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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

Rose cottage succeeded by hard push
ing in getting so good a rear view that
she could almost have thumped Mr..
Bob with the end of her parasoL
But her moment of triumph had not
vet come. The derelict husband disap-
peared from her field of vision quite as
suddenly as he had appeared thereon,
and Mrs. Bob was bewildered.
The fire belched forth from the third
story, nd-horrors!-three girls faces
came for an instant to the windows OF
the fourth, and then drew back!
Mrs. Bob was all of tremble. She
had never witnessed such sight be-
fore. She admitted, when afterwards
she recalled this scene, that her grace
less husbands escapade did not exclu-
sivelv absorb her thoughts and emo
tions for that one moment
But q chance remark of a benevolent
looking old gentleman beside her
caught her ear, and Mr.. Pilsbury and
the prepossessing servant-girl quickly
and exclusively infamed her imagina-
ton again.
1--WE must hurry" said the old gen.
tleman to young preacher who seemed
to be his companion, ''or the happy
couple will grow impatient An elope-
ment, you know"
But the crowd swayed back before
the clubs of three policemen, and Mrs.
Pilsbury was pushed out of hearing,
and the benevolent old gentleman and
the preacher were pushed out of her
sight.
She soon caught glimpse of them
again, however, on the opposite side
of the pavement, and swiftly followed
them to the center of the town. She
saw them enter gate next to a church,
and mount the steps of a quiet red
brick house, which she was sure was
the parsonage How her heart beat!
There were several persons in the
street, and she was unnoticed as she
was prepared with her speech for tho
denouement. Every word of it was
choice, dramatic and burning. 1t
| would wither any man. Robert Pills.
| bury would know the stuff she was
made of.
She moved cautiously within the
| shadow of the house of God, cortinu-
| ally going over her speech. She could see
into the parlor through the side win
| dow.
Minnie was there! The impudent,
shameless mink, dressed up in stylish
brand new blue cashmere, with hat and
trimmings to match, stood with her
back to the window. Mrs. Bob caught
herself moment to regain her breath.
The next instant the form of Mr..
Pilsbury appeared in the parlor! Poor
little wife! There are sudden crises in
life when INDIGESTION paralyzes us for an
instant Then, without the guidance
of reason, we do exactly the opposite
of what our reason, our determination
and our impulse had agreed on, and
we ever after wonder why we did so.
Such an experience came to poor little
Mrs. Bob.
She dismissed her choice speech, her
indignation and her courage, aud with
bosom swelling with emotion. and
two great tears IN her eyes, faced
squarely about and started away.
MARY! Mary! Maryr'
Now she quickened her pace, and fell
into a run.
"Maryl Mary! o, Mary!'
She knew that voice well enough,
and she fed from it like deer. But
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
FIFTY YEARS OF PIRACY,
Buccaneering on the American Coast Flour.
ished from 1875 to 1725.

ished from 1875 to 17a5.
The half century extending from
about 1915 to 1725 was the heyday of
piracy on the North American coast.
The old buccaneers had been driven
out during the last days of the Stuart
supremacy in England, and most Of
those who still chung to their old sea-
faring life either attached themselves
to the English navy or repaired to the
east-coast of Africa, where they could
plumber the rich commerce of the great
Indian potentates without fear of in
terruption. But the buccaneers were
the wild stories of their old free lives
melted many of the lawless characters
which had settled in the American coll
onies to emulate their example, and to
seek by lawless warfare on the sea that
livelihood which they could not secure
by honest means on land. The seven
teenth century had not yet closed be-
fore they had made themselves so for
midable that William III. had especially
severe laws enacted against them, and
forwarded instructions to all the colo
NAL authorities to use every effort to
extirpate them. But the pirates had
grown too bold to fear the kings proc
lamations, and the colonists found their
trade with the lawless freebooters too
profitable to make any effort to stamp
out the public enemy. There was
scarcely colony on the Atlantic
coast which did not in one way or
auofhar. folavo IN opd apoo,raco fbayp
and not many years of the eighteenth
century had passed before the pirates
had grown strong enough to defy both
the English and the colonial authori-
ties, and in some sections they had SO
overawed the officials that they were
enabled to come and go without any
apprehension of arrest or detention.
Particularly was this the case in the
southern colonies, and VIGOROUSLY in
North Carolina. That colony had
never from its first settlement enjoyed
a strong government, and by the year
1915, when Charles Eden was governor,
the pirates had grown SO audacious
that they did not hesitate to sail into
the ports of the province, land their
plumber at the public wharves, and
boast openly in the streets of the capt.
tai of their desperate exploits. James
Logan, the secretary of the province of
Pennsylvania, is authority for the
statement that at this period there
were over 1,500 pirates on the North
American coast, and it is safe to as
sumo that there were few of the traders
who were not acquainted more or less
intimately with the coast of North
Carolina. If we are to credit the state
ments of Gov. Spotswood, of Virginia,
and other contemporary writers, that
turbulent colony had become an ordi-
nary receptacle for this class of out
laws, and was too feeble to make any
effort to drive them out, even if it had
had the inclination. The old records
connect the names of many famous sea
robbers with the history of North Caro-
lima of that time, but towering above
all others in infamy stood the name of
Edward Teach, better known as
Blackboard" whose uncouth sobri-
quet was for decades afterward a
household word of terror on the whole
South Atlantic coast.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
THE MOUNTAINS.
LOUISIANA.

saw the mountains stand
Silent, wonderful and grand,
Looking out across the land
When the golden light was falling
On distant dome and spire,
And heard q low voice calling:
Come up higher, come up higher,
From the lowland and the mire,
From the mist OF earth desire,
From the vain pursuit Of pclf,
From the attitude of self;
Come up higher, come up higher
Think not that we are cold,
Though eternal SHOWS have crowned US;
Think not that we are old.
Though the ages die around us;
Underneath our breasts Of snow
Silver fountains sing and flow:
We reflect the young days bloom
While the valleys sleep in gloom;
We receive the newborn storms
On our rugged rock-mailed forms,
And res tore the hungry lands
With our rivers and our sands
" He who conquers inward foes
All the pain Of battle knows,
And has earned his calm repose..
Countless a,ons ere the races
In the cycles took their places.
We were groaning to be free
Fr1Bl our chains below the sea
Til we heard the sun-our sire
Calling, calling: Come up higher
And we burst our prison bars,
And from ont the mist and fire
And the oceans wild embraces
And the elemental wars
We arose and bathed our faces
In the sunlight and the stars"
James q. Clark, In Arena.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
That rerrib,e seourre.

Malarial disease Is invariably supplements
ed by disturbance of the liver, the bowels,
the stomach and the nerves. To the remov-
al of both the cause and it's effects Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters is fully adequate. 1t
"ills the bilp' as no other remedy does,
performing its work thoroughly. IT'S JIM
gradients are pure and wholesome, and it
admirably serves to build up system
broken by ill health and shorn of strength.
Constipation, liver and kidney complaint
and nervousness are conquered by it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
A Friendly Hint.

Post Office Clerk-"See here, boy!
No living mortal can read the address
on this envelope you just handed in.
Boy--Well, if this ere post Office de-
partment wants fine handwritin', why
don't you keep better pens at these
desks, say?-Good News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
Afraid Of Nothing.

Customer-Didn't you tell mo this
horse was afraid of nothing?
Dealer-Taat's just what said.
''Why, heehies at his own shadow"
swell, hadow is about as near
nothing as inything ] know ON
Y. Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
The Best of Reasons.

Say, Tom, come over here and have
. game of ball"
Cant; I've got my best suit on"
swell, why don't you change it?'
Cant; cause haven't any other"
--Harper's Young People.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

HALL's CArARRH CURE is liquid and is
taken internally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
Write for testimon ials. free, Manufactured
by FL. CHENEY e. Co., Toledo, o.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

WHAT Why, the business advertised in an
other column by b. +. johnson a. Co., Rich
mond, Va. IL YOU are open to engagement
write them. They can show you good
thing.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

going 20 have, .dearestr She--"None"
Heavily, 1 thought you had set your
heart on iti' Shelf had but from present
indications the girls want viii all be mar
ried first.n-Ilife.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

A sALLow skin acquires healthy clear
ness by the use of GleEn's Sulphur Soap.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

THE bank cashier gets tired Of helping
others, and sometimes foolishly helps him
self-Yonkers Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

mr. hicnaxosons SarSaparlila. mrs. H.
was miserable all the tinie with kidney
complaint but began improving when she
had taken Hoods SarsapariIia one week,
and after taking three bottles was perfecuy
cured.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
Too Inquisitive.

Freddie-Ma, didn't the missionary
say that the savages didn't wear any
clothes?
Mother-Yes, my boy.
Then why did pa put button in
the missionary box?'-Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

HERE to-day and gone to-morrow-The
man who borrowed a tive-dollar bin from
you.-Texas Siftings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

If drowsy after good nights sleep, there
vs. indigestion and stomach disorder which
Beecham.s Pills will cure. % cents box.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

the strain had been too great, and she
had not gone a block when she sat
down on doorstep, fainting.
Her husband was at her side at the
same moment.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

PEOPLE speak of the face of a note, when
it's really the figure that interests Them
Sparks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
The Home Medicine

Is what Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla may well be called,
because Of the benefit
whole families derive
from 1t. Henry G. Rich
ardson Of Sloan, N. Y,
says that he and his
wife have been wonder
fully benefited by Hoods
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

A THEATRICAL production is apt to pay in
the long run-if it ever gets there.-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

Hoods Pills are the best after-dinner Pills.
assist digestion, cure headache. Try box
The herald., 1893-10-25
Needlewomen In Paris.

An inquiry recently made into the con-
dition of the eneedlewomen in Paris shows
that a worllwoman cannot count on
earning more than $50 francs, or e54 a
year, which is about 3s. Id. day. The
designers and cutters out of patterns
and the filters Of course are much more
highly paid, receiving in some cases sal
aries of 5000 to $500, and perhaps even a
share of profits. The average earnings
of the ordinary seamstress may be put
down at little over 2 shillings day.
M. Jules Simond in 1851 made an in
quiry into the matter, dealing with 101,-
600 cases, and he calculated the average
daily wage as about 16 pence. There
were among the women concerned about
1000 earning less than pence per day
and about 600 whose takings were about
3 francs. Ten years ago the average
earnings of milliners were valued by M.
d'Haussonville at over francs day,
and that of ordinary seamstresses as be-
tween 81 francs and 3 francs. If all
trades were taken into account, the re-
suit was a little lower, as some trades
We're cruelty underpaid, especially sack
making, at which more than pence a
day could not be earned even by 10 hours
work.-St. James Gazette.
The herald., 1893-10-25
Free women Of the CITY Of London.

Lady Charlotte Schrieber is the only
woman in the world, if we except the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who can boast
of being free woman Of London city
company. She owes this honor to the
Fanmakers, for she is at the present time
the great authority on ancient and mod
ern, foreign and British fans, and the
splendid collection which she lately pre-
sented to the British museum is visited
almost daily by people from all parts of
the world. Lady Charlotte was born in
the year of Napoleons retreat from Mos
COW and was the only daughter Of the
Earl of Lindsay.
Although her greatest interest will al
ways be her fans (she spent something
like 20 years in collecting the $50 rare
specimens now in the museum), she has
performed piece of very practical phi
lanthropy in erecting shelters for the
London cabmen who would all be proud
to give her o ride for nothing. Lady
Charlotte is now quite elderly, but she
is full of bright intelligence and is at
present engaged in an exhaustive work
on old playing cards. The queen, who
is also collector of curios, takes great
interest in Lady Charlotte's treasures
and accepted the dedication of her book
ON fans.-Pall Mall Budget
The herald., 1893-10-25
Solved by a Woman.

Mrs. zelia Nuttall it is said, has at
last solved the enigma of the Mexican
calendar which Won Humboldt and
many other great scientists have worked
at in vain. Mrs. Nuttall's conclusions
have been accepted as final by arch@olo-
gists and astronomers, and an elaborate
work will soon be published by her.
Mrs. Nuttall first made her discovery by
reading brief resume of her work be-
fore the anthropological congress at
Chicago. Years of work and the closest
study of a mind trained in mathematics
and astronomy and stored with history
and archaeology We're needed to unravel
this mystery of the calendar stone.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The herald., 1893-10-25
Naval Etiquette.

An English admiral who was once Wis
iting French flagship laid down his
quid on convenient bulkhead before
entering the officers quarters. When
he came out again, he was astonished to
find the quid in the place where he had
left it.
''Poow said he, in the hearing of some
of the sailors, ''you Frenchmen will
never be true sea dogs. No English blue
jacket, now, would ever have left an ad-
miral's quid alone"
Whereupon one of the French sailors
stepped up, touched his cap and said:
beg pardon, admiral. ] was chew
ing your quid while you was in there,
but l put it back, you know, when
heard you coming out."-Chicago Post.
The herald., 1893-10-25
She Felt Chicago.

Miss Marion Couthony Smith of East
Orange, N. j., whose poem on Chicago"
printed last March in The Century, was
reread a week ago in the Woman's build
ing at the fair, prefaced its recent read
ing with the remark: Among the news
paper comments upon this poem was one
which amused me greatly, and pleased
me also, because of its unintentional
praise. The critic said of me: She evil
IDENTIFY lives in Chicagop l am native
of Philadelphia and now live just across
the river from New York. never saw
Chicago until last week, but felt her."
The herald., 1893-10-25
WOMAN'S WORLD.
SYMPATHY WHICH EXPRESSED IT
SELF IN A PRACTICAL WAY.

She Was erstitious-Methodist Deacon
ngers-Free Women In tho City of Lon
don--Neediewomen In Paris.
On hot day last summer a New York
woman passed through the city en- route
from her summer home in northern Yer
mont to tho seashore for fortnight's
stay. Needing some gloves, she went to
shop at which she usually dealt, and
, while making her selections noticed the
pallor and evident exhaustion of the
young woman who served her, a sales
woman she had often encountered in the
place before.
"You look tired" she commented. "I
presume your vacation will soon come"
81 have none," replied the girl briefly.
absurd, was the indignant response.
You can easily be spared at this dull
season."
''Oh, yes, but l can't afford to go
away. l have no place to go except
where Imust pay board, and that is out
of the question"
The customer was wealthy and wom-
an of generous impulses. She bit her lip
and thought moment. Then she looked
again at the girl, whose air and manner
showed lassitude and WEAKNESS.
"Could you get a fortnight's leave at
once if you had placeto go?" she asked,
and the girl thought she could, where
upon in brief conversation with the
proprietor the matter was arranged, and
the next morning the young glove seller
turned her back on the hot and dusty
city, ticlzeted through to her patrons
lovely summer home.
Meantime her kind hearted hostess had
sent dispatch to her husband, whom
she had left in possession with several
male friends to enjoy the hunting and
fishing, announcing her portegee's ar
rival and its import. Accustomed to his
wife's warm hearted ways and always
willing to second them, he saw to it that
tho young stranger was received and
cared for. His wife's carriage was placed
daily at her disposal, and two weeks of
thorough rest were provided for her.
She was in her place in the shop again
when her benefactor passed through on
her homeward way, and the good of her
vacation was most satisfactorily appar-
ent. Which is story absolutely true
Her Point of View in New York Times.
The herald., 1893-10-25
A Polxglot Msnagerie.

A tolerably well practiced linguist is
required for Mime. Scalchi's family of
pet animals. Of her II parrots, 10 un-
derstand French and English, while
one of her pugs comprehends only italian
and one English. She has FIVE other dogs
whom she addresses In labelle langue.
All these are in her pleasant villa in
the suburbs Of Turin, where her hus-
band, Signor Lolli, makes wine from the
grapes of his own vineyard and the great
singer wanders In her woods early IN
morning gathering mushrooms for her
breakfast, She considers all green gar
den vegetables good fer the ice.--Har-
per's Bazaar.
The herald., 1893-10-25
A Highly Contented Old Maid.

One of the least popularly known but
most influential literary women in New
York is Ellen Hutchinson, the literary
editor of The Tribune, the collaboration
of e. G. Stedmans in the s'History of
American Literature. and the author Of
several volumes of poems--very good
poems, too, though little read. Nellie
Hutchinson, as her old friends call her,
does not look like poet, but like very
practical. somewhat severe little bust
ness woman. And indeed she is both.
The unfamiliarity of her name is due
to her boundless dislike of all personal
publicity of literary receptions, clubs,
and, in fact, of all the machinery of lit
erary life. She lives in fiat of her own,
has few friends of whom she sees a
great deal and is highly contented old
maid in her own way.-New York Re-
corder.
The herald., 1893-10-25

There are two little managers who are
known as "the tigers and their mission
appears to be TO contest and wrangle
over every question. This tall, hand
some woman, who is remarkably well
versed in parliamentary law, is Mrs.
Eegle, wife of the governor of Tennessee,
and that slender, handsome woman with
gray hair and bright, black eyes is Mrs.
Rosine Ryan, u real estate dealer from
Texas. Mrs. j. j. Bagley's fine face
wins the confidence Of listeners at once,
and the lady is one Of the broadcast mind
ed of all the managers. Mrs. Meredith
Of Indiana has fine red cheeks and pref
ty hair and is straightforward in all her
methods. Altogether it is unique gath
ering, for it represents the first national
congress of women convened for the
management Of national interests. New
York Ledger.
The herald., 1893-10-25
She Was superstitlous.

There is young lady in the census
Office who is smart, clever and well
infM1ed girl generally, but she is as
supesstitious as may be.
Some time ago she secured her regular
leave and went to Atlantic City to
81 end it.
Arriving at swell hotel, she was as
signed room. She had unpacked her
things, attired herself in most attract
i've dress and was about to go down to
dinner when she discovered that the
number Of her apartment was 49, With
out moments delay she hastily dis
robcd and put on her travelling dress,
repaclzed her trunk, and hurrying down
to the Office directed the clerk to send
for an express wagon to take her lug
gage to another hotel. When the as
tonished young man requested reason
for her sudden determination, she told
him. He said another room would be
placed at her disposal, but she replied
that she "could not sleep under the roof
after such a warning as that" and off
she went to another hostelry. n. (. s...,..
Next day she made her way to Jack
MS bathing house to take hot bath.
n.sn she was conducted to it, she gave
mortified shrek and nearly tainted. 1t
;as bathroom 10.
AS hurriedly as she had left the first
hotel she got away from Jackson's es-
tablishment and rushed to her stopping
place, and despite the pleadings of half a
dozen friends who had called on her she
threw her things into her trunk and took
the next train for home.
She said she wouldn't have remained
another minute longer in Atlantic City
if the entire island was given to her.
Washington Star.
The herald., 1893-10-25
Methodist Deaoonesses In India.

From the very first it has seemed near
ly impossible to get the idea clearly fixed
in the public mind that Methodist dea-
coness is woman who devotes herself
to any work to which she is adapted,
and which the church is willing to give
her. The popular notion is that dea-
coness is a woman who visits the sick
and poor and devotes herself to such
forms of holy drudgery as other women
shrink from. Such is by no means her
calling. Her mission is wide as the
world and broad as the sphereof human
wants. In our faroff India we have
never limited our duties within the mar
row boundaries set up for her in most
parts of the United States.
For instance, the principal of the only
Christian woman's college in all Asia is
q Methodist deaconess. The principal
of the Calcutta girls school, our largest
boarding school in India, is Methodist
deaconess. The editor of two of our
Indian periodicals is Methodist deacon
ess The most successful and gifted lady
evangelist working among the natives of
India is a Methodist deaconess. A dozen
or more of our working lady missionaries
in India are Methodist deaconesses. One
of our most active lady physicians is a
Methodist deaconess. In short, we have
long since solved this question, which the
good people in America are just begin
ming to debate and we are able to call
the attention of the church not only to
what we have attempted, but to what
we have actually accomplished in the
way of enlarging the sphere in which
deaconesses can move and act. Bishop J.
M. Thoburn in Western Christian Advo-
cate.