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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1909-11-13

The Town of Breaux Bridge ap-
pears to be in a pretty good finan-
cial condition. Its last statement
published in last weeks Valley,
shows on hand, general fund
81, 1878 and Wator works fund
1895, 81 making a total of $8,O13,-
81 cash on hand. We would like
to compare a statement OF the af-
fairs of St. Martinville to see how
We stand in the financial affairs.
1t is quite long time since We
have seen a statement.
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Feed Your Cane Tops.
(Ihe Louisiana Planter

cine Louisiana Planter
Every year for many years we
have urged upon the planters of
the state to begin feeding cane TOPS
as soon as they began cutting cane
for fall planting aud for the crop
delivery. These cane tops make
most excellent feed and the plan.
ters will find that their mule and
cattle stock will leave other forage
and seek this whenever they have
access to it. The feed problem
on a sugar plantation is a very
serious ono. The present diver.
sion towards larger corn crops
than hitherto is a most excellent
one but still increased quantities
of hay and rOugher forage are
badly needed and the cane tops
will cover the double purpose and
are very much relisbed by the
stock and they do well Oh it MS a
forage feed. After the tops DO.
come frost bitten and less palata.
BILE the animals grow Indifferent
to them, but We may have many
weeks ahead, especially in the
coast parishes, free from any inju.
rious frost aud thousands of dol.
lars ca be saved to the sugar
planterSif they will utilize these
crops while they may. Out in the
British West Indies, where cattle
are used chiefly for work animals
IN the cane carts, practically no
other forage is given but these
cane tops during the time that
they can he had for the purpose.
Their value is greatly appreciated
there and VIZ here should give far
more attention to them than we
have been doing
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State Of Ohio. City Of Toledo, !
Lucas County. ~

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he IL
senior partner Of the firm Of +. j. Cheney
& CO.. doing business in the City Of To-
ledO. County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum Of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case Of Catarrh that cannot be- cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me aud subscribed In
my presence. this 9Th day Of December,
A. ID. 1896. A. W. Gleason,
(SEALl Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure il taken internal
ly. and acIs directly on the blood and
mucous Of the system.
Send for testimonials free.
r.. CHENEY Il CO., Toledo. 0.
Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
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FOR RENT.

Five hundred acres or more
of land for any crop, but espe-
cially adapted to the cultiva-
ton Of rice. Just north of St.
Martinville town limits.
Apply to Mrs. +. Sillan,
St. Martinville
or J. Cammack
New Iberia
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FOR SALE

500 barrels of sweet potatoes,
200 barrels of corn, several
good mich COWS, hogs and
pigs. l.. c. Gauthier,
Rural Route No. 1.
St. Martinville, La.
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a Scalded Bows Shrieks

horrified his grandmother, Mrs. Maria
Taylor. of NpbO. KY, who writes that
when all thought he would die. Buck
lens Arnica Salve wholly cured him.
InfaIlibIp for Burns. Scalds. Cuts. Coras.
Wounds. Bruises. Cures Fever Sores.
Boils, Skin Eruptions. Chilblains, Chap
ped Hands. Soon routs Piles. Doc at
Labbr's Drug Store.
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Youno Girls IRE Victims.

OF headache, as we'll as old women. hut
all get quick relief aud prompt cure
from DIR. Kings New Life Pills. the
worlds best remedy for sick and nervous
headaches. They make pure blood. and
strong nerves and build up your health.
TRY them. 25c at Labbe's Drug Store.
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More Hay, Hog and
HOminy.

1uoTe Wpulu DO mOTe money Ill
everybody's pockets if farmers
would raise more hay, hog aud
hominy, and have their cotton for
surplus. 1t 10 bad management
for farmers to buy hay when there
are SO many kinds of hay that can
be so easily grown some for one
kind of land and some for another.
1t is also bad to buy corn when it
is cheaper TO raise it; and bad to
buy meat when there 10 a better
way out.
Vegetables and fruits can also
be grown by way of diversi6cation
but the best diversification begins
at home by raising home supplies,
but it docs not end here.
Peas should be raised as a crop
by themselves az we'll az being
planted between the corn rows
The pea crop has already assum.
ed great Importance in those parts
of the country where tho power
pea hullers are used and these ina
chimes should be used everywhere.
With these machines ono eau cut
the peas with a moving machine,
cure them aud put in stack and
thresh tho whole crop-vines and
all-thus getting the peas aud the
hay separately. In Mississippi
and Illinois, farmers pay 20 cents
per bushels to have their peas
threshed aud, of course they have
the hay in addition. 1t is too
slow aud too expensive to pick
pods off the vines by hand and the
pea crop will never assume the
importance which it merits until
it is handled by machinery, as de.
scribed above. Peas are not only
a good money crop when handled
in this way but they enrich the
land and a crop of oats can follow
them, thus getting two crops with
in year.
japan clover makes a good hay
on sandy bottoms where it grows
to considerable height and yields
a large amount of hay of the best
quality. 1t, too, eau be grown in
attenuation with oats, getting a
crop of each on the same land the
same year. One farmer at Chou
drant. La, sowed japan clover and
red top together four years ago
and has cut crop of each every
year since. The red top is cut
June LIST and the Japan clover in
October.
Corn and cotton will both Weld
better where peas or japan clover
have grown. In fact. poor hill lands
can he made to yields large crops
of corn and cotton after having
been in such crops as peas. Japan
clover or vetchps.
More mules aud hogs should be
raised; both for home use until
men learn how TO grow them sue
cessfully for the market. The
manure from domestic animals 10
worth much to the land aud will
put it in a high state Of fertility
where the land is devoted To live
stock and the manure saved.
Farming is what people make Of
it. If tbey'are ignorant aud lack
push they will make botch of it
but ifthey are intelligent and eDer-
getic they will make a Success.
Men should 50 farm that their land
will get better instead of poorer
mud IL ia nof q har1 Thin, 70 L.
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SHERITF'S SALE.
BANK OF ST. MARTINVILLE

j. .. BOURDlER Il ALEX. PELLERIN,
No. 1'4OS
State Of Louisiana. Parish Of st. Martin.
18th Judicial District Court;
By virtue of a writ Of fieri faciaS issu-
I'd out Of the 18th Judicial District Court
of the Parish Of st. Martin. State Of
Louisiana. in the above entitled and
Numbered suit. dated this 18th day of
October 1909. | have seized aud will
proceed to sell at public auction to the
last and highest bidder at the front door
of the Court House in the Town Of St.
Martinvillr. La. on
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NOTICE.

All parties indebted on their
Stock and Shares to the Bull
ding and Loan Association of
St. Martinville, now in liqui-
dation, are requested to come
and settle at OnCe.
T.. N. RESWEBER,
Receiver.
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For sale one oil tank. hoIi So barrels,
cost *32 will sell for &t2 - l.. B!pnvrn1
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Saturday the Goth day Nov
ember 1909

the following described property tO-wit:
That improved tract of land contain
ing forty arpents on the East side Of Ba-
you Teche. bounded North. by a Road.
South by land Of Onezime Abraham &
ais. East by public Road. and West by
Dermas Castillo.
Also another tract Of land situated in
tho Parish of St Martin. containing
Twenty superficial arpents on the West
side of Bayou Teche. bounded North by
land Of Gilbert Thibodeaux, South by
that of Numa Lpdoux, East by that Of
+. A DOmengpaux and West by land
formerly belonging to Melville Landry.
Seized to satisfy said above writ.
Shariff's office this 18th Iav Of October
A. ID. 1909.
A. +. BROUSSARD, Sheriff
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a Methodist Minister Recon-
mends Chamberlain's CO.
lie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy.

Remedy.
II have used Cham berlain's Collie, Che
lpra and DiarrhOea Remedy for several
years for diarrhoea. l consider it the
best remedy have ever tried for that
trouble. | bought bottle of it few
days ago from our druggist. Mr.. X. X.
Brooks. shall ever be glad to speak a
word of praise when I have the oppOrtu
nity."-Rev. j. ID. Knapp, Pastor NJ. +.
Church, Miles Grove, Pa. Sold by ALL
DRUGGISTS.
Want to exhange a good buggy for a
good mich COW, bargain - L. Bienveun.
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TRAIN LOAD OF.
BUFFALO THAT SOLD
FOR A FORTUNE

About q years ago. when It could be
seen that the last Of the. free buffalo In
the west would soon be killed out. Michael
Pablo got together a small herd on his
ranch in Montana and began breeding
them. 1t was from this herd that the
Canadian government made It's recent
purchase of a trainload of buffalo. to be
bred from near Alberta. At retail a
buffalo in good condition sells for $1,000
but according to the Railroad Mans Mag
azine. the Canadian government got q
discount al wholesale which cut the price
of the lot 347 head, down to $4,000.
Thu train of q cars in which they were
moved had a Nseparate stall for each buff
falo and everything which belongs to tho
palace stock car. hut In spite OF this n
animal died from bursting a blood vessel
in attempting to escape, and a calf also
died from the exhaustion Of the journey.
The animals were still ATTAINED and much
harder to handle than on some ranches
in the southwest, where the experiment IL
being made of crossing them to produce
new breeds of cattle.
1t Is said that on the Pabl ranch it
wears out q horse to round up q buffalo.
but even II this Is the case b retail
price Of $1,000 each would be enough to
explain why there are now nc wild buffalo
known to be left outside of ranches and
government reservations.
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CHAPTER XII.
THE SEA MIST.

THE SEA MIST.
Father O'Hara looked at the two pris-
oners, and the tears ran down his face.
He was the man whom Colonel Sullivan
and Bale had overtaken on their way
to Tralee. He was a merctful lar and
with all his heart he wished that. II
he could do no good, God had been
pleased to send him another way
through the mist.
What can I dog" he cried. 'Oh,
what can I dog"
You can do nothing, father" O'sul-
Ivan og said grimly. They're here
tics, no less! And we're wasting your
time, blessed man." He whispered a
few ord in the priests ear.
The latter shuddered. God forgive
US ALI" he walled. And most, those
who need it most! God bless US from
high place!"
"sure and we're in little peril!" ofsul-
Ivan Og replied.
Colonel John looked at the priest with
solemn eyes. Nor did aught but a tiny
pulse beating in his cheek betray that
he was listening. watching, ready to
seize the least chance, that he might
save. at any rate, poor Bale. Then you
you are a Christian. father he said,
gravely. II ask nothing for myself.
But this is my servant. He knows
nothing. Prevail with them to spare
him!"
Bale uttered q fierce remonstrance.
No n understood it. or what he said
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Oh board tn. French .,oop that. in tn.

bay"
Faith, and you re wasting the .!ttls
breath that is left you," the ruf1iar1 an
swered, irritated rather than moved by
the others calmness. Its to take or
leave. l told h men a hereto had no
soul to make. but"
God forgive you.' Colonel John said,
and was silent: for he saw that remon-
STRANGE would not help him. nor prayer
avail. The mans mind wa made ND. his
heart steeled. For q brief instant,
something, perhaps that human fear
which he had SO often defled, clutched
Colonel Johns heart. For a brief In
slant human weakness had its way
with him. and he shuddred-in the face
OF the bog. in the face Of such an end
as this. Then the gracious faith that
wa his returned to him: he was his
grave, u%nyielding self again. He took
Bales hand and begged his forgiveness.
Would l had never brought you,'' he
said. why did I, why did I? Yet.
Gods Will be DONE"
Bale did not seem to able De speak.
His jaw continued to work. while his
eyes looked sideways at Og. Had the
1rishman known his man, he would
have put himself out of reach, armed
as he was.
But I will appeal for you to the
priest:" Colonel John continued: "he
may yet prevail with them to spare
you."
HE will mott" o'sullivan og said.
naively.
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TELLS A QUEER
PENSION STORY

claims have to take: pension examiners
went to the Kinder home and made per-
sonal examinations and Investigations, al
they always do, n so well was The
proof of the claims of the supposed
widow. Sarah Kinder, established that not
only she but the o. children also were
put on the pension list and kept there
for four years. They were paid as the
widow and children of the Illinois vet
eran.
Last April Washington heard from an
other Mrs. Kinder. This time it was Mrs.
Nancy Kinder, who claimed a pension as
the widow of the William Kinder. Two
and two were put together, and 1t was
found that while there we're two Mrs.
kinders in the files, the one drawing q
pension and the other wanting to, there
was only one William Kinder claimed as
their husband.
Away went the pension examiners again,
this time with a clew that led straight to
West Plains, where Mrs. Nancy Kinder
was, and there. it is claimed, they learned
Of the state of affairs which had made
her stand by and see her own daughter
take her husband, but not the daughters
father. way from her and made her be
the servant of the house for the sake of
peace.
Being unlettered, not certain thai she
had not made herself legally liable, UNI
familiar with the changes in the pension
laws. the real widow, the mother of the
alleged illegal widow, postponed asking
for a pension till this year, when her APP
plication started the accumulation of a
report that already weighs IL pounds and
may send a woman to the federal prison.
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blue streak II you ask him to walk the
kid for a couple of hours. And the first
thing o Know he will be taking two
meals a day at the restaurant and spend
ing half an hour at each meal jollying the
pretty girls who run the cigar counters.
You can't tell us anything about the
brutes. dearies. They are the worst ever.
Their horizon Of cussedness passes far
beyond mere boundlessness. We have
seen them in al their ~hideousness and we
have prayed and pleaded with them for
your sweet sakes, but all in vain. We
would have gathered them together as a
hen gathereth her brood and led them
home, but for the likelihood that the
very suggestion might cause them to quit
the democratic party.
Swing on to the cook book, girls. Mas
ter the possibilities of the kitchen and
see that the house is sweet and clean.
Get a pair of your daddy's old breeches
and learn how to patch, and see II you
can sew on a button that will have some
approximate relation with the button
home. 1t may mea your life's happiness,
dearie, and it may mean the brute's souls
salvation. May the Lord prosper your
efforts IL bring you finally into a state
OF happiness that will bless all with whom
you come in contact. Amen.
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HIGHWAY TO HAPPINESS.
Il Runs Through the Kitchen and
Pantry Into the Drawing Room.
From the Houston Post.

We are bowling to Miss Mary Snow, Of
Chicago, and wondering how it happens
that she bears the title of Miss She
says she holds to the view that the high
way to happiness ans through the PAN
try and the kitchen into the dining room;
that a good meal and a we'll kept house
are the keys to marital happiness. Miss
Snow is a teacher of domestic science in
the public schools of Chicago, but she
ought to know that a woman OF her views
can easily land q good natured and CRATE
full brute of the genus homo by coming to
Texas.
The girls of the present time are making
a mistake wnen they fail to value the
tremendous Importance of domestic sci
ence. The happiness of which they dream
in the married state will fade with the
honeymoon if they do not know how to
minister to the temporal needs of the
boy who does the work.
Strike a healthy man in the "stummick"
with a soggy biscuit, dearie, and he'll
kick the dog before he goes to the office:
hand him a waffle weighing two pounds
and of the consistency of armor plate
and he'll swear as sure as you are born;
give him a steak that is burned on the
outside and raw in the middle and tootsy-
wootsy is going to crop a gill of tears
before sunset; serve him coffee of the
strength Of diluted milA and he'll forget
to kiss somebody goodby at the door. and
then there'n be the devil to pay.
It is easy enough, dearie, to hook the
scoundrel at the altar. Slip your hand
into his a few times, rub your cheek
against his. and look up appealingly into
his eyes until in the desperation stage he
rips off 81 kisses and you've got him. but
that's 10 sign you are going to hold him.
The strangle hold on his affections is
obtained through jam-up kitchen and
dining room work.
Feed him indifferently for a year. and
he'll be downtown till midnight. while
you are worrying with the baby. and
when he does come home he'll swear u
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From the Kansas City Journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
A story that rivals the tales of lola
was thrown upon the desk OF A. 9. Van
V~aikenburgh, United States district at
torfey, being II pounds Of the record Of
n pension case of Sarah Baker, or
Kinder. Pension examiners claim to have
found that the woman was declaring her
self to be the widow of her stepfather.
and that in that role she had actually
received some 1858 in pension money.
Early iii the COS an Illinois soldier
named Baker married Nancy Brown. 1t
ID outside the story but inside the facts
that he had buried one wife whose name
too had been Nancy. Nancy Brown had
the widow of q soldier, losing that
pension when she married a second soldier
named Baker. from whom she was di-
vorced. They had a child named Sarah.
Being out Of soldiers again. Nancy took
unto herself a third. this time the 1lli-
nois man named Kinder. To Kinder. she
took her daughter by her former hus-
band. Sarah. Sarah had attractions for
the soldier. so the government papers
read, for the real wife found herself sup
planted by the daughter, compelled to
take the name of Mrs. Robertson, and to
say thai she was assisting in the work"
The condition of affairs in this extra
ordinary household by this time estab-
ltshed in West Plains, southern Missouri,
Is told in the last paragraph of the gov
eminent report.
Kinder died, n the government heard
OF his death when, as il was supposed,
the widow applied for a pension for her.
self and their four children. The claim
through the various channels pension
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even his nerve to confront without q
CULVER the fate that, II his fears were
justfned:~l lay before them: the sudden.
violent death, and the black bog water
which would swallow all traces Of the
crime. But he did not lose his nrmness
or lower his crest for a moment.
BY and by the track, which for q
time had ascended, began to run down.
ward. The path grew less sound. The
mist, which was thicker than before,
they walked, as In a world desolate and
apart, allowed nothing to be seen in
front; but now and again q ragged
thorn tree or a furze bush, dripping
with moisture. showing ghostlike to
right or left. There vas nothing to in
or how far they were likely to travel,
until the colonel. peering keenly before
them. caught the CLEAN of water. 1t was
gone as soon as seen. the mist falling
agar like a curtain: but he had seen It.,
and he looked back to see what Og was
doing. He caught him also in the act
OF looking over his shoulder. Was he
making sure that they were beyond the
chance OF Interruption?
1t might be SO; and Colonel John
wheeled about quickly. thinking that
while O'Sullivan Og's attention was
directed elsewhere he might take one
Of the other men by surprise. sieze his
weapon and make a fight for hts life
and his servants life. But he met only
sinister looks. yes that watched his
smallest movement with suspicion, a
point ready levelled to strike him IL he
budgcd, And then. out Of the mist
before them, doomed the gaunt figure
OF a mar walking apace toward them.
The meeting appeared to be as little
expected by the stranger as by Og's
party. For not only did he spring aside
and leave the track to give them q
wider berth. but he went by warily,
with his feet in the bog. Some word
was cried to him in the Erse: he an
swered. for a op.en he appeared to
be going to stop. Then he passed on
and was lost In h mist.
But he left q change behind him. One
OF the firelock men broke of into hasty
speech. glancing, the Colonel noticed,
at him and Bale, as IL they were the
subjects Of his words. O'Sullivan Og
answered the man CURLY and harshly;
but before the reply was off his lips a
second nan broke in vehemently in
support of the other. They all halted;
for a few seconds all spoke at once.
Then, Just as Colonel John was Begin
ming to hope that they would quarrel,
O'Sulllvan Og gave way with sullen
reluctance. and a man ran back the
way they had come, shouting a name.
Before the prisoners could decide
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American TOYS.
From Van Norden Magazine.

From Van Norden Magazine.
Despite the fact that the manufacturers
OF the United States nave increased their
investments Of capital in %toymaking from
less than 100000 in 1850 to "a, ESQ, 600 in 1906,
toys from sl,25o,ooo in 1880 to s5,5OO,00O in
1915. the importations of this class Of mer-
chand.se. have grown steadily meantime.
The high water mark was reached in
1903. when the value of toys imported was
s7.5O,000: in 1909 the imports dropped to
about <5.0Oo,0O0 worth. In the exports of
toys the highest point was reached in the
fiscal year just ended, the total valu ex-
cceding for the first time 81, 10000
Germany is the worlds leading purveyor
of toys. AT least. it is by far the largest
One city in that country alone is esti-
mated TO produce 24,0oo,0O articles annual
w. valued at about 100000 American
toys are especially popular among those OF
English birth or ancestry. OF the $3.50, coo
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Court and Prisoner Knew Farming.
From he Kansas City Times.

Court and Prisoner Knew Farming.
From the Kansas City Times.
Oscar Copp. who Is separated from his
wife, was in the municipal court recently
charged with taking Mrs. Copp's money
for dissipation.
Where do you work?" asked the Judge.
1--WE been working in the wheat fields
Of Kansas"
D they head wheat or bind It out
there?"
They bind some, but head most of It,"
When does headed wheat 60 through
the sweat?"
I'm the stack"
When does shocked wheat 60 through
the sweat?'
After It IL threshed."
Which end Of a horse and which end
OF . COW gets up nrst?"
The forequarters OF q horse and the
hind quarters OF q cow"
You've worked on Q farm, I re. Go
back 70 work and leave your wife alone