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The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-18

Brief communications upon subjects OF
public interest solicited, but no attention
will be paid to anonymous writer's.
Address: CHRONICLE. Colfax, La.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-18
ARTICLE v.

Whenever this corporation b dis
solved either by limitation or by any
other cause its Affairs shall be liqul-
dated under supervision Of threecom-
mIssioners to be selected by the stock
holders from among themselves at q
general meeting convened for that
purpose after thirty days priornotice
by publication In = newspaper pub
lished In Montgomery, parish Of
Grant, Il there be one, II not In = news
paper Published Dearegt thereto Ia
said parish, and with the assent o:
the owners Of three-lourths Of the en-
tire capital stock. Said commissions
ers TO Tefnain IN Of3ce uptil the a6airf
of the corporation shah have been
fully hquidated and settled, and iu
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pany's work in Canton, the industry.
it will be remembered, with which
Paul Revere was so long connected.
Frederick w. Lincoln, afterward
mayor of Boston, was adopted by Col.
Lincoln, and because of this, as well
as because he was the patriot Pauls
great-grandson, he would have been
the natural heir to the watch. Just
here, however, an interesting bit of
romance came in to divert the relic
to the present owner.
Col. Lincoln had in DR.. Phineas Miller
Crane, late of East Boston, the father
of Mr.. Crane, of Maiden, a friend as
dear to him as Damon was to Pythias.
Often DR.. Crane had admired the
Paul Revere watch, and in his love for
the timepiece his bride heartily
shared. This fact he let drop to Col.
Lincoln one day in the course of con-
versation, proposing, half in jest, that
he sell him the watch, to give his
fiancee the day she became his wife.
Naturally Col. Lincoln was averse
to letting the watch go to one not of
the Revere blood, but his friends re-
quest seemed to offer to him an ad-
mirable opportunity to set the seal
on a friendship which had meant much
to them both, as we'll as to Miss
Dwight, SO he consented to part with
the watch, and it became the property,
the day she became Mrs. Crane, of
the woman both men wished to please.
The number of the watch, which. is
in an 1s-carat gold case, is 24,650, and
that it was we'll made is demonstrated
by the fact that to-day, 1913 years after
the night it served the owner on his
famous ride, it keeps good time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

Yale's oldest graduate in years in
Chicago is Sherman M. Booth. He
entered Yale as a sophomore in 1888
and was graduated in 1841. He is now
80 years old. OF the graduates who
left Yale with Mr.. Booth in 1841 sew
eral are living. One Of these is Donald
G. Mitchell, the ELK Marvel" of liter
ature. The Rev. Newton Barrett, of
Chicago, although younger than Mr..
Booth by three years, was graduated
from Yale five years earlier-that is,
in 1886.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

nEV. r. y. VA1IMANN.
american Army Chaplain Who Has Just
Been Summoned to Romeo O.
familiarize themselves with the feel
ings of the natives and of the Amer
lean administration in regard to the
friars and their vast possessions. The
pope himself is taking deep interest
in this matter, and has personally sum-
moned a number of prelates to Rome
to supply him with authentic Informal
ton. Among the most popular church.
men who have been called to the vati-
can to throw light on the Philippine
situation is Rev. Edward j. Vattmann.
who is now a guest of the pontiff. Fa-
Their Vattmann is the senior of the II
Roman Catholic chaplains in the
United States army, and was former
ly stationed with the Fourth infantry
at Fort Sheridan, Ill. He has been
an army chaplain since 1877, and has
served through several campaigns
against the Sioux and the war with
Spain. During most of this period he
has been with the Fourth regiment,
and has been especially active in pro-
noting sobriety among the soldiers of
the post. He is 81 years of age, was
graduated at the University of Pader-
born, and came to this country in
1865. ...y -. -
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CHURCH OF SAN MIGUEL.
New Mexicans Claim That 1t Is the
Oldest Christian Sanctuary in
the United States

The church of San Miguel, at Santa
Fe, is claimed by New Mexicans to be
the oldest in the United States. There
is much dispute over the exact date of
it's erection, but it was certainly built
between 200 and 800 years ago by the
first Indian converts, Under the direc-
tion of the Spanish padres-some say
as long ago as 1545. Inside it is like a
vault, black and crumbling, with
cracked adobe walls and roof. and a
gallery whose woodwork still shows
traces of the figures painted there by
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MAID SOLD HERSELF &
Wonderful Devotion Of Indian Girl
!" to Fathers Memory.
Hinging Swan, Belle of the Ki0was,
AuctiOned Herself to Pay a Debt
of Honor Contracted by
Chief Iron Talk.

Singing Swan, the belle of the Kiowa
Indian village in Indian territory, has
just auctioned herself to pay debt of
honor of her dead father.
Old Jim Crow, famous, wealthy
''white' Indian and character of I'M
usual force, originality and honesty,
was the successful bidder. He paid
$4,000 for the handsome young wom-
an. Then he took her to his home and
introduced her to his family of grown
up sons and daughters as an orphan
whom he had adopted, and told them to
treat her as a sister.
The old man is a widower, but those
who know the sterling sense of honor
believe that he adopted the girl to keep
her out of bad hands and in the hope
that she would find an acceptable hus-
band in one of his handsome sons.
In the meantime the debt of honor
has been Cancelled in an unexpected
way, says the New York World.
Singing Swans father was Chief Iron
Talk, man of wealth and influence IN
the tribe, and was distinguished for
his hospitality and his progressive and
philanthropic ideas. He had his daugh-
ter well educated. Her fine qualities
and her beauty attracted many white
suitors, but she held aloof from them
and stuck to her father.
He, by reason of his constant wish
to improve his people and to do the
greatest possible good with his for
tune, was induced by INSCRIPTIONS
whites to embark on an enterprise that
swept away every dollar and left him
at his death $1,000 in debt.
This amount he had borrowed from
a money lender, and while for years he
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Head Of Anthracite Trust.)
made him one of their counsel. He
himself has done the rest, and no one
who knows the man wonders at his
success. Energy radiates from him as
from a dynamo. When he speaks it is
at first with drawing deliberateness
that is almost exasperating. Now and
then, when put to the issue or
badgered little, as he was on the wit
ness stand the other day during the
proceedings before the interstate
commerce commission, grin spreads
over his face, sardonic, hard, knowing,
and with less of humor than of irony,
less of sympathy than of aggression.
Wit tn his rugged, stern countenance,
harsh iron-gray hair and beard, and,
eyes that never finch nor turn, Mr..
Baer gives an impression of viriity,
honesty, infexibility and shrewdness
in perfect combination. That all men
are impressed by his character and his
achievements was shown by that scene
in the courtroom when the commits
sioners showed him a Difference that
no other witness got, while the law
yers for the railroads did not even try
to direct his testimony. For four
hours he dominated the situation.
Dominate, says the Philadelphia
Press, is the word for George F. Baer.
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THRIFT .| ENCOURAG ED
British Post Office Savings Bank
Employs 5000 Clerks.
Children Are Urged to Save Their
Pennies-Every Postal ONCE In
England IL q Bram ch of This
Great InstitutiOn.

England's remarka BILE system of post
office savings banks, started several
years ago, has been brought into no.
tice of late on account of the transfer
ence of the prodigious clerical force
which the system keeps busy, from
the big building in Queen Victoria
street, London, which they have out
grown, to their new home in West
Kensington, a vast beehive of place,
covering five acres of ground, close to
the amphitheater called Olympia,
sacred to the memory of Buffalo Bill,
Barnum's circus, and such shows. This
new government building has just been
completed especially for the national
department. of thrift, and will be for
mally opened i'm few days.
The moving day concerns 5000
clerks, the thousands of ledgers in
which are kept the accounts of the
banks 100000 depositors, and the
simply innumerable documents relat-
ing thereto. Enormous as is the job
of conveying them across London, how
ever, it is now certain that it will be
accomplished without the depart
ment's business being hindered in any
way.
What has been brought out most sig
nificantly in consequence of the atten-
ton which the biggest savings bank
in the world has been receiving of late
is the remarkable growth of this
unique institution. The number of
deposits annually has jumped from
100000 to 100000; the number of
depositors from 100000 to 5000, 600.
In other words, on every business day
of the year 10000 persons make depos-
its through $4,000 government substa-
tions. No wonder, then, that since the
postal savings banks were established,
nearly 500 private institutions of the
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New Mexican Sanctuary Which Was Built
Many Centuries Ago)
the Indians like those they
put upon their pottery to-day.
But the most interesting thing in
San Miguel, says the New York Her.
aid, is the old bell, St. Joseph. Black
with age, it looks like mass of old iron
in it's dim recesses. But strike it and
it gives forth a mellow note of silvery
clearness, echoing with marvellous
sweetness through the vault-like old
church. The quality of the bell metal
makes the richness of the note, and
there is a tradition that it was made
of the gold and silver ornaments of the
Spanish, as thank offering for a VIC
tory over the Moors.
At any rate, the old Spanish padres
brought the bell, already ancient,
across the seas $rom Spain, and over
mountains and plateaus frem Mexico.
The Moors are gone, Spain's great en-
pire of the west has vanished. and still
the old bell stands there, older than
American civilization.
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II Mary Schmidt, of Peoria, I

If Mary Schmidt, of Peoria, ILL.,,
marries q German she will be wealthy.
If she should select an Englishman or
some other than a German she will be
cut of of her share of large estate
left by her father, Andrew Schmidt.
To get her share she must marry, for
If she remain single she will not be
considered in the distribution. The
will of Andrew Schmidt was fled, and
in it the above condition is clearly set
forth. Schmidt was an eccentric
farmer who was intensely loyal to his
mother country. Eligible Teutons will
take notice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

JOHN H. Heaton, M. p, who has re-
turned to London from Italy, whittier
he accompanied Signor Marconi, says
he saw at an observatory near Rome
specimens of new system of electric
photography, by which clear pictures
can be obtained of persons and scenes
20 miles distant. He thinks it con.
ceivable that the system can be de.
veloped so as to enable the making of
photographs of friends in distant
lands. while conversing with them by
wireless telegraphy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

A deed for a tract of land with one
inch. front and a depth Of $50 feet was
signed and delivered in Philadelphia
the other day. Some time ago Jeweler
Wallace Miller erected building, set
ting it back one inch from the line.
The wall cracked, and later, when Mrs.
Sarah Teed began building on the lot
Mr.. Miller offered to deed her the one
inch if she would build against his
building and make a solid double wall.
The Miller property has a frontage OF
Sc feet and The one inch is worth near
Nv 500
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kind have been forced to 20 out of
business
What has made the government saw
ings bank such an enormous success
is the fact that small deposit is as
welcome as large one-the incom-
ing shilling being treated as seriously
as the incoming pound. In fact, the
government savings banks are intend
ed for small depositors, and more than
$3.50 a year will not be received. But
the beauty of the whole thing is the
ease with which it is done. To begin
with, anyone may deposit, and nearly
every post Office is a government saw
ings bank. All that the person who
wants to open an account has to do
Is to 60 to the nearest postal substa-
ton and fill out blank giving his
name, address, etc. Then he gets a
depositor's book, in which he writes his
name, pays in his money, and has the
amount recorded in his book. This
ends the opening ceremony. And his
next deposit may be made in any part
of the country in which there is a
post Office. withdrawing money is al
most as easy. In the ordinary course,
all the depositor has to do is to send
to the central Office, in free envelope
that can be had for the asking at any
substation, a notice of withdrawal.
The central Office sends back war
rant, which the depositor can leash i'm
at any post office, after having signed
his name in the presence of one of the
clerks, for comparison with his sigma
ture in his deposit book.
But by far the most remarka BILE part
of the governments "savings banks"
system is the arrangement by which
the post Office will bank a youngsters
penny for him, just as it does his ia
theirs pound. When a little boy or
girl has a penny to save all he or she
has to do is to buy stamp Herewith.
When the young financier has dozen
stamps the government will send him
especially made banking card on which
those IL stamps are to be pasted, and
the whole thing sent in to the postal
savings bank department, which duly
starts Willie Jones' or Susie Green's
account with the deposit of one shil-
ling. And SO anxious is the govern
ment to encourage the habit of econ
omy in the rising generation that it
will supply stamps on credit to school
masters and enter into the most mi
mute correspondence as to transac-
tons with the pupils. The government
also has system of penny banks -
which, though for children, too, is
quite distinct from the stamp arran &C.
ment, but quite as quaint and interest
ing. But perhaps enough has been said
to show how much need there is for
the 5000 clerks which the government
employs just to keep the accounts OF
its millions of big and little clients,
and how distinctly complicated is the
work which they will do in the great
building in Kensington, whose founda-
tlon stone was laid by the King three
years ago. III.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29
PAUL REVERE'S WATCH.
Timepiece Carried by Bold Dostonien
ON His Midnight Ride Ii still
i'm Running Order.

The watch which Paul Revere car
ried on his midnight ride 1873 years
ago is still a serviceable timepiece, and
is owned by Frederick Lincoln Crane.
of Maiden, Mass. This relic, pro-
nounced by expert antiquarians to be
undoubtedly what it is claimed, fell
into Mr.. Cranes hands something over
a year ago by a very interesting chain
of circumstances. -,
Paul Revere left this watch by will
to his son, Joseph Revere, who in turn
passed it down to Col. Frederick w.
Lincoln, of Canton, his nephew, and the
grandson of the revolutionary scout,
This Col. Lincoln was for many years
the head of the Revere Copper com.
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SOLD HERSELF AT AUCTION.
(Singing Swan Mounted Box and Offered
Herself to Highest Bidder.)

had paid the interest, he had never
been able to pay the principal.
On Iron Talks death the money
lender seized property belonging to
the estate. This, however, did not sat-
isfy the creditor, and feeling her ia
theirs debt to be one of honor Singing
Swan finally decided to give herself in
expiation, reserving, however, the
right to reject the final bid.
AS soon as old Jim Crow had given
Singing Swan check for the $25, 900,
he hunted up John McRae, the money
lender, and asked for the note he held
against Iron Talk.
Singing Swan chose for her auction
feast day, when large crowd COM
posed of white traders, cattlemen, In
dams, half-breeds, nomads and gam
blers had gathered in the quaint vii
lage street.
When she appeared among them,
clad gayly in the rich royal robes of
her tribe, all eyes were turned upon
her in admiration. Suddenly noun Ding
box, she stood dramatic figure amid
most picturesque surroundings.
''Who wants a wife," she asked of
I the astonished crowd. There was an
earnestness in her voice and face that
forbade TESTING reply.
The young warriors could hardly
credit their eyes and ears. ''Singing
Swan" never looked lovelier. Her black
eyes sparkled and Ter long dark hair,
falling below her belt, mingled with
the brilliant colors of her apparel.
Strands of fresh-water pearls and hum
dreds of elk-teeth, FURNISHED and
tipped with gold, flashed from her neck
and arms and every seam of her cost
ly garments.
Finally a young Kiowa brave spurred
his pony nearer. Few heard the words
of the bidder, but the next instant the
girl exclaimed: Zone thousand dollars
I am offered! Who bids more?'
Six-Killer, rich Cherokee, instantly
shouted: II will give SIS 900 in gold for
Singing Swan"
ut is not enough to pay my fathers
debt of honor" said the maiden.
AL Cudt uOu1eAG O1u Jill OTOW SPOKE
up. II need a housekeeper," he said.
"and if Singing Swan. will take kindly
to old Jim will put check for SIC, 900
| in one of her little hands,
| "You can't get her." roared the
Cherokee; '$11, OO0."
'tCan't II" retorted Jim, throwinghis
Winchester across lis left arm and
drawing long piece of glittering steel
from his belt. eve will see about that.
Mr.. Injin. Shout $4,000, Miss Singing
Swan, and tell 'em tc come again.
The two men glared at each other, to
the great delight of the crowd, and no
doubt to the intense satisfaction of the
Indian girl. They continued bidding
until Jim shouted 1925 ,0OO."@z AS the
angry Cherokee turned his horse and
+ galloped away the crowd roared with
| laughter. s=. s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

From the Hudson river through a
line of pipes more than seventy miles
long New York will get it's new water
supply if Commissioner Robert Grier
Monroe's advice is taken. Three ex.
perts who for six months have been
going over all watersheds in the state
and surveying every point supposed to
be available have recommended this
plan. The cost of the entire project
has been fixed at $20,000,0o0, not in.
Guiding a large reservoir, which will
have to be made about five miles from
the city limits.
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BAER rs MASTERFUL.
Head Of Coal Trust Il = Strange Cons
binatlon OF Inflexibility and
-. Shreyvdne3s.

George F. Baer, president of the
Reading companies, might be called q
"dour" man among the Scots, but he
comes of Pennsylvania Dutch stock
and so would be more properly de-
scribed as ''phlegmatic" were it notfor
certain power of speech that will not
be held in check. His taciturnity is
with difference"
Mr.. Baer is a lawyer, but he has not
Practiced that profession for all of a
dozen years. He was at work at the
bar in western Pennsylvania when the
Reading people discovered him and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

Plans have been drawn up for an
electric railway from LIE Fayet, about
IL miles from Chamounix, to the sum-
nit of Mont Blanc The first section
to be constructed is to include in its
stations the Montivon, the Col de Voza,
Mount Lachat, Les Rognes and Tete
Rousse. the provisional terminus be-
ing pAiguillo du Coulter, at 12,500
feet above the mean level of the sea.
Later the line is to be prolonged to
the summit, 1870 feet above the sea
level
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

Between the two-cent fees. three
and six-cent fares in public convey
ances, one-cent for a paper, ETC.. the
foreigners and the natives heretofore
have been perambulating copper
mines, to say nothing of the conduc-
tor, who carries satchel: The new
piece will be greater relief, but it's
acceptance in payment of debts is not
obligatory in amounts above 81.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

Three Chicago ministers who acted
as arbitrators in the recent stock
yards strike presented bill for 81 900
each for their services. They will get
$l4.4O each or thirty cents an hour.
This rate was the wage the arbitrators
decided upon as just compensation
for the engineers. The engineers, who
wanted the union scale Of 371a cents
an hour, turned the tables on their
0rbitratOre.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

Pittsburg cast $4,000 votes at its
spring election and Allegheny City co.
600, total of $4,000, indicating prob
able total population of 100000. By
the federal census of 1900 Pittsburg
had 100000 inhabitants and Allegheny
100 600
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

That the microbes which cause dis
ease can not be killed by firing them
out of gun has been proved in off,
cial government experiments. Microbes
of malignant postule, of assesses and
of the intestine were smeared upon the
face of the gun wad, put next the
powder and fired into sterile gelatin
and agar-agar. In each case the mi
crobes developed each after it's kind
in the medium receiving the wad.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

Sweden's success in dealing with
the problem of temperance is attested
by the fact that her consumption of
liquors is now only four quarts per
head per annum, or one-sixth of what
1t was in 1880, whereas in Germany it
is 11.2 quarts per head.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29

The Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin,
1s only 38 years old. It was expected
that after his arduous and dangerous
trip to Central Asia he would rest a
few years, but he is already busy with
new Asiatic plans.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29
False. Praisc at Funerals.

A Missouri clergyman objects to the
soldering praise of the undeserving
dead at funerals, and says that only
the truth ought to be spoken. on
this, the Louisville Courier-Jo
thus comments: eff the Missouri
minister who threatens. to tell the
truth at funerals carries out his threat.
there will probably soon be a funeral
at which he will figure otherwise than
as the preacher : 81 81 ss Y. z@s.s=s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-29
SUMMONED TO ROME.
American Army Chaplain Consulted
Regarding Catholic Affairs in
the Philippines.

The interests of the Roman Catholic
hierarchy in the Philippine islands are
varied and important, and the vatican
officials are doing all in their power to
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Took Rad News Cool1v.

Willie O'Brien, aged eight years, of
White Plains, N. Y, was run over by a
freight train and lost his: right leg.
On fully comprehending the extent Of
his injury, he amazedly exclaimed:
"Hully gee, I'm one-legged now!"