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The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02
THE FARMERS GARDEN.
Spring In Not Far Away anu "e
Farmer should Be Thinking
About Nis Garden.

And now for spring! To be sure, II
not quite here, but the rapidly
lencthening days and the sun away up
at noontime is good evidence that 1t
,s not far away. In few days the
b,uebirds will be here, then the robbins,
and one after another all the other
spring and summer favorites. We will
have cold days and frost, and possibly
snow storms, before spring is fairly on,
hut fellow can't help looking long
inrly at the old familiar tools he Is
almost aching 20 get to work with.
About the first thing the sensible,
practical, down-to-date farmer thinks
Of is the garden. He knows that hot
days and hard work are coming, and
that no must have change of diet to
enable him to do what he hopes to DO.
He must eat more vegetables and less
fat meat to keep in healthy condi-
t,on. and these vegetables must come
from the garden. Now is the time tc
prepare for 1t. I,have found 1t good
and very helpful plan to draw a plat
of the garden on piece OF paper, ano
indicate by lines where each variety o1
veectable shall be planted. One car
eosily ASCERTAIN the length and breadth
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HOUSEHOLD BITS.
Items of Information Pertaining ts
Matters Culinery and
Domestic.

? A delicious filling for sandwiches IL
made of equal parts of Swiss cheese,
grated, and chopped English walnuts.
Season with salt and red pepper, and
moisten with enough cream or melted
butter to spread.
When the eyes are tired from too long
use of reading by insufficient light,
moisten pieces of old linen or absorbent
cotton with some good extract, and place
them on the closed eyelids for fifteen
minutes or longer while you lie down in
quiet room.
Rice should be substituted for pota-
toes oftener than it generally is on
northern tables. There are many ways
of cooking it besides the plain boiling.
Spanish rice is almost meal in itself,
and will be relished by all who love
piquant dishes. Wash the rice through
several waters, dry, and brown it in hot
drippings, in which a chopped onion and
q Glove of garlic is frying. Season with
salt and pepper and add few table
spoonfuls Of canned tomatoes. Cover
the whole with hot water and cook with
out touching it until the rice issoft Add
hot water as it boils away.
Professor Harry Snyder Of the Min
nesota experiment station OF the de-
partment of agriculture, says that
housekeepers could vastly increase the
digestibility of beans by parboiling them
with little soda, in the proportion Of
half a teaspoonful of baking soda to a
pound of beans and two quarts of water.
The ordinary white navy bean, he as
serts, while 1t contains when dry 22.5
of protein, or muscle and energy. is very
hard to digest, and taxes the digestive
apparatus more than almost any other
vegetable food.
Dietary experts warn people, es-
pecially city dwellers. against the too
constant use of artificial preparations
and notifications of food. For con-
tinued use these are inferior to ordinary
foods cooked in the usual way. 1t is
easier to use cereals that require NO
cooking, or are prepared by merely
pouring on boiling water; soups that
need only to be diluted and heated, etc,
but in very short time the body suffers
for lack of proper nourishment. 1t IL
certain that the corner delicatessen shoI
is responsible for great many starved
bodies. Children especially need solid
food, hygienically cooked. They should
be given the kind of food that require,
them to use their teeth.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02
HERE AND THERE.

How quickly the millennium would
come If we would only do the good
things to-day that we are going to DO
tomorrow.
The soil for Irish potatoes next
spring should be deeply and thoroughly
plowed now, or as soon as convenient,
and the sooner it is convenient the bet
ter.
utility is coming more and more
to be the watchword of American poul-
trymen. Good laying and choice mar
ket fowls seem 20 be the aim Of an In
creasing number breeders.
Vegetables must be used when they
reach the proper stage of maturity,
and for this reason truck gardeners
should organize in an effort to buiid
up a regular market for their produce.
Secretary Wilson in recent inter-
view said. Good crops insure the ma
ton against panics. have the great
est confidence in the agriculturalist as
the real sustaining power OF the pros
perity of the United States"
The so-called egg breeders are com
naratiyeIy small in size, active and oi
a nervous temperament. They are great
foragers and well calculated to secure
norton of their living when given
free range.
Forty years ago the farmers owned
55 per cent. of the wealth of this coun-
trv hut such has been the advance ol
manufacturing and railroad building
that they now own but 22 per cent
though there has been no decline IL
agricultural values.
in December, 1908. through Gal
weston alone, we exported II .531 tons
of cotton seed meal and 943 tons o
cotton seek cake These feed stun'
went to Germany. Holland and France
During the year just passed more thar
2 500 900 sacks of cotton meal and cak'
went through the port Of New Orleans
The care Of manure should follow
il from the stable to the field. Assum
ing that the animal has been fed
well-balanced ration. the manure VII
contain fair percentage Of nitrogen
that should be counted upon to reduc'
the original cost OF the feed that car
r!ed the balancing element Of proteil
TO the ration
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of the garden plat, and by little hg-
uring can fix the matter to nicely.


The semi-tropical habits Of cotton
have caused us to consider it fitted
only to the humid or heavy rain belt
of the Gulf states. But change is
rapidly coming about. The semi-arid
west is growing cotton abundantly.
The pods or bolls pop open in Septem-
ber upon the prairies of west Texas,
Oklahoma and the Indian territories
like popcorn on hot shovel. And
this cotton is made with less labor
per acre than elsewhere. The staple
is good; the boil weevil has not invad-
ed these regions. The rains OF May
and June come just when cotton
needs it, and the summer rains are so
far apart they do not encourage crab
grass.
In company with Messrs. Sterley
and Gibson of the Fort Worth &
Denver road, and Mr.. Oswald Wilson,
of Fort Worth, Farm and Ranch rep
resentative visited Iowa park and
Wichita Falls on the near edge of the
great Panhandle to the greater pan.
We advised these people to plant cot
ton and diversity the single crop OF
wheat or cattle to which they are ac-
customed by resorting to the fieecy
staple. Since that visit the entire
country near the rail road has taken
up the cotton-growing idea. Carloads
of improved seeds have been ordered
for spring planting, and the results
will be seen in thousands of bales OF
cotton grown On those fertile, chocolate
lands. In Oklahoma, which has a
family to every 160 acres of land, the
people are adapting the new cotton
culture radically and in all its details
This, too, is good cotton country
| and should no very unfavorable sea-
son occur the yield of cotton from
Texas and Oklahoma and the Indian
| territory will easily exceed 100000
bales in 1904-Farm and Ranch.
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Cot the Rieht Kind.

Gainesville, Texas, Feb. 22nd.-Mrs. L.
E. Burton Of aO7 Glad street, this city,
writes the following letter.
Il have been swfully troubled with my
Kidneys. / was in a bad fix and had
been doctoring with the Doctors, but was
getting no better l tried a remedy called
Dodd's Kidney Pills and found they did
me lots of good. had slight return OF
my trouble and went to the Drug Store
and callud for Dodd's Kidney Pills.. They
said there was no such pills. told them
there was. They said they had the best
pills that were made and persuaded me
to try box of another kind, not Dodd's
As I needed some medicine, l bought Q
box, but they did me no good, SO / went
elsewhere and got the real Dodd's Kidney
Pills, and very soon was completely ourei
/ took box up to the Drug Store and
showed them that there was such pills an.
asked them to order some, but as
haven't needed any more l haven't called
to see whether or not they got them"
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

II hen is healthy and has good
appetite nostrums can not improve
her. Eggs are not produced from
powders, pills or solutions. but from
the food. A healthy hen is no subject
for medicine or tonics. If she is sick
or dropping it is not out of place to
endeavor to assist her to recover her
health with a tonic, but while her comb
is bright red and she scratches and
works vigorously, enjoying her food
and laying eggs as fast as nature per-
mits, the use of stimulants or tonics
will not benefit her or enable her to
lay another egg more than she would
without their use, even if they do not
injure her.-Farmers' Home Journal.
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The Attentive Eye.

The effect OF full, straightforward
gaze on the person to whom one is speak,
ing is not, as rule, sufficiently con-
sidered, says the New York Times. And
yet there is nothing in personal inter-
course that carries more weight than a
direct gaze. 1t is the medium for SYM
pathy, the mental telegraphy that brings
speaker and hearer in touch with each
other. Every one has experienced the
constraint of talking to person whose
wandering glances betray their lack of
interest, but one often fails to analyze
the subtle attraction of an attentive eye
that stimulates and inspires one all un-
consciously while one converses.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02
HIS START IN LIFE.
Shipwrecked Crew Bought Out His
Restaurant and Devoured
the Contents.

my start in life?" said q man who is
now very prosperous, according to the
New York Sun. why, it was very SIM
pie.
Fourteen years ago was keeping
little restaurant, or rather sort of
lunch place like, in little town on the
California coast There was business
opportunity in that town that I could
have jumped into in minute if had
had the ready cash-not very great
sum, either-but hadn't the money, and
/ couldn't raise it.
"One day the door of my little lunch
place was pushed open, and in walked
tall. big, famished looking man, march
ing at the head of IL other men looking
just like him. This man at the head
looked around at the place and said:
"sHow much will you take for every
thing you've got?'
"And right of the bat, involuntarily,
/ named the amount l wanted to put
into that business; four times what all
my stock, and fixtures, too. were worth,
and never dreaming of his taking it
but:
"We'll take it," said the big man, and
the other II turned in a minute and
would have jumped on the eatables on
the spot. but:
"'Hold on!' says the big man. Wait
till we tend to business and he col
lected up the money from the rest of
them and paid it over. and then
well, when they had got through
there was nothing left but the chairs
and the tables and the dishes. never
saw a restaurant cleaned out so COM
pletely. l never saw men with such ap-
petites; and I've seen some hungry
men.
at was q shipwrecked crew of IL
men, who had been IL days in an open
boat without food, and my place, down
on the waterfront, was the first eating
place they struck after they made land
Sailors don't usually have money
but they had it somehow. and they were
glad to pay the price. So locked my
doors the minute they had got away and
closed on that waiting chance; and il
came out all right"
"Humph!" said the prosperous mans
questioner. "do you know of any other
place on the California coast where
could open lunch place like that, where
shipwrecked crews with money would
be likely to come ashore?"
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02
cUTIcURA SOAP
.rhe worlds Greatest skin soap-The
Standard Of Every Nation
of the Earth.

Millions of the worlds best people use
Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura ONT.
skin cures, for preserving, purifying and
identifying the sxin, for cleansing the scalp
of crusts, scales and dandruff, and the
stopping of falling hair, for softcning,
whitening and soothing red, rough and
sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings and
chafngs, and many sanative, antiseptie
purposes which readily suggest themselves
to women, especially mothers, as well q;
for all the purposes of the toilet, bath and
nursery.
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s,ssentations.

An Atchison man tells the Globe about
bis hunee Dh an The t who shgDo bs ds
was to buy the best pew in the church.
When Sunday rolled around the Irishman
walked grandly down the aisle, carrying
O silk hat and elegant overcoat. He
found two strange women occupying his
pew. "Come out" he said, imperiously.
The women were very much shocked, and
walked out, their heads hanging in shame
..Now, then, ladies'" the lrishman said,
I'd to show you who owned this pew"
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02
SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH
Use Pe.ru.na for La Grippe
and Winter Catarrh.

In EVERY country of the civilized
/ world the Sisters of Charity are
known. Not only do they minister
to the spiritual and intellectual needs
of the charges committed to their care,
but they also minister to their bodily
needs.
Whenever coughs or colds, la grippe
or pneumonia make their appearance
among the children these Sisters are not
disconnected, but know exactly the
remedies to apply.
With somany children to take care OF
and to protect from climate and disease
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02
INTERESTING TO AMERICANS.
western Canada VIII Soon Become
the Supply DEPOT for wheat for
Great Britain.

During the past year about $4,000
Americans went from the United States
TO Canada. Most of these settled upon
farm lands, and the writer is informed
by agents of the Canadian Government
that the greatest success has followed
the efforts of nearly all. To their
friends on this side ofNthe boundary
line the fullest assurance is given OF
the prosperity that is in store for
them. There will always be a splen-
did market for all the grain, cattle
and other produce that can be raised In
Western Canada, and with the advan-
tages offered Of free homestead OF
16O acres of land, and other lands
which may be bought cheaply, an ex-
cellent climate. splendid school system.
educational advantages of the best.
what more is required. The husband
man gets more return for his money
than in any other country in the world.
On the occasion of Sir Wilfred
Laurier's visit to the Corn Exchange.
London, Eng, Colonel Montgomery, v.
D., made several important statements.
"The function Che said) which you
have just been assisting in connection
with a kindred association has doubt
less shown you the Importance Of the
provision trade of Liverpool In its re-
lationship with the Dominion. and the
enormous possibilities of the future de-
velopment of that trade. Well, the
grain trade of Liverpool has interests
with Canada no less important than
those of the provision trade. When 1t
is borne in mind that 80 per cent Of
the breadstuffs of this great country
has to be brought from abroad. you will
readily appreciate with what great sat-
isfaction we view the large and steadi-
ly increasing supplies of grain which
are annually available for export from
Canada, and l challenge contradiction
when I say that Of the wheats we inn
port from Russia. India. the Pacific, and
the length and breadth of the United
States, none gives more general satis-
faction, none is more generally appreci-
ated, than that raised in the Province
of Manitoba. We cannot get enough of
II, and it is no exaggeration to say that
there are before us dozens Of millers
who hunger for 1t. This is not~the
time to enter into statistical questions,
but we look forward with confidence to
the time at which, with the present
rate of progress, the Dominion Of Can
ada will have sufficient surplus oi
wheat to render this country inde-
pendent of other sources of supply.
think l may, with justifiable pride. re-
mind you that this is the chief grain
market Of the British Empire, and
through its excellent geographical po-
sition, as well as through the enter
prise of its millers it is now the sec
ond milling center in the world"
Send to any authorized Canadian
Government Agent for copy of Atla'
and information as to railway rate, etc
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

Peruna has become our favorite medi-
cine for influenza, catarrh, cold, cough
and bronchitis"
Another recommend from . Catholic
Institution of one 0ffhe Central STATES
written by the Sister Superior resds
as follows:
"a number of years ago our attention
was called to DR.. Hartman's Peruna,
and since then we have used 1t with
wonderful results for grip. coughs,
colds and catarrhal diseases OF the head
and stomach.
"For grip and winter catarrh espe.
cially it has been of great service to the
inmates of this institution"
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SISTERS OF CHARITY
An Over the United States Use Peru
ma for Catarrh.

A recommend recently received from
. Catholic institution in the Southwest
reads as follows:
A Prominent Mother Superios Says:
ST can testify from experience to the
efficiency of Peruna as one of the very
hest medicines, and it givesme pleasure
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Sisters Of St. Joseph Institute 1S49 Cas Ave. St
Louis Mo writes:
. .oorecisfe Peuna good work with
cssh and grippe We have fth n Pgna snd
We De wftnout
rs from did world Of good last
kindness to Us and our
afflicted ones We re"a' '01s SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH"
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02
Buttermilk Pie.

A healthful pie and well liked by many
is made as follows: Into lined pie tin
pour mixture made of one egg we'll
beaten, one-half cupful sugar. one table
spoonful -four. pinch of salt, fiayoring
to suit (nutmeg is very nice) and pint
Of buttermilk, fresh and good; all well
beaten. Bake half an hour in mod
crate oven.-Orange Judd Farmer.
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much improved. The remains OF my
old disease being now SO slight, l con-
slider myself cured, yet for while
intend to continue the use OF Peruna.
I am now treating another patient with
your medicine. She has been sick with
malaria and troubled with leucorrh@a.
I have NO doubt That q cure will be
speedily effected"
These are samples 0fIeffers received
by DR.. Hartman from the various
orders Of Catholic Sisters Throughout
tho United States.
The names and addresses to these
letters have been withheld from respect
to the Sisters but will be furnished on
request.
One-half of the diseases which afiiict
mankind are due to some catarrhal de.
rangement OF the mucous membrane
lining some organ or passage OF the
body.
A remedy that would act immediate
" upon the congested mucous MEM
brane restoring It to its normal state,
would consequently cure all these
diseases. Catarrh is catarrh wherever
located, whether 1t be in the head.
throat, lungs, stomach, kidneys or
pelvic organs. Aremedy that will cure
| Il in one location will cure it in all lo-
cations. Peruna cures catarrh wher.
ever located.
If you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use OF Peru
ma, write at once to DIR. Hartman,
giving 3 full statement of your case
and he will be pleased to give you his
y.,c 1,1o 1xxsoo svvsofic
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

Rheumatism depends upon an excess
of uric acid in the blood. The percentage
of uric acid in the various articles of diet
are: Fish, 815; mutton, SIS; veal. 8.14:
pork, 8.48; beetsteak, 14.45; liver, 1926;
coffee, 4.53; tea, 3.22. Milk and vege-
tables contain none. except the potato.
which has a trace Of uric acid.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

Saphead-I-aw-knew in advance that
we were-aw-going to have beastly
hawd wintah, doncher know. -.
Miss Castique- Indeed! And how did
you know it?
"I-aw-felt it in me bones"
Really? Then you are believer in
the old goose-bone theory. y."-Cincinnaa
Enquirer.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

A small whisk broom, clipped OBJ
liquely SO as to make one side of 1t point
ID, is the only implement to use when
sweeping the corners of rooms or stair.
ways. a. ty no other method can avery
particle * dust be 70 eiRectlyy renewed.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

'Ts Mr.. Lovejoy still paying attention
to your daughter?" Indeed, he isn't pay
ing any attention to her at all" why!
Did he jilt herr" mo, he married her."
-Yonkers Herald.
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'If a kicker" said Uncle Eben, "allue
took de trouble to thoroughly understan
what he was kicxin' about he wouldn't +
hab nearly SO much time to kick. Wash
irrton Star.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ion has an equal for coughs and soles;-J.
z. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is. l900.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

She-"Why do you always insist on hav.
ing your own wayw He-'Why shouldn't
L? Ny way is always the best. som
merville Journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

A w8fnan's train Of thought is often on
her dress.-Eyerybody's Magazine.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

1t is a wise man who knows his own
business; and it is wiser man who thor
oughly attends to it.-Wayland.
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Mrs. Coupons-"Aren't those Brown
Joneses awfully purse-proud?" Mrs. Clip
per-'Yes, and l can remember when they
had but one automobile to their name!'
-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

If the hest mans faults were written
on his forehead he would draw his hat
over his eyes.-Gray.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

"Wbat is the difference between the
tiorthern and southern shores of Long IL
;and?" "On one sue you hear the See
snd ON the other you see the Sound
Princeton Tiger.
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Some men preserve their principles BY
never using them.-Chicago Tribune.
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Truth has many robes, but only 90
face.-Chicago Tribune.
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No muss or failures made with Putnam
Fadeless Dyes.
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Didn't you say that bald-headetl man
was a blonde?" mo. l only said he
had light hair. Princeton Tiger.
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Stops the Cough

and WORK. of the cold. Laxative Bromo
puininef ablets. Price Is cents
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

Customer-"Say, you'll have to take
this thermometer back" Dealer-"Why?"
Customer-"Well, one day it says one
thing and the next day it says another"
N " Mail and Express
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

Il Curss Cosds, Coughs, 6Qe Throat, Croup, In61-
enxa, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma.
certain cure for Consumption n 1rst s<agaas
ins 9s. v sais - 80 IS s.sss se s9 So Is
m 6ose Sd ~ eeai9o evUyuhma -
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

Superintendent-"You don't appeal. 10
be much of a speller. Lots of words here
are spelled wrong in this paper" New
Clerk-"Oh, didn't take particular pans
you know. could spell all right 4 !
had the mind" Superintendent-"f0,
that's vhst ! supposed. ."-Bosoeo 1a&
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'sWill you marry me?" he asked, blunt
ly. NO." replied the Boston maiden, but
she added coyly: Il am not endowed
with sacerdotal power. Put your ques-
tion properly. Ask me if | will become
your wife "-Philadelphia Press.
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'sOur club meetings" said Mrs. Up
pisch. "are attended by the best people
the brains and culture Of the city. I'm.
do your swell society foiKs really conde-
scend to associate with em:"-Catholic
Standard and Times.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-04-02

"And what did you say" asked the
caller, "when he told you that your. pie
wasn't like the pie his mother used to
make" WELL" replied the hostess, with
a toss of her head, Il made a few remarks
like my mother used to make. ."-Syracuse
Harnh
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-16

WANTED FOR u. y. ARMY ABLE
bodied, unmarried men, between ages
Of n and IS; citizens OF United States.
of good character and temperate hab-
its, who can speak, read and write
English. For Information apply to
recruiting officer, 303 Bull street, Sa-
vannah. Ca, OF 224 West Bay street,
Jacksonville, Fla.