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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
EvERYBopY Has TRoUsLB
So Don't for a Single Minute ThA
Your Lot Is Harder. Than That
Of Anyone Else.

Don't think when the clouds OF I
versity hang heavily over you II
your lot is harder than that of eve
one else Things are pretty even
divided in this world, and ne matt
how bad the trouble is, bear IN mil
the fact that it might be worse.
| No one goes through life without b
share of sorrow. Some fortunate pei
pie are able to throw it of and riA
again buoyant and hopeful; others al
conquered by their troubles and nevd
rise above them.
| Don't assume that the man or won
an with the CHEEKY face and name
| have never known grief. Their sor
rows, says the Chicago American, ma,
have exceeded yours tenfold, but the
have simply made up their minds I
make the best of things and present
brave face.
There is enough sorrow in the worl
without adding to it by going aroun
with a long drawn face and whinin
manner. With the responsibilities
manhood and womanhood come care
and trials: we cannot escape them. be
cause we cannot live and love withou
sometimes seeing the reverse side {
the shield.
But we need not meet trouble hal
way, and we need not succumb to tn
little worries, for If we do We have n
strength left to fight the big ones whe
they come.
Nearly every cloud has silver liz
ing if we only look hard enough to fin
it, and it is well. to remember ths
sometimes the very thing that bring
sorrow to us brings joy to some on
else
II is great mistake to expect to
much sympathy from our friends. U
to a certain point they will sympathiz
and listen patiently to our tale of woe
but too much woe tires even the mo!
ready sympathizer, and if we alway
carry a sad face We will find we al
left much to ourselves.
Nothing commands SO much respe'
and sympathy as trouble bravely born
A smile makes more friends than
whine and hopeful nature is a gre'
blessing.
Things are always at their vel
darkest just before turning poin
Let us learn to take the bitter with II
sweet, to make the best of our wo'
for the sake of our joys.
I Into each life some rain must fall
{ but some of the showers are only 81
{ showers after all. and let us tai
refuge under the umbrella of hope al
/ watch for the rainbow that is shiniI
; brightly across the dark clouds.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28

paint. On account OF the dampness.
no glue should be used. Instead OF
trying to fit the edges of the boards of
the top tightly as in gluing, round off
all the edges both above and below,
leaving an obvious crack. Round of
all the corners of the table and the
weather will raise" no splinters.
Treat the boards of the seat same
as the top. Screw the seat and top
boards down with solid screws, plac-
ing the screws near the edges of the
boards to keep them from warping and
curling up. Then let the sun and rain
have their way and you. will have a
real weathered oak piece, which
could be used in winter as unique
indoor piece.
Two braces should run lengthwise
under the seat. screwed or mortised
into the end pieces and screwed to the
seat boards.
To operate the affair the top would
have to be lifted off and set on edge
on the ends of the cross-pieces, the
back braces being hooked over the
pegs In the outsides of the arms. When
used as a table the top should be fas-
tened on by running loose" pegs
through the arms into the cross-pieces
on the under side of the top. The back
brace will then fold up under the top
While this piece might appear rough al
first sight. its design would make II
odd and interesting.-Chicago Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
FOR TEACHER AND PUPIL.
A Lesson That Gave Something Of
Value to the Pedagogue and
His Hopeless Charge.


Julia l.. Dumont was a western
writer of eminence back in the '40s.
and she was also a schoolmistress
who, says one who studied under
her, deserves Immortality" relates
Youths Companion. Mr.. George Cary
Eggleston. who was one of her pupils,
says in his life of his brother Edward
that her peculiar gift in dealing with
any boy or girl lay in seeing what APP
peal would, in that particular case,
prove strongest. When Eggleston came
under her care, one teacher after an
other had attempted to teach him to
write, and had abandoned the effort in
disgust.
Finally, one writing-master who had
been teaching young and old to make
hair lines for up strokes and heavy
ones for down strokes, and to decorate
the paper with elaborate fourishes.
called the boy Ounce" and "booby,"
and dismissed him from his school.
Mrs. Dumont must have heard all
this, and when the boy, in his morti-
/ fication, asked to be excused from
writing, she merely said:
why, has Mr.. Wilson taught you to
write so well that you can learn no
more?"
mo, ldrs. Dumont," said the humili-
ated lad 81 can never learn to write"
"Who says that" she asked, quietly.
"Mr. Wilson and-every teacher
ever had"
LET me look at your hand. George" "
He held it out. She studied it close
ly, and bent the fingers one after an
other Then she said: II hear you
are the best marble-player in town. Is
| that so?"
His pockets were bullying with
| marbles. and he owned to an excep-
tional degree of skill in the game
yet Mr.. Wilson called you BOBBY!
Now. George. I'll tell you what you and
are going to do. ! am going to teach
| you to write clear. legible and sensi-
| BILE hand, and two weeks from to-day
you are going to write letter to Mr.
Wilson. will dictate it, and you shall
sign 1t, and he will learn whether q
boy who can play marbles cannot be
| taught to write"
The battle was won. The boy re.
solved to make any effort for the
teacher who had belieTed in him. Sh,
advised him to have nothing to dc
with up strokes and down strokes ant
fiourishes. Absolute legibility, sh,
said, was the first requisite in al
handwriting. If one could write rap
idly and easily, so much the better.
To the boys establishment, he could
actually read the lines he had writer
for his first Lesson. At the end of tn,
two weeks he was master of a plaiI
and legible hand, very much like tina
of Mrs. Dumont. Then, at her dicta
ton, he joyously wrote this letter Il
his former teacher:
"Dear Sir: am writing this lette1
at the dictation of my teacher, Mrs
Dumont. Mrs. Dumont thinks yo'
should be pleased to see that. after tw,
weeks of instruction, | have learned I,
write a sensible and legible hand. an,
that | am not quite so hopeless
BOBBY as you thought me-"
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Circle G.. and
Circle j.
tcopyright, 1904. by Daily Story Pub. Co.,
by ]. C. PLUMM Err

DETH HOPKINS. master of the bay
n schooner Alert, stopped, meditative-
~. over two boxes on either side OF him.
THE one on the left to Parson George
and the one on the right TO Deacon
Jobe.' said he.
He dipped the brush into the pot and
was about to make some cabalistic hg-
ures on the box lid when rasping shout
came down the companionway.
Oars big tree master comm up de
dock, capting, an she'll scrouge us foh
sho"
Capt. Hopkins placed the pot on the
floor. and, leaping on deck, by the prompt
use of tenders and profanity managed to
keep the sides of the Alert free from in
jury; then he returned to his task and
carefully marked circle G on the box to
the left and circle J on the one to the
right, entirely oblivious of the fact that
when he arranged the boxes he faced aft
and that now he was facing forward.
Il ought to have been sign painter"
exclaimed the skipper, gazing admiring-
ly at his handiwork.
When the Alert reached the landing
on the Manunky river, the skipper called
Pete, the deck hand, aft.
How are these two boxes marked,
Peter" he asked.
"Carcle G an carcle j." replied Pete,
who could read.
Good; now borrow wheelbarrow
Cd nd talx he how ma eli q
CIRCLE to Deacon Jobe's. Tell him
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28

is trimmed in front with bands and
knots of velvet and the jabot is of lace.
The other gown is OF champagne
colored voile The skirt is composed OF
box-plaited breadths, alternating at the
top to little rounded tabs. The box
plated breadths are ornamented with
buttons and cords matching the gown.
The bolero-like bodice is gathered at
the, top and again at the bottom, and
is trimmed with the cord. forming mo-
tits. The fronts of the blouse are fin
ished with revers Of white silk en-
broidered in delicate colors, and open
below over waistcoat of champagne
colored silk ornamented with cord. OF
passementerie motifs to match. The
plastron is of white silk or linen and
the corsIet girdle is of the material OF
of silk of the same shade
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
TO MAKE ALL MEN WE'D.
Unique Proposition Submitted to Re-
publican Convention by Worlds
Congress of Old Maids.

Before the republican convention at
Chicago concluded its work it was
called upon to consider the plant that
had been made by half hundred old
maids recently assembled in conven.
ton in the Salem (Wis) opera house.
Here is their sad and eloquent
plant epitomized:
There are, by many thousands, toe
many unmarried men in the United
States; therefore. we, old maids as.
sembled in worlds congress here.
deem it only right and just to demand
that the state legislature disfranchise
all men who have reached the age of
25 years and are still unmarried"
This Is the burden of one of a mum.
Der of resolutions drawn up for pre-.
sentation to the republican conven.
ton.
As a result of call sent out sever.
al weeks ago for convention of the
old maids of the world, so single
ladies, ranging in ages from Is to
65, assembled on the platform at the
opera house.
About 200 letters of regrets were
read to the convention. A letter was
read from a matrimonial bureau
which is sending women to the Klon
dixie.
Several delegates addressed the
meeting on the subject of equal rights
for men and women. and paid glow
ing tributes to Susan B. Anthony ant
other women who had devoted tfreil
lives to the advancement of woman!
rights.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28

Famous Laughing Plant of Arablas
The seeds of the laughing plant OF
Arabia produce the same effect upon
persons as laughing gas. The plant at
tains height of from two to four feet,
With woody stems, wide-spreading
branches and bright green foliage. Its
fruits are produced in clusters and are
Of yellow color. The seed pods are
soft and woolly in texture, and contain
two or three black seeds of the size of q
Brazilian bean. Their flavor is little
like opium, and their taste is sweet;
the odor from them produces sick
ening sensation and Is slightly often
sive. The seeds, when pulverized and
taken in small quantities, have Pc
culiar effect upon man. He begins to
laugh loudly, boisterously, then he
sings, dances and cuts all manner OF
fantastic capers. Such extravagance
of gait and manners was never pro-
duced by any other kind of dosing-
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28

After the walking dress has been re-
moved the skirt should be we'll brushed
and hung in the wardrobe on two hooks
by means of two loops Or, better still.
fold it carefully in the seams, pin to-
gether at the band and suspend, SO
pinned, on the hooks. Some wardrobes
are now made with movable hangers,
which are very useful. Goats should al
ways be stretched upon hangers when
not in actual use. Stoles and boas
whether of feathers. chiffon or fur, are
always freshened up and benefited by Q
gentle shaking in front OF the FIRE afteI
wear on a wet day. The feathers be-
come quite crisp again under such treat
ment, while the chiffon loses thu
wrinkled. curled look that rain gives 1t
and assumes its normal fufhness.-C
cago News
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
SULTAN HATED BY MooRS.
Subjects Are Offended by Innovations
and Foolish Extravaganza
of Ruler.

An English correspondents descrip-
ton of the sultan of Morocco's charac-
ter sufficiently explains the feelings of
his subjects, which, according to Euro
pean residents, must result in gen.
eral revolution that is already almos,
ablaze The Moors, states the Chica-
go Tribune, naturally hate and scorh
his western procIivities wherewith he
has outraged every ,Mussulman idea.
While earning their hatred he has not
commanded their fear or respect
On the other hand, he has outworn
the patience of his European friends
by his countless childish whims. The
sultan's leanings are towards the fol-
lies and not the wisdom of the west.
His army is a worthless rabble. al
though regiment after regiment has
been raised, equipped and drilled by
British officers, only to be disbanGed
and the horses and equipment sold be-
low cost to provide money for the sui
tan's idiotic whims.
Some of these are sufficiently
grotesque to stamp Mulai-Abd-el-Aziz
as a lunatic For instance. he has ex.
pended thousands upon automobiles
although the roads of Morocco are moi
fit for even a bicycle, and of these he
has scores made of aluminium. which
the slightest obstacles crumple like
paper. He also has gold and diamond
studded cameras and stock of photo.
graphic paper worth $4,000 He take.
about four snapshots month. He ha,
looking glass bedsteads and there is Z
neyer-ceasing procession of packing
cases from Europe, containing trump
cry and gewgaws, musical boxes, me
chanical toys, cameras, gramophonel
and watches.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
A LITTLE ESSAY ON MUSK.
II You Want to Be Left Severely
Alone Scent Yourself Lib
orally with the Stuff.

IL you are going to travel, by sea or
by land, scent yourself with musk. II
will ward off everything and everybody
from you. dangers and moths included.
1t is generally agreeable to all man.
kind 1t is so sweet and refreshing,
and such an air purifier! In railroad
cars, where there is no air to speak Of,
and everybody who does not smell of
smoke and onions, smells of Goldfish
and old cider, it is especially delight
full.
T. doesn't make anybody sick at the
stomach, and no well-regulated head
would ache on account of it, and the
man who would get profane, and talk
about woodchucks, and polecats. and
water rats, in connection with the
smell of musk, ought to be condemned
to ride second-class forever, between a
fat woman carrying home-smoked her
ring, and colored nursegirl with a
baby that smells of sour milk.
At church, musk is delightful. 1t is
the very "odor of sanctity." The cler-
gyman can preach better for it, and the
bald-headed deacon and the long-nosec
sexton can sleep better and snore loud
err with it odorous fumes waited t.
their nostrils with every gentle wave
of your pocket handkerchief.
People who do not like it are il
bred. It is the perfume OF the rich
| Empress Josephine was fond of it, anf
we don't know whether that fact hat
anything to do with Napoleon's getting
| divorced from her or not
Scent yourself literally. Don't b
afraid. Don't be stingy. Make your
self smell in the world, If you canno
make yourself distinguished.
1t is a land of freedom, this Is! Ev
erybody has right to smell as h
chooses, and If everybody else does no
like the odor, why he can plug hi
| uose.-N. Y. Weekly.
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BACK LICK
settl the Case with Her.

Many 1t discoveries have been
made by dent and things better than
gold mineave been found in this way.
for exampwhen even the accidental
discovery / coffee is the reakcause Of
ones sicks proves of most tremen-
dous valuecause it locates the cause
and the pei has then chance to get
we'll.
"For ovei years." SAYS q Missouri
woman, Il ered untold agonies immy
stomach ariven the best physicians
disagreed aSthe cause without giving
me any perlent help, different ones
saying 1t waistritis. Indigestion, neu-
ralgia, etc., dragged along from
year to yeaiways half sick, until
finally I gayS all hopes of ever being
well again.
when tai dinner with a friend
one day she 1 she had a new drink
which turnedt to be Postum and I
liked 1t so WI told her l thought
would stop CO for awhile and use II,
which l did.
$50 for thr(onths we had Postum
In place OF CO without ever having
one of my obells but was always
healthy and vbus instead.
Husband k'saying he was con.
WINGED 1t was lee that caused those
spells, but eyeien wouldn't believe
1t until one d$e got out of Postum
and as we hytwo miles from town
thought to use coffee we had in the
house.
"The result dweek's use of coffee
again was thafad another terrible
spell OF agony distress proving that
1t was the conee nothing else. That
settled 1t and good bye to Coffee
forever and simeon Postum alone has
been our hot meme drink.
my friends aey am LOOKING
worlds better any complexion a
much improved. the other members
of our family haeen benefited too.
by Postum IN piaf the old drink. cof-
Fee" Name gives Postum Co.. Rat
tie Creek. Mich.
Ten days trial sostum IN nlace n
conee or Tea IS t9se thing for every
conee ormker' oq trial tells the ex.
act truth oiten "Icoffee is not sus-
pected.
LOOK IN eacn pPr the famous lit
~ nooks The Rof MELVILLE"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
The Sweet Girl Graduate.

Father-What is Estelle going TO
wear when she graduates?
Mother-Oh, just simple white
gown.
That's sensible. Women dress alto
gether too extravagantly, to my mind.
Id like to see member of my family
in something simple-for once! How
much will Estelle's gown cost?"
'Oh, the dressmaker says she thinks
she can get up something appropriate
Tor about $T5."-Detroit Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
Passing Of the Heavy Shoe.

Women who have aped the sterner
sex in the matter of footwear are dis
carding the heavy-soled shoes which
were more or less popular for time,
says the Shoe Retailer. The natural
successor to the 'mannish" shoe is
the distinctive feminine pattern in D
fine turn Or fine welted shoe. The
single-sole Oxford made on man
nish" last is about the only reminder
of the clumsy looking heavy shoe
never seriously intended for women.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28

American chemist and analyst,
wHisited India some time ago, has
to9 by actual experiment that the
wal of the Ganges is entirely free
irolthe germs and animalculae with
VIII the other waters of every coun-
trv the world swarm. He asserts
thapt only the water of the Ganges
is r. itself, but possesses the power,
as Hound by actual experiment, OF
pprihg other streams adjoining it,
Cndati ENQUIRER.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28

Pity Teacher Gntent on the lesson)
-Arfast swarms of flies descended
on tland and came into the houses
of tEgyptians and covered their
cloth and their tables and all their
food,t Gmpressively) there were no
flies dhe children of Israel.
SmBoy-Please, nam, there amt
now, Aer.-Harlem Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
Grny Hair Music.

Certain kinds of music prevent the
hair from falling out, says Mrs. Amelia
Weed Holbrook. "and other kinds pro-
duce badness" Some kinds of music,
so-called, also have tendency to turn
the hair gray--particularly the kind pro-
duced by the misguided young woman
who is learning to sing in the next fat
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
TWO GOWNS FOR SUMMER.
Designed in Paris for an American
Society Leader of the Swell
Newport Crowd.

The first gown is of pale green tat
feta. The skirt is gathered at the top
to little plain yoke and encircled be-
low with two tiny tucks. An inverted
plat forms narrow border, which is
stitched at the top and ornamented
with cords and antique buttons. These
also ornament the corset girdle.
The blouse is gathered at the bottom
and has yoke and large revers COM
posed of overlapping bands of silk. II
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
Her Discovery.

'Ahes," he sighed, lit seems to be
law nature that everything must
be conually changing"
1--WE she replied with tinge of
bittert in her tone, II have found
since 1 marriage that there is very
little tnge about you."-Chicago
Eyenintews.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
AN odd Creation.

The pocket mouse of the desert has
a genuine fur-Iined pocket" on the
outside of it's cheek. When it is hun
cry it takes food from its pocket with
its paw. just as man would pull a
ham sandwich from his pocket
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
PepurIou. ChanceIIors.

1t is almost inevitable that Sir Mi
chael Hicks-Beach will veto the pro-
posed guarantee for the. Tanganyika
railway, and the reply to Mr.. Rhodes
appeal will go down to posterity as an
pther example of that spasmodic sor-
hidness which has SO often wounded
England more sorely than her might.
kst wars. In African history the handi-
korks of penurious chancellors are the
orange Free State, the Transvaal, Della
ba Bay, German Southwest Africa,
Trench West Africa and Gordon's mon
lknent. 1t seems likely that Posterity
lin add the Tanganyilka railway to
lie list.-Nice Riviera Daily.
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La society reporter" was sent to.a
Junction" the other day to describe
le women's gowns. snake it artis-
l." said the editor. "Don't give the
ereotyped Mrs. Jones wore blue and
Irs. Smith wore green Try to give
b woman's touch" The reporter said
would try. Just as the paper was
ing to press the editor caught this
Iaming line of type: "Mrs. John
fling Van Huysen looked adorably
&inguished in violet silk, trimmed
III pale pink. Good IN. Y. Com
Itcial Advertiser.
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VITALITY of Vegetable seeds.

beds of grains and vegetables have
th tested in liquid air. These were
shatives of the temperate zone. the
SIS of which will pass the winter in
flen earth without loss of vitality.
81 as barley and oats for grains,
aIpeas, cucumber and squash for veg
e1les. They are kept for 40 hours at
sflegrees below zero and then slowly
tiled for so hours. After this trent
mi they were still alive. On being
pied they germina;ed and grew
Ckgo Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
Little Beef in. China.

Beef is never seen at a Chinese table
oxen and cows capable of working the
plow being accounted too valuable to the
farmer to be consigned to the butcher.
For this reason very severe penalties
are attached to the slaughter of these
animals
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
Farsightcd.

Jonestone's an awfully stingy
man. lwon't give his wife money
for clot hardly.
Johns oh. it's not SO much stingi-
ness! Hnows that new dresses mean
church eg.-Kansas City Independ-
emf.
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His Explanation.

"All men," said Mr.. Meektor, who
was preparing speech. ARE created
equal"
what did you observer" asked his
wife.
II said all men are created equal.
That is to say that they are equal to
one another. This, of course, IL not
meant to imply that they are the
EQUALS of their wives. Washington
Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
To Tea,,h Soldiers to Swim.

Maj Gen. Leonard Wood. command
.ng the department CT Mindanao, has
recommended that steps be taken by
the war department to teach all men
in the service how to swim,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28

He--Let's 60 and call on the bride.
She-She won't be home.
why she returned yesterday from.
her wedding journey"
Eyes, know she did, but she'll be
busy for week swapping her dupli-
cate wedding gifts. "-Yonkers States
man
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28

Regularity in the taking OF wholesome
meals would Go much toward beautify-
ing some persons who never have time
70 conduct their affairs methodically-