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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28
Help the Kidneys



It's the little kidney ills
The lame, weak or aching back
The unnoticed urinary disorders
That may lead to dropsy and Bright's
disease.
When the Kidneys are weak.
Help them with Doan's Kidney Pills.
Aremedy especially for weak kidneys.
Doan's have been used in Kidney
troubles for so years.
Endorsed by $4,000 people endorsed
by citizens of this locality.
Eugene Richard, Landry St., E. Ope-
lousas, La, says: About two years
ago ! began to be annoyed by disorder
ed kidneys. had a dull ache through
my Ioins and kidneys and at times there
was retention of the kidney secre-
tons. My body also bloated. Reading
about Doan's Kidney Pills, began us
ing them They proved so beneficial
in every way that | heartily recommend,
them to other kidney sufferers. "
For sale'by all dealers. Price so cts.
Foster-Miiburn Co., Buffalo, N. r.!
sole agents for the U. S.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other. ADV.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28

There are now in the Colfax
Jail nine men to be tried for CAPT.
tai offenses, eight white men and
one negro. This is a most extra
ordinary condition of affairs. In
an observation of more than Sc
years we cannot recall any other
instance where more than four
men were in Jail at one time
awaiting trial upon a capital Of
Tense. AS a rule heretofore
three-fourths of the capital of
lenses in Grant parish have come
from among the colored popula-
ton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28
of the commonwealth.


No, this is not a Democratic
form of government; but it is a
Republican government, in which
the people can only rule correct
ly through their duly elected rep
resentatives. AS Democrats we
should not allow the significance
of our party name to lead us in
to the error of supposing that the
people as a mass have the right
to take it upon themselves to
make laws or administer justice.
Our representatives may be a
little slow in their action, but it
is best for them to act in our
stead. If their administration is
not satisfactory we have the
power to remove them and put in
others.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28

Importance of the Highway Engineer.
Commenting on the fact that
some counties of Kentucky are
disposed to regard a road engi-
neer as an unnecessary official,
the Louisville Courier-Journal
truly says that the greatest
waste of highway funds comes
through inefficiency: Contracts
are let to men who do not know
the first principles of road build
ing, and these contracts are SUI
pervised by men who are equally
deficient in knowledge along that
line. What can the taxpayers
expect in such circumstances"
Kentucky is not alone in its
need of scientific methods in
highway construction and main
tenance. Every State has suff-
cred from unsystematic and I'M
businesslike regimes in no d
building. In hundreds of COM
munities the idea still prevails
that earth and shovels and COM
mon labor are the only things
necessary to make good road,
whereas this task requires very
high degree of knowledge and
skill. Road building, indeed, is
an art based upon a science, and
the community that ignores this
truth wastes its money and
greatly embarrasses its future in
development.
Happily, there are omens of a
public awakening to the need of
competent engineering service in
such work. Most of the States
have established highway COM
which supervise and CO.
ordinate the road building of the
various counties. These commits
sions are under the control of ex-
perienced engineers who suggest
routes. advise local authorities
in the selection of materials, and
IN many other ways help the in |
1ividual counties to thorough
going, economical methods.
Such plan not only saves
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28
The Grand Jury Power Criticised.

The Washington Post in COM
menting on the recent acquittal
of Shields and others, after a
Federal grand jury had indicted
them for conspiracy" in the FL
ing of certain claims in Alaska
three years ago, designates it as
a case (which shows the gross
injustice of finding indictments
against men on ex parte and
prejudiced testimony" 1t asks
the question, who is to pay
these defendants for the grievous
wrong they have suffered; who
will restore to them untarnished
their good names?" 1t concludes:
Every man accused before a
grand jury should have an oppor-
tunity to present his side of the
case, to face his accusers and
question them, and otherwise
protect himself"
The San Antonio Express, in
commenting on this subject, SAYS
that the abuse of the power of
indictment has grown to be a
huge evil in the United States.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28

Rev. A. H. Parker requests us
to announce that special Easter
Services will be held at the Col
fax M. E. Church on Sunday,
April IL. The Sunday school
children are requested to prepare
songs and recitations, and all
will be invited to make an annual
offering for the benefit of the
Ruston orphanage.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28
Marston's View of the Shreveport
Meetings.

To the Shreveport Journal:
And the mountain has brought
forth a mouse! Jury service!
1t is the same old story.
In this civilization, to take a
man from his business and lock
him up in a court house like a
SUSPECT for days and days and
weeks and months and years Il
reckon), is too Internally fine to
think about. And the lawyers,
and preachers, and doctors, and
all the what nots, are "excus-
ed" and the BEST jurors are
"refused!" See? 1t is high
complimentary derision to be
excused" from the jury. The
lawyers have done all this, and
brought the courts into contempt.
And now. they talk about the
good citizenship" of the coun-
try.
The finger of scorn" is poin..-
ed every hour Of the day at the
lawyers, but every now and then
a Tilden comes to the top, when
the pot boils. In England and
the little island of Jamaica, and
Canada, where the Anglo-Saxons
rule, the fires are kept up all day,
and all night. and all day Sunday.
Yours truly.
B. w. MARSToN.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28

1t comments as follows on the
subject:
In Texas, for example, a per-
son accused of felony by public
authority or By another person,
has no opportunity in almost the
lowest rank of the courts to de-
mand an examining trial; if he
shall make out a plain case of
self defense. or a plain case of
error, preversion, prejudice or
misinformation in answer to the
complaint. no justice of the peace
should bind him over to the
grand jury. But the citizen has
no such chance where the crimi-
nal process originates with the
grand jury; he has no opportuni-
ty to combat spite, revenge. per-
jury and erratic information, and
who will say that it is the rare
exception for such sentiments
and errors to figure in testimony?
The return of a bill by the grand
jury, despite all theory and all
principle with respect to fair
trial" thereon in the courts, is a
slur and a scandal to the accused.
We pride ourselves that our
system of justice is the very an
tithesis of the French system;
that, with US, a man is presumed
to be Innocent regardless of in
dictment-u until the State or the
government proves him guilty,
to the satisfying of a reasonable
doubt in the minds of a jury of
his peers. Yet let a man be
named in an indictment and i'm
mediately the community makes
him the target of. uncharitable
condemnation, thesbutt of an ex-
animation of private concerns,
the victum Of mistaken prejudg-
ment based on the mera fact of
indictment.
The grand jury has far too
great a power. Jurists and pub
licists long have urged that every
accusation before the law should
be accompanied by an immediate
hearing in behalf of the accused.
Witnesses summoned by the dis
trict attorney to tell these inqui-
sitors what they know of a crime,
or a supposed or alleged crime.
cannot possibly in many instances
testify to the same effect and
with the same intent as witnesses
called by the accused. No one
doubts that very often the grand
jury gets one side of the story, |
and few will doubt that the grand
jury often is very apt to get only |
what the judicial officers and the |
police go after"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28

All parties under indictment
and under bond are required to
appear in open court in Colfax
on Monday, April 6, to answer
to their names and have their
cases fixed, or their bonds will
be forfeited. See clerks notice
of order of court.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28
Oregon Seeks to Abolish the Senate.

Oregon Seeks to Abolish the Senate.
Salem, Ore, March Is. -Constitu-
tional amendments providing for the
abolition of the Oregon State senate
in tie house will be submitted to tn,
voters at the next general election.
The organizations initiating the two
amendments are the State Grange, the
Oregon Federation of Labor, the Peo-
pies Power League, the Farmers I'm
ion, the Farmers Society of EQUITY
and the Proportional Representation
Bureau.
The above associate press dis
patch tells of the hysterical ano
iconoclastic propensity of our lat
ter day political agitators, who
are proposing to tear away the
checks imposed upon the people
by the constitution of the United
States, which has enabled us to
safely weather scores of political
and physical storms for the last
100 years. These agitators and
would-be statesmen propose to
ruthlessly knock away one of the
principal props that sustains our
governmental fabric, and safe
guards and guarantees that a
faction or a fraction of the peo-
pie shall not override and impose
upon the rights of the majority,
or even infringe upon the rights
of the minority when that minori-
ty is within plain constitutional
limits. These people are pro-
posing to tear down our consti-
tutional fabric, and they offer us
no safeguard or guarantee of
constitutional safety.
1t is indeed high time that the
National and State authorities
are taking effective steps through
the public schools to teach the
people the Importance of pre-
serving our governmental insti-
buttons intact. If these agita-
tors understood and appreciated
the fact that the Senate of the
United States and the Senates of
Of the various States were as i'm
portant factors in preserving the
liberties and the rights of the
people as are the courts of the
and, they surely would not be
found advocating any such ruin
BUS project as alto bolish the Sem
ate.
We believe the Importance of
he three branches of govern
nent, legislative, administrative
md judiciary, and the checks
md limitations imposed on each,
md the reasons for these checks
md limitations, should be taught
n all the high schools of the
and, and then we should hear
ess of these foolish vagaries and
propositions to destroy the foun-
lation upon which the govern
nent rests.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28

money and guarantees the tax
payers a fair return, it also re-
suits in durable roads, so placed
and so maintained as to give the
State the largest measure of SER
vice. Atlanta Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28
Diamonds In q Vacuum.

A four or five carat diamond, II
placed In vacuum, emits as much
light as candle. And the color Of
the light varies with its facets. A
ruby In vacuum looks as II 1t was
on fire. An emerald shines with
crimson glow.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28

Brfggs-What! Are you going to
Mawkser's funeral? I thought you
made 1t a rule to associate only with
superlatively happy people?" Griggs
That's why l am going. You see.
Mawkser left lot of money to his
relatives. Town Topics.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-03-28
Mass Meetings and Tumultuous As
semblages.

the case OF the LlttleS, we have
lately had an exhibition of the
danger of hasty and tumultuous
assemblages. Indeed, the line
of demarcati, n between a mass
meeting, when the mass meeting
is hastily called and people act
while passion and indignation is
high, is but slightly removed
from the action of mob.
All such action is contrary to
and in violation of the spirit and
intention of the American con-
stitution. The trainers of our
constitution have especially
sought to guard against the
wrong and injustice that history
teaches is ever to be expected
from hasty assemblages, where
only one side of a case is usually
considered.
In the Shreveport instance we
have the spectacle of grave
judges and usually astute citi-
zens being carried away with the
violence of the assembly, and
hastily consenting that the sworn
jurors who sat on the Little case
shall be crucified, debarred citi-
zenship and held up to public
scorn because they did what they
thought was their duty.
And now, after appealing from
Phillip drunk to Phillip sober,
we find the committee of seven
appointed by this same mass
meeting reporting and virtually
fixing the blame for the lax ad-
ministration of justice upon "the
departments Of the court" and
saying that the public as we'll,
must, in a greater or less degree,
share a part" Thus is the mass
meeting. out of the mouth of its
own committee, convicted of
having made a scape goat of the
twelve jurors in that case to bear
the sins of the entire community.
The injustice of this action is
apparent to the veriest tyro in
American institutions, and needs
no comment to show its oppres-
siveness. 1t enforces in thunder
tones the need for calm and dis
passionate action along prescrib-
ed legal lines at all times.
The forefathers of our Ameri-
can Republic builded wisely and
well, and in these days of Mob
ocracy, mistaken for Democracy, !
we cannot be too careful in stick
ing to the landmarks established |
for the guidance of our ship of |
state. Anarchy, Socialism, and
schisms without limit are abroad
in the land to destroy our fabric
of government, and they lie in
wait to take advantage of every
mistake made in public action.
We do not live in a Democracy,
but ii Republic. A Democracy
is where the people rule directly,
in a mob, as it was. A Republic
is where the people rule through
duly elected representatives. 1t
seems that the people of this day
as a mass or mob are no more
capable of ruling and making
laws, than they were a thousand
years ago in the days of Athens
and Rome. Il
History tells US that in the i
days of the Athenian Democracy, 1
citizens when eighteen years of {
age could vote, but their crowd i
ed assemblies or mass meetings, q
which assumed all the powers of |
government withoutany adequate t
check, were subject to great dis t
order, and the larger part of the F,
qualified older voters were. from '
various causes, excluded from t
the mass assemblies.
The same difficulties beset the 9
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17

FOR SALE-Two vacant lots, Egan
section. East Point; will sacrifice;
first cash offer OF S275 will get both lots.
Call Ivy $730, or 656 Gambler Annex
Owner
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
FARMS For SALE.

SOME good values in Cobb County
farms and resident property in Ac-
worth. Address j. c. Stokely. Real Es-
tate AGENT Acworth, Ga.
bIRST-CLASS farms for sale in West
ern New York and excellent business
ana residences for sale or exchange. NJ.
J. Buntin. East Aurora, n Y.
CHOICE irrigated fruit, cotton, corn,
alfal ia land in Carlsbad project oper-
ated by U. S. Lock Box 90. Loving,
N. Mex.
SOUTH GEORGIA--50-a acre truck farm,
e-room house, miles courthouse.
Home market. Easy terms. w. II.
Thompson, Conner Ga.
$40 ACRES smooth land. adjoining rail-
road town. Pecos Valley: must sell at
once: q bargain Box 472, Sweet Water,
Texas.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.


TAKE a look at 16s College avenue, De-
take look at is Inman street, West
End Park. new six-room house. Take
a look at 391 Glennwood avenue, a five
room house. Then let me know what
you have to trade. F. H. Lichtenwalter,
Atlanta, Ga.
NO CASH--WHY RENT
BUNGALOW, six rooms; lot so by 100;
at once, r. n. T., care Georgian.
FOR SALE-Two vacant lots, Egan
section, East Point; will sacrifice;
first cash offer OF S275 will get both lots.
Call Ivy $730, or 656 Gambler Annex
Owner.
NEW NORTH SIDE seven-room bunga:
low, never occupied. Has hardwood
floors, birch veneer doors, glass knobs.
granite mantels, bookcases, plate glass;
walls tinted with KEYSTONE, washable
tint. beautiful electric showers and
reading lamp: bathroom has tile floor,
arranged for shower bath, medicine cab
met, plateglass shelves and towel rods;
Nu-Tile roof guaranteed ten years, ce-
ment porcheS and steps, granite fronts
and furnace heat; has Pittsburg instan-
taneous gas water heater, heats 8 gal
Ions water per minute; street cherted
and every convenience. Must be seen
to be appreciated. Price $500; easy
terms: Cali owner. $50 to $50 p. m.
WILL sacrifice my beautiful SIX
room cottage in West End Park II
sold at once. Very easy terms. Mrs.
L.. BOX s1l. care Georgian.
FOR SALE-Druid Hills section; brand
new six-room. cedar-roof, furnace
heated bungalow; music room, living
and dining rooms with solid oak floors;
two large bedrooms with closets, hall
with linen closet, tile bath, buffers pan
try. kitchen, with storage pantry. rear
porch latticed in and plenty OF space in
basement forAservant room and laundry
or storeroom. Terms Call owner, e, F.
Gray, Ivy 4921-J or Main 1875
IF you are looking for good invest
ment, here 1t is; 40 acres good land
Brewster County. Texas: 1850 per acre.
Address Owner, 1865 South Pryor St. At
lanta.
FOR SALE BY OWNER. ON EASY
TERMS, Pearl street home; six rooms
and hall, on large lot, to an alley in rear.
Paved street, brick sidewalk. city water,
sewer gas; right at car line. with quick
schedule and within easy distance of In
man Park. House newly painted inside
and out. For quick sale win take small
cash payment and balance monthly, like
paying rent. See Oscar Davis, S36 Equi-
table Building. Phone 500 Main
THE California Land Owners Bulletin
gives the description. price and terms
Of property Of all descriptions: mailed
Owners Bulletin. 80 Market St. San
Francisco. Cal.
BARGAIN-234 New York City lots. $3.50
each; easy terms; subway building;
choice section. Beardall. 1853 Madison,
Brooklyn, N. Y
40 ACRES elegantly Improved fruit,
truck. dairy and poultry farm. Beau
tiful home, an ideal location. A M.
Walker. Louisiana, Mo.
FOR SALE-Cheap, hand some new
home in small town. Address N. B.
Taylor. Ma gnolia. N c.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
YPEwRITERs FOR SALE

IF you want a Smith Visible typewriter
cheap, see me Immediately: good con-
dition and fully paid. Box 1872. care
Georgian.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
Fl. G.. HASTINGS & CO.,
SEEDS. INCUBATORs AND
POULTRY SUPPLIES.
Bell Phones: Main 1858, Main ses2, At
lanta 1865

POULTRY SUPPLIES.
Bell Phones: Main 1858, Main 1852, At
lanta 1868.
HAVE YOU ever stopped to think that
the feed you use has more to do with
your success in poultry raising than any
other one thing? 1t Is an undisputed
fact, and the sooner our Southern Poul-
trymen realize this fact the better sue
cess they will have. This applies to the
man with a thousand chickens or more,
and also to the man that has a few
hens IN the back yard for home use,
BY proper feeding, a dozen hens should
furnish eggs enough the year round for
an ordinary family. but you can't get
the results by feeding Just any old kind
OF feed. The majority Of the grocery
stores sell chicken feed at pounds for
25 cents, and usually It is very in
ferior grade. We will sell and deliver
to you 10 pounds of Red Comb Feed for
90 cents, and it Is the cleanest and best
sold on this market. We handle the
Red Comb Feeds exclusively and sell
them to you at the same price or less
than you have been paying for feed that
isn't nearly so good. Let us send you
out a bag OF this feed or 10-pound
package and compare it with what you
are using. We deliver promptly to all
parts of the city
WE CARRY a complete line OF spratt's
Chicken Feed. Chicagrain and Spratt's
No. for the Baby Chicks and Spratt's
No. for grown chickens.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
PERSONAL.

TEN Hollywood Cemetery lots for sale;
large; lie pretty. Will sell for 81 down,
monthly or weekly. Apply at room 201
Equitable Building. second floor.
YOU CAN BE BEAUTIFUL! Our three
course beauty treatment tells you
how. No drugs used. Plain instruc-
lions. Will send three full courses for
z dime. send formulaes to your friends.
Money back II not satisfied. Interns-
tional Company. $40 Temple Court
Bldg, Atlanta.
SERIOUS RESULTS come from trusses
improperly fitted. John 3. Daniel. at
"a Wall street, has an expert filter and
1t Will cost you no more to have him At
you. and 1t means insurance.
MATERNITY SANITARIUM-Priva
refined, homelike. Limited number Of
patients cared for. Homo provided for
Infants. Mrs. M. T. Mitchell. 2s Wind
sor street.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
FARMS EOR SALE.


SEE ME- for South Georgia Farms
VIII exchange for city property. J. T
Kimhrough, 400 Al. Nat. Blk Bldg.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR Elk
CHANGE

FOR SALE Or EXCHHNGE 3or col
ster: value 81 900 Wilson r. Lamar. 21o
Lee street. Bell phone West 10t1-J.
FOR BEAUTIFUL HOMES and build
ing lots in College Park, the most
desirable suburb Of Atlanta, see I. c.
McCrory.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
FOR SALE-DRY GOODS,
SHOES

AID CLOTHING BUSINESS, establish
cd over Is years, in prosperous town In
Of Atlanta. Now doing business OF
5000 per month. Owner wants to de-
vote his whole time to other business
interests. Stock invoices $4,000; can
he reduced to 5000 Will make terms.
answer. Bargain. Box ISL. care Geor-
etar Atlanta Ga.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17

WANT house with few acres suitable
for truck farming, close in and near
car line. Address B. B., Box $50, care
Georgian.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
REAL ESTATE WANTED.

IF YOU HAVE a real bargain for sale
and will call in to see me, 1 will go
with you and inspect property imme-
diately and will turn same into cash
within ten days, as ! have customers
waiting. Harllee Realty Co, $50 Equita-
BILE Bldg M 1856
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
STOCKS AND BONDS.

,sss55 Al 4 1Sf.EY HOTEL bonds, Gant-
SYN, 1T in exchange for hi gh- grade Jack
,nyle F1a; geal o ssasrsi A g. Box
s;S Jacksonville. Fla
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
FARMS WANTED.

WANTED-Small acreage tract, suita-
BILE for subdivision, located on subur-
ban car line w. II. T., Box 400, care
C1egrpiaD
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17

TAKE a look at l06 College avenue. De-
catur, Ga, a new eight-room house;
take look at is Inman street, West
End Park. a new six-room house Take
a look at 391 Glennwood avenue, a five
room house. Then let me know what
you have to trade. F. H. Lichtenwalter,
Atlanta
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
AUCTION SALES.

IF YOU WISH 10 dispose Of your fur
niture, household goods. pianos or Of
fee fixtures. see B. Bernard. or cal M.
1905.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
T turkeys,

rom BGrbon Red toms, 1919 hatch;
show birds. sired by first tom Georgia
State Fair, 1912. out OF first and second
hens. same show. Must be sold at once.
SIS each. Osborne Poultry Yards, A. F..
Osborne, proprietor. Route 1. DeSoto,
Ga
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17

TO enter my heavyweight White Cor
nish is TO win, birds guaranteed; 50
TO IS. NJ. e. Kennedy. Temple, Ga.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17

NORTHERN buyers want Southern
farms; direct dealing with owners; no
commission. What have you to SELF
Write Southern Homeseekers' Bureau,
Box 1854, Atlanta, Ga.