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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The car of Russia has established
q ten-hour working day.
Five hundred and two patents have.
been taken out by women in Germany
since 1877.
Fossil coral, found in Fiji, is the best
building-stone in the world. 1t is soft
when first cut, but hardens to the con-
sistency of friedrich after a few
months weathering.
Among the exhibits at the Dussel-
dorf exposition was an apparatus
which was described as combination
street-washing and sweeping machine
and mud dredger. While its cost is
SLABS, it will ena bic reduction of the
staff of scavengers 10 one-half.
In the annual value of carriages and
wagons manufactured Ohio ranks
first, with $4,000, 900; New York and
Indiana, about $l4,OOO.O0O each, and
Michigan, sl2.OO0,O 900. The aggregate
for the United States is little short of
A0o.0O0,000. Of this more than half
is for 100000 pleasure carriages which
are sold in each year.
One of the great centers of chemical
industry is Hamburg. The census of
1900 showed 14S establishments and a
total of 1860 persons employed-a
gain in II years of % establishments
and 1883 employees. Including the
factories of several adjoining towns
the district has total of 256 chemical
establishments, employing $685.
hands. There are eight factories for
refining nitrate, two for making borax
and eight for making sulphuric hydro
gen.
Arcturus. star of the "solar type"
of spectrum-identical with that of
the sun, is now visible in the early
evening. Arcturus has changed its
position with reference to the sur
rounding stars during the last 500
years by an amount equal to the APP
parent diameter of the moon, moving
toward the southwest. This brilliant
orb cannot be at less than eight or ten
times the distance of Sirius-about
nine eight years"-and is probably
at a distance from us even greater
than this. In that case, to shine as
brilliantly as it does its bulk must be
fully that of thousand suns.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03

2 Of certain forms of powers the increase of individual
freedom, have abaed he despteuness proud Human
nature, shall perhaps be reminded cangeless we'll
worn doctrine is not. would maintain, entirely
Civilization offers the solvent of means
of which he reduce and aerward the which are his
by inheritance till finally after they come out
the likeness of virtues Take boodhnss example the
typical vice Of the Violent crime bul6gs unnecessary
still testify to the continued this original
but the majority of civilized have prged of so
animal pecuar and now the admirable courage
and perhaps less admirable love OF conquest for its
sake alone the first showed
itself in barbarty M
That pride is in like changing there cam
think be little doubt If committee dvnes were set to
enumeae the most dangerous healthy spiritual
opmen do not think that pride would be likely place
among them We still of that he ucfer
butthe contains little proac speak him
out PRIDE is far derogatory But may be sad
merely commenting the changes of meaning which
words? In this instance believe the word has changed meaning
accordance with the changes the quality
used and still wanted bad
Of the old pride still remain under Of pretended virtues
there evidence that pride divorced gradually being
vorced from and viii last contribute to the
terment Of the human chafsctes s~Seaks i'd
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03
PASSING OF THE WELL SWEEP
4 Cohtrfvance Once Familiar In YAM
keeland, Now Supp1anted by
Modern Contrivances.

In the course of 2O-mile walk along
country roads in southern Connecti-
cut there were seen by visiting New
Yorker recently only two well sweeps,
once as common feature of the land
nscape there as windmilts are in Hol-
land. There were found number of
wells of the ordinary kind, with two
buckets at the ends of rope run
ming on a wheel, and one or two wells
of the windlass kind, with bucket at
the end of rope wound up on roller
by the turning of crank, but in most
cases the old oaken bucket in what
ever manner it may have been used had
been supplanted by the chain pump,
says the New York Sun.
At one of the wells at which in the
course of this walk the two well
sweeps were encountered there was
found in the well curb a steel spout.
The old-fashioned well spout, it will
be remembered, was of wood, and
commonly so formed that care had to
be used in pouring the water into it
from the wen bucket so as to avoid
wasting it, inside the curb or out. The
steel well spout is SO shaped that the
well bucket can be emptied all at once
into an ample receptacle inside the
curb without its stopping over, while
the part outside of the curb is SO
shaped that the water thus poured in
all runs into the pail set to receive it..
This well was therefore, equipped
at once with the most ancient and the
most. modern of well contrivances,
namely a wen sweep, as means of
lowering and raising a bucket, and q
steel spout. But the water from the
well was quite unchanged. Like the
water everywhere found it was excel
lent. Man might invent new-fangled
contrivances for raising it from the
earth, but nature TAT least keeps on
doing business in the good old way. In
the same stretch Of country one who
had not for some years before visited
It would be struck by the number of
windmills now used there for pump
ing water. He might have become ia
miliar enough with windmills in the
west-he would find them now com.
monty used in the east.
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Boom in Walnut stumps.

Old walnut stumps are on a boom
throughout Tennessee. Stumps that
have remained unnoticed for. years
and were regarded as worthless are
now eagerly sought after at prices
that seem almost fabulous. One In
diana concern has had men travelling
over the country buying every old
walnut stump that could be found.
AT first the prices paid were small, but
as the eyes of the stick timber folks
began to open the prices went higher
and higher, until now they are out
OF sight, and the funny part about it
is that the uglier, knottier and more
unsightly the stump the more money
it will bring. The stump of walnut
tree that was cut dcwn several years
ago brought more than the whole of
the tree. 1t is stated that the stumps
are made into veneering material and
used in the manufacture of high grade
furniture.-Memphis Appeal.
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THE PioUs TENDERFooT.

This tenderfoot seemed hoein' In a mighty
rocky row;
Moped rounc the rancho IKE ghost that
had no place TO go.
A thin an saller-lookin' chap. raslin'
with a cough
He seemed 10 know had ccrns to stay IN
some day take him Off,
An yit he never made roar; was never
knowed to kick:
He never made one dnrn complaint about
a-bein sick.
But allus flashed smilin face an liked
TO take part
In any sort o. jolly fun us mavericksd
start
He'd kneei Gown in the clubhouse an d
bow his sickly head
To say his prayers every night afore he'd
Us fcllers settin' still as mice ontil he'd
made the deal.
A-feelin what you'd call a sort o. rever-
entail feel.
We never made no game o. him: we'dnever
laugh and scoR
When he would crook his pious knees to
work prayer on,
Fur recoltectfons came to us, not allus free
from shame.
o. childhcod days when mothers ust to
make US do the same.
We stood around him when he died, an
test want TO say
Ihere's something more than nerve that
helps q Christian, pass away.
= smis was on hls peaked face. an IN his
eyes al1ght
9hat Tor u he Va seein' thing, Z was IN
- uonefE o1GAk
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wife to run away with hind him!"
"And you heard what said, dear?
He was out of his head. Ill.,"
Needn't 'pologise for h-him, Mrs.
Dimmock. 1t IS all right. You get
supper now. I'll take walk-cool my
brain-come right back, Nell. So
long," "a
She did not worry over his absence
until the dogs attracted her attention
to the fact that they had all been left
behind. The sound of a rifle shot was
too frequent on the hills to disturb
her, but when midnight had come and
Hi still absent She feared the cab
in more than the open, and taking the
dogs she started out in the sepuIchral
moonlight, leaving it to the instinct of
her four-footed friends to lead the
way. Had Hi followed the man who
had left her door? Had he killed him
for what he said to her? She did not
think Hi capable of taking such re-
venge in his present state. But she
must find him. Down the long trail to
the village she hurried until stopped
by a horrible commoiion among the
dogs; they were grouped about a
patch of something that lay dark in
the moonbeams. She knew then that
Hi had found his enemy, and already
her mind was planning to save him
from the consequences of his act.
Where was he? She reached the pros
trate form and stopped to see if any
life were left. Soothing and quieting
the dogs that they should not attract
attention to the deed, she looked into
the face Of her husband. Hi Dimmock
had killed his worst enemy.-Chicagc
Record Herald.
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den form and features OF her hus.

den form and features OF her huA
band.
ut beats me, Nell.' he said. pres
emily, what you ever saw in Hiram
Dimmock to throw yourself away on
him. 1 amt any too good, but there
wasn't one of the boys in the old
crowd that wasn't head and shout
ders above him for decency and fair
dealing. You might have had your
choice, Nell, and you took him. Why
did you pick out the worst one in the
crowd?"
The girl looked in the face, lifting
large, limpid blue eyes to his with a
sincerity that vanuuished all doubt.
Il loved him. He was poor and
pIain-looking and Stunned by the
rest of you, and all that made me
love him the better. When he is
sober there isn't better-hearted or
kinder husband in the world. I'm
glad to see you, but go now, Dave.
Some day we're going back, but not
now" Tears filed her eyes as she
spoke.
"Nell," cried the man, losing his
head in a moment Of sudden resolve,
''come away from here with me--now
-to-night-and go back to your old
home. Give me the right to make
you happy-come back to civilization
and home such as you deserve. /
have loved you since we went to
school together. You are wretchedly
unhappy can see that"
sudden clicking noise from the
cabin smote the air. The man talking
started, but Nell glanced back and
said:
THAT is the clock. 1t often does
that. Yes, I'm often wretchedly I'M
happy, every woman who loves is, but
l haven't fallen so low yet as to need
your help, your sympathy, Dave Har-i
kins. If you have anything more of
that sort to say. 1 reckon I'll call the
dogs. They will protect me in the alb
sence of my husband"
Forgive me, Nell, and forget what I
said. If your love doesn't reform Hi
Dimmock no power on earth can. God
bless you, Nell, and good-by."
He rode away, picturesque figure
in the sunset, but the eyes of the wom-
an leaning in the doorway did not
look after him. Before he was alb
sorbed in the lessening distance she
had turned into the cabin and drawn
the calico curtains apart that draped
a space in the wall into which a bed
was built. A man lay there roughly
dressed, holding in both hands a cooked
rife. He had a trampish ensemble and
his face was flushed with liquor.
$50 you came back while was gone?
Why didn't you come out of hiding
you heard him, HIP"
yves, my beauty, IL did. Heard
his 'pinion of me. Heard him ask m-my
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03
Concerning Namen

"Apropos of the eternal domestic
question, an English woman relates
this experience: Il engaged maid
named Pearl, and as simply couldn't
ask a Pearl to fill the coal scuttle-
happy woman to have one to fill
or to holystone the doorstep, said:
Il would rather call you by some other
name. Have you a second one? Yes,
replied the damsel, brightly, my Sec
ond name is Opal So / stuck to
Pearl. At one time l all but engaged
a maid named Hermione, but upon
asking her: Have you black dress,
white caps and aprons?' she replied,
acidly: Yes l have; but I'm not
going to wear EN-. Ma didn't chris
ten me 'Ermione for to wear a liy.
ery.'"-N. Y. Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Here's something about an author
committing suicide" yes; he had to
advertise his books in some way
Atlanta Constitution.
81 heard that Cholly told Miss Mil
lions she fred him with passion"
"Then what?" "Her old man put him
out. '-Indianapolis News.
She-"Darling, do you think my
kisses are sweet?" He-"Well, j
should say yes. Every time kiss you
feel like sugar trust magnate."-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Galleries, they're nice clocks
But why do you have two? They're
both wrongr' Ruth-"Oh, they're
Jeannette's. George gave them tc
her. He calls on the one that's fast
and leaves on the slow one."-N. Y.
Times. Eli
Mrs. Greene-"I called on the Ven
ners this evening. Mrs. Venner sang
for us. Her husband seem surprised:
he said she never sang for him wher
he was counting her" NJ. Greene
Evidently Mrs. venner is woman of
tact" Boston Transcript.
Might Not Bother Him.-"Well,"
said the cheerful wife, who thought
she had soprano voice, "if the worst
comes to the worst could keep the
wolf from the door by singing" 81
don't doubt that would do it," replied
her pessimistic husband, "but suppose
the wolf should happen to be deaf?"
Philadelphia Press
A Woman's View.-.'Think of ii. my
DEAR said Mr.. Closefist, laying down
his newspaper. there are more than
two thousand million dollars in circu.
lation in this country" rs that SOP"
replied his wife, cheerfully. "Well,
judging from the difficulty always
experience in getting you to give me
a quarter, thought there wasn't
more than three dollars and half in
the whole world. Comfort.
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s. Chicago, Nov. Is.
Some weeks ago Df. C., very reput-
able and videiy.Enown physician, living ON
c. Street, was called to attend a very
complicated case Of Rheumatism. Upon
arriving at the house he found man about
forty years Of age, lying in prostrated and
serious condition, with his whole frame
dangerously affected with the painful dis
ease. He prescribed for the patient, but
the man continued to grow worse, and on
Sunday evening he was found to be in .
very alarming condition. The knees and ell
bows and larger joints were greatly IN
canned, and could not be moved. 1t was
only with extreme difficulty that the pa
tient could be turned in bed. with the aid
of three or four persons. The weight OF
the clothing was so painful that means had
20 be adopted to keep it from the patients
body.
The doctor saw that his assistance would
be of no avail, and left the house, the MEM
bers of the family following him to the
door, weeping. Almost Immediately the
grief stricken ones were addressed by an
humble German. He had heard of the
despair Of the family, and now asked them
to try his remedy, and accordingly brought
forth bottle Of st. Jacobs Oil. The poor
wife applied this remedy. The first appli-
cation eased the patient very much; after
Q few hours they used it again, and, won.
der of wonders, the pain vanished entirely!
Every subsequent application improved the
patient, and in two days he was well and
out. When the doctor called a few days
after, he was indeed surprised.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03

- Take small green tomatoes, wash.
:over with boiling water and scaId I'M
til the skins loosen; then peel and
drain. Take equal weight of granu-
lated sugar and make syrup with wa
ter and the juice OF lemon and few
bits of stick cinnamon. Put in the to-
matoes and cook gently until they are
tender and clear. Instead of the Gin
namon, green ginger root and lemor
sliced thin may be used.-WashingtoI
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03

An after he was boxed an shipped, back
on his home'artl trip
Us fellers ust to set and talk bout how
he slipped his grip,
1t THROWN more reprovin' light upon our
sinful ways
Than all the pulpit sermons could sence
John the Baptis' days
James Barton Adams, In Denver Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03
new Kind Of storage Battery.

A novel type of storage battery car
which in English tests has run 10t
miles on a single charge, has motors
that, when travelling down hill, arr
reversed and become generators foi
restoring the battery charge. An in.
teresting feature of the battery
charge Of motors into generators is a
breaking effect that is usually sufii.
cient to check the cars speed without
applying the mechanical brakes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03
Americans as Inventers.

Above other peoples, this is nation
of inventors, That is conceded every
where. How:tempting are the oppor-
tunities at tbs time for American In
eenuity to put in use satisfactory sub
stitutes for anthracitels Fame End
fortune awsit the gifted beings who
can solve the problemS Of this cri1is.
~. Y. Tyibupe, ~
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03

Il owe my whole life to Burdock Blood
Bitters. Scrofulous sores covered my body.
seemed beyond cure. B. B. B. has made
me perfectly well woman" Mrs. Chas.
Hutton, Berville, Mich.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03

Low Rates for Homesee4ersy
On the first and third Tuesdays Of each
and Round Trip-to the
Great Southwest. Write for Illustrated
literature and particulars. James Barker,
Gent Pass. & Tkt. Agt., NJ. X. & 7. Ry,
St. Louis. 81
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"Yes," said the Cynical Codger, "it ID
mighty easy to trade your reputation for
money; but you're up against it when you try
to trade back."-Baltimore Herald.
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why y il called pin money rss his wife
asked of him. 81 don't know, unless il Is
because the husbands are always stuck for
il. .Philadelphia Times. Y
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An idea that young men want to get
out of their heads is that another job ID
better job, because there is less work about
science"-Indianapoli News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03

"Why does the sun rise in the east o.
Cause yeast makes things xiss.r-
n. =, JouFp9
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-03

If man carries . mortgage it is usually
because he can't lit it.-Chicago Daily
News.
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To DR.. Winkler, a lawyer of Luz
cerne, Switzerland, belongs the honor
of settling what is probably the long
est lawsuit in the history of any coun.
try. Ever since 1870 boundary dis.
pute has been going on between Hun.
gary and Galicia. The area in dispute
is a tract of land about 20 miles south
of Cracow, owned partly by Prince
Hohenlohe, a German, and Count Ia
moyski, an exiled Polish noble from
Posen. This dispute of 500 years. du.
ration has led to much bitterfeelinp
in the neighborhood, as both Hungari-
ans and Poles have holly contested
the question and loudly asserted their
claims. The arbitrator has decided in
favor of the Galician claim, and allows
Hungary only 20 acres to straighter
her boundary.-N. Y. Times,
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tlCS (allu utSIliiC tiOlUSC, tCll tDlO
pains and baCkache by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
"a while ago my health began to
fail because Of female troubles. The
doctor did not help me. / remembered
that my mother had used Lydia e.
Pinhham's Vegetable Compound
on many occasions for irregularities
and uterine troubles, and felt sure
that it could not harm me at any ratio
to give it a trial.
81 was certainly glad to find that
within o week felt much better, the
terrible pains in my back and side
were beginning to cease, and at tho
time of mcnstruation l did not have
nearly as serious q time as hereto
fore, so / continued its use for two
months, and at the end of that time
was like new woman. / really have
never felt better in my life, have not
had sick headache since, and weigh
20 pounds more than I ever did, SO
unhesitatingly recommend Vegetable
Compound" MRS. MAY HAULE, Ed
gcrton, Wis, President Household
Economics Club. = $4,000 forfeit u originally
aboos letter proving genaineness CANNOT 10 pvodscsd
Women should remember there
Is one tried and true remedy for
all female ills, Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Re-
fuse to buy any other medicine
you nees1 the best.
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A VANISHING
VICE
BY j. ST. LOE STRACHEY
Editor London Spectator.

1RlDEthe cruel pride denounced in the Bible the pride
which delighted to humiate, the mortal moral disease
OF the mighy-is now but seldom The dying out
of certain forms of power the increase of individual
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The Real Thing.
He-Our minister tells me that his
wife is a great help to him in his
work. - 49,, 5sssF 1. z 80
She-Does she help write his ser
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no; but she practices what he
preaches."-Chicagot Daily News.
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u Another club woman, Mrs.
haule, of Edgerton, Wis.,, tells
how she was cured of Irregular.
ties and uterine trouble, terrible
pains and backache by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
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THE INJUNCTION FEVER.
Throughout the West the Courts Offer
Relief from Burdens.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Biddle's Corners, 1a-Judge Nibbins of
this place has issued an order restraining
George Mercer from refusing to husk
corn for Ira Farnsworth next fall. Judge
Nibbins is one of the most astute jurists
and 1t is expected that his action will
have a far-reaching effect.
Gadville, Mo.-Judge John Marshall
Bobbs of the County court has issued an
injunction applied for by Henry j. Har-
per to keep his 2-year-old son from suck
ing his thumb. Repeated efforts have
been made to break the child of the
habit, all without effect until the happy
expedent of securing an injunction was
thought of. Judge Bobbs is receiving
congratnlatory messages from jurists in
all parts of the country. who unite in ad-
hitting that he has established an i'm
iportant precedent.
Y Hamadad, Wis.-Great interest has
been aroused in this place over an in
junction granted by Judge Jim II. Bricker
in the case of Mucker versus Fry. John
j. Mucker for the past six months has
been boarding with Mrs. Hannah Fry. a
widow, who threatened a week ago last
Wednesday not to give him anything more
to eat unless he paid up Mucker applied
to the court for an injunction restraining
Mrs. Fry from repeating her threat and
also from putting SKINNED milk into his
coffee. BY granting the injunction Judge
Bricker has shown an understanding Of
law and ethics that is highly gratifying
to his friends.
Oklapooka, Kan. = An injunction was
handed down yesterday by Judge Eras-
tus Slobb. restraining William Doo-
Titles spotted calf from butting while
drinking milk from a pail held by the
aforesaid Doolittle. The calf had stopped
over upon Mr.. Doolittle's Sunday trous-
ers spelling them, and in order to pre-
vent a repetition of the trouble he ap-
piled for and was grantee the injunction
Judge Slobb is a son of the famous Olds
Sobb, who in his day had a national
reputation.
Hesperville, Indulge Asa Pinchin
yesterday issued an injunction restrain
ing the saw in William ]. Buckham's
mill from breaking again before the first
of October next. Many annoying delays
have been caused during the past few
months by the breaking of the saw, and
the granting of the injunction is hailed
with general satisfaction