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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11
A Cure for All Exil..

In certain parts of Worcestershire
and Staffordshire. in England. the idea
prevails that silver coin from the
Christmas morning offertory is a SOW
ereign remedy for any Ill that human
flesh is heir to. Accordingly, any
householder who happens to have an
afling child or other person in the
house HES him to the clergyman of
the parish on Christmas morning, and
asks as favor a sacrament shilling.
The coin given In exchange has to be
obtained by collecting a dozen pennies
from as many different maidens. and
then changing the coppers for a silver
shilling. For this coin the applicant
receives the coveted sacrament shil-
ling. which. on being taken home. IA
hung round the ailing ones neck, and
is popularity supposed to effect a rapid
and complete cure Of the complaint.
no matter what II may be.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11

IN associations. whether domestic or religious.
sueyestns thoughts Of joy. A man dissatisfied
with his endsavou i a man tempted to sadness.
And IN the midst Of winter. when his life runs
lowest and he Is reminded Of the empty chair.
OF his beloved. L il well be should be condemned
10 the fashion Of he sniins faee.-Roben
Louis Stevenson.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11

shaped footmarks In the snow, which
showed where as many deer had just
crossed little plain ahead of us.
They were walking leisurely, and from
the lay of the land we believed that
we should find them over the ridge,
where there was brush coulee.
Riding to one side of the trail, we
topped the little ridge just as the sun
famed up. burning ball of crimson,
beyond the snowy waste at our backs.
Almost Immediately afterwards my
companion leaped from his horse and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11

couple of coyotes. possibly frightened
by our approach. had trotted and
loped up the valley ahead of us, leav-
ing a trail like that of two dogs; the
sharper, more delicate footprints of a
fox crossed our path; and outside one
long patch Of brushwood a series Of
round imprints in the snow betrayed
where bob-cat-as plainsmen term
the small lynx-had been lurking
around to try to pick up rabbit or
prairie fowl.
As the dawn Redeemed, and II be-
came light enough to see objects some
little way on, we began to sit erect
in our saddles and to scan the hill
sides sharply for sight Of feeding deer.
Hitherto we had seen no deer tracks
save inside the burberry bushes by
the river. and we knew that the deer
that lived in that impenetrable Jun
gle were cunning whitetails which in
such a place could be hunted only by
aid Of q hound But Just before sun
riss We came on three lines of heart
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11
The Christmas Tree.

Every time zee a Christmas tree
studded with electric lights, garlands
OF tinsel gold festooning every branch.
and hung with the hundred costly
knicknacks the storekeepers invent
year by year Ito make trade" until
the tree itself disappears entirely un-
der its burden. have feeling that
fraud has been practiced on the kind
~ spirit of Yale. Wax candles are
the only real thing for a Christmas
tree, candles of wax that mingle their
perfume with that of the burning ar,
not the by-product of some coal-oil or
other abomination. What II the
boughs do catch fire? They can be
watched. and too many candles are
tawdry. anyhow. Also. red apples.
oranges and old-fashioned cornucopias
made Of colored paper. and made at
home, look hundred times better and
filter In the green: and SO do drums
and toy trumpets and wald-horns, and
a rocking horse refined up in front that
need not have cost $40; or anything
like tt-Jacob Riis in Century.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11
A Christmas Hymn.

D Christ. upon whose natal morn
Rejoicing angels sang.
When DER the blue Judean hills
Their heavenly anthems rang.
o Christ. to whom with gifts from IA
Came shepherd. sage and king,
Our choicest gifts on this glad morn.
Our hearts. we humbly bring,
Grant US to follow Thee in love,
Nor from Thy path to stray,
Thy blessed feet have gone before
And glorifed the way.
We join the angel choirs that sing
This happy morn again.
GLORY to God. the Lord Most High.
Goodwill and peace to men,
Martha G. Howe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11
Where the Toys Ar. Made.

In Germany whole villages are de-
voted to the production OF Christmas
toys. and their busiest time Is lust
about midsummer. BY the end of An
gust the receiving depots are crammed
with Christmas clowns and Christmas
mechanical puppets, Christmas drums
and wooden horses-children's Christ.
mas presents. in fact. of all sorts and
kinds. And the travellers start out
east. west. north and south with their
Christmas samples about the time tho
corn is ready for the sickles of the
reapers. In Holland, too. where mora
than one town IL devoted, more or
less. to the making of Christmas dol,s
the same rule holds good. During
May, June. July and August every
man. woman and child In these places
seem In some way to be occupied with
the manufacture OF miniature babIes
Even at school during these particular
months the sewing lessons are taSen
with dolls clothes for models.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11

Va NuflStmdS De1Ore we
were able to take any
thought for the Christmas dinner. The
winter set In late that year, and there
mad been comparatively little cold
weather. but one day the ice on the
river had been sufficiently strong 70
enable US to haul up a wagonload OF
Hour, with enough salt pork to last
through the winter, and a very few
tins OF canned goods, to be used at
special feasts. We had some bushels
OF potatoes, the heroic victors of a
struggle for existence in which the
rest Of our garden vegetables had sue
cumbed to drought, frost and grass
noppers; and we also had some wild
piums and dried elk venison. But we
had no fresh meat. and so one day my
foreman and agreed to make a hunt
on the morrow.
Accordingly one of the COWBOYS
rode out in the frosty afternoon to
fetch In the saddleband from the pla-
teau three miles of, where they were
grazing. II was after sunset when he
returned.
1t was necessary to get to the hunt
ing grounds by sunrise, and 1t still
lacked couple of hours Of dawn when
the foreman wakened me as | lay
asleep beneath the buffalo robes.
Dressing hurriedly and breakfasting
ON cup of coffee and some mouth
fuls OF bread and jerked elk meat,
we slipped out to the barn, threw the
saddles on the horses. and were on.
The air was bitterly chill; the cold
had been severe for two days, SO that
the river ice would again bear horses.
Beneath the light covering of DOW
derry snow we could feel the rough
ground like wrinkled iron under the
horses hoofs. There was no moon,
but the stars shone beautifully down
through the GOLD. clear air, and our
willing horses galloped swiftly across
the long bottom on which the ranch
house stood. threading their way deft-
ly among the clumps of sagebrush.
A mile OF we crossed the river. the
ice cracking with noises like pistol
shots as our horses picked their way
gingerly over 1t. On the opposite
side was dense jungle of burberry
bushes. and on breaking through this
We found ourselves galloping up
long. winding valley. which led back
many miles into the hills The cram
MES and little side ravines were filled
with brushwood and groves of stunt
cd ash. BY this time there was a
faint flush of gray in the east, and as
we rode silently along we could make
out dimly the tracks made by the wild
animals as they had passed and re-
passed In the snow Several times |
we dismounted to examine them. A |
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11


raised his rifle. and as he pulled the
trigger | saw through the twigs of a
brush patch on our left the erect
startled head Of young black-tailed
doe as she turned to look at US. her
great mule-like ears thrown forward.
The ball broke her neck, and she
turned complete somersault down
hill. while a sudden smashing of un-
derbrush told Of the fight of her ter
rified companions.
We both laughed and called out
dinner" as We sprang down toward
her. and in few minutes she was
dressed and hung up by the hind legs
on a small ash tree. The entrails
and viscera we threw on to one side,
inter carefully poisoning them from
a little bottle of strychnine which
had in my pocket. Almost every cat
tleman carries poison and neglects no
chance of leaving out wolf bait, for
the wolves are sources of serious loss
to the unfenced and unhoused fiocks
and herds. In this instance we felt
particularly revengeful because It
was but a few days since we had lost
a fine yearling heifer. The tracks
on the hillside where the carcass lay
when We found it told the story
plainly. The wolves, two in number.
had crept up close before being dis
covered, and had then raced down on
the astounded heifer almost before
she could get fairly started. One
brute had hamstrung her with a snap
of his vise-like jaws, and once down.
she was torn open In twinkling.
No sooner was the sun up than a
warm west wind began to blow in our
faces. The weather had suddenly
changed, and within an hour the snow
was beginning to thaw and to leave
patches of bare ground on the hill
sides. We left our coats with our
horses and struck OF on foot for a
group of high buttes cut up by the
cedar canyons and gorges, in which
we knew the old bucks loved to lie.
II was noon before we saw anything
more. We lunched at a clear spring
not needing much time. for all we
had to do was to drink a draught of
Icy water and MUNICH a strip of dried
Shortly afterward, as we
were moving along a hillside with ST.
lent caution, we came to a sheer can
yon of which the opposite face was
broken by little lodges grown up with
cedars. As we peeped
over the edge. my companion touched
my arm and pointed silently to one
Of the lodges, and instantly caught
the CLINT of a bucks horns as he Law
half behind an old tree trunk. A
slight shift of position gave me a
AIR shot slanting down between his |
shoulders, and though he struggled to |
his feet he did not go so yards after
receiving the bullet.
This was all we could carry. Lead
ng the horses around we packed the |
,uck behind my companions saddle.
md then rode back for the doe, which |
put behind mine. But we were not |
destined to reach home without a
light adventure. When we got to
he river we rode boldly on the ice,
leedless of the thaw: and about mid
way there was sudden, tremendous
rash. and men, horses and deer were
crambling together In the water amid
labs of floating Ice. However, it was
hallow and no worse results followed
han some hard work and a chilly
ath. But what cared WEI We were
eturning triumphant with our Christ
aas dinner.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11

II V 80. - - ny e man =.
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:. ..:-. AI - .s'on' nom sn
"ne'ne' o0me'ne or religious:
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~EMEMBER hat =. .,,.lv :. :, L..
lR baby life :. Bethlehem tb.,, I.x Il.
LIN power which ha. run through III Il.
world: the power which make. Iud.. hu,, IL.
. star forever: the power which b.. ,,,,.6o,,r-d
hisory;. the power which b,. mad. u;II,,.
Of men its ioyous ,erv.ptx the nower a u.
milIcnniiums vet to be. SO surely in n. buuhl-.,
there hes eniolded all the possibility Of the mos
perfect 'ainthood.-FhhliPs Brooks.
~,
- s00o n'ns 70 observe ennstma' Day.
ii lne mere marking OF nme' and seasons.
""en men ss'ee 70 sop WORK and make
%1 '0s''ne'' = w''e ana wholesome custom.
r. ~ IL y r.. INC 'u ~ o. .ne common
'-e ~. "'' ' I..' ''A' ,"e. 'eminos = man
= - M I"a - l'e "a'.n' nov ano men, oy the
-. " IT, 1''' w 'un
q OPPOSE note came on Christmas Day
~ saying not. Il send my love and best
W wishes with this spool-box. but. Il want
you to know that your patience. or courage. or
tenderness, during this last year. will help me
Q hive more bravely and couraseousy this year."
What Christmas present the receipt Of such
ester would be to any one Of US. What gift
or any one Of us to send to the human heart
maj ma, gwen Us courage tor the burden and
- e' ~
51SHE season OF reeeneraied feelne-she
,sa'on OF t'ndling not merely the FIRE Of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11

Of the Lord shoos ABOUND about them. and they
were sore afraid. And the angel said unto .hea:
Fear not. for behold hiring you good tdiues Il
great JOY which shall be to all people. For unto
you h born this day in the city Of David, .
Savior. which is Chnst the Lord. ths
Gospel Of 81. Luke.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-12-11

@ ANITA CLAUS remains. by virtue of
~ acommon understanding that childhood
~ shan not be despoied Of one Of ID
most ehenshed beliefs. eithes BY the mythologst,
with his sun myth theory. OF the scientist. with
his heanles datnbe asaina supersttions. h
who does not zee in the legend Of Santa Claus .
beautiful faith on the one ade. and the native
embodiment Of divine fact on the Other. is NOT
hf to have place at the Christmas bond
Hanisoa Wright Msb;..
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ZAEODORE ROOSEEHz

NE DECEMBER. while |
was out on my ranch, so
much work had to be done
that 1t was within a week
OF Christmas before we
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-04

numbers nearly zOO. m the meantime
We used the pure bred bulls on our
Shofthorn cows This proved great
Cross, the offspring being black and
hornless, with flne size and quality,
frequently weighing over 500 pounds
On the average at weaving time and
selling at $3.50 per hundredweight on
the farm. We are thoroughly con-
vfnced that We made no mistake in
tins sahect1on, and O number Of our
ne4ghbo15 think the same way, as
there are now about thirty Of them
uG1ng pure bred Angus bulls.
An enumeration of a few OF their
good qualities may not be out Of place.
A pure bred-not grade-Angus bull
0ehorns the calves and makes them OF
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-04
PURE BRED
ANGUS CATTLE.

Chaf1eo n cutnN . s0ccgsBfO breed
q o4 pus0 beed Angusea, says Of These
snft1e: Our experience with this breed
.eDvses Z period ok twenty yeara we
sGasted our heeds In 1885 and IKE
many people. believed good cattle must
b rcd SO We selected Shorthoene-
good ones. Ny uncie on an adjoining
ranch preferred Herefords and pur-
chased -four dne imported bulls at q
Ioog price. Our ranches were located
only fourteen miles from that Of
George Grant the frst importer Of An.
Kno cattle to America. In purchasing
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-04

one color and type. The calves when
dropped are very small, making the
loss light tn cnlving and especially In
heifers. They are prolific. Our I'M
ported heifers never missed a calf in
fifteen years, and they are good moth
ers and suckers
They weigh equal to the Shorthorn
and heavier than the Hereford under
the same conditions. Flies do not bother
them as they do red cattle The car
casses are well proportioned. carrying
high proportion Of weight In the
valuable cuts The ideal beef carcass
q one very rich In lean, with plenty of
fat marbled through It and with but
Onehalf inch Of outside fat even
spread over the carcass. Our breed
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-04
ookail In Dairy 1vojoooo.

Dafrytng requires close attention to
oetafla Any neglect Of the cows OF
Of the milk and butter must neces-
saxfly lead to losses-aoss In the quail
ny Of the milk and butter and loss In
the amount Of MIX which each COW
may b expscted to give Il treated
properly. ...Az~s~s.ss~A.---'~' -" >-@''
The eowe must have their feed at
regular Intervals and Of quality and
quantity adapted TO their requirements,
and they must be milked regularly.
No sl1pshod method Of dealing with
the milk or cream Is ever profitable.
Il should be separated or strained and
0et away to cool as soon as possible
AFTER milking and the cream churned
when property ripened and at the right
oemperatura
Any failure tn any one Of the de-
tails win affect the results to q more
% less extent
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-04

possesses - great hardness and rug
gednsss % are possessed by any breed.
Il has been bfed from The outset for
early maturity and good feeding quail
it3es and may b fairly said 10 possess
these desired attributes iq a. high de-
gree AZ any breed
To an these, which the AnGus has
contributed tn common with the other
breeds, It has also brought In some
what greater wealth Of aesh element
than any breed ON earth.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-04

our young steers IN tho fall we CHANGED
10 get quite q few blacks sired by his
bulls. epEfng found these dOddies In
botter condition than the other cattle.
They vsEe the A1st 10 reach the feed
rack tn the morning and the last to
lsave ths feed at night regardless OF
Woafhae. Fan found them int and fne
md be1ng hoen1ea1 W decidsd Do try
thom.
0e n 1eB7 W purchased Two import
q hal6efs and bull and from this
small beginning have continued to In
Szsaee cur pure bred hard until now Il
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-04
StS~oP Medal Milk.

The silver medal for market milk at
the national dairy show was awarded
q dairy whose herd consisted Of twen-
V-elght cows Of mixed breeding, in
clud1ng Jersey, Holstein and Shorthorn
grades. The barn Is Of frame, Of or
dmary type. The cows are fed well
balanced ration the year round When
the milk was produced for the contest
the ration consisted Of millet hay and
cut corn stover, supplemented with
corn and cob meal, dried brewers
grains and molasses feed. The milk
was produced and handled In cleanly
manner, cooled and aerated immediate
ly after being drawn and stored In
spring water.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-04

oharp and Blunt.
Cora-She has such keen perceptfonA
Dora-And such blunt way OF COD,
veying them.-Puck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19
original count of the collector
Shortly after the transfer of tn,

volumes to Passy had been made,
Vattemare died, and the necessity of paying
cause he left no heirs who might have claimed
that it should be continued. Paris accord
ingly forgot her possessions of Americana,
in which the city had never taken much in
terest.
In 1870 the Hotel de Vile was burned by the
Communards and all the collections that had
been housed therein were destroyed. The
American library, being still at Passy, re-
manned intact.
After a new Hotel de Vile was put up, Paris
possessions to enrich it, and, remembering the
Ponds Vattemare, made demand on Passy
that it be returned. This was in 1877, when
the mayoralty building of Passy was being re-
constructed, and the books meanwhile had
been sent to warehouse. Nothing was done
until the ceremonies of opening the new Hotel
de Vile in PaSsy were carried through. and
then Paris renewed its demand for the books
The historical mystery connected with this
library reaches its greatest obscurity at this
point It is doubtful if the volumes were ever
taken from the warehouse. The authorities at
Passy show receipts to prove that the library
had been taken back to Paris. In Paris at the
Hotel de Vile, the statement is made that the
library was never returned there. Somewhere
in transit ten thousand bulky volumes have
been lost between Paris and Passy
Wherever they may now be, if still extant
it is not in the Hotel de Vile of either Paris or
Passy. At the latter place there are about eight
thousand volumes on America: but only three
of the entire collection are in English, and the
authorities can tell straight story of how they
became possessed of their present American
library. In the Hotel de Vile at Paris the
present collection Of Americana contains only
books printed since 1870
Some effort was made in 1898 to trace the
whereabouts of these valuable Volumes but in
the absence of official interest either by the
French or the United States Government it was
desultory and unsuccessful. The subject was
brought to the attention of France last spring.
and an attempt to have it pressed may result
in a search being instituted If this should
fail, the authorities at the Smithsonian at
Washington mean to try to interest private
enterprise to begin such movement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19
The Phases of the Planets

WE are likely to regard the moon as the only
thing in the heavens that exhibits phases
such as the quarter the half, and the full. AS
matter of fact, all planets and their satellites
exhibit separately such phases, and most of
them be easily seen with a small power
telescope. Thus, Mars and Venus, which are
comparatively close to the earth, show through
the telescope at times beautiful crescent. at
Others half planet fully as brilliant. consider
ing the distance, does our satellite At
times also the planets suffer eclipse just the
earth. the moon, and the sun, and these eclipses
are foretold with great accuracy.
AS to just what causes the phases, say of the
moon, is easy to comprehend by homely anal
ogy. 1T one stands in corner of a room,
places globe of some description in the next
corner and light in the third corner, the phe-
nomenon of the half-moon is seen. The light
representing the sun shines of course on half
the globe representing the moon but the OBJ
server in the corner sees only half of the surface
toward him illuminated If now the light be
placed behind the observer and little above
his head, full moon will be seen: the "sun,"
face as before, merely allowing this time a view
from the earth" of the whole amount of IL
Elimination. All the phases be demon
strated in this manner, by moving the moon"
directly outward from its corner.
One of the greatest discoveries of science is
due to observation of the eclipses of Jupiter's
moons. 1t was found that when the earth was
in the part of its orbit nearest to Jupiter these
eclipses occurred sixteen minutes earlier than
when it was in the farthermost part: whereas.
by all rules of astronomy, they should have &C.
CURED at the same minute each time. 1t was
deduced from this that light was not instan-
taneous and consequently took sixteen min
utes to traverse the diameter of the earth's
orbit, distance of about two hundred million
miles, thus giving to light velocity of one
hundred and eighty-six thousand miles Sec
ond, which was accurately shown later by
other experiments.