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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

WHEN a mans pantaioons are little too
short for him it may look like an exaggera-
ton to say that his legs run two feet
through his trousers, but it ain't-Detroif
Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

BELIEVE Swift's Specific has saved my
life. had virtually lost use of the upper
part Of my body and my arms from the
poisonous effects of large cancer on my
neck, from which had suffered for twenty
years. S. s. S. has relieved me of all sore
ness, and the poison is being forced out OF
INV system. win soon be well.
w. r. ROBINSON. Davisboro, Ga.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

Hale's Honey OF Horehound and Tar
Will tackle an obstinate cough or cold.
Pixies toothache drops cure in one minute.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

FROM North Hampton, N. H, Mrs. L. B
Tarlton writes: "Sdmdritda Nerrfae cure
my son."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

A TEXAS prophet declares that 1854 will
ssbristls and groan with disaster" GOOD
gracious. More English lecturers must be
coming.-Letroa Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

Ar the dawn of womanhood, or in the
change of life. Samaritan Nerrine is the
ladies' friend.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

BEING entertained 10y a romance isn't
what is usually meant when the types say
" novel entertainment"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

DRUNKEN men are seldom hungry, but
the man who is sleepy drunk is possessed
of a rappy tight.-Boston Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

IT doesn't speak much Of the size or
mans mind when it takes him only MN
ute to make it up-N. y. Graphic.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

IT is good rule that works both ways.
Laughing makes people grow fat, and be-
ing fat makes fother) people laugh.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

1t is said that Tennyson accepted peer.
age to please his son. Most Tennyson
would have wanted his pa to take it,
Progress.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

WoMAN's rights--to do as she pleases,
while mans is also TO do as she pleases, or
take the consequences.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

IMITATION may be the sincerest form OF
fiattery; bus it is possible to have too much
of a good thing.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

THE disease OF the meter gas trick
fever.-Od City Derrick.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

In affiicted with Sore Eyes, use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell IL zoc.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

LADY wants to know IL a lover can be
called sutton if he doesn't suit her.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

THE best hand to hold in the game OF life
is that Of your best girl Waterloo o.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24
Look out for Your Head!

REMEMBER the poor. 1t costs nothing
n. 0. Picdgune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-24

Par excellence-a good father.-Ihe
Judge. 7f. -
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
The Nature of Petroleum.

There have been various theories ad-
vanced at different times as to the nature
and origin of petroleum. These, how
ever, may now be narrowed down to two.
The first is that oil has been distilled in
the bowels of the earth from bituminous
shale at very high temperature, and
was all produced at one excited and phe-
nomenal period in the worlds history.
The other is that the oil is the result Of
distillation from bituminous shale at a
low temperature, beginning almost with
the formation of the strata and still con-
tinuing. The fact that the supply in
America never seems to get nearer ex-
haustion, in spite of the enormous drain
upon it, fayors the latter theory. There
have been repeatedly sudden diminu-
tions in the supplies of certain areas,
and sometimes : total disappearance,
but new districts are always being dis
covered, and the yield goes on fuctu-
ating from time to time in rate, but
aIyays maintaining its volume.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
Hot Water as a Beverage.

A physician writes in the World oi
science some very interesting things re.
garding what to drink. The habit OF
drinking strong tea or black coffee direct
ly after dinner is especially bad, and
certainly interferes with digestion.
Those who dine late and make theiI
dinner their main meal need a diluent
drink an hour or two afterward; and il
they drink tea it keeps them awake oil
makes them irritable and nervous.
find for myself that dining SO idly as ]
am obliged to do when | have done my
work, (7:30 p. m, and often needing to
work from to IL, tumbler of hot wa
ter brought into my study or laboratory
is the best and wholesomest drink, and
after few evenings it will be as much
relished as the usual draught of tea
The hot water assists to complete the di.
gestion of residual food, it acts upon the
kidneys, and rinses out heeffete matters
and thus will be found to wake one uI
sufficiently, and neither to injure the
stomach nor to keep the brain awake
after bedtime. In cold weather warm
water is by far the best drink at dinner.
time, and in hot weather a dranght oi
warm water is far Wholesomer and more
cooling than cold or iced water.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
The State Press.

The committee appointed by the House
to investigate certain charges against the
State Superintendent of Education have ex-
onerated him from any criminal conduct,
and those who have been bounding him
down with the hope of getting his place
will have to continue to lick their chops
and wait for the general election.-Tupelo
Journal
DR.. NJ. C. johnson, of Franklin county,
a prominent member OF the Legislature
came dewn Tuesday morning, and is stop
ping at Cooper's Wells. He has been in
bad health throughout the session, and con-
fined the greater portion of the time to his
room. We hope the waters of the Well
may completely restore him to health
Raymond Gazette
A large majority of the House did the
correct thing in sitting down on the indi-
vidHal who proposed to tax printing ma
terial. The newspaper fraternity seems to
be the object Of vile conspiracy on the
part Of few smart Ellicks Of this State
Tupelo Journal
The Industrial School for girls will be tc
the girls Of Mississippi what the A. and
NJ. College is to the boys; giving them in
structions both in books and 10 practice
Properly endowed and conducted, this
school will do an immense amount of good
Lexington Advertiser.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
The Nobility of Labor.

The day will come-and may | do
something to help it hither-when the
youth of our country viii recognize that,
taken in itself, it is a more manly, and,
therefore, in the old, true sense, a more
gentle thing to follow good handicraft,
If it makes the hands as black as coal,
than to spend the day in keeping books
and making up accounts, though therein
the hands remain white. Not but that,
from higher point of view still, all
work set by God, and done divinely, is
of equal honor; but where there is a
choice, would gladly see boy of mine
choose rather to be blacksmith, or q
matchmaker, or q bookbinder, than a
clerk. Production, making is higher
thing in the scale of reality than any
mere transmission. such as buying and
selling. 1t is besides. easier to do honest
work than to buy and sell honestly. The
more honor to those who are honest
under the greatest difficulty. But the man
who knows how needfnl the prayer,
Lead us not into temptation, knows
that he must not be tempted into temp
tation, even by the glory of duty under
difficulty. In humanity We must choose
the easiest, as we must hold our faces
uafiinchingly to the hardest even to the
seeming impossible when it is given US
To do.-lfeorge Macdonald.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
The Commission Must Stand.
Nashville World |

Nashville World
Now and then we see in papers which
fought against the unitication of the
Democratic party in 1882, a suggestion
that the railroad commission created by
the Legislature should be abandoned
and the commissioners turned out TO grass
because the Federal Court has rendered
an adverse decision. Enquiries have
been made at the Capitol in regard
to the payment of the salaries of the
commissioners while the suits are pend
ing. 1t is gratifying Ito the Democracy
of the State to know the answer was
equivocal and emphatic by the entire
administration, that the will of the peo-
pleaJexpressed by the Legislature, would
be carried out to the letter by the pay
ment of the salaries and expenses of the
Commissioners and Commission, as if no
decision had been rendered. The peO
pie may rest assured that the administra-
tion is entirely a unit on the question of
executing the law against the railroads
on every point. There is not single
break in the line, and there will be none
until the polls of the November election
close. 1t will be remembered that one
plank in the goth of June platform, 1882,
distinctly pledged the people that the
Democratic party would regulate the
railroads OF the State in regard to their
tariff Of freights and passengers. The
pledge remains in full force of effect, to
this day, because the railroads have not
been regulated. 1t is true the party
has tried to carry it out, but it is well
known that we are in the very thick of
the fight with the railroads on top The
party cannnot abandon the fight, or re-
trace single step without everlasting dis
honor and disgrace. 1t cannot leave off
the fight until that pledge els fulfilled
by the complete subordination of the rail
roads to the law. To abandon the ComSI
missioners at this stage of the contest
would be like spiking the guns and cut
ting down their carriage wheels on the |
field of battle. This is the machinery
that is used in many States to regulate
Jhe railroads and is particularly ObnOx-
Ous to them. Besides the Legislature |
created this commission and these Offices
md filled them with the very best of
The Commissioners have |
abored incessantly and with great dis
;retion in this matter and are now |
lrmed and equipped for the canvass that
les before them. They are true to the
people, and they should not be deserted
It the dictation of the railroads. They
nave studied this transportation problem
n all its bearings, and should be kept
It the work until the hurly-burly is
lone and the battle is fought and vic
orv IL won The nannia of TanupSsaa
must now know that there is long con-
roversy before them with the most
.stute and insidious and wealthy adyer-
aries. The Commissioners will be NOM
mated for election at the ensuing Demo
ratio Convention, and the issue fairly
nd squarely made on every stump in
tennessee. If the railroads want divi-
ion of time, it will be accorded to them.
The Democratic party will stand by its
,ledges to the people.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
WORK on SUNDAY.

I've been amused and vexed by turns
Al inconsistent folks,
Who. mind NJ not their own concerns,
InII'r. iu dismal croaks
A. ,rua-t folks who, now aud then,
Toll 800 ,ir Sabbath day,
Waf.e they. themselves, nine times in ten
Just throw the time away.
There Mrs.. Brown, whose well-kept hom,
deserves the warmezt praise.
Hath children four to wash and comb,
IT, rIuthr and rightly raise;
Wh.n she ON Sunday mcuds 4 rent
Trlt calls for prompt repair,
Th.u would the holy Grimes give vent
Ta agrpau- Of deep despair.
Grimes. who hath money, spends the week
Iu various idle ways,
IT. d-harh much upon the creek,
Phys checkers rainy days;
luItE. hr neither sOws nor reaps,
And when the Sabbath comes
II. wars long sad face and sleeps
And sacred music huns.
H.I.Gor on the Sabbath? Nay,
His pjrty'- tor strong;
Hi OK within the git might stay,
70 save him wouii D. VIZ, ng.
II. wears very doIctul phiz
IN fails to understand
That six DAYS shalt thou labor is
part OF the command.
Of course Grimes hath a deal to say
Oi Mrs. Browns dark deed,
And in his gossip all next day
That subject takes the lead
But the Lord who reads the heart ar'ght
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26

1t was long FIVE minutes. The frs
meadow-lark stayed his shril matin
least he should waken her; and tai
young man on a piebald mare checked
his gallop with startled abruptness t.
see womaR's figure in linen dress
asleep or deadly the supervisor
highway.
The piebald mare stood still, nibbling
the milky wheat. The young man ap-
preached the recumbent folds of linen,
half hidden under the Cruikshank hat
Quite as a matter of course he knelt be
side her, and gently pushed back the
broad brim of the big hat. The first ray
of the rosy morning fell upon the sleep
ing face. The eyes of the young man
opened their widest recognition. Then
he eyes of the young woman opened
iso, only to close again as she mur-
INJURED something he could not catch.
He bent more near. Surely, it was in a
dream she spoke:
"And you have come back to me at
last-to hear me say | am sorry"
You ask: Where was her woman's
pride, that she gave back her freedom
the asking? That, young gen
tlemen and misses, is something no one
may answer for any one else.
Perhaps Richard the bear was not so
ohenomenally cool as he looked when he
aid to truant and captor an hour later:
Where the deuce have you two been
.nyhow ?'-Overland Monthly.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
The Railroad Supervision Bill.
Greenville Times.

Greenville Times.
But the opposite view has prevailed,
and a supervision law is now in force.
We do not think that continued denun-
citation and expressions of opposition to
the law is wise, polite or just. If it has
defects, if it is essentially oppressive, no
matter how it may be administered, the
railroad companies have their defence
and remedies in the courts. They are not
orphans and friendless, and are amply
able to vindicate their own wrongs.
Until the railroads have vainly exhaust
ed their recourse, there is neither merit
nor sense in asserting that they are
seriously injured; and that railroad
building in the State has been killed.
The tendency of recent court decis-
ions upon the powers of railroad super
vision is very apt to prevent any ex-
treme exercise of power conferred by
legislative enactment. If the commits
sioners exercise their functions with dis
creti0n, and within bounds so as not to
incur litigation, which it is probably the
policy of the reads to avoid; il is not
impossible that the two may work in
harmony and benefcially. We certainly
hope so. And that this fruitful source
of dissension is effsctually and finally
eliminated from the Democratic party
of the State.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
How She Escaped His Attention:

! Detroit Free Pres.
She was a handsome Young woman
| This was remarked by a dozen differen
people AZ she entered the Union Depot
She was going east by the Canada South
ern. This was remarked by a conceited
Young snip of fellow who looked "mash,
er" from the crown of his hat to the heels
of his CATERS. She had no sooner pur,
chased her ticket and taken seat than he
began to circle around. She saw him and
read his character, and beckoning him to
approach, she asked:
"Are you going to Bnffalo?"
"Yes-ah-certaiHly.
81 am glad to hear it, VIII you do me
favor?"
"With all my heart Commsnd me"
"I'm afraid my trunk was LETT at the ho-
tel. Could ask you t. run mp aud see
about it?"
"Of -certainly--only too happy."
1t was twenty minutes to train tims.
He was back in sixteen, his face flushed,
his ears red and his breathing spasmOdic.
He had done some tall running. The
trunk was not there.
"Oh, dear, but would you be so kind as
to look into the baggage room?"
He would. He did. He ended a score OF
trunks around, made a dozen inquiries for
n Saratoga with an ''E'' on the ends, and
finally returned TO the waiting room to
say
But she wasn't there! The train was
also gone! man who had a sore throat
and felt mad at the whole world informed
him that he had no sooner started for the
baggage room than she picked up her reti
cule and boarded the train, her face wear
ing happy smile and her rosebud mouth
gently puekered up AS she hummed "The
chap left behind me-"
"And it looks to me, added the ill-natured
invalid, ''as if it was put-up job to choke
off your society"
Hanged ii it wasn'tw gaspcd the other,
az he sat down to rest his knees.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
AN ACT to prevent trespasses to
personal property.

personal property.
SECTION /. Be il enacted by the Legisla-
ture Of the State of Mississippi, That here
after If any person or corporation shall re-
ceive into his or its possession, or shall
remove or secrete, or deliver, or cause to
be delivered TO any person or common car
rier for transportation to any place within
or without this State, without the consent of
the owner or the authorized agent of such
ownt T, any sack or bag commonly known
as cotton seed sack, and used for the re-
ception and handling of cotton seed, such
person or corporation shall pay to the
owner thereof one dollar for each sack OF
bag. he or II shall 30 receive into his or
It's possession or so remove or secrete, or
deliver or cause to be delivered to any per
sen or common carrier as aforesaid; and
the person or corporation injured, whether
resident Of or domiciled in this State or
net, may recover for such trespass before a
| Justice Of the peace If the amount claimed
be within his Jurisdiction, or If not, then be-
! fore the circuit court Of the proper county,
but any party injured may elect to charge
less than the amount Of the penalty
herein fixed and may recover accordingly
before any court having jurisdiction Of The
amount claimed.
SEC 2. Be Il further enacted, That moth
1 ing herein contained shall preclude the
/ party injured from recovering il addition
70 the penalty aforesaid, his property.
SIC. 8. Be Il further enacted, That tbs
i act take eIiect and Be il force from and alieE
i the 1st day Of August 1884.
Approved, March Il 1854
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
Boston Street Car Amenities.

t'staR Journal,
The last seat in the horse-car had Just
osen tAten, when very pompous, nervous
old gentleman boarded il, and, casting his
eyes around in search of a place in which
TO deposit himself, discovered that little
poy occupied the corner seat at the further
end: The old gentleman evidently made
Up his mind to have the corner seat, and,
anproacAing the youngster, he said; MY
good little boy, you are younger than
am, and can stand the strain upon yonr
legs better than / can, for have 50 much
mo-, more TO hold up. Won't yon, like 3 good
4l.s,e eoy, give me your seatlu NAV,
I'D NE boy, stonily gazing al The old gen.
leman. You should be more noIite. "a,
eoy, and more obliging. You know thal
tour latheF we're to come IN nov and
-: - Eoa Tor your seat you would give II q
- 4on betcher life would an
s.sssea ..sn The boy in 3 truly ohIieine spirit
cause I wouldn't ride Is IS ear wid 81
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26

| AN ACT to prohibit the selling or givinl
away of intoxicating liquors within fou
miles of the Cumberland Baptist Churcl
! in the town of Cumberland, Webster
county, State of Mississippi.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Leg.
islature of the State OF Mississippi, That
the selling or giving away or bartering,
causing to be given away, sold or bartered,
any whisky, brandy, wine, alcohol, beer or
cider, or any fruits put up and preserved
in any alcoholic spirits or any prepara-
tiops of the same in the form of beverage,
and especially the preparations known as
bitters, by whatever name now or hereafter
called, in any quantities, or for any pur-
poses within four miles of the Cumberland
Baptist Church, in the town of Cumber-
land, Webster county, this State, be hereby
prohibited; provided, that such prohibition
shall not extend to the giving away of
wines or spirits for the administration of
the Lords Supper, or by practicing ply
sicians as medicines, in cases of actual
sickness, or in dispensing private hospi-
talities within the domestic circle of the
giver, but no sale of such liquors shall take
place within the limits prescribed for these
or any other purposes.
SEC. 2, BE 1t further enacted, That for
each and every violation of this act, the
parties offending shall, upon conviction,
be fined not less than fifty nor more than
one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not
less than twenty days nor more than three
months, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment Every device or subterfuge which
the jury in the circuit court or the court
in the inferior tribunals shall deem to have
been resorted to as an evasion of this act,
shall be punished as direct violation of it.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this
act take effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
Approved March s, 1884.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
HousE RESOLUTION.

Re IL resolved by the House that tlle
Sereeant-at-Arms Of the loilss .lI,,.',' N s.e
resentatives be and y neIep4 ...,,..'- e..oe,.'-
one hundred dollars aadit.onAl ...,.ji. ss.. M
elton. for reason Of neces-l{ .. ''',.,'. ~
ture and outlay u Nai,ine ~ .,...-
fnrnishing supplies, Qistfi1o..Hs P'.'l<.ii.
80 Paid ont Of the contln4sns Iene-
y ~. sfe House, upon the approval Of tne
sss,seiler and the Clerk on tne Au4itQtt
1roroVsd March y 1854
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-26
The Girls we Used TO know

Where are the girls We used to know
Iu the halcyon days Of long ago?
The merry maids-the dancing elves
As happy as We were ourselves?
We miss their voices from the song
We miss their faces from the throng;
We Mrs the sweetness and delight
That used to make the world so bright.
They took their part with pretty zest
In song, or dance, or play, or Jest;
| And memory's waking touch can all
Their faces and their ways recall.
These dam-els, bright and debonaire,
We meet upon each thoroughfare,
Are more for fashion and for show,
Than were the girls we used to know.
You matron with the wrinkled face
And withered form, devoid of grace,
1t can not be that she is Sue,
The merriest one OF all the crew
And this one dignified and stou:,
Living in afiiuence, no doubt,
By not single look betrays
The Emily OF former days.
Margaret, Maria, Helen. Kate,
And Jane Augusta, 50 sedate,
Chloe and Sallie-all are changed
All, all are more or less estranged.
And as with heavy, aching hearts
We vainly seek their counterparts,
We sigh and wonder, as we go,
Where are c girlswe used to know?
But gazing in the looking glass,
We see that we ourselves, alas
Are greatly changed nor bear, in truth,
The least resemblance to our youth.
Our once brown locks are touched wit
gray.
The rounded cheek has shrunk away,
And there are other signs we wear
TO mark the touch of Time and Care.
Still young at heart, our hearts rebel
At what the years and dates may tell,
And in sweet visions wander back
Along the well-reme track,
And Ieat ours, Ives in the belief
That none have ever come to grief,
But bows and girls walk handin-hand
As If in an enchanted land
Yet should We meet when in life's prime
Some pla, mate Of the olden time,
What bitter memories would DESTROY
The sweetness OF our cup OF joy !!
And sinre to-morrow never gives
True copies ii those negatives
We took IN youth, We dream, and 10
We're with the girls We used to know!
j JscgIire Pollard, in n. \. Ledger.