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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
HE WAS HoODooED.
And So 1t Was No Use His Making Believe
Working.

Working.
He stood before the grocery on the
;orner of Seventh avenue. His hands
were thrust idly into his ragged poek-
cts, and his head hung dejectedly.
whats the matter, Johnson" OBJ
served the groceryman, as he came out
and placed wire screen over his box of
oranges.
..Dere's mattah enough, boss said
Johnson mournfully.
"Well, what is it?r asked the grocer
curiously. What are you Twin on,
anyhow? / haven't seen you worxin'
for the last two weeks. Did you find a
wad of money or win a gig at policy?''
mo sech luck, boss returned Mr..
Johnson, signing heavily. Luck amt
comm my way. I'm suffering from de
collud mans misfortune"
The colored mans misfortune?
What's that? Can't it happen to a
white man?'
mo, it can't. Leastways, nebber
heerd of wife man being hoodooed.
Use been hoodooed, boss, by cock
eyed peddler ober on Mint avenue. Dat
happened three weeks ago, an / ain t
nebber had no luck sepce. Watts de
use of my doin' anything wen can do
| uothin,."
That's all bosh, Johnson, and you
know it. You're gettin' spring lazi-
ness, an you might as well admit it,
"'Tain't SO, sab; faint so. been
tryin' to wuck hard, sab. / TUX de con-
tract fob w'itewashin' hallway over
| on Twenty-second street. Dere was q
bootblaclS's stand right next door, an
somehow box o his blackin' dropped
in my bucket o. w'tewash an spoilt de
hull job. i didn't get no money an /
lost my wuck. Yes, sab, OATS bein
hoodooed, dat is.
| Den got de job o. chopin wood
soh baker down de avenue. Wus
lazy? Not bit. sab. ] chopped an ]
chopped, an / didn't mind de wuck.
But / hadn't been wuckin' more'n
twenty minutes, wen dat AK run clean
t'roo my boot an split de upper. It's a
| wonder didn't chop off my toes. OATS
w at comes O. bein' hoodooed, sab.
Il don't dare take no wuck now. I'd
be killed sure. fob fact. You knows
dat yaller dog, Tim. dat used ter foller
me? Well, he's dead. Hoodooed wild
me. Eft poisoned herrin', an he's
buried in de dumpin' ground now.
"No, no. boss. Tain't idleness on my
| paht. Lohd knows. It's de cullud mans
misery, OATS wat it is. Use waitin
hyer to see my friend, Mistah Single
ton, is. He's got rabbits foot dat
was cut off de animal by de light o. dc
moon. Eff been wearin dat tree days
de hoodoo's' goin to wear away. But
it'll go slow. Soon's it's gone, dough
you'll see me wuckin' harder'n you
boss Harder'n you ebber wicked in
| yo' life. IN. Y. Recorder.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
Peaches In palatable Form.

When serving uncooked peaches, Sc
lect very ripe, soft peaches; pare and
split; remove the stones. Place in
a glass bowl, sprinkle freely with
sugar, and set on ice until cold Serve
with rich cream. To make peach pyra-
mid, cut a dozen large ripe, firm
peaches in halves, peel and remove the
stones. Make sirup of a pound of sugar
and half pint of water, to which add an
ounce of gelatine dissolved in little
warm water. Pour half the strip in
the bottom of deep mould. Set on
ice until cold; add the peaches, and
pour over the remaining sirup When
firm turn out of fat glass dish. Ar
range wreath of peach leaves around
the pyramid. This makes very pref
ty as well as very delicious dessert. -
Ladies' Home journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
He Could.

BARBER see Bob Fitzsimmons and
Joe Choynski-
Irritable Customer-Can't you talk
about anything but prize fights?
'Yes, sir. was much interested in
an article in one of the late quarterly
reviews on the subject of the transmit
grafton of souls. You remember the
view Plato held regarding this doc
trine, dare say?"
"No-I--
He believed, as he sets forth in his
'Ph@do,' that the soul has had many
existences in animals before it enters
man. According to his view. as you
may reco1lect, every soul on the death
of the body it inhabits enters some
other body and after completing a
cycle of ten thousand years returns to
its original source. 0rigen, on the
contrary = knew his book, DE
Principus,' by heart when l was a
member of the Boston Society for the
Investigation of the Occult main
tanned that souls who sinned in Heaven
were sent to earth to inhabit material
bodies again for the purpose of under
going process of publication. Do
you recall what Herodotus wrote
about it?''
''What-er-I-"
with gra cious condescension)
Shampoo, sir? Your head needs it
very much, sir. ''-Chicago Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
PuNGsNT PARAeaA?As.

-Friend-'I hear your play didn't
have much OF arun. What was wrong
about it?" Scribbler-'. Nothing; that
was the troable. "--ToDly.
Wife t,arfully)-''Yoa have broken
the promise you made me." Husband
kissing her)-''Never mind, my dear,
don't cry; / II make yo1 another. -
Spare Moments.
81 don't bclieve half of our rich
men know when they are we'll off.
"Humph! How'd You get that idea"
Been looking over the assessment
roll. buffalo Courier.
-'All the worlds a stage, Sam. and
the men and women merely players"
"Yes, massa; but If OATS SO, where you
goin' to get your audience and orchis-
try?-Tit-Bits. Hf
Has the editor, read my poem, :"
asked the long-haired young man. II
don't know for sure" replied the Office
boy, ''but he's sick in bed to-day
Washington Star.
--Dilxley-''I wonder what induced
the female giant at the dime museum
to marry the India rubber man" Dok-
ley-''I suppose she wanted somebody
she could twist around her. fingers
Boston Daily Traveller.
~ don't think it's right for doc
tors to charge soma patients more than
Others 30, do; life is worth a great
! deal more to man who has million
dollars than it is to me. Newport
| Daily News.
"Sharp man, that" Howe"
"Widow sued him and got Judgment
for one hundred dollars" Yes"
Married the widow, got a divorce for
sixty dollars, and had forty dollars left
out of the one hundred. Atlanta Con-
stitution.
| Miss Palisade-''The idea of Mr..
Fiddleback sending me thirty roses for
my birthday. Do you suppose he sus-
poets how old l amp" Miss Summit
don't know. He asked me if thought
that would be enough. IN. Y. Herald.
tive got cold or something in
my 'ead," was what the simple little
chappie said. The summer girl, with
ROBUSTNESS demure, replied: 20, it
must be cold, I'm sure."-N, Y. Trib-
une.
Miss Alice?" said one. "Why, she
must weigh at least 1870 pounds. " Non
sense! she doesn't either hastily spoke
up one of the young men present. And
then everybody asked him how he
knew.--Somerville Journal.
An Actor.--Mrs. Leo Hunter-'1
knew by your bearing you We're an
actor; but what is yo1r favorite role?'
Barnum Bailey-'I have no roll at all
ma'am; do triple somersault over
two elephants and three camels."-N.
Y. World.
well, Joseph, did you take my
letter to NJ. de Y-?" s'Yes, sir, but
am afraid he won't be able to read it,
for he is blind" ''Blind:" Eyes, sir;
while was standing right in front OF
him in his private Office, he asked me
twice where my hat was, and had il
on my head all the time-ha, har'-Le
| Petit Calaisien.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01

insolent stare of the vengeful assassin
before him. This calm dignity, that
disdained to show even the loathing,
incensed the british animal nature
that thirsted for some sign of the tor
ture it so gloated over infiicting. Rorke
had taken just enough whisk y to be
incautious, and over confident a1tos
gether, and was, besides. too ignorant
TO see the vital antithesis of their mti-
tual position of to-day and that of the
Friday. He could not now resist the
jeering taunt, which he knew must
cut deeper than ever, because of the
seal of silence, which bound the priest
in such terrible impotence toward his
brothers murderer.
Maybe" said he, chuclxling, che
be-he-maybe yer honor's reverence
will be plaised to know that jist near
where the auld mares grain is the
dried-up WE'LL an the ground ye'se
standin' on is where yer honor's
brother Terrence fell when shot him
dead! Thrue for We. / kilt him entire-
ly and pitched him into the well-and
h--help-murtherir
1t was a sudden strangled yell OF
terror, like wild beasts, for in that
moment Patrick O'Brien had flung
himself on the murderer, hurting him
backwards, crashing to the ground,
and knelt on his chest with a grip like
steel on his throat.
.'You divil!' the man said through
his teeth, his eyes ablaze with the
fierce passion of rage so long pent up,
''foresworn murderer. Before God
you blasphemed. You're my prisoner
this day till hand you over to justice!"
"Let go--I'll choke--ye daren't in
form." gasped the wretch, struggling
to fling off his powerful captor, half
choking, half stunned by the back fall.
Was confession-'
BE silent, Donovan Rorke, and keep
still or it's down the we'll I'll fling you,
till I'll get the police. What was told
to me in the confessional was told &c
the priest, and I've kept the seal UNI
heavens we two stood simply man to
man, and it's now that you have con-
fessed your crime to the man, Patrick
OBrien, who's going to bind We hand
and foot"
''Ye divil-never-the curse o Crom-
well be" with a frantic struggle
against this iron grip that held his
throat, half-strangled, the wretch
gave a wrench up of head and Shout
ders, but his captor dashed him back
again W it'll force which this time
stunned him. Then stern and swift
the murdered mans brother and
avenger rose, cut the rope reins of his
horse and bound the senseless murder.
err hand and foot, got him into the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
New Dress on an Old Joke.

The filthiness of the printing Office
towel is traditional, and the joke
about the country editor who slew his
devil by striking him blow with
the Office towel has long since lost its
force. The other day saw suspended
on the wall of a printing Office black
object, which was labeled: .Armor
plate, tested on the Indian Head prov
ing ground and found to be impene-
trable." Upon close inspection the
article was found to be that same old
towel. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
The Swell New Yorker.

A young English woman visiting in
Detroit came home one day from one of
the late spring receptions with a bit of
of information for her hostess, who
had not been able to accompany her.
II saw one of the ultra swell New
Workers. there she said very much de
lighted.
'.How do you know he was?'
well, he told me lie was from New
York, and l knew by his speech and
manner and appearance that he was
ultra swell
Howe,
''Why, he was such a perfect imita-
ton of one of those swell Englishmen
nobody ever saw in England" and the
definition was accepted as better thap
Wehsterian. detroit Free Press
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01

Attn, Mavour-
neen. and he'd
need to look sad
and worn then,
for isn't it just
bre a X in g his
heart his river
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
THATvERY SMART YOUNG MAN.

'' Eureka" said young Leatherhead,
And he laughed in HIS boyfsh glee
" Just wait till start out and then
I'll let these fogies see
That they're too slow for to-day, you know,
They canno, strike its gait;
I'll teach them how to capture fame
And fortune while you wait"
And ne smiled smile as he thought awhile,
And he laid him out plan
To win more gold than bank would hold.
Did the very smart young man
o. My sirc's good old soul said he;
But. oh. It would drive me mad
To save and slave from here to the grave
As has my poor old dad;
And after I've been gone awhile
II viii be joy profound
To come and show folks how I'll sow
My stack Of wealth around"
And he saw did he, glad things to be,
When he his course began,
And he paused to get q cigarette,
Did tho very smart young man.
And there came a day when he went away,
This youth who would fortune win.
He had fixed scheme, twas pretty dream,
To somehow scoop 1t in.
And he told his pa, and he told his ma,
And he told the neighbors. too,
In glowing style and happy smile,
or the wondrous things he'd do.
But the world went round and the sun went
down,
As they have since the world began,
Yet the days that came brought wealth nor
fame
To the very smart young man.
In a ragged coat one day he wrote
There words to his loving ma;
Dear mother. cant you plan some way
And fix itup with pa
To send me ticket to bring me home,
Il hope he won't oppose
His sons return) and, by the by,
A cast-off suit OF clothes"
And the boy came back to his pa, alackl
And begged OF him TO plan
Some happy way three meals day
To get Tor a smart young man.
Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
Sociological Discussion.

Il notice." said the first post Office
foafer, that as soon as n man gets to
about thirty years old II takes good
deal of his time to explai, to his friends
why he amt married" "Yes," said the
other one, that's SON case he's sim
gle. But in case he amt he's putin
IN the time tryin' to explain to hisseli
why he did marry.''-Indianapolis
Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01
False gods are known bv the

False gods are known by their
claim to exclusive godhood, but he
who sees in every man the godhood he
sees in himself has arisen to that high
sense of Justice where a knowledge of
the awful power vested in him by right
of his native supremacy will not work
harm to Others. but only good from
that time forth forever Helen VII,
mars.
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ence is his brothers disappearance.
''Och, now, see that exclaimed the
younger of the two women, land it's
so started from this"
This being a remote village in the
west of ireland. and the two old wom
en- had met by chance at the church
yard gate one Friday evening, just
about-the time Father O'Brien would
be going to the confessional in the
church, ready to hear and minister to
the spiritual needs of the little flock.
For this purpose the good priest was
always to be found in the right place
after vespers on Fridays, and now even
as the two danes stood Father Patrick
came up from his cottage hard by. He
was tall, powerful man. about five and
forty, good looking, with face at once
Kind, shrewd and resolute-not the
man to be easily fooled or gainsaid-
who could be the "Church militant as
well as the Church spiritual when
the cause of right required it.
He looked very grave and sorrow
full, for his heart was heavy enough,
and when old Kathleen Mccartney
asked anxiously ''if his reverence had
heard any news from Misther Ter
ence?" he shook his head sadly.
mo, Katie, can't make it cut at
all, and miserably anxious and trou-
bled am. He must be i'll or some
thing have happened to him. lie
promised to write from Dublin to give
me his address, and even If he did not
get employment at once. sure and it's
not waiting for that he would be I'm
thinking-but for two long months.
Now | must GO"
Still that was possible solution,
though not one to draw much comfort
from.
Bat minute after those words he
had passed into the church. and en-
tered his side of the confessional with
its partitions and grating between
priest and penitent. Once within that
santum the man was put aside-it was
the priest only who sat there ''in
patience possessing his soul" Some
time, there would be a good many
penitents, at other times very few in
the whole two hours allotted, and this
evening there were not many-only
four at first, who followed each other
by turn. as usual Then there was a
gap of time before one more, the last.
as it proved, entered the confessional
IA mans step and a mans deep voice
that spoke on the other side of the
grating.
Then there came a half hour which
To the confessor was surely as thou
sand years of purgatoriaI fires.
Patrick o'Brien got back to his cot.
tage, to his own little room. and flung
himself TO his knees in a passion OF
horror and agony that tore body and
soul from head to foot Was that last
half hour n hidcous dream or a still
more hideous reality of revenge and
crime crowned by the blasphemy of a
confession that was none of penitence
but moclsery, a deliberate refinement
of revenge against himself, for an &C,
three years ago that had been his
duty-the giving of evidence that haC
sent to prison ruffian, whose at
tempted deed of bastard violence de
served in truth a pistol bullet ever
more than four walls.
That was all reality enough to tn,
memory of the tortured man who
knelt with arms flung out over the
pallet bed, and head bowed on them
lie had ut once recognised the rough
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-01

"A Great Actor--Afrs- Dix-"Whom
do you consider the best actor in ro-
mantle roles?" Mrs. Hicks-''My hus-
band. Sometimes his art deceives me-
IN. Y. World.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10

should be used in attempting to cure that very
disagreeable disease, tatarrh. As catarrh orig
mates in impurities of the blood, local appliea
tions can do no permanent good The common
sense method OF treatment is to purify the
blood, and for this purpose there is no prepa-
ration superior TO Hoods Sarsaparlla.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10

thus showing the confidence of the
compa in the integrity and abil-
ity of Mr.. Wedderburn. The Press
Claims mpany is a combination
of 1,743 Il the prominent newspa-
pers OF The United States. The OBJ
ject of lne company is to prosecute
claims against the United States
Government, including patent
cases \ large and lucrative busi-
ness has already been built up, al
though tine company has been in
active nperation but two years. Its
officers are as follows: r. f. Free
man, Danville Iva. Register, pres
ident; Harrington Fitzgerald, Phil
adelphia Item, secretary; A. l..
Hughes. treasurer; John Wedder-
burn, general manager; Carter
Harrison, Jr., Chicago Times; Ed
gar M. Hopes, Wilmington Neps,
Philip w. Averitt, Cumberland
Times, and Francis E. Leupp,
Good Government, directors
Washington Post.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10
Notice of Assessment.

GOLDEN EAGLE MINING COMPANY.-LO-
1catiOn of principal place of business San
Francisco, California; location of works, Dew
II ; Gate Mining District. Lyon county, Nevada.
Notice is hereby given, that at meeting of the
Board of Directors. held on the 18th day of
September 1894, an assessment mo ~ of Fiji
teen Gents per share was levied upon the capt
tai stock ot the corporation. payable immedi-
a'ely in United states gold coin, to the Secreta-
ry. at the Office of e company, Room 50 Ne
Francisco, California. Any stock upon which
this assessment shall remain unpaid on the
10th day Of October, 1894. will be delinquent;
and advertised for sale at puhlic notion, and
unless payment as made before. will be sold on
Monday. the Fifth Day of November 1894,
to pay the delinquent assessment together
with the cost of advertising and expenses OF
the sale. Il. b. HOLMES, Secretary.
Otfice-Room 30 Nevada Block. No. 309 Mont
gomery street, san Francisco, California.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10
Haunted

A haunted house in these practical and un-
romantic days is something of a rarity, but an
individual haunted with the idea that his all
ment is incurable is parsonage frequently
met with. Disbelief in the ability of medicine
TO cure is only a mild form of monomania
although in some cases repeted failures to
obtain relief from many different sources
would almost seem to justify the doubt, Hos.
letters stomach Bitters has demonstrated its
ability to overcome dyspepsia, constipation,
liver and kidney trouble malaria complaints
and nervousness, and its recorded achieve
ments in the curative line ought at least to war
rant its trial by any one trouble with either of
the above ailments, even although his previous
efforts to obtain remedial aid have been fruit
less. Used with persistence, the Bitter will con
quer the most obstinate cases.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10
Yeringeon Township Ticket.

The Mason Valley township tick
ct was elected as follows: For JUS
tice of the Peace, w. H. Bottsford
received 81 and f. H. Whitacre,
1856. Bottsford Rep. and Whitacre
Dem. For Constable T. H. Kreisel,
Rep, defeated R. w. Apsey, Ind,
by vote of 1853 to 8.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10
smith valley Township Ticket.

Paul Ames, independent candi.
date for Justice of the Peace, and
W. S. Douglass, Independent can.
didate for Constable, were elected
in Smith Valley. Ames received
25 votes, Douglass, 81.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10
No. 653
Application for a Patent.

U. S LAND OFFICE. CARSON CITY. NEVADA.
October 15 1924.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10
POsTPONEM ENT.

Notice is hereby given that by order of the
the Board of pireetors, the date of delipquen
ev of Assessment No. Is hereby postponed
to the 7th dav of November, 1914, and the day
of sale of delinQuent stock is also hereby post
poned TO the 9th day of November, 1874, at
the same time and place
b. b. HOLMES, Secretary.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10

and the finest mixed and fancy drinks will al
ways be forthcoming upon order fine club
room is at the disposal of parties who wish to
indulge In q social game of cards.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10

The above returns incomplete and unofficial but
y correct that the official count will not change the result for
ddate The official will be made by County
missioners next Monday-the 18th.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10

Hoods Pills cure constipation by restor-
ing peristaltic a ton TO the alimentary canal