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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24

and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all, possessed of q wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1913 she married Isaac Pinkham,
q builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and q
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days II
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
urgent cases. By tradition and ex-
perience many of them gained a Won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took a great interes,
In the study of roots and herbs, Their
characteristics and power over disease
She maintained that just as nature SC
beautifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods Of
all kinds; so, if we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex
pressly designed to cure the variou.
Ills and weaknesses of the body, and
it was her pleasure to search these out
and prepare simple and effective medi
cines for her own family and friends
Chief Of these was rare combina
ton of the choicest medicinal root
and herbs found best adapted for thu
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu
liar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pink
hams friends and neighbors learnet
that her compound relieved and curet
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this so far was done freely, with
out money and without price, rs |
labor of loves
But in 1873 the financial crisis strucl
Lynn. Its length and severity were to-
much for the large real estate interest
of the Pinkham family, as this elias
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, SO when the Centen
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other sourc
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham'
Vegetable Compound was made know
. to the world.
The three sons and the daughter
with their mother, combined forces t
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24
THE FALL ARMY WORM.
How the North Carolina Experiment
Man Would Get Rid Of 1t.

A bulletin of the North Carolina de-
partment of agriculture discusses the
fall army worm as a corn pest, though
it also attacks many other plants.
These caterpillars are striped In
appearance, black stripe extending
along each side of the body. When
full grown they are from an inch to
an inch and a half long. They are
not usually serious pests. but IN sea-
sons when weather and the other con-
ditions are just right, they suddenly
appear in great numbers, devourins
various grains, grasses, cow-peas,
clover, alfalfa, sweet potatoes and
garden crops. Almost every COM
plant this season mentions them as
attacking crab-grass. Mr.. Benbow OF
Guilford county says they are swarm
ing on his alfalfa, and they have been
likewise destructive to alfalfa on the
Edgecombe test farm and the expert
ment station farm here at Raleigh.
Alfalfa is. too valuable a plant to lose
in this way.
after the worms have become no
ticeable, it takes them only week or
so to get full grown, when they bur-
row in the earth, change to brown
chrysalids or papae, and from these
come out plain, innocent-looking gray
| ish moths in another week or ten
days. The last brood is thought to
pass the winter in the papa state un'
| foreground. When they thus suddenly
disappear, the farmer often thinks
that they have died out, when in real
ity they are only Transforming to the
adult moth which will lay eggs for
another brood.
| IF you have a sprayer, it Is simple
matter to protect most of the garden
vegetables by the use of paris green
In water, but this remedy is not to
be thought of for fields of alfalfa OF
crab-grass. But, did you ever think
how it would be to run heavy roller
right over the field? Seems to me
that 1t would literally crush the life
out of them, and 1t won't hurt the
crop either. provided 1t is not too rani
and tall"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24
Mountain Climbers Experience.

The queen OF mountaircers, MT.
Bullock Workman. has aided one
more thrilling experience to Ter rec
ord of adventure by accompanying her
husband on his great climb OF $4,000
feet In Kashmir Mrs. Workman has
several times climbed over $1,000 feet
higher than any other woman IN the
world. The rarefied air at these great
heights has considerable effect on her.
She finds 1t distressing to sleep at
night beyond an altitude Of $4,000 feet.
The diminished pressure shcrsens her
breathing and she experiences severe
headaches. But, curiously enough. the
headache leaves her after $1,000 feet.
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the fact that line in one of my re-
cent compositions was entirely per-
verted and the meaning painfully dis
torted by the compositor."
Young man." replied the editor,
shat composition has gone through
more poems than you ever wrote, or
ever read. He has put in his life set
ting up poetry of all kinds, spring and
autumn styles. and heavier goods for
winter. He may have changed your
poem; but when you say he harmed 1t,
you presume. When a man of his ex-
perience makes up his mind to change
q piece of poetry, a person in your po-
sition should not attempt to criti-
cise."-Stray Stories.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24

A lady in Arkansas ordered 30 3. c.
B. Leghorn eggs of poultry raiser
and asked him to select round end
eggs, as she wanted pullets. Il did
So" said the poultry man, land she
wrote me she raised 25 fine pullets
and three cockerels the following
summer. told neighbor of this. He
remarked he was anxious for some
I.eghorn pullets, and he selected is
round end eggs and raised nine chics-
ems, eight ccckerels and one pulieI
It is o X wheu It hits"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24
FARMER AND PLANTER
TEXAS FEVER AND PREVENTION.
Interesting Government Bulletin on
the Subject.

Extensive Investigations have re-
Gently been made of the various forms
of Texas fever in cattle, which should
more properly be called tick fever"
as it is by no means confined to Tex
as cattle, to ascertain its causes and
10 find, If possible, reliable method
for its prevention. Prof. Mohler, chief
of this division of the bureau of ami
NAL industry, U. S. department Of ag-
riculture, has had charge of this work.
and his report has been published as
Farmers Bulletin No. 25S.
Texas fever Is specific infectious
disease of the blood of cattle, caused
by the development and activity of
minute animal parasites which are
conveyed to the affected animals by
means of the cattle tick. These para
sites after being so injected into the
blood of susceptible animals, attack
the blood cells, causing them to break
down, from which death ensues in
from 10 per cent of the chronic to 80
per cent of the acute cases. Inasmuch
as infection is transmitted solely by
saliva or manure, as commonly sup
posed, then the control of the disease
depends wholly upon the eradication
of these ticks, as the parasites which
are the immediate cause of Texas
fever are transmitted by the tick to
the animal through the bites made in
the skin in procuring their nourish-
ment.
1T Is needless at this time 20
enumerate the items that go to make
up the enormous total Of over SOS ,000,-
900 annual loss to the infected terri
tory by reason of this disease, but
these appalling losses and annual sac
rifices of the cattle raisers can be
entirely effaced, and this at small
proportionate cost; for, with enthusi-
astic stockmen, satisfactory state leg
islation, sufficient money, and a
trained corps of inspectors, the cattle
tick may be exterminated, and every
dollar expended in this work will be
returned many fold during each sue
ceeding year.
Among the most important meas
ures to be adopted in eradicating the
ticks from cattle in the infested dis
tricts may be mentioned picking OF
brushing them off, smearing or spray
| ing the animals with a disinfectine
solution, dipping the 'ticky" animals
in a vat containing solution capable
| of killing the ticks without injury to
the cattle, and combining the animals
to tick-free Enclosures until the ticks
| have dropped off.
| The best ways to free pastures Of
ticks have been found to be by ex
| GLIDING cattle for definite period, by
cultivation and by burning of the
grass. The cattle pastures may bt
freed of ticks at the same time by
the feed-lot' method and by pasture
rotation; and immunization Of sus
ceptible cattle, when under twelve Of
fifteen months, may be secured BY
blood incubation and by infestint
with ticks. This problem is a grea
one to the south, but it is being SOLVED
to a great extent, and care and com
mon sense will see the disease eradi
Gated before many years."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24
Make Your Farm Prettier.

Few farmers realize the damage
brush and briars do on the farm, and
especially In the pastures. A brushy
farm will have a tendency to lower
mans self-respect. A farmer has
right to and should take pride In his
farm. 1t will make him Of more use
In his community. People will re-
spect him more, other things being
equal, il he keeps a clean. tidy look
ing farm, than they will If lie allows
everything to go saip-shod.
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uer cent over oat stubble and "a per

per cent over oat stubble and "a per
cent over pea stubble.
CID The whole pea plant plowed
under In September gave an in
creased yield of 74.S per cent over
oat stubble in March.
Q2) Rye and vetch plowed under
and followed by cowpeas plowed I'M
der gave an increase of 99.S per cent
of oats, as compared with oats fol-
lowing a crop of sorghum.
OBJ Three varieties of fall-sown
oats gave an increased yield of 75.2
per cent over twenty varieties OF
spring-grown oats.
(14) Culberson and Virginia Gray
(Winter Turf oats gave highest
yield from fall sowing, and averaged
over forty bushels per acre.
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to overhear conversations going on
between the subscribers. The min
lister has now issued a stringent gen.
eral order forbidding the employees to
listen to conversations over the wires,
and reminding them that in cases
when it is impossible for them to
avoid overhearing such talk 1t must
be regarded as service secrets"
which all officials and operators are
solemnly pledged to observe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24
As to Red Hair

He Is the handsomest boy in town
and has the. prettiest. red hair. which
ne inherited from his great-grand-
mother. His name is Douglas; they
call him Dot; age four. But why
should every man. woman and girl
make rude remarks about the colsr
Of his hair? Yesterday he numbered
through his little pipe: Jaw. wish
everybody in town had red hair; then
they wouldn't say so much about
mine,"-N v Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24

Russia has the best farming land
in the world said bureau of agri-
culture expert. In her black earth
region vast crops Of grain have been
grown for go or 70 years without the
use of fertilizer.
This region comprises 10000, 900
acres between the Carpathians and
the Urals. The soil Is like chocolate
rich, smooth. moist, dark brown.
On analysis 1t reveals $4,000 pounds
Of nitrogen to the acre. Soil is con-
sidered excellent that reveals 5000
pounds to the acre
"Russia's black earth region. IN q
word, is nearly six times better farm
ing land than any other in the world
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24
Enamellle N0|||||I|EF| NON |' i
STOVE POLISH - 80"
New Works Great Ocean Trade.

New York is the second great sea-
port Of the world. In 1903 over &c..
10000 tons of imports and 100000
tons Of exports were cleared through
New York harbor. London is the
greatest seaport, exceeding New York
in imports. though not by exports.
Antwerp and Hamburg are third and
fourth. respectively.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24

This remarkable woman, whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass, February 9th, 1919, COM
ing from a good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school, and
became known as woman of an alert
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24

Court Of Last Resort.
Il am sorry" said the poet, "but I
am obliged to call your attention to
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-24

White Diamond Found.
A white diamond, weighing 145h
karats, has been found by a digger
at Karreepan. near Kimberley. who
sold 1t for $l4,465.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
A Bit of Human Nature.

A man who sells cut flowers at 8
stand downtown was waiting for trade
the other afternoon when a newsboy
dirty and ragged, came running up
says the Kansas City Times.
"Say," said the boy, "whot's the price
uf them red fowers?
Those carnations, you mean? They
are 2 cents apiece" said the man.
I'll trade you paper for one" SAID
the boy. The flower seller accepted
the offer, and the boy ran away Witn
his carnation. A few minutes later he
returned.
Say" be said, 81 just sold paper
Gimme another uf them red MOVERS
Here's the cents"
The man at the stand handed him an
other carnation and accepted the pen.
MOS with q smile. AS the boy started
away the man became curious.
"say, kid" he said, what you going
to do with those howers%
The boy took a better hold on bis
papers. "Give 'em to the Of lady" be
said. "She's sick In bed"
Then he left on the run, yelling:
@panAi Pane! All abouH'-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
Paris AmericaniZetl.

II the signs on every dead wal
of Paris are to be- believed, the
Frenchman is becoming acquainted
with our breakfast foods. and cor
tain it is that he reads a newspaper
printed on an American press, rides
ON Yankee trolley car to his Of
flee furnished with American fur
niturp, dictates his work tn a Yan.
kee typewriting machine and signs
his letters with Connecticut foun-
tain pen.
At lunch it is doubtful if he is
not served some of tile chilled or
canned beef we now send to France
in large quantities, and it is prett,
certain that his wine is blended
with the fiery claret Of California.
The only mixed drinks available
are at the numerous "Amerioan"
bars, and for the teetotaler, there
is the American ice cream soda,
which has at last invaded the can
dy stores of Paris.
In fact, one becomes American
lied in Paris without realizing the
insidiOus fact The World Today.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
Trick of the Drug Trade.

"Never ask for the copy Of pre-.
scription at the time you buy the medi-
cine" said the dyspeptic looking man
TN nine out Of ten drug stores they
will tack 10 or Is cents to the regular
price Of the medicine If you do. That
Of course is contrary to professional
etiquette. Druggists are not supposed
to charge extra for furnishing copy
Of a prescription. II you will wait a
few days and ask for it, unaccompa-
MED by a bottle Of medicine, they
won't have the nerve to do it, but
when the two are prepared together
they can gain some compensation for
their extra work and the loss Of pos
sible customer without anybody being
the wiser New York Press.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19

STATE OF Va.
In Vacationr-In the Clerks Office OF
Highland County, Va, Jan 2, 1906.
| } N slower, Geo L Swecker and OF heI
members of the partnership known as
the Blue Grass Percheron Horse Co.
VS.
F TrcXler, Juo l. TreXler and n
Reynolds, partners doing business under
the style of Trexler Bros and Co. and
others, the remaining members OF the
partnership known as the Blue Grass
Percheron Horse Co. and Chas. Z. Jones.
rhe object of this suit is to annul or
dissolve and wind up the partnership
known as the Blue Grass Percheron
Horse Co. anG to ascertain its assets and
liabilities and disbursc the same accord
ing to law to the parties entitled. The
members of the above named partnership
are f. w. Armstrong, Uriah Hevener, j..
B. Waybright, II. Fl. Hevener, }. N. Sto-
uer, George f. Swecker, j X. Kramer,
Z. e. Burns, j. H. Lightner, VIII. Hiner,
s. A. Gilmore, G. D. Dudley, W. +.
Jones, and Trexler Bros. and Co. COM
prised of John L. Trexler, J. F. TreXler,
and H. P. Reynolds.
And it appearing from affidavit filed
that John i. Trexlar. J. F. TreXler and
H P Reynolds, partners and doing bust
ness as Trexler Bros. and Co. are non.
residents of the state of Va. it is ordered
thar they do appear here within fifteen
days after due publication hereof and do
what is necessary to protect their inter-
ests, Teste, &c. Matheny, Clerk
E. H. McClintic, p. q.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
A Shoe That Altered HfatOry

After the fall of Anne BOleyn the
pope prepared Overtures Of reconcilia.
ton so favorable to King Henry VIII
that he determined to accept them. A
representative was sent from Rome
with the dispatches, and when within
a days journey from Calais his horse
cast shoe and fell lame. AS it was q
favorite, the messenger determined to
wait a day that the poor animal might
rest and recover. Next day the journey
was resumed, but on the day that Lon
don was reached Henry had been mar
ried to Jane Seymour, Protestant,
Anne had been beheaded, and all hope
of reconciliation with the papacy was
at an end. The cast shoe had thus
changed the bent of English church
history.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
Things That rlay Happen In
1000.

Here are SpangIer's prophecies
for 1906
The dissolution Of Russia.
The overthrow of Turkey.
The assassination of the Gar Of
Russia.
The assassination of the Sultan
of Turkey.
The prevention Of three wars by
President Roosevelt.
A protracted race-war in the
South.
Destructive spring floods in the
United States.
A destructive eruption of Mount
Vesuvius.
The activity of Mount Pelee and
Popecatepeti.
Volcanic eruptions in all parts of
the world.
The eruption Of many volcanoes
now supposed to be extinct.
Great loss Of life at sea by
storms.
Destruction of two Western cities
by cyclones.
Earthquakes in all parts Of the
world
Destructive earthquakes in Cali
fornia and the Philippines.
Rebellion in Spain.
Great disturbances all over Eu'
rope.
Spangler says furth her that the
summer of 1905 will be hot and
sultfy throughout the temperate
zone, with extreme death rate
That Christ will make His Spirit
felt among the people Of the Unit
ed States and England, in which
countries there are to be fervent
religious and potent political move
ments, which are to overcome IN
great degree the present spirit OF
graft and com mercialism.
That the United States will con-
tinue as a world power and the
leader of other nations.
That Pennsylvania is to have an
administration of the. people. and
that discoveries Of corruption will
be discovered, which will drive
some Of the guilty to suicide.
That God will wreck terrible ven-
geance upon the Russians for the
massacre of the Jews.--New York
World.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
THE LOST ARTS.
Many Abandoned Because New
knowledge Makes Them Useless.

!
Not as much as we used to, but oc
casionally even yet, one hears OF some
wonder accomplished by the ancients
which cannot be done now.
Not so many years ago 1t was quite
commonly asserted that modern work
men could not quarry or, having quar-
ried, could not handle stones as large
as the mOnollths of Egypt, and the
writer has heard a public speaker OF
note assert that it would be Impossible
to handle with modern implements
such large stones as were used in the
pyramids or to join them as perfectly
as they are joined there. Yet, when oc-
casion arose, larger stones than any or
the larger >monoliths themselves were
transported not only to the sea, but
across it, and erected in England,
France and America, and there are In
dividuals today who might, If they
chose, cause the transportation to and
erection in this country of the largest
pyramids or build new ones ten times
larger and more durable. Pyramids
are not being generally built nowadays
because they are not In line with the
trend of modern ambition; that's all.
1t is very doubtful if Il Damascus
blade" would stand half as severe
usage as modern band saw blade or
even as much as the spring Of forty
cent clock, while the ornamentations
of those wondrous blades, so far as the
mechanical execution is concerned, can
be excelled by apprentices and anna
teurs of today.
OF the lost art of hardening cop
per little is heard Of late years, though
one occasionally hears a wiseling from
the wilds wish that he knew how to do
1t as well as the ancients, and while it
is perhaps regrettable that he doesn't
his ignorance is his own fault.
Many arts and devices have been
abandoned because new knowledge
has made them useless, and time spent
in redlscOverlng them would be worse
than wasted. The modern youth had
much better spend his time studying
the art of his contemporaries than that
which Is "lost scientific American.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
The Missouri Pacific Railway
Company.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Sou
Railway Co.

Offers .ae following very low
one way special coloni>t rates from
St. Louis to California and the
Northwest; also to many points in
Old Mexico, including Mexico CITY:
$1,000 to all California common
points; aIso TO Portland, Tacoma,
Seattle and Vancouver: $27 80 to
Spokane, UmatiIia and intermedi
ate points; $4,000 to Helena. Butee.
Anaconda and all intermediate
points. Five days stop-overs allow
ed at m1nv prominent points III
California; also rate Of S2700 from
St. Louis to City of Mexico and
many other points in old Mexico.
Tickets to be sold daily from Feb
10th to April 9TH, 1906. Through
daily Pullman Tourist Sleeping
Cars will he operated between st
Louis, California and the North
west during the above period. vi
Mo. Pac., ID. q Ii. Ii and Son. Fac.
to San Francisco and Los Angeles:
also yia No. Pac, d. & Il. Il. to
Salt Lake City, thence San Pedro
Route to Los Angeles; also via
Iron Mountain. 7. & P. and Sou.
PAc., the True Southern Route
Through Standard Sleeper to Mex
ico, City daily, also through Tourist
S eepes first and third Tuesdays #
each month. For descriptive liter
a are and detailed information, ad-
dress a. A. Gallaber, D.P.A.
40 Walnut st. Cincinnati, 0.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
Arc Iarga Houxes yuIgarY

Are large houses vulgar! Certainly
a paryenu who should build himself q
house the size Of Chatsworth or Raby
would be vulgar, as lacking sense OF
proportion in matter Of taste. Tho
inheritors of such places are Of course
not vulgar to live in them, though they
are sometimes most unfortunate. Enor-
nous houses survive the time Of neces-
sary retainers and a warlike state.
They are useless for all modern pur-
poses except display; pathetic, then,
when old, they are certainly vulgar
when new.-G. S. Street in London Out
look
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-19
EXECUTORS notice.

All persons knowing themselves
to be indebted to the estate of Da
vid V. Ruckman, deceased, vii
please come forward and settle the
same, and all persons holding
claims against said estate will pre-.
sent the same, properly proven, to
myself, or to my attorney, w. H.
Landes, at Staunton, Virginia.
d. Glenn Ruckman,
Executor of David V.
Ruckman deceased