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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29
SCIENCE AND INDusTRv.

The tint of birds eggs, especially the
light colors, are apt to fade, on exposure
In museums to too great sunlight. This
is the case with the greenish blue eggs,
as those of the murre. BY experiment
the darker colored eggs of olive brown
or chocolate hue have been found to un-
dergo little change.
-Esquimalt, in British North
America, is the only place in the Brit
ish empire, according to recent eli
matological report, that exceeds Lon
don in cloudiness. Esquimalt is also
the dampest place in the empire, while
Adelaide, in Australia, is the driest.
Ceylon is the hottest and northwest
Canada the coolest possession that the
flag of England floats over.
"A Russian chemist has discovered
a most powerful anaesthetic. 1t is sew
eral thousand times more powerful
than chloroform, volatilizes most read
lily and acts freely when mixed with air
at great distances. Experiments are be-
ing made at st. Petersburg to see if it
cannot be inclosed in bombs, which
would have the extraordinary effect of
anaesthetizing instead of wounding
the enemy.
The president of the Agassiz asso-
citation, Mr.. II. H. Ballard, recently
caught an ant near its hill, shut it up in
box, carried it $50 feet away, and sci
it free in the middle of sandy road
What followed he thus describes: 1T
seemed at first bewildered. Then it
climbed to the top of a ridge Of sand,
erected its body as high as possible,
waved it's antennae for several seconds,
and then started in straight line for
its home"
DIR. Howard, the new secretary OF
the American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science, writing of the
manner in which seeds are carried to
great distances by birds, recited an
experiment of Darwin which had c,I~
rious result. Adhering to the leg of
wounded partridge Darwin found
ball of earth weighing six and half
ounces. From the seeds contained in
this ball he raised 80 plants belonging
to five distinct species.
How often we hear the remark:
I'VE shall have rain, the atmosphere is
so heavy" The reverse is true. When
one sees smoke hanging from a CHM
ney with a tendency to sink to the
ground, it indicates that the atmos-
phere is light-in fact, too light to float
the smoke. When the smoke rises from
the chimney it indicates heavy atmos-
phere. A column of smoke is not bad
barometer, for barometer simply re-
cords the pressure of the atmosphere.
When the atmosphere is light the
smoke settles, the pressure of the mer-
curry is light and the column falls, in
dicating storm. When the atmosphere
is heavy and the smoke rises, the pres.
sure is greater and the column rises, in.
dicating fair weather.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29
LOUISIANA
eIDe YOUR TIME.

When fortune treats you slightfngly
And everything goes wrong.
Remember that you still are free
To labor and be strong.
To him who bravely does his part
Misfortune Is no crime.
Just hold your grip and keep up heart
And learn to bide your time.
The surest road to greatness lies
Through hard and patient work.
The glorious name that never dies
Comes not unto the shirk.
Fame sits upon an eminence,
A pinnacle sublime:
He who would win must seek her thence,
Strive on and bide his time.
The man Of hope and energy,
Who keeps one goal In sight.
Who goes his way with constancys
VIII some time win the fight.
The man whose life glory lends
To every age and cline
: Il he whose purpose never bends
Who works and bides his time.
Go onward. Ger the futures hills
The dawn falls cool and sweet.
co onward. He can win who wills
And bows not to defeat.
Co onward. though your path may lie
Through calumny and slime:
The way viii brighten by and by.
Go on and bide your time.
And when the fight at last 10 DER.
The toll at last Il done;
When standing on life's farther Shore
Beneath her setting sun:
Beyond the futures unbarred gate,
The bells of Heaven chime:
And justice, love and glory walt
For him who bides his time.
y. A. Edgerton, in Atlanta Constitution.
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PART II.

Then Eric Mcleod came into Helen's
life. though he came into it even as it
viii be seen he went out of tin very
different fashion to the men who had
come and gone-to those that still re-
manned. He came into her life slowly.
To the lookers-on, who see most of
life's games, their acquaintance ipened,
like that fruit in autumn-time that al
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29

A horse dealer in Scotch town hav
ing hired q horse to an attorney. the
latter. either through bad usage or some
other cause, killed the horse, when the
dealer insisted upon payment by bill
if it was not convenient to pay cash.
The attorney had no objection to grant
q bill. but said it must be at long
date. The dealer told him to fix his
own time, when the attorney drew a
promissory note, making it payable on
the day of judgment. An action was
raised. when the attorney asked the
presiding judge to look at the bill. Hav-
ing done SO, the judge replied: 'sThe
bill is perfectly good, and as this is
the day of judgment decree that you
pay tomorrow. Spare Moments.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29
ABouT EUROPEAN WOMEN

The German women are essentially
domestic, possess none of the attractive
daring Of the French woman or the
sparkling grace of mind which belong
10 the American. -
The most accomplished and brilliant
woman of Europe is the Russian. Who
has vivacious temperament, a maryol3
GUS facility for languages and . po1ug
Of adaptability.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29
THE SWORD OF sALADlN.
A Blacksmith Says He Knows the
Secret Of Damascus Steel.

A Blacksmith Says He Knows the
Secret Of Damascus Steel.
The Damascus blade of Saladin may
yet be- duplicated. 1t will be if the
claims of James H. Duffy, Machias-
port (Afe.) blacksmith, are justified by
the practical results which he prom
ises. Mr.. Duffy asserts that he discov-
cred the long lost art of producing
Damascus steel, and also the ancient
method of hardening copper and brass.
Ten years has the ''Michiasport Wiz
ard" as his neighbors call him, spent
patiently experimenting with the
metals, during which time he has often
severely taxed his financial resources
He declares, however, that for his sacri-
fees he has been more than repaid by
his success.
Mr.. Duffy was first led into making
experiments when he opened his smith
shop in Machiasport. He was born in
Bangor "a years ago, and after few
years schooling learned the trade OF
horseshoeing and blacksmithing. When
he moved to Machiasport the canning
industry had begun to grow, and the
soldering coppers used in the factories
were sent to him for repairs. He no.
ticed that the coppers wore away rapid
ly and that when two-thirds of the
business end of one was worn away il
had to be cast aside.
Mr.. Duffy thought that if copper
could be welded two old soldering tools
that were worthless might be welded
into one that would be worth some
thing. The difficulty was to find the
way to weld them. 1t couldn't be done
by the ordinary way of heating, be.
cause copper became soft when heated,
and therefore as soldering tools they
would be no good after having been
welded.
A few years ago he astonished the
factory men by taking a lot of cast oil
soldering coppers and bringing them
back nicely welded and as perfect as
new ones. In fact, they were more
perfect than new ones, for not only did
they hold the heat as well as the new
tools, but they did not wear away SO
quickly, and for this reason alone they
were more valuable.
Then the wizard surprised his init.
mate acquaintances by producing from
his laboratory copper sword, which
he proceeded to bend into a circle and
let it spring back into shape again,
which, says the Boston Globe, IL did as
the most perfect Damascus steel
would. Next he astonished them by
producing a copper razor, with which
he gave himself perfect shave and the
razor still retained its keen edge.
The wizard will talk about the DUAL.
ity of the metal he produces, but is
reticent in regard to the process
through which he puts it. He will only
say that in his experiments in attempt
ing to weld copper without rendering
1t permanently soft he struck upon the
secret of the ancients' method of MAX
ing Damascus steel.
He positive that he has 1t. He saws
that, although he has made some won
derful discoveries, he has learned that
these are but the beginning of great
series OF discoveries that must follow
as part of these. The transmutatior
of metals, he thinks, is one of these that
will follow upon his discoveries.-N. Y.
Herald.
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self than by circumstances. It was
strange, even in time when we have
grown used to the strangeness of all
things, how greatly she was beloved of
some women-women whose lives were
filed with all that of which hers was
SO empty; out of their glad fullness
they understood her heart hunger, and
80 she crept closely to them, as some
tired wanderer upon dusty road may
pause and drink in the beauty of the
flowers that grow in another mans
garden.
1t was in some hours of her rare leis-
ure that she sat with one of these wom-
en-, talking in an idle, dilatory fashion,
That is only possible between two peo-
lle who know each other thoroughly.
housing herself from long silence,
she began to speak of some man, in
those clear scoffing tones her friend
knew well.
II wish you would not talk so.
Guild wish that you would not feel SO.
You know how sorry am when yet
another man comes into your life. 1t
means for time little interest, copy,
perhaps, for another story, in which
you idealize the man, after which the
old contempt becomes his portion also.
Why cannot you care? There are men
enough in all conscience to choose from,
and after all the man is what the wom-
an he loves makes him. You may be
fulfilling your own scripture, just as
you seem to be waiting for the some
thing that never comes"
"Why should / make any man what /
want him? Is there no man who has
already made himself? How do 1 know
that could fashion him? o! know
what you would say. The all-perfect
mortal who would inspire me with a
love so cxtravagant is nowhere to be
found-exists nowhere but in mine own
imagination. Perhaps it is better for
me as it is; passion like torrent in
the violence of its course, might also,
like the torrent, leave ruin and desola-
ton. But why should take less than
my ideal, when / feel it to be the wis
dom of the gods to hold fast by ones
ideals? Why, because the little crowd
that makes your world and mine. talks
and gapes and Wonderfully should /
give up my ambitions, my hopes, the
deep love, the life that would be mine
AYE, and all my pains and sorrows,
for I would miss neither--to marry
some man, for whose footsteps never
listened. whose voice would awake no
glad song in my heart, whose touch
could never make the warm blood burn
and dance in my veins because I was
his, and he was mine-just because it
is the fashion nowadays to wed for any
other reason than that for which the
good God created woman, to be mans
complement"
Her friend sighed as she reflected
that there are some women upon whom
reason is lost in sweet, if sad, unreason-
ability.
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PARTI.

MI VI VnC Va tACAn IL oA1 gACoC y NoA ,
IN has had the courage to be man,
and yet they lay it to my charge that
/ am woman"
think the men themselves, as
they came and went, must have won
dered often what there was in this
woman that held them; and 1t is
doubtful If any one of them ever
answered that question to his or any
ones satisfaction. They could only
tell you she was different to
their mothers and sisters, different to
the women they eventually married.
She herself had once said, with her
swift thought that brought the lights
and shadows In troops across her
speaking face, that perhaps the differ
ence lay in the fact that they never
once understood her; and that also
may have accounted for the unlikeness
to the women they afterwards married
IA man may be pardoned for being
wishful to understand the one woman
by whose side he must pass his days.
Be that as it may, the fact remained
she was IN influence, an important fac
tor In the lives of many, whilst she her
self seemed to stand even outside the
gate of all mems influence and desire. I
doubt If this woman really understood
herself and the power she had to fash
ion her own immortality. Looking at
her, thinking of her, one was wont to
be reminded of some delicate, highly
strung violin AWAITING the maefor
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29

"All that ais you." said the plain
spoken man, 'is laziness. Go to tho
ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways
and be wise =
Il guess I'll have to-" sighed young
Ardup. "rve gone to my uncle 90
often there's nothing left that can
vt : farthing On. Odds end EudA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29

Glass is the most perfectly elastic
substance in existence. A glass plate
kept under pressure In bent condition
for IS years will return to its exact orig
inal form. Steel comes next. chicago
Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29

Mamma-What are you playing with,
darling?
DarIing-With caterpillar and two
Atsle ki'senpillaFs.- Chicago Tribune
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-01-29
Without Distress
Hoods SarsaparIlIo

Is the 0est-in fact the One True Blood Pa'lasl.
Noodle pills cure constipation. = ee1ls
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he went out into the night; and the
morning found her face downwards
upon the rug, as she moaned and
moaned. And outside the rough wind
took up her moan, that moan which has
grown-out of hearts that are broken;
from lives that must still live on
Black and White.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
LIGHT ON CUBAN FINANCES.
No Bonds the Market-A Few sold Al
Forty Cents - Expenses
Very Light.

WAsnINGToN, April deputy Treas
urer Ben iainin Guerra, of the Cuban
Republic. was before the senate com
mittec on foreign relations yesterday.
lie said that only about 500, 900 of Gu
ban bonds had been sold, and that the
bonds were not on the market
at all for general sale. Those
sold had been disposed of for
about an average of 40 cents on
the dollar. He said the expenses
of the Cuban army were very slight,
but that what expenses there were.
were paid by private subscriptions and
bv the returns from the taxation OF
the property in the portion of the is
land controlled by the insurgents.
Not less than S4oJ.0Oo had. he said,
been collected by taxation. The insur-
gent army generally secured .ss sup
plies from the country. and all the sol
diers. both officers and men, were
serving without compensation.
Mr.. Guerra was asked about the
Spanish Cuba bonds issued against the
revenues of the island. lie replied
that he did not know their amount
which report placed at $500. Oo0,O0o. but
that they were the accumulation OF
years of deiclt. Many Of them had, h'
said. been issued to pay the cost o
putting down the rebellion in Cuba.
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WORST WRECK IN MONTANA.
"A Carload OF Dynamite Expiodes ana
Wrecks - Train ~Frightrul
Effects.

GREAT FALLS. Mont. April 9-I'he
worst wreck that ever happened in
Montana occurred on the Montana Cen
trial Thursday night. The dead are:
l.. Oppcnhcirn. engineer.
Charles w. Cockrell. fireman.
A. j. Martin. head brakeman.
West bound freight No. IS arrived
at the Dry Forks bridge. 60 miles from
here, at 6:30- and proceeded to cross.
The train was composed Of is leads.
one ear of dynamite and five empties.
When within % feet of the bridge, the
dynamite exploded. wrecking the
bridge and tearing ten cars to
kindling wood. A hole was torn
in the earth 30 by % feet
and five feet deep. Telegraph poles and
wires were blown out and communities
ton from Great Falls shut off until
yesterday. The bodies of two of the
trainmen were hurled from the wreck
which Immediately caught fire. and
was consumed. II is supposed that the
car containing the powder was de-
rallied on the bridge. and the joltlng
caused IL 10 explode.
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DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.
Two Men, Brothers, Shot Down by n Dcs-
perado, Who Is Afterwards Killed
In His Cell by u Mob.

BROWNSVILLE. Tex. April 1.-TWO
killings and lynching happened here
within three-quartcrs of an hour yes
terday. sam Cobb. a deputy sheriff,
and his brother, Felipe Cobb. who was
a constable, were shot down by Carlos
Guellen. Guellen was wounded by sam
Cobb.
1t seems that the latter was riding
hastily from an election booth h. having
heard row was in progress some
where near. and that Constable Cobb
and policeman were rushing along
after hin. on foot At the corner of an
alley Gucilen sprang out and fired at
Sam Cobb. who returned the fire
Both fell to the ground. Cobb then
rushed up and Guellen rose from the
ground and shot him twice. killing
him almost instantly. a young brother
OF Guellen appeared at the same mo
ment and shot Felipe. Both Gueilens
were arrested, but the younger one
escaped in the excitement.
A mob at once gathered. broke into
the Jail and shot Carlos Gucllcn. kill.
ing him in his cell. The body was
dragged forth into the street and the
crowd was going to burn it, but cooler
counsel prevailed, and the body was
| taken back to the jail.
The trouble grew out of previous
| quarrel between CULLEN and the Cobbs
| CULLEN was considered desperate
character. lie was convicted of assault
to murder at the last term of court. bu
appealed. lie had been in numerous
al. I'm n1.f.-
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FOR RESCUE OF AMERICANS.
A Fleet of Vessels Dispatched to Havana
to Bring Home Our Consuis
and Citizens.

WASHINGTON, April G.-The United
States government has dispatched
feet OF six vessels TO Havana to- trans
port Consul General Lee and all the
United States consular offices, together
with all Americans now in Havana and
Cuba who are repaired to leave the
island at once. The vessels ara
the Bache, the Fern and tho
Mangrovc, all government tenders;
the Olivettc and the Mascottc of the
plant system and the steamship City Of
Key West, which have also been char
tered and form part OF this feet.
In addition to these vessels, Consul
General Lee Is authorized TO charter as
many other vessels as necessary.
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=
Clothing and provisions are being
sent in, in every conceivable wagon
trains. boats and skiffs, canoes ana
dug-outs. The provisions are cooked
ready To be served on arrival, rs there
is but little, II any, chance TO do any
stoves and kitchen utensils
being practically all under water and
fuel scarce article.
There Is Much Anxiety ON the Fart OF
Many.
who have friends in the Hood. The
lcvec is in a precarious condition, as 1t
is being undermined an several places.
IL is thought by conservative people
that the loss of life will reach 100.
That number alone is missing and un-
accounted for, while it is positively
known that A. or 80 have persisted.
The property losses, TO say nothing OF
the damage 10 the levcc and crops, viii
reach over 100000.
The Gap Widening.
The gap in the levec is now over 100
feet wide. and gradually widening.
The water is from ten to fifteen feet
deep all over the town. With the con-
tlnucNl COAtA AliN AC.'s' "a ~
the suffering and sorrow are littla
abatcd.
The known Dead List.
Those known to be dead are:
| Washington c. Callicott.
| Mrs. Washington &. Callicott.
| Col. John A. Callicott.
| Pearl Callicott, daughter OF John A.
Callicott.
Mrs. Paul Phalen and her three chill
dren.
John Reinholdt.
Charles. Anna and Ella Reinhol d'
children of John Reinholdt.
Mrs. Flora Fleck.
Charles Fleclx. adopted son of Mrs
Flora Flccls.
Noah Welsh.
Mrs Noah Welsh.
Mrs Hally.
Mrs G. r. Galloway.
Dora Galloway, aged 10.
Mary Galloway, aged Il.
Charles Clayton, wife and four chill
drcn.
Mrs. Mary McAllister.
Mrs. Allen McAllister.
Mrs Mary Eastwood and child.
Mrs. Robert Spradley.
Florence Evans.
Henry King.
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Henry stafford Little's Princciy Gift 10
His Alma Mater. Princeton.

New YORK. April 9.-iicnry Stafford
Little. formerly clerk in chancery ia
New Jersey. has given 100000 to
Princeton university. This gift will
complete the quadrangle upon
the campus. Three buildings have
been erected around the quad,
one of which is Blair hall.
The Little iormitory-for it will bear
Mr. Littlcs name-will bc siinila- In
design and built of the same stone as
Blair hall.
Mr.. Little is one of the class of ~
On enthusiastic advocate of athletics.
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The Torpedo Flotiiia to Remain NJ Cape
Verde Islands.

New YORK. April "a dispatch to
the World from Cadiz, Spain, says:
The report that the squadron of
evolution and the second hotilla are
about TO sail for Cuba or Porto Rico 10
absolutely false. Positive orders have
been sent to the Cape Verde islands for
the torpedo squadron to stay there.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

LAdy-Do you take instantaneous photo.
graphsg
Photographer madam; can photo.
graph humming bird on the wing, or :
swallow in its flight.
II want my baby's picture taken"
Eyes. madam. Get the little fellow ready.
and ! will prepare Tie chloroform. IN. 2.
Weekly
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THE SCENE IN sHAwsEETowN.

The DcIuge Worse than those OF 1854 end
lsS5-somc Of the known Dead.
RIpowAy, ILL.,, April 9 The scene in
Shawneetown is worse than in 1887. or
in 1854, when there was much suffer
ing and loss of property, but no lives
were lost Every store In town Is full
OF water and no provisions can be had
only, rs they are sent from surrounding
towns. Relief committees are doing
Ill In their rawer to provide for.
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The more work man has, the more other
people want him to do Observation-Disclosures
Democrat.
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We never have a very good opinion Of =
man to whom making an apology comes as
easy as crying comes TO woman.-Atchison
Globe
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

KEY WEST. Fla, April 9--The light
house tender Mangrove arrived here
from Havana. She had % passengers
On board.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

The lease of Wei-Hai-Wei to- Great
Britain has been agreed to by China,
and the British will take possession 40
soon as the Japanese war indemnity
has been paid.
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Moves the bowels each day In order TO bs
healthy this IS necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache.
Price IS and Soc.
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Piso's Cure for Consumption is an A No.
Asthma medicine-W X. Williams, An.
tioch, H., April IL, 1894.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

The Grip OF Pneumonia may be warded of
with Hale's Honey of llorehound and Tar.
pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.