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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-17
A SURE GUIDE.
Better Than n Trail Upon tho Prairies
In q Binding Snowstorm.

Better Than Trail Upon tho Prairies
In q Binding Snowstorm.
Two travellers were lost on far
western prairie during driving snow
storm. Night was coming on, the trail
was obscured by the swift-falling flakes
and it seemed as if they were destined
to perish far away from home and
friends. But suddenly one of them
turned his face to theDorth, whence
the ice-laden wind came in cutting
blasts, and bidding his comrade follow.
walked with swiftness and confidence
against the storm. Miles onward they
pressed, the one who had first faced the
storm leading always, with a step that
was strong and steady and an express
sion that told of hope in his heart.
Darkness came down upon the tree
less plain and the storm increased in
fury. Directly light twinkled in the
distance, and, quickening their pace,
the travellers were soon receiving the
hearty welcome of an old settler and
his kindly wife. When his guests were
enjoying their pipes before the roaring
blaze in the big fireplace the old settler
said:
1.-THE trail you were following runs
full five miles to the south of US. What
good piece of fortune brought you
through this terrible storm to our
cabin door?''
ut must have been the hand of Prov
idence,'' said the old settlers good
wife, who was removing the remains
of the supper.
"Weh, very likely it was" answered
the traveller who had led the way
through the snow and darkness to the
rude but cheerful prairie home. Every
likely it was the hand of Providence,
but you, good madam, were the instru-
ment which that hand used to bring us
numbed and weary wanderers to your
hospitable door. You were boiling
cabbage. you know, and we were lee
ward. and once l got your bearings
with my nose, which think very re-
liable one, 1 had no difficulty in reach
ing the human habitation knew to be
somewhere in the dark and mysterious
beyond. Toledo Blade.
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MATERNITY.

/ hold two dainty little feet
Clasped in my warm and loving hano;
So soft and pink they sure must be
Two rose leaves blown from fairy land.
] hold wee and helpless form
Pressed closely to my happy heart
Why. baby i-mine BY right divine
The right Of palma mothers part.
Oh! beauteous life! so fair and new,
That yesterday was blent With minoi
OH wondrous soul! so lately sprung
A sparklet from the Source Divinei
Gods priceless gifts. you come to me
Embodied in this little form;
Ny soul accepts its happiness
As flowers the sunshine. soft and warm
MY brow seems decked by coronet
The fairest earth has ever seen
The diadem of motherhood
It's Natures hand that crowns me queen
What realms are opened to my sighti
/ tread the regions of the blest:
And all because this little form
Lies fair and helpless on my breast.
A tiny bud, whose flower complete
May bloom to bless my waning years,
OH motherhood you hold bliss
That best may be expressed in tears.
Carrie Steccns Walter, IN the In0iesfds.
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BEARING.

factory. The reasons for her great speed
are several. There is little or no friction.
A yacht weighing eight hundred pounds
has been towed on smooth ice, without
wind, by two thicknesses of common white
wrapping-twine. In the greatest velocity
the heat is at once absorbed by the ice, and
no more friction is caused in running one
hundred than in running ten miles perhour.
She makes no leeway, and thus loses no
sail-push. She meets the most resistance
in air friction, or in the force of the wind
against her in beating to windward. Her
greatspeed changes the effective direction
Of the wind. II the wind came twenty miles
per hour from the south and she sailed
twenty miles per hour to the east the APP
parent source Of the wind power would be
from the southeast. She can not sail with
the wind without running ahead OF it dur.
ing the luIls, losing the force OF the wind be-
hind and being kept back by what is prac-
tically an adverse wind. She can not go
any faster than the wind on this course,
which is her worst one. A beam wind is
better for ingoing at right angles with the
wind, as she loses none of it's force by her
own speed. She cuts across it, but does not
run away from it. There is some air fric-
ton here, however. She win make the best
speed on the course where there is the least
air friction, and receives the strongest push
in forward direction. This course is the
one about as shown in the accompanying
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-17
lCE.YACHTINo.

a Sport Which Leads the World for
Speed and Puzzles scienti sts-Sixty Miles
an Hour I'm n Twenty Mile Bre exe-The
Dangers and Pleasures Of the Pastisme.
There are two things in the physics Of
sport which scientists do not understand,
and not understanding, deny their exist
ence. One is the possibility OF ''curving" a
ball, and the other is the fact that an ice
yacht will continuously sail faster than the
wind which propels it. Classroom philoso-
piers have furnished demonstrations galore
that bah could not be curved and that it
was utter scientific nonsense than an ice
boat will race with and beat the wind, and
yet there stands the brutal and inconsider-
ate fact that both are done, and what is
worse, done by men who don't know the
difference between alogarithm and n pump
handle. To scientific mind these rock
ribbed, pyramidal facts are something
bazarre inexplicable, Flanniganesque. But
there is more amusement in ball-playing
and ice-yachting than the mere fun of DEFY
ing scientific claws" and truths. There
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HOW TO AVOID SCARS.
A Physician shows How . Little Care
Will Effect Their Removal.

A Physician shows How . Little Care
viii Effect Their Removal.
Scars are always unsightly, and are
often painful or inconyenient on ac-
count of their propensity to contract as
they become older. DIR. Ward, of New
York, asserts that they may be removed
by manipulation, which he directs to
be employed as follows: Place the ends
Of two or three fingers on scar if it be
a small one, and on the margin if it be
large, and vibrate the surface on the
tissues beneath. The surface itself is
not to be subjected to any friction; all
the motion must be between the integu-
ment and the deeper parts. The loca-
ton of the vibratile motion should be
changed every ten or ifteen seconds
until the whole scar has been treated,
ii it be of moderate size. If the scar be
the result of large scald or burn, the
margin only should be treated at first;
the advances toward the center should
be deferred until the nutrition of the
margins hss oeen decidedly improved.
Only little treatment should be APP
Piled to any one spot at the same time,
but the vibrations should be repeated
as many as twenty times day, but
never with sufficient frequency or se-
verify to cause pain. If the scar be-
comes irritable suspend treatment until
it subsidies. In the course or two or
three weeks of faithful treatment the
surface of the scars of moderate size
becomes more movable and viii begin
to form wrinkles like new skin when
pressed from side to side. All these
changes are due to improved nutrition.
consequent on better blood circulation
the development of entirely new sets
Of blood in the electrical tissue
Springfield Mass. Republican.
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cracked ice are thrown up astern like little
fountains Of diamonds. The object over
the bows that looked a moment
ago. like small black stick in
the ice ID now a boy waving his
hat at the yacht, and before n second look
can be taken he is dropped astern, and one
only knows he is shouting his salute from
the fact that his mouth is open. But it 10
advisable for the passengers not to pay too
much attention to outside beauties and in
cidents. The cratic movements OF the
yacht are such that unless pretty strict at
tention is paid to hanging on to the par
ticular stay or rail which supports him he
is liable to be cast adrift. The yacht an
swers her helm so readily that it is very
perplexing to man accustomed to handle
q boat in the water, and sharp turns are
frequent until the ice yachtsman becomes
accustomed to the superior sailing quail
ties of his raft OH runners. But the most
exciting period is when in a stiff or gusty
breeze the yacht is skimming along on the
helm and the ice runners about hall the
time. 1t is then the sense of buoyancy is
akin to flying and the ice sailor makes
flights through the air which causes the
less nervy many q cold shiver.
The whole machine can be compared to
nothin but q great white bird fiuttering
along the surface, alternately attacking
and lodging some invisible enemy.
Next to rearing" or heeling over the
most exciting feature is
JUMPING A CRACK.
When the crevice is wide this becomes genu.
inely dangerous, for should runner fail
to strike the top Of the ice on the further side
it involved wreck and menace to life. Oc-
casionally the actual danger is in meas
ure obviated by building a low incline OF
wet snow at the edge of the ice and allow
ing it to freeze, so that the ice-boat is given
an upward impetus when it strikes the little
hill, which carries it over the crack in q
graceful fight through the air.
The greatest danger 10 when one yacht
is following another closely. An accident
or poor icemanship is quite liable to bring
them together, in which event wrecked
boats and broken limbs are not uncommon.
The bystander on the ice is in about as
dangerous position as any one, especial
ly if seeing boat bearing down on him he
attempts to dodge it. The advisable way
is to stand still and let the skipper do the
lodging.
Engineering and sporting papers have
treated the subject OF the yachts speed ex-
haustively, but the explanations arc COLI
fusing to the average reader, and a purely
scientific explanation would not be salts.
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But how, thought I. could such an

But how, thought 1. could such an
one grow up under such circumstances
and with such surroundings? How?
Why, in the same way the most beauti-
full flower can grow and shed its fra
GRANGE under the cold droppings of the
glacier.
The Divine goodness is so prodigal-
no, not prodigal, but profuse-in the
bestowal of its gifts that, as there is no
place in nature without its beauty, so
there is none so morally waste and
desolate that it does not produce some
flower of Paradise; there is no thick
mantling pool of depravity so stag
mating that its waters are not some
times stirred by the rustling of an an
gels wings.-henry 7. Niles, in Toledo
Blade
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


An Indian high school is to be es-
tablished in San Bernardine County,
California.
There are more colleges in Ohio
than in France and Germany combined.
-Clereland Leader.
Mrs. Talmage, wife of the Brook
lyn preacher, lectures every Sunday to
a class of three hundred women and
men.
Public night-schools are now
fixed fact in New York City. On the
opening night recently, $4,000 pupils
were enrolled, one-third or more of
whom would probably have been at
bars, billiard tables or theaters, but
for these.--N. Y. Mail.
The Japanese Government pro-
poses making adequate provision for
instruction in medical science by di-
viding the country into six sections. in
each Of which will be established .
college for the training of future ply
sicians and surgeons.
A Chinese merchant in New York
has received q letter stating that not
long ago the little villages of Ko and
Ju, fifty-five miles from Hong Kong.
quarreled about the site for temple
The difficulty eliminated in the burn
ing of both villages aud the killing Of
nearly one thousand people.
AT the fellowship meeting Of native
Christians held in Kioto, Japan, the
subject of one session was revivals,
and during the discussion it became
known that the patriarch of the meet
ing, the white haired pastor of one of
the Toxic churches, was spending the
day, in company with some students,
at the training school, upon one of the
mountains near the city, in fasting and
prayer for Gods blessing upon the
meeting.
The Samoans of Mantantu have
opened chapel which is built of wood
from forest which used to be tabooed
rs the dwelling place of an ancient Sa-
moan deity. Long after the people
had ceased to believe in the deity they
entertained superstitious awe OF the
grove, and it was considered o great
triumph when the missionaries were
able SO to overcome the feeling of dread
as to induce the people to attack the
grove and cut down its sacred trees.
The country schools are far infer
ior to the town or city schools, but this
is far more than counterbalanced BY
the fact that the country boy is trained
to work from the time he can pick up
corn cobs to run the kitchen stove,
till he goes out to his own home. The
chaps who had plenty of money at col
lege, and the city bred fellows, have
not been as rule heard from much
since, while the country boys who wore
plain clothes and kept close to their
books in the old colleges are leading
the thought of Iowa and other States
to-day.-Iotca Homestead.
Rev. DR.. Cuyler says: 1.-THE burn
ing problem of the day is how to evan
ge1ize the great cities, which are to rule
or ruin the nation. From this quarter
comes the menace. There is but one
way to conquer darkness-carry in the
light. There is only one way to change
the lump-spread the leaven. There is
one effectual way to arrest the corrup-
ton, and that is to take the Lords salt
out of the silver hoped casks and scat
ter it where it is needed. IN 7.
Times.
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When the wind blows thirty or forty
miles an hour it is gale. A sixty-mile
zephyr is q hurricane. When it gets above
that it is q cyclone or q typhoon, and. yet
ice yachts will average a mile q minute in q
twenty-mile wind for comparatively long
distances and when it is considered that
on the Hudson where these tests have been
made, the ice: presented distractions in
volving frequent .maneuverings, and that
the speed at least hall the time was under
twenty-five miles, it will be seen that dur
ing part Of the time, to make up the av-
erage, a cyclone rate of speed must have
been attained. An ice yacht is the fastest
machine on earth. The first ride is an ex-
perience to be remembered.
Passengers and crew are stationed on
the windward side for the purpose OF bal
lasting her and relieving the strain on the
leaward runner. The first impression is
that one viii fall through the spider-lfe
skeleton which forms the groundwork of
the boat, and be slid off on the surface like
a shiny ball. Look downward a moment
and it appears that the vast carpet Of ice
is slipping away from under you. Then the
cracks and bubbles blur and patches OF
snow look like little comets with tails which
streak away in the direction you are trav-
cling. You begin to realize that the boat
is making very creditable time. Inthe box
astern lies the ice skipper with eager eye
and nerves braced, giving neither talk or
looks except to the business in hand. The
breezes may cut and sting, but he makes
10 sign. dash through q window" Of
snow may throw up q cloud and momen-
tarily blind all hands. The man at the
helm may wink, but he does nothing else.
The runners cut into the ice With half
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euNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

Second thoughts are always the
best. Woman was an afterthought of
creation. Boston Transcript.
If it took coffee as long to settle as
some men, a good many of us would
drink water.-M City Derrick.
There are some things harder to
keep than q diary. A three-dollar
pocket-knife, for instance.
The most extreme age to which a
chicken can live under favorable con-
ditions is said to be nine years, but any
body who ever boarded knows better.
Chicago Ledger.
English entomologists are excited
over the addition of . new butterfly to
the British fauna, making a total of
sixty-five species. What American
belle is over there nowP-Boston Post.
An exchange remarks: Persia
is very partial to maidens with marital
proclivities. According to law of that
country woman can marry anywhere
between one and ninety year"
No. said the landlady, fixing
her eyes with stony gaze upon the
new boarder at the foot Of the table;
mo, it il not what l eat, but what
somebody else eats that distresses me. -
Boston Transcript.
Mo matter If woman hasn't but
three lines to write ON . page of letter
paper, she can't resist the temptation
to write two Of them on the side margin
and then sign her name upside down
over the date. Palmer Mass. Journal.
"A grand juror having applied to
the Judge to be excused from serving
on account of his deafness, the Judge
said: could you not hear my charge
to the jury sirp" Eyes, heard your
honor's charge" said the juror, 'sbut
was excused. Chicago Mail.
"A Chance Shot.-Mr. Augur ito
Mrs. Societe, as he calls her attention
to young couple near by)-"There 10
evident enjoyment. Miss Couleur app
pears charmed with young Ultradude-
does she not?" Mrs. Societe (smiling
brightly)-s'O, one can not tell any
thing by woman's expression. She
knows how to look amiable when she's
being terribly bored. -Harper's Bazar.
Two village worthless met on the
street one day. jamie" says the
richer Of the two, ''are We never gaud
to pas me that accounte I'm i'll off for
the siller the noo." TO-" says, jamie,
u havena seen you this long time.
Could ye cheenge q twenty-ponnd
notee" "Ay, could l." says the laird,
drawing out his pocket-book. "Ah
weel," says Jamie, you're no needin'
siller them" and walked on.-Norris-
town Herald
Young Physician Ito patient)-
Did you follow my directions in taking
the little pills--one every three hours?
Patient--Well--er--you see, doc.
Young Physician-Great Heavens! You
didn't take them oftener than thatl
Pat ient-I didn't take any. Ny little
boy got hold Of the bottle in the night
and ate them all up. Young Physician
(hastily)--Where Is the boy? Patient
The last / heard of him he was out
in the backyard stoning cats.-N Y.
Tws,,
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went away. always told him she
didn't belong in this world, but was
only here on visit. What time that
was the day she was buried! Every
body seemed to feel just as if they had
lost one of their own family. l didn't
see but our children felt Just as bad as
when our Katy died.
Poor Willie cried till it seemed as if
his heart would break, though she told
him but the day before she left us-for,
poor child, suffering as she was she
seemed to be thinking OF everybody
but herself-to be patient and good
natured, and not to mind il he did suf-
fer good deal, aud he would see her
again before long.
1T is enough to make one want to
die just to see the dear child again.
But never mind, children, shall be
be with you soon" As she said this
she looked steadily upward and spoke
in confidential tone, as if she saw
those dear ones on the very border of
the spiritual world, waiting impatient
ly for her to join them.
During this simple talk of the loving
old woman, If there was dry eve in
that a-minute-before careless, iovial
crowd, mine were so blinded that
could not see it, and ] felt convinced,
more than should have been by VOL
umes OF panegyrics. that from that
dusty room more than twenty years
ago an angel had taken her homeward
fight, and that she had since been per-
mitted occasionally to fit across Old
Paul's degraded soul, if, perchance,
she might yet win him from the error
Of his ways.
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uso8konA'
The boat is
headinguorth-
east, with the
wind from the
west. Her speed
changes the d.
rection Of the
wind for c =
from " 9 3 +,
which it would
otherwise b e,
to northwest,
which 10 a
beam wind,
and as such
does not re-
tard her speed
to any appre-
ciable extent.
THERE'S norun-
ming friction
to speak Of, as
stated. T h Q
direction ofthe
aai1-Ouah in suf-
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How long did it take you to cross the
ocean," asked Gus De Smith Of q very arts.
tocratic lady just returned from Europe.
II was seven days on the water"
Seven days. Why, when my brother
went across it took him eight days."
Probably your brother went over in the
steerage. was a first cabin passenger, :"
she replied, proudly. Texas SitiDgs
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.'SAx," said master to sleepy headed
apprentices, shave you ever seen Q mail r
sYes, sir-n Then you mnst have met It
" r. LEDGER
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-10
ALLEGED RAPIST ARRESTED.
Prichard Deffenbach Wanted at Coiun
bus on q Serious Charge.

Prichard Deffenbach Wanted at Colum-
bus on a Serious Charge.
Yesterday word was received from Co
lumbus from Chief of Police Walker, TO the
effect that one Prichard Deffeubach was
wanted there on the charge OF rape. The
case was put in the hands of the officers,
and this morning Officers Nicklas and Will
son arrested Deffenbach and lodged him
in the station house to await the
action of the Columbus authorities, who
were at once notified of the arrest
A representative Of the GLOBE-REPUB-
Lie saw Deffenbach in his cell and obtained
statement of the case from him. Ii seems
that he was employed in Browns livery
stable at the corner of Walnut and Pearl
streets, Columbus. Last Thursday night
stable man called Ike" took lewd woman
to the stable and tht Ostaid there and drank
beer until about O'Clock in the morning.
They then retired to a room. Deffenhach
afterward was in the room during the tenn
pOrary absence Of Ike, and had some con-
versatiOn with her, but says he did nothing
improper. The woman raised row the
next morning. and Deffenbach came over
to Springfield. 1t is not probable that there
is much In the case.