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Evening star., 1917-04-01


by the rail, he took step forward.
"Good night-Sehor Ybarra,' came
the same crisp, scornful words that had
heard her speak in the afternoon-halting
him where he stood.
"His head seemed to drop forward. He
converted the movement awkwardly into
bow, and, turning, groped almost blindly
for my arm. | had to help him down the
ladder to the launch. He seemed COM
pletely done up.
"XNE didn't speak word while we were
w being whisked back to shore. He
sat with his head buried in his hands.
looking dejectedly at the bottom of the
boat. When we were on land, and | was
again plotting his steps, he suddenly
stopped short and demanded of me saw
agely:
"Don't you think I'm telling the
truth? Doesn't it sound like the truth?'
al was startled by the ferceness of his
tone, in which | detected a desperate
entreaty.
ado you think that any of them he
jerked his hand toward the vessel in
the bay would think Dasn't telling the
TRUTH
"Nonsense, Ybarra,' | tried to soothe
him. What earthly reason could they
have for not believing you?'
"Well, if | hadn't been quite frank
quite honest before this He seemed
to be conjuring up some hypothetical sit
uation to torture himself with. 1T might
seem like desperate attempt to account
for-for owning Villa Nueva.' He burst
out with a bitter laugh Finding
pirates hoard buried two or three hundred
years ago! Oh that is likely, isn't it?'
He shook away roughly from my arm,
and stalked rapidly ahead.
Il pondered over his strange words and
his stranger behavior. | couldn't imagine
why he should feel called upon to defend
his lawful title to Villa Nueva. Nobody
had questioned it, And, in any case, it
was nobody's business but his own. This
treasure business, though-had he gone
clean out of his head? But if he had
really had the incredible good luck to
stumble upon that sort of gold mine,
couldn't see why he need be so apologize
about it.
"He waited for me to catch up with
him, and then, quite without my suggest
ing it, he started in to tell me the story
of his find on the Twin Brother islands
pouring it into my ears to the last detail.
He seemed determined to vindicate HIM
self-to me, if to no one else-by the sheer
minuteness and exactitude of that recital
For, | soon perceived he no longer had
the least scntilla of actual proof to bolster
up his story. He hadn't vestige of ma
terial evidence except Villa Nueva itself,
which was so vast proof as to be no
proof at all That was the irony of it.
"He had been so careful fearing dis
covery at the time, that he had gone to
extraordinary lengths to escape the most
cunning detection, either then or later.
The gold-it was practically all in Spanish
doubloons and French louis d'or-he had
melted down a little at time. Then he
had disposed of the bars-one or two at
a time-here and there, in all sorts Of
places from Panama to Vera Cruz. Then
he had quietly opened bank accounts at
Kingston, Jamaica, and other places
quite modest affairs, and they had slowly
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Are You One of Them?

There are great many people who
would be very much benefited by TAX
Ing Chamberlain's Tablets for a weak
or disordered stomach. Are you one
of them? Mrs. M. R. Scarf, Baldwins-
vile, N. Y, relates her experience in
the use of these tablets: II had bad
spell with my tom a b about six
months ago. and was troubled for two
or three weeks with gas and severe
pains in the pit of my stomoch. Our
druggist advised me to take Chamber
lain's Tablets. l took a bottle home
and the first dose relieved me wonder
fully, and kept on taking them until
| was cured" These tablets do not
relieve pain, but after the pain has
been relieved may prevent its recur~
renee.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Mr.. JAG Bloch Narrowly Escpaes
Drowning.

Quite a sensation and consider
able excitement occurred among
three score of Colfax bathers
Thursday evening. Mr.. JAG
Bloch. while attempting to swim
across. Red river, found the
.hannel where the water was
over his head considerably wider
and the water swifter than he
anticipated. He became exhaust
ed and being seized with cramp
in one of his legs began to call
Justify for help. Fortunately
some parties had a boat near by
md he was rescued in time to
prevent a serious accident.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Didn't Know who Hit Him.

In the Harlem court 1t was no easy
matter for negro porter to explain
Just what had hit him, says the New
York Sun. His head was neatly bound
In the gauzy wilderness Of first aid, and
but for brace of dark and indignant
eyes which flashed from the front of
the medical bundle and pair of large
and dark ears protruding from either
side. he would have resembled a care
fully nodded, bullet-shaped SNOWFALL.
Through a slight slit in the sanitary
headgear the negro explained that he
had been hit from 80 directions while
at work in a cafe. At the time he as
serted he was engaged in 'scolding the
boss" about his small wages, the class
OF persons VINO came to the cafe and
the superiority of the negro race over
the white in every detail except their
genral color scheme. "Well, who hit
you." asked the magistrate. WELL"
said the porter, Il don't know jes' who
all took slam at me, but what know
is dis: In dat store at dat time they
were about 80 men, an what do know
is that was walloped at least 35 times.
Yer honor, jes' use your own judg-
ment."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
TRY It! SUBSTITUTE
FOR NASTY. CAL0nEL
Starts your liver without making
You sick and can not
salivate.

Every druggist in town-your
druggist and everybody's druggist
has noticed great falling-off in the
sale OF calomel. They all give the
same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone
is taking its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone
is perfectly safe and gives better re-
Suits" said prominent local drug
gist. Dodson's Liver Tone is per-
sonally guaranteed by every drug
gist who sells it. A large bottle
costs so cents, and if it fails to give
easy relief in every case of liver
sluggishness and constipation, YOU
have only to ask for your money
back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take a spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or consti-
pated bowels. It doesn't gripe or
cause inconvenience all the next
day like violent calomel.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Grant Parish Must
Furnish SO Men In
der Selective Draft

Baton Rouge. July 10. = The
number of men which each par
ish in the State must furnish un-
der the federal draft was an
nounced to-day by Adjutant Gen
eral McCrory.
In the first column is the num-
Der of men which the parish will
have'to furnish in the draft, and
the number of men in the second
column is the legal number who
have already volunteered in the
army, navy or State guard since
April l.
The total to be drafted for Lou
isiana is 1852 in addition to
1857 who have volunteered prior
to the draft.
The draft for the parishes COM
posing the eighth district is as
follows.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Selectiye Draft
Made at $50 a.
M, July 10th

Official announcement is receiv-
ed that at $50 a. m. on Friday,
July 20, the drawing of men for
the army under the selective
draft was to take place in Wash
ington City.
The stage setting for the great
lottery was announced to take
place in the public hearing room
of the Senate building. The in
vited guests who were to sit with
Secretary Baker at the time of
the drawing were the members
of the Senate and House military
committees. The only other per-
sons present are said to have
been a limited number of news
paper correspondents and photo
graphers, and the officials of Gen.
Crowder's office, who conducted
the drawing.
The numbers are being drawn
as we go to press, and part of
the Grant parish numbers will be
found in another place.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
The Grant Parish Fair Association.

The Grant Parish Far ASSOCIATION.
The Chronicle was pleased to
receive a call on Wednesday
from Mr.. Marx Womack. secre-
tary of the Grant Parish Fair
Association, who was here in
the interest of the opening of
Grant Parish Fair at Verda, on
October Is and 10, 1917.
This association is organized
with Mr.. ]. M. Lang as presi-
dent, and it has been officially
recognized by the State and
parish authorities, and is duly
Incorporated under the laws of
the State. 1t is the policy of
the association to make this
free fair in every way, and yet
they will be able to give SUBJ
stantial premiums worthy of be-
ing striven for by competitive
exhibitors. The Grant parish
police jury has recognized them
with a substantial appropriation,
as has also the State Fair associ-
alton, and the school board has
given the Junior Extension de-
partment a liberal appropriation.
The managers of the fair have
leen working together earnestly
and industriously since the close
of the last fair at Verda, and
the organization of the Grant
Parish Fair, to make their first
fair to be held in October to be
the best fair that has ever been
held in the parish. The object
of this fair is to encourage the
production of better crops and
live stock. 1t is strictly of an
educational nature in every re-
spect possible, and not a fair for
takers and the exhibition of
shoddy shams.
The farm demonstration work.
ers and the Grant Parish Fair
Association are closely cooper
ating, and both are earnestly
working for the agricultural up
building of the parish. They
extend a cordial invitation to the
people of Grant parish to come
to the fair and bring their ex-
hibits, and do all they can to CO.
operate in making the fair a
grand success. The premium
catalogue with prices offered is
being prepared. and this infor-
nation will be published at an
early date.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
A Demonstration of Swimming and
Life Saving.

A Demonstration of Swimming and
Life Saving.
Miss Evelyn Martin, an ex-
pert swimmer and licensed life
saver from New Orleans, who is
said to have a score of medals
for heroic service, gave an in
teresting lecture and exhibition
of skill in the different styles of
swimming and methods of life
saving to about seventy Colfax
bathers in Red river Wednesday
afternoon.
In addition to the bathers in
the river Miss Martin also had
an interesting audience of fully
as many more who stood on the
shore and took in the demon
strations. Her exhibition was
free and voluntary, and she was
assisted by Miss Edwina Wilson
Smith and Mr.. Tom Smith, who
took the part Of subjects to be
saved" 1t was not only inter
esting but instructive and valu-
able information, which our
people duly appreciate.
Miss Martin is the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Heman Smith, at
Upper Villege. VINO together
with Miss Jarreau, Mr.. Jerre
Smith and wife, and others
from that community motoreG
to Colfax to be present at the
demonstration.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

DR.. Dan w. Kelly, of Winn-
field, was the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. P. Mcknight on Wed
nesday and Thursday, and from
Colfax went on to New Orleans.
He has been accepted for service
in France, and is waiting orders
as to when to report for duty.
Last week he received a. tele-
gram to report by telegraph to
Charleston, S. c.. and on report
ing he was notified by wire to
hold himself ready to report at
Fort Oglethorp, Ca, on receipt
of telegraphic orders.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
LIFT. YOUR coRNS
OFF WITH FINGERS


You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who have
ut least once q week invited an awful
death from lockjaw or blood poison
are now told by q Cincinnati authority
to use q drug called freezone, which
the moment few drops are applied
to any corn or callus the soreness is re-
lievcd and soon the entire corn or cal
lus, root and all, lifts of with the fin
gers.
Freezone dries the moment It is ap-
piled, and simply shriyels the corn or cal
lus without infaming or even irritating
the surrounding tissue or skin. A small
bottle of freezone will cost very little
at any of the drug stores, but viii posi-
lively rid ones feet of every hard or
soft corn or hardened callus. If your
druggist hasn't any freezone he can get
It at any Wholesale drug house for you.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
LEMONS WRITTEN AND
BEAUTlFY THE SKIN
Make this beauty lotion cheaply for
your face, neck, arms and hands.

At the cost of small jar of ordinary
cold cream one can prepare q full quar-
ter pint of the most wonderful lemon
skin softener and complexion beautifer,
by squeezing the juice of two fresh lem
ons into bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white. Care should be taken
to strain the juice through fine cloth
SO no lemon pulp gets in, then this To-
ton will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is used
to bleach and remove such blemishes a.
freckles, sallowness and tan and is
the ideal skin softener, whitener and
beautifer.
just try I'll Get three ounces of
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and make up
q quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant
lemon lotion and massage it daily into
the face, neck, arms and hands. II IL
marvellous to smoother rough, red hands.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Beware Of Closed Mind.

Beware Of the closed mind. This
sounds like paradox when addressed
to young men. yet IT will, think. bear
examination. 1t Is a truism to say
that the danger of maturity, and espe-
cially of age, is the closing Of the
mind to new ideas. Habit, most pow
erful Of influences, hard experience
the very passage of the years. all alike
tend to stiffen the muscles and to hard.
en- the arteries Of the mind as they do
those Of the body. 1t is a misfortune
with which advancing age must strug-
gle, and the effort is severe and too
often either neglected or fruitless.-
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

Boy Smothers as "Trench" Caves In.
Chicago, July Is. = Tommy
Beutsch, aged II years, repre-
sented the Germans" in trench
play to-day, while his three play
mates were Gen. Pershing's
Americans. A heavy woman
walked on the edge above Tom
my's trench, and it caved in and
smothered him to death before
he could be rescued.
We print this item for the in
formation of the boys who have
dug trench in the sandbar near
the beach where COlfax bathers
go into Red river every evening.
If the sand was to cave in on
two or three boys in that trench
six or seven feet deep they would
be dead before they could be dug
out.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
WIDOWS Dowry Bill Passed Without
Opposition.

Baton Rouge, July 19.-With-
outoppositionand without amend
ment the widows dowry bill
passed the house to-day, and goes
to the governor for his signature.
This realizes the chief purposes
Tor which the special session was
called.
The vote on the bill was LOG
yeas and no nays. We are not
able at this time to give the text
OF the bill, but it provides a sat-
isfactory way for the farm loan
provisions of the national law to
be applied in Louisiana, and
meets the requirements SO that
farmers can take advantage of
the farm loan.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
The Great Come Back of Russia.

| Petfograd, July 16. = From
July Ito Is an official statement
says. S34 officers and 35,SO9 men
were captured by the Russians.
General Brussiloff's forces also
captured SO heavy and light guns,
% trench mortars, 403 machine
guns, 43 mine throwers. As bomb
mortars, 8 fire throwers, 2 air.
planes and much equipment.
The attacking forces of Rus
STA are pressing forward over a
wide extended front of fully 500
miles, extending from Riga on
the north to Tarnopal in Galicia
on the south. They are report
ed to be at the foothills of the
Carpathian mountains, and are
thrusting again toward Ler1burg
the capital of Galacia, from
which they were driven back
about two years ago. The arms
and equipment, and the spirit of
the Russian soldiers is said to be
finer at this time than at any
date since the war begun.
With the breaking and push
ing back of the eastern German
line, and the steady push of the
English and the French allies,
now joined by the American
forces on the western front,
there is every indication that a
concerted crowdin g of the
Kaiser's armies is now under
way that is bound to convince
all thinking Germans that the
beginning of the end must now
be in sight.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

Prof. ]. r. DeMoss' new resi-
dence, which is being finished
up ready for occupancy August
1, is quite handsome bungalow
and an attractive addition to the
town. Mr.. J.sC. Taylor. the
contractor, has turned out a very
creditable job.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
The Drouth Appears Broken.

The seventy days drouth at
Colfax was relieved last Monday
by a rain fall of about a inch,
hardly enough to greatly relieve
the situation. However, yester-
day friday forenoon it was fol-
lowed by a more liberal down.
pour, that looked as if it was so
general it will break the drouth
pretty well all over Grant parish.
The rainfall extended into the af-
ternoon, and as we go to press
gives promise of continuing a
while longer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

Mrs. R. E. Mcknight and chill
dren returned on Friday of last
week from a three days trip to
Mansfield. during which Mr..
Irwin Jardon acted as chauffer.
She was accompanied home by
her brother, Mr.. Leslie P. Nc
Came, of Seattle, WASH, who
is paying his home folks a sum-
mer visit.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

Sheriff Clinton has had the in-
side of the Jail treated to a coat
of white enamel, as we'll as the
door and window facings and
bars. The change from the old
dingy walls to snow white ought
to be an agreeable change to the
prisoners, and should aid greatly
in keeping the Jail in healthy and
sanitary condition.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Correcting Little Misunderstanding.

Correcting a Little Misunderstanding.
Everybody should understand
that personal and news mention
IN the Chronicle is not reserved
for subscribers only" but we
are always glad to get items
about any and every one who is
In the news" whether they are
subscribers to the paper or not.
One thing, however, our friends
should not forget, and that is
that news does not soak through
the air. Somebody must tell us
the news, or we may never know
about it until a week after the
paper has been printed. So if
your grandmother dies. YOU have
the mumps, or your wife gives
you a licking, tell US about it.
and we will be glad to print the
news.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

The members Of the Louisiana
legislature who voted to indefi-
nitely postpone the Upton bill
to establish a 10 mile dry limit
for Camp Beauregard. have gone
on record as favoring the bust
ness of a few unprincipaled
whisky sellers above the moral
and financial welfare of the ma
jority in the Alexandria COM
munity, as well as the welfare
and preponderating sentiment in
three states.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

Miss Juden, assistant in the
INSTRUMENTATION Sur d a y
scnool work, accompanied by
Miss Mollye Stewart and Mr..
0. w. Stewart, of Pollock. were
in Colfax last Monday evening
in the interest of this work.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

The Upton bill, to establish a
ten mile limit at the soldiers
camp near Alexandria in which
whisky could not be sold, was
defeated in the Louisiana legis-
lature on Wednesday by a vote
of SO to a. Its defeat was ac-
complished by the Alexandria
delegation lining up with the
New Orleans delegation and the
Bull Moosers or Progressives of
the Third District.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
The First Boil of Open Cotton.

Mr.. ]. M. Brett, of Raven
Camp, sent the Chronicle the
first boil of open cotton for this
year on Tuesday, July II. They
have been fortunate in that COM
munity, having received rain
sufficient to make pretty fair
corn, while the cotton is good,
both crops being much better
than in the paish at large. where
the crops have suffered greatly
from the long drouth, and the
corn in most cases is almost a
total failure.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

The U. S. Agricultural Depart
ment has just released a bulletin
in which it says, Consider the
Peanut. Its annual value ex-
ceeds that Of any vegetable crop
grown, except for the potato.
1t helps whip the boil weevil,
and keeps the oil mills going
where the cotton products have
been cut short or forced to go.
In many cases it has proved to
be the salvation of farmers who
have been forced to abandon cot
ton by the ravages of the boil
weevil.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

The naughty and supercillious
manner in which the whisky
advocates of Alexandria and
New Orleans, with the help of
the Bull Moosers, managed to
put one over the advocates of
prohibition in the late legislative
tilt at Baton Rouge, is only an
other example of the way that
crowd does business whenever
they get the power. This VIC
tory, however, is liable to be
short lived, and we misread the
signs of the times very much if
they have not fastened the day
when their power to control pol
tiles in Louisiana by chicanery
and sand-bag methods will be
cut short.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

A couple of autos containing a
squad of U. S. marshals passed
through Colfax Friday morning
on the way after Grant parish
parties who failed to register, so
we understand. 1t is likely we
shall know who our slackers are
in the next day or two.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Notice of Final Proof.

State Land Office, Baton Rouge, La. !
July IL, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that Henry M.
Denton, of Colfax, La, who, on June
8, 1912, made homestead entry No.
1899, for NE / of section Is, township
z north, range 3 west, La. Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make
final proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before Jas. J.
O'Quinn, clerk, at Colfax, La, on the
18th day of August, 1917
Claimant names as witnesses: Taudy
NJ. Reed, Newton Williams, Marshal
Goldman, of Colfax, La, and Ed Fred
leu, of Aloha. La.
FRED J. GRACE,
jy2l Register State Land Office.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

Will the citizens of Colfax cut
the bitter weeds around their
premises as matter of civic
pride, or will it be necessary for
the mayor to inforce the weed
cutting ordinance as a matter of
sanitation?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21
Two Dry Prong Houses for Sale.

! have two four-room houses and lots
in the town of Dry Prong for sale.
They are located on Main street, and
both have all necessary out buildings.
Priced both for $500. Apply to
MRS. L. A. BLACKWELL,
jy21-3t' Dry Prong, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

If you have Chills or Malaria get a
35c bottle of Sanol Chill Tonic nothing
better for chills and malaria. Get it
at the Drug Store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-21

LABOR Best Test
Labor 10 the best test Of the ener-
gies Of men, and furnishes an admir-
able training for practical wisdom
Samuel 6mz1es.