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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

A Chicago professor says that lack
Of money is the bane of wedlock. IN
the matter Of feeling this lack as "
haue, wedlock has plenty of company
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

We are told that Russia has hurried le
smother. ultimatum at China II t.s
czar keeps on he won't have any ui''
matums left.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

At the same time we are ioFcea W
admire the bravery of those young
women who walk abroad IN na'o"
ekirts.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

Automobiles to the number OF 4ov..
900 are fitting here and there IN this
country, but all their fitting does ho'
reduce the cost of mules.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

The Los Angeles man who was SEM
n iail for 80 days for smiling az .
strange woman evidently does not se'
the point OF the joke.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

We see by the papers that France
,s facing crisis. 1t strikes US 'nS a"
facing crisis 10 a chronic disease -
France.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

Wagner in English is promised ~,
,sv+ season. We can't understand
uhv The words are always unm'ef
ligibIe, anyhow.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

Those Chicago crooks who stole .
900 pound safe In the dead OF nrsn. J.
evidently missed their calling Ane'
should have been piano movers'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

Along with taxing bachelors why
not give away a marriage license us
1uxe and a first payment on paf'o'
sat
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

And the industrious COW mas an .s.
her place in the hall OF 'a"s
the industrious hen.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

The farmer, unlike the 0ohsu'n'''
v,es 20 seed in the spring.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

According to an English professor,
.sa human race is 40 900 years old. IL
hasn't much sense for Its age
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

Missouri has the corncob pipe re
ord. This, however is not 'e
as q sporting event.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

The average life Of a statesman IL 10
said to be II years. This doesn
necessarily conflict with the old the
orv that the good die young.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

.4srhe harem skirt ought TO 1901 INV
mouse some,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

Love is love-" opines an e1pe.'
on neurology, name unknown LAKE,.
wise pigs Is pigs and pruneS "
prunes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

Now Wellesley proposes 70 ra'S.
cats for laboratory purposes w."
utilize them for the glee club Also
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

twenty-five million persons s"oAss
Missouri corncob pipes last year a
half Of them borrowed the topaeso
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

The witchcraft Of 200 years ago 70
now called malignant amman m1 l
t,sm and It IS the same old aruc's
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28

Soon again the housetiy will engage
attention as an enemy to MANKIND
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-28
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Evening journal., 1911-08-01
FORMS OF PETTY GRAET.

A BREEZY westerner has gone to New York
for the purpose of organizing Housewives
Protective Association against swndling trades
men. IL is planned to have the housewives weigh
the supplies as received from the grocer butcher
iceman and others and report any shortage they
may find as well as any overweight, for instances
frequently occur where tht tradesman gives over
weight
Such an organization not only in New York
but in other cities would make quick work of
tradesmen who thrive by defrauding their Gus
toners. With an organization of this kind
tradesman who cheated would soon be known and
his reputation for fraud would be established He
would he quietly boycotted, while on the other
hand the fair tradesman would reap much benefit
We should think II would be we'll for the honest
tradesmen TO support such an association 1t
would increase their own trade. for many people
however careless and Indifferent the rest Of them
would be, would patronize the tradesmsn that
gave them a fair deal
With complaints about short weights has arisen
an extensive form of grating of which rich or
well-to-do persons victims One instaace we
recall is that of woman in lower Delaware town
who was about to buy carriage After little
parey the carriage maker told her he had re-
ceived letter from her hired man" saying that
II there was something in it, for him, he could
crack up the carriage so that his employer would
take it. The woman doubted whether her "hired
man had written the letter, for she did not think
he would be up to such tricks But the letter was
shown her and the hired man afterwards explained
that some of his city friends" had put him ND to
writing the letter for that was the way things
we're done in the city" The country hired man
was not so slow" as he looked
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
THE FAnnIsTs.s

~ ENOUNCING the Public Utilities Commits
ID sion law our conservative contemporary
SAYS that the enactment of the law was simply a
surrender by the Legislature to the demands of
theorists and fsddists, who hold that statute law
should be employed for the regulation OF all human
affairs regardless of the sound principles of
business or rights of property
How delightful this all is. Senator Monaghan
OF this city, the Hon. A. b, Moore and other mem
bers OF the Legislature who favored the bill and
urged its passage are theorists and faddists
They are in good company. In the list OF theor-
fets and faddists must be included Justice Hughes
Of the Supreme Court of the United States and the
Public Utilities Commissioners of New York. The
Massachusetts, advocates OF Public Utilities Com
missions are theorists and faddsts And so is
President Vail, the head Of the Bell Telephone
Company All states which have public utilities
commissions have weakly yielded to the demands
of impractcables
Every Public Utilities Commission if it is con
Quoted properly, is a practical thing, those
who have had dealings with them know.
The Public Utilities Commission law has al
ready accomplished considerable good The mere
fact that there is such a commission is Of great
moral effect.
And by the way the Public Utilities Commits
sion will have some say about the express COM
panes that DO business in this city That of itself
is good.
The commissioners viii act as brake on fran.
chse seekers. Another very fine point is that u
the commissioners do their duty in this respect
believe they will, there will be no more spec
sslstive franchises. No doubt the Public Service
corporations appreciate this fact, for they know
that the occupation is gone of Spectators who ma,
stfempf tc hold them up threatening 10 start in
opposition unless the present companies come tc
terms.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
GOULD HARDLY BE WORSE.

n NE would think that il any counties in the
" country would want good roads, Delaware
and Chester counties, Pennsylvania, would be-
among them They are rich in almost every kind
of wealth long settled with desirable people.
Yet in some parts Of Chester county are stretches
Of the roads bad as any that we have seen.
There could hardly be anything worse in Kent or
Sussex county and we have done considerable
growing about some of the roads in Kent and
Sussex.
Between here and West Chester in Pennsylvania
is stretch of road that would certainly be blue
ribbon winner in bad road exposition. In dry
weather il is almost impossible, and what it would
be in wet weather can only be imagined. This
stretch of bad road destroys the pleasure of trip
from Wilmington West Chester. We hope that
none of the Chester county road builders will ever
be called on TO build roads in Delaware yet
We should take part of that back, for the road
above Caymont, just before the Pennsylvania line
is reached would rival the Chester county road in
bad highway exhibit.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
LOST ON THE LAKE.

Our British cousins have been ac-
cused of being devoid Of humor for SO
long that the following yarn is told
to remove the imputation in a mea-
sure. Not so very long ago an Eng
lishman. just across, visited Sand
point, one of the large numbering
towns In the Northwest. Practically
the entire town and country are own
ed by the Humbird Lumber Company.
The Englishman was taken out into
the great pine forests, where immense
white pines tower on every side.
ITO whom does this forest be
longT he asked
ITO the Humbird Lumber Com
pany," was the answer.
He was shown through the large
lumber plant and informed that Il be-
longed to the HUNDREDS. The fine
bank building, the great department
store. rows upon rows OF dwelling
houses, all belonging to the same cor
poration.
As a crowning treat he was taken
for a spin around Lake Pend Oreille
in a swift launch Upon their return.
while standing upon the dock, he said
May I ask who owns this lakeT'
"Oh. IL belongs TO Cod
"Aw, really. is that so? Now would
you mind telling me how he managed
TO get It away from Mr. Humbird-"-
! Cutinn Mazazins
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
NE Nv NE w S
OF YES TERDAY
THE CRUCIAL INCIDENT OF A Stirring CAREER.

Major General Grenville M. Dodge,
with the exception of Major General
Daniel E. Sickles, is the only survivor
of all the generals who served as corps
commanders in the Union Army from
the outbreak Of the Civil War to its
close In the history of the material
development of the country be occu-
pies a prominent place as the chief en-
gineer of the Union Pacific who super
vised the construction of that first rail
road across the plains, and no ro-
nance Of fiction can be compared with
the story of General Dodge's career
while he WAS constructing the railroad.
That period of his life was crowded
with fights with Indians, rattlesnakes,
buffalo, mountain lions, grizzly bears
and other big game.
General Dodge and 1 nave been on
terms of friendship for nearly thirty
years" said George f. Parker, the BIZ
ographer of Grover Cleveland, recent
ly, "and ! believe there are only three
men living who know the true story Of
General Dodge's advent in the west as
railway engineer. OF course. the Gem
eral himself is one of the three, aud
dhOiutf ID Itiei a Ley lue ltISi ndu
TO survey railroad in the State OF
Iowa. and the first chief engineer of
the Union Pacific Railroad Both Mr.
Dey and General Dodge are spending
their closing years in Iowa, aud they
maintain the closest friendly relations,
which began sixty years ago. at the
very beginning of General Dodge's ca
reer in the west
"In the early fifties what is now the
Illinois Central Railroad was con-
structing a small branch line i'm the
western part of middle Illinois. The
engineer in charge was Peter A. Dey
who had been conspicuously associated
with those who a little earlier had
built the main line Of the Illinois Cen
trail For some ,reason--I know not
what-Mr Dey had great difficulty III
maintaining any kind of order or sys-
tenn among the men who had been EN-
ployed as laborers or In subordinate
capacity to build this branch line. They
we're unruly and defiant; they worked
when they pleased and got drunk as
often as they chose. Mr.. Dey's duties
frequently called him to the main line
of the Illinois Central and he was in
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
I" H 0 L L A N D"

despair of securing any one who could
handle the rowdies.
AT the height of the difficulty, there
called upon Mr. Dey young man seek
ing employment. He was tall, straight
as pine tree and dark-eyed, and his
manner was inherently that of one
who kew how to exert authority.
Mr. Dey asked him what he could
do and in reply the stranger said that
he was a civil engineer and had been
graduated at Norwich University, in
Vermont, a year earlier.
What is your nameY Mr.. Dey
asked.
" 'Grenville Mellen Dodge
Well said Mr.. Dey If you have a
diploma from Norwich University you
are competent to take charge of the
surveying of my branch line. But what
want to know is, can you handle
men?'
Try me and see, was Mr.. Dodge's
succinct reply.
You are pretty young, said Mr..
Dey, looking him over critically. but
I'll try you
$50 he employed Grenville M. Dodge
and watched him closely. Within a
week the young man had the rowdies
under his control. Those that he could
not manage because of their exces-
sive drunkenness he sent away. In d
month he had as orderly and efficient
a gang of wOrkmen as was TO be found
anywhere in the West; and he also had
gained what was of lifelong advantage
TO him-the confidence and esteem OF
Peter A. Dey So, when Mr.. Dey was
employed to survey for the extension
of the Rock Island Railroad across
Iowa-the first of the States railroads
he sent for Grenville NJ Dodge and
associated Mr.. Dodge with him in thai
great work
Then the Civil War interyened and
the young surveyor became a major
general of volunteers when only thir.
ty-three years of age. His fighting
career over. Peter Dey employed Gen
eral Dodge to help him survey the
Union Pacific. As long as Mr.. Dey re-
mained chief engineer of that road
General Dodge was a trusted assistant
and when Mr.. Dey resigned his pos
General Dodge understood so we'll tn
engineering problems Of the road that
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
TUESDAY. AUG !. 1911
ARDEN.

~~HE activity OF Philosophical Anarchist
L George Brown, OF Arden, has certainly placed
the colony very conspicuously on the map II the
Hon George Brown should be ousted from his
shack at Arden we should be glad TO recommend
him as an expert press agent Of more than ordin-
ary ability No man has enjoyed the disturbance
more than Brown, and although some OF the more
conservative folk at Arden fear that the racket
will operate 10 the detriment OF the colony, we
hardly think So More persons Of boiling brains
will want TO live at Arden than ever before.
Brown has succeeded in bringing Arden inn
pressvely to the notice Of Delawsreans. Even
chorus Of ]acobn songs could be sung at Arden
without raising a commoton in other parts OF
the state But Browns stunt has stirred them
up.
Cannot YOU imagine how some OF our strictly
conservative folks, in the lower counties espee-
iay, must be wondering what strange aggrega-
ton Of people there must be at Arden II would
be revelation TO many OF them TO visit Arden,
and they might wonder why Delaware was selected
as place for the colony.
In looking for locations, however, the founders
OF the colony knew a good thing-ust another
token that Delaware is often appreciated more by
outsiders than by ourselves as a desirable place
in which TO live
man can find all sorts Of opinions on ali sorts
OF topics at Arden. II he cannot find them IN any
other part Of Delaware, but for the assurance Of
tmid folk might add that there are no bomb
throwers at Arden and the community is not dan
gerous rather peaceful in fact except the war
OF words which is continually going on there.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
Stories of the Day
POOR RECoMMENDATI0N

A young Scotchman living in Lon
don married a beautiful and talented
Englishwoman. of whom he was just
ly proud. Not long after his mar
riage he went TO Scotland on a flying
trip to see an old bachelor uncle.
"Weel, Tammas, We have gotten a
wife" said the old gentleman, nov
what can she do, lad?"
DOL echoed "Tammas."
Yes, do repeated his uncle, firm
". Can she sew on your buttons an
max your porritch an your scenes ??
"Oh. no she doesn't know how to do
those things said "Tammas." But
she has the loveliest voice that ever
you heard She's a grand singer"
"Hoot, mon!" cried his uncle indig-
nantly. Gould you nae get a canary
In Lunnon ?"-Youth's Companion.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
:: Personal and Pertinent :.


Three dollars minuteg" said the youth who had
asked the long gdistance telephone rate between him
and the lady fair.
Yes, sir" said the telephone clerk
Il guess I'm not speaking terms with her" sigh
ed the youth, sadly counting the $3.50 in his purse
Detroit Saturday Night.
.-.-.-.
An American college youth stopped for refreshment
at the little inn on top OF Sonnenberg. in Switzerland
and asked the petite waitress for beer
Blonde or brunetteY she asked, after the custom Of
the country.
"A little blonde for mine" he replied with Just
touch Of peroxide TO make it seem natural "-Judee
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
:: With the Paragraphers j.:

The courts have forbidden Nat Goodwin to remarry
ia New York St there so many other states
that Nat insists upon taking the advantage again he
will not need TO care what the New York law ssys-
Baltimore News
OF course the odfashioned belle may have walked
barefoot half way 70 church TO keep from spelling her
Sunday shoes, but she didn't put her coifure in the
bureau drawer when she went to bed-Galveston
News
heat wave has struck Alaska and the glaciers are
melting rapidly You simply cant keep the ice trust
from diminishing the Washington Post.
Some of the Atlantic City girls are not SO bad az
they painted--Dovar NAs---
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
THE DRUGGIST KNEW
FROM EXPERIENCE,

l have been selling DR.. Kilmsr's
Swamp-Root for the past three years
and those Of my customers who buy
It. speak favorably regarding it. |
have used it in my own family With
good results. and / believe the prop
aration has great curative value. You
may use this as you like
Very respectfully,
c. B. RUPE & SON,
BY c. B. Rupe, Mgr,
Seymour, Texas.
Personally appeared before me this
Goth day of July, 1909. c. B. Rups,
Druggist, who subscribed the above
statement and made oath that the
same is true in substance and in fac'A
R. G. JAMES,
J. P. and Ex-Oficio.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
PARTTsANsHIP CUT OuT.

IT HERE should be absolutely no partisanship in
Il the business of the Public Utilities Commits
sion. Party politics is not involved in the slight
est manner. II should be strictly business body,
and we believe il will be 1.-the way through
We have no doubt that the commissioners will
resent political dctation should it be attempted
The commission has politicians among its men,
bers and in this respect the Mayor has lived up to
his promises as TO business-like administration
of the affairs of the city is concerned.
The members of the commission should regard
their duties entirely as they should regard posi-
tons of trust in business firm or corporation.
Absolutely nothing should be done that has a tinge
Of partisanship about it, If psrtisanship should
creep in in any manner, shape or form, the use
fulness of the commission would be impaired.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

All sorts OF funny ideas are expressed as TO the
Public Utilities Commission Some persons talk
about extremists on one side or the other Others
say that so and so could not have been appointed
because he was opposed to corporations" How
foolish it is. No sensible man is opposed to cor
porations. He may be opposed to abuses by pub
lie service corporations or by any other corpora
tions, but the business Of the world must be con-
Quoted largely by corporations.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

In many respects the Public Utilities Commits
sion is an experiment II is almost the only pie
in Delaware in which the lawyers have no finger
and naturally this has caused some comment on
the part of attorneys IT, however, the commits
sioners need legal advice they get it, Tho
legal department of the city should be able to fur
nish such advice as is needed without expense TO
the tax PAYERS
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
Letter to
DR.. Kilmer g. Co.,
Binghamton. n. Y.

Prove What Swamp.ROot win Do
For You.
Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, n. Y, for a sample bottle. II
will convince anyone. You will also
receive a booklet OF valuable infor-
nation, telling all about the kidneys
and bladder. When writing. be sure
and mention the Wilmington Even
ing Journal. Regular fifty-cent and
one-dollar size bottles for sale at all
drug stores.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

The newspaper press OF the country is depicted
in cartoon in American industries" as chained
TO the American Federation Of Labor with Mr.
Gompers holding the rope. The Socialists and the
Radicals say the press is capitalistc. Altogether
ii is hard TO please all persons but presume the
newspapers will 60 on conducting their business
gardlesS Of whether they please the American Fed
Grafton of Labor or american Industries"
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

he was made chief engineer. And 10
this day Mr. Dey is of the opinion that
If Grenville NJ Dodge had not shown
himself equal to the first opportunity
that came to him to prove his ability
to handle men--desperate men-he
would never have ultimately gained
permanent laurels by his work in sur
veying the Union Pacific and supervis-
ing its construction"
Copyright, 1911. by 2. J. Edwards. All
rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell Of
"A C0urtship That Compares with
Jerry Lind's."
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
IMPROVING B. AND o. ROAD.

Owing to the large number of ex-
cursions to Brandywine Springs. tho
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has large force Of men at
work laying new ties and new tracks
on the Landenberg division.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

The Sussex Republican speaks Of mosquitoes as
numerous at Sockum. Have they all left George
town?
Evening journal., 1911-08-01
GUNPOwDER AND KID
JACQUES IN ARDEN.

And pulling dial from his poke,
He looked upon it with lackluster eye,
Saying. very wisely: TT is time to
talk.
Tis but an hour since an that
talked,
And after one hour more I'll talk
again.
Thus we may see," quoth he, how
the tongue wags
And so from hour TO hour we talk
and talk,
And then from hour TO hour we talk
some more,
And thereby hangs fest"
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

The Association Of
Il ! American Advsrts
The Association of American is composed Of
AAvsrsissrs (Nsw York City has A. 49,. INC sss. Sosn
,xammsd and certified 10 the circulation y Associs
~ this pnhcation Ony the figures OF ton endorses only
esrcuaoo contained In itA fspert are & \, IN. sssirs
Euarantsea b. enc Associations. I ton a. any moment
2ffMh 4 and positive proof
INN ~ a AkfN(A be submitted
EAQtV n 4 accompanying
I t4as III n 9sri1-4s. 4 certificate No. t12
A. - NsA-AAes-< has been Issued 70
this paper
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

Some eminent paraphraser has said
that figures do not lie, yet our OBJ
servation of certain gowns worn by
certain otherwise perfectly good fig
Iures would lead US to the opinion that
a little prevarication might help some.
r. S. Won lnnes.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

Nov Dorothy Arnold's family. goes
10 Italy 10 find her Az last reports
from them she was still dead.
Evening journal., 1911-08-01

II it is any Of their business one
Of the things the new Public Utilities
Commission might view with certain
advantage to pedestrians and some
alarm TO the members Of that newly
created body is why the police de-
partment pay so little attention to the
attitude Of automobilists i'm relation
to people alighting from street cars.
An hour spent at Eighth and Market
streets any evening from 5 to s
o'clock might furnish an object les
SON.