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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30

TAbshire Of Leroy was in town
Thursday.
Railroad 'phdto car left last wee;
for GueYdan.
For some days past a big consiruc-
ton gang has been here repairing 1he
railroad track, crossings and culverts
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30

The bids were opened Tuesday
for The new brick hotel of J o Lege
but owing to some informality all bids
were rejected aud new ones called for
to be oLened yestera Y.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30
THE BEST COUGH sYEUo.

S. L. Apple, ex-orobate Judge, Ottawa
| Kansas..writes: This is 10 say that |
have used Billiards. HoTehouild syrup
for years, and that I do not hesitate to
recommend it as the best cough syrup |
hayeeYer used" Csc. SOC, 81. Sold by
A. j. GODDARD.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30
WV Bailey went 10 Opelousas

" Bailey went TO Opelousas
this week.
LO Broussard made a visit to
Rayne last Sunday.
Hon Thomas j. Hoffpauir and
Geo. Hays OF Indian Bayou were in
town this week.
Tie Abbeville Drug Co, is open all
night for your convenience should you
need anything.
Dr.. r. 2. Nelson has been laid up
a few days this wee:N.
Mrs David Frank has been quite
sick for several days.
JohnsBrookshire has returned Ito
New Orleans after q visit here TO his
family.
MagnoIias are blooming and there
will be a large amount Of these battt-
tul flowers this wear.
Mrs. Rene Broussard and baby O
K5plao are visiting Der mother, Mrs.
G. b. shaw.
Good Piano for sale cheap Inquire
Mrs F l. Wall, Wall House, Able
vile, La
Mrs. Arlstide BOUQUET Of Cypress
Point died last Sunday, leaving 4
husband and eleve, children, tie
Youngest q babe of A days.
One day las week Ia negro EN-
pIoyed on the work tram ;ell from III
Of the car; and nad several fingers
badly mashed by the wheels.
One Of The old oaI, trees iD the
courthouse yare which was killed by
the big tire ID January, 1899, was
CUT down & few days ago as it was
dangerous.
The Elms Rnorer Land ard Abstract Co
OF Lake Charles, Lii. have Tor sale at 81
The official map of CalGasieu parish, La,
size Of ma032 V 4! inches.
Abraham David-the ni3ht watch
man at the tlanters Rice Mill while
enfeaboring to extinguish the fire
was suffocated by the smoke and
was fortunately rescued by someone
who came in to his timely assistance.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30

A J Thomas The manager Of The
local Cumberland Telephone eI-
change is back from his recent tiin
and we hope he will t"ke the kinks
Out Of the present service, which is
about the reckless vet.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30

Miss Anaise Hehert toe popular
yonng lady sales clerk ii j. S. LAM
& Co.'S. store was married = lew
days ago at EuniGe TO Felicien Keller
son OF A r Keller The baker who tor
'nelly lived here.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30
SUCCESSION SALE.
NO. 54l.
Succession Of GUsrAvE LACoMBE.

SIATH UF IIUII" Inn A-Ittl +IUUICIaI
District CouAt-PariSh o. Vermilion
No. 54l.
Succession .. GUerAvE LACoMBE.
gYyirtue OF an oI.,er OF bhe nth Jude
la District ConI5, il and for the Parish
OF Vermilion granted III the matters Of
the above entitled and Numbered sue
~cession, anG q commission issued TO me
Hereunder. folly auiholizing and en-
towering ne III the .cemises, | will pro-
coed 10 sell III public emotion to the last
succession. ~ lie l.stn residence, of the
deceased ia She Stil tard OF Vermilion
Parish. OF
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30

JOS Brig, of Franklin, the biggest
stakeholder in the Planters Rice Mill
was over here yesterday locking INTO
matters connected with rebuilding
the plant.
Frank A G~odehaux, the manager
of the Planterg Rice Mill had a mar
row escape while the fire., was in pro-
gress. lie ran up stairs into the
office to secure some papers and COM
ing down the steps was suffocated by
a cloud of smoke and fell. He was
pulled out by a negro and soon re-
vived.
Richard Putnam, eldest o OF j
Henry Putnam and well knomn here
died last Sunday of consumption at
Denver, Colorado, where he had
gone for his health. He was 80
years old and finely educated a
host of friends mourn his untimely
demise.
Floods and storms swepr ever Q
large scope of thesscountry last week
and tie early part OF this. In Mis-
souri, and Kansas the rains have caus
ed the rivers to flood the country
Hurricans did much damage in
Texas, Indian sTerritory and the
state north of the Red River.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30
Saturday, May 2lst, 1904.

ihafollowins described property, to-wit:
Que eel tain naLf Of land situated in
fhe Parish Of NeJnilloa. La. containing
81 acres ma de, t. ,i.les' Z o. ? " E oee
South East corneI.
One house
One corn crib
One shed
One garden fence
One lot OF fencing
Two beds aud bedding
One armoir
Two safes
One lot Of chairs
One lot of Kitchen utensils
One lot of horn cattle
One mare
One lot of barbed wire
TEEMs-Cash.
MEN4ssE LACo MBE,
Administrator
AbbeviIle, La. April Is, 1861.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-04-30

The Elms Rnorer Land and Abstract &c
OF Lake Charles, Lii. have Tor sale OF 81
The official map Of CalGasieu parish, La,
Size OF ma0 81 - inches.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
coALINo WARsHPs AT SEA.
An Entirely New Project for Facih-
tating Operations In the Rough
afg est Kind of Weather.

Naval authorities are agreed in wish
ing that more satisfactory method
could be found for loading warships
with coal than entering a port for that
purpose Smaller vessels, whose spe-
cial duty it is to convey supplies of fuel.
often accompany a fleet when the latter
is on the way to point where it is to
establish blockade or watch for foe.
In fine weather these colliers can come
alongside with safety, to permit trans
fer of their cargoes. In rough weather
there is danger to both vessels in conse-
quence of humping sideways. Two
things must be considered. The coal
must be hoisted by derricks, on the col
lier or the warship, from the hold of one
vessel and swung around where it can
be lowered into the other. Several sys-
TENS of performing the work have been
proposed. A more unique part of the
bushes is the prevention of lateral col
lisiOn. m -sars.
For this second purpose an interesting
suggestion has been made by A. c. Cum
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
DEGREES OF TEMPERATURE.
Should the United States Adopt the
Actual Freezing Point AZ Zero
in the Scale ?

The temperature of the air has forced
itself on public attention during the past
winter. and. as contemporary remarks,
it is unfortunate that the method of ex-
pressing it is not more scientific. The
critical point for us is that at which
water solidifies. Water is so important
to life, animal and vegetable. that the
temperature at which it freezes ought to
be the zero point or beginning of the
scale.
The boiling point varies with the pres
sure of the atmosphere, drop of the
barometer an inch lowering the boiling
point almost exactly degree, but the
freezing point remains substantially
unchanged. The temperature of steam
arising from the surface of water when
the barometer stands at 20 inches is.
however, fixed, and this might well have
been taken as the other fixed point Of
the scale and the space between it and
the zero point divided into 100 equal
parts as is done in the centigrade ther-
mometer used invariably in physical ex-
periments.
Fahrenheit, whose thermometer we
use, knew that the temperature of melt
ing ice was constant, but he thought
that the lowest temperature which could
be produced was that Of a melting mix
ture of salt and snow. He took this as
his zero, and it is fortunate that he did
not know of liquid air, for If he had be-
- Gro fh<1 Ion vocfn
we know it, our thermometers might to-
day be marking as much as 300 degrees
above zero. He thought that the tenn
perature of the blood of a healthy man
was Interchangeable, in which he was
nearly right. and he marked the point
which his instrument indicated when
placed under his arm as "a. This made
the freezing point OF water 8. Find
ing the gradations inconveniently large
he divided them into four parts which he
called degrees This made the freezing
point of water 80 degrees, and blood
heat" 96 degrees He had tried several
other scales before and intended to make
this one duodecimal or divisible by IL.
1t is, of course, unfortunate that he did
not make it decimal and start from
the freezing point of water, making blood
heat exactly 100 degrees. But we owe
too much to this scientist of the early
eighteenth century to be willing to find
fault with him. He was certainly more
sensible than one of his predecessors,
who made boiling water his starting
point, and graduated downward. Per-
haps, too, it is not a bad idea to have
zero" represent something worth
mentioning, and below zero" some
thing extraordinary rather than merely
freezing water.
1t would be about as hard to reform the
Fahrenheit scale as to introduce the
metric system.-Hartford Times.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
HIS NAME
WAS USEFUL
rs A good name for all practic,

F" rs A good name for all practical
purposes" said the pickle drum.
mer, with some feeling. 1T may no,
have the euphony of Montmorenci OF
Cholmondeley or Van Ruyten-Living.
ston or fancy cognomens of that sort
but it's easily written and easily remem-
bered and 1t looks as we'll at the bottom
of certified check as any other know
Of. Then there was Paul and Tom and
-er-Sam and other famous men bore
1t and 1 ain't ashamed OF it. No, sir
Jones is a good enough name for me.
The Leonidas Y. keeps me from getting
mixed up with the rest Of the family, a.
far as distinction is concerned"
"Of course, II you're satisfied with 1t. -
said the hardware specialist.
Satisfied with 1t!
That's what said"
well, you may tell all your friends I
am satisfied with 1t. It's the next thing
to being mason. Let's see; haven't
seen you since last July, haveI?"
Il have managed to miss you till now,
so you have. Or, let's see: did miss
you? Well, this happened last month. !"
which,"
"IIl tell you II you give me time. l
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
Not Ready for College

An anxious mother wrote to President
Eliot, of Harvard, asking how her son
was progressing at the university. The
reassuring reply gave no hint that the
youth was not under Dr. Eliot's personal
supervision. But the mother was not
satisfied. She visited Harvard without
announcing her intention to do SO and
found her boy in his room, his clothes
piled about on the chairs and his feet
on his desk-smoking pipe. What she
said to him is unimportant, but what she
said to the president has lived: Il sent
my boy here, thinking you would take
care of him-and see what find!" DR..
Eliot patiently explained the impossi-
bility of his giving personal attention to
each student, but the irate visitor re-
fused to be pacified. The presidents
good nature was giving way, but he dis
missed the lady In this fashion:
Madam, we assume, in large measure,
that the men here know why they are
here and can care for themselves. II
your boy is not capable of this he is not
ready for college"
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
THE KILL-JoY.
LOUISIANA

oh. de trouble mans feller dat keeps
busy all day long.
When other folks Is restin' he is workin'
good an strong.
When anybody's laughin' or a-feelln' kind
o. good,
He's allus, sure to settle In de 'mejit neigh
borhood.
He drops de corners Of bis snouf an talks
so very sad,
He kind O. gifts you 'shamed because you
ism feelin' had. r
de shows yoL de mistakes of nearly every
toinS you plan,
An lifn am worth de livin' when you meets
<e trouble man.
He's got a lot o. Arguments dat he keeps
turnin loose:
Oar ism any answer to 'em. 'ceptin'
What's de use?"
What's de use o. laughin? What's de use
O. cheers?
What's de use of anythin' but sorrowln'
an tears?
II he'd work as hahd for happiness as he
has worked for grief.
I'll bet de mex convention dat Is held
would 'lect him chief -
But he goes a-scatterin' sadness an he
does de bes' he can
To make US mighty sorry dat we met de
trouble man.
washington Star.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14

ningham, civil engineer of the United
States navy, in cooperation with Will
liam Seaton. Their idea is to employ
pumps, on either the collier or the war
ship, to drive out jets of water from
holes in the vessels side in the direction
of the other craft. In the drawing which
is here copied from Engineering News,
jet Is represented as issuing from the
collier. The other arrangement would
work equally well, of course, though it
may be questioned whether naval con-
structors would favor making this ap-
paratus feature of either a cruiser or
battleship. Mr.. Cunningham says:
"The author has designed an ap-
paratus for use in coaling ships at sea by
means of which vessels may safely lie
alongside each other for the purpose.
The general principles of the apparatus
are Illustrated in the accompanying cut.
In the illustration the jet apparatus is
shown as separate installation and fit
ted to the collier. The circulating and
bilge pumps may, however, be used to
produce the jet, and the latter may be
fitted to the warship, instead of to the
collier
with the apparatus projected the
ships are kept from touching each other,
and are maintained at the required dis
tance apart by means of water jets which
are the equivalent of elastic struts. The
required distance between the vessels
is secured by lines passed between the
ships, for there are no rigid connections
Of any kind. 1t is not intended with thic
apparatus that any appreciable lateral
speed should be produced; tendency
to separate the vessels sufficient to keep
the connecting lines taut is all that is
desired or necessary"
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
RADIUM FAILS IN. CANCER.
Painfully Negative Results Are
Shown Both in Vienna and
Brompton Hospitals.

Cancer research by means of radium
appears to be moving slowly and with
painfully negative results Both G. H.
Plimmer, who has returned from study
Of the radium cures under the care of
Prof. Exner, in Vienna, and DR.. Snow
Of the Brompton cancer hospital Of Lon
don, are skeptical of its results, the lat
ter characterizing cancer as remaining
the darkest Africa on the map of medi-
cine.
DR.. Snow, who has had vast expert
ence In the treatment Of cancer, in what
is probably the last address he will de-
liver at the Brompton cancer hospital,
the other day, pointed out that cancer
is not one disease, but is constituted Of
many, including, as it does, ten general
diseases and 13 species. DIR. Snow said
the radium treatment had proved ex-
ceedingly disappointing. In fact, It
might now be dismissed from the
sphere of potential cancer cures.
At Brompton hospital, he added, they
had studied cancer as it had been studied
nowhere else in the world. They had
to substitute for the mass of chaotic con-
ceivable point of view. They had la
bored by every means in their power
to substitute for the mass of chaotic con-
fusion and traditional fallacy which had
hitherto prevailed genuine cancer sci
ence as a sure foundation for all future
research, but in this attempt they had
utterly and miserably failed. The only
hope for future successful cancer re-
search, said DR.. Snow. was a worlds con-
gress, which would bring together the
best authorities on all varieties of dis
ease.-N. Y Herald. =
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
MoNoRAlL MODEL SHOWN.
Speed Of 10 Miles an Hour May Be
Reached on Line Between Liver
pool and Manchester.

A working model is shown in London
Of the proposed monorail between Liver
pool and Manchester The model, which
is going to the st. Louis exposition, is
one-sixteenth of the actual size. It is a
demonstrated fact that monorail train
will not jump the line. The running z
wheels are in the center of the train
straddling Roman "A" shaped struc-
ture, at the apex. of which is the rail.
The underworks of the carriage hang
down on either side, and there is an in
genious arrangement on horizontal
wheels which run along the guide rails
half way down the sides of the Roman
"a" with fianges beneath. When the
train takes curve the pressure falls up-
on these horizontal wheels. and thus
there is practically no more risk in turn
ing curves than In running straight.
Behr, the inventor. said the speed of the
railway to be built from the model viii,
be 10 miles an hour.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
RoCUES HAVE A GALLERY
Fences" Of Illicit Diamond BUYER,
in Antwerp Collect Pictures Of
Government Officials.

A recent visitor to Antwerp, which
city is now the chief market in Eu.
rope for stolen jewels, was taken by .
friend in the know to house used
as an Office by Illicit diamond buyers
In one room he saw a large collection
Of photographs, the first to catch his
eye being that ON Maj. Williams, o!
the United States treasury department,
at Paris. writes London correspon.
dent Of the Philadelphia Press.
An inquiry revealed the fact that al
persons of an official character whc
are considered dangerous by the gan,
are honored by having their photo.
graphs placed in the collection. Shouls
the original of the photograph set foo
in Antwerp he would be shadowed b,
secret police employed by the receiv
ers Of the stolen goods.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14

HIT THE STATION PLATFORM
was covering the same old territory and
business wasn't particularly rushing.
You see, the women put up lot of their
own pickles along in the summer and
fall and the men folks hadn't got them
eaten yet. was hustling to make the
amount of my orders move up to the fig
ure Of my expense account and It kept
me hustling pretty lively.
Generally, you see, II knock out q
fair bunch of orders in any. one town
feel justified in resting up little and see
ing what attractions 1t has to offer. But
this time 1t was different. 1t would take
me about three-quarters of an hour to
discover that wasn't long-feIt want
and then l felt like digging out made
along-distancer record thattrip II didn't
make anything else.
well, got into Burrowsleck one
morning at 10: 30 and proceeded to ever
lastingly hump myself as usucS BY
11:15 had seen every man Jack in the
place and hadn't sold bottle of catsup
It's me for the noon train out of this
cemetery says to myself.
Il needed nourishment, though, so
hiked up the street to the palatial Boggs
house for swift lunch. got it and was
just eating the cherry when Jack Haus-
man came In. You know Jack, don't
you? Yes, he's prize tulip. Well, he'd
been up against the burg. too, and while
he still had hope, he had to have some
thing else to sustain him. We had one
or two together. know IT was one and
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14

Brooklyn Young Man Puzzles Ply
sicians by Recovering from
Severe Wound.

John M. Peters. of Brooklyn, 21 years
old. is to be discharged from the East
ern district hospital as cured, although
there is bullet in his brain. The case
has aroused widespread interest among
surgeons.
On the morning of November % last
Peters was found in the yard of HIS
grandfather's old metal shop with two
bullet wounds in his head, one over
the right eye and the other over the
forehead on top Of the head. Both
bullets penetrated the brain. Every
physician in the hospital was interest
ed in the case, but not one held out any
hope for the mans recovery. One of
the bullets was extracted, but the other
could not be found.
To the establishment of all the ply
sicians, Peters began to gain strength
and showed signs Of improvement.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
Power of Victoria Falls.

A company has been formed to develor
the great Victoria falls, on the Zambezi
river, in Africa, as source of electric
energy. These falls rank among the
greatest cataracts in existence The
total descent of the water Is more than
four hundred feet. At Niagara the to-
tai amount of energy running to waste
has been reckoned at 10000 horse
power, but the corresponding energy of
the Victoria falls is said TO be no less
than $4,000, 900 horse power. When util-
lied, it is thought that this energy can
be employed for working large part of
the South African railway, and that it
can be transmitted by cable to the gold
mines of the Rand, 800 miles and more
away E q. ssra1 e - ~ ts1gs
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
LEBAUDY's NEW BALLOON.


The Lebaudy airship, which recently
made remarkable flight of about 3S
miles, from Moisson to Nantes and back.
in one hour and Al minutes, possesses
several unusual features. The balloon
has sharply pointed ends, and is about
100 feet long by 80 feet in its greatest
diameter. The bottom of the balloon
just over the car is fiat Inside is an air.
bag. divided into four compartments.
which can be filled or emptied of air. If
desired, to compensate for the frequent
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
Discovery Of a New Metal.

"Meteorit" is the name given to the
new metal of w. Rubel. a German chem
list, which is said to be aluminium hard
ened by a chemical process. The spe-
ciflc gravity is practically the same as
that of aluminium; the metal is not af-
fected by weak acids, the atmosphere or
sea water; it can be cast like iron, and
has eight, per cent. greater tensile
strength than cast iron; and it can be re-
cast indefinitely. 1t can berolled cold, is
nearly as conductive as copper, re-
tains high polish. and can be plated.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
Automatic Pulse Reeister.

Watching the pulse adds seriously to
the strain upon the surgeon during an
operation under chloroform, cocaine
or ether. This is done automatically by
the new pulse register" of Dr. Gartner,
of Vienna, which consists of watch
like box to be attached to the patients
forearm, the hands upon a graduated
dial being made by an elastic spring to
register very precisely the pulse and
blood-pressure vibrations. The indi-
cations are much more sensitive than the
physicians finger.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
Cancer.

The pecuIiarity of cancer among dis
eases is that IL consists in the rebel
lion and malignant behavior of GER
tain parts of the. body itself, not in the
attack Of foreign enemies. Cancer,
in fact, is a state of civil war in the
body. a reign of terror produced by
outbreaks of murderous fury on the
part Of revolutionists at one or more
localities.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
THE LEBAUDY AlRsHIp.

variations in volume that the gas un-
dergoes with the variations of tempers-
ture and. pressure of the atmosphere.
The cover is so nearly impermeable that
the balloon has remained inflated 40
days without perceptible loss of gas. A
40 horsepower Daimler motor is used
to drive the propellers.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
Not q Case in Point.

Notwithstanding President Roosevelt.
comments on race suicide says tn,
Washington Star, the MGfmon wht
coInes to Washington and expects to fint
sympathy by Dragging about lis larss
family is likely to be disappointed.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
A veritable Jewel.

Mr.. Tim Idity-Is your chauffeur .
safe, man to ride with?
Mr.. Knote Slowe-Why, certainly!
No policeman has succeeded In cstch-
ms him yst-ToWp TopjosL
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14
Modern supposition.

Bachelor-What's your baby holler.
ing SO about In the next room?
Newlywed-0h, his mother wants her
own way about something, suppose.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14

In Japanese the word "Mikasa" in
dicates a warship, and ''Maru" shiD
of commerce.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14

@Iw always your remedies and hope that
these few lines others did to ry your
Eemedles"-MRs T. G. "L1ADsrN, r. r. No l. Manning, Iowa
testimony of E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound of women
Women should
Mrs. Pnkham ct Masss
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-05-14

! suffered much pain. Iwould daily have
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II used your medicine and treatment
as directed, and after taking three bottles
OF Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Conn
pound, menses appeared, my womb trou-
hles left me, and have been regular ever
since. / used fourteen bottles OF
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and Blood Purifier
together, and am now restored to
~ perfect health. Had it not been for
you, would have been in my grave.
Your wonderful remedies and hone that