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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

WASHINGTON. = Behind a WIRE
w screened cage employees of the
United States government have now
gone into the laundry business. They
are washing United States bank
notes and ironing them. 1t IL not
generally understood that when any
body gets old greenbacks. it does not
make any difference whether a dollar
or thousand. If he sent it to the
treasury department and requested a
new bill he would have to have it.
All the bankers in the country have
always had the right to turn in all old
money and get new for it. The old
money was assorted. counted and tied
In packages in the treasury depart
ment and then taken to a big eyelet
machine, where great holes we're cut
through the bundles of money. and
from there 1t was sent to macerator.
where 1t was chewed up into fine pulp
and then nodded to make trinkets. for
sale. They are not bit pretty. be-
ing nasty greenish-gray. and are
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

When the ring should have been
forthcoming the minister glared ae
Boyer and asked:
what have you got to give this
woman? You know You must give
her something"
The bridegroom. minus the neces-
sary ring, was silent Bailin Charles
8. Eggleston took on his ring and ten
dered It for temporary use.
Don't forget to give It back to the
gentleman" the preacher reminded
Boyer. "You must get ring TO-
keep"
Other admouitions were woven into
the ceremony. at the end of which the
minister delivered short lecture.
Live right and stick to each other"
he said. Keep out Of foolishness;
there's q whole lot Of new-fangled fool
things in the world today. Don't you.
have anything to do with this here
turkey trot' and bunny hug busir-
ness"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
A Street Tragedy With Cream PuHs Mixed IN.

NEVER run after a street car; nine
IN times out Of ten you don't over
take it, and. besides. another will come
along some time.
A woman in linen dress and .
great hurry rushed along the south
side of the avenue. waving franti-
cally at a car going south. She had
only one bundle in her hands, but she
handled 1t rather gingerly, and as it
was something In sack, she grasped
it around the top. much as darby
Is supposed to hold chicken by the
neck. She sprinted across the walk
paying little or. no attention to any
thing but the car. and as she reached
the curb she miscalculated the step.
stumbled and fell. 1t wasn't one of
those knee-drill falls they teach with
the Delsarte style of stunts. but .
fall. pure anu simple.
She fell on the bag.
Cream puffs are rather tempting
looking and decidedly tasty, when
properly handled. but connoisseurs
and epicures alike are agreed that
they ought never to be sat upon. much
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
HoMINY is EXCELLENT FEED
Produces More Rapid Gains on Hogs
Than cornmeaI-ResuIts Of
Trials at indiana Station.

The high price of corn in recent
years has. caused many farmers In
the vicinity of hominy mills to resort
to the use of hominy feed for fatten-
ing hogs. Such large number of
inquiries have been received. by the
experiment stations in regard to the
comparative value of hominy feed and
corn for hogs that series of trials
was planned in order to secure reli-
able data on the subject.
The result of these trials in Indi.
ana are as follows:
1. Hominy feed must be considered
as substitute for and not supple
ment to corn
2. Hominy feed. like corn, should
be supplemented by some feed high
in protein content such as tankage,
linseed oilmeal. shorts, milk. etc., in
order to secure the most rapid and
most economical gains.
3. Hominy feed produces more rap
Id gains on hogs than does cornmeal
A. Hominy feed produces gains on
less grain than does cornmeal.
s. AS a general rule, the high cost
of hominy feed binders its more gen.
eral use as hog feed and prevents
its economical substitution for corn,
except when the latter is very high in
price.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
REMAINS LAND OF ROMANCE
1okhara's Attractions Many, but Make
Little Appeal to the Traveller
From the West.

London. England.-Would you go en-
the magic carpet to the land of the
Arabian Nights? 1t still exists. 1t
may be found in Bokhara, that cres-
cent-shaped land whose horns enfold
the east and its mystery, and whose
convexity points towards Mecca, the
sacred city. But the only magic car
pet to take the traveller there is the
comfortable one that lies before the
study fire, when, with volume in his
hand, like that of the learned traveller,
Prof. o. Olufsen, he may make use of
the professors account of Bokhara to
whip up the steed of his own imagina-
ton. Otherwise he will find journey
through Bokhara chequered with as
many perils and hardships as befell
immortal Sinbad. On the highlands Of
Bokhara which affront the Pamirs. the
wind pierces the bones, the frosts
crack the skin that the sun has
scorched, the breath of the traveller
comes In gasps as his lungs pant In
the thin air; on glaciers his feet strive
to maintain a foothold; and as he
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

climbs the passes the avalanches
thunder by. Truly, you would say, a
man who has endured these things
should come within sight of an earthly
Paradise as his reward.
1t is not quite that. So much Pro-
fessor Olufsen makes clear in the ac-
count of The Emir of Bokhara and
His Country" for though the Danish
explorer was welcomed by the Emir
and by many Begs who helped him on
his way, he does not conceal from US
the under side of the romance of Box
hara. Yet one would like to preserve
little longer one Of the few spots
where the old order has yielded no
place to new. The Emir of Bokhara
still lives behind his high crenellated
walls, and the subject kings, the Begs.
still keep up their old-fashioned court
in the romantic, dismal castles. The
meandering streets, with the fat
rooted mud houses, the mosques and
medresses are not yet disturbed by
houses built in the European style;
Mullahs, Dervishes, Calenders and
Devannahs still crowd in the sacred
spots as they did centuries ago.
Slowly and sedately the caravan Of
camels crosses the wide deserts and
steppes the mysticism of in
closure prevails everywhere; the
gates of the towns are shut up at
night, the house gates are barred
against intruders; and the aversion
against Christian dogs is the same as
in the middle ages"
But one would not like to live in
Bokhara even If Aladdin and Badroul-
badour and the one-eycd Calender
were our companions. For, sad to say,
these peerless creatures must have
lived in an atmosphere which Is sat
urated with the stinging dust of the
plains of Bokhara; they must have
drunk water that is excessively likely
to provoke fever and the even more
pernicious affiiction Of the nishta,
which tradition says afflicted Job. 1t
is small point perhaps, but santa
ton in Bokhara is not known;s and
though beauty is common in Bokhara,
Is it not nearly so common as the
ugliness Of disease.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
ELEcTRIFIEs U. S. GARDEN
Scientists VIII Raise veoetabies BY
Means Of Fluid In Government
Garden Along Potomac.

Washington.-Dr. Lyan J. Briggs,
head of the experiment section of the
bureau of plant industry, is stringing
electric wires over government gar
den on the Potomac river for the pur-
pose of raising plants by the aid Of
electricity. He will electrify onions
and snapbeans, potatoes and hops.
For more time DR.. Briggs has been
experimenting with electricity in the
cultivation Of plants. DR.. Briggs will
not tell just how he is going to. apply
electricity to the onion and to the
bean, but he thinks that he will pro-
duct better vegetables at lower cost.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
Washington City The ID cal Educational Center

districts will follow; the country high
school. located at the Four Corners,
will take its proper place as it has al
ready done in some districts; children
will gather at, central points and be
carried to school in community wag-
ons, and the educational standard will
be advanced.
Before Washington became the pop
ulous and up-to-date city of today it
was not looked upon In the same light
as other places were. especially by
those who had never visited the ma
tons capital. and regarded 1t simply
as the seat of government--temporary
residence for the nations states
men.
Times have changed. Washington
is now probably better known in out
side states for the advantages it d.
fers to those seeking an education
than It b at home.
Washington today II looked to as the
country's seat of learning. not merely
from an academic standpoint, but
from q broader vision. 1t IL realized
that traditions. the beautiful examples
Of art as shown by the best works Of
famous artists. sculptors. architects,
have an influence for good on those
that come here to study. to work.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
Parson Warns NewIyweds Against Turkey Trot''

; A DMONITIONS as to their future
"a conduct and q warning against
the seductions of the turkey trot"
and other such fancy doin's" were
interpolated freely into the marriage
ceremony with which Rev. John H.
Bunday, pastor of an African Metho-
dist Episcopal church. united negro
couple the other day in the private Of
fice Of Judge Gorter.
Winfield Boyer. 20 years old, small
in stature and not little frightened.
consented to wed Esther C. Newman.
IA years old. Judge Gorter gave an
order for marriage license. offered
the use Of his ONCE for the ceremony
and had an official Of the court hunt
up a minister.
The preacher read the ceremony Inn
pressively. but turned aside now and
then to offer advice to the pair where
he thought 1t might have effect
'sWill you live with this woman as
your wife always?" he demanded of
the trembling bridegroom at the
proper part of the ritual. mot for a
little time" he added. II marry 30
many CT you niggers and tomorrow
you are single again. Now you are
hitched good; do you understand
that?"
Speak it with your heart, not your
lips" he demanded, in putting the
question. wilt thou have this wom-
am"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
Reclearing Old Fields.

There are many old fields that have
been thrown out years ago and have
so grown up with scrub timber. green
briers and other filth that it looks to
be almost an impossible undertaking
to reclear them.
II 1t is undertaken to kill them by
grubbing out the briers and brush it
is indeed a hard job. and the briers
will sprout for years, but if the brush
is hacked down and let dry. then
burned over, the land can be effectual
ly cleared by pasturine it with cattle
and shep.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
Uncle Sam Can Wash Your Money While You Wait

nearly always warped out Of shape:.
but they sell them for souvenirs. as
there Is kind of fascination in know
ing that the tiny imitation of the
Washington monument which You
hold in your hand represents $250.000.
The washing machine Is still in an
experimental stage, it Is said. and
seems TO be doing pretty good work.
1t is estimated that this win save q
vast sum for the treasury. 1t costs
1880 to make 1000 bank notes. 1t
cost but about so cents to rejuven-
ate the same number.
The machine is Is feet long and
five feet wide, and looks something
like a newspaper printing press. 1t
has dozens of rolls. many gears and
operates with the same clash and
clang. The money is placed between.
two canvas belts at one end OF the
machine. 1t runs through solution
of laundry soap and boiling hot water.
where it is thoroughly cleansed. It
then enters another vat, in which
there is solution of stiffening mate
rial and germ-killing solution. From
this vat it is drawn between gas
heated mangle. where 1t is ironed.
1t energies from the machine two
minutes and Is seconds after 1t has
started on it's 64-foot trip, and Is to
all intents and purposes q perfect bill.
When running at full speed the wash
ing machine can clean about 1000
bills an hour.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

by w. c. PALMER, Agricultural Edi-
tor, North Dakota Agricultural Col
lege.)
I. Crop Rotation Is Crop co-opera-
ton.
Rotation includes crops that Ere
pare the land for the next crop. In
continuous grain-growing, weeds, in
sects and plant diseases are encour-
aged. Wheat, not being fighter like
these, gets the worst of the battle.
Letting weeds grow In grain is like
trough. H. Worst.
2. Crop Rotation Keeps Up Fertility.
Alfalfa and clover enrich the soil
In nitrogen and humus. Grasses add
humus. Corn makes plant-food avail
able. Manure is the best fertilizer.
3. Crop Rotation Eradicates Weeds.
The cultivation given corn and po-
tatoes kills weeds. Alfalfa, grasses
and clover crowd out weeds and pre-.
vent their seeding.
4. Crop Rotation Eliminates Plant
Diseases and Insects.
Eacn plant-ulseaSe nveS on GER
tain crop. Rotation removes that
crop for few years, so the plant
disease starves out. Insects likewise
prefer certain crops.
s. Crop Rotation Saves Moisture
The cultivation given corn and po
tatoes saves moisture The humus
added by alfalfa, grasses, clover and
manure increases the water-holdine
capacity of the soil. The enriched
soil has more concentrated solution
of plant-food, consequently the plants
need less water to make a given
growth.
8. Crop Rotation Decreases the Drift.
ing Of the Soil.
The humuS added by the alfalfa
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

grasses, clover and manure holds the
soilgrains together. This prevents
drifting, just as the bunch of shingles
will not blow, but when the band is
cut the wind carries the shingles away
one by one.
7. Crop Rotation With Live Stock
the Most Profitable.
In feeding crops to stock the pro-
duct secured is worth from twice to
several times as much as the crop.
The capital, work and expense needed
in feeding the crop is not as great as
that required in producing it. From
this it is plain that the most profitable
part of farming is stock-raising.
8. Crop Rotation Distributes Work.
In grain-growing the work lunches.
This makes the labor expensive. In
efficient and hard to secure. When
crops are rotated the work is spread
over a longer season. Competent help
is then more easily secured at reason
able prices.
9. Crop Rotation Is Crop Insurance.
Rotation Of crops brings increased
returns and returns every year, favor
able or unfavorable, and continuously
through the year. In grain-growing
the returns grow less and come only
at threshing time. Some years thresh-
ing time never comes.
10. Crop Rotations Better Returns
Necessitate more manufacturing
more transportation, more banking
more merchandising, more profession.
al work.
Keeps more boys and girls on the
farm, and brings better farming, bet
ter roads, better homes, better living.
The products of the farm are the
foundation and measure of commerce,
industry, prosperity and happy homes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

less lain upon; they have rather a
peevish nature. A. It were, and are
apt to start something. Those In the
bag were no exception. They sent
out creamy protest that started
somewhere up around the woman's
neck and continued all the way down
her dress front. Vesuvius in its most
hilarious moments never poured out q
greater flow, in comparison to its size.
than that paper bag. The woman was
helped to her feet by sympathetic on
lockers, who promptly retired when
she gave her dress a shake and sent
hechs OF cream in ninety-seyen differ.
emit directions.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
JUMPS FAR FROM POLICE
Man Accused Of Attacking Woman
Leaps From Second Story to
Escape Arrest.

Philadelphia.-With a revolver in
each hand, bareheaded and barefooted,
Enoch .Cossen. thirty-hve years old,
leaped from the second-story window
of his home. at Ann and Chatham
streets, and escaped. just as the police
entered the front door to arrest him
for an alleged attack upon a woman.
He exchanged shots with the police,
who pursued him, and managed to es-
cape.
Cossen was charged with entering
the store of Mrs. g. Glowatt, 23e5 Ann
street, and beating the woman over
the head with chisel.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A youth attending the Michigan
State Agricultural college stocked q
pond with frogs and is more than pay
ing his way by supplying frogs legs
to the Chicago market. 1t is said he
has shipped as many as 5000 In q
single day. and that they netted him
$500 last year. Time was when boys
were glad to catch frogs and sell their
legs for ten cents a dozen. whereas
the price now is half dollar and up
ward.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A French novelist says that love IL
. criminal madness. He Is not the
first to assail the divine frenzy. but It
may be noticed In passing. that love
rs a human institution has survived
all its critics.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

In very many cases apples are
brought to market loosely packed and
1h wagons without springs. almost
Invariably with barrels on end. and
this short journey is many times
harder on the fruit than the long car
transportation to the distant market.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

An Austrian professor. bound for
Mars, via the United States. has been
sent back. 1t is one of the few in
stances in which we are forced to con-
fess that European estimates of our
resources are entirely too high.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Following In the footsteps of Luther
Burbank a Denver horticulturist has
produced a rasp-strawberry. Now II
somebody would produce a plum-peach.
and combine some of the other fruits
It might be possible to get ahead Of
the pests which ravage the orchards.
by banning them for fe wseasons at
least
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16
MoIasses for Cows.

1t is becoming, pretty well known
that molasses is good and cheap
feed for cows. There is a great deal
of vile stuff On the market in the
shape of patented stock foods which
are alleged to contain moIasses, but
which are not all they seem.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A New York alderman has been
caught in blackmailing trap. He
should congratulate himself he never
was on the police force.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Even II prisons are all that they are
alleged by critics. they ought to be
quite good enough for the man who
rocks the boat, and who needs the
most drastic kind of treatment to rid
society of his species
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A London nerve specialist says
Modern dress is actually killing
women. He's nerve specialist. al
right
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A Chicago chauffeur who ran past
a halted street car. contrary to law and
killed q man has been censured by
the coroner's jury. Which. Of course.
IL consolation to the relatives Of the
victim.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

The use of socks by women will not
be opposed by mere man. Then he
will unfailingly find pair In condition
for service whenever he looks In the
bureau drawer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

The movement against tipping is all
right, but 1t takes a whole lot Of moral
courage for man to live up to the
theory.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

>:o~ the fool who rocks the boat
VIZ succeeded by the sorrowful in
dsvfsI al who didn't know 1t was
loa.Utl.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Chicago society women are having
fink parties to shake on the hoodoo.
But the only sure way yet found to
shake on the Chicago hoodoo is to
shake Chicago.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A famous English physician says
that by the year 1912 human beings
: III look like gorillas. We should
worry.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A Kansas dentist succumbed to In.
5uries while playing golf. And goif ID
said to be a harmless game.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Scientists say 1t win take long
time to stamp out the hoOkworm.
Well. it took long time to discover
Il.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

London physician says wells make
women's noses red Sort OF a veiieo
fnsinuation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Autumn undoubtedly draws closer
the bonds Of devotion-witness the
fond clinging of the affectionatS ny!
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A New York man ran up laundry
bill of $3.50. But. then. New YORK
Is a strange city.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Half the population Of France Is
agricultural. And the other half lives
In the Latin quarter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

A man has written a newspaper to
ask how to get relief from snoring
Why don't he keep the snorer awake!
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

BY the way, what became OF those
feminine faddists who we're going TO
wear socks instead of stockings?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Esperanto may have been invented
20 that the dove of peace would be
enabled to COO In a universal language.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Large crops of preserves are report
ed by housewives, not meaning the
peroxide kind, either.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

Girl born In Pennsylvania has a
transparent back Well backed up,
indeed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

There are still a few guides left,
but hunters who aspire to pot one had
better make their arrangements early
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-11-16

II the men compelled the women to
wear such clothes there would be
trouble.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-11-13
NOTICE OF FINAL REPORT.

State of Iowa, Delaware County, SIS.
In District Court, December Term,
1912.
In the matter of the Estate of
Isaac McGee, Deceased.
TO John A. MCGEE, William McGee,
Irving A. MCGEE, George Farling-
er, Ear. A. MCGEE, Blanche M. Nc
Gee, Garnet McGee, Opal MCGEE
and Garret I. MCGEE, heirs-at-
law Of isaac Niece, deceased.
You are hereby notified that on or
before the 18th day of November,
1912, there will be filed in the office
CT the Clerk Of the District Court of
Delaware County, Iowa, the Final
Report of Irving A. MCGEE, executor
C the estate Of the sale. Isaac MCGEE,
Deceased. That application will be
term of said Court for the approval
Of said report and the final discharge
Of said Executor herein. Said matter
will be called up for a hearing and
disposition on Monday, December 16tf
1912, On day of said term of Court,
which commences at the Court House
at Manchester, Iowa, on the End day
O. December, 1912.
IRVING A. MCGEE, Executor.
Carr & Carr, Attorneys for Estate.
47-4.