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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
COULDN'T STAND THE TEST
Applicant for College Chair Had to
Confess His Ignorance of One
Modern Language.

You aspire to become our profes.
sor of modern language?" asked the
president Of the board of trustees of
the Milledgeville college.
Eyes, SIR was the respectful an
sWer of the applicant.
"Koennen Sic Deutsch sprachen?"
asked the trustee sharply.
"JaWohl!" came the answer of the
applicant, not to be taken off his
guard thus easily.
"Parlez-vous francais?" demanded
the interrogation, giving the applicant
no time to recover.
"Oui," said the applicant. The pres
ident beamed with pleasure upon his
fellow members of the board.
1T seems" he said, addressing no
one in particular, that the gentleman
is eminently qualified for the post.
But" turning again to the applicant,
there is one more question that |
must ask you. What is the simian
equivalent Of fear as expressed in the
monkey language as translated by
Professor Garner?"
Realizing that he had failed in the
supreme test, the applicant turned
sadly away.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Mistake Of Our Auerane Ma

With the best intentions in the
world the average man, especially in
america, In endeavoring to give every.
tning TO his wife, has made it difficult
tor her to give adequately in return.
our modern American women are
brought up too softly to develop he
roic' or even deeply womanly, quail
tiles AS far as that is true the cry
unsexed" has some Qualifications, but
the feminists are the last group at
which it should be leveled.-Beatrice
Forbes-Robertson Hale in McClure's
Magazine.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Talked TO Panama Ann 81

Vallejo, Cal.-Wireless telephone
communication between Washington
D. g., and the Panama canal, dis.
lance Of 2,1OO miles. was established
Aug, u, but public announcement was
withheld until the greater goal-trans.
continental communication be
reached This statement was made
by Chief Engineer John J. Cartv
after the conversation in the wire.
less tower at the Mare Island
navy yard with Theodore N. Vail.
president, who was speaking from
New York.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
GERMANY ACCEDES TO U. S.
DEMANDS IN ARABIC Case
Berlin in Note Expresses Regret for
Loss of American Lives and viii
Pay Indemnity to Families.

MISUNDERSTANDING has com
pletely acceded to the American de-
mands for settlement of the Arabic
case. The imperial government, in a
letter presented Tuesday by its am
bassador, Count Won Bernstorff, to
Secretary Lansing, disavows the sink
ing of the vessel, announces that it
has SO notified the submarine com
mander who made the attack, ex-
presses regret for the loss of Ameri-
can lives and agrees to pay indemnity
to their families.
The note follows:
my Dear Mr.. Secretary: Prompted
by the desire to reach satisfactory
agreement with regard to the Arabic
incident, my government has given me
the following Instructions:
"The order issued by his majesty,
the emperor, to the commanders of the
German submarines, Of which I mott
fled you on previous occasion, has
been made so stringent that the re-
currenCe Of incidents similar to the
Arabic case is considered out Of the
question.
According to the report of Com
mander Schneider of the submarine
which sank the Arabic, and his affi-
dayit, as we'll as those of his men,
Commander Schneider was convinced
that the Arabic intended to ram the
submarine.
ION the other hand, the imperial
government does not doubt the good
faith of the affidavit of the British
officers Of the Arabic, according to
which the Arabic did not intend to
ram the submarine. The attack of the
submarine was undertaken against the
instructions issued to the commander
The imperial government regrets and
disavows this act and has notified
Commander Schneider accordingly.
Under these circumstances, my
government is prepared to pay an in
demnity for American lives, which, to
It's deep regret, have been lost on the |
Arabic. I am authorized to negotiate
with you about the amount of this in
demnity.
Il remain, my dear Mr.. Lansing,
yours very sincerely,
81. Won Bernstorff."
Secretary Lansing made no com.
nent on the ambassadors letter.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
twelve YEARS
OF FAILING HEALTH
Brought to Happy End. Says the
People in Three Counties Know
What Cardui Did For Her.

Weaverville, N C.-Mrs. Abbagail
Hampton, Of this place, says that about
L. years ago she began to take Cardui
after having been in failing health for
IL years, during which time she had
to take to her bed four days out Of
each month, and suffered agony; that
the doctors told her she must have fe-
male trouble and gave her medicine
which did her no good and finally in
sisted on her going to the hospital for
treatment.
She goes on to say: 81 am a large
woman, and my ordinary weight, 100
pounds, went down to 1876. l got so bad
| just dragged around and could
scarcely sit up My neighbors all
thought was going to die and would
say 1 couldn't live long My little
daughter thought the same :.
My husband and friends urged me to
try Cardui, and he bought me some Of
1t. l began feeling better as soon as
I began taking it, and l steadily i'm.
proved until l was well and strong. |
make my garden, do my Homework
and have cooked for 20 boarders at
one time. Am strong, healthy WON.
an, permanently cured by Cardui. My
husband and l can't say enough for
Cardui Z. The people in three coun.
ties know what this medicine has done
for me, for neither l nor my husband
ever cease praising it."
Cardui is for sale at all druggists
with full directions for use. Try it.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
GENIUS NOT INSANITY
ABSOLUTELY FALSE IDEA
SHOULD BE ROOTED OUT.
Theory Refuted as Far as America Is
Concerned by the Outstanding
Figures In the History of
This Country.

A mistaken notion, which has done
much to encourage self-satisfied med1-
ocrity, is that genius is form Of in
sanity. This absolutely false idea
needs to be rooted out of the popular
mind, into which it was implanted
chiefly by the efforts Of group Of
European anthropologists.
These men, headed by the cele-
brated Cesare Lombroso, arrived at
their insanity theory of genius by an
exceedingly simple if Iaborious
method.
They secured through thousands Of
biographies of illustrious men, seek.
ing evidence that at some period in
their lives these men had ected
"queerly.''
Naturally they found a great many
men of genius who had indeed acted
queerly and a great many others who
had been positively insane.
With this multitude of horrible ex-
amples as a convenient jumping board,
Lombroso and his disciples then pro-
ceeded to leap to the astonishing con-
clusion that all men of genius are
more or less insane.
To the weight of their scholastic au-
thority. and to the bulky books they
have published giving details of the
vagarieS of certain men Of genius, is
largely due the erroneous belief so
widespread today.
Actually, the proportion Of insanity
among men Of genius is little, If at all,
higher than the proportion Of insanity
among men in general.
Indeed, a moments reflection ought
to satisfy anybody as to the absurdity
of the insanity theory with regard to
American genius.
Was Washington insane? Or Jeffer-
son, or Hamilton, or Franklin? Was
insanity the distinguishing mark of
Abraham Lincoln? Can Emerson,
LongrelloW, Lowell and Julia Ward
Howe be dismissed with wave of the
hand as insane persons?
Coming down to the present day,
would Thomas A. Edison be counted
among the worlds foremost lunatics?
Or Charles W. Eliot? Or Lyman Alb.
bolt?
The sooner people rid themselves Of
the false insanity doctrine the sooner
the way will be cleared for intelligent
bordering Of the question.
Is not the man Of genius, after all,
representative Of higher possibilities
open to the human race, and is it not
possible to some extent to produce
more men of genius by proper train
ing and environment?
To this question I for one believe |
that ultimately an affirmative reply |
will be given.--H. Addington Bruce. |
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
A DOCTORS EXPERIENCE
Medicine Not Needed in This Case.

It is hard to convince some people
that coffee does them an injury! They
lay their bad feelings to almost every
cause but the true and unsupported
one.
But the doctor knows. His wide ex-
sperienCe has proven to him that, to
Ame systems, coffee is an insidious
bison that undermines the health.
ASK him if coffee is a cause of con-
stipation, stomach and nervous trou-
bles.
Il have been coffee drinker all my
life, and when taken sick two years
ago with nervous prostration, the doc.
tor said that my nervous system was
broken down and that would have to
give up coffee.
i got so weak and shaky l could
not work, and reading an advertise
ment of Postum / asked my grocer If
he had any Of it. He said, Yes and
that he used it in his family and it
was all it claimed to be.
so quit coffee and commenced to
use Postum steadily, and in about two
weeks could sleep better and get I'D
In the morning feeling fresh. In about
two months l began to gam flesh. I
weighed only LAG pounds when / com.
menced on Postum and now weigh
1877 and feel better than did at 20
years of age.
Il am working every day and sleep
well at night. My two children were
coffee drinkers, but they have not
drank any since Postum came into the
house, and are far more healthy than
they were before" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum cereaI-the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack.
ages.
Instant Postum-a soluble powder
dissolyes quickly in cup of hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
q delicious beverage instantly. 3Oc
and SOC tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
cost abont the same per cup.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
GAME LAWS BEING REGARDED.
Wardens Finding No Trouble Enforc-
ing Law-Duck Season Opens Oct.
15-RuIes Outlined.

Austin, Tex.-According to reports
that are reaching the game, fish and
oyster department, the wardens in the
respective sections of the state are
finding no trouble now in enforcing
the game laws and are reporting that
only in rare instances are the laws
being violated in respect to bag limit
and killing of quail out of season.
Because of the fact that the duck
season opens in few weeks, the de-
partment is urging its wardens to use
every precaution in the prevention of
the killing of ducks previous to that
date. Oct. Is is the time settled upon
by statute for the killing of ducks.
This is federal statute. There are
state statutes, however, dealing with
the hunting or ensnaring of ducks by
any other means except a gun, held
to and shot from the shoulder"
The killing of wild ducks at night
is prohibited under special statute pro-
vision in the counties of Harris, JEFF
ferson, Galveston, Brazoria, Mata-
gorda, Nueces, Arkansas, Refugio, La
Vaca, San Patricio, Cameron, Hidalgo
OR Calhoun. The hours wherein it is
violation of state statute to kill is be-
tween sunset and sunrise. Special at
tention will likewise be given the ship
ment of ducks, and the necessity of
having license to hunt under certain
stipulations.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
TALK BY WIRELESS
TO HONOLULU, H. |.
A CONVERSATION TRANSMITTED
OVER DISTANCE OF FORTY
SIX HUNDRED MILES.
SECOND SUCCESSFUL TEST
Came After Talk Without Aid of
Wires From the Atlantic to
the Pacific.

New York.-The human voice has
bridged the North American cont
nent and without the use of wires.
Ineligible sound has been projected
through the ether and words spoken
IN an ordinary tone in New York have
reached waiting ears at San Francisco.
Beyond all this the official announce
ment has been made that the dis
lance between Washington and Homo.
lulu, four thousand six hundred
miles, has been annihilated by the
wireless telephone as perfected by
J. J. Carly, chief engineer for the
American Telephone & Telegraph
company. Telephone communication
between New York and any Of the
great capitals of Europe and even
across the Pacific ocean from Seattle
to Toxic is now altogether possible,
depending upon the installation of
apparatus.
The same engineers to whom credit
for this achievement in the art of
communicating intelligence by cleo
tr1city, has been accorded, at the
same time have announced another
wonderful discovery. In the expert.
ment by which the voice was carried
between New York and San Francis
CO, words passed by land wires be-
tween New York and Arlington. Va,
and from there, as If projected from
the loose ends Of the copper strands,
were sent into the air to be waited
across the plains and valleys, the
towering peaks of giant mountain
ranges and the deserts, to be picked
UP again by the slender antennae of
the wireless tower at Mare Island
navy yard and carried to the waiting
ear at telephone receiver.
This strongly indicates the posi-
bility by which people living inland
may call friends who happen to be
on ships at sea, as voices
are carried over present land lines to
some central station along the coast,
and there automatically passed into
a radio transmitter and projected out
over the ocean to a moving object
and finally to the one who may be
designated to receive the message
sent by such wonderful ways.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
GiVind Them AWAY

Neighbours Little Girl-When did
you get back, Mrs. Spruggins?
Mrs Spruggins-Why, child, I
haven't been away.
Neighbours little Girl-That's fun.
ny. I heard mother say you and Mr..
Spruggins had been at Loggerheads
for a week.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Anslo-French Bonds at sSh..

New York-Although the designated
price OF the Anglo-French five-year
credit bonds has been fixed at SO to
the public, it developed Friday that
virtually anyone who wished to pur-
chase them in amounts Of $1,000 and
upward would be able to do So at 9614,
the net price to the syndicate.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
DR.. pumba Sails for Home

New York. - DR.. Constantin T.
Dumba, Austro-Hungarian ambassa-
dor to Washington, who was recalled
at the request of President Wilson.
sailed for home Tuesday on the Hol
land-American liner Nieuw Amster-
dam, under safe conduct arrange
ment made by the state department
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Guns for carrancistas Arrive.

Laredo, Tex.-A shipment consist
Ing of 1900 Marlin rifles from an East
ern factory, consigned to the COM
mander of the Carranza military
forces at Monterey, in care of the con.
stitutionalist consul at Laredo, ar.
rived Tuesday by express and imme-
diately were taken across to the Next.
can side and sent on their way to their
destination,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Nearly 100000 Bales Out

Washington.-The second cotton re-
port of the season, compiled from re-.
ports Of census bureau correspondents
and agents throughout the cotton belt
and issued Tuesday, announced that
2,SOO,OO7 bales of cotton, counting
round as half bales, of the growth of
1915, has been ginned prior to Sept,
2E.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Taxes Called to Avert Deficit

Austin, Tex.-In order to avert IL
possible, deficit in the state treas.
ury, Comptroller H. B. Terrell Friday
addressed letter to the 249 tax col
lectors in Texas urging upon them to
remit at once all tax collections. Col.
lection of 1915 taxes began FRIDAY
throughout the state.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Increase Pay From I to $ c.n+o

Paris.-The chamber of deputies in
a five-minute session Friday voted
unanimously for increasing the pay of
private soldiers from lie to &c DER
day The chamber also voted 10000
900 francs ($14,OOO,OOO) to provide for
the increase.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Saw Mill Fire Loss Is Great,

zwolle, La.-Fire that originated In
the filing room at the plant of the sa.
bine Lumber Company and was fan.
ned by high wind Thursday night de,
stroyed the saw mill, capacity 100000
feet, and cry kilns, causing a loss es.
timated at between $15O,OOO and 5000,
600.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Woman Kills Man at BRYAN m...,,,

''NsIITS
Hillsboro, Tex.-At the close of w
J.. Bryan's speech Saturday and while
the crowd was leaving the grandstand
Dr. A G. Saylors of Bynum was shot
and instantly killed. Immediately after
the shooting Mrs. Joe Kirkpatrick Of
bynum surrendered to Sheriff Long.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Condition Of Texas crona.

Austin, Textile weekly crop bull.
letin issued by the Texas department
OF agriculture shows that corn through
out Wise and Hill and intermediate
counties was not SO much injured by
storms as was at first feared, and
average crops will be made.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Japanese Livinu Abroad

Recent figures of the Japanese for.
eign office show that $4,000 Japanese
subjects are living abroad In the
United States are $4,000; Hawaii. 60.
ooo; Philippine islands, 5000; China,
10000; Australia 5000; Canada. 49,.
600; France, 1879; Great Britain. 47S.
and Germany. 434,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
VIII Build New Line

Fort Worth, Textile Midland and
Northwestern will be chartered Nov.
to build line Of railway from Mid.
land to Seminole, county seat Of
Gaines county, distance of 60 miles
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
He and She.

She-Have you ever read Lives of
the Hunted?"
He-No; what's it about-bach-
elors?-New York Post.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Army and Navy Take Part.

Representatives Of the United States
government, Of the army and the
navy, Joined in the. demonstration,
talking across the continent without
the use of wires Words spoken in
this way were repeated back by the
transcontinental land telephone lines
opened last January, and the proof
was conclusive. secretary Of the
Navy Daniels, who had loaned gov.
eminent equipment to the prosecution
Of the experiment, issued formal
statement, announcing the achieve.
ment and placing the governments
stamp Of appreciation upon the mar.
Velous accomplishment.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Nueces County Bonds Approved.

Austin, Tex.--A bond issue of s15s..
OVo OF Nueces county drainage district
NO. z was approved Saturday by the
attorney generals department,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Kansas City Gets G. A p

Washington.-Kansas City was Sc.
lected Friday as the place for the 1915
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
Considerable Time.

Engineers of the American Tele.
phone & Telegraph company have
been engaged, during considerable
time, in perfecting the wireless tele.
phone. To make possible the accom-.
plishment recently recorded, 1t was
necessary, 1t is stated, to apply radi-
cally new ideas to the generally
accepted theories Of wireless teleg-
raphy. At first temporary towers at
Montauk Point, L. l., and Whining.
ton, Del, served the purpose. After.
wards the government loaned it's
wireless towers at Arlington, near
Washington, and at Mare Island, near
San Francisco, to the work. Panama
and points in Cuba were also brought
into the experiment. The wireless
station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. was
also equipped with necessary tele-
phone apparatus. Obstacle after OBJ
stacle was finally overcome.
Seated in his office in New York
President T. N. Vail of the American
Telephone & Telegraph company,
who authorized the experimental work
spoke the first words to travel. part
by wire and part by wireless, to San
francisco He called ]. ]. Carly, un-
der whose direction the work was
done and who was waiting on the
Pacific coast, to participate in the
final test.
Hello, Carly" the talk started
''This is Mr.. Vail"
Even Mr.. Carly was surprised, so
clearly and distinctly did the words
reach him.
This Is fine" he exclaimed. "This
is wonderful"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15

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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-15
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bridegroom in this case is the Secretary
of the Treasury it should be counted twice
in the recapitulation.
Very lately Miss Genevieve Clark, the
Speakers daughter, has been married to
Mr.. Thompson, Of New Orleans, with the
larger part of Missouri in attendance at
the ceremony. To be sure, the Speakers
feelings on Election Day, 1912, may have
been somewhat mixed, yet he must be con-
sidered a member of the administration
and a beneficiary of Democratic success,
and his daughter, therefore, one of the
brides not unbeholden to the ballot box.
Thus like arc lights along the way of
Democratic administration have fared the
torches of Hymen. May they continue
until the end to dispel the gloom that
otherwise might dog the national footsteps.