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The Lamar register., 1889-05-18

Talk about Oklahoma has died ont,
that country is almost forgotten, and
this within a month from the time
the land was thrown open to settle
mept,
The Lamar register., 1889-05-18

G. F. Legett has been appointed
postmaster of ChivIngton vice Miss
Ethel Saint resigned.
The Lamar register., 1889-05-18

Next Friday it will be three years
since the first stake was drove on the
Lamar town site.
The Lamar register., 1889-05-18

A U. S. Paymaster was held up
for twenty-five thousand dollars in
Arizona last Saturday.
, 1889-09-25
Dumas tho Elder.

The essence of Dumas art consists
in a conception of life without con-
science, without dread of death, or of
the dreams that may come when we
have shuffled off this mortal coil.
He was not a thinker. OF Hamlet
Dumas could understand little or
nothing. No hero OF Dumas is ever
sicklied DER by the pale cast of
thought. He lives without thinking
about life-or death; lives for the en-
joyment and gladness of living and
of loving; lives for ambition, fight
ing, wealth and pleasure, and is al
ways calamity ready TO defend his
honor with his sword. An unbounded
self indulgence shades off into the
neutral tinted superstition engendered
by a corrupt church.
These heroes are young, handsome,
graceful, brave, are full Of superficial
chivalry, and of the external require
ments of nobleness. They are gener-
ally animated, vivacious, gay, joyous,
and there is always pleasure in on
templating men who, ruled by any
ideas, yet live and are full OF life.
With his views of life it comes to pass
hat this gaillard Dumas deals much
with the alliterative qualities of ad-
venture, adultery, ambition, assassin
alton, and above all, he revels in a
duel-a duel fierce, determined, skill
full, deadly. He is a true lover of the
sword, specially of the picturesque
rapier, combined with the fatal dag
ger. Dumas delights in the sumptuous
hilt and in the white cleaning of the
lovely blade of the knightly arme
blanche. What a Gascon is TO an or
binary Frenchman that is Dumas to
all other He cares nothing
for morality when it stands in opposi-
ton to valor, passion, success, SPLEEN
dor. His work is, perhaps, o subtly
suited to his native land than it is to
Germany or to England, but yet it
delights all that love romance and
care for the picturesque of chivalry
Dumas if his heroes be of noble birth,
of reckless valor, young, and with the
graces of camp and court.
His view of life is mainly snowy
and romantic; a view which, as an
Alternative from sterner and nobler con-
ceptions, we can heartily enjoy. The
vigor and agility of Dumas virile and
vivacious mind and temperament al
ways worked in fullest sympathy with
the characters that he depicted, and
with the and morals of the
times which he portrayed. His young
cavaliers had TO each be a gallant to
his lady, a warrior to his foe. Philip
Sidney, when his contracted bride,
Penelope, became Lady Rich, by a
strong effort of moral rectitude con-
quered an unlawful passion; but Du-
mas would not have sympathized with
the heroic action, and would have re-
garded the peerless paladin with much
surprise and with some contempt
Gentleman's Magazine.
, 1889-09-25

Professor Leuf says: In the morn
ing the stomach contains a consider
able quantity of mucus spread over
and adherent to its walls. If food en-
tiers at this time, the tenacious mucus
will interfere TO some extent with the
direct contact between the food and
the stomach necessary to provoke the
secretion of the gastric juice. A glass
of water taken before breakfast passes
through the stomach into the small
intestines in a continuous and unin-
terrupted flow; it partly distends the
stomach, stretching and to some ex-
tent obliterating the ruge; it thins
and washes out most of the tenacious
mucus; it increases the fullness of the
capillaries of the stomach, directly if
the water is warm, and indirectly in a
~reactionary way if it is cold; it causes
peristalsis of the a~ilmentary tract,
wakes it up $50 to speak,, and gives it
a morning exercise and washing.
Care must be taken not to give cold
water when the circulation, either
local or general, is so feeble as to
make reaction improbable. We should
not risk it in advanced age, nor in the
feeble, whether old or young, nor
in local troubles like chronic gastric
catarrh. In these cases it is best to
give warm or hot water. The addition
of salt is very beneficial. Herald of
Health.
, 1889-09-25
Getting on Street Cars.

A st. Louis physician asks if men
are naturally wiser than women, if
they learn more readily from expert
ence and observation. He watched one
Sunday evening at a certain street cor
ner the passengers who alighted there
for three hours, and gives the follow
ing as the result of his observations
Twenty-Five ladies got off the cars,
sixteen with their faces to the rear,
three got straight off the car, and three
with their faces fronting the way the
car was going. During the same
hours, at the same place, forty-fve
men got off. Thirty of these had
their faces fronting the way the car
was going, eleven got off straight, and
none with their faces turned back
ward. There is only one proper way
to get off a vehicle, hat is, with the
face turned toward the direction
in which it is going or would go if it
was in motion-right foot first if get
ting off on the right side, left foot first
if on the left side.-Exchange.
, 1889-09-25
Advice Free.

A m with her jaw tied up in a
handkerchief was standing in the door
way leading to a Woodward avenue
dentists yesterday when a boy came
along, caught on, and stopped to in
quire:
Ache very hard2"
Yes"
How longf"
For a week"
"Going to have it pulled9"
"I-I-guess so
Tried peppermint, camphor, hot
salt, ashes, laudanum and SO on, 1 sup
pose"
YES"
clicked over chairs, spanked the
children and jawed your husband2"
Yes"
"Lemme see."
She opened her mouth and put her
finger on the tooth, and he made n
brief inspection and said:
AZ was going to advise the faith
cure, but it's too far gone. Advise
you TO have it pulled. Deleterious to
your general system in present state.
Won't hurt over thirty seconds. Go
home smiling. Brace up and be a
man. No charge-good ay."-Detroit
Free Press.
, 1889-09-25
Vegetables and Fruit.

People need to be frequently re-
minded OF the fact that if they make a
practice of using a variety of vege-
nary diet the doctor will not be needed
TO prescribe for them SO frequently.
Asparagus is a strong diuretic, and
forms part Of the cure for rheumatic
patients at such health resorts as AK
les-Bains. Parsley is also useful as a
diuretic, and those requiring such aid
should make free use of it Carrots
are understood by the peasants of Sa-
voy TO be a specific for jaundice, and,
although they are thought to be hard
of digestion, it is only the yellow core
that is so. Onions are admitted to be
rich in those alkaline elements which
counteract the poison Of rheumatic
govt and people who are of studious
and ~sedentary habits should make a
free use of them, gently stewed and
served with other vegetables.
The stalks Of the caulihower if prop
erly cooked also serve a like purpose.
Celery has acquired a great reputation
as a remedy for rheumatism, and in
many cases has proved beneficial.
Watercress is prescribed by many
medical men as helpful to the liver
and lungs. Many other vegetables
are useful, not only for their medici-
nal properties, but as general regu-
lators of the bowels and as c~orrectives,
and withal they contain valuable ele-
ments OF nutrition which should COM
mend them apart from every other
onsideration.-Qu
, 1889-09-25
So Called Elixir of Life.

"What fools these mortals be" and
thousands Of otherwise intelligent
people eagerly credit the ridiculous
claim of Brown-Sequard that he has
indeed discovered the long sought
elixir which will r%ejuvenate old age.
An American doctor, who is always
heard of in print when opportunity Of
fers, follows in the same track by bray
ing portions of lamb in a mortar and
injecting the clean juice obtained
from the animal matter and a little
natural water into the veins of decrep-
it patients. Now look out for quack
and patent ''elixiS of life" warrant
ed to make youths out of centenari-
ans, and to put vitality into a twenty
four hours corpse, "Only 81 a bottle,
or six for S." Man ought to live a
hundred years, and he will do SO when
he attains and practices the propers ys-
tenn of living; in the meantime the
credulous and ignorant will continue
to swallow oceans of ''elixirs" and
''rejuvenators," and die long before
even their present restricted space is
reached. Herald of Health.
, 1889-09-25
The Friendship of Men.

II you want n friend who is beyond
the reach of envy, of mistrust, of inf
deity, of all those sordid influences
which mar and break the friendly tie,
you will not find him in the flesh and
blood / write ''him" advisedly, be-
cause friendships of the platonic kind,
in which the opposite sex forms a par
ty TO the contract, are not lasting. If
pure friendships, or more specifically,
platonic love, were possible i would
be a delightful relation for the highly
cultured of both sexes. But because
it is so pleasant and might allure some
from the duty they owe TO nature, this
jealous dame has placed in the way
of such alliances many obstacles-ob-
stacles which, if not insurmountable,
are sufficient to defeat the realization
of the plans. Platonic ties of this
kind are either merged into down
right affection or else they founder
on some other rock that lies in
the channel Of our lives. There is
much of the idol in platonic friend
ships, but it is too fine metal to wear
well. The best friendships are that
between man and man-such as the
friendly bonds that encircled Damon
and Pythias, Achilles and Patroclus,
David and Jonathan, Orestes and Ply
ladies', Pyrodes and Musidorus. When
men become friends in earnest there
are some lasting qualities in the tie.
Such friendships between women are
very rare. But even in the case of
manly affection N for another there
are circumstances in which the tie
could and would be ruthlessly broken.
Detroit Free Press.
, 1889-09-25

No matter how numerous bugs and
reaches may be, they never injure to-
bacco or cigars. Sometimes, when
the doors are opened and there is a
strong light, they will be tempted in
side, but they will never tackle tobacco
in any form, and even the common fly
seems to hold the weed in a very heal
thy awe. There is, of course, one in
sect which is very destructful to to-
bacco, and is called the tobacco worm.
There is another and smaller insect
which is not described in any work l
have read, but which plays havoc with
tobacco. This is so small that few
people can detect it with the naked
eye. Where it III from l don't
know, but it is generally found in i'm
ported cigars, if anywhere.
The little creatures will eat a small
hole right through a three-for-a-dollar
Havana, and dealers examine their i'm
portations very closely before storing
them away. English dealers have, /
think, a little advantage over Ameri-
cans in respect TO this. Their buyers
are methodical in their examinations,
and that is probably why imported CT
gars can be sold cheaper in London
than in New York, although tobacco
is dearer, as the most popular is Amer
lean grown. Turkish and Egyptian
cigarettes and tobacco aresalso dearer
in London than here, although they
have so many miles less TO travel
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
, 1889-09-25
CASH PAID FOR CATS SKINS.
How Poor Pussy Assumes the Role of n
Fur Bearing Animal.

Fur Bearing Animal.
Cash paid for cats skins" the sign
read in the window of a Washington
f%urrier, who astonished the newspaper
man by telling him that there was al
ways a good market for pussies' pelts.
Five cents apiece" said he, 'tis
what we pay for common skins, ten
cents for maltese pure, and twenty
five cents for black. or course they
must be in good condition. Some male
cats are so given TO back fence war
fare that their hides become consider
ably damaged. The fur of the sleek
and well fed domestic pussy is what
we find most available for our pur-
poses. Street cats are usually too rag
ged and coarse haired TO be useful"
And what are the purposes Of
which you speak7"
THE imitation of more expensive
furs, chiefly. The French dye them
very skillfully, and in hat way trans
form the humble tabby after death
into the regal ermine or other beast of
rare and costly skin The pure black
and maltese and the tortoise shell are
not dyed, but made to serve in the nat
ural colors. Rugs of selected tortoise
shell and maltese are already becom-
ing quite fashionable, and the best
ones are far from cheap. The only
use made of cats pelts in this country
is in the manufacture of carriage
robes, but vast numbers of them are
sent from the United States TO Europe,
where they are made into coats, hats,
rugs, dressing gown Innings and other
garments.
''Taxidermists, too, in other parts of
the country are advertising for kittens
by the thousand for stuffing. In the
process they employ the skin is first
removed, leaving only the scraped top
of the skull within it. Both head
and body are then built up with pipe
clay and tow, a piece Of wire being so
adjusted hat one end comes through
the forehead aud the other at the tip
of the tail. To this four wires run
ming down the legs are fixed. The
skin is then shown up and the ami
NAL formed into a desired position.
The final operation Is putting in the
eyes. Fastened upon a scrap of red
flannel in this manner, a small black
kitten makes a very pretty pen wiper"
But where do all the skins come
FRONT"
Many are brought into the city es-
adjustments that advertise for them
by small boys who are glad to earn
pocket money by the comparatively
easy method of assassinating a few
unfortunate cats; but the main supply
is contributed by professional fur col
lectors in the different part of the
country who shoot them. The ravine
woods of New England are full of
them running wild. They breed won
derfully fast under such seemingly ad-
verse conditions and can be popped off
the fence and walls with ease by an
expert marksman. A first rate lap
robe of catskin is worth $40 or $50.
Yes, indeed, pussy is beginning TO be
recognized as a fur bearing animal,
and, instead of drowning the kittens,
people will before long be propagating
them for their pelts. "-Washington
Post
, 1889-09-25
The sIedre and the Deer.

The body of the sledge is placed very
high on n pair of long thin runners,
having a gradual curve and projecting
about four feet beyond the actual
sledge, so that they break the shock
when the sledge is being driven over
rough ground. All the parts of the
sledge are dashed together with rein
deer skin thongs, and 1t is owing to the
great elasticity and pliancy thereby
given to the whole fabric that these
himsy constructions resist the very
rough treatment to which they are as
a rule subjected.
The method of Harvesting the deer
is of the simplest; a broad leather hoop
passes round the neck; to this is
fastened the long thong, which serves
as a trace, and which passes down the
chest between the fore legs and out
between the hind legs.
The driving is done with a single
rein, which is fastened to a crooked
piece of bone or wood, fastened imme-
diately over the ball of the eye, one of
the tenderest parts in the reindeer, and
which, if scientifically jerked to the
right or left, causes the animal to an
swer. to the rein very quickly. The
outside deer on the near side is the
only one provided with this arrange
ment, and the biggest and oldest deer
are always placed in this responsible
position, the others being kept to their
work by the ''chave," or long driving
pole. A good leading deer is the
most valuable of a Samoyede's posses
sions, and will often cost as much as
three or four ordinary deer. The usual
number of deer harnessed to a sledge
is three; but this, of course, varies ac-
cording to the weight carried, age of
the deer, tc.-Murray's Magazine.
, 1889-09-25
Portraits OH Bank Notes.

The following list tells what por-
traits are on the different notes: On
United States-$1, Washington; So,
Jefferson; SIS, jackson; $40, Webster;
$40, Hamilton; $50, Franklin; 800,
Lincoln; $500, Gen. Mansfield; 81, 600,
De Witt Clinton; 5000, Madison
$40, 900, Jackson. On silver certificates
$40, Robert Morris; 500, Commo-
dore Decatur; $50, Edward Everett;
800, James Monroe; $500, CHARLES
Sumner; 81, 900, w. D. Marcy. On
gold notes-S20, Garfield; $50, Silas
Wright; 800, Thomas b. Benton;
$500, A. Lincoln; 1000, Alexander
Hamilton; $1,000, James Madison;
$40, 900, Andrew jackson. = West
Chester Republican.
, 1889-09-25

Our senior editor, "Old Nat" spent
several days during the past week on
the sea coast with his family, where
he met Mr.. Louis Demilly, Mr.. Bailey
Mathis and Willie Walker. These
gentlemen met with a singular adven-
ture, which, perhaps, viii not occur
again in the next decade. While out
in the bay fishing one day they espied
n large gray eagle flying directly to-
ward them. Not thinking that the
national queen" would condescend
TO make war on her humble subjects,
they quietly continued TO throw out
their lines, but surprises never cease.
Just as it reached the boat in which
they were fishing it took an upward
fight for a goodly distance, when all
at once down it came with n tremen-
dous swoop, striking at Mr.. Demilly,
who sat in the bow of the boat, miss
ing his head only by n hairs breadth.
1t made several other attacks, but was
vigorously beaten off by the use of
their fishing poles. Charlottesville
Times.
, 1889-09-25

In Latin he is. Joannes Smithus; the
Italian smoothes him off with Giovan-
nj Smith; the Spaniards render him
Juan Smithus; the Hollanders adopt
him as Hans Schmidt; the French fiat
ten him out as Jean Smeet; the Rus
sian sneezes and banks as he says Ivan
Smittowski. In China he is known as
Jovan Shimmit; in Iceland as Johne
Smithson; in Tuscaroras you forget
all about Pocahontas and Powhatan
when you hear them call Ton Qua
Smittia. In Wales they speak of him
as Jinon Schmidt; in Mexico he is
Jantli FSmitti; among the Greek
ruins the guide speaks of him as Ion
Smikton, and in Turkey he is utterly
disguised as Voc elf.-Pittsburg Post.
, 1889-09-25
TWO eIRTHpAY POEMS.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, ON HIS EIGHTIETH
~RTRrunAy

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, ON HIS EIGHTIETH
Climbing the path that leads back nevermore,
We heard behind his footsteps and his cheer;
Now, face to face, we greet him, standing here
Upon the lonely summit OF Fourscore-
Welcome TO us, DER whom the heightened day
Is closing, and the shadows deeper grow.
His genial presence like an a~fterglow
Following the one just vanishing away.
Long be It ere the Table shall be set
For the last breakfast of the Autocra6
And love repeat, with smiles and tears. thereat
His own sweet songs, that time shall not forget
Waiting with him the call to come up higher.
Life Is not less, the heavens are only higherl
sth Mo-. % 1880 John @ Whittier.
JOHN @. WHITTIER, ON HIS E%IGHTIETH BIRTH
DAY,
Friend, whom thy fourscore winters leave more
dear
Than when life's roseate summer on thy cheek
Burned In the flush of manhood's manifest year.
Lonely, how lonely is the snowy peak
Thy feet have reached and mine have climbed so
neari
Close on thy footsteps mid the landscape drear
I stretched my hand thine answering grasp to
seek,
Warm with the love no ripping rhymes can speak,
Look backwardsi From thy lofty heights survey
Thy years Of toll, Of peaceful victories won,
OF dreams made real and large hopes outruni
Look forward Brighter than earth's morning ray
Streams the pure light OF heavens unsetting
sun,
The all unciouded dawn of llfe's immortal day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
, 1889-09-25
BE Careful What You Eat.

'There is one error in diet, said the
doctor, (which, if pursued for a not
very long time, is certain to result in
death" d,
What is that, doctor7" asked the
patient, anxiously.
mot eating anything" said the
doctor, grimly, and shaking the pa
tents feeble hand feebilly he tottered
to the door.-Burdette in Brooklyn
Eagle.
, 1889-09-25

MI. E. p. Loveioy. a large dealer in
general merchandise at Wabuska, New,
says: Il have tried St Patrick's Pills
and can truthfully say they are the best l
have ever taken or know used" As a
pleasant physic or for disorders of the
liver they will always give perfect salts
faction. For sale by B. B. David.
, 1889-09-25

That the service of the Union Pacific,
"The Overland Route" is becoming bet
Ter every day. The latest addition to the
already excellent equipment, is a line of
through Pullman sleepers between Cbey-
enno and Chicago. via Denver, Kansas
City and Chicago & Alton railroad. These
cars are Of the most improved pattern,
and this additional service will be arpre-
ciated by the patrons of the Uuion Pacific.
, 1889-09-25
A hale old man. Mr.. Jas. Wilson.

A hale old man. Mr.. Jas. Wilson, of
Aliens Springs, ILL.,, who is over GO years
of age, says: Il have in my time tried a
great many medicines, some of excellent
quality; but never before did | find any
that would SO completely do all that is
claimed for it as Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. 1t is
truly a wonderful medicine" For sale
by b. b. David.
, 1889-09-25
Dr.. Wagner &c.
sF

We offer no apology for devoting so much time
and attention to this much neglected class OF
diseases, believing that no condition of human
lily is too wretched To merit the sympathy and
best services of the profession 10 which we be-
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
the physician who devotes himself
them from Worse than death, is no less q
philanthrophist and a benefactor to his race
than the surgeon or physician who by close ap-
plication excels IN any other b anch of hispro-
fession. And, fortunately for humanity the day
condemned the victims OF folly or crime, like
the lepers under the Jewish law, to die uncared
for, has passed away
YOUNG EN
Whomay besuffering from the effects OF youth
ful follies or indiscretions, will do well to avail
at the alter OF suffering humanity. DR. WAC
NER will guarantee to forfeit nve hundred dol
vate disease of any kind or character which he
undertakes and fails to cure.
MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
There are many men OF the age OF 30 to 90 who
are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder often accompanied by a slight
smarting or burning sensation and a weaker
ing OF the system in a manner the patient can
not account for. On examining the urinary de
poslts a rooy sediment will often be found, and
sometimes small particles of albumen will ap-
pear, or the color will be of akin or milkish
hue, again hanging to n dark and turbld ap
pearanee; There are many men who die Of
the second stage of seminal weakness. DIR.
Wagner will guarantee a cure in all such
cases and a healthy restoration OF the genito-
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Republi-
can.
All communications should be addressed
DR.. g & co.
l4l4 Larimere street. Address, Box 27Sa Dem
yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
, 1889-09-25

Job Printing neatly executed at the
Leader Job Printing Rooms.
, 1889-09-25

All kinds of Job Printing neatly and
promptly executed at the ] eader Office.