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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Rock salt, put where it can be licked
at pleasure, suits sheep.-Prairie Farm
er.
To stain wood blue, boil a pound of
indigo, two pounds of wood and three
ounces of alum in gallon of water;
brush well over until thoroughly stained.
philadelphia Press.
Lemon Pie: Into one pint of boil
ing molasses put one-half cup of water,
the grated rind and juice of three
lemons, one tablespoonful of corn starch
and two beaten eggs; bake with only
an under crust.-Ihe Household.
"A very good way to clean rag car
pet is to cut fresh grass and sprinkle
over the carpet and sweep. A good
way to clean wall paper is to take new
baked cold bread aud rub the paper
1t will take off almost all kinds of dirt.
N. y. Times.
"A clothes-pin apron is made of two
pieces of ticking the same size; these
are fastened together in band for the
waist; the lower corners are rounded;
in the upper piece of ticking make two
round holes large enough to admit the
hands, bind. or stitch firmly around the
edge. This is convenient for hanging
out or taking in clothes, and the pins
can be kept in it and be always ready
for use.-Boston Budget.
Lancashire Pie: Take cold beef or
veal, chop and season as for hash; have
ready hot mashed potatoes seasoned as
if for the table, and put in a shallow
baking dish first layer of meat then
layer OF potatoes, and so on till dish
is heaping full; smooth top of potatoes
and make little holes. in which place
bits of butter; bake until nice brown.
N. Y. Ernm,ner.
For Scotch shortcake (not straw
berry, take one-half pound of slightly
sailed butter and one pound of -four;
then mix flour and butter with the hands;
then add four ounces of loaf sugar. and
work all into smooth ball; then roll
out until it is an inch thick; prick over
with fork and pinch round the edges,
and bake for half an hour in an oven.
with a moderate fire, in a round or
square pan, according to TASTE Toledc
Blade.
Mr.. Thomas Meehan says: Rose
cuttings are generally easily raised by
those who know little about it. In pro-
portion as one becomes skillful florist.
the failures to strike rose cuttings in
crease. Almost every one who puts in
few ''slips" of half-ripe wood into a
pot of earth, and sets the pot under a
shady fence, succeeds; but as soon as
he or she knows ''all about it." they
can't strike roses. Here, at least is an
encouragement to the beginner.-M Z
Farmer
For a good common whitewash
take piece of stone lime as large as a
child's head. having it new and entire
ly unslacked, and put it into an iron
kettle that will hold pailful. Pour
over it few quarts of boiling water at
night; cover and let it stand till MORN
ing; then fill up with water and set on
the stove. Add handful of salt and
stir occasionally till hot. Pour of into
pail and if too thick. add more water
Allow it to become cool before using. as
the smoke will strike through worse il
used hot.-Rural New Yorker
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17
WEBSTER.
A Hitherto Unpublished Anecdote OF the
Great Expounder.

A Hitherto Unpublished Anecdote OF the
Great Expounder.
Here is an anecdote of Webster, told
by the late Colonel Munford, who was
at one time Secretary of the Virginia
Commonwealth. and never published:
Colonel Munford was in his Office at the
State House one day when a distin-
guished-looking man. accompanied by a
young lady, came in, and asked if they
could see the legislative chambers.
Colonel Munford at once recognized,
from portraits that he had seen. the face
of Webster, and wishing to see as much
of the great statesman as possible, Of
fered to accompany him through the
State House. The young lady seemed
to be a relative of Webster, and was very
bright and piquant in her conversation.
There was constant fire of clever re-
partee between the two, and when the
party reached the Senate Chamber the
young lady. turning to him. exclaimed:
Now. everybody says you are great
man and can make a speech without
any preparation. want you to prove
it." AS she said this she moved to the
rostrum and took possession of the Pres
ident's chair. 1.-The House will please
come to order. The gentleman from
Massachusetts, has the floor" "Web-
ster," said Colonel Munford. relating
the incident. took. as if by instinct. the
most favorable position in the room, so
that his voice could best be heard. and for
ten or fifteen minutes he spoke with an
eloquence that have never heard
equalled. "-Boston Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17
FASHION NOTES.

Some OF the Trifies in Dress Which De-
light the Metropolitan Woman.
Stripes are coming in vogue.
Very little crinolette is worn by the
best-dressed people.
The Marquise Catogan couture grows
in fashionable favor here and on the
other side.
Large wooden or porcelain beads are
some of the decorations of the latest
woOllen laces
The new woollen 1aces with velvet
figures applique thereon come in colors
to match fabrics.
'.Housemaid" frocks of white lawn,
nainsook, and null are the order of the
dav.
Fluffy Fedora hair curriers' are in de-
mand this warm weather.
Woollen lace comes for fall enriched
with the addition of velvet pattern
chain-stitched on the wool ground.
For evening, dinner, and garden
party toilets young ladies wear one
small tuft of natural flowers in the hair
and another on the shoulder.
The coarser and rougher the fabric
the more fashionable it is for the day
wear, but for evening it must be the re-
verse, as fine or sheer or elegant as pos.
sble.
Drawn thread work, filled in with
braidene, the new fancy embroidery
stuff for flower petals. is the popular
occupation for mornings on the piazzas
at SarafoOa and Newport
A woman must have a good figure to
wear the English housemaid's dress,
for its plain skirt reveals all deficiencies,
and to try to cancel them with crinoline
makes the matter much worse.
The ''housemaid dress" so popular
in England. is gaining ground here. Ii
is a good dress. but its chief charm, sim
plcity, is entirely lost when it is worn
over crinolette or artificial protuber-
ances of any kind.
The costumes seen on the various
beaches near the city yesterday, when
the wearers were near enough to be seen
under their portable canopies of red
blue, black, beige, and white their
parasols-showed that the art of dress
making has progressed lately among
the masses. But for all that, there are
still plenty of women that nothing car
ever float into the heaven of taste in
color, form. and niceties of detail.
A gown or printed lawn, rhythmic in
form ana harmonious in color, is made
by having the ground of the material a
warm, pinkish shade of cream falling in
full straight conlisse skirt over white
pett;coat, banded with maroon Saline
edged with narrow cream-color wooller
lace, the blue bodice of lawn worn un
der short cutaway Figaro jacket Of
maroon Saline, bordered and edged
with woollen lace. and high collar
and cuffs of maroon velvet to match the
Saline. This frock, worn by a tall
slender, pale brunette, along with q hat
of pinkish cream straw trimmed with q
nodding tuft of maroon and cream
feathers, and lined with maroon velvet
makes picture worthy of the study Of
a Vandyke, Joshua Reynolds, or Angel.
lea kauffman-N Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

Don't know what ails me lately. Cnnt
eat well,-can't sleep well. Can't work,
and don't enjoy doing anything. Amt real
ly sick, and really amt well. Feel all
kind o. played out, someway." That is
what scores of men say every day. II they
would take DIR. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery" they would soon have no oc-
casion to say it. 1t purifies the blood,
tones up the system and fortifies it against
disease. 1t is great anti-bilious remedy
as well.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

In company the other evening Henrietta
heard some one across the room quote the
familiar phrase: "Man proposes" and
turning to sister wall-fower she remarked
that she was tired of hearing those old
sayings that didn't have q single word of
truth in them.-,SOmervill Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

II want to thank you for telling me OF
DR.. Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription "
writes a lady to her friend. "For long
time was unfit to attend to the work OF
my household. ! kept about, but felt
thoroughly miserable, 1 had terrible back
aches, and bearing-down sensations across
me and was quite weak and discouraged.
sent and got some OF the medicine after re-
ceiving your letter, and it has cured me. i
hardly know myself. / feel so WE'LL"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

A SCIENTIST SAYS that a very strong So
luton of salt applied boiling hot will pre-
serve wood. This is important to those
whose wood-pil has to be protected by a
spring gun.-LVe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

NOTHING makes one girl so happy as t
read another girls letters. A girl couldn't
be a girl and not read all her letters t
some other girl. Fact Chicago Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

IFS If profitable," asks an exchange,
ITO teach young girl elocution:" 1t de-
ponds upon whether he intends to marry
her when she grows up.-N. Y. SIN.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

"A New York State dairy maid ha.
succeeded in milking nine cows in
twenty-eght minutes. and that without
being kicked once. She'd probably go
through her husbands wallet in five
seconds.-Detroit Free PISS.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

WHEN barber seeks to make himself
sociable with q customer in the chair, h'
is probably ''scraping an acquaintance
Chicago Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

PIXIES Too1HACHE DROPS cure In l minute, Csc.
Glenn's Sulphta' Soap heals and Beauties. ESQ.
0xRMAS CORN REMovER kills Corns BunionN
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

OFFICER examining recruit: "Why d.
we salute superior oficers!" Recruit-"Ir
order to keep out Of the guard-house. ~
Flie1ende Bidetter
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

DoN'r disgust everybody by hawking
blowing and splitting, but use DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy and be cured.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

AN exchange speaks of ''the good ma
tured girl" We have all heard of her
She works in some other family.-N. Y
Herald.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

OPENING of the seasou--uncovering the
mustard pot.-BOston Bulletin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

PoPINJAY says that he wishes he could
induce his wife to try the early CLOSING
movement on her mouth.-Burliagt0p FREQ
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

AS REGARDS rank among vegetables the
onion comes first.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

DOMESTIC pursuits-chasing the man Of
| the house with q broomstick.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

eve are like clock" said labor ag'
itator. "For when the proper time arrives
we strike. "-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

Dyspepsia is said to be unknown in
japan. So are boarding houses,-Csi-
eaqo Ledger.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

CAN place to teach swimming be called
dive-in-ity school?--Attleboro Advocate.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17
"I Feel So WE'LL"

CAN 1t be said that a fish is crazy wher
he is inseine?-Hdtchet.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17

tween superior and inferior work The
intelligence that discriminates between
varieties of soil and their availability for
certain crops, and when the one or the
other is in proper condition for work
ing is expert knowledge of high order
How many who call themselves ex-
pert farm hands really can do this:
How many actual working owners OF
farms understand the subject perfectlys
And yet is it not important and neces-
sary in a country where the measure OF
success is decided largely by the high
character of farming? This and other
knowledge of like nature is what dis
tinguishes the expert from the inexpert
performer.
The tendency of the age. as in manu-
features. is to specialties in agriculture.
In manufactures this is comparatively
simple, since the finished parts of an
implement or machine are simply parts
of whole. Diversified agriculture is
analogous to this. One crop fits another
in the rotation. Horticulture, floricul-
ture, and the cultivation of crops sent
away from the farm must bring profit
sufficient to allow return to the soil in
the shape of manure, of the fertility
carried away, else the business is in the
end losing one to the owner. Accu-
rate knowledge in this direction is
what makes the expert manager or the
expert laborer. He who has this
knowledge win receive profit or wages
in accordance with that knowledge.
The statistics of wages for the average
farmland, so far, show him to be well
in advance of his brethren in other de-
partments of labor. at least so far as TIE
mere ability to perform labor is con.
cerned. Chicago Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-17
LIFE IN HOLLAND.

How the Sabbath Is Observed in Dutch
Towns and Cities-A Dutch Chamber
maid.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
"FINE-WORKER" MACKIN.
The Supreme Court Decides Against Him and
He Will Have to Go to the Penitentiary.

CHICAGO, Nov. A-The Supreme Court, in
session at Ottawa, ILL.,, to-day affirmed the de-
csion of the lower courts in the case of Joseph
G. Mackin, for perjury. The principal claim of
the defendant was that the indictment
for perjury, being found by spe-
cal grand jury, while the regular grand
jury was in existence, was irregular, and that
the defendant could not legally be convicted
under it. The Supreme Court to-day decided
with the lower court, that the verdict was valid,
and now nothing but the possible but exceed
ingly improbable, clemency of the Governor
stands between the famous election manipulation
and his sentence of four years in the peniten-
tiary.
At the last senatorial election of Illinois it was
discovered that large number of spurious
ballots had been cast i'll favor of Rudolph Brand
for State senator. In the investigation which
followed, sufficient evidence was produced to
convict Mackin of the crime, and he was SEN
fenced by Judge Blodgett to two years in
the penitentiary and to pay fine of $5, 900.
Mackin's attorneys at once carried the case to
the Supreme Court of the United States, before
which it now is. Following his conviction in
the United States Court for tampering with the
ballots, Mackin was indicted by the State grand
jury for peri Jury in swearing that he had not
ordered or received the spurious ballots. Of this
he was convicted as above stated, and will now
go to the penitentiary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
A AHigh-Salaried Manager and Several Clerks,
and the Time They Waste in Hunting
Down Trifing Inaccuracies.
Offensive Partisanship Appears Among
the CharWOmen of the Treasury.
Gen. ThOmas's Widow Will Henceforth Reside
in Washington-What the General Was
Doing When Called Away by Death.
TREASURY RED TAPE.
Spending Two Dollars to Save One-HOw Tele
graph Accounts Are Computed.


graph Accounts Are Computed.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON Nov. III suppose, said the
manager Of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, that the government pays So for audit
ing every ST. account that this company has
against it. have frequently sent over my ac-
counts for month which have differed few
cents from the books of the accounting officers
of the Treasury, and have in consequence been
compelled to stay here for days going over the
figures and estimating mileage with more
high-priced clerks of the Treasury. There is
something rather peculiar about the manner in
which these accounts are made, by the way,
which l don't think the general pub
lie knows anything about. Every year.
under the law. the Postmastergeneral
fixes the rate which shall be paid
for the transmission of government telegraphic
matter during the next fiscal year The rate is
20 cents for twenty words for each thousand
miles or fraction thereof, and graded scale for
distances beyond one thousand miles. The night
rate messages, however, must be sent under
the rate fixed by the Postoffice Department. at
10 cents for each twenty words at any point in
the United States. The law requires, however,
that government business shall take the pre-
cedence over all other matter, and in
quence the question arises are we to send gov
ernment night messages as soon as they are
filed and charge for them only Is cents to Cali
fornia, for instance? 1t would pay the Western
Union Company almost as WE'LL l think. to do
the government business for nothing, as to both
er with the trouble and annoyance which is oc-
cassioned by the annual change of rates and the
Interpretation put upon the law by the
various officers of the Treasury. In this
connection it may be stated that rather queer
state of affairs exists in regard to telegraph wires
in this city. The officials of the various depart
ments have united in insisting that wires of the
Western Union company as we'll as those of
other companies which have heretofore passed
the tops of buildings, shall be carried under
ground, and the companies have in many in
stances complied and placed their wires beneath
the surface. This, however, has not resulted in
such a clearance of the atmosphere as might
have been expected for. in spite OF the fact that
corporation wires 60 under ground the govern
ment still persists in keeping its own wires in
the air. and the various federal buildings are
just about as badly hedged in with electrical
conductors they were before the new orders
went into effect The wires which are now on
the government buildings are nearly all owned
by the government itself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
TREASURY CHARVOMEN.
The Hard and Humiliating Work They Per-
form-Politics In the Basement.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-An interesting vol
ume could be written of the charwomen of the
Treasury. There is no broader field for pathos
in all Washington official life. Every week day
afternoon at o'clock. the officials and the clerks
are leaving the Treasury Department for their
homes, small army of poor, pale. haggard and
ill dressed women, of almost all colors, national
ties and ages, but mostly white and aged, may
be seen entering on the basement floor of the
building. Here the Railways are narrow, the
ceilings low and the ventilation so horrible as to
keep the atmosphere in almost nauseatng con-
dition. Gas is constantly burning
When the building is cleaned of the day work
men these charwomen begin their toll The
rooms and Railways are dirty. The tile floors
are scrubbed, carpets swept, papers arranged in
proper condition, and everything busted. The
force, consisting of about seventy five women, is
in charge of forewoman, who is paid 1920
year. The charwomen receive $15 month.
Most of them are widows of Union soldiers. and
many have large families to support on this
miserable pittance Sometimes thirty or forty
of the poor charwomen collect in one portion of
the building as it is being vacated in the after
noon. 1uey SlI Oh long rows Oh cndlr5 placed
for them and wait for the time to begin work
The scene they present is enough to tune the
heart strings of stone man. Distress on nearly
every face They seldom speak. but bear their
humiliation and pain like hercnes
1t has never been known until few weeks ago
that politics could enter this class Of government
employees. The most deserving have always
been employed. short time ago, however the
forewoman was discharged-it was found her
male relatives were Republicans and Southern
woman of strong Bourbon principles given
the place Soon this woman learned that most of
her subjects were widows of Union soldiers. She
promptly reported the fact, and called A3ten ton
to the probability of their relatives b94hg Re-
publicans. She recommended the dismissal of
ALL stating that good Democrats ought to be en-
ployed instead. Upon her recommendation a
number were dismissed upon political grounds
Offensive partisanship." One old woman was
recommended for removal, because she had a
brother in Iowa who voted the Republican
ticket
A short time before the last change in the assist
ant secretaryship of the Treasury this newly-in-
stalled forewoman went to the old assistant one
day. She was not known to that official but
she bolted. up to his desk and complacently in
qured:
"Mr Secretary. what are we going to do to
get Democratic ladies to fill the places OF these
Republican charwomenW
The Assistant Secretary looked up in amaze
ment and inquired:
"Who do you mean by 'we'P
''The Democratic party" was the reply.
'We" said the official, 'f you are the Dem
ocratic party, you had better go to Mr. Higgins
She went
One of the new officers went into the office of
the appointment clerk of the Treasury, the other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
Brutal Murder of a Young Girl.

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 14-Alice. the fourteen
year-old daughter of Charles d. Powell, a we'll
to-do farmer in Princess Ann county residing
abou: two miles from the village of Kempsville,
went to school at that place yesterday morning.
When she did not return at the proper time a
search was organized, and resulted, about IL
o'clock. in finding the body of the girl in a
thicket, lifeless with her throat cut and her head
nearly severed from the body. She had also re-
ceived three stab wounds, but it was not posi-
tirely proven that she had been outraged, al
though it was generally believed that murder
had been resorted to to conceal the more afro
cious crime. Powell had in his employ a negro,
who was driven from the premises few days
ago because OF difficulty with one of Poweil's
sons. He is believed to be the murderer and
was caught this morning Excitement in the
neighborhood is intense. and if the crime is
proven on him the negro will be lynched