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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
LARGE OCEAN SHIP

New York Is 1885 guests, while the
Europa will carry 1880 passengers.
She will have nine decks above the
water line. equal to the height Of the
largest apartment houses. Her ca
pacity will exceed 5000, reckoning in
the crew.
The builders have ordered from the
forests Of Oregon 1000. 900 feet Of FIR
for her decks alone. This lumber has
been "kilnning" near Portland. Only
clear, vertically grained wood has
been accepted.
With so much space available fea-
lures are possible that have never be-
fore been introduced. There will be
q choice of dining rooms, q Ritz-Carl-
ton restaurant grill, tea room, tea
garden, rathskeller, palm gardens.
convertible in winter into sun parlors:
women's salons In different decorative
periods and national styles, "univer-
SAL telephones, the biggest gymnas-
ium yet, running track of tank bark.
trainer rubbers, squash court, swim
ming pool, Turkish and Roman baths,
submarine signals and powerful air
pumps to watt below currents of the
purest air and afford equable temper
ature throughout
The most powerful Marconi appara-
tus ever set up at sea win be in
stalled. the unusual height of her
masts making 1t possible to receive or
transmit messages across the broad
expanse of the Atlantic ocean. The
Europa will always be in direct COM
munication with either her namesake
continent or America.
The biggest ship of the seven seas
will be here in 1912.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

The wild garlic" which fnfests Dor.
lions OF Pennsylvania. Ohio and In.
diana Is a noxious plant first seen In
pennsylvania A farmer In southern
Indiana secured some seed wheat
from the Ohio Valley. and noticed
the presence of the onionlike pest in
the resulting crop. He gave II NO
further thought. as the entire in.
Tested plot might have been carried
away In his hat" And yet within
three years the wheat from that sec.
ton of the country was refused by all
millers because Of the malodorous gar.
lie, the seeds Of which are about the
same size as large wheat grains. In
certain localities land values have
been sorely affected by the presence
of this weed
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
MUCH SUCCESS
WITH POTATOES


Prince Edward Island is one of the
most successful producers of the no.
tato. Its total area under cultivation
Is less than 1900 square miles: the
annual yield Of the potato crop aver
ages 100000 bushels.
The most favorable results hava
been obtained In fields that have not
been manured for many years TN
opinion prevails that manure pollutes
the potato and disposes 1t to rot he
fore and after digging. Newly-clearad
woodlands yield large crops for manv
successive years without the ads,t,o,,
of any fertilizing. To aid exhausted
soil commercial fertilizer is usad :.
has been found that lime, clinler.
and coal ashes thrown on a field NJ.
set up scab. 1t would thus anne
that this disease may be due ~ 49,
chanical irritation in the soil. tn mr.
vent rot. great attention is given -
the time OF digging. The best t,rs
has been found to be when the 49,
begin to grow dark green. not wbsn
they have turned black. When IT,
latter happens. the potato has already
begun to rot. BY observing tbe.s
methods. q white, smooth. roundea
root of medium size is secured Th.
best potatoes are shipped In bore.
carefully selected. and marketed a..
70. ] and No. 2.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

In the matter Of dress we have
fallen upon q decline since the days
when the Duke Of Wellington was re-
fused admission to Almacks because
be was wearing trousers instead of
breeches and silk stockings. says the
London Chronicle. Even Almack's,
however, had to admit trousers with
in its closely guarded portals the fol-
lowing year. When Gladstone was
up" at Oxford the reign Of the dan
dies was In full swing. When late in
life he revisited the university to lee
lure to the undergraduates on Homer
he was asked by G. w. e. Russell
whether he noticed any difference be-
tween his audience and the men of
his own time. YES" he replied, "in
their dress an enormous change. /
am told that had among my audi
ence some Of the most highly con-
nected and richest men In the uni.
versity. and there wasn't one whom !
couldn't have dressed from top to toe
for So"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

heavy, durable sliding doors, made or
plank two inches thick. should put
them together with small bolts. II
good tracks are used they will move
at a touch and last forever. Some.
might prefer to board up the box
stalls higher than five feet. ] see no.
need for that, but six feet will do no
harm. 1t will be objected by some
that box-stalls 8x10 feet are too small
cannot agree with this. II one
urges big box-stalls it is as though he
urged the use of no box-stalls at all.
No one can afford very large box
stalls for work horses. In stalls SxlO'
feet the horse has freedom to turn
around easily and all the comfort 1t
needs. II perchance some of the stalls
are desired on occasion TO. be used for
brood mares the partitions may some
of them or all of them be made re-
movable, throwing two stalls together,
making one stall 10x16 feet.
The best way to manage harness is
to have big hook made OF three-quar-
ter-inch round steel attached to a
rope and pulley right beside the stall
door so that the harness may be hung
on the hook and swung up to the cell
ing or out Of the way. The harness
room is meant for extra harness, for
repair work and SO on. With these
box-stalls one will use bedding liber-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
DEADLY TETANUS IS STAYED
Physicians at Wilmington, Del, Save
eoy's Life, Even After jaws
Are Locked.

Wilmington, Del-That medical SCI
ence has been able to counteract t.
tanus. even when 1t had developed to
the stage where the patients jaws are
locked. has been successfully demon
strated by the physicians at the Home
opathic hospital In the case of Tony
Behba, q little boy whose parents live
at Bellevue.
After spending several weeks In the
hospital, suffering from lockjaw. the
boy. who is IL years old, has been dis
charged as perfectly well again.
Tony stepped on a rusty nail.
which penetrated a toe. No attention
was paid to the wound beyond local
treatment. and some time later when
a physician was called in, he found
tetanus fully developed and the boys
jaws securely locked. He was re-
moved to the hospital, where he was
treated and finally cured.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
BOYS AND THE FARM.

The department of agriculture Is
proving it's value constantly In many
ways, but In none more definitely and
clearly than in the encouragement OF
American youth to adopt the cultiva-
ton of the soil as a career. 1t Is
vitality essential that the children OF
farmers should themselves till the
land their fathers and their grand
fathers have titled, says the Washing
ton Star. They are potentially the
best farmers. If they move to the
city to learn trades or to enter the
professions or to drift inef1ciently
through life. somebody must take
their places to grow the crops essen
tial to the feeding of the people. A
dangerous tendency exists toward the
elimination of the small farmer and
the substitution Of the syndicate. or
the large individual holder of land.
This destroys competition at the
source Of the necessities of life. It
tends Enthusiastically to higher prices
and to the increase in the number of
non-producing individuals. Only by
making the farm attractive and profit
able can any Roadway be made
against this city-drifting disposition.
with its inevitable consequence of
dangerous concentration. The tele-
phone. the electric car, the rural free
delivery and to some extent the good
roads movement have all contributed
to lessen the disadvantages Of rural
existence. Now comes science, lead
ing to an increase in the profits and
In the dignity of farming. 1t is i'm
portant that the competition among
the boys in the south which has just
been brought to so successful a con-
clusion should be extended into all
parts Of the country.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
immense Vessel Has Five Decks
Above Main Deck.
She VIII Have Features That Have
Never Before Been introduced,
Including Most Powerful
MarconI Apparatus.

Stettin, Germany.-With I'VE decks
above her main deck and q series Of
balconies stretching across the front
of her superstructure like the pill
Jared facade Of . temple, the worlds
largest ship. the Europa, the keel Of
which has been laid here, draws all
eyes Of those who gaze seaward In
anticipation.
Scarcely had the world become &C
customed to the Mauritania as the
synonym for the largest and the latest
In ,p.arine architecture than the Olym-
pic and Titanic were laid down. No
sooner was the Olympic showed into
deep water than the owners Of the
Mauretania published the plans q
even longer ship.
In black and white the comparison
shows as follows:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

Cincinnati Colony Gives Lad Of Six
teen Ovation as Coming "kossuth"
Of Celestial Empire.

Observation-Disclosures as the pros,
pective "Kossuth Of China" Chui
Leeng. aged sixteen, was given an ova.
ton by the local Chinese colony the
other day.
The youth Is a student at Capital
university, Columbus, and next year
he is to enter Columbia university. His
father. Chui King, a Chinese editor.
is acting head of the Chinese Reform
association and one of three on whose
heads the late empress set a price.
All OF the members OF the local col.
ony of Chinese are ''reformers," and
they cheered the youthful orators dec.
laration In favor of these four national
departures: Amnesty invitation to re.
formers to return, cutting on OF
cues; limitation of the sale of
opium in China; the common people
to have voice in the government
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Elevation of Bent 4o-root Barn.

would be as inexpensive as possible,
writes Joseph E. Wing, in Breeders
Gazette. After considerable thought
and getting some first-rate ideas from
his manager and himself, the follow
ing plan has been evolved. Frankly. i
think 1t better stable than any that
have yet seen published anywhere. :
The general plan is simple. A drive
way ten feet wide gives access to the
stalls and permits the spreader to
take out the manure. The stalls are
mostly box-stalls. 8x10 feet Greatly the
two-inch thickness of the partitions
on OF this), and in each stall one
horse or mule is kept. The single
stalls go three to each 16-foot space.
The posts are Is feet between GEN.
ters; floor joist 16 feet long; lower
rafters, Is feet; upper rafters, Is feet
The feed alleys are i've feet wide.
There may be bins above for oats:
hey chutes throw hay directly into
the feed alley, and several chutes
ought to be provided. All of the frame
y of the familiar joist frame pattern
with self-supporting roof. Hay comes
IN at the end, although one could
easily arrange to take it in at the mid
die, making harness room there and
temporary box-stalls.
On the whole. like that idea best,
as the barn is too long to run hay in
all from one end and doors in gables
are troublesome. The details of frame
are not changed from what one can
find carefully described in Farm
Buildings" a book that every intend
ing builder should own. II q trans
verse driveway is put in 1t ought to
have at least IA feet headroom.
The box-stalls are provided with
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
quality of timber the very best.

quality OF timber the very best.
The seeds of either may be had of
the nurserymen. They can be sown
IN drills In the garden and cultivated
two seasons by which time they are
from forr to six feet tall and ready
to transplant to the permanent rows.
This planting Of trees should he.
given earnest consideration by all
who own land. as there is no more
profitable investment to be made than
the planting Of trees either for tim
bef or fruit.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
CLEARING UP
NEW GROUND
Irregular Spots Along Streams
and on HiI1sides Could Be
Made TO Yield Big Returns
II Trees Planted.

The time is at hand when the av.
erage farmer begins t. think about
clearing up new ground. Those OF
them who are fortunate enough to
have any left, and those who live in
hilly countries viii generally find
bushes and briars growing along the
hollows and fences.
This is the time to think of the
wanton destruction of our forests.
Those great oaks, ash and walnuts
were but saplings once. While we do
not indorse the leaving of trees grow
in cultivated fields. every nice-shaped
sapling Of variety of value as a tim
Der tree should be left to grow.
There are thousands of small plots
Of timber, where great many of the
trees will measure two feet, and some
of them thirty inches at the stump.
These, thirty years ago. were sap
lings Of four to ten inches at the
stump-oak. ash and hickory.
In Kentucky there is grove of To-
Gusts, many of them fifty feet tail
oAA4 - nh0 II AASnC6 at Lie 6lUmD.
These are on piece of land lying
alongside country road and valued
at 800 per acre.
The seed were sown thinly, broad
cast. then thinned to stand four to
six feet apart. The timber is TODAY
equal to ten times the value of the
land, or $1,000 per acre.
II each farmer who owns land suit-
able to the growth of forest timber
should set apart one-twentieth of his
land to forest. In time there would be
timber to spare.
A great many cliffs and hfllsides
along bur little rivers are fit for little
else, and hill land that is very stony
may be planted to post timber trees
with much profit.
Black locust and catalpa are the
most profitable for posts. the locust
to be preferred. as the manner OF
growth il much smoother and the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

The floating island of steel viii have
5 displacement of 10000 tons. To ex-
D'~ss the equivalent idea in other
'e<ms, the new liner will be fashioned
OF materials weighing 100000, 900
pounds. 1t would require the entire
population of Philadelphia. about L.
$4,000 persons, each carrying 100
pnnds, to handle this material The
'seel and wood and brass and woven
f. brio would ill q train of freight
c-ss forty-four miles in length. stretch
jrE across the Isthmus of Panama by
-sy of the canal. The combined ca
p<city of the largest three hotels in
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
SEEKS FLYING SCIENCE LAWS
French savant Aims to Put Aviation
on Dependable BasIs-Acrobatic
Feat Now.

Paris.-M. @. Eiffel, the well-known
engineer. is at present engaged In
studying what he calls the scientific
laws Of aviation. Until now flying ma
chimes have been built and worked in
the dark, as 1t were, without any def
mite mathematical knowledge of the
laws of the air. He believes that, by
careful scientific experiments, certain
laws may be worked out which will no
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

engines pushing. men yelling, snow
scrunching. and over all the roar of
the falling stream of snow and the
binding. cutting clouds of ice parti-
cles 1t sets free.
The drift may yield to one bucking.
In which case the men congratulate
themselves at having an easy time Of
It. But more often even the mighty
rush Of the train. engines, pillow and
car Is stopped by the drift, which
looks so soft, but is in reality so
tough. Then it is shoveled out again
and backs on for another rush.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Frame Work Of Box-staII Front.

ally and clean them out only once a
month or even at longer intervals.
With a trifle of care the stall will al
ways be level, the manure trodden SO
hard as to be air tight and with no.
fermentation. There will be no odor
In the stable and the horses will be
kept cleaner and more comfortable
than where stalls are cleaned every
day.
AS l do not like corncribs in stables
design to place pair of round cribs,
such as are described in Farm Build
ings," at one end of the building, and
these admirable little rat-proof cribs
will prove far cheaper than putting
the cogn in the stable and better in
every way. AS to the problem of
straw. It is seen that there is large.
provision made for hay storage. Room
may be left at each end for straw.
which may be blown in place by the.
thresher, or shredded corn stover may
be blown up there.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

Where is the psychologist who can
give an explanation of the different
ways In which the weather affects
sports? There are baseball and foot
ball, for instance. Both are strenuous
games. yet one fourishes like a green
bay tree In the good old summer time.
no matter how hot and the other
thrives only in a frosty atmosphere.
Players and spectators seem to be In
the same boat When the sun shines
the hottest the heroes of the diamond
are warmed up to their umberest and
their best, while the lookers-on occu-
pying the bleachers Just roast and are
happy. But let a cold blast blow
across the field and baseball shrinks
Ike delicate flower touched by
frost On the other hand footballers
want 1t cold and raw and really pre-
fer a near>zero temperature and
FURRY Of snow, II they can be had.
Such conditions appear to put "gin-
ger" into every brawny member of
the eleven. And the crowds on the
grandstand forget all about the wealth
Or while watching the wonderful do
ings Of their favorite players.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
BUCK SNOW IN WEST
PIow Used in Huge Machine
Made of Steel.
Despite Its Enormous Power Rotary
Sometimes Gets Stuck and Then
Men Shovel Il Out and An
other Run ls Made.

New York-In the Middle states
where six inches is heavy snowfall.
getting 1t off railway tracks is about
as easy for an engine as cleaning it
of the sidewalk is for the small boy.
A snow pillow, which is nothing
more than gigantic scraper, with
perhops an enormous horn or pIow-
share In front, is pushed down the
track by an engine and scrapes and
pushes the accumulated clogging
white mass of the track to either
side.
But In the northern, and particu-
larly In northwestern states-where,
when it makes up its mind to snow,
everyone knows 1t; where the falls
are feet In depth and In the east only
inches; where the railway runs
through open plains on which the re-
sistless sweep Of the wind drifts the
white crystals into hills and valleys,
humps and hollows SO large that they
seem large even to a steam car
something more effective than mere
pushing must be employed.
This something" says a writer In
st Nicholas, is the rotary snow plow.
an invention which is in use on every
railway on which large drifts collect
In the winter and where snowsleds
ana snow guards-fences built In ex-
posed places to keep the snow from
drifting on the track-are ineffec-
tive.
The snow pillow is a huge machine.
as big as freight car and built of
steel On the forward end is a mon.
ster wheel with powerful blades of
steel, looking like an overgrown cleo
trio fan, SO arranged that their angles
can be changed.
This wheel, which is perpendicular
to the track and revolves at right an
giles to 1t, is inclosed in a casing or
drum. also Of steel and with sharp
steel edges. The top of the drum is
supplied with a pipe or chute. Inside
the snow pillow il a steam engine,
which drives this huge fan wheel at
from 100 to ESQ revolutions every
minute.
Behind the snow plow are coupled
from one to three or even more power
ful engines. and behind these a car.
On the cars are many men with shov-
els. for despite its enormous power
even the rotary gets stuck at times
and has to be ANONYMOUSLY dug out,
Perhaps the snow is but four or I'VE
feet deep and the pillow as soon as II |
strikes the snow bores through II at q |
great rate. Wonderful to see, the
snow eaten away from the bank by
the whirling blades is tossed out of |
the chute at the top of the drum or |
casing in a solid stream. to fall in q |
curving arch and with a thunderous
roar nom 100 to 200 feet away. This
arch IL frequently thirty and even |
more feet high. Bfllows OF snowdust |
oil the air and the most beautiful rain
bows surround the falling cascade of |
snow.
When the pillow gets stalled the men
tumble on the car and shovel it out
Of its prison. Then the whole train
backs on couple of hundred yards
and takes new start Down the track
Il sweeps, gathering speed and mo-
mentum with every puff-puff of the
exhaust and smash! 1t goes headlong
1t the drift, mighty fanwheel whirling.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
NceNcsxrM
II WRrIN "
II vRoucN II

Recently 1 had occasion to design
for large farm stable to hold work
horses and mules. The owner wished
true economy, yet to give the animals
all the comfort possible without undue
expense, and to have the manure
saved well, and to have the stable so
arranged that feeding, caring for the
horses and removing the manure
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

A singular point evoked by recent
prosecutions of fortune-tellers and
palmists in another city is the fact
that their insight into the futures OF
other people gave them no inkline
OF the evil influences that were about
to haul themselves into the police
courts.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
SPANS Revenues Incre,.e.

Madrid.-The receipts of the treas
ury for the ten months of the year.
ended October 81. show an increase of
s6.60o.000 in comparison with those for
the same period in 1909. The minister
of finance declares that these figures
form a true index of the progress of
the country.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Queen to Become Mother.

London. Marys accouch-
ment is expected in March. This win
be the first birth at Buckingham pal
ace In fifty years. The last child born
to King George and Queen Mary was
Prince John Charles. July 13, 1905.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

They figure 1t out that the moon Is
now 1900 miles nearer the earth
than usual. Everything seems to be
ceming down q bit
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glat, 80 BEL 200 syub an Der SiiDs
f.ite Der Glspslnnb Ctr. $50 CUB
rpsTtli6 BON 6artforb Ctr. $2500.
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p. Cooper, Got 33 In 8. 5. Dsfton's :
llnterabtbsilung, ST.
Gotta W(. 3ennler an Cora 2ores
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an Der Gillette Der gulpeti Str, 125
Jub 0itlih Don 9. Ctr, 81.
Ulina Samdun an 4nua Tenier. %
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f.rfon Str, 100 SUB n6iblia BON
Corn Sir., 81.
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Mab. Ctr. 81.
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