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The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
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tract from corresponding Nahona Editorial
Association of August, 1908.
It is now possible to secure homestead Of 100
acres free and another 100 acres at $500 per acre.
Hundreds have paid the cost Of their farms ii
purehased) and then had balance Of from l0.Oo
to $500 per acre from one crop. Wheat, barley.
oats, aax-al do well. Mixed farming is great
success and dairying is highly profitable. Excel
lent climate, splendid schools and churches. rail-
ways bring most every district within easy reach
Of Market Railway and land companies have
lands for sale at low prices and on easy terms.
Last Best West" pamphlets and maps sent
free. For these and information as to how
to secure lowest railway rates, apply to
Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa,
Canada, the authorized Canadian Govern
ment Agent:
Us. CRAWFORD.
No. l25 W. Ninth Street. Kansas City. Missesss.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

The average man has ten friends
who want to sit up the first night he
is sick. one who will sit up the tenth
night, and woe be 1t If he hasn't money
to hire paid nurse the twelfth night
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
LID is ON

Aren't you almost repdy for
church,"
I'm sorry. but something dreadful
has happened. can't go to church
to-day"
For heavens sake, what has hap
pened?"
1.-THE cook is wearing one just like
mine!" .......
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Women are almost as absurd Al
men are foolish.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Use Red Cross Ball Blue. 1t makes clothes
elean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Sometimes a woman is known by
the company she avoids.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Let another man praise thee, and
not thine own mouth. - Proverbs
27:2.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softeps the gums reduces b
nammauon. sllays palm, cures wind collie 2oc bottle
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

Every man should be hero at least
once during his career for the sake
of his prospective grandchildren, If for
no other reason.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
A Natural Cause.

"I think" said the smart child. re-
fectively. that Hungary must be the
most human-like of all the nations"
"Why 30, my child?" asked the fond
papa.
Because" the smart child answered.
1T Is governed by its Diet"
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

1t Cures While You Walk
Aliens Foot-E Ease for corns and bupons hot sweAt]
callous aching feet. 5c all Druggists.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

ONLY ONE "BROMO OUININE"
That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for
the signature Of E. W. GROVE. Used the World
over to Cure o Cold in One Day. 25c.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

RED CROSS BALL BLUE
Should be in every home. Ask your grocer
for It. Large 2 o.. package only cents
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

He who thinks only of himself hasn't
any too much to think about.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31

The proportion of left-handed people
ID one In six.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
a POSER.

Mrs. Whim-You needn't say woman
has no mechanical genius. I can do
anything on earth with only a hair
pin
Mr.. whim--Well. sharpen this lead.
pencil with 1t.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-31
-45 to SO Bu. of Wheat Per Acre
have been grown on farm lands in
WESTERN CANADA

Much less would be
satisfactory. The gen.
eral average is above
twenty bushels.
All are loud in their
praises of the great
crops and that won
derful country."-Er-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
SUICIDE WRITES DEATH STORY.
Describes Effect of Gas as He Grad
uaIy Loses Consciousness.

Observation-Disclosures over the
death of his wife less than a month
ago, Arthur D. Adams, a bookbinder
in the government bureau Of engrav-
ing and printing, formerly of Salt
Lake City, took his own life. While
gradually losing consciousness he at
tempted to describe the effects Of the
poisonous fumes of Illuminating gas.
Closing all the windows of his room,
Adams turned on the three gas jets.
His landlady detected the odor of es-
Gaping gas. When the door of Adams
room was burst open he was found ly-
ing on his bed grasping a pencil and
the following unfinished note scrubbed
on a pad:
81 am sinking lower and lower from
the effects of asphyxiation. My head
is bursting! The room is dancing be-
fore my eyes. Good God, what a SEN
sation! | am being lifted! The
light! My God, the light! Her-l am
going-good- by-I-."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18

Is the embodiment of the twentieth
century business woman abloom in
Kentucky hills.
So the quaint old Fouts homestead
was put in a state of siege. The Win
chesters We're cleaned, loaded and
made ready. The revenue men were
sure to come after that bold defiance.
And come they did, headed by Uni
ted States Marshal F. NJ. Blair one of
the most determined and successful
men in the revenue service. With him
was a picked pOsse-and before him,
we'll barricaded by a natural breast
work of impenetrable rock, was Mary
Fouts, the moOnshine maid, with Win
chesters and ammunition enough to
stand off an army.
According to the officers story they
pressed forward and then Mary Fouts
fired. She deliberately, say the reve,
nue. men, opened the fight and made it
possible for the revenue men to dc
their duty They returned the fire
to man, but Mary Fouts was safe
behind the powders. Onward they
pressed, and for half an hour the mi
mic, one-sided battle ragged, then Depu
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18

fishing and hunting about the ponds
north Of the city.
The swimming lake had overflowed
and the water filled a basin formed
by mining operations half mile
away. The overflow had allowed many
fish to escape from the lake and many
Of them had been imprisoned in the
basin. The boys were draining the
basin and taking the fish back to the
lake. The work of removing the fish
had nearly been completed, when the
Davis boy saw something move under
large rock. He promptly grabbed az
it, thinking it fish, shouting as he
did so: "I'll bet this is a big one"
He jerked it up and to his sorrow
beheld a big rattlesnake squirming
In his grasp. He attempted to re-
lease it, but the snake was too quick.
coiling about his arm and raising its
head to strike.
Francis Evans was standing beside
| the little pOnd, leaning on Repeating
rife which is his companion on such
expeditions.
Young Evans heard the horror strick-
en- shrek of his companion as the an
gered RATHER swung back to sink its
fangs There was no time for thought.
In an instant the snake would strike,
charging the blood of the boy with its
deadly poison. Like fash the rife
rose, and bullet crashed through the
rattler's head and it fell, slowly un-
winding from Davis arm.
Evans then shot the snake six times.
Davis threw his arms around his
chum and cried from nervous excite
ment. According to Davis the snake
had four rattles and button.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
GIANT FISH SEXES CALF.
Draes It Into Deep Water by the Tail
and browns 1t.

Worthington, S. D.-Henry Hanso
farmer reports the loss of calf can
ried off by a giant pike.
The farmer heard noise among his
cattle one night and rushed out to-
ward the trouble, which he found was
near the canal. He found several
calves standing belly deep in water
and noticed one little calf making
desperate effort to pull its tail free
from something.
The farmer, with his bare legs. was
afraid of barbed wire, but he waded
cautiously toward the calf, and iuss
as he caught it monster pike dashed
the water all over him, and for mo
ment he was blinded. Wiping the wa
ter from his eyes, he found the calf
was being dragged toward deep
water. Hanson made a desperate eff.
fort to reach the animal before 1t was
dragged into the cana,, but he failed
and the calf struggled until it finally
drowned.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18

Uses to have the result of clearly diff
Terminating them from its practice.
The second movement has for its
immediate outcome this idea of nup-
tials by photograph. There are about
100000 Japanese in the United States,
and fully 80 per cent. Of them lead
single lives. Such a condition was
tolerable so long as a settlers object
consisted merely in earning as fast as
possible enough to return home. But
in view of the anti-Oriental spirit now
prevailing in the United States, the
Japanese residents see that the only
practical remedy lies in becoming per-
manent settlers, and in carrying out
that program a wife is a prime essen
tial
To return to Japan, however, for
the purpose of providing himself with
a wife means not only that man
would have to incur great expense,
but also that it would be more than
doubtful whether he could re-enter the
states subsequently. Therefore, the
only feasible alternative is to get a
wife over from Japan without going to
fetch her.
All this appears to have been an
ticipated very cleverly by the well
known Mr.. Shimanuki, a prominent
Christian. Some time ago he estab
lished in the Kosikawa suburb OF
Tokyo an institution called the Ryok
kokai, which may be freely translated
Self-Help society.
The inmates Of this institution
mostly graduates from girls high
schools, receive education in all sub
jects likely to be of practical utility
such as housekeeping, cooking, sew
ing, typewriting, etc. In fact they are
expressly equipped to be the wives Of
Japanese settlers in the United
| States.
1t is between this institution ant
the Japanese settlers that photo
graphs have been exchanged, and by
this means the settlers are enabled
to obtain helpmates whose qualifica
tons and record are known ant
whose appearance is rendered familiar
by the photographs. The idea Is tina
if the settlers thus marry and bring
up families, their sons will become
naturalized American citizens, and b!
degrees the anti-Japanese feeling il
the United States will die out. TIL,
conception seems eminently practica
and useful, nor can we doubt for ;
moment that the Japanese authoritie!
in Tokyo will refrain from interfering
with the program.-Japanese Week.!
Mail.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
Learn How to Sell.

Alone the farmer has no more
chance with the market combine than
a rabbit has with hungry bulldog.
Collectively he may hold his own and
get a fair price for his product.
Figure a bit: Five cents a bushel
added to the price of wheat means
a gain of 81 to $3.50 per acre. One-half
a cent per pound means a gain of S.
in every 1000 pounds Of beef or pork
or mutton. Cooperation in selling
will bring these advances and more.
twenty-five cents a bushel added
to the sweet potato crop in four years
has raised the growers of Tidewater
county Virginia, from poverty to re.
spectacle wealth. Southern cotton
growers have made 100000 year
clear profit above the average by
sticking together. Organization is the
big stick" of commerce and it Is
time for farmers to learn to use it.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
OFFICER BUTTONS GOWN.
New York Patrolman Aids a Pretty
Miss Out of Difficulty.

A young woman came out of one of
the residences facing Washington
square, New York city, CARRIED in a
princess gown. She hesitated mo-
ment, looking doubtfully at the loafers
on the park benches and forlornly up
Fifth avenue Then she went over
to Policeman George Donnelly, who
was standing at the corner gazing
with an official eye upon the grass,
Il beg your pardon, but will you
do me favor?" she said, with slight
ly heightened color.
"Sure, MISS" replied the officer in
his best manner.
"Will you please button my dress
for me?" she entreated, in apparent
calmness.
"What?' gasped Donnelly.
II said, would you please button
my dress? These princess affairs are
so tight that I just can't get my arms
up. There are three buttons / cannot
reach"
She turned her back on the police
man, and his staring gaze Travelled to
a point midway between her shoulder
blades and stopped. There he saw
some lace, a thin line of blue ribbon,
and
Certainly, miss" said the guardian
of the law when he realized the ne
cessity, and he began tugging at his
gloves.
"Oh, I am so sorry to trouble you,"
the young woman said, but there
wasn't a soul in the house, and ] am
very anxious to get uptown"
mo trouble at ALL" the policeman
insisted, and stuffing his gloves in his
pocket he took firm grip and started
to work.
"My fingers are all thumbs" said
Donnelly.
Eyes. that's the trouble" replied
the girl, encouragingly. Zone button
comes loose while you try to fasten
the next one"
I'll have it in just a minute" And
then, after some more endeavor, the
policeman Strengthened up with an
air Of satisfaction.
THANK you very, very much, Off
GER" said Miss Washington Square,
composedly. Il knew | could depend
upon you" Then she pushed her way
through q crowd that had collected
and climbed upon a waiting stage.
Donnelly mopped his heated brow.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
MARRIAGE BY PHOTOGRAPH.
Some Defensive Movements Undertake
en- by Japanese in America.

The Asahi Shimbun has an article
which throws an interesting light on
the question alluded to in our last is
sue, namely, marriages by phsto-
graph between Japanese residing in
America and their countrywomen in
Japan. 1t appears that two move
ments of a self-defensive nature have
recently been organized by Japanese
residents in the United States.
The first is a crusade against gamb,
ling by the Chinese, vice which is
INDUCED in on such scale and which
involves such evil results that the
presence of Orientals in general be,
comes Objectionable in the eyes OF
American citizens. japanese agitation
for the suppression of this vice prom
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18

1t doesn't pay to cut burdock with
q hoe. Use a spade and cut deep.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
Horses with Mustaches.

i've got a rarity, horse with a
mustache," said cabby.
The horse doctor looked the ungain-
ly animal over
ut is rarity" he said, "a mustache
so highly developed. Lots of horses
have incipient, Chineselike mustaches,
but your nag has the mustache Of a
grenadier--a regular soup strainer,
eh?
Mayhem and the other leading au.
thorities lay it down that a mustache
is the surest sign of a low-bred horse.
Certainly no one can dispute your an.
imal's claim to low breeding."-Phila
delphia Bulletin.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
Figures Show Farmers Prosperity

The remarkable progress in power
of production in the agricultural
world was uniquely summed up by
the president Of the National Farm
ers' Congress. Mr.. John Stahl, in
opening his address at the last annual
convention at Rock Island, when he
said:
II congratulate you, as representa-
tives of the United States, on ma
terial prosperity. To the nations
production the farmers of the United
States this year contributed six bill.
lion dollars.
Eve hear much of the Standard
Oil Company, and its wealth, but our
annual eXpOrts-not production, but
eXport-of cotton alone has value
four times as great as all the petro-
leum produced in the United States
in year.
From the attention given disturb
ances in coal mining one might con-
slider that coal is very important
production in this country.
But year after year the farm prod
ucts of the United States have on
the farm a value more than sixteen
times the value at the mine of all the
coal dug in the United States.
I'VE have become the greatest pig
iron producing country in the world,
yet each year the grain of one crop
corn-has a value five times greater
than all the pig-iron produced in this
country.
why, the corn grown each year
by the farmers of Illinois alone, has
a value about equal to our entire pro.
duction of pig-iron.
Every time our miners dig dollar
from our gold mines, we farmers dig
$40 dollars from the ground, and
every time our miners dig dollar OF
silver from our mines, we dig $l65
from the ground.
"The farm products Of the United
States have value more than twelve
times greater than all the gold and
silver mined in all the world.
with their products of one yeal
only, the farmers of this country
could buy at par all the stock of all
the national banks of the entire coun
try, not once or twice, but eight
times over, and they could pay al
the wages and salaries in our grea
iron and steel industries thirty-foul
times and have money left.
During the past sixteen years oul
exports of all articles have exceeded
our imports by $5,O92,0OO,OOO. In the
same period our exports of farm
products exceeded our imports o.
farm products by $5,635,000,OO0.
",The farmer is responsible for oul
enormous favorable balance in inter
national trade.
"In all the world no other class II
any country produces as much wealth
as the farmers of the United States
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
Farmers Educational
AND
Co-OperativeU
Of America
Our Mainstay, the Farmer.

Let trusts and corporations burst
Like bubbles in the air,
And every Bull in Wall streets length
Be swallowed by a Bear.
The land is safe While rising up
At cock-crOW in the morn
The farmer drives his furrOw straight
And plants his, golden corn.
Let banks close up their iron doors,
And bank officials fee
With all the trusting public's cash
To lands across the sea.
There's nothing in the world to fear,
Well have enough to
While in his broad an' fields
The farmer sOws MS
Though railroads should forget to pay
Their dividends when duo,
And men promoting wildcat schemes
Look very glum and blue,
There is no need to feel alarmed
(Remember what | say
Unless the farmer should forget
To gather in his hay.
.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
BOY SHOOTS: RATHER
FROM ARM Of CHUh
LIFE OF HERBERT DAVIS PROB.
ABLY SAVED BY QUICK AC-
TON OF HIS FRIEND.

Joplin, Mo.-Herbert Dayis, aged IA,
threatened with a death-dsaling stroke
by a big rattlesnake. was saved by
the quick action Of Francis Evans.
aged Is, who sent a bullet through the
head Of the reptile just in time tC
prevent it burying its fangs IN the
flesh of his chum. The snake was
wrapped around the arm of the Davis
boy, who, had grasped it under the
impression that it was a, fish.
Francis Evans is the son of DR.
NJ. II. Evans. Herbert Davis is the
son Of the owner of the swimming re-
sort on North Main street. The boys
are great Chums and spend much time
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18

ty Marshal Hiram Day fell sorely
wounded, and was carried away on a
stretcher by his baffled companions.
What will happen to Mary Fouts
depends upon the outcome of Days
wound If it prove fatal, as the doc
tors predict, Mary Fouts will have to
face a charge of murder without the
mitigating plea of self-defense, and
Uncle Sans sense of chivalry will
not be violated. But at the time OF
writing, Mary Fouts, the moonshine
maid reigns undisturbed in the Ken
lucky hills calmly Sitting the corn
colored brew that is the pride and
Joy of Kentucky connoisseurs.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18

If the farmers undertake to finance
their cotton through certificate
plan their greatest opposition may
be expected from the bankers, who
can issue bank scrip based on their
promise to pay, or banknote currency
based on watered railroad stocks and
bonds. But the merchant who &C
cepted bank scrip last year will find
himself hard pressed to give any good
reason for not accepting cotton scrip
this year.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18

It's a gay life," said he, We'll, the
city hires me to preserve order and
decency, and | guess | done it that
time"
The Newtown bee., 1908-08-14
Weston.

NEWS SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. 1 Dr Frank Gorham took an automo. bile trip to New York and return, one day last week.
 Mrs Columbus Bulkley is entertain ing her cousin, Mrs Griswold of New York.
 Mrs Robert Williams entertained her father, MT Nichols, from Bedding, over Sunday.
 Mrs Adele Andrews of New Rochelle is the guest of her sister, Mrs Morris Perry.
 Miss Mildred Bennett of Bethel has spent few days with her aunt, Mrs Morris Perry.
 Miss Ethel Salmon was a recent guest of her aunt, Mrs Frank Gorham.
 Frederick Nichols has returned to his home in Fremont, O., after visit with his parents, Mir and Mrs Frank Nichols.
 Miss Gillum, an out-of-town friend, has visited Miss Louise Coley. A number of city boarders are at
The Newtown bee., 1908-08-14

NEWS AS.0UR SCRIBE FINDS 1T Mrs Horace Bradley of Newtown re , gently spent week with her brother l c. N. Curtiss.
 H. E. Bradley and wife and H. W
 Bradley were recent guests at Mapl ' Shade.
 Ralph Rider of New Haven has beel
 visiting his sister, Mrs Henry Davis also the Misses Olive and Mildred
 Moulthrop of Toronto have been guests at Pleasant View.
 The friends of Mrs James Bartlett will be pleasedsto Know that she is able to ride out and call on friends. l Mrs Edson Mallory has been caring for Mrs William Mullane of Southbury. Judging from the number of teams and also pedestrians on their way to the ball game played by the Hull Hill and Stevenson hines, Sunday, the at tendance must have been much larger than any other occasion could have commanded.
 Miss Edith R. Curtiss of Bridgeport is visiting her parents, rMr and Mrs c. N. Curtis.
 Frank Atwood of New Haven is boarding at Maple Shade Farm for few weeks.
 The many friends of Miss Olive Dav- is will be pleased to hear that she seems to be improving in health after her long illness and hope to see her among them again soon.
 The little daughter of Christie Chris jensen is seriously i'll. Dr Green is in attendance.
 Morning Prayer with sermon will be said in Union chapel, Southford, Sun- day next at Il a. m., by George L. Barnes of Ansonia.
 Superintendent John R. King and wife enjoyed a days outing at Savin Rock recently.
 Mrs T. F. Hayes and daughters, Miss Jessie Hayes of New Haven and Mrs T. J. Condon of Ansonia, were guests, recently, of Mrs David M. | Condon.
 Miss Nellie Flemming of Southbury was calling on friends in Southford, recently.
 Miss Tessie Flemming of South Brit ain and Miss Hilda Peterson were guests, last Saturday, of Mrs David M. Condon. They also called on friends | in Oxford thessame day.
The Newtown bee., 1908-08-14
the Burritt residence in Norfeld.

the Burritt residence in Norfeld.
 New Jersey friends have been recent guests of Miss Alice Gulick. >
 Mrs Charles Adams visited with hel brother, A. C. Bradley and family, last week.
 Miss Sara Donnelly has recovered rom few days illness.
 MT and Mrs Ava Bulkley of Bridge port have been recent guests of Mrs Martin Rowland. MT and Mrs Litch- field of New Haven will be guests, this week, of Mrs Rowland.
 Mrs Hagaer, a guest at the Faul- haber residence, has recovered from a slight illness.
 Miss Florence Perry is visiting her sister, Mrs Frank Wheeler,in Seymour.
 Mrs Theodore Hamilton had as Sunday guests her sister, Mrs George Mills, and the Misses Mills of George town and Miss Pauline Heardman of New York.
The Newtown bee., 1908-08-14
Redding.

NEWS PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.
 Edward Durgy had the misfortune to have a horsessstruck by lightning last week. A horse owned by MT Knox of Starr's Plain was killed at the same time. .-.-ea-u-~s..a.--.-s,.,s.s
 Miss Sarah Ryder of Norwalk is wis., iting her cousins, the Misses Mary and Mabel Ryder. '~ %
 The Long Hill Methodist church held
The Newtown bee., 1908-08-14
The NeWtoWn Bee
 Newtown, Friday, August ls' ieos'
BetheY
HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNIl

HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
 The house of W. H. Ferry in Elm wood district was struck twice by lightning in the hard shower. last week Wednesday. Fortunately the only damage done was to tear off a few boards from the outside of the house. George Bassett, who works for MT Ferry, received quite a shock but was not seriously hurt.