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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-03-21
NOTICE..

Lost or mislaid by the undersigned a
note of $500 bearing 8 per cent yearly
interest from date, subscribed by Mrs.
Bazilie O'ROurke, wife of Felix Berard,
and by them endorsed in blank, dated at
st. Martinville, La, February 18th A. ID.
1890, payable in Dec. LIST 1890, at the
New Iberia National Bank, and duly
paraphed "Ne Varietur" for identification
with act of mortgage passed before Vim.
B. Eastin, by Recorder and ex-officiO
notary public on the 9th day of Febru-
airy 1890. The public is warned not to
negotiate said note as the payment
thereof has been enjoined by the under
signed owner of said note.
NJ. L. BROUSSARD,
st. Martinville La, Jan. 3lst 1901.
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parliamentary Language.
Exchange.

Exchange.
You may say man is not welded to
the truth;
Or sometimes suffers from spirit of
exaggeratiOn;
Or occasionally finds it difficult to
. cOnfine himself strictly to actualities;
Or is unfettered by the four corners Of
hard matter-Of-fact;
Or is a past master in tile pleasing art
Of realistic rOmancing.
Or is partial, in describing nature, to
borrowing from the pages of romance;
Or is much given to an artificial re.
collection OF misleading statistics;
But you must not-nO. you must not,
you really must nOt-call him liar!
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Diversity Your Crops.

The time has come when our farmers
will begin to plant their crops. We
know they are anxious to plant those
things that will surely bring the most
remunerative returns. Every farmer
should thiRk for himself and solve this
problem. But, in our opinion, the man
WHO diversifies bis crop will be the man
who is happiest next fall. Every man
should make what he lives on at home.
and send 20 distant markets for his
bread and meat. Corn. potatoes, syrup
and hay can be grown in abundance.
You can raise your own meat, milk your
own cows, feed your own chickens and
gather your own fruit. These are the
necessaries Of life and you can raiss
every one OF them Will you do it? One
great mistake that Southern farmers
make is they plant too much cotton and
buy their meat and bread. Cultivate
those things that yeu live on, farmer
friends, then plant cotton or rice, or any
other crop. for your money crop, II
this plan be adopted, we ventures to say
that you will be happier and more con
tent when your crop is sathsre SDw.
ley Sigual. $50
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Ignorance Only an Intellec-
'tual Evil, Not a Moral One.

The favOrite fallacy of the day appears
to be that ignorance is the parent OF
crime. 1t is a true saying, that 1.-The
boy is father to the mar" a. the twig is
bent the tree is inclined.' The Church
in all ages has acted upon the principle
that the surest way TO Christanize apeO-
pie is through the children. They are
dOcile and can be formed to good; hence,
the most learned Orders in the Church
devote their energies to the training OF
youth in order to fern their moral char
acter. and educate to virtue. which is
only done in the christian school,
Intellectual cultivation does not i'm
prove moral sentiment.
Whilst innocence is found among the
rustic and more ignorant population.
vice and crime haums the intelligent
centers Of refinement and knowledge.
The primative Romans, in their com
parative rudeness, were eminent for their
natural virtues, but in the golden days
of Augustus, and thereafter. vice and
infamy paraded nnblushingly before the
public, and seated themselves in the
most conspicuous places.
We are 10 advocate of ignorance; It Is
IA great evil. We merely protest against
its being considered neral evil, VIXEN
it is simply MISUNDERSTANDING Star.
I --~---~~.
Mr.. W. S. Parkers9B, one of the leaders
of the citizens in the killing Of the TIA
'lian prisoners received the following
note Monday. on the paper was rude
drawing Of a skull and cress bones and
a blOtch Of blood:
You dOmed man are god amity can't
save You we have 1t sworn our cOmrads
you murded and we kill you and you
famili you will be poison the stiletto
will do for the rest"
Rev. ManOritta, the Italian Catholic
priest. who has NEEDLE in too much
business outside of the church. who sides
With the Matranga faction of the Malta.
as he is of the opinion that the Malta
exists in New Orleans under the leader
ship of the PrOvaDzanos, while the Pro-
Sanzanes claim Charles Matranga as the
leader of the Malta. The Reverend gen.
fleman has received the following note
and is greatly alarmed, and sought pO-
lice protection:
"Rev. Father. You make better stay
hOma and not goa to courta every day.
You maka bad for the society. If you
no lissena we killa you La Malta Co."
A skull and cross bones also graced
this note at the top and end Of the pa
per. Father ManOrita believes this
threat to be from the PrOvanzanos fac
tiOn of the Malta.
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Sosthene SaVoie.
HORSE TRAINER.

l am prepared to take wild HORSES
and train them for the SADDLE and CARS
RAGE. Having had several years ex:
perlence in this line, l can guarantee
satisfaction. l have good stables and
pastures, and will take good care Of
horses entrusted to my care.
For terrus and particulars, address ID
SOsTHENE SAvOIE,
dec 70 3m st. Martinville, La
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WANTED.-The consent of 10000 smO-
kers,-tO send each, sample lot of $50
"NICKEL" Cigars and 20 year gold fill
ed Watch, by Express c. o. d. 1925 and
allow examination.
HAVANA CIGAR Co, Winston, y. C.
f IS TO apis.
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lWtut. uTst DlSttlCl NOult, ANo' WV"
BY virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias issued in
the above entitled and numbered suit, to me di
rected. by the Honorable Twenty-frst Judicial
District Court, in and for the parish of st. Mar
tin, dated February 49, 1891, have seized, and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to the
last and highest bidders, at the Court House
door, in the town of st. Martinville, La, on
SATURDAY APRIL IL, 1891.
between the legal sale hours. the following de-
scribed property. to wit:
IL The undivided half of n certain town lot
situated in the corporation of st. Martinville.
parish of St Martin, consisting of a saw mill.
engine, boilers etc. Said lot being bounded
North by lot belonging to the Morgan Louisi-
ana and Texas Railroad and Steam Ship Co.,
East by Bayou Teche, South by Madison street.
and West by lot belonging to DeLaureal. not in
Guiding the planning mill and its building,
2oAll the rights, titles and interest of Edwin
Gueriniere in the firm and copartnership of
Gueriniere, Broussard & Co., being one fourth
thereof as appears by act of copartnership, re-
corded in book q, folio 22j dated August 9th,
1852 and all his rights titles and interest in the
assets of said firm, consisting of the undivided
fourth of the lumber on the yard and the timber
belonging to them, the notes and accounts due
said firm to date.
Sc The undivided half of one sorrel she mule.
now in the possession of the above named firm.
Seized to satisfied said above mentioned writ.
Terms and conditions, Cash.
Sheriff's Office, this 18th day of FEBRUARY A. d.
1891. CAB. GAREMAL, Sherin.
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NOTICE.

Take notice that your licenses for the
year 1891 are due and exigible, and II
same are not paid OIL or before the LIST
day of March next, they will be collected
with cost. CAB. CARDINAL, Sheriff.
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Mrs. Mary B. Fuller.
ST. MARTINvILLE, LA.

Sd. MANItNNfLLI, LIN
SPECIAL SELLING AGENT DO6
DIR. SCOTS beautiful electric corsets,
hair brushes flesh brushes, tooth tgu-
ches, hair carler, plaster. belts FOR Ia
dies and gents, special appliances. eias-
tic trusses and other elastic appliances,
electric foot salw.
Send all orders or requests to call to
above address.
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Sheriff Sale.
Chambers Roy & Co., Limited,
vs..
Edwin Gueriniere,
Twcnt.-frst Judicial District Court, No. 9O7

Parish of st. Martin. State of Louisiana,
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NOTICE.

All persons selling or shipping pro.
duce for sale are hereby officially mott,
fed not to sell or ship same without nay.
ing the produce Or contribution tax on
same under penalty of law according ID
act 81 of 1880.
CAB. CARDINAL, Sheriff & TIC
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Molases for Sale.

Good open kettle mOlasses for sale at
$40 per barrel. apply to T. j. Liable or
A. V. Fleming, st. Martinville. La.
Feb. %. III.
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FOR SALE.

Improved town lots, with good resi-
dences, and a well located lot and st0r6
thereon with good patronage, at st,
Martinville, La, also lot and store q
Cade station, La. RObt. Martin,
st. Martinville. La.
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A GOLD WATCH
FOR ONLY
ONE DOLLAR

Per Week, by our Improved Club System.
The Cases in our Watches are fully War
ranted for 90 years. The movements
are Elgin and Waltham, reliable and
well known. The Watches are Hunting
case or open face, Ladies er Gents Size
stem Winders and Settlers, and are
fully equal in durability. service and
appearance to any $50 Watch. We sell
one of these Watches for $2a cash, and
send to any address by Express, with
privilege of examination; or by our
Club System at 81 per week. One good
reliable AGENTWANTED in each place.
Write for particulars.
Empire Watch Club Co.
80 Park Row, New York;
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An Attractive
Combined POCKET ALMANAC
and MEMORANDUM BOOK
advertising BROWNS IRON BITTERS
the best Tonic, given away at Drug and
general stores. Apply at once.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
How to Burn Out Stumps.

For burning out stumps, little ex-
cavation may be made under the stump
between two of the large roots, and
some combustible material put in, and
then set on FIRE. Previous to this. how
ever some dry materials should be piled
around the root, above the surface of
the ground, and covered over with a
compact layer of turf, forming a sort of
coal pit. 1t has beendouiA. ,Abon ex-
pertinent. that the stumps will burn 1n
this way number of days, with sotS
of subterranean fire, and when the
turf falls in, nearly all of the root is
found consumed beloN and above the
,urtace of the ground. Rural
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
THE FARMING WORLD.
FRUIT TREE LABELS.

A Matter Of More Importance Than Most
Fruit Growers Think.
1t has been many years since we pub
lished . description of 4 very simple
label for marking the name of a bear
ing fruit tree, consisting of a small
strip of sheet zinc a few inches long,
name written with a common lead
pencil on one end, and the other end
coiled round side branch of the tree.
The zinc being slightly rusted viii take
the pencil mark very distinctly, and
will last half century exposed to the
weather. Yet notwithstanding the
cheapness and completeness of this
label, it does not appear TO have been
known or adopted by writer's on
orcharding, either in Europe or in this
country. English and American jour
nails frequently describe more complete
and less dura BILE labels, aud among
others one represented in the accom-
panyfng cut, Fig. 1. 1t consists of two
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
The Misinterpretcd Grunt.

A onc-story, unpainted house, treeless
yard, slope, covered with cornStallls,
among which a few cows We're feeding,
and in the front yard pig sty. In
span sx1O feet, the hog stood grunting,
rp to his body in filthy mud; across one
corner of the fence, ON two or three
poles, lay an armful of soilcd straw
his shelter in storm or sun. Perhaps
we have been misunderstanding the
hog all these years. Maybe that grunt,
instead of being of satisfaction, is of
diSapproval. 1t is time he had a chance.
He likes sunny grass, clean corn and Il
decent bed as well as other animals.
1t is the testimony of those who have
fairly treated the hog that with these
there will be no trouble with cholera
or other disease Who would not will
lingly pay mofe for pork warranted
wholesome? If with higher prices and
smaller losses as clinching arguments,
farmers could be induced to treat hu-
namely this humble dependent they
would be benefited more than they
know. Agnes Leach Kirkpatrick, in
N Y. Tribune
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
Handling Sick Fowls.

No one wishes the disagree able duty
of handling sick fowls. A sick fowl
seldom cares to eat, but it will drink.
Then why not give the medicine in tho
drinking water. Here are a few reme-
dies. For the cholera give teaspoon
full of liquid carboiic acid in each quart
of drinking water For indigestion use
five drops of the tincture of nux vomica.
For roup use a tablespoonful of chlo-
rate of potash. For general debility
dke the nux vomica one day and twenty
drops of tincture of iron the next. For
little chicks that are weak in the legs
use Il tablespoonful of phosphate of
SODA. Give all these remedies in one
quart Of ~vatei They may not be
''sure cures" but the method is the
easiest, cheapest ahdtbest.--Farn q and
FireSide.
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A FALSE ALARM.
There Was no Need of Funer :sl Trappings
After All.

A red-haired ten-year-old boy. who
was almost out of breath from running,
entered Fourteenth-strcet drug store
the other day and said to the clerk:
'lf a fcllcr-if feller about as big as
you are, and who has got ear-laps on.
but no mittens, comes a-whoopin' in
here and
But no one will come a-whoopin' in
here" interrupted the clerk.
YES, they will, and he'll be all out
of wind and his eyes will stick out and
he'll ask you if n little feller with red
hair and wart on his check, has bin in
here"
well. what if he does?"
"Gou'll II tell him he has, c ause it s the
truth. and that said we didn't need an
anccdote, cause it was all right
What is all right?'
"Why. we had some baking powder
in the house. and some rough on rats,
and ma went to make some biscuit, and
She thought she got hold of the wrong
box, and she was so skeered she tainted
away. Dad runs fur a doctor. and
run fur an anecdote, and Bill run fur a
policeman. but it all turned out right.
Three wasn't any mix
..Well?"
"wen. Bills cantering mp and down
and don't know it, and * he comes in
here you jus, tell him we hain't got to
have no funeral. 1t is all right. When
ma come to she remembered that she
put the baking powder into an old
shaving mug, and the pizen into the
new can. and nobody nor nothing need
be skeered, That's all, and you tell
Bill he needn't price no mourning
goods, cause everything is all o. K, and
the goose hangs high. ~. Y. Sun.
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portion of the label around the copper
wire, to coil it at once around the side
branch, as shown in Fig. 2. Another
advantage which the form has, which
we have so long used, is that it has
something of an autouaton character.
by gradually uncoiling from the branch
with the increase in growth.
Such label may seem like simple
thing, but preserving the names of
fruit trees SO that they may be at once
recognized and mistakes prevented, is
a matter of Importance to fruit grow
ers.-Country4G Gentlemen.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
UNCOUN1EO CREDIT.
Why the Farm Is One of the Best OF Ed
ucational Influences.

Why the Farm Is One of the Best OF Ed
ucational Influences.
If by education is meant the forma
ton of character and of the habits of
life essential to success in any business
or profession. then the farm is one of
the best of educational influences.
No man can expect to succeed in an
honest calling unless he acquires, some
time in early life, habits of industry.
frugalitY, economy. forethought and
the power to resist the temptations
that lead to fast living and dissipation.
These habits, if formed at all. must be
formed before the character becomes
fixed and esta blished. 1t is just
here that the education of the farm
has its greatest value. 1t in manner
compels formation of these ha bits.
The farm furnishes work to all ages.
from the child to the full-grown man
or woman. Success is possible only by
the com bined la Dor of all members of
the family. There is little temptation
to extravagance in dress or modes of
living There is no wide distinction in
classes. and the farmers boy instinct
lively learns to judge men by what
they are in character rather than by
social position or by size of the bank
account.
These, among other reasons and ad-
vantages, account for the fact that the
farm boy in the race of life, as "A rule.
far outstrips his competitors of the city
The farm boy may be found in all the
professions. in the line of business, and
in great manufacturing enterprises, at
the head of the procession. He wins
position. not by superior knowledge of
books, or what is ordinarily called cdu-
cation. but by the formation, under the
influence of home. of those habits of
which, after all, success in life mainly
depends. This educational influence is
an item of profit sadly left out of the
calculations in these times of depres-
sion on the farm. No farm depression
| can take away its educational influence.
except in so far as the farmer loses
faith in his profession and imbues his
children with his own scepticism. The
essential point is to have right habits
rooted and grounded in the young,
whether the immediate rewards be
great or small. Get the boys firmly
fixed in these essential habits, and
then, if they have a taste for some
other profession, you can trust them
Iowa Homestead.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25

a local photographer tells story Of
a young man who came into the studio
one day and asked nervously if he
might have little conversation with
him. The visitor was painfully ugly,
and after some awkward blushing and
indefinite allusions he asked the artist
if he supposed he had among his sam
pies picture of any young man who
looked like him, but was better looking.
What Go you mean. young .aan?'
asked tho photographer. we'll" re-
piled he, making a clean breast of 1t,
81 am just engaged to be married. Tho
young lady lives out west. She is goins
home tomorrow. she says she thinks,
I'm So good she doesn't mind my being
homcly, but shn wants n Good-loolSing
picture to take home with her TO shS q
the girls. Boston Traveller.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
SCALES on THE FARM.
Thsy Pay the Careful Farmer Big IntesJ
est ON Their Cost.

est ON Their Cost.
Where there is considerable number
of stock bred, fed and fattened for mar
ket, scales can be made to pay good
interest on the investment. 1t certainly
does not pay to sell anything by guess.
and even with farm products it is fairer
to both buyers and sellers to have
everything weighed or measured rather
than guessed at. But it is not alto
gether in buying and selling that good
pair of scales can be made profitable.
The average farmer cannot now afford
to manage his business by guess work.
The margin of profit between the value
ofthe grain, hay and.other feed, is too
small to admit of guess work. It is
only by weighing not only the feed.
but the animals, that we can know ac-
cur ately that fair profit has been
realized BY weighing the feed, says
Michigan Farmer, we kho~ its market
value. If the stock are weighed when
the feeding is commenced and then
weighed again when they are sold. the
amount of grain can be definitely
known, and its value, taking the value
of the feed from this, ought to give
us the amount of profit The
manure that can be secured with
proper care will be of sufficient value
to pay for the work of feeding and
caring for them. There is no question
that stock is very often kept upon the
farm and fed, and when sold they do
not sell for d sufficient amount to pay
for food consumed. 1t is easy 10 estimate,
but it is somewhat difficult to always
do SO correctly, and it is nothing more
than natural that the farmer should
want to consider that his work had
been profitable. Wher, hogs, cattle or
sheep are fed with products raised
upon the farm, if a correct account is
kept, and the amount of profit that is
realized is determined, the scales must
be used. 1t may take little time; SO
it does to weigh ont sugar, measure
calico or any other class of goods the
merchant sells. If the merchant con-
siders it necessary to weigh and meas
urc every small item connected with his
business, is it not equally as important
that the farmer, whose work is gener-
ally on larger scale SO far as tho
items are concerned, should weigh and
do his work with at least some degree
of accuracy? 1t is guess work to feed
stock to maturity without knowing, ex-
cept by guess. how much feed has been
supplied to them.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
CHEAP cLop CRuSHER.
A Useful Implement That Can Ee Made
for n Few Dollars.

A Usefm Implement That Can Ee Made
for Few Dollars.
funny, isn't it? that an implement
costing SO little and SO easily made and
effective should be neglected by nine
tenths of farmers. 1t is nothing but
three poles from the woods each six to
eight feet long apd four to six inches in
diameter at the butt, with bits of the
tops placed between to hold them apart
as the long bolts, running through the
whole, are screwed tight. These bolts
are the only part of the implement that
costs. The chain? Any log chain will
answer. 1t is best to draw il 4 little
catering so it will have a slightly
shaving action on the sods- For level
ing knobs and filling hollows it has no
equal. Is there a piece of land that is
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25

A lady who keeps a hishly-respect-
able boarding house in this city caught
the recently-hired cham bermaid kissing
one of the boarders, so she told the
servant that would never do.
Il saw you kissing one of the board
ers on the stairs. | don't want to see
that again. said the Indignant land
lady.
well, mum, nobody can compil We to
i<ape yer eyes opep il yc don't wan
to, = ~ns the reply.-LTexss Siftings.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
FLO. I.

parts-the copper wire-loop, aroun nd
which the zinc or other metal
is coiled, while the loop passing
around the side limb holds it to the
tree In addition to its more complex
form the wire is more apt to cut the
bark of the branch to which it is hung
than the broad strip in Fig. =. Being
blown about by the wind, the copper
wire often cracks off in few years.
One of these compound labels may be
easily made into IL simple one by TAX
ing o.it and throwing aside the copper
wire, and instead of coiIing the fiat
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25

too wet to plant and SO, although un.
even. has never been plowed? Make
one of the home clod crushers and level
crs, and during the next drought just
plow that ground, level it and seed it
and see if you are not proud of the job
ever after. On such wet, natural
meadow manure applications pay well.
The crop can be gathered enough
quicker on one smooth acre to leave
time for the making of half dozen
such contrivanccS.-Uoll Sage, in
Farm and Home.