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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-07

-.sDrunk again, eha' said the mag
istrate, contracting his brows and look
ing severely at the prisoner. 'sYis. yer
honor" candidly returned Pat. II was
afther splitting wood at yer honor's
house. and theleddy asked would take
suthin. / will, says l, and 1 tux
two glasses, but II had known yer
honor kept such bad liquor, pom me
sowl l wuldn't have tux but one."-
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

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"A Californian spent S4o' w IN VAIN
attempts to perfect steam machinery tor
shearing sheep.
Mr.. F. Bowers, daring huntsman
of Wales, died from blood poisoning.
caused by his horse biting him.
James Gordon Bennett has ordered
a Yacht in which he can cross the ocean.
1t will be 225 feet long and 20 feet beam.
A farm has recently been sold in
.(,astfston- yt...for 1880. which the
owner refused $40. 600 for twenty-five
wears 400. e ~
nr f,hsr,os f,scood - Norwich.
Conn ,aft IN ,s e. ~ 00f1 000' much
- ,.,h;oh Ia -csJs- cut ~ { wslI'adver-
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-07

let me out this instant! don't know
who you are; but you never could make
me bappy-never. Let me outr'
Good Lord deliver usr' calculated
the still unseen gentleman. "Who is
thisr'
At this instant the moon rushed out
from under cloud and lay in perfect
silver glory in sea of blue.
Miss Monckton saw her captor's face.
"It's Humphrey Hortonr' she cried.
said Humphrey.
What did you drag me into this car
riage forr' asked the lady.
Why did you get imp asked the
young gentleman.
~ was trying to catch Pussy" said
Miss Monckton, and suddenly she felt
the truth borne in upon her.
. You wicked young manr' she ex-
claimed. :. You were to elope with
Letitia Quirk: / saw her signals to-day
but did not understand them until
now. Are you not ashamed of your
selfp''
Miss Monckton, when two people
love each other they want to get mar
ried." said poor Humphrey, who was
only twenty-one.
II was . simple plea, but it touched
the poor spinster's heart, full as it was
of memories of her own past, set
topsy-turvy by other peoples ILL.,
temper.
81 Well, I don't know but what they
do. Humphrey" she said. with rural
csution 6f expression. But they
ought to marry properly, not like this.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-07


until now the remains. are covered to a
depth Of forty yards, and the Portu-
guese is probably the best buried man
in Arizona.
In o postcard on view at an exhi-
bition in Germany there had been writ
ten in German system of shorthand
the large number Of 81, 900 words. SUBJ
sequently Mr.. Hurst, of Sheffield in
England, the publisher Of the Rho,so-
graph, short hand magazine. offered
prizes for miniature shorthand. The
system was to be Pitman's, the writing
was to be legible to the naked eye. and
to be on one side of an English post
card, which is considerable smaller than
a German card; 5000 words on the
former being reokoned equivalent TO
$1,000 on the latter. The first prize in
this competition was awarded to G. H.
Davidson. whose postcard contained
1878 words, including the whole of
Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer"
an essay on John Morley and half of
Holcroft's +" Road toARuin-'
The Council~G General of the Aisne.
in France, have decreed that statue
shall be erected to Camille Desmoulins
in one Of the public places Of the town
of Guise, where this revolutionary hero
was born. The decision IL 4 remarka-
BILE one. for it initiates the first public
homage psid in quiet times under =
regular government to the terrorists of
the first revolution. Camille Desmou-
Inns was himself victim of the terror,
but he was guillotined as the friend OF
Danton. with whom he had identified
his fortunes; and If he is to have a
statue, the time cannot be far distant
when Danton win be honored with one
too. Camille Desmoulins is chiefly
famous for bis conduct on the 18th Of
July, 1859, when he climbed on q table
in the garden of the Palais Royal,
harangued the people, and urged them
to 80 and storm the Bastile:
American citizen., 1881-10-22
WIT. AND WISDOM.

Spanish lace costs $24 . yard.
Those of our readers who have never
seen It can look at some elegant speci-
mems at this office. The cheap editor
has all his night-shirts trimmed with it.
-Burtington Ha,0keye. .-t ..f
-"What yer chewin, onP'' queried
one -boot-black of another at the post
office Yesterday Gum" What
else?" .'Terbacker." Got 'em both
on the same side O yer mouthp"
Yum" Like 'em that ,wayp,
well, not overmuch. but it saves half
a day of chawiD'. ."I-DetrOH Free Press.
"A superstitious person. desiring to
learn less of the future than he already
knows, visits the seventh daughter of a
seventh. daughter and explains his mis-
sion. Twenty francs, please"'
:. Twenty francs! That's pretty steep.
Say tenr' Rash mortal. ten francs
wouldn't pay the spirits for the labor
of lifting the veil. of futurity. to say
nothing of the wear and tear4ofs the
veilr'- French Paper. -....,
"A Louisville lady is anxious to learn
''why it is that man entering, alone,
q church of empty pews, and seating
himself, always puts his hat in the pew
in front of him instead of laying it at
his side, the front pew being as liable
20 be filled as any other?" She thinks
it may be for the reason that, as has al
ways been noticed. when this animal
comes out of a saloon wiping his mouth.
he goes one way and looks another
C0urier-JoMrnal.
"A nervous-looking man went into
a store the other day and sat down for
half an hour or so, when a clerk asked
him if there was anything she could do
for him. He said no. he didn't want
anything. She went away and he sat
there half an hour longer, when the pre-
prietor went to him and asked if he
wanted to be shown anything. mo-"
said the nervous man, II just want to
sit around. My physician has recon-
mended perfect quiet for me. and says
above all things must avoid being in
crowds. Noticing that you did not ad-
vertise in the newspapers, l thought
that this would be as quiet place as 1
could find. SO just dropped in for
few hours of isolation" The mer-
chant picked up a bolt of paper cam
brio to brain him, but the man went
out. H. said all he wanted was quiet
life.-Feck's San.
American citizen., 1881-10-22
The President and His Party.

Some of our esteemed Republican
contemp oraries will help their readers
perhaps to more correct appreciation
Of the political situation in Washington
If they will substitute facts for gush and
plainness of speech for palaver. By
the death of President Garfield official
power has been transferred from the
Republicans who opposed General
Grant to the Republicans who support
ed General Grant at Chicago in 1880.
The stanch supporters of General
Grant, constituting the famous 1906"
in that Convention, were outflanked
and defeated by the nomination of
General Garfield, and the Vicc-Presi-
dency was contemptuously conceded to
them by the victorious faction, as sign
that they were to be compelled to take
'back seats" in the councils of the
party. Before the election was de-
cided the supporters of General Grant,
as Mr.. Conkling maintains, were as
sured that they should be more mag
unanimously treated, but, after the inau-
guration of President Garfield, this
assurance, as Mr.. Conkling maintains,
was audaciously repudiated The
nomination as Collector of Mr.. Robert
son, SO far as the public can see, attests
the determination of those who opposed
General Grant at Chicago to "crush
out" in the Republican party those who
supported General Grant. While the
Garfield Administration was still in the
first flush of power. General Arthur.
with unmistakable sincerity, flung him
self into the front of the supporters of
General Grant to resist this process
After the resignation of their seats by
Senator Conkling and Senator Platt he
American citizen., 1881-10-22

1t is thus seen that the aggregate for
furniture and repairs under Grant and
Hayes was four times greater than it
should have been! Also, that the ap-
preparation for furniture. instead of be-
ing quadrennial, was made annually.
During eight Years the notorious Bah
cook handled this money, and that fact
tells the story. in connection with the
other fact that Boss Shepherd was the
man of repairs" r
That the appropriations were not ex-
pended according to law is capable of
proof, if Il proper and stern investiga-
tion should be ordered. Everybody
familiar with the White House knows
that no such amount of furniture was
put into it during the last twelve years.
Confederates of Babcock may have
given vouchers for furniture, but they
never delivered it.
Recurring to the statement fro
Washington that a large part of the
furniture had not been changed lin ten
years." the question will naturally be
asked: What became of this three hun
dred thousand doliars? The ready an
swer is that great portion of it was
stolen outright, and the accounts were
passed by accommodating Auditors of
the Treasury, just as those of Howgate
were. with promptitude and without
challenge. ..t
Power has the faculty of overcoming
scrutiny at Washington. Hayes drew
his salary month in advance for a
long time; and when mild suggestion
was made that this course was unusual,
he changed the practice from the 1st
to 10Th of the month. still in advance,
and when not dime had been earned
for the long or the short period. He
knew that the Treasury officials COM
mitted felony in every instance by
passing an account for money not due.
But rs a thrifty patriot he wanted to
pocket the interest on his salary,
which was Immediately invested, and
he commanded silence on the part of the
enforced subordinates by the reserved
penalty of removal in case they dared
to speak of his criminal and despicable
avarice.
After all these liberal appropriations,
for which Congress deserves blame,
when General Garfield entered the
White House on the 4th of March, he
could not find ordinary table equipment
for the use of his family, and he was
obliged to buy Immediately dinner and
breakfast sets of china, and to order
supplies of linen. In the graphic Ian
guage of a member of the family, there
was not "a napkin in the house" IN.
Y. San.
American citizen., 1881-10-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Out of every 100 inhabitants of the
United States sixteen live in cities.
The number of cars going through
the Hoosac Tunnel during August was
IL, 1896, and the largest number in one
day was $40. -. .-s
-"Jersey Queen" famous Yer
mont COW. owned in Peachman, gave
44O3 pounds of milk during the first
one hundred days of her yearly test,
making 251 pounds of butter.
The largest boat on the great lakes
is being built at Cleveland. 1t is to be
of iron, 3O24 feet in length, 80 feet in
breadth of beam. and 25 feet depth OF
hold, and to have a capacity OF $500
tons.
Eighty million pounds of tea, val
ned at $25, 900. 900, were imported into
the United States in 1880, and the
chances are that these figures will show
increase for the current year ..l-
Several years ago Ericsson pre-
dicted that the Nile and the Ganges
would be lined with cotton and other
factories driven by solar heat A
French engineer in AlGiers is already
contributing to the ful6llment OF this
predjcioa .AyyppIppins water and max
fhg it boil by sOlaf iorce alone.
Charles Brush is. sad to have in
vented new st, le of storing electrici-
ty. He uses metal plates that. can
store large quantities of the fluid and
retain it long time. With this in
vention people can make their own elec-
trio lights and run street.cars and ma
, chineIy: ..-.zo.-.
Iron ore deposits sufficient to sup,
ply the world for many years gre said
to have been found in Swedish Lap
land. near the West Fjord. The ore
holds seventy per cent. Of iron. En-
glish and Dutch capitalists are after it;
and railroad Is to be built from Eager
naes to the mines.
kerosene oil, or naphtha, or even
turpenEne, will, in arsheFe time, pene-
trate between pinute crevices in joints
that have been long in contact, whether
bolts Or nuts or, steam joints. They
should be ignited when possible. when
the effects of cheat and .diffusiop will
soon loosen the metals. Nuts rust SO
tight sometimes that no wrench will
remove them without breaking off tire
bolts. A gentle hammeringi on the sides
ana top will sometimes start them lit
tie. A driven joint or rust Joint be-
tween fianges, formed by cast iron bor-
ings and sal. ammoniac in solution in
them. can not be parted by any means
short of destroying the castings The.
scrap heap is the only remedy. slr
American citizen., 1881-10-22
Benefits OF a Cla sslcal Education.

By a recent change in the curriculum
of the Milwaukee High School, Greek
has been dropped from the studies,
though Latin Is still retained, and a
city paper regards the dropping of
Greek as mistake. We think so, too
Years ago we held old fogy notions up
on educational matters, and thought
that English ought to be taught
in the public schools. 1t seemed to us
that as English was the language of the
country and the English sciences the
only ones used in business. 1t co',ld not
do children any particular harm to
teach them little English occasionally
not too much, so that it would inter-
fere with their Greek, Latin. painting,
drawing and dancing. but enough SO
they could buy two yards of factory
cloth at eight cents yard and feel sat
is6ed in their minds that it came to
ten cents. We were running a little
country paper at that time, and work
as hard as ever we might we could not
make any money, and we could not ac-
count for it. One day we dropped in
to school examination, where Latin
was being peeled off in great flakes.
and Greek was being talked like man
filing circular saw. We saw at onco
where we were making our life Q
failure and wasting our energies, and
we returned to the office, resolved to
the defect. We opened on the
public the next week with plenty of Latin
and Greek. and the effect was wonder
full. The public had been suffering for
just that Kind of thing and the edition
was exhausted. Subscriptions began
to pour in from all quarters; we. en-
larged the paper and came to Milwau,
kee, still crowding its columns with
Latin and Greek. The public knows
the rest. Money has flowed in upon us
SO that we have to. keep a man with a
splint broom at the door to sweep it
back. This is what Latin and Greek
has done for us, and we can truthfully
say that we had rather see boy able
to write a beautiful essay in Greek. any
time, than to see him hanged for horse
1t is more creditable to him.
Sun,
American citizen., 1881-10-22
How 1t Came About.

1t is one of the curiosities of party
and personal vicissitude in this country
that our new President is the unintend-
ed product, both the victim and the
beneficiary, of Republican predeces-
sor's attempt to purify and reform the
Civil Service. Mr.. Arthur never held
popular office before. and he would
not in all human probability be holding
the most august Of all popular offices
now, but for President Hayes and
Secretary Sherman ambition to divert
attention from some of their discredita-
BILE appointments in the South. and
make a very conspicuous and very fool
ish exhibition of what they called Civil
Service Reform They aimed blow at
their enemy, Senator Conkling, and it
fell upon the heads of the Senator s
friends. Collector Arthur and Naval
Officer Cornell, of New York. The
world had hardly heard of them till one
pleasant morning it was informed that
they had been removed for alleged
neglect of duty and connivance at cor
ruption in their offices. The charge
may not have been true. Republicans
now generally assert that it was not,
but a good many of them either ac-
ceptedit whether they believed it or not,
and applauded the Administration for
making the removals, and in the late
Presidential canvass the Democrats, as
they had q perfect right to, made a
vigorous use of the charge against
the Republican ticket. 1t was not
the business of Democrats to "go
behind'' the formal indictment brought
in by Republican President and a Re-
publican Secretary of the Treasury. If
that Indictment was false and mali
cious, then let the Republicans deal
with the two distinguished members of
their own party who brought it. The
Hayes Administration little thought
when it turned the two detested Conk-
lingites out of Office that it would ever
hear from them again, much less that it
was making their fortunes. Yet it was
removal one of the removed officers
turns up as Governor of New York.
and three years afterwards the other
comes to the front as President of the
United States.
Whatever may be said of Mr.. Conk-
ling, it cannot be said that he does not
take care of his fricnds-bctter care
than he takes of himself. As COM
pensation for the personal service to
himself which cost Mr.. Cornell the
Naval Office, he had MIR. Cornell nom-
mated for Governor of his State, and,
as a reward for the personal service to
himself, which cost Mr.. Arthur the
Collectorship, he had Mr.. Arthur NOM
mated for the Vice Presidency. He
has dealt out his favors royalty. He
made Governor and a President.
while Mr.. Hayes and Mr.. Sherman only
a Naval Officer and Collector.
And the drollest feature in this whole
game of up and down is that the play
ers on both sides were Republicans. -
81. Louis Republican.
American citizen., 1881-10-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The English Wesleyan Cor 'crence
has authorized the use of the revised
New Testament in the church cate.
chisms.
The discontinuance of Sunday
trains on the New York, Pennsylvania
4 Ohio Railroad shows its good elect in
the increased attendance of the en-
ployes at divine service.
The Baptist Home Missionary So
ciety wants to raise S500,000 as jubi-
lee Offering to mark its semi-centennial
year. Some of the rich Baptists favor
the project.
The Southern Baptists are building
church at Tore Pellice, Italy. all Of
stone. 1t is nearly rooted, and already
begins to attract attention and advertise
the principles of the church.
"A japanese editor who conducted
n paper at Osaka went to England to
study English civilization. He there
became Christian, and was baptized.
The editor who took his place has be-
come Christian, too.
The Northern Christian Advocate
celebrated the fiftieth birthday of Mrs.
HAYES. who is President Of the Method=
ist Woman's Home Missionary. S9AstE.
by publishing a number I'll the articles
of which but one were written by
women, and Of which the superinten-
dence, type-setting, making ready the
forms, folding and mailing was done by
women. -. r
The Rev. John A. Ken sbf the
Methodist Episcopal Church Sonth. at
Alexandria. Va. has hadn telephone
attachment fitted up to his pulpit. by
means of which he breaches regularly
to an invalid member at some distance
away. The communication is com
plete. and the lady hears the sermon
distinctly and every part of the service
as well. ~,
Editions" of the Japanese New
Testament have BEEN published in six
different forms, and three books of the
minor prophets have also been issued
in the Japanese language. New por-
tions of the Scriptures are in progress
in variors Chinese dialects. and the re-
vision in India of the Telugu Scrip
lures has made good progress. Yer
sions of the Gospels and Acts in tine
Ponape and Zulu languages have been
finished. and all in the last year. =,
Church pews date back good
long time. In early Anglo Saxon days
a stone bench running round the inside
of the sacred editice was all the accom-
mediation people had, and in 1919 we
read of worshipers sitting on~the
ground. Then three.legged stools were
brought by those who came from dis
tance. and wooden seats followed. In
1887 persons attending service were
forbidden TO wrangie- for. seats, and no
one might appropriate one In 1880
we read of pews high enough to hide
the occupants device of the Puri-
tans when it was punishable offense
to stand at the nam of Jesus. :.
American citizen., 1881-10-22
More Stealing.

1t has been announced from Wash
ington that the White House is to be
put in complete order, and properly re-
lifted throughout, because most of the
furniture is said to be ''ten ! ears old"
This extraordinary statement de-
mands notice.
The long established custom before
General Grant became President was
to refurnish the Executive Mansion
every fourth year, SO that the incoming
President should be becomingly vel
coined and housed. ANY part of the
old furniture that had been injured was
sold and the proceeds of the sale were
added to the appropriation, which was
always sufficient but modest.
Under Grant the rule of simplicity
and economy was abandoned, and pomp
with extravaganza became the fashion
in every branch of the Government.
The plain methods of his predecessors
were rejected as unworthy the g dig
nity'' of an Administration controlled
by rings. The country has been made
familiar with the reckless expenditures
and the disgraceful robberies of the
Treasury that were common from 1869
to 1877, and which were continued as
far as possible under Hayes.
A Democratic House of Representa-
y,
and compelled large retrenchment in
the public expenses at the close of
Grants second term. But it was not
able, even with the aid of the Senate.
when the Democrats obtained major
ity of that body, to stop enormous plum
der in a new direction by the manipu-
lation of the National debt, through
which immense fortunes were acquired
by the Treasury Ring. Nor could both
combined prevent the open prostitution
of office and other patronage as rewards
for the forgers, perjurers and thieves
who, under the personal direction of
John Sherman, did the work of the
great Fraud in 1876.
Following the regular usage, the cost
of the furniture and repairs of the Ex-
ecutive Mansion-the latter item most
ly barefaced fraud-should not have
exceeded, for the two terms of Grant
and for one term of Hayes, seventy-five
thousand dollars at the outside. Con-
trast that liberal allowance with the
following appropriations, and then a
fair idea of the scandalous system that
has prevailed for twelve years may be
formed. Here are the figures: