The Lamar register., 1898-07-06
Among our Exchanges.
prTEYrS TWO r,trui.sEs.

BETWEEN TWO TstruissEs.
Il dunno said Dir. Hayseed, II
dunno. mother, whether we OF to be
patriotic an send them chickens to
the soldiers, or be grateful an send
'em to pore Mr.. Letter, now he's lost
all his money. Indianapolis Jour
nal.
The United States has Just com
pleted new i6 inch harbor defence
gun and at its trial it sent ball
merrily spinning through 20 inches
OF steel. S inches OF iron, 20 fcet of
oak. . feet OF granite, IL feet of cop-
crete and finally stopped in q six foot
wall Of masonry. Now let some OF
the AlphoRsos come over. Garden
City Herald.
A visitor to the British Museum
reports that he saw eountryman
standing before the bust of woman
in collection of stAtnary. The wo-
man was represented in the act Of
coiling her hair, and, as the visitor
came up the conntrymsn was saying
to himself: ''No, sir; that amt true
TO nature. She amt got hen moush
full OF hairpins. Tit Bits.
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The hen -pecked husband stopped
in front of the building aud gaxed
ioyfully at the sign over the entrance.
"Just the place I've been looking
forr' he chuckled, going in.
rs this tho Woman's ExchangeT p
he asked.
He was told it was.
Eve trct 'em out
sTrot who ont - was the rather
indignant inquiry.
"why, the women, so can get a
look at 'em. rm blamed tired OF the
woman I'm living with and want to
exchange "-E1-
An eastern exchange tells OF man
who mortgaged his farm to buy his
wife pair Of diamond ear rings The
wife took in washing To pay the in
terest on the mortgage, but the first
Job she lost one OF the -spsrks" 10
snds, whereupon she tried TO hang
herself in the ba-n, bit the rope
broke and she fell on Jersey Coz
worth $50 and broke its back Her
husband then undertook to shoot the
COW to end its misery, but the gun
burst and destroyed his eyes and his
wife ran away with lightIing rod
peddler. The mortgage is still there.
La Junsa Tribune
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A man in Otero county gives the
following facts as to profits from ir.
rigation: Lands that were hardly
marketable at $1.25 an acre twenty
years ago at Rocky Ford are now
watered and worth $50. Forty Eve
bushels OF wheat an acre; eighty OF
corn on alfalfa plowed nnder; canta-
loupes 500 an acre; alfalfa seven
and one-half tons of hay and fifteen
bushels of seed; potatoes on one
farm averaged 45Sl bushels an acre;
farm close to town held at 81 25 per
acre, netted more than its value last
year; twelve acres of tomatoes yield
ed SIS an acre, eighty SIX tons
being sold TO GINNING factory
at $3.50 a ton and twelve tons ship
ped in baskets at $40; eight acres Of
fruit $6545.l3. expense S1535. 81, net
profit 5000 20, or shout 1926 an
acre; the fruit from sixteen acre
orchard second bearing year, bronght
over $4,000 or 1915 an acre. Such
farming as is shown by these figures
is better than klondikipg Field
and Farm
Editor Leftwicb, Of that fine old
Kansas democratic publication. the
Larned Eagle Optic. is dispIeased
with tho platform which his party
has been forced to swallow along
with populist state ticket He says:
ave don't like the populist platform.
There is too much rsternalism in it,
and it is therefore contrary to the
democratic theory of government
We are not favoraply impressed with