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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17

to him, it does to the little Johnny NJ tod.v
The lad of the next century will want model
of the latest airship in his Christmas stocking He
Will expect working model too-one that will
sail through the fiat like live bird, and perhaps
carry his own weight
Within the last hundred years steam and cleo
tricity have been developed and it is entirely rea.
sonable to imagine that within the coming century
men will travel through the air as commonly as
they now travel over the land. The automobile
the trolley car the railroad train and the horse as
draft animal-all will be gone. Men will use
the earth, as the birds do, for resting place for
their homes and the principal source of food sup.
ply but when they want to move from one place
to another, they will mount into the ether even
as the birds do and fay swiftly and safely to
their destination
1t is probable that there will not be wheeled
vehicle OF any kind on the streets of a great city
on Christmas day, In the year 2009. Our tunnel
system will have developed until the vast subter-
ranean net work Of bores chutes and pneumatic
tubes will carry on the heavy traffic of the city
without noise or confusion The streets will be
given up to pedestrians-to those who walk for
pleasure or wish to travel short distances The
sidewalk as 1t is now will be no more but the en-
tire width OF the street will be given up to foot
passengers, There will be neither car tracks nor
moving vehicles to annoy.
The suburbanite who does not fly to work in
2Oo9 will be shot through pneumatic tube, tray
cling the five, ten, or fifty miles of distance In
space OF time that may be only few seconds and
certainly cannot be more than few minutes II
may be that few people will walk anywhere in
the year 2OO9. When man learns to fly he will
scorn walking as too slow means of progress
Perhaps our great-grandchildren who no
doubt will live in immense apartment buildings
towering half mile from the ground, NAV 60
for weeks at time without setting foot to the
earth.
With the passing of the Christmas sleigh there
Will be no longer any need for reindeers for Santa
Claus He, too, will travel by airship and while
the old Santa Claus will be myth, the new Santa
Claus will be real as the bewhiskered and be-
furred boys who entertain the children in the
department stores.
1t is not hard to imagine that the big stores
will develop the Santa Claus idea to the point that
Christmas purchases will be delivered on Christ
mas eve by an airship driver made up to imper.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
STRANGE Freak of [ iohtnIpn

Marshalltown. IA splinter three
feet long and a foot thick was hurled
through the window of an engine cab
by stroke of lightning which riddIed
8 tree. Engineer Porter Boys and
Fireman J. w. Ent had narrow ca
capes from the projectile.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
recreation. So It is certain that tho

recreation SO It is certain that tho
Teddy bear and the toy dog Of the
coming century will be mechanical
marvels. The Rover" dog that the
little boy gets will be life size. He
will prance about on his four furry
legs and lie down and roll over at
the bidding Of his master.
Perhaps the most wonderful feat
ure of all in our Christmas in 20O9
will be the changed methods In
our daily life. The housekeeping
arrangements Of that time would
seem incomprehensib.e to the Wo-
man of to-day if she could picture
them in her mind. The lack of COM
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17

senate Santa Claus. A hun
dred years from now, if
you want to avoid the
rush and do your Christ
mas shopping in your own
apartments, the scientists
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17

forts and the Inconvenience of life in
q cottage, it is possible, will drive
most of the city dwellers into the
apartment buildings, which will grow
bigger and taller as the years pass un-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17

to men," will be just as
sacred and as new to
the hearts of men as it
was nineteen hundred
years ago. Everybody
will give everybody
else a present-but the
presents will be differ
ent.
Little Johnny will
not Covet a railroad
train, Real cars on a
real track, pulled by a
real locomotive that
makes smoke will not
seem a wonderful thing
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10

any feeling of embarrassment. The
German government had submitted,
upon request, line of statistics for
the information of those who, osten-
sibly, wanted all the data obtainable.
When Germany framed it's present
tariff, a trained body of men worked
for five years in adjusting the SEIZED
ules. Consequently, it offered it's
statistics in childlike belief that they
were extending valuable courtesy.
For some reason, the careful and
conscientious Aldrich felt that the
public would be far better off minus
the information in question and deft-
ly secreted the German document.
That should have ended the matter
happily for all concerned, but GER
tain agitators were indicate enough
to openly charge Mr.. Aldrich with
wilful suppression of facts that
would have been inimical to the in
terests he is strenuously protecting,
whereupon Mr. Aldrich first accused
the German government of trying to
butt into our tariff game, and next
crawished and lauded the KAISER
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10

SO far as the progress of the trial to
date indicates, the case is very favor
able to the defendants. They have
successfully resisted being dragged
to the District of Columbia, and
Judge Anderson has already held
that in an action of criminal libel,
such as they are charged with, ex-
press, not implied, malice must be
proved.
"Of course, there is back of this
their INTENT" said Judge Anderson.
THE owner of a newspaper might
very we'll be held civilly for any
thing appearing in his pages, be-
cause the men who put it there are
his agents; but when it comes to a
question of criminal liability for pub
LEGATION of an article, it is a very diff
ferent thing. Suppose" continued
the court, ''the proprietor of a New
York paper should be off six months
cruising in his yacht During his alb
sence there was a vicious article ap-
peared in his paper. Should he be
held criminally? 1t does not appear
to me that he could be held crimi-
nally liable.
Il am speaking about the ultimate
fact. If the owner is not present he
actually knows nothing of the publ
cation and could not possibly be held
guilty of the crime
Of course, it is we'll known that
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10
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after the recent trial before Judge
Holt and the others on Thursday OF
this week."
The discharge of these men from
the employment, in which they re-
ceived a paltry few dollars month
more than their fellows who had no
dirty work to do, has aroused more
general indignation even than the
gross frauds resorted to in order to
cheat that government which had al
ways pampered this trust Mr.. Loeb
has done we'll in exposing the fraud
ulent system, but if the prosecution
of the criminality ceases with the
petty employees it will be another
conclusive evidence that there is one
law for the rich and powerful and
another for the poor.
Meantime, the Government has
opened it's batteries upon Delavan
Smith and Charles R.
The Williams, owners of the
Libel Suit. Indianapolis News, be-
fore Judge Anderson, of
the U. S. Court of that district, but
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10

who wasn't even remotely in the case
at ALL
Of all shameful exhibitions, the
United States is certainly giving it to
the country at large and to the evil
lied world in the conduct of it's SEN
ators.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10
Summary ofEvemts

The gratifying announcement is
made that the steel industries will
hereafter close down
The every part of the plants
Sabbath Day. except those which in
their nature have to run
continuously on Sunday, giving their
men one days rest every week. The
reasons stated are purely and coldly
commercial the saving of time and
money in the long run by lessening
the wear and tear on machinery. 1t
is even suggested that the same con-
servation process, applied to the hui
man machines, may increase their eff
ficiency.
It is hard to know whether to feel
contempt for such unblushing COM
mercialism, or to admire the steel
trust for it's refusal to place the Sun
day closing plan upon hypocritical
grounds. However, the substantial
benefit to the employees will be too
great to cavil at the reason for the
rest. The absolute necessity of the
Sunday rest cannot be controverted
and the law should enforce it as a
matter of imperative public policy
It is beyond question that the men
who needs must work without cessa-
ton cut short their lives by many
years and railroads, street car COM
panies and all corporations which
take advantage of the fact that their
business must run on Sunday as we'll
as during the week to keep their en-
ployees continually on the job are
public enemies in maintaining a sys-
tenn that simply makes widows and
orphans. BY the employment OF
enough men, and arranging neces-
sary shifts, there is no reason why
each employee should not have one
day off in seven, whether it chances
to fall on Sunday or not.
Some systems do this, at least to
certain extent. In Atlanta, however,
as one instance, no provision what
ever is made for any street railway
conductor or motorman to have any
rest, except at his own expense, and
usually then only under sort of
protest. Eleven, or twelve, or thir-
teen hours a day, week after week,
must not only shorten the actual
years Of life, but renders church go
ing or social pleasure or comfortable
family life practically impossible.
And there are more systems akin to
this in greed and heartlessness than
there are systems which embody
saneness and humanity.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10

Thus Tar, the men nlgner up
have not come into the clutches of
the law, in connection
No with the frauds brought
Ma1efactOr to light in the New
of Great york customs house
Wealth. chargeable to the Sugar
Trust. On May 7th last
indictments were found by the Fed
eral Grand Jury at that point against
six or seven minor employees of the
American Sugar Refining Company,
anent which the counsel for that
company delivered himself of the fol-
lowing effective CD moral homily:
"The officers of the American Su-
gar Refining Company are as anxious
as the United States attorney can be
that these men and any others shall
be punished if they are guilty, and
that they are and have been cooper
ating to that end with the United
States attorney.
"None of the men concerned is
now in the employ of the company.
Splitter was dismissed Immediately
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10

MT. JOS. EullCASI, 0u1COl VI IhO ANOW
York World, another one of the pa
pers indicted for criminal libel
was at the time of the publication of
the graft charges, and for months
preceding, on an ocean voyage for his
health, so Judge Anderson's citation
was no imaginary example. The con-
clusion of the case will be of deep
public interest.
A decision has been rendered by
Judge Matthew c. Reynolds, of ST.
Louis, declaring ante
Decision. nuptia1 contracts inval-
Ante-Nuptial id in SO far as they pro-
vide for the education
of the children in the Roman Catholic
faith-a stipulation which has al
ways been insisted upon where one
party to the marriage contract is not
a Catholic. In fact, this provision
was one of the demands made upon
the non-Catholic party before the dis
pensation granting the Catholic mar
rage would be allowed. The coer-
clan that would fix the religious be-
liefs of children unborn has met with
a deserved rebuke at the hands Of the
law, and should be sustained by lib
era1 public opinion. 1t is only nat
ural, however unfortunate it may be
in many instances, for parents of like
religious belief to train their children
in those beliefs, but to practically
prevent the marriage of couple I'M
less the non-Catholic party agrees to
let his or her children be imbued
with religious ideas which he or she
would personally repudiate is a de-
mand for the surrender of parental
authority to the hands of the church,
an unnatural and vicious perver-
sion of sacred right. Judge Rey-
holds is to be commended for taking
the view he has
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10

Albanian refugees do not bring re-
assuring reports from the desolate
and distressed regions
Uneasiness of Asia Minor. The
i'm the Moslems, it is said, are
Orient. infamed against h
Christians and against
the Young Turks rule, which prom
ises equality to Jews and Christians.
A holy war against the 'infidel dogs"
may take place any time, duplicating
the massacres which have Redeemed
the record of the recent past.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10

June list witnessed the opening in
Seattle OF the Alaska Yukon-Paciic
Exposition, which, as it's
The name implies. is a big
Western fair devoted to demon
Fair. stration Of + h re-
sources and products of
the great Northwest country, and
promising to be one of the most in
teresting exhibitions the United
States has ever had Practically I'M
aided by outside appropriations, Ten
Million Dollars have been put into
the enterprise within the short period
OF two years and much of this money
has been used for buildings and i'm
proVementS which are to remain as
permanent features, thus avoiding
the waste heretofore shown in put
ting fortunes into fiimsy structures
intended to be torn down so soon as
the few months usage is over.
The trip to Seattle would be, in
itself, a liberal education, and it is
hoped that many will utilize their va
cations by attending this exposition.
Particularly ought our Southern peo-
pie to come into more intimate touch
with those Of the West, who are their
natural friends and allies. The two
great sections have common interests
and similar problems to work out
and the tide of communication should
steadily be strengthened. There is
throughout the whole country too
much "N'York" influence and too
much pouring of money by all Sec
tons into the rapacious nav of the
East.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10
Another

Another case of "disingenuous-
ness" seems to be that just brought
to light against the re-
Another doubtable d T h,
Aldrich somewhat to his cha
Ruse. grin--if anything in the
nature of corrupt prac-
tice could be capable of causing him
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-10

Thus far, the "men higher up"
have not come into the clutches of
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-09
Lad Again Caught Girl.

mad already managed to get her near
enough to shore to touch bottom, and
the girl Immediately began to founder
toward Mrs. Kane. In her attempt to
reach her daughter, Mrs. Kane went
beyond her depth. The Swift lad
again caught the girl and dragged her,
unconscious, to the shore.
Mrs. Kane was brought ashore after
ward by Harry Swift and his brother
Jerry, who had hurried to the scene
in rowboat, but although a surgeon
from Fort Schuyler worked over her
for more than half an hour he was
unable to revive her.
Thomas Kane, the dead womans
husband, is horticultural, and to-
gether they took care of the Have
meyer and Huntington estates,
which lie side by side on the shore
of the Sound They were married 10
years ago, and had four daughters and
two sons.
The other afternoon the four girls
went in bathing Nora, ten years old;
Anna. eight years, and Mary, five
years, remained near the shore, but
Winifred ventured out until the water
reached her shoulders. She was un.
able to swim.
The shore in front of the Hunting
ton and Havemeyer estates shelves
abruptly in many places, and Wini.
fred suddenly found herself beyond
her depth. She screamed, and her
sisters joined with cries for help. Mrs.
Kane ran from her cottage to the
shore at the same time that the Swift
boys went to the rescue. Harry swan
out to the child and Jerry put out in
rowboat
Jerry caught hold of the child and
succeeded In getting her into shoal
water, when Mrs Kane reached the
shore and plunged in. In attempting
to reach her daughter she got beyond
her depth.
Harry Swift had all he could do to
drag Winifred ashore, but as soon
as he had saved the girl he turned to
help his brother, who had reached the
place where Mrs. Kane had gone
down. Harry, by swimming, reached
his brothers boat, and then the boys
caught Mrs. Kane by the hair when
she arose to the surface. Several men
who had arrived by this time helped
tow Mrs. Kane ashore. Then they
fastened to Fort Schuyler and got DR.
Hogan, the post surgeon. He worked
for nearly half an hour over Mrs
Kane, but was unable to revive her
Winifred will be all right in day or
two.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-09
FLEES POLICE, CLIMBS POLE
Man Goes to Top Of High Flag Staff
In Order to EIude Waiting
Officials.

Louisville. Ky-The sight of Isaac
Martin perched upon the topmost pin.
nacle of the clubhouse at the Jockey
Club park. while Patrolmen Lowe and
Krieger of the sixth district stood at
the foot of the pole and begged him
to come down. was an inspiring one
for the residents south of the city.
1t was only after Martin had thrown
his knife at the officers and every
other article that he could lay his
hands to that they finally succeeded
in capturing him.
Martin had been fighting with an.
other man. and after a chase through
South Louisville the officers finally
ran him up on the roof of the club
house From there the fellow made
mis- way to the top of the flag pole.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-09

toundland, and yet he hated to think
that he had paid good money for a
lap-dog that couldn't be Tapped. 1t
was like wasting the money. First
he thought he would write to New
York and get in communication with
an agency that handled Human Curl
osities; he thought he might be able
to find Human Curiosity that ran
mostly to lap, but he hesitated. He
could not be sure the Belgian lap
dog had stopped growing. and he
hated to go to the expense of marry
ing a Human Curiosity only to have
her lap soon outgrown. SO he moped
around, and got thinner and thinner,
and worried himself nearly to death.
but there didn't seem to be any way
in which he could get value received
for the dollar he had spent for the
lap-dog.
Then, just when he had reached the
lowest depths of worry Uncle Ashod
Clute suggested something that
cheered VIII up again and made him
as happy as of yore, and the next
thing we knew viii was packing his
goods in boxes and laying in time
tables. And the funny thing, SO he
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-09

said, was that he hadn't thought of
1t before. So he packed his belong
ings, and had them shipped to the
Junction, and bought new suitcase,
and bought ticket to Salt Lake City
In talking it over with us he said he
saw plainly enough that no one lap
could ever be big enough to hold that
Belgian lap-hound, even as it was
now, and there was no telling when
thing to do was to secure an extern
sible lap, on the principle of sec
tional bookcase, that could be added
to from time to time to meet require
ments. He said he was going to Utah
and become Mormon, and that right
at first he did not calculate to marry
more than two laps, for he figured
the dog could stretch out and not
much more than fill two laps. in his
present size, but that If he kept on
growing it would be easy enough to
annex a few more laps. And just then
somebody sneaked into Wills house
and stole the dog.
W III llShtl runs out next w euneS-
day noon, and that's why he wants
the lay-dog returned by then, but he
is all at sea just now. He don't know
whether to go out to Utah anyway, SO
as to save what he paid for the. ticket
or to stay in Betzville and try to re-
cover the dog he invested dollar in
One way 1t looks foolish to go out
and marry two or more laps when
there is no dog to lie in them, and
the other way it looks foolish to stay
and recover the dog after the ticket
has expired and when he cannot af
ford TO spend any more to secure
proper laps He says this world is
full of trouble and he will be glad
when he is above, where the cheru
BIN don't have any laps-only heads
and wings
tCopyrgn, 1909 by w G. Chapman)
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BEyTZVILE TALES.
VIII Finch and the Belgian Lapdog
tS1SBy Ellis Darker ,Buf1erI
~ Author Pigs is Pigs" Etc. W.
ILLUSTRATED BY PETER. NEWELL

VIII Finch gives notice to every
body in Betzville that the party that
stole his Belgian lap-dog is known to
him, and that unless the dog is re-
turned before next Wednesday noon
he will offer s. reward for any infor-
nation leading to the Identification of
the thief
VIII is all broken up over the loss
of the dog. He paid a dollar for it
to a passing tramp who swore he had
stolen the pup, or he couldn't afford
to sell it for the price. The tramp
said the pup was a Belgian lap-dog,
and to prove 1t offered to let VIII see
1t lap up milk, If VIII would furnish
the milk. He said he had just re-
turned from pedestrian tour of Mex
leo. passing through Belgium on his
way to Betzville. win sort of sug-
gested that lapdog wasn't one that
laps, but one that is small enough to
sit in lap, and the tramp fell right
In with the notion. He told VIII that
was what made the Belgian lap-dogs
so valuable, they were both kinds of
lappers.
viii doesn't often spend money,
and when he does he likes to get his
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-09

moneys worth, and as soon as he
paid for the dog he took it home and
began tapping it, as you might say.
He sat down in chair and put the
dog on his lap, but viii is so bow
legged that the dog fell right through
his lap onto the floor He tried it
eight or ten times, and then he de-
cided he didn't have the right kind
of lap to hold dog on. but he was
not going to waste dog that he had
paid a good dollar for, and the only
thing he could see to do was to get
lap that would hold the dog properly,
and the more he thought about it the
more sure he became that what he
needed was a female lap with skirt
so the dog couldn't fall through. So
he thought 1t over well, and he de-
cided that Miss Daisy Plunkett would
do. She was a smallsized person,
and about right to hold a small lap
dog
VIII Finch found right then that
1t takes. longer to get a female lap
into the family than to buy a lap
dog, but he was thoroughly aroused
about it, and he went right to work
counting Daisy, and he had just got
to the point where he was ready to
propose when he happened to look at
the dog carefully, and he was all ia
ken aback The dog had grown a
lot, and was as big as a good,sized
coach dog. win saw Immediately
that Daisy Plunkett wouldn't do at
all-she didn't have nearly enough
lap to hold such a large lap-dog.
SO viii went about town for a
week or two studying the height and
| breadth of all the minated ladies of
our burg, and at last he decided that
Sally Ann Scroggs was about the
rangiest limbed he could find. and
that she would fit the dog pretty well,
and he started in to court her for an
he was worth, ard by and by she be-
gan to incline his way a little. and
he was just on the point of propos-
ing when he happened to study the
dog again, and he saw right of that
| Sally Ann wouldn't do. The dog was
as big as Newfoundland by that
time.
Wei, VIII was nearly broken up
over it, He couldn't think OF lap in
all BetWille that would be big enough
TO hold lap-dog the size of New
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