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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-04-06
Must Know How. To Read.

The decision of the Supreme
Court of this State rendered Tues
day in the case of George K. Fav-
rot and others indicted recently in
Baton Rouge by a Grand Jury
with one member who could not
read nor write the English lam
guage. makes the law clear that
Grand Jurors must be able to read
and write to be qualified to serve
as grand inquisitors, and this law
is a wise one.
Judge Bruno of the District
Court had rendered decision to
quash the indictment, but the
District Attorney appealed the
case to the Supreme Court, the
Supreme Court. Justice Monroe
the organ of the Court, affirmed
the decision.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-04-06
Area of the United States.
Maxwell's Talisman.

What constitutes the area OF the
United States?" would seem to the
ordinary layman a simple ques-
ton; but according to a bulletin
recently issued by the United
States Geological Survey. of which
Henry Gannett is the author, it is
quite the reverse. The bulletin
represents the result of conference
and cooperation of the Land Of
iice, Census Bureau and Geologi-
cal Survey in al effort to agree Oh
what constitutes "the area of the
United States" The absence of
standard of measurement for de-
termining the area led to discre-
pancy between the tables of the
Census Bureau made in 1887 and
those of the General Land Office
prepared IN 1879. Inc result OF
the cooperation of the depart
ments is that the area of the Uni
ted States proper, which is given
as $685. S9 square miles, has been
increased over the census by l,lSS
square miles. The bulletin gives
the area of Alaska as 59O.S84; the
Philippines, liz, O26; Hawaii 6, 449;
Porto Rico, 3,435; Guam 2lO; Sa-
moa II, and the Panama Canal
strip 474 square miles. All of the
detached territory is subject to
change as the limits become more
correctly defined.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-04-06
BANK OF ST. MARTINvILLE
ALCIBIADE CHAMPAGNE aud others.
No lOO67,

By virtue of writ of seizure and sale
issued in the above entitled and mum
bered suit, dated February 18th 1907 and
to NE directed by the Honorable Nine
teenth Judicial Court in and for the Pa
fish of st. Martin.
| have seized and will proceed TO sell
at public auction to the last and highest
bidder, at the Court House door, in the
Town Of st. Martinville, between the le-
gal sale hours. on
Saturday, April 18TH, 1907,
the following described property, to- wit;
That certain tract of land situated in
st. Martin. Parish. La. containing thir-
ty six arpents more or less in superficial
area bounded North by land of Aymar
Babin, South by land heirs of Onezime
Thibodeaux. East by Public Road. and
West bv land If Toto Arcpnpaux; said
land being better described as two GER
tain tract Of lands with all improve
ments thereon. measuring in superficial
area lSA arpents each, situated in st.
Martin. Parish. La. Tract No One being
lot No ola sketch OF survey annexed
TO al act OF partition made between the
heirs of the late Paul ThibOdeanx, on
March 18th 1901. said lot IS containing
Is 100 superficial arpents and said
tract No Two being lot No 5 Of said sketch
contains IS q superficial arpents.
Seized to satisfy said above mentioned
writ.
Terms-CASH.
Sheriff's Office this 18th day # March
1907. JOS. PELLERIN,
Sheriff.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-04-06
The Homemaker.

Home is generally what the wife
and mother makes it. In the home
all that is Enthusiastically wo-
manly unfolds and hourishes.
Home without woman is a misno-
mer, for woman makes the home
and the home is just what she
makes it. If she is ignorant and
illiterate, her home partakes of
these qualities; if she is immoral.
her home cannot be the abode of
virtue; if she is coarse, refinement
does not dwell in her home. On
the other hand, if the woman of
the home is pure, cultured and re-
fined, these qualities will charac-
terize the home of which she is
the center. How important. then,
that, in the education and train
ing Of our girls, those things be
not neglected which will fit them
to take their places as real home
makers and Undue them with the
right ideas of life and it's duties.
The character that a young wo-
man takes with her in her mar
riage is her real dover. If her
dover can be reckoned in money
or property only, no matter how
much it may he, poor indeed will
be the husband, and impoverished
the children. But if she posses
ses gentleness, love, purity and
self-denial, together with intelli-
gence and capability, she is in her.
self a treasure of treasures to ali
the members of the home-circle-
MAXwELL'S TALIsMAN.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-04-06
The Price of Health.

"The price of health in a mala-
rious district is just % cents; the
cost of a box of DR.. Kings New
Life Pills." writes Ella Slayton, of
holland, Ark. New Life Pills
cleanse gently and impart new life
and vigor to the system. 25cts.
Satisfaction guaranteed at T. j.
Labbe's drugstore.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-04-06
Doing Business Again.

when my friends thought l was
about to take leave of the world,
on account of indigestion. nervous
ness and general debility" writes
A. A. Chisholm, Treadwell, N. Y,
"and when it looked as if there
was no hope left, 1 was persuaded
to try Electric Bitters, and 1 re-
joice to say that they are curing
me. [ am now doing business
again as Of old, and am still gain
ing daily" Best tonic medicine
Oh earth. Guaranteed by Il. j.
Liable druggist. soc.
Misses Ceciie Durand and An
ma Ferran spent several days in
New Dreams this week.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-04-06
New Orleans is soon to have a

New Orleans is soon to have
new morning daily newspaper, to
be called the Morning World"
The new corporation will be CAPT
talized at 100000. JOS. M. Lee
vogue will be president of the new
Company and the board of direc-
tors is composed of the most in
Auential men of New Orleans.
The new paper will be a power at
the very start.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-04-06
Sherif's Sale.
10th Judicial District Court,

State Of Louisiana, Parish of St. Martin
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02

price: maybe 1t gives a picture of the
article also. but you don't see the
goods. The local merchant shows you
the goods; you may examine them
critically; he may allow you to test
them or to call in an expert to advise
YOU Is it fair to conclude that the
catalogue article is the cheaper just
because the price is lower?
An element that must enter into the
comparison of goods and prices is,
that in any attempt to fool the GUS
toner. the local merchant is decided
~ at a disadvantage. He must show
the goods. not merely describe them
His business depends wholly upon the
limited trading area of his town and
his ability to inspire confidence within
that circle. He cannot afford to make
practice of misrepresenting his
goods.
The mail order house is not so tied
down to the maxim that Honesty is
the best policy" 1t has no neighbors,
no fellow citizens. no mutual interests
with its patrons. Its trade area is
wide and always shifting. Naturally
these conditions do not demand extra
ordinary vigilance in supplying hon.
est-made goods. And where Vigilance
is not needed employe in the bust
ness he is generally taken off the pay
roll, which makes saving in expense
as well as in the cost of the goods. II
lower prices are quoted by the cata.
logue house, may not this account for
1t?
"Will 1t pay?" Is 1t matter Of
economy to buy inferior and damaged
goods when the same money, or even
little more. will pay for goods of the
best quality? Which course does a
mans first duty to his own household
dictate?
But to get at the bottom OF that
question. We must consider the far
reaching general effect of mail order
trading. If single catalogue houses
are to be capitalized at $4,000, 900,
they must be reckoned with along
with Standard Oil. the beef trust and
railroad mergers. If they are allowed
to suck the blod from our country
towns. your grandchildren will find
conditions much the same as those OF
your grandfather's time Their mar
kets Will be 80. SO or 75 miles away.
The towns and villages will be de-
serted. and the hubs" will be too Ills.
tant to send the radiating spokes Of
rural mall. telephone lines and other
moderu conveniences far into tbs
country.
CHARLES BRADSHAW.
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
TWO BIG QUESTIONS
THE "MoRAL OBLIGATION" AND
"DoES 1T PAY?"
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
An Honest Answer to These Will
Keep the Trade with tho
Home Merchant Every
Time.

copyrighted. 1906. by Alfred C. Clark.)
When the thrifty person or his wife
sits down for the first tIme-or any
time-with the mail order catalogue
and its temptations, there are two,
and only two, points to be taken into
consideration.
One of these Is moral obligation,
and the chances are that that will be
dismissed as sentimental nonsense.
The other is-Will it pay? and to
that the thrifty person will be in
clined to interpret an answer from the
prices quoted in black-faced figures in
the catalogue.
Neither of these questions should
be lightly dismissed. Moral obliga-
tion is not sentimental nonsense, and
black-faced figures sometimes lie.
The duty man owes to his own
community and his obligation to trade
at home are so often reiterated in the
country press that, possibly like some
of the preaching, it has a tendency
to harden the hearts of the sinners.
What has your neighboring town
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
Agriculture and Dairy Farming Flour
ished Last Year.

London.-The following dispatch
from The Hague to the London Times
is OF interest:
"On the whole the year 1906 may
be described as one of the most pros
porous years in Hollands recent his.
tory. Agriculture and dairy farming.
TIL economic corner stones Of the
Netherlands. have been more than
usually profitable; the dry summer.
combining with normally abundant
water supply, produced excellent GER
eal and grass crops and prices ruled
very high. Industrial activity was at
a high pitch and commerce and ship
ping left little to complain Of. The
low water In the Rhine and its estu-
aries caused some loss and delays to
the transit and river-shipping trades,
but on the whole these trades also
were very active, rejecting. as they
did. the state of the German indus.
tries which use the Dutch waterways.
Still more conducive to the nation.
al welfare was the remarkable pros.
pority of the produce trades Of Hol.
lands vast East India colonies. To.
bacco. tin. sugar. specs and coffee
came in abundant supplies and sold
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
'7|;|'';''}Sl|'||l||ll . B
MH3f7 UNCLE BY
Ghosts.

Bill and me we went a-ishin' fer sum
bulheads t'other night
Went a-fshin' in tn bayou where th'
mud-cats allus bite.
Went a-fishin with our stringers and
our angleworms fer bait.
Yep, we had tn fever awful an we
couldn't hardly wait
Fer t git our fishpoles ready and t. feel
tn tuggin' sign
That informs tn fisher feller they's
bullhead on tn line.
Well, we fished an yanked 'em lively
way into tn starlit night,
While th' moon cum up an flooded all
th' world with silver light
An th' breezes sort o whispered through
th' trees their weirdish song,
AS tn phantom clouds O. tigers an of
elephants cum along.
Grewsome shapes and queerish shadders
seemed T. gather all about.
TIL somehow We sorter whispered, std
O speakin loud, right out.
Bill he TUX seat beside me- gittin'
closer all tn time
AS 1 told him how a goblin once't had
made my father climb,
Then a bull-frog rose and bellered out
an awful fendish roar
Lord, my heart jst stopped a-beatin' fer
about three throbs-er more,
Then we heered snort O. anger an a
crashin' in tn brush
Bill an me fergot tn bullheads in that
awful headong rush,
But I'll bet by gosh, we covered that
there space twixt fright and town
In about th' quickest hot-foot that was
ever pattered down.
Yes. We lost tn hull blamed outfit; fishin'
lines an all was canned;
Wasn't nothin' left next mornin' but
n q
Say" seZ Bill feelin' foolish an
a-rubbin' of his brow,
You don't think that snortin goblin
could a-been our moody cow?"
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02

given you, Mr.. Farmer? A market for
your produce. What has made % to
so per cent. of the present value of
your farm? The accessibility of
market You know what your grand
father did on that same farm? Drove
his hogs and hauled his grain 80, so,
maybe rs miles to the nearest market
town, and received prices for them
that would make You howl about the
trusts. And he hauled back the fam
lily supplies for which he paid what
you would consider monopolistic
prices. Do you happen to know what
the old farm was worth then? Well,
it lacked a good deal of being s75 or
500 an acre
Yes, the home town. with its handy
market, has advanced the value of
your property and made you worth
several thousand dollars more than
your grandfather was worth. The
home town affords schooling for your
children, ind perhaps social and
church privileges which your family
would not otherwise enjoy. The rural
mail routes and telephone systems,
radlating from the home town. as
spokes from a hub. bring to your
home the greatest conveniences of
modern times.
Have you ever noticed that the first
thing the settlers of newly-opened
reservation do is to send for a wagon
load of mail order catalogues? Well,
haven't. They lay out u town site
every six or eight miles. start two or
three general stores, build u school
house, church, blacksmith shop. a
grain elevator, petition the depart.
ment for u post office, and start a
newspaper. They know, from former
experience that. with these things
close by. life will be endurable, what.
ever hardships may come. They know
also, that without them they must live
lives of isolation and endure an exist.
eIce that is contrary to all natural
human instincts.
On the other hand. It goes without
saying. that the average country town
cannot exist without the support Of
its tributary territory. Then, II that
town affords the advantages for the
rural citizen that have been enumerat.
ed, there exists what we may call an
interdependence and moral obiiga.
tion between the two. Are you. Mr..
Thrifty Farmer. living up to that OBJ.
legation when you do your trading
with the mail order house?
To this line of argument the farmer
may answer that his greatest obliga.
oo1. his first duty. Is to his immediate
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
Its Oriuin Unknown.

What is the origin of the cock and
bull" story? 1t is the despair of all
those who seek to explain this fine
old crusted slang Of long ago which
has managed to persist into present
speech. just as we may imagine our
present % will puzzle u later genera
ton. Brewer. in his Phrase and
Fable" explains 1t is corruption of
'concocted and bully story. Evi.
IDENTIFY recognizing that this Is scarce
ly satisfactory. he prosecuted his re.
searches into bygone religions. drag
ged up Nergal from the -Phoeniclans
In the representation OF rooster and
from the Egyptian Osiris. typlfied by
Il bull. From all Of which disQuisl-
tons it is as clear as may be that
no one really knows anything about
the story of cock and bull. The
French have a precisely similar ex.
preston in coa.a.lane. and equally
they do not know Its origin.-Nsw
York Sun.
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02

household, and that among the duties
to his family and to the heirs of his
estate is that Of practicing judicious
ecohomy-buying where he can buy
the cheapest and to the best advan.
tage. And this brings US to the sec
ond point in the argument-the para
mount question in this commercial
age-"Will it pay?"
BY most people an Affirmative an
swer to that question is accepted as
the call of duty. AS matter of fact,
"Will it pay?" is good test to apply
to any project or proposition. There
are commercial, as we'll as political,
demagogues, and the man who Is ap-
pealed to on the score of patriotism
or profit, duty or dollars, can scarcely
do better than to sit down by himself
and submit that question-"Will it
pay?'-to his own best judgment.
Provided always, that he goes to the
very bottom of 1t.
What are the relative advantages Of
buying at the local store and ordering
from catalogue house? Advantages,
understand, that figure in the ques-
ton, "Will it pay?" Don't get away
from that question. 1t certainly is
very comfortable to sit down by your
own freside and select a dress pattern
or sulky plow from a printed des-
cription and picture of the article;
much more comfortable, in fact, than
hitching up and driving to town on a
raw day.
A consideration more important.
perhaps. is that the printed price in
the catalogue seems, in some cases at
least, to be lower than the price
quoted at the local store. Isn't that
conclusive? Let's see. The catalogue
describes the goods and quotes q
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
Electricity as Anesthetic.

Paris.-Professor lie Due of the
Medical college of Nantes has per-
fected method of anesthetization by
electricity. He sends a mild electric
current through the body. which so
perfectly lulls the sensory nerves that
any surgical operation can be per-
formed without the patient feeling
pain.
La Due claims that his method
produces anesthetization as deep az
that of chloroform or ether. has none
of the dangers of chloroform and is
much more conveniently used than
ether. Besides. the patient revives
In a stronger condition than from
chloroform or ether.
y few days ago lie Due himself sub
mitted to test of his discovery be-
fore many of his colleagues, who
seemed much impressed by the re-
suits.
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
MANY JOBS FOR A GIRL

lianley in handling evei, thing that
comes East Granville way. She finds
tire railroad men all anxious to assist
her Although not many trunks are
tIken on at the little depot of which
sae has charge, when one does show
up it has as much in it as the rail-
road will carry without excess rates;
when she saw the first old-fashioned
Saratogas intended for transporta-
ton.
There are Lo baggage trucks for
the use of the agent, and she did
hot feel equal to the task of carrying
the heavy boxes from the station plat
form three car lengths up the track
to the express car. Willing brake
rlen saw her dilemma and came to
heG aid. and four powerful arms made
short work of it, So also with much
1f the express matter billed to the
town. One man would have difficulty
in handling ii. but Miss Hanley's vol.
nnteeIs solve the problem in no time,
pill. g the articles on the freight shed
platform, where they are left to he
called for by the consignees.
i>ot many difficulties have been en-.
countered by the young woman in
the discharge of her duties. East
Granville is not regarded as a partic.
ulariy healthy location for tramps
uneer any circumstance. and in tie
wiEter time 1t is too cold for them.
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
is STATION AGENT THOUGH
ONLY 10 YEARS OLD.
New England Young Woman Looks
After Tickets and Freight, Car
res the Mail and Acts as
Baggage Master.

Rutland, VT. - Nineteen and a girl,
yet station agent. mail carrier, ex-
press agent, baggage master and
freight agent for the Central Yer
mont railroad-that is Miss Bessie
Elizabeth Henley of East Granville.
in the Green Mountain range. And
she has held all these jobs since she
was II years old.
Admiring friends claim that Miss
Hanley is the only young woman in
New England holding such a position
or such multitude of positions that
are so distinctively in the sphere of
the male. Although just emerged
from childhood when appointed, she
has done the work of her Office for
two years without a black mark
against her record. Failure to be on
hand at train time is unknown not
only 10 Miss Hanley. but to most
OF the residents of the hamlet
East Granville is near the upper
NEST portion of the pass in the Green
mountain range through which the
Central Vermont railway makes its
way from one side of the state OF
Vermont to the other A numbering
community. extending for eight miles
back into the mountains to the west
finds point of connection by the
road with the world and its market
places.
The amount of business transacted
probably makes no appreciable differ
cnce in the dividends which stock
holders Of the system receive, but it
IS OF considerable moment in the op-
Grafton of traffic through the great
ravine and TO the safety and CON
venience OF thousands of passengers
on the through trains between Boston
and Montreal, as well as to the hun.
dre,,s of cars of freight which daily
pass the point. For on the care and
watchtulness of the girl in charge of
the oompany's depot. under the sheer
cliff OF the mountainside. depend their
safety.
No difficulty is experienced by Miss
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
An Honest Man.

To-day as i rode across Chicago on
an Adams street car, gentleman
boarded with grip in his hand. The
conductor was busy collecting fares
in the car and the man with the grip,
who stood on the front end. was not
asked to pay. AS the car drew near
the Canal street station, the passen-
ger. wishing to get off, motioned to
the conductor to come and get his
fare. The conductor misunderstood
the sign. the car stopped and the gen.
tleman wishing to be honest, placed
a nickel on the rail of the car beside
the motorman. AS he stepped down,
the motorman turned to me and
laughed.
THAT fellow Is one in a thousand,
one in thousand! Why. do you
know, well-to-do people will watch for
crowded car to take this short run
across to the depot. hoping the con-
ductor will not reach them in time TO
collect the fare. have seen people
hang onto the outside and risk being
killed, just to beat the street car COM
pany. 1t beats all how many there
are of this class"
out, put the nickel in his own pocket
and repeated:
"One in q thousand"
Rx~~wsAeA=,
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02

No, dear, certainly insanity is not
what the dog has when he chases his
tail. If the tail should suddenly turn
and begin TO chase the dog; that is
er, no. that wouldn't be exactly circu-
lar insanity, either. If the dog-er, l
mean If the tai.-Well. anyhow, it's
something like that. only different.
The man who thinks he knows all
about women is bachelor. of course.
If the devil got only his dues, there
would be fewer hungry wives and
children in this world.
There are no complimentary tickets
into Heaven.
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
Chords and Discords,

A great lawyer says more people
quarrel over chickens than for any
other one reason. We never do at our
house. Your Aunt Anna gets the
breast; Mother Mac, the wings; Uncle
By, the gizzard and the piece that
concludes. while Tige is always per-
fectly satisfied with the bones. The
company always get when they can
and usually seem thankful for that.
We never have no chicken scraps in
our family.
Conscience seldom bothers the win
ner in a poker game.
The best joke is always one you
played on the other fellow.
A man is never too old to learn, but
he is frequently too young.
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
A Case of Spring Catarrh.

Mrs. N. P. Lawler, 4o31l n. Broadway,
Pittsburg, Kas., writes: Last spring
caught severe cold, which developed
into serious case of catarrh. l felt
weak and sick, and could neither eat
nor sleep well.
"a member of our club who had been
cured of catarrh through the use of Pc
runa advised me to try it, and did so
at once. 1 expected help, but nothing
like the wonderful change for the better
1 observed almost as soon as I started
taking it. In three days l felt much
better, and within two weeks was in
fine health. Peruna is a wonderful
medicine"
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
GREAT PROSPERITY IN HOLLAND.

at high prices and this caused de-
gree of prosperity to prevail in Java.
Sumatra and the other possessions
which could not fail to affect the
numerous Dutch capitalists who have
invested enormous sums in these
tropical possessions"
Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02

"WHhoak hesitation / zU,-tie to thank
you fol, the great relief I haze found in
mil call tie attention Of all my friends
suffering 5oith eata'-,'h TO that fact. Be-
sides I ehee,1inlly recommend IL to all suf-
fe,-ing a0ith eata,rh IN any form."-
Mss Dora Hayden, SIo 9TH ST., S. w.,