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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
Orange Tree Moves North.

Botanists in the employ of the
United States department of Agri'
culture hope to bring into being an
orange tree which will be as shady
as the apple tree; an orange tree that
will not perish in the chill OF North
ern winter, which in December VIII
bear it's wreaths of snow and in May
it's garlands of bloom, and when sum
mer comes will yield. fruits as good
as that sweetened In the South sun.
This may seem to be an unnatural
proposition, but it only seems so. NO
violence upon the laws OF nature haa
been or will be attempted. 1t is SIM
ply an effort to make the citrus tree
hardy and insensitive to cold as the
citrus tree which bears the bitter.
unedible orange. BY crossing citrus
tree which grows in the North and
which bears the unedible fruit, with
the citrus tree of the South. 1t Is
sought to beget plant in which Will
be combined the good traits OF each.
Government botanists are confident
that the results of this citrus mar
rage will be scion that will grow
and thrive at a latitude midway be-
tween the northern limits Of the
sweet and bitter orange. II this
should be there might be orange
groves in Central Virginia, Middle
Kentucky, Southern Indiana, South
ern Illinois, Central Missouri and
Central Kansas. Think Of orange
groves around the homes in Rich
mond, Louisville. Cincinnati. st. Louis
and Kansas City!-Technicai World.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
A Boys Big Corn Crop.

We did not take any corn to the
fair, but our hardware man in White
Pigeon offered a 1925 Remington
rifle to the boy bringing him the two
longest ears of corn before December
l.
There are lots of other boys who
took corn, but l won the rife by TAX
ing the two largest ears. They meas
ured IL IL and IL inches.
This is the way it was raised:
First, we MANFRED the ground In
the fall.
Second, we plowed the ground deep.
Third, we narrowed twice before
planting.
Fourth, on May we planted corn
from large ears, from every ear OF
which a kernel had been taken and
tested to see If it would sprout well.
Fifth, it was cultivated just enough
to keep the weeds from growing and
the ground mellow until the tassels
began to show.-Joseph Harrison.
White Pigeon, Mich
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
IN ONE TAcTFUL urTERANcE
Great Man Broke Up the Most Pro-
found Social Frost.

l was lately told delightful story
of great statesman staying with a
humble and anxious host, who had in
vited a party of simple and unimpor-
tant people to meet the great man.
The statesman came in late for din
ner, and was introduced to the party;
he made a series of old-fashioned
bows in all directions, but no one felt
in a position to offer any observations.
The great man. at the conclusion Of
the ceremony, turned to his host, and
said, in tones that had often thrilled q
listening senate: What very con.
venient jugs you have in your bed
rooms! They pour WE'LL" The social
frost broke up; the company were de-
lighted to find that the great man
was interested in mundane matters Of
kind on which every one might be
permitted to have an opinion. and the
conversation, starting from the
humblest conveniences OF daily life.
melted insensibly into more liberal
subjects.-Arthur C. Benson, in Put.
MANS and the Reader.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

ing. You've got to marry me some
time I'm not after money. I've some
of my own and I'll make some more.
When you're tired of this folly I'm
coming back for you. Good-by." And
he wrung her hand till the Honorable
Agatha WINGED. Then he was gone In
a rattle of gravel and dust.
We couldn't help hearing what ne
said ard he didn't seem to care
whether we did or not. But we could
hardly believe our ears. Young Muir
ray Brancepeth. that gilded idler. de-
claring himself the victim of mighty
passion, and, more astounding still,
swearing that he would make some
money! He. who had never done any
work in his life besides that necessary
to bleed his rich old uncle of his living
expenses.
What was it he said,' / thought,
"atout the real Agatha and folly p "
What did it all mean?
AS we drove up to the castle en-.
trance two girls of about 10 and 20.
should say, came tearing around the
corner, tennis racquets in hand, and
shrieked aloud, evidently with sur
prised delight at seeing us.
"Oh, Agatha cried the foremost
of the two, tall. brown-eyed, brown
faced sylph, with profusion of wavy
and very disorderly brown hair. "Oh,
Agatha, where did you get them? I'm
so tired of Brancepeth."
YES" cried the other one, where
did they drop from? / thought you
were playing golf" She was a jolly
little thing. this second one, small, but
plump, with fair skin and blue eyes
really very attractive.
This was somewhat embarrassing
to me, but Vincent stood there. utterly
unperturbed. bowling with that easy
grace of his, as the Honorable Agatha
introduced us. But imagine our sur.
prise when she presented each OF
those two young things as .the Honor.
able Agatha Wyckhoff."
But / thought you were the Honor
able Agatha" l cried, unable to re
press my establishment.
$50 / am" she answered, smiling
and we followed her into the house
silent but wondering.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
Believes In Mixed Farming.

l firmly believe in mixed farming.
but even then we must specialize on
some certain line of stock feeding and
rotation of crops IL we make decided
success of the business. Call it gen.
eral farming, but let's not call 1t
mixed farming. AS grandfather used
to say: BE something. II you can
not be a long-tailed rat. be q mouse"
Have some hobby, some kind OF a
crop or some kind OF live stock and
specialize on that and make your
other farming subservient to that one
special crop or kind OF live stock
feeding. We have too many common
mixed farmers.-John c. Barnes.
Indiana
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
SOUTHERN
AGRICULTURE

Al Home on the Farm.
When daylight is ended and twilight
is near,
The sun sinking low in the west;
When breezes are rustling the leaves
in the trees
Where birds sing their babies to
rest
o! then a sweet peace steals over my
soul,
In my heart is no care nor alarm,
For the angels are hov'ring and Heav-
en- bends low,
Ger the life of the home on the
farm.
o! the grass is so green and the flow
ers so sweet,
The trees are so cool and so strong.
The green corn is waving its banners
so proud,
Up the rows, so straight and so long,
The golden wheat shelters the par
tridge's nest,
The squirrels fear never harm,
For busy and happy, at peace with
the world,
Is the life in the home on the farm.
As / sit in the porch Of my little
brown home,
/ think of the dear ones away
In the heat and the roar Of the city's
mad whirl,
Mid the lights and glamour and
play
And pray the Father in Heaven above
Will shield them from danger and
harm,
And give them the joy and the peace
that abides
On the life of the home on the farm.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

place, II there are any? I'm starving"
Vincent looked up and again
smiled that Irritating smile of his.
Don't get hot" he drawled; tits all
right. The Honorable Agatha has in
vited us to the castle and she's tele-
phoned for the dogcart and wagon Tor
our luggage Haven't you, Angler he
ended, turning his handsome bronzed
face to the girl, with one of his best
smiles, one of the kind he reserves
especially for the fair sex.
/ frowned. Vincent really makes
advances too quickly.
why didn't you say so at first?' /
said, rather peevishly, as l sat down
on the steps to await the dogcart which
one could see already, a black speck
in the distance on the winding road
from the castle. The speck finally dis
appeared behind clump of trees, and
when it emerged and drew up at the
station we saw what a stunning little
turnout it was The horse was as
fine as any you'd meet on the Lady s
Mile, the harness was clinking and
shining with ornaments, and the cart
and the groom's livery were faultless.
The Honorable Agatha mounted the
box seat. Christopher" she said to
the groom, I'm going to drive. You q
better ride back with the trunks.
Then, before l had time to interfere,
Vincent leaped nimbly up to the seat
beside her and l was obliged to take
the rumble with Rudolph. who leaped
up beside me as if to his accustomed
seat. / was too anxious to get to the
castle and get something to eat, how
ever, to mind, and the Honorable
Agatha proving to be as good a whip
as she was golfer, We were soon
winding up the last gentle slope that
led to the big building. AS we drove
down the long avenue another dogcart
approached us rapidly, and as it came
almost abreast, to my surprise
recognized the young man who was sit
ting with the groom as young Murray
Brancepeth. He saw us at the same
moment and both dogcarts stopped.
"Hullo, Murray" said Vincent and
together.
But he never paid the slightest at
tention to u.s. Instead, he jumped
lightly from his high seat and came
around to the Honorable Agatha's side
of our cart. Reaching up he caught
her hand.
Il don't care whether you're the real
Agatha or not" he said, his dark face
flushed with the intensity of his feel
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
Improving Cattle Grades.

The man who buys a good breeding
bull and allows him to stand in his
community at a nominal fee is a pub
lie benefactor and deserves the most
encouragement of any man in the
community. Not long ago l had the
pleasure of visiting a friend of mine
who purchased a pure bred Guernsey
bull and while there he drove me
around and showed me no less tnan
100 fine grade COWS from his bull and
asked me what value would estimate
that his bull has been to that com
munity. l promptly said, Zone thou
sand dollars and the bull is sood for
a number of years at the present
time."-L NJ. Kelly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
Artificial Gems.

Last year German association
caused surprise TO some scientists and
disbelief in others by the announce
ment that process had been discov-
cred by which most of the precious
stones could be produced by artificial
means.
Recently seyera! official experts
have made an examination OF about 40
of these artificial gems. In their re-
port to the Museum Of Natural Ills
tory they say:
"Of all the atones we examined, we
can only call tie artificial rubies g
direct Success, but the imitation o.
this species is no new invention. We
therefore declare that there is moth
ing new or sensational in the new in
vention."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

The most progressive farmer d
fifty years ago would gaze in open
eyed establishment at the present day
methods of farming. So rapid have
been the strides Of progress in the
agricultural world since that day that
the methods employed by the modern
farmer are so far in advance of those
formerly in vogue as to exceed the
widest fancies that ever played be-
fore the vision of the old-time agri
culturist. For him the marketing
of his products. meant not only the
labor involved in producing them. but
when ready for market the only facil-
tiles for transportation to the place
of sale were the farm team and the
traditional old farm wagon
Fancy the picture If you can of q
farmer of fifty years ago preparing to
go to market with the mornings out
put of milk in a handsome four cylin-
der automobile, which In appearance.
quality, strength. speed and style Is
the equal of anything to be found on
the city boulevards; the farmer HIM
self, or one of his sons. with perfect
understanding Of its mechanism, play
ing the part of Chauffeur and speeding
along the country roads to his desti'
nation with all the comfort and en-
joyment afforded his city cousin by
a mere pleasure spin, and yet this
picture is no mere fancy, but an
actual reality in connection with the
operation of many OF our modern
farms.-White's Class Advertising.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
A Hedqe for pahIias.

This lofty flower, having such
strong stalks, is not at all ungracesul.
and when properly cultivated il a
profuse bloomer Plant the bulbs
rather deep in the ground. They need
the strongest festilizers, also an
abundance OF water and sunshine. 1t
is better to tie them to strong stakes
to guard against damage by vino.
and it is also better to plant them in q
hedge row, as they are not SO easily
blown over by the wind.-F. L. Ris-
ley.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Don't put OF buying your breeding
stock too long. Hundreds OF breed
ers are now sold out. and the surplus
now in the hands of the breeders II
limited. Get your birds this month, 90
as to have them early. You will get
better selection; get them home In
time to become thoroughly wanted to
their new quarters, and you will get
eggs that will hatch early in the sea,
son.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
n Defense.

Most of tho airs people put on
about the benefits of foreign travel are
all biun" Yes. But you've got to
travel yourself in order to be able to
call tie bluff"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

DR.. s. W.. Fletcher has been ap-
pointed director of the Virginia ex-
pertinent station. He was formerly
connected with the Cornell expert
ment station, the Washington sta
ton, and was professor of horticul.
ture in the Michigan Agricultural Col.
lege when he was called to Virginia
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

The boys may not say much when
they are forced to work sixteen hours
a day without share in the profits,
but they suddenly run of to the city.
1t shows they have been doing some
strong thinking.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
SYNOPSIS.

Lord wilfred Vincent and Archibald
Terhune are introduced at the opening or
the story, in England, the latter relating
the tale. The pair on an outing miss
their train and seeking recreation meet
"the Honorable Agatha Wyckhon.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Hicks capudlne Cures Nervousness
Whether tired out, worried. sleepless or
what not. It quiets and refreshes brain
and nerves. It's liquid and pleasant to
take. Trial bottle 10c-regular sic sc and,
Dc ct druzgists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

A dairy COW shut up m dark
stable and fed on highly concentrated
food quickly burns out.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
asmation allays pain, wind coiic. 80 6oe<aA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Never trouble another for what you
can do yourself. Jefferson.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
CHAPTER n.

The inside of the castle gave every
evidence of enormous wealth and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Even boarding house landIadies
must pay out good money for the privt
lege of boarding street cars.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Thousands of American women
IN our homes are daily sacrificing
their lives to duty.
In order to keep the home neat
and pretty, the children well dressed
and tidy, women overdo. A female
weakness or displacement is often
brought on and they suffer in silence,
drifting along from bad to worse,
knowing well that they ought to
have help to overcome the pains and
aches which daily make life a burden.
It is to these faithful women that
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26

Telling the truth accidentally IL apt
to be embarrassing.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-26
LYDIA e PINkHAM'S
VEGETABLE c0mp0UN

comes as q boon and q blessing,
as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, Of
Mayville, N. Y, and to Mrs. w. p.
Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pa, who say:
81 WAS not able to do my own work,
owing to the female trouble from which
/ suffered. Lydia e. Pinkham's vege-
table Compound helped me wonderfully,
and am 80 wcIA that can do as big .
days worF a. ever did. / wish every
sick womaz4 .xould try It.
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, infs mmation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, or nervous prostration.
/ Why don't you try itP
Mrs. Pinlkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn Mass.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-21
HOW 1T FEELS TO FALL HALF A
MILE

What it means to have your balloon
suddenly explode 5000 feet above the
earth, and unceremoniously hurl you
half a mile through space, has recently
been graphically described by A. Hol-
land Forbes, one of the aeronauts who
manned the Inflated American balloon
in the recent international races in
Germany. The miraculous part of the
narrative is the fact that neither the
writer nor his companion were injured
in the least by the escapade. As quoted
in the New York Sun, he says:
We didn t think much of the accident
while it was happening-there was no
time for that. 1 had just remarked to
Post how well the balloon was working
when the noise of the explosion came.
Post coolly looked al0ft, and said,
" Forbes, she IS gone.' / looked over
head and instantly eomprehended our
danger.
We were up exactly 1900 feet, as the
instruments showed. We came down
that 1900 feet in two minutes I grab
bed the ropes and tried to parachute
down. We fell 800 feet like a piece
of lead. We threw out sand, thirty
eight bags-I had ton of it in the
balloOn-a bag at a time. We were
going down so fast that it appeared
that the sand was going up in the air
past us as we fell.
Post and | were worried about hitting
the people below. L remember we
warned each other about that But in
those crowded two minutes we did not
have time to worry about ourselves.
After some mighty speedy work,
got the ropes into shape. Underneath
| saw an apartment house. 1t seemed
to be coming right up from the earth
to meet us, and it was coming fast. I
never shall forget Post as he was then
the coolest man [ ever saw. When
he got sight of that mansard roof com
ing up to us he .reac ned over and said,
"Goodby, old man. We shook hands,
and that S all there was to it. Then we
struck.
The car of the balloon went crash
ing through the roof of that apartment
house, tiles, lathing, plastering and all,
and we found ourselves unceremOniOusly
entering a lady's bedroom. Fortunate
ly she was not at home. She was at
the balloon grounds, among the other
$4,000 or so persons who had gathered
to see us start. The crowd was mile
square.
The Kaiser sent motor-car to us
with one of his adihtants, and the milit
airy and police helped to disentangle us
from the rigging. They expected to
find us dead, of course, but we were not
hurt n bit, and the Kaiser sent us a
box for the opera the following night.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-21
OUR SAMOAN WARDS.
Picturesque People Second to No
Americans for Patriotism.

WASHINGTON, Dee. 5.-The Pacific
fleet recently visited the United States
naval station at Samoa, which is one
of the least frequented of the govern
ment possessions beyond the seas. The
visit was one of great Importance to the
naval officers who are stationed there
and took on the quality of a momentous
event in the estimation of the natives.
In a letter which was received at the
Navy Department a few days ago from
an officer with the feet brief descrip-
ton of the visit was given:
''We left Honolulu on September 10
and arrived at Page Page on the morn
ing of September 20, on schedule time, ~
said the writer. 1.-The crossing of the
line was celebrated on September 16 in
the usual manner. The California had
the most trouble on the trip, as her
towline parted twice, once at the de-
strover she was towing and once in the
middle of the 10-inch manila line The
Maryland has never lost her tow since
leaving San Francisco. Weather was
fine all the way, with splendid moon
ligt nights and gorgeous display Of
shooting stars. American Samoa is
fine place. The natives are well built
and good looking. Most of them are
missionaries now.
"Only first class men from the ships
were allowed to 60 on shore, about
sixty from each vessel, during the day
light. Natives from all the islands in
the American group came to Pago Page
on board the Annapolis, which will take
them back home after the fleet leaves
Governor Parker, brOther-in-law of ex-
President Harrison, and a retired cap
tain of the navy, visited each ship, and
received from each a seventeen.gun
salute. The natives gave the officers a
talking welcome, called 'fanO,' and
prodigious feast, called 'talolo. Every
one is making arrangements for the
target practice, but no one finds it pos
sible to take much heart in work 1t is
too hot, and there is too much rain and
It makes a fellow feel like
lOafing. The Annapolis is station ship
here, and fine little craft for the pur-
pose. The sOlace caught up with US on
the 18th. Each ship sent a boat and
got the mail, then she went on to the
cable station. We obtained from the
SOlace the news of the wreck of the
Aeon, on Christmas Island. There |
should be some way of getting the mail !
without the delays which are now
It is bad enough to live |
here without being so completely cut |
off from civilization and the means of (
communication with the rest of the /
world -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-21
NO USE GETTING EXCITED.

There were several people in the
shop when the stranger entered. and
So he addressed them at large. "Any
of YOU drive up here in a trape'
eyes, - said Farmer Crabbe, 81 did.
Why2"
land old gray horse in the trap?"
eyes. but"
"And an elderly lady on the seat?''
"That's right; but
81 suppose she can manage that old
horse?'
"Rather; I Just think she couldi
Why. she's drove him since he was a
two-year-old.'
"Oh.' said the stranger. ''then it 5
all right. I merely asked because the
gray has started up the street like a
scarifed mad bullock. and the old
lady : hanging on to the back of the
trap screaming 'Murder!' Still, if she
can manage him. of course. there's no
use getting excited over it. How 5
the price of taters down your way?''
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-21
KNOW HAWAII.

THE HAWAIIAN ANNUAL besides extended refer
in Renaissance
An exhaustive paper on the
of Dr. A Marques Other timely
in Kaueas Activity, by Dr.
Brigham; Mckinley High School, Chapter OF
Retrospect
whole the comprehensive
otherwise be found relative to
by mail 50 cents to any address
nreeept of money o
mailing abroad promptly attended to and adj
of
Address:
THOS G. THRUM, Publisher.
Honolulu 7. H.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-21

An earnest young preacher in a re-
mote country village concluded long
and comprehensive duplication by
saving: "And now let rs pray for
those who are dwelling in the I'M
inhabited portions of the earth