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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-03-07

Twenty-first Judicial District Court, No. 9O76
By virtue of 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 10, 1891, have seized, and
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 ... ed half of a certain town lot
situated in the corporation of st. Martinvillc
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
GLIDING the planning mill and it, building,
% ..-r 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 Is. folio 2225, 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. tle notes and accounts due
said firm to date.
sc "a undivided half of one sOrrel che 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, Sheriff.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-03-07
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. %. M.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
A Plea for the RGadsides.

While there is strong and increasing
demand for higher education of
women, and a growing sentiment for a
better education of farmers in their own
calling, there is a great, vet a slumber-
ing demand for the education of farmers
in still another direction. ANY one who
has Travelled through England or on the
Continent and noted the well-kept road
ways, shaded for the comfort of travel
ers and the greater improvement of the
country itself, and thea make a tour
through portions of our own country,
where the roads arc merely raised beds
of gravel, with the roadside fences piled
high with stone heaps and stumps drawn
from adjoining fields, with an absence
of shade trees, aud no attempt at i'm
provements, will keenly appreciate this
need of a greater education among farm
ers. Where highways depend entirely
] upon local effort for their maintenance or
Improvements, there is great need for
better appreciation of the importance
of improving the highway in appearance.
/ There is no reason why the roadside
should be made a dumping place for the
refuse from the farm nor why it should
be allowed to grow up with bushes and
weeds of every description. The farmer
who prides himself upon the cleanliness
of his farm has great reason to protest
against the course of those who allow
thist,es and other foul weeds to mature
their seeds upon their side of tn road
way. The traveller along the highway
has every reason to condemn the neigh
boring farmers who keep their roadway
and the roadsides in such Il manner that
travel is uncomfortable aud the appear
me of the roadway unpleasant to the
eye.
Farmers should have enough local
pride to inaugurate certain plans of i'm
provement without waiting for the slim
! illus Of legislative enactment. There
should not be any necessity for an act of
the legislature requiring farmers to cut
seed-bearing weeds, neither should 1t re.
quire ii law to induce farmers to plant
shade trees, and every pata master should
know enough and have enough enter
prise to plant fiager post at each four
corners or at any other place where
travellers are liable to take the wrong
turn; and farmers themselves should 20
sven farther tkah it is possible for the
law to lead them. Especial pains should
be taken with the grading of the road
side and to see that it is kept smooth
and slightly, and certainly every road
district should have watering trough
where horses Or other animals that pass
along the highway may quench their
thirst. If farmers would devote one or
two days during the years to the im-
provement OF the roadside the appear
ance OF the rural districts woulI be very
much changed for the better in the
course of the next five or ten years, AMI
the farms themselves increased in money
value. american AgricuhriS..
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
NEsIKoYINa CIT WORMS.

Professor J. h. Build, IN tue Des
Moines Register, attests the vdiue of fall
blowing in killing the cut worms. He
says: "We have an object lesson a.
this time of much interest and value.
We prepared ground last fall for plant
Ing our cherry and plum pits by plow-
ing well about the last of September and
again in November. The prepared
Ground was not large enough for all the
seeds, and about half bushe of the
plum see Is were planted on ground oc-
Cupied last Summer and fall with CROP
of manglcs, rG,a5agas and cabbage, and
uot plowed uatll spring. Ga this
ground the plants came up quite as
thickiy as on the fall-plowed ground,
but at this time there are not 100 plants
to the row, and these are going from
hour TO hour. The soil Is so full Of
worms that no possibility of saving the
plants exists. On the fall-plowed
ground scarcely plant of the plum or
cherry has been cut off. Instead, after
careful inspection only found two plants
ruined, and these were in the outside
rows. Our root gratis of cherry, plum,
pear and apple are mostly on grouad
plowei laJe in the fall, turning under
a crop of rye sowed the last of August.
Not sign Of cut-worms is found on
this ground. On the other hand, every
thing put out on land rnplowed iu the
fall has been seriously injured or totally
ruined by the different species of cut
worms. SO far as known to the writer
the fall blowing at proper time is the
only safe and practicable method Of
Graduating these pests.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

OF all the garden plants raised in the
open ground rhubarb is the first to come
into use in the spring, writes SIAM
ford Conn farmer Half a dozen of
well-established plants, if properly cared
for, will furnish stalks enough for a
family. Thus any lot-holdet in a town
who has small space to spare may keep
his family supplied with the best cook
ing substitute for apples that VIC have.
But it will NOT do to set out few rnu-
barb plants in poor soil and leave the
ground to pack down around them with
out any cultivation. They need high
manuriDg, and the earth ar,und them
should be kept in lose, friable condi-
ton. For several years have bad the
opportunity of observing the great diff
ference in the quantity and quality of
the product where they were well cared
for and where they we're neglected.
When open headed barrels have been set
over the plants the stalks have grown
long and spiniing, and were very brit.
tie and tender, and the flavor seemed
improved. But don't think the guam
tity is increased, and if it is continued
long believe it will enfeeble the plants.
l have noticed, also, that there is a wide
difference in the value of different varie.
ties. have two, one Of which is muci
superior to the other both in yield and
quality, but do not know the name of
either, Seedsmen quote the Linneas as
one Of the best. 1t takes SO long to get
producing plants from the seei that the
best way is to propagate by roots st
deep enough to have the crowns well
covered. As the plants increase in siz,
the roots may be su5divided to make
other hills. Plants from the seed will
net always prove the same variety as the
parent stalk.-Nen York World.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

III e old statement that any food which
a COW can digest and asslmilate will not
effect the flavor of the butter made from
her cream, seems TO be still on its rounds.
1t is true that tie chemist has a great
deal of trouble on accounting for it, but
the fact remains that certain kinds of
food do modify the favor of the butter.
1t not infrcqueutly happens that cows
eat rank or bitter weeds, either in the
pasture or in the hay, and that very
perceptible and unpleasant change is
quickly apparent in the quality of the
butter. Why the COWS should eat these
weeds we cannot say, but the fact that
they sometimes do cat them has been
often noted. Then, too, the influence
of cottonseed meal, linseed meal and
sour ensilage, upon the quality Of the
butter yielded by cows which these sub
stances arc fed, bas been so often noticed
and SO widely discussed, that it should
have set at rest all questions as to the
power OF the food to modify the quality
of the butter. If, in spite of all the cYi-
Gence from these sources, anyone still
has doubts upon the subject, let him
feed his COWS few turnips or onions
every day for a week, and when he comes
to test the next lot of butter from his
rows his belief will forever disappear
dmTica, Dajgymaa.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

Brahmas and Cochins feather very
slowly, and it is not safe to condemn
them until they are four months old.
When young chickens are shedding
their second feathers they should have
small quantity of carbolic acid in their
drinking water.
After young turkeys have passed the
period of shooting the red, which oe-
ours when they are about ten weeks old,
they can be gwen free range.
Either fall or spring planting may be
adopted, but for the strawberry spring
setting is surest and safest. Do not let
strawberry bed run over two years.
New varieties of strawberries are year
" introduced, but they should be tried
only to limited extent, as the varieties
suitable to somo sections are worthless in
others.
Catarrh in sheep is caused by exposure
to dampness and cold fall rains. A rene
dy for it is: inject into the nostrils So
luton of one part carbolic acid to fifty
parts warm water.
In setting strawberries put them three
and half by one foot apart. Black
raspberries six by three. Blackberres
eight by three. Plant only old aud tried
varieties and let novelties &C.
Put large shovelful of manure around
each young raspberry plant, and you
will derive the benefits theIefrom next
season. Any attention given young
raspberries is always rewarded the follow
ing year.
If you wish to haul out your coarse
manure, put it on field intended for a
green manurial crop, so as to pillow the
crop under and thereby more intimately
mix the manure with the soil as well as
to destroy weeds.
The best butter makers are the great
est readers of dairy literature and thus
keep posted about the methods of others,
and do not depend too much upon the
I knowledge they have inherited from
their grandm Others.
Dwarf Lima beans may be planted in
rows in the same manner as string beans,
and they will need no poles or supports
of any kind. Though the beans are small
Ter than the pole Lima, yet they are pro,
life and easily harvested.
1t is well to test your cowS-kuow
exactly which are paying, both in quail
itY and quantity. Keep a record of
your profits and expenses, and you will
thus lie enabled to know just what your
standing is at the end of the season.
Spraying the trees is something of re-
cent introduction. When the work of
spraying begins there should be no ces-
sation until the fruit is safe. Much de-
ponds not only on how the work of
spraying the trees is accomplished, but
also upon performing the work at the
proper times.
The oils of the different kinds OF
grain fed to dairy cows have very much
to do with the quality of the butter
Cotton seed, while giving an increased
flow of milk, rich in butter fat, makes
the butter greasy and sticky. Oats and
bran give good oils for butter, but tho
best is the oil of corn. To the general
use of corn in feeding dairy cows in the
West is due to a great extent the fine
iavor Of western butter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

In that large part of this country
where no apples were grown last year
no codling moth worms were bred, be-
cause there was nothing for them to
breed in. Bat even Eere the enemy may
have been introduced in apples brought
from other localities, where, of course,
the species was continued. Those who
put apples in cellars will always find as
spring approaches multitudcs of moths
struggling against the windows and try
ing TO get out. They are particularly
numerous just about the time apple trees
begin to blossom, and if any escape, then
they will make work for future years.
1t is good plan to keep cellar windows
closed at this season, aud by going in
side many moths may be crushed against
the panes of glass. Worms that have
not yet changed to moths can be found
in cocoons glued against the inside Of
barrels in which apples have been kept
boston CultiCator.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
"You Are Not Looking Well. "

What an effect the words havel A
woman viii be skimming along content
with herself and the world in general
She is enjoying the sunshine, her new
bonnet and suit, the afternoon and the
consciousness that she is alive. She
meets some friends-two of them
together. One of them rushes up 10
her and says
"Why, how do you do? l didn't
know youp'
Up comes the other and echoes the
first one WITH
''Really, | didn't know your
Then they both eye her from head to
foot. The woman's face grows radiant
as she thinks what lovely difference a
new suit makes. Her eyes sparkle and
her cheeks fiush-for a minute. The
first friend SAYS
"Why, what is the matter? You are
not looking at all well. F"
Echoed again by the second. The
bright laughing light fades from the
face of the woman, and she remembers
she did feel little dizzy this morning
and perhaps she is taxing her strength
without knowing it, in less than a
minute she has conjured up enough
aches and pains to stock an invalldS
resort. She tells her friends that she
finds she must leave town earlier this
year than usual, the lake water is 50
bad, and the open winter has affected
her; she needs tonic and is going to
call on a physician before going home.
Her friends pass on. One says to the
other,
"What an awfully unbecoming suit
that was 1t was enough to make any
one sick.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

In the province of Holstein, noted
for its superior breed of cattle, the
country people are not only very thrifty
but exceedingly fond of their cows, as
may be gathered from the following
characteristic story.
Farmer Jan was walking sadly down
the road one day when the village pastor
met him.
"Why so sad, Farmer JAM" said the
pastor.
"Ah, / have a very sad GRAND,
pastor, replied Jan.
"What is it?"
GARNER Henrik COW is dead in my
pasture, and | am on my way TO tell
him"
"a hard task, jan"
'4ndeed it is, pastor, but 1 shall
break it to him gently"
GLOW will you do that"
II shall tell him first that it is his
mother who is dead, and then, having
opened the way for sadder news still,
shall tell him that it is not his mother,
but the cowW
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
An Unusual Crushing.

A lady in Paris gives periodical din
ners at which assemble most of the
great wits and i.erati Of the day. The
rule of the mansion is that while one
person talks no interruption is per
mitted 1t is said that NJ. Renan once
attended one Of these dinners and talked
without break through the whole re
past. Toward the end Of the dinner a
guest was heard to commence a sen
tence, but was silenced By the hostess
After they had left the table she told
the extinguished man that he might
speak, as NJ. Renan had finished. The
guest modestly declined; the hostess in.
sisted.
II am quite certain it was something
of consequence, said she.
"Alas, madame, it was ind sed, bu
now it is too late, he replied, shoult
have liked some more Of the iced pud
ding.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

During his recent visit to Florida May
istrate South cane across the tomb of an
Indian Princess aud took a photograph
of her royal highness remains. The tomb
was on beautiful hillock OF palmetto
trees on the Kissimee prairie, $50 miles
routh of the town of Kissimee, Fla, aad
was built OF cypress logs. 1t was nine
feet square and six feet high, with cross
on the top. The remains of this Semi
mole Princess had long since been re.
duced to skeleton, but around her was
the Furniture of her wigwam, while from
her bony neck hung a string of beads, a
cameo ring was on her finger and silver
watch of ancient make at her side.
After taking the photograph the tomb
was closed by replacing the logs. Not
withstandiog the fact that this noble
squaw has lain there for many years, no
one, even in that wild country, has ever
yet carried off the ornaments and relics
IN which she was originally bariei.-
Philadelphia Re.orl.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

"Where did you leave the baby when
you went out to call on old Mrs.
Anderson" said Mrs. Snagg's next
door neighbor to, her the other day, as
she was tidying the flower pots in the
front garden.
II left it at home with James, " was
the reply
"you left it with your husband"
exclaimed the neighbor, with some
degree Of surprise.
"Why l thought he couldn't abide
children"
Neither he can, as general rule,
my dear, replied the lady, with grim
smile; "but he had to in this case, for
| had nobody else to take care of it
until | came back
Sand how did he get on with it?'
continued the other, ''Was it very
cross during your absence?"
'Well, +" answered Mrs. Snagg,
thoughtfully, "to tell you the truth, |
don't exactly know, for he didn't say
very much about it when | came in,
except that he was never so glad to see
me before. / think, however, that he
had good deal Of trouble keeping the
little darling amused, for / found out
next day that our parrot had learned Il
lot of naughty words which he certainly
did not know before.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25


III seems that S.ee2 soon after mea' s
does noS cause worse dreams than the
simple and very preya.eat habit of seek
ing to co"t' the SLEEPY god with arms
against TIE headboard. The worry
which may he caused by the habit Of
iiyl' ( Win the arms resting above the
head, according to TINS eXperimenter
could not he Induced by an after-dinner
nap after freely partahing of sauerkraut
ard ! Ithie'. Mr Lewis seeks to OK
Pl"de the Old theory that somnabuism
Is caused by Welghty troub on the
nina OF the sleeper, and he combats the
ldea th"t any great proportion OF dreams
are me results OF trouble, worry,
ana excitement ms The 1rY that The
many dreams We dream are but the re-
suns OF waves OF thought across the
BRAIN lie thus aptly illustrates from an
eNFeHme"t. hl one watched the
sleeper and tie other the clock, the
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
An Old Lady's Resource.

Many years ago, while travelling in
the East, an old English lady with a
good deal of character and complete
set of false teeth, became temporarily
separated from the rest of her party,
and was soon surrounded BY crowd Of
Arabs, eager, curious, and clamoring
for bakShish After while the atten-
tons of these children of the desert
became very unwelcome, not to say
positively alarming; so, thinking that
at all events the experiment could do
no harm, She suddenly whipped cut
her false teeth and snapped them
vigorously in the faces of the Arabs.
The effect was magical; the horror
struck natives with one accord wheeled
round and took to their heels, and the
lady got back to her tent in safety.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
A Wonderful Story of A Caya

Judged j. W. Perry, OF Owen County.
tells wonderful story of cave found
on his farm in Morgan County. Ii was
found in traditional way, by party Of
'ox-huntcrs- They were pursuing a
quarry. and mad arrived at a high edge
when suddenly the bayiug of the hound.
ceased Searching about to discover the
cause they found hoe in the rock.
They procured torches, and followe the
mounds for two miles, but could not
oTertake them. The cave inside con
listed of beautiful rooms adorned with
millions of CRYSTALS of all kinds. In one
=; the rooms is an artificial wall seventy
wards long, iour feet thick and four
,iigh. Many people think this to be the
'amous Swift cave, where Swift mined
and coined silver hundred years ago.
-L0uisViAe (Ey.) Cowier-Jouraal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

Captain Peterson, a farmer living a
few niles from Ennis, Texas, recently
lost a pet in peculiar and heartrend-
ing manner. Some of his friends who
had been fishing in the eastern portion
of the State brought him young ALI
gator about ten inches long. spry
little fellow, much prettier than his
full grown relatives Captain Peterson
was very proud of his little treasure,
and had tank made for him out ia the
yard. The tank was about three feet
by two and one foot deep, and was kept
only half full o. water, 50 that his ALI
gatorship could not gel oat and wander
away. Crowds of people came every
day to see the new pet, which was
great curiosity 10 many of the people
on the high prairies. 1t soon became
very tame, and would swim to meet it's
visitors, and eat from their hands. The
Captain had another pet however, q
large, white cat which, from the first,
showed the liveliest interest in the new
member OF the family He spent the
greater part of his time circling around
the tank watching the alligator's mo-
tons, and sometimes, when the baby
saurian did not move fast enough to
suit HIM, he would reach down with
one paw and gently stir it up, and send
it spinui g around at a great rate. The
cat seemed TO regard the alligator as
something got up for his exclusive
beneft. aud evidently enjoyed the
game to the utmost.
One day, however, Capt. Peterson
found his alligator missing and though
a thorough search was made he could
not be found. In the course Of an hour
the cat came in looking suspiciousIy
round and Plump, and declined the
delicate morsels they offered him for
breakfast Aftorvard they found him
rolling over and over in the grassy
yard, playing Iazily with an alligator's
foot. The cat had eaten the alligator,
the first time that cat ever accom-
plished such feat.-.St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
Farm AND GARDEN NOTES

Often it is better to set a broody hen
than to break her.
1t is good economy to feed poultry
well from the start.
Very many of the losses with young
turkeys are due to lice.
1t is not good plan now to keep
chickens in lox or small yard.
Unnecessary to conine young chickens
in coop with board floor, cover we'll
with soil.
If the ducks and geese are picked reg
ularly during tho summer and fall they
will not moult.
Scalded milk in a good remedy for di-
arrhea in summer; give the fowls all
they will drink.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
g August
Flower

The Hon. J w Fenuimore is the
Sheriff of Kent Co., Del, and lives
at Dover, the County Seat and Cap
ital of the State The sheriff is a
gentleman hfty-nine years of age,
and this is what he saws Il have
used your August Flower for sew
"eral years in my family and for my
own use. and found ii does me
more good than any other remedy.
l have been troubled with what
call Sick Headache, A pain comes
in the back part of my head first,
and then soon a general headache
until / become sick and vonit.
At times. too, have a fullness
after eating, a pressure after eating
at the pit of the stomach, and
sourness, when food seemed TO rise
up in my throat and mouth. When
q feel this coming on il | take a
little August Flower it relieves
me, and is the best remedy | have
lever taken for il. For this reason
81 take it and recommend it 10
Others as a great remedy for Dys-
"pepsia, SC. " o
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury., New Jersey, U. S. A.