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The San Francisco call., 1899-12-31

Of the waggin had the spokes twisted OF
at the hub and the tire end Of the spoke
was not disturbed
Where / had been work.n, / had left
heaps Of brush. high as this ceilin
around iE different places. and every one
of them 'Ccpt one was carried away bod
ily and tha: one was left in very queer
shape. 1t looked lust like a circus ring
the cyclone just took and made Il into a
perteck circle and left IT.
THE OF musket that we ust TO keep
hangin Up on the forked deers' horns
over the mantel-board well. that was car
bank. about a hundred yards from the
house-driven in stick first, clean up to
the hammer and pointin straight toward
the house.
we had lot O. bees too. and there
was a lively time with them bees. tell
you. hive Of them was set down on
the floor Of the settin room. and had fun
possession--the floor Of the house was left.
YOU know-ony just the sides and roof
was carried of
There was another man on the place
and Ire Was saved in peculiar way. lie
was a awful kind-hearted feller and he
was safe I'm the barn. when he spied two
little lambs "A little ways off. lie run out
and grabbed them, and the next thing he
knowed. he SAYS, the cyclone was past
and him hangin' onto a post set in the
ground. with one arm round the post and
one of the lambs in the other. The other
lamb went 10 kingdom come. 1 reckon
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Su<2xy or Not Su<zyy.?
twenty Years IN Jan Quentin and Death at
Cast for a Survivor of the Famous
Fremont Expedition.

T~HE other. day an old man died in
me state prison at san Quertln.
lf'Ras not an unusual event-it was
nof attended with any unusual cere-
\ mong The remains were placed I'm
= plain redwood box. The box was hoisted
int0 heavy prison wagon. then the con
rigt driver and his convict assistants. un-
acr tle supervision of a prison official.
haetclcd over the Intervening half mile OF
barren waste to the prison burial ground.
whore tho convict laborer whose duty IL
was no die graves had made ready the al
!uttcd siN feet 81 earth.
The wagon followed a devious path
through ;he jutting headstones. The
stones were simple and mahy were
marked with the eloquent inscription.
'Dled OF rurshot wounds" the epitaph OF
those who had made a fatal attempt 20
escape. The wagon was unbHrdened. the
box was lowered and the few simple
words Of The prison chaplain, with the
dronc OF the brief orthodox PRAYER con-
cluded the incident.
The man was 50 years old
Twenty of these wears ne had spent or
the barren island within prison walls. ir
cXpiation of "a crime which with his dyins
breath hc swore he did not commit.
The crime with which the people of IN,
State of California charged Frank Calme
was that Of murder. and the verdict thai
The jury found was guilty" The degre,
Was fixed first degree and the sentence fol
life Imprisonment That was in the year
ls7a
Frank Calmel mad a comfortable littl,
home on the banks OF Fish Creek. n
Kern County. near his prosperous char
coal claim. which he had located during
the period he was engaged I'm charcoal
mining for Senator Jones, who had SEN
him there in 1854
on the fourth day OF July he wen
hunting. and, returning with his gun. OBJ
served a man in the act OF leaving hi:
house Frank Calmel had a store OF gooC
whisky in his cabin. and the motive oi
tho intruder he Immediately ascribed tC
theft.
lie rushed up the doorsteps. dragging
his gun after him. The man, who hac
darted back into tho house, reappeared n
tie doorway, and as he did so there wa,
a loud explosion and the intruder dropped
dead. The Law said Frank Calmel sho
him.
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could j do? have no home to go to and
| have not friend or relative throughout
the whole world. ! am so years OF age
and helpless. Life outside would offer me
no opportunities. | am happy and con-
tent"
He paused as he finished speaking. then
bursting into tears exclaimed: NO, ] am
not, and ! never will be until the world
knows me 10 be innocent II you write
about me say that / swear by all hold
sacred that / am innocent If | thought
that my Innocence was established i could
die content"
The old man was led away--friendless
and old and Ill. In the bent frame of the
aged convict creeping about the dreary
prison grounds there was little TO suggest
the tall sinewy cowboy of pioneer days
the robust miner OF 49-or the daring
scout OF the famous Fremont party: re-
signed to an inevitable fate he was tran
GULLY awaiting the coming of death-and
he had not long TO wait.
A few days later. while the sentries
were going their rounds, they saw the
old man citing. thinking. in the sunshine.
his long white hair over his shoulders,
and little later they found HIM lying in
sensible on the hard floor. IL was r
stroke OF paralysis. and with the coming
OF another sun the troubled soul had fed
That was the way the life of the last
survivor OF the famous Fremont expedi-
ton was ended-in loneliness, friendIess-
ness and disgrace. The other members
OF the expedition have long since been
laid TO rest and their graves are marked
with costly stones OF more or less elab-
orateness of inscription, but the burial
place OF Frank Calmel is within prison
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bein' in peril like that-one IS never
afraid OF gettin' killed. but you are aw-
fully afraid OF gettin' hurt never
thought about gettin killed. but ! was
skeered to death O. gettin' hurt and liv-
in.
There was a great many singular
things happened In that roundup. | see
where several milk pans from neigh
bor's dairy lad been flung against acn.e
trees so hard as TO flatten them out and
lap them right around the t.ees-young
saplin' fruit trees-so that TIE pans cir
eleA clear around th4 tr4ae ard .l.---.44l-.
met. The Young saplin' trees. YOU know.
stayed in the ground. while the big oaks
were carried away roots and all
Il noticed a funny thing about the
waGgin wheels, too. on one side Cf the
waggin the wheels appeared TO have the
spokes twisted off right at the tire ali
around. and the hub was perfeckly un-
harmed. and the wheels on the other side
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He said that when the cyclone struck him
II Jest whipped him up and down that
post and everlastin'ly whallOped him. but
the post stuck fast and saved his bacon.
II noticed. too. afterward. that some OF
the soft green shingles that come off the
new roof OF the barn had been driven
into the hard, old seasoned rails OF the
fence. nearly through the rails The
soft wood had been hurled with sech
force against the hard wood that IL
didn't phase 1t a all. but drove II right IN.
There was lot OF swallows thet ust
to build their nests under the caves OF our
barn. and l guess the cyclone must a-hit
flock OF 'em because we found a whole
bunch OF 'em layin' together on the
ground dead
I'VE also found new barn down in
the end OF our field. all set up I'm good
shape. but we returned II 10 a neighbOr
thet lived two miles up the road The
cyclone had carried it all the way without
damagin' II a particle.
mo: none of us was killed. but there
was plenty killed all around US. That
cyclone was a terror-it tore up the coun-
try for space of two miles wide In some
places, but averaged about a mile-and IL
never stopped still It struck Lake Michi-
gan and lost itself out in the water
You needn't be 'fraid of exaggeratin'.
no matter how much you drawed on your
imagination i'm writin about a cyclone
you can't describe II too vivid-anything
thet YOU can imagine is apt 10 happen in
cyclone Maybe IL wouldn't be be-
lieved. but | actually saw one house
where the whole thing had been lifted up
and taken away and there was nothin'
left 'cept the cellar and sacks OF potatoes
and things had been carried out but
the milk pans was undisturbed and
the cream risin' as nice and tranquil as
could be. not even ripple of disturbance
over the whole surface Of the pans
MIR. Chandler. neGhbor OF Ourn. told
me that when he saw the cyclone coming
he hustled the folks all into the cellar. and
Just as he was son' down himself the
whole top of the house went off with Il
whlrl. He he'd jest helped hts mother-in-
law. who was crippled. down through the
trap-door. and was gOin' down hlsself:
he looked out through the under-pinnn'
under the house. between the floor and the
ground, and he see his big. heavy wood
waggin. that he had jest piled full of
heavy green rails, standin' still In the yard
one minute and the next IL was lifted
off'en the earth and went up i'm the air
like a kite. .he whole thing together.
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w Ss'95 4 s.+: IF "a a':s.s n Of. f':"i I'll:
dozen bananas from a pendent
huEch dropped them into a bag
ana handed his customer the change Mr.
Crane is the genial gentleman in charge
of a. miscellaneous assortment of fruits
fDVungly arranged I'm tho foreground Of
prosperous looking fruit store in oak
lar9. and what he was going 20 tell when
tEo stipulated minute had elapsed was the
story Of his experience with a somewhat
l.lytll cyclone "out in Wisconsin In IS
'l WAS working on "A farm" said he.
'fo- an English family named shepherd.
ln Dane County. cutting down trees. II
was raining like the deuce and / was
watching Mr.. Shepherd. who was some
distance away. 10 see if he wan going
tc guit and run for cover. I WAS anxious
20 please him and Didn't want 10 quit till
he did. Well. pretty soon I see him on
bitch his horses and start for the barn.
arid SO ] laid down nay AK Neither one
~ us was afraid of anything 'cept gettin'
wet We want crganlin' ~ anything like
= cyclone
But weren't you in the cyclone belt?'
d qucried. with some idea that they were
an everyday occurrence in Wisconsin
WAL y'u know cyclones don go by
reg lar routes they pay va a visit once
in lifetime maybe. and that's enough.
"Waal as ] started for the house about
mile away / got out in the clearing and
] noticed the tops OF the trees all s-sway-
ing toward the direction OF the cyclone
- -4+=4f4-t +=4+-E- e-.-eit4f4t tiifeft
Guess r must been Tho suction of the
tnlng that made them bend that way. ana
Thought IL was queer. because ] couldn't
ircl ht ~ "a current of air. and | fig
Eered 20 out that something new was
Soin 20 happen. with still air on the
ground and strong current only fifty
or sixty feet above me. There was a kind
of "a distant roar that ] didn't know what
t1 max, Of too. I turned around. and
when ] looked toward the north I saw
what looked like great bunch Of rain
bows. all runniu perpendicular and com
in toward me pretty fast
And then the rain began TO pour: ip-
stead ~ rainin'. just come down in bar
rels fun, and made me fight for my breath
lke ] Was drowning. ln a minute I was
soaked to The skin. and then didn't
hurry. ho ause knew I couldn't get any
N,tter. and that Was an was afralo II
stood there looking al that bunch OF
iairhe0s aud D noticed IL coming closer
ana the trees swaginE more Violently
Nhile ] was Uoaderin'. I felt somethin'
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Rode Cvchne Quarters lille Dell

The letters and things were out IN the
woods, alongside OF a neighbor's washin'
machine
1T took us quite while 10 realize we
were alive-and when I got 10 a neigh
bor's who had escaped. an looked into the
mirror l found myself almost gray-in
three months my hair was as white as II
is now. l was only nineteen, and I am
thirty-eight now, and have eot no right
TO sech 4 head OF hair as this Y'u can
see for yourselfi"
His hat came off with sweep. disclos-
ing closely cropped but almost perfectly
white head of hair.
1T was the nervous strain, SUPPOSE"
he said, but there is one thing about
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-31
In the Center of the Stor n.

begin 10 pelt met was the hail. Without
eXsggeration. them hailstones war as big
as goose-eggs. and some OF em bigger
They didn't come very thick, tho and
when i had two hit me on the arm I
knew enough to realize that II one hit
me on the top of the head il would a
been all of. so / put my arms over nv
mead. and nc sooner had | done so than
Maidstone hit one OF my hands. which |
heId over my temple, and IL broke one of
my fingers. split IL wide open and broke
the bone-thars the scar"
And so IL vas-a long ugly white mark
nearly the length OF the index finger.
Naal, mex thing / knew, II come Tie
rainbo"s turred into a mass of dirt and
boards. and waggin-wheels and things
ana got free ride OF three-Quarters of
a mile. Ii must a took some time. but |
was only conscious Of being picked up
Ike feather, and violently thrown down
again. couldn see anything. because |
had my eyes shet-had TO for the dirt
and the mex thing | knew | hit the
ground. and went right down into t.
Tor a wonder i tit on my teet--and right
Ia a slush-so there want much dan.a,,e
done TO me. ! Just went down into the
mud up 10 my knees-and stopped-not
much the worse for my little aeronauticai
ascent. was kind OF surprised. and
stunned. think. When I knew enough to
look around, / see a great change. The
cyclone was tearing up a great fuss way
ooWn the country, maxim that terrible
roar, and there want a house I'm sight
everything was swep' away as clean as
whistle. 'cept the big barn. standin' out
there alone; had been built strong. aid
the cyclone just took the roof off of it
only the shingles: II left the rafter work
and II was very singular to note the
substitoot IL supplied. There was a big
haystack near there. and the haystack
was lifted bodily and put on in place of
the shingles, as even and nice as a brush
arbor.
'Waal. made for that barn. and when
] passed by what had been the house il
was a pile OF ruins-and a very small pile
at that. / was half crazy. and 1 yelled
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-31

out. Fer Gods sake. is there any OF yez
alive?' For answer 1 saw some heads
stickin' out OF the barn window, and there
was Mr.. ard Mrs. Shepherd. safe ana
sound, but the school-marm who was
boardin' at the house was missin'. We
didn't know where she was blowed to-
and didn't never expect TO see her alive
again. but pretty soon. while we was all
standin' there daZed we heard a voice
coming from pile Of pickets that
the cyclone had stacked up for us and
there she was, not hurt mite. but fenced
right in between the rails. and rails piled
up all around her. II was simply niracu-
lous the way she was fenced in there, and
nothin' the matter 'cept sprained ankle
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y AIT a minute and I'll toll you all
n about IT," said Mr.. Crane. as
wv he deftly picked of a half
y dozen bananas from a pendent
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-31

we found our buggies and w7c-trs
scattered all through the woods and nl
one OF the buggies the whippie-tr..- urf
missin'. and the loose things about tu-
vehicle were all there-the whippie-tr..-
you know are bolted fast
"And the bedsteads, Vaal YOU Isst
ought 10 have saw them, The Iti-f.rds
We had ir them days want mo- himsl lf.
fairs-they was made ouJeu heavy. hard
hickory wood and put together iu -a.u %
way that nothiu' short OF u steam .uI.us
could a-pulled 'em apart. But when wt
found those bedsteads out in the woods
they was all 90 pieces. and at tho Joints
OF the pieces they was twisted off -O tllt
the ends OF the pieces looked like brushes
the splinters OF the wood was AS Gr. TOSS
the hairs OF clothes brush. T'u bed
jest about as soon take your chances % "a
buzz-saw as in a cyclone. ] got off with
broken finger and this head of hair but
IL was miracle. and / amt ncgcrin' on
goin through eny more sech experiences
If can help. and don't YOU fergit it.'
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or 100000 American families the ir-
come of 100000 of these families i- Jess
than 500 each per year, and tne incomes
Of nearly ~ per cent Of the eutir, uumber
are less than $1,000 each per year
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-04

PETERSON BROS. & CO., Grain ana
Commission Merchants.
JOSEPH AUSTRIAN. OF leopold Il
Austrian Transportation Company.
d. v. PURINGTON, Brick Manufact-
urcr.
II. GRUSENDORF, Lumber Dealer.
RUDOLPH Il. RHODE, Wholesale
Druggist.
JAS. Il. McELROY, Of las. Il. McElroy
e. Co.. Real Estate.
ALBERT 7. otto. Capitalist.
II. Il. SHEDDING. Capitalist.
THOMAS Il. MARSTON. Attorney.
DOLESE & SHEPARD. Contractors.
NJ. II. KILGALL.EN. Real Estate.
ALFRED KOHN, Wholesale Grocer
A. J. J. MILLER, Lumber Dealer
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-04
MOVE YOUR FACTORY
CHICAGO HEIGHTS,


tn entopurh hom d
and
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-04

LEICllT & BARTHOLOMEW, Brew.
ers.
RUDOLPH BRAND. President United
states Brewing Company.
GEORGE W. KELl.NER, Of Schmidt
Brewing Company.
Il. q. UlIILEIN. President Scllitz
Brewing Company.
JOHN CCDAHY, Packer.
MICHAEL CUDAHY. Packer.
LACKNER e. BUTZ. Attorneys.
GEORGE BURY, Attorney.
WILLIAM Woke. Attorney.
JURGENS 4 ANDERSEN, Wholesale
Diamond Merchants.
ANDREW c. LAUSTEN, Of the Lin.
seed OH Trust.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-09

a comparison of the court expenses
in Rapides parish for the four years
in which Judges Blackman and Hun
ter respectively presided shows saw
ing OF $9O52 35 in favor of Judge
Hunter. The official records show
the courts held by Judge Blackman
Tor the years 18S7-S-9 and 1890, cost
Rapides parish $21, 947 20, while the
courts presided over by Judge Hunter
in 1S96-7-S-9, only cost the parish
$ll,S96 50. Vote for Hunter if you
wish to have efficiency and economy
in the administration Of justice.I
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-09
SURE CURE ron cnOIr

Twenty-Five Years. G nst mt lis. ,y;.,,..
a. Failure
Inc frst indication of croup il
'noarseness, and in child subject to
.na1 ulsease 1t may be taken as a
sure sign of the approach ~ .n
tack: Following this hOarsena s =; g q
peculiar rough cough. If Chanher'
lain 8 Cough Remedy is given as soon
as the child becomes hoarse. or even
aiuer the croupy cough appears. IL
VIII prevent the attack. ii, is nsad
IN many thousands OF homes In this
Droad, land and never dIssanoinfs
the anxious mothers. We have vet
20 earn OF single instance which #
nas not proved efectual. No other
twenty five years. constant n,a
without a failure. For sale nv Fl
McNeeiy, Colfax; Bush & Randolph.
Fairronnt. La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-09
Chronicle Bible Glass.

Leviticus, lam of the book.

Leviticus, all of the book.
1t is "the Book of the Laws" to bf
administered by the sons of Levi, O,
the Priesthood. In ch. IT we read o.
burnt meat Tor meal). peace, sin, and
trespass offerings. They were tempo.
rary shadows and types of gospel re.
alities, see Col. 2: II, Heb. g: s and
10: 1. PauPs epistle to the Hebrews
~ an excellent commentary on our
present lesson, and should be studied
with it. Notice, oh. 2: 13, that salt
was an essential with every offering.
Salt signifies not only wisdom and
friendship, but interruption and sin
cerity. Also, Cruden. See Eek. is:
4, and Matt. 5: 13, and Col. 4: 6.
What do you think now? God does
not require impossibilities, see oh. s:
z, IL: 8, and IA: 81. This is prob
ably the origin of the proverb, aGod
tempers the wind to the shorn lamb !"
Ignorance does not exonerate from
the penalty for sin, oh. 5: II. Notice
that the High Priest alone, entered
once a year into the Holy of Holes.
See all OF Heb. ch. 8 and ch. 10: 11-25.
for now every christian may enter by
faith, LIST Peter 2: 8. Read with
great care oh. ID, about the leprosy.
iorthis should Impress you AS astrik.
ing type of sin. All the laws and or
dinances, CHI. 8 to %, are suggestive
and instructive, some were typical.
and Others were evidently designed to
promote health and happiness, CD. Is.
Tor cleanliness promotes both health
and longevity. The typical character
OF the Scape Goat, oh. Is, has given
rise to much discussion. 1t seems
probable that the two goats repre-
sent the two fold nature of Christ.
and also of man, the one sacrificed
and the other set free, see Isaiah az:
4, 8 and 8, and Rom. 6: 6. 8: IA and |
IL: IL.
The expressions in this lesson. "be
ye holy, "shall be put to DEATH"
shall be cut off," should prove a
timely warning to christians of our
lay. Death to wizards, ch. 20: 6. ~. /
md "eyefor eye and tooth for TOOTH"
n. "a: 20, have been repealed and re-
'ersed by the gospel, see Rom. 8: IL,
md Matt. 5: 44-45.
The year OF Jubilee, CHI. 25. should
We prayerfully studied. A thousand
ears is one day with the Lord, Ps.
~: 4, I'd Peter B: 8, and by compar-
ng Gal. 1: 4, we may expect the be-
inning of the Gospel Jubilee before
!. ID. 1000. In ch. 26, we see obedi-
nee insures, not only rain in due
pason," but many other blessings,
ut disobedience will be followed by
consumption" "ague," and MANY
thef kinds of punishment, Oh. 26: ri.
ne Lord changes not, see Malachi 3:
Heb. ID: 8, take warming.
Next lesson, Mum. 1-2O.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-09

Mr.. J. B. wilmut, of Pollock, was
IN Colfax last Monday, and gave us a
call. He has been solicited to run for
police juror for ward two, and we
showed him a petition signed by fifty
OF his friends to that effect. Mr.. VIII
NUT says ne will serve if elected, but
as ne declined to pay for printing his
name on the ticket, and his friends
did not send in the money, we win
have to treat all alike and leave it
on. So those who desire to vote for
Mr.. Wilmut win have to write his
anne on their tickets.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-09

Col. Poindexter Dunn, general at
torney, Mr.. P. McIlreid, general man.
ager and president Of the construction
company, and Mr.. Clarence Elerbe.
Secretary and treasurer, OF the Red
River Valley Railway Co., made a trip
to Pineville and the country below
here this week, for thepurpose of TAX
ing observations and arranging some
OF the preliminaries for building that
road, which will begin work IN this
section as soon as all rights Of way
are secured.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-09

AS a cure for rheuma tism Chamber
Ia'n's Pain Balm IL gaining a wide
reputation. d. B. Johnston of Rich
mond, Ind. has been troubled with
that ailment since 1862. In speaking
OF ft ne says: 1never found ANYTHING
that would relieve me until / used
CnambeTlain's Pain Balm. 1t acts
iike magic with me. My foot was
swoolen and paining me very much.
but one good application OF Pain
Balm relieved me. For sale by j. 81.
McNeely. CoIfax; Bush & Randolph.
Fairmom1t.