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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09

The domestic servant never bios
somed more brightly and conspicuous
ly in every possible point OF view than
she does at the present time. That
she challenges criticism and actually
disarms it is a fact that is quite as
well known as that one and one make
two.
That she is anXiously awaiting an
opportunity for mental and inteiiectu-
al development cannot be denied by
the most skepticai people in the land,
be they employers or not, if they will
but take sufficient interest in the mat
ter to give it but superficial glance
in passing. 1t must be admitted by
the most preiudiced person that the
serving damosel reveals ordinary am
bition when she avails herself OF
every opportunity to practice upon
her mistress piano or mandolin.
Therefore, she should be encour-
aged to develop her musical talents,
in the hope that she may ripen into
q fireside genius capable of rendering
Spohr and Schumann in such a man
ner as to cause her TO frown on the
policeman and the butchers acolyte,
and, at the same time teach her to put
. finer quality of energy into the cen
trifugal stroke under which the buck
wheat cake leaps into ineffable beauty
and the pork and beans sparkle until,
to the astronomical mind, they are
the very Castor and Pollux of the
kitchen. 1t should be the duty of
every member of every womans club
from one end of the country to the
other to provide a clayier for her
cook to practice upon, and to impress
the Importance of this move upon
all her friends, to the end that the in
tellectual side of the pot and kettle
Joan of Arcs romantic nature may
have an opportunity to develop along
lines.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
N O RPHIN I:
OPIUM, WHISKEY AND ALL
DRUG HABITS
Cured Without Pain at Your Homa.
WE HAVE PRIVATE sANKT0RiUM FOB
COMPLICATED CASES.

If you are addicted to these habits You
think you will quit it. but you won't, you
can't. unaided, but you can be cured and
restored to your former health and visor
without pain or the loss of an hour from
your business at moderate cost. The med
icine builds up your health. restores your
nervous system TO its normal condition: you
feel like different person from the begin
ming of treatment. LEAVING OFF THE
OPIATES AFTER THE FIRST DOSE.
You will soon be convinced and fully salts
fed in your own mind that you will be cured
Mr.. T. M. Brown, of DeQueen, Ark,
says: Over seven years ago was cured of
the opium habit by your medicine, and have
continued in the very best of health since -
DR.. w. M Tunstall, of Lovingston Va,
says: Il am glad to say that firmly believe
that am entirely and permanently cured of
the Drink Habit, as / have never even so
much as wanted drink in any form since I
took your eradicator, now eighteen months
ago. 1t was the best dollars ever invested 70
Mrs. Virginia Townsend, of Shreveport,
La, writes: No more opium. I have
taken no other remedy than yours and 1
make no mistake when ! say that my health
is better now than it ever was in my life,
and owe it to you and your remedy 1t
has been twelve years since was cured by
your treatment .
For full particulars address DR.. 3. M.
Woolley, 207 Lowndes Bldg, Atlanta, Ga.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09

On a glorious spring morning
toward the close of May 200 years
ago momentous historic event took
place in a very quiet way, with not
even chronic1er to describe the de-
tails. Woodland. water and cloud
less sky formed the framework of
the picture, the foreground of which
was occupied with number OF boats
sailing ON the surface of broad river
and manned with warriors, fierce-look-
ing, oddly dressed and >wrangling
among themselves in loud tones. They
were the famous "Bombard1er reg1-
ment which had achieved feats OF
prowess a few weeks before during
tie battle with the Swedes, and their
captain" was the most imposing fig
nre of them all, sitting in the Prov or
4 stout vessel ahead OF the rest. The
weather was bright and bracing, and
she breeze caused the face of the blue,
broad Neva to wrinkle, as it lost
itself in the Finnish gulf. The cap
tain" stood with his back to the sea,
gazing at the smiling islands in front,
which were literally covered with
dense forests; indeed, had it not been
Scr the noisy-tongued men on the
boats he might have fancied himself
Il, a country heretofore unvisited by
man. The whole district, Swedish
down to a couple of weeks before, had
recently been taken by the Russian
troops. The captain" now landed on
the most pleasantly situated and at
kractive of the islands, and, with
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
MCnarchs of the Sea

noted, he would generally spend his
time in watching passing ships or
sailing chips or toy boats.
When older grown he attended the
primary. intermediate and grammar
schools, and, later, the high school,
under the principalship of Thomas w.
Bicknell, now living in Providence,
who says he was always well-behaved
and studious, only an ordinary pupil
in grammar, reading, spelling or his
tory but bright in physical geography,
Algebra, geometry, and chemistry, and
remarkably keen in natural philos-
ophy. At this time he was tall for
his age, thin, rather slender, some
what loosely built, and had notice
able forward inclination of the head
which became more and more pro-
nounced from a habit he hau of close
Iy watching rivals in his many boat
races, craning his neck in order to see
them from under his boom.
Mr.. Bicknell says that the mother
of the young Herreshoffs, although
a very busy woman, managed to visit
the high school two or three times a
week on an average, and encouraged
her children, some of whom were
blind. in all ways possible. "My
mother" said John B. Herreshoff to
the writer, in 1899, SIS eighty-eight,
and still enjoys good health. If have
one thing more than another to be
thankful for, it is for her care in
childhood and her sympathy through
life. She is one of the best of
mothers, and 1 feel that / owe her q
debt can never repay" She has
since died.-Success.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
MARRIED HIS SONS NURSE.
New York Millionaire a Notable Vic.
tim of Cupid.

Thomas Breslin, GO years old, a mil
lionaire mill and hotel owner of Troy,
N. Y. has just been married to Miss
Ella Watson, aged &c, who at one time
worked in one of his mills Later she
became a. trained nurse and in that
capacity looked after Mr.. Breslin's
son Lewis, who was stricken with
typhoid fever. The young man recov-
cred, largely because of the intelli-
gence and fidelity of his nurse. The
father was much impressed by the
young woman's modest and engaging
manners. He proposed and was &C.
cepted and celebrated his good fortune
by giving a supper to all the hands
in the mill where his bride used to
work.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
Car Guided by Eagle

few of his officers, was making Ms
way to the center when curious
sound in the air above arrested his
attention.
Looking up he beheld great eagle
Tapping it's wings noisily, soaring up
to a dizzy height and then swiftly des
cending to spot not far from where
he stood He did not then know that
it was bird tanned by the men who
were wont to load the boats with tim
ber,s but looked upon its appearance
as a good omen for his undertaking
Selling bayonet therefore, he cut
out two sods of the turf, placed them
one on the other like the beams OF
cross, then made wooden cross from
two boughG and, pressing it into the
sods, exclaimed: In the name OF
Jesus Christ, let there be a church on
this spot, and let its name be those OF
the chief apostles, Peter and Paul"
And it was all he had said. The
church. with it's golden spire, now
surnounts the terrible fortress in
which many political prisoners have
persisted miserably, and the city
around it is ST. Petersburg, for the
captain of the Bombardiers" was
Peter the Great.
Such is the legendary tale of the
foundation of the northern Palmyra,
which is said to have been jotted
down by an officer of the corps at
the time, and to have been laid in a
gold casket, which still lies among the
foundations of the fortress.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
SUES TO RECOVER RING.
Tilted Lover Institutes Action Against
Former Sweetheart.


A novel and interesting case is be-
ing heard before City Judge McCon-
nell at Watertown, N. Y, arising from
a love affair and engagement, which
was broken by the woman exercising
the feminine privilege of changing her
mind The case is that of Edward
Daniels VS.. Emma A. Rockburn and
the suit is brought to recover dia-
mond ring which was given the de-
fendant over two years ago to seal the
enga cement between them. The plain
tiff claims that the ring was purchased
at an outlay of $55 and that the con-
tracing parties were to be married
as soon as he could save enough
money for the purpose.
He accordingly went out into the
world to seek his fortune, and secured
a good position in machine shop
near New York A few days ago he
returned to claim his bride, but found
that she had grown cold toward him
in the interval which had elapsed, and
had allowed another TO occupy his
place in her affections. Broken-heart-
ed, he demanded the return OF his
ring, but the defendant claimed she
had recently lost it. Action to recover
the property was then commenced.
The plaintiff has large number of
letters from the defendant, which are
being read in court to Substantial
the fact of the engagement.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
Remarkable Athletic Performance.

Gilman lowe, a New York athlete,
lifted 100000 pounds in +hirty-four
minutes and thirty-five seconds. The
scale was so arranged as to bring the
arm, leg and back muscles into play.
Each lift of the beam under which he
stopped raised 1000 pounds dead
weight. During the two months
training Mr. Lowe lived on only one
meal daily, consisting of three eggs,
one-half loaf of whoIe-wheat bread,
fruit, either oranges, grapes, apples
or bananas, cereals and nuts, and one
glass of milk after the meal; also
plenty Of cooled distilled water during
the day.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
SUGGESTIONS for Authors.

DR.. Felix Regnault, French writer,
in an article on 1.-The Economy of
Time" insists that all authors should
employ clear and concise language,
suppressing all that is useless. He ad-
vocates the simplification of spelling
and the shortening of long words. He
suggests that number of frequently
recurring words should be abbreviat-
ed. For example, in an article on
tuberculosis, he would spell out that
word once and afterward indicate it
by st." He would also print the
more important ideas in bold type, so
that the reader could seize the gist of
the authors meaning at a glance.
Every article should be preceded by
a brief resume and the frequent use
of diagrams is advocated.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
-. 81 n~q Hdn6fnl
~ 4zS@a ~ Of
@ S SerVonf Girl
sAS&7 Suqeestionsa
JNKITTPICL
* ri JNKITTRIck

This departure should be followed
by a course each in Browning and
Emerson.
When she can read and appreciate
like a Bostonian the Sage of Con-
cords MY Garden she will slice
the cucumbers with a rarer uniform
ity and skin the potatoes with finer
sense of economy as regards the thick
ness of the Feelings. She will realize
that string beans do not grow upon
strings, and that bean poles haven't
roots; also that breakfast food is not,
as rule, predigested on the vine.
When she has learned to find pleas
ure in Emerson and Browning, give
her a course in Omar Khayyam, until
her naughty spirit reeks with Persian
Iomp and philosophy and she wakes
to the fact that the policeman is a
mere myrmidon, that the afternoon
off is delusion and snare, and that
an attempt to borrow her mistress
hat, even when successful, is trl-
umph, SO called, that proves upon an
alysis to be follower than the hollow
est mockery.
Teach her to play moonlight soma.
tas on the mandolin if you would have
your coffee made Alright, and, further
more, teach her to appreciate the
luminous beauty that will live forever
in the ripping gold of Andrea del Sar-
to, if you would have your liver and
bacon dance hand in hand in your
fancy to the Dorian mood of flutes and
soft recorders.
But in refining her with music and
literature. that she may become cul-
mary thing OF beauty and JOY until
her last month is up, and not con-
tinue to be the mere romantic beast
of burden she is to-day, look to 1T that
you do not let an accordion or copy
of any cook book fall into her incar-
nadined and freckled hands.-New
York Times.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
SEEK LORD sALis5URYs ORDER.
Engfishmen in Competition for Notable
Distinction.

Distinction.
Not few limbs, shapely and other
wise, are being metaphorica1iy pushed
into view by owners who hope to Sc
cure the Order of the Garter which
Lord Salisbury wore. 1t is the highest
order, not based on merit but royal
distinction, that England has to be-
stow. Some old Tory lord once re-
marked that the reason he liked the
Order of the Garter was because there
was mo demmed merit about it, A
late number of the London Lancet de.
clares that only great philosopher
could have uttered Lord Salisburys
remark that I'VE live in a small, bright
oasis of knowledge surrounded on all
sides by vast UNEMPLOYED region of
impenetrable mystery, and from age
to age the strenuous labor of success.
sive generations wins a small strip
from the desert and pushes forward
the boundary of knowledge"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
protection for Egyptian Birds.

Bird lovers will be interested to note
that the birds have friends in high
places in Egypt. The Minister of the
Interior there recently made laud-
able endeavor to limit, if not to sup
press, the wholesale capture and
slaughter of singing birds. Hence
forward, the catching of them with
nets is to be permitted only at dis
lance of one thousand metres from
the seashore. 1t has been the practice
of the bird dealers to spread their nets
in the autumn along the shore, as near
as possible to the sea, so as to entrap
the little creatures, directly they ar
rive upon the land, exhausted with
their long fight across the sea.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
keene Criticized by His Valet.

James R. Keene's valet, whose con-
vivial habits landed him in New
York station house last week, betrayed
one of his masters secrets when he
was arraigned. He said the only thing
he had Hagin" Mr.. Keene was that he
wore pink pyjamas. He also COM
planned that Mr.. Keene had the bour-
geois habit of retiring before midnight,
a thing that Col Tom Ochiltree, his
former master, never thought of do
ing. All these things preyed upon his
mind and he admitted that he had
tried to food them out.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09

When the America won the first In
kernational yacht race at Cowes, Eng
land, fifty-two years ago, the world
little knew at the time that on farm
az Point Pleasant, Bristol, r. L.,
two children were playing who would
give yachting and rapid navigation
generally, an all-round, far-reaching
impetus such as, in all the wide world;
chey had never felt before. The elder,
SIohn b. Herreshoff. sandy-haired,
blue-eyed, esrnest-Iooking boy of ten.
although foredoomed to life OF
Iindness, could then see, and had
lady begun to whittle out pretty
boats Only three or four years
he built his first boat for ac-
use. which was considered
of beauty and speed. at tif-
or. eyesight failed him forever,
isiwould not let anything dis
ohim, so he continued to study
I'D to build them, too, The
Nat" rather reddish hair
ia dy-faced, roguish fodder of
Eat the time of the Cowes con-
-as noted chiefly for an frrepres-
9Sble inclination to run away to the
shore nea- by, at every favorable OPP
portunity, and lie down on his back
IN the sand and kick his heels cxult-
autly in the water. He was found
Dften asleep in this position by his
anxious mother, one chubby hand
zsasping a wisp of seaweed. the other
fun of wet sand, with the rising tide
washing his bare feet. Whenever he
vas missing he was first sought for
pn the shore, where, if he was awake
and saw that his movements were
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09

Aching backs are eased. Hip, back,
and loin pains overcome. Swelhng Oh
the limbs, rheumatism, and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with brick dust
sediment, high colored, excessive, pam
In passing, dribbling, frequency. Doan
Kidney Pills dissolve and remove calcium
and gravel. Relieve heart paipita-
ton. sleeplessness headache, nervous
ness. .
TELL CITY. IND. II received the the free
trial Of Doan's Kidney Pills. They are
splendid. I had an awful pain IN my
back on taking the pills the pain LETT
me right away and / feel like ne"
man. Stephen Schnefer.
Mrs. AppIE ANDREWS r. F: d. No. !;
BaoDIrEAp, WIS, writes / received
the free trial Of Doans Kidney Pills with
much benefit. My little nephew was
suffering terribly with kidney trouble
from scarlet fever Two doctors failed
to help him and he finally went into
spasrns. Ills father gave him Doan
Kidney Pills and from the second dose
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
sT@DATGHT TO THE SPOT

the pain was 4ess. He began to gain
and Is to day a vSell boy, his life saved by
Doan's Kidney Nils:
RUppI.Es MINIS. KY.--I received the
free trial of pills. They did me great
GOOD, had Bladder trouble. compelling
me s to get up often. during night. Now
+ sleep we'll no pain in neck of bladder;
nain in back is gone, also headache.
JNo l.. HILL.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
Strenuous Pennsylvania Pastor.

Almost unaided, Rev. w. A. Lewis,
of the Cherry Valley, Pa, Methodist
church, rebuilt the house of worship
in which his congregation assembled.
He did the painting, mason and car
penter work and even carried the
bricks and mortar up thirty-foot lad
der. The church was rededicated re-
Gently.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
women waae Earners.

The percentage of wage earners
Who are females is, in the United
states. IA; in Germany, rs; in Eng
aand, Is; in italy, 40, and in Austria,
81
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1903-10-09
German Bank canltaI.

The aggregate capital of 122 Ger.
man banking institutions is, according
to the German Economist, 9354.25O.-
600. More than half of this capital is
located in Berlin.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-03-21
A GOOD WORK.

Hor. J. q. Lee, State C"mmls-
slcner Of Agriculture aud Ilnn.l-
Ion, has STINT out the i'ii"" ii'2
cIIcuIr letter to prominent 'iZeHs
residing N lhe VIA par'>h ; al
the State winch explains sci. IulIl !:
dear Sii: IL reply t. yonrs u
recent date. This "enaftmenl
would be glade to have SoH TAX
up with me OF var citizens the
organ zaliou of an association 10
encourage immigration aId 10 IN
duce tue investment Of capital IL
yOur town ami parish. MS o.
gautZa,iun need not II, ceSs4r!iy con-
siot entirely Of town people. lhe
farmer should be rs much Interest
Ell n thi. week as The m rch mt.
There Is every lndira zen that
Dolh clpr al and .m,AIgrall II are
looking southwark. y grcat many
OF the towns III the STATE have al
ready been accomplished. TIM
Bureau, he iai:roa1 companies and
9th; r. often want spa al intofma.
tim aud data about some pa ticuiar
section, bat III community ike
YOURS there is no one t apply t.,
AID The chances are that iht data
,r infoIma,irn We would ike 10
re, has never been collected.
"rhe 5 LOUIS worlds Far, to
be hold il 1904, will b. all tppor-
lunlty to exhibit aud advertise our
resources ne..r before equal Il III
our history. The Comm ssl"n will
need TIE cO-opcratlon and assist
auce Of citizen. III every comm unity
to assist in collecting exhibits and
getting up advertising matter. An
organization TO take care of such
mat ers as these, and all otter pro-
positions for the general welfare of
your community will, in my opin-
ion, bring a5out much good.
This Department will gladly CO.
operate with YOU and assist you so
desire 1t. We will have a repre-
sentative from this Department IRE
seut when YOU organize TO encour-
age and help YOU in this work. All
we ask Is that you give Us ample
notice of time and place Of meeting.
"HoplnS that your Efforts will be
crowned with success, am, with
best wishes, very trlly yours.
~. &. LIE, Commissioner"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-03-21
SEVERE ATTACK OF GRIP.
Cured by CINE Bottle Of Cham.
berlain's Cough Remedy.

When had an attack of the grip
last winter the second one) actually
cured myself with one bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, says Frank
w. Perry, Editor of the Enterprise,
Shortsville, N. Y. This is the honest
trath. I at times kept from coughing
myself to pieces bv taking teaspoon
full of this remedy, and when the
coughing spell would come on at night
l would take a dose and it seemed that
in the briefest interval the cough
would pass of and would go to sleep
perfectly free from cough and its
accompanying pains. To say that
the remedy acted as a most agreeable
surprise is putting it very mildly. /
had no idea that it would or could
knock out the grip. simply because |
had never tried it for such a purpose,
but it did, and it seemed with the Sec
ond attack of coughing the remedy
caused it not only be of less duration,
but the pains were far less severe, and
/ had not used the contents of one
bottle before Mr.. Grip had bid me
adieu" For sole by Estorge Drug
Store.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-03-21

Mr.. A. J. Reynolds, of the lbe'
ran, of New Iberia, was in town
Sunday, but the editor of the Her
aid failed to have the pleasure OF
meeting the versatile gentleman.
Mr.. Reynolds is well and favor
ably known in Ascension where
he lived for long time and where
as a Republican he is regarded
as stalaart. We DO not agree
with him. no wever, in what he say :
iD the "Note Of Warning" with re-
ference to the organizing of new
Republican party Such PROPOSE
ton is unprovoked and out of place
al this time and we doubt very
much that even Judged ii. o. Ma
her would favor such move.-Busl-
ness Herald.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-03-21
Delegates.

The following gentlemen were
appointed as delegates to repre-
sent the Iberia Building Associa
ton at the coming convention to
be held here on April 10th and
18th: w. j. Burke, r. 8. McMa.
hon, G. G. Laughiin, Jerry w.
Taylor, Chas. L. Provost, Lazard
King, Z +. Millard, W. G.
Weeks, Jas. Gebert, G. E. Rey-
nolds, j. p. Suberbielle, A. j..
Fagot, Albert Trotter, Albert De.
Blanc, Albert Estorge, and Jules
Dreyfus. The first seven are the
directors.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-03-21

We call the attention of our
street commissioners to the fact
that a wagon broke down on East
Main street, between Centre street
and Bank avenue during the early
portion of the week. 1t is true
that the wheel seemed to have
been weak and the wagon seemed
to have been over loaded, but per-
haps it may be wise to investigate
that especial spot in the street to
ascertain whether or not the
street itself IS in need of repair.