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The log cabin Democrat., 1908-12-12
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
 Notice is hereby given that on the 22nd day of December 1908, at ' o'clock P. NJ, the City Council of Conway, Arkansas, at it's usual meet ing place in said City, will receive bids for work of cleaning privies and removing deposits therefrom in conformity with Ordinance No 159 of said City. for period of one year. The contract for said work will be let to the respon sible person making the lowest bid for doing said work, but no bid will be received which offers to do said work for more than the follow ing charges
 For each cleaning and removing deposits from
 privy, situated on premises occupied by, or that is used by, One
 Private family, business house,
 shop, office or other establishment 25 Gents;
 Boarding House. 2S Gents; Hotel or Wf gon- Yard ..-....... so Cents;
 School or College ............-........ 50 Gents; The right is reserved by the Council to reject any or all bids for any reason whatsoever; and the persons to whom the contract for said work shall be let will be required to execute bond in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, condition ed that said person will faithfully comply with the terms of the contract tha may be entered into between such person and the City Council, and all Ordinances of said City relative thereto Successful bidder to pay cost of publication of Notice and Ordinance.
 This 18th day of December, 1918. dit A. ]. WITT,
 Mayor of the City of Conway.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-12-12
LOCAL NOTES.

Highest market prices paid for hides. E. PREACHER.
 John D. Stiensick of Linder is in the city today.
 Coal for sale. W. L. Robins, phone No. I62.
 John w. Downs is in the city of Roses today.
 ]. M. Dickens of Mayfower is in the city today.
 Have yeu seen Robinette's line of Xmas goods'
 Emmett Mitchell of Morrilton is in the city today.
 Mrs. J. H. Hartje is visiting at Plumerville today.
 L. C. Holman is in Little Rock today on business.
 Pres. J. J. Doyne went to Little Rock this morning.
 Pres. c. L. Hawkins of Vilonia is in the city today.
 Sam Long went to Little Rock this morning on business.
 Ben Gwin is in Little Rock to- day to have his eyes treated.
 Mrs. Geo. w. Clark is visiting friends in Little Rock today.
 Mrs. Lyda Smith is visiting rel atives and friends..at Morrilton.
 Mrs. J. A. Frisby is spending today and tomorrow in Morrilton. R. w. Short of Little Rock is in Is in the city today visiting friends. See Robinette's line of jewelry before you buy Christmas presents. Robinette has some very beauti- ful things suitable for Xmas pres ents.
 A large assortment of Christmas post cards and booklets at Free mans. Ct Order your Xmas photos now at Lemons Studio. Good work guaranteed.
 Rev. Clarence Dawson left this afternoon for Enola, where he will conduct services.
 MT. and Mrs. R. G. Peasants have returned from a two weeks visit at Hot Springs.
 Dry I6-inch block wood, s. 50 per cord delivered. Leave orders at meet market. E. PREACHER. WANTED-At once, fat beef cattle and fat hogs.
 E. PREACHER.
 Mrs. A. D. Gibson of Texarkana Is visiting at the home of her par ents, Col. and Mrs. G. w. Bruce. The U. D. C. will take orders for Xmas cakes, homemade pickles, beaten biscuits, homemade can dies. Phone orders to Mrs. w. D. Cole, ST. d2t wit E. D. Cornish of Harrodsburg, Ky, is visiting Pres. c. L. Flaw kins at Viionia. He is former professor of mathematics in Ark ansas Holiness College.
 FOR SALE-We have for sale a three-room house located only one block east of Central College, which we can sell at a bargain. 7o-tf DURHAM & HOLMAN. G. E. Hilliard has returned from Helena, where he has been building depots on the Missouri and Arkansas railroad. He has made an excellent record for su- erior workmanship.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-12-12
WEATHER FORECAST.

New Orleans, Dec. I2.-Fore- cast to 8 p. Ill. tomorrow: To- night and Sunday increasing cloud mess.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-12-12
CHAMPAGNE FROM sPoNGEs.

'The champagne makers of Reims buy a lot of our sponges," said a wholesale dealer. "They squeeze champagne out of them. They must squeeze, in the years course, 1,00o,- 900 bottles of champagne out of sponges. Mystifed, aren't you?
 ''But there is no mystery about the matter. Champagne, is it fer ments, is powerful stuff; it breaks the strongest bottles, and in the past all the champagne that broke it's bottles and escaped was lost.
 "Now, though, they pack the champagne bottles in clean sponge, and every day or two they go over the plant and, if any of the bottles have broken, they squeeze into casks the wine that the sponges have re- tained.
 "This wine, reclarifed, refined and bottled again, makes very good second quality drink"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
Where Are Ours?

Every town has liar, a sponsor
smart Alec, girl who giggles, a
weather prophet, neighborhood
feud, woman who tattles, a man
who knows it all, more loafers than
it needs, a boy who cuts up in
church, and a few meddlesome old
women, a "thing" that stares at
women, a young man who laughs
everytime he says anything, a girl
who goes to the depot everytime
a train comes in.
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TinkerviIIelDots.

As my last communication escaped
the waste basket will come again.
The school ut this place started
Tuesday last, with a large enrolment
of pleasant looking girls and boys,
with Mrs. Hodge as kind and faith.
fol teacher. She was accompanied
here by her little daughter, Miss
Lillinn, who is attending school.
MIR. aud Mrs. A. H. Nugent and
family visited Mr.. and Mrs. Bud
GENTRY and family last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. G. Watson visited
relatives in Dry Prong recently.
Messrs. Wyatt Nugent and Marshall
Gentry were the guests of Misses Rel
la Chelette and Eunice Richardson
tust Sunday evening.
Mrs. Rosa Lee Faircloth is i'll Mt
this writing with the humps.
Mr.. Ruff Richards was the guest OF
Hr. j. w. Wyatt last Sunday.
Mrs. A, l.. Blackwell and her charm
ing daughter, Miss Lola, visited
friends aud relatives IN this vicinity
recently.
MIR. and Mrs. T. h. Morgan and
babe visited Mr. aud Mrs. W. J.
Wyatt and family Sunday.
Mr.. Jess Nugrnt was the guest OF
Mr.. Wyatt Nugrnt last Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr.. Hugh Watsonand Miss Bobbie
Wyatt were the pleasant guests Of
Mr. and Mrs. j. L. Watson last Sun
day AFTERNOON.
DIR. j. G. Pugh, of Atlanta, came
down Oh the 9th Of this month, re-
turning home on the 10th, accom-
panied by his little son, Byron, and
nephew Otis WaldroB, who have been
spending theirsnmnler vacation with
their grand parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ].
W. Wyatt.
Mr.. Will Arlington was the CUES
II Miss Ava Watson last Sunday.
Misses Bobbie aud Ruby Wyatt
md Mr.. Edd Wyatt attended church
n Dry Prong Sunday night.
Hon. Joel NJ. Durham, of Colfax,
Who has been attending to business
matters in this part Of the parish, on
rs return home was the welcome
nest OF Mr.. W. j. Wyatt and family
unday night.
Mr.. Carl Watson nhde business
rip to Dry Prong Saturday; he must I
ave seen his best girl in town 10y (,
he smile he carries.
1t this escapes the waste basket
Ill come again soon.
TINKERvILLE HOssIER.
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Tie Sheath skirt Fad.

Say, where will this sheath craze
stop? First, it was a sheath Skin,
ripped up the side about-so far
Then comes the sheath sleeve rip
ped up the bind seam, leaving the
arm bare to the shoulder And
one looks in horror for the prob
able appearance of the sheath
waist and the sheath stockings to
follow.
1t the men should become vic
tins to the sheath fad it will be q
case of history repeating itself"
Well do we boys remember when
we were strictly in the sheath fash
ion. We crawled through a crack
in the fence and an obstinate
splinter turned our blae checked
shirt into a sheath up and down
the back. We slid down a plank
there was a nail in it-and the
blue denim sheath pants we wore |
home we're up to date. The FASH
on was not SO popular then as
low, and when We met lady we
backed up against the barn until
The had passed on. And when we
,ot home we were treated to a few
'listers which covered the opening
made by the sheatll.-Ex.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
Prosperous Times Coming for
Louisiana.

New Orleans. Sept. 23.-The an.
nuaI trade editions of the New Or
leans newspapers, published on the
first Of September, show much bet
ter financial aud commercial condi-
tion in Louisiana than most people
looked for following the depression
OF the trade year just closed. True
the Development of various indus
tries has been checked to some extent
by the inability of home borrowers
To obtain loans ON favorab BILE terms,
aud by the difficulty encountered 10y
home investors in the effort to turn
securities into ready money. But
the tendency toward trade expan-
sion has not been checked, and it in
now confidently believed that soon
after he adoption of the constitu-
tional amendment exempting mort
gage loans from taxation plenty OF
money at 4 and 5 per cent will be
available, and that railroad con-
struction, the erection of new build
ihgs, and the opening up of new in
dnstries will quickly furnish all able
bodied workmen in the State with
profitable labor, which in turn will
do more to revive general trade pros
perity throughout the State than
any other one thing.
In this respect Louisiana, by RELY
ing in the past too largely upon her
agricultural products, has fallen
somewhat behind some of her sister
States. Manufactures and other
have not increased as rap
idly as has the population or the
growth Of agriculture. Students Of |
financial conditions claim that this
siuggishness is traceabie to the banl
placed upon outside money when en-
,loyed in development work By a
.itizen of louisiana
On this subject, Mr.. w. l.. Foster,
II Shreveport, one OF the largest cot
on planters in the world, SAYS Il
There IL n great need of foreign CAPT
al To be used in developing the re-
ources OF our great State. Itsecm
o me Il very Inconsistent policy
which exempts from taxation for
ign capital when used BY it's owners
4 building railroads, factories, etc. |
4 Louisiana, and yet taxes that
aine capital when it is loaned to !
ur home people to he used by them | I
he same or similar development.
This form of double taxation was
OCCIDENTAL rather than contempla ted
y the fr;imers of the constitution.
nd its elimination by popular vote
November will merely plnce Lou
lana on an equal footing with other
fates in the most prosperous see
on of the Union.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
Edited By the
W0men's Christian Temperance Union
HATES THE LIQUOR TRAFF1c.

| l.
Personally l have seen SO mucl
OF the evils of the traffic in las
four years, SO much of its economic
waste, SO much of its physical ruin
SC much of its mental blight, Sc
much OF It's tears and heartache
that l have come to regard the
business as one that must be held
and controlled by strong and eff
fectIve laws. | bear no malice
toward those engaged in the bust
ness, but hate the traffic. | hate
It's every phase. l hate it for its
tolerance. | hate it for its AFRO
gance. | hate it for its hypocricy.
l hate it for its cunt and craft aud
false pretenses, l hate it for it's
commercialism. / hate it for it's
greed and avrice. | hate it for it's
sordld love of gain at any price.
| hate it for its domination in pol
tics. l hate it for its corrupting
influence in civic affairs.
l hate it for its incessant effort
to debauch the suffrage of the
country; for the towards it makes
of the public men. 1 hate it for
ITS ruthless trampling of the SOL
emn compacts of State institutions.
l hate it for the load it straps to
to labor's back; for the palsied
hands it gives to toll; for its wounds
to genius; for the tragedies of its |
might-have-beens. / hate it for
The human wrecks it has caused. !
hate 1T for the almshouses it peo-
pies; for the prisons it fills; for the
insanity it begets; for its countless
graves in potters' fields. l hate it
4
or the mental ruin it imposes up
IN It's victims; for its spiritual
blight: for its moral degradation.
hate it for the homes it has de-
troyed. l hate it for the hearts
has broken. 1 hate it for the
malice it has planted in the hearts
# men-for its poison, for its bit
erness for the dead sea fruit with
1hich it starves their souls.
hate it for the grief it causes
scalding tears.
he hopes deferred, the strangledI
spilations, its burden of want and
are.
l hate it for the heartless cruel
to the aged, the infirm and the
elpless, for the shadow it throws
pom the lives of children, for it's
Ionstrous injustice to blameless
tile ones From Governor Han
US speech to the last Republi- /
III State Convention. III
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
Condemned Murderer Butcher,
Six Fellow Prisoners

Condemned Murderer Butchers
Six Fellow Prisoners
Edward Ayles, a negro con-
demned to death for killing bic
wife, and TO whom the death war
rant was read in the Alexandria
Jail last Saturday afternoon, secur-
ed a knife from fellow prisoner,
and in less than FIVE minutes had
killed one man and seriously wound
ed live others, one of whom died
later.
The death warrant was read to
Ayles In the presence of several
witnesses. 1t took four prisoners
to bring him out of his cell.
The sheriff and party left the
cell about thirty minutes before
the affair occurred. A prisoner
had an old case knife to shave with
and Ayles overpowered him and Sc
cured it. A prisoner finally shut
q door on the negro and the officers
played a two-inch stream of water
On him to make him drop the knife.
Ayles is sentenced to hang Oct %. |
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Parish Officials

Representative--c. ". PAYNE ontgomer,
sherin-A. Is. PERkINS.................... ColfaA
Clerk OF Court--JAS. j. O'QUINN .......... Collar
A.sessor-E. :. MURRsLL ........ New Verdi.
Coroner-E. Is. GRAY. n. D.................. Collar
Parish Treasurer-wM LACRoIx ............ Collar
surveyor-w. v. DUFFY Montgomer,
School Treasurer--J. n. WARNER PollocA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
State and parisb Directory
United States Senators
stste Officials.

Lieut.. Governor-PAULM M. LAMBREMONT..
--..--.'---.1 ....--.of ST. James
Secty. OF State--JNp. +. MICHEL..o Of Orleans
Anaitor-PAUL CAPDEvEiLLE...o OF Orleans
Atty. General-wALTER GUION... Of orleans
Registrar Land obee--F. J. GRACE ..of Ibervillt
Supi. schools-THOs. o. HARRIS ....................
East Baton Rouge
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j. ~ WARNER. school Superintendent and See.
rotary OF School Board. Pollock.
j. d. ROBERTS. Clerk Police Jury. cofax
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

If you are a business man,
did you ever think of the field
of opportunity that advertis-
ing opens to you? There is
almost no limit to the posi-
bilities of your business if you
study how to turn trade into
your store. If you are not get
ting your share of the business
of your community THERE'S q
reason. People go where they
are attracted - where they
SnosO what they can get and
how much it is sold for. If
YOU make direct statements in
your advertising see to it that
you are able to fulfill every
promise you make. YodpwiIl
add to your business rcputa-
ton and hold your customers
1t will not cost as mich to run
your ad in this paper as you
think 1t is the persistent ad
vertiser who gets there. Have
something in the paper every
issue, no matter how small
We will be pleased to quote
you our advert sing rates, par
tlcularly on the years bus
ness.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Court Meets
First Mondays in February, April June. octo-
Der aud December.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Ladies shirt waists in neat and
stylish patterns at 75c, 800 and
$l.25, at ]. W. Duncan Co., Ltd.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Police Jury Meets
First Mondays In January, April, July an,
October.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

School Beard Meets
First Saturdays in January. April. July and
October.
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District Officials.

Senator-R. W. O6LESBf Wnnf field
Jndge-W. r. BLACkMAN Alexandria
District Attorney-J. r. HUNTER. Alexander,
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coltax Town cour Gil.

Mayor. p. KEISOE.
Aldermen-J. A. WILLIAMS. Secretary AND
Treasurer: c. n. CARNAHAN, A. NJ. LEsAGE
q. H, MCKNIGHT. J. W. oQUINN.
Msrshal-w. d. IRWIN.
Council meets the art Tuesday night in every
month
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

a few doses Of this remedy will In
disrrh0sa. -
1t can always be depended upou.
even In the more severe sttacks ~
cramp collie and cholera morbus.
1t to equally successful for summer
dtarrhNa and cholera infantum In
children, and Is the means of saving
the lives Of many children each year.
When reduced with water and
sweetened II Is pleasant to take.
Every man Of = family should keen
this remedy tn his home. Buy it now.
PRICE. 700. LARGO SIZE, soc.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-14
Tn. Inquisitivs Woman.

Street car conductors regard inquisi- tive women passengers with supeEti- tiOus dread. The other day a fuse blew out in a Broadway car. and that car was hItched on as q trailer to the one ahead Presently a woman be- gan to ask questions.
 What would happen" she said. If the fuse were 10 blow out in that car ahead? What would become of us? Would the car ahead of that be able to drag both of these carsT'
 T don't know said the conductor. But don't worry. We won't have a chance 10 find out A double accident of that kind has never happened to c ear of mine yet. and fl isn't likely 10 happen once in a hundred years"
 Just then there came an explosion ahead. and both cars came 10 c stand still The fuse had blown out
 '1ConfO1nd that woman-" grcwied the cO1ductor. That Is all her fault. This woukln't have happened if she hadn't asked 90 many fool questions She's A JOnzh---New York TImea
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-14
PATE DE F0IE GRAS.
Fearful Cruelty That Makes This
 Dainty a Possibility.

To the ordinary man and woman no conception of the torture to which the poor. unfortunate goose is put could possibly be formed.
 The geese when about nine months old are taken from the pastures and placed in an underground cellar. where broad. slanting stone slabs stand in rows, and are bound fast to the ta- bles. They are literally crucihed.
 Feet. wings and bodies are spread out and bound by bands, so that only the neck is left free. As may be imag- ined, the animal struggles with all its might against this stretching till, after days of vain endeavor to free itself from the bands and its position, its powers of resistance are overcome. and a dull resignation. broken only by it's low cries, takes possession of it. Two months must pass away before death brings relief.
 The animals are meanwhile crammed with dumplings made of dough of buekwheat, chestnuts and stewed maize. Every two hours, six times a day. they receive from three to five dumpling pills. which in time become so sweet to the tortured creatures that they stretch their necks to be cram. med.
 The mott difficult task is to deter mine the right moment for death. Those who die of their own accord are lost to the liver factory; therefore a kind of study is needed to see when the cup of agony is brlmming full and the liver is ripe for taking. The bod les of such ripe ones are like pump kins. Where ordinarily fingers are buriets in flesh and fat nothing but skin and bone are found. The flyers have absorbed all the strength and fuicez
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-14
The nev,s Tran.

'The child Is father to the man. said an inventor. For instance. there was a mIller's son who invented. at the age of seventeen. an automatic mouse trap, a trap that used the recoil from one mouse's capture to set itself for another mouse. This trap worked well. caught eleven mice at the first go o1 and soon rid the miIler's miIl of it's mice myriads. Well. sir. the boy In- ventor of that mouse trap used the traps recoI principle for his greatest invention. the Maxim gun. for fl b Sir Hiram Maxim I'm talking about. and if you % to the Maine village of Sangervills they'll show you there one of the automatic rapid Bring mouse traps that pressged the famous Maxim r1a.-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-14
GREEN THE BEST COLOR.
Saves the Eyes and the Temper, Say
 Lcndon Doctor.

If the whole of London were paint cd green it would have a wonderful effeCt upon the health and spirits of us LondOners," said one of London's leading specialists. "Eyesight and health are most closely connected. and among town dwellers eyeslght Is steadily deteriorating. Green is one of natures cures for worry and ia tigue. Watch a man who is worried or tired out and see how often be will wander 10 a window from which he can gaze on a tree in leaf. Instinc- lively his eyes seek the restful green of the foliage. A great deal of the good obtained from a visit to the country is from the incesssnt environ ment of the green fields and green leaves.
 "A green room. too. is a splendid thing. I know of a case of a popular actress who could never understand why 1t was that In a certain room in her house she could always rest sO much better than in any other one She mentioned the fact to me one day. and I pointed out to her that the pa- per and furniture were entirely green.--LOndon Mirror.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-14
SACKING THE TUILERIES.
An Incident of the Revolution of 1s4s
 In France


 The sight that presented itself was the strangest I have ever seen and has remained in my memory almost as vividly as If 1t were yesterday. The magnificent apartments of the palace were soon filled with as strange a set of ruffians as you could meet any where. It seemed as if they were all mad or drunk, and yet they were as jolly as sand boys. They seemed posi- lively to revel in destruction and to yell with delight as they smashed and tore everything to pieces that they came across. There was scarcely a picture that was not cut into gibbons, and ornaments. however costly. were thrown down and broken to aroms.
 While was standing in one of the grand apartments. looking on in won der, q little man. with a sword almost as big as himself, stood in front of a magnificent mirror that reached from the floor to the ceiling. He surveyed it for a moment, and then, as though he were about to storm town single handed, went deliberately up to it and with one blow of his great cavalry blade shivered 1t to pieces. As they fell at his feet he put on a grand air and said "La!' as if this was one 0l the greatest deeds he had ever accom-. plished and the proudest moment of his Sketches From Memory" G. A. Storey.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-14
Marian Lis. pyiro.

A sadder interest attaches to such existence-that It is, cosmically speak ing. soon to pass away. To our eventual descendants life on Mars will DO longer be something to scan and interpret It will have lapsed beyond the hope of study or recall Thus to us 1t takes on an added glamour from the fact that 1t bas not long to last for the process that brought it to It's present pass must 60 on to the bitter end untEl the last spark of Martian life goes out The drying up of the planet is certain to proceed until its surface can support no life at all Slowly. but surely. time will snu1 1t out When the last ember Is thus ex- tinguished the planet will ron . dead world through space. its evolutionary career forever snded.-Professor Low ell in Century.