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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-16

or those with weak lungs, splitting Of blood
bronchitis, or kindred affections Of throat
or lungs, send two stamps for DIR. Il. v,
Pierce's treatise ON these maladies. Ad
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"F1vE doctors; no end Of medicine; no
relief. Or. Bens0n's Skin Cure has dricess
Gscav all eruptioss and Pm nearly yell"
Ida c. Young, Hamilton, Ill.
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MRS. JAMES E WmMAN, Of Harrison, o.,
writes: DIR. Guysott's Yellow Dock and
Sarsaparilla cured my daughter Of dyspep-
~ia and Irregularities"
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AN evil speaker differs from an evil door
only in the want of opportunity. Quin-
titan. 4. 3.
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Tue French Government intends to hold
. grand international exhibition at Paris in
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FUNNY, isn't it, that you always sec the
night-fall before any stars begin to Shoot
The JUDGE. 8.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-16

=. Gray, Dadeville, Ala, writes us; I
have been using your On. WV. Halls
BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS, and can say, OF
atruth, It Is far superior to any other Lung
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and had every attention by as good ply
all failed to effect cure; but when l got
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FOR THE LUNGS, she began to mend right
away. can say in truth, that II WAS THn
MEANS or SAVING HER LIFE. knew OF 6ve
cases that DIR. VIM. Halls Balsam hao
cured, and my mother is better now than
she has been for twenty years.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-16

LADIES, buy for your husbands, brothers
and sons Chrolithion Collars and Guns and
cave trouble in washing.
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&c. buys pair of Lyons Patent Heel 6ti6en-
srs and make . boot or shoe last twice - long.
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10 consumptives,

TEE cricket and grasshOpper sing In the
dew wet I'D M -
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Rhssuatism Positively cnrsa
In the shortest time. Write for "a e 4O-pag0
pamphlet ON rheumatism, to r. &. Hslphen-
slime, Druggist, Washington, D. G.
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The diamond is the stone for an engage
ment; but give us the old cobble-stone in
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KIND words are like bald heads; they can
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e90 A WEEK. $12 day at home easily made
~ kCos1ly out1teioa Addr6ss True Co. Augusta Ne
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A Sunday-school boy comhatcd
with his teacher, holding that the world
oeing round, could have no end GAi-
cago Times. .as
The Board OF Missions of the
Methodist Protestant Church have pur-
chased mission buildings in Yoke
hama, aud intend to push the work in
that country.
Mr., John Wanamaker has added
one more to his many benefactions TO
the Young Mems Christian Association
by giving the Philadelphia Association
$4,000 to pay off its floating debt. The
entire amount of the debt, $500, 900,
was made up by other subscribers.
Philadelphia Press.
No man has really got religion as
the cant phrase runs, until it seriously
affects the eye and ear. The religious
eye has had all the greenness OF ieal-
pussy and envy washed out of 1t, and the
religious ear listens only to the good
that is told If ones neighbors and Is as
deaf as m adder to what Is bad. ~
Y. Herald. # sifsa as
Grace Reformed Church, Easton,
Pa, was called upon recently to curb
and pave the street in front of its prop
erty, and as il Is not u rich organization
and could not afford to hire the work
done, the members pluckily did all the
job themselves at night, by torchlight
the pastor himself taking a conspicuous
part in the novel scene, which lasted 10,
three nights. Piasburgh Post.
Rev William p. Paxson, Superin.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06
The African Slave Trade.

An officer on board the sailing
schooner Undine, Lieutenant and Com
mander Henry McA. Cutfield, employed
in suppressing the slave trade in Mo-
zambique Channel, writing under date
July l6, says:
hi We are having a lively time, / can
assure you, with 103 poor, miserable,
half-starved wretches on board, eighty
of them women and children, and for
the most part children from eighteen
months to ten years old, and one. only
four days old The dhow that they
came to Johanna in was sixty-three
tons. SO they We're packed like sardines.
She was caught by our boat that was
left behind for ninety-six days, and /
am sorry to say one of our poor fellows
died of fever in her. These slaves were
kidnapped about two hundred miles
south of Mozambique, brought down to
the coast, and shipped off to Johanna
as a speculation, as the sugar crop is
just coming on. Some of the children
have been taken care of by the women
Two little chaps the men look after are
housed in biscuit box. and they cry
Justify if taken out of it. They eat all
day and nearly all night One old
woman became insane after she was
taken out of the dhow, and she has a
baby with her. The poor old woman is
tied down to prevent her going over
board in fit, of which she has had
several. Every morning all are stripped
and the fire-hose played on them indis-
criminately, and don't they want it!
The smell is something too bad to be
talked about. Luckily we have beau
tiful weather this trip. and a strong,
fair wind. Some would be certain to
die if we had spell of bad weather, as
we have only the upper deck for them
to lie on. The night we took them on
on board they were SO cramped and
weak that only about twenty could
walk. The rest were passed in one
after the other, and then slowed in
rows for he night. One hundred and
twenty pounds of rice, treacle and sweet
potatoes were cooked at once. When
they saw it they went hands and feet
into it, and fought and bit, and each did
everything that could be done to get q
little more than another. 1t was really
most distressing sight. We should,
/ think, capture three times as many if
we had some more boats and steam
cutter, as there is not a shadow of
doubt that large numbers are run here
every year, and especially about this
time, Pal Mall Gazette.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06
For Young Readers.
BE POLITE.

Hearts, like doors, wfll ope with case
To very, cary httie keys. s p
But don't forget that two arc these,
y thank you. sir" aud "if YOU please"
Be polite, boys; don't forget Il,
In your wanderings day by day,
When You work and when You study,
In your home and at your play.
BE not rough: leave that 10 Bruiu.
All untutored In hi den;
IT, whom You have gained mans stature,
You would DO frsse gentiemea. t
Not the perfumcd, cray exquisitc,
Doting on b raiment fine. a5.
He whom powder aud pomatum
Renders Ito his mind divine;
would have YOU copy after
Nature on a different plan; SO
Heed her teachings, aud you some time
May DO creru 0,ch q mau.
Be polite, boys, to each other
Do not Quickly take oflcnse;
Curb your tempcr--you'll he thankful
For this habit seasons hence.
BE respectful to the aged, 4 4A
And this one thing bear In mind;
Never tntint the wretched outcast,
BE he helpless, lafnc or blind.
BE polite, boys. to your parents,
Never let them fail to hear
From their sons the best of language
In the home they should hold dear;
To your brothers and your sisters
Speak In accents kind aud true
Be polite; twill serve you better s
~. Y. ledger.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06
VOLUME XIV.
"sHE DOES NOT KNOW CHICKEN
FROM TERKET.''* kSt

Helene is the handsomest girl of her race:
She : an elegant forth and an exquisite face:
And she dresses with perfectly consummate
But she doesn't know chicken from turkey
ehe knows many languages, living and dead
In science and fiction is very well read,
But size cannot cook meat, and she cannot
make bread. G+ Nf.
And she doesn't know chicken from turkey
Shecan play ''Fantasie'' or '.Nocturne1 with
Can sing upto "B'-has wonderful tril;
Can write good story or sonnet, but still
She doesn't know chicken from turkey
She's been up the Tibcr, the Rhine and the
Nile;f 48sTf4s
She's a painter in every popular style
Can decorate china. a plaque or tile
But SHE doesn't know chicken from turkey
She's always self-satisfied, graceful and cool,
a critic. both just and correct, as rule.
And knows every stitch OF the kensington
But She doesn't know chicken from turkey
She ear work design ~ Iensing or Burt
But she cannot eur out for her children a
OR make for her husband a well-fitine shirt
she doesn't know chicken from turkeys
I'm Wiling girl should read Latin and
Should German and French and Italian speak
And he up in the latest esthetical freak
II she only knows chicken from turkey
I'D ike her in music and song to take part;
Read poetry. science, and cultivate art
III husband and children we're first In her
heart.
And If she knew chicken from turkey
Knew barley from rice, knew tart from
PIE;
A boil from a stew, broil from a fry;
And il she went into the market to buy
Knew very well chicken from turkey.
For. to make home happy, all knowledge
must blend;
Art, science and service their benefits lend
Then, ladies SO clever and WISE condescend
To know about chicken and turkey.
--Lfllic Il. Barr. in The Continent.
' An old saving for q poor housewife.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06
Ice-Eating Flies.

"Every time / see a blue-bottle iy,'
said the nautical cop at Eighth and
Chestnut Streets yesterday, as he made
a grab at one of the insects buzzing in
front of his nose, sit reminds me of the
day that saw the big cloud of blue ice
flies in Siberia. Don't think ever men
toned it, did / !? Let me see--I think
ii was in the fall of 1865. Our vessel
was ice-bound on the coast of Siberia,
and off to lee'ard about two hundred
yards was an iceberg about thirty feet
high. 1t was just about noon-tinle, and
the sun was shining brightly. | had
taken my trick at the wheel, and was
lying in the fo'castle, when the mate
came running for'rerd and woke me up.
Turn out, you lubber, says he, If you
want to see the greatest thing you ever
saw in your life. There's a big crowd
of ice-fies coming down from the north,
and Wen be sure to get out of here in
side the next hour.
II hadn't the least idea what the
mate meant, but l obeyed orders and
scrambled up on deck / looked over
the starboard bow, and way up north
could see what appeared to be a big
black patch in the blue sky. As it
came nearer, l saw that the cloud was
composed of millions and millions OF
little blue-bodied flies, with long wings
and web feet. 4 hope to goodness they
don't skip the berg, said the captain,
looking at the flock with his glass, .or
we're good to stay here another week,
md if-by jove, he continued, they've
truck it,. a
.'This remark was caused by the fact
that the cloud had settled on the ice
berg. Now, sir, what do you think
happenedp Why, dog-gone my buttons
if that cloud of flies didn't eat up every
speck of that berg inside of thirty-eight
minutes! Yes, sir! There wasn't
piece big enough left to make glass
Of lemonade. Eat it up clear and
clean, and let US get out without any
trouble. y
How was it possible for the flies to
avoid being frozen to death p" asked
the listener. M
I'm not a puzzle column, neither a
walking answer to impertinent ques-
tions," said the nautical cop.-PaiIa-
delphsa Press.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06
Amusing Verbal BIunders.


It was Richard Grant White, | be-
lieve, who said that she had only met
three Englishmen that could speak
English correctly" 1t would be rash
TO say that only few could speak their
mother tongue correctly; but as mat
ter of fact / have never met one person
who did. Carelessness of expression is
the rule, and most takers are satisfied
if their utterances convey the idea they
intend to express, regardless of the
form. Sometimes, indeed, the sense
itself is sacrificed to mere sound. An
anecdote of Choate illustrates this. In
the climax of long speech to a jury,
he turned to the defendant, and in
highly oratorical tones denounced him
strongly, ending by declaring him to be
"a naufragous ruffian.' When ques-
toned afterward in regard to this
admitted that at the time of speaking
he had no conception Of its meaning,
but seized upon it as filling out the
phrase in a sonorous manner.
On recent trip to Wayne County,
New York. ran across naturalized
Irishman named Frank McGuire, whose
oddities of expression were extremely
mirthful. His mental powers had been
nurtured exclusively on ..home- growed
eddication," and he evidently believed
that a well-rounded sentence contained
just SO many syllables, regardless OF
what they were. He took great pride
in house which he had recently built,
and in dilating upon its construction
explained that there was piano all
around it, condescending to the road
and in opposition to the WE'LL" In
speaking about his wife. who had inn
prudentlv over-taxed her strength
while recovering from sickness, and
had suffered from relapse, he said
'.she had in some way got the collapses
and he didn't know how she caught
'em, for he hadn't heard of their being
around this spring His acquaintance
tell how he s.hurried up neighbor by
advising him to be '.as prodigious as
possible;'' but perhaps his greatest eff
fort was a description of the famed
Cardiff Giant, which ended in pro
fame declaration that ..any fool would
have known that it was piece of pu-
trefied statuary. ''--Lippssscott's Maya
zine.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06
The Blue. Grass Country.

The bluegrass country is reached by
travers ng Central Virginia and Ken
lucky along the line of the picturesque
Chesapeake q Ohio Railway, unless, In
deed, one prefers the swift and solid
drops down TO it from the north. On
this particular journey, ut any rate, It
was reached past the battle-fields and
springs of Virginia. and up and down
the long slopes Of the Blue Ridge and
gorgcs Of the Grcenbrier and Kanawha,
in the wilder Alleghanies. 1t is found
to be a little cluster Of peculiarly
favored counties in the center Of the
State. Marked out on the map, it Is
like the kernel, Of which Kentucky is
the nut; or like one of those
spockets" Of precious metals happened
upon by mineps in their researches.
The So is, Of rich fertility, the sur.
face charmingly undulating. Poverty
seems abolished. On every hand are
evidences of thrift corresponding with
the genial bounty of nature. A lead
ing crop In times past has been hemp,
and land that will grow hemp will
grow anything. This is being moro
and more withdrawn in favor Of stock
raising exclusively, but the tall. stacks
Of hemp, in shape Nike Zulu wigwams,
still plentifully dot the landscape.
One drops into horse talk Immediate
ly on alighting from the train at Lex
ington, and does not emerge from u
again till he takes his departure. II Is
the one subject always in order. Each
successive proprietor as he tucks you
into his wagon. If you will go with him
land if you will 60 with him there Il
no limit to the courtesy he will show
you declares that now, after having
seen animals more or less we'll ia their
way, he proposes to show you horse.
Fortunately there are many kinds Of
perfection. He may have the best horse
or colt Of certain age, the one which
has made the best single heat, or fourth
heat, or quarter Of mile, or average 1t
all distances, or the best stallion OF
brood-mare, or the one which has done
some Of these things at private il not
public trials. Each one has, 1t any
rate, the colt which is going to be the
great horse Of the world. This is m
amiable vanity easily pardOned, and the
enthusiasm is rather catching. A mans
stock is greatly to his credit and stand
ing in this section while he lives, and
when he dice is printed prominently
among the list Of his virtues. ~ " r.
Bishop. ~ Harper's Aagasi'sc-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06

AT Glendive, Montana, small
watermelon sells readily for $3.50,
three small apples, twenty-five cents;
lager beer, twenty-five cents glass.
and all other things in proportion.
Nothing is sold for less than quarter
f a dollar.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06

London spectators are buying up
our trade dollars. 1t is said that these
purchases are made in the expectation
that congress will some time make trade
dollars Legal tender or direct their re-
demption at face value. ~. Y. Times.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-08
A LITTLE PLAIN TALK.

Too many marriages are in this
wise:-A pair of gushing simpletons
fall in love, and having spent a few
evening in the lucrative and soul ex-
panding occupation of holding each
others hands, they straightway leap
to the strange conclusion that they
were created for each other, and must
be married at once or else their en-
tire future will become an aching
void. Their characters are uniformed
and they know nothing of each other;
they have no money AID know no
more about earning a living than
granger Robie knows about farming.
They marry, and for a short time
live in FOOLS paradise. after which
comes the grind. In no long time
they learn that they must choose be-
tween life of misery and divorce.
Iwould change all that. 1 would
make the road to matrimony so long
and disciplinary that all weaklings
would fall by the way and only the
fit would enter its gates. Then there
would be no desire tor divorce. But
If by some i'll chance badly mated
pair were married, and if both wished
to be free, would make them free.
The end and aim of human life is
happiness, and every man and
women has divine right to any
thing that will add to his or her
happiness, provided, it don't disturb
the happiness of others.
When I was young man, which
alas seems many hundred years ago
vicious public sentiment forbad,
the breaking of a marriage engage
ment. If two were engaged, anf
upon a more mature acquaintance
the yorng man became satisfied theA
corid not live happily together, pub
lie opinion forced him to marry tn
girl and make her and his life miser-
able thereby. And that vicious pub
lio sentiment is the fruitful rhothe
Of many divorces. ManY persons ar
forced by public opinion to Mari!
against their better Judgment, ant
later on they fly to the divorce cour
for relief from bonds which are ihtol.
erable. If the engaged youth break
that engagement and leaves the CIR
free, he is denounced as = bas
i wretch: but if lie inarries her AM
! sets MP little private he'll, AM
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-08

for back street In the new Jerusa-
lum, but you would give the whole
crowd away unless you'd wash up,
and send that shirt to the Chinese
laundry. Yes, sir, hereafter you will
find me as good as I know how to
be. Now I am going to- wash mp
and go and help the minister move" :"
AS the boy went out the grocery
man sat for several minutes thinking
of the change that had come over the
bad boy, and wondered what had
brought it about and then he went
to the door to watch him as he
wended his way across the street
with bis head down, as though in
deep thought, and the groceryman
said to himself, that boy is not as
bad as some people think he is" and
then he looked around and saw a
sign hanging up in front of the store,
written on piece of box cover, with
blue pencil, "Spoiled canned ham
and tongue, good enough for church
picnics," and he looked after the boy
who was slipping down an alley and
said, "The condemn little whelp.
Wait till catch him."
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-08
DON'T JUDGE.

Don't judge man by his clothes
he wears, for God made one and the
tailor made the other.
Dom. judge him by his family
connections, for Cain belonged to a
very good family.
Don't judge him by his speech, for
the parrot talks and the tongue is
but an instrument of sound.
Don't judge a man by the house
he lives in, for the lizard and the rat
often inhabit the grandest structures.
Don't judge by his activity in
church. for that is not unfrequently
inspired by hypocritical and selfish
motives.
Don't Judge by his like Of display,
fo1 the long-eared beast is the humb-
lest of animals, but when aroused is
terrible to behold.
Don't take it for granted that be-
cause he carries the contribution box
he is liberal he often pays the Lord
in that way and keeps the currency.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-08
local PAPER.

Every subscriber to local paper
should file them. In after years the
pleasure of pursuing the accounts of
happenings that in many cases have
passed from memory, will be greater
than the reading OF events fresh in
local history. Old files of local pa
pers posses an inestimable value, and
often provide the only means of sup
plying missing links in the chain of
history. AS the publications of forty
or fifty years ago are eagerly scanned
by the readers of to-day, in search
of scraps of interesting history, SO
also will the papers of to-day be of
interest half century hence. Doubt
less our successors at that :ime will
find interest and entertainment in
comparing the business facilities,
modes Of living, social events, etc.,
Just as we do now the sketches Of
the past.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-08
WINDING TIE DINNER POT.

In certain village Maryland a
small boy kicked up breeze in the
parish church one Sunday. 1t seems
that a certain good woman bought a
Calls head and put it on to boil leav-
ing her little boy to mind it while
she went to the church close by.
The minister had reached his filthy,
my brethren; when a small boy stuck
his head in the door and whispered
"Mamma |"
The good woman recognized her
son instantly. and began to make
signs for him TO leave the door.
mammal" again came the whis-
per-this time a little louder than be.
fore.
The mother shook her finger a:
the boy warningly, and indulged in
other familiar pantomime with which,
she was accustomed to awe her son.
But it didn't work worth cent. The
boy was excited and in dead earnest
as the announcement will show
Raising his voice, he shouted:-
"Mamma, you needn't wink and
blink at me, but better come home
right away. for the calls head i.
buttin' all the dumplins, out of the
pot %