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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Robbed TeIephores.

New Orleans: A clever sneak thief
with the aid Of skeleton key, reaped
a harvest during the past two weeks
by invading almost every establish.
ment at West End and extracting all
loose change found in the deposit boxes
OF the telephone pay stations. 1t is
estimated that the losses to the Cum
berland Telephone and Telegraph
Company and the proprietors of the
various establishments will reach
three figures.
The police Of the Tenth Precinct
Station were acquainted with the rob.
berries. 1t is believed that the boxes
were opened with false key or WITH
piece of thin wire. Among those
whose places were robbed are William
Rebenach, James Gundorf and several
others.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Fugative Held for kilIino Wife

Schriever, La: A good arrest was
made Sunday after the arrival Of the
Houma and Napoleonville branch
trains by w. Ross, deputy sheriff,
from Gibson. The man arrested Is a
negro named Jim Leads, wanted for
wife murder. 1t is claimed he shot
and killed his wife few DAYS ago
near Chacahoula Station, this parish.
The negro was a passenger on the Ma.
poleonville train, but left the train
at ThibdodauX, one mile east of here,
and walked toward Schriever, and
when nearing the station he was Or
dered to halt by the deputy, but in
stead started on a run, trying to es.
cape. but few shots in the air from
Ross gun brought him to a stop and
the man was licked up.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
CO.OPERATOR CLIPPlNGS.

Let us never, never admit that we
are weak. Nothing can prevail against
us if we will only understand our
selves. Let us have that perfect I'm,
derstanding which shall make us in
dustrially free.
The builders are at work, and there
is plenty of work for us 10 do.
Keep the boys at home on the farm
by making the farm profitable. In
no other way can 1t be done.
Snap beans are swapping in lots OF
places. Going to have plenty of gar
den truck at your house before long;
We should never again doubt that
the right will prevail. 1t will. 1t must
We must go ever onawrd and upward
We will change the system of want
doubt and uncertainty to one based
upon the eternal principles of Justice,
Equity and the Golden Rule. They day
OF this complete change is near at
hand.
Wha do you want to buy physiced
canned vegetables, packing-house EN-.
balmed meats, drugstore fruits and
wagon-gr Ease butter at the stores for
when you can raise all these things,
fresh, healthy. pure and good at home
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
1T PAYS TO STICK TO YOUR OWN
MEN

The Farmers Union can't make a
smart man out Of natural born fool
But they can come as near doing il is
any other organization, If they will
only round him UP among the crowd
corral him in, and move him along
he will count one of his size.
Every farmer makes his own rating.
The adult farmer is rated not by what
he says he is going to do. but by that
which he has already done. The young
farmer and the novice in farming may
receive respectful hearing as 10 what
he intends to do without criticism.
But, young men. remember this:
Don't be nervous about people know.
ing VINO is doing well and who it not.
Every mothers son Of you farmers
are at it every day writing out upon
the ground your own reputation ami
character, and if you are doing cred
liable work, others VIII see it and do
your blowing for you without your
help.-Farmers IS. c. Union Bureau.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Lax Proposed for Water and [ inh

De Ridder, La: A petition is being
circulated asking for an election tc
vote 5-mill tax with which to con
struct a system of wafer works and
electric lighting.
The Merchants and Farmers Bank
with $4,000 capital, will open MAY /
Senator Robert L. Taylor lectured
here Friday night on Castles In the
Air"
President B. C. Caldwell, of the
State Normal, addressed the teachers
meeting here yesterday.
j. 5. Roberts and J. II. Lewis are
promoting the erection of an $4,000
hotel north of the new depot of the
Louisiana and Pacific Railroad
The new saw mill at Louisville, with
$4,000 feet daily capacity, will BEGIN
operating shortly.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Home Of The lceherns.

Almost all the icebergs seen In the
north Atlantic during June ara
products Of the coast Of Labrador
formed from the ice fields that had
filled the indentations Of that coast
the previous winter July's icebergs
come from further north in the vicin-
ity of BafTn Land, those OF August
come from still further north, and
though fewer in number than those
of the earlier summer, are larger IN
individuality. From the coast OF
Labrador may be seen an endless
procession of these ice mountains
coming out of the north and taxing
their way majestically southwark IN
til they lose their being in the warm.
er waters and climate Of the south
Atlantic.-Maine Journal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Railroad Meeting DELEGATES.

81 MartinVille, La: The Progressive
League Saturday named DR.. ]. R. OIL
yer and Martin ]. VOORHEES, to repre-
sent St Martin Parish at the railroad
meeting April at New Iberia, to com.
plete the organization of proposed
railroad from New Iberia to Port Bar.
re- passing through st. Martinville and
breaux Bridge. They will be Joined
mere by Mayor Adam Guidroz and E. c.
Roger. OF Arnaudville, who will repre-,
sent st. Landry parish.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
IT CAN NOT EE DONE

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matters Of tmnorrarc. o.i,bor ou La
ing much bpnofrd
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

1t would be hard to keep from call.
Ing attention again and again to the
fearful cost Of allowing implements
and vehicles to stand out in every
storm and through every drought,
bringing them to state of unitness
for any sort of work in a little while.
and uniting for the best service at
once. 1t IS criminal offense to burn
your barn down or chop your buggy
to pieces, but it is a common thing for
the barn to fall down for the lack of
care and for the vehicles to lose half
their useful existence through ex-
posture to the elements. 1t is mighty
hard to see the difference in the moral
effects Of acts that leaI up to the same
end.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Two Pickaninnies Cremated

Houma, La: John Jones and his
wife, negroes, at Smithville, a suburb,
locked their two children In their
mouse before daylight Sunday morning
and went to prayer meeting. At day-
break the house was discovered en-.
Veloped in flames, and was soon totally
destroyed. The two children, aged 4
ana years, persisted. The man tried
TO Jump into the blazing pyre to rescue
the bodies.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Drank Gasoline for Soda Matar

Pensacola, Fla; Lucy Payne. a ne.
gro GIRL is dead as the result of drink.
Ing quantity of gasoline. The Girl
Sd" the gasoline in a soda water bot.
Tie, which Had been corked very tight
ana perhaps thinking it was soda wa.
Ter drank about half a pint. A few
moments afterward she was taken i'll
ana later went into commissions, dying
within few hours.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

If you buy tract of land and put
your labor on it and make it produc.
tive and valuable, and can then sell it
for great deal more than it cost you,
the Journal hasn't word of objection.
But if you buy land just because you
have the money to spare, with the ex-
pectation that cher peoples labor will
make it valuable for you, the Journal
is going to do its honest best to make
you lose money on such a deal.-Farm
Journal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

The cause of the high price of lum
Der is the cooperation of the lumber
makers and handlers. W. have all
sorts of laws against trusts and com.
bines, but if there is a "gentleman's
agreement" on a price. and the gentle,
men making the agreement keep it, it
is hard to suggest how that price is go,
ing to be gotten around. and it hard
to frame law that will prevent the
agreement, provided it is "tacit'
sort of arrangement.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Due to Despondencv

new Orleans: Delphine Giles of
o9ol water street, a girl of II years,
attempted TO end her life Sunday af-
tefhoon in her home by taking carbol.
&c ACID She was Respondent over
some love affair Delplane was re-.
moved TO the hospital, where the sur
seonS regard her condition as critical
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

At last poor, suffering man has
found a defender. An Iowa legislator
has introduced bill making it deser.
ton, with appropriate penalties, if a
wife who Is able fails to provide for her
husband who IS destitute. Count Boni
should have moved to Iowa instead of
going back to France, where hus.
bands are supposed to look out for
themselves.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Greek fire, which had several other
names-wild fire, liquid fire, wet fire
and fire rain-descriptiye Of its de-
effectiveness, is said to have been the
most destructive engine of war pre-.
Vious to gunpowder. Discovered by
Callincius, a Syrian, it was first used
In the siege Of Constantinople, 673-
CTS, and at Mecca, 800.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Many Children lake Sacrament.

A notable confirmation took place
recently in Dublin, at the pro-cathed'
raj Archbishop Walsh conferred the
sacrament of confirmation on nearly
a thousand children. The actual con
ferring lasted two hours, and the cere
mony was concluded by the admins
tering Of the temperance pledge and
strong exhoEte+'nn to the children 10
discharge f. ,y all their religious
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Nine. Liza Lehman, the composer,
Is a granddaughter of the late Rob
ert Chambers of Edinburgh, the orig
anator and publisher of that standard
work, Chambers Encyclopedia. Her
father, Randolph Lehman, was we'll
known portrait painter.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Wife SLAYER to Swipo

Napoleon, La: Punius Jones, a ne,
gro convicted Of the murder of his
wlle at Labadieyille last August, will
oe executed here April &c. The gal.
lows will be erected within the iatI
and only the witnesses permitted bv
law will witness the hanging
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

A committee of the reichstag has
voted to raise the salary Of the Ger
man ambassador at Washington to
100000, but even if this is done
"Specky" will still be $4,000 behind
Jimmy"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Three in rortant American cities.
Boston, B ltfalO and Milwaukee, are
now comm tilted to the plan of provid.
ing penny lunches for poor school
children. The idea, says Utica Press,
is opposed by many on the ground
that it will encourage pauperism, but
these cities seem to think it just as
profitable TO run the risk of burying
old people as to run the risk of caring
Ior hundreds Of diseased children.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Careful students of the subject have
estimated that the cotton crop loses
one-fOurth between the picker and the
mill, and the conclusions do look rea,
sonable. Careless handling from start TO
finish has always been the rule with
cotton. Why do not the Unions get
together on some sort Of a proposition
looking TO the better packing. selling
and handling of the staple of the
South? The warehouse plan is all
right so far as it goes. but it is only
one step on the way Of a considerable
journey. With almost no market for
the lower grades of cotton. why not
use it for wrapping and tying the
bales, instead of sending around the
world for something to wrap the cot
ton in? Then. most of the damage TO
the present bales comes from the fact
that they are so big and Of such cIum-
sy shape that they are practically torn
to pieces before they get TO the mill.
There is a crying demand for a more
sensible package for American cotton
and there is more sensible package
ready at hand for use. Why not use it?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

The Union man who has so far failed
TO plant whole lot OF flowers and
vines around his place needs discipin-
Ing. Any Union man, to amount to
anything, has to spread himself to get
all there is in lie, and all good Union
men know that pleasant surroundings
have more to do with making a Chris.
tian of a tired and sweaty man than
anything else onearth. Fix up things
around the place.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Count Boni de Castellane may find
a CLEAN of comfort in the fact that
his ex-wife has discovered her d.
vorce was entirely too expensive, the
bills being regarded as excessive
But then, as luxury, Boni himself
was even more expensive than the di.
vorce,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Aangwill, the author, was recently
asked by daily paper to prepare for
next mornings issue a history Of ia.
nous trials. Mr.. Zangwill sat down
with a stenographer then and there,
dictated two-column article such az
vas desired, giving resume of every
famous trial for the last 200 years.
all from memory
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

We have heard of one farmer who
is opposed to farmers buying co-opera.
lively on the ground that it might put
some Of the merchants out of business,
and that the divine command is to do
good unto others. Look at that farm.
er's children dragging cotton sacks
when they ought to be in school, and
then think of how their daddy reasons
about the matter!-Farmers' Journal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

The most important thing on the
farm, after the chicken yard, is the
garden. and as rule it has the least
attention, getting only a lick and a
promise after all the other work is
finished. Give the garden a chance.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

There is no sort of pubic interest
hat is half so important to the farmer
as good roads, and yet it seems that
farmers have never given this matter
any cooperative" attention. The mer-
chants, those who have a secondary
interest in roads have one about all
that has ever been done toward ere
ating a sentiment in favor of good
roads. When any matter IS analyzed
to its final conclusion, II IS the user
or consumer who is the really inter-
ested one The farmer is me user Of
that is half so important TO the farmer
ness to take the lead in the building
of roads. Let up on fine court houses
for awhile and get busy for your own
use, Mr.. Farmer.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

The car Of Russia says he IS sat
isf1ed with the new doma, but, re-
marks the Omaha Bee, the douma is
far from satisfied with the car.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Every now and then some one comes
up with penny postage proposition.
The scheme is one to make a cheap
rate for the man who does a big mail
order business. He wants that price
OF postage on his letters reduced and
the deficiency can be made up by the
government out of funds contributed
by the horny-handed chumps who al
ways pay tue freight"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

An Oklahoma teacher who whipped
8 boy In his school was killed by
tne other pupils. Will courses in man.
slaughter have to be added to our
educational institutions to meet the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

If any more warships are sent to
Central America. the crowd Of spec
tators will number more than the
combined armies Of the belligerents.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

This country is the instrument Of
the Lord" says Admiral Dewey. Dt-
vinity uses the big stick, it seems, by
proxy
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Inc development of the Canadian
northwest makes an increasing use Of
the Hudson Bay route very probable
There is nothing to prevent railroads
being run to the harbors on the bav
Inc only doubtful question Is how far
the route can be proftably EMPLOYED
Tor trade. The navigation of Hudson
Bay itself is comparatively safe and
easy Some of its harbors are NOT
icebound, even in winter. The serious
problem is the entrance to the bav
through the Hudson strait The ey.
penence of the Hudson Bay com.
panys navigators with that Of the
Whalers who frequent these seas
seems on the whole to confirm the
| opinion that no more than tbroo
Qnths could be counted on with anv
tainty. WIN any
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Mr. Rockefeller says ne has heavy
weight on his mind. He should buy
a lighter wig.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

So Brazil is going to have a war
ship of the Dreadnought type, Ell?
Why, the thing is getting to be a
mere fad.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

| A plan is suggested for rescuing the
passengers and crews of wrecked YES.
sells that is so simple that one won.
ders why it has not been suggested
before. 1t is TO maintain strong sea-
going vessels at lifesaving stations,
and take the people off on the sea
where it is not practicable to reach
them from the land, as is often the
case. There have been several cases
this winter where a number of lives
were lost by exposure, and by being
washed overheard before help could
reach them, that might easily have
been saved in this way.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

Arctic explorers should be careful
about taking any bad men along lest
they shoot out the northern lights.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

klsson, a farmer living near Asian
mont, while attempting to pour oil
from a can to start a fire. was hor
ribly burned and died a few hours
later.
Mrs. W. D. Yeager, wife OF the pro.
prietor of the Yeager Hotel at Bo :.
ham, died on the Katy Flyer Thurs.
day night while en- route from Com.
fort to her home. The body was re.
moved from the train at Denison.
Isaac c. Bosworth, aged 68 years.
died SUDDENLY Friday morning at his
boarding house The deceased had
been an employe in the Dallas city
water department for about fourteen
years.
Locomotive engineers of the world
will meet in Dallas May 2S, 30 and 80,
according to the decision reached by
the committee of locomotive engineers
who have been in conference in re-
gard TO this matter
j. F. Strickland, president of the
Texas Traction Company, stated re.
Gently that over half the route of the
DallaS-Sherman Interurban between
Mckinney and Sherman, has been
graded
A negro man was found in the west
ern part of Corsicana, with a wel-de.
veloped case of smallpox. 1t is also
stated that at Re, or Navarro, as It is
now called, there are seven cases of
smallpox among the white convicts,
who have been working on the Trim.
ity and BTaZos Valley Railroad.
About two hundred of the saloon
men Of Fort Worth met and formed
the Liquor Dealers Law and Order
League, \ charter has been drafted
and will be sent % Austin, which pro.
videS that each member OF the organi.
cation obey the liquor laws 10 the let
ter.
Sam Wigodsky and William Berger
were drowned in the San Antonio Riy- /
er in an attempt to take an empty
beer key from the water. The boat
in which they were working was over
turned, and both occupants were
thrown out.
A severe windStorm passed through
Cooke County Thursday night between
Myra and Muenster, doing consider.
able damage to houses, orchards and
crops. Several persons were injured,
but none fatally.
Wiley Bishop, a negro, charged with
the murder Of another negro, Cooper
Finnell, a few months ago, has been
sentenced to five years in the peniten.
tiary in the Fifty-FOurth District
Court at Waco. The two quarreled
over bottle Of wh.skey.
Otto Smith, seventPen-year-Old boy
was accidentally killed while blowing
with a riding pillow. He was carrying
gun with which he intended to shoot
some crows. The weapon slipped and
vas discharged with fatal results.
The cigar men and saloonkeepers
md others who have in any way been ,
connected with the use Of dice, re- 1
'eived notice from the authorities tc
top all slot machines and dice throw.
ng in compliance with the utterances
II the Legislature.
A stock company was recently or.
'anized at Ray, small town six miles
'ast of Waxahachie, for the purpose Of
erecting a large gin plant The com.
,any is capitalized for $4,000. Work
N the building has commenced.
Some days ago a horse at Rosen. ,
'erg died of hydropnoDia. John Len.
TART, who attended the horse, was bit.
en- while he was in an advanced stage
nd just before dying. Mr.. Lenhart
vas promptly sent to the Pasteur In. J
titutee at Austin for treatment.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05
Farmers COOPERATIVE Union
=======- Of America -====-
vi America

Let US make beautiful Tie homes nv \
making just conditions.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07
CLOVER LEAF SECRET OUT.
Projected Line to Complete Shortest
Transcontinental Route.

The secret Of the purchase of the Chi.
cngo and Alton recently by the Clover
Leaf II believed to he revealed In the
plan to construct az air line from the in
tcrsection of the Clover Leaf and the
Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton NJ Met.
calf. Ind. to Springfield. Ill.,. distance
of nincty.scvcn miles. With such line
there would be established the shortest
and most direct trans.contincntal line In
America. At Toledo the Clover Leaf
would connect with the Lake Shore or
Nickel Plate for the east. From Toledo
to Springfield IL would run over its own
tracks. and from Springfield to Kansas
City over the Alton tracks. via the Muir
rayvillc air line. which the Alton has re-.
Gently completed between Springfield and
Murrnyvillc on its western division. From
Mstcalf to Springfield the Cincinnati.
Hamilton and Dayton has line. II IL
understood that the Al,on.clovcr Leaf
people will attempt to buy this line and
reconstruct It. Failing in that. work will
begin on a new road early IN the spring
The construction of the new air line
would make the Alton AMI Clover Leaf
mutually helpful to each other. something
that they cannot be NJ present.