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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-09-29

Cheese Market.
Billing Prices-Monday's Sales.
Ohio State Flats .......................... @
Family ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Sic
Creamery Butter ......................... c
Utica and Little Falls, Ruling price large
N. Y. State Cheese Markets.
and small. Observation-Disclosures. sac
1O,5O0 boxes sold.
Elgin Butter Market, Elgin, Ill.
800 tubs, sold at .17ISc
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

The man talking was from Boston, In
New York on business involving q real
estate deal. "When began this bust
ness, ten years ago." he was saying, II
didn't know as much IS do now.
Neither did l know as much as would
suggest to me the propriety of going in
when it rained. For instance, had
got big thing in South Boston (where
we have . tremendous Irish popula-
tion) in the way of suburban proper
ties, and l got company to build q
trolley car line to it. A rival of mine
was doing something of the same sort
in q different direction, but I knew /
could give him four aces and beat him
out OF sight. His street car line was
half mile longer than mine to my
property. and the location wasn't near
~ 20 good. just the same he walloped
the everlasting pudding out Of me, If
you will excuse q Bostonianism, and
did it in the simplest way possible.
You see, / wasn't thinking, and when
l ordered cars for my line / had them
painted beautiful orange just to show
how rich our subdivision was The
other chap, guess to show what kind
of a chump / was, had his cars painted
. glorious green. The Irish did the
rest. Electrical Engineer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

oie nDres from fndiSan1 - -td, --.flich
is used daily at London music hall,
where a young woman wearing it is
fired at by rife experts with regulation
army ammunition. There is no humbug
about the performance, and the govern
ment Is investigating the invention.
Tho French government is still
struggling with the question of proper
sewage disposal for the city of Paris.
1t is now proposed to purchase large
tracts of land in the valley of the Seine
and establish filtration beds. In any
case, it Is determined to prevent the
continued contamination of the Seine,
and to abolish the cesspools and various
similar denominations which still re-
main in Paris.
The United States geological survey
uses band saw, the invention of the
department, for cutting up specimens
which come for microscopic examine
ton. The band saw, which will cut
anything from hot butter to a crystal
quartz, is nothing more than an end
less steel wire, between an eighth and
a sixteenth of an inch thick, running
at very high speed over two good
sized wheels. Water and emery are fed
On the wire as it runs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
Beware of All Cotton.

Every indication now points to the
fact that larger acreage of cotton will
be put in this spring than has ever be-
fore been known in the history of this
country. Statistics show that the acre.
age planted last year was unusually
large, and but for unfavorable weather
conditions-droughts in some sections
and superabundance of rains in others
the crop would have been the largest,
and the price perhaps the lowest, on
record. AS it was the crop was cut
very short, and the price went up corre-
spondingly, to the great satisfaction of
such as had made crops. The result of
these good prices, and the phenomenal
yield obtained in those sections where
the crop did succeed, have enthused
cotton planters all over the south, and
they are preparing now for the OPEN
ing of the farming season with more
enthusiasm than they have displayed
in many previous years. The result,
we fear, will be that they will overdo
the matter and effectually knock the
bottom out of the market next fall.
So long as our farmers live at home
tney can raise fve-cent cotton, or even
two-cent cotton, provided they grow
it as purely as a surplus crop, but
when they make the mista,.e of
attempting to buy dollar wheat
or ten-cent beef with five-cent
cotton, they are doomed to immediate
failure from the start. Corn, cattle,
hogs and sheep can be raised cheaper
than cotton, and the advantage with
them is that if the market does not suit
the farmer can convert his corn into
stock, and then salt the latter down
for future reference" BY adopting
such policy he can always live, even
though he may not sport as much money
as the "bloated bondholder' may do on
occasions. Farming is an eminently
practical vocation, and the farmer who
goes at it in practical manner will
succeed and gradually grow rich-R.R
Advocate,
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A wonderful Combinntion

Being the only manufacturers of both guns
and ammunition in the world the Winches-
are enabled to keep their guns apace with
rev ammunition and their ammunition
apace with new guns. In this way by u.s.
ing Winchester goods, shooters can be GER
tain of getting guns and ammunition of the
highest degree of excellence and most i'm
proved type. As the unapproachabie repu-
tation of the Winchester guns depends upon
the ammunition used in them, the Win
chesters are obliged to keep the standard
of their ammunition as near perfection as
possible Shooters who want the best re-
suits can get them by using Winchester guns
and Winchester ammunition. Send for a
large illustrated catalogue free.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

gen, phosphoric acid and pot
ash. Acid phosphate and kainit con-
tain respectively the two last. Peas
draw the needed nitrogen from the air,
and consequently do not need a direct
application of heterogeneous manures,
such as stable, guano, etc. Hence by
an application of the two last elements,
and by growing and turning a crop of
peas in connection Herewith, the first
(nitrogen), which is by far more costly
than either of the other two, can vir-
tually be grown. By noting this fact
and acting accordingly, farmers can
reap an immense advantage.
As a proper stimulant for the peas, l
suggest an application of 800 pounds of
acid phosphate and 400 pounds kainit
per acre, sown broadcast and plowed
under about March Is. Double this
quantity can safely be used. Early in
April lay off In drills eight feet apart,
preferable in line with the sun at two
o'clock, and drop corn eight to twelve
inches apart, being half the distance
usually required when the drills are
four feet apart.
Corn requires perfect fertilizer, and
consequently it will be necessary to
strew proper quantity of stable ma
nure in the drill. After crop Of pea
vines has been grown and turned un-
der, no further application of nitro
genous manures will be needed. An
occasional pea crop should be turned
under.
From the list to the 10th of June COW
peas should be planted in drills mid
way between the corn rows. They
should be thinned to one vine, six
inches apart. The plants should be
pulled up, not cut off.
The Wonderful or Unknown pea
should be planted about May 90, and
the plants left one foot apart. Some
experiment as to distance, from six
inches to eight feet in the drill, may be
made with both kinds of peas. If you
wish to grow peas, they should have
distance; if vines, they may be thick
err. The Clay and Wonderful are be-
lieved to be the best varieties for all
purposes.
Cultivate thoroughly until the vines
become too large to work.
Early in the fall, preferably before
frost, adopt necessary measures for
turning under the corn stalks and pea
vines. Then sow from one to two BUSH
els of wheat per acre. Seventy-five
bushels of corn, and from 80 to 40
bushels of peas can thus easily be
grown per acre, and from 25 to 40 of
wheat. Clover seed may be sown on
the wheat about April 1, and har-
rowed in. Every farmer should try at
least two acres on the above PLAN
Cor. Farm and Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
HERE AND THERE.

No man should blush to own that
he is farmer or be ashamed of the
fact that he tills the soil. History
teaches us that as nations rise in edu-
cation that agriculture is more honored
and respected.
No. farmer should have respecta-
bility simply because he is farmer.
That is good SO far as it goes, but does
not go far enough. He should honor
his occupation by living an honorable
life.
1t is much easier, less expensive.
and better in every way, to maintain
the fertility of the farm than to suffer
it to become depleted, and then be
forced to turn around and effect a res
tcration..
Other things being equal. the COW
that requires the most feed is the most
profitable. And yet there are people
who prefer cows that can be kept on
very little. What would one think of a
farmer who would apply this principle
to the purchase of mill?
While profits are no longer great
with sheep, it is equally true of cattle
or wheat, and it can be matter OF only
. little time until sheep come back to
the natural wool and mutton regions
- sure as cotton is grown in the south
or wheat in the northwest.
When the farmer has the product
of the corn field in his silo he holds the
work of feeding in the palm of his
hand, as it were. 1t certainly seems
that the disadvantages and Impractical
BILE features of the fodder-feeding ques-
ton on large scale are by the silo al
most wholly overcome,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
TO COTTON PLANTERS.

Address to Texas Farmers Which VIII APP
ply with Equal Force to Others.
The following is the address to Texas
farmers, reported by the committee ap-
pointed for that purpose by the Amer
lean Cotton Growers Protective asso-
citation, recently in session at Waco,
Tex:
ITO the Farmers of Texas: The un-
dersigned members of the American
Cotton Growers Protective association,
who were appointed committee by
the convention at Waco, March 8, to
formulate an address to all cotton
growers, submit the following and urge
careful consideration:
1.-THE tendency to plant heavily of
the money crop requires the earnest
thought and cooperation of all cotton
growers in the interest of remunerative
prices. It's well known that heavy
yield of cotton is used to bear the cot
ton market. The reports of acreage
even months in advance of the harvest
are used to hold down the price, and it
behooves every cotton grower to join
with his neighbor and co-laborer in an
effort to protect himself against the
nlanipulators of the cotton market. We
recognize the fact that it is absolutely
necessary for most of us to plant cot
ton. 1t is necessary in this country be-
cause it is almost the only certain
money crop. But we submit that If all
of us were to devote our time and en-
ergies to the raising of those products
consumed at home first, and give the
BALANCE to cotton, we would necessarily
>educe the acreage of cotton, and there
by reduce the yield. BY so doing we not
only create q demand for our cotton by
reducing the supply, but by raising at
home the things we formerly purchased
from abroad with our cotton money,
we destroy the necessity for big crop,
and strike from our limbs the shackles
of a commercial slavery that has af-
ficted and burdened us so long.
1--WE recommend that every cotton
grower plant enough of those products
consumed at home to supply his wants,
and in addition to that raise all the
cotton he can.
1--WE are in favor of patronizing home
industries, and earnestly urge the farm
ers of Texas to purchase the goods.
wares and merchandise manufactured
In Texas in preference to those mana-
fsctured elsewhere. when the quality
ana price of the article are the same.
The first stimulus ever received by our
American manufacturing industries
were the laws enacted by Great Britain
levying an import tax on goods shipped
to the coloniea The colonies rebelled.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
SELECTING THE HOG.

Care In Selecting Parent Hogs Of First Inn
portance.
Ithas been our aim in selecting par
emit hogs, where we have that privi-
lege, to secure a sow having three spe-
cialities-prolificness, good as sucker
and of good disposition. To have
these qualities she should be rather on
the rough order. believe many of
our hog raisers have been breeding too
fine, or, in other words, selecting the
beauties, says correspondent in the
Indiana Farmer. Neither do they have
as many or as large pigs, and they are
a great deal more apt to have trouble
when narrowing. The sow should be
long, especially under the belly
with from 10 to Is teats; not
too short in the neck, nor too
short nosed; both should be medium.
If the nose is too short and thick, they
are more apt to show bulldogish dis
position. The ears should be thin, not
SO lappy as to shade the eyes.
Once in buying had the privilege of
choosing one of two young sows for
breeding. One was perfect beauty;
the other not near so nice, but deep up
and down; choose the latter, which
made as fine brood SOW as / ever
owned. The other died narrowing. As
for the male, prefer him rather on the
fine order, not particularly in the bone,
but in the general makeup. As for
feed, be very careful not to feed too
much corn at any time, except when
finishing for market. We have seven
young sows this winter, three
full blood Poland, the others
are grades. We feed equal parts
of bran and shorts, mixed to slop, by
pouring boiling water over it and stir
ring SO that all will be scalded, cooling
or thinning with milk or dish water, if
we have it, if not we use cold water.
This is mixed fresh every time we feed,
twice daily, what we think they need,
together with two ears of corn to the
hog. From one to two weeks before
narrowing we put each in a house made
purposely, with small lot or field where
they can exercise. We give them nice
straw, or shredded fodder, on corn
cobs, on floor just laid on the ground.
Never put straw on damp ground
Rural World.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
Pre-Columbian Mexican book.

The University of Michigan has just
received from the duke of Loubat one
of his 200 reproductions of the Pre-
Columbian Mexican book, ''The Vatican
Manuscript No. 3773." This codex was
placed in the Vatican about 300 years
ago. and is one of the few that escaped
destruction at the hands of the in
vaders. The present copy made by the
duke is in exact fac-simile, ''even to
Initiating the ancient deerskin and the
modern covers, inlaid with precious
stones" In size when folded it is eight
by seven inches. and about two inches
thick, but when opened, or extended,
is about 30 feet long. 1t is made of nine
pieces of deersI<in so folded as to form
As leaves, on which the figures are
painted. The codex is accompanied by
three explanatory treatises in English.
Spanish and Italian. - Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
Spring Cleaning,

Spring cleaning need not necessarily
be made the drudgery it is if properly
done. Paints, floors, hard walls and
windows may all be cleaned without
rubbing, by wiping over with strong
suds made of Ivory soap and hot, soft
water, then rinsed and dried. A room
thus cleaned will be fresh and sweet,
with no unpleasant odor of strong
soaps or cleaning fluids.
ELIZA r. PARKER.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
Maryland Malaria.

Col. Chaille-Long, of the eastern shore
of Maryland. well known as an African
traveller, tells the following story:
"One day, when i was with Gordon as
chief of his staff, he asked me, in quiz
zing way, why 1t was / never died Of
the jungle fever. Sir said, i was
born on the eastern shore of Maryland
and have breathed the air of malaria
and swamp fever for many years. This
was my training school for eastern
travel Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Joined in a combination to purchase
only goods made in the colonies, and
thus was formed the greatest manufac-
turing country in the world. We do
not recommend a boycott, but we do
recommend and urge that where the
price and quality are equal, the prefer
ence be given to home manufactured
goods and encouragement be given all
manufacturing enterprises sought to
be established in Texas.-Farm and
Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
Howss Thiss

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not Be
cured by Halps Catarrh Cure
+. j: Cheney 4 Co., Props, Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned, have known +. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
West 4 Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, o.
Walding, Kinnsn 4 Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold BY all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
THE LITTLE POSTAL CARD.
How and where They Are Made and
; Printed.

How and where They Are Made ana
Printed.
In 1872 congress passed an act au-
tjiorizing the postmaster-general to is
sue postal cards and the first in the
United States were on sale in May, 1873.
Postal cards are manufactured by pri-
vate firms or corporations. The gov
eminent invites bids and awards the
contract for their manufacture at stated
intervals.
The postal card sheets" are about 30
by 20 inches in size and are exactly fit
ted to the plates from which the cards
are printed, each plate covering 40 cards
-four in width and ten in length.
The printing is done by experienced
workmen and as the sheets pass into
the presses the number of cards is ac-
curately recorded by registers. To pre-
vent any tampering the registers are Sc
curely locked every night.
After the sheets are printed they are
put aside until thoroughly dry. They
are then passed through machine
called the Sitter" which cuts them
into strips of ten cards each and neat
ly trims the edge of the outside strip.
These strips are then passed transverse
ly through another machine known as
the 'cross-cutter," which cuts the
strips into single cards and they drop
into rotary hopper containing ten
compartments.
The moment each compartment has
received rs cards the hopper revolves
end throws them out upon table. En-
picyes. usually girls, then take the
cards and bind the perfect ones in
packs and after carefully recountiDg
them put them In card boxes contain
ing 20 packs each and they are ready
for shipment.
More than 900, 0OO, 900 postal cards are
used annually in the United States and
it requires no less than 72o tons of pa.
per to make them.-Chicago News a
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

HefOrms Need More Than Day
To bring them about, and are always more
complete and lasting when they proceed
with steady regularity to contamination.
Few of the observant among us can have
failed to notice that permanently healthful
changes in the human system are not
wrought by abrupt and violent means, and
that those are the most sal1sary medicines
which are progressive. Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters is the chief of these. Dyspepsia,
disease of obstinate character, is obliter.
ated by it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
The Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs,
Arkansas, Opened March 4, 1897.

It is modern, stone, freproof hotel,
located in heart of Ozark Mountains,
Northwest Arkansas; climate mild and
brscing; scenery wild and beautiful; wa
tiers unequalled for purity and medicinal
qualities. Rates reasonable Excursion
tickets on sale. Through sleepers via St.
L. 4 s. F. R. R.
Write Geo. T. Nicholson, G. p. A.,
Frisco Line, St. Louis, Mo-, or Manager Ho.
tel, Eureka Springs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08
1000 WORTH FOR 10 CENTsl
Our Youth.

A great many of the young people
If to-day stand on the brink Of death.
and ofttimes perish morally because
the parents sleep and the church il
negligent in not performing the sub
lime duties that God has appointed
as a part of its work.-Rev. Edmund
Hewitt. Methodist. Camden, N. j.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

cts all over"-the sky.-Colden Days.
I'd rather be most any man
In history's class or flames bright bands
Than Atlas, for he always had
A world Of trouble on his hands.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

"The ass in the lions skin," said the kint
of beasts, at the usual after-circus soiree
at is no fable, but fact. In truth, it wal
my skin that the ass occupied. He made
a far superior luncheon to the meat trust
beef we get here" -Indianapolis Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

A guard on the Great Western road in
England who has travelled over 4.0OO,-
900 miles in 40 years, recently received
. purse of 100 guineas for being the
greatsst traveller in the world.-N. Y,
Ban.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Little Ethel-'T wonder why men like to
talk about their old school days." Little
Johnny-"I s'pose after they get growed
up they is always tryin' to find out where
the teacher lives, SO they can lick him."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Don't let this occur again." said the pho
tcgrapher who prides himself on being en-.
teiprising. "What do you mean?" asked
the assistant. You've made the portrait
more prominent than my signature. -
Washington Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Your friends may not know much, bu
they know what they would do if they wer,
in your place.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Probably the first thing every man re
solves when he gets up in the morning il
that he will 60 to bed earlier the mex
night.-Atchison Globe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

BY Mr.. Sherlock Holmes.-s1 think he's Z
money-lender" WHY" Didn't you no
tice that he said his wife's mother would
visit him probably for 60 or 80 daysr -
Chicago Record.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

'sDo you think the English have right t.
boast of their superior blood?" well
there certainly isn't much humor in them.
Detroit Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Character is measured by the distance
travelled from the starting point, and every.
thing depends upon whether the progress
Las been up stream or down-Ram's Horn.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

could not get along without Piso's Cure
for Consumption. It always cures.--Mrs.
E. G. Moulton, Needham, Mass, Oct. q, "a.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Having company may mean the exer
cising of hospitable instincts to the women
but it means giving up the rocking chair Il
the meu.-Atchison Globe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Mamma-"Where's papa?" Fora-"He's
downstairs" Mamma whats he do
ing?" Flora-"His bicycle is out of breaff,
and he's giving it some more"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of Dr. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle &
treatise. DR.. Kline, 933 Arch st., Phila., Pa.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

GER man kin git hisse'f inter a heap o
trouble an sponsibility," said Uncle Eben
"by convincin' people dat he's smahter dan
whut he rely is. Washington Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-05-08

It is not difficult to make old people hap
py; show them some one 20 years older than
themselves who Ia still in good health.--At-
Gibson Globe