tors. Ibegan to improve on
taking poan's sample and
got two boxes at our drug
gists and, although CS years
OF age, / am almost q new
man. Twas troubled q good
deal with my water-had to
get up four and 1--WE times q
night. That trouble Is over
with and once more I can
rest the night through. My
backache Is all gone, and !
thank you ever 30 much Tor
the wonderful m edicine,
Doan's Kidney Pills."
JNo. II. HuDER,
President, Ridgeville,
Indiana, State Bank.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
FALL KIDNEYACHILLS.

limbs and dropsy signs vanish. They
correct urine with brick dust sediment,
high colorcd, pain In passing, dribbling,
frequency, bed wetting- Doanis Kidney
Pills remove calculi and gravel Relieve
heart palpitation, sleeplessncss, headache,
nervousness, dizziness.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07
uls INSTRUMENTATION,

Employer-But can't hire you un.
less you have recommendation
Didn't you ever have one?
Applicant-Oh, yes.
"What was it?"
"To.de mercy Of de court."-N. T.
Journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

Tell me-" said the teacher, what Is
the difference between wrought iron
and cast iron?"
SWELL" replied Will, smiling. "the
shoe worn by horse is wrought iron
shoe, but when the horse loses the shoe
from its foot ii becomes a cast iron
shoe."-Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
uue.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-11-07

With the chilling air of fall comes an
extra tax on weak kidneys.-It' the time
Doon's Kidney Pills are needed now
recognized the world over as the chief
Kidney and Bladder remedy.
Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and
loin pains overcome. Swelling of the