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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-03-03
GOOD SALT RISING BREAD.
Explicit Directions for Making This
Bread Famous in the Day Of
Our Grandmothers.

One pint of new milk, half pint OF
water, teaspoonful of salt, one OF
sugar and cooking soda the size OF
q large pea. This should be heated
to temperature of about 80 degrees
Fahrenheit; stir into this one table
spoonful Of corn meal and flour
enough to make a stif batter; stir
well. Any vessel holding about
gallon may be used, but one of stone,
china or porcelain is best. Place the
vessel containing this mixture in
kettle of hot-not scalding-water,
50 that the vessel will barely rest
on the bottom Of the kettle, but not
turn over Cover closely, and leave
where the kettle of water will keep
quite warm, but not scalding, for sew
erai hours. This should be done at
night. If your room will keep quite
warm all night, the rising should
be set late, but if the room gets cold
during the night, it should be set
earlier. in the evening, or, at worst.
it may be set in the morning. 1t will
probably be "up," in the morning,
if set at night; or It may be only
partly so; or 1t may run over"
II not risen satisfactorily, add a tea.
spoonful of warmed flour, stir well.
warn the water in the kettle again,
and replace the vessel and keep warm
until it rises, which should be in
three or four hours. Have ready two
or three quarts of sifted, warm flour
in the bread tray; make hole in the
center of it, put in teaspoonful OF
salt, teacupful Of very hot water,
one pint of milk, and stir very thor
oughly- into smooth batter. To this
add The ferment Tor emptyings) when
light and frothy, and again stir thor
oughly. There will be rim of flour
all about the batter, and 1T should be
drawn from all sides over the top OF
it, covering the batter with -four.
Cover this closely, and let set in
warm (not hot) place until the frothy
batter breaks through the -four on top
of 1t abundantly, which should not be
longer than an hour With the hand,
work the rest of the -four into the
sponge, knead until the dough is per-
fectly smooth and elastic; mold into
loaves put into well creased pans and
set in a warm place to rise. The tops
of the loaves should be smeared with
melted butter. and wnen it is nearly
level with the top of the pans, put
into an oven which should be hot
enough to lightly scar the top Of the
loaf m five minutes, but should not
begin to brown, or harden them for
20 minutes. The oven should gradu-
ally cool after the first 20 minutes. so
the inside of the loaf may cook, with
out burning the crust.
After the bread Is done,--do not
leave in the pan to sweat, but turn
out ct once; perfectly clean hard
wood table is a good place to lay
the ioaves on. When nearly cold,
wrap in a nice, clean cloth and put
into a closed tin box or stone jar
The Commoner.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-03-03
THE CALL or THE
CANADIAN WEST.
The Greatest Wheat Crop Of the
Continent

Tho year that has Just closed has
done great deal towards showing the
possibilities of Western Canada from
an agricultural standpoint. The wheat
crop has run very near to the 100, 000, 900
bushel limit that was looked upon Is
too sanguine an estimate only short
time ago, and the area that has been
broken to fall wheat for the coming
harvest will 60 long way towards
enabling the farmers Of the West to
overlap on the 100000 900 bushel esti-
mate next year. And while the spring
and winter wheat have been doing so
we'll during the past few years. the other
cereals have been keeping up with the
procession. Rye and barley have made
immense strides, and peas and FAX have
been moving steadily along. Dairying.
also, has been successfully carried on
in the new provinces, and in every stage
the farmer has been striking it rich."
To such an extent has the success OF
the West taken hold of outsiders that
the rush Of Americans to Saskatchewan
and Alberta, which was looked upon as
marvellous last year, bids fair to be
largely exceeded in 1906, and as there
are still millions of acres Of free home
steads available. which the building of
the new railways will render accessible
to the markets, new wheat lands will
be opened up ere long. Amongst the
first to avail himself of the opportunity
presented will be the American settler.
In large number of American cities
Dominion Government Agents are To-
Gated, who are able and willing to give
the latest and best information In re-
gard to the new districts which the rail-
ways will open up, and there will be no
abatement Of the rush to the Canadian
prairies during the coming season.
Some time since poet in the columns
Of the Toronto "Star" had the follow
ing stirring lines, which throb Of the
Western spirit:
There's stir in the air. there's thrill
through the land, there's movement
toward the Great West:
And the eyes Of all men for the moment are
turned to the country that we love
the best;
For 'tis Canada's day In the worlds cal
endar and to this merry toast let u
sup:
Here's to the land, the young giant Of the
North, whore the prairies are open
ing up!'
They come from the East and they come
from the South-they come Ger the
deep rolling sea-
They come, for they know they viii dwell
meath a nag that makes all men equal
and free.
Then. once more the toast. and let every
man rise, and cheer ere he sips from
the cup:
sHere's to the land, the young giant Of the
North. where the prairies are OPEN
s' ing upr'
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The next night it was Humpty to
the Pullman.
had catechism Of time seeing
Mister Rogers, but about 3 In the
afternoon I was squirted into his office
by Morgue-face Nut what must have
had Paris-green Prunes for lunch.
Bleeding Biscuits! but Rogers has
got a great Face on him. 1t makes me
swallow hard when think Of 1t in the
dark. I onct saw a oil picture Of
white battleship shooting at q black
torpedo boat in a night storm. That's
Him, all right. tfFs8r
He took me letter and told me to SIT
down.
He looked at the bottom of 1t. then
at me. He read about half Of 1t and
slipped a Naughty Grin like q business
man telling his wife she don't under
stand Politics. Then he ct up the rest
of 1t; and, Great Bumps! could just
see the sailors inside of him bringing
up shot for the guns.
was getting set to soak him in the
watch chain with me head If he como
for me when the door opened and in
comes the Original Human Church.
His Steeples was as bald as Fly's
Heaven. II I was a mosquito I'd lie
ashamed to take the money. Rogers
give a swift, private-code look into the
Cathedral Windows, and sed:
Mister ROCKEFELLER, read that
Curish Dastard's latest insult"
His Steeples took me letter cool as
prayer book and read it through
twict without Bark. Next he takes
of his glasses, as slow as If 1t was
Sunday Afternoon and forty miles
from church. Then he looks up, SLOW
ly opens his Talk Factory, and SEE:
mister Rogers, won't you kindly
step into the mex room?"
They went out, looking like a
Marble Monument and sea Sc.penI
going to drown their Mother-in-ltsss .,
and closed the door behind them, bit
the wall was only dinky glass and
could hear them fine a. a phono-
graph.
Rogers touched on his cannon
first, and seq:
Il have kept Mum as long as l am
going to. That Brass-beaked vulture
has reviled me till Every String in
me Harp Kisses with Hellish Pains.
The time has come to go after him
with all our guns. The public are
amazed at our Tabbycat Silence and
think us prison-guilty of the charge.
AS evidence, consider those doings
in Kansas and the bunch of search
me Investigations recently ordered.
THAT stuff of Donohue's won't melt
the peoples ear-wax. Nothing short
Of a Real Thing Reply, hot from my
own Personal Gas Range, will satisfy
them. and stem the dirty tide which
this Boston Boaster has started
humping. I'll admit that Ice House
Silence is dignitied, but when it is
had at the price of public confidence
it is too much of Luxury for me
palate. You must release me from
my promise not to talk"
He spelled like a actor and l
marked down in me nut every fat
word he sed, so could hand it to the
Boss right.
CTo BE CONTINUED)
Copyright, 1906, by @. w. Dillingham; Coz
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-03-03
SCIENTIFIC SPECIALS.

Two German scientists announce the
discovery Of new anaesthetic having
all the virtues of cocaine without the
latter's secondary III effects. The new
substance is called "allypine." 1t
deadens pain by local application, and
does not contain poison.
The effect Of ultraviolet rays Of
light on some kinds of glass IL strik-
ingly shown at high attitudes. At .
mountain station of the Canadian Pa
ciac railway-5,O00 or 5000 feet high
green glass telephone insulators have
changed to brilliant purple.
Many observations have convinced
Mabel 8. Nelson, q British psychol.
ogist, that men hear better than WON.
on, and that both men and women
hear farther with the right than the
left ear. Men are clearly superior In
recognizing blue, and women are pos
sibly superior in recognizing yellow.
The atmosphere contains . great
quantity of solid matter, usually Inn
perceptible, though visible when . ray
Of sunlight enters dark room. A.
Ditto states that q cubic meter Of the
cir Of Paris usually contains six to
eight milligrammes of dust-sometimes
% milligrammes--but away from cit.
les there il less Nearly third of the
city dust is organic matter containing
living germs. The dust usually car.
ries a few metals-sodium, calcium,
magnesium, aluminium, and especially
iron. with nickel and cobalt, the last
three being brought to the air In mo-
teoric dust from space.
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ToMMY's JOKE WAS CRUEL
Practicing Upon His Fathers Words
He Panied Miss
Passee.

One evening Miss Passee stayed to
dinner and Tommy, as great favo. lite,
was allowed to have dinner with the
company. Growing restless at dess srt,
he was sent out Of the room, but in q
few seconds he returned with little
dresden clock from the sitting-r ,om
mantelpiece, relates the Tattler.
Gracious, child" exclaimed the
mother, what mischief are you up to
now?"
"Goin' to try a speriment," replied
Tommy, with Importance.
Miss Passee Uttered. THE dear lit
tie fellow is going to try an expert
ment," she gushed. How cleves of
him."
While Miss Passee was speaking
Tommy had carefully placed the clock
on the table in front of her. With a
mysterious gesture he laid his finger
on his lips and enjoined silence. No
one stirred.
After about two minutes Tommy's
strained expression relaxed and he
clapped his hands in exultation. ut
goes!" he cried, triumphantly; 'it
goes! You were wrong, papa" Tom
my's father said nothing, but looked
apprehensive.
"Of course it goes, child" laughed
Miss Passee. What made your fsther
think it Wouldn't"
We'll" replied the little fellow, sim
ply, 'he said your face would stop a
clock"
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LITTLE HINTS.

A tulle ruche and a tight little
wreath of roses trim the mushroom
hat.
Amethyst is a color that is seen
more frequently as the season ad-
vances
There is new net inlet with horizon
tai stripes of lace, which makes lovely
evening gowns.
The luxurious evening coat Is lined
throughout with rufles of narrow va
lenciennes.
Blouses of satiny leather in white
or colors are the modish shirt waists
for motoring or driving.
When one wishes to appear particu-
larly well, the becoming picture hat
remains the favorite. rs
Many women have their gowns made
up with two skirts one short and Sc
we're, the other long and trimmed.
Belts of gold braid are fetching and
will brighten up the dark shirt-waist
suit to be so much worn this winter.
Such pretty opera bag for the
woman in black Is of black Irish
crochet over silk. The mounting il
gun metal. 81
The streets will be q gay riot Of
color this winter If all the rainbow
hued suits one sees in the shops are to
find purchasers.
In one shop is shown a gown with
little creatures like ermine sprawled
all over It, It would make a lovely
woman look like an awful barbarian.
Velvet is quite the thing for a street
gown this winter. The tailored gown
of black velvet, made severely and
worn with handsome furs, is first
choice.
Children's coats are charmingly
tricked on with bit of fur at collar
and wrists. Angora, caracul, ermine
and Persian lamb are all used for
this. White goatskin makes delight
full entire coats for the youngsters. 1t
looks like caracul. but is much less
expensive and cleans easily.-Chicago
Daily News. ~ -
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Some people question the statements
that coffee hurts. the delicate nerves
Of the. body. Personal experience with
thousands proves the general state
ment true and physicians have records
Of great numbers of cases that add to
the testimony.
The following Is from the Roslford,
ILL.,, Register Gazette:
DR.. William Langhorst Of Aurora
has been treating one Of the queerest
cases of lost eyesight ever In history.
The patient is o. A. Leach Of Beach
county, and in tbs last four months he
had doctored with all of the specialists
about the country and has at last re-
turned homo with the fact impressed
on his mind that his case II incurable.
A portion of the optic nerve has
been ruined, rendering his sight 90
limited that he is unable to see any
thing before him. but he can eco plain
Il anything It the side a him. Thsgs
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ME- AND
LAWSON
Nv RICHARD WEBB
Illustrated by W. w. Denslow
and NJ. AeshiTe.
IN SIX SECTIONS [

1906. by @. W. Dillingham; Co,

SECTION II.
Scrambled Oil.
The first day l wore the Lawson col
lar put patent leather shine on the
Tonneau of me Pants setting outside
Of his private Scheming Vault, looking
wise.
l must have made q hit with him
from the jump, because he kept me
sticking plaster close all the time.
did me best to catch his pitching and
railroad the guys he didn't want to
mouth-organ- with.
There were couple Of Roof-garden
Robbies In his Office Chorus what
called the White-spat Sisters, because
they dressed in tandem and rushed the
same Acterine. The word Leaksky was
printed all over their Face Plates and
put 'em on the Slippery Elm Card
from the start.
1t wasn't long before l caught them
pulling the bung out Of the Boss's Sc
:ret-keg, and it was Me to the Pinker-
ton solo.
swan into the Boss, just as he was
having a careless picture of Himself
took for the magazine, and after
breathing heavy through both barrels
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At Fulbourn. England, the poor are
paid sixpence apiece for regular church
attendance.
The Sacred Congregation OF Rites is
receiving petitions daily for the can
onization OF Plus TX. It IL likely the
initial process will be inaugurated
soon. especially as Plus X. has given
thu movement his explicit sanction.
Rev. Frank Okazaki, pastor Of the
Japanese Baptist mission In Seattle.
supported by leading Christian Japan
ese residents, is planning to establish
o colony of immigrants from his coun-
try somewhere on Puget sound. He
desires to establish the colony in or
der that he may better spread Chris
tan teachings among his people.
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Of me smeller, like fly cop, sed.
fussing me face in the place where the
Black Moustache ought to be:
mister Lawson, you need Word
Plumber. There's Leak in your
catch basin. Give me the go-ahead
bell and I'll put you WISE"
Then told him the whole story.
He give his cigar a couple of mad
dog bites and then he takes me by the
shoulders and SEE, swift but kind as a
missionary:
"Humpty, you're good boy. BY
CAD, you're worth any two men !
know. You can play Croquet in my
Cemetery Lot any time you want to. -
Then he hands me Ton Spot, right
off the roll in his overalls, and tells
me to come back in three hours.
| went out on the street looking for
Bank to do me Private Business
with. and swelled up so Mud-rich that
I couldn't feel the sidewalk, nor teal
the Apple Woman from Little Eva.
I was Johnny-on-the-spot when the
three hours had went down into the
cellar of the clock to take Rip Van
Wrinkle, but the Boss was at the home
plate with the bat in his mits when
sailed In.
He looked Absent Bug for a minute,
like travelling man wondering II he
can trust the chambermaid with the
watch he left under his pillow, and
sed:
'Humpty, they say it's wrong to
send a boy on a mans errand, but I
don't know man can trust, SO here
goes. l want you to go over to New
York tomorrow night and take a let
ter to Mister Rogers. The job must
be done. Secretly. II anyone should
get wise to your trip, or if you fall
down on any part of me instructions,
it will hurt me more than l can make
you understand. You must deliver the
letter to the Main Squeeze himself,
and talk to no one but him. Do you
think you can do it,"
Sure as Roosevelt" SEE /, fire
away"
1T will be necessary" seq he, for
you to be next to the contents of the
letter, SO listen Hard:
Il think it would be worth a lot of
money to Mister Rogers to have me
Stop doing something that I'm doing,
and am sure we can Both make more
money Ivy playing the Game together.
will write the letter so to make him
Wise to this fact and all you have to
do is bring back his answer. 1t will
be Yes or No. and If it's Yes he will
tell you . day, hour, and place where
we can meet If he should Welch on
Me and print the letter you must be
ready to tell the Boston newspaper re-
porters that man what | will tell
you how to describe come to your
house at 10 o'clock at night, give
you the letter and instructions, and
told you would phone you at the I'm
perial hotel in New York at 9 in the
morning, which, of course, won't do
inhaled all that the Boss handed
me and blew out of me Cigarette Chin
ney what was Chop Suey to me Rea-
son Works. st n
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have been but few cases q IT. kind
before, and they have been caused BY
whisky or tobacco. Leach has never
used either, but has been . great COT
fee drfnker, and the specialists have
decided that the case has been caused
by this. Leach stated himself that
for several years he had drank three
cups Of coffee TO- breakfast, two at
noon and one 1t night According to
the records Of the specialists Of this
country this II the first case ever
caused by the use Of coffee.
The nerve Is ruined beyond nd and
his case Is incurable. The fact that
makes the case . queer one u that the
sight forward has been Lost and the
side sight has been retained. Accord
ing to the Doctors statement, the
young man win have to give up. cof-
fee or the rest Of his sight wfll fol-
low'and the entire nsrys b ruined
ReeistW-Q ezvtth
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Increase of Diseases.

There can be no question that the
prevalence of certain diseases has In
creased during the last half century.
Conspicuous among these, states the
Practitioner, are diabetes and insomnia,
both of which are largely due to the
mental stress of harder struggle for
existence. The increased consumption
of alcohol and the free use of narcotics
are also responsible for many morbid
conditions unknown to our harder for
bears. But, in comparing the present
prevalence of diseases with that of the
past there are several factors for which
due allowance is often not made. One
of these is that our forefathers died,
as a rule, at a considerably younger
age than their descendants; IL they
did not perish by the sword they were
moved down from time to time by
the plague and other devastating cpl
denies. In this way they escaped
many Of the diseases, not only of old
age, but of advanced middle life.
Again, it must not be forgotten that
. each generation represented to a
much larger extent than is now the
case the survival of the fittest. Most
Of the weaklings died in childhood.
The triumph of modern hygiene is
that it has preserved large proper
tion OF these lives.
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HOW x1Hos HAVE DIED.
Henry l. Of gluttony.
Edward vi. Of . decline.
xS,v A. .~~AcsA

Henry I. of gluttony.
Edward vi. Of . decline.
Charles I. on the scaifold.
George III. as he lived-a mailman.
Henry VIII. of carbunclss. fat and
fury.
George Nv. Of gluttony and drunk
enncss.
Henry VII wasted away. - misef
ought
James I. 81 drinking and the effects
of vice.
Charles II. suddenly. It ID said. Of
apopiexy.
Henry II. of . broken heart. occa-
stoned by the bad conduct Of his chill
dren. r
william III. Of consumptive habits
Of body, and from the stumbling OF
his horse.
George I. from drunkenness, which
his physicians politely called an apo
plectic at.
Edward III. Of dotage. and Richard
II. of starvation, the very reverse OF
George Nv.
Henry vi. In prison, By means
known then only to the jailer. and now
known only In Heaven.
William the Conqueror from enor-
nous fat, from drink and from the
violence of his passions.
Henry Nv. II said to have died OF
''fits caused by uneasiness," AID I'M
easiness In palaces in those times was
q very common complaint.
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LOST EYESICHT
Through Coffee Drinking

Let 1t be remembered that the eyes
may be attacked in one case and the
stomach in another, while in others 1t
may be kidneys, heart, bowels or gen.
eral nervous prostration. The remedy
is obvious and should be adopted be-
fore too late.
Quit coffee, II You show incipient
disease.
It IL easy II one can have we'll
boiled Postum Food Coffee to serve for
the hot morning beverage. The
withdrawal Of the old kind Of coffee
that il doing the harm and the sup
ply of the elements in the Postum
which Nature uses to rebuild the
broken down nerve cells, insures
quick return to the old Joy Of strength
and health, and it's well worth while
to be able again to do things" and
feel we'll. There's reason for
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Uneenerous Question.

The first slice of goose had been cut
and the minister of the Zion church
looked at it with as Keen anticipation
as was displayed in the faces around
him.
Oats as fine goose as l ever saw,
Brudder Williams" he said to his host
Where did you get such fine one?"
well, now, Mistah Rawley." said lhs
carver of the goose, with sudden ac-
cess of dignity. when you preach a
special good sermon, ! neber axes you
where you got it. Seems to me OATS a
trivial matter, anyway. Youths Com
panion.
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The retirement of DIR. William A.
Packard as Kennedy professor OF
Latin language and literature and the
science Of language at Princeton
marks tho close of 36 years Of active
teaching.
Granta, the Cambridge undergrad
uate organ, urges reform in the Eng
lish university education. It says:
Rendered unfit for business, the only
places open for the graduates are
schoolmastering and the church, ana
In the uttermdst parts Of the earth
are to be found graduates Of Oxford
and Cambridge, now become laborers,
beggars and outcasts.'
Prof. e. w. Clark, Of Ripon col
lege, Wisconsin, has been honored By
the bureau of university travel IN
Rome in manner which will mako
it possible for him to 30 abroad each
summer and secure new stock OF
material for the lectures he IL deliv-
ering. He has been engaged to- con-
duct rhe teachers excursions to the
homes Of the ancients and will spend
the next ten years in this manner.
A step has been taken toward the
organized athletic training Of Amer
lean schoolgirls BY the forming OF .
girls branch Of the Public Schools
Athletic league. of New York city.
Speaking of this movement. Miss
Grace Dodge said that the methods
of training must be different from
those applied to the boys. A prize
of $50 was offered by Mrs. Henry
Siegel for the best method Of combin-
ing the essentials Of moral and ath-