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The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-05

TTeT9 Is DEaC0 anu CU1rIT0TT ON ITe
other side said DR.. Wilbur F. Chap
man last evening to some $500 people
in the Auditorium. He was spea king
of the Christians death: Meeting our
friends in heaven" Would you know
how the Christian dies2' he continued
"You will find it by reading in your
Bible. There is nothing hard about it
Simply crossing the river in the boat
and over to the other side. God is with
you all the time. He is with you to
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-06-03
Obedience in Schools.

Il there any reason why our schools
should limit themselves simply to put
ting children through certain course
of study? We think not, says the In
dianapolis News. In our opinion, If the
schools fail in discipline, If they fail in
developing a spirit of obedience, they
fail In discharging their most vital
function and at the most vital point
And it seems to us that this failure is
one for which the schools may very
justly be held responsible. For the very
theory on which the state proceeds in
this matter of public education is that
through education the children will be
properly trained along the line of good
citizenship. But they cannot be good
citizens unless they learn to be obedient
to law. In some way, therefore, the
schools must inculcate this obedience.
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Cost of College Sports.

In order to place eleven young men Oh
Yale In the field against Princeton and
Harvard last autumn $26,996.O6 was
spent. or more than $1,000 head. To
at eight youths to row against Harvard.
. test of 20 minutes, says writer in
Outing, cost Yale $16,626.S5, or $4,000
. head, not counting the coxswain,
This Ks boat racing at a cost OF the best
part OF a s., 200 minute. The football
men were equipped with the greatest
possible care. Their shoes alone cost
S1,1S9, bill for footgear which woulc
indicate to the rank outsider that 6
team of centipedes were in training
Uniforms and the armor of the football
warriors cost $3,735.52, or nearly hun.
dred dollars of each of the squad. Ho-
tel bills and meals away from the train
ing table cost the Yale treasury ST..
36O.42. Carriage hire involved an out.
lay Of $794. The baseball squad required
$2,37S13 worth of merchandise and
sporting goods, or about 500 worth OF
uniforms and shoes per man. Twenty
years ago Yale football cost $2,792.36,
and there were great elevens even in
those days. To-day this would not pay
for uniforms and other wearing gear.
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M = n 4 n of course. when one
insurance man found it out, all the
others did. I'll bet / carry a wagon
load of insurance circulars, books and
unfortunate letters to that house every
week.
"Over here at this newly built board
ing house they have 80 people, and every
one of them gets mail. Twelve of thell
are young women, and each has beau.
They must be afraid to have their mail
go to the Offices where they work-so
carry it out here for them. Some OF
the letters are so weighted with love
and kisses they seem as neavy as-as-a
grand piano!"
Now, Mr.. Mail Man." she inter-
posed.
"Yes, indeed, ma'am," he continued,
warming to his work, land few doors
below there is long haired fellow VINO
thinks he is q poet. He's been sending
out articles and things for month
and they are just beginning to come
blackstone in rolls, and others in big
fat envelopes, that will hardly go into
this bag l think there must be spring
poems in the lot, for the rolls are very
heavy.
'One of the worst cases in this dis
trict is young woman several blocks
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knew in Washing CAL JOURNALS
ton why l am late every day, we would
have 80 more mail carriers in this city,
and still think the mail would be q
frifie behind time.
when | was given this route five
years ago this place where you are
standing was forest of trees. Almost
as far as you can see from here was
gacant property, and there were just
enough houses scattered through this
district to warrant mail carrier. Now
you and hundreds of others have built
homes out here, and l suppose l am
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-06-03
For Growing Girls.

West Pembroke, Me-, March 2l.-Mrs.
A. L. Smith, of this place, says that
Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best remedy
Cor growing girls. Mrs. Smith empha-
---es her Recommendation by the follow.
ing experiences:
my daughter was thirteen years old
last November, and it is now two years
since she was first taken with Crazy
Spells, that would last week and would
then pass off. In a month she would
have the spells again. At these times
she would eat very little, and was very
yellow, even the whites of her eyes would
be yellow.
''The doctors gave US no encourage
ment, they all said they could not help
her. After taking one box of Dodd's
Kidney Pills, she has not had one bad
spell. Of course, we continued the treat
ment until she had used in all about a
dozen boxes, and we still give them to
her occasionally, when she is not feeling
well. Dodd's Kidney Pills are certainly
the best medicine for growing girls"
Mothers should Iced the advice Of
Mrs. Smith, for by so doing they may
save their daughters much pain and sick
ness and ensure a healthy, happy future
for them.
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Aprons Again in Fashion.

This is one of the old fashions now
being revived, greatly to the saving OF
our frocks and the comfort of wearers.
The coQuettish apron has been set
aside for awhile, but is now once more
asserting ITSELF The strictly useful has
always held its own. The French have
turned kindly eye to them, and in the
days of Louis XIII. women wore them
and their bunch of keys, showing that
they we're veritable housekeepers. In
the time Of Louis XIV. ladies of the
court donned them when employed in
needlework and other arts, and it IL
from that period we are restoring the
airy nothings of lace and muslin to our
favor. Sometimes they are OF light
colored crepe de chine worked in gold.
More useful ones of thicker fabric have
large pockets. These are adorned with
pretty ribbon bows, and these ribbons
sometimes draw up the pocket. Some
times strong linen aprons are laced with
ribbon at the edge by means OF eyelet
holes.
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THE COMMUTERS WATCH.
Set by Almost Every Passing Train
and Never Uy 10 Schedule
Time,

~Commuter, chr" asked the Matchmaker
as he examined timepiece that was
brought in for repairs.
Eyes. Why?" said the owner, accord
ing to the New York Times.
"The watch shows it," went ON tho
matchmaker. Its been set two or three
times day. That's . commuter habit.
The arrangement for setting the hands
has been worked overtime.
1.-The commuter il always anxious lest
his watch by the passing trains, having
more faith in the railroad schedules than
he has in his watch. He keeps moving
the hands back and forth, according to
the variations of the trains from the
schedule, until he wears out the watch.
Almost every commuter has certain
trains by which he regulates his watch.
regardless of their variations from the
schedule, and in consequence he never
has the time exactly right"
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The Chronicle.
COLFAX. /: LOUISIANA.
Women in Business.

The announcement comes from Chi
cago that the new woman" is dead,
commercially speaking; that prominent
employers of that city have declared
that they do not want women, and that
some have declared unequivocalIy that
they will hire no more women. Various
reasons are given for this policy, but
none that has not always existed and
will not always exist, asserts the In
dianapoiis News. We have heard so
much In recent years about the prog
ress of women in the business world,
their success, their adaptibility, their
loyalty, their good habits and what not,
which made them superior to men, that
this announcement from our most
strenuous center of commerce comes
with a good deal of q shock. How
much force really lies behind it is doubt
full. That women are now employed In
many places in preference to men is I'M
questionable, that they will continue to
be employed in such places is altogether
probable. Affairs of this kind with
women, as well as with men, have
reached the utilitarian basis. Where
work and women are not suited the
women must drop out There is sur
vival of the fittest. But the business
woman who can do her work well and
do 1t faithfully will probably not need to
fear for lack of occupation. In this re-
spect her position is precisely that OF
man. The worlds work is to be done
and those who can do it well will not
only be permitted to do it, but they
have right to do it; and there is plenty
of work in the world for everybody
men and women; the only problem
that exists to-day, no matter what the
Chicagoans may say about the employ
ment or unemployment Of women,
Is the old one of bringing the right work
and the worker together. Probably the
new woman" is not nervous, and we
do not think the news from Chicago viii
seriously alarm her.
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From recently published statement
IN Philadelphia paper We learn that
the projected consolidation of Pitts
burg and Allegheny will create mu-
nicipality having population of 49,
612, according to the census of 1900. The
consolidated city will rank next to Bal
timore, which in the census year had a
population of 50S.957. Greater Pitts
burg will be the sixth in rank among
American municipalities. The order
in the census year are Greater New
York, Chicago. Philadelphia, St. Louis
Boston and Baltimore.
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PEDDLIN0 HER OWN PUPS.
Newfoundland Mother Carries Bas-
ket in Which Offspring Are
for Sale.

Many compassionate persons have
sympathized with mother who for sew
eral days has walked the business dig
tricts soliciting purchasers for her off,
spring, says the Philadelphia Record o.
recent date. The mother is big New
foundland dog. She carries three hand
some puppies IN basket placarded "Foi
Sale," and proudly marches along the
street. following the footsteps of her
owner. Her fond interest il the pup.
pies welfare gives a pathetic touch ia
the method of her master in attempting
to dispose of them.
When people stop to examine the pup
pies the proud mother sets the basket
down gently and caresses the trio. 81
know it seems tough to have her ped
ding the pups" exclaimed the owner to
a tender-hearted onlooker, but they're
not all for sale. I'm keeping one for
her."
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What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who sat up lights and waited
for her husband to come home from
the club? Call at the Atchison homes,
says the Globe, of that city, where a
man can afford to belong to club, and
you will find him at home keeping up
the furnace fire, looking after the chill
dren and patiently waiting for his wife
to come in. The women are crazy over
Schaafskopf and 500, and play until
midnight most nights out of the
week. At the house where the
game is going on the man of the house
gets the children into bed. hears their
prayers and gives them the last drink
of water, and goes quietly off to bed
as any well-behaved husband should.
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stamps on it. She'll be meeting him
downtown one of these days and they'll
be notifying her family from Chicago
or New York. I'd really be glad to see
that letter come, for that will be the end
of these packages of candy.
Then there's your case, ma'am. Let's
see. you take all the magazines, and
well, I'll have my husband write to
Washington about it, the matron inter-
rupted, moving toward the door.
He shouldered his mail pouch again
and starting down the steps replied:
II hope you will"
She looked after him moment and
launched this parting shot:
And III have him tell Washington
the reason our mail is always late is that
you stop and gossip too much. kan.
sas Citv Star.
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enviable In six months. No extremely
long novitiate is required ii the girl her
self have the cIeverness, pluck and
perseverance essential, ard If circum-
stances prove fa vorable-
The amount of money earned by the
newspaper woman runs from five or six
dollars a week up to $40 or $50, the aver
age perhaps being between SIS or $40
by the rank and file. Few women ever
attain what may be called the great
prizes, but there are periodicals, partic-
ularly in the line of fashion, which are
exclusively edited by women. at salaries
not far from munifcent. All the great
monthly magazines which make an es-
pecial bid for women readers have wom-
en- editors on their staff, newspaper
women of the brightest and most whole
some kind. Many educational publish
ing houses employ women in one of the
lines of reference-study or verification
or classification which come within
their scope. The great daily papers have
their corps of women who do the So
ciety news, write of the various char
tiles, and turn their hand to anything
else that is needed. Real maids of all
work, you see!
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, one of
the foremost newspaper women in
America. says on this subject: ANY
young woman of ordinary sense, who
pays attention to the requirements of
the profession, can make good living
as q reporter She will find that the
range Of her understanding and her
sympathies is being increased with
every month of her work. Her daily ex-
perience will be continual education
for the field Of legitimate fiction. If she
has talent or genius or executive ability,
her future is secure Meanwhile, her
daily bread is provided for. What more
could be asked of any vocation in life?"
One word may be added in reply to the
question: Where shall the aspirant find
an open door," answer, let her try
the newspaper Office nearest her. If in
the country, let her seek to become a
helper on the local paper. A country
newspaper is the best of training
schools, and on it one may learn lit
tie bit of everything. Any newspaper
Office is good school. One learns the
profession somewhat after the world
renowned manner of Mr.. Squeers who
set his boys learning how to wash win
dows. and then told an admiring visitor
that it impressed it on boys mind, to
spell ''winder" and then spend little
time in cleaning the same.
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THE VANISHING OSACES.
life of Luxury Is Thinning Them
Out, Much as It Does Penned-
Up Game.

THE full-blood Indian is gradually
passing, just as the deer or the wild tur-
key VIII soon die If penned up said Col.
John n. Florer, of Gray Horse, Okla,
who his lived with the Usage Indians for
80 years, reports the Kansas City Jour
nal. My prediction is that in rs years
more there will not be a full-blood Usage
left.
when first went among the Osages
the tribe comprised between 5000 and
5000 people. Now there are but ZOO or
1880 of them, including. of course, all
those of mixed blood. The Osages have
been holding their own pretty we'll in
point of numbers in the last four or five
years, but they are doomed to go the
way of their fellows.
The dying out of the race is due in
large measure to the change in their
habits of life. They used to be out in the
open air all the time, and when they
travelled it was always on horse back.
Even when they moved their camps each
Indian would round up his string of
ponies and make pack animals of six or
eight of them, to carry his belongings.
Now they ride about in buggies and car
riages, the best to be had. They are rich
enough to afford all the Injuries of that
sort, and, with no incentive to exertion.
their lives are about as far removed from
their former habits of activity as could
be.
Il was present at the council near In
dependence, Kan, when the treaty was
signed by which the tribe surrendered To
the government the Usage ceded lands in
southern Kansas, and purchased in their
stead the million and a half acres from
the Cherokees, which they have since oc-
cupied. That trade was a good thing for
the Osages. They got SLIPS per acre for
the land, and the deferred payments
were to draw five per cent interest. That
mounts up rapidly and is the source
of the annuities which the Osages ENJOY
to-day.
Those were the good old days which
the Indians always speak of as the .buf-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-06-03
1NFANTILE DIETARY.

To make prominent few practical
hints the following are mentioned:
Don't give acld milk.
Don't use tube in the nursing bot
tie.
Don't allow the bottle or nipple to
be any other way than antiseptic.
Don't continue to give stuff that does
not nourish.
Don't fail to sterilize milk early and
then cool rapidly by running cold wa
ter.
Don't forget the necessity of pure
air, cleanliness and proper clothing.
Don't forget that the infant is crea-
ture Of habit and can be taught the
proper frequency and amount of food
and the time for sleep.
Don't produce collie by allowing milk
to flow too freely.
Don't forget that infants are sensi-
tive to starches.
Remember always to norish.
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to call at the house TURNED NAIL.
because used to see him on the porch
with her afternoons when came with
the mail. But the old man won't let
him come any more, and so the first
thing he does is to find out the heav-
lest packages he can send through the
mail. and now twice every week he mails
her a four pound box of candy-and !
carry it."
THE silly goose. Why don't he send
it by messenger or express?"
"Ah, you see, he DISCUSSES the package
so you couldn't easily tell it was candy,
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falo days. went out on the plains with
them in their hunts for years. On west
from the Usage nation there used to be
times when one could see buffalo for
miles and miles. At distance it looked
like dark, surging sea. In one year
thsreI bought $4,000 buffalo hides-more
than there are in the whole country to-
day. OF course, there are lots OF the
younger members of the tribe to whom
that is all tradition, and they will sit
around for hours and listen to the elders
talk of the old times
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carrying mail for 1000 more people
than did when began. Isn't it quite
natural that | am not always on time?
"Over on that corner there they built
seven apartments two years ago. There
are eight families there, and in the top
floor nine trained nurses live. don't
think there is a medical magazine or
q patent medicine circular published
that they don't get-and l have to
carry them.
THAT house down there, where they
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-06-03

President Rooseveit's eulogy OF the
family doctor recalls the fact that, un-
noticed by the general public, one OF
the special guests who sat by the prest-
dents side at recent dinner he attend
ed in washington was the old family
physician. who had presided at the fu-
ture presidents birth, the venerable DR..
Thomas Adds Emmett. 1t is family
tradition among the Roosevelts, says a
veracious informant. that Theodore
not his teeth 30 hard that DR.. Emmett
had to lane. hjs guns. to help tAsu
through
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NElGHBORHOOD
GOSSIP 8 q q

81 rs perfect outrage, that's what
it is! I'm going to have my hus-
band write to the government about 1t
and then We'll see what will happen!
For month past the mail thai should
have been delivered in the morning gets
here about five o'clock in the afternoon,
and maybe you don't think my mail is
important"
The indignant young matron was
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Moral Purpose.

How is it business has so much i'm
proved in your side-show?" asked the
man from the main tent.
Il started the living skeleton smok-
ing cigarettes" replied the manage.
well, but what is there in that 10
draw the people?"
why, you see, every mother brings
her boy in and points out the terrible
example. Chicago Journal.
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TIE SEASON.
Z don't know why

I6on't know why
I'm a-sittin' here
When the blue, blue sky
An the fields seem near
An 1 hear the call
OF the mocking bird.
And, darn 1t all.
Every leaf seems stirred,
An to say: "Come, come
Where the fishes bite,
Ard the BUNDLES bum.
An each breeze seems light
As a mothers kiss
Just used to do,
And worlds of bliss
Are awaiting YOU"
The same display
have seen before,
In the same OIL way
Down at Behring'S store,
Is fixed up now;
There's a rod o. steel
And, you know, somehow.
There's a sort o. feel
Along my arm
Like the feel of old,
TIL swift alarm
When a bass takes hold,
An there's greenheart poles
An lines in heaps
Oh, the fishin' holes
Where black bass sleeps!
An the fun had
In a day gone by!
Just a barefoot lad
With a squinchin' eye
A-lookin' along
An alder pole
Where tn current strong
Had digged a hole,
And where the trout
An the graylin' played.
An / yanked 'em out
With a hook I'd made.
Oh, the breezes light
All say: Come. come!
Where the fishes bite
And the BUNDLES bum!"
j. NJ. Lewis, In Houston Pos
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or pearl buttons. The entire edge Of
coat is machine stitched: the collar is
faced with velvet a shade or two
darker than the cloth.
Materials required: Two and half
yards so inches wide, three yards lin
ing, one-fourth yard velvet and six
buttons.
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from here - and
there's going to be
a scandal in that
house before long,
or I'm much mis-
taken"
do tell me who
it is" interrupted
the young matron,
all eagerness.
J "Couldn'tdo that,
ma'am. But she's
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IRON. SomeDouy eyes.
Disappointed that she could get no
argument from Uncle Sans courier, she
turned to go into the house.
You won't forget to take the mat
ter up at Washington" he pleaded.
You have no idea what load it would
take off my shoulders"
He shifted his pouch, as if to desig-
nate the load he referred to, and she.
with quick insight, impulsively ex-
claimed:
Dear me, wouldn't do anything to
make you lose your job"
You wouldn't, madam. Indeed,
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you suppose that
baby gets? (I'm
not counting the
bundles of con-
CALCULATIONS that
came during the
first week after.)
Well, the father de-
cided as soon as
the b a b y was
named that he'd
have it insured, and
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and he covers II
over with stamps.
Now people might
lie curious to open
an express package
or something deliv-
cred by a messen-
ger, and now if the
young lady is not
t h e re W b e n i t
comes, no one cares
to tear open a pack
age with u. S.