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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
WHEN THE TREES GO TO SLEEP.

When the woods put Oh their autumn
dress of gold and crimson, and the
brow of nature is bright with autumn
leaves" do the little folks ever wonder
why the plain green of summer
changes so suddenly to such beautiful.
glowing colors. Perhaps the grown.
ups will say if they are asked, that
Jack Frost does it. But that is great
mistake, as we shall see if we only
take the trouble to think little. 1t is
in August, long before the frost comes,
that the red maple "crimsons to coral
reef" and it is il the years when the
frost comes late that the leaves color
most beautifully.
What, then, is the reason for the
blaze of colors that makes the autumn
woods so beautiful? We do not know
exactly. Even the wise people who
write scientific books do not quite I'M
derstand it, but they 10 tell us q few
things which it is interesting to know.
The yellow color in the leaves they
explain this way: The green color in
all plants is produced by something
called chlorophyll, from two Greek
words meaning simply "leaf green"
The chlorophyll is made up Of two SUBJ
stances, one blush and one yellow,
and, as every little man or woman who
OWNS paint box knows, these two COL
ors together make green. Now, when
the tree is getting ready for its winter
sleep these two substances separate.
the blue disappears and the yellow is
left to give its color to the leaf.
The red color is not quite so easy to
explain, bu: it is produced by the waste
mineral matter which has been collect
ing in the tree since last spring. This
Is taken up by the roots in the water,
which it is their business to supply to
the tree and is stored chiefly in the
leaves, where it is very much in the
way, but partly through the whole
tree. Now, before the leaves fall the
tree takes from the leaves everything
1t wants to keep and gives to them
everything it wants to get rid of, and
the collection of all this waste matter
in the leaves has much to do with their
coloring. For this reason the color is
most beautiful after rainy summer,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Different Views on Grade"

Any New York woman would be
read out of the 400 should she have
anything to do with trade" while at
home, but when they go abroad they
easily overlook such behavior on the
part of their tired sisters. Just at
present Gotham is chuckling over the
experience Of fashionable matron
of that city while in London recently.
She is of the ultraexclusive. While in
the British capital she wished greatly
for presentation to the duchess Of
Abercorn, who sells butter, cream and
eggs, but found it impossible to win
the goal of her ambition, the duchess
calmly declining the honor.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
EASILY UNDERSTOOD.

During some years of Queen Victo-
ria's reign Sir Francis BERTHE was AS
sistant Under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs. His Office made necessary
many visits to the Queen at Windsor
and Balmoral, and it was his custom
to send q telegram ahead Of him. He
always signed it simply with his last
name. During one of his interviews
with the Queen she said to him: "Mr.
BERTHE, l must ask you in future not to
sign kilograms announcing your arrival
BERTHE for it makes me expect my
son, and then I am disappointed"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Roosevelt With Fulton,

1t is an almost forgotten fact that
President Roosevelt's grandfather
was the first man to navigate a steam
boat on the Ohio and Mississippi riv-
ers. Capt. Roosevelt was a close per-
sonal friend of Robert Fulton, invent
or OF the steam craft. Soon after Full.
TONS successful voyage on the Hudson
the captain conceived the idea of
launching such craft on what were
then Western waters. In the spring of
1911 the vessel was launched at Pitts
burg and the presidents grandfather
began his voyage to the gulf. He en-
tered the Mississippi during the times
OF the earthquake which devastated so
much of southeastern Missouri, but
weathered the tumult successfully
and continued his trip to New Or.
leans.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Safety CoupIers for Cars.

The supreme court has decided that
all railway cars and locomotives must
be equipped with automatic couplers,
for the protection of the railroad en-
ployes. The couplers must be of such
a character that employees will not
have to go between the cars. This de-
cision is certainly forward step, and
it is right along the line of the rec
concentrations contained in the presi'
dents message. The great railroad
corporations owe it to the public that
their employees shall work under sucn
conditions as will have the tendency
to promote safety in travel.-AtlanH
Journal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Automatic SAVINGS.

A new idea for encouraging thrift is
being developed in Italy. 1t is moth
ing more or less than an automatic
bank. In a cast-iron pillar there are
three Sits. In the top one the coin
is inserted-a ten-centime piece. If
it is false it is promptly rejected, and
falls out of a lower slit. If it be good,
the. receipt promptly drops from the
third opening at the bottom of the
box. So soon as the depositor has
collected five or more OF these, re-
ceipts he can exchange chem for a
bank pass-book at the regular savings
bank and on his savings he will be
paid by government interest at the
rate of 4 per cent. By means of this
excellent little invention the laborer is
able to place a fraction of his daily
wages at interest without the trouble
or time incident on making journey
to the nearest pOstofice, great con-
Venience, seeing that such banks are
open only at certain hours, and those
not suited to the man who works with
his hands.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Qualifications for Wife.

Ex-senator Marion Butler of North
Carolina got into a discussion with a
couple Of friends the other evening
on that all-burning social question
divorce. At the conclusion of the de-
bate the senator related this: Down
my way have friend who seems to
be a confirmed bachelor. He; some
years past middle age now and the
homeliest looking cuss you ever saw.
But he's humorist. One day l asked
him jokingly why he did not get mar
ried. Because with me- he said, mar
riage is possible only under three con-
ditions.' Indeed, and what are they?'
I asked. We'll, my wife he replied
drolly, must be rich. beautiful and a
fool. Unless she is rich and beauti-
full | won't marry her, and unless she
be fool she won't marry me-"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

way into the wood about an inch apart,
leaving the head and about half the
nail sticking out Leave two feet Of
one end of your pole OF strip Of wood
free from nails.
With sharp stake make two holes
in the ground beneath the tree limb
that is to hold your rope. Make these
holes about six feet apart and about
eighteen inches deep. Now put your
posts into the holes and drive them
firmly in place with the nails pointing
the same way on both poles. Get Il
thin lath or slender stick, long enough
to reach between the posts and Light
enough to rest on the nails.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
New Raccnnn Don

In the New York Geological park is
a white raccoon dog from northern
Japan, which is regarded as repre-.
senting a new species and has been
named Nyctereutes Albus, says a SCI
entific journal. The ordinary raccoon
dog of Japan and China is an animal
closely allied to the true dogs, but
with a marked superficial resemblance
to a raccoon. If the New York speci-
men really indicates the existence of
a white species of raccoon dog, the
fact will be of considerable geological
interest.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Brave in Misfortune

Joseph Maurer, plucky resident of
Canal township, Venango county, Pa,
while driving his team hitched to a
log OF wood was struck by the log,
breaking his leg in two places. After
Vainly yelling for help until he nearly
persisted with the cold he crawled to
the horses, drove them along side a
stump, pulled himself with his broken
leg to the top Of the stump and then
TO the back of one of his horses and
IN this way succeeded in getting
home and securing the services of a
surgeon.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Uroes People to Eat Corn.

c. ]. Murphy. prominent citizen OF
Minneapolis, argues that the hlsh
price of wheat should induce people 10
get accustomed to corn products on
their bill of fare. IF the people
would learn to eat more corn" ne
says, ut would be much to their ben
eft, both from an economical point OF
view and as a matter of health.
have spent eighteen of the Lest years
of my life in teaching the people Oh
Europe the value of our corn as nu'
man food, and now more corn is usea
in Belgium and Ireland as human 1000
than we use in the United States"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
BUILDING Limit in Boston,

The commission on the height of
buildings in the city Of Boston filed
at the Suffolk registry new decree in
regard to the division of the city into
two districts, "A" and 3d." the former
the district where the greater part of
the property is devoted to business,
and in which buildings may be erect
ed to a height of 125 feet, the latter
the part of the city where the build
ings are mostly residential and where
the limit of height Of the buildings Is
eighty feet. --Boston Herald.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Judoment Instead Of "Red Tape"

When a business organization be-
comes body Of thinking men and
women, instead of vast machine of
which each individual is but a part,
it becomes possible to govern them
more by the spirit and less by the
letter of the rule, thus utilizing indi-
Vidual judgment at those points where
a strict adherence to the rule is unde-
sirable, says Success. 1t becomes
possible to eliminate a great deal of
detailed system or "red tape" and to
substitute active Judgment, This de-
velops individual capacity in the en-
ploye, while it greatly lessons operat-
ing expenses for the employer and en-
riches the business with more intelli-
gent work.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
THE SPORT OF ROPE VAULTING

or course most of our boys know all
about high jumping and pole vaultlng,
but have you ever heard Of rope vault
ing:
All you really need is 4 good stout
rope, tree limb to hang it to and
something to jump over, but it is very
much more fun to do it exactly right.
Get two boards or strips of boards.
about eight feet high. On one side Of
each Of these drive small nails little
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Welcome to Chinese Students.

1t is for the advantage of this coun-
try that we should establish the Amer
lean point Of view as widely as posi-.
BILE throughout the Chinese empire.
The more this can be done the better
it will be for our commerce and the
industries upon which that commerce
depends. Leaving out all altruistic
consideration it Is for our own unques.
tionable interest that we extend Amer
lean ideas and American influence in
the largest measure possible in that
land of almost limitless markets, and
to do this it would be to our great ad-
vantage to encourage high-class Chi
nese students and high-class observ-
ers of our inStitutions.-Boston Tran
script.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
RockhiIl in Right Place.

William w. Rockhill, chosen to sue
coed Mr.. Conger as minister to China
is noted as an orientalist. He has
explored the greater portion OF emma
and Thibet and speaks and writes III
Chinese, Thibetan and Sanskrlt aS
readily as in English. His fitness LOT
the position he has been called upon
to fill was demonstrated when he was
American commissioner to Cnina
while Mr.. Conger was in this country
recuperating from the effects OF tns
siege by boxers" in 1900.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

1t is easy enough as you will tiI.d
when you try it, but to make a vault
seven or eight feet high-Well, that is
another matter.
The secret of high-rOpe vaultins is to
grasp the rope as far from the ground
as possible, throw your body lack
ward, raise your feet till they point
nearly straight up, and as YOU swing
toward the crosspiece pull Oh the rope,
lifting your whole body. You can pass
over the crosSpiece at astonishing
heights by this means. and you and
your friends will find rope yaulting al
exciting and healthful sport. - New
York Mail.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

Now climb up to the limb Of the tree
and tie your rope firmly in place on the
bOugh just over the centre Of the posts.
The rope should reach to within two
feet of the ground.
Now stand Il few feet away from the
crosspiece, swing yourself toward it,
pull yourself up The rope rs high as
You can, feet first, if You know how to
do the trick, and swing yourself over
the croSspiecc rs The picture shows.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

provided the fall is Of the right kind.
In rainy weather there is great deal
Of water for the roots to take up, and
the more water taken into the trees
the more mineral matter is stored up to
color the leaves in the fall.
The only color that Jack Frost has
anything to do with is dark brown.
That is the color of death. When the
delicate cells of the leaves are frozen
they die and turn brown.
The falling of the leaves is another
thing for which Jack Frost is usually
held responsible, but with which he
has nothing. or at least, very little, to
do. Trees shed their leaves in coun-
tries where it never freezes at all, and
in the North q great many fall before
the frost comes. Neither is it the au.
tumn winds which make them fall,
though they help little. like the frost.
A wind strong enough to blow the
leaves off would take the twigs, too,
and very likely uproot the tree.
The leaves fall simply because the
tree cuts them off. 1t has no use for
leaves in winter. 1t doesn't expect to
eat during the winter sleep, and there
fore does not need the food which the
leaves manufacture. and though it al
ways has to breathe it can breathe
through it's roots and bark, just as hui
man beings can breathe through their
skins.
Besides being useless, the leaves
would also be dangerous if left on dur
ing the winter, as they would catch
the snow and wind, and thus break the
twigs and branches. Sometimes an
early snow finds the trees unprepared,
and then they have very hard time,
indeed. The snow collects on the
leaves and the weight breaks off great
branches as thick as ones arm. This
would happen every year If the tree
had not learned to ~ake of its summer
clothes IN gOOu tlIne.
The cutting-off process begins when
summer is at its height. Away back
in the dog days the trees began to grow
some cork cells between the leaf stem
and the twig. This was to prevent an
open wound when the leaf should fall,
for tree can be wounded just like an
animal. Then, above the cork seal it
grew layer Of another kind of cells.
This Is called the layer Of separation.
or cutting-off layer. and can easily be
seen on the blackberry, where it forms
yellowish green ring on the purple
leaf stalk.
There are three rows of cells in this
cutting-off layer, and after while the
middle one disssolves into mucilage, so
that there is nothing left to hold the
leaf to the twig except some woody
threads which pass through the cut
ting-of layer and through the layer OF
cork. Then the cells that are left be-
gin to swell, and push the leaf stem
away from the twig. until at last a
puff of wind or frosty night snaps
the threads and the leaf falls to the
ground. The reason frosty nights help
In this work is because they freeze the
water that collects in the cutting-o6
layer. York Tribune.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
Teaching Preventive Medicine

1t is fact of which the medical
profession is we'll aware that the bet.
ter class of newspapers are the great
educators of the common people. They
furnish them with their high school
and college courses and do more than
any other agency to form the opinions
of the great multitude. This being
the case, it behooves all reputable
physicians to join in an effort to give
the papers such medical reading mat
ter as will interest and instruct their
readers. In no other way could pre-,
ventive medicine be taught so thor
oughly and successfully as through
the medium of newspaper publicity.
Unthinking people, and indeed many
OF Independent mind, believe absolute.
ly everything they read in their paper.
Therefore preventive medicine could
easily be instilled into the minds Of
this body.-Medical Journal
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

states bordering on the Missouri, Mis-.
sissippi and other rivers and removed
a number of Ravens for criminals who
have taken refuge on land in dispute
between states and evaded convictions
by pleading that the state whose au
thorities arrested them had no juris
dictiOn.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

The decision of the United States
Supreme court giving to Nebraska a
neck of land thrown into Missouri by
a change of the river channel in 1867,
and declaring the middle of the old
channel to be the boundary between
the states. has cleared up a number
of long standing disputes between
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30
THAT CAP.

Tom knows his way all over the town.
And in any sentence can find noun,
He can find any country upon the map;
But he never, no, never, can find his cap.
Kate Matson Post, in Little Folks.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

quet, is 16 years old. He is the eldest
son of George Jay Gould, and is be-
ing trained to succeed his father in
the railroad and financial world.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

Kingdom Gould, the Columbia uni
versity freshman who fired a revolver
at some sophomOres who tried to kid
nap him for stunt at class ban
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-12-15
"GUILTY OF coNNIvANcE."
Sweeping Condemnation Of Men at
wichita Connected with Cresceus'
Fraudulent Racing Record.

Chicago, Dec. George H. Ketcham
was found not guilty of establishing
a fraudulent record for his trotting
stallion, Cresceus, at the Wichita
(Kan.) track October 10, 1908, after a
hearing Of the case before the board OF
appeals of the American Trotting as
ISOLATION here.
While freeing Mr.. Ketcham from the
charge, the board found the officials
of the Southern Kansas Fair associa-
ton, on whose track the race was run,
guilty Of connivance to establish a
fraudulent record, expelling from the
American Trotting association Presi-
dent C.. H. Irwin and all other ON
Gals connected with the Wichita track
at that time. The persons expelled
by the board beside Mr.. Irwin were
s. B. Amidon, Judge; A. G. Jordan,
Fred Stearnes and H. T. Eames, all Of
whom were found by the board to
have participated in the announce
ment and establishment Of the fraud
ulent record of the horse, Cresceus.
The expulsion of these officials also
means that the worlds record for
trotting stations of 1:59% claimed to
have been made by Cresceus is not al
lowed by the board.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-12-15

this conference President Beckwith Is
now preparing complete statement
covering every transaction between
the bank, or himself, with Mrs. Chad
wick. Mr.. Sullivan refused to divulge
the nature of this statement, but from
another source it was said that Beck
with had made some important addi-
tional and startling revelations in con-
nection with the loans made by the
bank to Mrs. Chadwick which he did
not mention in the confession he gave
out several days ago.
District Attorney Sullivan stated
that he had received telegram from
Andrew Carnegie, which, Mr.. Sullivan
declared, convinced him beyond a
shadow of q doubt that Mr.. Carnegie
had not signed the notes.
Prosecutor Keeler, Of this county,
and Prosecutor Stroup, Of Lorain coun-
ty. had long conference by telephone
at the close of which Prosecutor Keller
announced that testimony had been
brought before the grand jury at
Elyria to the effect that the alleged
Carnegie notes had been uttered in
Cleveland.
Another Carnegie I'm the Case.
Binghamton, N. Y, Dec. 9.-Judge
Francis W. Downs, prominent attor-
ney Of this city, said last night: i
L Ill krx
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-12-15
LONGER TENURE OF OFFICE.
Nebraskan Wants President to
Serve Eight Years, Senator's Eight
and Representatives Four.

Washington, Dec. "a joint resolu-
ton. providing for the election OF
president and vice president for term
of eight years and senators by the .peo-
pie for terms of the same length and
representatives in congress for terms
of four years was introduced by Rep
resentative Norris, of Nebraska 1t Is
provided that no person who has held
the office of president at any time
within a year prior to his selection
shall be eligible to the office,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-12-15
SMALL ITEMS By TELEGRAPH.

Hugh Mclaughlin, the former
Brooklyn democratic political leader.
Is dead.
The presidential Inauguration com
mittee has unanimously decided TO
hold the inaugural ball on Saturday
night, March, 4.
Special prayers are being offered for
rain in churches in certain localities
Of Dauphin, Perry, Cumberland and
surrounding counties in Pennsylvania
Lew" Spencer, known prominently
in the minstrel world for the last 70
years, and formerly an associate OF
the late BILLY" Rice, dropped dead In
Chicago
No action will be taken in the sen.
ate on the eight-hour labor Dill until
a report has been made Of the invesu-
CATION by the department of commerce
and labor.
Thomas B. Ayers and wife, Of Mead
ow Grove, Neb., were caught on
high bridge by train and were hurled
into the right-of-way where both were
found dead by section men.
w. w. Johnston, one of the wealth.
lest citizens of Wichita, Kan, and a
retired wholesale dry goods merchant,
died at the home of his daughter In
indianapolis, Ind, at the age OF 80.
The general land office has ordered
the immediate temporary Withdrawal
from all forms of disposal OF 1O,56O
acres Of public land in the lndepend-
ence. CAL, land district on account OF
the owens valley irrigation project. :
The position of chief Of the depart
ment of admissions at the Portland
exposition has been rendered to e.
Norton White, chief Of the same de-
partment Of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition. 1t is understood that MT
White will accept.