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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
A SUFFERING PRISONER.
Had to Do Something to
Hold His Job.

A certain policeman who patrols beat
near Calumet avenue and Twenty-third
street had not made an arrest in three
years. 1t is quiet neighborhood, and really
nothing of riotous kind happens there.
Nike, said the captain one morning
last week, you've got to get to work. If you
don't make some arrests pretty soon I'll
turn you off the force"
Nike left the station desperate and fully
determined on arresting the first man he
met. He overlook very mild and unas-
Stunning gentleman who was walking from
the Illinois Central train. Mike placed him
under arrest. The man, it turned out, slut
tered dreadfully and was not able to make
much protest. Mike really knows 90 little
about the law that he imagined he was with
In his rights in running anybody in. The
next morning the pedestrian was brought
Whats your nameg roared Justice
White, who had an attack of dyspepsia that
sst,ss-t," sputtered the frightened little
Whats your name?" demanded the ms
tice, still more severely; don't you trife
with this court, siri"
"S-s-s-t-t-t," suffered the helpless man
again.
Officer, what's this man charged with ?"
said the judge, in disgust, turning to Mike.
IL don't know, your honor" STAN
mered Mike: SODA water, / guess. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
COMBINATION OF HEALTH AND
WEALTH.
New Districts I'm Western Canada
Adapted to Ranching and
Mixed Farming.

Calgary, Alberta, Nov. 4, 1898.
To the Editor Of the Duluth Evening Her.
ald," Duluth. MINI.
Dear Sir-As to many replies to the
home-seeker of Minnesota, can cheerfully
say that this country is better for poor
man than Minnesota, if he wants to farm
and raise stock. / have spent one winter
and two summers which find more pleas
ant than any winter have seen in Minneso-
ia for eight years. The seasons are short,
but the effect of long days of bright sun
shine produces very rapid growth of veg
citation. There is good money in raising
coarse grains and feeding to hogs and cattle,
for pork and beef always bring good price
here. Hogs are worth from $500 to $3.50
live weight per cwt., and beef about the
same. There is plenty of railroad land to
be had very cheap and on longtime pay
ments. "A man does not want to think he
can pick up money on the ground here, but
there is lots of it in the ground and labor
will take it out.
Edmonton, Alberta, which can be settled,
and large scope of country west of Edmon.
ton adapted to ranching and mixed farming.
This country is the best place have ever
seen for the cure of consumption. could
refer you to different people here who were
IN the last stages of consumption, who are
now in perfect health and able to do any
kind Of hard work and are very prosperous.
Hoping this may benefit home-seekers
who are willing to work for an honest liv-
ing, remain, yours very truly,
lSighed) CHARLES NJ. SCOTT.
ANY agent of the Canadian Government
will gladly give information as to settlement
terms and rates.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
On the small Farm.

On the small farm avenues are omen
to the owner which are practically
closed to the large farmer. He is not
crowded with work, he can look more
into the details of his business, can
pay more attention to the marketing
OF his produce. and, in short, can
farm more closely in may ways. He
can feed all he raises; in selling, he
comes in closer contact with the con-
sumer. and he can afford to look after
the little odds and ends which are so
often wasted.-Farmers' Home Jour
nal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
Does Farming Pay.

Briefly: Farming pays handsomely
If you make it. Well directed effort.
judicious rotation of crops and proper
marketing of products are the points
to which attention must be paid. No
business will pay unless conducted up
on correct principles. But it depends
largely upon the farmer. If he is
made of the right kind of stuff and has
a level head, he will make farming
pay. The twentieth century farmer
should be unlike those who have
peggea away on the same plans since
Columbus discovered America. He
should be properly balanced as to
brain and muscle, and should use the
former fully as much as the latter.
Farmers who are making their bust
ness pay are built this way. No farmer
OF sound mind, and unimpaired health
should fail at farming, for it, more
than any other occupation, is sugges-
tive OF its own requirements proceed.
ing success.-Epitomist
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
HERE AND THERE.

1t is not only cruel, but absolute
ly silly to beat a horse for becoming
frightened. All such horsemen should
sell out and take it a-foot.
Grazing is not intensive cultivation.
The same land cropped with hay, and
the crop carefully fed, will support
more stock than if pastured.
1t is idle to work for nothing when
it can be avoided. Perhaps you have
been wintering stock not good enough
to pay for the feed and care you have
given them.
"A long step toward doing away
with swine diseases will have been
taken when we get rid of the idea that
hogs are naturally filthy animals and
that filth is good for them.
Farm lands are depreciating all
over the north and east, and this slump
is creeping slowly but surely towards
the south. When all farm products.
and all labor products depreciate, the
lands must follow the procession.
Expert veterinarians have deter
mined that defective teeth often cause
lameness in horses. This may appear
& little strange yet there are other
facts stranger still until they are thor
oughly understood, when all strange
ness disappears. .fs s
Improved stock of all kinds il bet
ter both to breed and to feed. Such
swine are powerful factor in market
ing our big corn crops. Cheap as hogs
are. it pays better to feed
pit the corn and other stuff which can
be utilized than to sell the feed. No
question about this.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

For the present winter season the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad Company has
improved its already nearly perfect through
Cars and elegant day coaches from Cincin.
natl, Louisville, st. Louis and Chicago, to
Mobile. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,
Townsville, Ca, Pensacola, Jacksonville,
Tampa, Palm Beach and other points in
Florida. Perfect connection will be made
with steamer lines for Cuba, Porto Rico,
Nassau and West Indian ports. Tourist
and Home-Seekers excursion tickets on sale
at low rates. Write G. p. Atmore, General
Passenger Agent, Louisville, KY, for par
ticu1ars.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

The readers of this paper will be pleaset
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure IT,
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the Constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have 30 much faith in its cura.
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address Z. j. Cheney Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
balls Family Pills are the best.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS.

WhistiingZThe transformation OF .
popular air into an Ill wind.
Abuse-The penalty an eminent man
IL compelled to pay the public.
Love-Something that makes the
heart futter and the tongue fatter-
Critio-A man who can see no merit
IN anything he doesn't do himself.
Anxiety The cause of more BRAN
trouble than anything else except love-
Logician-An individual who can fie.
ere out anything to his own satisfas
lion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

An English expert prophesies q universal
dearth in the wheat supply. He claims that
the wheat producing soil 10 unequal to the
strain that will be put upon it. Even now
when the food supply of the world is ample,
thousands die because their disordered stom-
achs fail to properly assimilate the food they
take. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters strength
en- and tone up the stomach and digestive or.
gans, and enable them to perform their
proper functions. This great remedy cures
dyspepsia, torpid liver, nervousness and fe-
yer and ague.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

The Burlington Route has Weekly Tour
list Sleeper Excursions, personally con-
Quoted (by Burlington Route AGENT every
Wednesday from st. Louis, and Thursday
from Kansas City and St. Joseph to Los
angeles and San Francisco. The route is via
Denver, Scenic Colorado, Salt Lake CITY,
with SO per cent. sunshine throughout the
year. Ask Ticket Agent or write for de-
scriptive folder to L. w. Wakeley, General
Passenger Agent, st. Louis, Mo.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

IL seems to me some farmers are
very hard to awaken to new and better
methods One farmer will be short of
corn and viii half starve his hogs to
save a little feed, and will have a lot
Of pot-bellied hogs or pigs, as the case
may be. How much better it would be
to keep fewer and feed them better.
or else buy more feed and keen stock
in thrifty condition. What pig ever
made man any money after it be-
came stunted and pot-bellied? This
same farmer will undertake to run q
dairy and will overstock his pastures,
his cows soon begin to fail in their
milk, but this man says he can not af-
ford to feed yet; he does not consider
that extra feed will increase the flow
OF milk and more than pay for the ex-
ira food consumed. He will carelesslv
let them starve along and ruin their
milking qualities just to save a little
feed. Any intelligent farmer knows
the above method viii not pay. The
cow is ever ready to respond to good
food and kind attention. This man
does not pillow his corn for weeRs after
a big rain, for he says he doesn't see
Eow 1T will do any good, as the land is
clean and the corn too small to lay by.
He doesn't seem to be aware of the
ruinous loss of moisture. He is too
saving CD to take good farm paper.
Now what is going to be done to reach
such farmers?-Geo. +. Proctor, in
Practical Farmer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink
that takes the place Of coffee. The children
may drink it without injury as well as the
adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java
but it is made from pure grains, and the
most delicate stomachs receive it without
distress. IA the price Of coffee. Is cts. and
Is cts. per package. Sold by all grocers.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Il see you've got your lightning rod up
for office again" said the friend Of the can
THE lightning rod" replied the csudi-
date, who was matter-of-fact sort of man.
is one OF the exploded humbugs of the
past. What I'm trying to do is to get NV
trolley poles up for the office" Chicago
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Belshazzar the Second.-"But think of
your health!p urged the physician. Read
the handwriting on the WALL" The mer.
chant prince buried his face and wept
Long ago. he exclaimed, bitterly, II made
1t an inviolable rule of my business not to
read anything unless it was typewriter or
printed" And business is business. DE
troit Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Smith-'My wife's too much Of an ortho
dox to suit me-" Jones' Makes you get up
and go to church Sunday mornings, eh ~
Smith-"No; but, judging from her regular
raids on my pocketbook, she evidently be
heves in the theory that man is made Of
dust. '-Chicago Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

First Lawyer-Each witness gives differ
ent account of the accident
Second Lawyer-Yes; if we put them all
on the stand, the jury may think our client
met with three or four accidents.-Puck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

She-"What an intellectual couple Mr..
and Mrs. Fads must be-" He-"What makes
You think So" She-"Because she has her
hair cut short and he lets his grow long,
He-"Perhaps you are right, but it strikes
me that cranky would be more appro-
pirate term to use."-Chicago Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
Metropolitan Ornithology.

Teacher--Miss Street, can you tell me
what is most peculiar in the Matching Of the
cuckoo?
Miss Street (doubtfully)-It generally
buildsits nest in clock.-Jewelers' Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

When . man concludes he is too smart to
work he comes to the conclusion that has
made more thieves than any other thing on
earth.-Atchison Globe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

A great many of the men who claim to o,
self-made were evidently interrupted beforl
the job was completed.-Chicago Daily
News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
The Climate Forb,d. n.

Bisgs.Is it true that Smith, the iceman,
Boggss.Yes, poor fellow. He cuts no ice
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

The Light That Failed. - Pollywog--
Whats the trouble between Van Glove
and his wifes ! thought she was the light
OF his life" Jollydog-"So she was, but she
went out too much. Philadelphia North
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
Agricultural.

Our town." exclaimed the man who had
accumulated most of the desirable lots,
has fiourished like great tree"
Yes, said the town cynic, eve have
done the roofing and you the grafting."-
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Most articles on how to manage husbands
were written by old maids who never hat
q proposal to marry.-Washington Qa.)
Democrat.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
Seneca St. Buffalo. N. Y, May Q, 1894.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

We all love to see q smart man make a
slip-it reconciles us to being stupid.-Town
Topics.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
The Girl In Love.

She's timid and believes in peace,
She shrinks from wars alarms;
Yet, womanlike. she'll never cease
To love the call to arms.
Judge.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Til q man can judge whether they be
truths or no, his understanding is but little
improved; and thus men Of much reading
are greatly learned, bus may be little know.
ing.-Locke.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Stand straight and strongest. Jacobs
Oil cures lame back-cures promptly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

A sprain may cripple but st. Jacobs Oil
VIII cure it before it can. 1t cures.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Sore and stiff from cold; don't wait and
Suffer; use St. Jacobs Oil and get cured
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

The pain that tortures-sciatica. tn,
Cure that cures it-St. Jacobs Oil.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Wife {feebly)-"You can't deceive me. l
distinctly heard the doctor tell you there
was very little hope" Husband (bravely)-
Nonsense, dear! He was only jonying me.
Town Topics.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

To Cure Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. Csc.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

When eyes snap, it must be the lashes
that crack.-Golden Days.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

A good mans son inherits poverty. Span
ish Pyoverb.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
h Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. Go to your druggist to-day and get
sample bottle free. Large bottles Is and so
cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

The only place where a chronic kicker ma
be useful is in football CAMEL. A. W
Bulletin,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

He who sows thorns must not 90 barefoot.
Spanish Proverb.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28
Lane,a FamiIx Medicine

If you take cat to bed do not complain
of its claws.-Spanish Proverb.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Use st. Jacobs Oil promptly and freely
And say goodbye to neuralgia.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Moves the bowels each day. In order to
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head
ache. Price Is and SOC.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Tested and Found Wanting.
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures, do you think
Mr.. Snowman is in earnest?
Miss Matchmaker-Pm afraid not, mann.
ma. mentioned diamonds last evening.
and he only yawned.,Jewelers' Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

Trouble gets into many home by means
of night latch key.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-01-28

cultivstors and other farm 1mple.
ments In the fence corner. When
needed next spring they will be handy
to find; but / never could make my
self believe that this was either econo-
my or wisdom. Rust eats iron and
steel. Wind, frost, snow and rain
surely rot wood. These all working
together shorten the life of tools fifty
per cent. or more. 49,
Take half an hour to wipe the plow
carefully. 1t viii '.turn'' enough bet
ter next. spring to pay. Then put it
and; all other tools away under cover
somewhere. If you have to buyfa few
hundred feet of boards, all right. You
can afford to do it rather than allow
these valuable implements to go to de-
struction. 'Wilful waste brings woe
full want"
Do you burn wood? l do, and get
at the business of getting it out early,
before the snow comes too deep in the
woods. cut the logs into draughts
and skid them out when the ground is
frozen and little snow on the earth.
II there is anything that stirs my
heart it is to see woman out digging
wood out of the snow when the mer-
curry is shivering around zero. The
man that will allow his wife to do that
ought to be arrested for cruelty. 1t is
just as easy to fill the woodshed wear
beforehand as to wait until the last
stick is in the stove. Seasoned wood
makes the housewife happy Nothing
tries her temper more than green
wood.-E. L. Vincent, in Epitomist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-18
MICHIGARsr TICKET LAW
Declared Unconstitutional in Its Most I'm
portant Portion.

Washington. April 1S.-That part of
the Michigan law regulating the sale of
l. .O0O- mile railway tickets that provides
that such tickets shall be good for two
years and be sold at a reduced rate was
declared by the supreme court yesterday
TO be invalid. The supreme court of the
state held the law to be a proper regu-
lation under the constitution, and gave
direction to the railroad companies to
sell tickets at the rate fixed. The COM
pany refused to comply with the order
of the court and brought the case TO the
United States supreme court on a writ
Of error
In announcing the opinion Justice
Peckham said that the provision was
rot the exercise of a power to fix maxi
mum rates, and not fair regulation of
the railroads. but an improper interfer-
erce. the legislature having no right to
discriminate as was done in this act.
The chief justice and justices Gray and
Nc henna dissented
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-18

| he alleges the defendants guilt during
| the two years the law confines him 10.
| and to prove this the corroborafive evil
| dence of the previous years should GER
tainly be admitted. Judge BiddIe de-
| cided against the commonwealth, ard
the Quay lawyers were very happy. He
| ruled that the evidence should be con-
fined to the conspiracy alleged and not
relate. to some other conspiracy. Dur
ing the discussion of this point Attor-
ney Watson, of Quay's counsel, called
attention to the fact, that the prosacu-
tion has not yet shown any specific con-
spiracy. The lawyers for the defense
claim that the decision practically rules
out the figures prior to Nov. II, 1896
Rothermel says its effect will be to
prevent him from introducing much OF
the evidence he hoped to present.
All day long Goldsmith read out fig
ures taken from the bank books en-
bracing the various settlement periods
of six months each. dating back to Oct.
81, 1893. showing the amount of the state
deposit. the amount loaned to Quay
during each six months; the amount of
interest allowed the state treasurer for
that portion of the state deposit ap-
parently not set aside for Quay's use;
the amount of interest, if any, the SEN
ator paid on his loans, and the amount
of money used to purchase stock for
him.
The deposit during the years men,
toned ranged from 81. 200 900 to Si0O. .OOO
Quay's loans were shown to be as great
as sS66,0OO in one period of six months.
Occasionally, the witness said, small
and inadequate payment of interest by
Quay was shown, but generally there
was nothing to indicate that he paid
for the use OF the banks money. While
all these figures were going in counsel
for Quay sat silent and motionlsss. list
ening to the monotonous routine of
question and answer.
This was in pursuance of an under
standing that the defense objected to
every answer and that the objection
was overruled and an exception noted.
This is for future use in a higher court
if necessary. Once Shields felt CON
strained to enter an earnest protest
against witness being permitted to
place a mans liberty in jeopardy by
making such monstrous statements
based merely on conjecture.
There is no doubt that nearly all OF
the expert deductions and figures were
obtained from the red book about
which much has been said, and
against the introduction of which the |
Quay counsel made such vehement but |
objection.