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\ tritiin Statement. S. . Iberino. Paschal Beverly Randolph wrote a b,ok, wlhh he entitled "After Death: fbe Disembodiment of man." This book was written in tit. Martinville, in 1866, copy ri ted in Massachusetts in 1868, and the third edition was published in Boston in 1870, from which we publish the following excerpts: "I am, at this writing of the o first edition of this book, here in ti the carpenter shop of Auguste a Landry, in St. Martinville, St. b Martin Parish, Louisiana, May r 12th, 1866, over 40 years of age. t Twenty-five of those years have ii mainly been spent in the one sin- f gle pursuit of knowledge on the t subject whereof I am now writing, o concerning Psychical Man. I c have sought for this knowledge in t twelve States of this Union; in i France, Ireland, Scotland, Eng land, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Cen- c tral & Western America, Arabia, i Mexico, and California." "We see a lump of granite, and I know that time and attrition will I wear it down to sand; sand will divide up until we have alluvial coil, out of which comes vegeta tion, in various degrees of refine- i ment, from the coarse cryptogs mia to the most splendid flower and delicious fruit Were it pos sible to behold the procession of the Flora pass before us in one glorious panorama, we would be hold gigantic ferns and grasses Sflourishing in miraculous fertility of ages; heavycarbonaceous plants, ebaietal laboratories of the frst order, extracting the grosser sob stances from the air and elabora ting oxygen to fill their places. Presently ages having elapsed they fall and rot, making new soil and richer, oat of which comes a higher order of plants, chemical laboratories of the second, prodo. sing still more marked changes in the atmosphere and climate. Pre sestly, as the picture unfolds, we behold orders, genera, and species succeeding each other at every tick of eternity's clock; finer, fair er trees and flowers now deck the scene, and animal life now comes in as chemical laboratories of a still higher order. For if vegata tion alone were adequate to the preparation of the earth, air, and waters for the abode of incarnate . mind, there would have been no need of animals, and there being no demand, there would have been no supply. But vegetation could not do it; nor could a single spe cies of animal do it, but it requir ed millions of species of different. ly organised animals to prepar the world for man; to cook the air and cleanse it; to purify the waters, and reader them fit for higher uses, just as it required a million varied flora to throw down the nozino vapors condense them in to fibre, to be converted by and by into coalbedsand petroleum lakes -jut like the milghty bay of oil now underlying the perish of St. Martin, La.. and which btanches of to Rapides, Vermitlion, Lafay ette, and Calcasieu-a body largei and deep enough to furnish fuel to the world for a century." Shudders At His Past. "I recall now with horror,"ways Mail Carrier Barnett Mann, of Levanna, O., "my three years of suffering from Kidney trouble. I was hardly ever free from dull aches or acote pains in my baek. To stoop or lift mail sacks made me groan. 1 felt tired, worn out, about ready to give up. when I be gan to use Electric Bitters, but sis bottles completely cared me sad made me feel like a new man." They're eunrivaled to regulate 8to mach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels. SPerfsct satisfaction guaranteed by T. J. Labba Only 6Oennts L. BIENVENU, REAL ESTATE AGENT, fai ne St. Martinville, La. Will take hage d renting or selling laI yeru property ne fei Last Monday afternoon a nipple h of excitement was caused here by the exhibition of a sample of oil at Messrs. Laughlin's store, brought in from Mr. Oseme Segu ra's place above the twin oaks, on the St. Martinville road. There e is a low place in the back of his field, near the lake marsh. On the surface of the water, in a ditch ea which drains this section, was dis covered the oiL It is so clear that the eye would fail to detect hi it. It was first discovered by one of the men on the place who wash ed his hands in this ditch, after which he noticed that his hands a' were oily and emitted a strong odor of petroleum. This lead to I an investigation and the skim ming of the sample off the water.w I The indications are that it is a 1 very fine grade of oil-if one may p -judge as much from its cleanness g and positive odor. Mr. Walter J. Burke holds an option of this tract a r of land. --Iberian. This land is in St. Martin perish. n Old Soldier's Experience MM. M. Austin. a civil war vete- ii ran, of Winchester, Ind., writes: b " "My wife was sick a long time io r spite of good doctor's treatment, t but was wholly cored by Dr. King a New Life Pills, which worked r wonders for her health." They I always do. Try them. Only 95e a at T. J. Labbe drug store. I t Lest Sunday afternoon the wri a ter accepted the invitation of Mr. d . T. Weeks to take a buggy ride . to Lake Cbicot, where there is evi dences of oil. It is in St. Martin's . parish, just north of Iberia. We e saw a long shallow slough, in 1 s which were a number of overturn ed trees. These trees had fallen . to every point of the compas. e It is reported that some few ' years ago Are was set to the dry a grasses then growing on the lake d bottom. The grass was quickly 1e consumed, but the fires did not go d 6ut. A considerable area of the e bed of the dry lake seemed to be Son fire, below the surface of the g ground. For several weeks the na burning district emitted great vo Id lumes of light colored smoke, and - this continued till a heavy rain r_ fell, filling the low lands with wa . ter. Then it wsa that these trees il fell in all directions, exposing the id fact that their green living roots had been burned away, while er trunks and branches were not n maeorehed. At the time it was Sthought to be peat and the ilncid. o eat was given but little conusiderae tloo. Lately, however, other eca ,ms have bes eeredited withl il maintaining the eubetneraree t, Irm ard this thought ee Ied to a Scareto l invewtigaltio of tihe loti . ty which has reaultd is the de.' A ning of both oilea glan Msemrs. el Weeks and others hold options on this territory.-Ibelan. HOW'S THIS? SWe Ier One hndru Dlare Sewamrd fr ay e- meI o Cetan tt anet he I . J. asee Ca., Pres. Tled. o. SWe. the aumriegd, have euwu V. llJ. ChesYM lor last SWmrs, aed e k. lleve I prIestlt herale la all -let eaes mtrasetees, and alsaeally ele toekary t my eligate madle b gtheir arm. Weg A Truas, Whelesbl Drugrists, .To.lde, 0. Waldtes. r1am A Marvs SWelrusale Druggiat, Tel, 0. H" all's Otnarr Cu. I tabLs laternal - lv. actlag dlireetty upon the bied and meseos surhnes ef asste. P. J. Cheev & C., Preps.. Tolede, 0 Y Sold by drugists. pries /lie. W'ai'is slv F a She The Money Hiding Fools. Those individuals who have Do faith in banks and hide their mo ney in and }bout the house are constantly coming to grief. The latest case is that of William Bani ney of Cromwell, Conn., who stqf- t fed $00 in the toe of an old shoe I he had discarded and place it in a the attic. Afterward Mrs. Ran- t ney, who was blissfully ignorant of what" her busband bhad done. decided that it was time to give d the house a thorough cleaning and ' em gaged a tramp to beat the car- I pets. When his work was done he I said he would be satisfied to ac cept an old pair of shoes in pay- I ment for his services. Mrs. Ranney was delighted at having her carpets beaten at such s, t sad gladly gave him the sbohltr4ah band had discarded. The tramp took them thankfully and went away. When Mr. Ran ney came home in the eveuina Mrs. Ranney proudly related the bargain she made with the tramp who preferred a pair of shoes to beer money. Mr. Ranney drop ped apparently in a fit, for he ground his teeth, beat the floor with his hands and churned the ý air furiously with his feet. At first Mrs. Banney was asto nished and then becoming alarm ed at her husband's condition, sei zed a pitcher of water and poured it on his head. This treatment brought him around in a jiffy and raising himself to a sitting posi tion Mr. Banney glared at his wife a moment and then in a voice that I roared like a megaphone he in formed her that in additiqe to the shoes she had given the tramp $500. Mrs. Ranney fainted and her husband went off into another it. Up to the present time nothing bas been heard of the model tramp who best the carpet and preferred a pair of second hand shoes to the i price of a can of beer. Morbihan plantation, just to the North-east of us, is the site of new oil discoveries. Seepage oil is clearly and unmistakably found there in considerable quantities, indicating a lossible large supply below. A sample bottle of the oil Swa brought in last Saturday mor ning by Mr. Ed. de Generee, who holds options on adjoining lands. - Iberian. j The Advice of Russel Sage. oaau maste Mr. Russell Sage, of New York, Swhose sagacity as a financier and e other good qualities has enabled a him to put by a snug sum of mo ney for a rainy day is out in a st statement indorsing President Mc Kioley's warning to the people of the country not to trust the pre Ssmt prosperous codditions too far. Mr. Sage even goes to the length b of predicting another "Black Fri day" even blacker than that which Soseurred in this country, as the re e mlst of the reekless speculation in 38'8, and which in a twinkling Swept away thousands of fortunes -aud precipitated the most disas trms panic on this side of the At lahtic. Mr. Sage bases his predic :Jtion om the present spaculative * erase which be declabrs ius based on a "false sod illusive founda tio" for neither isting aor fe tre conditions warrrat the sky SIward tndency of the market and ly the moment a level is resahed -I there will be a reation which will bring misery to tbousands. ST Presidents words, copled with thorse of su a eamperienced - man of afairsas Rumsel 8age will, d it is to be hoped, be a warning in time to those who regard present conditions As a fiture. tBhe Bal timore an finds it rathstrange, KGOFULfA AND ITS f AWFUL hORRORS Johnston's Sarsapiarilla QUART DOTTLES. A MoWr WONDER---- L -·. SA mera *M ity w er l . ee Mrs. Thankful Orilla Hurd lve t the beutltful village at Litrngston o., Mich. This lvener ad highly respectd l y ib - the year 1812, the year of the great waa I ebre, Washatm 04 We e York. She ame to MleMh ga I 184 the year eof "Ttwma atnd -' too." All her faculties are exellent prerved, ad pou it a tentive memory, her alnd is full dt lateteetingtg life, of the early days of the state at Mlehkigs an thewr k t markable people she has met, and the stlrrngeveas o whch less. But nothing la her varied and ma ifold relletlo ' aM velous and worthy of attention than are her eapertemeeo inM t JOHNSTON'S SARBSAPABULA. Mrs. Hard lnherIted a ltem s ietn ton srenla , that terribly destrtive lood tuntu wek lasd d Ltur g thlves oU s omeSaads marking thutead as tis of the death angel. Trrasmitted trem generatieo toa found in neary every family a one ter or another. It a p pearanee in dreadful ruaalng soes, Ia "u ly welllag t goitre, or in erptios of variled forms ie n the mueem ma- be known as catarrh in the head, er devlepl the lar , and often is, the prime earn of conruaptloa. Speaking of her case. Mrs. Herd says: *I was troubled for ag with a bad skin disease. My arms and labs would break oat ta a M t orses, discharging yellow matter. My neck began to swel and beasm w unsightly in appearaneb My body was covered with scrofulous erail , SMy eyes were also gretly nfamed and weakened, and they pained i e much. My blood was In a very bad condition and my had ached at frequent intervals, and I had no appetite. I had eores also o my es was in a miserable condition, I had tried every remedy that had beem mended, and doctor after doctor had failed. One of the best phrtdUs the state told me I must die of seroafulous consmptIon, as lnternsl a - were beginning to form. I at length was told of Dr. Johnston, et DIemlt his famous Sarsaperulla. I tried a bottle, more as an experimeat am thing else, as I had no faith Ln It, and greatly to my agreeable sreas ,e began to grow better. You can be sure I kept on takngt. It. I to many bottles. But I steadily improved until I became entirely w N. sores healed up, all the bad symptoms disappeared. I gained perbet o and I have never been troubled with scrofula since. Of co ue 3 di of 83 years Is not a young woman, but I have had remarkably geed since then, and I fnmly believe tbst JOHNSTON'S SABDAPARILLTX b e greatest blood purifier and the best medicine in the wide weld. scrofutala and as a spring mediciae." This nrmearkably teresting e adt lok to be more than sixty, and she repeated several times "4 b te lie was saved by JOHNSTON'S SABSAPAI-ILLA. 1- P'E A1dn 1. T A aa . 18 EAGENTSWA md lesach tws to ride a bit a samslhi die of our manufacture, 1W rIe" i- A e r uE l besides having a wheel to ridefr fe 180i! MAoI e $10 to at T P 19P, " ~ to d ae ship s.ey LI-j-:. +a gA PRgQa C k"t 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL. Jo1 f riLt in f frH Em aSLs you do not gsa 1f5 a cent if the does not sait -e Vic- . ,I. I. EA eBLEu 8l0..2 . however, that Mr. b9, wnose i mense fortune was accomulated under circumstances like those now existing and in nearly the same elass of stocas as are now being sold for twice their real value, should sound the note of warning 1 to the ordinary speculator. It is the latter individual upon whom ( Mr. Sage and his associates de pend to float their schemes, and - as be has never been aocused of b posing as a philanthropist in the n matter of safeguarding the cash his less fortunate bretheja may - have, there is reason to suspect that he is maneuvering to "bear" the market. The Baltimore Sun, however, r & believes that the warning of the a President, who may have scented danger ahead, should be accepted by reasonable and conservative men in the business and financial world. The San then says: "Inflation is possible to a limi ted extent, and he who is wise is he who follows the slower but surer method of seeking a liveli hood in legitimate channels of trade. All branches of industry are prosperous and they may re main so for years, but the disposi- 1 d tion which this fosters to plunge is to be curbed as. a dangerous proceeding. When an effort is made to overstrala the earning d capacity of a dollar, something is d sure to give way, and the man who u invariably suffers is the "small speculator" who buys what the promoters and those "on the in d side" are selling for their own ben eft. Mr. Sage's advice is sound, no matter whay may be his motive, t and the small speculator should _ guard now against the coming of another "Black Friday." LABBE & OLIVILII, ST. XARTINVILLZ. LA. W. J.'RHYMES, M. D. PHYSICIAN and sU mill O Cal promptli attmidd, && er N Office Opposite Tertrou St. Martinvile. *Loulil ,, -Those in need of notbs a homestead elas end and notes can get them at the )I +' ger office at 50 cents per h CONVENT OP MERCY,: st. r I.trl vUeL S. · This Institute oer mpeismr dva-sals ~ r.nts desdrous of giiag their chlr a a and rened sde. on. TERMS OF TUIUION4 . MUSIC, ETC., I MODERA'TE. For patleulats ap te SISTERS OF n71ERCY t FOR SALE:-Lot and Sdence belonging to Judge lix Voorhies, on Main A - Price $ 50o. Apply at* - Office or to R. I 4 mmm aa~nsý'