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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13
THE LAST GIFT

IT WAS nothing-only a few april
i cots on common plate-that Am
brose Martin gave his wife one late
summer evening, but it was his dear
est gift to her, and to purchase them
he went out of their little apartments
for the last time. He had been sick
for two years-'the happiest years of
my life," he often SAID. In them he
had learned to know and love his
wife more than ever before. In health
and prosperity neither was aware
OF the depth of the smooth stream
OF their lives. But when ill-health
began to. weaken his strength and at
length deprive him of his position
and one by one of all his resources,
80 that he was compelled to move
from cheap to cheaper rooms, great
light of love began to illumine his
life. 1t drew the husband and wife
closer together. Although unused to
labor, the wife now became the
breadwinner. Having arranged ev-
erything for his comfort during the
day, she departed for her labors.
Here. with a heavy heart, she went
through the duties of the day, for
she was constantly haunted by the
fear that at any time she might re-
turn and find her husband dead. He
was in that critical stage of his dis
ease when this was likely to happen.
Her heart almost ceased beating
when, punctually at four O'clock in
the afternoon, she opened the door
of their rooms.
Hitherto she had found him in his
accustomed place, propped upon a
lounge, small table by his side, ON
which were a few books, musical
score and a photographs of his wife.
He had been an organist; music was
his passion; in it he lived and found
the intellectual and spiritual food of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"You went right in bodily, did you?
~Yes, after looking i'm "And you
started ahead, and asked the old man
for his daughter?" swell, no, didn't"
"Why not?" "He wasn't there
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Husband (returning from his first
ascent in balloon -"Just think of it.
Alice, assembled $4,000 feet in the air."
Young Wife-"And you brought back
nothing for me!"-Fliegende Blaet.
ter.
They Don't Speak Now.-Ida-"I
want to have some pictures taken.
Can you recommend photographer ?''
Ada-"Flashem! I've heard that he
has way of making the homeliest
look absolutely me.''-Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin.
Blackburn-"Judge Snyder made a
rule some time ago that all women
should remove their hats in his court,
but see that the order is not en-
forced Whitehead-"No; the wom-
en- folks appealed to the judges wife,
and she rendered dissenting opinion"
Denver News.
Mrs. Greene-"That was a fine ar
ticie your husband wrote about The
Smoke Nuisance Mr.. Greene saws IT
IS the best thing that has appeared on
the subject Mrs. Gray-'sYes? i
suppose it ought to be. Ny husband
smoked no less than ten cigars while
writing .'-Boston Transcript.
Observation-Disclosures bearit
took Riley's funeral half an hour to
pass given pint. Plat is a given
pint, anyway" "Whoy.
q saloon is given pint, fer instance
O'Hoolahan-"Oh! saloon. is it?
B'gorrah. it's wonder they iver got
past it at all, at Brooklyn Eagle.
A Testimonial.-Jones =" You re-
member what miserable memory
used to have? Well, DR.. Bolus gave me
prescription that has done me a world
OF good" Notwithstanding to take
before meals, was it?" Jones-"Well,
don't recall just what the directions
were, but it's splendid cure. Phil,
adelphia Press.
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SLEEP, BLESSED SLEEP.

Sleep. blessed Sleep with soothing. soft
Whose gentle touch doth benefit and bless
The restless mortals tired of work and
play.
Which cap with WEAKNESS the toilsome
day.
Deaths loved twin brother. calm and help
full sleep.
6oother of sorrow for the ones who weep
How kindly are his ministrations made.
By dreams which lead to many quiet
glade
Where murmurins waters sing the soul
to rest
In realms devoted to the truly blest:
Who thus transported from the daytime
ills
Go without effort where this angel wills.
Beneath his touch the pauper dreams of
The invalid Of full and boundless health,
The disappointed student of success,
The frendless of devoted helpfulness
Received from those who in his waking
hour
But emphasize their selfish use of power.
So sleep for all these toilers doth suffice,
His hand leads on through many para
disc
Where all things hoped for but delayed
are found
In lands of calm, where earth is holy
ground,
Where small ills vanish. and rude skies
that stormed
BY sleeps soft magic are to peace trans
formed.
And when at last all those who Toll and
weep
Are called by Death unto that longer sleep
which hath no waking at the touch of
morn,
They shall obey. not as do souls forlorn,
But as those who. acquaint with journeys
brief,
accept the longer one with glad relief;
For they who sleep with calmly futtering
breath
Are but probationers of kindly Death,
And they who fold white hands and no
more weep
Are crowned with rest in an eternal sleep.
/. EDGAR JONES.
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PETER THE WILD BOY.
ne was Caught In Tree in German
Forest I'm 1725 and Taken
to England.

Peter. the Wild Boy, who was
brought to England, was found in
1725, in the woods of Hameln. %
miles from Hanover, walking on his
hands and feet, climbing up trees
ike a squirrel, and feeding upon
grass and moss of trees.
Being presented to the king while
Mt dinner, his majesty made him
taste OF all the dishes that were
served up at the table, and, in order
to bring him by degrees to human
diet, commanded that he should have
such provisions as he might like
best. He was at that time Judged
10 De about IL or 10 years old.
Afterward he made his escape into
the same woods, but was again
caught on tree, which was Obliged
to be first sawed down.
He was brought to England in
April, 1926, and again introduced into
the presence of his majesty and
many of the nobility. He could not
speak, and scarce seemed to have anv
idea of things.
However, it was observed that he
took most notice of his majesty, and
OF the princess. giving him her glove,
which he tried to put on his own
hand, and seemed much pleased, as
he was with gold watch which was
held to tick at his ear.
At first he appeared uneasy to
wear any clothes, and he could not
be brought to lie upon bed, but
sat in corner of the room; whence
1T is conjectured that he used to sleep
on tree for security against wild
beasts. However, he walked upright,
and even sat for his picture.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13

turned toward the future, the eters
nal. 1t was already so near to one Of
them that the other vision was made
real. A few more partings, a few
more meetings and the world would
be left behind. Until then they So
laced each other with those fond at
tentions which usually accompany
the days of courtship. How much a
little served that devoted pair,
and what compensations came
into their lives only those
know who love through all suf-
fering and in every misfortune. The
least trifles made the day bright; they
arranged and rearranged their two
rooms, each time with some new device
tomake them more fresh and attractive
or more comfortable and convenient.
There was an air of refinement which
fingers long and is latest to be lost in
the home of those who have known
better days. They made few flowers
bought of the street vender, half alive,
live week by careful nursing; and
then the green leaves, if by chance
there were any, would be kept fresh
even longer. The table was spread as
neatly as il they had nothing else to
think Of. 1t is true, there were no dain-
ties to place upon it, only the simplest
fare care and economy could plan and
select. The rent of the rooms exhaust
ed the larger portion of their resources.
Then there were medicines and the
occasional visit of physician to be
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13

his being. His chief comfort now was
in reading music, realizing as far as
his cnfeebled powers allowed him it's
tone and its meanings. For a long
time past he had heard no music
save the street organs, whose tangled
strains too often reminded him Of
his own broken and miserable for
tune. At four o'clock in the after
noon this mood and all other melan-
choly reflections passed away, and
the meeting of the husband and wife
was like that of long parted lovers.
when joy is mingled with tears. and
the remainder of the day thew were
happy; they forgot their distress and
the approaching doom. All the or
ganist's passion for his art was now
concentrated into sublime and puri.
fed Affection. They spoke not Of this
life, which held so little ana 40
brief . geed for them. but their
thoughts aad their eonvsrsatjou were
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13
MRS. ANNIE THOMP5ONU


II cannot
1t
had
| and weak that M sework.
falling Of
menstrual
hard 1cud not lift anything
stand feet
but they did
had
think it would do
and packages Sentative
had womb trouble since taking
all
that life
Compound
out it for anything
viii follow be
Gratefully yours TaoarsoN south Hot Springs Ark
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13
VALUE OF SENTIMENT.
W has Prepared the Way for Every
worthy Work the World
Has Known.

In nothing are practical men mors
likely to err than in underestimatins
the value of sentiment, says a writer in
the Saturday Evening Post. How
often We hear of "mere sentiment. IS
IT it were utterly impotent and virtue
less. There is common contempt for
dreamers. To call man visionary ia
to blacklist him among those whose
chief end is to bring things to pass.
And yet, were we to read history
Alright, dealing with forces back Of
facts, we should learn that some
dreamer or visionist, some soul suf-
fused with "mere sentiment" has pre-
pared the way for every worthy work
the world has known. The Hebrew
prophet was a dreamer, but he lifted
his race to the crest of that civilization
which did for morality what Rome did
for law and what Greece did for art.
Not Garibaldi, nor Victor Emman-
uel. was the creator of modern Italy.
Grand old Mazzini had dreamed of a
free and united Italy, and had started
hundred thousand young men to
dreaming, and they were Garibaldi's
red-shirted battalions. severy one In
love with hardship, privation, freedom
and DEATH"
Samuel Adams did as much with his
pen as George Washington with his
sword to unloose the colonies from for
cign rule. The poet is necessary to the
soldier. He "sings us mp to courage
with commanding rhyme" The man
of sentiment is to the man of action
what the architect is to the builder.
There must be castles in the air before
we know how to lay the stones.
Let not the hand say to the imagina-
ton: Il have no need of thee Septi.
ment 10 not the vague, nebulous tbips
1t seems to be. 1t POUNDS empires.
marches before armies. writes con.
stitutions and governs the flob<. Itia
Immortal, sr,s It's ehGssutss 3uWi6as
such = phrase % xmessea's, stAe
stssaal ldcsi."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13
MUCH OF LITTLE.
A oueer Sign That May BE Seen Not
Many Miles from Lon
dom

The stranger in any city half a hun.
dred years old, if he knew anything
of the city's history, would learn
from many of the signs that the sec
ond and third generations had sue
ceeded to the business of father and
grandfather. 1t is especially true of
New York. The New York Times mem
tons some peculiar signs, and re-
lates the following, which we take
to be true, although we do not vouch
for it:
A Londoner, who had strolled about
the streets of the city with a New
Yorker who called his attention to
some of the signs of sons, agreed
that in this respect New York was
very like London, but in neither city
was there any such sign as he saw
in one of the old English towns few
hours run from the worlds metropo-
lis. The sign reads:
JOHN LITTLEJOHN's SONS AND LIT
TIE UITTLE LITTLEJOHN. Doc
LITTLE L1TTLEJOHN AND
JOHN LITTLE
According to the Londoner, the tirst
Littlejohn and Little were partners.
the former gave his first son his
partners family name, and Little gave
his boy his partners Christian name.
Mttleiohn's second son was named,
for his mothers family, Doolittle.
The three sons succeeded to their fa-
theirs business, hence the sign is e,,-
tirely correct, and the Londoner was
right in saying that the successors
had no intention of being funny"
when they had their sign written az
It appears.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13

Was also troubled with leucorrhoea,
tired feeling, bearing down sensation,
pain across the back and thighs. I
felt as though there was q heavy
weight in my stomach all the time.
I have taken two bottles of the medi-
cine, and low have better health than
I have had for four years"
MRs. LIZZIE DICKSON HODGE,,
Avalon, Ohio.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13
JOHN LITTLEJOHN,s SONS AND TIT
TIE UITTLE LITTLEJOHN. DOO-
LITTLE L1TTLEJOHN AND
JOHN LITTLE).


A strange clock was made during
the last century for a French noble.
man. The dial was horizontal, and the
figures, being hollow, were filed With
different sweets Of spices. Thus ssn.
n1hG his dagger along the hand, by tsat.
-, the ewrss could tell the hour With.
eat light.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13
CHANGE OF LIFE.

"Iwas taken sick
i've years ago with
The Grippe and
had q relapse and
was given up by
the doctor and my
friends. Change
OF Life began to
work on me. ]
flowed very badly
until q year ago,
then my stomach
and lungs got 90
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-04-13
PR0FUsE PERIODS.
~ commenced

II commenced
taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
ia BILE Compound
q BIO ut 3 months
ago, and cannot
express the won
derful good it has
done me. Men
situations were so
profuse as to leave
me very weak for
some time after.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18
IS II A DEATH TRAP?
Mr.. Beatty Utters Timely Warning
Against the Manner in Which the
City Gas Main is being Laid.

Editor REGISTER:-I notice that the
city is laying its gas line from the
McCarty we'll to the pumping plant of
the water works in the same trench
with the water line.
This ought not to be, for when the
earth is filed in around the pipe sooner
or later it will settle away from the
pipe and encrust leaving a clear space
between the earth and the pipe.
Everyone acquainted with natural
gas will tell you that it is impossible
to construct pipe line through which
the gas will not leak more or less.
These leaks will be many in "A long
line and will pour their whole wastage
into the space thus created around
these pipes. The gas following the
line of least resistance will follow the
water line all over the city and by the
connection with the water mains fill
cellar or space under every house
using city water. The whole lefty will
be living over what is just as bad as a
nitro-glycerine factory awaiting only
spark to cause an explosion. Not
that the whole city will be blown up at
once, but someone's home with its dear
ones destroyed should not be the note
of warning which will cause the gas
line to beremoved from any connection
with the water line and buried by itself
where it properly belongs.
Findlay City learned experience
through the wreck of the Marion House
and The Standard Oil CO., paid out
so, 900 for one house in Tiiiin City,
Ohio, 10y having its gas line too near
pipes connected with said building.
TO great care can not be taken to in
sure perfect safety Natural gas care
fully handled becomes one of Nature
choicest blessings. But the least care
lessness changes it into an instrument
Ct swift destruction. lola has thus
far been mercifully preserved in its
use. Let us not then for the mere eX-
pense of digging an extra ditch plunge
our whole people into mourning.
Yours truly,
l.. G. BEATTY.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18
LII THANKS THE BOYS.
Boys in Blue Praised by tho YicerOy
for Protecting Property in Pekir

Washington. Jan. 10-The War de-
partment makes public the correspon-
dence between Ii Hung Chang, the
Chinese viceroy, and Captain j. c..
Tillson, Fourteenth United States
infantry, provost marshal at Pekin,
in regard to the manner i'm which the
Americans performed their duty in
Pekin. Earl III wrote: son behalf
of the inhabitants and gentry of that
part of the Chinese quarter in the city
of Pekin at present under the military
jurisdiction of the United States army
| have sincere pleasure in presenting
this testimonial of appreciation and
thanks for the able and efficient man
ner in which you performed your duty
and protected our lives and property.
Captain Tillson, in acknowledging
His Excellency's letter, said, in
course of his reply: 1.-The army of
the United States bears the proud dis.
tinction of being the only army in the
history:of all the world that has never
been used as an instrument of tyranny
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18
KANSAS AT BUFFALO.
Plans to Make the Biggest Display
Since the Philadelphia Centennial.

Topeka, Jan. Ill. f. Randolph,
president of the Kansas commission
for the Pan-American exposition at
Buffalo, says Kansas will have very
surprising exhibition there. 1--WE
confidently expect an appropriation
of $50, 900 from this Legislature" he
said to-day, "and with this we shall
be able to make full display of
everything of Importance that israised
in the state. People in the East think
Kansas is good for corn, cattle and
wheat and nothing else. But we will
have an exhibition of lead and zinc
from the southeastern part of the
state, of salt from the Hutchinson
mines, of fruit of many kinds from the
State Horticultural society and of
other products. Kansas made IA hit
at the centennial in 1876. Never since
then has the state made really repre-
sentative showing, The exhibition
we are about to make will be the most
satisfactory since 1876"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18
NEW CHAS. ROSS STORY
A New York Senator Gives
all the Details
THIEVES DROWNED HIM
His AbductOrs Found Them
selves Hard Pressed
And Sunk Him in the Bay to Prevent
Detection and Arrest

Albany, n. y, Jan. l0.-Senator
Plunkitt Of Manhattan, who intro
duced in the Senate last night.a bill
to punish kidnapping of children
under l6 years of age by fixing the
limit of Imprisonment for such an Of
Tense at twenty-five years, says he has
facts in his possession. concerning the
abduction of Charlie Ross in 1874
which have never been published. He
said:
"The abductors of Charlie Ross
were New York river thieves, Mosher
and his companion. The wagon in
which Ross was carried away was
hired in New York by Mosher and
driven to Philadelphia, so as to pre-
vent any possible discovery of the Of
tenders. The wagon was driven about
thirty miles out of Philadelphia and
was there abandoned, Mosher and his
companion, accompanied by their
victim, taking passage on the train to
New York. Fear kept Charlie Ross
quiet. Upon arriving at New York,
Ross was taken on one of Mosher' S
river craft, and, finally, TO prevent
detection, Charlie was thrown over
board in the bay, after being tied to
iron so as to sink and make coming
to the surface impossible. The New
Yorker who let the horse and wagon
to Mosher never claimed his property
for fear of being charged with com
plicity.
"When Mosher was shot while at
tempting to rob the Van Brunt man
sion at Bay Ridge ne attempted to ex.
plain the Charlie Ross affair, but
death came as soon as the name
passed his lips"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18
County Commissioners Change.

AT noon Monday the old board of
county commissioners which consisted
of John Mcdonald, chairman, James
Locknart, of Humboldt and j. ID.
Christian, of Carlyle, dissolved and
the new board with e. H. Tobey in
Mr.. McDonald's place organized.
The new board organized by selecting
Mr.. Lockhart chairman, he being the
Oldest in service.
Mr.. Mcdonald, the retiring member,
has served on the board for six years,
with distinguished honor to himself
and general satisfaction to the tax
payers of Allen county whose interests
he looked after. His successor on the
board, Mr.. f. II. Tobey, is one of the
prosperous farmers of Salem town
ship, man who has won success for
himself by a sturdy application of
pluck and industry and common sense
TO the affairs of life. His own inter-
ests are similar to the interests of
majority Of the people of the county
and that he will show the same wisdom
and the same careful thoroughness i'm
public affairs which has made him an
honored citizen in private life the
REGISTER confidently predicts
Among the matters which came i'm
mediately before the new board was
the report of appointments by county
superintendent Billbe as follows: AS
sociate examiners for 1901, j. l.. Shell
man, of Humboldt, and Mrs. c. G.
Thomas, of Moran Common school
examiners and place of holding the
examinations; Olive Knowlton. Gen
eva, No. l. Fred Green, Spring
Branch, No. IL Ella Warren. Usage
Center, No. Ga: G. w. Kline. Moran,
No. 90; a. II Newton, Humboldt, No.
IS: G. r. Hamilton, Fairview, No. 49,.
II. d. Ramsey, Elsmore, No. 70:
County Superintendent, lola.
A bill was also filed by j. NJ. Saw
idge, constable of Custer county, Ncb
raska, for the care and guarding of j.
II. Morley. This Savidge charged SO
u day for nine days and l.jO for the
rest of the time between November l6
and January 10. His whole bill was
500 and credits have been noted
amounting to $3.50. So it will be
seen that that man Worley is going to
cost more than he is worth before he
is lodged in the penitentiary.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18
GROWTH OF THE A o Z w
1t Has 36, 444 Members in Kansas and
is Aiming at the 10000 Mark

Kansas, City, Jan. 10.-The a. O.
Z. w. made a remarkable growth in
Kansas during 1900. 1t started the
year with total of 81, 1873 members in
the state and at the close of the year
it had 36, 444 members. The net in
crease for the year was 4,7l0. Dur
ing the year 1901 the heads of the
order expect to keep up this increase
until at the beginning of the year 1902
the order will have 10000 members
There are eleven lodges in Wyandotte
county with total of ,, 1872 members.
The seven lodges in Kansas City,
Kansas, have l,7l9 members.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18

county, president pro tenn. of the sem
at, is opposed to changing the state
text book act this winter. 1.-THE law
might be improved" he said today,
land some of the books are not as
they might be, but there is no great
hurry to make change. The books
are good enough for the present, and
the children are learning from them
all right. What we want is exper-
fence, and believe this law ought to
stand two or four years longer. Then
we will better know what we want"