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The Mes tPeJ e. PUBLISHED EVI*Y SATIRRAY. I~ONNE CAL.RE. : : OUISIANA. CURRENT COMMENT. DIVIDENDs paid by the Transvaa gold mines in 1896 amounted to 87,450, 000. In 1S97 the aggregate was $13, 500,000 and last year reached V24,450, 000. The richest kn6wn gold mines in the world are involved in the Boe, question. ACCORDING to a United States engi neer the bottom of -Lake Michigan it polluted with sewage and decomposing matter for a distance of 12 miles from the mouth of the,Chicago river. He =says that the higher the waves rdn the worse this filth is stirred up. CONGJsSSMAN BABTHOLDT, Of St. Louis, who recently returned ,rom a protracted tour through Germany, says the fatherland is prosperous and there is employment for all, notwithstanding the dense population. Everywhere throughout the empire he found the best of feeling toward the United States. ALEXANDRIu Ind., was looted the other night by thieves, who-workeda new raket.. They:began :ringing al] of the church bells and called out the - ogolle, lras geat ,jecitewdent. While the ap TdweP e vw8y-yfniing ra went ýt K ir hc every Twicirr & ago t Booker T. Saahin(gt qt Charleston. W. Va., a pndinhle cbl'orted boy and walked to Hampton tOtry a}d get an education. last ThU s.&s he ituirhad to- Charles ton as- the. gest. of the city, was re ceived by the mayor and: officials and was greeted at the opera house by 2,00d enthusiastic admirers. T-a chancee of matrimony are much g~eater just after or just before a war than at any othierf tiae. During. the civil war the number of marriages in this country fell off from 20 per 1,000 populatioq to 17 per 1,000, and immedi ately after' the civil war was ended, in 1865, the number rose to 25 per 1,000, declining in 1869 to 21. Tia people of Hamilton, 0., were some years ago paying a private gas company '8.50 per 1,000 feet. They then built a city gas plant of their own and reduced the price to 80 cents, at which, we are told, the plant has been self-sustaining. Now the old gas com pany offers to lease the city plant and furnish gas for 70 cents. A naosPrAL in which consumptives alone will be treated is soon to be erected at Chicago by a number of hilunthrolie citizens, at a cost of $125, 000. -,he institution will be located in Austin, where..*tract of 12 acres has been iurchase&i The plan was origi nated by the order of sisters known as the Poor Hand Maids of Jesus Christ. Tot Cherokee strip was opened for settlemenft and admitted' as a part of Oklahoma territory, September 16, 1896. The sixth annivbstray of the opening, which occuried on the 16th, was made the occasion for celebration by the "strip" counties. Nearly every town in thb northern part of Oklahoma ob served the day with some kind of a demonstration. JAPAN, not to be behind European states in civilization, is going tp send out an Arctic expedition. The reason given is that if Japan is ever to com pete with England on the seas it must develop in the Japanese the spirit of adventure and of discovery which has made the English powerful. The only places left to be discovered are the lNorth and South poles. T.s reason why thelaw has more at tractions for young men than any of the other professions wasteonsidered at -the American Social Sciedee meeting in . ratog,. and the conclusion was " ied that it is due to the fact that o itoPlrs a surer, stepping stone to sue . s. pebt l life. Men of wealth, .t andhitgh scholarshpat racted b the honors of public life, naturally begin their eprepration for a political oarby. the study of jr sprudence. ).hox the daomplete census of the in seei1kngdom that his just been taken soieatists have decided that the com mon mosquito is the most harmful of all the bug families Unlike other in ecs it absorbs the polsons of disease in order that it may inject them again Iito the veins of its victims. The aci entists are so fully persuaded that much disease and death is due to the work of this insect that they are ar ranging to exterminate it from the face of the earth. Tuxas is more than o400,000 of the people's money locked up in post office keys, each and every keyholder to a box in a post office being required to put up with the postmaster a deposit for his key, the amouniit deposited be lug returned when the box is given up and rent paid. There is a great dealof trouble and no money in the trans aqtons, and the final outeome of the trial of the keyless loo.s, which are to be tried in the princlpal offices of the country, under a contraet recently made with a firm in New York, is awaited. II. Paucs, while persuading Gov. Rosaevet- to speak on President Me lVaty's policy to the Methodists at beasn Grove, pointed out the rather re Marketka thattshei elrdiagoR ` or of the eonvate a ion t issad the men -l M kthot tha the man a aediu the nW a Methodlist; t Sof te delegates were THROUG-QU T LOUISIANA. (C Iastn eIit si. e e missi I of a ulture ifurco teom.con ti( 1 the report eorepondt ffo t[:the variouq siehes relative- to the cowlition of the erops on SeptP~ ber i. 1t-q9. The :"erages for cotton ar1-e given in -he order of parties sho-ing the highest pireentage affol lows: St. ,Marlin. \West Baton Rouge. West Fehieiana. Tlensas, Iberia. Calk'1ieu. Madison. I'angipahoan. Union, *Vetmni ion. tinapides. St. Tammany, Lafayette, ('omeron. East Felicinna, Livingston, Natchiloches. Point ('onpee. Washing ton. .\cadia. (addo. E;ast Carroll, ,in c.ln. St. Helena, West Carroll. East Bat c IRouge. ;;rrchoulse. Sabine. St. Landry. Dieun'ille, Bossier. ('atahoula. Claiborne. Red Ilier, De Soto, Frank lin. Vernon, Webster. Winn. .Jackson (six cotton parishes not reporting),. the general average as compared with last year at same time is 7:3.40. For Sugar-Iberia, Lafayette.Plaque mines. St. Mary, St. Martin. St. Landry, Calcasieu,Jefferson.Hapides. East Baton Rouge, Point Coupee (seven parishes not reporting), the general average is 516. The Cotton Crop Dampge. Of course, there will be people who will claim that the damage has been exaggerated by the correspondents of the department; but it wnill be difficult to explain how the exaggerations have been so general throughout the cotton section, and how private advices cor roborate the department's reports. Even if some allowance shotld d'bmade for exaggeration, there is yet an ample margin of, deterioration to indicate a very serious decline in thp promise compared with a year ago. The fact is that the cotton world is face to face with a comparatively small crop, and the sooner customers make up their minds to the fact, the better it will be for all interests.-N. O. Picayune. Death of James B. Eustis. James B. Eustis, ambassador to France during the second Cleveland administration, and i formerly a senator / from Louisiana, died at his summer home in Newport, R.I., of pneumonia. The remains were interred at Louis ville, Ky., where JAMES B.EUSTIS. Mrs. Eustis was buried. Lake Charles Schools. The public schools of Lake Charles opened with the largest attendance in the history of education in that city. The assembly room of the central building was crowded beyond its ca pacity. The school authorities are puz sled to know what to do with the sur plus. i Mrs. Nanale Hederson. Mrs. Nannie Henderson, nee Swann, was buried in the old Cheneyville cem etery, near Cheneyville. " She was the daughter of Hon. John J. Swann, now deceased, and was married but little over a year since to Mr. John Hender son, who resides near Bennettsville. Holiness at Monroe. Says a Monroe item: Holiness serv ices at the big tent, which have been going on for many days, ceased the other night, and from present ap pearances the doctrine of holiness as heretofore preached in Monroe will be a thing of the past. Mrs. Sylvere Landry. Mrs. Sylvere Landry; born Bujol, a highly-esteemed lady of Ascension parish, died recently. The deceased was 57 years of age. Her husband, Sylere Landrv, survives. He is a Wnember of the U. C. V. camp. Killing in Franklin County. Irrod Wear killed Lenny Dorsey, at Como, Franklin parish," about some trivial matter. Wear struck Dorsey with a billet of wood. Wear was ar rested and Jodged in jail, charged with i *rder. Mere.e Boed. Seasongood & Meyet, Chi~iago,h'ave decided that the Monroe bond issue was valid, and the firm has agreed to eawry out their contact and put the bonds on the market. Wiamubore Hlgh `belool. More than -100 pupils -were in at tendanoe at the opening of the- high cehool at, Winnahoro, almost every ward it the parish being represented. His Health Was Peer. William Buckingham committed sui elde on his farm, six miles northwest of Welsh, Calcasieu parish, by shoot ing. His health had been poor. Caleasten Rice. The Lake Charlies Riee Milling Ca bas started on a long run. The rice in Calcasleu parish is being threshed rapidly, and receipts are heavy. S Thrlteen cC. aOf Charbon. Charbon has broken out in thenorth erm portion of East Baton BRouge par ih. Thirtan osam are reported in the neighborhood of Fred post office. -.--a.--., wi 7 Widemn. M B. rW. lendcan, one of the oldest and most respected citisens of Onr. cbits perish, dinitdeeently, from ma laria tfever o lunwg trouble. wiRet,$ s tomu d. FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. Nea 0 per cent 11RP.4- is 4ae unabl.ead or wrte. Mexieal ladies are foid ofchotcolate. Even1 ituhburch they hate Ii brought to ther atcLdrink it ddring the service. Oge million five hundred and thirty eight thousapd seven aundred and thir ty-eight is the precise number of birds estimated by the British consul at Ven ezuela to have been killed last year to provide afgretty for ladies' hats. Under the Belgian law unmarried men over 25 have one vote, married men and widowers .with families have two votes, and priests and other persons of position and education have three votes. Severe penalties are imposed on those who fail to vote. Brussels, which is fond of being called "Little Paris," is almost two towns in one, for side by side with the medieval portion of the city are the splendid mod ern streets, which recall nothing so much as those of the French capital. The law courts, on the eminence in the center of the city, are exceptionally beautiful, and are built of white and dazzling stone. A curious thing has happened on the western shores of Mull and Iona. Thou -sands of apple seeds have taken root along the highwater mark of the spring tides, where the apples from . the wrecked Dominion liner Labrador were strewn ii much profusion. The stems are already from two to five inches high, and the plants are healthy and vigorous. The crofters are trans planting the strongest roots to their gardens. Journalism in Greenland is repre sented by a single paper, conducted by a certain Mr. Moeller. This energetic gentleman performs single-handed the functions of editor, printer and dis tributor, and the entire paper is the product of his own pen. HIe has set up a primitive printing establishment at Godthaab, and twice a month he per forms a long journey on skates through the country to dispose of his journal. Originally nothing more than a co1"ec tion of crude illustrations, Mr. Moeller gradually introduced into the pages of his paper first words, then sentences, and finally regular articles on the af fairs of the day. In fact, he may be said to have actually taught his sub jects to read. REFLECTIONS. The wages of sin is the inablity to keep from sinning. To believe only what you like to be lieve is the surest sign of youth. All the world's a school, and all the pupils who don't calculate have a his tory. The happiest man is he who, like the coral insect, builds himself into his work. Some people get credit for holding their ground when they are simply too scared to run. The penalty of having a sense of hu mor is that our sincerest grief has a laughable aspect. PROGRESS. With time, comes progress and ad vancement in all lines of successfully conducted enterprises. Success comes to those only who have goods with superior merit and a reputation. In the manufacture of laundry starch for the last quarter of a century J. C. Hubinger has been the peer of all others and to-day is placing on the market the finest laundry starch ever offered the public under our new and original method. Ask your grocer for a coupon book which will enable you to get the first two large 10 cent packages of his new starch, RED CROSS, TRADE MARK brand, also two of the children's Shakespeare pictures painted in twelve beautiful colors as natural as life, or the Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all absolutely free. All grocerk are authorized to give ten large packages of RED CROSS STARCH, with twenty of the Shakespeare pic tares or ten of the Twentieth Century Girl Calendars, to the first five purchas ets of the Endless Starch Chain Book. This is one of the grandest offers ever made to introduce the RED CROSS laundry starch, J. C. Hubinger's latest invention. RUFFLES DAD'S DIGNITY. The Youe s Basebal Rooter Causes i hi aterralt to Feel Too Promlmeat. He is a Chicago board of trade man, dig nified to a degree, has luxuriant, bushy side -whisker clean chin and upper lip, and he .dearlyl.ve baseball. He also has a son x years old, who.loves the game as dearly as does his father, and while the elder enjoys the playing ina solid, placid, contented way the oy bubbles over with enthusiasm ani outroots all other rooters. *During the last Chicago-St. Louis game father and son sat in the grand stand under the intenseatrain of knowing that St. Louis had two men on bases and two out, and if the man at thebat made a base hit the score would ie tied.. The latter smote the ball heavily. It soared upward and onward, far back into what the baseball reporter calls "the left garden." Left Fielder Ryan was there, and, after a long, hard spurt, caught the fly on his finger tlps and held it. The crowd screamed joy ously and the small son of his father nearly went out of his skin for glee. The father merely mailed with dignity. Fiilnay the crowd ceased its yelling after the left Selder had doffed his cap thrice. There was silence as he walked to the bench twirling his blond mustache with either S .th l-his fathereleanushaven upper lip in nind, and with a voice that drew the atten the assembled hundreds toward his the six-yar-old rooter fair ly ypel]ls: "0,pa don t ;you wish you a. d* m eh e Jimmie Ryan's."-Chi m DR. IOFFEIThS ft.(uwIri1)lmIS. Iey, E ET II T etet. were almict ma C.Jji M, Ifs 4 D , St- Lous, Mo C. J. MOFFElT, a.L D, St LOwis, Moa Still More Counterfeftingt. The Secret Service has j uunearxtgda oth band counterfeit 'and secled a Il]ard wuant4' of bogus bils, whic ate so cleverx executed kut the average person would never sMyýcthem of being spunious. Things of grea kvalw are always selecttl for imitation, notably Hostetter's Stomach Bit ters,which has many imitators but no equals for disorders like indigestion, dyspepsia,con stipation, nervousness and general debility. Always go to reliable druggists who have the reputation of giving what you ask for. One Reason. Green-Why is it that some doctors have so small a pratijce? DeWitt-It may be because they are practicing physicians.-Cleveland Leader. "Necessity is the Mother of Invention." It nwas the necessity for a reliable blood purifier and tonic that brought into existence Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is a highly concentrated extract prepared by a combination, proportion and proc ess peculiar to itself and giving to Hood's Sarsaparilla unequalled cura time power. Remember THE SERIOUS CEREUS Mr. Smith Thinks There Are Times When They Amount to a Tragedy. "Night-blooming cereuses are no joke," remarked Smith to his partner as nhe ar rived at the office about 12 o'clock in the day. "Serious things, I suppose," remarked Brown jocularly. SSmith groaned. "Serious? Well, I should say so. They are a tragedy. We have one in our family and just as soon as I can per suade my wife to go down to her mother's for a few days that hoodoo of a botanical specimen goes in the ash barrel. For some reason or other my wife decided that the cereus was going to bloom last night. It has threatened to bloom so many times and then backed out at the last minute that nobody but a woman would have any more faith in it. But it was a sure thing this time and Mrs. Smith sent runners all over town to summon our friends in to see that dastardly thing burst into flower; certain billed to blossom out at midnight. When I came home Mrs. Smith said: " 'Now, Henry, a night-blooming cereus is something you don't see in flowers more than once in a century-or is it a thousand years? Anyway it's an awful long time. And I've invited the Jones and the Collinses and the greens and-' "Well, about 50 people, half of 'em living se en miles out on the North side. I had ar ranged to meet a man at the club, but I tele phoned him I wouldn't be there. Then the caterers came and they turned the house into an ice-cream parlor. All my papers and books and fishing rods and guns were car ried out of the study to clear a suitable place for that confounded cereus. It took the center of the stage and kept it, and as far as I am concerned I wish botany was at the bottom of the sea. The layout cost me $50 besides losing in the melee a deed to ten lots in Englewood." "Well, but the cereus?" queried Brown. "Oh. yes, hang it, the thing didn't bloom. Flunked for the twenty-fifth time!"--Chi cago Inter Ocean. Which Was the Bigamist. A prominent resident of Chicago spending his summer holidays in the eastern prov inces dedicated to the memory of the fa mous men and women who formed them selves into the philosophic workers and dreamers of Brook Farm encountered in the residence of Emerson two other promi nent residents of the city on Lake Michi gan, both of them judges of note and both living on the West side. The two jurists were accompanied by three attractive ladies unknown to the solitary prominent resident who first claimed attention, and after an interval of exclamation and greeting one of the judges turned and with a sweeping ges ture introduced the ladies: "Mr. Dash, these are our wives."-Chicago Chronicle. The Brute! "He tried to kiss me, judge," said the female complainant. "Did he succeed?" queried the court. "No, sir." "Five dollars' fine!" thundered the court, turning to the prisoner. "Be more careful -next time."-Philadelphia North American. Mother-"Now, Ole dear, show uncle how well you can figure. Twice two is how much;" Ole-"Three." Mother-"O, the little darling. Isn't it wonderful-within one of being correct."-Sondags-Nissc. THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 1. CATTLE--e..t beeves..........I 4 30 0 5 80 Stockers................. 3 15 @ 4 63 Native cows.............2 25 @ 3 60 HOGS-Choice to heavy........ 3 33 @ 4 45 SHEEP-Fair to choice......... 2 00 @ 4 00 WHEAT-No. 2 red............. 6752, 6814 No. 2 hard .............. 63 @ 65 CORN-No. 2 mixed............. .928½@ 9 OATS -No. 2 mixed............. 2110 RYE-No.2.................... @ 534 FLOUR-Patent, per bbl....... 3 63 @ 3 8) Fancy ................... 3 00 0 3 2. HAY-Choice timothy.......... 7 5 0 7 50 Fancy prairie........... 6 25 0 6 50 BRAN (sacked)................ 58 59 BUTTER-Choice creamery.... 19 @ 21 CHEESE-Full cream.......... 1014 11 EGGS- hoice.................. 12354 13 POTATOES................... 25 0 27 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE-Native andshipping. 4 00 @ 6 10 Texans.................. 325 @ 420 HOGS-Heavy .................. 4 50 @ 4 70 SHEEP-Fair to choice ........ 3 75 @ 4 00 FLOUR-Choice ................ 340 @ 8 55 WHEAT-Not 2 red............. 68 0 6856 CORN-No. 2 mixed ............ 30 0 31 OATS-No. 2 aixed ............. 2140 28 RYE-No. 2 ..................... 54 @ 55 BUTTER-Creamery ........... 17 0 23 LARD-Western mess.......... 5 171@ 5 20 PORK .......................... 830 900 CHICAGO. CATTLE-Common to prime... 4 30 0 6 75 HOGS-Packing and shipping.. 4 0 4 75 SHEEP-Fair to choice......... 4 00 @ 4 25 FLOUR-Winter wheat......... 50 0 360 WHEAT-No. 2 red............. 71 , 71% CORN-No. 2.......... ...... ...... 81 6@ 3 OATS-No. ....................21 0 RYE.......................... 57 0 574 BUTTER-Creamery ........... 16 LARD ........................... 5 2714 5 3214 PORK ................ .. 793 @892 NEW YORK. CAT LE-Native steers........ 4 90. @6 HOGS-Good to choice .......... 4 75 5 20 SHEEP-Common to choice.... 3 53 46) WHEAT-No. 2 red............ 74 @ 741, CORN-No. 2................. 39%4 40 OATS-No. 2...... ......... 6 6 JIUTTER.........................18 0 21 unmmmnuum unto munm Since the first philatelic exhibition took place at Dresden, in 1870, 4~stSIp. iows halogen held, nearly. I of itbenm in jrope. -The latest rarity to turn up is a fine cbpy of the 5-cent "IBaltimore." It was on an envelope with four "New Yorks," and is lightly canceled. The finder has a small fortune in these stamps. As a result of. the penny restage scheme between the British colonies, it has become necessary to extend the facilities of the general postofficee in London. The volume of Canadian busi ness alone has doubled since the first of the year. FAIR FACES Preserved by asurar • S00.+ It removes the cause of disfiguring eruptions, loss of hair, and baby blemishes, viz.: The clogged, irritated, inflamed, or sluggish condition of the PORES. CUTI CURA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and most refreshing of flower odors, No other medicated soap ever com pounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purify. ing, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the uses of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE - namely, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS--the best skin and complexion soap, and the best toilet and baby soap in the world. In.TANT RELI EP FOR EVERY HUMOR SPEEDY CURE Bathe the qfected pmarts ikth HOTtoater and CUTICUBA 80AP to cleanse the skis aad scalp of crusts and scaleks, and soften the thickened eut'te. Dry, ofthout hard rabbiag, and apply CUTICURA Ointment freely, to allay itching, Irritaton, and irsfamafswn , and soothe and heal, and lastly take CUTICUBA BBEOL VENT to cooland cleasse the blood. This sweet and wholesome treatment affords instant relief, permits rest and sleepin the severest forms of ecsema and other itching, burning, and scaly htunmoS of the sin, scalp, and blood, and points to a speedy, perfnanent, and meconomicalre'Pwhen all othe remedles and even the best physietas ail P rtcs.au lua n L) usc, Rsaoavzu~qP~i tbaifo insss). The most becoming expression a woman can wear is that of unmitigated happiness. n i In the houp p f life, energy seems to do all the work but patience does the real drudgery. The only thoughts to which our doors are always open are those we don't wish to entertain. .Tears are as superficial as laughter. The great movements of the mind are strangers to levity and grief. The great trouble with life seems to be that a man wants so many things before he wants to go to his own fu neral.