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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Cats hate water, probably because
Heir fur has nothing oily about 1t,
and consequently take a long time to
dry.
Peru is making its own Portland &C.
ment. Heretofore it has been depend
ent on the United States, Belgium and
England.
The average length of life, it is
stated, rose from twenty-one and one
fourth years in the sixteenth century
to forty and one-half years in the nine
teenth century.
The rotary drilling system that has
been successfully employed in Amerf-
can oil fields has been introduced into
the Caucasus.
The Ottoman navy In 1900 was en-
tirely reorganized by a British ad"
miral with staff of navigating, torpe-
do and gunnery officers.
It has been computed that at the
time Of the arrival Of Columbus there
were 100000 Indians in North and
South America.
The Turkish empire Is composed OF
many mixed races. 1t includes Greeks,
Slavs, Albanians, Jews and Circas-
slams.
The lakes of oil In the western oil
fields prove death traps to the ducks
which alight on them under the i'm
preston that it Is water. The birds
rarely escape.
The fish of America, north OF the
Isthmus of Panama, embrace three
classes, 30 orders, 334 families, LIP
genera, 1886 subgenera, 1888 species
and 1873 subspectes.
The menace Of a film famine"
which, because of the European war,
threatened to hurt the American NOV
ing picture industry, has been ban
ished. Moving picture film Is being
made out of skim milk.
Figures compiled by the Austro-Hun-
garian and German consulates' In New
York show that $4,000 reservists OF
their countries who registered them
selves for services are unable to OBJ
tain transportation.
Emile Combes, former premier OF
France and still a powerful figure in
French politics, in spite of his seventy
nine years, has undertaken the direc-
ton of the military hospital at Pons,
his birthplace.
Having no money to pay his fare,
George Spencer, a paroled prisoner,
walked from Gardner, Ore, to Port
land, Ore, covering the distance OF ESQ
miles in six days, in order to give his
testimony in larceny case.
The total number Of emigrants from
the whole of Sweden to the United
States was 1858 in 1912, and 1902
in 1913; from the three Scandinavian
countries, 31,601 in 1912 and 3S,737 in
1918; and from Finland, 6,641 IN 1919
and 1876 in 1913.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
INSURANCE COMP NIES Want
TO Do BUSINESS IN TEXAS
Application Filed by Thirteen Com.
panies With State Commissioner
of Insurance and Banking.

Austin, Tex.-Application was filed
Thursday with the state commissioner
Of insurance and banking by Charles
NJ. Howell of Kansas City for thirteen
reciprocal insurance companies for
authority to do business in Texas, I'M
der the reciprocal insurance act pass
ed by the thirty-fourth legislature, and
which became effective June 20. The
attorney general recently rendered an
opinion holding that the law was I'M
constitutional.
The companies that are applying for
authority to enter Texas under the re-
cent law are: Lumbermans Indem-
nifty Exchange, Kansas City; Manu-
facturers LumEermens Underwriters,
Kansas City; Indemnity Exchange,
Chicago; Bankers Insurance Alliance
of America, Kansas City; Auto In.
demnity Exchange, Kansas City; En-
ployes Indemnity Exchange, Kansas
City; Utility Indemnity Exchange, st.
Louis; Druggist Indemnity Exchange,
st. Louis; American Exchange of I'm
derWriters, New York; Casualty Reel
procal Exchange of Kansas City; Reel.
prScal Exchange of Kansas City;
Lumbermens Underwriters Alliance,
Kansas City; Reciprocal Exchange,
Kansas City; Indemnity Underwriters,
New York; New York Reciprocal I'm
derwriters, New York; Warmers In
Reinsurance Company, Chicago.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
CHANGES IN MAKING ENuMERA.
TON OF EDUCA5LES ARE
SUGGESTED.
PARISH LIST SWELLED
Superintendent Harris Says Negro
Children, Many of Whom Never
Saw Inside of School, Counted,
Baton Rouge. 49,

DdCDu uUuS0.'
T. H. Harris, state superintendent
Of education, in a statement declared
the present method of distributing
school funds on basis on the num-
Der Of educable children is senseless
and obsolete.
Under the present system, negro
children Of educable age, many Of
whom never saw a school house. swell
the amount Of money awarded par
ishes by the state. Some of the par
ishes with large negro population
thus get back from the state as school
moneys more than they pay into tie
state treasury In taxes for all pur-
poses"
Mr.. Harris believe the funds shoul1
be distributed on basis CT advance
ment the parishes have made In school
matters, He will seek to change the
present system in the constitutional
convention.
The superintendent said that he be-
Heved that the poor showing made by
some of the parishes In the recent
school census especially New OrleaLs
where the census showed big falling
off in the number OF educable chill
dren, is due to inaccurate census in
the past He called attention to the
fact that the parish school boards nov
conduct the census. Previously they
had been conducted by the parish as
SCISSORS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
He Mas heap Careful.

Said western mining man at the
Astor hotel In New York city the other
day, according to the Times: Eve have
a bachelors mess in the mining camp
where I'm located, and we usually
have Chinaman to do the cooking
Some Of the Orientals are fine cooks,
after they get over few of the pecu-
liar ideas they have imbibed from
their own country's oddities in the
culinary line.
Not long ago we got new China
man as cook. A couple Of days later
one Of the fellows got a pedigreed
Irish terrier pup given to him-a real
dog. My friend had to 90 up to one
of the mines that afternoon, and he
turned the puppy over to the new Chi
naman. 'YoN be mighty careful Of
this dog, he said to the cook. Me be
heap careful was the answer.
That night, at dinner, the new Chi
naman brought on, with great cere-
mony, covered dish.
"Me heap careful, he remarked, as,
with smile Of pride, he removed the
cover.
Underneath was the pedigreed pup,
neatly cooked In the best Chinese
style"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
WELL CALLED DISMAL SWAMP
Few Spots on Earth More AWe-lnsptr,
ing and Forbiddng Than This
DesoIate Waste.

The very nature of the famous Dis
NAL swamp lends itself easily to the
preservation of weird stories. Always
darkened by the thick growth of over
hanging jungle, with the loW-hanging
limbs of trees clustered with mecca
sins and black snakes summing them
selves, the swamp, even in its more
open reaches, Is awe-inspiring, but at
night, when the blackness Of the
swamp water mingles with the black
ness Of the night, the minds OF the
simple folk who dwell there are cas-
lily impressed and the mazes OF the
Jungle are peopled with a thousand
phantom forms.
During ante-bellum days, the swamp
was a hiding place for runaway slaves,
who we're rarely pursued far but the
need Of escape was desperate indeed
that forced fugitive into the forbid
ding gloom Of this wilderness. Only
the master courage of the chief, Os-
man, permitted a residence there, and
the negroes have been known to sub
NIT to capture rather than brave the
unknown terrors Of the swamp.
A ghost story Of the swamp very
popular Before the war was the tale
of how an army of ghostly workmen
might be seen at night along the site
of the old canal. These are supposed
to have been the ghosts Of the men
employed to dig a drainage canal by
land company which once under
took to drain the area and In which
George Washington Is said to have
been financially interested. This story,
however, had its vogue and Is practi-
cally dead by now, although a few Of
the very old and very superstitious
dwellers yet believe 1t.
The yastness, the mystery and the
danger of the Dismal swamp breed a
host of terrors which live through gen
Grafton after generation OF the set
tiers, and will probably continue to
live while the great swamp remains a
swamp and its inhabitants are the
same simple-minded, awe-filIed people
of the type that lives there today.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
CITY LIES IN DEEP A
First View of La Paz, In soIhd,|
scribed by Bryce as a pelohl
the Tourist.

James Bryce, in his boos j
America" gives a picturesque N
ton Of the approach to La M
livia. He tells how the trapsl
nears La Paz has a surprise |, !
of him If he is coming from lahl
t1caca, the usual route from In.
At a point $4,000 feet above ~
the railway from Guayaquil Daa
railway from Antofagasta, 100 I
away to the south. From thh l
called Viacha, the route turn,
ward toward the Cordlllera, nj
climbing slowly in wide sweesl
the dusty and shrubless plstaI
whose thin grass sheep are brs,l
There is not a house visible, NJ
smooth slope seems to run nil
against the mountain wall bsl
Where can La Paz be? asks tI.I
eler.
Presently, however, he bend
strings of llamas and donkeB
wayfarers on foot moving soilI
slope toward a point where Id
suddenly vanish and are no norsu
Then a spot Is reached ybsn
railway itself seems to end BET
a few sheds. He gets out and i
a few yards to the east and
suddenly pulls up, with a stall
the edge of a yawning abyss,
Right beneath him, $500 III
low, a gray, red-roofed city fh
bottom of the gorge and clint
it's sides on both banks Of the b
that foams through it. Ever
and square, every yard and gard
laid out unuder the eye as II
map, and one almost seems b
the rattle of vehicles over stolyl
ments coming family up thrOli
thin air."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
Noted Woman Writer Is Dead.

Chicago, Ill.--Mrs. Elizabeth Arm.
strong Reed, mother of the late
Myrtle Reed, the novelist, died Friday,
aged II years. Mrs. Reeds works on
Oriental literature are used as text
books in colleges wherever there are
chairs Of Oriental literature. She is
the only woman whose works have
been accepted by the Philosophical
Society of Great Britain.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
BRIEFLY RELATED.

Mohawk Tribe OF Red Men of Don
aldsonville is making extensive ar
rangements for the big celebration to
be held under its auspices on The
Fourth of July, and sufficient progress
has already been made In the formula
ton Of plans to justify the assertion
that event will be one of the most
elaborate and entertaining that mas
ever been held in this section to
commemorate the glorious anniver,
sary of the declaration of America 8
independence,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Louisiana's rich soil is in demand
at San Francisco. Californians have
carried away every bit Of it that they
could lay their hands on, and are us'
ing 1t to fertilize their grounds AMI
gardens. 1t excels any Of the nature
stimulants they have been buying.
They were not satisfied with the sajn'
pie to which they have been welcome,
but have stripped all the boxes and
pots and an emergency call has been
put in for more Of the reclaimed hu-
mus from Rareland prairie and other
sections, or the prize-Wtnning Louis
lana exhibit at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition soon will be in bad shape
When Louisiana made up her exhi-
bit, she took along a quantity Of re-
claimed soil and filed box at each
corner Of the space with the earth
She also packed a large number Of
tiny souvenir boxes with the compo-
sition. The visitors soon learned the
wealth Of the plant food in the sam
pies and they came back for more
Instead Of asking for 1t, they simply
scoOped 1t out Of the boxes, and be.
fore the raid was discovered, the
mulch was gone. The attendance at
the exhibit would have been concern
ed about the loss, but they consider
it such fine tribute to the quality
Of the states land that they consider
the incident rather proof Of the ex-
hibit's success as an advertisement Of
Louisiana's possibilities and opportu-
mites, and have forgiven the visitors
who eluded their vigilance.
A number of CaliPornians who have
made fortunes through land exploita-
ton have begun investigation that
may lead to the investment of mil
lions in Louisiana acres, They have
boosted the price Of even arid desert
land In California to thousand dol
lars an acre, and some of the other
Western states In which they have
operated has passed the hundred dol
lar mark. They admitted that Louis
lana soil and products were far ahead
Of anything they had seen, and could
not comprehend why the farm land in
Louisiana was selling at such low
prices, unless there was fraud in
claims and titles. Several of them
told Prot Glenk that they were 81
ing to institute immediate inquiry,
and If the opportunity is as attrac-
tive as 1t appeared, they would not
hesitate to buy up immense tracts and
proceed to prompt development and
colonization.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

The Panama Canal is doing a larger
commissary business than ever, and
much of it is being done through New
Orleans There is said to be more
freight on the local wharves than the
regular vessels can carry, although
the United Fruit Company is sending
two big ships week, so that the re-
port Is current that the line may In
crease Its service to three times a
week.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
England to Wage MunItlon Campaign.

London.-DaVid Lloyd-George, the
minister Of munitions, has given Brit.
ish labor seven days in which to make
good the promise of their leaders that
men will rally to the factories in suf-
ficient numbers to produce maxi
mum supply Of munitions Of war.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
Local Option Election Refused,

Cameron, Textile commissioners
court Friday refused to order a local
option election in five Justice pre-.
cincts, wherein three are already dry.
The proposed territor embraced
Cameron and Rockdale.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
AIfonso's Cabinet Sends RESIGNATION

Madrid, via Paris.-The Spanish
cabinet resigned Tuesday, the govern.
ment considering the failure of the
recent loan to be equivalent to a vote
OF lack of confidence. Only one-six-
teenth Of the loan was subscribed.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
Sometimes.

"Do you believe it pays to gal
to the soil?"
1T did me when | went out
pecting and struck pay dirt"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

The gasoline and motor oil war
which has been going on in many Of
the cities Of the country has struck
Monroe and owners of automobiles
and motor boats are now enjoying a
cut in the price of gasoline and mo
tor oils
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02
Two Kinds of Water.

1t was training school for navy re-
eruits and the young ensign had been
detailed to teach the rockies" the ru-
diments of learning.
Name the various bodies of water
wrote he on the blackboard, land state
how many there are"
1t was simple question to big John
Henry.
1.-TWO kinds of water" wrote he,
earn and roui."'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

The police fury, at its last meeting,
adopted the necessary resolution Pc
titioning the highway department of
the State Board Of Engineers to make
q survey for a model road of the
route from Kaplan to Gueydan. This
will be another link in the great pub
lie highway which will eventually ex-
tend from New Iberia to AbbeviTle
thence to Kaplan, model road now IN
course Of construction, thence to
Gueydan and Lake Arthur to Jen.
nings, where connection will be made
with the Calsasieu road system,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

But a man never realizes Shil
ideas he has until after he SuA
house according to his own pla9
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Four important appointments were
made by the governor AMI were con.
firmed by the Senate without dis
senting vote They follow:
Robert Roberts, Jr, as Judge Of
the Court Of Appeals Of the Second
Circuit, vice Ben F. Edwards, de.
ceased.
James A. Dayries, as member CT
the Board of Control of the state pen
itentiary vice ]. NJ. Kilgore, term ex.
pired.
VIII H. Holmes, as member of tha
State Conservation Commission, vice
J. A. DayFies, resigned.
George Wesley Smith as secretary
to the governor, vice Robert Roberts,
Jr, resigned.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Scout Master Harris Clifford of Pat.
terson and his of Boy Scouts linked"
to Charenton. La, distance of 80
miles, in twelve hours. They have
pitched camp and expect to remain a
fortnight OF moro bathing and fishing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Notwithstanding unusually hot,
dry weather, farmers near Natcai-
toches are harvesting the largest and
finest oat crop ever raised In this
parish. AS rule the crop Is being
harvested as hay and will be used by
planters to feed their work stock and
cattle. However, M. r. Atkins placed
1900 bushels Of threshed oats on the
local market.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

louisiana has won such marked dis.
ftion at the Panama-Paci1c Expo
Ton In the matter of awards issued
b exhibitors as to demonstrate to
the world its right to recognition as
one Of the very greatest agricultural,
mineral and manufacturing states in
the United States.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

The annual tax sales have been
concluded at Lake Charles. 4Ss pieces
OF property having been adjudicated
to the state and to individual bidders.
Contrary to the usual run of affairs,
the greater part Of the property pass
ed into the hands Of the state, as
there were few individual bidders.
The property sold represents tax
revenues Of only few thousand DOL.
lars.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Worse Things to Talk About.
Human pride takes curious forms"
For instance?"
Il know a man who never tires of
Dragging about his patent garbage
can, for which he paid $780,"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Locke's House bin providing for a
municipal tax of two and one-hals
mills Of the general revenues for the
payment Of non-bonded indebtedness
died in the Senate when by a vote of
Is to IL the upper body tabled mo.
ton by Senator Vincent that the vote
which defeated the bill be recon.
sidered.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

In both houses the conference re-
port on Buffers bill to authorize the
Atchafalaya Levee Board to issue
100000 of bonds was defeated.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

If 1t wasn't for men, fewer women
would dislike each other.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

II the Railroad Commission OF
Louisiana allows the carriers in the
state to increase the rates on good
roads building material such as sand,
gravel, stone and shells, the CAM
paign that has been going on in the
state for good roads will come to a
sudden and disastrous end, according
to W. E. Atkinson, state highway Ell.
gfneer, of the Highway Department
Of the Board Of State Engineers.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Both House and Senate, on the
closing night of the extra session,
yielded the floor to citizens of Baton
Rouge who acted as hosts at grid.
iron supper, patterned after the "a.
mour gridiron suppers OF the national
capital
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

A manual training course will be
added to the high schol course next
season at Many, The past term was
one Of the most successful in the his
tory Of the institution, and the need
Of the new department is pressing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

The Lincoln Parish Farmers Union
will meet In Ruston on July the first
1915, at 10 o'clock a. m. All local
unions are urged to send delegates
and dues 80 that there will be no
trouble in making out report.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Construction of Hammonds new
fire station is progressing rapidly, ami
1t is thought the structure will be
completed this week.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

The board Of pensioners concluded
It's quarterly session at Baton Rouge
Four hundred and seventy-two appIi-
cations were received, out of which
25S were placed on the roll and 219
rejected.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

A petition was received from the
sugar planters associations protest.
ing against a convict labor bill In,
troduced few days ago but since
withdrawn.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-02

Both houses adopted resolution.
by Senator Barrow endorsing DR.. o..
car Dowling's stand against patent
medicines
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-13
THE A THAT LAST.

Among the plays still to be seen in
New York are Twin Beds" at the
Harris Theatre: ION Trial" at the
Gambler Theatre: Three OF Hearts," at
the Thlrty-ninth Street Theatre: Sin
ners.'' at the Playhouse; The Bub-
BILE at the Booth Theatre; 1T Pays
to Advertise" at the Conan Theatre:
She's In Again" at the Gaiety The
atre: Under Cover" at the Cort
Theatre, and "a Full House" at the
Longacrs Theatre.
The musical plays are Hands Up"
at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre:
DE Wolf Hopper in Gilbert and Sui
Ivan operettas at the Forty-eighth
Street Theatre; "A Modern Eve" at
the Casino: Nobody Home" at the
Maxine Elliott Theatre; "Chin-Chin,"
at the Globe Theatre, and 1.-The Pass
ing Show OF 1915" at the Winter
Garden,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-13

amount OF effort is put into them, the
cost is enormous and the public is
tickle.
So whether II he the F'ollies. the
Winter Garden or any summer show
which recurs regularly. the public
taste will after n while drift away
|. from them. This Is only the repetition
OF history. just as their public left
Harrigan and Hart and Charles Hoyt
after them and then Weber and Fields.
so will there some day or another be
a search for other forms Of summer
amusement than either Flo Ziegfeld
or the Shuberts can provide. But
luckily for these gentlemen. that will
not happen until an enterprising en-
trepreneur comes along with some
thing new to offer. Just at present
they are in possession OF the field. And
the success with which they labor in
a difficult field Is not gained without
great effort, expenditures Of large
sums Of money and a constant deter
mination to keep up with the very
head Of the procession.
II never was intended to say that
there was only one Sren0dH in the
numerous companies that travelled
over this country. There were OF
course many Of them. But Wilton
Lackaye was so much the most emil
nent that the part became altogether
associated with his name. There was
Tyrone Power. who took the play
with him to Australia, where his wife,
Edith Crane, played the heroine. Will
lam H.. Thompson. Reuben Fax and
others were seen here. Even Beer
bohm Tree modelled his mask more or
actor who had created the role. Mr..
Lackaye's performance in that part. II
spite OF the decision OF Mr.. Brooks to
! give it to Lyn Harding. who ought to
be an admirable Sren0dli, is the most
noted bit Of m~elodramatic acting In our
! time. William A. B~rady--the story
may be apocryphal-is supposed 10
have acted Spen0aH one night when
the player was taken Ill. Mr., Brady
was managing the performance and
was so familiar with the Xxi that he
was able to play the hypnotizer at
least to his own complete satisfaction
when he felt that 1t had not been
necessary to close the house.