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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

sent an Investment amounting to
50, 900 600. With their immense ro-
tundas. brilliantly lighted drawing
rooms and handsomely decorated
dining-rooms, they provide luxurious
home for the most fastidious- At
the boarding stables one can find as
elegant carriages and as fine saddle
horses as in New York.
In the early eighties the government
selected Hot Springs as the seat of
one of it's army and navy hospitals,
and constructed a group of buildings
for the treatment of sick soldiers
and sailors of the service of the repub-
lie. The hot water is administered
in all it's forms at this institution 1t
has an efficient medical corps and dis
pensary. And the record of cures
materially benefited reaches the
astonishing figures of 80 per cent. 1t
was on account OF these heaIth-givfng
waters that this site was decided on
by the army and navy authorities.
The hot waters flow from the side
Of one Of the Ozark mountains, in vol
umn approaching 100000 gallons
daily, the springs are held as a gov
eminent monopoly, just as the making
of postage stamps, and the income de-
rived from the use of the water by
the various bath houses is all expend-
ed in improving and identifying the
reservation Uncle Sam tanks and
pipes these waters to the different
houses and in every instance he regu-
fates the flow of water. fixes the price
of the baths, according to its equip
ment and facilities, prescribes rules
governs the managers and attendants,
even to arranging the fee. Then he
runs a free bath house for the poor
and needy. The average temperature
OF the springs is 135 degrees Fahren-
heit The waters are said to have
better effect in summer than in the
winter on account of the even climate
during those months. An interesting
fact is found in the presence of ice
cold springs not twenty feet from
boiling ones.
A delightful ride is that through
the Ozark mountains, which jealousy
guard this city of springs. The Iron
Mountain route skirts the precipitous
banks of the Mississippi, then
plunges into the heart OF these ever
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
WATERS CLEVER RUSE-
Tip Was Violation of Club Rules, but
He Got It.


He Got Il.
Robert Luce of Somerv!ua, the. au-
thor and champion in the Nassachu-
sets legislature OF the Luce bill for
primary elections which has been one
of the features of this seasons ses-
sion, was recently in New York to
look after his business interests here
says the New York Times. While in
the metropolis he delighted a party
of friends with story about a certain
nameless club in Boston which has
strict regulations against gambling.
A quartet of cluo members decided
to break that rule by (. game of poker
for small stakes. So they adjourned
to one of the small rooms of the club
and called the old colored servant to
bring a pack of cards. When he
brought them. one Of the members
queried:
John, suppose it would be some
thing utterly new in this club ii we
should do such a thing as play for
money with these cards?''
The negro scratched his head and
deliberated, finally answering:
"Boss, Use, been wiz dis cluo a long
time and Use seen many things"
Yes, but what have you SEEM"
Use seen ebry rule oh dis club
yi,lated 'ceptin' one"
What rule is that one?'
DE rule 'gainst gibbin' tips to de
SERVANTS"
And straightway that rule was re-
lieved of its lonesomeness among it's
fellows.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

Mr.. Brown replaces the carpet at
Ince upon the floor, just as it was,
AN we not forgive him this timer"
The Ladies' Aid tinkled and f1utter-
ed and nodded like a summer gar
full OF birds.
Come into my study. my son, -
competed the rector, and he and the
janitor passed out.
Whereupon the chorus and arpeg-
gios of musical voices, fearful, pity
ing, excited, resentful, tn ankful, i'm.
mediately resumed in the only way
to resume.
ladies'" suggested the subdued
president, finally, there is the old
red vestry carpet-couldn't we give
her that?"
On the following Lords Day the
red vestry carpet covered the floor
of the adobe house on Seventh West.
rejoicing to the uttermost the heart
of the janitor's wife, while the feet
of the Ladies' Aid sank into the blue
softness of the carpet for which so
much had been sacrificed
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

BY act of congress in 1882, the gov
eminent became owner of seventy
two of the hot springs OF Arkansas
and dedicated them to the people of
the United States, as national sar.-
tarium to be forever free from sale
or alienation.
Hot Springs is a case OF Uncle
Sam. Wherever you turn government
proprietorship and government regu-
lations confront you. 1t is Uncle Sam
all around until you begin to feel that
at the next turn you will meet the
benevolent old gentleman himself,
with his high hat, spike-tail coat and
spangled banner trousers.
He has done more for Hot Springs
than for any other spot in the coun-
try, except Washington. He has filed
it with beautiful parks, planted trees,
shrubs and gardens, erected marble
fountains and pavilions. constructed
fifteen miles of drives, splendidIy
graded and winding to the tops of the
mountains, affording charming views
OF the surrounding country. To the
south of the Springs is the great
Ouachita Valley. The city is built
like a huge dumb bell, with Central
avenue or Bathhouse Row, as it is
commonly called, for the handle
Hot Springs is a city of hotels. The
Arlington, Park and Eastman repre-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
DO 1T YOURSELF, MY eoY!
Wise Words for Younger Generation
to Ponder Over.

| Wise Words for Younger Generation
to Ponder over.
Why do you ask the teacher or some
classmate to solve that hard problem
Do it yourself. You might as well let
some one else eat your dinner as do
your sums" for you.
1t is in studying as in eating: he
that does it gets the benefit, not he
that sees it done. In almost any
school | would give more for what
the teacher learns than for what the
best pupil learns. simply because the
teacher is compelled to solve all the
hard problems and answer the diff
cult questions for the lazy boys.
Do not ask the teacher to parse all
the difficult words, or to assist you in
the performance of any of your duties.
Do it yourself. Do not ask for even
hint from anybody. Try again
Every trial increases your ability,
and you will finally succeed by dint
of the very wisdom and strength
gained in this effort, even if at first
the problem is far beyond your skill.
1t is the study and not the answer
that really rewards your pains.
Look at that boy w'lo has succeeded
How his eye is lit up with a proud
JOY as he marches to his class.
He recites like a conqueror, and
well he may. His poor, weak school
mate, who gave up that same problem
after the first faint trial. now looks
upon him with something Of wonder,
as superior. The problem lies there
"a great gulf between those boys
who stood, yesterday, side by side.
They will never stand together as
equals again.
The boy that did it for himself has
taken a stride upward, and what is
better still gained strength for great
er ones. The boy who waited to see
others do it has lost both strength
and courage, and is already looking
for some excuse to give up both school
and study forever.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

From all parts of Mississippi Sound
ana the bays and bayous off the
Louisiana and Mississippi coast come
wonderful stories of the unprecedent-
ed saltlness of the Gulf waters and
OF the appearance of deep-water fish
hltherto unknown there. AT Horn
Island, Harrison county, Miss, a num-.
Der OF devil fish, some of them meas
urlng thirty feet from tip to tin. have
oeen harpooned by fishermen. There
mas also been an invasion of man
eating sharks.
A party of gentlemen from Nar, ~,
leans while fishing at Ship Island fos.
lenea their three boats together and
S'eaulea them with heavy anchor
A shark became entangled in the On.
enor, carried all three boats out to
s sIa ana nnaIIy wrecked them on the
Shore. The fishermen narrowJv ag
capped with their lives.-Naw w
Sun. >e" ORR
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

600 short tons of hard coal ana 90
OOO, 900 of soft coal. Together THESE
operations represent trihe over
half OF the country's output. ILLINOIS
holds the scond place with 27ooo'ooo
tons. West Virginia comes third
with 24,OOO,OOO. and Ohio fourth VITA
20, 900 900. Alabama ranked sixth
for few years, but last year moved
up one notch. Her production reach-
ed 100000 tons in 1901. West OF
Kansas the largest output comes from
the state of Washington, which mined
100000 tons last year.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

wheelbarrow in the soft ground be.
hind the church-though it might be
bicycle.
Here the husband of Mrs. Frances
Almeron Warren brought in Brown,
the janitor, who was delivered to the
president of the adde's Aid ne
was young, with a suggested air of
good breeding about his small, vein
Gus hands, hopeless eyes and sensi
tive lips under the dropping, soft
mustache. Life had defeated him in
the rather uncertain fight he had put
up. Mrs. Frances A. Warren's hus-
band took charge of the case.
THE carpet, Mr.. Brown, was on
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
The Blue Carpet.
BY FANNY BURLING.

BY FANNY BURLING.
copyright. 1902 by Daily Story Pub Coz
The last amen fioated out from the
vestry over the kneeling people
bowed forward like field of wheat
oerore the wind. Upon the high altar
she acoiyte was smothering out the
Tail candles and to the rumble of the
organ the congregation-that is. all
out the Ladies' Aid-pulsed decorous-
ay down the crowded aisles to the
uay-llghted doorway.
But the Ladies' Aid poured itself
santo the vestry, as a green and gold
snake pours itself into its hole, and,
no longer awed by the sacredness of
the sanctuary, demanded in a chorus
OF arpeggios and every tone of the
scale, Where is the carpet?"
The carpet?" echoed the abstract
ed rector, his spirit still uplifted from
MS strenuous exhortation to his peo-
pie to be good, to live the higher life
the carpet?"
p Yes, yes, the carpet Our car
pet! 1t was here last night" sang
She chorus inharmoniously.
Their rector's thoughts slowly set
tied to earth. "The new blue carpet!
The worlSmen finished putting it
down at six o'clock yesterday. Who
moved all those heavy pews, and took
nc up again before morning! Who
took up the carpet?" rolled forth the
chorus antiphonal and feminine
The beautiful blue carpet which
mad been sewed for and sung for, and
cooked for in Ladies Aid meetings
and musicaies and rummage sales and
Talrs all winter long, their beautiful
blue carpet, which had been finally
selected and paid for, amid much ar
gument, and at last had been laid
upon the church floor with the care
ifu1 supervision of the entire Ladies'
Aid in conclave assembled only the
day before; their beautiful blue car
pet had been spirited away in the
might.
That sunshiny Sabbath morning
they had entered the house of wor-
ship, not one missing, to tread, not
'upon soft, blue brilliance, but upon
a noisy bare floor. The Ladies' Aid Of
the Church of the Redeemer rubbed
Its eyes and surreptitiously pinched
itself, while the solemn service flowed
on
Thou shalt not steal" declared DR..
Harrington, and softly the choir re-
sDonded, Have mercy upon us and
incline our hearts to keep this law"
Who could have stolen their beauti-
Ful blue carpet, chanted the Ladies'
Aid mentally, land grant that this
day we fall into no SIM" murmured |
the people, E'but that all our doings |
being ordered by thy governance-"
where was their carpet? Verify the
prayers of the Ladies' Aid flew up
ward and their thoughts remained
below.
The president, Mrs. Frances Almer-
on Warren, resourcefuT and unafraid,
asked the same question aloud in the
vestry. where the clear mountain sun
shine flooded the room with joyous
ness. Seeing no adequate solution in
the group of futtering ribbons and
smart MISUNDERSTANDING not fashion
ed like unto Solomon's even in his
glory, she demanded the clergy, the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

In Pittsburg Mrs. Sarah E. Mccoy,
in law court. has just eXcelled in
the intellectual feat of Portia. and has
surpassed many shining masculine
lights of the bar. for she managed
her own case in a breach of promise
suit and proved, too, contrary to the
old adage that she did rot have a
fool for client. There were some
novelties in her methods of eXamin-
ing witnesses. as, for instance. her
telling one of them point blank that
he was a liar. In the first case there
was a triumph of nerve and muscle,
and in the second of nerve and in
tellect. The obvious conclusion is
that the era in which woman was a
downtrodden creature" is fully past,
for, with qualifying experience OF the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

gardenia in their buttoRhole. Sir Bern
hard Samuelson is 81. Time has left
deeper marks on his figure and visage,
it is true, but he is still hale and
hearty. Sir John Alleyne stands as
square and sturdy to-day as he did
when at the head of the great Midland
iron foundries which rolled the Orders
for all the British earlier ironclads and
ocean liners, and cast the huge iron
skeleton of St. Pancras railway sta,
ton.
Sir John believes nightly not only
in head work, but in hand work, and
follows the same daily routine of man.
ual and mental labor as he did score
of years ago. He himself says that ne
is getting old and stiff, but it would
cut him keenly if anybody else were
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
AZ the Famous Hot
Springs Of Arkansas.

.rv one steps on his lawn YOU hnUw
any s 1n told of Tennyson? Several
tne s,o women anxious to see NM
made pilgrimage to his county f sr
Tennyson was seated on lhe nv ~ NV
stens smoking an old pipe, when the ..
appeared in the distance Ih q, o,u p and
watched them crossing his lawn Ai'"
his brow lowered. wall
us this Lord Tennyson m ,,a,T
ve,re so sorry to fntrude. we WISH
~ anologize for entering in this un-
ceremonious fashion. ., s,;d
Then why don't you 60 80
Tennyson. surrounding himself Win
cloud of tobacco smoke
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
THE TRIUMPHs OF WOMEN.

Are Displaying Qualities Many Had
Not Supposed They Possess.
Every day women are displaying
traits of character that excite both
surprise and admiration In Brook
Ign the other day Mrs. Lennie Kelley
saved the life of her aged father by
climbing over the dashboard of the
buggy in which they were driving
on the Coney Island boulevard and
selling the reins that had dropped
from his hands and We're dangling at
the heels of their runaway horse.
Would PAMELA or Clarissa or even
Nine. De Staeps extraordinary hero
inc, Delphine, have done that?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

the floor, as you are aware, at six
| O'Clock last night. This morning it is
gone. You. are responsible for the
care of the building. Did you see any
light, here last night?"
Yes, sir
do you know who was here?"
mo one. sir, but me-
What time did you leave here last
night?"
TT was pretty late-after mid.
night"
WAS the carpet here them" The
Ladies Aid held it's breath
The janitor did not answer Mr.
Warren repeated the inquiry,
mo, sir hesitated the janitor, his
eyes sticking to the floor.
The Ladies' Aid remembered to
breathe, While the president had to
grip her hands hard to keep from
taking the case from her husband.
See here, Mr.. Brown" continued
the prosecution, you'd better tell the
whole truth. What have you done
wit the carpet?"
Brown raised his long lashes and
looked helplessly into the blue, brown,
black and gray orbs of the Ladies'
splashed face of the secretary
MY wife wanted one so. ma'am,"
he murmured to the secretary
Wanted WHAT" cut in the crisp
toner of the president
"A carpet, ,ma'am," his regard still
anchored in the fearful sympathetic
secretary. "She hasn't any carpet
She used to have them at home be-
eLn CT
ma'am, and SO | took it home to her,
ma'am. She don't have much now
The silence throbbed, The secre.
rington went over and laid his
benevolent hand upon the young fel.
lows shoulder.
Did you take all that carpet up
la . night, Mr.. Brown" resumed Mr..
Warren.
Yes, SIR" gulped the prisoner
and took it all hone on wheel
barrow"
"Oh, no. sir! Just part of it. An.
ME was so happy over it, sir. S.
tackled it all down to-day" added the
janitor, almost enthusiastically.
where is the rest of it," pursue
Mrs. Frances AImeron Warren
In the basement" the CLEAN OF
sunshine vanishing from his face as
if lamp had been suddenly tiown
out.
There was futter among the La
dies Aid.
DO you know. Nh Brown, that you
nave committed a crime and can be
sent to the penitentiary?" demanded |
Mr.. Warren severely.
The young fellows sallow skin |
paled greenish-wlsste.
The pen; oh. sir, don't send me o |
he pen! What could Annie do with
out me?' His gaze besought the sec
,etary
Thou shalt not steal" said the
PRESIDENT of the Ladies Aid, impress.
,ively.
A sweet spring wind from the blue
0uirrh mountains against the bluer
Utah Sky waved the gay plumage
If the Ladies' Aid, and a
nurmur stirred among them.
Ladies'" interposed the rector, "if
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
BRAINS AND LoMeEV''f

Mental Industry Declared to be foS'
tive Aid to Healthy Old Age
II is asserted that men OIL science
live long and that mental industry Is
Dositiye aid to a healthy OLD age
saws a writer in Modern Society. me
belief is certainly borne out by the lact
that four of the gentlemen seated al
the council table of the Lonuon IRON
and steel Institute recently were over
80. Sir Lowthian Bell is IN MS ON
year, and still carries his extraordi-
nary experience of British iron ana
coal as lightly as other men carry the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
Vivid lmaaina+io,,

,,,a Inc lady at Cape May who wrote 3
tIe sealed it up in a beer bot
Le, and cast it upon the waters TO -
g tb 1t again after many davs f. :"
me me captain of the British waraE oirS
IL lnunoer' who found it in the h Gil
% "a a shark caught off the coast ~
Portugal must. be a near ra1atio, %
IilaI other citizen of New Jarsa+, -, VI
reports report that he distinctly fer Vino tho
shock of the earthquake in M n1o,,t the
ique. ''"Ne IN Martin
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

is his castle, you know. 1 suppose the
Americans build their houses having
in mind the maxim of the old Roman
i will build my house so that all
the world may see my every action
LAS l walked down a residence
street the other day l saw the FAMILY,
eating breakfast, and through the win
DOW OF another house the domestic
making beds. On the lawn of a third
house were playing a score of the
neighbors' children.
"An Englishman is like a bear If
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
Her Sad Fate

She once was the queen Of her fash
ion-crazed set. the fairest young
quail in the covey.
A picture of beauty and eye-dazzling
style, with eyes most expressively
dovey.
Her walk was a sweet revelation of
grace, a soft, dreamy poem of
motion,
Her form undulating in wiilcwy
curves as smooth as the swells of
the ocean.
Her hand at the terpsichorean blow.
outs was sought by the masters of
dancing.
Her cling in the dreamy embrace of
the walls they said was JUST sim
ply enhancing.
But now in secIusion she wresties
with pain, a truly disconsoIate
daughter,
Her beautiful suburbs in bandages
swathed. The ping L pong ankle
has got 'er!
Denver Post.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15
THE OPEN AMERICAN YARD.
One Feature of Our Life. That I'm,

One Feature of Our Life, That I'm.
presses Englishmen.
"One thing that impresses the
stranger is the houses without fences
around them" remarked an English
&Gn at the Waldorf-Astoria 90 a New
York Herald reporter. Tn England,
when we build our houses, we put
walls around them, and build the walls
so high that no one can look over.
Not that we are ashamed to be
seen. but because every mans house
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

to assert the fact. The fourth octo-
genarian is an American, Mr.. John
Fritz of Bethlehem. Pa. He openly
breaches the doctrine that applied
science gives men healthy activity of
brain and supplies that salt and SAVIOUR
to life which we all need to render
our life worth the living.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

green hills, through the beautiful
Arcadian Valley and the famous Pilot
Knob, past cotton plantations,
through great timber regions into the
charming Valley of Ouachita, where
nestles the famous resort, Hot
Springs Of Arkansas.
f. e. A. WRIGHT.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

giveneso 1 70 secure woman's for.
not wanting it. ~ =" DUN at,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

The life of grass widow is not al
ways green, nor does it run to hay,
seed.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

Great CoaI-Producing State.
Pennsylvania is by all odds the
most abundant producer. Last year
she mined Gin round 1Umbers) $780,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

acons, and the janitor. Thus it is
at Woman, however independent,
pom man in times of real stress
LANCER.
clergy placed himself at her
u. likewise the deacons.
rigid cross-examination the
L. con did remember that
: late the night before
The light in the sacred edi-
CompaI12r Deacon, who had
loads oflut the land, returned
Try of tracks of a
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

A man who is good fellow among
men generally is questionable in his
dealings with women
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

the floor as you are aware, at six
O'Clock last night. This morning it is
gone. You are responsible for the
care of the building. Did you see any
light here last night?"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-03
LoNG-TAILED FOWLS

\ An interior province Of China has pro-
duced one of the most remarkable curl
osities in the shape OF long tailed fowls in
the world. Two specimens, recently
brought to light, and which were kept in
the Imperial household gardens, are illus
trated. The cock has feathers six feet
long, and the hen a flowing tail twelve
feet long. There are four varities-white
black; white all over, with yellow legs;
red neck and body feathers; reddish color
mixed with white of body,
All Of these except the second variety
have black tail feathers. AS great a length
as eighteen feet has been reached. From
seven to eleven feet. however, is the usual
length. The, tail grows about four inches
a month, and continues to grow while the
bird lives, which is eight to ten years.
When older, She tail grows about seven
inches month. The hens lay In the
spring and autumn, one bird producing
thirty eggs yeatly, which are Matched by
other hens. The tail Of the cocks are cut
to allow Of their walking freely, and their
lives are a little longer than that Of. the
hen. The tail feathers are not kept wound
up. but are always allowed to hang free.
When they touch the ground in the cage,
a bamboo is put little way back, 30 as
to form an arch.
The birds sit all day on fiat perch
three inches wide. and are only taken out
once in two days. and allowed to walk
for half an hour or SOFA man holding their
tails to prevent them from getting torn
or soileds Twice month they are washed
In hot water, and are Wonderfully tanA