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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22

spring sounds, but the loudestresponse
l could make hardly reached the ears
of the chatting brute opposite me. at
tempted to grasp my rifle to fire, but
my right hand refused to obey my will.
1t seemed to be completely paralyzed.
by and by, as l vainly struggled
against the hideous nightmare of help
lessness, there came trampiing
through the bushes, and, opening my
fast-glazing eyes, saw-oh, merciful
Heavens. my son coming straight along
the path in which lay the captive lion!
tried to utter warning shout, but no
sound came from my swollen lips.
"All unconscious of danger, the boy
came on, SO intently regarding the
trucking spring on his left that he did
not notice either my own half-hidden
form or that of the low-crouching
puma until the savage brute bounded
upon him, when he instantly fired with
out raising the rifle above his hip. Too
late, too late! for saw the lions talon
armed paw descend upon his head, and
he sank to the ground beneath his ter
rible foe.
"This sight was too much for me- I
felt myself about to swoon again, but,
by supreme effort of will, did not.
On the contrary, the shock banished
my lethargy, power returned to my
free limbs, sensation to my nerves and
my mind became clear. The lion lay
motionless. Had that chance shot
killed him the moment he struck my
boy? We're both dead?
"a passionate longing to rush and
once more embrace my son quickened
my wits. / did what / had never
thought of doing during my As hours
of captivity-raised myself partly up,
pressed the muzzle of my rifle against
n link of the chain and fired. The
52-caliber bullet cracked, but did not
wholly break it; and now my only hope
was in the remaining cartridge. MUIR
muring an agonized prayer, worked
the loading lever, threw the cartridge
into the chamber and again pulled the
trigger; when, oh, joy. the weakened
link few off and the trap was free!
'Then, with my last ounce Of
strength, and in spite of the awful pain
caused by the movement, 1 dragged my
self and the clinging trap to Franks
side. Lifting the dead lions paw off
his blood-stained face, laid my head
ON his and groaned in unspeakable an
guish; for surely he, too, was deadi
could feel no breath from his lips, no
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
FROM SOUND MONEY SOURCES,

."The credit and honor of the
rtatc and nation arc of first Importance.
The recent popular verdict, which has
declared in favor of the use of both gold
and silver money, but at the same time
the maintenance of the best and high
est standard, SO that every dollar shall
be of equal value, should be accepted
and adhered to."-Gov. Bradley.
....Colorado increased her gold out
put by sT,5o0,00O, rising from $10,50o,-
600 in 1894 to $1s,O00,O00 in 1895. This
is in the actual output. Millions more
have been made, and of course lost by
some one, in the stock speculations.
The Colorado papers now claim SUI
premacy for their state as a gold pro-
ducing region, exceeding California
ond second only to the Transvaal re-
zion of South Africa. Copper, coal, lead
and iron all show an increased output
in that state and the farmers and fruit
growers have come into increased prom
inence. Altogether the outlook for the
silverites would have had us believe
Iowa State Register.
....In 1894 the output of gold in Col
orado was $11 1885, SOC; of silver, $14,-
1850. In 1895 the output of gold was
$17,S40,495; of silver, $14,259,049. For
the first time in its history the gold out
put exceeded the silver output. No
wonder Colorado has regained sanity
on the money question. 1t no longer
hangs all its hopes on the prosperity of
the silver mines. There is silence in the
tents of Wolcott and Teller. Colorado
is no more the crushed and respondent
silver state. 1t is the great cxultant
gold state. Its malady was what the
doctors of medicine call "rehx neuro-
SIS" and its bodily prosperity has
healed its brain.-Chicago Tmee-Hcr-
aid.
THE silver mine interest and its
supporters are practicing the same
highwayman's methods. They will do
nothing to protect the public credit, to
sustain the gold reserve, to place the
financial affairs of the country on a
safe basis unless the iliimitable coinage
of silver shall be provided for in the
laws to be enacted. Their plan is in
finitely worse than that of the protec-
ton bulldozers. They will not do any
thing to help the public credit unless
their silver shall be bought and coined
0nd so established as a part of the
money system that the public credit
will be hopelessly wrecked and de-
stroyed. These are the two classs-
the protected monopolists and the sill
yer speculators-whoa are now jumping
on the back of the country, increasing
its burden and impairing its strength,
at the time of its greatest necessity
Chicago Chronicle.
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e4oo IN PRIZES ON OATS AND CORN

e4oO IN PRIZES ON OATS AND COnH
Last year we offered $500 for the big.
gest yield of oats. 200 bushels SILVER
Mine Oats was the highest. This yeai
we offer 5000 more on oats, 500 on Sii'
yer King Barley, a barley yielding ID
1895 11s bushels per acre, and Sloo ON
Golden Triumph Yellow Dent Corn the
corn of your dreams!
What's Teosintc and Sand Fetch ana
Sacaline and Lathyrus and Giant
Spurry and Giant Incarnate Clover ana
lots of such things? They'll make you
rich if you plant a plenty. Catalogue
tells you!
If YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND
it with 10c. postage to the john A. Sal
ger Seed Co., Lacrosse, Wis.,, you will get
free 10 grasses and grains, above oats,
barley, corn and their catalogue. Cat
alogue alone, SC. (K)
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do You really mean to say that you
were caught IN it?"
Not only caught, hut held there 4s
hours, was the astounding reply.
Shuddering with horror, i said:
please tell me about it, Mr. Norwood. ;"
well, sir, long time ago, when my
son, then about 60 years of age. had
gone to Denver with burro load of
furs, ! went out alone one morning TO
visit my traps. ! soon got around 10
all, except two that were set close TO n
spring in Bear gulch. On reaching
there l was surprised to find both
sprung and the bats gone; and. from
unmistakable signs, knew that some
large animal had robbed them ea,lv
that morning or the night before.
Determining to catch the crafty
brute, made very careful preparations
Tor that parpoee. First, shot deer
And laid its carcass near the spri, y.
Then placed logs and brushw God in
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
A MOUNTAINEER'S STORY.

ONE years ago,
while on an eX-
tended hunting
tour on the Rocky
mountains. Colo
RADIO, /. one after
noon, became sep
arated from my
party, and finally
lost my way in a
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ouTwITTED schEMERs.
Free Silver Senators Outgeneraled by the
President.

/
Free Silver Senators Outgeneraled by the
President.
The president outmanuevered the free
silver schemers of the senate when he an
ticipated by a full day their real pur-
pose. Instead of having an intention to
authorize the president to issue any new
form of bond which the country would
or could take, the true object of this
dishonorable and perverse faction is
disclosed in bald free silver coinage
scheme.
Had their bill been reported before the
president had announced his bond pur-
chase proposal the credit of the country
would have suffered blow that might
have staggered public faith for a mo-
ment and made the financial institu.
tions of the United States SILVER like a
stanch ship in sudden squall. But
the ship would have only shivered. It
would have risen nobly on the gale and
pursued the even tenor of ito way, the
wind whistling through its yards, inn
potent for harm.
1t is n cause for congratulation that
even if the miscalled popular bond
scheme fail, as it must in all proba-
bility. the stealthy and treachcrous
course of the free silver swindlers cam
not even temporarily succeed. They
have been outplayed. The president has
left no ground for assailing his meth
DDS. He has turned aside from the pro-
fcsyional bankers, as the Elkins resolu-
ton suggested he should; and instead
Of seeking a secret contract with the
controllers of the accessible gold stock
OF the country, who could be bound to
take no gold out of the treasury to full
fill their contract for delivery of the
yellow metal, he has offered the entire
issue of new bonds in the open.
At the same time. just in time to
nullify the wretched tactics of the sill
yer swindlers, he announces that he
reserves the right to reject any and all
bids and to secure gold for the replen-
ishment and maintenance of the gold
reserve on the best terms that he can
make for the government.
The silver schemers in the senate caa
talk to doomsday over their dishonest
and futile bill. The congress of the
United States will not enact one line of
it into law. By an impregnable major
ity the house will reject every vicious
proposal of n financial nature. Mean
while the president will admit that in
calling the present bond output pop
ular" bond issue, he merely quoted the
terms, as he adopted the suggested
methods, of his critics; and K tic plan
fail the failure is theirs, not his.
Meanwhile also the gold reserve will
he speedily carried up to the legal mark
and beyond the reach of further 'pjury.
1t may be necessary to do this through
a syndicate contract; and the president
will not finch from that recourse to nc.
complish his object.
The real purpose Of the free silver
plotters being confesscd-and foiled-
the country can now proceed with ita
legitimate business and pay no further
attention to free silver coinage plots OF
piotters, Chicago Times-He,nldS
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FAILS IN IT'S DUTY.
The Shameful Quibbling OF Congress n
the Bond Matter.

| V00 6n3 mcfuI AOiOoAlnS VI tCoo ~
the Eond Matter.
The 54th congress is disappointing
the expectations of the country in its
financial legislation. The president,
by his stand on the Venezuelan qses-
ton, created the possibility ofwar with
Great Britain. The one prime requisite
of warfare is money, and plenty OF it.
Somuch would be needed by the United
States, and so rapidly, that it would be
impossible to raise it by taxation. The
burden would be too great. Hence it
would be necessary to spread that bur-
den over the next so years or so, by bor-
rowing the moncy-that is, by issuing
bonds-to be gradually paid back.
Now. country as great and as
wealthy as ours is able to carry very
large bonded debt. There would be no
difficulty in selling the bonds-ronc
T, whatfvcr--if it were not for deficit in
our monetary laws.
That deficit is, that we have two sep
crate and distinct things which the law
calls a dollar. One contains q certain
number Of grains of gold; the other
contains certain number of grams of
silver. The law absolutely says these
two things are equal in value, when
the cold. hard fact is that one is worth
only about half as much as the other.
So far as the law can go. these two
coins are held at parity. The less
valuable passes for as much as the
other, because the government jndi-
rectly, but quite effectually, exchanges
valuable one. This, however, is a con-
dition of unstable equilibrium, liable
to be destroyed by any great shock.
War would furnish such q shock to
the country's finances. A gold dollar
and silver dollar would not pass for
the same value. One would be worth
about double the other.
Then would come the question:
(which kind of dollars will the gov
eminent pay when it pays interest on
these bonds. and when it redecms
them?"
Which ought it to pay, in order to be
honest and keep faith?
EVldcnuy III should pay IN which,
ever represents the value of the dollar
when the bonds are sold. If q man
paid for bond dollar on the gold basis,
he ought to he paid back on gold
basis.
But though our dollars are now on
gold basis, congress foolishly refuses
to make the bonds payable specifically
on gold basis. In place of saying
gold" in the bonds, it puts in the word
"coin." which may mean either gold or
silver.
1t is a shame to our lawmakers that
they bubble about such a plain matter.
There is neither sense nor reason in it.
They are trifling with the national
credit in leaving the way open to the
possibility of bad faith and partial |
in the future. For they |
have shown in the bond bill which has |
passed the house, how they would do |
should they be called on to provide for
borrowing money to carry on great |
war.-Toledo Blade.
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particularly wild and--to me-utterly
Unknown region.
Unfortunately, l had no compass.
with me, and could form no idea as t.
my whereabouts, nor could / get ar
answer to any of my repeated sigma
shots.
So at last l ceased wasting ammuni
ton, which might yet be wanted to
procure food, and wandered he'plcssly
to and fro until, with bitter cold, dark
ness closed in around me. Then, crop.
ingly getting few dry sticks, was
about to kindle a fire and pass the night
as best l could, when, not very far
away, l heard that, under the circum.
stances, most welcome sound-the
barking of dog! Struggling toward
1t through scrubby underbrush, over
or around huge powders and into and
out OF black ravines, ] presently saw the
front of lonely cabin, from whose
open door streamed a flood of light.
But now, evidently seeming my APP
rroach, the chained hound bayed so flu
riously that it's owner, rife in hand.
stepped out of the doorway and peered
into the surrounding gloom as if ex-
Pccting to see somewhere the shine
OF prowling wild beasts eyes. Loudly
hailing the man stated my predica-
ment, and was at once warmly well
coined.
On entering the cabin found its only
occupant to be a mountaineer, appnr-
emily about 60 years of age-one who
had evidently been at some time in Ear
different circumstances; for, notwith-
standing his rough dress, his appear
ance, language and demeanor were
those OF gentleman. Indeed, after
wards learned that he, John Norwood
by name, had once been prosperous
st. Lonis merchant; but a failure in
business. followed by the death of his
wife, had so disgusted him with civil
cation that. accompanied by his only
child, Frank, then only eight years old,
he had wandered off to these wilds,
where, for nearly quarter of GEN.
fury, he and his son-the latter row
a man of 33, and temporarily absent on
trip TO Denver-had lived by trapping
and hunting.
Nothing could exceed MIR. Norwood's
hospitable kindness. He quickly pre-
pared for me an appetizing supper of
venison and mountain trout, after
which we sat far into the night engaged
in mutually pleasant converse. When
at last shown to the absent Franks
bed, l found that its coverlet was n
single puma skin of snch unusual size
and so beautifully dressed that could
not forbear expressing my admiration
of it.
Yes, it's magnificent petit" said
the old hunter. 'We've had it e wears.
and no money could buy it. But YOU
must SO to rest now, and hear its lis
tory tomorrow"
Mex. morning, on seeing i'm one cor
ner of the hut particularly heavy aud
formidably-spiked bear trap, / re-
marked:
i. Thnt's n fearful-looking affair, Mr..
Norwood. Any wild beast caught in
those terrible jaws would have small
chance of escape"
Va wy ""'i"h oVihS' eitner, s.S-
nificantly replied my host. but look
here (baring his still sinewy left arln),
do you see those scars above and below
the elbcw?"
"Very plainly, indeed" I answered.
"But surely"
Yes, sir. they were made by The
teeth of that identical trap"
"Greot Heaven, mani" 1 exclaimed.
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CANE on

pulsation of his heart. The one solace
of my life was gone, and prayed to die.
| hut such was not Gods will. Merciful-
ly, lie gave me relief in a flood of
| blessed tears, and / sank into deep
sleep, the first l had known for two
long days and nights.
"When / awolxe twas midday; my
nrm was free, and beside me, tenderly
bathing my face, knelt my boy, alive
and we'll! That Heaven-directed shot
had pierced the lions brain, and so
mitigated the force of mis- downward
blow that it had merely stunned and
inflicted slight scalp wound upon its
intended victim.
II won't attempt to describe the joy
OF that meeting. No words of mine
could do the subject justice. Twas as
if we had been given back to each other
from the grave itself.
Before accounting for his presence
Frank kindled fire, boiled some cof-
fee, which, with other refreshments,
he had providently brought along
soaked biscuit in it and fed me as one
might do baby until it became safe
to give me stronger food. Then he told
me that on returning from Denver the
evening before and not finding me in
the cabin he had fired signal shots at
intervals all night, and early that morn
ing had started out to look me up,
though never for moment imagining
that | could be in real peril. He sup
posed that l had, perhaps, killed an elk
or some other large game at so great
distance from home that l could not
get in with the meat that night and
might require help.
"After taking eff the pu1na's pelt--
the very one you so much admired
last evening-wc made our way back
to this hut, and for several weeks my
left arm was entirely useless.
I'm not at all superstitious, but
since then I've never used that trap.
] simply can't bear to touch it. Since
then, too, we've always kept hound,
not for hunting-game is so plentiful
here that one is not required for that
but merely to follow the trail in
case either of us,when out alone, should
fail TO return within reasonable time"
After thanking Mr.. Norwood for his
thrilling story l told him in what range
our camp was situated, when he very
kindly, and without once faltering in
his course, guided me to it over a route
directly opposite to the one / should
have taken! Though myself quite an
mountalneer, I had, in nv
blind wanderings among those lofty
peaks and profound ravines, become
turned around"-a bewil-
iering state of affairs which any old
hunter will readily understand.-N. Y.
-edger.
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P1so's Cure for Consumption has saved
me many u doctors Bills. n. HARDY,
Hopkins Place, Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 2, '94.
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'DE man dat amt got muffin ter do, said
Uncle Eben, '''cepin' ter kill time, gin'rally
needs mo- help dan dc boss OBJ fact'ry."-
Washington Star.
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BEECH ANS PILLS for constipation 10c and
25c. Get the book (free) at your druggists
and go by it. Annual sales 6,O00, 900 boxes.
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ONE part of knowledge consists In being
ignorant of such things as are not worthy
to be known.-Cratcs.
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You often hear woman say: "1t's no
use talking" but she doesn't think so all
the same.--Tcxas Siftings.
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Every ancient city of note was To-
Gated on or near the sea or a river.
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THE WAY TT WORKS

Not long ago a little item way
down in one corner of the dispatches
stated that in an eastern factory 10
Armenians had struck because four
Turks were employed. What bust
ness had either Turks or Armenians
IN any American factory? These
were places belonging by right to
factory workers of our own country.
The Armenian and the Turk could be
ground to more ininitesimal pauper
wages 10y the protected manufacturer,
enabling him to pile up riches faster.
There are many strong points made
on both sides of the tariff question.
and men are for or against high pro-
lection according to which of the OBJ
posing lines of reasoning take the
deeper hold of them. Many Others
are for years unable to decide abso-
lutely the question in their own
minds, and while perhaps remaining
apparently placid on one side, saw
tariff FOR revenue only, are still trying
to impartially digest the points of the
other side to learn if possible il they
are not right To behold a princinle
which, looking at it from special view,
he is half inclined to think may after
all be correct, thus botched at the
exact point which impressed him. and
the principle controverted into the
means of undoing the labor element
OF his country and made machine
by which the manufacturer can raise
his prices and at the same time reduce
MS expenses with foreign pauper
labor, he is not helped along the road
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but turned back from whence he
came. He is apt to hurl all his at
tempts at impartial analysis to the
winds and rest on the simmered down
proposition that seven if protection
is good theoretically, if we are to
have pauper made goods we may as
well buy them direct from over the
sea, throw off high tariff, keep the
filthy barbarians in their own country
where we will not have to elbow them,
and save the difference in prices it
costs to have them over here with us. Z"
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Gold standard and bond issues-all
are water on the wheels of trans
Atlantic money octopuses. We are
all agreed 10 that The people assent
shat our national financial policy is
run to suit their wishes. Anent the
coming bond issue, we see the New
York World, gold bug organ, has
been consulting all the foreign bank
ers and publishes cable replies from
N. NJ Rothschild & Son, of London :;
S. Bleighrober & Co, of Berlin ;
Governor Bank of England: Monroe
& Co, Coutts, D. Brown Shipley &
Co., of London, and Credit Lyonaise,
Paris Yet there are even people in
Washington county who take the New
York World and other goldbug or
gans. The silver fight will never be
won unless the lines are drawn to the
most bitter extremity. An extrac.
from the Rothschild reply reads;
When the political horizon Is quite clear
and II is finally established in the minds
OF all men That the good feeling and nm
Outstanding which exists in the hearts of
the people OF England aud America is
beyond doubt. and is accorded and ratified
by the two governments. then will be the
time and opportunity for America to APP
ply to the British capitalists.
We must not dare quarrel with
them or they will cut off our money
supply.
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$500 REWARD.

The above reward will be given for in
formation leading to the recovery, or for
the return to the Grimmett place. of the
following described stock: Two dark bay
work horses. both geldings, weighing
about 400 pounds if in good condition;
one is branded b on left stifle; the largest
one is the darkest and brand is not visi-
BILE. These horses strayed from the Shaw
Hat about the lst of October Address all
information to G. a. Grimmelt. Weiser.
BIB F. w. WooD, LaGrande.
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chance.

We have received a copy of the
Salt Lake Tribune almanac for 1896,
and find it valuable book of 432
pages of STATISTICS and matters of
general reference, all up to date and
much of which is not found in other
reference works 1t can be had by
sending % cents to the Tribune and
1t is worth the money