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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
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Observation-Disclosures 1t comes to
W a keen understanding of domes-
Tic economy. there Is no man living
who has anything on Representative
J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia.
He has completed list of Injuries
which shows that the candy con-
sumed in single year represents
the cost OF complete chain of canals
from Boston to Key West; that the
1ewelry sold represents twice the cost
OF building the Panama canal, and
that the nickels annually dropped on
soda water counters are sufficient to
establish complete inland water
way system.
The statistics with which Represent
alive Moore backs his assertions are
colossal. They represent his investi-
cation into the reason for the high
cost OF living, and prove that the In
dividual himself Is In a large meas
ure responsible for the decline of the
dollars value.
According to Mr.. Moore, the boys
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
Shoddy in Much Less Demand

A PRELIMINARY statement show.
"A ing the general results of the
1909 census for establishments en-.
gagged in the manufacture of wooden
and worsted goods has Just been is
sued by the director of the census.
E. Dana Durand.
Although the number, Of establish
ments has decreased, denoting a ten.
dencv toward concentration. which
has been the rule in the wool manu-.
featuring industry since 1870, on the
other hand the amount of capital re-
ported as invested shows an increase
from $256.554.000 in 1899 to '$415, 1885,
600 In 1903. or 81 per cent. during the
decade. The cost of materials used
increased IS per cent. and the amount
paid In salaries and wages So per
cent. The number of salaried off,
Gals and clerks increased but Al per
cent. and the number of wage earn.
ers only 20 per cent.
The value of products increased
from s23S.745.0 900 In 1899 to $685.
900 In 1909. or rs per cent. The
greater part of this increase took
place during the second half Of the
decade; in fact, the increase of over
500, 100000 In the FIVE years since
1904 is far greater than that of any
decade prior to 1900 in the history
of the industry.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27

watched while he disappeared In the
bushes. Then she said to the boy:
You call at the house In about
two hours and I'll give you the nifty
cents. but II l hear Of you catching
another rabbit. or II you capture q
bird Of any sort I'll make you
troublei"
Maybe you own the EARTH" called
tho lad after he was thirty feet away.
You can tell that villain dol"
She hunted for other snares, and
she found three and destroyed them.
After couple Of hours she started
for home. Just as she left the woods
she passed young man entering
them. He was well dressed and a
stranger. and the manner in which he
raised his hat and his deferential bow
told her that he lived In the city. He
was staying in the village with some
relative for a few days. probably, and
out for stroll. the same as she had
been.
That evening the boy called at the
house. His nifty cents was ready. but
he would not accept 1t. He brought a
note to be delivered and he sat down
with q grin on his face while Miss
Gertrude answered It, II read:
Miss Ainsley: Your conduct this
afternoon In the brow-beating a young
employe of mine is simply reprehensi-
BILE. The terms in which you char
acterized me are no less so. have
yet to learn that you have been ap-
pointed the legal guardian Of the birds
and animals in this locality"
Then there followed a sincerely"
and the name Carroll Denton"
THE villain! How. dare he!" ex.
claimed the girl as she looked at the
boy
He's an awful fellow" was the
reply. When / told him how you
bluffed me out Of the rabbit up there
he Just CRASHED his teeth. He only
wanted Eve rabbits ut first, but now
he says he'll catch a hundred. He's
cross-eyed and red-headed. and he's
got an awful temper on him."
Miss Gertrude was absent from the
room four, ,r i've minutes. and then
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27

cellent satisfaction. Place the
lines on the center team, a. II driven
alone. and from each line. have q
branch extending over and fastened
to the outer bit ring of each outside
horse. Tie each outside horse to the
hame of the one next him.
The point in favor of this arrange
ment Is the absence of tied cross
lines between the center horses giving
more freedom. and proves very. salts
factory where tive rather unruly
horses are hitched with two less fracr
dous, the latter being In the center.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27

Agriculture IL older than history.
Barnyard manure II almost Q CON.
plete fertilissr.
Corn IL the cheapest tat producing
food In the corn belt.
It II a. easy to produce honey Of
good quality a. II n to produce the
other kind.
Farming ID . serious businsss and
ID on q par with any other profsssdoa
or occupation.
In selecting seeds, . mattsP which
needs careful attention IL the keeping
quality Of vegetables.
The keynote in getting q seeding Of
clover Il the mechanical condition Of
and the humus In the soil.
Clover feeds on mineral matter In
the soil and nitrogen in the air out
Of the reach Of most crops.
Every spring an unnecessarily large
number Of young pigs are lost by the
disease known a. the thumps.
Alfalfa best solves the problem Of
suppiementing pastures and win main
tain a full low Of milk all summer.
Clover Is the best soil renovator, b.
cause 1t better fills the coil with roots,
which decay and ELL the soil with
humus
The seeds Of melons and cucumbers
should be started under glass not
over four weeks In advance q nsld
planting.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
Veteran Painter SIN at Work.

B. w. Leader, R. A. England's r.
nous painter Of landscapes. has. at the
age Of eighty, put the finishing touches
to three pictures by which he will be
represented this year at the Academy.
His February Fiji Dyke" is one of his
best-known works. Leaders father
was painter Of some merit, and the
son inherited strong artistic nature.
During hi5 early life he was, by force
of financial circumstances. compelled
to paint the kind Of pictures the public
liked. "Many's the time." he states.
Il have wished could destroy . num-
Der of those early pot-boilers." His
first picture was exhibited at the
Royal Academy about sixty years ago.
He has many pleasant memories Of
Constable and Millais. AS may be ex-
pected. Mr.. Leader Is q fierce oppo-
nent Of the Post-Impressionists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
Efficient Harrow Cart.

tongue and short piece Of AKA long
enough to reach across the frame
close up to the axies; this makes q
brace for the frame, and forms a Arm
attachment for the seat and tongue.
For a seat, one from some other
piece of farm machinery viii answer
very well. A clevis may be attached
to the end Of the tongue for coupling
the cart to the harrow ring. Make
one for the boys and see II they'll
not think narrowing does a great deal
more good than they used to. when
they had to walk
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
10000 Boys on London Streets.

A new set of bylaws regulating
street trading by juveniles has been
approved by the London county coun-
ell educational committee. II the by
laws are sanctioned by the couucil
no boy under fourteen and no girl un-
der sixteen viii be permitted to en-
gage in street trading. 1t was stated
that the effect Of the new regulations
would be to take 10000 boys and
1000 girls on the streets. where they
were now trading.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
Don't Burn the Litter.

Don't burn up any kind of coarse
litter that accumulates around tho
feedyard, but save to mulch different
plants in the garden. II some manure
is mixed with the litter SO much the
better. Such mulch will make melons.
cucumbers and many other plants
bear more heavily and will save cul-
tivation after they are well started.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
HITcHING FoUR-HoRsE TEAM
Point in Favor Of Arrangement Shown
In illustration 10 Absence Of Tied
Cross-Llnes.

It Is often amusing to notice the ar
rangements Of lines on four horse
teams, says the Prairie Farmer.
When Improperly arranged much an
noyance is caused by uneven pulling
by the different horses and the horses
work Is much harder.
When hitched four abreast the ar
rangement shown herewith gives ex-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
Value Of Manure.

Bulletin No. ~ Of the department Of
agriculture states that on the basis
of prices charged for commercial fer
tilizers, the manure produced annu.
ally by each horse or mule Il worth
SGT. by each head Of cattle SO. by
each hog $12 and BY each sheep two
dollars.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
PLANTING Seeds.

It IL q mistake to plant the same
types Of vegetables in the same spot
year after year; keep them moving
to prevent insects and diseases from
getting foothold, and It IL q mis-
take to forget that a garden needs
plant food In order to nourish vegetar
bles properly. Stable manure and q
sprinkle of bonemeal win do. nicely.
Farm Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27

Gate Ready to Be Sawed In Two.
Observation-Disclosures

one piece by running the crosspieces
c from one post to the other. Leave
a small space between the upright
pieces x and Y so that they will
swing free Of each other when the
gate IL cut In two. Hinge the gate to
the posts at all four corners. testing
the crosspieces with q level Then
saw the gate In two at A and A and
the two, halves will swing perfectly
true and match each other.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
The Woodcock.

That splendid game bird. the wood
cock. Is found all over the entire east
ern half of the United States, but un-
less stringent repressive measures
are taken. the bird Is, according to the
department Of agriculture. In danger
of practical extinction.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
HOW TO HANG DOUBLE GATE
Simple and Easy Method Of construo-
tIon So That II Will Swing Per-
fectly When Completed.

A simple and easy method Of con-
structing and hanging double gate
30 that 1t win swing perfectly true
when complete IL shown in the accom-
panying sketch. Make the gate In
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
Good Land l. Cheapest.

II is cheaper to buy good quality
of limestone or red clay land at say
$50 an acre, than to buy poor land for
$50 and expect to make 1t profitable
oy extra sertilizing In years TO come.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-05-27
Farming Methods.

American farmers are constantly
working to get more land. while BRIT
ish and Danish farmers study to st
more out Of the land. The results are
equally different -aS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-16
TORCH-BEA A. B. Bea11e

And they do not serve us any more, save as the lessons of our childhood serve our growing mans self--save as every ex- perience, great or small, makes us more discriminating, saner. thoughtfuller. And they were the real liberators and torch bearers-those back-worlds men-however much of modern wisdom we may engraft on their last words abou. life and call them ours. Like tyranny it is our debt to them. For however wise We may be in our twentieth century conceit, we seem nearly to have lost that great and sweet simplicity our fathers knew. For instance, contrast the state papers of Jefferson and Lincoln-those august declarations at the republics birth, and later, in the throes of the civil war-con- trast these, I say, with the state papers of Cleveland, of Roosevelt. of Taft. It is like journey from Brohdingnag to Lilli- put. It may be argued that Jefferson and Lincoln had larger canvases, mghtier themes, though it Is a debatable matter. For my part, think militant uncontrolled capital is a bitterer foe to our people to- day and Is conducive of more harm than could have been -England's victory in 177s
 And I believe that an active interest in the suppresslng of world strife today, and the power of president today in wisely and fairly forwarding the interest Of 90 900 GOO constituents, Is as big and splen-
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Walt Whitman that he, with only one other-Abraham Lincoln--have got per manent places in my hall of fame. There are near-great a-plenty, but will have only bold originators anu great hearted simple folk, and torch-bearers in my hall. These two are the greatest Amer~ jeans, think-the fittest way showers for a republic. And 1 do truly believe that any man who will familiarize himself with the lives and writings of these two great companions will grow gentler. stronger, nobler in mind and heart. I do not offer you a f1ve-foot shelf of books see to it, however. that you know your Lincoln and Whitman.
 Yet we do wrong, perhaps to look n the past only for our guides and preach- ers-the "back-worlds men, as Nietzsche calls them-those veritable beacons for their time and place. sort of thralldom holds up to the pasta sort of spiritual kinship, eh? which though we feel its thral, yet serves ussto the one point of release: that awakening that certain awakening which the most thoughtful must know. to the persistent here and now-that urge the present which bids us put away that which we saw, as in a glass, darkly"-bidding us put away the prophecies, seeing they can serve us no more.
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Browning's day. And now I am abouv through with Fabricio.
 It is the easiest thing in the world to drop into poetry. So easy is 1t that no one passes through his callow days with out dropping into poetry" at sometime, and leaving upon "the sands of time" some imprint of poetic line or two, and he who passes through the period of youth without having formed the &C., quaintance of the Muse has much to an- swer for. He is guilty of the sin of omis sion as defined by a little girl in Sunday school. She was asked the difference be- tween sins of commission and sins of omission. She answered: "Sins of com- mission are those that we ought not to commit, but have while sins of omission are those that we ought to commit but have not"
 The inspirations to drop into poetry are inn'nerable. The coming of spring thh gh the quiet valleys, modest flowers marking her soft footprints; her warm breath causing buds to burst into blos- sons white as snow pink as the lining of a conch shell spring with the blue birds simple song, and all the subtle promise of the happy days to come, when emerald fields shall make transition into yellow harvests that shall gleam like brooch of gold upon the breast of nature This is the time when one thinks he can
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large message may presently issue from the mouths of men, or a torch may appear.
 As journeymen grow conscient-as after months and years of service they grow more intelligent, more dependable the less need is there for boss, mas ter, governor. And so the problems that vex us now-reciprocity, universal suffrage, the matter of the unem- p1oyed, socialism, nihilism, and what not-must be wrought out very calmly and ..atiently by mankind en masse. Each of us, please God, may be an &C., tive unit in the perfecting of our re- public. It may be that the ancient lie, the voice of the people is the voice of God" may become vital, living truth.
 Of the future of our republic and of the grave problems we must face, and indeed are face to face with now, Whitman wrote in 1882:
 For history Is long, long, long. Shift and turn the combination of the state ment as we may, the problem of the future of America is in certain respects as dark as it is vast. Pride, competi ton, segregation, vicious wilfulness and license beyond example. brood al- ready upon us. It is useless to deny 1t: Democracy grows rankly up the thick est noxious, deadliest plants and roots of all-brings worse and worse invaders
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S WOOING NOTIFY George Eaves, [

matter. Theories and their boundaries never drew a citizen out of one land into another It was the expectation of bet torment that drew him, in every instance. Opy where theories have been threshed out, put to the test, slfted and planted ditions of national experience, do they offer betterment. And this seems to be what the province of Alberta has done She has discouraged the land speculator, without waiting to find the word con- .seryation in the dictionary of MT. Noah Webster redivious. edited by Mr. Theo- dore Roosevelt with notes by Mir. Bal finger, Alberta has actually conserved for the whole population the right to live without bleeding one another to death.
 I notice that the outcry against high prices has sunk to a temporary Hull. MT. Underwood is hopefully prob ing for some fatal and fever-breeding bullet. like a good economic surgeon, and is confident that he has identified as well as locating 1t, the protective tariff is our constitutional cerebellum." But it would be well that we should not hope for too much even from the tariff surgeons. Our high price tenn perature is evolved from other co-ordin- ate causes, among which the most prominent is undoubtedly our severe
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needs newer, larger, stronger, keener compensations and compellers Even today, amid these whirls, incredible flippancy and blind fury of parties, in fidelity, entire lack of first-class cap- tains and leaders added to the plenti- full means and vulgarity of the ostensi- ble-that problem, the labor question, beginning to open like yawning gulf, rapidly widening every year-what prospect have we?
 Yet, l have dreamed, merged in that hidden, tangled problem of our fate, whose long unraveling stretches mys- teriously through time-dream'd out, portrayed, hinted already-a little or a larger banda band of brave and true, unprecedented yet-armed and equipt at every point-the members separated, 1t may be, by different dates and states or south. or north, or east, or west Pacific, Atlantic, southern. Canadian band, a class, at least as fit to cope with current years, our dangers. needs. as those who, for their times, so long, so we'll in armor or in cowl. upheld and made illustrious. that far-back, feudaI priestly world. To offset chiv- airy. indeed, those vanished, countless knights. old altars, abbeys, priests. ages and strings of ages, a knightlier and more sacred cause today demands. and shall supply, in a new world, to larger. grander work, more than the counter- part and tally of them all.'
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o BEING that we are still in the nro- N cess of growing and becoming. and that every step backward or for ward should be preceded by a tallying with precedent, any radical utterance must run the gauntlet of gibe and criti- cism. for the most part antagonistic. And 1t is better so. Truth wins the mama of truth only after travail and main Shall we call It Gods Test,-that Geth- semane any noble ideal must pass through against the time of its embrace ment by men?
 The position of Truth (and my concep- ton of Truth being any material or spir itual gesture that lessens mortal sorrow has seemed to me to be that of A torch borne by a swift runner who has out stripped his competitors. Out from the mass of men, one lone runner presses forward, blazing the way We. the slug sish and the less strong, failing to over come the distance between the torch bearer and us, content ourselves with a pigmy stride, the while we wonder if his pace IS not too mad-wonder if his strength will last-question among our selves if the light of the torch will last. And ere we know it. we, too, have presently come to where lately we saw the gleam of the torch, only to descry Tar ahead new torch gleaming, new
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out of Seattle and into Vancouver is not to be questioned.
 New the root of most earthly things is in the land Our American cities have steadfastly held to the principle that the real estate agent, with his list Of transfers and his record of high values, is the index of a city's prosperity. The way to make a city grow, we think, is to show folks that they should come and buy it's real estate and hold it, un- improved or improved, while the growth of the city makes their fortune sure As fast as improvements are added the taxable values are so much increased Therefore the final occupant, tenant, or purchaser must pay the penalty of in- creasing the value of the property, be- sides paying the liberal profits of the original investor in the land, all past years taxation, and the more than liberal profits of the speculative builder, owner, investor, who may intervene between himself and the original investor.
 The British Columbian approaches the whole problem of municipal taxation from the public point of view, instead of from that of the private exploitation agent Unimproved land he taxes at 4 per cent of it's actual value; but as it is Improved the rate is reduced to one- half of 1 per cent The citizen who puts up a fine building is not therefore driven
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-16

If Tennyson spoke truly in Locksley
 Hall when he said,
 Tn the spring young mans fancy
 Lightly turns to thoughts of love-"
 then it is also true that those thoughts of love" can be expressed only in poetry
 For, in the roseate realm of love there are thoughts too tender too deep, and too sacred to be expressed ir the common place phrasings of prose- Banish the thought of using prose. Poetry, poetry, best becomes her; and so he sits, "his eye in fine frenzy rolling" and drops into poetry" He runs the gamut of old sounds that have ended lines since the days of Chaucer to those of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. He hunts for words of similar sounds. poetry Buwer Lytton was wrong when he made Constance Vernon say 'Imagi- nation and imitation" were essential to poetry Sound alone is essential, so the young lover thinks. He finds that heart rhymes with dart" and 1t is simple enough to curse the day they had to part" Her hand will rhyme with land" hand "band'' and if he should be a grocers clerk he is apt to think of canned" Canned love would be a new idea, and excite to tears.
 I'll Illustrate how it might be used, though I shall not charge The Age-Her-
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did an achievement as the quelling of an internal revolution.
 Are we to have no more torch bear CTS? Have we grown too wise in our own minds to hunger for strong lead CTS and preachers? There are strong workers. big-brained, large-hearted in our republic-journeyme workers, shall call them? Thoroughly equipped they are in their own fields, doing good work in their own way. But from the medley of industry. from the ranks gresses and senates, no Gods voice Is Iheard-no Master Worker any more no torch bearer to blaze the way for a half-blind folk-but apprentices and journeymen all.
 As education advances. we perhaps are foolish to anticipate, or even pray for, miracle to come to pass The stronger the units of society become, the less need will there be for espe- cial reinforcement at any point. The murmur of earth's wise men will pre- clude the hearing of any voice out of the blue. It looks as if God had mod ulated the voices of his workers, for rarely does one ring clearer, truer than the rest. And yet 1t may be that God Is speaking to us through the teachings of groups of men. It may be that what we call the labor movement is Gods voice-that the socialist party is Gods voice. I do not know. Some