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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1914-09-19
The Constitutional Amend
mentS in Brief.
Houma Times.


are being published in every pa
rish throughout the state, make
rather dry reading and therefore,
for the benefit of those voters who
have not the time 40 vol % those
who do not care to take the trou-
bic, We publish below q brief out
line of what the amendments pro-
vide:
No. l. Provides that foreign
banking corporations doing money
lending business sxcluisvsly in the
state of Louisiana, shall pay . H.
csnss tax of $3.50 to the state aud
an equal sum to the city or parish
where domioiIsd, and an addition
al two and a half per cent of gross
interest ssrnings to the state and
municipality. The object of the
amendment is stated to DO to pre-.
vail upon foreign banks to again
establish branch banks in the state
for the loaniug of money q. q
cheaper rate of interest.
No. 2. 10 provide for tho Ok.
smption from taxation of oil mo.
usy in hand or on deposit, aud
loans by homestead associations to
their members secured by stock
In such associations.
No. 3. Providing for the levy
Of . three mills school tax in the
several parishes Of the state for
the support and maintenance of
the public school, sxempting the
city of Now Orleans aud such ci.
ties a. now conduct, under lsgis.
lativs authority, public schools
open to the youth of tho parish.
No. 4. Proposing to increase
the salary of the governor of the
state of Louisiana from $1,000 to
81, 500.
No. 5. Exempting from taxa.
ton for ton years corporations con.
structing and operating combined
systems of irrigation. navigation
and hydroelectrio power, Same to
DO completed within five years
from January l, 1915, and to cost
not less than $1,000 600.
No. 6. Giving women tue right
to serve upon educational and
charitable boards in the state OF
Louisiana.
No. Z. Providing for On addi-
tionaI Judge for the thirteenth ju.
dicial district.
No s. Giving police juries tho
right to abolish drainage districts
on authority of majority in num-
Der of voters and amounts of pro.
psrty assessments.
No. 9. Regulating the collec-
ton aud distribution Of funds for
Confederate Veterans pensions,
and providing that widows of Con-
fsderats Veterans, who were mar.
ried prior to 1890, shall have tho
right to participate in the benefit to
of the funds.
No. 10. Authorizing the en-
ploymsnt Of assistants to the Va.
rious district attorneys of tho
state, fixing a salary $500 . year
payable by the state and suoh ad- ,
ditioal sum as the Legislature may
tix, payable by the parishes com.
posing tho judicial district. II
No. IL. Amending tho article
Of the constitution fixing tho sum {
Of the total tax at not more {
than six mile, BY providing for /,
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1914-09-19

For the benefit of tho public,
tho followidg statement, showing
tho revenues and expenditures Of
the concert given on August Both,
for tho benefit of the poor and the
Convent of Mercy, is made public:
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
RAILROAD NOTES.

Nearly one.half Of SPANS railroads
enter Madrid
Par value in 1913 Of capitalization
Of railroads in the United States was
sl9.796125,7l2.
The railroads Of the country are
considering a cooperative plan to
bring Belgian refugees to this country
TO take up farm lands.
Railroads OF the United States and
Canada are dissatisfied with the pres.
ent running Of dining cars with no
uniform guarantee and meal price.
A complaint that the Chicago &
Alton Railroad is charging a lower
rate on wheat shipments from Mis-
souri, points to Chicago than to st.
Louis, has been lodged with the In.
terstate Commerce Commission.
Wireless telegraphy works better
on the Pacific than the Atlantic, and
experts are trying to find an adequate
explanation OF the fact.
The coal required for one journey
between New York and Liverpool by
a modern liner would I'LL twenty-five
trains, each made up Of thirty ten.ton
cars.
The Illinois Public Utilities Com
mission has suspended proposed in
crease in rates on milk by the rail
roads throughout the State. The
lines entering Chicago proposed to
advance the rates on milk per cent
Increases averaging cents a gallon
have been put in effect in Wisconsin
and Iowa.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Ignorance is the stepmother Of
argument
Six feet OF bathtub makes most Of
US equal.
Fear OF being reformed keeps many
a man in the bachelor class.
Look for happiness; trouble will
come without being looked for.
Having a lot OF friends is usually
more pleasant than profitable.
A clear conscience is more to be
desired than a pull with the police.
An alarm clock always acts up
when a man doesn't want 10 be both
cred.
A man isn't necessarily worthless
because his wife is worth more than
he is.
To convince yourself that you are
just little better than your neighbor
that is easy.
1t is all right to dream Of the great
things you are going 10 do, but don't
forget to wake up in time 10 begin
work.
There is something wrong about
that old maxim about ignorance be
ing bliss. Otherwise more people
would be happy.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
COMMERCIAL CLUB
WEEKLY MEETING
Suggestion Of Judge Maloney for
Citizens Road Committee Accept
ed and First Steps Taken.

The directors OF the Commercial
Club met in regular weekly meeting
today at 10 a. m. with President VIII
kerson in the chair.
The following directors answered
10 roll call: A. W. Wilkerson. John
A Moore. J. NJ. Caldwell, Judge Ma.
loney, NJ. +. Wallace, ]. L. Edge. John
VI. Lawrence. r. S. Webb, J. S. Doane,
A. NJ. Waldrop. W. II. Cole, Tyler
Haswell, J. w. Doremus.
The following visitors we're pres.
ent: ]. W. Bats and George W.
Higgs.
]. W. Bats presented a lengthy petit.
ton addressed 10 the commissioners
court, asking for an election for road
bonds not TO exceed 100000 After
a thorough discussion OF the matter.
]. L. Edge offered the following mo.
ton. which was adopted by an unani.
nous vote:
Moved and seconded that the peti.
ton presented by J. w. Bats be ac.
cepted and the president OF the Bryan
Commercial Club, together with the
president OF the Brazos County Crop
Diversifcation and Marketing Asso
citation appoint one member from
each voting precinct, together with
three from the citizenship OF Bryan
TO act as an advisory committee and
meet with the commissioners court
In special session Friday. November
p. at 10 a. m. al the court house In
Brazos County, 10 make all arrange.
ments for bond issue election to
build permanent roads in Brazos
County. said election 10 be called as
soon as possible. This committee to
further act In conjunction with the
commissioners in the location OF
roads to be improved, kind OF con.
stfuction and expenditure OF all
moneys.
A vote OF thanks was rendered Mr..
Bats for his activity in circulating
the petition.
The secretary was instructed TO get
in touch with President !. NJ. Cook Of
the Brazos County Crop Diversified
ton and Marketing Association. and
TO invite him 10 hold a conference
with President Wilkerson OF the Com
mercial Club. az which time the ad
visory committeeman from each yot
ing precinct will be named.
on motion. the club adjourned. &c
meet again at the call of the presi
dent H. L. MCKNIGHT. Secretary.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
GREAT PRECAUTIONS
At LITTLE ROCK
City Patrol and Fire Department
Guarding City From Threatened
confaeration.

Little Rock. Ark. Nov. "a citi-
zens' patrol covered the residence
sections here today and the regular
fire department was doubled in the
city. guarding against a threatened
confiagration from fores, fires now
within four miles OF town and sweep
ing dense black masses OF smoke over
the city The State stone crushing
plant was burned with a loss OF $780,
600. Many other losses are reported
throughout the State. The fire Gov
ers portions of Southeast Oklahoma
and Northwest Louisiana. Hundreds
Of bales OF cotton are being dragged
indoors here.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

Don't talk war; talk business"
Don't spend the afternoon telling
the GEL nan general staff how TO get
TO Calais. Don't I'll the morning ad.
vising Lord Kitchener.
DO the bigger duty that lies 10 hand.
Sell goods Make trade. Make the
United States sound and strong for
the job before her.
Don't talk war; talk business"
We are overplaying the war. Big
and bad as 1t has been to date bigger
and worse as 1t may look in the fu.
ture. We cannot make II better by
thinking OF nothing else. Bank clear.
ings are of p per cent-off this big
jump from October OF a year ago
when they were far below normal
Things are not as bad as that. It's
time TO get our grip on the affairs OF
peace.
We have met the first shock Of the
big surprise. We have passed through
It and found ourselves alive. Let's
act like live men.
Let's get our pride 10 work Let's
sing into action that native enterprise
we used to boast so greatly. Let's 20
ahead-war or no war.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

The great battles OF Europe need
no press agents. They're making
themselves heard all over the world
every morning and every evening.
The newspapers will keep folks in.
formed about them, as they must be
informed.
And war is a bad side line for any
travelling man to carry.
II throws a veil right over his sam.
pie table. II keeps his goods from
being seen, because II blinds the
minds eye OF his customers.
Don't talk war; talk business"
This is not only a salesman's job;
it's the customers job, too. No man
can buy goods intelligently while he's
trying TO figure out what Turkeys go
ing TO or how far the Zeppelins can
sail.
He's doing himself an injustice. He
is hurting his own interests. Cool,
calm talk OF how he can beat wars
attack on his business or how he may
meet the new condition Of things is
one thing. Empty war talk is an.
other That's the kind OF talk that's
throwing monkey wrenches into the
machinery OF everyday trade.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

The esteemed Bryan Eagle will
presently find that the American cot.
ton exchanges to all intents and pur.
poses have been closed. - Waco
Times Herald.
All in the world The Eagle wants
is for the farmer TO get the highest
price possible for his cotton. II he
can get II with the exchanges let us
have the exchanges. II he can get It
without the exchanges, then give us
a Sam Houston battlefeld-an open
field and no chaparral IN the way.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
RELIEF SHIP AT ROTTERDAM.
Rockefeller Fund Ship Carries Fooo
10 Beleans.
iRx Assnciated Press.O

London. Nov. 24.-The Rockefeller
foundation food ship Massapequa,
which left New York November 8
with provisions for the starving Bel
gians, arrived at Rotterdam late yes
terday.
A report on the activities of the
American relief commission to date
shows that It delivered in Rotterdam
during the first four weeks of its ex.
istence 2S,200 tons of foodstuffs.
Ships now loading or under charter
with cargoes awaiting them will pro-
vide a further $4,000 tons and from
various quarters of the world 10000
tons additional have been assured.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
DON'T TALK WAR; TALK
BUSINESS"

Here is a message that Chicago
business men are giving to their sales.
men: Don't talk war; talk bust
ness"
It's a cry that has come up out Of
the ground.
Il is no made-to-order tag" 10 sell
goods. II is a hard-sense expression
of a conviction. The small" business
man began to use it before it reached
his bigger brother.
We are talking too much war We
have other important things 10 do
We have 10 make good the ravages
Of war We have TO start our goods
going through the channels Of trade
for our own protection.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

All signs fail in dry weather and
il looks the same way with all rene.
dial measures in times of distress.
The reserve banks are open and their
vaults are bursting with money, but
point us to the place where sign
has been hung out that the little Eel.
low can borrow a dollar There is
lots of money, but "a great gulf
separates it from the people.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

Who is going to speculate in cotton
with a tax OF ten dollars bale hang.
ing over his head And who but the
Spectator offers competition to the
spinner Waco Times.Herald.
Are there not spectators in cotton
on the bear side as we'll as on the
bull side? And the bears and the
spinners combining against the bulls
being two TO one, is not might on
their side?
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

The Palestine Herald notes that
Governor.elect Ferguson did not come
10 Palestine for any OF his official
family. East Texas seems TO have
adopted diversihcation and quit the
"all.politician" plan. Formerly no
man knew beans about politics unless
he came from East Texas.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
SAVED GIRLS LIFE 20 YEARS
AGO, RECEIVED $4,000 NOW
Mountville Comm Man Received
Recognition for Act Of Bravery.
tBy Associated Prsss.l

lbN ASFoNldhtu AAtsssl
Mountville, Conn, Nov. PA be-
quest of $4,000 is the reward which
has been given Henry A. Bolles of
this place, it was learned yesterday,
for saving a little girl from drowning
in the Thames river twenty-eight
years ago.
The girl daughter of a Mr.. Trum.
bull of New York City, fell overheard
from her fathers yacht. Mr.. Bolles,
who was a boatman at that time, said
he remembered the father asking him
his name, but he heard nothing more
from him.
Mr.. Trumbull died recently and Mr..
Bolles has just been notified of the
beQuest by the executors of the Trum-
bull estate.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

The hundreds and hundreds OF
turkeys brought to Bryan Monday did
not have TO be stored in any ware
house. The owners we're paid the
cold cash of the realm for them right
now. No insurance. no sampling and
weighing. no storage charges: it was
cash right now. Our farmers could
have not only a turkey day, but a
chicken day. an egg day, a hog day,
and various other marketing days n
they would only ease up on cotton
and get together in raising other
things.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

The Gainesville Register says tina;
on Thanksgiving We will all take a
much needed rest from the fatigue
caused by the low price of cotton.
We would like to inquire if cotton is
to 20 up on that day? An advance in
price and a big advance is all that
can cure that tired feeling produced
by six-cent cotton.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
WILSON TURNS DOWN
LABOR SUGGESTION
(By Associated PressD

Washington, Nov. "a. - President
Wilson announced that he will not
adopt the suggestion of the American
Federation Of Labor that he appoint
Federal receiver for the Colorado
mines.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

Our army is out of Mexico; now
let the greasers fight II out. The peo-
pie have lost all sympathy with that
mess down there and its fate is Of
no concern whatever.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

This should be ripsnor,ing
Thanksgiving for the wheat growers
of Kansas and the boarding house
keepers of Austin. Both got theirs.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24
Announcement.

have entered the contest for The
Eagles Panama-Pacific trip. Your
votes will be appreciated
MISS ADELAIDE PLAGENS.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

Don't talk war; talk business
The first thing you know business
will begin to talk back.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-24

Don't talk war; talk business"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-05
Main WITNESSES
HAVE Been HEARD
DEFENSE BEGINS INTRODUCTION
OF CHARACTER TESTIMONY
IN THE LEE CASE.

Hearing of the case Of ]. ]. Lee,
iather and next friend of Nancy Lee,
vs.. Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Com
pany, taken up in Circuit Court We'd
nesday morning, has progressed to
the point where the defense has begun
the introduction of it's large number
of character witnesses.
The testimony OF agent A. C. Tress,
Will Riggs and Bud Thompson was
substantially the same as that given
by them at the former trial, last No
vember.
Bud Thompson, a brother-in-law of
Agent Tress, was on the stand for
some time and was subjected to very
rigid cross-examination after he had
testified as he did the former trial,
that he was in the office at the time
Miss Lee was there and that he saw
her pass into the ware-room where
Tress was engaged in rolling out the
freight she had come to claim and
that none of the things charge against
Tress happened at that time.
In the testimony given by Nancy
Lee, there was but slight variation
from her former evidence when she
stated that having been invited into
the ware-room by Agent Tress, osten
sibly to examine the condition of q
barrel of crockery in the shipment
she came to claim, that he put his
arms around her and kissed her ant
afterward attempted to close the large
door to the ware-room then standing
open, but was prevented from doing
so by her protest.
Miss Belle Harrell corroborateC
Nancy Lee in several statements ant
the two were agreed that when they
drove away from the station, Miss LIE,
related to her the experience she hat
with Tress while in the ware-room
! This was a contradiction of their tes
timony on this point at the formeI
trial.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-05
MORE ROADS FOR
BEATS | and 3
COMMISSION GIVEN AU-
THoRITY TO CONTRACT FOR
ADDITIONAL MILES.

At the current session or the Board
of Supervisors, authority has been
given for the letting by the County
Highway Commission, the first Mon
day in March, of contract for the
building of nine additional miles Of
public roads in beats one and three.
An order was passed directing the
advertisement for a steel bridge over
Chaney's creek near Brooklyn. the
contract to be let at the March meet
ing.
A contract for the building of a
wooden bridge over Mixon's creek
was let to C. o. Eure for 1898; the
bridge to be completed within 80 days
from date Of contract.
w. A. Conn and John l.. Davis were
appointed and commissioned to lay
out a road from Hardy street to Ar
mold, as petitioned for by G. o. Eurs
and others.
The pauper allowances for the
month aggregated s1S3 divided as fol
lows: 4 at SO, 2 at 81, at IS, II a
IS, $40 at Sc, 2 at $40. The King
Daughters were allowed the usual So
for the month.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-05
May Haue to Recognize
Reuolut1onlsts in Peru

here had no news at all from the cap
ital
That some embarrassment may be
expected in adjusting the pronounced
views of the administration regarding
revolution-made governments to the
present state of affairs in Peru was
admitted in some quarters. 1t was
pointed out, however, that, owing to
the peculiar conditions under which
President Billinghurst came into office
a year ago, with a cloud on his own
title, it may aot be necessary to raise
the question as to the status OF his
successor.
Some officials believe ex-Presloeh'
Leguia, who was forced to fee from
Peru by Billinghurst some time ago;
was behind the uprising. Leguia was
in Washington a few weeks ago, but
at last reports had gone to London
to get financial backing fo" an at
tempt to overturn the Billingh ret
government.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-05
ASKED To BE Reimbursed
FOR MONEY SPENT IN 1912
|, Huff, Principal of George coun-
ty Agricultural High School, Says
Author of Bill Demanded About
$1,000 When Movement was Revived.
Special to The Netps.

Jackson, Miss, Feb. 5.-Charges Of
a sensational character, rejecting on
State Senator A. w. Bond, author of
the bill, were made at a meeting Of
the house committee on Local and
Private Legislation Wednesday after
noon, during a hearing on the meas
ure, seeking to create new county
of Stone, from portions of George and
Harrison counties.
A large delegation of George and
Harrison county citizens appeared be-
fore the committee to oppose the bill.
Among the speakers was Prof. Huff,
principal of the George County Agri-
cultural High School, who declared
that when this new county movement
was revived several months ago, Sen
ator Bond at first refused to have
anything to do with unless advocates
of the new county would reimburse
him in the sum of about $1,100, being
money he spent in the new county
fight two years ago.
Prof. Huff would not say that the
demand of Senator Bond had been ac-
ceded to, but left the committee to
reach it's own conclusions on that
point, since he is again championing
the measure.
Senator Bond did not appear at the
state house until nearly the noon
hour. When told of the charge made
against him before the committee he
branded it as "a damnable lie,' and
denounced Prof. Huff and other men,
bers of the delegation that appeared
before the committee yesterday in un-
measured terms.
The house passed the bill prohibit
ing employment of female labor in
stores or factories more than eight
hours per day, effective after October
first.
In the senate the Russell full crew
BILL applicable to branch railway
lines, a very modified form of the
measure demanded by railway train
men, was passed.
The house this morning passed the
Crenshaw bill, simplifying the system
creating drainage districts, and the
Bennefield good roads bill. Quite a
number of measures of lesser impor
tance went through without debate.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-05
FIND NATURAL GAS;
SEMINARY AROUSED.

Seminary, Miss, Feb. 5.-Quantities
of natural gas were discovered in and
about this place Wednesday. Oil ex-
perts who visited the scene pronounce
it a first class article. A demonstra-
tion was had last night in the presence
of a large crowd. Openings in the
earth were made on the premises OF
Rev. G. R. Ellis, and the escaping gas
was set on fire. A company will set
to work Immediately to sink a we'll for
larger quantities of gas. Another
demonstration will be made today.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-05

Washington, Feb. 5.-The spectacu-
lar and successful revolution in Feru
finds the United States navy without
a single ship south of the equator.
The work of the revolutionists was so
omplete, however, that there is be-
J., eyed to be no need of haste in dis
patching a vessel to the scene.
Later it may become necessary for
the United States to have at hand
means of supporting any repres 'nta-
tions that the State Department may
decide to make regarding the new
government to rise on the ruins of
the Billinghurst administration. So
far, though, officials here have not
been able to frame any policy. News
came to the department late Wednes.
day from the American legation in
Lima of the arrest of President Bill
Iinghurst. but the brief dispatch did
not indicate the plans of the revolu
t,zsists, and the Peruvian legation
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-05
owen BILL Will
PROVE HARMFUL
PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK STOCK
EXCHANGE SEES NO GOOD IN
PROPOSED LAW.
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, Feb. 5.-W. c. Van
Antwerp, governor of the New York
Stock Exchange, told the Senate
Banking committee that the Owen
bill to regulate exchanges would do
more harm than good. He said
forced incorporation would destroy
Americas primary market place. He
said the disciplinary power of the ex
change was a stronger restraint than
could be any law.