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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06
TOO MUCH POSTAGE.


THE old judge was one of the
kindliest of men," said an attorney
of this city. speaking of a distin
guished member of the local bar, who
h now dead, relates the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, s'but his temper
was as warm as his heart, and when
momentarily exasperated he had a
tongue like . razor. When 1 was
studying law in his Office we had a
copying clerk who was known about
the place as the late Peter Jones'
IA soubriquet he acquired by being
always behind time. He was q slow.
distracted. dreamy kind of fellow.
with his mind generally a hundred
miles from his business. and he was
continually working the judge up to
the point of explosion. One day. q
wire basket fell on the top of his
desk and grazed his cheek, making
. slight scratch several inches long.
Being very busy at the moment, and
wishing to protect the abrasion from
the air until he could get some court
plaster, he slapped on three or four
postage-stamps and went on with his
work. A little later on he had some
papers to take to the United States
court, and, forgetting all about his
peculiar decoration, he put on his
hat and sailed out. He must have
created sensation ON the street, but,
NJ usual, his mind was elsewhere, and
when he returned in half an hour or
20, he was still in blissful ignorance
Of his Mardi Gras aspect. The three
stamps happened to be Of different
colors, and he looked like an Apache
chief made mp for . ghost-dance. Az
he entered the Office. the Judge raised
bis head and fixed him under an
astonished stare. Poor Jones qusiled
under his eye. "AnythinQ-er-
wrong, STRIP he inquired, tremulous-
y, when the silent scrutiny became
uncomfortable. Yes. sir!' Numbered
the old gentleman; you are carry
Ing too much postage for second-class
Natter"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06
SPIDERS WEBS.


am not going into q complex de.
scripticn OF how the spider lays OF
her web except to say that when it
extends across any considerable dis
lance she has stood on her head as
nearly as she could and emitted q
thread which the wind blew till it
caught ON something. says Harvey
Sutherland, in Ainslee's. Then she
took in the slack and bit it OF and
threw it away. After the line was
taut she crcpt out on it, always keep
ing in touch with the home plate, till
she got to the further end, which she
made good and secure. Then back to
the middle again, where she dropped
on the end of her line to the ground
and made fast there. After that she
worked according to the way her peo-
pie hare done since the days when
the wood was growing that we now
call coal II 1t be an orbed snare, then
AL the outer crossbars are eummed
with beads Of tanglefoot for. careless
dies. There IL . comparatively open
space around the center, so that the
scu1de that always takes place when
there Is fresh meat for supper may
not wreck the web too vitality, and
right in the center itself is usually a
nice. neat little mat for her to sit on,
made of dry, unsticky silk and woven
like crazy quilt or one of these hit
or-miss stained glass windows. Some
times, instead of plain radii she cards
her silk into q hocklike ribbon and
xigzags il down one compartment of
the web. Some spiders make an all
round snare; some make . snare like
: pie with piece cut out. and one
hind makes 9 snare shaped like the
piece of pie that has been cut out.
This last sits there with the slack of
her web drawn up tight between her
feet and waits. A fool fy bumps into
the line. She let's everything go by
the run, and the sticky slack falls over
the NY. She spreads her spinnerets
and drops nat ribbon of threads over
It. The moro It kicks, the more it
tangles itself. When she can safely
do SO, the spider bites her prey till it
gives up. Then she sucks the Juice out
Of It and ats chewing on the torn silk
till she gets all the gum or it, when
she throws it away and begins to re-
pair the web.
Other spiders set their web fiat-wise
over hollows on the ground, favorite
location being near path. All the
flying and jumping things get out of
the way when q man comes along,
and, not looking where they leap, they
make business good. OF course, the
man often spoils the web, but, lai that
doesn't worry the spider any. There's
plenty more where that came from,
and, anyhow. she has t, spin to pass
away the tir-. BY the way, most of
their spinning is done at night. In
the daytime they take little maps when
there is nothing doing. OF these fat
webs some arc spun in bushes with
labyrinth of threads running up two
or three feet among the twigs over .
sort of umbrella-like disk, under
which the spiders wait. Other little
spiders are often permitted to make
use of this labyrinth for their own
needs, or perhaps 1t is too much trou-
be to stop the poaching. There is a
good deal Of that kind of broad-mind
ed charity in the world.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

An American phyician has baby aeed
such wonderfully developed muscles that
when bis father holds cane IN his two
bands Il VIII grasp II and draw itself 10 %
it, chin three times. Devoted Darwinians
could hardly wish for better illust1atlou
Of the prehensile powers Of babies. Tl5ev
must be very near their monkey ancootorn
In America. London Globe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

4 CenAaenes Betvveen Menb6r6.
.sss s tSs d .. sss @s whom e =
Gently elected was beset By footpads and
robbed in Paris"
Dear mel" answered the other membes
q the legislature. "Those Frenchmen have
such brutal and direct method Of gettina
: mans money away from him. Washine
ton Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

iron bedstead!
Dealer Twelve dollars, madam.
How much of If pay cash !''
Madam, II you don't pay cash the bed
y not for mle. Detroit Free Pres.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06
FARMER AND PLANTER.


Really it is no secret at al except
the secret of careful work. Let me
tell you how one man raises II and
you will see that what / say is true.
The man of whom / am speaking goes
about his work something a. follows:
He plows up strip of ground upon
which there is something Of . turf
left. Some of us make the mistake of
waiting until the last vestige of plant
life has disappeared before we think
It worth while to plow. This man be-
heves that the better the turf when
he plows. the better may be his crop
OF corn. Having determined where to
put his corn for the season, he waits
until almost time to plant and then
hurries the manure out. He has an
old-fashioned idea that the sunshine
and the rains viii cause the ammonia
and other valuable elements in the
manure-heap to evaporate II It be al
lowed to lie exposed to the weather
very long. For the same reason he
keeps the manure carefully housed
under the shed until needed.
He gives his land thorough
coating of this rich barn-yard ma
} nure, holding that nothing equals
that for bringing good crop. At
least twenty loads of manure are
spread upon each acre.
As soon as this is done he followB
with the plow. What! pillow the ma
nure under? Surely that is contrary
to the usual practice. Yes; but this is
the way the man we are writing
shout argues. If spread ON the top
Of the ground the manure win not be
where the roots Of the compliant can
reach IL; and the object Of putting on
the manure Is to help the corn. If
plowed under the fertilizer lies In the
earth until the long roots of the corn
plant get down to it; and, by the
way, do You know how long the roots
Of stalk of corn aref Next summer
just notice that.
When the manure is ont and plowed
under this man sets the harrow to
work. and he harrows his ground un-
til it is like an ashheap." Not all Of
US are as thorough about this as we
should be for our own good. A mel
low bed for the seed to lie in il u
great start toward future success.
Now follows the planter. Previous
care has been taken in selecting the
SEED. The time has gone by now to
discuss that. II he has been troubled
In the past by the century living"
crow he fixes his corn By dropping
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

beautiful foot.
Mr.. Richquick- Yes, everybody says -.
How much would you charss to make bust
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

The obese man has NO friends in crowd
- street car.-Chicago Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

Time, tide and soda water wait Ia
- man. Chicago Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

Hoxsie's CrouD Cure
The life saver Of children. No opium. % elD
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

A boy, to Be considered exceptionally
eood, must show traits Of his mother
Atehison Globe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

Xeu Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease FREE.
Write to-day to Allen s. Olmsted. LEROY.
a. T., for . FREE sample of Aliens Foot.
Ease, Powder to shake into your shoes. II
cures chilblains, sweating. damp. swollen.
aching feet. 1t makes New or ti9ht shoes
easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bun
ions. All druggists and shoe stores Ell Il. ~
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

Piso's Cure il the best medicine W ever
used for all affections Of the throat and
!ungs:-Wm. O. Endsley, Vanburen. Ind,
Feb. 10. 1900.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

Cause for Devotion.
I'm not worthy of your devotion.
George.
"0h. I don't know. Your fathers eot
money, hasn't he:"- Yonkers Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

The 0rocer-I understand you said sold
you . jag of cider that had water in Il?
The Butcher = You have been misin-
formed. What said WAS that you cold
me = jug Of water that had little cider
In it.-Chicaeo Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

A western cattle ranch, belonging to the
children of some Boston people, has becn
named by them Focus, because it Is where
The soma raise meat.-Boston Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

Willing to Pay.-"What do you think q
the proposition to tax bacheIorsv asked
the sweet young thing. "Oh, Injuries ought
g Do taxed" replied Mr.. Crs,stie. Smart
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-07-06

EHAvote no111n8 cara.
Private Mailing Card with colored viewu
Of scenery on the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st.
Paul Railway, sent on receipt of ten (10)
cents in stamps. Address +. A. Miller,
General Passenger Agent, Chicago, III.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-26
A GAME OF BLUFF.
Consul Dickinson and Bulgarian
Bandits Both Engage in 1t.

New York, Nov. 26.-Commenting
upon the report that the brigands have
sent a message to American Diplomatic
Agent Dickinson that unless he ac-
cedes by January 1 to their original de-
mand for $4,000 Turkish Ira. or pounds,
($11O.O .O00) ransom, they will kill both
their captives, Miss Ellen M. Stone and
Mime. Tsilka, the Sofia, Bulgaria, cor
respondent of the World says:
This report comes in private ad-
vices from Dubnitza, the Bulgarian
frontier town which is the present
headquarters of some of the secret
agents through whom Mr.. Dickinson
has been communicating with the brig
ands The message is said to be the
robbers answer to the ultimatum re-
ported to have been sent to them by
Mr. Dickinson tbut which he denied
sending) offering as ransom $4,000
Turkish Ira, or pounds, ($52.800), and
no more, and giving them until next
Saturday to accept that sum, after
which time that and all previous offers
would be withdrawn.
Mr. Dickinson, who was the United
States consul general at Constantinople
when he was appointed diplomatic
agent at Sofia, went to Constantinople
Immediately after the report became
current that he had sent an ultimatum,
and he is still there. The report that
the brigands will kill their prisoners is
not believed at Sofia"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-26
A 100000 FEE.
Said Judge Horton Will Get
That in Stockyards Case.
He Refuses to Either Confirm or
Deny the RumOr.

Judge Horizons fee in the Kansas City
stock yards case is 100000, the largest
fee ever paid in Kansas. The Atchison
Globe is responsible for the statement
that the fee of Waggener, Horton &
Orr for winning the stock yards case
in the United States supreme court will
be 100000 The statement is made in
connection with the history of the liti-
cation.
Judge Horton, the Topeka member
of the firm, declined to make any state
ment concerning it today. He simply
smiled when he was shown the state
ment.
1t is stated that if the case had been
lost and the federal supreme court had
decided against the stock yards COM
pany, its revenue would have been re-
duced over $1,000 600 a year. This would
have amounted to over $1,200,0 900 just in
the time the case has been in litigation,
to say nothing of the years to come. A
fee of 100000 would be less than ten per
cent of the amount involved at present.
to say nothing of future earnings.
G. c. Clemens, who knows a thing or
two about big fees from the experience
of the past, said:
"A hundred thousand dollars would be
a very reasonable fee for the services
performed. 1t is well worth it. Con-
siderlng the questions and the amount
involved that would be very reason
able fee.
BY the way" continued Mr.. Clemens,
It guessed right on that case long be-
fore the United States supreme court
did L am not a bit surprised at that
decision. I would have been greatly
surprised if it had been any other way.
It's ridiculous to say that a man who
handles ninety-nine hogs day shall be
permitted to charge any price he
pleases for handling them, while the
man who handles a hundred hogs a day
shall be forbidden to charge above a
certain amount. I called some of the
Populists out before the bill passed and
told them the bill was unconstitutional,
h1If would ri 70 laff a
the charges of all public stock yards it
would pass muster Then the courts
would only determine what constitutes
public stock yards. But the fellows said
it had been all fixed up that way and
they couldn't get it changed, and so
it was put through in unconstitu-
tional FORM
Judge T. F. Carver thought that the
fee was a reasonable one for the SER
vice performed, but he doubted if the
firm would charge that much.
Captain J. G. Waters also had serious
doubts about the fee being as large as
the report stated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-26
TRAFFIC is MOVING.
Affairs on the Isthmus Appear
to Have Settled Down.

Washington, Nov. ga cablegram
received by the state department at
noon today from Consul General Gud-
ger at Panama reports that traffic is
moving unmolested but gives no other
details of the situation.
Secretary Long today received a
cablegram from Commander McCrea, of
the gunboat Machias, at Colon, stating
that the Colombian gunboat Spencer
had disappeared to the east 1t is
thought here that she has gone to Car
tegena for troops.
Commander McCrea also acknowl-
edged the receipt of the departments
instructions sent yesterday advising
him of the course which he is to pursue
1t was impossible for the navy depart
ment officials to decipher the greater
part of the dispatch, and it was re-
turned to him for repetition.
COMPLICATIONS ARISING.
Washington, Nov. 26.-The reported
action of Capt. Perry, the naval officer
in command of the United States forces
the isthmus, in declining to permit
any of the Colombian or rebel troops
an interesting question. 1t is under
stood here that the Colombian govern
ment feels that it has the decided right
to use this railway to forward govern
ment troops. This right is based on the
fact that the road is on land over which
Colombia has sovereignty, and is op-
Grated under a government concession.
Colombia retaining interest in the
road to the extent of $3.50, 900 per year.
say the rebels have not had their bellig-
erent right recognized by this or any
other government so that they have no
status as to carrying on warfare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-26
A MILLION CHINESE
Plan to Land That Number on
Mexican Coast.

San Francisco, Nov .26.-The Call says
that according to the Mexican Parlia-
mentary Chronicle, the minister of pub
lie works and colonization of Mexico
has recommended for passage by the
congress of his country a measure
which has an important bearing on the
Chinese immigration question. 1t is a
bill granting a concession to NJ. F. Tar
pey, John E. Bennett or any company
they may form, giving them the entire
hshlng privileges of the Mexican coast
on the Pacific ocean, contingent on their
building and operating a steamship line
between Mexico and China and another
line for coast trade.
The company is to be free from taxa
tion of any kind and is to be allowed to
land passengers anywhere on the Mexi-
can coast, which is more than 1000
miles in extent.
In January of this year Mr.. Tarpey,
who is a prominent politician, was pres
ldent of the Pacific Charter company,
that claimed TO have secured conceS-
sions from the Mexican government to
establish steamship lines between Mex
leo ana CHINA for the purpose of colo
n1z1ng the Mexican republic with 1.000,-
700 cooIe labOrerS, many of whom it
was feared might cross into the United
States.
John E. Bennett is the attorney for
the Chinese consulate in this city, and
which the Mexican congress is asked to
grant to him and his associate are sim
liar to those the Pacific Charter COM
pany, of which the same men were the
organizers, claim to have received near
ly year ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-26
SENATOR TAPP's VISITOR.
He Was Not Expected and Appar-
emily Was Unwelcome.

State Senator Tapp. of Wichita, had
mornings ago at his home in Wichita.
Soon after he got up he happened to go
into the parlor and found a strange
man sleeping on the sofa. The man
had on an overcoat and was very
sound asleep. Mr.. Tapp walked up to
him and at first thought it was some Of
the family, but soon found out his mis-
take. He took hold of the fellows leg
and gave it a good pull, and then an
other, and the man rolled off the sofa
He scratched his head and looked fool
ish, and Mr.. Tapp said
Hello, pardnerI What are you doing
here?"
The fellow scratched his head some
more, and said: 81 Dunno
He then started to lie down as if to
go to sleep again, but Mr.. Tapp gave
his leg another pull, and said:
''SayI What are you doing here?"
and answered:
Say, but 1 must have been awful
full. | can't remember"
Where were you when you last knew
where you were at?" asked the genial
senator.
'.Dogged if I know. Where is my
hat?" asked the sleepy man.
He kept scratching his head. Both
men looked around the room, but
couldn't find the hat, and as Mr.. TaDp
was going to the store, he told the man
to come and go along with him. AS
they were going down the street the
man told him he was a charcoal burner
from Augusta, and the last thing he re-
membered he was some place and was
having a good time.
How he got into Mr.. Tapp's house he
did not know.
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replied that she was afraid to be in the
dark, Mrs. Bonine replied that she was
not. The witness said that Mrs Bo-
nine's manner was at that time COM
posed.
on cross-examination Miss Wollums
said that Mrs. Bonine had volunteered
to go to the room with her and that she
and not Mrs. Bonine had first adverted
to the appearance of the shadow on the
wall
Miss Wollums testified that Mrs. Bon
inc generally got up and superintended
the weekly dances at the kenmore no.
tel but the court declined to permit
cross-examination as to how Mrs. Bon
inc had demeaned herself toward Ayres
at the dances, and frequently importun-
ed people to dance, devoting herself to
securing partners for the participants
On redirect examination Miss VOL
lums said that the sound of voices and
the sound caused by the falling of the
body which she had heard in Ayres
room on the night of the tragedy had
Immediately succeeded the pistol shots
SWEARS AYERS WAS SOBER.
James Burns, who was Ayers inti-
mate friend and who had accompanied
him to his room the night of the trag
edy was next calledl- He said that on
the night of the tragedy Ayers had
gone with him and others to two or
three saloons around the corner where
he said Ayers had drunk sparingly. He
had then about 1870 o'clock accompa-
MED Ayers to his room, leaving him in
a perfectly sober condition.
The witness said that while originally
Ayers and Mrs BOnine had been on
friendly terms, these relations became
strained and on the occasion of the
Monday dance before the killing when
she had approached Ayers with a car
nation he had treated her with con-
tempt Mrs. Bonine told him, he said,
that she had reproved Ayers for drink
ing He did not know of Ayers having
a pistol.
On cross-examination Burns said that
Mrs. Bonine had taught Ayers to dance
and had also taught him (the witness)
the two-step. He also said that before
starting out with Ayers at 1890 o'clock
he himself, had had six or seven drinks.
but that he was not intoxicated He
said that he had not spent more than
two or three minutes in Ayers room
when he accompanied him up and that
he had had no confidential conversation
with him. 81 do not know that L could
have had a confidential talk he SAID.
There might have been some one un-
der the bed but don't think that there
was
Burns said that on the night succeed
ing the ira gedy he had not remained in
his room In the hotel. Asked why he
kept away her said: LAS Mrs. BOnine
knew that Jimmy Ayers and myself
were friends, 1 did not know but what
she would think Ayers had told me
enough to convict her. did not pro-
pose to take any chances"
f'Afraid?" asked counsel for the de-
fense
Yes; and the next night. too
In reply to further questions by Mr..
Douglass, Burns said that Mrs. Bonine
had nursed him through a serious ill
ness, coming to his room day and night,
both alone and with others, and also
that he had told persons since the
tragedy that he never had heard Ayers
talk as though he had been Intimate
with Mrs. Ronine.
for luncheon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-26
STANLEY TO KICK OFF.
Governor Will Start Washburn- OF
tawa Football Game.

William Eugene Stanley, sr., governor
of Kansas, will make the kick off in
the Washburn-Ottawa football game
Thanksgiving on the Washburn grid
iron.
William Eugene Stanley. jr.. through
out the season has been one of star
players of the Lime Kiln football eleven
and he will probably stand on the side
lines and watch his father jam his toes
into the pig skin and the Junior will un-
doubtedly wear a sarcastic smile for he
will imagine that the senior knows
nothing about the gentle art of playing
football. Governor Stanley has become
a football enthusiast and has attended
several games on the Topeka gridiron
as the rest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-26
LUMBER COMBINE.
Pacific Coast Manufacturers to
Form a Trust.

Seattle, Wash, Nov 26.-It is rumor-
ed that a combination of Pacific coast
lumber manufacturers is to be formed
which will control the entire output of
the coast. 1t is said that the Pacific
Coast Lumber Manufacturers associa-
ton will control the combine. The
cause of the movement is stated to be
the fact that freight rates east are so
great that western manufacturers are
unable to put their products in eastern
cities with any degree of profit. The
proposed plan of the lumbermen is to
make themselves so strong that they
can control the product of the coast,
sending it east by a fleet of lumber
vessels around the Horn.