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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-06-27

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For groceries call on Bell & Co.
Crowley Sunday.
If you are in need of good rubber |
betting see AL Davidson.
w. f. Hutchinson was a Lake Charles
business visitor Friday.
Call on A. E. Bell & Co. and price those
New Home Sewing Machines.
A. F. Danes, of Crowley, was in Welsh
Friday transacting business.
Wheeler q Wilson sewing machine
best on the market. RACKET.
j. G. Barry visited home folks near
Opelousas Sunday
New line Sweet-Orr Union" made
clothing just in at Daniels.
Miss Mayme Grosh went to her uncle,
Smith Buskil's, Monday for a brief
visit.
p. NJ Billion was on the sick list two
or three days of the patter portion of last
week.
Anything in the clothing and dry goods
lines can be had at Bell & Co.'s at the
lowest prices.
J. s. Lyons, manager of Cooper's drug
store, visited in Crowley Sunday after
noon.
For wall paper call on A E. Bell 4
Co. They are just in receipt of an ele-
CANT line.
Mrs. Riley Prentice, who we reported
as being i'll fifth fever last week, is said
to % ssfnR @ ~ ~
See Al Davidson for your rubber belt
ing. He has a quantity of it on hand
cheap.
Miss Lille Howery, of the Daniels rice
plant, is in town the guest of friends for
a few days.
A new line of the latest designs in
wall paper just received at A. E. Bell
& Co.'S.
Rev. w. E. Harrison occupied the pull
pit at the Methodist church Sunday morn
ing and evening.
The Champion is considered one of the
best binders made. Robinson & Day,
Welsh, La, are the agents.
j. w. Armstrong, an employee in the
Welsh Carriage and Implement company,
has been i'll the past week with typhoid
fever.
They are beauties-those rubber tire
buggies-sold only by Davidson Wesson
Implement Co.
William E. Krebs, editor of the Lake
Charles American, was in Welsh Monday
and made the Journal Office an agreeable
call.
Don't forget that Robinson & Day are
agents for the celebrated Champion Rice
Binder. Call at their warehouse and
see it.
rTaHk ~ LOCKE, Cne OpJlclan ana jewel
er, has moved into the Welsh property on
South street. recently vacated by F. Hol-
weigler and family
Prof c. E. Hooper arrived here Sun
day evening, after spending a couple of
weeks visiting his home in Mississippi.
He is now giving the band boys nightly
Instructions
Thos. III. McMillon. of Lafayette. came
over Thursday afternoon and Friday ac-
companied his wife and children home
The latter had been visiting relatives
here for some time.
A. E. Bell returned Monday evening
from q stay of several days at the bed
side fhis mother in-law at Centerville,
Miss. Mrs. Bell will remain a fortnight
longer, or until her mother has entirely
recovered
Mrs NJ Go111ID op5 Nc.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
LOST OPPORTUNITIES.

How the handicapped millionaire
envies boys in school or college and
would give half his wealth for the
chance to lay a foundation wiifie{lii.
they are thinking of spurning How
many an embarrassed man in public
life longs to relive boyhood that he
may correct the mistakes of his youth
How much more he could make of
his life, of his position, if he had cul-
tivated his mind when young He
does everything at disadvantage.
His grasp of documents, speeches and
books is weak because he does not
know how to study. He must en-
ploy literary secretary to save him
self from b1unders of grammar, errors
in history and biography or in politi
cal economy. He is forced to petty
expedients to hide his ignorance.
Oh, what pity it is to see splen-
did ability made to do the work Of
mediocrity A man of magnificent
parts, feeling that he is by nature in
tended to shine as leader, is pitiable
when compelled to do the work of an
inferior and plod along in hopeless
obsurity.
The eager unrest of youth that
chafes at restraining school walls and
longs to rush to action make havoc
with countless careers. In after days
the old proverb will ring mockingly
in memory
He that will not when he may
When he would he shall have nay.
What are investments in bonds and
stocks, in houses and lands, compar-
ed with investment in an education,
in broad, deep culture which will
enrich the life and be a perpetual
blessing to ones friends?
To rob oneself of the means of en-
joyment which education and culture
give has no compensation in mere
money wealth. No material prosper
ity can compare with rich mind.
1t is a perpetual wellspring Of salts
faction, of enjoyment. 1t enables
one to bear up under misfortune, to
be cheerful under discouragements,
and tribulations which overwhelm a
shallow mind and an empty heart
,Snccess.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
NOVEL COOLING DEVICE.

The possibility of keeping living
rooms at temperature of 70 to IL de-
grees in the hottest weather, which
means practically an end to summer
suffering from heat, is held out by
Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of
the weather bureau at Washington,
who recently filed application for a
patent on what he calls gravity air
cooling, dry and purifying machine.
says the Chicago Record Herald.
The new apparatus is the result of
several years of study and expert
ment. Professor Moore believes the
invention to be of immense scientific
and practical value. The cost of the
machine will be so small that it will
be within the reach of nearly all, so
that the horrors of sweltering in stuff
fly rooms of the city during midsum-
mer promises to be materially lessen
ed. Professor Moore said:
II believe that my machine solves
the problem of a cheap, harmless and
automatically working apparatus for
cooling rooms. 1t is so simple that
any one can manipulate it. 1t can
be removed from room to room. 1t
is absolutely safe and, above all, can
be constructed so cheaply that it will
be within the means of practically
every one to obtain. There will be
no trouble in keeping a room at a
temperature of between 10 and IL, no
matter how hot it may be under nor
NAL conditions.
"A room can be maintained at a
temperature of IL in the hottest
weather and with humidity at the
highest point. Chemicals are used
in combination with pipes that bring
in air from the outside. I have work
ed on this scheme for the last three
years and have examined over 300
patents relating to the subject of
machines for cooling rooms. None
has even been Introduce into gener-
al use."
The scheme is based on system
of evaporation. Professor Moore
says that the apparatus will be es-
pecially adapted for the great arid and
subarid regions of the west, where
there is great humidity in theaair and
wonderful efficiency in evaporation.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
CHARACTER IN EYES.

According to the language orbs:
Black eyes are considered the
brightest.
Blue eyes the most lovable.
Gray eyes the keenest.
Hazel eyes indicate quickness of
sympathy.
Brown eyes are the most romantic.
The ancient Greeks aad Romans
admired blue eyes most of all. Mi
nerva was believed to possess eyes so
blue that the sea seemed gray and
the skies ashen by contrast.
Eyes that are restless have no
power. 1t takes the concentrated
gaze to influence and probe the secrets
of another's soul.
A very round eye is never found
in the face of a clever, quick-witted
individual.
"The more the eye resembles the
round, beak-like one of bird, the
more does it betray dullness," says
an old writer.
If the left eye is the larger, the in
dividua1 is ruled by the heart. A
larger right eye signifies hard-head-
edness.
If, when you examine your eyes,
you find that the left eyeiid drops
further over the eye than does the
right, you may take it for granted
that you possess delicacy of constitu-
ton united with brilliancy of intel
lect, and that you are genius in one
way or another,
The finest eyes are those that unite
sense and sweetness.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
THE RISE OF THE MULE.

Somehow the mule has been singu-
larly prominent in the South Africa
war from the first to last. When
Sir George White fell back upon
Ladysmith he sent one column off to
attack the enemy. None of the de-
tachment returned except the mules
carrying mountain battery. The
men taken prisoners were illogical
enough to claim that their disaster
was caused by the stampede of the
mules, but it is practically certain
that the Beers, with their deadly
rifles, would have quickly put the
guns out of action if they had been
available. AS the conflict went on
the demand for more mules was even
more urgent than the requisition for
more men. When Lord Methuen's
army was recently scattered or cap
tured the blame was laid again upon
the stampeding mules in the baggage
train. But as the pending peace ne
gotiations seem to be the direct result
of the Methuen episode, the stampede
of the mules tipped the scales in favor
of ending the war, if the charge
against them is true.
The London Spectator gives the
mule another lift by declaring that
Hthe horse in war is expensive, frag-
lie and fool he is greedy and his
food is as bulky as himself he re-
quires an expert to keep him efficient
under hard work, and a miracle to
keep him alive under fire." The
mule is the reverse of fragile he
may be undemonstrative, but he is
no fool he can live on whatever food
happens to be handy, and to find one
dead is proverbially surprise. His
tendency to stampede emi-occasion-
ally is due to some intuitive mental
process never yet explained. The
physical force with which he moves
on such occasions suggests volcanic
eruption rather than nervousness.
He could hardly be called scared
when his momentum would knock a
herd of elephants or dozen lions for
that matter, right and left. When
he stampedes he simply decides to
go, and that settles it. The closing
point of the war is marked by general
excitement over alleged British mule
camps in Missouri and Louisiana.
Mules have become the pivot of mil
itary science and of nice international
nt1acfionc fNhic ra,.1o RI q h1a animal
which is Indifferent to pride of an
cestry, and perfectly secure in its vi
carious hope of posterity, evidently
has qualities that specially fit him for
the twentieth century, and to which
the historian and zoologist have not
yet done justice. ST. Louis Globe
Democrat. /lne Sd.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
SUCCESS COMES By INCHES.

1t is the old story of persistent ef-
fort-keeping at steady plodding
The horse that goes a mile in two
minutes can't go hundred miles as
quickly as the horse that goes a mile
in five minutes.
What you gain in speed you lose
in power and endurance.
Andrew Carnegie gained success
by inches. He did not get rich in
year. The boy who expects to at
tain the goal of success must not try
to reach it in bound. True success
comes by years of patient plodding
during which you gain the experience
which teaches you how to use what
you have acquired.
The man who makes a fortune in
year doesn't know how to keep it.
He usually quickly loses that which
he has quickly secured. 1t is that
which is hard to get which is the
most appreciated. The house built
in a day won't last. 1t is mushroom
growth that means mushroom decay.
The man who builds his business
by steady plugging is building repu-
tation and that is an essential not
acquired quickly. Remember that
reputation" has carried many bus
iness over shoals and through tenn
pests. Keep moving forward, even if
your advance is imperceptible.
You may see boy start out with
a squirt and you are soon left behind.
Do not lose heart. By and by you
will overtake him. His feet are sore,
he is resting, and you pass him. He
may pass you again, but it is only
another squirt and cannot last.
Grow not weary. Use your disap.
pointments as stepping stones to Sue
cess. Content yourself only with the
highest ideals. Be brave, be resolute,
and move steadily onward. Every
inch of advancement shortens the
journey. Above all do not mistake
notoriety for success. 1t is the in
ner satisfaction derived from the true
attainment of ones deal that is real.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
STILL THE BOOK OF BOOKS.

The extraordinary change of belief
as regards the origin and sanctity of
the Bible, which has marked the re-
ligious thinking of the past 10 years,
does not in the least interfere with its
sales, but rather increased them.
This is very obvious, if one consults
the statements of the various Bible
societies. The two largest Bible So
cieties in America and England put
out last year nearly 10, 900, 900 copies.
1t is remarkable thing that no con-
Germ engaged in printing this book
has failed, though there was some
agitation few years ago to form
Bible trust. The prices have been
declining for years, and the cost of
manufacturing has in some particu-
lars advanced. The output of the
Oxford Press is 20, 900 copies week.
This edition is always in great de-
mand 10000 sheets of gold are used
in lettering the copies, and the skin
of 100, 900 animals for binding are
used every year.
Prof. Richard G. Moulton of the
University of Chicago has done much
to make the Bible not literature, z"
perhaps, but literature, a distinc-
ton which he has we'll maintained in
his editorship of the separate portions
of this book. His able defense has
brought many to the reading of its
pages has in SO compact form are
the volumes published that they are
attractive upon sight. The revised
version finds it hard and even useless
to compete with the authorized YER
sion of 1911. In very few churches
is this revision used, comparatively
speaking.
The President of the United States
has written in very entertaining
way of the Bible being interviewer
and entwined with the whole of our
civic and social life. Its moral in
fuence is set forth in language which,
wherever it is read, has produced
profound impression. He is the first
President, since Lincoln, who has
come out in any public way upon this
subject, and probably he has done
more by his words to extricate it from
its theological atmosphere, which it
is bound to have in the hands of a
novice.
Every sect in Christendom has run
to its pages to prove its own exis-
tence. Nowadays, it is elevated into
a serener cline, where it is teaching
the history of the past, but also CIV
ing some universal principle which is
acceptable for its general usefulness
for humanity. The question of the
degree and kind of inspiration which
besets its existence has yielded in
part to one which concerns its value
as moral guide, and as monitor to
draw out the best in human nature.
1t seems to follow the flag, and in
the Philippines new interest is being
awakened over its reproduction in
five dialects of that country. Boston
TanSt1ibt.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
bad COMPANY"

If you have boy that you see is
going to the bad make it your object
in life to set him right. What if you
have to sacrifice business what if
you have to move somewhere where
the associations will be better; what
if you have to give up making gen.
tleman of him and be content to
make him simply man what if you
have to sacrifice yourself and give the
best there is in you to save him?
No matter what the cost it will be
good investment in comparison with
letting him go on in the wrong road.
Keep with him, and have him with
you work with him and get him
interested; take him for a trip; give
him an entire change of surroundings
Tomato plants do better after being
transplanted.
Few boys are born vicious and
though nearly all parents mean well
we cannot dodge the fact that in most
cases bad boys are made so by their
fathers and mothers-through indul-
gence, or false notions, or self-absorp-
tion, or thoughtlessness oftener than
through simple ignorance.
Good advice, coaxing, entreaties,
threats have about as much effect on
a wayward boy as water has on a
ducks back, and more radical meth
DDS of rescue must be adopted. If
your boy goes in bad company root
him out of it and keep him out of it,
even if you have to shut up shop and
give your whole time to the work.
If every parent felt his responsibility
and looked after his own boys there
would be no "bad company"
Take time to keep your boy in the
right road ; you owe it to him, and to
the world, and it will save you from
the commonest cause of misery there
is in this world. General advice is
not worth a picayune no two cases
are alike; but there are few boys so
bad that they cannot be rescued if you
will set your mind on it and act. Oh,
how many crimes do we commit on
the plea of lack of time; but where
a soul is involved we must break our
fetters and speed to the rescue.-He
Pathfinder.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.

In Genesis the world was made by Gods creative
In Exodus the Hebrews marched to gain the
Leviticus contains the law, holy and just and
good,
Numbers records the tribes enrolled-all sons of
Moses, in Deuteronomy, records Gods mighty
deeds,
Brave Joshua into Canaan's land the host of
Israel leads.
In Judges their rebellion oft provokes the Lord
But Ruth records the faith of one well pleasing
In First and Second Samuel of Jesse's son we
read,
Ten Tribes, in First and Second Kings, revolted
from his seed.
The First and Second Chronicles see Judah cap
tive made;
But Ezra leads remnant back by princely
Cyrus aid.
The city walls of Zion, Nehemiah builds again.
While Esther saves her people'from the plots OF
In Job we read how faith will live beneath afiic-
And Dayid's Psalms are precious songs to every
child of God.
The Proverbs like goodly string of choicest
Ecclesiastes teaches man how vain are all things
here.
The mystic song of Solomon exalts sweet sha-
Whilst Christ the Saviour and the King the rapt
Isaiah shows.
The warning Jeremiah-apostate Israel scorns;
mourns.
Ezekiel tells in wondrous words of dazzling mys-
teries:
While kings and empires yet to come, Daniel in
vision Sees
Joel describes the blessed days when God with
man shall dwell.
Among Tekoas herdsmen, Amos received his
While Obadiah prophesies of Edom's final fall
Jonah enshrines wondrous type of Christ our
Micah pronounces Judah lost-lost, but again
Nahum declares in Ninevah just judgment shall
A view Of Chaldea's coming dawn Habakkuk's
visions give,
Next Zephaniah warns the Jews to turn, repent
and live.
Haggai wrote to those who saw the temple built
again,
And Zachariah prophesied of Christ's trium-
Malachi was the last who touched the high pro-
phetic chord;
Lord.
Saints Matthew, Mark and Luke and John, the
Holy Gospels wrote,
Describing how the Saviour died-His life and
how He taught.
The Acts show Gods Apostles. owned with signs
st. Paul, in Romans, teaches us how man is saved
The Apostle, in Corinthians, instructs, exhorts,
Galatians show that faith in Christ alone the
Father loves
Ephesians and Philippians tell what Christians
ought to be,
Colossians bids us live to God and for eternity.
In Thessalonians we are taught the Lord will
come from Heaven.
In Timothy and Titus bishops rule is given.
Philemon marks Christians love, which only
Christians know
Hebrews reveals the gospel prefgured by the
law.
James teaches without holiness faith is but vain
and dead,
st. Peter points the narrow way in which the
saints are led.
John, in his three Epistles, on love delights to
dwell,
and hell.
The Revelations prophesies of that tremendous
day,
tremb bling sinners stay.
M. r., In Minnesota Missionary.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
TEMPTATIONS.

This is somewhat cruel world, be-
cause false estimates of what ccnsti-
tute happiness have thrown so many
temptations in our way. There is an
generalization of money and an un-
LIBERALIZATION of moral principle. The
race is so eager, so wild, so intoxica-
ting that we forget everything ex-
cept to get ahead of our competitors,
and the means we take to accomplish
this are justified, we think, by the
fact of winning. As a consequence,
the tone of life is lowered and we
measure man by what he has, not
by what he is. The bank account
rather than the character excites Our
envy. Riches and the pursuit of
riches are the bases of orderly socie-
ty, provided riches and rectitude are
interviewer but riches without the
rectitude are of no benefit to any one.
Men and women are too ready to pay
a thoughtless, a reckless price for
the goods they covet. Fame is worth
something, and so is reputation, if it
is honestly earned, but if you compro-
mise your honor you are practically
selling your soul. What we need in
this generation is a heroic dose of
that old-fashioned corrective-mora1
principle. The only real man, the
only man who is recognized in .Heav-
en-, is the upright and the downright
man. 1t may be hard to persuade the
public of this truth, but it is the truth
nevertheless, and cannot be evaded
or ignored. If a nation or an indi-
vidual is to live comfortably it must
live virtuously. False standards
mean false and wretched lives, and
the logic of events will make that
fact known with terrific emphasis.
Honesty comes first, and after that
anything you can get. When you
give up the honesty, the purity of
heart, in exchange for anything else
you suddenly find that you have been
cheated out of your best self. The
object of life is not to acquire, not
that solely, unless it be to acquire
character. Your temptation to cash
your conscience is based on a promise
which will never be kept, or if the
worldly goods are delivered you will
be robbed of something worth a great
deal more. Stiffen your conscience
until it will not feel the force of temp
tation, and then you will be ready for
life, for death and for any other world
to which you may go when your term
on earth expires. The only thing to
set men right and keep them right is
the Sermon on the Mount. 1t is the
thought of others which consecrates
the thought of self. A staff and scrip
with clean heart will do more for
human happiness than whatever else
you may desire, and until we get
back to that fact and to full appre-
citation of it we shall fail in the great
essentials. .-Laneaster PA. Exam
iner.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
TO THE BIG.FIsTED MAN.

Oh, here's to the man with hand like ham,
And fist just as big as his heart;
To the big. manly chap, be he banker or drudge,
Owning railroads or driving cart
To the man who looks steadily straight in your
eyes
And who gives you grip like wise
Such men as decided long since, once for all,
That they'd rather be men than be mice.
He may have skull like the crust of the earth,
And jaw like the Terrible Turk;
His hands may have spread on the helve of pick,
Or at some other menial work;
But his heart you'll find good as nugget of gold,
And twill always be faithful to you
Then, here's to the man with hand like ham
And soul that is loyal and true.
He may not be versed in the dining-room's ways,
He may never have donned dress suit.
But he will stand fast while you're true to your
trust,
Your honor he'll never dispute.
For he's just the friend that will fight to the end,
Till there's no further use to resist
God bless him, this man with the hand like
ham
And heart just as big as his fist.
IS. ". GiHilan, in Los angeles Herald.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-14
A CURE FOR INSOMNIA.

How many of us, asks the London
Daily Mail, ever give our lungs
full draught Of the fresh air that is
the life of the whole bodyl
We all know what our lungs are
for. We all breathe at least thirty
times a minute.
Yet we practically never breathe
with all our lungs; never breathe
properly.
1t is possible for man to exercise
his whole body, to keep it strong and
well, simply by breathing properly.
Every child should be taught to
breathe, and to get into the habit of
filling the whole lung space at each
inhalation and of emptying it COM
pletely at each exhalation.
Do you know there is no better
way of getting to sleep soon after 60
ing to bed than by breathing proper
ly9 Here is a specimen breathing
exercise.
Push away your pillow and lie fiat
upon your back with your muscles re-
laxed. Slowly draw in the deepest
breath possible, hold it for four Sec
onds, then expel it until your chest
and abdomen have collapsed.
Repeat this until you are tired or
fall asleep.