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The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

Mr.. and Mrs. u, Lactzamp, Elston. No
wrte: -One Minute Cough Cure saved
the life OF our little boy when nearly
dead with Group" l. II. Myers
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

fca can curu dyspep~ia b dieting.
"a good zhose-snu1e food. aud plenty of
t-ha,i0l Dyspepsia Cure digos,s food
Flit8ut aid fFOn the stomach. aad is
aase - cure L. II. Myers,
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

psWiit's Little Early Risers benefit
l-'u'2nenily. They Lend gentle assist
A1oe - nature, causing no pains or
.7aAaeesr permanently curing oonstiPa-
e'a and liver ailments /. IL Myers.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16
ADMINIsrRArRIx's NOTICE.

ESTATE OF REUBEN 4. SLAyNAKER. DECEASED.
1rHE UNDERSIGNED. having been appoint
ed Administrators of the estate of
Reuben A. Slaymaker late of the county Of
Prowers in the state of Colorado. deceased. here
by gives notice that she will appear before the
house in Lamar. in said County, at
the August term. 1s99 on the last Monday In
August next. at which time all persons having
claims against said estate notified and re
quested to attend for the purpose of having the
same adjusted. All persons indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate payment
TO the undersigned.
Dated at Lamar this goth day OF July, A. D..
DOROTHY A. .SLAYMAKER,
Administrative.
J. K. DoueHTY. Atty.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Sheep Killing Dogs.

G. P. Reynolds, writing in Michi-
gan Farmer, says: l recently heard
well established and practical farm
er in speaking of sheep prospects as
sert: II wish there was tax of five
dollars per head on every dog in the
state today; perhaps then we could
thin out few sheep-killing ours"
Judging from the reports of sheep
killing by dogs from various parts OF
the state there are good many sheep
raisers who wish the same thing, and
most heartily. I have it on the au-
thorfty Of one who is in a position to
know, that there have been over one
hundred and twenty-five dollars worth
OF sheep killed in this township al
ready this season, and the first two
months of pasturing are scarcely past.
One farmer is reported to have lost
sheep to the assessed value Of forty
six dollars; another has just suffered
losses that will sum up to fifty dol
lars or more. These estimates are not
exaggerated, and in all probability
come close to, if not below, the actual
value of the sheep killed and injured.
Other small losses, comparatively, are
reported that will easily bring the
damages up to the estimated value OF
sheep destroyed. And what is more
to the point, the chances are very
poor indeed that any of the losers will
be able to realize more than fifty per
cent of the value as estimated at the
time of killing by the appraiser.
Some states are enacting laws
against mob violence by making the
county responsible with a substantial
cash consideration to the party or rel
atives of the party suffering injury.
1t is supposed that this is about the
only thing that is going to have the
desired effect. Would it not be good
idea if the sheep farmers of the state
were protected in some similar man
ner: AT the most, it is scant pro-
lection that they have at present
when injuries are paid pro rata out
of the dog fund.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Explained.

Softhead-1 say, Cholly, why does a
fellah have to wear necktie that he
ties himself, don't you know? Why
cawn't a felah wear a ready-made tie,
don't you know?
Muchbrain-Cawn't you see, me boy,
how it is? It's the social test, don't
you know.
ANY fellah can afford to buy any
sort Of necktie, cawn't he?"
"Ah, yes; but mere sordid wealth
doesn't count in society, me boy. It's
bwains, culture and refinement, don't
you know"
"What has that to do with the neck
tie?'
"Cawn't you see? Society, me boy,
admits only those who have bwains
enough to tie their own neckties, don't
you Know Weekly.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
POINTERS ON MOSQUITOES.
Male L. . Musician. but Female L.
|@a : BlOodthirstv. ~. = =: ]. = i&

Male. Ii Musician. but Female L.
% Bloodthirsty. y
j., When man hears for the first time
that it is the female mosquito that
does all the biting it makes him feel
right glad. Further comfort is afforded
by the knowledge that the male mos
quito has probably the keenest musical
sensibilities of any of his class Of in
sects. He has quite brush of hairs
on his antennae, and with them he
hears. Mayer stuck one of his kind
on a glass plate and sounded tuning
forks about. When one tone was made
certain hairs would vibrate, while all
the others were still. Another tone
would start another set to vibrating,
and so on. Also, if the tuning fork
were at one side of the mosquito, the
hairs on that antennae trembled most
violently, so that when the male hears
or, rather, feels-the voice of his be-
loved in one antennae, he wheels about
so that vibration is equal in both and
flies straight ahead to meet her. That
is about all there is to the male mos
quito, though, except that he cannot
bite, for the sufficient reason that he
has no apparatus with which to saw
through the skin. So to speak, he has
the pumps, but no drill But the fe-
male is thoroughly equipped for get
ting through even politicians hide.
The only mystery is what possesses
her to want to bite at all. How did
she come by her hankering for blood?
The scientists give it up. If she laid
her eggs in the wound, like the carrion
fly, it would be easy to answer the
question, but she doesn't. If she stung
to defend herself, like the wasp, it
would be easy. It must be her brutal
passion for blood that prompts her to
attack helpless human beings. She
cannot get this craving by inheritance,
for the chances are that none Of her
ancestors as far back as William the
Conqueror ever had taste of human
blood, and yet sit out on your front
stoop of an evening, and a mosquito,
not half an hour out of the water, will
make as straight for you as if she had
been born for that purpose. When
one thinks of the great clouds Of these
torments that live and die in swamps
where no warm-blooded animal ever
comes, for fear Of being mired, one can
easily believe the estimate Of entomol-
ogists that not one in million ever
samples red blood.-Ainslee's Maga-
zine.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14

Mechanical Condition of the Soil
Reports Of some careful experiments
concerning the mechanical conditions
Of soils and the effect of cultivation
show the result of frequent stirring OF
the surface soil, rolling, bed, and level
culture. It was found that crops give
better returns on soils kept in a
crumbly condition than on those re-
duced to a powder-like fineness. It
was found that stirring or hoeing the
surface is beneficial when the soil has
been packed by rains, but that the
practice is detrimental during drought
when the soil is already in a good
mechanical condition. Rolling the land
favored uniform sprouting of seed,
but in general the yield of the rolled
ground was smaller than the unrolled.
Packing the surface soil by means Of
rolling was detrimental to plant
growth when the soil was not subse-
quently stirred. Results were gener-
ally in favor of level cultivation as
against bedding.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
cattle for Cnba.

d The report that there has been fric-
ZION between the officials OF the war
department and the department Of ag-
rlculture over the matter Of admission
or cattle to Cuba is unfounded. The
action Of the president provided for
the admission to Cuba, duty free, Of
cattle with which to improve Cuban
stock. These cattle must be half-blood
or better. Under circular issued by
the department of agriculture provi-
sion was made for the shipment Of
such graded cows and bulls from Sa-
Vannah, Mobile, New Orleans and CAL
weston, where these animals were to be
inspected by an inspector of the agri-
cultural department and if found suit
able for breeding purposes, free from
disease and immune from the fever
LICK, they were to be passed with a
certificate to be presented to the Gus
tom officer at the port of landing
immunity from Texas fever required
mat they should BE shipped from
points below the quarantine line. Thus
Tar the two departments were working
IN cooperation. Now, however, it has
been decided to do away with the in
spect1on in the United States by the
department Of agriculture and to re-
qulre such inspection at the ports Of
entry IN Cuba, which will come under
the operations Of the war department.
mere is, however, no conflict between
the two branches of the government,
as mas been stated. The department
or agriculture has been unable to pro-
VIDE inspectors for all of the 101 small
er ports of clearance in the United
states, and thus exporters at the
smaller ports have declared that they
were being Disseminated against, in
that cattle should be shipped only
from Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans
and Galveston. las it is now, they can
De shipped from any port without in
spectlon, but subject to inspection
Wnen they reach Cuba. It is stated at
tne department of agriculture that if
cattle reaching Cuba for entry under
This duty free clause fail to pass in
spectlon, 1t will not be necessary to re-
turn them to the United States, as they
can still enter by paying the regular
duty. The department of agriculture
having no authority or funds for in
spection of cattle in Cuba, this duty
naturally falls upon the war depart
ment
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Want your moustache or beard beautiful
brown or rich black? Then use
BUCkINGhAM'S DYE {%S b,t tie
The Comm o. Ore's Sentiments.

1t was ladies day" at the yacht
club, and crusty old member, who
hates a crowd and a fuss, was watch
ing one of the club servants paint the
WELCOME board" He painted a pic
ture of a yacht clubman, with broad
happy grin dividing his face from ear
to ear. Then he put these words be-
meath: "This is a pretty big board,
out If we were to tell you how glad we
are that ladies's day has come again,
we would need board three times as
big as this one.''
"Huh! grunted the crusty member,
as the man put the last curleycue to
the last letter; "what makes you say
that?'
"Well, sir, the commodore said we
might as we'll tell good one while we
were about it, said the man, touching
his cap.~-New York Daily News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is q constitutional cure, Price. 75c.
Two Theorists.

ut was a very unfriendly thing for
the professor to do said the man with
white hair and gold glasses. He got
his book on the market at the same
time I published mine. But my pub
Usher says we control the trade and
can come pretty near squelching his
work. That's some comfort"
What were your books about?'
Economics, Of course. We both
wrote on the terrible evil and injustice
resulting from the modern tendency to
artificially restrict competition -
Washington Star.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
A LITERARY VIGNETTE.
why the Horse Wouldn't Start Until
the Door Shut.

the Door Shut.
The London Academy prints every
week one or two sketches under the
title Of Things Seem" brief vignettes,
drawn as often, we should say, by lay
men as by professional writer's. One
Of the recent contributors to the de-
partment, Mr.. J. S. Ker, sends from
Perak, in the Malay Peninsula, the fol-
lowing delightful fragment, calling it
"A Start:''
The sun, blazing down on a race
course, far east of Suez, and on a field
of hot, excited horses and men, waiting
until the eccentricities Of the starter,
and an even more eccentric horse
combine to get us in line. The pa
tience of the former is at last exhaust
ed. Bring up that horse. Come up
on that beast. You'll get into trouble
over this, tell you," and so forth.
The Australian lightweight replies, pa
tiently: II can't help it, sir. This ia
a cab 'orse, this 'orse is. He won't
start until the door shuts and-1 hav-
emit got door,"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
HARD UP FOR PRESIDENTS.
So the Villager Thought, and H
Knew the Bow

so Cne VlllaSer Thought, and He
knew the Boy.
When he was fifty he returned to his
native town, ''just to see how the old
place looked" He found it unchanged.
The old store where, as a lad, he had
clerked it. and sold calicoes and gro
ceries to the old farmers, was just the
same. He contrasted the sleepy old
place with himself, and felt a glow of
satisfaction when he thought how
much those thirty years had done for
him. "They ought to be proud of me-
he said to himself.
Presently he met one Of the old in
habitants.
''Wall, I declare, is it really you,
Hank?'' said the old man, incredulous-
ly. We've heerd you've been prosper
in fust rate since you went West
They've made you q railroad president,
or sunthin o. that, sort, amt they?
heerd so, but couldn't believe it. It's
RELY true, is it? Wall, all I've got to
say is, they must be purty hard up for
railroad presidents out there
He took the next train for the West.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
PATENTS.
List of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.

List of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
John B. Beavis, Minneapolis, MIMI,
manifolding account book; Harley 6.
Bushnell, Minneapolis, Mimi, folding
table; Francis A. Clarkson, Duluth,
Mimi, railway tie; William ]. Holman,
Jr., Minneapolis, Mimi, system of edu-
cational playing cards; Knud X. Lerol,
Jr., Newburg Mimi, automatic regu-
lator for wind-wheels; Ole Ringheim,
Watonwan county, Mimi, traction en-
CINE; Hans A. Skreberg, Big Bend,
MIMI, letter file, etc.; William Hef-
ner, Minneapolis, Mimi, frecracker
holder design; Charles e. Ovenshire,
Minneapolis, Mimi, childs waist de-
sign)
Merwin. Lothrop & Johnson Patent At.
torneys. $40 Pioneer Press Bldg, St. Paul
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
No Wonder He Omit.

"Why is Wibbleson suing for d.
vorce?"
HE claims that his wife deliberate
1y tried to belittle him in the estima-
ton Of the public"
"How was that?"
"She fixed up a croquet set in their
side yard, and then got out and played
where people could see her. using his
golf clubs for mallets." -Chicago
Times-Herald.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Egg from Great AUX Sold for $1,000

Egg from Great AUX Sold for $1,000
An egg of the great aux was sold at
auction for 300 guineas, says the Lon
don Standard. j. G. Stevens, the auc-
toner, said that in 1884 the Comte
de Raoul de Berace bought the egg
from the owner of St. Malo fishing
smack. The counts collection was
purchased by Baron d'Hammonville.
The egg to be sold was one of four
great aux eggs belonging to the baron.
There were seventy-one recorded eggs
of the great aux, twenty-four Of them
being in museums and forty-two in pri-
vate hands; ,fifty-two were in British
collections. The first egg which tho
baron sent over fetched a record price,
at the time, of 300 guineas. The egg
now submitted, although not having
the finest marks, was, perhaps, the
largest ever offered for sale. being
three and three-quarters inches in
length.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Foxy Wives.

Johnson-My wife fooled me the 9TH
er night by asking me to stop the clock
when came in, as it disturbed her
rest, and the next morning there was
the hour of my home coming staring
me- in the face
Jackson-My wife asked me to start
ours when I came in, and the next
morning she figured out the difference
IN time between it and her watch in
such way as to prove me a liar by
nearly three hours.-Jewelers' Weekly
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
He Preferred the Ants.

A soldier of the Twentieth Kansas
tells this story at the expense Of fell
low soldier:
when we were sent out on the
firing line. Peter Began was lying be-
hind tree, out Of the way Of bullets.
All at once, he yelled out like a wild
man: Captain, l can't stand these
darned ants biting me all this time!
Zip! A bullet passed close to his body.
'On second thought, captain he yelled,
4 can stand themv"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Taking No Chances.

. The domestic man rang the boarding
house bell. Mrs. Skinner came to the
door, spoon in hand.
Madam, do you take children?
"Do I take children, eh? All, yes,
know you. You are one Of those hired
detectives. If I said I took children
you'd implicate me in the kidnapping
wave that's going over the country.
I'm too smart. Now, you git"
And she waved the spoon in the do
nestle mans face.-Chicago News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Her Choice

She was pretty young thing, fresh
from fashionable Finishing school,"
She was bidding the "happiest man on
EARTH fond adieu on the stoop OF the
old country house.
Nov, dearest, just before I CO." he
said, commencing all over again, "wnat
kind Of ring shall it be?''
''Oh, Jack"' she answered, raptur-
ously, do get me solitaire with three
diamonds in it!"-Judge.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Exact Figures.

eyes, it's a fine machine" said the
neighbor, who had been examining Mr..
Fergrson's new bicycle. whats the
langthsof the crank?' ..,. H.
Mrs. Ferguson answered for him.
Five feet eleven and three-Quar.
ters,'' she said, ~eyeing her husband.
dreamily Tribune.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Another View Of II.

what pity" said the first germ, as
he chung frantically to a window sash,
as they went around a curve, that in
sleeping cars we have no opportuni-
ties.''
isn't it?' said his companion. de-
spondently, "a great field, if only we
had air enough to get about it?"-Life.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
His Little Joke.

I'VE desire to present to you round
robin" said the chairman of the Phil
ippine correspondents.
Really, now, Pm sorry, gentlemen"
replied Otis, balancing his blue pencil
on his finger. But I'm not bird-fan-
cier, you w."-Philadelphia North
American.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
No more Tonic Needed.

Mrs. Smith Ohoughtfully)-I am
afraid l shall have to stop giving Rob-
bic that tonic the doctor left him.
Mr.. Smith (anxiously) -Why, isn't he
any better?
Mrs. Smith-Oh, yes! But he has
slid down the bannisters six times this
morning, broken the hall lamp, two
vases, jug and looking glass, and l
don't feel as if I could stand much
more.-Tit-Bits.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Grasshoppers and Fungus Diseases

Grasshoppers and Fungus Diseases.
Thus far we have been only par
TALLY successful in our attempts at
destroying grasshoppers by the use of
fungus diseases. Unlike tho chinch-
bug fungus the one that attacks To-
Gusts in North America is compare
lively slow in its action and only ap-
pears to take hold Of the insects after
they are about half grown.-Nebraska
Station Bulletin.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Read the Advertisements

You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get into the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford most amusing study, and will
you you in the way Of getting some ex-
cellent bargains. Our advertisers are
reliable; they send what they adver-
tiSe,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
A New Way.

Fuddy-Sonething seems to be trou-
bling McVener.
Duddy-Yes; he answered an adver-
tise1nent which offered to send to all
who inclosed so cents receipt, by the
use Of which they could get rid of their
superfluous flesh without the taking of
drugs. He sent the half-dollar, and
this is the answer he got: "Sell it to
the soap-fat man."-Boston Transcript.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
His Opinion.

The Statesman was defeated be-
cause the other fellow got too many
votes.
The Observation-Disclosures you an I,
Bill, I don't think he got darn one
too many, considerin' who was run
MIN agin him.-1ndianapolis Journal.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14

"Ctarley, DEAR" said young Mrs. Tor
kins, ''the baby is trying to talk again.
It's wonderful how he takes after
you"
What was he talking about?''
Il think it must have been politics.
He started very calmly, but in a few
minutes he was as angry and red in
the face as he could be.''-Was hington
Star.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14

Dyspeptic Passenger-Do you mean
to tell me you paid that train boy 20
cents for those three half-ripe banan-
as?
Cheerful Passenger-Certainly. That
is better than to have to give up the
money to the other robbers and get
nothing for it. We're getting close to
Kansas City now.-Chicago Tribune.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Eeeling Too Good.

The Populist-l see you mortgaged
your farm last week.
The Uncertain Quantity-That is
what did.
well, when you goin' to j:1e usT'
"Not now, anyhow. I amt spent the
money yit."-1ndianapols Journal.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
Safety in Flight.

Larry was on the witness stand.
"Now, Witness" began the judge,
where were you when the prisoner
began shooting into the crowd?'
within hundred fate, your hon.
Or"
''Then you were a bystander?
mo, sor; OF didn't stand a minnet:
Oh run loike the wind."- News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-10-14
JEFFERSON DAVIS HOME.

The House Which He Built and Lived
- In When an Officer.
At Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, one
Of Uncle Sans deserted army posts,
stands two-story house, part frame
and part log, that was for time the
most pretentious residence in the ra-
dius of 500 miles, but now stands de-
now and then stray boot owl, whose
dismal and lonesome cry only brings
back long forgotten memories Of what
this house has been. The house was
built in 1848 by Jefferson Davis, ex-
president of the Southern Confederacy,
United States army. It was here that
Davis was in the zenith of MS glory
as defender Of the United States flag.
It was here that Davis, then a lieuten-
ant, fell in love with, wooed and won
his wife, the daughter of Gen. Taylor
The post was a wild and woolly spot
in those days. It was the only trading
point for miles around and was infest-
ed with gamblers, desperadoes, Indian
traders, fugitives from justice in the
States, with now and then a gang of
cowboys, who would come in to the
post to get cred eye" and incidentally
shoot up the town and anybody who
objected to them shooting up the town.
Here in the shadow almost of the post
have arisen and thrived such desper-
ADDE'S as the James gang, the Daltons,
the STAIRS, Che okee Bill, etc., who ter
rorized the country for so long until
civilization and the farmers cleaned
them out. This old house has seen
many stirring times; it has sheltered
many fair women and brave men, and
if it had a tongue it could doubtless
tell many state secrets as we'll as many
interesting stories Of the early days in
the Indian Territory. The post was
deserted in 1892 and now only a few
buildings stand where there was once
thriving post of several thousand
souls, and where the deer and turkey
used to roam in the broad prairie, al
most in pistol shot of this house, are
neat and cosy farm houses, surround
ed with peace and plenty. Such is
the passing of the wild and woolly"
day in the Indian Territory.
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length
A Difference.

Putting and blowing are often con-
sidered as synonymous terms. You
will discover difference, however, II
instead of putting man up, you should
blow him up.-Spare Moments. :