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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
OPERATING INCUBAToRs.
Sore Practical Hints From the Standard
American Poultry Book.

Some Practical Hints From the Standard
American Poultry Book.
The STANDARD. American Poultry
Book gives the following condensed
rules for successfully operating incu-
bators:
4. Keep the temperature as near 10a
degrees as possible.
2. Turn the eggs twice day.
3. Cool them well once q day.
4. Place wet sponges in the egt
drawer. from which to impart mois-
ture.. a.
$. Avoid handling the eggs, usine
gloves if necessary.
8. Allow plenty of ventilation in the
room where the machine is operated.
z. When the chicks are coming out
do not open the drawer, as cool air
then is injurious
8. Let the chicks dry well before re
moving them to the brooder.
o. Select eggs only from strong
healthy stock, rejecting those that art
very small, very large, misshapen Oh
otherwise imperfect.
10 Keep strangers away, especially
if they wish to inspect the egg drawer.
IL. Have regular hours for doing al,
the work.
IL. Do not believe that child car
manage it. Persons beginning with
incubators will probably have little
success in operating it at first, but
should not become discouraged. Nc
one can take new machine and run
it successfully until he has learned to
manage it. Regulating the heat and
amountof moisture can only be learned
by observation-disclosures Home Jour
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
PEOPLE AND PLACES.

PRoF. WIeGINs, the Canadian weather
prophet, has given us a rest on cy-
clones. The next thing to happen will
be an earthquake in New England in
1904.
The bishop of Chichester, England,
Rev. DIR. Durnford, has just returned
home from a pedestrian tour of Swift
zerland and the Italian lakes. He is in
his ninety-second year.
Mrs. DEBORAH Brown and daughter,
Of Toronto, have arrived at years OF
discretion. The mother is one hun
dred and eighteen years old, and the
daughter eighty-four years old.
GLADSTONE is proud of his Scotch an
cestry. The family line, on his moth.
er's side, traces back to King Duncan
and is connected with the genealogical
tree of King James l. His fathers
people were substantial folk.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
The Pove -ty of the Bonaparte..

Some time before the death of his
father, Gen. Marbeuf had married. and
the pecuniary supplies to his boy friend
seem after that event to have stopped.
Mime de Buonaparte was left with four
infant children; the youngest, Jerome
but three months old Their great
uncle, Lucien the archdeacon. was
kind, and Joseph, abandoning all his
ambitions, returned to be, If possible,
the support of the family. Napoleon's
poverty was therefore no longer rela-
tive or imaginary, but real and hard
Drawing more closely than ever within
himself, he became a still more ardent
reader and student, devoting himself
with an industry akin to passion to the
works of Rousseau, the poison of whose
political doctrines instilled itself with
fiery and grateful stings into the thin,
cold blood Of the unhappy cadet-Prof.
Sloane, in Century
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19

Doubtless some of the smart re-
marks attributed to witnesses in court
by constituencies story tellers could
not be supported by affidavits, but the
following conversation actually oc-
CURED at Pittsburgh recently: Attor-
ney Reardon was defending client
charged with Illegal liquor selling,
when Ruth Woodruff, a former client
of Reardon's, was called to the stand.
'sYou have been here before, haven't
your" said the attorney. 'You ought
to know, Mr.. Reard on" she replied.
"And you were sent to the workhouse
weren't you?" swell, gave you
enough money to keep me out of it,
retorted Ruth. "You were innocent
of course" persisted the attorney, sar
castically. ''Well, you said I was" re
piled Ruth. This ended her cross-ex
animation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19

There are few nations, and few indi-
viduals even, that would now look to
the events of chance for any knowl-
edge of the future. A late instance of
what used to be a common form OF
divination was reported in one of the
London newspapers at the time when
there was war between England and
Ashantee. The king of Ashantee con-
suited his fetish men in order to find
out from them what his future fate
was to be and the result of his opposi-
ton to the English. He therefore,
after having resorted to various means
without success, ordered two he-goats
to be selected and brought before him,
one entirely black, the other OF a
spotted white color. This was done,
and after due fetish ceremonies had
been performed over the two goats.
they were set at each other. The white
goat easily overcame and killed his OPP
ponent. Koffee Calcalli, after this test,
was satisfied that he was doomed to
defeat at the hands of the white man.
He Immediately sent an embassy to
Sir Garnet Wolseley tc sue for peace. :
Youths Companion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
A GREAT DIVIDING LINE.
The Desert strip Which Separates Europe
and Asia.

The Desert strip Which Separates Europe
and Asia.
Between Mesopotama, where the
swarming human race reared its tower
of Babel, and the western plains OF
Hindustan, with their teeming popula-
tion--in some parts two thousand or
more souls to the square mile-a trans
verse zone. containing less than two
inhabitants to the same surface, runs
from north to south between the Gulf
of Oman and the icy Arctic sea- This
almost uninhabited zone begins just
west of the plains of the Lower Indus
and its frontier mountains, in the des-
ert tracks of southern Beloochistan,
India and Afghanistan it stretches
north and northeast along the rugged
escarpments of the Suleiman Dagh and
other ranges, whose hidden basins and
narrow gorges give shelter tomouutain
tribes living far from the haunts of
other men. except when the martial
fury seizes them and brings them to
blows with their neighbors of the lower
table land or the plains.
To the northwest OF HlnuuStan the
folds of the soil become deeper and
more numerous, sharply dividing the
world with their countless walls. The
high SUBMITS of the Hindu-Koosh, in
ferior only to those of the Himalaya of
Nepau1, tower above these ridges and
spread their glaciers to enormous dis
tances. Beyond these, again, the inn
mense mass of almost impossible high
lands which have been called the Roof
of the World" continue the line of de-
markation very effectually between
Hindu Koosh and Thian-Shan, and the
ill-watered adjacent plains broaden at
many points the median zone of separ-
tion between east and west.
Finally further north, in the great
Siberian depression, the salt borders OF
Lake Ballxash and the barren reaches
of Senlipalatinsk and the Hungry
Steppe- stretch between the Obi and
the Yenisel along band of thinly-in-
habited country which loses itself in
the frozen tundras. The researches OF
Gmelin and other naturalists have es-
tablished the fact that the true separa-
ton between Europe. and Asia lies
hers, in these low and arid regions,
and not along the green heights of the
Ural mountains. -Elisee Reclus, in
Contemporary Review
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
a FEW HINTS
On How to Become Poor and Unsuccess-
ful Farmer.

On How to Become q Poor and Unsuccess-
full Farmer.
Sleep in the morning just as late as
possible. Sleep until mother or wife
or sister have gotten up, made the
fires, drawn the wather, cooked the
breakfast. Devour as much as possible
of the unrelished breakfast. and grum-
BILE all the time because it is unrelished.
If the morning is damp, or the work
isn't pushing, or you don't feel like
pushing it, just flop yourself down
with a newspaper and enjoy the news
in the freshness of the morning while
your mind is freest of care. Or if you
do not read. saunter off to a neighbor's
house and steal as much of his
time as you can, talking about
s.hard times" BY all means, idle away
the snowy months of winter. Do NOT
think of repairing fences. clearing new
ground. making compost, etc, until
You are ready to use them and the CROP
is all in q push. Then hire hands tc
do this work, and pay them in cash
that should be used to improve the
farm.
Do not think of such a thing as keep
ing a set of farm books. bookkeeping
Is for town folks who work for success
Never calculate. never count the cost
never look ahead. Sufficient unto tn
day." Is your motto. Mustn't broader
your ideas on Bible doctrine, but elisel
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19

spirits take fight. 1t is time to accept
the help offered in Doctor Pierce's Fa-
svorite Prescription. It's medicine which
was discovered and used by prominent
physician for many years in ali cases of
female complaint and the nervous dis
orders which arise from it, The PRE-
scription " is powerful uterine tonic and
uervine, especially adapted to woman's
delicate wants for it regulates and promotes
all the natural functions, buiidseup, invig-
crates and cures.
Many women suffer from nervous pros
tration, or exhaustion, owing 10 congestion
or to disorder of the special functions The
waste products should be. quickly got rid
Of the local source of irritation relieved
and the system invigorated with the Pre-
sc-ipsion." Do not take the so-called
celery compounds, and nervines which
only put the nerves to sleep, but get .
lasting cure with DIR. Piercc's Favorite
Prescription.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
BITS OF NATURAL HISTORY.

TUsKs of the mammoth have been
found OF a length of nine feet, meas
ured along the curve.
THE whole body of a boa or other
constructor is a perfect network of pow
erful muscles.
Some naturalists say that the whale
was once land animal that took to the
water for safety.
ELEPHANTS annoyed by flies have
often been known to break off branch
and use it as fan.
OXEN and sheep are believed by some
stockmen to fatten better in company
than when alone.
The natural life of an elephant Is
said to be one hundred and twenty
years. 1t is, however, greatly short
ened by captivity.
THE bones of very aged persons are
said to have a greater proportion OF
lime than those Of younger people
THE rhinoceros has perfect passion
for wallowing in the mud, and is usual
ly covered with thick coat of it.
THE lowest order of animal life is
found in the microscopic jellyfsh. II
is simply a minute drop of gelatinous
matter.
THE mole is an excellent civil en-.
gineer. He always secures his own
safety by having several entrances to
his dwelling.
MANY birds have the trick of tum.
bling along on the ground ahead Of q
sportsman, in order to draw him away
from their nests.
EUROPEAN marmots remain dormant
during the winter. Before becoming
torpid they carefully cement the en-
trance to their dwelling.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
The patent office has only recent

The patent Office has only recently
settled dispute involving great deal
of money over the rights in "continu-
Gus" cigarette machines. 1t has de-
cided that the original inventor was
Albert H. Hook. This continuance has
greatly lessened the cost of making
cigarettes, which are now turned cut
at the rate of five hundred minute.
The paper is fed in long strip end
wise to the machine, which. feeds the
tobacco to it, and would produce a
single cigarette mile or go in length
perhaps, only that a keen-edged knife
descends upon the cylinder as it passes
through and chops it off in lengths
Incidentally to the same operation the
cigarettes are pasted, and without fur
ther labor they are ready TO be put uI
in packages for sale.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
FIREslDE FRAGMENTS.

Potato Balls.-Flouring the hands,
work cold mashed potato into small
round cakes and fry brown in lard,
with sprinkle of salt, or meat drip
pings, which is better. Parsnips are
nice cooked in this way. -Housekeeper.
TO Fry Oysters. brisk fire,
put on deep skillet full of lard. Pre-
pare your oysters by draining and
wiping each one dry on a clean tea
towel, then season and roll in corn-
meal. When the lard is boiling drop
In the oysters and let them fry until
brown. Be sure the lard is boiling hot
ST. Louis Republican.
Grape Pie.-Crush the grapes, re-
moving their skins, and simmer the
seeds and pulp together in porcelain
kettle, pressing through a colander to
remove the seeds. Then put skins and
pulp together. sweeten to taste, stir in
a teaspoonful of -four if very juicy, and
pour into pie plate lined with paste.
The pie is baked with an upper cover.
IN. Y. Observer.
"A Sunday Pudding. Two eggs,
their weight in butter, -four and sugar.
Beat the butter and sugar to cream,
add the eggs, and lastly the -four,
which has had half teaspoonful OF
baking powder mixed in it. Butter a
shallow pie dish, spread with layer
of small stewed figs, cut finely, pour
the batter mixture over, and bake for
half an hour.-Leed's Mercury.
-Cocoanut Tarts.-Dissolve half a
pound of sugar in half pint of water;
add pound of grated cocoanut and
stir over the fire for five minutes. Let
cool Add the beaten yolk and the
white of one egg. Line little tart pans
with puff paste; fill with the mixture
and bake A lemon or almond mixture
may be used to fill the tarts in place OF
cocoanut if desired. Western Rural.
--Custard Souffie. two scant
tablespoonfuls of butter to a cream,
add two scant tablespoonfuls of flour.
Pour over this gradually one cup hot
milk and cook eight minutes in a
double boiler, stirring often. Beat the
yolks of four eggs, add two tablespoon
fuls of sugar, stir into the milk and set
away to cool. Half an hour or so be-
fore serving beat the whites OF four
eggs stiff and add to mixture lightly.
Bake in buttered pudding dish in
moderate oven thirty-six minutes
Serve at oncc.-N. Y. Ledger.
Apple Pandowdy.-This is another
old-time dish, none the less detachable
on account of its antiquity. Line the
bottom and sides of deep baking dish
with thin slices of buttered bread, let
ting them take the place of the usual
paste lining. Put in as thick layer
of thinly sliced apples as the dish viii
accommodate, sprinkle with nutmeg
or cinnamon, and turn over cupful O
brown sugar dissolved in half thu
volume of hot water. Over the top put
another layer of the bread, cover thu
dish with plate, and bake slowly TO-
an hour and a half. 1t is served hot
inverted on platter, with liquid sauc'
or cream. Good Housekeeping.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
To Increase Cotton Production.

The best method of increasing the
cotton production is~that of sowing in
small grain each year one-half of the
tillable land, being careful not to cul
tivate the Same field in cotton two
years in succession. The cotton crop.
like that of corn, fourishes best when
there is sufficient decaying vegetable
matter in the soil to retain moisture
enough, added by constant cultivation
sof the surfact, to counteract the hot,
dry weather which occurs during thu
period of its growth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
HERE AND THERE.

Oats and bran are better feed fo1
sheep than corn.
Sixty thousand acres are devoted
to celery growing in America.
-Cheaply bred stock usually brings
cheap prices. Raise good stock-tke
best you possibly can, for in the end ii
is the most profitable.
"A pig is an an animal with no.
bust appetite if he is healty; and if
you want to make him profitable, you
must feed him bountiful. See how
much he can eat; not how little.
The orchard needs as much atten-
ton as any other crop. We can not got
something from nothing in the orchard
any more than we can in the corn
field.
Farmers, You who are IN the habit
of buying your farm animals, stop!
You can raise thSm much more eco
nomically than you can buy them. The
man who sells them to you makes
profit that you could make.
variety is the spice of life" 1t
is also the spice of good living Plant
plenty of turnips, pumpkins, sorghum,
fodder, corn, etc, for your stock.
Horses, hogs and cattle love yoriety as
well as you do, and it pays to let them
have it. - #
The old rule that<one bushcl of
corn win make ten pounds of pork is a
very good one--if it would only work.
If the hogs are exposed during severe
weather it will require double the
amount of corn to do the work.
1t will cost no more to raise good
horse. than a plug or scrub if You are
a humane man and feed as you should
Have none but good mares and breed
them to none but good draft stations
with good pedigfees, if you want to
raise stock that will pay You.
"A male of any of the improved va
rieties will quickly make marked inn
preston on flock of mongrel hens.
Half-bred 1eghorn pullets next win
| ter will add SO per cent. to the amount
of eggs you may receive from your
common stock of hens on hand now.
"A week or ten days; of heavy feed.
| ing will materially add to the condi.
ton of ducks and chickens, and pro.
cure better price& Turkeys and
geese require longer, but, if thrifty
can usually be well fatted for market
with two weeks Of liberal feeding on q
fattening rations.
IF instead of selling you're surplus
oats, corn, hay, etc, you win rsist
enough cattle, hogs and poultry to con
sumo it.you will fnd that both your
purse and your farm are getting rich
err. by feeding it to your own stoeE
you make two profits on your own pro
duce besides Che value of the manure
you thus get.
The farmer never gets out of a job
there are no strikes He who has Z
family to support is saved a great dea
of worry and anxiety because his in
come, even If small. is sure. Their,
should be self-congratulation on thu
farm these hard times, when so manl
of our fellows throughout the worlt
are ont Of employmsnt
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19
FARMER AND PLANTER
HOG FEEDING.
the Advantages of Feeding Stop to Fat
tening Animals

The Advantages of Feeding Sion to Fat.
tening Animals.
l find it profitable to feed slop oI
some kind to hogs a good part of the
time, not only during growth, but in
finishing for market. Good slop fed to
the brood sow gives her good material
with which to manufacture milk for
her pigs. Fed to growing pigs it sup
plies the material needed for good
growth, and development of bone and
muscle. In finishing for market 1t
adds to the variety, lessons the cost,
keeps with better appetite. and Sc
cures better results at lower cost.
With fattening hogs one of the best
plans of management is to have the slop
all mixed up ready, and then feed them
liberal quantity before feeding them
their gram. This will, in nearly all
cases, secure a better digestion and as.
similaticn of the food. 1t viii be an
advantage to give them some slop with
their grain. That they will relish it
can be easily seen by the fact that
when it is given them in this way they
will eat a part of their grain and then
go to the trough and eat more or less
slop, and keep this up all of the time
that they are eating.
With growing pigs slop is much the
one-part feed. Even when deemed to
feed considerable corn, in majority
of cases it will pay to grind. Mix with
bran or middling and make into a
slop, and feed in this way rather than
to feed whole. Corn is one of the best,
1T not the best feeding material that
can be supplied when it is desired to
fatten rapidly, yet better results at a
less cost can be secured if this is fed in
connection with something else.
The fact has been stated time and
again that no one material supplies all
of the elements needed, either for
growth or fattening, in just the right
proportion to secure the best results at
the lowest cost, and it is upon this
basis that variety is needed If the
feeding is done most economically.
Then when fed for any time upon any
one article of feed it is but natural
that the animals would tire of it. at
least to some extent, and will not do as
well as if a variety is given.
In order to maintain thrifty gain it
Is very important to keep the hogs with
good appetite. They must eat we'll
If they gain well, and slop given with
the feed will help to keep with a good
appetite.
In very many cases it will pay to pur-
chase bran, middling and oil meal to
feed to the growing and ufattening
hogs, rather than to be obliged to de-
pend upon corn, as in fact any other
kind of grain alone, or at least, this has
been my experience, and feed more or
less slop to my hogs every day in the
year,-Cor. Farm and Ranch.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, BY moro promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence Is due to IS presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectualIy cleansing the SYSTEM
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and il il perfectly free froEh
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it 10 man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being well informed, you Will mot
accept any substitute If offered.
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VALUABLE HINTS.
Protection of Fruit and Vegetables In
Transit.

Protection of Fruit and Vegetables In
Transit.
A bulletin which has just been sent
out by Prof. Mark w. Harrington, chief
of the weather bureau. gives the opin-
ions gathered from many shippers of
perishable products throughout the
country in relation to the proper pro-
lection of fruits and vegetables by heat
and cold during transportation. These
men generally concur in the statement
that the danger in transportation from
freezing has been eliminated by modern
methods. The so-called lined car, which
has partition of tongued and grooved
boards at the sides and ends, placed
so as to leave an air space of about
four inches, answers for spring and
autumn and during most winter
weather, while the Eastman heating
car in extreme weather has proved a
perfect protection. Perishable goods
can be shipped with safety in ordi-
nary freight cars when the outside
temperature is 20 degrees Fahrenheit,
and in refrigerator cars when it is 10
degrees. Fruitwrapped in heavy brown
paper will endure Is degrees more cold
than. if it is not so wrapped. Damp
ness is very injurious, and products
which are shipped in dry con-
dition can endure much lower
degree of temperature without in
Jury than under moist condi-
lions. 1t should always be remem-
bered that the kind of packing which
keeps out the cold will keep in the
heat, so that there is often more dan
ger from heating by process of decom-
position than from injury by the cold.
When a north wind is blowing on the
prairie, cars which contain fruit are
often covered with canvas on the north
side. Oranges that have been frozen
may be thawed without injury by put
ting them in cold water or in tight
barrels immediately after arriving, al
low:rg them to thaw out gradually.
These are some of the points picked
almost at random from what is alto
gether most instructive circular.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-19

Men and women continually break down
through mental strain and physical efe-s-
The true repairer of vitality thus impaired,
a perennial fountain of health and vigor is
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which restores
digestion, enriches the blood, and healthful-
ly stimulates the bowels, kidneys and liver
when they are INDECENT. This comprehen-
siye remedy also subdues malaria, rheuma-
tism and nervousness.