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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02
COLD INCREASES EXPENSES
When Zero Is Recorded In New York
City the Outlay Is Swelled
by Millions,

Every time the mercury hangs abor
zero for three or four days, the expense
OF New York are increased by millions c
dollars, states the Sun.
Public and domestic economy In thi
latitude is adjusted for winter tempera
ture Of somewhere between 20 and 8
degrees. If the ordinary expenditure
OF the people of this city are estimate,
at about $3,SOO.O0O normally a day, tn
increased cost of living in extremel,
cold weather is probably more than hal
a million dollars day. In addition tt
this, there is an enormous loss from thu
lncapacity of thousands to work at all OF
to do their accustomed full days work
The increased cost of food alone is en-
ormous with fall of 20 or 25 degrees
below the ordinary winter temperature
The most expensive foods are then con-
sumed in increased quantities, and hun
dreds of thousands increase their con-
sumption Of alcoholic drinks under the
false impression that they thus keep
warm.
The consumption of fuel in zero wealth
er is increased somewhat between rs and
40 per cent. To the ordinary household
er who heats his own house it may be in
creased so to rs per cent. Lone houses
in the suburbs increase their fuel con-
sumption in very cold weather by nearly
100 per cent.
1t is impossible to estimate the wear
and tear of extra clothing in cold wealth
er, but with all the hundreds of thou
sands who cannot stay in doors at such
times the item aggregates large sum.
The increased cost of local transporta-
ton. whether the power be steam, cleo
tricity or just mere horses, is very i'm
portant item. The fuel necessary to gem
crate Increased power of one sort or an
other is one element of this cost. Horses
must be better fed with the most expen-
sive kind of provender, and the wear and
tear OF rolling stock is greatly increased.
New York's bill of repairs for the two
recent cold snaps must be greatly be-
You'd the normal. Plumbing repair bills |
alone have probably exceeded those of |
the three summer months.
The waste Of water alone is another
item. Doctors bills are
rebled and quadrupled for thousands.
Even the item of domestic breakage is
considerably increased in cold weather. |,
md there is large loss from damage to
'erishable food
IL losses of income, Of production and
rom breakage and damage of various
'inds be considered along with increased
ost OF living the seven or eight days of
extremely cold weather in January must
ave cost New York almost as many mil ,
ions. and IL the loss on sales caused [
tne lessened stream of buyers from {
ne country be considered the bill will
enormously increased. I,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

Salzer's New National Oats yielded IN
1903 in Mich. 240 bu., in No., 255 bu.,
n N. D, $40 bu;, and in 30 other states
Dat if generally grown in 1904. viii add
millions of bushels to the yield and mil
lions of dollars to the farmers purse.
Try it for 1904. Largest Seed Potato grow.
ers in america.
Salzer's Speltz, Beardless Barley, Home
Builder Corn, Macaroni Wheat, Pea Dat,
Billion Dollar Grass and Earliest Cane
q e money makers for you, Mr.. Farmer.
JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 1Oc
in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La
Crosse, Wis, and receive in return their
big catalog and lots of farm seed sam
Piles. TX. IL
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

SOM1 YIN, FRIENDS, AN GLIB DE
HAND TO DE PENITENT ONEsr'
scious of those who clasped her hands
but when Judy stood in front of her. She
was apparently seized with another
paroxism of joy.
| Giory! she shouted, plunging for
ward, Il got de glory now!" With ono
hand she struck off Judy's cherished
straw sailor and trampled it under her
feet. With the other, she gave one
mighty jerk, and the white swiss waist
was hanging from Judy's trembling
shoulders.
Glory! Glory! Use. boun' fub
glory now!" she calculated. and with
| Ightning rapidity her fat hand dealt .
binding blow in the face of her unfor-
tunate rival. Then lowering her head.
like charging bull. Six literally but.
tea screaming Judy out of the open side
door and stamped her disheveled body
before the confused negroes realized
what she was doing.
Jordon leaped to the rescue and Win.
willing hands pulled off Six. he lifted
the limp and helpless Judy. whose torn
dress was dyed with the crimson tide
tnat crept from her maltreated nose
Inc meeting broke up in confusion
Inose who rejoiced most over tbe an
parent conversion of Blk Six were
ioudest In condemnation of her method
of announcing it,
Don blieve dat mig ubbah tboupbt
O bein' converted-she jes' bypocrited
10 git chanst to hurt judy"
This was the universal verdict lopdIv
proclaimed.
Next day Jordon sat by Judy's he'd
slde, his face map of contrition and
anxiety.
Ell you'll jes' say you kin fubgive ma
run cotein' dat wicked creetuh. Judv"
ne whispered, "I'll nubbah ask nothin.
else o you whilst live!"
Judy looked at him with a little pasn
of apprehension.
Il sho' thought you'd ask me marry
you now, Jordon!" she said with q
sob in her voice.
oh, Judy, darlin', I nubbub thougb+
"a dast!" cried Jordon, bending over her
With face full of surprise and delight
Kin you mex up yoah mine to marry
ne ahftuh all whut's happent?"
And Judy answered, happily: "I sbo
I'M" S"'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

To the making of Irish bulls there \,
no end. according to Marshall P. Wild.
er. Here is one of the latest breaks Of
the Celtic species, If the humorist is to be
believed:
An 1rishman just over sees telephone
on the wall, and never having seen one
before, asks what 1t is.
It's telephone" he is told.
"Phat's tillyphone used for?" queries
Pat.
why, to talk through, of course"
Can l talk to Mike upstairs through
thot thing?"
why. of course"
Pat goes to the telephone and calls mn
Mike. us that you, Mixer"
EYES," comes the answer.
WELL" says Pat, stick yer head ont
the window. want to talk to ye"-
Rochester Post-Express.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02
Professioual Athletic,

The London Lancet says that athlet.
les in England have developed too much
into gladiatorial displays by picked COM
petitors struggling to win prizes or to
earn wages before huge crowds of spec
tors, and can hardly be regarded as eff
fective agents in the development of the
physical strength and physical activity
Of the people.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02
audience


Miss de Muir-You propose so beauti.
fully, Mr.. Spoonamore-and SO fiuentlv
You never seem to be at loss for 2
word.
Young Spoonamore-Oh, but | am!
You don't know how lost l shall be II
you don't say yes!-Chicago Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

There is in London only one profes.
sorship OF Sanskrit, and it is unen.
dowed, says the Church Quarterly Re.
viewNwhile in Germany there are 90 en-
lowed Sanskrit chairs, and yet it is Enc.
lana' not Germany, which is respon-
slole for the welfare of the people Of
India. 7"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02
Monument to : Du~I

Many as are the places IN England
witch have been the scenes OF iuels, only
one is marked. This is part of all that
now remains OF Cawnton Heath, in Nor
foik, on which stands small pillar to
Sir Henry Hobart, Bart. who was killed
on the spot in a duel with swords.-rhe
Car.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

The globe of the eye is moved NV s,x
muscles. The wrist contains eight bones.
tne palm five. the fingers IA. The roots
OF the hair penetrate the skin about one
.weiltn OF an inch. Hair is very strong
A single hair will bear weight of about
1,150 grains 'oes
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02
Making a City Beautiful.

In order to encourage builders to make
the Russian capital thing of beauty
the city council of St. Petersburg has de-
clared its intention of exempting from
taxation all new buildings which shall
be adjudged ornamental as we'll as use
full. 1t is doubtful whether our law
makers would approve of such a course.
but it appears powerful way to bring
about it's object.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

The ages of officers now commanding
our battieships are SO. SO. So. 81, 81, 81.
Sc. Sc, 56. SIS and So, and this will he
about the age of officers who will relieve
The ages of officers now Sc
lected to relieve four of these are 81. 81.
81 and 55.-Navy League Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

TUT UeheraI Use.
The st. Louis druggist who killed one
burglar and put two others to fight bv
revolver practice, says the Globe Demo-
crat of that city, accurately compound
ed a prescription that is greatly needed
In the police department.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

Tess-When I'm in London expect to
attend the kings drawing-room.
Jess-The ideal
Tess-Perhaps you think can't do it.
Jess twitheringly)-Oh. yes; "a cat
may look 1t the king."-Philadelphia
presa.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

$4,000 ST. LOUIS toCALIFORNIA sso.oe
VIA THE IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
These tickets will be on sale daily durina
March and April. when Pullman Touria
Sleeping Cars will be operated daily be
tween st. Louis, Los Angeles and San Fran
Company. II. G. TOWNSEND, G. r. & T.
Agent, ST. Louis.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02
Yukon Crou..

Along the yalleyof the Yukon pota-
toes, currants. raspberries and salmon
berries mature during the hot summer
days. which thaw the ground to depth
Of four feet
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

Here's a good thing" said Jokeley
over his paper. Here's western Wild
over, named William Few, who married
again within a week of his first wife,e
DEATH"
And do you call that good thine?"
demanded his wife.
Wen, it's good arithmetic. Twice
one is Tew."-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

Most young men are too much infatu-
ated with themselves to be seriously In
5ured in an ordinary love affair. Chica-
90 Daily News
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

Percy Staylate-Do you believe IN
dreams, Miss Euphemia?
Miss Ephemia-No. indeed, Mr.. STAY
late Why. only last night l dreamed
that you came to call and went home at
nine o'clock.
In the ensuing fragile silence father
shook down the furnace and wound the
clock.-Criterion
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

This is none too early to see about 40
commodations at the Worlds Fair. Bet
ter write the Inside Inn, Room 10, Ad
ministration Bldg, st. Louis, to-day. fol
particulars, which will be sent YOU free
II Is the only hotel in the Worlds Fan
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

Inc neart OF vegetarian beats on an
average So to the minute; that of The
meat-eater IS. This represents a az.
terence OF 1900 beats in e hours.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

"Sa7, pa, have you ever been in dan
ger o. losing your personal liberty?''
No. my son. I've never been in the
saloon business nor practiced crime -
profession - Chicago Record Hsr.
aid.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

Women accept favors from men a.
though doing the man a favor by 90
cepting DISQUALIFICATION Bulletin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

The Fly-''The moth seems very
grouchy." The Roach-"Yes; he's been
chewing the rag all day."-Princeton
Tiger.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

If you don't try to live up to your ideah
the chances are they'll come down.
Puck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

DEAR MRS. PNKHAM:-I suffered with
poor health for over seven years, not sick
enough TO stay in bed, and not well enough To
en9oZhfcanda attend to my daily duties proper
y! 1 was growing thin, my complexion was
ss..0w, ana was easily upset and irritable.
Lydia r. Plnkham's Vegetable Conn
pound and procured bottle. A great
cnange Tor the better took place within a
"eeK X, ana l decided to keep up the treatment
WITHIN two months was like changed
woman: my health good, my step light, nv
s eySS Tp.,gnt my complexion vastly improved,
wonder now how I ever endured the misery.
fortune. '~'-' nav ~ 'or :
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-04-02

M iIILA 4o7 Habersteen St., oA' = 'inss
Mrs. Pinkham ON file thousands ~ s,c, ,..4
HSl 80! os.sIa % 4. and signatures.
"A"" nenes
ed. Co. LynnNda
The Republican journal., 1904-12-15
WATSON ON BRYAN.

Predicts his Defeat in 1908. Scores the
South
Thomas E. Watson, recently candi-
date of the Peoples party for President,
addressed a large crowd last week at
Charlottesville, Ca, the former home
of Alexander H. Stephens. His adj
dress was received with close attention.
He spoke, in part, as follows:
l make this prediction: Bryan will
be the candidate of the Democratic
party in 1908. And make this second
prediction: When Bryan runs for
President in 1908 as the candidate of
the Parker Belmont Cleveland German
combine he will be worse beaten man
than Parker was. Does Mr.. Bryan
sincerely believe that he can commit
the national Democratic convention to
his recently repaired and replenished
Populist platform? If so, he must see
that the country would then have two
Populist parties. Such a contingency
would be laughable were not the crisis
so grave. Mr.. Bryan must know that
his programme promises nothing better
than another spectacular combat at an
other st. Louis convention, with an
other 'tdogfall'' as the result, another
surrender ON the part of Mr.. Bryan, an
other sham battle before the people
and another Waterloo, in which all
will be lost, including honor. The Dem
ocratic party can no longer claim to be
national. The South is still its victim.
The South is still the quadrennial sac
rifice which corrupt or stupid Southern
politicians deliver over to Wall street.
But for the solid South, the Eastern
Democracy would have to shut up shop,
join the Republicans and face genu-
inc party of opposition. What keeps
the South solid? Nothing in the world
except an out-of-date sectional animos-
ity and the shamelessly hypocritical
cry of negro domination. Let us put a
finish to this degradation of the South.
Let us assert our manhood against the
tyranny of political bosses. Let us
break the shell of this bourbonism,
which neither learns nor forgets.
The Republican journal., 1904-12-15
A VERSATILE PRESIDENT.

President Roosevelt is the most versa
tile man we have had in the White
House in recent years. The wide range
of his knowledge is simply amazing.
There is hardly any field of human en-
deavor, whether it be political, literary,
mechanical, military, scientific, COM
mercial, naval or historical, that he is
not fully conversant with. He knows
the old things and the new things. He
is up to date. Probably he is the best
Informed man in the United States con-
corning the details of the Russo-J apa-
nese war. He has followed every move
of that conflict with keenest interest
Every day the military information bu-
reau of the war department and the
naval intelligence bureau place sheets
on his desk and upon them are indicated
by colored pins the present location of
all the troops and ships of the combat
ants. The President follows every
movement of the war with understand
ing and eagerness.
A story illustrative of the Presidents
versatility, especially of the wide range
OF his little fads, is told by gentleman
who was guest at dinner at the White
House. The President s guest of honor
was Sir Martin Conway of England, the
we'll known mountain climber and trav-
eller. Sir Martin was delighted to dis
cover that Mr.. Roosevelt knew almost
as much about mountain climbing as he
did. Then the conversation took an
other turn, and for an hour the other
guests were virtually left to themselves
while the President and the English
man engaged in a most animated and
prolonged conversation. 1t eventually
turned out that Sir Martin, in addition
to being a mountain climber, is an in
veterate Orientalist and is we'll up as to
the ancient dynasties of the kingdoms
which centred about the head of the
Mediterranean. The President has al
ways had Il fondness for that sort of
study, too, and was delighted to find
man who could talk with him as
brother. For one mortal hour Mr..
Roosevelt and his guest had been dis
cussing the military methods of the
Assyrian kings-Washington Letter in
the Chicago-Record Herald.
The Republican journal., 1904-12-15

The pretty toilette here illustrated,
and taken from the Delineator, is of
lavender crepe-de-chine, trimmed with
ruffles. Provision is made for fasten-
ing the shirt waist at the back, front or
left shoulder and side. A shallow yoke
is added, if fancied, and deep or shallow
band cuffs may complete the sleeves in
full length. The skirt is formed of five
cores, gathers adjusting it at the top,
or yoke or shirrings may be used.
SASHES
are an important factor in the make uE
of fashionable costume. Plain, soft
silk is much in vogue, but for genuine
elegance, nothing equals the wide ten
and twelve inches Pompadour ribbons,
both in delicate hues and the most
brilliant colors. There are usually
plain satin bands at both edges of such
ribbons, which bring out the pale
shades, and at the same time modify
the bright hues. High belts are also of
Pompadour silk or ribbon shirred at the
fronts on cords, or laid in soft folds.
Plain silk, or shaded silk belts suit
persons of quiet tastes, and are none
the less attractive. A handsome sash
imparts a stylish air to the plainest
costume.
VERONA CLARKE.
The Republican journal., 1904-12-15

wide and 800 feet deep; at Santaren, the
most important interior city of Brazil
it is ten miles wide; away off on the
Brazilian frontier it is 20 feet deep, and
1890 miles above the sea it is almost a
mile across. Naturally so big a river
could hardly be content with one name.
The native Indians call it still, as their
ancestors did, the Parana-tinga, or
Parana-uaesu. Its European discover
ers, believing it to be fresh water sea,
named it Santa Maria de La Ner Dulce,
and not until 1910 was it's name chang
ed to Amazon by one of Pizarro's SOL
diers, that champion liar, Don Orellana,
who descended it from Peru and told
marvellous tales anent his adventures
with the female warriors he found along
its banks. The name "Amazons," by
the way, which is properly put in the
plural, to indicate it's width rather than
as we generally render it without the
finals, belongs only to that portion be-
tween its mouth and the Rio Nigro.
From the BLACK River" to the Peru
Wan frontier it is the Rio Salinoens,
and that portion of it in Peru is locally
known as the Maranon. Its most
southerly tributary, the Mandelra, rises
in Bolivia, close to the source of the
Rio de la Plata, and its greatest north
ern tributary, the Rio Nigro. is con-
nected with the Venezuelan Orinoco by
navigable canal called the Cassiquari
Thirty million cubic feet of water flow
out of the Amazon in every sixty sec
onds, its ordinary current is about four
miles an hour and its tide is perceptible
800 miles from the sea. Nature fa,vorS
the navigator on its fiuvial highway,
for the current is eastward, while tide
winds blow westward from the Atlantic,
SO that ships going either way are as
sisted by stream or wind. Its annual
rise and fall is another curiosity. Its
tributaries are subject to a constant
succession OF freshets, so that the main
stream never runs low. AS most of the
attiuents are in the southern hemisphere
the river has its greatest flood when the
,, sun is south of the equator. The grad
ual rise begins in September, increasing
less than foot in twenty-four hours.
The difference between it's highest and
lowest levels is about fifty feet and at
floodtime enormous areas are covered
with water, great forests being sub
merged, so that tops of tall trees, stick
ing out of the water look like bushes
and it is impossible to keep in any
known channel. FANNIE B. WARD
The Republican journal., 1904-12-15
EVERETT E. MORTON OF JACKSON.

Waldo county has five representatives in
the next House. The Republicans of the
class towns OF jackson WinterpOrt, Monroe,
Z. Morton, of the former town as their man
for the law-making business during the
coming winter.
Mr.. Morton is prosperous, up-to-date
farmer and active in the affairs of his town
OF which he is native, having been born
there 60 years ago.
He hassbeen member of the board of Sc
lectmen for many years, constable, collector
OF taxes, superintendent of schools and
member of the board of health, land held sew
eral other Offices
He has always been faithful and loyal to
the Republican party and worked hard on
the class and town committees. The cleo
ton as representative has been well earned
and deserved.
Mr.. Morton is a consistent member of Star
Of Progress Grang and lisa Congregational
ist. which being a Republican, is a good
combination for any man to stick to-Ban-
cor News
The Republican journal., 1904-12-15
The Penobscot Closed.

The Penobscot river was officially de-
clared closed to navigation, Dec. It'll.
This was two weeks earlier than last
year when the date was Dec. 1s. The
last craft to pass down were the steam
ers Cimbria and. Penobscot, which went
out Monday. The last boat out year
ago was the steamer City of Bangor,
which left, Dec. IA. The average date of
its closing is Dec. 10. The records of
the closing of the river have been kept
since 1916. The earliest date of the
closing of the river is Nov. II, this being
in 1871. The latest date on record was
Dec. 80, the river closing on this date
in 1877 and 1851.
The Republican journal., 1904-12-15
No More Suffering.

If yon are troubled with Indigestion get
a bottle of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and see
Thomson of Spencer, Ia, says: "Have had
Dyspepsia for twenty years. My case was
almost hopeless. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
was recommended and used a few bottles
of it and it is the only thing that has re-
lieved me. Would not be without it. Have
doctored with local physicians and also at
Chicago, and even went to Norway with
hopes of getting some relief, but Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure is the only remedy that has
done me any good, and heartily recon-
mend it. Every person suffering with lndi-
gestion or Dyspepsia should use it," Sold
by K. II. Moody.
The Republican journal., 1904-12-15
0AsToE IA.
Bears the ~n7hs Kind You Have Always Bopg't
S's. at &<Rzzzw
RUM0RED 81, 900, 900 HOTEL

Talk of Eastern Steamship Co. Building
Mammoth Hotel and Steel Pier at Bar
HarbOr.
Rumor is busy these days and it is
very pleasant to believe some of the
things she is saying. There is some
surveying being done on the Alpheus
Hardy place in the Field and this leads
to various surmises. The most pleasing
story is that the Eastern Steamship
company is interested and that they
will build steel pier there and during
the season have direct boats from Bos-
ton. 1t is also said that a mammoth
fire-p proof hotel will be erected there for
the coming season. 1t is impossible to
find out certainly if these rumors are
true, but as they are persistent we give
them to the public for what they are
worth.-Bar Harbor Record.