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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
USE FANS IN BATTLE.
Jnpanese soldiers Carry Breeze
 Raisers Presented by Mikado.

Jup0nese Soldiers Carry Breeze
 Raisers Presented by Mikado.
 On one side soldiers fiercely fighting to the accompaniment of the ride's deadly barking and the sullen roar of cannon. On the other side some in- fantry reserves rhythmically swing ing dainty little fans before their noses while awaiting the summons to go into action. Such is remarkably early morning scene in Manchuria described by Frederick Palmer in Golfers. l The soldier. with the fans of course were Japs. Of no other nation under the sun would such thing be possible. The astonishment of the Russians upon first witnessing this custom of their enemies may be imagined, but if from it they gained the impression that the little men were effeminate they have long since learned their mistake
 MT. Palmer suggests that the cool and deliberate actions of the Japanese soldiers may be due in part to the fans they carry, which are presents from the emperor. On them is inscribed in the handwriting of Marquis Oyama, the commander in chief of the army, | the words, Do your best for your country"
 "On hot day." writes MT. Palmer from the front, "a fan may beat up breeze in front of a soldiers nose l which will save him from succumb- ing.'
 Contrasting the methods of the bur- | ly Russians with the agile little yellow men, the correspondent says:
 "A Japanese general knows that any l force, however small, will stay where l it is placed-stay, alive or dead One company is as much like another as peas in a pod. No special units, no rough riders, no kings own, no stiffen- ing of weak regiments with regiments of volunteers or regulars. There is an approximate level of courage and skill. A commander may choose the unit at hand as a mechanic takes down any one of number of equally tempered tools from rack. If you want q Horatius at the bridge, take the near l est first sergeant.
 ''The Russians came to the attack with a splendid conf1dence-a childish, mobilize confidence. All the way across the Siberian steppes in their troop trains they had been begetting this. When they see us big burly fel- lows the leather skinned makaki l (dwarfs) will run fast enough. They will find that we are no coionists and reserves we are the little fathers chosen But the makakd know a mark when they see one, and they like to fire at column in close order"
 MT. Palmer has found evidence of l the truth of Count Tolstoi's charge that many of the Russian soldiers, hay ing no stomach for the war, are forced into 1t willy nilly. Speaking of certain prisoners captured by the Japanese, he says:
 "One Russian who had been found prostrate had been examined in vain l for any wound. Yet it was with dif1- culty that he was got to walking. Ap- I parently he had been scared stiff by his baptism of fire. When another un- wounded man was asked how he hap pened to be taken prisoner he replied, T wanted to be- When a contemptu- ous comment was translated to him he said: I have no interest in this war. I don't propose to be sacrificed
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
Be Cheerful.

Tribulation Is a habit Be brave and utter cheerful word, in place of the complaining one. Keeping silent in an atmosphere of discord attracts to you peace and serenity, instead of pain and sorrow. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." No greater truth was ever uttered. Grumblers antagonize that truth. As soon as person stops thinking trouble and goes to thinking joy-then joy will materialize Detroit Free Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

uIry- moGcrn game Some or the diskA are so perfect as to suggest that they were made on a lathe Some were also used as gorgets or breast orna- ments, One. skeleton was found in the Gartner mound by Mir. Arthur B. Coover with discoid lying close to his head The inference is that this particular Indian was clever at the game of disks.
 A stone with a hole through it pos sessed a mystical power in>the mind of the Indian as well as the modern small boy. But the bivalve with a hole through it, which the Indian used for the blade of hoe, possessed the most practical nysticism. With the shell hoe the Indian cultivated corn and beans and probably some vege- tables. A pretty successful sort of hoe it was, for modern invention has not departed radically from the form. There must have been good dcal of gardening done in prehistoric days, if we may judge by the fine display of shell hoes dug up by archaeologists at the Gartner mound and village at Chii- licothe, O. Tn the Ohio section Of an- thropology one may see what tho an cient Indian was busy about
 A number of huge stone axes that never saw labor, too big to wield for any practical purpose, were probably ceremonial axes. The Indians had their mystical doings and secret lodge meetings, from which the women were no doubt excluded lest they be taken too long from their work. Tae Indian of prehistoric days was long on core mony at least, however short he may have been in farming and manufac- ture
 In the matter of mound building all of us have not the correct notion. The burial mounds that have been opened in Ohio indicate that considerable number of years elapsed during their formation. They were the public burying grounds. With the rude im- plements of the Indians it would not have been an easy matter to dig grave, but it was comparatively easy to scrape up basketful of earth and carry it to the burial place to pour |
 over the dead The use of the same burial place for many years by q community of Indians resulted in the formation of considerable mound. In the case of the Gartner mound and village site at Chillicothe the excava- tions showed that the mound was en- tirely surrounded by the village. I The entire process of making bone l fishhooks by the Indians is shown by scraps of work collected from the Ohio mounds. A flat piece of bone was cut into the shape of link perhaps two inches long by flve-eighths wide This method prevented the snapping of the hook in the bend. The link was then ! cut apart in two places, making two hooks at one operation. A fish with good. spirit. had.a a chance for. his life
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
Russian wive. For sale.

Tn the Kharkoff, Poltava and Eka- terinoslav provinces of Russia, says the Novoe vreanya, there is rapidly growing trade in the sale of wives, frequently at their own desire.
 The usual cause is the extreme pow erty of the husband, who can no lon ger keep his wife, though it is often because the wife desires to be free from cruel, drunken partner ' The trade has become so common that few markets are held without such transac- tions, which are considered so binding that no case has been known of hus- band demanding his wife back.
 Their market value varies from $40 to $75. More is never paid.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
woman sleep. Out of Doors.

Tn an eiderdown bag a woman in Evanston, H., sleeps every night out of doors, says a Chicago dispatch. She is Mrs. Martha Foote Grove, dean of women at Northwestern university and head of Willard hall at that in stitution.
 q am no convert to outdoor living,'' said Mrs. Grove, because have al ways been a believer in it. My sleep bag? It is not extraordinary. It is of denim, lined with an eiderdown quilt It is really bed that folds around the sleeper. There is a head covering that will protect the eyes of the late sleeper from the morning sun.''
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
The Iananaaa Fathar

According to Consul Daigoro Goh, the Japanese child calls it's father "Gempu." which means strict father" !" while 1t addresses it's mother as "Jibo." that is, benevolent mother" MT. Goh quotes Japanese lad who classified the Japanese father as one among the -four fearful things of the world" !" these four terrors being earthquake, thunder, confagration and father.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

C-A @ T SsD R E A. Beass the The Kind You Have Always Duuela ''sss'''' < lI5kzZzzSx
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

If we could enter some prehistoric Indians in the Olympian games at the worlds fair, they would probably show us the use of the hundreds of dis colds that are here on show in the anthropology section. These discoids. some with holes through them and some without, have been found in many parts of the country. The dis. cold game, whatever 1t was, was of continental popularity. Some north western Indians have told us that the disks were thrown or rolled along the ground convenient number of paces, where they were used as targets for spears, arrows, darts or other missiles
 !. Duck: :os>Sock comes as near to il. aa
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

predi1ection. 2. Cor-tel-you, with the accent on second syllable 3 It cer- tainly would.
 B. A. M.-Please print the names of republican electoral ticket of Georgia, and state whether any of them are nc> groes.
 A. The nominations have not yet been made.
 Printer.-Benjamin Harris of Boston was the editor of the first newspaper in this country It was called Public Occurances, both Foreign and Domes- tic" It's first and only issue was dated September 25, 1890. It was suppressed because of it's political utterances. A. WI am writing drama; please tell me how may dispose of it, and if might take part in it? What pay may I expect for it?
 A. Submit your play to city theat- rfcal managers and let them pronounce upon it. If you have training and suf- f1cient talent there is no reason why you should not take part in 1t. Plays are seldom bought outright, and roy alties depend entirely upon their sue cess.
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 Music-I desire information on the subject of royalties? Let us suppose that John Doe of this city is the com poser of song. He arranges with a publisher to produce 1t on royalty. The question is, How is John Doe to know how many copies of his song are sold7
 A. He must trust in the honesty of the publisher. If he has grounds for thinking himself defrauded, and is l willing to stand the expense of so do- ing, he may, demand the production | of the publishers books in court -&-
 J. H. P-Is the matchmaking in- terest trust? Can you give me any information as to machinery required and cost of same, and who are manu- facturers of such machinery? | A. The Diamond Match Go is a SO called trust organized under the laws of Illinois in 1889, with capital os $15,000,00O There is also bond issue of $1,25O,OO0. It's chief office is i'll Chicago and 1t operates factories in several places in the United States
 England, South America. etc. The machinery used in matchmaking carI | @AOs8 w Wy CAtOhSAF15 oAAN dOOON lA there are any manufacturers who make speciality of it. | -f-
 Mrs. D. R. W.-Give me some in formation about Russian art and re- | fer me to some publication that will
 inform me more in extent than space in your columns will permit?
 A. The Russian is one of the youngest of the European schools of
 art, though she has seen many paint CTS. Forty-five artists exhibited al the Chicago fair some two hundred works. The best known Russian painter is Vasili Verestchagin, whose speciality is war scenes. The first
 Russian pictures were from the hands Of young men sent by Peter the
 Great into Germany to study. The
 leader in the materialist school is
 Elias Repine, to which Polemoff, Con
 stantin, Macovsky, Semiradsky, and ,l many others belong. Some well known
 landscape painters are Aiovosovsky
 Archijanoff, Duboysky, Killilev, Levi
 tan, Valkaff; and some sculptors arc
 Antokolsky, Bach, Bernstom, Kalodt
 Valconsky and .Yeklrmisheff. I do no
 know any work sold in this country
 treating especially of Russian art, bu- inquiry at book or art stores may de velop something.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
The Happy scheo1bex.

Bill Shakespeare tells a little tale About boy who always whined When school time came and whom 8 snass Tn speed could leave block behind: Who'd rather stay at home and play And sit around and nope and dream But, then, you know. in Williams day They didn't have g football team. Now'days the boys look forward to The morning when the bell disturbs The autumn air: there's no boofoo At thought of parsing Latin verbs. J. Caesars bridge can't make them fret Nor crafty Euclids hardest scheme. For after school will they not get A chance to make the football tsarR1 Vacation time is full of joy.
 But Jin's not sorry it hos passed. This year he's not a little boy:
 He's twelve pounds heavier than last. With snail-like speed does he approach The school? Not much! He's full of
 steam
 Perhaps he can persuade the coach To pug hfpa on the football team.
 Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
The Staple Food of cnha

Rice is an important food in Cuba. All classes. rich and poor. eat it. Among the country people, who seldom eat wheat bread, rice is vertically the "staff of life" It is eaten at every meal, and no one knows better than the Cuban housewife it's varied and ac. cnntahlA uSan
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
Counterfeit Coins for Collins.

The making of counterfeit coins is permitted by law in China They are only intended to put in the cofflns of the dead. as a superstition prevails that they make the dead happy The coins are supposed to be used to pay ferriage for carrying the deceased across the streams that lie between earth and the realms of the blessed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17

as the Indian bone ishhook had nd barb and too quick pull might snap the hook.
 Fair Grounds, St. Louis.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30

~ Worlds Fair, St. Louis.
- tickets at low rates now on sale.
TOT particulars apply to any Mobile
and Ohio R. r. agent.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30
Mrs. /. NJ. Abbott Sued,

John R. Jarrett VS.. Mrs. I. M.
Abbott, is the title of the latest suit
that has been brought in the local dis
trict court.
Plaintiff sues Mrs. Abbott for two
notes of $500 and 1904 respectively
and also asks for judgment in the
amount of over $11,0O
Plaintiff alleges that the first note
of $500 was due on April Is, 1903 ant
asks s per cent interest on the same
from that date; that the second mote
which he was compelled to take up tc
protect Mrs. Abbott and himself from
having property in Jennings sold tt
pay the 1904, as plaintiff claims {
special mortgage on lots 2 and O
block . of McFarlan's plat of Jen
nings. The third item is for take!
plaintiff alleges that the defendant owe.
and for which he now holds thu
receipts.-Lake Charles Press.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30
RICE NOW PLAYING 4 NEW ROLE.
Its Merits as EiScuit Maker Being
Tested by Beaumont Housewives.

The first rice flour to arrive in this
city has been purchased by one of the
leading grOcers of the city who will
distribute it among those interested in
the same for the purpose of testing it
and seeing if it will not be as good as
wheat flour for some things and better
than pure wheat flour for many others
when One-third of wheat -four is mixed
with twO-thirds of rice flour, says the
Beaumont Journal.
One of the peculiar features of the
new rice flour is the fact that it comes
from that far away out of the way
place called Brownsville, where it
seems that some miller has gotten in
advance of the rice millers of the rice
belt and demonstrated to them that
there are plenty of ways in which rice
can be utilized when the brain power
of enterprise is brought into play in
that business as well as in other lines
of the miller's art.
The grocer who secured the samples
that are now here has sent in large
order to the Brownsville man, which
he will not sell when it arrives, but
will distribute it free in places where
it can be given a thorough test. A
representative of the Journal was
shown some of the new rice -four this
afternoon and was surprised at the
extremely fine manner in which it has
been ground, being at least as fine as
the finest ground wheat flour and shows
by color and taste that it is just the
thing for batter cakes. In fact a
Chicago restaurant man some time
ago proved that rice batter cakes were
far superior to buckwheat or -four
cakes of the same kind.
The tests of the flour at the Browns
Vile mill go to show that when mixed
with one-third of wheat flour the rice
flour adapts itself to yeast very read.
lily and is even better that way than
pure wheat flour for bread or pastry.
The only trouble is the price asked by
the Brownsville miller, which is five
cents per pound. There is no doubt
in the mind of the grocer handling
the above that when the price is re.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30
Welsh Oil Shipped in Barrels.

Capt Walshe writes as follows con-
corning the merits of Welsh oil as a
lubricant: The first shipment of oil
IN barrels from the Welsh, field was
completed Saturday afternoon, and
was shipped that night by rail. This
shipment was MADE by the Hill Top
OH Company of New Orleans. The
oil is from the company 5 wells in the
proven field and is of high grade,
hence 1t was shipped in barrels, which
is quite unusual in shipping crude
oils, but the Welsh oil has already
quite a reputation as "a good lubri-
cant, even as it comes from the earth.
and when treated, as is being done
daily at the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company's plant, about mile west
of Welsh, it is said to be the best and
by long odds the cheapest, lubricant
known. Indeed, so valuable is this
Welsh oil that the Southern Pacific
Company long since ceased to burn it,
as fuel, and now brings all its fuel oil
from Texas. Oils from it's wells here,
and from other wells in the Welsh
field, which the company is buying,
are treated and stored for other uses
than fuel.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30
MULES PUT Burglar TO FLIGHT.
Hurried Exit and Parting Shot the Re-
suit Of Noise Made by Them.

Wednesday morning whel the Office
of the Lewis Lumber Co. was opened
for the days business it was noticed
that from bullet hole in the glass
door leading from the Office to the
stock room there had been a visitor
the previous night. A further inves.
tigation revealed the fact that an at
tempt at robbery had been carefully
planned and doubtless wouldhave been
carried out but for the timely but I'M
witted interference of an innocent
mule.
The screen at the rear window on the
east side of the building had been re-
moved and the sash almost cut in two.
Whether it was by mere accident or
sudden impulse will never be known,
but the glass was broken at point
where the cutting was being done and
through the opening the patent fasten-
ing was relieved, the window hoisted
and an entrance gained.
w. E. Fhught, manager of the COM
pany, keeps his delivery mules in a
barn at the rear of the lumber Office
and frequently noise made by them
on the plank floor is mistaken for
some one entering from the rear.
From indications it is probable that
the would-be burglar was thus mis-
led.
In the center of the stock room is
box standing on end and on top of
this a smaller box. nthe dim moon
light and during a period of excite
ment the figure could be easily mis-.
taken for that of man, the smaller
box representing his head and the
larger one his shoulders and body,
and it is evident that the intruder took
this view of the situation. For hear
ing the noise made by the mules and
seeing the strange object in the dark
ened room, he doubtless thought he
had been discovered and pulled out
faithful IS, of the Colts or British
Bull Dog variety, and fired.
Had the object been a real man he
would have been as silent the next
morning as the harmless paint box,
for the markman's aim through the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30
Quicker Time to 1t. Louis Fair

VIA MOBILE & OHIO RAILROAD.
Commencing June 9TH, the famous
st. Louis Limited of the Mobile &
Ohio r. r. THE Worlds Fair Route)
will leave New Orleans at $50 D. m.
and arrive at st. Louis the following
afternoon at 5:52, instead of 7:O4 D. IN.
as heretofore. This train is a solid
vestibuled train of the very latest
pattern, carrying one of the finest
Pullman Sleepers made, besides Libra
ry Observation and Parlar Cars,
Dining Cars with large electric Fans,
fine CUISINE and service ala Carte.
Extremely low rates for Is day, SO
day and season tickets to st. Louis
and return account of Worlds Fair,
+. f. GUEDRY, d. p. A.
229 st. Charles Street,
New Orleans, La.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30
Live Oak Plantation Deeply Involved.

A foreclosure suit Of more than Or
binary interest is that filed in the
clerks Office by Attorneys Mccoy
e. Moss, and Merrlck & Lewis on the
part of the Guarantee Trust company
of New York, against the North
American Rice Co., of a mortgage to
secure an issue of bonds amounting
to S150,000 on the lands owned by the
latter company, says the Lake Charles
American.
The petition states that on April
10th, 1902, the North American Rice
company issued 300 bonds of the value
otS5OO each, giving in security thereof,
their plants and lands, among which
are 1865 acres in Calcasieu parish
and 5,565 acres in Cameron parish.
One of the proviSos of the bond S
issue was that should any of the bonds,
taxes interest become due and remain
unpaid for period of ninety days, a
foreclosure on all the issue should
follow.
AS Judge Miller is out of the city
and will perhaps be gone several
weeks yet, no appointment Or con-
Slderation of the papers can be made
until his return.
The North American Rice Co., two
years ago purchased the Live Oak
plantation of Capt. c. A. Lowry
az the lower end of Lake Arthur, lying
partly in Calcasieu and partly in Cam
eron parish and containing about
e'WO acres of land, with rice canal
and pumping plant. At the start, the
company was crippled by salt water
y, which destroyed it's crop.
Inc plant has been under the man
sgement OF Howard Alderman.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30
To Get Started.

Thousands of young men and wo-
men of good ability, OF the highest
character, earnest and honest in every
way, desire to get a foothold in the
business world, but cannot get po-
sition. They find they cannot do
what the business world will pay to
have done-keop books, do steno-
graphic work, write good business
hand, figure accurately and rapidly,
fill out the various commercial papers,
such as Notes, Drafts, Deeds, Mort
cages etc.
This missing link in their education,
that leads to success, Tyler CONNER
cial College of Tyler, Texas, supplies.
Write them for free ca:aloge.
Rice Straw % cents bale.
JONES BROS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30

glass door was true, the ball passing
squarely through the box resembling
a human head and was imbedded in a
piece of lumber several feet beyond.
The intruder then placed ,one foot on
the window sill and the other on the
stringer of the high picket fence near
by, leaped to the street and made q
hasty retreat.
AS there is nothing of particular
use to an ordinary person in lumber
Office, it is almost certain that the
noise of the mule frustrated the plans
of an attempt at safe.cracking.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-30
An Injustice to Calcasieu.

Lake Charles American: Col.
George H. Tinker does Calcasieu an
injustice, probably unwittingly, by
naming this parish to a Picayune re.
porter, as the chief kicker on the Mer.
mentau levee district. Calcasieu has
not been worrying much over the levee
district, indeed, Calcasieu men gave
the dam project its first impetus and
contributed literally to the work al.
ready done upon it. When Col.
Tinker names Calcasieu as center
of disaffection he is doing rank in.
Justice TO our friends at Gueydan who
have hardly been able to sleep wink
since the levee district law was passed
last July.