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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-03-23

out to walk. The Indians followed him
quietly enough. There was no pistol
practice. no fiourishing of knives.
What had happened the night before
was quite enough.
Black Jack was in no hurry. He said
he could wait as long as the mayor
could, and he was much obliged for the
freedom of the town. He and all his
gang thought the whole affair most
amusing. They drank and sang and
told stories and riotcd gloriously. In
the afternoon, as have said, they pa
raded the town, and again in the even
ing. If any head or foot was seen
without, bullet went flying after it
and it quickly disappeared. Nobody
was hurt, believe; but that was not
the deliberate fault of Black Jack, by
any means
How long this might have lasted I
do not know. Black Jack said he had
come there to live, if need be, and he
would keep the whole town shut up
as long as the mayor kept the Hawk
shut up. Monday morning came and
the thrifty farmers and shopkeepers
were exceedingly anxious to begin
business. Dozens started out, but,
being greeted by bullet or the flash
of an Indian knife or grimly humor-
GUS Indian smile, they retired pre-
cipitately. Monday was a fierce day.
The inhabitants were getting very
wrathful at their long restraint, and
Black Jack was grimly obstinate and
decided. BY Monday night feeling ran
high. Everybody was ready for fight,
the town most of ALL But there could
be no meetings, no consultation, no
gathering together; for Black Jacks
bullets We're ready for anyone who at
tempted to go to his neighbor. People
had been escaping from the town,
however, one at a time, unobserved;
and little company with rifles at last
bore heavily down upon the besiegers.
There was hot, heavy fight. One or
two were killed on either side. Then
the Hawk suddenly appeared, having
escaped from his prison. Thereupon
Black Jack declared himself ready to
accept a humble apology from the
mayor and withdraw. The mayor
gave it, and Black Jack and his conn
panions rode away. i may add that
they did not return again. But there
was great joke over the plains about
Black Jack having the freedom of Red
Cloud for three days,-N. Y. Inde-
pendent.
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victims of Wild Animals In India.

Ferocious as the rogue elephant ap
pears to be, its record as man-killer is
far below that of other animals in In
Ola. Thus in India, in 1875, the tigers
Killed SIS persons and 12,423 domestic
eninals; wolves killed LOCI persons;
lcopards, Isl persons and 16, l57 domes-
tic animals; while the elephant is
charged with but 81 persons killed and
six domestic animals. Rogue tigers,
wolves and leopards are far more to be
dreaded than rogue elephants.--C. L.
Holder, in St Nicholas
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SELLS SLAVE GIRLS.
How the Corean Queen sustsins Her Royal
Purse.


There are slave girls innumerable
around the royal palaces of the hermit
kingdom of Corea. 1t is difficult to
find out how many there are. One
official would say hundreds, another
thousands. A consul, who has had OPP
portunity to learn the facts in the case,
says there are about fifteen hundred.
1t is equally difficult to learn where
they come from. Their appearance
shows that they are not from any one
stock. Some are Coreans and some are
Tonghalss, from Guing-Shang-Do, in
the south of the kingdom; some show
Japanese blood, others Chinese, and
still others Manchurian. They are of
all sorts and types. All speak Corean,
and nearly all have q smattering OF
Chinese. They are all we'll brought UP
and quiet, polite and Industrious. They
begin their career as domestic sery-
dom found in the royal establishment
after they are twenty-five years old. A
few, who are unusually good-looking,
become royal concubines, and large
number are taken for the same purpose
by the princes and lords of the realm
and, it is said, for a very large price.
The rest are sold as commodities tc
the highest bidder and the proceeds
paid into the royal treasury.
The latest available blue book OF
Corca--in summarizing the royal in
com e, includes these entries:
"Ninety-one Thousand nine hundred
and sevente stone of best rice.
"Forty-one thousand four hundred
and eighty-four stone of beans.
''One hundred and seventy-two thou
sand seven hundred and thirteen n.y.
ang in money.
"Tw enty-four thousand nyang from
sale of slave girls"
A nyang is string of one hundred
copper coins, w hose value in American
money ranges from five hundred to one
thousand to the dollar. The market
value of girl in Corea varies from ten
dollars to forty dollars Upon these
figures the monarch must raise and sell
in the public market every year from
thirty to four hundred young women.
The general average would be about two
hundred per year. The custom is not
so bad as it seems at first sight The
majority are purchased by men for
their wives, and small minority for
immoral purposes.
This trade in human beings is consid
cred perfectly legitimate, and has
come down from time immemorial. II
is not confined to the royal palace, but
it is practiced to certain extent all
over Ccrea.. The custom is followed
likewise in China, and seems to char.
acterize nearly every Mongolian race.
-Philadelchia Press.
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1t is not clear that the letter carriers
we're regularly employed before 1853,
when tradition tells us that Benjamin
Franklin, the new postmaster-general,
employed them in Philadelphia, and
possibly in New York. The earliest
evidence ! have is of 1762, when the
Philadelphia postmaster advertised
that his hoy" had run away, and that
patrons must call for their letters at
the post Office. The Postal Journal of
Hugh Finlay, storehouse of sound in
formation, tells us that Boston had no
letter carrier in 177s. OF New York,
he says that ''soon after the arrival of
a mail the letters are quickly deliv-
cred by a runner" which means mes
senger or letter carrier. Postal Record.
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A Maine school-teacher, much dis
turbed in mind, reports that one of her
pupils, small boy of no particular
distinction, when asked recently to
define the word imam, retired into his
inner consciousness for a moment and
then spoke these words: Mana
living being, unfortunate enough to
know it." Vigorous questioning as to
whence he had plucked carnation so
peculiarly, arsenically green, failed to
elicit any other response than II just
made it up" If he told the truth, and
did lust make it up" the teacher is
right in thinking the eventa potentous
one.-N, Y. Times.
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GOLDEN
MEDICAL
DISCOVERY

Many years ago DR.. r. v. Pierce, chief
consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y, COM
pounded this medicine of vegetable ingredi-
ents which had an especial effect upon the
stomach and liver, rousing the organs to
healthft1l activity as we'll as purifying and
enricfing the blood. By such means the
stomach and the nerves are supplied with
pure blood; they will not do duty without II
any more than locomotive can run with
ont coal You can not get lasting cure Of
Dyspepsia, or Indigestion, by taking arti-
hcially digested foods or pepsin--the stom-
ach must do its own work in its own way.
Do not put your nerves to sleep with so.
called celery mixtures, it is better to go 10
the seat of the difficulty and feed the nerve
cells on the food they require. Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Biliousness and Nervous Al
fections, such as sleeplessness and weak,
nervous feelings are completely cured BY
the Discovery" 1t puts en- healthy flesh,
brings refreshing sleep and invigorates the
whole system.
Mrs. X. HExKE, Of No 500 No,fh Halffed ST.,
Chirneo M writes: II regard my improve
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THERE is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until thelast few years was sup
years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced itincurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney Il Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. 1t is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address, F. ]. CHENEY q Co., Toledo, O.
cY- Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, Is cents.
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An Interesting Interview With = Promi'
nent Commercial Traveller.

The newsgathercr on his daily search for
items Of interest often comes across happen
ings of more than passing note. 1t was dur
ing q recent conversation with Mr.. A. H.
Cransby, the well-known commercial trav-
eller, with the Cochran Lumber Company,
that reporter of the Commercial learned of
q wonderful case. Mr.. Cransby is well
known in Memphis and surrounding coun-
try, and now resides at 158 Kerr street.
hJust ten years ago." said he, my wife
noticed a small lump In her breast. She
thought nothing of it, but it increased in
size rapidly, and soon broke through the
skin, and commenced to discharge She
was put under treatment of the best physi-
clans, but they very soon found that they
could do her no good, and simply prescribed
autiseptics to keep the place clean. Both
her grandmother and aunt, by the way, had
fact, the doctors told me that they would
not attempt to save her; that she was in
curable Although the cancer had by this
time become deep seated, and her health
very low, 1 had one of the most noted spe-
cialists of New York to treat her. After
treating her awhile, this doctor admitted
that the case was hopeless and further
treatment useless 1t is difficult to imagine
how Respondent we all became, knowing
that she must die, and unable to give her
any relief. had spent over five hundred
dollars with the best medical skill to be had,
anu l6lt lu8G tilcIo was III 1uItiCE uOpc.
zone day happened to read an advertise
ment OF S. s. s., recommending that remedy
for cancer, and in view of the failure of the
most eminent ply sicians in the country,
confess had little faith left in any human
agency. However, purchased bottle of
8. 8. s., and to my delight, it seemed to ben
eft her; after she had taken q couple of
bottles, the cancer began to heal, and aston
ishing as it may seem, few bottles more
cured her entirely. You can probably bet
ter understand how remarkable this cure
was, when explain that the cancer had
eaten two holes in the breast two inches
Deep These healed up entirely, and 81
though ten years have elapsed, not sign Of
the disease has ever returned, and we are
assured Of the permanence OF the cure
which we at first doubted.
~ certainly regard s. 8. s. as the most
wonderful remedy in the world, and it is
truly God-send to those afflicted with this
terrible disease Yes SIR" he concluded,
"you may be sure that shall always be
grateful to that remedy, for without it my
home would now be desolate and my chill
dren motherless. Memphis, Tenn, Com
nlcrcidl.
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PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

-"Ah, half de wurr lives by pullin'
de othah halls laigs," sighed Uncle
Kiah, as he softly reached for the mid
night hcn.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
-Tough-"I want dozen eggs an
/ wants 'em bad, see?' Go to that
grocer across the street Everything
he keeps il bad."-Philadelphia In
quirer.
Better Unsaid. Young Lady latter
sitting for her portrait)-"Don't you
think am fattered in the picturc?'
Gent Observation-Disclosures, who
would not flatter observation-disclosures
Batter
Breaking In.-'There's more'n one
way to get into good society,"" NUT
tered the midnight marauder, softly
raising the pantry window of a Prairie
avenue mansion and crawling inside
Chicago Tribune.
-'I'm going to call M baby Charles, !"
said the author, latter Lamb. because
he is such dear little lamb" 30, I'd
call him William Dean" said the friend;
''he Howells so much. Advance.
Mrs. Enpec-'T can't understand
how a man can love a woman who has
a physical deformity; can you?" Enpec
10, don't know; shouldn't think
less of woman who was tongue-tied."
p. & s. S. Coz Bulletin.
THE thing that Bicycles lacks is
sincerity" remarked the self-appointed
critic of mankind. "What makes you
say that?n sHe made resolution to
quit swearing and bought a fountain
pen on the same day. "--WashingtonS Star.
-Preacher-"Every man must some
day settle his account with his Maker"
Tailor-'1 wish you could impress Mr..
Palmer with that idea He hasn't set
tied with me in about two years. -
Harlem Life.
TIT is wonderful what progress has
been made in the way of machinery"
remarked Mr.. Figg. 81 see that there
has been a machine invented that can
make a complete pair of shoes in six
teen minutes. Why, that is even faster
than Tommy can wear them out. -
indianapolis Journal.
Mistress (fnding visitor in lxitchen)
-''Who is this, Mary?" Mary ICON
fused)-"My brother, MN" Mistress
(suspiciously) You're not much
alike" Mary (stammering APOLOGIZE
cally)-"We were, MN, but he's just
had his beard shaved off, and that
makes him look quite different. nm"
-Tit-Bits.
Lady ito her husband)-sI am
growing so fat that am beginning to
feel quite alarmed about it. have
just discovered that l weigh 24O
pounds" 1.-Two hundred and forty
pounds! And where did you get
weighed?" ION the butchers scales"
20, then, calm YOURSELF You weigh
exactly half"-Le Figaro.
Sir George-''Look here, John! My
lady complains that when you see her
in the street you never salute her.
What do you mean by it?" John
Begin your pardon, Sir George, but
in book on ettyketty, which l pos
sess, it is set down that the lady ought
to bow first. "-Household Words.
Notes from the Diary of Lady,
First dayton the high seas; stormy
weather; disagreeable company. Sec
ond day-Captain very amiable; made
a declaration of love and offered me
his heart and hand; rejected. Third
day-Captain returns to the charge,
threatens to kill me. commit suicide,
and blow up the whole vessel with
three hundred persons; rejected.
Fourth day-Saved the lives of three
hundred persons.-Tit- Bits.
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m emit S sim ply
wonderful. Since
taking DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Dis
covery in connection
with his Pleasant
Pellets I have gain
ed in every respect,
particularly in flesh
and strength. My
liver was dreadfully
enlarged and I SUI
fered greatly from
dyspepsia. No ply
stefan could give
relief.
Now. after two
months I am entire
ly relieve>i Of my
disease. My appe-
tite is excellent ;
food well digested ;
much improved"
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A Profitable Appe.lrer

Friend-What's your hurry?
Modern Compassionate finished =
new opera, and am fastening down to
the De Fashion theater TO have the
manager produce it.
Think he will accept it?'
''0f course
lyon seem very confident
Il am He owns the saloon next
door to the theater, doesn't hep,
s'Yes."
"W@llmy new opera has fifteen drini;-
ng SONGS in it.'-E. X. Weekly
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sIsEs." said Mrs. wickwirc, s'that two
million boxes of oranges were frozen on the
trees in Florida. l don't understand it.
"Don't understand itH' echoed Mr.. Wick
wire. 1.-THE statement is plain enough
ayes, but do they grow in boxes on the
observation-disclosures Journal.
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dawned on one of Black Jacks com
panions.
"The mayors yanlsed himi'' he cried
suddenly, stopping still you hearn
about the order, didn't you?"
The Indians heard in blank, drunken
stupidity. But Black Jacks eyes grew
darker, his face twitched angrily, and
everybody trembled to see him.
"Yanked him?" he cried, after a mo-
ment's pause-''yanked him? Well,
boys, just step inside and liquor up on
me, and then well do the town up if
they don't turn the Hawk out in short
order"
The whole company of ten or dozen,
half Indians, trooped into the saloon
and took whisky straight, in no small
doses, all around. Then they grimly
followed Black Jack as he went out on
to the street. He stopped in the mid
die of the little square where the post
Office was; and called out. mostly in
oaths, unnecessary to repeat:
You mayor, you, you bring that In
dian out here in less time than it takes
me to say it, you, or III blow your
head off,
He had big voice, and nearly every
body in the village heard him say it.
Heads were stuck out of the windows,
forms appeared at the doors, and every
eye was agog. Gradually the windows
were closed in fear, the doors barred,
and every head had disappeared. That
made Black Jack all the madden. He
fred his revolver about at random at
every streak of light that came through
an unlucly shutter; his Indians began
to yell and flourish their knives in a
worse drunken orgy than they had
ever held before, and Black Jack
breahthed forth the direst threats he
could conjure up.
The whole town was thoroughly
frightened. Black Jack and his cow
boys soon began to see the humor of
the situation, and with many laugh
and much to drink held high carnival
throughout the town until the wee
small hours of the morning Sunday
morning-when they succumbed to
sleep on the curbstones, on front door
steps, in the vestibules of the churches
which they had broken open-one here,
one there, from one end of the town to
the other.
Sunday morning was clear, warm,
beautiful, and the whole population,
including the cowboys, slept peacefully
until quite late. Here and there man
ventured out; but the sight of one of
the gang lying not too sound asleep
right under his feet sent him back into
the house again. About nine or ten
o'clock the gang began to wake up and
wander into the saloon for something
to quench their burning thirst. The
church bells had not been rung until
the gang noticed the omission and did
the ringing in wild, bacchanalian
fashion. Black Jack laughed at the
power he suddenly discovered to be his,
and lounged and smoked and called out
now and then in derision to the mayor
to turn over the Hawk.
When he had had breakfast, and had
recovered from his dissipation of the
night before somewhat, that is, about
two o'clock in the afternoon, he went
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so fat that liam beginning to teel quite
alarmed about it. l have Just discovered
that I weigh two hundred and forty
pounds" ssrwohhndrcd and forty pounds
And where did you get weigheds' "On the
butchers scales" s'Oh, then, calm your
self. You.weigh exactly half. lie Figaro.
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H f X Z are a
great m a n y
ideas ahoat as
to the sort of
people that in
habit the prai-
ries OF. the far
we t. Som e
think they are
all cowboys
a nd wild In
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-03-23

Mrs. McBRIDE-"John, dear, why are
some grocers called green grocers!" Mr..
McBride-sTo distinguish them from cash
grocers, darling. Vogue.
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end fevers is TO use the LIQUID laxative rem.
tdy Syrup Of Figs, whenever the system
needs gentle, yet effective cleansing. To
be benefited one must get the true remedy
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co: only. For sale by all druggists in SIC.
and 81 bottles.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-03-23

PLEASANT, Wholesome, Speedy, for coughs
Is Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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UP IN ARMs-the Philadelphia
Record.
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Mrs. X. HENKE, Of No 500 Novfh Haisfed ST.,
Gtiraeo NJ. writes: ~ regard my improve
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ANIMALS IN WINTER.

Information Not Happy state-The Rab.
bits Alone Fare Well.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-26
Foreign News.

London. Nov 25-Nothing is known
at the colonial Office here of the alleged
statements of the administration OF
British Guiana, that the imperial gov
eminent is prepared to assert its rights
by arms. News reached here some days
ago that the legislature Of that colony
had acquisced to the proposal of the
secretary Cor the colonies, Mr.. Cham
berlain, to increase the colonial force by
two inspectors and another Nahum
gun, the legislature also notifying the
government that it is prepared to vote
anything the colonial secretary consid-
cred necessary for the defense of the
colony. No further proposal, however,
has been made by the imperial govern
ment. There has been no change in the
boundary dispute, and the government,
1t is now added, will not tolerate Vene-
zuelan aggression beyond the Schom-
berg line. Otherwise, IL IS stated that
the warlike statements printed in GER
tain. newspapers are not founded on
facts.
London, Nov 25.-In an interview
with DR.. Barnado, the protector Of the
well known Barnado homes for chill
dren, in regard to the statements made
at Toronto regarding the death Of the
lad, Greene, as alleged, from ill-treat-
ment, DR.. Barnado denied that Greene
was weak minded and said that on the
contrary he was thoroughly healthy
and intelligent. DR.. Barnado added
that all the boys were carefully selected
and subjected to a searching examina-
ton before they Were allawed to depart
from the institution.
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CONNECTIONS.

No. 1--Connects at Burton. Kan.
with A T. & s. + FOR points Ia Kansas.
Has reclining chair cars tseata fre~l.
aud Pullman drawing room sleepers 20
Burton, Kan.
No. 2-Connects az Monette for points
IN Arkansas. Indian territory and
Texas. Connects at Grand Union
Station. ST. Louis. with all lines for
the east. north apd southeast. Has
reclining chair cars t~eats free and
Pullman drawing room s!espsrs 10 81.
Louis.
No. 3.-connects al Burton with A.
T. & S. r. for all points wreat and north-
west Has reclining chair cars tsexis
fre~D Pullman drawing room sle~pers
to Burton. Through Pullman sleep
ers Burton 20 Los Angeles. Fan Diego
and san Fronci&co. ON Sundays has
Pullman sleepers through 20 Los An
geles without change.
No. 4-Conaects a. Monette for point.
IN Arkansas and Texas. Connects At
81. Louis Grand Union Station with ali
lines for the east. north and southeast
Has reclining chair cars tseztz ffeeD
and Pullman drawing room s3sepsrs To
st Louis
Through tickets on sale % AL points.
For further Information call upon or
address TAGG 4 CARNEY.
Cstf Ticket AzsntA
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THE WEATHER.
Wichita. Nov. 3

Local forecast for Wichita and vicinity
Fair, colder Tuesday; rising temperature
Wednesday.
During the past twenty-four hours the
highest temperature was q degrees, the
lowest "a degrees, and the mean 20 degrees,
with one-tenth of an inch of snow, the
first of the season. in the middle of the
day, high barometer and a cold north
wind. The snow, when melted, gave OF
inch of water.
The rain and sleet Sunday gave 10 inch
of water.
Thus far this month the average tenn
perature has been - degrees.
For the past seven years the average
temperature for the month Of November
has been 43 degrees. and for the 18th day AZ
degrees. "A FRED l.. JOHNSON,