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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

| Sentenced to be hanged. 1864
Reprievcd on galIows and escaped
from Jail. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1865
Fi'ibuster ard pirate III Mexico. 1866
Stole a carload of mules in TeXas.1S67
l~"arited &15h,000 Observation-Disclosures
g. Aiar OF national bank. 1904
II u!uhCd by Hayes 1877
Newspaper proprietor ..iS7T
Convict. Sing Sing, FIVE years 1888
Successful merchant at Atlanta.
georgia 1883
Convict, Albany Penitentfary. two
years 1892
Convict Auburn Prison. two years. 1894
General Manager Building and
Loan Company. Syracuse -. 1896
Convict West Virginia Peniten-
fla"y, is months. 1901
Convict. Sing Sing. four years 1902
Wasted honest and dishonest
money. chiefly the latter. $3.50 900
Luther Shear was born in Albany.
n. Y, AID in 1853 located in New York
city OF East Fourteenth street. His
father organized the first news COM
pany in the United States. The Shears
also ran the first special newspaper
train in this country, and they speed
lly rose IN wealth ana social standing.
The youth was taught by tutors and
went to the then aristocratic academy
of w. II. Reid. at Newburg. N. Y. in
/ >53. In 1859 he went to the Theologi-
cal College of Amherst and subse-
quently to Dartmouth but on the
breaking out of the civil war he re-
turned home and put aside the idea of
che church for that of arms and en-
listed with the Ninth N. Y. S. n. G.
f. + thres months. He re-enlisted for
tt . war in the Eighth regiment
He took part in the cavalry duel be-
tw"en the brigades of FitZhugh Lee
anh Averill at keIly's Ford. and was
wounded in three places-the head.
groin and aukle-and was mustered
out. Nhis event practically ended |
Shears honorable career. Upon the |
claim made by his family that the !
wound on the head made him insane |
he escaped the gallows. to which he |
had been condemned for the murder
of two guards while he was in prison
awaiting trial for desertion from the
army.
His sentence of death was commut.
ed to ten years imprisonment, but an
unsupported visitor brought him
money and files. aid releasing himself
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

The dullest of all the tyrants."
tituted as in France. vulgarity and fire.
quently obscenity taking the place of
the genuine humor of the real cartca,
ture. In this, as in most other lines of
art, science and industry, America
leads the world. Here the caricature
is work of art, and except in rare
instances the subject himself may
laugh at the portrayal made.
The postal cards suppressed includ-
ed caricatures of Emperor William
wearing a mustache guard, one of
the Gear in half sleepy condition,
one of the Emperor of Austria, who is
called "The Emperor of Babel in
ironical allusion to the language prob
lem in his dominion, and pictures of
King Leopold and the Sultan, together
with caricatures of the King of Italy
and Mr.. Kruger. The latter seemed to
be the least offensive of all the pic
lures, but it was suppressed with the
rest of the bunch
1t is recalled, however, in Paris that
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31
Peary's Future Plans.

while in Brooklyn few days ago
Lieut.. Robert E. Peary, the arctic ex-
plorer, was asked whether it was true
that he had at any time declared he
would never again try to reach the
north pole, replied: IF had an indie
pendent fortune l would go back to the
arctic at once and | would STAY there
until l had reached the pole or had
been removed from the possibility of
further effort. What l did say was
that had spent all my money and
that could see no prospect of another
expedition. l have nothing to fall
baNi upon, except my place in the
navy. For that reason l am going
back to Washington to report"
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admirer of Pe-ru-na. He keeps it con-
tinnaily in the house. In a recent let
| ter to DR.. Hartman he says:
STATE OF OREGON,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
SALEM, May 9, 1898.
The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, o. !.
Dear Sirs-I have had occasion to use
your Pe-ru-na medicine in nv family
for colds, and it proved to be an excel
lent remedy. L have not had occasion
to use it for other ailments.
Yours very truly, w. M. Lord.
1t will be noticed that the Governor
says he has not had occasion to use Pc
ru-na for other ailments. The reason for
this is, most other ailments begin with a
cold. Using Pe-ru-na to promptly cure
colds, he protects his family against 9TH
er ailments This is exactly what every
other family in the United States should
do. Keep Pe-ru-na in the house. Use it
for coughs, colds, la grippe. and other
climatic affections of winter, and there
will be no other ailments in the house.
Such families should provide themselves
with copy of DIR. Hartman's free book,
entitled winter Catarrh" Address
DIR. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio.
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killing himself. On his share of the
profits of this foray Shear nursed his
failing health for year in a SAM
tarium.
He was sent to the Albany peni-
tUntiary in 1892 for a check passed In
that city, and on his release taken to
Elmira and being reconvicted sent to
Auburn. Then he went to Syracuse.
where he worked for a building ana
loan association, whose unsavory CA
reer and end are so well known. A
new company which he organized to
cover the misdeeds of the old one
paid 81 per cent of it's actual income
to promote. Its finish was in sight
from the first, and Shear was. of
course, arrested. For some reason
there was no trial. but he was taken
TO Washington on charge of forgery
and was sent to Mound City peni.
tertiary for eighteen months. Now
ne Is in Sing Sing. sentenced for forg.
cry and embezzlement and he cannot
outlfVe his term.
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Church TheatricaIa

The vicar of Confession, England
rev. F. A. Phillips, is proposing to
start N parish theater, with the y,cor
for manager and the parishfoners ~,
performers. All kinds Of plays are to
De Introduced, but for the churcb'a
seasons-Advent, Christmas and Lent
ne proposes reviving. as far as pos.
si0le' the old miracle and mystery
plays and moralities of the middle
ages. Mr.. Phillips is a member of the
T. b. s., wears mass vestments and
burns incense. N0
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31
Too Good 4 Liar

young man from Banffshire was
spending his holidays in Aberdeen.
While walking on 1.-The green" in com.
pany with his uncle, he was surprised
to see so many kites flying. Observing
one far higher than the rest, he called
his uncles attention and asked If ever
he had seen kite flying as high be.
fore. did ever / see ane as high
afore? Man, jamie, that's naething.
for hae seen some o. them clean DOT
O SIGHT. "-Scottish American.
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BY the shade of my Imperial Grand
father 1 will make the hairdressers
bankrupt"
when his place in Paris was raided,
and these, it is said, have been
burned.
Meanwhile copies of the offensive
postal cards which had gone into gen
eral circulation have risen to a high
price in Paris. They will henceforth
take their place among those curious
collections of suppressed words"
which range all the way from 10 cent
pamphlets to costly books.
Evidently the French government at
the present time is anxious to keep on
good terms with the crowned heads,
and took this means of. showing the
fact.
The expostulations made by the
British ambassador at Paris against
the publication of the vulgar carica-
lures of Queen Victoria and members
of the British cabinet, at the outbreak
of the Boer war, will be recalled in
this connection. In no country in the
world is the art of caricature so pros
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

The heavy HAND of the French gov
ernment has suddenly swooped down
on and put out of business the pub
Usher OF series of cartoon postal
cards which, although cleverly drawn
and of humorous character, are al
legged to hold some of the crowned
heads OF Europe up to ridicule. All
of the stock in trade of these cards
which were in possession of the pub
Usher at the time were confiscated
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Survived "oHfciaI" Hanaino.

Col. Philip Figyelmesay, a Hunga-
rian and compatriot of Louis Kos.
suth, who was officially hanged for
treason fifty years ago, is still living
in Philadelphia. The Official hang
ing consisted of his condemnation to
that fate at such time as the authori-
ties could lay their hands upon him,
but the colonel escaped to the United
States in time to save his neck.
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from his chain by night, he cut tun.
mel leading down four feet then an In.
cline sixteen feet under the wall. and
then upward seven feet. 1t was win.
ter time, and to cut the frozen earth
he fastened candles to his wash basin
and melted the crust over him. Then
he showed his pillow out of the hole, so
that any watchful guard might shoot
at it, and, finding it unobserved, fol.
lowed himself. He had taken his out
side clothing off, and found that his
underwear was a mass OF wet mud
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31
EnaIand,s "Murder Judne. -

Justice GrGntham is called the par
excellence murder judge of England.
In one day at Leeds recently he tried
three murder cases-two before lunch.
con and one after. The Justice is an
inveterate smoker, and ia The course
Of the day leaves the bench four or
five times to snatch few whiffs from
a stumpy little pipe which he has used
for years.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

The life story of Luther Shear, who
by far is the greatest criminal of the
century, is one that reads like a ro-
nance. Natural shrewdLess and bust
ness ability. coupled with a pleasing
and almost irresistible personality,
We're the main factors Of his success
as criminal His talents were direct
ed into "A crooked channel at an early
age and il is expected that he viii
dc in Sing Sing without suffering any
&C mpupctions of conscience for The
widespread misery and ruin that bis
criminal propensities wrought. In
BRIEF, The following is a history of the
lie Of Luther Shear:
Divinity student ............. 1859
Union soldier 1861
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Different Wan to Express II.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerma the
English liberal leader was announced
to deliver a speech in the commons
on one occasion. A newspaper man
sent note asking how long he in.
tended to speak. Sir Henry replied:
81 don't think intend is the propeJ
word. but 1 fear about an hour"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

Gladys-n she doesn't love him why
does she encourage him? Edith
Well. she's hoping her father will sus.
pect she loves him and send her on a
trip to Europe to overcome her infatu.
atiOn.-Puck.
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Abdul Hamid H., the Sultan of Turkey.
The brightest OF all the tyrants."
much more offensive If not such anus
ing caricatures of Emperor William
were openly sold there on the streets
few years ago and no attempt was
made to put an end to the traffic. Alb.
dull Hamid and the Emperor of Austria
have also often been roasted" by the
lively French caricaturists. with no at
tempt on the part OF the government
to spare their feelings. Emperor VIII
liam is said to have laughed heartily
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

That natural sleep is due to the
drugging effect of accumulated car
bonic acid in the body is the view Ia
ken by French Psychologist, DR.. Ra
phael Dubois.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

Borneo Rnd Lebuan sold 100000
worth of passage stamps last year, al
though the postage on the letters sent
fro mthese two countries does not ex-
coed $4,000 year. The stamps are
bought by collectors.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31
CAPITOL BUILDING SALEM. OREGON.
Letter From the Executive Officer of Oregon.

Pe-ru-na is known from the Atlantic
20 the Pacific. Letters of congratula-
zion and Recommendation testifyinp to the
merits OF Pe-ru-na as a catarrh remedy
are pouring in from every State in the
Union DR.. Hartman is receiving hun
areds of such letters daily. All classes
write these letters, from the highest to
the lowest
The outdoor laborer, the indoor arti-
san, the clerk, the editor, the statesman,
the preacher-all agree that Pe-ru-na is
the catarrh remedy of the age. The
stage and rostrum, recognizing catarrh
as their greatest enemy, are especially
enthusiastic in their praise and testi-
mony.
Any man who wishes perfect health
must be entirely free from catarrh. Ca
farrh is well-nigh UNIVERSAL; almost ON
nipresent Pe-ru-na is the only abso-
lutte safeguard known. A cold is the
beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds,
60 cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of
its Victims. Pe-ru-na not only cures ca
sarrh, but prevents. Every household
should be supplied with this great REM
edy for coaghs, colds and SO forth.
The Governor of Oregon is an ardent
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31
JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR
makes top of the market butter.

German Orientalists now at work in
the ruins of Babylon report that Neb-
uchadnezzar's tihng beats the world
And of all his tiles we venture to say
that he had neither plug nor Panama.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31
Try One pankann

II Defiance Starch" does not please
you, return 1t to your dealer. If it
does, you get one-third more for the
same money. 1t will give you salts.
faction and will not stick to the iron
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

ga dose in time saves lives" DR., wood,s
Norway Pine Syrup; natures remedy for
coughs, colds, pulmonary diseases OF every
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

DREISS SPECIFIC HEADACHH PoWpERR-
she only harmless and sure cure for all Headachea
Price ~ and 100 Sent by mail upon OF prico
Adolph Dreiss, lis Alamo Plaza, san Antonio TST
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when shown the picture postal card
of himself which has just been placed
on the black list.
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There is such a thing as being en-.
tirely too swift.
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McCANE'S DE ECTIVE AGENCY
Houston, Texas, for trained and reliable de-
tectiye service,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

Buy your own coal and let you1
neighbours alone,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

Stops the Cough and
Works Or the Cold
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Price ESQ
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DO YoUR CLOTHES LOOK Yellow
Then use Defiance Starch It will keep
them white-l6 c. for 10 cents.
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In the Garden of Memory forget-me.
nots are fayorite flowers.
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Man wants but little here below that
he is not anxious to get below cost
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Seif-contidence is a good qualifica
dion when not merged into egotism.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

He who controls his feelings is truly
a great victor.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

II you see any wisdom lying around,
pick it up.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31

1t is folly to attempt to do the i'm
possible.
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New PENSION LAWS s sRs5

RmTIy 20 NATHAN u =CKFORDs ga r S.,
Washing S<Sn. L. -.
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WAGES TO BE ADVANCED
VOLUNTARY INCREASE BY UNITED
STATES STEEL CORPORATION.
Annual Pay Roll Will BE Swe11ed
s4,OOO,OOO and 1OO,O 900 Men Will BE
Benefited 10 Per Cent.

PITTSBURG, June 27-The largest vol
untray increase ever known in the wages
Of 100000 men has been decided on by the
United States Steel Corporation. They will
receive an advance of 10 per cent. which
will increase the annual pay roll of the cor
poration by 100000. The advance applies
to union as we'll as nonunion men. Strictly
speaking the advance applies to nonton-
mage men of every constituent company of
the corporation This decision has just
been reached by the executive committee
of the United States Steel Corporation after
numerous conferences with the highest OFF,
cials of the constituent concerns. The first
men to profit by the increase were those of
the Carnegie Steel Company, who were not
already working under private scale The
next advance will come to the employees of
American Steel and Wire plants. In the
Pittsburg district something like 10000 men
will be entitled to the increase. Chief
among them will be the blast furnace
workers, all day men, laborers and ma
chinists.
The wages OF the blast furnace workers
and day men of the Edgar Thomson and
Homestead steel works and all furnaces
operated by the Carnegie Steel Company
were advanced without notice. Men work
ing under private scale will be debarred
from the advance, as we'll as coal miners,
coke workers, rodmen and tube workers.
1t is estimated that of the total number of
employees of the corporation one-third of
them are paid on the tonnage basis.
1t is expected that the largest independ-
ent steel and iron producers of the country
chinists and blast furnace workers SINH
lar advance.
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took the bill up for discussion in regular
order, first acting on the bill of rights and
then considering the matter of the judi
ciary system provided for the islands The
bill of rights, as agreed TO by the Senate.
was accepted, and a portion of the House
provision added TO il. There was a rear
rangement of the Senate court provision,
and the House provision granting appeals
from the insular courts TO the United
States Supreme Court only in cases in
volving $25, 900 or more was accepted. The
conferees had only entered on the question
OF the disposal of the public lands of the
islands when an adjournment was taken.
There is difference of opinion between
the two houses as to the method Of dis
posing of the lands, the House providing
for their sale and the Senate only for the
leasing Of them when large acreages are
involved.
The important differences of the bill re-
lating to the questions of coinage bank
ing, mining and territorial legislation, and
the disposal of the friars' lands were left
for the future. 1t is expected that the con-
ference will continue all tomorrow, and
possibly ii will run into tomorrow night.
Confidence is expressed that an agreement
will be reached. and 1T is now understood
that if necessary to accomplish that end
some Of the disputed points will be elm
mated from the measure entirely, leaving
them for future action by Congress, but
making sure of such provisions at least
as can be agreed on by both branches of
Congress.
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TELLS OF CONDITIONS IN TAYABAS
UNDER MAJOR GARDENER.
Says the Province Was Not Ready for
Civil ment-Newberry Said
to Be interruptions.

MANILA, June 27.-Capt Matthew +.
Steele, Sixth Cavalry, testified to-day be-
fore the board which is inquiring into the
charges of cruelty, etc, brought by Maj.
Cornelius Gardener, Governor of Tayabas
province, against American officers and
soldiers. He said he left Tayabas in 1901.
at which time he did not consider the prov
ince pacfied or tranquilized.
The witness was in Major Gardener S
regiment, the Thirtieth Volunteer Infan-
try. At that time American dared go
through the town unguarded He said
that acting under Major Gardeners or
ders and after protesting, he placed the
principal residents of Lucban under guard
during the vote for local president, and
that they complained bitterly of the action
taken. Witness left them, and when he
returned he found they had voted for a
criminal who was in Jail. He told them
they must elect another man. Witness
firmly believed they voted for the men they
most hated. The man elected presidente
protested and pleaded to be relieved but
he was compelled, under threat of being
put in the guardhouse, to accept the office.
Continuing Captain Steele said that
among his brother officers Major Newberry,
formerly of the Thirtieth Regiment of Vol
unteers, who testified before the board on
Wednesday. was reputed TO have used a
perfectly unscrupulOus method of obtaining
information from natives. Once the wit
ness asked him if he had killed five natives
with his own hand, and understood that
he had killed several men with his pistol.
Witness did not ask the reason for this,
and was not prepared TO say that Newberry
had actually killed them, but that was his
impression. He thought 1t was Major
Gardeners policy to get a form of civil
government established, while the province
was not ready for ii.
Major Gardener then testified that his
policy in dealing with the natives of Ia
yabas was what he understood was de-
sired by the authorities at Washington,
namely, to erase from the minds of the
peacefully inclined the groundless fears
they entertained of the soldiers and 10
show them where they were wrong, in the
meanwhile pursuing the hostile natives
with relentless activity. The major intro
duced documents. including a report of
Gen. Theodore Schwann, commencing him
(Gardener) and the Thirtieth Regiment Of
Volunteers.
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No Change This Morning.

LONDON, June 2S.-King Edwards i'm
provement was maintained at 1 o'clock this
morning.
The Daily Mail this morning says that all
King Edwards functions are working ad-
mirably. The draining pipe has not yet
been removed, says the paper. but the
Kings general progress is very sure and
steady. His diet already includes soup,
fish and baked apples. 1t is probable that
next week the number of daily bulletins will
be diminished 'It has been informally
settled" SAYS the paper, that as soon as it
is safe to do so his Majesty will be removed
to Cowes and placed on board the royal
yacht for his period of convalescence.'
The Times this morning says: THE King
remains recumbent; he takes with comfort
the nourishment appropriate to his con-
diton and keeps bright and cheerful, in
spite of the irksomeness of his enforced in
activity. Some of his medical advisers are
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