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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-05-29

innate his capabilities and believe
he can establish name for him.
self that will be as illustrious as
that of many farm boys who pre-
coded him. The result in large
percentage of cases is that he ekes
out a bare existance at some small
clerkship from which he cannot or
never does rise above.
Of course this is not true in all
cases. Men who have been most
successful in business careers spent
their boyhood days on the farm.
But great many farm bred boys
would have been better off and far
more contented in life had they
been satisfied to be "big toad in
a small pond, rather than small
toad in big pond"
Agriculture is the foundation of
our national posterity. To safe
guard that posterity some financial
inducements must be offered the
farm bred boy to follow his fathers
occupation. The North Atlantic
States farmer raises 1884 worth of
products from farms averaging So
acres each. The South Atlantic
States farmer raises only $484
worth of produce on farms averag-
ing 108 acres. The farmer of the
North Central States raises $1074I
worth of products on farms averag-
ing IA acres, while the South
Central States farmer raises but
1886 worth of produce on farms
averaging 155 acres each. These
figures are of the last census year.
Therefore it is easily seen that
the farmer must learn intensive
cultivation of the soil, and turn
from the extravagant methods of
the past. There should be fuller
scheme of public education adapt
ed to the real needs of the farming
people.
To improve conditions that may
attract the large body of Ameri-
cans who turn from farm life every
year, the rural free delivery system
must be improved and extended;
States should adopt more liberal
policy for road development, and
farmers should be educated up to
the great advantages which accrue
to all members of the household
and in fact to the work of the farm
or, himself by the installation of
new methods.
The question of satisfying the
farmers needs will continue to de-
mand the attention of all thought
full men in the country for some
time to come. 1t is safe to say |
however, that it will be some years
before solution to the problem |
will be found.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-05-29
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"If ever need a congh medicine again
/ know what to get" declares Mrs. A. l..
Alley, OF Beais. Me, "for, after using ten
bottles OF DIR. Kings New Discovery.
and seeing its excellent results 10 my
own family and others, / am convinced
it is the best medicine made for coughs
colds and lung trouble" Every one
who tries 1t feels just that way. Relief
is felt at once and its quick cure sur
prises you. For bronchitis, asthma,
hemorrhage. Group, lagrippe, sore throat
pain in chest or lungs its supreme. SOC
and 81. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-05-29
Don't Think He Got Justice.
Editor CoIfax Chronicle:

Don't Think He Got Justice.
Editor Colfax Chronicle:
Some eighteen or twenty months
ago / bought bill of shoes and a
bill OF clothing from &. X. Mitchell
and - Whitney, drummers, of Alex.
andria, at least their headquarters
Is ut Alexandria. In filling the bill
OF shoes the house changed the order
and sent me twelve dozen pairs OF
substitutes, and the clothing house
did the same. On the arrival of the
goods found they were not what |
ordered. l kept them IA short time
and boxed them up and returned
them to the houses. Since that time
the houses or companies sued me for
the goods, and the suits were pend
ing all last year. / went to court
two or three times last year to get IA
trial. but the Judge would be sick
and quit court all last year.
thought little about it, thinking
all | needed was trial, as there was
nothing in it, for l had just as much
right to ship the goods back as the
parties had to send substitutes for
my order. have the duplicates Of
my orders to prove what / say: and
above that l have witnesses to prove
the same. just want to show the
public what kind of court they have
in Grant parish some times. These
cases were set last April term, and
me being living above Montgomery
and having to go on the train to
Colfax that day, just as | stepped off
the train the Judge and the lawyers
got on for Alexandria. court having
been adjourned. Done tried the case
and gonel Judgment against me be-
cause l was not right there to the
minute. had all Of my witnesses in
the court house at the time but one,
and he was with me. They did not
know that the cases were tried.
had man to represent me, but l
don't think he was known in the mat
ter, for he said short time after this
was done that the Judge would not
put the cases off until next week, for
he was going home on the ten O'Clock
train, and the other lawyer told me
that the Judge said they could put it
of if they wanted to, but he was GO
ing home on the ten O'Clock train.
Another party told me the Judge
was about to give Judgment in my
favor in one case, but Mr.. Roberts
said, mo, we don't want it that
way" and the Judge changed it.
Now, to the public, l will say l
don't owe these people one penny
They changed my order and sent me
just snch stuff as they wanted me to
have. shoddy no account stuff. and i
was Just as good as they were and
sent it back to them. dom tbelieve
Judge Blackman knew how it was,
und if / had got there in time that
morning / don't think he would have
decided thatwa don't think such
judgment is worth much. II / was
to live a hundred years, don't think
would ever be able to pay one Of
them. Such judgments are not worth
much in my sight. think the Judge
ought to give me a new hearing in
this matter. have always thought
that court was to adjust and decide
justice and right, Now, if this is
right. l don't care to have any more
court in mine. They can take the
court and run it to suit themselves.
Yours respectfully,
X. l.. FUTRELL.
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-05-29
The Boy and the Farm.

-
Burn down your towns and cities
and they will spring up again as
if by magic; but destroy our farms
and the grass will grow in the
streets of every city in the land.
William J. Bryan.
If there is one lesson taught by
history, it is that the permanent
greatness of any State must depend
more upon its country population
than upon anything else. No
growth of cities, no growth of
wealth can make up for loss in
either the number or character OF
the farming population.-Theodor
Roosevelt.
Thus the two leading opponents
of public life of America plead
against the migratory movement
of the boys and girls of the farm
to the factories and the cities.
How to prevent this movement has
been subject of study by states
men, sociologists and political Geo.
bomists for years, but as factor
of national Importance it has never
before assumed the proportions it
reaches today.
Contrarily, every effort is being
made to induce residents of large
cities who are unable to get work
to seek employment on farms in
the west and southwest. Strange
as it may seem these people who,
in great majority of cases are re-
duced to a state of dire poverty
and distress refuse to leave their
crowded and filthy tenements,
which breed disease with every
succeeding day. for place where
they can satisfy their wants and
breathe the pure air of freedom.
The situation is a paradoxical
one and we'll worthy of the great
amount of attention being given it.
1t may be said, however, that eff
forts toward the correction of this
evil can hardly be expected to meet
with any marked success for years
to come.
Reasons for this are many. So
biologists may advise what, action
to take to make the farm boy sat-
isfed with the calling they would
force npon him. Statesmen may
enact Legislative. measures which
would make that calling more at
tractive; but what can they offer
the country boy which would make
his life SO promising financially as
a business career in the city?
The mistaken idea is prevalent
that the farm boy leaves his home
because he is discontinued with his
social environment, and that his
country life does not offer enough
in other words that he
is dissatisfied with his home life.
This is not true. The farm boy
loves his home, its surroundings;
loves his parents, and it causes him
many heart aches to leave them;
but he does leave because he sees
in the city more opportunities for
meeting people financially, socially
and politically, for making mark
in the world.
The desire of the farm boy to
enter commercial life in the city
is, ina vast majority of cases, first
instilled in him by his parents.
With natural pride they over es-
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NUMBER 81.
Spring Goods

Spring here and change the
Our Stock of Spring Goods will be found large
from which to make selections and take pleasure
inviting Inspection of stock which has been selected
with a special view to the needs of the trade.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
WHAT BECOMES OF LIFE 3?
THE KINGDOM OF DEATH OVER
WHICH ARMOUR RULES.
Few Care About the Feature of MUIR
der in Our Daily Living. Have
We the Right to Kill?


THE stock yards butchers, men
that should know, are firmly con-
WINGED that the different animals that
come up to them for killing are as
different in character as human be-
ings are" writes Arthur Brisbane in
an interesting description of the
kingdom of death over which Armour
rules.
fortunately, however, they are
all agreed that not one animal in
ten thousand has any idea of his
coming fate. Death is a surprise to
them all, and therefore practically
painless.
Nobody appears to ask whether
one set of two-legged conscious be-
| ings have a right to kill in one an
nual butchery nine millions of other
! conscious four-legged helpless beings.
| Nobody seems to care, except a few
worthy sentimental vegetarians,
about the rights of the animal, about
! the features of murder in our daily
| living.
Amid all this lowing, squealing,
and struggling there arises constantly
the thought: What becomes of the
| life in those animals? What becomes
of that consciousness which has ami
mated them, protected them, and di-
rected them? In what way is it diff
| ferent from the consciousness within
| hn j..
there covered with blood from head
to foot, stabbing relentlessly each
living creature as it comes before
him?
1--WE know what becomes of the
animals bodies. The tenderloin goes
to the rich mans house, the shin
bone to the poor man, the head to
the immigrant from certain foreign
lands, the tongue, prepared with
spices, is sent often far away to In
dia. The hide is made into boots,
chauffeurs' coats, harness. The bones
are cut up into buttons that fasten
the Workmen'S shirts, or are changed
into the foolish little things upon
which babies chew when their teeth
are coming. A part of the body
makes pepsin for those that lack di-
gestion, and the indigestible parts
go to those that later on need the
pepsin.
In all directions the bodies are
scattered, but what becomes of the
nine millions of lives, the nine mil
lions of separate consciousness that
Armour scatters into space every
year, as he feeds the millions of
thinking, meat-eating animals?"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
EXPERT MONEY COUNTERS.
Can Handle $4,000 New 81 Bills in
Eight Hours.

The question with reference to the
money supply is often propounded:
How long does it take for the wo-
men experts in the treasury depart
ment at Washington to count 1,000,-
900 new 81 notes, and how long does
it take to count 100000 old notes
of that denominations" According
to the treasury officials the answer
is as follows:
In handling new notes an expert
can count in day of eight hours
about $4,000. Of course this re-
fers to notes of the denomination of
81. In counting gold certificates of
the denomination of $4,000 each it
would require but a short time to
count $1,J00,000.
At this rate 20 days would be oc-
cupied in counting $1,00O,000 repre-
sented by notes of the denomination
of 81. However, it is hardly possible
that any one could keep up to these
figures for such period, and it
would be safe to add five days and
to say that $1,0OO,OOO (paper) could
be counted in % days
Of silver dollars 10000 may be
counted in day of eight hours,
which rate, if adhered to, would fin
ish the $1,O0O,000 in % days, but
it would be we'll to add five days
here for the same reason and make
it 80 days for counting 100000
silver dollars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
THE DANGER OF COLD STORAGE FOODS

en-. But no matter how many eggs
there are the ordinary consumer can
never get any fresh ones, and in
order to get stale ones is obliged to
pay the new-laid price plus the cost
of storage. Chemical change pro-
duces the peculiar musty flavor, but
there are also changes of structure.
After eight months of cold storage
the yolks and whites will not separ-
ate at all. The membrane which en-
velops the yolk is then easily rup-
tured and the white loses its thick,
gelatinOus consistency, becoming
more and more watery. The shells
become brittle and the contents in
one year lose 16 per cent. of their
total weight by evaporation.
1t is a fact worth mentioning that
in this country there are so concerns
engaged in the freezing and cold
storage of fish, handling from S20,-
000,000 to $30,000,000 worth of the
product annually. Then, game BIRDS
largely handled through cold storage
houses, are affected the same as
poultry. In milk kept in storage
enormous multiplication of bacteria
goes on.
Thus the warehouses or firms en-
gagged in this business become in a
literal sense mummy factories, swal-
lowing the bulk of the output of GER
tain staple food supplies and dis
gOrging much of them, after a lapse
of many months or of years, in a
condition unfit for the human stom-
ach.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
THE RAVEN.
By Edgar Allan Poe.

By Edgar Poe.
Once upon midnight dreay while ponered weak
While nodded nearly mapping suddenly there tapping
IT'S some visitor maered tapnng at g bb d0 Door,
Only this nothing more"
All, distinctly remember, in the bleak December
And each dying ember
for the lost Ieno
Nameess here for evermore. III '"V O'' Asno's
4BS ae she9 sad @ psns of
So that now to still the beating of my heart
is nothing more" lily 'nanOsF door
3 yos i''f foPsvssas no 1 %Pors
AND And family tSS"4
nothing more 'p'D'O "'DS Tie u00'
B n em ssms So MORTAR aps s6 S
But the silence QnrOEen the token
This whispered and echo word "Lenoe"
Merely this and nothing
s SoPs heard ai5 ps9n 5 os5
Let me then. what therat explore
IT'S the n nothing more" V~D''
Not e s sPSS s ad h not a s9sG y STAYED
e n 0 a S 2esfh6 6o above my chamber
Perched and sat, and nothing
R'4 eg g @ dseon ss nsy no %ns
oSs be Ds s0n R and said
Raven 'Nevernore 1>Sn'S Fo'0n'An Sn0re
Though its little meaning-litIe
For help agreeing o human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird
ro or the sculptued
With such "Nevermore"
But PStt the oo Raven oa sitting lonely placid
scarcely moTe than s friends Sh Sav 4 n %
On the morrow he will leave
Then the bird said "Nevermore"
Startled the stiffness by reply apty spoken
Doubless said what it utters its store
ss'ff T G 9a9e5G G P
TIL the dirge of his Hope the melancholy burden
Of-Never-ne
But the Raven still beguing all my sadso into smiling
1hen upon the velvet sinking, betook
Fancy unto fancy thinking what this ominou
what TINS grim ungan ghastly gaunt and omnous bird
Meant in croakng Nevermore."
Thus I sat in guessing, syllable expressing
10 the fowl whose
This l dvnng my head at ease reclining WV
But whose veVet violet lining with the lamplght
she shall press, ah, neVermore!
Then mehough perfumed an unseen censor
footballs tnkled on the t1fted floor ~
wretch cried thy God hath lent heeby
~ N4
Respte-respite and nepenthe
Quaf oh quaf this kind
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
vi ProPhet said l. thing of eviprophet still,
whether Tempe sent whether tempest ashore
l'oe YET all undaunted this desert land
On this home by Horror haunted-ten truly mplore-
tneeCs there balm in Giead?-tel meel impoe"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
B of parting bird or hend!" sbriakad
Get thee back into the tempest and the Nights
leave no black plume spoken!
e 'nS a from out my heart and take thy
Quoth the Raven,
And the Raven fitting sitting, sitting
On On me palld bust of Palas just door
a is
And the ampigh streaming throws his shadow ON % 9oor
ana my s a from out that shadow that lies floating
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
Foley's Honey and Tar clears +b<

Foley's Honey and Tar clears the
air passages, stops the irritation in
the throat, soothes the infamed
membranes, and the most obstinate
cough disappears. Sore and in
named lungs are healed and
strengthened, and the cold is ex-
PEELED from the system. Refuse anv
but the genuine in the yellow pack
age Dawson Drug Co. and Peoples
Drug Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
New Dessert.

Miss Dudley-She was Dragging
about how successful her dinner par
ty was. She said it wound up with
great eclaw." What's "eclaw," any
way?
Miss Mugley-Why, I guess that
was the dessert. Didn't you never
eat a chocolate eclaw?-CathoIic
Standard Times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
From 8 Till 10 p. M.

Talk about your moving pictures that
they charge a dime to see,
Well, they may be real amusing, but
just take tip from me;
There's a thin transparent curtain
and two 'spooners" on our street
Talk about your moving pictures
we'll, we guess we have them beat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
A Whisker WobbIer.

Willie-"Pa, what was the name
of that Russian general you read
about?"
Pa-"What do you want to know
for?"
Willie-"I like to see your whis-
kers wriggle when you say it,"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
Took Wing.

Sir, 1 know what you are" cried
the disappointed and angry girl.
You are nothing but a jay"
But I'm not a popin' jay" he
piped as he fitted through the door.
Charlotte News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
One of Two Things

How cold your nose isl"
Father" declared materfamilias
in the next room, either that young
fellow has proposed at last, or Tow
ser is in the parlor again. Wash
ington Herald.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10

CA s. T % RIA.
Bears the <7In6 KIND You Have Always Bought
signature es N<HZN7ezMI
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
A Patient Sufferer.

Naturalization, l am surprised
that you should suffer a man to kiss
you.
Marion-But, mama, it wasn't suf-
fering.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
No, Indeed.

The New Citrate (inquiring for
parishoner)- Pardon me, is this
No. 1872"
Lady of the House (appearing
with infant in her arms)-'Lor'
bless you, no, sir! This is only my
SIXTH"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
SCOTS
Emulsion

the oil is emulsifed and made
easy to take-easy to digest
and easy to be absorbed in to
the body-and is the most
natural and useful fatty foodto
feed and nourish the wasted
body that is known in medicine
today.
Nothing can be found. to take
its place. Ifyou are rundown
you should take it.
Send this advertisement together with name
of paper in which it appears, your address and
four cents to cover postage, and we will send
you Complete Handy Atlas of the World"
SCOTT & BOVINE. 4O9 Pearl St. New York
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
LITTLE TICKLES.

She-How do you make a Maltese
cross?
He-By pulling his tail.-Judge.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-07
MUST FIX THE ROADS.
Tor Postmaster May Suspend Rural
Route Work.

The fourth assistant postmaster
general upon application Of Ewing
Herbert, postmaster of Hiawatha'
has issued a most important order,
inasmuch as 1t will put the roads
question in the power Of rural car
riers. The order permits the post
master to suspend mail delivery for
thirty days when the carrier reports
habitual neglect of roads by any pat
rom. overseer or trustee. II the road
isn't made good within the thirty
days the postmaster is requested to
recommend that the badly kept por-
ton be permanently withdrawn from
the route. Doubtless the some auth
GRITTY will be extended to other post
masters on application. Postmaster
Herbert says: "A rural route is held
to enhance the value Of the farm more
than $1,000, and It worth 500 or
more a year to any farmer to have
his mail delivered, SO It is hardly
probable that there will be any neg
lect Of the roads where this order
applies"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-07
SENATOR HODGES WILL MAKE
KEYNOTE SPEECH NOV. 9TH.
democrats Expect Him to Announce
for Governor.

sena or, George Hodges address
at Abilene has been postponed at his
request until November, probably the
9th. He says he wants more time
which is taken to mean that he wants
to decide positively on running for
governor.
Henderson Martin Of Marion, chair,
man of the Democratic state central
committee, was in Topeka yesterday
comforting with some Of the leading
democratic politicians. He expects
the Democratic campaign in Kansas
to start off with this Abilene meet
me. He says conditions in the state
are first class for q Democratic VIC
tory ana that they are becoming bet
ter every day. :,
.sThe Democrats over the state
he said, "are getting 3 great deal
Of satisfaction out Of this rev over
stste taxes. The row is wholly With
m ne Republican party and the
Democrnts have reason for being hap
~ over a. II g working things
rieht IN to the camp Of the Demo-
cratic party"
~ Martin has been talked OF q
candidate for Governor on the
psmoeratie ticket, but be does nos
appear to take that rumor seriously.
what be e interested In is settins
shs campaign started early. getting
out good strong candidates and get
ting q Democratic oaiiy payer started
n Wiehiia
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-07
WILL BE A MONTH OF STORMS.
DeVoe Says October VIII be stormy
With Snow.

According to DEVICES weather fore
cast this month will enter with a
great storm over the Gulf Of Mexico,
moving northward and reaching the
ohio valley by the End. First 70
End, heavy rains, ard to 4th, cold
wave; frost will reach the gull
states; 9Th to 9Th, pleasant, TIN to
sth. cold and squally, with rain; 9TH
to 10th, pleasant; Ito to 18th, cold
and squally. on the 18th a great
storm will form over the lower Mis-
sissippi valley and move northeast
ward; 14th to 18th, great storm;
snow in the northern and rain in the
southern states; 18th to 18th, un-
usual cold wave; 18th TO 10 ii plea
sant; goth to 21st, warm and plea
SAINT: 22nd to 2srd, cold and squally'
with rain and snow; 24th to 25th'
pleasant, but cold; 2eth to 27th.
rrowinE warmer. On the 2sth great
storm WIN advance over the north
western states. 2sth TO 81, . great
storm moving across the country
rain and snow.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-07
LOG ROLLING AT HOPE.
Program Included Bali Game and q
Number Of Races.

Hope, Oct. I. The log rolling was
enjoyed BY q fair crowd.
The band did It's part, MI. Ma
nary delivered a fine lecture. and the
prizes were awarded.
Mr.. George Ebberts got the prize
for the finest decorated vehicle IN
the parade. The ball game between
LincoinvIIIs and Enterprise resulted
in score Of S to in favor Of En-
terprise.
The egg race was won BY =.
BalIor, Ray MOorehouss End, Ernest
Cunningham Srd.
Boys sack race. Cunningham lst'
Moorehouse 2nd, HAN srd.
Mems sack race, Geo. Longtime
let. walter Koehsnover md, &
Baiior. srd.
Potato race. Noofehouse Ut, Car
encs Dudiey and. cunningham srd.