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STRANGE APPLICATIONS.

Peculiar Wants of People Who Visit tho
Bureau of Information.
The Salvation Army has in London a
bureau of information where ladies
may obtain servants and those in need
of employment find work. 1t has been
extraordinarily successful. During the
first year thirteen hundred employers
found servants, and n thousand girls
applied for work.
Strange applications come to the Of
fee. One lady recommended her de-
parting servant as ''clcan, tidy, honest,
sober, truthful and good worker"
Wondering why maid and mistress
should part under these conditions, the
bureau found that terribly bad tenn
per was the cause of separation.
But, strangely enough" said the
chief, sit happened that lady had
just applied to us for a servant with
bad temper, believing that such girls
make the clcancst landmarks. So we
are able to meet every requirement
Some of the wants sent to the bureau
are of a peculiar nature and oddly cx-
pressed.
hlndiy SEND me girl who is veg
etarian," writes one lady, ''or who is
willing to become one"
"a red-hot Christian, but not too
old"
Not taller than five feet two. A girl
who does not talk loud. She must not
sing or laugh loud
Neither are the servants who apply
easy to please.
Get me place with two quiet, cl-
derby people" says one. Il like to be
alone
Il am good singer and good
speaker, and / want good place."
writes another.
Il have had good education, and
can play the piano."
please get my daughter a place. as
she is manageable at home and has
en- awful temper" asks q fond and
esadid pasens,ryeesAs Companion.
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ST. LOUIS.

II will cost $40, 900 to illuminate
St. Louis for the fall celebration. A
total of IS 900 fights will be used and
there will be twelve nights of the IL
Elimination. One of the illumination
pieces consists of an enormous globe
100 feet in circumference, which will
require five thousand incandescem
lamps to illuminate it TO advantage.
This seems to be an enormous sum
and yet it will cost the people of St.
Louis more than twice this amount in
the one single item of lost time caused
by sickness this season alone. Most
of these troubles could be escaped al
together by taking The Laxative Gum
Drops and thus keep the stomach and
bowels in proper condition. Get
them of any dealer.
SYLVAN REMEDY CO., Peoria, H.
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with contrary winds, high seas and ter
rife storms, he reluctantly consented to
give up his efforts after a struggle of
sixty-two days, and returned to Ameri-
ca on bark which kindly consented TO
take him.and his sea beaten boat back
to New York asls.
The captain is very interesting char
acter. He is.a man of fixed purposes,
very hard to turn from the object which
he has in view. He has made the sub
jcct of small boat sailing such study
that he is prepared to meet every argu-
ment against the risks which spring to
the minds of his .critics, yet the New
York Herald put the case in nutshell
when it said: 1.-THE fact that Capt. An
drews can cross the ocean in a cookie
Shell merely proves that small boats arc
safe when a Capt. Andrews sails them.
Amateurs should, remember this when
the wind begins to sing"
Thc'captain himself says that "half
the people who are drowned lose their
lives because they do not realize that a
boat cannot sink. An iron vessel might,
or a ship loaded with heavy cargo,
but row boat. sail boat or ordinary
wooden vessel may capsize, but will,
nevertheless, float. The passengers on
the great ocean steamers run some risk
when they go to sea, but all around the
deck they see wooden boats hung up on
which they are taught to depend for
their lives if the bigsteamer goes down.
These boats arc often crushed against
the great vessel or are capsized in
lowering. lam alone in wooden boat
entirely under my own control, and, in
my opinion, far safer than Others" An
ingenious theory but hardly fair one
Capt. Andrews is by trade a piano
maker. He built the ''Sapolio" at At
lantic City in the presence of hundreds
of people, and exhibited it on the Long
Pier for several weeks. 1t is canvas
folding boat lined with half inch cedar
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-11-19
al LOVE THE WOODS"

love the woods.
Oh. sivc me but that crag OF rock
On which TO build my simple cot,
And I'll not ask for palaces.
Nor murmur a my lonely lot.
do not need the silken garb, 81
The cushioned couch, or seasoned food;
I do not need the tongue Of men
To voice the word that Life is good"
/ do not need the amber scent
The honeyed smile and tutorcd song,
Or crowd of glittering sycophants
That in the halls OF Crosus throng.
Hove the woods
When DER the distant line of hills
The rosy morning peeps its head.
And stars that through the night have
watched,
Now quench their light and go to bed,
rise from couch of perfumcd pine
And seek the purling brook that flows
Between its fringe OF velvet moss,
Where tiny turquoise blossom blows.
need no marble fountain rare
To purify and lave and clean,
And when say my grateful prayer,
IT'S in His mighty dome OF green.
love the woods.
My silent friend, my faithful dog,
The horse that hastens to my call,
The birds that sing above my head
They constitute my all IN all
I breathe the forests filtered air,
The breeze that cools the mountain brow,
The snow-clad SUBMITS atmosphere.
And praise tho Lord l m living now!
love the woods.
Richard Mansfield, in Harper's Weekly.
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August.
Flower

am ready to testify under oath
that if it had rot been for August
Flower 1 should have died before
this. Eight years ago / was taken
sick, and suffered as no one but
a dyspeptic can. 1 employed three
of our best doctors and received
no benefit. They toldme that had
heart, kidney, and liver trouble.
Everything l ate distressed me so
that had to throw it up. August
Flower cured me. There is no med
icine equal to it, LORENZO F.
SLEEPER, Appleton, Maine. o
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MUGSEY'S DIP.
He and DE Gang Cool or and Say " Ac-
cide,ts Will Happen"

He and "De Gang Cool or and Say " Ac-
cideats Will Happen"
Every newsboy on Park row knows
where the Battery bath is, and every
ncwsboy on Park row prefers n stealthy
dip in the City Hall park fountain to the
best free bath in the city. This is be-
cause bathing in the fountain is forbid
den, and to the delight of the cold
plunge is added the excitement of dodg-
ing park policeman.
AN say" said Mugsey, ''if man
falls over in de fountain, an he can't
help hisself, what can a spirrer cop do,
anyhow? A man amt to blame for his
acccrdunts, is hep
That was the way in which Mugsey' s
gang took dip every two hours the
other day and escaped arrest. Mugsey's
face, with the exception OF his eyes, is
nothing to speak of. His features look
as though they had been worn out by
several other people before they be-
came Mugsey's property. His eyes,
however, are new and very bright. At
o'clock yesterday morning Mugsey
and de gang sneaked dip on de
sparrer cop" but that was no great feat.
The park policeman didn't even see
them Probably not one of ode gang"
is more than twelve years old. One dip
doesn't last long with them. When n
fellow wears only a cotton shirt and
kniclxer-bockers it doesn't take him
long to dry out. Mugscys ''acccrdunt"
scheme was worked later in the Gay in
this fashion: ''De gang" numbering
five, sat on the edge of the fountain,
with their backs toward the water and
their eyes on the policeman. When the
''sparrer cop reached the other side of
the park Mugsey lost his balance and
tumbled over backward into the foun-
tain. The others in their efforts to
rescue him also fell into the fountain.
When the policeman returned to the
fountain he found five boys with wet
clothes standing near it and telling
about 'Mugsey's accerdunt."
Mugsey lost his balance again at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon, just as his
clothes had been nicely dried by the
sun. "De gang" didn't desert him, and
they got him out before the policeman
arrived and took him for run around
the block to dry his clothes. Fully one
hundred people saw Mugsey's "accer-
dunt" and cnvied him his cold bath.
..Ds gang took its last dip at o'clock
and justas they were swimming around
in great style friend on the outskirts
of the crowd that watched them yelled,
'Checse it. Mugs! Here's de cop Five
very wet boys hustled out of the foun-
tain and ran ont of the park.
''Accerdunts viii happen remarked
Mugscy, IAN man amt to blame II
they does. That's me every tirue.-N.
Y. Sun.
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A DARING AovENTuRER.

Capt William 4. Andrews, already
famous for his daring adventures in
small boats on the stormy Atlantic, has
again set sail ON novel and interest
ing voyage. -
decreased the ocean twice before, first
in the Nautilus" when he was accom-
panied By his brother, who has since
died, and again in the Mermaid" both
ofthese trips being made to Lands End,
England. A few years ago he again at
tempted the passage in boat called
tho Ozark Secret, ~ but, after battling
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ind declxed over with the same. In
order to fold it there must be three long
canvas hinges from stem to stern, and
the daring Captain writes by an in
coming ship when he is hundreds of
miles from shorc) that he finds the
'Sapolio' in sca-way is scrubbcr
but very lealsy." No better proof of his
GOODNESS and pluck could be given.
The start was made at 4:30 Wednes-
day, July Goth, the destination being
Palos, Spain. Capt. Andrews has in
structions to scour the seas until he
discovers that port and the starting
point of Columbus. 1t is believed that,
sailing in a fourteen foot boat without
so much as hot cup of coffee to vary
his diet of biscuits and canned goods, he
will, single-handed, eclipse the record
of that Spanish-Italian advcnturer who
almost failed to cross the great ocean
with three ships, $50 men, after secur-
ing the Queens jewels to pawn and
having the blessing of the Church
thrown in. This Columbus is sailing in
q boat which had never. been in water
until the hour when he started ON his
1000 mile trip. = lie. has been spoken
/. in mid-ocean several times, scorning all
assistance and confident of ultimate
success. His effort should interest all
Americans as test of pluck, endurance
and good seamnnship. That it is not a
foolhardy affair is proved by his for
mer success and by the notable trip in
which he battled for sixty-two days
without reaching the other side. Thou
sands of people saw the start, his pres
cnce at different points on the ocean
has been noted by large numbers of
vessels, and his landing on the other
side will no doubt be made matter Of
public demonstration and rejoicing. Az
he sailed from the pier he said, "In
sixty days will be in Spain,' and up
to the last reports he had made better
time than he anticipated. Every day
during the voyage q bottle will DO
thrown overheard noting the location
: and other Information about the trip
If Capt. Andrews succeeds in reach
ing Spain and joining in the October
celebrations which will be held in
honor of the discovery of America, he
will then return in one of the great
steamers and arrange to exhibit his
boat and the log which he writes up
day by day, at the Worlds Fair in Chi
ccgo, where he viii be one of the fea-
lures of the magnificent display which
the manufacturers Of Sapolio are now
perfecting. The assurance, we might
almost say the impudcncc. of these ag-
gressive manufacturers IN securing q
Columbus of their own is probably with.
out precedent in advertising.
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Henri looked away from the picture,
with dull ache 1T his heart. Some
how, life with Sophie, when the Lilac
Witch was gone, did not seem SO
sweet as it used to in the old days
when they had the first sittings. Then
the picture only meant to him the por-
trait of his dear Sophie. Now, when
he was gazing into that fair, arch face
on the canvas, so triumphant and yet
so plying and tender, he never thought
of its being Sophie's face at all. He
seemed to see there something that was
all his own and had come out of his
own soul. How could he bear to part
with it? But he was winning Sophie
by giving it up. A horrible doubt came
to him. What if after all he should
love the picture better than the model?
He shook his head rcsolutely, and
went to bed. All that night in his
dreams that awful doubt tormented
him.
On the morrow Sophie appeared be-
fore the hour of the business transac-
ton so as to tidy up the studio and make
1T look more festive. She found Henri
there before the picture as usual. He
had wheeled the easel up near the
window and was devouring. the paint
ing with his eyes. He never so much
as turned his head to greet her. He
saw there, on a bank of moss, half sit
ting, half reclining, beautiful woman,
the image of his sweetheart, yet wear
ing an intangible something about the
eyes and mouth, something tina. Henri,
with feelings of misgiving, felt that
Sophie had not. The wavy. light brown
hair. hanging in ringlets over the bare
shoulder, and the vermeil tint of the
pure cheek, were simply clever copy
of Sophie's charms. But in the gray
eyes was look that seemed to tell of a
great, unsatisfied longing. for love-or,
perhaps, victory-while the delicate,
slightly curving lips had tender, pity
ing expression that was strangely con.
tradicted by the pointed chin, which
bodied forth scornful 10Y OF triumph
perhaps the very triumph which The
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-11-19
PUNGENr PARAGRAPHS.

"A sure way to find an old friend is
to order a spring chicken at r,stau.
rlnt.-Binghamtoa Republican.
-Conundrum submitted for the Posts
gold eagle pr;ze-What makes coach
, dog spotted? The spots boston Post.
If some folks could get the job of
making spectacles for their neighbors, it
wouldn't be long until everybody would
be blind.-Ram's Horn. &'
You never saw SO many flies on the
fly paper anywhere else as on the sam
pie sheet exposed in the drug store win
dow.--Yonkers Gazette.
-Teachcr-''Tommy Figg, what is
the meaning of 'truculcnt?'" Tommy
''It's when a man talks sassy, like q
truck driver"
Love laughs at loclss,niths, but love
is not SO hilarious when the grocers
come around with their little bills.--N.
Y. Herald.
Mrs B.-"Here's an account of q
man who loses his fortune and then his
wife" Mrs. B.-''Yes, there's silver
lining to every cloud Jester
Mrs Brown-''What makes you
think Johnnie hurt himself when he
turned that somcrsault?" Brown-"Be-
cause he didn't do it over AGAIN..
y. Sun. s
Mistaken for q Blush. = Young
Groley-"That girl bushes every time
she looks ut me, deah boy" Jimpson-
mo blush, my boy, only reflection
from your nose. "-Yanlxee Blade.
One Way to Save.-Plug-"D you
want to know how to save S5?" Sing
s'You bet ! do" Plug-"Send me ten
and I'll give half of it back to you in
five minutes. Detroit Free Press.
why did you preach on constancy
this morning." asked the parsons wife.
because" was the answer, sit makes
me sad to think of the fees lost in sum-
mcr engagements."-N. Y, Herald.
She was from Boston. She re-
marked proudly: mo member of my
family was ever known to break his
word" No" replied her husband.
although some of the words were big
enough to stand breaking several
times. Washington Star.
How do you get along with your
bicycle?" WELL" replied the truthful
young man, sometimes one way and
sometimes another. Sometimes the
bicycle rides me and once in a while l
ride the bicycle. "-Washingto Star.
Mrs Jones-''Husband the children
have been invited to parties at different
places, on the 18th, the 18th, the 18th
and the 18th. Shall l write. accept
ances?" Mr.. Jones-"Yes, and you'd
better write to DR.. Shocks while you
are about it. asking him to call on the
18th, the 14th, the 10th and the 10TH"
"A farmer caught four or five boys
in his peach trees He did not punish
them, but said: ''You ought to be
ashamed of yourselves, particularly the
big boys. Which of You boys here is
the oldest?" ''He amt here at all, sir. :"
'He didn't know that we were coming"
said one of the youngsters.
First Merchant-'Tve got jewel
of an Office boy" Second Merchant
''Kceps everything neat about you and
gets rid of unpleasant callers" First
Merchant-"No, not that He hasn't n
relative in the world" Second Mer-
| chant-'How does that make him n
| jewell" First Merchant-''Why, he
can't ask an afternoon off durin the
baseball season to go to his grand
mothers funeral, don't you see?"
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The Mffe's Anxiety.

"How much did you put in the con,
tribution plate?' asked his wife. ~
"a quarter"
"Jchu. are you willing to pat "a on
record as t;yossor.a quarter naonlas'--
Weshingtor S.ap
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-11-19
WRINKLES

and hollow cheeks,
and dull, unkcn
cycs, don't always
pican that o woman's
old. Half tho tilno,
they only show that
she's cycrgorked OF
suffering. To such
women, TO every wo-
man who Is tired on
afflicted, Or. Piercc's
Fnvorite Prescription
-safcly ard certainly
brings back health
and strength. It's n
legitimate l1cdicind
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-11-19

Z ,-Wsttsr-"Well, what did you find
were the chief features Of the sea-
shore9" Potts Gust returned) ~"1 never
heard them seilsd festaYekH :
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-11-19

that correc.s and cures; q tonic TINT lnvIlc-
rates and builds up; q nervine that soothts
aud strengthens. For ell the arrangements,
il irregularities and weaknesses peculiar to wo.
men, it is tho only guaranteed remedy u
Il doesn't benefit or cure. you havc ycnf
money back
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-11-19

1t wons do to experiment with Ga.
tarrh. There's the constant danger OF
driving it to the lungs. You can have
perfect and permanent cure w>'h pr'
Sagc's Catarrh Remedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-23
I'd EDITION.
EXPOSED THE PLOT
Confession Of a Conspiracy to Rob an
Insurance Company.
FOX And BORROWE may FIGHT TODAY.
England and the Proposed
Silver Conference.
9TH Err NEWS BY WIR +.
FOX And BORROWE may FIGHT TODAY.
OTHER NEWS BY WIRE.
ONE POTTER CONFESsEs.


Details Of . Conspiracy to Rob an Insur-
ance Company Of $4,000.
SEATTLE, VASE, April 23.-At the inquest Of
the human remains found in the ruins Of
VIM. Radliff's house, which was burned last
week. the testimony showed they were those
of X. B. Levin, who was supposed to have been
buried in Greenwood cemetery February Is
1t also confirmed the story Of a conspiracy to
defraud the life insurance companies by max
ing il appear that Radliff was burned to death.
Louis Kostrouch, one of the eonspirstors, who
has confessed. told how Radlih and vito had
agreed to the plot He and RadliH stole
body from the cemetery last March and buried
it in Radlifrs chicken yard Then Radlif in
sured his life last Friday. They piled dry bark
on the mattresses in the house. saturated them
with coal oil and dressed the. body in Radlih's
clothes
Radliff crushed the skull and cut of the legs
to create the appearance Of murder. Then
they lighted a candle with waxen string run
to pile of shavings on the floor and left, Kos
terouch coming to Seattle and Radlih going
to Ballard. a suburb.
Mrs. Radiiff was dressed in mourning today
and testified that she believed her husband
was dead. She got him TO insure his life be-
cause fortune teller told her he would die IN
year. She was preparing 70 so to Germany
when the FIRE occurred.
mass Of testimony was given, showing that
the corpse was that OF levin and stolen by
Radliff. The jury found accordingly. Kos
terouch and Mrs. Radlif were hold on the
charge of arson. Radliff carries 60, 900 insur-
ance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-23

Additional Contribution Resolved ~ -
American National Red Cross.
Additional contributions received By -
American National Red Gross for Che Rusulaa
famine relief are acknowledged - follows
California-oscondido. Uniuersaiiss sissss.
500. bridgeport, W. J. ncKlrcs,
for third division Of tho A. O. II. Of Bridge
port, sl0. District Of Columbia -washinstca.
ii. w. Snow, slo; anonymous, sa Florida
Melbourne. T. p. Branch for Congregational
Church, s2256 Illinois Princeton. Camilla
RFerris, for the womAn's Club. %; Mason. Rw.
Nevland. pastor. for wsuponsis Grove consre-
eational Church. s23.iA lndiana-New Albany,
J. J. Brown. for citizens. ss7676 Kansas
Frankfort. Mrs H. J. Powell ell Louisiana
New Orleans, II. Girder. for Rev. J. ". Ma
lone's church OF Coldws,er, Miss., eIh Ne
brsska-Hon- W. J. Bryan. sa New York
Poughkeepsie, Elizabeth HUT. o.; Newark,
Rosa T. Hyde, for Prssby s~rian sunday
school ESQ New Hampshire Concord
II. w. Clapp, mayor. fer cItizsna tliAli,
keone, A IL Skinner, treasurer relief fund
sSs6.6i. Ohio-Alliance. r. y Ganny.
S2.5S; Gorhen. n. A. smith, ei, Martinsbure
\. T. Poland. MD. "a Peunsylvania-Greene-
Vile, Rev. J. W. Shick. SA South Carolina
Beaufort. Sarah NJ. y. Gage. ea south De-
kota-Highmore, Prank Drew, o.. Tonnes-
see-woodbury. Mrs Hugett ta Texas-AA
lanta. J. J. Burton. e3 West virginia-Mar-
tinsburg, " ID. Baker. for citizens. es4 50, n.
D. Baker, for citizens, ESQ; George q Hin,
SiS9a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-23
SURPRISE IN ENGLAND
AT the Statement That That Country Will
Enter a Silver Conference.

LONDON, April 2a-Business circles are sur
prised by a dispatch received from the United
States stating that England has intimated her
readiness to join a conference to bring about
an enlarged use of silver. That part Of the
report which states that the basis Of o confer
ence was formulated here is regarded as un-
worthy Of belief. The Times today says it is
not easy TO see what enlarged use" can mean.
The Times remarks: "A decided majority Of
those competent to judge regard the issue
favor. A certain amount Of silver could
be employed to increase the intrinsic
value of our token currency, which at
the present price of the metal is overvalued to
an extent considerably greater than necessary
or desirable, but the general sense Of tho COM
munity is steadfastly opposed to anything like
an attempt to rehabilitate silver.
1.-THE result of the employment Of the Ameri-
can treasury as pig silver warrant store house
has not been so satisfactory as to encourage
imitation"
The Daily News says that such conference
would not be likely to attain practical results.
The English delegates, 1t declares, would have
to 60 into it with their hands tied
1t further says that Mr.. Goschen, the cham
cellor Of the exchequer, cannot we'll 60 beyond
the plan already proposed to increase the pro-
portion OF silver held by the Bank Of England
against notes.
ST.. Paul, MIMI, April pa special from
Helena, Mont, says: A non-partisan mass meet
ing was held last night 70 organize o free
silver club in this city. The attendance and
officers were about equally divided between
the two leading parties. E1-Gov. Samuel
Hauser was elected president and H. NJ.
Parcher vice president The sentiment Of the
meeting was that the question ia . matter Of
life and death.