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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-21
THE TECHE LOCKS.
New Iberia Iberian.

Congressman Broussard on Mon
day conferred with General Mac
kenzie, Chief of Engineers, at
Washington, with reference to the
locks in the Teche. When Mr..
Broussard left here for Washing
ton the matter had been quiet for
some time, the last act being the
tender of a donation by MIR. Petit
bone of the desired site for the
locks, but conditions by certain re-
servation aud imposing obligations
upon National Government which
prevented the acceptance of the
act by the Government. The don
err desired to be guaranteed against
loss to crops or property by the
flooding of any Of the lands re-
claimed from the lake Tasse.
Recent kilograms from WASH
ington would indicate that the OBJ
jectional features have been re-
moved from the act of donation.
The dispatch gives the following
General Mackenzie has approx
ed the appointment of Assistant
Engineer Richard Quinn, recon.
mended 10y Colonel Ruffner. to
accept on behalf of the Govern.
ment title to land for a lock on
Keystone plantation and on which
to construct a canal connecting
Bayou Teche and Lake Tasse, the
canal to be used as feeder from
the lake. Mr.. Pettibone, the ow'
ner of the land donated, is a resi-
dent of Philadelphia, and as soor
as he has signed the deed, Mr.
Quinn will take it to st. Martinvillt
to be recorded. Active operations
will then proceed on this work.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-21

Mr.. Z. w. Welch, the hustliDg
President of the New Iberia st
Martha and Northern Railroad, was
here several days this week. Mr..
Welch has a force of men in the
field completing the survey and
also taking the right of way. We
learn that the people along the
route are giving the right of way
with very little objection, if any
at all.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-21
Health in the Canal Zone.

The high wages paid make it a
mighty temptation to our young
artisans to join the force of skilled
workmeu needed to construt the
Panama Canal. Many are restrain
ed however by the fear of fevers
and malaria. 1t is the knowing
ones those who used Electric Bit
tiers, who go there without this
fear, well knowing they are safe
from malarious influence with
Electric Bitters on hand. Cures
blood poison too, biIiousness, weak
ness and all stomach, liver and
kidney troubles. Guaranteed by
T. J. Liable druggist. SOC.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-21
Lost and Found.

Lost, between $50 p. M, yester-
day and noon to-day, a bilious at
tack, with nausea and sick head
ache. This loss was Occasioned by
finding at Labbe's drug store a
box of DIR. Kings New Life Pills,
the guaranteed cure for bilious
ness, malaria and jaundice. Is cts.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-21
Race Question on the Pacific
Coast.
Times Democrat.

The recent riotin9 in Vancou-
YER. British Columbia, is evidence
that the feeling against the Orien-
tails on the Pacific coast is not ex-
clusively American, rs would ap-
pear from previous reports. The
British Canadians have shown the
same hostility to the Chinese and
japanese as has been shown in
San Francisco, and have demon
strated that the hostility is racial
and not national. The Japanese
and Chinese were attacked in Van
couver because they were Orien-
tails and for no other reason what
soever, just as the same people
we're attacked in San Francisco.
This question of race is a serious
one, and is not to be affected by
legislation in any quarter of the
globe.
All of US may deplore as we will
the racial auimosities of our own
people, but they exist and must be
taken into consideration. That
the feeling is not local and does
not depend upon local conditions
is amply proved by the incident
just reported from British Colum-
bis. The people of that section
are pure Anglo-Saxons and do not
follow any precepts whatsoever,
but depend entirely upon their
own racial instincts. They have
decided that Orientals have no
place in their civilization, and they
have determined that they shall
be excluded therefrom by process
ses outside the law.
Much as we may deplore the &C.
ton of these persons, we are COM
PEELED to admit that they are the
best judges of the conditions which
confront them, and must accept
their verdict as being the very
best that could be rendered under
the circumstances. It is quite
easy theoretically to decide what
a population should do under GER
tain circumstances. But in prac-
tice the population is the best
judge of its own actions. Conse-
quently it would be as we'll to wait
for further information before we
denouuce the people of Vancouver
in their opposition to the law be-
fore We damn them eternally as
hooligans and hoodlums, who are
disposed to Cypress foreigners
merely because they are foreigners
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-21
The cotton market has been

The cotton market has been
fluetueting in a very uncertain man.
ner during the past few days. The
beginning of last week it was $40
per thousand pounds, seed cotton,
the middle of the week it went
down to S3S. Saturday morning
it went up again to $40 in the af-
ternoon it dropped to $50 and Mon
day morning it was down to $35.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-21
MADE HIM A BOOK-KEEPER
and STENOGRAPHER. It will
DO THE SAME FOR YOU.
500
It Pays For Board Tuition and
Stationery.
Walden's
BUSINESS
College

NOASSS Z, 1907 taking advantage Of their REMARK
ABLE OFFER which for IA weeks board tuition
and stationery. THE END OF IA WEEKS accepted position
offered completing and since coming hee
through the school.
Business, Shorthand and English
The thorough and practical wlthih he
reach Of Young BE HAD FOR HALF what they would
cost in other schools Positions competent pupil
The College calls for enograers and
than it can ill.
Competent In Ia Weeks
person with fair English IN II WEEKS be-
come Senogaphe Book Keeper know this from personal ex
Shorthand aud have
book work, eVde-
ced salary month i'll less than Two niohhs
know many dose the You could get no
training miles and spent DOUBLE
THE AMOUNT to secure it.
The school claims AND WE AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS BE-
LEyE TRUE pupil will LEARN MORE in IA weeks
here than weeks in other schools.
IS Special SiOc-scholarships
including be sold BE QUICK, secure one be-
will male the wiSpt and most p0hta-
life TAKE no CHANCE bat write Prof. L. r.
Charles La today for catalogue of this the leaddg
Business College of the South.
knows what he is talking about
Thousands of others will tes-
tfy TO THE TRUTH, have done
J.WESIEY REAMS. Npamp La
Fall Term Opens Monday Sept. 10.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
LINTON DISTRICT MEDICAL
SOCIETY MEETING HERE.
The Programme Contains Names Of
Prominent Men Of Medicine From
q Number Of Nearby Cities
Committee and Officers.

The Linton Medical Society met
here, Thursday afternoon, in the par
lors OF the Ringo hotel. and enjoyed a
programme filled with interesting dis
s~ertions on many subjects OF science.
The number Of out-of-town physi-
clans present was large and evidences
the interest taken in the Society by
these doctors who are keeping apace
with their profession and making in
quiries that may be Of mutual benefit.
The officers Of the Society are.
Pres. R. w. Berry, Mexico
First Vice Pres. J. E. Jordon, Boone
county.
Second Vice President, Max Myer, Col
umbia.
Secretary Paul e. Coil, Mexico.
Treasurer N. r. Rodes,
Standing Committees are.
Arrangements-N. R. Rodes, Mex
leo; E. S. Cave, Mexico; NJ. e Craw-
ford, Mexico;
Ethics-J. +. Flint, Moline; Max
Myer, Columbia; +. s. Tainter, st.
Charles.
Publication-E. S. Gave, Mexico; p.
e. Coil, Mexico;w oodson Moss, Colum-
bla.
Credentials-N. +. Baker, FultOn;DI
Nowlin, Montgomery City; DIR. McCo-
mas,St Charles.
Scientific Communication DR..
Yates, Fulton, S. D. Mccall, Fulton,C @.
A. Rothweil, Mexico.
The programme for the meeting
Thursday contained the following
Doctors.
DR.. +. j. Tainter, st. Charles.
DR.. j. E. Jordon, Boone county.
DR.. Walter McCabe Miller, Colum-
bia.
DR.. Frank G. Nifong, Columbia,
DR.. J. D.. Mudd, st Charles.
DR.. J. &C. Moore, Fulton.
DR.. II. Il. Graham, Columbia.
DR.. Howard Crutcher, Chicago.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
WOMEN INVADE ALL
BUT NINE OCCUPATIONS
Census Shows 20.6 Per Cent Of the
Female Population Are Bread.
Winners-Percentage is Still
Dis couraging to the
Lazy Man.

WASHINGTON, JUNE 5.-Some In
teresting facts concerning the work OF
women In the United States are con
tanned In a bulletin issued by the
Census Bureau to-day. 1t shows that
there were,~ according to the last CEN
sus, 4,ss3,630 women at work in on
tinental United States. This lnclud-
es ]. 77l,9 66 native white women whose
parents also were native; 1000, 744 ma
tive white women one or both OF
whose parents were immigrants; Sl0,-
OIL white women who we're themselves
Immigrants; l,l19,62l negro woman
and ll,2ss Indian Mongolian women.
Just 20.6 per cent OF the entire num-
Der of women In the country are bread
winners, and 55.3 per cent OF the d.
vorced women Of the country earn
their living. OF the 3O3 occupations
named In the census women are en-
ployed In all but nine.
No women we're reported as United
States soldiers, sailor or marine nor
were any reported as members OF the
fire department or as street car driy-
ers Though two we're reported as
motormen,l OF as telegraph and tele-
phone linemen. Or as apprentices or
helpers 10 roofers, or as helpers to
steam boilermakers or TO brassworkers.
Five females we're employed as
pilotsi on steam railroads, three were
employed as baggagemen, 81 as brake
men, even as conductors, As as en-
gineers and fremen, 40 were carriage
and hack drivers, six we're reported as
ships carpenters and two as roofers
and skaters. AS many as 1856 were re-
turned as blacksmiths and sos as ma
chinists. Eight were bollermakers,
81 were charcoal, coke and lime bur
ners and IL were well borers.
There were l25 occupations employ
ed loco women each, and SO employ
Ing over 800. About one-quarter OF
the whole number, 1,l14,3s3 were re-
as servants, 456,4o5 as farm la
borers, mostly negro women; 33s, IA as
dressmakers, 32s,e45 as laundresses,
and 1921, 2o6 as teachers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13

ELECTRIC LIE.
Promoters Are BusJ Boosting Line
From Fairfield. lows Trip Of
Inspection Began Over the
Proposed Route.


Paris Mercury.
James II. Hill received a letter from
the promoters Of the Memphis ant
Mexico electric roao Sunday announc
Ing that they would start Monday,
accompanied by a representative Of
New York capitalists, on a trip OF in.
spection over the proposed route,
The party is expected here to-day OF
tomorrow. According to the Elec-
trical World published at New York,
80 miles OF this road, from Fairfield to
Memphis, has already been financed.
The party arrived at Paris Thursday
morning, having driven through over
lsnd, and Mr.. B. +. Holcomb, repre-
sentative Of tbs KnickerbOcker Trust
Company, accompanying them, ex-
presses himself enthusiastically on
the outlook.
A meeting vas held at the Dooly
house, Thursday morning and the pro-
1ect discussed. Mr.. Holcomb said
that while the route by Paris was over
q mile and q half nearer than that by
Holiday, the cost OF construction
would be 10000 more. The plan pro-
posed IL that the people living along
the line as projected take q certain
percentage Of the stock, : be money
not to be paid until the road is COM
and In operation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13

az AALAA@
and the same yellow complexion would
remain---fos the liver causes IL. Only
brfht, red blood hrinSs fine complications.
Blood loaded with impurities from the
liver sends the impurities out through the
pores Of the skin and turns the skin a
brownish yellow.
10 Set rid OF the dull, heavy feelinf end
muody, yellow complexion Get the liver
20 working aeain.s Two bottles Of Coop.
ers New Discovery win do this nina
times out of ten though sometimes il
takes four or FIVE bottles. 4
Heres what . man who tried Il ssys:
my health had been poorly for several
years. My face was yellow and covered
with pimples, 1 was bothered constantly
with chrome constipation, had little or NO
Specific and could not sleep wen at ni<ht.
became weak and lost ali ambition. I
tired many different medicines bur nothinf
seemed TO help me until I befan takinf
Cooper's New Discovery. Il seemed 10
help me at once. Now, after have taksn
several bottles ] feel entirely well. Nv
a Is clear, ! sleep well, have q Good
appetite and am quite myself again."
y am deeply grateful for my restored
health" Michael Silk, ~ Kentucky Ave.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
MAD DOG BITES
GALLOWAY CHILD
Other News Of Interest From Sur
rounding Citiss-Binding Irvine
in the State of Missouri.

oren Muir the ten year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs Yves Muir was bitten by
a mad dog Monday afternoon. The
dog had been a family pet and while
the boy was at home By himself the
dog went mad and bit a hole In his
right ear. Mr.. Muir did not know
the dog was mad till a day later when
some OF his neighbors told him OF the
strange maneuvers OF the dog. After
biting the boy he left home and wan
dered throughout the neighborhood.
Mr.. Muir took bis son to Chicago We'd
Hesday night where q mad stone will
be applied.
Chas. Simon, q former Monroe coun-
~ boy who struck a rich lead OF gold
in the Meadow Creek, Montana, dis
trict year or more ago, writes to
Martin Buerk that his property has
Just been bonded at $4,000 and that
the first step in developing 1t will be
the erection OF a big smelter.
The binder Irvine factory at the
Missouri penitentiary is In full blast.
Great bales OF cactus fiber froE Old
Mexico are being converted into first
class twine which al be bought by
farmers at actual cost The factory
has a capacity OF 10000 pounds or five
million yards a day. In large quapi-
ties il will be sold ats Ia cents a
pound, while for small quantities the
charge will be 8 "a cents.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
LINCOLN AND PRESENT DAY POLITICS
By Norman Hapgood.

his, and 1t belonged not 20 Hamilton,
or jefferson, or Webster,o Calhoun.
Washington had an all-including
sense OF right and Justice, but it spran
from his brain; IL did not include
great humanity OF emotion. The key
note Of the traditional Lincoln (which
Is In a large way true Of the actual
Lincolnl Is charity, or love Of all men
-charitF, which means sorrow, the
sorrow Of understanding, the sorrow
% an open heart. A strong American,
John Quincy Adams, used the words;
In charity to all mankind, bearing no
malice Or i'll will 10 any human being,
and even eompassionating those who
hold 10 bondage their fellow men, not
knowing what they do
such would be the spirit IN which
Lincoln should perform his duties IL
be were alive to-day. He would take q
position, firm and disinterested on each
important question that Is become
necessary 10 decide, but there would
for him no diatribe.no violence, no
stirring Of class hatred, no assumption
that his opponents were inhunan VII
Inns or vampires. He would open bis
understanding and bis sympathy TO
iapitalist and laboring man, 10 Sofia
list and reactionsry, 70 Democrat and
TO white and black, 70
.'fotectionist and free-trader, 10 those
sho disagreed with him as 10 bis
sarm supporters. He would patient
y and profoundly dwell upon every
interest and every point OF Yiev.
When he decided, he would act with
I%ecislon, bat as an enemy 10 none, IS
c0mprehending friend 20 all.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
STAMP SENDS MAN 70 JAIL.
n. n. sharpless, Formerly Of Mexico
Convicted Of Forgery. Traced
by This Method.

Because NJ. N. ~Sharpless, a lawyer
and real estate agent, formerly Of
Mexico, NO., forgot TO put a stamp on
a note, be was yesterday afternoon
found guilty Of forgery in the first de.
gree by a jury in the criminal court
and sentenced to ten years in the
pe~nitentiary. Both the defendant and
and his father, who came here from
Osceola, Mo-, to hear the trial, fell to
weeping when the verdict was brought
in. Before the young lawyer was led
away to his cell 10 the jail he kissed
his father on the neck.
SharpIess forged the name OF W. c.
Moore to the release Of a mortgage ON
eighty acres OF land near Osceola, Mo,
and also forged a note for $500. He
had come into possession of the farm
in some manner, likewise by forgery,
according to the county prosecutors
Office, and before selling the farm
wanted to clear of the mortgage. The
farm was originally owned by Thomas
W. Mallory, who died In 1898. His
son Thomas W Mallory Jr., was owing
bis father money at the time Of the
latter's death, and when W. G. Moore
was appointed executor OF the estate
he made the young man give a note
and a mortgage on his part OF the farm
as security for the loan. 1t was TO get
rid OF this note and mortgage that
committed the double for
gerry,
His arrest was due to the absence OF
\ war revenue stamp on the forged
note. The original note. which had
been destroyed, unknown 10 Sharpless
bore STAMP of the Spanish war serIesl
mi was so described In the mortgage.
When the recorder at Osceola, To-
whom Sharpless mailed the forged
lote and release Of the mortgage from
City, saw the absence Of a
itamp on the note ne notified the
City police.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13

Il on every wrapper Of Doctor Pierce,s
Golden Medical Discovery because . frlI
ilst Of the ingredients composing IL Is
printed there In plain English Forty
years Of experience has proven Its superior
worth Is q blood purifier and inysgurss-
ing tonic for the cure Of decentralization
and all liver Ills. II builds up the run
down system as no other tonic can In
which alcohol is used. The active medic
inal principles OF native roots such ~
Golden Seal and Queens root. Stone and
Mandrake root Bloodfoot and Black
Cherrybark are extracted and preserved
BY the use Of chemically pure, triple
refined glycerina. Send 70 Dr. 2 Y. P1erce
at Buffalo, n. Y, for free booklet which
qnotes extracts from we1recognized med
zeal acknowledgements Dr2. Barthhiow.
King ScuddeRtCoe sElllngwood .andsa
host Of othepx showing that. these roots
can be SsFtnded upon for thelr curative
action IL ali weak states Of the stomach,
accomp<pied by Indigestion or dyspepsia
IS well { lg<ll bilious or liver complaints
and In ~ wasting diseases where there
Is losz1Sfiesh and gradual running down
OF u Sirength and system
f, The Golden Medical piscQYerl g makes
rieh, pura Blood and 81 inyigQrates and
fsgplates fhs sE5maeh.1 YeEAn boNelS
apd. thrQughI Them. the whole system.
Thus al skin affections, blotches. pimples
and eruptlons ~ well as scrofnlous swell
lIngs and old open running sores or ulcers
are cured and healed. In treating old
running sores, or ulcers, It is well TO In
sure their healing to spply 10 them DR..
Pierce's All-Heallng Salve. II your drug
gist don't happen 10 have this Saive in
stock, send fifty-f,ur cents In postage
stamps 70 Dr.. z. ". Pierce, Invaiids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. N. ", and
o large box OF the rAll- Healing Salyes
win reach you by return post
You can't afford 70 accept Q secret nos
trum as q substitute for this n~on-alcoholic,
medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION, not
ever though the urgent dealer may
make q little bigger profit.
Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and lnvigorate stomach, liver and bowels
S~ugar-coated, tiny granules. easy TO taks
~ candy. Il
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
Have you Catarrh!

II you have catarrh, with offensive
breath, burning pains in the throat,
difficulty in breathing, raising OF mu-
cous, discharged from the nose, tick
ling or dropping from the back OF the
throat, coughing spasms, ETC., begin
the use Of Hyomei at once.
It's medication is taken in with the
air you breathe, so that it reaches
the most remote part OF the resplra-
tory organs, killing all catarrhal germs
and soothing any irritation there may
be in the mucous membrance.
The complete hyomei outfit costs
but sl.00; and Otis Purdy gives his
personal guarantee with each package
that money will be refunded unless
the treatment does all that is claimed
for IL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
MEXICO MAN HAS vALUAR1,
BIRD PEATHP.
William Mckinney Has the R,...
and One Wing Of a Great AM
a Bird Now Extinct Procurss
Them From a Sailor on a
British Tramp Steamer.

William Mckinney called at Il.
Office, to-day, with the breast =.
wing Of Great AUX, a bird now er,l..'
The feathers were very well presses.
and should be worth quite a spm ]
money. Mr.. Mckinney will writ
Washington and enquire copcenh.
the value OF the feathers as tbs,,s
likely to be exceedingly rare andss'
quite a neat sum.
He purchased the curiosity t,u.
british sailor who was before the ma,
on an English tramp steamer. n.
had no idea what the value Of d.
feathers were until recently when i,
was reading a newspaper and saw m,
an AUX egg had brought fifteen hun
dred dollars, a short time ago, and tint
a well known museum had paid ev,r
more than that for another egg from
the AUX.
The Great Aux is as large as agOas
and though now said to be entirelys,.
tinct, once inhabited the most north
erly shores. The rapidity with which
the bird moves under water is a.
traordinary and 1t is told that the,
have been followed by a four.ospd
boat for hours without being exhaust
ed. 1t lays only one egg, which i
very large, about five inches in length
and three IN Its greatest breadth
The egg is laid on a bare rock without
any attempt at a nest.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13

j. the guest Of Mrs Wales. with III
exception OF s few, NM Cullen
quests we're Of the Mexico crowd ya6
went to California two years ago
Miss Furnish also was one Of the party
Many incidents that happened In thE
trip we're recalled, and such realistic
descriptions Of the scenery given as 70
convince those who had not been be-
yond the western boundary OF our
state that they also have Viewed and
admired the Rockies, the snow clad
peaks, and the Golden Gates. Very
delicious refreshments closed the eve
ming.
The friends OF Miss Pauline Powell
who lives several miles north OF town
were the recipients OF a most pleasant
afternoon, Wednesday when she en-
tertained for her guest, Miss Ethel
Dunlap, OF Indian Territory, and the
Misses Fisher, Of Columbia, who are
visiting Miss Alicia Mason. Thirty
girl friends we're present and the time
passed quickly with games and con-
Versation intermingled with many
20 the punch bowl from which q
delicious beverage was dispensed. At
close OF the afternoon. refresh
nents we're served in the dining room
where the table was made very pretty |
With pink and white crepe paper
treamers and bowls Of pink roses.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
Tattsr nnred.

A lady customer OF ours had suffer.
ca with letter for two or three years.
IL got SO bad on her hands that she
could not attend to her household
duties. One box Of Chamberlain's
SaiVe cured her. Chamberlain's medi-
eines give splendid satisfaction In this
communicate. II. Rodneo & Co., Al
mond, Ala. Chamberlaln's medicines
are for sale by all druggists.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-06-13
STAMPS IN SLOT MACHINES.
Government VIII Adopt the Idea If II
Proves Practical.

Slot machines will be used by the
postoffice department and the public
will be enabled TO drop a couple OF
pennies into a slot and get postage
stamps II the experiment. to be con-
Quoted by the government proves sue
cessful.
A number of slot machines will be
tested. They are adapted TO receive
one and five cent pieces. II the plan
Is adopted the machines will be plac-
ed In the department stores, drug
stores, hotel lobbies and other places
convenient for the public.
These machines must be purchased
by the proprietors OF the places OF bu-
slness as, 1.-The government has no funds
for the purpose. The one-cent stamp
Will have to be used on letters when
secured from the machines.