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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-02
THE SUGAR TRUST.
Daily Item.

gress by the throat and force that
body to i'ander to its wants we
may we'll despair of the Republic.
When the proposition to put raw
sugar on the free list was enbo-
died in a clause of the Wilson
tariff the Sugar Trust lobby NOV
ed Heaven and earth to keep the
tax inviolate. The Hobbies of the
Capitol at Washington swarmed
with pushing agents of the mono
poly. and the scandals they cres-
ted in and out of Congress ccnsti-
tute one of the most startling and
significant chapters in the history
of modern American politics and
business. The sugar duty was
saved at the eleventh hour in the
Federal Senate, and great fortunes
were made almost in q day by the
lucky few who possessed advanced
information of the Legislature out
come of the dispute.
But now ell is changed. 1t is
not foreign beet sugar makers. bat
producers here at home, who are
to be knocked down and dragged
out at the behest of a contingent
of successful spectators who claim
vested rights of control of Ameri-
can sugar industries.
Such q free trade journal as the
Philadelphia Record is constrain-
ed to say, not in the interest of the
cane growers of the South, for
whom it apparently cares nothing.
but in the interest of the Northern
and Eastern beet growers.
Since the Western sugar makers
| have demonstrated their ability to
sustain their industry and even to
enlarge their markets in the fsce
of unsparing trust competition the
organs of the sugar refining com.
bination have begun to pipe the
tune of free trade in raw sugar
Figures and estimates presented
by The Sugar Trade Journal Gre
dit the beet sugar makers viii
!. 10000 tons annual production
: The vast territory adapted for su
\ gar beet culture has been scsrcel,
touched as yet, and it is not diff
cult to discern in the minds ey,
an economic era in America, from
which imported sugar, raw or re
fined, will be practically excluded
D Communities in modern nation
are rich and prosperous in proper
!. ton to their ability to MAINTAIN
their people in comfort and suppl.
ID necessities of living without ulti
es mate dependence on distant terri
tory. When the great West shall
IL have filled up with teeming pc
?. pulation there will be NO nee
70. whstever in that quarter for suga
"a sent from the distant seaboard.
w This plain truth the organs pei
=, ceive without difficulty or evasion
and their chief concern at thi
ljuncture, accordingly, is to carr
conviction to the public mind {
the necessity for tariff changes tbs
N. shall increase the scope and weigl
A. of current advantages of the pov
erful sugar refining combination.
When we find a free trade jou
nal thus delivering sledge-hamme
blows at the head of the Sug,
ND Trust, the planter may take co.
rage. If the sugar interest WEI
confined to the South alone '
might despair.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-02
Cost of Being a World Power.
Daily States.

1
President Roosevelt is on record
as favoring a navy powerful enough
to hold its own against that OF any
of the countries in Europe. The
Presidents attitade in this respect
no doubt accounts for the fact that
Secretary Long in his forthcoming
report to Congress will recommend
an appropriation of 500, OO0, 900. or
SIC, eOO, 900 more than the depart
mept asked for last year. This
gives very fair idea of the price
we shall have to pay for being "a
world power" and constructing 81
navy of sufficient strength to ena-
BILE US to cope with Europe in q 1
possible naval war. Arecent state
ment given out by the British Ad-
miralty shows that highlands ma
Wy is costing 50.00o, 600 for the
present fiscal year, or 80 per cent
more than Secretary Longs esti-
mate, but no other nation in the
world contemplates spending $780,
600, 900 for its naval establishment.
There are, however, unmistaka-
BILE indications that since we en-
barked in the imperial and colo
NAL business the naval appetite OF
the country has been steadily
growing. There are always more
new ships to be built, yet in spite
of the enormous increase asked
for, Secretary Long is planning for
notmore than three battleships and
two armored cruisers, as against
two battleships and two cruisers
last year. Officers of the navy con-
nected with the Bureau of Con-
struction frankly admit that the
cost of battleship does not cease
with it's completion, because every
one of them calls for perpetual re-
pairs and more men even when it
is laid up in a navy yard. The
Navy Department is short Of the
necessary complement of men to
man the ships now in commission,
and this, of course, will cause an
increase in the cost of enlistment
and to provide trained and csps-
BILE officers.
In commenting on the proposed
increase of the naval appropria-
tions, the New York Evening Pos,
remarked few days ago that "im.
mense sums are lavished on ships
which are as perishsble as any liv
, ing being and that not one cent Of
} the money goes to the advance
ment of the United States alonl
those lines of culture, prosperit.
y and civilization which alone make
/ for true national greatness" Th'
truth of this statement will hardl,
) be questioned, but the fact re
J: mains that jingoism is now in full
Q blossom at Washington, and it ha
forced this country to give up tn
: great advantage it possessed as a
isolated power on continent OF il
Y own, separated from the powers {
Europe by a vast expanse of oceaI
:, 1t seems to be merely q questio
tn of time when our government wi
be driven to a scale of naval 81
: penditures exceeding that of th
T. countries in Europe except Gre'
NJ. Britain, and it is probable our 81
. penditures will in the end becom
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-02
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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-02

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the candle take dose Of Chamberiain's
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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-11-02
WOMAN'S TROUBLES AND FEMALE
DISEASES CURED BY
.JOhnStOn'S
Sarsaparilla
QUART BOTTLES.

Painful and Suppressed Menses, 1r'
regularity, Leucorrhea, Whites, Steril.
ity, liberation of the Uterus, change
of life, in matron or maid, all lind re-
lief, help, benefit and cure in JOHNS
TONS SARSAPARILLA. It is real
panacea for all pain or headache about
the top or back of the head, distress
ing pain in the left side, disturbed
condition of digestion, palpitation OF
the heart, cold hands and feet. nerv-
business and irritation, sleeplessness,
muscular weakness, bearing-down
pains, backache, legache. irregular &C
ton of the heart, shortness of breath.
abnormal discharges, with extremely
painful menstruation, scalding Of urine,
swelling of feet, soreness Of the breasts.
neuralgia, uterine displacement and
catarrh, and all those symptoms and
troubles which make the average wo-
mans life SO miserable.
MICHIGAN DRUo o., Detrsat, Alsk
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03
He1 Fame
Wa ning...

One by one the idols of Kentucky
are slowly falling. First, the great
battleship named after the state was
christened with plain, cold water in
stead of with the red and fiery liquid
for which the commonwealth of Ken
lucky is so celebrated in song and
story. This baptizing of the battleship
Kentucky with water instead of
whisky, and which is generally re-
ferred to in Kentucky as the 'crime
of the 10Th century," was the first
great prop of tradition knocked from
under old Kaintuck. But now comes
another, and if anything, a harder
blow. Col. Henry Watterson, the
guardian angel Of the only original
star-eyed goddess of reform, declared
in an interview at Saratoga Springs
recently that he had not seen horse
race in fifteen years.
An old Kentuckian on hearing of
this statement relapsed into the follow
ing soliloquy: Shades of the old Ken
lucky home, whittier are we drifting?
In every one of the three great geo.
graphical divisions of Kentucky-viz.,
the blue grass, the bar grass, and the
pennr yal-there has always been a
feverish idolatry Of the trinity of Ken
tucky-good whisky, fast horses and
pretty women. But whisky was scorn-
ed, sub, yes. sub, scorned, when the
battleship Kaintucky, sub, was christ
ened with water, sub, instead of good
old Ticker, sub. And now, sub, Henry
Watterson. QUAR- Henry, sub, the great
est man, sub, since Thomas Jefferson,
such, and fast horses at that, sub, by
Dragging, sub. that he has never at
tended a horse race in fifteen years,
sub,
The next thing and somebody will
stand up and declare that the beau
ties of Kentucky squint and that
they have big feet. Then what will
there be left Of the commonwealth of
Kentucky? 1t is rumored that Henry
Watterson, upon his return to his ma
tive land. will be called before a
court-martial and tried for heresy. II
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03
Number of Dogs in Europe.

Number of Dogs In Europe.
The European dog census has been
completed and shows France, with e.
$4,000 dogs holding the European
record. Not only are there more dogs
in France than in any other country
in Europe, but there are more per
thousand inhabitants than in any
other European country. France has
Is dogs to every thousand of it's in
habitants. Then follow Ireland with
70, England with 80, Germany with
81, and Sweden with II. There are
100000 dogs in Germany, 1900, 900 in
Russia and 100000 in Turkey, though
tourists who have resided in Constan-
tinople aver that this number falls
short of the actual total, which they
think to be larger in Turkey than
elsewhere. In France there is a dog
tax and every dog is registered, con-
dition which makes the computation
comparatively easy in that country.
The number of dogs in the United
States is estimated at from 10000
to 100000
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03
Clever London Cabby.

A London "cabby" says that once
two distinguished strangers hailed him
at Westminster palace and babe him
drive at top speed to Marlborough
house. After moment of recollection
he recognized the Prince of Wales and
his friend the King of Belgium. An
awkward attempt at an obeisance from
the box was promptly rebuked, and
the cabby settled down to his business
of driving his royal guests as fast as
a hanson may go in London streets.
They stopped at Marlborough house
and it was time to pay We'll driven,
cabby," said the prince; what do I
owe you?" "Please, sir, I've already
'ad sovereign and art in the IAN
some" replied cabby, bowling to the
price and the king of Belgium. Here's
for the king of Belgium, them" said
the prince handing the driver a SOW
ereign; Il don't count, you know"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03

He certainly was unusually hand
some and he looked even younger than
he was for his face possessed a great
sincerity and righteousness of express
sion. The soft dark eyes and olive
SKIN were enhanced by the exceeding
thlnness OF the face and by the hun
cry look in the eyes-a hunger for spir-
ltuaI and mental as we'll as physi-
cal food. which, shining from those
dark eyes appealed directly and power
fully to this warm-hearted woman
knowing of an opening in the college
she quietly put the man and the op-
portunity together. with the result that
the Italian, within month, was CIV
Ing lessons to class. And the class
grew Immediately from three to thir-
teen.
To his patroness he owed all, and
never did he cease to pour out to her
MS gratitude. He treated her with the
greatest reverence and when walking
home with her or meeting her coming
to her duties he would hold open the
gate or raise his hat as if she were
princess. Then she got into the habit
OF asking him to come in when he
walked home with her and of making
cup of tea in her little bachelor room.
which always seemed cosy and pleas
ant to them both, and had made his
thanks overflow to "Mees Anna, She
discovered that he was saving almost
all his earnings toward sum which
would enable him to bring over his
old father and mother.
He poured out his music to Miss
Gilbert. as he did his troubles, with
those foolish girls who will not work
at re lesson" And to all his plans
and troubles she listened with SYM
pathy, as she always had done to any
of the students in whom she was TAX
Ing special interest. But sympathy
and friendliness in woman's heart
toward man, when the man is young.
handsome and manly. is going to grow
into love as surely as the acorn which
Dame Nature also planted is going to
grow into an oak.
One June day after he had walked
nome with her she sat in her room
and with many bushes faced it-faced
this fact that she loved the violinist
The song was all true: She loved her
Johnnie Morgan" And why not? she
asked herself. Had she not worked
hard for others all her life and been
faithful in all things? Was it not
right that the sunshine of love and
happiness should come into her life
She dreamed that night of a cottage
niled with the music of violin; and
never had she looked so radiant and
so young as she did the next day.
Il had letter this morning from
my little sister," she said to Antonio
the next evening as he walked home
with her. "She is coming next week
to spend her vacation with me-"
"Ah. the little sister. shall love
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03
Her Johnnie Morgan.
BY WILLIAM WENDHAM

BY WILLIAM WENDHAM
copyright. 1901. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
His name was not Johnnie Morgan;
it was Antonio Pansado But from
that day almost year ago when she
first heard and saw him, very dirty
and very picturesque Italian violinist,
Kidding his way through the frightened
purse strings and into the hearts of all
who heard him, she had christened
him and to herself had called him
Johnnie Morgan" Almost a year 1t
was and to her the shortest year she
had ever lived, for it seemed as ii this
Antonio had brought with him into
her life the blue sky and the sunshine
OF his own Italy
Miss Anna Gilbert was the teacher
OF drawing and painting in the Girls
College at Madisonville, and was more
beloved than any teacher of the COL
lege had ever been before. The title
which the girls had given her, saint
Anna" was truly deserved, for so
thlckly did she sow the seeds of good
ness about her that had her harvest of
thanks from poor struggling students
been wheat at the right time of the
market it would have given her a
princess income.
During her youth, for it must be
confessed her youth was mostly be-
mind her, she had worked and sacri-
Heed for her parents until their death,
and then she struggled for the educa-
ZION OF her younger brother and sis
ter.
One gray October morning on her
way to work she had been struck by
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03
London on tho Wane.

London is rapidly losing it's position
as a port. for the absurd people con-
trolling its docks are pitifully behind
the times. Grimsby and Hull are seiz-
ing all our trade. Liverpool and South
ampton are fast beating London; and
Rotterdam, Havre. Bordeaux, Bremen
and Hamburg are also benefitine,
London is no more the warehouse of
the world.-Rotterdam Nieuwe Cour.
ant.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03

IN many parts of Africa and in por-
lions OF Central and South America
the caterpillar is regarded as a del
icacy. Travellers who have been pre-
vailed upon to taste them pronounce
them palatable. In Australia the lar
vac of the longicornes or horned cater
pillar are much sought after as food.
They are found in the interior of de-
caying trees. The Larvae from each diff
ferent species Of tree have their own
distinctive flavor. Many nallves eat
them raw, but certain civilized tribes
prefer them fried.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03

the little child for the sake of Saint
Anna" exclaimed Antonio.
Saint Anna laughed.
oh, she's not so small as all that"
she replied. Sadie is eighteen and a
great tall girl, but call her my little
sister because she always has been my
baby. She has been at Normal school
and next season she will begin to
teach"
Sadie came, and rosebud OF rare
perfection she was-a perfect type of
blonde beauty, with a warm heart and
vivacity which charmed all who met
her. To her physical charms she add
ed character built on strongest foun-
datlons, for to this baby sister had
MISS Anna given all the loving care
and earnestness of thought, all the
building up of ideals that she had
missed in her own girlhood and ac-
CURED in her hard battles with the
world.
The next time Antonio walked home
with his "St. Anna she insisted that
he come in and see the little sister,"
lie came and they had cup of tea,
and Antonio, who was prepared to
make himself agreeable for the sake
OF his patroness and friend, soon for
got all about her in the presence OF
the sparkling youth and beauty of Sal
die. He came more often than ever
after that and sat in undisguised rap
ture and alteration at the feet of the
younger girl. Nor was she less at
tracted by the dark faced foreigner
with the soft black eyes.
AS Miss Anna watched them it all
came to her and she saw, not as
through glass darkly, but as in the
glare OF the morning light, how it all
was and would be. She had built up
these two, had given them sustenance
from her own nature, had fed their
souls and warmed their hearts, for
this very thing. And what could be
better. she thought, than that these
TWO young things. full of life and love
and the sunshine of the present and
promise OF the future, should love each
other. Nothing, she told herself, moth
ing could be better. 1t was natural.
It was right.
AS she stood in front of her glass
she looked closely at herself, scanning
her features critically.
You thought you could be young
again. she said, "but you had more
than ten years against you''
she looked closely at her heavy
brown hair and noting the few gray
mars about the temples she smiled a
little sadly to herself. She looked low
lngly at Sadie. asleep on the bed, and
said softly:
He Is her Johnnie Morgan" and
then with weary sigh. "Oh, how glad
l am that Wellesley needs another
drawing teacher next year"
II Sadie had been awake instead of
asleep she might have seen above the
head of st. Anna, the ring of white
light which crowned the head of this
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-03
| Blackburn
- 3 Family

When he was boy Of 20 years, just
fresh from the college halls Of old Gen.
ter. Joe Blackburn married the beauti-
full Theresa Graham. Now a man of
6S, with long years of public life be-
hind him and a third term in the Uni
ted States senate opening before him,
the authorized announcement of Mr..
Blackbufn's second marriage is made.
Senator Blackburn has chosen the widow
of his cousin, Judge H. H. Blackburn
OF West Virginia. to take the place left
vacant by the death of his first wife.
Mrs. Mary A. Blackburn has been a
widow for more than three years. Aft
er the death Of her husband she re-
cefved clerkship In the Quartermas-
ter generals Office, which she contin-
ued to fill until last week. She is
woman of strong personal magnetism,
of fine presence and gracious maners,
and by her marriage will become. the
latest addition to the senatorial brides.
For number of years the former Mrs.
Blackburn, together with Mrs. Carlisle,
gave added distinction to the reputation
Of Kentucky's hostesses. All three OF
her daughters made their debut in
Washington. There is something of
romance connected with the first mar
riage of Senator Blackburn. At 10 he
was graduated from Center college. Be-
forethe day of graduation came he met
and had fallen deeply in love with The
resa Graham. the 16-year-old daughter
Of DR.. Christopher G. Graham, who for
over half century lived at Harrods-
burg. He died at last in Louisville at
the age of 100 years. When young
Blackburn left Center college he went
to Chicago for the practice of law. Re-
turning to his own state in brief
time, he became volunteer elector for
John c. Breckenridge. Before the cam
paign opened he was married to Miss
Graham, and from that time until her
death, two years ago, their married life
was one of happiness, broken only by
the civil war, through which young
Blackburn, and several Of his brothers,
u WAOm ne nau elgnC, served with gal
lantry. Throughout the whole of his
public life Mrs. Blackburn was his
stanchest supporter and wisest adviser.
Their home in Washington was one of
the centers of the social life of that
city. OF his three daughters two have
married, and in the lives of both ro-
nance has played a part. Senator
Blackburn's eldest daughter is the wife
of Colonel Herman A. Hall, who is a
member of the staff of General Chat
fee. Years ago she was married and
was widowed in two weeks, her hus-
band dying of rapid consumption near
Los Angeles, Cal. In her bereavement
Lieutenant Hall was ready in his SYM
pathy. A year later the young lieuten-
ant was ordered to Washington, pro-