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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-06

Southern Mercantile Co. Ltd.
Martin Bros and Co.
Welsh Furniture Store.
Bertrand Davis co,
Cooper Drug CO., Ltd,
Welsh Printing Co., Ltd.
Signal Clothing Store.
Planters Grocery Co.
Model Grocery and Meat Market.
These resolutions were passed, not
so much on account of the fact that
these laws were being Hagrantly trans
crossed by any of the merchants Of
the city, as because of the fact that
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-06
POST CARDS.

If you want the Latest
in Post Cards, come to
the Journal Book Store.
New Shipments arriving
almost daily.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-06

MARTY 8
CLEARANCE SALE.

We wish to again call your atten-
ton to the SPECIAL PRICES we are
making during our GREAT CLEAR
ANCE SALE. This Sale was inaugur-
ated for the purpose of disposing Of
Our stock now on hand that we may
make room for better display of OUR
which is now being purchased in New
York City. So come in and get your
choice while you have the advantage
of our exceedingly reduced prices.
We are always glad to see you,
to show you this stock and to quote
prices to you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
JEYHAWKER JOTS

Failing weather is not so worse"
remarks the Newton Kansan-Republi-
can. IF only there is not falling gas
pressure as an accompaniment
The Hutchinson News thinks if any
other asplrants to reach the pole bios
som soon, they might come to Kansas
and get into temperature training.
It's been noticed by the jamestown
Optlm1st that some of the fellows who
are insisting on the individual drink
ing cup are not SO particular about the
individual plug tobacco.
Some days ago Ralph Faxon's
serial editorials running in his Garden
City Telegram on Soft Water and the
Concrete Bridge reached the respective
chapters of CXLIII and CXxxIv.
Faxon certainly deserves all the medals
for sticktuitiveness.
A Highland woman who has lived all
her life in house heated by stoves
Is living this winter in her new mod
ern house, which is furnace heated. But
a neighbor who visited her tells the
cold days going around with a stove
poker in her hand looking for some
thing to poke.
A new story, according to the Atchi-
son Globe, runs thusly: A boy found
a pocketbook, and returned 1t to the
owner. Tho boy came away looking
disappointed. Didn't he give you as
much as you expected" the boy was
asked. ''I rather hoped" the boy re-
piled that he would give me more
than I expected"
A gallon of whisky was stolen from
the office of the chief of police in Cha
mute this week, and a reward Of S25
is. offered for it's recovery. This looks
like an exorbitant reward, inasmuch
as the chief can get four full quarts.
with a corkscrew and cut glass de-
canter thrown in, for $3.15.-Kansas
City Star.
Owing to the interference of the town
marshal and the issuance Of an edict
by the police court, the important ques-
/ ton of superiority between the fresh
men and sophomore classes of the Ar
kansas City high school is left unset
! tied, and the years work in education
is likely to show little real progress. is
the conclusion of the Ottawa Herald.
Yes, these are hard times the
Kansas City Star quotes western
Kansas editor as saying. I'VE throw
dogs and buy hogs. We grow weeds
and buy vegetables and brooms. We
catch fish with a 81 rod. We build
school houses and send our children
to be educated away from home. And
at last we send our boys out with a
$40 gun and S19 dog to hunt 10-cent
game
The Winfield Courier is trying to in
duce the subur ban farmers of that
town to raise celery for the market,
| claiming that the celery produce
there is the best in the land, and that
! gardeners who raised it in quantities
would find it highly profitable. There
| is no doubt about the profits in celery
culture: the most discouraging thing
about the business is that it requires a
lot of real work, of the back breaking
variety.-Atchison Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

peal to the United States supreme court
from the recent decisions OF the federal
court Of appeals ordering its dissolution
on the ground that it Is being conduct
ed in violation of the antitrust laws
So it will be some little time, couple
of years or SO. before this dissolution
is effected even if the supreme court
sustains the contention of the lower
court. There are many able lawyers
too who believe that if such dissoiu-
ton is finally ordered it will be posi-
BILE for the Standard OIL company 10
obey the courts mandate by dissoiv-
ing merely in "theoreticar' fashion.
Still the moral effect of this court de-
clsion ought to he considerable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
Real Size of Cities

An interesting discussion of what
we may call the real size of cities as
contrasted with their nominal size an
pears in the latest number of The Bull
Ietln or the American Geographical
society, from the pen of Prof. Jeffer-
son. Of the Michigan State Normal col
lege- The nominal size of a city is
determined by its population within
its actual political boundaries. regard
less of the density or lack of density
IN parts of that area. and also of the
contiguity of other densely populated
areas outside of those limits. The real
size is determined by the population
within anthropographic boundaries,
excluding sparsely settled regions
within the political boundaries and
including densely settled areas just
outside. Thus anthropographic New
York omits-or would according to
the census of 1900-all of Richmond
and much of Brooklyn, Queens, and
The Bronx. and would include Jersey
City, Hoboken and Newark.
Thus in 1900 the population of po-
litical New York was 3.437.2o2, while
3,636,000. The corresponding figures
for Chicago were 1.69s,575 and 1900
600; of Philadelphia, 1,293,697 and
1,142,000; of Boston, 560,S93 and
$4,000, and of st. Louis, 575,23S and
SIS, 000-Boston thus anthropograph-
ically changing places with St. Louis
and ranking as our fourth city, while
the others retain their relative rank
This system of reckoning the size
of cities, not as political divisions but
as centers of population. strikingIy
sets forth the rapid growth of New
cities. Thus Prof. Jefferson calculates
that in 1905 the anthropographic pop
ulat;Qn of New York was no less than
4,232,000, while that of Chicago had
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The only safe bet is the one you
don't make.
The big opinions of small man
naturally never fit him.
Give a minister horse and sleigh
and he will pray for snow.
The rich man can't always express
himself, but he can pay the freight.
No man is really a fool unless he
can be fooled the same way twice.
The man who is treated like a dog
doesn't feel like leading double life.
Our sympathy may go to the under
dog, but it's the upper dog that gets
our money.
The worst comes to the worst with
many fellow who has always been
considered not half bad.
Blobbs-"How is the best way to
find out what diamond Is really
worth ?" Slobbs-"Try to sell it,
conversation in 1926.-"Hello.
old man. Been abroad, haven't you %
Eyes, just got back from Europe"
Have a pleasant trip ?" Fine. I was
ut air-sick minute
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few people live whom 1t is impos-
sible not to flatter.
X y
Mistakes are the sign posts on the
way to ultimate victory.
x X x
It's easy enough to get results. The
trouble is they're not always of the
desirable sort.
X =
A wife is generally the boss of a
family until the only daughter
reaches the age of sixteen.
The woman with such an economi-
cal turn that she insists on cutting
her husbands hair will think moth
ing of investing $40 or SIS in a switch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Fron the Atchison Globe

From the Atchison Globe.]
Nearly every man makes a pet of
some particular law.
We often think a big silly woman
is sillier than a little silly woman.
Talk about some men being poor at
relating an anecdote; did you ever
hear woman cry?
If you happen to know that people
use too much medicine, it is not a
sign you are Christian Scientist.
81 never care particularly for the
man who tells me how big he is, and
how little 1 am."-Drake Watson.
We have noticed that just before a
church attempts to raise. a lot of
money. the pastor pays a high tribute
to women.
You may have noticed that the man
who postpones his water wagon ride
until January 1, never takes very
long journey.
have one occasionally? They are be-
coming alarmingly frequent with me,
Of late "-Parson Irvine.
An Atchison woman keeps her shirt
waist and skirt together by sheer will
power. She uses no buttons, hooks
and eyes, or safety pins.
When you pick up a certain type
of newspaper, it makes you think of
an old woman who is scolding about
something every time you go into the
house.
Every girl has SO much faith in her
friends standing by her. that when
she is on the program for a concert
she takes a second piece with her for
the encore.
Many men say of their employer
eff he were more appreciative, he
would pay better wages And those
who say it are usually too conceited
for their own good
This is the time of the year when
the odor of the sachet powder daugh-
| ter is putting in Christmas presents
| floats down stairs. and meets in the
front hall the smell of the sauer kraut
mother is cooking in the kitchen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
SOLILOQUY OF AN UNCLAIMED
FLOWER.

If maids would wed
Sages land widows) say
That maids must fish.
So, to fish or not to fish
4 hat is the question:
Whether It's best to bait ones hook,
And, with a curl or two.
A plea to cali" or maybe ''googoo eyes,
Though some commend a cook book,
Others, lots of CASH
Catch unaggressive man
And tangie him in Hymen's net;
Or not to fish
To sit on shore
And earn ones living gleefuIly,
Sit by ones self right merrily
And watch the other maids,
With smiles and tears,
Mid groans and cheers,
Take off the prize their lines have caught.
To fish-to catch-perchance to wed
Aye, there's the rubi
For If one weds what one can catch!
She may not wed man.
But just a lobster or clam
And who, for such a thing as this,
Would darn socks ever,
Be care-free never,
From salary sever?
II. Wonder. in the New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Congress has seen fit to appropriate
eI7.oo for the establishment of public
play grounds for children in the city
of Washington. Such institutions are
Just as necessary in Topeka and every
other city OF respectable size as they
are in the capital of the nation And
1t is to be hoped that there will be no
let up in pressing to conclusion
the plans which were suggested some
time ago for the creation of such play
grounds in this city. 1t was a fine
suggestion. 1t will be finer accom-
saliahnent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

risen to only 1,75s,o00, that of Phil
adelphia to 1,237,0O0 that of Boston
to 756,0O0, while that of st. Louis ac-
tually decreased to $4,000. It may
population of London in 1905 was
5.5S1,000, and that it's increase is lit
tie more than half as rapid as New
York's SO that if the present rates are
maintained New York will equal Lon
don in about twenty years. The other
large cities of Europe are already
hopelessly distanced by New York
New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press
There's a chance to reform a man
that doesn't need 1t very much.
What breaks a brides heart over her
bridegroom is when they have to be-
come sane.
There are two kinds of women's
good figures-those that dressmakers
build with clothes and those that
artists build without any
From the way a man brags around
about how he put hook in the
clothes closet you could think it was a
flying machine he built.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

About the only interesting incident in
connection with the Brokaw divorce
case is the fact that the newspapers of
the country would not look natural
II they should be published for
short period, say a week, without con
tanning some reference to the marital
troubles of some of the New York
Enillionaires. Everybody, except those
who have it, will soon become con-
WINGED that all kinds of money is not
much of a promoter of happiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
tFrom the Chicago News. I

EFrom the Chicago News.
The barking dog carries no bones.
Why worthy women love worthless
men is mystery.
Every homely woman imagines
that she has beautiful soul.
When a girl says she feels faint,
it means that she is hungry.
Strange as it may seem. a napg;n~
woman often loves her husband.
Some spinsters act kittenish because
they are too old to know better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Reports from Washington indicate
that President Taft is certain that
Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon
will help him have the reform legisla-
ton he has n mind on the important
questions of the day enacted into laws
If this turns out to be true the I'm
surgents" will have a difficult task in
providing themselves with "red-fire"
Cor the Chautauqua circuits of next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Cornelius Vanderbilt. who is now a
factor in the affairs of the Missouri
Pacific, was in Kansas City the other
day and among other things he an
nounced that he was planning. to de-
velop large terminals there for the
Missouri Pacific. That will be fine. but
what is the use of fancy terminals if
the lines of the road are in such shape
that it is impossible to haul freight and
passengers over them with any degree
OF precision But perhaps this terrni-
nal proposition is merely a part of a
general plan to make the old NJ. p. a
railroad in fact as well as in name. If
this is SO if on'v raroains to saw Amen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Because the authorities of the Uni
versity of Copenhagen have concluded
their examination OF DIR. Cooks records
and proofs of his journey to the North
Pole in a brief space of time. wise
acres are asserting that this fact has
an "ornincus look for Dr. Cook. Yet
st only took the committee of the Ma
tional Geographic society. which pass
ed favorably on Mr.. Peary's claims a
couple Of short sessions to accomplish
their task
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

: "Oh, Jimmie, you've been held up!'
was the exclamation.
"Oh, no, 1 haven't. You were the
one who was held up 1 have beer
licking the contractor and the furniture
man on the installment plan. Here-s
$50 Of your money, aud I've got an ap-
pointment to lick the rest out of them
tomorrow!"-(Copyr 1909, by As
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Japan has the right idea in the
erection of memorials for her de-
parted heroes. She combines useful
ness with sentiment. This is shown
in the huge granite tower which has
been built at Port Arthur by the
FIowery Kingdom in memory of her
soldiers and sailors who fell in the
taking OF that place from the Rus
SLAMS. This big shaft is called the
Flower Concentrating Loyalty" 1t
will also be of great practical benefit
as it will be used for the purposes of
q light house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Oficialdom at Washington views the
retirement of Zelaya from the presl-
dency of Nicaragua as meaning better
things" for that country and Central
America generally. This is assuredly
a safe attitude to take because things
in the banana republic and its neigh
borhood could not well be worse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

bill has been introduced in con-
gress which is aimed at the suppression
of the white slave traffic" 1t provides
as maximum penalties for persons con-
victed of participating in this nefarious
trade ten years punishment, a
fine of $1,000 or both. These are pretty
severe penalties but they are not Sc
we're enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

AS has been stated on several occa-
sions recently Belgium's king IS DEAD
AMI it is to be hoped that consider
able period of time will elapse before
such another lzire lives aeain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

The Kansas City star may we'll be
pardoned for growing over the de1ear
of the proposition to extend the Met
ropolitan Street Railway company
franchise for 25 years. as this is the
first victory of this sort that the star
has narticina ted in for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

When a 10-year-oId boy and his 4
year-old brother go hunting and trap
ping togethe 4 and the former is killed
by the latter through the accidental
discharge of the gun. as happened near
Logan. Kan, the other day, the entire
blame rests with +he children's parents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
KANSAS COMMENT
POOR oLn.CIINT.


the news that Clinton Osbon is
dead is not half bad news. The good
part OF it is that he did not die in
prison. Clint Osbon spent fourteen
years in the penitentiary for crime
that he committed but which he felt
justified in committing
Cinlon Osbons gave, his liberty and
then MS life in defense of his home.
smooth tongued lawyer had deceiv-
ed his daughter and Clint did what
Killed the man. After betraying the
girl the man refused to marry her.
Clint was tried in the court here
and throughout he acted like a man
IN trance. He spent his years in
prison as If in a trance, always hop
ing to get out before he died. One by
one MS family died until this old man
was left almost alone in the world.
IN MS loneliness he cried out ap-
pealinsly against being allowed to die
IKE a rat in trap. Gov. Stubs
pardoned him and it was the best act
Of his administration.
Clint Osbon never ought to have
been sent to prison but he went be-
cause the unwritten law had not been
invoked in his day. The old man is
row, what mountain of suffering he
travelled over. His heart always
ached and he never was known to
smile after his crime. He worked
hard and loved his friends. The writ
er OF this was one Of his friends and
we were always proud of 1t. He was
a man one could afford to stand by
because he was desperately in earnest
In everything. But we are glad the
little old man is dead. He had so
much trouble and there is so much
for lonely life in this world. God
rest his soul, something his body had
not had in many years.-Lawrence
Journal.
WHERE DUTY Lay.
Mrs. Alma Dodson of Springfield,
Mo-. was told by her physicians that
she must undergo an operation, and
that there were few chances that she
would survive it. Mrs Dodson was a
woman who knew her duty when she
met 1t. and never f1inched. Instead
OF weeping. she sent out a hundred
invitations for card party, and gave
1t with banks OF flowers, caterers,
prizes. ETC.. and it was the social event
Of the season in Springfield.
The next day Mrs. Dodson climbed
Away in the happy thought that she
didn't owe a single social obligation;
she had wiped them all out, and wasn't
going to her Creator with the sin on
her soul Of owing a social debt to
anyone. It was a Noble Deed, and one
that is as fine as the stoicism and phil
osophy of the Ancient Greeks. More
over, it was a stroke Of economy. for
the banks Of flowers came in handy two
days later for the funeral
lAh, that all of US might pass into
The Beyond with records as clear!-
Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
FULL TFASFD wTRT REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IS a member Of the
Associated Press ard receives the full daV
telegram report of that great news or
ganIzation for the exclusive afternoon
puhiica ton in Topeka.
The news is received in The state Jour
nal building over wires fer this sole pu'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20
Worlds Great Harvest.

The Liverpool estimate of Broomhall
on the whole worlds wheat crop of
1909, perhaps the most important of
he annual European calculations, is at
hand this week. 1t shows the present
year to have established an absolute
high record in wheat output. The
3,346, 96S,000 bushels named as the
worlds total compared with 3,603,.
100000 in 1908. an increase of 9N
err cent. Compared with the 3,226.-
900 bushels of 1906, the previous
record, the increase is 8 Is per cent;
compared with the year of scarcity,
907, it is Is per cent.
Two continents exceed all preceding
.ecords with their wheat production
america and Europe America, North
end South, gains 77.712,000 bushels
over last year, which was the previous
record. Europe's total runs 158,616,-
100 bushels beyond 1908, and sur
passes the previous high record, that
nf 1906, by 21,160.000. Every impor-
world shows increase over the pre-
v.ous year except Austria Hungary,
Germany, and Spain. Russia's harvest
runs 6S,S00,000 bushels beyond its pre-
vious high record. Canada shows up
24,000,000 bushels above it's best pre-
ious yield. The English harvest is
he largest since 1899, and with that
exception tie largest since 1892,
though it is highly interesting to OBJ
erve that its 4,000,0OO-bushe1 yield
Of 1909, while making these encourag-
rig comparisons, is still less than half
he 40. 600. 000-bushel harvest of
655.- which has never since been
equaled.-New York Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

As was to have been expected the
Standard Oil company is going to sp-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

1.-THE motto of our party is Turn the
rascals outr - well, guess your party
has turned out more rascals than any
other. "-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Golfer-The day get round these links
in under a hundred I'll give you shilling.
Sandy. Juvenile Caddie-Hoo will want
it when I'm DRAWN me auld-age pension?
Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

.Wigwag- Harduppe is quite a pfliloso-
pher. Henpeckke-Yes; he says he would
rather be happy than married.-Philadel-
phia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Man (who has just been refused)-Don't
you think that q girl sometimes says NO
without sufficient consideration?
Girl (who isn't having any)-Of course
not Why the matter has always received
consideration long before the man pro-
poses.-I11ustrated Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Mistress (angrily)-How dare you talk
back to me in that way? 1 never saw
such impudence. You had lot of nerve
to call yourself lady's maid.
New Maid-I don't call myself that now,
Ma am; but I was lady's maid before
got this Job.-Philadelphfa Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Young Husband-You mark me. wo-
man always manages to get what she
wants.
Old Husband-I wouldn't mind that so
much, but the worst of it is, as soon as
she gets it she wants something else
Tit Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

What do you think of q man with a rip
in his coat and only three buttons on his
vest?' He should either get married or
divorced. Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

more softly dan IT CAM" Flautist (point-
ing to score, ppp.)-"Pecause dey does!'-
Punch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

The Philosopher of FoIly.-'I see by the
says the Philosopher of Folly.
THAT the dentists Will form trust.
suppose it will be known the "Teething
Ring "-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20

Don't you think. Mary, YOU are too old
the older get. the better like them