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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-02-19
LOCAL NEWS.

Mrs. Henry Canonge of New
Orleans was here several days this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Gonsoulin OF
Loreauville were visiting here
Wednesday.
Mr.. Ivan Power left last Tues
day for Port Arthur, Texas, where
he has secured a position.
Mr.. E. l.. Simmons, editor of
the Breaux Bridge Advance was
attending to business here We'd
nesday.
Miss Inez Bienvenu entertained
number of her little friends Tues
day. in honor of her thirteenth
birthday.
Messrs. Hebert Billeaud, Frank
Beaulieu and Miss Della Billeaud
of Broussard were visiting here
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Kratzer of
Jeanerette were mere Sunday, WIS.,
ting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cab. j. Bienvenu.
Misses Hilda and Grace Burdin
left Wednesday for San Antonio
Texas, where they will spend some
time visiting relatives.
DIR. r. ID. VOORHEES,, who is 6
specialist for the eye, ear, nose ano
throat, was here this week to make
arrangement to be here every
Thursday, beginning March 9th
at DIR. A. p. Sillan's office. Sci
his card elsewhere in this paper.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-02-19

Have our readers stopped think
of the unusually late date that
Easter falls on this year? In 1913,
only three years ago, Easter came
Oh the 23rd of March, the earliest
in thirty-one years; and this year,
1916, it comes full month later,
the 23rd of April which is the
latest date for Easter in thirty-one
years.-Ex.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-02-19
Why The NeerO's Skin is Dark

The baby negro is not born
black. Even so long ago as 1865
LIE Cat noticed that the newly born
negro is of reddish color. That
observation has since been fire.
quently confirmed. and it is now
pretty widely known that, though
the baby negro begins to follow in
TIE footsteps of his parents as re-
CARDS color within a few days after
his birth, yet at the moment of
birth he shows a disposition to
aspire towards the Caucasian race,
being white, or at worst, red in
hue. 1t is generally assumed that
the chief of all the causes of ne
gro's blackness is the hot sun be-
meath whose more or less vertical
rays he is doomed to life. There
is. however, a physiological cOndi-
ton of the skin which differen-
tiates that organ from the integu-
ment OF the white man. In other
words, there is a difference in what
is known as augmentation"
The negro" says a scientists
possesses more developed vas.
cular sudoriparous system than we
do" In other words, he has more
and larger glands. and they art
more literally supplied with blood
By means of these he perspires
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-02-19

Several of the members of the
Woodmen of the World made a
trip to New Iberia Wednesday in
the Automobile which will be dis
posed of ON Mardi Gras.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-02-19
SHERIFFS SALE.
Bank OF St. Martinville
Jean DOmec
No. 1897

Jean DOmec
No. 1897
10th Judicial District Court.
Parish Of st. Martin. State of Louisiana
By vir tue Of writ of seizure and sale
Issued out OF the b9tb Judicial District
Court. in and for the Parish Of st. Mar
tin, State Of Louisiana. in the above EN-
titled and numbered suit, dated this 18th
of Feb. 1916.
Ihave seized and will proceed to sell
ut public auction to the last and highest
bidder at the front door Of the Court
House. between the legal sale hours I'll
a. M. to 4 PAM in the Town Of st. No.
tinville on
Saturday, March 18th, 1916,
the following mentioned and described
property, tO-wit:
The undivided interest in that certain
tract Of laud with all Improvement
thereon situated in st. Martin Parish.
La, West Of Teche. 9th Ward near Cecil
liza Brigde containing about thirty-three
(33) superficial arpsnts. bounded North
by land Of Misael Lormond. East by
Trche and West bv lapds Of Ronsonet
with improvements.
Ssized to satisfy above writ.
Terms aud cOnditiOns--cash
Sheriff's Office this 18th dav OF Feb.
A. ID. 1916.
WADE o. MARTIN. Sheriff.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-02-19

The heavy rains and thunder
storm of Sunday morning were
followed by a cold north wind and
ice Monday and Tuesday.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-02-19
SALESMAN WANTED

SALESMAN WANTED
TO look after our interest in st. Martin
and adjacent counties. Salary or Com
mission. Address
THE LINCOLN OIL Co
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
STUBS ASKS PROBE
Former Kansas Governor Wants -air
Treatment for stockmen.

Washington April 5.-Former Gov
ernor Stubs of Kansas appealed for
a thorough federal investigation of the
beef packing industry today before the
house Judiciary sub committee con-
sidering resolutions for that purpose.
M Stubs represents some western
live stock producers. He said pro-
ducers felt packers were dealing I'M
fairly with them and that both sides
were entitled to have light turned
upon the innermost working of the
live stock industry.
9Th producers have many cases for
complaint against packers he said.
'They cannot understand why hen
hides and other by-products are higher
than ever before when the demand at
home and abroad for meat is greatly
increased that the price of live stock
can be as low as it was in 1915.
IF you men knew of the empty
feed lots where thousands of cattle
used to stand. of the ruined fortunes
/ of the last few years. of the / 20
ducers who have lost all and of the
unusual profits the packers are NIX
ing you would think there was need of
an investigation"
Questioned by representatives OF
the packers. Mr.. Stubs said he had
made a good profit on cattle he bought
last year. He explained. however
| that if he had raised cattle from calves
he might not have profited. He sug-
gested an appropriation of $250,C-0 be
made available for such an inquiry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
SEE new WORRY
JapS in LadrOne Island Affects
United States.
Upsets Entire Scheme of De-
Tense of Philippines.

Washington, April 5.-The United
States is seriously concerned about
Japan's intentions regarding the
islands in the Pacific which she has
taken from Germany.
The concern is felt particularly in
the case of some of the Ladrone
islands 1t is in this group that Guam.
one of the principal naval stations of
the United States, is located.
At the navy department today it was
said that if Japan were to seek to re-
tain possession of the Ladrones at the
conclusion of peace, it would make a
difficult question between the Wash
ington and Toxic governments.
Menace to q. S. in Guam.
Navy department officials are of the
opinion that this is the time for the
United States to take up the issue with
Japan It was learned, however, that
the state department, for the present.
at least, is unwilling to inquire q of
Japan whether she intends to retain
possession of these islands, which, in
her hands would constitute a menace
to Guam and threaten Americas
strategic position in the Pacific.
1t is thought by officials here that
Japan would keep possession of the
Ladrones, if for no other reason than
that she could thus counter the
position of the United States at Guam
and upset the entire naval scheme OF
the United States as it relates to the
defense of the Philippine islands and
Hawaii.
Navy department experts assert the
United States will be compelled to
participate in the negotiations that
will settle the fate of the Ladrones
because of the effect upon this coun-
try's plans for the maintenance of its
position in the Pacific.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
CHICAGO DEMOCRATIC
Mayor Thompson's Party Loses Bitter
Council Election by 10000.

Chicago, April 5.-Complete returns
in yesterdays aldermanic election
show today that the Democrats made
decided gains throughout the city and
that they outyoted the Republicans
by more than 10000 votes. The DEM
men and their candidate for the
municipal court bench, Leo j. Doyle.
The election was fought out on
purely local issues and it is believed by
many that the suicide of DR.. Theodore
B. Sachs, former head of the munich
pal tuberculosis sanitarium, last week
was a potent factor in the defeat of
the administration candidate.
Democrats Almost Won Control.
The Democrat gains brought the
party to within two or three votes of
controlling the council. Their vote in
the new council will be 80 against 90
in the old. The Republicans will
have SO votes as compared with 80 in
the outgoing body, while the Socialists
retain the two votes they had.
The vote cast yesterday. 457,334,
was heavy for an off year" Heated
fights within the Republican and
Democratic parties brought out a
larger vote than is usually cast at
a1dermanic elections, although the
expectations.
Republican Vote Slumped.
The Republican ticket with 1S8,912
votes suffered most heavily in yester-
days contest, the total being 20S, $50
less than were cast on that ticket last
year, when William Hale Thompson
was elected mayor by 147,477 ma
jority. Democrats yesterday po1led
210,028, or but 41,033 less than last
year. Socialists yesterday voted AS
191, or 23.173 more than last year
Progressive and other scattering votes
totalled but 1855. The women vote
yesterday was 81 per cent of registra-
ton and the mems vote 6S per cent OF
registration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
NY. SMOTHERS BARNES
Republican Boss Beaten at State
Party Primary, to 4.

New York, April 5.-Returns from
yesterdays primary election through
out New York of delegates to the Re
publican, Democratic and Progressive
national conventions and members of
state and county committee show a
light vote and few contests
Interest in the Republican pri-
maries centered upon the question
whether the old time party organiza-
ton had cut the vote for Governor
Whitman as one of the four delegates
at-large to the national convention
and thereby lessened his prestige in
the coming campaign for renomina-
ton. Friends of the governor assert
ed today that the strong vote cast for
Whitman IN Buffalo, Syracuse and
some of the other upstate cities was
entirely satisfactory to them.
Opponents of William Barnes said
they saw in the result of the Repub-
lican primaries evidence of strong
opposition to Mr.. Barnes reelection
as member of the Republican national
committee, should he be a candidate
for reelection at the Chicago conven-
ton.
State Chairman Frederick @. Tanner
said Barnes's delegates were defeated
by two to one in districts where there
were, contests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
NO CONQUEST
(continned from Page one,

A1Oil Z a6C 0A4C.y
cient but provide for a considerable
reserve with which to begin the new
year.
I'VE shall not run short of any
thing in the future as we have not
done in the past" he said.
The chancellor declared it was the
intention of Germany's enemies to ex-
tend the war to the women and chill
dren of this nation by starving them
and that for this purpose Great Brit
ain and her allies have interfered
with the trade of neutrals.
Right of Defense.
1.-The American note of Nov. 5, 1915,
gave an exact description of British
violations of the nations laws" he
said But as far as 1 know it has
not been answered up to this date.
No fair minded neutral, no matter
whether he faVors US or not can doubt
our right to defend ourselves against
this war of starvation, which is con-
trary to international law. No one
can ask US to permit our arms of de-
Tense to be wrested from our hands.
We use them, and must use them.
1--WE respect legitimate rights of
neutral trade and commerce. but we
can expect that this be appreciated
and that our right way and our duty
be recognized to use all means against
this policy of starvation, which is q
jeering insult not only to all laws of
nations. but also to the plainest duties
of humanity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
DRYS CAIN LEAD
In Illinois HOnors Stand $50
Saloons Out, $50 In.
% Towns Once Dry Came Back
to Vets Standard.

Chicago, April 5.-Almost complete
returns of the local option elections
held in various Illinois towns and
townships yesterday indicated today
that between $50 and 400 saloons will
be eliminated in the near future and
that former dry territory which be-
fore the prohibition victories in 1912
sheltered about $50 saloons again will
permit the sale of alcoholic beverages.
The saloon interest won back
Aurora, Lincoln and Alton and picked
up about 20 other towns scattered
over the state.
The anti-saloon forces gained Wau-
kegan and Moline, held Elgin and
gained number of townships which
had had saloons. The greatest VIC
tory for the anti-saloon interest is at
Waukegan and North Chicago, where
"a saloons are voted out The result
at Waukegan makes all the lake shore
territory from Chicago to the Wiscon-
sin line a distance of sixty miles pro-
hibition territory. In nearly all the
contested territory, women votes
largely were responsible for the dry
victories.
Both Sides See Victory.
Both sides profess to see a victory
in yesterdays result. The prohibi-
tionists emphasize the fact that con-
tests were not made in several of the
large towns that became dry in the
1912 and 1914 elections, while some u
the saloon men asserted their belief
that yesterdays results indicated that
the crest of the dry wave had been
reached in Illinois and that reac-
ton had started against the anti-sa-
loon movement. The principal towns
that voted saloons out were Wauke-
Oda1 Molina Divnv1
wan. Those which went from the dry
to the wet column included Blooming
ton, Amboy, Lockport, Pana, Carlin-
vile and Galena, Grafton and Herrin
Anti-saloon forces retained their
lead in Belvidere, Canton, Champaign
Dekalb, Dwight, Decatur, Elgin, Free
port, kewanee, Libertyyille, Rochelle
Sterling, Taylorville, Yorkville, Ma
toon and Bushnell. Saloons were re-
tanned in Aurora, Alton, ChilIicothe
Christopher, Fulton, Morris, McFIenry
Rock Island, st. Charles, Lincoln, Ga
lena and Savannah.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
DRANK WINE OF CARDUI
Medicine Used as Substitute for Dope
Says DIR. Newsome.

Chicago, April Swine of cardui"
was taken by one woman as a sub
stitute for a drug after the Harrison
law went into effect, according to tes-
timony given today by DIR. F. NJ. New
some of Ruby, S. c., at the libel suit
of John R. Patten and 2. C. Patten,
jr., manufacturers of the medicine
against the american Medical associa-
ton.
This woman, a patient of his, he
said, he had seen drinking a third of
bottle of Wine of cardui'' at time.
DR.. Newsome also told of the medi-
cine's use as a beverage by men.
Sometimes, he said, they drank it
straight, and at other times with an
other liquid.
C. r. w. Stanfall, a stcrekeeper of
Pagin, Tenn, testified he has been
selling wine of cardui for fifteen years
and that his wife has been using it
during that period. AT first" he said,
"she took a teaspoonful: now she
takes as much as an ounce and a half.
Soon as she gets out of bed she reaches
! in the clothes closet and gets her
drink"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
GEORGE AND FRANK"
Two Rotary Club Features Announced
in Letter Today.

eff you fellows think the Rotary
club is asleep you've got another think
coming. Spring has came and some
other things with it, sort OF crept up
on us, don't you know So begins an
invitation by w. F. Axtell to Rotarians
to attend a Rotary meeting and lunch
con at the Mills building tomorrow
moon.
TT has been hard job to get him
to appear" continues the invitation.
land has taken the combined efforts
of all the members of the entertain
ment committee to induce him to BE
nice but finally success has crowned
our efforts and George Washington
Hart, purveyor of carbon paper, pa
per rolls, hot air and a machine that
sometimes is labeled typewriter, will
give US the ls>Sular business talk. You
know George, and what he can do.
after George is through, we are
going to have something good. Frank
P MacLennan, recently from CALI r
mia, is going to outline to this club a
business proposition that ought to stir
us up. It's timely. it's urgent, It's
worthy. That's all 1 propose to tell
Won about it now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
HARRY WOLFF IS SUED
Cynthia Watson Asks Damages of
$7.725 for Alleged Personal Injuries.

Cynthia Watson, a nurse formerly
employed in the household of Harry
Wolff, son of the late Charles Wolff,
at ZOE West Tenth street, filed suit
in the district court late yesterday aft
ernoon for $7,725 damages alleged to
have been sustained through injuries
inflicted by Wolff.
Miss Watson asks for $3.50 for loss
OF salary because of inability to work
following the injuries; SIS for medical
services; $4,000 for actual damages
land $1,000 for exemplary damages.
| 1t is stated in the petition that -aiss
Watson was employed. as a nurse in
the Wolff home, occupied by Harry
Wolff, and his mother. Mrs. Charles
Wolff; that she was employed to nurse
Mrs. Wolff, who is an invalid.
1t is alleged that on January 80
Harry Wolff brought home a guest
and ordered the nurse to vacate her
room for the guest, which she declined
| to do. The following morning while
Miss Watson was eating breakfast in
/ the kitchen the alleged assault was
l.committed. The petition states that
Wolff seized Miss Watson by the body
and arms and hurled her to the floor
in an effort to eject her from the
kitchen. The plaintiff states that she
was greatly injured; taht her back
! was twisted and sprained and that she
| suffered a nervous arrangement and
/ has since been incapacitated for work
as nurse.
| Harry Wolff is not in the city. He
| has been gone for several weeks and
| is in Colorado at present. The firm
| of Hungate and Heinz attends to some
of his legal matters but knew nothing
! today about the facts leading up to
the filing of the damage suit Pau
Heinz stated that Mr. Wolff would re-
turn to Topeka within a few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
Report to Governor Finds Too
Many State Employees.
Discovers Six Men to Feed Fish
at Hatchery at Pratt.
ABOLISH SCHOOL OF MINES
Senator LambertsOn Believes
Institution Is Not Needed.
More Than so Graduate In
structors at Manhattan.


Senator w. P. Lambertson, a mem
Der of the state efficiency and econ
on1y committee, found six men en-
ployed at the state fish hatchery to
feed the fishes. He found almost
similar conditions in other institu-
lions. In report filed with Governor
Capper he urged that the number of
persons on the state pay roll be ma
terially reduced.
Recently Senator Lambertson visit
ed large number of state institutions.
He inspected conditions at the State
university, Lawrence; State Agricul-
tural college. Manhattan; State nor
NAL. Emporia; penitentiary, Lansing;
Pittsburg normal. Weir school of
mines. Rosedale state hospital, school
for blind, Kansas City; school for
deaf, O1athe: hospital for epileptics,
Parsons; school for feeble minded,
s,Winfield; Topeka industrial school,
colored industrial institute, Topeka
Girls industrial school, Beloit; Mother
Bickerdyke home. Ellsworth; state
fish hatchery, Pratt: Larned state hos
pitaI; reformatory, Hutchinson; or
phanst home, Atchison. The Lambert
son report says little as to the phys
ical condition of these institutions. 1t
goes deeply, however, into the matter
OF employees and urges that the pay
rolls at number of the institutions
be reduced.
At the state fish hatchery at Pratt
Senator Lambertson found six men
feeding the fishes. He thought the
state was too attentive about the meals
of the fish and recommended that the
number of employees be reduced in
view of the administrations stand for
EFFICIENCY and economy. He also pass
oh ton
the big hatchery was foolish.
Teacher to Every Seven Pupils.
At the school for the blind, twenty
five teachers and five supervisors
We're teaching IT'S pupils. A reduction
IN the teaching force was urged.
The Weir school of mines should be
abolished, the report recommends
he looked for students. A careful
search revealed seven or eight. The
superintendent thought the committee
had overlooked a few and declared
that the enrolment was fifteen.
In nearly all of the institutions Sen.
zAtor Lambertson found too many EN-
sployees.- He thought the superintend-
ents and heads of the institutions lived
too easily, that they were not com
PEELED to do sufficient work and thA
some of the subordinate offices SHOULD
be abolished and the work placed OIL
the shoulders of the official in charge
Following a visit to the state agri
cultural college, Senator LambertsoI
recommended a reduction in the mum
Der of graduate teachers. He found
SO graduate instructors drawing pa!
from the state.
- At the state university, too many in
structors in German were found.
The report was filed with GOvernol
Capper. Recommendation covered il
the report will doubtless be submitted
to boards and commissions in charg'
of the several institutions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
TO DELUDE NEUTRALS
German Reports on Air Raid Inaecur-
ate Says London Bureau.

London, April 5.--The official press
bureau gave out for publication today
the German adrniralty's account of the
Zeppelin raid of Sunday night and
with it the following official British
comment.
munication is of the usual inaccurate
and bombastic type with which Ger
many hopes to deIude neutrals and
her own people
The German statement as received
by wireless yesterday said Edinburg.
Leith and various ship building works
and factories on the Firth of Forth
and the Tyne were bombarded by the
Zeppelins resulting in numerous fires
and violent explosions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
CONDENSED NEWS
Sentence Former Treasurer.

st. Paul, April 5.-Former State
Treasurer Walter J. Smith was today
sentenced to an indeterminate sem
tence of from one to five years fol-
lowing plea of guilty to charge Of
second degree larceny. Two other
charges in the indictment, it is said,
will be dismissed. Smith turned
$4,000 of state school funds to his
own use, but restitution was made
by friends. Robert c. Pickit, a clerk
in the state auditors office, was i'm
plicated with Smith and is said to
have forged names OF school directors
to vouchers. His hearing is set for
this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-05
TRY To KILL CAR?
Faithful Russian Waterman
Stops Royal Train in Time
Reference to Supposed Attempt
on Life Carefully Yelled.

Berlin, April 5.-(via wireless) -
What is believed to have been an at
tempt on the life of Emperor Nicholas
of Russia is reported by the Overseas
News agency,
''Petrograd reports officially that a
railroad Waterman named Orlove re-
ceived a donation from the emperor"
the news agency says:
"Orlove is the Waterman who no.
ticed that the track was damaged and
gave warning to the emperor's train.
1T is supposed an attempt on the
life Of the emperor was planned, and
that it was frustrated at the eleventh
hour by the watchman's discovery