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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

STRANGE CUSTOMS AND LEGENDS,

STRANGE CUSTOMS AND LEGENDS.
QUrro, April 12.-The landlord at
the hotel here requires you to pay
your board in advance, because be
has no money 70 buy food and no
credit with the market men; the
muleteers ask for their fees before
starting, because their experience
teaches them wisdom; and there is
scarcely q building in the whole re-
public In process of construction, or
even undergoing repairs. Death
seems to have settled upon every
thing artificial, but nature is in her
grandest glory.
The population Of Ecuador is about
a million. and the nation owes twenty
gold dollars per capita for every one
OF the inhabitants. The President
is compelled to live at Guayaquil so
rs TO see that the customs duties, the
only source of revenue, reach the
government, and to quell the revolu-
ti0ns that are constantly arising.
Three hundred thousand Of the pop
ulation are Of Spanish descent, lO0,-
900 are Foreigners and 6OO, 900 native
Indians or persons OF mixed blood.
The commerce is in the hands of the
foreigners entirely, aud thus have
mortgage upon the entire country.
The Indians are the only people who
work. Over the doors Of the resi-
dences or the business houses, and
both are usually under the same roof,
are signs reading: This is the prop
erty of an Englishmsn." This is
the property Of citizen of Germany"
and 60 on. . necessary warning to
revolutionists. who are thus notified
10 keep their hands of.
The Spanisrds are the sristocracy,
poor bat proud. very proud. The
mixed race furnishes the mechanics
md artissns, while the Indians till !
The soil and do the drudgery. AL
sook gets 81 month in q depreci-
tied currency. but the employer il
expected to board her entire family. |
4 laborer gets a or IS . month and |
boards himself except when he isi
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06
THE MASCOT,

The above caption is the name OF
fan illustrated paper published in
New Orleans. The significance Of
the word "Mascot" is supposed to
have something to do with "good
luck" In the case of this publica-
ton, however, we have yet to hear
OF any good luck" that has attended
either the editors and managers Of
the Maecot or those who have been
championed or caricatured in its col
umns. On the contrary, it has been
the source of trouble, annoyance,
danger and death ever since it has
existed. Going beyond the conceded
liberty of the press to discuss public
men and measures, it has mercilessly
ut not maliciously) commented upon
private affairs and personal failings.
The inevitable result of personal en-
counters with the parties holding
themselves aggrieved has followed.
One of the latest of the numerous
ISLANDERS published in this paper is
from snade correspondent signing
himself "Snider." who charges Rev.
B. H. Prosser (who was lately mar
ried) with having contracted mar
riage at some time previous, place,
parties and dates not given. This
calumny has been promptly refuted
by a card signed by numerous per-
sons who have known Mr.. Prosser |
all his life.
Not SO peacably and meekly in
clined as this reverend gentleman |
are all the victims of the shafts of
and the Houston. Mascot trial, |
now in progress in New Orleans,
shows what serious results the course
Of the Mascot leads to. We have no
harsh criticism to effer as to the
merits of this controversy or the
'atal ARRAY to which it led. as the
natter is before the courts for settle
nent. But, while we are unwilling
o concede the rights Of any to invade
he premises Of a publisher with hos.
lie purpose, still less are we disposed
o condone with that unbridled IL
'ense that finds nothing sacred from
'austic criticism. The liberty and
privilege of the press is one thing,
While calumny and malicious COM
nent is quite another. L
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mo. 80,

sn0w-crOwned SUBMITS, where they
appear like group of pyramids cut
/, in spotless marble.
CotOpaxi is the Hottest OF active
volcanoes. but it is slumbering now.
The only evidence of action is the
frequent rumblings. which can be
heard for q hundred miles, and the
cloud Of smoke by day and the pillar
of fire by night which constantly
arises from crater that is more than
5000 feet beyond the reach Of man.
Many have attempted to scale il, bnt
the walls are so steep and the snow
is 80 deep that ascent is impossible,
even with scaling ladders. On the
south side of Ootopaxi lie great
rock, more than 1000 feet high, called
the "Inca's Head" Tradition says
that it was the summit Of the voa-
cano. and fell on the day when .Asa-
haullpa was strangled by the Span
iards. Those who have seen Vesuvius
can judge of the grandeur OF C0to-
paxi, il they can imagine . volcano
$4,000 feet higher. shooting forth it's
fire from crest covered by 5000 feet
Of snow. with . voice that has been
heard six hundred miles. And one
can judge Of the grandeur Of the
road TO Quito il be can imagine
twenty of the highest mt untains in
America, three Of them active VOL
canoes. standing along the road from
Washington to New York.
Here in these mountains, until the
Spaniards came in 1884, existed Q
civilization that was old when Christ
was cruci6ed; . civilization whose
arts were equal to those of Egypt;
which had temples four times the
size OF the capitol at Washington,
from single one of which the Span
iards drew out $4,000 ounces of solid
silver nails; whose rulers bad pal
aces from which the Spaniards gath
cred $1,000 ounces of gold and an
nnmessnred quantity Of silver. Here
was an Empire stretching from the
equator to the antarctic circle, walled
IN BY the grandest groups of noun
fains in the world. whose people knew
III the arts OF their time but those Of
war, and were conquered by 2l3 men
ander the leadership Of q Spanish
'wine herd. who could neither read
nor write.-New York Sum.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06
Newspaper Outfit for Sale.

The Press aud material of The PEoPLK
will be cold cheap for cash. or easy terms
on credit. The outfit consists Of Ne. 2
Washington Hand Press, Rolless and I'm
posing Stone. about $50 pounds Of Long
p rimer. IS pounds Of BREWER, and dozen
fonts Of job Type, al in good substantial
cases, besides Chas~s, Rules, Leads. 6lues
paper ONCE. For farther particuiars In
Quire ~ the CHRONICLE OFFICE.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

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being placed on IN equality with the older
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oe'e'oP'ne 'neo : ne'voos. energetic race,
remarkable for it, vim and business quail
iications; yet there Is danger that in sl.s
so !" - Ne Wy e'emenn may
combine % tne Fu'nauon o. the physical
character OF the people, and leave them
feeble and alto9efher different from their
forefathers. Cenernl dehilitv 4 nov v,,,,rh
more common than formeYIv. and seems
10 b on Tie incsease omonc the massea
Many remedies have beeo extensiveIV
vdvsftised To- this wide-eoresd complaint
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

We do not recommend bile Beans"
to cure al human flesh lie heir TO, but
We know they are superior 10 every
respect. AZ oathartic and corrector
OF the liver, to pills and liquid liver
regulators. One ''bean" is . dose.
They do not gripe, sicken the stom-
ach or weaken the system. Try them
once and you will never be without
them. Sold by druggists and medi-
cine dealers at Csc per bottle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

1t il definitely determined that the
Exposition is to be opened again on
the 6rst day of November.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

Chas. T. Howard, of Louisiana lot
terry fame, was thrown from his horse
last Sunday, in New York, and killed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

No wind can do him any good who
steers for no port.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

Atlanta put over $500. 900 in build
ings last year outside Of the Kimball
House, in spite Of the hard times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

A bad compromise Is better than .
good law suit.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06

4 O017c Send six cents for postage, and
JUJkG. receive free costly boz OF Goods
v hich viii help all, of either sex, to more mon
ey right sway than anything else in this world.
Fortunes await the workers absolutely sure At
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
The Way He Managed Them.

Once on time we overheard a
husbandman conversing with his boys
as they were husking corn by our vine
yard. Now this busbandman was ia
nous for the amount of work accom-
plished by his boys, therefore we
hearkened diligently to learn whereof he
spake. Father, the bass are biting
down in Black creek" sayeth the son.
EDO they bite sharp?" asked the father.
&" You bet!" sayeth the son. Now
that father careth nothing for bass.
knowing them to be wormy and full of
bones, but he was a wise father and
made reply, "Boys, when cometh
Saturday we will make trouble among
those fish" Methought the stalks
ratified more Justify in the silence which
followed. Then spake the eldest son,
" Father, there are lots of squirrels
down in Dikeman's woods" What
manner of squirrels?" asked the father.
ooh, red squirrels, black squirrels,
gray squirrels kinds of squirrels
and heaps of 'em." Now this husband
man careth nought for squirrels. 1--we
hunter should drive to his door with a
wheelbarrow full of squirrels, and say,
" Sir, what wilt thou give me for all
these?' he would make reply, "Begone
with thy squirrels; / will have none of
them, nay not as a gift. Too much
trouble to skin 'em.'' But this was a
wise father, and he sayeth to his sons,
"Boys, when this corn is husked we
will go for those squirrels with dogs
and guns and powder and shot" Then
we heard the corn-stalks rustic as
though struck by mighty whirlwind,
and the great yellow ears Kissed through
the air and sissed into the big baskets
with sound like red-hot iron into the
water bucket of the blacksmith. And
the field was speedily shorn of its pro-
duct, and gathered into the granary be-
fore the hoary hand of winter lay upon
it his frosty fingers.-Green's Fruit
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Canning Fruit.

All fruit used for canning should be
fresh, but not over-ripe. Berries should
be firm, and peaches and pears must
be canned before they get mellow. 1t
is not absolutely necessary to use sugar
when canning. Granulated sugar is
undoubtedly the best. Our rule is a
quarter of pound of granulated sugar
for every pound of fruit, but for cur
rants and cherries we use little more,
and for peaches little less. Put your
fruit and sugar together in a porcelain
kettle, adding little water, if necessary;
cook until the fruit is boiling hot clear
through; fill the cans full while the
fruit is hot; wipe the tops dry and put
on the covers; screw down firmly, and,
as the fruit cools, tighten the covers I'M
til they can be moved no further. If you
notice any air-bubbles in the can run
a spoon down to them and let the air
escape before you put the tops on. To
prevent breaking the cans, fill them
with quite warm water until they are
warmed through; then pour out the
water, set the cans in a pan containing
little hot water and put in the fruit.
Fruits that are apt to mush up by much
handling will look better if cooked in
the cans. Fill the cans with fruit, pour
over syrup made by melting the sugar
that you intend to use in some water
say from half pound to pound of
sugar to quart of water-put on the
glass tops loosely, set the cans in the
wash-boler with cold water enough to
come within three inches of the tops of
the cans. Heat until the fruit is boil
ing hot, and then boil fifteen minutes
longer. The fruit will settle down in
the cans, but take the contents of one
or two cans to fill up the rest, and then
seal up Immediately. Do not set the
cans on the bottom of the boiler. Get
John to shape board little smaller
than the inside of the boiler, bore it
full of holes an inch apart, and nail
three strips an inch thick across the I'M
der side to rest on the bottom of the
boiler. Set the cans on this board and
they will be all right. Canned fruit
should be kept in cellar or cool
milk-house, but if you have neither,
put in a dark closet, in the coolest
place at command.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14

cheaper and better produced as dis
tinct trade. My father raised broom
corn and made brooms; made buckets
and other vessels used in sugar-making
and otherwise; made ox-yokes and
bows, scythe-snaths, baskets, etc.
/ was expected to learn to do any and
all parts of the work done on and about
the farm, and l fairly succeeded. In
after years made good working mill
gear, carts and wheels, and repaired or
made most farm tools and machinery.
Have always kept bench and tools,
and have taken pretty full course in
manual labor, to faulty neglect of the
important matters and things that have
more directly tended to growth in agri-
cultural literature and the kindred
sciences, that give the man of to-day
varied and vast advantages over him of
no farther back than sixty years. In
proof of change in farm practice, have
employed young men-sons of farm
ers-who have never seen the plants of
flax and hemp, and never seen a man
cut grain with a sickle. The growth
in chemical knowledge, as applied to
feed substances, may be seen in what
has been given me as fact, that at one
of the inseed oil mills in this state the
cake was at first-and for years
thrown into the mill stream as useless,
waste substance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
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Lowell, Mass, where it is made, that whole
neighborhoods are taking it at the same time.
This success is extending all over the country.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is the only medicine of
which can truly be said 100 Doses One Dollar"
which is an unanswerablc argument as to
strength and economy. Other preparations will
average to last not over a week. while a bottle
Of Hoods Sarsapara contains 100 doses and
will last month. Hence, for economy as well
as for health and strength, buy Hoods Sarsapa-
ria Send for n book containing statements OF
many remarkable cures.
Hoods Sarsaparlla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by G. I. HOOD e. CO., Apothecaries,
Lowell, Mass. Price 81; six for So.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14

many of the New England towns the
clergymen of the Congregational order,
who were good husbandmen, had little
advantage over most of the common
farmers. 1t was practice in most
of the towns that lot of land was es-
pecially reserved as donation or gift
to the first settled minister. This land
he had increased facilities for clearing
and cultivating, as his Pensioners
made it point frequently to have
bee as it was then called, and help
the minister; his wood for fuel was
alwas cut and drawn to him. Although
his salary was then much smaller than
the clergymen's salaries nowadays, he
had little occasion for spending much
money, as his farm furnished most of
the articles necessary for family susie
nance; and the minister's wife in all
household affairs was as smart as a
steel trap, and was generally the head
and leader of the ladies of the parish as
well in things temporal as in things
spiritual"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Cultivation of No Use.

A. p. Paine of East Bethel, VT,
says in the Mirror and Farmer:
/ have read good deal by different
authors of the benefit of stirring the soil,
but in my own case could never realize
any benefit except to kill weeds or to
prepare land for crops. l have left
several rows of corn in a cornfeld, a
section by itself, without hoeing or cul-
tivating, and could see no difference in
the yield of such sections and other
parts of the field. Have talked with
experienced farmers in this part of the
town Randolph), and all seem to agree
in the same experience as mine. Would
like to hear from others, to know how
to obtain benefit from such practice of
stirring the soil, if there is difference
in localities as to amount of benefit de-
rived, etc. Also would like to have you
enumerate and explain the scientific
principles involved in stirring the soil
which induces fertility, and explain, if
consistent, why some soils may not be
affected thereby.
Haven't any of our readers different
experience?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
An Appetizing Breakfast.

For the chief attraction of a good
breakfast a tender chicken may be
Drowned in cream. Parboil the chicken,
and when the wing-the toughest part of
any fowl-can be pierced with broom
splint without effort, take it out of the
kettle, draining it well. Put one pint of
cream into large frying-pan, let it be-
come heated, then lay the chicken into
the pan; it should first be cut in pieces,
as if you intended to fricasee it. Let it
cook in the cream until it is all of a
rich brown; then pour the cream out
into small saucepan, put lumb of
butter in with the chicken; after it
melts turn the chicken over, so that it
will be Drowned on both sides alike.
Thicker the cream with a little flour,
and serve as gravy in boat, or, after
putting the chicken on platter, pour
the cream over it. Baked potatoes and
hot rolls, with coffee, should accompany
this to the table.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
To Clean Glass and Silver-Ware.

Egg-shells crushed into small bits and
shaken well in decanters, three parts
filed with cold water, will not only
clean them thoroughly, but make the
glass look like new. BY rubbing with
a damp flannel dipped in the best whit
ing, the brown discolorations may be
taken off cups in which custards have
been baked. Again, are all of us aware
that emery powder will remove ordin-
airy stains from the white ivory knife
handles, or that the luster of morocco
leather is restored by vanishing with
white of egg? Nothing, it is said, is bet
ter to clean silver with than alcohol or
ammonia, finishing with little whit
ing on a soft cloth. When putting
away the silver tea or coifee-pot which
is not in use every day, lay a little stick
across the top under the cover. This
will allow fresh air to get in and pre-
vent the mustiness of the contents, ia
miliar to hotel and clearinghouse suf-
ferers. boston Budget.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
A Spanish Lady.

A writer in the Springfield Republican
has the following on the Black Spanish
hen: 1.-THE Black Spanish hen ought
to be the especial emblem of the edu-
Gated working-wOman of America. Her
chief characteristics are energy, grace
and style. The American woman and
the black Spanish hen are the only two
of natures children, so far as l know,
that succeed in combining these traits
The combination in both instances is
charming. While the Black Spanish
has none of the Reubens-like beauty of
a plump Brahma or Buff Cochin pullet,
there is distinction about her which
leaves all merely plump pullets far be-
hind. No bird of the air is so accurately
described by the word stylish"
What could be more striking, and at the
same time less loud than her black
satin-like coat, relieved by the little
points of white at the throat and the
scarlet comb on the head? What more
elegant than her slender figure, more
distinguished than the delicate poise of
her head. more graceful than her droop-
ing comb? The merely pretty, plump
partridge style of beauty is beaten when
the graceful Black Spanish type is in
the field. Considered as an emblem,
the Black Spanish has other striking
points. As worker she is unequaled.
BY no means can she be hndered when
she has placed her ambition on any
object. Has she set her heart on the
center of the lettuce-bed? To the cen
ter of the lettuce-bed she will, sooner
or later, attain, even should all the men
in America, in convention assembled,
resolve that the lettuce-bed is not her
proper sphere"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Family Recipes.

JELLY CAKE.-Two eggs, one cup of
sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half
cup of sweet milk, three tea-spoonfuls
of baking powder.
CRACKER PIE.-One egg, three heap
ing tablespoonful of sugar, four crack
ers rolled fine, one and one-half pints
of milk; cinnamon and salt to taste.
Beat the egg and sugar together, add
the rolled crackers, then the milk; spice
and salt. This recipe makes two pies
on common-sized Earthquakes.
VIRGINIA BEATEN BIsCUIT.-Good
housekeeping has the following: Two
quarts of flour, a large tables spoonful of
lard, one of salt; mix with sweet milk
or water either, but milk makes them
brown nicer; make quite stiff, and then
beat the dough till it puffs and breaks.
1t is not beating hard that makes the
biscuit nice, but the regularity of the
motion. Beating hard, the old cooks
say, kills" the dough,
A DELICIOUS DIsH.-Select six large,
fair apples Qed are the prettiesD; wipe
and place in a preserving kettle; pour
over them three heaping cups of white
sugar, and add enough hot water to
cover them. Cover closely and boil fif-
teen minutes, oruntil the apples are soft.
Remove to the back part of the stove,
and let it simmer till the skins crack
open and the juice is a lovely rose
color and as thick as syrup.
PEACH SHoRT-CAKE.-Peach short
cake is made of one pint of flour, one
tea-spoonful of baking powder, one
tablespoonful of salt, and two table
spoonfuls of sugar passed through a
sieve, and then mixed with four table
spoonfuls of butter. When thoroughly
mixed, moisten with one tea-cupful of
milk. Bake in two deep pie-plates in a
quick oven. Have the peaches peeled
and cut in slices. As soon as the cakes
are done cut them in halves, butter
them, and arrange the slices of peaches
between the pieces, sprinkling with
sugar. Serve warm with cream.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14

top, water well and put down cellar.
Don't keep it warm enough to grow or
dry up, nor freeze very hard, as that
might blight its buds. Keep it there
till you wish to force it to flower, then
bring it in the plant-room in the light
give but very little sun, water well,
place a pane of glass over it, and you
have it all complete. Don't let it freeze
nor keep very warm. In about two
weeks you will be well repaid with
early May-howers. In spring you can
remove to a shady place in the flower
garden, where it will grow as well as
though it had not been moved from
its native place.-Correspondence Home
Farm.