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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
FINDS KIN AFTER 40 YEARS
Pennsylvania Man Gets Trace Of Rela-
tives In Spain After Many Years
Of Searching.

Bristol. Pa.-For the first time In
40 years Joseph Kesiah Of Bristol has
heard from his relatives in Spain. At
the age of II he was taken from the
fields in the town of Seron, province
of Almeria, and, unable to read and
write, was drafted in the Spanish
navy. From that day until this he
has been entirely without knowledge
of the condition or welfare of his par
ents and seven brothers and sisters.
With his father he had been in the
business of raising sheep, and, being
in the interior of Spain, had never
seen the sea. Aboard ship for the
first time, he became horribly sick
and despised the life into which he
had been forced. His ship touched at
Havana, Cuba, and sailed for New
York. While at the latter city
Kesiah escaped and was given en-
ployment in a Spanish boarding house.
He stayed in New York seven or eight
years at various work. then went to
Clifton Heights, Pa, and finally came
to Bristol, where he is now engaged
in the oyster business.
His story came out, and the Ameri
can consul at Malaga. Spain, was com
municated with. The consul wrote to
the postmaster at the town Of Seron
from which Kesfah had come, and
through him a family, Garcia by
name, was found. The consul ex-
planned that the name Garcia had
been corrupted, in all probability, into
Kesiah.
A letter from one Jose Quesada
Garcia was inclosed In the consul's
letter, and this was read to Kesiah
The writer, he said, was his brother
The Spanish letter stated that two OF
the mans brothers and one sister had
died and added that those living were
DESTROYS Of seeing their absent broth
er. He will visit them In Spain.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
FOOTBALL PERILS FOR UNFIT.

Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsyl-
Vania, Michigan, Minnesota and institu-
tons of like rank are not represented
In the seasons list of dead and the
critically injured at football. OF the
big teams in the country that at West
Poln. lost Cadet Byrne, who died of
his hurts, and that at Annapolis saw
Cadet Wilson disabled by fractured
vertebrae. Cadet Byrne received his
fatal injury when he returned to the
game I'm a weakened condition after
having been retired for slighter hurt.
says New York World. From the
rolls of the football dead and of those
critically hurt 1t can be seen that the
majority of victims came from high
school teams and from amateur
elevens Of irregular training. We
reao of one death from lung trouble
due to exposure on the field, of an
othe,' from overexertion and of stu
dent of Dickinson seminary in Penn
sylvania who was Frustrated by
stTychnine taken to stimulate his heart
action during a contest. All these
fact; support the contention of those
unwavering advocates Of the game
who contend that the supreme perils
Of football arc chiefly for the unfit.
Perhaps 1t is true that the direct road
t. saving reform in football lies in a
more rigid regard for physical fitness
among players than In much tinkering
with the rules.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
Much Good Done in Holland by
Raiffeisen Local Banks.
Give Help at Low Interest-Run on an
Economic Basis They Tide the
Peasant Proprietors Over
Hard Times.

The Hague-Quite a feature in the
country districts of Holland is the
local loan banks in aid of the peasant
~, which have so materially contrib
uted to keep the people out of the
clutches Of the usurers. 1t Is to .
German, the mayor of a small village.
that this benefit is due.
The popularity called Water Raiffei.
sen," by the people. saw the straits
to which the small farmer is often re-
duced by poor seasons and other mis-
fortunes, and how it is often impossi-
BILE for him to obtain credit for con-
tinuing his work, except at ruinoua
interest. He saw how the local trades
men, the bakers, butchers and grocers,
often took advantage of the impossi-
bility of the farmer paying for his
everyday necessities; how they kept
on selling him goods on credit, Civ
ing bad wares at high prices. as the
farmer could not possibly take his Gus
tom elsewhere, and gradually he got
more and more entangled and saw his
debts mount up until his small farm
and his stock could no longer be called
his own. Then. on an evil day, every
thing would be sold for a small sum
to some insistent creditor, and the
peasant proprietor would be forced
back into the ranks of the farm Ia
borer.
Father Raeffeisen. who loved his
Village children" thought deeply over
this problem. and conceived a scheme
by which they might be tided over
their difficulties.
He began in small way by organic
ing a cooperative society for buying
cattle If, for example, the members of
this society bought COW, they did not
have to pay the full price at once, but
In small instalments. He had so much
success with this that he soon was
able to organize society on a much
larger scale, which extended loans for
all agricultural purposes. The bene-
fetal effects were soon visible and SO
many demands for loans came in that
he determined to make some slight
alteration in his original plan and to
found loan and savings banks.
Soon the fan,e of the institution
spread abroad and his example was
widely followed, not only in Germany
but in Holland as well, while his own
name will live on in these organiza-
tions which he himself called into
being, for they are everywhere known
as "Raiffeisen banks" The differences
between them and ordinary banks
are many. While the idea Of bank
generally IL to make . good profit,
to give high salaries to it, oi1cers and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
DIFFICWT TOSTEER

row of the first rigid naval airship for
Great Britain.
In front of him upon the pilots
bridge will be number of instru-
ments. There are two pressure
gauges for the gas bag and two for
the balloon containing air. There is
an aneroid barometer, which registers
height, and there is an infinitely deli
cate apparatus called the statoscope,
which shows instantly whether the
airship is going up or. down.
Then there is a sextant, which meas
ures the angle of the sun or star above
the horizon or above an artificial hori-
zon, and there may be also a perfect
compass which will enable the down.
ward angle of its needle to be read ac-
curately. so that the exact latitude can
be obtained.
Compass needles. If left to them
selves. will always point downward in
a northerly direction. The angle at
which they point downward CORE
spends to the latitude. but it Is only
Just now that accurate readings of this
angle are becoming possible. This
will, of course. be great aid to aero
nauts. If they know their latitude and
longitude they know where they are
A constant exact knowledge CT lati-
tude would at any rate be half way to
perfection. Navigation of the air
would become far easier than it is at
present.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
LEMONS CURE WHITE PLAGUE
Iowa Woman, Given Up az Hopeless
by Doctors, Ate Dozen Citrus
Spheres Daily.

Sioux City, Ia.-Eat twelve lemons
a day for twelve days. This is tn,
simple cure for tuberculosis recon
mended by Mrs. Charles 8. Banse
who, after being given up to die b.
the physicians, made herself health.
woman by taking the lemon remedy
Boil the lemons until they are pal
atable," she says. Il took IL lemon
a day in this manner for more thai
IL days, but l saw marked improve
ment before the IL days had elapsed
l am a well woman today"
Mrs. Banse now Is picture o
health. Her lungs are in no way al
fected and she swears by the le1o
cure.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

to give a high percentage to it's share
holders, the Raiffeisen bank only trie
to give loans at as low a percentag
as possible to those in need of ther
and the only salaried Official of tn
bank is the cashier, while all tn
others give their help for nothin,
The cashier, who has the most respoI
sible position. must be ready to COME
with the customers and to pay out an
receive money. Even he only gets
nominal salary; generally 1t is abor
so forms ($20) a year and in not
single case does 1t exceed 500 form
$4,000 a year. The board of director
and committee of control are all chot
en- from among the citizens of tn
highest standing in the village.
The initial cost of getting such
bank into working order is very los
First there is the deed to be draw
up by a notary, which cost varies wit
the locality from 40 to so forms. The
a good safe has to be bought, and thi
costs about 100 forms. Other expense
for books, paper, etc.. do not great
increase the total. SO that about 80
forms covers the whole affair. TIL
Dutch government gives a subsidy {
175 forms year to every Raiffeise
bank which has joined one of the Gel
trail cooperative Raiffeisen bank
which are under government supe
vision. There are three such centr;
banks in the Netherlands, and MOI.
of the small local banks are allie
with one or the other. The total car
tai invested in them is 100000 10
ms ($6.000.000) In all the province
of Holland such local Raiffeisen banl
have been established.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
Farmer
Blamed
for High
Milk Price
By h. sIRADER

body The said: "W you customer SO will let
you have it for cents But don't tell anybody"
Ny doctor told her recently should use much milk
aud buy from certain company which named Yet dare
that the milk deliver is at least rs ood as anv
milk delivered Chicago wonder doctors are getting tins
from the octopus in while.
The farmer honest resort to the tricks If
dealers dairy products like 1t is the man who null, M
and not the who produces that reap profits The wheat
farmers and dairy farmers have their income pretty well regulated m
spectators and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

Every time that we make up our
mind that there's no such thing as
pirate gold buried hither and yon
something occurs to change our belief
and to get US all on edge again. says
Boston Herald. The recent severe
storm along the coast of Yucatan is
said to have uncovered thousands OF
last century English and Spanish coins
buried by the old pirate Lafitte. and
again into our soul comes that old boy.
hood unrest and belief that If we
started out with proper digging out
Mt and a reliable map we could un
earth treasure galore. When people
nnd a pot of gold why in the name OF
Captain Kidd can't they keep still
about it and let us tend to our blissfuI
knitting?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

It is alleged that the price of milk
went up because the farmer gets more for
it. The facts are that the farmer is get
ting this winter $1.37 can of 80 quarts;
that it, little over four cents quart. In
the summer time we get ST. and sometimes
80 cents can, or about three cents Q
quart. So, if the farmer could steal the
milk he would not make so much profit as
the dealer. He has to pay the freight also.
have cousin in the city who uses
four quarts day and gets milk from
big company. She said: eff you raise the
price will quit and get milk from some
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

It sounds like older and not better
times to hear of orders for the pursuit
of pirates. The British ship Rowann-
moore reported that she was attacked
BY a piratical schooner in Bahaman
waters, and the United States govern.
ment has directed that the revenue
cutter Window shall proceed from Gal
weston to the Bahamas in search Of the
rover OF the seas. Other cutters will
Join the Window and. adds the dis
patch. for the first time in many
years American armed vessels will
search for pirates" This smacks more
Of the times of the buccaneers and the
black flag with skull and crossbones
fung out by sailing vessels directed by
skfllful though wicked navigators than
VI the days Of steam, wireless telee-
Apply and other modern improve
nents. But feet of modern revenue
cutters would make short work Of any
pirate craft that offered resistance.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

There is no longer the slightes,
doubt that China is wen on the road
to civilization of the modern brand
In fact. the most civilized civilization
that can possibly be imagined. And
as usual the impetus comes from the
Urited States. The Chinese are devel
oping a special liking for two first.
class American Neutrality-suspicious.
graphs and ice cream. The popularity
Of the latter article is said to be really
phenomenal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

The multiplicity of flying devices
leads inevitably to discussion as to the
advisability of establishing rules for
regulating aerial navigation. One
genius has suggested that certain
strata be designated as routes for GER
tain classes of airships. though just
how these routes are to be marked or
"buoyed" is not explained. But COM
plication difficult of adjustment may
arise II the contention of some lawyers
Is correct. This is that under the CON-
mon law, which comes from England
and In turn was based on the old Ro-
man code. property holder owns the
air above his head, with no limit to
height. This, In English-speaking
countries, at least. would make a tres
passer Of any aviator who flies above
another's land. and If identified and
caught the flying man could be pun
ished accordingly. All these things
are conjectures. of course. Still, 1t is
evident that If travel by the air route
shall ever become general there will
be many novel points to be considered.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

This essential not simply that the house may be clean and the CHI
dren clothed fe but that the family income may be wisely
expended The wife and mother su and capable that she
dispense with the of others her housekeeping may readily
double the purchasing the ordinary This ability to
maintain family upon limited not only matter OF great
individual family but community Training
which will insure this end of vital Importance and the schools VIII
not have discharged their full responsibility until such teaching assured
for every girl
The works the home of anoha against which
ons urged again find evidences of the monce
ton OF the value of domestic service and its appropriate compensation
If the work of the housemad housekeeper well done
proach value the household of the wife and mother 1t will
be rightly considered hor properly compensated until the task
OF the wife and mother properly meaud and add this
will not become attractive than present until unite in
recalling the finer and ruer conception of service Then might rejoice
homework for the sake of the large opportunity which provides for
assisting in the essential maintenance !.
of the home and the safeguarding of =
its interests. O~~ -
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

Complaint is made that in our public
schools girls and even boys are given in
structions in the first elements of dancing,
and that sometimes they really dancel
Dancing is one of the elements of so
cial education, part of modern civiliza-
ton. The knowledge of correct dancing,
gracious and sylphlike, is as necessary to
our young people as the knowledge of al
zebra, and more, and therefore should
have its place in the curriculum of our
public schools. Many parents have not the
means to send their boys and girls to a pri-
vate terpsichorean school. and. the knowl-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

Misunderstanding seven red anC
white tails prolonged six inches to tho
fineness Of needles. and tipped By Lit
tie speckled petals. an orchid bloom
won q special prize for Sir Trevor
Lawrence .. the Horticultural soct
ety's flower show at the Horticultural
hall.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
Dancing is
Element
of Social
Education
By EUGENE N. BAlLAR

edge of dancing being necessity homee
at public celebrations all the world cannot very well see
why dancing should not be taught in public schools
The mar and west boy the most beautiful girl back num-
bers at entertainment they don't know how
happy marriages are the results of the ballroom
Therefore far from being blot the public school, board of
education OF the city of Chicago should seriously consider question
OF introducing the teaching dancing public schools
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

There is no country in the world where
the stranger can travel in greater safety
along the public highways than in Mexico.
Once the country roads of that nation
were infested with robbers and man who
traversed them took his life in his hands
Many of these same bandits who in old
days delighted in the stand-and-deliver vo-
cation are now members of the rurales. a
band OF mounted rural police, which in the
way OF preserving law and order has hard
ly an equal in any land.
The iron hand of Diaz has converted
the brigands. with whom ho ono. $500,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
Plague Germs In MIX.

Washington.-Fifteen per cent.
those who die from tuberculosis
the District of Columbia contract Il.
disease from milk, according to ,
declaration by Health Oficer Wood
ward. Inspectors from the depart
ment of agriculture, working durini
the last week. found that large pei
centage of the cows in certain herd
in the district were infected. OF Iii
animals examined. it was said that q
were found to be diseased.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
tuberculosis Hospital.

New York.-A $2.350.0O0 hospitss
for treatment Of New York tuberculD
sis sufferers will be completed ne14
year. 1t will provide for more than
1000 patients. 1t was begun on Q
Staten island site with a city appro
priation of 100000. An additional
appropriation of $1,350.000 has been
voted.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

Thirty-eight hundred dollars for a
small copy or two of Poe's poem,
comes rather late to relieve the none
tary stringency which Poe expert
enced during his life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
Home
Makers
Good Career
for Any
Young Woman
By SARAH LOUISE ARNOLD

ordinary of the service rendered in the home
has often been the ue of the ambitious search for career
~Housework" may stand for three widely varying Ca
reers" The first il fairly expressed by the common honey
phrase "She does her work" If we think OF home-mak-
ing I'VE realize that nearly threeourhs OF the
women who preside homes must dispense with outside
service becomes matter of great Importance to the nd
vdual as well as the community that every girl shoud
know the arts and processes involved IN housework.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

A New York policeman has inherit.
ed $1.000.000. That is not the regula.
ton way for . New York policeman
70 get 90 much money.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

All football players except the dead
ones win nov devote brief osason to
sssovsring.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22
Mexico
Is Safe
Country
for
Traveller
b JANIS n. MUuIcAN
4 Nsnisrsy

into model police officers and thanks to their vigilance and LOYALTY
tourist the most isolated parts republic without e.,
Of molesaion " -1
In the large cities of Mexico the robbery tendoot ven =
the sections inhabited BY the lowest class i common :;
hs United StateL - '1 -
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-25

San Francisco, May 23.-Jack John
son expects to be on hand to see Jim
Jeffries do his boxing in San Fran
cisco next Friday night. The idea
was put into the champions head by
one of the trainers at his camp, and
although it was inded more as a joke
than anything else, he decided it
would be a good scheme.
"Jeffries certainly will be surpris-
3D." remarked johnson, IF should
show up with some false whiskers
and suddenly pull them off while he
was boxing"
The black fighter dropped back into
the road work this morning. Bright
and early he was out on the park
roads and before he had finished had
covered the usual twelve miles.
"That is the work that is taking off
the weight for me-" he said. when
I reached California I weighed 227
pounds and no wi am down close to
218. For the fight l expect to weigh
something like 208. You see when
I fought Ketchel out here weighed
1913, but have grown heavier since
then, and my best fighting weight will
be at 2O8. I am eating good, drinking
just what I please to, SO you see I
can get down to that weight without
difficulty"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-25
RoNDA.
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A great prairie fire in the vicinity
of Broncho afforded work for large
number O& men recently. One should
use the greatest precaution not to
set these fires, as aside from the dan
ger to property, perhaps life, the
burning of the old grass, which serves
as a mulch and is a great conserver
of moisture, will cause great loss
by it's destruction.
Mrs. Dietzn,an called on Mrs. Leach
recently.
There's no mistake in Gods great
plan. Whatever is, is best for man.
Zina Lloyd-I.each.
Recently the Stanton Republican
published some stuff deploring the
existence of blind pigs In Mercer
county. calling them a disgrace, yet
with an undertone in favor of that
most terrible disgrace-an open sal.
Don. Now there is way to get rid
of this disgrace to our fair county
Every honorable citizen should give
evidence to our states attorney, who
will be only too glad to be supplied
with such, "And Brutus Is an honor
able man." Were we to have open
saloons, we might catch the riff-ratf
from other states or countries with
such bait, but the higher class OF
people simply will not 60 to a state
where such temptations lie before
their children.
Editors, teachers and preachers
should be our purest type of people.
As educators, civilizers and christian
izers they should use their power to-
ward the elevation of the human race
and be sure to be on the right side
at all times.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Walker visited
at John Leach's recently.
Robert Denniston is working for
Gustafson.
J. D. Denniston arrived from Min
nesota recently. He will doubtless
locate among US.
A fine three-days' rain fell in our
section recently. Some people had
been very much frightened for fear
it never would rain. Keep on work
ing, cease croaking, and put your
trust in North Dakota and Almighty
God.
Nothing these days is appropriate
without a word or two about Halleys
comet.
G. G. and G. G. Lloyd each purchas-
ed a team from Charles Gustafson.
Jacob Hanck has bought new
surrey.
Efforts are being made to have the
Rev. Gray locate here and preach for
us. We shall doubtless be success.
full.
Calvin and Jay Denniston are work
ing with Carpenters steam plow.
Jay Denniston went to Bismarck
Tuesday to file on q claim.
Bernard Derby is blowing with his
engine for George Miercort.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-25
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Peter Baker was calling on friends
and relatives at Clayton Saturday AID
Sunday.
The dance given at Evertt Brandt's
barn May 13 was grand success
in every way. The dance was given
for the newly-weds, Mr.. and Mrs,
Wesley Baker. A large crowd attend
ed and every one reported a fine
time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Baker took a
trip to Hazelton Saturday.
Hubert Marsh was over from Fort
Rice Sunday.
Walter Nogle, Wesley Chandler
and AID. Scott went to Hazelton Sun
day to see the ball game.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Laury spent
Sunday afternoon visiting at Clayton
Helen Baker visited few days at
Clayton last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Sperry were up
from Emmonsburg Wednesday.
David Stills, wife and baby went to
Stewardsdale Saturday to visit their
uncle, Will Brown.