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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-10-18
PRICES AT EATING PLACES.
Fair Association Will Require Them "a
Be Reasonable. Also Posted.

There will be no buncoeing or over
charging by the restaurants and eat
ing stands at the Louisiana State Fair
this year. The management announces
that as an assurance of protection to
the patrons of these places In secur-
ing concession to feed the people. the
proprietors are required to promise
fair treatment to ALL
Under the arrangements, all price
lists must be conspicuously posted. o.
placarded so that prospective patron
may know what they have to pay for
their meals. All prices must be reason.
able. II there is overcharging the
management will promptly investigate
and adjust upon application. Fair
treatment must be given, or the priv
Iege of doing business will be recalled
In this connection. il might be stated
that there will be an abundance of
restaurant business on the fair
grounds. In addition to the regular
meal stands. there will be lots Of ham,
burger places. God food and a plenty
Of il is assured. State Health Officer
Oscar Bowling will see to the sanitary
end Of the business.
Remember the dates: Nov. 5 to IL
inclusive. Secretary l.. N. Bruegger-
hoff il ready to furnish other informa-
tion, free, upon request.
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GOOD FIRE PROTECTION.
Will Be Afforded by q Branch Of the
Crack Shreveport Fire Departments

Exhibitors and concessianaries at the
Louisiana State Fair, which begins this
year on Nov. and continues through
Nov IL. need have no uneasiness about
fires. for the best protection on record
is promised. Chief Chris O'Brien Of the
crack Shreveport department has ar
ranged &c place a sub company. In
charge of experienced fire fighters, in
q station on the fair grounds. This sta
ton will be under the big steel grand
stand In the center of the grounds
There will be men on duty constantly.
prepared to respond to an alarm upon a
moments notice. and ready to fight the
fire the same as IL in the city.
In addition to the most up-to- date
fire fighting apparatus the state fair
department will have a splendid water
supply to draw from In case of call
for It's services. The water Is sup
piled by a system installed by the
MANAGEMENT at considerable expense
with a 100000 gallon reservoir for
emergency and a deep well. with pump
to naswer all demands.
For more data write TO Secretary l.
| N. Brueggerhoff. who will send the in
formation promptly. free of cost
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-10-18
Official Proceedings of the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the
Town of COlfax, La.

Colfax,, La, Oct. Z, 1913.
The Mayor and Board of Alder
men of the town of Colfax, La,
met this day in regular session
with Mayor j. @. Long presiding.
Present = Aldermen Carnahan,
Cole, Mcknight and Swafford.
Absent. 7. McMurry.
The minutes of the last meet
ing were read and approved.
The following claims were APP
proved:
VIM. Wright, hauling garbage ...$l5 90
Levi Gates, cutting weeds. l 25
Mrs. M. Williamson, feeding pris-
soners .................... 90
3. M. Strsughn, making tax roll. 10 90
S. w. Johnston, repairing and
-. hauling .......--............... .....-.... 5O
i. The marshal reported the fol-
lowing collections:
Fines, September ISIS %
Fines, October. .............. 2 90
He exhibited deposit slip for
s$15 and paid SIS to the treasurer.
The report and settlement was
approved.
& On motion of Mr.. Swafford the
Street Commissioner was author
lied to build curbstone from
the court house block at the jail
ito the school house along the
property of Mrs. LaCroix.
On motion of Mr. Swafford the
Street Commissioner was author
lied to build curbstones through
the alley running through Block
SO, and gravel said alley provid
led the property owners will pay
half the cost
There being no other bushes.
the board adjourned.
j. @. LONG,
G. H. Mcknight, Mayor.
Secretary.
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brother-in-law of the

chester, Tenn, brother-in-law of the
bride, officiating.
In the reception hall and the parlor
roses, ferns, and smilax were effective
ly used for decorations. At one end of
the parlor was a bower of ferns and
smilax, and here the ceremony was
performed, the bridal couple standing
beneath wedding bell of smilax and
roses.
To the strains of Lohengrin's we'd
ding march, the bridal party entered,
led by the little ribbon bearers j. H.
Williams and Hunter McNeely. The
ring bearers, Dorothy Carroll and Cora
Turpin, in dainty LINGERIE frocks, fol-
lowed, bearing the rings in silver bas-
kets. Next came the bridesmaids and
groomsmen, Miss Odelle Milling, of
New Orleans, and Mr.. Sidney Katie;
Miss Cora Maude Henry and Mr.. DIN
Hicks; Miss Gene Brown, of Paris, Ill. +,
and Mr.. Robert Phillips; Miss Henri
D. Williams, maid of honor, and Mr..
Tracy Edgerton, of Coushatta; Mrs. T.
H. McNeely, of Colfax, sister of the
bride, matron of honor.
The bride entered with her father,
Mr.. j. H. Williams, who gave her in
marriage to the groom, who with his best
man, Mr.. Jesse Weaver, waited her
coming.
The bride was radiantly beautiful
in her bridal robe of charmeuse satin,
with bodice and trimmings of rea
lace. Her veil of illusion reaching to
the hem of her long draped train was
held in place by wreath of orange
blossoms and she carried shower bou
quet of brides roses and valley lilies.
Her attendants wore shadow lace
over messaline, with touches of greer
and carried arm bouquets of white car
nations and maidenhair ferns.
After the singing of the register, the
bridal party and parents of the bride
and groom formed receiving line ant
were showered with congratulations
Then the bride and groom led the wa.
to the Dining room where buffe
luncheon was served. The dining room
was charming in its decorations of tulle
smilax and autumn crocus. In the cen
ter of the table was the brides cake
The color scheme of white and gree
was still further carried out by tn
cakes, ices and minis. Toasts wer
\ given by Rev. C. C. Carroll, MIR. ID
S C. Scarborough, Rev. R. H. Harpe
: and Mrs. D. C. Scarborough, afte
n which the bridal couple left for Ne,
. Orleans.
e The brides going-away gown was
brown cloth tailored suit with touc
e of Bulgarian trimming with hat an
d gloves in harmony.
VI The bridal couple were the recipient
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-10-18
Pierson-williams Nuptials.

A brilliant social event of the season
was the marriage of Miss Ruth Williams
to Guthrie II. Pierson, which was cele-
&rated with much beauty of detail on
Wednesday evening, October s, 1913,
al seven O'Clock at Rose Lawn, the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Williams, in the presence
sofSa large concourse of friends and
relatives. DR.. c. &C. Carroll, Of Win
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Navigation on the Usage.

One of the very crookedest streams
anywhere Is the Usage river In Mis-
souri,. In that region they tell Of a
farmer living on the banks Of that riv-
er who had Il small fatbOat which one
day be loaded with produce and hoated
down to market. six miles away. He
exchanged the produce for goods at
one Of the stores and loaded his goods
in the flatboat.
"How are you going to get your stun
home. BiiI?" asked u friend. Got a
steamboat to tow you back?'
II am going to float back" was the
response.
How are you going to do that? I
don't understand"
II guess you don't know much about
this river 1t doubles on itself just be-
low here and runs back to within less
than u quarter of a mile Of my place.
I've got a landing on both banks and a
team Of horses than can drag the boat
over from one landing to the other. -
Kansas City Journal.
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By the Mexicans marigolds are known
as death flowers from an exceedingly
appropriate legend that they sprang up
on the ground stained by the life blood
of those who fell victims to the love OF
gold and cruelty of the early Spanish
settlers Among the virginian tribes.
too. red clover was supposed to have
sprung from and to be colored by the
blood Of the red man slain in battle
with the white invaders. In similar
manner the red poppies which followed
the blowing of the field Of Waterloo
were said to have sprung from the
blood Of the killed and wounded in that
famous battle. According to tradition
the Danish invasion is the cause of the
daneweed. a coarse. asteraceous plant
common in England. as 1t sprang from
the blood Of Danes slain in battle. and
If cut on a certain day in the year 1t
bleeds. The dwarf elder. for the same
reason, is called danewort and dane
blood.-Suburban Life.
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Balkan Ballads.

In the Balkan countries the ballad
makers have certainly been ut least a.
important rs the makers Of laws. Ser
Was national ballads. concentrating
the glories Of the Servian Emperor
Dushan. the fatal battle Of Kossovo
and the legendary exploits of the hero
Mako Kralyevich and his horse Sha-
rats. are of Homeric proportions and.
sung to the accompaniment of guitar
with cords Of horsehair tails. have
kept national feeling warm for cen
turtles. In recent years the Servial'
government published popular edi
ton. In Macedonia Sir Charles Eliot
heard a schoolboy recite Bulgarian
poem which took an hour and quar-
ter. with a simple but significant plot
The pasha of Sofia summons a Bull,
garian hero who il his friend and tells
him he has orders to execute him.
The Bulgarian asks why. The pasta
says he does not know, but he must
do 1t, and he does.-London Chronicle.
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MAN TOO OLD FOR
WAR IN 1864 DIES
Samuel Heuin, Of Lebanon, Was
IO8 Last December.

Lebanon, Pa, Feb. rs. - Samuel
Neuin, a retired hat and matchmaker,
believed to be the oldest man in the
state of Pennsylvania, and one of the
Oldest in the country, died at his
home here.
Mr.. Neuin passed his 108th birthday
anniversary last December. He was a
son of German parents and was born
in 1904 in Berks county, when the In
dams still roamed wild over that dis
trict. He claims to have visited Leba-
non when there were but twenty
houses where the city now stands, al
though he spent most of his life In
the region now known as Schuylkill
county.
He had won considerable local no
toriety from the fact that he volun-
teered to serve in the army during
the Civil War, but was rejected on &C.
count of his age, being then fifty-n.ne
years old.
He said that he voted for John
Quincy Adams as the sixth president
of the United States in 1925. Nel:n
possessed remarkable health and was
never known to have been i'll until two
weeks ago, when he suddenly grew
weak and his life slowly ebbed away
without any disease being apparent
Neuin leaves nine children, the eld-
est of whom is seventy years of age
and the youngest forty-seven. His vile
died twenty-seven years ago.
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had the pleasure Of seeing her before
in his life. she asked. "How did you
risk so much money on a person whom
you never heard sing?"
II risked It." gallantly answered Mr..
Barnum. ION your angelic character
and reputation. feeling that you would
please the American public"
Then began campaign Of advertis-
ing to prepare the people for the ap-
rearance Of Jenny Lind. Two hundred
dollars was offered as a prize for an
ode entitled "A Greeting to America"
to be sung by Jenny Lind. and the
award was won by bayard Taylor. No
singer who has ever appeared In the
country has secured more enthusiastic
welcome than Jenny Lind. all because
of the genius of r. T. Barnum.-Joe
Mitchell Chapple In National Maya
zine.
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GOVERNMENT SUES
ALLEGED LABOR TRUST
Electrical Unions Of Chicago
Charged With Conspiracy.

Chicago, Feb. 25.-An alleged labor
trust" was attacked by the federal
government in a civil suit brought In
this city against local unions Nos. 3
and 1874, of the International Brother.
hood of Electrical Workers, engaged
in a strike against the Postal Tele-
graph Cable company.
The government charges officers and
employees of the unions with combin-
ing and conspiring, through deliberate
acts of violence and depredations, to
injure the Postal Telegraph wires and
to interfere with the transmission OF
government and commercial messages
in interstate commerce.
While restraint of interstate com.
merce is alleged, the Sherman law IL
not specifically mentioned. The bill Of
complaint generally AYERS that the de-
PENDANTS acts have violated the RICH Q
granted under the constitution and
laws Of the United States to the tele-
graph company and the senders Of
messages.
The government asks that the de-
PENDANTS be enjoined from obstructing
interstate and government messages,
from cutting, burning or Otherwise in
juring the telegraph lines and from
interfering, by threats, intimidation,
persuasion or force with employees or
prospective employees Of the company
Pending final hearing the petition
pleads for a temporary injunction
against the alleged unlawful acts.
Labor troubles between the Postal
company and the electrical unions be-
gan last September, when, it is alleg.
ed, union officials insisted that the
company should establish the CLOSED
shop" policy. The company refused. it
is added, because it would have neces-
STATED the discharge of old and faith
full employees, not members of the
union.
At this stage, when a strike was I'm.
minent, the government says, the tele-
graph company, Oct. Is, discharged
employees who were members Of the
unions and supplied their p,ssees VI 3
non-union members. The alleged acts
of violence followed.
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GENERAL MARKETS

PHILADELPHIA steady:
winter clear, $4.1OQ4.30; city m lis,
fancy, $5@535.
RYE FLOUR steady, at s36503.75
per barrel.
WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, $1O2k0
LOB.
CORN steady; No. yellow, 56k@
SIC.
OATS firm; No. 2 white, 4O@4oAc.;
lower grades, 39c.
,sc iii rooste Lse neF nroi is%
firm; choice fowls. 17hc.; Old rocst
ers, 49,.
BUTTER steady; fancy creamery,
3Sc. per ID
EGGS steady; selected, Is q PIC:
nearby, 23C.: western, &c.
bushel.
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BARNUM AND JENNY LIND.
How the Great Snowman Secured the
HS~edish Niohtinqaie."

How the Great Snowman Secured the
"S~edish Nightingale"
The site Of Irslnistan. with its Moor
ish towers and minarets. was engraved
upon the letterheads of r. T. Barnum
and was the one thing which attracted
Jenny Lind when he wrote seeking to
engage her for an American tour. In
fact, she confessed that it WAS this pic
ture that determined her coming to
America.
Jenny Lind contracted to come to
America in 1910. the Swedish Night
ingale" agreeing to sing at $50 concerts
for $4,000. all travelling expenses paid.
After she arrived In America Jenny
Lind asked Mr. Barnum when aud
where he had heard her sing. and upon
receiving the answer that he had never
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THIS IS CERTAIN.
The Proof That Cambridge Read
ers Cannot Deny.

What could furnish stronger evil
dence of the efficiency of any rem
edy than the test OF time? Thou
sands Of people testify that Doan's
Kidney Pills have brought lasting
results.
Home endorsement should prove
uudou btedly the merit OF this rem
edy. Years ago your friends and
neighbors testified to the relief
they had derived from the use Of
Doan's Kidney Pills. They now
confirm their testimonials. They say
time has completed the test.
Mrs. J. c. Travers. 306 Hayward
street, Cambridge, Md. says: THE
public statement I gave three years
ago, regarding Doan's Kidney Pills.
still holds good. have not lost
any of my faith in this remedy and
I still use it occasionally with good
results. Doan's Kidney Pills were
Of greater benefit to me than any
other kidney medicine bad ever
taken. was troubled for four or
five years by my kidneys. At first
had a severe ache across the
small Of my back and the kidney
secretions were sometimes pre- fuse,
then again scanty and painful in
passage. I had dropsical symptoms
and my feet and hands were SWELL
ed. was generally too weak to
attend to my work. Doan's Kidney
Pills, which got at Bradshaw
Pharmacy. made SO great an i'm
provenent that could not possibly
endorse them too highly"
For sale by all dealers. Price 60
cents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo,
New York. sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
ADVERTISEMENT
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The HIGHER Equity.

Bismarck used to delight in telling
the story Of how. when roragtng for
food with two companions In an almost
deserted village he came upon a man
from whom he procured five eggs. I'm
able to divide five among three. be
began by swallowing two: then. call
ing his companions. shared the three
remaining eggs with them-a truly Bis
MARKHAM idea of an equable division
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Ratified,


Nanny Lou was visiting Lucindy
The latter lifted a boiling pot Off the
stove. set II In the tireleSs cooker. COW
cred it closely and pushed it under the
table.
whats yuh a-goin' t do wild dat
pot?'
us a-goin' to cook dem beans in de
fireless cooker"
Nanny rose. scared. hunted look
on her wrinkIed face. Does yuh mean
t tell me yuh a-goin' t bic dem beans
wiGout fiah!''
Lucindy nodded. Nanny backed to
the door and locked ut the girl as at an
apparition. then. with defiance mingled
with fear. commanded: Put on your
bonnet! You sure Is hoodooed! You
amt goin' t live in no house where the
devil dueS dc cookin'.
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FIGHT BOOST IN PRICES
House Has Bill Aimed to Prevent SPIT
ciai Rates For Inauouration

House Has Bill Aimed to Prevent Spe.
ciaI Rates For Inauguration.
Washington, Feb. 25.-The bill to
prevent Washington hotels and taxi.
cabs from boosting" their rates for
the Inauguration came up in the house.
1t was ushered in by sharp fight to
get a quorum. Finally the house pass
ed the bill-119 to IS. 1t carries a
penalty of s25 fine, revocation of IL
cense and requires an offending hotel
or res ,auran;er to furnish free board
to compliments while prosecuting
cases.
Representative Johnson, of Ken
lucky, who introduced the bill, read a
letter from constituent saying lend
ing hotel had quoted rates ranging
from S120 to $3.50 day.
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WHITE SLAVE LAW VALID
Supreme Court Upholds Sentences I'm.
posed Under Statute.

OdPi SSe'S SS''S'SS -'''
posed Under Statute.
Washington, Feb. 25.-The federal
white slave" act of 1910 was upheli
as constitutional by the supreme court
of the United States in an opinion by
Justice McKenna.
The supreme court had several
cases before it in which the va id.ty
of the act was attacked, but made its
decision in the case of Fife Hoke, OF
Beaumont, Texas, and Basile Econo-
mides, a New Orleans saloonkeeper.
sentenced to six years each fsrillegal
transportation of women from New Or
leans to Beaumont. Their conviction
was affirmed.
Other convictions affirmed were
Louis Athanasaw and Mitchell Samp-
son, Tampa, Fla. and Emma Harris,
Della Harris and Bessie Green, of Gin.
cinnati. All are under varying sen.
fences for violation of the law.
The Jack Johnson case did not figure
in the decision, as 1t previously had
been disposed Of.
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Fined For Fuss at Own Bar

Williamsport, Pa, Feb. 25. - John
Hartnett, hotel proprietor, was heav-
lily fined in police court, following his
arrest in his own barroom for drunk
enness and disorderly conduct. At the
request of Hartnett's wife the police
closed the hotel Hartnett threatens to
sue Chief of Police Harder and the
city for damages.
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Live Stock Markets.

PITTSBURGH (Union Stock Yaris)
CATTLE steady; choice, $8.5O9
8S5; prime, $S.1O@S.40.
SHEEP slow; prime wethers. $3.50
G6.75; culls and commons, $@4:
lambs, $6QS.75; veal calves, $1,000
HOGS active; prime heavi..s, $3.50
@9: mediums. heavy Yor';ers, light
Xorkers and pigs, $9.O5Q9,1o; roughs,
T.50@S.
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A Great Scheme.

Young husband When my wife first
began to do her own cooking We were
having company every day-tiresome
relatives. colleagues. so called friends
Gradually they all dropped off. and
then we engaged good cook.-Flie-
gende Batter
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Vandals Strip John DIS Auto.

Seabreele, Fla, Feb. 25.-Vandals
stripped the automobile of John D.
Rockefeller of its lamps and horn
while enroute last week from New
York to Daytona by freight, it was
learned at the Hotel Clarendon, where
Mr.. Rockefeller is stopping. When
Grated for shipment in New York the
automobile and it's accessories were
intact. The chauffeur ascertained this
by a personal inspection. After the
car was unloaded here last Monday
the paris were missing.
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Forser "cured" BY Knife Sentenced.

Bualo, N. Y, Feb. 25.-Edward e.
Grimmell. a forger, who obtained re-
lease from. Dannemora prison two
years ago by submitting to a surgical
operation on his skull which alienist
believed would cure him of crinin4l
tendencies, was sentenced to Auburn
prison for life on a burglary charge.
Grimmell had three previous convic.
lions for felony against him.
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della. BANK SHORT $18,738
Was Discovered by New President and
tire Cashier Resigns.


Wilmington, Del, Feb. 25.-A short
age of $18,738 has been found in the
accounts of the Middletown First Ma
tional bank, and George D. Kelley ha
resigned as cashier.
The comptroller of the currency has
the case in hand and will decide what
action will be taken by the federal
government.
It is understood that the shortage
was discovered through the insistence
of George L. Townsend, United States
marshal, who had just been elected as
president of the bank and who would
not accept the Office until he had ex-
amined the books thoroughly.
Mr.. Kelley has been associated with
the bank for twenty years. The cause
of the shortage has not yet been ex-
planned.
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LEE FONG


We do our work by hand and
guarantee the be>t grade of work.
Will cal for Laundry at any time
or place. Ali laundry that is
brought on Thurs or Friday a. m.
will be done at SIX O'Clock Satur-
day and customers are earnestly
reques ted to call tor same as soon
as convenient.
LEE FONG
Popular street.
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New Nickel Out Soon.

Washington, Feb. rs. The new
nickel of Indian head and buffalo de.
sign will be put into general circula
ton on Saturday. Already the treasury
department has received applications
from banks for more than two million
eestho new coins
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SOCIETY MAN A SUICIDE
Wife Returning From Shopping Finds
Rndu ON ElnAH

Body on Floor.
Doylestown, Pa, Feb. 25.-Frederick
J. Shellenberger, prominent club and
society man of this place, committed
suicide by inhaling Illuminating gas.
When his wife returned from shop
ping she found his body on the kitchen
floor and gas escaping from several
jets in the range. No reason for his act
is known.
Shellenberger was about forty-two
ya9rs old and a son of ]. Monroe Shell.
lenperger, at one time a prominent
lawyer and banker of this place. but
who now lives in Philadelphia.
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No Merit In It.

Mother (reprovingl?, - When I was
young girls never thought of doing
the things they do today. Daughter
Well. that's why they didn't do them
-Boston Transcript
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$4,000 Fire at seaverda,e. pa.

Johnstown, Pa, Feb. 25.-Fire in the
business section of Beaverdale, twelve
miles from here, destroyed seven
buildings and stores and the Ken.
singer hotel The loss is 100000.
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The Queerness of Il.

1.-The baby takes after his father"
STRANGE
"Why stranger
~ father like that baby's got sell
dom leaves anything after him for
any body to take."-Baltimore Ameri-
can.