davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
ALMOST A CATASTROPHE.
Fxuberance of Love Systematically
Manifested Results in Nor
tification.

She was seated in the cleaning,
happy smile on her pretty pensi'e
face when her elderly aunt entered
Then, as she looked upon the kind ola
face a feeling rushed upon her that
she must share her wonderful news
with somebody-she must let someone
into the secret which till then mao
been the sole possession Of herself ana
Harold. She sprang up and flung her
arms about her aunt's neck.
"Oh, auntie," she cried impulslvely'
"you do love me, don't you? KISS me,
auntie, and tell me you do-klss me-
But only an alarming gurgie came
from the old lady for moment. liner
she said, gasping indignantly;
Kiss you. if you amt careful II
shake the life out of you. You yer!
nearly made ME swallow my teeth!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
HoMELY PHILOSOPHY.

It isn't always lucky to trust people
who trust to luck.
Romance is sweet sixteen. religion
is sixty if she's day.
Happy is he who never knows when
he gets the worst of it.
A great achievement doesn't need a
brass band accompaniment.
Most Of us expect better obituary
notices than are coming to us.
Those who yield to temptation are
generally looking for chance.
The optimist looks forward to to-
morrow, the pessimist signs for yes
terday.
There might not he so much room
at the top if there were fewer cushions
at the bottom.
Most of us are dissatisfied, some
with what We have and some witt
what we haven't.
The present gets away from lot o
people while they sit on park benches
worrying about the future.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
TELEPHONE T1DINGS.

Glasgow corporation owns tele-
phone system covering 143 square
miles
The charge for FIVE minutes con
versation between London and Brus-
sells is four shillings.
Guernsey was the first place to have
q municipally-owned telephone service
in the United Kingdom.
The first submarine telephone line
was opened on April l, 1891. 1t con-
nected London with Paris.
The London telephone area, when
covers GOO square miles, is the largest
local exchange era in the world.
London Wall exchange contains 3,5oO
direct telephone lines for subscribers
they are worked by 80 operators.
There are 60 national telephone ex
changes in the metropolitan area, and
dozen belonging to the post office.
Three hundred people telephone
daily from London to Paris, each pay
ing eight shillings for the privilege.
The post Office telephone plant II
London has a capacity for 10000 sui
scrihers. but in 1904 only 1922 use
the service.
To speak for three minutes fror
Jondon 10 Inverness cost five shilling
sixpence, and from London to Cor
six shillings siXpence.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
FACE ALL BROKEN OUT.
Troubled Almost a Year-ComplexloI
Now Perfect and Skin Soft,
White and VelVety.

'T had been troubled with break
ing out on my face and arms for al
most a year and had the services Oh
several physicians, but they didn't
seem to do any good. Some time ago
one of my friends recommended Cutl-
cura to me. secured some, and after
using it several months | was COM
pletely cured. can highly recon-
mend Cuticura Soap as being the
very best complexion Soap made. 1t
creates a perfect complexion, leaving
the skin soft. white and velvety'
now use Cuticura Soap all the time
and recommend its use to my friends
Maud Loggins, R. F. D. No. l, Sylvia
Tenn, Aug. /, 1905
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
What Is Eczema?

Eczema is the itching disease that
nearly distracts one. Who is there
that ever had this terrible disease that
would not give anything he possessed
to be cured of it? Thousands OF peo-
pie throughout Texas and the South
have been cured quickly and perman'
emily of eczema and other skin diseases
by Imperial Remedy.
For 25 years Imperial Remedy has
been used in nearly every city, village
and hamlet in the South for the cure
of skin diseases.
Sold by druggists at s1.OO per bottle
If yours hasn't it send $l.Oo TO I'M
perial Medicine Co., Houston, Texas.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
He Didn't Rise.

Indeed" the lecturer went on IN
ouizzical way, Il believe am justified
in asserting that nine women out OF
10 practically propose to the men they
become engaged to. As test, would
ask all married men in the audience
whose wives virtually popped the
question to them to arise
There was a subdued rustic in the
auditorium, and in the dense silence
that ensued could be heard si0fiah'
feminine whispers in concert, Just
YOU dare to stand up.'-Judge'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
NUGGETS OF KNOWLEDGE.

There are ladies smoking cars on
English railways.
Alligator, popular native dish IN
India, tastes like veal.
The wood used in the best pianos
has been seasoned 40 years.
Those who reach 80 in good health
are likely, statistics show, to last to
70.
Over 100000 pounds of human hair
valued at 100000, is sold annually
in Paris.
The majority of criminals can draw
and paint. That is why artists can
rarely get credit.
In many parts Of Switzerland the
government buries the dead, supplying
collins and undertaken free OF cost.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
Drunken Men More Dangerous.

In 1902 there were 10000 policemen
in London, and 5000 Of them were in
iured in the course of their work
OF these, 1926 were injured by
drunken men; dogs injured 6S; traftlc'
40; fire, 20, and disorderly crowds,
8. So they could see that the drunRn
men were more dangerous to the po'
lice than all the fires and mad dogs
FACTS and Figures.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
sENT1ENT SENTENCES.

Close quarters-the miser's. :,
A difference in terms--congress AND
Jail. s,.o.
Holding a meeting does not deter
it's progress. ,.
Government bonds-in the United
States prison.
Even a muddy stream can leap cieaf
over the falls. .
II doesn't take much cultivation to
raise a big howl.
A burglar is likely to put out the
lights when he lights out.
TRY and keep pleasant even When
Won come to the cross roads
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

continue to suffer rather than suomie
10 examinations whichso many, phySr
ciaps propoSc in order to intelltgently
treat The disease; and this Is the rea-
son why "a many physicians jan ~
cure female disease.
ThiSisutso the reason vthousands
upou rinsiHaadss civ weneu are eorFS
snondinp with Mrs Pinkham. daughter
in Jaw df lydia L. Pinkham. at Lynn,
Mass To her they can conhde every
detail of their illness. anu from her
great knowledge, obtained from years
Of lexperienee in treating female lllS'
Mrs pinkham can advise sick women
more wisely than the local physician.
Read how Mrs Pinkham helped hrs'l:
{. Willadsen obtaining la. She writes
Dear Mrs Pinkham:
81 can truly say that you have >-ved my
| life, and ! cannot express my graIi'uoe ID
| words, Before | wro'- to YOU telling you
how felt, had doctored for over two Years
! staadv and spent lots of money IN medicines
| hos;daS hut il all faile,l to do me any good. l
had fen,aletrsnIbe aIldwo'iid daily hay efamt,
inp SMELLS. hackache, bearing1lown pans ana
nv monthly r,erirr,s were very rrrryutar ana
. finally ceased | wrote TO Won for Your al-
vice and received d letter full or INSTRUCTIONS
inst wi, TO do. and also commenced TO take
lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com!"G I.S
and have been restored 10 perfect healtn.
Had it ;notrbeen for you would nave oee'
in my grave to day. i - ,.,I.h 500,
Mountains of proofIestsblish Inc fae'
that no medicine in the word eqnals
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta6ie Coih
Mound for restoring women's health
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

catheter. 7 took to my bed, and the
doctors failing to help, began using
Doan's Kidney Pills. The urine soon
came freely again, and the pain grad
na,lv disappeared. | have been cured
eight years, and though over 49, am
as active as boy"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a DoX
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
Where Others Failed.

Each spring for five or six years
! broke out with a kind of Eczema
which nothing seemed to relieve per,
manently. Finally l tried box OF
Hunts Cure, which promptly cured
me. Two years have passed by pu'
the trouble has not returned"
Mrs. Kate Howard,
Little Rock, Ark.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
This Is No Joke.

Hunts Cure has saved more peo-
nile from the "Old Scratch" than any
other known agent, simply because 1t
makes scratching entirely unneces-
sary. One application relieves any
form of itching skin disease that ever
afflicted mankind. One box guaran-
teed to cure any one case.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
Rest in Existence.

81 sincerely believe, all things con-
sidered, Hunts Lightning Oil IS the
most useful and valuable household
remedy in existence. For Cuts, Burns
Sprains and Insect Bites it has no
equal, so far as my experience goes"
G. E. Huntington,
Eufaula, Ala.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
important to Mothers.
Just a Tip.

Miss Country Maid was reading
IN a magazine that in the city hoteis
one often sees palms about the dining
rooms What kind of palm is the most
prominent? c,ooo
Mr.. Dineout-The walter's.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
Total Abstaining Mayors.

It il known that in England ard
Wales there are at least so mayors WAC
are total abstainers, while in Scotland
the chief magistrates of about so Scot
fish burghs, including the lord provost
of Edinburgh, are in the same category
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
. w.++or If Courtesy, Merely.

Mr.. Nervey-The object OF my call
rnon Won this evening, Mr.. Goldrox-
Mr.. Goldrox (sternly)-4es' you We
come to tell me that you wish 10
marry nv daughter and I want to say
right here and now
pardon me. l come to tell you
that am going to marry your daugh-
ter, I convinced her and her mo'nel
tho+ II was no more than fair to put
vor wise, "-Philadelphia Press.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
Test It's Value.

Simmons Liver Purifier is the most
valuable remedy l ever tried for con-
situation and disordered liver. IL
does its work thoroughly, but does
not grippe like most remedies OF It's
character. | certainly recommend II
whenever the opportunity occurs"
NJ. NJ. Tomlinson,
Oswego, Kas.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

in bad W e a I Il e /
brought kidney trou-
bles on me, and |
suffered t W e Il t y
years with sharp,
cramping pains in
the back and urinary
disorders. l often
had to get up a doz-
en- times at night to
urinate. Retention
set in, and | was
obliged to use the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

ward. 1t was time
for the uaIly visit
of Pharaoh to the
Nile, and he must
not miss him. The
promise had been
given that if the
plague of locusts
w a S withdrawn
he, t h e ki n g,
would let the
children of Israel
90 W it h their
focks and herds
to worship in the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
Position Filled.

Willie Gusher-Just let me press
one kiss on those coral lips?
Sweet Singer-Sir, | already nave
nress agent.-Chcago ally News.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
No Whis kers.

How immaculate everything IL
kent around that soda fountain.
Yes, even the ice is freshly shaved
every hour. Louisville Courler-'o'r-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
Rum Restaurant.

"Paw, what's that orchestra playing
here for" os
sib,v be playing for the kind OF mea'
thew would get re."-Chicago III
bune
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

II makes man of so feel awfuiIy
old to hear boy of 16 talking about
the things he used to DO when be was
q kid
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

The man who talks about CIVIC
Righteousness ought to keep his own
backward clean.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

The original chauffeurs, it seems
were robbers. Which is another In
stance showing the descent OF man.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
A WOMAN'S ORDEAL
BREADS DOCTORS QUESTIONS
rhousands Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, and Receive Valuaoie Ao'''0'
ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENTIAL and Free

There can he no more terrible ordeal
10 a delicate. sensitive, refined woman
than to be obliged to answer certain
question, III regard to her private MS,
even wien those questions are asked
by her family physician, and many
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

Mrs, Winslow's Soothing syrup
ror children teething softens the gums. reduces In
ANIMATION, aiiays pain cures wind collie 25c Dotts'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
IN CONSTANT AGONY.

A West Virginian's Awful Distress
Through Kidney Troubles.
w. L. Jackson. merchant, OF Park
ersburg. w. Va, says: Driving about
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

bargains break many a mans bank
account.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

-4OSES hurried for
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-05
P. %, SALARIES ARE TOO SMALL.
First Assistant Postmaster Generals Animal
Report.

Washington, D. c., (Special) lin his
annual report, just made public, First
Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock
says that the low salaries paid clerks in
first and second class postoffiees is de-
creasing the standard of efficiency. 1t is
impossible, he says, to induce efficient
men to enter this branch of the service
when the salary to begin with is but 5000
a year, with no certainty of promotion for
perhaps several years. Mr.. Hitchcock
strongly recommends discontinuance OF
installing postofices in public buildings
devoted in part to other branches of the
government service The best type of
quarters for postofice purposes, he says,
is single large room in one-story
building.
The system of renting boxes in post
Offices is being completely revised and a
new schedule OF uniform rents is to re-
place the present intricate methods.
Much embarrassment has been occas-
toned the postal authorities to provide
emergency mail facilities in mining towns,
and Mr.. Hitchcock recommends an emer-
gency appropriation of $4,000 to meet
n
is made for extending the use of cancel
ling machines.
There has been an increase of more
than $I8,ooo,ooo in the amount of do
nestle and of more than SIS, 100000 in the
amount of foreign money orders issued
during the year over the one preceding.
Of the 100000 orders issued during
the year, but one in I66 200 was found to
have been paid or repaid incorrectly. A
new money-order blank is to be intro
duced in the service before the close
of the fiscal year which is calculated to
prevent fraud in raising the amount of
the original order.
While the number of undelivered let
tiers which found their way to the dead
letter office during the year was smaller
than during the previous year, the num-
Der of undelivered letters with valuable
Enclosures greatly increased General
prosperity of the country is given as one
reason; another is the suppression by the
department of concerns using the mails
for fraudulent purposes. Mail for such
concerns, containing money, money or
ders and commercial paper, was received
at the dead letter office in unusual quanti-
ties.
Nearly 100000 pieces of mail were
received at the Dead Letter Office during
the year, including 1868 that failed of
delivery in the Panama Canal Zone
Over 1900 cases of alleged indecent
and scurfilous matter received attention.
In the summer the influx of offensive pic
forial post cards became so great as to
call for a special order by the department
looking to the abatement of the nuisance.
AS result of this order many thousands
of Objectionable cards have been with
drawn from the mails by the postmasters
and forwarded to the department for de-
struction
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-05
GIRLS CAUGHT IN BLAZE.
Their Timely Escape Due To Warning Of
Boy.

New York Especially. = Eight girls
working in the extreme rear of the build
ing at IS and 20 Cliff Street, the third
floor of which is occupied by the Van
Duzer Vanilla Extract Company, were
nearly cut off by fire, which destroyed
that whole floor and part of the fourth
floor Ct the building.
The girls were at work adding flaw
oring to extracts while the front of the
building, very deep one, was one mass
of flames. Through the GOODNESS and
bravery of John Martin, boy of IL,
employed in the building, the girls were
saved from death by burning.
Martin came running to the rear OF
the third floor and shouted to the girls
to get out as fast as they could, that the
front of the building was ahre. The
girls fed in panic.
They rushed down the rear stairs,
reaching the exit just as the fire was
rapidly eating its way back toward them.
AS they reached the street several tainted
from fright
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-05
TEA MADE INTO TABLETS.
New Form Saves Space and May Be Used
For Army.

Washington, D. c. (Special)-The lat
est novel experiment to be made by the
Department of Agriculture is that of
COMPRISING tea into tablets, one of
which will make a delicious cup of tea.
AS result, what would ordinarily make
big package of tea can by this method
be placed in space about the size of a
safety-match box. The tea is grown at
the departments experimental tea gar
dens at Summerville, S. c.
Each little box of compressed tea con-
tains 20 tablets about the size Of a
penny, but about twice as thick. They
are dark green.
1t has been the object of the depart
ment for some time to find means of pro-
viding food for the army and navy
which could be prepared in such a way
as to save space, but so far all attempts
have proved unsatisfactory.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-05
s3sO,OoO TO KILL MOSQUITOES.
Jersey Nppers Too Big Problem For NUM-
cipalitles.

New Brunswick, N. j., (SpeciaD =
Prof. John B. Smith, state entomologist,
said that he would ask the legislature
in January for an appropriation of $780,
600 to be used in DISCRIMINATING the fam
Gus Jersey "skeeter."
The last legislature made an appropria-
ton of $4,000 to fight mosquitoes, but
to get any state aid from this fund NUM-
cipalities had to appropriate some OF their
own funds as guarantee of good faith
Newark and Elizabeth were the only
cities to do so.
Professor Smith now plans to make the
work a state project. SO that where local
pride failed to start any movement here
tofore the state will now make the at
tack. and all breeding places will be
drained and the state rid of the tradition
al pest.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-05
YERKEs DEAD.
Capitalist and Traction Promoter Expires In
New York.

New York, (SpeciaD. = Charles T.
Yerkes, the Chicago and London capital
list and railway promoter, died at 2.2o
P. M. at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Mr.. Yerkes' condition had been be-
coming steadily worse since he returned
to America from London early in No
venlber. He contracted a severe cold,
which settled in his kidneys, in Lon
don, and was treated for it there, being
apparently cured. On the steamship on
the way 10 New York exposure to bad
weather caused recurrence of the
trouble When he landed he took to his
bed in apartments in the Waldorf-As-
toria. Mr.. Yerkes rallied little last
week, and hopes were entertained of his
ultimate recovery, but on Tuesday night
he suffered relapse.
Charles Tyson Yerkes was educated in
the Quaker School and the Central High
School in Philadelphia, was clerk for
a time in -four and grain commission
house there, opened money and stock
brokers' Office in 1853, and from 1861
to 1886 was in the banking business,
making a specially of dealing in bonds.
In 1871 he was forced to make an as
signment, and as he refused to give any
preference TO the city of Philadelphia
to which he was in debt for bonds sold
on its account, he was tried on charge
of having Incorporated public funds,
was convicted, and for short time, I'M
til pardoned, was imprisoned.
He took an active part in the con-
struction and extension of the new Lon
don underground railway system
In 1894, at the time of the Jay
Cooke failure, he re-established himself
financially by a series of fortunate in
vestments, and he gradually became iden-
tilted largely with the development of
the street railway system in Philadelphia
In 1881 he removed to Chicago, where,
after 1886, he secured virtual control of
the citys street and elevated railway
In ISo2-o3 he was an influential mem
Der of the board of directors of the
Worlds Fair in Chicago.
In 1892 he endowed the famous
Yerkes Observatory, which was COM
pleted in 1896.