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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21
HORSE SHOW A FEATURE.

Louisiana s. tie Fair VIII Display
Great stri,.s Of eIooded Animals.
The horse show. which will be held
upon three evenings OF State Fair
week. which IS from November to 6,
promises to be one of the features OF
the exposition. Not only will there be
a lar-e number of blooded animals.
which are entered in the various
classes but the horse show is par.
tic'rated In by the citizens OF Shreve-
port, special prizes being offered for
carriare teams. ladies' saddle horses
and other features. the State Fair
horse show. which is held In the even
ing after the days races are over.
being distinct society feature OF the
State Fair.
The management of the horse show
is now negotiating for 1 number OF
high school horses. which are highly
trained: some high jumpers and c.,er
features which promise to make the
horse show this year one OF the dis.
tinct features of the event
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21

Mr.. j. c. Mcknight went to New
Orleans last Wednesday night, in
order To be present with his mother.
Mrs. +. Mcknight who underwent a
successful surgical operation on
Thursday for hardening of the blood
TISSUES. Mr.. Mcknight returned
home Thursday night, bringing back
with him his little niece, WYNN Me-
Nicely. who while in New Orleans was
operated on for tonsll troubles. Mrs.
y. H. McNeely and Mr.. Il. H. McNeely
aud wife and child, who ARE also in
the city, expect to return home next
week with Mrs. Mcknight, as soon
as she is able to travel.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21
New Court House and Jail wanted.

BY order of the police jury of La
Sale parish, Louisiana. 1 am direct
ed tn advertise for plans and sprcin-
cations for n court house to cost
from $4,000 to $4,000. and a Jail to-
cost fr,nm IS. 900 to Sl0. 900, said build
ings to be erected at Jena. La. The
police jury reserves the right to re-
iect any and all plans aud bids.
Proposals should be sent to Il. 4.
Hardfner. president of the police
Jury. Urania. La. The police jury
VIII meet at Jena ON September ~.
1909. for the consideration Ut these
matters. h +. HARDTNER.
Prest. Police Jury. LHSaiie Parish.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21
Thanks to the Police Jury.

l, the Undersigned. take this meth
I'D at expressing my sincere thanks
To the honorable board of the police.
Jury 0f Grant parish. tor granting to
me a. free scholarship as n beneficiary
student Ia the State Normal school
Mt Natchituches. Louisiana.
Thanking. and assuring you that
appreciate the honor you bestow on
me. am, very truly.
LOLA NUGENT.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21

4@~~s
The following is u list of the con
veyt,hceS. mortgages. acts Of incor
poratiun. etc, fled for record in the
clerk : office during the week, viz:
+. +. Rogers To r. l.. Ball Lbr. Co.
Lid, 'imt'rr coutract.
J.. l.. Durham to- II. Kramer, sale
Of hardwood located in Sections 81
30, 33, to. 9u, 2w. and secs. 3, 4,
6, ,pSn,r Price. $1,000. =
Mrs. Amanda Gray to joel NJ. Dur
hmm. 40 acres. nr or Of NJ or, see / 5,
tips n. raw. p,ire, 800.
N. Jnne Brooks to A. J. Buckner,
quit claim al indebtedness.
H. A. An,Iers tn Bradford K ps
Lbr. Co.. Ltd. right Of way through
certain hands. Price, $25.
J.. VI. Bryant to Bradford Kees
Lbr. Co. Ltd, right of way through
certain lands. Price. $40.
+. O. Mnxwell Ia Jpo. Il. Rush, lot
IN Pollock. " hf If lot ID, aud z feet
off east si,ir uf block 4. Price, $3.50.
W. =. Deem to K. NJ. Deem. Jr., so
ncrss. ~ ar If sw or and XIV or of s-
or. s4S. q, tip sn,r2w. Price. $3.50.
Mariah and Endy Milstend to j. j.
O'Qninn, quit cIain t.isy. or OF NY Or
and NV ar Of Sw Or. ss927, to an, r
2w. Price, 81.
Enterprise Ltr. Co., Ltd, to j. Z.
Adams aud G. N. BRANDON, 100 acres.
sw or sec 8. tp 7 mr. e. Price, 800.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21
SHOWS AT NIGHT.
Evening Features at the State Fsi
Are Expected to Attract Crowds.

Are Expected to Attract Crowds.
The evenings at the State Fai,
grounds, while the State Fair Is Il,
progress this year from Nov ! to G
are expected to attract great crowds
to the grounds each evening
The horse show. when Hooded ami
mails. saddle horses. teams. carriages
and tandem rigs will be shown, will
be held three evenings during the
State Fair. This will be one of the
sofiety features Of the State Fair and
Is expected TO attract great crowds
each evening.
Each of the free acts will be given
at night. and in this manner those. de
string to spend the evening on the
grounds can do so and see the amuse
ment features twice In one day
All of the score OF shows will be
In full blast until II O'Clock each
night BY this arrangement one can
witness the races in the afternoon and
take in the shows at night
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21
Twas a Glorious Victory.

There's rejoicing IN Fedora, Tenn. A
man's life has been saved, aud now DR.
king's Now Discovery 10 the talk Of the
town Tor curing CIV Pepper OF dead,
lapR bsm.'rrhages. n could NIT work
or get about" he writes. and the doe
tors Gid we no good. but after using
Dr. Kings New Discovery three weeks
! teel like . new man. and can do good
work again" For weak, sore or diseas-
ed lungs. coughs and colds. hsmor shages
hay fnver. lsgripps. asthma or any brou-
ch,cs' affection it stands unrivaied.
Price Soc and e1.0e. Trial bottle free.
oeld and guaranteed by all Druggists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21
M. p. Quarterly Conference.

The qua rterly conference for tn,
NJ. p. church will be held In Cola X
az, saturday before the fifth Snnda ,
la the month. it being August 2Sth.
We understand that the president
fir This district will remain over
Sunday aud will assist Rev. J. e.
He"rn in conducting u protractpd
meeting far several days.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21

All of the official news of the parish
OF Grant will be published in the COlfax
Chronicle without any exception, in
elloing the proceedings of the Police
Jury and all advertisements ordered by
item, together with all advertisement,
OF interest to the people at large, or t.
the various communities of the differ.
g. localities in the parish.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21
Fourteen Ears of Corn on Three Stalks

SIR. Richard Newton, of Blnri
t,--k, this Week brought in thr.
o'ks Of his brag prolific corn.
Wis rh had total of fourteen ear.
e. hr three stalks. The corn il ~
exhibition Mt the Dixie drug store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21
Has Changed His Location.

Editor COlfax Chronicle:
r'rase change the address of IN,
t.n unirle from Hunger ford, Texas,t,
L. svill-, La. Will bp there for u
While. Yours very respectfully.
d. W. O'QyISN.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21

The Star OF Bethlehem" which
makes its appearance but onre every
800 years, is now visible in the east
lrt tween 3 and 4 o'clock every morn
ing. 1t will be found just little
south of east, and is repnted to tie
the same star the wise men saw at
the birth of our Savior.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21

| GOlpmbhs, s. e., Aug. 1S.-On TUES.
day 81 counties of South Carolina
held elections, each county for itself
To decide whether the sale of liquor
ander the county dispensary system
shall be resumed. The law under
which these elections were held was
passed mt Belfast session of the Leg.
isiature, after a hard fight between
the statewide prohibitionists and
the local optionist as sort of com.
promise measure.
The act provided for a two week y
period of absolute prohibition before
the elections We're held. 1t throws
the burden of voting on the dispens-
airy on the anti-prohibitioDists the
whole Stute being theoretically pro.
hibition territory until liquor is vot-
I'll bnck by the various counties.
rhe counties already dry did not
vote on the qurstiOn.
One-half of the State l2l out of AZ
counti-s) wns alreHdy drv. The rles.-
ton ON Tuesday resulted in the pro
nibitionists carrying Is out of the
remaining 81 counties. This Ieaves
nut 5 counties ia the State ia whici,
whisky can be ruld under the dispen-
sary system.
For the first time the Anti-Saloou
League took mn active interest in tn,
prohibition movement, md not since
the stirring fnctionai contests of the
curly nineties, when Benjamin X.
l'iilman WAS first entering upon hi-
-pectaculnr political career, has such
a carDpnign been witnessed as thai
waged bv the Anti-SalOon League
leaders, church folk and "anti-,iis-
pensaryitrs" against the return to
the dispensarirs. Public speaking>
were conducted in ench uf the twenty
one connties; preachers and temper
n ncrleaders orga nized hOuse-to-huurr |
yanvassing brigsdes and the daily |
mud weekly newspapers of the State
were filled with arguments fuvorn bl..
To prohibition.
The poor suopss Of the whisk Y sell \
sFs in their fight to retain the dispen-
sary traffic is said to have grently
disappointed both the sellers and the
manufacturers Of liquors.
The gains made by the prohibition
SITS are expected to lend impetus to
he fight for state-wide, prohibition.
which will be fairly ON before thu
opening of the approaching session
II the legislature. which convenes in
January. For the past two years
here has been a strong majority for
tatewide prohibition. but in the
rnate their has be-n a majority
rom two to three VOTES against the
Measure. =
The prOhihitionists declare that
he representatives nf those counties
'hich declared against the sale Of in !
0xicants, will not dare cart their
oter in January against the prohi- /,
iti0n bill.
They say the statewide bill will bp I
assed by Il safe majority in both
ouses. Answering this claim, the I.
ispensaryites INSERT that there will /
,.ne a change Of feeling. with the re-
infant loss ofrpvenue from the dis-
pnsaries. Any way, the fight IL on I
nd 1t remains to be seen whether q
mother Southern State will be al. \
q tn the vast territory declared 5
~ within the past few years. i
1
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-21

When you need printing you want
he best, of course. Then let us do it.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06

sentimental and industrial hindranc.
e and are laboring together for q
south which even now far eclipees the
faded grandeur Of ante-bellum days
IF this writer is to be trusted, the
young men Of the south have come in
to their own. They are not dreaming
or idling but are using the material
at hand for the development of q vir.
gin empire. Toll and labor are dig
ni6ed and honorable. Trade is not q
disgrace. The useful citizen is hon
ored and the idle abased.
Thousands will greet this picture Of
the south with acclaim. In their heart
they will hope that the canvas does moi
belle conditions as they are today.
They will welcome the funeral of an
outworn and misfit civilization and
will cheer the dawn of the new era.
Not so the jokesmiths. They are
dashing, impudent, shallow and ephe-
neral. Vain, carping, often enmeshed
in plagiarism, they love precedent and
resent innovation. They prefer to fol.
low the products ofyesterday with an.
other crop; twisted, wrapped, bettered,
seemingly new, These funny men
love to perpetrate dry programs in
convention assembled and they do hate
to find themselves laundering in q
strange atmosphere which calls for a
new brand of humor. And there is
sorrow among the testers and woe
among funny men whenever an anci.
ent witticism is hurled into the tomb
by an indignant public.
Perhapsit isthe revenge of the news.
paper wits which the timid author
fears.-Lincoln Star.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06
THE NEW SOUTH.

Whnever an amature novelist as
sails the very fortresses of the news
paper paragraphers he usually secret
es himself in the shadow of anonymity
As the strength Of his assault increas.
es the greater his modesty.
An unknown novelist has pictured
q new south. He has done more
He has efaced the traditional jokes Of
a generation, The southern colonel
is no more. Take his novel as a hand.
book and even the julep jest must go.
The writer plunges bodily into a
hitherto uncbarted sea of fiction.
Imagine a south without any misery
and inaction after the civil war.
Picture a south without grinding
chaste, incipient race wars, shoulder.
ing class hatred and indolent shiftless-
ness. Instead, according to this un.
known, workers are at colossal tasks
and builders are transforming waste
places into gardens of beauty. Be-
levers in progress have abandoned
the inherited educational, political,
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06
Kansas Mayor 4 Fighter.

Kansas Mayor Fighter.
! A number Of Topeka printers II
lunch recently were talking Of funny
fights.
Out at Garden City q funny thinS
happened long years ago." said one Of
the printers. Garden was havins
some sort Of q celebration; Just what
It was. I've forgotten. John A. Mar.
tin was then governor of Kansas, and
he was present to open the festivities
with q speech. A parade preceded
the affair. and Gov. Martin rode In q
carriage with !. r. Holmes, who was
then mayor of the town. A big black.
smith insisted on driving his horse in
front Of the carriage occupied BY
Martin and Holmes. The latter told
him to get out of the way several
times. but he paid no attention.
"'Governor,' said Holmes to Martin.
hold these lines a minute, please
He stopped the horses. climbed out
and administered a rafting good lick.
ing to the disturbing blacksmith.
Nov, doesn't it strike you as funny,
that the highest peace officer of the
;city should hand the lines to the
highest peace officer of the state while
he gets out to break the peace?'-
Kansas City Journal.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06

about the thing Is I do, oras anybody
else, 90 far as I am aware. I observe
that some person, who believes he is
wise, says the manifestation Saturday
was cosmical. fit had been cosmical
if it had not been local, this whirlihg
sphere upon which we live would have
rolled up like a scroll or gone whiz.
zing madly out of its orbit, into il.
Irritable unthinkable space. There
is magnatism. What is magnatism?
Do you know? am certain don't.
Take the ordinary toy magnet. It
has boon arti6cally magnetized, and
still it retains the mysterious force
for centuries. It lifts weights sever
al times its own. Between its two
poles there abides an unseeable, un-
feelable force that does this. But
what is that force? Whence comes it?
If we only knew what that is. Or, if
We only knew anything about Gods
great immutable laws! We are just
beginning to interpret them little.
In fact, Intellectually, We are just
emerging from the dog age. We say
we are living in a wonderful age.
We are just at its threshold. If only
those of US here now could be spared
long enough to behold the wonders
that are about to be opened to the
understanding of the human race!
It makes the head grow dizzy to con-
template them. I do not know how
fact We shall progress in real know.
ledge. We know SO little now that
the road ahead of us is a long one.
But five persist as we have begun
we will sooner or later reach the gold
en- age. Chemistry holds the key.
That is the science of sciences" AT
Gibson Globe.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06

Omaha newspapers are making fun
IF Omaha as q result of President
Taft's visit there last week. 1t was a
very swell elegant banquet, at $40 a
plate. But, as q full dress affair, it
didn't make much of a hit. One man
wore his spike tail coat, white waist
coat, and all the rest Of it pretty well,
except that he adorned his bosom with
large gold studs. Another full dress
costume was marred by black tie
that should haye been white. Some
wore dinner jackets, and even gray
trousers broke into the sacred circle,
and Omaha papers are sad or mad.
But they really shouldn't feel so bad.
If the West isn't as careful of its per.
sonal attire of Fifth avenue, or even
Pennsylvania avenue, it is greatdeal
better dressed than it was when some
of its citizens got their first dress suits
rs aid from the Eastern discard.
New countries, as rule, are too busy
to make fashions, that being left for
more effete lands. And even if a fash
ion is broken occasionally, the West
doesn't care, and neither does the presi
dent it is votes he is interested in
Drake Watson.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06
The HOSPITALS Place.

Florence Goetz of Williamsburg, had
swallowed carbolic acid, and it was
Imperative that she be taken to the
hospital at once. Fourteen of her
family fought her removal and the
police reserves had to be called out.
Her people wished her to die at
home in peace" even when the alter
native was q chance Of being saved
in hospital.
In contrasting case a girl of ten
was taken in haste to a hospital with
acute appendicitis. She went calmly
into the ether sleep, for wise relatives
assured her that the doctors would
do 1t right" Her convalescence was
one long play spell in sunny rooms.
smiled on by doctors and nurses whose
skill had not lessened their sympathy.
When she was to leave she begged:
Cant I stay another week."
The fatalist Of eastern races, when
stricken with serious disease, rolls
himself In q blanket. says his time
has come and dies, accepting or an
ticipating destiny. A gritty westerner
in like circumstances. far from cities.
says: Il won't de-" and often keeps
his promise. In our great cities ig-
norance and superstition lead some to
conceal disease until 1t is too late, but
more sensible people promptly seek
medical aid and the death rate con-
stantly decreases.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06
FEAR TO GET RUSTY
WHY WORKERS. REMAIN 90 LONG
IN the HARNESS.
Mr.. Qullllgumtroo'o Belief % 1hat q.
Dor Keeps Us Young and We Al
NoOd e Romaln on thO
Track,

There II nothing IKE labor" said
Mr.. Quillkumtree, ito keep % young
once asked man knew very wen
. man who had worked hard al his
LIE. but who was still going beautt
fully, fresh and strong. why under the
canopy he didn't get out Of the haz>
ness for q while. and he said the rea,
son was that he was afraid II he got
out he couldn't get back.
: And there's something In that
When . man gets along in years. esps.
lcially. II he wants to keep going. he's
got to stay on the track. He can take
his regular vacations. you know. and
that sort Of thing. but II he stays away
too long it's hard to get back. Al
long a. the old man keeps In training
and at work he's all right.
But let him think for himself that
he'll get out for q time and take .
good long rest. and in that rest, I'M
less he be exceptional. happy a. hs
may be. he'll find his working joints
to stinen and find himself getting
shy. Obstacles seem greater to him
then than they did before, and he gets
a habit Of looking more than twice be-
fore he leaps; he is getting timid in
his old age-unless he Is q man Of I'm.
usual resolution, enterprise and push.
who has been able to preserve his
vigor unfmpaired- finds when he
gets back that the procession. com.
posed now mostly of younger men, II
moving right along fast without motto
ing him.
so with many older men who step
aside for q while. isn't It? And sup
pose that's the reason why they al
keep plugging. for fear that II they
stepped out they couldn't step back,
while If they keep a-going they're al
right: it's all in keeping In training.
; The rich man, too. hates to take
that good long rest for fear that there.
by he would abdicate his crown. There
Is a great and stimulating Joy In
kingship. and he fears that II he
stayed idle long his strength would
fade and when he came back he'd ind
the crown on another's head, with
himself without strength enough to
recover 1t. and so he'd be barred out
of his procession. And the poorer
man. the man with less accumulation
OF this worlds goods but still with q
place among the workers, doesn't take
his long rest because he fears that 1t
the end Of It he couldn't get back into
his procession"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06
The Caspian Sea.

Two thousand years ago Herodotus
said that the Caspian sea-across
which Russia has been hurryins
troops for Persia-was "a sea by It.
self, having no connection with any
other" But centuries after his time
such authorities as Strabo and Pliny
believed that It was connected with
the Northern ocean by a long and mar.
row gulf. Geography seems to have
had setback in the interval through
false Information received at the time
of Alexander's conquests. Herodotus
said that the Caspian's length was IL
days voyage with a rowboat, its
breadth eight days. Since the actual
figures are 750 miles and 400, this
shows that q rowboat of the time did
so miles a day.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06
LINDSAY STIRS DENVER.

Ben B. Lindsay, Denver's famous
Juvenile court" judge, is writing Sc
ries ofarticles for Everybody's Maya
zine which has set the Rocky mountain
metropolis by the ears. The series,
which is largely photographed, is
entitled ''The Beast and the Jungle, "
and the first installment lifts the lid off
Denver and Colorado, and discloses a
number of eminent personages of that
state in the light fury fxers, corpora
ton boodlers, and otherwise very un.
desirable citizens.
Naturally, the men exposed do not
take kindly to what the judge is say
ing about them. They are retorting
fiercely, add the short and ugly word
figures largely in their remarks.
Lindsay himself is sos.bad man that
what he has to say is not worthy of
much consideration.
Unfortunately for the men against
whom Lindsay's shafts are aimed, cir
cumstantial evidence is on his side.
Colorado corporation politics have
been q stencil in the nostrils of the
country for a good many years, the
state has enjoyed the reputation of be-
ing the worst governed commonwealth
in the union; the money tainted de-
cisions of its supreme court and have
brought down the denunciation of re-
spectacle legal authorities every
where, have soiled the judicial ermine
and brought the bench into contempt
high handed acts of violence against
workingmen have more than once pro
duoed anarchy, and claw and order"
has become by word.
Moreover, Judge Liadsay's accuse
tons are not general, but specific.
He names places and dates, tells what
this and that public servant received
in the way of bride money for pros
tituting his official position for the
benefit of public service and other cor
porations, and throws around his story
an air Of probability that lends much
to its strength in the mind ofany man
who has ever viewed politics from the
inside. If he is lying, he is most ar.
tistic liar, as we'll as a brave one
Sioux City Tribune.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-06

body by casting it into furnace.
In countless instances cremation il
viewed as a sacrilege, and so, indeed,
it mnst be treated until with the pass
ing of years the horror of it is educated
out of the general pablic's mind.
1t is singular that incarceration
should appear to be 50 much more
deadfal a thing than the burial Of the
dead in the moulding earth. To those
who favor cremation it seems that
every person ought really to appreci-
ate the sanitary advantages Of it, but
inasmuch as they do not, the time wher
cremation becomes universal depends
altogether upon the amount of en-
lightenment on the subject necessary
to overcome prejudice based upon 9
tender sentiment.-Philadelphia Tim.
eS.