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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Shopping-"Aren't these beauti.
ful? Exquisite-sWhat are they, but
TONS or dessert platesY'-Chicago leo
srd.
what a benevolent look old Mr..
Podtis has," "M'hm. I'll bet he wastes
the time of more beggars than any
other man in town."-Cincinnat En-
quirer.
AT the Recent School Census
Policeman Ito young boy) = Your
name?" Patrick Reilly" what is
your father?' Dead" "What was he
before he died?" "Alive."-Texas sift-
ings.
-s'Shocs were blacked as early as
the tenth century," says an exchange.
And it might have added that many of
them look as though they have never
been BACKED since.-Boston Tran
script.
Mrs. Snagg (rsading from news
paper)-'Gas meter manufacturers
have formed trust" Mr.. Snagg-"I
can't believe it. No trust is TO be placed
in gas meters. Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
-Gadzooks-"Yo don't mean to say
that SO homely girl as Miss Plainface
is able to get engagements as an art
lists model?" POUNDS = Certainly;
she poses for the designers of posters"
IN. Y. Tribune.
IF you don't do something on this
bill before the 18th / intend to sue
YOU" "Ah, and will you permit me to
recommend Sharpe & Steele? l receive
a percentage on all they get out of me. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
II should think you would feel a
bit nervous over the idea of your hus-
band going away out there among the
gold mines to be gone whole year or
longer" said the caller ~ do" replied
Mrs. Pankey I'm afraid he'll lose all
interest in me and the church."-Chi-
cago Tribune.
--Maude-"Young higgins engage
ment was very short" Mabel-''Is it
broken already?" Maude TT was
broken the very night he proposed"
Mabel - "You don't say" Maude -
Yes; you see Higgins shutters fright
fully, and it took him nearly 90 min
utes to propose, and after he got
through the girl spoiled everything by
exclaiming: This is so sudden Hug
gins thought she was guying him.
Yonkers Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
HOW cAMPHoR is MADE.
Japanese May Preserve the Trees, Now
They Own Formusa.

Japanese May Preserve the Trees, Now
They Own Formusa.
One of the principal products of the
territory which has come under Japa-
nese administration as result of the
war with China, is camphor.
Small shanties are scattered over the
hills where the eamphor trees grow,
and in all directions the clearing of the
woods is going on at rapid rate. On
the hillsides are built distilleries con-
sisting of oblong-shaped structures
principally of mud bricks, and about
ten or twelve feet long, six feet broad
and four feet high.
On each side are five to ten fire holes
about foot apart and the same dis
lance above the ground. On each fire
hole is placed an earthen pot full of
water, and above it a cylindrical tube,
about a foot in diameter and two feet
high, passes up through the structure
and appears above it.
The tube is capped by large inverted
jar, with packing of damp hemp be-
tween the jar and cylinder to prevent
the escape of steam. The cylinder is
filed with chips of wood about the size
of the little finger, which rest on per-
forated lid covering the jar of water.
SO that when the steam rises it passes
up to the inverted jar, or condenser,
absorbing certain resinous matter from
the wood on it's way.
While distillation is going on an es-
sential oil is produced and is found
mixed with the water on the inside of
the jar. When the jar is removed the
beady drops solidify, crystalization
commences and camphor in a crude
form, looking like newly-formed snow,
is detached by the hands, placed in
baskets lined with plantan leaves and
hurried off to the nearest border town
for sale.
With regard to camphor, as in other
commercial matters, the Chinese gov
eminent has acted very foolishly. For
over 30 years there has been constant
demand for camphor, and yet the adj
ministration has done nothing to pre-
vent the reckless waste of the forests
and taken no steps to provide for the
reafforestation of uninhabited tracts
useless for cultivation.-Scottish Geo
graphical Magazine.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
The Bourbons in Spain.

In none of the many sovereignties
had the incapacity of the bourbons
been more completely demonstrated
than in Spain. With intermittent flick
erings, the light of that famous land
had been steadily growing DINNER ever
since Louis XIV. exultingly declared
that the Pyrenees had ceased to exist.
Stripped of her colonial supremacy,
shattered in naval power, reduced to
pay tribute to France, she looked ST.
lently on while Napoleon trafficked with
her lands, mourning that even the mem
Dry of her former glories was fading
out in foreign countries. The proud
people themselves had, however, never
forgotten their past; with each sue
cessive humiliation their irritation
grew more extreme, and soon after
Trafalgar they made an effort to or
ganize under the crown prince against
the scandalous regime of Godoy. Both
parties sought French support, and the
quarrel was fomented from Paris until
the whole country W as torn by the most
serious dissensions.-Prof. Sloane, in
Century.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
A MlsER,S TREASURE.

The miser lay on his dying bed.
And no voice by him made moan;
40 prayer was said. and no tears were
she'd
He died as he lived, alone:
And his trembling fingers, damp and cold.
Drew the iron band away
From the guarded casket, stained and old,
Where his boarded treasures lay.
But his death-dimmed eyes in the fading
light
Looked not on the rubies rare.
Nor the deep-sea pearls. nor the diamonds
bright
That an empress well might wear:
And the gold that he erstwhile loved 90
much,
That be periled his soul to gain.
Was brushed aside with a careless touch,
And a glance of cold dlsdain.
And when strangers looked on the dead In
awe,
In his close-clasped icy hands
Not Golconda's flashing gems they saw,
Nor the gold Of Afric's sands;
And no Jewels fair beyond compare
Tween the fingers stiff shone through,
But a golden tress of a woman's hair
In a ribbon of faded blue.
Chambers Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
ROMANCE ON THE ICE.

Reasons for the Goodness That Exists Be-
tween Two Brooklyn Lovers.
She was poor skater, she said, but
her escort, who thought she was just
about perfect in everything else, in
sisted that she could skate well enough
for anybody's criticism and that he
wasn't much of skater himself, SO
they went to the park together one
day last week and were very soon on
the ice. Perhaps you might have seen
them, for they were as noticeable as
ever were two lovers from the country
when they first visit New York and
take walk on Broadway.
Each had told the truth, but each
secretly believed that she and he re-
spectively was better skater than she
and he had pretended. When they
were fairly launched so to speak,
they took hold of each others hands,
and in their attempt to maintain up
right positions their wrigglings and
savings of the air with their arms not
in use suggested ST. Vitus' dance.
Look out there! Where are you go
ing?" shouted skilled skater whom
they suddenly plunged into and nearly
upset. He had braced himself for the
onset, and they split on him, as it were.
She went one side and he the other.
Two pairs of hands were in the air as
if trying to claw chunks out of the sky,
then came the collapse. He went down
on his back, and she--well, she tried
to sit down, but made quite frantic
and unnecessary effort. The ice
seemed to her to meet her half way,
and there was very dull thud indeed.
There! / told you SOL" shouted the
skilled skater. He was addressing
himself to the young lady's escort, and
at the same time CALAMITY went to the
side of the young lady, apologized to
her very handsomely for running into
him, and assisted her to rise before her
escort had found time to do anything
but glare at him. Then the skilled
skater said to the young lady: "Per-
NIT met" Holding her firmly in posi-
ton, he gave her a fine spin" across
the lake and back again. By that time
the escort had gained tolerably erect
position.
"Hurt?' asked the skilled skater, pat.
ronizingly. No, the escortwas not hurt,
except as to his feelings. He said, with
feeble attempt at politeness, that he
was not injured and this time directed
his glare at the young lady. The
skilled skater smiled mischievously,
raised his hat to the young lady and
gliGed away.
For my part" snapped the escort.
when they were left alone, Il think
the ice is no good" would you like
to go home ?" she asked, with shade
of stiffness and threeshades of sarcasm
They might as well, he grumbled. And
when they got their skates off and
started homeward the temperature
seemed to grow colder. He said he
might not be up" that evening, as he
expected TO be detained in 1.-THE city,"
and he has not been up" since
brooklyn Standardization.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
rArrrNrNa HOGS COSTS ONE CENT

FArrENING HOGS COSTS ONE CENT
The editor recently heard OF a farmer
fattening hogs at less than one cent =
pound. This was made possible through
the sowing of Salzer's King barley
yielding over 100 bu. per acre, Golden
Triumph Corn, yielding 200 bu. per
acre, and the feeding on Sand Vetcn'
Teosinte, Hundredfold Peas, etc. now
with such yields, the growing OF hogs Is
more profitable than silver mine.
Salzer's catalogue is full OF rare
things for the farmer, gardener and cit
izen, and the editor believes that 1T
would pay everybody hundred-foid to
get Salzer's catalogue before purchas'
ing seeds.
IF you WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT
with 10 cents postage to the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.,, they
will mail you their mammoth seed cata-
logue and 10 samples of grasses and
grains, including above corn and bar
ley. Catalogue alone, 5cpostage. (K)
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
Advice to . Candidate.

II know what I'll do" said the young
candidate. I'll lay in a big supply of
lug tobacco, and every time meet
one of the hayseeds I'll offer him a
chew"
"You will do nothing of the sort, t"
said his manager. "You will go out
without bit and borrow a chew from
every man you meet. Haven't you got
sense enough to know that the man
you are under obligations to always
feels warmer toward you than the man
you have DONE 4 taycr2 s-lndiaHapOlis
Journal,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
Our Currency.

The currency of the United States
was changed from the English system
to dollars and cents by act of congress
in 1892, by which act the names and
values of the different coins were e.
tablished. The plan of national coin
age was adopted in 17s5, but no definite
action WIS taken until 792.-Chicago
Vnfenicie: - -ss>s.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
Where Nutmegs Grow.

Nutmegs grow in the Banda islands.
The Dutch long enjoyed complete
monopoly of this spice and supplied
the whole of Europe with them. They
frequently destroyed large numbers to
prevent the price from falling by their
abundance. The harvest for them u
IN June.-N. y. Timea
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21

AFTER six years. suffering. was cured BY
PIso's CuRE.-MARY Thomson, 2917 Ohio
Ave-, Allegheny, Pa. March 10, '94.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21

BIZ HALvEs.-sI always meet trouble
half way,n said the man who had paid hall
of his promissory note and arranged for an
extension of the other half.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21

HE-"Charlotte, love you; can you not
return my affectionl" She-"l'm afraid I'll
have to, as have no use for it,"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-06-06

the banks of every brook and pond, its
wood is soft, its bark is smooth and free
from knots and it draws profusion OF
sap from the wet ground where it
usually grows, which causes the bark
to slip easily from the wood. In the mid
die and western states the willow and
poplar are the favorite woods for
whistles.
Whistles are made the same way
everywhere. A smooth limb or sucker
is selected and cut Off. The mouth end
is trimmed right, notch is cut In the
top for the escape OF the breath, ring
is cut in the bark at the right distance
from the end, and then the bark is
moistened with saliva and the whistle
is laid on the knee and pounded with
the knife handle TO loosen the bark
from the wood. A twist of the bark pulls
il off the wood and then deep notch is
cut out of the wood, the bark is put on
and the whistle is finished.
Many n mans most pleasant memories
are of the happy days he spent in boy
hood in the creek bottoms making will
low whistles.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-06-06
cARNIvoRous PLANTS.
One Is Good Fisherman and the Other
First-Class Trspper.


First-Class Trapper.
Something new about the bladder
wort has been learned recently, accord
ing TO the Fishing Gazette. The blad
der wort is a small floating weed found
in the fresh waters of the British ISL
ands, and until recently was regarded
as an innocent bunch OF vegetation;
but now il is known that IL is destruc-
tive TO game fishes. This subtle poach-
er is armed with almost microscopic
jaws along its little branches" and the
incautious little fish that rubs up
against these gets grasped, and before
long dies and is devoured by the plant
A good many plants are lenwn 10 sub
sist on flesh, and one OF these, at least,
lures its prey into a trap. Every Wis
itor 20 the Adirondacl<s knows the hun
ter's pitcher; some remember IL with
pain. The pitcher is open at the top,
and the rain keeps IL half full OF water.
The thirsty insects see the water, and
they go down into IL and drink. Hay
ing had their fill, the flies try TO climb
out again, but no trap is surer than the
hunters pitcher. The inside of the
pitcher is lined with short. stiff fila
ments, and the sharp points all incline
down. The insects feet catch In these.
and after awhile it gets into the water
and browns.
The Adirondack woodsman likes a
joke, and that rs why the memory OF
these pitchers brings pain TO the ten
derfoot- The woodsman, acting as
guide, goes tramping into the woods,
leading the tcnderfoot to some fishing
waters. The trail, IL on n hot day, is
dry as bone, and at each step the ten
derfoot gets dryer and dryer, and be-
gins 10 want 20 know how far ID Is
20 the next spring. They come TO q
swamp, and the tenderfoot feels sure
there must be water thereabout. but the
woodsman says there Is not bit. Then
he picks up one of the numerous pitch
ers, puts IL TO his lips n moment, then
throws IL 10 the ground. Water flies
out and the thirsty one sees IL. lie
breaks one of and without examination
takes a couple of big swallows. The
woodsmnn shrieks: "Fly SOUP" and
rolls over the moss bed OF the swamp.
The victim shricks, too. And for years
after the mention OF hunters pitchers
makes him gait IL two OF three days
before he cares for fish or food.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-06-06
XII cARsoN,s SISTER.
A Dame OF Eighty who Remembers Many
Thrilling Episodes.

Dame OF Eighty Who Remembers Many
Thrilling Episodes.
We have all heard of Kit Carson, the
famous hunter and scout, whose stir
ring adventures in the first half of tho
century have furnished foundations for
no end of border tales. But perhaps few
persons know that the sister Of the re-
doubtable Kit still survives in the por-
son of Mrs. Mary Carson Ruby, who re.
sides at Warrensburg, Mo. She was
born on May 25, 1914, in Cooper's Fort,
Howard county, Mo-, her father, Walter
Carson, having moved there n short
time before from Madison county, Ky.
Mrs. Ruby's earliest recollections Of
home picture n log cabin, strongly
barricaded to protect il from predatory
bands of Indians. Though over so her
eyesight is still good and her memory
excellent. One of the stories she tells
her grandchildren is how their grand.
uncle Kit came to be n great hunter aud
scout. He was such q bright boy that
IL was intended TO make lawyer OF
him, but this plan was frustrated by
the early tragic death OF his father
Poor Kit was then apprenticed TO a
tanner. He objected to this heartily
and begged TO accompany his brother &c
the far west. But, as he was only Is,
they refused TO take him.
Kit had n will of his own. however,
and after they had started he got hold
of mule and caught up with them at
Independence, Mo. That settled il and
Kit went west. The brothers did not
return for IS years and Mrs. Ruby saw
Kit only twice after the day he galloped
OF on his mule. Long after, when his
name had become a household word
throughout the fnst-growing west, he
was called TO Washington in connection
with important business concerning
our government and that of Mexico
When it was concluded he returned TO
his old home, where he died n few days
later.-Denver Field and Farm.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-06-06

been made justice of the peace because
he had been TO court, and when he said
Ego" the boys who were 10 be hunted
by the police darted out into the alley
through the barn and hid.
Soon the patrol wagon dashed out on
a riot call sent in by a policeman who
had caught Billie.
What is your name?" said Justice
Sldppie.
"Billie Banks"
what has he done ?" asked the Justice
OF the policeman who made the arrest.
Il told him 10 move on, and he
wouldn't"
Ten days at hard work in the BRIDE
WELL" was the sentence. Take him TO
the woodshed and make him split kim
ding wood until say stop"
And Billie was soon splitting wood,
while two policemen guarded him 70 sec
that he did not escape.
The next boy arrested was made TO
rake thc grass in the back yard, and the
next TO weed the garden, and the next
TO split wood, and before the game was
finished, skppie had three weeks sup
ply of kindling wood neatly piled up in
the woodshcd; the yard had been
cleaned three times; every weed in the
dover garden WAS In the garbage box
in the alley, nod the gravel walk was IA
neat as pin. And Skippie did not open
his mouth when his mother said TO hia
father that night: Samuel has been
very industrious to-day. / wish you
would go out and look at that back
yard; IL is simply beautiful" and hia
father smiled and said:
"Well, guess I'll have 20 get you that
baseball mask next week."-Chjcago
Record.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-06-06

ment.
Different indeed was she 70 the i'll.
clad and travel-stained girl who had
been our companion for SO many weeks.
Now she was dressed In robe OF snowy
white bordered with embroidery Of the
royal green and having the image OF
the heart traced in gold thread ON the
breast. On her feet were sandals, also
worked IN green. while round her
throat, wrists, waist, and ankles
shone circlets OF dead gold. Her dark
hair no longer fell loose about her. but
was twisted into a simple knot and con-
fined In little golden net, and from
her shoulders hung a cloak of pure
white feathers.
Zibalbay entered socn after followed
by the two Indians bearing food. He
was simply dressed in n white toga-
like robe, similar to that which had
been given to the senior aud myself, a
cloak OF black feathers, his shoulders
covered, and round his neck was hung a
massive gold chain, TO which was at
tached the emblem of the heart also
fashioned in plain gold.
1.-THE food is ready" said Zibalbay,
"such as IL Is. BE seated. Nay, daugh-
ter, you need not stand before me. We
are still fellow wanderers, all OF us, and
ceremony can wait till we are come to
the City of the Heart"
Then we sat down and the Indians
waited on MS. What the dishes con-
sisted of we did not know. but after our
long privations 10 seemed TO us that we
had never eaten so excellent a meal.
Already difference TO the senior could
be seen in Zibalbay's mode of address.
Formerly he had called him "senor," or
even friend" tonight when speaking
to him he used word which meant
foreigner" or unknown one" and
sven myself he called by name without
adding any title of respect.
Come hither," said Zibalbay 10 the
Indian, when he had handed us some
cigarettes. "Start now 20 the borders
OF the lake and advise the captain OF
the village of the corn growers that his
lord has returned again, commanding
him in my name 10 furnish four travel
ing letters, to be here within five hours
after sunrise. Warn him also TO have
canoes in readiness TO bear ms across the
lake, but as he values his life TO send no
word of our coming to the city Go,
now, and swiftly"
The man bowed, and snatching q
spear and n feather cloak from a peg
near the door, vanished into the night,
needless of the bowling wind and the
sleet that thrashed upon the roof.
Then Zibalbay said; Come, daugh-
ter, il is time for us TO rest; our journey
has been long and you must be weary.
Good night TO you, my guests; to-mor-
row / shall hope TO house you better"
And with bow he left the room.
Maya rose TO follow his example, and
going 20 the senior, gave him her hand,
which he touched with his lips.
ITO BE Continued
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-06-06

poa't coddlc up woe. Don't think about
your foe.
what's the use?
II only makes you worry. and keeps you In
a furry.
What's the user There's no excuse.
Don't talk about your wrong. II makes Il
last too long.
What's the use?
1t only gives you pain, and suffering again.
What's the user There's no excuse.
Don't talk OF your disaster. It makes the
tears flow faster.
What's the use?
1t only keeps you weeping. and hinders you
from sleeping.
What's the use? There's no excuse.
Don't talk of your mishap. it's only one
more rap.
What's the use?
II only can annoy. and your peace Of mind
destroy.
What's the use? There's no excuse.
Don't talk of your aniIction. it only causes
friction.
what's the use?
1t opens an old sore. and worries you the
more.
what's the use? There's no excuse.
Don't talk about your sorrow. trouble you
only borrow.
What's the use?
1t only makes you sad. and sour and slum
and mad
what's the use? There's no excuse.
w. l. ormsby Jr.. in N. Y. Sun.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-06-06
Natnrc,n Lightning Rods.

There is often great loss of property
and sometimes OF life. in the severe cleo
trical storms that rage at certain times
OF the year in Russia. TO protect the
houses of the peasants, which are fire.
quently struck by lightning, the Rus.
sian government has recommended that
the peasantry be encouraged 20 plant
white poplar trees around their dwell.
ings. to act as lightning rods. The sug
gestion arose out OF some Investigations
concerning the liability 20 lightning
stroke OF certain species Of trees made
by Russian electrician and the gov
eminent forest inspector. They spent
100 days In the great forests near Mos.
COW, and of the 507 trees that during
that time were struck by lightning
they found 302 were white poplar, not
withstanding the fact that that species
Is comparatively rare.