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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-02-14

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-02-14

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-02-14

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-02-14

The Canadian Northwest is not AL
alike in its production. Wheat grow.
ing is the speciality sof one part, cat
tie ranching Of another, and mixed
farming-the growth of grain and
live stock together-of still another
Speaking roughly, the southeastern
parts of the Territories and Manitoba
are wheat growing; the southwest
ern part of the Territories is ranch
ing, and the northern part OF the
Territories is mixed farming. Differ
ences of soil. climate, and other cor
ditions are the causes of these differ
4 ences in agriculture in the. various
sections, But it is safe to say thai
in no other area of the world is there
Jan equal possibility of the production
sof wealth from the soil. whether by
zone branch Of agriculture or another
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-02-14
GREAT STRIDES MADE.
Wonderful Richness of the Soil 81
Western Canada HAs Turned the
Eide Of Immigration.

The treat strides which WESTERN
Cshada Il making, and the wonderful
richness ~ the soil, is creating con-
siderable excitement, not only ia
Canada, but IN the United States and
Great Britain. The large crops Of
the. past two years, with phenomenal
yields, have enacted a movement to-
wards the west, which win not be
checked until every available home
stead is taken. The Edmonton Bull
letin, one of the "farthest north"
newspapers, in a recent article on
the Northwest. as wide and open
field. says: There must be fertile
seil,there must be a suitable climate,
there must be the possibility of build
ing up modern civilization; and the
conditions must be such that labor
can reach the land; or in other
words, land must be cheap. The
Canadian Northwest contains the
largest unbroken area of country on
the continent, or in the world fulfill
ing these conditions. In it's thou
sand miles of plain which stretches
from the Lake of the Woods to the
Rocky Mountains Canada is able to
offer land to the landIess of the CON.
tinent, and of the world. This year
(f902), the only complaint, over all
the vast stretch of territory, of the
farmers and ranchers, is that thu
Railways have not sufficient rolling
stock to move to market the returns
of the past season. So
THE area under crop in Western
Canada in 1902 was 1,9s7,330 acres
, field 1902, III, s22,754 bushels. Wealtl
waits on industry in Canada. Their
8 Plenty of Room,
$Prices have advanced in Wester,
Canada so per cent. in the last tw
years, and the upward movemen
seems still on. The migration int
Canada is becoming notable. Some
body has estimated that $4,000 acre
of Canadian- land are sold a day I
people from BE United States.
whatever doubts there have bee
as to the suitability of the Canadia
Northwest for settlement, thos
doubts have been set at rest by Ii
successive yields of previous year
and by the browning glory of I'll
past year (19o2), which gives sol
assurance as to possibilities thu
would not otherwise have been b
lieved. The fact of the grain produ
ton of the past season in Manitot
and the Northwest, 117,922,7I bus
els from 1887 $3.50 acres, and that
certain number of farmers have pr
duced greater value of wheat, oat
and cattle for sale than any 9th
equal number anywhere else in Il
known world, is the best possible a
swer to the question: us the
wealfhan the Northwestf" Not on
in the Northwest but in the who
country has there been prosperity.
The Canadian Northwest is not
alike in its production. Wheat gro
ing is the speciality of one part, c;
tie ranching Of another, and mix
farming-the growth of grain a
live stock together-of still anoth
Speaking roughly, the southeaste
parts of the Territories and Mantle
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-02-14

THE area under crop in Western
Canada in 1902 was 1,9s7,330 acres.
field 1902, 1l7,922,754 bushels. Wealth
watts on industry in Canada. There
. Plenty of Room,
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-10
N THE YEAR. 1902
Notable Events From Janu-
airy to December.
RECORD DAY BY DAY.
Startling Volcanic UpheavaIs In
the West Indies.
WORK OF THE GRIM REAPER

Losses of Life and Treasure BY
Flames, Accident, Storms and
Shipwrecks-Personal Items, Polit-
tcal, Sporting and Miscellaneous
Affairs-A Chronological Review.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-10

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
Children in Alabama Mills.

The Federation of Women's clubs and the cotton mills have come to- gether and agreed upon compromise child labor bill. Like all other com promises the bill is not wholly satis- factory to the good women of the state or to the cotton mills, but all agree that it is better than further agitation, and so it is booked to go through unopposed.
 The bill shuts out from the mills all children under ten years of age, and all under the age of twelve except those supporting widowed mother, or aged father, or themselves. The bill should in fact provide for proof in these exceptional cases before employ ment can become legal. The bill fur ther provides that no 'child" shall be employed until an affidavit of a par ent or guardian stating its age Is first filed. This clause very properly in- cludes all under full age. Another sec tion forbids the employment of chill dren under the age of thirteen after o'clock at night, or before 6 o'clock in the morning, and no child under the age of twelve shall be employed more than 66 hours a week. A work ing day of eleven hours would seem to be long enough for children under twelve years of age.
 This bill will undoubtedly become law, and it will stand four years, and perhaps in 1907 another bill will mark the progress of a movement that ex- tends to every part of the country. The women's clubs and the mill man. agers have at any rate acted wisely In framing bill that will restrain the greed of some employers and protect to some extent many helpless little ones in the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
Prosnects of Peac e.

The war that was suddenly declared against Venezuela on December 20, following or accompanying an equally sudden blockade by German, Great Britain and Italy, seems to be in course of settlement. It seems also to be the intention to raise the blockade as soon as guarantees of settlement are provided. MT. Bowen is now in Washington, not as a representative of the United States, but as repre- sentative of Venezuela, and he offers to pledge 30 per cent of the custom receipts at La Guayra and Puerto Ca bello in lien of cash payment. Ven ezuela has no ready money, and only 30 per cent of her customs are un- pledged. It seems to be conceded that the allies will consider a pledge of 30 per cent guarantee on the part of Ven ezuela, and that the blockade will be speedily raised. There can, in fact, be no customs while the blockade is ef- fective.
 It is not expected to pay the claims of the allies through the custom houses. These claims aggregate S20,- 100000, and the greater part of them are fraudulent. They will be submitted to some impartial tribunal, and the just will be separated from the un- just
 This will consume a year or two of time, and in the meanwhile Venezuela is to hand over 30 per cent of the GUS toms receipts at her two chief ports as a guarantee of good faith. A com mission will be named to take charge of the customs collected in the two ports named, and to conduct and ad. minister them All of these details are to be settled at Washington, where MT. Bowen is conferring daily with the representatives of the allies. Be- yond all reasonable doubt the trouble involving many delicate questions to- wards this country will soon be set tied, and the United States will es- cape any entanglement on account of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
s----o~------------ INDIAN PRlNCEs' WEALTH.

From the London Daily Mall.
 Reuters correspondent at Delhi yester- day cabled some interesting details of the splendors of the Delhi gathering. Speak, ing of the display made by the Nizam of Hyderabad, he says it required nine spe- cial trains to bring the 800 troops, besides retainers including 300 personal servants, who followed the nizam to the city.
 Eight great nobles, each with seventy five retainers and train of elephants, accompanied his highness, while fifteen riding horses, fifteen pairs of carriage horses and over twenty carriages were brought. for his personal use, besides oth- CTS for the staff, Moreover, the nizam supplied twenty elephants for the pro- cession on December 20.
 The Gaekwar of Baroda has erected triumphal arch bearing electric flash portraits of the king and queen at the main entrance of the camp, which is splendidly lighted from a private electric plant.
 At the durbar the gaekwar wore a breastplate of diamonds approaching 8 quarter of a million sterling In value In his camp cases of jewels lie in a tent guarded by armed retainers.
 By general consent (adds the corre- spondent) the most picturesque figures at the durbar were the Sran chiefs. They appeared in the old court dress of the times of the kings of Burmah. con- spicuous feature Is the tiara, which has a general suggestion of wedding cake in gold, or of an inverted salad bowl with accessories also in gold. Their robes are spanbled all over with gold and have wings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
Furniture Center.

Ben M. Jacobs, who returned recently from a northern trip, says that Grand Rapids is still the great center of the high class furniture industry. He spent a week in Grand Rapids and reports that the place is growing faster than ev- er
 In speaking of the manufacture of fur niture, MT. Jacobs said: High Point N. C., is becoming a ctrong furniture center for the plainer grades, and before many years Birmingham will have one or more large factories. but Grand Rap ids has the model plants and the skilled mechanics for turning out elegant furni- ture and it will keep the lead for long time to come"
 Leaving Grand Rapids MT. Jacobs spent a week in Chicago. He goes there every year, but he says the Windy City" seems to be surpassing itself right now in growth and general prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
RICHMOND DISPATCH SOLD.

F~cm the Richmond Dispatch.
 The Richmond Dispatch, with its name, good will, subscription list, advertising business, and Associated Press franchise, has been sold to Joseph Bryan, who will combine and publish it with The Rich mond Times. under the name of the Times-Dispatch
 Possession will be delivered on Monday, January 26. 1903.
 The Evening Leader, with it's name, good will, subscription list, advertising business. and Associated Press franchise, has been sold to the company hitherto publishing the Richmond Dispatch, and will be continued with The News and pub lished with it at the corner of Ninth and Main streets as The NewsLeader.
 Possession will be delivered on Monday, January 26 1903.
 The change announced above is the in- evitable result of newspaper conditions in this city, which have hardly a parallel in the country. No other city In the south probably none in the north-has four such newspapers as have been operated in Richmond during the last two years The territory will not sustain them, and the proprietors had to choose between op- erating at a loss or reducing the cost of production. This is a simple proposition which every business man will under stand.
 The chief regret in connection with the change is that it will force a number of excellent, faithful and valued employees out of positions which they have filled with credit to themselves and to the ad- vantage of the respective properties. There was no way to avoid this result. Compe- tition had forced the employment of more people than the available newspaper in- comes justified, and those who were among the surplus employes must be dropped
 We do not believe that there will be any political significance in the change. Time and events have abolished former issues and differences, ana 1T the papers had continued separate existence they would have represented practically the same positions, so far as can be known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
LETTERS TO EDITOR.
The Stamp Act.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald.
 The odous stamp act imposed on the colonies by England brought about the American revolutions; and from that time to this present. all stamp acts have been repulsive to our people. At this time there is no law of the kind on the statute books of the United States or of any Of the states.
 Taxation should always be uniform, bearing as nearly equally on every per son as possible. A tax on mortgages ana money borrowed Is unjust to the borrow er as he always has to pay the tax He nays another tax on his real estate or other property, on which he procures the loan. and on the property in which he invests the money. This is double taxa ton. and is against the theory or our government, and should not be encour- aged.
 what we need in Alabama Is large amount of cheap money for developing our immense mineral and agricultural resources. both are interested equally, alike. The planter needs 1t to increase bis facilities for making his crops, for nurchasing more mules. blows and fer .,,uers. Cheap money will soon build orA or more cotton factories in every countv. which will give him home mar ket for all his products. The mineral regions need cheap money to build more furnaces, steel plants. foundries, etc. and to open more coal and iron mines. As soon as these investments are made the state and counties will collect their taxes from the property in which this money is invested, and from the products arising from the same.
 Take for example Jefferson county; thirty years ago 1t was one of the poor est counties in the state, without mile of railroad, and its tax assessment only about two millions of dollars Now 1t has hundreds of miles of railroads and electric lines; numerous furnaces, rolling mills mines, foundries, etc, and its tax assessments amount to about forty-five millions of dollars.
 All other counties have made immense gains. Almost all of this increase has been done by foreign capital. and the state and county collect taxes on all these investments. Then let us encourage foreign capital to come into our state. as all other states are striving to do:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
Germany has no naval sense.
ADplcKs sLAcKEp AGAIN.

From the Philadelphia North-Amercan.
 After another campaign of bullying and buying, Addicks again finds himself beat en In his ambition to force his way Into the United States Senate. Ills lieutenants no longer attempt to conceal the truth. Secretary of State Layton, the gasman's chief spokesman, virtually accepts the the first days test vote as final. and falls back on promises of what the Addicldtes will do the next time. Our great fight" the fight of our lives" he says, "will be the campaign of 1904, and we expect to sweep this state for republican principles and majority rule"
 Possibly In the next two years the agents of the Addicks machine may succeed in coruptlng enough of the voters of Della ware to elect a majority of the Legisla- ture. For the present, however, he is beaten. By so much is the possibility of his ultimate triumph postponed and les sened. Nothing short of open bribery can win him seat in the senate at this ses- sion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
NEW YORK FORESTS.

From the Boston Herald.
 The forthcoming report of the New York forest, fish and game commission will show an increase of the states holdings of Adirondack forest land amounting to 2S,505 acres, or more than A square miles. About half of this increase was acquired by purchase of owners and half at tax sales. The total state forest preserve in the Adirondacks is now 1,352 356 acres, or over 2113 square miles. Besides this, the state has S4.330 acres, more than 131 square miles, in the Catskills These are figures which cheer the heart of the lover of the woods, because he feels that in these preserves the reckless destroyers of natural beauty and wealth will not be allowed to have their vandal way. In this matter New York is doing a noble service to coming generations of her citi- zens that should be an example to other states. Maine. New Hampshire and Yer mont may all take a lesson from New York. New York constantly employs a fire warden with many assistants to pro- tect its forests. How successful this pre- caution is appears from the fact that the value of standing timber destroyed by fire last year was s9150. while in the neigh boring state of New Jersey the losses of this kind amounted to s16S,OOO. almost sO.- 900 acres of forest being destroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
THE LONG WHITE SEAM.
My Jean Ineelow

My Jean 1ngelow. As I came round the harbor buoy, The lights began to geam, No wave the land-locked water stirred, The crags were white as cream; And I marked my love by candlelight Sewing her long white seam, It's aye sewing ashore, my dear, Watch and steer at sea, Its reef and furl, and haul the line, Set sail and think of thee. I climbed to her cottage door; O, sweetly my love sings! fs Like a shaft of light her voice breaks
 forth, My soul to meet 1t springs, As the shining water leaped of old When stirred by angel wings. Ay, longing to list anew, Awake and in my dream. But never a song she sang like this, Sewing her long white seam. Fair fall the lights, the harbor lights, That brought me into thee, And peace drop down on that low roof, For the sight that I did see. And the voice. my dear, that rang 50
 clear,
 All for the love of me. For O, for O. with brows bent low By the candies flckering gleam, Her wedding gown 1t was she brought. Sewing the long white seam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
ABOUT RELIGION AND FEET.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Some of the towns out in the Fox and Rock valleys are engaged in a. queer mix ture of contention. While some of them are trying to find out which town has wo- men with the smallest feet, others are fighting out what 1t costs to convert a sinner and keep him in the right path. The towns are called upon periodically to raise funds for revival, and they get the per capita cost after the meetings are over Rockford sets up the claim vert a man or woman, although accord Ing to the recent census taken the town Is the most religious in the big valley.
 oregon, the charming little capital of Ogle county says that 1t costs that town quite as much per head for the first cons version, but 1t takes great deal more to do the work over and over again It is claimed that in Oregon there are charac- ters who have to be converted once year. It Is alleged that some of them have cost the good people S2O0 head, and they are sure to go forward at the next revival which will be held during the winter
 From poking fun at the size of the feet of Chicago girls, the towns of Bevidere, Rockford and Aurora, have suddenly taken a notion to measure the propor- tions of the pedal extremities of their own fair maidens. Each town has held measuring bee, with the result that each successive trial has resulted in finding the smallest feet. much smaller than those of any of the other towns, so that by the time the craze reaches Stilman Valley no Chinese or Japanese lady may rrfx.1a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
Mark Hanna as a Lily White.

Mark A. Hanna as a lily white lead CT would be a novelty in the south, where in 1896 he was a purchaser of negro delegates. To all needful extent he repeated the operation in 1900. He maintained his grip upon southern delegations. He booked in" those dele gations regardless of race, color or litical decency. As a result he became in MT. McKinley's day the chief dis penser of patronage-of political pie. He not only, in his business-like way, annihilated Thomas B. Reed, the brightest public man of those days, but he built up an invincible machine based all the time on southern dele gations regardless of color. The man who joined together southern dele gations and the combines involved in the Dingley tariff, holding them firm ly when joined as he had been ac- customed to hold parts of his own business affairs, is now to face about and become a leader of the lily whites! This is truly new departure on the part of MT. Hanna, if indeed, he has any hand in it at all.
 The death of MT. Mckinley render ed such a change possible, and it may be that the Ohio senator Is ready for flop in the south that will leave his old associates and assistants out of the reckoning. The real query is, does MT. Hanna desire to become President? He will be nearly 70 years old at the opening of the next Presl dential term, but stiu it Is not pru dent to assume that one who has drank so deeply of politics does not desire to reach the top of the political ladder. The chances are that he is an aspirant, in at least the sense that Grover Cleveland is-both being will ing to be struck by Presidential lightning.
 In politics MT Hanna seems to re gard success as a duty and rule of action, and he has not shown any great amount of delicacy or honor in the selection of ways and means to- wards it. He supports Addicks in his attempt to collar senatorship in Del aware, and he dispensed patronage in the south to an unconscionable lot Party success is his rule. and no man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-29
Achurehman,s Views.

Al. the recent Church club dinner at Sherrys in New York, the Rev. pr. Mc- Cornell. rector of All Souls church. ana one other learned Episcopallan' made rather pessimistic addresses" remarked a Birmingham layman.
 They spoke of the lack Of vitality Tn the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States. In reply an old clergy man, writing in the New York sun' makes these pertinent observations;
 "It is this dreadful falling off in what the Puritans used to call "yearning for souls" which is the great fault with the ministers of the present day What me church needs Is increased earnestness. IL may be the earnestness of Whiteileld or a Wesley, a Sturgeon or a Pusey or Lacordaire or a Moody, but Increased earnestness is what is needed, and clearer understanding as to the methods of salvation through Christ. There IS little or no power of instruction In the Protestant Episcopal church at the pres ent time-no appeal to the souls or men, The Church of England Is far in advance of the American church in this respect. The reason is not far to see. We are m the midst of a commercial world. Ev- erything Is gauged by success, and not by a standard of truth.
 "'What is needed at this time is de- vout leader-a young man like stephen of old, full of the Holy Ghost} He may be a High Churchman or Low Church. man, or a Ritualist, but If he has mes sage to the souls of men, and is mighty in the scriptures, men and women con scious of an eternity beyond the grave will flock to listen. Only few such men are born in generation. It should be the effort of every bishop of the church to place young men so gifted in position of wide influence. The church vestries of the present day are always looking out for successful young lergyman who can run a church." But the bishops should seek apostolic men, young, schol- arly, gifted and earnest and then place them where they can be heard