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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
COW BREAKS BUTTER MARK
New Champion, ciothIds H., Produces
1,277 Pounds In Year From $4,000
Pounds Of Milk.

Newton. N. 1.-THE worlds record
for butter production in single year.
held so long by Colanitia. q Wiscon-
sin Holstein- COW. has been broken by
Clothilde H.. an eastern COW Of the
same breed. The new champion has
just completed her years test. and.
according to the official figures, pro-
duced In 365 days, 1,277 pounds of but.
ter from $4,000 pounds of milk
It takes an exceptionally good cow
to make log pounds of butter in a
month, even in full flow. but here is a
COW that has averaged that amount
for twelve months in succession.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
STOLYPIN is LAUDED

Here again Stolypin's far-seeing brain
came into play. He planned that
mujik should be speculator In the
worlds grain trade. He opened hum
dreds of farming schools and hundreds
more are being founded. Besides.
Stolypin arranged that money should
be advanced to the peasant farmer at
low rate of interest. AZ per cent
something unknown here hitherto.
The imperial bank builds granaries
and keeps the peasant informed on
grain prices by posting official quota
tons several times week In railroad
stations, inns and markets. Co-opera-
tive stores have been opened in the
markets; the peasants can buy agri-
cultural machines on easy terms;
mechanical experts give instruction
gratis to farmers who desire 1t.
The results are as obvious as benefi-
cent. A sturdy, hardworking yeoman
class is slowly but surely growing in
Russia; this in six years, and the plan
will not be worked out completely for
several years more. The fact is be-
coming clearer and clearer that agrar-
ian reform has done more to calm
Russia than all the repressive dictates
from the city. Socialistic and revolu-
tionary agitators have no success
where the mujik owns his land. be-
cause 1t is all he really cares for In
this life and once he has it he will
run no risks.
A tremendous cutlery against Stoly-
pin arose when he set this work on
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
Claims Fortune In America
Welsh Railroad Man Confident I
Proving Title to Part of New
York City.

London-Thomas Williams, re
tired railroad man, who lives in a cot
tage at Caersws, Welsh village, tells
me that he is confident of proving his
right to fortune in America of $275.-
000, 900.
He bases his claim on his belief that
he is the nearest surviving male rela-
tive of Edward Edwards, Welshman,
who emigrated in the 18th century
and amassed an enormous fortune. but
died intestate. Edwards was a native
of Llanymynech. near Oswestry. and
removed to Silverdale, where he mar
ried. His wife's behavior caused him
to emigrate to New York state, where
he acquired cheaply the marshy land
on which part Of New York city now
stands.
When the British government recog-
nized American independence Ed
wards leased his land to the United
States government. but the lease ex-
pired in 1880.
Edwards also acquired collieries II
Edwardsville manned after him).-
Williams told me that he was sixty.
four years of age, had worked on I'VE
railways including the Northwestern
the Great Central and Brecon
Merthyr & Cambrian. He saved mon
ey, but lost some in the Liberator
frauds and more recently in London
bank failure. He has engaged first
class lawyer in America and is himself
collecting data here. He showed md
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
new man THEORY
Skeleton Shows Human Race is
Older Than Believed.
Age Over 100000 Years-Beina Much
More Like the Modern Brlton
Than the NeanderthaI
Type.

London.-English scientists are TAX
ing great interest In the discovery Of
skeleton beneath an undisturbed
layer Of powders and clay in East
Anglia. now Norfolk and Suffolk. II
the evidence is good, this skeleton
must be that Of a man who belonged
to race that lived in that district
before the most severe of the various
Ice movements Of the glacial period.
A singular feature of the discovery
Is that, in most respects. the skeleton
resembles that of the modern English
man and is not Of the more simian
type to which the Neanderthal man.
though much later phenomenon, be-
longs.
There now seems to be a growing
body of evidence that the modern
type Of man was evolved at an ex-
tremely early date before the begin
ming of the glacial period, but that,
for thousands of years afterwards the
primitive. or Neanderthal, type con-
tinued to flourish in Europe.
Until this find the Neandertbal man
was regarded as the oldest in Europe,
and one of the scientific commenta-
tors says:
Some people were hasty enouk h to
discern In these Neanderthal men.
with their monkeylike qualities, evil
dence Of the missing link. 1t is now
clear that they were survivors of a
stock which had deteriorated, and not
progenitors of our race. II we have
to accept the theory of evolution-and
1t is still only theory-it Ia a pug
cling fact chat man has changed SO lit
tie in 100000 years"
On this point Prof. Keith. anthrop-
ologist at the museum Of the Royal
College Of Surgeons. says Of the latest
discovery:
There Is every evidence that this
man lived long before the glacial Pc
Rod. During this period England was
covered with great thickness of Ice.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

Finally this melted and a layer Of
debris was deposited. 1t was under
meath a deposit of this sort that the
skeleton was found. Hence he must
have lived before the ice age and be-
fore the rivers formed.
"The finding of this skeleton
strengthens the belief that the evolu-
ton OF man was an infinitely longer
process than we originally thought. At
one time believers in the evolution
theory thought that mans develop
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
The Oldest in LIoyds.

London-The oldest craft to be
found in Lloyd's register is schooner
or ketch of 80 tons burden, called The
Purveyor, having just 102 years of
service to her credit. A few weeks
ago she was purchased by Norwe-
gian. Captain Reinertsen. who is now
preparing to sail her from Biddeford.
in Devon, to Durham, In the South In
dian Ocean. distance Of 5000 miles.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

lumbago, rheumatism and ChiIbIains
There is nothing that gives so quick
benefit as Hunts Lightning Oil. The
very minute it is rubbed on the i'm
provement is noticed. For over thirty
years this Liniment has been acknowl-
edged to be the best for these troubles.
Every druggist will recommend It..
Price Csc and SOC per Bottle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
Used Plano for Bed.

Philadelphia.-Ralph Bechtel. an old
time actor. known on the stage as
Jack Meyers, was found deSi in bed.
The gas jet was turned on. but all in
dications point to an accidental death.
Bechtel was employed as scene
painter.
Bechtel, like many old-time act
ors, had peculiarities. While there
was a brass bed in the house he pre-
ferred to sleep on top of the piano in
his parlor. Under his pillow was
a sword used by him the first time he
appeared on the stage.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

ment to his present state might have
taken something like 10000 years.
Later they put the period at something
around 10000 years. The difference.
II any. between this mans bodily frame
work and modern mans is so minute
az to prove that the evolution must
have taken hundreds Of thousands Of
years.
This discovery shows that England
was inhabited as early as II not ear
Her than any continental country"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
A Poor Guesser.

Wedmore-Before l married. learn
ed to live on half my income.
Singleton-And found that it was a
wise step. Ell?
Wedmore-Yes, only half was the
wrong proportion-I should have made
1t an eighth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

"A poet speaks of himself as a
blind voyager across the bitter
seas"
Perhaps an overindulgence IN fam
cy food has given him an acute sem
sation of NAL de mer."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
A Bad BEGINNING.

Whenever Jiggers starts to tell
anything he prefaces his remarks by
saying, Believe me-.
That's why / never do"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
Out of Date.

Every time he opens his mouth he
puts his foot in it,
That's a great pity. Contortionists
are no longer in demand as vaude-
vile attractions"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

1t isn't difficult for man to see his
affinity in woman with an obese
bank account
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

foot; all political parties ridiculed and
abused it He never could have car.
Red 1t out had he not interested the
dowager empress In 1t.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

A Hint From Shakespeare.
why do you call your dog Ham
Lett"
Cant you see why? He's Great
Dane"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

If you wish beautiful clear, whit.
clothes, use Red Cross Ball Blue. At all
good grocers.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

DR.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated
easy to take as candy, regulate and invigor
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

''This purse is real alligator skin
81 suppose that is why it has such
snap"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

The Remedy that revolutionizes and re-
generates the victim of constipation is
Garfield Tea, herb combination.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

PILES CURED IN TO II DAYS
Your druggist will refund money IL PAZO ONT
MINT fails to cure any case Of Itching, Blind.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

Occasionally we meet a man whose
train Of thought reminds us of a row
of fat cars.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23
Use Aliens Foot-Ease

The antiseptic powder to be shaken into
the shoes for tired, tender, smarting, ach-
ing, swollen feet. It makes your feet feel
easy and makes walking Delight. Sold
everywhere, 25c. For free trial package,
address Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy. N. Y.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

Garfield Tea viii keep the whole system in
perfect condition.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

Many a girl repents at leisure be-
cause she didn't marry in haste.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

An oculist can do nothing for man
who is blind to his own interests.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-03-23

TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UR THE SYSTEM
CHILL ToNIC. You Know what you are are iaEins.
The formula Is plainly printed on every bottle,
form, and the most enectual form. For grown
people and children 80 cents.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
BISHOP UCONNELL.

Richmond will welcome Father Eennis ].
0Connell as the new Bishop of this diocese.
10 succeed the lamented Bishop Van de vyer.
d Bishop OConneli by reason Of residence in
the city as priest at st. Peters knows and Is
I'm perfect sympathy with Virginia people and
rirginian thought. He comes back home en-
lowed with the ripper wisdom incident to re-
xldeuce abroad, to take up In more RESPONSE
Me capacity a work that we feel meets his
gAmbition toward usefulness.
81 In the appointment Of three American Car
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
A BIGGER FIRE DEPARTMENT.

In connection with the Binswanger fire, the
Chief Of the Richmond Fire Department makes
another plea for an increase in the force and
equipment of the cty's fre-fghting utilities
We take 1t that the possibilities of this latest
IRE make his request not only reasonable, but
of character such to make further delay
In granting II sufficient to lay the city open
to the charge of negligence should the always
possible catastrophe come after while 10 pass
Richmonds growth has been more rapid than
even Richmonds citizens practically realize
or in the closely packed manufacturing dis
tricts are appalling in their suggestions. No
one knows this better than the Chief of the
Fire Department Hampered he L. when
such emergency suggests itself he neces-
sarily rushes almost the entire force to the
threatened locality. AS result. every time
there happens a fire In one of these districts.
the remainder OF the city is. temporarily, with
out anything like adequate protection against
ire
An efficient department such obtains here
zion throughout the country and In the practi-
cal value of insurance rates to busy COM
munity What the department needs should be
granted. in the spirit OF the broad economy
that underlses the expenditure which makes
for efficiency In government.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
t'ertigo. Pa
Who Owns the Pavcments?

Editor OF The Virginian:
Sir,--In your editorial Of January the 18th on
the city and Icy sidewalks you say possibly
hundred guilty householders went unpunshed
for every one that was fined, Isn't this in
accord with the enforcement of the Sunday
dinance every ONCE in a while? Two or three
citizens hailed to the police court for selling
on Sunday and pay small fine while a hum
dred more go selling and ur punished.
But to get back to icy sidewalks. OF all the
Inconsistencies the most inconsistent is the fact
that city passes an ordinance that citizen
ment in front of his residence and allows the
snow to remain the city property; for in
stance, the snow Is still on the pavement In
Marshall Park where it is as dangerous to pedes
trians any place / know To be consistent
every member of the council who voted for the
ordinance should be fined for allowing such a
state of affairs before imposing a fine upon any
private citizen. So much for consistencies.
am no lawyer, the of lawyer, but
want to ask in the name Of justice what right
have to clean off the city pavement? know
1t ts said sometimes. clean off the pavement, or
your pavement, but it's not your pavement; 1t is
the city's property, whether you pay for it or
not and you cannot remove ii any part of
it without the ctys consent. The proper thing
to do in my opinion is for the city to employ
to be done. and make an appropriation for this
purpose. There generally at this season
many out of employment that would be glad
to do It. A. 3. c.
Richmond. Va. Jan. IS, 1912.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
ARMY POSTS AND COMMON SENSE.

The movement to secure an army post for
Richmond does not Immediately arouse
thusiasm- Many things are the perennial subject
of hope and of these the ambition for army
post is not the least hopeful We need in
Richmond touch of gold braid TO tighten the
effect of our evening dress. We are for the
movement, In the interests of art OF hospital
lily, of hero worship. Army officers OF whom
large per cent should be bachelor subalterns.
would give a spice to a city already reeking
with romance. The officers would be blinded.
the maids would be coy. All would remain,
as II has always remained along the Potomac.
mooh-struck and sentimental.
Seriously. army post for Richmond de-
penss upon suggested reform in the appor-
tionment of army stations. How modern needs
may reflect old-time sentiment is not better
illustrated than in the disposal of number OF
army posts For the most part, they are scat
tered throughout the West. in points inacces-
sibIe and without reason except for a forgotten
strategy. Montana has them Kansas. Mime
sofa, other granted States which now disrupt
the army, because at one time Indians roamed
their plains.
II we are not mistaken, Secretary of War
Stimson not long ago recommended to Congress
Il complete reimbursement OF the stations among
which the army is now scattered. He pointed
out conclusively that, as army matters are now
conducted. there is practically no hope of the
drilling and instruction Of troops in bodies suf-
hcentiy large to make them d prepared force
In case of war. So long as the idea obtains
Of a. se~ companies Of infantry CT cavalry at
places where fifty years ago Indian outbreaks
were likely the small army Of the United
States must continue TO BE- negligible vol
unteer nucleus and inefficient as compared
with the military morale Of other nations,
As site for an army post, Richmond has
-eaery- adXantaGe--That it is strategic the
Of the sixties has proven beyond cayil Its pro-
gressipeness. fits hospitality. its American
SAVIOR, are known to the country When the
time comes for the army post to be q place
where a body of troops sufficient 10 make the
game Of preparation for war something more
Than kindergarten. Richmond should haze
trst easi in the new regime. In the meantime
In independent city need not throw Mysteries
over the prospect Of few socially pleasant
gentlemen in uniform.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
WHEN GENTLEMEN ARE NICE"

When Governor Woodrow Wilson first emerg-
ed into the glare of political life, he carried
with him quality that had not been seen
before. the power of speaking scholarly thought
in colioquial language. His epgrams bit. His
aphorfsms reached the spot. His speeches were
like good food, highly favored
or late, much speaking seems to have dulled
the quality Of the Governors wit, and coafus-
ed the fine adjustment; of his taste. That this
should be true was to be expected of man who
necessarily says every day twice as much as he
knows, but 1t Is disappointing for all that If
Woodrow Wilson could be amputated TO the pro
portions of one column a week. he might teach
the country somelhing-w hile~~learniug more
himself.
Latest Of Wilson blunders is his reference,
growing out of his ungracious attitude toward
Colonel Harvey, TO that valiant warhorse,
Henry Watterson, Him he calls fine old
gentleman" whether with mistaken effort to
In doubt.
What we are not In doubt of Is that. barring
apoplexy, such description is certain to make
of the venerable editor of the Coarier-Jourmal
fighting man beside whom FUZZY Wuzzy' is
mild and milk-fed BY comparison. Watterson
carries some years but he totes them jauntily
He can be peaches and cream to the point of
making smack the lips of a female institute,
but to call him nice" il to give the deepest
insult that can be handed to genuine virility
Colonel Watterson is q gentleman but In the
heat of battle he act most ungentlemanly.
In addition, he is somewhat of a commentator
himself, and while he holds up to public gaze
the habit OF gorgeous rhetoric clothing score
of Star-eyed Goddesses OF his fancy. he can
for all of that swing into action vocabulary
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
JAMES RIVER ICE
THREATENS BRIDGE

The dangerous condition of the
James river has caused much alarm
among the people OF south Richmond
who are employed IN Richmond. Ex-
pecting u sudden movement OF the ice
that viii do. great damage to the free
bridge, force OF men under the Girec~
ton OF Assistant Engineer Al. y. Han
kins, were stationed last night on the
banks OF the river in. case OF emer-
Sepcy.
Engineer Boiling put a large force
or men to work yesterday morning
clearing away the ice under the free
bridge making a channel that the
blocks OF ice may pass through.
Quantities of dynamite have been
placed at convenient points on the
river to blast the rirge humps Of ice
that may accumulate.
The ice has already began to crack
and can be heard square Oft Should
the danger become any greater the
bridge viii be closed Immediately to
traffic.
If the bridge is closed all means
of traffic between Richmond and South
Richmond win be cut off unless the
Southern Railway is used.
The last time that the traffic 10
tween the two sides OF the river was
cut off was in the summer Of 1870
when the old Mayo's bridge was torn
down by a freshet in the river. AT
that time the free bridge had not been
completed and Mayo bridge was the
gateway between Richmond and Man
chester.
While the bridge was being rebuilt,
the Southern Railway Company ran a
train across the river every ten min
utes, charging three cents to get
across The people of Manchester gave
the train the name of .-Shoefiy.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20
Waynesville, n. c.. Jan. IS, 1912.
Capital Punishment.

f1ditor Richmond Vmgnian:
Sir.--ln the many articles which appear in
the Forum of your paper fail to see any re-
ference to the first instance OF the punishment
of the criminal for life-taking. When Cain
slow his brother. Abel, Fund later fell into re-
morse for his crime, when his conscience ar
the first punishment for such an ofiense, il was
not capital punishment God ordered his ban
tshment and isolation. but did not deprive him
af-ths privileges of tina family lfs~Caisa in his
prayer said to thy Lord Mine iniauty Is
greater than that IL s1aas ba fsrgiIan ar sas
some read it. rs mine lniquity too great to be
forgiven And the Lord said unto him, There
FORE whatsoever slayeth Cain. vengeance shall
be taken on him seven-fold.' and tn Lord set
mark upon Cain. lest any finding him should
kin him" Here was Gods own act, directed
by His own hand and under the law, when he
did not impose the death penalty, but showed
feereF.%~1tfs was the 1rst ana original meth
cd of dealing with the murderer Under the
system of redemption the original status is
restored. which institutes safeguards and re-
formatory methods.
The barharic natures of men call for ven
geance and retaliation and In surh measures
find self satisfaction in the performance. Capt.
tai punishment Is a relic OF barbarism. The
farther va get away ffeH, the es#herie natures
the more we develop into the nature likeness
and administrations of God The less we are
given to cruelty, the less we exact IAN eye for an
eye and tooth for TOOTH" but bless and
curse not"
Man made laws, though having popular and
civil approval cannot become divine by that ap-
prevail, but must conform to the divine stand
ards Laws from such source cannot make
it divnely right to take life under any cir
cumstances. few representative men, meet In
legislative capacity. have no more divine right
to resolve together to authorize the taking OF
another's life than the mob of certain local
ity have the right to meet and resolve to lynch
81 suspect. The man who snaps out the life of a
helplessIy bound criminal, under the protection
the leader OF the ynching mob. who has the
approval OF part OF the citizens who created
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20

dinals, the Pope showed conclusively his inter-
est In America and his desire TO meet for his
Church the desires of the great mass of Catho-
lies in the country. The return of Bishop
O'ConneiI to Richmond is happy extension OF
the policy more conspicuously shown in the
case OF the American churchmen recently made
Princes of tho Church The new Bishop will
meet In Richmond nothing except the best
wishes from all denominations, and will find
here hearty cooperation IN every plan which
he may cherish for the good of the community
at large.