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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
FINE ROADS ATTRACT TRADE
Pedestrians Go Around Bad Streets to
Reach Shops on Good Highways
Add to Realty Value.
CBy L. K. CooPER.)


It would seem that in this late day
and age advocating good roads as good
for mankind generally and business
particularly would be unnecessary.
Good roads mean good business.
Have you ever noticed that in towns
Immediately after street has been
paved or resurfaced, pedestrians and
vehicles begin to multiply on those
roads?
It does not take long before every.
body, 1t seems, knows of the newly
paved streets and many go out of the
way to travel them. Last summer the
pavement on a street near my home
was torn up for repatching. The con.
tractors were so long in even attempt
ing to get started on the work that
merchants along the street started
suit against the city for business they
knew they had lost because the street
was impossible.
If good streets-and street is only
another name for road-mean so much
to the city business man, it is to be
supposed they are just as valuable an
asset to the business man or the farm
er located On the highways of the
country. Good roads, in the first
place are a benefit to every individual
in this big land of ours. If all roads
are good, the people residing m their
immediate locality find it easier to get
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
RAISING HORSES FOR PROFIT
Every Available Sound Mare Should
Be Bred to Meet the Demand
Caused by European War.

Ever since the first days of bicycles
some have thought that the breeding
Of horses would become improbable.
Meanwhile the horse has kept its place
among domestic animals and we now
have more than ever before. With
the European war on us and so many
horses being killed in battle the near
future probably will see a greater
demand for horses than at any time
in the last century.
It is not advisable to breed a mare
having serious defects, but every
sound mare available should be bred
to stallion to produce stock to sup
ply the coming demand. Don't think
you are economizing to breed to some
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Time Has Made a Difference.

"The last time saw Sylvia Pank-
hurst before the war;" writes Lon
don clubman, "she was in the arms Of
a policeman, being carried off to the
Vine Street station, followed by scores
of militants shrieking that women
would never be slaves. ! saw her a
few nights ago down near Poplar way,
where she was presiding over two
penny restaurant where splendid din
ners of hot stew, potatoes and fruit
pudding with bread, butter and tea
were served to distressed East End
ers In addition the suffragettes have
organized pure milk depots for the
babies, and an employment bureau
for girls, and womn"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17

DRY AND WET COMPARTMENTS
Moisture In Incubator Tends to In
crease Hatch of Eggs-AIso Adds
to Weight of Chick.

A test made in April, 1914, by the
New Jersey experiment station to de-
teTmine the efficiency of 300-egg
capacity incubator gave a percentage
of hatch Of fertile eggs of TIA and a
percentage in July of IS. Comparing
compartments run dry with those run
wet it was observed that the latter
gave a much higher percentage of
hatch as well as On increase in the
weight of the chicks, the average
weight for the dry being IL ounces,
and for the wet 1.25 ounces.
Four brooders of 100 week-old chicks
each were fed for nine weeks, two lots
receiving a regular chick ration and
two other lots receiving In addition all
the sour milk they would consume
The first two breeders made a total
gain of 1852 pounds and 42.35 pounds
and the mortality was seventy-one and
seyenty-three respectively, while the
last two breeders made total gain
of 1922 and 1894 pounds and the NOR
tality was twenty-eight and twenty.
eight, respectively. 1t was found to
require &c quarts of skim milk to pro-
duce a pound OF body weight.
1t is stated that the skim.milk-fed
chicks represented a more uniform
flock than those not so fed 1t has
been concluded that skim milk has
the power to kill the organisms which
cause many poultry diseases, the
bacAli being destroyed by the dilute
acid of the sour milk.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17

defective or disreputable stallion rath-
er than pay little higher price for
the service Of a good one.
Two years ago a farmer who had
two mares Of equal value bred one to
low-grade horse, the other to a
good one. The colts had the same
treatment in every respect. At wean-
ing time he refused $500 for the bet
ter colt and could not find buyer at
$50 for the other This demonstrates
the benefit of breeding from the best.
1t takes no more to raise a good ami
NAL than a scrub, and the selling price
is generally twice as much or more,
and buyer is much easier found
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17

A party OF young men and vons
members of sketching club, ven
motoring along country road. lu
within the fence on the left grew i
Vulnerable graceful stalks, each ba,.
ing globes Of pale green that sbsIa
into gray and purple.
How enchanting!" exclaimed d.
young woman.
DO tell US" said another y5n,
woman, equally enthusiastic, to a ~
dener standing near, what those bat
oo-titul things are"
Them? Them's onions gone b
seed. New York Times.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Whenever You Need a General In,
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves T.e.l.
chill Tonic is equally valuable as g.
eral Tonic because it contains tba 81
known tonic properties of QUININR Il
IRON Ii acts on the Liver Drys !.
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Bill
up the Whole System 50 Gents ID,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Important Duty to PsopIs.

The making of good roads is one
OF the most important duties of the
people and their prompt repair and
careful maintenance is essential.
There is probably no subject in which
the progressive farmer is more deep
ly interested than that of having
roads connecting him with his mar
kets over which he must be able to
haul the greatest possible load. Good
roads, like all other good things, are
too expensive to build and of too
much value to be neglected.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
A macadam Road on the Prairie.

from place to place. The person max.
ing long cross-country tour finds
the journey the joy he counted on and
not trial, as it certainly is where
travelling is bad. In the second place,
good roads increase the value of prop
erty--so real estate is benefited.
And so | could go on down the list
the hotel man, the butcher, the
baker, all are benefited, either directly
OF indirectly, by good roads; and by
good roads ! mean roads that permit
OF foot or vehicular traffic during all
seasons of the year.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Puttlna His Foot in It.

Niece do think you are clever,
aunt, to be able to argue with the
professor about sociology.
Aunt-Tve only been concealing my
ignorance, dear.
Professor Bilks (gallantly)-Oh, no,
Miss Knowles. Quite the contrary,
assure you.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
PIus Need Protein

Growing pigs need more protein
than they can get from corn and bas.
ture. Skim milk Is fine for them and
so Is meat meal or tankage. In the
writer's experience there is no better
thing for growing pigs on pasture, that
are getting some corn, than slop
made Of shorts with little tankage
added. 1t sure helps a pig to make
a hog Of himself in quick time.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
n Time of Due Prepare for Drought.

Brother Cassius Cautious kush came
forward to be baptized at the colored
campmeeting. The parson was tired
of baptiZing brother Cassius and said:
"Waffoh you always come forward
to be baptized into the fold? You
done been baptized II times. Use hap.
tiled you my own self every fall since
the big woods burned and Marse Hon
eycutt died f'om ober-exertin' hisself.
Amt dat de truf?"
Amen" said Cassius.
How many times you-all expect to
be baptized, OATS what | ak YEP
I reckon" replied Cassius Cautious
Kush, "I'll be baptized every year.
De oftener l gets dis mortal clay
soaked down, de safer I'll be from
sparks on dat great day when de world
am all on fire. Hallelujah! Judge.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Working Up an Appetite.

Il don't know why we came in
here" said Mrs. Bored, as she settled
herself down in a restaurant I'm
not a bit hungry"
That's all right" said hubby. Just
you sit here aud wait
Wait! But why? I'm not hun
CRY, as | said before"
Never 1nind, dear. You will be by
the time the waiter brings us our
food. philadelphia Record.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
A Real Sport.

Them city fellers is pretty slick,
but they can't fool me-" said Hiram
Waybacker.
"They couldn't interest you in any
of their skin games, eh?"
Il should say not! Two o. them Of.
fered ter show me tn only German
submarine in captivity. Haw! Haw!"
And what did you say to that"
Il told 'em ter git out tn shells
an the pea, an I'd make one guess
jest ter keep 'em from bein' lone.
some"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
NEGLECT YOUR SCALP
And Lose Your Hair. Cuticura Pre-.
vents II. Trial Free.

Cuticura Soap shampoos cleanse
and purify the scalp of dandruff while
the Ointment soothes and heals the
irritated scalp skin. Dandruff and
itching are hair destroyers. Get &C
quainted with these supercreamy emol-
lients for the skin and scalp.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
DURABLE COOP FOR CHICKENS
Illustration Gives Outline of Sanitary
Pen for Combining Chicks-SimpIe
In Construction.

This drawing shows the plan of
chicken coop we designed and have
been using the last ten years. The
coops are made in the winter time
when the men are not busy with other
work. They are made of IL and 6-inch
soft pine boards. They are 20 inches
long, IS inches wide, Is inches high in
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
FILTERS FOR EGG CARRIERS
Shocks Incident to Shipping and Han
ding Of Fragile Articles VIII
Not Cause 5reakage.

The Scientific American in illus.
trating and describing filler for egg
cases, invented by G. P. Daily of New
York, says:
This invention relates to filters for
egg cases or carriers and more par.
ticularly to an improved double-walled
filler of such construction that shocks
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Morals Qelusion.

Lady-You quite understand Non
| shall only be at home. every Wei
nesday from 3 to 5?
Nora-Yes, mum. ITO herself
Nora, you've got a heavenly situatit
The mistress only at home for ~
hours a week.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Keen the Colt Sleek.

A few minutes every day with brush
and comb would keep the colt sleek. It
is when we let this work slip by that
We have to turn the little fellow out
and leave him to get rid of dust and
dirt.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Mise Fish.

Bill see the herring catch of Eng
land last year exceeded by far that of
any previous season.
Jill-They probably wanted to get
in out of the wet before the submarine
war started.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
inconsistency,

Mrs. Bacon-Hes a very inconsis.
tent man.
Mrs. Egbert-Indeed?
Yes; why, he tried to break his
boy Of being left-handed and he
could only punish the little fellow
with his left hand"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
No Long Term Wished.

MAY | say just one word befOreM
impose sentence?" asked the street
railway magnate.
We'll, what is ito" snapped u.
court.
please remember, your honor, bat
you are imposing sentence aad lt
granting ME a franchise" be as
toned, fearing for the worst.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Improving the Flock.

Raise a few more pullets than you
will want for layers. then you will
have a chance to pick out the best
and sell the culls. In this way you
will improve the flock.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Breed to Pure.ared Stock.

If everybody insisted that they must
breed their mares to pure.bred stock,
1t would not be long before scrub stall.
lions would be scarcer than hens
teeth.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
A Treat for Ma.

Yes, we girls are going to camp
out
"Oh, we are going to take mother
along to cook. She needs a vacation"
Judge.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Eggs for Winter.

How many eggs are you putting
away for next winter? Be sure they
are fresh and then use a 10 per cent
water-glass solution.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17

All women demand the admiration
OF men, but only a limited number
command it.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17

Better a song in the heart than ~
N the fiat upstairs.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17

When a woman lowers herself II
Is probably to look up to a man.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
The Reason.

What was the matter With lhs.
singer? His voice was not OF allluh
Maybe not, but he was"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
Filler for Egg Cases.

incident to the shipping and handling
OF eggs or like fragile articles will not
cause the breakage or injury thereto
as is now commonly caused.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-17
The.sians.

ines olgnS'
"The fellow yonder is gunman."
"How can you tell?"
"By his bullet head"
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-05-26
WHO KNOWS?

m ANTE was born in May. 1866
~ A.D.-65O ears-ago. He wrote
an allegorical story describing his
journey through HELL" "Purgatory'
and Paradise"
The world has waited long time,
but nearly all Europe is Just now
passing through something very like
hell and purgatory. but paradise
seems to be a long way off for those
en- route. II European civilization as
represented today in Enlightened"
Europe can offer any reasons why it
should exist, they will be welcome to
"a listening world. Milton wrote,
long is the way and dark that out of
hell leads up to light" But looking
out on the European world, the light
does not much improve matters.
But who knows? Infinite justice
grew weary of the prayers that were
constantly rising from our country
for freedom, and so at last caused
great armies to be set in array, and
the clouds were never lifted from our
sky until 100000 of the bravest and
best of our people were dead, every
home made house of mourning, and
half the land made a wreck.
Then when the people could dry
their eyes enough to see and COM
pose their mind enough to think, 1t
suddenly came to them that the Inf
mite had grown weary of the institu-
ton of human slavery, and that mas
much as it was a mighty wrong, that
wrong had to be expiated through
suffering.
Who knows but that the same Inex-
orable Judge is tired Of kingly rule.
wearying of hearing a weak mortal
proclaim divine right to rule other
mortals. and has determined that
man shall at last be free? And hence
the present cataclysm.-Goodwin's
Weekly.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-05-26
SAGE TEA DANDY
TO OARKtN HAIR

You can turn gray. faded hair
beautifully dark and lustrous almost
over night II you'll get q 60-csnt bot
tie OF "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy" at any drug store.
Millions Of bottles Of this old. famous
Sage Tea recipe are sold annually,
says a we'll known druggist here. be-
cause 1t darkens the hair 30 naturally
and evenly that no one can tell It has
been applied.
Those whose hair 10 turning gray,
becoming faded, dry. scraggly and
thin. have surprise awaiting them.
because after one or two applicst tions
the gray hair vanishss and your locks
become luxurIantly dark and bssuti.
ful-all dandruff goes. scalp itching
and falling hair stops.
This is the age Of youth. Gray
haired. unattractivs folks aren't
wanted around. 80 get busy with
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur tonight.
and you'll be delighted with your
dark. handsome hair and your youth.
ful appearance within q few days.
(Paid ADVERTISEMENT Z
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-05-26

aud higher salaries in tho public
building department and that ever
met has ordered the construction OF
buildings that ought never have been
built. Il is thinking OF the waste OF
money in this respect that makes me
sore when have to slash into the
mcagcr pay Of the women who scrub
out the postotiiccs In the various
cities of tho United States"
Newton has been making some
thing of n record as u scrapper since
he took office. He Is bucking up
against a game that nobody has ever
yet beaten, but II may he said that
nobody ever put " bigger dent in II
than no has.
Time and again he has succeeded
in cutting the cost of public build
ings enough to save his salary and
the salary of his office force. Al
ready It is figured he saved his own
four years salary half hundred
times over. His method has been
simply that of letting contracts for
sums than the appropriations
of Congress provided whenever II
seemed clear that as good building
could be had for the lesser amount.
This has not made him friends
among the Congressman. And. Of
course. its rotten politics. The Con-
many of them. in turn. are
somewhat helpless. They feel the
,lamor from home for new post oiilces:
every town wants fine stone post
Office building and they are apt to
Judge their Congressman's stateman-
ship by his ability to squeeze the
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-05-26
STRANGE FARM PRODUCTS
EXHIBITED AT THE FAIR
United Press Service

United Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26-His-
tOrians today were interested in the
queer crops from James BellwOod' 8
farm in Virginia, which were on ex-
hibitiOn at the Penama-Pacific Expo
sition. The products OF this farm
included several score Indian flint
arrowheads. a round shot fired from
the guns of the Merrimac, a three
inch soft nosed she'll hurled by a
Confederate cannon and imbedded in
an oak tree, and several bayonets,
sabres and bullets. Before George
Washington was born Indians and
settlers fought a battle on tho site
of BellwOOOd's farm-hence the ar
and in 1864 the battle of
Brewry's Bluff, waged there, caused
the deposit of other missiles. Num-
erous skulls and bones were also
turned up by Bellwood's plow, but
these were buried again In deeper
graves than the shallow trenches In
which they first repOsed.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-05-26
by BURTON Il. STANDlSH
written for the United Pressl

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 26.-
Regardless of politics" said Assis-
tant Secretary of the Treasury Byron
II. Newton and he grinned when he
said 1t. for he knew it's punk poll
tics he's playing--'regardles Of poll
tics. the way this country OF ours
builds its postofiices Is absolutely in
defensible."
The former newspaperman. whose
present job places him in charge OF
the public building program. didn't
grin much during the interview.
Most OF the time he was mad and
did not take pains to conceal 1t. The
reason for this was that he had just
completed the disagreeable task OF
ordering 4.753 employees to take eight
days of without pay before June 80.
"A big part of these employees are
charwomen and janitors." he said.
THE women get $500 year. the
janitors. $3.50. They can not AFFORD
to lose eight days pay. But what are
you going to do? In the face Of our
exact estimate of the amount OF
money needed for salaries. Congress
appropriated just $15O.OOO less than
is needed. The law forbids our
creating deficiency-makes it n
penal offense, in facial We can do
is to take eight days work away
from every employe in the depart
ment.
Every Congress that has met. (
probably. has urged more employees
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-05-26
BOY SEES IN WAR A DISTINCT
ADVANTAGE

In THE June American Magazine
i Ernest e. Poole. writing an inter-
esting article entitled The Theater
of War;" quotes as follows l6-year-
old soldier who, although injured
and in a hospital, finds war a distinct
personal advantage:
"'You see, war Is very good for
me. In war you can get promoted
fast. In my military school they
would have kept me working years.
but as soon as the war broke out l
ran away from school with my friend.
He was only Is and three months.
We heard troops marching by at
night .and all the boys got crazy. All
sat up in bed and talked, but all but
us were afraid to 60. We climbed
from our windows out on the roof. 1t
was night and nobody saw us. We
slid down a pipe to the ground and
ran to the road and hid in a bush.
And when some more troops came by
in the dark We fell in and marched
so at last We got down
into France. My friend is now an
officer. He writes me he is very glad.
You see in the army peace promotion
Is very slow-you must wait for off,
GERS to die. But in war they get
killed by thousands
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-05-26
MEMORIAL PLANS
BEING OUTLINED
BY COMMITTEES
CONTINUED from Page -

program early. that all persons con-
cerned may have an approximate idea
OF what Is desired. and especially 50
that all orders and societies may have
time for preparation for participation.
The following exercises will begin
at $3.50 in the park II the weather
permits. and otherwise at Houston's
opera house:
Selection .......... Military Band
Invocation ..... Rev. Il. c. Richards
Quartet, Brave Hearts Forever Still"
J. B. Mason. George j. Walton.
G. A. Wirtz, G. ]. Hall
"LincOln's Gettysburg Address.
........ Charles DOrr
Solo Thy request), Tender and True"
........... Mrs. Don J. Zumwalt
Lessons In American Patriotism.
w. A. Delzell
Quartet--'Garland Their Graves
Memorial Address Hon. C. NJ. Oneill
"America"-Audience, J. B. Mason
leader
Closing Prayer and Benediction.
.......... Elder 8. d. Harlan
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1915-05-26
Some Posto6ce Criticism From
a Man Who Is Strictly Inside
Assistant Treasury Secretary Gives Out the Information
That Nearly Five Thousand Government Employees Must
Take Eight Days Off for Lack of Salary Funds

money out of the public treasury.
So Il happens that n town or less
than l.OO0 population. with postal
receipts of less than $4,000 u year
and able to rent suitable quarters
for $4,000 n year, has $4,000 ap-
propriatcd for postoiilco site ana
$sO.O00 or so for u building And
the upkccp of the handsome stone
cditice 80 obtained costs the depart
mcnt n great deal more than the rent
formerly paid,
ITS hard to see any business
Judgment back OF such u policy"
said Newton. ''Wc plant beautiful
buildings amid the sagebrush and
along mountain trails. where there
is no business tn justify their exist
cnce. and u how, goes up u this de-
partmcnt tries to save money In the
construction.
II am not saying that every post
office building appropriation is with
out excuse. Many cities. particularly
some of the larger cities. are actually
crampcd for room. having to take
care of many federal departments In
addition TO the postoiiicc and hav-
ing rapidly increasing volume Of
business.
"llut so long ms the principle IL.
'You vote u postot'lcc for Sqncdunk
In my district and I'll vote one for
Punkin Center. there's small hope
OF economy would like to sec a
photograph Of the man that invented
the game and I'd like n lot better
to shake hands with the man that will
break II up"