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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

Dowager Queen Margherita has been
suffering from unassuageable grief
since the death of King Humbert, five
years ago. The queen in her youth
was considered the most beautiful
princess in all Europe. She is the
daughter of the late Prince Ferdinan-
do of Savoy, duke of Genoa, and she
was married to Humbert, then the
prince of Piedmont, on April %, 1868.
During her reign she was idolized by
the people of Italy.
The former queen knows French,
German, English, Spanish, italian, of
course, and Latin thoroughly. She
knows Greek well and is familiar with
the literature of all ages.
The queen rises early and retires
late She manages with six hours
sleep and thrives on it. Her work Of
charities, patronage, organization and
society keeps her constantly busy. She
is not at all domestic. She likes driv-
ing and out-of-dOor life generally, but
has not much opportunity for indul-
gence in these tastes. She likes Ger
many and the Germans and is warm
friend of William and his wife.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
CANAL MAY BE OF LOCK TYPE.
Commission Said to Be Opposed to
Sea Level Proposition.

AUTH ritative announcement is made
that tNe iSthmian canal commission
will recommend to the President that
a lock canal be constructed across the
isthmI of Panama,
TIL Experimentation is opposed to
that @a majority of the board OF con-
sultiuMengineers, which voted in favor
of ting sea level type, and will support
the few expressed by a minority OF
the GARD. The commission will not
prep&re its report until it has had a
chance to examine the reasons to be
presented by the majority and minor
ity bf the board in advocacy of the
type of canal they respectively recon-
mend.
Gen. Davis, chairman Of the board,
said the report Of the board will be
presented within three weeks.
If the commission unanimously rec
ommend a lock canal this will be IN
accordance with the inference which
has been drawn from statement made
few weeks ago from the White house
that before the President would ap-
prove of a sea level type he would
have to be convinced it was the best
in respect of engineering, time and
cost.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
GREAT LIBRARY FOR NEW YORK.
Building to Have Capacity for Mil,
lions of Volumes.

New York will soon have the great
est library building in the world. 1t
will have capacity for 100000 vol
umes, and its approximate cost will
be $3,00O,000. 1t occupies a frontage
of two blocks facing on Fifth avenue,
between Fortieth and Forty-second
streets. Its site is that of the large
city water reservoir on the east side
Of Bryant Park. When completed it
will be known as "The New York
Public Library-Astor, LenoX and
Tilden Foundations" It will be q
combination of the Astor and Lenox
libraries, strengthened by the bequest
of Mr.. Tilden, which will give total
endowment of about $3,500000. The
work Of construction has been going
on since 1899, when the reservoir was
removed and the foundation begun
The building, which is of marble, is
$50 feet in length and $50 feet in
width. The main reading room will
have capacity for 500 readers and, in
addition, there will be a general read
ing room open to the public, chill
dren's reading room, a periodical room
and a newspaper room.-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
SAGE is OlD-TlME FlNANCIER
Business the One Thing Wealthy Man
Lives For.

Some Wall street men were COM
menting on the fact that Russell Sage
had not been hit by the insurance in
vestigation. One of the party said:
mo; Sage is the old-time financier.
He does not mix with the new school.
He is living on the old plan. He is
neither a great philanthropist nor a
great CRATER. He is simply Sage, the
biggest money-lender in the world.
There need hardly be any fear that
Mr.. Sage will unload any great bales
of tainted money upon an ungrateful
community for the founding OF col
leges whose chief aim will be the up
bringing of youth to cry Great Is Rus
sell Sage!' Nor is there any great
danger that Mr.. Sage will spend his
years this side of the eighty-nlnth
milestone in trying to form a giant
trust for the c0rnering Of the neces'
saries of life. Mr. Sage has made his
fortune and he will hold on to 1t. he
never outraged the world with stan
dard Oil Company, neither has he set
himself up as a great philanthroplst'
Chicago Chronicle.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
tanners Cooperative
Union of america.

If the farmer wants 70 see the diff.
ference between fowl and fish" he
can have fine Illustration of it in any
town that has saloons. The man
around town can tank up on rotten
tarantula juice till he can't tell his
head from a hole in the ground. and
ne can proceed to play the devil in
great shape, and all the trouble ha
gets into is that of being carried
home. The moment that the "yap"
gets to floating in high seas he finds
himself locked up, and when the mex,
calm comes on him he will face a
charge and fine that will make SIX
months earnings look like six bits.
This IS only one sample OF how the
zap" fares in the hands of his friends
This is matter of business, however,
and business is business" But all
decent farmers have cut out the liz.
uor drinking business, and It doesn't
make much difference aboat the 9th.
erS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

Because some old fogy managed
to rake together a big lot of land
and managed to hold it till it became
valuable is no sign that he did any.
thing toward gettingrich. There are
many accidents in the development of
all new countries. That sort are most.
ly accidents, and if the average land.
rich man of this country were turn.
ed loose today he would starve to
death. This leads up to the point that
this is day of different methods and
different requirements. The first re.
quirement of these times is education.
Are you doing your duty to your boys
and girls along this line? If you are
not, you will have to pay the penalty
some time and in some way for your
Sins of omission"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Mrs, RooseveIt's Hobby,

Mrs. Roosevelt has one well-devel-
oped hobby and that is the collecting
of old china. Under her supervision
one of the most valuable collections in
this country has been placed on eX-
hibition in the basement of the White
House, and it is a proud day when she
can add something of historic worth
to the treasures. The exhibit is made
up entirely of remnants of the din
ner sets which formerly served the
presidential families. 1t begins with
some rare gold-trinmed plates and
cups and saucers which were the pride
of Martha Washington's heart and
continues down to the era of Mrs.
Ida Saxon Mckinley.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
LOUISIANA NEWS.

Baton Rouge, La: Congressman
William Lorimer. of Chicago, a mem
Der OF the River and Harb0r Com
mlttee, and Henry T. Rainey, repre-.
senting the Twentieth Illinois District,
and the only Democratic Representa-.
tive from Illinois, arrived in Baton
Rouge. They party is going down the
Mississippi River in the interest of
a deep waterway between the Great
Lakes and the Gulf, and is organiz-
ing deep waterway associations in the
different towns along the river. The
congressman were met at the landing
by Governor Blanchard, Congressman
Sam Robertson and Alex Solomon and
NJ l.. Levy. of PlaQuemine, who came
TO escort them to that point Owing
to the delay in arriving in the city,
the scheduled meeting in Senate
Chamber was not held. The Congress
men were escorted by the Governor
to the executive office.
Congressman Lorimer said the
party proposed to organized deep wa
tedway associations in every city
along the river and to hold a con.
ventlon at some central point, posi-.
bly, ST. Louis, after all associations
had been organized. The survey
which had been made by the author
ity of Congress had demonstrated the
feasibility Of ship chanel from Joliet.
H., to st. Louis, which would make
deep waterway from the Gulf to the
Great Lakes, via the Chicago Canal.
Governor Blanchard stated that the
people of Louisiana would be found
Loyalty supporting such prOjec, as
represented; that the people we're in
sympathy with deep water between
the Gulf and the lakes. He thought
a policy of closer commercial union
should be pursued between the towns
along the Mississippi and Chicago,
! and he believed that all Louisiana Con.
gresSmen and Senators would support
the movement for a deep waterway
when it was brought before Congress.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

It isn't much of a recommendation
to farmer to allow the weeds and
other insect harbors to accumulate on
his place, but, it is much more a point
OF discount to allow them to remain
all winter as a harbor to his worst
enemies. Turn over any old trash
pile and look at the insects collected
there, and you will have an object
lesson in raising enemies to fight the
coming season. Get busy and get rid
OF all the rubbish that you can. Fire
is the best destructive agent, but the
old gully and some top dirt will serve
both to destroy your enemy and help
you stop a wash. At any rate don't
let the rubbish lie around as a splen'
did rendezvous for your enemies.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Bob Stevens Found Guilty.

Leesyille, La: Bob Stevens, charged
with the murder of young Perkins,
in this parish last spring, was found
guilty as charged, without capital pun.
ishment. The evidence was purely
circumstantial, and it took the jury
about seventy-two hours to come to
a verdict. While all were for convic-
ton, the trouble seemed to lie in the
fact that all couldn't agree on capital
punishment.
R. P Dennis. one of the carpenters
who fell from a sCaffOId last Fri
day, is now in dying condition, hav.
ing sustained injuries internally that
will prove fatal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

There is no sort of doubt that the
present higher price of cotton has
been made fact by the union of cot.
ton raisers. 1t is not the main bulk
Of the crop that sets the price, but it
is the balance of power, so to speak,
that sets the price. 1t isn't the ten
millions bales of cotton that makes
the price but it is the one or two mil
lions more or less than the ten mil.
lions of bales that makes all the diff.
ference. This is the amount of cot.
ton that has controlled and regulated
prices all this year, and It is this
minority that is doing the fighting for
the cotton raisers all over the South.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

The whole question of successful
farming is to get the best yield out OF
the soil, leaving it in as good condition
as the seed found it; to get the best
price for this yield that can be got.
ten, and to get the greatest enjoyment
out of life that is possible under ones
circumstances. In the first part of
the programe the work is largely in.
dividual; in the second it is a work
purely Of cooperation; and in the
third part it is work of both individ.
ual effort and cooperation.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

In the War department in Washing
ton is letter written by Lieut,-Gen.
Miles in praise of the deeds of five en-
listed men. Gen. Miles letter is writ
ten simply as becomes a soldier, but
it is a pulSe-Stirring epiStle. 1t Is
probable that nowhere else in anthem
tic history can there be found an &C.
count of a battle won by a force OF
men when the odds against them were
twenty-five to one. In no story which
can be told concerning the people of
the plains is there to be found tale
of greater heroism than that shown
by little contingent of enlisted men
of the Sixth United States cavalry
down near the Red river in Texas in
the summer of the year 1874. The
Sixth cavalry has had fighting his
tory, but this particular story shines
bright in it's pages.
The Comanches, the Cheyennes and
the Ki0Was were on the war path and
were leaving red trail all along the
borders of western Kansas. General,
then colonel, Nelson A. Miles was Or
dered to take the field against the
savages. His expedition fitted out at
Fort Dodge and then struck for the far
frontier. The combined bands of In
dams learned that the troops were on
their trail and they fed south to the
Red river of Texas holly pursued by
two troops of the Sixth cavalry, COM
manded by Capts. Biddle and Comp
ton.
On the bluffs of the Tule river the
allied braves made stand. There
were 600 warriors all told, and they
were the finest of the mounted plains
Indians. The meager forces Of the
Sixth under the leadership of their Of
ficers charged straight at the heart OF
a force that should have been over
whelming. The reds broke and fed
lover the bluffs and through the deep
precipitous canyons and out on to the
staked plain Of Texas"
It became imperatively necessary
that couriers should be sent from the
detachment of the sixth to Camp Sup
ply in the Indian Territory. Reinforce
ments were needed and it was neces-
sary as we'll to inform the troops at a
distance that bands of hostiles had
broken away from the main body and
must be met and checked.
The whole country was swarming
with Indians and the trip to Camp
Supply was one that was deemed al
most certain death for the couriers
who would attempt to make the ride.
The commanding officer Of the forces
in the field asked for volunteers, and
Serg. Zacharias T. Woodall of 'I'
Troop stepped forward and said that
he was ready to go. His example was
followed by every man in the two
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Killed bv Train

Newroads. La: The body Of Dick
Reed, a white man. was found along
side the Texas and Pacific Railroad
tracks about eight miles east of here.
Reed was about 40 years old, and was
evidently killed by passenger train
No. s., due here at 9:45, The left
side of the skull was crushed. In
the pockets were cards of c. J. Spitz-
alden, POI Canal; L. Gordon, 419 South
Rampant, and Columbia Exchange.
Tberville and Exchange Place, all OF
New Orleans.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Police Jury Has No Rioht.

Vidala, La: The case of the Police
Jury of ConcordiaParish VS.. E. P.
Campbell, assessor was tried in the
District Court. Judgment was render
ed in favor of the defendant. The
court held that the Police Jury, SET.
ting as Board of Eqgalizers. had
not the legal right to make sweeping
reductions in the assessments by
wards. as in this case; that there was
no coioiner or complaint made by any
individual taxpayer in the suit. :
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
More Time for BieIey's SIayers.

Donaldsonville. La: A motion for
a new trial was filed in the District
Court in the case Of Tama Johnson.
recently convicted. jointly with Willie
Bradford and Paul Suarez. of the MUIR
der Of officer S. B. Bigley. The at
torneys for Bradford and Suarez asked
for more time in which to prepare
their motion, and were given until
next Wednesday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
HEROIC DEEDS OF ENLISTED MEN
One of the Brightest Pages in the History OF the
Sixth United States Cavalry

troops, and that day cowardice hung
it's head.
The ranking captain chose Woodall,
and then picked out four men to ac-
company him on the ride across the
Indian infested wilderness. The five
cavalrymen went northward under the
starlight. At the dawn of the first
day they pitched their dog tents in a
little hollow and started to make the
morning cup of coffee.
When full day was come they saw
crcling on the horizon a swarm Of
Cheyennes. The eye Of the sergeant
told him from the movements OF the
Indians that they knew of the pres
ence Of the troopers and that their cir
Gle formation was for the purpose OF
gradually closing in to the killing.
Serg. Woodall and his four men
chose place near their bivouac which
offered some slight advantage for pur-
poses of defense. There they waited
with carbines advanced while the red
Gordon closed in its lines, The Chey-
ennes charged, and while charging
sent a volley into the little prairie
stronghold. Five carbines made an
swer, and five Cheyenne ponies car
ried their dead or wounded riders out
of range, for in that day mounted In
dams went into battle tied to their
horses.
Behind the little rampant Serg.
Woodall lay sorely wounded and one
man was dying. Let the letter of Gen.
Miles tell the rest of the story:
From early morning to dark, out.
numbered twenty-five to one, under an
almost constant fire and at such short
range that they sometimes used their
pistols, retaining the last charge to
prevent capture and torture, this lit.
tie party Of five defended their lives
and the person of their dying comrade,
without food and their only drink the
rainwater that they collected in a
pool, mingled with their own blood.
There is no doubt that they killed
more than double their number be.
sides those that they wounded The
simple recital of the deeds of the five
soldiers and the mention of the odds
against which they fought, how the
wounded defended the dying and the
dying aided the wounded by exposure
to fresh wounds after the power of &C.
ton was gone-these alone present a
scene Of cool courage, heroism and
self-sacrifice which duty as well as
inclination prompt us to recognize, but
which war cannot fifty honor"
When night came down over the
Texas prairie the Cheyennes counted
their dead and their wounded and
then fed terror-stricken, overcome by
the valor of five American soldiers
E. B. C., in Chicago Post.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Truthful men never have much luck
when they go fishing.

Now, that the new year is almost
upon us, let us start to getting ready
to keep books on next years crops.
IT. will not require any elaborate set
of books. Any sort of an old blank
book will do, and all there is to do is
to set down in one place what it costs
to raise and market. Then in some
other place what it fetches, and the
trick is done. By this means you will
soon be in position to know what
crops on an average yield will pay you
best to raise. Then if you have sense
enough to come in out Of the rain,
you can make more money and have
a better time all around raising the
easiest and best crops. Without some
sort of a system, you are going it
blind, and this often leads into a
ditch. Don't go into the bitches.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Sinners Found by Accident.

Some of the worlds greatest singers
have been discovered accidently. Once
upon a time Wachtel, the greatest
tenor of his day in Germany, was
cracking his whip and hailing fares
in a musical rondo. Nine. Scalchi,
the contralto, is said to have called
her wares in the street before she was
found for the opera stage. Campo
Mini, the king of tenors, was black
smith, but was heard singing like an
angel and was enabled to desert the
forge for the footlights.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
pIanters Hold for Is Cents

Monroe. La: At a meeting OF the
n,anters of Ouachita Parish here to-
dav resolutions were adopted indors-
ing the plan of President Harvie Jof,
dan to reduce acreage and to hold
cotton for Is cents per pound, and
Hedging to do everything possible
looking to that end. The practice OF
recurring all laborers to pay debts be-
fore moving from ore plantation to
another was abolished. This means
that the negro hereafter cannot get
more than he can pay foa the princi'
pie of economy being practiced in all
departments.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Aruunent Concluded.

Arcadia, La: The case Of J, w.
Goodwin ct ais. VS.. Prof. S. S. Thomas.
known as the Arcadia School case.
was taken up last Tuesday. after a
number of witnesses were heard on
both sides. The court heard the argu-
ments, but has not yet rendered q
decision. The school. after being closed
a week. opened Monday. Most of the
pupils have returned and are being
taught by the teachers in the different
departments.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Pickup for Liahtkeeper.

Lightkeeper Robinson of Quoddy
head, Mass, noticed a great commo.
ton in the water in one of the gulches
near the light. He found that a mum.
Der Of old-fashioned blister-back pol.
lock had surrounded a school of her.
ring in the water there. To add to
the unfortunate situation from the her
ring point Of view the gulls were
swooping down in large numbers.
Robinson began to participate with
his hook and line, landing three GUM,
tails Of pollock in a few minutes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
A High-jumping Hog.

A jumping hog afforded much
amusement in the hogyards at the
stockyards day before yesterday. AL
though the animal weighed 100
pounds it would jump board fences
five feet high.
The Spectator who bought the hog
found it impossible to confine it to a
pen, so the pen had to be covered
with boards. According to men who
have been at the hogyard for years,
this was the first hog that had ever
leaned a fence there.-Kansas City
Times.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

ii ever pass all night when
was about half enough, and
.,oirg yourself over so as to
other side under so it would
.rq It is a miserable sort of
ri one spends that way. Some,
re wonder if the poor old cows
:, hear without even shelter
- winds fury the wrath Of
. ooId has any rights that We
h be compelled to respect? We
,bo has, for it IS our duty to
- others as we would have
!, INTO u.s." We are the pris-
..,s If the cattle, and the law
j demands that we should do
,ssso moor creatures as we would
,Hft tNN> - 4, :,
,bam do unto US if the tables
!, turned and we the property and
ne masters. Get out and feed
shelter every beast under your
,ine or else admit that you are
'nap and unfit to take care of the
,t,res that God has allowed you
,.sess. Don't think for a moment
YOU are not to be held response,
m there will be a reckoning as
IS the command has gone forth
j kind to your beasts.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01
Deep Water Club Formed.

Plaquemine, La: Congressmen Lo-
rimer and Rainey, members of the
Mississippi Deep Water Channel Com
mittee, reached here at 6 o'clock this
afternoon. They will remain all night,
and will leave in the morning. A
deep water club was organized after
an enthuiastc meeting tonight, Rev.
John J. Hohtgreave being made presi'
dent.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

- mere is nothing on the place that
81 gins to show the clear profit that
ever slFy does, when it is raised in
iine WI the right quantities. This is a
'ithe that can be oyerdone for the
Gag mites at hand, but such an exc.
eg has not been found in this coun-
LII Up to this time, where there were
frnu PREPARATIONS at all, and this is too
,ppo @ the case On some of the boil
IS WI Injected farms of Texas this
ana season turkeys were turned into
Vui cotton patch with the result that
/, /. Boil Weevil was vanquished and
. Z damage whatever resulted from
pestiferous scoundreI. Turkeys
selling now for prices that makes
veg teel like Fifteen cents" You
- ana get a start at turkeys, and if
: II VIII Keep the wolves and dogs
'9 nom them, there is no doubt
sFs turkey crop will pan out, direct
aaa indirectly, the most profitable
4e place. OF course, when the
are Young they must have some
put that is not for a long time,
~ = 9Aey soon pay for all that as in.
Ipaa sNerminators. Get the turkey
j
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-01

The man that sits down by a big
blazing fire while his stock Is all out
in the cold is not fit to be an Amer.
lean citizen-and he Is not a decent
man of any sort. Humanity goes into
the warp and wool of every man.