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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06

that Hadley, the republican cand-
date for governor, will receive a ma
iority.
Kentucky, which has been doubt
ful proposition, gave Bryan a ma
jority of 10000 to 1900, although
electing a republican congressman
from the ninth district.
Later returns indicate that Mary
land, which at first was thought to
have given her vote to Taft, will be in
the Bryan column.
West Virginia, which is one of the
doubtful states, is almost an even
standotf between Bryan and Taft. the
result still being uncertain.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06
WELSH, CALCASIEU PARISH LOUISIANA. NOVEMBER G. 1908
PRESBYTERIAN BAZAAR GREAT SUCCESS
Bryan and Taft Handkerchiefs Bring
S10S.O0...Ladie Gratified at
Total Results.

The Merchants Bazaar, given b,
the ladies of the Presbyterian churct
Friday night, was one of the mos
successful events OF it's kind ever he Ii
| in Welsh. The hall where it was helt
was tastefully decorated with the ma
tional colors.
The merchants of the city, as we,
as those of other cities, who had con
tributed to the bazaar, had booths
more or less artistically decorated
arranged around the room. in which
they displayed whatever advertising
they desired, as we'll as the goods they
contributed, which were there offered
for sale. Supper, ice cream and cake
were served throughout the evening to
large number of people.
The GROWING feature of the evening
was the contest upon the two handker-
chiefs contributed by Mesdames Bryan
and Taft. 1t was decided to dispose
of these by vote rather than bv auction
as had been contemplated. Printed
votes, bearing the name of Bryan or
Taft, were sold at Is cents each. the
voter having the privilege of naming
the lady. on the back of the ticket,
whom he preferred to receive the hand
kerchief. The two sets of votes we're
given out to two ladies, Miss Ollie
Singleton having the Bryan votes and
Miss Alberta Lewis the Taft votes,
who proceeded to sell as many
as possible. So indnstriOusly did
they labor that Mrs. Bryan gift
brought s30.75 and that of Mrs. Taft
reached the nice sum of s74. Is, the two
handkerchiefs totaling $l05.5O. When
the votes for the fayorite ladies we're
counted, it was found that Miss Sin,
gleton had won the Bryan and Miss
Irms Robinson the Taft trophy. The
total receipts of the evening was
about $4,000. In spite of the polite.
al contest the utmost good feeling
prevailed throughout the evening and
everybody enjoyed the time spent.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06
REPUBLICAN VICTORY.
Little Change in Completion of House,
Several Democratic Governors
Elected.


Several Democratic Governors
Elected.
The results of Tuesdays election
was republican landslide, it being
conceded that Taft will receive three
hundred or more of the electoral votes,
while but two hundred and forty-two
are sufficient to elect. The republican
majority was in many instances, a
surprise to the republicans as we'll as
the democrats. The east gave Taft
his heaviest majorities, while the west
showed falling off in the size of the
republican, vote, New York City
gave small republican majority, 4
thing that has not happened since
1895, when Mckinley carried that city.
Despite the strenuous efforts of the
opposition Joe Cannon was reelected
from the eighteenth Illinois district.
1t is believed that Bryan carried his
own state by at least 10000 majority,
In Missouri the presidential vote is
still IN doubt. although it is probable
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06
Notice To Taxpayers.

The Tax Roll is now completed
and in the hands of the Tax Col.
lector. All taxes become delin.
quent on the 31st day of Decem.
Der and 2 per cent per month viii
be charged after that date.
Samuel Blackford,
Secretary.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06
STATE SUPERINTENDENT HARRIS HERE
Fav0rs Placing Welsh Schools In List
Of Accredited High Schools.
Pleased With Work Be.
ing Done,

Ing Done,
This city was favored Saturday by
a visit from State Superintendent O
Education Harris, who is on a tour
visiting the schools OF the state.
Mr.. Harris impresses one as being
man of not only exceptional ability,
but as having deep interest in the
advancement of the cause of education
throughout the state He looked over
conditions here and expressed himself
as we'll pleased with he work that was
being done. He said that the work
being done in the Welsh schools was
superior to that being done in many
OF the accredited schools of the state.
1t is his desire that proper measures
should be taken to place the Welsh
high school in the list of accredited
high schools. He explained at leng tn
the steps necessary to do this and the
advantages that would accrue to the
schools by so doing, and expressed
the hope that the citizens of this place
would take the matter up and secure
the advantages to be thus gained.
In order to become an accredited
high school, it is necessary that the
title of the school building and
grounds shall rest in the parish. 1t
is also necessary that the school shall
have at least two teachers for the work
embraced in the high school course,
which includes the eighth, ninth, tenth
aud eleventh grades. 1t is also nee
essary to have laboratory for the
demonstration of the work in the vari-
Gus sciences taught. The apparatus
for this would mean an initial cost of
about $4,000 with, of course, small
maintenance cost.
The advantages that would re-
dound to the schools by such course
are of two kinds, financial and the
recognition given to graduates of
accredited schools by higher institu-
tions of learning. In the first in.
stance, each accredited high school
receives from the state an annual sup
port of $4,000, and in the second, the
graduates of an accredited high school
are admitted to the higher institutions
of learning throughout the state with
out an examination. Also it becomes
necessary then to maintain a higher
and more efficient standard of work
than is usually done in schools not so
Mr.. Harris expressed himself as
strongly of the opinion that this would
be the wise course for Welsh to per
sue in regard to her schools. This
view was also accepted by some of the
leading citizens of the city, with whom
be discussed the matter.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06
Mayors court Hold Short Session,

Mayors court Hold Short Session,
A bunch Of three travelling painters
appeared before Mavor Carr Tuesday
morning on charge of disturbing the
peace. C. E. Lawrence and II. Flager
were dismissed for lack OF evidence,
while VIM. Flager was assessed three
or three. His pards put up the money
and the bunch went on their way re-
ioicing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06
"a Wise M0ther's

Ameeting for women only will be
ield at the Congregational Church on
friday at 3 p. m. All women interest
YIN the salvation of our boys and
prls, are cordially invited.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06

Now is the time to sow oats.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
THE TAX RATE.

For some time the democrats of Ne
braska have beer keeping up a hula
baloo about the threatened increase in
taxation, charging that under the re-
publican administration the farmers
would pay more and the railroads less
taxes than ever. The figures just is
sued from the State Board of Equaliza-
ton give the best possible answer to
this silly charge. Although the as
sessed valuation of the state is in
creased by more than $4,000, 900,
only a little more than $4,000 addi-
tional will be collected by the state.
This sum is due entirely to the opera
ton of the law, which fixes the rate
for the university and the redemption
fund and gives the State Board of
Equalization no discretion in the
matter.
The redemption fund is collected to
pay the enormous floating debt, which
was piled up against the state during
the years before the present revenue
law was enacted. Much of this debt
is a legacy from the popocratic admin
istrations, due to the reckless misman-
agement Of the state institutions un-
der the false plea of economy. II
stood for years, constantly growing,
until the republican officers and legis-
lature look hold of the matter and
made provisions for paying the war
rants that we're the fruit of excessive
appropriations. No stigma car posi-
bly, attach to the administration for
making provisions to pay the states
debts. The l mill that is levied for
the purpose of discharging the great
load of excess warrants is not a per-
manent appropriation and the cause
for its existence is rapidly disappear
ing under the wise administration of
the states AFFAIRS by the republican
officers.
Another appropriation made by d.
rect levy is the l mill for the support
of the State university. The demo-
cratic gan that are piping the loud
est on the extravaganza key have
clamored most for money TO support
the university, and would make a
dreadful fuss IL it were even suggested
that the amount allowed that institu-
ton should be reduced. This is be-
yond the control of the State Board Of
Equalization. however, and is outside
the discussion.
The only fund over which the as
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
An ALLIANCE WITH CHINA.

The average American citizen will
paign that has been started In New
York for the education of the people
up TO the need of an alliance between
the United States and China for the
curing a dominating influence in the
Pacific and creating a Monroe doc
trine for Asia" The New York Her
aid is leading the new agitation and
is endeavoring to make it appear that
American commercial interests in the
orient are threatened with extinction
unless this country unites with China
in an alliance that will offset the al
lance between England and Japan.
American interest in China is one
of trade relations only. The late secre-
tary of state, Mr.. John Hay, made this
policy clear when he sought the CO.
operation of the other powers in keep
ing the open door in China. That
was done for the purpose of saving
China from becoming a prey to other
European powers and was in part
successful. Now a new danger is
threatened through Japan, which is
seeking to dominate China and to set
up the doctrine of Asia for Asiatics."
In a muddle of that kind, the United
States should have no part. 1t would
lead to international complications and
possibly to war, and would be in vio-
lation of this nations long established
policy of mo e~ntangling alliances"
with foreign powers.
Trade supremacy is not determined
by alliances between governments. 1t
is secured by tariff concessions and or
ganized enterprise and effort on the
part of merchants and manufacturers.
This country should not entertain a
proposition of an alliance with
other power, either for offense and
defense or for trade purposes. Any
consideration of such an alliance with
China would serve to emphasize the
question of Asiatic immigration ex-
~clusion and add to the complications
that already surround that problem.
The United States Is bound, by trade
interests and by the doctrines of HUI
mainly, to give its best effort to the
preservation of the integrity of China
and to prevent that nation from dis
m~emberment by greedy foreign powers,
but no warrant can be found for max
ing China's troubles a part of our
own, as they would become by such an
alliance as that now proposed.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

sessment board has any control is the
general fund, and for this the levy has
been reduced three-fourths Of 1 mill.
Any increased collection must be due
to the increase In valuation. It was
but natural that there should be an
increase in value OF the property in
the state. Real property had not been
assessed for four years and the great
growth of Nebraska during that time
would have made ridiculous any effort
to prevent higher figures for the total
valuation. Great care has been taken
to equally adjust values in the differ
ent sections OF the state and the result
is generally satisfactory to all save
those who seek to make some cheap
political capital out of the condition.
The finances of Nebraska are in safe
hands and the business of the state is
being carried on %prudently and eco
nomically. The clamor of the opposi-
ton concerning the tax levy will fail
because its animus is too easily de-
tected.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
TO A BEGINNER.
Washington {

Washington Star.
so you're anxious, young man tn "a ~,
In the world -
You're looking for friendly advice;
fou thirk that to see you own portrait
When banners float forth would he nice
decide '0O "N
When your bid to the public YOU make:
Ere the limeight presents you to view. "a
and wide, "
What kind of a pose will you take3
VIII you seek to impress by your solemn
rspose
~ 10 charm by your manner so free?
VIII you strive for loEg speeches that make
people doze
or dazzle with witt repartee?
VIII you sound the ba zoo that il. sL,,,
brods and slow.
Or the trump that keeps people awake.
lou can make a start till you let the
world know
What kind Of a pose you will take.
Take warning, before your position you
choose
In the scene, full OF hazard and strife;
You must wear the same whiskers and
waistcoats and Shoes
Inc rest OF your natural life!
Let nothing your smile or your frown dis
arrange
When placing your future at stake;
IL Is really strange how the public hates
change
What kind of a pose will you take3
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
CUT OUT THE SMELL.
New York Experiment WOrth Watch
Ing by the Country.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
The park commissioners of New York
City are engaged in an experiment on the
automobile question that is we'll worth the
careful observation OF other places. 1t is
emission Of a cloud of gasoline smoke with
a more than corresponding volume of that
odor which has earned for the motors the
popular name of stink wagons is un-
necessary. 1t is held to be caused either
by bad handling or defective machinery.
and Is alike injurious to the public as well
as costly to the automobile owners.
Wherefore tho park police have been ar
resting chsuffeurs who emitted from their
motors an egresious quantity of smoke and
stink, while less fragrant, as we'll as
fragrant. offenders were warned. Ths
initial proceedings were chiefly in the line
Of giving chauffeurs solemnly to under
stand the they must rot poison the park
atmosphere with half-corsumed gasoline.
Those who persist will on a second hearing
probably be subjected to a sitter argu-
ment in the form OF fines.
Unprecedented people will certainly rec
ognize the desirability of deodoriElns tho
autos II 1t can be done. The autobuses in
London for a time produced so mephitic
an atmosphere In the crowded city that
an cutlery was raised for their prohibition.
II New York can control the speed mania
and abolish the smell! it will relieve the
automobiles OF their most gIaringly OBJ
noxious features.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
Personal NOTES.

Prof. Robert Koch, Prof. Martin Kirch-
ner and DR.. Wilhelm Won Leube have been
appointed official German delegates to the
tuberculosis congress, which will be held
in Washington, September Il.
Michigan's monument to its first gov
ernor, Stevens Thompson Mason, was re-
Gently unveiled in Capitol park, Detroit.
The portrait statue OF the governor was
modelled by Albert weinert. The pedestal
was designed by II. Van Buren, Mngonl-
gle. The work was erected by the state OF
Michigan at a cost Of $1,000.
Whether it is proper professional ethics
for a barber to put a less keen edge upon
a razor left with him for that purpose
than for those used in his own business,
was a question seriously discussed at the
recent meeting Of the New York Associa-
ton of Master BARRIERS. Who can longer
question the moral uprising in business
standards?
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant does not spend
her summer in seeking her own pleasure,
but IL doing everything she can to rescue
children from lives of poverty and crime,
to find homes for unfortunate little ones,
whatever the circumstance that have made
them homeles S.. Mrs. Robert NJ. LaFollette,
Miss Helen Varick Boswell, Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick and others are
helping her.
The newest drink in New York Is called
the aviator" No doubt II sends you up
in the air very nicely, and the next morn
ing you wonder how you ever got down.
Admiral Dewey will get into the con-
troversy as to the proper design for
American bsttleships by attending a
meeting of the general board, to be held
at Newport on August %. This will be
the first summer meeting that Admiral
Dewey has attended in several years.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

gain has continued Uninterrupted.
Quoting from the Manufacturers Rec.
ord:
The effect Of this really amazing change
In agricultural conditions finds an Illus
tratton In the advance IN the average value
OF farm property to the number OF people
engaged in agriculture. In 1880 the aver
ase per capita was sl.579. BY 1900 this
had increased to s1.a5s. or In twenty years
an advance OF 1919 per capita to those en-
gagged In agricultural pursuits. Between
1900 and 1907 this increase continued at
such a rapid rate as to bring the average
up to S,Sh in 1907, or a gain in seven
years of $3.50 per capita. which was a
larger. increase for that period than the
gain in the twenty years from 1880 to 1900.
The actual gain in the value Of farm prop
erty since 1880 has been equal to an aver
age of T62 for every man, woman and
child engaged in agricultural pursuits.
With the agricultural conditions
of the country so fundamentally sound,
there can be no lasting period OF COM
mercial and industrial depression. The
farmers are ready to give the railroads
the largest tonnage in their history
and thus form the sure basis for a
great expansion OF industry.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
THE FABMEE's CONTRIBUTION.

The estimate of Secretary Wilson
of the Department of Agriculture that
the total value of this years products
of the American farm will be in excess
of $4,000, 600, 900, or an increase Of
about $500, 600, 900 over the very pros
porous year of 1907, has started he
statisticians to computing the figures
of growth of the agricultural interests
of the nation with results that are
simply astonishing. The Manufactur-
er's Record of Baltimore shows the re-
suits of the farmers wealth producing
operations by the following striking
comparisons:
property ........ 81, $50, 900. 700 $500 OOO,O 900
Total value farm
products ....... 2212, 100000 7,412, OOO,O 900
How each member of the farming
community has shared in this good
fortune is shown by another group of
statistics:
1880. 1907.
Farm property, per capita.....,, N'5S VISA
Farm products, per capita. 2S Os
This remarkable development Is
shown more emphatically by the state
ment that the Increase in the value
of farm property alone for the years
between 1900 and 1907 is $4,000, OOO,-
900, or about nine times as great as
the aggregate national banking CAPT
talization of the nation and more than
half as large as the entire capitaliza-
ton, stocks and bonds included, OF the
railroads of the United States. In other
words. If the farmers of the nation
had simply taken the increase in the
value of their farms for seven years
they could have used 1t to buy all of
the national banks Of the country
and to have had eight times the CAPT
tai stocks of the banks left over for
other investments.
In 1890, the S,565,000 persons en-
gagged in farming produced a total OF
$2,466, 900, 900, or a per capita aver
age of S2s7. In 1907, the 1891, 900
engaged in agriculture. produced a
total of 37,412, OOO,O 600 or a per capita
average of $61S. In that period the
number of agricultural workers in
creased 40 per cent, the value of their
products increased over 200 per cent
and the total value Of farm property
increased by nearly 80 per cent.
In this connection, it must be re-
membered that from 1870 until 1880
there was a decline in the value of
farm products and that from 1880
until 1890 the increase was nominal
so that the remarkable record OF ad-
vance has peer made since 1890 and
most of it since 1900. Since 1900 the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

The resignation If Alfred Darlow
from the service of the Union Pacific
will remove from railroad work one of
the best known advertising men in the
country. As head of the Union Pa
ciffc literary bureau Mr.. Darlow has
not only brought his work to an un-
commonly high standard, but has be-
come known almost wherever the road
is known. He will be missed by a
host of newspaper workers throughout
the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

While the police commissioners are
attending to other matters of moral
housekeeping, they might look after
the effort that is being made to make
Omaha headquarters for a lot of va
grants masquerdding under the title
of boxers" Omaha is all ready to
support the cause of athletics or sport
in any of its legitimate undertakings,
but the cheap prize fighter should not
be allowed to find a resting place here.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

Germany is to make a fight to ex-
terminate the cheap and nasty novel"
Wonder what the kaiser would do if
he had to contend against some of the
cheaper and nastier newspapers that
are published in America? The penny
dreadful is bad enough, but it is not
to be compared for harm-doing with
the yellow" journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
Another Alaskan surprise
Philadelphia Record.

WTIUNNIFWEW E"N"EWF
Nature is often obliging in placing the
antidote near the poison. Another illus
traitor of his has been discovered by
our geological experts in Alaska, a and
OF snow and ice, with a sprinkling OF gold,
which has been Boosting about the
salubrity OF its climate because a few
fsst-srowlng vegetables can be cultivated
In gardens favorably situated. II is
found that the territory contains large
deposits OF coal, or, at least, large forma-
lions OF a carboniferous character,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

In another week or SO the man who
is running for Office and the delegate
who is running for the man who is
running for ONCE and the plain citizen
who is running for the man who is
running for the delegate will all be in
the political swim. There is glory
enough for all.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

The cry of higher taxes having been
exploded, the democrats will now have
to hunt another issue for their cam
paign. If they stick TO facts they
have nothing in their favor, and if
they try Misrepresentation they are
quickly found out.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

Old King Corn is doing wonderfully
we'll; the green bugs and the rust have
disappeared from the wheat fields and
nature is generally smiling, but the
Board of Trade operators will be able
to work some new reason for sending
prices up or down. That's one of the
beauties of the business.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
Combine of False Prefense.

81. louis GI0be-DemOcrat.
Nebraska authorities have decided tina
the populists and democrats of that state
are entitled to combine on an electoral
ticket. Mr., Bryan is not pretending in
Nebraska that he has become too con-
sentative to act with populists and APP
prove their platform.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

The Board of Customs appraisers
of New York has decided. that bag
pipes are toys and must pay duty as
such. Hoot mon. We thought they
came in as explosives.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

John Temple Graves declines to be
formally notified of his nomination as
vice president. He doubtless thinks
II would be q reflection upon his
standing as a newspaper man to have
to wait for formal notice OF what a
convention did.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

"Fingy' Corners says that Bryan
will carry New York by 100000. Evil
IDENTIFY Connors has not been buying
n brains lately, even II II Is true. as
he claims, that he can buy all he
wants. At that, he may not want as
many as he needs
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

"Mr. Bryan finishes one speech be-
fore he begins another a y a Lin
coin correspondent. 1t is understood
to be a source of regret to Mr.. Bryan
that he has to do this.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18

One of the candidates for governor
OF Minnesota admits that he eats pie
with a knife. 1t is up to his oppo-
nent to prove that he can eat peas with
a knife.