davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
THE PASTURE.
A Prime Necessity on Every wen-Regu-
lated Farm.

A Prime Necessity on Every weI-Regu-
lated Farm.
Any agricultural people who under
take to sustain themselves permanently
without pasturage will learn their mis-
take If they keep on in that line. When
science, art, theory and practice, history
in all ages, common sense and the ex-
perience of every agricultural country
In the world, combine to show that
there can be no permanent agricultural
prosperity without pasturage for beasts,
why will men continue to struggle on
against every dictate of prudence and
all the evidence bearing on the subject?
Plenty of grass, wide expanses of it
not the thinly-scattered natives, which
are often worthless. but the very best
that can be had for each locality is
what is needed.
Animals must be fed; but feeding
does not pay when it costs more than
the animal is worth. Grass is always
the cheapest animal food, and the best
for the purpose of producing meat, but
ter and milk, and also for work ami
mails. Keeping stock is necessary to
the maintenance of the fertility of the
soil. This stock must be fed, and pas
turage is at once the best and cheapest
feed. Under some conditions, feed can
be more cheaply produced by tillage,
but this is where land is dear and
scarce, SO that not enough pasturage
to support the animals desired can be
afforded. But where there is land
enough for, say, forty or fifty-acre
pasture, and as many good cows or
mares and colts as that amount of grass
will sustain during the pasturing sea-
son, and enough land besides to raise
the grain food and family sustenance re-
quired on the farm, the proprietor has
in his hands most independent, pleas
ant and certain living, with all the
comforts that pertain to such life, with
the least amount of labor. On all we'll
ordered farms at least one-fourth the
land should be so pastured as to furnish
all the hay that may be needed when
green pasture is ont of season. Hay,
per acre, is fully as valuable as cotton.
and far more profitable. because the
labor and expense in producing it is less
than that of any other crop. 1t is main
tanned by stock-raisers of experience
that neither cattle, horses nor hogs can
be profitably raised without pasture.
and, as a rule, the greater the proper
ton of pasture the greater the profit.
Grass is the foundation for the future |
prosperity of the south. Let us spend (,
less time and money in killing this great
benefactcr and give some of the same
work to the making of grass grow /
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
BOOKS AND PLAYS.

The ex-queen Of Servia has written
. play entitled Mother" descriptive to
some extent of her own grievances It
has been purchased by Partisan man.
ager in search of new sensation
DAVID GRAY. the Harvard senior who
wrote the "Hasty Pudding Club" play
this year-the brightest production Of
the series, it is said-is Buffalo man,
and the son of the late poet-editor of
that name
MIS-. GEORGE AU eUsTUs SALA's vol
ume, Famous People Have Met"
starts with her husband II other
wives estimaten Of the Importance of
their husbands were used as a basis,
the book would run into several large
Volumes - -
= AZ. PAUL BoURGEr is completing q
story that is likely to be one of the
most sensational French books of the
year. It is to be called "Cosmopolis,"
and will be profound study of con-
temporary cosmopolitan society, the
principal scenes being set in Rome and
Venice
BLUsHINa has been for some time
looked upon as a disease. The discov-
cry of its proper microbe has not yet
been made public, but a publisher in
Liverpool announces the 12lst thousand
of pamphlet explaining sits cause,
self-treatment, and a rapid, permanent
and inexpensive cure"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
Peas as sheep Food.

There is no better sheep food than
peas. and as about as many peas can be
grown on an acre, If mixed--so as to be
half oats-as when grown alone, and
as the oats will, in ordinary years, hold
the peas up so they can be cut with a
mower, it is better to mix them in the
proportion of two bushels of the small
Canada field pea to one bushel of oats,
choosing kind of oats with pretty
stiff straw. The best way to prepare
the ground and sow the peas is to use
good land. Corn stubble, if one has it,
is best. but if sod ground is used have it
fall-plowed, or plowed as early in
spring as possible, and, as soon as it is
in good working order, harrow lightly
and sow two bushels of peas per acre;
Immediately pillow from four to six
inches, so as to cover the peas at least
four inches deep. Wait a week and
then sow one bushel per acre of oats,
and give a thorough narrowing. This
will leave the peas deep in the soil
and the oats near the surface, just
as they should be; it viii not in
jure the peas, will kill all weeds,
that have started and will give each an
even send-off to insure the largest
yield. 1t Is good plan to roll the
ground after the oats are narrowed, as
it will leave it smoother for harvesting.
Soon after the peas get beyond the
eating stage, and while still green
enough so that the pods will dry down
holding peas, cut the crop with mower,
and, when cured, so they will not mold,
but not enough so as to lose the leaves,
put them into cocks of two hundred
or three hundred pounds, and after
week of good curing weather they can
be simply aired out and put into mows
or they can be put into good-sized
stacks without cooking. but the stalks
should be topped, or capped, with any
cheap hay or swamp grass, put on w,nen
not more than half cured; otherwise
they will wet half through, and much
will be spoiled. This crop may be
threshed with a machine, but for sheep
feeding it will be better to feed with
out, as the sheep will eat anything
clean; and the farmer can feed accord
ing to his Judgment, and the haulm will
not be broken.-American Agricultur,
ist,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
August
Flower

Miss c. G. McCLAvE, School
teacher, 753 Park Place, Elmira, N.
Y. This Spring while away from
home teaching my first term in a
country school l was perfectly
wretched with that human agony
called dyspepsia. After dieting for
two weeks and getting no better, a
friend wrote me, suggesting that l
take August Flower. The very next
day l purchased a bottle. / am de-
lighted to say that August Flower
helped me SO that 1 have quite re-
covered frosn my indisposition." Q
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

Il OUSC GTOttyfe
with Catarrh. finally and completely,
or you have $500 in cash.
That's what is promised you, no
matter how bad your case or of how
long standing, by the proprietors of
DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Catarrh can be cured. Not with
the poisonous, irritating snuffs and
strong, caustic solutions, that simply
palliate for time, or perhaps, drive
the disease to the lungs-but with
DIR. Sage's Remedy.
The worst cases yield to its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing prop
critics. "Cold in the Head" needs
but a few applications. Catarrhal
Headache, and all the effects of Ca
tarrh in the Head such as often
sive breath, loss or impairment of
the senses of taste, smell and hear
ing, watering or weak eyes-are at
once relieved and cured.
In thousands of cases, where ev-
erything else has failed, DR.. Sage's
Remedy has produced perfect and
permanent cures. That gives its
proprietors faith to make the offer.
It's $500, or cure. They mean
to pay you, if they can't cure you.
But they mean to cure you, and
they can.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
ON TERRA FiRMA.
JOY OF the Mariner on Again Reaching
Mother Earth.

Joy OF the Mariner on Again Reaching
Mother Earth.
An English clergyman, who had never
before been off his tight little island, -
was on his way to Spain. After week
on shipboard, he landed in Lisbon. Till
then, he says, he had never appreciated
the feeling of freedom and joy so gen.
orally attributed to Jack on shore. "
He recalled a scene, at which he had
wondered at the time, ON the quay of
the repairing dock at Dover. Now he
understood what was then a mystery.
A large Norwegian emigrant ship,
damaged, had been lowed in for re-
pairs, and beheld the delight of those
homely emigrants as they were helped
down the ladder to the place where
stood, and sauntered up toward the
town. They seemed too full of JOY to
do anything but laugh, and prove their
freedom by stepping to this side and
that, or walking down this street and
up that one.
The men were of the poorest class of
laborers, and with most of them were
wives and children. By permission
wept.on board the vessel with two huge
bags of biscuit and sugar-plums for the
children-about fifty-and remember
the grace and courtesy of the poor
mothers, with children in arms or at
their sides, in never pushing forward to
get the little offerings for their darlings.
i remember, too, the dark, close
packed quarters, and the very savory
but rough cooking below decks, of
which the poor unintelligible people al
ways offered me a share. / remember,
too, the fair, fiaxen hair, and the dresses,
shapeless, but girdled around the waist,
and the ruddy cheeks of these poor wo-
men.
All this / remember. But one thing !
can never forget, n amely, the joy with
which, one and all, men, women and
children, they crowded down the steps
of the vessel, and streamed up to the
town, to the barracks, to the chief
streets, to the sea-front, to the country
around, only to look about, to feel free,
to pluck daisy, to throw a stone.
This was joy to them-joy so plainly
expressed in their smiles and gestures.
that one who saw could never forget it.
And now, after my short seven DAYS on
board steamer, felt my own Joy at
putting foot on shore, and / thought of
and understood the joy of the Norwe-
gian emigrants--Youth's Companion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
FIRESlDE FRAGMENTS.

"A holder attached to a long double
tape that may be looped around the
apron band saves steps and burned
fingers
-Scalloped Fish.-Skin and cut in
small pieces cod or haddock, Law in an
earthen dish, dredge in one-half cup of
hour, one teaspoon salt and pepper, one
tablespoon butter; cut in small pieces
and cover with milk. Bake forty min
utes.
told and Silver Cake.-Silver-On
teacup of white sugar, one-half cup OF
butter, whites of four eggs, two-thirds
of cup of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls
OF baking powder, two cups of flour;
hayoring. Gold-Same as above, using
the yolks of the four eggs and one
whole egg in addition. Free
Press.
"A New Silver PoIish.-Put two
thirds of a pint of alcohol in a wide
mouthed bottle, with one-third of a
pint OF ammonia and tablespoonful of
whitening; shake thoroughly. Wet
small sponge with this mixture, and go
over your silver or brass with It as
quickly as possible, rubbing it off with
soft flannel before 1t has chance to
dry.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Rice Balls.--Boil one pint of rice in
two quarts OF boiling water, slightly
salted. Turn into a colander to drain
DO not use spoon-and when it has
been put in cups and become cold, turn
INTO dish. Make boiled custard of
the yolks of three eggs, one pint of
sweet milk and one tablespoonful of
corn starch. Sweeten and fiaybr to
taste. Pour over the balls half an hour
before serving. A delicate and mex
Pensive dessert--Ohio Farmer
Tender pork chops done in thie way
are simply delicious: Fry them rown
on both sides; pour off all the grease,
adding about half a pint of Espagnole
sauce and a tablespoonful of curry
paste. Put the lid on the saucepan and
Simmer the chops on the fire very gent
ly for ten minutes longer, then add a
small piece of glaze. Toss the whole to-
gether, and dish them by arranging
them in circle and fill the center with
curried rice, pour the sauce over the
chops and serve.-N. Y. Tribune.
-Delmonico Pudding.-Heat quart
OF milk to boiling and stir into it three
tablespoonfuls cornstarch previously
moistened; let it boil few minutes,
then add the yolks of Ave eggs beaten
with six tablespoonfuls sugar and half
a teaspoonful extract of vanilla. Place
the whole in a pudding dish and bake.
Beat the whites stiff, add two or three
tab.espoonfuls sugar and few drops
extract of lemon; spread this over the
pudding as soon as done, or lay it on in
spoonfuls; return to oven and bake to
nice yellow. -Orange Judd Farmer
-Rump Steak With Sharp Sauce
Cut an onion very fine, place il in a
stewpan with two tahlespoonfuls of
butter, let it fry gently for one minute,
then place in the steak: let it fry a light
brown on both sides, then add half
pint of mushrooms chopped fine, salt
spoonful of mixed mustard, a table
spoonful of vinegar, little chopped
parsley, dust all with -four, add one
half ounce of moist sugar, and some
seasoning; let simmer together gently
one hour, then add little grated horse
radish. Place the steak in the center of
dish, pour the sauce over it, garnish
with slices of lemon, and serve very hot
-Housekeeper.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
Golden Advice.

Esculapius was idling in his garden
one bright morning, when a young stu
dent, greeting him, said:
Master, have been experimenting
during the dark hours of the night with
gold of divers karats for the purpose of
making 10 karat gold look like IA karat
gold, but / have failed / would fain
seek thy advice"
Youth" replied the wise man, thy
experience is green. Take the figures
i and 4, and the letter X, from thy
types, and with mallet stamp them
upon the gold" And the youth re-
joicing went away.-Jewelers Circular.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
Before You Take . Pacific Sion.

Fs- the far west; before you go aboard your
steamer, Pullman palace train or emigrant
car, see to it that among your outfits an
adequate supply of Hostetter's Stom ach
Bitters, medicinal safeguard specially
suited to the wants OF tourists, travellers,
emigrants and summer sojournera Cures
nausea, dyspepsia, languor, heartburn, ma
laria, rheumatism, etc.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10
The Only One Ever Printed-Can You Fine
the Word?

There is inch display advertisement
In this paper, this week, which has no two
words alike except one word. The same is
true of each new one appearing each week,
from the DR.. Harter Medicine Co. This
house places a "Crescent" on everything
they make and publish. Look for it, send
them the name of the word and they will
return you book, beautiful Autographs or
samples free.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

. F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O., Proprs. of
Halls Catarrh Cure, offer 500 reward for
any case of catarrh that can not be cured
by taking Halls Catarrh Cure Send for
testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists, 15c
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

PIMPLEs are inexpressibly Notifying.
Remedy-Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

where none grew before, and making
more grow where but little grows now.
Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

BEEcHAN's PILLS stimulate the ptyalin in
the saliva, remove depression, give appe-
tfte, and make the sick well.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

The value Of Alarm product is net always
declining when it is on the wain.-Boston
Courier.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

HEALTH TID-BrTs save weak. nervous mon.
81 trial box l0c. Ohio Chemical Co, Ciucin o
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

The best is as cheap as the poorest. Ge
the "A. B. e. Bohemian Bottled Beer" Of
St Louis. 1t has the true hop flavor
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

THE Rams Horn Is published at Indian
apolis, Indiana, at 81 so per year.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

The Puritans were not spectators, ar(
yet they frequently invested in stocks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

THERE are fifty-one metals, but IL you
have gold you will not worry about the
other fifty.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

The exercising of horses Just before q
race is the preamble.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

II you can't lick man be lenient with hi
faults.-Texas Siftiugs
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

Il was a very tender-hearted young lady
who refused to strike an octave.-Bostou
Transcript
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

NERVOUS afection-A mans ON the eve
Of proposal-Puck
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

COMPLIMENTS usually go out searching fol
mates.-Detroit Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-10

-
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy Of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial In its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend il
to. all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SXRUp CO.
SAW FRANCISCO. CA.
ioVySvIlif. KY. NEW yoRK. NJ
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
IN A GREEK RESTAURANT.
A Glimpse of the East Caught In the Pur
heus of New York City.
Nev York Mail and Exnress

A Glimpse of the East Caught In the Pur-
neus OF New York City.
New York Mail and Express.
On lower Washington street there is o
restaurant In many respects unlike any
other in town.
In this nei ghborhood the Greeks, Arme-
mans and Syrians who are in New York
manly live. and by their primitive ways
and dress offer a strong contrast to the
other denizens of these West-side tene-
ments who are more tough and dirty than
picturesque.
These people from the East retain their
original habits. no matter how long they
remain here. ana so IL is that they have
their own eating-place.
Ii is luxurious. too. in It's way. It is dim
~ lighted 10 begin with. There are dIvaHs
and couches NIL about the room and there
Is . generally Eastern air about the whole
place. There are many dishes with names
that il is impossible 10 make out, but which
seemed To be relished by the customers.
There speciality is dish which. IL Is said,
Go one but an Oriental can make in q man.
ner that IS proper. This is the plan. sort
of stew made of mutton and rice and
onions and something else.
liz is considered the best dish they con-
coct by the customers in the Washing on-
street resort, but 10 Is a tritic oubtful If IL
would take prize at DelmOnicO's.
Every thing goes on in a quiet, leisurely
manner In this restaurant After tho
heavier dishes there is coffee served IN very
small. thin cups It is black and strong.
Or if you don't like that there Is tea equal
~ strong and black.
Then. finally. the diner leans back on his
couch. smokes his long chibouk or putfs
delicately- perfumed cIgaret.ee III the dim
light. and dreams his day dreams redolen {
of the Arabian Nights There is no rush or
hurry. and time stands still.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09

ers call "dIckey." That is. they had bad
legs. and were liable to break down. They
could not stand the severe preparation for
o race. and yet Doble raced them right
along. Nobody ever knew how DOble did
it until Sam Gamble gave it away the
other day that Billy Barr aud HOtspur got
their training in the water.
The proprietor of the Southern Farm has
built q swimming tank at his place. and q
regular string of trotters are now daily
taking their work in the tank. Two weeks
of that.kind of exercise has taken the gross
flesh Oft them, and some OF them look ready
To go to fast work now. The tank IS
ample affair. liz is nothing more than q
cemented pit ninety feet long. twenty feet
wide and eight feet deep, with corrugated
inclines at each end. down W hich the horses
walk into the water. Thirty yards away
from the tank is ten-horse power boiler,
which furnishes the steam for the tank.
The steam Is forced into the water through
a two-inch pipe and the W alter is kept at q
little below blood heat. To make the bath
moro perfect. and to further insure against
colds. the water is strongly impregnated
with salt, about ton and half being
emptied into the pit. There are provisions
for emptying and filing the pit with fresh
wafer whenever necessary.
Briefly summed up, the advantages of
the swimming system are: There is no
monotonous jogging. and the amount of
driving required To get n horse warm
enough to do fast work Is done away with.
Comparative little Judgment Is required
in the water work, and there is the differ
ence to tho owner that lies between any
sensible man at $50 a month ami an expert
trainer at from 500 to $40 Der month. The
wear and tear of boots. harness and train
ers is avoided and the necessity for band
aging aud ieg-washing Is done away with.
The dyties of the rubber are less onerous,
and less skill is required of him.
Ii avoids the burning-out process, which
results so d. sastrously TO the lungs, diges-
tive organs, body and feet from the heat
generated throughout the body in the long
track work. Imperfections In gait do not
interfere with the swimming. and a horse
that goes wrong with track.wOrk can be
kept in condition while his lameness is be-
ing treated with the tank work. Swimming
gives perfect play of the muscles without
the slightest interference. So. one might
60 on for columns illustrating the advan-
tages in detail. but trainer will see 1t all
In the phrase: 1t is exercise without con-
cussiOn.