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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
THE FIRST STAGE COACH.
e Ran Once q Month Between LOud
~ and Edinburgh. 80

e Ran Once q Month Between London
and Edinburgh. 49,
The first stage coach between the
two capitals, London and Edinburgh,
appears to have been started in 1855
1t ran once a fortnight, and the fare
was "a. The time taken to the journey
is not accurately known; but between
York and London it was four days
This lavish system of communication
was not, however. kept mp, as, in 1853,
the coach ran between London and
Edinburgh once month only, taking a
fortnight, if the weather was favorable,
to the journey.
In the days of stage coaches, people
sometimes dubbed together and hired
a post chaise for their journey, as being
quicker and less expensive, and. Scot
fish newspapers occasionally contained
advertisements to the effect that per-
son about to proceed to London would
be glad to hearof q fellow '.adventurer"
or two bent on the same journey, to
share the expense.
IL LOT nCiOiS ChoEe was mdue 10
improve the London and Edinburgh
coach The Edinburgh Courant for
that year contained the following adj
vertisement: THE Edinburgh Stage
coach, for the better accommodation of
passengers, will be altered to New
Gentee1 Two-end Glass Coach Machine,
being on steel springs, exceeding light
and easy, to go in ten days in summer
and twelve in winter; to set out the
first Tuesday in March, and continue it
from Hosea Eastgate's, the Coach and
Horses, in Dean street. Soho. London;
and from John Somerville's, in the
Canongate, Edinburgh, etc. Passengers
to pay as usual. Performed, If God
permits, by your dutiful servant, Hosee
Eastgate. Chambers journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
For the Lips.

Unlovely lips come from an unhealthy
stomach. Bad digestion will often as
sert itself in broken or chapped lips.
sores in the corners of the mouth,
fever blisters and coated tongue.
Chronic sore mouths should be rubbed
with sweet oil or pure glycerine at
night; in the morning wash with a
solution of alum or borax-a teaspoon
full in tumbler of water. Camphor
ice is both healing and cleansing.
Good cold ice is not bad salve. The
receipt is simple enough, but it doesn't
pay to prepare it, all the druggists
have supplies and cheerfully dispense
five-cent quantities. Citrou ointment
is on. of the old reliable lip salves kept
by all chemists. 1t is applied to the
sore with a soft linen cloth. When the
mouth is sore the diet should be changed
to vegetable foods--N. Y. World
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
PuNcENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Schoodic, the name OF Maine lake,
signifies ''Place Where the Water
BUSHES"
THAT lady over there? o, yes, she
is very clever. She has mastered three
languages and her husband File
gende Batter
-She-"Col Firstnite considers him
self such critic that he never smiles
during performances. ,He-"But you
should see him between the acts
Brooklyn Life.
-Baron-'.I am going to get married.
What do you say to that, John?" John
-"Delighted; always believed would
get back the money lent you" File
gende Batter.
He doesn't behave as if he be.
longed to the best society,"" said one
young woman. No. replied the other;
The behaves as if the best society be-
longed to him. Washington Star.
"A Leading Question. Young Tut,
ter-''What we want in our society,
Miss Maude, are brains, brains" Miss
Summit-''But how are you going to
supply them?'-Vogue.
--Tom-"You look awful blue.
suppose it's because of Miss Maybelle's
having rejected you" Cholly-'.Yes.
can't help feeling sorry for the poor
girl. Chicago Record.
did l understand you to say that
Thompson was farmer?r Good
gracious, no! I said he made his money
in wheat. You never heard of far
mer doing that, did you?"-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
New Yorker (sneeringly) = 81
thought you were going to have an
elevated road in Boston," Hubb True
Blue-"We have lots of them; in fact,
everything about Boston is elevated"
Boston Courier.
-Criticus-"Poor CUTLER was never
very successful as playwright" Cyni-
cus-"Ah, well, he left one great bur
lesque behind him when he died" Crit
icus-"What was that?" Cynicus-s'The
World"
Mrs. Watts-'.Isn't it in Turkey
that a woman is not allowed to see her
husband until the day of the wedding?"
Mrs. Potts-"I don't remember. but
anyway it is not much worse than the
American way of seeing so little of him
after marriage. Indianapolis Journal.
-Clergyman-"And what would you
like to give me for PRESENT." Tommy
Yorick-"A photograph, SIR" Clergy
MANA photograph? Why that,
Tommy Tommy Yorick-"Because
pa says you love the sound of your own
voice. Topical Times.
Gus De Smith-"Jones' wife died
only two weeks ago. and the heartless
wretch is off to Germany on pleasure
trip" Gus Snoberly-''Don't be too
hasty in condemning him. Perhaps he
feels so bad and is in such deep mourn
ing that he will spend most of his time
in the Black Forest. Texas Siftings.
Little Roger had gone to the coun-
try for the first time, and his grand
father had taken him out to see the
colt. There, Roger" said the old gem
tleman, did you ever see such little
horse as that?" Roger never had and
his eyes shone; but there was one draw
back. Whats the matter with him,
grandpa?" he said. "He hasn't any
rockers. "-Pittsburg Bulletin
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
The Last Straw.

Once upon time Camel, belated
far from home, applied for lodging at
weyside inn.
20, certainlyr' the landlord declared:
here is a bed that will cost you but
ten cents, all to yourself"
Much pleased, the Camel retired to
rest.
With the break of dawn he called his
host; and, having remunerated him,
pointed to the couch. saying:
'If any one should ask you, tell him
that is the straw which broke the
CameI's back"
Thereat he moved away, evincine
much bodily distress.-Puck.
Sure Thing.
Hal" gasped the murderer, in sud
den fear. 1.-The blood-stained garments
Where shall put them that they may
be lost forever?'
He paced the floor in agony.
Il have it, he cried at last.
Tr;umphantly marking his initials
on the clothing in large indelible type
and wrapping it in paper, upon which
he wrote his name and address in q
bold hand, he sent it to a steam laun
dry. Exulting then in his security, he
went forth,--l}etroit Tribune
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
A Cruel Insinuation.

Nose Schaumburg-You wants weeks
salary in advance, put suppose, Mishter
Silverstone, let you have dot weeks
salary, and maybe you drops tead ter
night How den will git mine money
pack.
Mr.. Silverstone-I hope, Mishter
Schaumburg, dot am too much of q
schentleman to- play you any such
bricks ash dot, replied the clerk with
diar itv. Texas Aiftingp
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16

The Prudent Man and the Barlecp Who
Called Him Liar. :
The cowboy was sitting in chair
tilted back against the shady side of
the saloon taking it easy when one of
his friends came by. q
''Hello, Dickl" he said; whats this
story about the barlxeep over the way
CALM you liar yesterday and bully
raggin' You around fer an hour er
more?"
''Thats what he DONE" admitted
Dick, boldly. W
''What did you let him do it fer?"
81 had my reasons"
"Fraid of him?"
Dick jumped up.
Hold on, there, pard. +" he said. ''You
amt in the same fix that the barkeep
was and it amt safe"
Don't you worry about me. What
about the barkeep?"
well, it was this way" explained
Dick. THE barkeep was negotiatin'
fer policy on his life fer ten thousand
dollars in favor of his wilder. The
business wasn't settled till this MORN
ing. Now it's in workin' order and
I'm goin' over after awhile and give
him a chance to bullyrag me some
more. Then I'll go round and have q
little talk with the wilder. You must
think I'm a chump that can't see past
the end of my nose. Detroit Free
Press
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16

paltry notesv' said the girl, indig-
nantly.
There were five hundred pounds
worth, my DEAR" said the duchess,
slipping her hand through Kittie's
arm and leading her from the station.
The matter was never referred to
again except. on the evening of the
day on which Kitty Marjoram prom
ised to become the wife of Lord Ferdie
Bellairs.
II owe you big debt of gratitude,
auntie, dear" said Kittie, kneeling at
the duchess feet. II feel I can never
repay you"
You have done SO to-day. my child"
cried the duchess, parting her golden
curls and kissing her forehe ad.-Lon-
don Society.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16

contemplate the rutted road; life
is both lure and goad. Each to hold
in measure just, trample appetite to
dust Mark the fool and wanton spin;
keep to harness as a skin. Ere you
follow Natures lead, of her powers in
you have heed; else a shiverer You
will find you have challenged human
kind Mates are chosen market wise
coolest bargainer best buys. Leap
not. nor let leap the heart: trot your
track and drag your cart, so your end
may be In wool, honored. and with
manager full, = George Meredith
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
4 nEs'ez q
1tebyehEss.

| s 8 MARJOR-
AM burst into
a ripple of mer-
ry la u G h ter.
Freddie was a
dear boy and
all that, but she
couldn't posi-
bly, love him
and s h e re-
fused l. o r d
Barchester for
NO raacnn of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
An AwfuI Northumberland.

What was that horrible noise last
night?" asked the new boarder.
20, that" responded the seaaoned
boarder. THAT was only the stuttcr-
ing boarder trying to learn the clay.
ionet Washington Stsy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
An Experiment.

Sweet-What in the world did You
buy that kodak for?
Sours-I wanted to see 1t ! couldnt
get my wife to 'look pleasant IN. Z.
World.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16

f1srry-Do you enjoy the idea Of mar
rying a man reputed to be as miserly
as your fiance is?
Maude-Oh, yes! Don't you SEQ that
the dear fellow will be saving enough
for us bothi-- Christmas Puck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
rho Poor Fellow.

Banks Did you enjoy the play last
night?
Rivers-No; there was q woman IN
the seat behind me who had seen 1t be-
fore.-Truth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
sure to.Heccv'

"Doctor. do you think my wife win
recovery"
"Oh, yes. told her ! already had
wife picked ont for You in case she
didn't get well."-Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
A Detected Lover.

Tom-You look awful blue. / sup
pose it's because Of Miss Maybelle's
having rejected you.
Cholly-Yes, l can't help feeling sorry
for the poor girL-Chicago Record
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
Not to BE Trusted.

II thought you promised to return
that ten lust week
well, did. Brown, but Flipperly
wanted ten for nscouple of days and
he hasn't returnkd It yet. You can't
depend on Flipperly. "-Judge.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16

my limbs. My right
side was paralyzed. !
was obliged to walk
with . cane. l was
in constant pain, and
when I moved in bed
/ had to be assisted
Ny hands and feet
,swelled with rheuma-
'tism and my fingers
would cramp. Ny
sent me six
bottles Of Hoods Sar-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
SLOW TO Answer.

Speak gently; Il Is better far
Your temper not to tax;
Speak gently once or twice and then
Wade In and take IN AZ.
-Washingtou Stas.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16

Mr.. WIN. Mssnsoss saparilla. / took it
three times day and have improved ever
since, and now am well and never fels
better in my life Of 70 years. / took no
other medicine but Hoods Sarsaparilla-"
WILLIAM MuNsos, Clinton, Mo.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-16
HE THOUGHT OF THE WIDOW.

per annunn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
ADLA| STEVENSON'S SON.
He Arrives Here on a Trip to
the Orient for His
Health.
Although an Illinois Man, He FavorS
Bringing the National Conven.
ton Here.

Lewis G. Stevenson, son of Vice-Presis.
dent Adlai Stevenson, arrived in the City
yesterday on his way to Japan. This is
not Mr.. Stevenson's first visit to Cali
fornia. He was out here several years ago
and spent a winter in San Bernardino
County with an uncle.
az came out for my health then" he
said yesterday at the Baldwin, where he
is staying, land have been singing the
praises of California ever since. I am
going over to Japan now and shall return
Immediately. l had become run down,
and so am taking this trip simply for that
reason"
Mr.. Stevenson will sail from here about
the 18th.
Mr.. Stevenson, although from Illinois, is
heartily IN favor of the bringing of the
National Republican Convention out here.
much of fight for it this year as usual u
he said. 81 see by the papers that our Ma
tjonal committeeman says that if Chicago
wants it she must fight for it. He does
not seem inclined to make it in the COM
mittee. Those l heard in Chicago speak
of San Francisco chances seemed to think
they were very good. 1t would be great
thing for this State. Just get all those
people out here once and they will all in
dorse California. l hope they come.
want to see them appreciate this State as
I do"
Mr.. Stevenson has served q term as a
California journalist. During the winter
he spent in San Bernardino he was for a
time connected with the Cotton Semi
Tropic.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01

movement Of the .visage, muscular contrac::
ton which this defendant has, pursuing up of
the lips. And they, Phillips and oppenheim,
say that the man who was in Oppenheim' s
store was Theodore Durrant. Gentlemen,
crime must be punished. 1t is the safeguard
put by the Almighty Maker of us 10 preserve
innocence, to preserve the simple and the good
from the Vaccinations of the evil and wicked
But there are always two sides to story, even
to crime. What is the defense? What testi-
mony have they brought before You to confute
the terrible force of these facts. What is the
defense conference.-the defense tnat was
made by the first murderer, an alibi and a
good character.
Mr.. Barnes then, with telling effect,
quoted the passages from the Scriptures
wherein Cain answers to the Presence,
Gam l my brothers. keeper" From his
tory he descended to fiction as he said,
quoting page from the celebrated trial of
Bardwell against Pickwick-'a trial that
never took place"-wherein Sam Weller
gives the advice to "never mind the char
acter, but stick close to the alibi."
There was another passage quoted from
Justice Shaw in the Parkman murder, and
then court adjourned until this morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
A Wealthy Young Harvard Grad
uate in Trouble Through
Drink.
HE TOOK A BABY FOR a RIDE.
The Child Was Not Returned and the
Distracted Parents Allege
Abduction.

William Fallon is about to be tried on
the charge of child-stealing as the result OF
his very peculiar actions.
Fallon is a young man of fine attain
ments. a graduate of Harvard and at one
time a law student. He is the son of very
wealthy mother, but is said to be addicted
to drink
Mrs. Fallon is said to be worth between
half and three-quarters of million dollars.
She owns considerable valuable business
property on Market street and has other
profitable investments. The son was raised
as gentleman's son and the heir to large
estates should be reared. But his love for
whisky much whisky-has placed him
in difficult position.
On the 29th of March of this year Fallon,
while intoxicated, stopped to caress little
child. She was three years old and the
baby daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Boyd
OF SIC Twenty-sixth street. The child was
laxative, and being too young to mark the
distinction between a man drunk and
man sober FallOn easily won her baby con-
tidence and friendship.
When asked if she would like to take
ride on the electric car she readily assented
and was lifted on to the next car going to-
ward the center OF the City. Fallon took
her to the corner of Twelfth and Market
streets, opposite his mothers house. They
went into a grocery-store, where Fallon
proceeded to load the baby with cakes and
candies and incidentally to increase his
own cargo of whisky.
The distracted parents found the child
at the place mentioned after they had
been looking for her for several hours,
assisted by friends. An officer was called
on to arrest Fallon, but declined to do so
on hearing the latter's story and being I'M
able to discover any sinister motive in the
carrying away of the child. The baby was
as happy as any baby may be with chubby
hands full of pastry and CONNECTIONS, and
did not want TO leave her new friend.
Fallon was arrested subsequently on a
charge of child stealing and is about to be
tried. He admitted the act but dIsclaimed
that he had any object in taking the child
for ride on the cars. Being drunk and
in an affectionate humor the baby offered
the first object on which he could lavish
his maudlin tenderness, and he petted her
and took her out on her first ride in
strange company.
Attorney +. K. Kase, for the defense,
thinks he will be able to convince the Jury
OF an entire absence of motive on the part
of the defendant. He says he has witnesses
who will testify that Fallon tried to in
duce number of persons in and around
the grocery-store to take the little girl
back to the place whence he took her,
showing that in his befuddled condition he
dlmly realized that her parents would be
worried about the child.
"Of course we admit the act" said Mr..
Kase yesterday afternoon, "but the hard
feature of the case will be in convincing
the jury of an entire absence of object, pur-
pose or motive beyond that of kindly,
though maudlin desire, to afford the little
one pleasure"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
SILENT TEARS OF THE PRISONERS MOTHER

sciously won-pay the highest tribute
! that can be paid to eloquence.
If sometimes Mr.. Barnes was faulty
on Wednesday he was perfect yes
terday. He began in the valley of easy,
rare heights of eloquence, but the ascent
was always unstudied and spontaneous,
and while he scared there the words flowed
with a wonderful fuency. And the de-
scent was always natural and pleasing,
leaving no sharp contrasts to show the
pitfalls common to most extemporane-
Gus efforts. Indeed there were no pitfalls
yesterday, or, if there were, no one saw
them or heard them and, therefore, they
were not.
Carefully and conscientiously he dis
sected the evidence, and when his natural,
healthy feeling led him into hot and fervid
denunciations of "the monster beside
whom Holmes, the sordid murderer of
dozen lives, is a gentleman" his words
were still chaste and his rhetoric still
marked with good taste and the absence
OF the commonplace.
In the afternoon he devoted some atten-
ton to Organist King, classifying him as
"a man who knew too little for a man who
knew so much" Then he showed what
has not been shown before in the trial
why Durrant came down from the belfry
and stood in the folding-doors in front of
King instead of going out the front way
unawares to King. 1t was, said Mr.
Barnes, because Durrant had shut off
egress at the belfry door when he broke
the knob to shut off ingress. He had
closed the door upon himself and there
was but the route he travelled left him.
And therein Mr.. Barnes offered the first
logical theory that has been given for what
has always seemed a most peculiar and
unnatural proceeding upon the part of
Durrant.
By o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Barnes
had reached the end of the States main
case. Then court adjourned. In the
morning the District Attorney will devote
his attention to the evidence offered for the
defense-the alibi and the good character.
The former, he said yesterday in closing,
was the plea set up by the first murderer,
Cain, who answered: Am my brothers
keeper"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
MRS. SPRAGUE CALLED
Second Unitarian Church's Repudiated
Female Pastor to Assist Her Hus-
band at Chattanooga.

Rev. and Mrs. Leslie w. Sprague have
been called to joint charge at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, and will in all probability
accept it.
In response to Mr.. Sprague's request
that he be relieved from the contract
binding him to the Second Unitarian
Church of this City, the trustees have writ
ten sgnifying their willingness to release
him from the terms of such contract, which
will enable him to assume his new charge
at once.
The church has heard but one candidate
thus far, Rev. H. Rice, but on the 10th inst.
Rev. a. J. Wells of Redlands will appear
before the church in that capacity.
John Montieth will fill the pulpit Sun
day morning and probably in the evening
as well. Rev. n. A. Haskell, who has
been invited to officate at the latter SER
vice, may not be able to be present on &C
count of the critical illness of his wife.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
DOUBTED HER MARRIAGE
Perp1exity of Wife With q White
Seal Her Marriage
License.

81 want new seal put on my marriage
license" said Mrs. Kitty Fickson to
Cupid" Danforth Wednesday.
whats the matter with this one2"
asked the clerk, picking up the license
and carefully examining the seal.
"Why, it's plain, was the reply. Gall
my lady friends have seals of gold or red
paper, and that one is plain white. They
laugh at It, and declare I'm not married. -
Didn't you go before minister with
William Fickson?'
"Yes.'
"Then I guess you're married about as
tightly as the law can marry you. The
color of the seal does not cut any fgurs.
The Office ran out of red and gold paper
some time ago, and in the last few months
several hundred people have been married
licenses. They seem to be pretty well
satisfied with the color"
sBut 1 amt" insisted Mrs. Fickson.
give got friend and she's got gold seal
on her license. L know she's married,
and I'll never believe I'm really, truly
married till have gold seal like hers on
my license"
"All right" said Danforth, giving up the
contest. "I'n marry you in proper
fashion," and he went out to a statfoner's
store near by, bought piece of gilded
paper, pasted it on the license and affixed
the same seal that had already been
stamped on the license.
''Oh, thank you so much" said the de-
lighted Mrs. Fickson, receiving the paper.
Now, know I'm really married for
sure" And she fastened to join her lady
friend waiting for her in the corridor.
Don't linger longer, Lucy" softly whis-
tied Danforth, as he went back to his
books.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
F1uit-Growers' Convention.

The Fruit-growers' Convention that will open
in Sacramento next Tuesday TO last four days,
promises TO attract nearly all the prominent
orchardists in the State. A number are now
on their way to Sacramento. Several passed
through this City yesterday and called in at
the State Board of Horticulture rooms in the
Mills building. Among these were n. w.
Blanchard of Santa Paula; w. !. Rice, Horti-
cultural Commissioner of Ventura: j. H.
Thomas, Commissioner from Visalia; and w.
NJ Bowman of Suisun.