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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-03
Our National Ill Manners.


FOR good many years, writer's like Ger
trude AthcrtOn Henry James, William
Dean Howells and others Of their class, have
written on the national failing we haye-that
of a lack of good manners, as a class of peo-
ple.
We always resent these impHtations, even
when they are backed up by facts, but il we
are honest and observant, we can note in bust
mess, in private life and in the general mix
ang" all of us do more or less, that we are a
bad hammered lot, and we don't seem willing
TO make amy change.
Take the telephone for instance: is there
any medium, in daily use, that furnishes the
vehicle for showing 50 plainly, and to so many
the average bad manners Of the ma GRITTY of
users! Few women, making pretense of
refinement, Will talk face 10 face. with any
one, in the tone and manner they almost in
variabIy use not only to the operators of the
telephone system, but to those with whom
they are talking business. The short, snappv
often lnSolent tone: the absence of ''please"
and ''thank YOU, makes for strength of our
national failing of bad manners.
In she Us, when two or three dozen men and
women are gathered to buy or look, they are
Alike band of invaders, and the Lord help
the meek and lowly in a ''sale" at any of the
big stores. Hats, clothes toes and limbs are
III fair way to be annihilated or oblterated
you may make your own choice of terms,
but the bad manners get there.
In business like publishing house, it is
amazing the many varieties of bad manners
that are made visible, to those employed.
Letters will come with please find encosed',
and there is no enclosure. Following the rules
of the office, there will be courteous re-
mlnder to the RENTER, of the lack of a re-
mlttance, and In the most nsolent manner will
come the second epistle, demanding to know
Elf credit was not good enough from one who
had subscribed so long" etc.
Or subscribers will remove: thew want their
publications as much as the publisher wants
to send them, but the lack Of the new address,
or of the old, will deprive them of maybe
three or four issues; hen comes the avalanche,
and the office force is branded as,''ineffcient
careless and indifferent to the interests of the
Company" etc.
Or, as happens more frequently than the lay
man would suppose, envelopes will come, con-
tanning checks or money orders, and no sign
Of a letter; polite inquiry will be made as to
the disposition Of the funds sent. and very
often a reply will be directed to the head of
the firm, calling his attention to the care
lessness Of his employees. Money will be sent,
In spite of warnings, through the open mail
and frequently fails to reach the destination
intended comes then letter, which is
answered, to bring forth another almost ac-
cusing the office force Of having puroned
the money when it reached the office.
All this is bad manners coupled with diff
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-03

extra cash will have to be raised by amend
ments to the present Income Tax law.
"A tax, such as the President proposed in
his address to Congress, on gasoline and bank
checks especially, would be a tax on the COM
mon people, and Kitchin does not figure that
a campaign year is good time to give the
average voter anything in the shape of addi-
tlonal taxes.
By the way, this reminds us of Badly
Harris and Jim Price-that is gasoline does.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-03

But gasoline has gone up, up, up! until it
is getting almost to the point where it IS
worth as much for its odor as for its motive
power-it is now luxury instead of COM
modify, and we do not hear word from
either Price or Harris they have grown
strangely silent on the subject of gasoline.
We wonder what limit the price would have
reached if Badly and Jim had kept talking
investigation would it have gone to so much
per smell?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-03

ferent varieties of ignorance, and it seems al
most impossible, even after repeated warnings,
to make some people understand Just what the
simple rules are which cover subscriptions to
periodicals, and how anxious the people are
III publication offices to get the record on
straight.
The result of this national lack of good
manners IS most noticeable in the younger
generatlon-and some not so young: we hear
professional men referred to by younger men,
without the prefix, which is theirs by right;
we hear men of dignity and standing referred
to as Old man So and So" and no one seems
to have the nerve to call down the offender.
The writer's mentioned were right-we
have horrible manners, as a people, and we
seem rather to act as though the lack of good
manners was asset, instead of something
to be rather ashamed of.
Mr.. Gallivan of Massachusetts,, loyal son
of the Roman Catholic Church, now goes on
record as declaring that the Notwithstanding
period In regard to Mexico has passed, and
urges these United States to get busy and do
something III the way of fighting; which is
exactly what one expects all of the Gallivans
to propose-on paper.
In Virginia they don't take kindly to the
man who sticks you up, on the road and re-
heves you of your bank roll; and the man
who has just had a sentence of eighteen years
passed on him, came near going to the cleo
trlc chair, ten of the jurors favoring that
mode of punishment
Maybe the horrible example, in financial
way, of course, that Georgia has set, has made
other States decide not to adopt Georgia's
brand of prohibition at any rate, Kentucky
and Louisiana have voted to take their
flicker straight, and under it's right name
4
1t may be of immense help to the Southern
farmers who live on the lines Of the Southern
Railroad, to know that 'they are $20O,0O0,O0O.
better off than they were last year. and they
might save that item to pay off the mort
gage with.
The fool killer should hunt up that Balti-
more man who kept diary, in which he kept
a list of his amourY with the ladies, and
which Friend Wife found in time to be
among those present in the first session of the
divorce court.
If you don't believe that children are
precocous these days, you will when you read
of the ten year-old boy who forged a check,
and got away with it, in Naynesboro, Pen
nsylyania; or the ether one, same age, who
tried to commit suicide.
Bless us Here's old man WevIer-the erst-
while butcher of Cuba, at the head of the
Spanish army, and most of us thought he had
beat the other butcher, Huerta to glory-or
the other place.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-03

New York has still further solved the
problem of the fireless cooker; company is
operating device, by which one may drop a
coin IN cabinet and secure eatables that run
the gamut from sandwiches to pie, and also
hot tea, coffee or cocoa
MIR. Wilson has changed his mind about
the tariff; and as he has changed, his mind
about everything he believed in when he was
nominated, this last change isn't going to
make the river run any faster under the
bridge
Mr.. Tumulty will be making all the little
vlce-presdents jealous, and in future the lob
OF secretary to the President will be consid-
cred bigger than simply as running (offi-
clally) second with him.
Being run over by sllre-enough automo-
bile is bad enough, but to have to take in
Juries from a jitney must be awfully hard,
and we don't blame that Savannah man for
being peeved about it.
My but this has been hard winter: woman
burglar IN ST. Louis was shot by another wo-
man whose house she was entering through
the window, and her pocket was found full of
unpaid coal bills
A Baltimore paper asks ''whom is political
ldler"? And it ought not to be hard to pick
out about two dozen in each community who
would fill the bill, drawing salaries while
they do so.
The sinful pitfalls of baseball may be more
fully recognized when it is known that
Waycross man dropped $11 900 of the other
folks money, betting on the games
Maybe as preliminary~t to the diet of horse
which it is said the New York hotels will put
on one man there planned an ostrich dinner.
and roast "squab" ostrich will be on the
biIl-of- fare
Great piece of literary stuff advises all to
find the negative individual" and we sug-
gest for the permanent honors, w. y. b
who negatives everything and everyone
Another Northern heiress has gotten back
to the grade of life her daddy sprang from,
and took a big COB of her parents money
when she'eloped with the chauffeur.
That tariff of one cent pound on lemons
means only the fruit is to be taxed, not the
disappoiptments in life under that head.
Senator Ben Tillman's pitchfork has turned
into Neptune's trident, Judging from his ''Real
truth about the navy" talkfest
High flown article on GLOW the worlds
news is gathered and distributed", never said
word about women helping
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-03

Bless us! Here's old man WeyIer-the erst-
while butcher of Cuba, at the head of the
Spanish army, and most of us thought he had
beat the other butcher, Huerta to glory-or
the other place..
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
To Improve Cattle In Rennal.


The decadence of cattle In the prov
ince Of Bengal forms the subject OIL
an interesting monograph recently
published by the director of agricuI
ture for the province. The cause OF
their decadence he attributes partly
to climatic conditions, partly to the
lack Of grazing grounds, and largely
to the needless breeding policy of the
Bengal cattle owner. His chief rec
concentrations are the provision of
good bulls and the establishment OF
superior milk-yielding cows, draft
bullocks and bulls. The report is H.
Illustrated by a most interesting collec-
ton of photographs descriptive of the
various species OF cattle ranging from
the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal
from the record bull bison, measuring
Is hands 21a inches at the shoulder
and 10 hands 3 inches at the humu,
down to the humble lineaments of the
Nadia calf which at sixteen months
measured only SO inches In height be-
hind the hump.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
important &c Mothera
Bears the
MADE OWN ROAD TO SUCCESS
Woman Proved She Was Capable If
Making Her Way, Despite All
Forms of Competition.

Forced by the illness of her hus.
band five years ago to take up the
burden Of supporting the family, Mrs.
Jennie Watkins In that time has be,
come one Of the foremost woman in
surance agents in the country and has
written more than one million dollars
worth OF insurance policies.
Mrs. Watkins lives at No. $50 Fort
Washington avenue, where she main,
tains her Office. She Is the only wom
an member of the 100000 club, an
organization OF expert insurance
agents whose annual writings OF poll
cies reach that amount every year.
She declares, and her associates,
who are men, agree with her, that she
gained her success through competi.
ton on equal grounds with her malo
opponents, and she has vanquished
them in contests entirely by superior
arguments, and not by falling back en-
the handicap which her sex might Civ.
her.-New York Times.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
Rub PAINS FROM
SORE, LANE BACK
hub BaCkaChe away with small
trial bottle Of old
Isl. Jacobs Oil"

Back hurt you? Can't straighten
up without feeling sudden pains sharp
aches and twinges? Now listen,
That's lumbago, sciatica or maybe
from a stain, and you'll get blessed
relief the moment you rub YOUR back
with soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs
on Nothing else takes out sore.
ness, lameness and stiffness so quick.
~. 1t is perfectly harmless and doesn't
burn the skin.
Timber up! Don't suffer! Get a
small trial bottle from any store, and
after using it just once, you'll forget
that you ever had backache, lumbago
or sciatica, because your back will
never hurt or cause any more misery.
II never disappoints and has been rec.
commended for 60 years. Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
IKE A GLASS OF SALTS
WHEN BLADDER B0THERS
v,-l,,s to Flush Kidneys and Neu.
n1s Irritating Acids-spIendId
for the System.

Kinney and Bladder weakness result
nu uric acid, says a noted authority.
ma Hdneys filter this acid from the
VSd and pass It on to the bladder,
,hrs Il often remains to irritate and
name, causing a burning, sCalding
NATION, or setting up an irritation
/ 10 neck OF the bladder, obllging
yl 10 seek relief two or three times
luhrg The night. The sufferer Is in
nlant dread, the water passes
gnstImes with q scalding sensation
I'd 3 Very Droiuse; again, there Ia
laaiy h avoiding It.
Bladder weakness, most folks call
/ because they can't control urlna.
sm While Il Is extremely annoying
rd Unetlmes very painful, this Is
nIy one Of the most simple ailments
b WgCOme. Get about four ounces
4 I'D Salts from your pharmacist and
de 4 tablespoonful In a glass OF
niE before breakfast, continue this
hEO or three days. This will neu.
SiliS Tho acids In the urine so It 70
nEi Is q source Of irritation to the
Nader and urinary organs which then
2n@ually again.
I'd Salts Is inexpensive, harmless,
u s made from the acid OF grapes
% lsnon Juice, combined with lithia,
I'd sused by thousands Of folks who
n'HbIec to urinary disorders caused
y NC acid irritation. Jad Salts is
9add for Kidneys and causes no
n ELECTS whatever.
Hers you have e pleasant, efferves.
'l' lI'hlaVater drink, which quickly
aH@ bladder trouhle-Ady.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR
DARKENS YOUR GRAY HAIR
Look Years YounserI Try Grandma's
Recipe Of Sage and Sulphur and
Nobody viii Know,

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
cd, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded streaked
or gray; also ends dandrufr, itching
scalp and stops falling hair. Years
ago the only way to get this mixture
was to make 1t at home, which is
mussy and troublesome.
Nowadays we simply ask at any
drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sui.
phur Hair Remedy" You will get q
large bottle for about so cents. Every.
body uses this old, famous recipe, be.
cause no one can possibly tell that
you darkened your hair, as it does it
so naturally and evenly. You dampen
q sponge or soft brush with it and
draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at time; by morn.
Ing the gray hair disappears, and
after another application or two your
hair becomes beautifully dark, thick
and glossy and you look years younger.
ADV.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
W0MAN'S WORK IN THE WORLD
Activities of the Weaker Sex" Prome
nent Along Practically All Linea
of Endeavor.

More women are employed In tho
manufacture Of clothing than any 9th
er industry in Pennsylvania.
The duchess Of Norfolk has a cob
lection OF parasos OF all countriea
said to be worth $500.
Two thousand women will serve an
Judges and clerks Of election In Chi.
cago this year, for which they will re-.
ceive 81 per day.
Thousands OF women have been
thrown out OF work in Massachusetts
since the operation of the minimum
wage law went into effect.
Inc first savings bank was insth
tuted by woman, Priscilla Wakefield,
who tnaugurated a bank scheme for
the encouragement OF thrift among
children OF Tottenham toward the end
OF the eighteenth century.
A remarkable transaction of Mich
olas Stratham's Arrangement Of Law
an old English book, which has baH
lied translators for years. has juss
been completed by Mrs. Margaret @.
hllngensmith, member OF the Penn
syIVanla bar 1t took Mrs Klingen.
smith fifteen years to complete the
translation, which will be published
IN the near future.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
AS. DYSPEPSIA
INDNDIGE:ST0N
,o.os,s Diapopsin" settles sour,
'I g1ssy stomaChs in five
1inuteS-Time it!
,oDt wan. a slow remedy when

o., don't wan. slow remedy when
". ,omach is bad--or an uncertain
a, 4 harmful ono-your stomach
y |. % valuable you mustn't injure it.
. ~ Diapepsin is noted for its
I ~ m giving relief; its harmless
P'' n. certain unfailing action in
w. ,,,lng sick, sour, glssy stomachs,
-nuons Of cures in indigestion,
y ,l...nsla, gastrltis and other stomach
a'y wv, has made It famous the world
w. s,.D this perfect stomach doctor in
D. p,I sSome-keep It handy--get a large
I..,spt case from any dealer and
w ~ \ anyone should eat something
w. ssl.s doesn't agree with them; il
' ~, ,bey eat lays like lead, ferments
~ y ,ours and forms gas; causes head
dl,zIness and nausea; eructa.
wv Wv a, acid and undlgested food
. ~, as soon as Papes Diapepsin
.., IN contact with the stomach all
- distress vanishes. It's prompt.
' I'd, certainty and ease in overcoming
!. ,ors, stomach disorders is a reve-
s.,, n those who try it.-Ady.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
: ASCARETS' FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 10-cent box now.

No odds how bad your liver, utonlcch
or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort
able you are from constipation, indiges
ton, biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
CasCarets tonight; put an end TO the
headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv.
BUSINESS, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health, happI.
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days Of gloom and distress
II you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little In
sides need cleansing, too. Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
perhaps a man can write sensible
love letter, but he never does.
THE GIRL WITH A
CLEAR SKIN WINS

II you, too, are embarrassed by a
pimply, blotchy, unsightly complexion,
Just try Resinol Soap regularly for
week and see II it does not make q
blessed difference in your skin. In
severe cases a little Resinol Ointment
should also be used. Resinol Soap
helps to make red, rough hands and
arms soft and white, and to keep the
hair healthy and free from dandruR.
Resinol Soap contains no free alkalic
sold by all druggists.-Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
Increased Use Of Quinine.

That the use of quinine is rising In
popularity is amply borne out in a
statement laid before the legislative
council of India, recently. This state
ment shows that in 1913 the sales of
this medicine were just over forty-fve
and quarter million grains, whereas
in 1914 the sales had increased to close
on seventy.two and a half million
grains and for the first eleven months
of last year the sales exceed seventy.
three and three.quarter million grains.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
Claims I've Is Not InIurlous.

Prof. M, E. Jatfa of the California
state board of health denies that as Is
generally believed, lye-peeled peaches
are more injurious to health than
hand-peeled fruits. The food value,
quality and favor are unchanged, and
It Is impossible to distinguish one from
the other except by the knife marks
Of the hand-peeled product, he says.
Analyses show that the acidity Of the
fruit is not affected by the use of I've
In the peeling process.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
N PRIMITIVE RUSSIA
REGION WHICH CIVILIZATION HAS
NOT REACHED.
Inhabited by Nomadc Race, Who Llv,
as Their Forefathcrs Lived Through.
out the Centuries - Have
Many Peculiar Customs.

Interest is still kept up in Great
Britain in other things besides the
war. The other day, Tor instance, a
Mr.. F. A. Holiday, a traveller, gave
an address before the Society of Arts
IN London on the Ura!ak, a province
in Asian mid-Russ.a, northeast OF the
caspian sea.
Valuable oil fields exist here, and
also deposits Of sulphur and other
minerals useful in peace and war.
Mr.. Holiday said that the land was
very fiat, and there was almost an
absence Of trees, which caused the
fuel problem to be somewhat acute.
The advent of western civilization fur
nished the inhabitants with a certain
amount of tirewood in the shape of tel.
egraph poles and stakes used to mark
out claims.
The CosSacks, had, however, taught
them to respect the former, though
not in some cases the latter. The
original inhabitants were the Kirghiz,
an essentially nomadic race, who
lived in domeshaped tents made of a
light wooden frame covered with
camel skins.
The tents had no furniture, but
sometimes beautiful oriental rugs or
carpets were placed on the floor, a
space being lett on which a fire was
made.
When the Kirghiz used the tele-
graph poles as tirewood, they did not
take the whole pole away, but each
man Clipped off a piece until at last
The whole pole gave way.
A prince was a man with 100 or
200 sheep, and a prince in winter
generally lived in a house built Of
bricks made out of the sand and
baked in the sun.
The houses were sunk in the
ground for warmth in the winter.
They had window frames and doors.
but the firewOod question was so acute
that when the people went on trek
IN the summer they took the window
frames and doors out and packed them
on the backs Of camels for fear the
people who did not trek would steal
them.
The Ural river was a great source
Of wealth to the Cossacks. for it was
we'll stocked with fish. At one time
a barge crossed the river, but the
Cossacks would not allow it to cross
after dark, as they said that the fish
wanted to sleep as well as anybody
else.
The outbreak of war put a great
check on the developments of the
Uraisk and of other oil fields. A
great deal of prospecting and pre-.
iminary work was necessarily stopped.
and companies which were already
we'll established met with fresh diff.
,ulties.
In some places gas holes" around
which there was often a deposit of
were met with. Some of
hese spots were venerated by the
who prayed round them and
hen erected little sticks, to which
hey tied little pieces of cloth, as was
he manner Of simple peoples.
On one occasion his driver stopped
md prayed by one of these gas
loles," and threw. few kopeks on
he ground, which, he said, were for
he religious authorities when they
anne along. Asked if there was not
anger of someone stealing them, the
river replied that if he prayed for
elief from sickness and trouble, and
hen someone stole the money, the
hief would get the trouble and sick
ess, so there was no danger.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
New Steamship Line proIected,

The congress Of Ecuador has grant
ed a concession for a steamship line
between Guayaquil, Ecuador. and Phil.
adelphia. The vessels of the company
are to navigate under the Ecuadorian
flag and at least one,half of the EN-.
ployees are to be natives of Ecuador.
1t Is stipulated that the steamships
must begin running within one and
one-half years after the signing Of the
contract.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
Oreqon Coal Mininu,

About sixty years ago coal was first
mined in the Coos bay region of Ore
gon. The first cargo was shipped from
the Empire basin, but the discovery
Of coal near the head of Coos bay soon
transferred the point of production to
Newport. which remained the princl.
pal mine until within the last decade.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
Bombs Found in Capitol Building.

Lincoln, Neb.-Discoyery of three
pieces of gas pipe in the waste fur
mace of the state capitol, following an
explosion damaging the furnace Fri
day, led to a police investigation. The
janitor said the pipes were filled with
explosives.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-03
Expect Berries VIII Be Scarce.

Bay City, Tex-That the Bay City
section will hardly have more berries
than enough to satisfy the local trade,
as result of excessive dryness dur.
ing the past winter, is the statement
made this week to dealers by a mum.
Der Of growers.