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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
HERE AND THERE.


Glover should be cut just when the
bloom turns brown.
The farmer certainly should be as
shrewd and well informed on matters
pertaining to his business, as the mil.
Ter or professional man..
"A good many cows are ruined while
lying in the stable, by having their
neighbors step upon their teats.
1T will pay any farmer to read
about his business; no matter how ex-
perienced he may be, there are many
things he will never know from his
own ventures.
1t is not good policy to allow
colony of bees to swarm more than
once. Second swarms are not profita.
BILE, and they cripple the old parent
stock SO that it will do but little all
summer.
I'm shipping vegetables bear in
mind that quality counts first of all in
these days of big supplies in the city
markets.
"A professional strawberry grower
says: "For the very best results the
strawberry should be repeatedly and
literally manured-before planting,
while growing and before making
| fruit"
Fruit is a necessary and natural
food. Insects, animals, children hun
ger for it. The small boy in early sum-
mer, in his impatience, will not wait
for it to ripen, but will run the risk of
collie pangs, not to mention maternal
punishment, in his eagerness to obtain
| it. The food of the wise man is fruit
in plenty, with milk, rice and eggs.
Stock is property which grows the
year round, whereas, perennial plants
and all productive growths from the
soil are dead property during oonsid-
cradle portion of the year.
Bury the dead animals deep under
| ground, covered with lime or car bolic
acid before the soil is thrown over
them, that no contagion or bacteria
may infest the air or drain away into
the water.
| Anybody can raise q horse now
with curbs, ringbones, spavins, weak
eyes, ungainly hooks, short necks, pig
eyes, twisted heels, eve necks, etc.,
but it does take practical horseman
to raise a fine up-headed, good, sub
stantial, useful horse.
| An exchange says the stomachs OF
about 5000 crows have been examined,
and the percentage of food therein re.
veals the satisfactory fact that the
crow, instead of being the bandit some
suppose him to be, cunningly fattening
ON the grain of the husbandmen, is a
benevolent scavenger, clearing fields.
orchards, etc., Of all manner Of pis'
! shisvoui veruA mice end insects, :
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
"a Licen.e to steal.v

That must have been embarrassing
information to the United States senate
which Statistician Carroll d. Wright
furnished that body last week concern
Ing the labor cost of lumber in this coun-
try and in Canada. His figures showed
that, while the average wages in Canadi-
an sawmills is S1.41 and Sill per day
here, the average labor cost of 1000
feet of lumber is SIPS in Canada and
only "a cents here. The decreased cost
of production in this country is attrib-
uted to the superior machinery used.
OF course, the figures prove the free
trade contention that the rate of wages
paid does not indicate the cost of pro-
duction-that low wages are very often
more expensive to employers, and vice
versa. But these hard facts furnished
by an officer of the government will not
dissuade the lumber barons from their
purpose to get tariff on Canadian lum-
Der so that they can the more effectually
rob American consumers. Protection
lists care nothing for facts. What they
want is license to steal.-National
Single Taxer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
Pigs for Market and as Breeders.

A pig intended for breeder should
not be fed along with those being fed
for market. Stock for the market
should be fed all they will digest, from
the time they are weaned until sold as
fat animals. Pigs for breeders and
cattle for milking should be fed moder.
ate1y, also the food should be that
which will produce muscle and bone in
place of fat and flesh, as is desired in the
instance. Show stock should be re.
jected for breeders as they are gener.
ally hard to keep in fair condition af-
ter having once been fattened to ex.
cess. They never make as prolific
breeders, nor yet do they last SO long.
The age to commence breeding fol-
sires, should be at eight this, and
sows from eight to IL. Better results
will be got at these ages than either
older or younger.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

As rule it may be said that three
fourths of the ailments of the poultry
yard are due to lice. This is particu-
larry true of young turkeys. If they
can be kept free from lice they will
grow with great rapidity; but as soon
as they are attacked by lice they COM
mence to droop and soon die. A casual
examination fails to place the cause, and
the ''turkeyman" is considerably mysti-
fed. 1t is the little, almost invisible,
gray lice-frequently found on the
head-that create all the trouble. A
little lard or sweet oil will cure the
complaint, and. should be at once
taken in hand. Examine your tur.
keys. Dampness is the next great det-
riment, and is ''sure death" to all
young turkeys; when lice is an accom-
paniment, the vitality of the young
turkeys is SO lessened that they quick
ly succumb.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
HIGH DUTIES ON BUTTONS.
An Injustice to the Poorer and Mid.
die Classes.

An injustice to the poorer ana MID
die Classes.
The button manufacturers, present
and prospective, are unusually greedy
in their demands for tariff duties. Nc
Kinley duties are entirely too slow for
the button infants. The following is
part of statement madeIby button inn
porters:
The proposed duties on buttons, as
per schedule of the finance committee
of the senate, are as rule. prohibitory
and would prove severe hardship on
goods used by the poorer and middle
classes, and also manufacturers OF
various garments used by the mass of
our people, such as low-priced shirts.
underwear, clothing, etc. The follow
ing data will give some idea of the in
CAPABILITIES of the proposed duties:
Agate Buttons-Present duty, also
Mckinley bill, 25 per cent; proposed
duty of one-twelfth of one cent per
line per gross, plus IS per cent. ad va
lorem, would average from OF to 161 per
cent, bearing heaviest on the class OF
goods that make up the great bulk Of
the importations. The following sched-
ule, taking the styles that sell, shows
the range proposed:
WHITE LENTILLES ON CARD SOLD TO
JORRIN(y TRADE
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

mich cows, corn and hogs, vegetables
poultry, fruit etc. There would no
profit accrue at six cents If the old time
custom of raising ''all cotton" was
pursued. But corn, judiciously fed to
hogs, in connection with plenty Of nu-
tritious sorghum cane, proper pastur-
age of alfalfa or Bermuda, at 20 cents
per bushel, would pay small profit If
pork should continue to bring the
present prices of 80. 80 to g. 40 in our
local markets, and would pay, under
economical feeding, more than cotton,
If the price of pork would average four
cents gross.
AS it is no longer a theory but an
accepted fact that if we have deep wa
ter at Galveston and Sabine, there is
every reason to anticipate that our
gram crops. cattle and hog products
will bring far better prices, by thus
affording cheaper rates to the open
markets of the world.--An Old Texas
Cotton Planter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
The Melon Louise.

Whenever few vines become badly
infested with the melon louise pull up
the plants and destroy or burn them;
kerosene emulsion will, of course, kill
all the lice it reaches, but, as the in
sect confines itself to the underside Of
the leaves, it is for that reason difficult
to reach. In any case do not allow
the pest to gain a foothold. for that
will mean the end of the crop. As
soon as the louise Is noticed, and if
a good spray pump is not at hand, try
busting thoroughly on the underside of
the leaves. as far as possible, with pure
hardwood ashes and fresh air-slaked
lime, two parts of the former to one of
the latter, well mixed together; dust
on in the morning while the dew il
present on the leaves. This is also an
excellent remedy for many soft insects,
as the cabbage and caulifower worms
and others
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
Relative Profits of Cotton and Grain.

Notwithstanding that there is di-
versity of opinion as to the relative
profits of cotton and grain in the black
land counties, l will attempt to give
what have found to be the concensus
of opinion among the leading farmers
in Collin county. At the outset it
would be well to concede that q
fair estimate can only be made by
taking the average of the ruling low
prices of cotton and grain for tina past
four years of depression, for all must
know that the present abnormal high
price of wheat, caused no doubt from
total loss of the crop from two years
drought in India and Australia, can
not be fair criterion to go by. As Col
lin county is near the center of the
black lands, its productions may be re-
garded a. fair sample for the other
sections. Cotton under favorable cul-
ture, and proper care in selection of
seed, will average in . cycle Of seven
years three-fourths of bale per acre;
oats, so bushels; wheat, IS bushels;
corn. 40 bushels: barley and rye from
80 TO 40 bushels. but the area sown in
the latter two cereals is yet too small
to be considered in this estimate of
relative prices. Cotton is more re-
munerative at six cents per pound. with
cotton seed at $3.50 to $3.50 per ton,
than corn, where hauled to market in
wagons and sold at 20 to 90 cents per
bushel, wheat at As to so cents per
bushel, osts ut Is to 20 cents; provided
the cotton grower raises his necessary
hesae suuplssA VIZ: mu!sA hersse,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

to undergo the operation of ovariotomys
the cutting out Of the ovary.
Yes, you win recover, at least I hope
You will; but you will never be quite
the same woman again. Congestion Of
the ovaries is fatal to health. If you
have any such symptoms be advised
in time take . medicine of specific
powersl You can find none better
than Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, prepared especially to meet
the needs of woman's sexual system.
You can get it at any good druggists.
Following we publish letter from
q woman in Milwaukee, which relates
how she was cured of ovarian trouble:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-I suffered with
congestion of the ovaries and infamma-
ton of the womb. Ihad been troubled
with suppressed and painful menstrual
ton from q girl. The doctors told mo
the ovaries would have to be removed.
took treatment two years to escape
an operation, but still remained in mis-
cradle health in both body and mind, ex'
pecting to part with my reason each
coming month. After using one bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and package Of Sanative Wash
was very much relieved. I continued
to use your remedies until cured. The
| last nine months have been passed in
perfect good health. This, know, 1 owe
entirely to the Vegetable Compound.
My gratitude Is great, indeed, to tho
one to whom so many women owe their
health and happiness. "-MRs. F. M.
KNAPP, 500 Wentworth Ave-, Milwau-
kee, Wis.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
Mean. Tens Of Millions.

Careful estimates show that nearly
one-haf cent pound profit is given to
the trust on every pound of sugar re-
fined--a profit which means tens Of
millions of dollars. Such duty assures
for it as great q power over the con-
sumner as it now enjoys over. the pro-
Queer, and no single duty in the senate
measure requires q fuller explanation
OF the noiiYes leading 70 !k-FaFp4F
Weakly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

Representatives of the crockery in
terest who have gone to Washington to
protest against the new tariff complain
that the proposed schedules discrim-
mate against goods used by the poor
and in favor of those purchased by the
rich. Blessed are the poor. but they
need expect little help from a protective
Observation-Disclosures Record,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
Ere the Farewell IL spoken

On the deck of the steamer, or on board the
train that is to bear you away from those
dear to you, you will. if you are wise. have
safely slowed away in your luggage sufii-
Gent supply of that safeguard against i'll
ness-Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Com
mercial travellers, tourists and pioneer emil
grants concur in testifying to the fortifying
and saving properties of the great tonic.
Use for constipation, biliousness, malarial
and kidney complaints and nervousness.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
Sumner Vacations.

Interesting illustrated booklets pertain
ing to Massachusetts, Seashore, Ocean, Island
and Inland Resorts, are issued by the pas
sepger department of the Fall River Line
the famous route between New York and
bsps x: W yHs
Mountains, etc.. etc, etc. List Of the book
lets will be mailed upon receipt Of one
cent stamp. Address 0. II. Taylor, Gent
Pass'r Agent, Fall River Line. New York
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
Shake Into Your shoes

Aliens Foot Ease, a powder for the feet.
Il cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and
instantly takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery
of the age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight OF
new shoes feel easy. 1t is certain cure for
sweating, callous, hot, tired, aching feet
Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and
shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE
Write to Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
summer Tours via BIC Four Route,

His Banker-"That boy of mine has an
inordinate craving for money" Takes
after his father" eyes, he always does
when the craving comes on."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
Price. of Linens Go Up.

When the tariff bill was about to be
framed the republican leaders stated
that they desired to be moderate and to
avoid anything like excessive rates.
Mr.. Aldrich, when introducing the
amended measure into the senate,
claimed that his rates were generally
lower than those of the house bill. The
linen schedule. however, is a notable
one of many exceptions. In it the SEN
ate rates are higher than those of the
house and much higher than anything
ever before known.
Under the Mckinley bill of 1890 lin
ems were assessed IS per cent, with q
few exceptions as high as so per cent.
ad valorem. Under the rates proposed
by the senate large proportion of the
goods in everyday use will be assessed
from 65 to IS per cent. and in some
instances over 100 per cent. The fol-
lowing table shows some of the changes
in the cost of medium and low grade
linens: -ses.-s..s,lss. .s's,t
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

81 took tramp in the woods yesterday,
said Miss Frocks to the new arrival at Deer
Park. did you? Oh, well, / suppose that
men are SO scarce that even tramp is bet
ter than nothing."-Life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

We have not been without Piso's Cure fol
Consumption for 20 years..-Lizzie Ferrei,
Camp St., Harrisburg, Pa, May 4, "a.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

People who say they cannot write q
plain hand because they are so nervous, talk
a. if they expected to be believed.-Wash-
inQtop Democrat.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

If there's one thing above another that
some people like to answer it's an unanswer
able argument.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

Young Spendthrift = II didn't get you
any birthday, present, dadmthought you'd
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
Al odd Genius.

The papers are full ofxtales just now Of
how the late composer, Brahms, treated
pianists and singers who were eager to get
his criticism. If one of these aspirants for
his favor was fortunate enough to find him
ct home and be received, Brahms first con-
Germ was to seat himself on the lid of his
piano, Q position from which he rightly
deemed few would have the temerity to
Gust him. If this failed he had recourse to
the statement that the instrument was out
Of tune. "Oh, that does not matter" re-
marked one courageous individual. PER
haps not to you, but it does to me" replied
the master. On one occasion he was just
with bundle Of music under his arm, hailed
f Brahm. ives, Certainly, :" answered sWe the
master, in the most amiable manner; Gin
this house up three flights" and 30 saying
he hurried away.-San Francisco Argonaut.
Summer Tours Via Big Four Route,
To the Mountains, Lakes and Seashore.
Special Low Rates will be in effect to Put
Inlay, Islands of Lake Erie, Lake Chautau-
qua, Niagara Falls, thousand Islands, st.
Lawrence River, Adirondacks, Lake George,
New England Resorts, New York and Bos-
ton. To the Great Lakes, Cleveland, San
dusky, Toledo, Detroit, Benton Harbor, Mt.
Clemens, Mackinac and Michigan Resorts.
To the Northwest and West via St. Louis
and Chicago. For rates, routes, time of
trains and full particulars apply to any
agent "Big Four" or address E. o. McCor-
mick, Passenger Traffic Manager big
Four" Cincinnati. o,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

She-"Did you run across any of your
friends in town today" He = "No; l
wasn't in town on my wheel. "-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31
WOMEN! DON'T WATT.
NYou Have Any Of These Symp-
toms Act at Once.

Do you know the reason why you win
90 to the hospital, my poor friend?
Because you have allowed yourself
to 90 from bad to worse. You did not
know that that heat, swelling and ten
derness in your left side were all signs
Of congestion of the ovary.
Any intelligent woman could have
told you that congestion is fatal to the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

The domestic manufacturers in whose
interests these changes are supposed to
be made have stated that they do not
desire over so per cent. duty on linen
goods, and one of the principal manu-
facturers of linen and cotton handker-
chiefs in America (of Acheson, Harden
& Co., Passaic, N. j. states that he does
not desire any advance of duty on his
goods.
The gross injustice of these duties
can be appreciated when it is remem-
bered that, owing to climatic condi-
tons, good fiber fax cannot be grown
or. linen manufactured successfully in
this country, and when it is further re-
membered that the kind Of linen taxed
is the kind that is used by the poorest
classes, while much lower duty Is put
on the finer grades,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-31

Time, which vindicates man, first buries
him.-Atchison Globe.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-04-27
NEVADA AND THE thrift

Senator John P. Jones is quoted rs
saying that he would vet for as fich
a tariff bill as the Rerrnlicam. could
or would Introduce il CuuGrn-s. We
presume that no or q uhts tnat ha
will do so, and do il cNe~rfuliy. We
would respectfully suggest, however,
that while he is voting to increase n.
tax upon sugar. clothing, tea, coffee,
hardware, and everything else that
his Nevada constituents have to buy.
nat be make a little effort to raise Me
price OF One article which many OF
them have to sell. In the Dingley
bill hides are on ne free list. This
was in Difference to the demands of
Eastern boot and shoe trusts, who
want cheap leather. A Republican
member in the house said that a duty
on hides propOrtiOnate with that upon
o would increase the price Of cattle
one dollar per head all over the
country. An additional value Of one
dollar upon every bovine brute in Ne
vada would help out u ~stocknen
woDdeIfully.-Silver State.
The Silver State is correct on this
proposition. There is snch a close
margin now between the advocates Of
Tree trade and protection in the Sen
ate that the vote of Jones and Stewart
would turn the scale.
LII they decide to utilize the power
now in their hands they can dictate
terms to the protectionists in the nam
Ing OF dutiable articles and Federal
appointments, and we very much
mistake the disposition and expert
epce of the two Senators representing
Nevada in the Q. S. Senate if thev fail
in doing go,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-04-27

W. c. Morrow Of the Examiner has
Just published another book entitled
The Ape, the Idiot, aud other poeple,' -
we have not seen the book vet. but
advise every Carson mar who cpioys
original reading by a verile writAr
II a man OF ideas, to get a COPY OF
Mr.. Morrows book. He never wrote
anything in his life that was not we'll
worth reading. 1t is so exceptionaIry
good that the Eastern critics are inmp-
ing on it savagely, as they do on
everything in the literary line COMING
from the West.
The New York swell clubs that
voted Tor Mckinley may know more
about finance in 1900. They are in a
Dad way financially just now, though
II is only four mouths since the vel
10" victory made them happy.
Another Utah man has come to
Eiko and logged off a bride. IF this
thlng don't stop pretty soon the girls
Will all be gone and a whole lot OF rs
VIII pe lett to trot in single harness.
Boys wake up and don't let this thing
occur acknowledgements.
Greater New York will start off with
a population of 3,4OO, 600, and the
mayor will have a voice in the control
OF $4,000 employees, and the expendi-
lure OF S75.0oO,0o0 a year. This will
make New York the largest city in
the world.
There a be no middle ground in
the Durrant case. Anything like a
compromise on a Communication of
sentence would not satisfy Justice
He should be bung or set free If
guilty OF the crime charged, hanging
seems a mild punishment.
"Now children" said II teacher in
Occur d'Alene, Il an going to ask
you a dihicult question. Can anyone
IN the class tell me how many mills
make a cent? After a long silence .
llttle urchln at the foot Of the class
stuck up his little digits, and on he
ing asked to give his answer. repl,ed
MY IA said if Mckinley was elected
not a On mill would make a ce,t,"
n Fair-Craven case opened NJ
again yesterday. The main testimony
was the reading Of Mrs. Crayen's h.
position, in which she said that Fair
mad promise to provide for her
future.
The effects Of the Greco-Turkev war
mas pulled wheat down several degrees
ana made a big dump in the Eas.,,n
market yesterday.
Joseph Sims, the colored preacher
convicted of rot berry. jumped from y
moving train while going to Folsom
yesterday. He was badly injured and
may not recovered.
There was no fighting on the Tar.
klsh frontier yesterday and the Greek
forces will make a final stand a,
Thermopyler.
The floods have reached the dan,e,
mark al Hannibal, Missouri and tho
water Is nearly two feet above hiub
water mark. 1t is now thonpht thai,
the town will be flooded. l