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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-07-24
ENOUGH FOR ALL.

When we consider the fact that
there are 90 many organizations,
corporations and individ uals int.
rsstsd in better farming, but most
Of them studying and working in
dspsndsntly of each other. We need
not wonder that progress 10 slow.
Even the stats educational institu.
lions and state departments are
not always in harmony and willing
to cooperate for economy and eff.
cheney.
Some of the legislatures. being
anxious 10 help the farmers. but
not knowing how to do this, would
create more departments aud au-
thorizs new work that 10 dspsn-
dent upon work undertaken by
other departments. o.
Those who are anxious to i'm
prove rural conditions a. they now
exist should be commended. II
10 . work in which all should have
. part aud where every citizen to
. certain extent 10 responsible.
But Why not concentrate attention
to a few problems and oil work 10
cooperation? Iu tbiS way more
can be accomplished at less cost.
There 10 danger in creating too
many institutions and depart.
ments. These must grow aud on.
lags their field of sndsavor and
the people will b called upon for
higher taxes With which to sup.
port these institutions. The ques.
ton naturally arises: Why no,
give the educational, penal, cleo.
mosynsry Institutions w have
adequate support and require
those in charge to enlarge their
activities whenever conditions jus.
tify such action?
Private individuals, 6rms, cor.
porstions, clubs and other organ.
izatious may accomplish much BY
working in cooperation with thu
proper department, state or No.
tiopsl. This 10 the way to render
valuable assistance and have q
part in . valuable work. Thi,
kind OF cooperation will command
the respect of those whose iuts-
est is sought. - Farm and Ranch
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-07-24
NOTICE OF SALE.

DucIamp Hardware Company
Sauls MslancOn ct ais
LIST Justices Court, lat Ward,
No. %
Parish Of st. Martin, La.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue
Of writ Of d ia. issued by +. 4. Della.
housssys Justice Of the Peace in favor
Of said plaintiff aud against Saule Me
lsncOn. aud to 10 directed. I will, bs-
tween legal sale hours. OH Saturday the
9TH day Of Aug. A. b. 1915. al the Court
House door Of the Town Of st. Martin
vile, La. offer for sale and will sell al
public auction, ~ the last aud highest
bidder. the following described property
tO-wit:
all Of the rights, titles aud Interest
Of said Saule Melancon as heir In thu
estate Of his deceased mother. Mrs. NJ
ma Mslancon; seized "a the property oil
the said Sauls MslancOn under said
writ.
Terms and conditions Of sale:
This being a second auction, the fore
going described property will be adju
dictated to the last aud highest bidder
for whatever same will bring. at twslv,
months credit. The purchaser to Civ,
bond with good security. for the pur.
chase money. bearing legal interes
from the day Of sale until paid. ell il
accordance with law.
Dated this 9Th day Of June A. d. 1915
DARCOURT DUGAs, COnstabls
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-07-24
The Times. Picayune'S New PictursSams

The New Orleans Times Picayune re-
Gently started another Of its interesting
BOOklovsr's Pictursgame. This 10 the
fourth game conducted by The Times
Picsyuns.
They have always afforded the players
much pleasure aud the best players have
found II very profitable.
This year live thousand dollars in cash
IL to 10 divided among the 256 persons
sending the best answers.
The hrst prize is $l,OOO. aud ether
prizes range from 500 tO 500.
The PIctursgams editor Of The Times.
Picsyune will b glad to furnish full
particulars and rules for playing the
pictursgyms to all Interested persOns
The game il open " all aud entrants
may joins W any time w " the publish
ing Of the last picture which will be
about July 10. However. 1t IL sdvlsabls
to start early aud have ample time "
give your answers careful study.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-07-24
SHERIFFS SALE.
Charles Rees
Alfred Breaux
No. 1899

18th Judicial District Court.
State Uf Louisiana. Parish Ut st. Martin.
BY virtue Of AL order Of seizure and
sale issued out Ut the 18th judicial Dis
Irict Court. in and for the Parish Of st.
Martin, State Ut LOulsiana. in the allows
shtitlrd aud numbered suit, dated this
Slh., day Of June A. b. 1915.
have seized and Will prOcasd to sale
ut Public Auction to The last aud high
sst bidder al the front door Ut the Court
House, in tho Town Of st. Mxrtinvills.
Louisiana, Un
Saturday July 24th 1915,
tho following mentioned and described
property
LIST. Que undivided tract Of land
which measures in superficial area
Twenty Ons arpents more or loss. bis
undivided One third Of said lsnd-Situ-
atsd in the fourth ward Of st. Martin
Parish. Louisiana. and being bounded
North by land Of Boyd Il ais. South aud
West 10y Willy Simon aud East by Chss.
Gil]ard.
Second. The undivided One Third Of
that certain tract Of land containing
Five Superficial srpsnts more Or less,
Bounded North by land Of A. Gillard,
South by land Of Edmend Wiltz Oh K. X.
tract. East by land VI HypOlite Pierre
and West by land % Bord & ais.
Seized ~ satisfy above writ.
Terms aud cOnditiOns-Cash.
Sheriff's office. this 10Th day Ut June
A. d. 1916.
WADE 0. MARTIN, Sheriff.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-07-24

The ladies' Of the Civic League,
We are informed are preparing to
give . Big Fsts in tie near future
to raise funds to smbellish the
Evsngsline park. The date aud
program will be given later.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-07-24

The auction sale of the Fsrrsn
store by the Sheriff this week
drew . large number of people
who were looking for goods at bar.
gain prices.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-07-24

Mr.. p. r. Burke announced De.
mocratic candidate for District
Attorney, has Withdrawn. leaving
Mr.. Edwin b. Brousssrd, Progress.
sivs, the only candidate for thai
Office.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-07-24

"A good heavy rain foil here
Tuesday evening that did much
good, a. it was needed by oil
crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13
Finding New Sights in London For Future American Travellers

he traded at St. Petersubrg and final 1y left there on a journey through Rus sia and Persia. He set off in 1743 and didn't get back until 1750 and mean while had all kinds of queer adven- lures. Three years later he published an account of his travels and he spent the rest of his life in London, being for years one of the commissioners for victualling the navy. He was the untiring friend of chimney sweeps. par ish infants and unfortunates generally. But he is remembered chiefly. of course as having been the first man with the temerity to carry an umbrella, and this in spite of the jeers of the public and the mockery of hackney coachmen. He attacked tea drinking. too, and here he had the honor of being opposed by pr. Johnson, who observed, among other things, Jonas acquired some reputation by travelling abroad. but he has lost 1t all by travelling at home Which was quite in the Johnsonian vein.'
 Ashton added that these were cny a few of the many plans that the Seborne society had in mind. Another theme of theirs is to take visitors thr Jugh the London parks, not with the object of showing them as they are today, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13
PROOFS WORRIED TOLSTOY
Only Through Wife's Aid Were Cor
 rections Made Legible

Wifely assistance in literary work was strikingly exemplified in the case of the Countess Tolstoy. the wife of Leo Tolstoy. who was one of the worst proof manglers" that ever drove a publisher to despair. says the New York Times. Before his books reached the press they had often been prac- tically rewritten in proof and often these proofs reached the publishers months after they had been promised His son. the present Count Tolstoy n his "Reminiscences of Tolstoy," com ments on this peculiarity of the great author and gives as an instance his book Anna Karenina"
 When Anna Karenina began to come out in the monthly Russki West nik." he writes, Tong galley proofs were posted to my father, and he looked through them and corrected them
 At first he would mark the margins with the ordinary typographical signs, letters omitted. marks of punctuation. and so on; then he would change indi- vidual words, and then whole sentences. This would be followed by erasures and additions until the proof sheets became a mass of patches that was perfectly black in places. It was impossible to send them back as they stood. because no one except my mother could make head or tail of the tangle of signs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

heno-g1ris are often quite pretty. They nave sweeter voices than our helio- irls. and no nasal twang They wear low necked dresses of white and most of them work with bare heads and bare feet There are orange trees just back or the office. and noticed that some of the girls had orange blossoms in their mar. asked as to salaries and was told that each girl gets about s2 a week.
 During my stay here I have taken a walk along the banks of the Paraguay
 The business of the port has outgrown It's landing arrangements, and in,prove- ments are contemplated which will in- volve an expenditure of millions of dol lars. An esplanade is to be formed which will be four or five miles in length, and the bank of the river is to be turned into beautiful park. This esplanade will be one of the finest drives of the world It will have views of the Paraguay and of the Chaco on the opposite side. Back of it will be the great public buildings, and at one end will be large park.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

ried the first umbrella and the one who wore the first silk hat lived. They will take certain districts at one time say the London of Shakespeare or of Dickens, and explore them thoroughly reconstitutng the past step by step, with the aid of special knowledge. Not even the most intelligent and indefatigable sghtseer could do that for himself, nor is there a Man from Cooks who would so much as undertake to do it for him! Che of the great objects of these new ''rambles," as they are called, in fac; while showing the traveller the London o. today to attempt to bring before him at every turn, the London that has been. And no one but man of real learning and an enthusiast on the subject could even begin to do that!
 These "rambles" in London and the surrounding district are not commer- cial undertaking. They are promoted for the public benefit purely by the Sel- borne society, of which some of the most distinguished men and women in the country are members. The Selborne so- ciety, as its name more or less indi-
 
 ural history. Its patron saint is Gilbert White the most famous of British natur- alists. who lived at Seborne. It was started in 1885 by George Musgrove, a prominent disciple of White, and its object then was to agitate against the utilization of wild birds plumage for purposes of personal adornment.
 Now the society has over 5000 members They include Sir Edward Grey, the Brit ish foreign secretary. who, you may re- member, after sitting at Colonel Roose- velt's elbow while the ex-President made his 'bombshell' of a speech on British administration in Egypt, went down tc the new forest next day with the colone ito hear the birds sing" The Duke oi Portland is president of the society, ant F. Chalmers Mitchell the secretary O. the London zoo, it's chairman. Othe prominent members are the new lord for merly the Hon. Walter Rothschild, ant his brother Charles who have at Trin, the finest private zoo in existence, tn bishop of London, who beat Roosevelt a tennis and is just back from the front Viscount Bryce, Lord Curzon, the Duches of Bedford, one of the keenest natur lovers in England and possessed of pri vate menagerie second only to the Roths chlds. and others equally great in one wa or another.
 It was the Selborne society that estab lished some 10 years ago, the famou bird sanctuary in the Brent valley. Va rious types of British birds were in dan ger of becoming extinct, hence this pro iacf nf tsnrpSerNinRf a district where tn fowls of the air might live and bree
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

liam Ireland. abutting on the street lead ing to Puddle Dock on the East Side, against the Kings maiesty's wardrobe The exact spot is located in the center of the network of lanes and alleys in the rear of the offices of the London Times, or where Ireland Yard emerges into St. Andrews Hill, and this is only one of the many places intimately asso- ciated with Shakespeare to which we take our visitors.
 We begin with Staple Inn. in Hol- born, past whose venerable gates and the surrounding houses the bard must have passed, when. one evening in the spring of 15S6, he tramped into Lon don to seek his fortune here. Then we go to Gray's Inn and the gardens where Shakespeare later used to walk with his patron, friend and inspirer, Lord Southampton. Here we see the famous catalpa tree that was planted by Lord Bacon. and also visit the hall where the benchers of the inn heard the first performance of the Comedy of Errors Next we visit the gate of Lincoln's Inn through which the bard often passed and on which Ben Jon son worked with a trowel in one hand and a copy of Horace in the other. Thus, eventually we cross the river to streets which wend their way between ugly warehouses, we show our pilgrims the sites of the Rose and Swan thea tres, and finally, the spot marked by bronze memorial tablet where stood the Globe, the Round O." the play house of Shakespeare. Finally we visit the George Inn and see the balcony from which the spectators look ed down, centuries ago, upon the actors playing in the inn yard.
 "Other 'rambles' take us through the London of oliver Twist and the Lon- don. of David Copperfield.' and still another takes us From Chaucer to Tennyson.' Another full of interest. .s that From Charing Cross to St. Paul's. Here we see the London house of Ben jamin Franklin, which for so many years was wrongly identified. 1t is of course. No. 36 Craven street, Strand and not 37, and the memorial tablet is now correctly placed. We see, too, the house of Jonas Hanway. of umbrella fame who lived at Charing Cross Few pers0ns know anything about Jonas except that he was the first man te carry an umbrella and that he has 8 monument in Westminster Abbey, bu, he really had quite a remarkable ca rec. In those days when few people ever left their own country, Jonas was quite globe trotter. Also a phil anthropist. He was born at Ports mouth in T43 and at 17 was appren- ticed to a Lisbon merchant Afterward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

undisturbed by the sling shot of youth or the depredatory feline. Strangely enough this piece of woodland, nine acres in extent, lies partly within the London postal district. You can go there, under the guidance of member of the society's special committee, and see the nesting boxes, nests and eggs, and often the sitting birds, too, which will show not the slightest alarm at your approach. One of the Selborne society's prospective "rambles," it appears, may take the form ot visit to the famous bird sanctuary
 Percival J. Ashton who is extension lecture secretary to the Selborne society. told yesterday how the society's new plan of 'rambles' originated. Ashton is a lawyer by profession and a naturalist by hobby He follows the law. in drab Wal brook, and devotes his spare time to bot knowledged authority thereupon and his lectures draw big audiences.
 "A year or two ago. he said. 'the so- ciety decided to start extension lectures with the aim of popularizing the study of natural history, and these rambles are an outgrowth of that scheme. We shall charge a small fee for them-two shil- lings for any of those in London--just enough to help pay expenses. We are not out for profit. Our guides are men fla nous in their various spheres. One of them, A. H. Blake, is probably the great est of London photographers and is the founder of the school of London pho tographers and is the founder of the Of n a a M. A.. and a fellow of the Royal His torical society, and a recognized literary authority. Probably it IS no' exaggerd- ton to describe his knowledge of London, old and new, as unrivaled. Another is A. H, Anderson who is known, among other things, as the saviour of Box Hill.' That beautiful district in Surrey which was, of course, the home of George Meredith, was, in 1913 in imminent dan ger of being built over. Anderson saw the danger and raised the fiery cross ir the press tn result being that public feeling was aroused, and that the hill was bought and presented to the nation by Leopold Salomons, the financier and art lover. Anderson is the author of many of the Homeland Handbooks,' too. and was the originator of the articles on Country Rambles,' which are now such feature of the London press. An other of our guides is William J. Rolf
 fey, a member of the Dickens Fellow
 ship, and one of our leading authorities ; On Dickens. and still another is J. J. Ward best known, perhaps, for his stud ies of insect life.'
 The 'rambles' in London have begun } already" Mr. Ashton went on, and they seem to us extremely interesting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13
Ubiquitous Jitneys
Providence Bulletin.

From the Providence Bulletin.
 So swift is the development of the jitney but in the east, all in the brief time since it first appeared in the streets of Providence, that one follows its history with difficulty. Apparently the jitney fever strikes each town sud denly and then spreads therein like an epidemic. It is only a few days ago that 1t reached Philadelphia, but very quickly there were 1000 motors in the service, and many are being added daily to the total Jitneys already swarm the principal Connecticut cities, New Haven being the first to welcome them. At Bridgeport $50,000 corporation op- crates buses of a distinctive color whose drivers are in uniform. and this company issues transfers between it's different routes. Hartford has double deckers like the Fifth avenue buses In New York city.
 Regulation of the new conveyances is still a problem elsewhere as in Provi- dence. A bill before the Connecticut bonds for each car, but in Hartford some of the buses carry signs indi- eating that passengers are indirectly protected by insurance covering acci- dents to them. Public support for the jitneys Is so strong wherever they have sprung up that the drastic measures urged against them by people in sym pathy with the street railway com panies which are suffering heavily, are making no rapid headway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

One of many advantages we have is this We already have permissions and are constantly getting more. to take our parties Into various historical and other buildings that never previously have been Notably in that fascinating region of old London, Chelsea. where, up to now, trav- elers have practically been restricted to Chelsea old church and Carlyles house In Cheyne Row. We, on the other hand. are able to take them into Chelsea hos pital-the home of Britains old soldiers through the Ancient Herb garden. where Richard III was living when he plotted to murder the two little princes and take possession of the crown, into the ancient Moravian churchyard and to point out the studios of Turner, Rossetti, James McNei1 Whistler and Don Saltero.
 'one ramble' which we have planned with the interest of foreign visitors espe- cially in mind breaks, we think, new ground. It deals wholly with London by night. We meet at 10:30 p. m. and SC at once to the offices of the Daily News of which Charles Dickens once was edi- tor. and which is now one of London's chief liberal dailies. Practically the mouthpice of the government, in fact These offices are in Bouverie street, where Punch, too, is located. Once there our visitors will be allowed to see every stage in the printing of great daily news paper, and will leave with still damr copy of the mornings issue in theiI hands. After that we shall visit typi cal doss-house,' which means, of course the cheapest type of London lodgine house, where the down-and-outer can get a bed for 5 or cents. Having seer this we shall go on to a typical one oi the night pubs or specially licensed re freshment houses for night workers. Ther we shall go along the embankment. where the big scene of so many dramas ol London life has been laid, and on whose benches the man or woman without the price of bed camps out as long a. the police will let him. Finally we shal arrive at Covent Garden London's grea fruit, vegetable and flower mart, in tim to see the fruit and flowers that have come from France, the Scilly Isles and { thousand other points. arrive, and watcl all the various activities of the grea market This will take us until 4:30 whei we think that our guests probably VII be quite ready to betake themselves tt bed
 Then there is Shakespeare's London Mir. Ashton went on. No one but pro found Shakespearean scholar. like A. H Blake. who will act as guide to thi 'ramble. could show one the half of it Did you know, for instance, that Shake speare once owned piece of propert. in London? He did, it seems, and de scribed it as in the occupation of Will