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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-07-09
A MECHANICAL PHYSICIAN.
A Doctor Who Confines His Practice ia
Typewriters. .

Doctor Who Confines His Practice to
Typewriters.
He is a little old man who always
travels about with grimy black bag
flung over his shoulder and he is known
in several hundred downtown business
offices as ''the DOCTOR" His line of prac-
tice is an unusual one. 1t is confined en-
tirely to type-writers and in all the ills
which these complicated machines are
heir to he poses as an eminent specialist.
His knowledge of mechanics is extern
sive and some years ago when type
writers first came in he was out of work.
While visiting the Office of manufac-
turer in search of employment he was
asked to repair a machine that was out
of order and he did it SO well that sew
eral of the other tenants of the building
engaged him to touch up their type
writer's.
He now has visiting list of patients
that extend into the hundreds and in
the course of a week he goes entirely
through it.
The stereotyped question which he al
ways asks, docs your writer need
doctorin'?" gave rise to his title and in q
way he is very proud of it.
The greater part of his work is done
on the spot with the tools that fill the
grimy black bag, but sometimes he finds
typewriter in such very bad way
that he carries it off to be repaired at
his home and where that is nobody in
this town has ever succeeded In finding
out.-N. Y. Commercial.
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There is now bill before the assem-.
bly, which may go long way toward
solving this question. It seeks to re-
move the difficulties which now stand
in the way of drafting tax bill that
will be satisfactory to every county in
the state. This measure was drawn up
by members of the Tax Reform associ-
alton of New York, and was introduced
in the assembly by Mr.. Connolly. II
provides, first, that the assessors shall
make a return of all kinds of property,
and then it is to be left to the local aus
thorities of each county to determine
whether real or personal property shall
bear the burden of taxation in the re-
spective counties. Some of the more
progressive members of the assembly
look upon this measure with favor, but
those who prefer to stick to the old
lines are opposing it. Its sup
porters refer TO it as a 'local option"
taxation measure, and it undoubtedly
would give to the taxpayers of each
county the right to say on what kind Of
property they will pay their taxeAv
n. Y. Tribune, :
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A Single Tax Petition.

The irrepressible Henry George men
are now to the front with something
new in the way of congressional petit
tions. FOR over two years they have
been quietly gathering signatures re-
questing she house of representatives
to appoint special committee for the
purpose of making full inquiry into.
and to report upon the expediency OF
raising all public revenues by single
tax upon the value of land, irrespective
of improvements, to the exclusion of
all other taxes, whether in the form of
tariffs upon imports, taxes upon inter
nal productions, or otherwise. This is
called 1.-THE single tax" and, as may be
seen, it is also absolute free trade.
Each signature is on separate slipof
paper containing the petition in full.
The slips number 115,503. They come
from all parts of the union, and are
signed by people whose neighbors, in
many cases, will be surprised to learn
OF their sympathy with Henry George.
ism. But it is the form in which the
petition Is arranged that makes it the
most unique thing of its kind. The
original slips are bound together in
books. of which there are SOL, arranged
by states. The books number as followsa
Alabama, 8 books; Arkansas, 4; Arii
IONA, L; California, 40; Colorado, IA;
Connecticticut, o; Delaware, 8; District
of Columbia, 8; Florida,6; Georgia, s;
Iowa, IS; Idaho, 1; Illinois, So; Indian
Territory, 8: Indiana, 10; Kansas, Is;
Kentucky, 8; Louisiana, s.; Maine, S;
Maryland, 7; Mississippi, 1; Montana. 81
Massachusetts,, 4s: Michigan, 20; Min
nesota, 10; Missouri, ss; New York, 115;
Nebraska, IL; Nevada, 1; New Hamp-
shire, 8; New Jersey, "a; New Mexico,
2; North Carolina, 1; North Dakota, Il
Ohio. 80; Oklahoma Territory,1; Oregon
5; Pennsylvania, Al; Rhode Island, 81
South Carolina, 1; South Dakota, 161
Tennessee,9; Texas, 90; Utah, 2;Vermont,
8; Virginia, S; Washington, Z; West
Virginia, 5; Wisconsin, 6; Wyoming. /;
miscellaneous, 2.
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A Model Husband.

Wife, saw the loveliest lace spreads
to-day, only two dollars and half, and
wanted them awfully, but knew you
wished to economic, and 20 l didn't
get them.
That's too bad, my dear, you should
have got them. Anything which adds
to your happiness and brings gladness
to your eyes, anything which lightens
your domestic cares and gilds the low
ering clouds, anything which borders
with sweet flowers tue thorny paths of
duty and appeals pleasantly to your
aesthetic nature, making life more
worth living. home paradise, you are
welcome, doubly welcome to, my angel,
if it doesn't cost more than two dollars
and half.'-N. Y, Weekly,
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late production and markets, inc gov"
and the bad are crushed between inc
great millstones of greed. But II so,
ciety were justly organized and equa.
opportunities given men, none couio
gain success did he not merit 1t, ana
none would suffer did he not deserve,
there would be no ill-gotten wealth ana
no involuntary poverty. Make sociaA
conditions equal for all seeking en-
ployment and hope will spring up III
the human breast; then it will be pos
sible for man to use his best powers an0
the reward of healthful ambition VIII
be set before each human being. we
will then have awakened desires 1or
the good things of life, intellectual ana
moral, as well as material, such as 1ur-
nish effective inspiration among the
few who are favored by special leglsiar
ton now.
When we have established conditlons
that guarantee to every man 1.-THE righs
to life, liberty and the pursuit OF hap
piness," there will be no liquor ques-
ton to solve. Man is what his social
environments make him. The brains
of our contemporary, the Times, OF Mr.
Evens of Tonawanda, and OF prohipi-
tionists in general, are working oacK-
wards. Jerry may not wear socks, out
his head is level when he asserts that
involuntary poverty is the mother OF
drink and crime.-Buffalo IN. Y.} Sum
day Truth.
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south, and, after the liberation of their
slaves from sense of duty, still re-
tanned nough to surround themselves
and family with all the comforts which
the people of their simple faith care TO
possess. In those days their great
stone house with its thick walls, broad
verandas and low windows met nv
idea OF the castles which were mixed
up with my meager knowledge of medi-
eval times. The macadamized road
that ran through the farm was lined on
either side with locust trees that in the
period Of blooming made the air heavy
with the perfume of the graceful white
blossoms waving in a background of
green that they almost concealed. A
never-failing spring that dubbed up
through moss-grown stone was embow-
cred in the overhanging branches of
strong-trunked weeping willows. The
great front yard had its driveways cut
through rich sward and wound among
towering naples. The garden had the
earliest, the latest and the sweetest
flowers. The stock was the latest and
the best cared for. The negroes who
would not leave kind master and mis-
tress found life of comparative ease
and plenty with them. The handsome
old gentleman was Grandpa Water
son" to all of us, and the wife, who al
lowed no visiting boy or girl to depart
without cookies, great mellow apples,
mince pie, maple sugarcakes or some
other evidence of kindness that took
all the world into her heart, was al
ways grandma"
No nobler couple ever trod the path
way OF life together and the sorrows
that came upon them suggested to me
ms boy The inscrutable ways of Proyi-
dence.
There were two sons in the family.
models of physical perfection and man.
ly courage. No handsomer could be
found. They were over six feet tail.
had the light curly hair, the blue eyes
and the fresh complexion so conspicu-
GUS in men of Anglo-Saxon origin.
They were highly educated, and idol
lied. not only by the parents but by the
four fair sisters and untold scores of
other peoples sisters, One had gone
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-07-09
RHODA RAGlAND.

sTwas the morning after Shiloh,
Way down in Tennessee,
was croisin' round among the woods
A friend Of mine and me,
When seed little maiden
Who was settin on a gun,
That was busted at the nozzle
From the work that II had dona
She had throws bit OF banner
Acrost her golden head,
An when asked her for her name,
She laughed and then she said:
my name is Rhoda Raglan,
An I'm waitiu'. don't you see,
For pappy dear 10 come back here,
VIII sompen good for me-"
I'VE was Twin in the cabin,
In the clarin' over thar,
Whar the little chi TX went rattlin' by
So sparklin' an so clar.
But now the waters muddy,
An it's bloody, an the banks
Is trampled, an my posies
Is jest ruined by them Yanks.
my pappy was q shootin'
For the southern side, you see,
An its strange that he don't come back here
VIII sompen good for me.
I'm gettin' Jest as hawngry
As I've hardly ever been,
An the way my pappy stays away
Is mighty nigh sin
"Our cabins full of hurried men,
They groaned the worstest way
They was hurted in the battle
With we'uns yesterday
An Their arms an legs blecdin',
1t was SIGH er awful sight,
didn't sleep little wink
The live long night
$50 I've come, good Mr.. Yankee
To wait for pappy here,
Ny mother went away TO God.
Last winter was year.
An we was Twin all alone
In the cabin over thar,
An why he don't come back to me
think it's monstrous quar-
She was q poorly five-year-old,
With eyes of deepest blue,
An fiossy curls an dimpled cheeks,
With roses in 'em too.
had some little kids at home,
Just like this battle waif,
And now thanked the Lord above
That they were well and safe
A minnie ball had pierced my arm,
That lay now In sling,
The hurt was just fiesh-cut,
An the pain smartish thing,
But had got II fairly
An well enough knew,
The helpless arm would take me home
Within q day or two.
So plead with Rhoda Raglan
To go along with me.
An maybe we would find her pap
Somewhat in Tennessee.
An yet know'd her father
Was away beyond life's Ills,
So tuck her TO Kentucky
To my home among the hills
We raised her jest as good an true,
As ef she'd been our own,
Blood Of mine and mothers,
And bone Of our bone.
An she's been as good a daughter
As any Of the three
An blessing to my homestead
An TO mother an to me-
She's thirty-six, or thereabouts,
can't exactly tell
But she married in the neighborhood,
And married monstrous well;
An she's got q little daughter,
That prattles at my knee,
An minds me heaps of Rhoda
Down at Shiloh-don't you see.
Will L. Visscher, in Banner of Gold
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A Long and Fair Test.

Sufferer Ito druggist)-And you say
these plasters are good ones; do they
effect immediate and permanent cures?
druggist (emphatically)-Yes, sir;
have tried them for twenty years, and
wouldn't be without them.-Texas Sift-
inps
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-07-09

I the breaking
out of the civil
war / was a
mere boy and
our n e a re S t
neighbor w a S
a fl o rid-faced.
k i n d-hearted,
generous oil d
Quaker. b o tn
he and his good
wife had been
reared in the
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west and soon established a popularity
that placed him in responsible public
position. The other had remained at
home and relieved Grandpa Waterson
Of every business care.
The startling news of active hostili-
ties flashed over the country. Henry,
the elder son, resigned his Office and
surprised us all by appearing one after
noon without previous notice. The
warm family greetings over, Henry
called his brother out for walk and
forgetful that "little pitchers have
ears" they allowed me to saunter
along. At the spring we all drank and
then followed long tramp in the shade
of the locusts. almost let out shout
of mingled terror and surprise when l
heard Henry say to Charles in the
language they had always used at home:
Charles, have decided to enlist
81 have already done So"
"Thee can't mean it. Do father and
mother know?,
It's more terrible to me than the dread
of war"
'Thee is nearer to them than /, Charles.
| will break the news to father when
we get back. No one can soothe mother
or break the news SO gently as he. I
am more than sorry that thee has taken
this step, for | came home to prevent
it. i wanted to make sure that one son
and one brother would be left. But it
is too late. have consented to COM
mand regiment of sharpshooters and
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The Best of Reasons.

Sorricus-A widow usually has hard
row to hoe.
Funnicus-That is on account Of her
weeds, of course.
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Jerry Simpson says they must cure
poverty before they do intemperance.
Jerry's brain is working backward
Buffalo Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-07-09

tcf, anu SO IL Is VIC DciieVc tHdt Jerry
brain is working" in the right direction.
Change the conditions under which
men live, make it just and fair, SO that
each will have an opportunity in life,
and there will be some hope of lifting
men out of their misery.
Enact laws that shall make il impos-
sible for men to legally acquire money
they do not earn, and let those who
labor be fully paid for what they pro-
duce. Make it impossible for men to
roll in wealth which can not by any
possibility be honestly acquired, and
make it unnecessary that other men
shall be stepped in poverty which can
not by any possibility be deserved.
Mems aspirations are higher and
grander than a desire to loaf at the
corner saloon. Place them upon an
equal footing in point of opportunity,
and the liquor question will solve itself
At present we are forcing them down
and into drunkenness and crime by
maintaining system which saddles
them with involuntary poverty.
Let us study Jerry's plan. It is the
only safe and practical one. Personal
ly, in point of mental and moral quail
ties men will never be equal. Some are
strong and others weak; some timid
and some courageous; some ambitious
and others indolent These factors are
ever operative and they all should de-
termine the relative success and failure
of men.
Under our present system of permit
ting Q few TO monopolise aud manipu-
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23
Prince Bismarck and His Friends.

BERLIN, July 23.-Prince Bismarck
and his family will leave Kissengen for
Varzin next Tuesday. The prince will
stop in Jena in response to an invitation
from the students of the university.
The visits which Prince Bismarck
planned to make in other German cities
are said to have been abandoned at the
earnest solicitation of his friends.
Freiherr Won Stumm, who retired from
the German embassy at Madrid on &C
count of his futile intercession with the
emperor for Bismarck, has been at Kis-
sengen for the last three days and is
thought to have been chiefly instru-
mental in altering the princes purpose.
Before Bismarck leaves Kissengen spe-
cial excursion trains will be run to that
resort from Berlin, Heidelberg, Mann.
helm and Darmstadt. More than 1900
of the princes admirers have already
taken tickets.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23
Chinese Stuck on Canada.

OTTAWA, July 23.-The alarm that
has been caused by the very large emf
grafton of Chinese eastward from the
Pacific coast appears to be warranted in
the startling increase in the Chinese
population in Montreal, Toronto and
other eastern Canadian cities, while the
upper states have doubled the Chinese
inhabitants within the past four months,
while after the completion of the Cana
dian Pacific railway the number of
Cinnamon returning to China was large
" in excess of che number of arrivals in
Canada Dun ing the past eighteen
months the turn of the tide in the ex,
odus has taken place, the arrival OF
Cinnamon having exceeded departures
for the Celestial empire by 80 per cent.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23
! II DOESN I Cd.
The Bluff Being Made by the
i Carnegie Company.
although About $50 Non,Union Men
4 Are at Work
4
The LoCked-Out SSeol Workers
inwa Are Confident
THE MILLS CAN NOT BE RUN
WITHOUT THEIR AID.
A 4
NOT 1 PER CENT. or THEM HAVE
, RETURNED TO WORK.

The Leaders of the strike Claim Vic
tory In Holding the Mcn Together, and
Believe They Can 30 SO indefinitely.
! Moral and Financial Assistance Con.
: tinues to Pour In--Mr. Frick Expected
/ Two-Thirds of the Men to Return to
! Work and Even Now Is Looking for a
+ Stampede-Uniess There Is Change from
] These Positive Views Of the situation
i the Day of Settlement Is Very Far DIS
4 'tant-Much Dissatisfaction Among the
Troops Mt Being Kept Away from Their
, Usual Avocations when They ID" Not
Think the Presence of 5000 SOLDIER
Necessary atcmcnt from the Advi
sory Committee.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July @A.-lncreased
activity was noticeable inside the blg
mill fence Friday. Non-union work
men We're coming 10y squads of from
ten to twenty at time by boat from
Pittsburg and few had got in unob'
served through the town Of Homestead.
The number of excursionists and sight.
seers who come here every day and the
presence of General Snowden's guards
makes this possible.
Something like $50 non-union mer
were inside the mill Friday. The
armor plate MILL the open hearth mil
and the press shop were in operation
Steel was passed through the rolls OF
the 1l0-inch mill Friday. The opera
lions of these departments means tina
Mr.. Prick and Superintendent Pottel
are making great efforts to convince
their old men that the mills can be rul
without their aid. 80.
The tonnage men are too well IN
formed of the true condition of affair
inside the mill to be alarmed at the
seeming activity. They know that th'
mills now in partial operation ar
manned by bosses, superintendents an'
half dozen non-unton steelworker
from the Carnegie mills ut Braddock
They know that 25o green men can no
run a plant where $500 experiences
hands were employed a month ago. Tn
effects on the day laborers and ignor
ant Hungarians may not he TN
same, but none of these men, with pos
sibly half a dozen exceptions, ShoF
signs of weakening.
Mr.. Prick confidently expected two
thirds of his old hands TO return Deior
the expiration of the time which he SET
The leaders of the strike therefor
claim victory in holding their men e
Eether. for not per cent. of the enur
humber has returned to his old place
They are confident that they can cor
tinue this state nf affairs .in5siinit"'"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23
Picnic and Brandanoes.

The season has arrived for picnics
barbccues, randances, etc, and the
LEAF-C HRoNlCLE has made prepara-
tons for the same Its job rooms are
well stocked with all kinds OF invi-
tations. in the latest styles, and we
will ;urnssh them at low prices.
Those wanting anything in this line
should not place their orders until
tn, y have examined our styles, print
ing and prices. 1t will pay you to
examine pe:ore purchasing elsewhere.
We can save you money and will
give you as nice work as can be
turned out by any first-class city
Office. mis- ,d&w-tf.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23

Think about these prices. Behold these
values:
Our celebrated bed ticking at Is and
zoe. now l24 and l5c.
22Ic. for best 1914 bleached sheeting.
zoe. for best 1914 fine brown sheeting.
10c. yd. for Lonsdale cambria.
II yds. Masonville Fruit or Lonsdale
bIeached domestic for 81.
IA yds. Hope domestic for 81.
20 yds. of beautiful quality bleached
domestic for 81, nice for ladies'
skirts, etc.
Any of the best brands of A brown
domestic, such as Great Western,
Still Ahead, ETC., Is yds. for 81.
A brown heavy domestic, 20 yds. for
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23
At Loggerhends.
CONTRACT LABOR.
Secretary Foster willing to Aid the
American Federation of Labor.

Secretary Foster willing to Aid the
American Federation of Labor.
NEW York, July 23.-Hon. Charles
Foster, secretary of the treasury, has
written the following letter to Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, in reply to a letter
from Mr., Gompers, in which he offered
to detail one or two men to aid in the
enforcement of the alien contract labor
law at Ellis Island,
Mr.. GUmpers;
Ny DEAR SIR have yours of the 18th
inst The instructions To the treasury de
partment on the subject of contrsct Labor
immigration are as stringent as we car
make them. OF course, necessarily The
agent who passes upon the admission Of
the immigr uts exercises his Judgment
upon the best evidence he can obtain.
am inclined favnrahly to consider YOU
application Tor the appointment of two IN
spectors to be recommended by yourself
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23

puJ as the RECOMMENDATIONS ror this class
of appointments must first come from the
superintendent in New York, will be OBJ
liged to have you confer with him. will
in the meantime forward your letter to
him with the suggestion that if, in his
opinion, the appointment of two men made
by yourself is admissible, that he make the
Recommendation. Yours truly,
CHARLES FOSTER
Mr.. Gompers visited Superintendent
Weber Thursday in accordance with
Secretary Fosters suggestion.
Colonel Weber explained in detail the
duties of the contract labor inspectors.
The latter number fourteen, and among
them are two Knights of Labor, one
Federation man and others representing
the iron, steel and glass industries.
Colonel Weber says that he would be
happy to consider the suggestions that
might come from the executive commit.
tee of the American Federation of La.
Dor, and Mr.. Gompers said he would
consult will. his fellow-officers and com
municate With Colonel Weber within q
| few days.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23

Douglass, Alter Forwood, Hamilton
& Browns big az line and many
other custom lines.
Good Oxford ties at 75c.
Toe slippers at SOC.
Picnic slippers at 90c.
McGehee Bros. great wear line of la
dies dongola kid shoes reduced dur
ing this sale to $1.75.
Ladies' all solid kid shoes, 3 to s, at
$l.00. go
$50 pairs of samples of mems shoes,
all 6, 7, s and 9s, at from 81 to So per
pair, worth just double.
HIGH ART CLOTHING DEPT.
Make complete surrender of prices.
Mems SIS suits reduced to $500.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23
NOTION 8.

&c. spool for Belongs embroidery silk.
lac paper for good full count pins.
&c. doz. for safety pins, large or small.
DC. box for best mourning pins.
&c. ball for darning cotton.
&c. ball for tinsel cord, worth Sc.
&c. paper for sewing needles.
25c. for best quality knitting silk.
&c. box for hair pins, 100 in box.
Sc. gross for white agate buttons.
SC. for good India rubber combs.
25c. for the best rubber comb, hard to
match at SOC.
Corsets at zoe.
5Oc. for corset, hard to match at 75c.
Zoe. for as good corset as you ever
bought for ST.