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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-30
An EXCELLENT LESSON.
How Young Woman Was Cured Oh
Making Fun of Old People.

Making Fun of Old People.
Once when travelling in stage
coach, met young lady who seemed
to be on the constant lookout for some
thing laughable, and not content with
laughing herself, took great pains N
make Others do the same.
Now, travelling in a stage coach Is
rather prosy business. People in the
situation are apt to show themselves
peevish and selfish; SO the young lady's
good humour was, for time, very
agreeable to the travellers. Every OLD
barn was made the subject OF passing
Joke, while the cows and hens looked
demurely on, little dreaming that folks
could be merry at their expense. AMI
mails are not sensitive in that respect.
They are not likely to have their feel
ings injured because people make run
of them; but when we come to human
beings that is quite another thing. So
it seemed to me; for after awhile an old
woman came running across the fields,
swinging her bag at the coachman, and
in shrill voice begging him to stop.
The good-natured coachman drew
up his horse, and the good old lady,
coming to the fence by the roadside,
squeezed herself through two bars,
which were not only in horizontal
position, but very near together. The
young lady in the stage coach made
some ludicrous remarks and the pas
sengers laughed. 1t seemed very ex-
cusable, for in getting through the
fence the poor woman had made
sad work with her old black bonnet,
and now, taking a seat beside q well.
dressed lady. really looked as If she
had been blown there by whirlwind.
This was a new piece of fun, and the
girl made the most of it. She carica'
tured the old lady upon card; pre-.
tended, when she was not looking, Il
take patterns OF her bonnet, and II
various other ways tried to raise
laugh. At length the poor womar
turned pale face toward her.
my DEAR" said she, ''you arr
young, healthy and happy; have beer
so, too. but that time has passed; | an
now decrepit and forlorn. This coacl
is taking me to the death-bed OF m!
child. Aud then. my dear, shall be
poor old woman. all alone in the worlt
where merry girls think me a YER.
amusing object. They will laugh a
nv old-fashioned clothes and odd ap
pearance, forgetting that the oil
woman has spirit that has loved AM
suffered and will live forever"
The coach now stopped before apoor
looking house, and the old lady feebl
descended the steps.
How is she?" was the first trenholm
inquiry of the poor mother.
.Just alive" said the man who wa
leading her into the house.
/ Putting up the steps the drive
mounted his box, and We were upo
the road again. Our merry youn
friend had placed her card in he
pocket. She was leaning her hea
upon her hand; and you may be a
sured I was not sorry to see tea
upon her fair young cheek. 1t was
good lesson. and one which hope
; wonld do her good.-Salem (Mass
Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-30

"A newspaper poet demands TO
know, Where are the girls Of the
pastp' Bringing up the girls of the
future, don't you thinkP Scranton
Truth,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-30

: Appointment citizen of Fresno, Cal,
has started a 'possum farm. He has
procured carload Of the animals from
Missouri.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-30

but then these muslins have no stiffen-
ing. found my infant playing. lately,
with small glazed cardboard box of
green color that had once contained
chocolate, and that had been OBJ
tanned from one of the automatic
supply boxes. After the manner Of in
fants, he was occasionally sucking this.
Out OF curiosity tested it. and found
that the surface paper" measuring
five inches by one and three-fourths,
contained one tenth of grain OF white
arsenic. In all these cases the guam
tity of arsenic found is small, and it
may be, under ordinary circumstances,
quite harmless; but in all cases its
presence is quite unnecessary. Other
coloring materials could equally well
be used in which there is no possible
noxious ingredient. Omitting articles
in which its occurrence has been purely
accidental, arsenic has been found OF
late years to be present In some
samples of muslins, cretonnes, wall
papers. playing cards, the glaze Of
some enameled stew pans, the paper OF
fancy boxes and in some furs. These
last are usually the furs prepared by
amateurs. So that we may picture an
infant placed by an unfortunate con-
currence or circumstances in q room
covered with arsenical paper, having
its cot draped with muslin or cretonnes,
fed on food prepared in glazed
saucepan, itself covered by q rug and
playing with some fancy box Of sweets
or toys. all Of these containing q
minute but unnecessary amount of ar
senic.. One has no wish to be an alarm.
list, or in any way to harass trade, and
it must be freely acknowledged that
cases of any i'll results whatever being
traced to the use Of these articles are
very rare. None the less, seeing how
unnecessary they are, and how eacf
year arsenic seems to be finding its way
into new quarters. it seems advisable
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26
nE11cAN FORTIFIED HOUSE

known people, Don Enrique Muller,
told me, the name of the camp or town
alongside ended in chic, as the ex-
ample I have given above. Bibichic,
Carichic, Baquiriachic. and few 9th
.ers [ could mention, all wool and a
yard wide. The rest of the word
i plenty long enough for five or
six names yet--means. says my au-
thority, "the place Of the standing
post" When they ruled their own
country, many years ago, the princi-
pal means of punishment they had was
the upright post to which the offenders
were tied and treated to a Delaware
dissertation.
Such is the origin of the big name
of the little Mexican town Of Gust
huiriachic, lying about half way be-
tween the city of chihuahua and the
great mining belt of the Sierra Madre
Mountains, lying west and southwest
from the city. and to which it is a sec
ondary distribution point. The dill
gence ride to it is made in one day, a
little over seventy miles.
We started from chihuahua long be-
fore it was daylight. Leaving Chi
huahua and bearing west toward the
Sierra Madre Mountains, one finds the
road even crowded with Mexican trans
portation, all from the rich silver belt
now being rapidly developed mostly by
American wealth. There are great
carts with solid wooden wheels of the
Nazarine style of building. the patient
donkey of the same period, and all SO
numerous that one would think there
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26
Two Shocking Conl,,,dru,,s.

Until few nights ago I thought
that the worst conundrum ever ne,..
petrated was that William Black. in
the Strange Adventures of House
boat. makes his spirited American
heroine. Peggy Rosslyn, PROFOUND to
shocked English people. why was
General Nolseley the most extraor-
binary general III the world:> She asks
and then replies, While the staid En-.
gllsh folk are dnmbfonnded, Because
ne not only took Cairo, bat Damietta. !"
The night l found one to heat this T
was riding in grip car behind a ]adv
and gentleman who I discovered wera
coming from session of a real;ng
club: They got to talking conuplr1ms
and the lady posed the escort What
is the difference" she asked. "l,etwaen
the Eiffel Tower and Queen E Is..
beth = Give it up" said he. atter
thinking while the car ran six h1ocks
Why, said the lady" one is q wonder
and the other was Tudor. 81 In,,;s
Globe Democrat. ~ Ao"'S
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26

upon our arrival, being used for cock
fight, and one or two hundred people
We're TANNED therein, yelling like
panthers. In the pit were dead, bloody
rooster or two that had been butchered
to make a Mexican "holler' day. AS
all of the rooms emptied 10y their one
single door into the little patio, the
beauty OF the situation can probably
be appreciated by some The only
other outlet was by grated window,
which made our apartments look like
a prison, a cheerful aspect that is
peculiar to nearly all Mexican houses.
[ would rather have spent couple of
nights in an American prison. We
were crowded into rooms four to six in
each.
The road from Cusihririachic to Car
ichic brings us to the foot of the Sierra
Madre Mountains, beyond which all
roads cease and only trails are followed
by the patient donkey and the mel
ancholy mule. On the way over we
came to an adobe building that de-
parted in very picturesque way from
the everlasting mud-boA style of archi-
lecture so common to this country. and
for which departure we have to thank
the Apaches, not that they built it, for
an Apache never built anything except
under compulsion, and at that time
compulsion Of these Indians was the
scarcest thing in Mexico; but, rather,
they compelled the Mexicans to do it
that is, build corner towers on the
ends of the mud-box and convert it into
building Of defense. In the pictur-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26

was an exodus out OF IA city soon to be
put to siege.
In investigating some of the re-
sources OF this country 1 ran across a
new Ito me- and interesting way of
measuring wheat: and the method also
applies to number Of products raised
from the soil. I found an old hunter
on the Yukon River, of Alaska, who
measured the length OF grizzly bears
by the fathom, and have had Mexi-
can charge me for a saddle by the
pound, carefully weighing it and est
mating tire resulting cost. but when I
tried to find out how an exceptionally
fine field of wheat Welded to the acre
the reply was equally surprising. The
owner, as he boosted of the field. knew
nothing of SO many bushels to the acre.
OF to the hectare, which is their usual
measurement here, nor even Of any IA
ito Of pounds OF Kilograms to known
superficial area, but he loudly Dragged
that he raised one hundred for one.
while but few of his neighbors could
claim as high as fifty for one, forty for
one being the average for the whole
valley. Now, one hundred for one
means that he got one hundred grains
for every grain he planted. one hun
dred bushels for every bnshel put in as
seed, etc. Now, if he had planted a
bushel on an acre of ground and got
one hundred bushels in return it would
have simply been an enormous yield,
and Western farmer would have
yelled with delight at such a result.
but it lie had planted a bushel on ten
acres Of grur'.I and got the same old
hu"dred bl.sl..a. rs before, the Mesi-
,an farmer w,.i..i Lave heen as happy
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26

. arer while the American farmer
wonld begin to wonder if the old farm
would stand third mortgage or not.
az course. the American will say that
obort a certain number of bushels are
Gown TO the acre, and after all 100 tor
/ 80 for 1. etc, really gives us crude
ratio after all in Judging of the fer
tilitv of the land. But would answer
that in Mexico so little attention is
maid to even such definite ratio, or
any other in agriculture, that no one
can form any idea whatever on such
mathematics for basis of conjecture.
Some seven or eight miles from Gus
ihuiriachic shortened to Coosey by the
Americans of this region, a canyon is
entered at its mouth, through which
runs a river of the same cognomen. In
a few miles more the rocky sides of the
CANYON broke into the most picturesque
castellated rocks on both sides. in many
places hanging over our heads as If the
faintest lar would send them tumbling
down upon us One of the illustrations
shows the view on one side of the cam
Won: but. after all. it can give no ade-
quate idea of the scene, for there was
much color on the rocks, while the sun
was just setting in the west over the
panorama before us.
Arriving in Cusihuiriachic late in the
evening, we found the most primitive
hotel any civilized mans eyes ever
rested upon. although this is town
of six or seven Thousand people, ac-
cordinr to their own estimate
The patio, or interior plaza OF
the hotel if place where one
can get nothing to eat and have the
privilege of putting his blankets on a
dirt floor can be called an hoteD was,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26

And instead of going and getting a
knotty scourge with which to whip your
antagonist, your enemy, you had better
get up on the radiant mount where
Christ suffered for his enemies. and Just
take an olive branch, not stripping off
the soft, cool, fragrant leaves, but leav-
ing them all on, and then try on them
that gospel switch. 1t won't hurt them,
and it will save you. Peace with God;
peace with man. If you cannot take
tian.
Bles, be the tie that binds
. Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26

AN ILLUSTRATED ADvERGlsENE
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26

esque mountain scenery it looked at a
short distance like an old castle, which
we could have believed it to be, had
we not seen too many other typical
Mexican scenes around to drag our i'm
aglnation down to the ground.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26
A Talking Girl.

Tom-Miss Sistertomee is very TAX
ing girl; don't you think so?
Dick-Yes, indeed; she is taking
girl; that is just the word that describes
her. l asked her to marry me lsst
week, and she said she wanted to take
time to think of it. told her to take
time if she wished, and asked her how
much time did she want; and she said
she Guessed about two years. Oh, yes,
she is very taking girl.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26

GOOD minister have not seen yo,,
at church for months. Mr.. Graf an.a ~
Mr.. Grateman-No; I'm work;nn e.. =
nomination, and 1 don't want 10 lo4 a.
anything to make the bovs th;,> w. ~, uo
stuck up. 'n1nK I'm
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26
-Castellated II

Chicago Inter Ocean. We are now in
the land Of the Tarahumali Indians,
of west central chihuahua. and this
long winded name at the head of my
article belongs to them. just as the
same equivalent Indian names are
found in Maine and few other places
in the Union
This large Indian tribe. numbering
from $4,000 to $4,000, was once scat
tered over considerable ground, and
their names are still given to most Of
the places on the territory they owned
before the advent of the Europeans.
Wherever there is water, an old resi-
dent among these strange and little
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26

DO not intend to
throw the name
of the Mexican
town at which we
are now stopping
ON an unsuspect-
in G A m erica n
p II bile without
giving a plan, sec
ton and elevation
of it as a key to
the riddle, writes
Lieut.. Schwatka,
the explorer, from
Gu S j h IL iriacllic,
Mayico To I he
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26
HUNlOR.
Still. fortune on the non.
How small to live ,bs;,fl viii
Soon as the price Of , nt chal

The price Of ice ady yuaI Goes
The girls do like 10 a,o
ball games so much. Tb!o
see some good catches lt t6., az
IAN TANNING by electricity is rs.
talked of as an undoubte.1 Is bel
for domestic uses the s III sncc
convenient. ''ppes
JONES (serious)-I like
Of saying grace before dinn sne
(friyolous)-So do /. II r.;''
the soup to cool. gives
The corset, though rail-,
by a few dress-reforners' ", n';,l
1t has a good grip on it's WIFI VIII
as it We're, has come to sta rs"'
EASTERN man Gin Ok]abo
your claim? Boomer-yopu ' Ia,
you done any plantipe,s yet
three men! Move on, now
nhn" nat lovely hair Mis-
jealously)-O, yes. I was sAe
and recommended that SHADE
SARAH BERNHARDr has ., J..
the role she had been grow,
She has made hit as Jal
French adaptation of AS in .
Glass" A Lena actress H.
does not exist. '''
THERE is nothing sensation
Mary" said Mrs. Palmer. sT r
her lover is with her they SIT AL
EYES," spoke up little Harry ~
as you are in the room.' -
Mr.. SM1rHERs (of philade,nI
Boston reception)-Her voice
me of our Independence 6al|
Bean-Ah! has true ring. yo'|
Mr.. Smithers-No: it's craclod
A WOMAN who scrubs
over lhCnefy tubs,
Tho not of a bibulous mind
Has no cause to faint
If folks make Il complains
OF her having three sheets in Tho
FATHER-Don't YOU know h..
than to contradict Your mother;
But she is wrong as to both "a
conclusions. "No matter; sls'
admit it. If 1 can't convince
anything there is no use of tri
( iM1ss STAGEsTRucK-Do vo,
sir, when / recite I am almost
away by my feelings. I forge
thing but the part. The very
seem to disappear. Manager (
heard her recitej-Can Won
them?
CoLoRED prcacher-Zelle $
good Lawd should kun down
inter yer eye an say, "ZeEiel. II
you done wild all desc chickens
hab stoled?" What would v
| Zeke-Mistah Benson. I mon
dat my old CONAN cooked EN-.
knows dat a man amt bound
tify ag'in his wife.
SOMETHING IN THE EYE
| what have you in your eye?'
Said Tom, Il have sty,
III my eye"
and We Il girl" said I,
I'm my eye
Then when years had hastgg
How / wish excuse this sigh
That Tom had the girl, not l.
In his eye.
| And i'll place l had the sly,
In my eye.
Yankee Blade
THE public be blamed"
the plumber. They have CHI
in summer and cheap ice in wi
yet they grumble and splutte,
they can't have things cheap
time. John, discharge that
man. There hasn't been
any OF his p1pe-work for SIN
He's meant for a politician, he
not for a plumber"
AN Oxford County parson
this: A young Methodist min
made application to the Confel
a license. He WAS highly rec'
ed by the presiding elder, "
Bishop asked about the ap
preaching abilities. "Have ,
heard him ?" asked the Bisho
sir, " replied the presiding el
have never heard him, but !
me twice, and he stood it like
The license was granted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26
SCHW ATKA IN MEXICO.
INTERESTING NOTES FROM THE
LAND OF THE GREASER.

Very Primeval Accommodations in the
Sierra Madre Mining Notwithstanding
Names-An Old Mexican Fortified House
y-CastelIated Rocks.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-26
A FAIR WARNING.
Applicaa at Ito st. Peter

Applicant Ito st. Peter7-0
in?
St. Peter-Who are YOU, an:
Applicability name is 0'''
from Chicago.
St. Peter-Chicago?
Applicant-Yes, sir. voos YOU
ST. Peter (dubiously)-l e = sn;:,b,
come in if you want to, MI. won't won't
/ give you fair warning you
it here!
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26
THE EARTHQUAKES POWER.
Costa Rica Gets Another Taste of 1t at q
Cost of Millions.

Costa Rica Gets Another Taste of 1t Mt u
Cost of Millions.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Late advices from
Costa Rica regarding the earthquake Of
December 30 last mentioned in the cable
dispatches short time ago. say the shocks
were the most severe experienced since
1882. In San Jose both the national capitol
and the magnificent cathedral fronting the
public square, which required ten years Of
labor to erect, at an expenditure of
81, 900, 900, are in ruins. The Presidential
a dozen other public buildings were almost
wrecked. Advices from surrounding cities
report the shock even more severe, and
bring accounts of loss of both life and
property. The latest estimate of the dam
age throughout the country exceeds So
000, 600. The Poas volcano has suddenly
become active. 1t is located twenty
eight miles northwest Of this place, at
an altitude of S,s95 feet above the sea.
1t had been sleeping for years, and only
couple of weeks before the earth
quake a party of explorers, after a visit
here, reported the crater entirely filled up.
Now it has broken out with all its old fury,
and in another place half a mile distant
from the original mouth. An average of
three slight shocks was felt daily for sew
eral days after the first. Business during
that time was almost entirely suspended,
and the majority Of the people in San Jose
camped in the public squares, fearing their
houses would fall
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26
Iobo L m n Rim .Roarer.

BOSTON, Jan. 16.-Sullivan was drunk
yesterday. and there's no use denying it.
although denials will undoubtedly be made.
1t was only day or two ago that John
told how we'll he was and what he pro-
posed to do to bring himself into condition
to fight Kilrain. The use Of intoxicants
was not mentioned by him as part OF his
training, but, on the contrary, he has de-
clared that he had forsworn drinking and
was going to make man of himself.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-26
THE DAIRY.

Above all things keep the air and
water of dairy absolutely pure.-O.
Judd Farmer.
--Scalding water is indispensable in
the creamery and can hardly be used
too freely.
The composition OF milk varies
largely with the bree(, age and food of
the COW, time from calving-either
way-time and frequency of milking.
Orange Judd Farmer.
With plenty OF good feed stored
under good shelter and with shelter
for the COWS, winter dairying can be
made more profitable than in the sum-
mer.-American Dairyman.
If COW averages less than two
hundred pounds of butter annually,
figure pretty closely, there is something
wrong some place If it is your fault,
remedy it; if hers, her space may be
more acceptable than she is.-Prairier
Farmer.
Cows are as dissimilar in many re-
spects as other people. But all cows
are susceptible to good treatment, and
no man who has not enough of the
milk of human kindness in his make
up. to draw out the better traits and
keep on the right side of the COWS
under his charge has no business in
the dairy barn.-American Dairyman.
From the nature of things, milk in
all its purity can scarcely be obtained
l., ~, ia mi inf
as all must, or ought to be, ia our cold
Northern States, without the one hav--
ing charge of them taking extra pains
to the end that the cows themselves,
and the apartments where they are
tied up, be kept free from the odors
incident to all places where cattle are
housed.-Dairyman.
"A practical test will convince the
dairyman who has tried it that his
cows are capable of consuming and di-
gesting much larger amount of food
than the usual allowance. Expert
ments of this kind will soon denote
which of the cows pays best by noting
whether the excess of food is converted
into increased quality of milk or con-
verted into flesh. Troy IN. r. Times.
"A good dairy COW is always
strong eater and drinker. But dairy
men should always remember that
there is great difference in the way
the feed goes. A cow of dairy blood
and performance eats largely in order
that she may turn out large quantities
of butter or cheese. Another eats less,
it may be. but turns her food mainly
into flesh. With thoroughly good
COW to manufacture it, we can always
afford to put in feed and take out but
ter. That is what good dairyman is
here for. n
"A quart OF milk is generally ac
cepted as weighing about two poundss
but the correct weight is two and ones,
fifth pounds. Though something de-i
pends on the quality, it is conceded asi
a rule that from two to three gallons OF
milk make one pound of butter. one
gallon of milk makes one pound of
cheese, four gallons of milk yield one
gallon of cream. and one inch OF cream
in can twelve inches in diameter will
make pound of butter. The above
estimates, however, will vary accord
ing to conditions. Globe. d