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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
N. F. Bolton Stabbed to Death by
Lonnie Diamond.

An unfortunate tragedy occurred at
the Coifax ferry landing last Saturday
afternoon between q and 5 O'Clock in
which N. F. Bolton was stabbed to
death by Lonnie Diamond.
Diamond previously had a difficulty
with one of Bottoms sons, a lusty youth
almost man, VINO got the worst of it
in the fisticuff bout with Diamond.
The elder Bolton meeting Diamond af-
terward took up the quarrel on behalf
of his son, with the result of getting
stabbed in two places.
After being cut Bolton was taken to
DR.. Gooie's residence on the Natchi-
toches side of Red river, where he lin
gered for several hours and then died.
Diamond has been arrested and is in
the Colfax Jail. Both parties have
families and reside in Natchitocnes par
ism. Bolton was q fisherman, and he
and his sons supplied the Colfax market
with fish. Diamond is a farmer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
Ferry Sale.

Notice is hereby given that ! will
offer for sale, at the principal front
door of the court house in the town of
Colfax, at IL o. clock noon, on
SATURDAY, November %. 1914,
the Boyce ferry. both banks Rapides
and Grant parasitic the last and high
est bidder, payable in cash on the spot
at time of adjudication. The success
full bidder will be required to give bond
with solvent surety for proper conduct
of the ferry and supplying the neces-
sary equipment, and will be allowed to
charge the following rates of ferriage
only, for the term Of the lease which
will expire June 30, 1919, viz:
Foot passenger, cents; man and
horse, Is cents; horse and buggy, rs
GENTS; two horses and carriage or hack,
IS cents; two horse wagon, so cents;
four horse wagon, rs cents; automo-
bile, SO cents; loose stock per head,
cents
i r. w. RICHARDSON,
Prest. Grant Phi. Police Jury.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
Try This for Your Cough.

I, Thousands of People keep coughing
because unable to get the right RENE
dy. Coughs are caused by infiamma-
ton of throat and bronchial tubes.
What you need is to soothe this infiam-
nation. Take DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry. it penetrates the delicate mucous
lining, raises the Phlegm and quickly
relieves the congested membranes. Get
SOC bottle from your druggist. DR..
Kings New Discovery quickly and COM
pletely stopped my cough, writes j.
r. Watts, Floydale, Texas. Money
back if not satisfied, but 1t nearly al
ways helps. Adv.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
Best Cough Medicine for Children.

Three years ago when | was living
in Pittsburg one of my children had a
hard cold and coughed dreadfuIly. Up
on the advice of druggist purchas-
ed bottle of Chamberlain Cough
Remedy and it benefited him at once.
/ find it the best cough medicine for
children because it is pleasant to take.
They do not object to taking it, writes
Mrs. Lafayette Tuck, Homer City, Pa.
This remedy contains no opium or other
narcotic, and may be given to a child
as confidently as to an adult. Sold by
all dealers. ADV.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
Letter to
DR.. kiliner 4 Co.,
Biaghamton, n. Y.

Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do for
You.
Send ten cents to DIR. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton. N. Y, for sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet of valuable
information, telling about the kidneys
and bladder When writing be sure
and mention the Colfax Chronicle. Reg
ular fifty cent and one dollar size bot
ties for sale at all drug stores. ADV.
o24~n14
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
Foley Cathartic Tablets.

Are wholesome. thoroughly cleansing
and have stimulating effect on the
stomach, liver and bowels. Regulate
you with no gripping and no unpleasant
after effects. Stout people find they
give immense relief and comfort. An
ti-bilious. j. w. Duncan Co.-Ady.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
Our Mail Order
Department

Is presided over by Miss
Naughton, an expert shopper
of long and successful expert
ence, and all orders entrusted
to US will receive prompt and
careful attention, and re-
quests for samples or any in
quiry or information will be
looked after to your complete
satisfaction.
Postage on all articles pre-
paid if in accordance with par
eel post regulations.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
Simon Bros, Ltd. ''The Big Store"
Be One of the First in Your Town to
Wear the New Styles

You do this by sending
for all Apparel Dress Materials anything
those who live within O our
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-11-14
Ladies' and Misses Tailor
ed Suits
$500

1t will surprise you
when you see what
we are selling at this
price. I
They're correctly
tailored in the new
est and best styles of
the season. Materi-
ais are all wool serge,
poplins. diagonal and
mix lures in new
green, plum, copen-
hagen, navy, brown
and black. Coats
are fashioned in Red
ingote and Basque
models, lined with
guaranteed sa tin;
some velvet collars.
Skirts are made with
yoke; some plated.
Splendid stylish Suit
$500
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

TT is, perhaps, because women
are stlll 10 new in the com
mercial world that they have
not learned the rules OF the road
and that certain of them seem to
think that they should have
privileged way and everybody
should get out of their path
The sight of a married woman
for instance doing work for
which she sets paid is as mad
dening TO many wurkiugwomeu
as is waving a red Dag before the
eyes of a bull. There is never a
day that | don't get half a dozen
irate letters asking mo to write
an article telling the woman
who has got a husband and a
home to stay in IL and leave the
pay envelope To the spnstcr
These writers invariably say they
have been forced out of their Jobs
by married women, and that il is
a shame and an outrage for
women with husbands to compete
In the labor market with women
who are husbandless. Also they
charge that employers prefer
married women to single women.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Push the Alaska Railway Bill

Nc part of the Administration program hailed
approval by the people than the determination
make the great national wealth Alaska available
The first step in this endeavor is of the
tion Government railroad in Territory by which grip
which the roads owned either by Morgan and the Guggenhem
by English syndicate hold upon all
the territory may be loosened
The United States Senate has passed bill providing
appropriation of S40000 for this purpose and leaving the
President full power the selection of the
methods of construction There opposition the Senate
but the obvious necessity for the railroad it.
In the House the opposition apparently vigorous
Although the Presidents influence will probably carry the bill
all opposition the fight the moment serious
1t is quite unbelievable that nation which is Just
pleting nearly $400 100000
should be staggered the thought of expanding $O0000
opening settlement and territory which
in all useful minerals and needs only outlet to the
the Canal project its earlier stages
there members of Congress enough
sectional rather than great national benefit Their arguments
and their alike forgotten
The natural of Alaska impossible
estimate but of value whatsoever while the of
transportation them in the present monoposc hands
AS the Alaska Delegate Congress apt it, the choice lay
between Guggenhem and Government and the Senate Gov
has The House will do we'll follow its lead
President Wilson entitled the very highest
the persistence with which he has urged this necessary egs
ton The administrations preceding his locked up Alaska
with double ocka conservation policy and the rail
road monopoly The fixed intent of this Administration
lock it.
With all the talk of short Congress
should be before adjournment be notable
triumph if Alaska could be taken corporations and
restored to the people in Wilson's first year. ..
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Revival Dancing
Caused Extremes;
No Wonder!

The woman who had passed
thirty apologized if she was seen
dancing; and married people were
afraid to express a love for the
diversion lest they be ridiculed.
A beautiful and healthful and
enjoyable art seemed on the de-
cline.
Then suddenly change; an
awakening of dull minds: a linn
bering of stiff joints, new life in
bored faces; new interest in the
oldest of all arts.
The dance was reborn. And
youth was reborn in the hearts
and bodies and minds of men and
women of all ages.
Grotesque. abnormal unbeau-
tiful and even vicious were the
early contortious of this reborn
art 1t seemed like some strange
creature which had been shut in
the dark so long that it became
half insane when let forth once
more into the full light of day.
So cramped had it been with
its Incarceration that it flung it
self about in curious contortions
TO make certain OF it's freedom.
But those contortions are now
becoming graceful movements:
and the insane expressions of
liberty are resolving themselves
once more into the primal mean
ing of the dance-the joy of life
Nothing more absurd, nothing
more unreasonable, could be than
the ban placed by various indi-
viduals on dances bearing GER
tain names
One sees flaming headlines an,
nouncing that somebody in pow
or, socially or otherwise, has sent
forth an edict against the tan
so" or some other new dance.
AS reasonable would it be to
decry walking because ii is posi-
bic to walk indecently.
As reasonable would it be to
brand music as an agent of the
devil because music has been put
to evil purposes by the vicious
minded. There were certain curl
Gus dances, which sprung forth
like fungus groWths, and lasted
for night and a day. bearing
unwholesome names.
The turkey trots' deserved to
be tabooed; more particularly be-
cause OF the suggestion of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
By DOROTHY DIX

that way in } reality. Many
woman finds that everything that
marriage has brought her is a
husband to support and children
to feed and clothe, and her need
of earning money is more des-
perate than that of the single
woman who has nobody but her
self TO take care of. Practically
every married woman who works
outside Of her home does so be
cause she has to, and not be-
cause she wants to. and SO she
is entitled to her job on that con-
sideration also.
But business is not conducted
along eleemosynary lines 1t is
done for profit. Nor do employ
ers choose their employees by
means of philanthropic tests and
on account of their necessity.
They pick out those who can do
the work best ana who give the
most satisfactory service.
Therefore, when an employer
turns off a single woman and
hires a married woman in her
place or advances a married
woman over a single woman. it
Is simply because the married
woman has moro ability or more
industry. or is attending more
closely 10 business. The mat
ton of wedding rings cuts no figure
in the affair As a matter Of fact.
every man who hires women is a
little inclined to give the prefer
ence to the single one. on the
ground that if woman's hus-
band doesn't support her he ought
to.
And if married women are ad-
NauCed more quickly than sin
gle women m the places i'm which
they work, as many of my corre-
>puudentS assert IL iS simply be-
,dusr the married woman has
settled down tu business as a. life
occupation and is bending AN of
her energies TO make good in il,
while the single woman is still
working with one eye on her job
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

We go to the butcher shop
where we get the best meat for
our money. without reference to
the matrimonial status of the
men who run them. II would be
just as logical for all married
men to cry out that bachelors
shouldn't he allowed to go into
business as IL is for women to
oppose married women working
outside of their homes. They've
got a perfect right to do it if they
want to. ana it's childish and
ridiculous for other women to
object to it.
Aside from her inherent right
to labor how and where she
pleaseS. the married woman who
continues at her old Job has either
the necessity to earn money or
else she has some peculiar fitness
and talent for her chosen work
that would make her loss to the
world did she retire to strict do
mesticity. II no saleswomau. no
woman buyer. no milliner, no
dreSsmaker no stenographer
should continue at her work after
she gets married, then no woman
writer. no actress. no musician.
no painter should continue at
hers THAT would be rather %
SguelChcr OF genius wouldn't it,
Because women ordinarily marry
while they are Young and before
thev come TO the fun maturity OF
their power
Yet the girl stenOgrapher or
the girl behind the counter
doesn't compete any more with
the married Stenographer or the
married woman buyer than
the girl writer does with Mrs.
Uumphry Ward ur The girl acc
tyc~- decs With Mrs Sothcru ar
Alrs FiShe
rHr theory .1at every married
Woman Has SON. body to support
ner ANA provide for her and stand
between her and the cruel world
is a beautiful one but. unhappi-
ly, il does not always pan out
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

and the other one rowing around
in search of a possible husband
The cry of the unmarried wom-
an that the married woman should
be debarred from the gainful oc-
equations is unjust, and she had
better waste no more strength
and voice i'm uttering it. For I
warn her that tie married wom-
an is not only in business for
keeps, but that she is going to be
in it in greater and greater num-
bers every year.
Whether We like it or not. we
had just as well face the truth,
and that is that under present
economic conditions very few men
can support a family in decent
comfort by their own unaided eff
fort This is going to force the
wives out of the home to work
just as it has already forced the
daughters, and i'm another ten
years it win be just u much
matter of course for the wife of
poor man to continue after mar
rage at her trade or profession
as 1t is for the daughters of
poor man to earn their own liv-
ing now.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Dance Has Made tht
World More Whole
some.

For many years there has n''"
a tendency, especially in Amer
ca, toward separate pleasures '''
men and women. Men hetd4'
clubs: women in clubs or l'..
own manless drawing rooms
where the eternal and eI'."
dwarfing and body-stiiLsL'''s
bridge game was pursued. 1a'''
are excellent friends to the "'
man race when INDUCED IL ''
casionally. But nothing is "'''
arresting to mental deveIop'l''
nothing is more unheaItn- '
unsocial than a card mama s
as the bridge fCbia, Whl'..
given place now to the a'.
ritis.
Women who spent entire DAYS
over the bridge table, beg H---'7
in the forenoon and enalHs
midnight, now meet their
friends at musical dances III -.
afternoon, or balls in the e'eH'''-
Men who were always
clubs, when not in their o.
drop in al musical teas ami
dancing at their own homes
the homes of their friend ~ r.
evening. on with the dan-5sols.
will make the world more "l'"
some.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
PEOPLES Mandate on Canal
Tolls

President Wilson firmly reiterate his declaration
of taxing American coastse vessels using the Panama Canal
and insists that the repeal of the existing law must be effected
at this session Of Congress.
He has taken his stand direct opposition to the expressed
will of his party and of the country.
On this subject the Baltimore platform said:
We favor the exemption from tolls of American ships
engaged in coatwe trade passing through the Panama
Canal We also favor legislation forbddng the of the
Canal by ships owned controlled by railroad
rers engaged transportation competitive with the canal
Progressive partys platform contained the following
declaration
The Panama Canal, built and paid for by the American
people used primarily for their benefit We demand
that the canal shall be operated to break the tranSpo
monopoly held and mused by the transcontnen
railroads by maintaining competition with Them that
ships directly indirectly owned controlled by American
railroad corporations shall not be permitted the canal
and that American ships engaged coaws trade shall pay
tolls.
President Wilson also knows that 6292718 votes cast
Presidential electors and
for the Progressive Presidential electors total of o35o1
of total of 1720037 cast leaving but 800
other Presidential electors The 1035014 votes
for Wilson and Roosevelt also cast favor of the plat
form declarations of those parties which respect to Pan
Canal tolls practically identical So have 035014
American avong the exemption of American vessels
from the payment of Panama Canal tolls in coawe trade and
1859 800 silent on the subject
Seventy out of every hundred votes cast at the last Presde
a election favored the exemption American vessels from the
payment tolls using the Panama Canal when engaged the
These 10 $50 lat American may
troll much newspaper prominence gentlemen
nected with the transcontinnta railways and their friends
Wall Street The opposition of these rulers of traffic and their
newspaper organs the exemption of American vessels from
Panama Canal tolls when engaged coaswse trade may appear
to President Wilson important than the pledges of his
pay platform and the declared preferences of 05047
American voters.
The Panama Canal bill exempting American coastwe ships
from paying tolls passed the Senate last year by AZ 15 There
decisive majority for it in the House After Englands
protest President Taft sent special Congress saying
that the exemption of American domestic his
judgment justified by the of the treaty and
the wishes of. the nation.
Will President Wilson aided by the railroads succeed in
psuag Congress change opinion already by
citizens?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
A Married Woman Has a
Perfect Right To Be
in Business.

stun ana nonsense, So Carr as
] can see, there is no more reason
why the married woman who
wants TO work, and who can turn
out work that other people are
willing 10 pay for, shouldn't work
than there is why a married man
shouldn't when YOU hire a book
keeper or carpenter or q
plumber. NoU DON'T consider
whether he is married ur Single
but the Sind of .Wur> hr uHr~
We don't ptyautlc Nr smiths
butcher sIop because Ur has O.
wife and sin children. while the
rival butcher. Mr. Jones. Is UNI
married. with nobody but himself
to support.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Learn All New Dances
but Be Modest and
Graceful.

1t is as innocent of anything
injurious to the morals Of the
young as skipping the rope
Instead OF selecting some one or
two new dances to decry. our
well meaning moralists should
decrv indecent attitudes or sug-
gestive movements in all dancing
The same moralists make no
protests against the waltz and
two step.
Yet both of those dances can
be made quite as Objectionable
as any of the most modern inven-
tons, if the participants so wish.
When the waltz was first inv
troduced in the ballroom it Great
ed as great excitement and as vio-
lent protests as the modern
dances are creating. Lord Byron
who was debarred from the plea
sure by lameness, exhausted his
vocabulary of invectives against
the immoral waltz.
Let us be sensible and reason
able. The dance is reborn; and
it must live its life. It must do
it's work. 1t must be met as
factor in social life. Instead OF
attempting to crush it, or abolish
it; instead of saying to our young
people, You can dance and two
step, but you must not learn any
of the new dances; they are IN
decent" let us say, Learn all the
new dances, but be modest de-
cent, graceful and well behaved
on the dancing floor.
Dance only with your friends
and in the environment when Is
respectable and safe from iniru-
sion of the undesirable. Sho"
all observers how beautiful
thing dancing may be-
And to our older people lei US
offer hearty congratulations that
they no longer need apologize OF
explain when owning to love oil
the art of all arts.
For, to-day, the man or woman
who does not dance is the eXcep-
ton.
He or she needs to explain why
Not the dancer.
A healthier world. a happ's'
world and more normal "'I"
will result from the WELCOMING
of this art than from lbs SUP
preston
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

DANCING is an expression of
joy in life.
When love for his Maker
awoke in man the dance began.
AS far back as history reaches
we find dancing associated with
religious rites.
Dancing comprises all the other
arts.
A beautiful dancer expresses
poetry, music, sculpture. paint
ing, all in the dance.
Besides being the most beauti-
full of all arts, 1t is the most
healthful of all exercises. when
enjoyed under right conditions.
Besides being the most health
full, it Is the most moral of exer-
cises
Young people who are given
training in dancing and allowed
to dance frequently in clean,
wholesome environments and un-
der wise chaperons utilize surplus
vitality, which, when suppressed
by rigid rules or bigoted ideas,
ofttimes results in mischief and
disaster.
Take the d-fashioned religi-
Gus communities where dancing
is regarded as sin and there are
always to be found numerous
cases of hysteria among the
young girls and various nervous
maladies among the youths. No
proper outlet for their super
abundant young vital forces has
been provided, no escape valve.
Little children dance before
they have ever seen dancing; lit
tie kittens, and little puppies, and
all small animals dance with the
joy of existence.
The waves of the sea, the leaves
of the trees, the grasses of the
meadow-all dance. The sun
beams dance; and light itself is
ever in motion.
The man and woman who have
never learned the jov to be eX-
perienced in dancing have missed
a great happiness.
And they have missed a means
of physical grace.
The present renaissance of the
art of dancing Is remarkable.
For a decade, at least, before
the tidal wave rose, young men
fled from bathrooms and left girls
to find partners among them
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Business of Life in a
Kitchen Bores Some
Wives.

Moreover, the women who are
trained to business. and not to
domesticity. are going to assert
their rights to help their hus-
bands in the way That Is most
agreeable to them and to work in
offices and stores that they enjoy,
instead of in kitchens that they
hate. The married workingwom-
an may be "A phenomenon of the
times to-day. Sne's going to he
the commonplace uf tomorrow.
So advise the single working
women not to waste their time
in protesting against her, but to
use 1t in getting ready to COM
pete with her.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Revival Of Dancing
1t Is Absurd to Condemn the
Tango and Other Modern
Dances Just Because the
Name Sounds Risque.
Dv Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1914, by Star Company.

barnyard, and the most ung-aro-
full of fowls, than for its own ir.
herent wickedness. It was vplgar
rather than wicked. Dancing ia
an art; and should suggest only
the artistic and the beautiful !,
belongs with perfumes, with flow
ers, with statuary and music.
with gladness and rejoicing.
Long ago, in Eastern lands.
devout and reveTent souls danced
songs to the rising sun. and to-
day in those lands there are
dancers in the temples who de-
vote their lives TO sacred rites.
and who live purely and sweetlv.
that they may be worthy in the
eyes of their Creator to perform
the religious dances.
There are moral minded men
and women who have associated
every evil meaning with the
word tango.
Yet the tango is graceful, ar
tistic and beautiful, as the min
uet, when properly danced.