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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-13

First Deaf Nute-"He wasn't 80 vrrv
angry, was he? Second Deaf Mute-aHe
was SO mad that the words he used almost
Dlistered bis fingers. indianapolis Jour.
Postal Precautionary Won expect IN
hear often from your husband? ?" dyes. he
said he'd write; and made him promise to
give his letters to some other man to mail"
Detroit Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-13

Clara-I see Cynthia has decorated her
room with guns, pistols, swords ana the
like. CoTaZ'Yes; she always has been Z
great girl for having arms around her,
Yonkers Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-13

And now, Johnnie" said the Sunday
school teacher, tell me the fourth COM
mandment. Johnnie hung his head. Dear
me, said the teacher, cant you remember
itw Johnny evidently couldn't. "What is
It about? Johnnie couldn't tell that,
teacher. s1'll tell you word or two. and
maybe then it will all come back to YOU ,,s.
Now, listen carefully. Don't lose q word.
Remember the" Hold on" cried
Johnnie. Remember the Maine. Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-13

south does.
These facts are startling and are a
terrible reflection upon southern agri.
culture; but unfortunately they exist.
Is it any wonder we are poor? Is it
strange that with this condition we
and our stock have worn out and eaten
up the entire cotton crop before it is
picked, ginned and sold? The only
strange thing about it is that these are
facts, and that we allow them to con-
tinuc such.
Several years ego there lived about
i've miles from one of the small towns
In middle Georgia q lazy, piddling,
coon-hunting, one-horse farmer. I'm
der the stimulus of . new baby in the
family he planted q small one-horse
crop of cotton and corn. The baby
soon ceased to be novelty and the cot
ton and corn were neglected to grow
up an grass. When August came he
awoke to the fact that he had family
to support and no cotton and corn with
which to support it. In sheer despair
he cut the grass cotton and all. cured
them for hay, and sold the hay in
the town by the load 1t was the
talk OF the town that he made more
clear money from the hay than he
would have made from his cotton and
corn crops if he had cultivated them
every day during the year.
Some say there is no market for
hay. The local market
u
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
Low Necked Gowns by Daylight.

A woman who belongs to that part of
Washington society known in local par
lance as the "old residenter" set tells
me that she has seen more women wear
ing low necked gowns in broad day
light this season than in all her life be-
fore. remember that several years ago
the pretty daughter of presidents Sec
rotary appeared decollete at an afternoon
reception given in her honor. Everybody
criticised her for it, and yet this season.
no longer ago than last week, I saw more
than one low necked gown among the
receiving party at the afternoon recep-
ton of the wife of a certain great re-
public's representative here. More than
that, behind "the line" at the White
House Wednesday evening was a beau
tiful red gown, in which, one afternoon
within the fortnight, it's owner poured
tea, her handsome shoulders not whit
1Hore covered than they were Wednes-
day evening. Time was, you know,
when the wearing of full dress before
dinner was hopelessly bad form, but it
may be that the fashion has changed
and that we are returning to the GUS
toms Of our grandmothers' days, when
ladies of fashion drove out to make Wis
it's of an afternoon in low necked gowns.
Washington Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
The Louis Seize Bow.

There is great rage at present for
the Louis XVI bow. Fashioned of car
nation colored velvet, it ornaments the
left shoulder of white or black even
ing dress. A small bow to match is used
as the mount of an aigret or ostrich
tip in the couture. The points to re-
member are, first, that the bows must
match in color, material and pattern f.;
second, they must not be the same size;
third, that the smaller is intended as
part of the headdress. But just now i6
is the shoulder bow at the left that
gives finish to toilet. In no case must
there be bow on both shoulders. Such
is the ukase of an autocratic modiste,
who lays down. the law with the COM
Portable consciousness that it is an ulti-
matum. The fat is going forth.
The bow is not always of velvet. 1t
may be made Of lace. net. or tulle, in
which case it is wired with silvery Sin
visible" wire. The lace may be jetted
or pearIed. The velvet or satin ribbon
bow, if it be of the true Louis Seize
type, requires wiring. Black wires are
used with dark colored bows: :,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
A Plucky Maine Woman.

Mrs. Ada M. Cole is new woman of
whom Maine is proud. She went out
for constitutional one morning, track
ed deer over miles Of Maine wilder
ness, shot him and dragged him home
by the leather thongs of her belt.
Mrs. Cole often takes her rife and
goes out for a walk in the neighborhood
of her home at Gilead. With small
game she is always successful and much
has fallen to her shot. But the other
morning when she saw great deer tracks
leading over the wooded heights of
South mountain she felt an irresistible
impulse to follow.
So she did. She followed and fol-
lowed. Finally over the top Of swell
in the mountain she saw him 800 feet
from her. She raised her heavy repeat
ing rife and shot. The bullet entered
his neck, and he dropped behind a
clump of bushes. ="
Between Mrs. Cole and her home lay
a mountain and many miles. But she
couldn't leave her deer. She slid him
down the mountain on which she had
killed him, across the valley and up the
next mountain.
She was tired though very proud
being when finally her prize was at
home and her husband ceased rocking
their 3-year-old child to come and adj
mire it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
The Blouse Bodice.

One thing pointing to a new lease Of
life for the blouse bodice is that this style
favors the fancy for what is known as
slashing-an effect much employed by
both ladies' tailors and dressmakers. A
handsome model just completed-mak
ing one of half dozen gowns included
in very pretty trousseau-is Of soft
fawn colored cloth lined with green and
gold shot taffeta. The blouse bodice is
slashed from the waist upward for some
distance, perhaps nine inches, and re-
veals green satin bodice beneath. This
is striped horizontally with narrow gold
braid. The blouse is cut out rather low
and rounding in the neck, with guimpe
of the braid striped satin showing above.
The close sleeves, made with full short
puff at the top, are also slashed to show
satin interstices. Judiciously carried
out, this now familiar form of decora-
ton proves very effective and, strange
to say, has never. become sufficiently
popular to become in the least hackney
ed. Inch wide bands of brown fur were
used to outline the edges where slash
ings were made on the gown just de-
scribed. New York Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
A Boys Club.

Last October boy of II years living
in Denver walked into his mother s
room one afternoon, followed by nine
other boys, and said: "Mother, we boys
have been talking the matter over, and
we have come to ask you to start club
for us just like the women's big club
that you are member of and that you
and papa talk so much about, where you
tell him you learn SO much and have
such good times. Joe thinks<it would be
a fine thing, and he. believes his mother
would help you to do it for u.s." ..
The mothers talked the matter over,
and now there is a fully organized club
called the Adelphinas, with Il. boys
ranging from 10 to Is years as members.
A committee from the woman,s club
helps the boys to carry on their club.
At each meeting they hear an interest
ing talk on some historical character
and have short parliamentary drill.
Each boy responds to his name with a
quotation or with: some good item Of
current news. Joe Morris is president.
-Woman's Journal. go.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
Book Cover Designers.

One reason given for the success of
women as designers Of book covers is
their quick appreciation of the appropri-
ateness of design and material for the
context of the book to be covered. They
do not, for instance, clothe the thoughts
Of Marcus Aurelius in pink and gold,
although certain mystics believe pink to
be the soul color. Nor do they believe
that Democracy Triumphant" should
wear dress Of purple flags. It is the
artistic consistency they manage in the
completion Of dainty volume that
makes their work popular. At the Phil
adelphia School of Design the girls
are given q subject once a week-the
title of some book-for which a cover
is to be made. The most successful
designers of the books named last week
1.-THE Queens Of England, kings
and Queens of Scotland, 1.-THE Bonnie
Brier Bush" and "Poems''-were made
by Miss Theodore M. Anderson, Miss
Anna B. Kraus, Miss Mary S. Graid,
Miss Marie A. Morton, Miss Eva Cham
bers, Miss Maud Mueller and Miss Edna
V. Free. The designs were made in the
oolors in which they would be repro
duced, and one was drawn on the cloth
which could be used, which is said to
be better way for insuring the exact
repetition of design, as the binder may
not always be able to match the color
in the paper model.
1t is said this industry has increased
rapidly since Archibald Leighton in
1892 introduced the.cloth binding prod
uct as now known.-New York Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
The Shirt WAIST.

The shirt waist, says New Yori.
fashion writer, has . firm hold on wo-
mans heart-and a mans, too, as far
as that goes, for the average man is very
fond Of a natty looking shirt waist.
Perhaps that's one reason woman has
haen so true to, this garment 80 long.
Another reason is because its definition
Is solid comfort. The spring and sum-
mer shir: waists, which are now dis
played in the big department. stores,
will be even more comfortable than
those Of 1897, and the designs are far
more beautiful. The blouse is the IA
vorite style, and cotton, cheviot, pique
In all ooIors. duck and fine ginghams
are most desirable materials. Women
generally got enough Of flimsy shirt
waists last season. Those made of sheer
linen, batiste, organdie, and SO on are
beautiful to look at, but the beauty all
comes out in the wash. These materials
do not take starch well, and it is i'm
possible to give them fresh, stylish
look in laundering them. Thus the
chief charm Of shirt waist vanishes.
The materials which promise to be most
fashionable this year all do up we'll and
look better after each washing.
Stripes are very mOdish, and most OF
them run round instead of up and down.
This gives a plump look to even an
angular figure, especially when the
waist is made to blouse. The waists
made of bias plaids are also swagger
looking. Those made of oheviot, duck
or pique, in white or solid colors, are
embeIlished. with tucks running up,
down, across or zigzag, according to
fancy. A figure that does not look we'll
in shirt waist is to be pitied, but there
are plenty of such figures.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
An Enterprising Woman.

Mrs. Annie l.. Y. Orff of st. Louis is
one of the most enterprising business
women in the west. Thrown upon her
own resources some dozen years since,
she saw an opportunity for work in a
railroad timetable. Her venture turned
out to be SO satisfactory that she learned
to correct railroad time and added that
to her other work. Mrs. Orf now pub
fishes the official railroad timebook Of
St. Louis, which is also complete city
guide. It is revised and published once
a month. Later she brought out a chap
eron or shopping guide, which as we'll
met with immediate success. It was
made SO attractive that although twas
only an advertising pamphlet to begin
with it became SO popular that SUBJ
scription price was put upon it. The
chaperon was changed few years since
into large home magazine. Mrs. Orf
was the woman manager of the Missouri
exhibit at the Columbian exposition.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
coMlcAL EGGS.

Simple Tricks That Can BE Easily Fer.
formed Though They Look Dimcuie.
1T is really very strange" said Har-
old, show long person may look at
thing without seeing it. If you've been
looking at that ostrich egg on the book
shelf for minute, you've been looking
q good quarter Of an hour, Alice, and
yet don't believe you know what you
were looking at. A penny for your
thoughts, Alicer' .,..
"Oh, they're not worth it, Harold"
replied the little fair haired girl who
lay ourled up in the big library arm
chair. 81 was only thinking what queer
old things eggs are sometimes"
every queer indeed, especially II
they're DID," assented Harold gravely.
EAT that birthday party Cousin Eva
gave last Wednesday-you couldn't 20,
You know, because your arm had been
hurt playing football-there were some
Of the queerest acting eggs you ever saw.
You should have seen how they be-
haved," said Alice,
but I never saw eggs act at all, y
cried Harold. "You really surprise me,
Alice. OF all the tranquil, harmless,
inofensive, quiet sort of living crea-
lures I ever came across, eggs break the
record"
"But these weren't living; they were
boiled" said Alice. II don't think that
explains matters" began Harold, but
Alice went on unmindful of the inter-
ruption. "When we had our boiled
eggs, Cousin Edith took two Of them,
and then she told us the story about
Columbus and his egg. Columbus said he
could discover America, you know, and
they said he couldn't and that you
might as we'll try to make an egg stand
up on end. Columbus said that was
nothing; he could do it, and he smashed
his egg right down so it broke in the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
Evading the Law.

The new city charter of Kalamazoo,
Mich, requires the appointment of a
police matron, but the politicians do not
want one. They put the matter off as
long as they could, and when they were
obliged by law to make nominal ap-
pointment the board of supervisors fixed
the matron s salary at $40 year, thus
making it practically impossible for any
woman to give her time to the work.
This is an object lesson on the need Of
municipal woman suffrage. Would the
city authorities have been likely to act
thus if half the constituents upon whom
their reelection depended had been
u1meu?-W oman's Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
A PosTM,sTREss.

ASs. CeoGA1, Widow Of Late Postmaster
q PittsAeld. IN Charge Of the Once.
Mrs. Harriet T. Coogan, wife Of the
late Postmaster Of Pittsfeld, Mass,
William g. Coogan, has been appointed
by the bondsmen of the late postmaster
as acting postmaster. She is the first
woman In western Massachusetts, to
hold an office of this size. i..
The Pittsfeld postoffice has lately
been made q first class Office, and the
bondamen of the late postmaster have
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24

end of it, and his egg stood up. Just
think of it, Harold-on a clean table
cloth, and likely as not the egg was soft
boiled! Well, Cousin Edith said that as
time went on and people progressed in
the arts and sciences they learned more
about eggs than their aunt's sisters
knew. % -~... y
IS Ancestors?' said Harold inquiringly.
"'Aunt's sisters, - retorted the little
girl quickly, land that we could man
age the egg trick much better nowadays
She stood one Of her eggs up on it's lit
tie end and didn't break it either Then
she made it lean over, and it stayed
that way and didn't roll down. She took
another egg, balanced it on it's end and
put the first egg on top, and they both
stood up, one on top Of the other. Aft
erward she built up the goblets the
queerest way, and balanced the egg on
them and on the edge of the mouth of
the decanter of milk, and it stayed
there, leaning over, but never fell, and
oh, she did all sorts of things like
that"
There is no trick of such simplicity so
easily performed that is as effective in
puzzling, interesting and amusing
party Of children as the antics of the
eccentric eggs, which Alice was at
tempting to describe.
The eggs to be used must be blown.
Make small perforations in the egg at
either end, and, holding it over a cup
or some other receptacle. apply your
lips quickly to one Of the holes, and
with your breath force the contents out
of the other. Stop up one Of the perfora-
tions with white wax and drop into the
other the smallest shot you can procure,
until the weighted end makes the egg
stand securely in any position in which
it may be placed, then stop up with
your wax the other aperture, and your
trick egg is complete.
If shot is not to be procured, common
sand will answer. AS it is much lighter
than the leaden shot, however, it will
require more Of it to accomplish the
purpose.
The eggs are brought upon the table
along with others and are seemingly Sc
lected at random by the performer.
The accompanying diagrams will sug-
gest different positions in which the
eggs may be placed and these may be
varied according to the fancy of the per-
former. Constitution.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
TIME CARD.
Departure Q
Trains at
Sank Centre

- GOING WEST.
MOL No.. 8 No.
Leave St.Paul $40 am. 4:3O pm. 7:U pm
ArSauk Cent? l2:52p.m. $50 pm. ll:5S q IN
GOING EAST.
No.2 No.4 NOS
Lv.Sauk Centre 2:40p. m. 95S q. m. 3:i5 am.
Arrive st. Paul 6:45 p. m. Ids p. m, 7:SO an.
PARK RAPIDS BRANCH.
Arrive at Sank Centre ......... .lGW Pm
Leave Sank Centre observation-disclosures: oo Pm
All trains run on Sunday except Nos and ..
and the branch
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
Wants a Diplomatic Position.

Mrs. Cora Chaplain.:We iced of Musca-
tine, Ia, has presented q petition, sign
ed by 1900 prQminqent citizens OF her
state, in which she asks for a. Diplomatic
appointment to- either Switzerland or
Germany. The petition is at present in
the hands Of President Mckinley. Mrs.
Weed is q trustee Of a leading college in
Iowa. ..
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24

demonstrated their confidence in Mrs.
Coogan's business ability by the ap-
pointment. Since assuming the duties
of the Office she has carried on the bust
ness without a hitch.
The friends Of the late postmaster
have circulated a petition, that has been
generally signed, asking the postal au-
thorities at Washington to allow Mrs.
Coogan to serve until the term of her
late husband expires, in March. 1899.
Mrs. Coogan was a Miss Claffey. She
married Mr.. Coogan April 16, 1880, and
is the mother of five children.
The bonds of the Office are $50, 600.
Boston Globe.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO, I, :.
Il. LUCAS COUNTY. sl

STATE OF OHIO, CRY OF TOLEDO, :,
r. LUCAS COUNTY. %
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that
he 10 the senior partner Of the firm OF
r. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business
in the City Of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said firm will
pay the sum Of ONEHUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case Of
CATARRH that cannot be cured by
the use OF HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
In my presence, this 9Th day OF Decem-
Der, A. D. 1885.
SEAL: N A. W. :, e1nAsqs,H,.
49, Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure If taken inter-
Aally and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the Of the sys-
TEEN. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
HSold by Druggists. 75c.I
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-24
so Years.
improvements In Farming.

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Illustrations of Old fashioned nipple.
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A vast amount of practical informa-
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Extremely interesting and instruc'
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Send your order to
49, THE HERALD,
Sank Centre, MINI.
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American Board Inspector.

Col. C. A Hopkins and wife, pas
sengers by the Gaelic, were with
friends in Honolulu all during the
stay Of their steamer in port. Colonel
Hopkins is a member of the Pruden-
tial Committee of the A. B. c. F. M.
and is en- route to China and Japan
to make a personal inspection Of mis-
sionary work Others are to join him
and are travelling by the northern
route. Colonel Hopkins is G. A. r.
man and is in the insurance business.
He was shown about Honolulu by w.
w. Hall and others and in the after
noon the Colonel and Mrs. Hopkins
were given an informal reception at
the home of Rev. d. P. Birnie and
Mrs. Birnie. The travellers made a
strong impression here.
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Will Go to Sydney.

Capt. J. A. King, Minister of Inter
iorf has decided to make the round trip
to the Colonies by the Oceanic S. S.
Mariposa, due this evening or tomor-
row morning. This will give the Min
lister about thirty-four days afioat and
he agrees with his physicians that the
voyage will do him good. Minister King
is ehe only one of the Ministers who
has: Served since 1893 without any vaca-
tion and he is an early riser and hard
worker. 1t is more than likely that
Attorney General Smith will act as
Minister of the Interior during the
absence of Capt. King. This will be
settled after a conference with Presi-
dent Dole
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HOUSE.
Thirteenth Day, March 4.

Thirteenth Day. March d.
House called to order at the usual
hour. Prayer by the chaplain and
minutes of the previous day read and
approved.
For the Attorney General the Mar
shall writes the House in reply to a
question that prisoners of three
months or over are frequently brought
from Maui and Kauai to give them
iail accommodations and work.
The Attorney-Genera1 presented the
answer OF the Minister of Foreign
Affairs to the question regarding cor
respondence with Japan, propounded
by Representative Atkinson. Minister
Cooper's reply is as follows:
Mr. JAtkinson's request is understood
to be an inquiry as to the reasons
which led the Government to suggest
that the principal Of arbitration be rec
ognized in the pending controversy be-
tween this Government and Japan
should the parties fail to arrive at a
settlement of the questions involved
There is little to be said beyond what
| is contained in the letter of the De-
partment to Mr. Shimamura under date
| of June 2S, 1897, and the allusion tC
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Buys More City Land.

c. S. Desky seems to have designs
on Beretania street between Fort and
Nuuanu This week he has very quiet
ly purchased from J. H. Bruins that
tania, near Nuuanu occupied by Mrs.
Gertz. The building is frame and not
new, but the lot has a frontage of ga
feet and 140 feet deep. For the pres
ent the building will remain as it is.
After Mr.. Desky has finished up the
Progress block he may do something
fine with his new lot. He has ever
since his arrival in Honolulu harbOred
the belief that Beretania would be-
come business street for some dis
tance in the direction of Punahou.