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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-06
No President Happy Without Reynolds

common garden variety of reporter, a
statehouse reporter, Washington cor
respondent, an editorial writer and
an Alpha Delta Phi. He has joined
several clubs, and ever since 1905 has
been on Uncle Sans pay roll in the
treasury department He is quail
fed expert on customs matters. and
his fitness to serve on the tariff board
put him there in spite of his desire to
continue in his present place.
The other Jimmie Reynolds is other
wise known as James Bronson Reyn-
olds, sometimes called James Bewil-
dered Reynolds by the hated opposi-
ton. Mr.. Reynolds is reformer and
he is now in New York engaged once
more in the seventh lap of the Mara
thon of reform in that place. He be-
gan life in 1861, later on he was q
lawyer, and he has ever since been In
the public eye. He was as necessary
to President Roosevelt as the big
stick. He followed Upton Sinclair
through the jungles of Chicago's pack
ing town, and helped the country
homes commission get the dope on the
evils of city life. He formulated 9
nice plan for a new municipal govern
ment in Washington. but up to date i
has not been tried out.
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TN furtherance of the desire OF the
j national conference on city planning
to formulate some scheme through
which effectual progress may be made
to improve and beautify Washington,
Benjamin c. Marsh has prepared re-
port Of Investigations he has been con-
Quoting since last May, and now has
1t ready for presentation to the senate
committee on the District Of Columbia.
Mr.. Marsh's recommendations, while
they go in detail into the subject OF
ownership of land in the district, and
treat Of such technical subjects as
uniform width of streets and sugges-
ton for taxation, contain no more in
teresting subdivision than that relat-
ing to the average wage Garner by
federal and municipal employees in
minor capacities.
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H DoM&s 49,
E.r} caP ,5!Ii Z
Cannon to Retire Is Latest Gossip

Friends of the speaker say 1t would
not surprise them If he retired from
public life at the close of his present
term. They call attention to the fact
that he is serving his eighteenth
term, at the close of which he will
have served in the house SO years,
more than a generation. And on the
fourth of March, 1911, he will have
completed four terms as speaker.
When the time arrives for the next
congressional campaign Cannon Will
be "a years old This is rather well
advanced in years for man to go up
against fight such as is known viii
be made against the Sage of Danville.
Cannon's friends say he dearly loves
a fight, and it is the knowledge OF the
fight that may induce him to run
again.
However, It is whispered that he is
,, not so strong physically as he was
several years ago, and he might take
his health into consideration. He
realizes that he has had about all
there is for him in the way OF political
preferment that his state or distric'
can bestow, and he knows that he vii
never be considered as candidate
for the presidency, as he is now II
the aged class.
There are not. few well-informet
public men who for this reason be
lieve that Speaker Cannon is serving
his last term and that he will maxi
the public announcement next sprin'
that he has had his full quota OF ser,
ice and the time is at hand to gin
some of the youngsters in the DaI
| vile district an opportunity.
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n ROBABLY no dwelling in the
N United States has better or more
complete system of electric illumina-
ton than the White House at Wash
fngton. That result is accomplished
by 1900 incandescent lamps distribu-
ted throughout the mansion and the
office annex and by a number of arc
lights in the grounds and along the
driyeways. There are stately electric
standards in the parlors and large
electric lanterns in the main vestibule
and under the porte cochere at the
main entrance. 1t would be difficult,
IL not impossible. for any person to
approach the mansion at night with
ont being seen by the officers ON
guard.
The power plant which supplies the
electricity for the White House is not
located in the mansion, but is in the
reimbursement of the state, war and
navy department building directly
across the street. The machinery was
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WHERE THEY LEARN ECONOMY
Matron Knew What She Was About
When She Went to Engage
Maid.

The manager of the employment
agency was used to hearing women in
search of maids ask applicaIss all
sorts of queer questions. says ts. New
York Tribune, but this matron hade
him mildly curious. OF IA girls In
turn she had inquired: Have you
worked in a minister's family?' None
of them had. TOO bad" said the ma
tron to the manager. None OF these
girls will do
May / ask" said the manager,
why you are anxious to know IL
these girls have worked in minister's
families?"
why, the fact is, we're very hard
up just now" said the matron. candid
ly; Il want a girl who knows how to
economic, and those who have worked
in clergymen's families, I've discov
cred, have learned that lesson"
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Complete White House Lighting Plant

thus placed because it was not de-
sirable to have the dirt and noise in
cident to power plant at the White
House, and also because of considera-
lions of the danger from fire.
This plant, in addition to supplying
the current for lighting the White
House, also furnishes the power for
lighting the state, war and navy
building, the navy department annex.
the was department annex and the
White House stables,
In addition to providing the illu-
mination for the presidents home the
electric current generated in the big
granite building across the street does
many other things to make the in
mates and employees of that establish
ment comfortable and happy. The
elevator and dumb-waiters and the
vacuum carpet cleaner are operated
by electricity. The same agency is
employed to drive upward of 200 house
fans, number of exhaust fans for ven
| tilating purposes; to help the cooks
| in the kitchen and the force in the
laundry room. Facilities recently
have been installed to provide cleo
| tricity for charging the president:
new electric automobile. and a privat'
telephone system has also been es
tablished. with stations in all parts q
the building and grounds.
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Seeing France with
Uncle John
BY ANNE WARNER
UNCLE JOHN IN ROUEN
Copyright. by the Century 20.

should think he'd be more handy than
he appears to be. There's another
man looking for him, too. He-Great
Scott! If it isn't-no, that's impossible.
Yes, it is!
II beg your pardon, sir, but is your
name Porter? Yes? Robert Porter
Bobby Porter that went to the Wash
ington school? Bob, do you remember
me? Well. of all the larks!
"Girls, this man and went to school
side by side for eight years, and he's
the finest-my nieces, Bob. That's
Edna and this Yvonne, and-you don't
say he's your son? Didn't know you
ever married. OH, I'll take your word
for it, of course; but, say, Bob,
you've got to come and dine with us
tonight. You must: ! won't have 1t
any other way. You and I'll have to
lust sit down and overhaul our old
memories together. Do you remember
but how do you come to be In Eu-
F, rope, anyhow: and what liner did you
line up on? We had beastly trip
! only came from Havre last night
! and, by the way, how in thunder can
we get hold of the man who opens
these iron gates? Everything In the
place Is hack there.
rs that Swiss-that splendid cir
cus-chariot driver? Give you my word
1 thought he was a cardinal! How
much of tip is that much gold lace
going to look forward to getting?
wish he was palmer, somehow. III
tell you, Bob; you pay. and I'll settle
up later. certainly am glad to SEE
the gates open; felt more like ser
pent shut out of paradise than l evel
expected to feel in all my life.
/ well, now we begin. Who's burie'
here? Henry II. of England. Ell?
cah't read Latin. so Henry's virtue
and dates are all one to me. Which
Henry was he, anyhow-the one wit
six wives or the one who never she
smile? Either way, let's move OF
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JIMMIE REYNOLDS is as indis-
pensable to an American admin

A JIMMIE REYNOLDS is as indis-
IA pensable to an American admin
istration nowadays as soothing syrup
In an orphan home. No president can
get along without Jimmie Reynolds,
and President Roosevelt made sure Of
his position by keeping two of them
on the job. President Taft has COM
promised on one, but he has recently
shown his leanings to the Jimmie
Reynoldses by appointing James Bur
ton Reynolds of Massachusetts, as a
member of the tariff commission. Mr..
Reynolds has been an assistant secre-
tary of the treasury for four years.
Prior to that he was a newspaper
man, and more often he has been the
caretaker of the Republican party in
Massachusetts.
Mr.. Reynolds has been born ever
since 1870. During the many years
which have followed he has been a
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w SHINGTON.-Every now and
" then story appears in some
newspaper that Speaker Cannon is
about to announce his retirement from
public life.. Then will follow contra
diction from a close friend of the
speaker.
The frequency of these retirement
stories indicates that Uncle Joe" will
have the fight of his life next winter.
This does not mean a political fight In
the sense that the Democrats will
make 1t warm for him; 1t means that
the fight will be within the ranks OF
his party on the floor of the house.
The insurgents" will make 1t warm
for Uncle joe" They made 1t most
unpleasant for him and his program
during the extra session. They did
not always succeed in getting what
they went after. but they made a
showing of sufficient strength to cause
the leaders to take notice.
And what they did then will not be
q marker to what they will do next
winter, according to present indica
tons. It is the knowledge of this that
has started the story that Cannon
will announce his purpose to retire
from congress at the close of his pres
ent term.
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Is the Butter Tower, built out of paid
for permissions to eat butter in Lent.
Rather rough joke, its being SO much
the biggest, isn't it? The whole ca
thedral's lop-sided from eating butter,
so to speak. believe it's the thing
to stop in front and act as If you were
overcome; so we'll just call a halt
here and take in the general effect of
the scaffolding.
Now we'll walk around the whole
thing. / haven't come abroad to take
life with hop, skip and jump; I've
come to be thorough. and want you
girls to form the habit of being thor
ough, too. Good job of scaffolding.
isn't it? You see, they make the scat
folding out of young trees withed to-
gether, and use them over and over.
Economical.
This dark, damp little stone-paved
alley is the celebrated Portal des
Libraries, so called because those ar
cades used to be full of book-stalls
We go along on the cobble-stones,
throw ourselves hard against this lit
tie swinging door; it creaks, yields,
we enter-hush!
Great Scott, isn't it big. and isn't II
damp? VIII you look up in that roof !!
| feel solemn in spite of myself; but
then, feeling solemn is no use: what
we want to do is to find some one te
open those big iron gates, for the most
| of what is to see is in back there. Ed
ma. you ask that man how We can gel
hold of some other man. Well, whai
did he say? Said to ask the Swiss, die
he? What does he mean by that? Is 1
O joke, or can't they trust French
! man with their old relics? I've beer
| told that in Japanese banks they al
| ways have to have Chinaman to han
die the money, and maybe it's equal.
the thing in French cathedral to hav'
a Swiss look after the relics. But thu
guide-book never said word about
Swiss: II said fee,' and I've got m,
pocket full of them.
/ well. where can we get Swiss?
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what comes next? Richard Occur
de-Lion-petrified, Ell? oh, only
statue of him; that's less interesting.
I thought at last l was looking at Rich
ard when he was himself again. What
is our Swiss friend kissing about?
Heart buried underneath? Whose
heart Ask If it's his bona
flde heart or only a death-mask of it.?
Strikes me as pretty big statue to
put up to heart, don't you think
Bob? But come on; l want to be look
ing at something else.
$50 this is the tomb of the husband
of Diana of Poitiers? 1 didn't know
she ever had husband-thought she
only had king. I've never been
brought up to think of Diana of Poi
tiers mourning husband. But maybe
she did. maybe she did They say you
must check your common sense at the
hotel when you set out to inspect Eu-
rope, and believe it, believe it. It's
nice tomb, and if they kneel and
mourn in gown with train, she GER
tainly is doing it up brown. However
let's go on.
whats he saying? Well, ask him
again. Whose grave? Well, ask him
again. Rollo's! What, Rollo that was
| AT Work and AT Play and at every
thing else when we were kids? An
other? What other? Well, ask him
Rollo the Norman? / don't see any
thing very remarkable in a Norman
being buried in Normandy, do you
Bob? When did he die? Well, asl
him. What are we paying him for
anyway? Died about 900. Ell! Ant
this church wasn't built till 400 year,
later. Where did he spend the tim,
while he was waiting to be buried
1 Well, ask him. l declare, If I coult
talk French, bet I'd know something
about things. You are the dumbes
lot.
| Come on; I'm tired Of this oil
church. l move that we go out an,
look at the place where they burne
I Joan of Arc. or something else that
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We'll, girls, are you ready to get
I'D and out and set about improving
your minds? I've been reading the
guide-book and splitting my coffee with
trying to do two things at once, ever
since eight o'clock. But what your
Uncle John doesn't know about Rouen
now isn't worth stopping to look up in
the index. Why, I've got the real
French twang to the pronunciation.
It's Rooank; only you stop short OF
the m and the X SO to speak. The
waiter who brought my breakfast
showed me how to do it-said he
never saw foreigner catch on to the
trick so quick before. gave him one
of those slim little quarters they have
here. and he was so pleased that he
taught me how to say Joan of Arc
for nothing. It's Shondark-Shon-
dark. / learned it in no time. Welt,
come on, if you're ready. I've been
waiting almost an hour.
Il declare, but this fresh, free at
mosphere is refreshing. AS soon as
you get outside of your bedroom door
you begin to get the full benefit OF the
continental climate. / presume. II
you're poor, you get it as soon as
you get outside of your bed. clothes
Rather a medieval staircase, Ell? And
four orange trees at the bottom to
try and fool us into feeling balmy
However, l don't mind little discom
forts. All mind is being shut up on
ship with darned fool like thai
man Sibbilly. l shouldn't wonder II
| his mother was his wife, after all
I could believe anything of him.
didn't like him.
Wen go to take in the cathedra
first: 1t isn't far, and I've got 1t all b,
heart. Thirteenth century and unsym
metrical-you must remember that
There, that's it ahead herewith thu
scaffolding. They're bolstering 1t VI
somewhat, so as to keep on hooking
tourists. presume. The biggest towe
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Would Find Use for II.

After day and night spent in an
swering telephone calls from people
who wanted the latest news from
Peary and DR.. Cook. the secretary OF
one of the arctic clubs had retired
for well-earned rest, when the per-
sistent phone bell rang again. A voice
at the other end said:
do you want the ambulance sent
right over?"
what ambulance" roared the trate
secretary.
"Why, the one you gent for"
81 sent for no ambulance"
you lie!"
The secretary gasped. then he
screamed into the phone:
"Send it as soon as possible. and
you come over, too. and I'll send you
back in it,"
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In early life James Lick sought the
hand of a miller's daughter, but was
repealed by the father on the GROUND
that the young sutton did not possess
a mill. Many years afterwards. when
he had become one of the richest men
in, the states, he erected large Mill
and adorned 1t like palace. 1t was
built of mahogany and costly woods.
and erected solely as memorial OF
Ills youthful attachment. His only
Measure was to contemplate this ps
latial mill and to gloat over the man
rho had spurned him for bis povsrfH
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LlCK'S FIRST LOVE AFFAIR

Pacific slope. bought the land on
which it now stands. and became
millionaire. Before that time the
name of Lick was great in the musical
world. Lick's pianos-out OF which
he made the money which he invested
in land-were manufactured by him
But on the poetic side Of life--a world
apart from such things as piano-mak-
ing and mud fats-the great Lick Mil
stands a. . monument to Lick's love.
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own that the street is about the mar.
rowest ever. All right, I'm done; s
clock is clock, and one look in its
face always tells me all / want to
know. Come on; we can't stand dilly-
dallying II we're to get through Rouen
to-day, and must say consider day
to town as quite enough in Europe.
/ know, when l was young and tray
eled for Wholesale shoes. used often
to do three towns day and never
turn hair. / tell you, Bob. when
was
rs that the fountain? Hold on; we
want to see that. The guide-book has
it in italics. don't see anything to
underline, though; looks foreign to
me. Come on; we've got to be getting
somewhere, or shall feel was a fool
| to stop on at Rouen. Not that I'm not
glad to have met you again, Bob; but
| that could have happened anywhere
else just as well, you know. When did
| you come over? Last year! Great
Scott, what are you staying so long
for? j bet get enough in six weeks;
/ feel as ii I'd got pretty close to
enough now. Not that time ever
hangs heavy on my hands. you know.
"What's our Goddess of Liberty do
ing up there? What's that Indian
beadwork around her feet for? Who?
You don't mean to tell me that's Joan
of Arc? Well, all can say is, never
imagined her like that. But what are
the beads? French funeral wreaths!
Great Scott! do they keep Charlie
imagine wreathed, too. or is 500 years
the bead-wreath limit? Pretty idea,
to put up a fountain where they burnt
her-keep her memory damp at all
events, Ell? What's the moral Of her
train turning into dolphin? Just to
bring the mind gradually down to the
level of the fact that 1t Is fountain.
after all. suppose.
"She wasn't burnt here. anyhow. the
book said. The book said she was
burnt farther over. Smart people
here-have two places where she was
burnt, SO people must trot through
}, the whole market II they try to be
! conscientious.
well. where can we go now? say
to set out and have look at the
, tower where she was imprisoned
, Pulled down! 1t isn't. either; it's
, starred in the book. What's that?
, This tower named for her, and hers
pulled down! Well, there's French
. honor for you again. don't want to
see the tower II 1t amt the real one
want to see the bas-reliefs OF the
Field of the Cloth of Gold, and then
) / want to go back to the hotel to
! lunch. / tell you, this sightseeing ia
a great appetizer. The more old ruins
and burnings look over, the hungrie
get.
n us this the place? Makes me think
: OF a sort of glorified gate to wood
. yard. What is it, now? Well, ash
!. somebody! A bank, Ell? Are those
!. the famous basreliefs? Those
, Them! Well, well, must sa.
;. the touring public is easy game
= They're all worn of. What
!, the tin overhead for? To keep thu
= rain from damaging them, Ell? Pret
: ty bit of sarcasm. eh. Bob? Grea
\ pity they didn't think to put 1t up fou
: or five hundred years sooner. dom
: see a man with head or hors'
. with a leg from here. 1t lacks char
4 acter. to my idea. Let's go home
e Come on. I've racked around Rouel
st all care to for one day.
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Come Home, Mother.

Mother, dear mother, come home
from the club, and rustic some sup
per for me; it's time you were here
working over the grub and getting
things ready for tea. The tables not
set. nor the teakettle boiled, the vege-
tables are not prepared; no wonder
my temper and feelings are rolled,
though it's doubtful, indeed, II you
cared. Come home. come home, come
ho-ho-home! Yes, cut your symposium
down a wee bit, dear mother. and
hustle right home!-Los Angeles Elk
press.
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There are many stories of the light
ar side of finance in which love affairs
find a place. Perhaps none OF these
Is more peculiar than the story OF
lanes Lick. name famous all over
the world through monument 10 MS
memory, the great Lick observatory.
n california. In the financial world
The great city of San francisco Is a
monument to Lick's luck-he foresaw
.hs possibility Of the great city OF the
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bright and cheerful. What's he saying:
No don't want to see any treasury
I'VE done enough church-going Tor one
weekday. Give him his money, BOD
and let's get out. You tell US wnere
to 20 next; you must know everything,
n Won were here all day yesterday. !
want to see that double-faced CLOCK
and those carvings of the Field OF the
cloth 81 Gold. They're all over in the
same direction.
Good to be out in the ar. en-
vow, never was great on cnulenes.
What boat did you come over on Diu
1t roll? Ours rolled and pitched TOO
I never saw such rolling.
$50 that's the clock! Well, It's Dis
one. surely-almost as wide as tne
street, although candor compeis US "
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CHILDREN SHOWED IT
Effect Of Their Warm Drink In the
Morning.

A year ago / was a wreck from
coffee drinking and was on tie point
of giving up my position in the school
room because of nervousness.
81 was telling a friend about it and
she said, We drink nothing at meal
time but Postum, and it is such
comfort to have something we can
enjoy drinking with the children
Il was astonished that she would
allow the children to drink any kind OF
coffee, but she said Postum was the
most healthful drink in the world for
children as well as for older ones, and
that the condition of both the children
and adults showed that to be a fact
MY first trial was a failure. The
cook boiled it four or five minutes and
it tasted so fat that was in despair
but determined to give it one more
trial. This time we followed the direc-
tons and boiled it fifteen minutes aft
err the boiling began. 1t was a decided
success and l was completely won by
its rich delicious favour. In short
time I noticed decided improvement
in my condition and kept growing bet.
ter month after month, until'now am
perfectly healthy, and do my work
| in the school room with ease and pleas
ure. / would not return to the nerve
destroying regular coffee for any
money"
Read the famous little Health Clas
Sic" "The Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs
There's Reason"
Ever read the above letterf nev
| one appears from time to time. The!
are genuine true, and fun OF humal
Interest.
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interchange Of Opinion.

Said Williams Wife-William can
make money; but he will never be
able to save any.
Said Williams Mother-That is just
what | warned my son when he want
ed to marry you.-Baltimore Amer
lean.
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DwindIing Swiss Industry.
The Swiss matchmaking industry
has shrunken to half q Its cne-jms
sizs.