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THE RICE BELT JOURNAL
WELSH PTG. CO., LTD., Pubs.
WELS. LOUISIANA
Lime Is recommended as a diet to
cure flat feet. Quickens up a body, no
doubt.
This eight hour a day law is all
right for women, but where does moth
er come in?
An Ohio man was injured by an
explosion of a hot doughnut. Lucky
he hadn't eaten it.
New York has 750 hotels, and can
accommodate 350,000 people. She also
keeps enough waiters to trim them
all.
They say that a hare can run 60
feet a second, but where is there a
fat man who would like to be a
hare?
Now comes a genealogist with the
announcement that the rightful king of
Ireland is a German. Och, wurra,
wurra!
Nothing better displays the bold
ness of the Chinese republic than its
effort to interfere in the matter of
woman's dress.
A Toronto minister named Shear
er refused to turkey trot for a judge.
It is said he made some cutting re
marks as well.
If we were all baseball clubs we
could all go south, too. But of course
somebody has to stay at home and
abuse the weather.
There are twenty-seven forms of in
sanity, but there is no scientific sup
port for the notion that a man may
have several of them.
Poor girl in a paper mill found $110
in rags, and then they proved to be
confederate bills. She's been chewing
the rag about it ever since.
A Pennsylvania burglar upset a hive
of bees, with the result that he was
captured. A case of the busy little
bee improving each shining hour.
Professor Yammer remarks that
everybody emits a ray. But the loud
est ones are those emitted by the
college youth at a football game.
In Switzerland it is held lawful to
call a man an ass. Perhaps because
the majority of men in Switzerland
risk their necks mountain climb
ing.
Chicago pastor advises girls not to
wed until they are twenty-three. So
they will have something to lay
it on if it proves an unhappy mar
riage.
A baby girl in Boston is being
trained up to become a perfect wo
man.' It's a cinch she'll be a snob
with all that self-consciousness of her
mission.
Heatless light is said to have been
discovered by a Parisian scientist,
which indicates that science is only
about a couple of aeons behind the
modest firefly.
Philadelphia is manufacturing a mo
tor truck along lines of a locomotive.
Should be equipped with a cowcatch
er and run under rules governing a
railroad train.
A New Jersey pastor played a cor
net at a dance, and his congregation
demanded his resignation. If he's as
bad a musician as some we've heard
we don't blame them.
In Berlin persons are not allowed to
keep their windows open while play
ing on musical instruments. In Amer
ica the fellow who lives next door is
Sforced to put his down.
There are whole parishes in Eng
land that have not a single bathtub. So
it seems that some Englishmen do get
along without a morning "bawth"
A St. Louis man is possessed of a
leg that has been asleep for eight
months and refuses to awake. Still,
it's not so bad as if he were left
without a leg to stand on.
A British specialist diagnoses the
disease from which Napoleon died as
cancer. Post-mortems have their use,
but one almost a century after the
event is rather more curious than im
portant
in Brooklyn, one Jury awarded a
woman $3,000 for a loss of her hus
band, and another jury gave a man
$3,500 for the loss of a leg. The
'Jury must have known the de
ceased.
West Virginia legislator wants to
pass a low making it illegal for worm
en to wear hats in theaters. Why not
include punishment for sticking hat
pins through the back of the seat
ahead. too?
Government reports show that
horses are increasing in spite of the
spreading use of automobiles. It will
reaure those who fear that the
march of progress is causing neglect
of man's best friend.
A German who paid a $1 poll tax
In Jersey City last year chopped down
the only pole he had on the premises
and made his wife hang her clothes on
the roof. Now he is studying English
in a night school to find out whether
: the collector is spoofnag him.
WOMAN'S STORY
MADE PUBLIC
Mrs. Moncrief Didn't Consider It
Secret. Thought Friends
Should Know. Read
Her Statement.
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of this place, says: "I suffered with a
complaint peculiar to women, and, al
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failed to do me any good.
Then. I began to take Cardui; the
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From the frst dose, I could feel re
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My friends were surprised to see
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I do not want to be without Cardui
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it. It is a true relief for womanly
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In the past helf century, thousands
of ladies have written, like Mrs. Mon
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Such testimony, from earnest wom
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It cannot do you harm, and is al
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Please give Cardul a trial.
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NOT HIS STYLE.
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.Cruel to Be Kind.
"What makes you carry that horri
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signal?"
"For humane reasons," replied Mr.
Chuggins. "If I can paralyze a per
son with fear he will keep still and I
can run to one side of him."
Proof Positive.
"How did the new play go?"
"Like a breeze."
"Then somebody raised the wind."
One is more likely to applaud the
man who has done some good things,
if one is not one of them.
Constipation causes many serious diseases.
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EDITOR PAUSES TO INQUIRE
Seems to Have a Feeling That He is
Making an Argument Against
Woman Suffrage.
Enemies of votes for women, in
search of arguments to confound the
orators of the cause, may use for what
it is worth the following incident
which happened in Madison square
one day last week:
A young woman of pleasing and pic
turesque aspect came northward from
Twenty-third street across the square.
She struggled under the weight of a
dog-hamper, and inside one could see
a bright-eyed, restless fox terrier,
eager to be let 'out. The woman car
ried a leash in her left hand, and the
dog had on a collar with a snap. An
interested observer followed the wom
an. She struggled.on six blocks up
Madison avenue before she reached
her destination, a residence on the
east side of the street. Then she un
locked the hamper, snapped the leash
on the dog's collar, and took him in
side the house. Why had she carried
an able-bodied, 25-pound fox terrier,
who wanted to be let out, all that
distance?-New York Evening Post.
Children's Humor.
The poetry of life is frequently seen
in childhood. We have this illustrated
in the description of butterflies as
"pansies flying."
"A star is a cinder from God's great
star," has a wealth of unconscious
meaning. But perhaps the finest ap
proach to poetry was made by a tiny
tot who defined dew' as "the grass
crying." "O auntie!" said a little
girl; "I've just seen a pencil walking."
The nurse who had grown out of
fairyland explained it was only an or
dinary worm.
Were Only Bent.
She weighed only 286, so that when
she trod on a banana skin she sub
sided very gently. A polite shop
keeper came out to assist her to rise
from a box of his best new-laid eggs.
"Oh, I do hope I have not broken
them!" she cried.
"Not at all, madam," said the polite
one; "they are only bent."
IN A SHADOW.
Inveterate Tea Drinker Feared Par.
alysis.
Steady use of either tea or coffee
often produces alarming symptoms as
the poison (caffeine) contained in
these beverages acts with more po
tency in some persons than in others.
"I was never a coffee drinker,"
writes an Ill. woman, "but a tea drink
er. I was very nervous, had frequent
spells of sick headache and heart
trouble, and was subject at times to
severe attacks of bilious colic.
"No end of sleepless nights-would
have spells at night when - my right
side would get numb and tingle like
a thousand needles were pricking mrF
flesh. At times I could hardly put my
tongue out of my mouth and my right
eye and ear were affected.
"The doctors told me I was liable to
become paralyzed at any time, so I
was in constant dread. I took no end
of medicine-all to ho good.
"The doctors told me to quit using
tea, but I thought I could not live
without'it-that it was my only stay.
I had been a tea drinker for twenty
five years; was under the doctor's
care for fifteen.
"About six months ago, I finally
quit tea and commenced to drink
.ostum.
"I have never had eon spell of sick
b.adache since and only one light
attack of bilious colli. Have quit hav
ing those numb spells at night, sleep
well and my heart is getting stronger
all the time." Name given upon re
quest.
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FOR THE PEOPLE
Upsetting of Western Classifica
tion 51 Means Much.
RAILROADS LOSE BIG CASE
Chairman Thorne of Iowa Commis
sion Tells How the Shippers and
Consumers of the West Bene
fit by the Decision.
Des Moines, la., March 13.-The peo
ple of the United States have had
Iowa to thank for a number of ex
cellent things, and to the list must
be now added an achievement that
means a great deal to the shippers of
the entire west from the Missisippi
to the Pacific. Especially are those
shippers under obligations to the Iowa
state board of railroad commissioners
and its chairman, Clifford Thorne.
This achievement is the suspension
and revision, by the interstate com
merce commission, of an entire freight
classification, known as Western clas
sification No. 51, and on March 31 the
several hundred changes made to con
form to the commission's order will
go into effect. Shippers and consum
ers alike will benefit by the revisipn.
Iowa Leads the Fight.
Iowa's commission was by no means
alone in the good work, but -it took
the initiative in the case and assumed
the chief part of the burden of pre
paring and trying it. Sixteen western
state railroad commissions united in
the fight, and Mr. Thorne was the
chairman of the committee represent
ing them. He gives much credit to
Benjamin L. Jacobson, who had gen
eral charge of gathering the evidence
and preparing the specific cases for
trial, pnd to A. D. Beals, Iowa's rate
expert.
Mr. Thorne today had this to say of
the big case and its outcome:
"One day during the summer of 1911
I was seated in a hotel parlor in Mil
waukee. In one end of the room there
were sixteen men in their shirtsleeves,
talking and listening occasionally to
a person standing in the center of the
room; two or three minutes were al
lowed to the gentleman talking; he
took his seat and another person told
a short story; and so on, during the
course of the whole day.
Powerful Group of Men.
"This small group of men exercised
more power than any other similar
group, perhaps, in the United States.
Some nine hundred railroads, large
and small,' interested in traffic be
tween the Missisippi river and the Pa
cific coast, have organized what they
call a western classification commit
tee of about eighty-five members.
These eighty-five men have selected a
sub-committee of sixteen men. This
sub-committee, which is dominated by
one or two individuals, determines the
freight ratings on over 7,000 articles,
on which 35,000,000 people have to
pay traffic between about 20,000
towns, located between the MississIp
pi river and the Pacific coast. This
is one of the three important classifl
cation committees in America, the
other two being the official, covering
the northeastern portion of the Unit
ed States, and the Southern.
"For the first time in the history of
American railroads an entire classifl
cation of one of these three great
freight classification committees has
been suspended by the federal govern
ment. And the committee I have de
scribed has been making a revision of
its former work, in accordance with
the decision which was rendered by
the interstate commerce cominmiss!on
recently, known as the decision in the
ease of Western classification No. 51.
The railroads have just submitted to
the commission a list of several hun
dred changes in this classification to
conform to the commission's order,and
these will go into effect March S31.
The opinion in this case, next to the
one rendered in the express case, is
perhaps the longest ever written by
the interstate commerce Commission.
The case is of national importance.
Many of its features are unique, and
of profound concern to the consumers
of the country.
Sixteen States United.
"Many shippers and shippers' or
ganizations were parties to this case.
But perhaps the most interesting fea
ture was the fact that on behalf of
the consumers the railroad commis
sions of sixteen great states appear
ed. These states were.411inois. Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri.
Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Okla
homa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North
Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, Washing
ton and Oregon. On the one hand we
had the representatives of some nine
hundred railroads, and opposed tor
them the representatives of sixteen
state governments, with the interstate
commerce commission as the deciding
tribunal. The hearing in. the case
lasted about a year.
"Western Classification No. 51 in
volves more changes than -any othe,
tariff publication ever issued by Amer
ican railroads. The work done in
preparation for this issue is said to
have cost the railroads appro timately
$500,000.
Most Important Phases.
"Of the many phases of the dect
sion the first in importance are the
rules and regulations. The carriers
proposed many changes. These are
applicable to every city, town and
hamlet west of the Missisippi river.
The state commissions made objec
tions to fourteen of these rules, and
changes were made or ordered in
twelve of them.
"A concrete illustration of these
concerns the dunnage allowance.
Prior to the issuance of No. 51, the
carriers permitted the shippers to use
lumber and boards to prop up machin
ery in a car, the railroads hauling 500
pounds of such lumber free of charge
No. 51 abolished the dunnage privi
lege, and the commission ordered it
reinstated. When one considers the
thousands of shipments that are made
annually, the importance of such a
ruling can be appreciated.
"Another change of importance to
the western half of the United States
concerns green hides. The carriers
put in a rule permitting them to re
fuse to take green hides'for shipment.
We pointed out that they could be
stored or handled in live stock cars.
and not contaminate other commodi
ties, and claimed that the carriers
should be compelled to accept the
same for transportation. Our position
was sustained by the commission.
Minimum Rate Ruling.
"Several hundred advances were
proposed by the railroads in minimum
weights. They announced their pol
icy to be the establishment of mini
mums upon the physical capacity of
the cars, refusing to take into consid
eration the co:mmercial conditions
surrounding the transportation.
Carload Mixtures.
"One of the most important parts of
this case concerns carload mixtures.
The carriers proposed the elimination
of carload mixtures on 234 articles,
and proposed changes restricting car
load mixtures on more than three hun
dred other articles. One of the most
important changes affecting carload
mixtures, which serves as an illustra
tion of the effect of such changes,
concerns binding twine. Prior to the
issuance of No. 51, the carriers per
mitted binding twine to be shipped
mixed with agricultural implements,
all of which took carload rates. In
No. 51, they proposed to apply less
than carload rates on all shipments of
binding twine made in this manner.
This would have caused an advance
of about one hundred per cent in the
freight rates on binding twine, and
more than ninety per cent of all bind
ing twine shipments, we were told
by the largest shippers in the coun
try, would be affected by this hundred
per cent advance.
"As indicating the policy of the
carriers, thirty-two articles had car
load mixtures granted to them, while
over five hundred articles were totally
eliminated from carload mixtures, or
the mixtures were chan ged or re
stricted. The interstate commerce
commission has ordered the carriers
to pursue diametrically the opposite
course. Instead' of restricting mix
tures, they are instructed td make
them more liberal.
"In addition to these changes in
rules, the commission made specific
orders disapproving advances on a
long list of articles. The decision in
this case is the most epoch-making
on clasiflcation matters ever render
ed by the interstate commerce com
mission."
MUST LOVE THE LITTLE FOLK
Otherwise the Girl Who Adopts Pro.
fession of Children's Nurse
,Wll Not Succeed.
The great essention for any girl
adopting the profession of children's
nurse is that she must have a great
love for the wee folk, to be able to
enter into their feelings, to sympa
thize with their sorrows and joys. A
child's nurse must not be a cynic.
She must know the importance of lit
tle things to children, must know
that the nolehills of grown-ups are
the mountains of boys and girls. Now
adays the children's nurse must be a
comrade and companion as well as
mentor to her young charges, but the
latter role must never be over-empha
sized.
It is well, too, for any girl desiring
to become a nurse of this kind to go
somewhere and obtain the proper
training for the position. It is a big
advantage when seeking employment.
Briefly, the nurse of children must
be able to superintend the children's
health, their good, their clothes and
their lessons--not at all onerous du
ties to the girl who is fond o! chil
dren.--rxchange. ,
Not Long to Walt.
Bumble-Why didn't you get on the
watet wagon?
Rumble-No seats left.
Bumble-Oh. well, if you persist in
the notion, you will find a seat later.
-Judge.
Books Speak.
Rooks carry with them a chirm of
their own. They speak of cosy indraw.
ings about the evening lamp. Few
things add so much of warmth and
liiiableness to a room as shelves of
W'used" books.
Saving Time.
"Roosevelt Named for 1916." But
why stop there? Why not for 1920.
1924 :nd 1928? It would save both
time and the cost of holding conven
tions.-New York Evening Post.
Removing Grease From Paint.
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His Position.
He was a minister of the old school
and was catechizing the children on
their biblical knowledge. "Who was
Isaac?" at length he asked. "Please,
sir,'; replied a small ,girl eagerly
"Please, sir, he was Rebekah's man'
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