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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-11

st. Paul Lodge.
&. &C. j. Long.
V. &C. j. Searle.
Prelate-F. J. Staassen.
NJ. +. tt. +. Robinsan.
NJ. W. T.-W. B. Graves.
NJ. Al. A. Sirbert.
X. X. SIS. r. Wright.
/. G.-M. /. Morris.
o. Ga. j. Wright.
Milan Lodge
c. CIV. +. Tenges.
V. George T.nges.
rrela;e-B. +. Corson.
VI. VA. W. Nice.
NJ. E.-A. A. Allen.
NJ. F.-F. w. Bolton.
X. II. & Sc. W. Smith.
NJ. A.-Samuel l. Baker.
u. G.-F. Shinstrom.
|. G.-ira White.
Following the ceremony of Undue
ton, n banquet was served in the
banquet hall, over which Harry
Smythe had direction, and this
speaks for the excellent nature of it.
The affair was extremely enjoyable
in all particulars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-11
That Tired Feeling

Is common Complaint and it is a
dangerous symptom. II means that
the system is .debilitated because OF
impure blood. and in this condition
it is especially liable to attacks of
disease. Hooa's Sarsaparilla is the
remedy for this condition. and also
for that weakness which prevails at
the change of season. climate of life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-11
A Kid Glove Clearing.

AN EvENr-f2 FOR so CENTS.
Accommodations of a very busy sea-
son. Lines of colors are incomplete.
and some sizes are missing. but all
the odd lots and pairs up to 81 go to-
gether-the 81 kind. the Sl.25 kind,
the el.50 and the g. kind all so at
soc, SOC.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-11
Crockery Items.

NtOSNOEy ItCfftS'
This is the store that makes the
figures which regulate the prices of
others.
Six-piece decorated chamber sets,
our price $l.32-worth more.
Plain white American wash bowls
and pitchers. our price Ice each; you
know what others ask.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-06-22

-Preyer. ths German student OF the
ehild'smind, ia ught his son of two years
to distinguish primary colors by means
of small ovals each of different color.
A student of Preyer's book has hit upon
. less scientific but more poetical
scheme of teaching the same thing to
q little child by means Of flowers and
other natural objects. The difficulty.
of course, is to be sure of uniformity OF
color in natural objects throughoutthe
year. Even q very young child soon
learns to dissociate the idea OF color
from the object itself when a yellow
pansy, red rose, or blue violet is
presented after drill with different
colored flowers of the same kind. A
red rose and yellow rose are quickly
recognized and differentiated, and the
quality of color is accentuated when a
red rose and a yellow pausy are brought
to the child's attention.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-06-22
FIREslDE FRAGMENTS.

Graham Gems.-Two cupfuls gra-
ham -four, one cupful white -four, one
teaspoonful salt, one beaten egg, two
and one-half cupfuls sour milk, two
tablespoonfuls lard, one tablespoonful
sugar, one teaspoonful soda Beat all
together and bake fifteen minutes in a
moderate oven.-Farm and Home.
Cucumber Sauce.--Chop one cucum-
Der fine. then drain it carefully in q
colander. Season with salt and pep
per and mix with it either two table
spoonfuls of cocoanut cream or plain
cream, then a teaspoonful of lemon
This is fine with broiled fish.-N. Y.
Ledger.
-Stewed potato makes a very dainty
dish if prepared as follows: Peel about
half a dozen good-sized potatoes Chop
them and place in a buttered pie-dish.
Season all well with pepper, salt and
just pinch of mace. Heat half pint
of milk, flavoring it with an onion, add
one ounce of butter, and pour over the
potatoes. Bake in a quick oven for
over half an hour. Scatter parsley
over, and serve with cold meat.-Leeds
Mercury.
White Pound Cake.-One cup gran
ulated sugar, one-half cup butter; beat
twenty minutes; whites of two eggs;
beat ten minutes more. Measure one
and one-half cups flour and sift with
one teaspoon baking powder; add flour
and one-half cup sweet milk to the
other ingredients; flavor with vanilla
or almond. Beat all together fifteen
minutes and bake about fifty minutes
in a rather slow oven. This cake is
not good if hastily rnade.-Mrs. Case,
in Farm and Home.
Veal Calse.-Take e way the brown
outside from the cold veal and cnt the
white meat into thin slices Have
ready two hard-boiled eggs and two
dessertspoons of mixed parsley, also
the leftover dressing. Put layer of
the veal in the bottom of a baking dish,
then q layer of the sliced eggs, dress
ing and parsley, season with salt and
pepper. then another layer of veal, and
rich gravy over all and bake for half an
hour. Turn out carefully and garnish
with NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Beef Loaf.-Chop two cupfuls of
cold boiled or roast beef fine, just as
you wonld for hash Add one cupful
cold mashed potatoes, one cupful of the
water in which the meat was boiled,
one tablespoonful of catsup, one tea
| spoonful minced onion, a very little
allspice, cloves and cinnamon, salt and
pepper to taste, and the yollss of two
raw eggs. Stir the ingredients all to-
gether, using~the beef stock to moisten
| it, until it is as soft as it can be made
and yet be handled. Mold it into q
loaf, put it in a creased pan, sift lit
tie -four over it and bake it half an
hour with cover over it. Remove the
cover, rub with butter and brown
| Home.
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
CULTIVATION OF BROOM CORN.
A Much More Profitable Crop than Gem
orally Supposed.

A Much More Profitable Crop than Gem
orally Supposed.
Broom corn properly handled Will
give threefold crop-the straw. the
fodder and the seed. The principal
crop is the broom straw. If the corn
is cut as the seed natures, and shell
tered before threshing, large amount
of good feed can be thus saved which
would otherwise be wasted, the feeding
value of which is greater than oats
If the seed is taken off while green, the
chances to save it are gone, as it will
heat and spoil in twelve hours, unless
spread so carefully that space can not
be found to accommodate it. But cure
the seed on the brush and you have
enough value to pay the expense of
harvesting, while the stalks, if pastured
early, will render large amount of
feed. Some say that stock will not
eat broom corn leaves, which may be
possible when they can't get them, but
i have seen cattle and horses eat the
leaves cleaner than they do on corn
stalks, and sometimes eat stock and all
down to the ground. One of my neigh
bors saved 500 bushels of broom corn
seed for stock feed. We saved all of
ours and fed it to all stock on the
farm. They seemed to relish the
change, and were eager for the ration.
The main value of the crop, how
ever, is in the straw, the price of which
ranges from three to eight cents per
pound of late years. Good broom
straw is quoted in the market
now at 81 to 6 cents, a very fair price.
A good acre of broom corn will grow
from 500 to 500 pounds of straw, max
ing fair return for use of land, labor,
| etc.
Last but not least the stalks can be
narrowed down and plowed under to
make good mulch for the next crop.
this thing was tested in the past sea-
son. The stalks of the 1898 crop were
plowed under in the fall. In the
! spring following an attempt was made
| to cultivate the oats into the ground,
| but failed on account of the ground
being so loose and ashy. The oats
were sown broadcast and narrowed in
the result of which was the best croT
of oats in the neighborhood. At the
| time when oats should make the straw
it was very dry, and some pieces were
SO short as to be scarcely cut at all
while this piece mentioned had good
| length of straw all over 1.-THE whole
field was thin land that we rented t.
broom corn the year before), and some
places was four feet to heads and stoot
up we'll, being the large white Rus
sian. A crop that compels mulch t.
| get rid of the stubble will pay tn,
farmer two-fold, and we are right a
the point where better tillage mus
| prevail or we farm at a loss.-Cor
| Journal of Agriculture.
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A FRENCH SOLDIERS HAIR.
It Was Worn In Violation of the Ruics Of
the Army.

It Was Worn In Violation of the Rulcs of
the Army.
It was singular fact that the late
Marshal Canrobert, the last of the
French marshals, offered in himself a
constant example of the violation of
the regulations of the army in which
he was SO con spicuous an officer.
Throughout almost the whole of his
military service Canrobcrt wore long
hair flowing down upon his shoulders,
like that of the famous American
leader, Custer; and, like Clusters, Mar
shall Canrobert's hair was sort Of ori-
famine for the soldiers
But ever since the year 1888 the
French army regulations have positive
ly required that every officer and sol
der shall wear closely cut hair, with
out any tufts, curls or ringlets what
soever," and severe penalties are pro-
vided for persistence in letting the hair
grow long.
Canrobert had a profuse mass of hair,
of which he was very proud 1t was
cropped, to his great grief, when he
went into the military school of St
Cyr in 1926; but when, as a young Of
ficer, he went into the Algerian war in
1895, he profted by the relaxation Of
many regulations there to let his hair
grow down upon his shoulders again.
Several years later, also in Algeria,
Col. Canrobert, bareheaded, led heroic
charge at Zaatcha, and his long, float
ing hair, in the thick of the combat,
served as rallying sign to the Zouaves
as they swarmed through the breach.
After this war Canrobert's head of
hair had already become so famous
that no superior ventured to command
him to cut it of, though Gen. Pchssier,
who hated him, once called him PRO
fessor" in cafe in Paris, and by way
of excuse, affected to have mistaken
him for doctor of philosophy on ac-
count of his hair.
Emperor Napoleon III. did once
venture to demonstrate with Canrobert
for wearing long hair. The marshals
response was very 'Frenchy."
'Sire," he said, my hair belongs to
historyw
He did not cut it. It foatcd all
through the French and German war,
becoming legendary among the sol
| diers- Long since it became snow
white, and fell upon the old marshal's
shoulders in his declining days; and il
clustered about them as his body lately
Law in state in Paris.-Youth's Com.
| panion.
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Relative Merit.

When man can, like Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, do beautiful work in two arts,
he will no doubt be variously estimated
by different people. 1t is said that he
once asked the artist and critic, Whist
Ter, how he liked a sketch which the
speaker had made for a picture. 1T
has good points" was the answer. go
ahead with e." A few weeks later, re-
Numbering that he had heard nothing
more about the picture. Whistler asked
how it wa. getting on. Doing IA
mously,r said Rossetti. .'l've ordered
q stunning frame for it." Some time
after Mr.. Whistler saw the canvas,
framed, but still untouched by paint.
you've done nothing to it yetg' asked
he. "No," answered Rossetti: but
I've written q sonnet ON the same sub
jcct, If you care to hear it." The reel.
tation was given, and Whistler said
after listening to it: "Rossetti, take
out the canvas, and put that sonnet in
the framel"-.yonth's Companion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-06-22
WANTED TO DIE RICH.
The Strange Resolve OF n Sailor on Sink
ing Ship.

The Strange Resolve OF n Sailor on q Sink
ing Ship.
Many years ago, according to one of
the yarns of the sea told by mariners
who claimed to have been present,
British ship having on board large
consignment of Spanish dollars for
house in Rio JaLeiro was wrecked on
the Brazilian coast. Hoping to save
some of his precious cargo the captain
ordered some of the casks containing
the gold brought on deck, but the YES
sci was so badly wrecked by the con-
tinuous pounding on the rocks, that it
was soon found necessary to take to
the boats without any of the treasure.
As the last boat was about to leave the
Inflated craft, one Of the officers. to
make sure that no one was left on
board, went back to make last tour
of the ship. To his surprise, sitting
beside one of the casks with a Ratchet
In his hand, he found one of the
sailors.
Hurry up!" cried the officer. 1--WE
came within an ace of going off with
out YOU"
'sTm not going" replied the sailor,
giving the cask hearty whack with
the Ratchet, bursting it open, and
laughing with delight as the coin
poured out around him. 1--WE always
wanted to die rich. I've been poor all
my life, and this is my FIRST and last
chance. Go ahead. I'll stay here with
my fortune"
Argue as he might, the officer could
not persuade the fellow to leave the
gold with which he played as child
with marbles, and he finally had to
leave him to his fate.-Harper's Young
People.
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ShIf.Iess Tricks.

The main reason why many farmers
do not have sufficient working capital
and proper tools with which to profit
ably conduct their business is that
they do not take proper care of their
farm machinery. By going a short
distance from our door we can see a
disc harrow and pillow standing in the
field where last used. Carriages also
can be seen out of doors, while on
many farms the wagons stand in the
door-yard the year round when not in
USE This isn't business farming. Why
can not farmers learn to keep such
things and the woodpile out of the
door-yard and have a neat lawn in
stead? Surely the good wife deserves
a tidy lawn about the house, and how
much more pleasant home would be.
Farmers, do you think it is right to
clutter up the yard with wagons,
wood-piles and other articles too nu-
merous to mention? / do not. The
door-yard is no place for such things.
Well-to-do city folks usually have a
nice green lawn about their homes.
Then why should not farmers have
beautiful home surroundings? There
is land enough.-E. T. Perkins, Saco, Me.
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Acute Sfeannesa.

'The meanest man I've met during
1885," remarked the drummer, II saw
down in Cleveland last week. He was
a rich old chap, and some people went
to him to get him to buy n ticket for
piano a widow was trying to dispose OF
by rattle. 1t was nice instrument
worth at least three hundred dollars
and as the old chap was friend OF her
husband, the people who were help
ing her dispose of the tickets thought
he would do something handsome. So
a small committee visited him and
stated the case.
How much Is a ticket? he asked.
"'Only a dollar was the reply.
"'And the piano?
"It's worth three hundred
"'Um-cr-er,' he said. as he re-
Iuctantly drew out dollar. is it In
perfect sass.r9' ---peTo;: free Press
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.Theu and Now.

In 1860 the south had 10, 600, 900 pop
ulation and raised 1856, 000. 900 bushels
of corn. In 1894, the south had pop
ulation of 10000, 900, and raised 49,
600, 900 bushels of corn. In order to re-
turn to the average of 1860 it will be
necessary for us to increase the pro-
duction more than 200. 000, 900 bushels
annually. The great state OF
Texas is making rapid strides in indus
trial development. She is now pro-
ducing and packing her own meat, pro-
ducing her own coal and stone, and re-
Gently made a contract to ship stone to
Kansas City with which to erect Q
building costing $500, 200.
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HERE AND THERE.

All coops for chicks should be rat
proof. For this purpose wire Goth or
netting, with half an inch mesh, is the
best material for warm weather.
I'm Germany over forty tons of POI
tatoes are often made from an acre of
ground. But the German farmer does
not plant more than he can cultivate.
There is nothing better for fatten-
ing fowls than corn meal mush and
milk. Well cooked, it is easily digest
ed. and fowls will eat great quantities
of it.
Keeping a lot of idle horses on the
farm is poor economy. Many a beast
eats his head OF while waiting for
spring to open SO he can be put to work
to pay for his feed.
Before it is everlastingly too late
it would be well to examine the chicks
for lice. Dust them well with insect
powder, or rub Scotch snuff well
among the feathers of the head. 1t is
better to treat the hen first-get her
free from lice and that gives the chicks
q chance.
Wheat can be grown in the Alps
at an elevation of 5000 feet; in Brazil
at 5000; in the Caucasus at 5000; in
Abyssinia at 5000; in Peru and Boil
var at ii 900.
Heavy yields are not the work of
Providence. Providence is not farm
ing this year. He may furnish the
natural advantages" but he neither
prepares the soil, plants the crop nor
cultivates it.
Pigs should be raised out of doors
as far as possible. Like boys and
girls they need abundant exercise to
develop bone and muscle-just what is
needed for the growing period. Turn
them loose in green pasture with in
structions to root hog. or die" and
they will root, and live.
The question of artichokes as a
food for hogs and other stock, divides
those interested into two portions
large majority which declare they are
good, and small minority, who SAY
they are not. On the face of the re
turns the artichoke is fairly elected to
a prominent place among food prod
nets.
Farmers who complain of lack OF
market for anything but cotton. should
remember that it is fairly within their
power to make a market upon Their
own grounds. BY keeping some good
cattle they supply market for theil
forage; by keeping some good hogs
they have q market for almost any
thing and everything they can raise IN
the way of feed. The same policy ap
plies to horses, sheep and fowls
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-06-22

THE Nashville, Chattanooga 4 st. Louis
Railway is the Historic route to Chattanooga
and the Southeast and the short line from
the North and Northwest, to be used by
those who desire the best facilities and tho
quickest time going to Chattanooga TO AZ
tend the Second International Convention
of the Epworth League in June. Special
cars can be parked convenient to the place
Of meeting, TO be occupied rs sleeping guar
ters il desired while in Chattanooga. For
further information call on or address Brit
ARD F. HILL, N. p. A., 128 Marquette Build
inc. Chicago, Ill; r. C. CowARDIN, w: r.
A., Room 5, Insurance Exchange Building,
st. Louis, Mo-, or d. J. MULLANET, n =
Agent, 50 w. Fourth Street, Cinclnnau, y.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-06-22
Under q Cloud.

Farmers, and our people generally,
should not fatter themselves with any
prospect of better prices for products
in the future. 1t is better to enjoy a
pleasant surprise than to run the risk
of bitter disappointment. The same
causes that have operated to reduce
prices below anything known to the
present generation are still active, and
will never cease as long as the wealth
and power of the country, with none
to oppose, are enlisted in that behalf.
The hoped for amelioration must come
through better management of the
great industry of agriculture-reduc-
ing every operation to the best avail
able system. and applying to every part
the best possible business principles.
The same depression that exists
here exists in every civilized coun-
try in the world where money
has been advanced in price by
operation of law, as it has in this
country. The rapid growing extrav-
agance of government necessitates a
combination with concentrated wealth,
whereby the people can be taxed to
the uttermost, that salaries may be in
creased, and official magnifcence en-
HANGED. Some ask, why does the great
majority, where the people rule, sub
NIT to such discrimination? They for
get that money is power" that a mill
ion dollars can do more than a thou
sand men. In this country agriculture
is the paramount industry-the great
wealth producer and the great con-
servative political power, and if gem
eral prosperity ever returns it will be
through the intelligent efforts of those
who till the soil. They must win back
all they have lost by an intelligent APP
plication of industry and an intelli-
gent performance of public duty.
They must sow and reap and pillow and
buy and sell and vote for the best re-
sults--Farm and Ranch.
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The reader of this paper viii be pleased to
learn that there Il at least one dreaded
all its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires Q
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure Is taken internally, acting directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
Of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up. the constitution
and assisting naturein doingits work. The
proprietors have 90 much faith in its curar
tive powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F. j. CHENEY Il Co, Toledo, o.
EHrSold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, Is cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-06-22
A Poisonous Mist.

This fit!y describes miasma, q vaporous
poison which breeds chills and fever, bilious
remittent, dumb ague, ague cake, and in the
tropics deadly typhoid forms Of fever Hos
letters Stomach Bitters prevents and cures
these complaints. Biliousness, constipation,
dyspepsia, nervous and kidney trouble, rheu-
matism, neuralgia and impaired vitality are
also remedied by the great restorative.
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"PAw, what does It mean when they say
money talksr' asked Johnny. ssIt means,n
said Mr. Billus, after rejecting a moment,
shat it sometimes helps man that's got 1t
to talk little louder than the other fellow"
s'Does all money tallz!' persisted Johnny.
sN-no. Not exactly" sThen money that
can't talk is hush-money. amt itP "Sonny,
suppose you go and bring in your kindling
wood "-Chicago Tribune.
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Consumption kills
more people than rife
balls. II Is more dead
~ than any of the
much dreaded cpl
denies. II Is q steal
thy, gradual. slow
disease. 1t penetlDtes
the whole body. II
Is In every drop of
blood. II seems to
work only at the
iungA but the ter
ribie drain and waste
60 ON all over the
body. To cure con-
sumption, work ON
the blood, make it
pure, rich and whole
some, build up the
wasting tissues, put
the body into condi-
ton for q fight with
the dread disease.
NJ pserresa fso1dosu
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Hiebe az m IN Leavening Powa-Late u S Govt Report
R3H!A!!! R RssdsSE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

ATrxrERANcs TowN.-He (rapturouslyl
GLOW beautiful you arel Just to gaze
into your eyes intoxicates me-" She IN
alarm) -ssHush-sh-sh. Don't speak OF II
This is a local option town and may be A.
rested and fined. "-Detroit Free Press.
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Medical Discovery fights in the night way.
II will cure oS per cent. of all cases IL taken
during the early stages of the disease. Its
first action Is to pat the stomach, bowels.
That makes digestion good and assimilation
quick and thorough. II makes sound, healthy
flesh. That is half the battle. That makes
the Discovery" good for those who have mot
consumption, but who are lighter and less
robust than they ought to be.
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man-"Why is it you Hamericans copy the
Hinglishl- American-'We are in hopes
you Englishmcn will see how it looks, and
get Disguised with yourselves" IN. Y.
Weakly
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THE two powers which in my opinion con-
stitute wise man are those Of bearing and
forbearing.- Epictetus.