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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
MAN THAT THE CROOKS SEEK
The INSCRIPTIONS One Who Wants
Something for Nothing Is Their
Legitimate Prey.

One is forced into sort OF sneak
ing respect for a crook like big
Jack" Strosneider, who got the iron
Jacket the other day for alleged COM
pIicity in the swindle of Coleman, the
thieving bank clerk, by big Biz KEEL
liner. Strosneider is on the level In
his crookedness. He makes swindling
a profession. Sure" he said. not
long before his arrest, Il am on the
cross. But If there were ever legiti-
mate crook, I'm the boy. give to my
profession the same study that an up
to-date physician does to his. | have
correspondents in at least four Eu-
ropean capitals, and they keep me
posted on new and ingenious devices
to separate the sucker from his quilt.
"And the European swindler is a
past master where we are babes. Most
of our schemes are cooked-over vari-
atoms of methods the downtrodden
tin horn of an effete monarchy has
cast aside. You see, the cops over
there are fast workers, and man has
to get It In hurry II he wants to en-
10y life. And over there the govern
ments toss a gentleman of my profes-
sion in a cell and forget him for
eight years before he gets to trial
and II he proves he's innocent the
best he gets is chance to beat 1t
over the boundaries. l keep a card
index of suckers, for a man who has
fallen once will fall harder the second
time. II he has any kale left. Aud !
rather pride myself on my ingenuity.
II l find a crook, I'll land him. four
times out of FIVE"
"Tf you find a crook?" asked the
other party, wonderingly.
Sure said Strosneider. you don't
think a crook can rob an honest man
do you-unless he swings mace? It's
the guy who wants something for
nothing that is fish in the PAN"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
LOVE MEASURED BY MACHINE.
It Will Be Patented by Man Who De-
clares That II Records Psychic
logical Attractiveness.

San Francisco.-A mechanical ar
rangement which he terms love
and which he declares win
measure the strength of human affec-
lions between lovers, friends or rela-
tives-which will correctly tabulate
the amount of resistent will power of
any individual, and which will also
tell to an infinitesimal fraction the
amount of psychological attractive
ness exerted over person by another
has been invented by Charles Tru-
dow, a mechanic, who lives on Jones
avenue, Elmhurst. Trudow has applied
for letters patent upon his continuance
and is seeking capital with which to
start a love machine" factory.
The machine is termed "physty-
mograph" by Trudow. Its powers are
such that the human emotion termed
love is drawn into it when too per-
sons grip pair of handles. not unlike
those of an ordinary electric battery.
A dial which connects a contrivance
of springs and wires registers the
amount of affection the two persons
who grip the handles have for each
other. If there is no love between
them the dial hand remains motion
less. According to tests by Trudow
its only fault Is that it cannot tell
the full amount of love between some
extra affectionate couples. The ma
chine will not measure the affections
of two men-the dial hand remaining
motionless, as is the case when there
is no love between men and women.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Slaughter Houses BE Erected at Smith
field and Importation Of Meat
Discontinued.

London.-To encourage the in,porta-
ton of American cattle into England,
the city of London corporation has a
big scheme on hand. 1t is pre- posed
to construct a huge slaughter house
and cold storage plant in connection
with the Metropolitan meat market at
Smithfield.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will be spent on the scheme, and
when they are completed the build
ings will constitute one of the finest
establishments of their kind In the
world. They will be equipped with all
the latest appliances and are ex-
pected to create a revolution In the
Importation of cattle into this coun-
try.
The scheme is viewed with corster-
nation by the railroad companies here.
who receive a large proportion Of their
income from the carriage of frozen
meat from Liverpool and other ports
to London. Under the new scheme
cattle will he shipped direct to Lon
don.
This scheme will have a double adj
vantage. The meat of foreign cattle
killed in London win fetch as high
price In the market as If the cattle
had been of English origin, while 1t
will reduce enormously the necessity
for consuming frozen meat.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
aaIsIna Culture Pearls.

In Japan, about a dozen miles south
OF the famous shrine of Ise In the
sheltered bay of Ago. long noted for
producing the finest OF oriental
pearls, these wonderful "solidified
drops of dew" are being produced and
marketed with the calm and business
like methods that characterize sue
cessful egg farm.
The process Of raising culture
pearls is simple, and enormously sue.
cessful. With great care pearl oys-
ters are developed until they are
about three years old, when small
pearls or round pieces of nacre. which
are to serve as the nuclei of large
pearls, are introduced into the shells.
The oysters are then put back into
the sea and left undisturbed for at
least four years, at the end of which
time they are gathered and opened,
when 1t is found that the animal has
invested the inserted nucleus with
many layers of nacre, producing a
large and perfect pearl. All that is
required is care and patience, quail.
ties which the Japanese possess to
the utmost degree.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Solves LIVING Problem.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Living at cost
of approximately 80 cents a day for
four years is the record of Yeoman ].
c. Thornton. United States navy,
Memphis. Tenn. Thornton was dis
charged from the service at the In
dianapolis station the other day and
re-enlisted the next day for another
term. His pay, during the last four
years, was at rate of $3.50 month,
or $1,02G year.
During the four years of $4.104 re-
ceived in wages Thornton saved
$3.644. The secret of his economic
subsistence Is that Thornton, being in
the navy yard, paid no board, clothing.
room nor medical attention. He was
not extravagant and did not use to-
bacco, did not drink nor gamble.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Thirty Tons of French Garden to
Be Transported.
Plants Undisturbed While Earth Sur
rounding Them IL Removed From
Reading to Birmingham
Farm Demonstration.

London.-Some thirty tons of French
garden. heavy with plants as well as
golden SOIL" are being removed from
Reading to Birmingham.
The garden, which stood in corner
of Messrs. Sutton's trial ground at
Reading, is the best educational model
yet seen. In its new site in Marley
park, close to the bandstand. 1t will
cover a strip 100 feet in length. and a
good three days work will be spent
in setting it up and. so to speak.
naturalizing 1t. The garden will be
opened by the lord mayor and lady
mayoress of Birmingham, who were
originally interested In the scheme by
Mr.. Chance-like his cousin. Sir Jo-
seph Chance, one Of Birmingham's
notable benefactors.
The model Is described as "educa-
tional," designed to demonstrate the
continental system of intensive cul-
tivation," and as a demonstration 1t
is not less chaming than 1t is edu-
catioAal.
Everything Is to be transferred just
as 1t is. and not one plant Of the
many thousands will be disturbed.
The frames and cloches and open
patches of ground are to demonstrate
the growth and progress Of French
gardening as well as the results; and
for this reason all the spectators will
follow one path in one direction, so
that they may pass with the explain
atory lecturer, as it we're, from Febru-
airy to November.
First, they will see bed in the ma
king, one part pit. one part heaped ma
nure, one part completed with soil and
frame Next comes row of frames
in which three crops are growing
cheek by jowl-lettuces. carrots and
radishes. This is succeeded by row
in which four crops are growing to-
gether, the fourth being caulifiower.
From the frames you pass to the
cloches under which the seed is first
sown, making a close green mat. Next
are the cloches where these seedlings
are pricked out at even distances,
showing how the cloches feed the
frames. At this stage the first part
of the year is completed. The sue
ceeding beds and frames illustrate
how the soil is used yet again for the
later part of the year.
This is perhaps the most novel and
interesting part of the demonstration
! The variety is most striking. One of
the late beds is filed with c,sbbages
between which again is double crop
of radish and endive. These csbbages,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Matches by the Million.

There are many methods of manu-
featuring matches; there are many
different machines employed in such
manufacture. Nearly every company
has machinery specially adapted to
its own peculiar use. and employs
processes discovered or devised by its
own chemists and mechanics. which
are kept trade secrets. One Of these
machines has been known to turn out
l7,926,400 matches in one day, boxed
and labeled ready for shipment
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
The Utility Of AIrships.

Only a short time ago the skeptics
said man could never navigate the air.
Now they are saying that airships
will be useful only in war.
The wise man will refrain from ma
king pessimistic predictions. The
progress In aerial navigation has
been so rapid that we need not be as.
tonished to hear any day of the in.
corporation Of real air line of trans
portation.
Hamilton's achievement recently
that Of Curtiss a few days ago, the
transchannel exploits of FTenchmer
and Englishmen. as well as the sue
cesses of other sailors of the at
mospheric sea, are assurances that
aerial navigation will one day be as
safe mode Of travel and transports
ton as transit by land or sea.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Remarkable Maine Veteran.

One Of the smartest old men In
Maine at the present time is Simon
Smith of East Dixfield. Mr.. Smith was
born October 1. 1917, and is therefore
ninety-three years of age. He never
used liquor or tobacco. tea or coffee,
and never required the services of a
physician. He is proud of the fact
that he never received dunning let.
ter or sent one. His health is still
excellent and he often calls on
friends.-Kennebec Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
City Gums Pigs and Pianos

Cleveland is the second city In the
United States to adopt the plan of
preparing an inventory of all goods
and property owned. The first was
Lynn. Mass.
Il believe that the municipal code
should require every village in the
state to adopt this plan." said City
Examiner Brown. IAN inventory
should be made at least once every
year. 1t is a valuable thing for city
to possess. and 1t is businesslike
procedure that should be generally fol-
lowed by cities of the state"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Will Buy American Cattle

There are already two great slaugh-
ter yards in this country-at Birken-
head and Deptford, near London-but
their capacity is not equal to the de-
mand which any considerable increase
in the importation of live American
cattle would make upon them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Wet Weather kiIls Horses.

Pottsville. Pa.-Over a dozen horses
died in Pottsville and vicinity the 9TH
er day of strange. new disease which
is said to be caused by the wet wealth
er. and different parts of the country
report scores as having died from the
same disease. II begins like the
mango and soon affects the eyes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Ignorant
of
Causes
Of Insanity
By DR.. CARL A. wlcKLAHD

William H. Thompson physician the Roosevelt hospital
York. has alluded the unexpected discovery that insanity dis
BRAIN anatomical investigation moscopcal
otherwise show the least difference between either brain cell fiber
person dying the healthy killed
The underlying that the symptoms indicate ignored this
principally because leads to the unpopular subject namely demonac
spirit obsession.
On the other hand research abnormal psychology has far
that has become feasible transfer the insanity
psychic sensitive who exhibits all the symptoms Of the
patient with the result that the latter relieved This actually
done number Of and carried out large scale
solve the problem which connts every state institution in
When the medical profession becomes willing devote
lion the pshca side for rapid progress will be made
in the treatment and cure of insanity.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
UnClean
Fly Our
Worst
Enemy
AL ". PACKARD

The fly by filthy thing The fly born in fltb
feeds upon filth and takes naturally filth Then our homes
upon fruits falls into coffee
gets milk he gets sugar leaves the bacteria
of dozen diseases and in the food eat
prove this catch hadozen flies put them under cr
scope There you the ba To prove them dangerous bac
take them medical laboratory and you the truth Of NV
The house fly the our landlords
should be compelled the doors windows of ha houa. a
Oats to protect the tenanta
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

though they have only been In the
ground six weeks are already as big
as cabbages which were planted last
November. Five months have been
saved.
Other frames and cloches contain
peas which are already in pod. straw
berries which are just ripe. tomatoes
In flower. and melons just beginning to
set.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Autos Knock Out skeeters.

Orange, N. ANNUAL report Of
state highway commissioners declares
that oiling of roads to lay dust has
had a marked effect on Jersey mos
quitoes, driving them away from resi-
Dental districts and confining them to
tracts where the roads are not treat
ed. Smoke and gases from passirS
automobiles had the same effect
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
"a Mad World, hay Mas,ers.r

George. dear. / see in this paper
that some doctor says everybody will!
be crazy by the year 2175. What DO
you think of it,"
Il think the doctor himself is crazy
for notoriety." - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

historian, eloquent orator. or merchant prince,
but that with noble purpose, high endeavor and
useful end in view you shall make yourself master
in your line.
There is place for everybody, and when man
the right track he win know it by the way things
If you have been boring away in the same hole
for years without striking OIL either your auger too
short you in the wrong hole. When man has
found his true calling he will not find nature putting
any barriers in his path In the right place you will
be resourceful and happy, you will expand and grow
and be at least comparatively successful
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

Eminent alienists agree that clinics re-
veal nothing of the causes of insanity.
DR.. W. NJ. Coplin, director of the
bureau of health and charities, Philadel-
phia, says: Insanity in most cases is un-
accompanied by any perceptible change in
the brain structure. The brain of the pa
tient, when examined under microscope,
shows absolutely nothing which differs in
any way from the appearance of the brain
of perfectly sound person"
DR.. A. w. Campbell, another authority,
says: Insanity neither affects nor disar--
ranges the brain structurally."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

"The Deserted Village Cromwell was farmer az
although the latter had fitted hmse1 LOT MS s
life work by military education at West Point
until he fills his niche Many an
parent boy become either DOCTOR lawyer OF
preacher defeated disappointed and dpted the boy VINO
prince
many think their divine right to dictate the
boys calling life Handel the great was set aside 1or inc
law and his father physician could destroy the boys fond
mes for
parents Bach denied the boy candle that ne had
to copy his music by moonlight
Calico pendulum inventor Of both the microscope
telescope apart his parents for physician but ne
physiology the quiet work out the most difficult
problems mathematics.
Lorraine painter appntced by his parents to pastry cook
while Arkwrghts parents apprenticed him barber
father intended to make butcher his
caused the boy from his home Ger
many and brought him to America.
There can greater mistake the part of the parent than to
the boys design where his genius does not incline The
any shall be famous lawyer slful
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

Is there on law or any feature of our
sanitary laws that will compel landlords
to provide screens for the doors and win
dows Of houses and flats to protect their
tenants from the worst enemy we have
the common house fly?
The egg Of the fly is laid in filth.
Matched in filth, and the parasite feeds
upon filth until it is able to fly and enter
our homes and deposit its germs.
1t is scientifically proved that the COM
mon house fly is the cause of more fatal
disease than any other thing we contend
with.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Domestic Sarcasm.

Husband (savagely)-I wonder why
they call them intelligence Offices?
Wife-Why not?
Husband-You never md any In
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
There Is Right
Place for
Every Man
Proper
Niche
By MADISON C. PETERS

AIERSON said 'The browning fortune OF man - - -
a;4 h;.s 70 so nnrsuit which finds him in employment
and happiness" L.. ~ ro
The business. which love is the one 10 wnlcn We 9
with delight No struggle vctorious,y asa,'. no
own character and the who tries to 90 anything e
that for which nature intended him will be worse tnan
Many of the worlds successful men have 1aeo IN
pursuits before they finally discovered the bent OF tne
cdm;tb failed as physician but became immortal In
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-08-22

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-08-22
MEN RUSH WORK
fCont!nuee from yage o1e.)

tCc.t!Luec from Dags c-e.)
{, over ~ ~ II Tor - RS
tine, the n : ~: run III 70 ) ~.
Aberdeen ID RI &, Cd rhe-e ~r,N
rhia morning. when i, let- o.. q 30
FIR Tacoma Milwaukee trains. for
The present, will not rln On SIlday.
sho"s Much Activity.
A. the present time much activity
ia being shown IN South Aberdeen and
Cosmopolis. New residences and new
store buildings are going up il every
direction in Cogmopolis and large
gang II men under ne DIRECTION u
Thomas Hayraond, Il digging trenches
for Z sever system. In South Abe--
deem the same conditions exists AID
there are many new buildings IN Ell
fence. That the new railroad opera
lions have benefited the south oi Iae
river towns is evident and :he ,lyi-. :
u their rails n The north sid. VII
be warmly welcomed