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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
State In 4ltrHe.

To the Teachers of he Public School,
Of Grant Parish, LIZ
Notice is hereby given that in accord
| ance with Act No Ill of the General As.
sembly of Louisia for the year 1896. q
State Teachers Inytitute will be held in
Colfax. La, for the period of one week.
commencing on the eighth day of March,
1897.
Notice is given That said act provides.
THAT every teacher EMPLOYED in said
parish or expects to be employed IN said
parish for the next session of schools
shall be required to attend this institute"
This act provides further: '.That apv
public school teacher failing to attend
said State Institute. without an excuse
satisfactory. to the board of school direc-
tors of the parish, shall, immediately. up-
on the demand OF the superintendent.
forfeit his certificate and loose his posi-
tion."
This Institute will be under the con-
troll OF the Superintendent of public
schools OF the State of Louisiana. the
president OF the Normal School and the
State Institute Conductor. and will he
for the purpose of making more efficient
the public schools of the State and
awakening deeper interest in the vel
fare of said schools.
10 letter from the State Institute
Conductor he urges upon me the import
ance OF letting the teachers know that
this will not be a weeks holiday, but
weeks solid work for the improvement of
schools and school teachers.
All public school teachers of the par
ish OF Grant are required to be present,
all other teachers are invited and earn
estly requested to be present and take
part In all the exercises Of the Institute
and reap the benefits therefrom.
All school and parish officials, all pa
irons OF schools and friends of education
are called upon to assist in making the
meeting success by lending their pres
ence on that occasion.
A programme will be published later.
j. A. WILLIAMS,
Parish Superintendent.
January 16, 1897.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
Bob Burdette ON Drinking Dirt,

My homeless friend with chro-
matte nose, while you are stirring
up the sugar in a ten-cent glass Of
gin let me give you fact to wash
down with. it You may say YOU
have longed for years for the free.
independent life of a farmer. but
hive never been able to get money
enough to buy a farm. But that
is just where you are mistaken.
For some years you have been
drinking good improved farm at
the rate OF a hundred square feet
at a gulp. If you doubt this state
ment, figure 1t out yourself. An
acre of land contains rs, $50 square
feet. Estimating for convenience
the land at $43 56 an acre you will
seq that it brings the land to lust
one mill per square foot, one cent
Tor ten square feet Now pour
down the fiery dose and imagine
you are swallowing a strawberry
patch. Call in five of your friends
and have them help you gulp down
that 500 foot garden. Get on a
prolonged spree some day and see
how long it requires to swallow q
pasture land to feed COW. Put
down that glass of gin; there is
dirt In it-lO0 feet Of good, rich
dirt, worth S43 Sc per acre. = Sc
lected.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
Beautiful Sea Shells.

Every one admires them. Since com.
ing south / have received numerous in
quirles from northern people for sea
shells, and now am prepared to answer
Yes, can send you shells, for l have
made quite a collection of lovely shells,
both from our own coast, the coral reefs
and some lovely ones from the West In
dia islands. will mail dozen or more
different kinds, no two alike. to any one
who sends stamp for postage. Address
Mrs. +. A. Warner, Jacksonville, Florida,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

Miss Eunice Dunn, of Montgom-
cry has come to Colfax for the pur-
pose of attending school. She
will board with her brother, Mr..
j. E. Dunn.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

The time of the editor has been
largely taken up with outside mat
ters this week, and we trust our
readers will pardon the lack of
usual news and comments.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

DR.. Sam Scruggs was a visitor
to Colfax a couple of days this
week, and was the guest of Mr.. G..
III. Mcknight.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

Miss Annie Hadnot. of ward 2,
came to town with her father Mr..
j. p. Hadnot, this week, and has
been spending the time visiting
friends.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
LOCAL DOTS

Mr.. w. M. Sellers, postmaster at
Stay, Grant parish, La, died ON
Tuesday, Feb. 10th.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

Mr.. j. b. Tucker, of Natchi-
toches, has been spending the past
two or three days in Colfax and
vicinity.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

Rev. H. NJ. Ragan lectured at
the Colfax school house last night
on the subject of Mathematics"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

pllu0c Organs, $500 Up, Sign paint
I i1UVO' ers wanted. catalogues Free. :
Address Daniel +. Beatty. Washington. N. j.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

Winchester Rifle for $12.
Any one wishing to buy a new Win
chester rife can secure one for the low
price of S12 by calling at the CHRoN-
ICLE office.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
Wanted An Idea !: ~ ::,::$ s. . &c:

Write JOHN wEDpERB6RN 4 CO., Pssent 49,.
~ esx1 Wssn,ngton. D G. for their 81 so prize ofisr
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

For Sale. One single shot rife.
RO1Os Remington Pattern.
30 Caliber. For particulars apply at
this office or to Alfred Nj. Goodwin.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
ANOTHER TIC1IM.

Evan Garland. butcher, residing
at 1926 Eighth street south, commit
ted suicide at an early hour this morn
ing by hanging. He arose about 6
o'clock and built a fire in the kitchen
stove. after which he went to wood
shed in the rear Of the house, and
making a moose from a clothes line, he
stood on some wooden blocks, and
threw the other end Of the rope over a
rafter. After securing the rope he
kicked the blocks from under him
swung into the great unknown. His
body was found dangling by some of
the inmates Of the house, and when
cut down life was extinct.
The deed was prompted by despon-
dency brought about by illness and in
ability to secure employment. A short
time ago he opened a butcher shop at
Eighth street and Sixteenth avenue
south, but the venture was not sue.
cessful and this is supposed to have
been one Of the causes for the act
He was 81 years Of age and leaves a
wife and one minneapolis
Press.
It would be good idea to ship the
bodies Of all these suicides, c. o. D.,
to the chief goldbugs who have
brought these calamities on the coun-
try and the world. A few hundred
might 90 to Wall street; few hun
dred to Thread-needle street; a liberal
supply could be forwarded to the
Rothschilds; and a pile of them to
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
tFd NIEEyIHE FOOL-KILLER.
ANYTHING MORE, LoRD~

ANYTHING MORE, NY LORD?"
-. Ia ans wering, a pendent, the
New York World quotes from the CEN
sus to show that 5000 families own
over FL, 900, O00, OO0-over twelve thous-
and million dOllars-of the wealth of
the United States.
Atsuch u time as this the World is
not likely to be accused Of assisting
the Democratic party. So, accepting
its figures, let us see what they mean.
The total assessed value Of all real
and personal property in Nebraska
under the Gems US OF 1890 was $184 ,OOO,-
600; Missouri, 1887 .000,0 900; Illinois,
$SO9, 200, 900; Kansas. $347 900, 900; Ken
lucky, $547, 600, 900; Tennessee, 1882
O00, 900: Colorado, 1920, 900, 900; Texas,
$78O, 00O, 600; Alabama, $258, 200. 600;
Mississippi, $l66, 600, 900: Indiana, 1856,
OOO, 900, and California, $101, 900, 900.
The combined assessed wealth, real
and personal, Of these II great states
of the West and South, az shown by
the census of 1890, foots up between
ST, 600, 600, 900 and $1,000, 900. 600, while
the combined wealth Of 5000 pluto
cratic families foots un over $12,OOO,-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
department of the government. And

department of the government. And
that day is not very far distant.
The Republican party is like gal
liant old ship, black and weather-beat-
en- by the storms Of time, into which
the rats have gathered and bred, and
bred in vast mum bers, until it is easier
to scuttle the noble relic Of past great
ness, than to clear it Of the omnipres-
ent, omniverous and Unsuitable YER.
min.
We ask the pardon Of our numerous
subscribers in other states for devot-
ing so much attention to our home af-
fairs. And yet We hope they may
take some interest, even in these mat
tiers. The nation is diseased from end
to end-from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific,-from the Lakes to the Gulf
and the disease manifests itself by the
same symptoms everywhere. It is a
case OF national decadence, evidenced
by the humiliation and suffering Of
the common people and the ascenden-
cy of lily obtained and arrogant
minded wealth.
And yet we would not have it I'M
derstood that there are no: good and
true men, Republicans, many of them.
in our Legislature; but they do not
control the action of either body. We
shall give their names at the end Of
the session.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
THAT'S I PRECISELY.

IF large pecuniary Interests we're
concerned in denying the truth Of the
attraction of gravitation, that mos t
obvious Of physical facts would be
strongly and ably disputed. Lord
Macaulay.
Exactly:-And the ablest lawyers in
the country would be hired to prove.
by irresistible logic, that the tendency
of all ponderous bodies was not to-
wards the earth, but towards the
moon. And the man who would trv
to prove the contrary by dropping
brick on lawyers corn" would be
denounced by 5000 able editors as
socialist, a crank, an anarchist, a
lunatic and an assassin. And he would
be happy il he was not hung for MUIR
dering his grandmother.
What we want is government own
ership Of the means Of transportation.
and then we will have honest laws,
pure legislation and just courts.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17

think that you have as many warm
friends among. the Democrats and
Silver Republicans as you have among
the Populists. Then why not meet
with them aud let US exchange views?
cannot think of you declining to
act on the committee. / want you to
act as member Of it; and am salts
fed such is also the desire of the 9TH
er members of it. 1t seems to me
that you owe it to the cause of hui
manity-for which you have strug-
gled, SO nobly and SO long, to yourself,
and to the Populist Party to remain
on that committee and counsel with
your friends.
We must get together, not to dis
band our party organizations by any
manner of means, but to prevent fric-
tion and to promote unity Of action
and harmony among them.
Let me as k you as personal favor
to attend the first meeting of the
committee; for am inclined to think
you and they will be in substantial
harmony; then il you feel you must be
relieved we will accept of your declin-
alton with regret. Yours very truly.
j. NJ. Hawthorne.
st. Paul, MIMI. March 2.
In answer to this very kind and cor
dial letter we replied to Mr.. Haw-
thorne. that If the puspose of the
committee was,-not to destroy the
Peoples Party,-but simply to estab-
lish a conference of the friends of
Free Silver and financial Reform, in
all parties; not for prospective "fu-
sion," but to see If the honest voters
~ TO
without any sacrifice of principle, at
the ballot box in 1893 and 1900, that
we would act upon the committee;
and report, from time to time, to the
Populists, through this paper, the
ideas and views Of those who stood SO
CALAMITY with US in the great battle
of 1896.
We were subsequently called upon
by Maj J. N. Bowler and Senator Ring
dahl, and we were glad to find that
both those able gentlemen had ar
rived, independently, at precisely the
same conclusions. They held that no
Populist had any right to do anything
that would result in crippling or kill
ing the Peoples Party, or in the
abandonment Of any of its principles.
Only state or national convention
Of the party could have the right to
decree the death of the party, or
change Of its platform, or its merger
into any other political organization.
After this we hope we shall hear no
more Of the Peoples DEMOCRATIC
party" or any other such tom-foolery,
Let us all go to work to increase the
mem ership of the Peoples Party and
get its literature into every house in
the land.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
CIVIL SERVICE.

Doctor Christian Johnson says in
the Willmar Tribune:
"Civil service is all right in the alb
Stract, but in practice it is the sheer
est humbug. as everybody knows by
this time. The great question nova
days is how to get honest men in Of
flee. Competent men are found on
every hand, and no examination is
needed at this day to find such. But
honest men are scarcity, and no
civil service examination can test
mans honesty. But the civil service
examinations are nowadays invari-
ably used as means to keep a certain
class Of chr0uic, and often incompe.
tent, officeholders in office. And, as
we pointed out some time ago, there
is now in, this state system Of
boards that virtually controls all the
Offices in the state. and that will in
due time bid defiance to the people il
they should attempt to change
things"
"Civil service" is continuance got
ten up by the sins" to keep the 'oMs"
out, forever. An old rat finds his way
into a cheese, aud. after filling his
belly, sticks his head out, and pro-
claims the great gospel that 1.-THE good
Of the SERVICE" 'morality." Sound
craftsmanship" and deficient ser.
vice. require that no other rat shall
tie allowed to dispossess him from his
cheese.
Now this is free country; and all
men are equal; and so long as public
office is better paid than private en-
ployment, so long one man has just as
good a right to the soft snap as any
other man. There is no reason why
an individual should get an office and
shut out all others forever. 1t is not
just; it is not American. 1t smells Of
privilege and aristocracy and royalty.
1t is fad" for which the old women,
male and female, howled in concert,
until the weaklings mistook the up
roar for the voice Of public opinion.
We need an upturni ing and broom
ing out Of the cobwebs. Put the Peo-
pies Party in power and we will give
you the biggest job Of house cleaning
and sorukbiag and deodorsing you
ever did SEE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
MORAL REFLECTIONS.

We live in little hamlet-without
store or post office;-our income from
our crops is small-eked out by few
lectures: but we would sooner be a
rag-picker in the slums Of New York,
than William Mckinley, in Was hing.
ton:-advancing steadily towards the
abyss,-the hired man OF Plutocracy
and conscious that the bubble of lies
and false pretences must inevitab ly
soon break. and leave him covered
with the anathemas Of seventy mil
lion people,
Honor is. not honor that is dishon-
orably gained; and high place is simply
gibbet for him who deserves it not.
There is no triumph that can over
come ones own sense Of the contempt
Of God and his angels,-in whose eyes
broadcloth on knave is viler than
rags on the limbs Of honest poverty.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
PRETTY POINTED.

REP UBLICAN EDITOR EXPECTS TIE
FOR THE RAILROADS.
The people generally do not expect
any law passed reducing or eQualizing
railroad rates-for the reason that
they expect the roads to buy up
enough me mbers to prevent the pas
sage Of such bill. They do expect
the Legislature, to pass the $500, 900, 900
CapitclFbiil, because st. Paul is inter-
ested In 1T, and nobody else will put
up financial argument to defeat it.
Now 1t is. possible that the people are
unjustly Judging the Legislature-but
that Is a question for the Legislature
itself to answer, 1t is high time the
Republicans stopped playing 'hooky''
with D9nnellyf and give an account Of
for the better and at once, the Legis-
lature of 1897 will 90 down in history
along side the famous Demo-POp Leg
islature Of 1S9l-which was little
the worst Legislature ever assembled
In St. Paul.-St. Cloud Journal Press.
Now what is the use Of dragging
Donnelly into your condemnation of
the Legislature? How can he, or the
thirteen Populists associated with
him. furnish salt enough to save such
a body?
Every bill we have offered they have
killed outright, or shelved in the Sem
ate; until we were forced at last to
suggest that there should be stand
ing rule that all our bills should be at
once indefinitely postponed, without
consideration.
And now this scampish paper is try
ing to make out that il the Legisla-
ture is corrupt it is our fault! Oh the
knave!
We want to say that thus far the
Populists in both branches have acted
nobly. But what can they do? They
are outnumbered.
We did not control the Legislature
of 1897. We had not one-third Of
either the House or Senate. The
Democratic and Populist vote united
was more than the Republican votes,
and we were forced to work together
to some extent, or go over to the Re-
publicans; but we could not control
our allies, and they used to stand up
and blackguard US like horse-t THE yes.
And yet in spite of all this that was
the best session the state has had in
twenty years; but the Supreme Court
abolished good share of our good
work, and the Republican press lied
the hide off the rest Of it.
Cn nh
abuse the Legislature to your hearts
content. We shall not stop you.
Give it to them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
DISQUALIFYING I,HEMSELVE YES

DID THEY KNOW WHAT THEY WERE
ABOUT:
Brother jacobson said the other day,
in the House, that the foreign popula-
ton knowingly and purposely dis
qualified themselves, when they voted
for the constitutional amend ment
which prevented all from voting here
after who have not been here five
years, and taken out their second pa
pers. In other words they voted to
disfranchise and tax themselves at
least $1eO, 900, as condition for doing
that which they had been doing for
years. But, we now learn that the
curses are loud and deep among the
Republican foreigners at being fooled
SO by their party leaders. In the re-
cent village elections many thousands
were prevented from voting, and they
were as mad as wet hens. From
thirty to fifty per cent were disfran-
chised.
We moved in the House. to cut
down the clerks fees from g to so
cents, but the Legislature made it 81;
| and after stopping men from voting
who lad voted for twenty years, they
now mulct them 81 each. for the bene-
tit of county clerks, some of whom are
making 500 day out of it. Oh they
are daisies"
We venture to say that the Repub-
lican voters will hereafter scan most
carefully all constitutional amend
ments, even If they do come from
their own party.
This whole legislation was uncalled
for, and was simply sche me to en-
rich county clerks.
A dispatch to the Minneapolis Jour-
nal from Fergus Falls of March IL,
says:
Men who have been active on elec-
tion day for twenty years stood
around unable to participate. About
two hundred and fifty citizens have
been granted second papers in Outer
Tail since election, but it is believed
that there are nearly two thousand
who will have to secure papers before
before voting again."
Two thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars taken out of the foreign
citizens of one county. in the midst Of
the hard times. 1t is shameful.
Every scamp now is planning some
scheme to get "cinch" and plumber
his fellow men. The financial COL
lapse increases the wolish appetitites
of the human cdrnirOra.
Wantedl A i'cinchv'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
4 SUFFICIENT MONEY-SUpPLY

The Minneapolis Times is getting
its eyes open. 1t says in a recent is
sue:
Probably there are no sections of
the Northwest quite SO badly of as
above described: but, nevertheless,
there is great embarrassment and
no little suffering az a. result OF the
scarcity OF money People do not need
to be very deeply learned In fiscal af-
fairs to know that there is something
radically wrong with the currency Of
country when such state of affairs
exists as is described by the CONNER
c1al traveller, In any section OF this
country OF vast and practically mex
haustible resources. where well-to do
communities and once prosperous
merchants are reduced to the most
primitive methods OF buslness-that
Of simple barter. Produce in abund-
ance; fields and forests yielding their
products; the handicraft OF man more
cunning and more useful than ever
before-and no money in the land!
Money, the life current of business,
shrunken, shrunken to stagnant pools
In the business centers, while all the
land Is athirst and the hearts Of men
everywhere fail within them.
without a sufficient circulating
medium a community soon staguates
and dies. Trade among its people
must be limited among each other
to the exchanging Of a ham for pair
OF Jeans pants. or the swapping Of
Dushel OF potatoes for 3 pound OF cot.
fee. Such conditions actually exist
ing in many sections Of this country
place those communities three hun
dred years behind the march Of civil
lzation and progress. To state the
matter plainly. the condition in many
OF the rural sections of this country,
and especially In the South, is seri-
Gus rejection upon the justnes and ef-
iciency of the men who control the
government Of this country. II the
new administration really intends to
protect and promote the interests of
the people, 1t has work ahead.
We are glad to perceive that the
dreadful pressure Of "hard times" is
forcing the Minneapolis Times to
wise and just conclusions. We hope
the good Lord will keep on turning
the screws until all the fools come to
their senses.
A story is told Of family down in
Arkansas, a rough set, who never at
tended church, but led wild turbulent
lives. The youngest son was bitten
by rattlesnake, and, in his terror, he
sent for a neighboring clergyman to
pray for him. A great crowd of SYM
pathizers collected and the parson put
up this prayer:
"Oh Lord! we thank thee for all thy
blessings. And we especially thank
thee for sending rattle-snake to bite
Tom! And we pray thee, Oh Lord, to
send another to bite Bill! And anoth.
er to bite Zeke; and another to bite
Obadiah; and another to bite the old
woman! And, Oh Lord, we pray thee
to send the biggest RATHER in all
Arkansas to bite the old man! For
nothing else, Oh Lord, but snake pois-
on will eyer convert this family"
And so we pray the Lord to keep up
the pressure upon all darned fools un-
til they see the folly Of their ways and
become Populists to the last man.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-17
GROSS INJUSTICE.

We find the following in the lcgis-
lative report OF the House.
THE standing committee on taxes
and tax laws reported several bills ia
vorably. When Mr.. Stockwells lii
was reached it was recommended to
be indefinitely posponed. Mr.. Stock
we'll protested against it having no
consideration. He said he knew one
man in Hennepin county having his
tax valuation reduced $4,000, and he
wanted an equalization Of taxes: that
in one case colored man in Henne-
pin county is paying On the basis of
Slip an acre. while prominent poll
tlcian, on land adjoining,is only paying
1872 an acre.
Mr.. StockweH deserves thanks for
calling attention to SUCH rascalitics.
Let him expose some more.