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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
KING OF sAFE-eREAKERs.
Marvellous Delicacy Of Hearing Poe
sessed by Miner James.

"Milner James was the most artistic
safe-breaker in the business" said
Lecocq the detective. HE is dead
now. He opened in his time over 700
safes without tools or gunpowder
solely by working out the combination
with his delicate and patient fingers.
"Tt took me q year. he once said.
to learn the trick of picking combine
tons. I studied all the locks there
were and I had three safes of different
makes to practice on. The ear is the
most important factor in my method
and 1t must be held tight against the
safe door on q line with the tumblers.
When the knob Of the lock Is turned
slowly and one Of the tumblers reach
es the notch corresponding to the first
number of the combination the tum-
bier will fall with little click. Care
must be taken not to displace this
tumbleE You keep on trying the knob
back and forth gently till each Of the
tumblers drops. Then the door opens.
Hardly one man in a thousand has an
ear delicate enough for this work and
to be- a success at 1t you've got to give
up tobacco and alcohol
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
THE MANURE HEAP.
Protect II From the Drenching Rains
of Winter, So Plentiful in

Protect II From the Drenching Rains
Of Winter, So Plentiful in
the South.
Manure that has been carefully kept
under cover and properly composted
will show its effect almost immediate
ly, but IL 1t has been leached by heavy
rains, SO plentiful in the south in win
ter, and exposed to drying winds, and
the suns rays, it will be of but little
value, although 1t may not be worth
less, as something of more or less
value will remain, but whether 1t will
pay for the labor and expense or
hauling it is a doubtful matter.
All kinds of manure should be kept
under cover to avoid rain. A leakage
here and there, or little water on
1t now and then, is not a disadvan-
tage, but by no means allow the ma
nue. to be soaked by drenching rains,
for they carry away the most valuable
portion of it. Prepare suitable place
for tae manure, sloping towards the
center and under cover.
First put down layer of muck, road
dirt or forest mould, over which place
q thick covering of leaves, and then
throw on the manure. From time to
time let all the soapsuds and hquid
manures be thrown over the solids. AS
soon as the manure has been placed
on the heap commence the process
again with the dirt and leaves. II
the leaves are not handy, use waste
bedding of the stables and pens.
Always finish by leaving the manure
covered. Keep it damp, but in no case
let 1t get drenched. Moisture, how
ever, will assist decomposition. espe-
cially II the liquids of the stable are
used. 1t will be an advantage to sprin-
kle the heap every day, or whenever
the manure is thrown out, with dilut-
ed sulphuric acid, which not only de-
composes It and renders it soluble,
but also converts the ammonia into
sulphate of amonia. Do not avoid
the little extra labor, bG tzke good
care OF the manure heap, Tor therein
Is the wealth of the farm.
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Kept Tax Receipts Long.

Charles King, of East Liberty, .
suburb of Pittsburg. Is what might be
termed q careful man. He has been q
voter in the East Liberty district since
1857 and when asked on the last reg
tstration day If he had tax receipt
he pulled from pocket tax receipts
for the last Al years. When asked BY
the registrar If he had any more he
replied that IL he went down deep in.
to his strong box" at home he might
possibly find few dating long back
before the oldest member Of the board
was born. Mr.. King is now 70 years
old, having been born In Baltimore In
1898, removing to East Liberty in
1857. His first presidential vote was
cast for John G. Fremont and his last
for Theodore Roosevelt. He is .
stanch Republican and as Q contractor
and brick manufacturer for half CEN
fury has contributed much to the up
building end growth of East Liberty.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
Had Distinguished Career.

Sir Walter Butler, the distinguished
New Zealand scientist, whose death
is just recorded, had an unusually ver-
satile career. He began by editing
paper in the Maori language, at "a
he was a resident magistrate, at 81
a Judge of the native lands court and
shortly afterward he was out fight
ing the rebel Maoris. He was men,
toned in dispatches for gallantry in
carrying news by night through 40
miles of the enemy's country. At 80
he went to London as secretary of the
New Zealand agency and entered as a
student at the Inner temple. He was
one of the few instances of man be-
ing made a Judge before he became
q barrister.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
GREAT Is THE PEANUT.
The Sweet Goober of the South Is A.
ways in Demand.

The use of the peanus, from the
point where 1t was considered of prin
cipal service to feed the circus ele
plant to the attempt of former gov.
ernor of a western state to corner the
crop of the United States, as was re
Gently reported in the news, is inter.
esting. 1t is an American product,
but is now sold all over the world and,
besides the immense quantities con.
sumed By the small boy and the more
occasional adult in a simple roasted
state or raw, enters into more kinds
of food than most people have any Idea
Of Historically the nut is old, being
mentioned in the writings of ancients,
some of whom suggested it as pos.
sible food. 1t grows in warm coun.
tries, but is believed to be indigenous
to this country. Here, at least, it has
had its chief exploitation; and Virginia
and other southern states furnish the
bulk of the worlds supply. The nut is
found under ground but is not a root
of the plant, as the potato is. 1t is
gehminated above ground but is
brought under the surface of the sell
by the whitening of the stalk. From
80 to 40 bushels to the acre is an aver.
age natural yield, but this is some.
times exceeded under methods OF
forced cultivation.
Peanut oil may have been known to
the ancients, too, but its value was
first discovered in the south DURING
the civil war, when people were hard
put to 1t to find things to cook or to
cook with. The oil makes a fai.ly good
and perfectly healthy substitute for
olive oil, but its cheapness also rem
ders it available for lubricating and
many other purposes. It is said that
millions of bushels of nuts are annual.
ly shipped to Europe to be made into
oil, which Is then shipped back as
pure olive oil. Peanut butter has late.
ly become popular and is manufac.
tured In large quantities in this coun.
try and in Europe. The fisheries OF
New England use the oil also to pre-
serve their products in, and the rich
oil found In a sardine, and supposed
to be it's own is really borrowed from
he peanut. Salted peanuts are fire.
queh:ig roasted IL peanut c.,,, and it a
used IN baking and general a.Slring.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08

less. having run down from $50 to l26
pounds. was having terrible pain In
the kidneys, and the secretions passed
almost involuntarily. My left leg
swelled until 1t was "a inches around,
and the doctor tapped it night and
morning until I could no longer stand
It, and then he advised amputation. l
refused, and began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills. The swelling subsidized
gradually, the urine became natural,
and all my pains and aches disap-
peared. have been well now for nine
years since using Doan's Kidney Pills.
For sale by all dealers. SO cents
box. Foster-M ilburn Co., Buffalo, N. 7.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
FARMER AND PLANTER
PUTTING IN FALL OATS.
Fertilizing, Flowing and Seeding In
teIIisently Discussed.

We never fail making good crop
of winter oats when we can get them
in the ground just right before the
first of November.
Pillow the land deep, harrow smooth
and drill the seed in open burrows.
| use a common cotton planter
with a fertilizer attachment and put
in from $50 pounds to 200 pounds OF
1914 acid phosphate to the acre. 1t
is a waste of money to use very solu-
BILE ammoniated fertilizers on small
grain sown in the fall.
We use a shovel pillow about six or
eight inches wide on the planter foot
10 open the furrow and usaEs the
rows just close enough not to allow
any loose dirt to roll back In the open
trench Just planted. Be cac<lvi and
don't allow any dirt to I'LL in the open
trench, and run the rows pc.fs, On (
level, but should empty out Gradually
at each end.
Neve. on any occasion sc% seed
oats in the fall that has not been
grown from fall sowing at least three
years; at which time this seed may
be considered as having the estab-
lished habit of winter growing.
We would also give the preference
to seed already grown by the open
trench system over that seed grown
from broadcast sowing, though we
have no positive proof that the open
trench-grown seed are the safest.
We caution all new beginners about
securing first-class, pure, clean seed.
Almost any up-to-date farmer would
tell you that seed oats or wheat plant
ed with cheat, cookie or smutty stuff
would not only fill your lands with
these foul seeds, but they reduce the
yield to an extent that would make II
profitable to pay five or more prices
for pure seed than to take foul seed
at no cost.
We are now preparing to NOW down
a crop of about two tons of pea vine
to the acre on land that was aban
doned three years back by an improv.
ident renter that failed to get more
than five bushels of corn or $50 pounds
of seed cotton to the acre.
Deep blowing, cowpeas, and from
$50 pounds to 200 pounds Of acid phos
plate to acre on each crop is all the
secret there is in this.
This simple application Of a little
common horse-sense, a good deal Of
horse sweat in a cooperative way
with nature, has made this land thai
was barren bloom again with profit
able crops that average over thirty
bushels of oats and from one to two
tons of pea hay to the acre all In
one year. This land next year would
grow a good profitable crop Of corn
without any fertilizer, or with the ap
plication of about $50 pounds of acit
| phosphate we believe it easy to grow
LOO pounds of seed cotton to the
| acre.
After a good crop of peas We lon
need to add any more heterogeneous
manure. Ordinarily, we have plenty
| of this costly fertilizing ingredien
stored in the soil by the cowpea crop
j. c. Stribling, Anderson County
South Carolina, in Progressive Farm
| er. aa
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
TREATMENT FOR sMUY.
Biologist Stevens Suggests Treatment
for Oats, Wheat, Rye or Barley.

The smut of grains Is caused by
fungus, the spore (the spore is the
reproductive body of fungi, CORE
spending to the seed in higher piants)
of which is carried in the seed to the
young plant. Smutte6 plants in the
field, and in threshing, shed .he.r
spores in the air. These spores are
then carried about by the wind, many
of them finding Judgment in the seed
of neighboring plants. They are thus
planted with the grain and the same
moisture, warmth. ETC., which starts
the plant into renewed life qucke1s
the smut. 1t thus happens that
many young plants are, in earliest In
fancy, STACKED b. tie smut enemy,
which, having gained entrance, turks
within the plant until blooming time,
when Il again breaks forth In its we'll
recognized form. Only very young
plants kee susceptible to attack OF
She smut, therefore IL we can so treat
the sces OF the plants as to destroy
the a6aefihg srcs-~G Of the fungus
without injuring the grain, we car
enable the young plant to pass the
critical stage of it's existence in
safety. 1t is thereafter safe. Sucn
treatment is possible. Smut can
therefore be practically eliminated
from the field. Several kinds of treat
ment are effective, but Of all those
sc hu &c
best and cheapest
Treatment.
Formalin can be purchased from
druggist at a cost of from rs to 95
cents per pound. One pound mixed
thoroughly with forty to fifty gallons
of water is sufficient to treat forty to
fifty bushels of grain.
To treat the grain spread 1t in a
thin layer on a smooth barn fool
and sprinkle with the diluted formalin
using either spraying machine or q
water pot. Sprinkle so as to thorough
ly and evenly wet the grain with the
mixture. Then shovel the grain ovel
thoroughly few times to insure even
distribution and cover the pile with
canvas, carpet, blankets or bagging. to
keep the fumes of the formalin within
The pile should stand from six to
twelve hours in this way. The oats
may then be readily dried by mixing
with air-slaked lime, and the lime may
be removed by the fanning-mill. The
seed is then ready to SOW. 1t may
be stored, but in so doing it is liable
to renewed smut infection. The bes
| way is to treat, dry, then sow as sool
as is practicable.
In general, one gallon of mixture
will suffice to treat one bushel OF
grain. The formalin should be used
! at the rate of one ounce to three gal
Ions Of water.
Formalin is an irritating causti,
which should not be brought into con
tact with the skin in pure form. II
diluted condition it is harmless-F
L. Stevens, Biologist Agricultural Ex
pertinent Station, Raleigh. N. C.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
RUN DOWN FROM GRIP
Or. Williams Pink Pills Have Cured
This Form OF Debility In
Hundreds Of Cases.

nun0reo8 OF SdSoSs
"Four years ago." says Mrs. F. Nor.
rison, of No. 1929 Carson street, South
Side, Pittsburg, Pa, 81 took a cold
which turned into the grip. This trouble
left me all run down. was thin, had
backache much of the time. had no ap-
petite, my stomach was out of order and
/ felt nervous aud unstrung.
"While had the grip I had doctor,
but really suffered more from the con-
dition in which the influenza left me
than did from the disease itself. I felt
generally wretched and miserable and
the least exposure to cold would make
me worse. I couldn't seem to get any
better until I began to take DR.. Williams
Pink Pills. very quickly noticed a
benefit after I began taking them and
they restored me to good health and
strength. DIR. Williams Pink Pills are
q wonderfully good medicine. Thanks
TO them I am now in fine health and
have had no return Of my former trouble.
i recommend the pills to everyone who
is ailing and take every opportunity to
let people know how good they are"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills cured Mrs.
Morrison because they actually mako
good, red blood. When the blood Is red
and healthy there can be no debility.
The relation between the blood and
nervous system is such that the pills
have q very decided action upon the
nerves and they have cured many severe
nervous disorders, such as partial pa.
ralysis, locomotor ataxia and st. Vitus'
dance, that have not yielded to ordinary
treatment. Their double action, Oh the
blood and on the nerves, makes tkem an
ideal tonic.
All druggists sell DR.. Williams Pink
Pills, or they will be sent by mail post
paid, ON receipt Of price, 80 cents per
box, six boxes for $3.50, by the DIR. Will
dams Medicine Co.. Schenectady, NY.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
Market Poultry Culture.

Plump, fat stock sells best.
Hardness is very essential in breed
ing stock for market poultry.
The fattening coop must be cleaned
daily.
Our American breeds make the most
attractive broilers.
Before marketing the carcass sew
up any skin that may be torn while
dressing.
Yard-raised poultry are preferred to
farm-raised by epicures. Their flesh
Is more tender and juicy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
FARM AND PLANTATION NOTES

-Novices in poultry breeding should
not expect too much at first; too many
people do that, only to be disappoint-
ed at the real results.
The shaping of a tree should be
done when 1t is young. The practice
Of allowing useless limbs to grow.
only to be sawed or chopped off when
the tree Is large, is a mistake. as ev-
cry undesirable limb grown deprives
the other limbs Of ujst 80 much food
and nourishment-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
DlsF,cUREp WITH ECZEMA.
Brushed Scales from Face Like Pow.
der-Under Physicians Grew Worse
-Cutlcura Works Wonders.

IT suffered with eczema six months.
! had tried three doctors, but did not
get any better. It was on my body
and ON my feet so thick that / could
hardly put pin on me without touch
ing eczema. My face was covered,
my eyebrows came out, and then 1t
got in my eye. / then went to anoth-
er doctor. He asked me what was
taking for It, and told him Cuticura.
He said that was very good thing.
but that he thought my face would
be marked for life. But Cuticura
did its work. and my face Is now
Just as clear as 1t ever was. told
all my friends about my remarkable
cure. I feel so thankful / want ev-
erybody far and wide to know what
Cuticura can do. It Is sure cure
for eczema. Mrs. Emma White, GAL
Cherrier Place, Camden. N. J.. April
rs. 1906"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
Suspicion Arouscd.

The population of st. Petersburg
IS still growing" said the census oifi-
,ial brilliantly.
We'll have to see about that" an
,wered the car. THE police are evil
aently not doing their duty in sending
teople to Siberia"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
Snake. Roa.ted and Eaten.

In Australia several kinds Of snakes
are eaten roasted. They are said to
be equal In delicacy and flavor to the
finest stewed cells. A traveller declares
the steam from the roasting reptiles
% by no means unsavory.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08

says: Il had been
showing symptoms OF
kidney trouble from
the time / was mus
tered out OF the
army, but in all my
life l never suffered
as in 1897. Head
aches, dizziness and
sleeplessness, frst t,
and then dropsy. I
was weak and help
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08
a TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How a Veteran Was Saved the Am
putaticn Of a Limb.

B. Frank Doremus, veteran. OF
Roosevelt Ave-, Indianapolis. Ind,
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A Positive
CURE
EIv's Cream Balm

10 quickly eoso'ueo'
Gives Relief 1t Once.
It cleanses, soothes
heals and protects
the diseased meme
brane. 1t cures Ca
tarrh and drives
away q Cold in the
Head quickly. Re
stores the Senses of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-12-08

l(en's ehoes. g to $50. RoyI Shoes. g
Tissess q Children's shoes, ee. 20 70 600.
Try W. 4. Douglas Women's, Misses and
Children's shoes; for style, at and wear
they excel other makes.
n I could take you Into my large
factories at Brockton, Mass. and show
YOU how carefully WI. Douglas shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit better,
wear longer, and are Of greater value
chan any other make.
Wherever you live, you can obtain w. L.
iDourIas shoes. His name and price Is stamped
son the bottom. which protects you against n'gn
1000 - interior shoes. Take no sabsfir
s's~. A. wear dealer for w. l. Douglas shoes
and Insist upon having then.
49, - iIimsfrnfed catslog Of Fall Styles.
VI 6oUGix S OsoG q osscktea. msss.
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Some people even covet the gold In
their neighbor's teeth.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-03-11
JETTY-WORK ASSURED

Another season of work is assured upon the
Columbia river lefty Congress has appropriated
s4OOO 900 for the extension of this work and that 1t
did 50 reluctantly is but the stronger evidence of the
splendid energy and tactfunesS of the senior senator
from Oregon and this without dlSparagment OF
Mr. Gearn. Charles ". Fulton is surely carving
fixed niche for himself and his state i'll the halls
of national business; he is steadily climbing to the
heights of leadership at Washington; winning the
confidence and official fellowship of his colleagues
and making himself factor in the immense play
of interests centering at the Capital 1t IS matter
Of graduation to the last citizen of Oregon, IRE
spectve of politics. that new to the senatorial
environment, should have passed the barriers OF
reserve and probation SET up by that exclusive and
powerful element, 50 readily and so completely, and
assumed position in the grave councils and wide
privileges of that body, at once commanding and
recognized Mr. Fulton has moved beyond the llml-
tations prescribed for the senatorial initiate and
holds the place and function of an acknowledged
factor, if not principal, in the most potential ele-
ment of human government today
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-03-11
/ SMlGGERING DELINQrENT -

Judge" Andrew Hamilton, who IN ten years
drew more than million dollars FROM the New
York Life Insurance Company, for "lrglSatWr pnr'
poses" has r'turncd to New York from Paris, and
saws he is ready to face his accuSerS, II is Sgnlti'
cant that he delayed his coming till after the Arm
strong Committee had closed its Investigation and
presented its report to the New York Legislature
Death has also closed the mouth Of John y Mccall,
former president of the New York Life who could
throw more light ON llamilton'S financial connrc-
ton with the company than anybody else. judge
IlamitonS 5 eagrrnrS> to vindiratc himself is to be
estimated by his refusal to appear as witness
when the Armstrong Committee was probing the
affairs of the New York Lifr, He has staggered
onto the stage after the battle has been fought and
the din of conflict subsidized Will he return to
MCCALL : heirs the $235000 that John \. Mccall paid
back to the company on his account Until he does
his desire for vindcation may be literally dis.
counted Mccall appears to have been the victim
of such men rs Hamilton and was punished largely
for the sin of others. Under the circumstances
Judge" Hamilton plays but sorry part when
he appears before the public returned exile IN
quest Of vindicaton. - Oakland tCal) Tribune
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-03-11
ONE MORE FEEDER

The Port Of Portland Commission has, perforce,
voted the Portland-Seattle Railway an entrce into
the metropolis, thus supplying another feeder and
factor in her commercial enginery. We hope the
new line will do for Portland all that is expected
of it, and that in the doing Of it, Portland will find
time to think Of her tributary sisters and concede
their exiStance by show of interest in their aspra
tons and a touch Of fellowship not altogether un-
reasonably expected from the controlling center Of
d great commonwealth. Astoria, for instance de
sires bit Of help and encouragement in the matter
Of common point rate on wheat from the interior;
an old and well-frazzed plea We admit, but large
and vital and persistant as ever, especially as con-
dtions are constantly changing to point Of view
that makes the concession more patent and potent
than ever before. Good luck to Portland, and a
side-streak of it to the City-by-the-Sea
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-03-11
THE FORTY-SIITH STAR

The forty-sixth star of major magnitude has
arisen upon the American horizon Oklahoma lin
cluding the territory of that name and Indian Ter
ritory) is now in the galaxy Of briiants adjoining
the federal armament. and the hope is abroad that
its lustre will grow, and burn and endure to the
lasting glory of the nation. Guthrie is its capital
and the new State has an area of 70,430 square
miles, or nearly 5000 less than Oregon. with a
population of PAP O60 or $4,000 more than Ore
gon; difference due to the heavy Indian popula-
ton indigenous to the lines of the newly admitted
territory And thus we expand. No doubt there
are thousands of incpient candidates for the thou
sands Of public places to be made and filled in the
new State, and before she has kicked off her swad
ding clothes the people will be in politics up their
very eyes. Well that is part and parcel Of her
existance and she may set real and Wholesome
example in the doing Of it.