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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01

Aneht our acknowledgment of appoint
ment IS correspondent OF the National
Association of Democratic clubs for the
parish OF Grant, the Lecompte Messenger
says: Eve are glad to see honors con-
ferred on our confreres, but do hope Bro.
Goodwin will not vacate the sanctum for
politics" Never fear, our honors sit
lightly; and, as for vacating the sanctum,
nothing is farther from our intention.
We have absolutely no political aspira-
tons, but it does our heart good to show
up demagogues and trucking sycophants,
and you can bet on their hearing from
us every time.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01


at the caption of this article does
the CHRONICLE the honor of send
ing in communication, which will
be found in another column. He
assumes the roll Of the philanthro-
pist, and blows his own horn with
q will, proceeding that is calcu-
lated to catch the unwary. But as
we have had experience with SINH
lar cases to his he must pardon us
if we fail to embrace him with open
arms until he shall have proven
himself somewhat as dweller in
our midst. His philanthropy ap-
pears to be largely devoted to feath-
ering his own nest. Now, we do
not desire to do any man an in
justice, particularly one protesting
to be teacher and preacher of the
gospel; but, when he jumps into the
political arena booted and spurred,
he must stand the regular tilt with
all other politicians. And it is by
his own utterances that we Judge
him, when he piles up the evidence
of his inconsistency by such a let
ter as he has sent as. His philan-
thropy is of that school that would
take away the earnings of the thrift
ty and industrious and give them
to the lazy and shiftless. He in-
cites the ignorant by the false as
sumption that the poor have no
chance to receive an education, and
incorrectly states the facts when
he intimates that our fathers we're
any more educated, prosperous or
happy than their children of to-day. |
He quotes extensively from bis col
lection of extracts, all of which are
familiar and threadbare with the
reading public, and the subjects
treated of have been discussed in
al of our leading towns and cities,
md are now relegated to oblivion
rs discarded and impracticable, and
We have neither space nor desire to
discuss them here His own line
II argument leads to virtual adj
mission of cur charge of commun-
SIN, and he ends with the defiant
almost profane) taunt, "then make
he most of it." We are not given
o the promiscuous use of "cuss
vords," but, when a man comes
mong us and challenges Demo-
racy as being less Democratic than
he bantling Peoples party, we
tand pat, and shall not be found
acking in welding the political
udgel. Ii it is to be war to the
nife, we say, clay on, McDuff /,
nd damned be he who first cries,
old, enough!' 1
AS our new acquaintance, lately
Sabine, is to be domicilated in I
rant, we ask, as a matter of Justice
himself, and number of our '
RITUAL friends, who propose to sub /,
MT their children to his tutilage,
nat he give his version and expla- q
alton OF the following caustic r
luib, which we find in the Homer |
+uardian-Journal of late date: G
This man Traylor once lived in Clai- g
,rne parish. Here he was teacher and Fl
Baptist minister. In these spheres he /
on bad his little day, and sought other Q
'stures new. About the time he left
IRE he became an agent OF the Famous
lie ASSOCIATION, and subsequently some I;
TT OF patent medicine agent. In both s
these capacities his conduct is said to y
I've been shady; and if half the things d
at are s1id of him are true, he is no n
opel' person to head any reform move O
ent
Aneht our acknowledgment of appoint I
emit Is correspondent of the National u
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01
i. TURNER
DEALER IN
General Merchandise

PfnevjlIe. La.
Has just received Large Stock of Spring
and Summer Goods, which is to be sold at
small margin above cost for cash.
The public are invited to call and exam.
Inc his large and we'll selected stock OF
DRY GOODS,
consisting of Dress Goods and Trimmings.
Fancy Goods, White Goods. adies' Cloaks
and Jackets, Jersies. Hosiery, Shawls and
Hoods. Balmorals. Jeans, Cassimeres aud
Flanneis, Linseys, Blankets, etc
Mems and Boys Hats, and Ladies' Trim
med Hats.
large stock of Boys and Mens's CLIO
THING. Special bargains are offered in
Boys and Mems JEANS Clothing, which
We're bought at sacrifice.
A fine assortment of Boots and Shoes,
saddiery, Crockery, Hardware, Groceries.
Plantation Supplies. TRUNKS. Valises,
Towers celebrated "Fish Brandt of Slick.
ers, and FURNITURE.
Agent for the Dapont Gnn Pow der, the
Oldest and best in America.
A ca,load Of the celebrated MILBURN
WAGONS will be received eaily in Octo-
Der, the best on the planet.
Highest market price paid for Cotton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01

The poorer class of farmers of this
parish who were induced to Join the
Farmers Alliance under the pretense OF
securing aid from the national govern
ment, have about conceded that the ALI
ance is nothing more than political or
ganization gotten up by a few bloated
and kicked out politicians to further their
nefarious ends, But brother farmers we
have had "Nigger" in ours once, so let us
cling to the straight out Democratic party.
and the Herald asks you to drop these
wolves in sleeps clothing as you would a
hot anyil.-1'rinity Herald.
Catahoula is not theonIy parish in this
State that is infested with wolves. Cal
casieu. too, has some who can get only
what they deserve from the Democrats
nothing; and they are doing their utmost
to pull the wool over the farmers ewes.
But We are going to give them what the
very same class of politicians got in Tex-
as: They got 'sfired OUT and we'll get
rid OF ours, too.-Lake Charles Echo.
The Telegraph Bulletin well says that
simple answer to the sub-treasury and
kindred schemes is contained in one of the
resolutions adopted by the Mississippi
Democratic convention, to-wit: I'VE
believe that individual prosperity can only
come from individual industry, intelli-
gence and frngality, and that all schemes
for the enrichment of the people by legis-
lation are chimerical and utterly incapa-
BILE OF realization. Alexandra Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01
Editor Dana ON the Outlook for
1892.


Asked about the outlook for 1892,
he said: Nobody can tell The
Farmers Alliance is an important
factor in the question. Itdepends
on the amount of damages they
will do to the Republican party in
the west and the Democratic party
in the south. Now the Farmers
Alliance in the south proposes to
be Democratic. It is held back by
the negro question. That domi-
mates everything here. There is no
such balance wheel in the west
and the alliance is bitter against
the Republican party and you know
when member of an Organization
has left it he is more bitter against
it than its original opponents. If
the Farmers Alliance In the south
should grow to such proportions
that the negro question would be
considered unimportant, it would
then smash the Democratic party
as far as it could.
THE Farmers Alliance is really.
as antagonistic to Democratic prin-
ciples as anything in the land. It
is socialistic organization seeking
to establish an aristocracy Of farm
ers, endowed With principles which
nobody else will have. It seeks
special privileges for a class, and
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01
The Mourn ZION
Male { Female CbIIsSe, Limited,
Six Miles North of
MONTGOMERY, La.

We are glad to inform our friends and
the public generally thkt We have secured
the services of PROF. &. e. HARRIS. A.
NJ. formerly Professor bf Latin aud Mathe-
natics at Mt. Lebanon University and late
President of the Agricultural College at
Calhoun, La, as President of Mt. Zion
Male and Female college
No expense will he spared to elevate this
institution to a place ilmong the foremost
Colleges of the State.
The school is noh-secthrian. but is directly
under the watch Carl of the Methodist
Protestant Church.
The location is peculiarly favorable tn
the successful operation of a College Of
high grade aud scholarly tooe.
Holding the opiuioi that the true end
of education is tn eegate the morals. de-
velop the physique and train the MUD of
tho pupil. thu, qualifying him as a useful
and honorable ci'izen, we have Topped off
all useless expens,s. add reduced the cost
to minimum.
Good board IN pivate families, conven-
lent to the College, cain he had for ouly
six to eight dollars perIinonth.
rrIrIdS.
Primary Dspas art, per r. of 20 days sls,
Collegiate and Normal . 500
Music !" a. 30
Incidental Fee per session 1O
Thus the total COST Need not exceed ten
dollars rcr month.
The next session will commences October
2. 1870 We ask par3nts who have sons
aud daughters to educate to give MS q
trial Wiite for further information to
Prof c, 8 Harris. President Of College, or
"a Rev L X. Strickianil, President Board
Of Directors, both Of Montgomery, La.
W. l.. FORD.
Secretary Bbns3 Of Directors.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01


The recent Democratic conven.
ton in Mississippi crushed the sub.
treasury scheme very badly, and il
now appears that the little life re-
naming in it will be stamped out
on the 10Th of next month, when the
anti-sub-treasury league of the
Farmers Alliance has its conven-
ton at Jackson, a call for which
has been issued by w. S. McAllis-
ter, the State lecturer of the Missis-
sippi Alliance. At the convention
the absurdity of the scheme will be
thoroughly exposed together with
the purposes of Macune and other
tricksters who originated it with
the view of splitting the Demo
cratic party in the South and fore
ing the Alliance in the so-called
Peoples Party. That the conven.
will result in much good there can
be no doubt, because the farmers of
Mississippi will be present in great
force and will take advantage of
the occasion to make 1t known tina,
they do not intend to sever their
connection with the Democratic
party, or to be led away to the sup
port of wild and crazy schemes,
and thus allow themselves to be-
come the prey of demagogues.
The Iola register., 1891-01-30
EVERYDAY HEROISM.
How 1t Il Possible to Make Yourself a
Blessing to Yourself and Friends.

How 1t Il Possible to Make Yourself q
Blessing to Yourself and Friends.
1t comes to very few of us to perform
any great heroic deed. for lives, thank
Heaven. are in these days too delight
fully prosaic to need Joans of Arc,
Molly StarlIs. Grace Darlings or Flor
ence Nightingales; but we can all meet
the little jars and nagging worries that
daily fret US with a cheerfulness and
patience that, who knows, may be re-
membered by the recording angel
longer than if on the impulse of a mo-
ment we fling ourselves into tempestu-
ous wave or leaping flame to save a
life. To women, especially. think, is
it given to exercise this gentle courage
in facing trial and disappointment and
to help others to face it too: for it is
oftener her task to keep the strength of
another from falling than to summon
fortitude for herself. 1t is so hard
sometimes to conquer the gloom and
sorrow that Expresses her own heart
and smile and sooth away that which
lies heavy on another's, but it is Just
here that heroism can be achieved, and
il may be that the cheering word, the
loving kiss given then, will live in cher
ished memory long, long years after the
lips that gave it, trembling with hidden
pain, have been stilled forever.
So check the little taunting speeches
that spring so readily to your lips, and
see how a merry, kindly one will clear
the stormy atmosphere. Smooth out
the frown upon your brow, born though
it may be of encouragement and pain.
and smilC. though it be but family at
first. If you have thrown yourself
weeping and rebellious against a trou-
BILE that is shutting out the sunshine
from your life, try the warming power
of love, and you will find it melting
away, and even if it does not, love will
keep your own heart from freezing hard
and fast. Be heroine and conquer the
worst enemy you can ever have-your-
self. Lead host of good resolutions
against the foes crowding thick and law
less over that fair territory God gave
you and called your soul Conquer un-
charita bleness, with its cruel, piercing
lances, that can rend and kill a soul.
Drive out that secret sin which only
your own heart knows, but which drags
you back to earth when you fain would
rise to breathe a purer air. You may
be wounded in this strife, may fall back
sick and desperate again and again,
may find that you are losing the fond
desire the very tendrils of your soul
have wrapped themselves about, but
halt! above the dust and blood of bat
tie angels cry, a heroine:'-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
The Iola register., 1891-01-30
FOR FEMININE READERS.

MISS HELEN REED, literary editor of
the Boston Advertiser, and winner of
the Sargent prize for translation of a
Homeric ode. has removed TO New York
and will write for the World.
A LADY engineer has arrived in St.
Petersburg from Vladikavkas to view
the factories of the great capital. In
1888 she built in her native city an iron
and brass foundry and a steam wood
saving and planning mill, and she has
conducted these institutions up to the
present time without any assistance and
with great success. To her also be
longs the credit of having introduced
among the peasants of the Terzkoy dis
tricts modern agricultural machines
VERA SAssULITCH has been the cause
of more alarm to the Gar than all the
other Russian anarchists combined. In
her early years, she was pretty gov
erness in little country village in Rus
sia, and she still possesses traces OF
beauty. She is woman of iron will
and stern resolution. At one time, find-
ing it impossible to conquer her, the
Russian Government is said to have of
fered her a bribe of ten millions OF
roubles to quit the cause OF anarchy
and leave the country.
The Iola register., 1891-01-30
PARAGRAPHIc POINTERS.

H-The only Republican paper put
lished in Arkansas has just given up
the ghost. Lead and bowie knives do
not agree with the average editor. And
still they talk about the new South
Iowa State Register.
q It would be a good idea for the
Government to suspend the postal
service in the Mississippi until such
time as its people will consent to forego
the pastime of killing Republican Of
ficials.-Globe Democrat.
Along in 1892 1.-The mugwump"
will only be character of the history
of the past. Enough lymph can not be
injected into his veins by the political
DR.. Kochs to keep him kicking through
another campaign. = Chicago Inter
Ocean.
sB The political prophets have
stopped figuring out the result Of 1892.
They realize that with big Democratic
House next year the possibilities of
wreck to all representations are too
great to be risked rashly.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
GIN planning for the work of the
coming Democratic Congress the Birm-
ingham Age Herald demands that the
Democratic majority shall promptly re-
peal the disability pension law, passed
in June last But what about the U.
S. Senate and the President? WON'T
that Democratic majority" prompt
ly" wait awhile? But it is all right to
let the people know Just what the
Democrats propose to do.-Chicago In
ter Ocean
The Iola register., 1891-01-30

principles and purposes OF these two
parties are held up and examined vide
by side. they are found to be no more
alike than they were during the war
and the days of reconstruction, or
when our National credit was
at stake, and how, in tbs light
of transpiring events in the South,
and Democratic apologies and excuses
for them in Congress, any rational eye
can see differently is past our compre-
hension. And yet deceit and fraud
have conspired to hoodwink the people
10 such an extent that many honest
men have been led into affiliations with
the Democratic party.
The fact is the Democratic party
has for years been living under false
colors, appropriating to itself honors
and credits that belonged to the Repub-
lican side of the account, urging and
advocating temperance, prohibition,
Farmers Alliance principles, and every
ism and doctrine whose tendency was
to distract disappointed and discomfort
ed Republicans, thus creating uisis:Ous
and strifes which have resulted in keep
ing thousands of Republicans from the
polls on election day, and inducing
thousands more to vote the Democratic
ticket, while its leaders, who have
taken the stump to create all this dis
sension among Republicans, have IN
variably cast their votes for their
party. Republicans have been alto
\ gether too timid of late years 10 de-
nounce and expose such practices, for
fear of being accused of desire to open
| old wounds; to hurt the feelings of
some over-tender Southerner; to un-
cover the past. Republican principles
! and enactments which have made this
country what It is to-day, in contra
distinction to what it would be had
Democratic policy prevailed, have been
| forced to the background and allowed
| to remain there until thousands of
honest men everywhere begin anxious
| " to question the existence of the Re-
publican party. We don't seem to have
| leaders of nerve and conviction, and
more-men who are ready to unfurl the
| good old party banner that meant some
I thing few years ago. If one of our
Senators or public men happens to tell
! the naked truth about Democratic lead
ership to-day, tomorrow, if called to
account, he disgraces himself and be-
Titles his party by taking it all back
and apologizing for it. Whenever and
wherever Republican places in view
what his party has accomplished in the
history Of this country in contrast with
the efforts of the Democratic party to
destroy it all, some SOutherner or
Northern mugwump cries Bloody
shirt" which, in too many instances,
causes the Republican to drop on his
knee and beg pardon. This must all be
remedied. Republicans must have the
courage of their convictions and combat
the enemy as of old, whether in the
newspaper, in common walks of life, in
Congress or on the forum Let our
leaders not shrink from being called
'bitter partisans," or sectional, so long
as their opponents rejoice at such epi-
thets as applied to them, and let every
Republican show his colors on all occa-
sions. Then the resemblance between
the two parties will cease. No one can
possibly mistake the one for the other,
and then future Republican triumphs
will be assured.-Minneapoli Tribune.
The Iola register., 1891-01-30

Of moldy desuetude. and the question of
its removal provoked an acrimonious
debate in the board OF directors Of the
company owning the invention. TWAS
finally retained tn ugh the fearful ef-
forts of the president. who had maid
en- sister with corkscrew curls and a
vinegary nose, who insisted upon bless
ing his home with her presence.
There were of course domestic slots,
such as We need coal: 1 saw such a
love of bonnet: The cook is drunk
again and Ma has come for a few
lays for wifely use And Must work
at the books tonight: Have hot bis
cults for supper and I have no change,
suitable for the head of the household
i may also add that all of those forms
Of polite usage which are common in
good society were here furnished, and
we're naturally much sought after by
bar-tenders and servant maids"
have rentured the remark that the
literary work must have been admira-
BILE to permit such machine to prove
popular.
1T was admirable, Smith gravely
assented- Whoever prepared these
missives was a consumnzte judge OF
human nature and of the niceties of the
English language. Nothing could bet
ter exemplify this than his closing peri
DDS Take the much-used form. Re
fusal to lend for example. II inyaria-
bly, ended. Yours since: ely.' How nat
uralI If there is a word that enbodies
scidulated negztion It Is this same word
The Iola register., 1891-01-30
Plenty of Good Timber.

The Republicans have two men who
have each tested Mr.. Cleveland's
strength. First, President Harrison,
who defeated him squarely upon the
identical platform upon which Mr..
Springer says Mr.. Cleveland will run
again; and second, Mr.. Blaine, who
honestly defeated him in New York,
and so for the Presidency in 1884, and
who was deliberately tricked out of the
election by the dishonest count of some
ten thousand Butler votes for Cleve-
land. Here, then, are two Republic
ans, either one of whom should be
good in the future, as both have been
in the past, against this very candidate
who has now proclaimed himself
through his friend and guest, Mr..
Springer. The victory of Mr.. Blaine
failed of recognition because this fla
grant cheat which gave Mr.. Cleveland
the electoral vote of New York, and so
the Presidency, did not become known
until too late to be of service. But it is
now known, and the value of the know
ledge lies in the fact that it demon
strates that Mr.. Cleveland was really
defeated in his own State by Mr.. Blaine.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Iola register., 1891-01-30
The Durability of Wood.

Recent scientific investigations
show that the richer the wood is in
phcsphoric acid and potas SUM, the
more likely it Is to rot and mold: wood
cut in the spring contains eight times
as much of the former and five times as
much of the latter as when cut in the
winter" So says an exchange. The
statement of the first clause is probably
true. but we should like more definite
reference to the authority for that in
the last The difference given is too
enormous to be readily credited A
large amount of potash and phosphoric
acid is carried up through the wood and
deposited in the leaves of our forest
trees during the growing season, so
that they become much richer in these
substances at the end of that season
than the wood itself. But it hardly
seems probable that at any time there
should be 50 great an excess in the
wood. If any one can give the names
of the investigators who have arrived
at this conclusion. the value of the
statement can be more readily gauged.
Christian at Work.