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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18
REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE,

Welsh, La, June l, 1909.
To the Hon. Mayor and Board of
Trustees:
Gentlemen:
We, your Finance committee, beg
to submit the following report, after
having carefully gone over the books,
receipts, ETC., of the Secretary, Sam
uel Blackboard, and the accounts of
the Treasurer, H. A. Davidson, and
the accounts and receipts of the
Marshall, r. S. Watkins:
RECEIPTS:
Amount in Treasurer's hands June 3.
lSUc ......... ......,...... 81, I'll SO
Amount in Tax Collectors
hands June3. 1908. ........ 575.37
Received from Tax Collector,
current. .................. 3,645.59
Received from Tax Collector,
school,. ................. 3,2o1.0 e
Received from Tax Collector,
license .............. 49,. $4,000
Stock aud fines as per Treas
urer's receipts ............. 1880
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18
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??, 1909-06-18

Unofficial reports come from Haw-
AHA, that papers have been found eX-
posing plot of the japanese to over
throw the rule of the whites in that
island and establish themselves in
power.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

lake Charles is to haye.a building
and loan association with a capital
ization of 81, 100000, in the near tu-
ture 1t is being promoted by j. P.
Barrimore of New Orleans.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

President Penna of Brazil who has
t,"3n at the head of the government
since Nov H., | ,o6. died at his capital
city on the'tysning of June l3.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

E. H. Hartman, the great railroad
fnancier, is i'll in London. 1t is
thought by his attending physicians
that his condition is very serious.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

The trial of Hon. Shelby Taylor, of
Crowley who is charged with embez-
element, IS set for June y.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

SUMMARY OF TREASURER'S REPORT
current Fund.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18
REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR:

Respectfully submitted.
Samuel BlackfOrd,
Secretary and Tax Collector.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

Balance on hand to date. ....,SlOnl
On .n.a umruHt - cents is still in
the hanCs Z, Tie Secretary Of the
company and aI,o bill for Sl.1o,
which is yet to be paid.
During the past year 49, volumes
have been added to the library. OF
this number II volumes were pur-
chased by the "Comedians" and I'll
volumes were purchased by the com
mttee, making Il total number Of VOL
umes in the library of 549.
Since the placing of the Yale lock
and bolts on the doors of the library,
no books have been lost. This goes
to prove that where the librarian has
absolute control of the library, our
system of checking out books works
we'll.
Thinking a brief summary of the ac-
counts of this fund since it was Great
ed by your honorable body, on June
9Th, 1905, see Ordinance No. 10y
would be of interest to you, | suUiN,i
the following:
Contributions from all sources, in
cash. to the library fund .....$43S. q
Expended for books .......... 200;
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

Respectfully su omitted,
i. Z. Jones.
+. G.. Willard.
Finance committee.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
TO the Mayor and Trustees OF the
Town of Welsh;
The Secretary Of the Library COM
mittee begs to submit the following
report of the Library fund for the
year ending May 81, 1909.
RECEIPTS:
To balance from last year,. lOZ. 10
70 cash from Blanchard Lit
erary Society ............... 1o'oo
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

By expense for books purchased $500
BY Miss keener'S expenses -. Lou
BY supplies ....... ........... -
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-18

Tax collections from June l, 1908 to
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
WANTED A AGENT PIECE.
Handy Coin Millions of Which Are
 Said to Be Circulating.

A correspondent asks why the Unit ed States currency does not include a 2-cent piece. Probably it will surprise the inquirer to know that there are 2S.634.554 2-cent pieces now in cir culation" in the United States. says the National Grange. According to the treasury records there were 45,- 900, GOO of these coins minted between April 9. 1864, when the 2-cent piece was first authorized. and Feb. 12, 1873, when the issue was discontin- ued. Only 16.966.446 of the coins has been retired and melted for recoinage into cents up to July last.
 When the coinage of the 2-cent piece was discontinued in 1873 there was no particular mission for It as there Is now An extra cent had to be added to buy a letter postage stamp. The 2-cent newspaper had hardly arrived. The Scent piece was the handy coin. fitted for these daily incidental purchases of the people. This is indicated by the fact that the coinage of nickel Scent pieces was continued until 1890 By that time the price standard had changed. Two-cent letter postage was in vogue; newspa- pers had been reduced to the 2-cent rate. Bargain counters had inaugu- rated the 2-cent basis of cut prices. The 3-cent piece no longer had a mis- sion. But instead of resuming the coinage of 2-cent pieces to fit the con- venience of the times the people have been compelled to use two coins for the most common and frequent incl. dents of exchange, for which a single coin should have been provided.
 The United States is the only large nation which does not have a coin in its national currency system compara- ble to the 2-cent piece Great Britain has its penny; France has its 10-cen- time piece; Germany has a 10-pfennig and Austria a 10-heller coin; Italy has coin of 10-centessemi and Portu- gal a 20-reis piece; Mexico has a D. centavo piece and Japan a 5-sen coin It Is somewhat singular that the Unit ed States. recognizing a 2-cent stand ard in its postage rates and accepting as fixed and standard a 2-cent piece for purchases recurring with daily regularity. should leave the gap in it's currency between the nickel and the cent and fail to serve the convenience of the public by an intermediate coin It may not be desirable that the old 2-cent piece be restored in size and bulk, but in more convenient form a 2-cent piece would be a welcome addi- tion to our subsidiary coinage There would be plenty of use for 1t now.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01

mer after came Jeans own engage meht, and for one reason and another eight years passed before the long. planned-for visit was realized. and Jean reached the Montana ranch. That first night, after the children were asleep, Marian came into Jeans room and curled up on the foot of the bed in their old-time girl fashion. for a talk.
 It was a long talk. covering the years and the changes. Rich as they had been. there had been many times, es- pecially at first, when Marian had felt as If she could not endure the hard. ships.
 And then" she said. with littls smile. your blue vase kept me up"
 My yase," Jean echoed, in bewilder. ment
 Yes" Marian replied. The tempta- tion to slip back you know-in man. ners, In daintiness about ones dress. In hundred things that are so easy in city, and so difficult on ranch forty miles from a railroad But when felt myself 'slumping. I'd look at that vase and say to myself. You've got 70 live up to that and I'd think of the '"ng. careful processes that made 1t the ertect thing It is and-pick my self up and stumble on again"
 It wasn't the vase" Jean said. her eyes dim. Tt was you. dear-your own splendid courage"
 But Marian shook her head. You don't know how much the vase helped" she declared.-Youth's Companion.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
Leaving the Old Home.

The pathos that surrounds the eml grant is not always fully realized Down in Morenci. Arizona, there lives a bright eyed Italian boy who came to America three years ago. In his broken English. he wrote for his teach CT the following description of his leave-taking of the faterland:
 Two year ago I left my country and frent In Italy for come here in this desert, but when I ready to de parture I cannot say one pretty leettle word.
 One old woman call Mary, 1t was in a mornin that we leave 1t, she says in a night before we was goin to bed, she say to my mother, 'Goot pye. Goot- pye, tell goot-pye now because don't want see your departure. Now then I say goot-pye hunder times. l will meet you in sky
 She cannot fenish to say goot-pye. So In mornin my mother sent me and her door lock with a key and I hear her cry too much. Each one then kiss all. My Uncle Pete was cryin and says to him 'goot-pye If I don't see you in this world any more I sure will see you in other and I replied these words to all my frents.
 My uncle when we was in Genoa the place where the shep begin to go. cryin, but it was too late to make we stay in our country. I say to him Courage. some day I be rich. then come back to Italy and we necessary not work, but sit all day and have very much money
 "Then the shep begin to go and get my hat and handkerchief to fly and all the people too much cry"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
PIover as Farmers Ally.

Of all our birds the ployer Is abso- lutely the most useful on the land, and we have the authority of the board of agriculture for saying that the multiplication of insects injuri- ous to crops" is the direct consequence of the fashion for ployers' eggs, the London Daily Mail says.
 The bird destroys snails, wireworms, beetles and all sorts of noxious insects that damage crops. As it feeds large ly at night it destroys many insects that other birds do not touch, and it has also a peculiar virtue in killing a water snail which indirectly Is the cause of liver rot, deadly disease in sheep.
 Plover have been more than usually numerous this year, and no doubt if their eggs were protected, as in Scot land, they would multiply yet more and save many thousands of pounds that are now spent on the fattening of the wireworm. It is becoming also . more popular practice to keep plovers as a garden pet. They do incalculable good and are very interesting to watch, especially at this season.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
NJ yopIa Cake,

To be absent-minded at a dinner party Is dangerous. but to be near sighted Is disastrous Miss Elmore was both. and when. one evening, Jo- mas, the colored butler, had stood pa tiently offering her the cakes for at least a minute, she realized the situ- up for her embarrassment by prompt action.
 T will take this one-this chocolate one" she said. with decision, as she made a dab at the edge of the dish.
 "'Scuse me, miss, you cain't. Das
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01

side of the imperial park. He want ed to join them, but his nurse ex- plained that such a proceeding would be below his dignity. as these boys would be his future subjects. Well. they are better off than I am. and have more privileges" said the future sovereign.
 Special tutors have been appointed for the boy, who will some time be czar. but he has no taste for books. There Is a violin and piano teacher. but the boy cares nothing for music. He Is continually cutting up capers" that amaze his elders.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
.k,lm.> Science
 sTIExs9s. AND \ :sN::ssInVentiOn
~OON~~N~

The largest eleClTlC lTduSIOIuleI ever built. recently completed by an eastern company. Is wound for 100000 volet, the highest voltage ever em- ployed commercially.
 The distance record in wireless tel egraphy was established when a sta tion In Newfoundland picked up a message that had originated in Aus tralia, 15.0O0 miles away.
 Gas engine exhaust pipes that are of more than ordinary length should have a tap inserted at the lowest f1t- ting to drain of condensed moisture and prevent back pressure.
 The Dominion railway commission has sounded the doom of the car lamp by requiring that only compressed oil gas. acetylene gas or electricity may be used on trains in Canada.
 A Boston inventor believes .o perfected an apparatus for using the suns rays to generate electricity. which is stored in accumulators for use in light circuit at night.
 The temperature of a coal pile rap idly increases after reaching 150. be- comes liable to spontaneous combus- tion after passing 200. and almost in- yariably ignites at 4S5 degrees.
 A new toilet accessory on the prin- ctple of an atomizer sprays liquids around the roots of the users hair without wetting his or her clothing or wasting the material sprayed.
 An American company which took advantage of the return of the roller skating craze to Great Britain after a lapse of eighteen years, has opened seventeen rinks in various cities, em- ploying 100000 pairs of skates.
 A worlds record" for long distance telegraphy was established on January 23d. when the direct transmission of messages between London and India was begun. The extreme distance over which a message was flashed, without interruption and repetition. was about 1000 miles. The line of wires that carries these messages was recently completed by filling up the gap between Teheran and Karachi. The Wheatstone system of automatic transmission Is used throughout the line.
 Recent exploration of the Athabas- ca-Mackenzie region shows that 1t con- tains many valuable fur-bearing anil mals, and 1t appears also to be the home of the last wild remnant of the American bison family. The herds of bison are not numerous, and they are being rapidly exterminated by wolves. The Canadian musk-ox also inhabts this region, and in the spring, when frost, great focks of birds, including most of the migratory game-birds of America, resort thither to breed.
 In the new ultra-microscopes ob- jects too small to be seen directly are revealed by means of the diffraction discs formed round them by a beam of light. But this method may be em- ployed without a microscope. A pow erful beam of light projected into darkened room renders many particles visible which cannot otherwise be seen, and it is probable that many of these are beyond the range of direct microscopic vision. It was by a simi- lar method that Farraday revealed the existence of minute particles of gold in ruby glass.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
THE VASE.
The One Thing That Kept the Ranch
 Woman Keyed Up.


 Woman Keyed Up.
 You don't mean to say that you are going to send a vase like that to Mon. tana, forty miles from a railroad." Vera cried, aghast.
 Tt is utter folly." Cornelia declared, positively.
 'It will be a white elephant, I am afraid" Aunt Caroline put It more gently, but her sentiment was quite as unmistakable. Even mother, who usually understood, looked a little doubtful. Tt seems as if there must be so many things, and pretty things, too, that Marian will really need" she said But of course 1t is for you to decide, dear"
 Jean caught up the exquisite bit of Japanese art as If she feared 1t might be taken away in spite of her. and faced them all resolutely. "I do know Marian" she cried. She has wanted a piece of this for years, and if it Is a white elephant, 1t Is a very little elephant, and she will love to take care OI It, DOu gOu bSC, II JuoI DctduSc she Is so many thousand miles from such things that I had to send 1t to her? She will understand, If you don't You wait and see If she doesn't"
 Jean was right. Marian loved the little blue vase above all that kind and pitying Christmas friends lavished upon her. Wait until you come to see it-and me-next summer" she wrote. Then you'll know what 1t means to me-"
 But when the next summer came, Cornelia was very i'll. and the sum.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
TsAREVITCH WHO ASToUNDS
 ELDERS.

Grand Duke Alexis. tsarevitch of Russia, Is rapidly approaching the age of years and asserting the right to do as he pleases. It was once feared he would grow up sickly. but he is now strong child and wants to play all the time.
 The other day the child saw some grimy urchins playing marbles out.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01

David Lloyd George, who Is held re- sponsible for the rise in various taxes in England which has caused a fur ore in quarters affected. is the son of a poor widow who scarcely had the necessities of life after her husband
 died. Lloyd George was brought up by a shoemaker uncle who himself la boriously learned the grammars in or der that he might teach his nephew.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
Love Conauers Everything.

Mother-And when he proposed did you tell him to see me?
 Daughter-Yes. mamma and he said he'd seen you several times, but he wanted to marry me just the same The Sphinx.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
As Far as He Would Go.

She (after the tiff) will admit you were wrong?
 He Ca young lawyer)-No; but I'll admit that an unintentional error might have unknowingly crept into my assertion.-Christian Endeavor World
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01

When a man cooks a meal, he al- ways has bacon and eggs; that's all a man can cook.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01

Some people are criticised because they won't talk and some because they will
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01

A boy is a great deal more likely to outgrow warts than bad habits.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-07
O'CONNOR is
AG AIN IN
JAIL
PLEADS GUILTY TO DISTURBING
THE PEACE.
Threatened to Call to His Aid the
Black Hand Socicty-FIynn Fail
ed to Pay For Meal.

The morning police court docket con.
tanned a number OF cases of drunk
enness besides a few minor cases OF
Importance
Frank O'Connor. who was given Il
20-day floater Thursday and allowed
to go his way, was back in court this
morning charged with disturbing the
peace He pleaded guilty and, upon
the recommendation Of the city at
torney, he was given a straight sen.
tence of 80 days.
O'Connor is the man who caused Of
ficer Chambers considerable trouble
during his arrest Wednesday and
threatened the latter with all sorts of
violent revenge, from simple threat
to knock mis- block off" to death
through the medium of the Black
Hand" society. O'Connor put up quite
a fight during his last arrest and OF
ficer Chambers, who again jailed him,
was compelled to use force TO accom-
plish his incarceration.
George Riley. John Mcclure, Ben
Dugan David Berry and George Buer
were arraigned separately on charges
of drunkenness, all pleading guilty and
receiving the usual fine OF So or five
days each.
Cornelius Flynn was charged with
having obtained meal at the Bon
Ton restaurant for which he after
ward refused to Pay. Flynn pleaded
not guilty and his case was continued
until witnesses could be secured,
]. ]. Mcclure, John Mcdonald and
Henry and William Lewis were ar
raigned on the charge OF vagrancy to
which they pleaded guilty, receiving a
sentence of Is DAYS each on the rock
pile These are the men who were
suspected of having burglarized a Jap
anese boarding house and who gave
the officers considerable trouble before
they were subdued.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-07
WENT OUT ON
A SPECIAL
TRAIN
CHIEF ENGINEER HOOD EXAM
lNlNG THE CUTOFF.
On His Decision Rests the Form OF
Breakwater Which Is to Be
Constructed on the Lake.

Chief Engineer William Hood of the
Southern Pacific system arrived from
the west in his private car this morn
ing and was met at the Union pas
sennger depot by General Manager
Bancroft, General Superintendent Da-
Wis and Chief Engineer Ashton of the
Oregon Short Line Accompanied by
Superintendent Manson and other OPP
Grating officials Of the Southern Pa
cific road. the party left for the Ogden
Lucin cutoff. which crosses the center
Of Great Salt Lake, cutoff at $50,
on special train and Will spend the
da.' In a thorough inspection Of con-
ditions on the lake
Chief Engineer Hood had personal
charge OF construction work on the
cutoff when the important project was
determined upon by President Harri-
man, and he carried to successful COM
pletion the great engineer feat in the
face OF adverse comment from those
who were opposed TO an enterprise in
volving the expenditure of vast sums
in what was termed merely "an eX-
pertinent" Time. however, has dem
onstrated that the proposition has
been a success in every particular, as
the cutoff has resulted in great say
ing in the costs OF handling both pas
senger and freight traffic on the Salt
Lake division.
Now that it has been decided to con-
struct breakwater in order to pro
tect the tracks and railroad property
from damage resulting from the high
est stage OF water ever known in the
inland sea, Engineer Hood has been
called upon to solve the difficult prob
lem
Being thoroughly familiar with the
work done on the cutoff, and with the
peculiar action Of the great waves
when lashed into fury by high winds,
he Is in u position TO decide the bet
ter method of constructing the pro-
posed breakwater to stop the force of
the waves, which at times sweep over
the railroad tracks on the treStle.
The special train Will return from
the lake this evening and it is thought
Mr.. Hood will accompany General
Manager Bancroft to Salt Lake where
a conference viii be held. relative to
proposed work on the breakwater pro-
jcct which is expected TO cost half a
million dollars.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-07
LABORERS ON
SIDE OF
CLIFF
TEARING DOWN THE OVERHANG.
ING DANGEROUS ROCKS.
Structural Steel Workers Arrive to
Erect Bridges on the Road
Through the Canyon.

A large force of laboreTs Is still en-.
portions of the Huntsville railroad
grade in Ogden canyon and the same
will soon be ready for the laying of
rails and ties,
AT the point known as the narrows.
a small force of Sure-footed climbers
arc now engaged in breaking off hugo
sections of rock which fall to the river
edge below and gradually form the
grade. This work is extremely hazard.
Gus and attracts the attention of a
large number of sightseers on the
boulevard who watch the laborod
movements of the men high up ON
their rocky perches on the side of the
cliff
The strata at this point are almost
vertical and BY careful manipulation
OF crowbars great sections weighing
two OF three tons can be prieL loose
to go hurting TO the depths below. fall
lnS with mighty splash into the
river
As the structural steel has arrived
for the three bridges, these structures
VIII be erected at once. The stoo,
workers are now on the ground and
work Will be commenced as soon os
the material can be transported In fhe
bridge sites. The two lower bri,Iaoe
Will be constructed first, over which
may be transported the material for
the third bridge higher up i'm The vi.
cini'y oil Billy Wilson's place.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-07
NElGRBORHOOD QUARREL
BEFORE THE POLICE JUDGE

An assault case against Alonzo
Clark, Of kanesyille. occupied the at
tention Of the municipal Judge this
morning who afteTward took the mat
ter under adyisement until Saturdays
session.
A number of witnesses were exam
ined. including Edward Sewell and his
two sons, Benjamin and Leonard, the
latter a child of seven. The testimony
was intended TO show that Clark had
attempted to strike Benjamin Sewell
over the head with n hammer while
the two were engaged In dispute over
gate, which in turn had grown out
of a disagreement over the ownership
OF piece OF land.
Leonard was placed on the stand
and proved most able witness The
youngster took the oath with the dig.
nitv Of an emperor and climbed into
the witness chair where he seated him
self composedly and awaited the or.
deal, In reply 10 questioning. he stat
ed that he understood perfectly what
would happen to him II he did not tell
the truth, he replied:
I'm afraid | would never go to
Heaven IL / tell lie"
This seemed TO satisfy the court
testifying that he had made no at.
tempt to assail Sewell, adding:
"If / ever do, I'll reach him, all
right and there won't be any wit
nesses around eitheh"
This admission probably did not in
crease his chances for acquittal.