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The Lamar register., 1899-11-29

Heaters hold fire over night Sold
by Huddieston-
Those delicious Puritan Chocolates
in pounds and half pounds. Boyd's
Up to date, P. o. Building.
Say did you see that line OF cloth
ing at Mavwell'ss Nor Well go
aud see it. World beater prices
Prices are not in itiust giving
them away.
We have just received 2 dozen
Mems Sample Hats which we pur-
chased at about SOC on the dollar,
and will give our customers the ben
eft of same while they last.
MCLEAN BROS.
There being no pastor at the Pres
bvterian church. nor the Christian
church, the people belonging TO
those congregations have been going
to the Methodist church, increasing
the number in attendance quite per
ceptibly.
Gus Rspier has been appointed
manager Of the new opers house, A
better selection eould not have been
made for the position as Gus Is not
only a first class manager, but is also
thoroughly acquainted with the the,
Atncal profession aud the merits OF
the various troupes-
The county clerk issued the usual
form OF permission on the 9th inst,
to Mr.. Frank Friend and Miss Bessie
Stream 10 become mAn aud wife. The
young lady Is daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. John o. Stream of the north
side, and Mr.. Friend has been farm
ing in the same vicinity for some
time past
Next Sunday morning Rev. j. I,
Knnckey will continue his sermons
on "The Israelites in Egypt" and as
text for his second discourse in the
series will take Bricks Without
Straw In the evening his subject
will be Sowing and Rcaping
Hymn numbers: 81, 5SI aud $50: 2.
tSg1 and 5S4.
". II. Brevoort, who is largely in
terested in ProSors county real es
tate both as an owner and as hold
er OF loans, was here several days
last week SIR. Breyoort spends
much OF his time in New York, but
has headquarters at Denver. ID ID.
Muir, who Is interested in business
with Mr., BreSoort, was here with
him
Albert Brady. OF Denver, repre-
senting the Equitable Life As
surance Society, hss been in
town several days this week. looking
for risks in this neighhorhood. Ee
says the boys aud sheep here have
not treated him fairly, bat he likes
the town Just the same and viii be
back the first Of the year to stay
with Us awhile,
Samuel J. Bull. OF Lamar, and
Miss \. Anna Wilson, OF Carlton,
applied 10 the County Clerk last
Friday, for license to wed. As the
Young lady was under age, It was
necessary TO procure the consent Of
her parents aud this being obtained,
the youug couple procured the nee
essary document and departed IN q
happy frame Of mind.
Rev. Clay 7. Runyou, Of Catlin,
Illinois, has been called 10 the pas.
torste OF the Christian church here
and Las Animas, giving three fonrths
of his time 10 the Lamar church. He
is expected here next Sunday, De
eember 3, to begin his labors. Mem.
bers Of the church are expected to be
present, and all others are cordially
invited to come out and give the
young man welcome He will
preach morning and evening.
I The rain, which started in Sunday
night week, kept on falling in slow
and soaking manner until Thursday
last. The wetness will prove great
advantage to the farmers, and as
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The Lamar register., 1899-11-29

DIR. j. G. Slack, of Clayton, New
Mexico, was in Lamar yesterday and
located townsite on lands in the
CaIriso district. The Doctor was
register of the Clayton land office
under Cleyeland's administration.
and was also ore of the Baca county
boomers in the early days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13
The Hired Man.

But few men are contented to 50 firm
that they can be entirely in 'efsn;; Of
the hired man. Whether rightly or not,
it is assumed that man should have
about quarter-section Of land il he
would in these northwestern states best
employ his time and his capital One
hundred acres of land to wort means
hired help. This hired help is often
hard to get and sometimes hard to get
along with. Then good many employ
ers of labor do not know how to prop
erly treat their help. We have not in
this country as yet any distinct class
which may be termed farm laborers, as
most of the countries old world have
men without ambitions and aspirations
to become land owners and farmers
themselves. Our hired man does not
expect to work out by the month any
longer than he has to, and usually-and
with good reason considers himself Just
as good a man every way, as the man for
whom he wceSs. The most satisfactory
hired man we ever had on the farm was
a married man with family who lived
In tenant house and who was furnished
a COW, chickens. pig and had garden.
More farmers might follow this plan to
their advantage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13
Angora Goats.

A Winnesheik county, Iowa, reader
wants to know something about the
Angora goat, its uses and adaptabilty for
the Iowa farm. AS We have before re-
marked, this northwest country is not
naturally goat country, this animal,
because Of it's climbing propensities and
liking for class of vegetable food which
no other animal will touch, being spe.
cially adapted to the rougher and more
sterile sections of the country, but it does
not follow that they are without their
uses, even here. The largest flock of
which we have any knowledge is owned
by N. NJ. Hubbard, of Cedar rapids, Ia,
to whom we are indebted for the infor-
nation here given as to these animals
Mr.. Hubbard says:
have 700 goats, half Angoras and
half Mexicans. First cost of Angoras
was 1915; Mexicans, 1855. These goats
are chiefly valuable for the clearing up
OF brush lands or lands which have be-
come weedy. 1t takes about three years
to clear up piece of brush land with
them and bring it into first class, vel
vety blue grass sod. Their advantage
over sheep in this respect is that they
will not eat grass until all the brush
and weeds have been destroyed. In my
judgment the Mexicans are quite as
good, il not better brushers than the An
goras, but the Angoras have the advan-
tage of furnishing fleece averaging
perhaps from % to A. pounds year.
which is worth from % to 25 cents per
pound. Too muchimportance, however
should not be given to this as it is not
certain that the fleece can be saved
every year in this climate. l am told
that the carcass makes very good meat.
have slaughtered kid and found it
excellent eating and of flavor between
that of lamb and venison. These goats
breed but once year and the kids are
no harder to save than lambs and per
haps not quite so hard. There IS no
certain market for goat meat as yet in
Chicago, although believe there is in
Kansas City. My own judgment is that
goat raising will not te profitable on
any land which the owner does not de-
sire to clear; although. il undertaken on
large scale and after some experience
with the animals, it might become profit
able to one having tracts of rough land
for which he had no other use. When a
market can be found for the meat, it
brings about cents pound and good
weight for an animal is so or 80 pounds.
They will winter in this climate all
right il they are provided with dry sheds
to get into. They will not stand cold
rains"
The above covers the question quite
fully. II a man has a brush farm which
he wishes to subdue. and bring under
cultivation these goats are just what hs
wants and the chief profit in keeping
them must lie in this direction.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13
A Foolish Young Man.

A friend OF ours-a farmer and very
successful one-said to US few days
ago: my boy, the only child I have. wa
twenty -one last month and in legal
way have no further claim upon him.
We are well-flxed on the farm, have it
well-improved and stocked and do not
owe anyone cent. / want to do mic
thing for the boy and have him work
into my place on the farm, but cannot
interest him in the proposition at al
He says that he has always lived and
worked on the farm and now he wants
to get away and find some other line OF
business, he don't know Just what. 1t
is very great disappointment to me
and knowing the boy as do, feel that
it is very doubtful il he makes a success
at any other line of business, while he
would make a successful farmer. Wha
had better do with himY" Our frieno
asks a very hard question and presents
problem which confronts large numbe
of our best farmers. There is probabl,
nothing to be done but to let the boy 60
1t may be the best thing for him. Thes
days he can find out great deal anc
get all the prodigal son business h,
wants in very short time; good look
at the old world just as it is may make
him willing to return and contentedl,
,ake up the old work on the farm. He
will very soon find out that there is
harder work than farming and harder
men to work for than his old dad. But
if we were in his fathers place we
would not put up any money to Start
the boy in business until he. the boy
had we'll learned the trade or profession
he had selected. To do so would, in
nine cases out of ten, be to throw none,
to the dogs. We are inclined to think
that our friend is somewhat to blame for
the situation in which he finds himself
The boy has been kept pretty close on
the farm and with his farm work has
not had the opportunity to see the
world and stretch himself, which every
boy Graves. Many fathers make a
mistake right here. However. il this
boy goes, and he will, the father may as
well commence to fat up calf, for the
boy will in all probability be seen coming
home across the back eighty some even
ing, wanting slice of it by the time the
calf is good veal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

We are asked thisquestion: Surprising
l cut up the sixty acres Of corn which l
am gong to plant next year, what am /
to do with all that fodder?" Here is the
meat in the cocoa-nut Of the corn
question. Sixty acres Of well-cured corn
fodder is worth as much as $50 tons OF
hay and Of course our friend does not
keep enough stock on his farm to eat up
this much roughage during any one
winter. But he has forty acres Of his
farm in tame mecdow from which he
cuts a crop Of hay. What's the matter
with doing away with this meadow and
converting it into pasture, and SO be en-
abled to keep more stock on his farm!
See? In other words. why should man
make hay at all when so much good
fodder goes to waste in the cornfields?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13
Where do the Birds 20 in Winter.

A bright little boy reader Of these
notes asks us to tell him and other
bright boys where the birds all go to to
pass the winter. While we cannot
answer his question fully, we will to !
him where some of them 60. The bobo-
link goes to the rice fields of the outh
and there is known as the reed bird, the
male bird losing his handsome livery
and his sweet song, and dressing just like
his wife. They are killed by the million
each winter and sold at high prices to
epicures in the cities as a dainty tit-bit
The robin passes the winter in Tennessee.
Arkansas and Louisiana, as do the
mourning doves, where both are con-
sidered as game birds, and slauR htered
by pot hunters all winter. The humming
birds pass their winter in the Central
American states where they have plenty
of flowers and perpetual summer. The
flicker or highhole, and other wood
peckers only migrate far enough south
to escape the severity of the northern
winter. The meadow-lark lingerson the
border line where it is just nice spring
weather all the time. The ducks, geese
and swan go to the south far enough to
reach open water and are found in great
numbers in Texas and other southern
states until the time of taking their
northern trip in. the spring. Nearly all
our northern-bred birds are subjected to
a most merciless slaughter during the
winter months in the south and it be-
comes very aggravating for bird lovers
to try to protect them while nesting
here in the summer, only to have tnem
thus slaughtered when they leave us.
The cross bill, the snow-bird, the great
snowy owl and some species of the finch
family come from the far north to winter
with US, though in this prairie region
we do not see them, save the snow bird.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Every successful dairyman-the one
who secures an average Of over 300
pounds of butterfor his herd-whom we
know, has mixed herd Of cows so far
as breed is concerned, thus recognizing
the fact that the tactical function is
largely an individual one. There are
good mixers in all breeds, and while
some breeds furnish more good mixers
than others, no breed always furnishes
such. Thirty per cent. OF the Jerseys,
take them as they run, are worthless as
dairy cows; twenty five per cent. OF the
Shorthorns heifers will make valuable
dairy cows, and there are lots OF old
brindle scrubs which, if given Jersey
ration and Jersey care, would touch the
300 pound mark.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE
FOR SALE

FOR SALE.
Is. acres OF heavy oak timber land from
which large quantity Of lumber piles ties rs
Winnesheik County, Iowa, SIS per acre buys
It, The wood win more than pay for the
land. =
in the sure crop country. Improved or un-
improved.
Lands in the best counties in 3. Dakota,
where land is booming and advancing rapid
y In price; improved lands Is rom s1a 81 to 80
Buy now and make money. Reduced rail-
/ road fare TO land seekers.
A fine residence lot in the town of Calmar,
Iowa, for S225.
AT room house, with 3 lots, good well, in
Calmar, Iowa.
Invest your money in real estate and make
more. Nothing more sure or safe. Why
drudge along on rented land when you may
own farm that will grow in value each
wear. Sell your $40 or $50 land and buy some
\ for less than half, which will make you more
money.
100 acres OF finest kind of land, itch. black
SOIL free from sand, gravel, alkali orgumbo,
Ia county, Kansas; price $40 per acre; will ex-
| change for good town properly.
80 acres In Nebraska, miles from Stuart,
black loam soil, good spring On the place;
price $40 per acre; will exchange.
100 acres in southwestern Minnesota, in
well settled country where crops never failed
miles from town ofs0O people; price slo pei
| acre.
24O acres well improved, nrst-class build
ings. every acre tillable; an all-improved farm
price $40.
leo acres with excellent improve ments, al
( the necessary buildings for n good farm and
good buildings ut that. The original owner
mortgaged the lace for $4,000. He died and
| the mortgage was foreclosed, the holder OF
mortgage bought in the place at sheriff sale
| for S63x7, and he has since died, and the farm
Is now thrown on the market for the low price
OF $50 0; a snap. 2tf
~ lS..R.l YAGER,sAgent,
II CaImar, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Different people are identified with
most Of us by some little popularity.
We like to call to mind one old man
whom we know whose popularity con-
'sists in always giving what he calls
gospel measure in all things which he
sells. He always insists upon the bu' er
having all that he pays for and just a
little besides. He is known far and
near as liberal and generous man, and
seems to make just as much money and
be prospered in other ways as well as If
he was one of the stingy, scrimping sort.
1t is needless to say that everybody likes
him and he cannot help but enjoy life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Turkeys are very queer birds. We
have known scrap over rights of own
ership of these birds between neighbors
to set the women by the ears as almost
nothing else in the world would. 1t
seems almost impossible for some people
to tell the truth where the ownership Of
one of these birds is involved
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

The Missouri mule market is set hoom-
ing by reason OF the demand created by
the war in the Transvaal, while the same
war has seriously hurt Missouri's mining
interests by shutting off the market for
zinc, immense quantities Of which metal
are consumed in the cyanide process OF
extracting the gold from the Witwater-
sand reefs. This illustrates how very,
very closely the whole world is Decom-
ing kin.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Cultivate the best side Of your neigh
Dor and don't forget that he thinks you
need as much charity from him as he
needs from you. A man to large ex-
tent makes his neghbors, for take men
as they run, if treated kindly. generously
II you please, and more than either,
Justly, they will nearly always make
good neighbors. There are exceptions,
however, and this sort it is best to let
entirely alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Don't kill the owls and the hawks.
True, they may take chicken once in a
while, but we never knew farmer to
quit keeping cats because they some
times killed a chicken. Both hawks and
owls live chiefly on vermin-gophers,
mice and rats, and should be protected
by the farmer as among his best friends.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

There are two problems which the
American congress should take hold of
in good earnest just as soon as these new
colonial matters are off our hands, and
these are the questions of the adulter-
alton of our food products and the re-
foresting of the waste lands Of the
nation. The health of the nation is
largely dependent upon the first and its
future prosperity upon the last.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

The ia steer remarked to his mother
old bossy as they stood under the shade
of tree in the pasture, 81 see by the
last reports of the dairy commissioner
that am in the dairy business myself,
though you won't admit it," "Yes, you
are an oleo fraud, if did raise you,"
said the old COW.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Old cream, the accumulations of q
weeks milk, say, where only one cow is
kept, can be made into vastly better
favored butter by the liberal addition
Of lot of fresh sweet milk. Try it and
see. This is the secret of imparting a
fine flavor to the oleomargarine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Denmark educates creamerymen at
the expense Of the state, and by giving
all butter exported government in
spection and brand. outsslls all goods Of
other nations in the English market by
two cents pound.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Perhaps the best legacy of the late
hard times is the reluctance with which
people contract Indebtedness. Business
was never conducted to such an extent
on the pay as you go basis as at the
present time and everyb body is the better
for il t4r
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Americans can be depended upon to
adulterate every product which they
sell to Foreigners, unless prevented by
the strong arm of the law. In this
particular they are the biggest fool
people on earth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

A good many farmers are for the first
time in their lives strutting around this
fall, Dragging that they don't owe any
man a dollar. Happy grangers. Strut
all You want to.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

A big ditch, twenty six miles in length
has just been arranged for in Winnebago
county, Iowa. which isexpected to drain
and reclaim a large area Of worthless
marsh lands. The ditch will cost about
$4,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

II your money is invested in good
northwestern farm, let it stay there. IL
such farm is today worth $40 an acre, it
almost certain to be worth $50 inside
Of ten years. Then the farm can't burn
up. or blow away or get the hog cholera,
OF go to smash like bank or man
ufacturing enterprise. If you have got
too old to work it and want to move to
town, good tenants may now be secured
on long term leases who will run the
farm on the stock plan; but look out for
the one year skinner and renter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

II asked to name the two most
evident wastes connected with north
western farm, we should at once name
weeds and unused corn-fodder.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Cotton has advanced in price to ~
cents. and the darkies all are gay enjoy
ing the financial prosperity which ~
cent cotton brings.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13

Abnormal or unreasonable weather
always brings losses in its train. The
high mean temperature Of October and
November of this year has inflicted
heavy losses on handlers of winter APP
pies, has badly demoralized the poultry
market, aud makes the vender of over
coats and all kinds OF heavy winter goods
eel very depressed and unhappy. The
masses Of the people, however, have no
complaint to make, as such weather gives
them exemption from the levies OF the
coal barons and makes springtime Of
month, at least, Of winter which is al.
ways long and hard enough st best.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-13
FARM, ORCHARD, 4
4 4 AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC OPINION by
J. S. TRI0G, Rockford, Iowa.
J. S. TRI0G, Rockford,

After April next the state Of North
Dakota pays bounty on all starch
made and fax fibre produced in that
atata
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-09-19

hospital in Burlington for treatment
His home is in Maine.
The other unfortunate victim was
Robert Kaycraft, and his injury was the
most serious of all, for it is thought he
may die from the result. He was driv'
ing dump cart team at Mcmillan &
Stephens quarry. The cart had just
been partially dumped when the horses
started to run. Raycraft tried to stop
them but was thrown beneath the team.
His collar bone and two or three ribs
were broken, and his head badly
crushed so that it is feared he will have
concussion of the brain.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-09-19
Rip Van Wrinkle.

Thomas jefferson as Grip Van Win
kle," assisted by his brothers, Joseph,
.Jr., as Derrick Won Beckman, and Will
liam as Cookies, are announced with
great pleasure by the manager of the
opera house, to appear here on Saturday
evening, September 23. 1t has been
supposed for Years that when Joseph
jefferson retired from the stage, which
he was forced to do last season on ac-
count of illness, that there was no one
to succeed him, and that perforce the
old play must be put away. But the
success of his son. Thomas last season is
but another proof that no mar is indis-
pensible. that there is no man whose
place cannot be filled. Thomas Jeffer-
son as "Trip" proved to be a capable.
painstaking actor, and one that would
soon follow in his illustrious fathers
footsteps. He gives to the part of Rip
the same delicacy of touch that has
made it SO famous by his father. His
accent, gestures, intonation, and stage
business are all the exact copy of the
original, and he could not have had a
better example to follow. Thomas JET
fcrson may not be first, but he is GER
tainly in ''the very first line' as an
Interpreter of Grip Van Winkle."