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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

They do not help to build school
houses for your children; the local
merchant does. They do not assist In
the support of your churches; the
local merchant does.
But there are some things the cata-
logue houses do for you and the
first and greatest of these is to assist
materially in bankrupting your COM
munity. The dollars they take away
never come back to you. They will
never help to make city of your vii
lage. They will never increase the
value Of your real-estate holdings by
making local improvements.
Let US look at the subject from the
standpoint of the farmer, for it is the
farmer who is the greatest patron of
the catalogue houses.
The town or village one, two or
three miles from his home is his mar
ket for the butter and eggs and other
produce of his farm. The half dozen
or more merchants of the town, each
anxious to obtain his full share of the
business of the community, maintain
q competition that affords to the
farmer at all times top prices for the
products of his farm. 1t is these half
dozen merchants that make farm
profits possible; the profits are in no
way due to the catalogue houses of
the cities.
But the farmer persists In sending
his dollars to the city. He wants a
buggy, or a set of harness. or pair
Of stockings, or any of the necessities
or Injuries Of life, and to get them he
takes out his mail order catalogue and
looks at the finely printed cuts, reads
the well written description, and, pass
ing the local merchant by, the mer-
chant who has purchased his produce
at the best market prices, the mer-
chant who has helped to build the
community, he sends his dollars to
the catalogue house in the city and
takes what they choose to send him.
What is the result?
One after another the doors Of the
local stores are closed, and where at
one time there were half dozen mer-
chants, each bidding for his share Of
patronage by offering fair prices for
that which the farmer had 10 sell.
there is now but one merchant who
has a monopoly. not only of the sell
Ing, but of the buying as well. and he
pays what he pleases for the farmers
r-oduce.
The farmer can continue to send his
| money to the catalogue house In the
lily for his Supplies. but he cannot
ssnd his produce to the same place,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

In disposing of that he IL absolutely
dependent upon his local merchant,
and by his patronage of the catalogue
houses he has killed competition, and
must now take whatever is offered for
what he has to sell.
Mr.. Farmer, are you helping to kill
the goose that is laying your golden
egg?
Are you sending your dollars to the
catalogue houses and by SO doing kill
ing the local industries of your town?
Are you putting your merchants out
of business, and creating monopoly
that will pay you what it pleases for
the products of your farm?
If you are doing these things 1t is
time for you to stop and consider the
future. You will have to look but
little way ahead to see the result, and
it will not be an attractive picture that
greets you. The prosperous COM
munity of which you are now a part
will fade like the summer flowers be-
fore the winter winds, and almost as
quickly.
It is the fact that there is a market
within close proximity to your farm
that makes your acres valuable. The
men who maintain this local market
for you are the men who cause the
railroad trains to stop at your town.
Take them away and soon the town
will be wiped OF the map. The
churches will close for lack of support.
The schools will cease to be pride,
and your sons and daughters will lack
the opportunity that is theirs by right
of birth, and your acres, that are now
valuable because they lie in close
proximity to a market, will show a
depreciation that will astonish you.
Your interests are identical with
those of the merchants of your town.
BY sending your dollars to the city
you may cause the merchants to close
their establishments, but when they
are forced to this they can pack their
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
AN IMPORTANT CASE
Patient Cured Of Ataxia Gives the
Entire Credit to Or. Williams
Pink Ptlis.

Entire Credit to Or. Williams
Pink Pills.
Mrs. s. C. wellock, of 114 Cleveland
Avenue, Everett, Mass, the wife Of
an employee in the government works
at Chelsea, says:
Il had been troubled with nervous
ness for ten years and the disease
kept growing on me. Then I learned
that l was suffering from locomotor
ataxia. l had terrible tremblings In
my right leg which would get rigid
and when this happened in the street
nat t. stand still until it passed
away to keep from falling. My right
arm felt as IL thousand needles were
pricking 1t. The sheet touching my
knee in bed would nearly cause me
to scream out with pain and both
knees were SO weak could hardly
stand.
Il had to use a cane and be helped
gan to settle in the calves of my legs
and the muscles became numb and
Quivered constantly. The cords I'M
der my knees seemed to be drawn up
tight and the terrible shooting pains
in my legs would nearly drive me in
sane. My toes became numb and at
times would prickle as II needles were
being thrust into them. My eyes be-
came dull and black spots foated be-
fore them. My heart was very weak.
my attention was called to DR..
Williams Pink Pills and I bought sew
eral boxes right away and soon felt
relief l was SO pleased that kept
on taking them until they cured me
entirely, and I have had no symphonic
Of the trouble for over q year"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists or sent, postpaid. on re-
ceipt of price, so cents per box, six
boxes $3.50, by the DR.. Williams Med
icine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
A booklet, entitled Nervous Dis
ORDERS" sent free ON request.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
NEVER TIRES
OF the Food That Restored Her to
Health.

my food was killing me and didn't
know the cause" writes Colo. young
lady. For two years was thin and
sickly. suffering from Indigestion and
inflammatory rheumatism.
Il had tried different kinds Of diet.
plain living, and many of the remedies
recommended, but got no better.
Finally. about Ave weeks ago.
mother suggested that I try Grape
Nuts, and began at once, eating 1t
with little cream or milk. A change
for the better began at once.
To-day / am well and am gaining
weight and strength all the time I've
gained 10 lbs. in the last five weeks
and do not suffer any more from indi-
gestion and the rheumatism Is all
gone.
II know it is to Grape-Nuts alone
that owe my restored health. I still
eat the food twice day and never tire
Of it" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
The flavor of Grape-Nuts is peculiar
to itself. It is neutral, not too sweet
and has an agreeable, healthful quail
fly that never grows tfresome.
One of the sources Of rheumatism
Il from overlooking the system with
acid material, the result of imperfect
digestion and assimilation.
AS soon as improper food Is aban
doned and Grape-Nuts is taken regu
T. - ux~.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
YANKEE IN DIAMOND FIELDS.

Commissions to Study a Country
Which Produces Such Men.
Mr.. Alfred Mosely is an EnglishmaL
who admires American ways so much
that he sends commissions here to
study us.
Mr.. Mosely does not admire ua
without reason. 1t Is not a very
specific reason. It's name is Mr.. Gard
ner F. Williams, and 1t is by way OF
being an American mining engineer.
Mr. Williams directs the diamond out.
put of the world.
Mr.. Mosely made his fortune in
South Africa He watched Cecil
Rhodes dream of empire develop and
knew the men who made it real The
one who took his imagination was
Gardner Williams.
Here was a man who had left
Michigan at the age of Is to go with
pioneering father to California in
the flush days of the early mining
camps, had had taste of California
mining, had gone when still a young
man to explore in South Africa and
had become general manager of the
great monopoly Of the diamond
mines.
A fighter of financial battles and q
manager of men, a writer, u scientist
and one Of the worlds greatest en-
gineers, he so stamped his personals
ty on the people among whom he
lived that he was feted and cheered
by all South Africa when he retired
last spring and came back to the
United States to build a home for his
leisure years In the land of his birth
Worlds Work.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

Congressman John E. Andrus, who
represents the Yonkers, N. Y, district,
Tor several years has taken delight IN
playing the role of Santa Claus to the
pages and telephone and telegraph
boys of the house. This year, az usual.
his gifts to the youngsters consisted
of two and five-dollar bills. Col. An
drus is worth $2o.00O,oo0, made out of
the manufacture of pepsin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
Proved Good Man Of Business.

Proved Good Man Of Business.
While preaching in Pueblo, Col, .
few years ago Rev. Edward ]. Wilcox
found himself In the embarrassing po-
sition Of being unable to pay his debts.
Knowing that II he stuck to the pulpit
he would have small chance of getting
even with the world. he quit preach
ing and went into the mining business
To-day he owns mines In Colorado
worth $3.000.000. besides great deal
of other valuable property.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

Men having often abandoned what
was visible for the sake of what was
uncertain, have not got what they ex'
pected, and have lost what they had
being unfortunate for an enigmatical
sort of calamity.-Demetrius Phaler'
Gus.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

stock of goods and go elsewhere, but
you cannot pack up your farm and
move it; your acres must lie in the
bed you have builded for them whether
it be fair or foul, and it is "up to you, "
Mr.. Farmer, to spend your money at
home, and in this way you can solve
the greatest problem that now con-
fronts this country.
Will you do it?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
Keep Your Money At Home.

Don send money to mail ordef
houses to deposit Your home bank
is the only safe place to keep it and
will pay you as good interest as can
be had, and then you run no risk al
in such cases as The Cash Buyers
Union" failure. The home bank win
grant you favors and mail order
houses never do.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
Has Heavy Liabilities.

Herr Johann Strauss. a. nephew OF
the eminent composer, has been SEN
fenced to a weeks imprisonment for
debt in Vienna. His liabilities are
said to amount to $4,000.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

Edward Trickett, fire warden and
formerly chief of the fire department
in Kansas City, retired a few days ago
and for the first time in 81 years
passed An entire night at his home.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

Complaint Is generally despicable.
always worse than unayailing.-Car-
lyle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
Each wrinkle ON . woman's brow
an experience.

Mrs. Winsl0w's Soothing syrup.
FOR children teething softons the gums reduces ia
6Ammation allays PAIN cures wind collie. 5c bottle
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

Smokers have to call for Lewis Single
Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer or
Lewis Factory, Peoria. Ill.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

No muss or failures made with PUr-
NAM FADELESS DYES; bright, beauti-
full colors a certainty.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

After making q strenuous effort to
get out Of a rut man finds himself in
q hole.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
The American
Woman
in Alaska
BY Mrs. oA. W. Greedy

> BY Mrs. 81. W. Greedy 9
Wife Of Famous Explorer Tells
Of Her Experiences In the Far
North A City Where 1t Is
Nearly Always Raining = The
Gateway to the Klondike -
Hardships Endured by Army
Officers Wives and Other
Women.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

A woman would rather do things to
worry rival than to afford herself
pleasure.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

PILES CURED IN TO II DAYS
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case
OF Itching. Blind Bleeding or Protruding Piles n
to IA days or money refunded 60c
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

Fursl Furs! Furs!
Write for Price Circular and ship to
Mcmillan Fur & Wool Co., Minneapolis.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
our possessions. the finest weave Of
basket in the world is discovered"
the work Of the Aleut women.

Skagway, the termination of the In.
land passage. was reached on a Sun
day in August.
Skagway resembles Juneau in the
character of its rough frame build
ings, but there are fewer indications
of woman's taste. One good stone
building attracted our attention. We
were particularly struck with the evil
dence of precaution against fire, OF
which there is a great dread in Alas
kan towns. There Is an army post
here and the soldiers have acted as
firemen very efficiently in many in
stances. We attended the Episcopal
service, which was held in . small
room over a store in one OF the rough
buildings peculiar to Alaska. There
we're about 30 persons in the congre-
CATION. A small parlor organ was
very well played by a Minneapolis
woman, a teacher of music IN the
town, and the choir consisted OF four
persons.
Such a wonderful trip as we had
over the White pass! Skagway and
Dyea, situated on either arm OF Lynn
canal, unheard Of in June, 1897. were
towns of some thousands of inhabit-
ants the following October. They are
the gateways respectively of the
White pass and the Chilcoot pass.
The only two convenient entrances
to the Yukon country, these passes
were made known to the world by the
misery resulting from the rush
through them when gold discoveries
were first made in the Klondike re-
gion. AS the White pass was selected
for the railway, Skagway steadily
grows.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23

And it's sure thing that one can't
be sure of anything in this world.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-02-23
A Positive
CURE
EIy's crsam Balm

b quiek1y abeoFeeo.
Gives Rslise q oncA
1t cleanses, soothsa
heals and protseta
the diseased MEM
brane. Il cureA Co
tarrh and drives
away . Cold n III
Head quickly. Re
stores the Senses O
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25

What would you expect of a play en-
titled Jessie Left the Village?" ! felt
sure to see a rural maiden all forlorn
with distressfuI love, cruelty misunder-
stood by her neighbors. and driven
from the home of her girihood by a
stern father, to wander miserably far
away. But it is not so. Jessie has al
ready left the village. been absent a
year, and just returned, when the play
| begins. She went away to help a con-
Wet escape from prison, and through
out the play he is hiding in the village,
much to her calumny. A country cler-
gyman is delineated as a drunken hy-
pocrite, a Sunday school teacher is a
counterfeiter, and no member of the
church is shown to be honest. The au-
| thor is not Christian religionist.
Melodramatic activities are noisier
than exciting in the new output of
brainless stage commotion. The Incl
dents meant to thrill exceedingly in
Jessie Left the Village" is on a steam
er, on which counterfeiters are chased
| by officers of the law. The hero and
the heroine are aboard. Rather than
be captured, the criminals will destroy
| the ship and take their chances of eS-
cape on the open sea- But first they
will push the vessel to a bursting speed.
They shovel coal Into the fireboxes un-
der the boilers, thus increasing the en-
gine's action, and driving the steam
gauge crazy The coal that's shoveled
wouldn't scare a naptha launch and the
burn, the engines cranks and pistons
would scare a naptha launch. and the
final explosion wouldn't wreck a canal
boat. But a second view shows the
good 'unS floating and the bad 'uns
sinking.
TRY the Vienna Walnut Bread Fresh
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25

Try the Vienna Walnut Bread. Fresh
every day. Ask your grocer.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17
RANGERS GO AFTER
indian MURDERER

TUCSON, Ariz.. Sept. 16.-There
is a serious situation at Arison as a
result of the refusal of the Papago
Indian tribe to surrender an Indian
named Johns. who murdered Mexi-
can about two weeks ago. The In
dian police and deputy sheriffs re-
ported that they are unable to effect
the arrest of Johns.
Sheriff Pacheco called upon the
Rangers for help today and ten of
them, under Captain Harry Wheeler,
with the sheriff's posse left for the
scene, which is In remote, inacces-
sible country in the west end of Pima
county, 100 miles from Tucson. Sew
eral mining camps are located in the
mountains near by. The Indians are
usually peaceable, but now threaten
death to any whites who venture in
their village.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17

Certificates of location at this
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17
RELATIVE TO THE DRAMA.
Are Women superseding Men ON the
Stage?

Stage?
There was time when no woman
was permitted even to enter the thea
ter, much less to enter theatrical
career. The feminine parts on the
stage we're taken by men and boys.
Even Shakespeare never saw one OF
his female characters enacted by a
woman. His Portals, Juliets, Desde-
monias and Ophelias were taken by
boys. Professor Raleigh ascribes to
this fact the miraculous development
of the poetic drama in the days of
Elizabeth. Archie Bell, writer in
the Theatre Magazine, brings out an
other aspect Of the same question less
favorable to boy actors. Some of
them, we are told, were 40 years of
age and a jolly old chronicler informs
us that real kings were sometimes
kept waiting for the performance tol
begin on the stage because the stage
queens were delayed in shaving. To-
day the state of affairs is reversed.
Nowhere has woman's emancipation
been more complete than on the
boards. Woman, Mr.. Bell declares,
has done more for the theater than
any other single force. The theater
in return has done more for woman
Ethan any other institution, and at
Ipresent her supremacy is almost I'M
| questioned in the theatrical world.
Nordeau contends that the future
of poetry belong to children and wo-
men. May the same be true of the
stage? Mr.. Bell evidently holds the
belief that it will, which he bases
upon the fact that not content with
overshadowing man, woman even
takes his best parts from him, and,
in place of the boy actor of former
days, we have the woman appearing
in masculine parts. Adelaide Keim
as Hamlet, Maude Adams as Peter
Pan and L'Aiglon, Of this generation,
and several women of the past CEN
fury have given ample satisfaction In
masculine roles. The complete mon
opoly by the weaker sex" of every
possibilities of the future. Likewise
thing dramatic is not one of the I'M
Sarah Bernhardt's recent announce.
ment that she may add the role OF
Mephisto to her vast repertoire is not
without signi, cance in Mr. Bells
!. opinion. The chorus man, he con
cludes, is already counted the repre-
sentative of the lowest caste in thea
|. freedom, and his more fortunate
brothers are merely hanging on thu
thread of custom, which is likely t
snap at any moment and leave then
relics of the day when there wer'
men actors on the statge of the thea
ter.-Current Literature for Septem
!, Der.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17

The State Fair, to be held at Reno
this month, is attracting attention
all over the State. and the Tonopah
and Goldfield, and Gcldfleld and Bull
frog roads have made special rates
OF one and one-third fare for the
round trip from ali points on their
lines. The tickets will be good from
September 18th to the 21st, and good
returning on the 22d. 9-1-14t
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17
SHOT By BALLpLAYER.
Proprietor of Hotel Killed for Re-
fusing Man Drink.

Iuslng Win DrInA'
BATAVIA, Sept. 16.-Edward Co
milf, proprietor OF the Byron hotel
near Batavia. was shot and instantly
killed this afternoon by Francis
Bently. professional baseball play
er, who is under arrest.
Bentley claimed self-defense.
At the hotel 1t vas said Bentley
who had no money, demanded q
drink which was given to him. He
drew a revolver after asking foI
more and was refused. Coniff tried
to take the revolver away and was
shot through the head. Bentley is {
member of the Portland, Oregon
club.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-17
SAN FRANCIsoo's ENERGY.

SAN FRANCISCO'S ENERGY.
There, is a poular impression here
in the south, and to very large ex-
tent all over the country, that the
city of San Francisco is now down
and out" having taken the count"
and that her seconds have thrown
up the sponge" San Francisco has
had misfortunes enough to justify
the assumption of just such desper- |
ate situation as would be Indicated |
by this expressive language Of the
prize ring, and under the same cir
cumstances almost any other city
would. indeed, be down and out"
Indeed, we doubt very much whether
Los Angeles could recover in a life
time from such a disaster as San
Francisco has suffered; and this is
not to be understood, either, as any
reflection upon our neighbor, for the
southern California metropolis is
really wonder Of enterprise and
growth and Industrial activity.
We have said that there is popu-
lar impression that San Francisco is
dead one" There is no greater
error possible. San Francisco is to-
day the busiest city IN the United
States, if not in the world. On the
whole peninsula upon which the Cal
ifornia metropolis is situated one
cannot get out of hearing OF the per-
sistent stroke of the builders ham
liner. The old business section is a
Bedlam Of structural activity. Not
one or dozen, but literally hun
dreds of steel and concrete buildings,
the most substantial known calss Of
construction, are pushing their
sturdy frames into the high attitudes
overlooking the bay and ocean, do
flying the earthquake demon and
standing as lofty mountains to the
courage and determination of these
people whom adversely has once
lstripped in few hours of the accunl-
lulations of lifetime 1t is stated
that there are at this time under con-
struction in the city of San Francisco
more than 5000 buildings, but that
over 5000 buildings have been erect
ed since the fire. Fifty thousand men
are today engaged in the building
trades Of San Francisco alone, while
the stupendous sum. of $S0,000,0oC
has already been expended in the
work of rehabilitation, not including
the restoration of. commercial stocks
1t is estimated that more than $40,
900, 900 has been paid into the poe
kets of San Francisco's day laborers
San Francisco is a dead one! Their
| is nowhere in the world city evi
dencing such pronounced symptom
of life and vigorous health. instead
of the common expressions of dispar
agement which we hear so often, W.
ought every one of us to have on
hats off in wonder and admiration TO
the growth and progress which Sal
Francisco has made and is making il
the face of every possible discourage
ment
Los Angeles is responsible NOR
than any one else for giving out tn
impression that San Francisco
dead beyond resurrection and tha
there is nothing doing" there. Her
7 are the figures for July:
San Francisco buildings permits
$4.752,778.
Los Angeles building permits, 81
254,i74.
San Francisco bank clearing
$176,47O.396.11.
Los Angeles bank clearings, SAC
S12,3S3. Riverside Enterprise.