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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

When you wake up with Z bsd taste in
your mouth. 60 at osce 70 ]. 81. HcNeely,
Colfax, Bush 4 Randolph, Falrmount
and got . fTee sample Of Chamberlain'a
6tUmach and Liver Tablsts One or twa
doses will make you we'll They alsc
cure biliousness. sick headache and con-
atipafion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

LOST.-A Jet Cross, gold tipped and
set With pearls. The finder will be suit
ably rewarded on returning same to
The CHRoNIcIr OYSlcE.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

TO Cure = Cold In Ono Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
A N druggists refund the money II it fails
to cure. 3. ". Groves signature 10 on
esch boz. Is cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Mr.. Robt. Aaron. Of PineviFIe. an
old time resident Of this place. wa
among those attending court THU
week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Tho storS Of Hart Z Holmes, In The
town OF Winndeld, ives destroyed By
are ON the night Of October eth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Parties wishing to have their daugh-
ters taught music will flnd Miss Sallie
p. Thurmond : splendid instructor,
End her rates arc very reasonable.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

DeWitt's Little Early Risers never dis
appoint. They are safe, prompt, effective
IN removeiug al impurities from the
live and bowels. Easy to take. Never
gripe. J. A. Hyde.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

A little saving on tho many little
things In our store soon ioOts up to
considerable sum. Not every price
the lowest-but tidy saving on
your entire order II the claim Of
EAaTERBkooK & Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19
For Sale.

lam authorised to cell the old build.
iugs If the Colfax High School. said
buildings to be sold subject to the ap.
prevail Of the trustees.
r. 4. CAMERON.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

For spraius. dwellings, and lameness
there ID nothing % good q Chsmber-
lsin's Pain Balm. Try It, For sale by
]. H. McNeely. Collar; Bush B Ram
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Hon. Geo. 81. PackwOod, salesman
of huggies, surveys. etc.. has been vis-
iting bis cousin, Mrs.. T. s. Robins, At
Mirabeati. this week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

4 lady who has lost black cross,
gold tipped and sst With pearls. ad.
vertsses that she win pay suitable
reward ON same being leit at thia
once.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19
For Sale,

A 70L@aw gin stand. with condenser
and fixtures, win he es,ld very cheap.
Apply to J. A. WILLIAMS.
s13 Colfax, La
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

On yesterday we recetved time table
No. Z. Of the Valley railway. but It ID
too late to get no for this Issue. so
publication 10 delayed until next week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Mn. J. p. Hadnot, who has been
sick Tor the past two weeks. b report.
ed to have alow fever.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Work on the Colfax High School is
being pushed rapidly. The four ga
bles ON tho roof have been put IN this
week. and work on the floo.s. walls
and doors and windows win begin at
once. The McKinnon Bros. contract
ors, have Lea Howe and L. C. Jack
son. OF Coushatta, and Philip PeFrina,
Of Natchitoches. working with them.
and are expecting two or three more
carpenters In . Few days. They have
the contract to build the residences Oi
Mr.. X. e. Mcknight. the lumber for
which 10 now being hauled In.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Do you suffer from piles! II 90 do not
turn to surgery for relief. DeWitt's
Witch Hasel 6alve will sct quickly, surely
safely saving expense and danger Of opera
ton. J. A. Hyde.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19
~. Joe Manetho,
0G9 ID TIE FAnous
Saddle Stallion


83Saddle Stallion
WIN make the season Of 1900 at my
farm on Red River opposite B0yce,
La, at so for the season, with ~
turn privilege IN case Of failure.
DEscsuPTIoK AND PEpIGREA.
Sired by Manetho standard bred
trotting stallion. No. 3905; chestnut
horse foaled March 18th, 1850. bred by
A. J. Alexander, Woodburn farm.
Kentucky. Sired by Harold. (sire Of
Maud s., record 2:O-z.) First dam
Mary Bell. dam Of Pueller. record 20,
(sister Of Dick Moore, record 2:2x. by
Belmont, sire Of NutwO0d, record =:
16k. the sire Of Manager. two year
old record 2,06.) Second dam Mary,
Tdam Of Dick Moore, record 2:3x and
Mary Todd, trial IN 3:24, and dam Of
Crittenden, sire Of Mamie H., Hoeord
2:26X; BY Monmouth Eclipse. Third
dam by Bertrand Fourth dam BY
Kosiciusko. Fifth dam BY Gallattn.
Sixth dam by CeIer, Manetho = the
sine Of 1aSSie Harold, record 5:l7, and
Dagma, trial 2:17z. JOE AANETH0
Is ) years old this spring, Is hands
inch high, weighs J0<g pounds, One
form, style and action. q natural sad
dler and producer Of addlerB-
For further particulars eau on OF
address KEENAN, SMITH,
Royce. Iouidlana-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Light frost 10 reported from many
points in Louisiaua on the morning
of the 18th.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

wetlo not run to fads In shoes, but
sell only the dependable. always
wanted kind Standard quality and
bottom prices are the ends aimed at
and secured by spot cash sales.
EAerERBRooK Z Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

Mrs. r. E. Mcknight returned from
her trip to Shreveport last Saturday
night
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

ALLEN-Nancy A.. Allen. wife OF
Thomas Allen. born Nov. 18th, 1912.
died Sept. 9th, 1901. aged 50 years, 10
months and 3 days.
She was married to Thomas Allen.
Nov. n. 1867. and Joined the Baptist
church In middle life, having lived q
consistent member OF that church for
about twenty-five years. and being q
true believer In Jesus Christ.
Sleep on. dear one. we hope to meet
thee where parting h no more.
One by one the gentle shepherd
Gathers lambs from every fold.
Takes them to his loving bosom
With a tenderness untold.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19
LOCAL DOTS:

Middling cotton b quoted in New
Orleans Mt sc.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-10-19

LACROIx-At the home Of his
grandparents. In Colfax, La, ut $50
q. m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16. 1901,
Charles Teal LaCroix, born April q.
1901, infant son Of william and LOuiae
LaCroix, departed this life aged s
months and Is days.
OF such is the Kingdom of heaven.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15

happens to be open when received here, it is sealed with special stamp, bearing the words: Post Office Department4-Off Officially Sealed" The first stamp of this kind bore the words: 'Post obitum,'' meaning "after death" A specimen is to-day worth ten dollars. It is difficult to procure sealing stamps, and collect- ors offer high prices for them.
 Stamp collecting fends bother the foreign division of our dead letter office very much. The average per son afflicted with that mania believes for the asking. One of them recent ly wrote: You must have thousands of foreign letters which you can never deliver. Please send me a good collection.' All such letters are answered with. reference to the law making the removal of stamps from letters subject to a fine of $500, with or without Imprisonment.
 One great difficulty in the delivery of letters addressed in foreign coun- tries is that the writers give de- fective or insufficient superscrip- tions to their communications Only an expert would have known that a letter addressed: '.Teserero General de Nacion," meant Treasurer of the United States" But it did; and was properly delivered, and it contained considerable sum of money.
 letter addressed to "Br Ameruky, D. Branz, Kemielbunl1port, America ,' was sent to the postmaster at Ken nebunk Port, Me, and by him for warded to Portland, where it was delivered to D. Branz, in an alley in the rear of No. 34 North street. Another letter addressed '.Br Amer uka,'' meaning British America, was superscribed "Elizabeth Afenue 515, Joseph Miron, House furnishing goods" That seemed like hard one, but the experts in our dead letter office found Elizabeth avenue at Elizabeth, N. J., and delivered the letter there.
 These are merely samples of the hundreds of thousands of difficult cases which are handled every year by our expert clerks in the dead let. ter office; and the work increases each year because of the increased illiteracy of Europe. On this point the superintendent of the dead letter office says: 'sThere is also great deal of illiteracy and carelessness in our own country. I think that the art of letter writing and of address. ing envelopes ought to be practical part of the work of our school ckil- dren.'
 That's good idea. It could be taught with the lessons in penman- ship. SMITH D. FRY.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15

literary lights, with only England" on the envelope, have beenreturned to this country marked insufficient ad- dress" Letters of that character from European countries for eminent men of letters in this country are al- ways forwarded to their proper ad- dresses, and without delay.
 All printed matter received at the dead letter office from Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, South American countries and Australasia is destroyed, in accordance with spe- cial agreement. Most of this stuff con- sists of newspapers and trade circu- lars. The countries mentioned do the same with similar matter that reaches them from the United States. But France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Bel gium want every bit of their printed matter back, and it is returned to them.
 Take Russia, for instance. All un- claimed matter from that country is sent back to the Russian post office department at St. Petersburg every week, including printed stuff The material is done up in bags. If there is reason to believe that a single par eel or letter holds anything of value, the bag containing it is registered. Many of the letters returned to Rus sia come to Washington from the post office at Boston, in which city there is large Russian colony. Returns for Newfoundland and small depend encies in various parts of the world are made in big envelopes, the bulk of matter sent being small.
 In the same way we get our dead matter back from foreign countries weekly from some, monthly from others. The returns sent to us amounted last year to 250,000 pieces only little more than one-third as many as we forwarded to govern ments abroad. One reason for this great difference is found in the fact that addresses in Europe are more cer- tain and permanent. Immigrants coming to the United States give their first addresses to relatives and friends on the other side of the water. Pret- ty soon they move, and track of them is lost. Native Americans are mostly educated and address letters to for eign parts with accuracy; foreigners here when they write home are sure of the addresses.
 The number of letters returned to Italy is very great, most of them for non-payment of postage. Under the regulations of the postal union. let ters may be sent unstamped and will | be delivered but the recipient must | pay double-i. e., ten cents on an or dinary letter. Such an unpaid letter is marked with. big T, which stands
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15
WE LEAD THE WORLD
Uncle Sam's Mail Service the Acme
 of Perfection.
Foreign Systems Seem PueriIe When Compared with Ours-Work of the National Dend-Letter
 Onice.
Ispeclai washington Letter.1

lSpeclal WaSnlnBIOn Aetter.I
 THE illiteracy of Europe rests as
 heavy burden on the dead let
 ter office of this republic. Up wards of half million letters annual ly come to this country from Europe with addresses which are insufficient, illegible or undecipherable. They must be returned to the countries whence they come. Consequently this European illiteracy is costly, not only to the countries whence the misdirect- ed letters come, but also to us.
 The fact is we'll known that our own people furnish employment to hun dreds of employees because of their inability to properly address their communications; but the illiteracy of foreign correspondents is incalculably greater than that of our own people. In our republic the majority of the errors are caused by carelessness, but ignorance is at the bottom of the enor- nous number of errors committed by those in foreign countries.
 Compared with our own perfected dead letter office system those of for eign countries seem to be in their in fancy. Many evidences are shown by the experiences of our officials, indi- eating that the foreign governments do not attach sich importance to the delivery of obscure addresses as our government has always manifested For example, when Levi P. Morton was minister to France, a letter ad- dressed ''Levi F. Morton, Paris France" was returned to this country marked, ''inconnu;" that is, ''un- known" And yet the American min ister was living in Paris at one of the leading hotels. No effort was made to deliver that letter, or it could have been delivered.
 Many letters from this country ad- dressed to Walter Besant, Algernon Swinburne, Alfred Austin, and other
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT. WEDNESDAY,.

for the word sstnxee, meaning taxed" or extra rate. The Italians are very thrifty people, and it often happens that the sender in that coun- try prefers to leave the payment to the addressee, who, in America, is usually of the same nationality. On delivery of the letter he refuses to re- ceive it and pay the ten cents demand ed. There may be nothing important in it, and he is not willing to squander that amount of money on an uncer- tainty. His friend or relative having written, it is safe to conclude that the writer is well.
 Hundreds of letters, though actual ly delivered to the intended recipients, are returned to Italy every year. At least 75 per cent. of the mail matter sent from that country to the United States is not paid i'll advance. What has been said on this point applies in who are likewise a thrifty people. It is observed that immigrants from abroad retain their thrifty habits on this side of the water. In the next generation. however, they lose them entirely. Their sons and. daughters have all the wants and requirements of Americans. The continental peas ant is content to live on bread and po- tatoes, but his American-born children must have meat three times day.
 Some of the articles found in closed in parcels from abroad, which, unlike letters, may be opened, are very odd. They will often contain such things as one sock, one shoa or one glove, the customs regulations forbidding the sending of pairs of such things. Pieces of lace and valu- able embroidery are discovered wrapped up in the newspapers which are devoted to destruction when not delivered. These are disposed of at the annual auction sale, held at the post office department. Rosaries and crucifixes are sent in similar fash ion in great numbers. At every year ly sale hundreds of these are dis posed of, many of them having been blessed by priests and forwarded by people in Catholic countries for use by friends in our country.
 Comparatively few of the foreign letters which reach our dead letter office can be delivered to the persons addressed, because it is not pernlis- l sible to open them. If one of them
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15

gested that it would be a good thing to celebrate their china wedding.
 celebrate what?" asked MT. $.
 "Our china wedding, stupid. Our twentieth anniversary." Ii What for?"
 "Why, don't you see, we'd get a lot of nice things-china things that we couldn't afford to buy. Look at all the cut glass Mamie got tonight. It's worth all of S250, and her party didn't cost her more than $25. I've made up my mind to have a china wedding, no matter what you think about it. Why, I paid nineNdollars for the salad bowl we gave Mamie. and we've got to get even some way"
 Mir. Skinner protested, but the cards went out; and if his enterpris- ing wife does not ssget even" it will certainly not be her fault.
 The next day Skinner met his friend Jaggers at the club.
 '.So you're going to celebrate your china wedding, old man" observed the latter.
 My wife is," curtly responded Skinner.
 s'Well, Mrs. Jaggers says it's nice way of getting back part of the blackmail you have had to contrib ute to your friends" suggested the amiable Jaggers.
 What do you mean, sir?"
 "Oh, don't get on your ear. You know well enough what I mean. Mrs. Jaggers has habit of looking every financial proposition squarely in the face. 'HenneFy,' she says to me when we got your card; last January we had to give the Ketchams two-dollar coffee pot, the other day we gave the Baldeys six-dollar cut glass carafe, next week we'll have to spend five dollars for the Skinners. Next fall, Henry, we celebrate our silver we'd ding, and what say goes had nothing to say; not because I like the idea, but because I know that Maria will have her way"
 Skinner listened to the explanation in silence, and then joined Jaggers in a bottle of Apollinaris. They felt dis satisfied with themselves and all the world, and caused the grass widower who noticed their depression, to re- peat his favorite quotation:
 .wedlock, indeed. had oft compared been
 To public feasts, where meet public Where they that are without would faiu
 go in,
 And they that are within would fain go out"
 But in spite of the discontinue o1 husbands women will continue top1ay their amateur hold-up games. It'f
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15

in them to do it, and they can't help but take delight in getting just a bit ahead of their dear friends. Mrs. Jaggers, so the latest report goes, will send out 500 invitations for her silver wedding, which will be cele- brated in thelclub house and is to be the great social event of the season. She expects to receive at least 200 presents, worth five dollars apiece on the average. She will, at the same time, pay all her social obligations, and retire from the field $500 ahead of the game. Her intimates already speak of her as the female Napoleon of suburban society,"" and she will probably hold the title undisputed until next December. when. accord ing to Dame Rumor, the venerable but wide-awake 1drs. Fleecem will cele- brate her golden wedding anniversary.
 c. W. WEIPPIERT..
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15

Friendly league, embroidery, glee club, Penny Prevalent bank for mem berS.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15

tenth wedding anniversary. He heads the procession, but madame, his wife, is the star actor, stage manager and impresario. He is surely one of the ciphers added to lend impressiveness to the show, like the gentleman-in- waiting in the old play who acts the thinking part to perfection.
 Woman manipulates all of the pup pets on the social board. And in nov ing them around she displays extraor- dinary generalship and a thorough comprehension of human nature. r For her own breakfast she'll project
 scheme
 Nor take her tea without a stratagem.''
 Marcus Aurelius, who had the happy faculty of condensing much practical wisdom into single sentence, said that things that have common quail ity ever seek their kind.'' That is probably the reason why women who are "fond of going out" soon become acquainted, even in large cities where the forming of friendships is not as easy as in smaller towns where every body knows everybody else. And when you have found woman who dotes on card parties and evening companies" You have, in nine cases out of ten, dis covered a social schemer, a charming speculator who lets no wedding ami Tersary or similar happy occasion pass without leyying tribute from her friends.
 Harry, my boy" said a dejected looking passenger on a suburban train to- friend who had just,entered es5,1 ,-o,. ~.a4 a,e oo,d fx,,- our crystal wedding?"
 ssWe did.''
 "Are you coming?"
 'tWill. if I'm in town"
 s'yyish you'd be out of town. Wish everybody that's been invited would be out of town. I'm dead tired of the whole thing. It's all Names doings. She said that Mrs. Catchem celebrated her tin wedding last January and all her friends gave her nice presents. Now Name doesn't want any tin coffee pots or disRpans, but she thought this crystal wedding party would be just the thing for getting a lot of cut glass truck. I don't want to bleed my friends says I. if you want to enter tain them put of your party and don't make everybody feel that you want their presents more than their company I might just as we'll have talked to a stone wall. She has made up her mind to get lot of cut glass; and unless the people that have been invited have more sense than I give them credit for she'll get it, too"
 .Mame's" party was quite sue cess. Her refreshments were served dn borrowed cut-glass dishes. Before her guests departed, they left behind them a choice assortment of carafes, goblets, olive dishes, salad bowls and tanlards; and hereafter she will have to borrow no more.
 But it was not Mamie alone who was satisfied with the result of her social speculation. 1t made an equal ly soothing impression on the mind of Mrs. Skinner, whose supply of dishes was running desperately low. 1fr. Skinner had repeatedly declined 60 invest his hard-earped dollars in
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15

Hts the Plumbers Business to look after your business. And we can look after 1t and attend to 1t bet ter than anyone in the business. Our experience in all lines of Plumbing. Steam Heating and Gas Fitting ena- bles us to undertake satisfactorily complete the most difficult piece of work. Our charges won't dispiease you.
 F. H. GARRITY. 231 Bank St. Telephone. 1O3-4s
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-15
aA PRISONER OF ZENDA." !"

The Shipman Brothers fine produc- ton of "A Prisoner of Zenda" will be given for the last time at the Jacques this evening. It is the same as was given not long since at Polls for regu- ably one of the best plays presented lation high prices, and is unquestion- ably one of the best playis presented during the entire season at the Jacques. Prices are popular.