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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
HERE AND THERE.

"A California fruit grower reports
successful hog raising in a vineyard,
supplemented with more or less of
other fruits. Grapes, he says, give
September pigs good start, and they
are unusually healthy.
-Dehorned cattle are preferred for
all purposes. eeders will pay rs cents
per 100 pounds more for them than for
horned stock. Horns are relic of
barbarism and must go. There will be
few horns seen 20 years from now, ex-
cept in collection of antiquities.
In the north and northwest milk
costs about an average of seven cents
a gallon to produce it. In the south
west it can be produced at half that
price, but it requires good manage
ment to do it. Perpetual pasturage
is at the bottom of this possibility.
Charlton is playing havoc with cat,
tie in southwestern Louisiana. There
have been quite number of cases
among the people where the disease
prevails. Efforts are being made to
stamp out the disease, but with little
effect at last accounts.
Wool buyers protest against the
use of sisal Irvine for tying wool,
because the manufacturers claim that
the fibers get into the wool, and into
the fabric. impairing its quality and
iajuring its sale. A small. hard Irvine
Is recommended. Something that will
not FRAGILE or shed its fibers.
England. with more sheep than
people, imports mutton. The United
States, with only half as many sheep
az people, exports mutton. The aver
age Englishman loves good meat and
eats great deal OF it. We eat more
than the English or any other civilized
nation. But with us anvtbin ,es.
That's the difference
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
A Profitable Fad.

There may be many such, but this
writer knows but one such farmer.
One of his fads is to pick up every
scrap of iron, chain, rod, bar. bolt, nut,
ring, hook, screw-anything that he
might possibly find a use for in the
days to come. All these he keeps in a
large dry goods box. divided into COM
partments, and the articles classified
and sorted to save time when he wants
something that may be in the collec-
ton. This habit has saved him hum
dreds of dollars and many weeks Of
time, and the collection continues to
grow. This box is literally place for
everything made of metal, and almost
everything is in its place. If he wants
nut, or bolt, or snap, or clevis, or
band or rod, he is almost sure to have
it. Some articles remain in stock for
several years before it comes in de-
mand, but when it does, as it surely
will in time, why there it is.-Farm
and Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
WIN Minnesota Is for Gold.

Minnesota democrats declared un-
equivocally for the gold standard.
They did SO unexpectedly. The big
delegations from Minneapolis and Du-
luth were pledged for sixteen to one,
and it was taken for granted the coun-
try delegations would favor free silver.
Why did they vote foi gold?
Several reasons have been suggested.
The one most often met with is that the
farmers are composed largely of honest
and intelligent Scandinavians and Ger
mans who cannot be caught with free
silver sophistry. AS over T5 per cent.
of Minnesota's population is foreign
born, this answer may be partly true.
A more reasonable explanation, how
ever. is found in the reported state
ment that large portion of the farm
mortgages in Minnesota are made pay
able in gold coin OF the u ID States
of the present standard of weight and
fineness." Being compelled to pay
their debts in gold, the farmers wish
to receive as good money when they sell
their products.
The fact that a far larger portion OF
. mortgages will contain the gold clause
next November than now may spoil
many votes for the sixteen to one
scheme
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
WOULD lNJuRE ALL.
ChaIrmaa Fairbanks Says Free Coinage
Would Mean Ruin.

Before the republican party at St.
Louis adopted its clear-cut sound money
plank Temporary Chairman Charles w.
Fairbanks said in his opening speech:
The republican party has not been
unfriendly to the proper use of silver.
1t has always favored and favors to-
day the use of silver as a part of our
circulating medium. But it favors that
use under such provisions and safe
guards as shall not imperil our present
national standard. The policy of the
and silver as part of our circulating
medium, while the policy of free coin
age of silver leads to certain silver
recommendation. 1t is an immutable law
that two moneys of unequal value will
not circulate together, and that the
poorer always drives out the better.
Those who profess to believe that
this government. independent of other
great commercial nations, can open its
minis to the free and independent coin
age of silver at ratio of sixteen to one
when the commercial ratio in all the
great markets is thirty to one, and at
the same time not drive every dollar
of gold out of circulation, but deceive
themselves.
Great and splendid and powerful as
our government is, it cannot accomplish
TIE impossible. 1t cannot create value.
1t has not the alchemist's subtle art OF
transmitting unlimited silver into gold,
nor can it, by omnipotent fiat, make so
cents worth 100 cents. AS well under
take by resolution of congress to sus-
pend the law of gravitation as attempt
to compel an unlimited number of So
cent dollars to circulate with 100-cent
dollars at parity with each other. An
attempt to compel unlimited dollars of
such unequal value TO circulate at a
parity is bad in morals and is vicious in
policy.
Upon opening our minis to the indie
pendent free coinage of silver foreign
credits would be withdrawn and do
mestic credits would be greatly cur
tailed. More than this there would be
certain and sudden contraction of our
currency by the expulsion of $500. OOo,-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
DISHONESTY NEVER PAYS.
Free Coinage Would Hurt Debtors ~
Well as Creditors.

Well as Creditors
HE needs long spoon who would
sup with the devil' is good old Span
ish proverb. 1t is one which should be
remembered by all the voters who have
been deluded into favoring the free sill
YER plan for robbing creditors by cut
ting the value of the dollar in two.
1t is unfortunately true that the
clearest proof of the dishonesty of q
scheme which would enable men who
have borrowed 1o0-cent dollars to pay
back the loan in 5O-cent dollars does
not cause the men who favor it to
abandon their agitation. There was n
time when the people had only to be
shown that certain policy was dis
honest and immoral to secure its
prompt condemnation. But through a
short-sighted and foolish selfishness,
which seems to have blighted their
moral sense, large number of persons
now openly declare their willingness
to repudiate debts. Free silver will
cheat creditors?" they say. "Then all
the more reason why we should have
it."
Such men can only be reached in one
way. This is by showing them that
stealing from creditors is exactly like
stealing from any other property own
err. and that if this country once in
augurates q policy of confscating one
half of the property of some men, it
will not be long before all property
rights will be assaulted. How will this
suit the great majority of the Amer
lean people, who all have some prop
erty and are trying to get more? Are
they ready to start in robbing on a
wholesale scale by debasing the cur
rency?
Even if one-half of the debts in this
country were wiped out it by no means
follows that debtors would be bene-
flied. The pa, alysis of industry which
would follow the withdrawal of capital
would cause such suffering and loss TO
all classes that debtors as well as cred
itors would be involved in the common
ruin. When the men who paid their
debts in cheap silver went to borrow
more money, they would find that no
one would lend, unless at very high in.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

600 of gold and our paper and silver cur
rency would instantly and greatly de-
preciate in purchasing power. But one
result would follow this-enterprise
would be further embarrassed, business
Generalization would be increased, and
still further and serious injury would
be inflicted upon the laborers, the farm
ers, the merchants and all those whose
welfare depends upon a wholesome
commerce.
A change from the present standard
to the low silver standard would cut
down the recompense of labor, reduce
the value of the savings in savings
banks and building and loan associa-
tons; salaries and incomes would
shrink; pensions would be cut in two,
the beneficiaries of life insurance would
suffer; in short, the injury would be
SO universal and far-reaching that a
radical change can be contemplated
only with the gravest apprehension.
A sound currency defrauds no one.
1t 10 good alike in the hands of the en-
ploye and the employer, the laborer
and the capitalist. Upon faith in its
worth, its stability, we go forward
planning for the future. The capitalist
srects his factories, acquires his ma
terials, employs his artisans, mechanics
and laborers. He is confident that his
margin will not be swept away by fiuc-
tuations in the currency. The laborer
knows that the money earned by his
toll is as honest as his labor, and that
It is of unquestioned purchasing power.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

terest rates, sufficient to cover the
risk of another reputation scheme.
Thus in the end the men who had
hoped TO profit by dishonesty would
find themselves still poorer than they
are now. The attempt to cheat the
devil by robbing people of their prop
erty with sixteen to one law, instead
of stealing it openly. is miserable
trick. His satanic majesty cannot be
fooled in that way
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

The man who Is charitable to himself VIII
listen to the mute appeal for assistance
made by his stomach, or his liver, in the
shape Of divers dyspeptic qualms and I'M
easy sensations In the regions Of the glands
that secretes his bile. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, my dear sir, or madam-as the
case may be-is what You require. Hasten
to use, If you are troubled with heartburn,
wind in the stomach, or note that your skin
or the whites Of your eyes are taking sal
low hue.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
The Hens victuais.

Some people decline to eat chickens
on account of the disregard they have
for the selection of their food. Manu-
facturcrs of chicken food lay great
stress upon the quality of it's effect
upon the egg production The chick
Gus stomach, or rather its gizzard, is
a sort of Pasteur filter, which converts
a good deal of very foul material into
choice human food. and in the egg, one
Of the most delicate. easily digested
sud nutritious foods, and tina one
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
a Good simiIe.

The discussion about silver and gold
reminds one much of discussion about
the relation of the earth and sun. The
gold men maintain that the earth goes
round the sun; the silver men that the
sun goes round the earth, except when
detected by the efforts of the bankers
and s.roldbucs."-N Y. Evening Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

On the first and third Tuesday Of each
month till October about half-rates for
round trip will be made to points
vile Railroad. Ask your ticket agent
about Il, and II he cannot sell you excur-
sion tickets write to G. p. Atmore, Gen.
eral Passenger Agent, Louisville, KY. or
Geo. B. Horner, D. p. A., St Louis, Mo.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
The Modern Mother

more by the pleasant Syrup of Figs, when
In need of the laxative effect of q gentle
remedy than by any other, and that 1t Is
more acceptable to them. Children enjoy
It and 1t benefits them. The true remedy,
Syrup Of Figs, Is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company only.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08
win Never Vote for Cheap Money.

The attempt to convince The masse.
Of the people that deprecated cur
rency would shower blessings rpon
them can never Nucceed.-AtlsS1
Journal (Deu.),
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

FRS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Res orer. Free 50 trial bottle
T. treatise. DR. KLINE, 933 Arch So Phila Pa.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

EXAMPLES Of vicious courses practiced In
Q domestic circle corrupt more readily and
more deeply when we behold them In per
sons in uthority.-Juvenal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

"Bur, waiter, II this il spring chicken,
where Is its wishbonel" WaiterE(equal to
the occasionl-'It was too young to wish,
sir"-Detroit Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

AMONG THE BoHBxrANs.- -sWhere do you
dine tonight" II do not dine-and YOUR
"Nor do l." every good Let Us dine to-
Eether. "-Courier des Estas Unis
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

WE have not been without Piso's Cure
for Consumption for 20 years.-LIzzIR FKD-
REL, Camp St., Harrisburg, Pa, May I. ~
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

IT Is positively hurtful to use ointmentfor
skin diseases. Use Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SOC.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

BIFKIN-"Every one that rides In q Fifth
avenue stage pitches into them" Snifkin
Yes, and out Of them. Harlem Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

Coon, the more communicated, the moro
abundant grows.-Milton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

WHEREVER the tree Of benencence takes
root, il sends forth branches beyond the
sky.-Saadi.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-08-08

MoNEY is like manure, of very little use,
except to be spread--Bacon.
New-York tribune., 1896-10-26
np STJuSOy'S NEW CONGREGATION.

The Manhattan Congregational Church. recently
started on the West Side. completed its organiza-
ton last Friday evening by the election OF full
i., ~ on,cers The Rev. Or. Henry A. stmson. re-
o.n,lv NJ the Broadway Tabernacle. was called to
~. na.torate. Bradford K Wiley. Dyer b. Holmes
rdward p. Cone W. woodville Fleming. the Rev.
= Bourne and Professor John H. Woodruff were
oi.n,od deacons: Professor Charles A. Bennett
e,err. frederick II. Meserve, treasurer and
Ciarerce W. Bower. Frank L. Underwood Charles
u Roaers clinton II. Smith. Seabury &. Martiek
IA vid fiakeiy DR. George p. Stevens. DR.. Ber-
rand ]. Perry and DIR. Henry p. I.ooms. trustees.
prssident Uewey OF the Teachers College has
consented TO take the supcrinte endency OF the new
church's Sunday school. with view to organizing
a model school which shall be to religious educa-
fion what the Horace Mann School IL to the
Teachers' College and secular instructions. lie
viii have the aid Of large stan Of expert teachers
and lecturers
New-York tribune., 1896-10-26
a FUSS OVER MISS DARTILLE'S DRESS.

Oscar Hammerstein and Camille DArville are at
war what costume the latter shall wear In the
second act o. the opera Santa Maria In which she
tngs the leading part The story Of the opera lS'ds
up 10 a repudia;ed dressmakcr bil the excuse given
Tor paying being that the dress does not III. The
operstic Judge orders the defendant. Miss DArvile.
70 go into an adjoining with the dressmaker and
Try on the costume. The dressmaker IS a man in dis
guse and while In this he tries 10 embrace the
cefendani She IS then supposed 10 rush out IN her
eorsase and pettcoat screaming MI ia'""e's'e'''
eays she ruins the part by appearing In gown all
irl and lace az II she had taken an hour 10 dress,
and walking out In the most lelsurely manner as II
nothing had happened. lie wrote her about week
sso ordering her TO appear In the pam a"u
Wirt, but Miss DArville dsregarded mis- note Inc"
ne wrote again, ard yesterday received a rePiy III
Which the singer sarcasi!cally refused to make any
Change in her costume and said that her lawyer
would Mr.. Hammerstein. Mr. Hamnisrs@lein @ wSs hs
shgry yesterday said that she shouid "ea @ Wv
eos,ume he designed leave the company ne ri~i i
tcontract with her up December H. WIN the P'N'
*se OF renewal and the usual damage clauses
New-York tribune., 1896-10-26

.ns ss'D Ssrs :Ss Win & use ,al sas
En- EDs.S ANA s R'as pea cens
wheat This makes It more valuable than sImcst
indian D''ir red wheat grown near the mouth Of the
Indus exclusively exported to Italy = where .!, = .
suited than the hard wheats Of Southern Italy ana
The railroad rate (Aifred Deakin writes: WIG IN.
yessated the subject for M Austraiia ,Is In i t.o"
TsR'n bashel, !. cents handredweishi; The ayer.ss
railway rate for long distances ne found 70 ne one
TEN ne mss pCrs or o% the e
shipped are about twice the distance from LIVER.
eTpoo e1O 4 being I sos miles while from Bombay ths
Ts n that anS I'D @ xe ss
e' rate on wheat from Bombay was from 8 to g per
TON running % high as Ss to hne
quarter bcugh, in oudh IN 1851 for lhsSa lis Sd was
GSss sSssd words 0aG" L took K
market and n this country y tbs M estre s sru:
SHy %es OF more ns ha Wce as from the
as is the Indian wheat field For mos, =, OF our
THE PRESENT SITUATION.
Fifteen years ago. when Indian wheat exports
suddenly rose from average OF 5si.ia6 bushels In
lsGs-2 to O3 bushels in 1871 TO 666 bush.
els In 1882 and to 359465 bushels In 1885, more
than doubling in every period 1t was believed that
Indian wheat soon to swamp the worlds mar
Since then has m been steadily dssressnc.
10000 in 1895 and in 1896 the exports have dwin.
died to half this The famine which Is now over.
shadowng the northwest provinces Is not due; now.
ever to the failure Of the wheat crop primarily. 0ut
to the failure Of other food grains during the past
summer This has left the population on the edge
OF starvation but 1t will not prevent them from
planting wheat this fail and harvesting it next
ent capacity for supplying wheat to Europe Inc
United States. therefore. having Itself fair crop.
wheat supply. but unless the cycle OF poor years
which began In 1891 and has lasted ever since IN
Northern India continues during the coming winter.
India will enter 1897 With the usual wheat supply.
This is the reason why the December option 10
the one which has advanced most rapidly. and why
options for months later I'm the crop year DO not
share the same demand. because these will be az
fected by exports from the other Southern coun.
tries which come on in the spring, particularly
Australia and Argentine.
New-York tribune., 1896-10-26

suits there will also be an additional and much
needed water main put down. and the plumbing
and fitting OF the pipes will have been so care
fully looked after that, IL the opinion OF General
G. II. T. Coils the Commissioner OF Public Works.
there will be necessity for touching the pave
that account for the next five years.
IL was never known until the WORK OF improving
Fifth-ave. begun how poorly the avenue was
served In the of sewer and water pipes IL has
now been discovered that whole blocks OF the thor.
oughfare have had no sewers and that the drainage
side streets.
in the dark as 10 what will be found in the course
of the work." said official and although We
the line OF the avenue. We have no chart or map
and ne, no mans r,, Of ioeatns them ,.,o ..,
how one might ascertain where certain pipes could
be found said said II kaST & Of 40 & way except to lake
pained that. the work OF laying the water mains
will be carefully located with a view TO making
chart showing their situation and position This
of s SeS nS
Forty-fou sts. 1t is known that on that block
way and. further on. toward the opposite curb are
anfh h gaspps snch saspe an g snch nS Es
water-pipes; new Pinch waterpipe an s-inch gas
pS believed "s that this line f Of pipes ' will to con-
tinue up to Fifty fourth-st and that an additional
gaspipe will be found there and steam supply
In speaking Of the proposed diagram showing the
said: When the work Is completed II will be az
easy to locate a pipe az IL IL for the surgeon 10
locate an organ and when the street has to be
opened I'm order find any OF the pipes II will
be unnecessary cut all around IL for long dis.
tance because it's exact location will be known
But there will be little need for breaking the pave
ment for a number Of years" he added: because
paired with view 10 making II as good as new"
General Coils said that the public had only faint
idea OF the amount OF underground piping In New
York. and that few people know that there are
seventeen gas mains In In Thrd-ave.
An appropriation OF 81. 10000 was made for the
purpose OF laying the new &s-inch water MAINS but
the Commissioner authorized TO apply a part
OF the 20 repairing the avenue. The asphalt
will be laid that the best results may be obtained.
and to that end the high crown will be abandoned.
Heretofore 1t thought proper 10 have the pave.
ment rise TO the height OF about and half
Inches, but the pavement will have a Of
only four and half inches above the curb level.
which will be sufficient 10 carry Off all surface
water. ami will insure greater comfort and safety
for driving. The work is being done by about two
hundred and fifty men, who under the SUPER
vision OF " d. Bogue. formerly the chief engineer
Of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
New-York tribune., 1896-10-26
NORMAL COLLEGE GRADUATES"
ANNUAL REUNION or THE ASSOCIATE ALUMNAE
on SATURDAY.

ANNUAL REUNION or THE ASSOCIATE ALIMNAE
on SATURDAY.
The annual reunion Of the Associate Aumnae
of the Normal College was held Saturday in the
assembly ROOM which crowded almost its
utmost capacity The following programme was
given: Greetings. Dr. Mary Augusta Requa presi-
dent OF the Associate Alumnae. and DR.. Thomas
Hunter president OF the Normal College, address
by Mayor william L. Strong OF the city OF New
York; song by A. Stewart Holt; reading. Mrs
Sarah Coweii LeMo, ne. 1.-The Philosopher in the
Apple Orchard" Apthony Hope and "Clive." Rob-
ert Browning song. Miss EIvira f. Howe: aumnae
song. 1.-THE Ivy Leaf" Helen Gray Cone
Mayor Strong said the occasion was the fourth OF
the kind at which he had been present and that al
each succeeding he had noticed an increase
both in attendance and interest He referred TO
the fact Of his having appointed eleven school in
spectors from among the graduates Of the college.
and said that It gave him great pleasure to recall
II particularly as the ladies were performing the
duties Of their respective Offices In such satsfact
ory manner
Among those present at the reunion were Com
missIoners Benville Hurlburt and McSweeney. ex-
I'ommissioner Dewitt J. Seligman. Superintendent
Iejpziger ex-Trustee Fettrch. Justice Mott and
hIs dauuhter Miss Jennie b. Merrill. the newly APP
nointed supervisor OF kindergarten instruction:
Mrs clara NJ Williams and Mrs. Lille Devereux
Blake .... ., ,,,
the conclusion OF the programme 10 inspect the
new kitchen and gymnasium which nave oeen htted
up on the nth floor.