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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22
Mrs. Edward B. McLean's $4,000 Fete

4 FUSlLLADE OF rapidly exploding
"A dynamite mines and the sudden
Transformation of miniature battle
field set with platoons of manikin SOL
diers into "a field of carnage" with a
fully equipped corps Of Red Cross
nurses rushing to do service among the
wounded" was the browning feature
in q series of surprises which made
the $4,000 fete Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Beale Mclean gave the other night
one of the most astonishing and spec
tacular affairs ever given in Washing
ton. Small fortresses dotted the gar
dens, and cavalry and cannon added
to the realism Of the martial picture.
Red Cross ambulances and Red
Cross nurses arranged on wires
charged with electricity whirled rap
idly to the scenes of the several ex-
plosions. and within twenty minutes
after the firing of the first mine the
Italian gardens set with fifty bat
talions Of soldiers in battle array look
ed like Red Cross hospital camp In
the full tide of bloody fray.
The occasion marked the climax OF
q weeks entertaining planned in hon
or CT the delegates to the interna-
tional Red Cross conference.
Eight hundred guests. including not.
ables from every country in the civil
lized world, attended the reception,
which was marked by the elegance OF
q court function.
/ >. Edward Beale Mclean. wear
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22
Remedy for Pests.

To get rid of hog lice apply freely
along the spine mixture of equal
narts of kerosene and machine oil by
means of an oil can or apply 1t to all
parts of the body by rubbing In with
a rag or cotton waste. Repeat the APP
plication in ten days. Irritating appli
cations, such as undiluted kerosene.
cannot be safely used on sows in pig.
as abortion may follow their use.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

courts; next to the "Chinks" / think
the Germans predominant; there is a
large sprinkling Of Malays and Las
ars. heaps of Frenchmen and Swedes;
Italians, Turks, Portuguese and Span
iards all have their place in the col
ony; the Scotsman and Irishman are
here in large numbers, and then some
where at the end Of the list come q
few struggling Englishmen.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

The famous Mona Lisa Is said to be
In the United States The only clue
the art detectives have to trace her IL
that she wears a smile which will not
come Oh. In these days that Is some
Identification.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22
AdaptabiIity Of Peanuts.

The peanut used to be considered
a crop especially adapted to southern
climate 1t is now demonstrated that
it will grow In practically any sec
ton that will raise corn, and 1t Is .
plant rich In feeding value.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

According to scientist the older .
star Is the faster It moves. Long prac-
tice in lodging vegetables and other
similar tokens from audiences surely
ought to count
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

A college professor has discovered
that a woman scratches a match with
an outward movement. Those sheath
gowns are certainly doing their share
In emancipating the sex.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

It 10 said that the Egyptians knew
about appendicitis 1000 years ago.
Which may afford clew to how they
got the money with which to build the
pyramids.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

On Mars year fs 730 days long.
It seems evident that some Of the
ladies have adopted the Marian cal
endar without saying anything about
It
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

The price Of eggs in China now IL
five cents dozen. but unfortunately
for economical housekeepers. 1t is
5000 miles to China by the shortest
way.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

A scientist announces that coffee -
frequently the cause of divorce. Some
coffee Is capable of worse things than
that
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Cincinnati women want . curfew
for men only. When man has to be
chased home It Is plain he needs 9TH
e. inducements.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Harvard knows lot, but she has
had to acknowledge that she doesn't
know how to keep the college efms
alive.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Writing paper is to advance in cost,
but 1t Is too much to expect that the
rise win teach some impetuous states
men the excellence of the old rule,
Never write; send a man."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

A train ran a race with q cyclone in
Kansas-and won. The cyclone must
have rubbed the earth too close and
got full of friction.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Massachusetts man who fell heir to
millions has bought farm. He Is
now in a position to raise chickens
and still keep out OF the poorhouse.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

The Hagerstown, Nd. public library
keeps an automobile that delivers
books from door to door. Those books
must have been ordered by telephone.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

The baseball season of 1912 bids
fair to be quite as highly seasoned as
the baseball seasons of other years
have been.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22
FamIn. Survivors Eat Each Other

Shanghai, China.--One-third Of the
population of Chinese districts in the
vicinity of Shanghai are dead as the
result of the famine caused by floods
last summer. Survivors are now said
to be eating each other.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

In Ohio 1t has been held criminal for
a candidate to give voter cigar.
The recipient of the cigar very gen.
orally endorses that principle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

The rain falls more on the just than
the unjust. for the latter attach them
selves to any umbrella in sight.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

An optimist Is man who believes
that the anthracite trouble will soon
be settled. so that coal will be plenti-
full and reasonably cheap next winter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Tho Princeton student who has in
vented a pocket for woman's silk
stocking evidently isn't devoting all
his attention to his studies.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Chicago has discovered a girl with
a perfect foot" says the Toledo Blade.
Did the poor girl lose the other one?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

A preacher informs us that no man
has right to tell his wife lie-not
even a harmless one. And yet we
have been told that self-preservation
is the first law of nature.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

The hide Of the whale Is said to be
two feet thick in some places. This
makes the whale the politician Of the
sea
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Los Angeles chorus girls are said to
be out on a strike. II they don't like
their jobs why don't they go into poll
ticsf
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

A society woman in New Jersey
died while playing bridge. The game
is often a shock to its players. but not
often such . fatal one.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Europe reports an eclipse Of the sun.
but China's Sun continues to shine
and break into the newspapers
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Imports of diamonds have fallen on
heavily" says the New York World.
Perhaps all the hotel clerks are now
supplied with EN-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

In pay-as-you-enter cars the particu.
lar woman to pay fares must be Sc
lected on the spot.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Hay is selling in Cincinnati at $40
ton. but what Of It? What's the price
of gasoline?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22

Letter paper Is to cost more. but
the lover will be expected to write
long letters just the same.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-22
Free speech is unrestricted at
baseball game.

The unloaded revolver kills more
than the unsuitable ship. for 1t never
rests
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-22
News From Australia

Writing from Hornsby, New South
Wales, Rev. H. G. Payne, an evange
list of the Church of Christ, asks tina,
he be sent year book of the Anti
Saloon League for 1912 saying that in
the recent campaign in New Zealand
against the sale of liquor he used the
1911 book with good effect. Rev MIR
Miller says that but for the heavy
majority required, three-6fths of all
the votes cast, New Zealand would be
entirely "dry." He adds that the
liquor party is on the run and that the
next vote probably will run it clear
out of the dominion New South
Wales, he says, probably will reach
vote this year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-22

that | am not as other forms of life,
nor even as this poor, short-lived, brok-
en- corn that is called meal shall get
together other cells OF my own quality
and we shall be a yeast cake, wrapped
IN tin = foil, clean, unexposed, vital,
powerful, true to ourselves, loyal to our
tin-foil, exclusive, high, apart, critical,
standing boast and rebuke to the
crowd. Let ourselves be stripped and
broken and hidden in the mass Of
common meal? Not on your life
What do these dull chips and fragments
OF humanity mean, and these striving
but mistaken neighbours that they do not
come to us, and deny themselves and
be like us? What is God thinking Of
that he lets publicans and sinners be the
best friends of the people when 10e are
waiting to reorganize society, and make
yeast-cake Of it?"
These very elementary reflections are
apropos of the prohibition movement,
now SO imminently and aggressively
hopeful in all the trades and businesses
and charities and studies of the nation
Every citizen who brings out of his
closet, or his church, or his devout
meditation, the consciousness of leaven
in himself has reckened i'll as to his
growth in grace if he feels set up and
set apart from the masses that compose
the body polite. The sure sign that he
is risen will be strong, gentle, humble
desire to be with and of them, helping.
encouraging, inspiring The masses are
the meal, the Kingdom, the hope and
help of God in the nation. The local
option impulse, visible everywhere, is
the quickening of the three measures OF
sovereignty toward becoming the bread
of national life. 1t is but little any one
OF us can do. But it is little that needs
to be done. By the spirit of liberty
equality and fraternity we can keep up
the temperature of the civic material.
The Yeast will do the rest
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-22

three measures of meal, till the zshole
1suS leaUened."
Heaven is leaven That clears UP
some perplexities as to speed. Dyna-
mite is much faster and shower But
1t refuses to cooperate. 1t cannot per-
sist 1t blows itself out as an agitator.
1t is worthless at construction 1t de-
molishes. Then it quits. What it
leaves is scraps, and business for some
patient builder.
Leaven expands, but at the same time
1t assemblies and combines. 1t never
lets up until the last bit Of material has
been engaged. 1t cannot be exploded.
1t cannot be delayed. 1t is MORALLY
slow, but it is Immortality sure.
Heaven is nothing extra 1t is
native of the earth. 1t is a mode Of
earth-making. 1t is a plant bred and
nourished from organic compounds of
the earth, kind of short-circuit evo
luton, and very wonderful. 1t is the
earth, opened up to its own meaning.
When the new earth" is realized
Heaven will drop out of the plan just
as philosophy is done for when it's facts
become science
Leaven, although so intimate and
common, is mystery. "Cryptogamous'
the dictionary calls it. That means
hidden" This saves it from becoming
bumptious and self contained The
spotlight has spoiled many a good man.
1t has no drum-major attributes 1t
has no lines of beauty, no green and
glossy chlorophyl no grace of tWlnlng
tendrils, no odorous bloom, no Haunting
destinations of color advertising nee
tar for bees and butterflies and humning
birds. Light and darkness are alike to
IT. 1t is the spirit of labor lncarnate
and the sentiment of sacrifice. 1t is the
symbol of unity. 1t is the prophecy of
the reign of the minority. 1t is the root
of genius and of victory Its strength
is in itself 1t reckons its profits in its
loss. 1t scorns no agency. 1t takes no
The hand that places it makes no dit
ference. Philosopher scientist poet,
statesman housewife or house-maid
mean nothing to it but opportunity. 1t
was no accident that Jesus said: A
woman took and hid" for woman is the
universal bread-maker; bread-making is
the greatest business in the world and
leaven taken and hid is earned and in
vested omnipotence.
How much leaven would the woman
have to hide? No matter about the
quantity. Ever so little is enough. A
crumb, shred, fragment, to bushel
or a ton of meal, in the right tempera-
ture, can be trusted to arrive. 1t is
nothing for size but all for potency. 1t
oe+e nv Uivino II saves by spending
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-22
Yeast and Meal
A Civic Sermon by John G. Woolley

wins. Wins what? The whole, the
Kingdom.
The objective bread is not the leaven,
but the meal leavened, revivifed, re-
organized, redeemed, made one, made
whole. The meal was corn 1t has it's
little season. 1t grew. 1t got ripe. 1t
was plucked and failed, and brayed
with stones, until it was a bushel or a
bin of separated, inert, helpless ruins of
what it had been in the SUN and rain
and tending, while it ripened and fell
dormant in the fall. 1t cannot live
again of itself. 1t cannot go back to
the grains and ears and waving, sap
filled stalks. AS it is, it is good food
for life in low, brute forms, and flap
jacks for the very hungry, or the very
poor But it's old possibilities are gone.
1t cannot grow in the old way. Sun
and rain and soil spell ruin to it now
1t is up against regeneration or dead
loss
Now comes a woman, a prophet, or a
little child, and in the loose and sepa-
rated chaos of the measure hides little
leaven, little new life, and forthwith
salvation is at work on new problem.
Finally the broken, hopeless particles
come together on a new basis. 1t is
now new idea in corn, new creation
with its accent on the race and its future
1t is not meal any longer, but something
finer and higher-a loaf of bread, light
bread, inspired bread, that in the blood
and brains and bones of men and
women will turn to music, poetry, paint
ing, friendship and leadership. 1t is
the old meal rebound Rebound, by
the way, is the Latin word religion.
What has happened is no miracle. AT
any rate no new miracle. Two omnip
otent old commonplace, Work to-
gether for good;' that is all
The meal, | say, is the body OF the
new and better creature. The leaven
has simply gone with it and put it at its
IT,.
1t will go away without sign or
sound, leaving the loaf established, rich
sweet, potent in itself. When Jesus
said: 81 am the bread of life" he
meant only this: 81 am carpenter
leavened. l give myself to mankind
especially to the broken and defeated
not to chide them and shame them but
to grow among them and in them, and
so, to bring the brayed and blind and
crippled atoms of humanity closer and
closer together until they, with the
others who are happier, shall know
themselves to be one even as 7 and my
father"
The humility and instability OF leaven
is the crux of this little sermon. Heaven
is auxiliary to earth, even as leaven is a
carvant and brother of dull meal The
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-22

Honestly, now, did you ever hear a
good, valid argument for the saloonf
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-27
Equal Suffrage.

We favor the amendment of the Or
ganic Act so as to extend the suffrag
to women.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-27
EDITOR
THE DEMooEAT1o NOMINATIONS.

Tie Democrats have yesterday they conducted
sheriff deputy sheriff There said for the the
ticket although there the ticket which objection
held full a
of
Republican one
the lined Republican
a
ticket That there feeling
to
butt a greatm do so IS ssured.
already
combine
citizenship
combination Republican
possibly
tora candidates However cup the people
to a mo
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-27

repeatedly emphasized
tatehcd the Belief development
Of The individual
tic science from competent n Latin
The significance OF The cochok the
principle
ial that shall be direct
for IT, The feeling exists that schools
weakened the
of their work. they
hilncss and have deprived
It's best citizens All there the problem.
obvious that if the public justify constantly
Particularly important the part played by the
school the Cobrook
the of
with matching
rural civilization
of the educational problems public
d, this Island Territory, a as astern
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-27
THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY.

community The
people of Coeook New Hampshire think they problem
Their experiment is Interestingly described bulletin
United
Coeook Academy in
New Hampshire Starting the first third a
school 1T later
has successfully done the expected of traditional
branches of the New England trying something
sary for those going into the professions, provide
qunte education
with / 5 seeking in otle
itself the
this readstment means be from the following
hon 10 the school the greenhouse dairy laboratory the domestic
department the workshop including carpenter blacksmith shop
Complete agriculture Coebrool
10 the center Of rural district and these large
part OF the population
eoeboo Academy romans high school acul
tnre aud domestic science exist side by side
honA hghreoo subjects wel the pupoa
IL not primarily 10 make farmers mechanics or poona
honekpe says Hon ~ Morrison
Now Hampshire "Ihs primary object Of and gI
70 become sincere ana efficient and happy nd wonau capable
eomlhG ~ educated worker with material things
inaeea fen AZ s ibe h educate e strongest yout
tonpfd he farm and iis inlr ipsAd Of professions
bsssess erfpiyelyH
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-27
MAY Be ANOTHER
INDEPENDENT ONE
Believed lin Quinn Will Run for
Supervisor - General
Political News

Yesterday was quiet day at both
the Republican and Democratic head
quarters. Both organizations have com
mittees out on a hunt for headquarters
large enough to house the fighting
clans during the campaign and it is
understood that the Republican com
inittee VIII be ready to report at the
meeting of tie county committee to-
morrow noon to the effect that the
large rooms over the firm of Messrs.
castle & Cooke, Ltd. are available and
very well suited to the needs of the
party.
Outside of the everyday politics car
ned on at the fishmarket the political
dopeSters satisfied themselves with lay
,Bg back and sizing up the different
candidates preparatory to passing judg
ment on their chances of election. One
Of the best informed politicians of the
day is Fish Inspector Boyd, who, out
side of the time necessary to carry on
MS market inspections, finds time to
mix with the different parties that
gather at the market and feel their
political pulse.
Rumor has it that another indepen-
dent candidate has announced his in
tention of stepping into the political
arena, and that he, like Joe Cohen, is
DONG so Mt the request of large num-
Der of his friends who believe that he
can be elected Jim Quinn is the new
addition and though he says that he
has not decided definitely, yet it is
felt that Quinn WILL before many days,
make up his mind to stand before the
public in quest for votes.
Joe Cohen, when asked with refer
ence to Quinn s being a candidate said;
81 wish Jim would run. You see he
owns an automobile and if he were
candidate, the two of us could do our
campaigning together
That Cohen is in earnest about his
campaign and is doing everything pos
sible to secure the election is shown
by the fact that he is the first candi-
date to file his nomination papers and
pay towards the expenses of the Nov
ember election the customary twenty
five dollars.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-27
BILLBOARD CRUSADE IN FRANCE.

Under the heading of "a Motor of Il
periodicals the automobile
scenery
full drveways N says:
From time time have noted these columns
of worldwide the perfectly
behaved by vulgar Objectionable billboard
Now the Touring Club of France has
abuse and that organization with its 100000 repua
ton of successfully whatever
of the
fair way to be totally spoiled by this sort of vandalism
An English advertising agency dealing
recently issued circular describing the hoards
clause of this apty
that it is worth quoting:
nstead of being lost a
they themselves
their isolation
"Insolence' backguardy impeinence''
would be better apply this thing
of it that
public unwilling to take the trouble join
interested minority who profit directly the
the farmers
plays ready fight bitterly against legislation
York had law, excellent far under the of which
display ad be placed within the confines of the
and which further authorizes
hands and tear the offending this
the proportion of the advertisements which
vate land rented for the bomnble 1t will interesting
to watch the achieved by the Touring Club in
campaign and possibly gain hints for profit
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-09-27
HOPE IN THE DIRECT PRIMARY.

of the
he started for HlO
the Islands of IIo
tFoit should be
other words this municipal believes
benefit This
Honolulu today of the
public officer whether he be Democrat Republican,
result of his
be
in his appointments only merit and the ability
o
However
nonpaisan ticket which
Honolulu By the
probably
tunty to at least their preference
which they candidates This
in existence here including
their pledge by the legislators happened legislature prevent
such a law being passed winter.