The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-18
lax REFORM DEPARTMENT.
OUR NEW ASSESSOR.
"' 100 Jealous. and Did His Dut,
Too Well.


100 Jealous. and Did His Dut
Too Well.
we mad always thought that as
community, we, the people of eros
oads Town, would be entirely ham
we could secure as assessor and IA,
eoiector an honest. reliable and zeal
Gus official We see our mistake row
our happiness was ell in pursuit An,
not IN possession. We have the ,,oda
onclai' and we are more unhappy thar
we We're. Fly '""l
The only fault we have to find With
MIN is that he is too jealous Ri.
swung new sign outside of his grocery
e'ore the other day, and our assessor
w whose name is higgins. happened along
negihs mad painted it, and he was fat
pe'ea with higgins evident admiration
until he lMiggins) asked him for tbree
dollars. 'or 'iree
..o, three dollars! What's that forpy
know" s"S' you
niggins paid it but he swears he'll
get even with higgins on weight
Farmer Jones was building n hen
coop last week, when Mirpins swont
down on the unconscious ZONES
an that's nice hen coop. Cost
fa ..0, little sum, should imagine"
oh, yes" said Jones' But / don't
mind the expense"
NO. and besides it's good thing for
,ne town." said higgins. "Two do1-
iars' please. have to make nv renor,
'nis afternoon, and.it's well TO have -
all in.'' W nave IL {
Two dollarsr" exclaimed Jones :,
CONSERVATION. 'o"eS' In 9
Yes; that's the town tax IN ~
coops' You know; we thought we'd t
make 1t light for you. The streets 90 {
70 be graded, and the town is oror,;a &c p
10 y 'nas your little daughter coming np n
ne road? What pretty child! And o.
. "a' little lamb she has with her? Is g.
yours! Really, l didn't know it be- tr
u ~ 10 you. Twenty-Five cents. please en-
nat the tax on sheep per head. fr
a,n gong up to Boggs now to col. De
90 ! mad little trouple with Bopes es
esterday: He was moving his house la
ON one lot to another. l CHARGED b;,,
TN Three separate assessments-tba
: from which the house went. tho 1ot
. winch it was going, and the borsa !
idway between them. He Objected - Ian
G ground that this made he 80 tin
airy one-third more than they ought Tor
NC. l said an assessor was bonnd lat
..he things as he found them. and ruiz
aus the way found them. II w,s on
my lanit; had to do my duty.
'ure You he was quite violent. Good corr
y" "ooo of /
Ina higgins hurried down the road ears
nc other day he wanted 10 tax tha nom
low higgins on the elegant roso- east
% coihn in which her husband u,s thes
ieu' out we reasoned with and to,d selv'
u was really not her coffin hr,t cure
and that she could not be as-ossaJ rule.
what did not belong tn bar 81 - cond
as obviously impossible 70 L.. caus,
gus IL did not seem reasonable 10 all o.
aa'esSor that dead man sbould meas
pay ior Injuries of that kind. But good
~ use 10 reason with higgins. He Me
10 faithful an official for tb,t lnter'
wants to do his duty. He started men,
ior Mrs. Smiths when he heard have
iady had twins, under the i'm who
ion tnat he could collect from ber and o
the poll tax He was with d;s, Ign,
from this. M evil b
body in the village owns anr.h; long a
days Under the arrus era chosen
ms. wealth is rapidly disannc,u; lures
rlages are wheeling ont 81 tos sponsi
rofits of the cigar manrf,at" little
seemingly all disappeared - needs,
;, our town matchmaker is WI. ish an
half time, the booksellers 80. Tweed
FOUND up, and the glimmerinos ~ honest
lie factory have gone ont ent;r The
less in
Ire looking around for a Ice. 90, United
'essor higgins is Just too fa;thf,,I even tn
IS his duty too well. in their
JOSEPH DANA Mu, cities, e