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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1916-08-19
SHtRIFFS SALE.
Bank Of Hattiesburg
Alphonse Geoffroy
No. ll443
18th Judicial District Court.

NJ. lf1O
18TH Judicial District Court.
State Of Louisiana, Parish Of st. Martin.
BY virtue Of an order of Fieri Facias.
issued out of the 18th judicial District
Court. In aad for the Parish OF st. Mar
tin, State Of Louisiana, III the above en-
titled aud numbered suit. dated this 18th
day Of july A. ID. 1916.
Ihaye SEIZED aud Will proceed to sale
III Public Auction To tie last and high
est bidder at The front door Of the Court
House, between The legal sale hours Ql
q. III. to 4 y. M III the Town OF st. Nal
tlnviiie, On
Saturday Sept. and, 1910,
the following menlioued and described
property. to-wI:
That Certain lot Of ground situated III
the Town oI BreauX Bridge, 81. Martin
Parish, Lid. measuring One Hundred
and eigut six feet frouI ON East Berard,
Bounded North by property Of AntOlDe
Patin. Sodlh by property OF u. Doiroh,
Easi 10y property uf Larlis Tiahah anu
West by Berard street.
TERMS:
S4yOS with 3 per cent yearly interest
from October 3l,t, 1918. till paid, and
ali costs Of these proceedings Including
al costs the sum Of $500, amount paid
for redemption Of taxes-Cash-and Tit
balauce of the said consideration to bt
pald III tnree lnstaiiment5 as follows
to-wlt: - The sum Of S46.1l paya0l'
OcluDer 3lst, 1916; the sum Of S44.5'
payable UctUDrr 3lst 1917; aud lie sun
Of $3l.37 payable October olst, 1915
each ui said iIstallments " bear Inter
esl at tue rate Uf five Per cent per all
mum from their respective maturltles
all AZ more fully specified In tile JUG
msnt obtained by Tue said Bank Vi Hal
tiesDurg Of hatties6ufg. Mississippi
against the said Alphonse GeCftIoy th
original vi which Was recorded Jun
18th. 1916 under NJ. 1901 of the Nor
gag, of tue Clerks anu Recorders ofhc
of Lie Parish vi st. Martin. Loulsiaui
Seized to satisfy auvye VIII.
Shsrlfts office. parish Of Of. Mdrtii
this 2ist day Of July A. ID. 1916.
WADE U. MAkTIN. Sheriff
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1T SELDOM PAYS TO DOCTOR
More important for Beginner to Know
How to Prevent Disease Among
Fowls Than to Cure.

1t seldom pays to doctor a fowl
which has been seriously sick for any
length of time. If you should be sue
cessful in curing the disease, it would
not be safe to use this bird in the
breeding pens, writes Dr.. C. R. Wat
son of Miller, Neb., in Farmers Mail
and Breeze.
1t is much more important for the
beginner in the poultry business TO
know how to prevent disease than
how to cure, or attempt to treat it.
In the majority Of cases, disease can
be prevented by. good care and man
agement in the exercise of ordinary
common sense. Should your birds be-
come diseased, examine your methods
of management, premises, houses, feed
and method Of feeding, and remove the
cause.
Clean up the premises, disinfect,
whiteWash the houses, scald the drink.
ing vessels or wash them in an an
tiseptic solution. In case your birds
become seriously ill, the best thing to
do is to kill every sick bird and burn
the carcass. There is one rule that
you should follow; that is never to let
a sick bird die on your premises. Kill
It and burn the carcass before it
reaches that stage.
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Saxon woman, whether she be in Eng
land or America, feels more con-
tent with thread of Worsted in her
street suit until hot weather comes
and makes it unbearable. Even
through the dog days she likes to feel
that such coat and skirt are hang
ing in her wardrobe, ready for an
emergency.
The new jersey cloth has some
thing of the feeling of the sweater,
and while the larger part of it's use
may be confined to life in the coun-
try ana in small towns, there is good
reason to prophesy that it will find its
way in the streets of the great
centers.
Brown Is one of the colors that
the dyers of the new jersey cloth evil
IDENTIFY like, for some very smart suits
OF it have appeared. Brown has not
been among the fashionable shades
for several seasons. We have quite
ignored it, although we have given a
warm slice of our affections to it's pale
sister, beige. Probably the welcome
accorded the leather tones has sug-
gested to the dyers the introduction of
real brown. The reason, however. is
a negligible factor in the condition.
The fact remains that brown as well
as gray are colors to be reckoned with
from now on.
There was so much distate ON the
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Ry MRs. A. WoopD

iOJ AAAAEJ ~ NOOO.J
Young turkeys are not any harder
to raise than chickens, if one is care
ful never to inbreed and keep them
free from lice and mites.
1 set all the eggs under chicken
hens so as to keep my turkeys lay
ing. When the eggs pipped put them
in the incubator, which was set with
chicken eggs. Every egg that pipped
hatched and they did not harm the
other eggs in the least.
1t wasn't an unusual thing to have
every egg of a setting hatch, and
never more than one that didn't
hatch.
never let the young turkeys run
with the turkey hen because she takes
them too far from home, and it is
easier to keep them free from lice
when they are raised by hand.
l do not feed the poults for "a
hours after Matching. Then | don't
have any trouble teaching them to eat.
Soak bread in milk and squeeze it
dry for them for two or three days,
then feed fine cracked corn mixed
with clabber cheese.
never feed black pepper, as so
many do, nor very many hard-boiled
eggs; and I raise more turkeys than
those who do, in this neighborhood.
Then let them have as much free
dom as possible, for they like to pick
bugs and tender grass. If they are
kept at night in house that has
roosts, they will soon fly on them and
do better than if left on the ground.
1t is necessary to keep these cOops
or roosting places clean and disin-
fected, for lice and mites are sure
death to young turkeys.
Coarse sand should be provided for
them, also plenty of shade, and ashes
for their dust bath.
In preparing turkeys for market
they should not be fed too literally
during the first few days, but after
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SYRUP Of FIGS FOR
A CHILD'S BOWELS
1t is cruel to force nauSeating,
harsh phySiC into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel. catharttcs.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing. give only deli
cious California Syrup Of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take It; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that teaspoonfuI
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
of California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies. children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
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MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYS
THEN YOUR BACK HURTS
Take q Glass Of Salts to Flush Kid.
neyS II Bladder 5others YOU
Drink Lots of Water.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make mistake by flush
Ing the kidneys occasionally, says a
= well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys,
they become overworked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then we get sick Nearly all rheu-
matism, headaches, liver trouble, ner-
vousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys
The moment you feel a dull ache m
the kidneys or your back hurts or IL
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by sensation of scalding, stop
eating meat and get about four ounces
Of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take
a tablespoonful in a glass Of water
before breakfast and in a few days
your kidneys will act fine. This IA
nous salts is made from the acid Of
grapes and lemon juice, combined
with nthia, and has been used for
generations to flush and stimulate the
Kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
in urine so 1t no longer causes irrita-
ton. thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
ipjure; makes a delightful efferTes-
cent Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
cOmplications.-Adv.
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e=esze Turkeys Favorite Breed.

| they have become used to confinement
should be given all they can eat up
clean.
Only the very early hatched birds
will be large enough for the earliest
holiday market, and selections for this
market must be very carefully made.
The largest birds in the flock should
be placed by themselves in a large
pen. They should not be closely con-
fined. A large she'd, with tight sides
on the north and west, with the south
and east sides covered with poultry
netting, makes good fattening pen.
1t must be covered, as the birds must
be kept perfectly dry. The pen should
be provided with low roOsts in the
back part, and it should be placed in
a secluded spot at some distance from
other p0ultryhouses or barns, as tur-
keys are very shy birds. and If ex-
cited by a noise or other animals or
strangers, will not readily take on fat.
The feeding trough should be placed
on the outside of the pen so that they
can be easily cleaned and filed
without continually entering the pen,
This work should be done quietly and
at regular intervals. The troughs
should be kept scrupulously cleaned.
Nothing Is better than galvanized
iron for this purpose. as they can be
scalded, and in this way made per-
fectly sweet and clean Wooden
troughs absorb great deal of mois-
ture, and it is almost impossible to
keep them as clean as they should be-
1t requires from three to four weeks
to put young turkeys in fine condition
They should be pushed from the start
because a turkey, like hog, is a los
ing proposition after it has attained
its full growth The birds should be
marketed just as soon as they begin
to slacken up in gain, because beyond
a certain point in weight they cannot
be pushed
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CHARCOAL FOR FARM FLOCK
Keeps Digestive Apparatus of Fowls
in Good Condition-Good VentiIa-
tion Is Necessary.

A dish of charcoal placed where the
flock can reach it at all times will do
considerable toward keeping the di-
gestive organs of the fowls in good
condition. The charcoal absorbs poi
sonous gases and juices and often
prevents serious trouble.
Fowls cannot be healthy unless they
can have plenty of pure air to breathe.
This calls for a well-yentilated poul-
try house. There is no one best breed
or variety Of fowls for any purpose.
The usefulness of any flock depends
almost as much on the way it is fed,
bred and cared for as upon the
variety.
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Jump from Bed
in Morning and
Drink Hot Water
Tells why everyone should drink
hot water each morning
before breakfast.

Why IL man and woman, half the
time, feeling nervous. respondent,
worried; some days headachy, dull and
unstrung; some days really !ncapaci-
tated by Illness.
II we all would practice inside-bath-
ing. what q gratifying change would
take place. Instead of thousands of
halfssick, anaemic-looking souls with
pasty, muddy complexions we should
see crowds of happy, healthy, rosy
checked people everywhere, The rea-
son is that the human system does not
rid itself each day OF ali th9 waste
which it accumulates under our pres
ent mode of living. For every ounce
of food and drink taken into the sys.
tenn nearly an ounce Of waste material
must be carried out, else it ferments
and forms ptomaine-like poisons which
are absorbed into the blood.
Just as necessary as it is to clean
the ashes from the furnace each day,
before the fire will burn bright and
hot, so we must each morning clear
the inside organs of the previous days
accumulation of indigestibIe waste and
body toxins. Men and women, wheth.
or sick or well, are advised to drink
each morning, before breakfast, a
glass Of real hot water with a tea.
spoonful Of limestone phosphate in
II, as a harmless means of washing
out of the stomach, liver, kidneys and
bowels the indigestible material,
waste, sour bile and toxins; thus
cleansing, sweetening and purifying
the entire alimentary canal before put.
ting more food into the stomach.
Millions Of people who had their
turn at constipation, bilious attacks,
acid stomach, nervous days and sleep
less nights have become real cranks
about the morning inside-bath. A quar-
ter pound Of limestone phosphate will
not cost much from your druggist or
ct the store, but is sufficient to DEM
onstrate to anyone, its cleansing,
sweetening and freshening effect upon
the system.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
COLONY HOUSES FOR CHICKS
Portable Buildings Enable Farmer to
Change 5rooding Yards From One
Season to Another.

The portable colony house can be
used for brooding little chicks in the
spring. for housing growing stock in
the summer, and for mature stock in
the winter. This house is feet deep
by IL feet long. By placing it on run
ners it can be moved.
Every farmer should raise his chick
ems by means of portable houses. This
enables him to change his brooding
yards from season to season and also
permits him to move his chickens to
the edge of a corn field as soon as
they are large enough to roost.
Where chickens are range-raised in
this way the farm lanes, corn fields,
wheat fields after the grain has been
removed, etc., can be utilized. Here
the shade, green food, bugs, worms,
grasshoppers, etc., furnish conditions
conducive to rapid, healthful growth.
A house of this kind enables the farm
er to separate his young stock from
the old, for, when the two are raised
in the same yard, conditions are un-
sanitary and the young stock suffers
because of being overrun.
At the University of Missouri chicks
are brooded in these houses by means
of portable hovers. Heat is removed
as soon as possible and the chicks are
kept in the same house until they are
put into winter quarters.
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NOVELTIES IN SWEET oDoRS
smelling Salts Put Up In Variety Of
Ways That Will Appeal to
Woman.
The woman who likes sweet odors
almost always likes smelling salts

The woman who likes sweet odors
almost always likes smelling salts.
The newer ones are packed into
bottles Of charming shape. Some Of
them have very elaborate stoppers-
as, indeed, all the perfume bottles do.
too. Wide fan-shaped shoppers are
one of the novelties.
Geranium, colored rose. is one of
the popular smelling salts odors at the
moment.
There are also very attractive
sachets covered with chiffon or verv
fine net. containing an interesting
combination of flower odors The
foundation for this is sweet lavender
and there are rose and violet leaves
and spices and oils. so that the com.
bination is something on the order
of potpourri. And Of course all this
sweetness is visible through the verv
sheer covering.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Quilting to Be Revived

You didn't know that quilting was in
again well, where have you been all
this time? 1t is in style again, oh, not
only bed quilts but running to motifs
on children's clothes, curtains, slip
overs, cushions and table covers, too.
All this is of the applique variety. But
the designs are not the ones which
have been Oyerworked in the church
bazaars and ladies' aids. Instead Of
the rose designs there are wonderful
ones just like those of long ago, done
In the flowers Of that date. There are
hollyhOcks and morning glories in the
blues and pinks and lavenders, in
which the dainty little Cooley persons
we're wont to regale themselves. The
quilt is finished in binding from one
inch on to wider of a solid color used
In one Of the flowers. The width of
the border must be a matter of indi-
Vidual taste.
Can't you fancy the soft pillows too
They have the background in soft
cream-quilted, too. Grapes and shad-
ed flowers are used. What a nice,
dainty boudoir pillow one of these
would make. Cretonne or any color
fast material could be chosen from
which the figures can be cut.
Worsted flowers and cross-stitch in
cOlored cottons have been utilized to
give the costumes and the coats and
hats of small children the quaint touch
which seems a special part of their
makeup these days. Why not cut two
red, plump cherries from solid red
cloth or from a piece figured in cher
ries, add two green leaves and quilt
them closely, then apply them to a
little linen or crepe frock belonging to
her miniature highness. On her spring
hat a cluster Of flowers in satin or
preferably linen. padded thickly, quilt
ed and sewed to the straw hat would
be a smart addition.
If you say when you read this that
a table cover worked in this way
wouldn't be worth the time and labor
with brown Holland linen center or
one Of monks cloth, then try to buy
one already made and feel your hair
curl at the price. Spring has many
dull and dark days on which there is
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MATERIAL FOR SPRING

part Of the fastidious ones for fur
by the time the new year arrived, be-
cause of it's lavish use in women's APP
parel during the last six months. that
everyone thought its day was done;
and yet, here it reappears in variety
of capricious ways. For instance, one
of the Palm Beach hats of striped
blue and white linen lawn Is edged
with fur, and Poiret's idea Of
combing skunk out to make it look
like fringe and using it for trimming
has started an entirely new develop
ment in use of peltry.
He first brought this out on Brit
tany gown of purple and white striped
silk and velvet, and then the milliners
took it up for the new straw hats.
If you want to employ some Of your
leisure time at home in arranging fur
instead of embroidering, you might try
your luck at achieving a Poiretesque
result with an old piece of fur and a
thick comb
Copyright, 1916 by the Mcclure NeWsta-
per SYndicate.)
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Whn WnnIdnt erow7

The keeper was feeding the pythons.
Several live rabbits were tossed into
the cage, and were Immediately and
greedily seized by the reptiles. The
struggling rabbits, although seemingly
almost as large as the snakes, were
swallowed whole one after another
The ghastly sight prompted the schol-
Rrly-looking man to exclaim:
"Gruesome, eh, keeper?"
The keeper turned a glance Of scorn
upon the professor.
"Yes, and you'd a. grew some, too.
II you'd ct all that live stock, I guess"
Chicago News.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
GRIT AIDS HENS DIGESTION
Money Spent in Commercial Grit Is
Good Investment for Any Poul.
tryman to Make.

An ample supply OF commercial grit
on farms where poultry has been kept
any length of time is money well
spent.
In fact, a sack Of commercial grit
costing Is cents at any Of the country
stores is a good investment for the
pOultryman to make.
Grit furnishes the biddies grinders
and if your means of masticating your
food supply were taken away, Mr..
Farmer, how soon would you be TAX
ing treatment from the physician for
Indigestion?
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For New Sleeves.

Now that sleeves are coming to
mean SO much in fashion, pattern
for new sleeves means a good deal
to those who have old frocks to be
remodeled. Such a pattern can be
had for the new bishop sleeves, three
three-quarter length and three full
length. The longer ones have long
shirring at the top that holds the
sleeve in close to the arm.
Ribbon Castings of Point d'Esprit.
Shirred bands of point d'esprit are
placed around the neck Of some OF the
nightgowns, with wide ribbon under
meath. The same sort of trimming is
very often used at the waist when
there is a ribbon sash.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
HercuIes and the CountrYman.

A countryman was driving his cart
along road filed with ruts when one
Of the wheels stuck in the mud and
the horses were unable to draw. the
cart out of it. The countrymaR at
once began to call upon Hercules to
help him out of his difficulty.
Put your shoulder to the wheel"
said Hercules. Whip up your horses
and help them, for that is the only
way to obtain the aid that you want.
They are helped who help them
selves.-From the Fables of Aesop. the
Slave.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Dust Bath Is Essential,

Remember that the dust bath is es-
sential to the healthfulness of fowls,
especially of the chicken kind; hence
facilities for a dust bath should al
ways be provided. A liberal supply of
ashes in the bath makes 1t better, and
II lice or mites are feared, pulverized
sulphur may be mixed in it to great
advantage.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
iowa louise Powder.

A louise powder recommended by the
Iowa experiment station is made by
mixing LnTe6 parts OF gasoline anti 6ff6
part Of sulphur. To this is added one
part of Portland cement or plaster of
paris to take up the liquid. The mix
ture is then spread on board for the
volatile portions to evaporate The
powder remaining after evaporation
will put the lice to rout.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Coats for Girls.

Schoolgirls are wearing good-IoUk-
ing sport or skating" coats of soft,
thick velours in checked pattern; and
jaunty little hats and muflers come to
match. One OF these coats for a girl
of fifteen is of green and white
checked velours with big white bail
buttons down the front and fastened
with wide, loose belt. The coat has
deep patch pockets and a mufiier col
lar also closing with white ball but
tons. The muffier is trimmed with
black tassels and the hat of black vel
vet with a rolling brim Of checked
velours.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Recipe roR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint Of water add l OF. Bay Rum, q
small box Of Barbo Compound, and n Oz OF
glycerine Apply to the hair twice a week
until it becomes the desired shade. ANY drug.
gist can put this up or you can mix it at
home at very little cost It win gradually
darken streaked, faded gray hair. and re.
moves dandruf. 1t is excellent for falling
hair and will make harsh hair soft and glossy
1t will not color the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, aud does not rub otf.-AdV.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Blankets for Den.

At one or two shops are seen big,
warm, black blankets, made for men
who go in for hunting and camping.
But they would be good possessions.
too, for the home-not for beds, but
for sofas in library and den. With
corse crewel needle and thick wool
one might enliven such a blanket.
working big red or yellow flowers upon
1t in long stitch And purple flowers
or arabesques would look fine. too.
upon the background
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
JERSEY CLOTH BIDS FAIR TO BE
ACCEPTABLE.
Seems to Be the Required Thing as
Substitute for Serge-shades OF
Brown Likely to Be Re-
turned to Favor.

There is no doubt that women viii
like the new weaves of jersey cloth,
for they are anxiously looking for
substitute for serge in spring suits.
Taffeta and ribbed silk have been Of
fered over and over as substitutes
for the wooden fabric. but the Anglo
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
CLEANSE THE PORES
OF Your Skin and Make It Fresh and
Clear by Using cuticura. Trial Free.

When suffering from pimples, black
heads, redness or roughness, smear
the skin with Cuticura Ointment.
Then wash off with Cuticura Soap and
hot water. These super-creamy emol-
Ments do much for the skin because
they prevent pore clogging.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
If You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Although there are hundreds Of prepa~
rations advertised, there is only one tina;
really stands out pre-eminent as a rem
edy for diseases Of the kidneys. liver and
bladder
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root Is not recon-
mended for everything.
A sworn certificate Of purity is with ev-
cry bottle. You may receive a sample
size bottle of Swamp-Root by Parcel
Post. Address DR.. Kilmer & Co.. Biug
hamton, N. Y, and enclose ten cents.
For sale at all drug stores IN bottles Of
two sizes-50c and $1.00. also mention this
paper.-Adv.