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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-10-27

The newly patented eiS -ric cook
Ing stove of Professor Elihu Thomp-
son is heavily jacketed outside with
. layer of asbestos. fire-clay or min
eral wool, and is provided with lid
of the same character. Inside Is
placed a mass of refractory sub
stance, within which is embedded q
granular resistance material. Silicon
is recommended as a resistance ma
terial, as it has a high specific re-
sistance, and acquires suitable tenn
perature without fusing or oKidizing.
The whole interior of the stove can
be kept red hot, and it is anticipated
that the running cost for cooking
through the day will not be excess
sive,
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-10-27

Tie PARISH of East Baton Rouge shall
ompase Che twenty second district.
The parish of st. Mary SHALL compose
the twenty-third district.
The parishes of East Feliciana and
West Feiciana shall compose the TWEEN.
ty-fourth district.
The parishes of st. Helena, Living
ston, and Tangipahoa shall compose the
twenty-ffth district.
The parishes Of Washington and St.
Tammany shall compose the twenty-sixth
district.
The parishes Of Ascension, st. James
and Assumption shall compose the TWEEN
ty-seventh district.
The parishes Of st. John the Baptist,
st. Charles and Jefferson shall compose
the twenty eighth district.
The parishes of st. Bernard and PA
quemine snaI compose the twenty ninth
district.
Inc judges provided for in this article
shall ~ach receive q salary Of three thous-
and dollars per annum such salary to be
paIu monthly ON their own warrants,
provided that the General Assembly Of
the State of Louisiana may in their
discretion redistrict the judicial district
provided for In this article.
Provided that in no case shall the sal
airy of any district judge exceed three
thousand donars per annum.
j. w. HYAMS,
speaker of the House Of Representa-
tives.
J. Y. SANDERS,
Lieutenant Governor and Pesident of the
Senate.
Approved July IL, 1906.
NEWTON C. BLANCHARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
! A true copy:
JOHN T. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.
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Monks as CllauffcurS.

The monks of the Grand st. Ber-
nard will soon make their debut as
chauffeurs.
After a struggle lasting over a
year they have received the permis-
sion from the valais and Italian au-
thorities to run a motor car service
between the hospices, Of Grand st.
Bernard and Simplon-their proper
tiesAand Domodossola and Aosta.
The chaufreurs will be chosen
from among the monks themselves.
who will wear cowls.
The cars. which are being special
" constructed to climb the steep
gradients, will at the beginning be
employed for the transport OF sup
plies only.
Later, however. the monks intend
to start a service for tourists who
wish to visit their hospice5 in the
season. - Geneva Correspondence
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GOOD AID MAi;D
Results of Excessive Coffee Drinking.

It It remarkable what suffering
some persons put up with Just to sat
lsfy an appetite for something.
A Micn. woman says: Il had been
using coffee since was old cough to
have a cup of my own at the table,
and from it l have suffered agony
hundreds of times in the years past.
my trouble first began in the form
of bilious collie. coming on every few
weeks and almost ending my life.
At every attack for years / SUI
fered in this way. / used to pray for
death to relieve me from my suffer-
ing. had also attacks OF sick mead
ache, and began to suffer from ca
tarrh of the stomach, and Of course
awful dyspepsia.
For about q year lived on crack
ers and water. Believing that co1ee
was the cause of all this suffering
finally quit 1t and began to use
Postum Food Coffee. 1t agreed
with my stomach, my troubles nave
left me and I am fast gaining my
health under its use.
mo wonder I condemn coffee anc
tea. No one could be in much more
critical condition than was from th'
use of coffee. Some doctors pro
pounced It cancer, others liberation
but mono gave me any relief. Blu
since I stopped coffee and began Pos
tum I am getting well 30 fast l ca
heartily recommend 1t for all VIII
/ suffer as I did" Name given o
Postum Co., Battle Creek. Micf
Read the little book, 1.-THE ROAD I
Wellyille." There's q reason"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-10-27

John Gilmer Speed has written for
Success about 'The Romance of the
Savings Banks" According to statis-
tics, he finds that there are 6.77O.s67
men, women and children in the United
States who own deposits in these banks
amounting to S2.772,3sS.2 56. The av-
erage belonging to each depositor is
s4O9.23. Women, it appears. are better
savers than men.
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M,1MouKoehne

Nervous exhaustion invites diseaso.
This statement is the positive truth.
When everything becomes burden
and you cannot walk . few blocks with
out excessive fatigue, and you break
out into perspiration easily, and your
face Pushes, and you grow excited and
shaky ut the least provocation, and
you cannot bear to be crossed In any
thing, you are in danger; your nerves
have given out you need building mp
at once To build up woman's nerv.
GUS system and during the period Of
change of life we know of no better
medicine than Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound. Here il an illus
tration. Mrs. Mary L. Koehne, S71
Garfield Avenue, Chicago. ILL.,, writes (:
81 have used Lydia E. PinkhamSVe gstah1D
Compound for years in my family and Il
never disappoints; 30 when felt that W.
nearing the change Of life commenced tyVpk
ment with it. took In all about sik bottlae
and It did me great deal Of good. II STOPPED
my dizzy spells, pains in my back and ~
headaches with which had suffered To
moaths befcre taking the Compound. fee1
that II Il had not been for this great medicine
for women that should not have been aliv1
to-day. It is splendid for women. old Or young
and VIII surely cure all female disordeFS"
Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law -
Lydia E. Pinkham. of Lynn. Mass. In
vites all sick and ailing women to write
her for advice. Her great experiences
b 1T their service. Tree Of cost.
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BY characterization, DR.. Lew.

BY Standardization, DR.. Lew.
andowski. an Austrian physician.
claims to have solved the problem
of removing troublesome scars. A.
galvanic battery and an induction
coil are so connected that either the
direct or the alternating or faradic
current can be used, or both togeth-
er, and a large plate electrode 1T the
negative pole of the coil is passed
over the scar for fifteen or thirty
minutes. another large electrode at
the positive Of the battery being ap-
piled to the sacral region. In thirty
to sixty sittings the scars nearly dis
appear. the disagreeable redness be-
Ing quite removed, while the tissue II
made soft and flexible. A specimen
Of about thirty bad cases successfully
treated is that of a soldier, whose
chest was covered on one side with
the scars of an enormous powder
urn and who had the use of his arm
restored and the scars nearly obliter-
,ted.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-10-27
North Dakota Solves the Adultera-
ton Problem.

North Dakota seems to have found
the key to the question. How shall
we protect the people from frauds in
manufactured products?" a plan
which is applicable to foods, bever-
ages, materials used in the arts. etc.
A new law has recently gone into ef-
feet designed to make it impossible
to deceiys people into buying inferior
and adqMSrated paint under the I'M
pfeesi6n that they are getting real
paint, VIZ: pure white lead and lin
seed oil.
The North Dakota lawmakers did
not attempt to absolutely prohibit
the inferior pigments, or mixtures OF
pigments. They adopted the slogan.
Let the label tell" and then left To
the people to buy whichever they
wished
Under this plan, IL any one wishes
to buy a mixture of rock-dust, ground
quartz and other cheap elements
which are found in many paints and
so-called white leads" no one can
object; for they do 1t with their eyes
open. But il they prefe, genuine
white lead and linseed oil, they can
be sure of getting it. for none but
the genuine article can bear a label
which says pure white lead"
In all other States mixtures are Of
ten sold as pure white lead which
contain little-sometimes no-real
white lead.
1t would seem that were this same
principle applied to food. beverages
and all other prepared articles, where
deception is practiced upon the buy
er, the question would be solved. 1t
would leave us free to buy what we
pleased, but would protect us from
unwittingly buying what we did not
want.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-10-27

A formidable list OF persons killed
and injured in one month by eating
adulterated food has been compiled
by & current magazine. The list OF
the dead include four persons who
died from eating toadstools mixed
with mushrooms, three poisoned by
candy, three by wood alcohol con-
tanned in lemon extract, and many
by the same substance In whisky;
four infected by typhoid fever germs
contained in ice cream, twin babies
poisoned by formaldehyde used to
preserve milk. and hundreds Of per-
sons poisoned by beer manufactured
from glucose. in the manufacture Of
which sulphuric acid, made from an
arsenic bearing mineral has been
used. Many of these cases were re-
ported by health officers and food
commissioners of the various States
In which they occurred.
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Fine Old Netherlands Reparte0.

Fine Oto NetheTtanoS HeparteOs
One Barenj Vet of The Hague. had
recently the misfortune to call a con-
stable a monkey. an accusation which
one Of the local papers pointed out
as being, of course, untrue" and
which, moreover is form of untruth
not permitted in Holland. Vet was ar.
rested and brought before the judge
On a charge of insulting the police"
being sentenced to As days imprison-
ment. Before being removed he turned
to address the court. Then I mustn't
call a constable a monkey" he said.
Certainly not; you must not insult
the police" The culprit reflected.
May I call q monkey a constable?"
he asked, with a flash or genius. The
Judge shrugged his houlders, and.
holding no brief for the animal, re-
piled: IF it gives you any satisfac-
ton" With a smile Of qualification
Vet turned on his heel in the dock
and bowed to his prosecutor. Good
day, constable" he said.-St. James's
Gazette.
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George Shergold, who was credited
with having invented the safety bicy-
Gle. recently died a pauper in the pub.
lie worknouse Of Gloucester, England.
at the age of seveny-fve years. 1t
would seem that Of the millions upon
millions Of dollars that have been made
out of this useful invention. the man
who first thought it out ought to have
had enough at least to make his de.
clining years comfortable. "Tbe irony
Of fate" sometimes performs strange
antics, philosophers the Los Angeles
Times.
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ACT NO. 215.
Sv Mr.. Butler. House Bill No. 1863.
JOINT RESOLUTION.

ev Mr.. Butler. House Bib No. 1863.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article go
of the Constitution Of the State OF
Louisiana relative to exemption from
taxation
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Gen.
.ral Assembly of the State Of Louisiana,
two thirds of all the members elected to
.ach House concurring, That Article 230
Of the Constitution of the State of Louis
lana be amended so as to read as fe'-
iows:-
Article go The following shall be
exempt from taxation and no other viz;
All public property, places of religious
worship, or burial, all charitable insti-
tuticns, all buildings and property used
exclusively for public monuments or
historical collections, college and other
school purposes, the real and personal es-
tate of any public library, and that OF
any other library association used by OF
connected with such library, all books
and philosophical apparatus, and all
paintings or statuary of any company OF
association kept in public hall; provided,
the property so exempted be not leased
for purposes of private or corporate pro-
ct and income. There shall also be ex.
empt from taxation household properly
to the value of five hundred dollars.
There shall also be exempt mortgages,
given for loans on real estate, which
real estate has already borne its due pro-
portion of taxation, as well as the mort
gage notes in the hands Of the mortgage
or his or their transferrees. There shall
also be exempt from parochial and mu'
nicipal taxation for period of ten years
from the LIST day of January 1900, the
capital, machinery and other property
employed in mining operations, and In
the manufacture of textile fabrics, yarns,
rope, cordage, leather, shoes, harness
saddlery, hats, clothing, flour, machinery
articles of tin, copper and sheet iron, ag
ricultural implements, and furniture AM
other articles of wood, marble or stone
soap, stationery, ink and paper, boa'
building and fertilizer and chenicais
provided that not less than i've manu-
are employed in any one factory; Pi1
vided that nothing herein contained sn,n
affect the exemptions provided 1of "
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Rural free delivery will be greatly
appreciated in thousands of country
homes this winter. While in some
cases arrangements need modification,
yet on the whole this is great stride
in the advancement in civilized coun-
try life. Its influence cannot fail Of
leaving its mark as time goes on among
the people thus privileged.
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Play Is Necessary.

play" eaid dear old Froebel. "is
the great serious game Of life In be-
ginnings. and the preliminary prac-
tice which prophesies and cultivates
future power" and according to him
vino knew about all there vas to BE-
known about childre-. play Is a.
necessary pars o; b cir life as Sleep
ing and esr'nC.
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lng on the last day OF June Of the follow
ing year; and said courts shall convene
II the several places named as the bus
mess may require, and shall keep their
courts in session at such places until
.he cases before them are heard and f.
Aally determined. Until otherwise pro-
hded by law, the time and place for the
return of appeals shall be fixed by said
court.
/ No decisions shall be rendered by these
courts without the concurrence of two
Judges, but any two of the judges Of
ZACH circuit shall constitute a quorum
Tor the transaction of business.
Bee ton 4. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That Article los of the Constitution Of
he State of Louisiana, shall be and is
hereby abrogated.
kSection s. Be 1t resolved, etc., That
Nticle LOG of the Constitution of the
etate Of Louisiana be amended 30 as
70 read as follows: Article Jog.
,eThe sheriff of the parish in which the
Ssssion of the court are held shall at
tend in person, or by deputy, to execute
he orders of said court, and the clerk
81 the district court of the parish in
Which the sessions of the Courts of Ap-
peal are held shall serve as clerk of the
Court of Appeals and shall attend ses-
Sons of said court, either in person or
By deputy, until otherwise provided by
the General Assembly. The costs of
appeal in any case appealed to the Courts
II Appeal, of the first and second cir
TUFTS shall not exceed five dollars. The
police juries of the various parishes of
the State, in which the Courts of Appeal
are held, shall provide suitable rooms
Tor the holding of said courts SO as not
b interfere with the session of the dis
trict or other courts.
Section 6. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That the fourth paragraph of Article
Isl of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana be SO amended as % read as
follows:
Until otherwise provided by law, all
appeals within its jurisdiction from the
parishes of Orleans, st. James, st. John
The Baptist, st. Charles, jefferson, Pla-
-nable to said court and the costs of
same shall not exceed five dollars
h case.
elton Z. Be it further resolved,
etc, That the foregoing amendments to
the Constitution of the State shall be-
come operative on the first day of Jan
harry 1907, and all cases pending anil
undetermined in the Courts of Appeals
Is now constituted shall be transferred
to the Courts of Appeals as herein or
ganized under such rules as may be pro
vided by said courts.
Section 8. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That said proposed amendments be sub
mitted to the electors for their approval
or rejection, as required by Article 32l
Of the Constitution of the State Of Louis
lana and the general election laws OF
this State at the congressional election
to be held in this State in November
.l9O6.
J. W. HYAMS,
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
J.. Y. SANDERS,
lieutenant Governor and President Of
the Senate.
Approved July 10, 1906.
NEWTON c. BLANCHARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JOHN T. MICHEL,
Secretary Of State.
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The originals of the English alpha
bet were photographs such as are still
found on the ancient monuments OF
sarth's earliest civilization.
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Too Deep for Hubby.

Husband-What does 1t matter how
plain your clothes are? Beauty, you
know, Is only skin deep, and
Wife-And I really would like to
make mine sealskin deep just for once.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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ACT NO. PIG.

By Mr.. Gamble. House Bill No. $50.
Joint resolution and amendment of Ar
ticle 10S of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana, adopted on the
18th day of May, 1895
Be it resolved, That t7yo-thirds of the
Senate and House of the General Assem-
bly, of Louisiana concurring therein, there
be submitted and proposed to the voters
duly qualified of the State of Louisiana
at~the congressional election hello. in the
State of Louisiana, on the first Tues
day next following the first Monday
in November, 1906, an amendment OF
Article 1O8 Of the Constitution Of the
State of Louisiana adopted on the
18th day of May, 1893, as follows:
The parish OF Caddo shall compose the
irst district.
The parishes of Bossier and Webster
hall compose the second district.
The parishes of Claiborne and Web
ser shall compose the second district.
The parishes of Claiborne and Bien-
lille shall compose the third district.
The parishes of Union and Lincoln
hall compose the fourth district.
The parishes of Caldwell, Jackson and
,Vinn shall compose the fifth district.
The parishes of Ouachita and More
rouse shall compass the sixth district.
The parishes of West Carroll and Rich
and shall compose the seventh district.
The parishes of Franklin and Cate
,oula shall compose the eighth (s) dis
rict.
The parishes of Madison and East Car
oil shall compose the ninth district.
The parishes of Concordia and Tensas
hall compose the tenth (10) district.
| The parishes of Natchitoches and Red
| River shall compose the eleventh dis
lrict.
The parishes of DeSoto, Sabine an
Vernon shall compose the twelfth dis
| .riet.
The parishes of Rapides and Grant
hall compose the thirteenth district.
The parish of Avoyelles shall compose
he fourteenth district.
The parishes of Calcasieu and Cameron
hall compose the fifteenth district.
The parish of st. Landry shall com
lose the sixteenth district.
The parish of Vermillion shall com
,ose the seventeenth district.
The parishes of Acadia and Lafayette
hall compose the eighteenth district.
The parishes of Iberia and st. Martin
.hall compose the nineteenth district.
The parishes of Terrebonne and La
fourche shall compose the twentieth dis
Irict.
The parishes of Iberville, West Batol
Rouge and Pointe Coupee shall comPos
the twenty-frst district.
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existing constitutional provisions.


existing constitutional provisions.
Inere shall also be exempt from taxa
ton for period of ten years from the
date of its completion any railroad or
part Of such railroad that may hereafter
be constructed and completed prior to
January LIST, 1904; provided that when
aid has heretofore been voted by any
parish, ward, or municipality to any
railroad not yet constructed, such rail-
road shall not be entitled to the exemp-
ton from taxation herein established
unless it valves and relinquishes such
aid or consents to a resubmission Of the
question of granting such aid to a vote
of the property tax payers of the parish,
ward, or municipality, which has voted
the same, if one-third of the property
taxpayers petition for the same within
six months after the adoption of this
Constitution. And provided, further
that this exemption shall not apply to
double tracks, ssidings, switches, depots,
or other improvements, or betterments,
which may be constructed by railroads
now in operation within the State, other
than extensions or new lines constructed
by such railroad; nor shall the exemption
herein before granted apply to any rail-
road or part of such railroad, the con-
struction of which was begun and the
roadbed of which was substantially COM
pleted at the date of the adoption of
this Constitution.
4 10 hal m n
to any military organization of the State
of Louisiana which is used by the State
National Guard or militia for military
purposes, such as arsenals or armories
while so used, shall be exempt from
| taxation.
That said proposed amendment be sub
mitted to the electors of the State for
their approval or rejection as required
by Article 321 or the Constitution of
the State of Louisiana and the general
election laws of this State at the con-
gressional election to be held in this
State in November, 1906.
Section g. Be it further resolved, etc,
That the official ballots at said election
shall have printed thereon the words
"For the proposed amendment of Artl
Gle 230 of the Constitution of the State
of Louisiana relative to exemption from
taxation and the words Against the
proposed amendment to Article 23O OF
the Constitution of the State Of Louis
lana relative to exemption from taxa
tion," and each elector shall indicate
as provided in the general election laws
of the State whether he votes for Of
against the amendment.
j. w. HYAMS,
Speaker of the House of Representa-
| tives.
J. Y. SANDERS,
Lieutenant Governor and President o.
the Senate.
| Approved July II, 1906.
NEWTON c. BLANCHARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy.
JOHN T. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.
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A HEALTHY Old AGE
0ETENIHE DESTDRRTOEIIFR
Help for Wcrson Passing Through
Change Of Life

Providence has allotted us each q
least seventy years in which to fuld0
our mission in life, and 1t is generally
eur own fault if we die prematurely.