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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Louisiana and Mississippi.

The East Felicina school board re-
belled against the effort Of the state
board of education to remove Parish
Superintendent Miller, declaring the
attempt is illegal.
Hon. T. NJ. Akers, former representa-.
tive, died at POnchatOua, La, aged II.
Officers of the Louisianan National
guard meet May II at Baton Rouge to
effect permanent organization.
The joint convention Of the Louisi-
ana Agricultural Society and the Louis
lana Stock Breeders Association will
be held May /, 2 and 8 at Marksville.
A deal was effected at Jackson,
whereby the Hartford Fire Insurance
company takes over the business
the Mississippi Fire Association, the
stockholders being reimbursed.
J. R. Cygon of Meadville, defeated
Samuel Ceaburg, of Centerville, in the
competitive examination at Crystal
Springs for cadet to Annapolis.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
The Colfax Tragedy.

Boyce, La: Everything is quiet at
COlfax tonight. A. NJ. Goodwin, ass0-
ciate editor of the Colfax Chronicle,
who shot and killed E. l.. StuCkey, eli-
tor of the Peoples Demands, last
Thursday morning was not given a
preliminary examination today as eX.
pected. r. E. StuCkey, one of the
brothers of the deceased, was here TO-
night, and when shown by the CORE
spondent the report published in a
New Orleans newspaper regarding fur
Their trouble, said that the report was
false in every particular, that they (the
Stuckeys) were all law-abiding Citi-
zens, and proposed to let the law take
its course from start to finish.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
MISS REID POPULAR IN LONDON.
Daughter of American Ambassador
May Wed English Peer.

Is Miss Jean TempletOn Reid daugh-
ter of the American ambassador,
Whitelaw Reid, about TO lose her heart
to some dashing English peer? Those
who are in a position to speak with
authority upon this interesting topic
assert with positiveness that the ques-
ton will soon be answered in the af-
firmative.
It is a recognized fact that Miss
Reid has been the magnet that drew
many of the best known noblemen of
England to the brilliant social func-
lions of the Reds since their intro
| duction into the official life in London.
She has been escorted on occasions by
peers whose names have been identl-
fed with English history since the
Norman conquest, and it is noted that
her popularity in court circles is in
creasing hourly.
While Miss Reid is devoted to her
parents and brother, she finds time to
make social calls and attend parties
which throw her in contact with the
most illustrious young men of the per-
iod, and it is a significant fact that
her name has been added to visiting
lists which, before her advent, had
been barred to the average American
woman of wealth and position. What
this means the future may disclose,
but in the meanwhile the subject is
engrossing society to the exclusion of
other topics.
Ambassador Reid has rented the
beautiful old Bedfordshire seat Of the
late Lord Cowper, and Miss Reid pro-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Farmers Cooperative
Union of america.
IN IONDER CREEK.

Me n Zeke n little Joe walked up early
tother morn,
Thought we would a fishin' gO--in the
creek by TorS"r's farm.
Hadn't got no bait though yit. nary
hook or marry line.
Joe sed he would dig bit-me n Zeke
could git tn twine.
Hunted all round tn house--me n
Zeke did-till at last
Got piece bout es long es would hold
tn heifer fast.
'TwaSn't strong huff fer that though,
Wit we thought tibet i would do
Fer tn fish tibet would git hooked on
tn pins nigh bent i'll two.
Joe he'd gone time we got back. to tn
creek n took the the bait
Me n Xeke could walk 50 fast. he WIZ
'fraid bein' late.
When we got there he'd undrcssed. WIZ
doin' Jerseys on tn bank.
Double flip-flops, swimmin' under to
tn yonder divin' plank
Yelled. bet you cant do thet. kin YER"
Kin I? bet yer boots kin.
could do tn flop n sech things near
fore I knowed how ter swim"
never thinkin 1t wuz late.
Till we heerd tn breakfast bell ringin'
saw Dad down ct tn gate:
But we got our clothes on Quirk-me n
Zeke got shirts on wrong
Didn't change m though or bit, thought
we'd better run long;
When Dad saw US comm runnin,' he
turned round n went inside"
Zeke said. hoped he wuzu't mad. kind
er acted frowny-eyed
When we reached tn table, sittin'. he
sed hope thet you three lads
| Hain't bin fshin' in the creek, If we
wuz he'd git tn gads
| gave Zeke an orful kick, Xeke gave
| Joe one on tn shin.
Joe sed. ouch but I sed 'nup. just
went up { have a swim.
Me n Zeke N Joe ct fast II went back
ND fer tn things,
| Filled tn bait can up with stones
| Chucked her over watched tn rings
As Il sank down outer sight. we fell
| better n wuZ glad
| Joe d started dom dorseys. fer II saved
us from the CAD.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Thinks Speaker the Whole Thing.

Clerk Mcdowell of the house OF rep
resentatives has issued vest-pocket
directory Of the house, giving names
Of the members, their residences and
their committee rooms. whats this
Aleck?' asked a disgruntled member
who came into the clerks Office after
ne had had a session with the speaker
about getting recognized to call up a
bill That's vest-pocket directory
OF the house" Clerk Mcdowell re-
piled The member examined it care
fully, Seems to me like a rotten
waste of money" he said finally. You
could have made it a heap smaller
and more accurate if you had printed
Speaker Cannon's name in it and let
1t go at that. If he amt all there is
to the house of representatives, LII
eat my hat. Chicago Chronicle.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
LOUISIANA NEWS.
A Brewery Mercer.

New Orleans: RumOrs of big brew
cry merger in New Orleans were cur
rent Yesterday. The steady advance
of the securities Of the New Orleans
Brewing Company were responsible for
starting the repot. Brewing preferred
reached 81 and a fraction yesterday,
while the common was very strong At
80 per Share There was persistent
demand for the securities with not
much offered.
An investigation about the Stock
Exchange led 10 the discovery that
consolidation schemes were on foot.
In fact, a scheme had been considered
several days ago, which, if consum-
mated, would mean the merging all the
local breweries into one gigantic con-
b;natiOn
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
FROM THE OLD COTTON PLANT.

To Texas Farmer:
The Farmers Union was prime
factor in Influencing the large white
tenant farmers to reduce their cotton
acreage in North Texas in 1905, and il
is to be regretted that there should be
any division in the organization at this
particular time. Every member of thu
Union ought to do what he can to dis
courage such iIl-advised disSensiOns. ]
believe that it will be best for the in
terest of every citizen TO lessen the cot
ton acreage this year. Twenty
million acres should be the maximum
amount planted, which would insure a
ten million bale crop, which is estima-
ted TO bring an average Of cents. We
have the best authority in assuming
that bread stuffs are in greater demanl
than cotton. Corn is a more profitable
crop than cotton, when it goes below
cents per pound, especially when one
third bale is the average yield. and at
80 to 40 cents for corn per bushel, with
an average Of 80 bushels per acre.
When economically fed to hogs 1t will
beat cotton at cents. Everywhere the
prevailing opinion is that the cotton
acreage is going TO be largely increas-
ed in spite of the fact such course is
sure to produce "OyerproduCtiOn' as in
1904. and cents will be the ruling
price In fact, it is learned that East
Texas and Central and West Texas are
already preparing to plant big acre.
age, upon the hypothesis that they do
not know how to make anything else
The fall and winter season has been
unfavorable for wheat and oat sowing
In North Texas, and fear that all Tex
as is going cOtton-cra And the late
ruling good prices for the staple Is
having the effect to fool many into the
idea that the prices will remain good in
spite of a thirteen or fourteen million
bale crop. l am growing weary trying
to influence the Texas farmers to de-
crease the cotton area this year. Let
others do as they may. am determined
to plant more corn and feed stuffs.
AARON COFFEE.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
N7D LEl>Y Z7Z2ZE1Z2T KID
poses soon to spend her time at West
Park. A series of brilliant entertain
ments are planned.
HeaIthfuIness of a Sneeze.

According to the eminent physician
and surgeon Sir Frederic Treves, we
ought not to complain of sneezing, ca
tarrh, coughing and the general dis
comfort that ordinarily accompany a
common cold. They are not symp-
toms of disease, but proofs that the
system is defending itself. The efforts
of the sufferer, says the distinguished
authority, should not be directed to
stopping them directly, but to aiding
nature, which is putting up a brave
fight against dangerous bacteria. In
deed, a cold would in the majority OF
cases prove fatal if these symptoms
of resistance were not present. The
presence of infection would not be dis
covered until the bacteria were so nu'
merous that fight would be hopeless.
A medicine which merely stops cough,
ing or allays inflammation may be
thwarting natures efforts to cure
Boston Herald.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
lynchinq Scheduled.

Ola, La: Fifty men are chasing
Ferris Washington, negro, who at
tempted criminal assault on young
daughter of Silas Mcdaniel, near here,
and if the fugitive is captured a lynch
ing IS assured. The negro entered the
girls room several nights ago and
crawled into the bed before his intend.
ed victim was awakened. A posse was
quickly formed and yesterday the fiend
was captured, but managed to escape.
During a difficulty near Wright,
Walt Brister shot and killed his uncle,
Newton Hawthorne.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
The Farm Workshop.
AARON COFFEE,

Every farm, no matter how small,
should have workshop, where the
common work of repairing Of the farm
can be done. 1t will save the cost OF
4 small set of tools in the time wasted
IN going to the village blacksmith shop
during one year. Most Of the work OF
the farmer is simple and does not re.
ouire a regular smith TO do it. Be-
sides there are many jobs that are
never done if they have to go TO the
shop. Have a shop on the farm and
make it a regular rule that every tool
rsed be repaired and reprinted before
it is put away after crops are laid
by. Here harness are repaired and
oiled after the work is done. 1t will
keep the tools looking gOod as new
and double their durability. Give
plow blades, etc, a coat of white lead
and linseed oil TO protect them from
damp air, and you will have no trobue
with rusty plows in the spring. After
{. farmer has tried the shop on the
farm for a season he will never be
content to farm without one.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Rice Association.

Crowley, La; The executive commit
tee of the Rice Association of the va
rious rice interests of Louisiana and
Texas, of which DR.. S. A. Knapp is
president, and Frank Randolph is sec
rotary, have issued a call for the an
nual meeting of the association to be
held at Crowley, its domicile, on FRI
day, March %, at 10 O'Clock. The
meeting, which will be held in the au-
ditorium of the city hall, is expected
to be one of the most largely attend
ed meetings of the association ever
held. A very attractive program,
which will be of much benefit to all
rice men in attendance, has been pre-
pared by the executive committee.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Andrew carnenie a Musician.

II is fact not generally known that
Andrew Carnegie's patronage of mu'
Sic and his penchant for giving away
church organs as we'll as libraries is
the result Of a well-ordered musical
taste resulting from considerable ed
ucation in that line. When Mr.. Car
negle was a young man in Pittsburg
ne was student under George Muir
ray Alexander, who was for many
years organist in one of the larger
churches, At that time Mr.. Carnegie
gave his attention to the violin and
although he never won fame, his init
mates say he even yet gets out his
hddle and makes a stagger' at some
Vi the old-time tunes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Crescent City Notes.

New Orleans: Era club asked to
make women eligible to hold office.
John A. Shafer, of indianapolis, is
here looking over opportunities for in.
terurban roads.
France presented a Seyres vase to
French hospital here.
Entire canal street square, between
Marais, Where and Cleveland avenue
was purchased by Peter Gallagher
Virginia veterans thanked Foraker
for bill caring for Confederate graves.
Bids for new McDonoghville school
were rejected as too high.
Northern capital is again attempting
a merger of local breweries.
General E. P. Cottraux died yester.
day
Judge Alton B. Parker spends the
day in the city.
Miss Gladys Ferris was appointed
Louisiana sponsor for the reunion.
Baldwin thcater will be built in time
to open next September.
American Turf Association allotted
dates for Lexington and refused to
release Essex Park, Hot Springs
Essex park applied for a RELEASE
from its American Turf dates. alleging
that Oaklawn has not carried fair.
Chancellor Robins decided the Pom
totoc depot case in. favor Of the town
ordering that a depot must be main
tanned at that place.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16

There is not a city in the South
EAST that has made greater strides in
orosress than the devastated town OF
Meridian, Miss, almost wiped out by
the cyclone of March ?.
Adyantageously situated upon five
different railroad lines that stretch out
from the city in all directions through
the fertile agricultural lands and the
forests of the surrounding country, it
has advanced in population from 1000
neople in 1880 to $4,000 at the pres
ent time.
Agriculture and manufacturing in
dustries constitute the wealth of the
Mace. There were within the city
limits four cottonseed oil mills, one
large cotton factory, fertilizer fac
tory that was built with capital OF
100000 and manufacturing plan for
soap, leather, drugs and candy, and
also a number of extensive brick
yards.
The immense machine shops Of the
Northeastern railroad, employing
about 600 hands, had their location
here.
The city has always been reckoned
one of the cleaneSt as we'll as one OF
the prettiest towns in the South, the
business section being about $50 feet
above the sea level, with the many
beautiful residences of the inhabitants
overlapping the business district by
about hundred feet.
Meridian is also noted as being the
home of the East Mississippi Female
College, considered to be one OF the
leading educational institutions of the
Southeast.
From the farming districts within
a radius of 10 miles of the city from
10000 to 5000 bales of cotton are
shipped into the city each year
Some idea of what the eXtensiveneSs
of the city's industries were can be
obtained from the following figures;
Value of cotton annually marketed
there, 100000; increased value from
manufactured cottons, 100000; an
nual cottonseed crop, $1,OOO,OOO; an
rual pay rolls of Merchants factories
f650,0OO; annual pay rolls OF the rail-
'oads there, 100000; sawmills IN
Meridian territory (cutting yelio"
9ine), go; Cutting hard wood, II.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Indian Woman's Worthy Ambition.

Laura M. Cornelius, a full-blOoded
Indian of the Oneida tribe in Wiscon-
sin, has gone to New York, where
she intends to study law in Barnard
college. At a county school she won
scholarship in a seminary in Fond
du Lac and afterward studied for a
time in Stanford university, Califor-
MIA. Miss Cornelius is Enthusiastically
Indian in features and build and is
proud of it. Her object in studying
law is to be of service to the people
of her own race. "My religion" she
says, lis this: | believe in God, in
minding my own business and in
hustling for what one wants"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Latest Thinq in JeWeIry.

If woman wishes to have the very
latest thing in jewelry just now she
must get a bangle bracelet set with
diamonds. At least, that is the YER
dict of the smart jewelers.. These
bangles have for a foundation strip
of platina which is set with diamonds
placed so closely together that one
can see nothing but the band of bril-
liant stones. Of course, one must
have a few loose bills to spare to buy
one of these trifes, for the cheapest
of them costs $3.50, while from that
figure they run up to $1,000.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
NICHOLAS "TSAR" OF RUSSIA.
Proper Title Of the Ruler of the North
ern Empire.

Though We occasionally read in the
newspapers of the Gar, referring to
Nicholas II, he is almost universally
designated as the TSar. Though many
learned etymolOgists have said that
the national title of the Russian SOW
ereign is corruption Of the word
Caesar, like the German Kaiser, this
is mistake. The cause of the error
is that at the beginning Of the eight.
zenith century we knew the Russians
only through the Poles, with whom we
had long international intercourse be.
fore we became acquainted with the
Muscovites. The word Gear" is the
Polish form Of the word "Tsar," with
the slight difference in the pronuncia.
ton which distinguishes the two words
derived from the Slavonic language.
The Russians, like all the Slavs, be-
long to the Greek church, using the
Cyrillic alphabet, containing thirty
eight signs still employed in the
sacred language, but reduced to thir'
ty-One in the common language The
Catholic Slavs. like the Poles, having
kept the Latin alphabet of twenty-four
signs, were compelled to resort to the
combination Of double letters to take
the place of the sibillant consonants
which are found in the Cyrillic alpha
bet. The "cz" forms one Of these
combinations; hence the Polish ortho
graphy, which was adopted at first by
some illustrious writer's like VOltaire
and Saint-SimOn.
The same rule applies TO the deriya
tiveS of the word "tSar"-tsarine
tsarevna, tsarevitch. These words are
even spelled Cesarin, CeSarevna anC
Csarevitch, as a tribute to their i'm
aginary origin. But the word "tsar'
has no Latin etymolOgy and is not
translation of the word Caesar.-Lon
don Mail
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Wholesale CUTTING.

Eyes, we used to sit out on the old
porch in the beautiful moonlight.
Strange to say, Jack never believed
he kissed me as often as | accused
him of doing"
"Ah, how did you convince him,
dear?'
why, the next night | told him to
cut a notch in the porch each time
he took kiss"
"How did the scheme work."
every we'll for a while, butterfly
the end OF the week there wasn't any
porch left"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Horses Badiy Mixed Up,

\. Z, Andrews of Norway, Me-, went
west while ago and purchased car
ioad OF horses. He saw them loaded
ana then came on east. When they
arrived he found that the car which
Nc received was the right one, but did
not contain single horse that he had
suOught. Investigation of the mystery
showed that the horses had been ia
sen out at Montreal for water and
sea,. When they were returned his
uo7ses had been placed in another
af and another mans animals in his
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Mrs, ThaW in Lawsuit.

Mrs. Mary C. Thaw, of Pittsburg,
whose daughter is countess of Var
mouth, commissioned firm to put a
stained glass in the Third Presby-
terrain church of Pittsburg, for which
she agreed to pay $4,000. When the
work was done it failed to give her
satisfaction and she ordered it torn
out. The firm did so, practically re-
building the window at cost OF $l6,'
500. This Mrs. Thaw refused to pay
and now the company has brought
suit to recover.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
Are You Money Mad?

Hanna said that Rockefeller was
money mad. We are all money mad
most of us-or rather we have been.
We have put wealth above manhood.
We have looked into each other
faces TO see, not how much character
is there, but how many dollars. We
have been drunk with materiallsm, de-
bauched with money-the labOrer as
much as the capitalist, employee as
we'll as employer, farmer as much as
mechanic.
But the November elections show
that reaction has come. The people
voted for principle rather than for
party, for men not money. Republi'
can Philadelphia and Democratic New
York were alike purged. Civic, corpo'
rate and individual righteousness Is
again recognized People realized as
never before that they are all bound
together indissolubly, that il one man
does wrong or neglects his duties, the
rest must suffer. Our good people
have so neglected their duties that
bad men have got into power in pub
lie and corporate positions, until graft,
thieying and corruption made an intol.
cradle stink.
The reform movement must be per-
sisted in. 1t must begin at home. To
water milk, to PIT nice large apples on
top of the barrel, and small inferior
fruit within, to adulterate food or 9TH
er forms of Misrepresentation, are
graft in much the same degree as
graft has been practiced by officials in
insurance companies or public office.
Let us avoid the "holier than thou at
titude. Let us live right six days i'll
the week. as well as on Sunday. Let
each of us do as we would be done
by. Then business will be better the
rich will continue in abundance, but
the poor will have better chance to
| improve their condition-life viii, be
broader for all of us, more full! Cl
health, love, happiness and satlsiac
| tOry.-Farm and Home.
Show endurance in humiliation and
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16
EarIx Hardships Leave Mark.

1t is remarked with surprise that the
labor members of parliament are not
large men, nor are they apparently
especially robust. 7. P. O'Connor,
writing on this subject, explains in
this way: THE lives of many of them
have been hard; they began the strug-
gle for bread in the mine, in the work
shop, before the furnace, at an age
when they ought to have been learning
their lessons and playing marbles, and
those years of early toll nearly always
tell"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16

When a man or boy goes away
from home it is sign that there Is some
other place that is more attractive.
Make home as attractive as you can.
You thus make for your own enjoy
ment. and stand a chance to keep the
boys at home too.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16

wOrld-animals, birds, trees-by
growing up with it. and do not cramp
lis physical, mental and moral stature
by substituting for the living green
earth and its friendly creatures, dirty
asphalt streets and the dingy brick
walls. The boy should have the open
world as birthright, and If our pres
ent conditions of society rather re-
strict this inheritance, it should be the
aim Of those into whose hands the
management of his affairs are tempo
rarily placed, to see that he gers as
much of it as possible Burnet
in The Craftsman.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-16

Crop diyersificatiOn and scientific
agriculture will greatly help us. Add
to this, the proper plan of distribution
and We have it complete.