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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-10
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT
4 Farmer on Farmers.

$50 you want the farmers to pay all
the taxcs!'
This is the remark / most frequently
hear when l call farmers attention
to to the question of the single tax, and
1t shows plainly, what have frequent
ly noticed, that they still hold to the
traditional idea that the farmers OF the
country own the land.
10 certain extent they did hun.
Cred years or so ago own the land. But
conditions have changed, and to-day
the farmers own the acres indeed, but
the GOWNS own the values. A few
blocks in New York city to-day have
more value, venture, than all the land
values of farms from Westchester to
Albany.
This may seem strange to those not
conversant with the facts, but it is
true, nevertheless. The present selling
value of farms is measured largely by
their improvements and these improve
ments are, many of them, of the most
substantial kind.
Of course, the question of whether
cOAAO Poi tiSuidt Ciaoo VI PSiSOiAo 40 W
pay more or less than they do under
our present system, does not affect the
question of the justice of the single tax.
But it is important to show that the
system will not rob or Cypress any le-
ultimate industry.
have in my mind a snug little farm
of one hundred acres. In discussing
the question have several times men
toned this farm, and asked my listener
to picture to his imagination the farm
without improvements / say: Sup
pose all the rocks and stones back in
the soil from whence they were dug;
the fences, shade and fruit trees, build
ings, water pipes, wells, roadways, and
all improvements whatever, obliterated.
What annual rental would the farm be
worth?" The estimates given have va
ried from thirty to fifty dollars. Under
the single tax these fifty dollars would
represent the utmost limit of that far
mer's annual taxes. Yet the annual tax
on that farm has averaged over sixty
dollars for the last twenty years; and
the owner estimates that the national
taxes have cost him, directly and indi-
rectly, several times as much. This is
no exceptional case, but fairly repre-
sents the average of eastern farms. The
farmers of the country are paying far
more in taxes under our present system
than they would under the single tax.
If then the farmers would pay less un-
der the single tax, who would pay the
necessary increase to make it up? The
increase in taxes would fall upon those
persons who hold land from its most
profitable use for speculative purposes.
They are the ones who are always
talking to the assessors about their
land not yielding any income; and they
are to be found at every little country
village and railway station. Did you
never notice? Even in these small CEN
tiers of trade there is sure to be some OF
the most desirable and convenient land
unoccupied, because the owners are
waiting for the growth and necessity OF
the co immunity to enhance its s.'lling
value. These arc the men who escape
the taxes that the farmer is obliged to
pay; and they are at the same time OBJ
structing the growth and welfare OF
the town in which they live.-Chas c.
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success OF one means the aIsastcr 70
many. Public opinion, debauched OF
necessity, condones more and more OF
basencss, dishonor, and even crime.
whose outcome is the attainment OF
wealth. Honor is reserved for riches
alone, and the ostentation OF its
evidences becomes the occupation OF its
possessors, and the strained efforts OF
those who, to hide a lack become
shameful, strive to make a show behind
which there is no reality. When ideals
have fallen thus low; when work has
become badge Of disgrace; when sue.
cess in money-getting is the standard
of conduct; then are the teachers OF
morals but as salt that has lost its
SAVIOR; public spirit and patriotism but
words left for the hypocrites of party to
conjure with; then the Incidence and
vice born of luxury; no less than the
Incidence and vice born of want; leave
their lurking place for the broad light
of day. Class hatreds flourish; class
wars prevail, till social order perishes
and chaos comes again.
Such being tie evils which must re-
suit from private ownership of land,
there is surely enough in the removal
of their cause to waken enthusiasm in
the minds of those who love their race.
Abolish this cause. and those whom it
forces into poverty and vice are released
from its fatal pressure. The fines which
it has exacted from industry and thrift
checking production and thrift-are
no longer levied. Those whom it has
enabled to live in luxury at the expense
of their fellows are no longer able to
draw an income from such source.
With the dread of want dies the deifica-
ton of riches. Temptations to ostenta-
ton in living are minimized, for as
wealth loses its prestage, its evidences,
call for more of envy or admiration
than string of scalps or an elaborate
pattern in tattooing. Morality and
patriotism and public spirit, no longer
trodden under foot in the mad race for
money, once more lift their august
heads, and class hatreds must disap-
pear as class lines tend to vanish.
But this is not all. A righteous re-
form not only casts out the devil, it
opens the door to the angel. Natural
law being in its nature beneficent its
violation is the reversal of a mighty en-
CINE for good. And so renewed obedi-
ence results in negation of evil. All
the force of the power that was hurry
ing civilization to destruction now car
ries the race forward. Turn your.
selves and live ye." said the prophet of
old. The change of direction involves
a change of goal, and is vital
But who supposes that, the single tax
once in operation. humanity is to ship
its oars and drift? Rather is it then
only worth while to row when freed
from the swift current that sets to-
ward ruin. To remove an obstacle
makes progress possible. The man
who has gained one height is in a posi-
ton to scale higher. Cause enough
for enthusiasm if we may hope that our
faithful discharge of the duty of our
day and generation may enable those
who come after to see, with purged Wis
ion, tasks hidden from eyes dimmed by
familiarity with the long night of in.
justice and misery.-Margaret S. Lit
xa1l
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Single Tax Enthusiasm.

We sometimes hear it said that while
private property in land is certainly
wrong and should be abolished, yet that
the advocates of this reform are apt to
be enthusiasts in their expectations of
its results. Such criticisms spring from
a failure to realize that the wrong in
question is no mere fiscal mistake, but
involves a breach of natural order
whose consequences must necessarily
extend to the farthest limit of the chain
of cause and effect. Tracing out the
connection of these consequences, we
may find in the removal of their cause
wherewith to justify some enthusiasm
on the part of workers for that end.
In every community some locations
have a value above others, which, in no
respect the product of individual exer-
ton, results from the distribution of
population, and increases as population
increases. This value is the natural
community fund. Its appropriation by
individuals is the robbery of the COM
munity. Legalize such spoliation and
the individuals thus enriched hold the
key to the situation in their ability to
control the land market. Not only is
it true that the growing population can
create less with the same exertion
than on preferable sites, but out of this
less they must pay with one hand an
eyer-increasing proportion to swell the
uuearned wealth of their landlord, and
with the other to replace the commun-
ity fund thus diverted into his private
Golfers
The fate of community founded up
on such basis is simply question of
the rapidity of its growth, and, how
ever delayed, is certain. Given the
source of the stream, and the general
trend of the land which it waters, and
whatever may be it's windings we know
what ocean it must find at last The
differentiation into the very rich and
the very poor, begins with the presence
of its cause and will cease only with the
removal of that cause.
The very rich and the very poor.
Vast wealth. AFFECT poverty. What
do the words imply? AFFECT poverty
means the loss of self-respect and of the
respect of ones fellows 1t means to
suffer, and to see ones dearest suffer,
from cold and hunger, and never-rested
WEAKNESS. 1t means to toll on through
pain and disease till death opens the
door of escape. Yet more than this; it
means every temptation to drunkenness
and crime; it means the dull brutality
born of despair. 1t means children
growing up without home or parental
care, ignorant of the refinements of
cleanliness and the safeguards of de-
cency; familiar with evil from baby
hood. Hopeless want and all the vice
that springs from it; this is the mean
ing of abject poverty. 81
To escape such fate, to reach tie
standing ground of unthreatened CON-
petence-ever harder and harder to
gain-becomes the goal OF the frantic
crowd: and 1t " . struggle in which the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-10
German
Syrup

William McKeekan, Druggist at
Blooiningdale, Mich. Ihave had
the Asthma badly ever since ! came
out of the army and though / have
been in the drug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief until
few months ago, when used Be-
schee's German Syrup. am now
glad to acknowledge the great good
it has done me. lam greatly reliev-
ed during the day and at nightgo to
sleep without the least trouble" O
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-10

with TIE flags of Spain and the United
States suspended above it, and it may
be added that a triumph of electricity
has been attained to such an extent
that the flags appear to wave during
the Examinations.
An immense number of special at
fractions are announced. The T. p. A.
celebration will be on Saturday, Octo-
Der 1, on which day the Yelled Prophet
will arrive by boat on the Mississippi
river, and the great Yelled Prophets
parade and ball will take place on
Tuesday, October 4. The annual St
Louis fair. too popular and well-known
to need description "opens October and
closes October s, with two grand nlu-
limitations during the week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-10

THE MAKERS of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy say "If we can't cure your
Catarrh no matter what your case is,
we'll pay you $500 in cash." Now you
can see what is said of other remedies,
and decide which is most likely to cure
you. Costs only 50 cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-10

Nearing the End.-Daughter-"Mr
Sillerly asked me last night to marry
him, mamma Would you advise me
to accept him?" Mamma-"Certainly,
my child, the season Ia too nearly over
70 be ACKNOWLEDGMENT Fsss Prsss.
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Sick and Bilious Headaches, and all derangc-
ments Of tho liver, stomach and bowels
They're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or
your money is returned.
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THE GETTING 1T DOWN


Is bad enough, with tho ordi-
nary pill. But the having it
down is worse. And, after
all the disturbance, there's
only q little temporary good.
From beginning to end, Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are
better. They're the smallest
and easiest to take - tiny
sugar coated granules that
any child is ready for. Then
they do their work so easily
and 50 naturally that it lasts.
They absolutely and perman-
emily cure Constipation, In
d;roef;ou Rilious Attacks.
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Been busyy said one bootblsck to
another. II should say so! ] BACKED
o fciler's boots, an he wouldn't pay me;
70 had to black bis eye extra"
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AN argument results from the collision Of
Two trains Of Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-10

the sleigh, and was being trailed along
on the snow, and, according to the Gus
tom of experienced wolf hunters in
these regions, we had taken with us,
tied in strong canvas bag, a small
sucking pig, which we pinched from
time to time for the purpose of attract
ing the wolves by its squeals and
shrieks of protest. The little princess
sat motionless, her rifle in her slender
hands, her eyes fixed on the approach.
ing troop of wild animals. She seemed
impervious to any sense of fear, and APP
peared perfectly calm, although she
must have known that hunts of this
kind are the most dangerous and peril
Gus ever attempted; for if by misfcr.
tune the sleigh were to be overturned.
or an accident happen to the horses, il
meant certain death to the occupants.
Nearer and nearer drew our pursuers,
and we commenced to shoot. Many
fell, and for few moments the pack
seemed frightened and slackened its
speed, possibly for the purpose of de-
vouring their wounded comrades. as is
their custom. But with the help of the
little pigs squeaks we soon had them
again at our heels. Things were going
on splendidly, and we were all in high
glee, when suddenly from dark mass
OF Siberian pines, few hundred yards
ahead OF us. second pack of wolves
rushed toward us SO unexpectedly that
we found ourselves almost SURROUNDED.
This was . disassseabls surprise, The
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

I ADY who has travelled speaking French,
IL German and English, refined and well
educated, would give her Sc vices as pre-
ferred in return for board and small salary
Address S g. Globe
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

OFFICE WOKK-Position wanted by a
~ young lady with ex perience as clerk in
Office or store; good penman references
furnished. o SO. Globe.
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ness and the hour of success; next the
luxury. the shame, the humiliation and
the forced gaytty with which remorse
browns itself: then the gradual DOWN
fall, the intoxicated favorite, the tickle
public; and finally, ObscuritY and
garnet, and the despair Of it all hanging
over the end.
The picture is true in spite of its
harsh lines. and at least one well-known
actress today could pose for every Stage
of it, except the last, which to expert
enctd eyes is not far off.
The subject may not be polite. But
IS not This the age of realism? Do we
not read Tolstoi and 20 to see lbsen?
And are we going TO blush because the
veil is removed from tile face fcorrup-
tion, although we've seen plainly enough
Through ii all the time?
Here is the caIeer Of an actress. true,
Il it seems sensat onal, and with par
Rllel il nearly every theatrical company
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

heavens. But wouldn't we call the man
who looked for the sky in The gutter a
fool when he might see it just overhead?
The stage, the arena Of reflected human
mirth and sorrow, is. or should be. the
artistic home of dramatic genius. And
ioday it is question il it is not only the
gutter reflection Of art. where the garb-
age almost hides even that.
The truth Of the matter is, according
to writer in the New York Advertiser.
that the mechanism is all wrong. AIT
Is being murdered slowly, and the only
physician who can Save her will be Il
dramatic revolution.
Have you notnoticed lately how, when
girls 90 on the stage as into an en-
chanted land, in the course OF q few
months they become mannish in dress
and manners, or, il not that, they talk
''shop." not art.
The stage needs satirist. 1t is wax
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

everything and enie we'd everything and
looked at life as Il & joke. Besides,
she had a conscien g. She did not UNI
derstand the phios p " of wrong. She
was an artist with strong creeds. Her
creeds might have saved her. but hav-
ing forsaken them, she followed her
emotions.
She held on for about five wears more
running down the scale rapidly. Finally
Sne became involved in a murder scan
dial. She had lost the favor Of the pub
lie, and it always kicks the unfortunate
lower Gradually she fell into total OBJ
security. Today she lives as | said be-
fOre-a failed W0man-Wlth no hopes
and with bitter memories.
What will the end be?
And today just such lives look at US
from the stage of nearly every metro
politan theater. Diamonds and glory OH
the stage are almost synonymous for a
moral mud bath. How long will it re-
main so?
When will fools learn to be wise and
the selfish cease to be selfish? 1t lies in
nutshell at the feet of the moralist
who cares to crack it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27
THAT CELESTIAL NoMAD,

Ho. all We festive sons of men
SO prone to bluff and blunder,
Who walk the earth with trifling ken,
And gaze with little wonder
Into The starry vault by night
BeStud like madam bonnet
With everything 20 catch the sight
And now comes Biela's comet
You've chained the lightning to your cars,
The wind is used for pumping,
And both are very prone to jars
Which start your heart to humping:
But here's royal roustabout,
reckless heavenly rover,
Who promises 10 knock you out
And tip your prospects over
And still it's possible that men
With wund'rous greed for plumber,
May try to grasp its tail, and when
They've pulled the vault asunoer.
They'll pick up stars and rainbow chips,
And try, with dreadful malice.
To steal the very paint which tips
Aurora horealis
A bare suggestion let me make.
And place its claims before you,
Lest you be found by some mistake
TO let this comet DER you;
Have fire protection all complete,
With double pressure on it,
And if the thing drops III your beat,
Put out the neasly comet.
Detroit News.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

NH ANAGER, general local and special
lSI agents wanted to represent well known
life insurance company. who have just
issued a new policy with terms far better and
in advance of anything now before the pub
lie. Natural premium No advance nor adj
mission fee. Grand opportunity for good
men to secure territory. Liberal terms.
Guarantee. Address United Life Insurance
Association, Nos. 81 to ~ World building,
New York.
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W. DIRK FOR BOARD-A willing young
w man wants to get place to work
mornings and evenings for board and attend
school Call at Globe Business College, Ed
dicott huildinp
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

Ing too bold. 1t is quite bad enough to
give us bad plays and poor actresses;
but ii does seem little too bad that a
full view Of the mechanism behind it
should be inflicted upOn us. too.
Ii is the only comedy OF masks and
faces, and everybody pretending not TO
know who everybody else is and MAX
Think of it, friends to satire. Art
versus Success" with Failure stalking
in the shadow Of Virtue and threatening
Art. while in the corner old MoneybagS
haggles with Ambition over the price.
First, Poverty struggling with Art.
and Design and Hope fighting together
in the corner; then the moment OF weak
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

C6bO FOR FINE LOT on Edmund st,
.DCCO near oxford st. This is very cheap.
Richard Lehman. pa East Fourth st., sec
ond floor
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"Wednesday.

Howard V Miller to W Carpenter, 1t z,
blk =, Sunny Side add ............... ,0C0
Jacob De Lange to S knudson, It i8
blk /. Dorr d. stones subd it d, Hoyts
Out Lots -. 49,. Observation-Disclosures. 6OO
Real Est d Bldg Socy loJ II Gates ct al,
1t 10. II and II. blk 4, sylvan Heights. 600
Il Ryan and wife 10 Raluh Garrett ct
al, Its % and B, blk |, Kidd's rearr Dlks
aud 4. Haldemans add. ..-........- $500
Patrick K Sullivan TO Edward elch ct
al. 1t 10. Clark's add -. ............. 1880
Richard Lehman 10 j 6 Gottbehnet.
II 10. blk d. Skidmore d Cassedy's add 1000
Geo Hutchius to Elton 7 Brown, It's
Is and 10. blk T. Arlington Hills. 400
" Youngman ct al TO A ID " bite 1t
IS, blk =, c w Youngman's second
S a Hilyord to D White, It's IL and 10,
blk :. C " You pman's Second add 700
+ Newcomb TO o NJ Atwood, II z, blk
l, NanD S add. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2.f5)
Samuel Nichols 10 National Invest
ment company. 1t %. st. Adams st
add 1850
Total eleven deeds ...... $3.50
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Too Particular

Steele-I hear you have broken off
with Dolly Warden.
Penn-Yes. She made me spend too
much money on my clothes.
Steele How so?
Penn She was SO fastidious that she
wouldn't sit on the same pair of trous-
erS twice.
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ueSGay.

Anna C Neish to James Leck. und 1-6
of 70 acres in southwest "A sec II.
town %. range 2j........-. s., 00O
ST Paul Apartment House Co to
West Crocus Hin, ..I5'' -. 1900
Frank E Irvine TO viii A Warner.
part its S aud q, blk 10, st Paul
Proper. .......... o,4Vo
Jeanne Ancker 10 F Spitzer,lt %,
blk ), Douglas add .......-.... 60O
Carl + Bauer 10 Caroline Art, Its
and 6, j f Eisenmengers Garden
lotS %,VOo
John Kochendorfer to Z W Goldberg, 1t
&, blk Il. Bells add to W st. Paul. 5000
Peter Muller Jr TO Geo Haskins, 1t
10 blk T., Arlington Hills. ........ TO
Howard Fitz ct al to John Marty, Its
and o. blk 81 kittsons add 80. -. IL, 2C0
Lizzie NJ Bronson 10 Herman Schnell, 1t
Is, blk 5, summit Park. -. -. 49,. 2,SCO
Total deeds .S $40 700
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THE WEEKS TRANSFERS.

GEO Brookins 10 Geo NJ Brand. 1t II,
blk g. Kiefer, Schnrmeier d. Yields
snbd It's |, > and }, Collins Out Lots. .S3, 100
b II Mchaud to Victoria l. Conroy, 1t
4. blk 8. Jaggard add ................ 50O
Clark, Bryant Improvement Company
to g " Clark. lis -. II and 81 Clark's
sabd Ii 80. Como villas 800. 49,. 600
II IL Schultz to IL II Herbst. 1t 8. blk l99,
Irvine's add TO West st. Paul 2,O)O
Mary " O'Hara to II II fierbst. 1t s, blk
100 Irvine's add 10 West st. Paul. -. 1900
YIN IL Bartlett 10 Edward Fitzgerald. 1t
- blk Z, jefferson Park -. ....... SOU
Cornelius Peterson ct al to j II
Rolhweli, part Its and S, blk IL.
Robert d Randall .......... G,00O
JAS Raun to Jochum Hansen, 1t
add I'd In . ............ -. 1900
Caleb ib A Page to Electa NJ. Potter 1t
Is. ind 42 It. blk 2, Pease Bros
ada .-"... oo0
Lucien Warner to E Irwin. part
It's Sand s. blk 10. st Paul Proper. 5000
l. IL Naumann to John eigei, part
It's and g. blk /, \ B Nilguss
AGQ o--oO
Four unpublished go . 1l.U00
Total 1.deeds ................ S3S,63)
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

DOOKkEEPEK, thoroughly expert
ID enced wants set of books to keep even
ings A. F., Globe
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Life OF AN ACTRESS,
Much That Is Detrimental to
the True Mission OF
Art.
q Career Of Mingled Hard
ships, Gay Pleasures and
Excitement.
History Of the Rise and Fall
Of a Popular Fa-
Vopite.
To-day a Faded Woman With
No Hopes and With Bitter
Memories.

The theory of the justice of life is not
so far removed from truth as the I'M
fortunate or unthinking would have us
believe. The train of events conse-
quent upon crime or mistake, an &C
cident, or even a simple act III the
practical application, as well as in the
philosophy of life. is as immutable as
the law of life and death itself.
Ruskin has told US that i'll the gutter
water we cali see the reflections of the