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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
PLANS OF THE sILvERITEs.
Some of the Presumptuous Claims Q
White Metal Howlers.

Some of the Presumptuous Claims OF
White Metal Howlers.
The congressional contest down in
the 18th Illinois district is unique
in many respects. The most sig
nificant feature of the democratic can
vass, however, is the evident purpose OF
the free coinage advocates to use the
natural democratic majority in the dis
trict as ''great triumph" for the white
metal fiatists. While Mr.. Hinrichsen's
free silver plank was inserted in the
platform adopted by thedemocratic con-
vention without any pronounced pro-
tests, it cannot be said that the voters OF
the district are particularly impressed
with the idea that the silver controver-
sy of the west is to be settled in that dis
trict.
1t is true that formidable aggrega-
ton Of 5O-cent orators has been turned
loose on the voters of the district. lii
nois democracy was not rich enough in
campaign oratory to supply the needs
of the campaign. Such men as Morri'
son, Black and Palmer do not answer
Mr.. Hinrichsen's purpose. Instead OF
these the charlottesville Bland, the
blantanant Bryan and silverwheelStons
are stumping the district.preaching the
sixteen to one fallacy. tits hoped thai
the voters of the Eighteenth distric'
will note the fact that the Missouri and
Nebraska calamity howlers have beef
turned down in their own states. They
| are certainly out of place in prosperous
| Illinois.
But in spite of the work OF the white
metal howlers in the district there is lit
tie probability that the voters are TAX
ing them seriously. The meetings hav
been poorly attended and there ha
been no enthusiasm. The indication
are that the voters will divide ON part,
lines as usual with little reference t
the silver issue. If they do, it mean
the reelection of Mr.. Lane to congress
by the normal democratic majority
which the district has given for severa
wears until the last election, when MI
Lane went out under the republican
tidal wave that swept over the country
TO claim it as victory for free siive
would be the height of consummate TO
lily. The people could not be fooled D
any such Misrepresentation Chicag
| Times-Herald.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
Design. for Embroidery.

All kinds of lace stitches are much
used in filling in natural and leaf, flow
cr and conventional designs done upon
white and colored linen embroidcries.
The design is first outlined and then
covered with a network of stitches.
This kind of work is best suited to large
designs done upon table-eovers, sofa
pillows, hangings and counterpanes.
The stitches used are "the honeycomb,' -
familiar TO workers of point-lace, the
darning stitch, the herringbone stitch
and number of others. Buttonhole
and overcast stitches are used to out
line the designs. Herringbone stitch
taken across the width of leaf is liked
for filing in narrow and long leaves.
Sometimes small French knot is
worked in the space between the
Stitches Y. Post
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
Coo.

Marlow-Isn'tit rather embarrassing
70 be engaged to three or four young
men at the same time?
Miss FIirt-I believe they do find 1t
90 at times. poor fellows!-N. Y. World
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
The EsscntiaI Thing.

81 have been told, Mr.. Spooncr, that
you have been engaged before"
eyes, must confess that have; but"
(brightening up) .you needn't let that
trouble you at all. l still have the
ring."-Brooklyn Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
A Oucstion of Honesty.

To juggle with a question is cow
ardice. We cannot climb over it, dive
under it or sneak around it. This is
more than a question of party. 1t is a
question of principle and honesty. The
government has no more right to de-
base the coin than the rogue has to clip
it. The government does not make
standards OF value. They are made by
commerce and the laws OF supply and
demand. The government can't make
honest thing that is dishonest. 1t
uay be able to compel obedience to its
DEGREES by force, but it has no more
right to stamp SO cents worth of bull
lion with the declaration that it is a
dollar than have to steal a dollar from
my friend here. The moment it does
that ] makes the Goddess of Liberty on
that coin tell lie. 1t is simply ques
ton of honesty, and in the name of God
don't let the government Of the republic
I've dishonest II the government car
take 50 cents worth of bullion and car
| by its impress make il dollar it can by
the same power take 25 cents wortl
! and make it s2o.--Mayor Warwick, O
Philadelphia.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
Onestion of Age.

Editor-You say you wrote that joke
yourself?
JolSist-Yes, sir.
Editor-You don t really lookit, young
man, but you must be about three hum
dred and twenty five years old.-Modes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

"What are You thinking OF, Madges
"Whether would rather have you iol
q friend, or Jack for husband.
"Wen, can't you have both?
"That depends upon Jack.-brooA'
Ign Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
Embarrassing.

Like bad piano player,
Old Outlate seems to be.
Because, however hard he trfes'
He cannot find the key.
IN. Y. Recorder.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28
A Fit at Last.

Mrs. De Crisscross (who has come W
talk about an unsatisfactory so""'
Is Nine. Froufrou Voulezyons ID 9
Modiste's Assistant--No; madame 10
Ill with apoplexy. , .rhan
Mrs. DE Crisscross - Indeedl nen
.he has n fit at last.-N. Y. World.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

80. Even at the low prices for silver
of the pasttwo years many miners found
its production profitable. The present
advance. comparatively slight though
it IS, is likely to increase the output.
This is one of the reasons way large
advance world be difficult to maintaia.
st. Louis Glohe- Democrat.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

JACK HAD THE INSIDE TRACK
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

Troubled my daughter. At times he
head would be covered with scabs ant
running sores. We were afraid she woul,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

bly, come of 1t, so long as he was pres
ent, and their conversation did not wan
der from the subject of books.
ALL Mr.. Ford, You had forgotten
that look may sometir es convey n
meaning deeper than words, and that
| the young man could read the storied
hero's words with such feeling and in
such a tone that they became his own.
Bob, who often dropped in of an even
ing, realizing something of this as he
sat and listened, wished that he APP
preciated poetry, and that that con-
founded girl would be as agreeable to
him as to the schoolmaster.
Mr.. Ford was not entirely blind, and
at last spoke to Winnie, intending to
reprimand her severely:
"Seems to me you and the school
master are getting to be pretty good
friends over your reading?"
1--WE are" said Winnie, raising such
an, innocent face to her fathers gaze
that he felt entirely disarmed.
Not long after this the pupils of Rid
leys school were challenged to a spell
ing match by the pupils of an adjoin
ing district. In a country neighbor
hood where little happens in the way
of entertainment, an event of this kint
is hailed with interest, especially by
the young people. Bob Carr heard o
it, and went Immediately to ask Win
ME to accompany him to the spelling
match.
IN order to propisiate her fathel
Winnie consented. Bob was lifted to I
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-28

she had ever laughed before in her life.
For the ghost was only blackened
stump, partly covered with snow, and
close beside it grew cedar shrub,
whose bushy top had formed the feath-
cry headdress. Seen from the fence
the perspective was just right to pre-
sent to the excited vision the exact ap-
pearance of the Indian ghost as 1T was
so often described.
"Why, Miss Ford, what is the mat
ter?"
1t was Ridley's voice that interrupted
Winnie's fit of laughter. He, too, had
followed the shortest road, and was
much surprised to come upon Winnie
alone by the wayside. Controlling her
mirth, she explained the situation.
Then she invited him to go back to the
fence and have a look at the ''ghost.
Ridley was much amused, and said
the object was startling. He didn't
blame Bob for getting frightened-he
would have been so himself. ''But
don't think l should have deserted
you,r he added; and Winnie believed
so, too.
However, both of them were disposed
to forgive Bob, as he had given them
the opportunity of walking home to-
gether.
Mr.. Ford looked displeased as they
entered the house. But Winnie, with
greater show of anger than she felt
perhaps, FASTENED to tell her father Of
Bob's cowardly act. He made no com
ment; but never again did he urge hi'
daughter to accept Bob as lover. AND
that luckless youth, feeling that nov
all his efforts were vain, ceased to infiic'
| his attentions upon her.
But Winnie and the young school
master remained excellent friends
When school closed and Ridley re
turned tocollege, you may be sure he dit
not cease to hear from the farmhouse
Before many years had passed
have no right to carry this story fur
Their, for it vas only to deal with tn
legend Of Indian hill.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
JEFF Davis Desk

One of the guides at the capitol.
Washington, the other day said that he
hoped that before Captain Bassett.
the watchdog of the senate dies he
will tell somebody which one of the
desks it was which Jefferson Davis &C.
cupied when he was a member of the
senate. Bassitt is the only one that
knows, and he will not tell for fear
visitors will clip off splinters for SOU
venirs. During the war a lot of SOL
diers got into the chamber and stuck
their bayonets into the desk. and I
reckon they thought they'd make kind
ling wood of it. But old Captain Bas-
sett goes to work and patches it all
up with screws and putty and varnish
till it looks like any other old desk in
the chamber. 1 know for certain that
some mighty influential senators have
tried to get the secret out of the old
man, but they might as we'll talk to
the Goddess of Liberty on top of the
dome as to get him to tell which is Jeff
Davis seat"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
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 more 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 its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t 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 it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fly Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
TROLLEY ROADS IN ENGLAND.
British Conservatism Yieldius-Clty Own.
the Way.

British Conservatism Yieldiug-Clty Own.
the Way.
John Bull has at length come to the
realization that there are such things
as electric roads in the world, and that
possibly they may be good thing. An
American syndicate has secured the
franchise for an electric road in the
city OF Coventry, which has about co.
ooo population, and the work is going
ahead.
An experimental road of six miles
was put down in the suburbs Of the
city of Leeds, and the city fathers of
various cities and towns have been
1unketed" over to Leeds and intro
duced to the mysteries of the American
trolley system. The Coventry authori-
ties were the first to yield to its seduc-
tons.
The method of building street rail-
ways in England greatly lessons the
cost OF installation to the promoting
capitalist. The city puts down and
owns the tracks or permanent way.
The operating company leases the
track for twenty-one years, and at the
expiration Of the lease it may be re-
newed, or the city may buy the plant
and rolling stock at an appraised valu-
alton.
The Coventry road has eight miles of
track, which is all single track. but
with long sidings. The estimated cost
OF rolling stock. poles, wires and power
station is S250,000. Everything is to be
furnished from America, even to the
poles for the wires. It was originally
supposed that English poles would do,
out when put up they were found I'M
equal to the strain OF supporting the
wires, and the necessary poles had to
De ordered from Philadelphia.
Ii the innovation takes with the
English public there will be a pot of
money for the American syndicate.
winch will probably be called upon to
put In similar roads in nearly all the
english cities. The conservatism of
'ne English people on this subject
seems TO be as pronounced today as it
was IN the time when Citizen George
FRANCIS Train put down his first tram
way In Parliament street. London. and
was then compelled to take up his rails
Dy the outraged and indignant public.
Inc continental cities have taken
more kindly to the electric railroad
system, and in fact the first trolley
road in the world was in the streets of
Berlin. This road had trolley rid
Ing on wire at the side of the street,
with flexible wire connection to the
car. The upward pressure system with
the familiar trolley pole of today was
a later invention.
A nrm Of English electricians have
recently tackled the conduit electric
road problem, and produced something
IN the nature OF a small tunnel and
motor therein. with a projection which
reaches through the slot and pushes the
street car along.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Ne-insuring risks on vessels long
overdue, and supposed to be lost, Is q
game OF chance in which speculative
marine underwriters have been indulg-
ing. One Of the vessels on which such
big odds have been taken was the Brit
ish bark Commander. which sailed on
April IL. from Chittagong. India, for
the West Indies and the Delaware Break
water, and has been given up for lost.
Both vessel and cargo were insured
at ordinary risks, at the rates then cur
rent for vessels trading on long voy-
ages. After three months had elapsed
without the arrival OF the vessel, tho
original insurers placed their risks with
other companies, paying 20 guineas
premium, and escaping the payment OF
a total loss. Those who took the new
risk became alarmed at the continued
absence of the vessel, and to protect
themselves, they re-insured the vessel
and cargo at 40 guineas premium. As
the loss of the vessel appears to be
beyond doubt, those who last took the
risk will be called upon to pay total
loss.
The British ship Munster sailed In
ballast. from Rio Janeiro on May 10 for
Newcastle. New South Wales, and is be-
Iieved to have been lost off Cape Horn.
She is now being re-insured at 80 gum
cas- premium. The ship Lord Spencer,
which sailed from San Francisco for
Queenstown on April and the Star OF
Austria. which sailed from Santa Ro-
salia on March % for Falmouth, are
believed to have been lost. and vessels
and cargoes are being re-insured at 20
guineas premium.-Philadelp Rec
ord.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
Deafness Can Not BE Cured

BY local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infiamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When the tube is in
famed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when 1t is en-
tirely closed Deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by Catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition Of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case Of Deafness Caused by Ca
tarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars. free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists; T5c.
Halls Family Pills, CSC.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
Bubbles or Medals.

"Best sarsaparas you think of how contradictory
tna term IS For there be only best in anyhngone
as there is one highest mountain longest
deepest ocean And that best sarsaparia is? There's
the rub You can measure mountain height Depth
how test sarsaparla You could you chemists But then
do need to test it? The Worlds Committee tested
thoroughly They went behind the label What did
TINS test result in! Every make of shut
OF the Fair except Ayers So that Ayers was the only
sarsapaa admitted to the Worlds Fair The committee found
the best They had room for anything that best
and the best Ayers Sarsapaa received the medal
due Its merits Remember the word best is breath
can blow but there pins to prick such bubbles
are blowing more best sarsapara bubbles Fair
Pcked the old ones True but Ayers Sarsapaa medal
Inc pm that scratches the medal gold The pin that
Pcks the bubble it wind We point medals bub
bies, when we say: The best sarsaparilla is Ayers
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
A Fortune for Market Gardeners |!

The Wonderful New African Bunch
Yam Early Sweet Potato, as yellow as gold
aud sweet as honey. earliest and most prolific
known; a bonanza for the north, on account of
Its rapid growth and early maturity; natures
In the extreme north long before frost: easily
cultivated, as IL grows right up with no vines
TO bother with; an immense yielder
Large Free Catalogue containing over fifty
new varieties seeds. including my New Home
Grown Coffee. with testimonials from patrons
all over the Union who have tried IL. 1t costs
only cents per pound to raise this coffee. Po-
tato seed post paid, IS cents per pound by g.
y. COLE, Scotsman, Buckner, Mo.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
Talmage in Washington.

still Interested In New York AfYaIrs-
Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars for
charities-What He Thinks of Certain
Books.
Everybody knows that the illustrious
divine, who made the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle famous throughout the world. has
recently been called to a passionate in
Washington. His church is the First
Presbyterian church of that city. and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

W h lie in
t o r m e r
y e a + S a
very prom
inent insti-
tuition, it
] a t t e ly
had been
L q ' " 1 Z VI
W i t h but
small audi
ences, COM
posed prin-
cipally of
m e n a n d
women who
T. q m oinnd
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Sir Wilfrid Lawson is probably the
only man in the world who has adj
dressed political meeting in his
night-shirt.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

A famous tiger huntress is the Bar
oness Maria Eide Won Ameline, who
killed, with her own hands, the four
beasts whose claws she invariably
wears around her neck.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Viscount Coke, heir to the earldom
of Leicester, may claim the distinction,
which is possibly unique, of having
no fewer than six peeresses among his
sisters.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

In the department of reptiles OF
the Paris museum is snake which
climbs up the vertical an smooth
wall of its glass cage
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Storekeepers in China seldom give
credit If their patrons need money
they borrow it of the money lenders.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Tea drinking prevails to a very large
extent among persons of literary hab-
its. 1t is not only pleasant brain
bracer, but it is harmless as we'll.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

The leather apron worn by the black,
smith is mentioned by Pliny as in use
in his time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Paris actresses wear paper lace,
which by night looks as beautiful and
delicate as the best of real lace, while
t costs but a trifie
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

cash and character, he is practically
insured:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Ethel: 81 firmly believe in having
out ones beauty Sleep" Mabel: Poor
girl, how you must suffer from insom-
niar'-Chicago Record
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

If it were not for the salts of the
ocean, the whole sea would soon be-
come a mass of corruption, owing to
the decay of the organic matter it con-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

In Cincinnati and Milwaukee about
60 per cent of all the foreign popula-
ton are of German birth
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

There may be religion in art, but
there is no art in religion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

1t may be stated as "a business fact
that Cupid doesn't always pay tn,
debts he contracts.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

A year-old baby recently died from
nicotine poisoning 1t had a pipe to
play with for short time and must
have put it in its mouth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

In Russia young man does not at.
tain his majority until he is twenty
six
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

A man may unlearn, but n woman,
never.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

The average sum brought by the
foreign immigrants to our shores is
less than S1OO.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
highest OF all in Leavening Power-Lae Report
RH!aa!l! RRssiRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE

Leather tires will in the futures he
employed on bicycles made for the
French army.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

The time to shoot folly is not when
it flies, but before it flies.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Over % per cent of all our foreign
immigration has come from Germany.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

In Massachusetts the foreigners and
their children constitute Sc per cent Of
the entire population.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

Those distressing Corus.
Bad as they are. Hn1ercorns will remove them, and
then you can walk and run and jump as you like
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

OF the potential voting strength of
this country 12,0OO,O 900 are of native
and 1000, 900 of foresgn birth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04

The railroads of this country give
employment to 900, 900 people.