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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-07-26

entered the Boston Mountains. which
are range of the Ozark group, in
which there is much beautiful scenery,
although in no wise comparable in
grandeur to that OF the western Sec
ton of the United States. We then
entered the Indian Territory, where
agriculture is in a hOurishing condi-
ton, corn and cotton vieing with each
other in point of excellence. The best
crops prevail in this section of any
along the entire route.
The country for % miles around
Joplin, Missouri, and Pittsburg,
Kansas, is studded with numerous
mining camps, where lead, zinc, and
coal are mined in immense quantities.
This region furnishes one third of the
worlds out put Of zinc, and Pitts
burg boasts the largest smelter in
the United States, the same covering
an area of l3 acres,
The corn through western Missouri
is very backward, due to the cold, wet
spring; much of it is very foul and OF
poor color, although there are occa-
siOnal fields that are in excellent con-
dition. There seems to be little or no
prospect for an apple crop, except in
the vicinity of Sloan, where they
have fine crop.
Sloan is ENJOYING her Summer
Chautauaua, and is was stated that
5000 people attended Monday even
ing's attraction.
| All the region from the north line
of Louisiana to Kansas City has been
J visited by a heavy rainfall within the
! past few days. which goes far toward:
insuring the maturing Of the growing
cpops. De IL. READ.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-07-26

of this peach district, they are ship
ping out this luscious fruit at the rate
of from six to ten car loads per day,
sending them to all parts of the
United States. There are buyers here
from New York, Boston, Washington
Chicago and other northern cities,
who are grabbing up the peaches as
fast as they can get sight Of them.
They are sold in 4 and 6 basket.
Six basket crates, which contain 2l3
bushels, selling Monday at $l,75 to
to $l.87! per crate. Many orchards
are bringing their owners from 81, 800
to $40, 900 per acre. One gentleman al
DeQueen has a ten-acre orchard for
which he is offered $1,000 for this
years crop. This is said to be the
finest orchard in the peach belt, al
though one of the smallest. The or.
chards range in size, from a few acres
up to 1000 and 5000 acres. The AL
berta peach is raised exclusively here
and planted upon the toughest and
hilliest ground in the country, land
which has formerly been covered with
timber. pine and hardwood, ani
which will not raise anything else il
paying quantities. This land in the
raw state is worth IS to $40 per acre
This is but comparatively new in
dustry here, but a number of men arr
making independent fortunes 81 III
After leaving the peach district W.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-07-26
things Seen From the Kansas CITY
Southern.

Realizing that the readers of the
Journal are affected to considerable
extent, and therefore interested in
conditions of other sections than our
own, We will endeayor to give in this
letter brief account of conditions as
seen and learned on a trip from De-
Quincy to Kansas City.
AS most of our readers know, the
country adjacent the Kansas City
Southern, for the first three hundred
miles, is in no sense an agricultural
region, and it is only after one gets
veil up into Arkansas that the coun-
Try mag really be termed agricultu-
raj. Yet, from Leesville north there
Is quite sprinkling of corn and cot
ION to be found growing on the cut
over pine lands, aud most of it is in
excellent condition, and with the re-
. cent rains which have visited this re-
aiol, fair crop is practically as
sured. While this region cannot
boast of It's agriculture it can success
lully lay claim to being the richest
and must extensive yellow pine dis
Flet IL the United States at the pres
els time. And the l56 saw mills OPP
eratlng in this district are turning out
immense quantities of the best long
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
The Tell Tale Voice.

'If you want to tell whether or not
the man you are talking to is telling
the truth don't look him in the eyes"
said Denver bank teller to some
friends. 1T is the voice, when you
don't look at the eyes, that tells you
whether the other fellow is lying. We
use the system frequently in the bank.
A man win come in to tell us some
business tale. We look at his feet or
his hands or his knees. but never in
his eyes. If he's telling the truth his
voice will be firm and Straightforward,
and the absence Of your gaze in his
eyes will not affect it, But if he's
lying he'll be confused by your ac
ton, and his voice will tremble; he'll
hem and haw, and clear his throat.
You may rest assured then that he's
stringing you"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
PUBLIC OPINION.
Power Of the Country Press and Ita
Influences Upon the Community.

While the influences of the great
city papers are recognized and the
great magazines fill necessary field.
neither of these conveyers OF general
information can ever supplant the field
that is occupied by the country press.
The home paper is the medium that
conveys local intelligence to its read
ers. It fills place in the journalistic
world that no other publication can
ever supplant. The country press il
one of the greatest powers in the
holding of public opinion. 1t may not
be up to the highest classical standard,
but its Tough literary gems are contin-
ually shining Respondent and cast
their rays in the most remote corners
Of the land. 1t is a power for good.
In its reflections of events, In the local
field are shown the progress of the
people whom 1t represents. It is the
mirror of the condition OF the town
and the country. The residents OF
every community should take the
greatest pride in assisting in making
the home press more powerful. Stand
up for your home paper, 1t Is the one
staunch advocate Of your local inter-
ests and to an extent is indicative OF
either your prosperity or your lack Of
progress.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
A conaumntlve Hood.

The flocking of consumptives from
all parts OF the country to the south
west has created problems in the lat
ter region with which the various
states are dealing in different ways
In Texas the state health officer has
Just issued statement in which, he
says that victims of tuberculosis in
its advanced stages will be debarred
from entering or remaining in that
state. He declares that conditions
make such a rule imperative So
many INDECENT consumptives have
been pouring in and becoming charges
on the public that the people of Ger
tain sections are seriously burdened
in caring for such patients. This in
crease of the pauper population not
only works hardships on taxpayers,
but the scattering throughout the
state of throngs of tuberculosis suffer.
ers OF all classes causes an inability
to control the spread of the disease.
This is rather hard on health seekers,
but Texas surely cannot be blamed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
lndla's Curse.


one o. the great perils of India is
Ane danger from serpents and wild
beasts, which annually cause enor.
NOUS loss of life in that part of the
world. There is a belief in many
pagan minds which prevents the kill.
ing OF wild animals, no matter how
Aeroeious they may be, and which
leaves undisturbed the most venom
Gus snakes. The awful havoc wrought
py serpents in made the subject of
o1lcfal mention in a report by William
n. hlchal, the American consul gen
eraL at Calcutta, in which that gentle
man says: THE serpent question is
sun very live very serious ques-
lion In India. Snake bites occur fire.
duent!y, and they are generally in
hlcted by venomous snakes, like the
cobra" Then he relates that last
year there were reported 21,797
ueaths from snake bite. But it is
admitted that the statistics are kept
very loosely, and it is believed the
actual fatalities will exceed the
quoted figures by at least SO per cent
Inis sort of thing has gone on indeti-
hitely, and for at least 80 years the
total has averaged as high as that of
1906. Add to this the ravages of
hesn-eating beasts, including the
tigers and lions, many of which be-
come man killers" and some concep
ton may be formed of the result.
India is a country of many millions
population, but the census would show
still greater growth were there some
weltorganized effort in the way of
disposing of its noxious wild crea-
lures.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
Plea for EnIlstino,

No man who will look carefully
into the work of the army of the navy
can fail to realize that a career in
either branch of our military service
is one to which any man may give
himself with the fullest devotion and
with the highest ideals Americans,
as rule, know little about the actual
work of either of these services, and
few realize that when a man enters
the service of the army or of the
navy, whether as officer or as enlist
school in which is taught not only the
discipline of self-restraint, of cleanli-
ness, of devotion to duty, tzt in
which are taught also the elements
of an education, says H S. Pritchett,
in Atlantic. An enlisted man who
enters regiment of the army, barely
able to read or write, comes out, if he
be man of ambition and industry,
at the end of three years, in posses
sion of the fundamentals of an Eng
hsh education. His officer stands to
him not only in the relation of mill
tary director, but in the relation also
OF teacher and of a friend. There
Is no career open to an American boy,
unless it be that of a teacher, which
offers larger opportunity than that
Of the army or navy officer to minis
Ger to the service of men.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17

lion existing between the two mis-
slons. The missionaries are the only
white people in Pyeng Yang, except
one French tradesman and a French
priest Their social solidarity is as
marked as the unity of their labors.
The three hospitals are run as one,
although maintaining, in some re-
spects, their separate identity. The
largest is the Presbyterian hospital,
conducted by DR.. ]. H. Wells, and min
istering to about 10000 patients a
year. DR.. E. D. Follwell, at the Meth
odist hospital, treats about 5000, and
DR.. Hall, whose work is entirely for
women. about 5000 patients year.
Jointly, the two men doctors are train
ing % students, who not only pay for
their instruction, and for the privilege
Of working in the hospital, but are
also required to do evangelistfc work
among the patients. One notable char
acteriStic of these hospitals, which are
almost entirely self-supporting, is he
adaptation to the Korean style of liv-
ing. While they have wards contain
ing beds, most of their patients sleep
on the floor. as in their OWE homes.
and are there treated. Like Korean
houses these wards have heated floors
DR.. Wells has been consptcuousiy sue.
cessful in curing the morphine habit,
which the Japanese have introduced
among the Koreans.
Adaptation is one of the character
istics of mission work in Pyeng Yang.
Approaching the city, the visitor can
not at first distinguish the missionary
compounds from the native homes. All
the residences and the school build
ings, and all except one of the
churches (the Methodist), are built in
native style. The interiors Of the
homes are naturally adapted to the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17

Pyeng Yang, Korea.-To the trav.
eler in Korea, Pyeng, the second
city in the empire, is notable as
boat-shaped city where the peo-
pie are afraid to dig wells lest they
should sink the city; and as the an
cient capital Of the nation where Keja
who was Korea's Peter the Great, ruled
about the time King David was on the
throne OF Israel and Keja's grave and
he1a's we'll are still preserved. To the
religious world, Pyeng Yang Is known
as the center of the most remarkable
missionary work now under way any
where on the earth.
Within Is years q Christian con.
stituency of 5000 persons, that is
doubling itself annually. has been built
up and in the surrounding country the
number amounts to more than $4,000.
AS an instance of the way in which
the church grows may be mentioned
the fact that the mother church Of
Pyeng Yang has swarmed three times
within four years and yet retains a
membership of GA communicates
and 334 catechumens. The church.
which seats 1900 persons on its floor
of course there are no pews or
chatrs-is crowded every Sunday.
The attendance at the mid-week pray
er meeting ranges from more than 700
to 1,200 or 1900. The smallest of the
congregations which have gone out
from Central church numbers more
than ESQ members; the largest twice
that many.
Where Religion Han Introduced Baths.
All of these congregations are en-
tirely self-supporting. and they man
tain several religious enterprises, such
as day schools, eolporteurs and book
store and library. They have estab-
lished school for the blind. and have
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
The Advantage Of Reading.

BEG pardon, SIR said the weary
hobo as he stood at the farmhouse
door, but might sleep in your barn
tonight? I haven't had a roof over
my head for ten days
Il congratulate you," said the kind
~ farmer. THAT is a splendid thing.
have just read in one of my ten-cent
magazines that it is not too much to
say that to the delicate, highly-strung,
easily-knocked-up individual the ad-
yantages of sleeping in the open air
are enormous. Pallid cheeks take on
a rudy hue, colds are unknown,
nerves are forgotten, and irritability
becomes a phase of the past. A
small plot and little perseverance
are the only necessaries and the re-
suit is assured. You are very well
come to the use of my potato patch,
and my sky is at your disposal. -
Judge
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
starllnhn Enn.staalnrs

A correspondent, writing from
Leith, England, expresses a strong
opinion tina tstarlings rob small birds
nests.
Some years ago there was large
tree opposite my dwelling house.
There was hole in the trunk of the
tree about ten feet from the ground,
and sparrows built their nests In the
cavity. ] have time and again seen
starlings driving away the parent
birds, enter the nests, taking hold
OF the eggs with their bills and dr..
ing away with them.
A gravedigger in Bannshire once
told me that yellowhammer had
built its nest in the churchyard. ana
1t contained four eggs. One day q
starting attacked the hen bird as she
sat on her eggs. The yellowhammer
defended her nest and made a great
noise, which attracted his attention,
but before he got up to the nest the
yeilownammer had been killed by
the starting, and the latter Nas on the
nest and breaking and eating the
eggs. Forty years age starlings were
rare birds in many parts OF Scotland.
put now they are to be seen In thou
sands everywhere, and there can BE-
no doubt they have some destructive
habits.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
No Good to Town,

The man who spends his time Ioaflng
about the town stores and complain.
Ing of the conditions of his environ.
ments is no good to himself, his family
or his town. There are class of men
who spend their tipe in hemoaning
the fact that they are not getting the
right kind Of living which the world
owes them, and who never once think
how much better this living could be
K they would only hustle. The man
who is constantly grumbling about
the dizziness Of his town is never found
looking around to discover a means by
which he can make 1t Iivelier,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
THE NEW YORK LlFE's PROGRAM
Economy, Publicity and the Paramount
Interest of Poiicyholders.

President Kingsley, of the New
York Life Insurance Company, says,
in an address to the policyholders,
that his plan of administration in.
wolves these points:
First: Strict economy; second,
the widest, fairest and fullest public
lily; third, the continuance of the New
York Life as a worldwide institution;
fourth, such an amount Of new bust
ness under the law as we can secure
while practicing intelligent economy,
and enforcing the idea that the inter-
est of the policy-holder is paramount"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
MONDAY UNIVERSAL WASH DAY.
Recognized as Such Over Almost All
&he World.

Why does nearly all the civilized
world wash clothes on Monday? What
has Monday to do with, washing? It
was originally the moons day and
was sacred to the queen of night.
l read in schoolboy's history that
the Pilgrims landed on Monday and
the good women Immediately set
about washing the clothes that had
been soiled on the trip over. We
might judge from that alleged fact
that no washing was done aboard
ship; yet the finest place for such
necessary work of sanitation and
blessedness is out at sea where there
Is plenty of water and nearly al
ways a drying wind.
The voyage of the little Mayf1ower
lasted 63 days, believe, and as near
ly as we can now reckon the landing
was made at Plymouth Rock on a
Monday, though some historians in
stst on Friday. It must have been
vile and filthy vessel on arrival, with
l02 passengers and crew going over
two months without washing their
linen. Linen? What did they wear
in 1920? Can you realize how big
was the MayfioWer? A miserable lit.
tie bark of 100 tons Capt. John
SMITH or $50 tons according to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
SOAKED IN COFFEE
Until Too Stiff to Bend over

when / drank coffee I often had
sick headaches, nervousness and bill
iousness much of the time, but when I
went to visit a friend got in the habit
Of drinking Postum.
Il gave up coffee entirely and the re-
suit has been that have been entire
~ relieved of all my stomach and ner-
vous trouble.
my mother was just the same way.
We all drink Postum now, and with
out coffee in the house for 2 years, we
are all well.
"a neighbor of mine, a great coffee
drinker, was troubled with pains in
her side for years and was an invalid.
She was not able to do her work and
could not even mend clothes or do any
thing at all where she would have to
bend forward II she tried to do a
little hard work she would get such
pains that she would have to 4ie, down
for the rest of the day.
"At last I persuaded her to stop
drinking coffee and try Postum Food
Coffee and she did so and has used
Postum ever since; the result has been
that she can now do her work, can
sit fer a whole day and mend and can
sew on the machine and she never
feels the least bit of pain in her side,
in fact, she has got well and it shows
coffee was the cause of the whole trou-
Bile.
Il could also tell yoH about several
other neighbors who have been cured
by quitting coffee and using Postum
In its place" There's a Reason. .
Look in pkg. for the famous little beck,
"Tho Road Ia WellTile.'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17

made the beginnings OF an insane
asylum. both the first OF their kind In
Korea.
More significant than any of these
otfshoots Of the church, is the public
bath house run by the Christians; for
badly as it needs religion, Korea needs
soap and water. ask no further
proof of the genuiueness of the con.
version of these people than the fact
of this bath house, with its four bath
tubs aud two shower baths-the latter
made by up-tilted and perforated
Standard oil cans. The full meaning
OF this institution can be appreciated
only by one who has travelled in
Korea.
The three pioneers at this Pyeng
Yang work are still here, and still
young men. They arrived Is years
ago. Rev. DR.. S. A. Moffett. Rev. Ora
ham Lee and DR.. ]. Hunter Wells, OF
the northern Presbyterian board.
They CHANGED to be men Of large Wis
ion and statesmanlike mold. and so
they laid broad foundations upon
which the present phenomenal enter
prise has been rising. Following them
at intervals came IL other mission
aries Of the same denomination. Prior
to the Presbyterian settlement, DR..
and Mrs. W. ]. Hall, medical mission
aries of the Northern Methodist
church, were already in Pyeng Yang,
but at the death of DR.. Hall in 1894
the Methodists withdrew for a time,
but later they re-established and now
have missionaries in the field. and two
thriving churches in the city proper,
as we'll as their country work. l
found Mrs. Noble, wife of Methodist
missionary, teaching the bible one
week day morning to a class of more
than a hundred women and girls, who
had come In from the country for that
purpose. Mrs. Hall, who is physi-
clan, has since returned and conducts
q hospital for women. which, however,
burned down a few weeks ago.
An Extraordinary Prayer Meeting.
What may safely be called tie most
remarkable midweek prayer meeting
in the world is that which I attended
in the big church in Pyeng Yang. The
building is L-shaped and divided into
halves by wooden partitions at the
angle of the L. One side is reserved
for women and the other for men.
The church is utterly devoid of furni-
lure, except rough straw mats on the
floor Into it we're gathered on this
Wednesday evening no less than 1900
persons, men and boys, women and
children, all seated upon the floor.
The congregation was quiet, alert
and reverent. At prayer they all
Bowed forward, with their heads to
the ground. Missionary Lee led the
music with a coronet, and the people
sang Justify. Everybody carried a
Bible and followed the Scripture read
ing. The address was listened to with
all the intentness and responsiveness
that any speaker could desire at its
close the leaders and many of the
other men crowded to the platform to
speak with their beloved "Moksa," or
pastor. 1t struck me that this Korean
and many of his assocf-
stes. have a work and an opportunity
which the ablest preacher in America
might coTet.
How American Doctors Fit the Orient.
One of the first facts about the mis-
ssonary community here which strikes
/ visitor is the harmony and coopera-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-08-17
Vanishing Forests.

The old forests of Kentucky are
vanishing. In all the good farming
regions men saved fine bits of forest,
set with old beeches, oaks, ashes,
poplaEs, hickories, elms and walnuts.
When the underground was taken
away the grass set about the trees
and grew luxuriantly. Now these
trees are very old, and many are in
decay. The beech is an especially fine
tree, and it is worthy of note that
there is not one beech to a thousand
old and decaying trees! Some day.
says Our Country, the beech will be
an extinct tree in all the more fertile
and cultivated regions.