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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-24

Mrs Dr. J. NJ. Holt was hostess to
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-24

WHEN ON SUNDAY MORN
YOU WAKE UP" AND YOU
HAVE NO DRESSY MAKEUP,
YOU SHOULD, ON MONDAY,
EARLY RISE AND TEND THE
SALE" OF HERMAN WISE.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-05-24

53o while in the same months Of this
year the arrivals numbered 1882, d
decrease OF 279040.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
"Who Could J r Be?"

presence Of an officer Of the law. And
did they not do well to laugh? Surely
it was a joke, a good one, this idea
Of an officers being where he was
needed in Kemah county.
"And my brand was on that spotted
steer" he interrupted. II know the
creature-know him we'll. He has a
mean eye. Had the gall to dispute the
right of way with me once, not so
long ago, either. He was in the cor
raj at the time, but he's been on the
range all summer. He may have the
evil eye all right, but he's mine, bad
eye and all; and what is mine I will
have. And is that the only original
brand you saw"
"The only one" quietly, unless the
the j R on that red steer when he
got up was an original one"
81 r? Who could R be-"
II couldn't say, but the man was
Jesse Black"
Jesse Black"
The repeated words were fairly spit
cut.
Jesse Black! I might have known.
Who else bold enough to loot the
Three Bars? But his day has come.
Not hair, nor hide, not hoof, not
talloW enough to fry flapjack shall
be left on the Three Bars before he
repents his insolence"
What will you do?" asked Willis
ton.
What will you do?" retorted Lang
ford.
81? What can do?" in the vague,
helpless manner of the dreamer.
"Everything'-if you will" briefly.
He snatched up his wide hat.
Where are you going?" asked vii,
liston, curiously.
ITO see Dick Gordon before this day
is an hour older. Will you come
along?"
"Ye-es," hesitatingly. Gordon
hasn't made much success of things
so far, has he?"
Because you-and men like you
are under the thumb of men like
Jesse Black" said Langford, CURLY
Afraid to peach for fear Of antag
onizing the gang. Afraid to vote
against the tools of the cattle thieves
for fear Of antagonzing the gang
Afraid to call your souls your cwr
for fear Of antagonizing the gang. Youl
on the fence policy didn't work very
we'll this time, did it? You haven't
found your cattle, have you? The
angel must have forgotten. Thought
you were tainted of Egypt, eh?"
1T Is easy for you to talk" said VIII
liston, simply. 1T would be difficult Il
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
Turkish Labor Too Cheap.

An American manufacturer of laun.
dry machinery tried to introduce it
into Smyrna, Turkey, but Consul
Ernest L. Harris has reported that so
long as the price of labor in that
Turkish city remains so low the prao-
tice will continue of doing the wash.
ing at home. and there will be no op.
portunity for the sale of laundry ma.
chinery. Of late years in Smyrna it
has become the practice, he says, to a
certain extent to send the washed
liacn to public laundries for ironing
aud starching, but even this Is ceas-
ing. Specifications were drawn up for
the establishment of a laundry after
the American plan, and careful consid-
Grafton was given to the price of coal
and labor. 1t was found that the mar.
gin was so small that the undertaking
was bound to be q failure.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
A BackWoods Humorist.

The eastern tourists decided to have
a little fun with a Billvile citizen to
whom they had applied for informa.
ton as to the road they were travel.
ing.
How long have you lived here?'
they asked.
Long enough to know better"
Don't you like the country"
when it goes to suit me-"
Ever been up in an airship?"
mo, When | make up my mind to
fly I'll know whar to light"
Ever ride on a railroad train?"
mo. highest ever come to it wuz
bein' blowed up by a sawmill"
well, tell US what 'moonshine'
liquor means"
The Billville man shifted his
"chaw" of tobacco from one jaw to the
other, spat on the greensward, and as
he prepared to climb fence, said:
H, and heap of it!"-Atlan.s
Constitution.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
The Natrsn's Eread.

That bread is justly entitled to be
called the staff Of life" is fully borne
out by investigations of the United
States department of commerce and
labor. This department made an In
Vestigation to determine the amount
spent for food by a normal laborer'G
family. The data obtained from the
11,156 families whose expenses were
studied showed the average amount
spent for food by family consisting
o. husband, wife and five children to
be $329.19 pre- year. 1t is interesting
to note how the sO-Called normal fam
lily Of the average labOrer, which
seems rather above the normal in size,
apportions it's money for food and
other necessities. Twenty-Five dollars
and 20 cents is expended for bread,
-four and cereals, and while the cost Of
the bread is small compared with that
Of other foods, the amount Of nutrl-
ments and energy derived from 1t is
large. The labOrers meat bill is the
largest Of all. He spends S1lO.5O per
year for all kinds of meat, three and
a half times as much as for bread,
His butter costs him about as much as
his bread, and sugar half as much,
while about the same sum is spent
for potatoes and vegetables as for
bread. Thirty-eight dollars goes for
milk and eggs. More coffee is used
than tea; about $40 is spent for the
one and five dollars for the other. Re-
ligion, charity and tobacco claim near
ly equal amounts, while intoxicating
liquors come in for a much larger
share. Labor organizations get about
nine dollars per year, while 1919 is
contributed to the support of state and
local governments in the form OF
taxes. Sickness and death on the
average claim $20.54. 1t is quite ap-
parent says Harry Snyder in Harper's
Monthly, that bread and flour do not
form a very large item of the food ex-
pense Of the normal laborer's family,
as only nine per cent of the cost Of
the food goes for bread and 81 per
cent. for all other food articles.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
The Effort of Life.

Charles Erskine Scott Wood voices
his creed Of life and the hereafter in
the Pacific Monthly in these words: 81
like to insist again and yet again that
the effort of life is virtue, not vice
(if virtue be the upward flight. That
the decree of life is happiness and
that as one mode of happiness there
is beauty everywhere-by day and
night, in summer and winter, storm
or sunshine, in desert or mountains,
or on the salt and restless sea. The
earth is married by man, not man by
the earthly life. The earth is kind to
man. 1t Is man who is ferocious unto
man, and ravenously covetous. II
heaven be not found in this life, on
this earth, it will never be found any.
where. He who believes it will be
found here and seeks to realize 1t Is
no dreamer, but the builder of a solid
edifice; and he who seeks it in some
vague hereafter, content to submit to
the tyrannles Of this life, in hope OF
q reward in another, is the visionary"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
AS EXPLAINED BY THE EDITOR.
Drastic Action Evidently Was NeceS
sary, aand 1t Was Taken.

The Buie's Creek IS. CO. Index to
the Times recently came out with a
double-leaded editorial as follows:
I'VE wish to make our abject apollo.
gies to Hon. Hezekiah E. Kinney
for having said of him in our last IS.
sue that he fumigates his garments
What we meant to say was Eliminates
MS arguments We have had our eye
on the printer ever since he twisted a
phrase which appeared in an editorial
of ours from full of internal rotten.
ness and dead mems bones into in.
ternal rattlesnakes and dead wren's
tones And as soon as our eye lit
upon this gratuitous insult above to
the Hon. Hezekiah E. Kinney we
armed ourselves with our repeating
shotgun, sought out the guilty party
and shot him down in cold blood, not.
withstanding the fact that the now
deceased was the only support of a
widowed mother and possessed large
and flourishing family. We wish to
assure the Hon. HeZekiah e. Kinney
that in the future his person and his
speeches will be handled in these col.
umns with respect" York Press.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
q small room into which Langford was

q small room into which Langford was
ushered. 1t was also very plain. 1t
was more than that, it was shabby.
An easy chair or two that has sur
yived the wreckage of the house of
Williston had been shipped to this
land of promise" together with
few other articles such as were abso-
lutely indispensable. The table was
a big shipping box, though Langford
did not notice that for it was neatly
covered with a moth-eaten plum-col-
Ored felt cloth. A rug, crocheted out
of parti-colored rags, a relic Of Mary
conservative and thrifty grandmother,
served as a carpet for the living room.
A peep through the open door into the
next and only other room disclosed
glimpses of mating on the floor.
There was a holy place even in this
castaway house on the prairie. AS the
young mans careless eyes took in
this new significance, the door closed
softly. The little girl" had shut
herself in.
The two men sat down at the table.
It was hot. They were perspiring
freely. The flies, swarming through
the screenless doorway, stung disa-
greeably.
Laconically WillistOn told his story.
He wasted no words in the telling. In
the presence of the man whose big
success made his own pitiful failures
incongruous, his sensitive scholars
nature had shut up like clam.
Langford's jaw was set. His young
face was tense with interest. He had
thrown his hat on the floor as he came
in, as is the way with men who have
lived much without women. He had
strong, bronZed face, with daredevil
eyes, blue they were, too, and he had
a certain turn of the head, mark of
distinction which success always gives
to her sons. He had big shoulders,
clad in a blue flannel shirt open at
the throat In his absorption he had
forgotten the little girl as complete
ly as if she had, in very truth, been
the 10year-old of his imagination.
How plainly he could see all the I'M
holy situation-the handful of des.
perate men perfectly protected on the
the little island. One man sighting
from behind a cottonwood could play
havoc with a whole sheriff's posse
on that open stretch of sand-bar.
Nothing but a surprise-and did these
insolent men fear surprise? They had
laughed at the suggestion of the near
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13

One Of the most striking signs OF
this age Is the entrance of science into
every department of life. A symbolic
picture of the twentieth century might
Represent the spirit of science stretch
ing her hand out over the temples Of
Elearning, religion and law. The state
OF Chihuahua, in Mexico, has passed a
sanitary law regulating theaters,
churches and other public buildings.
All such buildings must have ample
fire protection, be properly ventilated,
and provide sufficient seats. In the
churches it has been the custom of
worshipers to sit and kneel on the
floors. This is forbidden by the new
law, which looks to the health of the
people. Old customs are suddenly,
sometimes violently, upset by new
knowledge, but there never was an
age Confident of its new knowl.
edge and more competent to produce
the facts than the present age.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13

appearing reserved stores of nature.
In using coal the human race Is in
trenching upon its capital, and reck-
lessly fastening an ultimate but in
evitable catastrophe. 1t Is estimated
by the highest authorities that the
total available coal treasures of North
America cover 100000 square miles,
with an average thickness of six feet
Of workable seams, which would yield
4,S00 tons to the acre. The total
amount of COAL therefore, that is pos
sibly within our reach in America
could not exceed 1000 100000 tons.
But in the year 1900 alone we were
mining but little short of 300,000,000
tons, while the expansion of popula-
ton and of business is demanding an
increase at such a rate that two or
three times that amount will soon be
necessary to meet the annual demand.
At the present rate of increase in the
use of coal, therefore, the entire
amount accessible in North America
would be consumed in less than $50
years.
If we look to the rest of the world
the prospect is not more encouraging.
The coal fields of Europe are mostly
confined to small areas in England
and the northwestern part of the con-
tinent Spain, Italy, Greece, Russia,
Scandinavia, and the larger part of the
German empire are dependent on
England for their coal. At the pres
ent rate of increased production these
fields will be nearly exhausted in so
years. The remaining great deposits
Of coal are mostly found in China,
where they equal, if they do not ex.
coed, those in the United States. 1t
may therefore be fortunate for the
world that China Is so slow in her de.
velOpment that her reserved sources
Of fuel shall yet be available when that
in the countries more advanced in
civilization shall fail.
The Insignificant role which water
power in this country can possibly
play In keeping up our industries ap.
pears on brief examination Of the
facts. 1t is estimated by the best au
thorities that If the entire rainfall
over the state Of Pennsylvania wsse
utilized with a head of $50 feet, /,
would not yield one-tenth the amount
Of power that is now derived in that
state alone from the consumption OF
coal. But on the most extravagant
calculation it would not be possible tc
make available in that mountainous
state one-tenth of this Theoretical
amount Of water power. What Their
would be the condition Of those vast
areas Of the Mississippi valley where
water power is far less available?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13

The old monitor style of warship is
still good for something. One Of the
class, the Florida, is to be made the
object of attack by modern ships and
guns, and also by torpedoes, with a
view to ascertaining the effect of the
fire maintained under such conditions.
Several of the obsolete vessels OF the
British navy have been been utilized
In this manner, and though it seems
like an ignominious end for the gal.
liant craft, the practical knowledge
gained is considered more than an
Offset to any sentimental associations.
In fact, rude war takes little account
of sentiment.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
changes Of level continued to proceed
with the appropriate rate Of rapidly.


The fossil plants of the coal period
seem to indicate that the climate was
at that time warm and moist and uni.
form, while the amount of coal accu.
mulated shows that the air was much
more fully charged with carbonic acid
gas than it is at the present time. OF
the coal plants of Great Britain about
half were ferns, many of them grow.
ing to the size of trees, the most OF
which are tropical species. Indeed,
during the coal period in Great Britain
the proportion Of ferns there to the
other plants was far greater than 1t Is
in the tropics at the present day, while
tree ferns are now wholly confined to
tropical regions Abundant tropical
forms Of vegetation are found in the
coal seams in Greenland and on Mel.
vile Island as far north as the sew.
enty-ffth degree Of latitude; indeed,
everywhere during the coal period the
climatic conditions not only of the
temperate zone, but of the arctic lands,
were closely similar to those of the
present torrid zone.
But, for mans use, it was neces.
sary not only to have coal accumulate:
1t must be preserved for distant ages
and brought within his reach. II the
Mississippi basin had remained for.
ever below the ocean level its stores
OF accumulated coal would have been
unavailable. But, through causes
which we can but dimly comprehend,
at the close Of the coal period the land
all over that area, which had up to
That time been slowly sinking, re-
Versed Its movement and began to
rise. This elevation was produced by
lateral pressure, which folded up the
Allegheny mountains and produced a
number OF diminishing waves, 80 to
speak, in the surface Of the land OK.
tending to the center Of the Missis-
sippi basin.
But no sooner was this land elevated
ABOVE the sea than erosive agencies
went to work to dissect 1t and to re.
move It's more elevated portions. Con.
sequently 1t is estimated that more
than nine-tenths of the coal which was
originally deposited over central and
eastern Pennsylvania has been carried
| away by the rivers. and hoDelesSlN
scattered over the bottom of tho sea.
while the one-tenth which remains Is
SO folded up In the rocks that It 10
obtained with great difficulty. In the
more central portions of the MiSsissip-
pl valley, however, the disturbance of
the strata has been less, and It fs q
comparatively simple matter to obtain
the rich deposits
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
your bread and butter and you little
girls as well depended on a scraWny
little bunch like mine.

your bread and butter and you little
girls as well depended On a scrawny
little bunch like mine
Maybe" said LangfOrd Struggling
his shoulders. Doesn't seem to have
exempted you, though, does it? But
Black is no respecter of persons, you
know. However, the time has come
for Dick Gordon to show Of what stuff
he is made 1t was for this that
worked for his election, though | con.
TESS little thought at the time that
proofs for him would be furnished
from my own herds. Present condi'
tons humilate me utterly. Am | a
weakling that they should exist? Are
we all weaklngs?
A faint, appreciative smile passed
over Williston's face. No, Langford
did not look weakling, neither had
the professed humiliation lowered his
proud head.
Langford strobe to the door Then
he turned quickly.
Look here, Wiliston, l shall make
you angry, l suppose, but it has to go
in the cattle country, and you little
fellows haven't shown up very white
in these deals; you know that your
self"
"Well?"
10 CT ~
u.s."
IF you mean, am | going to tell
what | know when called upon an
swered Winston, with a simple dig
nifty that made Langford color with
sudden shame, Il am. There are many
of US little fellows who would have
been glad to stand up against the
rustling outrages long ago had we re-
ceived any backing. The moral sup
port of men of your class has not been
what you might call sort of on the
spot support, now, has it," relapsing
into a gentle sarcasm. "At least, un.
til you came to the 'front.' he quail.
fed.
You will not be the loser and
there's my hand on it," said Lang
ford, frankly and earnestly, ignoring
the latter part Of the speech. The
Three Bars never fOrgets friend
They may do you before we are
through with them, Williston, but re-.
member, the Three Bars never for.
gets"
Mary Williston, from her window,
as is the way with a maid, watched
the two horsemen for many mile as
they galloped away She followed them
with her eyes while they slowly be-
came faint, moving specks in the level
distance and until they were altogeth.
er blotted out, and there was no sign
of living thing on the plain that
stretched between. But Paul Lang
ford, as is the way with a man, for.
got that he had seen a beautiful girl,
and had thrilled to her glance. He
looked back not once as he urged his
trusty little mare on to see Dicl'
Gordon.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
BY GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT,
lAuthor Of ice Age in North America,
Man and the Glacial Period"
"Asatic Russia" etc.]

-. W., IL. ~
fAuthor Of ice Age in North America"
Man and the Glacial Period"
"Asiatic Russia" etc.]
Copyright by Joseph B. Bowles)
Coal is the chief corner stone Of
modern civilization. Nearly all the
labor-saving appliances must have coal
to make them effective. Outside of the
muscles Of men and animals the chief
sources of power available for the use
of man are gravitation as it is set free
in falling water and heat arising from
the chemical combustion Of coal. But
waterfalls are stationary, and even
with the ability to distribute their
power through electricity, it is avail
able as yet over only limited area.
If all the power of Niagara should be
turned into electricity it could not
proftably be distributed beyond the
limits of western New York, whereas
coal can be carried to the ends Of the
earth and its power set free for use
WHClCfCl IL ID HctuSu. IL JhC pa &iI I'D
Of the west and the comparatively lev
ell regions the world over, where are
found the best agricultural lands, were
limited, as formerly, to water power
for running their factories and mills,
these would necessarily be few and
insignificant. Such great manu-
featuring centers as Cleveland, De-
troit, Chicago, ST. Louis and Cincin-
natl would be impossible away from
the mountainous districts. 1t would be
a tremendous setback to the agricul-
tural interests of the Mississippi valley
if they were compelled to dispense
with steam thrashers and steam trac-
ton engines and substitute in their
places the work of innumerable droves
Of horses and mules.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13
Copyright by A. c. McClurg d Co.. l9O7.l
SYNOPSIS.

George Wiliston, a poor ranchman,
high minded and cultured, searches for
cattle missing from his ranch-the Lazy
S." On a wooded spot in the rivers bed
that would have been an island had the
been at high water, he discovers
q band Of horse thieves engaged in work.
Ing over brands on cattle. He Creeps
near enough to note the changing of the
Three Bars brand on one steer to the
IL b. brand.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13

A dog in burning building In
Rochester saved the lives of so people
by it's timely warning of danger.
which forces the pessimistic but inevi-
table conclusion, original but sad. that
some dogs are of far more use In tEe
world than some people.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13

It is ali extraordinary fact that
there is $250.0O0 in the New York city
treasury, an accumulation for 25 years
Of unclaimed salaries, wages and war
rants In general How careless soms
people are about money!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13

Coal is an accumulation of vegetable
matter which has decayed under uo
ter where oxygen could not get acceso
to the carbon to consume it and trans.
form 1t into carbonic acid gas, as I,
does In the open air. The conditions
of the coal fields, therefore, during tho
accumulation Of the coal must hsvo
been that of vast swampy regions
where there was not depth of water
enough to destroy the vegetation or to
admit of the intrusion of gravel sand
and mud, which, brought in from sur
rounding highlands, would have rem.
dered it too impure for use The char.
aCter of the vegetation which SUPPLIED
these great acCumulations Of coal IA
amply shown in the fossil forms which
appear especially near the ton and
bottom of the coal seams. while IN
some cases tie entire stGmDs of trees
are found still standing in place, with
their roots penetrating into the under
clay which supported the vegetation.
In Nova Scotia there are found no
less than &c seams of coal separated
by beds Of sandstone and shale. Each
of these beds indicates change Of
level which took place in the region
during its accumulation. During the
accumulation Of the coal the swami
was so shallow that no currents Of
water could carry into it sand and
gravel to interfere with the growth or
to bury it. But after certain amount
of vegetable deposits had accumulated
there was a subsistence of the area
allowing access to currents of water
carrying sediment sufficient to bury
the deposit of coal, and furnish the
basis for the growth of vegetation in
another swamp on top of the accumu.
lated sediment, and so the process
went on Indefinitely, as long as the
climate continued favorable, and these
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-13

1t is therefore rather startling to be
compelled to face the fact that coal
belongs to the limited and rapidly dis