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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL

Lord Brassey has been installed
as grand master of the United Grand
Lodge of Victorian Free Masons. The
ceremony was a most imposing one,
over 1000 brethren being present.
1t was recently represented that
Col. North had left fortune of about
s 500, 900, but the Statist now under
stands that the amount is even very
much smaller than that.
The German empress was exceed
ingly friendly towards Mrs. Uhl, wife
of the United States ambassador, upon
the occasion of that lady's first audi
ence with her majesty. The empress
conducted her conversation in English.
During Buses voyage to England
she was i'll all the time, except the last
three days, which she devoted entirely
to steerage passengers, reading to them
and giving them money and sympathy.
They remember her as the good lady,"
Albert Grant, once a millionaire
promoter, having promoted" several
times too often, is now declared bank
rupt, and receiver has been appoint
ed for his assets. Grant had the high
compliment of being satirized in the
Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera ''Cto.
pin."
Some one, it is alleged, brought Rus
sell Sage subscription list recently
for some charitable purpose. The mil
lionaire looked it over and saw the name
of Mrs. Russell Sage put down for $2s
Quickly taking his pen the philan-
thropist wrote 'Mr. and" before the
signature and returned the list.
The dowager duchess of Genoa.
mother of the queen of Italy, during
her late visit to the Quirinal had an at.
tack of smallpox, fortunately slight
one, but complicated with rheumatism.
The queen never thought of infection.
and was in constant attendance upon
her mother, to whom she is devotedly
attached.
by the queens permission the SIS
tiers of the new duke of Hamilton and
Brandon-Helena, Constance and Flora
Douglas-are henceforth to enjoy the
same rank, title, place, prominence
and precedence as if their father had
lived to succeed to the titles and digni-
ties of the duke of Hamilton and Bran
don. premier duke of Scotland and
duke of Chatelherault, in France. They
are, therefore, authorized to prefix
from now on the title of LADY" to their
Christian names.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05
RESISTANCE OF A TRAIN.

At Sixty Miles an Hour 1t IL Four Times
Greater Than at Thirty.
At GO miles an hour the resistance of
train is four times as great as it is
ut 30 miles-that is, the fuel must be
four times as great in the one case as
it is in the other. But at 60 miles an
hour this fuel must be exerted for a
given distance in half the time that it
is at 30 miles, SO that The amount of
power exerted and steam generated in
given period of time must be eight
times as great as the fastest speed.
This means that the capacity of the
boiler, cylinders, and other parts must
be greater, with a corresponding adj
dition to the weight of the machine.
Obviously, therefore, if the weight per
wheel, on account of the limit of weight
that the rails will carry, is limited, we
soon reach point when the driving
wheels and other parts cannot be fur
Their enlarged, and then we reach the
maximum of speed.
The nice adjustment necessary of
the various parts of these immense en-
gines may be indicated by some fig
ures as to the work performed by these
parts when the locomotive is worked at
a high speed. Take a passenger engine
on any of the big railroads.
At GO miles an hour driving wheel
6h feet in diameter revolves five times
every second; now, the reciprocating
parts OF each cylinder, including one
piston, piston rod cross head and con-
meeting rod, weighing about $50
pounds, must move back and forth a
distance equal to the stroke, usually
about two feet, every time the wheel re-
wolves, or in the fifth of n second.
1t starts from a state of rest at the
end of each stroke of the piston, and
must acquire velocity of 80 feet per
second in one-twentieth of second,
and must be brought to state of rest
in the same period of time. A piston
is inches in diameter has an area of
254h square inches. Steam of $50
pounds pressure per square inch would,
therefore, exert force on the piston
equal to 3s,175 pounds. This force is
applied alternately on each side of the
piston ten times in second.--Ladies'
Home Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05
Bottllnx the Breath.

DIR. Benson, of Stassfurt, who ha,
lately made several exceedingly loft,
balloon ascensions, carries along (;
cylinder of compressed oxygen, fttet
with tube for breathing. Whenever
he experiences discomfort on account o.
the rarity of the atmosphere few
whiffs from the cylinder suffice to re
store him. Mountain climbers woulf
probably find this very useful addi
iion to their outfit. On one occasion DR.
Benson reached an altitude Of $3.50!
feet, 1000 feet higher than Mount Ever
est-chicsgo chroniclA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05
Power Of Insects and Horses.

Few people have any idea of the won
aerful amount of strength possessed by
members of the beetle family. Felix
Plateau has made experiments which
show that common door beetle can
draw 500 times its own weight and a
stag beetle has been known to escape
from box weighted with book 200
times greater than the insects body. If
horses strength was u great compar-
afiSe|y "a that Of the common fea he
draw dead weight Of eoo,ooo
- del~N, y Sun
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05
BLIND aovs PLAY BASEBALL.
Game Differs In Many Details from the
Regular One.


Game Differs In Many Details from the
Regular One.
Prof. X. B. Huntoon, of the Kentucky
school, describing baseball among the
blind, says: The baseball game differs,
of course, in many of it's details from the
regular games. The diamond is not of
regulation size, but is of regulation
form. The distance between bases is
but 40 feet. The fielders are stationed
the same as in the National league game,
with the exception that there is right
shortstop, thus making ten men to
side. In the outfield, in public games,
there is an unlimited unmber of players,
each taking a turn at the bat, first NOV
ing up enc position whenever batsman
is put out.
The catcher sits on the ground, well
back from the home plate, and, to guard
against injury, he wears a mask and a
chest protector. His position is such
that when pitcher delivers a ball it
strikes the ground just between the
knees and is taken on the short bound.
The batsman takes his position at
the plate with heavy fat bat, son,e-
what like those used in cricket. The
umpire, who must be man of unim-
paired vision, calls upon the pitcher to
get ready, and then clearly cings out:
Zone, two, three!" At the word three
the pitcher must Loyalty deliver the ball.
He pitches in the slow, underhand way
peculiar to the game rs or 80 years ago,
the idea being to deliver ball that can
be hit by the batsman, who, standing
there in the darkness, with a sharpened
sense of hearing and wonderful con-
ception of the time that must elapse be-
fore the ball reaches him, is prepared
to strike.
II the batsman should miss the ball
bounces into the catcher's lap, and is re-
turned to the pitcher by single toss
with precision that is wonderful.
When the ball is batted the umpire calls
out quickly to the fielder in whose direc-
ton it is travelling, and he, guided by
sense of hearing, either catches the ball
or follows it in its course through the
grass. Six strikes are an out. In field
ing any number of bounds are permit
tCQs IL tuc bdttCu jail 10 u uOt lIHSi
and travelling straight for an infelder's
head, the umpire shouts a warning, and
in such cases the player ducks or falls TO
the turss.
1t is possible, in fact, the ball is FIRE.
quently fielded to first in time to put
out the runner. When throwing to first
the assisting player, who is guided by
the voice of the baseman, calculates the
distance with nicely and throws the ball
so that ii strikes the ground few yards
in front of The baseman. The latter
hears it coming and usually gets it with
out further assistance. Running bases
was formerly difficult thing. There
were then three trees on the diamond,
toward which the runner ran with out
stretched hands. Bags have since been
substituted for bases, and the runner is
guided by the voice of the baseman, who
is required to shout: First, first, first"
In like manner the other bags are won.
Once on base the runner is pretty sure
to get home, unless his side dies at the
home plate. Six outs put a side OUT
Boston Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

To me the great wonder of this world
h in what inconspicuous places the
highest giants are born. Upon farms
so rocky and billy that even buck
wheat and turnips and onions are
starved to death they grow men. We
talk about the laws of heredity. Where
did Abraham Lincoln come FRONT
Why, there is not one silver thread to
be traced among all his ancestry! That
brilliant mind seems to have been
kindled amid darkness and Of igno.
rance and superstition. +. d. Tai
mage, Presbyterian, Pittsburgh.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

Malarial disease IS invariably supple
mented by disturbance Of the liver, the
bowels, the stomach and the nerves. To
the removal Of both the cause and its ef-
fects, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Is fully
adequate. It "6lls the bilr' as no other
remedy does, performing its work thor
oughly. Its ingredients are pure and whole
some, and 1t admirably serves to build up a
system broken by Ill health and shorn Of
strength. Constipation, liver and kidney
complaint and nervousness are conquerec
by It.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05
BOUGHT THEIR FREEDOM.
Average Price of . Human Chattel Lesl
Than Five Hundred Dollars.

Average Price OF o human Cn0CtoA Looo
Than Five Hundred Dollars.
In 1885 there were in Cincinnati,
The center of the colored population
in Ohio, $500 colored people. OF this
number 1,195 had once been slaves and
had gained their freedom by purchase,
manumission or escape; 476 had bought
their freedom at an expense of $215. 522,
making the average price of each per-
son $453. Some had earned their pur-
chase money while still In slavery by
working Sundays, cultivating a little
patch Of ground which had been al
lowed them by their masters, and by
boarding the small gifts which would
from time to time be given to the
slaves.
Sometimes an indulgent master W ould
allow a fayorite slave to buy his time;
he would then hire himself out on a
neighboring plantation, making some
profit by the transaction. Others were
permitted to go north, where they would
have more opportunity to earn money.
and there, by dint of hard work and
most exacting economy, they would
manage to collect the price OF their
liberty.
In 1895 there were a large number in
Cincinnati thus working out their free
dom, the masters retaining their free
papers" for security. One woman paid
for herself $500 and then earned enough
to buy little home valued at 5000,
every dollar earned by washing and
ironing. The majority of freedom
earners, as soon as their own was paid
for, at once began to work for the free
dom of father, mother, brother or
sister, who was still in slavery. Four
fifths of the colored people in that city
had members of their family yet in
bondage. OF course, it was only the
kinder and more indulgent masters who
would allow slaves to work out their
freedom.
Many pathetic instances naturally oc-
Cured in connection with the purchase
of some beloved mother or other men,
Der of the household give only one
example out of myriads of others like
It.
A young man who had succeeded in
buying his own freedom saved $500
more with the hope of buying his aged
mother, whom he had left five years
before in Virginia, that she might have
the comfort of dying free woman in
free state.
Having heard that she was for sale,
he started Immediately to purchase her.
After travelling 500 miles he offered all
his money for her, and-and-was re-
fused. Not because he did not offer
full value, nor because she was not for
sale, but-she had four sons and dough
ters together with her, whom the owner
thought would sell to greater advantage
ty keeping the family together and
selling them down the river.
The loving, stricken son pleaded in
Tain for his mother, but the owner was
memorable. He would not sell, and the
poor boy returned with heavy heart
to Cincinnati. He learned afterward
that the whole family were sold in New
0rleans.-From the Thesis of Charles
T. Hickok, at Western Reserve Univer.
sity.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05
-"By hook or crook" recalls the day

-"By hook or crook" recalls the days
when the poor of the English country
districts were allowed to go into the
forests and pick up such branches as
had fallen from the tree. As hook at
the end of short stick was frequently
brought to assist in this labor. and
as the straight branches must be left
for the landlord, the expression. "by
hook or crook" came to mean the ac-
eomplishment of an end in one way or
another.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

Said Gilhooly to Hostetter McGipnIs:
''Whati Are you up and about
sgain7"
Eyes; am perfectly WELL"
"But how does that come about7 !
heard that the doctors gave you up"
"That's 20; but when the doctora
gave ma up ! gave up the doctors. and J
Oet better sieht s4,"-!ysxAs Sitter
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05
FROGS FROM MISSOURI.

An Agent Of the Fish Commission Tells
How They Are Caught.
w. A. Wilcox, agent for the United
States fish commission, was just from
the upper part of Arkansas and the
southeastern part Of Missouri. A re-
porter asked him for an account of what
he had found.
''In southeast Missouri" said the COM
missioner, II found that new industry
was springing up. Last week firm of
fish dealers at Kennett shipped to New
York the first carload of buffalo fish
ever sent from this territory to that
market. The car contained $4,000
pounds, and the sale of the shipment
was 90 satisfactory that the same par
ties will make another shipment this
week. This bids fair to become big
business in this section. The supply
of buffalo, or rough fish, in these waters,
Is almost without limit, and New York
offers a good market. Heretofore the
principal market for the catches of
northern Kansas and southern Missouri
have been in Kansas City, st. Louis and
Chicago. but now they are opening up
q new field, which win prove of great
financial benefit to that section. All
of these buffalo are caught out of Little
river and Big lake, through which the
former flows.
81 was amazed at the frog industry
there. The town of Kennett alone
shipped $4,000 pounds of dressed frogs
to the markets last season, and New
Madrid not less than $4,000. I got these
figures from the books of the railroads,
and know they are true"
"How do the frog fishers get the best
results?" asked the reported.
They fish in all sorts of ways. Some
frogs are shot, some are caught with a
red flannel tied around hook, but the
best results are from spearing. The
frog season commences about the mid
die of March and lasts three months.
During the first of the season the nights
are cool and the frogs stay in the water,
only coming out in the daytime for sun.
Most of the fishing is then done in the
daytime. But as the nights become
warmer the best results are obtained at
night and by the spear. 1t takes two
men to work this. One sits In the
stern of the boat, and paddles it along
close to the bank. On the bow there is
q big reflector, arranged so that the
light can be thrown in any direction.
just behind this stands the spearer.
The light 50 blinds the frog that the
boat can be padded right up to him.
The price paid to the fishermen for the
frogs last year was rs cents per dozen,
the frogs averaging one-half pound
each. This made revenue paid to
the frog fishermen of Kennett last sea-
SON of $500 in three months. These
frogs are shipped not only to the cities
of the Mississippi basin. but large
amount of them go to New York, where.
I am told, they command a much high
er price than the frogs caught In the
northern waters. The swamp lands Of
Arkansas and Mississippi are the finest
places I ever saw for frogs, and will
bring large amount of money to those
who 60 into the business. Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

As two eminent physicians were
Btrolling arm-in-arm along the boule-
ward, one of them bowed to lady who
crossed their path.
"A patient, eh?"
"Ol not serious case. I attended
her lately for pimple-a mere speck
on her nose"
"What did you prescribe?"
prescribe? Nothing at all, though
I absolutely forbade her to play the
piano."
1.-THE piano7 For a pimple ON the
nose. 1 don't see that"
"Ahi I ought to tell you, perhaps
that my rooms are just below hers."--
In Libre Parole.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

The people, the workers, are letting
60 Of the Bible. The mass of the peoi
pie are not reading the Bible, not hear
ing it read. Park Street church, Bos.
ton, as a means of grace, cost $500. 900,
and seats 1,500 people who can afford
the luxury. The only preacher who
has succeeded in filing it in later
years called 1t "a religions club
house." There are q great number Of
religious club houses in cities and vil@
lages.-Rev. M. w. Reed, Independent.
Denver.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

Commends itself to the well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done In the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the sys-
tenn and break up colds, headaches and fe-
vers without unpleasant after effects, use
the delightful liquid laxative remedy, Syrup
Of Figs. Manufactured by California Fig
Syrup Company.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

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 agent
sion tickets write to G. p. Atmore, Gem
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, 1896-09-05
A Great Industry.

The Stark Bros Nurseries, this city and
Rockport Ill, Is q veritable beehive. The
propagating plants Of the 1.-Two Pikes,h en-.
larged. ss0ld Pixies" statesmen work from
New York Westward. The Office force IL
hurrying ont 5000 new style canvassing
outfits, photos of fruits, trees, orchards,
packing, fruit painted from nature, etc. Sew.
eral departments give all their time to 80.
curing salesmen. Stark Bros have room
for energetic solicitors With such progress,
and millions OF fruit trees, dull times I'M.
known.-louisian Missouri Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

SrRANaER--"well, boys, how did the game
70 to-dayi" Boys-"We lost.n Stranger
HWhat have you gut in that bundlel" Boys
1.-THE umpfre.u
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

BnLsoN-"I know where you can find q
remarkably cheap piano mover.n Briggs
Elbow did you discover himf' Billson-'1
let my piano rent get behind.
Plaindealer
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

THOMAS KNEw.-Teacher--" Is the
capital Of Great Britain, Thomasr' Thomas
-"Most Of it's in this country. Chicago
Record.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

The department OF agriculture estt
santss that In the state Of Connecticut
u csstssea,s< "a raise AZ acsr q whesk
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-05

GERMAN FRIEND-"De picture you hat :
painted is most butiful; dere is only Won
word IN de English lanckgidge vich de-
scribes it-end hat vorgotten IT'D
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-09

would be a benefit to some to
soak themselves within and with.
out. For herself she considers
that a glass of water, with little
lime or lemon juice in it, from
three to five times a day-the first
before bathing in the morning
is not too much. Liquids should
be taken before or after, but not
during, meals. Food should be
taken slowly, eating ought never
to be hurried.
A great deal Of dyspepsia is
caused by drinking too much and
too strong tea. Tea stepped in
water for more than five minutes
is injurious. One given to coffee
should buy it in the bean to avoid
authorizations. Cocoa is not good
for an evening meal. There is
nothing more nutritious than the
juice of the grape, unfermented.
She spoke of the prepared juice
now generally sold. Care should
be had that it is pure, as some
she found contained injurious
ingredients.
Never say you cannot rule Your
stomach. The most wretched
people are those who allow their
stomachs to rule then instead of
their ruling their stomachs.
Thorough mastication was adj
vised in this connection
Sometimes when travelling the
lecturer could not get the food
she knew her stomach needed, but
had to eat what was set before her
or go without susteusnce. In
such cases she felt like apologize.
ing to her stomach. Frozen foods
ought to be taken on an empty
stomach, as they checked the flow
OF the gastric juice and thus re-
tarded digestion.
DIR. Ryder answered several
questions sent up to her. She
took occasion to deny the pub
lished report that she was theo
sophist, saying she was neither
that nor an atheist, nor professeC
to be anything but a Christian
woman, trying TO be useful tC
humanity in general and, particu
larly, to aid in alternating the mis-
cries of the child wives Of India
DIR. Ryder occasionally created
smiles by the humorous turn o
her eloquence, and was applaudeC
heartily when she declared he)
Christian profession.
The next lecture will be givel
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock
on, Diseases of Women"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-09
Oue Of the Reasons.

Hilo Herald: Ii the Govern
nent of Hawaii had the full sup.
port Of the masses we would say
let us continue free and indie
pendent. But, unfortunately, it
has not and may not have for too
many years to come. The Hawaii
ans as a rule have an aloha for
their country and old time insti-
tutions and are 10th to give them
up. Perhaps the proper course
was not taken by the Government
in the beginning Of its career to
bring them over. At all events
the harmony necessary to stable
government is missing and to
preserve tho interests of the
masses, even if no other reason
than the one assigned can be
given, the wisest step to be taken
is the one toward annexation to
the United States.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-09
.Pui We OFF AZ Buffalo. -

The title OF this weliknown
song as we'll as the song itself
emauated from the brain of an
employe Of the Buffalo Brewing
Company. That enterprising firm,
believing that a man who could
compose so catchy an air must
have q large and we'll balanced
brain, straightway raised his sala.
ry. This has proven to be a good
move on their part as is testified
by the excellent qualities of their
beer, which is dispensed over the
bars of the Cosmopolitan, Pacific
and Royal saloons at the rate
of two glasses FOR 25c.; half
and half is also served at the
same price. It is always
fresh and cold and life sustaining.
Or you can get one glass Of Buf-
falo and one OF Pabst beer, the
fine produr, OF the Milwaukee
brewery. Interchangeable checks
good at all the above. mentioned
resorts are given in change If you
only want one drink. "Best beer
ever in Honolulu" is the verdict
of many of our prominent citi-
ZanS
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-09

Nicely furnished rooms at the
Popular House, l54 Fort street,
from Sl.OO per week up. y
DIR. G. b. High, dentist, gra-
duate Philadelphia Dental Col
lege, 1892. Masonic Temple. n
A. }. Derby, DDS, Dental
Office Cottage No. 100, Alakea
street, telephone No. 6l5. Office
hours 8 Am. to 4P.M. 4