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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18
THE OVERFLOW.

Four States have appealed to the
national government for aid in behalf
of their citizens who are suffering by
the overflow, namely Arkansas, Ten
nessee. Mississippi and Louisiana.
While the suffering in Tennessee aud
Mississippi is very great. still it is
not az extensive as in Arkansas and
Louisiana. From the mouth Of White
river along the west bank OF the Mis-
sissippi clear to the Gulf is almost
one unbroken scene of overflow aud
destruction. Opposite Vicksbnrg. it
il said, there is sheet of water forty
miles wide. One hundred Thousand
people are estimated as among the
sufferers. In the Red river valley
there are several thousand sufferers,
among them two or three families In
Grant parish, in the scope OF country
near the mouth of Nantschie bayou,
and about ten miles north Of Colfax.
As Red river has started to fall, 1t
is likely that crops can soon be plant
ed on all the lands of this parish now
under water. The same thing can
confidently he hoped tor along the
greater part Of the Red river valley
Those living on the Mississippi car
scarcely hope to be 50 fortunate.
The amount of rain that has sc
swelled the Mississippi river and al
its tributaries this season is said te
be the largest that has fallen within
the same scope OF territory sinc'
1849. The number of sufferers arr
more than double what they were a
that time. The national governmen
has appropriated 100000 for thei
relief, and ii ID thought 1t will TAX
half a million more to afford the re
lief needed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18
The Thunderer ON Protection.
mo. City Item1

IN. U. City ltemJ
A friend writing to Us from Lon
don on the I'd inst. says: Il send
You by this post copy of the Lon
don Times of this date. have
marked one of the leading articles,
on protection in the United States.
having been struck by the coinci-
dence of opinion between the leader
in the Item Of November 10, and that
Of the great Thunderer in the article
1 now send you. Certainly no higher
compliment can be paid to the Item
than to say that it is abreast OF the
Times"
Thanking our correspondent for his
copy of ths great London paper and
fully approaching the compliment he
80 kindly conveys, we yet md that
while the Times recognizes, as we do,
the fixed determination OF the Amer
lean people to maintain protective
tariff as an encouragement to their
manufacturing industries, yet it does
not appear to understand bow, with
such an immense and constantly in
creasing income, derived from cus-
toms duties, a protective policy can
be consistently maintained in this
country after the pubIm debt-say
ten or fifteen years hence--hss been
practically paid of.
In our article of the 10th OF No
vember, touching the "Reduction ol
Federal Taxation" we showed thai
while decrease in our governmenta
income was demanded alike by pub
lie policy and public opinion, ye'
there was contest between the pro
tectionists aud free traders as to the
manner IN which that reduction
, should be accomplished. The pro
tectionists insist, and with reason
that the portion of our revenue know
as s.intefnal" is utterly inconsisten
with true American policy. being
, direct and an odioas tax on our do
8 nestle industries. This, in thei
I opinion, should be done away witt
altogether, while all the necessar.
!. revenue should be derived from Gus
toms duties, and be SO apportione'
AZ best to sustain our domestic IN
{ dustries.
ii The free traders. on the othe
!. band-though of late they have b
= come few and far between-demau
:. q reduction of duties a. beneficial
+ the consumers of imported merchar
e disc and most in keeping with the
= highest 9 inception Of political econt
:. my. But. says the London Times
" whose proprietor has recently mad
70 an extensive tour OF Observable
through this country:
Even sincere free traders, 1t ma
d be suspected, are not so jealous
. might be expected, to show themselv'
% sgitating for . repeal Of the existir
or protective tariff in the United State
e and this for two reasons. In Il
=. . first place. the popular sentiment
" unreasouing il may be, but strof
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18

The N. o. Times Democrat grows
exceedingly humorous over our notice
of the manner in which it was pro-
posed to raise money to buy an or
gan for the Colfax Lyceum, etc.
While we are willing to admit that
the scheme was calculated to excite
ones risibilities. still we must object
to the I'D. speaking so disparagingly
of our poker players. If the I'D
man thinks he can learn them any.
thing about "jack-pots," "kilters'
and "blazes" be is woefully ignorant
of their accomplishments. II there
is one thing on which our sports
pride themselves, it ia their thorough
knowledge OF the intricacies OF th'
noble game of poker. And. as TO
their playing "beeswax" game, yo'
just ought to see them settle down T.
businessl Recollect the game for tn
organ was conducted on religion
principles, aud was therefore tones
down considerably. There il such
thing as moderation even in gam
of poker.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18

A break occurred in the levee at
Alexandria, at an early bour on the
Morning of Tuesday, March 10th. II
was fortunately discovered by Messrs.
Campbell and Shepherd. of New Or
leans, who were preparing to take
the early train, aud the alarm
promptly given. After hard fought
battle the break was repaired and the
people breathed free again.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18

Young lady are yon cross, nervous ana
fretfdl Have you spells OF melancholy, or
ory, and do you feel vigorous? Are You
male. feeble AID inactive? II SO. use one OF
two bottles of DR. Dromeool's English Pc
male Bitte>s, 1t will restore you to health
in every particular and make you feel
bright, bcuyant and happy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18

Fire and sword are bat slow en-
gines Of destruction ia compAris0a
with the babblsS
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18

dhpca week in your own town IS Out
SOOft free. No risk. Everyrhiig ae~.
CAPITAL not required. We will IN nisn you
everything. Many are making fortunes
Ladies' make as much - men. ana boys
and girls maze great ray. Reader. II you
want o business 1t which you can make
great pay AL the time you work, write foi
nrficuIars 70 II. HALLErf Il Co.
Ssal4ly Portland. Nsh'>
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
BOHEMIA LAND.
A Song Of the Season.

Which IL the way from the crowded city,
To a land OF shadow and silent peace,
Where women can love and men can pity,
And tears from sorrowing eyes may cease :
For the toiling town is harsh and hollow,
And bate points eastward, envy west;
Though many may fall, yet some will follow
To a home of dreams and the haven rest.
For the love of heaven, stretch forth
your hand,
And point the way to Bohemia's land.
Where are the fields and their emerald cover,
rhe wayside flowers and travelling cart,
The new-found love aud the lone-tried lover :
They are better by far than our feverish arr.
We are sick unto death of jeslousy's %fetter.
The secret digger, the ceaseless strife:
There's triunph In fame, but freedoms bet
ter;
So give us a taste Of a wandering life.
The senses sicken as fancy's hand
Paints endless love In Bohemia's land
Bohemia's ways are strewn with flowers,
Her children free from the revel OF wine;
Her dust Is slaked by the sweetened showers,
Meath covering trees they toast and dine.
When care creeps close, why away they wan
der
To seek whatever the mind loves best;
For hope endures when the heart sees yonaer
A purer life and a surer rest.
How many despise, but how few with
stand,
h ceaseless Joys OF Bohemia's land.
To the fields away l for Nature presses
On toiling foreheads a balmy kiss;
There's nothing SO sweet as her wild oaresses,
No love more full to the lips than this.
God grant, my brothers, wnen all is over,
And holiday hours cut short by fate,
That the sense of flowers and scent of clover
May soften sorrow and silence hate,
Old Time soon measures the fatal sand
And the curtain falls on Bohemia's land.
-lClement Scott.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
The Age OF Great Expectation.

1t is perfectly true that our age has
a thousand times the u of any
that preceded it, but the question still
remains, "Does 1t use them to a tn )u-
sand times better purpose? ?" he must
be indeed a sturdy optimist who can
bring himself to answer that question
in the affirmative. That it is an age
OF great opportunities there can be no
doubt; that it is not simply what
critics like Carlyle and Mr.. Ruskin
have represented 1t to be-: "the
age of money-bags and cant,
SCOT, hubbub and ugliness," may be
granted nor need 1t be denied that in
such high matters as science, religion
and social organization ''great things
are in the air." But in there respects
1t a only be called at best the age
of great expectations" and great ex-
pectations are sometimes very slow In
getting realized, after the precedent of
Mr.. Micawber. We may perhaps be
on the w of the millennium, but as
yet we discern no signs of the dawn.
There is one very simple way of test
ing the comparative moral value of our
change in our external and material
life between 1852 and 1882, a change
beyond all example or idea or expecta-
ton Of any previous period in the
worlds history, there a be no man
ner of doubt. But it may well be ques-
toned If England was not as much
wiser, stronger, and betterin 1882 than
in 1882, and In 1882 thar 1852, as it is
better now than in 1882 and if we
were to go further back the change in
these respects would be still more
noticeable. Or again, compare Eng
land with other European countries /;
the material progress has been very
much more rapid here than anywhere
else, while in some countries, like
Spain, there has been hardly any at
all. "Has the relative position of these
nations in the scale of true civilization
altered so much? Not at alp II
from moral we pass to scientific pre-
gress, 1t is obvious that to llace the
marvellous tools ofmodern science be-
side those used by Copernicus oil Cali
leo would be like putting a modern
ironclad by the side of a Chinese junk,
But will it be pretended that in sci
entific genius the age v e Of Fsraday
and Darwin towers above that o.
Newton and Herschel, or of Bacon
Liebnitz and Descartes? "You may
raise your mechanical apparatus o
science a thousandfold, you do mo-
double your scientific genius once
Still less could it be plausibly main
: tanned that we have advanced in phil
osophy or in art, or In the quality o
our literature, immense as Is tn
increase In quantity, when the pres
turns out more matter in legible typ
r every day than in DIR. Johnson's tim,
, 1t turned out in a year, or in Shakes
: peare's time in a century. We hav
, not excelled Mozart or Beethoven II
music, or Reynolds and Gainesbor
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
PENIS GROVE, SALEM COUNTY. N j., SATURDAY, MAY 2z, 1882.

ough in painting, not to speak of the
great painters of an earlier age. I'VE
are as much superior in material sp-
planes to the men of Millions day
and Newton's day ,as they were to AT
ghans or Zulus. Are we equally su-
perior in cultivation of brain, heart or
character, to the contemporaries Of
Milton and Newton ?"
1t may perhaps be argued that, if no
serious claim can be preferred to any
moral superiority at all corresponding
to our huge material advance, we have
al least gained much in all that adds
to the grace and charm, "the bloom Of
social life.u But such a claim is hardly
more admissible than the other. Can
il really be maintained that life q hun
bred or two hundred years ago, before
steam, electricity OF photography ex-
listed, was so cranped and helpless n
thing, so borne and i'll provided?
Somehow it was not" In some ways
indeed, this very same material ad-
vance, with all the hurry and skurry
of modern life-lf such a phrase may
be allowed-has served to rub off the
bloom. as MI. w. r. Greg was neve
tired of reminding us.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
nstructiv

Ants may be easily destroyed by dis
solving sugar of lead in water, and
moistening brown sugar with the solu-
ton. The sugar is then spread upon
pieces of paper or shavings, and these
are scattered about where the ants run.
G. w. states that the green fly upon
house plants can be disposed of by
s%prinkling weak tobacco water on the
plants.
IT'S ORIGIN.-The Chinese are very
expert in telling the time of day by
looking in the cats eyes. They will
run to the nearest cat, open her eyes,
and at once tell what time it is,
all depending upon the size of the
aperture of the pupil of the eye, which
is affected by the position of the sun
and the character of the light, ever
when the day is cloudy. This method
probably gave rise TO the well-known
nursery rhyme:
Hickory, d1ckory, dock.
The mouse ran up the CLOCK.
WEATHER WISDOM. When you
wish to know what the weather is to
be, go out and select the smallest cloud
you can see. Keep you eye upon it,
and if 1t decreases and disappears, it
shows a state of the air that is certain
to be followed by fair weather; but lift
increases in size, take your great coat
with you, If } on are going from home,
for falling weather is not far off. The
reason is this When the air is becom-
ing charged with electricity, you see
every cloud attracting all lesser ones
toward 1t, until it gathers into a show
err; and, on the contrary, when the
fluid is passing off, or diffusing itself,
then a large cloud will be seen break
ing into pieces and dissolvipg.
MEDICAL ATTENDANCE BY TELE.
PHoNE.-A few evenings ago a physi-
clan Of North Adams, Mass, was
called by telephone about one o'clock
at night. The call came from Briggs,
about two miles away. A child was
there suffering with Group, and in a
critical condition. The night was dark
and stormy, and the doctor found
nothing pleasant in the contemplation
of the trip which he was asked to
make. When preparing to go out into
the darkness and rain, his mind con.
ceived a bright thought, which was
Immediately followed by act. He
called the Briggsville house in which
the little sufferer lay, and requested
the parents to bring it to the telephone
transmitter. This was done. The
child coughed Its creupy cough, and
the doctor listened intently to every
sound that came from his patient. He
prescribed a remedy, and one of the
family prepared and administered it..
The relief was immediate and the re-
covery rapid. The doctor waited at
the telephone until he heard of the fa-
vorable results of his prescription, and
then sought again the repose of his
couch, pronouncing blessings on the
inventor of the telephone.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
NUMBER ~.
Different Species OF Oaks.

Mr.. Trimble calls attention in The
] Student to some of the more obvious
characteristics of the various oaks.
They are all, he says, monoecious, that
Is, with sterile and fertile flowers on
the same tree, the former clustered in
slender dropping catkins, the latter in
little scaley involucres which latter be-
come the cups inclosing the acorns.
AS the oaks come into blossom twigs
with the flowers and partly developed
leaves should be collected and pressed,
the tree marked, and the specimens
carefully labelled. Another batch of
specimens should then be taken from
the same trees in July, when the
leaves have fully matured, and again
another set in October with the ma
ture fruit. With these three collections
there will be little difficulty in deter
mining the various species.
Of the annual-fruited species, the
white oak, Quercus alba, is the most
common, and is readily identified.
With this may be compared the less
frequent @. obtusiloba, having the
segments of the leaf, as the name inn
plies, much more obtuse or rounded.
And these again, with the still rarer
@. bicolor, which has the under sur
face of the leaf covered with a soft
white villous pubescence, and the out
line of the leaf closely resembling that
of the chestnut, thus forming the
transitional species to the chestnut
oaks, which with the exception of O.
monticola which might.easily be taken
in its younger stages for a real chestnut
tree, are not common. OF the biennial
fruited species, probably the pin oak
Q. palustris, is as distinct and fire.
quent as any. 1t may usually be
recognized by the short branches ofthe
lower portion of the trunk being hori-
zontal, or often dropping. The COM
mon @. rubra is easily distinguished
by its large acorns in a very shallow,
broad cup. O. coccinea, though not
quite so common, has the acorn half
covered, or more, by the large scaley
cup. But the leaves of this species are
characteristic, having very deep,
broad sinuses, which are often wider
near the mid vein than at the margin.
1t is well named the Scarlet Oak"
on account of the autumnal tint of its
leaves. What is commonly called
black oak is classed as a variety of the
last by Gray, hence the botanical name
is written @ coccinea, variety tinctoris.
The leaves of the variety are less d.
vided and larger, changing to yellow
or brown in the fall, and the acorns
longer, more slender and tapering at
the apex. The New York student will
find all of the above varieties, together
with some others, as the large fruited
oak, Q. m~acrocarpa, the Turkey oak.
@. cerris, and the English oak, Q.
pedunculata, well represented in Gen.
trail Park.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
The Crops.

Those who wish to see higher prices
for all cousumable commodities ale
very anxious for great crops of grain
this fall. With the great immigration
and the business activity, all that is
needed is d surplus of grain and cotton
to export to see q revival ofthe prosper
Gus times of 10, 80 and the spring of
'Sl. But, timid and conservative people
are not so sure about the future. 1t Is
argued that in prosperous times peo-
pie do not go farming. They throng
TO the cities, to the manufacturing dis
tricts, and become u of food.
during the hard times, from '73 to '78,
an average of 5000, 900 acres per an
mum of new land was put into grain.
But since 70 the increased acreage has
been but little over 1000, 900 acres per
annum. So far the pre- sent year, 1t is
settled, there will be less land put into
wheat III Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio
and other States than was the case last
year. 1t is true there is a much greater
acreage in Texas, Missouri, Dakota,
Oregon and California but it is
doubtful If on the whole there will be
as large an acreage in 'S2 as there was
in 81, while the home consumption
would be much greater, due to the in
crease of consumers in cities and man.
ufacturing districts. Then, it is feared
that as good crops are continuous year
after year, bad crops may also succeed
one another for several seasons. The
country was phenomenally prosperous
three for years preceding the death of
President Garfield. Perhaps the PEN
dulum is about to swing in the other
direction.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
The Flux of Nations.

AT the way at which immigrants
are pouring into the Atlantic ports,
there will be added to our foreign pop
ulation this year between 900, 900 and
1,000, 600 human beings. Never was
the immigrant depot at New York so
full. The Germans are coming In
greater numbers than ever before, and
lately Italy has been adding to the
tides o fhumanity which are streaming
abross the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly all
the immigrants who intend to pursue
farming as a calling leave New York
for Chicago, at which point they are
reinforced by another stream which
comes by the st. Lawrence, the lakes
and the Grand Trunk Railway. Such
vast movements in population have
not been witnessed since the incur
sions of the barbarians into Europe,
when the Roman Empire was In its
decline. Those migrations were neces-
sarily slow, as the armies had to con-
| quer each country they came to before
the lands could be settled. But the
transplanting of nearly one million
people in one year from Europe to
America could only be accomplished
in an age Of steam and telegraphs.
These invaders do not cene with the
battle-ax and spear, they are armed
xastead with the implements of indus
try, and are adding to our materis
wealth and national greatness, lie
them come. Certain evils will develol
themselves in connection with thi
vast increase of our foreign population
and it will be another strain upon GU
republican institutions. Many Of thes
Immigrants are ~illiterate, ignorant
and a certain proportion criminal
But, after all, they belong to our owl
race, and the great majority are homes
Woodworking people. Their comm
will add to the value Of our lands an
will increase the material wealth 9
the country.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
Vivid Description.
A Mile Heat in Classical History, BY I
Horse Reporter.

Horse Reporter.
II rather think you misapprehend
me,'' said the poet. "My little effort
does not relate to Atlanta, Ga, but to
a person in classical history-concern-
ing which you are doubtless in igno-
rance, land the upper lip of the poet
curled in fine scorn.
"Oh, you mean ATLANTA, do you,
instead of Atlanta ." replied the horse
reporter. "How thoughtless of me to
make such a mistake. L suppose you
know all about Attic, and the big
s~teeplechase she was in ?"
"Well," said the poet, in a hesits-
ting manner, 'of course I am familiar
with the classics, but 1t has never
come under my observation that Alta
lanta was aver the heroine of any
such episode as the one to which you
allude."
Didn't know she was on the turf,
and won the livliest race ever run In
Arcadia? Well, I'll tell you, ATLANTA
was the daughter of Iasos, a high roll
ling old Greek, a descendant of Areas
and Clymene, the daughter of Min
yasr. When Attic was born the old
man made a great kick. He WIS
anxious for a male heir, and when his
wife gave birth to a daughter things
were pretty warm on the street where
he lived. No such racket as this for
l1e,' said Iasos. Il don't propose
to put in the balance of my life buy
ing seaiskin jackets and six-button
gloves for this GIRL So he put the lit
tie girl on the top off mountain, where
a bear sucked her, and she was found
by some hunters, who reared her, and
she followed the chase for a living.
Finally old nan Iasos discovered that
the beautiful huntress was his daughter
and took her home. When he wished
her to marry she consented on condi-
ton that her suitors should run a race
with her-a kind of weight-for-age
~handicap-on the following terms:
They were to run without arms, and
she was to carry a dart in her hand,
Her lovers were to start first, and who
ever arrived at the goal before her
would be made her husband; but all
those whom she overlook we're to be
killed by the dart. As Attic had lots
of speed and was dead game, pretty
much all the tony boys ia Arcadia
were 0 lying out on the race track
with a stick through their livers; but
one fellow--I guess likely he was a
ringer-fnally beat her. His name
was Meilanion, and he was a regular
masher. Venus Just went loony about
him, and had given him three apples
from the garden of Hesperides. So
when Meilanion started in the race
with ATLANTA he just whooped him
self until he reached the quarter pole,
and then he dropped n ofthe apples.
Atalanta stopped to look at the beauti-
full fruit, and Meilanion got a long lead.
He played this game at the half and
three-quarter mile poles, and then
scooted down the home stretch at his
best lick. ATLANTA gave him a good
race, but he finally beat her half a
length in 2:243, and then she married
J him. That's q correct summary ofthe