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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-09-20
BEHIND THE SCENES.


The poet sings Of lovers bliss, -
OF Heavenly smiles and rapturous kiss,
OF womsn's beauty fair and sweet;
And vows that life is incomplete,
When forced by fate to dwell apart,
From her whose image fills his heart
He raves of eyes Of every hue.
OF golden brown and sapphire blue;
OF waving tresses touched with gold,
And glossy bands Of ebon fold;
or graceful figures tall. petite;
OF glance demure, or smile SO sweet
He tells each tale Of Joy and WOO,
So tenderiy, we feel . glow
OF sympathy; our bosoms all,
And hearts responsive beat and thrill,
And smouldering nres start up anew,
While doubling hearts for pardon sue.
We think Of him whose gifted hand
Has penned these lines and swift Is famed
The hero worship In each soul.
And all his virtues we extoll,
And fancy clothes with every grace,
And manly beauty, form and face.
Alas when we the vail have torn :
That hides the truth, our hero, shorn
OF all our fancy held so fair,
Is just man, with head most bare,
And form too stout for early youth.
CTS not romantic, but the truth.)
And while within his cosy den,
He talks Of love with stubby pen,
While clouds OF smoke around him soar,
No doubt he votes the whole bore;
Nor would he leave his pipe and chair,
For any maid however fair
--Cornelio w Qov1o,. In vanl<oo Qlado
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conscience ez to heft thin buckwhit
chat Is, an knock things helter-skelter
an t'other eend up giner'ly. They'm
orfu1 to read about"
''Pooty high winds, be they, 'Squire?''
inquired the Old Settler.
''Nothin' like 'em ever heerd ON
afore!' asserted the Squire.
do they do any thing p'tic'lar curious
an oncommon?"
.sCur'ousest an oncommonest ever
heerd on!''
HAS any on 'em ben high enough an
curious enough to change the shirt on a
mans back 'thout his KNOWN of it?"
asked the Old Settler, with the air of az
examining lawyer.
"Wull, Major" replied the Squire,
slightly miffed, ''harrycanes don't GIN
er'ly trapse round the kentry playin'
funny jokes"
''Ahl Don't they2" said the Old Set
tier, with . sarcastic smile. "Wull,
then, mebbe ye kin tell me wuther any
o. these here harrycanes o your'n is
high enough an curious enough to git
up bar fight quarter miled or more
Dove the 'arth an durn nigh ag'in the
clouds? That wouldn't be playin' no
funny joke, / reckon"
"Major," said the Squire, after mo-
ments consideration of the subject, ''if
we got any relations ez keers> fer We,
they orter take ye in hand to wunst.
1--WE got permonit'ry sym'toms O goin'
crazy!'
That hain't nuther here nor thar,
bgosh!" exclaimed the Old Settler.
shaking his fist at the Squire. "Y've
gone an fetched up a heap o talk about
some high an curious winds an harry
canes, an we slung 1t at me without
mo ever givin' ye durn provvycation
fer it. ! want sayin' nuthin' bout NO
wind! Ye say tn never was any setch
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Philander but never know'd one of
'em 70 take shirt often line and pin
another un in its place sfore, an hitch
. yoke o. steers to wagon an drive
'cm away
'Philander walked over to Hiram
Wuncut's, witch were a miled away, an
he didn't ind Hiram to hum. Somehow
or other. he went to trspsein 'roun' the
deestrict. an long in the afternoon he
foun' Hiram way over beyent Lost Crow
Barren, goin' west, in dazed sort o.
way, an drivin' pair o. steers. Phi
lander were cross an overbearin' sort
O. chap. an he grabbed Hiram by the
neck an hollers:
"'Whar ye goin' with my yoke o
steers? An wat aye doin' with my
flannen shirt on?'
''Hiram looked king o. crazy at fust
an then he rec'onized Philander, an
kim to hisself
allr
".Sh'd say so!' says, Philander.
"'It's all kim back To me nowi' sayA
Hiram. Fore daylight this mornin'
see that pesky oil barr takin' my las
sheep. l tore fer your place to hev ye
come an help me run i'm down. Jis'
ez got to your cabin cne o. the winds
grabbed me- 1t husseled me around in
the air over your patch fer minute OF
two, an then swished me up more'n q
quarter of miled, an started west
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with me. We hadn't gone fur fore we
| met that bar. It'd ben grabbed up by
acontrairy wind, an were comm along
back east. The sight o. that bar riled
me, an ez he kim by me Iclutched him.
Thar we war, right in the swirl o. them
two contrary winds, an every time I'd
sling the bars heels up he'd
kick cloud, an wen he'd sling me up
I'd kick ag'in cloud. Bime by l
socked my knife clean through the bars
wizzen, an'he give up. Jist then, wat
should come sailin' along on the wind
goin' west but yoke O. steers hitched to
wagon. slung the bar in the wagon
ez it kim up. jumped in arter 1t, an
away the hull on us went Bime by the
wind begun to fall, an let us down
gradually to the arth, jist ez if we was
goin' down big long hill. The hull
business turned my head clean inside
out, an ben wanderin' about like
crazy man. These is your steers, sure
enough! An I'm burned If this here
hain't your lannen Shirt I've said that
nuthin' none O. these winds done d ever
s'prise me. but the doin's o. this un
clean kerflummixes me! Hullo! TIL
hain't no bar in the wagon! If some
one amt gone an stoled it, then I'll eat
my earsi'
Swamp winds, Philander were mean
enough to hev Hiram arrested fer cattle
stealin' an stealin' his shirt Hiram
were took back an brought up fore oil
ledge Sniffits. The jedge were agin
him from the start, an Hiram asst fer q
change O veenoo, cause he couldn't get
jestice thar. Change o. yeenoo were de-
MED and the case ordered to perceed.
But it didn't, fer just then, all Of sud-
dent, kerl-o-o-o-o-gh! kim one o. them
winds, an the mex secont the jedge's
Office an all th't were in it war sailin'
west'rd through the air like soarin'
eagle. Ten miled away in the Wild
Camden deestric', the wind let tn.
buildin' down, and it hadn't NO sooner
landed than ledge Snifits hollers out:
'..sLet the perceedin's perceed!'
Then up pops Hiram. Not much
they won'tv says he. That wind has
changed the veeuoo o. this easel This
here hain't the Sugar Swamp deestric'l
This here is Wild Camden. an ye hain't
got no Jurisdiction here, bgosh! You
let me go, or I'll make you sweat
fer usurpatin' Jurisprudence. b'gosh, an
then we'll see who's on top!'
''0l' ledge Shifts know'd too much
to 60 on in that deestric', an Hiram
Wuncut walked out o. court and never
went back to Sugar Swamp.
Il wun't live in a place. he said,
'whar natur' is so durn queer an neigh
bors is SO meanv"-Ed. Mott in N. Y
Sun
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Mean Measure Of Mans st.e.

The investigations of the anthro-
biological committee of the British as
ISOLATION, recently reported, exhibit the
following as the mean measure of mans
size in the various countries of Europe:
The English are the tallest race among
men, their average height being 5 feet
10 inches, the working classes in
cluded, outside of which the average
stature would amount to only 5 feet Q
inches. The Norwegians, however, are
At least their equals. The Danes,
Dutchmen and Hungarians average S
feet inches; the Swiss, Russians, and
Belgians, 5 feet As inches. The
Frenchman's mean stature, like that of
the German, does not rise above feet
So inches. In Germany there appears
. decided difference in size between the
inhabitants Of the south and those Of
the north; for example, the Hano-
verians and Bavarians-in favor Of the
former. The smallest of all European
nations are the Italians and Spaniards,
who show q mean of only feet
inches. While, as mentioned, the work
ing~men of England evince an average
superiority of bodily size, in France the
other classes exhibit = mean measure
by nearly an inch exceeding that Of tbs
laboring population.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-09-20
A BOSTON EPISODE.


The Sad Experience OF = Man Who was
Civil to = Woman.
The Rev. E. E. Hale writes in the
New England Magazine: This time,
Miss Reader, we will not try spinner;
there are no spinners in front Of the
Vendome. Let us take the moro de-
corous and slower horse-car. And will
you tell me, Miss Reader, how the ladies
behave whom you meet in horse-cars in
Fort Wrangel? There is rather . curl
Gus observation made as to the breeding
of Boston women. just read these lines,
which received yesterday from one of
the most charming women whom have
the pleasure Of knowing: my expert
ences with Boston women to whom
have been introduced have been very
charming in most cases; but my expert
ences in shops, cars and streets have
been otherwise. and would fill volume.
have been stranger in New York,
San Francisco and Boston, and have
lived in the three cities In the first
two / have asked for information, and
offered small courtesies to total stran-
gers-women-with the pleasantest re-
suits, in no case meeting with discour-
tesy. But my Boston experience has
taught me never to ask . question, or
try to help well-dressed woman, even
when know her to belong to one Of
the best families
I have these lines in my pocket, a.
you see, and ! read them to you because
the last time L was ON this line an inter-
esting thing happened. A young woman,
a little over-dressed, If you please,
stopped the car that she might leave it
She dropped the parcel she had been
down town to buy. saw it fall and
touched her and told her that she had
dropped her parcel But, unfortunately,
had never been presented to her; we
had not danced together ct Papanti's,
nor were we members of the same cldb.
She, therefore, looked at me with the
vigorous manner to which our friend
alIudes in the letter, . good deal
as If had struck her in the face, and in
this way expressed her indignation that
any man should have addressed her who
had not the honor of her acquaintance.
l am, however, sixty-eight years old,
and stand such things better than .
boy does. So said very pleasantly,
''You have dropped your parcel. and II
Is under your feet" Again she resented
the insult with look-not with . word,
observe-and swung out OF the car, drag
ging the parcel after her BY her dress,
so that It fell In the mud In the street.
There the next horse that came along
<~<>S s,v.ov, ~ an v,v.rao aud s,1vv><~a.
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THE OLD SETTLER.
He and the Squire Have q Little
Misunderstanding;
But After . Few Exciting Words They
Apologize and shake Hands Curious
and Uncommon winds and Hurri-
canes-Tale Of Hiram Wuuout.

NEVER in all
my born exist.
ence heered tell
on setch RAM
pageousin' winds
an harrycanes
ez they seem to
be havin' out
West" said the
Squire. They
don't seem to
stop at nuthln',
M ajor. They
slosh h on 8 g n
around ez II they
want no more
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Etrangcr-So that man Il the village
poet? What is he doing now?
Resident-He's taking IN the beauties
Of nature.
Who Is that woman st work
over there by the house?
Resident-O, that's his wife. Ehoss
taking IN washing. Cbjeogo globa
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SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT;


SINGLE TAX THE INSTRUMENT.
Address Of william Lloyd Garrison Bo-
fors the Unitarian Ministerial Union ~
Charming Hall, Boston. April -, 1890
[coxT1NuED FROM LAST IssUE-]
The cause he saw was the ownership
and monopoly OF land. The remedy no
discovered was the single tax. TO the
practical examination of which l shall
now address myself. The question Of
taxation is = broad one. Granted tho
necessity of government, and the where
withal to sustain 1t must be granted
also. The methods Of levying tributes
in the form OF taxes are innumcrable,
yet human ingenuity or avarice = tyr
amy or wisdom has never yet formu-
lated plan for just and equal distri-
button of the burden of taxation. In
every civilized community OF the world
the question Is burning one, and .
sense OF wrong underlies the popular
complaint The reason is that tax on
property diminishes wealth and de-
creases its production, subtracts from
the earnings Of labor, and, with very
few exceptions, taxes decline to stay
whero they arc pnt.
One OF the objections most frequently
urged against single tax is that capital
will thereby escape taxation. But cap
ital laughs at the idea Of being taxed.
It gladly paws the tax because It can be
easily shifted to the consumer. A more
unequal arrangement than obtains to-
day in the collection OF revenues, direct
or indirect, would be hard to devise.
sat beside distinguished wooden manu-
facturer of Providence the other day
while Judge Lawrence, Of Ohio, in advo-
eating the protection Of the wool grow
er, intimated that the manufacturers OF
Rhode Island were amply able TO pay
the tariff tar ON raw material. ssDoes
the Ounce suppose that stand the tax
OF ten cents a pound on my Australian
wool?" whispered my ncighbor. II add
it to the price of INV cloth with interest
and profit, and sell INV goods to the Chi
cago Jews, They make it into clothing
and add the tax and profitand interest
and sell their goods to Judge Lawrence's
consti tuents-th farmers, wool growers
and mechanics-who bear the entire
burden. What does he take us for?''
This is merely an example. As . rule
q rich man sheds taxes as ducks back
does watcr. and thcy fall upon the weak
est shoulders.
All wealth comes primarily from the
earth by tho application OF labor. A
denial of access to land prevents the
production Of wealth and diminishes
the opportunity of the worker. Yet we
see land owners grow rich, in utter idle
ness, by simply taking from tho land
they hold the value given to 1t by 9TH
ers. Long John Wentworth, OF Chica-
go, understood and practiced the scheme
His advice to . young man was to buy q
farm on the outskirts of . city. ssGrow
cabbage upon it, he said, s'and the as
SCISSOR will tax it lightly" BY and BY
the city will envelop your acres and you
can sell house lots by the front foot and
at a o,reaf rrfco THE Il tho ,ocrnt ~
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Western Hotel Keeninr.

1 arrived at Watertown, S. D., one day
after tiresome journey of nineteen hours,
during which time l had been unable to
obtain more than an occasional doubtful
sandwich 1t was o'clock in the evening.
and I was as hungry as only a travel
stained mn deprived Of his natural sus-
tenance for hours can be. secured my
rooms and ordered hot supper to be sent
to them at once.
The clerk scratched the number of nv
room against the name / had inscribed
upon the register, and informed me with
lordly indifference that supper was over.
accepted the decree, and told him to have
one cooked for me.
Cooks gone to the show" was the Ia
comic response.
Then have maid get me up some
thing"
Girls all gone t. the show, too"
began to think it must be drawing
land for the show manager, and in despair
said:
Have bowl of milk and some bread
and butter, or something, sent up there
ivelyp'
Cant. Stewards gone ter the show"
was the reply
With six other hungry men I went out
and reduced my hunger with crackers and
cheese at a grocery. After several expert
ences of a similar nature l learned to ar
rive in new towns at o'clock, or 60 food
less until the following day, as invariably
the cook and the steward were out driving
or receiving visitors and could not be dis
turbed.-Cor Boston Post
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A Girls Rubber Hand.

About ten years back lady brought her
daughter, then a child, to have an arm
made. The child had been born without
her right arm complete, only three inches
Of the stump extending below the elbow.
| advised her to wait until the child had
acquired her full stature. She did so, and
then called to see me. The girl was Is
years old and fully grown. | took her
measure, fitted the arm and then sent a
plaster Paris mold of her hand, together
with the wooden arm, to New York. There
the rubber hand was made to correspond
with the plaster Paris mold, and then put
onto the arm and sent back. 80. 'i.Uc.
adjusted the new member the first time
and today the young lady has no difficulty
in doing anything she wishes. The fingers
are bent slightly, and are so strong that
they will grasp knife or fork nearly as
tightly as the human hand. Indeed no one
can tell that the girl has such hand. She
sews and crochets as well as her more fort
innate companions, and her hand is so per-
feet that it cannot be noticed by a stranger
only when she shakes hands; then the cold
feeling proclaims the artifice The hand
is always gloved, in order at all times to
appear the most natural. The glove aids
in the eption.-Interview in Cincinnati
Times-Star.
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Trefollowing are the representative sales OF hogs
O. the yards today:
III w afAhlAAA'AAs
Ogs 10 cents lower today.

Hogs 10 cents lower today.
Two loads of Texas cows brought 81 10
Very few native cattle on the market to-
day.
Healey & Glenn took their sheep out to
pasture today. They propose to feed
them
Walter Dyer of the Goodnight cattle
ranch, was in with train load of cattle.
j. H. Porter, Towanda, had a car Of hogs
in Friday evening too late to be reported.
Frank Perry, Elbing, had hogs on the
market
Knaublaugh Bros, Andale, had hogs
and cattle on uoday's market.
:. Story, Corwin, was in with load of
hogs today.
c. c. Riggs, Preston, sent in a car of
hogs today.
Geo Friend, Marion, had hogs in today
j. b Kcll, Clearwater, had hogs on to-
days market.
Fred Mccoy, book keeper for Mccoy s.
Underwood. was called to Kansas City
Thursday night 10y the serious illness of
his father
Superintendent Dulaney returned today
from Kentucky, where he was summoned
last week 10y the serious illness of his
mother.
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The receipts of cattle today were good
for closing day. But few native cattle
were on the market, the offerings beng
mostly Texans Two loads of fat Texas
cows were sold to packers at 81. 75 per hun
dred. The receipts of live stock for the
week have been heavier than for any pre-
cedinp week for several months. The
number of cattle received in the past six
DAYS was 2,2S7; hogs, 4,903; sheep, 1904;
horses and mules, IA. The market has
been dull and unsatisfactory both TO coun-
try BUYERS and to the shippers. Good to
choice feeders and stock yearlings are in
demand and could be sold at fair prices,
but poor grades and scalawags are slow
sale. The market closed dull today.
The run of hogs was good for Saturday.
The market opened 5 cents lower than
yesterda IS close, and upon the receipt of
kilograms showing a decline in Kansas
City and Chicago the market weakened,
and finally broke cents more, closing 10
cents below yesterday, with tops at 8 50;
rough and pigs, S3.0O63.75 The best of
the hogs offered were taken by the pack
ers, spectators standing back and buying
warilv. There were few loads forwarded
in first hands.
There has probably been more stuff for
warded in first hands during the week
than any previous week, but as far as
heard from no one has made any money
by so doing There were but few hogs left
unsold and about everything will be ship
ped out tonight and tomorrow.
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BY dear. lat as tn8Dtsps you, vkztsvsr
else you Isl %. hoAd CO % yDssr cath gi<i.sln
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add cent aud care faEr~~ed. n E5ck NUS
nsecs bs the proe=s u yz-z. but aoa's
grow % b a s.!ek n ysz EsnEt pA~s On
from ths Ererz tizs 81 ys,zT fs-sk-Aszs
change INTO sweet hay asd keep ysar fra
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loso ia br.ghtBsas there l. a bir1 withia
that it were a pity 20 E,ra1gls - kss1 10
from siDgiLS % the Ed I doE1 ear. how
successful or rich Or IeazBsd a EaGn -
cones u be u%4atslss . sim rspr~szles
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thar a fns cage with . ds-d bird IN p
When 7 bear q p@rscn sAT q snstbsr.
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gas slob>- h s.itS@rinR cuticls that COW
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Sunerstifinn In Russia.

The most absurd superstitionS are rife in
Russia. At Serpookhov, near Moscow, an
official announcement was recently pla-
carded at the street corners. The common
people are unable to read. They requested
a man who looked like priest to decipher
for them the contents OF the bill. he IN
hesitatinlly and positively declared that it
contained tt e warning that the city of Ser
pookhov would be swallowed in the ground
In less than an hour the news spread
throughout the place, and the people aban-
doned their work and began streaming out
into the fields in large crowds. All the
factories were deserted by the laborers. 1t
was some time beforeth frightened crowds
were restored to reason and to their regu-
lar pursuits, but the originator of the
trouble could not be found.-PsriS Letter
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Care Of the Far.

Do not put cotton il The ears II there is
any discharge Of pus from them. Use
warm water Is frequently as may be neces-
sary 20 keep them clean, but 90 not force
the foul matter back into the delicate ma
chinery. II any small hard substance falls
into the ear do not attempt 70 dig IL
out" II not readily removable allow il
70 remain in quiet and have a physician
take care Of it when convenient; 1t IS not
likely e Go any serious harm unless tam.
pered with. Anything which IS soluble
NAV be washed out with little patience
by the use Of syringe and warm water; II
not sclu ole it Is har-nless.-Halls journal
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The Greatest Heresy.

Creeds no doubt must be in religion as
in everything else where reasonable action
is demanded from reasonable being, but
the great danger in theology is the substi-
tuition of an intellectual for moral assent,
and, again, the impairment attempt 20
bring the attributes, qualities and opera
tions Of the Infinite under categories suit
able only for the measurement Of the finite
Certain it is that Of all the heresies that
have brought jar into tbs moral music Of
the Christian church the greatest is the
conceit of a self constituted orthodoxy
which damns q modest brother for not be
lieving what only the pride of an upchas-
tened intellect could have asserted.-Pro
fessor J. Stuart Blackie in Forum.
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The Qualifications Needed.

"You say you want a position on the
staff of this paper? What experience have
you had?"
None at all want to get the expert
ence here"
Can you write shorthand2"
mo"
Edit telegraph NATTER"
Didn't know it had to be edited"
Ever try to write up local happening
for a newspaper"
''Never did"
"Know anything about markets or
fnance"
mo"
'Got any musical knowledgen
Not bit"
Good judge of a play2"
''No."
Posted on politics."
Don't know anything at all about pol
tiles"
Abrams" called out the managing ed
itor to the city editor You've been trying
for long time to get a suitable person TO
edit the society department. Here he is"
Detroit Journal.