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The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1912-09-05
The Proof Of the PUDDING.

ago gentleman into our STORE and bought
bolt sheetng Nothing strange about that but when vas
up and the bill given him. he said: have saved morn
my fare on this one Then made other purchases
very frankly told US that prices below what he w.a
accustomed paying in his home town. in another state
ins not an isolated case but Of many who se mailing
cash With their orders and saving money or coming to tho
1own That 10 fast becoming famous for its large trade
We are not wholesalers to the trade are large BUYERS for
oasn ana OUT business supplying families log and lumber
camps, tnat ouy weeks Or months supply at time,
We are rapidly building up great mill order and shipping
business and the reason is simple.
oqy salabe goods in quantities. have of best loca
ons the south for business of this kind make shipments tho
We orders and make prices law they can be made
We started out with the idea that better $9Oo0OO0
worth Of business profit 10 yer cent than do at
10 per have learned that struck the key note and %
soon a. tho people learned what doing they gave their
business and in the years have been business We
have increased floor and volume business than 700
per cent. or 100 per cent per year.
Last weeks prices hold good except the following:
OATS bushe sacks, now. ......... $3.50
Bran, 100.lb. sacks, now ...... $50
Lard, per 1b....... ............ SO
Choice head nce new crop, per h.. 612o
We sell everything your money back not satisfied" so YOU
take no risk in sending us your orders.
Let have your ORDERS write for prices On your wants
NEUhAUSER BROTHERS, S|jdo||, La.
The Big Square Deaf Cash Store
Shippers Of Everything for the Home and Farm.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1912-09-05
Rio Notes.

School opened here Monday
with quite a large attendance
with Mr.. N. O. White principle,
and Misses Inez Pounds and
Rosa Richardson assistants.
Mrs. Leon Pounds has return.
led, again from New Orleans where
she has been under treatment
from the Doctor.
| Mr.. and Mrs. j. !. Waller left
Saturday in their touring car for
points in Georgia and South Car.
olina. Before returning they
visit Atlanta, Macon, Montgom-
cry, Sparta, Ashvi|le and Culver.
ton. Mr.. Walters parents re.
side at the latter place.
Miss 1nez Pounds has been
confined to her bed with fever
since Monday.
Little Miss Meta Pierce, who
has been spending q week with
her aunt in Columbia, returned
TO enter school.
Steve Stafford of IONA was in |
Rio Tuesday.
], 9. Bryant has the position
Is clerk in A. Jenkins Store
which was just given up by r. B.
Williams.
Edith and Ernestine Wood re.
turned home after q three weeks
Ii1it 70 relatives here.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1912-09-05
Announcements.

The Era. Leader is authorized to
make the following announcements OF
candidates, subject to the action Of
the voters in the coming Democratic
Primaries:
For Congressman, 9Th Congressional
District
Louis L. Morgan
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1912-09-05
Three Jailed for Assassina-
ton of DR.. Milton Smith.

Inree JalloQ Tor ASsaS6ln2'
ton of DR.. Milton Smith.
After being awakened from
their HON es early Tuesday morn
ing, arrested, hurried to New
Orleans and successfully landed
in the Parish Prison, Bennit
Holmes, of Brockdale. and Clancy
Holmes and son, Of Warnertor
emphatically denied the charge
of murder that was registered
against them following the re-
cent assassination of DR.. Milton
Smith, prominent Washington
parish physician, and son of
Police JUROR Smith, of this par
ish, last July. The men were
brought to New Orleans Tor safe.
keeping, mob violence being fear
ed in Franklinton, the parish
seat.
Hired assassins" is the tag
with which they were branded
by sheriff Tom Simmons, OF
Washington parish, but who did
the hiring has not been disclosed
by the sheriff That others were
implicated in the plot and are
under surveillance of the sheriff
was his statement, following the
sending of the Holmes men to
New Orleans.
The Sheriff sta ted that trouble
was more feared from the friends
Of the Holmes than from any at
tempt on the part of the Smith
family to lynch the prisoners.
Feeling in the towns, and espec-
tally in part of the parish where
the Holmes lived and were rear
I'd, ran high, and open threats
we're freely made.
It was openly talked about at.
lacking the Jail and releasing the
prisoners by the friends Of the
prisoners, but these plans were
frustrated by the removal of the
prisoners. Both Bonnie and
Clancy Holmes are married men
md have families. Bonnie stat
d that he has q wife and two
'abies at home, while Clancy has
wife and five children, the ED
st being Bossy, his son. II years
t age. who together with his |
was brought to New Or
cans. His other children are
iris. Bonnie is 24,while Clancy
, 80.
According to the information
arnished by detectives who
ave been at work on the matter
IF some time. Bonnie and Clancy
!olmes, together with Clancy's
IN md some other parties whom
le sheriff refused to divulge,
ere ,hired by enemies Of DR..
NTH to murder him, and they
,ught q time when he would be
'und alone, with as little chance
capture Of the suspect as pos
bic.
Emphatic denials Of the charg-|
were made by the two broth.
8 yesterday.
II run q little blacksmith shop !
Warnerton" stated Clancy ;
and was busy in there
the time they say that DR..
NTH was killed. Yes. my lit
. boy was with me working q
'ut the shop. 1t was near a.
'und dinner time when they .
y he was killed. and l was
city busy in the shop. \
Bonnie Holmes stated that he
d not even know the physi- /,
IN, although he had seen him
veral times. He said that ct
Q time Of the shooting he was :
in his field, and did not
ar Of it until the next day. He
id that he had never had &C.
sion to call in the physician
r professional purposes. and
d no dealings with him what. =
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Saved From the POisOner

The man was dying from poison whcG had, apparently been administered through the medium of a powl of broth which stood upon the table.
 Zanoni recognized the symptoms, rushed to his own room and, returning with an antidote, soon had the man out Of 6anger
 he man told him that he lived there alone with an adopted son; that the son had prepared for him the broth and must have designed his death.
 This adopted son was an artist and specimens of his work lay about the room. They exhibited no little genius, but all the subjects were of horrible na- lures, dealing mostly with human suffer- ing, in which it seemed as if the artist revelled in imagination.
 When Zanom was still with the old man the youth was heard returning. Zanoni hid himself behind the bed cur tains and the old man lay motionless upon the couch.
 The i'll featured youth entered and, hearing no nose and apparently thinking tne old man was dead, began to rifle d writing desk of the roleaus of gold which it contained. The old man sprang from the bed.
 What then, the poison did not work. cried the youth, and would have strangled his benetactor but that Zanoni interfered. At the interruption the young man fled, taking with him his plunder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
In His Own Net

Finding that Viola was in the city, Nicot determined to at least possess her.
 He awakened the jealousy of Fillide and thus secured papers belonging to Glyndon, which enabled him to de- nounce him to the government of Robe spierre-and Announcement was equiva- lent to death.
 This man would guard Viola, would be?" thought Nicot!; the guillotine has him."
 Nicot had told Fillide that Glyndon was about to fly with Viola and the jealous mountain girl denounced Viola. But scarcely had Viola been arrested than Nicot himself was thrown into prison, spies having found among his papers a drawing of Robespierre on the guillotine.
 Meantime Zanoni had arrived in Paris in search of his wife and child. He found that she was in prison, con demned to die on the 10th Thermidor.
 He at once set about bringing to a head the counter revolution which was gathering against Robespierre. All was arranged that not his intended victims, but the tyrant himself should mount the guillotine on the 10th.
 Then;( with dismay Zanoni learned that the tyrant had set the execution or the 80 victims, among whom was Viola, one day ahead. There was but one way-he must give his own life for Viola's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

In the society of Naples he met Glyn- worthy of Viola, yet he felt that he was worthy of Viola, yet he fert that he was a more fitting consort for her than the man himself.
 He had long talk with the English man and urged him to seek Viola in marriage, picturing to him the delights of commonplace home in England. And he warned him that he had a rival.
 "Ah, the prince di --,' answered Glyndon.
 Not the Prince. but myself, replied Zanoni, to Glyndon's astonishment.
 And, in fact, 1t was largely to save Viola from herself, and himself from Viola, that Zanoni desired so much to bring about the marriage of the singer with the young English artist.
 When he urged upon Viola the pro- priety of her marrying Glyndon the girl answered in such reproachful manner that 1t went to his heart.
 And you urge this?' she said. Then you do not love me-
 "Vioa." he cried. tempt me not to thine own danger"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Answered by a Child

"Viola," said Zanoni, in a low voice. "he whom thou hast deserted is here to preserve the mother to the child"
 At first she had not recognized him in the dim light, but at the sound of his voice. she sprang forward with a cry, perhaps never before heard in that gloomy vault-a cry of delight and rap- ture-and fell at his feet.
 When she had somewhat calmed her. self Viola attempted to explain her flight from Venice, but Zanoni said:
 Hush, I know all the thoughts that thy confused and struggling senses can scarcely analyze themselves. And see how, with look, thy child answers them''
 And in truth the face of the strange infant seemed radiant with its silent and unfathomable joy It seemed as if it recognized the father; it chung, it forced itself to his breast, and there nestling, turned it's bright clear eyes upon Viola and smiled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Oyerpowered by Odds


 What, do you not care for me?' re- piled the girl; you have read my heart; thou knowest that thou hast become the lord of my destiny. But to cast my self on one who loves me not, Zanoni, would rather die"
 Come, Viola, he replied, 'believe at least, in my friendship, my honor my protection
 And not thy love-" said the Italian. turning on him her reproachful eyes.
 Their eyes met, and he could not with stand the charm of her gaze. He felt her heart throbbing against his own; her breath came warm upon his cheek.
 He trembled, he the lofty, mysterious Zanoni, who seemed to stand aloof from his race!
 Viola" he whispered, 'I love you
 And then, with start of recollection, he cried out; 70, but I can no longer command" There was a noise outside; the bandits of the prince broke in. over powered by odds, Zanoni was hurled senseless to the floor. When he came to himself the house was deserted and Viola was gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
After the Triumph :,

Zanoni was tall, dark, with beautiful face and head. His eyes were most re- markable they seemed to look quite into ones soul with a commanding glance
 His voice was musical, but in voice and feature there lurked something not only melacholy. but a triie weird, some thing which seemed to set him apart from other men.
 But he was a cultivated gentleman; his banker vouched for him, and society welcomed him. Even those who repeated the wild stories concerning him affected to deride them.
 Viola lived with her father and mother In an old house near the sea, and the day after her great triumph at the San Carlo, as she sat coming her prom t book in the shaded doorway of the house she looked up to see zanoni standing before her.
 Are you happy, my ohild,' he asked. tat the career that lies before you? From I6 to 30 the music in the breath of ap clause is sweeter than all the music your voice can utter."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
A CL A s SIC
 IN A P A G E


Bulwer liked to play with mysticism The occult fascinated him, and that he had half-belief in it his writings would seem to prove beyond doubt. Had he been born a "hedger and ditcher' in- stead of heir to Knebworth Castle and an earldom. he would have been mighty chary of traversing lonely moors at night and have conned his dream book assdiously.
 But Bulwer was not of the fibre of which the real mystic is made; no stern old Cotton Mather to write of witches and burn 'em, too He liked his dinner too well to fast with tine Roserucians, though he considered them most delight full people to talk about.
 With all his industry all his schol- arship and all his undoubted literary power. the padded men win" wore the stays was enamored of platitudinous superficialty, and only now and then, in an unguarded moment, achieved some thing approaching profoundly of thought
 "Zanoni" would have be;n a better story if the author had given us more of the French Revolution and less of mys- ticism. Yet 'Zanoni' is one of Bulwer's best known works; was popular when il came out and is popular now.
 For there are others beside Bul yer who care not so much to lift the veil of Isis as to admire the graceful folds of the drapery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
The Idol of Naples

' VIOLA PISANI was the idol of mu- N sica Naples, the prima donna of
 the great San Carlo theatre Her father had been musician there one of the orchestra, a half-mad genius in whose opera of the Siren Viola Viola had made her debut and achieved her first great success.
 On the memorable night of her first appearance there had been an instant when the fate of the opera and of Viola hung in the balance. Either overwhelm- ing defeat or glorious victory, there could be no middle ground for new singer and a strange, wild opera, which stirred such new chords in mems souls that they knew not whether to applaud or execrate.
 At the critical instant, when the house wavered in a deep silence, young man arose in one of the boxes and his voice gave the signal of applause.
 An electric current seemed to run through the audience; a storm Of ap- plause followed. and the opera and the singer went driving on that rush of sound to success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Powers of the Cahala

This cult, of which that of the Rosi- crucians of later days was but feeble imitation, had died out in the course of the centuries because of the fact that neophytes were seldom found who could endure the trials and terrors of the no- vitiate.
 Death or madness claimed those who tried to pass the bounds and now the adopts sought no followers. Only they were forced by their oaths to take as pupils any descendant of one who had, at any time, passed to certain degree in their mystic cult.
 They had strange powers, these mem- bers of the cabala. and yet they de- clared that knowledge alone gave them such powers and such mastery over na- ture.
 They, by reason of their perfect knowl- edge, had penetrated into the secret ar- cana of nature and, therefore, know how to work through her and in her and control her to their ends.
 They could keep the body in eternal youth, not by necromancy. but by a knowledge of the elements of life and of decay, knowing how to foster the one and destroy the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Making a Bargain

My orders are positive said Du- mas, as firmly as he could. though he only too well knew that the storm was liable to break at any minute and sweep him to destruction.
 Your orders" continued Zanoni, "are positively only as to the number of vic- tims: I offer you substitute for this one and require only that she be re- prieved for one day.
 T offer you in exchange the head of one who knows all of that very con spiracy against Robespierre and your self of which you are now in terror, and of the details of which you are ig- norant. I offer myself as the proxy
 Dumas grew pale, but recovering him- self, began at once to bargain with Za- noni.
 And so it was arranged Zanoni was to tell on the morrow when he should be tried all he knew of the conspiracy against Robespierre and acknowledge his complicity in it. He was to suffer death.
 But Viola was to be reprieved for one day. Bearing the reprieve. he was taken under guard to the prison to give him. self up to his murderers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Defiance to the Prince

When Viola found herself in the palace of the Prince di - she did not lose her courage. and when that nobleman came to the magnificent apartment which he had prepared for her reception, she said:
 Prince I am in your power. Life and death are fin my own hands. I will not defy, but I do not fear thee. l iceland in some feelings there is all the strength and all the divinity of knowledge-I feel that 1 am safe even here But you, Prince di -, have brought danger to your home and hearth"
 The prince was startled by an earnest ness and boldness for which he was not prepared.
 But he was not man to be easily in- timidated or deterred from any purpose he had formed, and was about to reply with warmth when a servant knocked at the door and said that a stranger was be- low who insisted upon seeing his excel lency at once--that the prince's life was in imminent danger, the source of which he would relate to the prime alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

Not long after the birth of Zanoni s child he and Viola went to live in Venice. Glyndon heard of their being there.
 All his old affection for Viola re- turned. He felt it horrible that she should be linked with member of the cabala. He had seen enough during his stay with Mejnour in the castle to be convinced that occult powers possessed by adopts were no dream.
 He went to Venice while Zanoni was absent and revealed to Viola what he knew of Mejnour's and her husbands s dark and forbidden powers and practice --he convinced her that Zanoni was a necromancer and that her own soul and that of her infant were in danger.
 Alarmed for the child, Viola fled from Paris and set about supporting herself and her infant by humble work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Beyond Human Knowledge

Was Zanoni 1000 years old, as some peo- pie vaguely whispered, and still, ap- parently, in the flush of early manhood?
 Some of the letters which he now wrote to Mejnour would seem to indi- cate that in former ages they had walked together in the groves of Academe and sat on the marble benches of the Greek theatres of Aeschylus.
 Whatever he was, however much he had passed the bounds of ordinary human knowledge. self deceived mystic. victim of neurasthenia or transcendental brother of the cabala, he believed with all his heart that precept of his cult which pronounced q ban upon all human love as something to be -indulged in only at the eternal sacrifice of all the endowments conferred upon him by his initiation.
 And how could the life of a woman subject to growing age and death. the life of an ordinary mortal. be happy linked with the life of one like himself, who had passed behind the veil of mys- tery? How could their lives ever blend in one?
 Therefore did he strive against that influence which he felt drawing him to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
The Doomed Hear Their Fate

Viola was gathered with others be- fore the grating where, each night, one of the coarse jailers came to read over to the prisoners the list of those who were to be haled before the tribunal the next day--and such a summons meant summons to the gullotine; there were no acquittals. In her arms she held her child.
 The name of the doomed rang out through the great stone corridor; her name was among them. By her side stood an aged priest, also chosen for the guillotine.
 Why have they brought you here, my child?" he asked.
 Alas. father, I could not guess. Ana my child, father, must die, too7'
 Alas, young mother, they will suner your child to live; they will deny 1t the mercy of death."
 But now another name was uttered and man who had just rushed rudeIy past her shrieked out a howl of despair and rage.
 Viola turned: their eyes met; through the distance of time she recognized that hideous aspect. Nicot's face settled back into a develish sheer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Their Last Hours Together

Long they talked there that night, but in all he said Zanoni gave no inti- nation that he had purchased the re- prieve of his wife by his own immola- tion. She. poor woman, imagined that the morrow would see them both at liberty.
 "Viola," said Zanoni at last "dost thou remember that once, when seated in a cave on the moonlit beach of our Grecian Island, thou didst ask me for this amulet?"
 He pointed to an antique amulet which he wore on a chain around his neck.
 And I told you that would give it to you on that day when the laws of our being should become the same? To- morrow it shall be thine."
 "Ah, that dear tomorrowi" replied Viola and pointed to the first faint gray of morning which crept into the darksome place
 Then gently laying down her child for 1t slept now-she threw herself upon his breast and fell into slumber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Destined to Meet Again

The old man confessed to Aanoni that he was rich-the gold the young man had taken was but a small part of his for tune-but that for the sake of his adopt ed son he had made himself a miser
 The next morning Zanoni visited the miser and, at his request, sent for rela- tive, Rene Dumas, with whom the old man said he would. hereafter. make his home and who should be his heir.
 Dumas was extremely grateful to Zanoni for what he had done and said that if, at any time thereafter. he could be of service to him, even his life was at his disposal.
 It was but an incident in the life or Zanoni, but two of those who appeared in it, Dumas and the hideous youth. Jean Nicot, were afterward to play vital parts in the last act Of the drama of his earthly existence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
The Chalk Mark Erased

At last, gentle Neopolitan, the guiIIo- tine will unite us. O, we shall sleep well our wedding nighti" and with a laugh he strode through the crowd and vanished in his cell.
 Viola was placed in a gloomy cell to await the morrow. and at once sank to her knees in prayer.
 As she kneels there the great doors clang again into the dismal prison. By means of rich diamond which he wears upon his finger the newcomer bribes the joiler to take him to the cell of Viola
 And there Zanoni finds his wife kneel- ing in prayer above his sleeping child.
 The jailer with his hand rubs out the chalk mark upon the doorpost of the cell-the chalk mark which signified that the occupant of the miserable apartment was to be tried the next day and putting the reprieve in his pocket departed to report to the keeper of the prison.