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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-20

among the cable officials here that
all American codes will soon be
made up out OF this vocabulary.
1t is also their belief that the
public will be benefited. They
say that every other, word differs
in at least two letters from every
other word which should do much
to avoid the errors that to some
extent necessarily arise, especially
during thunder storms at sea,
This is but one Of the subjects to
be treated at thu BUDAPEST con-
veption next year but it is the one
of most interest to this country
AT present the rule has not been
extended to kilograms between
Europe and America, but the
mem bers of the convention have
practically agreed to make the ex-
.cnsion at that meeting. One adj
vantage, which is appreciated by
the companies here, is that If the
vocabulary is universally adopted
the vexatious disputes over what
combinations of words are legiti-
mate will be done away with.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-20
NEWSPAPERS AND MEN.

Chicago Times.H erald.
The Providence Journal almanac,
Just to hand, is thoroughly repre-
sentative of Rhode Islands local,
interests, and we should judge it
to be indispensable, to the readers
of the Journal.
The latest and by no means the
least of the women's editions is
that of the Springfield News-Tele-
gram, which ably exhibits the
versatility and literary ability Of
the women of Illinois capital
city. .
The Chicago Legal Adviser has
celebrated the thirty-sixth ami
versary OF its existence. 1t Is the
oldest periodical Of its kind In the
west, and with the exception OF
Philadelphia publication, the old
est in America.
The decline Of 100000 in the
annual appropriations for pensions
shows that the ranks of the vet
rams of war are rapi dly thinning
out. In 1894 the expenditure for
pensions amounted to $141,17 1884,
and the house bill for pensions
the next year will carry 1927 ,OOO,-
600. The appropriation for pensions
constitutes more one-third OF the
entire ordinary expenditure of the
government. In the course Of ma
ture this expenditure must under.
60 a heavy decline in few years ;
but instead Of recognizing go OBJ
vious a consideration, the tax
mongers in congress insist that
more revenues must be provided,
notwithstanding the fact that the
treasury receipts are already over.
taking the expenditures.-Phila-
delphia Record, dem.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-20

-Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
is famous for cures Of bad colds.
1t opens the secretions, relieves
the lungs and aids nature in re-
storing the system to a healthy
condition. If freely used as soon
as the cold has been contracted,
and before it has become settled in
the system, it greatly lessons the
severity of the attack and has Of
ten cured in a single day what
would have been a severe cold.
For sale by F. Kalteyer, Chas.
Campbell and James Clavin, drug
gists, San Antonio, Texas. tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-20
AN INDIANA MIRACLE.
Mrs. s. Sims, Wife Of Trustee Sims, Of
Lafayette, Ind, Crippled Ifor 20
Years, Walked Without Her
Clutches in Forty Minutes
By the Use of Veno's Electric Fluid and
VenOs Curative Syrup, the Coming
Medicines of the World-$5,000
to Any Physician Who Will
Make Them Better.

Mrs. John Sims, wife of
Trustee Sims, of Lafayette,
Ind, had suffered for TWEEN
ty years from q desperate
case of rheumatism, for
two years had walked On
crutches, had spent over
1900 on doctors to no avail.
On the 18th of Feb, 1895,
three bottles Of vENo's
ELECTRIO FLUID were APP
piled to her limbo and In 20
minutes she walked with,
out her crutches. She con-
tinued the use of YENo's
ELECTRIC FLUID for two
weeks, and took internally
yENO's CURATIVE SYRUP.
In a few weeks she was en-
tirely free from pain and
able to walk about and visit
her friends. This cure
caused great excitement
and is looked upon as a
miracle: 81, 800 worth of
Veno's Remedies were sold
in Lafayette in two weeks.
This is only a sample of the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
FROM SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

About 1000 women are graduates of
the principal colleges for women. Prob
ably another 1000 graduate from CO.
educational institutions.
Prof. Henry Jones, upon whom the
University of Glasgow has conferred
the degree of LID, began life as a shoe
maker in small village in Denbigshirc,
England.
Germany and Austria have about $50
cookery schools. A four years course
is necessary before a diploma is granted.
Most of the hotel chefs have diplomas
from these schools.
Miss Helen Gould. daughter of the
late Jay Gould. has completed the full
course of the law school at the New
York university. coming out with a
high average. and will receive diploma
of LII. b.
David Mason, professor of English
literature in the University of Edin-
burgh, and widely known as the biog-
rapher of Milton, is about to retire,
says the Electric Magazine, and will
be given the title of Emeritus professor
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animals, and perhaps loses enough to
buy 20 hog leaders.
AS to how wide to make the chute,
mine is about two feet, with plank on
one side, so as to close the balance OF
end of wagon bed, to keep small pigs
from getting out. The end at the wagon
should be just as high as ihe bottom Of
the wagon bed.
The cut represents one of the most
convenient and labor-saving nipple
ments l ever used. This is an invention
of my own, and 1 never saw one just
like it. One man or boy can load from
little pigs up to 500 or Compound hogs
ard never lift pound or dig wheel
pit or take off hind wheel. have
used this device for years, and my neigh
bors come and borrow it, and all praise
its merits. Any greenhorn in one or two
hours can make one. For the upright
posts Iuse scantling two by four inches.
and for the sides scantling one by four
inches. The cut shows it SO plain 1t
needs no detail. / took two six-inch
pulleys, put one on the outside of each
front post at the foot, simply passing a
one-half-inch bolt through the foot of
the post and pulley. then take hold
just like wheelbarrow and move 1t
where / please. For the incline floor
use one by ten scantling, placing top
one on first; then it forms foothold.-
Z. j. Newl<irk, in Farm and Fireside.
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AMONG THE POULTRY.

Eggs of uniform age hatch at a uni
form time.
For laying hens care and close quar-
ters will beat neglect and ten-acre
run every time.
The heavy sittcrs should have shallow
nest boxes and rather fiat nests, other
wise there will be many broken eggs.
Sunshine is good for weakly chicks;
too much will kill the strongest, espe-
cially if it shine through glass roof
into a close box or coop.
Early green food is desirable for fowls,
but it need not consist Of the first blades
of grass in the door yard nor the early
garden crops. Are your fences mended I
If a hen deserts her nest, don't throw
the eggs away. Put them in warm
water for five minutes, dry them with a
rag, wrap in wooden and set by the stove
and hunt another broody hen. With
care the eggs will wait for two or three
days ifnot badly chilled.-FarmJ Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
BRIEF BITS BY FUNNY FELLOWS.

Clara-"Mr. Nicefello said my face
was classic. What is classic?"' Dora
"Oh, most anything old."-Good News.
Beverly is thorough aristocrat,
isn't hep" Eyes; he has such a well.
bred way of not listening when you say
anything to him. "-Chicago Record.
Proud Pop Ito old bachelor friend)-
81 tell you, Dawson, there's no baby like
my baby" Dawson-"I'm glad you've
walked up to that fact. knew mighty
well there never was baby like the one
you described. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Mrs. johnson - Hateful, stuck-up
thing! How proud she was of that new
dress of hers. She would hardly look
at me. But l got even with her." Mrs.
Jackson-"How did you do it?" Mrs.
Johnson-"Oh, 1 told my servant girl
where she could get dress like it,
Scmerville Journal.
do you know, Mrs. Boardman," said
the young man who was two months be-
hind in his board, ''by means of the
cathode rays could tell everything that
is in that plate of hash?" swell. it'smy
opinion" replied Mrs. Boardman, "that
people nowadays want too much foi
nothin&"-Yonkers Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
THE FARMING WORLD.
CONVENIENT HOG CHUTE.

A Device That VIII Save Lots of Labor
Stock Farm.
I get my stock into close pen; then
at the door pull up my chute, take
out end gate, back mp the wagon, get a
good supply of switches, get in among
the hogs or sheep, throw some corn in
chute and wagon and drive the bed full.
If l have enough to fill it put in end
gate, drive to market, stay an hour or
two and get home in time to see some
fellow who drives his hogs along the
road hauling water to cool the tired-out
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
Tho panrcrous Bland Experiment.

Before 1873 the government bad never
undertaken to coin money on its own &c
count, except subsidiary coins for small
change. All other coinage was done for
the owner of the bullion, and the Office
of the government was simply 10 give a
name to the coins and fix their weight
and fineness, the stamp being simply q
guarantee of the weight and fineness OF
the particular coin, charging, If any
thing, only very nominal seigniorage.
The law of Mr. Bland in coming 20, Sc
or 90 cents worth of silver into dollars
was a plain absurdity and most dan.
gerous experiment.
Question-What would have been the
result IL the Bland law had remained
on the statute book?
Answcr-In the course of time the
constant issue of 100000 of cheap sill.
yer dollars per month from the mint
would have resulted in such an ac-
emulation of this money that gold
would have disappeared from circula.
ton, and the country would have gone
upon silver basis.-R- Weissinger, in
"What Is Money!
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reducing the Cost Of Ruttcr.

Every farmer in the United States
ought to make as large a profit to-day
on butter at 20 cents pound as he could
ten years ago on 80 cents. The lower
price viii immensely increase the con.
sumption and aid to drive out fraudu.
lent substitutes, and thus give the
farmer an honest control of the mar
ket- There are plenty OF ways of doing
this thing-reducing the cost. All that
is needed is that the American farmer
shall become thinking man as well as
q workingman. There is no hope for
him in competing in the production Of
crude. rough Fgoducts,--Hoard's Dairv
uah
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THERE i. more Catarrh in this section Of

THERE is more Catarrh in this section Of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantiy failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by r. !.
Cheney e Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. 1t is
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to Q
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case il
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address T. j. CHENEY g. Co., To
iedo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
NEW FORM OF RouP.
II Not of Very yirulent Nature the Dis
ease Is Durable.

ease Is Curables
A new disease has appeared AMONG
fowls. They have trouble in breathing,
keep their mouths open the greater part
of the time and are constantly swallow
ing. There seems to be yellowish
growth in the roofs of their mouths.
This is form OF roup, which may have
been formed by keeping the fowls in
unclean quarters or where cold night
winds can blow upon them, or in
close, damp house; or by the attacks OF
lice, or any one of dozen different
things. 1t is durable if not of very
yirulent nature. The best plan is to
separate the diseased fowls from the
others at once and place them in a coop
by themselves where the remainder of
the flock cannot get at them. Feed in
small trough. giving whent, cracked
corn, table scraps chopped fine. to
which charcoal broken to the size OF
wheat kernels has been added, heap
ing teaspoonful to pint of food. Add
20 drops of kerosene to each pint of
drinking water. Clean out the house
and burn bali pound of sulphur in it
with the doors closed. Then batten up
ell the chipks to stop drafts, and spread
air-slached lime over the floor. Spray
or swab the walls with kerosene. Re
move The old perches and put in new
ones. Feed the hens as above de-
scribcd, give an abundance of clean wa
ter, keep their quarters neat, dry and
clean as your own house, and there will
be no trouble. There is always some
thing wrong in the management when
the fowls have roup. Study it out and
make the necessary changes. Always
keep an eye on the fowls, and when one
becomes sick, placs it by disclaimers
lean Agriculturist
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
A SHINING EXAMPLE of what

A SHINING EXAMPLE of what
may be accomplished by never vary
ing devotion to single purpose is
seen in the history of The Mccormick
Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago.
For 65 years they have simply been
building grain and grass-cutting ma
chinery, and while there are probably
forty manufacturers in this line, it j!
safe to say that the McCormicl
Company builds ons-third of al
the binders, reapers and meyers usee
thEougbout The entire world
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
SOME BITS OF BIBLE HISTORY

Who said: "Be sure your sin will find
you out ?''-koses. Mum. 1929.
Who was 1t that watched woman''
mouth to see if she was praying?-Eli
Sam 1:12.
What criminal in his confession said:
II saw, I coveted, took?" = Achan
Josh TEL.
Who is the only woman mentioned il
the Old Testament whose age is given
Sarah. 12f years old. Gen. 1881.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

To Farmcrs-You can get more fol
your wheat by legislation. Hereafter
let 30 pounds make bushel. and yor
will have twice as many bushels tc
sell.
for you to get more dollars for your
product. Hereafter let us put but SC
cents in dollar.
10 Wage-workers-Ass soon as your
living expenses are doubled you may
strike your employer for raise.
TO the mathematician prices ar
doubled, your profits viii be doubled.
To the Speculator-When prices al
made uncertain. you win have an old
fashioned game,--"coin at EahooI y
Finance"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

Az Artistic Achievement.--sBir Crayons
Is very successful in his drawing" re.
marked the young woman. Eyes" replied
the discourteous rival, 81 understand he dis
posed of several pictures at a rafle."-
Washington Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
A Child EniOva

The pleasant flavor, gentle action, aud sooth-
ing effect Of Syrup of Figs, when in need Of
a laxative, and If the father or mother be
costiye or bilious, tho most gratifying re-
suits follow its use; so that it is the best
family remedy known and every family
should havo bottle
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30
A "PER CAPITA" coNuNoRuM.
Tho Essence of Cheap Money and Fiatist
Wisdom.

Tho Essence of Cheap Money and Fiatist
Wisdom.
Every trae worshiper of the silver
"fetich" believes as the first article of
the free-coinage gospel that if the guam
tity of money is doubled prices will be
twice as high. This is the essence of
the per capita argument, and is consid-
cred by both silyerites and fiatists TO be
the sum of financial wisdom. Second
only TO their faith in the sacred words
'per capita" Is the belief of the cheap
money advocates that the undeniable
prosperity of France is due to the fact
that that country has about $40 of
money for each inhabitant. Attempts
to show that in reality the French peo-
pie are prosperous becauseof their high
level of intelligence, their skill in the
Industrial arts, their system of land
holding and methods of cultivation and
the great and varied natural resources
of the country have had no weight
with the one-idead silver agitators.
Since France has nearly twice as
much money per capita as the United
States, according to the believers in the
theory that the quantity OF money
fixes prices, goods should be twice as
dear in France as in America. Now, il
is notorious that such is not the case.
On the contrary, the products of French
mills, factories, etc, are sold so cheaply
that it is necessary to impose heavy
duties on them to prevent their compe-
titionwith high-priced American goods.
Win some per capita financier explain
why the large volume of money in
France does not raise prices in that
country?
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''ONLY one thing makes a woman madden
than to have her husband stay down town
ing homo" And what Is thsts' ut Is to
haye him csIns home TO LUNCH when be had
said no y;ss geIpg 70 stay DOWN tcwpsis
Chicago Record; u.s.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

"You want to keep your eye on the wom-
ans bonnet" says an Item In q fashion pa-
per. No, we don't want to, but tinder Ger
tain conditions, dear editor, VIC have to-
Yonkers Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

teach YOU MANNERS" said an exasperated
counsel to q small, meek witness. Tho lat
ter replied quietly: "That is so, sir" and
people laughed consumedly. = Pittsburgh
DisOatch
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

MAMMA, why has the month of February
20 days every fourth year!' "What q fool
ish question: So that people born on the
29th of February can have birthday once
in awhile n-Texus Siftings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

GIoAocnrNo RossISI, who was . great
jester, was once seen embracing q Spaniard
with great cffusion. Asked the reason, he
replied: Because without Spain we would
be the last nation. "--Argonaut.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

Mrs. NIx-"I hope you are not afraid Of
work" Weary Willie ttineasily)-'I amt
exactly afraid, mum; but l always feel
iidgety when dere's anything like dat
around. truth.
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manufacturers and Mine owners. Alliance

Manufacturers and Mine Owners Alliance
1t viii pay laborers and farmers who
are fa,orably inclined toward free coin
Ige to study the reasons for the alliance
between the free-silver people of the
west and certain manufacturers of the
east. One of the reasons mentioned by
the manufacturers is that our manufac-
turers cannot. with present prices for
labor and raw materials, compete sue
cessfully with free-siirer countries. Put
into plain English. wages and prices of
raw materiais-largcly farm products
arc higher in the gold than in the sill
yer standard countries. 1t will be to
the advantage of our manufacturers;
therefore. IL this country should drop
to s sirer basis. Surprising thnt this
statement IL true. what do our wage
esrpsrs end farmers sRy2
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

DIP you write The N. G. Hamilton Pub.
CO., of Cleveland, Ohio, about their Lilo OF
McKinleyi Better do 50 chance TO make
money rapidly.
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'sI NEVER destroy a rccefpted bill, do
your" said Bunting to Giley. II don't
think I ever saw one" replied Giley.-
Amusing Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-30

SIZE says she can't afford cab
Expenses she must curb,
Yet when she walks upon tho street
Her carriage IS superb.
M " Herald
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Az Unimportant Item. -Customer--"An And
what would your price be If should furnish
the matcrialln Fashionable Dressmaker--
s'Oh, in that case, should have 70 inform
you that I never charge for material. -
Brooklyn Life
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CoRRoBoRArEp-New Yorker-"A Phil.
adelphians as slow as New Workers think
they are!" Philadeiphian (surpriscd) -"Do
New Workers think we'ro slowl"-Trath.
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EVEN from the body's purity the mind
receives secret, sympathetic aid.-Thom-
son.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-08-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

Almost cry county in the State was
represented at the Democratic meeting IN
Philadelphia Tuesday; two-hundred dele
gates were present, and a new party call
ed the Jefferson was born,
The convention adopted strong, Old,
fashioned Democratic platform, selected
PENNSYLVANIA electors for the national
Dernscratic party's nominees Tor prcsi-
dent and vice president, chose delegates
to the Indianapolis convention and elect
ed a state committee to conduct a yigor-
Gus campaign.
A staff correspondent OF the Pittsburg
Dispatch, writing from Harrisburg re-
earding the fierce battle" now being
wa ped for Cameron's seat in the Senate,
says statements have appeared now ana
then that Gov Hastings and John Nana'
maker have formed an alliance IN the
Senatorial fight against Penro-e. ask
ed Lieutenant Governor Lyon about IT,
and he said there was nothing it 1t.
Those who are intimate with the Gov,
ernor know that he is no more IN accord
with Wanamaker than he is with Penrose
Hastings made up with Quay, but not
with the Quaker State Senator. Alto
pether, the contest for the United State:
Senate is furnishing the boys with plenty
of material for speculation.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-08-27

FoRTY-FIvE hundred people assem-
bled in Convention Hall, - Saratoga, last
Thursday to listen 10 the address on
international arbitration by Sir. Charles
Russell, Lord Chief Justice Of England.
The address was a mastery one, and Mr..
Russell received an ovation at its close.
He closed his lengthy address as follows:
Mr.. President, began by speaking Of
the two great diyisions-American and
British-of that Eng sh.spcaking world
which you and ! represent to-day, and
with one more reference To them ! end.
Who can DOUBT the influence they possess
for insurlng the healthy progress and the
peace of mankind But il this influence is
TO be fully felt they must work together in
cordial friendship, each people i'll his
own sphere OF action. If they have
great power they have also great rcspons-
ibility. No cause they eapouse can fail,
no cause they oppose can triumph The
future is, in large part, theirs. They
have the making of history III the times
that are TO come. The greatest calamity
that could bcfal would be strife which
should divide them. Let us pray that
this shall never be. Let us pray that
they, always sclf-rcspecting, each in hon
or upho ding its own flag, safeguarding
its own heritage Of right and respecting
the rights Of others, each in its own way
fulfilling its high national destiny, shall
yet work IN harmony for the progress
and the peace OF the world.