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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

A letter from ]. r. Argabrite, who
is at San Barnardino, CAL, saws he
likes it out there very much. He
thinks it is no place for a poor man
but good place to live if one has
plenty of money. Beef steak 1Sc per
lb; butter 4Oc, eggs 40c per doz., no
house can be rented for less than SIS
a month; the only thing cheap is fruit.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

Saturday night, the 18th Of De
cember. the news was telegraphed
from this city that Tom Shaughnessy
was dead; Sunday morning the 30th,
his body left Great Bend for Kansas
City; Monday, the 31st, Tom is said
to have reported alive and we'll at the
Tribune Office; in thes city, Tuesday
morning, Jan LIST, he appeared among
his old friends at Marshall, Mo-, and
that night played for a New Years
ball. Verify, Tom Thaughnessy will
not be dOwned.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23
HERE AND THERE.

The temptation to borrow fallen
leaves from the woodland is great; but
the trees need all of this fertility, this
reservoir of moisture, this natural
covering for the seeds, this protection
for the young sprouts. The wise
forester will leave the leaves in tho
wood.
1T is reported that over 40 cane
mills and evaporators have been sold
in Troy, Ala, this season TO the farm
ers of that Pike) County and the adj
joining neighborhoods. This shows
that the people are trying to live more
at home in the matter of sirnp and
sugar.
The Barbour County (Ala) Po-
mona Grange has adopted resolutions
against the appropriation by the State
of $25, 900 for immigration purposes.
at the suggestion of the State Agri-
cultural Society. II thinks the best
class of settlers can be secured with
out SO large an outlay.
I'm Eastern North Carolina water
melons in past years have been very
profitable crop, but latterly some dis
ease has attacked the vines and the
industry languishes. Now the Gov
eminent has taken the matter in hand
and improvement is hoped for.
1t is an old practice, too little
known, to freeze onions and then cover
them with hay or straw so that they
may be kept frozen until ready for use.
They may be preserved in this way for
an indefinite period. Onions may also
be kept without freezing by burying
them in NOW of hay or straw.
Pineapple culture in Florida is on
the increase. One grower, having
nearly two hundred and fifty thousand
plants Under cultivation. says there Is
no danger of overproduction; for, be-
sides the marketing of the fresh fruit.
he makes excellent wine. healthful
cider and prime vinegar from the sur
plus product. and for canning thew arc
among tho best Of fruits &.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

How parents provoke their children-by
unreasonable commands, BY perpetual re-
str;ctions, by capricious jerks at the bril-
die, alternating with as capricious drop
ing the rcins altogether; by not governing
their own tempers; by shrill or stern tones
where quiet, soft ones would do; BIZ fro
quent checks and rebukes and sparing
praise. Aud what is sure to follow such
mistreatment by father or mother? Bursts
of temper, for which the child is punished
and the parent is guilty, and then spirit
less, listlessness and apathy. II can not
please him whatever / do,n leads rs to q
ranking sense Of injustice, and then to
rockies sness-''it is useless to try any
more.n Aud when o man or child loses
heart there will be no moro obedience.
Many parent especially many father,
drives his child into evil by keeping him
at distance. He should make his boy Q
companion and playmate. teach him to
think Of his father rs his COMPLIANT, try to
keep his child nearer to himself than any
body else. and then his authority will bs
absolute, his opinion an oracle, and his
lightest wish o lava. Mdclarcn, D. d.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23
Origin Of Electrical Terms.

The technical terms used in regard
to electricity refer to units of various
nature. Thus the unit of capacity Is
one farad; the unit of activity, one
watt; the unit of work, one joule; the
unit of quantity, one coulomb; the unit
of current, one ampere; the unit of re-
sistance, one ohm; the unit Of mag
netic field, one gauss; the unit of pres
sure. one volt; the unit of force. one
dyne. These names are mostly de-
rived from the names OF men who have
been famous in the field of electrical
research. Thus Michael Faraday.
James Watt, and James p. Joule,
famous English discoveries, give their
names to the first three units men
toned; Charles A. Coulomb and Andre
NJ. Ampere. French inventors, to the
two units following; G. S. Ohm and
Carl F. Gauss, Germans, name two
more units; and the volt is named from
the Italian discoverer. Volta The
dyne is derived from the root word of
dynamo. itself meaning force = Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23
uomeless Ch,ldren.

The American Educational Aid Associa-
ton, which has for its ebject the providing
of homes for poor and frIepdless children,
is doing noble work. Since its establish
ment it has found good homes for seven
hundred homeless little ones. All children
received under the care Of the Association
are of special promise in intelligence and
health, and are in age from one month to
twelve years, and are sent free to those re-
ceiving them. on ninety days trial, unless
q special contract IS otherwise made. A
number OF promising children Of both sexes
are now waiting adoption into familieA
Contributions to this very worthy charity
may be sent to Rev. Glen Wood, Financial
Secretary, Room Al, 230 LaSalle Street. CHI
cago. Kew. NV b. Van Arsdale. SIS Sixty
seventh street. Englewood, Ill, Is the Gen.
eral Superintendent
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23
TRICKS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
How Some Of the Delusions In Sum Pict-
ures are Produced.

How Some Of the Delusions In Sum Pict-
ures are Produced.
There are various ways for providing
surprising results in photography.
things that in one age would have been
called magic, but in ours recognized as
scientific tricks. The ghost picture,
for instance, in which shadowy ghost
through which material objects are
visible-is seen between natural atti-
tudes and occupations. This is pro-
duced by an almost instantaneous ex-
posture of the figure that is to do duty
as the ghost, followed by a full expos
ure of the figures and properties that
are to appear natural. Another novel
trick was shown recently in photo
graph reproduced by prominent trade
journal, which presented the photo
grapher, seated at q table. playing
chess, with himself sitting on the OPP
posite side of the table, while he HIM
self stood up in the background looking
at his two selves playing.
The figures were all on the negative,
WHICH was ptOuuccu W turco SuCccS-
sive exposures of the plate, parts
thereof being masked each time by
black velvet shutter. Still another
trick Is that by which q person who
likes that sort of thing may appear to
be photographed riding on flying
goose or q fish or any other desired
style of ridiculous locomotion. This
is done by the subject holding upon his
lap a huge piece Of white or sky-tinted
card with the fanciful figure drawn
upon it. His face appears above the
upper edge of the card and seems in
the picture, joined to the funny little
body mounted on the goose or fish.
The statue picture is made by about
the same device. II Photographic ReriesO.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

II one is solicited to give money to good
cause, he ought not to treat the application
as sort Of nuisance, but to thank God
that an opportunity has been Afforded to
him for doing good, and also prove his
grati6nde by giving as the Lord hath pros
pered him. IN. T. Independent
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

The Supreme Court of Georgia de-
cides that before an applicant can have
distractions removed from private
way, he must not only show that there
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

FoR CoUeHs AND THROAT DISORDERS use
Brosrns Bronchial Troches.-" Have never
changed my mind respecting them, except
l think better of that which began think
ing well Of. "-Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
Sold only in boxes
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

BuncO SteeferB uro exemplary MON
Compared with the ruthless impostors who
represent to invalids inquiring for Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, that certain local
world celebrated tonic and Alternative. 1t is
deep infamy to rob the sick Of chance OF
health. The Bitters restore vigor and
eradicate malarial complaints, dyspepsia,
constipation, liver and kidney complaint,
rheumatism and neuralgia
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

TACKLE an Obstinate Cough or Cold witt
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

WILL be found an excellent remedy foz
sick headache Carter's Little Liver Pills
Thousands Of letters from people who have
used them prove this fact. Try them
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

BIZ INVESTING 81 TO IS you may secure
fortune. Address with stamp, The Montan'
Investment Co., Helena, n. T.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

ARE unlike all other pills. No purging OF
pain. Act specially on the liver and bile
Carter's Little Liver Pills. One pill dose
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

No woxDxn time is so often killed; II Il
struck every hour.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

A MILKMAx and an oak tree both flourish
according to the size and condition OF their
route.-Haspcr' Bdzav.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

"Man overborsd r'-the editor. Boston
Commercial Bullctins
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

THE successful lover thinks he IL getting
ahead when he is getting heart
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

WHY is a tooth drawn like a thing for.
rottenl Because It's out Of the head.-Bot
timoYg Democrat
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

TnE latest out-the boy1who is kept
after school"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

THEY have no police on the prairies
though coppice often seen there.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

DOUBLE HEADED freaks are barred out Of
single skull races.-Txxds SJtings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23

A BALI~PLAYER can be put out and no
lose his temper.--Ph Philadelphia Call
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23
ElY'S
CREAM BALM

n pds sssprfsed
after using Elv's
Cream Balm taco
months TO find the
right nostrn, uhfch
tcds closed for 20
years, ras opcn1dnd
free as the other. !
feel resy th0nlsfd-
r. II. Crcssen0hdm,
fstb street,
Brooklyn.
A particle n applied
able Price % cents as I
90 cents ELY BROTHf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCTS.

A CuAMBERsBURG man has taught his dog
to smoke pipe.
A LANCASTER county quarryman asserts
that he found live frog imbedded In a stone
the other day, and exhibits the frog to prove
his story.
AN eccentric single lady of Crawford county
wears red dresses summer and winter, week
days and Sundays. She has had no other kind
for 30 years.
A DELAWARE county mechanic returned to
his home the other day after an absence of a
year. His wife had received no word from him
and didn't know but what he was dead. The
first words he said to her were: 'Is dinner
ready.
AN Eastern woman sold her husbands old
coat and vest to the ragman because they were
too shabby to wear. When the husband came
In at night and told her he had left SS5 in the
pocket of the old vest she wished she had ex-
amined the pockets before disposing Of the
garments.
A FARMER riding along the road in Chester
county overlook two children, a boy of and
girl of 2, some distance from their homes. He
knew the boy and asked him where he was
going. You won't give me away?' queried
the little fellow. "No, indeed" "Well, then,
we're going to get married. We've run away"
The farmer persuaded them to postpone their
elopement for dozen years or so and took
them back TO their parents.
A DRUNKEN man who was picked up in
Middletown, N. Y, stated when arraigned be-
fore the Magistrate, that his name was Dennis
Sweeney. born in Ireland, and now resident
Of Wilkesbarre, Pa. His age was % years,
having been born IN 1877; that he served as y
drummer boy in the War of 1872, and took part
in the battle of Lundy's Lane; that he had
since served 35 years as a soldier and marine
in the United States forces
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
TANNER AND THE CONSTITUTION.

A very remarkable feature of the execu-
tive policy of Commissioner of Pensions
Tanner, in changing pension rules that are
fixed by law, because he thinks they ought
to be otherwise, has already attracted much
attention. But the Commissioner has-per-
haps with the purpose of showing how much
more he could have done in that line if he
had tried-out- -Tannered Tanner by propo-
sition to nullify the Constitution of the
United States.
In speech at Columbia, Tenn, the other
day, this official declared it to be the duty
of the Southern States to provide for the
ex-Confederate soldiers, and asserted that
all Union soldiers in the South would
cheerfully submit to the taxation necessary
to keep the wolf of want and gnawing
hunger from the homes of the men who on
hundreds of battle fields felt the horrors of
war to the last extremity. In other words
Commissioner Tanner Endorsed the project
of State pensions for ex-Confederates and
declared that common decency demands
this action on the part of the Legislatures
of the States who passed the ordinance of
secession"
What common decency may demand is a
matter of opinion. But what the Constitu-
ton of the United States demands is set
down in black and white, and it happens to
take decidedly adverse view of this plan.
But Tanners idea being very plainly to the
effect that the end and purpose of Gov
ernment is to pay pensions, and hardly less
distinctly that it is within the function of
Pension Commissioner to make laws, it
may also include the opinion that he can
also unmake Constitutional provisions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
HALE CENTS DIFFERENCE.

The indications are multiplying that the
differences in wages between the railroad
coal operators and the miners will be settled
without difficulty. This was to be expected
as the divergence was at first rather slight
and is rapidly becoming less. The miners
Secretary is quoted as saying that the oper-
tors mine four-ffths of the coal under the
summer price. Supposing this to be the
case the average wages for year on the 711z
and 761z cents rate would be 721E cents per
ton. This is a cent and half below what
the miners ask. Several operators have
concluded that the difference is not worth
fighting about and have gone to work at the
74cent rate. Others have, it is now re-
ported, come up peg and are now offering
the miners 7S1z cents or half cent less than
the latter ask. This is getting pretty close
and we have no doubt that this half-cent
gap will coon be bridged over.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
FOLLY AS IT FLIES.

He-what do you suppose gave for this
tennis costume?
she-Your promise to pay for It sOmetime.-
Minneapolis Tribune.
Gould's Carelessness.-FirstB Broker-Jay
Gould,s stocks are feverish this morning.
Second Broker-FeverishI Is 1t possible that he
forgot to water them?-TezGs SJtiRqs.
Some one says that woman should never
allow a man to propose marriage to her unless she
is willing 10 become his wife. Some people would
deprive the women in this world OF all their fun
SOmerUiLLe Journal
What He Was.-Higgins-I heard yoH
lost pile on 'Change yesterday.
Wiggins-You heard right.
''Were you bull or bear?''
ssNeither; was jackass.-T Te TdS Strings.
A physician saws: "Girls in feeble health
should take tramp through the woods or neids
every day" But suppose tramp shoulo OOJeo.
to being taken through the woods or nelds e' ~
day by girls in feeble health?-Bt1g ghdnt0" ne
publican.
The laundryman now counts tne u0AA@S-
Taken in for wilted collars
Counts them DER with joy profound
Piles them in a stack,
Smiles smile that reaches round
anu O~-'O''' -Wdshfngton Poss.
Precaution.-First Deacon nave you
ever heard the Rev. Mr.. Goodman WIN eA0H-nsSS
pulpits with our pastor to-day!
Second Deacon-No. - -
First Deacon-Weli. have. tnlnk, DIo.nek
Passbusket, we'd better vary our regular custom
this morning and take up the eoiie''i'H sle
Sermon Chicago Tribune
The Boys Just Complaint Father, have
YOU ever wanted to be President"
~ win not deny my son. that have The Of
fee Of President is one to which any American
citizen may rightfuIly aspire"
fBItterlT1 ssNot If he has any boys. II you
should ever be President could never be anybody
but the SON Of my father. '-chfeago Trtbsns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
COMMON COUNCILS NEW STREAK.

Common Council made bold stroke at
originality yesterday, and when it reviews
its own action it will probably surprise it
self as much as the public to find out how
well it succeeded.
Its action in refusing to accept the resig-
nation of the Councilmen who propose to
leave that body in order to accept Licenses,
is doubtless intended as rebuke to Judge
White for his ruling that the positions Of
Councilmen and saloon keeper are incon-
gruous, But the rebuke is of the kind that
will fall heaviest on those who are supposed
to be indorsed by it. If Common Council
can prevent its resigning members from
leaving and thus cut them off from that
bonanza which this years licenses repre-
sent, the disappointed Councilmen would
find their position between court and Coun-
Gil worse than the proverbial one between
the ID and the deep sea.
The request for information as to the use
of the police at the last election is still
more interesting and hardly less of mys-
terry. IF it extracts the information it will
be decidedly effective. At present, how
ever, its most prominent feature is its sur
prising character. 1t is calculated to sur
prise the public and the Department of
Public Safety; but we question whether it
will surprise anyone more than Common
Council itself when it finds out what it has
done.
There are decided indications that Com
mon Council is getting up boom of origi-
nality. But we fear that such a sudden
change will be likely to produce reaction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
ETHICAL ELASTICITY.

The decision Of the judges of the Nash
vile race track that Jockey Mclaughlin
should be reinstated is one of the events of
last week which has attracted the interest
of the sporting element This deliberate
revision of their former action in ruling
him of, amounts to declaration that pull
ing winning horse so that another horse
from the same stable might win is not a viola
tion of racing ethics, gives new view of
thetheories upon which square races are run.
Nevertheless we agree with the judges
that it would be hard lines on jockey to
rule him off the track for a little peccadillo
like that when the great business lights of
the country do the same thing on bigger
scale, with eclat Pulling the winning
horse in order that his stable mate may win,
is doubtless unpleasant to the people who
backed the pulled horse; but in comparison
with the policy of deliberately wrecking
one corporation and refusing to carry out
its covenants in the interest of other cor
porations, it is merely Feaal matter. How
harsh it would be to rule jockey of the
track for that trivial matter, when the great
patrons of the turf support that noble sport
by the profits of selling to themselves as
corporation managers, their private proper
ty at i've or six times its value, and then
unloading the burdened stock on the con6d-
ing, investing public.
1t would certainly be unreasonable to ex-
pect the ethics of the turf to be more strict
than the ethics Of corporate management.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

WILLIAM B. GILL, Superintendent of the
Sixth district, Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, with headquarters at Philadelphia has
been appointed by Governor Beaver one of the
Pennsylvania Commissioners to the Paris Ex-
position.
JOHN ALLEN and Prof. E. H. Platt will start
on horseback from Harlem to San Francisco
to-day. Love of adventure and desire to i'm
prove their health prompts them to make the
trip that way, and not any wish to spite the
railroads or the shoemakers.
JUDGE MATTHEWS, who succeeds Judge
Durham as First Controller of the Treasury.
and Mr.. Huston, who succeeds Mr.. Hyatt as
Treasurer of the United States, entered upon
the discharge of their new duties yesterday
morning. There was no ceremony beyond TAX
ing the oath of Office and the usual intro
duction of officers and employees of each Of the
bureaus to the new chiefs.
THE Hon. John @. New is perfectly familiar
with all the intricacies of the game of poker
Before his departure for his post he met
friend who greeted him cordially and an
nounced that he had friend in England to
whom he was very desirous of giving Mr. New
an introduction. "Is that so?' said the Consul
to London. dreamily. And then he murmured
half unconsciously, whats his limit"
THE Indiana Medical Society did a rather
unusual thing at its session on last Thursday.
1t elected woman to honorary membership.
The lady so honored is Miss Kate Corey, M. D.,
graduate of the University of Michigan, who
for four years was principal surgeon in charge
of hospital at Foochow, China, and who has,
as was stated in the convention by DR.. E. S,
Elder, performed almost every surgical oper-
alton known, from pulling a tooth to oVari-
otomy."
MEssRs COOLEY, Chairman, and Morrison
and Bragg, of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, left Washington yesterday morning
for Titusville, Pa, where several cases are as
signed for hearing during the present week,
Commissioner Schoonmaker was unable to ac-
company the party, being confined to his house
by sickness. AT the conclusion of the hearings
at Titusville, Chairman Cooley will leave there
for the West, and Messrs. Morrison and Bragg
will return to Washington.
STEPHEN NKoIYo, a nephew of the King of
the Free State of the Congo, is a student at the
Wayland Seminary in Washington. He was
converted by missionaries, came to this coun.
try and is translating the Bible into the Congo
tongue. His translation will be printed as soon
as he finishes it. This is the first time that any,
one has ever attempted to translate the Bible
from the English to the Congo language and
Nkoiyo is probably one of the youngest men
who ever undertook a work of similar char
acter He is very enthusiastic over his labors,
and says he hopes that it may achieve much
good in far away Africa.