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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-01
EDGEWArER LOSES us PoSTOFFICE.

The postoface which for years has been located
a Edgewater viii be removed Tomorrow 20 Pleas
ant Valley where the Fort Lee ferry Tbs
site is more accessible. and hence better service
Is loo ked for by the residents Postmaster Winter
burn will be succeeded to-day by ". c. GOds1rey-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-01
THREE NEW CLYDE LINERS.

The Clyde Line has given TO the Cramp Ship
building Company q contract for the construction
Of three new steamships which 10 be used In
the coastwise snd West Indies trade, The vessels
win be 300 feet ong and 30 feet depth of hold
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-01
SHIP FROM sAyTos oUAP4yrTrrn

riyes 49, -1 snip Tirasndrs, Captain Edget, -
q $500 500 os night from Santos with cargo
cargo win he observation and disinfectton se al
Fay discharged into lighters in tbs rr1 asr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-01

When. through the efforts Of Congressman
Howell an appropriation Of 100000 was secured
for the erection of new postofice building at
New Brunswick, there was much rejoicing in
that staid old city. OF course there was some
disagreement 70 the selection Of the proper
place for the building, but that was finally over
come and the choice was made. The purchase
price was agreed upon, and the matter was all
done but finishing TO speak The Govern
ment was not, however, ready to pay over the
money until a search of the records revealed that
the title TO the realty was clear. Then there
was more trouble and United States District At
torney Rice was necessarily mixed up in il He
was obliged 10 report that the owners Of the
site selected for the postof1ce building would
not pay the costs of the search. II is admitted
by good judges Of real estate, even inclusive,
is said. Of those who have real estate 10 sell 10
the Government II il should change its intention
and decide to select another location, that the
owners OF the site selected obtained good round
sum for the realty chosen. and the contention Of
costs Of the search. But they say that they
will not pay these costs and there the matter for
the present rests The fact that 1t Is resting
does not. however. prevent the contest for the
office OF postmaster going forward as briskly
ever between Mr.. Russell, Mr. StiIlman, Mr..
Banker and others. In the mean time what
Representative Howell thinks of the general
muddIe and the reams Of petitions which he is
receiving he is wisely keeping 10 himself doubt
less as his friend Robert Carson says, because
he is unfamiliar with the supple possibilities
Of the English tongue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-01
RIPARIAN RIGHTS GRANTED AT BArosHE.
BOILER COMPANY PROPOSES TO REMOVE IT'S
WORKS FROM ELIzARErHPoRr.

The New-Jersey Board of Riparian Commissioners
met IN the Fuller Building In Jersey Citv yesrer-
day and granted. conditonaly a right 10 SIS feet
on the XII Won Kuli, in Bayonne TO the Babcock
& Wilcox Company OF Elizabethport- The com
manufactures steam boilers and emDIovss eight
hundred men The grant for its proposed new site
Is between hoeart and Ingram ayes The price Il
si7000. ne company several months ago asked for
500 feet The commission fixed the price at $50 90
or S13 LOOT ~ T3napany yesterday asked for 6Sa
feet at 80 FOOT he price awarded Is at the rate
OF about 80 - LOOT The condition is that within
covering O. 900 square feet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-01
SUES GENERAL CARRIAGE COMPANY.

THOMAS ], MONTGOMERY WAITS HIS STANDING
as A sroCKHoLDER SETTLED
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-01
EW-JERSEY NEWS.

Fully q bakers dozen Of good men and true
willing to fill the two vacancies which win
occur in the State Board Of Assessors The term
Of Robert s Green viii expire March and
that of Stephen ]. Meeker March 10. Among
sion are Ex-senator Frederick c. Marsh. OF
Elizabeth; General Louis Perrine. OF Trenton.
and Herman Schalk. OF Newark. The others are
scattered about various parts of the State,
and OF late have not been urging their prefer
ence for the reason that il has become apparent
that their prospects Of success are hardly worth
considering
II Is known that the Governor has found it
difficult to see his way clear 10 make change
from the present incumbents. From his well
known intimacy socially with ex-senator Marsh
it can safely be said that he has looked with a
great deal of favor upon his candidacy. Nobody
is more willn than Governor Voorhees, 10 do
a favor for an old friend. and as the appoint
ment Is due to Democrat MI Marsh would
be right in line were it not that number Of
the influential friends Of the late Governor
Green have urged the reappointment Of his son
for the sake OF his father. These requests have
been made in such a way and earnestly
upon the ground that Mr.. Green has been
faithful and efficient member OF the Board, in
addition to the other claim, that the Governor
feels that he cannot well. with pTOpriety-
ignore them As to Mr.. Meeker. he is regarded
as a clean and efficient member. and his reap
pointment is quite as earnestly urged that
OF Mr. Green. 1t is therefore not al all prob
able that there viii be any change in the makeup
OF the Board.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03
pIcKPocKETs' GAINS.
According to This Account 1t II .
Fairly Remunerative Calling
In the Aggregate.

The amount of money which pick
pockets take in annually is probably
greater than that of any other special
lists in crime. 1t would be idle to say
how large it is, but it is well-knowr
fact that thousands of dollars are stolen
by them at big public gatherings to
which they have access. 1t was report
ed, for instance, that at The recent con.
federate soldiers reunion in the south
100000 was stolen by pickpockets, and
almost every day in the year one reads
in the newspapers of big "touch"
reaching into the thousands. think
1t is conservative staement to say
that in lifetime the expert pickpocket
steals $4,000. Multiply this figure by
1900, which have given as the number
CT first-class grafters in the country
and the result reaches high up into
the millions. Like other professional
thieves, the pickpocket throws away
his money like water and very seldom
thinks of saving for old age, but prac-
tically all successful mobs have fall
money" Gan expense fund for paying
lawyers, etc., when they get arrested)
of from $4,000 to $4,000 each carefully
banked, and know of one pickpocket
who is the owner of some very valuable
real estate. A good illustration of the
rapidity with which they recoup them
selves financially after period of rest
or term in prison is the story told
about one of them who returned to this
country penniless after pleasure trip
to Europe. The man related the in
cident to a friend of mine. Didn't
have a red" he said. II tackled saloon
keeper knew for couple of thousand.
How long do you think / was paying
him back? Three weeks
If the pickpocket knew how to save
his money and could invest it well his
children might some day be our mil
lionaires.--Isaiah Flynf, in Independ-
ent
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03
satnrn.s Satellite.

The latest discovery in the southern
hemisphere is the satellite of Saturn,
discovered at Harvard from the exam
ination of Photographic plates taken
at Arequipa, and only made known to
astronomers few months since. On
three photographs of Saturn taken in
August, 1898, Prof. w. III. Pickering
detected faint point of the fifteenth
magnitude. which had relative motion
among the neighboring stars. Further
examination showed that this tiny
point, which no mortal eye has ever yet
beheld, must be satellite of Saturs;
and study of all the photographs now
available shows that the body revolves
about Saturn in about IL months. at a
distance OF 100000 miles.-T. ]. j. See
In Atlantic.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03
PROPER VENTILATION.
1t Is Insured by Two Openings, One
Above and the Other
Below.

The method of natural ventilation
that is, providing an opening in or near
the ceiling for the outlet of foul air
is both common and sensible. The eff
cheney of the plan is proved scientifical-
ly, and is based upon the simple fact
that heat expands and cold contracts.
natural law to which air is no excep-
ton. Foul air is generally warmed to
some extent, and then rises to and
passes opt by the opening at the higher
level, its place being taken by cooler
air entering at the lower of the two
openings-in order to insure ventilation
two openings at least being necessary,
one to act as an inlet and the other
as an outlet. The effectiveness of this
natural ventilation depends entirely,
of course, on the difference of temper.
AZURE between the extern al air and the
internal. and, this being the case, the
system may be very effective in winter
and utterly fail in summer; and, as air
dilates or expands one-four hundred
and ninety-first of its volume for each
degree of Fahrenheit that its temper
allure is raised, its weight is consequent.
ly reduced in the same proportion, and
the lighter air is thus forced to the up
per part of the room by the greater
weight of the cooler air. Building
World.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03
! The News in the Extra }
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

HEY were dancing, she with a reck-
j less abandon of enjoyment as OF
one fully determined to drain to the
very dregs the cup of pleasure that fate
held to her lips with rather grudging
hand.
She loved dancing for the pure pleas
ure of it, with its accompaniment of
lights, flowers, signing, sobbing rhythm
of music and the throb of hurrying feet
over gIistening floors. She loved it al
ways, but best when his arm encircled
her, when his quickened heart beat
against her shoulder and his breath
sent the lovelocks about her temples
futtering.
The brown eyes were looking down
into the gray ones tenderly, appeal
ingIy. "Are you not just little sorry
that l am going?" their owner asked.
''Tell me that you are just the least bit
sorry to have me go and can do any
thing, face any difficulty and surmount
1t to bring you back success. That l
am going to bring you loyal heart
! won't promise, Marcella, for am
leaving my whole heart here in your
keeping to treasure or cast away as
you see fit."
Rather long speech to be made in
the whirl of dance, but the young
fellow was desperately in earnest and
was making his last plea for what he
thought his life's happiness. Marcella
loved him he knew, but lid she love
him enough to wait until he had
achieved fortune enough to justify him
in making her his wife? All Marshall
town would have smiled broadly at the
notion of Hamilton Stewart making a
fortune. That he could and had made
tworatherlarge ones fly with great ease
and dispatch was well known, but if he
had ever made penny by honest labor
or otherwise the fact had never come
TO the knowledge of even his most in
innate friends. Yet here he was, penni-
less and deeply in debt, asking one of
the prettiest and most eligible girls of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A great building to house all the so.
cieties composing the Scientific alli-
ance of New York is proposed.
The two great material conquests
which mark the nineteenth century are
the building of the Pacific railroads and
the digging of the Suez canal.
A medical paper directs attention to
the curious fact that scarlet fever has
never been observed in epidemic form
in the tropical or subtropical regions of
Asia or Africa.
In GAINESVILLE, Wis, is a pearl button
factory which turns out thousands of
the finest quality of buttons. Tons OF
Mississippi clam shells are used in pro-
ducing the buttons.
1t appears from British consular re-
ports that Morocco offers consider
able field for the engineer. There are
at present no roads, railways, tele-
graphs, canals nor harbors.
India has perhaps greater variety OF
plants than any other country in the
world, having $4,000 native species
while the fora of the entire continent
of Europe only embraces about 10000.
American bottles are preferred to all
others for the export trade, and espe,
cially in warm climates where Ameri-
can and English goods come into close
competition. American glass is said
to stand tropical climates better thar
the English, the reason being that ii is
better annealed.
The South Kensington museum is
constantly adding to the collection OF
scientific instruments and models OF
old-fashioned machines. We learn from
Industries and Iron that they have now
made large number of additions OF
modern machinery and tools, such as
coal gas purifying house, Belleville
boiler, launch engine, water-tube
boilers using liquid fuel, transforms.
er, steam turbine, etc. Many of the ma
chine models are shown in motion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03

Samoa's talking man, or ''Tolafali,'
Is character. All the affairs of state of
the village in which he holds Office are
carried upon his shoulders. In ordi-
lary he is the chief adviser, persuader,
convincer and restrainer of the leading
chiefs. Having the gift of eloquence,
he makes the most of it. He enjoys inn
munity from many things. He cannot
be spoken of in ordinary terms. If il
should be necessary to speak of his eyes
or his mouth or his limbs, special honor
able words must be used-words which
attach to him alone and have never
been applied to the personal parts of
ordinary men. As he stands to deliver
his soft, persuasive, mellifuous oratory,
with staff of Office in his hand and his
fly buster thrown over his shoulder,
anyone can see that he is q man of great
Importance, or, if this is not apparent
from his attitude, it may be gathered
from the attention paid to his utter
ances by grsy-haired chiefs and hy
youths and maidens. If the talking
man is clever fellow and understands
his business. he is the chief ruling pow
er of his tribe. although the nominal
headship is always vested in a chief or
patriarchial figurehead.-N. Y. Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03
TWENTIETH cENTURY's DAWN
The Friendly Islanders VIII BE the
First People to Hail Its
Advent.

The FIRST people to live in he TWEEN
.ieth century will be the Friendly is
ianders, for the date line, as it NAV be
called, lies in the Pacific ocean Just to
the east of their group At that time. al
though it will be already Tuesday to
them, all the rest of the world will be
enjoying some phase of Monday, the
last day of the nineteenth century De-
cember 81. 190o). At Melbourne the
people will be going to bed. for it will
he nearly ten o'clock; at Manila it will
lie two hours earlier in the evening; at
Calcutta the English residents will be
sitting at their Monday afternoon din
ner, for it will be about six o'clock; and
in London big Ben" in the tower of the
house of commons will be striking the
hour of noon. In Boston, New York
and Washington half the people will be
eating breakfast on Monday morning,
while Chicago will be barely conscious
of the dawn. At the same moment San
Francisco win be in the deepest sleep
of what is popularity called Saturday
night, though really the early, dark
hours of Monday morning, and half the
Pacific will be wrapped in the darkness
of the same morning hours, which be-
come earlier to the west, until at mid
way or Brooks island it will be but a
few minutes past midnight of Sunday
night.-John Richie, Jr., in Ladies'
Home Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03

The smallest coin now current in Eu-
rope, and at one time having the least
value, is the Greek lepton. The iepton
is, according to the decimal monetary
system, current in all countries belong
ing to the Latin union. Some idea of
this valueless little disc may be gath
cred from the fact that the lepton is the
one-hundredth part of drachma. The
Greek drachma usually passes for the
same value that franc piece does, that
is, it is about equal to about 20 cents Of
our money! Boston Globe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03
THE INvINcIBLEs.


With a uniform gay and laugh that is
There comes every morning brave little
To wake the alarm clock which lags by the
way
And tell the whole house of the breaking
Of day.
Tie tune that he plays is the fav'rite
'mongst boys.
A small share of rhythm and plenty of
noise;
He startles the dog and surprises the cat
AS he plays on his drum. Major Ratatatat.
And following close with faithful refrain
Is the brother, who Whistles with might
and with main
On his fife made of tin. And the tumult
On our ears is enough to shake Jericho's
walls.
He has never fear as he hastes to the
fray,
Where mid pillowed intrenchments his
sire waits the day,
And vainly beseeches and begs him be
mute.
Entreaties can't move Captain Rootytoo-
loot.
They ask no assistance, these officers fine,
But play their own music when they are in
line.
They are veterans bold. 1t is useless to
scold.
The enemy's weakness they've tested of
old.
In case of repulse fortune can't go amss.
For amnesty straight is obtained by kiss.
So you may as well yield when you hear
the salute
OF Ratatatat and of Rootytootoot.
washington Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03

Many comets will be seen during the
twentieth century. The most interest.
ing !: Halley's-last seen in 1888. 1t ID
due In 1910 or 1911.
Copper sheathing for vessels of war
was first applied to the Alarm, a British
frigate, in 175S, but conductors which
we owe to the genius of Franklin were
first used on American ships and pre-
yious to 100.
A horse can draw on the worst kind
of road about four times as much as
he can carry on his back. On good
macadamized road he can pull ten
times as much, ON a wooden road IS
times as much.
Biologists are of the opinion that the
vast territory now known as Wyoming
once had numerous fresh-water lakes
and climate approaching the semi
tropical, and that the animals whose
bones are from time to time coming to
light inhabited these lakes and the adj
joining swamps in myriads.
The largest private library in this
country was owned by the historian
II. H. Bancroft. 1t consists of $4,000
volumes, valued at 100000. A fine col.
lection of manuscripts in dialect, and
manuscripts relating to the early set
Element of the Pacific coast, of the
Spanish colonies and of the early eccle-
siastical missions is included in the
Bancroft library.
Recent experiments by the experts
of the fish commission in Washington
have demonstrated that genuine pearls
of high quality may be grown in an
aquarium, fountains, fish ponds and in
any other pools of water which can sus-
tain mussels, oysters and other mol
lusks that emit nacre, the beautiful fri
descent secretion of which pearls are
made.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-03-03
REMEMBERED APPOINTMENT.
Gus Girl Got Out of an Obliga-
ton to Treat.

II had most horrible experience
yesterday said the girl with the chin
chilla hat. you know / went shop
ping Friday with Marguerite to get a
thing or two I'D forgotten to get be-
fore. You know how it is when you
go downtown like that to buy just a
thing or two. l had a $40 bill when
l left home. When / was ready to
leave the shop had just ten cents
and two car tickets and l was simply
famished for an ice cream soda. Mar.
guerite is one of these chilly girls, SC
/ knew / was safe in asking her to
have some with me.
Goodness gracious!' she said, j
wouldn't take an ice cream soda to-
day for farm, but I'll go in with you
aid wait for you while you have one
Il don't see how you can bear the
thought of one such day as to-day
well, we went in and we marched
up to the counter and put on look
of rare pleading and / said:
L do wish you'd take one, Mar.
guerite'-I could see her shivering Mt
the very idea. 1T would do you good.
l hate to take one all alone
: "'Oh, / couldn't think of it, said
Marguerite. 1T would freeze me stiff.
but if you don't want to drink alone
I'll take a cup of chocolate
Il thought for an instant was go
ing to faint. Marguerite is one of
those girls-well, l simply couldn't let
her know l was broke. rose to the
occasion superbly.
"'Oh, PW SO glad you'll take some
thing chortled; it looks So and
here l stopped short. Obi / gasped,
I've got to go and meet my aunt Jane.
She's coming in on the-oh! / haven't
minute to lose. / can't stop for the
ice cream soda-you just take your
chocolate and I'll run away. See you
to-morrow-yes-awful hurry-good-
by
"And / dashed out. Talk of heart
failure! If / didn't have it there at
that counter it's sign that I'll live
forever. My, but it was close shave"
"And did your aunt ?" 1 asked.
'She hasn't come yet" answered the
girl with the chinchilla hat. "She
hasn't been born yet and all my grand
parents died years ago."-Washington
Post.
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An Appeal to Humanity Generally

We need your assistance in announcing
to the world the greatest remedy that
Science has ever produced, and you need our
assistance to secure relief for yourself and
friends through Swanson's '5-DROPS."
As surely as the American Navy has con-
quered and will conquer all that opposes it,
so will "5DROPS" unfailingy conquer
Rheumatism, Sciatica,, Neuralgia, Kidney
Asthma, Dyspepsia, Backache, Sleepless-
ness, Nervousness, Hearty Weakness, Tooth
ache, Earache, Bronchitis, ETC. "5-DROPS''
is the name and the dose. Trial bottles &c.
Large. bottles, containing 300 doses. LOO
prepaid by mail or express. Six bottles for
$500. Write now, and the Swanson Rheu.
viii Immediately give s your order attention.
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THE CAPTAIN LEFT ANGRY.

The CAPTAIN LEFT ANGRY
his town to love him and wait for him
until he could win fame and fortune
enough~to wed her.
There was no denying that he was
superbly handsome in his captains
uniform, to purchase which and his
outfit he had parted with his last re-
manning acre, and Marcella was des-
perately in earnest when she promised
to wait for him until the very last.
They had stopped dancing now and
stood in the shadow at the end of the
piazza, the scent of honeysuckle and
monthly roses all about them. the
moist air of the summer night robbinp
her hair of curl and the frills of her
dancing dress of ali their crisp fresh
ness. Some of the girls who passed
them half unconsciously cnvied Mar
celia. The devotion of the handsome
captain, spendthrift and ne'er-do-weIl
though he always had been and doubt-
less always would be. And MANY
would-be suitors for the bright younr
woman's favor wondered secretly
whether Marcella intended to waste her
sweetness and her small fortune on
such worthless object as everybody
knew poor Hamilton to be.
I'VE are wasting this lovely waltz. .
said Marcella after they had coniu-
gnted the verb Il. love through all its
varying modes and lenses. LET us
have one more. 1t will be our last, I'm
AFRAID, for many. many days."
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A Suspicion. American Tourist.
EaZ27 lE5Z5;Z:ynD

The American tourist is so firmly con-
vinced that he is being cheated on all hands
during his European travels that he occa-
sionally oversteps the bounds of prudence.
"What is the price of this pin?' asked q
young man in Paris shop, handling a small
silver brooch Of exquisite workmanship.
Twenty francs, monsieur" said the clerk
young American. Its for present to my
sister. III Awe you five francs for it." Zen
it would be ! Eat gave re present to your sis
ter, said the Frenchman, with a depseca-
tory shrug, "and do not know re young
mademoiselle. Chicago Chronicle.