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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.

In South America rain frequently
falls In torrents from q clear sky.
A WAVE of thought would require
about minute to traverse q mile Of
nerve.
FuTY-oNE metals ara now known to
exist. Three centuries ago only seven
were known.
SoNE scientists consider sugar the
principal factor in the production Of
muscular energy.
THERE are eight edible and twelve
poisonous varieties of mushrooms in
the United States.
SPARRows have 80 much curiosity
that they will gaze in mirrors by the
hour il not disturbed.
The metals which have been proved
to exist in the sun are iron, sodium,
nickel, copper, zinc and marium.
PRoF. TYNDALL is said to have been
the first man to ever ATTEMPT to pro-
duce an artificial rainbow-this in 1888.
IT is disputed question among
scientists as to which is the most ia
tiguing, walking up hill or walking
down hill.
AN explosive with power equal to
that of high grade dynamite is being
made In Germany from o preparation
of common hemp.
WATER alone has been known to sps-
tain life fifty-6ve days. II only dry
food were taken death would result, in
q quarter of that time.
INwhat are called looming mirages'
distant objects show an apparent ex.
travagant increase in height without
alteration in breadth
The velocity of the earth's rotation
on its axis at the equator is fourteen
hundred and forty feet per second, OF
nearly twenty-five thousand miles q
day.
WHAT is supposed to be meteorite
has been unearthed at Windsor, Conn
It is about three and one-half feei
by two and one-half feet and is eight
cen inches thick, with knob on ONT
| end.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
HERE AND THERE.

Sugar beets are worth more to feed
to cows for milk and butter than the
prices which the sugar beet factories
offer for them for making sugar. So it
is not necessary that farmer should
be located near a beet-root sugar fac
tory in order to make beet-growing
pay.
The south needs to raise twenty
times more hogs, sheep and beef cattle,
with Bermuda grass, sorghum, burr
clover and peas, not to mention score
of other available foods easily grown.
There is nothing in the way OF our
raising the hogs
"A good potato crop is apt to be the
result of favorable season and virgin
soil rather than skill and care on the
part of the grower; but there is really
no good reason why profitable crop
should not be raised every year under
ordinary conditions.
Every farmer ought to secure few
hives of bees and increase them as much
as possible. They are laborers for which
no wages are required, and they board
themselves, with occasional assistance
from their owner when he has drawn
too freely from their stores.
The best use of salt is to apply it in
small amounts to vegetable manure that
we wish to make quickly available for
plants. In large quantities salt retards
decomposition. That is the way we put
things in pickle. But little salt de-
stroys the vegetable tissue which comes
in contact with it, especially if exposed
to air and moisture.
Bees should be obtained about forty
or forty-five days before the beginning
of the honey flow, so the second brood
viii be ready for the harvest. After
the egg is laid, it takes three days fo1
il to hatch into a larva, and after this
is fed six days it is grown so as to fill
the cell. The cell is then capped, and
in twelve more days the perfect bee
energies.
| Experiments bearing on the two
methods of tilling and check rowing
corn were made in 1s91-92 at the Utah
station. Corn shocked, titled botf
ways and not titled, yielded 1904 bush
els per acre; checked and 'hilled bott
ways, SO bushels; checked, then tillee
and hilled one way 1874 and 43.5 bush
els; drilled and titled one way, 43.5.
| --Hoard's Dairyman gives these hint
about wooden vessels: Don't set |
wooden bowl or butter printer in thu
sun or by a stove to dry. They las
much longer if dried slowly. Also we
these things before using them TO
cream, milk or butter. If the pores ar
, filed with water they can not Absorb
grease and SO get tainted. Wood vii
absorb the butter fats in milk and mill
products, and they viii not dry out a
does water"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
FARM LIFE.
A Few Thoughts ON the Beauties of Rural
Existence.

A Few Thoughts ON the Beauties of Rural
Existence.
There is some danger that farmers
will become SO intent on making their
lands pay a money return that they
will lose sight of much that is beauti-
full in country life. 1t is not all of life
to be able to say at the end of each year
that there is a good margin on the
right side of the farm account. This is
all right, of course; we are on the farm
as business. We ought to do our best
to make it pay. But it will not do to
make money the sole object of our
labor. This is especially true if we
have children. To bend every energy,
from daylight to dark from weeks
end to weeks end and from one years
beginning to another, to the getting of
money, is demoralizing to the farmer,
to his wife and doubly SO to his chill
dren. Lies beginning is a most inn
portant era. If to the young it be
clouded by the gloom of a home where
the only object in living is to get
money, the shadow rarely lifts. The
whole life will be tinged with the
memory of those early days on the
farm. / believe that is one great rea-
son why SO many leave the farm.
Their lives in the old home were
ceaseless grind, unrelieved by
anything which touched the ten
derer side of nature. What, then, shall
we do to remedy this? Make home as
beautiful as possible. Suppose the
house is old and you are not able to
build another. Beautify it as much as
| you can. Set out trees around it, clear
away weeds, tumble-down fences and
all unsightly objects. Let grass grow
fresh and green all about it. Plant
flowers in pleasant places. And so all
over the farm. 1t will cost only little
time to make it beautiful. Inside make
the house home-like. A few books
and papers; music if yon can
afford it; at eventide let there
be an ingathering of all the
children. Read aloud to them and have
them read also. Be one of them and
have share in all that interests them.
Study nature with them. How many
know the names and habits of the
birds which fit about in summer? Who
of us can tell the names of the flowers
which spring up everywhere on the
farm? This may seem to some farmers
"all nonsense" From such a decision
most earnestly appeal. The little
lives entrusted to us are the most
precious of all Gods gifts to US. 1t lie:
in our power to dwarf them or helI
them unfold and reach heights o.
success we ourselves may never attain
We have no right to entail upon oul
children the heritage upon which man,
parents do when they teach them t.
hate farm life. There is no place OF
earth which is nearer to Natures hear
than the farm. We ought to love i
and teach our children to love it, too
Farm life pays if it leads him to follow
it one single step higher than he was a
first. No matter whether we die ricl
in money or not if at the last on
, friends can say of us that we love-
Nature and Natures God, and pointe
!, the way up to them.-Edgar l.. Viz
cent, in Farmers Home Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

There's one thing about me that l
don't understand" said Tommy,
thoughtfully, land that's why it is
that making marks on wallpaper is
such lots of fun, and making EN- In
copy-books in school is such hard
work,"-Harpel' s Young People.
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State OF ONO. CIrr OF TOLEDO, ! .

STATE OF ONO, CIrY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY. =
FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that be 1
the senior partner of thefirm of -. CHENEr
& Co., doing business in the City OF TOLEDO
County and State aforesaid and that said
firm win pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOL.
LARS for each and every case Of Catarrh that
cannot DO cured by theuse of HAIL's CATARRH
CURR. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this6thda Of December, A. D. 1855
49,, A. w. GLEASON,
ssEt Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for estimonisis,
free. FL. CHENEY Il Co, Toledo y.
cHr6old by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills. 25c-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

A curious and Interesting fact given
by the registrar-general in his statis-
tics for 1898 is that in the Celtic por-
tions of the United kingdom the pro-
portion of the female births is much
hihger than it is in the non-Celtic por-
tions. The highest proportions are
found in Cumberland, Cornwall and
north Wales, while south Wales is only
a little way down in the list, and has q
proportion considerably above the aver
age for the whole country. The pro-
portion of female births is higher in
Ireland and Scotland than in Englan d
Westminster Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
J. !. Case +. M. Go.

Users Of Threshing Machines, Engines
the name of the firm heading this notice Its
career has been consistent and honorable
In an exceptional degree. During the past
winter q large part of its mammoth works
have been remodeled and rebuilt, and tl.e
plant is nowprobably the most complete OF
It's kind extant-
Careful buyers are learning the lesson
that it pays to deal with reliable firms, and
anyone contemplating the purchase OF
threshing machinery of any kind. saw.
mills, ETC., should write for Illustrated
Catalogue issued by the ]. /. Case T. M. Co.,
Racine, Wis.,, which Is mailed free to any
address.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
An Eve to Business.

Goodman driving Mr.. Stingiman)-
The horses are running away, sir. and
can't stop them.
Mr.. Stingiman-You can't? Well, be
careful and run into something cheap.
-PhiIadelphia Record.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

Guilty of procuring help to save the crop
after grown, make it hazardous to risk
everything in that direction. Make it
q rule to plant only what can be prop
erly cared for. Plant on land only that
is full of plant food. Give other crops
a share of your attention and success
is assured-if it rains.-L. & P. Alexan-
der, in Home and Farm.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
Modern Newspapers.

Wife We ought to have a newspaper
rack for the sitting-room.
Husband (opening out a Sunday news
paper)-Can't afford it while there's q
tariff on lumber.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

Comes blissful peace to turbulent, unruly
liver brought into sub5ectic1 and aiscipllnsc
stomach Bitters, boon Of priceless worth,
not only to the bilious, but also to the
malarious, the rheumatic, the nervous. tho
feeble, the constipated, and those whose
kidneys and bladder are inactive. The liver
is always chiefly involved in malarial COM
plants. for which the Bitters Is q specific. :.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

sIr's q lucky thing" said the sad-eyed
humorist, shat the magazine editor didn't
accent my verse; "Whyl" Because COM
mon decency would then have compelled me
tn let mn on sarcastic remarks about his not
knowing good poetry when he saw it,
Washington Star.
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A distinction.

Haverley-Do you ever eve your
seat to lady in q crowded car?
Austen-Never.
Haverley-Why, now ] think OF it, l
saw you do so last night
Austen-She wasn't lady. She
never even thanked men. Y. World.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

Mistress-How is it one never hears
a sound in the kitchen when your
sweetheart is with you OF an evening?
Servant Girl-Please, ma'am, the
poor fellow is SO bashful yet; for tho
present he does nothing but eat!--Lus-
tiQe Blaetter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

aDoEs your nurse speak Frenchl' "Oh,
beautifully. Two studied it for six years,
and can't make herunderstand one word
Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
A MAN WITH A HISTORY.
The Terrible Experience That Be-
fell John W. Thomas, Of Theta,
Tennessee.

Afflicted with q Peculiar Disease-Hla
Body Covered with Lumps-Could Not
Eat and Thought He Was Going
to Dry Up-Hia Recovery the
Marvel Of Tennessee.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
On tho Way.

ITS my article in the soup?" inquired
the good-natured litterateur.
"Not get" replied the editor, but
I'm going to boil it down pretty soon."
Washington Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

There is more power in the infiu-
ence of boy than there is in all the
steam in q locomotive boiler.-Ram's
Horn
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

He who robs children of the pleasures OF
childhood is guilty Of great crime
Arkansaw Traveller.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

The charity that begins at home is often
so discouraged that it never goes farther
Puck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

SALLY GAY-"what q cunning little fell
low MIR. Callipers isr' Dolly Swift Cum
Ealiy Cay(.Yes, but that gives him such
IN arch look, YOU lnow."-lnter Ocean
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

Jusr about the time a man learns to dance
his desire for dancing is gone.-Atchison
Globe
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
Frirhtened Bride.

Bridesmaid-You poor, frightened
darling. You looked scared to death
at the altar.
Bride-Yes, George trembled SO / was
dreadfully afraid he'd lose courage
and run away.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

"ALLow me,n remarked the rattlesnake,
as It approached the rabbit Familiarity.
"Charmed, I'm sure" was the disingenuous
reply.-Puck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

'DEAR mel Your father Is paralytic,
isn't her. ssWell, you'd better guess again.
He's q German, and very proud Of it, too. y
Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

sF'kxnwoRrH's been abroad good deal
hasn't her, Eyes. How did you knowr
ssHis wits are still there. Truth
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

A CLoCKMAKER Is the only one who can
wind up his business affairs and have them
continue to run.-Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

THE funny man says the chameleon
should be called 'spoets, their tails are sue
"Longfellows."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

SENTIMENT and starvation do not driv'
double.
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ANpREws-"What Is the extreme penalty
for bigamyl' Biggs-''Two mothers-in-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

II Is always best for o man to keep his
temper. No one else wants tn. o.
Picayune.
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shin, rh.t Pass In tho Night.

Ships That Pass In the Night.
They were welded in Washington, D. C.
And each soon considered the other N. G.;
whereat she fed to Sioux Fails, :. D.,
While he took his flight on. TO Guthrie, O T.,
And now they are once again happy and free
--Harper's Young People
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

TonrY--"Paw, what does vice versa
meanr' Mr.. Figg-"Why-e and
horse.r- indianapolis Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

Mosr remedies for prejudice seem to b
fatal.-Galveston News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul R'y
has now ready for distribution sixteen page
Of the size of the Worlds Fair portfolios
lately issued. They are only ten cents each
and can be obtained without delay ~
RENTING the amount to Gro. H. HKAyToRDs
General Pass. Agent, Chicago, III
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14

FREsHSEss and purity are impaired to the
complexion by Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hilps Hair and Whisker Dye, SOC.
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THERE is no '.ir' in horse trade.-Puck.
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GENIUS rears its own monument--Judge.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-14
Whan Travelling

CAppY--"Say, Bronson, have an idea"
better get 1t insured"
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-r paste; tae present 4; the fvsure-i
Puck.
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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-10-27
THE RAIN SAVED HER
Owners Of a Ship Planned to
Wreck Her.
THE CREW TO Be PLANTED
The ship IL Totally Unseaworthy, asd
VIII he ssld 10 Satisfy the
Demands Of the Grew.

FAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 20-The bark
Adelguiss.. from CalIao for Humboldt.
put into this port la disabled condl-
ton. She was launched in 1885. and
since that date, the crew say, not cent
has been srent Tor repairs. The mate.
Richard Roberts. says the hnrk'sown-
ers. Lucaielii & Lores. deliberately
planned 10 wreck the ship. which was
heavily Insured. and to drown the
crew. He says tho sailors were all
shipped under fictltIous names, 30 they
could never 10 traced.
The ship was provided with dummy
provisions aud water for only thirty
days. The bark sailed from Callso on
July q, and, II the rain had not sup
Piled water, tho crew must have per.
ishsd with thirst. A big box. labeled
provisions, when opened, contained
nothing but scraps of Iron, shaving
and oil cans. Every man In the crew
10 of q different nationality. Whes
they arrived In port they were fearful,
smaclated with hunger.
The mate says the only sound thiII
| about the bark 10 the ships boat, OF
which the owners planned that th
captain and mate could escape. Tin
! Peruvian consul will not allow lh
| Adeiguisa 70 leave port. She Is ietall
unseawosihy, and will be sold to 70.
the crew.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-10-27
HISTORIAN FRoUDn Is DEAD.
A Famous English writer % the Mao
tsenth Century.

LONDON. Oct. 2o.--James Anthony
Froade. the historian, died this morn.
ing.
lJanss Anthony FrouIe, Ii d.. was
horn NJ Darlington. Devon, Eng., Alsil 2A
1919 educated ~ Westminster and OrlcI
college. Oxford. where he graduated with
honor. became fellow Of Exeter College,
1872: was ordained q deacon in lSA5, but
soon changed his religious opinions,
which had been extremely high church
He published shadows Of the Clouds
tlsiil tao. aud Nemesis OF Faith
tisaeA whsea we're condemned by The au-
th6rities OF the university, aai he.
as constquencc. lost an appointment
as teacher IA tasmania. In 1850 he be-
gan ~ write for FrszeF's Magszins,
the Westminster Review and other
periodicals., Ills greatest work, the
History Of Rngland from ths fall OF
Wulsey 20 the defeat OF the
Spanish Armada az yoi&. fs56.7O) 10 re-
marknbso for the nosel views taken OF many
OF the leading characters who figures dur
Ing the time OF which n treats and for the
abundance of fresh material introduced.
Ia 1853 he vas made rector of the Tni.
versily Of 81. Andrews. In 1871 he re-.
signed Tho sslitorship of Rrsxar,s Magazine,
and In lsT2-73 he lscinred 10 the United
Stafee. Besides the above WORKS he
has written "Thc Book Of JoL" fis54l
short Stories Of Great Sabseets' fts87l; .
little took On sTAIvsnixm' gS. Andrews.
lS1lli "rhe Eaglish IN ireland in the
= sls,senth Century" three vo.nmes.
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rus ION PEOPLE BsArss.


Deelslom Amminst Democrat@ aad feye
In fasho.
BOISE, Iliaho, Oct. 20-The supreme
court today decided tho Phillips man
damus a kr. pniilips was nomi-
mated for senator from owyhee and
casssa counties by members OF the
county central committee. He WAS
endorsed by the popniists by petition.
He brought suit 10 compel tie secretary
Of state 10 certify him as thc popuiist
candidate. The court holds that the
names Of nen nominated by petition
must go oh an independent ticket. so
Phillips will not appear ON the populist
ticket. The same action was taken IN
the case ot {. s. Denning, democratic
| nominee for Judge Of the second dis
trics, and In the case of ID. Nelson.
democraiic NOMINEES for JOINT senator
OF kooienaI aud Latah.
A writ ut prohibition was asked Tor
from Banhoek county TO restrain the
| printing df names Of certain county
4 candidates on the official ballot. An
alternative viii was issued. made re-.
turnnble. A nasIbvr vi Loinls were
raised. one Of which Is based on the
Nebraska decision that name can moi
be printed twice on an official ballot
and tue point will 10 argued. II wa.
passed on indirectly la the Phillips
case adversely.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-10-27
NAVY COAL BILLS INCREASING.



The Modern War Vessels Coasamc an
Enormous Amount of Coal.
WASHINGTON. Oct 2i.-According
10 Commodore Chadw wick. chief OF the
bureau OF naval equipment, coal bills
os the navy are steadily increasing.
owing TO Tho greater consumption Of
coal by the modern war vessels. The
annual report OF the bureau shows
that there will be q deficiency OF $780,
600 In the appropriation for equlpment,
owing TO the fact that $l9l, sSi more
was expended for coal In the past year
than In the year previous.
The report shows that during The
year great Improvement has been
made In night signals. The new boat
compass has been adopted, aud alum
innm has been successfully substituted
for bronze 10 pinnacle fiitlngs. Under
the head of naval observatory. atsen-
lion Is called 10 the fact that unless the
corps Of professors Of mathematics Il
reorganized, the observatory will In
the near future have but one astron-
omer available for duty. the others re.
firing la the course Of few years.
Pesseftiss Museum Opens Today.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2l.--The post.
Office museum Will be formally thrown
open to the public on Monday. The
museum includes all that was In the
posloffioe exhibit nj the worlds fair
aud some additional features The
large postal car, .Grover Cleveland,
10 not there, but there IL n complete
model OF this postoffice on wheels. The
museum is In large room In the post
Office building.