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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-20

so bad in 1t; that by Mr.. Sims (men
toned above) advice he poisoned it
that IL took ON squares. then bios.
SONS. and that he made four bales
TN the five acres, and that he had
some cotton on high, dry sandy
front river laD,l. not poisoned. on
which he did not make enough tc
try To pick. Mr.. Sims confirms the
above.
| swore before the Crop Pest Com.
mission with uplifted hand, hat off
that l had made on both my Star
Point and Willow Grove plantations.
on cotton well poisoned bale pei
acre. against like or better looking
cotton not poisoned making one
tenth TO one-fourth bale per acre.
Mai. Fred Step. of Alexandria, and
many other gentlemen from Louisi.
ana and Mississippi. saw this cotton
and testified to the above facts. |
could ill a volume with these. testi-
nnonials, ana in the face of these facts
the bats and the owls are taking our
country. When the Boil Weeyil Con
ven tion. which met in Shreveport in
January. 1905, and turned me down
ton LordyD. l put on file with W f..
Glasseil. Of Shreveport. a prediction
OF what has happened, now pre-
dict. III less than five years. that I'M
der MarstOn's plan to fight the boil
weevil the people will care no more
Cor it than the northern people do
for. the potato bug. nor than the
southern cotton planter does for the
caterpillar. which Taught them how
to destroy in 1871. And don't Won
forget IT, AS | was writing this my
mail brings me the following:
Washington. Jan. 6.-Discouray-
ing reports concerning the efforts to
stamp out the boil weevil in the cot
ton growing regions of the MiSsis-
sippi delta was made to the HolIst.
Committee on Agriculture to-day by
DR.. O. l.. Howard of the bureau of
entomology in the department of
agriculture. He said that owing 70
the climatic conditions there. the in
sect nultiplies with such rapk.ity
that the methods of eradica tion
which had proven a success in Texas
had not been successful in he delta. ;"
Goodbye katiei" knew il was
coming. DR.. Howard. DR.. Hunter
and the Crop Pest Commission of
Louisiana have dngged me all over
Texas and Louisiala
Now go TO work and poison your
cotton and whip the weevil and cot
ton will come into its own again.
A. soon as | get money enough |
will put il mp and insure the work.
Yours truly, b. W. MARsToN,
East Point. La.
Z. S--A man who goes mp against
the boil weevil. without being pre-
pared To fight il. needs a guardian.
With a rainy spring and summer and
few ants. cultural methods in u fail
IRE. Arslis K Co. are my agents in
Shreveport. La. MARsTON.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-20
SHERIFF. SALE.

Thirteenth judicial District Court.
Parish of Grant, State OF
Louisiana.
Crawford Jenkins Il Boothe versus
u. +. Dewitt * Bro.
J. T. Gibbons versus u. Il Dewitt
Il Bro.
". FL. Lands W. w. o. Collins
ct ais.
b. j. Wolf Il Son vs. u. <. Dewitt
ct ais.
W. ". Clarke vs. u. T.. Dewitt.
BY virtue of writs of Fieri Fa-
sias issued out OF the honorable Thir-
leenth judicial District Court and to
me directed in the above numbered
and entitled suits, | have seized and
will offer fof sale between the hours
prescribed by law for judicial sales.
AT the principal front door Of the
court house I'm COlfax. La, on
SATURDAY. Fen. 20, 1909.
the following described property
seized as the property of the defend-
ant in the above numbered and en-
titled suits. to-wit:
10 acres of land. being the lie or of
NV or and NV or of he or of sec. Is,
tip s n. r 4 west, La. Meridian.
Lot 3 ia, block II. and block 7, and
lots l0 and ii of block IL. Part Of
lut 10 in block 10. and store house
aud stock Of merchandise ON said
part OF lot 10 in block 10. all in verda.
Terms oI sale-Cash. subject to APP
praisemenf, the property to bring
not less than two-thirds of the APP
praisement.
This 18th day OF January. 1909.
A. b. PERKINS,
Sheriff Of Grant Parish, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-20
Save Money by Buying Chamber
tain'S Cough Remedy.

You Will pay inst as much for bottle
of Cbamberlain's Cough Remedy as for
any of the other cough medicines, but
you save money in buying it. The saw
ing is in what you get. not what you
pay. The sure -to-cure-you quality is in
every bottle of this remedy, and you
get. good results when you take it.
Neglected colds often develop serious
conditions, and when you bny cough
medicine you want to be sure you are
getting one that will cure your cold.
Chamberlain Cough Remedy always
cures. Price % and 80 cents bottle.
For sale by Valley drug store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-20
SHERIFF SALE.
Thirteenth Judicial District Court
Parish of Grant. State of
Louisiana.
j. Il. McNeely vs.. S. T. wilkins.
NJ. DIT

Louisiana.
j. Y. McNeely VS.. s. Il. wilkins.
No. 2.317.
BY virtue of writ of seizure and
sale iSsned out of the honorable Thir-
teenth Judicial District Court and To
me directed in the above numbered
and entitled suit. have seized and
will offer for sale between the hours
prescribed 10y law for judicial sales.
at the principal front door of the
court house in Colfax.- La. ON
SATURDAY. Feb. 20. 1909,
the following described property
seized as the property of the defend
ant in the above numbered and en-
titled suit. tO-wit:
Forty acres of land ing on the
east side of lots four and five of see
ton twenty-five. township six north
range three west. said forty acres so
lying as to include a house occupied
10y :. L. wilkins ON the date of the
sale of this property TO him by J. H.
McNeely. said lots four and five being
bounded on the north by Bynum Es-
tate. ON the south by Bayou Toreau,
on the east 10y Bayou Darro. and on
he west by lands of Citizens Bank.
and being situated in Grant parish.
Louisiana, together with all i'm
prOyements thereon.
Terms of sale-Cash. subject to APP
praisement, the property to bring
not less than two-thirds of the APP
praisement.
This l4th day of Jan. 1909.
A. b. PERKINS.
Sheriff of Grant Parish, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-20

Johnson. No. 2147.
BY virtue of writ of Fieri Facias
and decree of the court rendered In
the above matter and issued out a
the honorable Thirteenth Judicia
District Court and to me directed,
have seized and will offpr for salt
bet ween the hours prescribed 10y Law
for judicial sales. at the principal
front door of the court house In
COlfax. La. on
SATURDAY, Feb. 20, 1909,
the following described property
seized AZ the property of the defend.
ant in the above numbered and en-
titled suit. tO-wit:
That certain tract of land acquired
by Samuel johnson from g. h. Teal
containing two hundred and forty
acres, bounded above by lands OI
John Ryan and Others or assigns. he.
low Ivy lands of John &. Calhoun Oh
assigns. in the rear by lands of b. H.
Phillips CT assigns and fronting OH
Bayou DeGapp.
That certain tract Of land acquired
10y Samuel Johnson ut tax sale. con-
Thinning five hundred and sixty acres
bounded north 10y lands of b. II.
Phillips, south by land Of A. A. Dean
or assigns. east by land of Edenborn
or assigns and west by land of Phil
lips.
That certain tract of land acquired
by Samuel Johnson from the State
of Louisiana lying and beingin Grant
parish. Louisiana. and aggregating
nine hundred and thirty acres. of
which eight hundred and ninety
acres are described as follows: NJ
of SWA. Nh of SEA. Sec. 10; ny of SW
4. NJ of SEX Sec. 30; SEX of Mex.
SEA of Sec. II; SWA, VIZ Of SEX Sec.
8. TIN. K3 W. Also NJ Of SEA less
) acres. Mex of Sec. "A. tx of SWA Of
Sec. IA, NWA of Sec. q. Sec. "A, L n,
X W. toget her with all of the build
ings and improvements thereon. All
OF said lands being situa ted In Grant
parish. Louisiana
Terms OF sale-Cash, without ap-
praisem"nt.
This 18th day of January. 1909.
A. b. PERKINS,
Sheriff of Grant Parish. La.
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w anted: viii, horse and h bus"

gy in zach community. salary So to
$40 per day. to take orders from
owners OF fDrns. orchards and home
gardens. splendli,lup opportunity for
farmers SONS. also frnit tree and
sewing machine agents. Ia make a
business connection which will l,e-
come more protifai,Iee each year. Adj
dress z. q. Box Ia, Youngs Island,
South Carolina. ju23-3m
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Trespass Notice.

No hunting allowed on the Rock
Island plantation under extreme
penalty of the law
MRS. l.. MCNEELY.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-20
SHERIFF SALE.
Thirteenth Judicial District Court,
Parish of Grant. State of
Louisiana.

s. Gumbel & Co. Ltd. VS.. Samuel
johnson. No. 2147.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-20

p. S--A man who goes MP against
the boil weevil. without beiug pre-
pared To fight il. needs a guardian
With a rainy spring and summer and
few ants. cultural methods is a fail
ure. Arslis K Co. are my agents in
shreveport. La. MANSION.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17

IT IS a poor heart that never re-
joices.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17
MAKING IT UNANIMOUS IN INDIANA.

A college professor had been invi-
ted to deliver his lecture on High
ways and Byways of Literature" at
little town in Indiana-the State
that produced George Ade and James
Whitcomb Riley among other fa-
voriteS.
The eventful evening came; and
as the lecturer gazed upon the row
upon row of earnest, eager faces be-
fore him breathlessly waiting for his
message, happy thought struck him
and, stepping to the front of the plat
form, he said:
AS this is to be purely a literary
lecture it seems fitting that practition-
ers of the glorious art of writing, if
any are present. should receive due
recognition and honor, and before l
begin my discourse l wish to extend
cordial invitation to any author who
may happen to be in the house to
please come forward and take a seat
on the platform with the chairman. +"
In the frantic rush that ensued the
three front rows of seats were upset
and demolished, four woman tainted
and had to be carried out, a half doz-
en- derby hats were crushed to pulp,
three men received black eyes, sever
al others had their coats ripped up
the back, and the reading-stand was
toppled over with a crash. When
the dust had settled down so that it
was possible to see across the hall
once more one man alone remained
seated in the auditorium. The rest
were on the stage.
The astonished lecturer gazed for
moment at the deserted man in front
of him, and then, the humorous side
of the affair appealing to him, he
smiled indulgently down upon the
solitary occupant of the auditorium
and said
II forgot that this was Indiana.
Perhaps you did not understand my
invitation"
"Heyl What's that?" demanded
the man, holding trumpet to his ear
and leaning forward with a look of
strained inquiry on his face.
II say, perhaps you did not under
stand the invitation" repeated the
lecturer. "This being discourse on
literature, any author who chanced
to be present was requested to come
forward and take a seat on the plat
form with the chairman"
"Oh, all right; I'm coming
Didn't hear you the first time, F" apol-
ogized the deaf man, and he, too,
rose to his feet and started briskly for
the platform.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17
For "THE UNION"
For "THE UNION"
ARBOR DAY.
To the Teachers and Pupils Of the Public Schools
Of Our Country.
BY EDWIN HIGGINS.

An ancient woodland is now rarely seen,
With its hosts of veterans with banners green.
Great cities stand where proud forests once
stood
There's the hum of wheels for the song of birds.
The shrieks of engines for lowing of herds.
The vines, the shrubs, and the wild field flowers.
Bowed lowly their heads in Aprils showers;
They nestled or climbed in shade OF the trees.
They laughed or they sighed in the passing
They garianded the sleeps of the sunny hill.
They shone in the meadows like stars on high,
When night strews with her gems the mldnignI
sky.
The pine bowed to storms on the snow-capped
peak,
The birds and the deer found their sweetest rest
Beneath the cool shade on the mountains breast,
Bough of the oak Graded the robins nest,
Like the song OF the wave the oceans crest.
The children swung on the low-swinging vine,
And gathered brown cones from the fragrant
Bushels of nuts from the great chestnut tree,
And lessons of thrift from the busy bee;
They fished for minnows at foot of the hill.
And bathed in the race near the village mill.
The arm of Progress hath swept these away,
There's scarce O relic of the Olden day;
The race for wealth and the power of greed
Have swept them away with the lightnings
A brave loving voice lifts its helpful hand,
For Nature it pleads, it rouseth the land;
"There are places bare, uncouth and unkept,
"The sources of ills, ungarnished, unswept;
"All these would lift to beauty again
"Plant trees in the street and shrubs in the lane.
"I'll marshal the children with fairy's wand.
"With green wreaths and garlands they'll strew
"And lessons they'll learn from flower and nook,
"As true and lasting as from wellthumbed
book"
Gladly. cheerily they brighten each scene,
In brick and marble they blend in the green;
A new era comes to the quaint old town,
Trees and creepers shake their bright blossoms
down;
Shades of lindens line the long stony street,
A feast to the eye; there's grass at the feet,
Down from the cornice, o'er yon sunlit wall,
Troops of sweet roses in bright clusters fall;
Fair fountains aglee with clear m u n ali n
streams.
Chant music by night or dance in sunbeams.
Away with alleys go broaden the street.
So sunshine and Zephyrs shall fondly greet
Transform and transfgure for lives sublime,
Then plants of childhood, the cries of the poor
Shall never be heard at thy kitchen door;
From ashes of hope sing peals of laughter.
Comfort and joy from cellar to rafter.
Blend charms of Nature with the grace of Art,
The skill of the hand with glow of the heart;
Blend them into one magnificent whole
With grand uplift to the human soul!
Displayed afar to youths enraptured eyes,
To broad ennobling levels it snail rise,
In strength as the steel, in bloom the flower,
To rule the land with beauty and power.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17
MRS. RoosEvEIrs PLACE IN HISTORY.

Mrs. Roosevelt, as "The Woman
in the Background" is sketched by
Mabel Potter Daggett in the March
Delineator, and the clever character
study brings forcibly to the public
mind the fact that the woman who
has been the first lady of the land"
for seven years has been from first to
last the least conspicuous figure in the
Presidents family.
Her portrait has been done in oil
by Chartran. The frank mouth is
smiling. But in the gray eyes is an
inscrutable expression of reserve. So
future generations will see her, says
Mrs. Daggett. This is the picture
painted at the order of the French
Government and presented to the
American people. Once she said /:
"a woman's name should appear in
print but twice-when she is married
and when she is buried" Then she
stepped within the threshold and
closed the door of her house. 1t hap
pened to be the White House.
Living side by side with the most
written-of man of his time, she has
yet quietly withdrawn within the
shadow of his luminous personality.
The Libraries are crowded with vol
umes that repeat his name-you will
search them long for the merest men,
tion of hers for, as his biographers
have come and gone, invariably they
have been met with one condition.
Even as they sharpened their pencils
they have looked up from their note
books to hear a soft voice say firmly:
Gentlemen, only with this under
standing are you given access to the
data about the President-you must
leave me OUT This is the reason
the world has heard so little of the
real Mrs. Roosevelt, and she will step
out into history as one of the least
known of the women who have
reigned there. In her passing we
write her down as the woman III the
background.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17
ONE STATE SHORT.

"Jedge," said the old darky, "you
been married man long timer"
eyes"
can you experience is jest an
wise 7"
"I hope so. Why1"
"Well, sub, l got oman ter say
she'll marry me-one dat's willin' ter
ris airly an make a livin' fer de Oh
man--dat's why"
"But-you are very old man.
Were you never married :"
"Oh, yes, suh,'' was the reply, 'in
Tennessee an Alabama, but both er
m tried to rule me, an so / lef' m
'fo' got experienced good; but I'll
say dis much. hez never yit tried
de married state in Georgy. ."-AAan-
Ia Constitution.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17

A PRIEST was describing heaven to
a class of boys. He ended by saying,
"You may describe heaven in two
words eternal bliss Now can any
boy describe hell to me in two
words?" A voice: "Please, sir,
eternal blister"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17

BENEVOLENT feeling ennobles the
most trifling actions.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17

CHEERFUL IDIoT-What's the diff
ference between a Bostonite and
cannibal?
Compassionate Friend-I suppose
one lives in Mass, and the other lives
en- maSSe.
Cheerful Idiot-Oh, no. One eats
Boston beans and the other eats hu-
man bein's.-Colum6ia Jester.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17
@tsceI1

It's q powder. The chicks inhale it. Kills
both worm and germ. Whole brood treated In
five minutes. Retail price. &c.; by mail, S5c.
full information. Address.
T. @. HACKETT,
Apl.IO-3ml Hillsboro, Md.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17

A BALTIMORE man had decided
that he must administer stern lee
ture to his six -year-old son, Harry.
The boy had been naughty, but did
not seem to appreciate the fact, and IT
was with some reluctance, therefore,
that the parent undertook scolding.
He spoke judiciously, but severely !;
he recounted the lads misdeeds and
duly explained the why's and where
fores of his solemn rebuke, his wife
the while sitting by duly impressed.
Finally, when the father ceased for
breath and, incidentally, to hear the
culprit's acknowledgement of error,
the lad, his face beaming with admi-
ration, turned to the mother and said !:
"Ma, isn't Pa interesting !"-Har-
bey'S Magazine.
1.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17
A BREED WORTH PAYING FOR.

The calf which an English farmer
had taken the summer resident to see
surveyed his owner and the stranger
with a wary eye. "What breed is
your calf" asked the visitor.
The farmer removed a wisp of straw
from his mouth and said
"The critter' s father gored ajustice
O. the peace, knocked book canvas
ser end over end and lifted tramp
over fence; and, as for his mother,
she chased brass band out O. town
last New Years Day. If that amt
breed enough to pay rs shillings for,
you can leave him be. I'm not press
ing him on anybody"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-17

"MY POOR man, how did you ac-
quire such thirst?"
cit wus dis-a-way, mister; when
de doctor operated on me for appender-
citis, lie forgot an left sponge inside
o. me-"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-16

Territorial lawmakers gather tomor-
row in the opening session of the fifth
Legislature of Hawaii, with w. o.
Smith and Holstein sure for the Pre-
sidency and Speakership of the Senate
and House, respectively.
Rice of Kauai will be Vice-Speaker
of the House, the Rev. Lono will pro-
badly be chaplain and invoke bless
ings on the proceedings of the Rep
resentatives.
Woodward is slated for Clerk of the
House and Jimmy Lloyd is down for
Stenographer, according to the Oahu
members.
All Senators and Representatives are
in town and ready to start the ball
rolling. At 2 o'clock this afternoon
the Oahu Republican Representatives
hold a caucus in the Stock Exchange
rooms in the Judd building, and at 4
o'clock there will be a full Oahu Re-
publican caucus of the members of
the House in the temporary Republi-
can headquarters on Merchant street,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-16
May SUE
BICKNELL

Some thirty members OF the police
force refuse to accept their pay war
rants, for that the Board of Supervi-
sors cut down their pay from the pay
specified in the payroll signed by Sher-
iff Jarrett.
Today they still refuse to accept
and talk of suing on Auditor Bick-
nell's bonds, since they claim that he
had not right to issue warrants on a
payroll not certified to by the Sheriff.
1t seems that the Sheriff, however,
is held by the Supervisors as having
certified to all he had to certify to
when he put his signature to pay
roll testifying that certain employees
had done certain work.
The police committee of the Super
visors went according to Sheriff Jar
rett's signed payroll as far as the
names of employees and the time they
had worked was concerned, but used
what they claim is their right to rec
ommend certain reductions in the pay
of some individuals, which recommen-
dations were passed by the Board
Bicknell therefore isuing warrants on
the schedule prepared by the Boards
police committee
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-16
LURLINE HAD
NO TROUBLE.

The Lurine, which arrived last
night with the cannon-boat Mohican
in tow, has been the victim of a fairy
yarn, in a large measure. All the re-
ports sent in to Honolulu of terrific
gales encountered" Mohican breaking
away and drifting helplessly in great
storm, etc, were the veriest rot, sent
in by the transport Sheridan.
That the vessels were in heavy wea-
ther is true, but even the weather was
not nearly so bad as has recently been
encountered by vessels between here
and the Golden Gate. The tow line
holding the Mohican pulled 'out, set
ting the tow adrift for sixteen hours,
but at no time was the old bark in
danger and no alarm was felt at any
hand. Officers and passengers aboard
both the Lurline and Mohican were
surprised at the alarming reports set
afoat here by the transport. The Off
GERS of the Lurline speak of the tow
chain dragging from the windlass as
a very ordinary matter and not unex-
pected.
The Lurine docked at the Oceanic
wharf about o'clock last evening,
where she has been discharging freight
today. FOrty-five mules were brought
on deck and arrived in fine condition.
Twenty-one are for G. Schuman here
and twenty-four for the Kahului Rail-
road Co. In addition the vessel has
1000 tons Of freight for Honolulu and
500 tons for Maui. She will sail at 8
o'clock tomorrow afternoon for Kahu-
lui.