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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29
4" Have Killed Him Have Killed Him"

There are candles at the side
make a light, Gillespie
And soon we were taking account
of one another in the soft candle
light.
Il must 60" said Henry huskily,
looking stupidity down upon his broth
err, who lay quite still, his head resting
on his arm.
You will stay | said; and I stood
beside him while Gillespie filled a
pail at the creek and layed Arthur's
wrists and temples with cool water.
We worked a quarter of an hour be-
fore he gave any signs Of life; but
when he opened his eyes Henry flung
himself down in a chair and mopped
his forehead.
He is not dead he said, grinning
foolshly.
Where is Helen?" I demanded.
"She's safe" he replied cunningly
nodding his head. Il suppose Pat has
sent you to take her back. She may
go, if you have brought my money"
Cunning and greed, and the marks Of
drink had made his face repulsiye.
Gillespie got Arthur to his feet a mo-
ment later, and | gave him brandy
from a flask in the cupboard. His
brothers restoration seemed now to
amuse Henry.
1T was a mere love-tap. You're
tougher than you look, Arthur. It's
the simple life down here in the woods.
My own nerves are all gone" He
! turned to me with the air of dominat-
ing the. situation. I'm glad you've
come, you and our friend of button
| fame. Rivals, gentlemen? A friendly
rivalry for my daughters hand fiat
tiers the house of Holbrook. Between
ourselves | favor you, Mr.. Donovan;
the button-making business is profit
able, but damned vulgar. Now,
! Helen"
That will do!"-and clapped my
hand on his shoulder roughly. Il
have business with you. Your sister
is ready to settle with you; but she
wishes to see Arthur first"
MONO. She must not see him.
He leaped forward and caught hold OF
me. She must not see him!"-and
his cowardly fear angered me anew.
You will do, Mr.. Holbrook, very
much as | tell you in this matter
intend that your sister shall see her
brother Arthur tonight, and time flies
This last play of yours, this tlimsy trick
of kidnapping, was sprung at a very IN
fortunate moment. 1t has delayed the
settlement and done grave injury tc
your daughter"
Helen would have it; it was hel
idea."
IF you speak Of your daughter
again in such a way will break your
neck and throw you into the creek
He stared a moment, then laughed
aloud.
80 you are the one-are you?
really thought it was Buttons
II am the one, Mr. Holbrook. Ant
now l am going to take your brother
to your sister. She has asked fol
rim, and she is waiting
Arthur Holbrook came gravely to
ward us, and I have never been 81
struck with pity for man as | wa
for him. There was a red circle OF
his brow where Henry's knuckles hat
cut, but his eyes showed no anger
they were even kind with the tender
ness that lies in the eyes of Womel
who have suffered. He advanced
step nearer his brother and spok
| slowly and distinctly.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29
Cotton Firm Fails.

Decatur, Ala.-The cotton firm OF
Knight, Yancey & Co., one of the
largest concerns of the kind in the
South, having offices in Decatur, Mo
bile, Huntsville, Birmingham and 9th
er cities, went into voluntary bank
ruptcy Wednesday. The liabilities are
said to be $4,O00,000.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29
Crop Prospects Promising.

Oakland, Tex.-Crop prospects are
splendid. Corn is waist high ant
cotton a splendid stand, much of II
having been chopped. Johnson grass
md alfalfa are now being cut and har
'ested.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29
To Build School at Cause.

Cause, Texan election on the
opposition to issue $4,000 bonds for the
purpose of erecting brick schoo.
building in the independent school dis
trict carried by a handsome majority.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29
The Balkan Situation.

Nations are a good deal like men,"
How so?"
ALWAYS willing to rush at each
other if there's fair chance Of
being held apart"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29
CHAPTER XIV.
with My Hands,"

Gillespie was smoking his pipe on
the boathouse steps. He had come
over from the village In his own
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29

First Kid-My old mans locked up
fer shooting dog.
Second Kid--Dat's nothin'. My old
mans locked up fer shootin' copper.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
COMBINING the E~xperience rabies.


One of the addresses before the
meeting Of life insurance presidents
held in Washington last week calls at.
t%ention to the cooperative t~abulation
of life insurance experience statistics
for which the preliminary steps have
already been taken and which is ex.
pected shortly to materialize in fact.
All the life insurance companies con-
nected with the two principal associ-
ations have agreed to join in an in
vestigation along these lines, whose
results shall be open to all and will
probably furnish the basis of new
actuary tables. Speaking of the scope
and purpose of this undertaking the
medical director of one of the big com
panies says:
II this material is so arranged and tabu-
lated as to answer only those questions
which are Of immediate Importance to life
insurance, the companies will gain much;
a value greatly beyond the cost, but not
nearly all that they should. while the pub
lie, will gain nothing. II, however, a broader
DOiCy Is puTSu6ut n pOllCg NhAtl VIII W.
nothing or little to the expense, but greatly
to its possibilities. a mass of material will
become available, which, IL properly
handled, will serve % settle onee-and per-
baps for all time-many OF the most vexa-
tious problems which are nov disturbing
the, minds OF those most Interested in public
heaitfreand preventive medicine. 1 believe
that this investigation will be handled in
this broader and more comprehensive way.
1t is proposed in this work to cover the
ground from 1870 to 1910. and include the
experience Of all American life insurance
companies. A conservative estimate of the
number Of lives which will be investigated
is 15,OOO, 900. 1t is hard to appreciate the
Importance of such figures. They are
rather too large for the ordinary medical
mind to grasp; but when we appreciate
that most so-calIed medical facts are based
on groups of from fifty to 500; that when
a body of men report 1000 cases of any
one kind, the labor represents a life spent
under extraordinary and most prolific con-
ditions, we can then begin to appreciate
their Importance.
A little thought will show how deep
the significance Of such an investi-
cation may be on the great problem of
the conservation of. human life. A
true measure of the prevalence and
effect of different kinds of disease
should be of tremendous help in work
ing out plans for prevention. If such
information extending over a long
period of years and covering millions
of cases, can be made to serve as a
gauge of the improvement or deteri-
oriation of the race it will support or
disprove the variegated answer which
have been given to many vital ques-
lions. Clearly this investigation,
although of special value to those who
are promoting it, far o~ver-reaches the
limits of the field of life insurance.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
Bad Bows of West Point.

Again the vexed question of hazing
this time in the shape ora bill before
the senate to determine just what con-
s~titutes hazing, to fix finally the status
of cadets who are convicted of violation
Of the anti-hazing rules, and to make
definite provision against their rein
statement. AS at present administered,
the infraction of these rules is a matter
within the sole jurisdiction Of the sec
rotary of war, who as a result Of Of
fetal pressure on the behalf of Of
tenders is constantly in hot water
because of his decisions against the bad
boys of the academy.
1t will no doubt be a relief to the
secretary to have flat legislation on
this subject to which he can refer all
disputants concerning his DEGREES, but
those who pin their faith to Webster
as an authority cannot but feel amused
to witness an effort on the part of
some of the senators to reconstruct the
definition of the verb "to haze" The
American public has been through al
experience with West Pointers, which
has indelibly craven upon the popular
mind a significant understanding Of the
meaning of the word, and is hardly in
any mood to tolerate any relaxation
from the existing strict regulations
against an offensive practice. Each
cadet turned out at West Point repre-
sents a large cash investment on the
part of the taxpayers, and any attempt
to weaken the discipline at the academy
through a revision of Webster and a
shearing OF the authority Of the secre-
tary of war win be met with strong
disapproYal.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
Stirring Up the Senate.

The presidents reminder to the sena-
tors that they too have a mission in
the public service and that they might
add to their popular appreciation by
getting busy with some of the admin
istration's legislative program, is fur
Their indication of the determined state
of the executive mind to make his an
administration of accomplishment
While Mr.. Taft is the president of
the whole people, he is quite within
his rights and will win public approval
for reminding the republican members
Of the upper house of the platform
measures to which the party stands
pledged to the voters who elected him.
In the case of the postal savings bank
bill, the statement has been made that
some of the senators are not in favor
of it, but they cannot escape the
fact hat this was one of the measures
on which the voters definitely passed
at the last election, and now that the
president has recalled this and other
items to the senate leaders, we may
look for early activity in that body
along practical lines. Daily it becomes
more and more apparent that behind
the Taft smile is a vast capacity not
only for administrative control but
also for real constructive work.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
THE HAM AT THE WHEEL.

Thomas F., Porter in st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
1t matters not course my ship may
go,
That leaves the port meath skies % calm
and clear;
Tho later, threatening winds may Wildly
blow,
OF harm 1 have no fear.
The storm may beat in fury round my
The oceans spray up to the masthead
leap.
The way be long, the night DO starlsss
Secure my course I keep.
II matters not how swift may be the hde
Tho lightning cleave with lurid flame the
sky; FA
But that my ship viii every storm out
On this ] can rely.
Nor does 1t matter when the goal / gain,
Nor II the ship be stript OF every mast.
My heart nor lips will murmur or oeHAr
plain,
When safe the anchors cast.
why. there is such a flood OF hope In mo.
To doubling hearts this much l will re-
veal;
The hand that launched my bArque on
life's great sea
Is ever at the wheel.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Boycotts OF meat threaten to outrun New
Year resolutions to the ultimate destlna-
tion.
Bombs have given way to bumps in
Odessa The Black Sea port is batty on
roller skating.
The fsuffragettes polled one lonesome vote
in the British election, but captured two
punches Of ministerial hair.
The largest valentine factory in this coun.
try. located in Massachusetts,, has been
destroyed by fire. The heat Of the love
messages famed in the wrong spot
A New York Judge foolishly attempts
to expound domestic law in respect 10 the
husbands pocket and the wife's searching
fingers. What's the USE? Judges haven't
the last word.
slason Thompson, manager OF the rail-
way news bureau OF Chicago. remains the
most rreconcilable insurgent against Taft's
railroad plans now visible on the snowy
pixies OF The middle west.
Thomas w. Lawson. Boston's expert
trust buster, is striving TO pump bay state
gas into the Burnley tobacco combine in
Kentucky. AS soon as the connection is
made Lawson will strike a match and
smoke a pipe or two.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23

have been invited to tako up and. in many
Instances, have taken up. the public land
within the projects, relying upon their
prompt completion. The failure to com
plete the projects for their benefit is. in
effect. a breach Of faith and leaves them
In a most distressed condition. I urge that
the nation ought to afford the means to
lift them out OF the very desperate condi-
ton in which they now are. This condi-
ton does not indicate any excessive
waste or any corruption on the part of
the exclamation service. 1t only Indicates
on over-zealous desire TO extend the bene-
fit OF reclamation to as many acres and
as many states as possible. l recommend,
therefore, that authority be given to
issue not exceeding $50. 200. 900 Of bonds,
from time to time, as the secretary of the
interior shall find It necessary. the pro-
ceeds to be applied to the completion of
the projects already begun and their
proper extension. and the bonds running
ten years or more. to be taken up by the
proceeds Of returns to the reclamation
fund, which returns, as he years go on,
will increase rapidly in amount
The presidents suggestion is that
the government issue $50, O00,O 900 of
bonds and loan the proceeds to the
reclamation fund for ten years sub
ject to repayment out Of the revenues
that would naturally accrue. but which
under the present conditions would
not be available for use until actually
paid in. Such proceeding would move
up by ten years the amount of reclama-
ton work that could be carried on with
$30,00O,0 00, although perhaps at the
end of ten years, unless the loan we're
renewed or the proceeds of the fund
greatly increased, the work would have
to be reduced in amount If not sus-
pended entirely. Inasmuch, however,
as these irrigation works are practi-
cally permanent and ought to TAX care
of themselves, the real benefits to the
country from them, will be larger than
If they are expedited in this way with
the resultant gain of ten years in time.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

St Louis Times: A New York minister
has advised the millionaires in his flock to
throw away their money: but this is not to
be accepted as proof that he believes in
international marriages.
Chicago Record Herald: One Of the Chi.
cago preachers predicts that the earth will
be a Utopia in 9Ol0 With such progress as
has been mad during the past fifty years
1t should not be necessary to wait until
2O10 for the Ideal condition.
st. Louis Republic: The clergyman who,
though re~verencing the sex, has never taken
off his hat to a woman, undervalues the
religious influence Of the better half Of
humanity. II it were not for the divine
persuasion Of women, how many unregen-
crate men would ever be induced to take
off their hats in the presence of the Most
High inside Of a church?
Baltimore American: General Booth, the
leader of the Salvation army, Is predicting
the speedy end of the world because Of it's
w1ckedness. Which only goes to show that
other prophets, long since forgotten, prophe.
sled the same in their own days and that
this wise old world Is still rolling on. doing
business at the old stand. and with no fears
OF rot surviving this latest prediction.
New York Tribune: Church statistics
showing increase or decrease in member
ship and attendance and what not else are
all very well in a way, but they miss the
gist Of the matter. which is the personal
factor. II they could tell the character of
the minister's preaching and other work
they would throw more light upon the sub
ject which they aim to illumlne. The
Christian church as n church has never
lacked prosperity and success. As a politi-
cal machine, club or vaudeville show its
fortunes are more dubious.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
Meat as a MalefactOr.

The governments decision to have
the peoples attorney general proceed
10 try King Meat as a common male
factor is bound to have the good re.
suit Of settling a vital question OF
which only one side has been heard
and hat not iudicially. SO genera.
has become the criticism of the so
called packers combine that the ad.
ministration could not have hit on 9
more timely subject for official in
v~estigation, and the fact that the De
partment of Justice regards the evi
dence at hand as w%arranting procedure
under the Sherman antitrust law will
be accepted by many as ground fol
hope of a speedy release from what
they believe to be an unlawful and
oppressive combination.
But it is one thing to indict and
another to convict, and the processes
of law are deliberate, as witness the
case Of Standard Oil, that old offender
still doing business at the old stand. In
the meantime some OF the people are
using the boycott as a remedy, with
what success remains to pc seen, for II
the big packers control the market SC
absolutely, It would be within their
power to wait patiently till the boy.
cotters return to the fleshpots, and
then exact such tolr as has been denied
them In the interim.
This fact cannot be escaped, that we
are a nation Of meat-eaterA 1t is
partly because Of the well-nourished
condition of our bodies that we have
led the worlds advance as against the
older nations, whose masses are
VIGOROUSLY impoverished because of
insufficient food. While there are
advocates Of the theory that we eat too
much meat, no man rearing a family
wants to lessen the supply of his house
hold table, and the boycott OF meat
might be carried to an extreme Of false
economy.
In the long run, the government in
vestigation is likely to be the sounder
policy, and productive of the most
lasting benefit, for If 1t be found that
the claim of Independently is
honestly based it will stimulate greater
production; and If a combination of
packers in restraint of trade be proved.
the Sherman law should be invoked to
break it up. Certainly, no question is
more insistent, and the public will
heartily endorse Mr.. Taft's evident in
tention to make this investigation an
immediate undertaking of his admins
tration.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
Our Birthday Book
january 20, 1910.

Charles w. Knapp, publisher Of the st.
Louis Republic. is 81. Mr.. Knapp is a
native of st. Louis and a native Of the
newspaper business. the Republic being
one of the century-old newspapers. and for
two generations in control Of the Knapp
family.
Charles M. Harger, who writes a great
deal on western subjects for eastern mag
azines. was born January %, 1868. He Is
located at Abilene, Kan, where he pub
fishes a newspaper called the Reflector.
Franklin w. Harwood. jr.. with Thomas
Cusack company. Who make a speciality
Of outdoor advertising, was born in Mil
yankee January 20. 1881. He was edu-
Gated in the public schools OF Cedar Rap
ids, Ia, and has been in his present busi-
ness with various firms for ten years.
Charles L. Ransom. the civil engineer.
is IS years old. He is a native Of Chicago
and a graduate OF Purdue university. and
has been in the engineering department OF
the Northwestern railroad. Of which he Is
now resident engineer. since 1889.
Major Edward II. Schulz. corps Of en-
gineers. United States army, was born
January %, 1873. Major Schulz has charge
OF river and harbor work along the Mis-
souri, river. He Is a West Pointer OF the
class OF 1895.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23

Yale is to have a new professorship
of Assyriology founded by J. Pierpont
Morgan in honor Of the late William
M. Laffan, who succeeded Charles A.
Dana as editor of the New York Sun.
It developes that Mr.. Laffan was an
authority on Babylonian records and
art. The versatility of Mr.. Laffan is
attested by the fact that nobody who
read the Sun from day to day could
have discovered from its up-to-date
contents that it's editor was wallowing
in ancient Assyriology.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
PIONEER ~MIssIONAR1Es.
Tribute to the Men Who BlaEed
Salvatore Highway.
Golfers Weekly.


Tribute to the Men who BIaEed
SalvatiOn's Highway.
Golfers Weekly.
II Theodore Roosevelt's physical self
denial and s-trenuousness be the product of
his western experiences, some Of it may
have been contributed by the example of
the early western missionary. One par
sonage at Virginia City, Mont, in the
early days was built Of green logs, chinked
with mud, and with a dirt roof. An ex-
temporized carpet was made of COW skins,
nailed, while green, to the floor, hair side
up. A straw bed with coarse army
blankets, was a luxury. Male members
Of the different congregations often were
revolvers and knives strapped about them,
Invitations to preach were extended by
gamblers and saloon proprietors. Never
was a meeting disturbed, nor was ever
any man OF God treated with anything
but kindness-a fact which counts for
the charity Of the western missionary for
the open and larger frailties of the western
pioneer. The preacher was often broad
ened by the b~rotherly spirit of the COM
munity and by the freedom from social
conventionalities and r-estraints-at least
he grew tolerant. There was little bigotry
of creed, Jason Lee preached the first
Protestant sermon west Of the Rocky
mountains, at Fort Hall, Idaho, in 1881.
Father Ravalli. the Jesuit, was an accom-
plished physician, ministering to the phys
zeal as we'll as moral Ills Of a widely
scattered flock. In his little mission church
at Stevensville, Mont, hangs still the old
fIintlock rifle, stern bar to savage dangers.
The freemasonry' Of the pioneers was one
OF the few charms of pioneer life.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
The Future Of Irrigation.

President Taft's special message on
conservation contains a passage with
reference t o the work of the reclama-
ton bureau and the future of irrigation
which has not had the attention it
deserves. The irrigation project as
originally inaugurated by congress was
made to depend upon a revolving fund
to be replenished by sales OF public
lands in turn to be %reinvested in irri-
cation works to bring still more land
within the area OF cultivation. But as
often happens the calculations upon
it was figured that this plan
would thus finance itself have not
come up to expectations. On this sub
ject the president says:
One OF the difficulties which has arisen
Is that too many projects in view of the
available funds have been set on foot The
funds available under the reclamation
statute are inadequate to complete these
projects. within a reasonable time. And
yet the projects have been begun settlers
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
Reviving an Old Glory.

D~iscouraging as much of the transi-
tory popular literature of the day must
appear to the real lover of books, there
is a distinct gain in one field Of thought
in the marked revival of the art Of the
~essayist, which In times past has been
one of the chief glories of the printed
word. No other form Of bookishness
has had quite the persuasive and last
ing flavor of the essay, as witness the
sovereignty of Lamb or the established
place of Emerson. The poem may be
read and re-read at all times by those
who are fond of verse, but the essay
will often satisfy the thirst for poetry,
and It further appeals similarly to that
vast number of people who see no
majesty or wisdom except in lucid and
enlightening prose.
The coinage of new verse has sunk,
in these modern days. to the pens of
innumerable minor thinkers who strike
no clear, high note. But there has
arisen, in both England and America,
a number of essayists whose produc-
lions contain the full nourishment of
the literary grain. with . rich and ripe
smack. Much Of this necessarily con-
Germs standard authors and their
works, as in the case Of William Dean
Howells and Paul Elmer More, but
otherwise is general in its scope, as
perfected by ]. H. Yoxall. Arthur G.
Benson and S. r. crothers. Some Of
the literary output Is OF as delicate and
delicious a flavor ~ that OF Goldsmith
or Lamb. and IN a measure fills the
place in modern affairs that Addison's
or Johnson's work occupied in elder
days.
While it may be said that much Of
the responsibility for the current essay
rests with Robert Louis Stevenson, who