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The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
CLEAN UP DAY.

1t will be remembered that the first
Monday in each month in Welsh will be
clean UP day. The first day to be OBJ.
served will be Monday, September 7th.
Every business place and every resi-.
nent of the town is called upon TO
observe the day by cleaning up the
premises that day and collecting the
trash or waste in sacks or boxes and
place the same at some convenient
place On the premises. The town
wagon will 90 round Tuesday morning
and haul off the trash free Of cost to
the individual.
The proper observation of this day
ought to heartily commend itself to
every citizen Of the town. The sani.
tary work of the town is fundamental
in health conditions OF the people. 1t
is just now the season when this work
is most needed, and it is hoped there
Will De nearly response 10 tuiS WOih.
The Ladies OF the Civic League have
taken up the campaign and are making
a personal appeal to the people to
observe the day. Every citizen is
urged especially to cut the grass be.
tween the yard and the side walks. y e
understand there is a town ordinance
on this subject. All cans, waste, trash,
ETC.. under and about the house and
yards should be gathered up and
placed as above suggested. BY a
united effort along this line the town
will soon very largely rid itself of one
of the greatest sources Of disease,
besides adding a great deal to the ap.
pearance Of the town.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
Proclamation

Acting in conformity with the rules
and regulations Of the State Board of
Health and in behalf of the health in.
tereStS of onr community, as Mayor
of the town of Welsh do hereby name
and designate the first Monday in each
month beginning with Monday Septem.
Der the 7th to be known as Clean up
Day"
/ urge every place of business and
every householder to cooperate in this
work on the day named. Gather up all
trash, waste rubbish, cans, etc. about
the premises and place the same IN
boxes at some convenient place on the
premises on that day. The town gar.
bage wagon will call on the following
morning and haul off the same free of
charge.
You are urged to join in this work,
Keep in mind the day in each month
and aid in our clean up campaign.
RS. GREER, Mayor.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
GROSELE TOPICS.
Fenton, La, August 27, 1914.

FGltoH, Id, august u, 1919.
Light rains every day, rice farmers
who are cutting Honduras are making
very slow headWay. The condition of
the weather for the last few DAYS
brings back memory of last falls har.
vest. Some farmers express themselves
as being afraid that the harvest may
be wet.
Mr. F. L. Peloquin of Fenton made
flying trip to Welsh Monday, for win.
doWS and doors for the Hebert school
house that was few weeks ago blown
from its blocks, and the lights and doors
all broken. The Taught Lumber Co.
o. Welsh being out of the size of win.
dOWS needed, the trip was for naught.
Mr.. Adam Hebert who has been spend
ing a week at the Gulf, returned Sat.
urday and reports having enjoyed the
trip fine. Mr.. Hebert claims that fish,
crab, oysters and game very plentiful,
and that the salt water and his appetite
Just suited fish, oysters, Crab" and game.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Hebert of neal
Fenton spent Saturday and Sunday
near Indian Village on the river. Mr.
Hebert reports some of the farmers on
the Calcasieu now gathering their corn.
Both fine in quality and yield.
Mr.. Alex Miller and wife spent Sattlr.
day and Sunday the guest OF Mrs. Nil.
Ier'S father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
Collins Heberr of the NJ. o. Canal dis
trict.
Mr.. Editor, we have sweet 'taters
out here and they are just fine. Better
come get mess. I'm good too these
HARD TIMES.
How about the Journal ringing up
Miss Sarah Jane and finding out how
her Paws garden is and let us know
next week, 0, Where is Sarah Jane?
Mr. Mat Miller Of Elton who is spend
ing the harvest season with his father.
ln.laW Mr. Mike 'Hebert near Fenton,
says MIR. Editor let me be on your sub.
Scription list for one year to the Twice.
a'Weak journal, it will give me the
war news, twice week and the Parish
Proceedings, and the outcome of the
Court House and Jail suit, and rainy
day company.
Mr., Octave iPeloQuin made a flying
trip down the CalcaSieu River Bank
Friday and returned via the Wa tkins
Saturday 3 p. m.
Mrs. A. V. PeloQvin and little daugh.
ter Kate of Fenton were visiting rela.
tives and friends near Elton Saturday
and Sunday.
MIR T. S. Langley, prominent stock
man of our Parish has force OF men
at work on his dipping vat at his home
about or s miles north of Welsh.
We are just now realizing the Gen
eral effects OF Charbon. The harvest is
at hand and the demand for mules has
started. VIM. Fenton and Baker have
bought four fine ones we understand,
and Mr.. Frank Fenton is looking over
some teams, and several of the smaller
farmers are buying, hiring and renting
teams and some are going in what we
call cohootS, in other words two farm.
erS mixing teams to save both crops,
and some will probably be at the mercy
Of others to save their crops at all.
B. A. HOG.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
Not So Strange After All.

You may think it strange that so
many people are cured by Chamberlain
Tablets. You would not, however, if
you should give them trial. Thev
strengthen and invigorate the stomach
and enable it to perform its functions
naturally. Mrs. Rosie RiSh, Wabash,
Ind, writes, Nothing did me the least
good until began using Chamberlan's
Tablets. it is decidedly the best medi.
cine for stomach trouble have ever
used" For sale by All Dealers Adv.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
For Sale At a Bargain,

One Gar Scott 29x56 Separator, prac.
tically new, ha wing threshed less than
three thousand bags Of rice. This rig
is complete with feeder, wind stacker
and bagger; also one good twenty-five
horse power Buffalo Pitts engine, Ap.
ply to the Bunkie Carriage & Imple
ment Co.. Bunkie. La.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
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The twenty Year Test

"Some twenty years ago used Cham
berlain'S Collie, Cholera and Dlarrhoea
Remedy" writes Geo, W. Brock, pub.
Usher of the Enterprise, Aberdeen, Md
Il discovered that it was quick and
safe cure for diarrhoea. ssince then no
one can sell me anything said to be Just
as good During all these years have
used 1t and recommended it many times
and Il has never disappointed anyone.
Forsale by ALI Dealers ADV.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
SOUTHERN MERCANTILE CO., LTD.

WHEREAS: John H. Cooper, Re.
ceivef of the Southern Mercantile Co.,
Limited, Of said Parish, has filed his
First Provisional Account and Tableau,
accompanied by his petition, in the
Office of the Clerk Of said Court, apply.
ing to have said account and Tableau
homologated in said above mentioned
and entitled cause.
NOW, THEREFORE,, public notice is
hereby given to all parties interested
to show cause if any they have, in
writing, within ten days from the pub.
lication hereof, why said application
should not he granted, and said
homologation made as prayed for.
WITNESS, the HonorabIes Winston
OVerton and Alfred M, Barbe, Judges
OF said Court, at Jennings, La, this
oath day of August, A. D., 1914,
l. R. PRICE,
Clerk of Said Court.
Mccoy, Moss & Knox,
Attorneys. 17.19.21
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot reasR
the diseased portion of the ear, There Is
only one way to cure deafness, and that b
by constitutional remedies Deafness is
cansed by an h1amed condition of the rnp-
coas lining OF the Eustachian Tube When
this tube is infiamed you have runbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it in
entirely closed. Deafness is the result and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
ana this tube restored to its normal oondt-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever: nine
cases out OF ten are caused by Catags6al
OF the mucous surfaces
We Will give One Hundred Dollars fop ana
case OF Deafness (caused by catarrhl tfH1S
cannot be cured by Halls Casaeuh GnHss
Send for circulars. free. I'VE
3 J.. CHENEY q CO., Toledp, psln
Sold bF Druggists. go
Take Halls FanAly Pills for constipation
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
Excursion

There will be an excursion to Lake
Charles on Sunday August the 3Oth.
From Roanoke 1922 a. m. so cents.
Welsh 1888 a. m. so cents.
" Iowa 1880 a. m. so cents.
Returning from Lake Charles the
same day at 73O p. m.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
No. SiX-SiXty-SiX
1882

This is prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five Or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will moi
return. 1t acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not sripe or sicken. 25s
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
Tree Of Life

Living on the tree of life, and eating
OF the fruit thereof. was living in the
essence of love, the inmost life and
force of all existence.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
OF Course Not.

No man would lose his reputation ii
ne took as good care of it as he does
OF his meerschaum pipe.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
Yruyn or the m4trer,

Dey amt no lion in de way at all:
it's des some ole sin you tried ter hide
dat's waitin' fer you wnar de road
turns.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Rice belt journal., 1914-08-28
Notice of First Provisional Account

State of Louisiana, Parish of jefferson
Davis; Fifteenth judicial
District Court.
No. 349 CIVIL DOCKET.
HEISIG & NORVELL, INC.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24
those who still love tenderly the dear ones from

those who still love tendery the dear ones from
whom they parted.
This should all tend to make Christmas time a
season of earnest thought that regrets for the
past may not be vain ones or fraught with heart
breaking despair, but prove rather az inspiration
to new resolves for the future that it may be
guarded against like failure This Christmas you
are in prison, but next Christmas many of you will
be free again. What is that freedom going to
mean to your dear ones? Will it mean a
home ring with good cheer, wife with the bur-
den lifted from her shoulders, little ones thankful
that papa is home dear old mother with smiles
on her face wiping out the memory of the lines of
care and the rain of tears?
Perhaps there are some of you who have not
these home ties and these home thoughts, but to
you ALL Christmas means something, and that
something in the future should be good and worth
while.
There is another thought that should be very
much before us at the Christmas season. We
sometimes lose sight of the fact that it is Christs
feast, really His birthday celebration. Somehow
on that day the world seems filled with the thought
of gift giving, but the gifts for friends,
our dear ones and our neighbors. Gifts to every
one but to the Christ Himself. Dear comrades,
there is only one gift for which He asks, and that
one we all can give, the gift of our hearts. They
are poor, frail, Sustained things many of them;
they have been weak where they should have been
strong; they have been selfish where they should
have been filled with love, but He wants them just
as they are for what He can make out of them by
His wonder working touch.
pray for you, my friends, that at this Christ
mas, far from home and loved ones, lonely and
perhaps sad and discouraged, each one of you may
turn to Him and bring to Him the gift He asks.
Let us think not only of Gods star of hope, but
also of that dear sacrifice of supreme love that
ended what he began at Bethlehem in the last
browning gift, His sacrifice to Calvary
May this new year bring to you new expert
ence, new hope and new determination for right
living. Truly, new era has dawned for those
within the wallis but that new era can only help
them as they themselves rise up to make the most
of it.
Believe me, very truly your Friend and Little
Mother, MAUD DARLINGTON BOOTH.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER
Bv II. Nobody

H..
This, 0 Christ, is our prayer to Thee this
Thy day:
Unite our voice with the voices of many
Mothers who on this day plead that share of
Thy grace be given unto their absent sons and
daughters-for we plead that whatever little share
of joy, of mercy, of fellowship, of peace that is
ours by Thy gift shall be gave unto those outside
of prison gates We pray favor for the Army
of the Predestined Lost-those who will SHARE
not the joy, but the gloom of Christmas, unless Thy
voice 60 deep in the heart of men higher up. In
the name of wandering Star pray Thee today
for wandering men. In the name of the Angels
Song we pray Thee today for angels who fell. In
the name of Child we pray for the children whose
Christmas is but heart-break.
So will it that every little Window Wisher,''
who stand at toy windows and pick out their new
er-to-be-realzed toys, will meet with Samaritans
who will make their hopes real.
So will it that the homeless, in cities of many
homes, may find some refuge-some haven of
rest that they be immune from the sckenng mel
ancholy of Gloon Christmas So will it that
the great humanizing influence of Thy forgiveness,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24

wav prison. reformatory, or correctional institu-
ton gives broad field for studying human nature)
the more firmly will they be convinced that mans
position in life depends largely upon circumstances.
True enuf we see reflected in the lives of so-caled
criminals the darker side of human nature; but
there is no logical reason that why anyone
should think, for moment, that the better, finer
and nobler part of nature should be absent. The
only difference we can see between good and bad
man is the UNEQUAL development of both sides OF
human nature, and that circumstances has much to
do with the formation of character. Of this there
can be no doubt, as the histories and lives of emn'
ent men furnishes numerous examples of this fact.
1t has been turn here and some unfortunate
renee there, which has changed the whole current
of certain lives People do not become good or bad
in day. it is only by degrees this that side
Of nature is stimulated by contact with opposite in
other persons. This rule, however Ike all others.
admits of exceptions; for there persons who in
spite Of adverse circumstances WILL by force of will
form and and mould their own characters. But
what is medicine for one. is poison for another so
sayetn the sage.
But to get back to the subject, the prisoner is not
monster, but rather unfortunate member of the
human family, largely victim of circumstances.
Like others in this great world they have had,
most of them least, bright prospects before them
when thots. of disgrace and ruin for from
them. In their prosperity. while fortune smiled
them, they, unconcious Of the effect their action
would have their future lives, were sowing their
wild oats" in liberal quantities, only to reap the
fruit OF remorse, when the turning point was
reached
10 those who regard the prisoner being to-
tally depraved being we would say: imagine your
self placed in such circumstances as would tend to
develope side of your nature to degree that
would weaken and have deadening effect on the
other, and you will readily see, that it is not the
absence of the higher nature that places among
the fallen, but that mere force of circumstances
has helped to make him what he is in almost every
case.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24
MRS. BOOTHS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, the Little Moth
er to the men and women behind the walls through
out the land, has sent us message of cheer. The
inmates will long remember Mrs. Booths inspiring
message she left with us when here at the insttu-
ton last October.
Mrs Booth is truly friend and Little Mother
to those in ''durance vile" and she never forgets
'her boys who need ray of sunshine around
them to keep hope alive, whenever the time pre-
sents itself to send word of hope and cheer to
them.
We are glad to have the opportunity of print
ing the following inspiring message, and we in
turn ask Mrs. Booth to believe us to be grateful
to her for her thoughtfulness of her boys" in
this prison. We can assure the Little Mother
that her message will bring renewed hope into the
hearts of all, both in and out of prison. The iu-
mates all join in wishing the Little Mother very
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
The Little Mothers message follows:
My Dear Friends and Comrades:
am glad to take this opportunity of wishing
you good Christmas and glad New Year. In my
long years of friendship with the boys behind the
walls have learned to understand something of
the heart-ache and burden they carry and l think
/ can sympathze.
Ibis must be to many season OF memories and
God knows the sweetest memories when they come
back through prison bars are often alleged and
embittered by regret and make the contrast of
present loneliness little harder to bear. We love
to think of the old home with Mother and loved
ones around the dinner table, but to look at that
memory through iron bars makes them seem hard
er and sterner and the little stone walled cell seems
bleaker by contrast. Then there is also to many a
keen realization of the shadow that they have cast
over their home; the little stockings that may be
empty because papa is away, the need and cold and
disappointment to their loved ones at the season
when those around them are rejoicing and feasting.
know we'll what such thoughts must mean to
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24
A MESSAGE FROM c. E. VASALY

Hon. Chas. E. Vasaly, chairman of the State
Board of Parole, has sent the Mirror the following
message:
The particular message have in mind for the
inmates is the need of each ones doing his best for
the sake of all. While this is particularly neces-
sary with the paroled men, who are jeopardizing
the welfare of their brethren when they wilfuly
violate PAROLE and who establish the parole system
strongly in the goodwill of the people when it is
seen to make men sober, steady and honest, it is
also necessary within the walls. An atmosphere
of distrust, suspicion and selfishness is bad for
body and soul; while to be cheerful hopeful, pa
tient, resolving to do ones best no matter how sad
the circumstances may be, will be beneficial to all
as well as to the individual
The Christmas season commentaries One who
loved all the unfortunate whether in or out of
prison. and it is because of Him that rays of light
penetrate through and through the walls
The following verses by Howard Walter ex-
presses what believe is we'll for all of US to re-
member through this season and all the coming
years:
l would be true for there are those who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are those who care;
l would be strong, fer there is much to suffer;
/ would be brave, for there is much to dare;
| would be friend of a-the foe-the friendless
1 woudabe giving, and forget the gift;
l would be humble, for know my weakness;
l would look up-and laugh-and Iove-and lift.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24

toward she who broke the purity law, may work
its way into the hearts of white-souled women. so
that they may see the white soul of their
scarlet sisters on the city streets.
Poor, little crimson shadows, on this, Thy
night, O Christ, is their night of thousand re-
grets
so will it that the holy mystery of Christmas
be as spur to all who boast home-a spur that
will send them out upon the highways and byways
offering to all aliens from the home-hearth.
So will it that the joyful inspired may look out
upon the sea of life, to notice the broken hulks of
beaten men who have launched their frail craft up
on an almost shoreless sea. May the Peace on
Earth" message ring in the hearts of more sue
cessful men that they cry out to the drifting ones:
There is Portion you. ''You know what it is, %
Christ, this battling about alone-You went
through it.
You know what it is to hunger; to fare out in
the bitter night to have nowhere to lay your head
And because you have been as one of these whom
we pray for, we ask that Thou will let mercy from
above rain down on all complex lives.
Whatever grace Thou hast placed against our
name give it unto the men and women outside of
the walls-those who battle to gain foothold that
they may not fill the niche the world has cut out
for them: dark and manifest destiny.
We very seldom pray; we have never asked
You for aid Of any kind, but today we plead for
the gutter-fok- downtrodden who steer from
barracks to park benches, and through and by
worlds scorn finally steer their way to hell.
What think you of it, 0 Tramp of Galilee? Do
we hear you respond! Amen.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24

The pathos of our Christmas lies in the fact
that the sob and of broken hearts will minge
with the joy and gladness of the home"
Across the centuries will come the cry of the hu-
man soul I have sinned.' From over the seas will
come the curses and cashings of in unjustiiabe
slaughter. From the squalor and misery of poverty
and suffering will rise the piteous but mute appeal
for justice and plenty. But God earth eager to
cleanse from sin, to establish justice and entbrone
right and truth aud beauty The awful irretrievable
disaster will be that some men will celebrate our
annual festival and not hear God and Christ
and not toll with the infinite Savior for world in
which humanity shall bind in the races and ma
slons of the earth and Each find his own in all
mems good.'"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-12-24
FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES

To great many people. persons who get into the
hands of the law object of much curl
oslty. Why this is not able to say, un-
less it is because those who regard the in that
light expect to find him species of man entirely
different from his more fortunate fellowmen. We
have noticed the surprise exhibited by people
tanning this idea who on becoming better acquaint-
ed with those in durance vile' find them no differ
ent from the great mass of humanity in general. It
seems that many people who seldom come in contact
with the prisoner regard him having something
entirely foreign in his nature that certain traits in
his general makeup and nature possessed by
him alone. AS of these specimens of
humanity, dear people, we plead for all. as we'll as
ourself, Not Guilty. for the prisoner, like all
other people, is endowed with all the essential quail.
ties of nature; he is moved by the same passions
and emotions that move sway the rest of man
kind, and is susceptible to all the influences that
can move the human heart. The more one be-
comes acquainted with human nature (and. by the