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Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29
Prison Reform Needed.

On Saturday a Philadelphia pap
er made a special feature of the
Exposure" of conditions in the
Georgetown Jail. What the cores
pondent discovered and related as a
Special bit of information is moth
ing new to the people of Delaware.
Perhaps, however, the description
of the deplorable physical condi-
ton of the Georgetown jail and the
happy-go-lucky method of conduct
ing q penal establishment / news to
those on the outside. Thus this 1t
est Exposure" will have the effect
of,impressing people elsewhere with
the evident neglect existing in the
management of the penal intuition
in Sussex county.
The average number of prisoners
confined in the apology for Jail at
Georgetown is about twenty, and
they are huddled in rooms instead
of cells. They are not given employ
nent, save such minor work as ap-
plies to the institution itself, and
that is not OF character to improve
the prisoners by teaching them
something worth knowing. The
county pays thirty cents day for
the care of each prisoner, and this
is a liberal allowance when the cost
of living in Sussex county is taken
into consideration. The cost per
day for each prisoner in the work
house in this county is between
seven and eight cents a day, and
we fancy they are better fed than
those who are confined in the
Georgetown Jail.
Now that attention has been cal
led to the miserable condition of
the Sussex County prison, and es-
pecially to the laXity with which
the prisoners are treated, it is in
order for the taxpayers Of that
county to consider the wisdom of
asking the next General Assembly
to provide for the transfer of pri-
soners to the New Castle county
workhouse. This institution is in
the character of a penitentiary and
it is conducted according to the
most approved methods of such in
stitutions. The prisoners are we'll
cared for, they are kept occupied,
they are compelled to give some
return for board and lodging, and
the time is coming when the work
house Will be put upon self-sus-
tanning basis so far as the actual
running expenses are concerned.
If Sussex county prisoners serving
sentences of one year or more
should be sent to the New Castle
county workhouse, the county pay
ing a fixed price per day for each
one, the county would be the gain
er in many respects and the pris-
oners themselves would be bene-
fitted in the end. The same is true
of Kent county, and there is no
valid reason why the workhouse
should not become in effect a state
institution. Morning Newe.
Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29

one Boston canopy top trap, two and four
passenger, new last spring, one set single
and brOoder, 200 egg capacity, lot " hite ,eg
morn and Whue Plymouth Rock 3 ems and
tsoosters, ,ubout 2JOyOung chickens one cream
Sc sparator, one bone and grain mill, one corn
sneiier, one band plant setter, 1900 feet wire
nettlng, inch mesh, five feet high, never
useo, one lot Neponset waterproof roofing.
Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29
HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURN
lTURE,

french plate glass iron and brass bedstesd
chluOnier, couch, adjustable head, solid
OAK extension table, l solid oak stand, / solid
pah p, MOTIFS chair, rockers. folding steam.
room chairs,l No, s, 6 hole new, wood or coal
COOK stove, i portable oil heating stove. .
ss klteheh tables, lot OF dishes, linen-wear lars
IIult ~ cans, iron wash tubs, wash boiler. kItch.
@ eh furniture, cooking utensils, wash bowl ana
Ptcher, " yards mating, new last apring,
noor OIL cloth, lot Of window shades and IL.
screens, folding clothes bars, bed springs ana
mattresses, and many other articles too
numerous TO mention. These goods were
ass. assriy al new within year, and are good
hrst-ciAss goods, Terms Cash. >0'O
Dr.. w. N. ASPINWALL.
W. T. Parvif, Auct. L. D, Truitt, Clerk.
Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.

one COW, now giving milk. One yearling
nelier' = Jersey One standard bred Wilkes
Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29
Public Sale

DIR. W. NJ. Aspinwall will sell the following
personal property at public sale, at his home
on the Ben Johnson farm, one mile east of
staytonsville, on the Milford and Greenwood
road, on
Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29
Tuesday, May 3rd, 1904.
LIVE STOCK.

Commencing at 1880 o'clock. a. m. If tba
day should be stormy, ,thesale next clear day
Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29

CHEKIFFS SALE.-By virtue Of ylag l..v
- Vendi EXponas to me directed Will V'''
posed to Public Sale, on
Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29

W. 7. Parvif, Auct. L. 3, rruitt, UIerk. :
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
Low ColOnist Rates.

The Southern Pacific announces that
from March 1st to April Both, inclu-
sive, there will be on sale daily low
colonist one way tickets from all
points in Louisiana and Texas to
points in California, affording an OPP
portunity for men of limited means to
travel to the Pacific coast at a very
small cost. These periodical low rates
have proven very popular and it is
quite likely that many will take ad-
vantage OF them during the period in
dictated. The Southern Pacific oper-
ates free reclining chair cars and Pull
man tourist sleepers all the way
through, which, with the use of cinder-
less, oil burning locomotives, make
travel far more comfortable than ever
before. Those desiring information
can obtain same by applying to near,
est agent or writing L. j. Anderson,
C. P. A, at Houston, orr. E. Bat
turs, A. G. P, at New Orleans.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
Notice.

Default having been made in the payment
of the debt secured by that certain mortgage
executed to the undersigned on the 18th day
of June 1908, by the Metropolitan Oil Com
pany, q corporation organized and existing
under and by virtue of the laws of the state of
10 at pages Six Hundred and Fifteen ct seq.
of the records of Calcasieu Parish, in the
State of Louisiana, we will sell under the ex-
press power contained in said mortgage on
THE BOTH DAY OF MARCH, 1904,
at public outcry, for cash, during the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder, said sale
to take place in front of the Postofhce at
Welsh, in said parish. the following described
property, situated, lying and being in the par
ish of Calcasieu, in the State of Louisiana,
to-wit; All that certain lot Of land known as
over subdivision of the Welsh Oil Fields as
plated and recorded, containing one ~ acre,
more or less, in section twenty-n1ne (29)
South of Range Five ~ West, Louisiana Me-
ridian, and also Lot number forty-two (42l OF
the Smith subdivision of the Welsh, Louisiana
upon said land, including the oil well an6
pumping outfit upon said acre of land. Also
all the right title and interest of the sale
Metropolitan Oil Company in and to that GER
tain five (5) acres of land located in said Par
ish of Calcasieu, State of Louisiana, in the
Van Huevel subdivision known as Lots Tive
t2l, Three 80. Six 49,, Seven ~ and Ten Q0l O.
| Nine [9) south, Range Five (5> west.
GEO. 3. LRATHERBURY JR.,
7. j. LYONS,
JOSEPH EsPALLA,
J. 3. WEBSTER,
p. B. DoRLoN,
NJ. A. QUINA.
! Mortgagees
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
Welsh Gets the Banner.

The third annual district League
convention of the Lake Charles Dis
trict met at Jennings Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week The leagues
of the district were nearly all repre-
sented, and everyone said the conyen-
ton was the best ever held in the dis
trict.
The first session was held Tuesday
afternoon, and although the attend
ance was not so large at the opening
meeting, everyone felt the inspiration
and power of the service.
While many splendid plans were I'M
folded by which our young peoples
meetings can be made more effective,
the thought brought home to the mind
of every delegate was, apart from
God we can do nothing and only as
we keep looking up are we able to
lift up.
The closing service was held We'd
nesday evening, at which time DR..
Lively, the presiding elder of the dis
trict, spoke to d well filed house on
the theme ''The Epworthian in the
Realm of Thought"
The Welsh League was given the
banner for having the largest delega-
ton present, those attending were
Misses Margaret Bowel, Leona Mil
Ter, Goldie Davis, Lucy Ketch, Myr
tie LaRue, Ethel and Belle Moore
! Tessie Davis, Amy Radeke, Mrs. E
| G. Willard, Rev. Corwin Taylor, M
L. Davis, Lester Prentice, David Pc
tersime, William Russell, Roy Davis
E. c. Willard, Harry Patterson
Frank Moore, Charley Moore, Orel
Sinderson and G. w. Ingle.
The next convention will be held a
Lake Charles in May, 1905.
i Rev, Corwin Taylor, of Welsh, wa
elected president of the District Leagu
and Rev. Hickman, of La Porte, Tex.
was chosen as field secretary.
The Welsh League will have re
port of the convention given at th
regular devotional hour, Sunda
evening. Come and catch the inspir
alton of the convention.
New goods arriving every day at til
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
seventh Congressional District Con-
VeniiOn.

Pursuant to call of the chairman
If tho National committee of the l'e-
publican party, a convention OF oeie-
oates from the parishes composing
the Seventh Congressional Dls1rlcV
of the State of Louisiana, IS mere
nv called to take placed at oo'clock
n m. in the town of Crowley, on Sat
urday, April %, 1904, for the purpose
of selecting two delegates and two al
ternates to cast the vote of the Seventh
CONGRESS District of Louisiana,
in the National Republican Conven-
ton called to meet in the City OF Chi
cago, on June 81, 1904, to nominate
candidates of the Republican party
for President and Vice President OF
the United States; and for the purpose
of selecting one elector and one alter
nate TO DE voted for at the Preslden-
ii al election to be held in November
next.
The number of delegates to be ac-
corded to each parish in said Dlstrlct
Convention to be the same as allowed
to the same parish at the State Con-
ventiou held at New Orleans, La, on
February II, 1904, and as follows;
Acadia, eight; Avoyelles, ten; Calca-
sieu, eleven; Cameron, two; Grant,
four; Rapides, thirteen; ST. Landry
eighteen; Vernon, four.
That the above delegates to the said
Congressional Convention be elected
by convention or mass meeting as
may be determined by the Republican
parish committee of each OF the sale
parishes, and certified to by the chair
man and secretary of the said parish
committee to the secretary OF the sale
Seventh Congressional District com
mittee.
Dated at Welsh, Louisiana, this
March 8, 1904.
| LEE E. ROBINSON,
Chm. Seventh Cong. Dist. Com
IRA W. SYLVESTER,
Sec. Seventh Cong. Dist. Com
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
ssFewer Gallons; Wears Longer"

ssFewer Gallons; Wears Longer"
The secret is out and Welsh can go
on living just as if the riddle had new
err been asked.
No, it can't either. Welsh is not
going to be what it was before. Its
houses are going to be brighter; its
people little more prosperous-they
are going to have some of their money
left to buy other things with.
The answer to the riddle is this: you
can paint building with fewer gal
Ions of Devoe Lead and Zinc paint
than with mixed paints, it will wear
several times as long as a building
with lead and oil mixed by hand.
There's proof abundant of it all over
the United States. There will soon be
proof abundant of it in Welsh.
What will the people do with the
rest of their money?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE
FRIDAY, MARCH rs, 1904.

Rev. d. M. Lewis preached his fare
we'll sermon in the Welsh Congrega-
tional church Sunday night to a pack
ca house of enthusiastic and sympa-
thetic listeners. As an evidence of
the esteem in which Rev. Lewis is held
evening services at the Baptist and
M. e. South, churches were abandon
ed that the ministers and congrega-
tions might attend services :conclud-
ng his two years of efficient PASTORAL
work in Welsh. That Rev. Lewis and
his estimable family are soon to leave
is regretted by almost the entire popu-
Iation of Welsh and the blessings and
good wishes of all go with them
Wherever they may cast their lot.
In speaking editorially of new
parish proposed in the northern part
of the state, Sundays New Orleans
States says in part: The citizens OF
the eastern part of Calcasieu have
long striven to bring about division
of their imperial parish, but they have
met with repeated failure. 1t is not
impossible that the 81. developments
aTonnd Jennings and Welsh may re-
suit some day in the not distant flu
ture in accomplishing what has sc
long been yainly hoped for by the
people of the section interested
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
Announcement.

Watch these columns next week tol
of opening OF the
kindergarten school.
j. M. NELSON.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

There will be no preaching services
at the Congregational church next
Sunday morning and evening. Sun
day school will be held as usual.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
Farmers!

Get your discs sharpened at Kim
ball IS shop. We have special ma
chimes for that purpose.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

Mrs. M J. Mosher returned TO
Crowley Monday, after spending a
few days here visiting her daughters,
Mesdames Fl. NJ. West and M. Hoag.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25
CLIuB, CLINE Z lee.
Ta@ w " P@s

Titles Examined, Charters Drawn,
Abstracts Furnished.
Will prctice in the courts of Lake
Charles. Offices: Welsh, jennings
and Lake Charles. Offices connected
by long distance telephone.
LOCAL OFFICE Over Cooper Drug
Co.'S store. W
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

Welsh contin ues to make better re
ports each week. This field is in
creasing. in number of producing
wells, and the wells show individual
growth of output. The high price this
oil commands puts the field in class
to itself.-Lake Charles News.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

Miss Bonnie Dills spent Saturday
night and Sunday in Beaumont, re-
turning to Welsh Monday noon.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

New goods arriving every day at the
RACKET STORE.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

every in
sect and yet leave the plants unin-
s,~ed. Al least he thinks so, and mas
applied for patent.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

Among the prominent oil men here
Saturday attracted by the recent de-
yelopment in the local field, were the
following: Judge r. e. Brooks, c. K.
Mae Fadden, J. B Mccain and w.
P. Binyon, OF Beaumont; M. r. Bos,
Port Arthur, all interested in the
Netherlands-Boor Consortium; J. c.
Mccullough, Port Arthur, of the Tex
as Oil Company; Peter Lamp, presi-
dent, and f. J. frost, secretary of the
Proven Oil Field Company, Port Ar
thur; Jno. c. Lee, president Merchants
Oil Company, Decatur, ILL.,; j. V.
Saum and J. =. Flynn, of the Big
Mound Oil Company Des Moines,
Iowa.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

Mrs. j. T. Walker, who has been
visiting her parents, L. E. Mitchell
and wife for several weeks, left
Wednesday morning for Alexandria,
La, to join her husband, and at
which place they will m rake their home.
Their many friends here wish them
prosperity in their new home. Mrs.
c. i. Powell accompanied her as far
as St. Louis.-Elsberry (Mo.) Demo-
crat.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-25

Instead of returning Thursday even
ing as had been intended, those COM
posing the party that made trip to
the gulf last week remained until Fri
day evening. The lake was very
rough on the trip down and some of
the ladies became seasick, otherwise
the outing was reported to have been
most delightful one.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-11-03

representatives of Corn, Rye & Co. from
his hostelry than discharge one faith
full servant. Don't you think, Hiram,
that the drummer needed the lesson
taught him in Stagnationvile? And
isn't it strange, wonderfully strange, in
comprehensibly strange, how insulted
some men pretend to feel when mis-
taken for honest working men?
We often hear working men COM
plain that they are not receiving their
just dues. Love of truth colupels me
to say they often have cause to COM
plain. And it is my belief that in spite
of all their organizations, the laborfng
men will never receive their just dues
until they eliminate all class feeling
from their respective bodies or organi-
cations. Other things equal, the me-
chanic is as good as the proudest mil
lionaire that ever drew breath; other
things equal, the highest salaried me-
chanic is no better than the common
laborer who only earns the bare neces-
stiles of existence. Yet how many of
our better paid mechanics there are
who think themselves better than COM
mon laborers because they are paid
higher wages! Only then can we ex-
pect that justice be done unto us when
we ourselves are willing to do justice
unto others. Just as long as there is
class feeling among the laborers so
long will they, as body, be looked
down upon, and suffer injustice from
the non-working minority and their
sympathizers. We are all workers-at
least all of US who mean to be useful
in this world-and the worker who con.
scientiously performs his part in the
great mechanism of society is by that
very act entitled to consider himself
the equal of any man.
Yes, Hiram, am glad that the State
of Minnesota has opened the doors o1
It's Industrial College to you, showed
you inside, and locked the doors behind
you. 1 hope you will remain where
you are until you are thoroughly con
vinced that all useful labor is honor
able.
Your loving father,
H. SLOwGO, SR.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-11-03

not to destroy the harmony of the uni
versal order of which God is the center
and source" 1t becomes necessary to
use more strongly than ever the tre-
mendous lever of divine judgment and
mercy, and to bring into new promi-
nence the personality of Christ and the
spiritual ideas in which He lived,
moved, and had His being.
But we all know that results in all
these lines can be looked for only when
the salvation offered in the gospel of
Jesus Christ has been fully accepted
through living faith. lido not under
rate the value of intellectual culture
obtained through the study of the
sciences and the arts. But if we wish
to work most effectively tor the attain
ment of the social ideal, we can do it
by furthering to the best of our ability
the cause of true religion. Some be-
lieve they have done their full duty in
this respect when they help to provide
for the most effective preaching of the
gospel at home and abroad. But be-
lieve it is equally as important, if not
more so, to make the most adequate
and effective provision for the instruc-
ton of the young in the truths of the
gospel, so that they may early be made
true disciples of the Master. I need
not repeat statistics to you, for you
have so often heard and read that, sc
far as we can interpret them, they show
that the older person becomes with
out experiencing conversion, the small
er becomes the probability that he will
do so; or in other words, the great ma
jority of those who have accepted Jesus
Christ as Saviour have done so while
young. Luther had at his time reached
the same conclusion. You all remem
ber how he said: --.-----
"For it is difficult to make old dog
docile and old rogues pious. Yet tina
is what the ministry works at, ant
must work at, in great part, in vain
but young trees, altho some may break
are more easily bent and trained
Therefore, let it be one of the highes
virtues on earth to faithfully educat
the children of others who neglect
themselves"
If to these considerations of a secu
lar nature which deal only with on
welfare here on earth, we add thos
which concern the eternal welfare of tn
immortal soul. we may perhaps begi
> to realize the tremendous responsibilit
which rests upon us in this direction
, III.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-11-03

IE must attribute the recent,
\N/ very able and instructive |
Y Y sermon of our Chaplain,
Mr.. Kennedy, as giving food
for the following thoughts: five turn
in vain to constitutional and legislative
assemblies for an adequate check to
human selfishness; if both philosophy
and science are unable to cope satisfac-
torily with the many as yet unsolved
problems of our social organism, where
may we then apply? History, when
intelligently questioned, gives a clear
answer. However far back we 60 into
antiquity 1t appears that progress and
stability in civilization rested on a re-
ligious basis. Nation after nation has
appeared on the stage of the worlds
drama and acted its part for while,
and contributed its quota to the pro-
gress of civilization, and then disap
peared. 1t does not need any very ex-
tensive study to ascertain the causes
for the exit. Moral degeneration due
to loss of faith in their religion is the
diagnosis that seems to fit the largest
number of cases.
Religion, dealing so largely with the
phenomena and forces beyond the pre-
ception of our ordinary senses, seems
to provide the only stimulus that can
elicit from our moral nature anything
like constant and uniform responses.
1t alone seems to be able to furnish
sufficient motive for upright individual
and social conduct. Now, more than
ever, it is necessary to draw man away
from self, to make him realize "that so
long as he takes view of himself as
the center of the world, neither he nor
his universe can be of much use, ex-
cept at moments of total eclipse. 1t
becomes necessary to impress upon
man in vivid perspective his true place
in this grand universe of immensity,
beauty and order, so that he will see
the imperative demand upon him, who
in one respect is dust and in another
but little below the angels, to so act as
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-11-03
Some Things to be
Solved.

Pdper Read Before the ChdltduQuG Circle.
TIME Hon. Lyman J. Gage in ad-
dressing the American 1nstitu-
tion of Bank Clerks at their an
nual convention of 1901, in Den
YER, Colorado, predicted that in fifty
years from that time our country would
have population of 100000 people.
Admitting that his prediction will ma
terialize, which in all probability it
will, there will remain many questions
thrust upon us as nation to be solved
in order that there will be employment
provided for this surplus or increased
population.
In order to make provision for the
future, many minor questions will have
to be solved. At this point let me sug-
gest few of the problems that con-
front all American citizens:
What are we going to do for our
American boys?
What are we going to do for the
union and non-union man out of en-
plOyment?
What are we going to do for the men
who cannot get admission to union Z
What are we going to do for the
youths who cannot find places as ap-
prentices when the unions are limiting
the number?
Summing these questions into one
great question: What are we going tc
do with the one great aggregate mass
of surplus laborp Will system O1
reciprocity with other nations tending
to the enlargement of our foreign trade
solve the question? Would or could {
system of reciprocity with other ma
tions that would be subjected to tariff