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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
The Single Tax View Of It.

I can only ask you to think upon this
thing, and the more you will see its de-
STABILITY. As an English friend of
mine puts it: mo taxes and a pension
for everybody" and why should it not
be? To take land values for public
purposes is not really to impose tax,
but to take for public purposes value
created by the community. And out of
the fund which would thus come from
the common property, we might. with
out degradation to anybody, provide
enough to actually secure from want
all who were deprived of their natural
protectors, or met with accident; or any
man who should grow so old that he
could not work. All prating that is
heard from some quarters about its
hurting the common people to give
them what they do not work for is
humbug. The truth is, that anything
that Injuries self-respect, degrades, does
harm; but If you give it as right, a.
something to which every citizen is enti-
tied. II does not degrade. Charity schools
do degrade the children that are sent to
them. but public schools do not
But I'll such benefits - these while
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
LAND POOR.

rye had another offer. wife-a twenty acres
more.
of high and dry prairie land, as level as floor.
thought I'D wait and see you first, as Lawyer
Brady said
To tell how things will turn out best, woman
is ahead
And when this lot is paid for and we have got
the deed
I'll say that am satisied-its all the land we
need
And next we'll see about the yard, and fix the
house up some
And manage in the course Of time to have q
better home
There is no use OF talking Charles-you buy
that twenty more,
And Wen go scrimping all our lives, and always
be land poor.
For thirty years we've tugged and shaved, deny
ing half our needs.
While all we have to show for it is tax receipts
and deedsl
I'd sell the land If it were mine. and have bet
ter home,
With broad light rooms TO front the street, and
take life as 1t comes.
II we could live as others live, and have what
others do,
We'd live enough sight pleasanter, and have q
PAShsss VIZ
While others have amusements and luxury and
books,
Just think how stingy we have lived, and how
this old place looks
That other farm you bought of Wells. that took
so many years
or clearing up and fencing in, has cost me many
tears.
Yes, Charles I've thought OF it a hundred times
or more
And wondered If 1t really paid 70 always be
That had we built a coy house. took pleasure
Our children once so dear to us, had never left
our home.
grieve to think of wasted weeks and years and
months and days,
While for It all we never yet have had one word
Of praise.
Men call US rich. but we are poor-wouid we not
freely give
The land and all its fixtures for better way to
live?
Don't think I'm blaming you, Charles-you'rc
not whit to blame
I've pitied you these many years to see you
tired and lame.
It's just the way we started out, our plans too
far ahead,
We've worn the cream OF life away, to leave too
much when dead
It's putting OF enjoyment long after we enjoy
And after all too much Of wealth seems useless
as toy
Although we've learned, alas, too late, what ell
must learn at last,
Our brightest earthly happiness is buried in the
past
That life is short and full of care the end il al
ways nigh,
We seldom half begin TO live before we're
doomed 10 die.
Were to start my life again, I'd mark each
separate day.
And never let single one pass ypenjoyed away
II there were things to envy, I'd have them now
and then,
And have homo that was a home, and not q
cage or PEN
I'd sell some land II it.were mine, and lit up
well the rest.
I've always thought and think so yet small
farms well worked are best
j. w. Donovan, In Farm and Fireside
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20

great, would be incidental The gfea1
thing would be that the reform I pro.
pose would tend to open opportunities
to labor and enable men to provide EN-.
ployment for themselves That is tho
great advantage. We should gain the
enormous productive power that b go
ing to waste all over the country. the
power of idle hands that would gladly
be at work. And, that removed, then
yoti would see wages begin to mount.
1t is not that everyone would turn
farmer. or everyone build himself q
house ii he had an opportunity for do
ing so, but SO many could, and would
as to relieve the pressure ON the la
Dor market and provide employment
for all others And as wages
mounted to the higher levels, then you
would see the productive power I'M
creased. The country where wages are
high is the country of greatest .produc-
tive power. Where wages are highest
there will invention be most active;
there will labor be most intelligent;
there will be the greatest yield for the
expenditure Of exertion. (Applause.)
The more ron think of it., the more
clearly you will see that what say is
true. can not hope to convince you
in nm hour or two; but shall be con-
tent ii shall put you upon inquiry.
Think for yourselves; ask yourselves
whether this widespread fact OF pow
erty is not crime, and q crime for
which every one of us. man and woman,
who does not do what he or she can do
to call attention to it and to do away
with it, is responsible. George.
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he was making them perform q large
black and white tom cat appeared and
went to cycling the lively rats. Johnny
tied his little team to the prop when he
heard the cars, and the tom cat sat On
tie with his tail across the rail.
worked his smellers and glared at the
rats. While he was watching the hop
ping animals the wheel of car cut off
his tail two inches from his body. and
he instantly went yowling and splitting
toward the mule barn. The cats an
ties made Johnny roar. "Bet he won't
watch my rats again very soon," he
said. Soon the trips stopped coming
1t was the quitting hour, and Johnny
turned the four rats loose, and said to
the visitor:
Come with me to the barn, mister,
if you want to see some fun"
Eleven well-fed cats and a lot OF
kittens were purring around the mule
foreman near the feed box. Several
dead rats lay on the floor, and Johnny
said that the cats always lugged the
rats to the feed box, no matter how far
away in the mine they caught them.
All the mules were in the stalls, and in
the pickering light from the smoking
oil lamps the foreman dumped the
provender into their hangers. Present
~ you could hear the rats climbing
up and tumbling into the managers. and
at that the mules struck at the feed
70 bbers with their noses and grunted.
The bob-tailed tom cat bounded out of
stall with mammoth rat in his
mouth, and Johnny seized the cat and
took it away. But the rat had re-
ceived a fatal bite, and the boy gave it
back to the cat.
The next thing Johnny did was to
reach in a manger and bring out
kicking rat in each hand. He gave
them free swing over his lap, put them
in his pockets, let them crawl over his
shoulders and then tossed them into
the hay. He caught two more present
~, held them up by the tails in front
of the cats and stuck them in his
pockets when the cats sprang at them,
afterward placing them in the one Of
the managers.
81 don't know why the rats never
bite me-" said Johnny, unless it is
because they know l won't hurt 'em.
like rats better than l do cats or
dogs, and don't think / ever killed
one. I've caught and played with rats
ever since l was little boy. They are
SO bright-eyed and slick that l like to
handle 'em and harness 'em up, and
guess they all tell one another that
never hurt 'em when l catch 'em."--
N. Y. Sun.
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handle the biggest and most vicious
mine rats just as he pleases without
being bitten. No one else in the mine
can do it, and the miners and mule
drivers assert that Johnny has mys-
FERROUS power over the four-legged
pests of the mine. Johnny never hurts
or kills a rat, although every other
laborer in the mine Stays every rat he
gets chance to, and the foreman of
the mule barn sets all sorts of traps
for the rats and keeps an army o: cats
to prey on them. It is impossible to
exterminate the mine rats, and Johnny
Roche says he is glad of it, because he
would be lonesome if all the rats were
killed The rats get into the mine in
bales of hay for the mules and by
backing down the timbers of the shaft.
They arrive and breed faster than the
men and cats can kill them. and
Johnny is cheerful whenever a new
hatch comes.
A man fond of oddities found out the
other day when he was lowered into
the mine that Johnny Roche's way of
catching rats with his bare hands was
very interesting. As soon as there
was an interval between trips Johnny
placed his lamp on chunk Of coal at
the side of the gangway and crawled
on his hands and knees into chamber
few feet away. In minute or SO q
big gray rat hoped along the top of
the COB, between Johnny and the
light, aud the next instant Johnny's
right hand shot out and caught the rat
by the back of the neck. He brought
the rat out to the lamp to let the
visitor see it and then he looked in its
mouth, smoothed its fur and held it up
by the tail. A trip of cars was com.
ing, and Johnny slipped the rat into
his coat pocket, unlocked the link,
hooked another, took the rat out, tied
a strand of lamp wick loosely around
its neck and drove it back and forth in
the dim light When the lad heard
the next trip rumbling through the
mine toward him he fastened the wick
to a prop and attended to his duties.
The rat didn't offer to yank away or
to bite the wick in two, but it hoped
about little and then it sat upon its
hind quarters. gazed at Johnny and
squealed as though it wanted him to
come aud fondle it
''Pll catch another rat now aud
harness it with this ons." said the boy,
and again he crept into the recess and
faced the lamp The rat danced
around the prop. but didn't break
loose. and just bafors the next trip
came Johnny nabbed another big rat
end put IT IN HE pocket A. soon q
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
"oE LIFTln' FLOOD TIDE"

Odd Whims of tho Dwellers Alb nut tho
North Carolina Tide EstuarleS
Queer enough are some of the
notions held by the dwcllers In remote
districts by the sea in North Carolina, ("
years ago l was aboard the United
States coast survey schooner Quadrant
in Pamlico sound bounl for Charleston.
The vessel could be trimmed to five feet
OF water, SO rather than go outside we
tried to make our destination by way of
the narrow, devious channel of Core
sound. The vessel bumped along for
twenty-five or thirty miles and at last
grounded solidly While we backed
and heaved in futile cndeavor to get the
schooner aaoat, an old negro in a dug
out canoe came up and looked curiously
on.
"'Well, Uncle, what do You think of
itg / called.
"He shook his head and looked as
wise as Uncle Remus.
"'Yer can't git off now. boss, he said,
with an air of certainty. Yer mus
wait fur de flood tide. De food tide
am a liftin' tide Yer kin float in a foot
less water on de flood tide dan yer kin
on de ebb'
Whether or not the colored sage's
theory would hold water, so to speak,
it is sure that we had to wait for de
liftin' tide when the vessel came off
the shoal without difficulty.
Pursuing our way the following day
through the same shoal waters we
gradually came up with a small
schooner whose patched and dinry
sails were double reefed, although the
wind was very light / hailed her in
passing with the rather presumptuous
inquiry:
why don't you turn out those reefs
and make more sailY
Back came the answer in lacka-
daisical twang from goat-bearded,
slouchy man, who was straddling the
tiller:
why, yer burned fool. thar amt
half wind enough fur what sail I've got
setr IN. Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
A woman,s wit,

DIR. Adler tells good story about :
verbal sparring match between the
Emperor Hadrian and Q, rabbi Said
the emperor: why, yo,$' God is rep
resented as a thief, for he surprised
Adam in his sleep and robbed him Of
one of his ribs" The rabbits daughter
craved permission to reply and when
her request was granted she said:
LET me implore thine imperial protec-
ton. A great outrage has been inflict-
ed upon u.s." ''What has happened?"
asked the emperor. She answered:
I'm the darkness of the night an au-
dacious thief broke into our house.
He took silver fagon from our chest
of plate and left golden one in its
place" "Would that such a robber
would visit my place every day!" said
Hadrian. "And was not the Creator
such thief as this?' retorted the girl;
''for he stole from Adam rib, and in
lieu thereof gave unto him living,
lovely wife?"-Chicago Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
IlL-BREp DIPLOMATS.

Foreign Attaches rave Had to Leave
washingto, Through bad Behavior.
1t is charged that the foreigners of
the legations are the most dissipatet
people in Washington. Some of the
young men, while favorably regarded
by the Amer lean girls, are looked upon
with more or less disapproval by pru-
dent mammas. Some of them have be-
haved outrageonsly on occasions,
cheating their creditors, getting into
drunken rows and otherwise taking
advantage of their immunity from ar
rest and prosecution for debt or other
eau scs. According to law they are en-
tirely exempt from the jurisdiction,
either civil or criminal, of United States
authorities and if any body ventured to
sue one of them for money due, that
person would be liable to a fine and
three years impris onment as "vio-
lator of the laws of nat ions and dis
turber of the public repose." Just after
the close OF the civil war some OF the
diplomats stationed in Washington
made themselves exceedingly objec-
tionable. They thought they could do
lence was car ried to such point that
it was necessary to check it One OF
them is said to have occupied chair at
a german which belonged to somebody
else, and when the hostess asked him
to vacate it, he replied:
II decline to do so, madam. 1t is alb
surd to suppose that one can engage
scat at dance as if it were at the thea
ter"
In another instance foreign secre-
tary made an offensive remark to a
young lady and then put his foot on
her dress to prevent her from getting
up and leaving him. In both of these
cases the perpetrators of the acts de-
scribed were challenged imme tately to
fight several duels, and they fed from
the city. 1t was only during the last
administration that two members of
South American legation made busi-
ness of getting girl drunk at party
by plying her with champagne. In
consequence of this affair they were re-
called by their government A like fatc
eventually befell miscr and beat from
a sister American republic who locked
up his house to keep off creditors paid
nobody. cooked his own food and
starved his family SO that they were
obliged to apply to neighbors for sus-
tcnance. But it must be acknowledged
that the foreigners have had numerous
reasons wherefore they mig hit justly
complain of the people of Washington
as barbarians At one ball which the
Chinese minister gave four years ago
the mob swarmed in and attacked the
rrovender SO fiercely. throwing the
empty plates under the table, that he
was obliged to sprinkle red pepper pro-
fusely in the dining room in order to
disperse the unlimited guests. Even
now the Chinese ladies are sometimes
hooted at when they venture out of the
legation. II such things happened to
our minister at Pckin we would say
that the Chinese were only benighted
savages anyway, which would account
for it.-Washington Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
What . Druggist should Know.

Oberdili dock and Craws of Cipli.
ment.
Compound Car Pills.
Please Send me 10ct Worthe of Lov9
drops. Truley yours.
Bitter Apple 10c. Sweet Caporal Gig.
arettes, SC. Chune Gum, SC
Zoe. glycerine with little carbolic
acid, amonia, florida water, barume
ebay RUM.
want cents of Moline pills, the
little ones.
idine of pot ash.
Pleas send me dimes worth of vur.
bin whisky.
&c. fax seed the hole ones.
Ascideased (acetic acid).
Please send me l5c Worth. OF s grain
quine Capssuls please put them up
fresh.
Please Send Ne Dose Of Calomel for
an RRabla Person. and two Doses Of
Catholic PlIIs e hsgpaccutIcAl Ere
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
How to Reduce Interest on County
Bonds.

A hearing is to be given by the legis-
lative committee next week on the bill
exempting municipal bonds from tax
alton. We know that there will be a
strong protest raised against this on
the part of short-siehted individuals.
who, because they fancy that they see
in it a means of relieving investors from
taxation, are willing to force the tax
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
TAX REFORM DEPARTMENT.

(This department aims 10 give everybody
ideas about taxation mot tariff. Write you
opinions briefly. and they will be published o.
discussed in their turn by the editor or BY mem
Der Of the Taxation Society. Address, Taxi
ton Society,"" this once or T. o. Box u bui-
fol w
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
A Captious Monarch.

Alfonso the little king of Spain. was
Ill not long ago, and had many visitors
who expressed condolences. Among
them was Canovas, the great Spanish
statesman. "How is Alfonsito?" tiittle
Alfonse) he asked, kindly. The little
king looked at the famous republican
leader for moment. and then replied
haughtily: ITO mamma l am Alton
sito; to thee ! am the &c lden
DAYS
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20

-Absent-minded Girl-.'Ploase give
me stamp" Apotheoary-''Certainly.
What kind. madame?" Absent-mlnded
Girl--"vanilla cream, p.ease. liar
PERI bazaar -
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20

In assessments under the single tan
all values created by individual use or
improvement would be excluded. and
the only value taken into consideration
would be the value attaching to the
bare land by reason of neighborhood,
etc. to be determined by impartial
periodical assessments Thus the farmef
would have no more taxes to pay than
the Spectator who held q similar pisce
of land idle. and the man who on . city
lot erected . valuable building would
be taxed no moro than the man who
held . similar lot vacant
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20
Pet Ideas
M. Elns0s-e =. SheIt
4fE OF Akron, Ind.

You have pet ideas so have every.
body; there is something you want;
something you need; something
which win give you pleasure in hav-
ing you cannot spare the moneys;
earn it; you can afford to buy any
thing if you earn the money to buy
it with. The LADIES HOME Jour-
NAL everybody wants; lady-like
suggestion is sufficient to make peo-
pc take it; why not do this sug-
g6stirg for us1 Write US, and we
win TELL you how to make money for
both Of us.
'sss The CURTIS PUBLISHING Co
-, PHILADELPHIA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20

The Land Restoration League in Lon
don says:
We propose to abolish all the taxation
which now bears upon labor. improve
ment and thrift, which increases the
cost Of commodities and enjoyl qhts,
and fines men for adding 70 re COM
mon wealth.
We propose to increase taxation on
land until the whole annual value II
taken for the public benefit, and. fn-
ally. to make the people themselves the
landlords.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-05-20

This drinking 'mongst our congressman
Should have no absolution,
For dosfors tell, with tongue and pen,
'Tis gainst the constitution.
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august.
Flower"

MY wife suffered with Indigestion
and dyspepsia for years. Life be-
came burden to her. Physicians
failed to give relief. After reading
one Of your books, l purchased
b6fde Of August Flower. 1t worked
like > charm. My wife received inn
mediate relief after taking the first
dose, She was completely cured
now weighs los pounds. and can eat
4nYthing she desires without any
deleterious results as was formerly
thecase. G. H. Dear, Prop'r Wash
'idEtoas House, Washington, Va. q
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-05

No. 2 yellow at 39lG@40c; corn very
lull; receipts light, aud demand also
light. See sales.
Oals--Receipts, 1921 hn: shipments.
1850 bu. Quoted at 3l19@S2i &C for No ;
white; 81 Loose for No. s oats. Demand
slow. See sales for other grades.
Barley - Receipts, T,l50 tn; ship.
ments, $50 bu. Quoted at 30a50c for
No. 5, Really choice, see sales.
Rye-Receipts. $50 bu; shipments,
none; No. , rye, no sales; nominally
45l5c.
Fiax-The market is based on Chi
cago market. less the freight. Flax
closed at Sl.2ll5 cash; timothy, cash, g.;
March. 81, nominal in Chicago.
Feed-Millers held at Sl5@ol5.5O per
ton; less than car lots, $l5@l6: white
eornmeal, $l350@l4; graduated meal,
$40.
Receipts. lS9 tons; shipments,
none. The market is steady for choica
upland at about $1@7.50 for Iowa up
land.
Some Sample Sales-No. l hard, 2
cars. o. w. b., Gee: No. hard, car. 1. o.
b., G9c; No. hard, car. &c; No.
northern, 33 cars, &c; No. l northern.
5 cars, G615c; No. northen, 81 ears, 66c;
No. northern, IL ears, 6519c; No. l
northern, . cars, G.. \. X. r.. 6614c: No.
northern. l car. q. n. Il. r.. 65c; No.
northern, ear, f. o. b., G7c; No. north
ern, car, q. N. thin, Gle; No. north
ern, 8 cars, q. n, toe; No. northern,
l ear, White Fife, 66c: No. northern,
2 cars, 0. II. r., 671@c; No. northern,
ear. q. N, f. 0. b., Csc; No. 2 northern,
5 ears, 6413c; No. : northern, Is ears,
64c.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-05
MINNEAPOLIS.
ChnmI,er of Cnmmnrce-

Early cables came in steady at about
Thursdays figures. The opening here
was some &c higher for May, but the
demand was not large. Shortly after
the opening the market began to settle
and it fell to the point of closing for
yesterday. There was no great DISPOSE
ton to trade for some time later, with
market comparatively steady. Traders
with spreads between this and other
markets saw little to give them cOnsoIa-
ton, as they were too wise to admit the
idea that manipulation is out of the
deal. The country movement was re-
ported to be gaining some, where roads
are opened again.
Wheat ranged as follows:
March. opening. 6514c; highest, 651lc;
lowest, 6514e; closing, 6514c; May. open
ing, Csc; highest, GS14c; lowest, 675Sc;
closing, 6S15c; July, opening, 7O4c:
highest, 701zc; lowest, 7015c; closing,
7035c.
On Track-No. hard, 6715c; No. l
northern, 66c; No. northern. 63c.
FLOUR AND COARSE GRAINS.
FlOur-Receipts. l ,601 bbls shipments,
1866 bbls. Quoted at S3.6004 for
first patents: S3.25Cd3.6O for second pat
ents: s.. 25Cd2.50 for fancy and export
bakers; 81 .l0@l.45 for low grades in
bags, including red dog. Local millers
advise that demand is good, and cOntem-
plate raising the price.
Bran ana Shorts-Quoted at S10.500
1915 for bran; s1l.50@l2 for shorts.
CoTn-Receipts, $3.50 bu: shipments,
1900 bu. Quoted at Soc for No. 8, aud