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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
WORST FORM OF ECZEMA.
Black Speeches All Over Face-Af.
fected Parts Now Clear as Ever
Cured by the Cuticura Rem.
edies.

About four years ago I was aff1ict-
ed with black splotches all over my
face and a few covering my body,
which produced a severe itching irri.
tation, and which caused me a great
deal Of annoyance and suffering, to
such an extent that l was forced to
call in two Of the leading physicians
Of my town. After a thorough exami-
nation of the dreaded complaint they
announced it to be skin eczema in it's
worst form. They treated me for the
same for the length of one year, but
the treatment did me no good. Fin
ally my husband purchased a set of
the Cuticura Remedies, and after
using the contents of the first bottle
of Cuticpra Resolvent in connection
with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
the breaking out entirely stopped. /
continued the use of the Cuticura
Remedies for six months, and after
that every splotch was entirely gone
and the affected parts were left as
clear as ever. The Cuticura Rene
dies not only cured me Of that dread
full disease, eczema, but other compli-
Gated troubles as we'll. Lizzie b.
SIedge, $40 Jones Ave-, Selma, Ala,
Oct. %, 1905"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS GROW.
Foreign Trade on Sound Basis and
Collections Are Large.

City of Mexico.-During the fiscal
year ended June 80 the total exporta-
tions of the country amounted to
$271,13S,S09, against $20S,520,451 in
the preceding fiscal year, a gain of
s62,61S,357. Imports amounted to
$220,651,974, against $17S,204,962, an
increase of $42,446,112. Nearly $780,
100000 in coined silver was exported
and some $3S,17S,000 new gold was
imported in the readjustment Of the
currency. Exports of merchandise in
the fiscal year increased by $2,741,919.
The foreign trade of the country is on
a sound basis and the customs cOllec.
tons large.
During the fiscal year the United
States took of Mexican exports S1S6,.
O1O052; Great Britain, $47,272,S73;
Germany, S20,52S,15G; France, $S,O1O,,
279.
Mexico imported from the United
States to the amount Of $l45, ,313;
from Germany, $2O,S14,557; from
Great Britain, $2O,344,64S; from
France, $1G,3S3,255. All sums are in
Mexican standard currency. the unit
being one,half of the American dollar
gold.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Gchjtt1 ar HChife.n

There have been many arguments
during the last few weeks as to
whether the name of the earthquake
smitten country should be spelled
Chilli or Chile Chile is the Spanish
and Chilean form. The name Is com.
monty explained as an old Peruvian
word for snow, the allusion being to
the Andes; but Chilli has also been
identified as a native South American
word, "chiri," meaning cold-which
would make It really the Chilly" coun.
try. AS to the meaning of "Ondes,"
there is plenty of choice. The word
has been variously interpreted as sig
nifying the haunt of tie tapir, the re-
gion of copper, the home of the Anti
tribe and the site of the "Ondenes."
Spanish gardens on the mountain ter
races.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
PLAYS TUNE ON A BARREL.
massachusetts, Man Has a String In
stFument That is a Wonder.

Maiden, Mass.-Out of a sugar bar
rel Frederick s. Hall, of Maiden, has
constructed a unique musical instru.
ment, supposed to be distant relative
to the cello, and on the one string OF
the contriYance the performer plays
arias and selections from famous
operas.
Hall got the idea for the barrel
cello one day when he heard the hol
low sound made by some small boys
pounding on a large hogshead. He be-.
lieved that the hollow cavity of a
good, stout oaken barrel would pro.
duce a good sounding board for a
vibrating string.
Procuring a cello string. Hall rugged
it on the side of barrel and then
began his experiments. After sew.
eral weeks work he has perfected All
instrument that gives a surprisingly
mellow tone.
Friends Of the musician have been
calling, at his studio by the score for
the past few days to hear the new
musical instrument Hall has received
large offer for the instrument from
circus performer. but he refused to
part with it.
Hall is we'll known in local musical
circles. He is the composer of sew.
eral tuneful songs and marches.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Practiced What He Preached.

Rev. Denis P. O'Flynn, of New York
city, used to say that priests ought to
die poor and he practiced what he
preached. Aside from valuable Ii.
brary given to the Paulist fathers he
has left no discoverable estate-no
money in bank, no money in the rec
tory. "EFe died as poor as the proverb'
ial church mouse" says his assistant,
Father Corrigan. What little insur-
ance he carried will barely cover the
funeral expenses. He never saved a
penny for himself. After keeping the
house on his meager salary he gave
away all he had" .....tr
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Proved Effectual.

II ts 900 years since the failure OF
a hank in China. On the last occasion
when such an event happened, the
emperor had the failure investigated,
and found 1t had been due to reckless
conduct on the part Of the directors.
He at once issued an edict that, the
next time a,hapk failed ths s heads q
,ifa president AND digssct 97qJ yEgereI ~
,ha t cft Of, This edict, which has,
~, aeke sri been revoked. 'fas Mds Chmay
bapkiRset.nstjAq tiqesratbs bsa4fiesshr IN
thebXarldfleo .snosaw reAsdsbu.a
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Paris Widows Remarry Soon.

4yParIsstaaSticSB a,PIsHiSlljIsSe9 .mf SSs ss|
T il8at WIDOWS 81 PatTIHis hi marty
IL AiaaA 9nfH58tQe h readily than the widow.
-er3. In three years 2,27O men who
be- aneuoitatw aed1 4Samamied agafh.
vii huod2 heaRabL eSix ihundHdeaGd5
'tWenty-eight more consiled theRr
selves after Is months, and at the end
of the three years 2,233 had remarked,
leaving only 81 single. The widows OF
the last three years made even shorter
work OF their widowhood, for out OF l.
907 of them, 1904 had married within
Is months.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Airs GHaS EBrom1

Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of tie
Ladies' Symphony Orchestra, ~ Sara
toga Street, East Boston, Mass,
writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
"For eight years was troubled with ex-
treme nervousness and hysteria, brought on
by irregularities. Icould neither enjoy life
nor sleep nights: was very irritable, nervous
and despOndsnt.
Lydia L, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
was recomn ended and proved to be the only
remedy that helped me. | have daily i'm
proved in health until am now strong and
well, and all nervousness has disappeared"
Mrs. Charles +. Brown, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Mothers Club, 81 Cedar
Terrace, Hot Springs. Ark, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
IL dragged through nine years Of miSer-
able existence worn out with pain and ner-
vouSness, until it seemed as though should
fly. | then noticed statement of woman
troubled as was, and the wonderful results
she derived from Lydia L. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. decided to tlyit. | did so,
and at the end of three months / was differ
ent woman Ny NERVOUSNESS was all gone, /
was no longer irritable, and my husband fell
in love with me all over again"
Women should remember that Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
the medicine that holds the record for
the greatest number of actual cures of
female ills, and take no substitute.
Free Advice to Women.
Mrs. PiDkham, d9Nghter-in of
Lydia E. Pinkham. LAhn, Mass, invites
all sick women to sfrite to her for
advice. Mrs. Pinkha4 IS vastexperience
with female troubles Enables her to adj
wise you wisely, and she will charge
you nothing for her advice.
IN Best Understands a WCman'S Ills.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
BANKER BUYS WAITER A RANCH
David H. Moffat Will Install Old
Friend in Home Near Him.

Denver, Col.-David H. Moffat, mil.
lionaire banker and railroad builder of
Colorado, who boasts as his friend
Thomas Gay, head waiter of the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York, desires his
friend to live near him, and as the
first step in that direction has pur.
chased a ranch of 158 acres in Routt
county, near Steamboat Springs.
which he is having put in shape be.
fore presenting it to Gay Mr.. Moffat
bought the rauch for $4,000. He will
spend a goodly portion of his time on
the ranch with his old friend. The
friendship of the two men has inter.
fered with Moffat's business several
times, but when a man objected to
the waiter the banker wanted nothing
to do with him. Once a Denver man
took an eastern capitalist to Mr.. Mot.
fats room in the hotel to talk over
business deal involving $250,000. They
found Moffat playing poker with the
waiter. They were introduced to him
as they would have been to any other
guest and the deal fell through on
account Of the attitude Of the eastern
man when a waiter was introduced to
him as a social equal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Floating Exposition.

Three hundred British firms have
contributed to an exhibit of goods
which IS displayed on the lower decks
of former military transport, and
will be sent from London to different
ports of Canada the West Indies,
South America, South Africa, India,
China, Japan and Australia. The voy.
age is expected to last IL months.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Plans Monument to Negro Poet.

The Rev. DR.. David W. Clark, OF
Cincinnati, is making an effort to Sc
cure sufficient money to erect a monu'
ment over the grave Of the late negro
poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar. Mr.
Clark's father was STAKEHOLDER, but
he SAYS "the man who wrote When
Mandy Sings and When the Corn
Pone Is Hot deserves a monument"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Mrs GHesIerGurry

A nervous, irritable mother, often on
the verge of Mysteries, is unfit to care
for children; it ruins child's DISPOSE
ton and reacts upon herself. The
trouble between children and their
mothers too often is due to the fact
that the mother has some female weak
ness, and she is entirely unfit to bear
the strain upon her nerves thatgovern-
ing children involves; it is impossible
for her to do anything calmly.
The ills of women act like tirebrand
upon the nerves, consequently nine
tenthS of the nervous prostration, ner-
vous dependency, " the blues" sleep
lessness, and nervous irritability of
women arise from some arrangement
of the female organism.
Do you experience fits of depression
with restlessness, alternating with
extreme irritability? Are your spirits
easily affected, SO that one minute you
laugh, and the next minute you feel
like crying?
Do you feel something like a ball ris-
ing in your throat and threatening to
choke you; all the senses perverted,
morbidly sensitive TO light and sound ;
pain in the abdominal region, and
between the shoulders bearing-down
pains; nervous dyspepsia and almost
continually cross and snappy?
If so, your nerves are in shattered
condition, and You are threatened with
nervous prostration.
Proof is monumental that nothing in
the world is better for nervous prostra-
ton than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound; thousands and thou
sands of women can testify to this fact.
ASk Mrs- linkham,S kdNicn-A Nom
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Important to Mothers,
Cultivated by the Scholars.

It is stated that nearly 5000 school
gardens exist in Austria, not includ-
ing the sister kingdom of Hungary.
They are connected with both private
and public schools, and are used for
purposes of practical instruction in
horticulture and tree-growing, and
often contain botanical museums and
bee hives.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

Mems Shoes. So TO $3.50. Boys Shoes, So
to$l25. Womens Shoes. So 90 to Sl.5O.
Misses & Chldren's Shoes, $2.@5 TO $1.oo.
Try w. l.. Douglas WOmen's, Misses and
Children's shoes; for style, fit and wear
they excel other makes.
If ] could take you into my large
factories at BrOckton, Mass. and show
you how carefully WI. Doug las shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit better,
wear longer, and are OF greater value
than any other make.
Wherever you live, YOU can obtain w. l..
Douglas shoes. His name and price is stamped
on the bottom, which protects you against high
prices and inferior shoes. Take no Substis
fute. Ask your dealer for w. L. Douglas shoes
and insist upon having them.
Fast Color EgeietS used; they wiP not Uedr brdSSy.
Write for illustrated Catai0g of Fail Styles.
w. L. DOUGLAS, Dept. Il. Brockton, Mass.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Never Fails.

There is one remedy, and only one I
have found, to cure without fail such
troubles in my family as Eczema,
Ringworm, and all others of an itching
character That remedy is Hunts
Cure. We always use it and it never
fails. w. NJ. Christian,
Rutherford, Tenn.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Don't Be Stubborn

A few people are SO headstrong they
Keep right on having chills-growing
thin and yellow, when we guarantee
one bottle of Cheathams Chill Tonic
to cure any one case. Don't be one of
that class. Get a bottle.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

That things that are not so i'll with
you and me as they might have been
is half owing to the number who lived
faithfully hidden life, and rest in I'M
visited tombs-George Eliot.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

Life often seems but shipwreck,
whose fragments are friendship, glory
and love. The shores OF time that we
pass during our life are covered With
these derelicts.-Mme.tde Staell9" u
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Swattowed bv the Sea.

During 1905 there were wrecked,
burned and foundered at sea 297
steam vessels, of a net aggregate
tonnage Of 253,611, and 296 sailing
vessels Of 214,600 tons.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

s IA N Gty. Texas, Jan. %, 1909.
Texas.
n sa.. sEo boxes Of your Kidney
g NE Of Kidney and Bladder
sres d sasa TOR more than three years
ID i 6ssesseas, having to get up sew sew.
tsr S ~ the night to urinate. |
IT, ~ 4. ana able to do more man.
q I sl1 Y y the past two years, with.
sre ssne Or symptom of kidney
a. c. WALKER,
sss Us your druggists mama
bOs !, sa0 9, We will send you a
e -, mard's Kidney Pills.
Kidney Remedy upon
s,s1s se cure for Kidney and
s q Diabetes, Weak and
ps..n reumatism, Frequent
water, Inflammation
ssinD Of ahs 8ladSS1
assllOYes GEaHst xinSbons
ISssi Sold and gusrsn.
lrkn osal druggists. ''''''''-'''
e lEeaNA co., mel
als sq lBsRs oTsslFqlsR.ur
' '..''.I Hard to Forge.
IS ssler in China desires q
4. Pam ll Of his hand is GOV.
stss oll paint and an impress.
Isas g thin paper. This pa.
ssaed. constitutes his
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Serve as llIumlnan.s.

afe1les Of Jamaica emit so
light that a dozen Of them,
within an inverted tumbler,
-ale : person to read or write
without the least difficulty.
IS an eypedient to which
's'0ft These flies are in size
u, : 2 common hive bee, and
aaEmless. Their appearance
!. numbers acts as a baron.
n y y ntlVes, and is an indica,
appsozehing rain.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Demand Is SPREADING,

Please send nae by express two
dozen Hunts Lightning Oil-25c size.
Could not keep house without it.
G.. H. Jones.
Lenawee Junction, Mich, Sept. 10,
1906.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

III, Mi M W Ri 1lSs Soothing syrup u - =
fzmation allAys pain, cures wind collie. 2c BOTTLE
~ oltl9H'I 1901 IL saAAI-lI4iW nOEI
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

, HIuebfrd'
ID Thoreau q
n his back
added, "andl
The birds y
and throat q
,reast and q
and his abdc
'enale Is q
lg, often has
xtends from
.er the shoaa
say that !
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rth, his wife
that she ~
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9 few avlIl
owing sonssI
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

; S2l, DeGraei
n Columbus +
'nbie suffer.f
and had b.
was not able d
yself and hush,
l described mr.
possible. Yos !
1 took four bo5
leetely cured. II \
fuImedicine.sl
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been relievedo
weakness byH
We a testimoni,
ver,afew coural
men Who,u;llH
fesri.ng sisters
published.
one of these. |
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She is williDS
the women i
whole world &
know it. AZ
invalid brouoh
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

'esn't feel Ike
me woman anl
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

Money refunded for each package of
fUNAM FADELESS DYES if unsatis.
factory. Ask your druggist.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

raets Spiders.
said that spl
1T a French d
now asserts
Q says that |
t be attribI
o hunger. y
spiders wei
der immedla
Sunn, uhiahi
Lecaillou, b..
violin, some /
and a cSI
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} buZZlng VI
ders. The coz
,ly frightensa
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
Iteh?n

ltch?"
IN misery Is d
lie form OF It'd
ed. Then 1t 1
is a specific
ever known.
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one case. +" {
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

an Runs Amue
'ondon's receaI
suddenly bs
S club and eli
striking right
led two block
caught
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

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IS no one to tai
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28

" for Russia
be invaded b,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-23
CONGO FREE STATE
SECRETARY DANIELS TELLS OF
PROGRESS OF REFORM.

Mr.. John Daniels, corresponding secre-
tary Of the Congo Reform Association;
talked concerning the most recent develop
ments OF the Congo reform movement
Those who are urging the government to
take some action to view the Congo situa-
tion," said Mr.. Daniels, know with deep
satisfaction Of the passage through Con-
gress of the bill establishing a consul gen
eralshfp in the Congo Free State The Gre
alton Of this Office means that the United
States will have official point of con-
tact with the Congo Free State, as a means
OF access TO any further action which may
be taken. The fact that the United States
has an agent on the ground will itself be a
potent influence working for the improve
ment of conditions In that country, for
King Leopold. while hitherto he has been
able to say that the United States has no
official and frst-hand evidence Of abuses,
will not be able to continue the assertion.
and he will not be able to faunt atrocious
misrule in the face of our representative"
From interviews with members of both
houses of Congress Mr.. Daniels has gained
added hope Of the success OF the Congo re-
form movement in this country. Tremen-
dous pressure is being brought to bear on
all branches of the government from all
Petitions" said Mr.. Daniels, ARE pour
ing in from all sides and this Is cause SO
thoroughly based on justice that It will not
diminish in strength, but will Increase. It
will finally reach point where It will be
irresistible When the people of the United
States yiyidly comprehend the facts Of the
Congo situation they will demand action
from the government, and In matters of in
ternauonal law, 50 called
Mr.. Daniels says the Congo Reform Asso-
citation will continue arousing and voicing
public feeling In this question. There is no
thought of giving up until the conditions In
the Congo Free State have been remedied.
This case Is symbolic. 1t does not signify
merely protest against abuses In the
Congo Free State-it Is typical of the new
attitude toward socailed inferior races,
1T Is voicing of the idea that such
races should be protected" concluded Mr..
Daniels. "and fostered rather than abused
and exterminated For the reason that it
Is typical movement 1t Is the more deeply
grounded and impossible to STOP"
From Washington Mr.. Daniels goes to
New York for the purpose Of raising funds
for the work of his association
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-23
By Rail to Mecca.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harpers Weekly.
Every spring. on the great day when the
procession starts. the housetops along the
street are crowded with a gayly clothed
throng. showering blessings on the pill
grims waiing loudly, perhaps. for those
who will never return. laughing one minute
and crying the next, after the ephemerai
manner of the east--all In all curious
sight for the occidental thousand pities
that Ii should passl For even IL Ahmed Bey
tells the truth. and the road Is never COM
pleted TO Mecca yet the picturesque start
of the pilgrimage must soon become thing
of the past. A putting railway train is less
decorative than a rug-laden camel. and the
stuffy smoking compartment of a third-class
carriage does not lend itself especially TO
romance. The Mecca limited and the
Medina accommodation" will have to an
swer for many sins; and yet. after all. they
will not be able entirely TO destroy the de-
licious local color of the east Railroad
travelling there becomes quickly naturalized.
The land of bookra (tomorrow) remains the
land of bookra still, even with the advent
OF steel rails. The guards admonish the
passengers with a gentle ''Shwei. Shwei."
tSlowly. SlowiyD instead OF raucous step
lively!" The stories of small American rail-
roads In New England which stop for the
passengers TO pick berries are true in tho
east The speediest express slows up Tor
any interesting happening along It's route.
One of the most enjoyable rough-and-tum-
BILE fights / ever saw was on threshing
floor somewhere in the Anti-Lebanon, and
the Damascus express halted TO let us see
the exciting finish OF IT, At first. II you
are newly arrived in the land. you VIII
swear, but after you have been there a. few
months. by bookra. you viii brioe anybody
to put off anything and the beauty of II u
you won't have to do much bribing.