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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

The limpet adheres to a rock with
a force equal to 1000 times its own
weight.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Legislation enacted by the last con.
gress will result in at least 10000
new pensioners.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

MoCANE'S DETECTIVE AGENCY
Houston, Texas, Tor trained and reliable de-
teotiVe service.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

DREISs' SPECIFIC HEAuACHB POwDERB-
the only harmless and sure cure for All Headaches.
Price 10 and $50. Sent by mall upon receipt OF price
AGolph DTelss, lis Alamo Plaza san Antonio, TAS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Try me just once and ! am sure to
come again. Defiance Starch.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Tea seeds resemble small hazel nuts.
They are sown in beds to grow thick
ly together lige cabbage.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

lido not believe Plso's Cure for Consumption
has On equal FOR coughs and colds.-JoHN y
BoEER, Trinity Springs. ind, Feb. Is, 1900
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

The matchmaker is not the only
man who lives on tick.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

The greedy man always cheats him
self.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

A man dealing a seven-up hand dur
ing the middle of the day, looks nigh
ty shift1ess.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21
THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED 1T

will use no other. Defiance Cold Water
Starch has no equal in Quantity quail
ity-16 OF. for 10 cents. Other brands
contain only u OF.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Might may not mako right, but it
seldom gets left.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

One touch of nature Keeps the whole
world on the lookout for new sensa-
lions.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

To Cure a Cold In One day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al
druggists refund money if it failsto cure. 25c
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

When people are mad at you, you
never thrk they have any cause.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

The value of King Edwards china
at Buckingham palace ana Windsor
is said to exceed 100000.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Mott women matters are floor walk
ers in department sores.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Mrs. winsIow's Soothing syrup.
For children teethpg, softens the Runs reduces IN
Examination aRys pain cures wind collie 2Sc Rottlo-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21
HARD TO FIND.

A woman who is willing to yield
a single point in an argument.
A man who does not feel that he
ought to have some other position.
A man who is willing to admit he
is possessed of a selfish ambition.
A woman who will accept criticism
of her attire from another woman.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

sincerity is the secret Of success.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Nothing jars a chronic invalid like
being told that he is looking well.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Good intentions do not improve with
age.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

You can do your dyeing In half an
hour with PUTNAM FADELESs
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-11-21

Halls Family pills are the best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
That Race War Again.

The Saturday Blade, published in Chicago, boasts lone million five hun dred thousand readers a week." In it's issue of October 25 it bears at the top of the first page big line in red, Bloody Race War In Alabama" and underneath it on the title page, is a huge fve-column cut, printed in colors, representing the shooting down of officers sent to Littleton from Sheriff Burgin's office, by negroes standing in front of a building labelled Gro cery, Liquors" In it's account of the affair this paragraph appears:
 A telegram late Sunday night said that three white men and eight negroes were killed during the afternoon, and about dozen were wounded. The negroes were reported to be in complete possession or the town and at work intrenching them selves to resist attack.
 In the picture the three officers are seen lying dead on the ground, while two more are tottering to their death. The negroes are clad in red shirts and their pistols fill the air with curling wisps of smoke. The scene is vividly presented, and the million and a half readers of the Saturday Blade no doubt think the race war is still going on. The Saturday Blade is not so much at fault for this libel upon the fair fame of Alabama as are the Bohemians who sent broadcast the ridiculously exaggerated accounts oi the trivial hopiack scrap at Littleton,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
Political Apathy in Alabama

The apathetic condition of public sentiment in this state is full of dan gers, disappointments and perhaps surprises. In two of the congressional districts at least every. democratic vote is needed, and every democratic vote should be cast in the other seven districts of the state.
 Every citizen owes it to the state as a whole and to his neighbors as individuals proper attention to public matters. It is his public duty to vote tor public officers, and to keep up with all public issues. He may not have time to become a political worker in the month preceding every election, but he should take time in which to inform himself as to all issues involved in the election. If he dislikes stump speeches, let the abundant political lit erature that campaign managers send out be read and digested. An intelli- gent citizen is as a rule a good citi- zen, and the converse of the proposi- tion is equally true.
 It is difficult to say what the apathy prevailing in this state means, but it probably means that the voters know the nature of the issues, and that they will quietly go next. Tuesday to the polls and vote their convictions. If it means. on the other hand, that they are overconfdent and will not in this busy season of the year go to the polls, then look out for trouble and surprises. A loss Of two members in Alabama may change the control ot the next house of representatives, for it is generally conceded that the ma jority in 1t either way will be small.
 The Age-Herald appeals to every democrat in the state to remember that the primary system as well as the new constitution are involved in the coming election. It is best to cast a big vote next Tuesday in order that both may be maintained. A light vote will be construed as a condemns tion of both.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
LETTERS TO EDITOR.
Pleased With Falr.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 I have been a resident of Birmingham since 1887, and have attended every fair that has been held here. After making a careful study and comparison, I have no hesitation in declaring that the present fair is the best one ever held in Alabama. It has the best exhibits in every depart ment, the most attractions of all kinds, and the most wonderful works of nature and art ever displayed here.
 Every one should see and carefully study these exhibits and all the contents of this fair, as many of them will never be seen here again. This is especiany true of the Indians and the diving horses. The former will soon pass off the scene of ac- tion altogether, and the latter will hardly return to Birmingham again. My own opinion is that all residents of the Bir- mingham district who fail to see this fair one or more times will regret it all their lives. Yours truly, K. o. PATTON.
 Birmingham October 27.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
SUPERSTITION IN CHICAGO.
le Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 TO pass under a ladder Is bad luck
 Of 300 persons who were observed yes- terday who had the opportunity of pass ing under one or going out of their way to get around it, 366 seemed to believe the omen. They sidestepped.
 A thirty-foot ladder stood against the wall of a building in a busy street. It covered three-fourths of the sidewalk and left the rest clear. AS stated the major ity lodged 1t.
 If the figures hold good as the basis for an estimate, more than half the people Tn Chicago are superstitious or have some lingering remnants of dreads of i'll omens. The 366 who refused to provoke the rates by passing under the ladder probably would throw salt over their shoulder if they upset on the table, and they propa- bly, would expect the worst 1T they broke a looking glass.
 It was the effort of the superstitlous to avoid 1t which afforded the fudicrous features of the scene. Some would be nearly under the ladder when they saw it. They would promptly backpedal ana get out of danger. Then they sidestepped and looked at the ladder, a maneuver which was followed by change in course so as to make circle around the base.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
WHAT THE USUAL FREE
 PASS COSTS THE EDITOR
From the Schenectady N. r5 Daily

From the Schenectady oN. YD Daily
 Union.
 ~ NE of the most unjust of the
 many evils of the present day is ~ that which appears to obtain with regard to what are styled free passes" Here's a case in point, and 1t happens every day in the year:
 A society decides to give an entertain ment or concert to raise needed funds. Tn order to get the people out the affair which nine times in ten is altogether too mediocre to pass muster anywhere-it is necessary to utilize the press; otherwise no one outside of the immediate friends of the participants would know anything about the thing.
 Now. how do they go about 1t? Do they walk up to the newspaper office and buy space in the paper in a manner sim liar to that which would obtain if they were doing business with q merchant in need of whose wares they stood sadly? Not bit of 1t, my countrymenl No, sireel They've a handler way than that.
 They go to the newspaper office, take up half an hour of the editors time with q ASSAeetA 1A tilc dlif5Sa B4oAttS LII AHth show and then ask him to boom it along for them. Being public-spirited individ- ual who is in the business altogether by his physicians orders in order to save him from an early grave from ennui, the glad faced editor assents. spends another half hour in the preparation of an article that is public spirited. even if it does leave the soul of the hapless writer in peril of the place where the delinquent subscriber ceaseth not to smoke and the wicked are never at rest, and then he sends it out to the composing room. There it Is ''set up'' in type by printers who must be paid by the editor, the proof sheet read by the proofreader who also receives some little remembrance of the largness of the luckless editor at intermit- tent intervals, and the matter run in tn, paper, the type being handled many times by men whose time costs the editor money right along. while the white paper used also Is not to be procured in ex- change for a pleasant look.
 The advertisement thus prepared is read by the thousands or readers of the paper, who duly accept the word of the editor, who genearlly Is a man of marked probity and truthfulness, barring these little affairs, and, make up their minds to attend the seance. consenting therefor to be separated from their money. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28

are contaminated by the soil, because it is demonstrated thai Inc typhoid germ will live 67 days underground. It may In that time be carried Into a water supply by any slight current.
 The germ will live in wet soil 67 days; in dust of the soil 25 days. This infectiYe dust may be blown about until food is contaminated by it. The flies that walk over contaminated earth undoubtedly carry the germs to milk, flesh and other foodstuffs, and clothing. once infected will hold the germs 90 days.
 These three sources of the disease dust, flies and soiled dry clothing each and all contribute to the dissem- ination of the disease. The entire plan of burying enteric material should be given up, because in that way the soil is infected, and this soil turns to dust in dry weather, or Is traVersed by flies, or else the germs in it are carried in wet weather into wells or springs or other open water supplies. All enteric matter should be disin- fected by means of solution of blue stone or sulphate of copper. After dis infection 1t Is not important what dis position is made of it. The investiga- tions prove that typhoid is not by any means a drinking-water disease pure and simple. The dust of the streets and the flies are also deadly agents. Drinking water may be the most potent cause, but soil contamina- ton is undoubtedly good second.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
COTTON STATES TRAVELLER
 ESTIMATES COTTON CROP

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat
 There is at least one man who dissents from the cotton estimate given out by A. J. Buston of Liverpool, who several days ago gave out an elaborate review of cotton conditions in the Unted States.
 The dissenter is Capt. R. T. Vinson, who is well known throughout the south and who has, because of his position as a travelling man. viewed conditions in many parts of the cotton section.
 His estimate is 10, 550,O00 bales.
 The Buston estimate, given several days ago, was n, 100000.
 Last year Captain Vinson made exactly the same estimate of the crop, that was, 1055O,OOO bales, and the yield was 1O6So,- 6sO His reasons for believing that the Buston estimate is too high are that the drouth, boil weevils and other insects have seriously damaged the crop in cer- tain sections of the cotton area.
 He gave out the following statement on the subject:
 My attention has just been called to A. J. Buston's estimate of the cotton crop, and his eSt1mate or uaHaBeS uoHe by boil weevl and drouth estimating favorable conditions in Texas, saying it will greatly improve prospects. can not conceive how any man unbiased as he should be, should make such a state ment intelligently I am an old planter and have made thirty-six cotton crops and I know a crop when l see it. l did ,,ot mice Inc p.,tton eron last year 50,000 bales. When it was predicted that 9,5Oo,-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
CONFIDENT OF NEW YORK.

From the Washington Times.
 Enthusiastically the democratic managers are confident of carrying New York. The evidences of their confidence are too numerous and marked to be mistaken. This, of course, docs not mean that their confidence is not misplaced. From the highest source of democratic information and authority it can be stated that 1t IS expected MT. Coer will be elected gov ernor by a plurality about as large as was given to President Roosevelt in his whirlwind gubernatorial campaign of 1898. Ex-Governor Hill, who is the real manager of the Coler campaign, regard less of the titles and nominal official functions of other men figuring eonspieu- ously in the fight, is reported upon credi- ble authority to have secured poll of the state which gives Color plurality of SO. 900 in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx and 30,00O in Kings coun- ty (Brooklyn). His alleged reliable poll gives Governor Odell 5000 down to the Bronx. instead of the 1400O0 claimed by the republican managers. Whether MT. Hill has secured any such detailed in- formation as claimed is not youched for in this paragraph, but at any rate the statement comes from a source that is worthy of serious consideration. At the same time it is worthy of comment that not one experienced political observer in fifty in Washington believes the demo- crats will carry New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
RESIGNATION.

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There is no flock, however watched and
 tended,
 But one dead lamb is therel There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair! The air is full of farewels to the dying, And mournings for the dead; But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and
 vapors;
 Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heavens distant lamps. There is no death! What seems so Is tram sition;
 This life of mortal breath i Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
 Whose portal we call death. She is net desd-the child of our affec- But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor pro-
 tection,
 And Christ himself doth rule. sf In that great cloister's stiffness and se-
 clusion,
 By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sims
 pollution
 She lives, whom we call dead. Day after day we think what she Is do-
 Ing
 In those bright realms of air; Year after year. her tender steps pur- suing, Behold her grown more fair. Thus do we walk with her, and keep un- broken .f-
 The bond which nature gives, Thinking that our remembrance, though May reach her where she lives. S Not as child shall we again beho.d her; For when with raptures wild af In our embraces we again enfold her, & She will not be child; But fair maiden, in her Fathers manss
 sion, seStisaS Clothed with celestial grace; h And beautiful with all the souls expan- sion
 Shall we behold her face. And though at times .impetuous with emo- tion And anguish long suppressed. The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean, That cannot be at rest v We will be patient. and assuage the feeling
 We may not wholly stay; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
COMBINATION TO DREw's SAFE.

New York Letter to Philadelphia Press.
 A prominent financier, now an elderly man-everybody in the money world of New York knows him-was speaking this morning of MT. Sageis safe-deposit vaults and the possession of the combination by his confidential employees, and said that the late Moses Taylor, chief among the bankers of New York of the midyears of the last century, told him one day that they had just had an amusing experience with Daniel Drew It was not long after the combination lock had been invented and had been placed upon many of the safes in this city.
 MT. Drew was seriously i'll. His family and friends were apprehensive that the illness was mortal Some business emer- gency arose which made it necessary to open MT. Drew's safe. Serious conse- quences would have been involved, and an appeal to the courts necessary if this safe were not opened But no one had the combination. It was deemed essential to get the combination from Mir. Drew He moaned and groaned and fretted. but only yielded it when told that if the safe were not Opeheu lne couTtS Wouiu De aSheu 10 authorize the forcible opening.
 Then, almost in agony, mental as well as physical, he said that the combination was the word "boot" But when they at- tempepted to open the safe, using the let. ters of this word, 1t did not yield, and they went back to him to ask him if they had understood aright. In answer he all most shrieked, q told you right; the combination is Boot 'Bootr ." He re- peated it twice, and then, to give em- phasis to it, spelled it out-"B-u-t-e."
 They went back to the safe, and, using the letters butte" found that MT Drew was right in the word, but with his characteristic indifference to spelling had been wrong. having spelled it by sound rather than by the dictionary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28
Canned Goods Trade.

Baltimore, as every one must know, is a great center of the canning industry" said a Baltimore canner at the Morris yesterday "The canned goods market is passing through a time when it requires more than its usual strength to sustain its weight. It is to be regretted that there is a certain element that has forced itself into the canned goods business, who, being unable to secure business in equal competition with reliable houses, has resorted to methods in order to ob- tain that result which has rebounded to the detriment of the market, finan- cial loss to the packers and no end of trouble to the jobbers.
 Take, for instance, tomatoes. Week before last it was impossible to buy any full standard tomatoes at 90 cents, al- though they were offered all over the country at that price. A well known Baltimore broker stood ready to buy all the tomatoes he could find at 90 cents, and did offer those packers who offered tomatoes at that price to take all they had.
 "The offer was made while the tele- graph operator was sending the tele- gram quoting the goods at 90 cents in other sections. He was politely told, we are sorry, but the goods are sold.
 'It has since developed that the object in weakening the market was in order to fill several large orders from western houses at 90 cents less IF per cent. Those quotat had the desired effect, and did temporarily weaken the market until it declined to 90 cents, net cash, for standard goods, delivered f. o. b. at country points taking freight rate little higher than from Baltimore.
 ''The Baltimore packers did not weak en- They understood the situation too well, and they are holding their tomatoes of full standard quality at 95 cents and their off standard at 921s cents.
 Tt is my opinion, as well as that of the majority of well-posted canned goods people here, that this is the oppor- tunity to buy tomatoes at low price. After a while there will be weakening, and our country friends will appreciate having so quickly disposed of the few to- matoes they were able to accumulate af- ter they had filled their orders for 'fu- tures.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28

GOO would be made by the cotton ex- changes, I predicted that there would be 900 bales raised,
 q travel as salesman for Goodman Bros, of Memphis, all over the cotton section affected by boil weevil and the drouths spoken of by MT. Buston, and will say the boil weevil country, the best part of the cotton producing coun- try of Texas, is an entire fs.lure, the crop being picked in six weeks and stock turned in field, ginned and put on mar ket and gin house closed down. AS regards weather conditions, all of the weather in the world this season will do nothing for good or bad for the Texas cotton crop There is no top crop and evsr in the Brazos bottoms it takes from five Co eight acres of land to produce bale of cotton, where two bales have been grown. Considering the condition of the Texas cotton crop. my estimate is, as it was last year, 10550,0OO.
 "Cotton should be held by planters and the merchants should assist them to hold it and if sold should be put into March futures, as it will take the world until about that time to realize that short crop has been made and 100000 crop could be used if made. Cotton will go to 10 or II cents.
 .sMr. Buston has certainly never trav- eled much in the cotton region, and if he has. is not judge of favorable wealth. CT conditions, else he would not talk or top crop when the crop is dead wun drouth. No top crop can be raised when if takes a bloom thirty-eight days at this season to make cotton"