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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
OIL STOCK IS Certificate
OF DEATH OF FRIENDSHIP

Brentwood, Texas.-"Did you ever
see fancy engraved. printed-in-goid.
death certificate?" asked salesman
OF the occupant OF an adjoining chair
in the Southern Hotel last Sunday.
"Noo". he inquired. as his neighbor
nodded a non-commital answer We'll,
here 1t Is. look at it," he added, ex-
hibiting a 500 stock certificate in an
oil company.
Did a we'll come in and somebody
drop dead?" asked the neighbor.
mot that you could notice 1t. You
see a good customer Of mine was or
| ganizng a company or something
| ANY way he wanted to sell the stock;
I wanted to please him and bought It.
Then the bottom fell out; no oil In
/ hundred miles OF our lease. So this
is the certificate of the death OF our
friendship. He hates to see me. l
don't like to go in his store. Our
| friendship is dead and this Is a certf-
ficate OF its demise. am out one hun
dred bucks and a customer-total loss
i ana no salvage. NY 1888 w. 40 nv oAA
the house. Do you blame me for 60
ing into mourning?"
Then he lit his cigar and took q
speculative draw or two; suddenly he
asked, Would you give me Wal
Savings Stamp for it," His neighboI
grinned. mot on your life! But i
certainly made Christian Of you. Yet
why the War Savings Stamp? An oil
speculator turning to War Savings
Stamps is going some; what's the
idea?" Boy" said the salesman. Go
a boy at home. Got more sense thar
the old man. Gave him 500 on. hill
birthday; he's got 1t yet. sailed away
War Savings Stamps and such. | los
mine. But I'll be game and catch hin
yet Wish I'd been taught safety first
in investments like he has. That
why I'm for the schools now good an
strong. they are getting to be wort
the money in this savings bushes
alone even IL they did not teach al
other thing in the world"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
Lone LIE Signs.

It is said to be possible to distin-
cuish long-lived person from one
who will not last so long Mt sight.
Are you going to live long7
First, according to well-known au-
thority. says London Answers, the
primary conditions Of longevity are
that the lungs, heart, digestive orgnns
and brains should all be long. II such
be the case the trunk will be long am
the limbs comparatively short.
A good indication of longevity, It IS
said, is long hand with short fingers
which are not stumpy at the ENDS
Blue, hazel or brown eyes, too, are
said to denote long life. Another
sign-large, open and free nostrlls
which denote large Iungsf
If you are long liver, you VIII ap
pear tall when seated and short II
standing. Your brain. we are a's'
told, will be deeply seated. as por
trayed by the oyifice Of the ear be'n'
low.
Women seem to outlive men, Tor !
has been recorded that from birth {
ten, years of age male death rate no
exceeded the female.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
Colossal German Theater.

One of the worlds most colossal
theaters, and by far the most BIZARRE
is the great auditorium recently open.
ed In Berlin. The dreary exterior OF
the building is monstrous, but gives
little promise Of the surprise Within
The curving walls Of the foyer, says
an illustrated article In Popular Me-
lchanics Magazine for May, merge In
~ n domed roof, supported by carved
mahogany columns. The upper por-
zion of each column Is formed by many
disks that radiafe orange and blue
light from concealed bulbs. The audi
forum itself suggests the 3ree' open
air amnbittcc.er. The 1900 seats
are ranged in horseshoe plan around
an arena, or more properly. an or
chestra.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
BIGGER THAN ALL
Human Mind Is Real Wonder OF
the World.
,nanimate Things That used to 30
classed as Marveis Are Trivial IN
Comparison, According TO
Boston Writer.

An un-to-date newspaper must have
nm encvclopedic editor "Uncie Dudley
writes I'm the Boston Globe. his Jop
is to do what he can to Quencn the
public thirst for odd scraps OF miscei-
laneous information. He lives close
by the reservoir, a library containing
the records of the race. One Gay ne
files deposition about John aiiot >
translation of the Bible for the Ameri-
can Indians; the next morning ne tes-
titles that on September 2. 1897, at Ne"
Orleans. Jim Corbett took the wind oui
Of John L. Sullivan's sails in Fl rounds.
There is one stock question In par
ticular which hobs up ever and anon.
What are the seven wonders OF the
world? For purposes Of reference, the
number of wonders always has peeh'
is now and ever shall be, apparently
exactly seven. The almanacs never
show ten or dozen. The problem OF
selection is staggering In these dnys
when the wonders Of the world actu-
ally total much nearer 1000 than tney
do seven.
Nevertheless, 1t Is interesting to COM
pare tine compiled lists Of the seven
wonders of the ancient, the medieval
and the modern worlds. They are an
index to the history Of the human IN
tellect. Any compilation suffices. Ihese
| will do.
| Seven wonders Of the ancient worie
Pyramids of Egypt. Pharos of Egypt
Hanging Gardens Of Babylon. Temple
of Diana at Ephesus, Statue OF Jupiter
nv phidias. mausoleum Of Artemtsis
ut HalicarnassHs, Colossus OF Rhodes
Seven wonders of the middle ages
Coliseum of Rome, catacombs OF Alex
andria, great wall Of China. Stone
henge, leaning tower Of Pisa. porce
| lain tower Of Marking, China; mosqu
Of St Sophia at Constantinople.
| Seven wonders Of the modern wori
-Woolworth building, Eiffel towel
etc? No. Inanimate marvels are
the past. Here comes the lightnin
change. The third act is humme
The compiler Of the wonders doe
not even attempt to cover the whol
modern period. He tabulates from tn
nineteenth and twentieth centurie
only. And he calls his last list II
seven new wonders of the world. Hel
they are:
Wireless, telephone, airplane, Z
dunn, antiseptic and antitoxin. spe
trum analysis. X-rays.
What nextf
: The great wonder Of all the ag
Is the human mind. Its evolution
the history Of the world
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
Chess Expert Doomed.

senior Capablanca has set up as
,omarkable n record as ever was made
n any sport in his chess exhibitions in
Great Britain and Ireland. His total
score In 1859 games is 1883 wins, IL
draws. and % losses. His opponents
have included all the best Engiish
n,ayers. He takes them on thirty or
moro at a time. To each move on the
hoard the Cuban master devotes an
average of nine seconds. his victims
six minutes. Recalling the tragic his
tory of the great chess experts, OF
Morphy and others. one asks fearfuiiy'
when will Capablanca go insane!--
New York Globe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
TEXAS SCHOOLS MAKE.
rllD. cTnaIunI nERc
TUf.sA o.uJnl1ULULRC
OF THE GOVERNMENT

Dallas. xAs.-lupils in six schools
In six Texas towns made such unusuai
records in thrift work that their re-
ports have been received by Inc say
ings Division of the United States
Treasury from Miss Annie WeDD biah'
ton State Superintendent OF pubic In
structiOn.
Lorena school Is represented by tne
grade taught by Miss Modena Grifhn'
who had sixteen pupils. and under tne
announcement of Miss Griffin ana
Miss Myrtle L. Tanner. superinteno'
ent, they owned. at the close OF scnooi.
Thrift and War Savings Stamps 10
the amount of $1361.50. One high
third grade in the Travis School OF
San Antonio. with thirty-one pupils
under Miss Ruth E. Laidlaw. owned
$3.50. Miss Stella Traweek's third
grade with thirty-six pupils own $l704
of the governments securities. bought
as Thrift Stamps and converted INTO
War Savings Stamps.
The Farmersville High School. with
sixty six Stamp owners. reports ac'
cording to Superintendent A. M. BLACK
man and Principal R. Reece. owner
ship of $2,99975 in Government Saw
ings Securities. N. o. Robbins. super
intendent of the Jasper schools, enter
| ed the high school, with Mrs. Joe NC
| Carthy in charge. which owns, accord
ing to Mrs. Mccarthy $34.l5 in GOV
| eminent savings. Miss Eva Grlzzaro
| of Waxahachie, according to Superin
tendent G. B VIM. had class O.
| fifty pupils. who on June owned
$3.65050 Miss Grizzard's pupils OWL
an average of s726l and Miss Griffin:
pupils own an average OF $85 eacl
in Government Savings Securities.
| Perhaps other schools may hav'
done as WE'LL" said Dinsmore w
Hume. Federal District Director. "Du
we have not been advised. Certainl
these children have learned a valuaDl
lesson as well as accumulated VIVA
Is to a school child an unusually iarg
sum of money This work will De col
tinued in the schools next season"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
SPECTATORS INCUR HEAVY
LOSS SAYS DALLAS BANKER

More than ninety-five out Of every
hundred dollars invested In oil stocks
is a clear loss" said Nathan Adams,
vice president of Dallas bank with
nearly s3O.000,000 deposits. In other
words. had every purchaser Of 800
worth of oil stock bought just one War
Savings Stamp and burned the remain
Ing 1852 of his money. the entire
groVo would have more money on
han than it has today. The Thrift
ana War Savings Stamps and Regis
tered Treasury Certificates are guar
anteed to be worth more any day than
they cost; It is the nations guarantee
against the Imagination OF the stock
salesman"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
Air photouraphy.

No camera has probably been devei-
oped SO rapidly as the curious appa-
ratus used in photographing from aloft.
The ordinary cameras are Of little use
for work at high attitudes. The height
plays curious tricks upon the camera.
A picture taken from q height of few
hundred feet may be hazy. while II the
photographer rises several thousand
feet the earth may appear perfectly
distinct. The latest forms of aero
camera are often six feet in length and
must be equipped with many delicate
adjustments unknown to ordinary ap-
paratus. 1t is held by means of han
dies at the sides and rested (for 1t Il
very heavy on the edge of the air
plane.-Boys' Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
WILL co OVER OLD ROUTE
Charles j. Morse Of Lower. Ms'''
plans to Revisit the f's'o'
Santa Re Trail.

sy,m coing over the old ooh's
.u onca more" said Charles :.
Morse former municipal comm'ss'o y.
or as he made the ROUNDS ~ s,s
friends preparatory to starting 'o' ns
v,s,t TO the West, the Loweii Co''''''
Citizen states: o some
Mr. Morse had desired to leave s'nue
fine ago and he looks forward 70 ~
ar,nc the whole 1,4OO miles OF way De
tween st. Louis, NO.. anu SAM" -
N. NJ. 80. ,vas
- wont he covered now as It was
n 1870 when Mr.. Morse, then a young
man went over the famous sou'hwe ..'.
orn trail On the back of me pt.ie
niece of horsefiesh. Times have chanseu
and nowhere more than In that sec''o"
of the country. .can ard
.In those days." he says, CODY anu
wild Bill had been securing the p'an.s
- the north and the West was pretts
Wild. At that particular time uEai'
Bill tCody) and Wild Bill were 10 'ns
eastern mart of the country. EVen
then they had wild west show
aEleyen years ago was in Denver
and at that time / met just one maj
whom I had known in 1877. ihe,'
nrobably isn't soul along me on
trail now that knew then
+. "fn 1872 the Apaches under OLD Ger
onimo were raising rumpuses ever
now and then. They were bad -
dams: quick as lightning, ana the
had FIRST rate leadership. UP aronn
Denver were the Utes, who were peace
fuy. and farther over were the Hops
] who were also on good terms with On
whites. But in 1872 when wen
! Fargo coach went out, there we're a
ways men with shotguns guarding
and It wasn't an infrequent thing
have holdup. / always felt that u
> vigilantes of those days were as ba
men as were the robbers.
! .I want to cover that old trail agar
!. If can't do anything else ! can u
agine things as they used to DC az
: compare them with things as they no
: are. I was young then. ! could st'
J. in the saddle all day long. ] loved
e good bit of horseflesh then ard I
never got over IT. OF course. the
d will be cowboys and Indians and
!. that, but they won't be the hard. toue
Il as-nails men they were in 1872. TT
g was a pretty rough country then"
r. Mr.. Morse intends to take abe
IS three months for his trip. BE Is ms
le ing 1t alone.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
ARE YOU MAKING
YOUR DREAMS AND
HOPES CONE TRUE?

what is your dream? Is it to own
vour own home some day? Is it to
buv a farm for yourself or to set up
your own business?
Is it your dream to give your child.
ron a better education than you had
vourself-to see your boy or girl
eouipped for life by college training?
In your dreams, are you planning for
the future Of your little people?
when the sun of life is going down,
,s IL your dream to have accumulated
enough to live on in comfort without
financial worry? Is 1t your wish to
have more for the rainy day than q
WORKOUT umbrella?
Do you want to own your own cart
To travel, perhaps, and see something
Of this great country of ours?
What is your dream? You have
one. Whatever it may be. you VIII
certainly need more money than you
have now to make it come true
| A dream worth dreaming is one
worth working and saving for. Start
now to make your dream come true
| Saving will make your dream come
true. Had you thought Of the oppor
tunity you have in War Savings
stamps and Thrift Stamps to save
and make that dream real? They arr
Government bonds that rapidly turr
quarters and dollars into five 'dolial
, bills. In denominations from twenty
!. five cents on up. which make savinl
lin any amount easy, they can be gel
ten at the United States Postohice.
81 They will help you make you
e dream come true.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25

A queer African species Of snake,
which lives on eggs has q tooth-like
spike projecting downward from its
backbone, just behind the head. which
is tipped with enamel. When II swal-
lows an egg the latter passes down the
gullet until It encounters the spike.
which breaks the shell. Thus no part
of the fluid contents Is lost. as would
be the case II the snake were obliged
to bite the egg with IL mouthrfangA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
Ne Need, : pue,sins.

A New York shoe dealer with a
perverted sense of humof stands to
lose a lot Of friends because of the
"clever" advertising idea he has placed
in effect. In his show-wlndow he has
placed a number Of shoes, every one
different from the other. Signs an
nouncing such prices as 81. S. and
SO are attached to each shoe. The
Joker lies In the fact that when the
would-be customer goes IN and asks
to see certain shoe he b Informed
that the price Is ''that much for one
shoe."-Exchange
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
Deadly Enemy Of Fruit Trees.

A familiar pest is the tent caterpiI-
lar, which is very destructive to all
fruit trees. The reddish brown moth
lays its eggs in the form OF incomplete
belts on the smaller branches, each
belt or packet consisting OF hundreds
of tiny eggs glued together and COW
cred with yarnishlike substance, says
the American Forestry Magazine.
These eggs hatch early in the spring
and the young caterpillars make
their way to the nearest fork. where
they spin little tent Of silk to pro-
tect them. They work out from the
tent, feeding on the leaves and adding
to the tent as they need more ROOM
II there are many colonies working on
q tree they soon strip It OF leaves.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
Made Vacation Profitable.

a unique vacation was that OF Dr.
william Goodwin, superintendent of
the general hospital at Staten island,
who ,aniped for one month In the
manic orchard of Frank Taylor of
Harwinton Conn. He combined busi-
ness with pleasure. worked nights as
wen as days and made seventy-six
sallons Of maple strip.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25

Convincing stock statesmen are gath
ering in Liberty Bonds at market val
ne in trade for securities they assert
will give more income. But the fact
th4t they are so anxious to trade is
evidence their pictures Of dazzling d.
vidends are merely painted for the
buyer; otherwise why should they give
securities they declare pay 10 to 209o
for Liberty Bonds paying slightly more
than SO? The answer is that they
believe the Liberties to be the better.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS

+ Hold on to your Liberty Bonds. re-
member they represent your savings
Whan you sell your Liberty Bonds you
are spending your savings. Keep them.
Clip the interest coupons as they fan
due and exchange them for w. 8. y
You will be glad you stuck to them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
AN EASY WAY TO SAVE

Five per cent Of ones monthly SAT-
airy or wages will build up very
tidy sum by the end Of the year Y
regularly invested in War Savings
Stamps and Thrift Stamps. These
Government securities can't deprec'r
ate in value and they yield interest,"
at the rate of four per cent, COM
pounded every ninety days. They can
be bought at the postoffice.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
scHooLMAN MAKES STATEMENT

mo child who leaves the public
schools without knowing how to Hive
on less than he makes is tllorougniy
educated says j. F. Kimben, Super
intendent Of Dallas Public Schools
The Dallas school children are taught
how to save their money and they
own nearly $4,000 Of Thrift Stamps
and War Savings Stamps. Their
teachers teach them thrift and saving
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25

When was the last time you got
War Savings Stamp at the postonicc!
Remember what happened to that 'lass
five-dollar bill you BROKE" The same
thing is going to happen to the next
one. Better put it in War Savings
Stamp and not have to say, III nao
the money"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
]ES IN MEMORY
Yorker Recalls Delightful
Evening With Twain.
fled That He Saw Great Humor-
3 at His Best When He Sat by
the Fireside and Smoked
With Him.

Is only about forty years sihce
q most delightful evening with
land Mrs. Clemens at their newly
home in Hartford, yet the Sun
q New York Herald refers to the
se as zone of the oldest residences
New England from the point OF
Btruction,' says the writer OF
* to that newspaper.
Undoubtedly your reporter wrote
it was zone of the oldest" ana
WAS right. The types were guilty
y characteristic prank.
Ne sat in front of a goodly old
Aioned fireplace and smoked suen
hcco as Mark liked-that is. he and
ld-in the long-stemmed clay pipes
81 call churchwardens, while Mrs.
6mens looked on with smiling toier-
on. contributing the gracious charm
Eher presence to the entertainment
was giving to a casual guest VINO
a scant claim to the hospitality ne
8 enjoying. / had called as a strang-
] on professional business ana mao
In received socially.
tylemens was at his best--and let me
n that best was never bettered by
kvone else. His mOnologue OF mar
i've and epigrams was drawled out
bfough long evening. as l laugheu
IA Mrs. Clemens smiled, and Marx
Ssied himself cleaning, burning out
Ia filling pipe after pipe-there were
dozen of them standing in the cor
Iers of the fireplaee-and handing
hem to me or lighting one for himself
Is fast or even faster than they were
coded. There were two Of them alight
h the time.
wish could remember what ne
aid. but I can recall only one remark
md that was too trivial to repeat
|hough laughed at it as heartily as
/ did at all the other nonsense. II
vas not what he said so much as the
gay he said it.
P. T. Barnum, the great Snowman
told me that he, too, kept on Laughing
ali the time Mark Twain talked I.
him. but my wife doesn't" he saio
AIRS. Barnum has not very keel
pnse OF humor and she is iitti'
afraid of laughing at the wrong Time
II she sometimes seems unapprecl
hive when Mark is really funny evel
%or him. :,
.She has found out for herself
hough, pretty good rule to go by.
~ continued. "You see, she and ire
cuently visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Glen
MS. and noticed after q while ths
Q was always watching Mrs. Glen
Is. so I asked her why she did
and she told me that 1t was becaus
Mrs. Clemens did not always laugh 9
other people did when Mark spok
Bnf when she laughs said Mrs. Ba
m,rn 4 know 1t must be really funn
so laugh. too :.
~ call that pretty shrewd," cont
ned the old Snowman with one OF n
own hearty ha-has, "and l took
doing the same thing myself. 1t wor
ed well, must say, for I noticed aft
q while that Mrs. Clemens never laug
ctl excepting at the very best OF MARI
I Jokes. / suppose she must have G
tired laughing all the time befo
: That"
4 knew the great man for a To-
fine after that wonderful evening, b
: never felt that ] Knew him any d.
ter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25

When the end Of the year comes
and they look back over 1920 and seq
how they have spent their money,
a lot OF people are going to wish tns<
they had put some Of it in War 0as
ings Stamps at four per cent, CON-
pound interest.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
WHERE WILL YOU BE THEM

When next January rolls arouad
and you count up your cash to see now
you have gotten along in old 1920, are
you going to be ahead or behind the
game? If you salt away some OF your
salary in War Savings Stamps every
payday, you will be ahead Of the game
way ahead 1t is better to save
than to be sorry.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25

It is a wise person who saves n p.
dollars these days. He is also WIS.,
man who salts away a few dollars =
War Saving Stamps every payday
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25
selfExident.

preurlch-"I wasn't born with a
silver spoon In my mouth" Wig
war-.No, / notice you eat with your
knife"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-25

The fellow who is holding on 70 -
Liberty Bonds and buying more W.
Savings Stamps is not worrying Aooes
Ne future.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1920-01-28

;Cual es el colmo de un vago'
Esperar que ell correo lie traisa III
OficiO.- Manuel Garcia.