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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-28

ratio of weights q to 40, they should
take in $4,000 bales. Consider this ID
the figure OF expenses, where SO, 81, IS,
etc., are paid per cubic yard for ocean
freights. What appears here in the
matter of ships holds equally good III
relation to transport wagons, room
taken up in freight houses, magazines
and storehouses, ETC., all Of which add
to the expenses. 1 am informed that
producers, as well as manufacturers,
have to pay enormous sums for these
unnecessary expenses. Besides, the
American planters waste large quanti-
ties of unnecessary packing material.
The losses by dirt, dust, mud. bursting
of the bales, by stealing, etc., affect the
producer and manufacturer in about
the same ratio. "-Philadelphia Record
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Not only from Japan may lessons in
law be CLEANED. China also affords
some valuable hints in the matter of
legal administration. Here is notable
fact, fit for gestion in a land of many
failures. Not single celestial bank
has suspended payment during the last
i've hundred years. And why? Because
according to Chinese law, IF a bank
fail, the managers and clerks all under
go decapitation, and their heads must
be destroyed by fire, together with the
bank books" The heather Chinee is
original, too, in his way of recovering
debts of honor. The practice is for
s.the creditor to visit the debtors
house, sit on the threshold and weep,
expostulate, harangue, coram publica,
until he is paid" Thus. within certain
limits, John Chinaman realizes the
widespread ambition implied in the
familiar phrase, every man his own
lawyer, The Bret
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HUMAN SACRIFICES.
They Are Still offered I'm Russia as Il
Ancient Times.

They Are Still offered in Russia as In
Ancient Times.
Very few persons are aware that hui
man sacrifices are still offered up in a
part of the Russian empire. The fact
is, nevertheless, certain. Among the
Tchuktchis such sacrifices still take
place, and seem likely to be practised
for long time to come. At the same
time, no blame can be attached to the
Russian government or to the orthodox
church, because all efforts to stop the
practice have proved Intellectual. The
sacrifices alluded to are those of old
people and the sick, who, finding no
longer any pleasure in life, resolve to
have done with earthly existence and to
increase the number of happy spirits.
The Tchuktchi who has made up his
mind to die Immediately notifies his
neighbors and near relatives. His
friends visit him and try to make him
change his mind. Prayers, reproaches,
complaints have no effect on the
fanatic. Seeing him thus resolved, his
friends go away to make the customary
preparations. At the end of from ten
to fifteen days they return to the hut
of the Tchulktchi, with white mortuary
garments and some weapons with
which, in the other world, he will fight
evil spirits or hunt the reindeer. After
making his toilet, the TchulStchi with
draws into corner of his hut. His
nearest relative stands by his side hold
ing in his hand the instrument of sacri-
fice-a knife, pike, or rope. If the
Tchuktchi has chosen the knife, two OF
his friends hold him under the arms,
and by the wrists, and, at a given signal
the sacrificer thrusts the knife into his
breast. If the pike has been chosen,
two of his friends hold this weapon, and
two others throw thevictim on its point.
For strangulation, two of the sacrifi-
GERS draw the rope tight until death
ensues, then the breast is opened to let
the blood flow out. The assistants go
to the corpse, and battle their hands
and faces in the blood. The body is
then placed on sledge drawn by a
reindeer, and taken to the place of the
funeral. Arrived at their destination,
the Tchuktchis cut the throat of the
reindeer, take from the dead body its
clothing, which they tear to pieces, and
then place the corpse on funeral pile.
During the process of cremation, the
assistants offer up prayers to the happy
souls in the other world, asking them
to watch over those who are yet in the
land of the living. These practices,
horrible as they are, are followed in
exactly the same manner to-day as in
ancient times.-Gazette de Yakutsp
(Siberia).
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SELLING HAY.


II You Are Going to Raise Hay to Sell.
Produce Only the Best.
When hay sells at eighty-five cents
per hundred weight, and sometimes at
ninety cents and one dollar, one may
rest assured that it is the. best in the
market, cured, baled and grown proper
ly. In making arrangements for start
ing a good hay crop for the coming sea-
son the work should be planned. ahead
so that the highest market rates will
be obtained. 1t does not pay to grow
IAN inferior hay crop unless it is for inn
proving the land, and even then some
seed beside grass seed should be
sown too. With the exception of
clover a fair stand of grass can
be obtained on almost any soil
if it is thoroughly cultivated and ma
nured. 1t is useless to suppose that
fine hay crop can be grown on land
that has been completely exhausted
with successive of grains unless ma
nure or fertilizers of some kind are lib
orally applied. Yet some farmers seem
to have an idea that this can be done.
They reason that the land is worn out
with corn or wheat, and that is time
to seed it to grass. The ground is in
differently turned over, narrowed and
probably rolled. The grass seeds come
up all right, but the stand is UNI
even and the grass diminutive in
size and poor in color. show
ing the unmistakable signs of
poverty of soil. Grass used in rota-
ton generally comes up well, for the
soil has been heavily manfred for the
grains, and it has been given a chance
to run down. But even then fair APP
plication of manure would make vast
difference in the crop.
If we are to make our hay crops more
valuable it is necessary that we should
plant the seed with the definite idea OF
making every square foot pay. Some
times we look upon the grass crop as
simply an accident, a side issue of the
farming, and not as crop CHAT is to
pay us like the grains and vegetables.
The result is that we often send
indifferent grades of hay to market
and get paid accordingly. The finest
grades of hay come from farmers who
make a speciality of this work, and the
results of their efforts show what study
and special application will do. Then
timothy is always graded as prime OF
No. 1, and their clover and clover
mixed hay show similar perfection
Owing to the exhausting process o.
timothy hay it is unwise to grow this
the most valuable grass for hay, to the
exclusion of all others. Clover and
! other grasses have come in as a share
In the rotations. The hay field.
of those farmers who raise hay
for the city markets are sights to b
seen. The grass is tall, straight ant
even throughout, and the yield pc
acre averages three or four tons. Ever.
appliance necessary for securing biz
crop is on hand. They know ais
when to cut, how to cure, and how +
bale it for the market. They know
also when and where to market to ge
the highest prices. Hay raising b,
them is profitable business, but t
compete with them old methods mus
be abandoned and new ones adopted
A. b. Barrett, in Albany Evening
Journal.
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HERE AND THERE.

Barren county, KY, has the largest
and best crop of mutton lambs they
have had for several years. Some were
engaged for June delievery at four
cents.
The successful farmer does not
grumble, because he has nothing to
grumble about. Whenever You hear one
complaining of hard times and oppres-
sion, nine times out of ten his weeds
are higher than his corn.
Prosperity is very much like any 9TH
er commodity. 1t has a price, and that
price must be paid if we would possess
it and enjoy it. 1t is commodity that
no man has right to enjoy until he
has paid forit.
An exchange says that If a COW gets
lchoked.with an apple or potato, hold
ing up its head and breaking an egg in
its mouth is sure cure. The same
remedy is recommended for horses UNI
der similar circumstances.
To keep. feed and milk a scrub COW
is more or less waste of mans time,
while to keep scrub man to milk and
care for good milch COW is waste of
good cows time.
Handle the chicks and fowls gently,
make them feel that you are their
friend, and not enemy. Gentle fowls
do better, lay more eggs, grow faster,
pay larger dividends in profit and
pleasure.
Insects form large proportion OF
the food Of chicks and fowls when al
lowed free range, but if confined to
small lots or pens animal food must be
supplied in some way to take their
place
Grass cut at the proper time and
cured instead of dried makes hay
heavier in weight, brighter in color
better in quality and higher in market
value. This is very old, but it will moi
be stale as long as great quantity OF
sunburned. bleached, deep-ripe stuff is
found on the hay market
Many an innocent farmer has seed
ed down u good crop of weeds wher
sowing clover seed. Buying cheap seea
is not economical. 1t requires labor Il
keep the clover field clear of weeds ant
| to clean the seed. No one can put clear
clover seed ON the market and sell i
cheap, as the cost of the labor must b
secured. Farmers should examine seek
! carefully before using.
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Improving slowly at all points dur
ing the last three centuries, fencing
has become far more general in France,
Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and
parts of Germany than ever before,
and is making rapid strides in the
United States. Since the foundation
of the fencers' club in New York
twelve years ago the number of in
structors has rapidly increased; the
overflow has supplied Chicago, Boston
and New Haven. Clubs have been
formed of late in Boston, Montreal,
New Orleans and Salt Lake City to
practice fencing as game. A little
monthly called Swordsman is the or
gan for the Amateur Fencing league
of America. Fencing among under
graduates is no longer confined to the
military and naval schools--Harpera
Weekly.
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HABITS OF THE CAMEL.
Queer Things Related of the Awkward and
Foolish Animal.

Foolish Animal.
According to Rev. James Gilmour,
whose long residence in Mongolia
entities him to speak upon the subject
with authority, the camel is an awk-
ward and foolish animal. Even the
Mongols, who are awkward enough
themselves, are struck with the camers
deficiency in this regard; SO much so
that they seldom reprove one fo- its
stupidity. IA horse knows, even an
OK is responsible; but camel is not
supposed to know anything, not even
good pasture when it comes to it,"
The camel is good beast of burden,
but poor draught animal. 1t is made
to drag carts over the great highway
of the desert, to be sure, and on smooth,
hard, level roads does well enough; but
sand or soft ground distresses it, and
for climbing steep hills or over passes
the traveller is obliged to hire oxen or
horses. Indeed, some camels bred in
the plain country refuse to go over
passes on any condition. AS they APP
proach hill they have to be unloaded,
blindfolded and driven up the steep.
Splitting is one disagreeable pecu-
liarity of the camel. If you go close
past one in front, as he is chewing his
cud, you will hear a grunt and receive
a green shower of half-masticated vege.
table matter. Pekin camels, which are
daily among crowds of people, seem to
lose the habit, probably because if they
kept it up they would have nothing left
to swallow.
The mourning of the camel is de.
scribed as very impressive. Mr.. Gil.
mour was riding at dusk down lonely
valley. There was neither man MOI
beast nor bird, nor insect even, to be
seen or heard. The shadows were thick
ening, and the silence was oppressive
when darkly. from among the rocks to
the right, with slow and mournful
pace. advanced solitary camel.
1T seemed dispirited and weak, tool
no heed of us, but slowly crossed the
open space and disappeared agar
among the rocks on the left. Evel
and anon it uttered it's slow and plain
tive wall, which came borne over the
darkening stiffness as our camels trot
silently up the other slope of the valley
'The scene and the sound haunts mt
still. 1t was like the wailing of al
outcast spirit wandering among stony
places, seeking rest and finding none
Cow camels make this sound when sepa
rated from their calves. 1t is very
touching to hear it; and after listening
to it l can almost believe the Mongol
when they say that a skillful fiddle
playing plaintive air can draw tear
from a camels eyes. Youths Con,
panion.
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FARMER AND PLANTER
A NEW BALINo PROCESS

Which Will Materially Decrease the Cost
of Handling Cotton and Market the Sta
pie in Better Condition than by the Pres
ent System.
The Bessonette process OF handling
cotton is just being introduced into the
cotton section of the country. BY it the
cost of handling the commodity is great
ly reduced by doing away entirely with
several of the many different processes
of COMPRISING, shipping and reship-
ping. all of which are absolutely nee
essary by the old method.
Because of the construction of the
present cotton presses, the services OF
one or two men are required constant
ly to put the cotton in the box press
after it has been ginned. 1t is then
compressed by crudly-constructed
device at the ginning plants, ties secured
around the bale, and what is known as
the farm bale" is then ready to be
shipped.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-28
SMALL CHANGE.
In the Family Exchequer and In the Camera
of Social Life.

Small change is indispensable in GO
ing about city. To have only five
dollar bill in ones purse when riding in
an omnibus or car is almost as bad as to
have no money. One requires small
change, and the thoughtful husband
supplies his wife with bright ten-cent
pieces and shining quarters just as reg
ularly as with fresh greenbacks. A wo-
man prefers new and fresh money to
that which is. greasy and soiled, if she
can have her choice, and a certain good
man, known and loved in large circle,
always makes point of bringing home
to his family the wherewithal for do
nestle expenses in very dainty shape.
He is deservedly favorite.
Small change is as valuable in the
commerce of life in other departments
as in that of the exchequer. There are
people who can talk extremely well on
learned and serious subjects, but they
have no small change. The quick jest
and easy repartee of the drawing-room
are not for them. Helplessly and hope
lessly, with gloom settling over their
faces, and despair in their souls, they
sit by while less gifted people chat and
laugh and have good times. The trou-
BILE is they are destitute of small change.
This puts them at a disadvantage in
society where there is not time for
homilies and treatises, but where every
thing is froth and foam. The airy but
terfiy fight of their neighbor confuses
and disturbs them. Their forces must,
so to speak, be drawn up in order, and
prepared to charge on the enemy,
horse, foot and dragons. All this takes
time and thought, and the enemy is up
and away, skirmishing triumphantly
elsewhere, before the unlucky opponent
has arranged his line of battle. BY all
means let those who would succeed in
society carry about the small change Of
witty conversation.--Harper's Bazaar.
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no Cleanse the System

Effectually yet gently, when costive or
bilious or w hen the blood is impure or slug
gish, to permanently cure habitual constlpa-
ton to awaken the kidneys and liver to q
healthy activity, without irritating or weak
ening them, to dispel headaches, colds or
fevers, use Syrup of Figs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-28

An Idea was out for little airing
and CHANGED to meet a weary-looking
man. s
sAh!' inquired the Idea, "who are
your"
I'm an editor replied the weary
man.
30, no, an editor" exclaimed the
Idea, swell, we ought to be friends.
''How sop inquired the editor
"What are your
Pm an Idea-s 81
"Just the thing I was looking for"
and the editors weary expression
changed to one of extreme joy. He
took his newlyfound friend home with
him to his sanctum and the result was
q chestnut.
Moral-Go slow with new acquaint-
ances,-Arkans&w Traveller
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"MA,n said q discouragednurchin, ST amt
going to school any more" why, dearp
"Cause faint no use. can never learn to
spell. The teacher keeps changing the words
every day."
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TOURIST lin Oklahoma)-"What is the
population of this townn Alkai Ike
promptly Eight hundred and sixty
seven souls and thirty -one real estate agents"
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SIT certainly has done Silas good to iine
the church, said Mrs. Corntossel: Pm
glad ter hear it" said the visitor, "but how
Kin We tellg'' HE went fshin' yesterday an
owned up ter not gettin' q bite."-Washing-
ton Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-28

IT may seem paradoxical, but to be &c.
corded q warm reception and to be roasted
are entirely different NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Record.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-28

No SPECIFIC for local skin troubles equal
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-28

AvAcuux is an air-rh spaOa-Rnral New
Yorker.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-03
TO THE WORLD OF WOMEN.
Mothers ana Daughters Restored Il
Health and Strength.

Mothers ana Daughters Restored Il
Health and Strength.
Weak, nervous, delicate, oyerworlsed
women are the ones that need q
strength builder, tonic for their
nerves, and cure for that awful inter.
nal trouble that is wearing out their
lives. Thousands of women have
found such in DR.. Kennedy's Favorite
Remedy. Mrs. Christiana Beal, OF
Jonesport, Me-, writes that her daugh-
ter had been great sufferer from fe-
male troubles, and after repeated trials
of Doctors prescriptions and other so
called cures. she used DR.. Kennedy IS
Favoriie remedy aud it permanently
cured her.
If you have headache, uterine ca
tarrh, leucorrhoea, or irregular mon III
ly sickness, chronic weakness, bear
ing down incidental to change OF life,
or any OF the attending evils that are
present in female complaints, use Fay-
orite Remedy, for ii will build up
quickly the run down constitution and
bring refreshing sleep. 1t will llspel
those tired looks and feelings, restore
the nervous system and permanently
cure you. Our daughters grow up
weak aud delicate; mothers can avoid
such conditions by giving them DR..
David Kennedy's Fayorite Remedy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-03
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
Autumn Wraps for Ladies'

What promises to be the favorite
Autumn wrap is a double cape of cloth
very broad and reaching to the waist.
The trimming is an inch band of the
cloth stitched on the edges with fanci-
full ornaments in the corners and a
turned over collar of velvet. This, to.
gether with the golf cape, are the most
general and stylish outside garments
for wearing with Autumn dresses.
Very full capes reaching to the hips
are OF AstrakEan or moire, with deep
revers oyer the shoulders. Fancy
capes for evening wear are made with
Van Dykes of the new perforated cloth,
cerise or bluet. Black yelvet capes
have satin revers lined with velvet or
baby lamb. The Mcdowell Fashion
Magazines contain mary points of in
terest on this important subject. If
you are unable to procure any of these
journals from your newsdealer, ap-
ply by mail to Messrs Mcdowell IL Co.,
4 West 18th street. New York.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-03
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Council met in regular session on
Thursday evening last with Council
men Chapman, Hanson, Hoffman. and
Wilde and the Mayor and clerk present,
Councilmen Barton and Blue absent
The sanitary condition of the drain
on Louisiana avenue was discussed and
he clerk was authorized to to report
the matter to the Board of Health.
The occupants OF the Way residence
requested some repairs made on the
building which was referred to the
committee on buildings.
There being no further business to
be Transacted, council adjourned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-03
Transfers.

J Hutchinson to John Wash. lot
Bradner 80.
} L Glllet to Geo Brotherly ii acres
Weston l.250.
Emily Ford to H A Olds 100 acres
Center 100.
N B Newcomer to Chas Armeter &C
acres Henry, $500.
F BeGyerson to Mary Moecll lot
North Baltimore 1000.
L w Baumgardner to w H Craw-
ford 2l acres Portage 1900.
G. l. Kelly to l. e Baird lot North
Baltimore 10.
A Spackey to L Beech lot jerry
City III.
T. + Ward to II Molzhaver, 40 acres
Milton, 5000.
A Emerine to Matthias Eishen, sc
acres Portage, l.S00.
Austin Fowler to G p Fowler, lot
Bowling Green, 2OO.
w G Deshler to J. G. Deshler, 23C
acres Jackson, 81, 800.
10 & Ella Cable to Joanna james,
lot Pemberville, 700.
r S Parker to + NJ G Sibert, lot
Bowling Green, 1I5.
w b Duncan TO l. Holm, so acres
Milton. 1,S60.
ID w Struble to + A Crosby, lot Bow.
ling Green, 700.
NJ. Mcnamara to Mary Gavin, LOT
North Baltimore. 800.
G. Sanderson to Mary Richards, LOT
Freeport, 250.
l.. McInsley to M A Bower, 33 acres
Henry, 1900.
Sarah Pryor to ] W Graham, LOT
Freeport, 175.
SIS Keener to- d Pray ct al, 3!
acres in Ross and Lake, $500.
l. G Edgar to + Ross, lot Freeport
go.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-03

w. A. Mcclure we'll known citizen
of Mckay, Ohio, is of the opinion that
there is nothing as good for children
troubled with colds or Group as Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. He has used
it in his family for several years with
the best results and always keeps a bot
tie of it in the house. After having
In grippe he was himself troubled with
severe cough. He used other remedies
without benefit and then concluded to
try the children's medicine and to his
delight soon effected permanent cure.
This same treatment is Il sure cure for
lame back. For sale by A. II. Champ
ney the druggist.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-03

Tho stony Ridge correspondent of
the Democrat cndeavored to drop lit
tie politics in his letter last week. and
says Dick Biggs WIS over To the Ridge
Stocking Tor IL place to hide after elec-
tlon." Tne correspondent evidently
means that Dick will be trying TO hide
from the NUMEROUS people VINO will be
hunting him To extend congratulations
upon his election. There will be thous-
ands who will do SO and il will
be hard work for him to shake hands
with all. This same correspondent re.
fers to Frlnk Schriber the Republican
candidate for InIirmary Director and
wants to know IL anybody knows when
and where he had learned his bread by
the sweat Of his brow as stated bv the
JOURNAL. In the first pince the JOUR-
NAL never made such statement and
md hot take IT, back" If we had
Secondly, ~ NJ . Schrber isa moor
m IN "" k',p@ Of no manner in which
IA can Obtain his bread except by the
"swert Of his brow" unless he steals H.,
and 1t would not be healthy for the
Democrat correspondent TO call him a
thief. II this correspondent desires to
write politics lei him conGne himself
TO the truth and not indulge in such
dirty insinuatious. 1t il neither good
sense nor good politics.