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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
FATTENING HOGS.
There Are Profitable and Improbable
Ways of Doing 1t.

There Are Profitable and Unprofitabie
Ways of Doing 1t.
One thousand bushels of corn should
make 10000 pounds of pork, which, di-
yided samong,70 hogs, would give i43
pounds per head This would be
fair allowance of clear fat to the head,
provided clover would make the
frame, etc, to an equal weight, giving
500 pounds as the gross weight of the
hog at selling time. On the system of
fattening on old corn for the early
market, this would be- a fair weight
for a spring pig to attain, and the
owner would have no reason to
complain il it did not reach
$50 pounds. Allowing 10 pounds
of pork TO the bushel of corn. in the
above estimate does not reserve any
for. winter feeding, etc, but against
this should be counted the undoubted
fact that hogs running on clover all
summer, and finished off ON old corn
for a month or six weeks. viii lay on
over ten pounds of pork to the bushel:.
Twelve or thirteen pounds would be
nearer the mark.
Pigs dropped in March or April
should receive liberal feeds of Stops for
ut least three months, of which the
basis must be cows milk If this is
lacking, many will die of dis
ease before green feed comes,
and the remainder can never be
forced along fast enough to at.
tain a weight of two hundred and fifty
pounds in early fall. To winter hogs
chiefly on corn is not only very diff.
cult on account OF the tendency to dis
ease ON this constipating feed, but il
is scarcely profita BILE. s-sF4
Under most favorable circumstance
it is very difficult to make spring
pig weigh two hundred and fifty
pounds for the early fall market.
am so well satisfied of the profit in {
bunch of good shotes. summered OF
: clover and finished off with old corn
i$that do. not hesitate to advise The
wintering of most or all of them.
should emphatically advise agains
keeping hogs eighteen months. Ayea
is enough at the outside. The amour
of corn it will require viii deepen,
greatly on circumstances. If they ar
kept eighteen months and winters
entirely on corn it will take fifty-fiv
or sixty bushels per head, and tn
owner will realize no profit from tn
operation, or extremely little
have had forty hogs, about ten c
e.sJer months old, make very rapi
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
DON'T STUFF YOUR CHILDREN
Parents Afflicted with the Fad OF Perpetual
Lunciieon.

Parents Afflicted with the Fad OF Perpetual
Luncheon.
Has anybody risen to explain what
under the canopy of the blue heaven
makes fathers and mothers labor under
the delusion that the stomach of the
Young child is like that of nanny
goat in toughness and like balloon
for elasticity? Life would be too short
to labor with these fathers and moth
ers if their extraordinary belief merely
affected sane peoples opinions of
them. But poor babies! They are the
ones that have to suffer in whose be-
half several societies with Long names
and with longer creeds might be adj
vantageously started. Did you-ever
see a parent on journey of any dis
lance whatsoever, from a horse car
ride to jaunt across the continent,
or the great Atlantic, who did not
begin to feed the child with him or
her as soon as the boat or train or car
started, and kept up the stufiing pro-
cess till you, in your misery or sym
pathy, passed out of sight? Hardly
ever The children cry for things to
eat? OF course they do They have
been brought up, as far as they have
got, that way. The minute child
opens it's mouth something is stuffed
into it to cat. The child NAV wish
some water, or to have its position
changed; if it is too little to say SO, or
does not know enough to say so, some
thing to eat is given it. The
something is usually candy, pea
nuts. sweet cakes and bananas. The
baby has indigestion and frets and
fumes and fuses. OF course it does.
It's so mighty uncomfortable it can't
help it. Or when things have been
pushed beyond its endurance altogeth-
err. it has convulsion.
Do you know what physicians do
| when called in to see children writh-
| ing in spasms of pain? Ten times out
| of eleven they find the child suffering
| from an overloaded stomach, and the
| treatment is an emetic to get the hor-
rid mass away from the rebellious suf-
fering organs. Nine-tenths of all the
children old enough to talk, on jour-
ney of any kind. are yestlcss not be-
cause they are hungry, but because
thew are confined in little space and
obliged to sit unwontedly still. Amuse
them, not by stuffing them with food
they don't need and should not be
obliged to try todigest, but with some
thing to look at Instead of Opening
up n bag of eatables every time thu
child squirms give him picture boob
or tell him a story. The perpetua
motion luncheon notion that almost al
mothers and many fathers are affectet
by, ard nearly all children are afflicted
with the minute they are taken out o
their own door yard, is downright cru
city to children. 1t is not mistaken
kindness at all; it is egregious selfish
ness on the part of the parents, VIII
take the easiest method of keeping tn
children from making sound by keep
;ug their mouths filled with first on
thing and then another that an ostric
couldn't digest without kicking up
rumpus over tn. /. Commercial Al
vertiser.
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RrpeEwAr, Mo-, Aug. u, 1895.

1Tfs Warren, Pa.
Gentlemen:
Six years ago last Spring 1 took severe
cold, which settled on my lungs. ] coughed
and spit blood until my husband was
alarmed about me. l told him to go to the
drug store and get me bottle of Piso's
Cure for Consumption. He did so, and by
the time had taken its contents according
to directions wos very much better. He
then bought two more bottles, and they
cured me. s--sa--. .-s'- ~
Inrf fact, wecould hardly keep house with
out Piso's Cure for Consumption Ny hus-
band is subject to q cough every Winter,
cough medicine on the nlarkeD helps him
as does Piso's Cure.
You may publish the above II you sode-
Very truly yours,
Mrs. DELLA LOTT.
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when wrln.sles seam tho Brow =

And the locks grow scant and silvery, in
firmities OF age come on apace. To retard
and ameliorate these is one of the benign eff
fects OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, med
icine to which the aged and infirm can re-
sort as safe solace and invigorant. 1t
counteracts a tendency to rheumatism and
neuralgia, improves digestion, rectifies bill
iousness and overcomes malaria. A wine
glass before retiring promotes slumber.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
HOUSEHOLD BREviTlES.

Graham Muffins.-One and one-half
cupfuls of graham -four, one cupful of
sour milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt.
Dissolve the soda in teaspoonful of |
cold water; add it to the sour milk, |
beat the egg light, stir into the milk, |
and then the -four and salt.-Prairie
Farmer.
Raised uns-Use one quart of
milk; boil one pint of it. Add to the
whole quart piece of butter the size
of an egg, two-thirds of a cup of sugar
and two eggs beaten together, one-haif
a cup of black currants and one-half a
cup of yeast. Let the mixture rise
over night. Farm and Fireside.
Old Virginia Batter Bread. In
bowl put one cup of sifted yellow corn
meal, one tablespoonful of lard and
one teaspoonful of salt, pinch OF
soda Pour boiling water over all and
stir until you have a nice mush; now
beat in two eggs Thin with one cup
of sweet milk and bake in hot oven
half an hour Use a pudding dish to
bake in.-Detroit Free Press.
Ham Croque ttes.-One cupful OF
finely chopped cooked ham, one OF
bread crumbs, two of hot mashed po-
tatoes, one large tablespoonful of but
ter, three eggs, speck of cayenne.
Beat the ham, cayenne, butter and two
| of the eggs into the potato. Let the
mixture cool slightly, and shape it like
| croquettes. Roll in bread crumbs, put
in the frying basket and plunge into
boiling fat. Cook two minutes. Drain
and serve.-Home.
Salmon San dwich.-Mix the con-
| tents of can of salmon with mayon-
naise dressing. about half q cupful be-
| ing sufficient for the small-sized cans.
In removing the fish from the can take
out as little oil us possible. Mince the
fish fine, bones and all, the bones being
chalIxy in their preserved state. Add
the dressing, mixing we'll. Remove
the soft insides of mum Der of French
rolls and fill the space thus made with
the fish mixture. -Housekeeper.
Pudding with Raisins. Into dou-
BILE boiler put half cupful each of rice
and raisins; pour over them quart OF
fresh milk and add a tablespoonful OF
salt. Allow this to boil gently for an
hour and half, then add the well
beaten yollSs of three eggs, a cupful
of sugar and vanilla or lemon flavor to
the taste. Pour into a pudding dish
and bake in moderate oven till firm
then cover with a neringue made from
the whites of the eggs, brown lightly
in the oven and set away to COOL
Good Housekeeping.
Pine Apple Fritters. snake thict
and smooth batter with three-quarter:
of a. pint of cream. the yolks ant
whites of three eggs beaten separately
a pinch of salt and -four enough t.
make it the proper consistency. TAX
the peel from the pine, cut it into slices
and let them soak in two glasses o
curacao mixed with two and one-hal
ounces of powdered sugar, for severa
hours. When well Favored with'th'
liquor, dip the pieces into the thicl
batter and fry them in beiling-hot fat
! When done drain them on white blot
ting paper to absorb the grease. Serv
!, them on a white dolly, and sift granu
lated sugar over them quickly. Mar
. Mason, in Boston Budget.
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IL a Maoriland Office the reporter lately
wrote: s.Dr Johnson felt the deceased
pulse before prescribing The printer set
It up: ssDr. johnson felt the dcceased's
purse before prescribing"
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Highest of all in Leavenng Pows-Lase U. S Govt Report
Highest Of all Leavenng Powe-Iates u S Govt Report
RH!a!l! RFsk1dRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE


A COUPLE Of jailblrds were drinking ~
gether when one of them took out his
watch ssBless mep, exclaimed his aston
ished companion, you've got q watchp
"Looks like it." "And how much did 10
cost youp' "Sfx months."-Washington
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

"SHE has been thrice married. And all
three husbands deadi She has had ter
rible experience '.Yes, but then she has
a brother who is an undertaken, and he al
ways gives her a good deal off."-Boston
Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
From Now Until Spring

Overcoats and winter wraps win be in fash
ion. They can be discarded, temporarily,
while travelling in the steam heated trains
of the Chicago, Milwaukee q st. Paul Rail-
way. For solid comfort, for speed and tor
safety, no other line can compare with THE
great railway Of the West.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

.s,-..-sI wonder what makes those but
tons burst off SOP" Dora petulantly ex-
claimed. David looked at her tight
fitting dress. Force of habit, proba-
bly," he said, after thoughtful pause.
-Rockland Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
The Skin and Knowledge

Essential to the production of the most per-
feet and popular laxative remedy known,
have enabled the California Fig Syrup Go.
to achieve a great success in the reputation
of its remedy, Syrup of Figs, as it is con-
coded to be the universal laxative. For sale
by all druggists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

Jinis--l never saw house where
everything ran SO smoothly as at
Broadgrin's. - <f,S~xx1r
Minlss- Yes; lnclsy fellow. Broad
grin. He's got wife who knows how
to keep the servants amused while she
does the -work.-N. Y. Weekly, =
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

81 BEGAN life without a cent in my
pocket said the purse proud man to an
acquaintance. II didn'teven have a pocket"
replied the latter, meekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

FINANCIAL MIND READER-Beggar-" Yer
haven't got ten cents or bout yer, has yer,
boss4" The Mau-s'Iiow did you find that
out. thought no one knew l was broke
Init m vself ,s--SyracIse Post
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

WISE men viii apply their remedies to
vices, not to names: to the causes OF evli
which are permanent, not the occasional
organs by which they act, and the transi-
tory modes In which they appear.-Burke.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

san! Let me think q minutel" exclaimed
CholIy Taddles but do you imagine you
can keep it up that longp asked Miss
Kittish, anxiously.- Rexbury Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

WHEN new paper Is started in this SEQ
ton of the country, 1t Is reported as an
other yarn mill in full operation.-Te
Siftings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

{ DoRA--ssMr. Spooner says he always feels
like fish outof water when heis with me.n
Cora-"Then you've booked him, havenT
youf"-Harper's Bazaar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

'THAT mancauscs me no end of annoyance
over BILL" 'Why don't you sue him and
collect itln "Collect it, He's trying to do
hat."-Chicago Record.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

POETRY has been to me its own exceeding
great reward; it has given me the habit OF
wishing to discover the good and the beau
Coleridgc.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

JACK PoTrs-"Mal1ing love is good deal
like playing cards" Miss Pipkin :" How
sol'' Jack Potts-"Theres o lot in know
ing what hand is worth. Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
Halls Catarrh Cure
Z q Constitutional Cure. Price 30.

PEACE AT LAsr.-ssThere Il nothing now
to ma our happiness as Bass remarked
when his wife's mother took her departure
Boston Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

THE saddest things in life are men without
manhood, women without womanEood and
children without childhood Young Mems
Era.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

SoRRow has not becn given to Us for sor.
rows sake, but as lesson which we are to
learn somewhat, which once learned n
ceases to be sorrow.--C Carlyle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

SHE-ssYou seem nervous, George"
George 1.-Two half mind to kiss you"
~ thought that was about the size of IT,
Town Topics.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

HAVE found Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton an unfailing medicine. +. r. LoTz,
1906 Scott st., Covington, KY, Oct. l, 1904
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

WILL some fisherman kindly inform us
how the bass can roach the upper seal Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

DoN'T Neglect Cough. Take Some Halefo
Honey of Horehound and Tar fnstdnfer.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minutA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

ssMAMMA-A-Ai Boo-hooi Wes cryingl
Tum up tairs an see what's de matter wiz
usl'-Punch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

BEEcHAM's PILLS for constipation 10c and
95c Get the book sfree) atyo our o ddrrpggist'a
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

WHEN one has no design but to speak
plain truth he may say q great deal in O
very narrow COMPASS.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

WHEN girl wears glasses and a veil over
them, the effect is enough to scare the
boldest man.-Atchison Globe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
Bubbles or Medals.

sarsaparlas' When you think of it how contradictory
be only best best
sarsapa there highest mountain longest river
deepest And that best sarsaparia is There's
the mountain height and DEPTH but
how sarsaparai could you chemists But hen
you i The Worlds Fair Committee tested iand
thoroughly They behind the label the bottle What did
sarsapa result n Every make of sarsapara shut out
the Fair Ayers So it that Ayers was the only
sarsapara admitted Worlds Fair The committee found
They no for anything that not the best
And the best Ayers sasapaa received the medal and awards
Remember the word best is bubble any breath
blow; but pins prick such bubbles Those others
blowing bes sarsapaa bubbles the Worlds Fair
piced True Ayers Sarsapaa has the medal
The pin scratches medal proves gold The pin that
pcks the bubble proves wind We point to medals not bub
bles, when say: The best sarsaparlla is Ayers
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

NEARLY every ugly dog is known =
"Beauty."
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-16

Of the electric arc, It Is obtained in D
few moments. tits metal of great
hardness. with a brilliant fracture,
aud if slightly carburated, has the
curious property Of giving out, when
struck against flint, sparks OF much
greater intensity and energy than
those produced bv steel. Last year
NJ. Moissan demonstrated that 1t was
easy to obtain by the electric furnace
a calcium carbide which decomposes
cold water as theoretically as does
sodium; but while sodium makes by
drogen, the carbide disengages acety-
lena gas, rich in carbon, and with IL
Eliminating power superior to that OF
ordinary gas. In America, England
and Germany, factories are rising TO
prepare this carbide. in order either 10
replace or to enrich lighting gas
Boston Transcript.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-16
Good Advice.

The young man had seen the pla,
before. He let everybody for foul
seats around know that. and he KEEP
telling Just what was coming and
how funny it would be when it did
come. He had pretty girl with him
and he was trying TO amuse her. A.
length he said
"Did you ever try listening to 9
play with your eyes shut? You've nc
idea how queer it seems"
A middle-aged man with red fa c
sal just IN front. He twisted himself
about in his seat and glared at thu
young man.
Young man." said he, "did yoi
ever try listening to play with ,on'
mouth shut? ?"
The silence that followed was al
musi painful Washington POSI-.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-16
Modern War.

After critical examination of the
improvements made in war since his
practical experience of it, Gen. Fi'z
Hugh Lee concludes that such q
charge as that Of Pickett and his men
at Gettysburg would now be impossi-
BILE.
During the civil war sixty rounds OF
ammunition were the full allowance
for days fighting, while now an in
fantry ;ntrenched can fire sixty rounds
in three minutes at charging enemy.
The modern magazine rifle if used in
connection with rapid firing cannon,
Gen. Lee thinks. would have destroyed
every one of Pickett's men long before
they reached the heights.
The penetration of The regulation
Krag- Jorgensen rifle Is six times that
of the Springfield or Winchester, and
it will discharge forty shots in sixty
eight seconds with a range of 5000
yards.
Such has been the improvement in
field guns that Gen. Lee believes the
present improved breach-loading gun
can be captured by infantry only by
strategy or after its ammunition has
been exhausted. When such pieces
are reinforced by Maxim and Calling
guns firing from $50 to 1900 shots q
minute it becomes practically i'm
poseibleto storm any well-established
position.
Gen. Lees conclusions seem well
founded, and if they are, the magnifi-
cent charge Of Picketts men was the
last effort of chivalry in warfare IN
North America. When such chivalry
gives place to science, when it is nc
longer question of picturesque dis
plays of personal courage, when al
the heroic individualism of the OLE
barbaric methods OF making war dis
appears and nothing is lett except The
scientific determination of the enemy
war will cease to be glorious bust
ness in the minds of the Young, and j
may no longer be true that ever!
generation must have its war New
|
York World.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-16
Kangaroos.

y The advent of civilized mtn to a
new country usually leads to the dim
mutton, and ultimately to the exter-
mination, of any large wild animals
that exist in vast numbers and either
possess a pelt that is of value to tie
hunter or eat up the food that man ir-
teuds for his own domesticated cattle.
Nus the buffalo has become practi-
siM extinctin the United States, and
4 yde reckless. indiscriminate slaughter
4 of Gle fur bearing seals vi Alaska has
led to 4 serious reduction in the unm-
Der OF these valuable creatures, But
in Australia everything is 80 iop>y-
turvy and contrary 10 experience lhai
ii was only TO be expected that the
wild animate OF that country should
increase in numbers after the arrival
ofthe white man. And SO, indeed, it
was in the early days of the settle
ment Of the continent. Owing To the
gradual determination Of the black
felow", or Australian aboriginal, aud
of the dingo, or wild dog, his two pril-
cipal enemies. the kangaroo multi
n)ied exceedingly and threatened to de-
Hkroy the grass wanted for the support
Z the sheep. How rapidly this in
a tease took place is shown by the fact
at IA large sheep run in Queensland
y hs bought with forty thousand sheep
'ubon it, and, in few years more than
forty thousand marsupials were kill, d
shere. Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-16

Ants infest some gardens to such an
extent that constant war has to be
wagea npon them or all the plants
will he ,aen. Powdered borax is
recommended as means of destruc-
ion, but garden lover gives the in
t',ruation that he has found nothing
o good as keeping The ground where
they build saturated with water. In
snort, flood the ant bills.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-16
BIG FOUR ROUTE.

-, =, -. N %,
'"''" '''''o"ie' y "'' VIZ ~
! "ii'' cars e'esa"' oo"0"e'' ""s'e'
e'p"S cars anu 'io ''os' ~, ''
private 'o'ii paf'''io'' nuiio. ',oep'"s
0''N' mag ''"ooA' i'' i'''''"
tolleI access"rles III each coihp"l''
ment.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-16

Gen. Wade Hampton is still, more
,gNan any other living man, the idol OF
&c people of South Carolina. Hardly
Hess interesting than the aged warrior
himself is his quaint. home near Co
.Ambia. II is built from the debris of
his fine residence that was burned
during the war, and was erected by
his former slaves under his direction.
AS new rooms were added to the
humble dwelling it assumed the form
of a cross. and to the Generals friends
tits knowna as "The Southern Cross
LEX.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-16

A gathering of the descendants OF
john Portor, who settled in Salem,
now Danvers, in 1914, is to be held in
Dsnvers, Mass, on July II. Dauvers
was formerly Salem village. the scene
of the first out break of the witchcraft
felasion of 1902, and abounds in ia
kresting old houses aud localities, in
Guiding the old Page House upon
whose roof was the famous Revolu-
-1ipnary tea party; "rhe Llndens."
Nhere were Gov. Cages headquar-
tiers: Gov. Endicotl's orchard farm ;
the old Endicott pear tree Oak Knoll,
the home of John G.. Whittier; the
birthplace of Gen. Israel Putnam, and
the birthplace OF that honored friend
OF Washington, Gen. Moses Porter.