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The Colfax Chronicle Published by Chronicle Ptg. Co., Ltd. H. G. GOODWYN, Managing Editor. COLFAX, * LOUISIANA. After all, a pennant is only a Stag. Dictagrafting is the latest addition to the English vocabulary. If you are in favor of pajamas, as *galnst nighties, tell it to the ma rines. Man's best friend at present is the electric fan. It is better even than a snow-bank. If Boston wins the Amei`can league pennant baked beans will become the national dish. A Philadelphia policeman is going into vaudeville. Going to do a sleep walking act, probably. What a happy little world this would be if we could only shovel snow ia the summer time, Speaking of civilization, Chinese women once crippled their feet but never wore tight skirts. A Missouri woman has written a eook with her toes. Probably it was made up from footnotes. The letter-carrier will be glad when the vacation season with its flood of foolish post cards is over. An aviator fell 200 feet without be lag hurt, but this is no proof that aviation is beiag made safer. If a lobster is "not an animal," what Is iti You can't classify it either as a vegetable or as a mineral. A Long Island woman eloped the other day with a liveryman. We sup posed liverymen had become obso lets. Eat six times a day, if you want to be healthy, says a New York doo tor, but not if you would be wealthy, too. Man in Vienna shot himself because three girls were in love with hiae. Kfe was loved not wisely, but too well. IPrmer in Ohio says he owns a cat with three heads. Think of listening Ln the stilly night to a cat with three Woman is New Ycrk has left all her money to her lawyer, probably as the theory that he would get it anyhow. The recent death of the 186 year old Mexican must have been a happy es. Think of living 185 years in Meueol Man In Indiana ate a gallon of Ice aream at a single sitting. All of which ioes to show how easy it is to break a record. A New York woman says she loves her horses better than she does her husband. Probably she doesn't drive them as hard. The fear that the price of shaves may be fixed under the patent law weed not alarm. There is no law against whiskers. However, perhaps we ought to be glad that the girls are showing a ten jdncy to wear their own hair in fas elnating little bunches. Archaeologists in Asia have ran erea remains of a nation that once wormshiped the peacock. But the pea sock, in all his glory, was not arrayed as one of these upto-date damsels. A scientist says that Cleopatra woald, if now alive, be put in a Ilns te asylum, but she might put the dlreast there first. The mayor of Boston says that bwoae know less about lytng than men. They know more. becamse few er of them are doing It. "If you want to be beatiful, do owar own washing," says one of the dioeton Most women will prefer the dru store brad of beaty. A eeow up York stte is said to have emlght a fish with her tail, but who wants to fish with a owt Pawnoer easting a cow in a trout stream. Woman up state wana s a diere lbesee her husband latnits on talk lSe polities. This comes under the head of cruel and inhabman treatmeat. Theaters without orehestrasu With at the shivery mus, how are we to hoew whether tmhe villain is hauntlnag merooms or eseping up to the rtdeeping hero to stab him through the heart? A eontemporary asks: "Can a mar sred man be a hero?" Yes. verily, he hrus his heroism by ma g. Let us remark ia charity that per aw some ol the young women on the 1 gmst never realised how unclothed eywere antl they saw ft lo the p rih treasury department plans to mire paper mosey smaller In sia. fI not becaan the altlmate oasuu, n e s u ti elaremeat eat the ;.e6 se, HONORING THE OLYMPIC ATHLETES +Y .. -.. :Sý;::; ..... .,;rii"E.- .:,^.. .4t.4 . . .. . . ,:- ,. .~' .... . . their national costumes :·:-:I: · ODD CLUB IN ARCTIC Queer Brotherhood Founded Af ter the Gold Rush. Requirement of Admission Is Experl. ence Above the Fifty-Eighth Parallel of Latitude-Skagway Is Chief Headquarters. 8kagway, Alaska.-To have traveled into the northern regions above the fifty-eighth parallel sometime during one's career is the initial requirement for membership in the Arctic Brother hood. unique among fraternal organ izations. The Arctic Brotherhood was formed shortly after the geold rush to the Klondike in 1898, and now includes in the northern regions several hundred active members. The first requirement since its organization has been an ex tended residence above the fifty-eighth parallel, with the exception of a few distinguished citizens from the United States and other countries who upon their arrival in Alaska have been made honorary members. Among its members "above the fifty etchth parallel" the Arctic Brother hood takes precedent over every civil court. If a matter of dispute of any .uature arises between Arctic brothers, the question is carried before the membership of the local lodge at one of its weekly meetings. All parties to the dispute present their arguments and then all the brothers not involved in the question cast a vote which determines the set tlement of the issue. Various plans are conceived and ex ecited by the brotherhood from time to time for the furtherance of the in terests of the notthwest. Strangers to the country" are entertained at the lodges of the organization, and if they are prospectors they are supp)ied with the most reliable information at hand. The main body of the organization is located at Skagway, Alaska. There are others at Dawson, Nome, Fair banks, Cordoda and Seward. The lodgehouse at Skagway is declared to be one of the most distinctive build ings of its kind in the world. The in terior is decorated with trophies of the arctic regions, of every description. The motto of the organization is "No Boundary Line," and its insignia is a miniature gold miner's pan, em bossed with the initlals A. B., with three small gold nuggets beneath the letters. The name of the fraternity has an MAN KEEPS AWFUL VIGIL Helds His Sister Over an Alpine Preciplee for Eight Hours Until Rescuers Arrive. Grenoble--la the HaustGaronne, not far from Toulouse, a terrible en perienoe has ust befallen a brother and sister, named VanGeethen, as the result of which the woman lies n the hospital dying, with a frtared shkull while her brother is in the same plaeo desperately overeme by shock and eposure. The etar at their ad venture adds another toa long list of Alpine tragedes. I. M. Van Goethea, who is an eS gineer tn a paper am, sad his sister, oeompanied by a riend, pK Somber lier, son of the director at the mill, set out to climb Mt. hSanrume. They ma~ the saoeit, but in returntin they took the pathway leading to the gla cler Domenon. As they crossed a dangerous part of the path Mlle. Goethen slipped and slid down an Ice incline toward the edge of a deep precipice. Her brother, in endeavoring to save her, also slip ped, but was able to stop himself by clutching hold of a boulder. At the same time he grasped his sister's skirts just as she was sliding over the edge. M. Somberdler erailed down to the boulder and endeavored to Auslst the brother to dras his sister beck to interesting origin. The main lodge, lo cated at Skagway, nestles at the foot of the A. B. mountain, which takes its name from a peculiar natural for mation of crevasses in the snow and ice at the crest of the mountain. which accurately mark the letters A. B. These letters were originally taken by the organization and later evolved into the name Arctic Brother hood. Several of the most prominent phil anthropic enterprises in the north country are conducted under the auspieces of the. brothgrhood. The principal one takes place at Christmas. time, when children of the poorer classes of every nationality and sect are invited to the nearest lodge, where entertainment is provided, together with presents and food. DANGER IN POOLS Disease Germs Lurking in Most Swimming Tanks. Tests Made by Selentiets Show That Abundance of Microbes Even nla Natatoriums of Wealthy Clubs Make Them Cesepools New York.-The average man who stands at the edge of a swimming pool ready to take the plunge which for him means refreshment and delightful relief does not realize that he is about to expose himself to the attack of mil lions upon millions of disease germs lurking in the tempting water before him. It matters little where this swim ming pool happens to be, whether in a fashionable clubhouse or in the base ment of an East Side tenement house; almost everywhere, owing to inemi cient supervision and Ignorance of the dangers involved, these pools are de clared by certain investigators to be a menace to health. So grave, in fact, do these investi gators consider the danger of disease from this source that it has been thought necessary to call an interna tional conference of bath ofcials to convene at The Hague this summer, and in New York City a meeting of public bath omcials was held recently and the American Association for Pro moting Hygiene aend Public Baths was formed. The forming of this associa salety. Their united sRorts, how. ever, were of no avall, as the woman, beitn unconsctous, could not help her sel. The two men shouted for help for several minutes. Then M. Bombir dier set of to seek rescuers, leavtag the brother and sister In their peril. ets Iuttio. It was three oer be. ore K. Sombardler reached sl, and eight hours had elapsed before the resoe party returaed to the glacer. There they fepd M. VanGoethe still supporting t- body f his sister on the ladline and only rellevng the te rite stratain by twisting her skirts rowad a trak Then the rescue party got to work and s idAn draw lot his sister over the edge ttoe sae ty. The brother fainted and had to be caried to Revel. Perfect Girls to Get Prizes. Chanbury, France.-Garret, an ec centric hermit, formerly a member of the chamber of deputies, has left a will providlng for a gift of $2,000 ev ery year to the most perfe4E girl morally and physically. Dog's Funeral Costs $1,000. New York.--Bloody, a small Boston bull dag owned, by the late John W. Gates, has just died here. It was given a funeral oitnes $1,000 RATS GNAW GIRL'S FACE Proprietor of Rooming House Breeks Open Door and Finds Body of Missing Lodger. Omaha, Neb.-The face gnawed by rats, the body of Miss Mame Carter was found In her room. The young woman had been malssing since Saturday, and Christ Kalmpach, proprietor of the rooming house where she had lived for six years, decided to force open the door of her room. _The face of the dead girl was so badly mutilated that it was 'at brst believed the wounds had resulted from a gunshot. Death Is thought to have been due to heart failure. A letter found in the room, ad dressed to a younger sister In Culs. Ill, leads to the belief that Miss Car ter was formerly a resident of that place. tion is a preliminary step to the Inter national conference. "Swimming pools," says H. P. J. Pr. ter, discussing the matter in a recent issue of the Survey, "are little mnore than cesspools." The public geserally regards them as refreshing, tanvigsat lng and benecial, sad few hbave ever dreamed that they may-e breeders at disease. There are hundreds of such pools all over the city. Recently in the Interest of the department of bee teriology of the University of Chicago, K. N. Atkins made a careful study of fire pools whose water supply was supposed to be clean. Investigation proved that they caused ailments of eye, ear and throat and intestinal dis. ease. Investigations in Hamburg and in Purdue. Brown. Chicago and Yale uni versities showed that the Impurities are bacterial and chemical foreign matter, and all detected the presence of dangerous disease microbes. This condition existed in places where the details of hygiene and sanitation are otherwise scrupulously looked after. Examlnatlon of the Hamburg pools showed that water fresh from the tap contained 57 microbes a cubic centi meter After 74 persons had bathed in the water there were 1,500 microbes in the same quantity of water. When 494 persons had entered the pool the number had increased to 04,400, and after 829 bathers had beeinin coniet with the water there we#t 164,000 mi crobes present to the cble centi meter. The last flgars are interestla in that they show no propeotiesate ti. crease in the nuhber of mierobes, and in that way illustrate the septic teak theory; that Is, aftera c ertata point of development the septe eaoudition of water either kills the mierobes or they devour eac ether. when tkhe have become too numerous, thus malS talning a maximum of lmpurity. CHAUFFEUR GIVEN $100,000 Says H4 WilI 8tlak to MIs Jeb UMnt He Thinks of Se Way of Using Fowrtuae. ay Shore, N. Y.-Frank Knight, a eoeueur empioyed by J. P. Beeles. wealthy summer realdet, was nottSed that through the death o an u ael be had been left an Inheritance o $100,000. "I suppao you wUt be leaving me now, Prank." said Mr. Boales, after congratulating his driver. "Not unless you don't want me any more." said Knight "I like this Job and I'm going to stick to IL" Knight says.he will put the mosey in a savings bank until he can think of some way to spend It. To Give Animals au Gifts. New York.-Mrs. Percy Procter, wife of the Ohio soap manufacturer. has returned from Europe with one panot, one white guinea-pig, ninet Ave dogs and cats lts a monkeyL be distributed as Sts ameog Mos yi .us Crinitus, Is C m n Bug Catchr Myiarchus Crinitus Is Champion Bug Catcher W ASHINGTON.-The department of agriculture, in a long blolog ical treatise, whatever that is, claims credit for discovering the one omiv-. orous ly swatter of the country. Of course the department doesn't call it that. It is known by a long sclenttd nomenclature, printed in Italic. Trans lated, this devolves itself Into "By catcher," or words to that effect. The "catcher," according to the de partment's experts, is widely diferat frokl the generally accepted "swat t.r." It is a long, thin-shanked bird about the sise of a robin, and wears a tuft of black feathers- In the gen eral vicinity Of its wishbone. The best thing this bird, the "great crested fy catcher," they call it, does, Is sit on a fence rail and survey the landscape. This it-does dolefully and without enthusiasm. By sd by a Or or some other insect come ltying along. A short spurt, a click of a pointed beak, and It is esit tnsect. The pamphlet issued by "Tama Jim" Wilson's department contads a study ot the life and habits of the great America fy catcher. Depart. mental experts, on adventure beat, went forth Into the rural seetkmis Ban on Kissing One's Wife at Park Resort fIP YOU hiss your wife in Glen Iheb park on Sunday ye will ige Ave pounds of tobacco. "If you Wls some other man's wife It will capt you your lit." This was the discoseolate wal at Manager Schloss of the park the other day. "What is the trouble. Mr. Schasr" haWas asked. "Guess," aisd the manager. "Blue lawar "Righto," said Mr. Schloss, as boesr fully as a crutch. Schloss Is aggrieved that Moeat gomery county Is now. playng in the Blue Law league, and be ays It hurts the batting average o the park. "Why, just think; then was a time not so far distant, when the turnm stiles at the amusement pl~ e clicked until they resembled the Uz haunt of a motor boat. "But,them was the halcyon daas," he muttered. "It used to be that the band crashed out the a#r that made the crowd forget that they had 'oeth n~g to do till tomorrow.' Now the band plays only one air that keeps the crowd." . "What is It. Mr. Schloss?' " 'Abide With Me' " This little conversttion wtth the manager took place just after Sheriff Turn a Bright Sarch ht on Capital Spooners "N O more spoonata cs the app l deers tI te daruk ersmi'" s the ediot that as .om eat ieas the oaees of tie St. John san the Chanes MacAaster, two plwos beIat that ply the Potaomt river between Wah t-toe sad arhall Hall. "Stop pramisacUas heggag, khiss lag and lirtinl on the approaches to the capitoL" is an trder issued to capitol polleemen. The new raile on the t. Jehn atd the Charles laster probOltt kiss lag of all knds-the ordinary aetch as catch can. as wel as the soal ki, hich becomes ma asranch eontest. The ruies alsp prseibt: Waeeusg. msaeans a slight saessae or the graple of the toehavesad4 bole mn. Government Is Wliig to Pay boy for Bugs T h as bees dasea ms wdo Sst anl wants benmb but s wiliag to 7 re ees h w eI r them if delIvened abr This uSAe deumad -emss fis O. M. Stear~, superDtem eut the Halted S se asrto tt ierpl iseust station at Vsana. Vs. He hba buns out a slgai dvertil the bet that bedbugs are worth ast a alebel a plees at his establihment, sa poam Ises to bu all that are offered up to the value of $. Strange to say, Mr. Zimmer ssba unble heretofore to buy al the b e desires for his purpose, which is to set them to work exterminating another nlseet which is destroyin an orchard on the experl mental f . It is believed that the residedts of Virginiat are shy about ad tting th tha ey are familiar with .he habitat of bedbugs by bringing a any captives, even at the price of Ive cents each. T h e p sit e se ~er tm e~t es the armed with butterfly nets and six shooters and captured a large number of these desperate birds, thereby 'causing a large increase in the f7 population. Bringfg the birds to Washington in cold storage, the stom achs of some 3,298 were examined. These stomaehs, according to the re port, were about five pgr cent. stom ach and 94.99 per cent. obnoxious In sects. Or, at least, the 94.99 per cent; thing represents the portion of obnox ious insects on tbe4r daily bill of fare. Whether they take them a la carte or table d'hote was not dwelt upon In the report. There are seventeen species of these birds. The aggregate benfits of their depopulation of the insect kingdom are enormous. Under these conditions armers. will hardly begrudge them the .1 pe cent oi vegetable food they loh frem the cherry and grain "ips. But insect glinfg is only one of the 7y-catcher's accoplislmeants. He Is the bravest bird in the air, and fear lessla attacks crows and hawks many times his site. He will assail a hawk in midair and follow him for miles. The great falcon, too cowardly to fight and too slow to dodge, can only put on full speed and leave the coun try. In this way ly-catchers are a -great benefit to the poultry raisers. This great created fly-catcher, by the way, is a bird.of marked Individ uality. Like other bold reatures, he is something of a grafter, and fre quently drives bluebirds and wood peckers from their nests that he may use them himself. Hward of Montgomery couaty gaye an Imltatiomn makiug an aret. Whei the Sherlf had Salibed his lit. tie act he bad four vSolator. The were Miss Orrie mith and Viols Col lin, ticket sellers, ad Cuael Hea band, who operates a "wlcke" pe ry--reand, and Leroy Iftll, who runa th mtiatureto railroad. Sheriff Ndward persosally had cot. leeted evidence against the resort. His methods would hasve do credit to Shberlock Holmes. He purchase tickets and took a rsde. There may have been dryer place In the world than Glen Echo, but they are not meatlomed In the atftrnoos mettngs of the Dorcas selety. It any fellow took his girl to the pear expecttng to cut up and buy le.oo ada or soda pop, he gets eaught steal. lag second. Rockteilb' o6dud mea have bought a wet Sass. The aharu desert was a cloudburst compared with the park. "Such phrases as 'Baby Doll.' '6 ar le,' and 'Honey Boy.' "Holding hands, if the grasp li -et too tight, and the resting of the arm on the back of the chair occuplel by the object of Its aitection, are per mitted." "Break sway, there" Is the co-~n mnd given by the omoeton .the St. Jo-lmwad the Charles MacAlaster, sa at the epitol, when they come upa. pealag Ouples. if the order is no ebeyed, a very brilliant seerchlligh I. tarmed on tho'eulity pesons. For wmay years dark spots about: the approgL e to the capitol have been uen by courtime couples. It was net unusual to see as meay as U aouples hugging at eaoe Is toe eas ooks that flank the senate and bee wilps ofthe building. The ofmers wMl try to chek this. Th.re siro s tios, they say, to gentle eootag of the tustle doey variety, but when It eomae to palg utae an embrace that l they all a bhalt. The river men and the capitol a& Sar Mght the spirit of refora about the same tilne. WILL Sa nmo WYgI 1MT E t "o T" Wso other hba. Is opposed to beg ecOr . ratio, sad I3 selktng soma method .e tisrlnattg t"water bugs." It has been found that water bugs have as abnormal appetite for the glue as postage stamps, and are rapidly coe. masng the "stlekum" In masy pop offce. The use of poison 1o Dot al lowed, because of the danger to hu man beings who are acestAomed to moisten their stamps by licking theas. Neither do the authorities dare to turn looe In the postomfeas say bag edemy of the water bag. Coseageat ly, they are in a quandafdj and eul4 lbth to have some one Deiat the way ror