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THE RICE BELT JOURNAL
WELSH PTG. CO., LTD.,·Pube
WELSH, TO)UISIANA
Zero days are short, but who cares.
New York is trying to ..be bigger
and foggier than London.
The nearest thing to a durbar that
we have is a circus parade.
It is the chauffeur, not the saut. that
seeds hore sense nowadays.
One of the most fragile things into
the world is a New Year resolution.
It is just one blamed peat after an
other. At present It is the mongoose.
Prunes are prunes when they are
put in fancy pound boxes and sold at
60 cents.
Winter, having thrown off Its dis
guise, may as well do its worst and
get it over.
Now is a good time to lay in a sup
ply of mosquito bite remedies. They
ought to be cheap.
He is a prudent man who is careful
not to burs down the house in his
efforts to keep warm.
A peace conference Is in session in
Shanghai. Thus far the hospital list
has not been published.
One notion of the easiest way to
make money is to accept $250,000 for
quitting the aviation game.
A hotel of 1,000 rooms is to be built
in Regent street, London, and tip
ping is to be forbidden in It.
A trunk that is more than 45 inches
long Is a trunk that leads to excess
baggage charges. Shorten it up.
Paper bag cookery and fireless
cookers should be locked in a room to
gether. They are both delusions.
King George may have killed more
tigers than Colonel Roosevelt. but he
did not have any cermit on the job.
A woman's society in Connecticut
has elected a man as president. Thus
the changes in life have their com
pensations.
Tom Edison tells us that when he
reads he doesn't like to think. All he
has to do is to read one of the six
best sellers.
The old-fashioned characteristlecs of
woman seem to be changing. One of
them has been sent to jail for refuin
tag to talk.
A shipload of potatoes has arrived
in New York from Scotland. Possibly
the shortage in New York is due to
the number of spuds thrown at the
Irish players.
Thirty hunters lost their lives in
New England from various causes dur
ing the season. Judging by this re
port, amateur hunting is anything but
a healthy sport
S The champion mean thieves have
town, there they tried to steal the
blankets from a fresh-air school for
tuberculosie children.
Mlle. Plaskoweitzkajakahle, a Rus
slan dancer, is preparing to tour
America. We present that name to
the printers and proof readers with
the compliments of the season.
That Conneeccut farmer who gives
morphine to his hens to make them
sit will doubtless distribute suffra
gette literature among them when he
wishes to reverse the procedure.
Possibly we are mistaken, but it
strikes us that the weather man and
the coal man are too friendly for the
public good.
Mr. Edison needn't turn his atten
tion to the making of concrete bhis
cult Some of the cooks beat him to
that long ago.
The most terrible catastrophe we
can think of just now is a collision be
tween a freight train and a wagon
load of fresh eggs.
Cold waves are like other experl
ences to which distance lends enchant
ment and absence from which makes
the heart grow fonder.
Opposition to the fact that some
grand opera stars have gained a bit
of advertising through their gifts to
the poor does not include the bene
aiemi-ls.
The Colorado woman who found a
diamond In a turkey was justified in
making a kick. She paid the butcher
for real turkey meat, and not for com.
mon jewels.
Another millionaire has married a
factory girl. but be is said to be a
promising youth in spite of the fact
that he balls from Newport.
Platinam has advanced In price to
$730 a pound. If you have any lying
around the house, now Is a good time
to exchange it for fresh eggs.
A boy of !six, nearly cured of tuber
culosis by the open-air treatment, de
lights in the cold weather There is
not always a physlcal reason for a
'hiver.
iE RBORS if TI E WOR L I
TO RECOMMEND TO CONGRESS A -
"STANDARD DEPTH OF WATER.
As Unrestricted Deepening Continues
the Ocean Liners Will Increase.
Would Affect Panama Canal.
Philadelphia, Pa.--An international
agreement which shall fix a standard
depth of water to which the important
harbors of the world should be im
proved is forecast in reports which
will be laid before the twelfth Inter
national Congress of Navigation,
which will begin its session in Phila
delphia on May 23. This is one of the
questions which will doubtless result
in extended discussion by the world
famous experts who will attend the
congress, for it touches directly upon
proposed great expenditures for the
improvement of the leading harbors
of the United States.
To what degree shall American sea
ports make possible the continued ex
pansion in the size of ocean liners?
For the problem of the size of the
great ocean carriers and the problem
of the depth of the great Atlantic
ports are otviously dependent one
upon the other. Again, both of these
have their direct bearing upon the
question of the dimensions which are
to be given to maritime canals.
Some indication of the direction
which this important discussion. will
take in the coming International Con
gress is given in the report of C. E.
Grunsky, a well known consulting en
gineer of San Francisco. In this im
portant report the papers of six dis
tinguished engineers who are author
ity on the dimensions to be given
canals are summarized.
Mr. Grunsky is of the opinion that
if the deepening of the harbors and of
harbor approaches is continued with
out restriction the size of ocean liners
will continue to increase. lie makes
plain that tne growth of vessels exerts
a strong influence upon the concentra
tion of export and import business at
certain ports where adequate facilities
for their entrance are provided. He
points out that it naturally follows
that it is to the interest of the port
which is less favored by natural con
ditions that some artificial limit be
set to the size of ocean carriers par
ticularly in the matter of draught, so
that in any scheme of harbor deepen
ing there may be reasonable certainty
that the depth will be adequate for
future requirements. Mr. Grunsky
maintains that there should be an in
ternational agreement fixing the depth
of water at low tide in important har
bors and that there should be no gov
ernment aid in the form of subsidy or
otherwise to vessels whose dimensions
are such as to make the entrance into
a harbor of standard depth impossible.
For the United States to lend en
couragement to the building of vessels
I of so great size that they can not pass
through the locks of the Panama canal
would, he declares, be an unwise pol
icy. By the construction of the canal
and the dimensions given to locks he
contends that the government has
practically set an extreme limit upon
the dimensions of vessels which it can
Sencourage. He points out that the
t canal and the lock system have cost
too much to be easily changed. The
lock length of the canal is now 1,000
Sfeet, the width 110 feet and the depth
Iof water over the sills of the lock
Sgates is 41.5 feet. This is equal to
forty feet draught in salt water. This
it is contended absolutely fixes the
maximum size not only of warships,
but of all other vessels to be con
i structed by the government or with
Sits aid.
h It is altogether likely that this view
of the great problem of ocean liner
construction will raise in the coming
sessions of the congress the question
Swhether the government can consist
Sently set a limit upon the size of ves
sels without also fixing the same limit
in the improvements of its harbors.
d All Nations Are Invited.
Washington.-President Taft has
signed a proclamation inviting other
nations to participate in the Panama
SPacific International Exposition to
Scelebrate the opening of the Panama
Scanal at San Francisco in 1915. In
his proclamation the president said
that satisfactory proof had been pre
Ssented to him that a suitable site had
' been selected for the exposition, and
Sthat not less than $15,000,000 re
quired in the joint resolution of con
gress authorizing the exposition had
been raised by the people of San
Francisco and California.
Daughters of Republic.
SAustin, Tex.-At a meeting Wednes
I day of the executive committee of the
a Daughters of the Republic it was de
. cided to hold the regular annual meet
ing of the daughters in San Antonio
April 21, the anniversary of the bat
a tie of San Jacinto. Last San Jacint(
a Day the daughte's convened in Hunts
r ville and participated at the unveiling
. of the monument over the grave of
General Sam Houston.
a Llsenses for State Banks.
a Austin, Tex.-Licenses were grant.
t ed Wednesday by the state banking
board to the Guaranty State bank o0
Longview and the Citizens Guaranty
SState bank of ILindale. The latter
Sbank has a capital stock of $24,000 and
e was formerly the City National of
Lindale.
Two New Cil Wells.
SCorsicana, Tex.-Two abundantly
f[lowing wells have been brought in in
a the new oil fields six mdes south of
Cersicana.
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OROZCO TAKES MUTINOUS TROOPS,
OUT OF JUAREZ TO CHIHUAHUA.
EXECUTIONS MAY FOLLOW.
Federal Government Proposes to Em
ploy the Drastic Methods of Diaz f
in Restoring Peace. f
it
El Paso, Tex.-If Emello Vasquez
Gomez has had any dreams of the es-'
tablishment of a provisional govern- 1
ment with the city of Juarez as the
base of future operations, they have c
been reduced to the proportions of af
nonenity, for Juarez is now nestling
comfortably and complacently again in t
the heaving bosom of the Madero gov
ernment. r
The arrival of General Pascual t
Orozco Sunday from the city of Chi
huahua was the pacific influence that
has wrought such a complete change
in the warlike situation on the north
ern border of the republic of Mexico.
General Orozco came almost unattend
ed and did not tarry in Juarez until he
had first held a conference with Colo
nel E. Steever of the United States
army on this side of the river.
The fact that the conference was be
ing held gave rise to all kinds of in
teresting rumors, among them a per
sistent one to the effect that Mexico
was going to ask immediate interven
tion at the hands of the United States 1
government. But at the cessation of
the conference it was given out that 1
Orozco had only hurried to the Ameri- 4
can side to assure the authorities of i
his intention of getting the mutineersa
out of Juarez as quick as possible, I
and thereby relieve the tension exist- i
ing on this side of the border as to
possible eventualities.
1 General Orozco went from an El
Paso hotel across the border at an
s early hour and set about at once upon
the effort to induce the mutinous ele
i ment to accompany him to the city of
Chihuahua. He was met with a sullen
t demeanor that boded no good for his
e undertaking, but he was not discour
I aged. - He worked among the men
'1 continually, made them two speeches,
k appealing to their national pride and
using every other possible argument.
s They warmed up and responded slow
e ly.
, There was not one solitary huzza
- for General Orozco during the entire
b day, which was within itself a most
ominous incident. Part of the men
v were willing to go, but others evident
r ly feared a trap and held back reso
g lutely until past the middle of the
a day, when they finally yielded, and by
t- 4 o'clock in the afternoon the entire
a- bunch of 300 men comprising the for
it mer garrison were loaded on a waiting
train, together with fifty horses. As
it moved southward out of Juarez the
soldiers were shooting out of the car
windows and raising Cain generally.
,s What is to be their fate is a matter
of pure conjecture, although one of
the few men who accompanied Orozco
0 from Chihuahua named three of the
a ringleaders who he said were sure to
n be courtmartialed and summarily shot.
Corporation Charters.
d Austin, Tex.-Corporations charter
. ed to do business in Texas:
. George W. Smyth Lumber Company,
d Beaumont; capital stock, $100,000.
SClark-Robinson Compan y, Fort
Worth; purpose, merchandising; capi
tal stock, $50,000.
The Woodmen of the World Build
ing Association of Denison, Grayson
county; capital stock, $10,000.
S Mount Calvary Baptist church,
Houston; no capital stock.
Hedges Construction Company,
Springfield, Mo., was granted a per
mit to do business in Texas, with
principal office in Fort Worth.
Temple State bank, Temple, filed an
amendment, increasing its capital
stock from $50,000 to $250,000, sur
plus from $5,000 to $25,000.
Negro Lynched at Macon.
Macon, Ga.-Charles Powell, a ne
g gro, who assaulted and robbed a young
white woman Saturday night, was
Staken from the officers and lynched
Sby a mob early Sunday. I'owell was
tied to a telephone pole and hundreds
of bullets were fired into his body.
Security Vaults Are Intact.
New York.-The becurity vaults of
t.he t£quitable Life Assurance Soci',,
:vere opened Saturday for the first
Lime sice the lire that destroyed the
societies' building
A BIG OCEAN UNER BURINS Al SE
Steamer Consols, From Galveston
With a Valuable Cargo, Sinks.
Crew Taken Off in Safety.
Norfolk, Va.-The British steamer
Consols, cotton laden from Galveston
for Hamburg, flame-swept in a long,
futile race for port, sank Sunday forty
imiles south of Cape Henry. Her
crew of thirty-four men, refugees on
the British steamer Castle Eden, were
landed at Newport News.
It was another triumph for inter
communication between ocean craft,
for the Castel Eden, headed from Sa
vannah for Danish ports, picked up
the wireless call for help from the
imperiled crew on the Consols and
rushed to their assistance. The bat
tleship New Jersey, on her way north
from the Guantanamo drill grounds,
also heard the call.
The New Jersey sent the first word
to shore of the rescue of the men by
the Castle Eden after the fire, which
ihad started early Saturday morning
and had gained such headway as to
imperil the lives of the crew. The
revenue cutter Onondaga stood by the
burning vessel as it sank.
Onion Crop Takes on Life.
Asherton, Tex.-The last few days
of sunshine have put a new appear
ance on the onion crop of this com
munity. The plant, which had been
checked by unusually cold weather, is
beginning to spread itself as a result
of warm weather. It was thought by
some that the maggot was going to
do the onions some damage this year,
but the warm sunshine has put a
stop to their unwelcomed visit. Pros
pects at this time of the year were
never more favorable for a bumper
crop.
Wharf and Warehouses.
Port Aransas. Tex.-The Texas
Channel and Dock Company has just
let the contract for a 900-foot wharf
and warehouse on Harbor island, with
in the city limits of Port Aransas.
This wharf, dock and warehouse is
to be concrete and fireproof, at a total
cost of $108,000, and will be ready to
handle cotton by September 1, 1912
Arizona Statehood Proclamation.
Washington. - President Taft has
been asked to issue his Arizona state
hood proclamation on Lincoln's birth
day, February 12. The request came
in a telegram to the White House, an
nouncing that the election returns
were on .their way to Washington.
Arizona became a territory during
Lincoln's administration.
Zapatistas Cut Wires.
City of Mexico.-All telegraphic
communication with Cuernavaca was
stopped Wednesday when Zapatistas
cut the one remaining wire to the
south over which it had been possible
for twenty-four hours to reach the
capital. The direct wires, both fed
eral and railway, between the City
of Mexico and Cuernavaca, were cut
also.
Much Wheat is in Danger.
Winnipeg, Man.-The minister of
agriculture of the province of Sas.
,katchewan has wired the American
government at Washington from
I Regina stating that there are 20,000,
- 000 bushels of unthrashed wheat, all
tough, and 12,000,000 bushels wet and
tough, which must be shipped at once
Sor be a total loss.
Seven Miles of New Canal.
Orange, Tex.-Dr. A. C. Wilkins,
,secretary of the Southern Rice Grow
- ers' Association, has recently closed
Ia deal with Orange county land own
ers whereby he will build seven miles
I of new canal to be used in the irri
1 gation of rice in the vicinity between
- Adams and Cow bayou in the central
part of Orange county.
Lee Given Life Term.
Evansville, Ind.-W. M. Lee, con
fessed murderer of his father, 'mother
and brother, Thursday was declared
I guilty by a jury which fixed his pun
:shment at life iniprisonnment. Le
3 pleaded insanity. Hie expressed no
iemotion when the v~rdlct was ltd.
Insurance License Granted.
SAustin, Tex.--The (l,'parlxl;innt of In
,ImidLance T'uesd:,y iicnc!nd t'i: Unii _
Sasiialty and Surety Comnpay (.
, M1.nphis, 'Tea. t.lpitial stock, $~t,:
IC0.
CLE SAM HOLDS TROOPS IN READINESS
Army of 15,000 Men Can Be Sent to
Border on Moment's Notice--No
Shooting Across Border.
Washington.--Preslident Taft has
taken prompt and decisive action for
the protection of the Mcxicaa border
against incursion. No shooting crohs
the border is to b', permitted by the
V'nite'I States government. Positive I
warning to this effect has been given
to the Mexican government as wcll as
to the rebels near Juarez. If neces
sary, American troops will cross the
border to enforce the American ulti
matum. Should this become neces
sary and the command in the depart
ment of Texas prove insufficient, an
expeditionary force of 15,000 will
speedily be mobilized along the Mexi
can border for any eventuality.
President Taft's action was taken
upon the receipt of a long dispatch
from Governor Colquitt of Texas, stat
ing that the situation had become dan
gerous and almost intolerable; that
the people of Texas would not sub
mit to a repetition of what occurred
at El Paso and other places during
the Madero revolution, and respect
fully urging the federal government
to take a firm stand in the present
situation.
The president conferred with Secre
tary of War Stimson, and General
Wood, at the direction of President
Taft and Secretary Stimson, sent in
structions to Colonel Edgar Z. Steever,
r commanding the Fourth United States
cavalry at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, to
warn the Mexicans not to fire across
the international border, and to take
all necessary measures to prevent
shooting actoss the line. These or
iders were transmitted to Colonel
Steever through General J. W. Dun
can, commander of the department of
Texas, headquarters at San Antonio.
Orders have been issued to Gen
3 oral Duncan to act upon his own initia
I tive and as his judgment dictates for
the protection of the border, and,
through General Duncan, similar in.
structions have been given to Colonel
Stee;er.
CHILD'S BUREAU BILL PASSES THE SENAlE
lfter Desperate Fight, Senator Borah
Puts Measure Through, 54 to 20.
Amendment by Culberson.
Washington. - After a desperate
fight to get through the senate a bill
creating a bureau to collect and dis
s seminate information especially re
garding child labor in the United
State. Senator Borah Wednesday suc
n eeded in passing the measure by a
s vote of 54 to 20. Eight of the twenty
t were republicans and twelve were
Y democrats.
That was not the extent of the op.
position to the bill. The roll calls on
a the Overman, Culberson, Thornton
and other amendments came nearer
e to furnishing a correct estimate of the
extent of the opposition. These roll
calls showed that senators who would
not vote for the outright defeat of the
bill would vote, for instance, for the I
SOverman amendment, which sought to
t defeat the substance of the bill. This
f Overman substitute provided that the
bureau of education should make an
investigation regarding the delin
s quency of children, and that it make
La its final report in 1913. Eight repub.
o licans and twenty-two democrats
3 voted for that substitute, but of those
voting for the Overman substitute,
only the following twenty senators
-s went on record against the passage
e- of the bill: Bailey, Bryan, Chilton, Cul
1- berson, O'Gorman, Overman, Paynter,
e Smith of Maryland, Stone, Thornton,
a- Tillman and Watson, democrats, and
Is Burnham, Clark of Wyoming, Gallin
I. ger, Heyburn, Nixon, Oliver, Wetmore
.g and Works, republicans.
Senator Culberson was the only man
who succeeded in forcing an amend.
ment to the bill, after which he voted
Ic against the measure. The successful
LB Culberson amendment, which was
La adopted by a vote of 39 to 34, pro
ie vided that no agent or officer or rep
le resentative of the bureau shall have
I( authority to enter over the protest of
d- the occupant of a house used exclu.
Y sively as a residence.
Presbyterians Demonstrate.
Belfast, Ireland.-Presbyterians to
at the number of 25,000 made a demon
s- stration Thursday against home rule.
In A dozen halls and churches in vari
m ous parts of the city were filled with
), enthusiasts, who voted resolutions deo
ll claring their undying determination
id not to obey the laws of any Irish par
e liament.
Rains Good for Cabbage.
Brownsville, Tex.-The continued
. et weather for the past month has
3d placed the cabbage crop In fine con
- tdition and regular shipments are now
S. oing forward. The price at present
i is most gratifying to the growers,
a ranging around $50 per ton. Several
a) carloads have been shipped at that
figure.
Factory Destroyed at Timpson.
S Timpson, Tex.-Saturday evening
er fire destroyed the Tlmpson handle
3d factory, all the handles and machin.
n. :ry. The loss is estimated at about
ee $27,000. This was the largest and
T best handle factory in the south, and
d Timipson handles were shipped to all
parts of the world.
SFrench Military Aviator Dies.
Versailles.-Captain L. E. Magut,
S:nilitary aviator who fell '3unday while
tttempting a flight, died in a hosItAtl
mrom his injuries.
Doctors Sa
Hlealth
Suffered with Throa
Mr. B. W
D. Bar nes,
ex • fi;h'rf
of Warren
Count y,
T e tines" e,
in a letter
from Mc
M i nnville,
r e nnessee,
writes: h
"I had
throat
trouble
and had
t h r ee doe
tors treating
me. All
failed to do
me any
good,and
pr onounced
my health
gone. I con- Mr. ,. W. D.
el ded to
try Peruna, and after usinal
can say I was entirely cured"
Unable to Woet,
Mr. Gustavr immekeic~,
Texas, writes:
"For a number of years I
ever I took cold, with severe
asthma, which usually yielded i
mon home remedies.
"Last year, however, I sufded
months without interruption a
could not do any work at ili
rious medicines that wer
brought me no relief.
"After taking six bottles d
two of Lacupia and two of
am free of my trouble so thal
all my farm work again. I
ily recommend this medicin,
one who suffers with this
complaint and believe that
obtain good results."
A DRAW.
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Old Grouch-So you had a
Clarence. He claims he llcki
I Cholly-Oh! the boastahb!
he wumpled my cwavat d
but when it was all ovah hh
was fwightfully wilted.
A Possibility,
"He's gone to that meeti&
fire."
"Then he had better be
they ~wil lput him out."
After a Fashion.
Church Member-Does ye
always practice what he pre
Minister's Son-Yessum;
mirror.--('ornell Widow.
THE CARELESS GR
Blundered, and Great Good
A careless grocer left th
Spackage at a Michigan hoce
and thereby brought a geat
to the household.
"Two years ago I was a
stomach troubles, so acute
effort to digest ordinary food
great pain, and brought on a
of such extreme nervousea
could not be left alone. I
should certainly become lastl
so reduced in flesh that I wa
ter than a living skeleton·
Stors failed to give me relief
s. palred of recovery.
"One day our grocer..
package of Grape-Nut food
take, so I tried some for dinlt
surprised to find that It
appetite and gave me no d
ever. The next meal I ated
and to be brief, I have ilvd
peast year almost excluslvellf
Nuts. It has proved to li
healthful and appetlll
fectly adapted to the roi
s my system.
i "GrApe-Nuts isL not 0il
gested and assimilated, at Ib
since I have been using t i'
, to eat anything else my 5PP
cles, without trouble fros
t tlon. The stomach trouble
vousness have left me, I bao
ed my plumpness and IiI ,
life are no longer despoi
Sgloomy.
S"Other members of Imy .
Sclally my husband, (whose
t the 'bheart-burn,' has been
d have also derived great bl
d the use of Grape-Nuts fd
II think no morning meal com
out it." Name given bY
Iattie ('reek, Mich.
"There's a reason," ·l
Splalued in the little book,
Sto Wellville," in pkgs.
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