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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
SteathIy Approached the Building.

riedlv made up a train of three cars.
called upon all able-bodied citizens to
get aboard with guns and started at
record speed for the scene.
In the meantime the operators along
the line. acting on orders, had got busy
with the telephones and alarmed the
whole countryside.
BY the time the special from Conde
pulled onto the siding at Cresbard
band of country people had surround
ed the depot five deep, but no one
ventured within
At the alarming situation presented
Mr.. Jones, fanked by picked braves OF
the waiting rescuers, armed like bat
tleships, stealthily approached the
railway building. Peering cautiously
within, the body Of the operator was
seen reclining at full length upon the
floor
No other person being visible, the
committee. after consultation, entered
and examined the PROSTATE man for
| death wounds.
The operator rolled over and sleep
| ily INQUIRED if some one wouldn't give
| him drink. He explained that hi:
whisky had run out That was why h
wanted help. The next morning thu
sobered operator wired his resignation
to the headquarters at Minneapolis
The reply came while the wire wa
open:
You are thirty hours late"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08

II still had his companion explorer William
Clark to stand for the spirit Of the American and
French makers of destiny" who thought little
more of starting thousand miles into the UNI
known west from St Louis than the average st.
Louisan now thinks OF starting for the Pacific
coast in sleeping car,
From village Of 800 inhabitants to the fourth
city in the United States with a population Of
three-uuarters of a million, is a wonderful
achievement but 1t sinks into insignifCance when
compared with the giant strides of the past cen
fury in the world OF science, commerce, the arts
and every field of endeavor which makes for
higher and better civilization
II is a severe strain on the imagination to at
tempt to bridge over the gap between the mean
ing Of an arshp crossing the Mississippi river
ut ST Louis this year and what the ancient keel
boats of 1909 meant, as they landed at the foot
of Walnut street, where the town was founded in
1864 by the pioneers who had padded and cor
delled their bateaux painfully up the river from
New Orleans under Laclede as he advanced in
the bold attempt to control the fur trade OF half
q continent with his handful OF men,
The keelboat then was no more out OF date
than the airship is now Ii was the best modern
boat in 1909 which could be equipped by the capt.
tai of St Louis of New Orleans or OF Phadel-
phia. Because of it Philadelphia and St Louis
commanded the east and west movement of bush
ness as that north and south was commanded by
New Orleans and ST Louis. as soon as their hrst
fleets of keehoats We're regularly organized. IL
belped to make great history even if it did have
to be pulled up stream by rope dragged by men
on the bank.
This distance in point of change in the way
things are done is almost impossible for the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08

steamboat in 1877 it had more than douoied l's
population of 1910 in 1920, From 1000 IN lSzo'
two decades Of steamboatng gave it l6,4o9 IN lo1'.
About that time it began its great transcohtlhehta'
work with the prairie schooner, REINFORCING 'le
steamboat in overland transit. Win the trans
continental overland movement to Oregon as Wen
as California growing in 1880 it had '',ooo peop'e
and was beginning its work as the nrst pioneer VI
railroads 10 the Pacific After bringing the hrst
locomotive west of the Mississippi in 1907, II more
than doubled its population in that decade, reach
ing 1S55S1 in 1850 With the foundations OF the
states now west of the river, already LAID along ltS
first trade routes in 1860, it advanced IN the next
two decades to 350Jj2 people. Chicago was pass
ing it in population then, without belhg ap'e 10
take from it its historical place as the hIsl sIea'
city of the west" the pioneer and founder OF inc
west of the present Since 1880 it has doubled It's
population once more. advancing from 5ooooo 10
over 700o 900 At its present rate or increase re-
sponsive TO that of the Mississippi valley, St Louis
is doubling business in little over III years. lts
bank clearings increased from $292O0O,OOO In 1909
to 81 OLA 600 600 in 1908 It's tonnage of merchan-
disc received and forwarded was 2O,l62,00o tons
for the first six months of this year. It's oahK
resources reported June 30 1909, at S3ooooi,ooo
more than double the total of the tenth year Dach
Such figures illustrate much more IMAM loca'
progress. They are md-contlnental before they
become local IN the sense that the people or the
whole area between the Allegheny and ROCK!
mountains are now exerting new energies and u1li
izing new forces of growth. unforeseen even al
late as 10 years ago. As the percentages OF tn's
growth are of course greatest west OF the Missls
sippi river St Louis has almost made itself over
in - years in growing up to the new grown o
the country Since it began work for the world
fair celebrating the Louisiana purchase II ma
learned to look back on itself in the last decade
the nineteenth century as "old st. Louis" Il
looking back to the older ST. Louis of 1909, 1t ca
boast that as frontier outpost it led the progress
Of the continental United States. In looking ro
ward, in its centennial year it can see that IN
greatest results of the history it has made are ON
the beginnings of greater results, which belong
the immediate future of the continental Unite
States, whose progress makes the frontier town
1909 the mdcoutnental city OF lS09.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
BATS CAUSE BOARDERS' PANIC
Only Male Boarder - Crowd
Watches the Combat.

Philadelphia-A swarm of bats in
vaded the boarding house of Mrs.
John Bellam and threw y girl board
ers into a panic, several of them hay
ing tainted before the bats were
driven off or killed William Leyhe.
the only male boarder, in his fight
against the winged intruders. was
bitten on the hand, the bats teeth
sinking into the bone. He was treat
ed at the Pennsylvania hospital.
Miss Agnes New, who occupies the
third.hoor front, was first to discover
the bats They swarmed through her
window, tapping their wings and ex-
tinguishing the gas. Screaming with
terror. the girl tried to reach the door,
but was unable to find it. Her cries
aroused the other occupants, who
ran to her room and opened the door.
The bats burst through the opening
and flew in the faces of the other II
girls. who were gathered in the cor
| ridOr.
The dozen girls shrieks aroused the
entire neighborhood A crowd gath
cred about the house. while Leyhe
| who had come to the rescue, attempt
ed to fight off the intruders. He sue
ceeded in killing two and driving OF
all the others but one particular!
ferocious animal, which darted abou
him and finally succeeded in bitins
him. Leyhe disregarded his wound
and after chase killed the animal
which measured 16 inches from on
wing tip to the other.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08

the gFed oU'e VI
and the Cahaulah pOue' anu
established the hIsl ""'
mouth the Missouri an"
hahsl0
developing the ONO river
states on both 0 ....., :,
.tota nav of Mississippi penetrated by
of trade Inc "0
il event. because i"
~ Wv ~ reot cv Of the trans Mississippi the pioneers
ninnncs nnNe
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
GRAFT FOWL BONE ON JAW.

An unusual surgical operation was performed at
St Joseph's hospital, in Omaha, recently, por'
ton of the jawbone of Lucretia Norris was re-
moved and piece of chicken bone inserted In the
place OF diseased section.
The girl is six years old, and was born with a
uniformed Jaw 1t was to remedy this that bone
from freshly killed chicken was inserted.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
CHILD ATE CUTICURA
OINTMENT.
srread Whole Box OF It on Crackers
MOT the Least injury Resulted.
Cuticura Thus Proven Pure and Sweet

A New York friend OF CuucuFa
writes:
"My three year old son and heir'
after being put to bed on trip across
the Atlantic, investigated the state
room and located a box OF grahah
crackers and a box Of CuucnFa ONT
ment. When search was made lot
the box, it was found empty ana 'h7
kid admitted that he had eaten (A9
contents Of the entire box spread on
the crackers. 1t cured him OF a pad
cold and | don't know what else.
No more conclusive evidence couIa
be offered that every ingredient OF Cu'
ticura Ointment is absolutely pure
sweet and harmless. If 1t may %
safely eaten by young child, none put
the most beneficial results can be ex'
pected to attend its application 10 even
the tenderest skin or youngest lnlahC
Potter Drug Chem Corp. soc Props" boston
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
lTPTcET EEROR,AXE CARRXlNC ORWlAE
WR}CHT .,

France Tacede landed at the foot of what IS
now Market street organized the village ana
resided there for II years. He named the he"
site St Louis in honor of Louis AN.,the Te'ghhs
sovereign of France The territory was trans
ferred by France 20 Spain by secret treaty Ill
1852, but it was not announced IN the ne" village
until October l7C4. In 1903 Spain retrocedeo 'he
sovereignty to France and on April ~ 1919
France sold all the territory west OF the Mlssls
sippi river, known as the Louisiana purchase 10
the United States for $15,oOO,OOO Napoleon re-
marking: This accession of territory strengthens
forever the power of the United States
With less than a thousand inhabitants "hen
the whole country had not quite seven ana
quarter million in 1909, St Louis emerged from
the era OF the keeboat and pirogue TO pioneer 'he
steamboat western rivers. LOADING lts HIS
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08

uF MIGHTY activities and marvellous progress 'nF
world has seen in the past 100 years are sulhlhs'
illustrated in the centennial celebration OF the lhcot
noratton of St Louis. Picturesque pageah'S wiz"
everything in the way OF the spectacular WIG" 10
most likely to stir the imagination Of the spectator
;.o ,r,oc;,,ipg the work of the past through con-
+rs, with tho nrescnt feature the weeks program
The greater part of the history OF early 81 LOUIS
is really more fit for the unwrtten American epi'
noem than 1t is for prose. It's work as d llo"e'
town in the first half of the nineteenth century maze
il the md-cOntinenta city of the United states III 'ne
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08

The S00-foot bridge over the Yellow
river at Lanchowtu. in the province or
Kansu, is nearing completion. All ma
terjals had TO be conveyed nearly
900 miles in Chinese carts.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08

The dog IN the manger is the one
that does the most growing
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
The FOLlYOLlVC OF
SZLOLNS BY LAcLEOE.
BY SPEcyHL 4ERi1l53 SON ron
the 9aLH7lnG BY fl. ST00OHRo

mind. In point OF !
fact in St. Louis it
is only a matter OF
the third generation
between keelboat
and aeroplane. In
1907 the first air
ship on record as
crossing the Missls-
sippi river crossed
it at st. Louis dur
ing the internation-
al contests of that
wear, 1t is something
to remember now as
part of the record 10
which belongs the his
tory of the first loco
motive crossing the
Mississippi at st. LOUIS
in. 1852 to complete
the work of the st.
Louis argonauts OF
1849, crossing to the
Pacific in their "prai-
RE schooners.
If we suppose aero
planes and airshlps
circling in the air
above the st. Louis
keelboat landing of a
hunC~ed years ago we
may imagine, if WE
can, how they appear
To the men whose
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
ror Colds and Gripp-Capudire.

The best remedy for Gripp and Colds ls
Hicks Capudine. Relieves the aching ana
feverishness. Cures the cold-fieadaches
also It's Liuuid-Effects immediately-l0.
rs and SOC at Drug Stores.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
THE DIAGNOSIS

Anything really serious with my
eye, Doc?"
mo, no-simply pig-sty.'
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19
REPORT ON COLLEGE
BY PRES. WHITFIELD
MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AT JACKSON
APPROVES REPORT AMI FRAMES
LEGISLATIVE BILL ACCORDINGLY

President Whitfield of the |. /.
q c., returned yesterday from
Jackson where he went Tuesday
to present to the board of trus-
tees of the college at its annual
session Wednesday, his report
covering the years work and
embodying a number of recon-
mendatiOns for the betterment
of Ethe institution. President
Whitfield accompanied to jack
son the legislative committee
whose inspection of the college
property Monday and Tuesday
resulted in an appraisement of
S646, 412. This biennial valua-
Jion of the college property COM
pares with the previous figures
of $438, 130.85 as was stated in
Thursdays Commercial, and will
go to the legislature in the Janu-
airy session. The only business
before the board of trustees,
which met at the governors
mansion, was the reading of
President Whitfeld's report and
its approval, coupled with the
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19
Pound Party at vsudette.

For their Pound Party for the
benefit of the poor the Silver
Link Circle Kings Daughters
will have charge Tuesday of the
Vaudette. The moving picture
show will be given from 2 to II
p. M, the regular admission
price charged. Special pictures
of Christmas scenes will be pre-
sented for children. The ladies
of the Kings Daughters will be
in charge. All are urged to go
to the Vaudette Tuesday; the
show will be attractive as usual,
and as the proceeds will go to-
ward giving Christmas dinners
to the poor, all who can are re-
questcd to bring a pound of
something, anything convenient
will do, to help along. A large
at the Vaudette
Tuesday is expected.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19

Mr.. Jones was limited to
broken windows and blistered
walls. At one time the roof of
the Sprague home caught and
hose used on the inside flooded
the contents. Miss Myra Pei
lens, IA teacher at the college,
who lived with Mrs. Cummins
saved only a few of her effects
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones had their
things moved back into their
house Immediately after the fire.
Mr.. and Mrs Cummins with
their three children were taken
for the night in the home of
Mrs. l.. NJ. Barnett.
Lights in the college dormitory
were out, but numerous heads in
the windows attested that the
scene the fire made was not lost
in that direction.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19
Rhodes Scholarship.

Oxford, Miss, Dec. 1.-THE
Rhodes scholarship commits
sion for Mississippi met in the
chancellor's office at the univer-
sity Wednesday, Chancellor Kin
cannon, chairman of the commits
sion, presiding. After an ex-
hauStive examination of the char
acter and testimonials Of all five
applicants L. E. Farley, a member
of the senior law class of the
university, was awarded the schol-
arship, and H. H. Breland, of Me-
ridian, now a member of the
junior class at Harvard, was
named as alternate. The scholar
ship is worth ss$1, 800 per annum
for three years and entities the
to certain privileges at
Oxford, England.
Mississippi ranks second among
the American states at the Uni
versity of Oxford in point of hon
ors, New York being first.
Mr.. Farley, the new appointe, is
a B. S. graduate of the university
and is a young man of great
promise. There will be another
to be selected from Mis-
next October.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19
NEGROES ARE LEAVING
BOIL WEEVIL SECTIONS
GO WEST BY THE CARLOAD
BUT SUCCESS OF OTHER CROPS AND
BOYS CLUBS PROVES LET-UP ON
COTTON DISGUISED BLESSING

| Jackson, Miss, Dec. 18.-Re-
ports from those counties in the
tsouthwkeIf n portion of the state
where the boil weevil has already
made himself severely felt, are to
the effect that the negroes are
getting out by the carload-mov-
ing farther out into the delta, or
crossing the Mississippi River into
Arkansas, and even through to
Oklahoma.
This year the exodus is heavier
than ever, but that is to be ac-
counted for partly on the ground
that the planters in the boil wee
vii territory are not resisting the
efforts of the labor agents. They
do not care if their negroes are
leaving-in fact many of. them are
glad of it, as they are forced to
get out of the cotton raising habit
No scarcity of hands has been re-
ported from any section of the
state.
Seldom, if ever before, has the
reader of Mississippi newspapers
seen accounts of the shipments of
hogs, corn, or molasses to the
Northern markets by the carload,
but such references are frequent
ly seen now, and that is the best
evidence in the world that the
farmers of the state have taken
the advice of the government ex-
perts sent down here.
For these and other reasons the
most thoughtful men in the state
are becoming more and more con-
vinced that the boil weeviI is
going to prove a blessing in dis
guise, that it is going to make the
Southern farmer the most inde-
pendent on the face of the earth.
Once they have been convinced |
they can make a living and money
at something besides cotton |
they will keep it up.
A farmer in one of the South
ern or piney woods counties of the
state, makes good proposition to
his neighbors, one that will fill the
smoke houses on all their farms
IN the event his suggestion is act
ed on. 1t is that the farmers of
each beat in the county organize
themselves into a meat raising
club, each member paying 81 to
Join, and the one slaughtering the
heaviest sixteen-months-old pork
er the following fall takes down
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19
w. o. w.

A regular meeting of Columbus
Tent No. 2, was held last Wednes-
day night. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
T. B. McCrary, Com; j. w. Will
liams, Lieut.. Com; S. B. Schwab,
r. Keeper; G. o. Trull, F. Keeper;
E. H. Childers, Chaplain; f. H.
Childers, Jr., Sergeant; Lee Chill
ders, M. at Arms; j. S. Marshall,
1st M. of g.; Tom Davis, 2nd NJ. of
G.; c. W. Goldin, Sentinel; p. d.
Ashmore, Pickett. Installation
will take place at the next meet
ing, January 5, after which the
will enjoy an oyster sup
per.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19
FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
AND Y. M. C. HOME
GARNEGIEAWAlTS PROPOSITION
COLUMBUS SUBSCRIPTION PLANNED sr
BARRACKS, WHO WANT AlD BUSINESS
LEA6UE AND READA6 CIRCLE

A Carnegie Library and s. N
c. A. for Columbus, is the end tl-
ward which the three Bauca
classes are working, and at .fs
next meeting, the Busness
League will, il IS thought
lend its support to the project
The Ladies Reading circle uIH
also be asked to help i'm the work
Plans for raising the necessary
funds to meet Mr. Carnegie half
way, will be taken up al the neet-
ing of the Braca classes TODAY
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie in q recent
letter to c. H. Mooney former
secretary of the Methodist Baraca
class, indicated that when CO.uu-
bus was ready with figures o. ta
the amount it would give to build
and maintain a Public Library and
Y. NJ. c. a. that he would 80 into
the matter. In the establishment
of public Libraries it has been the
policy of Mr.. Carnegie To donate e
sum of money equal to that which
the town gives.
A $4,000 building is the hope
of those who are taking the init.a-
tive in the plan, and that half th.s
amount can be raised by subscr.p-
tions they believe entirely ieas-
BILE. Some months ago over
So, 900 was subscribed on the
that the total sum Civ
en- be SIS, 600. This. .by no means
the subscription pos
but for lack of time
by Those having zthe subscrip-
tions in charge, the proposition
then was carried no further.
Now, however, there IS a deter
mination to raise the full amount
and it is believed that the need
of both a Public Library and ".
NJ. q. A., which will be cons0Ii-
dated in one home, minimizinE
the expense Of operation and
combining the advantages. wiI.
be so generally appreciated that
the money can be Secured
With the previous indicated SUBJ
scriptions as a starter, commit
tees will be named 10 renew the
work. The Business League. be-
is believed, will at its next meet
ing, give the project an impetus
which with the aid of the Ladies
Circle and the Baracas
will shortly put matters In such
shape as to be presented def
nitely to Mr.. Carnegie.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19

the pot, with S. to the next high
est weight.
Such organizations wonld give
an impetus to hog raising as the
boys corn clubs have TO corn
raising. These corn clubs, though
only three or four years old, have
raised the average yield per acre
two or three bushels, and have
opened the eyes of the state TO
the possibilities of corn raising in
Mississippi, as 100-bushel yields
are common among the thousand
of the clubs, and the
highest yields are above 140
bushels.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1909-12-19
BURNING HOME LIGHTS
UP COLLEGE STREET
GOOD WORK OF FIREMEh
HOUSE OCCUPIED BY G. D. GUMMlES is
TOTAL LOSS BUT RESIDENCES ON
EITHER SIDE ARE SAVED

Fire originating from a defect
i've flue about 10 o'clock Thurs
day night destroyed the house on
College, between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets. occupied by
chief clerk for Supt. Hatcher
of the Sou. Ry., G. d. Cum
minis, and owned by Mrs. E. D.
Keeler. The house, a one story
frame building, was insured for
81, 900 and was a total loss.
Most of the contents, unin
sured, were also lost. A few ar
ticles of furniture were saved.
The one story frame houses on
either side and within twenty
feet of the Cummins home, also
owned by Mrs. Keller, were
damaged, From the house
house to the west, occupied by
II. E. Jones, assistant general
passenger agent of the M. & O.
railroad, the household goods
were moved as the flames en-
croached and suffered consider
able damage in the handling.
Nothing was removed from the
house on the other side of the
fire, occupied by Conductor |
Sprague of the Southern, the
family insisting that the things
be left alone.
When the alarm was sounded
after ten o'clock the
flames were already shooting
the roof of the Cummins
home and in a few minutes it
was burning like tinder box,
Illuminating the street for sever
al blocks and lighting up the
face of the clock in the college
tower.
While the house was small it |
made a picturesque fire, and
drew out a large crowd which
lined the street on the opposite
side, where odd piles of house
hold goods lay, until the glare
mad ceased to make thsir faces
listinguishable and died down to
short flames which licked around
The blackened timbers of the
nome that was.
But for the excellent work of
he fire department, the blaze
being under full headway when
he alarm was given, the houses
)n both sides the Cummings
nome would have gone up. The
lamage to the one occupied by !