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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-08-16
TOBACCO RAISING.
Still Great Industry In Cuba. But Con-
Quoted on Decreasing Scale.

Still n Great Industry In Cuba. But Con-
Quoted on Decreasing Scale.
Tobacco raising is yet one of the
chief sources of wealth in Cuba" said
Senior Don Nicholas Garrido, rich land
owner and planter of the great Spanish
colony, while in this city couple Of
days ago. at is not carried on upon as
great scale as it used to be, however.
For long time it was supposed that
the celebrated VueIta Abajo region,
which is situated between the 22d and
ED degrees of latitude, was the only
spot on earth where the very best grade
of tobacco could grow, but lately there
has been strong competition from diff,
fercnt parts of Spanish America, where
just as good tobacco as ours can be gath
cred, If properly planted and cared for.
The first condition that has to be full.
filed is that of proper climate. Tobacco
thrives best in the temperate chimes, for
its period of vegetation lasts only three
months, and requires an average tenn
perature of rs degrees during the devel-
opment of the plant. The Havana
species. which is SO appreciated through
out the world, is so delicate that 1t per-
ishes whenever the temperature falls.
below sixty degrees, which, however,
happens very rarely in Cuba. Tobacco
does not require much water, two or
three showers being quite sufficient for
its growth in Cuba; but, then, dew in
our climate is quite copious, and the
moisture is received by the leaves and
runs along them to the upper ring OF
roots. Be it on account Of the soil OF
climate conditions, our tobacco is en-.
tirely different from that Of North Caro-
lima, Virginia and Kentucky; but 1 see
that much Of the weed sold here under
the name of Havana is far from being
genuine, and in many instances the to-
bacco is grown in this country or South
America. IN. Y. Star.
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| was tying Miss Axtelrs hands. She was
between me and him. and / called out
| to her:
miss Axtell, drop your head and do
not move until tell You to-"
She obeyed, and simultaneously
! fired one of my pistols at the exposed
breast of the man. He dropped instant
ly, and before / could turn to his COM
panion l felt his grasp again upon my
throat and the cold touch of steel upon
my forehead. 1t was no time to indulge
in questions of right and wrong if /
would save my life and hers, and with
| out pausing to argue the morality of
the proceeding gave this man the con-
tents of the other barrel of my revolver.
1t settled his business for him so eff
fectually that he caused US no more
trouble; and, having ascertained that
both men were dead, lifted Miss Ak
tell into the carriage and drove as fast
as could to the next village where /
reused the proper authorities and placed
them in possession of the facts. Then /
took Miss Axtel1 home and was graft
fed to find that her father was out of
all danger and in fair way of speedy
convalescence.
The two robbers were recognized as
old offenders; they had each been at one
time in the State prison and were well
known as very desperate characters.
Considering every thing, my escape was
most proyidential
Perhaps the reader win be interested
to know that during that uncomfort-
able night ! fell desperately in love
with Miss Axtell and so successfully
did we both plead with her father that,
rich old nabob as he was, he consented
to our marriage, and now / am cashier
of the Raybury bank and Madeline is
my wife, God bless her!-N. Y. Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-08-16
THE KAFiR IN NATAL.
He Is Treated With the Same Justice a
the European Settler.

He Is Treated With the Same Justice az
the European Settler
Here there is none of that evil talk
so common in our Eastern possessions,
OF the damned Niger" There is not
sign of cutting or bullying; the ma
tives are on the whole treated with the
same Justice and impartiality as the
Europeans righteous principle, which
excites certain unrighteous Dutch
Beers to fury. There are few more
pleasing sights than the crowd of En-
glishmen and Kafirs assembled in the
public park and listening with a COM
| mon pleasure to the military band. The
natives, unlike most savages, seem per-
fecuy entranced with civilized music.
and their expression when God Save
the Queen is played is that of admir-.
ing awe.
These Kafirs are really stalwart,
well-looking, fine fellows. They would
even look dignifed but for their
extraordinary costume, which, to new
conner, excites unbounded amusement.
They represent museum of almost
every uniform in the British army
gunners, sappers, riflemen, linesmen
and dragons; but three or four of them
are required to illustrate a complete
turnout Here is big, black fellow.
whose entire costume consists of a
lancer's tunic, buttoned tightly across
his otherwise naked body. and leaving
visible pair of splendid legs of a
shining mahogany color, which, in a
dining-room table, would be quite
beautiful. Another is coatless, but
wears pair of trews; another has on
an artilleryman's trailing great-coat.
and another has on nothing particular
at all. These tunics (brightened and
cleaned up) are sold in numerous Sion
shops at the current price of twenty
seven cents each, and very proud the
wearers seem of their fnery. Their
wives-for their plurality is on the
Mormon principle-would be, on the
contrary. displeasingly ugly, with their
repulsive busts, their coarse, oiled
horse-hair locks, and their skewered
ears and noses, were it not that this is
almost redeemed by their dignity and
by the grace of their walk. Driven in
single file in front of their lords, they
bear heavy pitchers on their heads with
an upright, classical gracefulness re-
sembling figures which depict Rebecca
81 the we'll -Blackwood's Magazine.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

An Austrian sculptor has discovered
process for mc,aing marble fluid pre-
ciscly as bronze is nodded.
French scientists have Analysed a
quart Of water taken from typhoid in
fected district, and found $4,000, 900 to
10000, 900 typhoid germs therein.
DIR. Charles NJ. Cresson, of Philadel.
phia, states that he has more than once
found the typhoid bacilli in the juice
! that he has squeezed out of celery grown
near NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Hygiene.
Last year there were received in
New York $751; 5S cans of milk: As
each was 4O-gallon can, New York re-
ceiyed more than 200, 900, 600 gallons Of
milk, in addition 4,46o,0OO gallons of
cream and large quantity of condensed
milk.
The trade of electrician. ono of the
very newest, begins to be crowded. In
Philadelphia there are 200 graduates of
polytechnic institute on record as hav-
ing offered to work as electricians for 50
cents per day.
Those interested in astronomy will
have an opportunity to observe a total
eclipse of the sun, under favorable con-
ditioEs, in the year 1900. 1t will occur
in tho carly morning of May 27th and
will be visible from Virginia to Louisi-
ana.
DIR. Dixon, professor of hygiene at
the University of Pennsylvania, has
been making some experiments with air
and dust obtained in street cars. He
has found in them the germs of many
diseases. contagious and otherwise.
Winds occurring in the vicinity of
large rivers partake of the good quail
tics of sea breezes, but do not contain so
much ozone or saline matter. These
brce7es are said to be rarely higher than
four hundred feet above the surface.
"A new wooden pulley has been con-
trived, the center being of cast iron and
the rim of wood, the device being in two
parts. 1t is claimed that by it's use
better bell friction is obtained and
saving in power is realized, the spokes
being formed in such a manner as to
offer but very slight resistance to the
motion; keys and set screws are entirely
done away, and the grip upon the shaft
ing is said to be perfect.
I'm monographs, graphophones and
similar sound recorders use is usually
made of cylinders, covered with tinfoii
or wax, for receiving, as the cylinders
revolve, the impression made by tho
scribers. a new sound-recording appar-
atus operates on an entirely different
principle. The cylinder is replaced by
fat surface, which is made to oscillate
and move downward at regular intervals
by special mechanism.
-"The Importance of placing COM
pressed air as a motive power within
easy reach of the small manufacturer
has been recognized at Birmingham"
says London exchange. "A local
company obtained an act of Parliament
in 1884 by which they were authorized
to lay pipes throughout the public
thoroughfares to convey compressed air
at forty-five pressure for the use OF
subscribers. The first installation has
now been made and there are some four
and quarter miles Of main already
laid, the whole being controlled from
central station, at which there is power.
full machinery. No less than twenty
six consumers are said to be taking the
air and using it for working engines,
japanning, etc."
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scarce, SO was glad to get any thing
to do, especially as had an aged moth
er depending upon me for support
One dark. drizzly November night
and nearly all November nights are
dark-the stage for Raybury broke down
hopelessly, fifteen miles from its desti-
nation. or course, the accident hap
pened in just the worst part of the
road, where it was next to impossible
to get carriage of any kind. and where
the only place of entertainment was a
rude log house, dignified by the name Of
the Jefferson Inn.
Mr.. Griggs, the landlord of the tav-
ern, was soon on the spot, and gave it as
his opinion that the passengers had bet
ter go to his house for the night, but as
some half dozen of them were deter
mined to go on, there was no alterna-
tive but to get out an old express wagon,
which was stacked away in a remote
shed, and dispatch them on their way.
The stage horses were made available,
and the passengers piled in with selfish
haste; and long before l could get my
valise out of the ruins of the stage and
reach the wagon, it had rumbled off and
left me, with half-dozen more, behind.
1t was absolutely necessary that l
should be in Raybury that night, else /
should cause serious inconvenience at
the bank the next morning. And as /
had been so often congratulated on my
promptitude in my business, felt very
10th to be behindhand now. / spoke to
Mr. Griggs about it, and asked If it
were not possible for him to let me have
horse for Raybury. would pay him
literally and return the animal in good
condition the next day. But he only
shook his head. He had only one horse
in his stable, he said, and Mrs. Griggs
was subject to dreadful spells of the
collie, and might be taken at any hour,
and he made it a rule of his life never to
let Digby go out of the stable for fear
Mrs. Griggs might be seized and die be-
fore the doctor could be brought.
Under the circumstances, of course i
could not urge my request for the use
OF Digby, and there was no oh ance for
me to get to Raybury until the eleven
o'clock stage next day, unless l footed
1t, and that should not for a moment
have hesitated to do, had it not been for
the fact that the road to Raybury was
the vilest in the country. always felt
like swearing when rode over it, and
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They beat me and crushed me with
their weight, but they never once sue
ceeded in pinioning my hands, and /
flatter myself that l gave them some
blows that they felt sensibly, to say the
least.
But after time / felt my strength
giving way, and knew that could not
hold out much longer. How Miss
Axtell guessed it do not know, but
just as the larger man of the two had
planted his knee on my breast and was
raising n knife to strike it to my heart
/ saw by the dim light shed by the car
rage lamp that the young lady had got
down from the vehicle anu was hurry
ing toward us.
tried to shout to her to escape while
she had chance. but if she heard she
did not heed. She came straight on,
and the next moment / heard cry Of
rage and pain, and the man on my
breast tumbled off violently and lay
kicking upon the ground.
She had made a slip-noose of her
scarf and flung it over his head while
he was too much occupied to notice her
presence. And now the brave girl was
Juggling away at the scarf with all her
might, and the man was choking and
swearing at tremendous rate.
Suddenly he twitched the scarf from
her hands, and then. with wild oath,
he sprang upon her and both went down
to the ground
Rreal;nr loose from, tha other man /
rushed to the spot and saw the villain
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A NIGHT ADVENTURE.
How I Won a Wife and a Posi-
ton in Life.

u r I n q the
year 1869, l was
e m p l Dyed by
the b a n k of
Raybury to ex-
change money
between it and
the Bank of Mu-
t u al Redemp-
IN, with which
ey did business
Q city. 1t was
very interesting
ent, a II d one
ave me but a
:, but just then
dull and work
\ nof mn fhinn
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-08-16
THE MAIDEN AND THE BIRD.

A bird sat singing a carol clear
On the bough OF q budding tree
"Oh life Is rare, and the world Is fair,
And sweet Is my life to me.
Oh! life is sweet and the world complete,
And dear is my love to me-"
And an angel near smiled down to hear
That song so glad and free.
A maiden fair came singing there
As she passed meath the blossoming tree;
"Oh, the world Is fair beyond compare,
And sweet is my life to me.
Obi love Is sweet and the world complete,
And dear is my love to me!'
But the angel smiled not, though well he heard
The witching melody.
For the maiden was decked with the self
same bird
That had sung on the biossoming treei
To please her pride, the bird had died,
And hushed was its ecstasy
And she never heard a low. sad note
From lone bird on a tree:
"Oh. life was sweet-with love to greet
And dear as thy love to thee
Was the mate by my side, whom, to please
thy pride
Thy love hath torn from mer'
Agnes M. Machar in Santa Claus.
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BURYY
doubtless should have yielded entire
ly to the sin of profanity IL had at
tempted to walk it.
go to my house and stay Tonight,
Mr.. Marsh" said the landlord. 81 can
give you some venison pie and a pot OF
beer for your supper, and nice shake
down before the kitchen fire."
pray, SIR" said a sweet voice at
Griggs' elbow, us there no way to go on
to Raybury?"
mot tonight, my DEAR" said Griggs,
softening, as the light of his lantern
shone over the pretty face of a young
girl whom had scarcely seen before,
she having been an inside passenger.
II guess you'll have to take up with
such accommodations as my house Of
fers shouldn't wonder il SalIy-that's
my darter, miss-wiil let you have half
Of her bed, seeing as you've been I'M
fortunate.r
II must 60 on, she said. earnestly
n baye bqqp 4qne nqethe frQp home,
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Lace Mantles for summer.

Stylish and very simple mantles for
summer arc shoulder capes made of a
founce of black lace attached to Jet
yoke, with fiaring Medicis collar
either of lace or of jet. The jet is any
pretty open branching pattern set on
strong black net in a pointed yoke
shape; the lace founce should fall to
the elbows, and may be accordion
plated. More elaborate mantles of
Maltese or of Chantilly lace have color
introduced as gold net, or gold-wrought
Figaro jacket, or else velvet of rather
bright green, or the new anbergine or
violet shades. All are made very high
on the shoulders, and quite short in the
back, but many have graceful long scarf
fronts. A girdle of Jet and some trim
mings OF jet rain fringe falling from the
collar or over the shoulders or below
the girdle are on some OF the prettiest
OF these little capes. The black corded
net like fine passementerie Is effectively
used as yokes and fiaring collors. -Har
per's Bazaar
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"A gentleman, who imagined that he
recognized lady friend, advanced cor
daily and addressed her: II beg par
don," he said, ''but isn't this Miss
Greenieaf7" mo, sir, !" replied the LADY.
my name is Redpath." .sAh, excuse
me, must be color blind. "--Texas Sift.
ingsL
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They tell me-" said Peggleworth.
speaking to his friend Simpson, that
Wilkins Is losing his mind" ssYes. I
heard So" Simpson answered, ssbut do
not believe IT. I'll tell you why. The
other day met him in the street and
asked him to lend me FIVE dollars and he
re{Qeed, '-Arksusas Traveller.
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ries, population gives value to many
things beside land"
Permanent value? said Jim.
Eyes," said the schoolmaster.
"What things?" said Jim.
"Well," said the schoolmaster. sIet
me see. Here are tho boys hats, for
example. If q store-keeper had lot
Of hats, and population suddenly in
creased, hats would become valuable. /"
THAT is not permanent value" said
Jim, but merely temporary. As popu-
lation increased competition would in
crease, and wages go down, they would
start making hats, and the value of
hats would decrease; but the value of
land would go up. Is there any thing
besides land that population gives a per-
manent value to, that is what want to
know?v
WELL" said the schoolmaster. at
may be SO; VIC need not discuss it."
Don't you think said Jim, ''that II
land takes the greater part of the value
population gives, those who by their in
dustry and frugality deserve II should
get a larger share than they do?r
That would mean" said the school,
master, ''the handing over Of those nat
ural advantages which private indfvid-
uals now hold to the community for
their general advancement. which can
never be-"
''Who?" said Jim.
James" said the schoolmaster, Sc
sesely, things have come to pretty
pass when a boy Of your age can not
take his teachers word without asking
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Standard

why. we Will 60 on with the neA' les.
on.--Peser Pickle, in Aus'raiia',
standard.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-05-07
Prosperity for the Farmer.

C. Wood Davis presents in The Forum
cheerful process of reasoning to show
that In few years more prosperity will
smile on the American farmer in way
almost unprecedented in our history.
The American farmer thinks it is about
time, no doubt, and wonders what will
become of him meanwhile.
Mr.. Davis says the figures show that
it requires 3. Is acres to supply the wants
of each individual American. A great
number of acres have been brought un-
der cultivation in the past fourteen years,
a greater number proportionally than
the increase of population warranted.
There are now, however, not many tilla-
BILE lands yet to be brought into use. By
1893 population will have caught up with
the increase in farm products, and after
that an additional 5000, 900 acres yearly
will be required to keep up with the
people.
Whence are these additional acres to
come? Grain production is diminishing,
and that of tobacco, cotton and animal
products increasing. As farmers turn
their attention to the last named prod
ucts the balancing shuttle of equaliza-
tion will swing back again, and we shall
need more wheat and corn after 1898
than we can raise. Hence good prices
and prosperity for the farmer.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-05-07

The service pension bill which passed
the senate, and then, with an amend
ment, the house, is one which will inter
est veterans of all parties. Its provisions,
as the house amended it, are that every
person who served as much as ninety
days in the army or navy shall, on reach
ing the age of 60 years, receive pension
of So month the rest of his life. His
widow and minor children will also re-
ceive pension. Besides those of 60
years and over, all persons of any age
who are dependent and served in the
army or navy as aforesaid, will be
placed upon the pension rolls at the same
rate. The amount necessary to meet
this added expenditure will not be less
than $4O,O0O,000 year.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-05-07
The superintendent Is Judge.

SAUK RAPIDS, Mimi, May 5.-Judge
Searle has rendered a decision in the
case of w. M. Welsh against the super
intendent Of schools to compel him to
issue certificate to the said Welsh. The
opinion says: "The county superintend.
emit is by statute made the sole and ex.
elusive judge as to the fitness and quail
fication of teachers. These discretionary
powers thus vested in the superintendent
cannot be controlled by the courts, al
though the superintendent might decide
wrongfully. The superintendent has an
undoubted right to request the applicant
to undergo a re-examination upon ths
same subjects If for any reason satisfac.
tory to himself he is of the opinion that
the examination was unfair"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-05-07
Work of the pan-Americans.

Nov. II, 1899, the Three Americas
conference began it's sessions in Wash
ington and held them almost continu-
ously for twenty weeks. A great deal
Of useful work was done by the delegates
in that time, work which will be fruit
full Of results in the interests of civiEza-
ton and peace.
The most important action of the con-
ference was recommendation for the
adoption of arbitration in all cases of in
ternational dispute. The governments
of each country participating in the con-
ference must ratify the action of the
conference before it becomes authorita-
tive: but in case the nations all agree to
the arbitration resolution, as they prob
ably Will, there will be an end of the
bloody and devastating wars that have
kept back the Spanish republics from a
century of growth. If the treaty of ar
bitration is adopted the conference rec
ommends that it stand in force twenty
years.
Another important measure was the
resolution in favor of reciprocity treaties
for trade and commerce. Absolute reci-
procity of course means free trade, and
this the nations are not yet prepared for,
but the delegates thought there might
be gradual approach to it in the COM
1nercial treaties which each republic
might conclude with the rest. The con-
ference therefore put itself on record as
favoring partial reciprocity treaties,
Chill, Paraguay and the Argentine Re
public dissenting from this conclusion.
The conference recommends the con-
struction of great international rail
road down the whole Pacific coast of the
United States and Central and South
America. The building of such mag
nifcent road is only question of time.
Steamship subsidies were approved for
the Atlantic, the Gulf and the Caribbean
sea. They passed resolutions in favor of
q great international bureau for COM
.mercial information, headquarters at
Washington, the information to be pub
1ished in English, Spanish and Portu-
guese respectively. Finally, they ask that
a commission be appointed to consider
the expediency Of an international silver
coin, which shall be legal tender in all
the countries.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-05-07

So solidly is labor organized that even
the fishermen along the Pacific coast
have formed protective union. What
is more, in the free and independent
climate of the slope, they enforce its
edicts with the gently persuasive shot
gun. There was a fight lately between
the catehers of union and non-union fish
near Portland, Ore, in which one man
was killed on the spot, another mortally
wounded and a third seriously wounded.
The two men were thus sent out of the
world because they sold fish for seven
ay-fve cents instead of for dollar and
a nuartar
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-05-07

1t seems as if, after a tough fight, the
power of minority to defeat measure
by refraining from voting is to be brok-
en- in both houses of congress. Senator
Sherman has given notice that hereafter,
when legal quorum is present in the
senate chamber, he will demand that it
be counted as such by the presiding Off
Ger, whether the members all vote or