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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
MANY White Convicts Enrolled.

Baton Rouge.-That dung the past
month more white men have been
brought to the state penitentlary than
negroes is the record that has been
made by the sta,e since about the mid
die of last month. In the number OF
prisoners brought in during a month
the negroes always outnumbel the
whites, three and four and five to one,
but this month more whites have been
brought to the state penitentlary than
negroes. A total of IS white men has
been received. Fabian Bouvy, the
young Plaquemine boy, who shot and
killed Prof. van lngen, in the presence
of his wife, is behind the penitentlary
walls here and will in all probability
be kept there He is not strong eonugh
to work on the cotton or sugar farms
and will for this reason be kept in the
Baton Rouge prison and probably put
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
Parish Assessors Busy

Baton Rouge.-The assessors of the
different parishes of the state have al
ready begun the work of listing the
taxes for 1910. This is the first step IN
making up the assessment roll. The
properly must be listed by May in or
der that the abstracts can be completed
and placed before the state board of
equalization for action. Last year the
assessors got in their rolls and filed
them with the sheriff of their parish
and the state much earlier than they
did during the previous year, owing to
the fact that the state board of equall-
cation completed its session earlier and
the assessors were prompt in getting IN
their abstract blanks. The indications
are from the early start which many
of the assessors have made that they
intend to be just as prompt this veal
in getting up list of their property.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
Agriculture. Education Approved.

Baton Rouge eat a meeting of the
farmers attending the conference con-
Quoted by the Louisiana State Unlver-
sity resolutions were adopted thanking
the university for undertaking the
work, expressing the appreciation OF
the planting interests of the state for
the intelligent work which the univer-
sity is doing for the farmers of Louis
lana, and especially indorsing the IT,
dav farmers conference idea inaugu-
rated for the first time this year by
the university. That the state should be
more liberal was the opinion expressed
bv half dozen speakers. The expert
ment station work is greatly eramped
for lack of funds. DR.. Dodson, the oil
rector of the station, has been forced
to move to the Baton Rouge state
grounds and devote his time and atten
| tion to this work, in addition to direct
ing the affairs of all the other stations
! Former Assistant Director McClendol
of the Baton Rouge farm has bee1
transferred to the Calhoun station. Th
farmers assert that for the past i
wears: while every other appropriate
has greatly increased, the state has no
increased it's appropriation for the e1
pertinent station, and that the farmin
interests are entitled to more llbers
treatment.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

SUPPORT ATCHAFAIAYA BOARD.
Aver That 10000 Acres of Land Wou1a
Be Reclaimed.

Baton Rouge.-Committees from pae
parishes of Pointe Coupee, West Baton
Rouge and Iberville called upon Cover
ner Sanders aad presented their rea-
sons for supporting the position OF 1he
Atchafalaya levee board in its efforts
to dam up Alabama bayou and build
levee upon the east bank of the Atcna-
falaya.
The governor told the representa-
tives that he was glad to receive them
and get their views, which were pre-
scented in anticipation of the mass meet
ing at st. Martinville to give the views
of the people of st. Martin PARISH
against the proposed damming of the
Nayou and the construction Of the levee
on the east bank, unless levee Is also
built upon the west bank to protect
them from overflow.
Before the committee came Baton
Rouge a mass meeting was held at for'
Allen in West Baton Rouge courthouse
at which time resolutions were adopted
setting forth the reasons why the par
ishes of Pointe Coupee, West Bator
Rouge and Iberville are in favor OF tint
dam across Alabama bayou and the pro
posed levee system The principal pc II
is that it would redeem from overflow
about 10000 acres Of land which IS a
present useless and abandoned.
T. NJ. Hewes of Point Coupee acte
as spokesman for the delegates and pre-
} sented to the governor the reasons wh
: the citizens of the three parishes Wer
anxious to see carried out the wor
: which the Atchafalaya levee boar
5 had undertaken in damming the Al;
E bama bayou and building the levee. M
= Hewes referred to the progress Whlc
the board had made in the work; no
the war department had given It's a
II thority to the board to dam the bayo
:, and what it would mean in the way
. redeemed land to the people from lbe
vile to the upper end of Pointe 20
pee.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
An ETecdote party.

With a dinner invitation went the
request that each guest come prepared
to tell a good story or an anecdote'
In this way the hostess insured her
self against that dreadful calm which
all hostesses so dread. | heard a
clever woman say once that she felt
that each guest owed 1t to himself
or herself, as the case might be, to
make it a bounden duty to be as bril-
liant as possible at any social func'
ton. Story telling may be cultivated
as with everything else practice makes
perfect. Keep a book with bright say
ings in it and consult it while dress
ing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
River Traffic at Shreveport.

Shreveport-W. K. Kavanaugh and
John L. Matthews, president and seere-
tary, respectively, of the Mississippi
Valley Transportation Company of st.
Louis, will be here in February re-
garding plan to make Shreveport the
developing point for Texas and North
west Louisiana. Starting in the spring,
they expect to operate line of boats
down the Mississippi to Delta Point,
La, opposite Vicksburg, and connect
there with the Vicksburg, Shreveport
and Pacific railroad for Shreveport,
and later the expect to place steel
barges on the Red river for upper Red
river trade.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
Timber and Salt Mine Values.

New Iberia.-In the matter of tim
her land assessments it was arranged
that an expert should cruise the lands
of the different lumber companies and
report an estimate of the value Of each,
classifying them as to cypress, tupelo
o,m and hardwoods. The first com
pany's holdings estimated should be re-
norted for the first meeting in March.
In regard to the salt mine assessments
the attorneys representing the parish
and the mines, after an extended argu-
ment, finally came to an amlcabie
agreement satisfactory to the police
jury, by which the taxes are paid al
once and basis for future years es
tablished.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
FOREIGN.

Death in all its most terrible ior'hs
blotted out the lives of at least scoie
and perhaps two score people FRIDAY
whom four cars of Canadian Paclnc
passenger train on the 500 Dranch a.
Northbay, Ontario, leaped from the
tracks and tearing down Steep
enhancement, plunged through tne
;ce.coyered surface of the Spanish
river Some were drowned, others
were crushed to death in the grlnu-
ing timbers. Most terrible Oh an
many persons, manned and INJURED
oangb+ in the wreckage of the cars
were burned to death. - -
premier BRAND interviewed in the de-
hoto on the school question in the
Chamber of Deputies in Paris, france
Friday, and was roundly applaudea' IN
his speech he blamed the cnurch loi
roonening the agitation when the ques..
zion was in fair way of settlement.
pessimism prevails at Buenos Ayres
uooord,ng the situation brought aoou1
NV the revolt in Uruguay. The ne~spa'
nars nublish reports Of uprislngs IN
soveral of the provinces OF Uruguay,
- .ccordance with the revolutionary
pIans which are said to be on 'aS'
scale. !,
Government troops are being nurrieu
r. Greytown, Nicaragua, to re'hloi..
the army there against possible a'.aI =.
NV tho insurgents. The government Is
oiso sending corps of physicians
from Granada to Acoyapa' IN pfepaf !"
tion for the expected battie.
president Madriz of Nicaragua FRI
day announced that General Estraa th'
uon,v had served to end abruptly th'
go negotiations and that reinforce
nants had been ordered to the iron
. with the purpose of striking aecisiV'
: Now at the insurgent army.
: Tho international Bureau Of Peac
81 brussels have addressed TO Tn
Governments of all countries a. prop'
n s,.,on to readopt and extend to dir;
n ,hlas and aeroplanes the provision :
n t t first Hague conference, forDiaaln
/. t the dropping of explosives from ae
8 ostats during war.
The status of the parties accoraio
" 20 the returns received up TO oa'e
=
.e tha general election in LONDON arc 90
!. follows: Unionists 1853, liberals 10
= ,sborites 20, nationalist o. Gaia'
:. ITnionists II, liberals 10, laborites t.
y. Committees representing the y.
can branches of the Order OF hallw'
Conductors and Brotherhood OF Loo
lie motive Engineers were in conteren
ne Monday at Mexico City with A. ol n
sh general manager of the National ha
m WAYS Of Mexico, and it is salu ~
m presented certain demands TO the 70
d. road which are now being considers
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
MEMS OF INTEREST
.,-us THAT is NEWS, WHEN 1T 10
NE"' NEWS, FOR ALL.
n0INGs OF DAY And WEEK
,.ar,nos the Wide World over OF
r'sr important Events Condensed 70
~" Good Reading.
WASHINGTON.

r.. r,yht of Representative Lloyd of
.,,.aorri to tender his resignation as
A.. of the Ballinger-Pinchot inves-
asating committee was Friday an
o"rced in the House in a ruling made
Nv sneaker Cannon, Mr.. Lloyd's tender
- his resignation being allowed. Mr..
" Graham of Illinois was chosen In
his place
nh oklahoma congressional delega-
4on met in Senator Cores office Fri
Say After two hours conference the
saiepation practically agreed to sup
snrt bill on the line of the one intro
sncad by Representative Creager, pro-
~idirg for settling the affairs OF the hve
civilized tribes in Oklahoma
The House Wednesday passed the
orogv hill authorizing the Lone Star
Canal Company to construct a dam
ooross the mouth of Turtle Bayou in
chambers County, Texas.
While it has been only tentatively
eott,ed what Texas shall receive out
If the rivers and harbors bill, enough
:, brown to cause the keenest disap'
n :, 1t was announced Wednes
dow that Texas is to get one-seVen'
tpepth instead of one-tfteenth OF
bill that will run probably under
s4O,0OO,OOO.
Replving from the floor of the sen
stp to a recently published newspapeI
criticize on night riding in Kentucky
lts causes and results, Senator Brad
Inv Of that state uttered vigorous pro
boots against what he declared was tn
iniustice and the falsity of the story
He took exception to the assertion
the article that conditions in kentuck
today are as lamentable as he himse
acknowledged in his speech they Wer
in 1907 and during a portion of 1870
nnring that period, he said, he had o.
nounced the disgraceful condltloh
4And there is no Kentuckian who love
his state" he added, who mas co
doned them"
The president Tuesday issued
proclamations in which 1t Is oec'al'
that under the new tariff law II
countries of Italy, Great Britain Ru
sia, Spain, Turkey and s~ltzeriai
are entitled to the minimum rates II
posed by that act.
The sixteen congressman who ma
presented bills for increasing the $
aries of the rural letter carriers ma
agreed upon the increase which Is
he asked. This is from SIS per NOM
the present pay, to $40 per month
standard routes of twenty-four MIL
and 81 per mile per month more
the route exceeds twenty-four mil
and 81 per month per mile less
the route is under twenty-four miles
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
Toast to a Bride.

This is a charming sentiment 10
send to a bride OIL her wedding day,
or may be given as a toast II the
right opportunity offers. There nave
been numerous requests for verse
of this Kind, and after careful search
ing | think is the best of all the ones
| have looked over lately:
TO A BRIDE.
All earthly goou l wish thee,
All good for thee and thine;
And still not ely earthly
But all that is divine
Nav e. tn and heaven mlngle,
Nav earth and heaven be one,
All through your earthly journey,
Till sets your earthly sun.
The heart that you have given,
The heart that's given to you,
Nav both re linked togetl.,r,
May both be good and true.
In sunshine and IL shadow,
In signing md in song,
| Nav heaven bless your union.
Throughout your whole life long,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
A Wond Ball Party.

This was a rainbow and wonder
ball party combined and it was
most delightful affair. There were
seven guests, all people who kne"
how to knit and in this age with the
revival of many of the lost arts (knlt-
ting amo"g them many young maids
and matrons know how to WELD the
needles in an expert manner. me
hostess produced balls, one OF each
of the rainbow colors, the guess tax
ing one from the pretty basket passed
by the little daughter of the house.
The object to be started was optional
"a pair of mittens for small child
a scarf. wee sweater, pair OF
knee pads; all these were commenced.
AS the knitting progressed, little "a
vors were unwound. The first one
was awarded a lovely box of home
made candy, the one who found her
treasures the last had a homemade
cako, beautifully iced
This party was given for friends
who did not play cards and cost ne
more than the average card party
The refreshment table was especial!
pretty; at each cover there was
tripod made of steel knitting needle
from which was suspended a we
brass kettle IDOL size) filled wit
sailed almonds. A chatting dish wa
used for creamed chicken and musf
rooms and there was coffee and choct
served in tall glasses with sma
cakes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
Tit-Bits for a Musicale Luncheon.

AS musicale luncheens and teas
seem to be the correct thing just now
The following quotations are appro-
pirate for menu cards or programs:
There's music in all things, if men had
ears.
Here we will sit and let the SOUNDS OF
music break on our ears.
Thus pass our joyous hours away,
With flowers, and music, books ana
friends.
7 am never merry when I hear sweet
music.
Some to the church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music
there.
Music exalts each JOY, allays each grief
And SOFTLY the delicate veil was heard.
Like the murmur of love or the notes o.
bird.
Music is nothing else but wild SOUNDS
civilized into tune and time
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

The oyster and shrimp cannery at
Morgan City has resumed operations,
after being shut down since September
20.
Judge Overton at Lake Charles ruled
that candy cannot be legally sold on
Sunday.
The question of boring a gas well at
the Monroe city water and light plant
was referred to a committee with power
to act.
The strawberry fields in the Amite
CITY section are in most magnificent
and flourishing condition. The crop IS
we'll cultivated, and the weather has
been very favorable. There is very
large increase in the acreage this sea-
son.
An insane negro woman started two
fires on the Gold Mine plantation neaf
Lucy, entailing loss Of $4,000.
At the city primary February 10 al
Crowley night policemen and scaven'
gers will be among those balloted for
Automobile owners of lberville par
ish organized to boost good roads.
Detroit interests purchased the prop
erty of the Cheny Lumber Company O
: Monroe, paying $4,000 for the same.
Il Work has been commenced at Collin
! ston on the dredging of tbs Coule
drainage canal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
The Evangeline Parish Case.

Lake Charles. The decision in the
Evangeline parish case by the supreme
conrt attracts much attention here, as
the divisionists of Caleasieu are again
preparing to go on the warpath. A Sc
eret conference of division leaders was
held at sulphura recently at which IT
was agreed to press for the division OF
Caleaseiu into five parishes, giving the
narish seats to Jennings, Oakdale, De.
Ridder and Sulphur. The supreme court
decision apparently ends the matter FOL
this year.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
DOM ESTlc.

Assistant Attorney General Waithaii
Friday received a charter for the Coie-
man, Llano & Southern Railway Com.
pany. concern with capital STOCK OIL
$4,000 which is to build from Cole'
man, Coleman County, to Brady NC
Culloeh County, thence to some point
In Comal County.
Fifteen men, three OF them Aheif
cans. were killed late Friday at FISH
kill Landing, N. Y, by a premature
explosion of nitroglycerin in a tunnei
which is to form part of the great aque-
duct which will carry water from the
Ashokan dam in the Catskills to New
York City.
A Texas inventor promises nylng
machine of his own construction, u
be on exhibition at the National Feed
ers and Breeders show at Fort WORTH
March IA to 10. He asserts that ne
can fly from Fort Worth to San An
tonic. 25O miles, in four hours.
By an instrument filed at Dallas Fri
day in the county clerks office, war
ranty deed so brief that the recordihs
fee was only 81, the Waters PIERCE vi
Company, by Robert ]. Eckhardt, re-
eeiver, conveyed to S. w. Fordyce al
the real and personal property OF the
Waters Pierce Oil Company in Texas
The consideration was 31,74l,7s
cash.
Tom Taggart of Indiana was accloeh
tally shot while hunting in Jeffersoi
County, Mississippi, Friday. He ma!
lose the sight of one eye. The shot wal
fred by w. Norton, private seeretar.
to Mr.. Taggart.
Elpedro Salonia, a prominent youn
citizen of Juarez, Mexico, fired wv
shots into his breast Friday at Ell Pase
Texas, and is reported dying. Disai
pointment in love is said to have bee
the cause.
Sam Sebert, Snowman, was Kliie
Friday by fellow prisoners in cell
the city Jail Of Argenta, Ark, a TO"
located directly across the river frol
Little Rock. He was beaten to deaf
Frank Morris is held by the coroner
Jury for the murder.
Mrs Mamie Haupke. bride OF on
six weeks, and who went to Baltimo
about six months ago from near Ut
weston. died Wednesday in st. J
seph's Hospital as the result OF drin
ing carbolc acid in mistake for ne
falgia medicine.
Maintaining the same brave attltu
that he has displayed ever since
vas first indicted, John h. wal
Wednesday began his fiye-year 81
lenee in the federal prison at Leave
worth, Kan, for misapplying the fun
81 the Chicago National Bank.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
tuberculosis Victims.

Shreveport. tuberculosis killed SO
negroes here in 1909, compared to AZ
in 1908. Less than a dozen white per,
sons died each year from consumption.
The total death rate was 12.l per cent
per 1000 inhabitants for 1909, on an
estimated population of 10000.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

The Pullman Company has received
from the Hartman lines an order for
Two thousand refrigerator cars. The
same roads have given an order for 20
600 tons Of steel rails to the Illinois
Steel Company.
Charges that Benjamin Thomas, for
mer president OF the Chicago and
Western Indiana Railroad; Charles R.
Kappes, former real estate dealer for
the road, and John c. Fetzer, all of
Chicago, obtained at least $S5O,000
from the railroad through a real es-
tate conspiracy, are made in a bill for
an accounting filed in the Circuit
Court Wednesday.
A merger of the resources of the in
terests of the Western Federation of
Miners (metaD and the United Mine
| Workers of Amrica (coaD, to embrace
all the organized workmen of the Unit
ed States and Canada, is in prospect
during the convention of the United
Mine Workers, now in session In In
dianapolis,
Mr.. R. H. Baker retiring president
of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Rail-
road, upon his return to the head
quarters of the road In Houston on
Wednesday, confirmed the report that
Mr.. ]. w. Robins, vice president and
general superintendent of the Rock
Islands Texas lines, has been ap
pointed to succeed him.
Eight million dollars were spent fol
the prevention and the treatmen
Of tuberculosis during the year 1909
according to the compilations jus
completed by the National Tubert 4lo
sis Association.
, In refusing the application of Jane
Charlton, county treasurer of Harrl
;. county, to compel R. B. Cousins Is
! sue to him a certificate showing tn
. amount of money apportioned to Ha
ris county as its share OF the avail
! able school fund, the Supreme Coul
Wednesday upheld the validity OF tn
d county depository act of the Thirt
II first. legislature.
y The sixth annual banquet of II
u Houston Bar Association of Harr
u county held Thursday night was II
lie largest and most brilliant in the h!
y tory of the organization.
IN IN The clock on Old Trinity which tel
- the time for everybody in the Wa
- street district is in the hands OF
20 pairer 1t ran down Wednesday tor {
~ first time in thirty years.
70 Ex-Gov.. Robert Lowry OF MISS
=. sippi died Wednesday at Jackson
N. ter a long illness. Robert Lowry W
born in Chesterfield District, Sou
Carolina, March 10, 1881.
ed There was an episode in the n
he York Stock Exchange Wedneso
rs. more spectacular in many respe
nd than the recent Rock Island mas
~. With a break of more than 81
points, the so-called Columbus
Hooking Coal and Iron pool V
we ~, smashed two Stock Exchange hou
' were forced to suspend, and the n
',e ket generally underwent severe
~ clines, involving the heaviest TRAD
ILL., sine the day of E. H. Harrlms
io' death. Total sales aggregated l'6
:, 500 shares.
II The controller of Texas this y
les les. collected from non-residents bel
Jan 1, 1910, s29,6s6.3o in taxes an
D. crease of .s2,S37.6O over the year l
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

To transfer design to handkeI6
mako clear tracing of it, rub
hlack.lead pencil over the BACK
tracing black side down on Manu. anu.
ohief then 90 over the design win 2
. .ana nencil a clear outline will be
left on handkerchief. ,a..
The design is not hard 10 comple'e'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

to pairs of-just pairs, you know.
OF little love pats one or t"o'
Or one squeezed land will do.
4 waist the size to be embraced.
And two ripe lipo-rose-red TO taste
And if the lips are soft and sweet
You'll find your happiness complete
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

vvERE is a pretty design in embrold-
I'll cry for ornamenting the corner OF
handkerchief, satinstitch with smail
dots for filing some of the leaves Is
worked with fine cotton a la cfolA'
rho nanels are two lines OF satin'
stitch, and in this initials are TO Dc
worked.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
"a Recipe for Happiness"

"A Recipe TOT HdppHTess'
The following came to the depart
ment. and as this is the season When
rules and suggestions for happiness
are in order we print it. The recipe
NAV be accompanied by water color
or pen and ink sketches. Here is the
recipe"
Take a hall dimly lit.
A pair of stairs where two may SIT
OF music soft bar or so:
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
OYSTER Beds Productive.

Lake Charles.-The output of oysters
from the beds at Cameron is increasing
It is estimated that they supply SO per
cent of those used in the local market.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-06-24
Fires Bad

Several severe forest fires are
raging in the vicinity of Robinson
Lake while another bad fire is rag
ing East of Fall Lake. Reports
show that the fires southeast, in
the Stoney River countrd are very
bad and much timber is being des-
troyed while those north are not
so bad. Tuesday the city was en-
veloped with dense smoke and the
sun was obscure in the afternoon.
Wednesday evening a heavy rain
fell for about an hour and srnoth-
cred few of the small fires and
cooled off the town for the night.