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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-11-21
HUNGER AND cANNIBALtsM.
The Desire tn Eat q Fellow Man stronge1d
at Sea Than on Land.

The Desire tn Eat q Fellow Man Stronge1t
at Sea Than on Land.
Then it comes to pass, when the mo-
ment of keenest agony is reached, that
the starving man begins to eye his COM
panion with the wolf glare Of beast
of prey. His pangs become parox-
ysmal. During their greatest intensity
there springs up within him fierce
impulse to slay his neighbor that he
may feed on his flesh and Stake his
thirst with his blood. This terrible
prompting to cannibali:in, it may be
noted, is, however, rare, 4 I've in cases OF
famine from shipwreck.
Although it is customary to regard 1t
as a common feature of starvation and
to make thrilling statements of the
frequency with which even mothers
will, under the goad of hunger, kill and
cat their children, and although start
ling assertions to this effect have been
made by historians of great sieges, yet
it ought to be said that, as general
rule, Observation-Disclosures cases Ct canni-
balism among civilized people will be
found to occur only at sea. They are
very rarely found on land. And what is
more curious still, whenever famishs d,
shipwrecked men set foot on shore, no
matter how desolate and barren may
be their rock Of refuge, they seem as
IL by magic at once to Danish from their
minds the very idea of anthrorophagy,
or man-eating, and that, too, though
they might have been resignedly con-
templating it as an imperative necessity
q few hours before.
In the case of Ensign Prenties, of the
Eighty-fourth regiment, and his COM
panions, who were wrecked on the bar
rem island off Cape Breton in 1850, the
difference of famine on shore and en-
sea is curiously exemplified. Prenties
records that they were able to endure
the most fearful pangs of hunger with
out ever so much as thought of re-
sorting to cannibalism for relief, 20
long, however, and only so long as tLey
kept on land. But when they took to
their boats-and it was not once merely
that they experienced this-in order to
escape from their rock-bound prison,
though they were not whit worse OIL
for food than they were on land, yet
the moment they put to sea with one
accord they began to think OF killing
and eating one of their number. On the
other hand, when they found their at
tempt to escape futile and put bael; tc
shore, whenever they landed, the hor'
rible idea of cannibalism seemed t.
ynnish.-Science for All.
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Then and Now.

In ante-bellum times there was no
anxiety about keeping boys on the
farm in the south. The trouble was to
keep people enough of the farms to do
the other work required by society.
The ambition of mechanics and bust
ness men, lawyers and physicians, was
to become able to own and operate a
farm. Even then farming was not the
most lucrative business; but men Of
that day did not labor so much for
profit as for pleasure. The citizen pre-
ferred the free, independent and emf
nently-respectabie calling of the farmer
over any other business. even with
greater cash returns. In those days
the love of money had not taken COM
plete possession of the minds Of men
in the south. How different now!
Everything is made subservient to the
highly avarice of progress
i've race. Labor, politics and religion
are ali made tributary to the bank ac-
count; and the first and only question
asked regarding any enterprise is:
"How much money is there in it?'
This craze for cash has discredited the
noblest calling known to inch, and il
is cherished only to serve the purposes
of Unsuitable greed; and has been
preyed upon until the wolves and foxes
of society have become fat and sleek
and the farmer has dwindled to the
mere shadow of his former self. There
are many successful farmers even un-
!. der these adverse conditions, but the
labor and intelligence required for
that success is far above the average.
This country will never be truly pros
porous until agriculture Is freed from
the plundering vultures that are driv'
ing thousands to swell the great army
of the unemployed in cities.-Farm and
| Ranch
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

ireland has had year of unexam-
pied prosperity, if the deposits In banks
are any indication, the increase in those
in Joint stock banks being over S6,000.-
900 and in savings banks also over So
100000. The traffic receipts on the
Irish railroads, too, We're the largest on
record.
Germany has population of ST.
70,2s4, according to the census of 1925.
tie results of which have just been pub
lished; 1851, 1907 persons are engaged
in agriculture, 2O,253, 241 in mining and
manufactures, 5,966,s45 in commerce,
$500 in domestic service, and 1885,
222 i'm the service of the state; 3,326,S62
PERSONS are not classified.
-Abdurrahman Khan, Amer of At
ghanistan, has introduced vaccination
into his country by the advice OF Miss
Hamilton, his English physician. Two
calf lymph stations have been estab-
Ished and a proclamation has been is
sued from Cabul calling on the people
to bring in their children to be vac
cinated before next spring.
-Pavements made of graduated
cork mixed with asphalt have proved
successful after two years trial in Lon
con and Vienna. They are never slip
perry, are odorless, and do not absorb
moisture, besides being clean, elastic
and lasting. Near the Great Eastern
station in London, the wear in two
years amounts to about one-eighth OF
an inch.
Prof. Tserascky, the astronomer of
Moscow university, has for some time
past been conducting experiments in
solar heat. With the aid of an enor-
nous mirror-said to be the largest in
Europe-and number of other mirrors
placed in certain way, Pref. Tserasclky
has been able to obtain such enormous
heat that it melted the most refractory
chemicals.
The flowers of the nasturtium, at
the end of hot summer day, give out
light of phosphoric nature. The same
phenomenon has been witnessed in
Other British flowers, but almost exclu-
sivcly In those that are yellow or orange
colored. Thus it has been seen in the
sunfower, in the garden marigolds,
monkshood, the orange lily, the poppy
and the arum.
There are earth tides Us well as sea
tides. Prof. John Milne states that the
tall buildings upon the earth's surface
are being continually moved to and fro
like Che masts of ship upon the ocean.
In Germany and Japan tide-like move
ment too great to be produced by lunar
attraction has been observed. There
are also waves from distant earth.
quakes, which are appreciable to the
senses for only a few hundred miles,
but which may extend around the
world.
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This Ago

The twentieth century promises to be
full of interesting novelties. We can
look on the canvas and see whole rcgi-
mcnt go through drill, or the toreador
and bull in deadly conflict. We can
hear Paderewski at the piano and Calve
behind the footlights in Carmen"
With the microphone we can listen TO
the patter of fy's feet on the window
pane, and the telephone reproduces the
voice of speaker who is O thousand
miles away. These, however, are only
stepping stones to higher things, and
though they are marvels there are still
greater things to come which will make
such achievements small and insignifi-
cant. Mr.. Tesla tells us, through the
Herald, that it may be possible to see
the face as well as hear the voice of
the speaker who is a thousand mil, S
away. There are difficulties in the
path, but the scientific Imagination
predicts success, and Tesla declares tllas
be has hope.-petroit Free Press,
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Readers of this paper viii be interested
IN learning that q large contract for adveS>
Using No-fo-Bac and Cascarets, the famous
preparations manufactured BY the Sterling
Remedy co. of Chicago and New York, has
been given. The sterling Remedy Co. ap-
preciate the value OF this paper as an adj
vertising medium, and the compliment y
the more marked, as the company IL con-
seryatiye concern which sells its products
under an absolute guarantee TO cure 94
money refunded. Every retail druggist e
authorized to sell No-To-Bac, guaranteeo
Tobacco habit cure, and Cascarets, guaranr
teed consultation cure, under this absolute
guarantee, and readers need not hesitate TO
buy these preparations, as It involves no
risk whatever, either physical or financial
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-11-21
SHEEP IN THE SOUTH.

A Southern Farmers Views ON the SUBJ
ject.
Few of the southern farmers realize
the immense advantages they possess
in their climate. This is such as to en-
able them to produce the most valu-
able crops of the north and those that
are specially adapted to the south.
And as to live stock they enjoy far
greater facilities for making profit
than the northern farmers ever can.
A year-round mildness of climate
makes outdoor feeding possible the
whole year. The greatest list of feed
ing crops that may be grown so cheap
ly enables the sheep to be fed for,
at the most, not more than IS cents a
year, counting Id this the whole cost
of producing the feed with an ade-
quate profit besides. This includes
some hand feeding. which in many
cases and localities is unneces sary.
The southern farmer grows too much
cotton. The overpius every year keeps
the price down to barely the cost of
the product, and it seems impossible
for any kind of general effect to avoid
this to succeed. But if the southern
farmers would keep sheep and grow
pasture for them On their surplus
land, using their timber lands as a
summer range, and raise such feeding
crops as sweet potatoes, which may be
grown for five cents bushel, crimson
clover or winter oats; or rye, for win
ter feeding, they might be able to put
the lambs into the northern markets
for one-fourth the money needed to
pay the shepherd in the north. OF
course the price obtained pay a big
profit on the business if the right way
were taken.
would recommend the Merino ewes
for the flock and a Southdown or a
Shropshire ram for the sire. There
is no fatter or plumper mar:
ket lamb than this cross;
and the black faces will make them
most acceptable to the butchers. 1t is
quite possible to get these lambs into
the northern markets in the season,
either alive or dressed, without any
difficulty on the fast trains on any OF
the railroads Millions Of acres Of
cheap land are readily available, pure
water from the abundant streams flows
everywhere, the mildness of the eli
mate is just what is wanted fol
the perfect health of the flock
and nothing stands in the way but the
apathy of those concerned. One-fourtl
less cotton would then be grown
bringing the price to an immediate
profitable point: The wool finds {
home market, for the facilities fol
manufacturing are nowhere better
over the whole face of this broad con
tinent. Money now sent abroad would
be kept at home and more would b,
brought In, making the whole soutl
rich in a few years.-Cor. American
Sheep Breeder.
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HERE AND THERE.

-Seventy.five per cent is about the
average hatch by a hen, and so per
cent by an incubator. Poor machines
and careless operators are the cause
of the difference. to.sA am
"A reminder of the Importance, of
storing ice on the farm will tS in or;
Ter at any time during the fall and
winter months, yet an early hint is
better than late one.
1t is a mistake to keep the laying
hens with those which do not produce
eggs, for the reason that the layers
REQUIRE more food than the others,
and may not receive it.
The horse is as intelligent as is the
dog, and under proper treatment will
show his intelligence; and more, he
will show his love for you If you W u
give him opportunity.
There is about as much difference
in the laying of hens OF the same breed
as of different breeds. If the breeds
had been carefully bred for laying
qualities this would not have been
thus. But thus it is.
One farmer recommends to picket
horse or COW by the forefoot instead
of the head. using broad leather
strap around the ankle. The animal
will be much less apt to hurt herself.
he says, or to get tangled in rope.
Sweet apple trees are less profta-
BILE for market than the sour varieties,
but for home use few trees should be
planted near the house. handy way
to grow few sweet apples for baking
is to regraft part of tree on some
other kind. The graft will often bear
the second year,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-11-21
CONSIDERING THE BICYCLE.
Benefits and Injuries of the Populas
Pastime.

DELICIOUS anu OF INC IoPuAnS
Pastime.
Up to the present time, no matter
what may he the future changes. the
chief claim of the bicycle upon our
consideration is it's utility as "a means
Of rational and wholesome pastiIne
and pleasurable recreation. While it
is put to many uses purely economical
la business sense, still the balance in
overwhelming on the side If here
amusement.
Nor is this to be reclSoned against
it i'm our calculation. We Americans
especially need to have play forced
upon us; we are too much given over
TO constant money-grubbing and the
feverish pursuit of sordid apibitions.
There is small danger that we will fall
too far in the direction of recreation
and healthful pastime. Certainly the
bicycle is delightful source of emo
ton; it sends up through the rider an
exhilaration indescribably comforting
TO weary nerves and just here arise
both the pro and the con of our argu-
Dent.
If to ride moderately is pleasing, to
ride faster is charming, and 10 Speed
like the wind Is Intoxicating. The
habit grows, the fascination gets deep
er and deeper hold, until, like all
other overdone sports or pastimes, it
becomes an almost incurable mania.
The incorrigible scorcher is already
scarcely less nuisance in DIR streets
and roads than the drunkard and the
professional beggar. He casts a mn
lign shadow over the whole subject OF
wheeling and forces right-minded pco-
pie 10 shrink from public appearance
on their wheels. The same or more
may be said about a certain class OF
women and girls who for one reason
or another choose to make bicycle rid
Ing an excuse for immodest and out
landish attire. Instead of honestly
adapting costume neatly and becoin-
ingly to the needs of wheeling, they
rush to the extreme suggested by a
necessary change. Here great ques-
ton OF public taste and morals forces
itself into our minds, and it is not too
early to give it Serious attention.
OvereXertion is very hurtful to or
! ganic life. Mere waste is healthful il
natural and promptly compensated by
recuperation. Bodily eSerciFe cannot
go beyond the limit Of safety without
permanent injury to vital centers. This
well-known law is too frequently
broken by bicycle riders, especially the
Young END strong ones who feel keen
III the sweet exhilaration of rapid move
ment under circumstances novel and
peculiarly fascinating. A rich crop OF
diseases is sure to be reaped by these
reckless sewers.
Doubtless wisdom will control in the
long run, wherefore It seems safe tt
take an optimistic view of the great
wheeling epoch. Observation has ]ed
MS to think that our young people are
adapting themselves in the main with
great good sense to the conditions i'm
posed by their new means OF enjoy
ment. 1t is comforting to the TASTE
and a rare delight to the artistic per
ception to see them out of an evening
gliding along SO silently and smoothly
Swimming the roads as swallows skin
the streams. Where there is SO mucl
fascination and so little urge towar,
evil surely the outcome must be good
-Chautauquan.
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Reforms Reed More Than . Day

10 bring them about, and are always more
complete and lasting when they proceed
With steady regularity to consum S.Atscn.
Few Of the observant among US can have
failed to notice that permanently healthful
changes In the human system are not
wrought by abrupt and violent means, and
that those are the most salutary medicines
which are progressive. Hostetter's Stom-
och Bitters Is the chief OF these. Dyspep-
sia, disease Of obstinate character, Is OBJ
liberated by Il. a.
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The Hand OF q Queen.

Adelicate piece of sculpture is model
of Queen victoria's hand, which is still
very handsome one, and is said to
have signed more important state pa
pers and been kissed by more important
men than the hand of any other queen
that ever ived,-petroit Free Press.
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Mr.. JArsoS-"Why do you permit our
Laura to receive the attentions OF that
young Spooner2 You certainly would not
think of permitting her 10 marry himE"
Mrs. Jayson-s'Oh, certainly not. But the
tuptdns are lust crazy to get him for then
Mabel. " Cieyeiah1 Piaindcalcr.
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WITHOUT ADVERTISING, Too.-"Ah, good
morningl" said the early bird to the worm.
Looking for jobl" THAT'S what Any.
about fill the bill, til nk."-Harlem Life.
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TIE BEST THEY Could Do.-s1 found
fishworm in my hydrant this morning"
said the wrathful citizen. "Yes," said the
official of the water company, "that is the
furrish fisl,-all we are able to furnish Is
bait.'-1naiahapoli Journal.
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MITIGATING CIRcUMs1ANcEs.-L Ben
ny-"Mamma, please let mo hold the bah.
for minute" Mother-"Im afraid, Ben
ny, you might let her fall" Little Benny
swell, II she docs fall, she can't fall Yer.
farn-Texas Sitter
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Hp who would be q great soul In the
future must be great soul now.-H. w
Emerson.
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OyE PoIyr DEcIDED.-'sWhich Is the cor
rect pronunciation = Jolly ct or Jo-lietr
sDid you ever notice how the railway
brakemen pronounce iti'' s'Ye5. They
calf Jolly-at.n "Then it's Joliet. "-Chi
cage Tribune
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-11-21

PIso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
as q Cough medicine.-F M. ABBoTT, Ses
Seneca ST., Buffalo, N. Y, May 0, 1854.
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Nor AFRafp OF IT.-Housewife-"A
Sou afraid Of workl'' Slumbering Sam
'No, marin, not in the least. have slept
soundly by dc side NV it fer hours. Nv ash
inEtbn Times.
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BLikEii-ssI understand you ladies have
organized a debating club" Margaret
ayes; and we have such grand times hugh
ing st the girls who get up TO telk."-Philar
delphia North American.
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"Dxn am ono thing bout sotns 'er dii
here self made man." said Uncle Ebefl;
'shis wohk doan' eineraliy fail fob de LACK
er industry on his paht in boomin' IT,
Washing ton Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-11-21

MAUD MULLER on summers day
RalScd in the meadows sweet with hay;
And, later on, with a Joyous .squeal,
She ralzed in cash to buy d wheel.
Chicago Record.
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ToMMrE-"What Is q tailor's goose, popT
Pop-''I suppose it Is what he makes duck
trousers on.h-Yonkers Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-11-21

TO CURE q woman of stammering ask he!
what she thinks of the girl her husband
came near getting engaged to couple OF
years before she married him.-Texas
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MoruER ito her boy sliding down the
ers}l"Fritz, what are you doing
therer' Fritz-"Mahing trousers for or
phan boys. Fliegende Blaetter.
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snn-"It is wonderful how much q woni-
an can go through" He--"Yes, especially
In the way of pockets or fortunes. Truth.
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81 DON'T quite see why you cali Mr..
BiQgs lantern-iawedl" "Why, because his
face lights up so when he talks. "-Brooklyn
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Jusr try 1oc box of Cascarets, the finest
liver and bowel regulator ever made.
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Gladness Comes

. NM I'LL ~ OSeoSA N-AA>~~
W. transient nature of the many phys
zeal Ills, which vanish before proper ef-
forts-gentle efforts-pleasant Efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort IN
the knowledge, that so many forms OF
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to q constipated condi.-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup Of Figs, prompt
" removes. That Is why 1t Is the only
remedy with millions Of families, and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are. due to the fact, that 1t is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleau1iness without facilitating the
organs 81 Which it acts. It is therefore
al imudftant, In order to get its bene-
HSiar effects, to note when you pur-
chsEe,x that you have the genuine arti-
de- Whieli II manufactured by the Cali
foriia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
ali reputable druggists.
II In the enjoyment OF good health,
and the system Is regular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. II
afiicted with any actual disease. one
NAV be commended to the most skillful
PHYSICIANS, but il in need OF laxative,
one should have the best. and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup OF
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
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Iris quite the thing lately for an old girl
TO marry young fellow, aud bring him up
the way she wants him.
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HE-"Let's kiss and make up" She
"If You kissed me, I'd have to make up all
over again, sure enough."-N. Y. Press.
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Low Rate Ezcurslons South.

On the first and third Tuesday Of each
month till October about half-rates for
round trip will be made. TO points
In the South by the Louisville q Nash.
Vile Railroad. Ask your ticket agens
sion tickets write to G. p. Atmore, Gen.
eral Passenger Agent, Louisville, KY, OF
Geo. B. Homer, b. p. A., st. Louis, Mo-
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WHEN bilious or costive, eat Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, loc, 25c.
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Don.s Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life

II you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic,
full Of new life and vigor, take NoITo- BAG,
the wonder-worker that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds In ten days.
Over acc, 900 cured. Buy No-To-Bac from
cnre. Booklet and sample mailed free: Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New YORK.
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Halls Catarrh Cure
q taken internally. Price 75c.
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A DIRTY fellow who was selling ma
chine for driving nails was advised TO get
one for Cleaning them. Texas Sitter.
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inquired for her money she received 8
cussing. r. jackson, in Texas
Farm and Ranch.