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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-04-10
A QUEENS FIRST BALL.

Social Debut of the Young Ruler OF
the Netherlands.
The young queen of Netherlands re-
Gently attended her first ball, an epoch
in the life of every girl. The great ball
room in the royal castle at S'Graven-
hage was brilliant in sea of light,
floating over glittering uniforms and
rich ball dresses and jewels. Nobody
who was permitted to appear at court
stayed at home On this occasion, and
like wall the invited guests stood at
both sides of the passage leading to the
throne chairs. Begging and imploring,
the court marshal hurried through the
ranks and kept this small path open
for the queens, and about nine o'clock
they put in an appearance. Amid the
fourishing Of trumpets and the stem
torian announcement: Hare majes-
teiten!" (Their majesties!) they en-
tered the loom. Dead stiffness reigned,
interrupted only by the rustling
of the dresses of the deeply bow
ing ladies and that made by the
queens and their suite entering.
Queen Wilhelmina looked truly charm
ing. She wore simple white dress,
adorned with only a few white roses
fastened on the right shoulder The
only jewels she wore were strings of
diamonds braided through her blonde
hair, the brilliancy of which was, how
ever, Offset by the happiness and pleas
ant expression of her youthful, round
face. While hundreds crowded to the
throne to obtain the honor of being pre-
sented to the young queen, she looked
several times over into that small part
of the ballroom where some devotees
of the art attempted to dance. Shortly
after her arrival 'squadrille of honor
was danced. Queen Wilhelmina arose
and danced this quadrille with the Rus
sian ambassador, De Struwe, as the old
est representative of the diplomatic
corps. The same honor was extended
to the chief of the military cabinet,
Count De Monceau. Another reception
at the throne followed, the same crowd
ing of the people present to make an
exit for the queens occurred, and
through the narrow pathway the young
queen left the ballroom with her moth
er, after experiencing for the first time
the pleasure which young girls so i'm,
patiently await--their first ball.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-04-10
sCIENcE AND INDUSTRY.

The deepest hole in the world has
been bored in Silesia. 1t has reached
q depth of $500 feet, and passed through
SO beds of coal.
The longest tunnel in the world is
ST. Gothard, which is 4S,S40 feet. The
next longest are Mount Gents, $3.50
feet; Hoosac, 25,osO feet; Severn, 49,
002 feet; Nochistongs, 81, $50 feet; Suits,
21.120 feet.
Mr.. j. Clayton, in a communication
tc Nature, refers to careful measure
ments he has made with sycamore, elm,
oak, ash and beech trees, from which he
has discovered that they all contract
in girth during frost.
There is no reliable case on rec
ord where resuscitation has taken place
after the complete freezing of the body
in man. This has been frequently ac-
complished in the cold-blooded animals,
such as fish and reptiles, if thawing be
gradually brought about.
If all the factories in Lancashire
England, should work day and night,
producing 155,000,000 miles of thread
every ~ hours 1.-THE usual output of one
day., it would take them 200 years to
spin thread long enough to reach from
the earth to the nearest of the fixed
stars.
The skin of the whale is from two
inches to two feet thick, and the skin
of large specimen weighs 30 tons.
The rhinoceros is the thickest-skinned
quadruped, with a hide SO tough as to
resist the claws of lion or tiger, the
sword, or the balls of the old-fashioned
musket.
The lirst thermometer was made
in 1871 by Dutch physicist named
Cornelius Van Drebbell, and consisted
of tube filed with air closed at it's
upper end and dipping at it's other ex.
tremity, which was open, in a bottle OF
nitric acid diluted in water. AS the
temperature rose or fell. the air in the
tube increased or grew less in volume,
and consequently the liquid descended
or rose.
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AN AMERICAN ARCTIC CITY.
The Singular Town Growing Up I'm
Alaska.

The Singular Town Growing Up In
Alaska.
A correspondent sends from Circle
City, Alaska, an account of that singular
town, which has grown up out of the
rush of gold-miners to the Yukon river,
and which derives its name from the
fact that it is within the Arctic circle.
Perhaps no town, inhabited by civilized
people, was ever built before in so re-
mote and inaccessible place, even in
Siberia. Its nearest neighbor, as set
Element, is 240 miles away; this is
Forty-Mile City, another American
mining settlement.
Circle City is 1000 miles from any
place of consequence. To transport
freight to or from the mines which
center at Circle City costs 40 cents
pound.
However, at last accounts Circle City
was booming" Real estate was ridic-
ulously high. The buildings are sub
stantially constructed of logs, which
cost from four to six dollars apiece.
Rough whipsawed lumber costs $3.50
thousand. The unskilled laborer re-
ceives ten dollars a day for his services,
and any kind of skilled labor is paid two
dollars and half an hour.
For long time every letter that any
Circle City man received cost him one
dollar to bring up from the coast. Now
the government brings the letters, but
declines to bring newspapers, so that
Circle City, though in it every branch of
business is represented, never has
newspaper unless it is brought up by
newcomer. All the summer the Circle
City people knew nothing about the
presidential situation-not even who
we're the candidates.
However, business was good; the peo-
pie, without any lawful government,
made government of their own, and
lived peaceably and prosperously, eat
ing canned and desiccated vegetables,
with moose meat in abundance
Spokane Spokesman.
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times I would get so blind, I could not
see for several minutes.
I could not stand very long without
feeling sick and vomiting. I could not
breathe long breath without scream
Ing, my heart panied so.
1 also had female weakness, infiam-
nation of ovaries, painful menstrua-
ton, displacement of the womb, itch
ing of the external parts, and ulcera-
ton of the womb. Ihave had all these
complaints.
The pains had to stand were some-
thing dreadful. My husband told mo
to try bottle Of Lydia e. Pinkham's
medicine, which I did, and after taking
1t for while, was cured. No other
kind of medicine for me as long as you
make Compound. hope every woman
who suffers will take your Compound
and be cured.-MRs. j. s. McGMLAas
l13 Kilburn avenue, Rockford, III.
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nunoENT PARAGRAPHS.


Minnie will never marry
until she meets her IDEAL" vietta--
''What is her idealY' Vinnie-"A man
who will propose. "-Glasgow Times.
-AThe day before yesterday" an
nounces an Irish paper, ''Mr. O'Flynn
fell from his horse and broke his neck,
but sustained no other injury.LTit-
Bits.
lis this wine of the famous 1865
vintage?" "Alas, no! 1t is of the year
1864" That's easily remedied. Why
not keep it year longer? "-Fliegende
Batter.
THAT'S very nice, Mabel, but IL
strikes me I've heard it before" Its
Van Griggor's latest" "Oh, that &C
counts for it. Most people have heard
Van Griggor's new things before"
Harper's Bazaar.
AS to Sleeves.-She had been look
ing at herself in the glass. II suppose
I'll get used to it," she said, "but after
what we've been through in the last few
years these tight sleeves actually make
me feel immodest. London Figaro.
-Doraa (sweetly)-"Fred didn't blow
his brains out because you Tilted him
the other night; he came right over
and proposed to me-" Maud (super-
sweetly)-"Did he? Then he must have
got rid of his brains some other way
Tit-Bits.
"A party of trippers from Oldham
visiting Blackpool on awindy day, were
anxious to hire boat. The boatman,
however, intimated that they could not
have one because there was G swell on
the water. "Swell be hanged" cried the
irate tripper. isn't our brass as good
as s?"-Household Words.
-Unpardonable.-"No," said the ma
ture but attractive woman, with en-
phasis, "they are no longer in our set!"
"What can have happened?" at was
"a financial discrepancy" "As bad
as that?" "Yes. We have learned that
they reported the cost of their latest
social diversion to be several thousand
dollars in excess of what it really was"
Washington Star.
"A lady cyclist in knickerbockers
was riding in the neighborhood of Ware
ham. She lost her way, and, seeing q
countryman in front, rode up to him,
alighted, and said: Can you tell me if
this is the right way to Wareham"
The man looked at her up and down
with great attention, and then slowly
replied: YES, miss-yes; you seem to
have got 'em on all right. "-Tit-Bits.
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The Dunkards, or Thinkers, belong t.
Z sect founded in 170s at Schwarzenau,
Germany, by Alexander Mack and seven
others, who rejected the doctrines of
paedo-baptism. The name is nick
name, derived from the German TINKER
Ito dip-members of the sect styling
themselves Brethren. Persecution
drove the founders to Holland, and be-
tween 1919 and 1929 they all emigrated
thence to America. They are found in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virgins, Ohio
and Indiana, and it is apparent that
some have found their way further
west, but their numbers all told are
not great. Their church discipline is
nearly the same as that of other Bap-
fists, except that every brother is al
lowed to exhort. Men found apt to
teach are ordained ministers, and the
Oldest teachers bishops. The Dunkards
affect great plainness of speech and
dress, like the Quakers; neither take
oaths, fight, nor go to law; and former
" they took no interest. They cele-
brate the taking of the sacrament with
love feasts, washing of feet, the kiss
of charity, and the right hand Of fel
lowship; anoint the sick with oil for
recovery; and practice complete inn
mersion, with laying on of hands and
prayer even while the person baptixed
Is IN the wsters-N. Y. Tribune,
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''YAP."

I've got little yaller dog. wuthless sort
er chap,
That jest amt good fer nuthin' but ter eat
and sleep and ''yap."
Fer all round gen'ral uselessness, I never
see HIS beat.
And yet he makes more fuss and noise than
all the farm complete.
There amt mite er sense inside that yaller
hide er his,
And as he amt no good. he likes to poster
them that Is.
The critters all desplse him but there amt
one but feels
A little bit Uneasy when he's "yappin' Z"
round their heels.
Yer see, he loves ter sneak around behind
'em, out er sight,
And give a sudden snap and snarl, as II he
meant ter bite;
OF course. they know 1t wouldn't hurt and
only means to scare,
But still 1t worries 'em ter know the little
cuss Is there.
And II they do git nervous like and try ter
hit him back
He swells up so with pride 1t seems as II his
skin would crack,
And he's ten times wuss than ever, so they
find 1t doesn't pay,
But let him keep on "yappin' till he's tired
and goes away.
There's lots Of people built like him; yer see
em everywhere
Who. cause they amt no use themselves.
can't somehow seem to bear
Ter see another Teller rise, but in their
petty spite
And natural meannesss snarl and snap,
and show they'd like ter bite.
They don't come out In front like men and
sQuarely speak their mind.
But, like that worthless yaller pup. they're
hangin' round behind.
They're little and contemplate. but II yer
make q slip.
1t must be bothersome to know they'll take
that chance ter nip.
But there. perhaps It isn't right ter mind
'em after all,
Perhaps we orter thank the Lord our souls
aren't quite SO small.
And they. with all their sneakin' ways,
must be. rather guess,
The thorns that prick yer fingers. round the
roses er success,
Fer, when yer come ter think of It, they
never bark until
"A feller's really started and good ways up
the hill.
30. If was climbin' up ter fame. wouldn't
care a rap,
But I'd think was somebody. when the
ours begun to ''yap."
Joe Lincoln. In L. A w. Bulletin.
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savage., DendIy weapon.

The most wonderful weapon of war.
fare in the world is used by the hunters
of Borneo. 1t is a long bamboo rod
with narrow bore, called s'sumpi-
TAM from which is blown poisoned
dart seven or eight inches long and not
thicker than large knitting needle.
The weapon is absolutely noiseless, and
the deadly missile which it hurls kills
its victim and hardly leaves a trace
upon the body. Armed with one OF
these blowguns, which are from ten
to twelve feet long, and not greater
than an inch in diameter, warrior OF
Borneo can kill man at distance Of
500 seet.-Ciucinnati Enquirer,
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A Royal Nurse.

The queen of Portugal kills tedium
and wins popularity by persevering in
her medical vocation. She goes regu-
larry to the dispensary for children
that she founded. On arriving she
dons a nurses uniform and proceeds
10 serious WORK. The managers are the
Daughters of st. Catherine of Siena.
The queen at first showed herself
coward when surgical operations were
expected, but has steeled herself to
suffering, and now holds on her knees
little patients while in the surgeons
hauds.-Albany Argus.
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It was done in her kindest manner.
this rejection, and she had said to each:
II nm sorry this has occurred, but
since you have SO honored me, you must
come to my wedding. am to be mar
ried next month in the church at Ham,
nond. 1 shall really feel 1t if you do
not come"
And each man had promised to be
there.
1t had come to Roberts notice be-
fore this time that Biddy was his rival,
but with the hope and intention of sue
cess strong within him, he had been
affected differently from Scotty's fore
cast. He went straight to Bi1dy, and
told him to "go in and win if you can.
I don't want the girl unless can get
her fair and hold her against ali corners"
But when both had been refused,
each man thought the other was ac-
cepted, and each waited for the other to
breach the subject.
1t was a difficult time. There were
dark looks, but no explosion. They
avoided each other, and this little cloud
no bigger than a woman's hand, seemed
about to cover the whole sky. Biddy
asked leave of absence, and gotit They
did not meet again until the wedding
day.
That day found Biddy still storming
at fate; but Robert, who had simpler
and stronger nature, had put his own
disappointment behind him and was
looking forward with pride if not pleas
ure to his friends happiness.
What follows is in Roberts words:
II got there early and took seat in
the back part of the church. Wanted
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vendland MYTHS.

The water-nixy is dangerous to
young women who wade into ponds
to cut reeds for thatch; the sandman
has his female counterpart; when a
boy mods it is Hermann that has come;
when girl gets sleepy over her spin
hing it is Dremotka. Reapers who fail
TO rest for an hour at midday are in
danger of ragged female demon called
Pshespolniza; she comes with a sickle
bound to a pole and cuts off their
heads. She seems to have been sun
stroke personified, but is now, like
Serpowniza, only a bugbear used to
brighten children away from growing
crops. Here in the Spreewald exist
many of the superstitions common to
Ireland and Scotland-the changeling,
the whirlwind, will-o'-the-wisp, kobold,
leprcchawn, and good little people gen.
orally. Here is the crafty spirit of the
lake and the demon that springs on
mems shoulders at night. Here espe-
cially is the banshee; indeed, no less
a family than the Hohenzollerns have
a private and particular white lady who
appears in the unsentimental vicinage
of the Schloss in the heart of Berlin
and walls round the battlements when
q death is to occur in the family. Con-
nection between the British islands and
the lands drained by the Elbe and Wis
tula has been constantly renewed by
migration and conquest. In remote
periods the race seems to have been
alike in both countries.--Charles d.
Kay, in Century.
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to be where could get out of it if my
nerve failed me. Many people came in,
and at last the bride, looking very beau
tiful, came out from side door with
three men and stood upin front. And
I was proud for Biddy that he was 60
ing to have such a fine wife. But
couldn't see him anywhere. And the
preacher said any man having an inn
pediment was to step forward.
Then looked for Biddy, but he
didn't come. I had never before been
at wedding in church, and thought
maybe it was the way to keep him cor
raled in the little room until the last
I moment, for fear he would go back
onto the old range.
"The preacher went on saying things
and I didn't pay close attention, be.
cause l was thinking how pretty she
looked, until bold man in Hereford
shirt and low-necked vest took her
hand, and the preacher said 4 pro-
nounce you man and wife
"Then / jumped up wild. Great
Scott ! yelled, that's the wrong man.
az thdt lhotdut SOinCDOQy CldDD6u
hand over my mouth and hustled me
out of the church.
IF you don't want to get shut up
for drunk and disorderly.' said Biddy,
for he it was who dragged me out, stop
that racket
whats up" said, soon as / could
get my breath. why aren't you in
there getting married?'
"Tm not in there getting married.
said Biddy, because she wouldn't have
me. thought you were to marry her
to-day
What mer says I. L never was
within thousand miles of it,
Why didn't you say so, old man?'
asked Biddy.
Say SO YOURSELF said I. You were
dumb as an OYSTER
Then we both laughed, and while
the folks inside were crowding up to
the front to congratulate the happy
pair, Biddy and me had hearty hand
shake on the sidewalk, and we went
home together. San Francisco Argo.
naut.
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equivalent to a promotion of Biddy
also, for the Missourian, whose bony
frame had been built from the limestone
waters of his native state, was stir a
partisan and protector of the sappy
yoangster from northern Vermont.
you are Canadian pony, and am a
Hambletonian," said Robert; "but il
we like to trot together, 1 guess the
other horses on this range will have to
take our dust"
The friendship between these two
men was founded on Complementary
qualities, and only woman could
break it. The woman in this instance
was Miss Bell, the school-teacher at the
Bend.
The burned child breads the fire, but
q bird will return and again dash into
the flames. Roberts encounter with
the fair fence-cutter was like flame to
the bird. He sought an introduction
and forthwith became a sutton for her
hand. Biddy, the only. one in camp
who took it upon himself to criticise
any act Of Roberts, demonstrated with
him.
you are a bird, aren't you ?" said he;
"the girl mesmerized you once, she'll
tamboozle you for twice, and bounce
you for three times. What do you mean
to do?"
mean to marry her if she will have
me-" replied Robert, simply. "Yes,
know l told you plenty times that
cowboy has no business to marry, and
that's right, but I'm an exception. I
don't know how, and don't know why,
but l know I'm hit hard. got to have
her,"
So Robert, big, hulking, 40 years old,
was in love for the first time in his
whole life. If force and earnestness
avail, he should win.
Less forceful, less earnest, half as
old, Biddy was in the same plight. His
advice to Robert to let the girl alone
was in good faith; he thought it the
best thing-for Robert, but he had a
bad case of physician, heal thyself'
upon his hands. He, too, was resolved
to win and marry Miss Bell. He did
not say so to Robert, so hard is it for
most men to be open in love affair,
and for time Robert knew nothing of
It. Everyone else saw it, and Scotty
told Biddy he had better stand from
under.
IF you lock horns with Robert" said
he, "he'll get you down and walk all
over your Frame" And Scotty added
some reflections on the law of supply
and demand. IF there were 20 school
ma'ams round here, you would not look
at one of them, but because there is
only one, you are fixing to get your
skin SO plumb full of bullet holes that
the wind won't whistle as Il blows
through"
Biddy laughed and went his way 10
cali upon Miss Bell and urge his suit.
And Robert went his way, which was
the same way. upon the same errand.
do not know whether Miss Bell
gave to either man any manner of en-
enlargement, but as the deadshot is
said to add a notch to the marks on his
pistol grip for each man he drops, so it
is supposable that about this time this
young lady increased her list of re-
jected suitors by the names Of these two
cowboys.
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Would Keep Her Too pu.y..

Hell have never kissed you, Alice
Would you cut my friendship if stole
just one?
6ne-I might be tempted to, but was
just reading about forgiying seventy
times seven offending. Goodness!
That's 490.-Detroit Free Press.
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THE WRONG MAN.
ny G. u. DUNHAM.

HEN our foreman
went away to the
Northwest tie rri-
tory to find a cat
tie range unspoiled
by settlers, Rob-
ert was put in
charge of tn e
ranch. This was
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UniversaIity OF the Mushroom.

Mushrooms grow wild in all parts OF
the earth, and are as plenty in Siberia
as in the tropics.-Ch Chicago Times-Hcr-
aid.
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Every failure carries q guide-book to suc-
cess in its inside pocket Horn.
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The man who is envious of evil-doers will
saon be an evil-doer himself. Rams Horn.
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-Sachets are often made in the form
OF huge flowers, with the powder stored
In the green muslin calyx
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Frost-bites are like burns and scalds. All
are cured by st. Jacobs Oil.
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Easy to have rheumatism. just as easy
to get rid of it with st. Jacobs Oil.
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just try l0c box of Cascarets candy ca
thartic, finest liverand bowelregulato made.
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The men who work are not usually tn
dead beats.-Atchison Globe.
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About half mans time is taken up sign.
ing petitions and protests.-Atchison Globe.
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Cascarets stimulate liver, Kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe, l0c.
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He most lives who lives most for others.
Rams Horn.
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Girls nearly always say mean things about
another girl who gets ahead of them in
school, Democrat.
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A Wonderful Statement

From Mrs. AlcGIllas to Mrs. Pinkham.
I think It my duty, dear Mrs. Pink
ham, to tell you what your wonderful
Compound has done for me.
was dreadfully ill-the doctors said