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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
The Boil Weeyil Frozen

Lafayette. - Several severe freezes
freezes during the winter have, in the
opinion of many, destroyed all boil wee
wi IN Information. The favorite hiber.
mating quarters are in punches Of moss,
and under the bark of old, rotten trees,
and examination proves that even here
the weevll has been destroyed. As a
consequence the cotton acreage will be
largely increased
1t is probable that the Truck Grow.
ers' Association will arrange this spring
to have local agent handle sweet and
Irish potatoes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
FOREIGN.

Russia Friday formally announced
her objection to China's proposal for
the construction of the Chinchow-fu-
Aignu Railroad. Russia bases her OBJ
lection on an alleged secret promise
made by China in 1898 that if China
contemplated building any railway
north of Pekin she would invite Rus.
sia's cooperation.
The seven hundred American trav-
elers who have been enjoying the hos
pitality of Toxic for the last few days
have proceeded to Yokohama on board
the steamer Cleveland.
Senior Don Juan Riano, who, it is
stated, will succeed Marquis de Villa
lobar as minister of Spain to the Unit.
ed States, formerly was secretary to
the Spanish legation and in 1904 mar
ried Miss Alice Ward of Washington.
Senior Riano is now Spanish minister
at Copenhagen.
Twenty-three miners were killed at
Juneau, Alaska, Thursday, by an ex-
plosion of a powder magazine in the
10O-foot level of the main mine, one
of the group on the Treadwell gold
properties on Douglass Island. Eight
men were seriously injured, of whom,
it is said, four will die.
The i1surrectionary movement,
headed by General Estrada against
the Nicaraguan government, has been
practically crushed. The insurgent
campaign in the West has petered out
and nothing is left to the PROFESSIONALS
but to resort to guerilla warfare, en-
couraged by the desperate hope that
the United States may yet intervene
in a wish to put an end to the dis
turbed situation in the republic.
Although the government won a vic
tory at Tipitapa, according to the re-
ports received at Managua, there Is no
prospect of peace until General Cha
MORO Is dead or captured A period
of inactivity is now looked for until
the revolutionists replenish their sup
ply of ammunition. Chamorro effect
ed a junction with General Mena at
San Vicente Wednesday.
Following the refusal of owners to
grant their series Of demands, the
crews of the interisland steamers
struck Wednesday at Manila.
The sultan of Morocco has signed
the accord with France, obligating Mo.
rocco to pay S12,0OO,OO0 as indemnity
and damages arising over the Casa
Blanca affair.
Jose Domingo de Obaldia, president
of Panama, died from heart disease
Tuesday He had been sick only since
last Friday. Obaldia was elected to
the presidency in August, 1908.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Louisiana State Paragraphs.

Another incendiary fire in Madison
parish destroyed a barn, with forty-fvo
head of live stock, at Waverly.
Lafayette parish is sure that FREQUENT
freezes have killed out the boil weevil
Shreveport is to build a $4,000 Ma
sonic temple.
Lon F. Irvine, held responsible 70,
a wreck at Shreveport that cost tbre.
lives, was sentenced to FIVE years 70,
manslaughter.
John German, a naval stores manu-.
facturer of Fayetteville, N. c., was
found dead at Lake Charles.
The steamer Columbia was wrecked
and burned nine miles above BAYOU
Sara. The crew escaped, with the ex
ception of John Henry, the negro fire.
man, who, in returning to get his be.
longlngs, was cremated.
The St. Tammany Steamship Com.
pany, capitalized at $500 was or.
gained at Covington to establish line
OF passenger and freight vessels be,
tween New Orleans and Lake Pont.
ehartrain points. The first vessel Of
the fleet was purchased in Mobile and
named st. Tammany.
Billeand refinery, at Broussard will
install new mill, costing $4,000. to
care for increased cane tonnage.
Louisiana begins March with 80.
o95.73O.O9 on deposit with its fiscal
agent banks.
A Belgian colony may be located on
$4,000 acres of marsh lands south ot
Gueydan, growing truck, oranges and
figs.
The wireless telegraph companies in
Louisiana will be assessed for che first
time this year by the state board OF an.
praisers.
James Cook Davies, suspe cted safe.
blower, dug his way out of all at One
lousas and escaped.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST
NEW THAT is NEWS, WHEN IT is
NEWS, FOR ALL.
DOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
Happenings the Wide World Over Of
important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
WASHINGTON.

The question involved in statehood
legislation that is giving the most
trouble to the senate committee on
territories is whether suffrage shall be
limited to such residents of Arizona
and New Mexico as can speak Eng
lish. If this limitation were made it
Is practically certain, according to a
majority of witnesses who have ap-
peared before the committee that the
proposed new states would be demo
cratic.
Amendments adding cable or wire
less telegraph systems or otherwise
to the telegraph and telephone as agen-
cies to which the proposed anti-option
legislation is to apply were submitted
to a subcommittee of the house COM
mittee on agriculture Friday by Rep
resentatiye Hardwick Of Georgia.
The Ballinger-Pinchot investigation
dragged slowly along through two ses-
sions Friday. Mr.. Vertrees, counsel
for Secretary Ballinger, continued his
cross-examination of Clifford Pinchot.
He elected some interesting facts
from the former forester, but for the
most part the day was taken up large
ly with wrangles between the attor-
ney and witness.
For two days the democrats and
progressives have been in absolute
control of the senate on the postal saw
ings bank measure, and when the SEN
ate recessed Friday the reactionary
republicans found that they will have
to either accept the kind Of a postal
savings bank bill which the progress
sives and democrats are preparing for
them, or win over enough democrats
to recommit the bill.
President Taft today presented to
the senate the nomination of William
H. Atwell to be district attorney for
the Northern District of Texas.
1.-THE future holds great promise for
the American cotton producer and the
American cotton manufacturing trade"
declared President w. B. Thompson of
the New OCEANS Cotton Exchange at
the hearing before the house commit
tee on agriculture Friday on the pro.
posed anticipation legislation. I'VE
cannot afford to take the chance of
multiplying this promise by heed
less conflict with immutable economic
laws which no congress can alter or
repeal"
Bills authorizing the issuance Of
$30,O00,O0O worth of certificates Of in
debtedness for the completion of irri-
cation projects already begun, and
providing for the purchase of $4,000.
900 worth CT real estate in Washing
ton for the further uses of the govern
ment were passed by the senate We'd
nesday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11

, I, In
nv Djstrict Attorney WAY for tho huild.
inc nm Of an agricultural fair through
thn bald;ng of an oxh;hit noyt fan has
met with much annrovaI and Dr. w,
r. Dalrvmnle Of the Lon;siana State
University, who has been nrominertly
connected with the State Fa j. has writ.
fen the foIlowino lotter indors;ng the
project:
,,r.. ,,,
,.;al ..;s,,,,a.~ t.aI.,,.. .:.,1. ,,....
oxh;h;..r. - a;,,;1a u,5.,.. .L,tI.-
far, IT,. -. '>'t t.,, ., .',1..
means that each exhibitor is going TO
do his level best to win from the COM
petitor who beat him on a nrevions o..
casion. The result here, necessarily. is
Improvement all aIong fine line. such
as more careful selection and breeding.
greater care in cultivation of crops,
better preparation, etc, in order to Sc
cure the best possible product for ex-
hibit
.eSocorn,, or ;,,.;4u.;o &c 49,,
kind tonds 70 hr;rn ,anothor ;u.a ,a,,
noti,ion .bo hast ,roinatn ,.L:.h tha
norisb cor nro1,,oo d.. -. ta-s,au
i damn i,,st rha+ +ha n,onohaat :. ~
+bo timo 1a;nn ,,;s ay.an;,, , '' %; 40 ga
O. +ba+ nrosno"4iro ' hn,io,s ms
know the 81 ass of material no has and
is canable If raisino NocosSorilv +bi.
mol,os n,or,.o., ,h;., .S.,I
hIv he created wara tho somo nroauo+s
Lar+ ~ homo o,+ &c s;n,t F
rnInowr - tho hrvor
,1
,r... 'n''0 p'"'V' Tue agricultural
s"''''io,i "''i"o'S buyers 10 comnu-
"'.'' any anu " 'e" on'e 'Ne buyer mas
~ van pioSuie Vhe CLASS OF d
r.. "''''' '"e Id 'ii'ei mar
- P'"''''""y assured prO'lded ne
r. "P' o.' 'e''ei s'"'' improves the
i"'''''' WHY" "e - very iheIy 10 40
''"@i - au'!eS'lully compete at the
l"' = '''' eA"''' 'on' Consequently un-
rN w. SUN 't'''Ho' ""eeS' instead OF the
- Dle4 nav my % H0nt market Tor his
PI""uc', the buyer Will hunt him to try
on+ for tbo has. ao.a ma, N'' - usually
wavs saIahlo T. ;s 4ho '" nl;n ID "e.
of oil l,;rlu 4,,o.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
AnaIyzed by Chemists,

Apropos of President Taft and his
recent decision about whisky, Richard
LIE Gallienne said at a dinner at the
st, Regis:
while was living in Liverpool
there arose hot whisky discussion
Was pot still whisky the only whole
some one, or was patent still whisky
the one non-poisonous drink? Chemi-
cal analyses were applied to every
whisky going.
"A Liverpudlian entered a public
house near the Albert docks one
night and said
Is yer whisky pure?'
"'Well,.I should think So the pub,
lican answered It's been paralyzed
by three anarchists
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Louisiana State Fair Talk.

institution mainly under the auspices
of an organization Of farmers. We
have frequently remarked, and we are
still welded to our opinion that it is
impossible to successfully run an agri-
cultural exhibition, which is solely de-
pendent upon the agricuIturist, with the
farmer left out. But the appeal which
Mr.. Wax makes to our 'puhic-spirited
citizens and commercial institutions to
each offer annual prizes, etc, is a good
one, and quite in keeping with what is
done IN this connection in other parts
Of the world
ut goes without saving that in a
community like our own, and every
other, for that matter when the farmer
prospers all other businesses and enter
prises participate il that prosperity.
Consequently, the prosperity is recipro-
cal and, from pu"l ~ monetary stand
point, it SHOULD behoovc our business
citizens to encourage to the utmost
those on whom they 50 largely depend
for their own business successes.
From personal experiences, over a
considerable number Of years, we have
found that it is absolutely impossible
to keep up to date in ones sphere Of
activity without access to the most au-
thentic literature bearing upon one s
life work, and which is applicable to
all other vocations and enterprises. The
writer, therefore, in order to stimulate
and encourage the reading habit among
some of the farmers of the parish, will
donate, right away, a years subscrip-
ton of the Breeders Gazette to each
of ten white bona fide farmers of the
parish of East Baton Rouge. This
journal, although not a general agricul-
tural paper, is considered the leading
live stock journal of America, if not
of the world, and along that particular
line is an education in itself.
Mr.. Wax has chosen corn as his ia
vorite product to nurture. He has Sc.
lected wisely. But the farmer needs
some good live stock to enhance the
value of Mr.. Wax's corn by convert
ing it into a higher priced finished prod
net IN the shape Of beef, pork, NUT
ton, poultry, etc Hence the object of
our donation is to give to ten of our
farmers the very best and most relia-
bic current literature Obtainable on this
important subject, which is engaging
the attention of so many of them at
the present time. If those of our farm
ers in the parish who care to avail
themselves in this way of the Breed
er's Gazette, which is published week
~ IN Chicago, will signify their desire
by addressing the undersigned, Postof-
flee Box 1873, Baton Rouge, we will
make our decision upon the ten indi-
vldualS from whom we first hear unless
some other method of determining who
shall receive the subscriptions should
be decided upon in the interim.
at is to be hoped that all of our
business people in Baton Rouge will
take their clew from Mr. Wax's timely
suggestion. If the proper earnestness
Is manifested in the endpavor, the ulti.
mate results cannot be other than mu.
tually beneficial to both our city and
parish. -
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
DOM EsTlc.

Fort Worth is now burning natural
gas. One of the unique uses to which
it is to be put is the illumination OF
the city during the Feeders and Breed
ers' Fine Stock Show, March 18th to
18th. A standpipe is to be erected
seventy-two feet high, into which the
gas will be turned and lighted. This
gas will make a blaze twenty feet
wide. 1t will be visible for twenty
miles, and will light up the whole
country around the show grounds.
"This is the man that bound me
and my wife and burned our feet until
we told where we had hidden our
money" said John Wagner, 80 years
old, as he picked Frank Donahoe OFT
of line of eight men at Etna police
station, Pittsburg, Pa, Friday.
Eighty-six names are now on the list
of dead and missing passengers, train
men and postal clerks who were car,
ried down by the avalanche that de-
stroyed two Great Northern trains
near Wellington, Wash. An estimate
of 100 dead is conservative. Most OF
the dead were residents of the North
west, but Bert Matthews of Cincin'
natl, E. w. Topping of Ashland, Ohio
and E. Boles of Moberly, Ont, were
among the victims.
Mr.. James Smith, a woodsman, was
eaten by wolves Friday in timber
land near Ally. Mo-, after fighting a
desperate battle for his life. Wolves
attacked him while he was alone
awaiting the return of his brother
When the latter returned he found
his brothers bones in the center OF
q circle of five dead wolves.
The valleys of Idaho, from the head
waters of the Snake River to the Ore
gon line, and from the Owyhee to
the stricken Occur d'Alene district
are being swept this week by the
most disastrous floods in the history
of the state. Several irrigation dams
are imperiled.
The test of the Wright aeroplane at
Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio
Wednesday resulted disastrously, the
machine being wrecked and the life
of Lieutenant B. o. Foulois. the avia.
tor, being endangered Three sue
cessful flights had been made and the
fourth was in progress. The feed pipe
to the engine broke, stopping 1t at
once, and the aeroplane dropped dis
lance of about forty feet, striking the
ground with great force. The rudder
was broken and the aviator nearly
knocked from his seat.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
HOW A DOCTOR CURED SCALP
DISEASE

when I was ten or twelve years
old | had a scalp disease, something
like scald head, though it wasn't that.
suffered for several months, and
most of my hair came out. Finally
they had a doctor to see me and he
recommended the Cuticura Remedies.
They cured me in a few weeks.
have used the Cuticura remedies, also,
for a breaking out on my hands and
was benefited a great deal. haven't
had any more trouble with the scalp
disease Miss Jessie F. Buchanan,
R. F. D. 3, Hamilton, Ga, Jan. 7, 1909"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
That the cta+a ~ Oklahoma through

That the state Of Oklahoma, through
its corporation commission, proposes
to exhaust every power to retain in
force railroad rates that we're recent
ly enjoined by United States Circuit
Judge Hook at St. Louis became evil
| dent Thursday when the commission
| issued subpenas for sixteen railway
officials, demanding their presence
in Guthrie on March Is as witnesses
in the freight rate investigation now
in progress.
No wholesale executions of rebel
leaders are to be expected in Nicara-
qua following the collapse Of the in
surgent cause, according to state
ment given out by Luis Fillipe Co.
rea, special diplomatic representative
of the Madriz government in New
York City.
After weeks of delay, occasioned
by squabbles between attorneys and
her presence before the grand jury
at Kansas City, Mrs. Logan o. SWope,
the guiding hand in the Investigation
of the SwOpe mystery, Wednesday
gave her deposition in DR.. B. c. Hyde's
SANDER suit against John G. Paxton,
an executor for the Thomas H. Swope
estate. There was little sensational
testimony in Mrs. Swopes story.
The Court of Criminal Appeals at
Austin Wednesday sustained the va
lidity of the law enacted by the Thir
ty-first legislature defining as fell
ony the offense of pursuing the oCcu-
patton of selling intoxicating liquor
in local option territory, although,
for errors in the trial, the case Of
w. |. Fitch, from McLennan county,
involving the constitutionality of the
statute, was reversed and remanded.
Twenty-four are known to be dead as
the result of the snow slides Monday
in the mining district of Northern
Idaho. To the eighteen known to have
persisted in the snowslides at Mace
and Burke, Idaho, are added three
more, who died in a similar disaster
about noon Monday, when the camp
of the Carbonate Hill Mining Company
at Mullan, Idaho, was destroyed.
The body of an aged negro was
found in a sealed freight car In the
yards in Fort Worth, Monday in bad"
ly decomposed condition. The car was
sealed on February 10 at Mart The
man showed signs of awful suffering,
evidently having nothing to eat or
drink for eighteen days. Holes in the
floor near the door and the lacerated
condition of his hands showed that an
awful effort had been made to escape.
The highest price paid for live hogs
since 1870 brought an even $40 a
hundredweight at the stock yards in
Chicago Monday. Sixty.six head Of
hogs averaging 2G4 pounds each were
sold at this price by B. L. Strohm, a
farmer of Cushing, Iowa.
An attempt will be made in the legis.
lature to break up the free pass system
in New Jersey. The present law, which
went into effect last April, compels
the railroads to give free transporta-
ton to the governor and other state
officials, and to the members of the
legislature and United States senators
and representatives.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Not Willing to Commit Himself.

The teacher had called upon Fred
die Brown to give an illustration of
the proper manner in which to COM
pare the adjective clean"
Mother is clean" said he faltering-
ly. father is-cleaner-" Here he
paused.
And" prompted the teacher.
Freddie was still silent and very
thoughtful.
Haven't you some other relative?'
asked the teacher, smiling,
"Oh, yes" replied Freddie, there's
auntie-but amt sure about her!"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Increase Sugar Mill Capacity.

Broussard-The Billeaud sugar fac
tory has started the installation of a
supplementary set of knives and rollers
in their factory here. The addition OF
these rollers will make it an easy mat
ter for them to crush a minimum of
$500 tons every day, while in previous
years they had maximum capacity Of
q thousand tons.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Negro Teachers to Meet.

Baton Rouge.-State Superintendent
Harris, in issuing the call for the fifth
annual meeting of the negro school
teachers Of Louisiana, to be held
April IA, Is and 10 at Alexandria, de,
clares that he will be present one day
and make an address. President Joseph
s. Clark and Secretary j. W. Hunter of
the negro teachers, have announced the
committee on arrangements and other
details.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Not Apnrnnri,..


Senator Beveridge was rsr,,,.
dinner in Washington to a da:.A!
the sugar trust.
You remind me of a mo,
bro 1ro'h '.. funeral. This man ssst |
the grave and closely watched - Z
ering OF the coffin down into H.
cut e. rectangular chamber prepus
it. He heaVed a sigh as tbs Y
came to a rest, and said IN fl,
taker heartily:
Its the neatest fit avo,
my life. Come and have a a., -
the mead OF 1t. Sunday Magar,,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Kept with Earnum's Circus

P. T. Barnum, the famous circus
man, once wrote: 81 have had the
Cuticura Remedies among the con-
tents of my medicine chest with my
shows for the last three seasons, and I
can cheerfully certify that they were
very effective in every case which
called for their USE"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Strawberry Season Backward.

Hammond.-The season is unusually
backward this year, and the farmers dc
not expect to ship any strawberries fo1
couple of weeks. The cold weather
has kept the plants back, and as yet
many are not even in bloom, whereas
last year shipments were being made at
this time.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
thinking of Garden liz.

Bacon think much Of tbs ;,
who can make two blades NJ ).
grow where one grew before :
Egbert-I'ye not got my eye =, !.
| admire more the man who %, :,
only one weed grow where a -
grew before.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Mayor of Hammond Fined.

Amite City.-Dr. S. L. Powett, mayor
of Hammond, who was recently con.
victed of unlawful prescribing of spir,
its fermenti in violation of the law,
came up for sentence and was fined
800.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11

A biologist from Washington is col.
lecting teal and mallard duck gizzards
In Louisiana in an effort to determine
whether national protection should be
afforded the game because ducks mini.
nize the red rice pest.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
,,,.
WORTH KNOWING
simple PE.. But Powerful pr.s,,Is
Rheumatism and l,atsI


1T This a.5., was s previously pusIi,s "
and cured ts hundreds, Get st' oas y
syrup Of Sarsaparilla con rrs %
one one ounce Toris Compound e ~
half a pint Of good Which,. IL
the cot other two ingredients ny, ~
a tablespoonful of this mi. .4o /
each NEE, and at bed tima !,
the first day. Any drupyia,S .' ~
Ingredients mgr, on hand or will WILL or i,
them from his wholesale l. saletll
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
A Jolt TO Romance.

How about the young doctor? Has
he proposed?"
Not yet. Papa ruined everything
last night"
How was that?"
Just as the doctor was pleading for
a peep at my eyes, papa came in and
asked him to take look at my
throat"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11

At the age of IS a girl is afraid of
two things-being an old maid and
not going to heaven.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11

Dr Pierces Pleasant Pellets first put 40 years
ago They regulate and invgorate sto ach liver
and bowels Sugar coated tiny granues
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
For Colds and Grlpp-capudIne

The best remedy for Gripp and Colds is
Hicks .Capudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness. Cures the cold-Headaches
also. It's Liquid-Effects immediately--lO,
25 and SOC at Drug Stores.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11

PILES CURED IN 6TO14 DAYS
PAZO OINTMENT Is guar anteed to euro any =, o..
Or Itching Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pi,as in
6o IL dsysor money refunded. 500. '''' ="
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11

Scandal is the tattle of fools who
judge other people by themselves.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11

1t isn't every prodigal son who gets
a Whack at the obese veal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
Breakers Ahead,

What makes you so sure that suf-
fragette club is in for serious trou.
hlo?"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11

A crab-eating monkey in Siam swim
like fish.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-11
PERRY DAVIS, pAJNUJr,r

mas an enviabe reputation of over seventy yearsas
reliable remedy for lumbago sciatica pleurisy
stitches ETC., 2Sc, S5c and &c. At all druggists