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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
Medicat Education.

The changes Of the past 25 years
In medical education have been moth
Ing short of revolution, and yet at
a conference of medical educators in
Chicago 1t was stated by one delegate
that three-fOurths of the graduates
were unfit to practice medicine. The
condition Of medical education in this
>pntry 80 years ago was almost be-
yond belief. There were medical col.
ieges in Chicago that graduated two
classes a year. In a single town in
northern Illinois nine men were prac.
dcing medicine, of whom two had d.
plomas and the rest were druggists,
eX-hOSpital stewards from the army
and men who had taken one course of
lectures. The immediate result of the
enactment Of the medical practice act
was the departure of 1,4O0 practition-
erS from the state, some of whom com.
pleted their medical studies, but most
of them practiced where there was
not so much law. At a conference in
Chicago the other day says the Phil.
adelphta Record, DR.. Means. chairman
Of the judicial council of the Associa.
ton of American Medical COLLEGES,
said that the average man admitted to
practice was deficient in knowledge
Of bacteriOlOgy, chemistry, physiology
and anatomy. Fifty-eight per cent of
the men in % states who fail at their
dnal examination pass a few weeks
later. I'm the few days intervening
where do they get their knowledge?
They don't get it." They simply learn
the answers to the questions, and the
same questions are asked them at the
denomination. Evidently the reform
Of medical education, although much
has been done, is not yet complete.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
Encourage the YOUNG Poet,

Every man, woman and child should
write poetry. 1t is like boils, it pre-.
vents worse sickness. If there were
more poets there would be fewer Grim.
anals. Poetry is in every mans blood.
II he doesn't write it at some time or
another during his life watch out for
him. His wild oats are unsown; they
will rot in his system and sour his ma.
ture. Write poetry, therefore, so long
as there is jingle in your soul. ex.
claims the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
The man who would advise corking I'D
poetry unwritten in a human heart
would soon have all the world full of
brain storms and the devil to paw.
It's a great business, this poetry bust.
ness. And the man who hasn't had
his fling with love and dove and spring
and wing and skies and eyes and true
and you and girl and pearl and Inns
and sips and honey drips inspected
and guaranteed absolutely pure) is
AXE the man who died aged y years
without being hungry-he missed a
lot of fun filling I'D.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
HARLAN MAKES A HOME RUN.
Justice, Aged "a, Is Star Baseball
Player at Shad Bake.

Washington.-Justice Harlan of the
United States supreme court, aged "a,
made a home run and won the game
in a baseball contest at the annual
shad bake given by the Washington
Bar association at Marshall Hall, Md.
the other day.
When Justice Harlan went to the
bat the score was tie. He smashed
the sphere a wicked swat to deep cen.
ter. He started around the bases and
his leg. work was really marvellous.
The ball went over the head of the
center fielder and was lost in the tall
grass. Before it was recovered JUS
tice Harlan had reached the home
plate, where he stood slipping a mint
julep which had been hurriedly pre-
pared for the agile Kentuckian as a
reward for lining out four.base hit.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
Talk in NIGHT Divorce Plea.

st. Stephens, Wyo.-Eleazar Whit.
taker, who has been employed on sew
eral big irrigation projects in Wyo-
ming, has filed a suit for divorce from
his wife, Ellen M. Whitaker, alleging
that she was accustomed to talk so
much after they had retired for the
night and cause him to lose so much
sleep that his health became seriously
impaired. He says that she did not
talk pleasantly after they had gone to
bed at night, but in querulous, fault.
finding way, demanding that he buy
things for her which it was impossible
for him to buy.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
FINDS HOME WAS STOLEN.
Editor Discovers Buildings Are Gone
and Has to Camp Out.

Mtllings, MONTE. II. Becker a
well known newspaper man and for,
merly proprietor Of the Daily Gazette
or this city, literally has been robbed
Of house and home.
When Mr.. Becker several weeks ago
disposed of his interest in the news
paper business he purchased the In
dian Improvements upon a claim in
the Crow reservation and intended to
homestead
Since then he has been closing up
his business affairs preparatory to
moving upon his claim. He loaded his
household goods on a truck and, TAX.
ing along a quantity of provisions,
started for his claim.
When he reached it he found that
every building on it, including a sub
stantial log cabin. a stable and a
woodshed, had disappeared. Every
stick Of wood composing the building
had been taken and the newspaper
man found himself without shelter for
the night.
He managed to camp out in his
wagon, however, and next morning re
turned TO town for a load of lum
Der with which to construct a shack
incidentally, he posted an offer of q
reward of $25 for the miscreant who
stole his happy home.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
HEALER LOOKS LIKE CHRIST.
American Millionaire Said to Be Pa.
tient of Mysterious Carpenter.

Erfuart, Germany.-Among the re,
cent patients of Ausmeier, a carpenter
OF this town who claims to have mir.
aculous healing powers, is an Ameri.
can millionaire, according to a local
newspaper who has brought his fami
ly with him to be cured of a heredi.
tary ailment. The paper does not give
the Americans name and Ausmeier is
dumb on the subject.
Ausmeier is a remarkable looking
man, with a face and head strikingly
resembling those which Christian art
generally subscribeS to Jesus Christ.
These are resemblances he has cul
tivated to such an extent that people
who see him for the first time are said
to be struck with awe at the majesty
of his appearance.
He uses simple and harmless In.
gradients in his healing, maintaining
that it is not the medicine that cures
but the words he utters and the
prayers he offers. The remarkable
thing about it is that many cures have
been wrought and people from far and
near are streaming to him~for assist
ance. He has now taken to wearing
an oriental looking robe which he has
embroidered with curious cabalistie
signs.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
BED SHEETS MUST BE LONG.
Texas Law Applying to Hotels and
6IeeFeTs Effective July 70.

Austin. ToX-The ninefoot BED
sheet bill which was passed at IT,
regular session Of the legislature has
been approved by Gov. Campbell and
will become effective July y. On that
date all top sheets on beds in hotels
and lodging houses and on all sleep
ing berths in this state must be nine
feet long.
The point has been raised that
there is no requirement in the bill as
to the width of the sheet and that it
is possible that those who are not dis
posed to live up to the spirit of the
law may make the sheets nine feet
long and only nine inches wide.
Senator George b. Griggs, of Hous.
ton, is the author of this new law. He
says that there is nothing freakish
about the measure; that it should not
be made the butt of jokes.
This state has made much advance
ment in sanitary matters during the
last few years. All sleeping cars are
required to be fumigated at the end Of
each trip and at all terminal points in
the state. This applies also to blan-
kets and other bedding of the cars.
All public buildings, such as school
houses, court houses, jaiIs, railroad
depots, etc, must be disinfected under
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
The NEW INSURANCE Acs,-
He Comes in With the NewL,.
Morton on His opportuni.,, 'aul

The new insurance law ofn
OF New York has opened u, -' STATE
ing field for both men ard NOnis.
with brains and energy in tbo "Uaen
life insurance. The law now , sale Of
standard forms OF policies p Do,
which practically bears the b. TIea OF
OF the State Of New York and ~, wafs
order OF things has estabIiobas aeE
sale Of life insurance on a Cue ~ as
basis. 'ecs
The prohibition against rebat,r
eXtraYagant allowances to agents Spa
driven out Of the business fl" s las
type OF insurance agent, who IN r w
cases virtually bought business ",ss
large rebates, instead of SELLING IN u
His place is being taken nv n-s,
sors' lawyers, school teachers q, I.s
sexes, and others, who find that ~ oS'u
life insurance agent under tba 'sius
system offers greater reward CIV A
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
WHAT ARE WE ORGANIZED FoRY

1'hrs question is the biggest one con.
nected with our movement. It will
take some real thinking to solve it.
one may say joined to buy for less
while another would say, | Joined to
get a better price for my products.
while another says he joined to down
every other class and build himself
upon the ruins of destroyed CONNER.
clalism. All of this brings about q
confounding of tongues that makes
success impossible. A correct under.
standing of the real purposes of the
organization on the part of each men,
Der OF the Union is necessary in order
Tor wise consideration along lines that
VIII assure success.
The Co-Operator would feel that il
mad accomplished a great deal f.
through its editorial columns 1t could
get a correct understanding on this
one question, What are we organ
lied for?" For when all our members
fuIly understand this we will move on
harmonious lines to victory.
The first effort of the Union should
De 10 take out of our lives the shirt
OF enmity and fill it with charity, Then
remove from us the principle of greed
and avarice and fill us with the nrincf.
pie OF justice and equity. This would
give us desire to do unto others "a
we would have them to do us instead
or doing the other fellow before he
does us.
IL is well for us to consider what
we are not organized for that we NAV
more fully understand what we are
10 90. We are not organized to DESTROY
any part of our commercial, social re-.
hgous or political system where thew
are progressing along paths that lead
10 the road to higher and better civ.
lllzation 1t will take all the agencies
cooperating together to reach a better
condition. We can not hope to build
up TINS great organization upon the
downfall of any Of the necessary agen. |
cles or helps in this help.
Our duty is clear as to our attitude
10 all churchs, schools, fraternal or.
ders and legitimate commercial enter.
prlseS. 1t is not to pull down, but
the Illicit and confirm and
build the legitimate.
we are organized to take care Of the
business Of the farmer. both in nro.
duction and distribution. In other
words to ras,e agd sell the products
OF the soil In the past We have only
studied the production of wealth and
not its distribution.
The educational feature Of an organ.
lzation should call every farmer +o
thoughtfulness and study. for II ia
only through intelligence that we will
be able to take possession of our own.
we are organized to plant at the yerv
foundation head Of our commercial
life the principle Of Justice equity and
ne golden rule that it may take root
and give a health tonic to our entire
civilization.
Inc Farmers Union has a respon-
lolILty that no other organization in
MS country has and in proportion to
correct understanding of this re.
ponSlOllity and our action in keeping
With our principles, will be the good
meet of our effort on our fellownan.
-Co-Operator.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

Antiquities have to give way to the
needs of the present. The Egyptian
council of ministers has approved the
plan for raising the Assuan dam
across the Nile, a change that will in
crease by two and half times the
amount of water that can be stored in
the irrigation reservoir. The raising
OF the dam will result in the submerg.
Ing of the Island Of Philae and the
flooding of the ruins of the temples.
The island itself is a small granite
rock about a thousand feet long and
5OO feet wide. 1t was the scene of
the worship Of the goddess Isis. Many
pilgrims from various parts of the an.
Client world visited the shrine when
the religion of Isis was most widely
spread. The wOrshipers of other gods
built temples near that of Isis. so that
Chere appeared on the small island a
splendid collection of examples of the
best architecture of the various pc
RODS in which they were erected.
The enlarged dam will make possible
an annual increase of the cotton crop
OF Egypt amounting to between $1S,-
100000 and $2O,OOO,OOO in value.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

A number of years back a burlv
western Kansas man gave his nenbew
a lad of Is years, an unmerited cbas.
using. The boy promised his assaiI.
ant like compliment when he he.
came a man, and he did not forget the
words uttered in the heat of passion
Inc uncle was about his duties on the
tarm one day last winter when q
husky six-footer came I'D and gsve
ann glorious humping. It was the
4o-year-old nephew, only he WAS sir
years older. Then the uncle sued for
#l'VOO for personal injuries inflicted
an unsympathetic jury couldn't see II
'hat way and he took the case to the
supreme court. Last week that All,
gust body handed down a decision af.
hrming the lower courts decision
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
Co.oPERAToR CLIPPINGS.

1t is better to be an independent
farmer than a dependent Spectator.
NO, no. A business organization can
not be political. This is a business or.
ganlzation composed of people of the
various political beliefs. We will stay
on the main track.
The Old system Of marketing is fast
falling OF its own weight. We have
mad Two systems of marketing cotton.
We are now building the third, the
correct, the just system.
Wealth belongs, or should belong to
him who creates it. The wealth pro.
ducers will get what is rightly their
own when they properly understand
each other.
Let us never thing that the other
fellow will change the system and
build a new one for us. We are doing
it. Keep up the good work.
Have you yet arranged to have that
supper for your local? 1t will, do you
much good. There are yet few men
and women in your community who
should become members of your local.
How wonderfully our Farmers I'm.
inc has grown in the past little more
than four years! Starting with ten
members, it now numbers more than
100000, an increase of /, 100000 per
cent! These are stupendous figures
that almost bewilder one to contem.
plate. That is not all! We are in.
creasing at the rate Of 5000 day or
over 100000 per annum. It will not
be long until we have them all at this
rate.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL
AND
COOPERATIVE union
- OF AMERICA -

The manufacturers Of farming tools
and vehicles had a meeting recently,
and the whole trend of the talk was
that prices must be advanced. Now,
it is the easiest thing in the world to
meet this advance, if the farmers
would only do it. The way to do it is
to put every farming tool every We
hicle and every implement on the
place under shelter every night when
at all practicable, and never leave
anything out in the weather for a sin
gle moment when it can be put into a
phase of safety and protection. If the
farmers would do this, it would cut
the demands for such things fully half
in two. Would half of the demand
bring the price down? You bet it
would. The factories are now running
over time, and the dealers are hardly
able to get stocked up at all. Cut the
demand in two, and the factories
would Immediately seek a market, and
the "OverprOduCtiOn of cotton would
have a parallel. At any rate, this
sort of thing on the part of the farm
ers would be the only sensible thing to
do anyway. How much better a tool
works when it is clean and ready at
the commencement of the job, instead
of having to be used half a day to get
it so that it can be decently used.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

The only question about the Union
in the minds Of many people seems to
be whether the Farmers Union is the
Order that has come to stay" 1t is
no longer questioned as to the wisdom
of farmers getting together as all
other workers are doing. Every man
who has sense enough to come in out
OF the rain knows that this is the only
salvation of the farmer Now, as
there is nothing else under heaven,
even claiming to be farmers organ
ization, it looks funny to see anyone
longer hesitate. Get in on the ground
floor.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
Return of the Prndir,I

y do play in tough luck sometime,n
declared the impecunious girl. LAS.
night, you remember how it raiDed 7
happened to be in the neighborbooa
Of some friends of mine whom | had
not seen since the last hard rain 7
concluded to call. Before they asked
me in they grabbed the umbrella 7
carried, hurried across the room with
it, placed it in a closet there and
locked the door on it. THANK
heayen." they cried. AT last! On,
long lost umbrella"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

1t is time that the Unions were ia.
king some notice of the movement to
fill the South with emigrants from all
over Europe, and particularly from
Spain and Italy. This means the plant.
ing of more cotton and the consump-
ton OF no more cotton; the produc-
ton of more food stuff, and the sale of
less, to the Southern farmer. This is a
condition that must be met, and right
away.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

Every now and then we read of the
So-andsO Farmers Union Debating
Club. That sounds mighty good to the
old-timer, who in The days gone by
joined in the country debating club,
and decided whether the Monroe Doc
trine should be enforced as a matter
Of right, or as a matter of expediency,
or some other equally profound sub
ject.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

There must be warehouses, and the
farmer should own them. He has the
cotton at first hand, it has cost him
less than it will cost anybody else, If
1t is sold at the right price, and he can
therefore, hold it to better advantage
than somebody who has to buy it and
then add his cost and expenses.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
Good for the Blues

Is your appetite on a vacation, your
energy absent, and everything else
out of "Whack?" If so, you had bet.
ter take something and take it now.
Simmons Sarsaparilla is the King Of
TONES. It will make you eat all you
want to pay for. Try it and hear your
self laugh again.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO! E,

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he e ssnla,
part@cr OF the hrm Of +. }. CHENEY & Co.. dSrs
business in tLo City If Toledo. County and Sisis
Aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum q;
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and eysrv
case Of CATARRH that cannot be cured BY the use n
HALLS CATAREI CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY,
Sworn 70 before me and subscribed ia Inv pre.eDcs
this 9TH day Of December, \. D.. 1855.
j. W. GLEASON,
lLi NOTAET PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure "a taken Internally and se1
directly On the blood AMI mucous surfaces Of he
system. send for tesIim mjdl, free
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O,
Sold By all Druggists 1iC.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
No Time for Extras.

Tiny Sister crushing into big SIS.
ter's room)-Please hurry, Lulu; Mr..
White is downstairs. Lulu livery
grandly, while she dabs her face with
the powder puff-Very well, dear; I'D
be down, Tiny Sister (nervously)-0h,
please don't wait to shave!-Woman'
Home Companion.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

The Farmers Union should stand I'D
for the quality of stuff under the Farm
ers' Union label. Make it a guarantee
OF first quality, and it will need no
sort of boosting to keep the price
right. But don't amalgamate with
other orders.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

There is a constant tendency in the
minds of some of the Farmers Union
people to want to mix up and ANAL
gamate with the labor unions of the
towns and cities. They make a serious
mistake. There is little or nothing in
common between them, and the whole
idea comes from politicians who would
like to ride the organizations into
office, or business men" who want to
make good by fleeing somebody. No.
thank you, the farmers will be kept
so busy tending to their own business
that the won't have time along in
August to look at all the Amalgamated
Haymakers' cards to see whether all
the students from the Eastern col
lege8 who come west to work in the
fields have paid all their assessments
to the union. No, the thing is too
many; the farmers are farming now,
and are not making shoe laces.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
IS MARS |XHAB!TED??
RIDDLE ASTRONOMER WILL Try
TO SOLVE.
Prof. Todd, of Amherst, Sails for
South America Where Planet Will
Be Studied from High
Peaks of Andes.

PEAKS or Andes.
New YOrk.-The riddle Of the planet
Mars may be brought nearer solu-
Ion by the Lowell expedition. headed
by Prof. Todd, of Amherst college,
cow enroute to South America, where,
high in the peaks of the Andes, pho.
.ographs Of the mysterious planet
Will be taken through mammoth tele-
scope by a specially constructed cam
era. When these photographs are de-.
veloped the question that puzzled Sir
William HerSChel and later caused
Prof. Percival Lowell, of the Massa-
chusettS Institute of Technology, to
spend a fortune in astronomical OBJ
servations in the high altitude of
Flagstaff, Ariz., may be an open book
to science.
rs Mars Inhabited and are
those strange markings which radi-
ate in seeming design from the polar
caps where the supposed Marian
cOac oviot ort;Go;ol 80, ,a.,,olou
Thoao 49,, .,,.Nt,Ni.
nCmical problems which the little ex-
petition led by Prof. David Todd, sail,
,+ooa,or $780,. ~, "U , -'',i''l ~" w INC
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tiors"
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bIa davs in Now yorl met hoforo call.
mo tryirg - find hi, r,iss;rg to,ooooro
ubiob uos on hood . ,ooror+ froiabt
,or ~ +bo roi1rood ,.ord, ora donIinod
- bo fornd until tbo Ion+ ,,,f,r+o Tho
orofeseor soid no bonod 70 have loco
1ifficuItv in finding tho Marian canals
Sneakfnq Of the MANS of the exnedi.
ion Prof Todd said.
"Fror Panama wo will nrooood 70
ir,a por,, and from +baro osoo,d
Q OO0 foot IN tho Ardec wbore tho at.
nosnboro is noted for its oIoorroso
md stoodirooo Tho b;gb nowor
ensns which wn will rsa MAGNIFY the
,ir and its vibrations the Same num.
,pr of times az tho object unon which
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31

To improve the general health, take
Garfield Tea daily for a time; it purlhess
The blood, eradicates rheumatism and
many chronic ailments and keeps the
health good. Garfield Tea is made OF
herbs; it is guaranteed under the Pure
Food and Drugs Law. Garfield Tea Co,
Brooklyn, n. Y.