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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-09-18
SUCCESSION SALE.

Estate Of Homer Zsnon
Probate No. 1906 of the Docket OF the
18th Judicial Court in and for the
Parish Of st. Martin, La.
BY virtue of an order and a commits
sion granted in the above Estate, by the
Hon. the 10Th Judicial District Court in
and for the Parish of st. Martin. State
OF Louisiana. dated Sept. 13. 1915.
will offer for sale and will sell or
cause to be sold by competent officer.
at Public Auction. for cash, to the last
and higheat bidder, between legal sale
hours at the late residence of Homer
ZenOn in st. Martin parish. La, on
Saturday Oct. 23rd, 1915
the following described property, to-wit:
LIST. That certain tract Of land situa-
ted in the Parish of st. Martin, Louisi-
ana. with all the buildings and i'm
provements thereon, consisting Of a
dwelling house. cabin. corn crop, fences,
and other appurtenaDces thereto belong
lug. containing fifty acres on superb
cial area. bounded north by lands Of
MYRTLE Simon, south by lands of Olivier
Poursio, east by lands Of Adelbert BrOus-
sard. and west by lands Of Albert Breaux.
2nd. One lot of horses etc.
Bird. One lot implements of husband,y
4th. One lot of household furniture.
ROSE CASTILLO,
Parliamentary Executrix.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-09-18
NOTICE.

Hunting and trespassing are strictly
prohibited Oh our Cypress Island Plan
tatiOn. formerly the Mitchell Place.
Anyone hunting and trespassing on
said Plantation will be prosecuted &C.
cOrding to law.
SIBILLE BROS
Aug. %. 1915.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-09-18
Parcel Post Insures up 500

Change 10 postal regulations,
effective September l. has been
announced, by which parcel post
mail may be insured up to 500.
Heretofore the limit has been $50.
For valuations from $50 to 500
the fee will be 25 cents in addition
to postage.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-09-18

Be . live ono and the town will
never be q dead ono.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1915-09-18

All that any man has to do in
order to attract attention 10 to
make . fool of himself.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
GERMS CAUSE APPLE BLIGHT
Only Known Way Of Control of Dis
ease Is to Cut Out Affected
parts-Job Tedious.

Blight of pear and apple trees is
caused by very minute germ which
works inside the bark and out OF
reach of any spray material that may
be applied. 1t is spread from tree to
tree by insects and gets into the trees
through the blossoms. Here it is de-
posted by bees and other insects
which visit the blossoms, and as con-
ditions are favorable for the develop
ment of the germs, they pass from the
blossoms through the stems of the
flowers into the twig and then through
the rest of the tree.
To control blight by cutting out tho
affected parts is a tedious job, but it is
the only way known at this time for
controlling it. Whoever will discover
a better way than this win be bene-
factor of humanity and do wonder
full work for the upbuilding Of fruit
growing.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
Canada's Giant Trees.

The 225-foot long spar" of Doug
las fir, gift from British Columbia.
which is to be erected as a Flagstaff
in Kew, Gardens. in England, is typi-
cal of hundreds of similar pieces OF
timber which grow in the forests OF
western Canada. The Kew Gardens
Flagstaff, which was taken down ow-
ing to it's insecure condition in Deem
Der, 1918, and which was 100 feet
in length, also came from British
Columbia and carried the flag in Kew
Gardens for over half century. 1t
was presented to the gardens by the
late Mr.. e. Stamp and was brought
to England by a sailing ship, via
Cape Horn, in 1861. When it was de-
cided to take it down two years ago
1t occupied a big staff OF workmen
over a fortnight in rigging up the
necessary derricks and gear for low
ering it to the ground.-Pall Mall Ga
Zette
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
Wild Things a Pest in France.

The prohibition imposed by the
French government upon hunting has
caused wild animals and birds to null
tiply so rapidly during this summer
that crops in the fields and in orchards
and gardens in various forest re. 'ons
have been ravaged. The menace has
become so serious that the govern
ment authorities are now killing rab-
bits. hares, pheasants and other ami
mails and birds which have fed upon
the growing crops. The killing is done
on specified days by those in the COM
munes who have proper authorization.
The huntsmen act collectively. no indi-
vidual sportsman being allowed to go
out for game Guns are not used In
the work except under the supervision
of gendarmes, and then only when 9TH
er means of disposing of the game.
such as traps and ferrets. are not avail
able. Wherever possible, the game is
taken alive. and transferred to other
parts of the country for restocking
purposes.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24


once as she began, almost impercep-
tibly, to back out from the shore. The
ends Of the chains were hauled up
slipped forward and fastened securely
after the logs had been coaxed to-
gether as much as was possible with
rope and peavey and cant hook
BY jingo!" said Daily, "but that
was blast. The son-of-a-gun must
have had wagon-loan o. sticks. An
it was a plant, all right. Must've had
some batt'ries an trigger wire. But
he haint smart enough to figger out
such things. Twa'n't tn right slant.
or she'd hit us amidships an opened
us up proper-an' we'd a-gone to sea
in pieces"
The hours of the flood tide were irk-
some to him, waiting, wondering how
it Jared with Sandry swinging be-
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
CHAPTER XVI.
The Bio Raft.

On the fourteenth of March the
wheezy tug pulled the great, brown
cigar-shaped monster that meant so
much to Sandry and the fortunes of
the Dillingworth from it's mornings
out to the narrow. deep neck of the
bay that would take it to the sea.
Sandry for the first time in his life
felt the slow, sliding motion as the
great oval floor responded to the
screeching tug and the ebb tide.
On board with Sandry were Daily
and eight Indians. all armed and wait.
ing for anything that might develop
But Hampden had no notion of meet
ing John Daily in his present mood
and it seemed as if all was to go
smoothly. AS the raft drew maies-
tss.ally abreast of the mill at Toledo
tie Yellow Pines owner was conspicu-
GUS on the dock. though he did not ap-
pear to see anything beyond the pile
of raw, bright lumber he was marking
His ford face wore sardonic grin.
John" said Sandry. Its a wonder
Hampden didn't do something surer to
hinder us-jam the bay with logs or
tie Us up some way"
Mig.t. only I've had John Teetey-
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
RILEY HAD TO WRITE JINGLES
When the Loved Poet Was
Her Pupil.

"Jingles" and not regular studies oc-
cupied the school hours of James
Whitcomb Riley, the noted Hoosier
poet, according to Mrs. libby" Ul-
rey, seventy-three years old, of Athens,
Tenn, who is visiting with Mrs. S. A.
Rice of Covington, KY, the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune states.
I'm the year 1860-61, when taught
in the subscription school at Green
field, Ind, Riley was one Of my pupils,
and, although he was good student.
he never carried off the honors of his
class.
His chief delight was to hide be-
hind some other pupil and compose
'jingleS,' as he called them, and when
caught in the act always explained
that he had to write, as the verses
were always going through his mind.
Composition came natural to him
and he would stop in the midst of a
task to jot down some little verse.
When he was about eighteen years old
he ran away with travelling medicine
show and later painted signs on fences,
but would stop work suddenly to
sprawl out on the grass by the road
side and jingle"
Mrs. Ulrey attended the celebration
in honor of the poet which was recent
ly held in Indianapolis and she and her
former pupil spent several hours to-
gether recalling the old schooldays.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
CONTROL THE PEACH BORERS
Thick, Heavy Coating of Asphaitum
Serves to Exclude Insects-Mate-
rial Is Applied Warm.

In a bulletin of the California sta
ton e. L. Morris calls attention to the
use of hard asphaltum, grades "C'' and
3D." for the control of the peach tree
borer. This material was applied early
in the spring to badly infested trees
from which the borers had been dug.
1t was found that thick, heavy
coating prevented both the issuance
and the entrance of about 95 per cent
to SO per cent of the insects, the de-
gree of efficiency depending upon the
thoroughness of the application. AS
phaltum does not penetrate, crack, de-
teriorate or bind the tree, since 1t
yields to the slightest pressure. Four
years of experimenting have not
shown the least injury.
The material is applied warm with
brush from FIVE inches below to five
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
CHAPTER XV-Continued.

"Why-why," stammered Siletz, 81
hardly know. Yet-there is some.
thing
She fell silent moment, standing
beside him. =
The winds of God are heavy on my
soul, Sandry." she said at last, ear
nestiy. and they tell me that you
are sad. What can l do-oh, what can
/ do to help?"
There was in heravoice the simple
cry OF sympathy SO intense that it
was anguish, and Sandry's lips tight
ened in the darkness.
For heady moment he could scarce
resist the bidding of the lawless thrill
that she was ever capable of sending
through him, to take her into his arms
as he had done that day when she
beheld the sea. But tardy thought
OF Miss Ordway shut his hands upon
themselves and steadied his voice
He put his hands upon her Shout
ders and turned her round.
60 back to Ma Daily, child" he
said, but his voice had fallen to a
whisper. whisper that was a caress,
laden as heavily with wistful sadness
as whisper might be, land don't fret
am all right"
Without word, obedient to him as
the primal woman ever is to man,
Siletz went away in the night toward
the cook-shack.
AS she passed UP the path she al
most brushed the garments of Poppy
Ordway, standing in rigid silence, her
hands shut in the folds of her gown,
her rose lips ashen, her eyes strained
wide.
Fool! Fool! FOOL" the woman
was thinking in rage of passion.
why didn't l suspect? She is some
thing to him-she has her charm.
There is danger in her to me-oh,
Sandry, you stupid, simple heart!"
For Poppy Ordway had heard the ca
ress OF that lowered voice. The new
passion in her took fright, and furi-
Gus, choking rage sent the blood hot
upon her heart.
The next morning he found upon his
window-ledge handful of fern and a
spray of tiny, yellow, waxlike flowers
that were beginning to show where
the little streams tore down the noun
tains, lining their rocky beds. He
took them in and put them away in a
drawer among his papers, silent voice
Of sympathy that was as delicate as
it was strong.
That morning when Poppy Ordway
encountered Siletz the bright smile
she gave her covered sudden hatred
that had sprung. full grown, from
mans low whisper; and the bad times
that followed for the girl had their
inception then.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
SYNOPSIS.

Eiletz Of Daily's lumber camp directs
q stranger to the camp Walter Sandry
introduces himself to John Daily, fore
man. as "the Dillingworth Lumber Co..
or most of it, He makes acquaintance
with the camp and the work. He gives
siletZ permission to ride Black Bolt his
saddle horse. In an emergency he proves
70 the foreman that he does not lack
judgment. Siletz tells him of the Preach
er. de discovers that Siletz bears the
sign Of the Siletz tribe of Indians and
Wonosrs what her surname is. In the
uush OF tender moment he calls her
the Night Wind In the Pines" and kisses
ner. Poppy Ordway. a magazine writer
from Sew York, comes to Daily.s to get
na.eral for romance of the lumber
region. Hampden of the Yellow Pines
GO. wants Sandry to keep off a tract of
stumpsge he claims title to and Sandry
thinks he has bought as the East Belt.
1ampden sets up cabin on the East
beIt ana warns trespassers off,. Sandry
Gan Gar, md no written evidence of title to
Sandry compares Sletz and Poppy. San
Qrys and Hampden's men fight over the
Gisputed tract. The Preacher stops the
ngnt Sandry finds that the deed to the
last st BELT has never been recorded. He
dde ee to get out his contract first and
nght for the stumpage afterward. Poppy
scents tr1ckery and flirts with Hampden
70 gam his confidence. She tells Sandry
mat Hampden Is crooked and that she'll
Sst MN. Poppy goes to Salem in search
Slletz ride to the seashore and Siletz sees
tne ocean for the first time. Sandry's
Ialsn DESERT him for Hampton, who has
oIered more money Siletz goes to her
t4Ilends the Siwashes and persuades them
Ie work for Sandry to save his contract.
Poppy tells Sandry that she has proof of
iiampden's filing bogus entries in collu-
Sioh with the commissioner.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
PROPER SITES FOR ORCHARDS
Settles to Lower Leveis-Frost
Does Much Damage.

It is a well recognized fact, though
one too often overlooked in selecting
sites for orchards, that cold air set
Ties to the lower levels. For this rea-
son it is often colder at the lower
elevations than it is at higher points
In the same locality. This is what is
meant by atmospheric drainage"
The occurrence of frost in low places
when there is none on elevated areas
is thus explained. For the same rea-
son peach buds are often winterkilled
Or the blossoms are injured by frost
In the spring in low places when
nearby orchards on higher elevations
are injured much less, OF even escape
sntirely.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
Female Beetle Placing an Egg in Tree
Below Surface of Ground.

inches above the ground. 1t is easier
to apply two or more coatings than to
try to put on more at one time than
will adhere firmly. The first coating
will harden very quickly and the Sec
0nd can be applied without loss of
time. Two coatings are generally suf-
ficient unless the bark is very rough.
But in any case thick, uniform COW
sring is absolutely necessary for the
best results.
Borers are seldom uniformly distrib-
uted over an orchard. Small blocks
Of trees here and there may be badly
infested, and the most Of the orchard
comparatively free from the past. I'm
such cases it is not necessary to treat
all of the trees with asphaltum, but it
is necessary to examine them care
fully, for in no other way can the true
conditions be known.
A convenient way to handle the as
phaltum is to mount an iron kettle on
the running gear Of an orchard truck
and suspend beneath it a sheet iron
apron as a fire box. Keep hard as
phaltum in the kettle all the time, so
that the melted asphaltum will not get
too hot to carry in small containers,
and apply directly to the trees.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
Chance to Think.

Miss Gadders talks so much and so
fast that it is impossible to get in a
word"
Yes, but l find her conversation a
great help to me at times" said Pro-
lessor Diggers, who is compelled to
leave his study occasionally to fulfill
his social obligations.
Impossible"
Nevertheless 1t is quite true When
she talks I'm able to concentrate my
mind on matters that demand my I'm:
divided attention, whereas if | were in
the society of less voluble person !
might, now and then, have to make
some sort of reply"
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24

shifted gently until they stood. a back.
ground for the pallid girl in the rough
western garb. Miss Ordway smiled.
though hard brilliance came into her
face.
Perhaps" she said. HE has kissed
many. 1t is the way of the outside
world"
She turned to the physician.
When do you think he will recover
consciousness? ''
Her cool voice terminated the scene
She was mistress of the hour.
With both hands extended before
her Siletz went blindly out into the
sunlight. She stood a moment, her
breath coming and going in great
gasps. like that of a doe mortally
wounded. and in her eyes was no light
Like the wounded doe, she fed to
the hills for sanctuary. Coosnah
swung into his pace behind her; and
presently, after an hours climD, they
reached the great fir stump on the
crest of the ridge. Here the girl flung
herself on her knees, gripping her
braids in savage fingers, and for wild
space something within her that she
had never known in all her life arose
and shook her. She had gone back a
thousand years. Blind rage was upon
her-she wanted to fight as the pre-
historic female fought for her mate.
So che knn1f and rocked in tha Inst
of fury while the little clouds sailed
in an azure sky and the hill streams
trickled to the valleys. and suddenly
bird in high pine top dropped a
string Of notes, clear, silvery, spar
king. for all the world like the dia-
mond notes of a flute and instantly she
covered under them, covering her eyes
in instructive guilt.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24


ragged scalp with his hands. and there
one wavered drunkenly from the fall
he had got. but all eight accounted for
themselves.
Boys" said Daily tensely, "all who
can swim get into the water quick!
Sandry was standin' alone at her nose.
It's hundred to one he's done fort"
No one asked question. the Indians
accepting with their pathetic fatalism
this disaster which would have set the
tongues of white men flying.
Silently the FIVE who we're unframed
except for bruises slipped into the
heavily running tidewater and disap.
peared amid the fiotsam and jetsam of
the long bay which travelled always
aimlessly back and forth.
The grooming of the raft grew in vol
ume for a few minutes. then subsidized
as it locked and settled. Daily on the
shore began threshing the ferns, filing
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24

tween the Indians, and thinking bit
terly of Hampden, who was proving
himself a dangerous enemy.
But he thought also of the steamer
blowing down from Portland, which
would stand in at Yaquina, and he
knew he would be ready to turn over
the raft in spite of all.
BE damn hard matter to tow by
that head" he told himself; guess
we can drift her out an turn her tail
on"
Then he fell to wondering il San
dry would ever know of the big check,
or il it would travel east with him to
the old man in the wheeled chair on
Riverside drive-mute evidence of the
tenderfoot's first and last fight!
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
CHAPTER XVII.
A Hard Knock.

It. was a sweet spring day, blue
arched and fitful-aired, with riot of
bird songs in the pines when the little
cavalcade bore Walter Sandry up the
vivid valley.
They took him up the slope and
into the Office and held him while ST.
letz flew to the house for many more
blankets to pile high on the spring
cot, and presently they laid him, a
sadly broken thing, upon it. The color
had drained from the dark face of the
girl and her hands, shut hard, hung
tensely in the folds of her skirt as a
silence fell with the easing of the man
upon the bed.
Doctor" she said hoarsely; doc
tor" and could get no further.
The doctor had known her for the
several years he had been in the coun-
try and he studied her face moment
before answering.
"Close call, S1etz," he said gently;
maybe he'll live-maybe not"
For a moment she swayed upon her
feet, flinging her hands across her
ewes. while her breath came in catch
ing gasps.
"But God sits above the seal" she
cried at last, tragically. ooh, Father,
spare him, for he is an unbelieveri"
At this tense moment Poppy Ord
way, who had been watching from the
background with parted lips and kim
ding eyes, stepped forward.
''Doctor-Mrs. Daily" she said,
"this terrible thing forces me to speak
of something which land Walter
also-had not intended to make known
at present. l am Mr.. Sandrys prom
Used wife and as such / will take
charge of him."
All her life had this woman taken
chances, sharp chances, fraught with
swift danger and trying to nerve and
skill, but never had she done harder
thing than to face this little group of
Westerners whose instinct matched
her art
They turned upon her in thunder
stricken silence-the doctor with
clean amaze, the Indians in stoical
quiet, Ma Daily with an establishment
that was only the forerunner of antag-
onistic reaction. But of them all it
was the face of Siletz, fallen upon her
knees beside the cot, that shook the
heart in her, chilled her bold spirit.
1t lifted itself, painting, white and
awful, its lips where the broken Sign
stood plainly out, fallen apart and col
orless The dark eyes stared upon her
with an uncomprehending horror that
irritated her.
Il know something of nursing and
we'Tl do out best
But here Siletz sprang up to her
slim height and her voice smote the
hushed room like the swapping Of
taut wire.
MOI" she cried in anguished pro
test. No! He kissed me and ! am
his woman!"
They faced each other across the
unconscious form OF the man, these
two women from the ends of the earth.
and war raised its banner between
them. Unnoticed, the four Indians