The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-11-02

Missing men-Bad marksmen.
The beladcholy days have cub.

The belaucioiy uays nav o"o
The straw hats have been called in.
Who can understand a cornstalk.
Have not thy cloak to make when
it begins to rain.
Safety valves Biyalves for the
next eight months.
Constantly choose rather to want
less than to lIavesmore. y ffA1
A light garment for warm weather
the close of the day. 8k
1t is mighty ignorant horse that
does not know its own fodder.
Now then, all together! Who ever
saw knee-growl Help! Help!
In a country where everybody
reads no one writes except for sale.
The tombstone by which men try
us, is most often their own vanity.
In the opinion of the Boston Tran-
script, Noah kept his bees in ark
hives.
A modest youth may become
confident man, though never an i'm
puds mt one.
A book is mans best friend, and
the only one he can shutup without
giving otfense.
Those days are lost in which we.
do 30 good; those worse than lost In
which we do evil.
Did it ever once occur to you that
a gymnast wears spring and fall
clothing ait the same timer
81 stand Corrected as the boy
said who was too sore, aftera thrash
ing, to sit down in comfort.
Parlor matches don't 60 off any
better, though they make more fuss
than those made over the front gate.
Bow down your head, We naughty
clam; We oyster say your PRAYER, the
month that hath an X has come;
you're on the bill of fare ~ ~
A woman can't put on any side
saddle airs when she goes in swim-
ming. She has either got to kick
out like man OF get drowned.
The grand and awful difference
between Il tree and ADORE is-iuf1sil,
now the tree leaves in spring, aud
Il the bore, why, he never leaves. val
The man who cav hum q bymq
while jointing stove-pipe is good
enough to walk right iuto full mem
. bership of any church, without pro-
baton. ss v4sa a
, Secretary Evarts has u farm in
! Vermont. He keeps seven men to
, work it-one to blast out the rocks
! and the other six to haul 'em of Oh
. another mans land.
Love mas be blind, as they say,
n but we notice that in all the records
II of the ages, it has never kissed the
o girls mother by mistake when II
r reached after the girl.
: An old Granger who came ints
: town to purchase piano for his
e daughter, asked the agent If ne
- hadn't one with handle to the end
!. $50 we can all give it turn once in
u WHILE" !,
II He that pursues honor, applause
II or worldly reputation, Is like TIN
n foolish school boy running after tht
f. butterfly, and neglecting bis book
,r boil, meet with disappointment, dis
i satisfaction and reproof. "a 81
N aSweets to the sweet" said a younl
=; man ON passing the syrup to a yoaui
81 lady at one of our hotel tables. "An'
< beets to the beat,r remarked tn
y lady. showing the dish Of that vege
rs table toward the young man. ~
Nothing will sooner mskea u,an'
eyes shoot Gre, his brain whirl, an
II. his heart flop up against his palate
x. than TO lose his balance ON his ayaila
n HE leg while trying to stow. tn
in other away in his dual garnentur'
lie IT'S now the sere and yellow lei
as whisketh about in the. eddying gus
at the boarding honse lodger ccnsidei
ms eth whether twill be cheaper to fun
I'D nish his own fuel OK pay the landlad
re so much extra to keep a fire in h
~ rooin. 49,
- phere is many so,l trudgin
- along life's pathway with weary, ~
-, certain steps, sad and dowhhearte'
49, who would, If there was a kind hsu
W. reached ont to help them, walk ers
IN aud step lightly, and even sing VIII
.I,,. passing over the rough places.
Sometimes there. are living bein,
in nature as beautiful as III fohlanc
IA Reality surpasses imiagiBatnns a.
ter we see breathing, Frightening, Al
IT moving before our eyes, sights dear
ns 10 our hearts than any we ever b
in held in the land ut sleep. eos's 9 4
cir 49,.