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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Will Dexter leaped from the buggy,
his eyes ablaze, his hands closing and
opening in fury.
There was the sound of galloping
hoofs, the snort AID foam of a fren-
zied horse and Tinsley, alert, straight,
savage and determined, leaped to the
ground before his horse stopped run
ming and alighted IN the center of dis
turbance, pistol in hand.
Turn about" he commanded, IN
dicating the way with his vicious-ap-
pearing weapon. And move fast"
The judges presence was complete
ly ignored.
The Judge almost exploded with
amazement and wrath.
"Who are you speaking to-" he de-
manded. Did 1 understand you to
order my son, my son, to go back?"
Il did" responded the now infuri
ated Tinsley, eff that low-lived cur is
a son of yours"
The Judge dashed his mare to one
side.
Drive on there. WILL" he exclaimed
furiously. my son takes orders from
no one but me. When you are married
come home. Coz
Young Dexter leaped into the buggy
and slshed the colt with his whip.
The animal leaped forward, threw one
of it's widespread fore feet through a
wheel of the judges buggy and fell
writhiIg and struggling with broken
leg.
Instantly Tinsley was himself once
| more Ignoring the cleaning weapon
| OF the judge pointed at him, with its
owners savage gaze glancing along the
polished barrel, he raised his own
weapon.
There was fiat, crashing report, a
| scream from the girl, and the pain
| maddened horse fell Imply with a
| heavy bullet through it's tossing head.
"Goddlemighty!" exclaimed the
judge, dropping his pistol into the
road "Mr. Tinsley, you're a mana
| man damn you! Do You understand?
| Another half second and I'd have
| plugged you, and you knew it. l should
| have done it myself
Here, you, will, take this rig and
| go on! Don't stand about like a fool
| with your mouth OPEN"
when l see a man l guess l know
it. Clear out"
The crunch of wheels and the rapid
blew his nose with explosive violence
"Mr. Tinsley,' he said, 81 ask your
pardon. l was wrong. Shall we lie,
'em go? Will you shake hands? That's
right. And, say" the judge looked up
and down the road, do you ever-?'
| Tinsley did, occasionally.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
A HospitabIe Heathen.

1t was high noon, and Monday.
Worse yet, it was the thirteenth day
of the month. A knock was heard at
the kitchen door of the Burns man
sion. The Chinese servant opened the
door. A tramp of long and varied eX-
perience accosted him.
1--WE been travelling, and have play
ed in mighty hard luck" observed the
tramp Il lost all of my money in an
attempt to corner oats, and now I'm
hungry; very, very hungry. Can't you
please give me little bite of soAse-
thing to eat?'
The Chinaman comprehended the
situation at once. A benevolent, pla-
cid smile spread itself over his entire
countenance.
"Yuu likee fish," he asked of the
tramp.
Eyes, 1 like fish first rate. That
will do as well as anything"
Come Fliday," said the hospitaple
heathen.-New York Times.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
LIFE'S HARVEST.

They are moving the meadows, now,
and the whispering, signing
Song of the scythe breathes sweet on
mine idle ear
Song of old summer dead and of this
one dying
Roses on roses fallen, and year on year.
Softly as swathes that sink while the
long scythe, swinging.
Passes and pauses and sweeps through
the deep green grass:
Strange how this song of the scythe sets
the old days singing
Echoes of seasons gone, and of these
that pass.
Fair ghost of Youth-from your sea-frag-
rant orchard-cloSeS
Called by the voice of the scythe as it
signs and swings
tom roses.
What was the dream you dreamed
through those vagrant Springs?
What that forgotten air when the heart
went maying
What was the perfume blowing afar,
anear?
Youth - Youth Youth = the Scythe
keeps signing and saying
1.-THE rose you saw not-the tune that
you could not hear"
-Rosamond Marriott Watson in HarI
per's.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
New Type of Steamship.

Consul J. G. Freeman writes from
Copenhagen: "a company has been
formed in this city for the construc-
ton of a trial steamship of a new type.
The inventor is Capt. f.. G. Ishoy,
who has taken out patents in the
principal countries. In this new form
of steamer the screw is placed under
the bottom instead of aft. The hull
is materially changed in form, being
flatter, and the ships draft thereby
considerably lessened. 1t is claimed
that a saving in the consumption of
coal of about 20 per cent will be
effected The inventor believes that
with the same amount of fuel the
speed will be greatly Increased, and
finally that this form of craft will be
much steadier and more seaworthy."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

"store'' in the kitchen, and his eldest
daughter was nowhere to be seen.
where's your sister," he demanded
of the busy children, great fear tug
ging at his heart.
"The's done dwivfn' wifi Mithter
Dexter, papa" replied the largest in
FAINT. 1.-The told me to tell you the'd
done to town an to tell you dood-bye.
Don't you wanth to buy thomethin',
papa?"
But Tinsley was tearing open the
drawers in his daughters room. 1t
was plain that she had gone. What
he had feared for so long had come to
pass. Nettie had run away with
young Dexter, and it was plain from
the depletion of her scanty wardrobe
that she did not contemplate n speedy
return.
Something in Tinsley's head seemed
to break. He was no longer a SLOUGH
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
The Heroes of Crime,

The spectacular crime OF the CO
try is to be well exploited IN
meIodramas next season. Besides
play relating the experiences OF
James boys in Missouri, there is 70
another concerning the jail break
the Biddles in Pennsylvania, and
third detailing the beginning OF tnd
nnish of the end of Harry Tracy ID
Washington.
One Tracy play is already in oper2
ton and has been since week aItS
the outlaw escaped from the penlt&
tiary and began shooting saeriffs,
was originally done at the Third Az.
nue. theater in Seattle, and 1T is RI
corded that when the outlaw killed
sheriff-in the drama, that is-the
audience applauded. When he was
himself wounded, it wept. When ne
loaded his gun it held its breath
When he dexterously separated quo
of tobacco from the plug and twirleo
his mustache, it gasped.
The new Tracy plays will end with
the ueath of the hero. He Will ole
heroically in each of them with words
of heroic character upon mis- pale lips.
He will sink to the stage murmurlng:
"Alasi Is this the end of all NV
greatness? POUNDS Che raises the
fatal pistol shot to his headD Goodby
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
Irving Takes Old Theater.

Sir Henry Irving is not to have a
new theater in London, after all.
On the cantrary, he will be housed
permanently hereafter during his Lon
don season at the SALISBURY theater
The little house is to be remodeled
and refurnished for the Irving occu-
pancy, which begins next March with
a production of the new Sardou play.
Dante" The SALISBURY is the thea
ter where our American piece, The
Belle OF New York." enjoyed its won
dSrful London run.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
On the Turnpike.
BY II. B. MARINER.


Tinsley, the toIlgate keeper, leaned
his long frame heavily upon the top
rail of the worm fence and watched
the efforts of a young man in the bot
tom pasture across the road to cap
ture a large sorrel colt which did not
court capture.
The young man, Tinsley noted with
an inward chuckle, had about reached
that stage of desperation wherein man
meditates the capture of horse with
some convenient brick.
Tinsley did not like the young man
who desired the horse. On general
principles he disliked every young
man who owned horse, and 1t might
be further stated that his dislike ex-
tended to every young man in the
vicinity of the tollgate, whether he
possessed horse or not, though from
the nature of his profession Tinsley
was more familiar with the former
class.
1t wasn't Nettie Tinsley's fault ex-
actly, this attitude of her parents. al
though ever since his advent into Ken
lucky, Tinsley had watched with grow
ing concern and perplexity the devel-
opment of his eldest daughter from
red-headed, sun-tanned East Tennes-
see child into young woman of I'M
deniable beauty, who sat on the porch
of the dollhouse in the evenings and
played softly upon an old guitar left
in the stable by some unknown pos
SCISSOR.
The number of saddle horses at his
hitching rack had grown steadily
through the summer, and Tinsley was
more than ever involved in the diff
ficult solution of the problem. He
wished even more fervently than he
had ever wished that his wife had
lived to see her eldest daughter grow
into a woman.
Incivility to the visitors was, of
course, in a Tennesseean. absolutely
out of the question.
Argument with Nettie, Tinsley felt,
with a world of bitter experience to
back his view, would be worse than
useless, and might, probably would,
precipitate what he feared most.
Altogether Tinsley was in what he
termed a Elk"
The row of horses which ordinarily
| fought and paved about the old hitch,
| ing rack had gradually grown less in
| number as the year progressed, and
| with the first frosts which sweetened
the wild grapes and crowded the bit
terness from the soft pink-brown per
| simmons there was but one horse
which spent much or its time at the
rack-a big sorrel colt, which Tinsley
had begun to look upon with hatred.
| This change did not. however, i'm
| press Tinsley with especial joy. He
did not look upon it as indicative o.
growing unpopularity of his daughter
He wished it was.
Tinsley greeted Will Dexter on thu
road much as he might anyone else
He staid away from home as much a
possible and despised himself for it
When Judge Dexter passed in his bug
gy driving the long-legged and much
coveted Criterion mare, which was hi
especial favorite, Tinsley would ref1ec
bitterly upon social conditions, ant
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

"And, say, Tinsley, do you ever
ing stoop-shouldered, shiftless toll
gate keeper, but a man whose child
was in danger.
His shoulders Strengthened, his face
hardened into lines of resolution, and
the top of his throat closed with
vicious jerk.
Snatching his long, black revolver
from the mantel shelf, he burst
through the kitchen, leaving the. door
ajaf and the children wailing in at
fright.
Throwing a saddle upon the huge
roam horse in the box stall, he whirled
the excited animal into the pike and
disappeared over the hill with fur
ry of gray dust and a cracking of
hoofs.
Meanwhile the red-wheeled buggy
behind a big sorrel colt was whirling
along several miles ahead, bearing a
square-jawed young man in a SLOUGH
hat and a frightened girl, whose glor-
ious hair, broken loose from its fas-
Jennings, streamed behind her like a
burst of flame.
"Oh, WILL" she exclaimed, clinging
to his arm. I'm so afraid Suppose
your father sees us. What will he
say?'',
He'll say a good DEAL" he replied,
grimly. He always does. But don't
be worried, Nettie girl. Well get to
DR.. Williams before they ever dream
of looking for us and then"
He bent over and kissed her cold
white cheek.
Just at this NONE nt, around sharp
bend in the road, appeared vision
| calculated to make even stout heart
quail, and Will Dexter's face grew
white as that of the girl beside him.
Swiftly approaching was the judge
himself. The broad Panama hat, and
the fringe of gray whiskers behind the
bobbing ears of the famous Criterion
mare were unmistakable.
"V%here are you going?" demanded
the judge, blocking the road squarelJ
by refining his buggy diagonally across
it. And who the. devil may this b.
with your"
Young Dexter placed his arm abou
the shrinking girl.
please be careful of your language
SIR" he said, eying his father steadily
This is the girl l am to marry. W.
are on the way now"
The face of the judge turned from
crimson to an apoplectic purple.
"The devil you are!" he sputtere'
furiously. "Turn that horse aroun,
and go home!"
az will not. Get out of the road!"
The judge came near dying. Wa
this his son who was speaking to him
did you hear me?" he demande
with a look his son had never befor
seen. Turn that horse around o
With a spasm of pain, yet with rigi
Spartan determination the judge dre7
from his pocket cleaning revolver.
Turn that horse back"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
Made a Hit With Him.

Eyes, l saw Miss Rushmore last
evening, and she struck me as"
ooh, yes, as being more beautiful
than ever?"
mo. She struck me as I was try
ing to cross Fifth avenue in front of
that big tonneaued car she scorches
around in, but can't say that it was
her beauty that made the most i'm
pression on me when we met"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

tentive to the Bohemian divinit,sho
had worn his name out at the eLvs
He used to accompany her to thesa
ter and sit in the wings all Wing
with a bored. tired look which "a.
ed TO everyone except the Yoh0 la.
self. Just before the last a b.
would go to her ladyship's Dire ~
room and almost pleadingly drawl:
Now, Maybe. dear, we are goi
right home after the show, are
we?"
And Maybe GEAR" quite invarial
replied: Yes, part of us are-y
and the diamonds. I'll be alo
shortly"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

would momentarily resolve to break
up the dangerous friendship between
his daughter and the son of the
Judge, even if he had to kill somebody.
The weeks and months drifted on,
until one eventful day in September,
and when Tinsley, sore in body and
wearied in mind, numbered into the
stable yard on his rafting pole wag-
on, there was no one on duty at the
gate.
The three children were playing
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
James T. Powers.

Mrs. Osborn has been negotiating
with James T. Powers for the past
week or SO play the leading com
edy role in The Understudy," to be
produced at Mrs. Osborns playhouse
in October.
When seen by Mirror man regard
ing this and other engagements for
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

A great many young women in Eng
"a are gaining social prominence by
1910 reported engaged to Lord Kitch-
s.ss;- Int the hero of the South Afri-
e.r var appears to be successfully
800 ea.dmcting his famous skirmish line
tactics.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

All other theories regarding the
suicide of young Remington may be
dfsregarded since the fact became
IrDown that his last act before the
ehooting was an experience with a
telephone.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

IF the crown prince of Siam has
read what the newspapers have been
saving about the crown prince OF Ger
many he may think second time be-
@ore yenturing into the American
efrI's country.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

MIR. Schwab leaves his home in a
private car, but just now he no doubt
would be glad to trade places with
n man of sound nerves going to pic
mic behind team of mules
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Think as kindly as you can of the
mosquitoes. They work while you
sleep.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

AS a result of an automobile acct
dent Sir Thomas Upton received
shock. But it didn't trouble him. he
Is used to Shocks He received fe"
in the yacht races.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Prof. Schenk will always be remem-
bered as the man who thought he was
posted on the whims of the stork.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

kentucky girl who has had $50
.sa,s If marriage has decided to re-
lain single and devote her life to mu-
- ~, when she gets on the stage, how
- ahe will probably cease to re-
. ~s,a marriage as thing to be much
dreaded.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

comes to this country. 1t is not only
more sociable, but safer.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

A noiseless mosquito is no i'm
provement on the other kind. 1t leaves
him too much time for actual business
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Some persons might think that eat
ing fifty ears of green corn was about
as pleasant a way to die as any.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

AS the late Horace Biglow would
say, the underpinning of Venice il
purity considb BILE out of j'int.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Germany is beginning to think the
auto invasion worse than the Ameri-
can invasion.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

How many loving wives will envy
Mrs John r. Drexel her birthday gift
of check for 100000 from her hus-
band
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

A. Boston landlord who tried to col
iect his rent in kisses from pretty
widow was fined $25. There are some
freakish landlords and peculiar wild
oWs in Boston.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

y The man who tied dynamite to his
sick dog and lost his house when the
animal wagged his tail has by this
time learned that cruelty does not
pay.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Grand Duke Boris says Chicago is
big and ugly, but good-hearted. The
same thing may be said of John l..
Sullivan.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
Unioue Titles of p,.vs

Three unique play titles announced.
for early use are Mary, Mary, Quite.
Contrary" IN Days of Old, When
Knights Were Bold" and "Among
Those Present" Henrietta Crosman
owns the first, Walker Whiteside the
second, and Mrs. Lemoyne the third
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

The sultan has again promised to
be good. It's a way the sultan has
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

The world at large hangs very little
Grape on it's door for the scorchobo-
list who parts company with life at
an S0-miles an hour gait.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

There are 100000 Jews in New
York, according to The Jewish
World. That city can now present a
pretty strong claim to being the New
Jerusalem.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

If the United States mail is deter
mined to suppress lotteries, they
should suppress the mail The aver
age mans mail is a whole lot OF lot
terry to him.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Stuart Robson will begin his season
IN Brooklyn on Sept 10. He will re.
Vlve The Comedy of Errors" ana
VIII give some performances of CHE
Henrietta" Clifford Leigh will NAV
the part of one of the Dromios aud
the others in the company will he
Edwin Holt, Joseph P. KeeIe Mr.
Edwin F. Mayo. Laura Tbnn,n0o. WITS WIT.
Victoria Addison. anu
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

AS the Chinese rebels are being ex-
ecuted at the rate of 1000 day, it
is predicted that the rebellion will not
last more than a year.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

J. Pierpont Morgan, it is said. re-
fuses to Tip" hotel walters. This
is another of the advantages of being
all-powerful.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

w. c. Mead refused drink and
was shot by the genial gentleman
who offered to treat him. This did
not happen in Texas.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

= When last heard from the crown
prince of Germany was beginning to
eat solids and cast shy glances at
other girls again.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

King Edward has COMPOUNDED the
soothsayers, and that's not small
job. even for man who weighs $50
pounds.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

The work of amassing fortune of
$1S.0o0,000. cost Mr.. Schwab his
health, and it was not very hard
work either.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

The Chicago discovery that the color
yellow scares away mosquitoes won't
help women to whom yellow is not be-
coming.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Miss Maud Hoffman, who will be
remembered for her good work in
David Garrick" when Mr.. Willard
produced that play in this country,
will again seek the favor of American
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
/. Il. WALKER, Publisher,
LOUISIANA

There is sweeping movement on
foot to organize a broom trust.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

Marguerite (his GRID! Farewell!
Goodby Che fires) Ouch! Alas! Che
dies)."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

audiences this season. She issoon
to sail from England, with the item
ton of playing the entire seast in
America. What her repertoire VI be
has not been announced.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19

. will make grea''
N. X Dramatic Mirror.
IL Ezra Kena na Sendan and James
~ years ai Mzra the poet, have o ossp
Ariensd,sn, p msnSaI Riley to write s, q
~ "a in s snss attention to s,ar pes
erEhae ne xendan, write a PR les ai now
v 1t skSedges that it a waS ed his new
:; !; : an;
e In Sey will play a pronAAe
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
ocresticity.

NAN vohe's o'1 mes May xohe
' :: ;'s ;e w s5s;s ne
late ef Ralee strong and the 3,, r9s'i IS
arna xS Among the .a aeV her one
the ele 81 -OUAyS how she g tEenee0 after she
time M ytA I'd, Lord hop and was ap-
returne kc3etahis e e9SasFy Th ar at the
pearing yhe te g,O0'
Lord IN n e.. was NA'