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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Prof. Loeb to Devote His Time
to Experiments.
Scientist, Who Became Famous At
the University Of Chicago, VIII
Continue Researches at
Rockefeller Institute.

San Francisco.-After rs years of
experiments that have already brought
him closer to the mystery Of the
creation of life than any other man.
Professor Jaques Loeb will soon leave
the University OF California for the
east. where he will devote his entire
time to research work at the Rookie
teller Institute for Medical Research.
Prof. Loeb. who is a native of Ger
many and received degrees at Strass-
burg and Wurzburg before he came
to America, achieved worldwide fame
In 1902 while professor at the Uni
versity of Chicago. when he announced
the successful outcome of experiments
IN artiflcially fertilizing the eggs of
sea urchins and producing Life In that
manner.
He also proved that hearts of anil
mails could be made to throb exactly
as they do in life by being placed in
a solution OF common salt, and that
the addition of other chemicals
stopped the organs beating.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Annoyances That Residents Were
Compelled to Endure.
Cstizens Without Watches Could Not
Tell the Hour, a. Clocks Had
Stopped-Transportation
Troubled Many.

Parfs.-Some dozen years ago In
Paris when street gamin wished to
be unusually funny he would yell out
"Voulez-vous un homard?" OWN you
have lobster3") The popularity Of
this slang went the way of most popu-
iarity. but It has never been equaied
until now. To-day when the street
gamin wishes to be annoying he calls
out. "Onze heure moins dix" ut IL 10
minutes to III. and he achieves his
result Whyf Because our nerves
are all on edge and the fact that all
the street clocks stopped at this point
10 one of the little annoyances of the
hood; q mere pin prick. but q pin
prick 10 something after all when 1t IL
repeated all day long.
Probably the Inhabitants of q big
city never realize how seldom when
out Of doors they consult a watch.
You could hardly 90 q block on the
Paris streets without being reminded
OF the time-the right time. and not
this diabolical 10 minutes to IL star
ing one always in the face. Is one
late for business? It Is ten minutes
to III! Is It time for lunch? To 90
home? To go to bed? It is still ten
minutes to II. Parisians seem prone
lately to forget to take their watches,
or perhaps no one really carries q
watch nowadays. A. well-dressed man
crossing the square looks up to the
clock from force Of habit, groans,
tumbles in his pocket and groans
again. Finally he makes his way to
The policeman guarding the Metropoli-
tan station. The policeman shakes
ais head. He has no watch; has never
'elt the need of one the IL years he
has been stationed there. Why bother
With a watch when he has three cleo
rfc clocks before his eyes!
Now that the average citizen has |
'ot over his first feeling of thankful
less that he Is not drowned or home
ess he IL beginning to find the uncer.
ainties Of transportation. especially
he lives f1ve or ak miles from his
lace Of business. still worse Din /
rick. For q few mornings walking
be whole or q part Of the way was
ot so bad, but IN the end 1t became
1onotonous.
1t IL curious to see the eagerness
18th which elegantly clad people will
all plebeian street car The other
corning the place in front Of La
luette was absolutely barren Of We
icles and a group Of rather elderly
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Kitten Banks Like a Dog

And when he is locked up In the house
and sees a dog on the street he is
fairly beside himself to get out.
He does not respond to the call of
"kittie." but whistle or the sound of
MS name brings him on the jump. He
digs necessarily when he is allowed
out OF doors. He Graves bones and
hides them in corners when he Is
through with them. And he covers up
his food as dogs do.
One delfcacy Billiken favors over all
others and perhaps that is neither cat
Ike or dog-like. He likes raw Irish
potatoes.
Billiken's left eye is brown and the
right one turquoise. The animal Is
attracting much attention among the
neighbors.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Car Docs Nadia Work.

York. Pa.-Among the features oil
a complaint made by. Dallastown resi-
dents against the operation by the
York Railway Company of a car with
fiat wheel" on the Dallastown line
1t Is declared that a country woman
starting for York with two cans OF
milk found upon her arrival that the
contents Of one she had brought into
the car with her was converted into
butter. and of the other left upon the
platform into ice cream.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Proof Of WIsd ON.

Il wonder why Minerva was called
the goddess OF WISDOM" queried the
pretty widow.
Il don't know" growled the savage
bachelor, unless 1t was because she
never married"
And realizing there was no hope for
her In that direction, the .. ". got
busy with susceptible widower.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Trades Mustache for pio..

Shelbyyille, Ind.-Tilson Higgins.
after months of cultivation. succeeded
In raising fairly becoming mustache.
This adornment to his upper lip was
not pleasing sight to his mother.
however. and, after some time the
two arranged bargain by the terms
OF which Higgins had it removed. BY
doing so his mother turned over to
him nine pigs, this being the agree
ment reached. Higgins figures that
unless the present meat boycott re-
mains effective he has made a deal
upon which he can build q fortune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
SHARK HAS MESMERIc POWER
counts TOR Effect Produced
on Him.

Ever get mesmerized by a fish,
said the skipper. mo? Wen, / have
been many a time It was a shark
that did 1t.
Il don't know the scientific name OF
this particular variety Of shark, but II
abounds on the Nantucket shoals.
When full grown they are from eight
to ten feet long and weigh from 500
to 700 pounds. They have broad
head, with the mouth wen under It.
They have saw teeth, five rows Of
them, about an inch and half long,
and they can fiatten the lot and chew
their gums. But for a human being
the peril Is in the eyes.
Il don't believe in man eating
sharks. believe that II shark is
In bloody water he gets excited and
Will snap at anything he sees; but
let one of those fellows get his eye
on you and you don't know where you
are at.
They have a habit OF coming up
alongside Of your live boxes and lying
there while you fish. Then when you
get anything on your line the shark
has 1t OF before you get chance to
pull
Il remember the first time saw
one of them. was boy at the time,
and one Of these fellows had come up
alongside Of my live box and I put
my hand out and touched his back.
He didn't seem to mind It at all, but
minute later when / stood up I caught
sight Of his eyes, or one of them
Well. sir, just tumbled back in the
boat and was as helpless as q Jelly
fish out Of water.
II don't know how to explain II.
The eyes of this fish are no bigger
than the point of your little finger,
but there is something that comes out
Of them that makes you tumble all In
a heap. Many a time after that did
have similar experience, and I
know Of lot Of men who have felt
the same effect. The only explanation
] could suggest is that the sharks
eye has some sort Of mesmeric
power"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
A Good Suggestion.

why. declared" exclaims the trusp
ing wife, II won't have to buy any
new dresses or hats at all this spring."
You won't?" asks the crafty hus-
band. Surely you will need some
thing"
Not a thing. I've been looking
through this months fashion magazine
that you brought home for me, and
hnd that there isn't the slightest
change In style from last spring"
And the crafty husband, inwardiy
gloating over the success of his
scheme to paste this years cover on
q last years magazine, leans back in
his chair and smokes and smokes and
smokes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09

"Your boy Jerry has grand voice.
said Mr.. DolAn.
yes. He says he's going into grand
opera" replied Mr.. Rafferty,. he
wants, says he, to have the CROWDS
leanin' forward to catch every tone as
he lifts his voise to express things that
no one but himself can fully compre-
hend"
Jerry says that, does he?"
He does"
Tell him to be an auctioneer. He
can do the same thing and the money
Is surer"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
On the Suburban Train.

Newcomer (who has recently moved
70 the country" Who is that fellow
in the middle of the car-that windy
man who is forever blowing?
Longther Gan old settler)-I don't
really know. but heard some one say
last evening that he was a craftsman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Woman's Work Well Done.

Half forgotten by a public whose
ears rang with her praises two genera
lions ago, and approaching the time of
life when rest and reflection are con-
sidered appropriate. Ida Lewis, the
keeper Of Lime Rock lighthouse, still
attends to her important duties as
faithfully and capably as at any pre-
vious period during her So years resi-
dence on the rocky island. Daily she
pursues a round Of labor which would
exhaust a much stronger woman. and
there ia never an hour throughout the
night when she does not consciously
awaken, attentive to the red glow
which assures her the light is fulfilling
Its mission. Most impressive of all,
perhaps. in her long tale OF service. is
the fact that she has spent only
half-dozen nights on the rock since
she became keeper in 1S79.-Put-
mans.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09

To be gentle. generous, kind; to win
by few words; and to disarm criticism
and prejudice through the potency OF
e gracious presence. is q nne art
Hubbard.
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erxTs or ONO crrY or TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY. -.

LUCAS coUnrr. ..
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partner Of the nrm OF +. J. CHENEY q Co.. doing
business IN the City OF Toledo. County and STATE
etoresatd. and that said arm viii pay the suc Of
ease Of CAfARRH that cannot b cured BY the use q
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed IN my presenea
Ab 9Th day Of December. A. D.. 1885.
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Fighters.

Yeast-Did you say the boy came
from fighting family?
Crimsonbeak-Yes; his father was
colonel in the army and his mother
was suffragette.-Yonkers States
man.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
FastidIous Man.

An observing person said the other
day that II anyone wished to assure
himself that men are more fastidious
than women let him go into a restau.
rant and observe both sexes.
why. do you know" he said, there
10 one man who eats at a downtown
restaurant where do. He brings his
own knife and fork and spoon in a box
IA sterilized one. suppose-and uses
them exclusively. The first time
noticed him he was In the act Of re.
turning his silver to its case, and
thinking he was helping himself to
the company's plate. pointed him out
to a waiter.
"'Oh. it's his own stuff.' said the
latter with a chuckle. He's afraid of
germs, and we have to humor him
little"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
EIdo,s Portion.

Did you give the scraps of meat to
the dog, Norah?"
You forgot, mum. that we'd quit
eatfn' meat. mum. but OF give tn haste
IN carrot tops an pertaty parin's."-
Los Angeles Express.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09

For Headache Try Hlckr capudIns.
Whether from Colds. Heat. Stomach or
relieved BY Capudfne. It's Liquid-pieas-
ant TO take-Enects Immediately. TO- .
and Soc at Drug Stores.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
VesfaYs Roses

have reputation backed BY an experience of 10
years. Anv one can succeed with them. Plants
mailed any point and their safe arrival guaran-
teed. Our New Catalogue for 1910 IL Free.
1t tells how to grow them also other desir-
extraordinary cheap offers. See whatvalues We give
for . little money. JOS. W. vEsTAL 4 SONS,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Proof to the contrarx.

How Queer you New Englanders
TALK"
''In what way, may / ask"
"You don't sound your r."
why, what mistaken idear."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09

Il wrote her q poem on my new
typewriter. 1t began How like . flow-
er your face is.'"
"Yes."
The cursed machine wrote It. How
like -four your face ISL"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-08

lackeys In red and white liverIes. the
house purely European in appearance.
but though nobody asks any questions
II is probable that the great man
when the guests are gone betakcS hiTh-
self To an unprctentious Japanese
house In the same ground, where he
doffs the livery of western society and
substitutes the comfortable garments
of the Japanese gentleman.
EMPEROR'S REVIEW OF TROOPS.
The best opportunity for seeing tho
military In gala attire Is at the annual
review of the troops by tho emperor.
Tho scene is great parade ground
in the open part OF TOXIC covering
so OF 100 acres and surrounded by
a living wall of native spectators The
troops are ready. massed on the farther
side of the parade ground a0c near
the imperial lodge is a party OF some
two hundred Europeans. nearly all
diplomats, and group OF japanese
officers in the fullest OF full milf
tary dress Presently apcars an out
rider on horseback. the precursor OF
the imperial party. then swords
man on horseback. then close car
riage and pair. on tho front scat OF
which sits the chamberlain. MARQUIS
MatSukata. on the rear seat large
and rather heavy figure In military
uniform with red kept OF tho
with the crown prince. two little
princes and an aid, The emperor stops
In front of the lodge prepared for his
reception, goes In and in moment an
open carriage appears. He steps In and
enters with the marquis. and the car
rlage slowly makes round of tho
field. AS the emperor arrives a band
OF trumPcts strikes up the national
anthem In a few seconds IL Is taken
up by another and then another, tho
sound rolling from end to end of the
field. AS the emperor passes each bat
talion and regiment. grayely nodding
his head. there Is no demonstration.
no cheers. AS soon as he is beyond
each unit 1t begins to move 40 as
to form UP for the march past. and
in Is or 90 minutes the emperor
completes his round and stops at a
point marked by circle of sand
There he waits while the review pro-
ceeds,
First comes the commander of the
whole body of troops with his staff.
then the brigade staff; then tho regi-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-08
pEsEREr EVENING NEWS SATURDAY JANUARY 1910

taking a silent part In the entertain
ment 1t Is very new thing In Japan
for high class women to appear and
move about among men and the change
Is welcome to the foreigner, for who
can help admiring these beautiful
ladies. with their delicate oval faces
thickly painted OF course. for that Is
the fashion OF the country their mag
ni1cent glossy black hair. and their
beautiful japanese garments? Many OF
the nigh class ludies speak English
or French. and the young officers say
that the Japanese girl can laugh and
chatter like her western sister.
"A DISASTROUS MISTAKE.
At the ball on the emperor's birthday
most of the Japanese ladies were In
western evening dress. which is un-
suited to their small figures. delicate
hands and feet. and brilliant hair. AT
all such places the supper Is much ap-
preciated. for the Japanese are fond OF
good things. and thereby hangs an In
tercsting tale. On the day before the
iicet LETT Yokohama. the admiral sent
out two or three thousand invitations
to q reception on board the flagship.
the Connecticut. and provision was
made for $500 people II happened oil,
that afternoon that q great number of
Japanese were visiting the Japanese
fleet which lay alongside the Amer
lean; and reasonably supposing that
the occasion OH the Connecticut was
for the generals hosts of the fleet. they
went on board. The reception officially
began at 3 o'clock: at there was
nothing left for the arriving guests to
eat except a black ribbon. which dio
not even bear the name of the ship. for
the $500 Connecticut ribbons had long
since been exhausted.
II Is a privilege to be a guest at the
house of one of the leading statesmen
of Japan. whose son Is a graduate OF
Harvard college. The father, tall
stately. handsome. speaks no English;
but one of the Japanese guests, a grad
uatc of the University of Pennsylvania
easily interprets. The other head OF
the family Is n fine old lady whose
countenancc shows a character and
dignity which makes her one of the
most honorcd women In Japan. Around
the table are several members OF tho
great family which is so affectionately
brought up. including some of the
strikingly beautiful ladies in Japanese
dress. The service Is wholly European
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-08

mental staff: then the first regiment
marching in three ranks. about 60
men wide. and so battalion after bat
talon and regiment after regiment un-
til about 25, 900 troops have dcployed.
As the thousand-lcggcd khaki line
advances II utters not a cheer. As
they pass the emperor the officers de-
press their swords. and the eyes OF tho
troopers turn as II pressed by an elec-
trio button towards the emperor.
There Is not n movement other than
the march. except that some OF the
color-benrcrs shake out their stand
ards to show where they have been
rlddled with shot. Then follow tho
artillery In ranks of six guns. main
tanning excellent lines. until 216 gum
have passed. Then the cavalry. we'll
mounted. we'll trained and riding well.
As the last squadron canters past. tic
emperor returns to his closed carriage.
the imperial party departs and the
humble folk follow In their rickshas
over sand which has been distributed
on the trolley tracks where the en-
peror passes. so that his majesty may
not be joggled. Military authorities
say that the troops make good ap-
pearance: and certainly the officers
whom one meets seemed learned men
educated In their profession and In
the ways OF the world.
Perhaps the most striking lesson In
these social relationships Is that
many OF the wcsterners can but
admit that the people whom he
meets are equals OF Europeans
in appearance. In breeding, in
courtesy and In knowledge OF the
world. You hear French residents say
In the trans. Les Japonais, lis sont
barbares;" but this high-bred. intelli-
bariaDs than their visitors. Whatever
may be said of Japan as whole tho
leaders In that country are men and
women OF the kind of intellectual pow
CT which western nations would like
TO think their peculiar heritage. To
deal with the Japanese upon any the
ory that their leaders arc inferior In
capacity and civilization to the heads
of other states, or that the common
people are deficient in mind. would be
worse than a crime. Tho educated
Japanese family stands alongside the
same class In other lands--AlberI
Bushnell Hart
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-08

ing brings distinction Is very strong.
and Is supplemented by the growth of
modern science and scientific men. A
very powerful caste is that OF the naval
and military man, whose uniforms arc
seen on every street and at every So
cial function. The lower officers ara
not always of a high social class; hut
those to whom responsibility is given
usually speak some foreign language
and have seen other parts or the world.
Then there Is a class of high civil Of
ficlals most of them In Toxic. who urs
like the secretaries and chamberlains
In a European court.
Japanese of all classes are a capable
people. The poorest peasants form trnv-
cling clubs and pay a small assessment,
SO as to send away the members. ono
after another. on a pilgrimage to this
or that famous shrine OF mountain.
The business men are very fond OF as
scmbllng at restaurant to speed 4
parting friend or to congratulate ono
of their number who has been pro-
NOTED. and on occasions of such
solcmnity they all wear the European
frock coat and silk hat During tho
visit of the American fleet the whole
community went to the utmost in hos
pitality.
PICKPOcKETS UNDER CONTROL
ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
OHe nOtdpiS tnlnS curing tnht week
was that though thousands of blue
Jackets thronged the streets not a
single case OF pocket picking was re-
ported though the japanese arc report
ed to be skilled in that trade. The ex
PLANTATION Is that the government sent
for the president of the pickpockets
union. and represented to him that IL
would be highly unpatrlotic to relieve
the blue1ackcts of dollars which In any
case would come to the retail shops. or
course. the guild had to be squared"
to the extent of their probable loss. as
1t was not reasonable to ask q special
sacrifice from one section of the popula-
tion.
The Dutch travellers in the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries relate
that when they were brought to Toxic
10 perform In the presence OF the Sho-
guns. as they danced, sang songs and
pretended to be drunk, there were
rustlings and murmurs behind the
screens. where the Shoguns and the
Shogunnesses and Shogunkins were
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-08
The Japanese As Seen At Home.

man beer guzzling, a prolonged sip
ping. Very rarely one sees men stag
gerine in tho street or engaged In
drunken quarrcls. The good. order is
doubtless heightened by the presence
OF the excellent japanese police. who
are said to be chiefly of tho Samurai
class. and who direct traffic and pro-
tect the peace in Il quiet and very
effective fashion. Yet Ii must not be
supposed that Japan is paradise or
good behavior. Many violent crimes
arc committed. but tumults and af-
frays are rare A year ago there was
mob in Toxic caused by the Chinese
students In the first instance. but 1t
Is not u Japanese fashion 10 air
grievances by riots.
a GROUP OF MIDDLE CLASSES.
Unlike most eastern countries. Japan
has 4 large middle class. or rthcr
group OF middle classes. The founda-
tIon OF it Is u relic of the old feudal
system. the Snmurai who already had
some education, and have furnished
students. minor officials and profcs-
sIonaI men. lii country where the life
of all classes Is comparatively simple,
YOU cannot classify people by the
houses they live in, or by their dress,
and since the great change In Japan AZ
years ago the old caste system has
broken down so far that the bounda-
ries between classes have been sur
mountablc AT present the sons of the
farmer and tradesman compete with
the sons OF the Samurai in the univer-
sity and in the contest for place and
profit; and some of the greatest mobiles
In the empire have sprung from tho
Samural of n generation ago.
The stranger. however, and even the
resident, who has not an intimate
knowledge of the language. knows little
of the real life of either of the lower or
middle classes: it Is easier for him to
fall in with those japanese who can
speak his own language and are familiar
with his ways The higher class in
Japan Is made u3 OF several elements
of which. perhaps. the most important
is the old Daimio families; and one OF
the many miracles In japan is the
amlable temper of the sons of those