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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01
COTTON cLAss1F1ERs AT WORK.
Committee of Experts Begins Task
~ E;x;nr Grade Standards

The committee of expert cotton classi-
fiers, recently appointed by Secretary Will
son to fix an official standard of the Varf-
Gus grades of cotton. began its task at
the Department of Agriculture today.
The committee is composed of nine
members, in addition to three special as
sistants, representing the leading cotton
concerns of the country. In its effort To
establish the nine grades of cotton as
provided for by an act of Congress the
committee will have the use of cotton
standards of the cotton exchanges of this
country and Europe.
week probably will be required 10
complete the work of the committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01
Talking Postal Cards.

TrOm the FOpuIdf MecUHUIcs
The talking postal card is the invention
of a French engineer, and has become so
popular in that country that the American
rights have been secured and the device
will be placed in the cities of the United
States. The person wishing to send
talking postal card to friend enters the
booth and talks into a machine that re-
cords the words on the specially pre-
pared postal card. When the recipient re-
ceives the card hundred or a thousand
miles away, he, or perhaps she, takes
the card to the nearest postal booth and
inserts it in machine which talks the
message it contains. The record on. the
postal card is indestructible and the ex-
act voice of the sender is heard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01
Rummage Sale of
MEMS FURNISHINGS.

Small lot of Mems Coat Sweaters, in
plain gray only. Broken DE-
sizes Worth 75c. Rummage zoo
Sale price.
Mems Pennsylvania Knitting Mills
Atwood Coat Sweaters: handmade.
In plain white and gray: also combi-
nation colors. Made with and with
out pockets. All sizes. d. n En-
Worth $500 each. Rum eN II sOW
mage Sale price. .........
Mems Brighton Silk Gar e.
tiers. Worth 25c. Rummage Il o.
Sale price.
Mems "Cooper's" Cotton and Wool
Underwear. Shirts and drawers in
the lot Broken sizes. Worth ~
Sl.OO each. Rummage Sale AVG
Mems Wool Coat Sweaters. good.
heavy quality. In plain white and
gray; also gray with blue
borders. All sizes. Worth IN
$50 each. Rummage Sale AlVC
Mems Natural Wool Underwear,
good. heavy quality. Shirts and draw
ers to match: shirts with tapped seams:
drawers with reinforced seat; suspen-
der tapes and pearl buttons.
All sizes Worth $1.0O and <~
S1.25 each. Rummage Sale mVC
price. ........... .............
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01

Mems Blue Flannel Shirts. made
with collars attached. Full cut and
well made. Sizes Az to IS; kM~
Regular prices. S1.JO and QDVN
$500. Rummage Sale price.
Mems Brighton Lisle Gar NJ
tiers. Worth lac. Rummage W
Sale price.
Mems York Collar Buttons. in
large variety of shapes and e.
styles. Worth 1Oc each. Rum %
mage Sale price. two for.........
Mems Suspenders. made of shirt
ends of 25c and soc Isle weddings.
$ $';s na sss: sr Sa%nas zs' 7Hc
Sale price, pair. ~
Mems White Stiff-bosom Shirts.
Numbered, made with linen bosom and
good quality muslin body. On
Broken sizes. Worth 75c and a0VC
$1.OO. Rummage Sale price.
Mems Famous "Wachusettes' White
Unlaundered Shirts. made with linen
bosom and good. heavy quality mus
lin body. Nearly all sizes. o.
Worth soc and 75c each. o0SC
Rummage Sale price. .........
Mems Sanitary Fleece-iined Under
wear; good. heavy quality fleeing;
shirts and drawers to match: shirts
with taped neck: drawers with rein
forced seat All sizes. Worth o.
soc and 6}c each. Rummage ZSC
sale price
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01

> Sample White and Green Enamel
Iron Beds; plain and brass trimmed:
sizes 3 #. 6 in. and #. q in. Regu-
lar prices, 500 and $500 ~ 90
each Rummage Sale 93.WS
:: Very Handsome Brass Beds heavy
2-inch posts: slightly imperfect; fit.
& in. size. Sold regu-
}ary for So 80 $1,000 ID ~ no
and S3119 RummaGe ~ va
Sale price.
. All Iron Frame Bed Springs: close
woven wire: copper wire edge and steel
center band support Sizes. ) feet q
incheS,-4 feet, and feet
q inches. Regular $3.50 de 40
value. Rummage Sale SQ 90
II All-iron Frame Cots, national
fabric link: full size. Sold a. n NJ
regularly for SD Rum y Il 10
mage Sale price.
= Slightly Soiled White Enamel
Cribs; all iron national
springs. Regular price, de~ mo
5000 Rummage Sale ~ y VIZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01
Rummage Sale of
NOTIONS.

1Jc Silk stitched Whalebone R~
Casing. white and colors: piece. ~
Silk Featherbone. Regularly 16Ac
Taffeta Seam Binding; S-yard
pieces: variety of colOrs. Zoe E~
and 12c values. Piece. ........ w
Warren's Girdle Founda-
tons; worth 15c: boned with I'M
featheibone. w.
Children's Pin-on Hose Supporters,
white or black: good quality
Isle elastic. 10c and 1Jc values. e.
Pair. Northumberland. ~
Jet-head Veil or Belt Pins: various
sizes: l dozen on card. Worth &c e.
cards for. w
Good Quality Sewing Silk. 1OO-yard
spools; black and colOrs in a good
assortment of shades. Worth <,
DC. Spool. .................... w
Bone Hairpins. straight crimped,
curved shapes: l dozen on card. e.
Shirt Waist Belts. with waist-ex-
tender pin attached: good quail e.
ity Isle elastic; worth Toe. ~
Genuine Ocean Pearl Buttons:
plain. fancy. carved. fish-eye styles;
in various sizes. Worth up to a.
lJc Dozen. .CS
Lightweight Dress Shields, main
sock covered. Zoe and 12c val e.
ues. Pair. ..............O IN
Fast Black Darning Cotton. e.
on cards. II cards for. ... ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01
BEDS AND BEDDING.

26 Large-size Double Bed Comforts,
covered with best grade silkolines;
filled with pure white sheet mo
cotton Sold regularly for VOC
S1.15. Rummage Sale price.
Il pairs of Australian Wool Blan-
kets: extra large size; slightly soiled
from handling. Regular n IN
price. $500. Rummage - I'D ~
Sale price, pair.
pairs of Fine Quality All-wool
Blankets, one and two of each kind;
pink. blue, red. plaids. white and gray.
Sold regularly for 500 RN no
and $500 pair. Rummage SZ.yO
Sale price -.-.------.----
pairs of Fine Quality California
Wool Blankets; white, with pink and
blue borders: edges slightly soiled.
Regular prices, $1,000 O. mo
and $500 pair. Rum Do. 20
mage Sale price. ...........
; Rattan and Fiber Filled Cotton
top Mattresses: cotton top. bottom and
sides: feet inches
500 s.ss. s s%'' :sSs' Eu fs5 So. 48
mage Sale price. ...........
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01

Women S Neckwear.
Silk Chiffon Wells. with hemstitched
borders: IL yards long: as
sorted colOrs. Sold regu- ~
larly for soc. Rummage ZSC
Sale price. ..................
Imported Lace Yokes and Chemi-
settles: white and butter
color. Regular price. 75c o.
and 81 each Rummage Sale n0SC
Silk Chiffon ,Veilings. in light blue
copenhagen and navy blue. The pop
ulars chenille dotted effect. e
Regular price. Soc yard. sc
1 Rummage Sale price. ..-...
Persian Lace Bows.
assert ed patterns: Il NT/
worth 2oc. Rummage H ZA%C
safe price. ~
Venice Lace Shirt Waist Sets. con-
sisting of collar and cuffs:
assorted patterns. Regular Pm
$1.jO value. Rummage Sale SWC
price ---..-.
Directoire Neckwear. in assorted
styles; finished with
chiffon ruching. Reg
ular prices. 2Jc and ~H/
sss; ham"ass Sale / 212c
Embroidered Linen Collars, slight
ly sOiled; all sizes. Sold reg -
ularly for DC each. Rum NC
mage Sale price. ............
Silk Mesh Yelling. in assert -
ed colors. Worth 19c and pc sc
yard. Rummage Sale price -.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

gentle and singuIarly beautiful face.
Almost unconsciously he moved a
little closer so as to observe her
better. A chord in his memory seemed
to have been touched. Surely he had
seen her somewhere before. When
and where could 1t have been? Not on
the stage or in picture, he felt GER
tain. He thought long and earnestly,
but the riddle remained unsolved.
Then by different channels his mind
travelled back through the years, to
the home of his boyhood, the little
village, the river he used to swim in
and his farewell to Chelsea.
And at this point memory supplied
the missing link. 1t was she-Lucy
Mayburn--the same little girl he had
loved so long ago. He unused on.
thinking tenderly of the night he left
for the great city. when he kissed her
good-by and promised some day to
claim her as his wife. He even re-
called the tears that glistened on her
face under the starlight of his last
hours at home. A mist obscured his
vision and something suspiciously like
sob fingered in his throat. Ten
years had passed. How quickly one
forgets. ard sacred promises are
broken. while youthful affection dies
tn the cold atmosphere of the struggle
for fame and riches. A nameless long
Ing oppressed him. How he wished
he could talk to her. Perhaps through
the baby he might manage it.
The child responded to an invita-
ton to come and hear his watch tick.
No persuasion was needed to keen
her on his knee. for she was easily
amused. Presently the warm at.
mosphere. combined with the motion
Of the train, exercised a soothing eff
feet upon her, the blue eyes closed
languidly, and baby drifted into the
shadowland OF slumber. II was a new
role for Leith to play, this of nurse to
sleeping infant, but he performed
1t with xest which would have aston
sshed his many bachelor associates.
had they been witnesses. To the
mothers offer to relieve him of his
burden he returned hasty negative
and begged to be allowed the pleasure
Of sstainjn9 his charge. She had
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

Az the train rolled steadily on its
way, Horace Leith leaned upon the
car window sill gazing out upon the
New England landscape. There was
nothing particularly attractive in the
prospect. but 1t was many years since
he had taken this route which led to
his old village home of Chelsea, and
he was endeavorfng to recall certain
features OF the journey which had
once been familiar. 1t was far cry
from those old days TO the present,
when he had gained recognition as a
successful business man in New York.
Suddenly his musings were inter
rupted by jerk Of the car and the
sharp call Of the brakeman for another
station. He turned around and watched
the passengers who were entering and
leaving the car, A slight woman
with baby In her arms. attired in
black. took the seat directly in front
of him and drew his attention for a
moment. The train started again. and
he leaned back in his former position.
Presently the baby climbed back on
the seat, in one hand rubber doll and
the other clutching the plush cushion.
In her efforts to attract Leith's atten-
ton the doll fell to the floor and two
red little lips issued an imperious
command:
Man. get baby's DOLL" she lisped.
and Leith, reaching down. obeyed the
mandate When he returned the doll
the owner smiled rapturously. She
was a very attractive child and Leith
settled himself to watch her and lis
ten to the prattle she poured out IN
broken sentences.
CHANGING at the mirror in front Of
him, he became aware that he could
obtain a full view of the figure of the
baby's mother therein. Her face,
however, was partially hidden by a
crepe veil. After awhile she ap-
peared to grow restless and threw
back the veil, disclosing two flushed
cheeks and a pair of dark blue eyes
dropping under long lashes. 1t was a
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

AS was expected. the cotton crop Of
1908 was larger than the spectators
for rise pretended, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. 1t amounted to 49,
$4,000 bales, so the bureau of the GEN.
sus says, or 1912, 900 more than that
of 1907. Only twice-in 1904 and in
1s06-was the yield greater than that
OF 1908. The crop of 1904, which broke
all the records, was little below the
$4,000, 000-bale mark. AS, at present
prices. cotton is a highly profitable
crop, the presumption is that the acre
age of 1909 is up at high figures.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

ST. Petersburg reports that the pres
snce of cholera is initiating seriously
against summer tourist travel. This
ought to be reassuring to all Europe
When people wisely stay away from
centers of disease there will be less
likelihood that the germs will be scat
tered all over the continent. II st. Pc
tersburg cares for the traffic she has
host temporarily she should hasten her
sanitation and also increase effort to
stamp out the cholera. TIE drinking
water there is contaminated, and every
tourist who goes to the Russian capt.
tai takes a risk every time he drinks
water that has not been boiled.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

Now they are saying that ex-Presf-
dent Reyes Of Colombia, who cabled
his resignation from Europe, ''salted
down" SIS 900 900, and his countrymcn
are asking where he got it and how
they can oblige him to give it up. But
these may be merely malicious mis-
representations. Castro, who left
Venezuela for Venezuela's good. in the
opinion of great many persons, was
credited with fabulous riches. But ac-
cording to later developments his pos
sessions shrank to comparatively
little measure.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
|Sinfully
Low WAGES
of Working
Girls
,, ELIZABETH 4.cu....

going to offer
The usual arguments presented by these when their atten
ton is called the existing state of affairs that the class of work
not worth than they Does not who
her strength work deserve compensation that will
provide for the needs and comforts least of the body? Tell how
long could single big business continue operating not
for those who fill the soaed positions? These cornd UNDER
ngs that found impossible their
SIS week $40 would have to be paid the business would have
its DOORS simply could continue without
do this work.
The problem for the worker especially the worker
very very dcouagng and hopeless long amey submit to
injustice rather than fight for what due.
There fighting tuberculosis and
preaching religion expecting results until the present
ditons of people greatly improved.
Prohibit employer from engaging girl unless she give evil
dence that she dependent her earnings for living The
with husband father who doing his duty providing for her
take work from those who for themselves
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
PROTECT THE BIRDS.

William butcher, president of the
American Audubon society, estimates
that birds save American farmers al
nually 100000, 900 in the destruction
OF harmful insects and noxious weeds
He further computes that the savings
would amount to $3S.000,000 more, II
that old harridan of tyrant, Fashion.
did not decree that milliners shall or.
nament women's hats with the plum
age Of many of the most valuable of
the feathered tribe. Scientists have
estimated that human life on our plan
ct long since would have been extinct
as a consequence of the destruction of
vegetable life II birds had not come to
the rescue and made perpetual and re-
lentless war on insect life, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer. In this good year
1909 the joint worm Is playing havoc
with the wheat crop of central Ohio,
and that could not have been If The
men and boys of Ohio had not Levied
constant war on the farmers best
friends. the birds of the field, the or
chard and the forest. Every bIuebird
is annually worth to the farmer triple
its weight in silver, and every wren is
annually worth to the gardener its
weight in gold. The sapsucker is in
valuable to the fruit grower. and the
woodpecker does yeoman service in
the cause of rich harvest.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
Is Pie
Making
a Lost
Art?s
By ELIZABETH xecULLEM

laced plain PIES ornamental pies and flash pies for festive
SONS There deep shallow pies medium with short crust
long tough crust much depending the cook and the guests
to be entertained
Emerson pie and wrote in his happiest lie good
for big at each meal making occasional trips TO the family ader
between meals Washington the Adase Franklin and Lincoln
all fends Why is the which such fed relgated to
the surviving few? Why southern senator laughed at when he
insists upon pie for breakfast at his boarding house?
Is the cooking of the good odime lost art? Are the
of adulerated fodu? Won't produce the goods
people simply going backward There pie
faced and but most of them faced real
probably wil-
No knew peeaing nation that had hoist the white
flag take alien dcaon We need reinsta make that
and get back to the solid days when peeaing nation
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
Close 20 Na,ur.

The essential charm of the farm re-
mains and always will remain: the
care of crops, and of cattle. and of or
chards, bees and fowls: the clearing
and improving of the ground; the
building of barns and houses; the d.
rect contact with the soil and the ele-
ments; the privacies with nature
with bird. beast and plant; and the
close acquaintance with the heart and
virtue of the world.-John Burroughs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

The English prime minister. in
speaking on the possible invasion of
England. the national bugaboo just
now, gave the house of commons the
gloomy information that if once Bri-
tannia ceased to rule the waves, some
body else would boss her. If this does
not produce adequate appropriations
for national defenses. other appeals
are useless.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

Baby carriages, along with other We
hicles, must carry req lights at the
rear. in accordance with the speed
laws Of Los Angeles. This Is the first
intimation given anywhere of the dan.
ger to the public from baby carriages.
aside from their painful. though not
perilous, practice of rolling over feel
ings and toes on the sidewalk.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

SIS per week. while her college high
week. and occasionally where snographer gets be private
high official all
MONTH OF these positions the minority but simply
prove that girl strives hard enough this particular line there
is no limit to her possibilities.
Take for the reporter public senogapher well
the girl who report lectures they make day
than the average does in a week
Even school teachers the public schools do average SIS per
month"; they lose two three months while the steno
rapher gets paid vacation every year.
The millinery business well to those who engaged
business of their but every afford BUSH
for herself.
Nurses also make good when they work. proficient but
they not steadily employed and nursing the hardest
TONS
Some people contend that stenogaph do not high sal
they claim. This doubtless yet
for actual fact that enorapher receiving SIS
week when they not really worth So It simply dis
elimination the part of the who be paying the expert
enographer the salary.
While stenogaphy not be considered desirable vocation by
viewed from financial standpoint nogapers have the decided
advantage the majority of women in business.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
The Goodness Of God.

God is kind Father. He sets IN
all in the places where He wishes IN
to be employed. and that employment.
is truly "our Fathers business" He
chooses work for every creature
which will be delightful to them, II
they do 1t simply and humbly. He
gives us always strength enough, and
sense enough, for what he wants US
TO do; If we either tire ourselves or
puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.
And We may always be sure, whatever
we are doing, that We cannot be
pleasing him If We are not happy our.
sesres.-John Ruskia.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

A man in Brooklyn, bitten by dog.
worried himself to death. although
physicians assured him he had no
signs of the dreaded disease. This in
stance shows how dangerous are the
senseless panics and "mad-dog" scares
which come about regularly every
summer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

Sinfully low wages are paid by many
employers to their feminine workers.
realize that little can be accomplished by
talk alone and that immediate and drastic
measures should be taken. We women
really do not deserve much sympathy, for
we calmly submit to this injustice without
doing one solitary thing to improve condi-
tons. And as long as we persist in this
stupidity, just so long can we expect to be
imposed upon. For it is a certainty that
as long as an employer can find the pres
ent unlimited supply of women applicants
for SIS and 81 week he isn't voluntarily
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

The Simpiified Spelling society has
held its third annual meeting. AS a
reminder to forgetful public that the
society is still in existence, the meet
ing appears to be a qualified success.
Otherwise the public is still spelling
the same old way.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

Big orders for steel. notably for the
kinds used in structural work, con-
tinue to pour in. this being one Of
the most marked indications of the
continuous performance in Industrial
activity.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

Pie is not the same as it used to be and
a natural curiosity is aroused among the
old residents. There we're years in our
American history when pie was a revered
and much patronized institution. No other
one table article had larger or more adj
miring following.
There were pumpkin, mince, rhubarb,
peach, cherry, pear, ounce, appIe-butter,
squash, blackberry, raspberry, custard, po-
tato, plum, lemon, orange, cream, cram
berry and many other kinds of pie too
numerous to mention. There we're OPEN
face pies. .hunting-easev pies. pies with
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

France does not mind its cold
weather so much as it does the frost
ON the tourist crop.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

What sweet enjoyment 1t IL to he
able TO shed little happiness around
us. What an easy and agreeable
task is that of trying torender othssa
happy!-Baker.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

A good many castles in Spain are
Tor rent
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
WO1nen's
Chances
Office Work
Pays Girl
Best Salary
By ELLA LOUNSBURY

FTER carefully comparing the salaries usually received by
engaged in the various lines of business have decided
that senography is the remuneraye business which
the average woman engage.
You will hear every side that the market is
stocked with senographers and while this true also
true that the market oversocked with people in all other
lines of business.
stenographer having but common school education,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25

LESSON TEXT Cor. 1o:23-ss. Mem
DRY verse "a.
GOLDEN TExT.-'Let every one of u
please his neighbor for his good to edi
fication."-Rom. 1872.