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The Lamar register., 1901-07-03
Delaware w,thou. a Repre.enta,i, e.

There are fewer contested seat. in
the Fifty-seventh Congress than in
any previous one for many years.
There are practically no cont ,sts in
the Senate. though the session will
open in December with Delaware, one
of the original states, with 10 rep
resentatiye
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forth to plow. the noon bell rang for
dinner. the night lights glowed
through the small window panes. the
dog barked at the night passer. Below
and around this remnant farm, there
were small houses, some of them mere
shanties and cabins of boards and de-
bris. 1t was the vanguard of civiliza-
tion. the first roll OF the wave that
meant the growth of city.
In the attic OF the white cottage Ce-
Gil Van Vliet had taken up his abode.
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Are You Using Aliens Foot-Ea.e.

1t is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting. Burning. Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, Csc. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress. Allen s. Olmsted. Leroy. N. Y.
The Lamar register., 1901-07-03

If the petroleum cure for mosquitoes
proves effective. New Jersey should
lose no time in laying pipe line from
Texas.
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played MAY Blossom" with exceeding
merit. In this role she won the un-
stinted praise of public and cri les. She
also played in "Tbe Wife" THE Char
ity Ball" and In other dramas man
aged by the Frohmans and A. NJ.
Palmer. She is native Of Maine, and
was born in 1858. In her prime NJ s'
Cayvan was a woman of exquis to
beauty"
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spltan Give, Napv Pr...,t.

The Sultan Of Turkey annually gives
away a great many presents, most of
which are made in a special workshop
in Constantinople, half a hundred men
being constantly employed in tho
W.
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Wanted--- Attic.

BY ELIZABETH CHERRY WALTZ.
Copyright. 1901. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
And, as you said the description
of life in a suburb of working people
was the only weak thing in the book,
/ am going to spend three months In
a cottage attic and get the atmosphere.
Mr.. Norris"
The lawyer looked up from mis- desk
and back again before he spoke. What
he glanced at was pale man of 2S or
20. who looked older. His face was
sensitive and was rather too sweet for
a positive manliness. When the lawyer
finally spoke 1t was to say:
1T will not hurt you or the book.
Have you given up your trip across
and to yienna?"
Van Viiet looked uncomfortable.
Cant do both, can you?"
'No-and really the book comes first.
If it Is all right but that, why not put
myself in the way OF making that
right"
Mr.. Morris thrust his hands into his
pockets and walked up and down the
room.
Look here, Van. am pretty certain
the Astranhams count on your going
over. 1t is actually question between
Gwendolen and the book-because Mr..
Astranham intlmated to me that De-
brett King wanted to Join the party
and we all know what Deb is after"
A rather peculiar look came about
Cecil Van Vliet's mouth.
so 1t Is the book or the girl con-
tinued the lawyer.
A dreamy smile fitted over the face
of his hearer.
And which one is 1t. Van?"
Then came quick movement from
the silent man and then a decisive ut
terance.
THE book then-I like the girl, bet
ter than l wish l did. But maybe the
book can win the girl-but the book
first at all hazards"
In the sloping roof of a small white
cottage there was set deep dormer
window that looked over fields of en-
-erald wheat and on the brown clods
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Only $40 Round Trip To California,

That's the frst-class rate. open to ev-
Francisco and return. July 7th to 18th.
Tickets good via Los Angeles and re-
turn, until August 3lst. As cool at San
Francisco in summer as In winter. Lus-
cious fruits and Inexpensive living.
That home-llke feeling describes the
service on the Santa Fe Route.
Particulars upon application to ]. p.
HALL. Gen. Agent Pass. Dept. Santa
Fe Route. Denver. Colo.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrur.
For children teething softens the gums, reduces I'm
nammation. alays pain wind collie. 25c bottle
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'T think we had better call baby OIL
YER" said Mrs. Shaw. Her husband ejac-
ulated: 20 Shawl
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A visitor says that another long run of
fine weather would make Colorado people
too conceited to live with.
The Lamar register., 1901-07-03

Spirituality is hard to locate: some
people look seraphic when the mince pie
comes on.
The Lamar register., 1901-07-03

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken o. q
. cough cure.-J. w. OBRIEN. 322 Third Ave,
NJ. Minneapolis, MIMI. Jan. Q, 1900
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.

"You can't believe more than half you
hear" which half of what you tell me
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The average man thinks other people
need church more than he does.
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The bluest blue makes the whitest
white. that's Russ Bleaching Blue. the
modern bag blue.
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market in New York. At that time.
on account Of the expense, the Chi
cago newspapers did not have tele-
graphic market service from New
York, but depended upon Mr.. Boyd for
all the information they received. They
banking house of James Boyd & Broth
ers, "a Clark street. was then the
headquarters for financial news In that
city. Mr.. Boyd went to New York soon
after the war to what appeared to be
wider field and confined himse to
the New York Stock Exchange, where
he at once made leading place for
himself and has remained in active
business until now, having practically
retired at the age of 10. The first pur-
chases Of stock by Jay Gould on the
New York Exchange were made
through Mr.. Boyd.
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not allow his feelings and his moods to
tyrannize over him. He may get and keep
control in very large measure. 1t is posi-
bic by choice of surroundings and direction
Of thought to sway our states of feeling.
If so, then cheerfulness becomes a duty.
Another suggestion is work one day at a
time. If a man would keep his serenity of
mind and balance of thought he must act
upon the assumption that there is for him
only one working day in all the year. At
the end of the year he may look back and
say, There were two hundred" but at the
beginning of the year there is only one, and
that is to-day. Tomorrow is not ours. To-
morrow belongs to God. If you have been
only a common observer of life you will
have discovered that many failures and
sorrows and disasters have been those Of
tomorrow dragged down out of the future
into the present. When we have gone on
out of to-day into tomorrow the evils we
have anticipated did not take form, and but
for our anticipation we should never have
been unhappy. If you would keep a
genuine poise of life and cheerful mood do
your work one day at a time and don't Dor
row trouble.
Every cheerful man is essentially a man
of faith. He may not confess it. He may
not even know it. But it will generally be
found to be true. He acknowledges the
tribulations of life and the trouble Of the
world in which he lives, but once again he
hears his Lord saying, BE of good cheer;
l have overcome the world He believes
that this is Gods world, and faces the
future with brave heart because he is a
man of faith
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AMERICAN POLICE.
On the Whole They Are Honest Men
Who Mean to Do Right.

Mr.. Franklin Matthews, in the World
Work for October, makes an interesting
comparison of the police departments in
New York, Chicago Boston, Philadelphia
and ST. Louis. The main generalization
that he gets from his comparison is that
the men are as their chief is, and with a
capable and fearlessly honest chief the
force under him will do its duty.
"Of the actual police situation In lead
ing cities of the country" says Mr.. Mat
thews, lone thing must be said with en-
phasis, never was greater mistake or a
more unjust assertion made than that
most policemen of our cities are dishonest.
Ninety per cent. of the rank and file in
New York are clean and decent They are
sick at heart at some of the things that
they have TO do. AS a rule they are honor
able men. Let them face a riot and a
drawer force never existed. They would
willingly do their full duty in all respects
If they were allowed to do it They despise
having to raise corruption funds, as they
often do. They would like to see the pull
abolished and every man stand on his own
merits The powers of punishment by
superior officers are so sweeping that they
dare not open their mouths to the terrible
tact.
IF the citizens want a better police force
let them demand specifically that the party
that wins the next election shall put in
power as chief of police a man of the
highest character. If such man were
appointed purer atmosphere would come
at once For a clean and capable chief
of police could effect complete reforma-
ton"
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the idea OF forgery, murder, or suicide BY
turning away he could have cast IL out and
resisted Its fascination, but as he volun-
tarily dwelt upon il, its proportions grew
The thought that he had been subject TO
"a pressure of the Deity came upon him
In this way. Most criminals are fatalists
The chief difficulty is TO convince them Of
guilt Guiteau had all his life been familiar
with theology; his mind was imbued with
biblical phrases. With an inactive con-
science vanity stimulated by the excite
ment which his deed caused, the peculiari-
ties OF treatment to which he was subjected,
il was natural that he should pervert bibli-
cal analogies and say that God COM
manded it." This naturalized his act I'm his
own view, and left him free from remorse.
That he expressed IL in theological Ian
guage no more proves that he could not
help IL than If, like an ordinary criminal
he had said, 81 could not help It; L had to
do it."
The root questions in his case were: Did
he know what he was doing? Did he know
that IL was crime? Had he power to re-
frain from doing it? These, / believe, could
be answered only in the affirmative by one
unwedded TO a theory.
Whether Guiteau had become irrespon-
sibly insane at the time Of his execution is
another question.
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GUITEAU,S SANITY.
How One Man Satisfied Himself OF the
Murderer's Responsibility.

Rev. DR.. ]. NJ. Buckley, in the Century.
/ propounded to Guiteau series of ques-
tons which, with few exceptions, were
such as he had not answered before. They
related to his mental and moral experiences
while contemplating his objections to the
course of Garfield toward himself, to the
rise of the idea that he must remove him., -
to his shrinking from it at first other
wise, and to what would have been his
opinion If President Garfield had recovered.
Many of them involved sharp discrimina-
tions, and were such would have puzzled
a typical monomaniac or paranoiac. He an
swered the questions. made no superfiuous
words, did not ask for a repetition of any
question, nor employ a word I'm an i'm
proper sense; but occasionally he contra
dicted the record of his own course and
his own testimony. He gave no indication
of being, or ever having been, irresponsibiy
insane. His conversation and bearing were
unlike those of any irresponsiby insane
man with whom | have conVersed. They
resembled those of a man who had com
mitted a crime, and after doing so had
made himself believe that he could not help
it. His motives were obvious. He desired
office; disappointed in the quest, he felt
revengeful and the idea occurred to him to
kill the President and put the "stalwarts"
in power. When it first rose it was like
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

Many years ago there lived IN this coun-
try a number OF beavers who were just
like those Of the present day. except that
their tales were long and thin. like those
of muskrats. instead OF being large and
fat as they are now. And the reason that
the tails OF the beaver folk became so
changed in shape is this:
Even in those early days the beavers lived
in fine houses which they built in ponds and
streams, and in which they laid by a great
store Of food to last them through the
winter when ice should chain up the water
courses and keep the animals prisoners in
their own homes. OF course, they took good
care to be snugly at home before the cold
weather arrived, but once (and you shall
hear how nearly they came 10 losing their
lives through their carelessness) a party Of
incautious young beavers went too far IN
search Of some particularly desirable logs,
and, TO their dismay, found on returning to
the stream which held their homes that
its surface was covered with a thick coat
ing Of ice.
They had been so hard at work over the
logs that they had failed TO notice the in
creasing cold, but now the unexpected sight
OF the ice sent a chill TO their very hearts.
Still they did not intend to sit still and
freeze, but set about their return as speed
lily as possible. hoping that some charitable
relative had remembered their absence and
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kept a passage open by which they might
return TO their fine, warm houses. But.
alas. when they reached the village OF their
people the ice was solid as a rock and only
the tops Of the dOmelike houses rose above
the CLASSY surface. The entrances were all
far below, near the bottom of the stream.
and nowhere did they find an opening by
which they might enter. The poor beavers
weresin despair; the cold was steadily in
creasing and chilling them to the very mar
row of their bones, and they felt that what
ever they did was TO be done quickly or
else they would die there in the bitter at
mosphere within a few feet of their rela-
tives and friends, who were doubtless at
that very moment busily eating or taking
long, coy winter maps in their warm, COM
Portable houses.
The unfortunate exiles made frantic eff
forts TO dig through the Ice but they found
that it only wore out their toenails and
made their feet dreadfully sore, all to no
purpose Then they tried to dig their way
through the top Of one Of the houses, but
the frost had rendered the mud-plastered
sticks of which it was built as hard as
stone; so they were obliged to abandon
that idea also. They jumped up and down
and banged with their tails on the tops of
several of the houses, hoping to attract the
attention of some Of the inhabitants, who
might in some way aid them i'm effecting
an entrance, but all their efforts seemed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

fruitIess. and they were just about to re-
sign themselves 70 their fate and lie down
on the ice to die, when the top Of a partly
ruined house, on which they had been
Jumping as a last resort, caved in with sew
eral Of them. You may be sure that it did
not take the freezing animals long to
scramble through the opening and make
their way by various underwater passages
TO their several homes, where, after a
hearty meal they at once settled down to
sleep without disturbing any Of their
friends, who were one and all found
wrapped in deep slumber.
But the next spring. when the ice melted
and the village awoke, the beavers who had
so narrowly escaped death told the others
ali that had befallen them. And then the
chief of the beavers, an animal so old that
his whiskers were gray with age, issued q
proclamation in which he ordered all of his
people to fasten wooden paddles to their
tails so that in case of similar occurrence
they would be able TO make enough noise
to be heard by those below, who could east
ly break through the roof from within. And
the beavers, obeying this order, soon found
that these paddles were of the greatest as
sstance in building and plastering their
houses; and gradually, through much ex-
ercise in using the wooden implements, the
shapes of their tails changed till they were
large and fiat, like the tails of beavers of
the present time.
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Tagged Children May Not Travel.
Chicago Post.

Chicago Post.
Railroad men have rebelled against the
tagged child shipped through without
guardians to look after it. According to ac-
counts the business has been overdone.
Hordes of children have been shipped
through from New York to San Francisco
bearing tags containing directions of des-
tination. OF course the passengers amuse
a child between times, but the trainmen are
responsible for its safety, and must see
that it has it's meals and is put to bed. 1t
is astonishing how many parents take
chances trusting to luck to see the precious
ones safely through a journey and save
their own fares by not going along. Often
relatives wearied of caring for dependent
child will ship 1t to some one else who
dares not refuse TO receive helpless inno-
cence. Railroad men have decided not to
take any child too young to care for itself
unless it is accompanied by guardian.
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How to Draw Brownies.

Kansas City children are holding a
Brownie contest for a charity fund prizes
to be given for the best drawings. Palmer
Cox is to be the final judge in the contest,
and is not a little interested in it's outcome.
A number of drawings have been received,
but. according TO the originator of the little
people they are not quite properly made,
and he has sent directions as TO the proper
manner of construction, together with a
sample drawing. Following are the in
structiOns:
All those who draw the Brownies wee
Should make the different point agree;
For not like human kind are they,
But somewhat off in every way;
The mouth should spread, the eyes should
stare,
The ears show large, and scant the hair;
The body should be round and fat,
The legs be slim, and, more than that,
Should have a certain turn around
To plant the feet well on the ground,
While humOr should be close at call
To guide your actions over all.
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ViOIets on Trees.
New York Tribune

New YORK Tribune.
The once lowly violet assuming giant pro-
portions and growing on miniature trees IS
what met the amazed vision OF visitors TO
the flower show in MadisOn-square Garden.
In some cases the flowers best friends fail
ed TO know IL and stood before IL in
grave uncertainty. 1T must be violet be-
cause II is in that collection" one said. 1t
looks like one, too" was a reply. but mine
grow low" All day the novelty was sur
rounded by people who ignored for the time
the more beautiful flowers The cause Of
all this attention is violet plant never se-
fore shown. IL grows from nine TO eight
cen inches high. but yet its flowers are
small and single. tall pot plant. useful
for decorative purposes, filled with big dou-
bic violets. rich in color and fragrance
as the best sorts. is what growers promise,
and that before many shows have waxed
and Waned.
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PHILADELPHIA Record.

IL never tax my memory with things I'M
necessarily" said one OF the proprietors OF
a big department store yesterday. Unless
a man has specially schOoled himself, menu
DRY is bound to be treacherous sometimes.
1 don't trust mine at all any more. IL has
gone back on me too often. Besides, a
postal card only costs cent, and / always
carry a lot of them around with me. My
end Of the business calls me away from
the store great deal, and no matter where
1 may be-riding on street car, waIking
or I'm some Of the numerous places OF bust
ness which / frequent-when an idea Oc-
ours to me that requires my attention 1 jot
a memorandum Of IL down on a postal card,
address Ii TO myself and drop IL I'm the near
est letter box. Some days L will send a
dozen postal cards 10 myself. and the next
morning they are on my desk awaiting me-
! have been doing this for two or three
years. and think it's a pretty good sys-
tenn"
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lines form part Of the outline of the animal
which that side has chosen. The lines may
be Joined together or not, but each line
must be part of the outline of the animal
chosen.
The captain Of the side may decide wheth-
er to have each girl draw one or two
lines, but each girl must draw the same
number. The object is to sketch on the
blackboard enough Of the outline of the
animal so that an equal number of new
lines drawn by the other side and con-
Meeting the cid lines win complete the pic
ture. The side first at the board is very
careful not 10 let the other side know
what animal they intend to picture, and in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03
CALENDARS MADE BY CHILDREN.
Decorative Work Which the Little
Ones Can Do.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
LET the children make calendars for the
coming year." says the Mothers Journal.
cit will keep them happy. train their
artistic sense and lead them to be OBJ
servant Let each months calendar be
suggestive OF the season.
''In the first place, get a supply Of gray
or dark green mating paper, such as is
used for picture mats. Cut ii into twelve
unifSgm shapes-say 1Sx12 inches; this may
be too large, but it must not be TOO small
for little fingers. A great deal of individual
taste may be used. and you will be sur
prised at the originality that will be dis
played with a few suggestions and a little
help from older folks.
'The January decoration should Of course
speak of winters winds and SHOWS. Prob
ably in some old magazine or nursery book
the children can find a picture or a bare
tree or limb. Let them cut IL out and paste
81 in the upper left hand corner. OF course
st must be quite large to correspond with
the size OF the calendar board. Let them
find a picture of a sparrow snow bird
and fix II on the limb. Then give them a
tube OF white paint and tiny brush and
let them dabble a little snow on the edge
of the limb and on the ground underneath
and sprinkle diamond dust over 1t. Below
the decoration and a little to the right
draw the squares for the calendar and put
I'm the dates. OF course the calendar parts
OF all the twelve are the same except as to
dates.
THE decoration for February may sug-
gest St Valentine or George Washington.
For the former a heart of gilt or silver or
even red paper with a silver dart and for
litter portrait Of Washington or a
little hatchet.'
March must OF course be windy A
picture OF a man or woman with an UNI
brella blown inside out.
April must speak OF showers, with a
bunch OF pale pink spring blossoms Any
one can draw them, and the children will
like TO color them with crayons.
For May bunch OF dandelions (even
pressed ones will do or a green leaf or a
red-oreasted robin on green limb
June or course must have roses. Early
IN February send away for your seed cata-
logue and let the children cut out the roses
and paste them on in a graceful spray
July must have a patriotic decoration
Firecrackers or red paper and a flag
For August draw a bunch of daisies
ana let the children color them white or
yellow, as they fancy.
September may have a bunch or cluster
or fruit. also cut from catalogues.
october should have brilliantly hued
autumn leaves or an oak leaf and an acorn
November might have a huge turkey
gobbler with outspread tail, or a golden
pumpkin.
December must have holly and a Santa
Claus.
The boy who has a camera or the girl
VINO can use water colors can improve uDOn
these suggestions indefinitely. Approximate
quotations will be an addition"