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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

tions at both services. The pastor
preached in the morning to the child
rem from the text For man looketh on
the outward appearance, but Coo
loOketh on the heart" lSt Samuel, 10:
=. The sermon was illustrated and
the grown people seemed to enjoy
it as we'll as the children.
The pastor will be away next Sab
bath attending the Minister'S Institute
at Lake Charles, Rev. Jas. Ellis will
occupy the pulpit.
Miss Lucy Ketch, Miss Ethel Moor
and D. F. Peterseim were elected dele
gates to the Ministerial Institute by
the Epworth League.
Mr.. E. E. Kimball and his Sunday
school class are raising a fund fol
the famine stricken people OF China
and Japan. They invited the other
classes of the Sunday school to loir
them in their good work.
Mr.. Harry Patterson will lead thu
young peoples meeting next Sabbath
evening. Subject: Counting tht
Cost"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
Crop and Weather.
eat.

While many farmers are reporting
that they are having to plant over a
portion Of their rice, vet more of it is
coming up than was expected, as re-
suit of the long dry spell which baked
the ground to such au extent that the
rice was unable TO break through the
crust, and 80 sprouted and died, or
rolled in the ground.
The heaviest rain of the year began
falling here Tuesday night and con-
tinued throughout the day Wednesday,.
Thursday it was still cold and cloudy.
There is now more water in the bayOus
than there has been before this winter.
1t will be several days before farmers
can get into their fields again.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
Wall Paper 5oTRS 1i ' BOOK :f srcnr Prices Right

the highest degree of piety, one mus
not permit impiety to engender bitter
ness of soul. We are liable to rend-
er our own efforts fruitlesS. Each
church and pastor must study each in.
dividual case in quiet, dispassionate
manner. Much prayer and patient Ia
Dor must characterize their efforts.
The pastor himself must not relax his
efforts, nor become influenced by the
spirit of impiety, even though it may
seem uppermost in the church. 1t is
frequently necessary to prune the vine,
but the skilful vine dresser does not
indiscriminately cut and tear the vine
because large number Of branches
seem unfruitful. The Skilful surgeon
realizes that the nervous system is a
unit and he must use the knife so that
there will be the least possible pain
and the greatest possible good to re-
suit from the operation. The pastor
and church must not be lead into ac-
ton by what is, in effect, personal
feeling, but what may be mistaken for
a burning zeal for the Lords work
Impious and unruly members are al
ways "a source of anxiety 10 the more
deyout and they are often ready to
expell them from the church, and
many pastors, whose souls are vexed
by the maynard lives of some mem
bers, make wrong step right here.
They take sides" and soon the church
is in a division, and he, who other
wise might have been an agency fol
good, is forced to abandon the field
permenantly, and an odium is left up
on the church which years of labor
and PRAYER alone can remove. Tht
pastor should be sure that he /:
prompted by the Christ spirit before
he is led into action. Piety is grace
suited TO adOrn a preacher, ana WIN
out which he is not likely to impress
the impious of his church. When TIT
I wayward sheep is to be brought home
: the Good Shepherd will lay it upol
his shoulder, 1t is never kicked ant
t cutfed into the fold. Those lackinl
q piety are to be laid upon the bosom
: the pastor, His heart is to take ther
: to God in prayer.
= One other means, which | am per
;, suaded is very effective, is the sermon
Too often we 'score" the waywar
y, from the pulpit. The pulpit covers
;, multitude of sins now days. Onyon
" can stand behind the pulpit and dc
nounce, but only the strong heart ca
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
Tired women.

What numbers of women drss ., n.
ties de, that hi crowd brain and hand nd, 20 .
t heart. But Iife's work must SUI a., y
Shs ra" TO- suffering u women Il give
strength and quiet to the si .lss the The sp
tones the digestion, improve; Vino sleep,
petite, brings restfal, reire sd. he sJy
regulates every function, rlos or On he
tenn of malaria, puts rooe' And Is
checks. and jig in the near, .on tbss
does it in d way so ditterenS s. Ut !. calls
of ordinary medicines 'p nSIs.ssaut 10
forth the loudest praises, !, nos. 50
take as lemonade. Try ut J. sale sale bfI
cents, six for $50: o For prus
Cooper Drug Co., and CreS''
Store.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

bear with the upruly, and plead with
and instruct them in the way OF The
Lord. There should be more OF The
teaching, or instructive element in ae
sermons. Kindly bring their attention
to the real benefit to be derived from
a life of piety. MANY of these unfort'
innate people do not know that there !
a real JOY in a pious life. They muI
be kindly instructed.
Another thought is, that they shoul
be directed into some cOngsnial lineq
christian activity. The old adsge'
"an idle! mind is the devils WORK
shop" may be slightly changed ini0
"an idle soul becomes the devils
prey" and will often fit the case verJ
| well.
| But after all of the churches prayeI
and the pastors labor and tears, SOM
still remain hardened too SAD! u
only remains to cut them on iKs
hardened and painful corns' II hsl
must ache, they had better ache %
than on.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

The meeting conducted by the Junior
and Senior Endeavors jointly was
very interesting. The subject was
omissions in Asia"
A new class of Sunday school work
ers was organized to be known as the
''Earnest Workers Glass" The class
is composed of the teachers and offic-
ers and others who may be interested
and is intended to prepare the lessons
ahead of the school, studying two
weeks in advance. Class meets twice
each month
Ruling Elder, r. NJ, Lawson was
absent last Sunday attending meet
ing of the Presbytery held at Slaugh
ter, LIS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
A Bad Negro with a Gun, Taken to the
Lake Thursday.

While searching for the negro, who
stole the goods from Kahn'S store, a
party of deputies ran across hard
looking saddle colored negro, who
was unable to give good account OF
himself aud who, upon being searched,
was found to be a gun tOter." He
was brought to Welsh and taken over
to the Lake by Deputy Figueron
Thursday morning, where he will
have a chance to explain matters to
Judge Miller.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
BAPTIST CHURCH.

There we're good congregations ut
both hours. The hand of fellowship
was extended to one new member in
the morning.
The Sunday school shows live in
terest. The monthly report for April
showed very satisfactory condition.
The regular missionary meeting OF
the Ladies' Auxiliary was held at the
residence of DR.. j. Fl. Cooper Thurs
day afternoon. Mrs. Grain was the
leader and omissions in Africa" the
subject.
Miss Winnie Lewis, the superintena'
ent of the cradle roll, will hold a spe'
cial cradle roll service next Sunday
when number will be promoted from
the cradle rca, to the primary depart
ment. ..I -
The subject of thu evening sermon
next Sunday will be The Desclpal'
Goal" This will be the lasG a. q 8 tseIrle
of evening sermons on "Descipleshir'
HOW MAY WE INCREASE PIETY IN o.
CHURCHES?
paper read before the Welsh Ministers Cor
ference by Rev. II, NJ. Crain.)
, l. The question raised, NATURAL
assumes that personal devotion
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

He had just mounted when the horse
darted under the clothes line, throwing
Joe backward, hurting his back and
skinning his face and neck.
C. B. Hanley attended the basket
supper of the Catholic church in Welsh
and reported a very enjoyable time
and from the number of beautiful
baskets he carried home, we Judge
there was no end of the good things tC
eat.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
The Churches.
MINISTER'S CONFERENCE.
Rev. III. NJ, GRAIN, Editor.

The Minister'S Conference held their
regular meeting Monday at 1000 a. m
at the Baptist church, all being pres
ent but Rev. Price, who was absent at
a meeting of the Synod. Some final
plans we're made regarding the union
gospel meetings and the corporation
of the churches.
A most helpful and practical paper
was read by Brother Grain on "How
can we increas piety in our churches?
in which he dealt with some common
and perplexing problems that touch
the problem of etfectual church work.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

The young lady operators at the
Plaquemine telephone exchange OF the
Cumberland Telephone company have
gone on strike, and the exchange is
out OF business. The girls struck for
the trivial reason that the telephone
company wished to increase the num-
Der of hours work day and decrease
the pay; also to compel the operators
to work all day Sunday and TO take
turns at night and TO sleep at the eX-
chandge without extra pay for night
service. The Cumberland is the most
grasping and constituencies corpora
ton on earth. Doing business as it
does, largely by favor Of the public,
using the public thOroughfares and
planting its poles in the streets and
highways, it is as liberal hearted and
generous toward the public as a
Chinese mISer would be toward a mis-.
| siOnary fund. 1t has not a single in.
stinct except toward greed and penuri'
BUSINESS. Towards the public it pre-.
tends to serve, and the ill-paid, over
worked employees who serve it, its
one policy is the policy Of eXtortion
Lake Charles American.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
A Narrow Escape.

G. w. Cloyd, a merchant of PUNK,
Mo-, had a narrow escape four years
ago, when he ran a jimson burr
into his thumb. He says: "The doc
tor wanted to amputate it, but would
not consent. | bought box of Buck
lens Arnica Salve, and that cured
the dangerous wound" p cents at
all druggists.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
Immigrants.

Persons able to offer employment
after arrival, on farms, plantations,
ETC., to a number Of European peas.
ant families 70 be brought to LOuisi.
ana by the State Department OF In.
migration within the next few months,
are requested to communicate With
Reginald DykerS, Immigrant Distri.
buting Agent of this Department, S3|
Carondetet g New Orleans. La.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
Don't Pay AiimOny

TO be divorced from your appendix.
There will be no occasion for it if
YOU keep your bowels regular with
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Their aC-
ton is so gentle that the appendix
never has cause to make the least
complaint. Guaranteed by all drug
gistS. - cents. Try them.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
Season for Friend. Making.

Crowley Signal: Me, | got plsn !,
frand, yes! Ev'ry time l pass on J !.
town some mans she slap me % !
back an say Jean Pierre you =
fran. Come take de small arin. !,
How come? Mus be some pow"
dat. nO?r
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
Welsh Teachers are in Demand.

Nj. D. Ritter and Miss Claudia
Gordon were married at Beaumont
and returned to the city this, Wednes-
day morning, where they will reside.
Times Record.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

Our fresh meat department, like the
store, will not be kept open on Sun
day. 7. W. Daniels.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

We gratefully acknowledge invita-
tions from Clyde and Myrtle LaRue,
to attend the Lake Charles high school
graduating exercises, held at the Pier
on the evening of May second. Clyde
and Myrtle will be remembered by
many in Welsh as two Of the bright
est pupils of our city schools, until
their removal to Lake Charles about
two years ago. In Lake Charles they
have stood high in their classes and
we congratulate them on having com
pleted the course Of study in the Lake
Charles schools.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

We can save you money on fertili
ger, A. r. ArceneauX.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
METHODIST CHURCH.

Last Sabbath was good day at the
Methodist church. Good congrega.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

p. w. Daniels has ad'
ded a fresh meat depart
ment to his store, and So
licits a share of your pat
r0nage,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03

Rice Bran at Jones Bros.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05
A G o WINS

For the first time in the history of
Amherst College, a colored youth
WINS the most coveted prize. Arthur
Curtis, son of DR.. A. M. Curtis. former
surgeon-in-chief of Freedman's Hos
pital, and n of the leading surgeons
OF the race, won the Amherst cup
Tor the best individual debate at the
nnual contest. What makes the hon
ors higher still, Arthur Curtis is a
Junior classman and is the first sun
Tor to ever win the cup. We congrat-
uiate the young man and his parents
and the entire rae upon this double
victory at a time when so much is
said about the Negroes ability to win
on his merits. Here in one of the
leading colleges of the nation where
The whites are a hundred to one. the
Negro wins the best prize under the
decision of white men. This same
rule is true at Harvard, Yale. and the
other leading institutions of learning
that admit our race. All we ask for
IS a fair chance, an open field and a
fair fight,
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05

Graves the classical monomaniac OF
Atlanta, Ca. has advocated the same
proposition for several years.
1t seems that the less some of the
Governors of the South know of the
true inwardness of what they call the
Negro Problem, the more ready they
are to advance fantastic theories for
its solution. Even if Gov. Broward's
plans were feasible, the white bust
ness man and farmer of the South
would offer such strong objections to
its adoption that not a demagogue who
had a desire to hold his seat in Con-
gress would dare favor it. The South
needs the Negroes labor too much for
a sensible man to talk of getting rid
of them. The Governor in the absence
of anything else to say on the prob
lem is talking buncombe:
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05
BUNCOMBE.

The Governor of florida in his mes
sage to the legislature, noting the
strained relations between the races,
recommends that a resolution be
passed memorializing Congress to pur-
chase territory either domestic or
foreign, and segregate all the Negroes
OF the country there and force them to
stay. There is nothing unique in the
Governors proposition, 1t belongs to
the same family as does Bishop
turner's plan to have all the Negroes
In America go to AFRICA and if our
memory is not at fault, John Temple
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05
A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO
WASHINGTON.

The doctrine of optimism is the
doctrine of h%opefulness, and this was
never more forcibly preached to the
race than was done by one of it's most
powerful leaders, Booker r. Washing
ton, before n of the most apprecia-
tive and representative audiences in
an address to the graduating classes
of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy
OF Meharry Medical College at Ryman
Auditorium, Friday evening. March
20.
Mr.. Washington, the apostle of in
dustrial education, was never O
happy in the presentation of a strong
and practical speech, replete with
that sterling good sense for which he
is universally noted. He indeed is
not only a hopeful man, but a man of
action, push and executive ability. II
is not truer of any other than of
Washington that he is worthy to lead.
worthy to point the rising young men
and women to the possibilities of the
future.
AS one sits and listens at this truly
great man fired by his theme, talking
straight at his hearers the greatest
possible good sense, one cannot but
be inspired by his words of wisdom,
one cannot but go forth again into
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05
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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05

the world more hopeful of the future
and more determined to take up the
battle of life with fresher courage.
He counsels every member of the
race to help solve the problem of the
race; this, Mr.. Washington empha-
sizes, may be done by each working
out his own individual success, moral
ly, Intellectually, financially and relig-
iously.
Mr.. Washington's address to the
largest class of colored medicos that
has ever gone forth into the world
at n time from any Medical institu-
ton of this or any other country, was
a mastery effort fraught with the
most wholesome advice. He meas
ured up to his reputation as a sound
adviser and covered himself with un-
dying glory by his earnest, eloquent
plea for the Negro to meet all condi-
tons, however trying, with a strong
and manly courage. He tried to i'm
press the fact that complaining of op-
preston or usurped rights or any of
the opposing forces to the race would
effect nothing and had nothing in
common with it's betterment. He
made the point that if we became a
constructive people, a productive peo-
pie that all the other things would ad-
just themselves in time.
Mr.. Washington is a ~forceful and
forclble speaker who is justly classed
as an orator-and an orator who will
rank with the best that this country
can now boast of. There is that air
or earnestness and seriousness about
the man, when swept on by the work
lngs OF his own well-balanced mind
as he unbosoms himself Of some great
truth for the %edification of his people.
that leaves no doubt of his sincerity.
And the people give evidence of their
faith n his sincerity in no uncertain
or h~alf-hearted way. When he holds
up a truth in his clear, strong and
characteristic way, they applaud the
effort to the echo.
NO greater compliment can be paid
an orator than that close, silent and
respectful attention which admits of
his every word being heard. Such was
the tribute paid Mr.. Washington in
his address to the Medical class of
Meharry and before one of the most
cultured, refined and a~ppreciative au-
dlences at Ryman Auditorium last
Friday evening.
Mr.. Washington, among other great
Negroes, is doing much for the race
III preaching the gospel of hope, cour-
and work which in the coming wears
will enevitably result in concrete rae.
lal achievements as opposed to alb
stract, Individual achievement as now
obtains.
There are those who may differ
with Mr.. Washington along some
INES, but that he has and is accom-
pl1shing much for his people cannot
be denied.
The people have a duty to perform
and that is to hold up the hands of
the leaders and strengthen them by
words of cheer, letting them know
that their efforts are receiving hearty
appreciation.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05
A POLITICAL TRICK.

1t has been a source of regrets to
those who have at heart the best in
terests of the Negro that in elections,
upon moral questions like that of the
abolition of the saloons, a majority Of
our rae is usually lined up on the
side of the whiskey clement. In the
election Of Knoxville the only wards
to give Q majority for the retention Of
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05
TWO NOTABLE ADDRESSES.

DR.. Booker T. Washington, than
whom there is no better known Ne
gro in the United States, delivered
two notable addresses in this city last
Friday. In the first, before the stu.
dents of Vanderbilt University and
some of the white ministers Of the
city, he spoke of how the white mar
car help the Negro. In the second,
before the graduating classes Of the
Meharry Colleges, he addressed him
self to the problems that confront the
Negro.
In the speech before the whites, Mr..
Washington told some plain truths
which may be epitomized in the clos
ing paragraph Of his address:
Let each Individual as often as pos
sible put his hand upon his heart, and
with an earnest prayer, ask his Maker
how. If he we're placed in the position
of the Negro, he would like to be treat
ed, and when that question has been
prayerfully and conscientiously an
swered, in a large degree our problem
will have been solved"
In his address before the colored
people at the Ryman Auditorium, DR..
Washington dwelt with much empha-
sis upon the problems that confront
us as a race. AS In previous adj
dresses, he insisted that the greatest
problem before us is one Of construc-
ton, And IN this connection he paid
a high compliment TO a citizen of
Nashville, who without arguing the
abstract theory as whether or not the
Negro could establish and conduct a
publishing house, had gone ahead and
built n which stands as a monument
OF the inherent possibilities of the
race.
The race press, the magnetic DR..
Washington says, is all wrong. It de-
votes more space to the publishing Of
an account of the refusal of a ham
sandwich to a man than it does to the
establishment Of a bank. Evidently
the good Doctor reads only a few Of
the race journals, or else he would not
make the statement. Perhaps his is
one Of those families which refuse to
let colored newspapers come into the
house because they give to the chill
dren the idea that ours is a sick race"
DR.. Washington, however, is undoubt-
eddy right when he says that the
greatest problem before the race at the
present is one of construction.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05

We are in receipt Of a copy of the
report of the second annual convention
Of the Mississippi Negro Business
League, which was held at Jackson,
Miss, juno 18th and 18th of last year.
The report which was compiled by w.
A. Scott, A. B., Phi. d., of Edwards,
Miss, shows in the addresses of the
several persons who addressed the
convention, and especially Chas.
Banks, the President, that optimistic
spirit which has done so much to adj
vance the state in business in the past
hve years.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05

We wish some one would tell us
what Secretary Cortelyou did with the
petition to have the Negro draughts-
MAI removed from the department to
which he had been assigned. Judging
from the Secretary's record, we ex-
pected to hear him say that if the
clerks did not like the new acquisi-
ton they were not compelled to stay.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05

Roosevelt undoubtedly wishes there
was such az offense as leSe majeSte in
this country. If there were our siren.
uous President would have Hartman
confined "at once and without honor"
Teddy would also be relieved from
such a frequent use of the word liar.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-05

The present legislature seems to be
better in some respects than the sew
eral that have preceded it. They have
been too blsy s%quabbling to discuss
us. However, the Senate in a COM
mittee composed of the whole added
$4,000 for scholarships for colored
children.