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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1905-11-04

Quarantine was raised this week
by the Town and Parish, except
against Patterson and New Iberia,
from which places certificates will
be required to show that those
places have not been exposed to
the fever supposed to exist in
those places.
DO not forget to visit X.
Schwartz q Co.'S store when you
need anything for the school chill
dren. There you will always find
the best at the lowest prices.
Invitations are out for the mar
riage of Mr.. George j. Gauthier,
an Industrious young gentleman
from this parish, now located at
Broussard, to Miss Mizette Marin,
the charming daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Marin, of New Iberia.
The marriage ceremony will take
place at the Catholic Church at
New Iberia, on Wednesday the
22nd inst, at half past four O'Clock
in the evening.
Boys School Suits at Bargain
prices, big display Of the largest
stock ever shown in town, it will
pay you to come and look at them
at X. Schwartz & Co.
"Wednesday. All Saints day.,
there was a very large number of
people in town from almost every
section of the parish, and many of
them spent part of the day in the
cemetery placing flowers and 9TH
er decorations upon the graves of
their dead. The cemetery is not
in very good shape this year,
there are many sections almost
lost in tall weeds, and many tombs
and graves entirely neglected and
some abandoned, and going to
ruin. Many of the old ruins
should be removed, and the grave
yard could be remodelled with
little more order than existed be-
fore. The old custom here is to
visit the cemetery on All Saints
day, they have preserved the GUS
tom since the time Of Father Jan,
when the procession to the ceme-
tory was made on the evening of
All Saints day, and the balance of
the evening was spent with the
dead. Now the procession to the
grave yard is made the next day,
after the service for the dead.
This procession is not as numer-
ously attended as under the old
custom.
If your fire insurance policy
is to expire soon let me know
about it, talk the matter over with
you, P. A. Bienvenu, Fire Insu-
rance Agent.
Chamherlain,s Collie. Cholera and Diar.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1905-11-04

Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy. This is the most sue
cessful medicine in the world for bowel
complaints. and is the only remedy that
will cnre chronic diarrhoea. Every bot
tie is warranted. For sale by T. j. Liable
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1905-11-04

MI. Emile Fueilie1aont was
ia town Friday.
Nessrs Alcee Robin ard +. F.
Fournet made business trip to
New Orleans this week.
Mr.. George j. Gauthier of
Broussard was attending 10 some
business here Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Patin
of Bfeaux Bridge spent the day
here Thursday, visiting their pa
rents.
Steam was raised Thursday at
The st. John refinery and the
great machinery of this vast plant
was pat in motion for long grin
ding season.
Mr.. Edward Bienvenu who is
now on the Opeiousas Coorler's
force. was visiting bis relatives
and friends here, arriving Sntur-
day and returning Sunday.
Miss Carmen Fleming, who
graduated at the High School here
this year, left Monday for Natchi-
toches, to enter the Louisiana
State Normal school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix j. Eastin,
of Edgerly, arrived here Sunday.
Mr.. Eastin has been unwell and
came home to spend a few days
with the hope of regaining his
health.
Mr.. +. II. Rhymes, the expert
ieweller aud watch-repairer, left
Monday, for Tiilman. Bienville
parish, to spend a few days with
relatives and friends. He will be
back to his shop in few days.
Prof. James +. Broussard left
Sunday for Baton Rouge. Mr..
Broussard is professor of modern
languages at the State University.
He was accompanied to Baton
Rouge by Mr.. Louis j. VOORHEES,,
who. is a student at the State UNI
versity.
Remember that when in need
of FEED, such as OATS, CORN.
HAY, and BRAN, that l.. BlEN-
VENU supplies the public at the
LOWEST PRICES
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blindly following in the wake of le model.
And American dresSmakerS are i'm
proving rno he It of tlem are beginning to
realize that DIRE ;smaking t lese oays means
n good deal more than making a dress
the right length and the proper size at the
wai'toald.
81 bought an Empire gown when was
in Paris. because they are all the rage and
because my friends would think me old
fashioned if l came home without one, so
suppose | must wear the thing, even
though do look queer in it,, customer
Of mine told me yesterday. almost gasped
at the thought of her in an Empire gown:
Have il altered | suggested, explain.
ing how it could be done, and she agreed
to take my advice.
IL then found she had set her heart on
n Directore coat and had come in to look
at those | brought over last week.
This l.. the oGe she wanted to buy. and
the dressmaker took from a case long
coat Of purple cloth, trimmed with white
and gold galloon and a belt OF the same
trimming set up under the armholes:.
Now it is for my interest to sell that
coat, but told my customer that under no
circumst ances ought she to dream Of wear.
ing Il Digcctoiro coat or gown, resumed
the dressmaker. Il also took pains to
show her other models equally fashionable
and far more becoming, and she finally
decided on one of the latter.
"Thc number of American dressmakers
who are beginning to realize that artistic
dressmakng means something more than
giving a good fit and finish is growing,
slowly, to bo sure, hut still growing
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been restless and troublesome all day and
mother had not lain down at all the night
before, but had ridden round the herd all
night singing to them to keep them quiet.
George H, one OF our cowboys, and
we're riding ahead Of the herd, and 1t was
getting pretty we'll along in the afternoon
and everything seemed tranquil and quiet
when we came out into a road that led along
the edge Of high bluf overlooking river.
George and had been talking about what
a wicked looking current it had when all OF
sudden heard a sound behind me that made
me pull up my horse with jerk and look
behind me with my heart in my mouth.
I'VE never knew what it was that started
them, unless in was the smell Of the river
when they were crazy with thirst, but there
came the cattle down that narrow trail
behind US, crazy. mad, stampeded, tearing
along with their heads almost to the ground
and enveloped in a cloud OF dust kicked
up by their furious hoofs.
"For minute l was paralyzed. Then
gave a out of the whip to my little mare
hoping to get ahead OF them to some place
in the road where we could turn OF. l
don't suppose you ever rode before herd
of stamreded cattle, did you? Then you
never want to.
at is not funny tell you. George was
shouting and waving his hat and yelling
like a CT azy man trying to turn them back,
but knew there was no Use in that, so lay
low on my pony's neck and flew. hoping all
the time that at the turn Of the road we
might find place where we could get out
of their path and let them sweep by.
But when we got to the turn there was
no place to turn out. 1t was merely straight
high bluff, with the road circling around its
narrow base, and the river flowing swift
and black beneath it, looked down, then
looked back, and saw that we had but one
chance and that a very slim one-for our
lives.
"We've got to jump, George, l yelled
THE cowboy gave one look over his
shoulder. The cattle almost upon us, we
had no time to lose. | took good grip
of my bride and sat firm.
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-I7Z5S T0N0HZ SHOWS HkR 60WER 0HxR H0RSE.

TO the place who boasted that he could break
ANYTHING that walked on four legs, and to
prove his assertion attempted to ride
Destruction. Well, l guess he thought
destruction had overtaken him. He was
kept pretty reasonably busy for the next ten
minutes while the cowboys stood around
and hooted and shrieked with glee.
OBSTRUCTION certainly was bad He
bit and roared and plunged, he bucked
like sunfsher, he stood on his hind legs
and paved he tried to lie down and roll
over and at last he bolted completely,
got beyond the fellows control and dashed
into the carriage shed, where he got tangled
up among the wagons and harness and
came down on his hack, kicking and pung-
ing so that we thought both the man and
the horse would be killed.
The boys ran to his assistance. but
Winnonah who was always around when
ever there was any horse training going
on, got there before them. Rushing into
the shed she went right in among that
frantic creature feet walked up to his
head and began shaking her hand before
him, as she showed you, and in less time
than it takes to tell it she had him quieted
down, got hold of the hackamore and got
him to his feet and walked him ont Of the
shed as gentle and quiet as n lamb.
The horse wrangler had had enough
destruction for one day and left soon after.
but Winnonah kept right on breaking that
unmanageable creature unit! she had him
perfectly broken, and he is now one Of the
kindest, gentest and most valuable horses
We have on the ranch
But what courage it takes!' said the
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gramme and look to see who's there.

gramme and look to see VINO there.
Front row seats are popular and hum
grily grabbed up by the gallery goddess
It's fun to lean on the railings and say
clever or approving things about the lady
with the pink marabout feather boa in the
front row. to giggle at the awkward man
who oteps on his lady friends tram N
coming down the aisle or to squander ad-
miration on the sweet thing in old china
blue in the upper left hand box. 1t costs
a quarter more to sit in the first two front
rows, but it's worth double the price on ac-
count Of the social view. Fine value as
Etiquette in the upper gallery is lax;
but never loose. It's the height Of bad
form up above to indulge in conversation
while the curtain is up.
But you can chew candy, gossip, visit
friends across the house, stroll in the corri-
dor, read your evening paper or novel
with certainty Of freedom from comment
in the intervals. White gloves or no gloves,
silk waists or mannish shirts are equally
in style with the goddeeses.
girl who has found out the upper gallery
There is another contingent that prefers
to apply to 1t the term family circle or
dress circle, but you pay the same for
seat. regardless of nomenclature. There
are schoolgirl parties, chapenr,one,d n,o l,. e, by
family parties. with ermine tippets and
well darned gloves.
The goddess likes to adopt hypercritical
attitude. She strongly disapproves OF
this players mannerism and can discern
failure to arise to the emotional crisis.
She compares past successes with present,
with unerring, unpreJudiced eye points
out the weak spots in the newest produc-
ton, and dscourses like a critic regarding
individual miscasts, looseness OF construc-
ton and overabundant dialogue.
But Just to show that the gallery goddess
In a real pirl. listen to her when she dis
courses on the star. -
Girls are funny lot, though, amt they
r,iminated an usher ut the Princess the
other evening as he stood Gloomilv on the
highest point in the house, at the back OF
the gallery. They come in twos and
threes, but it's always what they call a
Dutch treat--each one pays her own bills.
They'd couie alone before they'd blow of
lady friend
aAnd you can spot 'em passing over their
little dimes to the girl who carries the purse
for car fare. Once in while they lose
their nickels and then the ticket man or
some of us felers stakes 'em. But 1t don't
happen often and it always floats back
dBut the funniest thing is the sneakin' way
they dodge In and out under the family
circle light. You can pike 'em getting up
the street by the scared way they look up
at It and the fearful glances they're casting
around generously to see If anybody's
looking.
"Look at 'em," he grinned as the final
curtain fell, and the goddesses began stab
bing at their hats with intent, frowning
brows. "(iirls are getting pretty indepen--
dent nowadays, but guess they III never get
no far along the road to freedom that they'll
forget to wonder IL a hat is on straight
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or halter. being guided only by the spoken

or halter. being guided only by the spoken
word.
.Now come here and take of my hat,
Pequito. said Miss Won Oil gently, and the
pretty creature trotted up to her, removed
the broad felt hat with her teeth and after
giving 1t playful shake dropped it care
fully at her teachers feet.
"All right now run and get it," and with
q swift curve that she learned in swinging
the lariat Miss Won Oil threw the hat away
from her, and Pequito, with the JOY of a
frolicsome child, kicked up her heels and
scampered away, picked up the hat in her
teeth and brought it back, placing it care
fully and jauntly OH Miss Won Ohl's head.
The girl trainer then put on the saddle
and proceeded to give a sample of Wild
West riding which caused her visitor to
gasp.
Its all easy enough when you know
how" she said with laugh, as she pulled
up after wild galop and slid off beneath
the shade Of the trees "but have ridden
on horses that kept you pretty busy. Do
you remember Old Destruction, mother?"
Mrs. Won Oil. bright eyed energetic
woman, who can ride a horse, break q
colt, manage a ranch and look after a
house with equal ability, and who was busy
at the moment overseeing the putting away
Of the crop Of winter apples, came to the
kitchen door and looked out
"Old Destruction? Indeed I do she
replied. He was valuable horse, but
a hopeless outlaw. The boys on the ranch
had tried to break him again and again,
but had failed.
One day a new horse wrangler came
The sun., 1905-10-29
CUNNY SIDE OF
- THE HOSPITAL.
There You Sec the Patients Getting
Well. and There the
Babies Are.

The new tenant had seen the big red
building with its rows upon rows OF
balconies before she moved in. of course.
it being almost directly opposite; but she
had failed to recognize it as a hospital
above all as the hospital in which she her.
self had spent ten terrible days and nights
once on a time. When she came to
realization OF this fact she said to herself
Il cannot live here Unjust move again
The next morning she saw the sunny
side, for there are sides Of hospitals the
sun shines on, il only one looks for them.
All day long the sun shone on the high
narrow windows, behind which she knew
lay many who suffered pain and blazed
in at the big door, hanked by its tall lamp
posts, and warmed up the rows upon rows
OF balconies. Stretching beneath each
row Of windows up and up and up, were
these balconies.
Early Of mornings when the sun shone
gently, before tho heat Of the day came on
out on these balconies would come first
one and then another of those who were
getting we'll Carefully bundled they were,
in close warm shawls, their feet In warm
slippers, their cheeks white, but their eyes
aglow with the prospect Of getting we'll
They were permitted to stay out in the
sunshine only little while Then the
nurses Ia spotless white would appear at
the window, take them by the arm and
lead them in again.
At night, when the sun went down. the
new tenant, looking out from ter window
and seeing each window alght till midnight
and long after, could remember only thos
nights she had spent there, how the big
clock over the door had turned to face
and the doors to men, and the knobs to eyes
that stared at her. How the little cross
night nursehad shakenher once and said;
"Ouit crying! You are keeping all the
others awake"
| And she had not realized that she had
been crying.
How in the middle Of the night she walked
to find two doctors tending her, 10th in
white, one at each side Of her led, and the
little cross nurse Fad turned kind all OF a
sudden, for they had thought she was dy.
ing. and no matter how unkind you are to
the living. you must lie kind to the dying.
Then she would 20 to sleep and dream
that terrible time all over again and decide
to move. and the next day would tring the
sunshine and lathe the hospital in It, and
she would decide to stay, for there were the
big wide lower windows, with the babies
IN then, Not little feeble haf les Unable te
The sun., 1905-10-29
WHATOUR DRESSMAKERSL LACK
roo READY TO IGNORE THEIR
CUSTOMERS IRREGULARITIES.
Frenchw oman Complains That Our Cos.
tuners Seek 10 Sell Whatever Is the
Mode Regardless OF Its Adaptability
to the Individual Customers Figure.

to the Individual Customers Figure.
"To make a woman glad to look at her
figure in mirror" is the test for first
class dressmaker given by Frenchwoman
now resident in New York.
This does not mean necessarily" she
explains, that every woman beholding
herself in a new gown need expect to see
reflected beautiful figure, 1t does mean
that womans mirror ought to reflect
figure whose every good point has been
brought out and whose defects have been
as carefully concealed.
American dressmakers are forever
trying to compete with the French in de-
signing. They hold conventions and pat
each other on the back every time an
American made design meets with favor.
Originality, not adaptation they apparently
believe is the Paris dressmaker's trump
card. They forget, or they don't know
that while there are only half a dozen or
so noted designers m Paris, even the most
obscure dressmakers in that city excel
in the art of suiting customer to her
costume,
"To my mind the average American
dressma ker lacks this talent, and what is
more, she doesn't know enough to know
that she does lack 1t.
when one New York dressmaker gets
to- be head and shoulders above tho rest,
Il @ others LAY her success to capital or in
fuence or luck.
Undoubtedly the possession Of capita!
and influential patrons do help many a
dressmaker, but alone they do not explain
the progress Of the very few really artistic
dressmakers in New York.
"The secret OF their success lay in the
fact that nearly every customer they got
hold OF went away with increased respect
for her own figure. These women never
did, and they never will turn out their
patrons in costumes as much alike as the
uniform Of an orphan asylum.
Il have even known American dress
makers who undertook TO build GUS
toner's figure to agree with a certain new
model which was all the rage-like putting,
say, a woman all angles and squares into q
princess gown or a perfectly tight fitting
coat.
"A French tressmaker knows letter than
that-knows that cotton batting or hair
cushions can never duplicate. natures
graceful curvs. And che understands, :,
too, that an exc-ss of fat here and there
can never be compressed out Of sight by
the oothest fitting gown.
"But it is not always the fault Of her dress
maker when a New Yorker appears in a
The sun., 1905-10-29
GODDESSES IN THE GALLERY.
LATEST EVOLUTION OF THE
BACHELOR Girl.

Gallery ods Lose Their Old Tine Monopoly
The Goddess Makes Herself Com fort.
able and Is Apt to he . Severe Critic,
but Il . Real Girl, Just the Bar,e.
yep, it's hit the goddssses hard this
time" declared the man at the box Office Of
good thing on Broadway. 'The brigade
is doubling up on itself nowadays
In the evolution OF New Yorks bachelor
girl she is the newest type-the gallery
goddess.
The Fedora hated, tailor made young
woman who some half dozen years ago
defed the arched eyebrows Of the man in the
box and the stares OF the masculine fire.
qnenters of the top gallery was the original
ofthe type. She blazed the way, unheeding
the grins of the masculine multitude.
But her sister Of to-day is nobly avenging
her wrongs. You can read II In the face
OF the lone man sandwiched in q row OF
giggling girls in the front row, restless and
miserable.
1t was not like this In the good old days,
and the food of femininity dazes him. But
he is bound to get used it, for the gallery
goddess has arrived and is booked for top
gallery seats at all the playhouses along
price OF orchestra chairs.
THE first run Of the goddess brigade
comes from to g." said the ticket seller,
lapsing into garrulity, land from to 7:3o
come the bunch that didn't make up their
minds until the last minute, and want front
row seats. Why don't they buy their seats
the day ahead2 Why, my child, they're wise
to the fact that they're women, and they
must have leeway for chan ging their minds.
Volatile creatures, you know
Among the first arrivals at the theatres
at night is the goddess. She comes in
singles, doubles and bunches,' as the
usher puts it, and balances herself on the
steep gallery steps, scanning her seats with
adubous eye.
II she doesn't like them she bribes the
usher to change them without conscience
culver. But at the worst she accepts them
phiosophically and proceeds to make her
self comfortable. 20.
After she has tucked her hat carefully
Under the seat and folded her jacket over
the back Of her chair 80 1t won't wrinkle and
will make q good cushion, and has puffed
up her pompadour or patted down her
Dutch snail coihure and approved OF her
self in the mirror out OF her wrist bag. and
sighted the mole on the neck Of the lady Ia
the bo1-to try the glasses and sampled
the candy to see that it's fresh, and jabbed
the programme on the seat In front With
hat pin, and got her handkerchief upob-
'rusively handy for the teary parts. then
sne Is ready to read the jokes In the pro-
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Valuable Information.

At n country fair q machine which bore
n ign reading. How TO Make Your Trousers
Last" occupied a prominent position In the
grounds and attracted much attention. A
countryman who stood gaping before 1t was
told by the exhibitor. a person with a long
black mustache. minstrel stripe shirt. and
ninety -four-carat diamond In red crayat.
that for one cent deposited in the slot the
machine would dispense its valuable sar-
toriai advice The cOuntryman dug the re-
uuired coin from the depths OF a deep pocket
and dropped II in the slot. lns tantly ~
ma chine delivered card on which was neat!j
printed:
Make your coat and wai,tcoat first
The sun., 1905-10-29

to me-" said Mrs. Won Ohl with n laugh,
"for she surely has taken long chances.
Tell her about that night of the stampede,
Winnonah.
Winnonah blushcd little as she said
"Yes, suppose that was rather narrow
escape. 1t was in the fall Of one year when
the weather had been particularly hot and
hard on the cattle, and we-mother. Adele
and had been out following the roundup
and looking after our own cattle.
Our bunch had been cut, and we were
driving the throwback that is, the cattle
that have to be thrown back into the bunch,
along high, narrow trail. The cattle had
The sun., 1905-10-29

visitor, gazing at the frank girlsh face
and clear, fearless eyes of the girl horse
trainer Il don't see how you ever dare
to do it,"
Miss Won Obi laughed merrily.
at does not take courage when you
never know a fear" she said simply. Il
don't think am PARTICULAR y brave, but
somehow l have perfect faith and con
fidence in a horse and am never afraid
that any harm will come to me through
them. / have taken a good many pretty
daring risks, I suppose, but mover was
thrown or injured
But why she has not been Is mystery
The sun., 1905-10-29
Perseverance, Won.
From the Washington Post.


81 was in the office Of an American consul
in a German city not long ago. said Wilfred
NJ. Hale while | was there a wine agent
came in who wanted to sell the consul some
'schr schoene Rhine wine. The consul
didn't want to buy and becoming irritated
by the fellows persistence. finally ordered
him out of the place.
In Ave minutes the agent was back. AM
blandly asked the consul if he didn't wait
some very excellent sherry. y this time
Uncle Sans representative was at white he at.
and he kicked the wine man throu gh the door
and half way down the stairs. TO our amaze :
ment. only n little while elapsed before the
irrepressiblc drummer again appeared. aud
with broad grin asked to submit ONE rare
old brandy.
by the stars and Stripes auoth the
consul, wouldn't this GUITAR an earthquake
Isn't one kicking day enough for you
fellow
"'Ordinarily. yes. but your Honor exerted
yourself 50 much the other time that thought
a littl9 good brandy would come in nicoly to
brace UP on He got an order"