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The Rice Belt Journal. Published Every Friday by Welsh Printing Company, Ltd. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADIANM E* Entered at the postoicee at Welsh, La.,5 second class matter. FRIDAY, NA\Y 1i, L911. D. II. READ. EDITOR. Southern pacific Time Card. EAST BOUND. . 4 due.. ............. 3:22 p. m . No. 4 due ................. 8:5 . m. 8o. 8 due ................. 12:10 a. m. ,. due ..................11:40 a. m . No. 1 due ................. 11:05 p. inm. WEST BOUND. N . 3 due ............ .. 9:17 a. m. No. 5 due.................. 3:22 p. m. No. 7 due................. 4:50 a. m. No. 9 due ................. 6:13 p. m. No. l due........... ....-.. 27 a. m. Nos. 7 and 8 do not stop, r'uone 34 for further information. J.,,. '1'U l],ls, A,..eni,. The democrats now have a chance. part in Will they take ,,ood? T'hat is the date. at question th',t is of vital interest to the public mind right now. For lifty Accor years, with but a slibht break, the re- of orns publican party has been in power. opit Under its dominion, colossal trusts was ret iand lmnev combines, such as the unexpet world ihas never nuowr\ before. have leave tt been niurtured and fostered. Dur- import 01, th1 htprp ot o this period1 in the r greed and graft have run rampant to the throulghout the countrv. T'lhrough the ered th power of money and political intlluel ic al. ( a monied laristocracy hits develop' old sa in this country thlt laughs at personal the san rights of the m~ses and scorns the laws state and Ilatiolnal. Under this reigime untold millions of tationil Whe wealth in the shape of lands and frau- dinaty cthlses has been stilen froim the nation (of type by thle money kings. This work iias sit been goitng on for }ears under the pro- and thll teltiug clte of a corI'rlpt anid debatsed ulll tn congress. The inietd )powers have of ch bought senatcors and t.lprescntatll es, he toto as well as havinu bought the seats iti be or the legislative halls for their own Ilone ahenchmnen. Until recent years this o00 er ihas been goinr oil with little or Ino b)eet etfort being made to plrevent it, bs Index the party in power. For elr-, the democrats of the counltry have souht,,it for an opportunity to rectify the ex- T1e isting evils, but so l)prne are tie: cun Amlerican people to tolerate a, wrongg Well lathelr than to rise uip ag;ginst it, hat i they have continutd truin terlu TO 't, CI lertli to return men wvoml they ik-w SV were corrupt to th!1 loVcdst drerce., SiOl But the worm eventually turns, :I:, yeair so have the American people, as is ;ei seen by th aw~akeued spirit of unrtr ti and discontent that is prevalenti i: every section of the union. it rec Li sult of this turning the demtoc, as frier have unexpectedly conime into, power. be si They ha\e an overwhelning miaj.ri- hers ty in the house, and by cuomit:i; g and with the progressives in the se ,ate 'has t hey can control legislation ltori'. lone This is their chance. Will they nm- the prove it'? be r Former chief of pulie Whitaker, of New Orleans, who is held on an ex the ceedingly infamous charge, in that cru city, is seeking a change of venus di:- yes vlaring that it would be impossible bet for himt to get a fair trial in that city. wl We had not thought it was so bad as that. While we knew that Whitaker st is a deep dyed scoundrel and doubt I trot there are many more of his kind I in the city, yet we had supposed that it would be possible to find at least twelve "good men and true" evun in Newurleans. If :.,r, \Vhitakoriopes to (co have his trial transfered to aay sec- thi tion where his rottenness and deprav- yo itv are any less severly condemned th than they are in New Orleans he will ed have to go outside the state, as the nt manjority of the country parishes would th have hang him two years ago when he st tried to kill Joe Levque, because he exposed some of his rottenness. In spite of the fact that th e lice Girowers' association has done much R &o maintain and advance the price of s-ice this season, and in spite of the e further fact that it is the only associ ation, or organization of any sort 4hat has ever done anythion for the iadustry, and in spite of the further Eact that the association is composed exclusively of rice planters, and those directly interested in the production I of rice, there are still a few, we are alad to say but a few, planters who are "skeptical" and "have doubts"etc. and therefore are knocking on thJ associ ation. Now Mr. Knocker, why not A get in line with the only organizatlon that has ever been of any help to you and boost the assoeiation. It.is boost in lg yourindustry )on't be a piker and wait fot' kome one else to blaze the way in order that you may follow, get in lisne and help yourself by helping the sssoelaston. This promises to be the hottest cam- WELSH ART paign waged in this state for the past two decades. Already, many months iatd before the primary, there are four I'tiaouea candidates in the field for governor, three for lieutenant governor, three for senators and something like a ý* score of others out for lesser state - otfices. Add to this one of the hottest Althoua ' parish campaigns for many years and in the pasl it is evident that there will be some- in the futi thing doing this fall that will make the days + the fellow who neglected to pay his thing of ti - poll tax, or to register, or to state state. Fa his party afliations when he did ization he register, feel like going out behind the Iperous Pu -barn and administer a sound kick- crop prop while tih ing to his anatomy. rained th successfu' 0. Every voter who failed to register rice, that nhis party affiliatious, or registered to be rem n. them as anything else than sinuply of fuorme 'n. )emocrat" will be debarred from n. voting at the coming state and parish with Mes primaries unless they rectify this defect Lewis ai at least six months before the date of ieasant m. tihe primary. The primary will be J. pleasanti m. held some time in January, therefore 13enoit i m. such a change will have to be made not ad he a m. later than the middle of july. Don't iand thei 1 neglect it. If you registered as re- eight ri publican, socialist, independent or ple we nt. anything other than -Democrat" gradce you will be disqualified to take any in somel ce. part in choosing any of the candi- L ipon the date., at the coming primar. and hi! to round it According to congressman Anthony, which h re- of Kansas, a case of extreme harmony Orleans of opinion among congressmen The sell asts was recently brought to light in an we may unexpected manner. Three had asked uncolun are leave to have their speeches up on an as hle h j-imortant subject printed and inserted practice od, in the records. W hen 'hey were i veu Loutisi ute to the printer to set up it was discov- good ol the ered that the three speteches were ilde- we haiv tee ical. ):ily an;other illustration of the ment, )l)ei old saying that ",great minds run in tha. lit hal the samie channel." of lr( _ the every this Aftel onal When oiie remembers that in an or- aout .~ . I al'oilol .an- dinarv ciuinmn there are 10,tJ03 pieces e st itiou Of type, that there are seven wi to n, i iai positi(ons o:tcl I letter 1may b' put il t pro-i and thereflore 30,0()01 cha cees i a co,- e hti )aseil uton to in ake errors, bsides million iwe hae hatve of chancet tratLsp,)si tiou, he will not hoste liks, he too critical. In the sentence. "To i ts ill be or n it to be,'' by the tranttosiitio elve owni ;lone it is possible to make i,~ 2t.0.o22- sevebi t iis S0) error- so you see the perils that ui a 1o beiet the pri tir.-Mi ieral Wells l'. i it, b Index, tMrey. ..-, cx he they. ought W el. ie t '. The state railroad and warehouse acres e , ct)touissi,on of Minnesota, is after the A t \V Wells Fargo Exp'ress coinlpa, iy. After eli d Smuch bicker'iug and hedginiig, the ginni l, t 1 Wells i'argoi people were compelled _ood i 0 su!uin;t their hooks to the commins- to se siun, which proved ti;at the comipany j thrif paid a dividend of 310 per cent last ly f year, after retaining a s u.plus of $3, ct)rln iiO0,Ol0 in cash.--A pleal to iReason. heig a a I Like Alexander of oldi, our esteemed ears cs friend Dr. Oscar Dowling, seems toci ower. e sighing for more worlds to conclqulr, u lei iiei- hece has btiden adieu to Louisiana, jud: itiLn and, iccompanied by his health train, l s Ldithas departed for California. How If tlhfri. long the doctor expects to be gone, or bev inu the purpose of his going, can only be reprtesented by the ralgebraic "x" i in our store of informintio.l iitaker, If anyone has any doubt regarding . Sa xthe fertility of Louisiana soil they car in t can easily have hose doubts putto n r-est hy taking a drive through a inutn- lin possible ber of the principall streets of Welsh, tru hat city. where they will lind a most, Iuxurient g bad as growth of weeds and grass lining the hi itke streets on either side, shutting off to mi l doubt a large extent a view of the abbuting his kind prooerty. sed thatrto at least --e even in Of course the little mite that you ao hlules to contribute toward the support of ay sec- the Game Commission will not break wI deprav- you, but when you come to think about a ddemned the hundred thousand dollars collect- tr Is be will ed and spent by this commission a n te, as the nuallyv it looks different, Don't you ft nes would think it is time, Mr. Voter to pm', a ti hhen he stop to the graft? I8ss. 1Six Flats, Ote sharp" Well Rrndered a Before Good lHouse. i The play "Six Flats, One Sharp" 1 no u much given by the members of the high F pe ice of school, at the Auditorium, Tuesdayc .of the evening, was well rendered and en iy ssoci- joyed by a good sized-audience. The i-lny sort Dlay drew forth frequent applause and t nn forthe the young people are to he commend. nh further ed upon them prolficiency with which it composed was given. and those production Men ile'd on Charge of Bmrriarilag ew, we are Morse Hardware, Store on Trial. rs who are Ed Baker and Frank Boyd, white s"eetc.and men, were arraigned, charted with tbh associ- the burglary of the Morse Hardware r, why not company. Baker plead not guilty, anizattion but Boyd promptly stated that he was help to you guilty, and added that he was ready It.is boost, for sentence, but for the purpose of a piker and looking into the master further, judg blaze the ment was deferred, Baker's case was follow, geet etfor June 5. Judge Gee. F. Pool by helping was appointed to defend Baker.-Lake Charles American-Press. 'ELSH FARMER HAS 100 ACRES CORN. Estimiated To Be Upwards Of Two T O T'Iluaaud Acres Of torn Trib utary To Welsh. Although rice has made men money in the past and will continue to (1do so in the future when properly handled, p the days of rice and rice only are a thing of the past in this section of the Y state. Farmers have come to the real ization here, as in every other pros- be perous part of the country, that a oi.e crop proposition is not a success. And while the time was when it was main- 11M tained that this country would not successfully produce anything but art rice, that dally has passed and is only to be remembered with other delusions of former times. b It was our privelege in company be with Messrs. L. E. iRobiusOll, L. G. Lewis and J. L. Byerly to pay a pleasant visit to the home of Mr. D. J J. Hlenuit the first of the week. Mr. iBenoit is a native of this country, and he and his estimable family live in their beautiful country home some eight miles south of Welsh, to which place we were conveyed over excellent ly graded roads in Mr. Lewis' "Ford" in somnething like twenty minutes. Upon arriving we found Mr. Benoit and his 'boys" just preparina to ei round up a couple of cars of cattle, 11 which he expected to ship to the New y Orleans market toe following day. u 'The selling of a car or two of cattle, y n we may remark in passing, is not an 0 d uncouilon occurauce with Mr. Benoit, u as he has a large herd that cost himu d praLtically nothiun to keep, .ince 'u Louisiana I,asture will krel them iln - good order the year around, and while u- I we have no exact t:gures for the state he wIent, we believe we are sat' itn 'aiIg in that he will clear above actual cost of productioa $5.00.00 or more ono eve'Y car. of cattie he sells. After the cordial handshake all Saroundtl which is charlacter'istic of the es triue southerner, Ni', 1ohinson stated i~ll to \1ir. Benoit that it was reportel t, that he had 100 acres of corn and that ol-e had come out to look at it. Our nlt hoste smilingly plead .uilty to the To chlarie and asked us to accompany WI To bhi l over his place and sec Ior our 22- selves. Before starting ho'erver, : r'. h2- i a;obiuson, on behalf of the Caleasieu ;lls Trust and Savings itunk, presented Mlr. Benlit with a box of line cigars, as w they stand ready to do to a.yV other Welsh farmter who can show up 100 rise 1 acres of good corl. the A tirip was then made through the tfter fields of early corn, which was just be the ginnin to tassel. Here we founl as iS lieed good looking triield as one could wish aiis- to see. a feld of corn that for evetnu(ss, any i thrift and color, is equal to any usual last !ly found ' Il Ohio or Kansas. The ," corn ii this lirhd stood at a uniformn ni height of froml seven to eight feet, with every stalk showiitg from two to live ears star'tinug. Upon tlhis hield Mir. I t iJ3cuoit said he had used about 100 s to pounds of fertilizer ver acre, aud a, judging from auvthing we know of ', corn in the north it should vield from fin, tifty to seventy bushels to the acre. w Ve also passed hriough some lields le y of later corn that stood about a foot ony, high, which was planted on last year's r'ice land, and was fully as thrifty looking as the earlier planting. Aside from his splendid corn crop i'digg Mr. Benoit has a line showing for ty cane, sweet potatoos, peanuts, plopeoru put to and watermelons, as well as au un " nut' limited supply of all kinds of gatrden eelh truck, urieit When asked if hlie expected to sell te his corn, our hoste replied that it o il to might be that he would have 500 or butig 00 bushels to sell, but that he expected to feed the most of his surplus to hiis hogs, of which he has betweeu lilty it you and ;a hundred head. lort of Added to this we might say that b break while looking over the plae we saw Saboubt a number of peach, orange and fig collect- trees, that naturally lead one to the ion s - conclusion that Mr. Uenoit provides n't you for the delicacies, as well as the essen Sc a tials of life. We have narrated, at length, what we saw at Mr. Benoit's home, but we entered would not leave thle impression that ihe is the only one who is making Louis SharpS lana soil yield up its treasures. We oe hihh passed a number of prosperous homes r'eusd a on our trip, as well as a large num and e ber of fields of corn. In fact, there is a Th eseeming, a larger acreage of corn use ad south of town than there is of rice, )uneand it is safe to say that there are at which i least two thousand acres of corn that is up and doing well, in the territory adjacent to Welsh. We predict that within the next very llarisung few years, importing feed stuff into T Calcasieu parish, will be as little , whhte itthought of as "Carrying Coals to Ied withhNewcastle." Z glty ach Troable. ihe w as If all people knew that neglect of i ddconstipation would result in severe in rpose of digestion, yellow jaundice or virulent er, judj- liver trouble they would soon take Dr, case was King's New Life Pills, and end it, Its F. Poollthe only safe way. Best for bilious er.-Lake ness, headache, dyspepsia, chills and debility. 25e at all druggests. 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To this end, we are send tle, ing statements to our subscribers as rapidly as e. possible, calling attention to the condition of le, your subscription account. If you receive one Sal of these statements, kindly give it your prompt attention, and if, for any reason, you are unable ice to meet the small amount involved, convenient Sil"1 ly at the time, please call at the office and so Iia/e- state, and, if desirable, we will change this "g[ amount to an open book account and thereby re coo lieve our subscription list of carrying delinquent subscribers, contrary to the postal rulings. lthel Most respectfully yours, lat ted 4t-tedi paiiuW5S PRINIE t O Mr. IiU CONVENTION AND SUMMER TO UR S VIA SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO CALIFORNIA S2 TRAINS DAILY "SUNSET EXPRESS" "-----.- "CALIFORNIA EXPRESS" r SEE LOCAL AGENT SOUTHERN PACIFIC 11. FOR FULL PARTICULARS J. H. R. PARSONS, Gen. Pass. Ant., A. G. LITTLE, Div. Pass. Agt., New Orleans. La. Lake Charles. La. 01" Biggest Corn Crops e You can make 100 bushels, and even a larger yield of a big, full ears with plump, sound grains of corn, besides an Q excellent supply of nourishing fodder for your live stock By Using Virginia=Carolina Highb-Grade Fertilizers liberally. That is, if your climatic and soil conditions are favorable and you follow the correct methods of careful planting, fertilizing and cultivating. All this is interest le ingly explained in our new FARMER'S YEAR BOOK, o free at your cJaler's, or sent on your request, postage paid. SALES OFFICES Richmond, Va. Charleston, S. C. of Norfolk, Va. Baltimore, Md. " Atlanta, Ga. Columbus, Ga. r. Savannah, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. Its Columbia, S. C. Memphis, Tenn. s8 Durham, N. C. Shreveport, La C ad Alezandria, Va. Winston-Saklm, t,C. ," LOCALS CONTINUED Mr. anl Mrs. L. E. Robinalo and Mr. andl Mrs. W. E. Faught went tn, New Orleans Wedn'eda to attend the meeting of the Grand Chapter O. E. S., of which organ. szation Mrs. Robinson is an oficer. .M L 1,1i& rY C sixu(.Ot'T 8ALE:, Ilavitl decideIt to quit the milli. nery business, I minn offering my ea tire stock of ladies' hats, trimming anti milinery wares, regardles of cost. Thete goods must be sod, and in order to move them, IQ offering very exceptional bargains, Come in and1 look :,t my stock and get prices. Mrs. J. L. McIntyre. A few bottles of that extrafiM pop put ip by the Welsh Bottling W\orks when taken off the ice is "mighty lit en" this hot weather, Better get a case and try it. Mrs. E. II. Holing left Wedne day noon for Cerro Gordo, Illinois, where she expects to spend several weeks visitinig friends and relative, A. J. linuily came over frog Iowa \Wednesday morning with three louds of hogs, which he load. ed here, in connection with others from this loca;ty, making a !a load thaet was shipped to New Or. leans. J. MJ. 1i:dll, one of the weli know Confederate veterans of Welsh, i spending the eek in Little Roek, Arkati-:,as, exeh:anging yarns with his comrades of the sixties. Clarence Shipley was visiting friends in Lake Charles Sunday night. Supper andt ice-cream will be' served in the Catholic Hall, Wednes day evening May, 24, and willbbe accompaniedl by good music, afLeg which a dance will be given. Evet. body cordially invited to attend. : Chas. I'. Maitin and Dr. W. i Fisher of Lake Charles, were W visitors W'edtlnesday. IF'UND:--A )hunch of keys, in bah p:-rki, last week. Owner ea have S:Iiie by proving pro I®and paving for this notice. SThe \\oodmen Circle will in \Voo inien Hall the first third Tuesday nights in each monh. All menioers are urged to attet these meetinags. .\hs s. Lerah Mayo, Guardiaa M:iss Viola McCollister, Secretary. ( IRts voI lIESNT;--I'urn J or untiunished. Apply to Davis, a;t old stand of 1? Dlrug iore, south of depot. ,:j Mrs, Orrin Sinderson of Jen arrived here Tuesday for a visit ,i\h her parents, Mrs. Mrs. F. H. Moor. Mrs. Mac lills and dau canme uver from Lafayette day, firoa v.iit with relativsP - Welsh. FsR SALE:-Or will trade their value in other stock, ona two extra gooi milch eows. quire at the Journal Offiee.I - Mt, lrs. S. W. Day and little ter, Philathea, of Alexandria, - rived in Welsh Tuesday for a/ days' visit with friends and ives. Mrs. Clarence Estes, of nor town, went to Crowley T Sevening for a few days' vismt ) her mother, Mrs. McCain. John W. Armstrong was I of acting business in the parish _ s an Saturday. Lock Philip Coverdale, proprieter the Crescent Drug Store, Of city, is here this week from Orleans Mrs. C. E. St. Clair was the of friends in Jennings, Tuesdig Mliss Corn Miller was friends in Lake Charles To Mr. and hire. N. J. LyoUt Sulphur, were visiting relati s are Welsh Tuesday. reful Prof. O. L. Rigmaidea rest- completed a successful t5 OOK school in the "Quarters' last left Monday morning for his pid. in Lake Charles. The closed his term of school school exhibition, which nounced "excellent': by a of the white people, who at it. Mr. Rigmaiden hasdone commendable work amoflt negro children here during the Syear. ,