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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
BY JANE MCLEAN


1t seemed absurd to name the baby
anything, it was so small and pink
and helpless. 1t looked too vague
tc be named. One thought of it only
in terms of baby flesh without any
thing so definite as personality, but
Joyce as she lay in bed and cuddled
it little bit. and rested, thought a
gread deal about it's name.
Joyce thought of names quite
often. She had thought of a name
before the baby came. but she and Al
had talked it over and had
1T would be a pity to name the
baby and then be disappointed. If
we picked out a lovely girls name
and it happened to be boy we
should be so disappointed"
"Of course it's a boy" AL had be-
gun, laughing embarrassedly and de-
lightedly.
30, of course" Joyce had returned.
Which meant that if it were a boy
the baby should be called Junior
But it had been "a girl! A lovely
rosebud of a girl, a little tender
morsel of humanity that made it's
father quiver and tremble when it's
tiny fist closed about his big finger.
And nothing had been said about a
name although the baby was three
days old. Now to the uninitiated.
this fact would not seem at all
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27

up for serious investigation would
seem to point to almost certain re-
suits.
Above all, there is the mighty
impetus given to speculation by the
war, with it's thousands of bereft
homes and it's millions of mourning
women seeking to see beyond the
veil.
All this cannot be in vain, for the
mind of man has never yet applied
itself to any problem without reach
ing Il solution. 1t has conquered the
earth, the seas and the air And
there are many indications that this
greatest of the Questions is also In
the way OF icing answered.
AS Ella Wheeler Wilcox says in
recent poem in the Cosmopolitan:
II tell you, the shadows are grow
ing thinner
Between this world and the world
of the dead;
And only the fool cries, 'Fool!' or
Sinner!
To one who looks into the life
tell you, the curtain is being
lifted
The silence broken, the darkness
rifted-
And knowledge is taking the place
of faith
On that vast subject, Death"
Whether one likes to believe it
or not, the crude rappings and other
mediumistic manifestations with
which we are all familiar have
aroused curiosity and swelled the
steadily mounting tide of inquiry
and investigation which must even
tually lead somewhere.
Where none of us can assert
definitely upon the present incom-
plete evidence. There are many
startling things in Sir Oliver Lodges
last book, many things from other
sources which tend to prove the
contention of the spiritualists, that
those we call dead are living as real
and wal & life ~ they lid % this
side of the so-called veil and are
seeking as eagerly to communicate
with us as we are with them.
On the other hand there is un-
doubted weight to be given to many
of the arguments for reincarnation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27

window making a halo of her hair
and after they had talked a little
while, Joyce said softly. timorously a
little:
"AI, dear, have you thought about
name for baby?"
Al started and looked at Joyce, and
then. manlike, evaded the question:
Have you. sweetheart"
Joyce nodded.
Il thought it would be lovely to
call it Barbara for Aunt Barbara"
She looked at Al closely and saw
the look that spread quickly over his
face.
"Al Wetherill, just know that you
have a name picked out yourself"
Al met her worried eyes with his
own boysh ones filled with conster-
nation. Joyce must not be eXcit ed.
What was it. dear?" she insisted.
why. l thought of Lydia for my
mother" he confessed.
Now Joyce had never liked the
name Lydia. Lydia itself was not
81 bad, but she. had dreams of hear
ing her baby called Liddie. and Lid,
and the thought of this caused her
expression to change instantly. Al
saw the change and was quick to
speak.
But not if you don't like it. dear"
'rhink how it would be nick
named! Joyce said quickly.
Al looked thoughtful, and Joyce.
too. went into a brown study. Sud-
denly AL turned to her. his face
alight with a sudden inspiration.
II have it! Wen call the baby for
you, and then both of us will be
pleased"
Joyce still looked thoughtful. She
was not in love with her own name :;
and. although it pleased her to have
AL suggest such a thing, she was
hardly in favor of Joyce for the baby.
But suddenly her own small face
lighted up.
Il have it. dear Wen call her
JOY" she said enthusiastically.
Great! he responded, land it
stands for you"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
To AUoid Rough, Coarse,
Chapped, Blotchy Skin

Most skins require constant groom
ing at this season to keep them from
becoming unduly red. blotchy. coarse.
has developed, to overcome it. In
such cases it is particularly inadvis-
able to keep piling on cosmetics which
clog the pores and make the COM
pleXion worse than ever.
It's lot more sensible to use ordi-
nary mercoliZed wax, which literally
absorbs a spoiled complexion. Apply
the wax, like cold cream, before re-
firing. Next morning, in washing il
off, you'll wash away fine, flour-like
particles of the unsightly cuticle Re-
peat for a week or more and you'll
have an entirely new skin-soft
white, spotless and beautiful as a
child's. One ounce of mercolized wax,
procurable at any druggists, is ali
you'll need.-Advertisem
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27

the mystery, and that each will re-
ceive what he eXpects-the orthodox
believer his resurrection of the body
and his heavenly city according to
til vision of st. John; the Hindu his
NtrNana, the Indian his Happy
Hunting Grounds.
Every religion and every sect
must hold some part of the truth.
And the best that any of us can do
is to keep that open mind that the
subject is one eminently worthy of
investigation and accept whatever
may be established when it is prov
ed according to the ordinary rules
of evidence.
My own belief is that when the
fnal revelation does come, we shall
find the Great Adventure" TO be no
more Of an adventure than the step
ming from one room TO another the
charm of Nature is that she is invar-
iably natural.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27

and those philosophers which hold
that this earth experience of ours
is but an interval clock-tick, as 1t
wete- IL. an existence which IS
eternal and unending, ever progress
sihg toward some goal which as yet
we cannot evenly dimly divine.
SO great a scientist as Mr.. Edi-
son, reasoning solely from material
evidences, can see no chance for a
futile life whatever; to his mind
existence ends with ulSsorutiOn; WINE
the IGealists deny any life or sub
stance to matter, and regard death
in common with all other ills as
mere illusion.
Maurice Maeterlinck has gone
deeply into the subject, but his con
clusions are possibly n little too
shadowy, a little too poetic for the
practical mind TO follow. The near
est approach to them perhaps is
found in the hackneyed saying: I'VE
live in the hearts we leave behind"
And James Flicker, the young
English poet who died two years
ago. has his own views on the sub
ject which he expressed eXquisitely:
And life stood still a moment, mists
came swinging
Blindly before us; suddenly we
passed
Inc DOuEQarleS OF JOY. our nearlS
were ringing
TrLe to the trembling world: we
.toCd at last
Beyond the golden gate,
Masters of time and fate,
And knewNthe tune that sun and
stars were singing.
For like two travellers on n hill,
who stay
Viewing the smoke that dims the
busy plain,
So far away lsweet words are Far
away,)
We saw our life and all it's crooked
lare,
DIM cities and dark walls,
Fell as n world that falls
And left us radiant in the Wind
of Day"
1t may be that all roads lead to
Rome. 1t may be that the miracle
of faith is the key which will solve
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
Life'sProblems
Are Discussed
BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW


Where do we go from here? :?
Where do we go from here?"
In every gathering or group of
people, If it persists long enough
and when ] say people | except
of course the assemblages of the
very young-there is one subject
that is bound to come up for discus
sion. 1t is that of the future life.
And even the very young are apt
to discuss it in a circle of their own
sex. Among themselves boys of high
school or college age will speculate
and ponder upon it; and among
themselves girls of eighteen and
twenty will air their romantic or
imaginative fancies. But when to-
gether they would never dream of
intruding anything so spooky.
With people" though, the great
mystery affords an always inter-
esting and never-failing topic. Men
tell me that they have heard it
argued and debated in all sorts of
queer and out-of-the-way places
among cowboys and prospectors
gathered about the campfire, on the
decks of fishing schooners rocking
to the long swells off the Grand
Banks, in African jungles and
South American forests, about the
gaming tables and among the
at night, they say, and usually in
the small hours.
And 1, myself, have observed the
same phenomenon. The quiet of
the night, the light of wood fire
making the shadows of the room
seem denser, and the conversation
invariably turns to, Where do we
go from here?"
Isn't that the mystery of the
darkness and the approach of that
still greater mystery, sleep, natur-
ally turns our thought to the great
est of all problems?"
A futile questioning, many peo-
pie say, for in the end one comes
squarely up against a blank wall.
But the history of our planet
shows that mans destiny is to
solve the unsolvable. Fifty or Il
hundred years ago one would
scarcely have dared whisper a doubt
against the orthodox, medieval
conception OF Heaven and He'll Then
there was a blank wall interposed-
Il blank wall of negation. But all
this discussion and re-discussion is
having it's effect.
The fact that scientists like Sir
Oliver Lodge have taken the matter
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27

"Oh, no, DEAR" and Joyce shook her
head remonstratingly; that doesn't
stand for me at all. We won't call
the baby for anyone but her own
self, and JOY is the best name in the
world-it stands for just what she
means to u.s.
And AL hadn't a thing to say to
this; he was satisfied and happy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-27
Advice to the Lovelorn
Don't BE Too Sensitive

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
| am engaged to marry a man |
dearly love. Now, my friend has a
sister who is married for the past
year. Previous to her wedding I
was very friendly with her and re-
ceived her most cordially at my
home. After her marriage | went to
her home on my own accord and
was snapped at and made uncom-
Portable. Since my visit she has
never invited or asked me to come
to see her. My friend insists that |
go with him to see her on his inVi-
tation. My dear Miss Fairfax, do
you think it is proper, after refused
and told him the reason why, to
leave me and go himself?
MARJORIE.
really don't understand this
woman's actions. Possibly someone
has made u bit of trouble for you;
may be she is selfshly absorbed in
her own happiness. l think it would
be worth your while to give her
the benefit of the doubt and to put
your pride in your pocket since she
is the sister of the man you love.
Why not have peace in the family?
1t would have been wise for you to
go with your fiance when he asked
you to visit his sister. Perhaps she
never intended any. offense and
would have welcomed you so cor
daily that you would have been
ashamed of your suspicious.
COUSINS
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Please don't fail me! l am in camp
at Fort Wadsworth. l am in love with
a first cousin whom have been going
out with quite often before l was call
ed into active service. L now receive
mail from her and the contents of her
letters are very endearing. ] have
not mentioned any of my serious in
tentions to her because many people
have told me that it was not proper
to marry a blood relative. However,
I think she would look favorably up
on my suit. Will you please advise
me in this predicament? l earn a fair
salary in civil life and believe we
could be extremely happy together.
We have not been known to each
other previous to about a year and
half ago.
Marriages between first cousins are
not at all advisable. In some states
they are not even legal. This is for
the good of the race and any book
on Eugenics will explain the situation
to you far better than 1 can in the
columns of a newspaper.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
GOOD DRAINAGE IS IMPORTANT
FACTOR IN CROP PRODUCTION
Permits Easy Working of SOl-Increases Length of Growing
SeasOn-Enabes Plants to Develop Root System-Hps to
Conserve So-Tends to Prevent Soil Acdity-Many Other
Advantages.

possible
well drained
during the cutfvatng
at all and
Other providing
condition produce ordinary farm
three (b) capillary
The named
the soil particles
that capillary moisture
ordinary farm All
To ventate all
excluded this bacterial
do with nifaon the breaking
and the maintenance Of the supply of
Well ventilated soils easily worked
good physical condition Again. the
become acid and this itself harmful
relatively high feeding
development of place
the plant send its considerable
the lack of water the soil To put another
plant to withstand to the
land it with it, usually
loss several
allowed through
which
it will of the surface.
soil A
not allowed to
is cooled
University
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
CALOMEL SAL|vATES
and MAKES YOU SICK
Acts like dynamite on a sluggish
liver and you lose q
days work.

There's no reason why a person
should take sickening, salivating cali
omel when so cents buys a large Dot
tie of Dodson's Liver Tone-a per-
feet substitute for calomel.
1t is pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as
surely as calomel, but it doesn't
make you sick and can not salivate.
Children and grown folks can take
Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is
perfectly harmless.
Calomel is dangerous drug. It
is mercury and attacks your bones.
Take dose of nasty calomel today
and you will feel weak, sick and
nauseated tomorrow. Don't lose a
days work. Take a spoonful of
Dodson's Liver Tone instead and
you will wake up feeling great. No
more biliousness, constipation, slug
gishness, headache, coated tongue or
sour stomach. Your druggist says if
you don't find Dodson's Liver Tone
acts better than horrible calomel
yoag money is waiting for you.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
Good Roads a Personal Responsibility.

Good Roads Personal Responsibility.
Over in St. Tammany parish
they are interested in the subject
of good roads, and the Slidell
Sun makes some remarks peril
nent to the issue, as follows:
Perhaps no other feature of
civic reform or improvement of
recent years has attracted so
much attention as that of road
building. All over our broad
land, from ocean to ocean, from
the lakes to the gulf, the wave
of enthusiasm is rolling. The
people are realizing that they
must have better roads, and the
machinery of government in its
taxing capacity is being ever
more and more strained to meet
this demand.
But while there is a certain
responsibility resting upon the
State in the maintenance of our
highways, we are in danger of
forgetting that an even greater
responsibility rests upon us, indi-
vidually, as citizens. Many a
man will CONF to town and spend
in a day enough foolishly to pay
his yearly taxes and think moth
ing Of it. But he will sweat
drops of blood, as it were, when
the tax collector rounds him up.
While we must depend upon
taxation, we should depend upon
individual and personal effort
also. 3 y Do you favor
better roads in this community?
Then go to work and arouse a
healthy community sentiment
that will demand them. When
that is accomplished good roads
will be the result.
And just a few words more.
Realize Jour own responsibility.
Say to yourself, 1.-The roads of
this community belong partly to
me. and | owe duty to them"
Don't depend upon a benevolent
government, National, State, par
ish or town, but shoulder your
own responsibility"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
RECORD SHOWS GAIN OR
LOSS on EACH CROP
Bookkeeping Answers Questions About
Each Farming Operation.

Bankers and business men are more
readily disposed to make advances
to farmers who keep some records, OF
their farming operations; but the far
mers say it's too much trouble, it
doesn't pay, and that there's nothing
at the end Of the year anyway, so
what's the use Of keeping books
about it?
The average farmer Is right about
the bookkeeping business, but his rea-
son for his position is wrong. Book
keeping Is such a record OF his busi-
ness as will answer all reasonable
questions about the business and do
it quickly The average farmer has
few questions about his farming,
therefore he has no need for book
keeping. 1t is the farmer with ques-
tons to ask who will find bookkeep-
ing INTEREST," ng and indispensable. His
system of hooks will depend upon the
questions he wishes to answer. He
may wish to know any OF the follow.
ing thing:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
The Chronicle and Good Roads.

Several years ago, when the
Chronicle first began the cam
paign for good roads, we told the
people of Grant parish that if
they would vote 500, 900 for mod
ell roads they would get an addi-
tional 500, 1000 from the State.
We were mistaken a little in that
proposition, as in the final show
down we only received from the
State about SEQ, 900; although
the assurance was given US that
we would receive a dollar for ev-
cry dollar we put up for our
selves.
State and National aid is now
in better shape, and we are again
before the people of Grant par
ish with the same sort of PROPOSE
ton, and possibly a little better,
in behalf of the Jefferson High
way. We not only have the as
surance of getting a goodly sum
of money from the State and Ma
tional governments for every
dollar we put on that road, but
supplemental to that there is ev-
cry probability that we will re-
ceive in addition thereto $40 a
mile, for every mile, every year
in perpetuity, for the upkeep of
the road.
That is a plain practical propo-
sition that ought to secure the
vote of every patriotic citizen in
favor of issuing bonds to build
the Jefferson Highway.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24

Our subscribers will please re-
member that our rule is cash in
advance for the Chronicle. Do
not put US to the trouble and ex-
pense of postage in sending out
bills; and parties who allow them
selves to get several weeks in ar
rears need not be surprised if
they find their paper discontinued
without notice. Paper is an ex-
pensive item now, worth twice
as much as it used to be, and we
cannot afford to pay for paper
and then add to the expense Of
postage to collect a dollar SUBJ
scription in which we have no
profit.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
The roads of a country are a

The roads of a country are a
community asset in which every
man is equally interested. This
is true at least to the extent of
each mans personal value, and
for that reason it is right that he
should contribute to the extent
of his worth in the upkeep of the
community interest. The pay
ment of taxes for roads and for
schools is strictly an investment
in which each each citizen and
his children have a direct share
and it i'll becomes any man to
try to evade his duty in the main
tenance of interests of such vital
Importance to all.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
Two Periods for Planting Corn.

There are two more or less dis
tinct planting periods for the
standard strains of corn in LOU
isiana. The first, or early, period
would approximate the 10th of
March and the second the 25th
Of April in Central Louisiana,
being somewhat earlier in the
extreme south and five to ten
days later in the extreme north
ern portion of the State. Corn
planted from the Goth of March
to the 18th of April is very apt
to be destroyed by the corn root
worm. The second planting per-
iod referred to above comes after
the first generation of root worms
has passed into the chrysalis or
resting stage. Very early corn
is generally believed to be safer
than late planted corn, exclusive
of the danger of frost. L. S. u.
Press Bulletin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
Sick Liver Causes Dizziness.

Headache, biliousness, chronic con-
stipation and muddy complexion are
signs that your overworked liver needs
Po- Do-Lax to take up part of the
burden. Po-TIo-Lax is natures reme-
dy, liquid laxative derived from the
May-apple, 3. gentle liver stimulant
that incre Ase s the flow of bile and by
its mildly lax alive quality carries off
the impw.itie.i that have clogged the
intestine's and aids nature to clear the
blood. Get - bottle to-day. At all
druggis Is, Soc ADV. 3.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
Gain or loss for the year.
Cost Of raising a horse.

Udin OF loss Tor the year.
Cost of raising horse.
How much it cost him per pound to
produce pork.
How much days work by a mule
or horse costs the farm.
How much per bushel it costs to
produce corn, potatoes and oats.
The relative values of the individ.
uals OF a flock or herd.
The expense of marketing.
Gains or losses on particular crops.
The answer to any questions must
be provided for in the system of book
keeping.
Now, II any farmer in Louisiana
wants a system of books to answer
some questions on his own farming,
we will give our services free in ad-
vising him what system to employ
All he has to do is to write us fully
on the point in question:. l..
Hines, Professor of Commerce. Loais-
lana State University.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
Strictly the Need of the Poor Man.


The assertion is frequently
heard from thoughtless persons
that good roads only benefit the
rich who are able to own auto
mobiles. Nothing is more err
roneous. Good roads in a coun-
try benefit the poor people dol
lars where it only benefits the
rich dimes. The rich man in his
automobile can travel over roads
that the poor man with his poor
team dare not tackle, but he very
naturally prefers a good road,
and is attracted by and travels
in the country that has them.
Incidently he spends his money
III the country and helps to keep
up its progress. No, sir. good
roads are the poor mans friend
and he can afford to go his full
length for them, if they come
anywhere within five or ten miles
Of his goat ranch. 1t is only a
question of a short time before
he will have good road built to
his gate.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24

The police jury met in special
session on Friday with all the
members present, to receive the
report of the road reviewers ap-
pointed to mark out new road
from Kateland station to a point
opposite the town of Boyce.
Messrs. T. c. Bush and Heman
and Ranny Smith were present
to urge the adoption of the route
mapped out, and the road was
received and adopted with the
usual proviso that the right of
way be procured without cost to
the parish. The proceedings will
appear next week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-02-24
$500 Power Craft Available for Har.
Dor Patrols.

z,OOV IOWcT OIdlt AFdlldDIG IOT IldI 7.
Dor Patrols.
Washington, Feb. IA. Approx
imately $500 power craft of va
rious types are available for duty
as scout patrols about American
harbors, according to navy de-
partment figures. Of these $50
boats have been surveyed and
formally enrolled in the new
scout patrol service, 1000 others
are known to meet the full re-
quirements of the service, and
the remainder are designated as
second rate, but nearly all of
them could perform such in war
time.