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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
POLITICAL POINTERS.

1t Is up to the Republican managers
in Ohio to begin refilling the dinner
buckets If they expect to hold on to
Taft's state
The hardest fight Of the Democrats
in this campaign is to keep the Re-
publicans off their platform.
But, then, II 1t was the fear of the
Wilson-Gorman tariff law of 1894 that
caused the panic of 1893, what was 1t
the fear of that caused the panic of
1907?
Shall the people rule? Eventually.
Speaker Cannon has already passed
the three-score-and-ten mark.
If there is a prosperity parade for
campaign purposes this fall Chairman
Hitchcock might hire those hundred
men who slept in the Morgue chapel,
becau5e there was no other refuge for
them, to carry his full dinner pals
with the disused chicken legs visibly
sticking out of the excelsior contents.
The federal official whom Roosevelt
has just threatened with dismissal for
''pernicious activity" is not in the
south, but in New York He has doubt
less been operating at cross purposes
with some of Roosevelt's plans in the
Empire state.
AS we look forward to an SS,O00,-
100000 crop. 1t occurs to us how
calamitous it would have been If the
Democrats had had their way and re-
vised the tariff last spring, so insuring
a complete failure of the crops this
fall. It's funny how wheat Is heavy
nnd corn tall according to whether the
duty on steel rails is As or 25 per cent.
Wouldn't it be real Jar If, when
the troops have caught the Yellow.
stone bandit and stripped him of his
booty and thrown him into chains and
peeled of his disguise, it should be
found that it was Treasurer Sheldon
applying the usual methods of collect.
ing Republican campaign funds-say,
wouldn't 1t jar you?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
BATHING AN INDIAN IDOL.
Curious Ceremony Attended by Thou
sands Of Devout Pilgrims.

Thousands Of pilgrims from the va
rious outlying villages and other parts
Of the Hooghly district poured in from
an early hour in the morning to the
temples Of Jagernath. says the Cal
cutta Statesman.
The image of the god is placed on
4 conspicuous part Of the temple, SO
that it can be viewed at an advantage
by the immense crowd of pilgrims.
and there at certain fixed hour the
bathing ceremony commences.
The most curious part of the festi-
val is that water is not poured on the
image of the god until certain small
bird is found sitting on the topmost
banner of the temple. There is a pop
ular belief that the bird comes from
Puri, the famous place of Hindu pilgrim
age, to Maheoh on the day of this
festival, and his very presence Is an
Indication that the ceremony should
commence. Immediately after the
bath the bird disappears.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
ROOSEVELT ExTRAvAGANcE.
Appropriation of Present Administra.
ton Greater than In Civil War.

Official figures compiled by the
clerks of the house and senate com.
mittees on appropriations show that e.
expenditures aggregating s1,00s.391,.
543.56 were authorized at the last ses-
sion of congress. These are the heav'
est appropriations ever made In tim.
of peace.
When the country was astonishe6 a,
the spectacle of a billion dollar con-
gress, Speaker Reed could offer no
excuse except plea that this had be-
come a billion dollar country. But
under the Roosevelt regime we have
attained the two billion dollar COLI
gress, which appropriates a thousand
millions at each annual session. The
appropriation during the last four
years of Rooseveltism have mounted
UP to $3.42S. 100000, or s33,9O0,000
more than during four years OF civil
war.
In recent statement to the World,
Representative James A. Tawney, Re
publican chairman of the house com
mittee on appropriations, asserted that
almost IS per cent of the govern
ment's revenues, exclusive of postal
receipts. is today being spent to meet
the cost of wars past and anticipated"
In an article prepared for the ami
,ersary number of the World, Senator
Allison, the venerable Republican
chairman of the senate committee on
appropriations, showed that since 1888
there had come an annual increase of
$51,000000 in expenditures for the
army. an annual increase of SS4
coo for the navy and an annual in
crease of s30.0OO,000 for pensions.
These three items alone represent a
total of 1881 100000 in the appropria-
tons authorized at the recent session
Of congress.
This is an annual tax of more than
$3.50 on every man. woman and child
in the United States for army. navy
and pensions alone. 1t represents an
average of $3.50 fer each family. or
more than half the average months
earnings of the American laborer in
the period of highest prosperity.-N.
Y. World
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
The New Shamrock.

Sir Thomas Lipton's new racing
yacht Shamrock has been successfully
launched and is now being fitted out
in the Solent for the seasons COM
petitions. She is longer than last
years champion, White Heather. and
is a good deal fuller In the midship
section class. More striking, still,
however, is the manner In which the
lines Of the yacht are stretched out.
Instead of the comparatively short.
rounded ends of White Heatter-a de-
velopment which was probably caused
by the operation of the new rule of rat.
ing-Shamrock is drawn out in long.
graceful overhangs. The modelling
of the counter is particularly hand
some. The beam lis carried aft we'll
into the counter, and, as this is bal
anced with good and fairly full shout.
ders, it is apparent that this vessel
will have at least one of the elements
which helped Reliance to success
1. e., long sailing side when hard
driven, although il goes practically I'M
taxed in the measurement. The free
board looks more than was expected,
but the unfamiliar appearance Of the
green top sides with the white boot
top under may make this something
of an optical delusion. At all events.
there is no bulwark to increase the
height of topside, the only foothold
for the crew being a light rail set
we'll In on the deck. From the out.
ward appearance, the yacht is in all
respects a racer of the thoroughbred
type, and should give a good account
of herself when pitted agaisst other
vessels in the big class.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
WITH INTERESTS"
RAILROADS AND CORPORATION
ARE OUT FOR TAFT.
They Do Not Fear the Ex-War Secrc.
tary as They Seemed to Have
Feared RooseveIt-Now
Very complacent.

e. H. Hartman has made his con-
tribution to the Taft campaign fund,
according to report. The railroads.
through their majority owners. are
supposed to be throwing such influ-
ence as they have to the Republican
candidate. The trusts are for Taft.
The interests" are for Taft The pos
SCISSORS of privileges" are for Taft.
The last one of those smitten by the
militant author of my policies" in
that famous message sent to congress
last January has turned the other
cheek and fawned on the man chosen
by Roosevelt as the nominee of the
Republican party. Do the strange
bedfellowships of politics hold any
parallel?
Corrupt business and corrupt poll
tics" wrote the president in that mes
sage, "act and react with ever in
creasing debasen;ent, one on the
other" And he continued thus: THE
rebate taker, the franchise trafficker,
the manipulation of securities, the pur-
veyor aud protector of vice, the black
mailing ward boss, the ballot-box
stuffer, the demagogue, the mob
leader, the hired bully and man-killer
all alike work at the same web of
corruption. and all alike should be
abhorred by honest men,"
That was given out about the time
when the fear that Roosevelt would
himself be renominated had caused
the planning and partial execution of
the hurt business" campaign. The
proud wearers of the epithets in the
presidential TRADE were seeking to
capitalize commercial misfortune. and
they persisted until the emphasis of
ance that Roosevelt was not and
would not be candidate. But the
horror and fear of Roosevelt has not
been passed along to Taft. He is
apparently in the good graces of the
rebate takers, franchise treffickers and
the manipulators of securities. The
hurt business" campaign has been
succeeded by another in which the
whole effort is to throw to the party
such advantage as may be gained from
claiming for 1t the restoration of the
prosperity which it all but destroyed.
Why is it that the particular forces
at whom Mr.. Roosevelt aimed that
awful January broadside are now so
complacent? Has the threat to make
them honest been withdrawn? Has
the fear that their privileges" will be
disturbed been stilled? Why has the
dreadful cabal and conspiracy against
the White House been dissolved? Has
it been found. or has it been prom
ised, that my policies" were made for
public consumption and for political
effect. and that Mr.. Taft is, after all,
not tainted with Rooseveltism? 1t
would be interesting to know.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
NIQht SWeats & Cough.

e. w. Walton, Condr. 8. p. Ry., III
Van Ness St., San Antonio, Tex,
writes: "During the summer and fan
Of 1902, my annoyance from catarrh
reached that stage where 1t was actual
misery and developed alarming symp-
toms, such as q very deep-seated cough,
night sweats, and pains in the head and
chest. experimental with several So
called remedies before finally decided
to take thorough course of Peruna.
1.-TWO of my friends had gone so far -
to inform me that the thingfor me to do
was to resign my position and seek .
higher, more congenial climate. Every
one though. I had consumption and I
was not expected to live very long.
"Having procured some Peruns, l de-
cided to give it a thorough test and APP
piled myself assiduously to the task Of
taking it, as per instructions, In the
meantime.
aThe effects were soon apparent, all
alarming symptoms disappeared and
my general health became fully as good
as it had ever been in my life.
81 have resorted to the use of Peruns
on two or three occasions since that
time to cure myself of bad colds"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
EyEsloHr WAS IN DANGER
From Terrible Ecxema-saby's Head
Mass Of Itching Rash and Sores
Disease Cured by cutIeura.

sour little girl was two months old
when she got a rash on her face and
within five days her face and head
were all one sore. We used different
remedies but 1t got worse instead of
better and we thought she would turn
blind and that her ears would fall OF.
She suffered terribly. and would
scratch until the blood came. This
went on until she was i've months old.
then had her under our family doc
tors care, but she continued to grow
worse. He said 1t was eczema. When
she was seven months old l started
to use the Cuticura Remedies and in
two months our baby was different
girl. You could not see sign Of .
sore and she was as fair as new
born baby. She has not had sign Of
the eczema since. Mrs. H. F. Budke.
LeSueur. Mimi. Apr. Is and May 2. '07."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
Strong Tariff Argument.

It was inevitable that Mr.. Bryan
should make the most, during the
campaign, of the sharp differences
within the Republican party; that he
would overlook no opportunity to en-
phasize that Republican leadership in
cludes both the radical Roosevelt and
the reactionary Cannon; that if Roose-
welt dictated the presidential candi-
date, Cannon chose the vice-presiden-
tial, and the platform was made by
the conservatives. and that Mr.. Taft
was compelled to adopt those orphan
issues which Chairman Hopkins ad-
vised be taken to Denver" by de-
claring his personal Endorsement of
them. despite that his party had spe-
officially rejected them.
1t is to the development and expo
sition of these contradictions in the
Republican situation that Mr.. Bryan's
speech of acceptance is mainly de-
voted.
Mr.. Bryan makesa strong statement
of the case as to the tariff revision,
from the Democratic point of view.
He makes plain that there will be
small chance for real, effective revi-
sion under Republican administra-
ton; and he is right assuming that
the present control Of the house of
representatives shall contnue.-Wash-
lngton Times
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
LIGHTNING RODS.
A Comparison Of the Value Of Those
Made from Steel and Copper.

The choice Of lightning rod material
should be between copper and steel
The smokestacks of the United States
government power plants are all
rodded with copper, which better re-
sists the acid in smoke. Copper is SUI
perior to steel in carrying electricity,
but the thunderbolt is an oscillating
current, moving to and fro perhaps a
million times in second, like bent
spring when it is released. Steel, hav-
ing but one-seventh the conductivity
of copper, damps out the oscillations
better and is not SO likely to melt.
The fusing of steel rod is a rare acct
dent, as 1T will carry to earth thun-
derbolt that melts it.
Steel rods are star-shaped and cop
per ones are made in strands in order
that they may have large surface.
For the ordinary farm building the
galvanized steel star-shaped rod Is
ample, but where the expense is justi-
fed by the value of the building the
same rod. copper-covered, is desirable.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
The Apparatus.

ators use it constantly, while its con.
tact with patients is limited. So ma
levolent is its force that already nine
well-known scientists have met death
from its use, and therefore every new
method of controlling it is hailed with
delight by the profession.
Under the old system Of employing
the ray, the end of the instrument
from which the force is discharged
was held several inches from the
portion of the patients body to be op-
Grated upon. AS the rays do not trav-
ell straight ahead after leaving the
point of discharge, but spread out in
every direction like the ripples ex-
panding from a pebble thrown into
water, the operator was sure to re-
ceive some of its force no matter
where standing.
With the new device, says Pop
ular Mechanics, which consists of q
tube made of heavy lead glass, the air
space formerly permitted between the
apparatus and the patient is dcne
away with. No rays can escape from
1T save through a flnt glass window
at the end, and as this corresponds in
size to the lesion to be treated the
rays go straight to the point where
they are to do their work. They OPP
crate on the diseased tissues alone
and harm neither operator nor patient.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
Claim to a Title.

The slang phrase, "a good mixer"
has a peculiar meaning when applied
TO a man. 1t seems never to have
been used as descriptive of women.
But why not? Some women might
wear the title with distinction, al
though in a little different sense.
For generations women have been en-
gagged in mixing" reluctant elements.
Flour and butter in their hands have
combined into fiaky biscuit; and I'M
congenial cousins have made up an
agreeable family party. A woman at
the head of a large household has
need to be a good mixer, says the
Youths Companion. She may have
three generations under her roof and
dependent upon her care. With the
children she must be as a child; with
the grandmother she must see the
wisdom of age, even beneath It's
feebleness; for the willful son she
must mingle ready sympathy and frm
control. Woman's service in village
or church is often that of welding to-
gether obstinate and diverse elements.
For there must be no Democrats or
Republicans, no Methodists or Cath
olics, when she has in hand some
measure for the common good. The
shade trees in a certain village are
growing memorial to a certain woman
who got the Second Adventists and
the Congregationalists together. and
set them in pairs to digging the same
holes, instead of working on oppo
site sides of the street. She was (
good mixer herself, and, like all OF
that brotherhood, she was the cause
that good mixing should be in others.
In this world of strife and misunder-
standings and petty frictions, the
rarest and dearest of her sex Is the
woman who goes her way-a smile on
her lips and gently persuasive spoon
in Misunderstanding and mingling con-
trary tastes and dispositions and am
billions, and adding to the combina-
ton that subtle one-knows-not-what OF
personality which is the GROWING
grace OF good mixer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03

Edelweiss, the fatal bloom" has al.
most disappeared from the Mont Blanc
range in Switzerland, and an Irish
nobleman, who is an expert mountain
climber, is now engaged for the Sec
ond summer in planting the flower at
the highest attitudes he can reach.
The self-imposed task, although 1t
evinces pleasing sentiment. does no.
body any particular good. II influen.
tial men of leisure would apply their
enthusiasm to the work of reforest.
ing barren places at home, there would
be q different story to tell.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
td% j
4K0RRID4
ELECTRICITY AND CROPS.
Experiments Show That Current In
creases the Yield.

The view that an electric discharge,
applied artificially. is advantageous to
plant growth has long been held. In
the latter part of the eighteenth CEN
fury Able Nollet and Able Bertholom
studied the subject. The former found
that electrified maize and mustard
terminated in every case more rapidly
than control plants. Modern ideas on
the principle and its practical applica-
ton owe much to the careful expert
ments of Prof S. Lemstrom (Sweden)
and the researches of the late Prof.
Berthelot (France).
In recent years attempts have been
made in England to ascertain the pre-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03

are supported by a few posts in long
parallel spans, about 80 feet apart,
The system of conductors is con-
nected at one post with generator
supplying positive electricity at po-
tential of something like a hundred
thousand volts, and with sufficient
power to maintain a constant supply
of electricity at this kind of potential.
Experiments on the effect of the
overhead discharge system on the pro-
ductiveness of wheat tsown in 1906
and last year,, showed an increase
under the electrical treatment as COM
pared with the control unelectrified
plots of 80 to 40 per cent, this in
crease being due to better stooling
and filling out of ears. Moreover, it
is worthy of mention that the electri-
fed wheat sold at higher prices. ba-
king tests indicating the production
of a better baking flour.
The principle was applied also to
strawberries, raspberries, cucumbers,
broad beans, cabbages, tomatoes, beet,
and carrots as grown at the Expert
mental nurseries. Bitton. In all cases
control plots were provided, which, as
far as practicable, were under iden-
teal conditions of planting and care
as the electrified plots. Selecting two
examples. cucumbers showed II per
cent. increase; strawberries, five year
plants, SO per cent, one year plants.
90 Der cent. iecreass.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03

A Queensland judge has decided
that oysters are wild beasts. A man
in the pearl industry had 100000 oy.
sters in the shell spread out at Fri.
day island and some Japs stole them.
The court solemnly held that both oy-
sters and pearls are wild animals. for
the stealing of which there is no PEN
atty. The judge should lose no time
in telling the world how he Classics
terrapin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
A Motor Eraser.

draughting room. It is far superior to
the hand eraser, as 1t will make abso-
lutely clean erasures, owing to the
high rate of speed at which the eraser
wheel revolves, says Popular Elec
tricity. The eraser wheel is driven
with flexible shaft by small motor,
which is easily moved from table to
table in the draughting room. A fex-
ible cord with a plug is prJvided for
attaching to any incandesa emit lamp
socket.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03

Only those who have suffered the
agony OF eye affiictions can appreciate
the blessing to humanity in DR.. Mitch
ellis famous Eye Salve. Introduced in
this region as far back as 1849 1t is
found to-day In all well regulated
homes hereabouts. Not alone the eyes
of man but those of the dumb animal
have enjoyed its comforts. Mitchell's
Eye Salve. Sold everywhere. Price Csc.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
Trouble for Republicans.

Trouble fer the Republicans Is
springing up in all points of the COM
pass. 1t breaks out violently in Iowa
with Gov. Cummin's announcement
that he will call special session of
the legislature to provide for the NOM
ination of Allison's successor in the
senate by primary election.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
PROTECTS x.RAY OPERATOR.
Invention Of a Device Makes Use 81
x-Ray Machine Safe.

Through the invention of a devics
known as the Cornell tube" by a pro
lessor in the Cornell University Med.
ical college, it is believed that the
death lurking in the Xray machine
can be eliminated.
AS has been before stated in this
magazine, the danger from the X-ray
has been more TO the operator than
to the patient. This is because oper.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03

AS the richest town in the world,
Brookline ought to be ashamed to
have allowed historic elm tree. said
to be the largest tree in that town.
to which George Washington used to
hitch his horse, to be destroyed by
the elm-leaf beetle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
How's Thisp

We OFFER One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case Of Catarh that cannot be cured By Halls
Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY CO.. Tolec> q
We. the undersigned. have known r. J. ol0ey
for the last IS years and believe him perect- hon
orablc IN all business transactions and financially
able 70 carry out any OBLIGATIONS made BY his 1Em-
WALDINo. KIxNAS MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure b taken internally acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF tbs
system Testimonials seat free. Price rs cents per
bottle Sold by al Druggists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
THE Yerx Thino.

'Well, there's one thing about Nu-
ritch, he's always ready to confess his
faults
Nonsense! Why, he's forever
Dragging being self-made."
"Of course. that's just it. "-Philadel.
phia Press.
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n Reminded Him.

my boy" said Popley. ut should be
your ambition to carve your name
some day upon the temple of fame"
my boy" said Pcpley, 1T should be
minds me. you amt never give mo that
jack knife you promised me-"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03

The wild tribesmen who are PRO
tecting" the shah are more exacting
than the reformers. 1t seems. Soon
autocrats viii have no refuge any
where. and the safest thing Tor them
Al be constitutional rule.
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When the tube is brought into direct
contact with the patient, only the
ionizing effect of the X-ray is exerted
on the tissues, and this effect IL
claimed to be all that is required to
accomplish the desired results.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-03
More Refined.

visitor-You say Bill was shot?
Cowboy-Well, we call 1t death
from lead poisoning. Louis
Times.
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Treat yourself with respect, II only
for the purpose of setting good ex-
ample for your neighbors.
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PowER.DRlvEN ERASER.
A New Device for Use In Large
Draughting Rooms.

An electric motor-driven eraser is q
new device adapted for use In q