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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20

But some one cut the string. On
the evening of Dec. l, 1902, Police In
spector Brooks, aided and directed
by District Attorney Jerome, smashed
in the doors and windows, most of the
other wood and glass and some OF the
stone and brick of the front OF Can
fields place in search of evidence upon
which Garfield could be convicted of
being a common gambler.
The outcome was, as most readers
will recall, that the court said that
Banker Lewiston must be nice to
Mr.. Jerome, and answer his questions,
and if Reginald Vanderbilt wanted
ever again to enjoy the glOries of New
York, he, too, must submit to a con-
verSatiOn, not all questions, with Mr..
Jerome. Then Garfield showed that he
had the principles romance ascribeS
to the gambler of the first class; he re-
turned to New York placed himself
within the focus of Mr.. JerOme's eye
glasses and said, Stop bOthering my
patrons; I'll plead guilty" And he did,
and paid a fine Of $1,000 for being a
common gambler"
Transferred to Saratoga.
That was the passing of Garfield
from New York city. But he was the
proprietor of the Saratoga club, the
greatest resort gambling place in the
country. This clubhouse is a substan-
tial building of brick and stone built
in 1869 by John MOrrisey, who had
been prize fighter, a member of con-
gress, politician and gambler. The
club MOrriSey conducted inherited rO-
mantle traditions, for it had been
founded in the early days of Sara
togas splendor. Even before Morrisey
trained for his first ring fights, bellies
and gallantS from the furtherest cor.
ners of the country gathered at Sara
tOga to take the waters" to drive, to
promenade, to tlirt a little-and bet a
little.
Only little time before Jerome was
moved by a great wish to inspect the
inside of the house next to Delmon-
iCO's. Garfield disclosed his Saratoga
plans. At that time Richard T. Will
son, Jr., had newly taken an interest
in horse racing. To him and William
c, Whitney Garfield suggested the
revival Of Saratoga in all its ancient
glory. Nature had done more than
her share; it remained only for art,
backed by gOod-natured check book
to make Saratoga a second Monte
Carlo plus Ascot. Mr.. Garfield is a
convincing talker, and he had eager
listeners. Other men prominent in
turf matters came into the venture; a
majority of the stock of the old Sara
toga Racing association was bought,
the old place rejuvenated and made
splendid under the fostering finances
Of the new Saratoga Association for
the Improvement of the Breed of
Horses"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
Prof. Webster Accepts.

Shreveport. La: DR.. F. R. Hill, pas
tor of the First Methodist church, an,
nOunced today the election of Prof.
w. l.. Webster of Emory college, Ok,
ford. Ga to the office of secretary
of the college which will be formally
opened here in the fall of 1908. Prof.
Webster's acceptance of the commits
sion of office was received today.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20

fiotte Perkins Gilman, who
Ses in the Independent that
sne one of IAN immense number of
SOlsainded women no longer young,
Ous no means old, just women,
V"@ permanently women, as men are
men objects to the novels that have
70 % with nothing but love. And she
ASKS is Cupid conventions" He
U.s. indeed, Charlotte, replies the Bos.
tOh herald; and he is also a caucus,
q ratification meeting and an cleo.
ton. '
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
gambled heavily were not going to
Saratoga.
Its GIories Departed.

us SlOtlSo SNRo'NSN'
Garfield opened the clubhouse dining
room this season, but it was not lid
orally patronized; the people who
cared to dine there wanted the fun OF
looking through the opened doors at
the gamblers. But the only gambling
going On-beCause of the queStiOnings
was in a retired room on an upper
floor.
1t was all outlay, little income. Can
field could well repeat his best wit
ticism: Il lose more money in Wall
street than | can make at my legit-
mate business"
Garfield the gambler was passing.
1t was not in his nature to blink at
the fact. There was something OPP
posing him he could not fight, could
not corrupt, could not call off. Did he
know what it was? Possibly 1t was
not in his nature to ask questions as
to what directs fate. But one morn
ing recently there was a black and
yellow sign nailed on the Saratoga
clubhouse, the last gambling place
owned by Richard Garfield, and it
read:
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
LOUISIANA NEWS.
Brown to Visit Lighthouses.

New Orleans, La.-COmmander Guy
W Brown, in charge of the Eighth
lighthouse district, will leave Tues
day on a tour of inspection of light
houses and buOys in Lake ChiCot,
Grand Lake and Berwick Bay from
Morgan City.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20

can be done In them, and with them.
often the very things for which we
sigh hopelessiy. Fill them, every one.
Keep something handy-something
that fits the interval. Remember a
famous law book was written because
a lord chancellor chose not to be idle
throughout the Is minutes his wife
made him wait each day for dinner.
Recall, too, all the men, noble and
eminent, who have climbed to the
heights by saving inches of time All
of us cannot hope to become likewise
eminent-but we can reasonably and
easily make ourselves happy with
things wrought in the fragmentary
moments which we might unthriftily
leave vacant.-The Delineat
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20

More than II hours have just been
knocked of the automobile record be-.
tween Chicago and New York. People
are learning to keep their children
and their dogs out of the roads.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20

IL is doubtless necessary concom.
atant OF our unparalleled prosperity
that walters, porters and other ordo,.
OF infinite receptiveness never striko
out are always on hand to absorb o,,
the quarters which the cashier bv
pure inadVertence gives you in
change.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20

years Richard A. Garfield has been
the biggest gambler in the world, says
the New York Times.
1t was inevitable that romance
should have mixed many of the colors
in which Garfield has been painted:
he has been pictured as scholar of
more than ordinary intellectual abil-
ity; as a judge of art who would be a
valuable aid to Paris Salon hanging
committee; as conversatiOnalist of
brilliant parts; as John Oakhurst and
a Jack Hamlin, dear to readers of
Bret Harte. Well he is not all of
these, but he is something of each.
Canfield's Early Career.
Fiction has also been busy with
Garfield in the matter of his early
career. 1t may be said that he never
did for study for the church, the law,
or medicine; nor did he begin a prom
Using career in banking. AS matter
of fact, he was young man when, in
1879, he opened a gambling house in
Providence. This he seems to have
conducted with much skill in escaping
publicity for half a dozen years. But
in July, 1885, Garfield was arrested
In Providence and charged with being
a common gambler. Possibly loser
at his game experienced a change of
heart as to the wickedness of playing
for gain (and losing) and complained
to the authorities Garfield pleaded
guilty to the charge. He has always
asserted that he entered the plea on
an agreement that he would be SEN
fenced only to pay fine But he was
sentenced to, and served, six months
imprisonment in the Cranston Jail.
After that Garfield came to New
York, and within a short time the ven
turesome began to hear of a safe,
quiet place where undivided SURPRISES
could be invested at roulette or poker
A suave and responsible man was in
charge; he preferred to play at rea-
sonable limit, but could be persuad-
ed to raise the limit, or, If one came
painting to part with his surplus,
private game could be arranged I'm.
hampered by any limit whatever.
Along these agreeable lines the fame
and fortune of Dick" Garfield grew
in Gotham.
Whistler, the famous artist, was
painting the famous gamblers por-
trait; select upper Bohemian circles
In London and Paris delighted to en-.
terrain the modern combination of
John Oakhurst and Jack Hamlin.
Entry Into New York.
Also: in New York, first in the
clubs, then along Broadway, stories
were heard of almost fabulous sums
Won and lost at Canfield's games.
At first there was nothing scandal.
ous-nothing considered so, at least
in these stories. They were told and
re-told simply as illustrations of the
way life was lived in little old New
York. If a young man could afford to
celebrate his twenty-frst birthday by
losing $50. 900 at Canfield's, why what
a very rich young man he must be,
and how lucy Garfield!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
Inches of lime.

Beware of losing or wasting inches
or time-they are the little foxes that
run away with many days. So much
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
PASSING OF
"CANFIELD"

Personality of the
"BiggeSt Gambler in the
WorId"-Man Who Pro-
Vided Palaces and Luxur-
les for Devotees of the
Goddess of ChanCe-Like
Others of Prominence, He
Had His Day, and 1t Is
Over.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

To contradict certain talk
and to pot the consuming p"b-
lie IN possession Of the tfoth'
we say IN plain words that no
one In this town can sell as
good coffee as Arbuckles'
Arsosa for as little naoneY.
Misbranded and make-beleye
Mocha and Java, or coffee sold
loose out of bag or BIN, IS
not as good value for the money,
nor can it be sold at as narrow
profit. nor reach the consumer
under as favorable conditions.
When you buy Arbuckles'
Ariosa Coffee you get more than
16 net ozs. of straight, wholesome
Brazilian coffee from the largest
coffee firm in the world, with that
firms direct assurance that they
are giving you the best coffee IN
the world for the money.
ARBucE,110 BROS. City.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20
EVIDENTLY Il MISTAKE.

No more Mexicans laborers are
being admitted through the United
States immigration stations along
the Mexican border.
The order excluding the labor
ers, who have been admitted free
w. came as the result OF lntorma-
ton furnished the immigration de
Dartment by employment agents
and employees to the effect that no
more laborers of this class are be-
ing employed on the work tor
which they have in the past been
much sought.
The men have been coming to
the United States all summer and
found ready employment on rail
road construction and in the mines,
but much of this activity has been
suspended for the winter months
and therefore no more of these Ia
borers are being employed San
Antonio Gazette.
The Gazette is probably misin-
formed in regard to the matter of
which it speaks. Inquiry at the
Offices of the immigration depart
vnent in Brownsville elected the
statement that no orders have been
received at this port excluding
Mexican laborers. 1t would be
irregular, in any event, for such
orders to be issued, as the law
plainly states who may and who
NAV not be admitted from foreign
countries. Mexican 1aborers, as
well as those of any other
nationality are excluded il
coming in under contract to
labor. but otherwise, so long as
they show a clean bill of health
and fulfill the other requirements
of the immigration regulations
they are admitted freely whenever
they wish. That there may be
less of them coming now, owing
20 the demand for such labor hav
ing falling off is doubtless true, bu
there have been no orders ISSUED
by the department to exclude
them.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20
ALASTING EFFECT
This Evidence Should Prove Every Claim
Made for Doan's Kidney Pills in
Brownsville.

Relief from the pains and aches
of a bad back is always welcome
to every backache sufferer; but to
cure a lame, weak or aching back
is what's wanted. Cure it so it
will stay cured. 1t can be done.
Here's the strongest evidence to
prove it:
c. H. Hoencke, of 2319 Nc
Kinney Ave. Houston, Tex
manufacturer and dealer in barrels
since 1872, says: For about a
year 1 had more or less trouble
with my kidneys. 1t was caused
by cold or by straining my back
I had much lumbago, and when
ever I made a sudden movement
I felt a sharp darting pain through
my kidneys. My back was otter
so lame and sore that 1 could moi
stoop without suffering severely
The kidney secretions scalded ane
were very scant in quantity.
used remedy after remedy Blu
found little benefit until 1 go
Doan's Kidney Pills on the advise
of friend who had been cured
By the time had taken halt th'
box the backache had disappeared
and the secretions were clear anc
natural. 1 have advised many
others to use this remedy and al
ways keep supply in the house.
Plenty more proof like this from
Brownsville people. Call at Geo
NJ. Putegnat's drug store and asl
what customers report.
For sale by all dealers. Price 81
cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo
New York, sole agents for tn
United States.
;. Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20
MORE PEANUT TALK.
Alice Echo Advises Farmers there to
Plant Few Acres as a Starter.

The Brownsville farmers are go
ing to try peanut growing the
coming year. RI. Stell. of the
StelI & Williams Peanut Company
of Paris, Texas, has signed con-
tracts for the growth of a quarter
million bushels of peanuts next
wear. Farmers all along the line
near Brownsville have seen the
profit of the peanut crop and have
entered the movement with spirit
and expect good results from their
efforts. The contracts already
signed will turn out to the farm
ers in that section something like
$50, OOO.OO for the nuts alone, to
saw nothing of what the value OF
the hav from the vines will be to
the farmer, being worth about $40
per ton. Now would be the time
for some of the hustling farmers
of Alice to get in on the ground
floor with a nice crop of peanuts,
thereby opening another way to
the big piles of filthy lucre held by
northern capitalists. Who will
try FIVE acres next year just for a
starter?
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

TIE senate committee on militia
" affairs has again taken up the
guestion of the negro soldier raid
on Brownsville. 1t is to be hoped
shat the committee may soeedi-
av find out the truth about the
natter and not keep the coun-
cry narrowed up any longer than
cannot be avoided over the crime
of those negro 6ends, who were
permitted to disgrace the United
States flag at Brownsville. Presi'
dent Roosevelt experienced very
little difficulty in doing SO, and
his prompt administration of just
ice In the matter should commend
Saself to the committee.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

Dr. Alexander Grossman the eminent Hair and scalp
after IS discovered an boO
LITE remedy for this unsghtly Disagreement
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional rethedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus
tachian Tube. When this tube is inhan
ed Won have rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely clos
ed, Deafness is the result, and unless the
Inflammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused ty Catarrhl
which is nothing but an inAamed condi'
ton of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars toi
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls eatarrf
Oure. Send for circulars free.
L.CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

THR absurdity of suggesting
Grover Cleveland as a possible can
didate for the democratic nominal
sisn for president is so apparent as
20 cause Texans to doubt the sin
cerity of the man who names him
"a the same breath as that used in
speaking of Senator Culberson for
the honor. While CleYland was
great man in his day, and is still
= 6ne old gentleman. and while
his mentality is no doubt equal tc
shat of any man of his age, yet he
* sax too old to be considered, be.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

sides which his undoubted unpOp-
ularity with the Bryan wing of the
party makes him an utter impos-
sibility, and the idea of his noui-
nation simply out of the question.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

THE action of the government
in issuing $50, OOO,0 900 in Panama
bonds and 500, 100000 in one
year treasury certificates has had
ahe desired effect of allayings the
financial trouble which has been
tearing the markets to pieces for
the past few weeks.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

SOME democrats seem to be un-
der the impression that the only
men in the party besides them
selves are William Jennings Bryan
and Grover Cleveland.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

EVERY progressive citizen of
Brownsville would be proud to
have fine public library establish
ed here, and everyone should be
willing to work for it.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-20

TIE weather has hardly been
fair to the San Antonio fair this
year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-12
EDITOR HAS TROUBLES
Manila Publishers Wife De-
serts Him While He Was
Before Grand Jury
SHERIFF ATTACHES HIS PLANT
Wife Had Been His Mainstay in the
Publication Of His Paper-Now She
Wants a Divorce and AIimony and
Mr.. Morgan is in Somewhat of
Predicament.

Special to Times Republican.
Manila, Feb. I'm. Morgan, pub
Usher of the Republican, has been
experiencing what he calls 1.-The irony
Of fate" He recently took free hand
in voting contest conducted by the
Times of this place. and sold and dis
tributed voting coupons. which John
McDermott editor OF the Times, con-
tends We're not genuine. Accordingly
McDermott had Morgan before the
grand jury several days last week.
While Morgan was attending court,
his wife, Lizzie Morgan, who has been
his mainstay as editor, hustler, job
printer, ETC., decided she would strike,
and accordingly left, with their daugh-
ter, Ards, for her parental home at
Omaha, notifying her spouse of her act
by petition for divorce. presented be-
fore the district court now in session
at Denison, alleging cruel and inhuman
treatment and asking for custody of
the child, $3.50 temporary and $1.100
permanent alimony. In the issue of the
Republican" OF Saturday, Morgan
takes things philosophically, altho the
sheriff has taken somewhat of an at
tachment of the plant and property
until matters are adjusted. This will
in no way interfere with the publish
ing of the paper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-12

Wyoming.
isaac Dewitt, one of the pioneers OF
Jones county. died at his home In wy
oming, at the ripe old age OF SO years.
4 months and days.
Salem.
Perry Mendenhall caught wolf In a
trap on his farm near Denora Thurs
day. Parties are out hunting wolves
nearly every day.
LeMars.
A fire on Monday night destroyed the
grocery store of the Laux & Lucke
company on South Main street, entail
ing a loss of between $500 and $4,000.
Webster City.
Warren S. Worthington, aged "a
years. for half century an honored
and influential resident OF this city,
sustained severe stroke of paralysis
at his home, 421 Second street, at 1
o'clock Saturday morning and he now
lies there at the point Of death.
Sioux City.
Claude G. King, proprietor Of the
Model laundry, was awarded $1,471.50
damages from the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul road. when the jury re-
ported, after being out five hours. He
asked 1895 for an injury to his knee
at Gayville, S. D., on May z. 1906.
Waterloo.
The formal opening of the new st.
Mary's high school took place Monday,
February IL at 8 p. M, in the new
building. A good program had been
arranged. Rev. Father Renter of Ames
presented several classical selections
on the violin. St. Mary's choir, the
Fried sisters, a speech, Damn and
wann," by Joseph Kurth, Sr., and a
fine talk by one of the school children,
were part of the program.
Rockwell City.
The Rockwell City Farmers elevator
has handled over 100000 bushels OF
grain and LAO tons of coal in the
eight months between June l, 1906, and
February 1, 1907. Manager j. III. Law
renee this week completed his figures
for a report to the company of the first
seasons grain business. They stand as
follows: Oats, $1,000 bushels; corn,
102, O60 bushels; flax 1,410 bushels; coal
sold, LAO te-s.
Buffalo Center.
Henry Folkerts sold his 16o-acre
farm, five miles southwest Of town, the
first of the week to ]. K Risius. of
Iowa Falls, brother Of John Risius,
who lives half mile south of Mr..
Folkerts Possession is to be giveI
March I. 1907. hut m the farm is rentel
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-12
and becoming entangled in barb wire
fence. Mr.. Davidson is getting along
nicely.
sWALEDALE BUSINESS CHANGE.
Ed hoffman New Proprietor Of Res.
taurant-Death of George Proctor.

Ed hoffman New Proprietor Of Res.
taurant-Death of George Proctor.
Special to Times Republican.
Swaledale, Feb. PA deal has just
been completed whereby Ed hoffman
becomes proprietor of the City Res
taurant. j. r. Hall. the former pro-
prietor will move his family to Ne
braska. where he expects to make his
future home. Mr.. Hill was compelled
to sell because of ill health, the climate
here not agreeing with him.
George Proctor. the 1S-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs I. j. Proctor, who live
six miles northwest of town, died Mon
day morning at 3 a. m. He was taken
sick one week ago Saturday night with
peritonitis and appendicitis, for which
he underwent an operation last Sum
day morning. His illness was very
short and the blow is severe one to
the family. He leaves father, mother
and five brothers and sister to mourn
his loss.
The family have the heartfelt SYM
pathy of the whole community.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-12

the eve OF the visitor to the William
Rainsbarger farm few miles from
this place. Away back in the SOS Mr..
Rainsbarger winged a couple of geese,
as they were flying over his place ana
domesticated them Soon afterward
relative in northwestern Iowa fouho
some eggs laid by a Wild goose anu
sent them to the Hardin county man.
who by this means augmented MS
flock Later on j. c. Rainsbarger,
son of the originator of the goose
farm and expert In hunting and trap
ping, succeeded in occasionally adding
new blood to the flock until 1t mas at
tanned its present proportions. One OF
the means by which he secures spec
linen or two nearly every year Is tne
snare. Passing birds often alight to
the grounds where the flock is kept and
occasionally an unwary one places a
foot within a loop of fishline only to
have the string jerked by a man In hid
ing fifty yards away and from that
moment his domestication begins. WHO
geese mate and the females begin to
lay at an age varying from two 10
five years, tho not many eggs are pro-
duced until six or eight years later.
The original birds are still in the yard
where they were placed by their cap
tor and are now at least 40 years OF
age, probably good deal older.
The flock is a source of considerable
profit to the owner. he having sold a
number Of them at $40 pair. One call
came from man living in Long Is
land
The younger Rainsbarger is an en-
thusiastic hunter and among other
trophies in his possession is beauti-
FIJI mounted head of large deer which
hangs on the wall OF one Of the rooms
OF his home. He shot the animal In
northern Minnesota as it ran at full
speed and at distance OF fully half
mile c. r. WILSON.