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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
GHOST STALKS IN
THE LAW LIBRARY
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SPECTER
FRIGHTENs THE WOMAN
LIBRARIAN.
SEEN CRAWLING UP THE WALL
Spook Is Discovered by Index Boy
Who Shuns Gallery after Six P.
M. Students of Occult
Watching for 1t.

New York. Columbia university
! holds that ghost stories may be dis
missed with laugh, until an educat-
ed, nice, cid gentlemanly ghost gets
to lowering round Columbia's library
building of nights. In other words,
there is an undeniable ghost in Co.
lumbia's law library, ard as the un-
dergraduates say: "Whatd'ye know
about that?'
Three weeks ago the Century club,
Of Forty-third street, borrowed four
portraits Of the Columbia law library
to hang in portrait exhibition. They
were the portraits Of Chancellor Rob
ert f. Livingston, Chancellor Kent,
Theodore Dwight, Columbia's old law
professor, and Charles NJ. de Costa,
lovingly remembered at the university
for wad Of money he bequeathed It.
All four came back about two weeks
ago in good condition except the de
Costa picture, which had a check or
two on its varnish. The Century club,
being notified, took the canvas to a re-
stOrer, leaving where of old the por-
trait used to hang a bright green spot
on the otherwise faded green burlap
wall
Three days ago, at 6 p. M, John
Henry, the lbrary's card index boy,
rushed from the library gibbering.
Miss Cox, the assistant librarian, cap
tured him.
Not again." walled John through
his chattering teeth. Il don't go in
there no more; there's a man crawlin'
on the wall where the picture was.
don't go back for no money"
Miss Cox entered the library full of
scornful unbelief and turned on the
electrics. All was as it should be-a
bright green oblong on faded green
ground with a book ~allery running
below it and
Suddenly a peal of laughter broke
in the room and two cases of books
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

on either side Of the picture spot
emptied their contents with a crash.
When Miss Cox found herself in the
outer hall, John Henry had gone.
In the morning a Waterman reported
to Dean Kirchmey that "a kind of a
glow" had been visible through the
glass doors of the room all night.
Only few summer and "condi.
toned" students haunt the library
these days That evening at six (as
before) one Of them, prowling for a
book in the half light of an upper gal.
lery, heard the scratch of pen writ.
ing, writing.
He traced it to the olive green OBJ
long on the blank wall and marched
over at once. The pen scratching
ceased, but as he stood before the pic
ture spot there rose from the floor a
prodigious hollow sigh. The student
ran.
With classmate he returned to the
library on tiptOe. The room was va
cant, but on the haunted picture spot
there glowed an outline of the features
that once adorned 1t, trimmed with a
phosph0rescent frame. As the youths
stared the face and frame dissolved
and the bent figure Of man came out
upon the gallery, scurried to the furth-
est wall and blended with the books.
AS he vanished they heard sigh,
The apparition picture, the fleeing
flgure in the galleries and the hollow
sigh have become commonplace now.
Even John Henry, the card index au-
tocrat, enters the library without fear
in the daytime. For scholarly Co.
lumbia is taking its ghost in a cold,
scholastic spirit, and already has his
nightly walk scheduled for six o'clock
evenings, from which hour the ghost
has not deviated an iota
Prof. HysIop, it is understood. is
on the job with other students of the
occult, and will conduct a series of ex.
periments with the ghost and the
ghosts picture. Possibly, it is said.
he may endow science with a pam.
phlet.
In the meantime in the daytime, last
years canned" students continue to
work off conditions, John Henry shut
files the index cards and Miss Cox en-.
ters names against missing law books.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Movinq Shadow.


ia rather not talk about it tonight,
I'm not equal to it. It's too-too-it's
deyliish, Paul. | don't seem to be able
TO grasp it, | can't think about It
with any conference. was sure-so
sure"
Gordon was staring moodily out of
the window, one arm hanging idly
over the back of his chair. He had
taken up Office room in an empty shop
building across the street from the
hotel.
It's so deyilish it's weird" agreed
the ranchman. But your part was
great. You vanquished Jesse Black.
That is more than We hoped for a
week ago. Is 1t your fault or mine
that those fool deputies acted like
flies in tangle-foot and went spraddle-
fingered when something was expect
ed of them? We have nothing to do
with little thing like broken win
dow-pane.
There was an ugly cut on his fore.
head caused by his violent contact
with the sharp edge of the window.
casing. He was pale, but he had lost
none OF the old faith In himself or in
his power to- dominate affairs in the
cattle country. Defeat was intolerable
to him. He refused to bow his head
to it. To-day's check only made him
the more determined, If that were
posaible. to free the land If its shame,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
A Mans act,

Nobody but Mr. Henley would have
asked such a question in the first
place.
Miss Farley" he said, If YOU
could make yourself over what Kind
of hair and eyes would You hayeo"
If | could make myself over" said
Miss Farley, Il would look just ex.
actly as | do now"
You would?" exclaimed Henley in
honest surprise, and to this day he
can't understand why Miss Farley
thinks him a man Of little taste and
less tact.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

The slow rate at which population
is increasing in France is becoming
still slower. In fact, according to the
latest. announcement there is no in.
crease, but an actual decrease. The
birthrate has steadily dwindled for a
century, the aggregate of births within
that time having decreased from
1907 900 to 774,G00 year. The deaths
In France during 1907 We're reported
at 793, 900, which was 10000 more than
the births. II this is to be continu-
ing proportion. France may well view
the situation with alarm. and bestir
herself to discover the cause.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

In referring to recent trial in Ken
lucky, when woman vas acquitted
for shooting another woman who stole
her husbands affection. the Phiiadel-
phia inquirer says the practice of
shooting women who steal husbands
may be ethical, but not good practice.
and inquiries; Why don't the wife
keep her husbands devotion?" This
is the old plan of blaming everything.
even masculine ickleness, upon the
woman.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
Have You ChiIIs?

1t cured your Pa and also your Ma
of chllls in the long ago, and it will
cure you now. 1t has been tested by
time and its merits have been proven,
We guarantee one bottle to cure any
one case of Chills. If it fails your
money is cheerfully rpfunded-and its
name is Cheathams Chill Tonic.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

At a court trial in Houston, Tex,
recently 100 persons in attendance
were relieved Of pocket pistols be.
fore entering the courtroom. It has
been said by native that "a man
doesn't need a gun often in Texas. but
when he does he needs it-bad."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
He Could Still Lie.

Madam, we found your husband ly.
ing unconscious and"
well, he's such an accomplished
liar that | don't think a little thing
like being unconscious would make
any difference"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

1t takes an ardent soul like the sec
rotary of agriculture adequately to de-
scribe the big crop prospects. Wilson
can gid refined gold, paint the lily
and adorn the violet with ease and
facility.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

F. W. Fitzpatrick, consulting archi-
tect of the International Society of
Building Commissioners, says the fire
loss in the United States every year
is $lOO,OO0,OOO greater than the
amount spent in new construction,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

The Vienna Academy of Science has
spent nearly $4,000 in working ten
tons of uranium ore for radium. The
yield was three grains of pure radi-
um, the largest amount ever secured
at once. the value being $4,000.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
Try Murine Eve Remedy

For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes.
Murine Doesn't Smart->oothes Eye PAIN.
All Druggists Sell Murine at 5tJcts. The 48
Page Book in each Pkg. is worth Dollars
in every home. Ask your Druggist
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

That great and prolific English
painter J. NJ w Turner, bequeathed
to the British nation when he died in
1851 pictures of his own the value of
which was in 1902 estimated at $4,000
600 These pictures consisted of 362
oil paintings, 1875 finished water col
ors, and over 10000 studies and
sketches.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

1t looks like bumper crops in the
west, but the farmers say this means
bumper need for help also. The de,
mand for hands in the big wheatfields
Is by no means supplied.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
BAD BlUNDER.

Admitting Stranger-What a stun.
ming rider! Er-do You think she
would feel hurt if l should toss her a
kiss?
No, but you might feel hurt, son.
NY" replied the big stranger at his
elbow. That's my wife"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

The white peril" is as threatening
to the east as the yellow danger" is
to the west, China and Japan should
agree to stop the Europeans and the
Americans from cornering the whole
of the industrial and commercial
markets in the far east. "
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

we are now upon the season, re-
marks the st. Louis Times. when the
expert swimmer takes the place of the
man who didn't know that it was
loaded.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
Asphaltic LAYERS have been foupd in

Asphaltic layers have been found In
Syria, near kferie, a village about %
Ailes northeast of the port of Latakia
pg the road leading toward Aleppo.
Ach have been declared by compe,
ent mining engineers to be not only
z rich in asphalt, but also practically in.
exhaustibie.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

Nearly 100000 is spent in Mexico
City every week on lottery tickets, and
in the same period only about $4,000
is paid back in premiums.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

Massachusetts has town of 600 in.
lhabitants which receives $2,75O annu-
ally from single hotel for license to
sell liquor. This is believed to be the
highest license fee paid in the United
States. The fee is nearly double the
amount paid in Boston and other large
cities,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

While the finest Cuban tobaccos
nave less than two per cent. of nico,
tine, the rankest Kentucky tobacco
contains nearly eight per cent.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

What though meats be high? Aren't
there 734OO0,00o bushels of wheat in
sight, not to mention billion bush
els of oats?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
Comfort in That.

81 see there's a new weather proph-
ct out west who declares all the rivers
in the country will dry up in time"
"Well, so will he, thank goodness"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

Woman has two souls, according to
q. Stanley Hall. Poor woman, Man
has trouble enough in saving one soul
according to all accounts.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

Some people are born great, some
achieve greatness, and some manage
to dodge it by means of an anti-fat
remedy.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

i Canada waters yielded last year
about 20,000000 Holsters, half Of which
were canned
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

| Vienna has $4,000 street beggars. and
many Of them make a better living
Than WOrkmen.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

If this pension legislation is car
lried out in England and Australia, old
iage will have its compensations.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

! There's compensation in the fact
that the less you know, the more
you think You know.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

How many American women in
lonely homes to-day long for this
blessing to come into their lives, and
to be able to utter these words, but
because of some organic derange.
ment this happiness is denied them.
Every woman interested in this
subject should know that prepare
ton for healthy maternity is
ACCOMPLISHED hH the Use of
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

i The child who is as sharp as a razor
usually needs strapping.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

The romance Of a spinster is apt to
be one sided.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

i The shaIIowest person IS often the
deepest in debt.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
andhas positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, 1lcera-
ton, fibr0id tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges.
ton, dizziness or nervous prostratiOn.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
LYDIA Z. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

Mrs. Maggie GlImer, OF West
Union, S. C.,writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
Il was greatly rundown in health
from a weakness peculiar to my sex,
when Lydia e. Pinkham' Vegetable
Compound was recommended to me. 1t
not only restored me to perfect health,
but to my delight am mother"
Mrs. Josephine Hall, of Bardstown,
KY, writes:
Il was very great sufferer from
female troubles, and my physician failed
to hel p me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound not only restored me
to perfect health, but | am now proud
mother"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17

McCANE'S DETECTIVE AGENCY,
Houston. Texas, operates the largest force Of
competent detectives in the South, they render
written opinions in eases not handled BY them.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
a DAISY FLY KILLER

LASTS THE EN-
TiR E S EAS0h
1t leads every
thing for destroy
ing flies. Is neat.
clean and orna-
mental. Sold bysn
dealers or sent by
mail postpaid for
30 cents. Harais
Samprs. lia D-kslh
Ave-, Areekiya, y. 7.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-19
4 LIBERDADE IS SOLD
To ]. P. ROORIGUEs

4 bill of sale of the Portuguese news
paper and newspaper property known
as Liberdade has been filed for
record with Registrar Merriam. The
sale is made by Camille Pereira and
Hypolito Perera to J. 2. Rodrigues. The
Pereiras covenant that they are the
owners and have good right to sell the
property. They also covenant that dur
ing the next five years they viii not
engage in the publication of any Portu-
guese newspaper or periodical in Homo
lulu.
The purchaser is J. P. Rodrigues. The
consideration expressed is 5000.
a Liberdade was once owned and con
trolled by the Catholic Mission, which
published it as secular paper friendly
to the interests of the mission.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-19
Oahu Railway
TIME TABLE

OUTWARD.
Fer Waianae, Waialua, Kahuku and
Way Stations-"9:15 g. m, S3.20 p. N.
For Pearl City, Eva Mil and Way
stations-t7:30 a. M, '9:15 a. M, "11:0s
q. m. '2:15 p. M. 1920 p. M, 's:15 D.
IN, 1880 p. m, Ill p. m.
For Wahiawa-"s:15 n. m and ssh
ID. m.
INWARD.
Arrive Honolulu from Kahuku, War
alua and Waianae-'s:3s q. m, S:n
.. m
Arrive Honolulu from EVA Mil and
Pearl City-t7:46 g. m, 1886 N. m,
S10:3s q. m, "1:40 p. m, "4:a p. m.
K:S1 .. m, "7:30 p. m.
Arrive Honolulu from WahIawa-
1915 a. m. and "5:31 D. m.
sDaily. TEX. Sunday. tSunday Only
The Haleiwa Limited, a two-hour
train (only f1rst-class tickets honored),
leaves Honolulu every Sunday at 3:21
o. m; returning, arrives In Honolulu
1t 1910 p. m. The Limited stops only
ut Pearl City and Waianae.
ON. P. DENISON, r. G. SMITH,
Superintendent. G.. =. a. Il. A.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-19
JAPAN IS OUR FRIEND
lcontinued from Page Ten. J

Continued from Page Ten.)
"There is more in the Orient than
both of these nations can do, and they
can afford to encourage the awakening
of China and extend to her helping
hand.
''Our visit to Japan, while important,
can be made doubly so, if, at no distant
date, similar visit is paid to the
United States by body of representa-
tive men of that country
Before leaving the Empire we pre-
scented to the FIVE chambers Of com
merce through whom we received our
invitation to visit Japan the following
resolution, which was signed by all the
thirty members of the commissions:
- The Honorary Commercial Com
missioners representing Chambers of
Commerce of the Pacific Coast of the
United States of America, approaching
the sentiments which actuated the
Chambers of Commerce of Japan in ex-
lending an invitation to us to visit
iaian. and realizing that vt have net
with reception in this Empire from
the highest official to the humblest per
son. which has touched US so keenly that
we are without words TO express the
sentiments within US, do respectfully
request the high officers Of state who
have received US, the clubs which have
entertained US, and the ladies and gen
flemen who have opened their homes
for our pleasure, to accept a resolution
passed a a meeting of our commission
November 4, 1908, as follows:
:. That the friendship and good viii
of the people Of the Empire OF Japan
toward the citizens of the United States
of America is unquestioned.
q That the trade relations between
the two countries can and ought to be
strengthened.
3. That a plan should be adopted by
which the commerce between the two
countries may be increased and the
friendship between the two nations per-
petuated F."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-19
HE WORK Of MAKING THE
BREAKMATER At HILO BAY

pieces of road was no mean item in
the first cost, about 10000 being re-
CURED. At this end of the work there
Is another locomotive crane, dapli-
cate of the one at Puma. Warehouses,
office buildings, track scales, inspector s
houses, water tanks, etc, have sprung
up like mushrooms, and visitors to the
scene are frequent.
The actual work of building the letty
commenced about month ago. When
It IS remembered that all stone EN-
ployed in the construction of the break.
water below the surface must be three
tons IN weight or over. and all stone
above water must be eight tons or over
some idea of the work can be CLEANED.
At any rate it far surpasses the energy
and labor required to build gravel
walk from the back door to the wood
shed. At the present time there has
been constructed about seventv-fve
feet, but this lies on a lava reef above
water, and the actual filing in of the
bay viii not commence till this reef has
been passed. Civil Engineer j. H.
Brown, representing the government is
in charge to see that Uncle Sam gets
his pound of flesh
This new breakwater will certainly
be a wonderful factor in the promotion
of shipping interests on the big island.
They have never failed in their purpose
wherever built
There has been some speculation as
to what future uses the breakwater
may be made to serve outside of its
original job of keeping back the ocean.
It has been suggested that ocean traffic
which Hilo holds with the outside |
world could be greatly enhanced and !
benefited if it were possible to fill in |
ibout two acres at the extreme end of /
he breakwater and erect freight sheds I
thereon. The safest of landings could /
De constructed on the shore side of the /
mole at which ocean liners might dock |
With safety. With a rail line along the
op of the mole the disagreeable feature
connected with the Tightening of freight
t the present time would be done away
With. C. f. MERRILL.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-19
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