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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1914-04-04
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. j. G. Durand made Q trip
to. New Orleans this week.
Mr.. Robert Martin made visit
to Now Orleans this week.
Fine Pants for Spring, I have
an elegant line, K. Schwartz.
Mrs. G. T. Bienvenu of Lafsy.
cite is here visiting relatives.
The School Board will hold q
meeting at the school house today.
Mr.. Paul Doerls of New Iberia
was visiting friends here Sunday.
-Mrs. j. G. Grevemberg spent
several days in Patoutville this
week.
Abbot Paul of St. Joseph Semi
nary was here several days this
week.
When in need of Fancy Groce-
rios, telephone j. b. Ferran'a
Grocery.
Messrs J. G.. Brouessrd and d.
G. Liable made q trip to New Or
leans this week.
Spring Suits, 1 have just receiv-
cd 6ne line. come and see them,
K. Schwartz.
Mr.. Euphemon Broussard Of
Breaux Bridge attended to bust.
moss here Monday.
-Messrs. Berard Ducrest and
Sidney Durand of Lafayette were
visiting here Sunday.
Shoes, for Ladies and Gents
have q nice line of Low Cuts, they
are elegant, K. Schwartz.
Mr.. Albert E. Broussard oil
Breaux Bridge was attending to
business here Tuesday.
Miss Angelina Durand of Port
Barre Was here this week, CUES
| of Miss Cancels Bienvsnu.
Mr.. Alfred E. Billings, specia
master in the sale of the Cecilis
Sugar Co., was here Tuesday.
For sale-One Peerless Incubs.
tor, capacity 60 eggs. Further
particulars apply at this Office.
Mrs. F. Foti and sons, Charlie.
and Frank spent the day will
friends in New Iberia Monday.
During these hot days don
forget that j. B. Ferran has fresl
Draught Beer on Tap at all times
Mr.. and Mrs. Auguat Delahous
save and Mr.. Mourant of Patout
vile were visiting here Sunday
| Mrs. Martin ]. VOORHEES, wen
to New Orleans this week to visi
her daughter, Mrs. L. L. Jarrea u
Mrs. Felix Brousssrd of Breau,
Bridge was here several days thi
week. visiting her mother, Mrs
TaylofDaspit.
Have Your measure taken for
Fine, Stylish Spring Suit. Que
Iity and fit guaranteed or no sale
| K. Schwartz.
Mrs. VIM. Barras and obildrel
of Lake Charles is here visitib
at tho home of her father, Nj
Ernest Beslin.
i Mrs. Gabriel Bulliard and Sit
tor, Miss Angelic Thibodeau
spent tho week in Lske Charles
visiting relatives.
We have an elegant line OF Lo
lCut Dudenheiffer Shoes now O
display in our store, We invite 20
! to come and look at them
K. Schwart
Mr.. Emile V. Martin, civil 81
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Parish Of St. Martin. State Of Louisiana.
By virtue of q writ of seizure and sale
issued out of the 10th Judicial District
Court, in and for the Parish Of st. Mar
tin, State of Louisiana. In the above en-
titled and numbered suit, dated the 9Th
day Of March 1914.
have seized and will proceed to sell
at public Auction to the last and highest
bidder at the front door of the Court
House, between the legal sale hours in
the Town of st. Martinville. on
Saturday April 10, 1914,
the following mentioned and described
property. to-wit:
A certain tract of land situated In th'
9Th Ward OF st. Martin Parish. La.
with improvements thereon containing
Sixty five superficial arpents, bounde'
north by land of Pierre s. Roy. south b.
land Of Adam Guidry, East BY Bayo'
Techs and West by land of Raoul Gui
dry.
Seized to satisfy the above writ.
Terms and cOnditiOns-cash.
Shsriffs Office this 18th day Of Marc
A. d. 1914.
WADE O. MARTIN, Sheriff
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PROGRAM.

The ceremony announced for
Good Friday will take place on
that day at three O'Clock.
The image of Christ which is to
be attached to the cross in tho c.
metsry, will be exposed all day in
the Church on Good Friday.
Whom the way Of tho cross is
finished, the people will 60 In pro-
cession to the cemetery in the fol-
lowing order: The cross-bearer,
tho school children, the Children
of Mary, the Knights of Colum-
bus, mon and women, then the CO.
lored people. with the banner OF
their societies.
The nails, the inscription 1. N.
R. l. and tho Corpus Christi will
will be carried on three littsrs.
All the stores will be closed on
this occasion from twelve to six
O'Clock.
Every family will be represen-
ted at this ceremony, which will
be q most imposing and very beau
tiful one. If God favors rs 9th
good weather.
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SHERIFFS SALE.
Robert Martin
VI
Alexis Bourgeois
No. 10962

10Th judicial District Court,
Parish Of st. Martin. State Of louisiana
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View Of Oseetah Lake in the Adirondacks.

ers: Robert Adamson. DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler. Lindon w. Bates, Irving
T. Bush, Frederick X. Burnham. Victor
Herbert. Justice Vernon VI. Davis, John
\. Sleicher. w. Il. Pulslfer, Foster Mil
liken, Frank Presbrey. f. y. Double
day and Melville T.. Stone.
For the uses Of the club property
consisting of about 5000 acres has been
secured. 1t Is situated on Osectah
Lake about six miles west of Lake
Placid. The clubhouse will be built of
ireproof material. The main highway
between Lake Placid and Paul Smiths,
soon to be connected with the great
highway from Florida to Montreal.
passes the Oseetah Lake railroad sta
ton.
The park itself consists of lakes and
tmbered shores, having on its three
principal sides the State Forest Pre-
serve. Seclusion and privacy are in
sured in the character of the sur
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NAPOIEONS RUSSIAN INVASION


charred corpses frozen fast In the river
and the nuts or the town close j..
packed with other dead. II Is said tina
10000 bodies were burned together an"
that thaws OF the following sprlh-
brought to hght l2'ooo more mIshtl
price to pay In one engagement \
grim monument To overpowerihs' IN
satlable ambition for power.
On toward wilma moved what was
left of the Grand Army-many deliriouS
from hunger and exhaustion, many
screaming in the agonies of disease
thought to be typhus fever Nine thou
sand still remained in the ranks on
December 3.
Two days later the marshals assem-
bled and heard Napoleon tell of his plan
to leave instantly for Paris. Murat was
left In command,and on December Swhl'r
the mercury stood at 20 degrees below
zero, he entered wilma with possibly ooo
unarmed. starving, miserable wreicheS
trailing after him. Then came NeN WIN
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ny WILLIAM BRADY. VI. ID.

n L this time of year, when we like
~ to get out and grub around the
dooryard. 1t Is we'll to be on
speaking terms with the neigh
bors.
In my own case 1t has always been
sible courtesy to my neighbors. This
trait was instillcd into me in childhood.
Father always consulted the neighDors
before attempting innovations of any
kind, and as for mother I've known her
10 sit up till 3 o'clock In the morning
just to make sure that Jim Tompkins
got home all right-Jim being addicted
to belated arrivals at times. Indeed, so
far as our parents were concerned no
act of their children was ever permitted
10 offend the nelghbors. Let me illus
trate just what | mean.
Jasper and / were out in the back
yard playing a quiet game of catch
with "a new ball Jasper had won for
scholarship and department at Sunday
school that very morning. We played
In whispers and used carefully padded
gloves on purpose not TO disturb che
neighbors Sabbath meditatiuns. But
mother CHANGED to glance out the
kitchen window before we had struck
out three men.
Jasper William" she cried, hor-
rified, raising the window. Go in the
barn this Instant"
"Aw please, ma" Jasper pleaded
with more fervor than he puts in his
books these days-"there amt room in
the barn. Can't we stay here? We
won't make bit of noise. Please"
go in the barn al once, say"
mother commanded again.
Jaw, shucks," Jasper ventured. "even
the Bishop said it's no harm to toss a
tall around in the back yard on Sunday
II you don't bother anybody"
you go right straight in the barn.
sir" mother interrupted threateningly.
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Il won't have you desecrating the Sab
neighbors say"
We finished our game under cover
have sometimes wondered whether
parents should be so puritanic in dis
clpline, but it was perhaps all for the
best. None of us boys has been in
dicted for any criminal offence as yet,
though all four of us have remained out
Of politics. This is no boast, but merely
good evidence of what bringing up can
do for a man.
IF asked to advise new arrivals in a
nelghborhood how they could best get
on with the nelghbors the first rule
should lay down is: Never keep
chickens. Let the neighbors go In for
the poultry game as far as they like
Put no obstacle in their way If you can
help 1t. Tacitly grant the use of your
dooryard as a run for the feathered
beauties and be prepared to pass some
pleasantly with the nelghbors If their
flock should evince a preference for
.
Leghorns and some other choice varie-
ties thrive better when not too closely
confined
But If you value your standing in the
community, II you would command the
good will of your neighbors, | say never,
never keep chickens / tried it once
and my experience taught me salu-
tary lesson.
1t all came about in the most casual
manner. Old Man Parsons, who dWells
next door to us, had n patent brooder
and concrete chicken house enclosed
IN woven wire park. His flock, how
, ever, had penchant for young green
garden truck, knowing. 'instinctively, |
suppose, that chlorophyl makes hens
lay better, and our little garden patch
lies nara against Parsons's park. The
wire netting enclosing the park had a
TWO inch mesh through which the fowls
being scientifically nourished, were able
10 squeeze with little trouble For a
time they kept the bugs and worms
pretty well cleaned out of our lettuce
bed, but later OH
several times 7 joklngly reminded OLE
b PARSONS mat dozen eggs would com,
pehsatc me for the live bait | was con,
trlputing To the success of his venture
| nut he only cackled merrily when
raised the issue and offered to lay m,
an egg against my blamed patch o
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Getting Along With
Your Neighbors
If You Value Their Good Will and Your Standing
in the Community Never Keep Chickens
The Selection of Lawn Mowers---Cau-
tons About Flags and Social Centres

chickweed that couldn't prove 1t.
This egged me on considerably and in
my easygong way 1 decided to take
him up
one afternoon when Parsons and his
wife were away from home and the
chickens were likewise industriously
thinning out our celery bed l strolled
Idly out and gently shooed the flock
toward the garage. AS 1t happened my
wife was standing just inside the garage
door abscntly strewing popcorn over the
floor.
The Spanish fandango rooster
cautiously investigated this phenome-
non. found the corn edible and sum
moncd two or three of his harem
favorites to share the delicacy. But
Just then sumething-either pun OF
wind or careless movement of my
wife-swung the door shut with the
chickens inside.
We went about our respective duties
as though nothing had happened My
wife was trimming her sweet peas and
was pulling weeds in the flower bed.
humming snatChes of the days popular
music didn't wauta do il, va went
N made me do it-when my wife passed
the flower bed and observed INGRAM
matically. "They're blooming fine, aren't
they?"
"Betcha life" said I proudly. digging
away at the geraniums. Ought to pot
a few, hadn't we?'
She didn't answer but tripped into
the kitchen to put the kettle on. 1t was
past our supper time.
Presently I went to lock the garage
for the night. Blessed If there wasn't
that COMPOUNDED rooster of parsons's
with three plump hens ensconced as
comfortably as you please on the rim of
the windshield facing the radiator. for
it was a rather chilly autumn night.
Right then | was seized with the poultry
fever myself. | decided to keep
chickens. So | selected the rooster and
his latest consort-I picked the rooster
first because a rooster is easier picking
I'm the dark and makes less of to do
about 1t than "A hen--and I must say
my judgment proved good. because they
were the tenderest fowl we had had in a
long time.
Bright and early next morning Par
sons was out on a still hunt searching
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tn HE oseetah Park Company has
been organized with a capital
= stock of 100000 to build a
clubhouse on Oseetah Lake in
tho Adlrondacks. The preliminary or
SANITATION committee is composed of
Alvin Dewey, Rochester, y. Y; Benja-
min l.. Hall, New York city: Benjamin
w. Lord. Danville. Ky; Edgar c.
Leonard. Albany. y. y; John Sedg-
wick, Utica, n. y; Max William Stoehr,
Passaic, n. j.; Andrew S. Taylor,
orange, n. j.; \. X. Thomas. Chicago;
Martin Justice. New York city; James
Il. Blake OF Albany. and ex-Public Ser
vice Commissioner William II. Wilcox
Asa q. Gallup, who was for thirteen
years manager of the Lake Placid Club,
has been elected president and resident
director.
Among the people interested in the
new club are the following New York
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increased to a cutting, freezing gale,
the roads were covered with sleet, and
the worn out shoes of the horses could
take no hold on such slippery ground.
The poor animals were so exhausted
that men had to push and strain at
the wheels of wagons and gun car
riages. Heaps of men and horses dead
of fatigue or famine, encountered the
road.
A few days at Smolensk. and then
forward again, through Krasnoi, Bor-
| rissoff, and Minsk. At Borrissoff, where
the army would have to cross the Ber-
esna, Napoleon expected to find
Schwarzenberg with reenforcements of
fourteen thousand German troops to
cover and protect his exhausted men,
on the Emperor pressed. with Russians
hanging on his TANKS, not giving pause
for breath. Near Krasnoi their ar
tillery belched forth.
The next day, under a flag Of truce,
the Russians called upon Ney to sur
| render. He was in a most hazardous
condition, with every prospect that the
enemy could cut him Off. but he sent
| back the reply. "a Marshal of the En-
pire has never surrendered" He had
| crossed the Dneiper filled with floating
| ice; day before he had 5000 troops !:
| two days later he had 500 men in his
ranks and possibly 1000 more swarm
| Ing after them in disorder.
Through all this, says Sloane, the
Emperor alone seemed impassive. Clad
in long Polish coat of fur, carrying a
stout birchen staff, he had shared the
common hardships without sign of ex-
haustion, marching on foot for long
distances with his silent, suffering
| starving men.
By night they bivouacked in snow
for food they ate broth OF horseflesh
thickened with a little -four Many
We're stricken with snow blindness and
Its terrible suffering; others went raw
ing mad, and others, by the score. by
the hundred, sank to the frozen earth
in merclful stupor, The men who
fought on against the elements were
wrapped in rags and looked more like
miserable tatterdemalons of submerged
Paris than members of Napoleon.
Grand Army.
At last Ney appeared, after an alb
sence during which the Emperor haC
been unable to communicate with him
The Russians had intercepted him, anC
the man of mighty valor had beer
obliged to cut a passage through thei
lines. Napoleon was dining with tn,
Prince de Neufchatel and the Due d.
DantZic when Gen. Gourgaud hastcnc,
into his presence with word that Mar
shall Ney and his men We're but a few
leagues distant. Among other things
Ney ascertained that the corps of Mar
shall Davoust We're dying with hunger
originally composed of 10000 men. no
more than 5000 remained alive.
The expected battle took place whel
the remnants of the Grand Arm
crossed the Beresna. All day lon
lighting continued in cold wind tina
by noon became hurricane. Men an
horses were damned against each othe
in bloody combat; roadways and othe
approaches were choked with straggler
and vast mob of camp followers.
Suddenly great bridge gave wa
and the troops upon 1t We're swallowe
: up in the icy waters. Fire added II
horrors. Dawning day found thousan
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under our porch and everywhere for his
chickens. We noticed particularly and
with some pride that he never thought
to look in our garbage can. That, we
felt. spoke eloquently for our standing
as neighbors. Before he left the yard
| went out and told him ] had seen the
rooster Juggling at a big worm or some
thing in our celery bed the preceding
afternoon and that maybe the worm
had turned at last and
But Parsons went off with his head
in the air and he didn't speak more than
formal word of greeting over the
back line fence again for year or more.
That was my first experience in keep
ing chickens. | shall never keep any
more as long as my neighbors live.
The next precaution / would suggest
for new neighbors has to do with the
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roundings. The entire water front OF
Oseetah Lake and large part of the
adjoining Lake Kiwassa belong to the
club. Osectah Lake is about five miles
long and Lake Kiw1ssa. about one and
une-half miles in length, is connected
with II by three-fourths OF a mile of
navigablc water. Oseetah Park con-
tains about forty miles of shore front
on the two lakes. with several attrac-
tive islands, and affords an almost
endless choice of sites for camps and
cottages or bungalows.
From the landing at the clubhouse
power boats have access to a dozen
lakes and ponds, making possible a
fifty mile trip over lakes interlocked by
rivers. This constitutes a water route
which has no counterpart in the Adj
rondack wilderness.
For motor boating, canoeing. camp
ing and outdoor life the Oseetah Lake
Club offers an almost Infinite list OF
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care you give your lawn. II there is
a stretch of grass between your house
and your neighbours 1t is a wise policy
to leave your side a trifle neglected
through the summer. You'll find your
neighbor Is more cordial and agreeable
In his demeanor when his lawn con-
trasts favorably with yours in neatness.
BY all means be careful not to NOV
your grass on the same day your neigh
Dor mows. There is nothing more ex-
asperating to a neighbours nerves than
to have a neighbor initiate everything
he does. II 1t be your custom to NOW
Saturday afternoon it is well to wait till
dark to do 1t, and then II your nelghbor
shows indications OF tackling his job
you had better postpone yours till about
10 next morning. have found this an
could tell you how considerable 1 am in
this way
Then too one should give the neigh
bors plenty of leeway in the selection
of lawn mowers. Mine is an 1890 model,
ten se-power. centre drive. with the
exhaust right back of the steering gear,
1t wins me new friends every time I
run It, With machine of this type you
go up and down the yard twice for each
clipping and leave an uncut band of
grass just wide enough to gladden. the
cookies of a neighbours heart.
About the time you make your first
stop. on the bluff that you're going in
to answer the telephone, your neighbor
will drop whatever he may be doing In
the house to hurry out and offer you
the loan OF his oil can and accept one
of your favorite Havanas. You can
easily perceive how this sort of per-
Torrance repeated frequently through
the summer gets you the reputation Of
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across the ridges to Scarface Noun
tain, the Sawtooth Range and Ampet,-
and.
For the sportsman these upland DIS
tricts abound in bear, deer. foxes, ran.
bits and furred game and partridge. y,
hunting will he allowed near the club
house, but forest camps provide III,
proper setting and comfort for tn.
sportsman and his guide. The lakes an
streams have been stocked for year
with brook, lake and rainbow trout an
whitefish. while small mouth black bas-
and great northern pike and pike perch
have flourished until the waters pro
vide splendid game fishing and the for
ests unusually good hunting throuch
their successive seasons from April To-
February.
Golf Is among the club pastimes.
Seymour Dunn Is at work on plans for
first class eighteen hole golf coursr
Of $500 yards.
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dren at the Social Centre meetings. and
when they deferentially inquire how
our little girls are getting along We
register encouragement and despair for
all we're worth.
l must confess, though, that my wife
is better actress than | am; she can
register delight without an effort while
l am pulling off a cross between pity
and disgust. She tells me that il | am
not more careful some one Is going 20
discover one of these days that our
youngsters are really not morons, but
l reassure her on that point by re-
mnding her that the chance of such
an error is obviously remote.
In large cities, they tell me, the Social
Centre Is less successful than 1t is in
the smaller towns. Folks in the cities
live next door for years and years
without even knowing their neighbors'
names. This Is the great curse of urban
life. | don't see what they live in large
cities for. Perhaps they are poor and
can't help 1t, but it does seem n shame
that perfectly friendly, sociable people
like the city people one meets on coun-
try vacations should have so narrow
"A conception OF the happiness of neigh
borlness.
Even II your next door neighbor
| keeps dog and monograph and has
a daughter who plays the piano he
may still be worth cultivating. You
must not judge neighbor by front
door standards. Run in unexpectedly
at the back door with your apron on II
you're woman, in shirtsleeves If you're
man, and size 'em up while they are
Off guard and eating in the kitchen
That's the way to know your neigh.
bOrs.
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possibilities. ranging In distance from
an afternoons paddle to a canoe trip
of hundred miles. The canoe water
covers Oseetah Lake. Lake Kiwassa. the
st. Regis and Osgood chain of lakes,
Loon Lake, Rainbow Lake, the Sara
nae chain of lakes, the Saranac River,
the Raquette River, the Topper Lakes.
Long Lake, Raquette Lake, Eagle Lake,
ttowana Lake. Blue Mountain Lake
and the lakes of the Fulton chain. In
fact every remote part of the Great
North Wosds may be searched out and
explored.
The preserve is equally attractive on
land. Miles of trails lead through pine
and spruce forests to trout ponds and
mountain streams. Forest paths zig
gag their course along the slopes to
Cold Brook, Amp"rsand Pond, Cold
River and in the remote depths to the
Ausable, the Opalescent and the head
waters Of the Hudson, or lead upward