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The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
After Four Months In Bed.

Powersyille, KY, April 27th.-Mrs. j. J.
Monson, VINO has been i'll for over eight
years, says:
Eyes, it is truly wonderful. / am So years
OF age and for the last eight years have
suffered with acute Kidney trouble.
II tried all the doctors within reach and
many other medicines, but got no relief till
! used that new remedy, Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
81 was confined to my bed for four months
this winter aud had such pain in my side
| couldn't get a good breath. / had smoth-
ering spells, was light-headed and had given
up ali hope, for didn't think could live
long.
After / had taken a few Of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills began to improve and / kept on
till now, as you can see, ] am well.
have been up and down doing my own
work for some time now and haven't felt
pain or weakness since.
L praise the Lord for my wonderful res
toration to health and viii always recon-
mend Dodd's Kidney Pills."
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

Anything that brings cash returns
every day in the year assists the
farmer in passing over the long pc
riod from harvest to harvest. A crop
of wheat brings returns at a certain
period of the year. The principal
source of cash on many farms in the
winter season is the poultry. The
basket of eggs that goes to market
always brings cash, and the fowls
supply their product every day in the
year, and cften with neglect on the
part of the owners. Feed them well
in winter, and they viii respond to
the good treatment. Eggs brought
good prices last winter, and gave
more profit in proportion to the cost
of materials entering into their COM
position than any other animal prod
uct on farms.-Farm and Preside.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
HEAVYWEIGHT BOOKS DOOMED
uLght Paper Coming Into General
Favor Among PubHshers
and Readers.

The heavy, arm breaking, temper
destoying volume of the past is
doomed. Book buyers cannot have
failed to notice marked improve
ment in the makeup of the new
books of certain publishers-their in
creased lightness of weight. Until
recently the English book manufac-
American in this respect. and most
light weight paper used by publish
ers had to be imported from Eng
land But about five years ago Amer
lean publishers began the agitation
in this country for a home made
light weight paper. The model to be
initiated here was the English espar-
to paper. made from esparto grass
rush1ilSe grass growing only ir
northern Afica and southern Spain
This paper is made in limited quaint.
ties even in England. because of the
scarcitv of this grass. At the re.
peated instigation of publishers. sew
eraI American manufacturers CON-
menced experiments in the light pa.
per. At first little progress was
made. The american product.
though light. lacked the necessary
cohesiveness-a fatal defect. The
work was persisted in, however. un.
til success was achieved, in the last
year or so, and the American light
weight paper is now coming into gen.
eral use, says the Kansas City Jour.
nal Made of ii book weighs be.
tween 80 and 40 per cent. less thar
one of equal size made of the old
smooth. heavy paper The light
weight paper is not smooth. and to
the uninformed it appears TO be
rougher. and supposedly cheaper
than the old smooth paper TO which
readers are accustomed. But. as .
matter of fact, the light, rough pa
per is decidedly more expensive te
make.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
Rest Horse for the Farmer.

The horse is one of the most useful
animals on the farm, and should re-
ceive the farmers best attention. The
kind of horse to keep depends large
ly upon the kind of farm. and the
kind of farming that is pursued. But
il would be safe to say that under
most circumstances a heavy horse is
to be preferred Zone weighing from
fourteen to sixteen hundred pounds).
As a rule the farmers horse has to
do all kinds of work, and should be at
least three hundred pounds lighter
than in the above case. If the farmer
is raising horses to sell, a heavy horse
will, as a rule, sell for more money.
1t is a mistake for the average farm
err to try to raise road horses to sell,
because as a rule he will not produce
an animal that can be sold for as
much money.
The farm team should be fast walk
ers; this will help to solve the labor
problem. One man with fast team
can do almost as much in one day as
two men with slow horses. l never
could see any pleasure in farming
with plug horses" and the boy who
is sent to the field with a team OF
s'plug horse" is pretty apt to learn
how to swear, and will be quite likely
to study theology, medicine or law. 1t
costs no more to maintain a good
horse than a poor one, and the good
horse makes life easier for its owner.
II is a poor practice to buy horses
at farm auctions. You may get one
cheap, but in the long run it is apt
to be expensive--Midland Farmer.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

iii ii u OdQiy, Cdu . WOIk-
In n can't rest-c ant
ILL sleep = can't eat
- it's hard to bear
Thousands of aching backs have been
relieved and cured. People are
learning that backache pains come
from disordered Kidneys, that Doan's
Kidney Pills cure every Kidney ILL
cure Bladder troubles, urinary de-
rangements, Dropsy, Diabetes,
Bright's disease.
Read this testimony to the merit
Of the greatest of Kidney specifics:
j. w. Walls, Superintendent of
Streets Of Lebanon, Kentucky, living
ON East Main Street in that city,
says:
"With my nightly rest broken, ow-
ing to irregularities of the kidneys,
suffering intensely from severe pains
in the small of my back and through
the kidneys, and annoyed by painful
passages of abnormal secretions, life
was anything but pleasant for me.
No amount of doctoring relieved this
condition, and for the reason that
nothiag seemed to give me even tenn
poraEy relief, 1 became about dis
couraged. One day ! noticed in the
newspapers the case of man who
was afiicted as was and was cured
by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills.
His words Of praise for this remedy
were so sincere that on the strength
of his statement / went to the Hugh
Murrey Drug Co.'s store and got q
box. / found that the medicine was
exactly as powerful a kidney remedy
AZ represented. 1 experienced quick
and lasting relief. Doan's Kidney
pms viii prove blessing to all suf-
ferers from kidney disorders who viii
Oive them q fair trial"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
new medicine which cured Mr.. Walls
viii be mailed to any part OF the
United States on application. Ad'
dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N.
y. For sale by all druggists; price
50 cents per box.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
A CONSTANTLY increasing number
of phvsicians prescribe Peruna in

n ACONSTANTLI increasing uumDcE
"A of physicians prescribe Peruna in
their regular practice. 1t has
proven its merits so thoroughly that
even the doctors have overcome their
prejudice against so called patent medi-
cines and recommend it to their patients.
Peruna occupies a unique position in
medical science. 1t is the only internal
systemic catarrh remedy known to the
medical profession today. Catarrh, rs
every one will admit, is the cause of one
half the diseases which afiict mankind.
Catarrh and catarrhal diseases afiict
one-haH of the people of United States.
F. H. Brand, M. D., of Mokena, H.,
uses Peruna in his practice. Tho follow
ing case is an example of the success he
has through the use of Peruna for ca
tarrh.
DR.. Brand says: "Mrs. c. age 2s,
had been q sufferer from catarrh for the
past seven years; could not hear plain
and had watery eyes She came to me
almost q physical wreck. She had tried
the Copeland cures and various other
so-called specialists, and had derived no
benefit from them. She told me she edid
not want to spend any more money on
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

20 further west, where, as he said,
he could spread himself. Il tried all
sorts of schemes" said my
friend. ITO induce him to sell me that
eighty. but couldn't touch him until
l worked the Westward ho,' game on
him, and that soon fetched him. You
see, he had his little place well
shaped up, and was doing finely, max
ing a good living and laying up lit
tie plum every year, and such man
is hard to move. But he's gone, and
I've got the eighty"
"What are you going to do with
| it?' asked.
Rent the house. garden and or
chard to a tenant, and put the rest
in corn. The land is rich as cream.
and I'll get some big crops of it the
next five years; then I'll put it in
grass, and make pasture of it,"
made few inquiries, to get lit
tie light on what appeared to me to
be transaction bordering on the
shady order, and learned that the
| former owner of the land in question
had for several months been system
atically wheedled on one side by
western boomers and harraSsed on
the other by resl-estate agents At
home, all steered by the man who
wanted the land, and that finally he
had parted with his neat little farm
and bought large tract of wild land
in a western territory ITO get rid OF
both" His wife protested earnestly
against the sale of the old home, and
against going away to the west, far
from relatives and old friends, to be
gin again, but without avail. have
| lust learned that both are very much
dissatisfied with their new location
and are trying to arrange matters sc
! they can return to the old neighbor'
hood.
/ 1t is not the owner of the small
farm who finds the life of a farmer
that of a slave; it is the man who il
working two fifths or one half OF his
time for another man, or he who il
trying to farm more land than he can
and loses all of his income in ex
penses. j know many men wht
are now awaiting the opening Of
spring with fear and trembling. They
want to make big crop to ray run
ming expenses and meet pressing
debts and interest on notes or mort
cages, and every day they are de
layed by bad weather adds to the ex
pense column and cuts into prospec
tive receipts. The man who owns hii
home and is wise enough to keep out
of dept is not badly worried. He hai
q living in sight, and if the season
turns ont reasonably fair he ha:
something to add to his surplus. Hi
farm may be very small, but it Il
easily and inexpensively handled, ant
a few days of bad weather does no
worry him. He is the real "indepen
dent farmer" The slaves are th'
tenant farmer, the farmer who is try
ing to farm more than he can, and tn
farmer who is up to his eyes in debt
Mrs. Grundy, in Farm and Firesidc
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
WzUuluSsws2

"This is only one case of the many I
have treated with your valuable meda-
cine. IF. III. Brand, M. d.
Catarrh may invade any organ OF the
body; may destroy any function OF the
body. It most commonly attacks the
head, nose and throat, but thousands
upon thousands of cases of catarrh OF
the lungs, stomach, kidneys, bladder
and other pelvic organs have been cured
by Peruna.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

" 1put her on Pc
|runa and told her
Ito come back In
| two weeks. The
effects were won
/ derful. The cast
| down lookshe had
when ] first saw
her had left her
! and a smile adorn-
| ed her face. She
told me she felt Z
different woman,
| her hearing was
Improved and her
ieyes did not trou'
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
THE INDEPENDENT FARMER


A few days ago farmer friend in
formed me that he had bought an
ether eighty. one on which he had
kept his eye for several years. The
owner had been reading the glowing
descriptions of western territory
that were sent him by several real-es-
tate agents by request of my farmer
friend, and he decided to sell out ard
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

/ am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos
Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y,
Feb. IL. 1900,
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

The Klean, KooI Kitchen Kind" is The
trade marx on stoves which enable you "a
cook in comfort in cool kitchen.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
Ths Wrong counter.

Mrs. Bargain Hunter-I want to get The
Man with the Hoe"
Clerk lat hosiery counter)-Youh hnd
the man with the hose.-N. Y. Times.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

Indolence never tires of doing nothing
Chicago Daily News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

The more we study the more we discover
our ignorance.-Shelley.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

A luxury becomes a necessity just - soon
as we can afford to have it.-Puck.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

"Aud now that you have finished cclege,
what ere you going to do!" asked friena
of the youthful candidate
II shall study medicine" was the grave
reply Of the young man.
5But isn't that profession already over
crouded!" asked the friend.
aPossibly it IS" eaid the knowing youth,
ssbut I propose TO study medicine just the
ssme. and those who are already IN the pro
fession viii have to take their chances.
Stray Stories.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

Money refunded for each package ol
Putnam Fadeless Dyes if unsatisfactory.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

Funny thing about sclf-made men"
whats that" They never have
daughters who care for self-made dresses -
--Pniladelphia Press
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

On the road TO success there il an urgent
demand for rapid transit.-Puck.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis, four daily
trains via the Chicago L Northwestern
Ry.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

Dependency is ingratitude; hope 10 God,
worship.-H. W. Beecher.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
Many school Ohildren Are sickIy.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chil
dren, used by Mother Gray, nurse in Chil.
dren's Home, New York, break up Colds,
cure Feverishness, Constipation and destroy
Worms. All Druggists. 25c. Sample FREE
Address Allen S. Olmsted, lie Roy. New FORK
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

Beer production in Austria declined
last year By 4s2,11I barrels.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
WHY n. Called her ressy.

'I thought your wifes name was Eiis'
hethr
$50 it H. -.
.Then why do you cal her Pessyr
"Shore for Pegasa."
"What has that to do with 1t
"Why, Pegasa Is feminine for Pegasus.
'Well!"
"Weli, Pegasus i IN Immortal stsed."
"What of that?"
"'Sh! Not 20 loud. She IN the next room.
Won 80 an immortal steed il an everlast-
IND nag, and there you sre.'-lndianapolis
journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
ROBERT R.
ROBERTS ND

Robert B. Roberts, n. D., WASH
ington, D. c., writes:
Through my own experience
- we'll ~ that Of many OF my
friends and acqnsinfsnces who
have been cured or relieved Of CO.
tarrh By the use Of Harfman's
Peruna. can confidently recon.
mend II to those suffering from
such disorders, and have no hesf.
tafion In pnescribiag II to my pa.
tlenks. ".s-R0berf K. Roberts.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20

To Cure q Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
druggists refund moneyif it fails to cure. 25c.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-06-20
HARD TO BEAR.

When the back
aches and pains SO
badly, can't work
can't res st-c q n {
sleep = can't eat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-14
LOSS A MILLION.
Seven Persons Killed by Hurri-
cane in Florida.

Jacksonville. Fla. Sept. 14.-No wires
are working south of Jacksonville this
morning. and details of the hurricane
which swept across the southern part
OF the state Saturday are incomplete.
So far as known seven people met
death. the bodies of five being washed
up near Miami. on the east coast, and
two near Boynton, on the west side
of the state. Passengers arriving today
on belated trains report that on the
east coast many vessels have been
wrecked.
Above Miami it is reported that seven
or eight vessels are ashore. The prop
erty loss in the city of Tampa is about
one million dollars. West Tampa was
flooded by the rain. No loss of life is
reported in Tampa, although several
persons were hurt by falling trees.
Much injury has been done to orange
groves and gardens. and it is feared that
the beautiful winter homes of northern
people have been damaged.
The disturbance is today sweeping
across Alabama and Louisiana.
All wires south of Montgomery. Ala.
are down in the neighborhood of F'lOa NJ
ington, Ala. Birmingham, Montgomery,
Mobile and New Orleans report high
winds. There is no evidence of the storm
at Charleston, S. c., although precau-
tionary signals have been displayed
there for two daVS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-14
NO OCTOBER SESSION.
President Plans to Summon
Congress Nov. 8.

Oyster Bay, L. l., Sept 14-After ma
ture consideration and consultation in
person and by mail with members of
both the senate and house of repreSen-
tatives, President Roosevelt has aban-
doned the suggestion that congress be
called into extraordinary session in Oc-
tober. The extraordinary session, which
he announced many months ago would
be held this fall, will be called, accord
ing to present plans, to meet on Mo-
vember ., which was the date tenta-
lively fixed some time ago 1t is not
expected that the formal call for the
session will be issued until after the
president shall have returned to Wash
inEton-
Notwithstanding the fact that the
suggestion of an October session of
congress came from prominent senators
who warmly advocated it's adoption.
the proposition was not received with
favor by members of congress general
was opposed particularly because it
would oblige senators and representa-
tives 70 leave their states and districts
in the midst of campaign which to
many of them and to their party was
of vital innortance.
No definite agreement has yet been
reached as to the character of the
financial legislation which may be en-
acted at the approaching session of
congress. Indeed, it is not certain thai
agreement can be reached between
the two branches of congress whereby
any special legislation can be enacted.
1t may be that a solution of the prob
lem. which is alike complex and per-
picking, will be reached before the con-
vention of the extraordinary session,
but even that is by no means assured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-14
GRIEF FOR HIS WIFE
Causes Clerk in Worlds Fair
Office to Hill Himself.

St Louis. Mo. Sept. 14-Grieving
over the death of his wife. the news of
which reached him in kilograms three
days after her demise, Robert Stock
well Hatcher. aged 40. of Lafayette.
Ind shot and killed himself in a room
ct the Planters hotel about noon to-
DAY. Mr.. Hatcher was a clerk in the
office of Walter b. Stevens. secretary
OF the Louisiana purchase commission.
rive years he was reading cle-k of the
house of representatives, in Washing
ton, his wife's former home.
Mrs. Hatch at the time Of her death.
was corresponding secretary general of
the Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton She had been i'll several years
with consumption. Her death occurred
Friday at the home of her sister. Mrs.
~. c. Barnard, in Chicago.
Mr.. Hatcher's body was taken to the
morgue. The police notified ME-. BAH
nard. who 1t is supposed will take
charge of the remains
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-14
TWO ARE KILLED.
Switch Engine Explodes a Car
of Dynamite.

Bay City. Mich, Sept. 14.-Clarence
D. Hopper and Roy Boucher, switch
men of the Michigan Central railroad.
have been instantly killed by an ex-
plosion of dynamite in a car in the
yards at West Bay City. Robert Rob-
lin, engineer; William Nable, fireman.
and John Cracile. conductor. were in
jured, the latter so severely that he
may die. All of the trainmen were res
idents of this city. The explosion oc-
CURED as switch engine was making
up train. The engine backed down
upon several cars, the first containing
a thousand rounds of dynamite. a con-
signment of Lee -Metford rifles and a
quantity of reduced charge shells of
indoor rifle practice, and it is said that
the force with which it struck the ex-
plosive-laden car exploded the dyna-
mite. Another report has it that one
of the shells exploded and set off the
dynamite. Hopper's body was badly
cut by flying steel and Boucher was de-
capitated. his body being terribly man.
gled. A big hole was torn in the
ground by the explosion, a score of
freight cars demolished. and nearly 300
houses in the vicinity suffered broken
windows and several were so badly
Wrecked as to be uninhabitabIe The
shock was felt three miles from the
scene.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-14
Large Number of Men ImprisOn-
ed on the Kearsarge
On Account of the Rebellion
Against the Chief Officers.
CALL HER CURSEHARD.
The Warship Has Been Re-
named by the Sailors.
Threw Gunsights Overheard
Previous to Maneuvers.

New York, Sept 14.-The sailors of the
flagship Kearsarge. which together with
the Alabama. the Texas. the Illinois and
the Chicago, anchored off Staten Island,
have been in condition bordering on
mutiny, it was learned today, for many
weeks. BY sailors and petty officers on
other ships it was said that when the
Kearsarge came to anchor 20 men
were imprisoned in the brig because of
mutinous conduct. These men say they
have renamed the flagship the Curse
hard, on account of the voluble dissat-
isfaction continually expressed by the
crew. BY this parodied cognomen the
Kearsarge is known. they say, by all
the other vessels of the squadron.
In the recent shooting contests dur
ing the maneuvers the gunners of the
Kearsarge scored six shots out of
twelve shots, the Alabama beating the
record with fifteen out of sixteen. and
every other vessel of the squadron
showing a first rate average. Accord
ing to the sailors the gunners of the
Kearsarge, in revenge for grievances,
real or fancied. of long standing. by
agreement with the crew determined to
make as poor showing as they could.
To cIinch this agreement some ven
turesome spirits, not yet discovered,
threw overheard all the lenses of the
gun sights, thereby rendering expert
craftsmanship impossible. Several of
the men on the Kearsarge verified this,
though all said that they had been in
structed before being allowed to go
ashore not to say anything about this
Incident
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-14
STONED HER SCHOOL.
Topeka WOman's Exciting Ex-
perience in Mississippi.

Mrs H l. Miller, of this city who is
principal of Lincoln school at Meridian,
Miss, had an experience with mob OF
southern gentlemen" which stoned the
school at 27O5 Eleventh street, Meri-
dian. The occurrence took place last
Thursday. Several shutters and win
dows IN the house were smashed out.
Lincoln school is a eolored school
with an attendance of about 500, estab-
lished under the auspices of the Amer
lean Missionary association of New
York. 1t was organized by Mrs. Miller
ten wears ago. and was the first school
of the kind TO be established in Merid-
ian for the education of colored chill
d-en-
The mob was melted by articles in the
hating Mississippi newspaper. The
Star has been hostile to the purposes
of Lincoln school ever since its estab-
lishment. The attitude of President
his open friendship for Booker Wash
ington has caused the Star to indulge
in very violent editorials and much dis
tOrted news matter Wednesday night
the Star contained a dOuble-leaded edi-
tOrial advising the people of the city
to drive out the northerners who were
teaching colored schools in the south.
The next night the mob attacked the
teachers home Mrs: Miller was the
only teacher there. as school has not
yet commenced. and none OF those in
charge of the school had arrived with
the exception of Mrs. Miller who went
to Meridian a few weeks ago to super
wise the preparation of the buildings
for the years work
Mrs Miller was of course greatly
alarmed by the action of the mob. but
did nothing except stay indoors, out of
range of the missiles When the coward
~ rioters grew tired of stoning the
house. they dispersed.
The following day the Star con-
tanned flaring account of the affair,
and stated that the lady principal of
the school dashed out at the mob and
fired several shots at the citizens who
were venting their righteous indigna-
tioa-"
Mrs. Miller states in letter received
by Topeka friends that she has written
/ a letter to the mayor OF Meridian, ap-
pealing to him for protection. and that
she thinks the school will not be mo-
Tested. There is a large school build
ing and a chapel on the Lincoln school
grounds. The teachers home is situ-
ated some distance from the school,
Meridian. Miss, with is mob of stone
throwing citizens, seems to be very
much akin to Pekin. where the boxers
attacked the civilized missionaries and
ministerial headquarters.