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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03
Growth Of the Bect-Sugar Industr,

The simple and inexpensive method
adopted in the German factories ham
made the bect-sugar manufacture on
of the most profitable of industries, and
the work goes on day and night, q. 1,
prime cost for conversion of two doIn
per ton of beetS, or one cent per pound
of sugar, not estimating the cost of IN
beet-root, but including labor and NJ
materials used, ike coal, coke. linn.
charcoal. wear and tear. and interest a
the invested capital. The monthly dt
bursements of such an establishment sr
coed sixty thousand dollars. and gin
employment to thousands of wage -earnes
in direc. and collateral industries. Ga.
sugar corporation in France reported d
a net profit from the manufacture 81
beet-sugar a few years ago of two mi.
lions of dollars, and the season did not
extend beyond one hundred and tweut|
days. Under these new conditions th|
production of beet-sugar in continental
Europe has doubled in the last decade;
and, after the home populations are SUD
piled, the surplus is exported to Great
Britain and the United States, reiucin,
the price Of sugar in the markets of h|
world more than fifty per cent.
The sugar-refneries of this countT|
use the beet-and- cane-su indiscrimin
ately in the manufacture of the block
sugar of commerce, and the family 90
Ger sells the imported refined beet sugr
at a price from twenty-five to fifty Pc
cent. above the price of cane sugar.
Before our late war, Louisiana Do |
duced more sugar than Germany; AMI
although the beet-sugar industry in th |
latter country was greatly stimulated b.
the high prices of sugar prevailing, IN
cident to the entire de truction of tk
cane-sugar industry OF the United State
yet as late as 1875 the empire produce
only twenty-five hundred tons, while for
the year 1888 production of one millia
three hundred thousand tons of sugx
and saccharine resultants is recorded
Popular Science Monthly.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

One of the maddest men in the United
States, declares the Chicago Heroid, is
Cyrus Henderson. of Fund du Lac, WIS.
A while ago he selected claim in Okla
homa, aud returning to tine border went
to training horse so rs to be able to
reach his land before anybody else when
the Territory should be legally opened.
At the word go" he was soon far ahead
of everybody. and the distance, fifteen
miles, was covered in forty-five minutes.
Refining up his painting nag at the edge
of his quarter section he was literally
knocked out to see IN old farmer quietly
blowing it up for his spring crops.
Broken in spirit and disguised with
Oklahoma real estate, Cyrus Henderson
returned sadly nome.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

There vas dust on his back and Crime
OF Two weeks standing behind ms ears,
and As he stood on a corner recently. he
WAS heard to remark that he was from
Lansing.
What is the fare from Lansing to De-
troitl" 9ueried dudiSh looking by
stander, looking waggishly at an ac-
qusintance.
Il dunno" was the reply.
Don't know" echoed his questioner,
incredulously.
Young man." returned the tramp,
impressively. ''when l want to go to 3
place by rail | get quietly on the train,
and when it gets there. step off again,
without ever asking any bloomin' fool
:uestions. Detroit Free Press.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

gray hair has settled on the head and
heard while the body remains that of
babe. The family, ashamed of the pos
session of such a mon,irosity, has re-
ligiously hidden thi, skeleton in their
closet from the world, and few know Of
its existence. 1t is only by accident
that il was this time discovered. The
doctors story has led several prominent
citizens to take a trip to the farm house
to see the remarkable freak, and all
unite in calling it the most wonderful
being they ever witnessed. None, how
ever, wish to make a second trip, as one
look at the strange creature Is enough to
sadden their hearts and give them some
thing to dream about for months.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

a tap on the shoulder. the bucks resno,,
ing with alacrlty. They form two lin.
the squavs on one side and bucks o,,.
site, and at given signal take TIM.
steps forward and three steps b..
ay,;n, beginning slowly AID gradu,p,
increasing in speed until the mus.
ceases, and they !aughingly 60 to th.,
places. Sometimes a man or a yon,,
becomes exhausted and falls, caps;,.
a great deal of merriment anon, A.
other dancers. The medicine man ouick
" runs to the fallen dancer and pa,..
a music stick over his or her body, goip,
through some ceremony. When he hs
finished the PROSTATE dancer quick,
arises and is supposed to be cured. II.
last two days OF the dance-Satur,,
and Sunday-the excitement is inteu.
and the dancing continues all night 81.
urday, winding up at SHUTDOWN on Sun.
day. On that day they have a fex
which is provided principally BY In
traders, employees and the Indian ageu.
the officers of this post giving cofx
sugar and -four. 1t was weird sight,
see them dancing at night by the leh
of the moon and large bonfires.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03
The Canals of Mars.

As to the nature of the canals Il 8
still more difficult to suggest any satis
factory explanation. Several hypothes
have been presented, none of which "
pears entirely to meet the case. Ihm
already remarked that there has not bes'
lacking the suggestion that these curlor
streaks represent the line, of actual q
titicial water courses on Mars. n
straight and undertaking course who
they pursue might be regarded as lend
ing some degree Of probability to sut'
q view, but the enormous scale on WIKI
they exist seems to compel the rejesr'
of the hypothesis. 1t is true thst :
we consider only the influence OF ID
force of gravity on Mars, giants c0u'
dwell upon that planet whose mechans
achievements might vastly surpas' "
greatest performances of our enginee'
for body weighing ton on the ear
would weigh only seven hundred s.
sixty pounds on Mars, and, on the o~
hand, a man on Mars possessing relsu.
ly the same activity as one of us ns'
be fifteen feet tall and strong in prop
ton. But, even granting the exls'ss
of such race of Goliahs on our neg
Dor world, it is not conceivable that W.
could have constructed a system Oh !"
mendous canals over half the suriso
their planet, or that they would ~
done it if they could. The causs
Mars are enormously dlsproportion',,
magnitude to the most gigantic inn'~
ants that due regard for the n'
gravitation would suffer Us to imagus
Popular Science Monthly.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

The delightful condition Of the British
soldier is seen from the fact that private
who, upon being asked by the orderly
officer if he had any complaints to make
about his food, REPLIED that he had none
except that the potatoes were not boiled
enough, was thereupon sentenced to pass
eighty -four hours in a solitary cell for in
subordiuation
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

Fifty counterfeit SO bills were pre-
sented and stopped at the banks at st.
Louis during one recent day. The
counterfeit Is dangerous one of the
series Of 1888. It is supposed that at least
5000 of these bills are now in circulation
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

Population j. 50 scattered in New South
Wales that in one case in recent cleo
ton where there was an omission to open
polls at a given locality. the electors had
20 travel two hundred miles or lose their
votes
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

BOulanger is in danger of being forced
to come TO the United States The
English Government has warned him not
to be perniciou,ly active in London or he
may be expelled.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

Senator Dixon. of Rhode Island is one
of the young men Of the United States
Senate. He and Faulkner. Kenna. Daniel,
Spooner, Higgins and Wolcott have
numbered not much more than forty years
aDiece
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

The nations of Europe are taxing the
people into poverty Ia build war vessels
aud pay armies and navies.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

The Boston HeroH humorously remarks
that the defeat of Prohibition in Con-
necticut looks like case of Pro. and
Conn.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

Never, in the history of the United
States, has there been such scramble
for farms us was witnessed at Oklahoma.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

Brazil is country where American
fugitives would be as secure from arrest
Is they have hitherto been in Canada.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

1t is estimated that Americans will
spend $40, 900, 900 in Europe this season,
OF which probaaly g, 900, 900 will 20 for
fins
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03

The militia of the United States is re.
ported to be in 4 ilourishing condition.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-08-03
Che Dfeklp Hlessnger
Published Weekly
AT
st n artinsville, L a.
BY
EASTIn 4 alEhvEMU.

New York and Oregon have wheeled into
line rs ArbOr Day States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-09
TIE KENTUCKY WAY.
How Love Finds Words Among the Ma
tives of the Blue-G Grass state,

How Love Finds Words Among the Ma
tives of the Blue-Grass state.
had been asleep in my seat in the
passenger-coach as the train was roll
ing through Kentucky, and was aroused
by couple taking the seat in front of
me. / did not raise my head, but made
out that he was a young fellow of
twenty-five, or Whereabouts, and she
was young girl of eighteen or twenty.
Reckon he's asleep?" queried the
girl, referring to me.
''rm shore of it, he replied, after
taking look at the back OF my head.
There was an interval of silence, cut
IN the bias and warranted first color,
nd then he queried:
Glad ye come, Mary?"
''Sorter, Bill
'We's friends, hain't we?"
ashore"
81 never did keer fur no other gal"
Shoe! Now you is funning me.
"Shole as | live, Mary | wouldn't
marry no girl in our hull section, no
how"
"IIonest?"
True as cucumbers. Pap likes ye,
Mary"
"Glad ont"
"And mann likes ye."
"Glad ont"
"And pap was a-saying to me that if
| got mar'd could bring my wife right
home
"Your pap is good.
'But / can't git mar'd, Mary"
"Deed, but why not2'
"'Cause nobody loves me"
'ShOo! Reckon somebody does"
mo they don't. If they did they'd
show it.
There was another interval OF silence,
tOrdered with forget-me-nots and or
namented with orange blossoms, and
during this minute | think ne seized
her unresisting hand. | think she was
ready to be seized. He probably
squeezed it as he said:
$50 you reckon somebody dOes?"
Yep
"Then why don't they say SOP"
"Waitin', mebbe.n
"Waitin' fur what?"
$40 be axed 70 say So
He was trembling with excitement.
and he could not control his voice as he
said:
IF they loved me they'd squeeze my
hand, wouldn't they?"
"Reckon they would"
(Squeeze-zip-gasp. Hello, Cen
tralD
"And-and, Mary, if they'd marry
me they'd squeeze agin, wouldn't
theye"
Shore they would"
(Squeeze-whoop-call up the par
sonO
Then he leaned over and kissed her.
and Cupid danced hornpipe up and
down the aisle.-N. y. Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-09

1t is interesting to note that John
Bright had undoubted Jewish blood in
his veins. The Abraham Bright who
went to Coventry early in the last
century had for his wife a handsome
Jewcss named Martha Jacobs. One OF
their children was William Bright and
one of Williams was Jacob Bright
and the Youngest son of Jacob was an
other Jacob Bright. the father of the
illustrious EBglishman, news of whose
death has reached US from across the
sea The mother of John Bright was
Martha Wood. the daughter of
tradesman of Bolton-el-Moors. She
VAS Jacob Bright's second wife, and he
lived TO have third. But Martha
Wood vas the mother of ali his
children, and Of children he had
eleven. Seven of these were sons and
four were daughters. BY the death OF
the first-born. at the age of four. John
became the eldest of the family. He
had been born at Greenbank on No
vember Is. 1911. When his mother
died he was boy Of eighteen. Mar
tina Wood was a woman possessed OF
strong and efficient intellectual quail
ties. She had been well educated.
was fond Of books. and had clear
aud logical mind She not only knit
stockings for her children. but helped
10 keep her husbands books CHICAGO
Inter Ocean.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-09
LICK'S FLOUR PALACE.
How the Well-Known California Million
aire Kent a Royish Oath.

How the Well-known California Million
aire Kept Boyish Oath.
MIR. Lick was never married, but
like many of the bachelors, as Shakes
peare indifferently called the men,
bers of either sex, he had his expert
ence.
One of his apparently uneXplainable
freaks in California was to build MILL
which was ceiled with mahogany and
other beautiful woods and finished in
the most expensive style.
There seemed to be no reason for this
form of extravagant folly until little
romance Of his early life came out.
Before he went to learn the or@an-
making business he had been appren-
ciccd to a wealthy miller in Pennsyl-
vania, who had pretty daughter.
Lick was a comedy and plucky youth,
and the two fell in love.
Full of hope and the prospect of hap
piness, the young man applied to the
girls father, giving him full informa-
ton as to both their wishes. Where
upon the rich Pennsylvania Dutchman
became indignant and secuted the idea.
eXclaiming:
"Out, you beggar! Dare you east
eyes upon my daughter. who will in-
lerit all my property? Have you
mill like this? Have you a single
penny in you purse?"
To this TRADE the poor youth could
only reply that just then he hadn' {,
but he added that the day would come
when he would have a mill compared
with which that one would be nothing
more than a pig-sty.
He left the miller, but he never for
got the cruel words. So, after he had
become not onss rich, but a million
aire, he built this mill, and when il
was finished it had every thing that
could have added to the perfection of
its appointment
Its machinery was perfect and its
walls and floor of the very highest
polish.
He was not able to bring the miller
to see the fulfillment of his boyish
declaration. but he had the mill photo
graphed in every possible way, within
and without. and although his old
sweetheart had long since been mar
ried. he sent her father tho pictures
and recalled TO him the day when he
had boosted Of his mill. Minneapolis
Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-09
CARE OF LIVESTOCK.
satisfactory Results obtained by Coz
Feeding and Kindness.

satisfactory Results Obtained by Good
Feeding and Kindness.
The condition and behavior of cattle
when brought into the sale ring iudi-
cate what treatment they have had at
home. In some instances it appears
to be the intention Of the owner to rely
entirely on the breeding Of the ami
mails, under the supposition that no
matter how unthrifty and poor they
may be. buyers will want them on ac-
count Of the pedigree. Wcll-bred cat
tie are sometimes offered that in APP
pearance would not compare favorably
with scrubs, having been starved and
neglected until they have lost all re-
semblance to improved stock. Need a
man wonder that such cattle bring
very low prices? 1t may be worth
nearly the price of a good beast
to put such an animal in con-
dition, and he may never recover
from the effects of neglect No one
who is not prepared to give well-bred
animals proper food and care should
attempt to raise them. Unless fed
well and handled previously, cattle
are shown at decided disadvantage
in the sale ring. A Michigan breeder,
who bought some Kentucky stock at
Dexter Park last fall, says: Il have
settled one question quite firmly with
my herdsmen, and that is kindness to
dumb brutes. have had the matter
ilIustrsted right here. The cattle /
bought we're Wild rs dsers; If any one
went into the barn where they were.
they would spring up, try to get away.
and make themselves generally disa-
yreeabIe. ! hsse them now 50 they
are quiet aud docile as lam,,s; and this
-esult has been obtained by good feed
n M n--m kindness National
iii. 90 Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-09
Mhere Cow.eeIIs Are Made.

Collinsvilie, H., is a great place for
cattle bells. That COW bells are made
and do not grow on trees or elsewhere
seems to surprise some people. but
there are four establishments in the
United States which are exclusively
devoted to the manufacture OF that res
onans article, and two Of these are in
Coll nsville. One hundred and fifty
dozen are turned out daily and thou
sands of them bangle from the necks
of unfortunate cows all over the prai-
ries of North and South America The
manufacture of cow-bells is entirely
distinct from that Of ctner bells. In
stead Of being nodded the metal is
rolled into sheets, cut into symmetric-
al polygons, which, when folded. ara
pressed into their well-known form.
Having been rivetted they are next
packed in clay and brought to white
heat When suddenly cooled these
steel bells are found to be not only
tempered, but also beautifully brazed
st. Louis Post-Dispatch-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-09
An Old Time Partisan.

Tt is easy 10 recall to nina his familiar
figure as he sits, during winter evenings,
in his favorite corner.
In his easy chair, with pipe in hand and
his silyer-rimmed ''specs' pushed back
until they find a soft resting place on his
beloved snnw-white head, with eyes spark
ling and his face beaming with pleasure as
he calls back old memories of DAYS long
gone by, he IS likely to talk something after
this fashion:
ats a long time since was a boy. All,
but that was many years ago. Sixty long
years have gone and the good Lord knows
they were short enough. l was then as
spruce and pert as any chap Whereabouts.
son, but we boys were boys! Things
have changed a heap since those days.
Boys then didn't take much stock in stylish
clothes and they didn't carry canes like
they do now. Clothes and canes didn't cut
much capec then, but it was good hard
sense and work.
THE boy who could do the biggest days
work-couli cut the most wood, split he
most rails, plow the most corn, was lAe
most envied for he was sure TO have the
sweetest aad best lookin gal at the 'sIugiu'
school or apple peeiin'-'
Il tell you those were good old timesi
81 didn't think any thing of going thirty
mile or more to see your grandmother,
and we didn't have very good roads either,
but generally had to follow some old Indian
trail
"Talkin' about sickness then, there was
no sickness like now. If we had a cold, a
pain, or any thing, there was the best med
icine in tho world found in any log cabin
home you came across Why, L remember
that my Old grandmother, God bless her
soul, she's been dead these fifty years or
more, could make the best home made
medicine for miles around. Her 'sarsapa-
rilly' couldn't be beat. Come TO think /
just read in the paper about somebody who
is making this same old log cabin medicine.
under the name of warmers Log Cabin
Sarsaparilla.'
1T does seem splendid to think that you
can buy those good old home cures at the
druggists nowadays.
'Mebby you think people were not
healthy in those days, but tell You that il
was mighty seldom anybody was sick long
when they had such good Old grand
mother medicine 50 handy.
'Pe1ple used TO be stronger, healthier,
and they lived longer, when l was boy
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-09
The EARN DAIRY.
Ii 1t Is Produced the CIeanest, Sweetest
and Best Butter.

At 1t Is Produced the CIeanest, Sweetest
and Best Butter.
There is no plan yet invented, nor
place discovered, where as good, clean
and sweet butter can be made as well
as at the farm dairy. Where the pas
lures, feed, water are all right, and
where neatness, sweetness and skill
are fully combined, no creamery or
machinery for butter can compare
with it. The farm dairy is the only
place where the imperial 7article can
be. or every was made. In this branch
of industry the world is advancing
faster than in any other branch of in
dustry. 1t is hard to conceive of the
difference in the butter brought TO the
market now and that twenty yearsago.
And while the creamery has done a
good missionary work in showing the
farmers wives that they will have to
make better butter or allow the cream
cry to occupy the whole field, the
dairy butter makers have bravely met
the contest. And now in almost any
direction contracts can be made with
the surrounding dairies which will
furnish regularly sweeter and purer
butter than any creamery ever did or
ever will make. In fact, from the best
farm dairies is the only place where
there is any assurance of getting posi-
lively clean butter The creameries
may have every thing right about
them, and operators who are superior
in every quality of butter-makers, but
they can neither control nor direct
the operations of the one hundred or
five hundred places from whence they
gather their cream. In fact, it is I'M
reasonable to expect that any one hun
dred farmers in a township who fur
nish cream have their feed, water.
stables. yards, pals and all other
utensils equal in purity to private
dairy, where it is their pride and
pleasure to excel all others. Those
who furnish cream have no pecuniary
incentive to excel. Their cream goes
in with hundreds of others, and moth
ing to excite pride or ambition. We
take tho dairy always, and want but
ter from no other source. Boston
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