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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26

seph D. Bowles.)
the Alps, the Caucasus and the noun
tains of central and southern Asia in
clude by far the highest mountains
of the world, the proposition an
nounced at the beginning of this ar
ticle is sufficiently proved. At the
same time the age of these loftiest
mountains is strikingly in contrast
with that of various older mountain
chains. What we call the Highlands
of Canada, surrounding Hudson bay.
are composed of the oldest rocks OF
the world, but they nowhere rise to
a height of more than 1000 or 5000
feet. The Allegheny mountains like
wise, though younger than the High
lands of Canada, are much older than
the Rocky mountains, but they are
not half as high. In Europe the
Scandinavian and Ural mountains are
very old, and likewise comparatively
low, nowhere rising more than one
third the height of the Alps. or one
fifth of the height of the mountains
in central Asia.
Now the generally accepted theory
concerning the earth's history Is that
1t was originally molten globe,
| which was slowly cooled down, allow
| ing crust to form over the surface.
which. has gradually thickened in pro-
portion as the earth has cooled. This
crust is therefore much thicker in
the later geological periods than 1t
was in the earlier. AS a consequence
the biologists point out that the In
evitable tendency would be for the
later wrinkles to be ampler than the
/, earlier ones; for in the earlier geo.
logical ages, when the crust was COM
paratively thin, it could not sustain
itself in so high an elevation as
would be possible when it had thick.
ened up in later ages.
The extent to which strata of later
times have been folded up and piled
upon each other Is almost Incredible
Prof. Claypole measured the strata in
the Allegheny mountains across Hunt
ingdon, Juniata and Perry counties
In Pennsylvania, and found that
where they were originally spread out
on the ocean bottom to distance
of 100 miles they had been wrinkied
and folded and crushed together. un
| til they were compressed within 81
miles. Prof. Helm of Zurich estimates
that the folding up of the Alps result
ed in the compression Of about a
miles; that is. If the Alps were nat
tened out again. as you would datter
out the wrinkles in cloth. two points
on the opposite sides of the alp'
would be "A miles farther away from
each other than they are now. II
many cases in the Alps. and indee'
in the Appalachian mountains. the 81
perficial sedimentary strata have besl
folded over, so that what is now "a
top was formerly the bottom.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26

The comparatively recent age OF
clusively shown by the simple fact
that they have resisted the vigorous
denuding agencies which are every
where at work to tear them down;
that is, the fact that they exist at all
shows that they are young. For the
moment a wrinkle of land rises out
of the water the winds and rains and
frost begin to act upon it, tearing 1t
to pieces and carrying 1t back into
the sea. The higher it rises the more
active become all these agencies. The
TANKS of the slowly rising mass are
soon plowed into gorges and ravines
by the torrents of water which flow
rapidly down them, while the rocks
above are cracked by the alternate
action of the heat of the suns rays
and the cold of the rarefied atmos-
phere at great heights, so that vast
talus of rocky debris collects about
all the precipices, while glaciers IN
slow but majestic movements pick
I'D the debris and carry 1t down to
lower levels at the same time grind
ing a considerable portion of 1t into
powder, so that it can be esaily car.
ried on by the floods resulting from
the melting Of the ice.
Calculations as to the rapidity with
which these denuding agencies are al
work in all high mountains would
show some startling results. At the
| rate at which these agencies are al
work in the Alps they will lose from
10. 900 to 10000 feet Of their height In
the course of 100000 years. and
| therefore be reduced to somewhat
such proportions as we have IN the
Allegheny mountains or in the noun
tains in New England. But the great
er masses of mountains OF centra
Asia and In western Americ'
would resist these agencies TO
much longer period. and will re
main in lofty heights long after sucl
narrow ranges as the Alps and tn
Caucasus have dwindled into insis
nificance. The principal evidence up
on which Prof. Russell relies to prov
the very recent elevation of Noun
Saint Elias is that its tanks show s.
little sign of erosion. The stream
of water and ice coming down fron
it have scarcely begun to eat Int
its sides, as they have done upon mos
other mountains of that height.
The picturesque features Of mour
tain scenery are mostly due to tn
. erosion of mountain torrents. and ar
consequently feature Of their you'll
In the old age, mountains becom
subdued in appearance and general
lose much of their ruggedness. col
sisting merely of bosses of harde
rock moderate in height which hay
resisted erosion more successful
than other portions. and which ar
now perhaps more than half burie
In the debris that accumulated abot
their bases. The Piedmont region {
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26
The Worlds Various creeds.

According to French writer, Chris
tianity has about 477.000.0o0 followers.
with the Oriental creeds ranking next
In the following order: Confucianism
and ancestor worship. 256,090. 900;
Hinduism, 190.0O0,O00: Mohammedan-
ism. 177,O00.000. and Buddhism. 147s
000, 900. The Christian total includes
231 900 900 Roman Catholics. 143.000S
600 Protestants. and 100000 Ortho-
dox Greeks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26

Q heavy sediment. Doctors were not
helping me SO / began taking Doan's
Kidney Pills. I improved soon, and
after a while was entirely free from
my suffering. / am in the best of health
now and am In debt to Doan's Kidney
Pills for saving my life"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26
OVER THE FENCE
NsIohbor Says Something.

The front yard fence is famous
council place on pleasant days. Maybe
to chat with some one along the street,
or for friendly gossip with next door
neighbor. Sometimes 1t Is only small
talk but other times neighbor has
something really good to offer.
An old resident of Baird. Texas, got
some mighty good advice this way
once.
He says:
Drinking coffee lefs me nearly dead
with dyspepsia, kidney disease and
bowel trouble, with constant pains In
my stomach, back and side, and 50
weak could scarcely walk.
"One day was chatting with one Of
my neighbors about my trouble and
told her / believed coffee hurt me.
Neighbor said she knew lots Of people
to whom coffee was poison and she
pleaded with me to quit 1t and give
Postum a trial. did not take her
advice right away but tried change
Of climate, which did not do me any
good. Then / dropped coffee and took
up Postum.
my Improvement began Immediate
ly and / got better every day used
Postum.
my bowels became regular In two
| weeks, all my pains were gone. Now ]
am well and strong and can eat any.
| thing / want to without distress. All
| Of this IL due to my having quit cot.
fee. and to the use Of Postum regu'
larry.
MY SON who was troubled with indi'
gestion thought that II Postum helped
me 50, 1t might help him. 1t did, too
and he IL now well and strong again.
I'VE like Postum ~ well as we ever
liked the coffee and uss IL altogether
in my family In place Of coffee and al
keep well" There's q Reason" Read
The Road to MELVILLE" In Pigs.
Ever read the abeve letters A NV
one appears fronn tine to fannes 1he1
are gens1nes truss and fall Of hunal
SAfeTests
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26
uNklNo FAKE.
Logical Rsasoninp.

A certain young mans friends
thought he was dead, but he was only
IN state Of coma. When, In ample
time to avoid being buried. he showed
signs Of life. he was asked how it
seemed to be dead.
"Dead?" he exclaimed. II wasn't
dead. knew all that was going on.
And I knew wasn't dead, too. b.
cause my feet were cold and I was
hungry"
But how did that fact make you
think you were still alive?" asked one
Of the curious.
well. this way: / knew that II ]
were in heaven wouldn't be hun
cry And II was In the other place
my feet wouldn't be cold"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26

what" said the judicious friens,
looking around the forlorn little farm
lever prompted city man like you
to try farming?'
Because" answered the city man.
dolefully, Il wanted to get next to
natures heart"
"You have" commented the ~
dicious friend, "and it il very plate
case with you Of heart failure"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26

years i was Grip
pied with sciatic
rheumatism in my
thighs and could
not get about with
out crutches. The
kidney secretions
became irregular.
painful. and showed
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26

Physical defects can be turned into
incentives to success inste-d Of draw
backs. what we look upon a. handi-
caps in the end may prove spurs to en-
able MS to reach the goal of desire. Il
we know but how to use them. We
make our own Happiness. we carve our
own success.-Exchs1ge.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26
MIGHTY MOUNTAINS TORN DOWN

BY GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. N, c. o.
Glacial PERIOD
oCopyrgh by B
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CRIPPLED WITH scIATIcA
Caused by pisordered Action Of the
Kidneys.

Samuel D. Ingraham. 2402 e. Main
ST., Lewiston, Idaho, says: For two
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26
Home-Made Names.

THAT little girl" remarked the
druggist to the doctor. was just in
for ten cents worth Of tincture of BEN
zine. But rse had 1t before and gave
her benzoin-"
THAT was easy" answered the doc
tor This morning on diphtheria
case the woman wanted 10 know II I
administered antitoxin with an epi-
demic syringe"
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Mutual Surprise.

A mission worker in New Orleans
was visiting reformatory near that
city not long ago when she observed
among the inmates an old acquaint-
ance, a negro lad long thought to be
. model of integrity. "Jim!" ex-
claimed the mission worker. rs Il
possible l ind you here?" "Yassum."
blithely responded the backslider. 'Ps
charged with stealth barrel o. sweet
pertaters." The visitor sighed You.
Jiml" she repeated. II am Surprised"
"Yassum." said Jim. $50 was I or !
wouldn't be here!"
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By GEORGE FREDERICK WRIcHT A. M, l. o.
North Man and the Glacial PERIOD e)
D. wi
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-26

saloon Is q provision for the flesh, :"
melting to all abominable passions
quarreling. profanity. brutality, muir
ders, indecent speech. plots. Hcentious-
ness.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana, writing IN
The Christian Endeavor World Of De-
cember 26. 1907. says: THAT alcohol
! ism shortens life, and that abstainers
have a distinctly greater longevity
than non-abstainers IL convincingly
demonstrated by actuarial experience.
| The testimony of certain English life
insurance companies, based upon
many years of experience, establishes
| the fact that the longevity Of abstain
ers is at least rs per cent. greater
than that of non-abstainers..
six per cent Of all accidents. 81
per cent. Of all suicides. 20 per cent
| of all crimes involving physical VIC
lence, and so per cent of all those IN
which lust Is the dominant factor car
be traced to the excessive use Of In
toxicants The lord chief justice o
England recently declared that 4
sifted, nine-tenths Of the crime of Eng
land and Wales could be traced q
drink
Alcohol b essentially poison t
the brain and nerves. It's continue,
use means individual ineficiency
drfnk-cursed progeny. national dstsri
Grafton. and racial decadence."
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01
A MORAL.

A duck stuck faithfully to business
during the summer and laid several
dozens of large fawn-colored eggs.
complained that she wasn't appreci-
ated. See that hen over there, .
said the duck; she hasn't laid as
many eggs as have, nor as big, but
she has books written about her and
verses composed in her honor, while
nobody is saying word about me. y
The trouble with you Isl said
the wise old rooster that was, stand
ing near, that you don't tell the
public what you have done, You
lay an egg and waddIe Of, without
saying a word, but that sister of
mine mine never lays one without letting
everyone in the neighborhood know
sSOuti it. If you want to cut any
ice in this community You must learn
TO advertise"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01
WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUMPKIN.
JAMES wHITcoMB RILEY.

When the frost is on the pumpkin
and the folders in the shock,
And you hear the squak and gobble
of the struttin' turkey cock.
And the clackin of the guineas and
the cluckin' of the hens.
And the ROSTERS hallylooyer as he
tiptoes on the fence;
Oh, its then the time teller is a
feelin' at his best,
With the risin' sun to greet him from
night of peaceful rest;
As he leaves the house bareheaded
and goes out to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the pumpkin
and the folders in the shock.
There's something kind o heartylike
about the atmosphere
When the heat of summers over and
the colin fall is here.
OF course, we miss the flowers and
the blossoms on the trees,
And the humble of the hummin'
birds and buzzin' of the bees;
But the airs so appetizin' and the
landscape through the haze
OF a crisp and sunny morning of the
early autumn days
Is a pictur' that no painter has the
colorin' to mock
When the frost is on the pumpkin and
the folders in the shock.
The husky, rusty rustic of the tossels
on the corn,
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves,
as golden as the morn,
The stubbble in the burrows kind O.
lonesome-like, but still
A-preachin sermons to US of the
barns they growed to fill;
The straw-stack in the medder, and
the reaper in the she'd;
The HOSES in their stalls below, the
clover overhead;
Oh it sets my heart a-clickin' like
the ticlin' of clock
When, the frost is on the pumpkin
and the folders in the shock.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01
SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS MADE BY
JOHN SHERMANS DAUGHTER.

Washington, Nov. 26.-In a suit
for absolute divorce and the custody
of her two children, instituted by
Mrs. Mary Sherman McCalum, the
adopted daughter and heiress of the
late John Sherman, of Ohio, Secre-
tary of State, Secretary ofthe Treas
ury and Senator, she names Susie
Mcdonald Hopkins as the co-respon-
dent. Mr.. and Mrs. McCallum were
married here on December le, 1894,
at the Epiphany church, by the Rev.
Randolph McKim, and their marriage
was a social event. At that time
Mr.. McCallum was a stenographer
employed in the Supreme Court of
the United States, but was, later ap-
pointed consul at St. Gall, Switzer-
land
In her bill Mrs. McCallam directly.
charges her husband with in6delity
in July last, while he was living at a
hotel here, and names, Mrs. Hopkins
as the eosgsspondent. Mrs: Mccall
um asks, for the custody. Of her two
children, John Sherman. Mccallum,
who was named after Senator Sher-
man and born in December, 1895,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01

the National Magazine in connection
with an article written by Senator
n. B. Scott are the most eloquent
words that can be applied to this
great state:
Area (miles) a4.77::5.
Longest line east to west, s74.
Longest line north to south, a54.
Population, 1850, 900.
Navigable rivers, (miles) 600.
Ohio, 800.
Monongahela, Little Kanawha,
Great Kanawha and Big Sandy
Locks and Dams, 500
Railroad mileage, 1000.
Three trunk lines from east to west.
Two additional roads to Atlantic sea-
board. Two additional lines to lakes.
Four routes from south to north.
Coal produced last year (ton) So
600 600.
Transportation charges, 500, ooo,-
900.
Wages paid miners, $50, ooo, 900.
Number workers, 10000.
Dependent on workers, 100000.
Oh produced last year (barrels)
$1,000, 900.
Value, see, 200, 900.
Workers, 5000.
Wells, $4,000.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01
WHY TRUTH GOES NAKED.

Secretary Meyer, at a Newport
luncheon answered an interesting
question.
Why" a navel cadet asked, do
we always speak of the naked
TRUTH"
Secretary Meyer smiled and ans
wered:
There is an ancient fable, and
one very appropriate to this hot
weather, which tells US that on a
summer afternoon Truth and False
hood set out to battle together.
They found crystal spring, they
bathed in the cool, fresh water, and
Falsehood emerging first clothed her
self in the garments of Truth and
went her way. But truth, unwilling
to put on the garb of falsehood, de-
parted naked. And to this day
FalsehoOd wears Truths fair white
robes, so that many persons mistake
her for Truths very self; but poor
Truth still goes naked. Detroit
Free Press.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01
DECLINE OF RELIGION AMONG WOMEN.

A quarter of century ago the ay-
erage woman was a Christian, but
now it is only the exceptional woman
that is religious, They once showed
such preponderance of numbers in the
churches that preachers would some
times predict that there would not be
enough men in heaven to sing bass.
The great reviyalists and religious
workers of modern times tell US that
the proportion of women converted
in their meetings is one in about
seven. The women seem to have
forgotten what Jesus Christ done for
them-at least the great majority of
them have. 1t seems to matter not
to them that the gospel has brought
them from bondage to liberty, from
oppression and drudgery to the posi-
tion of princesses and queens. No
intelligent woman ought to ignore
Jesus Christ. 1t is only in Christian
lands that woman has her rightful
place in society. We sometimes hear
the mouthings of so-called Free
Thinkers about Christianity hold
ing women in bondage, and binding
them to superstition, but close stu
dents of history everywhere know
that liberty has come to woman
through Jesus Christ and His Gospel
The hope today is womanhood that
is true to Jesus Christ and His
church. If the mothers and girls
turn their backs en- Jesus Christ, the
men and boys will go to the bad, and
drag the women to shame and to
degradation worse than death. So
many women of our time seem to de-
sire lives of ease and freedom from
responsibility. They sell their high
influence for positions of worldly
pleasure and sacrifice their higher and
more spiritual natures for the fantas-
les of fashion. 1t is pitiable and
painful to see women forgetting
church and Sunday school on the
Lords day and chasing about over
the country in automobiles on the
day that they should be leading their
husbands, sons and brothers to the
house of God. Their careless con-
duct toward the Christian religion
WIN lay a whitening blight on their
womanly character and influence, and
wound the heart of the Lord Jesus
Christ.-centralMethodistA Advocate. |
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and Cecilia Sherman McCallum, who
was born in September, 1898. Mrs.
McCaIlum and her two children re-
side in Washington and occupy the
old Sherman residence at 1919 K
Street. Mr.. McCallum has not re-
sided there for several months.
A rather pretty little story con-
corning the adoption by Senator and
Mrs. Sherman of Mrs. McCallum has
been current in Washington for many
years. As the story goes the Sena-
tor and Mrs. Sherman were strolling
through an orphange one day and
they were especially attracted by a
strikingly beautiful girl child. They
had no children of their own and
made known their desire to adopt
her. They were informed that the
baby had twin sister and whoever
adopted one would have to take the
other. The Shermans took both. and
the twin first chosen died soon after
ward. The other, the present Mrs.
Mccallum, was reared by the sher-
mans. When Senator Sherman died
he made her practically his Sole heir.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01
THE WOMEN AT THE MINE.
THE BENrzTowN BARD ~ BALTIMORE SUN

CHANGING Ger the paper, we read and
sigh and lett fall
Just story of the day, death and
sorrow, that Is all;
But we can't forget it, now, can WEI
and before US rise
Pictures everywhere we turn of those
women, sound of cries,
As beside the mine they wait.
Death and gloom and awful fate;
At the burning mine whose door
Breothes again with dreadful roar,
Waiting, waiting, still they wait, for
the loved that come no more!
CHANGING Ger the page that CLEANS
with the horrid tale of woe,
Duty calls and we forget and we let
the story go;
But we cannot, if we would, hide the
haunting sight that thrills,
Of those women at the mine where
the thunder shakes the hills:
Children wandering to and fro,
Wringing little hands with woe;
At the mouth of shaft and tomb,
Little lips so sweet with bloom,
Crying, crying, through the night, for
the loved that lie in gloom!
Every day the papers tell of so many
griefs and crimes,
Passing pageants of the hour, hope
less symptoms of the times;
But those figures wild and wan, how
they haunt your heart and mine,
Wives of those who come no more,
women at the burning mine:
Sisters, mothers, and the sweet
Of the hearts of youth that beat,
Wailing on those hills they stand,
Aching heart and trembling hand,
Praying, longing, day and night, for
the loved, lost. noble bandt
In the homes we go to, men, when
the twilight sings of rest,
Cheerful childhood waits again and
the home-love lights the nest;
But we look away, l know, where
the homes of Cherry loom,
Death beside their gates of rose, and
We feel and share their gloom:
Young and old, ali, mournful line,
Women at the burning mine;
At the burning mine whose door
Breathes again with dreadful roar,
Waiting, waiting, still they wait, for
the loved that come no more!
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01
Natural Gas-value last wear, IS

Natural Gas-value last year, S.
900, 900.
Manufactures:
Capital invested, sS7, oo7, 900.
Value product, 500, 100000.
Number workmen, $4,000.
Glass factories, SO.
Iron and steel and rolling mills, le..
Leather tanneries, etc.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01

No girl should allow young man
to call on her oftener than three
times a week, even though she IS
engaged to him. Men get tired of
the same kind of pie if they have it
too often. A mans heart is cut out
on the same plan as his stomach,
only smaller.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01

When girl is old enough to wear
a big hat, and great big lot of false
hair, she:is too old to wear short
dresses. .ay doc.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01

When minister makes a mistake
people forget all about the mantle of
charity. 81 70 s4ods 80 49,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01

What's in a name? The best
pies are made of squash
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-01
WHAT WEST vi VIRGINIA BD0RiGl;..'

The following figures published by
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-20
PACHECO'S DANDRUFF KILLER

This preparation not only cools but
also cures prickly heat and stops that
awful itching
Sold by all druggists ana at Pache-
co.'s Barber Shop. Phone 232.