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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
FARMER PLANTER.
wEEvIL IN EGYPTIAN COTTON.
The IDEA that Egyptian Cotton IL
Immune From Boil Weeytl
Attacks Punctured.

Peculiar circumstances surrounding
ment's Egyptian cotton on the farm
of Mr.. +. Z. Collins, at San Antonio,
have caused the opinion on the part
OF some persons that that kind of
cotton is not injured by boil weevil.
Early in the season there were very
few weevils there. but by the mid
die ct September they were numerous
enough to puncture every square. The
fact is that numerous observations
made last year as well as this on sew
eral varieties growing at different
places show that Egyptian cotton is
particularly susceptible to damage
by boil weevil. The. tendency of the
varieties observed, including Janno-
witch and Matififi, is to grow a very
large stalk. Absence of irrigation
does not officially. modify this ten
dency. The inevitable result is that
Egyptian cotton is very late in ma
turing, setting no bottom crop and
late cotton is certain to be injured by
the weevil. Long before the Egyp-
tan plant has stopped putting on
stalks and stem the American plant
has matured some fruit. Anyone who
would have. visited the Collins farm
In September yYould have seen a very
neat demonstrate of this fact. At
one place in Mr.. Collins experimental
field there were 25 or 30 adventurous
American plants growing in the midst
of the Egyptian. These American
plants were covered from bottom to
top with opened bolls averaging
about thirty to the plant, while the
Egyptian plants had but little fruit
uninjured. The American plants were
about 3h feet high and the Egyptian
about 5h feet, but plant for plant,
the former had much more fruit.
There is nothing in the Egyptian
cotton plant distastefui to the weevil.
The writer has seen the pest in Mex
leo working in three cotton and at
Brownsville, in this state, in sea is
land cotton, both botanically less
closely related to American upland
, cotton than is the Egyptian. In the
San Antonio field by the 18th of Sep
TENDER the weevils were so numerous
that it was almost impossible to find
an uniDjured square, and the absence
of suitable squares had driven them
: to many bolls that had previously Civ
en- promise of opening. At Pierce
and Halletsville, Egyptian cotton has
been seen by the writer that was COM
pletely pruned of its fruit. The more
important feature Of the matter,
however, IS that the result of many
observation; has been to show that,
as far az the weevil is concerned, per-
haps the most important cultural ex-
pedient in raising cotton is TO obtain
an early crop. The nature of the
Egyptian plant is to mature late, and
this causes it. to be more susceptible
to damage than ordinary American
upland cotton.-Farm and Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
FARMERS AS BREEDERS.
They should Seek Improvement Of
Plants just as Much ~ They
Do of stock.

Every farmer ought to be a plant
breeder as well as a live stock breed
err. There is as much room for i'm
provement in the former as the latter.
Many farmers who would give no lib
erty to a scrub stallion, bull, boar,
buck or cock, will permit any old
scrub crop plant to go on degenerst-
ing its species year after year. Plain
", this is serious error, and is the
result of thoughtlessness and neglect,
and not of lack of desire for improve
Inent. Some suppose that there are
great difficulties in the way of the
plant breeder, and that years and
pains and expert knowledge are re-
quired TO produce results. True, the
more of these that are available the
better; but any farmer of ordinary
intelligence understands how to select
animal breeders, for he knows the
kind and character of the stock he
wants and breeds from such, if avail
able, or approaches his ideal as near
" as possible. If he will do the same
with his plants merely by carefully
selecting seed from plants showing
the characteristics he wants to per-
petuate or increase, he will find plants
as easily bred as pigs, or chickens. A
plant breeder to get rid of the pole
in every hill of lima beans, selected
seed from an unusually short vine,
and from the product of these seed
found some without running vines.
Continuing this course of selecting he
soon produced lima beans that do not
climb. BY similar course the seeds
have been almost eliminated from the
tomato. The warts and spines and
crooks from the cumber, the disa-
greeable pungency from the onion,
and in fruits of all kinds -still more
wonderful improvements have been
accomplished. Less attention, how
ever, has been paid to the breeding
OF staple farm crops, and new varie-
ties improved for one section may not
be adapted to quite different environ
ments, just as is the case with fruits
and vegetables. There is always some
risk in planting new and improved va
rieties in new and widely differing
sections, and it would be highly i'm
prudent to plant largely of such
Hence the importance of farmers
carefully selecting and improving
their own seeds, while juJliciously ex-
perimenting with the works of others
Farm and Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
HERE AND THERE.

A field turned out to rest is like
a human loafer; if it is not kept
busy raising crop il is sure to get
into mischief by growing weeds with
which to seed the useful acres. Why
should farmer pay taxes on idle
land?
There are hundred ways of do
ing anything, and out of the hundred
but one right way. Marvel not, nor
repine, that you take from the nine
ty-nine ways. just push ahead with
the light that is given you, and right
will somehow win.
-yermin get on the fowls, and
suck the blood and annoy them SO
that thus weakened they become easy
prey to any disease that comes along.
If they had been kept free from
.vermin, they might have resisted dis
ease germs and remained in good
condition.
One advantage possessed by the
disc pillow is that ii will do good work
on land so hard and stiff and dry that
an ordinary turning plow will not
work it at all. Very often blowing
ought to be done. but the land may
be ''too dry to plow." Then is the
time to use the disc pillow.
-One cow will use all her food in
producing milk, except what is nee
essary 10 maintain life and vigor.
Another will put most of her feed ~
her carcass Now which il the m1at
profitable? In the first case you ger
the milk and keep the COW indefinite
II. IN the secopd case @yoo hGsc Il
iii the COW to ut tie fenh.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
PROGRESS in THE SOUTH.
tural Dryboncs thnt Portends
Good Things.

Sometimes a Slang word or express
sion loses its disreputable character
and becomes almost respectable by
reason of its expressiveness. The
proper use of speech is to convey
ideas. Therefore, when we say the
farmers of the southwest are get
ting move on Them" everybody
knows what we mean. They have
been little slow to realize the prog
.ress of the age, and prone to ''leave
well enough alone" But there has
been an awakening among the agri-
cultural dry bones, and resurrec-
lion of the long dormant spirit of ad-
vancement. The farmers have eyes,
and with them have looked about and
seen the wonderful improvements by
which one man has been enabled to
produce as much of manufactured
products as half dozen once did,
and better and more perfect products,
too. Farmers could not afford to
sleep while others were wide awake
and on the move. 1t is hardly neces-
sary TO mention the factors that have
caused the awakening. Probably il was
the instinct of self preservation that
aroused the farmers, and caused them
to get up from their lethargy and
fall in rather than be run over by
the procession of progress that looks
neither to the right nor to the left,
but straight ahead. The spread Of
agricultural education by means of
colleges and papers devoted to agri-
ulturalimprovements has done much
TO stimulate farmers to better meth
DDS, and to arouse among them de-
sire for advancement. This has led
TO the adoption of farmers insti-
tutes as the best-known method of
imparting instruction to those actu-
ally engaged in farming. The A. and
NJ college can reach the boys, and
their effect has already been felt,
through their graduates, but educa-
ton is progress we, and there should
be no stepping place on the. march,.
1t is largely graduates of the A.. NJ.
college, who are the most active in.
farmers institutes, exemplifying the
KTeHt tndt tht ibotS VnS lSdA iS
the more he wants to learn, and the
more he realizes the need for addi-
.tional knowledge. Farmers are )
realizing the need for addition!
knowledge and are everywhere found
ready to profit by the new departure.
In the. southwest they are becoming
Thoroughly aroused. and fguratively
speaking are going around crying
out '.Men and brethren, what must
We DO to be saved?" And the answer
Is, use every means within your reach
for gaining additional knowledge. At
tend farmers Institutes whenever OPP
portunity offers; If possible, take
abort course at the A. and NJ. col
lege; read good agricultural papers
and send your SON to the A. and NJ.
college. and when he returns, you can
learn Of him.-Texas Farm and
Hanch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
GambIing a Neces.ity.

Some years ago gambling was pro,
hibited in a part of Siam, and the gov
eminent did everything it could to
suppress the vice, Mo- n ~
1t turns out. however. that this
laudabie action has seriously deranged
the labor market. The Chinese immi-
grants who labor in the mines rank
gambling among the necessities of
life, and the prohibition kept them
away. Now the government has had
accordingly, to modify its policy. Tt
now enacts that where there is a suf-
ficiently large Chinese population
gambling houses will be allowed. The
gambling is to be restricted to Chi
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
Frisco system New Observa<ien
l.-t Cafe Carr. -

Pullman Sleeper service the Frisco Sys.
tenn operates ON its trains out Of
Saint Louis and Kansas City very
handsome Observation Cafe Cars, un.
der management Of Fred Harvey. These
cars are equipped with every convenience.
including large library observation room
and platform; the former supplied With
easy chairs, writing material, fastest news
papers and periodicals. Electric lights and
electric fans add to the comfort of the pas.
Kansas City daily via the Frisco System.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

i'sMy dean, said the young husband, "did
you speak to the milkman about there, be-
ing no cream on the milk" Eyes, told
him about it this morning, and he has ex.
planned it satisfactorily; and think it 10
say@ He said he always flied the e. bot t.
ties 80 full That there was no room on the
top for the cream" -Indianapoli News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
VERY Low coLoNIsrs, RATES

10 the West, Northwest aad seuth.
west. fstr ~
The Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron
Mountain Route will sell one way Colonists'
and Settlers tickets to California and
North Pacific Coast points, also to points in
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and TEXAS on the first
and third Tuesdays Of eaeh month from Oc-
tober 2lst to April 3lst, at ohe half the stand
ard first-class fare, plus 200 For fnrt her in
formation see nearest Agent, or which. G.
Tovpsend, g. p Agent. st. Loais, Mo.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

Mother-"You have disobeyed me, Tom
my. Didn's say no when yon asked me for
another piece of Scakes' Tommy-'Well,
ans no means. Town and Country.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

Wabash wonder what makes old Got
rox dress 90 stability? iftf irsaf
Monroe--His pride. my boy. 80 ra
sl.'.Why, bows that?' $50 f- .f
.sHe's afraid his customers will mistake
him for one of MS clerks. Chicago Daily
News. 49,,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken o.
As. s.a cough cure, "; 0Brisn go IT, Third
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

HiFes are terrible torment y the little
iolks, and TO some older ones. Easily cured.
Doon's Ointment never fails. Instant relief
permanent cure AT anydrug store 90 cents
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

Energy all gone? Headache? Stomach out
of order? Simply case OF torpid liver.
Burdock Blood Bitters will make a new man
or woman of you.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

HUNDREDS of lives sayedevery year by hav-
ing DIR. Thomas Electric Oil in the house
Just when it is needed. Cures Group, heals
burns, cuts, woundsef every SORT.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

A Matter of Mar snanship = Shotwell- ,
'Didn't you ever 60 shootiukI Sgortless7
Never in my life. fhotwelfx (" You don 3
know what you've missed Indianapolis
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

II see the new magazine is out?" Eyes;
and, thank heaven, they've got my poem
right next to the advertising matter,.-AtI
lanta Constitution.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

Slbys--Ohs Mr.. De Tanque, vhy.do you
refer - mr. sipginG 8 8 sfreak.,g DoTanque
Your liquid notes fairly intoxicate me. =
Baltimore Herald. --'.-,- .---.---.-s
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

Many aman fails because he would rather
make money quickly than honestly. Chi.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

No matter how long. Won have had the
cough; IL it hasn't already developed into
consumption, DIR. Woods Norway Pine Sv-
rug Will cure it. ~ ezxau;r.i
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

That's very rough on me- a. the maiden
observed, when her unshayen sweetheart
kissed .her--Ally Sloper. -. ~ [.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

The most aniable people ere those vks
least wound the self-loye 81 otherss-Brpy-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

s~He who xoreets his ewp friends meanly
to follow after those of q higher degree =
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

june Tint Butter Color makes top q the
market butter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

Poverty uncoyers . multitude Of sins.-
Town Topics. s.nst
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-26
Experience Conyinces.

Prove its value by investing 10 cents in
trial size of Ely's Cream Balm. Druggists
supply it and we mail it. Full size so cents,
ELY BROS, Sc Warren St., New York.
Clifton, Arizona, Jan. 20, 1899.
Messrs. ELY BRos.:-Please send me a SO
cent bottle of Cream Balm. I find your
remedy the quickest and most permanent
cure for catarrh and cold in the head.
DELHI POTTER, Gen. Mgr. Ariz. GoldM Co.
Messrs. ELY BRos.:-Ihave been afflicted
with catarrh for twenty years. It made me
SO weak I thought I had consumption.
got one bottle of Ely's Cream Balm and in
three days the discharge stopped. It is the
best medicine I have used for catarrh.
Proberta, Cal. FRANK e. KMDLEsp1RE.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-26
NOTICE on CITY ELEcrIoN.

Notice is hereby given that on Monday the
It'll day Of April. 1902, the annual city election of
the city Of Bismarck, will be held for city
officers, to-wit: one aldermen for the First.
alderman for The Third ward, and one alder.
man for the Fourth ward, which election will
be held in the respective wards of said city at
the following places:
For the First ward. at the Dewey Hotel, lot
g, block "a. original plat.
For the Second ward, at the BAker building
on lot 18, block SO. original plat.
For the Third ward, at the Ed Smith black
smith shop on lotsl3 and IA, block 70, original
plat.
For the Fourth ward, at the Robidou paint
shop ON LOT 1. block 40, original plat.
Said election will be opened att o'clock in the
morning and continue open until5 o'clock in
the afternoon OF that day
Dated at Bismarck. N. d., this 18th day OF
March, 1902, BY order OF the City Council.
r. n. THISTLETHWAITE,
City Auditor.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-26
A NIGHT EXPRESS TRAIN ON THF,
NICKEL PLATE ROAD.

-e.Ez-E.- 80 ~ - EEr# . -
a change Of schedule for departu, e
Of train No. 6 from Chicago on the
Nickel Plate road, provides a conven-
lent express train for Fort Wayne,
Ffndlay, Fostoria, Cleveland. Erie,
Dunkirk. Buffalo, New York City, Bos-
ton and all points east, leaving Chi
cago daily at 11:2Op +. M, reaching New
York City at $3.50 second morning,
Boston 1907 second morning; also all
other points east Of Buffalo on same
time as heretofore. Sleeping car open
for reception of passengers to retire at
their convenience. after $3.50 D.. m.
Daily train from Chicago at 1885
a. m. reaches New York City following
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, Boston at
800. Daily train from Chicago at
2:30 p. m. reaches New York at 7:35
p. m. next day. Through yestibuled
sleeping car. Meals served in Nickel
Plate dining cars, on individual club
meal plan, ranging in price rom 35c
to $1.OO. No excess fares on any
train of the Nickel Plate road.
Chicago depot, Van Buren, street and
Pacific avenue on the Elevated Loop.
For further information, write John Y,
Callahan, general agent, III Adams
street, Chicago.
Minneapolis.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-26
First Justice to Wear Gown.

Few people, | venture to say, even
In high official positions, know what
justice first Wore the gown in the su.
preme court Of ,the United States, said
an authority on the subject recently.
When Justice John Jay took the office,
ne thought the members Of the SD
preme bench should wear a gown OF
some SORT. Accordingly he appeared
In his W academic gown. which he
wore by virtue OF having received d
degree from the University Of dublin,
Of, as it was then known. Trinity col.
lege.' It vas a tricolored gown too.
Such a garment would look peculiar
now. since the black gown has been
adopted."-Washington Post.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-26
PRETTY

A Case Where Suspicion Might Be
Carried Too Far.
II told the postmaster of a town at
the foot of the Cumberland mountains
that I proposed a two weeks trip
among the sights and scenes of the big
bills" said a Detroiter who roams all
over the country, land asked him if he
couldn't give me a writing of some sort
that would be a safe conduct in case /
met with moonshiners.
eyes; 1 could write something, but
I'm afeared it would do no good,' he
replied. They might read the letter
and know I wrote it, but they'd still be
suspicious .
suspicious of what?
Suspicious that you was a SPY.
They'd be SO suspicious that they'd
probably draw you up to a limb with a
rope around your neck and let you
hang for a mint ,
Then they'd let me down and be-
lieve 1 was all right, wouldn't they?
Tn afeared not. I'm afeared they'd
still be suspicious of you +,
Suspicious of what?
Suspicious that you was a revenoo
man. Then they'd draw you up again,
and it might be two minits befo' they
let you down this time. Two minits is
a purity long time to be kickin' and
chokin'.'
But they would finally let me
DOWN. I asked.
II Eyes; I reckon SO,
"sAnd be convinced that I was no
revenue MANI
Eyes; they might, but that wouldn't
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-26
Eczema, Psoriasis. Salt
Rheum, letter and Acne

Re1onp Il that class of inhanmatory and disfguring skin eruptions that
cause more genuine bodily discomfort and worry than all other known
diseases The impurities n sediments which collect in the system because
Of poor digestion, inactive Kidneys and other organs Of elimination are
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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-26
HUNTING Il GORILLA.
An Animal West Africans Say Has
the Soul OF q Man. Eis8

An An1mal West Africans Say Has
h Soul OF = Man. siN
GORILLA hunting is a distinct sensation
even for the veteran hunter. This ami
NAL, which has become confused some
what with fable and fiction, is a reali-
ty and a decidedly unpleasant one to
engage. The west Africans are mortal
" afraid Of it, believing that the brute
contains the spirit Of a man. They at
tribute to it all sorts of ferocities, like
the carrying off Of a human being, who
is permitted to return after being de-
prived of toe and finger nails.
skilled hunters have never observed
any Of these doings, but they testify to
the brute's strength and ferocity," says
Allen Sangree in Ainslee's. according
to a French sportsman, a full grown
gorilla can bite through a tree six inch
es thick in order to secure the sap and
twist a gun barrel with the swollen
punches Of muscle that serve for arms.
His roar is terrifying and can be heard
for q distance of three miles.
T shall never forget how the first
one impressed me- says the French
man, for I had a bad attack of shakes.
The woods had been filled some time
with a barking roar, but | saw nothing
until my guide clucked softly and
pointed to a tree alongside which stood
an immense male gorilla. There he re-
NAMED but twelve yards away, boldly
facing us with his huge chest, muscu-
lar arms, fiercely glaring deep gray
eyes and a hellish expression. until I
moved.
".At that he dropped to all tours and
came six yards nearer, sitting up to
beat his breasts with his huge fsts-a
deiance-so that it sounded like an i'm
mense drum. His roar was most singu-
lar, beginning with a kind. of bark and
deepening into a bass roll that literally
resembled thunder. The short hair on
his forehead was twitching, his power
full fangs showed unpleasantly, and.
feeling he was about to attack and in
cidentally being scared green, | shot
him through the heart. With a groan
something human and yet british, he
fell on his face and died quickly, like a
man. He measured 5 feet 8 inches in
length, his chest was g. inches, and his
arms spread 9 feet. I was glad to have
the specimen, but somehow after that
never cared to kill a gorilla unless he
actually menaced me-"