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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-14

1 3 . + i & z ~
n view Of the fact that the congress
sional free seed business has been
shown beyond all question to be an
expensive as well as useless f1asco,
with the seeds Of antiquated varieties
|of fruit and vegetable and the gift Of
them cutting absolutely no figure with
respect to congressman's political
standing, It would seem to be abous
time for congress to take action and
relieve the seedmen Of the country OF
an unjustifable handicap, while the
money that has heretofore been spent
along this line might well be devoted
to promoting investigation along new
and profitable lines Of agricultural re-
search. 5.5
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-14

The difference In yield Of corn due
to an additional cultivation was illus
rated very nicely in case we noted
last fall, where. under exactly the same
conditions Of care a piece Of corn that
was cultivated four times yielded just
thirteen bushels per acre more than
patch of the same kind Of corn along
side which was given but three plow-
tngs. There is an object lesson here
for every corn raiser in the land. 49,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-14

T 3 usually the type Of folks who
afs superstitious about undertaking
enterprises on Friday who are the.
most likely TO buy largely Of the for
eign fruit tree agent or sQuander their
hard earned dollars In fake mining in
vestment companies. Superstition and
sullibility usually trok hand in hand.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-14

Z Some one has naively. suggested that
there Is nothing SO efncaclous in rid
ding piece Of land Of cockleburs as
good old fashioned hoe and gen
erous supply Of elbow grease. And the
same recipe may be recommended as a
safe method Of treatment for good
many weed pests other than the cookie
bur,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-14

The alcohol potato, a variety which
contains about four times the alcohol
producing capacity Of the ordinary va
riety and which was discovered by
Professor Hansen on one Of his recent
tours Of exploration, is to be distrib-
uted among number Of experiment
stations where it can be grown under
conditions which will insure its rapid
multiplication, from which points it
will later be given more general dis
tribution. If the denatured alcohol bill
is altered SO as to permit Of the estab-
lishment Of smaller plants than at
present allowed, this new potato will
be a most valuable addition to our
present list Of alcohol producing plants
and will exert potent influence on
heating and motor power problems.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-09-21
THE BANK OR THE SALOON.

The frequently repeated claim of
the saloon to the title OF 1.-The work
ing mans friend" sounds futile In
deed when confronted with the facts
in favor of the bank as an aspirant
| TO that honor. A correspondent Oh
the New York Evening Globe makes
this striking comparison between the
| two Institutions:
At the crossing of Eighth avenue
and Fourteenth street In this city.
there is a most suggestive arrange
ment of the buildings On each Oi
the two eastern corners there is u
l,iauor saloon, on each Of the two
western corners there Is a bank.
4 And what Is to I've impressivcly OBJ
served is, that these establishments
| are also directly opposite in every
other respect. The bank represents
thrift. the saloon waste; the bank
represents forethought. the saloon
nepligence; the bank representations
comfort the saloon future distress;
the bank represents supply, the sa-
loon want.
i 1t is interesting and ought TO he
Instructive to note, that to the de-
p gree that the saloon go out OF. com
4 mission, the banks get busy. In -four
weeks enforcement Of the Sunday
: closing law in Newark, N. j.. thu
: Mondays deposits VI the work'ng
men in four banks increased mor'
than SCI, 900. This Is at the rate o
l$140. 0O0 for the ten saving institu
lions OF that city. These figures sig
: nifty that Sunday closing Is good 10
an annual increase of $1,000, 900 de
q posits for the workingmen OF Newarl
b alone.
r. Observe, too, that the saloon mean
shortened life as well as a shorten
70 ed purse. All life insurance comps
r. MES and vital statistics show tina
total abstainers have an average
oe sixty -four years, liquor drinkers u
average Of thirty-five years and 81
,k months. The saloon means not Onl
a less money for work, but also lei
~ time for work.
III Young man, when you are consi'
eriug whether you will indulge
~ the useless. expensive. destructi'
~ practice Of drink. go stand at Il
intersection Of Eighth avenue al
ar Fourteenth street. and ask yourse
ere ..The Bank or The Saloon. Which.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-09-21
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
Edited By the ~
Women's Christian Temperance Union


WHAT'S IN THE GLASS?
1t was John G. SAKE. who. fifty
wears ago. was Americas leading
who wrote this startling
warning:
You have heard Of the snake In the
grass,
My boy.
or the terrible snake i'm the grass;
But now you must know
Mans deadliest foe
Is the venemous snake In the
glass,
Alas!
The venemuus snake in the glass;.
And 1t was Henry w. Longfellow
whose psalm OF Life" every Amer
can boy knows Tor ought to know
by heart. that wrote:
.srouch the goblet no more!
1t will make thy heart sore,
| To it's very core.
Its perfume IL the breath
OF the angel Of death;
And the light that within 1t lies
Is the flash of his evil eyes.
Beware! Oh. beware!
For sickness. sorrow and care,
All are there!'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-09-21
Montgomery Dots.
rBY BROWN EYEs.l

Miss Gussie Teddlie, Of, Ebenezrr,
was the guest of Miss Myrtle Harfi-
sou last Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Hernie Elliott ,H Pollock, who
has been visiting Miss Nodie Smith
ior the past three weeks, left Tor her
home last Sunday.
Among the passengers on the north
hound train Saturday night were
Rev. l.. i. Mccain and A. NJ. Good
wyB, Of Colfax.
Mr.. n. H. Horn went to st. Maurice
last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. o. Harrison took
y crowd of our young folks ont Tor a
moonlight skiff ride last Saturday
night, and treated them to ice cream
and cake afterwards.
| School opened Monday morning
with Prof. Norman as principal ant
Miss Jane Burton, of Tennessee, IA
assistant.
Miss Emily Mccain left last Satur
day night for PlattenviIle, La, wher'
she is engaged as assistant in TIN
high school.
| Miss Ola Sandiier, who was TIL
ynest of her sister, Mrs. q. b. Heard
Tor "A few days last week, lett Sunda.
evening for Keachie college.
i Mr.. q. b. Heard went to Shrevs
port Sunday evening returning MOI
day morning.
Uuitea number of the Montgomery
ties took in the protracted meetin
out mt Wheeling last Sunday.
Miss Bertha Harrison left Tor Nj
3 ridian college Monday night. 81
WAS accompanied AS far as Shrev
3 port by her sister, Miss Myrtle, VIII
; goes for few weeks visit to relative
3 in Hughes Springs. Texas.
FL MIR. and Mrs. DIN Nilcox's lit
3 child who has been SO very i'll, we n
. glad to say is much better.
= Miss Grace Hyde, Of WINFIELD, Vi
tied her sister Mrs. L. ID. Wardlo
last Sunday, returning home Monds
morning.
Mr.. John Kelly gas gone on thr
weeks trip to Catnhoula and 9th
= parishes shorse trading"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-09-21
: r,.ve,lns Naan's Experience.

II must tell you my experience on AN
east bound O Il & N Il X train from Pen
,lIetop TO LeGrantle, Ore writes Sam a
.a;arber. well known travelling man.
was in the smoking department with
some other travelling men when one OF
them vent out iuto the coach and came
hack aid said, there is woman sick
INTO death in the car" at once got
nm and went out, found her very i'll with
cramp collie, her hands and arms were
drawn no SO you could not straighten
them. and with deathlike look on hel
face. Two or three ladies we're working
with her and giving her whisky. l went
tn nv suit case and got my hottie o'
(.bamberlain's Collie, Cholera and psar
rhoea Remedy Il never travel w'teout It
ran TO the water tank, put double dos
~ the medicine in the glass, poured
some water into IT and stirred 1t with
pencil: then had quite time to get thu
ladies' to let me give it to her, but suc
ceeded. could at once see the e9cc
and I worked with her, rubbing he
hands. and in twenty minutes gave be
another dose. BY this time we were 81
i most into LeGrande. where | was :
| leave the train. gave the bottle to to
husband to be used in case another dos
should be needed, but by the time tn
train ran into LeGrande STE was q
RIGHT. and received the thanks OF ever
nossenrer in the car" For sale BY Val
Hey drug store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-09-21
LrxcoLN's TEMpERANcE PLEDGE.

IINcoI.N's TEMPERANCE PLEDGE.
Abraham Lincoln, when offered
wine at "a great banquet, pnblicaiiy
refused. and stated that he had been
fifty years an alstainer. To the
friend who persuaded him to sign
the pledge. he said: II owe more tn
Won than to almost anyone-else oi
whom | can think; for II had not
signed the pledge with you In my
wears of youthful temptations. ! might
have gone the way that the majority
If my old comrades have gone, whict
ends In a life and a drunk
ards grave. s-Signal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-09-21
Iost and BOUND .

Lost. between $50 p. M, yesterday
aud noon today, billions attack, with
nausea and sick headache. This loss
was accustomed by finding at Crescent
drug store box of DIR. Kings New Life
Pills, the guaranteed cure for biliousnees
malaria aud ;aundice. 25c.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-09-21

Come to J. ". Duncan Co. for ba
gains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
LILLIAN NoRDlcA, SINGER.
I the Washington Herald.

From the Washington Herald.
 Lillian Nordica, one of the most fa- nous and popular singers of her time, has made a considerable fortune out of her voice, and she intends to spend a good deal of 1t in aid of musical art She has developed plans for sort of Amer ican Bayreuth, and proposes to build on the banks of the Hudson an opera house like those at Bayreuth and Munich, only larger and bgetter. She will not only put her own funds into 1t, but she has suc- ceeded In interesting a number of rich music lovers in the project. The stage is to be a revolving one. so that Wagner and Shakespeare may be performed with out unnecessary waits between the scenes. The foyer of the place is to be an exhibi- ton room for painters and sculptors. In connection with her plans she proposes to establish a great opera school, where girls may learn to sing. If it Is found that they have abilities that will warrant 1t, they will be aided to go abroad to study under some of the European mas ters. Mime. Nordica is to sing at ben eft in Paris soon. The funds raised are to be used solely for the purpose of sendir back home American girls who have failed abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
THE HElNZE CRASH.
Story of Cause of Big copper-corner
 Failure.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 This was told yesterday as the in side history of the Heinze affair F. Augustus Heinze Charles ". Morse and E. R. Thomas when United Copper was at it's low figure. purchased jointly un- der "a gentleman's. agreement" little more than 17OOO shares of common. They held this through the high figure with the understanding that it should be held Standard oil or some other interest made a raid on United Copper and 1t began to give way. When F. Augustus Heinze prepared to support the stock quietly he was startled to learn that the 17.0O0 shares had been thrown on the market. Immediately he stopped the transfer. Who sold the stock was not made known yesterday, but it was admitted on both sides that 1t was not MT. Thomas. At that time, in the face of the bear market, with everything trembling, Otto c. Heinze and his friends, working with Arthur P. Heinze, who is abroad resolved to corner the market. As they had the transfer books at their office it was thought they could trace everything outstanding, but in that they made B mistake. They scattered their buying orders among the six firms In New York and two in Boston. Other orders were made by cable. Those cables may ex- plain Arthur P. Heinzes effacement When the preferred was selling down to "A one stock brokerage house re- ceived cable order from young Mr Heinze to buy preferred around IS. His personal liability is reported to be s1,0O0, 900.
 When the purchases. were made on Monday there came word to all sellers that Heinze & Co. would insist on de- liveries. The deliveries came and swamped them. They had been dug up in all sections and were valid The firms available capital melted and F. Augustus Heinze came to the rescue He called the various houses, informed them that his checks would be on hand before settling hour on Wednesday to taken up the stock. and at the time he expected that he would have the money It Is said he had then about $500 900 cash in bank Just before the settling hour Heinze's outstanding loans in the Morse banks were called. The collateral \for these loans was bank stock which could not be parted with except at great sacrifice, and. tn erefore, the cash was substituted It left him without funds and he was unable to pay for the copper stock. This forced the failure of Gross & Kleeberg and the hurried meeting at the Morse home on Wednes- day evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
Peculiar Conditions

Considered as a prohibition proposi- tion the Birmingham district Is pe- culiar in two respects. Industrial conditions make it peculiar and pohce conditions make it likewise peculiar. It Is the only district in the south u,bere steel rails are produced and it ia a well known fact that skilled labor necessary to man a steel plant Will not live in "dry" county. The in- adequacy of police protection in the towns of Jefferson county where a prohibition campaign is in progress would make it easy for the blind tiger to prey on men and boys. "Hop Jack" traffic is already carried on exten- siyely in this county. Under ,prohibl- tion the blind tiger dives would multiply rapidly. Out of 21 municipal ities in Jefferson county there is scarcely one of them financially able to employ enough policemen to protect property under ordinary circumstances.
 Birminghams police force In point of numbers Is far below the standard fixed by all growing, progressive cities in the United States. And neither Bessemer nor Ensley has sufficient number of policemen for average con ditions. One of Birmingham's most pressing needs Is larger police force, but the limited finances of the city have made any considerable increase practically impossible.
 Owing to these conditions the blind tiger would do its deadliest work in the Birmingham district. A prominent citizen said In recent speech that if the prohibitionists> won In Jefferson county the entire United States army could not cope with the blind tiger. While this was an exaggerated asser- ton. of course, 1t accentuated true state of affairs.
 Admitting that the saloon has its bad side, it would be, under proper regulation, far less harmful to morals than the shameful traffic in wild cat" whisky, which pays no revenue to city, county or state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
Water Powers In the South

In Congress could be induced to establish the Appalachian forest re- serve the vast/water powers in the Appalachian district and in the Pied mont regions adjacent thereto would be preserved. J. E. Serrine, a civil engineer of South Carolina, says the rainfall of those districts is sufficient, If the forests are preserved, to produce water powers aggregating six million horse power throughout the entire year. This vast power could by means of electricity be widely distributed. It is nearly 20 times more power than is now employed in all the cotton mills of the south.
 The proposed Appalachian park would extend into this state, but out side of the park Alabama has a vast aggregate of unutilized water power. The chief river state of the union is, in fact, full of opportunities awaiting development and use. A careful sur vey of the states water powers would surprise country that is looking for a power that presents the advantage of cheapness and continuity. Scarcely any of our water powers are outside railroad facilities, and the time will surely come when every one of them will be improved and utilized to it's fullest extent. The day of the water power is fast approaching, and the Appalachian range and Alabama will be the chief seat of the new develop. ment, always provided deforestation is not carried too far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
1t Is meat and drink to me 10 see clown.
 As You Like 1t.
lmmiaratisn and the South

If Congressman Burnett would con sider lines of latitude he would see that the people of Southern Europe would be more at home In the cotton belt than the people of Northern Eu- rope. The Scandinavians readily accept the harsh winters of the states along the Canadian line, but they would be severely taxed at the outset by the temperatures of the gulf states. Practically all of the cotton belt lies below the 35th parallel, while all the people that Mir. Burnett objects to live north of that parallel-the Span iards, the Italians, the Greeks, the Si- cilians and the Syrians. A climate that would be attractive to Sicilians would Irepel Scandinavians, and yet MT. Bur nett proposes to shut out the former and invite the latter. His plan simply means that the south is not to get the ,wilite men it needs before it's untitled acres can be occupied and cultivated.
 He need not trouble himself about the coming of Syrians, for the Otto man government has forbidden them to leave their own country except tenn porarily. The Italian emigration will no doubt be adjusted in a like man. ner after few more years of deple- tion of the home country.
 MT. Burnett's plea for the Caucasian race and civilization is curiously twist ed Bringing white men here will not impair either the Causasian race or Caucasian civilization Are not the Spaniards, the Italians, the Greeks and the Sicilians members of the Caucasian race and sharers in Caucasian civil ization? If they are not each and all Caucasians, will MT. Burnett tell us 10 what other grand division of the human race do they belong? The truth is the south needs white men. Two-thirds of the south is untitled, and we should consider our undeveloped resources, and not bother ourselves with the distractions that the con gested states of the northeast stand ready to suggest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
THEATRE oRcHEsTRAs.

From the New York Times
 The abolition of the band in the pit by MT. Belasco in the new Stuyvesant thea ire, and by MT. Arnold Daly at the Berk- eley, is not entirely a new thing in local theatricals, and is merely the beginning of new attempt to establish here the custom of most European theatres. OAy in Great Britain and the United States is the orchestra an established feature of playhouses except when musical per- forrnances are given.
 Here, however, it has generally been in evidence, and disesteemed only by blase first-nighters, and tie musically inclined who have been educated to the appreciation of better music than the ordinary quadrille band can generally give them. Some noteworthy attempts have been made from time to time to improve the quality of entr'acte music but not only the spirited performances of MT. Thomas Bakers band of the old days at Walack's, but MT. Henry Wid- mers pleasing music at Dslys 20 years ago would not satisfy the present exact ing taste of musical students, while or
 
 popular airs good enough.
 MT. Charles Frohman ten years or so ago had a leader who increased the num- bers of his orchestra and played Beeth- oven and Wagner very well indeed, but nobody listened. A concert orchestra for entr' acte music is out of the question The cost would be out of all proportion to the results.
 At the Stuyvesant theatre the audience is not played in" A chime of bells di- rects attention to the stage the audito- riums lights grow dim, and the curtain rises. The music incidental to the play is performed in the wings. The effect pleased on the opening night. It re- mains to be seen how lhe general pub lic' will take to the idea.
 We are inclined to believe that light music as an accompaniment to the con- versatlon between the acts will still be favored by the majority of playgoers. But it is too much to expect virtuosity and the classics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21

the northernmost island of the Philip l pine archipelago is not much farther from Formosa, which is now part of the Japanese empire. What served national interests in the one case would serve them in the other.
 Nor do acute observers think that Japan would become a party to a joint guaranty in case of the independence of the Philippines. No naturalization scheme would be worth much unless Japan became one of the international guarantors. fIf the Mikado's govern ment,' says the Springfield Republi- can, "should copy our old Cuban policy in this particular, it would probably refuse to approve the naturalization idea, on the ground that joint guar anty of Filipino independence would amount to recognition that it's own interest in affairs along the Asiatic coast was no greater than that of any western nation. The United States, under the Monroe doctrine and also its Cuban doctrine, always insisted that. after spains it's own interest in Cuba was greater than that of any other power; hence, our government never would have agreed to place an independent Cuba under international protection. As matter of fact, the independent Cuba of today has been placed under American protection alone"
 If Japanese Monroe doctrine is developed in the Far East, and that, too, pretty speedily, neither neutral ization of the Philippines nor their transfer to any other power would be feasible. The islands seem destined to remain either American or else to become part of the expanding Japan csc empire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
Memory in Greek Restaurants.

T went into Greek restaurant a while ago to get cup of coffee" said an observer last night, and was again reminded of the remarkable memory the chefs in these places must have.
 "The lunch counter was crowded to the utmost, and orders were being hurl- ed to the two cooks in the kitchen with such rapidity that I became interested, and you would be surprised al the num- Der shot at them by the walters out side in less than minute. I ac- tually put them down on paper, at least as many as I could catch, and here is the waE what l got ran:
 lover bacon, hamberger smothered. half fry three, straight. up ham, chicken and, lamb and English, stew two, French fry, slice 'em, and hot waffies.'
 Tt seems remarkable to me that these cooks are able to remember and keep up with all of these orders, what ever they may mean and make so few mistakes
 Another thing. did you ever notice that however crowded the counter may be. your waiter always gets your or der when 1t is ready, and sets 1t before you, just as if you had ordered it an instant before?"