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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-06-03
FARM AND PRESIDE.
I'm Europe 600. 900 acres are de

in Europe 1,60O,OOO acres are de-
voted to beet cultivation.
TO prevent choking, break an egg
into a cup and give it to the person
choking. The white of the egg seems
to lubricate the obstacle and remove it.
Hone egg is not sufficient try another.
Never hem braize or tissue veil
with sewing silk; take some of the rayel-
ings of the material, thread coarse
needle with it and hem the veil. The
stitches will not show at all if small ones
are taken.-N Y. Post.
! -lngrowing Toenails.-Put very
small piece of tallow in spoon and heat
it very hot. Pour it on the corner OF the
toe, and the inflammation and granula-
ton will subside, and the-parts will be-
come dry and destitute of all feeling.
The nail can then be pared away without
the least pain.-Country Gentleman.
In speaking of Gala lilies many
ladies wonder why the leaves persist in
dying even when the greatest care is
taken with them. The real truth of the
matter is that the older leaves of Gala
lily always shrivel up as the new ones
grow, four leaves being all that are
found ON the stem at one time.
( Tribune.
"A good cough mixture.-Take two
ounces Of balm of gilead buds, the fresh
est you can procure, and boil them very
slowly in quart of water. Let it sim
n,er down to one pint, then strain it,
and add one pound Of honey in the comb
and the juice of three lemons. Let them
all boil together until the wax i'm the
honey is dissolved. This has been
known to cure a cough of long standing.
IN. Y. Examiner.
Crooked or broken breast-bones in
chickens are caused by perches being
placed too high from the ground when
the roosting place is of small size. OBJ
jections are made to letting chickens
roost early, but little harm will come Of
it if the perches are at proper height.
1t is the perpendicular. sudden fight to
the ground in confined space which
Injuries and breaks or bends the tender
breast-bone. In limited space, and with
chickens brought up in confinement,
shelves, sanded and then Uttered with
chopped straw are guards against this
Chicago Journal.
To cure a COW of kicking fasten her
up by the head in some manner, then
tie alarge cord or rope around the body,
Just back of the fore-legs, aud with a
stick twist the cord tightly. According
TO New York farmer the COW cannot
kick when treated in that method. Milk
as quickly as possible and remove the
cord, as it evidently gives pain. After
a few times, according to the same au-
thority, it will be only necessary to
slightly tighten the cord, and in short
time the kicking propensity in that ami
NAL will disappear.-Lansi'sg Republic
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-06-03
Planting a Forest.

The first, the fundamental point in tree
planting on large scale, that is, in plant
ing what may be called forest, is to con-
slider the trees as crop, like any other
crop, only this requires a much longer
time than ordinary crops to come to ma
turity. This will at once put the subject.
to many if not to most persons in new
aspect. Accepting the idea that trees are
to be planted like corn or wheat, as q
crop, there follows at once the necessity
of care and cultivation and the consid
Grafton that these are the conditions of
success. We do not expect to harvest an
ordinary crop, and one that will yield a
satisfactory pecuniary return, without
having bestowed upon it care and labor.
No more should we look for success i'm
the larger g-owths of the forest without
a corresponding culture. And when we
come to look upon the growth of forest
in this light we shall easily, almost inev-
.itably, regard our ordinary native for
ests, where the trees are simply suffered
to grow up in complete neglect, exposed
to injury from the intrusions of cattle
and from other causes, as at best only a
partial utilization of the fields which Ma
ture has provided for our comfort and
profit. 1t is true that trees will grow
and come to maturity in rough places
and on poor soils, where nothing else
will grow or where the cultivation of
other crops is impracticable and unproft-
able. 1t is true also that the growth of
these great forest ,rops, instead of i'm
poverishlng, enriches the soil. Hence
there is no use of our poor and what we
call waste lands; which abound more or
less everywhere, at once so economical
and profitable as to devote them to the
growth of trees. Left to themselves, as
our forests and woodlands generally are.
they are remunerative. But they might
be made much more remunerative. They
would be, If, instead of regarding them
as one of the accidental products of Ma
ture, we were to regard them as one of
our staple crops. something to be man.
aged and cared for by us.-N II. Egte-
ston, in Popular Science Monthly.
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Pct Animals and Contagious Diseases.

The fact that pet animals can carry
contagion, and thus be the means of
spreading fatal diseases, is not widely
known nor duly appreciated. We have
heard Of authentic cases in which scarlet
fever was communicated from one per-
son to another by means of cat. DIR.
Hewitt, of Lake Superior, relates some
what similar instance in which diph-
iberia was communicated by the same
animal. He had noticed for several days
that his pet cat was suffering from an
enlargement Of the glands of the neck;
he also remarked the same in other cats.
His cat found a resting-place in the wall
behind the stove, and there died. The
day the animal was removed diphtheria,
in its most violent form, broke out in his
family, resulting in the death of two or
three of his children. the doctor himself
barely escaping with his life. Up to this
time the community was remarka bly,
free from sickness of any kind. 1t was
the start of severe epidemic. We refer
to this subject in hopes that more facts
bearing upon it may be communicated
by our readers. Such facts are at pres
ent few, but little attention paid to the
matter would, no doubt, secure much
that would be of importance to compar-
alive and topreventive medicine. Jour
nal of Comparative Medicine and Medical
Record.
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PUNGEST PARAGRAPHS.

-"My wife, remarked Fitznoodle.
lis fairly crazy over the fashions. She's
got the delirium trimmins."
Tomorrow never greets us; to-day
never bids us farewell; yesterday never
recalls US Whitehall Times.
The hardest rocks are made of the
softest mud, just as the biggest swells
are made from the smallest men.-LoV-
ell Citizen.
-'.Lemmy, you're a Fgr said
father to his son, who was five years old.
"Now. Lemmy, do you know what apig
is?" "Yes, sir-a pig is hogs little
boy" -Meriien Recorder.
-Sympathetic lady to beggar, who is
standing with hat of: 20, sir. won't
you take cold?" Beggar: mo, thank
you. ma am; only takes pennies or five
cent pieces. vi Philadelphia sam.
"A chap who sent us poem begin
ming when twilight dews are falling
fast upon the rosy lca," has since mar.
ried Rosa Lee, and now the weekly dues
are falling faster upon him. Free Press.
The presence of spongiilG furiatilis
in most Of the city water in the land is
TtUdTucu Is ~ SuiuClcut CACucC Ny luOuJ
for the insertion of four tablespoonfuls
of spirit1s trumenti in small tumbler
of aqua pura. Noryistoscn Herald.
Now that the fact has been demon
strated that the earth will continue to
revolve on its axis for at least ten mil
lion years more, we would request our
subscribers to hesitate no longer about
paying up for one year in advance. We
may be sanguine, but we think this OBJ
portunity for displaying faith should not
be neglected. -Hactesssack Republican,.
"A New York athlete named Donald
son wants to bet that he will Jump from
the centre of the BROOKLYN bridge into
the East River. He is safe enough in
that bet Wen bet that neither he nor
any other man can jump from the centre
of the Brooklyn bridge and come down
anywhere but in the East River.-N Y.
Graphic.
1t was an independent looking fell
low who was standing on the railroad
track, apparently paying no attention to
the fact that . train was rapidly APP
preaching. 81 say" said the station
master, .syou had better get off the track
or you will get run over" Il fancy that
is my own affair If get run over" was
the reply. "Yes, / reckon SO, but who
is going to attend to taking up the mess
afterwards? It'sn me. And, reach
ing out his right foot, he kicked the in
different man fifteen feet and nine inches
by actual Recommendations Siffinqs.
We have studied with great care an
essay "On the Application of Electro
Puncture to the Treatment of Pulsatile
Exophthalmos OF the Orbit" and on the
whole conclude that it is indispensable
for family use. Night after night have
we been kept awake by the ''pulsatile ex-
ophthalmos" getting on . racket and
knocking its own orbit askew. If we
had only had an ''electro puncture" or
or even bell punch in the house we
should have been happy. But now
science has stepped in and filed this long
felt want we are comparatively happy.-
NeU Haven Register
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Mr. ARTHUR B. CoHENs, of Newport, Ky,
writes: I" wish to speak good word for DR..
Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla- Ny
wife suffered greatly from . complication oil
diseases, ending in q miscarriage. which FOL
months confined her to her bed. Shell new.
or fully recovered, and at times complained
severely Of feeling Of bearing down, while
her periods were very irregular and gave her
great pain. Her physician seemed to be doing
her no good whatever. A friend recommended
DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla.
From the first dose she began to improve, and
b now - healthy sud strong us syUm4 grl
! think Il the best medicine in the world"
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Mr. JOINS came to . hotel IN Bismarck
With q cheap-looking trunk, worth about 81.
The clerk sized him up and gave him back
dow, camp bed and tin basin for furniture.
The porter snubbed him, and he was the last
man waited on at the table, and was always
seated where he couldn't reach the bread and
the castor. He went away ON business, was
gone six weeks, and left his room door open.
And then when he came back aud opened that
old trunk, and took s12, 900 in gold out of It,
the landlord pulled out all Of his hair for NOR
tiHcation, and went and got roaring drunk for
five days; the clerk forgot to paste down his
front hair, and went one whole day. without
changing his eightinch cuffs, and the porter
went out I'm the woods and lay down and died.
Moral: Never disdain to go through trunk
because 1t looks cheap. You can't tell what
1t may assay.-Chicdgo Times.
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When man has been so fortunate as TO wed
. bright-eyed, joyous, happy-faced girl. be
should be especially careful OF her health. An
invalid wife or mother is greatly to be Fitted
and yet, sometimes, In spite Of love, and care,
and tenderness, our wornen-foiks do get sick.
Beginning with Irregularities and dyspepsia,
the general health begins to fail, aud weak
ness, nervous prostration, sleeplessness, etc,
make life miserable. The cheeks become pale,
the eyes grow listless, the hearts action en-
feebled, the pulse weak, and decay OF the pull
monary, digestive and urinary organs Is the
result. For restoring sickly women to health
and strength, DIR. Guysott's Yellow Dock and
earsaparifla excels an other medicines. 1t ID
. true tonic. Its principal ingredients are
Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Juniper, Iron,
Buchu, Celery and Calisaya bark. 1t builda
mp the female system, and win positively cure
falling Of the womb. Irregularities, leucor.
rhea, dyspepsia, etc.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Cincinnati claims to have taken 800
converts into her churches this winter.
There is in New Orleans colored
sisterhood Of the Catholic Church who
are deyoting themselves to the education
OF young girls of their own race.
"A young lady recently received into
the First Baptist Church at Burlington,
Iowa. dated her first religious convic-
tons TO the reading of Longfcllow's
'.PsalIn of Life. - Chicago Journal
The Brooklyn Board of Education
charges its teachers with using slang,
dressing loudly, and showing lack Of
refinement and cleanliness In short,
+" they are totally unfit to teach Brook.
lyn's children.
"A sect called the ssNew Israeli has
risen among the Jews of Russia II
abandons circumcision, abstinence from
certain viands, changes the Sabbath from
the seventh to the first day and abolishes
usury. IN. Y. Independent.
"A railroad conductor was recently
chosen deacon of church. When il
became his duty to take up a collection,
he surprised the congregation by start
ing out with the characteristic cjacllla.
ton: Tickets, gentlemenr' The con-
tribution that day was Chicago
Herald
Sands Street Methodist Church is
the oldest of its denomination in Brook
lyn. The rules which were in force in
1915 required that the sexton should
have the church opened and the candles
lighted at least quarter of an hour be-
fore the time of evening meeting. He
was also to see that the candles were
snu6ed before the meeting began.
The steady progress of missionary
work in India may be judged of by what
is said by the Rev. James Smith, an
English Baptist missionary of long ex.
perience in Delhi. He says that thirty
years ago it was considered encouraging
if a new convert could be reported every
two or three years. Now, at every mis-
sion station. they are counted by score:
in each year.
AT the meeting of the Unitarian
Club in Boston the other night Presiden
Eliot, of Harvard University, told goot
story of Professors Day and Dwight, o.
Yale. The former, he said, is long O
speech, and the other is concise anc
pithy. The two were out taking walk
spiced with conversation, when they
were met by a friend, who greeted then
with the paraphrase of a Bible text
DAY unto Dwight uttereth speech
Dwight unto Day showeth knowledge. >
IN. Y. Post.
The suggestive and inspiring teache
is the man who is born to his worl
and who alone should perform it. 4
patron of a school was once hears
TO say: Il wish we could get sucl
ateacher as we had last year; he laugh
the children hundreds of things the,
never thought of before, and my boy
has pestered me with questions eve
since; he will scarcely give me any rest
he tells me everything he has heard Their,
and relates to me all the stories in hi
reading book and comments upon every
thing. Such teacher has . value be
yond expression; he remains an inspir
ing influence in his pupils lives to tn
end of them. These teachers may b.
found and-tiseyaes~a~nvsaPpresissed>.
abstractly; it has not been discovered
that they are paid more literally than ar
the billiards of their profession.-M y
Tribune.
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"USc1u,n said a Young rascal to his worth,

"UNcLB," said young rascal to his worthy
relative, 'sthat man over there wants to see
YOU" "What does he wantl" dunno;
didn't ask him" So uncle sauntered over to
where the stranger sat, and said: ibid you
wish to SCENE, siri' mo, SIR" al beg par
don, but / was told by that young man over
there that you wanted to see me-" $50 do,
% do. I've been blind these ten years, and
want to see anybodyn
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THE o,eam a. fall;nc vater. accord-

The CLEAN Of falling water. accord
ing to Mr.. s. Gardner, attracts GER
tain insects quite as powerfully as does
artificial light. In Iceland he has OBJ
served moth after moth TO fly deliber-
ately into . waterfall and disappear.
He thinks trout prefer broken streams
on account of the abundance of food
furnished by the self-destruction of the
insects, and not-as is usually supposed
because of the great aeration of the
water.-St. Louis Globe.
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Delwonico's Advice to . Young Man Abou(
to Open = Restaurant.

Delmonico's Advice to . Young Man Aboua
to Open = Restaurant.
4 young man who had been assistant cook
In . Chicago Hotel, having saved little
money, concluded he would 90 to New York
ana try his fostune. He reasoned with him.
self that DeImonico would not live always,
ana fancied that he might one day become
the future Delmonico of New York. On
reaching the city he sent his letter of intro
duetion to the famous restaurant keeper
ana solicited advice. Delmonico listened
attentiyely to the young mans inquiries, and
finally told him: "Get first, good location,
thin get the best cook you can hire, see that
yotr walters are attentive and polites and
buv only the best in the market. And stu all
oflthis you can do and not give satlsfac-
tion. Be your own superintendent; get the
belt quality Of the new CHARTER OAK Cook
mo RANGE, and il you don't succeed in your
undertaking, you will have the satisfaction OF
dong your best to merit 1t" (%2O
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.rhelro ccunation s,one. !.

+ " PIERCE, NJ. D., Buffalo, N. Y: was
attacked with congestion Of the lungs, sore
ness over the liver, severe pain in the joints,
burning fever, and general giving away Of
the whole system. Failing to find relief in
remedies prescribed, l tried your "Golden
Medical Discovery" Iteffected my entire cure.
Tour medicines have only to be used to be ap-
,reciated- If every family would give them a
trial, nine-tenths Of the doctors would, like
Othello, find their occupation gone Yours
truly, L. B. MCMILLAN, NJ D., Breesport, ny
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IHAvE the utmost confidence In the mails.
Enclose 81 for two boxes, or $50 post-office
order for six boxes OF Celery and Chamomile
pills and I win take all risk for money and
goods. DR.. C. w. Benson, 106 North Eutaw
ST., Baltimore, Nd. Also proprietor Of his
new remedy and favorite prescription, known
az DR.. Benson's Skin Cure, recognized every
where as the only SAFE and sure remedy for all
diseases Of the Skin and Scalp.
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Could Hardly stand on Her Feet.

RV. PIERCE, NJ D., Buffalo, N. T.: Dear Sir
Il must tell you what your medicine has done
for me. Before taking your "Favorite Pre-
scription" could hardly stand on my feet,
but, by following your advice, am perfectly
cured. The "Favorite Prescription" is a
wonderful medicine for debilitated and nervous
females. cannot express how thankful / am
to you for your advice. Yours truly,
MRs. CoRNELIA ALLISON, Peosta, Ia
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-06-03

AT Montgomery, AlaS Morris
Browning, convicted Of stealing horse,
has been granted new trial, having
shown that Anderson Rivers stole the
horse and laid plans for the conviction
of Browning, in order to get him out OF
the way so that he and Mrs. Browning
could 60 to some distant land together
and grow up with the country.-Detrois
Post
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Maine News.

Hop Bitters, which are advertised in our
columns, are sure cure for ague, biliousness
and kidney complaints. Those who use them
say they cannot be too highly recommended.
Those afflicted should give them . fair trial,
and will become thereby enthusiastic in tho
praise Of their curative qualities. Portland
Argus.
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A MAN may under certain circumstances be
taken for another and yet not look In the
very least like him. II know / don't rcscm
bic him. said q very wise and sad man,
I" still in an unguarded moment in 1orsed the
fellows note, and / was taken for him-by the
Sheriff. Nv Y. Herald.
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WRITE to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, No. c3a
Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets
relative to the curative properties of her Vege-
table Compound in all female complaints.
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ENTIRELY unintentional: Fair umpire ct
lawn tennis" Only keep your head, Mr..
Jones, and you are sure to have soft thing"
Columbia Spectator.
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A PRINTER who has been paying visit to
Constantinople said be knew all about hair
spaces, but that there they had hair-ems.
A map OF this joke will be furnished on appli-
cation to our composing ROOM hiladelphia
B,slletin.
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THE Boston Globe is authority for the state
ment that Chicago belle recently found 1t
impossible to disguise herself in male attire
because she could not get her feet through the
trousers.
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"IT's no use to feel Of me wrist, docther, =
said Pat, when the physician began taking hi
pulse; 1.-THE pain is not there, SUR; It's in me
hid entoirely. ''-Boston Transcript.
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IT does aggravate q man to think that
while his wife isn't afraid to tackle him snd
nearly yank his head of, she is madly terror
lied BY q COW that he. can chase outof ths
yard at any time.
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MRs. SMITH (emphatically) Poor Mrs. ST.
rem. They say that she has been ordered to Q
warmer climate. Do you think she will gow
lives."-Grip. s
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ATBxAs paper alleges that Dallas uses 50,
600 gallons Of water day. We had no idea
there was sucli IN influx Of strangers a Bal
las. We thought it was only when press con-
vent;ons were in town that there was such q
demand for water.-Tsras SiffiRgs.
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AN exchange announces new story,
"Written In Blood II any one sends "a
this Office story written in blood, it will &c
into the waste basket instanter. A story
written in purple ink y bad enough.-Dsfroi
Post
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THrRrY years is said to be the life Of q loco
motive Possibly they would live longer IL
they did net smoke so much. ~
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THs Worlds Dispensary and Invalids' Hotel,
at Buffalo, N. Y, destroyed by fire year ago.
Is rebuilt and full of patients- For Invalid 9
Guide Book, giving particulars and terms Of
treatment, address, with two stamps, WoRLD's
DISPENsARY MEDICAL AsSOCIAT'N,B Buffalo, N. Y
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II Every color of the Diamond Dyes ID
perfect. See the samples of the colored cloth
at the druggists Give them one trial and
you win always use them.
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FLTKs, reaches ants, bed bugs rats, mice,
Crows, cleared out BY - Rough on Rats" 15c.
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fHE boy who was Kept after school for bad
photography said he was spell bound
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BERTHA MILLER, of New York, agel only
sixteen years, has succeeded in swallowing a
ten dollar gold piece Here's your savings
bank, young gentlemen --Etmira Free Press.
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the palmy days of boys life are those in
which be gets properly spankedby his mother.
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The late Deacon Thomas Smith of
Hartford. left over 800, 900 for his
family after giving $4,000 to the mis-
sionary boards and $4,000 70 local
charities. Detroit Post,
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~TAKE back the heart thou gavest" he
was butcher, and she wanted liver They
don't speak now.-Sk PdM D5spdfch-