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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-25

Russians are worses afflicted wi,
blindness than any other nationals
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-25

parting upon earth.
Slowly and painfully the feeble and
emaciated man drew himself over the
fence, and disappeared from the low
ing gaze Of his wife among the thick
growth of pines in old West pasture.
Neither heart nor foot faltered. and
yet his dark purpose Of self-destruc-
ton was firm and unchanged. FIRE.
mont Lincoln was going to his death,
and he knew it.
ut Is for Ella and the baby" he
muttered, as he pressed forward as
rapidly as his feeble strength would
permit.
Plunging deeper and deeper ye,
into the tangled thicket, he at last
came out into little clear space en-.
tirely enclosed by the dark and gloomy
evergreens that crowded around
There he paused and took a last, long
lingering look around; for there, in
side that little circle Of softly mur
mpring pines. his young life wa.
about Il. end.
Then he cooked the fowling piece
he carried. and rested the butt OF 4
on tho ground, preparatory to dis
charging IL with his foot; when sud
denly an angry whirring caused hin
to spring to one side with all tn,
, quickness possible in his enfeeble,
condition. He we'll knew the fata
warning OF an angered rattlesnakc
and even in that extremity instinc
: made him leap to = place OF compara
tive safety. 4
. There 1t lay. close-coilcd among tn
forms GU which the butt OF the gun ha
: rested. with thick. sluggish body bu
0 swiftly vibrating tail, che deadly di:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-25

Mamma-Why so?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21
Colfax High School.

The Trustees Of the Colfax High School
for Males and Females take pleasure in
announcing to the public that the second
Ton Months Session of this school will
begin on the First Monday of Septem-
Der, 1893. No pains will be spared to
make it first-class High School.
RATES OF TUITION.
PPri%:ry Department = g Per month
coiIss;stS "a :.
Music, Vocal and Instrumental 50
incidental fee. Is cents per session.
Good board can be obtained on reasona-
BILE terms Two hotels in town, and sew
eral private boarding houses in town and
vicinity will board cheap. Those having
children to educate should send them in
and give ms fair trial. We are in the
race to stay.
J. F. KELLY, M. D., President.
w. L. RICHARDSON.
Secretary Board of Trustees.
Colfax, La, Aug. 10, 1893
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21
Look for the Rebound.

In spite OF the fact that Congress
has done absolutely nothing to re-
lieve the financial panic, we see
the country at large begins to show
marked evidences of returning pros
perity. The retrosction and re-
bound from depression to conf
dence and expansion will surely and
quickly come, and has already set
in with vigorous strides. Our
country is wonderfully recupera-
tive, and Louisiana is the most
wonderful part of it, when it comes
to recovering from calamity. All
enterprises having called a halt to
the system Of credit and unlimited
expansion that has prevailed for
the last ten years, settlements have
been made on a contracted basis,
and every body has been forced to
a rigid economy and curtailment
of expenses.
These periods seem to recur
with curious regularity every ten
years, and, although the one through
which we have just passed was
extraordinary in it's contraction,
there is no reason why the expan-
sion should not follow it as in all
other cases. The people become
educated in economies only by the
force of circumstances. Who ever
heard of prosperous man post
poning or cutting down possible
expendituresg Where is the mer-
chant or manufacturer that has
ever curtailed his operations unless
forced to do so because loss and
ruin was staring him in the face?
No, friends; we are not ruined.
We have only been forced to econ
omy and industry; have bought
less and saved more; and the lesson
was needed. Now watch for the
rebound. We stake our reputation
as a prophet on the prediction that
in another twelve months none of
us will be any worse off!
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21
B. TURNER
DEALER m
General Merchandise
Pineville, La,

Pimeville. La,
Has just received Full Stock OF Spring
and Summer Goods, which Is to be sold at
a small margin above cost for cash.
The public are invited to call and exam
inc his large and we'll selected stock of
DRY GOODS,
consisting Of Dress Goods and Trimmings,
Fancy Goods, White Goods, Ladies' fine
Hosiery. all styles and grades, Flanels
and Waterproof, Linseys, Cassimeres and
Diagonals, Bedford Cords. etc., and full
lines of Gloves, Embroidery, etc.
Mems and Boys Hats. and Ladies' Trim
med Hats.
A large stock of Boys and Llens's CLO-
THING. Special bargains are offered in
Boys and Mems JEANS Clothing, which
were bought at sacrifice.
A fine assortment of Boots and Shoes,
Saddlery, Crockery. Hardware, Groceries.
Plantation Supplies, TRUNKS. Valises,
Towers celebrated ''Fish Brand" of Slick.
ers, and FURNITURE.
Agent for tho Dupont Gun Powder, the
oldest and best in America.
Keeps on hand the Celebrated MIIRuRN
WAGONS. the best in the world.
Highest market price paid for Cotton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

The storm on the Coast two
weeks ago destroyed 1000 human
lives, and for every life it is safe
to say that q home has been COM
pletely ruined. It will take many
thousands of dollars to rebuild
these homes and provide for the
sufferers until they can do some
thing for themselves All the
communities of the State are con-
tributing and Grant should not lag
behind. The CHRONICLE gives 50
for this purpose, and will be pleas
ed to acknowledge and forward all
contributions that may be sent in
by Nov. LIST.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21
WAsuNorox, D. C.. Oct. q, q

wAsmxarox. D. c.. Oct. II. 1899.
Senator Voorhees, began his at
tempt to force q vote on his bill
for the unconditional repeal of pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman sill
YER law, on Wednesday. by compell-
ing the Senate to remain in con-
tinuous session. It was clear from
the beginning that the margin over
and above a qurom, which the fol-
lowers of Mr.. Voohees were COM
PEELED to keep on the floor con-
stantly, was entirely to small, even
if half Of them were not republicans
who had not pledged themselves to
any extra efforts, to give him any
reasonable hope of firing ont the
opponents of the bill, who could
get all the rest they needed, as they
only kept two or three Senators on
the floor at q time, one to speak
and the others to demand call of
the Senate whenever the number
present fell below q quorum. That
being the situation it seems to your
correspondent that the only real
reason for holding this continuous
session is to convince those out
side of Congress who have been SO
strenuously insisting upon uncon-
ditional repeal of the impossibility
of securing unconditional repeal,
and Of the necessity for q COM
promise. There was some talk
early in the week Of adjourning
Congress If the continued session
of the Senate failed to reach q vote
but the idea was not popular with
the Senators, and it looks now as
though some disposition will GER
tainly be made of the silver ques-
ton before there is an adjourn
ment, and that it win be COM
promise which can be accepted
without any sacrifice Of principle
by all the Democratic Senators, al
though Senator Voorhees, is very
positive in saying that he will take
no part in a compromise.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

The bright and scintilating gos-
ling that does the squeaking and
quack business for the Winn Par
ish Comrade, seizes upon q line and
half proverb or truism, sandwiched
in among our local dots, from the
Texas Farm and Ranch, and, cred
iting it to the CHRONICLE, proceeds
to do the school boy act of talking
about nothing. The next time we
gobble line to make even, from
Savant Philosopher or Wit, we VIII
endeavor to remember to tack on
the credit Mark Twain, Uncle Re-
mus, ETC., for the benefit of our be-
nighted friend, who does not appear
to read enough to know what is
going on in the world.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21
WORK FOR US

few days, and you will be startled at the unex-
pected success that will reward your efforts. We
positively have the best business offer an agent
that can be found on the face of this earth.
$4,000 profit on 0s5 90 worth of business Is
hundreds Of men, women, boys, and girls in our
employ. You can make money faster at work for
us than you have auy idea of. The business 10 90
that all succeed from the start. Those who take
hold of the business reap the advantage that
arises from the sound reputation of one Of the
oldest, most successful, and largest publishing
houses in America. Secure for yourself the profits
that the business readily and handsomely Yields
All beginners succeed grandly, aud more than
realize their greatest expectations. Those who
Of room for few more workers, and We urge
them to begin at once. II you are already en-
ployed, but have q few spare moments, and wish
to use them to advantage, then write US at once
(for this Is your grand opportunity. and receive
full particulars BY return mail. Address,
TRUE q CO.. Box No. 400, Augusta, Ne.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21
Everybody in Washington knew

Everybody in Washington knew
that the number of what are usual
ly spoken of as 'of6ce- holding fami-
les" the members of which were
never known to engage in any 9TH
er employment than working for
the Government, was considerable.
but no one dreamed its actual ex-
tent until Representative Dockery
this week presented to the House q
partial report of the joint commit
tee which is investigating depart
mental methods and work. More
than 1900 families have two or
more members in Office, and some
as many as seven, eight and nine.
More than half the II, 500 United
States employees in this city are
furnished by those 1000 families,
and yet there il . rule against the
employment of two members of the
same family. No one was moro
surprised at the figures in this re-
port than were the heads of the
departments, and it can be stated
to q certainty that they will not
wait for legislation to reduce the
number of one family employees
in their respective departments.
To put it in popular language,
these families have had snap for
a long time and will now he made
to step down and out and give 9TH
or people q chance.
The 80 majority by which the
House passed the Tucker bill for
the repeal of the Federal election
laws, promptly at the the time des-
ignated for taking the vote when
the bill was first taken up, was q
great disappointment to the Re-
publicans who had been persistent
in circulating false stories about
the difficulty there would be in get
ting Democrats to deal promptly
with the bill and the difficulty there
would be in getting q Democratic
quorum on the floor when the time
came to vote. Every Democratic
member of the House Who was in
Washington voted for the bill, and
none were absent, except from un-
causes. The Democrats
of the House believe in doing BUSH
and in doing 1t promptly, and their
records up to this time have been
President Cleveland's motive in
having ell his callers state the ma
ture OF their business to his private
secretary before being admitted to
his Office has been SO grossly mis-
represented that / present the facts,
which follow: So much of the
Presidents time has been occupied
IN listening to the appeals of Con-
gressmen and other prominent
democrats for Offices for their
friends that he has found it neces-
sary to stay up the greater portion
of nearly every night in order to
perform his more important duties.
In order to put . stop to this he
determined to place the duty of
shoosing all officials upon the
members of his cabinet, he accept
ing their recommendation as final,
md in order to save his own time,
Is well as that of his callers, those
Who call at the White House are
required to state the nature Of
heir business to private secretary
rhurber. If it be about an APP
oointment the new rule Is explain
ID and they are referred to the
of the cabinet who has
jurisdiction of the Office wanted;
f about public business they are
It once taken to the President
The change is popular with Con-
yressmen and viii strike most
1eOple IA heinu n sana;n1a ona.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

So far as we have learned not a
single gin in Grant parish has been
shut down ON account of fear from
the gin burners, and all uneasiness
on this score has about subsidized.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

DAlQRa4 ssn he earned at our WV u.. eswosa,
IIAII ~ srdiy ssd hossssbty, b. sboss of
II ether seq, Young o old, and IN their
We furnish svssyhing We Ne sish Ys
your usssuta ell time - the wosk- This
begnas are sst.ne sn esS 70 ess aad aIwsra
and amer sfle We fnuish
pic.m-rt tReE No svseefo sxpan hsss Fu
infesnasioa fe41. True a Coz Akele1A, HAlAs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

Don't commit suicide on account
of your favourable" blood disease.
The sensible thing for you to do is
to take Ayers Sarsaparilla. IF
that fails, why, then--keep on try
ing, and it will not fail. The
trouble is, people get discouraged
too soon. cry, try, try again"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

During the the past week mid
ding cotton has sold in New Or
leans at 8@85 cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

If you wish to secure q certain
and speedy result. when using Az
er's Sasapsrills, be careful in OBJ
serving the rules of health, or the
benefit may be retarded A fair
and persistent trial Of this medicine
never fails, when the directions are
followed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

Children Hike to take &C. O. O.
Certain Chill Cure" the pleas
ant and guaranteed euro for
Fever Aguo and Malaria-Bet-
ter than ouinine. Price 80 cts.
For sale by j. Kemp 4 Son.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

A great big round dollar will get
You bushel of things If you take
it to j. Kemp & Son.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21

Official advertisements 81 per square for
first insertion; each subsequent publica-
tion 80 cents per square.
Brief communications upon subjects of
public interest solicited, but no attention
viii he paid to anonymous writer's.
address: CHRONICLE, Colfax, La.
EIJadical advertisements mmst be maid
for IN ddrancc. or they wiH be discontinued
after the first Insertion.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-01
lRlSHMEN FOR IRELAND.
The Home Rule Bill Endorsed by Nov
Workers in Mass Meeting

The Home Rule Bill Endorsed by Now
Yorkers in Mass Meeting
A message was cabled to William E.
Gladstone from New York by the Ma.
tional Federation of America, pledging
him their most vigorous support in his
efforts to carry through the Home Rule
bill, and expressing the sentiments of
thousands who had gathered at the
Academy of Music to indorse this action
and the tens of thousands of Irishmen
throughout America who are loyal to
their motherland. The message was as
follows:
1--WE, the citizens of New York, in
mass meeting assembled, beg to tender
you our heartfelt sympathy in your eff
forts to achieve for Ireland the long
sought-for measure of justice, which we
trust God will enable you to speedily
carry to successful termination, and we
pledge you our vigorous aud continued
support through the struggle"
Thos. Adds Emmett,
Morgan j. O'Brien,
John Byrne.
This was the keynote of the great
gathering Of Irishmen at the Acad envy
Sunday evening. The people listened to
patriotic airs by the Sixty ninth Regi-
ment Band, and cheered enthusiastically
when Judge Morgan, the presiding off
GER, and Congressman Bourks Cochran
came On the platform, followed by a
number of other prominent men.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-01
ELLIOTT r. SHEPARD DEAD.
He Expires Under Ether While Preparil
for AN Operation.

He Expires Under Ether While Preparing
for An Operation.
Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard, editor
Of the Mail and Express and son in-law
of the late William II. Vanderbilt died
suddenly ut his home, No2 West Fifty
second street, New York. His death
followed the administration of ether by
DR.. Charles McBurney and the family
physician. DR.. j. w. McLane, who were
about to Iaake an examination to ascer-
tain whether the Colonel's suspicious
that he suffered from stone in the blad-
der were correct. He had sent his fam
lily into the country, and kept his pur-
pose to have an operation concealed from
his friends. After small amount of
ether was administered, dangerous symp.
toms resulted. The doctors desisted, and
applied restoratives, and he rallied for a
time, but later sank into unconsciousness
and died. The immediate cause of death
was oedema Of the lungs. Col Shepard
was man Of great wealth and business
activity. He was an earnest Christian
and moralist, and much esteemed in pri.
vate life.
Col. Shepard was born at Jamestown,
N. Y, July Is, 1888. His father, Fitch
Shepard. was president of the National
Bank Note Company in the city of New
York. Elliott was graduated from the
University Of the City of New York in
1855, was admitted to the bar in 1853,
and practised law for more than quar-
ter Of century in New York. During
the civil war, 1661-1865, he served as
aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor
E. d. Morgan, Of the State of New
York. He commanded the depot of
State volunteers at Elmira, N. Y, and
was instrumental in organizing, equip
ping and forwarding to the field nearly
50, 900 men. He was counsel for the
New York Central and other railroads
and corporations. He established three
national banks and in 1875 founded the
New York State Bar Association, of
which, subsequently, he was president
This has long since served as the model
for the organization of similar associa-
tions in other States. He married the
!, eldest daughter of William II. Wander
bilt in 1853. He has been conspicuous
for some years as an advocate of the
christian Sabbath" as defender of
railroads and as an ardent Republican.
and made the Mail and Express the
medium Of his views.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-01
The Tanning Of Animals,

There are few benefits which we owe
to our forefathers greater than the end
less skill and patience with which they
tanned those animals which we call at
the present day domestic. 1t must
have required a steady perseverance,
extending through countless genera
Eons, to have succeeded in inducing
such essentially wild and mistrustful
animals as oats to lay aside their timid-
ity and suspicion. and to become the
faithful friends of man.
The people who accomplished this
great benefit for posterity had more
leisure than their restless and hard.
worked descendants; they were gener.
ally speaking, members of slave States,
in which the food supply was plentiful,
and in which we may suppose that both
masters and slaves had plenty of time
ON their hands. In some cases the OBJ.
vious utility of the animals caused
them to be tanned; in some cases this
very utility came to invest them with a
special sanctity, which, as in the case
of the cat in Egypt and the COW in In
dIa, afforded an additional guarantee
for their preservation.
The ancients seem to have tanned
almost all the existing animals known
: to them that were worth tanning; had
they known the American bison, they
might have added him to the list OF
draught animals We possess; possibly,
too, the weasel, stoat, and polecat
might have been reclaimed and en-
ployed as useful foe to vermin. 1t is
certain that some animals which were
once tanned have been allowed to re-
lapse into wild state. such as hawks,
monkeys and crocodiles in Egypt, and
weasels in Greece and Rome.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-01
Facts About Gray Hair.

Many persons begin to show gray
hairs while they are yet in their TWEEN.
ties, and some while in their teens.
This does not by any means argue a
premature decay of the constitution.
1t is purely local phenomenon. and
may co-exist with unusual bodily vigor.
Many feeble persons and others who
have suffered extremely, both mentally
and physically. do not bIanch hair
until past middle life; while others,
without any assignable cause, lose their
capillary coloring matter rapidly when
about forty years Of age.
Race has q marked influence. The
traveller Dr.. d'Aubigny says that in the
many years he spent in South America
he never saw a bald Indian, and scarce
ly gray haired one.
In the United States sex appears to
make little difference Men and women
grow gray about the same period in
life.
In men the hair and beard rarely
change equally. The one is usually
darker than the other for several years,
but there seems to be no general rule
ms to which whitens first
The spot where grayness begins diff.
fers with the individual. The philoso.
pher Schopenhauer began to turn gray
on the temples, and he consequently
tusmed . theory that this ives 90 ipdi.
CATION of great mental activity.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-01
Farewell to Greatness.

1t is hard for people who have made
a notable success in any direction to
outlive their greatness and sink to the
level of the less gifted or fortunate;
but they can comfort themselves with
the thought that it was better to have
been somebodies than always to have
lived nobodies. Who has not laughed
at the story of Theodore Hook. who
met pompous stranger in Hyde Park
so very often trudging along disdain.
fully that one morning his own curios-
ity challenged him to address Monsieur
Pomposity with: .Sir, pardon me. but
I am burning to know if you really are
anybody in particular. The stranger
sadly answered: mot now; but once
was;'' and he then resumed his self
gratulatory pedestrianism. These shave
beens" are to be found everywhere.
Enter public library for instance. At
table one sits who long ago wrote q
successful novel. He never again be-
came an author yet he lives on the
memory and association of that one
volume. How often he thumbs the
catalogue at the point where his novel
is indexed! At home he has scrap
book of articles he has written for
newspapers and periodicals. With
what apparent nonchalance he will
sometimes point to it when a guest is
present, and soy with affected diff
dence, when I wrote this'"-"when I
penned this"-'this little brochure of
mine." etc. He is familiar type of
the have beens. Perhaps the saddest
members of this class are the singers
who have lost their 70 ces, and the
actresses who realize that they are
growing too stout for Juvenile parts.
and must give up their accustomed
repertoIres. What a pathetic wall is
there in the we'll known observation Of
Mademoiselle Dejazet--a mademoiselle
in name at seventy-"When we are
young and beautiful we are not yet
actresses; and when we become such,
alas, We are no longer young and
charming" But of all places, Wash
ington is the locality in which to view
or take census Of have beens
During congressional sessions the class
can be met in groups or else in singles
-ex-governors of many years gone by,
ex-senators, ex-department officials, and
now and then an ex-nresident. And all
walking about unnoticed but reminis-
cent Some of them are happily phil.
osophical; others mourn their departed
greatness, and talk of the decadence of
the times; but all are alike forgotten.
Happy is he who is at the top round of
the philosophical ladder, who thence
looking backward or forward, can real
ize that no man is necessary to the
world; and that when in the battle of
life Jones is wounded, or Smith miss
ing, or Brown killed, or Smiffkins
cashiered, another officer or some new
recruit will be at hand to take the
vacant place.