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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-30
Bryan "a q Preacher.

Bryan, riding upon the Demo-
cratic donkey and coming to us as
the apostle of free silver and gov
eminent ownership of railroads,
failed to reach the goal of public
election; but Bryan as the apostle
of Christian thought and inspira-
ton would attain worldwide VIC
tory second only to the achieve
ments of those bold workers who,
without scrips or slaves or two
coats, went out into hostile world
to'sow the seed for the harvest of
eternity.
The announcement that Mr..
Bryan will not in All probability
again enter politics, but will in
stead. devote his fine talents here
after to the cause of religion, does
not come altogether as a surprise
to those close enough to him to
understand the strong religious
wool into which is woven the warp
of his nature. Such a service
would be in accord with his views,
and for it he is eminently fitted by
study, travel and temperament.
1t is said that he has become con-
WINGED that he can do more for the
public uplift in this field than in
the arena OF politics. He will not
become a sectarian minister, with
one parish or fold. He will rather
reach out for the great masses of
people who have no church afilia-
tons and no avowed creeds. It is
from the rostrum rather than the
pulpit that he will speak, and his
text will be charity and worldwide
honor, without any narrowing lines
of sectionalism.
Since his intimation that he will
devote more time to the further
ance of the cause of Christianity
it is said that be has received in
vitations to speak in many foreign
countries. Indeed, 1T would seem,
from the calls that have reached
him, that the world is eager to hear
the old tidings of salvation preach
ed by this new teacher. His clean
life, his wonderful oratory, his
heart-searching voice all combine
to make him an ideal preacher.
If he leaves the road to public Of
fee and turns instead into the
universal vineyard, consecrating
his splendid genius to the rescue
of benighted or erring souls, it will
mark a new epoch in the history
of the cross. Not since the days
of Saul of Tarsus will the world
have heard such ringing message
of Immortality as he will deliver.
Who knows but what this was
his ultimate destiny. that he was
intended rather to save souls than
to serve parties. Com
mercial Appeal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-30
Worse Than Bullets.

Bullets have often caused less suffer
ing to soldiers than the eczema L. w.
Hartman, Burlington, Me-. got in the
army. and suffered with, forty wears,
But Bucklin's Arnica Salve cured me
when all else failed" he writes. Great
est healer for sores, ulcsrs. boils. burns,
cuts. wounds. bruises and piles. 25c at
all druggists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-30

Diarrhosa should be cured without
loss Of time and by medicine which
like Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoes Remedy not only cures
promptly but produces no unpleasant
after effects. 1t never fails aud is pleas
ant and safe 10 take. Sold by all deal
ers.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-30

WANTED-Reliable. energetic man
to sell lubricating oils. greases and
paints In Grant and adjacent coun-
ties. Stetson Oil Co., Cleveland, u.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
GETS SEE, 600 IF He MARRIES
English Youths Legacy Has String
Attached-Fears He Cannot Find
Bride in Year.

Boston.-John E. Mason, a young
Englishman who, until he came here
about three weeks ago, was employed
as a photographer in New Orleans,
has received from his home in Eng
land the information that he has been
left a legacy of $4,000. The money
will not be paid to him, however, I'M
less he takes a wife and settles down
for life within a year.
Mason says he has yet to meet a
young woman to whom he would pro-
pose marriage. He is in a qIandary
over the bequest.
Out of employment and almost out
of funds and nowise in touch with
young women eligible for marriage,
Mason says he feels his outlook is
discouraging.
In his room at a lodging house Ma
son told the story of his eventful life;
how he started four years ago from
England and came here to make his
own way. He says he made the ac-
quaintance of Admiral Higginson of
the United States navy, and became
sort Of protege Of the admiral, but
doesn't care to go to him in his pres
ent dilemma.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
CRY FOR MISSING HUSBANDS
Poorhouse Guardians Who Care for
Deserted Families Would Prose-
cute Absentees.

London.-Notices are posted at the
police stations in the metropolitan
area advertising five dollars reward
in each case for information as to the
whereabouts of 68 missing husbands
who have left their wives and fami-
lies chargeable to Wandsworth union.
This list is by no means exceptional
for London. No fewer than 149 men
of Bethnal Green have left their fami-
lies to the care of the local union in
the last three years.
Missing husbands have way Of
coming back after few months abb
sence, but for IS of the 149 at Beth
nal Green the guardians were forced
to issue warrants of arrest.
Only fifty of the men were actually
arrested, their accumulated sentences
covering a span of ten years impris-
onment. Forty-two returned volun-
tarily to their homes and AZ were won
back by the union officers. Fifteen
are still missing
One sovereign is the usual reward
offered for tracing a wife deserter, and
it is wonderful what an amount of in
formation is Forthcoming at that fig
ure Some unions Issue their notices
oDiy sinGly. but others, like Wands-
worth, and generally those in the
western suburbs, wait until they have
a considerable number to include in
one advertisement.
The day following the issue of one
such announcement an old loafer
walked into the relieving office Of one
of the western unions with informa-
ton regarding three of the missing
husbands, all of whom happened to
be his friends. After he had drawn
SIS it is said he salved his conscience
by treating each of the three in turn.
In all rs per cent. Of the wanderers
return either by compulsion or Of
their own volition.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
PARCHMENT HAS ODD STORY
Document Mere Than Century Old
Exonerates Man of Wrongdoing
Mot a Criminal.

Canton, O.-Rurlmaging in quaint
old desk among a heap of musty pa
pers, yellow with age, Miss Elizabeth
Reed. I'll Shorb street, this city, has
found a historic document. 1t almost
crumbled as she read it. That the
loss of a piece of ear, caused by the
bite of a horse, should be sworn to
before justice puzzled her and she
investigated.
The document, dated in Hamilton
county. certified that John Reed, when
child, had a small piece taken out
of the under side of his left ear by
a horse. and concluded which hath
been lawfully and sufficiently proved
by the oaths of living witnesses, given
under the hand and seal of the I'M
dersigned justice Of the peace, De-
cember 81, 1901. Signed. Houton
Clarke"
Miss Reed upon investigation
learned that at the date of the docu-
ment there was custom of marking
criminals by cutting away part of one
of their ears. John Reed was her
great-grandfather one Of the settlers
of Ohio. and to dispel presumptions
on the part Of strangers that he had
lost part of an ear by being marked
as a criminal he secured the document
to certify to the contrary.
Further rummage by Miss Reed
found papers showing the discharge
of her -great-grandfather Isaac
Reed, from the war of the revolution.
The papers were dated July 27,. 1879.
A soiled promisory note of 1905
showed that John Denham was debtor
to Isaac Reed for the ''just and full
sum of IL gallons of good merchant
able whisky to be paid the first day
of March"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
WRITTEN BY ELECTRIC PEN
automatic Hand at Receiving End Of
Telephone Records what Has
Been Transmitted.

LCndon.-An automatic hand, hold
ing an electric pen and gliding with
a strange mechanical noise over a pad
of paper, to record the thoughts or
wishes of some friend or business con-
nection, may soon be seen in many
homes and business houses. 1t is, in
deed, already in use in many parts of
London, but one can only write by
electricity from one part OF some es-
adjustment to another part of the
same building.
Now, however, exchanges are being
installed, similar to telephone ex-
changes, SO that every one who has a
telephone can have this remarkable
recorder added.
The electric writer is called the
telewriter, and a 21-year lease has
been granted by the postmaster-gen-
eral, enabling telewriter exchanges to
be formed, by means of which any one
possessing a telewriter will be able
to ring up another person who has
one.
Suppose the person you ring up is
out. This will not deter you from
communicating with him. You write
a message with your electric pen, and
simultaneously the same writing ap-
pears on the pad at the other sub
scriber's instrument When asking
broker to buy shares at certain
price. the advantage Of being able to
give him the figures in writing Oh
paper is obvious.
The first exchange is being erected
at 20 Bucklersbury, e. c., and it is an
ticipated that by the beginning or
middle of March it will be in full op-
Grafton. Should all the people in the
city now using telewriters in their
offices become subscribers, there will
be something like 100 persons or firms
connected with the exchange.
A little later it is proposed to start
other exchanges, in the west end and
other parts of London, and then in
many of the provinces.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
BEAVER NEARLY FEELS TREE
Animal Eesitates to Take Another
Bite for Fear Big Trunk Would
Fall on Him.

London.-With mingled pride and
anxiety' the beaver in the London
Geological gardens is gazing on his
years work.
A mighty tree trunk, which was
erected in his Enclosure IL months
ago is almost severed. 1t balances
on a wasp waist only an inch in diam
eter, while the rest Of the log is at
least a food across. 1t was presented
to the beaver in order that he might
improve his teeth.
Chiseling away at the tough trunk
with his sharp teeth, the great rodent
has put in hours at time at this
work, alternating with periods of in
difference and neglect.
Now he has Clipped away all but
the last possible shaving. A careless
ly thrown pebble or another bite by
the beaver would cause the great log
TO crash down. but the intelligent
beast, fearing for his own neck. omits
to bite.
In a breeze the upper part of the
tree trunk sways amazingly and yet
the wasp waist holds. The beaver
looks on with his mouth watering and
wishes that he had the pluck to bite.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
Raise Quail by Hand.

Hunters Hot Springs, MONTH";
teen little mountain quail are being
brought up by hand by Mr.. and Mrs.
Clark Ireland of Racine, Wis, who are
spending few months here The
mother of the brood was killed, acct
dentally. by Mrs. Ireland when she
went to the clothes press in her room
to get out her merry widow" hat The
young quail then we're discovered. The
mother bird had found her way into
the room from the hotel veranda and
made her nest in the hat. A quantity
of canary bird seed on near by shelf
had kept the mother and her young
sters alive up to the time of their dis
covery, and the baby quail now are SO
we'll grown that they eat al sorts Of
food and are becoming tame.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
WILD ELK HERD is THRIVING
Andover, NJ. H., Has Colony of Fifty,
Which Has Grown from Twelve
Liberated Ten Years Ago.

Concord, N. Hin the sparsely set
tied town of Andover, reaching from
Ragged mountain on the north to
Kearsarge mountain on the south. is
the only herd of wild elk east of the
Rocky mountains.
party of Boston lawyers recently
visited Andover on a snowshoeing trip,
climbed Kearsarge and Ragged noun
tains and returned full of enthusiasm
for the region as winter resort.
Leaving Boston at nine o'clock in the
morning, they left the train at noon at
Potter Place, the principal station in
the town of Andover After dinner
snowshoes were put on and the party
started up the south slope of Ragged
mountain over the property of the
Ragged Mountain Fish and Game club.
1t was on this property that herd of
IL elk was liberated about ten years
ago. 1t has now increased to the
number of so.
The cottages of the club members
are conspicuous on the southern slope
Of the mountain. occupying picturesque
sites, but most of them are grouped
near Cold pond. famous fishing pond
on the club property. Soon after the
pond was closed to public fishing some
one took revenge for his exclusion by
placing in the pond several pickerel.
These increased at a marvellous rate.
feeding on trout until the latter were
i1s Thn ri
rid the waters of the lake of all fish
and stocked it anew, until the fishing
is once more excellent.
The Boston party were much disap-
pointed in not getting a sight of the
elk, but their tracks were everywhere
to be seen, ranging from the tracks
of small calves to the hoof prints of
two-year-old heifers. Instead of being
pointed, like deer tracks. these tracks
we're blunt in front and nearly oblong.
1t was learned later that the herd had
taken up it's quarters on a neighbOr-
ing farm. where they we're feeding
coatentedly on young orchards.
The owner of the farm has instruct
ed his men to protect the property,
and reports are daily expected that
some Of the elk have been slaughtered.
AS elk are protected in New Hamp-
shire throughout the year. interesting
legal questions will be raised if any of
these elk are killed. 1t is said by land
owners that they have right to pro-
tect their property from depredations
of wild animals, but how far this right
extends has never been determined in
New Hampshire.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
An ObIiqing Senator.

Washington.-Mem of congress
frequently receive requests of an I'M
usual character A few years ago
Senator Frye was asked by constitu-
ent in Maine to send him the congress
sional library, and correspondence was
required to disclose that the writer
wanted report of the congressional
library. That request was considered
all-embracing until the other day,
when one reached Senator Hale OF
Maine, which read as follows:
Will you please send me thesUnited
States?"
"A map of the United States was sent
in response to the letter.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
v|v|SECT|ON IS AID
Prof. Angel of University of Chi
. cago Defends II as Benefit.
Educator Declares Operator in Ex-
periments is Merciful to Beasts
and Seeks Only Knowledge
to Add to Skill OF Doctors.

Chicago.-That the surgical skill
and medical knowledge which is saw
ing thousands of lives every year and
making an annual decrease in the
death rate is due largely to expert
ments on living animals, and that any
pain which 1t is necessary to infiict
IS justified by human necessity, is the
burden of a series of pamphlets which
the American Medical association is
issuing from its Chicago headquarters
in answer to attacks by the anti-vivi-
sectionists.
Essays on the value of animal ex-
Fermentation in furthering the knowl
edge necessary for correct diagnosis
of disease and for the treatment of
cancer, tuberculosis and other danger
Gus infections are included in the
series.
Prof. James r. Angel of the Uni
versity of Chicago, and son of ex-
President Angel of the University of
Michigan, contributes an unqualified
defense of the ethics of animal exper-
imentation, taking issue with the state
ment that unnecessary cruelty is prac-
ticed and declaring that in all reputa-
BILE laboratories anaesthetics always
are used.
ut should be remembered" he says
in this connection, that the selfish in
terests Of the operator almost inevita-
bly, and invariably make it to his adj
vantage that the animal should suffer
as little as possible in order that it's
vigor and vitality may be at the max
imum. But even if all experimenters
were hardened by their work into
disregard of animal pain, society
might still pronounce the value Of
their results to outweigh this draw
back.
l1Ifn the larger view, which looks to
the ultimate welfare of society as
whole, such men are among its most
valuable humanitarian members, what
ever their personal attitude toward
the animals with which they work"
In speaking of the anti-vivisection-
lists argument that the results of ami.
NAL experimentation are merely of
scientific interest, Prof. Angel de-
clares that the progress of science
comes closer to the lives of all the
persons in the community than the
majority of the people realize.
Science HIS too long masqueraded
in the popular mind as a realm of in
practical theory touching the life OK
the common man in the most remote
way" he continues 1.-THE contempt
rary world appreciates increasingly
the falsity of this view. In industry,
in commerce, in medicine and even in
government itself the scientific knowl-
edge of yesterday is the basis of the
practical device of today"
Declaring that too many people have
become unduly heated in the, discus
sion, Professor Angel asks for calm
and discriminating judgment on the
part of the general public.
For the sentimentalist," he says.
ito whom all thought Ct gratuitous
suffering is abhorrent, probal ly no
argument can ever fail to justly GER
tain forms of experimental procedure.
On the other hand, to the man famil-
lar with the revolutionary advances in
science and medicine which have orig
mated in the experimental use of an
imals it's condemnation seems the last
word of a pernicious insanity
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
Let US grind your coffee free.
BRANDON MER. co.
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NE2 eVggr7 aflSTr1

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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-31
Cupid Falls at Last.

staunton, Vac. G. Rugh Of Nelson
county has returned to- the Augusta
county clerks Office marriage IL
cense issued to him and Miss Fanny
Grass April rs, 1904. saying he does
not need it at present. He fails to
state what happened to Cupid in these
six years.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23
"A Serious BIunder

eyes" said the drug clerk. 20
called up occasionally to comnen =
prescriptions at night" 4s
Isn't man apt TO make mistoh.
working in semi-darkness?a
you bet he is. took pluy..,
quarter once" as's
Get After the Flies,
With the warm days flies mult,,l.
amazingly. Now is the time 10 =
tack them and prevent the bread;ns
of millions from the few hundreds thas
already exist.
Perhaps the most effective metbos
Of destroying flies is by burnins
pyrethrum in each room. This stnns
the flies and they can be swept up ana
burned.
Flies are dangerous carriers of d,o.
ease and an enemy Of humankind n
your part toward keeping down thu
pest and improving the health of your
community.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23
Try This. This sumnnn

The very next time you're hot tiraa
or thirsty, step up to soda fouptaia
and get glass of Coca-Cola. It Win
cool you off, relieve your bodily ana
mental fatigue and quench your tbirs,
Delightfully."-. At soda fountains !,
carbonated in bottles-5c everywbera
Delicious, refreshing and wholesome
Send to the Coca-Cola Co., Atlapta
Ca, for their free booklet "The TrntS
About Coca-Cola." Tells what Coca.
Cola is and why 1t is so delicious IA
freshing and thirst-Quenching. And
send &c stamp for the Coca Cola Basa
ball Record Book for I910-contains
the famous poem Casey At The Bat
records, schedules for both leagues
and other valuable baseball inforns
ton compiled by authorities.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23

The ex-Shah of Persia appears to
have settled for himself at least the
problem Of what to do with deposed
monarchs. He is studying medicine
and hopes soon to become practising
physician. And that is much more
honorable and commendable proceed.
eng than dwelling apart in sullen idle
ness or plotting revolutions against
his country. Some other "exes'
might initiate his example with much
credit to themselves.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23

OF course 1t is guesswork as yet, and
40 one will know the actual popula-
ton Of the United States until the
decennial federal enumeration now in
progress shall be completed. But
word comes from Washington that
census officials, basing their opinion
on what has been learned thus far,
believe that the total for the country
Will be not far from 100,0Oo,O0O, which
will surpass most estimates made pre-.
viouslys
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23

That Culebra cut is one of the great
difficulties in constructing the Panama
canal. Latest reports show that vast
mass OF stone and mud has dropped
into the excavated channel, involving
a whole lot of extra work. But this is
one of the contingencies that had to
be considered. and American pluck
and perseverance will carry the job
through In the face OF all obstacles.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23

The new battleship South Carolina
has returned to Norfolk after a trip
at sea for target practise with a new
record with big guns, having made
sixteen buIlseyes in sixteen shots with
Che twelve-inch weapons. With a
score like that to their credit the
tackles of the South Carolina must
come pretty close to the champion.
ship for good shooting.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23

Because Chinese immigrants have
been detained on Angel island, the
Chinese residents have boycotted
American goods Just what their rea-
soning is, is difficult to understand
Evidently, however, they are trying to
meet boycott with boycott.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23

The thrifty Dutch also are buying
large amounts of American bonds and
other securities for permanent and
.se .,s. Investment The Eetherlanders
are q canny folk, and when they make
q purchase OF this kind It is pretty
strong testimony to the excellence Of
the bargain,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23

A man who started to cure by fast
ing one of the Ills that flesh is heir
to has made the discovery that II
cured all ailments in his case. Hay
ing become defunct he is free from all
disease, even the fever called living
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23
DANGEROUS Job,

Kind Lady-Here is rhubarb pie
my poor man. How did you get that
wound on your arm?
Tired TIM was a lookout, NUN.
Kind Lady-Ah, a lookout ca
steamer and there was a collision?
Tired Tim-No, mum, a lookout fol
a second-story man an de Watehman
winged me, mum.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-07-23

4 Chicago surgeon has discovered
how to graft new extremities on the
bodies of his patients. Science should,
in this way, be able to assemble
man superior to the natural article.