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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21
A FARMERS DAUGHTER.

= sight discerning hearts to bless.
In peach checked wholesome loneliness,
Is the country girl who long has toiled
In tiresome round-yst all unspoiled
FroIs morn till night with q heart SO light
She answers the carols Of blithesome birds,
As she tolls content with kitchen task,
Or with dimpIed arms in tho creamy crrdA
Perhaps she gathers the gentle kline
Mid odors of hawthorn hedge and clover:
Perhaps she runs in O fairy race
Under the rustic fence or over.
Not in the city will all men find
The stalwart lssses Of this good kind.
The rosy check and the dancing curl,
Tho stalwart form and the tee n of pearl,
The strcngth-with sense-of tho farmers
girl
Her soul is clean as her eyes are clear.
She fills the bounds OF her homcspun sphere,
Caring bat little for boarded wealth
Her heart and cheeks have tho hues oil
health
Rich In the joys without alloys
In touch with nature the flowers and trees,
Her mind content in the wholesome poise,
Absorbed in blessings from such as these,
Her life is level, her words are true,
Her heart as light as o dancing feather.
Her souls horizon as good to view
AS highlands tinted with purple heather;
Tho frankest eyes meath hair a-curl.
The lithest motion-our pet and pearl
The red checked wholesome farmers girl
Il Edgar Jones, In Prairie Farmer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21
The Evolutlon OF stxles.

1t is really curious study to observe
how fashions in raiment gradually
shape themselves from what has pre-
coded them. The change is seldom
sudden or violent. We do not jump,
for instance, from the tight-fitting coat
sleeve to the immense balloon struc-
ture. We do not go from the plain, full
skirts back to the bouffant effects Of
drapery, with no intermediary stages
But as the slang phrase has it, 1--WE get
there just the same" and we are well
on the way to this last-named consum-
nation already. The first stage was
the trimming put on in rows high up
on the skirts, now come peplums and
double skirts, and even paniers, all of
which are scarcely straws so much as
whole waving fields of grain to show
which way the wind of fashion blows
philadelphia Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21
The Spread Of Life.

One of the problems that continually
confronts the naturalist is to account
for the distribution of identical forms
oflife among widely separated localities.
Investigation frequently shows that
this has been accomplished in many
ways that appear quite simple when
once discovered, although one would
hardly have thought of them in ad-
vance of their actual detection. Some
interesting facts have recently been
CLEANED concerning the dispersion of
fresh-water mollusks, accounting for
their appearance in remote and isolated
ponds. 1t appears that waterfowl play
an important part in this work. Ducks
have been known to carry mussels at
tached to their feet a hundred miles or
more. Bivalve mollusks not infre-
quently cling to the toes of wading
birds, and are thus transported for con-
siderable distances. Even aquatic in
sects have been known to carry small
fresh-water mollusks attached to their
legs. In such q manner does nature
compel the various inhabitants of the
earth to assist one another whether
they will or not.-Youth's Companion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21
SHARP SENSE.
Quickness of smeti in south American
and Frontier Horses.

0uickness of smeti in south American
and Frontier Horses.
Most animals have at least one sharp
sense. A dog and cat, according to
the fable. lay in dark room. "Hark!
l heard a feather drop" said the dog.
"Oh, no." said the cat; lit was q
needle. saw it," Whatever may be
true of demesticated horses, the wild
horse of the South American pampas
possesses a most acute and far-reach-
ing sense of smell.
Mr.. Hudson, says Youths Compan-
ion, speaks of it as common occur
renee for the horses of district, in
seasons of drought, to migrate sudden
ly to some distant place-fifty miles
away, perhaps-where rain has fallen.
A slight breeze from that quarter is
enough to set them off.
A still more striking phenomenon is,
he says, familiar to every frontiers
man.
The gaucho horse has the greatest
terror of an Indian invasion, and long
before the marauders reach the settle
ment-often when they are still a full
days journey from it-all the horses
take the alarm. and come flying wildly
H. The horned cattle quickly feel
the contagion, and general stampede
ensucs.
The gauchos declare that the horses
smell the Indians, and Mr.. Hudson be-
lieves they are right. When passing
distant Indian camp, from which the
wind blew. all the horses driven be-
fore him have taken fright and run
away.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21
A sNEEzlNc CORPSE.


How an Impressive Scene In q classical
Drama Was Ruined.
When Macready was young man
classical drama in blank verse held the
stage. One of these was "Emilius; or,
the Fall of Rome"
Emilius was played by an actor
named Pope, and the exigencies of the
play required him to be brought on the
stage on a bier, supposedly dead, and
Flavius, acted by Macready, spoke an
Grafton over the body.
Pope was an inveterate snuff-taker,
and just before going on one night he
borrowed pinch from one of the stage
attendants. He was accustomed to only
mild invigorant, but the borrowed to-
bacco was the fiery Welsh snuff. Pope
was duly brought on the stage by the
usual army ST ''supers," and Macready
began:
'sThou last OF the Romans, thy bleed
ing country calls thee in vain. Time
and fortune may do their worst. Since
thou"
Here, to Macready's astonishment,
Pope's face began to work, and then
came sneeze from the dead Roman
that shook the flies. Macready started
as if shot, and the audience began to
litter, but he went on:
''Since thou hast left us we are en-
comprised by enemies who"
Here the corpse began to show anima-
ton, and then came succession of
sneezes. Boiling over with rage, and
in voice heard all over the house.
Macreadv muttercd:
''Drat your blood, sir, why don't You
do your sneezing off the stage?"
The audience shouted, and the scene
ended by the corpse stalking off to find
and kin the man who gave him the
nuff.-London Figaro.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21

Every lover of good salt water fishing
keeps his eye on the dogwood tree. Sc
does every blackfish from his secluded
abiding place among submarine reefs.
When the dogwood begins to put out lit
tie whitish green buds the blackfish fish
erman, who is quite distinct from any
other species of fisherman, gets out his
tackle, fixes up his lines, pulls out his
old clothes, and makes arrangements
for boat and bait simultaneously the
blaclxfish poles his nose out from be-
twcca the rocks, takes long breath
of green water and begins to feel that
the spring has come and that he is de-
veloping an appetite. But he knows
that he must fast until the dogwood
signals.-N. Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21
Never Got So Far,

"You say that you have played Mac.
beth?' said New York theatrical
manager to an applicant for a position.
II have acted the role of Macbeth
fourteen times
well, let me hear you repeat his de.
fance to Macduff.
20, never got so far as that. The
audience always made me quit before
got TO that part. "-Texaa Siftinga
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21

The conductor was talking to the new
brakeman about the small business the
road was doing in their department.
II never saw it so bad" said the con
ductor.
''Why, this amt smell to what I've
seen it out west five years ago." pro-
tested the brakeman.
1T couldn't have been much worse. -
Couldn't it? Well, don't think.
Why, on one road where was for bet
tern year they used to make MS train
hands pay our way, SOS to show any
business at all for the passenger de-
partment. Talk about small business;
why You don't know a little thing
about the real thing, you don't, )" and
the brakeman got up off the woodbox
and tried to work the train boy for a
.woferio perfecto. Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21

- see by the paper. - said Mrs.
Hicks, that you can buy sealskin
from the Esquimaux for two iron hoops
and a tenpenny nail" Every true"
returned Hicks But can't spare tho
time to take the hoops and the nail to
the Esquimaux, and my bank wouldn't
honor check for two hoops and ten
penny nail, SO don't see how we are
benefited By that STATE Of afisirs."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21

''Humph" said Miss Hawkins, as she
glanced over her fashion paper; there's
. dress I'd like to wager viii never be
Evrn."
(which is that?' queried Miss farley.
This" said Miss Hawkins; and when
Miss farley looked she saw that it wns
q design for costume for an Elderly
Unmarried Woman She did not take
Miss Hawkins bet. Harper's Bazaar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21
uThe silver Lining.

Harold Spender (angrily)-But your
demands are usury! I'll be left barely
enough 70 live on if pay You what i
owe you at such interest.
Geldstein turbanely)-vell, voot you
feel under obligation to me for freeing
you from the monarchical inqnisition
Of dot ingome tax?-Puck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-07-21

uBxHAvs yourself, my child" said the
oyter to his son. ssFather, you forget" 70
Piled the youthful oyster. ut Is the merry
month OF May, and no one expects an
oy sterto be good at this time. am not
clam. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-10

child and Jacques l am glad you like
them. l love painting: 1T is one of my
greatest joys, and l give a good deal of
time in every day."
"But how do you find leisure for writ
ing as well?
ooh, rise early, and go little into
society."n
DO you not like society, then?
"Not in general; it depends very much
on the people l meet / seldom go to
Paris; once in three week or so I am a
genuine barbarian. The quite life here
suits me best. go to an occasional first
night if there is a promise of anything
good; but as for visiting that doesn't
amuse me-"
What first gave you the idea of writ
ing"
Well, it came to me like this My
husband held high government post in
Lorraine at a time when political feeling
ran very high. The government was
little less bad then now. We had to
entertain great deal, and all sorts of
people had claim to be invited-pro-
vincial mayors, officials, county families,
officers and the country people generally.
Soon after our arrival we gave big
dinner party. Oh, it was 30 funnyi The
guests agreed like fire and water; We
had aristocrats and radicals among
them, and people of the most opposite
opinions on religious and social ques-
lions They said the rudest things to
each other in the polftest fashion. The
whole affair tickled me immensely; so
wrote an account Of it and sent it to
Marcellin, the editor Of La Vie Paris
ieHne. He liked it, and l then became
regular contributor He knew neith-
or my name nor my sex for long time,
and though my work was that of an
officer stationed in country quarters"
Of Nine. Adam "Gyp" said: what
charming woman! I saw her first in
1870; she was then Nine. LIE Messine,
Four and twenty years ago every one
wore those detestable crinolines, but
she appeared in graceful Greek dress,
and thought I had never seen anyone
SO beautiful
OF modern English writer's, @Gypn
said :a4I read "a great many English
novels-in translation Of course and
5judging from that english writers have
more distinction than ours. Take
Georges Ohnets for example, What is
one to think of the French bourgeoisie
that reads and admires his works? They
sell by the Thousand, yet how coarse
and vulgar and commonplace they are
do not find the same defects in Eng
lish writer's. except, perhaps, in one or
two novels of Wilkie Collins. I do not
particularly care for the English nation,
but it seems to me that in everything
they have beaucoup de distinction"
"Gyp" had no admiration for Sir Fred.
erick Leighton and his school of art.
Nor for other English philistinism. Still
less for the younger school of English
artists. Her own art pleases, but does
not satisfy her. Her favorite amuse-
ment is painting. Then riding and boat
ing in order. Size is " at homer twice
week to a select few, who revere her as
a grand dame quite as much as they
admire her wit.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-10
A TRANSIT OF MERCURY TO-DAY.
Have Small Telescope Fitted with q
Piece of Smoked Glass to View the
IL Spectacle Transit will Begin About
IlA M.


Today will occur the transit Of Mercury
across the SUMS disk. 1t 81 the leading
astrono mical event Of bheaysar. A small
telescope, to the eys-piecs Of which a
piece of smoked glasssis attached to pro-
teet the eye, will be necessary to view
the planet, which will be seen as beau
tiful round black spot moving slowly
across the suns face from east to west.
A transit of Mercury is tolerab bly, rare
phenomenon. taking place during the
recent century at intervals Of IS, 7, Ia,
8 1-2, 1-2, and 1-2 years, and SO on in
this order for period of 217 years. after
which a new cycle of changes will begin
with slightly different order.
A transit of Mercury can only take
place when the planet is passing through
it's nodes, or those points where it's orbit
intersects the plane of the earth's orbit.
near the 9th of May OF the 9th of Novem-
Der, and transit can therefore happen
only at or near these dates. The next two
transits will be en- Nov. IA, 1907, and
Nov.7, 1914. The first contract will oc-
cur about eleven O'Clock this fore
noon, and the last contact will be
about four O'Clock this afternoon. Mer-
curry is rarely seen with the naked eye.
Under favorable circumstances at his
greatest elongations, he may be seen for
few days in the evening or morning
twilight, when he shines with brill
fancy riyalling, that of Venus. This
planet possesses many peculiarities. 1t
is the nearest to the sun, receives the
most light and heat, has the swiftest
| motions, the most eccentric orbit, the
smallest diameters, the least mass and
the greatest density of all the primary
planets. the asteroids excepted. The
velocity of Mercury varies from twenty
three to thirty-fve miles per second,
while Neptune, at a distance of 5,57S.-
along at the rate of only 8 1-2 miles
per second.
Mercury's diameter is only 5000 miles.
with probable error of only 40 or so
miles either way. It's surface is therefore
about IL and it's volume I-1s of that
of the earth. It's density, however. is
very great, being no less than 3 1-2
times that of the earth, or very nearly
equal to that of the metal mercury.
This planet is constructed of very
heavy material, and Notwithstanding its
small diameter and mass, if we could
be transported to its surface, we would
weigh about As of what we do here.
A body weighing 100 pounds on the
earth's surface would weigh 50 pounds
there.
Astronomers have very little use for
Mercury. Theoretically, it's transits
could be used, like those OF Venus, TO
| determine the solar parallax and thence
the suns distance. but practically the
results would be of little or no value.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-10
NAMES DISTINGUISHED sOLDIEr.
General Oliver Otis Howard Goes on
to the Retired List.

A Career full of Battles and Marches--Arm
Lost in the ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Lieutenant in the March to the Sea.
This week haS marked the retirement
from the active list of the United States
army of the most famous living officer of
the Civil War. The soldier who commanded
the Union army during the bloody after
noon of the first day at Gettysburg, who
rallied the remnant of the First and
Eleventh corps on Cemetery hill on the
evening of that day, who led the Eleventh
corps to the relief of Rosecrans after the
defeat at Chicomaugua, who cooperated
with Sherman and Hooker in leading the
Union army to the assault of Missionary
Ridge, and who finally commanded the
right wing of Sherman's army on the march
to the sea, is General Oliver Otis Howard.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-10

Work and Leisure of Woman of Letters
Home Life-"Gyp" Rides Daily.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-26

soon be hard to carry their own burdens.
Your eyesight is not so clear as once.
They vii soon have 10 pick out their
own way. Your arm is not so mighty as
once They will soon have 10 fight their
own battles. on. let il not be told on
judgment day that you let your family
start without the only safeguard-the re-
ligion OF Christi Give yourself no rest
until your children are the sons and
daughters Of the Lord Almighty. Your
son does just as you do. He tries to
walk Ike you and talk like you. The
daughter initiates the mother. Alas If
father and mother miss heaven, the chill
dren wilii Oh. let Jesus come into your
house! Do not bolt the hall door, or the
parlor door. or the kitchen door, or the
bedroom door against Him. Above all,
do not bolt your heart.
Build your altar tonight. Take the
family bible lying on the parlor table
Call together as many Of your family as
may be awake. Read chapter, and then.
IL you can think of nothing else beside
the Lords prayer, say that. That will
do. Heaven will have begun in your
house. You can put your head on your
pillow. feeling that, whether you wake up
in this world or the next. all is well. In
that great, ponderous book of the judg-
ment, where are recorded all the import
ant events Of the earth. you will read at
last the statement that this was the day
when salvation came into your house.
Oh. Zaccheus, come down, come down.
Jesus is passing BY
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-26
Harvesting Pofnfoes

For home use the cary varieties Of
potatoes should be dug before cool
weather sets in. and to add to their keep
ing qualities they should be stored in a
dark room above ground until freezing
weather comes. when they should be re-
moved to- the cellar. or stored in pits, the
cellar being preferable if entirely frost
proof. Storing early potatoes in a cellar
before cod weather should be avoided,
any shelter above ground being prefer
abe. By this plan decayed or parity
decayed tubers can be thrown out when
removing 10 the cellar. They may also
be piled in larger quantities than they
were earlier in the season. The short
potato crop this season should insure
good prices. Hence it is well TO look
very closely after every detail Of the
harvest. In gathering. the small unmar-
ketab-e ones should be saved, as the
chances are that they viii have good
market value at planting time.-Ameri-
can AgriculturiSt.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-26
Useful Household Hints.

Cold meat or fish may be hashed fine
and mixed with potato, rice or hominy
and a sauce, and made into croquettes.
GRAVES. sauces and soups, no matter
how small the quantity. should be saved
TO use in warming over meat, fish or
vegetables.
Tough pieces of meat and bones NAV
be used in making little stews or little
soup stock All kinds of meat can be
combined in making a stew or soup
Pieces of bread may be used for pud-
dings and griddle cakes, and in the form
of dried crumbs for breading. Pieces of
cake and gingerbread may be used in
puddings.
A few spoonfuls Of almost any kind of
meat, fish or vegetable may be heated in
a sauce and spread over plain o-nelet
just before rolling it up, thus giving a
change in this dish Of eggs.
The odds and ends left over from a
meal should not be thrown away. The
careful housekeeper can find many ways
of turning them into dainty and health
full dishes. Pieces of cold meat or fish
may be divided into small pieces and
warmed in a white or brown sauce, or
the sauce and meat or fish may be put
in a small baking dish, covered with
grated bread crumbs and then Drowned
in the oven.
A mixture which is excellent for re-
-
carpets and clothing is made Of two
ounces of ammonia, two ounces of white
CASTLE soap, one ounce of glycerine, one
ounce Of ether. Cut the soap in small
pieces and dissolve it in one pint of
water ever the fire. then add two quarts
Of water. This should then be mixed
with more water, in the proportion Of a
teacupful to one ordinary sized pail of
water. The soiled articles are then
washed thoroughly in this. If grease or
oil is spilled on a carpet, sprinkle -four or
fine meal over the spot as soon as posi-
BILE; let il remain for several hours, and
it will absorb the grease.
To remove oil stains from the pages Of
a book without destroying the printing
gently warm the stained part with a hot
fiat-irOn $50 as TO take out as much of
the oil as possible) on blotting paper
then dip a brush in rectified spirits of
turpentine and draw 1t gently over the
sides Of the paper, which must be kept
warm during the whole process. Repeat
the operation as many times as the thick
ness of the paper may require. When
the oil is completely removed, to restore
the paper TO it's usual whiteness, dip
another brush in highly rectifed spirits
of wine, and draw ii in like manner
over the stained place, particularly
around the edges. BY adopting this plan
the spots will entirely vanish and the
paper assume its ordinary whiteness.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-26
out quarreling.

In old times it was the custom for a
woman to buy a good black silk at stated
intervals. When the new one was made
the last one was taken for second best
and whatever remained of older ones
made an afternoon dress or something
that would combine with or trim goods
of another sort, and the same may be
done with henrietta, only on an even
more extensive scale.
There is nothing in the whole cata-
logue Of fabrics that makes such an ad-
mirable stormy day dress as a high grade
silk warp henrietta The last stage of a
good material may be used in this way
and lined with some fabric that will not
shrink, faced with goods that has seen
foot like a drawstring. Finished with a
black silk dust ruffle, this makes a skirt
that one may go out in in all weathers
and come home with the assurance of
not looking like fright. Cheap goods
are worthless for rough weather and
any woman who owns a good henrietta
and a fine, close-woven storm serge is
equipped for a battle with the elements,
no matter what their fury may be.
The sketch shows a mourning gown Of
black henrietta trimmed with Grape. The
collar and tight part of the sleeves are of
Grape, and four crape-covered buttons
trim the figaro jacket, while lengthwise
bands Of Grape mark the plaits Of the
skirt. JUDO CHOLLET.