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THE RICE BELT JOURNAL WXELSH PTG CO., LTD., Pubs. VW4ELSI. LOUISIANA The rec kls chauffeur and his man chine are soon parted. ------- Humanity gets its money's worth out of the bathing suit. Lots of people never thought of hur tying until they got a fast motor car. T aTak So far no one has been accused of V m~ortgaging the home to buy an aero- egi plane. Sab take Wireless telegraphy begins to rival chloroform in the alleviation of dis tress. There is no truth in the rumor that the backbone of winter has been mended. Those Zeppelin airships have to be handled more delicately than a pet rhinoceros. Air sickness is an affliction that hasI come with the flying machine. "Stand I m.Y, from under." GI That celebrated expert, the katydid, thro was not so far off in its long-distance fron weather prediction. sym tabl There is to be an eclipse of the stre moon in November. And undoubtedly I others, not of the moon. shol CII People have such a habit of crowd- villi ing around a broken-down automobile 1 as if they were glad of it. this ing An Ohio judge has ruled that a pret- P. zel is not a dangerous weapon. Now siL for a judicial opinion concerning wien- pot erwurst. her for The summer is about over. We no- mu tice that the society column says "has ha returned" oftener than "has sailed" E. nowadays. A Washington girl strangled a mad dog with her bare hands. What couldn't she have done with the gloves on! "Heavy hogs are slow and weak," says a market report, but common ex perience proves that sometimes they - don't act that way. King George wants all the British army officers to wear mustaches, which is one way of getting soldiers with stiff upper lips. A New York man committed suicide for the purpose of giving his wife a chance to get a better husband. She r will not have to look far. 1 The kaiser has a new palace, ma I king 51 in all. Private millionaires, even in America, have their work cut out for them if they mean to travel at that pace. A man has been found starving himself because he feared the end of the world was at hand. There must be such a thing as the rash bravery of cowardice. A New York woman declares that an income is like a reputation--it must be lived up to. That is true, but it makes some difference as to how I one lives up to it. New Jersey has a college graduate 100 years old. Maybe he can tell us who originated that modern jest of leading the college president's cow to the top floor of the dormitory. A London newspaper announces that c Swift's idea of wit was all wrong. ti Next thing London will probably in- fe form us that Shakespeare didn't know ki anything about writing plays. s1 A man who has become involved in n trouble because he married three h women in three months sets up the u claim that he is insane. Some mar ried men are mean enough to believe r him. A lawyer in Chicago has figured that the Fourth of July really comes on August 4. If he wants to do some thing really worth while, let him fig ure that moving day comes on Febru ary 30. Firemen in New Hampshire prevent ed a suicide by playing the hose on a man determined to cut his throat. There is nothing like cold water to bring emotionalism of any kind down to a common-sense basis. While people over here have been sizzling in the heat, France has been suffering from thunder storms, gales and unseasonably cold weather. In the village of Bonneville, near St. Etienne, the local postman, who goes his rounds in a blouse and carries an umbrella, was caught by the gale the other day and blown nearly half a mile. He came safely to earth again, but he lost all his letters. That ought to cure him of the umbrella habit. It is said that Edison has invented an automatic talking machine to ac company the moving pictures. The only thing remaining is for the wizard to invent an automatic silencing ma chine for the campaign orator and a few others. Out In California some of the peo ple have begun lasting for six weeks, hoping that at the end of that time they will to heaven. Even if they fail to go to heaven they will probably have saved enough to make earth seem pretty heavenly. IER .. . ! PIlYSICIAN APPROV ES Taking Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 1 Sabat tns, Maine.--"You told me to take Lydia E. Pinkhamll's Vegetable 1 Compound andL 1i ver Pills before child-birth, and we 1 are all surprised to e see how much good v it did. M patys, i, cian said' Vithout t doubt it was the an! C Compound that e helped you.' I t i thank you for youti kindness in advising o " I meand give youfull permission to use v id my name in your testimonials."-Mrs. 0 I. IV. M(TCHELL, Box 3, Sabattus, Me. t Another Woman Helped. Graniteville, Vt.- "I was passin ,d, throughtheChangeof Life andsuffere ce from nervousness and other annoying symptoms. Lydia E. Pinkham's e egeo table Compound restored my health and I strength, and proved worth mountains I of gold to me. For the sake of other ly sutfering women I am willing you should publish my letter." - Mrs. CHSARLEs BAncLAY, R.F.D, Granite vd- Ville, Vt. le `Women who are passing through this critical period or who are suffer ing from any of those distressing ills -et- peculiar to their sex should not lose Ssight of the fact that for thirty years Len- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pen- ound, which is made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills. In almost every com no- munity you will find women whoI has have ben restored to health by Lydia ed" \ E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound. PAKER'S HAIR BALSAIM Rel lean and beautifes the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. ne _ Never 74il to Reutore Grey kn air to its Youthful Color. kn \ Managing a Husband. Men are like children; they want frE managing, although you must never on let them dream that you think so. No th, child likes to be ordered about, no th; man will endure coercion. But man-pr , aging! It is an art so subtle, so elu- q t sive, that few women understand even th t the rudiments of it. Sisters mine, let TI us reason together, says Woman's in Life. In every human being there is in g a spark of the divine; it is yours to cl fan that spark into a flame-that is s( it managing a man-it is to get the very bi y best out of him there is to have, and i1, not two women in ten can do it. Do not think that there is anything at unworthy in managing a man-to , -it bring out the best is a high vocation. ut Only let us see to it that we are w Iworthy of it. There are women who I have made angels of men, but at the cost of their own divinity. There is te room for more than one unselfish per us son in a family. of to He Came by It Honestly. "Lend me your pencil, Johnny." The small boy handed it over and teacher lat continued to correct the exercises of ng. the class. When she linished she suf in- fered a sudden lapse of memory and ow laid the pencil away in her desk. As she stood up to excuse the class she encountered the scornful gaze of John in ny's eyes. Rising in his seat he fixed ree her with an accusing forefinger and the uttered the single word "Graft!" iar- Johnny's father writes for a cur eve rent magazine. DAME NATURE HINTS ai When the Food Is Not Suited, a. When Nature gives her signal that something is wrong it is generally tl with the food. The old Dame is al- n ways faithful and one should act at once. To put off the change is to risk that which may be irreparable. An Arizona man says: "For years I could not safely eat any breakfast. I tried various kinds of breakfast food, but they were all soft, starchy messes which gave me dis tressing headaches. I drank strong coffee, too, which appeared to benefit me at the time, but added to the head aches afterwards. Toast and coffee w ere no better, for I found the toast very constipating. 1 "A friend persuaded me to quit the old coffee and the starchy breakfast foods, and use Postum and Grape-Nuts instead. I shall never regret taking t his advice. I began using them three months ago. "The change they have worked in me is wonderful. I now have no more of the distressing sensations in my e stomach after eating, and I never have I headaches. I have gained 12 pounds in weight and feel better in every way. a "Grape-Nuts make a delicious as well as a numtritious dish, and I find that Postum is easily digested and never produces dyspepsia symptoms." S"There's a Reason." e Get the little book, "The Read to SWellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new h one nppenre from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of humaU interest. WA NmCI G SSIP Unce Sam I Loser in Cash Account Ai Al .W \,lINlGTON.--One of the mighty few instan'es on record of ihe 1 nitied States having been "done" in its cash accounts came to light at the treasury department the other day in a decision handed down by the con troller of the treasury. In this par ticular instance the government is short more than $t1,100 and has no way of helping itself. It became ai ivictinl through the carelessness of its own officers, and the victimization, too, was not criminal In its nature. Prior to 1879 the late Samuel J. Little of Georgetown owned four cer tificates of 6 per cent. stock of the Sohil corporation of Georgetown. Upon d his death he left a life interest in the iS stock to his sister, Mrs. Eliza A. t Ricketts. and the residue to his minor '" children, J. ('. Little and Julia A. LiAttle. In the settlemeint of the case oefore the probate court the actual possession of the four certiticates of stock was passed to Mrs. Ricketts, so is that she might collect from the treas Se urer, from time to time, the interest r9 due her. * Shortly after this United States Treasurer G(ilfllan issued a circular ly calling upon all holders of George htown corporation stock, which was « 1)1st it of t' iuit;,I;, to i!ti4--nt S ( 'I cL . ' it a'te ' t redeililill". Mr. icketts took the follr (erlitfic ts tc C le Ie'-;lu'er olfiic', uoloi 'sd "I here v assignt tihe w ithi n cettifi(:ij 't to ro astr ther of the United iStates for o ISdeumption, on account of 'lizam A. icketts." The treasurer refused red",mption ponl this indorsenment. Mrs. Ilickett5 hen asked tho tirst auditor of the reasury, as he as kno\\ in those lays, to approve the indorsetletit, but te refused. She appealed to the of ice of the then first cont roller of the reasury and obtained the desired ap iroval. A((cordintgly the treasurer paid Mrs. Ricketts $4,012 principal and $9.23 in terest. In 1S94 Julia A. Burnell, formerly lulia A. I.ittle, the daughter of Sam uel J.. ,ittle, made claimu for the $4, t)21.2:, alleging that it had been er roneously paid to Mrs. Ricketts, who had a life interest only. The claim was disallowed by the treasury. Mrs. Burnell and her husband then entered suit for the amount before the court of' claims. A year ago they obtained judgment for the amount. and in the deficie'ncy act of June 25, 1910, ap propriation was made to pay th claim, along witih others. Mrs. Burnell has been fighting for sixteen years to secure the money she thought was hers and is just now coming into her own, while the gov ernment is out over $4,000. all of Fame Statuary Not Artistic HERE Is a determined effort being made in Washington to have old Representative hall in the capitol cleaned out. This is the room now known as the Hall of Horrors to those who have seen the statuary in it, but which is aristocratically titled the Hiall of Fame. There are a lot of statues that are freaks from way back. There Is only one piece of really good sculpture in the whole bunch of some 35 or 40, and that is Father Marquette, which was presented by Wisconsin. It is an ex quisite piece of work. The rest of n the statues are practical caricatures. There is one of Fulton, who is seated in & chair with a piece of machinery ýs In his hand. He lops all over the o chair, his legs are sprawled in all is sorts of ways, and it is about as woe Y begone a piece of marble as can well id be imagined. There is a marble of \Vebster, whom everybody knows was al not a large man, but the statue makes him \a regular giant. There is a statue of John J. lungalls, the only one c at yet sent by Kansas, and excepting d that it is like a line, has neither breadth nor thickness, which was ae b good description of Ingalls. It is the limit for ugliness. There is a statue of Frances Willard in a basque and ill-hanging dress, which bears not the slightest resemblance to that dainty, '1 sweet-faced woman. There is a statue of Phil Kearny in bronze, which is very pretty to look at, but has very little artistic merit, and there is one of Shoup, of Idaho, which looks as I though it might have been sandpa pered out of a piece of marble. And then there is Washington, a dapper little darling with sloping brow, as fashioned by lioudon. The Washington newspapers some time ago began a crusade to have the law placing statutes in Statuary hall by the states repealed. It is to be repealed on the ground that the i hall is already jammed to overflow - ing, and if any more statuary is pre I1 sented it will be necessary to make a f second and inner row. Much-Read Social Science Bulletins I'LL scld "NC' 6 r WHETHER the high price of food d is causing the public to take an uncommonly keen interest in domes tic problems now, or whether the cause is something else, the officials t of the Department of Agriculture do not undertake to say. The fact re mains that there has been a greater I run up to date on the so-called "social i science" series of bulletins than on any other pamphlets the department has ever produced. Up to the present there has been a. total of 16,672,000 bulletins distribut ed. Some now out of print have been applied for so often that it is prob able the estimates for next year will include provision for reprinting. This government is the only one in y the world that has gone into the busi ness of printing cook books. It was stated, when the Delpartlent of Agri culture recently issued the book on the use of cheap cuts of meat, that it was the first government cook book ever printed. The social science series has been running for more than a decade, and has, incidentally, taken in various do mestic problems in the food line un der the head of "Nutrition Investiga tions." The earliest of these was one on the composition and cooking of meats, issued nearly 14 years ago. Of this there has been something over half a million copies distributed. But the most popular of all the bul letins was the recent one on "The I Economical Use of Meat in the SlHome." This has been out only a few months, and there have already been a distributed 1,200,000. Calls are still t. coming in rapidly. n The series comprises books on all )- sorts of subjects-the preserving of 11 fruits and vegetables, fish as food, the care of milk in the home, the value of n peas, beans and legumes in general as 1- food, the cooking of vegetables, and is more than a'dozen other subjects. Postal Thieves Comparatively Few ILL KNOW B ETTER i NEXT U TIME C T 1 Postoffice Department daily re I ceives hundreds of complaints caused by the losses of packages and money. Mails are easy to rob, but few postal thieves ever escape final de tection; they are sure to be entrapped and punished in the end. While speak ing of these numerous complaints, an old detective, called inspector, of the Postoffice Department said: "No thief is harder to catch than the one who robs Uncle Sam's mail. The methods of such thieves are ingenious, 'he plunder is easily hidden or de stroye l, and their rascality is well masked by the honesty and integrity of associates. ",Postoffice thieves are not arrested I every day, although valuable letters and other articles are stolen almost daily and an army of shrewd inspec tors are on the alert. Positive proof of guilt must be in the possession of Y the inspector before an arrest is made. Circumstantial evidence does not go at any time with us. It is an estab lished rule that the evidence must be positive and direct. In almost every case an arrest means conviction. "From one point of view it is won derful that there are so few thieves among the many thouoinds of clerks who handle the mails'first and last, for great temptations surround them, as they handle millions of valuable parcels. It is known that these clerks soon learn to tell by the very touch of a letter whether it contains money. If so inclined it would be an easy mat ter for the dishonest clerk to slip I letters into his pocket and open them in the privacy of his room. That the cases of dishonesty are comparative ly few is a high tribute to the moral qualities of the postoffice clerks. '"There are but two successful ways I to catch a postoffice thief-constant I watch and decoy letters. With these, Sand a large supply of patience, the d game will be landed, though it often s requires months, and sometimes years. it it is one of the most annoying and dif ficult lines of detective work, and re )f quires the most earnest application. i Not a single circumstance or detail e. must be overlooked." SAID BY THE YCUNGSTERS Some Bright Renmarks Worth Pre sc'v;i:9. That Have F~lien From Childish Lips. S ii ,, gi rl, ;!l -i, " l r !. ,, i i at l I i ll- "111 i,,0;tk 'll lh,' 't ti . , 1l ini ha'tintg about the "uae lian I il( , be lt' L iii, itt!l[ ' 'l -in ." ' of h r "tt "'r la l i", lat lr r laiti'd that they h1ld hben t dyii : 11 abou t 'la ra ti: 1e 'l:ts ..' " Ecclc siastical noir des RI, d ,rlitt . r otcS. A small (',ica;go ('itizcn " as t a Si'n to a line thullchl, where the Mnusic, indou\v s, furnlshting; , and all acdccs n sories were as imprlessive' as the build og. 'lThe minister, living up to his e eu iable relutiation as an orator, inll e dulged in a brilliant rhetorical flight. It "1 know," he declaired, "who gilds f. the sun and silvers the stars anti Soints the flowers and tints the sky I and lends to the rivers their beauty, to the ocean its glory, to the skits their iprfect light." and so ou through a. long and effective periods. Finally ic;nme the interrogatory cli:ax: "'ho ly is it. nmy friends, 'Nho performs all n thesw wonders? \Who is it? \Vho?" ,1. tm the front pew where the baby r. listener had been all eager attention ho 'ame a shrill, disappointed pipe: im I "You said .ou knew. Not Responsible. Nur-se-1-\Vht's tht dlirty mark on your leg, Master Fr:inl;? ' rank Hlirold kic.ked Ime. Nrse- -\'ell, go at once and wash it off. Fi ank--\Why? 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A man is judged by his appearance KNOW\N THE WORLD OVER n-- . W. N HOUSTON. NO. 42-1910. W. N. U., HOUSTON. NO. 42-1910.