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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-23
sICKENINc sHlvERING FITS

OF Ague and Malaria, can lie reli we'd and
cured with Electric Bitters. This 10 a
pure tonic MEDICINE; Of especial benefit
in malaria. for il exerts a true curative
influence on the disease, driving it en-
tirely out Of the system. It is much to
be preferred to Quinihe. having more Of
this drug 3 bad after. effects. +. :. Nun.
day, Of Henrietta, Tex, writes. my
brother was very low with Inalarial feves
and jauhdice, till he took tlectrid Bit
ters which saved his life. BY Muntzsi
Drug Go; price Soc, guaranteed.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-23
a Trip to the Ossee.

A fishing party chapefoned by r.
c. Padgett and J. F. Miller started
for the Usage river Thursday Of last
week. They did not do things on the
half-shell order hence the equipage
which was sent on ahead looked like
the tail end of a circus train.
The first night out the party
camped on Indian Creek. Tents
were spread, and caterer Padgett
prepared the first feast Of the Pass
over. The banquet was served in
courses. condensed fricassecd chicken,
fried ''spuds,' eggiseed omlet, liver
and onions. with about 'steen gallons
of coffee, were among the delicacies
served, and the platter was licked so
clean that DISTINGUISHING could have
been dispensed with.
The last act after the banquet, was
a lively matinee by Col. Miller, then
the lights went out as guests were as
signed rooms in hotel de Padgett.
The snoaring tore holes in the
tent and made music for the mos
quitos and chigres. but the dance went
on. Col. Dick Hulett announced his
readiness to move forward to the
banks of the Usage for away, and the
caravan moved. The permanent
camp was staked off and tents pitched
on the rugged banks Of the Usage
early Friday morning. Then Parson
Miller threw out his tow line and in
side of the first hour in camp pulled
in a ten pound channel cat, then the
matinee became a bowling success.
Capt. Goodman played lone fisherman
and landed a fine cat via his throw
line. From that moment on fish
banquets dccame common.
Not only was fish plenty. but the
great minds present conceived a
berry hunt. In Usage wheat fields
were found blackberries, dewberries.
raspberries and ''greenberries,' the
latter beng the more plentiful. At
nightfall a raid was made on the
''greenberry'' fields which resulted in
a waterhaul.
Friday night Cornett's hog and dog
show entertained the camp followers.
fish-irys were dealt out hourly.
until every mothers son in camp
smelt fishy. Saturday noon the party
broke camp and started for Gods
country, stopping at intervals on the
road to enjoy free lunches. Satur-
day night they pulled into Versailles
in better condition than when they
started out for the Usage. The fun
the party had a only be fully APP
preciated by old timers who have been
there before.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-23

The new game law went into effect
Friday. Hunters should keep posted
on its provisions and help protect the
few wild animals and fowls that are
left. This law should have been pass
ed years ago when there was game
to protect; as it is with the proper
effort. the supply a be ~replenishcd
II the law is rightly obsyed.
Have your Abstracts made by
Chas W, kavsnaugh.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-23
The Lid 10 On.

We positively will not deliver any
goods on Sundays. Markets will be
open until 8 O'Clock on Sunday morn.
ing and nc later.
ID. G.. HARDY,
MASON ~ PRICY.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-23
Try Our Pride of the Yves, Flour,
$3.50 per cwt. Every sack warranted,
IL NJ. l.. JoACHIMi'S.
A DISASTROUS CALAMITY.

1t is . disastrous calamity, when YOU
lose your health, because Indigestion
tnd constipation have Slapped il away.
l'rumpt relief can be had in Dr. Kings
New Life Fills. They build up your di.
Hestive organs, ash cure headache, diz
siness collie constipation etc. Guaranteed
at Muntzel Drug Co; CSC
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-23

Fresh canned goods, tiour, produce,
etc, assured 10 customers purchasing
goods Of u. A. Williams. the Sou.h side
gfuosr.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-06-23

All Millinery reduced at the east
side store. Mas, J, W. BoLEs,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
SHIPS OF THE WORLD.
Total Tonnage 33,643,COO Tons-Enq
land Leads; America Second.

Recent statistics published in
France estimate the total tonnage
of the worlds merchant marine at 49,,
$4,000 tons, says the New York
World, and the number of vessels at
"a S53, of which 1851 are steam.
ships, with 27,1S4,000 tons, and 49,
1872 are sailing vessels, with 6,459, 900
tons. This gives an average of about
1,54O tons for steamers and 53S tons
for sailing vessels.
Although the construction of large
ships has greatly developed during
late years, the greater part of the
worlds goods is still carried by yes
sells of average tonnage. The mum.
her of ships of over 10000 tons is only
eighty-nine.
The tonnage of the principal coun-
tries is as follows: England, 16,-OO6,.
374; America, 3,671,956; Germany, g..
2S3,247; Norway, 1.653,74O; France,
1,622,016; Italy, 11SO,335; Russia,
SO9,648; Spain, 714,447; Japan, 65S,.
$40; Denmark, 5S1,247; Australian.
gary, 57S,697; Greece, 378,199; Bel.
GUM, 1904; Brazil, 155,OS6; Tur-
key, 154,494; Chile, 1O3,75S; Portugal,
101 ,404; Argentina, $3.50.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
SuIrhur for pirltheria.

Sulphur is ore of the most effica-
cious and simple cures for diphtheria.
All that is needed is flour of sulphur
and a quill, and with these, it is said,
one celebrated physician cured every
patient without exception.
He put teaSp0onful Of -four Of sui
phur into a Wineglass Of water and
stirred it with his finger instead of a
spoon, the sulphur not readily ama,ga-
mating with water. When the sulphur
was we'll mixed the physician gave it
as a sargle, and in ten minutes the
patient was out Of dar ger. Sulphur
kills every species of fungus in a man,
beast and plant in few minutes. In,
stead Of splitting out the gargle the
swallowing Of it is recommended.
In extreme cases in which the above
specialist had been called in the nick
of tine, when the fungus was toe
nearly closing to allow the garglinc
he blew the sulphur through a Gull
into the throat and after the fungus
had shrunk to allow of it then gave
the gargle.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Insanity and Another Tragedy.

That settled it, so far as the owner
and his family were concerned. They
moved away from the house at once,
and an old uncle was allowed to live
in it rent free. He was taken to an
asylum for the insane inside of five
years.
Then the house was idle for five
years or so, and finally Payson Brig
ham moved in. He stayed two years,
with his wife and son, and one morn
ing they found him with his throat
cut and lying near the open window.
Then followed ten years when no
one could be induced to live in the
house. At last Morrill, Brigham and
his family moved in They lived there,
apparently unmindful of the hoOdoo,
until seven years ago. Then Morrill,
Brigham began to do queer things.
He would stay up all night singing
strange songs. He read many detec.
tive stories. Hawthorne, also, came
in for great share of his attention.
He bought a banjo and learned to play
it, taking lessons from a negro who
lived in a little cabin about seven
miles up toward Worcester.
When asked by his wife why he
had such strange notions, he would
say that he was trying to drive away
the hoodoo. But he didn't succeed,
and one morning they found him with
deep cash in his throat, stretched
out on the floor in the suicides room.
For five years after Morrill, Brig.
hams death no one would stay in the
house over night. Then Farmer Blais
came along and saw the good land,
the vacant house and a barn for a
horse if he cared to keep one. He
heard the story of the suicide room
and the many stories of ghosts and
mysterious noises heard by the pass.
ers-by late at night. But that only
made the price of the place more rea.
sOnable in the market, ard so he
bought it.
And there the matter stands, an
enigma to students of psychology.
Meanwhile the genial Canadian farm
er and his two sons are sleeping calm
ly at night, unrufIied by the traditions
of the self-destruction epidemic which
cling to the upper room.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
FUTURE OF THE CHESTNUT.
Probability 1t Soon viii Become
Staple Food.

The potato long ago conquered the
larders of many parts OF the World
The chestnut is, on the contrary, an
almost undiscovered food, at least IN
England and the United States. Yet
scientists tell us that the chestnut is
a more nutritious food than the pota-
to.
They are very much alike in their
constituents, these two foods, only the
chestnut has more of the nutritive ele-
ments for it's weight than has the po-
tato. The potato is 76 per cent wa
ter and the chestnut only 90 per cent.
The chestnut has three times as much
prOteid, almost twice as much starch,
four times as much sugar and gum,
twenty times as much fat and about
the same percentage of mineral mat
ter as has the potato. ....
The potatoes lack of fat makes it
necessary to put butter on it to make
it palatable. The chestnut is butter
ed by nature. Yet, as compared with
most other nuts, the chestnut is supe-
rior because the others contain such
al excess of fat-often so to 60 per
cent-that they are indigestible. The
chestnut has little over 2 per cent.
Bake or roast your chestnuts and you
have as good food as anyone could
want.
If the chestnut had an unpleasant
flavor, or if it was hard to raise it,
there would be no cause for wonder
in the failure to utilize it as food on
a large scale. But as matter Of
fact it is said that given area OF
land will produce the maximum
amount of food possible when planted
with chestnut trees.
However the neglect of the chest
nut may not be all a misfortune. In
the days to come, when the hen, the
potato vine, the apple tree and the
stock range are all working industri-
ously and exclusively in the service
of the cold storage company, it may
be a comfort to have the chestnut
tree to fall back upon, which can cater
to us without cold storage intermedia-
ton.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
WAITED LONG FOR REWARD.
Heroic Sailors Get Tardy Recognition
From Congress.

Unless it be for the material things
which directly concern its members,
Congress evidently believes in virtue
being its own reward, writes Caspar
Whitney in Outing. Lucky is the man
who, lacking that paramount endow-
ment of modern America-a pull
escapes the ISLANDERS of the enviCus or
receives federal recognition for a val
liant deed he has been indiscreet
enough to perform.
|. Recently the Secretary Of the Navy
presented gold medals to Lieut.. E. p.
BerthOlf, Lieut.. D. H. Jarvis and Sur,
geon S. J. Call for their heroic rescue
in 1897 Of 275 imperiled sailors. At
the risk, and very nearly at the cost
of their lives, these three men made
a 1,600,mile overland trip to Point
Barrow in midwnter to carry relief to-
sailors starving there on the ice.
Nearly eight years later they each re-
ceive from this great and expanding
nation a gold medal valued at $21O!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
kRUGER's MESSAGE TO Beers.
Significance in Honors Paid to the
Dead Leader.

DeaQ LedCeT.
The body of Paul Kruger was laid
| to rest in Pretoria on Friday. Beers
I of all factions, those who from the
first supported Krugerism as we'll as
those who did not; commanders of
Kruger's armies, and those who served
in the ranks; Englishmen who fought
against Kruger and the British govern
ment that overwhelmed him, all par
ticipated in the ceremony at the grave
of the lion of the Transvaal.'
The most notable tribute paid the
Boer leader who organized resistance
to British encr0achment was the firing
Of salute of twenty-one guns by the
order of the sovereign CT the British
empire. Under this order the former
president of the South African repub-
lie received the salute that would
have been fired over his grve by his
own people had he died in office and at
the zenith of his power.
This recognition by the cOnquering
nation of the rank and the services of
the leader of conquered people must
have been very grateful not only to
Gen. Botha and his generals, but to
all of the humber followers of the
Boer president.
In view of the fact that krugerism
is factor in the transitional struggle
in the Transvaal, the action of King
| Edward in ordering the salute fired
over the grave Of Kruger was not only
gracious, but polite No one has
clearly defined what Krugersm is in
its application to the present situation
in South Africa, but if Paul Kruger's
last message to his people urging
them to preserve their national spirit
is Krugerism then it must be dealt
with in the spirit of the treaty of
peace signed May 81. 1902
In that treaty the fighting Boer
generals surrendered on the promise
that their people should be given or
should retain representative institu-
tons. The Boer contention was that
the Beers should retain their language
and should constitute a Self-governing
BOer state under British sovereignty.
This is not inconsistent with Krugers
last message to preserve their nation
al or Boer spirit.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Growth of the Churches.

Despite the clatter about outworn
creeds and the anxious look on the
faces of amateur diagnostiCians as
they sit up with the church and feel
its pulse, the statistics are still on the
side of the church. They show it
vital, not moribund. The figures for
practically every denomination show a
percentage of growth during 1904
larger than the increase in popula-
ton. There is not such a drift away
from traditional theology as many
would have the world believe. The
average person is not as determined
to break away from the faith of the
fathers as is currently represented.
The truth is the pulpit always has
taken far more interest in theological
puzzles than the pews, and there can
be a mighty churning of the doctrinal
waters without the church rank and
file becoming disturbed.-New York
Globe.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Traditions Of the Old Place.

1T IS we'll for Farmer BlaiS and
the two sons that they do not think.
because it is this thinking which has
produced mania and which has taken
away the senses of the people who
have lived in the old FELTON, place"
SO say the neighbOrs. The story, or
tradition, runs thus:
Over century ago, when Marlboro
was but village and NOrthbOro lit
tie more than a settlement, the Eel
ton family built the house and out
buildings. For fifty years the house
was resting place for travellers and
a place of entertainment for the
young people. A large hall was used
for dancing, and many a joyful party
stayed till dawn before rousing the
sleepy horses and driving back to the
village.
1t was in the ffties, while one of
these parties was in full swing. that
bride and groom from Worcester
allghted from the stage coach and
asked for lodgings for the night. At
midnight, while the musicians were
resting for Money Musk" to follow
after virginia Reel" and while the
young couples were seated or stand
ing around the hall. that a womans
cry was heard. Then all was still.
1t was such blood-curdling cry-so
filled with anguish and fright-that
the faces of the women blanched and
they clung tightly to the arms of their
escorts.
The landlord and one of the young
men, more daring than the rest,
climbed the stairs and made for the
door Of the room where the young
couple had retired, scarcely an hour
before. The door was pushed open.
The lantern in the landlords trem-
bling hand shed light over the room,
and there on the floor. near the open
window, lay the young bride with a
hideOus cash in her white throat. The
bridegroom was found in the West
bOrO woods days later, a raving man.
lac
THAT started the hoodoo," say the
neighbors, and the tragedies which
have followed seem to indicate a ter.
rible mental spell, a sort of telepathic
wave, or suicide-by-suggestion process
that turks within the walls of the
place. 1t is for students of psychol-
ogy to determine the exact causes,
but the facts are matters of current
knowledge as CLEANED from the gossip
of those who live in the neighbour
hood
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06

! Braves 1 Chostly Anger}
Ea'''ar''s"~aN''-x
Especial Correspondence

Will Farmer Blais and his two fear
less sons succeed in lifting the hoo
doc Of half century from their new
ly acquired home? This is a question
which agitates the residents of Little
Canada and the people of Marlboro,
Mass.
Ever since the genial Canadian
moved into the old Cyrus FELTON,
house and induced his two sons to
share the ghOstiy vigil with him the
eyes of the neighborhood have been
glued to the house, and the people
who know the CHASTITY history Of the
homestead have been waiting the out
come. Meanwhile. the new owner tills
the soil, looks after his hens, smokes
his pipe in seeming enjoyment while
over the place hangs dread super
stitiOn and an air of mystery that for
years kept the place tenantless. and
which even now prevents the women
OF the family Of the owner from com
ing to live at the farm.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Cost of Rural Free Delivery.

In 1897, when the rural service was
started on probation. $4,000 was
deemed sufficient for its trial. Dur
ing the fiscal year that ended June
80, 1904, nearly $13,OOO,OCO was ex-
pended for rural free delivery. For
the fiscal year upon which we have
now entered S20,S16,6O0 has been an.
propriated for the continuance and ex-
tension of the rural mail service.
There were 24,566 rural routes in ex.
istence at the end of the fiscal year
on June 80 last, 9,446 ne wroutes hav.
ing been put into operation during the
fiscal year On Oct. /, 1904, there
were 27135 routes established, and
the service was being extended at the
rate of about 500 routes a MONTH
Worlds Work.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Hard-Working Churchman.

Bishop Mallalieu, who has just
passed his 10th birthday, is one of
the hardest workers among church
men. Aside from his duties as bishop,
he is writing a book, Moses, the
Man of Cod" is at work on a long ar
ticle on Dante's Divine Comedy" in
which the religious attitude of that
author will be compared with that of
Milton and Shakespeare, and is pre-
pairing three volumes of TRANSACTIONS
of the sermons of the welhknown
wrench Protestant, Bersier.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Strange Political Friendships.

The death of Hugh Mclaughlin, for
many years Democratic boss of Brook,
Ign, recalls the fact that he and Henry
Ward Beecher were very warm
friends, though the paths in life of the
two men were as widely APART as they
could we'll be. Another curious friend
ship was that which lorg existed be-
tween President Garfield and John
Morrissey, the prize fighter, gambler
and congressman. The late Senator
R0ar had a warm place in his heart
for Senator ben" Tillman. whom ne
regarded as man whose great natural
ability was overshadowed by frequent
bursts Of passion.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Anqlesey's Fad for JeweIry.

It has been set on record that when
Lord Anglesey was in his full glory
on the stage he supported $5OO,O0o
worth of jewelry. In ordinary attire
he wore a single pearl stud for which
a dealer has been willing to pay
s1S,250. At per cent this ornament
represents 5000 year. Supposing
the marquis wore it once a fortnight
he could scarcely in fairness to his
scores of other studs wear 1t oftener
it cost him about s45 every time his
valet put it in his masters shirt
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
HOTEL SOLELY FOR CHILDREN.
Unique Hosiery Recently Established
at London.

Now that the Countess Paulett has
given her patronage to the Children's
hotel in London. many of England's
fashionable babies will become the
proud tenants of select suites in this
new and extraordinary institution.
The new London hotel is under the
control of the Nordand Institute of
Nurses and is furnished throughout
to suit the peculiar needs of its fastid-
iOus little inmates, whose parents,
finding it necessary to run down to
shooting preserves or across to the
continent, prefer select place of this
kind to the doubtful care of their home
servants. Each baby or child has its
own student nurse in its own suite
and the prices run from S12 a week
upward. No children over years of
age are accepted, but babies in the
feeding bottle stage may become hon
ored guests and have suites as high
as $500 a week. The furniture suits
the age Of the guest.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Woman Long Mariners Friend.

The Santa Barbara lighthouse on
the Pacific coast has been kept by a
woman for thirty-eight years. In 1856
a lighthouse was erected two miles
south of Santa Barbara, and President
Franklin Pierce appointed Albert ].
Williams to be the keeper. In 1865,
near the close of the civil war, Mrs.
Julia F. Williams was appointed keep
er, to succeed her husband, who had
died. She has had the longest serv-
ice of any keeper on the coast. She
has been away from her post only two
nights in twenty-seven years, and
rarely leaves the lighthouse except on
Sundays, when she drives to Santa
Barbara to attend church. The tower
rises 17S feet above the sea level and
the solid white light can be seen sew.
enteen miles at sea.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Mrs. Peary Not Goinn North

Mrs. Peary will not accompany her
husband on his next trip to the arctic.
Not that she does not wish to 90, for
she is a hardy traveller, but because
Lieut., Peary is going to take such
chances this time az ne never took
before, and he does Aot wish his wife
10 Snare the peril. Mrs. Peary was a
most valuable member of the expedi-
ton in which she took part. Strong.
courageous and determined, she was
willing 70 take her share of privation
and danger, refusing to accept any
odds because of her sex.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Two French War Ministers.

Gen. Andre, who was recently Gust,
ed from his position as minister of
war in the French government, is now
thought to regard his removal with
equanimity. At first he was naturally
indignant, but the quiet of his present
mode of life is welcome change
from the turmoil and pomp of the war
department. His successor, NJ. Ber-
teaux, is strange mixture-deputy,
Socialist and acute fnancier. He re-
ceiyes his constituents three times a
week and listens to the poorest. Peas
ants in blouses are often among the
number and they make a strange
show in his luxU lusly furnished
abode, which is located in a fashion.
able neighborhood. They look even
still more out of place in the impress
i've premises of the minister of war.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-06
Rear View of House Of Suicide.

ments. He was clutching the long
bowie knife, and he was as white as
the snow which piled up on the win.
dow sill outside.
He had tainted with fright they
concluded. After reviving him, he
told them of a terrible dream he had.
He had dreamt that he was going to
commit suicide, and had arisen from
bed, taken the knife from its sheath
and then began to scream for help.
He said the voice of the host had
reused him from his dream, and he
had swoOned the moment he realized
that he was saved from suicide.