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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
The Attractions of New York.

Nearly nine thousand children in New
York city are making envelopes at
three and half cents Thousand.
Other thousands are feather shippers,
cutting from the stem, curling and
packing, for ten hours day, many of
the working-places being dark base
ments close and foul. A host make
paper collars, for a child of five can do
this A girl of twelve counts and boxes
twenty thousand day. A grand
mother of eighty and child of four sit
side by side stripping tobacco, the hands
of the little ones covered with sores,
and her face waxy pale. Hyster-
ia, epilepsy, nervous diseases in many
forms, wait on this work in which the
fumes of nicotine take the place of
oxygen. Yet legislation seems power
less to effect the matter and only an
aroused public feeling. in clear UNDER
standing of what price we must some
day pay for each defrauded body and
starved soul, lies any hope of remedy.
Whether worker or outcast most needs
help many a looker-on has questioned;
for often the outcast has Jared the bet
ter and knows, even at the worst, some
joy in ing.-From 'Child Life in the
Slums of New York"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

The human stomach possesses most
wonderful powers of adaptation to cir
cumstances. When Lieut.. Bligh and
his eighteen men were cast off from
the Bounty by the mutineers in an open
boat they subsisted forty-one days on
daily allowance of one-twenty-fifth of
pound of biscuit per man and a Quar-
ter of pint of water. DR.. Tanner in
1880 tasted Tor forty days, suhsisting,
II is said, on water alone, and Succi
and other fasting men have since cx-
celled this. Kaffirs, North American
Indians and TIRE ''fat boy" in 'sPick.
wick" may wei be quoted as fearful
examples OF voracity. but even their
Rastron mic feats are exceeded ny The
full-grown Esqulmau,: who will cat
daily twenty pounds Of flesh and oil II
he has the chance, while on the au-
thority of Admiral Saritcheff a Yakus
OF Siberia has been known to consume
In twenty-four hours the headquarters
OF large OK, twenty pounds of fat and
q quantity of melted butter for his
drink. Public Opinion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
WHAT ARE THEY DOING AT HOME

] am far from the home that was dearest to me
When my heart was the child's heart, so fear
less and free;
But over tho mountain and over the wave
MY thought reaches back with the yearnings
that crave
A whisper. murmur Wherever roam,
I wonder: "Now, what are they doing at homer"
Docs mother still sit in the splint- bottomcd
chair,
A little more snow sifted through her dark hair:
Is the basket beside her with mending heaped
highf
And who threads her reedle when am not by:
Does father drive Bess at snail's creeping
pace,
And hang up his hat in the selfsamc old place;
DO the neighbors drop in for le!surely chat
or the fortunes OF this one the trials of that?
Are there tidings the village is happy TO share
or some world-famous man once q merry boy
there?
OH over the hill-tops and over the foam
long to hear what they are doing at home.
My dear little sister, SO dimpled and brown
No prettier maid in this great bustling town
Is she lissome and tall, is she plant and sweet
And fair as lily from head unto feet!
My mothers own daughter, as pure as q pearl,
What wooer can mate with so peerless girl?
Oh, sister. whose steps have not yet learned
roam,
am fam TO see what you are doing at home.
long to go back where the Yule fires blaze
To take up the tasks Of the simple old days.
To hnd my content in the old homely round
Tapped safe in the peace OF o love as profound
As the heart that throbs ever beneath the
deep sea.
But, alas the worlds letters are bound about
me;
never again can stay TRANQUILITY there,
Though never seemed home so divine and so
fair,
And there's pain in the questions so ceascless
that come.
Oh, what are they doing, my dear ones at home:
Elizabeth Chisholm, in Harpers Bazaar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle in IN able
editorial article concerning the de-
crease of the total assessed valuation
of personal property in that city, over .
million and half during the past year.
closes as follows:
Every effort at Albany to give effect
to personally taxation to make the per.
sonal pay its share of the taxes, to rate
all sorts of possessions within this
range Of the levy, has left things worse
than before. 1t might be thought well
to repeat the experiment made in Penn.
sylvania and elsewhere and, with cor.
porate and some other exceptions, to
exempt personal property. Able think
ers and writer's have urged this course.
They have contended that with the ex.
ceptions suggested, the list of which
has been enlarged or curtailed accord.
ing to various recommends tions, taxes
should be levied on real estate, houses
and land, in proportion to its actual
value. They have favored this
measure, not for the purpose of reform
ing or revolutionizing socie ty or con-
fiscating landed property, not with q
view to bring in by some communistic,
socialistic, nationalistic or other forcing
process q premature millennium, but
simply because real estate is the best
distributor of taxes. It has been often
shown that, under fair system of real
estate taxation, it is alike impossible
for Mr.. Astor or the woman who washes
his clothes to escape from contributing
a share to the general burden of expen-
diture.
BrA whether radical methods shall
be tried or whether there may suddenly
be developed method of making asses
sors omniscient as we'll as inquisitive,
or of compelling owners to tell the
truth and inculcating widely sense
of the sin of perjury, something ought
to be done about the personal tax.
There ought to be an end Of that annual
absurdity of the official statement that
of all other than landed property there
is an amount equal to only about SIS
for each inhabitant.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
Farmers May Then Prospect

In the nature of things the personal
property tax is a farce, and as such,
how much better that it be- abolished
entirely and that real estate, the natur-
al bearer of burdens for the support of
government, be obliged to carry it.
This may not appear at first favorable
plan to the farmers, but after all, the
increased taxation such a plan would
entail, would not affect him SO much,
lit would affect him but little in fact)
as it would the owners of property in
large towns and cities valued at large
amounts; amounts when put in compar-
ison to the farmers real estate value in
point of size, are as the mountain to the
mole hill. There are single acres with
in the limits of our great cities which
would sell on the market at the enorm-
GUS value of $15,000.000 How much
would single acre of the farmers
valued at? And if he paid his taxes on
his real estate according to that value,
and the city real estate paid in proper
ton to its value, is it not clear that the
farmers taxes would drop down to al
most nothing. would pale into insignifi-
canoe? And is it not equally clear that
this valuable real estate in and near the
big cities would be paying the lions
share of the taxes, and at the same time
a more just share, when the present
personal property tax farce is wiped
from the face of mother nature?"
Then rejoice, O, We farmers" land
be exceeding glad!!" E. ]. r.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
Modern Methods.

Direct taxation is right in principle.
because it makes taxpayer conscious
of what the government takes in reve-
nue., and therefore enlists him on the
side of economical administration.
Furthermore, direct taxation takes
from the taxpayer nothing more than
is turned into the public treasury. Up
on moral grounds, direct taxation is
better than any other, because If ap-
piled to right objects, it offers no prem
ium upon dishonesty.
Real estate offers the best subject for
taxation, because it is get-at-able and
can not be concealed, and because
such taxation does not discourage the
investment of capital in productive OPP
Grafton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
German
Syrup

My niece, Emeline Hawley, was,
taken with splitting blood. and she
became very much alarmed, fearing
that dreaded disease, Consumption,
She tried nearly all kinds of medi.
cine but nothing did her any good .
Finally she took German Syrup and
she told me it did her more good
than anything she ever tried. II
stopped the blood, gave her strength
and ease, and a good appetite. !
had it from her own lips. Mrs.
Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn.
Honor to German Syrup. q
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

ut is no wonder that in their desper.
alton the small farmers should cry ont
for the equal enforcement of the laws
taxing personally; it is no wonder that
thcy should attempt tostem the current
IN ignorance of the impossibility OF the
task. They have forgotten Walrole's
saying, that it is safer to tax real than
personal estate, because landed gentle
men are like Che flocl<s upon their
plains, who suffer themselves 10 be
shorn without resistance; WHEREAS the
trading part of the nation resemble the
boar, who will not suffer bristle to b
plucked from his back without making
the whole parish to echo with his COM
plants. Sinclair, His Of Public lev.
Vol iii Appendix p 70
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
A Loadstone Upon the Neck of Toll

The spirit of the law of personal tax.
alton tends to discourage industry and
thrift amongst all classes of workers,
and were the law fully and effectively
enforced 1t would be still more dcstruc.
tive in its results It IL indeed q weight
upon the hoe-handle Of industry, and
nowhere Is this more conspicuously
shown than in the tax upon deposits in
savings banks which are largely hand
earned savings, the results of the in
dustry of the working classes. Long
Islander, Huntington, Suffolk County.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

transaction. and, finally, had taken in
hand a correspondence with the family
of my betrothed, leaving me powerless
to interfere.
was led to q cell finally, still hand.
cuffed, to stay till or-lng For five
minutes / was left there. My cell
mates were two men, one a negro.
The white man was beastly drunk.
He walked up as the door was unbolted
for me to enter and then bolted after
me. He grumbled at being walked and
cursed at me, and presently he was
snoring again. The atmosphere was sui
try and melodorous. There were thieves
and cut-throats for company. I ~. )
one of them. Tomorrow morning
was going to Philadelphia with my
shabby friend. / wondered vaguely If
my double would actually take it into
his head to marry my bride, and then
wondered if l was going crazy. l was
afraid so.
These thoughts were interrupted by
another clanking of bolts and rafting
of iron doors. My shabby friend and
the turnkey were coming directly to.
ward my cell. The detective was
swearing viciously.
well, Linky," he said to me, ''the
lawyers will get whack at you after
all. It's habeas corpus, reckon"
"Thank Godl" I said, huskily.
"Linky," the detective continued, SO
riously, whats the use of this? You're
only making trouble for us, an that
amt your best game. Go along quiet,
why don't you? A day or two, or
week. amt goin' to h clip you any"
But the chief said to hold him any.
how" interrupted the turnkey.
learned then that a telegram had
been received from Mr.. Pearson, my
brides father. and that the chief of
police had ordered me held in Gin.
cinnati until the case could be investi.
gated.
'The oil mans comm on HIMSELF
added the turnkey. ''They tell me he
chartered special engine for the trip,
and is to reach here at 6:40-one hour
and twenty minutes to wait"
Gradually l reasoned to the con-
clusion that this must be the work OF
Link Murphy himself. That was the
telegram he had sent Mr.. Pearson-a
message that was bringing the old gen.
tleman on post haste to Cincinnati.
was too happy to care for my shah
by friends disappointment or profani.
ty. positively smiled at the thought
of what he would do when he learned
that | was really not Link Murphy, and
that the real Link Murphy had swindled
him out of one hundred dollars
There is little more to be said. Mr..
Pearson, taking hold of the case in
business-like way, soon Strengthened
the matter ont. / was kept in custody
two days in comfortable quarters under
guard, postponing the marriage just
that long was unhappy and misera-
BILE of course, until walked off a free
man. and then was altogether happy.
l even forgave quite heartily my shah
by friend, the detective.
The night of the wedding we found,
among scores of letters and kilograms
of congr atulation, this note:
''Afr. and Mrs. Parker M. Leonard:
! wish you long. useful and happy
life together. Be good enough in your
happiness to forget the suffering have
caused You, and to accept the heartfelt
congratulations of John Lloyd Evans"
Troy Times. 4.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
The lnquisition.

It is difficult to overrate the moral
and material advantages we shall gain
by abolishing all taxes upon personal
property. We should be relieved at
once from inquisitorial visits upon the
part of assessors. More than half of
the trouble and expense of assessing
and collecting taxes would disappear
were personal property stricken from
the assessment roll.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
Inequality Rampant.

'If taxing an individual in proportion
to his means is to be the test of equity
of taxation, inequality seems to be i'm
separately associated with the great ma
jority of taxes"-H. Fawcett, Man. of
Pol E., 9Th Ed, p. SIT.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
They Feel Where the Shoe Pinches

Those who are earning what they re-
ceive by any kind of honest endeavor
are becoming convinced that taxes are
SO levied as to bear more heavily upon
them than upon those who do nothing
or next to nothing that is of the least
use to any body.-American Machinist.
n. Y. City.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

"YorK chairs look 80 colloquial" said .
visitor TO her hostess the other day; ''they
r ally scem to beg your guests to sit down
costly and chat in comfort together ~ Ros-
ton Transcript
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
That's What's the Matter.

The folly of taxing such perishable
and shifting products as groceries in
the store, or wheat and corn in tho
farmers bins, o. his horses and cows.
has been demonstrated time and time
again.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

II you are constipated, bilious or troubled
with ick headache, Beecham's Pills afford
lmmedi .te reliS. or druggists. 25 &c ltS.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

DON'T Wheeze and cough when Hals's
Honey Of Horehound aud Tar will cure
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

FEE Admission Tickets to the Worlds
Fair are being offered by The Chicago Scale
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

SOCIETY Chit-C you are no
longer abroad" He-"Er-No Are youi"-
Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

PEoPLE who cling 10 the anchor Of ho,s
citen have to so down into the mud with It
Puck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

Nor necessarily after a bird-the man
who goes out for = lark.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11

HooosS PilL9 are the best after-dinner Pilll
assist digestion. cure headache and bilioueness.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11


"Has he gone yet?" asked another de-
tective.
His train left at 1890" said the
narrator, looking at his watch. 'Iguess
he sifted pretty soon after we came
and turned over the money to him.
Anyhow, he's gone now. for it's exactly
one o'clock"
l had listened in absolute amaze
ment
do you mean." asked, shat some
man got one hundred dollars from you
for pointing me out?"
Precisely"
1t must have been my double-no
other than Link Murphy himself.
LET me interrupt just once more, -
said !. II must send some explanation
to this young lady's family. You won't
let me telegraph her nor her father.
Let me send the message through the
chief of police at tina: place He will
know Howard Pearson, and surely you
can trust the chief of police"
Pearson repeated one of the men.
II think that's it. Think our man tele-
graphed him over an hour ago think
that's the name"
'What did he say?' gasped.
"Who?"
This man who pointed me out to
You. What message did he send to Mr.
Pearson?"
don't let Il scare you. don't know
what Il was"
The Internal impudence Of that man
Link Murphy! He had thrown the po-
lice of his own track by having me arr
rested. he had put one hundred dollars
in bis own pockets as net profit on the
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20
TAKEN BACK TO NORTH CAROLINA
The Sheriff Takes the Old Abductor Back
What the Oflcer Says.
. 1.-THE State,7

Sheriff Monroe, of Rowan County,
n. c., arrived in the city yesterday
morning for the purpose of taking B.
H. Wood, the old white man captured
here Sunday last charged with the ab-
duction of little Lucia Coley, back to
North Carolina to answer to the in
dictment.
The Sheriff says the feeling in North
Carolina is very strong against the old
man, and be will likely get the full ex-
tent of the law for his crime. he says
Woods quarreIsome disposition has
always made his reputation bad in the
county. He says Wooo left an estima
BILE wife to run away with the little
child. All the people in the county
think that Wood forcibly abducted the
child, and that she did not act of bel
own volition in coming away with
him. He says the child's father die
all be could to trace them down, but
being poor man could not follow
them about tho country. The sheriff
left with his prisoner last evening.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20

It isn't in the ordinary way that DR..
Pierce's favorite Prescription comes to
the weak and suffering woman who
needs it. It's guaranteed. Not with
words merely; any medicine can make
claims and promises. What is done
with the "Favorite Prescription" is
this: if it fails to benefit or cure, in any
case, your money is returned. Can
you ask any better proof that q medi-
cine will do what it promises?
It'san invigorating, restorative tonic,
q soothing and strengthening nervine,
and a certain remedy for the ills and
ailments that beset a woman. In "fe-
male complaints of every kind. peri
odical pains, internal Inflammation or
liberation, bearing-down sensations,
and all chronic weaknesses and 1rregu-
larities, it is positive and complete
cure.
To every tired, overworked woman,
and to every weak, nervous, and alllng
one, it is guaranteed TO bring neaitn
and strength.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20
rather be beaten by frst-class fellow
than to just beat little pup.
ON THE ROAD TO HEAVEN.

AS I look around on my way to heav-
en- I say I do wish I could see the
grand old Presbyterian church and her
grand old engine start away and see
her move out. and see the grand old
Methodist church out in line, and the
grand old Episcopal church and the
grand old Catholic church, all these
mighty engines of power with their
freight out on the track, with their
throttles pulled wide open, the track
sanded, and the sparks just flying,
from all over there, each trying to beat
the other, and as We roll on towards
God mile minute and look down
the river and see the old Baptist and
Christian steamboat coming up the
river just as fast as they can come. Oh,
my Lord, help us to whip the fight,
win the prize and wear the crown.
Get up, shake the dust off and be a
man.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20

features, fashirg black eyes and browr
complexion, low in statue and Of neat
appearance-wa smoking cigarettes at
the rear entrance. The effects Of the
financial stringency was even to be
seen on Midway. The Javanese vii
lage, one of its most quiet and inter
esting sigh s-had thrown mp the
sponge and notified the Exposition
managers that it could not pay the toll
of twenty-five per cent. on its receipt:
the same as charged the other shows.
The Press Association visited the
Dahomey village in a body. 1t was
interesting only in the fact that we
saw there party of negroes with a
dialect of their own, but with scant
attire, and using American cooking
utensils and gambling with American
pasteboard for pennies tossed them by
the visitors. The women of Dahomey
were stouter-looking than the men,
but had no appearance of being the
fighters in their army. The men are
infatuated with jewelry. One fellow,
engaged in washing dishes, wanted a
lady in our party to give him large
brooch she wore. He was rollicksome in
an effort to make bis desire known by
gesticulation, chattering like e. nagpie
and showing his white teeth. We did
not waste valuable time by waiting
two hours for the Dahomeyans to give
their native dance on the platform in
the center of the village.
The German village, the Irish village
and the Streets of Cairo are three things
in Midway that are worth seeing. The
Streets of Cairo contains twenty-four
pieces Of architecture direct from Cairo
itself, all set.up and so arranged that on
entering the place you feel like you are
breathing an Egyptian atmosphere.
There the camel drivers are raking
in the shekeis and also the small boys
who run the donkey transportation.
The Egyptian donkey is very small
animal and easy to get on and off. 1t
is the camel that takes the fancy OF
American girl, and ride she would and
ride she docs tolthe amusement of the
bustling throug in the narrow streets.
Disnounting the camel causes the
fun. The animal in kneeling to be
relieved of its rider would get dow2
upon its knees, and up and down, in a
wave-like motion, its humps would
go! Then before the fair rider was
scarcely aware of it, the Egyptian
driver would grasp her with both arms
around the waist and plant her feet
upon the ground. The trips upon the
camels and donkeys were made by all
types of the American woman and the
children ID quick succession, as the
drivers with shouts would. speed the
beasts from one end of the street to the
other. This programme. would be kept
up all day. There were other attrac'
tiops-jugglery, ancient religious and
marriage rites; the mummy Of the
Pharaohs in the days of Moses, all to
be seen at extra fees. The entrance
fees to all the Midway shows amount
to S13.75, but the theatres and gardens
inside the villages further increase this
sum to $30.25. With the exception OF
those noted above, and possibly a few
others, Midway is an aggregation OF
fakes. Americans must see everything
going on, however, and Midway is
thronged all day with curiosity-seek-
ing crowd. W. P. H.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20
SWANS TALE OF WOE.
he Complains Of bad Treatment While In
Jail-Governor Tillman Gets Mad and
Talks Very Large About 1t.
1.-THE State, 13th.1

The following letter from the most
widely known of the States liquor
spies was received yesterday morning
ct the Executive office, and it made
Governor Tillman pretty hot, as will
be seen from his remarks below on the
subject: ooo
CHARLESTON, Sept, Z, 1893.
"Governor B. r. Tillman.
DEAR SIR: I came out of Jail yester-
day afternoon, after being most bru-
tally treated. My bedding was sent
and was refused by the jailer. l was
put in room with four burglars and
thieves. My bed was narrow bench
with my coat for a pillow. I have to
report to the United States marshal
daily. My instructions are to make
no cases or arrests.
Very respectfully,
&C r SWAMI