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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
Attention, X. OF P.

The promised candidates are COM
ing all right, and work will begin
Thursday night, Feb. 9th, in the
Page degree, 50 everybody eligible is
urged to be on hand and assist in
welcoming the newcomers in right
royal style.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
"Ah There"

Fellow Traveller.
There is one of those clc-
gantly lighted and steam heated suit
oi Office rooms for rent in the Woods
Block. Hurry up aforc some man
wiser than you gets it. Apply to Arno
Woods.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
BABY HANDS

will get into mischief often il means a
burn or cut or scald. Apply Ballard's
SNOW L%.ininient Just as soon as the aCCi
dent happens, and the pain will be ,e.
licvch while tho wonnd viii heal quickly
and nicely. A sure cure for %sIrains
Rheumatism and all pains.
Price 25c, Soc ard II NJ a bottle.
Sold by c. - Hunter.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
Candidate Cards.

Neatly and promptly printed at
the REPUBLICAN, Office and at reason
able rates. Cali and see MS when
-eady.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27

Monthly statements neatly tabulat-
ed. Call PSI, and have your cor
respondcnce expedited and neatly
executed.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
handspring Farm,
E,l. X EPUBr.TCAS:
February 24lh, l0O'

Esl. REP~uBI.ICAS:-
Some days ago my brother, J. W. y,
after taking dinner in - Versailles house
listened a while tOa learned traveller,
who IA discussing the effect OF bra.u
work. on human life. GLOW long WI.
President Roosevelt live" asked one 81
his hearers. The President Is IN extra,
ordinary brain worker. and tie wearing
of the cerebral tissue will maze his life
comparatively short" "Ilow long will !
MIR Bran live;" asked &~nUtiIsr ~Ilearer.
bryan will live TO lie n yerS old man.
Whcreupon my brother remarked: III
Bryan lives TO be an Cd man. o Ger
tainly will live forever This was greet
ed with u draf-sinH roar, after which HE
learned Traveller said, what did he say
ole said YOU would live forever" AMI
the traveller Laughed too.
NORWEGIAN.
The traveller iound out that the men
in the room were Tor koosevelts policie",
but we're not sure a. 10 who would run
chin%
r. 4. N0tieet. while on his way
% attend the Republican State Con-
v.ntion. took time tuesday night to
visit Versatile, Lodge, No. 231, !.
q. .. r.. Of which he IS "A member.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
MASON'S MARKET.
Fop THIS WEEK.)

will pay the following prices this
week.
Old hens, per pound, ..... .... lOc
young cox, &c
Turkey heus and young TOMS. lie
Old toms. l0c
Chickens under 3 pounds, ..... l2Hc
Eggs, always the highest price.
Hides, per pound, ........... DC
Also will sell you this week, for cash
only
100 lbs sugar for ............. 500
100 lbs Success flour,.......... fi.95
100 lbs Gold Coin hard wheat
four. =. ..... ............. 500
Yours for business,
c. II. MASON,
Everything Clean.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
Fire! Fire! Fire!
Lightning Cd Tornado
Remember that | write all kinds Of
Insurance in Reliable Companies
IoHS +. GIRR;.

Geo. =. Clark, who has been CON
fined to his bed with paralysis for the
past two months, is very little, if any
better.
GUod farm land, for sale at reason.
able prices. Soil adaptable TO dew
berries, cantalope,, trucking al kind
Correspondence invited
X. j.. CROWDLk.
Ridgcway, n. {,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
Let US do your Job Print
ing, we guarantee our
work and prices.

Price carries a fine line Of all kinds
of cakes and cookies.
1t has been reported that our form
or townsman, W. n. Kavanaugh, is in
Texas Panhandle looking at the coun-
try and may homestead land in New
Mexico.
Hurried letters often contain am
higuities and errors-save delay and
worry by telephoning 28l for prompt
assistance.
John Kaufman, who went to St.
Louis last week, had another opera
ton performed, and was reported as
getting along nicely.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27

Grandpa Holloway, OF Glensted,
attended the Masonic Lodge here
Saturday night. We understand that
the old ran holed up at the same
time the ground-hog did. but being a
Missourian, he holds to Feb. 14th as
grounding day, and as he couldn't
see his shadow on that day just stay
ed out. lie looked sleek and fat as
il his long last had agreed with him,
and after the many big suppers of last
fall and early winter he certainly
needed a rest.
For nice fresh canned goods of all
kinds 20 to T.. Il. PRICE.
The Morgan county delegates to
the Republican State Convention at
ST. Louis punched themselves. II
Versailles and left ove the Rock
Island at 1.50 a. IN. The delegation
was chaperoned by Postmaster Mills,
who boasts that he has never missed
attending a convention for .hv past
forty wears, Eve think 1t wc1sosiy)-.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27
New Christian Endeavor Society.


The Westminster Christian Endcav-
or Of Versailles was organized at the
Presbyterian Church Sunday evening
with a large enrolment. The follow
ing officers were elected for the en-.
suing year: n. F. Abel, President /;
E.. n. Price, Vice Pres: Lille Hunt
er, Treasurer, and Rosena Curtis,
Secretary. Al a meeting held at the
home of the President Monday night
the following committee, were select
ed:
Lookout-Mrs. G.. n. Price. Mrs.
Laura Wray, Misses LiNie Hunter,
Beulah Kidwell, Eva Gold and Rosa
Dolstein.
Music-Misses Mary Hubbard,
Margaret Price, Beatrice kinloch,
Maggie Askew; Messrs. Walter Kay
and Quincy Muntzel,
PRAYER Meeting Mrs. II. Abel
Mrs. W. ". Kinloch, Misses Cor;
Hubbard, Helen Price and Carrie
Smith.
Social.Mrs. DR.. Well, Mrs. J. w,
! McCleAasst, T.. a. Crewson, Mise
Eunice Hanter and Helen Price.
Sunday SCHOOL,. II. Price, J. +
II. Baker, J. w. McClclland, Mise
Ina kinloch and Rosa Curtis.
F~lower-~Mrs. ". W. kinloch, Miss
es II, len moore, Nellie Ducey, Mag
gle Askew, Edna Abel Messrs, Ed
ward Do!s,sin and Harry Kay.
Other committees will be organ
lied and additions made to the abor
as nccasgor, demands
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
Man Still a SAVAGE.

The civilized world is reverting. It
pines for brutalities, it bankers for
horrors, and it grOvels before the spec
taCle Of animal pain. Don't you be-
lieve it? Then you do not know what
is happening in the most enlightened
quarters of the earth. 1t is useless to
enumerate the cruelties practiced in
the name of pleasure or of science.
For one, l hate OF dwell upon what
exists in this educated, supposedly
Christianized world, exclaims a writer
in the Boston Herald Man is still
savage. Whether it is pigeon shoot
ing. bull fights, sport in the jungle,
privately arranged bull and tiger COM
BAT, or even the accepted prize ring
mauIings. he Graves the emotion, the
maddening, blood-Curdling frenzy this
process Of killing excites. There are
degrees, it Is true, and the brutal in
stinct may not relish seeing hapless
birds drop whit broken wings as much
as watching a bull and tiger Shut in Il
cage battling out their bloody strength,
but it is all one in the main, bestial
excitement But we are told that
spectators at such scenes are few
compared with all those who have
made better and safer life for hui
manity at large. One never can tell.
Sometimes the police step in, as they
did at the savage exhibition in Mar
settles, and end the sport" But the
police cannot reach the source of such
lnhuman amusement.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25

had breakfasted and day had scarce
ly dawned, Strathgate could not re-
main idle. Instinctively his foot
steps turned toward the strand. If
Ellen had arrived during the night,
she would probably have sought the
harbor at once. Although the New
Eagle had sailed, as she would find
to her dismay, there were other ships
in the harbor and upon one of these
she might have taken refuge Even
though it was yet early, there was
plenty of stir along the sea wall, and
Strathgate mingled with the fishermen,
boatmen, sailors and pilots busy about
their various tasks. By the judicious
expenditure of shillings and sixpences,
he opened the most stubborn mouths.
But no one had seen the missing pair.
After a half hours investigation, he
was about to give it up as hopeless
task and return to the inn, when as a
last venture he put his question to a
young fisherman, the latest conner to
the wharf.
Yes, yer honor" replied the man,
Il think there was man and wom-
an, or a young girl among the passen-
gers which my brother, who owns a
wherry, put aboard ship like yon
Flying Star, late last night
The woman happened to be the
captains wife, and the young man
was the supercargo Of the ship, and
the ship happened to be another ship,
and not the Flying Star at all; but
OF that OF course neither Strathgate
nor his informant had any knowledge
The earl's interest was at once awak
ened.
What ship did you say that was?'
he asked
The Flying Star, | think twas
called, though I'm no ways certain
yer honor"
Whose ship was she? Of what ma
tionality, that isl"
She's an American merchantmen
sir" returned the sailor, whose name
was Cooper
And where does she lie?"
''She doesn't lie nowhere" answered
another sailor, surveying the harbor
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
Commercial Goober Union.

Rocky Mount, La.-Many of the far
mers and planters of the Rocky Mount
neighborhood Bossier parish, have or.
ganized themselves into union for
the purpose of raising COOLERS for
commercial use. Great preparations
have already been made for beginning
the venture on lare scale next sea-
son Tests have been made of the soil,
most of which is located in the hills
of Bossier, and have demonstrated
that COOLERS can be cultivated at good
profit. The farmers of Rocky Mount
have been prompted to take this step
on account Of the havoc wrought by
the boil weevl. A great deal of the
land put in cotton this season will be
turned over to the raising Of COOLERS
next year.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
WOODS ALONE KILLED SYRIAN
Purpose of Killing Was Robbery
Woods Secured $3.50.

Crowley, La.-Armas Woods, the
negro held for the murder of Mansur
Nacer, at Crowley on Sept 9, wade a
full statement Sunday night in the
Jail at Lake Charles. He admitted
that he committed the crime all alone,
no other person except the young Syr-
ian who was murdered being present.
No other person was implicated in the
crime in any way, he asserts. The two
Syrians, John Jetro and Antoine 10
Seph, have been discharged from Gus,
tody and the Syrian colony of Craw-
ley is celebrating the event.
The negro Woods, declares that he
committed the crime for the purpose
of robbing the Syrian, who had shown
a bag of money in Offering PetrO some
money. The crime was done with an
aXhandle and the pistol found last
week did not belong to Woods. The
negro secured $3.50, and the officers
have accounted for S51.5O. The con-
fession was made in the presence Of
Sheriff Fontenot and Chief Of Police
Wilkins.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
LOUISIANA SCHOOLS OPEN.
Both in the City and Country Work
Was Beuun Monday.

Lake Charles, La.-School opened
all over the 5000 square miles Of I'M
perial Calcasieu Monday morning. Ov-
er 100 schools with $50 teachers be-
ginning nine months term. Advices
to the parish superintendent indicate
good average attendance. The Lake
Charles city schools reopened Friday
Previous to opening of school the par
ish teachers attended a five day insti-
tute at De Ridder last week.
Alexandria, Lathe Alexandria
public schools opened Monday with an
enrolment of $50 children. The cen
trail public school enrolment was 500
and the West End school $50 All the
public schools of the parish of Rapi.
des were opened Monday, the opening
exercises were hald in the Central
school, at which tn attendance of pa
rents and friends was so large that
the large auditorium was taxed to
it's capacity.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
Art in Spanish Bank Notes.

To battle the counterfeiters, who are
both numerous and cunning in Madrid,
the Bank of Spain has pursued the
policy of changing it's notes with great
frequency and retiring each issue as
fast as possible
The bank has now determined on a
new plan. 1t has placed an order for
a series of notes with an English con-
Germ, and it will rely for safety upon
special color process. In addition
the notes are to present pictures of
well-known buildings in Spain, exc
cuted with a perfection that will defy
counterfeiting.
'The pictures are to be so beautiful
that amateurs will be tempted to
frame Them says one Spanish news.
paper. Hardly" rejoins another,
'the cost of the set will be 1,675
pesetas, you see" To the Spanish
mind $3SS.50 is great deal of money.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25

ing tepid water and trying to console
the whimpering little maiden by her
side.
And it is possible, too, that Lord
Darlington never realized how much
he was in imminent danger Of losing
and how much the loss meant to him
as he plunged along through the dark
ness on the way to Portsmouth.
Ellen had advanced much farther on
her journey when she ran into the
calm which later overlook Seton.
All Ellen's ready money, except what
she carried on her person, had been
left to Darlington in the cheQue on
her desk, but she still retained con-
troll Of several stout merchantmen
which had come to her from her father
and the New Eagle was the best of
them, Once she set foot on the docks
of that ship, she would be perfectly
safe. Meanwhile, as she had been
up practically all the night before, she
felt that she must have some slumber.
She furled the sail of the little boat.
turned the tiller over to Debbe with
instructions for her to let the shalIOp
drift and to waken Ellen in two hours
by the watch.
1t was very lonely and miserable for
poor Debbie. She was fiying like
Ellen from that she loved best, but
unlike Ellen there was no reason on
earth for her to break away. 1t was
only the constraint put upon her by
the stronger will that had brought her
to this Wretched pass. She sat idly
in the stern sheets, holding the tiller,
pretty red cheeks. She Wis,cd that
she were anywhere else under hCaveu
than in this boat She lCCNel a.
Ellen almost inadvertently. surveying
her Slight and bOyish figure with a
venOmouS glance and the thought that
since clothes Of the other sex so well
became her, Ellen should have been
born a man.
Poor Debbie felt very wretched and
very lonely tossing idly about in the
quiet seas under the calm stars. She
wondered if Sir Charles did really love
her as she had more than once indi-
Gated, or whether he were like the
faithless Darlington and the insidous
Strathgate.
There was nothing to do except to
look out for passing vessels and she
had plenty of time for silent thought
about her past, her present and her
future.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
ILLUSTRATIONS By
RAY WALTERS
Copyright, 1905, by W, 0. Chapman.)
SYNOPSIS.

~, ,
Inc EScapade opens, not IN the ro-
mance preceding the marriage OF Ellen
Siocum, Puritan miss. and Lord Car
rington Of England, but in their life after
settling in England. The scene is placed,
just following the revolution, in Caring
ton castle in England. The Carringtons,
aItef house party. engaged IN family
ut, caused by Jealousy. Lord Caring
ton and his wife each made charges of
talthIeSSness against the other in con-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25

Primrose day, set apart by the ad-
mirers of Disraeli, is still observed by
them in England, we believe. Ac-
cOrding to information contained in
Henry w. Lucy's recently published
parliamentary "reminiscences, there
is no reason why its observance
should be continued under that name.
Its designation Is based upon the as.
sumption that the primrose was Lord
Beaconsfeld's favorite flower. At his
funeral a wreath of primroses lay on
his coffin bearing the inscription:
His faVorite flower" to which the
queens initials were added. 1t seems.
however, that when the queen wrote
the inscription she had in mind the
prince consort and his cherished
flower Mr.. LHcy remarks that the
only remembered observation made by
Disraeh concerning primroses was
that they made an excellent salad.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
LOUISIANA NEWS.
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
The RICE BELT JOURNAL


II is saI the tan trade is grcadily
declining and this, too, in spite of tne
fact that at no time has that graceful
weapon Of coquetry and comfort been
SO universal. Some of the leading fan
houses in Paris have closed their
doors. and one Of the best lawmakers,
whose patronage includes the elite Of
Europe declares the day is PAST when
long prices will be paid for fans. One
instantly seeks the reason for the
change Of sentiment which thus af-
fects trade. The aforesaid fan-maker
explains it by saying the German
copies Of the expensive styles have
done a good deal to injure tirst-ClaSS
trade The richest customers buy only
antiques. Instead Of seeking the work
Of modern artists who make exquisite
pictures they will fly into raptures
over dirty old fan that is by no
means beautiful, merely because 1t is
an antique" and a possible Louis
XVI Not long since a lady went into
ecstases before a beautiful fan paint
ed only the other day. She declared
she had seen nothing loyelier in any
art exposition in Europe, that nothing
was done nowadays like It; it was
genuine. She was not at all pleased
when told the truth that it had been
made in those very workroOms. The
Japanese fan has proved a formidable
rival to the artistic French fan. 1t is
pretty and dainty, but its price damns
it with faint praise. What lady arrayed
in a $1,000 costume could fan herself
with bit of cOlOred paper? asks the
Boston Herald But the majority Of
women eschew fans. They are only
carried on state occasions, for no one
wants to be bothered with their care.
A museum is the best place for this
rare antique, particularly if it has any
historic association guaranteed.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
CHAPTER K.
The Bewlderment of Strathqate.

AS my Lord Darlington rode with
increasing satisfaction and Sir
Charles Seton sailed in growing
sense of self-congratulaton in that he
alone was on the right track, my lord
of Strathgate was full of bewilder-
ment. Like Darlington, he, too, made
inquiries at every posting station, at
every Wayside inn, from every passer-
by as to the whereabouts of the two
who had escaped him, and everywhere
he had been met by an absolute lack
of information.
Strathgate, by hard riding, reached
Portsmouth about nightfall. Caring
ton was not to arrive, although he
pressed on all night, until the follow
ing morning. Strathgate was morally
certain that the people he was chas-
ing could not have reached Ports
mouth before him. :
Therefore, although he had been up
all the night before and wanted sleep
badly, he determined to make some
inquiries before he went to bed. He
found, to his great surprise, that the
New Eagle, which was the name of
the ship owned by the countess of
Darlington. had sailed that morning.
So far fortune favored him, for Lady
Ellen would arrive at Portsmouth, he
thought, and find her ship gone.
He enlisted the service of the land
lord and secured a number of men
whom he posted at the various inns,
with instructions to notify him i'm
mediately in case Ellen and Deborah
arrived
Darlington, plunging along on ex-
hausted, half-foundered horses, the
leavings of Strathgate, lost the COM
parative cheerfulness Of the morning
and worked himself up into such
fury that if he had come across the
earl he would probably have killed him
out of hand without giving him
chance for defense.
The only one thoroughly satisfied
with the situation was Seton, and even
his dash eastward was stopped, for the
wind, which had held briskly for the
greater part of the day, died out about
nightfall and left the gallant captain
helplessly tossing in the short waves
Of the channel.
To hearten up her young friend,
Ellen put brave face upon the whole
matter. She pointed out to her how
comfortable and free from pursuit, or
interference, hey would be when they
boarded the New Eagle at Portsmouth;
what a pleasant voyage they would
have back; and made various other
suggestions to cheer her young COM
rade and TO fight down the growing dis
may in her own heart. 1t was only by
constantly holding up before herself
the picture Of my lord and Lady Cecily
in each others arms in the arbor that
she kept herself to the pitch of her
adventure.
Sis found herself thinking wistfully
of the happy days of the past; of the
many pleasant cruises which they had
made in these very waters. What a
gallant, devoted. royal lover he had
been, How SIZE hated Cecily Caring
ton! She looked at Herself and took
a mental inventory of that she could
not see and wondered NOW he could
Tor a moment prefer thai weak and
vapid creature to his wife.
And yet it is probable that Ellen
had never loved Darlington as she die
while tossing about in that little oper
boat, lonely speck upon the sea
muRching dry hard bread and drink
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
LAFAYETTE,

Lafayette, LATHE past week has
only been partially favorable for gath
ering of crops and farming operations
generally. Several days Of sunshine
the first of the week enabled cotton
picking to be pushed and gave the far.
mers opportunity to gather much corn
and save quantities of hay. The rains
however, did not hold up long. and
have begun to fall daily. Some hay
has been lost and the excessive mois
ture will not only seriously affect the
cotton growth, but Will cause the loss
Of fruit that has already matured.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25

Now comes the distressing informa
ton that straw hat fastened on the
head Of workhorse during the hot
weather has no other effect than to
add to the poor animals sufferings
by making its head still hotter. A
philanthropic gentleman with a Their
mometer made this discovery. Let
him carry his investigations a little
further. Isn't the air inside a straw
hat worn by fat man hottie. than the
air outside, and would it not be better
for him to go bareheaded?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
Dan Nelson Dead,

New Orleans, La.-News has been
received here OF the death in Fort
Wayne, Ind, Sept IA, of Dan E. Mel
son, formerly well known railroad
man, but recently in charge of the af
fairs of the Fruit Dispatch Company
at Fort Wayne. Mr.. Nelson, during
his residence in New Orleans was 10,
cal manager of the Admour G. Co. car
lines.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN

For thirty years Lydia 3. Pin
hams Vegetable Compound, MAJ
from roots and herbs, has been 7
standard remedy for female u
and has positively cured Thousands
women who have been troubledW WI
displacements, inflammation, ulcer 4:
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularltl(
periodic pains, backache, that bea
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indige
ton, dizziness rnervousprostratlo
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25

There are some pessimistic persons
who believe that the Dutch would find
It about as interminable a job to con-
ouer Castro as they have found it to
subjugate TIE indomitable Atchiness
in north Sun atra.