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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18
CoLFAx, PARISH La SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 49, 1909
Montgomery Dots.
September IA, 1909

1
The Montgomery school, with
Prof. Shaffer as principal, and
Miss Ethel Washburn, of Ruston,
as assistant, opened Monday with
an enrolment of over sixty pupils.
Miss Shepherd, of Yellow Pine,
came down Saturday, through a
mistake, thinking she had been
given the Montgomery school as
as j slant, after fiuding out her mis-
take left Monday morning for
Selma, the right place.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Harrison
and two little sons, w. o. and NAL
com, left Monday night, via New
Orleans, for a months visit to rel
atives in Tennessee. Miss Bertha
Harrison accompanied her father
as far as New Orleans, and from
there she goes to the Meridian
Woman's College.
Mr.. Geo. Martin, of Alexandria,
spent Sunday in Montgomery.
Miss Myrtle Ethridge left Sum-
day night for Alexandria for a few
weeks visit to relatives.
Mr.. G. L. Roberts went to Alex
andria Monday night.
Mrs. I. A. Dyson and two child
rem we're pleasant visitors Monday
evening to friends in Montgomery.
Mrs. Lizzie Johnston, of Colfax,
who has been visiting her mother
left for her home Saturday night.
The protracted meeting which
began last Wednesday night is
still in progress. Our presiding
elder, Rev. Paul NJ. Brown was
with US from Friday untilSunday |
night. Bro. Staples, of Coushatta.
came down Monday night and has
charge of the meeting.
MI. Pollard Harrison left Tues
day night for Baton Rouge, where
he goes to attend the l.. S. u.
BROWN EYES.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18
Colored Societies Want a Lodge.
Colfax, La, Sept. 9, 1909.

To Whom it May Concern:
This is to certify that thefollowing
societies met on the above named
date, viz: The Masons. Seven Stars,
Royal Knights, and The Tabernacle,
to effect ways and means to buy a
lot in the town of Colfax and build a
Hall on same.
The following officers we're elected:
Rev. j. II. Ellis, president; Rev. l.. T.
Tison, secretary; Bro. j. M. Tignor,
treasurer.
The following committee was APP
pointed on arrangements: Bros. Pat
terson Pinkney, Joe Hazel, Alex. Peo-
pie, Cot Kimball, C. w. Williams and
Willie Green.
The meeting adjourned to meet on
the fourth Tuesday night in Septem
Der at Mt. Pilgrim Baptist church.
j. H. ELLIS, President.
l.. L. TIsoN, Secretary.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18
VOL. xxxIII
Rochelle Review.
tBy Ike FEwcLorHEs.l

~ uas oeen long time since
wrote to the dear "Old Reliable, -
but | hope you will not be Offend
ed at a little thing like that. News
papers over thirty years old and
editors nearly twice that age don't
get mad. They know better. Be-
sides, what's the use?
Rochelle is Ir ,gressing nicely
and is by far the largest and finest
mill town in the parish of Grant,
and one of the finest to be found.
The mill has a capacity of u.s. 900
feet of lumber daily.
Fine hotel, fine school building.
and beautiful residences galore,
are features, and we have the finest
aud most modern store building in
Central Louisiana.
A sad accident happened here
last Saturday night, when lobe
Ford, young white man, was run
down by freight train on the Iron
Mountain railroad, and both of his
legs cut off. He was taken i'm
mediately, on the same train, to
the Alexandria sanitarium, where
he died a few hours later in great
agony. He was clever young
fellow, and was well liked by many
people here, and his death comes
as shock. His home is in North
Louisiana.
The fine new two-story school
building is nearing completion.
Clarence johnson, of Colfax, w. |
H. Henry, of Verda, Sylvester
Richardson, of Lotion, and DR.. G. |
A. Hammond, of Tioga, are doing
carpenter work.
Rochelle is to have a fat and lean
base ball game in the near future.
/ am going to do the pitching for
the fats. You can guess the rest.
Picayune and McClain's Almanac
/ lease copy.
Let the good people of Grant
take run up to Rochelle some
time, and see lumber handled from
the mill to the car by steam and
electricity. 1t is great. If the.
fremont Lumber Co. spends much
more money here, l fear we will
over balance and fall in Little
river. The million mark is already
passed.
Well we are glad to see the re-
cent improvementin the Chronicle,
and the editor and his entire FAM
lily have my best wishes for the
future. The Chronicle is the
original Grant parish paper, and
the one to come through thick and
thin, sharing the peoples troubles
and joys alike for over a quarter
of century and we hope to see
this grand old banner comforted
and cared for. as it continues its
useful course.
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Mr.. Howard Z. Henry, With the Unit
ed States Express Co., Chicago. writes,
Our general superintendent, Mr.. Quick
handed me bottle OF Chamberlain q
Collie, Cholera and Diarrboea remedy
some time ago to check an attack OF
the old chronic diarrhoea. | hove used
it since that time and cured many on
our trains who have been sick. am
an old soldier who served with Ruther-
ford B. Hays and William Mckinley
four years in the Esd Ohio regiment.
and have no ailment except chronic
diarrhoea. which this remedy stops at
once" For sale by Valley drug store.
New goods coming in dailv at I
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18

The demand for that wonderful siom-
ach, liver and kidney cure. DIR. KING s
New Life Pills-is astounding all drug
gists gay they never saw the like. Its
because they never fail to cure sour
stomach, constipation, indigestion. bill
business, janndice. sick headache. chills
and malaria. Only 15c,
The National tribune., 1909-02-11
RELIGIOUS STATISTICS roR ,eos.

Dr. II. K. Carroll has compiled his
religious statistics for the past year.
and presents some unusually important
ideas and deductions. The net increase
for 1908 was 2,S35 ministers, 1874
churches and 724.647 communicates.
While this is much smaller than for
1907, the Roman Catholic increase has
been unusually large. In the past IS
years the total gain of communicates
has been, 13.664.236, or more than &C
per cent. which is a remarkable ratio
same period. In spite of the lament
about young men not being attracted
to the ministry, there is a larger pro-
portion of them now entering the min
istry than ever.
Six new denominations came to the
front during the year. The first of
these was the Evangelical Christian
Science Church, headed by Bishop Oil
yer c. Sabin. 1t is growing rapidly in
membership, and one of its principal
tenets is that God heals the sick, but
gave no superior revelation to Mary
Baker Eddy"
The Pentacostal Church of the Naza-
rene was organized last October by the
union of three organizations in the
East, West and Southwest, and is gen
orally Methodistic. The Congregational
Methodist Churches North was formed
in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The
other churches were the Christian
Church (colored), the Disciples of
Christ Conservation and the General
Conference of the New Jerusalem
Church. A number of the Cumberland
Presbyterians refused to enter the
union with the Northern Presbyterians,
and maintained their organization.
There are suits pending in which these
latter claim possession of their
churches, and it is said that $4,000
members will go with the brick and
That is, If the courts decide
that the merger was legal they will go
into the united church; if not, they will
remain outside.
The Baptists report gain of CAT
ministers, 81 churches and 100,303
The Roman Catholics claim a gain
Of 432 ministers, 275 churches and 340,-
393 communicates. The Christians show
a remarkable decrease of go ministers,
Al churches and 9,265 communicants. |
The German Evangelical Protestants
also show strong decrease.
The Methodists claim to have gained |
l.01O ministers, ST churches and 49,
$50 communicates.
The Congregationalists gained $4,000, |
Lutherans 10000, Protestant Episcopal !
1855, United Brethren SSH and Dis
,iples 10000. The denominations num-
,ering over 100000 are ranked thus:
The National tribune., 1909-02-11
THE FISHERIES DISPUTE.


There Is a prospect that our long.
standing dispute With regard to the
Newfoundland fisheries will be settled.
This question has been an inaamed sore
for more than $50 years. 1t embroiled
England and France, led to expeditions
from New England into Canada which
captured the French fortresses and
cities, and finally was a powerful causa
in promoting the war which cost
France the possession of Canada. Since
our Independence we have repeatedly
been on the verge of war with Great
Britain as TO our rights on the New
foundland banks, and even recently tina
relations between England and France
were severely strained by the treat
ment of the French fishermen by tha
people of Newfoundland on the three
islands that France retained. Fear that
their rights would be sacrificed by the
Canadians for Imperial purposes" has
kept Newfoundland out of the Canadian
confederation. 1t would have been far
cheaper for Great Britain or ourselves
to have bought up all the property in
anu Ile peO-
pie elsewhere. There are only 222.643
people on the island OF Newfoundland
and 1000 more in Labrador, yet these
people have been able to keep up a
constant and bitter agitation. which Pc
riodicaliy has either led to wars or
great danger of war. We have made
several treaties with Great Britain to
settle the disputes. but these have failed
of satisfactory execution on account of
the persistent hostility OF the New
foundlanders to the New England fish
ermen and the rights which had been
acquired for them. Nothing has been
divulged as to the terms of the treaty,
but it is said that it will satisfactorily
settle the question, and as it has come
after arbitration by the Hague, it in
felt that Newfoundland will have to
accept it, and the power OF Great Brit
ain will be exercised with some force
to make Them desist from their dog-in-
the-manger policy.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

A theory is now finding acceptance
that earthquakes are caused by the
seeping of vast quantities of water into
the earth's hot interior, forming gas
and steam, which must find an outlet
and disrupts the crust of the earth in
doing so. Prof. Milne, who stands at
the head of seismologists. says that a
study of 10000 observations in Japan
shows that much the greater number
of earthquakes originate beneath the
ocean and along the seaboard, beeom-
ing feebler as they approach the iri-
terror and the high mountains. Another
idea is that the immense quantities of
silt brought down by the great rivers
of the earth shift the center of gravity
of the world and contribute to these
disturbances. Prof. Percival Lowell.
an eminent astronomer, contends that
the earth is aging and cooling, and that
the earthquakes are caused by the
wrinkling from the shrinking of the
skin.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

The New York Evening Mail has a
touching picture of Mr.. Taft with a
gun on his shoulder and a 'possum
held by the tail in his right hand,
standing in the full light of the day,
showing the landscape for miles around.
We have here the usual ignorance by
artists of natural history. 'Possums
are net killed by guns, but dogs; they
are not hunted in daylight, but at
night, when they come out of burrows
in which no one can find them, to feast
upon the luscious persimmon. If Mr..
Taft went on a 'possum hunt ne would
have to start out at night with his
equipment, pine torch, a number of
hungry dogs and big club, and be-
fore he got his game he would be liable
to be the worst scratched and bruised
man in the State from his scramble in
the dark thru the briars and over logs
and cliffs. AIT se-4
The National tribune., 1909-02-11
RUssIA's GREATEST TROUBLE.

Like Cuba, the main trouble in Rus
sia is over the non-ownership of land
by the common people In Russia there
is practical Socialism. with all the land
in given community owned by the
Mir; that is, the community. The Mir
allots to every man every year or so
as much land as it thinks he needs to
support his family, but he cannot ac-
quire ownership Of it. The result is
that the people have no stake in the
country, and they have no incentive to
improve their land, either by buildings
or by increasing its fertility. There
fore, it is like it was In the South be-
fore the war, where a planter cleared
off land and planted it until the fer
tility was so exhausted that It did not
pay to cultivate it any longer, when it
was allowed to return to its forest con-
dition.
The Russian peasant has no other
interest in the land than to get out of
it each year all that it will produce.
AS soon as he wears it out, or even as
soon as it begins to deteriorate, he ap-
plies for new piece, or else removes
to some other Mir. which has new and
fertile soil under its control.
A bill is now before the Duma to
gradually abolish the Mir. and allow
the people to buy the land in fee-sim-
Pile There is much agitation over this.
and, like all other substantial reforms.
it has it's bitter opponents as we'll as
supporters. 1t will be remembered that
only few years ago Henry George set
the world to thinking and talking by
his pronounced opposition to all pri-
vate ownership in land. At one time it
seemed as if his doctrines were liable
to prevail, but this movement in Rus
Captivating as Mr.. Georges theories
were on the surface. they were funda-
mentally false. While it is true that
no man can create land any more than
he can create air, water or sunshine, |
yet the value OF land is only created by |
mans labor, and labor is the serfrce of |
all wealth. Every acre of farming land |
in the United States has in one way or
apother cost its possessors more than |
the price it now would command in
the market. 1t was absolutely value
less before it was cleared, ditched.
drained, fenced and otherwise i'm
proved, and roads were constructed by
which its products could be brought to
market. Therefore, there is just as
much actual property in it as there is in
a piece of iron which blacksmith has
forged to useful shape or a piece of
furniture which cabinetmaker has by
the work of his hands produced from
the crude timber.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

Until the full opinion of the United
States Supreme Court on the New York
gas case is printed we can only con-
slider the brief summary handed down
by Justice Peckham. Apparently
monopolies like the Gas Company are
allowed what it would cost to dupli-
cate their land, plant, mains, conduits,
ETC., and proper percentage for de-
probation. Thus it would appear that
the public can be made to pay for any
increase in value of the land if 1t has
been improved. The court sustains a
return of six per cent upon all these
valuations. The good will of the mono
poly cannot be capitalized, howeve-.
and the public made to pay interest
upon this, unless the Legislature shall
nave specifically permitted such capi-
talization. This. however. is quite
important feature of the decision, and
it's exact scope will not be known un-
till the full decision is published.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

In our long and varied career as an
editor we have never failed to find
some wild-eyed reformer who was not
certain that the particular evil which
he had set out to regulate was the real
cause of the fall of the Roman En-
pire. In this way we have had the
overturning of that venerable Govern
ment attributed to easy divorce, slavery,
single gold standard. private ownership
of land, too much wine, hot baths. COM
mercial dishonesty, the colonial sys-
tenn, and so on to the end of the cata-
log of human ills. After all these vari-
Gus causes which toppled over the Gov
ernment of the Cesars still another has
been fished up. DR.. ]. George Ademi,
of McGill University, has found out
that it was the musketos which de-
stroyed Rome. The pests bred in the
swamps around the great city infected
those old toga wearers with malaria to
such an extent that they either had to
move away or die. He also claims that
this is what brought the downfall of
Greece and made the French fail on
the Isthmus. This makes interesting
reading, and if it will in any way stir
up people to drain stagnant ponds and
cover their rain barrels it is worth while.
and we may say for the purposes of
argument and for the purpose of scar
ing people into cleaning up, that it was
really the musaseto which undermined
and brought dSwn with crash all the
glory that was Greece and the grandeur
that was Rome.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

The Canadian Department of Agri-
culture announces a new process which
it claims will be of the greatest i'm
portance. 1t is machine by which
milk, after being pasteurized, may be
kept perfectly pure and sweet for six
or eight months in sealed Jars. The
principle of the machine is that il
brings about homogeneity of all the
elements composing the milk. 1t is
claimed that by this process milk OBJ
tanned in Summer, when the grasses
are sweet and fresh, can be kept in
storage for months, and will be par
ticularly acceptable to steamships, ho-
tells, etc. The machine will cost 81 900.
but will be accessible to clubs of farm
ers and pay for itself in little while.
We greatly doubt the feasibility of this
process. Milk owes a large part of it's
value to the fact that it Is easily de-
composable. That is what makes it
digestible. If anything is done to pre-
vent its decomposing it will also pre-
vent its decomposition In the human
stomach. which is the objection to all |
manner Of preservatiyes. j
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

Seven years ago Thomas A. Edison
promised a wonderful storage battery
which was to almost revolutionize the
present heavy, cumbrous, very unsatis-
factory form of the battery. Since then
there have been various reports that
he intended to substitute for the lead
of the present battery nickel or cobalt.
He now announces that his battery is
at last ready, and that 1t will be. tried
next Spring. He does not give many
details, but says that the metal will be
nickel instead of lead, and the reaction
will be alkaline instead of acid, as at
present 1t will not only have much
less weight than the present battery,
but last great deal longer, SO that it
win be as cheap to get electricity from
a storage battery as from a central
station. If this prove approximately
true it will be great invention; but,
like Burbank. things coming from Edi-
son should be received with circum-
spection Not that either Burbank or
Edison wilfully misrepresents, but they
are hotly pursued by reporters, who en-
large greatly upon whatever they can
extract from them. Scientists have no
hope that storage battery can be
evolved which will approximate the CEN
trail station In the cheapness and gen.
eral availability Of the power produced.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

An interesting theory has been
broached to explain the comparative
immunity of the Jews from tuberculosis.
1t is claimed that the Jews, altho living
in insanitary quarters and much herded
together. are far less liable to con-
sumption than other people, and this
has been attributed to the careful in
spection of their food by those who
adhere to the orthodox faith. This
theory is combatted with the assertion
that the Jews have less consumption,
because they have been for centuries
living in this condition, and those who
are predisposed to consumption have
been weeded out. On the other hand,
there is in our country continual drift
from the country to the cities, and
those who go TO live in close and dingy
quarters have been previously having
the benefit of an abundance of free,
fresh air. Consequently as soon as
these country people get into tenements
consumption does its fatal work in
wedding out those who are predisposed
to lung trouble. Those who survive are
the ones who have no tendency in that
direction, and this is the case with the
Jews.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

The British War Office is testing
modification of the hand-grenade TO be
used with rifle. The hand-grenade has
many advantages in close fighting
around besieged places The new type
of grenades is intended to be fred by
rifle pointed at an angle and to strike
inside of some covered position. 1t is
five and one-third inches long by one
and three-eighths inches in diameter,
and consists of stout brass tube with
a tail piece nine inches long, that slides
into the barrel of the rifle. The weight
is about % ounces, and it carries
charge of dynamite that is exploded
upon striking the ground. 1t can be
fired from an ordinary rifle without in
jury to the gun, and at the experiments
it was shown that the grenade would
have a terrible effect in tearing up the
ground and destroying everything near
which it struck.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

The extraordinary strength given the
Roman Catholics should be accepted
with qualifications. The Roman Catho-
lies count everybody who has any affi-
liation with the Church, whereas Prot
estant denominations count only those
who are actual members in good stand
ing. If, as has been often proposed,
the Methodists. for example, were to
count every one whom a Methodist
minister would be called upon to marry,
bury or christen. the totality of Metho-
dists would be over 80, 900, 900, and the
figures for the other denominations
would all have to be multiplied in the
same way by five.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

The strongest proof of the need OF
an unusual force of Special Service
men comes from Secretary Garfield,
who says that the Department of the
Interior has discovered that approxi-
mately $11o.00O,OO0 worth of lands,
mainly west of the Mississippi, have
been fraudulently acquired by corpora
tions and individuals. He asks for no
less sum than $1,000, ,OO6>to put an
adequate force in the field 10 bring to
justice these depredators upon the pubs
lie timber, to protect public lands, ex-
anime swamp lands, etc. He has tha
appalling number of $4,000 distinct
cases awaiting investigation. There are
bliss of these in Wyoming alone, with
from 1000 to 1000 cases in other
States west of the Mississippi.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

The sharp pettifogging between tho
acute and INSCRIPTIONS lawyers of both
Gov. Haskell and Wm. r. Hearst goes
on. Gov. Haskell has asked for an
inventory Of all the papers seized IN
the room Of Scott McReynoIds, attorney
for Hearst. This was a sharp move to
obtain possession Of the secrets which
McReynoids had in his posse ssion for
use in the suit against Haskell. Ths
Judge, in denying the motion, charac-
terized II as a discreditable legal trick.
Judge Charles r. Ames. of okiahoma
Citv. who has been brought into the
v Hearst, is Democrat whom
read out Of the party for criti-
methods in the school-books
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

The investigations by the Federal
Grand Jury into the Muskogee land
frauds are going ahead resolutely, and
great results are expected. Those who
are affected by the Investigations are
trying to discredit them by saying that
nothing of importance has been dis
covered. but the Governments attorneys
deny this emphatically. They say that
the Government has not gone into this
matter lightly, but has been gathering
evidence for months, and is sure Of the
ground on which It stands. ,.
The National tribune., 1909-02-11

. The Argentine Republic is making u
most gratifying growth. with an in
crease In population during the last five
years Of 3 per cent and an increase of
cultivated area Of 143 per cent There
is plenty of room in the Republic for
this increase, as it has an area of 1885,
$40 square miles, or about the size OF
the United States east of the Mississip-
pi, with population of only 5000. 900.
Not 10 per cent OF her arabic land is
under cultivation. The country is par
ticulariy attractive to south Europeans,
and in later years has received immense
numbers Of Spanish, Italian and Portu-
guese immigrants.