The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-10-20

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News.
Since that Kansas hireo man arose
In his sleep, observes the Atlanta Con-
stitution, harnessed his team and cul-
tivated eight acres of corn before he
awoke, he has been in receipt OF q
bushel of letters day offering him all
kinds of money for his services.
A woman in Flushing, N. Y, declares
the Atlanta Constitution, chewed up
and swallowed a contract that she
had signed and wanted to repudiate,
and furnished the first instance in
the history of the world where a wo-
man was willing to eat her own words.
1t is doubtful whether a great chess
player is often, We are sure he Is not
Of necessity, to be regarded as man
of powerful intellect, remarks the
London Saturday Review. 1t has
never been shown that the greatest
masters of the game were men with
big brains for anything but chess.
An engineer who has gone over the
route pronounces the plan of canal
at Panama impossible of realization,
says the New York Tribune. Opin-
ions probably will continue to differ
until the canal is dug and in opera
ton, and then nobody will care what
was said about the enterprise in 1906.
The new automobile law of Massa.
chusetts which has just gone into ef-
feet forbids a speed of over twenty
miles an hour anywhere in the state,
notes the Buffalo Courier. So, if it Is
enforced, the sixty-miles-an-hour ma
chimes will not be an especially at
tractive kind of personal property
there.
President Roosevelt, speaking at
Oyster Bay on Independence Day,
said: Distrust as a demagogue the
man who talks only of the wrong done
by the men of wealth. Distrust as a
demagogue the man who measures
iniquity by the purse. Measure ini-
guilty by the heart, whether a mans
purse be full or empty partly full or
partly empty. II the man is a decent
man, whether well of or not well Oh,
stand by him; if he is not decent
man, stand against him, whether he
be rich or poor. Stand against him
in no spirit of vengeance, but only
with the resolute purpose to make
him act as decent citizens must act
II this Republic is to be and to be
kept what it shall become.
There Is a large class OF frauds
worked upon the public with amazing
regularity of which the bait is an ap-
peal to greed through the proposed
recovery Of treasure. The details are
innumerable, remarks the Christian
Register. The treasure which may be
recovered, If only one can raise an
adequate sum of money to carry on a
lawsuit, or an investigation, or to fit
out an expedition or an estate held
for a hundred years in Holland, or in
an English Court of Chancery, or a
large sum Of money deposited in the
bank of England, or pirates treasure
buried in the River st. Lawrence or
somewhere in the Spanish main, or
money secreted in a foreign land by
some prisoner who is still living, or
some unfortunate exile who has died.
leaving hidden treasure intended for
some dear child or other dependent,
but which will be shared with any
one who will bear the expense of its
recovery. All these have been work.
ed, to our knowledge, within six
months, and the daily papers, in re.
porting them, give no hint that they
are not genuine, although they have