The Colfax ChroniclePublished by Chronicle Ptg. Co.. LtdH. G. GOODWYN, Managing Editon
COLFAX. . LOUISIANA
It is up to the police to make safeblowing unsafe.
One way to avoid cholera seems tobe to avoid war.
What excellent fuel some fireproofstructures appear to be! L
If New York can't find a new sen-sation it stirs up an old one.
Some young women want a vote, butsome prefer a husband with a vote.
Husband killing episodes may benecessary, but they are awfully mussy.
As between dollars and bullets, wemust say we'd choose dollars everytime.
A New York woman lost $440 whichshe carried in her stocking. How isnot explained.
The French Poets' society planspensions for aged members. Whowill furnish the funds.
The kaiser has just dedicated a mo-tion picture house of his own. Well,there's money in moving pictures.
One way to stay young, says Ad- amlral Dewey, is to avoid banquets.Yes, they are deadlier than battles.
There are 1,000 males to 900 fe-males in the world. And still thereare those who would tax the bache-lors.
A Kansas woman has a fad for col-lecting pitchers. No, gentle fan, she isnot the proprietress of a baseballteam.
New York man died the other day Iand his heart was found to be on theright side. It was in the right place,all right.
A Brooklyn bride has advertisedthat she will not be responsible forher husband's debts. Ten to one she'san actress.
Norway is now starting to manufac-tare nitrogen from the air. In the lmidst of peace we are surrounded bydangers.
There are nineteten separate gradesof eggs in the market One is coldstorage. The rest-O, well, nobodyever sees them.
Still, It seems like taking an unfairadvantage of a hard working microbewhen a human being saturates him-self with onions.
A t. Louils woman wants a divorcebecause her husband borrowed mon-ey from her relations. Turn about isfair play. Usually the relations liveon the husband after marriage.
A Los Angeles judge just granted awife a divorce because her husbandspanked her. Probably he shouldhave used a club and have been givena fine for assault and battery.
Snakes escaped and caused all sortsof trouble in a Parisian railroad sta-tion. Trouble ensuing from snakesshould not worry Paris at this lateday.
A New York woman is said to havefound $00 in a newspaper. It is be-lieved, however, that the story wasstarted by the paper in question as acirculation booster.
An easterner committed suateide be-cause he had lost his appetite. Thejary probably found that he came tohis death through his own careles-ness.
Now it has been discovered thatlaughing gas may be self-admas-tared. There are lots of gr•ucheswho may profit by the discovery.
A self-illuminatinag car paint hasbeen devised whereby an automobilemay be spotted a mile away. At least,It's possible to say "There she goes"under such circumstances.
A soiled greenback is restored to itsoriginal pristine glory by washingand ironing at the cost of 1-10 cenatBut the average man worries not atall whether his greenbacks be dirty.
A professional baseball umpire hasbrought suit for divorce because hiswife called him names. Probably herdefense will be that she was traininghim preparatory to the coming sea-
A Oermantown university juniorDassed an examination on the twenty-four books of the Iliad, to the greatsurprise of his instructors. Abouta year after graduation he will bedecided competent to balance a set ofbooks.
Whatever else may be said of him.the storage man deserves the creditof putting the old in cold.
A Chicago woman advocates kis-intag being taught as a fine art. If itisn't a fine art, It is not due to lackof practice among the younger gen-eratias.
The supreme court of Oregon thinksthat 700 years is too long a seantencefor any crime. Still, it might havebeen the proper thing in the time ofMethuselah
J. H. HAMMOND WOULD PACIFY YAQUISJohn Hays Hammond has asked
the Mexican government to permithim to go, unarmed and accompanied nonly by an interpreter, into themountainous stronghold of the YaquiIndians in Sonora, to pacify thatturbulent tribe. The government of:Mexico has fought the Yaquis forthirty years, but today the Yaquis areunconquered.
Mr. Hammond expects that theMadero government will give him thepermission which he desires. His
dh program is based on his belief that,as a result of his life and work inMexico, many years ago, the under-standing between him and the Yaquisis so thorough as to obviate the riskof his being injured or killed. MajorBurnham, the famous American andSouth African scout and fighter, willaccompany him.
Last July Mr. Hammond wrote toSenor Calero, the Mexican ambassa-dor to this country, outlining his
wishes to pacify the Yaquis and his plan for accomplishing that object.The Yaquis maintain in their stronghold at this time, in addition to their
warriors, a force of 1,500 men armed with modern rifles. They are absolutelyimpregnable. Diaz tried to bring them into submission, but.failed.
WOULD EDUCATE MAN BEHIND THE PLOW E
To carry knowledge of scientificagricultural methods directly to theman between the plow handles, and Athereby increase the agricultural pro.t-ucts of this country by at least 20per cent, Senator Hoke Smith in aid 'speech in the senate the other dayurged the passage of the Smith-Leverbill to establish agricultural exten-sion departments in colleges of agr-culture. e
"The annual value of our agricul-tural products is, in round fgures, s$9,000,000,000," Senator Smith said."If the increase as a result of this tlwork were only 20 per cent we wouldhave an increased value of $1,800,000,- B000, or a sufficient sum to meet theproposed appropriation for 600 years." I
Senator Smith pointed to the pas-sage of the Morrill bill for the estab alishment of land grant agricultural icolleges in each of the states of the aUnion, and of the Hatch bill for the nestablishment of an experiment sta- ption in each state. Upon them the government is now spending about $4,000,- t,000 annually. Much of this money and of the $15,000,000 appropriated each ayear for the exclusively agricultural work of the department of agriculture, ,he stated, is spent in investigating and experimenting to show how the best cand greatest crops can be raised. a
"According to the plans of the bill," he continued, "the representatives Fof the colleges in the various states will enlist farmers who, under the direc- vtion of the representatives of the Agricultural college, will test the value ontheir own land of the information brought by the representative of the *college."
MME. JUSSERAND BARS "FREE LUNCH" 0
aMme. Jusserand, wife of the t
French ambassador, and new doyen tof the diplomatic corps at Washing- aton, has decreed the abolition of the adiplomatic "free lunch route," which dis the undiplomatic designation of 1that indiscriminate and uncensored alist of hostesses from whom the at- ttaches of embassies and legations Ihave been wont to accept luncheon, edinner and dance invitations.
Henceforth there will be a rigidadherence to diplomatic and social Ilines by the young diplomats who I
1 have entered too much into the spirit Iof our democratic institutions andgone to those entertainments where Ihe spirit of conviviality led them.
The gossip in diplomatic circles is ithat there has beez not only a weak- I
eening of disciplk•e, but that the youngi+ bachelor set, not provided with the'
large expense account of the headsof legations, have found In the bounti-ful hospitality of Washington means
whereby they have been able to piece out their meager incomes by savingwhat otherwise would be spent at hotels and restaurants for food and cheer.
MISS BOARDMAN LAUDS BOY SCOUTSMiss Mabel T. Boardman, secrs
tary of the American Red Crossassociation, has sent a message tothe 400.000 Boy Scouts of America.She rejoices in the good deeds t•atthe Boy Scouts are doing. She r-*-pares them with the knights of :;..gArthur of old.
"The Vision of King Arthur' isthe title of Miss Boardman's article inBoys' Life, the Boy Scouts' magazine.gies Boardman pictures the dyingKing Arthur, and says: "Somethingheld his clear blue eyes-not glitter-ing armor nor helmet with its visordown---only a boy in simple brown,who stopped to lift a little fallenchild. And there! Another guided ablind man through the dangers of the,noisy street, and yet another, withkindly mien and friendly stroke, ".. .soothed some poor. bewildered dog,his master lost. Here one took fromher trembling hands the heavy load.of some old dame and bore it for her.Another darted swiftly through the town to call the doctor to the aid of someone who was ill. Not here, not there alone, but everywhere, through north-ern winter snows and under sunny southern skies, the king beheld thoceknights in brown. Bending over some injured comrade clustered an earnestgroup. With skillful fingers the wound was dressed; with arm. that werestrong yet tender the boy was carried home, and on the porch from whichthe aid was given, behold, a cross of red."
"This is a little story for your Boy Scouts." continues Miss Poardman"You are the knights in brown. The bold Sir Belvedere thought the treeeId times were dead, but you have brought them back to life again."
SOME LEADERS OF WOMEN'S. DEIIOCRATIC LEAGUE
Nom.
Here are four of the leaders in the National Women's Democratic League which met the other day in Wash-ington. From left to right they are: Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, wife of the senator from Florida; Dr. JuliaHolmes Smith of Chicago; Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby, retiring president of the league, and Mrs. Jennie L. Mun-
roe of Washington.
PRAISE FOR LONDONEx-Congressman Asserts English
Systems Superior to Others.
A. M. Todd of Michigan DiscussesPublic Services-Have Wonder-
ful Method of Bookkeeping-Co-Operation's Part.
London.-Former Congressman A.M. Todd of Michigan, who early lastspring came to Europe to make anexhaustive study of the system invogue among the public services, withspecial reference to municipal ownership, has come to the conclusion thatthe best managed public service sys-tems in the world are those of GreatBritain.
"In France and Germany," said Mr.Todd, according to a London corre-spondent, "I found much to admire.and perhaps even more to condemn.So far as mere mechanical methodsare concerned both countries showmany Important and valuable im-provements, but in nearly every casetheir organization and managementare loose and lacking In system,which of course means a certain in-crease in the cost of operation anda corresponding decrease in profits.Politics and the necessity for pro-viding places for party supportersmay have something to do with this,as in my own country.
"On the other hand, I have so farbeen able to find only one point tocriticise in the equipment and oper-ation of the various municipallyowned public services of Great Brit-ain, and that is the construction ofthe double decked tramcars controlledt by the London county council. Theyare not broad enough or heavy enoughat the base for their height, and the
1 danger of capsizing seems to me tO
t be too great. It seems surprising thatI so few accidents happen, considering
- the tremendous congestion of traffci in most of your streets. Perhaps this
danger is discounted by the superbway in which the cars are handled."
I Mr. Todd was particularly struck
i with the running of the various pub-> lic departments in Glasgow. "Politicst is eliminated there, and the sole aimI of the authorities seems to be to give9 the public the best possible service
at the least possible cost. Birming-ham and Manchester are much thesame in many respects, with only mi-nor differences due to a changed en-e vironment.
"One striking phase of these publicservice systems of England and Scot-, land, which I found well worth study-
Ing in detail, is the wonderful systemof bookkeeping and auditing of so-counts. I don't think I ever saw a
counts on so large a scale, whereeven the smallest item may be tracedat a moment's notice, while a balancesheet can be furnished practically Ondemand. In the published report ofmy investigations, which will be sub-mitted to the governing bodies of allthe principal cities in the UnitedStates, I shall recommend the adop-tion of this comprehensive system ofbookkeeping in every public depart-ment. This will not be for somemonths yet, as the volume of informa-tion I have collected is very large,and it will probably take me all win-ter to prepare my report.
"At the same time I shall start aneffective campaign in my own statefor the municipalization of all publicservices along the same lies that Ibuve found in operation here, for Ibelieve no better system of really eil-cient service could be devised In thepresent stage of our civilization."
But Mr. Todd's enthusiastic eulogydoes not stop here. He has been par-ticularly struck with another *eculiar-ity of English civil life, the big co-operative concerns which have begun'5 to play a leading part in the British
world of business. He says:S"One institute whose plant I li-
It spected with the most absorbing in-[ terest not only manufactures san im-
h mense output of superior goods for
the markets of the world, but givesa proftable employment to thousands, ofIe men, women and chlld~en under the
most wholesome conditions and saaL-
tary regulations. All of them are pro-vided with comfortable homes at rea-sonable rentals and everything is doneto make them contented and happy.while each in addition enjoys a pro.portionate share in the general profits.
"Moreover, this concern has its ownsteamship lines for shipping its goodsto foreign markets at a minimum ex-pense for freightage and for bringingback supplies of raw materials fromits own plantations and forests in At-rica and South America. And all ofthese vast enterprises in one are op-erated simply and easily, because theprinciple of cooperation behind it in-'sures % unity and harmony of bothpurpose and effort for the commonprofit."
BLAME FLEAS FOR REBELUONScience Spots Real Cuuse of Mexi-co's Plight-How Indians Mix Piety
With Bobse and Roulette.
Mexico City.-Following a line ofreasoning based upon many years ofexperience, scientists announce thatthe real cause of the revolutionaryfever in Latin-American republics Asnot the desire for glory on the battle-feld, but is lodged in the ever-presentflea. It is asserted that sleep, undis-turbed by ravages of parasites, ispractically unknown in Mexico, andthe states further south. For this rea-son. entomologists contend that theexplosive temperament of the avpr-age Latin-American is in part, if notwholly, due to the fact that restfulslumber departed from the countrylong before the conquest The scien-tists assert that no nation can begreat whose sleep is broken into St-ful snooses. The average Mexican iscertain to arise in the morning nur-sing a spirit of murder in his heartbecause his nightly visitants have un-dermined his chivalry until he is un-consciously transformed into a Send
WHEN FIRESHIPSWERE USEDIn Sea Fights They Were Dreaded and c
Did Effective Service atSiege of Tyr. t
London.-Nothing in the narrative aof many old sea fights appeals more tstrongly to the modern imagination Ithan the doings of the fireships.
The idea of using incendiary vessels tfor the destruction of a hostile fleet awas of great antiquity. They aresaid to have been employed at the Isiege of Tyre in 333 B. C., and again Iby the Rhodesians about a ceantaury aand a half later. By the English, how- 1ever, they were first used in 1t70, and ttwo centuries later had come to be ilooked upon as a legitimate naval Iweapon, their attacks being regard-ed and dreaded in much the same 4way as are those of the torpedo craft aand sibmarines at the present time. a
The explosion vessels, or "lnfer inals," invented by the Italian engineerOlanibelli, were the most formidable.The designer procured two vessels ofabout 80 tons each and laid alongtheir bottom a foundation of brick-work. Upon this he erected a marblechamber with five foot walls contain-ing 3,000 tons of gunpowder, while ontop of this chamber was a six footlayer of gravelstones placed edgewise. A marble roof rose over these,and upon it was piled a qbantity ofround shot. chain shot, milestones,blocks of stone, iron shod, milestones,anything heavy which would cause theexplosion to take a lateral effect. Theeffect of this floating volcano was ap-palling, for the masses of stone andshot. disintegrated and flung skywardsby the explosive, fell and destroyedany vessels, buildings or men in thevicinity.
Three years later the Spanish ar-mada before Calais was attacked byfireships prepared by the English.Eight vessels were selected, and sogreat was the haste that not eventheir guns or stores were removed.They were iguited and launched, andwith the wind and tide in their favorr advanced straight for the center of
p the anchored armada. Ship fouled-ship amid the cries of terror and the
incarnate, especially if brought underthe Influence of Zapata, the so-calledAtilla of the South. Americans liv-ing in Mexican territory readily sub-ecribe to this theory, as woeful ex-perience has taught them that thehabitual loss of sleep is not conduo-lye to the higher life. One of the po-litical slogans of the successful partyin the future will be that "the fleaand all his tribe must go before peacereigns again."
ASK A 1913 CHILD LABOR DAY
Speeches Are Sought from 6x000Clergymen Who Aided Movement
Last Year.
New York.-The 6,000 clergymenwho last year observed Child Laborday are being asked to speak on thatsubject. For seven years the nationalchild labor committee has issued lch.an appeal and the interest arousedby the last Child Labor day resultedIn a general demand for the passingof the federal chilaren's bureau bill.in improved child labor laws in ten orthe fourteen states holding legislativesessions and an increasing use of lee-ture slides and exhibits about childlabor.
The day has never been used as asappeal for funds and this year specialattention is called to child labor intenement house manufacturing. Thenational child labor committee also re-minds clergymen that child laborersbecome unskilled adult workers, andthe Chicago vice commission gives asthe second greatest cause why 40,006girls are sacrifoed annually to an tim-moral life "the economic stress of in-dustrinal life on unskilled workers, withthe enfeebling influences on the willpower." This eause the commissiongives a second only to the lack otethical training and religious instrno-
Gives Wirth to Five Children.Abbevrlle, la.--lve male children,
all perfectly formed, were born toMrs. Audray Iasson, wife of a localI carpenter. Three of the five are alive.
crash of falling spars and though theSpanish finally succeeded in gettingto se the freshipe' attack oompletelydisorganized and demoralized them.and helped largely to make the event-ual battle of Gravelinee the successit was.
The most recent, and at the sametime one of the most interesting fire-ship exploits which ever took placewas that carried out against theFrench feet at Basque Roads in 1809,by Lord Cochrane. His explosion ves-sel intended toy destroy the boom be.hind which lay the French feet, was atruly awful contrivance. Cochraenpiloted the vessel and lit the train atthe last moment and on the evideneeof a French captain whose ship wasclose by, it did its work well. for theair was filled with shells, grenadesand blazing debris, while the explo-sion tore a huge rent in the boom.
YOUTH TO REWED HIS WIFE
Millionaire Father of a Young Mis-sourian Has Court Set Marriage
Aside for the Present.
St Joseph, Mo.-After MiltonTootle, Jr., millionaire banker of it.Joseph, had the marriage of his son,George Buckworth Tootle, to Miss Sa-noni Travers annulled in court he an-nounced that the two are engaged.
Young Tootle and Miss Travers,also of a wealthy family, eloped toTroy, Kan., and were married. He iseighteen sad she is nineteen, but hegave his age as 2S The elder Tootlewas away at the time of the elope-ment. When he returned he took thematter up in coart and had the mar.riage annulled, gn the ground that itwas llega.
Immediately after the marriage wasannulled the engagement of theyoung people was announced. It wasexplained that the parents objected tothe early marriage. but a weddingmay take pla again when youngTootle is of age. He and his formerwife. now his fiancee, were guests ata box party given by the elder Toote..
