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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27

The day was Saturday, SO, although
early. there were a good many in the
saloon; the drayman, agent. lumber
man, grain man, half dozen farmers,
and a couple of chronic loafers. These
looked askance at the newcomer who
entered. He took off his hat-a sun
burned slouch-and addressed the
crowd.
I'm trying to get back east, gentle
men-and my voice is my ticket"
He stared at the nickel fixtures OF
the bar and began to sing. The men
ceased their rueful talk about the
drought, their profanity, hushed, il
seemed, their very breath. For the
voice that rang through the vulgar
little room was rich. pure, vibrant
powerful, mcllowly sweet The song
ended he looked around, but did not
extend the hat he held, waiting to
learn If bis song had pleased his hear
ers
do it again. man urged, un
limbering himself from keg a.
he spoke, land have drink. What
can you sing?"
Anything"
1--WE don't go much on opery here
but we'd like to git some of then
things we read about, like Where die
you git that hat?' an Two little girl,
in blue Kin We sing them?"
The stranger laughed. He sang the
ditties requested. Then some one
asked for Marguerite. Another mar
proposed drink. Various request.
were proffered. The singer sang on
In the appreciation of his listeners b,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27
A MAN OUT OF WORK.

No one saw him step off the passen-
ger train. He must have stolen ride
on the western freight. He walked up
the main street one morning and made
for that Mecca of tramps, the saloon
1t was August. The fury of the hot
winds was blasting the corn, and with
it human hopes. That pitiless wind!
For three weeks it had surged north
ward, an unwearied, scorching, pal
pitant tide, that one fancied exiled
from hell itself. Even at night it did
not rest, but buffeted with soft fierce
ness the hot eyes of desperate men.
The stranger was tall, thin, muscular.
His face was clean-cut, clean-shaven.
His hair, a, ruddy brown, was trimmed
close. His clothes did not fit him.
The trousers were too short The coat
had evidently been made for stouter
man.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27
A SABBATH WAKING.

This morning as lay In bed
Iheard the bells q ringing
The silver chimes across the hills
GLORY to God. we're singing.
My soul leaped up and scared away
With sudden rapture given;
.Ah. poor are earthly aims" cried,
Before the hopes Of Heaven"
Ny easement looked out toward the east;
How still the day was breaking.
The cool, fresh air was In the room.
But not leaf was waking.
The redbird's sudden whistle clear,
A Thousand singers timing
All nature woke; the sun rushed up;
And louder burst the Ginning
Up through the air below, around.
The exultant peals went flowing;
They filled ail space, yet still the sound
Seemed ever, ever growing.
In one divine. ecstatic song.
All living things were meeting;
The woods, the stream, the vale, the hills.
GLORY to God" repeating.
Oh. souls who only look for drossl
Is there no higher caring:
Oh. weary ones. worn out with life,
There's hope for your despairing
Look up! the sun Of righteousness
The mist of death has riven.
GLORY to God" earth Is not all.
Fair as IL is-there's Heaven!
C. Violet NJ Wilson, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27
Market Report.

ut seems to me-" said the man with
the market basket on his arm, looking
discontentedly at the stock of ribs and
shanlSs hanging on the hooks, that
the bony part revival has struck this
shop pretty hard"
Eyes, SIR" replied the man behind
the white apron, cying him sharply,
Its pretty hard to make both ends
meat these days. Chicago Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27
PRAIRIE PICTURES.
TIE CAMPER.

L was not like
most prairie
S c h o o n e r s,
which as a rule
impress one as
being comfort
able and pictur-
esque. In the
first place there
were no chill
Dire n in this
w q g o n, a n q
generally on e
sees little faces
peering fro m
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27

-She--..It must have been an awfu,
storm to blow away the lighthouse"
Cholly-"Terrible, my dear. But it
could only have been through careless.
ness that there was q lighthouse in
such an exposed place. '-Tit-Bits-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27

the medicine TO
build up an6
give strength
al feel thankful
to Hoods Sarsa-
parilla for benefit
derived from it. I
had the grip and
failed to rcgain'
health. / did not
have any appetite
and in fact, was
a mere shadow OF
, myself. / at last
| resorted to Hoods
| sarsaparilla, and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27

Beecham's pills are for bilious
ness, bilious headache, dyspepsia,
heartburn, torpid liver, dizziness,
sick headache. bad taste in the
mouth. coated tongue, loss of.
appetite, salIow skin, ETC., when
caused by constipation and con-
stipation is the most frequent
cause Of all Of them.
Go by the book. Pills Ioc and 2sc a
box. Book FREE at your druggists or
write B. P. Allen Co., 365 Canal Street.
New York.
Annual sales more than s.soo.ooo boxes
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27
Weak and Run Down

After The grip or other serious Illness
ron And Hoods Sarsaparilla exactly
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27

soon began to improve couIu So01 re,,r
without distress in my stomach -FOUR
bottles Of Hoods Sarsaparilla and ooN %
Hoods Pills took away all signs Oh tne GRIP.
want to say to all who suner In = nH !.
manner, take Hoods 6arsapariha, aor -
win surely do you good" GEORGE !" AAI1' -
Green Oak, Michigan.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-27
Hoods SarsaparIIl'

Il the one True Blood Purifier.
Hd,~ Dill, are tasteless milo, eI &c
4 f1OOQ s fIlIS tive. All druggists zoo
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
ROTH FIRED.

It is good news that the lottery busi- ness has received a decided setback. from the new law passed at the last session of congress. The new law ap- pears to really bother the lottery mag mates. Neither the mails nor the ex- press companies will now carry lottery matter, and no way seems to have yet been devised by the lottery sharks to get their tickets and literature to their dupes. The consequence is that the steamer that has been plying monthly between Honduras and Tampa, Flor ida, carrying notices of lottery draw ings and other lottery matter, will make no trip this month, because there is to be no drawing. The lottery swind- lers havesin their employment lawyers who are supposed to be shrewd enough to find way around or through the law, but they have failed to do so so far. It is probable, however, that the business will continue to be car ried on in this country. Strenuous ef- forts will be made to accommodate the thousands who are eagerly waiting for a chance to lose their money, and 1t is doubtful. If in the end the lottery business will suffer serious disaster from the new law.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
CHHAP GAS

Gas will continue to hold it's own with
 electricity if a recent discovery pans out
 as it Is expected to. It has long been
 known to chemists that acetylene was,
 of all substances, the lowest in hydro
 gen and the, richest in carbon, but the cost of its manufacture has been too high to make it profitable for use in illumination. A North Carolina chem ist, while trying to- form an alloy of calcium, by a happy accident discovered a very cheap process for making acety- lene, or rather carbide of calcium, which, by being decomposed in water, yields acetylene, a gas which surpasses all others in Illuminating power. The chemist asserts that a pound of calcium carbide will yield 53 cubic feet of gas and can be manufactured for $5 ton. If this is true it would bring the cost of gas so low that it could be sold at about five cents thousand feet. He further says that '1t can be sold in liquid form in cans for country houses, or even generated on the spot for fndi- vidual lights" The power of the gas is so great that a burner letting out but one foot an hour "gives a flame of fifty candle-power, with only one-half the heating power of common gas" With the present gas a common burner will give out a flame of from twelve to six teen candle-power, and if the new gas Is what it is said to be the discovery Is one of vast importance and value.
 Gas at five cents a thousand feet will be cheap enough.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
SAD.

1 Minnie-I wonder if there is any truth
 in this theory that tobacco will kill
 microbes? Mamie-Of course not, Charlie Litewayte has been smoking a pipe for more than year.-Indianapo lis Journal.
 Little Dot-What does ''height of the ridiculous" mean? Little Dick-The height of the ridiculous is mamma cleaning house again, when she cleaned It from top to bottom only a year ago. Good News.
 The Practical Side.-Ramb1er-O minister has received call from some where else at more money, and under stand he has been home two days pray ing for guidance. Castleton-What does his wife think about 1t? Rambler--Oh! she's packing up.-Puck.
 Binks-Spealsing of heredity, do you remember Forester, who bought some wild land and turned 1t into a farm? Winks-Yes, he was the inventor of a very effective stump puller Binks-- Just so- Well, hls son is a very suc- cessful dentist.-Oakland (Cal) Times.
 "If it be true that he laughs best who laughs last" says philosopher, 'the Englishman must be the best laugher, for" the philosopher adds, "experience teaches the observer that the English man does not begin to laugh at a joke until every one else has forgotten it, Harper's Bazaar.
 Villainy Unveiled -Younglove-My dear, the sbank cashier informs me that you have overdrawn your account. Mrs Younglove-He does2 The villainl George, see here! There, now; only five checks used, and my book nearly full! The miserable, dishonest scoun- drel.--Harlem Life.
 Lord Rittles-It's we'll enough for you Americans to joke about us Englishmen never being able to appreciate one of your jokes. But I smile; for I can re- taliate that have never met an Ameri- cam who could understand one of ours, Petersbe (thoughtfully)-Yo are right you have us there!-Life.
 A Perfect Treasure.-Tom-I have seen the girl I want to marry. I stood behind her at the window this morning, and it took her seven minutes to buy a five-cent elevated-railroad ticket. Kit ty--Did that make you want to marry her? Tom-Yes; I figured she could never spend my income at that rate.- Brooklyn Life.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
A Male Malaprop.

Twenty years ago one of the sights
 which amused visitors 10 St. Georges
 chapel, Windsor, Eng, was Wise, the
 sexton. He was a MT. Malaprop, with an affection for long words whose forms were changed. and high-sounding phrases, which he invariably misplaced. Sir George J. Elvey, the organist of the chapel, relates several of these mala- propisms in his Life and Reminis- cences' One day, clergyman, hurry ing into the nave of St. Georges just before afternoon service, remarked that he had walked all the way from Bish- opsgate in less than an hour. "Well," replied Wise, 'you must be good Pres byterian, then!" The poor fellow meant pedestrian. Seeing Dean Wellesley taking a constitutional out side of the chapel, the sexton said to a by -stander: Look at the dean a-pro- pogating up and down them stepaw "My favorite paper" said he, lis the Liberated QlIustrateO News" Wise got it into his head that the chapel be- longed to him, and that no one had a right to see 1t without paying him a fee. 'It doesn't matter" said he on one occasion, "who it is. Nobody-not even MT. Dean himself-can't go in the chap el without first insulting (consulting) me-" So far did he carry out his ideas of ownership that at last 1t was or dered by the authorities that no fees should be given for seeing the chapel Tit-Bits.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
A Kurdish Aristocrat.

A very fine specimen of the Kurdish
 brigand named Khallo,of the Belektsee orBelelelee tribe, has a family composed of ffty-seven- persons, who live in the lap Of luxury and feed on the fat of the land; and as they are too dignified to do any work they keep-twenty servants. They have no corn fields, agriculture, no anything but dirty Arab steeds of their own. The Armenians must pro- vide the rest. Tn spring Khallo sum- mons his dependents and despatches them on series of predatory expedi- tions. They risk their lives, drive off herds of Armenian sheep. oxen, horses, seize upon carpets and money, violate women and girls, and return home al- ways laden with booty and sometimes reduced in numbers. It is not long since Turkish soldiers came and, under compulsion of the central government, forced one of the Hassnantsy chieftains to restore 5000 sheep, after which he remained very weathy man, as before, and is now flourishing. If an Armenian were ill-advised enough to refuse any, thing to Kurd. he would soon be taughta lesson the recollection of which would hinder him from repeating the corn would perish in flames, his cattle would be raided, his sheep driven away, andvery probably he him. self would be wiped out of existence. The examples illustrative of this meth cd of procedure which have noted down with names and dates would fill a volume.-London Telegraph.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26

and not a corruption at all. It never was anything but Welsh-rabbit, and in its genesis 1t was essentially a slang term, yet, by reason of its long habitude in the language, 1t has lost or outgrown what might be called the coarseness Of its origin, and is now entitled to place in the accepted vocabulary without any apology or fanciful explanation. In proof of this may cite other examples, notably"--
 Wendell" interrupted the mother of the little Boston boy, you weary the lady with your chatter. Run outlnow and play awhile. ."-Toledo Blade.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
A Cats Strange Revenge.

Blossom is a big gray cat She has
 been in the family for seven years, and
 her mistress thinks she was fully ten
 when she came uninvited and took pos session. Her charms made her well
 come, and visitors, as a rule, pet her
 to her hearts satisfaction. Still she shows her loyalty to her mistress by many feline felicities. One day a young man came for a short visit. He was an inveterate tease. As there was no one else for a victim he took Blossom in hand, in spite of pleadings and protes- tations, Her ears were greeted with the strange terms, "Old rascal, "Scape- grace" Tramp" and kindred names, till the astounded cat did not know what had come to her. Her pretty ways disappeared, she fled from his ap- preach, and hid whenever he could till he was out of the house. One morn ing she was missing for some hours and could not be found in any of her hiding places, A loud cry from the chambermaid revealed her where abouts Blossom had revenged herself O4A lliS NASllOlS lll1Il-SIliItb WllASlA AebJ All tatters on the floor. Pussy was scolded and every one was cautioned to keep the door shut In vainl The cat would find her way in and hide till the cham bermaid was through for the day, and then the claws went to work, first on the visitors own clothes if any could be found, and then on the pillow cases. The young man tried'to soothe her feel ing but she would have none of him, and he was glad to cut short his visit. Blossom quickly recovered her demean- or, and has never been known to des- troy anything from that day to- t1is.- Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
The Boaton Box Ernlnins.

"Apropos of the peculiarly American tendency to explain things" he was saying, "there occurs to my mind the attempt sometimes made to account for the derivation of the compound word Welsh-rabbit. regret to notice that Webster falls into the common error of considering the word rabbit a corrup- tion of rarebit. Now, as shown by lex icopraphers who have had the advan- tage of a technical acquaintance with facts relating to the origin of the word, Welsh-rabbit is merely a slang term
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26

work was absent. In fact, nothing Is more remarkable than the sustained uniformity of the whole series of the cartoons. The earliest do not seem im- mature, nor do the latest betray any abatement of artistic or intellectual viz or. The Tenniel of to-day is the Ten niel of 1851, never vulgar, nor trivial, nor malicious, but prompt to seize upon the event of the day and to present 1t with combined truth and humor. For the rest we need not repeat the well worn truisms as to the use and abuse of conventions and congregations in car- feature. Palmerston with the straw that he never chewed, Bright with the eye-glass that he never wore, and the other great men of the past are old friends, whom one cannot see too often, But they are not here. These are orig inal cartoons, saved from the destroy ing but perpetuating engraver by the process that now enables the original drawing to be transferred photograph ically to the wood. They are conse- quently recent, and in most of them MT. Gladstone is the central figure. Since Mir. Gladstone's retirement, except for the famous "Who said-Atrocites? car- toon, MT. Punch has had no reason to lament the want of "a few statesmen with prominent features"
 It may be that the newer cartoons are less entertaining than the old. Time, no doubt, will give them an added in- terest; but in any case we must not blame the artist if the statesmen of to- day cannot tread the political stage as or as plcturesquely as their predeoessors- s-London Times,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
Advertising Rates.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small ad- yertisements, One Cent a Word eaohd tion, Five cents word for q full week (seven times),
 Display Advertisements-Per inch, ono in- sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion, 70 cents; one week, S3.20; one month, $10; one year, $40.
 Obituary notices. in prose or verge. .s16 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 6o cents each. Local notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (all matter to be unob1ec- tionablel, and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Discounts-On two Inches or more, one or more, one month m and over. 15 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26

waist and long limbs means tall wo- man. All this means, however that such waist should not be worn with a short skirt, or with one that Is not cut with the distinctly long back sweep.
 The should nots" are well observed in the costume shown to-day, and in this instance only'a slight overhang at the belt is needed. The front Is of black mousseline de soie heavily trimmed with bands and yoke of black jet, in addi- tion to several black satin bows. Like bows also drape the sleeves. The pan iers at the side and the belt are of black satin, the former edged with jet and ending in bows. Skirt and sleeves are taken from nile green and pink shot silk figured with black
 Lovely house gows are made of white chiffon over pale silk. The silk is mere ly a princess slip, and the chiffon falls full from the neck in the back. A wide silk sash belt confines it at the waist in back, while in front it hangs straight and full from shoulder seams to hem. A high stock of chiffon with a fall of chiffon frills half wells the silk immediately in front. The general effect is charmingly foamy and dainty, and a slender figure is well set off by the suggested princess lines under the chiffon. White chiffon and pale vel low silk make up charmingly in this way. FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
ALucIsy Escape.

Hoppner, the gamekeeper, arrived home from the inn at four a. m. He was in the act of undressing when his wife awoke and said:
 My goodness, daddy. are you going out into the woods again? Just think a bit of your health and your wife and children! You might stay at home for once in a while"
 "Ay, perhaps you are-right, old wom- anP' said Hoppner. 'IAdare say I had better lie down again." Whereupon he ,doffed his clothes and crept between-the blankets.-D Drullig ,Papagei.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26
TenpieI, the English Cartoonist

The Punch cartoons, about ITO, in number, which are nowsto be seen at the Fine Arts societys rooms in New Bond street, illustrate more than any thing else the unique position occupied by Sir John Tenniel. It would be su- perfuous to point out all the world knows, the excellence of his drawing and it's perfect adaptation to its pur- pose. Almost all that can be said in the way of praise or criticism has been said already, many times over. Sir J.. Tenniel does, indeed, hold position by himself among contemporary artists, but this is due, not only to the absolute merit of his work, but partly to it's long and steady continuance for many years at the same high level.
 Qualis alb incepto might very well be his motto. It is more than forty years since he joined the staff of Punch, and for nearly the whole of that time he has so regularly and unfailingly pro- duced the weekly cartoon that we do not remember more than one number r7inss1 S94 esNef 49el eYeawfEQ chsshis
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26

Al one-page letter from Bloody Mary" to the Queen of Hungary brought $735 at sale of autographs in London late ly. Letters of Henry VIII to the Em- peror Charles V. and of Queen Henrietta Maria of England to her brother Gas ton, Duke of Orleans, sold for $5S each; one of oliver Goldsmith to Bishop Per cy for $1OO; of Shelley to Goodwin for $92; a,letter by Keats, $57; by Nelson, $71; by Marlborough, $65; by the great Earl ofsChatham, $65, and one by Paul veronese, signed with his real name, Paolo CagIiari, $1S2.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26

Investigations made in Ohio show that the weight of 100 cubic feet of natural gas may be set down at 4,2S7 pounds; it is composed of 1,O27 pounds of hydro gen and 3,215 pounds of carbon; re- quires for dts perfect combustion 969 3-10 cubic feetsof air, weighing 74,561 pounds; 1t makes in burning 9,64S pounds of steam and 11,7SS pounds of carbonic acid, equal to 100, and produces 94598 heat units when the steam is not con- densed
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26

Apupi1dn an English boarding school recently wrote the following compost tion on Sir Walter Raleighs "Sir Wal ter Raleigh was very great man. He went overAand discovered America; and Pwhentte had discovered America he dis covered Virginia. He discovered the potato. And when he had discovered the potato, he discovered tobacco. And when he had discovered tobacco, he tu1nedatollis companions and said, My Friends, be of good cheer, for we have this day in England lit such a flame as I trllst'by Gods grace shall never be ex- tinguished.'" '"