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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28
There is SO much talk about pou,+rv

There is so much talk about poultry
nowadays that it seems hardly neces.
sary to here call attention to the need
OF looking this year a little better to
the interests Of the featnered tribe of
helpers to make farming pay" There
Is no more neglected source of income
and pleasure or the farm than the
poultry; there is no other line that so
badly needs the care and thought of
the husbandman as the poultry. In
the boil weevil districts 1t was found
that the cotton planted around the
house, where the poultry used, made
always a good crop, while the adjoin.
Ing fields where the poultry did not
run was eaten mp by the weevils. Take
a hint from crop that saves itself and
also the crops around it.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

The shah of Persia has just be.
slowed upon an American piano man.
ufacturer the brilliant decoration Of
the Order of the Lion and the Sun.
Some time ago the sultan of Turkey
gave the same gentleman a decoration
of similar character, There seems to
be no doubt Of the power of American
piano music to soothe the Mohamme.
dan breast.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

A Chicago woman wants a divorce
because her husband prefers listening
to photograph rather than her con.
versation. Her conversation must be
something fierce. remarks the Wash
ington Herald.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28
Farmers COOPERATIVE Union
Of America

Some of the members Of the Far
mers' Union have been worrying a
great deal about the railway fares.
1t seems to the average sort Of an
individual that there is a railway
question that vastly more concerns
the man with the hoe" than that of
railway fares for passenger traffic.
That question is that of quicker and
lower freight transportation. 1t makes
mighty little difference to the average
hester what the fares are, so long as
they are kept within reasonable
bounds, but it makes all the difference
in the world what he must pay to get
his stuff to the market and to get
the good he wants in return. The
sleeping car and passenger reformers
are making fine "grandstand play"
but 1t is of little more value to the
real farmer than mere talking point
for the politician. Get busy, gentle
men, with the vital end of the trans
portation problem, and the people will
rise up and call you blessed. Those
OF us who raise the truck out in the
fields don't care a continental what
the fares are on the Pullman cars,
We don't ride that way, but We do pay
a healthy chunk of the freight for
our part OF the common burden"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

The Fort Edwards, N. Y, man who
adyertises for wife who shall weigh
200 pounds or better, and be no So
ciety butterfly. evidently intends that
there shall be no mistaking the mean4
ing of his specifications.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

A magazine asks: What nipple,
ment can equal the hairpin in the
deft hands of a woman" That's
easy. A note, written in delicate,
feminine hand, found in her husbands
vest pocket, will beat it every time.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

In these days of piping prosperity
even a poor man lives high, unless he
has been quoted line of produce
prices not, accessible to the general
public.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28
A SENSIBLE WOMAN

A SENSIBLE WOMAN
While watching owe, my yick h.,.
and scanning the pages Of The TorrD'i
of November %, concluded that ms.
issue alone contained enough good a.
vice, if only needed, 10 more Than :
pay the paltry sum Of wears Snt
scription. I'm sure vou have The -
thence of job, for no one possesoea :.
less patient disposition wouId TO-.
trying as you do to beat into peo5,,5p
heads the things which thev on,,.
to learn from experience and obsary.
ton.
| notice that in one item. in sne,L
ing of cooperative buying. Won uon
ton the fact that there ought tn 10
some cooperative doing-witho1t Tb,.
lesson of doing without. when nroner,s
learned, is worth more to farmers .rs
especially renters. than all tho
speeches and newspaper lectprio.
Why are so many families wi.ho0,
homes? | take the ground that manv
OF them deserve to be such Tra
there are exceptions, as sickness drr
bills, pests, ETC.. keep many too non,
to make the first payment on homes.
but many OF these, by seeking mors
healthful localities and by strict econ.
ony, might soon own nice little homo,
speak from experience. for there ava
few who have had more sickness and
reverses one way and another than
we have. and we now have a nice firm
almost paid fog 1t has been a strug.
gle, but we are now getting TO the
place where we can begin 20 see m,
way ont. Many times we've STAYED al
home on Sundays becau.e our closh.
ing was not nice enough to wear n
Church. Many times | would have
been proud of new calico dress but
we had little ones to clothe and doc.
tors bills galore to pay. We had no
nome and slim chance of ever own.
ing one, but We stayed ont Of deh
except for small bills of groceries
sometimes-never went IN debt for
dry goods. We came west, and by de-
nying ourselves nice clothes and nice
things to eat, keeping our clothing
properly mended, and raising our Nv.
ing as far as possible on the farm. wa
today have our home almost paid for.
Now, back to the other class OF
renters spoke of. Their wives and
daughters wear their silk waists. silk
skirts and fine hats, while the men
often dress better than some land own.
ers. And one sees tin cans by the
dozens scattered about their back
yards, showing that they are putting
upon their backs and upon their Ia
bies the very things which those who
are paying for homes are doing with.
out, People are not to be pitied 50
much when they spend all they make.
and more too. for costly food and e.
pensive clothing, tobacco, etc. Il
came near saying for whiskey, tool.
Whose fault is it that they have no
homes? 1t is theirs, and you may
preach to them till dooms-day and
they'll be renters still-at least until
they learn the lesson of doing without
! believe all can own homes some
where, If they will only try. Almost
any one of them pays rent enough each
year to make a payment on home.
Better own fifty acres and work Il
well than try to work one hundred and
1fty acres for some one else.-Mrs.
laura McCasland, Audra, Texas, IN
Farmers Journal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

A Baltimore newspaper announces
that a prize performing flea which es.
capped from one of the theaters of the
city had been captured Thereby
have been removed the approximations
of those who witnessed its last ex-
hlbition.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

The horse enjoys certain ad-
vantage in the fact that the automo-
bile accident is more spectacular and
therefore more talked about than the
ordinary runaway.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

We still insist on the building OF
good roads. One of the most immediate
results OF good roads would be the
Improvement of the public schools.
With roads that are really roads, 1t
would be no further to the school
house five miles away than it now is to
than enc two miles away, because n CO
operative wagon would go every morn
Ing along the route picking up all on
its way to the school house, and in the
evening it would reverse the opera.
ton. and the schools would soon have
an attendance that would be large
enough to justify making them regu-
larly graded institutions, the best
teachers could be employed, and the
grade OF country schools could be cas-
lily raised till they would be as good
as the city schools for all practical
purposes. This cooperative system of
getting to the school is practiced in
many localities, and 1t has been found
OF incalculable value. By the use of
good roads. many schools have been
done away with, and the money vast
ed In trying to run a sort of a per-
functory school is put into great CEN
trail school and its grade raised Just
that much. BUILD ROADS AND
LEARN TO COOPERATE. That's the
doctrine of salvation.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

1t is now becoming the popular
thing for millonaires to purchase
large bodies of raw land in the west.
fence them. build roads through them
and cut them up into small parcels
and sell them at a fancy price, re-
tanning all sorts of privileges and
placing all sorts of restrictions upon
the use and occupancy of the land.
Here is a prolific field for the Farm
ers' Union to occupy. The Union, if
1t stands for one thing more than an.
other, stands for the Home for the
Homeless" There is no other field
in which broader and more humane
work could be done than in helping
the homeless and the land hungy man
I Ga home that he may call his own.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

Has your Union done anything to.
wards helping to plan for the easier
living and more profitable working of
Its members? If not. you are a knot ON
stick" and should get a move on
yourself and jump on your Union
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

The Harvard professor of interna-
tional law who becomes Grand Vizier
to the ruler of Siam will develop into
literal power behind the throne.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

Sir Thomas Upton makes a hand
some defense of American hotels. But
Sir Thomas was favored guest when
he stopped in them.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

Japan is going the way OF all civil
lied powers. 1t is going to hold a
worlds fair at Toxic in 1912.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

Inc census bureau has just pub
ilshed figures showing how rich the
country was two years ago, but, re4
marks the Washington Times most
OF us have spent what we had then
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

After that young woman in Fond
dl Lac collects the $4,000 Judgment
she secured IN her breach Of promise
suit she win experience no difaculty
IN getting husband.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

Unfortunately science produces no
evidence tending to show whether
Niagara Falls was put on earth for
business or pleasure.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

BY putting up the earth as stake
FOR one to win and having the millions
Of men compete, opportunity would
still be equal, If not reasonable.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

This is the time of year when the
rabbit doesn't know whether the NOR
rows sun will rise upon him as Bunny
or Hassenpfeffer.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

In attempting to shoot man the
other day a New York woman wound
ed two innocent bystanders-at least,
they claimed that they were innocent.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

A Binghampton preacher thinks he
has solved the riddle of the sphinx
All right, then, how old was Ann?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

According to Walter Wellman the
only way to reach the pole is by bal
loon. Either that or by way of the
magazines.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

Queen Alexandra. who was born in
1874, is not only good but brave
queen. She still celebrates her birth
day
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

Europe Is Growing over its crop Of
sugar heets. II declines. however. to
give out the statistics Of It's dead.
heaf erop.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28

Harvard won from Yale at chess
and President Eliot talks of abolish
ing all other sports at Cambridge.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1906-04-05

The stock Of Bibles of the Bible
Society has arrived and is OH dis
play at Pope Drug Co: The price
ranges from Ioc to Sz.a5. Bibles for
old. in large type Copies of Old
Testament, copies Of New Testa-
ment. Psalms, Gospels, ETC.. etc.
The most complete stock ever seen
in the county The policy Of the
Society Is to sell the books as low
as possible. What little profit Is
asked shall be turned into the be-
nevolent work of the Society OF
New York Orders will be taken
for copies for blind, or In any for.
eign tongue. and II one cannot be
pleased with the stock on hand. or.
ders will be taken to suit any taste.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1906-04-05

The following. clipped from a
Lexington. Ky published in 1888,
gives an idea of the ability Of the
orator for decoration day
REV. John n. Deerine. Of the
NJ. Z. Church South and one of the
ablest ministers in Lexington. gave
his congregation treat Sunday
night inthe way Of a lecture. Mr..
Deering is no ordinary lecturer or
preacher A man of rare attain
ments, he is digni6ed. plain spoken.
witty and sometimessarcastic. Hav-
ing a fine education, and being a
close observer. he knows what to
say and when and how to say it.
II have heard Moody and consider
him ore Of the most remarkable of
men. At the same time I consider
Mr.. Deering' s description of Moody
equal to Moody himself.
LAS a politician Mr. Deering
would have been a failure. but as a
preacher aud lecturer he has been a
blessing to the world. So far as
sense and education are concerned
he is far ahead Of Brother Moody ."
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1906-04-05

MY mother has suddenly been
made young at 10. Twenty years
Of intense suffering from dyspepsia
had disabled her. until six months
ago. when she began taking EIec-
trio Bitters, which have completely
cured her and restored the strength
and activity she had in the prime
of life, " writes Mrs. w. L. Gilpat-
rick, Of Danforth, Me- Greatest
restorative medicine on the globe.
Sets Stomach, Liver and Kidneys
right. purihes the blood. and cures
Malaria, Biliousness and Weakness
es. Wonderful Nerve Tonic. Price
soc. Guaranteed by J. A. Shreve's S
Drug Store.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1906-04-05

to the train and sped on the wings
Of lightning back to Boston to give
bis heart and his hand to the fair
object OF his affections. His fame
travelled with the electric current
across the mighty deep and the sci
entihc world was not slow in recog-
nizing his transcendant genius.
In the 18th century the great
Napoleon had offered prize of
SO. 900 francs to anyone who should
succeed IN adapting electricity to
the practical wants of man, but 10
one came forward in his day and
generation to claim the reward. It
was reserved for Alexander Graham
Bell to receive this recognition of
his genius from the French Acade-
my Of Sciences, and when he ap-
peared before that august body OF
physicists he brought with him an
other simple invention, the photo
tone, " whic,' likewise delighted and
pleased these mighty men Of ''la
belle France"
And now these pirates come forth
from their j1ngles and seek to rob
him of his Iabors. to steal his brains
and blacken'his spotless reputation.
bit the great Pan has become
alarmed at lbe echo of his own
voice and a Congressional investi-
eating committee will reveal the
motives of the weuld-be robbers.
JAMES + McCAKEB. M. ID.
Cold Springs Plantation. March,
1906.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1906-04-05

A St. Louis paper has this to say
of DR.. Martin who died there last
week
"He was connected with Barnes
university for fourteen years. DR.
Martin was born in Claiborne coun-
ty. Miss. and married Anna Rosa
Calhoun He was a Confederate
veteran. He had been a resident
of St Louis thirty-six years. He
was editor of the Medical Era and
the American Journal of DermatoI-
ogy.
'Dr. Martin had been III three
weeks. suffering from complica-
lion Of grip and pneumonia, but
was thought to be recovering. Yes
terday morning he sat up for a
short time. but the exerticn affect
ed his heart. and he died within
short time.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1906-04-05
J. S. HICKS CHANCELLOR.


The governor has appointed Hon
Us. Hicks of Fayette. loater rep
resentative for Jefferson and clai-
borne counties, to succeed ChaneI-
Ior ". S. P. ventress. whose term
expires in August. The Jackson
correspondent Of the Vicksburg
Herald says
Jackson. Miss. March 3I.-Gov-
ernor Vardaman has appointed
Hou J S. Hicks as chancellor of
the fifth Mississippi district to sue
ceed Hon w. S. P. Vsntress,
whose term is abont TO expire.
This appointment has been gen
orally expected for several days.
in fact. it was positively predicted
in these columns three weeks ago.
There was only one other aspirart
tor the place, Hon. o. S Robbins
of Warren Chancellor Ventress
did not apply for re-appointment.
Mr. Hicks is at present member
OF the lower house of the legislature
from Jefferson county. and prom
inent memher of the bar in that
section OF the state He is chair
man Of the liquor traffic committee
in the house and ranks among the
foremost members Of the lower
body. The selection viii meet With
approval from the bar CT
the district.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1906-04-05

A Sunday edition of the Times
Democrat Of New Orleans has {
Boston account Of the thirIieth an
niversaFy of the Bell telephone a.
first spoken by Alexander Graham
Bell, to his associate. Thomas A,
Watson. in March 1876. at Boston
Massachusetts. ~.
On March 9Th 1886. I went to
the United States Circuit Court
room. New ORLEANS. to hear the
celebrated lawyer. + A. Dickerson.
argue the caseof the Bell Telephone
vs. The Pan Electric Telephone be
fore Judges Don A Pardee and
Edward c. Billings. I took down
in my Rambling Notebook" the
following
The great telephone case was
closed. Mr.. Dickerson's reply to
J. r. Beckwith. the great Louis
lana patent lawyer. was overwhelm-
ing. His peroraiion was chaste
aud elegant He narrated how poor
Bell was. his struggle against ad
verse fortune. his engagement to
his wife and his inability to marry
her because of his poverty. Then
came the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia. an event which marks
an epoch In our country's history.
The Magi of the old world. the
wise and great. were invited to
come and witness what progress we
had made in the arts and sciences,
how we had grown from a few col
onies numbering only 1900, 600 to
a nation Of forty million souls. How
the waste places Of the Sunny South
had been made to blossom like the
rose by Whitneys great invention
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The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1906-04-05
The store that sells Dependable Merchandise
at Popular Prices
HEIDENREICH BROS.

The Spring and Summer Season knowing
advance the and will
stock of the goods getting shipment after
shipment of goods from importers
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12

carefully with the cloth, which can
be frequently shaken. Many people
have no idea Of what busting is to
accomplish, and instead of wiping off
and removing the dust it is simply
ties back again ON the busted article.
If carefully taken UP ON a cloth, it
can be shaken out of a window into
cover up furniture while sweeping than
to be obliged to clean the dust out
afterward. The blessing of plainness
in decora ton is appreciated by the
thorough housekeeper who attends to
her own busting.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12
Complexion Rules.

Here are few rules given by
the celebrated French dermatologist,
Nj. Felix Chaleux, for a clear, beauti-
full complexion and perfect health:
Don't drink tea or coffee.
Drink pure water.
Eat grapes, apples, raisins and figs.
Eat a few salted almonds daily.
Don't eat animal food.
An egg or two a day. soft boiled,
instead of meat.
Eat an orange every day or so.
Walk two or three miles day.
Battle the whole body in tepid wa
ter.
Don't fret; don't worry; be calm
and quiet.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12

resulting from shallow culture as
compared with deep culture, for the
level surface probably best conserves
moisture.
In well-drained land, if the soil is
not too hard, corn roots will go to
the depth of three or four feet, and
feet high the feeding roots have met
in the middle between four-feet rows.
Nearly all parts of soil in proper
condition will be occupied by the
small corn roots, but under. the best
conditions probably more of the small
feeding roots will be in the third or
fourth inch from the surface; there
fore, cultivation during the latter part
of the season should not be deeper
than two inches or it will break many
roots and surely reduce the yield
Of course, in wet seasons the roots
will be nearer the top Of the ground,
but in such wet seasons cutting part
of the roots will do less injury.
The objection given to shallow cul-
tivation in this State is, usually, that
it is necessary to plow, and go deep,
to kill grass. This difficulty can be
partially overcome by better prepare
ton of the land and the more fire.
quent cultivation which can be done
with tools that stir the ground only
to a shallow depth, especially when
the plants are young. Certainly, deep
culture during the latter part of the
season decreases the yield under US
ual conditions and there should be
and is no need for it. Our yield of
thirteen bushels per acre is small
enough; why make it less, as is GER
tainly done, by the method of lay
ing by with the plow, now practiced
by thousands of our small farmers.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12
Cold Dairy Without Ice.

This week we have found, in two
of our exchanges, an item on this sub
ject, merely credited to exchange.
We have no doubt that the plan can
be made to work if carefully watched.
\ manufacturing company in Texas
lis making a cooler on this plan, but
portable. 1t is patented, built of gal
vanized iron and wood. Two metal
pans, one at top and one ait bottom,