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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-14
9 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

| couple of Jinkses' as he calls them,
and pom my soul / was quite startled
when the door opened and it wasn't
one of them at all, but a very differ
ent pair of shoes.
ut was a young woman: ladylike,
dressed just in some ordinary sort e1
clothes; 1 don't know: uncommoniy
pretty, or might have been IL she
hadn't looked so uncommonly sad;
and-this was what knocked me-
carrying a baby.
Il don't know why / should have
imagined she was the kids mother.
but 1 did. 1 don't know why 1 should
have looked at her hands, but 1 did.
l don't know why / should have ex-
pected a wedding ring, but l did.
And there wasn't one.
"She was looking at me decidedly
as If she were frightened. No. no,
Mr.. Sabre's not gone away. He's
here. Are you a friend of his?'
Il smile at her. Well, 1 used to
be- l said. She didn't smile. What
the dickens was up? My names
Hapgood.'
Perhaps you'd better come in
"You know. 1t was perfectly ex-
traordinary. Her voice was as sad
as her face. / stepped in. Pom my
soul. 1 began to feel creepy. Scalp
began to prick. Then suddenly there
was old Sabre at the head of the
stairs.
''Nell. he wasn't dead. anyway;
that was something to go on with. I
took his hand and said. "Hullo,
Sabre. How goes 1t. old man? Able
TO do the stairs now. 1 see.'
Fine he said, shaking my hand.
Jolly nice OF you. You'll stay a bit,
of course He went a bit along the
passage and called out, 'Efie, you
can scratch up a bit of lunch for Mr..
Hapgood?'
~ suppose she said Yes. Iunch'n
be on In about two minutes he came
back to me with.
Led me into the morning room
and we sat down and pretended to
talk. Very poor p%retence, l give you
my word.
Presently I heard the girls voice
outside, Lunch is ready
I'VE jumped up like two school
boys released from detention and
went along in. More mystery. Lunch
at Sabre's place was always a beau
tifully conducted rite, as / was &C.
to. Well, there were
places laid for two only and a ram
kind of cold picnic scattered
about the cloth. Everything there,
help yourself kind of show. Bit OF
cold meat, lump of cheese, loaf of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-14

bread, assortment OF plates. and so
sabre said, oh, by the way. my
wife's not here. She's away.
81 murmured the polite thing. He
was staring at the two places. frowIi-
ing a bit. Halt a minute he said,
and hoped off on his old stick.
Then / heard him talking to this
mysterious girl. At least l heard her
voice first. oh, 1 can't! 1 can't.
Then Sabre: Nonsense, Efhs.
You must. You must. / insist. Don't
be silly
presently in Sabre with
the girl. And The girl with the baby
in her arms. Sabre said in his ordi-
nary. EASY voice-'This is a very re-
firing young person. Hapgood. Hal
to be dragged in. Miss Bright. Her
fathers in the Office. Perhaps you've
met him, have your"
well. / don't know what ] said,
old man. 1 know what 1 thought. 1
thought just precisely what you're
thinking. Yes. / had a furiously vivid
shot of recollection of old Bright as
I'd seen him a couple of hours be-
fore, of his blazing look, OF his ges-
ture of wanting to hurl h Table OF
Stone at me. and of his extraordi-
HaTN ItDldIh dDOuN
that and / did what you're doing: l
put two and two together and found
the obvious answer (same as you)
and 1 jolly near fell down dead, l
did. jolly near.
But Sabre was going on, pleasant
and natural as you please. MISS
Bright was here as companion TO my
wife while 1 was in France. Now
she's staying here a bit. Put the
baby on the sofa, Effie, and let's get
to work. I'd like you two to be
friends
THE meal wasn't precisely a ban
quet. We helped ourselves and
stacked up the soiled plates as we
used them. No servants, d'you see?
That was pretty clear by now. No
wife, no servants. no wedding ring;
nothing but old Brights daughter
and old Brights daughters baby
"Once the baby whimpered, and
she got UP and went to it and stoop-
ed over 1t the other side of the sofa
from me, so / could see her face. BY
CAD, If you could have seen her eyes
theni Motherhood Lucky you
weren't there, because IL you've any
idea of ever painting a picture called
Motherhood, you'd ha' gone straight
out and cut your throat on the mat
in despair.
well, anyway, the banquet got
more and more awkward to endure
as it dragged on, and mighty glad !
was when at last the girl got up
without a woodland picked up the
baby and left us We were no more
chatty for being alone, 1 can prom
Use you.
'SThen all of a sudden he began.
He fshed put some cigarets and
chucked me one and we smoked like
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CONTINUED from our last issuc)
HE said to me. 'Hapgood. the
remedy's the old remedy. The old
God. But it's more than that. It's
Light: more light. The old revela-
ton was good for the old world. and
suited the old world. and told in
terms of the old worlds understand
ing. Mystical for ages stepped in
the mystical; poetic for minds re-
ceptive OF nothing beyond story and
allegory and parable. We want a
new revelation in terms OF the new
worlds understanding. We want
light. light!
CHAPTER II
Continued Hapgood:
All right. That was two months
go. Last week / was down at It'd
borough again. Some sort of Il
clerk was in the shop as | went in.
MI. Sabre upstairs. eh?' l asked.
No. No, Mr.. Sabre's not-not here
says my gentleman, with rather an
odd look at me.
what the devil did he mean?
Just then / caught sight of an oil
bird / knew slightly coming down
the stairs with a book under his
nAht- az tiidp tdilth bllSuAs JpOh-
ed rather like Moses coming down
the mountain with the Tables of
Stone in his fist. l said in my CHEEKY
way, 'Hullo. Mr.. Bright. Good morn
Ing. I was just inquiring for Mr..
Sabre
"By Jove, I thought for a minute
h old patriarch was going TO heave
the tables of stone at my head. He
caught UP the book in both his
hands and gave a sort of choke and
blazed at me out of his eyes
Let me tell you. sir, this is nc
place to inquire after Mr.. Sabre
said he. Let me tell you
well. I'd ha' let him tell me any
old thing. That was what I was
there for. But he shut himself UP
with a kind OF gasp and cannoned
himself into his tabernacle under
the stairs. I thought I'd push out
to Penny Green and see old Sabre !
myself.
"You can imagine me, old man,
tripping UP the path of Sabre's
house. House had rather a neglect
ed appearance. I thought. Door
knob not polished, or blind still
down somewhere or something. III
don't know. Something. And what
me conscious of il was hat 7
was kept a long time waiting after
I'd rung the bell. In fact. I had 10 |
ring twice. Well. I suppose I'd been
expecting to see one of Sabre'sl
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a couple of exhaust valves for about
two minutes and then he said, Hap
good. why on earth should I have to
explain all this to you? Why mould
.I?'
ct said. a tiny bit sharply was
getting a bit on edge. you know
sadi, We'll. / haven't asked any
questions. have II"
sabre said, No. l know you
haven't asked any. and I'm Internal
w grateful to you. But 1 know
you're thinking them-hard. And |
know I've got to answer them. And
l want to. / want to most fright
fully. But what beats me is this
Internal feeling that / must explain
to you, to you and to everybody.
whether / want to or not. Why
should /? It's my own house. i can
do what I like in IL. I'm not. any
way, doing anything wrong. I'm
doing something more right than
I've ever done in my life, and yet
everybody's got the right to question
me and everybody's got the right to
be answered and-Hapgood, it's the
most bewildering state of affairs
that can possibly be imagined. I'm
up against a code of social
lions. and by Jove I'm absolutely
down and OUT
"'Do you know what / am, Hap
good?' and he gave a laugh, as I've
said. I'm what they call a social
o~utcast. A social outcast. Beyond
the pale. U~nspeakable. Ostracized.
Blackballed. Excommunicated.' He
got up and began to stump about
the room. hands in his pockets. chin
on his collar. wrestling with it-and
wrestling. mind you, just in pro-
found interested bafflement.
Then he settled down and told
And this is what he told me-"
"When he vas out in France this
girl I'd seen-this Effie, as he called
her, Effie Bright-had come to live
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-14

THE very week, after I'D been
down there. his wife. reading a letter
at breakfast morning, gave a
kind of a snort Gas I can imagine III
and chucked the letter yer to him
and said. 'Ha! There's your wonder
full Miss Bright for youl What did I
tell you? What do you think Of that :.
Hal
CONTINUED In our next issue)
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-14
STRAIGHTFORWARD
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The Colfax chronicle., 1922-11-25
"Cold in the Head

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Those subject to frequent "colds IN
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Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh
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The Colfax chronicle., 1922-11-25
WINN PARISH ROAD PRO
GRAM HALTED.

Winfield, Nov. 21. = Winn's
good road moven eDt struck an
other snag today when the police
Jury rejected all bids for con-
struction of @ miles of second
class road from Dodson to Ches-
ter across the north end OF the
parish. Bids ranging from 2l1s
to 26 cents for moving dirt were
all considered too high.
Another heated argument arose
concerning the location of the
Pershing highway from Atlanta
to New Verda. The state engi-
neers made a preliminary loca-
ton which would put the road on
the east side of the L. r. & N.
railroad, while at present the
principal roadi on the west side
of the railroad. The survey
would also miss both Atlanta and
Verda, and this fact has created
much dissatisfaction among the
citizens of both towns.
Many prominent citizens from
the southern portion of the par
ish met with the police jury with
a plea for the board to insist or
the west side location. A com
mittee was appointed to visit the
portion of the road in question
and requested to make sugges
tions as to the most profitable
location at the next meeting.
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SHERIFF SALE.

SHERIFF SALE.
18th Judicial District Court, Parish OF
Grant. State of Louisiana.
Mrs. M. D. & l.. C. Swope vs. ]. H.
Barrett.
Bv virtue of a Writ of Fieri Facias
issued out of the Honorable Thirteenth
Judicial District Court and to me di-
rected in the above numbered and en-
titled suit, directing and commanding
me to seize and sell the property OF
defendant, have seized and will offer
for sale at the principal front door OF
the court house in Colfax. La, between
the hours prescribed by law for judici-
al sales. on
SATURDAY, DEC. 16, 1922.
the following described property. seiz-
ed as the property of the defendant
herein, to-wit:
Beginning 166 feet north of the south
east corner of the southwest quarter
of the northeast quarter of section II,
township north, range l east. thence
running west 256 feet, thence north
Il70a feet, thence east 256 feet. thence
south 17Oa feet to the place of begin
ming, containing one acre more or less,
tgether with all improvements there
on according to Survey made by J. G
Pope.
| Terms of ale-Cash, with the bene
| fit of appraisement
| Colfax, La. Nov. 10. 1922.
L. O. CLINTON.
Sheriff of Grant Parish. La.
The Colfax chronicle., 1922-11-25
A SHABBY HOUSE OR A SHABBY
MIND.

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money can buy, and to furnish the
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NOTICE.

Examination for teachers certifi-
Gates will be held in Colfax as follows:
White teachers = Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday, Dec. 4, 5 and 8:
Colored teachers Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, Dec. Z. 8 and 3.
Fees are as follows: First grade, ~
second grade, $3.50; third grade. II.
Paper will be furnished.
j. B. COBURN, Supt.
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HATHAWAY CONVICTED OF
LARCENY.

Alexandria, Nov. 21. -Elbert
Hathaway, who has achieved no.
toriety by reason of the fact that
he was before the courts OF Ra-
pides and Grant parishes on the
charge of arson, and who was
tried in the district court yester-
day on a charge of breaking and
entering, was found guilty of
larceny, which carries with it
Imprisonment either in Jail or
penitentiary for not less than
three months nor more than two
years.
Hathaway was charged jointly
with Joe Ford with having en-
tered some boarding cars of the
L. R. & N. Co. in Pineville or
the night of last December 25
and with having stolen merchan
disc and groceries to the amoun
of $500. The jury found Hata
way guilty of larceny to th'
amount of $50.
Ford entered a plea of guilt.
in the district court last Febru
ary and was sentenced to serv
not less than one year nor NOR
than four years in the peniter
tiary. He was brought here t
testify in the Hathaway case.
Hathaway had no attorney, bu
conducted his own defense. b
participated in the selection {
the jury, the examination of wi
nesses and even made an arg
ment to the jury.
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666 quickly relieves Colds and
LaGrippe, Constipation. Bilious
ness and Headaches.
State Tax Sales
State of Louisiana vs.. Delinquent
Tax Debtors, Parish of
Grant, Louisiana.
TAX COLLECTORS OFFICE
Colfax, La, Nov. Is, 1922.

By virtue of the authority vested IN
me by Act No. 144 of the General As
sembly Of the State of Louisiana for
the year of 1918, and by the constitu-
tion and laws of the State of Louisi-
ana, / will sell at the principal front
door of the court house in which the
civil district court of Grant Parish is
held, within the legal hours for Judicial
sales, beginning at II o'clock q. m. on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1922
and continuing on each succeeding day
until said sales are completed, all NOV
able property on which taxes are now
due to the State of Louisiana and the
Parish Of Grant, to enforce collection
of taxes assessed for the year 1921
and the year 1922, together with inter-
est thereon from the 81st day OF De-
cember, 1921, at the rate of ten per
cent per annm until paid. and all costs.
The name of said delinquent tax
PAYERS, the amount of taxes due by
each on the assessment of said year,
and the movable property assessed te
each, to be offered for sale. is as fol
lows:
i Strother. C. E.-One stock of goods
and merchandise. one filling station
one lot of show cases, counters ant
cabinet counters, and all fixtures be
longing with said stock of goods:
For 1921: State taxes $S9. .7S. par
ish taxes $S7.88, school taxes, $6S.04
road taxes $45.45, interest SIG. 10. cos
, $l5. 90; total $206 so.
+, For 1922: State taxes e12.6 81. paris
taxes 50 54, school taxes $26.lb, roa
taxes SIS. so. cost $500, total $7S- 20.
: On said day. of sale | will sell sue
portions Of said property as eac
.. debtor will point out, and in case tn
debtor will not point out sufficier
property l will at once and withot
further delay sell the least quantity
: said property Of any debtor. which an
: bidder will buy for the taxes, intere
a and cost due by said debtor. The So
! will be without appraisement for ca
Q in legal tender of the United State
: and the property sold shall not be :
!. tdeemable.
" L. o. CLINTON,
= Sheriff and ex-Oficio Tax Collectt
The Colfax chronicle., 1922-11-25
SHERIFF SALE.

State of Louisiana, Parish of Grant,
Thirteenth Judicial District Court
No. 4O23
w. K. and Nodie E. Jones
vs..
j. B. Starks.
By virtue Of q writ of Fl ia issued
out of the Honorable Thirteenth judi
cial District Court, and to me directed
in the above numbered and entitled
suit, directing and commanding me to
seize and sell the property of the de-
fendant, l have seized and will offer
for sale at the principal front door OF
court house in Colfax, La. between
the hours prescribed by law for judi
clai sales, on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922
the following described property.
seized as the property of the defendant
herein, to-wit:
A certain tract or parcel of land situ-
ated in the Parish of Grant, State OF
Louisiana, and more particularly de-
scribed as follows: Situated on the
left bank of Red River. descending
about one mile above the town of Mont
qomery, La, and being lot number 2,
and the west half of lot 0umber Z, in
section IS, township number 8, north
range west, containing one hundred
and ten and 96 100 acres; also that
part of lot number /, and all that part
,, Of lot number in said section number
liz, lying west of the following de-
scribed line: Beginning at sycamors
tree on the east bank of Red river fif-
. teen and 22-10O chains west of the sec
!. ton line between sections II and IL
/. in township number 8. N. r. 5 West
thence north 8 degrees east to the sec
:. ton line between section z and IL
!. is and 22-l00 chains west Of the corne
: of section Z, 8. IT and IS. 7. 8. N. 4.
! West, being twenty-seven and S2-lO
acres, making in all one hundred an
thirty-eight and $500 acres. more Q
less. (Less the following land owne
by Oswald P. Harrison, to-wit: A
the land south and east of q line begir
ming at point or Zine red oak tree
marked X, which tree is situated abot
loo feet south of where the the ea'
line of said tract~crosses the publ
Montgomery and Cockfeld road, them
South from said tree distance OF
= feet on said East line of the MOI
Smith tract above conveyed, thence
q westerly direction about 50 yards
:" a stake so feet in westerly directi'
from q post oak in the Oswald Harl
- son yard markedsx, thence south on
- line parallel with the east line OF %
- tract for q distance OF 100 yart
thence west at right angles to u
= said line for distance Of l46 yart
az =. to the west boundary line Of W.
~ Jones tract. same being east bounds
e line of Mrs. Nodie E. Jones ira
Mol M thence south along this said line
- Red e), the land described her
3. ~ cont kg 10s acres, more or less.
'n Terms Of Sale Cash. with the be
fit Of appraisement.
L. o. CLINTON.
:. Sheriff of Grant Parish, Il
ColfaxI L. Oct. rs. 1872.
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Notice to Mortgage Creditors.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Grant,
Sheriff and Tax Collectors Office,

SI8L6 Oh AOuISi6uoy % AssA - NsO--s
Sheriff and Tax Collectors Office,
CoIfax, La. November Is. 1928.
In conformity with section 6S, Act
IS. of 1888, notice is hereby given to
all parties holding mortgages on nova
BILE property in Grant parish, on which
taxes for the years 1921 and 1922 have
not been paid, l will begin the sale OF
same at the court house door in Coifsx,
La. on Saturday, the 9th of December
A. D.. 1922, and that number OF pieces
Of property so delinquent are now be
ing advertised in this paper, The
COLFAX CHRONICLE. in conformit,
with the law preparatory to such sales
The attention Of the mortgage creditor
| is especially called to those advertise
ments of tax sales, and they or
warned to take such steps prior to tn
sales as may be necessary to protee
their rights. cr,,,r,Ay
| Sheriff and Ex-Oficio Tag Collector
| Parish-of Grant, Louisiana-
The Colfax chronicle., 1922-11-25

Sheriff and Ex-O OfIicio Tax Collector.
Parish of Grant, Louisiana.
The Colfax chronicle., 1922-11-25
WARMING.

Hunters and other trespassers are
warned that hunting and trespassing
are prohibited on the Z. H. Johnston
property in ward s. The properly Is
posted according to law and trespass-
ing will be prosecuted. ,n
j. w. DUNCAN CO., LID
The Colfax chronicle., 1922-11-25
Democratic Journal land 6dks Horticulture st
cmFAx GRANT PARISH La, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25 1922
STOP THAT ITCHING.

There is lot of skin trouble among
school children this fall. We will sell
you jar of Blue Star on guarantee
for Itch. Eczema, letter or Cracked
Handa, Ringworm, Old Sores and Sores
on School Children. Will not stain
cloth ng and has a pleasant odor.
Dixie Pharmacy.
Pocahontas star herald., 1922-06-09

Let Us Fill Your Prescriptions
Pocahontas star herald., 1922-06-09
Late County News
REYNO

Mrs Hovey returned to her home
at Willow Springs last week after
very pleasant visit with the family
Of G A. Virtue.
Elmo Roe aud j. w. Shaver
made business trip to Pocahontas
one day last week.
Mrs. Harold Richardson, who has
been quite sick, is reported lmprov.
ing.
T. J. kirkpatrick of near town
died suddenly of heart failure, last
Saturday, while working in the field.
The remains we're shipped TO Ken
lucky for burial.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. w. Reynolds,
Mrs Leota Seymour and son, Max,
returned home Sunday from Hot
Springs.
Mrs. j. K Smith and children
are visiting her mother at Ash Flat
for few weeks.
MISS Zslns Phillips has returned
TO her home at Ash Flat after a
pleasant visit with her uncle, John
Burrns, and family.
Pocahontas star herald., 1922-06-09
OLD JACKSON

Walter Kimball and mother Wis
tied at the home Of N g. BOYD near
Ravenden Springs Sunday.
MISS Eula Crisp of Little Rock is
visiting her sister, Mrs. +. w. Son
ger, at this place this week.
Tom Hulvey and wife of Eleven
point spent Saturday night at the
home of the latter's parents, Ell
Browns
j. ]. Brooks and wife went to Po
cahontas one day last week on bust.
ness.
Mrs. P. w. Songer and Miss
Pearl SOnger returned home Sstur-
dav from Hoxie where they had
been visiting.
Flovd Gibson of this place has
moved near Pooahontas to work.
Daily Mondy and Will Williams
Of Oklahoma motored through and
spent few days at the home of G
w. Kiger recently.
After suffering for l6 weeks
Grandma Drake passed away May
26th. A precious one from us is