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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
Just Like an Actor.

From the Philadelphia Press Towne-Gee whiz! where did you get this cigar? Browne-Oh. that was the only kind I could get. It's a cheap thing, named
 after some bum actor Towne-Huh! that explains why it doesn't draw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
DRENNENS

the brilliant women of the territory who boast Indian blood. As a club woman Mistress Lo is quite prominent today. In every town there are literary, musical and social clubs, and among the most en- thusiastic workers are Indian women
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
GIRL WAS DElIRlOUS
With Fearful Eczema-Pain, Heat,
and TingIing Were Excruciating-
Cuticura Acted Like Magic.

IAN eruption broke out on my
daughters chest. l took her to a
doctor, and he pronounced it to be
eczema of a very bad form. He treated
her, but the disease spread to her back,
and then the whole of her head was
affected, and all her hair had to be cut
off. The pain she suffered was excru-
ciating, and with that and the heat
and tingling her life was almost un-
bearable. Occasionally she was deliri-
Gus and she did not have a proper hours
sleep for many nights. The second
doctor we tried afforded her just as
little relief as the first. Then | pur-
chased Cuticura Soap Ointment, and
Pills, and before the Ointment was
three-quarters finished every trace of
the disease was gone 1t really seemed
like magic. Mrs. T. w. Hyde. Brent
wood, Essex, England, Mar. s, 1907"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
An End MISSING.

An Irishman who served on board
a man-of-war was selected by one of
the officers to haul in towline of con-
siderable length that was towing over
the taffrail. After pulling in 40 or SO
fathoms, which had put his patience
severely to proof, as we'll as every
muscle of his arms, he muttered to
himself:
Surely it's as long as to-day and to-
morrow. It's a good weeks work for
any five in the ship. Bad luck to the
leg or the arm it'll leave at last. What,
more of it yet? Och, murder. The
says mighty deep, to be sure."
After continuing in similar strain
and conceiving there was little prob
ability of the completion of his labor,
he suddenly stopped short, and, ad-
dressing the officer of the watch, ex-
claimed: Bad manners to me, sir, if
l don't think somebody's cut off the
other end of it!"-The Pathfinder.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
Legends Of
the Beautiful
Forget

"Ne sweet forget-menot that
blooms for happy lovers has more
beautiful legends clinging to its name
than any other flower. They begin
Ia the beginning with the creation.
According to one beautiful tale, the
Lord called the plants in the Garden
Of Eden before him to give them their
names and color AS he spoke to one
after another, a tiny flower thought it.
self unnoticed and, fearful of being
quite overlooked, it timidly pleaded:
Dear Lord, forget me not" The Gre
atGr turned sternly toward the little
plant that dared to interrupt him,
then, seeing how sorely afraid it was
he gently smiled upon it, gave it for
its color the heavens own blue, and
called it Forget-me-not as a reminder
that 1t had once been so foolish as to
doubt him.
1t Is the Persians who have fash
toned beautiful legend to tell how
it is that those flowers are scattered
over the earth as the stars are spread
over the sky. According to them, o.e
morning of glory when the world was
new an angel stood weeping outside
the closed gate Of Paradise. He had
fallen, in that he had loved q fair
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
Bad Effects From Colo.

Mr.. NJ. J. Deutsch, Secretary Building
Material Trades Council, Isl Washing
ton ST., Chicago. ILL.,. writes:
II have found your medicine to be
unusually eticacious in getting rid of
bad effects from cold, and more espc-
ciallv in driving away all symptoms Of
catarrh, with which | am frequently
troubled
"The relief Peruna gives in catarrhal
troubles alone is well worth the price
per bottle have used the remedy for
several years now
Spells of Coughing.
Mrs. c. E, Long, writes from Atwood,
Colorado, as follows
"When | wrote YOU for advice my
little three-year-old girl had a cough
that had been troubling her for four
months. She took cold easily, and
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17

would whceze and have spells of cough.
ing that would sometimes last for a
half hour.
Now we can never thank YOU enough
for the change YOU have made in our
little ones health. Before she began
taking your Peruna she suffered every.
thing in the way Of cough. colds and
Group, but now She has taken not quite
a bottle of Peruna and is WeHand Strong
as she has ever been in her life"
Pe-ru-aa for Colds.
Mr. James Morrison, IS East 10th ST.,
Paterson. n. j., writes:
Il have given Peruna a fair trial. and
| find it to be just what YOU claim it
90 be. | cannot praise it too highly.
have used two bottles in my family for
colds, and everything imaginable.
can safely say that your medicine is the
best | have ever used
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
No Visible Signals.

"Yessum," said Sandy Pixies, as he
devoured the wedge of pumpkin pie,
Il sternly object to the nefarious prac-
tice Of clipping off de tails of dogs"
"Ah, | am glad you are so tender
hearted, my poor man." sympathized
the good housewife.
We'll, it amt exactly dat, mum, but
when dog hasn't any tail can't tell
by de wags if he is in a good humor
or not and it makes me skeery about
approaching de house"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17

Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine
wash goods when new, owe much Of
their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beat
ty. Home laundering would be equal
ly satisfactory if proper attention was
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch, which has sufficient
strength to stiffen, without thickenng
the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
LOST $500.
Buying Medicine When Right Food
Was Needed.

Money spent for "tonics' and "brac-
ers" to relieve indigestion, while the
poor old stomach is loaded with pas
try and pork, is worse than losing a
pocketbook containing the money.
If the money only is lost it's bad
enough, but with lost health from
wrong eating, it is hard to make the
money back.
A Mich. young lady lost money on
drugs but is thankful she found a
way to get back her health by proper
food. She writes:
II had been a victim of nervous dys-
pepsia for six years and spent three
hundred dollars for treatment in the
attempt to get well. None of 1t did
me any good.
Finally tried Grape-Nuts food,
and the results were such that, If 1t
cost dollar package, would not
be without it. My trouble had been
caused by eating rich food such as
pastry and pork.
THE most wonderful thing that
ever happened to me, am sure, was
the change in my condition after /
began to eat Grape-Nuts. / began to
improve at once and the first week
gained four pounds.
81 feel that l cannot express my
self in terms that are worthy OF the
benefit Grape-Nuts has brought to
me, and you are perfectly free to
publish this letter II 1t will send some
poor sufferer relief, such as has come
to me-"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read. 1.-THE Road to Well.
viue," In pkgs. There's a Reason"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17


a mocker, as he gave the gossip Of the
bird world from the topmost tip of
eucalyptus tree; and always the hum
Of the bees, SO persistent that drowsi-
ness came with it. Also she saw the
low, spreading house, with its pillared
Verandas, rose-emboWered, beautiful
home, hers and-his His. Her slow
mind stopped again. Hers and his for
all time-''till death do US part"-"for
better, for worse'-'in sickness or
health to love and
honor and cherish" Yes,
to cherish. So they had prom
ised-they two, standing alone
together, in all the solemnlty OF
the marriage rites. But somehow the
sweetness had gone out of it all; the
love; or was it the comradeship? And
who to blame? Not he No. net he.
Herself? She shook, her head uncer-
tainly. Mostly 1t was duties" she
said. Oh yes, all Of ones duties to So
ciety-church duties; club duties; So
cial duties; and she shivered. Here
they all were, in pointed caps, with
little silver spurs on their feet, with
which, when she Jagged, they predded
her, with these and pointed tongues
Of Observation-Disclosures. Presently be-
hind them all she saw the figure Of
her husband, his eyes upon her low
ingly; but ever and again they turned
sorrowfully upon the group about her,
and as often as he would approach
her, she was pushed back; he could
not reach her for the barrier Of Du-
ties which stood between them.
The woman wept, she tried to brush
them all aside, for to her terror her
husband seemed to recede and recede
and she was unable to reach him. In
an agony Of remorse and grief she
stretched out her arms. Then from
among the Easter lilies came a fairy
shape-a tiny child. A moment 1t
i nestled on her breast, then it advanced
and as it advanced, the Shapes drew
away, grew fainter, and were gone;
and the tiny thing, leading the man by
one brown finger, brought him to her.
Was 1t only Cupid, the little god OF
love, or was 1t the spirit Of the little
child which some day might come to
dwell with them? The woman held
out her arms and clasped them both
and held them to her
When Mrs. Chester reused herself
from her swoon, or dream, or what.
ever it was which held her bound,
1t was to find her heart throbbing
with new hope and Joy and longing;
and she wondered whether or not she
had dreamed, or had been the priv.
ileged listener to an Easter sermon
preached out of doors by Nature, Ma
ture who was now in her most blessed
mood
Through the open windows of hel
home came low CHEEKY whistle. She
pressed the Easter lilies to her lips
In passion OF Joy. In some way shs
felt that she owed them something
a deliverance from something, and in
the depths Of her religious soul she
cried This Is the resurrection and
the life," even as the bells had said
it-while her face was baptized with
tears.
It was so that her husband found
her, on that most blessed Easter day
when the sun stood high over the val
leys. and spring brooded over the
foothill country-Edna Head Mccoy
In Los Angeles Herald.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
Gladstone's Thrift.

Gladstone's liberality was
very great, and was curiously accom-.
panied by his love Of small economies
his determination to have the prop.
er discount taken off the price of his
secondhand books, his horror of a
wasted half sheet of note paper, which
almost equaled his detestation of a
wasted NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Sir
Algernon West.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
A Counter Stroke

A stylishly-dressed woman entered
a Chinese laundry and paid for a
Numbered shirt.
why do you wear those rats
think you call them, in your hair?" in.
CURED the Chinaman, who had an in.
Quisitive turn of mind.
"Tush, Mr.. John" replied his Gus
toner. Il always thought it was Chi
nese etiquette not to talk about the
things they like best"
The Oriental blinked his eyes as the
lady passed out
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
Names for Good Friday.

Good Friday is called by some ma
tons Black Friday, by others Still Fri
day. Denmark calls it Long Friday,
in recognition Of the long fast This
fast was undoubtedly the origin Of eat
ing Gross buns In the thirty-sixth
year OF Henry VIII, an enactment was
passed prohibiting any baker printing
the sign Of the cross, the Agnus Del,
or the name Of God, upon any bun or
loaf Of bread
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
Marvellous Easter Era.

A very precious Easter egg was
once presented to the late pope by
an English lady Of high rank. The
shell was made Of finest ivory, and
the white matter of the ordinary egg
was represented by beautiful white
satin. The yolk was a golden case
wherein was Q ruby set In diamonds.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
Something New 70 Wear.

The idea Of having new freck and
hat for Easter Sunday is not alto
gether hippant. On the contrary. II is
Of religious origin, an old English rite
requiring that every person should
wear three new articles on that day
and a superstition which declares 1t
uniucky not to d
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17

Now, while the dawn with tints Of rose
Smiles through the gray skies, every
whore.
Softly about her morning care
The Easter mother goes.
The little rooms we call the hours
She gladdeneth for all our .akes;
And in their cradles gently wakes
The earliest Spring flowers.
The dark hath somehow fallen away,
For where she deftly hath uprolied
The snow-white curtains, we behold
The dawn of Easter Day.
And with a cheerful song she gives
The first birds welcome to her door,
While all the Easter world once more
RejoCes that it lives.
Frank Walcott HUT.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17

daughter of earth. When his eyes
had rested on her as she sat on a
rivers bank weaving forget-me-nots in
her hair, heaven and his mission to
earth were alike forgotten. Now he
might no more enter in until his be-
loved had sown all over the earth the
forget-me-nots. He returned to her
and, hand in hand, they wandered,
planting everywhere the sweet azure
flowers. When, at last, there remained
on earth no spot barren of these bios.
SONS, they turned again to the gate
and found 1t open. Together they en-.
tered in, for the angels great love had
lifted the woman to Paradise.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
THE MEAN MAN.,

II believe" his wife angrily de-
clared, that if l were dead you
would be married again inside of a
year.
"Oh, no" the mean man replied,
you are mistaken. Try me and I'll
prove it."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
What do YOU mean, pa?"

"Your mother reported him off the
hat rack at ten o'clock, and he hadn t
made the vesubuIe when your brother
steamed in at l2."-Modern Society.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17
has Widonod until
Nautical Note,

"Well, my girl. that young man OF
yours established a record last even,
ing"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17

HE had fallen, in that he loved fair
daughter Of earth. Together they en-
tered in, for the angels great love had
lifted the woman to Paradise"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17

,ASTER In the foothill coun-
try, among the low-lying
valleys, with the white
capped, blue vasthess of
the mountains in the back
ground, and all the end
less variety of sunshine
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-01
Mississippi Oratory.

Jasper county has been noted for the
high grade of eloQuence produced by
the pubic men of that part of Missis-
sippi. An appeal to the mighty men
Of Jasper" made by one of that coun-
tvs great men when a candidate to
the voters who elected him is as fol
lows:
Mighty men of Jasper, If 1 can be
instrumental in the hands Of my peo-
pie in adding a few jewels to those
that now shine in imperishable luster
on the queenly brow Of our proud COM
monwealth. whose associated radiance,
like the lambent beauty of the star, is
to guide the footsteps of her children
along the paths of peace and prosper
ity, security and happiness, l shall
then have accomplished the ambition
Of my fe."-Mobile Register.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-01
Justice To Railroads.
Col Robert Gates in South Farm
Magazine of Baltimore for January:

Col. Robert Gates in South Farm
Magazine of Baltimore for January:
This being so, it follows that the
public interest demands justice. if not
liberal treatment, of the railroads by the
people, by Legislature and Congress.
How is this? The liberality of the past
has been supplanted by radical regula-
tons, State and national. Revenue is
restricted and reduced on the one hand
and taxation and penalties increased on
the other. Every article of commerce
has increased in value save one, and
that is the only thing the railroads have
to sell, transportation. The railroads
the most necessary and helpfdl of all the
agencies of commerce, are alone denied
comparative share of the recent,
general and extraordinary prosperity.
Banks, manufacturers, merchants, ect
can make all the profit possible, but
the railroads are restricted by various
forms Of taxation and regulation and
penalties to comparatively small
dividends, though the risk incurred in
their business is greater than in any
other business. If the legislation enacted
in some of the States was in full force
the railroads would go bankrupt in
those States. Fortunately, the courts
are intervening to stay threatened
calamitles, which, should they finally
fall, will involve all other interests more
or less. The embarrassment now wide
spread is but foretaste of the calami-
ties threatened, and certain, unless
there is sane reaction.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-01
STEPHENSPORT.

Welcome the New Year with joy and
praise, help bear some ones burden
each passing day.
John Crawford left last week fol-
Vicksburg, Miss, after spending few
weeks with his mother, Mrs. Belle
Crawford.
Miss Laura Baker returned from
Hardnsburg Sunday, where she spent
Christmas with relatives and friends.
Miss Cornine Conn left Monday for
Bowling Cree.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Miller spent the
holidays in Louisville the guests of their
daughter, Ms. Frank Ferry.
Mrs. VIM. Walls and little daughters,
OF Troy, Ind, were guests of relatives
here Saturday and Sunday.
John D. Babbage was in town Satur-
day
Miss Mamie Hall, of Union Star, is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. R. A. Smith
Mrs. NJ. L. Roberts and Miss Pauline
Norman are spending the holidays at
Wellington the guests of D. Norman.
Miss Blanche Dutschke and Mr..
Bernard Lewis were married Christmas
eve. Rev J. T. Lewis performed the
ceremony.
Mrs. Ed. Stiles, of Owensboro, was
the guest of Mrs. johnson Stiles last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. d. Hawkins son,
Jamie, of Danvlle, met with a very
painful accident While playing football
Abe Skillman, Of West Point, and
Wallace Skillman, of Cloverport, were
guests of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r,
5. Skillman, last week.
Hubert Gilbert, of Co. A., stationed at
Fl. Mason, San Francisco, met with an
accident by his horse falling on him,
but very fortunately no bones were
broken, and writes that he will be out
of the hospital in few days.
Mrs. R. Bennett left last week for
New Harmony, Ind, to spend the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kelley Dyes two little
sons, of Clifton Mills, were guests OF
their grandfather. Murrv Psrr, last
week.
James Lay, of Gas City, was the guest
OF his mother, Mrs. ellie Fay, last
week.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-01
Long HendriCk Wedding.

The wedding of Miss Mary Bertha
Long to Mr.. Mike NJ Hendrick will be
soleminized this afternoon at 4 o'lock at
the Willard Hotel, in Louisvill. The
bride will be married in a brown broad
cloth travelling gown. Miss Long has
made her home with Mr.. and Mrs.
Hillary Hardin for the pvsr two years,
and is an unusaely beautiful and attrac.
tive girl. Mr.. Hendrick is a promising
young farmer and is a splendid man.
They will be at home in this city after
January ). Mr.. and Mrs. Benton
Ireland, of Skillman, and Oscar
McGovack of this city will attend the
wedding.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-01
superlative Beauty.

A. Swedish newspaper recently In
vited its readers to state in a few
words what they considered the most
beautiful thing in the world. The first
prize was carried off by an anonymous
answer THE eyes of my mother"
More imaginative was the reader who
won the next prize by suggesting,
1.-THE dream of that which we know to
be impossible"
The most amusing answer was that
which read, "The most beautiful thing
In the world is to see man carrying
his mother-in-law across a dangerous
river without making any attempt to
drop her in"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-01
HOw's This7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
HAIRS Catarrh Cure. f. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have know F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years. and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by his firm.
Walding kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists. Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Take Halls Family pills for consultation.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-01
Proved Useless.

"When you was little, was you
spanked like I am to make you good,
papa?"
81 was, my son, and spanked hard
too"
sven you can't fool me no more,
cause If it didn't make you good 1t
won't make me good."-San Francisco
Call.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-01

Conductor Jerry Tilford, OF FordsviIle,
came down to attend the funeral of his
old friend, Mr.. Napier.
Edgar C.. Lewis, wife and three
handsome children came down from his
home in Bradsfordville Tuesday to visit
his mother, Mrs. Lewis, at Basin
Springs.