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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1912-07-06
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. Jos. Decuir of New Iberia
was in town Monday.
Mr.. Francis Fournet left this
week for Tyler, Texas.
Miss Eva Sales visited friends
in New Iberia Sunday.
Mrs. Maurice Patin of Gueydan
is here visiting relatives.
Linen Clothes, all kinds, aud
Mohair Suits at X. Schartz.
Sheriff Wade Martin made q
trip to Baton Rouge this week.
Mr.. aud Mrs. George Bienvenu
of Cads were visiting here this
week.
Messrs. Fred Rhymes and Felix
Eastin of Cade were here Tues
day.
- Mrs. Sam Martin OF Bregux
Bridge was visiting relatives here
this week.
Mrs. Alexandra Pellsrin Of New
Iberia IS here the guest of Mrs.
Leonce Pellsrin.
Shoes, Hanen, Bostonian and
others grades at K. Schwartz.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Greig of
Arnsudvilis spent several days
here this week.
Rub-My Tism will cure you. % cents
Mr.. JOS. Lovas has made extern
sive repairs to his property near
tho railroad.
The Glorious Fourth of July
was passed very quietly in st.
Martinville.
The Wednesday Afternoon Club
was entertained by Mira. james
Simon Thursday.
DIR. Marcel j. dc Many of New
Orleans arrived hero Monday to
spend q few days.
Judge Felix VOORHEES, is here
visiting at the house of his son,
Mr.. Dan W. VOORHEES,.
Ladies' high class, low cut Dut-
tenhofers shoes, full lines of all
styles at X. Schwartz.
Mrs. K. Schwartz left Wednes
day for Biloxi. whore she will
spend tho balance of the summer
Mr.. and Mrs. st. Amant Daspit
of Morgan City are here, guests a
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Alder
Daspit.
666 cures Chills & Fever; it acts OF
the liver better than calOmsl. % cents
Misses Ida and George Martil
Of Arnaudville were hero thi
week, guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Wade Martin.
i -Messrs. Henry Fournet an
Fernand F. Fournet left Tuesda.
for an extended trip to Cansda all
northern cities.
Misses Martha and Berth
Breaux Of Arnaudville ara her
visiting friends, they are guests c
Miss Paola Fuselier.
Mrs. Alfred Gelpi Of New Oh
) leans arrived here Monday
spend a few days with her pnrrnt
lDr. and Mrs. H. de Maby.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1912-07-06

An old negro was passing the
Jail few days ago, when another
negro yelled out from behind the
bars and inquired what time OF
day it was. Tho old negro looked
up and replied. 1t don't make no
difference to you, niger, what
time it is;you amt gwine nowhere.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
WEEKLY LETTER MARKET.
Report OF Condition of Western Atock
Market at Kansas City.

Kansss City, Oct. 14.-Last week S
stock cattle and feeder business here
made new record for this season.
and closely approached the largest
trade in that line for a single week
ever transacted here. Total outgo
was 1.23o car loads, containing 40
07S head of cattle. and the shipments
went to widely divergent points, from
Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Buyers
from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and the
nearby states are here in force today.
The American Royal car lot exhibits
were sold at auction Thursday, and
brought $685. to $S25. These cat
tie showed exceptional breeding, and
as a rule have the ability to make
market toppers of themselves, when
properly handled, on any market in
the country. On the open market
high bred stock steers, yearlings and
twos, from the panhandle and from
Colorado and New Mexico sold up to
$500, though useful stock steers
were to be had down to $500.
Feeders ranged from $3.50 to $3.50.
The Beggs feeders, for Indiana dis
tilleries, cost around $5.95 last week,
90 Will Po.t - TIC picNiOuo
week. That difference was the gem
orally admitted rise in the market
during the week The run today is
$4,000 here, including 1000 calves,
which indicates that the country is
not quite through liquidating cattle
yet. The panhandle, New Mexico
and Colorado are in the midst of
their heavy shipping season now,
and consignments from those sec
tions contain some high class stock
cattle and feeders. Stock COWS and
heifers bring 1915 to $5.25. Top
grades of fed cattle are scarce, and
as high as any time, which is en-
couraging to feeders. Show cattle at
the Royal last week sold at $10.75 to
$12.40. Native pasture steers are
selling to killers at 1925 to $500.
Colorado beef steers 1925 to $500.
Killers are getting their cheap beef
from the quarantine territory, run
in the southern division today 81
cars, steers at $3.50 to $5.75, cows
$3.50 to $500. Veal calves declined
rs to rs cents last week, best now
selling at $500. Bulls at $500 to
$5.25.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
Still More Commissions.

Commissions are being piled up on
top OF commissions at the state
house and still there is talk of more
commissions. The state of Iowa
now has the following commissions
and boards:
Board Of Control of State Institu-
sions.
Board of Dental Examiners.
Board of Education, controlling
state educational institutions
Board of Educational Examiners.
Highway Commission
Pharmacy Commission.
Railroad Commission.
Board of Health.
Board of Law Examiners.
Board Of Parole.
Board of Optometry
Commission Of Animal Health.
Board of Examiners Of Mine In
sDectofs.
Employers Liability Commission.
Executive Council.
Roster Commission
Tax Commission.
Voting Machine Commission.
1t is impossible to go through the
state house without stubbing ones
toe against a comm jssion or part
If commission, but there is still
talk of more commissions and more
state employees and more jobs for
The governor to hand out to the
prominent men OF the state II is
proposed at the coming session of
the legislature to name permanent
liability commission and to establish
state mutual insurance company
The latter proposition will put the
state into a business enterprise which
viii necessitate the employment of
several high salaried men and no
end OF clerks. stepographers, actu-
aries and clerks. 1t is proposed TO
make the state tax commission per
nlanent, with a retinue of statisti-
cans. A permanent commission on
better schools is asked for.
BY the time all these new things
set into working order we may have
10 build another state house TO fur
nish quarters. -Des Moines Capital
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
CROPS AND PROSPERITY.

Some opponents Of President Taft,
or Republicanism and OF the protec-
tive tariff imagine they are offering a
really clever argument when they
derisively assert that the Republicans
claim credit for big crops. Does
Taft make the sun shine and the
rains come and the crops grow"
they ask, with broad grin, says the
Kansas City Journal.
Republicans, of course, cannot
pride themselves on the fact that
crops are large, and that weather
conditions are conducive to boun-
teous yields. But they can and do
pride themselves that whenever the
crops are large the producer gets
vastly better returns from them I'M
der Republican protection than when
Democratic policies prevail, with
conditions otherwise the same. The
sun shone and the rains descended
in 1898, and there was a big crop
and a fine harvest; but free trade
president and congress had been
elected the year before, and corn sold
for 10 cents a bushel and wheat for
so cents.
There is more significance to large
crops than mere quantity. 1t de-
ponds upon policies that affect the
purchasing power of the consumer
whether or not the producer gets
good prices for his crops Those
policies determine whether the con-
sumner, upon whom the producer is
absolutely dependent, is able to pay
prices that will yield a profitable re-
turn to the man who has the crops
to sell. If the prevailing conditions
of Astounding prosperity should give
way to industrial depression, which
would surely and logically result
from the substitution of policies that
are the reverse of those now in
force, both the raiser and the buyer
of agricultural commodities would
be hard hit On the one hand the
producer would not get adequate
prices because, on the other hand,
the consumer could not pay them.
,tepublicanism does not create the
sunshine and the rain but it CO.
operates with them to create con-
ditions that make for universal pros
perity. 1t averts in large measure
the hardship of poor crops due to
unfavorable weather conditions. The
largest crops ever grown would be
only palliative of calamity under
Decorate economic policies. This is
the real relation between Republican
ism and rain, between Democracy
and depression, between sense and
sunshine, between protection and
prosperity. Republicanism supplies
the protection, the common sense and
the only known safeguard against
the inevitable. result of adopting
Democratic policies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
GREATEST POULTRY STATE.
Census Statistics Show that State has
More Fowls and Values Them
Hisher.-2:s, 600, 900 of Them.

Iowa leads all other states Of the
union in the number OF fowls and al
SO in the value of them, according
to the statistics OF the 1910 federal
census.
The total number of fowls Of all
kinds in Iowa in 1910 Was %, 49,
$50, as compared with 20,04S,543 in
1890 The value OF the 1919 supply
of fowls was $l2,263.S31, as COM
pared with value Of $685., 46i for
the 1909 supply OF fowls.
An analysis OF these statistics
shows very remarkable advance in
the value of Iowa fowls. While the
20, 043,343 fowls in 1900 We're worth
only $6,535,464 the 25,4S2,SS0 fowls
of 1910 were worth nearly twice as
much or the sum of $12,2j9,SS1. In
other words the increase in numbers
was about one-seyenth, while the In
crease in value was nearly two times
what it was in 1910.
Iowa takes first place in the num-
Der of chickens and guinea fowls, bat
loses that position when it comes 10
counting turkey, geese and ducks.
In 1910 Iowa had 22,730,11S chic
kens and guinea fowls, as compared
with 1S,907,673 i'll 1900. There was
q material decrease however, in the
number OF turkeys, ducks and geese
in that ten-year period. In 1909 To-
wa boosted Il total of ] 49, $50 tur-
keys, ducks and geese, but in 1910
the number had dropped to 364 ,669
or nearly half. This indicates thdt
Iowa poultry raisers prefer chickens
and guinea fowls to turkeys, ducks
and geese, or else the Iowa consum-
er likes his chicken better than his
turkey, duck or goose.
While the state was losing Interest
in turkeys, ducks and geese she was
gaining an affection for honey bees.
| In 1900 the state boosted 1881 |
colonies of honey bees and ten years
/ later the number of colonies had in-
creased to 160,425. There was q ma
terial increase in the value OF these
colonies. The 1900 colonies were
worth $443,923 while the 1910 cole
MES were worth $517,329.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
CORRESPONDENCE.
RAVENA.
Nondav.Oct.

Mondays Oct. II, 1912
Philip Etteldorf and wife Of Ossian
visited with A p. Etteldorf on Sun
day
Nick Wagner OF Fort Atkinson
visited his daughters, Mrs. w. Ian
sing and Mrs. A. Etteldorf on sun
day.
August Lansing was a passenger
for St Paul on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Anderson called
at Washington Prairie on Friday
DR.. ]. A. Haviland of Ossian was
a professional caller in Ravena on
Wednesday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Eber Decou spent
Sunday at their sons in Centennial
N. p. Linn of DEBORAH called in
Ravena on Tuesday.
Miss Sigma Ness returned to st.
Paul on Tuesday after a two months
visit with home folks and other lel-
atives.
Miss Minnie Lansing and August
Lansing's children returned on Tues
day from ST. Paul.
Wenzel Lansing called at Postville
on Thursday.
Mrs. Joe Berghammer and daugh-
Ter visited relatives at Ossian on Sat
urday and Sunday.
Peter Johnson and sons of DEBORAH
are finishing up the plumbing at A.
Eeteldorf's new residence.
Louis Fan of Ossian is doing some
mason work for p Barthelma, Jr
Mrs. Joe Hauber returned to her
home at Ridgeway on Monday.
Mrs. Henry Miller is staying al
win Hotleys at present.
Miss Agnes Dourshik of Ossian WIS.,
tied at H. Miller's on Thursday.
Henry Flaga of Ludlow called at
j o. Meyers on Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Slice of Postville
sDent Sunday with j. o. Meyer
o. Owella and family of Red Oak
spent Sunday at Sven Tonson's.
Berger and Amanda Holyerson OF
Glendive, Montana, are visiting rel
a+ives in Ravena at present.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
Nothing 10 Think About.

A judge visited northern summer
resort recently and during the course
@. his stay engaged the old landlord
in. conversation.
Keeps you pretty busy all sum-
Ioel, doesn't it?" asked the judge.
"Oh, vas, tolerably busy" was the
reply.
what do you do all winter"
'Well, I'll tell you said the old
man. in the winter we sit around
and think, and sometimes we just
81 around Boston Globe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
IOWA POTATO CROP.
State Will Have to Pay 35 to 40 &c
For Its supply.

Des Moines, Oct. 1.-THE potato
crop of Iowa is declared to be not
as good as last year, or at least,
potatoes are not very plentiful. The
state will probably pay from 80 to
40 cents bushel for some 10000
bushels to be delivered at the state
Institutions. The state wards con-
sumo about 10 bushels of potatoes a
day and the state is able to raise on
its farms not more than half of this
amount.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
outwhaling the Whale.

Husband: Il don't believe that
fable about the whale swallowing
Jonah.
Wife: why not? That's moth
ing TO what you expect me TO swallow
sometimes. October Lippincott's.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
some Things We Have Never Seen.

An automobile that was really rum
ming at its best.
A bowlegged man who could get
many dancing partners,
a book agent who didn't look as
though he was cut out for the min
istery
A l0-cent glass cutter that would
work when you wanted ii to.
a society leader who wanted Il
have her picture in the paper
A barber VINO couldn't name ever!
champion since Jem Mace-Siou'
city Tribune.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16

Mrs. Paul Webbing, SIC Smith ST.,
PEORIA, ILL.,, had kidney and bladder
trouble, with terrible backache and
pain across the hips Just imagine
her condition. She further says: ~
was also very nervous, had headaches
and dizzy spells, and was fast get
ting worse when | took Foley Kidney
pills, and now all my troubles are
cured. Foley Kidney Pills have done
so much for me | shall always rec
ommend them" Sold by r.. A. Eng
n. a. Engbertson. Oct.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-14
ALL WASTE NERVOUS ENERGY
Everywhere People squander THAR
FORCE NeedlessIy Instead of Care
fully Husbandlng II.

People should be as careful OF their
nervous energy as OF their money
says an English writer. Yet we all
waste 1t. AT the telephone people talk
twice as loudly and energetically as IS
necessary. That is to say, they use
up twice as much nerve energy as
they need. Three-fourths of those
who have to catch trains every morn.
Ing spend as much nervous force in
one day as should last a week.
Then, in the streets, watch how peo.
pie 1ostle and push, and what a lot
Oh neryeforce they spend at danger
GUS crossings. Why not walk slowly
when there is obstruction, and wait for
the quiet moment, which ALWAYS
comes, at the crossing? EVERYWHERE
people hurry without need, getting in.
to state OF nervous tension when
leaving theaters, boarding omnibuses.
going to lunch, and especially when
leaving for a holiday.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-14
s,srIIIrsd Coal.

Coal in the mine is one Of the
things freest of germs Old-tims
doctors used TO notice coal miners
wounds healed fast. though begrimed
and besmeared with coal dust. For a
long time II has been thought that
breathing In coal dust caused lung
diseases in miners. Some experts find
fresh coal is as good as steriliEed,
aud say miners have lung trouble be-
cause they do not take the trouble to
put OF their damp and sweaty cloth
Ing before going from the mine to
their homes, thus taking cold In the
open air walk Experts say our min
ers ought to put on warm and dry
clothes at the mouth of the mine.
But II seems the miners have minds
OF their own, and although the coal
companies I'm some places fixed up
not and cold water baths and dress
ing-rooms at the mouth OF the mines
the men would not use them, but
went home to wash and dress, as
had been their custom for genera
lions.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-14
Republican Policies.

Vinita, Okla, Feb. IA, 1912
Editor Yinita Daily Chieftain: Par
don lie for butting in on your time
hut you have been devoting some srace
to religious matters and possibly you
might be willing to devote some Of
your space to a little political discus.
sion
yesterdays Kansas City Times had
IN article on the Lincoln Day banquet
held at st. Louis, and quoted from a
speech made by Roosevelts particular
friend and champion, Governor Had
ley of Missouri, in which he is quoted
as saying: 1T IS not only the right
but the duty of every republican and
particularly of every republican charg-
ed with the responsibility of leader
ship to suggest such policies and lead
ersAip as will in his opinion. insure
success in the approaching campalgn."
Those Of us who have watched and
studied the history of the republican
party since the early 70's know that
the above Guoted statement is typical
OF republican tactics in all campaigns,
and that they are prone to suggest,
promise, things in their prediction
speeches and platforms that they never
intend or expect to fulfill if they win
the election. The leaders see the dire
necessity of saying something to quiet
and soothe the dear people, and that
unless they do promise some relief
they are doomed to defeat at the polls
They have virtually admitted, in all
of their recent platforms, that the peo-
pie needed relief from the burdens
that have been piled on their backs py
laws enacted to benefit only the spe-
cial interests, and in order to tide over,
until after election, they promise every
thing in sight. They have promised re-
lief but they fail to keep their solemn
pledges. The special interests secure |
all they ask for and as Vanderbilt /
once said, "the people be damned"
P. T. Barnum said, the American
people like to be humbugged" and that
is what the republican party always
has done and which they always will
do SO long as the people will be so fool
ish as to believe their specious prom
ises made only for the purpose of be-
ing broken. Taft and Roosevelt are
no worse than their party. only in 50
far as they have been the leaders.
Their last pronunciamento, in the plat
form of 1908. to revise the tariff tax
is only a sample of republi-
IAN faithlessness. It has been ever
hus.
Conditions have been growing worse
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-14
Birds Home instinct.

Spectators at fire witnessed an
interesting, If tragic, example of the
actions OF a bird which was guided
only by the instinct that its home
was in danger The flames had be-
gun TO creep along the edge of the
tower and every shingle on the roof
was putting a little jet of fame.
when down wheeled pigeon which
hao been dislodged from the tower
and lit In the midst of the fire and
smoke. Picking its way along. utter
opivious to the flames that must
nave been singeing its feathers the
pigeon went straight for its nest. A
tongue OF flame leaped out and the
pigeon scared into the air Then as
II irresistibly drawn into It. the bird
dived into the furnace beneath and
disappeared from sight.-Pasadena
News.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-14

A curious and interesting people are
the Pribiloff islanders in Bering sea
When the United States government
took over the islands, along with
Alaska, the Russian colonists became
IN measure wards of the nation. but
they have remained true to the intlu-
ence to which they were first SUBJ
lected, and in some respects are to-
day more Russian than American at
heart All Of them are members of
the Russian church, and all of them
nave Russian names, selected for the
most part from among the nobility.
The United States government has in
this instance been faithful guardian
OF primitive people. The result is
that today they are the most highly
civilized, best clothed. best fed and
most healthy of all the natives of
Alaska.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-14
BUSINESS is THEIR LIFE
Thousands Of American Men Seem 10
Be Wholly unlnterested in
Their Wives.

There are thousands of American
men who are merely Indifferent 10
their women. They are proud of them.
but supremely uninterested, and ask of
their wives only to be let alone. Their
business is their life; 1t is their life
after they are married just as it was
before. They are playing tremen.
dous game, and in this country aaman
has got to win or go to the wall. It
makes no difference whether a man is
married or a bachelor; it is not the
women of the country who determine
II man must work at the great rate
OF speed at which they labor-it is the
pace Of the country itself which de-
mands 1t. Our men give generously
and indulgently to their women folks;
they like TO see that they have "ey-
erything in the world" as the saying
Is. 1t pleases their vanity to see their
houses well-appointed and their wom-
en- well dressed; they like the luxury
of II for themselves What is to be
expected of young girls whose fathers
have had no influence in their bring
ing-up, but have merely paid the bills
young girls, who have never been
taught the use of money nor any de-
tails of any business whatsoever. and
whose whole duty in life is to dress
with the extreme perfection of which
our women are past masters, and to
keep in good physical condition and /
talk amusingly? These are the prices
of success, success being measured in
this country, as elsewhere, in terms
Of marriage and Woman's
Home Companion.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-14
VI. DANIELS
Phone 50

now say there must be a new and a
square deal. The edict has gone forth
ana the republicans see the handwrit-
ing on the wall and say that such pol
lcles must be suggested as will insure
success IN the approaching campaign.
lhe people are now determined that
we snail once more go back to an era
OF democratic tariff for revenue only.
ana that the lowest taxes must be on
the necessaries of life and highest on
the luxuries, and that no more be
ieVied than is needed for the proper
ana economical administration of the
government. Democratic tariffs al
ways have been made in the interests
Oh the people. The people of this coun-
Try nave been more prosperous under
democratic laws than under protective
laws, and they now say they are
through with laws drawn solely in the
interest of the special classes.
The people, like the pups. now have
their eyes open, and will not be again
ouncoed by Tafts smiles and prom
ises, or by the bluff and big stick Of
Teddy the Terrible"
THEO. D. B. FREAR.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-14
Plea for the Sparrow.

Every little while some one starts
an agitation against the sparrows,
which are so plentiful in all our parks
in the north during the wintertime,
claiming that they drive other birds
from their nests and that they litter
up suburban piazzas. But the spar
rows, with the doves, bobollnks,
finches, quail and blackbirds, are
friends to the gardener at all seasons
and times, because they eat weeds
And the sparrows, because of their
pluckiness and numbers, lead all the
others as weed destroyers. In the
wintertime, sparrows exist almost en-
tirely on weed seeds, as the ground is
altogether too hard in the northern
iatitudes to permit them to secure
any OF the succulent worms with
which they regale themselves in sum-
mertime. That means less weeds
Suburban Life.