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The Lamar register., 1891-05-09
THE LAMAR REGISTER.
Tho ra.il gsps, Of 7,sv.u County.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
A Busy Year for All,

With this issue the REGISTER enters
management. When we took charge a
year ago, the paper was run down to the
point where it took considerable dona-
tion from the proprietors each month to
support it, and had lost all official pat
ronage; while the Republican party was
in little better condition, being torn
asunder by conflicting factions; and the
prospects for the county were not of the
most encouraging kind. The company
went to work in earnest with view of
making the REGISTER paper that would
be credit to the party and county, one
that would reflect the polictal views of
Republicans and unite with all progress
sive citizens in the work of building up
our county and city, and also be repre-
sentative local news paper. That our ef-
forts have been appreciated by the party
and the people needs only casual glance
at our largely increased subscription list
and advertising patronage to confirm. 1t
was only short time till we were com
PEELED to enlarge, and now we have al
most the entire official patronage of this
section. The past year has been a busy
one for the people OF this county, and one
that has had a telling effect upon the
future prosperity of all. In the coming
year let us all take hold with energy, re-
newed by more prosperous outlook, and
push our county and city to the front
place in the agricultural portion Of the
State, position our resources and loca-
ton entitle us to. The REGISTER wishes
to congratulate the farmers and business
men upon the brighter prospect that is
now before us all; and especially we con-
gratulate the Republican party on the
fact that all differences were laid aside
to win the glorious victory last fall, and
that with the united and harmonious
front we now present to the Democrats
we can look forward to certain victory in
the coming campaign. We thank our
patrons for the liberal support they have
accorded us the past year, and hope to
merit a continuation of the same.
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

Colorado's new jury law, which pro-
vides that only taxpayers may be drawn
to serves as iurymen until their number
is exhausted, is very sensible measure
and will deprive some Irresponsible peo-
pie Of their favorite calling. The "pro-
fessional iuryman" ought to be made to
saw wood for living. But after all, the
difficulties encountered to get jury
have been multiplied under the new law,
Taxpayers as rule are observant people
and know what is going on, and men ara
usually selected on modern iuries for
what they don't kpow.--Aspen Times.
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

The Democrats last fall on account of
the Michigan Legislature, and knowing
they will not get it again soon, made the
most of their opportunity. They gerry
wandered the Congressional districts SO
they think they can carry most of them,
and provided that the Presidential cleo
tors will hereafter be elected by districts
instead of by the entire State, as is done
by the rest of the States. By this means
they hope to capture a majority of the
electors in a Republican State. This
would be good plan for Republicans to
adopt now in Democratic States where
they control the Legislature. 1t is a
game that two can play.
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The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

The Millington trial cost Larimer
county over s6s,Ooo. The people there
have enjoyed twelve months fun at the
expense, as they thought, of the three
defendants. They will now have to foot
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

The correspondence over the Malta
determination has reached point where
it was necessary to tell the Italian pre-
mier that he lied, only it was done in
milder words. 1t is about time for Italy
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09
I'M LAMAR REGISTER,

y,suesr Paper OF frowsrs
p.,v vas established on
.,s Issh. 1855. Nov vis tho
a.s 70 subscribe $50
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

Governor Routt, much to the disgust
of the Democrats and Denrer Repubh-
cap, has signed the re-apportionment
bill This is the measure adopted by the
Republican members of the late Legisla-
ture for the purpose of taking the con-
troll of future assemblies out of the cor
rupt influences of city politics, and plac-
ing it in the hands of the more intelli-
gent and honest voters of the rural set
Elements.
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

Grover Cleveland says he never climbs
hills till he reaches them. 1t is almost
useless to add that he has never yet
reached David Bennett Hill.
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

There is prospect of short crop OF
wheat some places in Kansas. The Al
lance commissioner has visited these
portions and claims that it is not caused
by insects, as reported, but by failure to
properly till the soil. He intimates that
less politics and more work last fall
would have been great boon for Kansas.
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

Honors are showered ON the newspaper
fraternity as rapidly as congratulation
upon successful Presidential candidate.
Brother Herrick was permitted to plant
the first tree in the new city park at
Rocky Ford. They would also have al
lowed him to plant the other 500 but it
was too much like work to suit Dick.
The Lamar register., 1891-05-09

A prominent Socialist is now agitating
the proposition to make four hours a
days work. That is just our platform
exactly, four hours for work, eight hours
eating and twelve hours sleeping, the
government to furnish good grub and
easy beds, and hire niggers to wait on us.
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Copyright.
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rarily blinded, but probably for a less time
than seemed to me. / rushed out OF my
tsnt, tho light continuing NJ bright M ut
first for several seconds, and than there
was the sound Of an explosion diractly In
front OF mo and half way between tho hori-
zon and tbs zenith. Streams of fire we're
shot in NIL directions, aome going towards
the sky and others descending to the eartt,
Some seemed TO DO coming directly towards
me ~ they grew rapidly In size just az does
the headlight OF q locomotive when you are
Watching in the night time the front OF an
approaching train.
II thought very quickly and actad as
quickly al thought. My tent was at the
side Of a large rock; 1t was six or eight feet
In height and shaped not unlike 4 sugar
loaf. The impulse came to me to jump be-
hind the rock, and | instantly obeyed the
impulse.
Hardly had l got there when there was n
blow on the rock as il q heavy wagon, or u
railway carriage, had run against 1T with
full foros. A moment later there WAS a
crash among the trees n little distance to
one side NJ though q canno ball had been
launched into the forest. My surmises and
deductions from the old adage as to the
habit of lightning not to strike twice In the
aamo place wore quite Mt fault. A meteor
had fallen where another meteor had pre-
yiously taken up its quarters, as though
there was not enough Of the sarth's surface
for each to have \ place OF it's own.
Ono OF the fragments thnt ~rebounded
from the rock went through my tent, tear
ing a great hole in the canvas and falling
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case / had Witnessed an explosion in which
the fiery fragments flew in all directions,
followed in a few minutes by a sound as
though a heavy cannon had been dis
charged.
eve seen something much more inter
esting than that" he replied, land also
more dangerous. I've lodged q meteor and
narrowly escaped with my life"
.tWhers was that?" ! asked.
ut WAS in southeastern Russia" he an
swered, ION one of the steppes between the
i H9's" and tho D0n' III tell 7'' about
Continuing my examination of the ST.
berian %aerolite. l indicated my desire to hear
of his remarkable adventure, which he pro-
ceeded to give.
II was on n scientific expedition in that
part of the country, my special object be-
ing to find a denosit of coal that would pay
for " liking. There was plenty of coal
along the banks of the Dor but none had
yet been found on the Volea where it was
greatly needed for the development of the
commerce of the river. / had two scien-
titie assistants, half a dozen men with Dor
ing apparatus and the usual attaches OF a
camp of exploration. Wo changed about
fiom place to place, making behring's or dig
Rings in banks whichever there were indlca-
tions of coal.
'One afternoon one of my men came into
camp with a lump of something that he
thought was coal; he had found it among
some rocks in the bed of a brook and
thought it might lead to an important dis
covery. To the eve it appeared like q lum p
of coal, and ! seized it with avidity. but
very soon 1 discovered that it was nothing
else than an aerolite which had apparently
been broken off from a larger mass. In the
next two or three days other pieces OF the
same character were found and it became
evident that at some time a meteor had
found its way to earth at this point, having
exploded and scattered its fragments over 4
considerable area.
s'Tho percentage of iron in this ~aerolite
was small. Aerolites, meteors and all tho
family of descendants from the skies con
tain iron, sometimes ns high as 96 per cent,
while others contain less than one per cent.
There is always a quantity of nickel min
gled with the iron, the highest being Is per
cent and the lowest little more than a tEace.
When an asrolite contains moro than SO per
cent OF iron We call the mass meteoric iron,
but if it is less than SO per cent the sub
stance ID called a meteoric stone. The other
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HAD TO DODGE A METEOR.
The Adventure Of q Scientist With
a Messenger From Another
World.
Il Made for Him at the Rate
Of Twenty Miles a
Second.
Prstty Oaick Hustllng to Got out OF the
wsy-Composition and Size Of
Mote0rs.

Written for THE SUNDAY I~NDEPENDENT.l
TN THE SIBERIAN SECTION OF THE
az museum Of the Academy Of Science in
i Saint Petersburg is \ mass of meteQrio
iron that fell to the earth in Siberia safly
In the present century. II weighs several
hundred pounds and is ranked by scientists
a. \ remarkable curiosity. II is Of more
than passing interest to the unscientific
visitor on account Of its size and remark
able qualities, and also because it comes
from the land whose history Ia connected
with so many horrors growing out Of the
exile system of tho Russian empire.
On my first visit to the admirable collec-
tion of minerals belonging to the academy,
] was accompanied by a Russian gentleman
who had long been connected with the in
atitution and was able to explain many
things which otherwise I would not have
understood. When wo reached the Siberian
aerolite he called attention to its peouliari-
ties: ut contains the mineral Divine, a
species of chrysol1tc.' said he, "and this is
asubstancs rarely foundi in a meteorio stone.
The iron in this mass is OF a very fine quail
ty; it ia highly magnetic in the first place,
and the specimens that have been taken
from it for the purpose of experiment have
been drawn into the inost of WIRES"
He said a great deal more b it is nee
essary to repeat here; then he suddenly
paused and asked if I ever encountered a
meteor in any part of the world.
Il told him that / had seen shooting stars
in great number, but with few exceptions
they we're only the ordinary shooting stars
that may be seen, Usually, on any clear
night in most parts. of the world. The ex-
c%eptions that I noted were those in which
the %aerolite had been near enough to make
a fash Of unusual bri%lliancy, and in one
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plump upon the little cot in which | would
haze been sleeping m hour later. The
missile weighed, as | afterwards nscer-
tanned. a triie more than two pounds, and
as it fell it was red hot. It set fire to my
bed, but speedily extingulshed the fire
with a bucket of water. Aerolites are al
ways red hot when they come to the
ground, no matter whether their proportion
Of iron bs large or small. They are sup
posed to be cold when they enter the
earth's atmosphere and become heated by
their rapid passage through the air. Thew
move with a velocity of fifteen to twenty
miles a second, and the smaller ones. tho
ordinary sh~ooting-stars. which everybody
has seen, are supposed to be quite
burned up and reduced to dust or gas ies
before they can get to the earth's sur
face.
"Twenty feet from the rock on the OPP
posite side OF my tent. a mass from the
meteor was kissing in the ground whore it
had buried itself to the depth of more than
n foot. NY servant Ivan wanted to POUR
water upon it, but | forbade him, as | pre-
fei red that the fragment should cool of
where it was; water poured upon it might
cause it to crumble, just rs it often causes
a heated stone to break to pieces, and there
was no dangrr that it would run away il
left alone till morning.
''IAere was little sleep in our camp that
night, and every man of us was up before
uAo uAs - EkoaAANA "a AS SoAAD Vtt5
carefully examined, and altogether we
found no fewer than thirteen fragments
from the meteor that had paid us such an
unceremonious visit and compelled mo to
dodge behind the rock. The largest frag-
ment weighed about twenty pounds; it was
the one on which Ivan was about to pour
the water when I stopped him. Altogether
the fragments weighed in the aggregate
about seventy-tive pounds and doubtless
there we're some that we missed. Conse-
quently the mass that I lodged when I
jumped behind the rock weighed some
where in the neighborhood of a hundred
pounds; it was red hot and moving fifteen
or twenty miles a second, so that I did
wisely to get out of it's way"
How about the piece that crashed
through the trees?" I asked.
"That was a fiftv-pounder and it did as
much damage as would have been made by
a cannon shot of tho same size. We had
no difficulty in tracing it by its track of
distinctions; its force was SO spent on the
trees that we found it only slightly en-
bedded in the earth.
"From time to time for weeks afterwards,
and covering an area eight or ten miles
square, fragments of the meteor were
found. The largest WAS a little more char
a hundred pounds in weight, and as we'll as
l can estimate, the meteor, when it ex-
ploded, must have contained two or three
tons of matter. The analysis of the frag-
ments was the same; they contained about
80 per cent of silex, while the rest was made
up of magnesia, tin. aluminium, cobalt
and sodium. I'll show you a specimen
when We get to the European section."
THOMAS w. KNOX.
Copyright.
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ingredients besides iron and nickel are
silica, lime, magnesia, copper, potassium.
tin and 4 few others of less consequence.
I'm the evening ] was examining the first
of the specimens that had been LSought to
me and also some samples of Ignite which
our boring apparatus had secured. The
night WAS clear, but without a moon; the
was warm, and occasionally l gave a glance
in the direction of the stars, which were
very brilliant, owing to the purity of the
atmosphere.
As l laid aside the aerolite / mentally
wished that one would fall in my vicinity
30 that l could have u fresh specimen TO
send to tho academy. Then | thought of
the old a1ags to the effect TINT lightning
never strikes twice in the same place, and
turned my attention to the liRnitss.
suddenly the sky was lit up as by n
flash of vivid lightning or the explosion Of
a mas of powder = few yards away. 10
brilliant was tho flash that ! was tempo
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The State Fair.

The railroads have made a half-rate fare
from all towns nthe state to Helena during
fair week. No better time or opportunity
could be selected for paying the Capital city
a visit. Remember the dates. The Mon
tana State fair opens Saturday, August %.
Got your exhibits ready.
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bought 1t at one ruble and twenty kopeks.
He took the parcel with him, declining pos
i itively TO have it sent; bur in his habitual
abstraction walked out of the shop without
settling for it. The shopkeeper. who knew
him, and would not ask for his money, on
the following morning sent bill. One of
the servants brought it to the count as we
were at breakfast.
why he said, turning to me in indlg-
nation, there is a bill for the flannel ahirt
bought yesterday, and for which have al
ready PAID
81 beg your pardon" I replied, ''the peo-
pie are quite right.
YOU DID NOT PAY THAT BILL
''In that case you will please come with
me-" he said.
begged to be excused till the afternoon,
when l accompanied him to the merchants.
us it true" ne said to the shopman, in
tone Of abrupt anxiety, sis it true that
did not pay that billl''
Assured that he had not, he took from his
purse handful of gold coin, and throwing
them down, exclaimed ':There, take this
as forfeit. 1 had no intention to steal it,
l had no intention to steal tip
Doctor" said, 'you almost persuade
me that your illustrious acquaintance was
a fitsubject for guardian. Have you any
explanation of these singular alterations .''
None" smilingly replied the doctor;
''Tolstoi must be classed with Cincinnatus,
that Roman so celebrated for the simplicity
of his manners and the austerity Of his
morals, that, when they sought him to in
vest him with the purple, they found him
behind the plow. Indeed, it is the persua-
sion of his amiable simplicity that secures
him immunity in Russia He has been fined
many times, and the government shut up
his school. But he loves children so well
that he and his daughter receive four each
morning and the same number in the after
noon for instruction. He is unquestionably
a sincere Christian, ana, if eccentric, is but
little more so than Christianity, literally
oheyed, would make the rest of US, which,"
said the doctor in a tone of solemnity that
harmonized well with the darkening sky
and the sad song OF the sea-"which may
serve to show that its professors are yet a
good distance from the realization of the
New Testament ideal"
S. G1R1ARD NELSON.
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ONE. Hence, as long as the light lasted
We did not speak. Sight was then the only
privileged sense, and we watched the rings
of smoke lazily break as they rolled across
the lawn, and beyond them-obiects OF our
more conscious contemplation-we gazed
upon the yachts with dreamy sails as they
passed into the purple harbor of the twl-
light. There were gurglings on the shore,
and hollow splashings beneath the anchor
ed boats The drowned past wanted TO
come back again. Each wash of the incom-
ing tide brought it nearer to US, and at
length we were hemmed in by it. My
friend, who is doctor Of divinity, gra0u-
ate of Berne, and a pupil of Monod and
D'Aubigne, had, like myself, became lost in
reverie, and it was not till the amber light
faded, leaving but mist and murk upon the
surface of the sea and dull russell bands
around its western margin, that he broke
the silence
Il have been thinking" he said, ''of queer
people whom l have known. One by one
they seem to lift their heads out Of the
water and go back again. Odd notion, isn't
it.n
YES, - l said, there are eccentricities of
fancy that verge on poetry, and that seems
10 be one of them. But pray tell me about
some of your odd people Who, may L
ask, was the oldest of them ala"
''LEoFF ToLsToL"
he replied, 1.-The great Russian writer about
whom every one talks more or less. He
was the most eccentric and every way re-
markable man ! have ever met"
My friend, who, TO be explicit, was the
Rev. DR.. Cornelius =. Calkoen, clergyman
of the Dutch Reformed denomination, had
spent ten years in Russia, four as pastor
in Odessa and the remaining six as the
private secretary to and tutor of the sons
of Gregorief Tolstoi, the novelist's brother,
who was eXiled TO Siberia by imperial
ukase in 1874
Your opportunities of meeting Count
Tolstoi We're doubtless frequent L said.
mot so frequent as you would infer, :"
was the answer; "but the incidents in
which he figured during our casual acquain-
lance were significant. A strange, absent
minded, meteor-lille character; he reminded
me of the famous DR.. Melville who ran
against cow in the road and took of his
hat to beg her pardon: regretting, at an
other time, when his own wife was spoken
of in complimentary terms, that he had not
the pleasure of her acquaintance. How far
the counts peculiarities have been modi-
fed in the sixteen or seventeen years since
! last saw him l cannot tell. But, Judging
from what l read Of him from time to time,
] should say he had undergone but little
change. His character might be summed
up in the phrase, lex abrupto." Sincere,
good natured, impulsive, living for the com
fort and happiness of others and the good
he might do, he was, as l remember him, q
rare jewel in an extraordinary setting.