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that a double-header would be needed
to carry it over the grades. Dan
Boards No. 20 could climb tree. and
the big fellow got his orders to make
the run. 1t was getting close to start
ing time and Johnny Coleman, Dams
fire boy, was growing anxious. Dan
had not shown up all morning. He
was not at German Joe's. nor around
the station. The dispatcher was stand
ing in the sun looking at his watch and
swearing safely to himself. He was
Just on the point of putting another
man on No. 20. when something white
caught his eye on the hill-path that
runs above the cut. AS 1t came nearer
he saw it was Mollie, and right behind
was Dan, clumsily picking his way
over the stones. At the station Dan
called out: "All ready" to the dis
patcher, looking rather sheepish and
strangely happy.
Remember. Dan," spoke Mollie, as
No. 20 began to move. Mot another
drop, little girl. Not another" and
ne waved brown fist back at the girl.
Is the tender bumped over the switch
TO the main track And not until the
DlS L1dCulue uWiuulcu ~ q AAASAS SNo
in the distance did Mollie turn her
back and disappear in the doorway.
That night the special from the east
was late. 1t crept into Lamy with one
engine and that engine was not No. ~.
The little knot that gathered In curl
osity on the platform felt In their
hearts something was impending.
Johnny Coleman limped up. his head
bandaged in white cloth, and looking
weak and sick.
where's Dan?" asked n little wom-
an with face very white.
Johnny Coleman did not answer. but
looked uneasily away. They were
lifting something very gently from the
baggage car to lay it on the platform.
Johnny told as briefly as possible the
details.
Making up time. we left the track
at the culvert." he said. Il jumped
clear. but Dan didn't get out in time.
When we got him from beneath he
was pretty bad. And" (someone
was crying very softly over where Dan
lay.) Johnny continued: Il guess we
could ha' pulled i'm through at that.
But he wouldn't take the whisky we
give nlHl.
"'Aint drinking. Johnny; not an
other Drop was all he said. and then
he sort O. turned over like tired
little kid and-I 'spose that's when he
died."
That night was a lonely Vigil In
Lamy and along in the early dawn
they buried Dan Beard. He's up there
near the hill-path that runs above the
cut, and can hear the 100 tonners
climbing up the grade. And some-
times when the boys give the long blast
for the Junction they just pull a short
one for Dan-the worst man on the
Division.
II you are ever down that way, drop
In on the girl at the eating-house.
She's not very stylish, and l guess per-
haps her talk is bit western, but
somehow or other they seem to think
pretty well of her in Lamy. And, by
the way, they don't call her "Mollie'
any more. It's Just Dan Boards girl
the Girl at LaIny.
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Adv,e. to Girls Who Travel.

The young girl who is travelling by
herself should seek information from
the train people rather than from her
companions on the train. No girl in
travelling should make confidants of
strangers of either sex, disclose her
name, her destination of her family af-
fairs, or make acquaintances on the
road. She may, however, show kind
attention to a mother travelling with
little children. amuse wearied little
one, and politely thank anyone who
does her an unobtrusive Kindness
Margaret E. Sangster in the Ladies'
Home Journal.
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..Sodd;ct" in Colorado.

Sod houses, or, as they are locally
termed. "soddies," are now being built
in large numbers in eastern Colorado.
They are made of oblong pieces of sod
cut from the prairie. about eighteen
inches in length, seven inches broad.
and from three to four inches thick.
No foundation is required. the GODS
being simply laid on the prairie, and
up goes the structure. "Soddies" arc
cool in summer and warm in winter
and when the snow-laden wind Is
whistling without cozy sodhouse, in
which there is a good corncob fire, is
not to be despised.
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..There.a . Pipe"

Do you know there is much fake
business about the pipe-smoking and
pipe-offering host? So long has the
earth been flooded with rot and rub
bish about 'the pipe" that ordinary
men must live fifty years before they
can break away from the idea that a
briar or cob, packed with long-cut or
granulated at 20 cents pound Is the
very quintessence Of comfort and hos
pitality. Tut-tut! Who wants to put
between his lips a guttapercha stem
that others have slobbered through? 1
have in mind several acquaintances
who keep on hand from ten to dozen
rancid old pipes to hand around when
friends call. Such men are practicing
economy for economy's sake. They
are too mean to offer you a 10-cent
cigar. and pretend that their dirty
old pipes are good enough for any
body. Catch 'em outside and ask II
they'll have a smoke. Why, certain
ly. And they order quarter cigars.
have had much experience of these
chaps.-New York Press.
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The Girl Of Lamy.
BY II. A. CALLAHAN.


Copyright. 1901. by Daily Story Pub. Col
Just handful of wooden houses Ill
Lamy, thrown together as II by the
haphazard hand of careless God into
the little pocket of the mountains that
stand like priests around the city OF
Santa Fe Here it is that the dust
gray coaches which thunder in from
Arizona on the west, meet their broth
ers from the east and exchange for
few brief moments the greetings OF the
way.
OF course. the red clap-board eating
house and station are the main attrac-
tions during these arrivals and present
scenes of unwonted activity to those
accustomed to the aching solitude OF
the place by day or its blinking dream
iness beneath the stars at night.
No one distinctly remembers just
when or how the Girl became an insti-
tuition at Lamy. However, they do re-
member that one September morning
some years back there was new face
behind the counter in the eating-house;
a face framed in dull gold hair and
lighted by two blue-gray eyes. which
seemed forever on the brink of laugh
ter. The boys who made their home
in the little clap-board affair used to
call her Mollie; but 1t was name OF
their own devising and she accepted
it, as she did many other little things,
with an inscrutable smile that puzzled,
yet meant nothing. When the crews
>would come in from a heavy climo.
4 soaked to the bone with rain and sleet,
the Girl was there in a motherly way,
with stiff three fingers of whisky and
a supper that lifted them clear of their
WEAKNESS. Or, If on a Saturday night,
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perfectly possessed when Others were
on the rampage. he was the one man
whom foxy old Gear really feared.
was In Gears room one night with his
manager. young Blythe, a shrewd rail-
road lawyer. He had all the pins in
their proper places and told old John
Henry Gear to go to bed.
Have you seen Cummins to-
night?' asked the senator.
"The lawyer said he had not, but
that Cummins' headquarters were dark
and nobody was about.
"'Then | stay up said the willy old
politician. 1 don't go to bed until
know where Cummins is.'
His manager laughed and said he
knew Cummins was at home-Cum-
minis lives in Des Moines-and in bed.
This did not satisfy John Henry
Gear. He can plot as much mischief
there, or more retorted Gear, than
anywhere else. Do you know Mrs.
Cummins? The old mans manager
said he knew her in casual way.
"I know her the other way said
the old senator. She's the smartest
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Blythe asked II that wasn't all right.
Nothing gives me greater pleas
use,' said the lynx-eyed senator, than
to be Mrs. Cummins' guest ordinarily.
l honor her. But this finesse on her
part is not according to the old way
of political battling in this state. It's
a sort of ace-handkerchief. kid-glove
way of getting the enemy into cor
ner and smothering him with per-
fune.'
But you are going?' asked Blythe.
"'Going? What else can l do?
There's where she unarms me-
The dinner was pretty ono, was
told. Mrs. Cummirs went to the
spread on the arm of the old senator.
The other candidates were in their
places. Not word of politics was
uttered. A few games, some music.
and it was all over.
John Henry Gear won in the
caucus and was elected, of course. on
joint ballot. All the candidates spoke
after the caucus. but the cieverest
speech was that made by Cumnins.
And while he was talking old man
Gear. radiant and bubbling, was as
surfing Mrs. Cummins of his admira-
ton for her husband. and promised,
so was told. that when he finished
the term for which he had just been
nominated he would get out OF tho
way for Cummins. But he didn't. In
1900 old John Henry capered as gasiy
into the field as spring colt and won.
If Cummins lives he will reach tho
senate. He is. in his peculiar way,
one of the smoothest politicians in the
country"
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21
A CosmopoIItan Army.

The conflict between the Germans
and Czechs in Austria-H Hungary, which
deserves Secretary Stewards appella-
tion of 'the irrepressible conflict" Z"
makes interesting study of the ele-
ments composing the army of that
country, which consists of 42S,OO0
Slavs, 227,000 Allemands, 10000 Mag
yars, $4,000 Roumanians and 14,OOO
Italians. The Slavs are made up of
174,000 Czechs. 10000 Poles, $4,000
Ruthenians, $4,000 Croatians and Ser
vians and $4,000 Slavonians.
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21


Mrs. r. A. Crozier. Senior Vice Presi-
dent of the James Morgan Post, w. r.
c., the largest corps in Minnesota,
writes from "The Landour." 9th and
Nicollet. Minneapolis, Mimi, ns follows:
"PIesse accept hearty thanks on
behalf of Peruna, that wonderful med
icinc which raised me from a sick bed
and made a strong and well woman of
me In two weeks. suffered with
bearing g-down pains, backacEe and con-
inuaI headache, and found no relief
until tried Peruna. Ii cured me COM
piefeiy, and feel as young and well
as when rs. I wish every woman
knew the merits of the medicine, and
no home would be without ii. Airs.
e. A. Crozier.
Mrs. VIM. Henderson, Bordulac, N.
c., writes:
II was troubled with very serious
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tanned by the graceful slip of a girl
with golden hair, who seemingly came
from nowhere-the Angel of the Grade.
This was all before Dan Beard hap
pened in. Dan was from the Colorado
hills and no angel. They had put him
first on the little bunt line that runs
crafty over the hills to Santa Fe
Then he was shifted to the main line
for relay work and became a fixture at
Lamy. Dan was six feet one, brown as
leather and as tough, and incidentally
could drink more whisky than any
man this side of Phoenix. He spent
his mornings against the bar in Ger
man Joe's place. cursing out the road,
from the president down. Then about
ten minutes before his run began he
would shuttle over to his machine and
get his orders. When these were duly
scanned Dan would open up No. 20
gently and sneak out of Lamy like a
snake, but before the whistling post
was passed he had her galloping over
the rails like frightened thing and
believing like bull. He became no.
torious as the most reckless devil on
the road, and everybody said that
sooner or later there would be a smash
somewhere up in the hills and Dan
Beard would get off the line forever
But the smash didn't seem to come,
and Dams mad way continued Then q
change came. 1t was almost imper-
ceptible. But gradually Fan dropped
away from the whisky and bade fair to
quit it altogether. He didn't take the
grades SO fast and slackened up on the
curves almost like the rest. Some said
it was "Mollie." Some said the Divi-
sion Superintendent. Nobody ever
really knew.
1t was a morning in the early June
the great event occurred. A dispatch
had come over the wires saying that
a special was coming from the east and
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

"A New Face Behind the Counter.
the sov~ds of brawl would Haunt
down on the still air the Girl would
walk over to German Joe's in a busi-
ness-like way and scatter the drunkest
of them with quiet word and an ad-
monnitory jerk of the sleeve that sent
them snealting out like coyotes. Then,
perhaps, she would stand and smile In
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21
HOW MRS. CVnMIN.S
WORRIED Sc NATOA
GEAN. - - - -

A. B. Cummins, the nominee of the
Iowa Republicans for governor. is in
many ways remarkable man. The
story following. by one who was on
the scene, shows another side of the
Cummins family, says the Chicago
Tribune:
II was in Des Moines in the winter
of 1894 when Cummins YVES candi-
date for the United States Senate, to
succeed that gritty old veteran In pol
itics, John Henry Gear. There were
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

For several years The Romero Irrign-
tion Company has been at work upon the
development of u large body of the choic-
est agricultural land to be found In the
state. The canal is at length completed
and the new town of Romeo has been
laid out in the midst of this land. a
combination of very old water rights and
the finest land Is one that is hard to beat.
This is what the Romero Irrigation Co.
offers TO the intending settler. If not
convenient for the purchaser to do so.
the company will fence and plow and pre-
pare for crop any land bought OF 1t upon
payment OF the estimated cost of the
work. For prices and further particu-
lars and illustrated pamphlet, write to
Zeph Chas. Felt, President. 102 Boston
Building. Denver. Colorado.
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21
New York tho sunnl... clt,.

New York claims to be the sunniest
of the large cities. The United States
weather bureau has charts in light and
shade showing. from 1870 to 1895, how
many days have been sunny in each
part Of the country. Although Arizona
has sometimes -attained a percentage
of 80 and other parts of the west have
seen very clear skies, New York city
follows closely with a mean percent
age of so.
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

woman in Iowa.
! wish there was
some way to get
Cummins a " a y
from home
This compliment
for Mrs. Cummins,
from q man like
John Gear, meant
a good deal. The
old man. however
went to bed. The
next day he sum-
moned his manager
and said:
What did I tell
you? Do you know
what Cummins and
his wife did last
night? See here.
Here's an invita- =
tion from Mrs.
Cummins to me, to
dine at her home
this evening with
the other candi-
dates! That's Mrs.
Cummins' work.
"YnyypU 7 "
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six candidates, as l
remember. Gear.
of course. was the
lion. Then there
was another who
had n big railroad
influence. T h g n
there was n plucky
fighter. an editor
from Sioux City.
Another candidate
hailed from Coun-
Gil Bluffs. He was
the plain peoples
candidate, as he
C n | ! e d himself.
He used to help
the farmers cut
their hay. and so
on. Then there was
IA man from the
|center of the state.
|He had long hair
land was an impress
sive sort of fellow.
rhe other man was
|Cummi II S. Tai |,
rather. sw ar t h y.
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MADE STRONG and we'll.
A Prominent Lady Raised From Sick Bed by Pe-ru-na
r,~er +, Entirely Cured in Two Weeks. -o.

female weakness; had spells of flowing
that exhausted me so that feared
would lose my mind. l suffered un-
told agony with my back, the pain ex-
tending down my left leg. My pain
was so severe that would have well
coined death at any moment-so no one
need wonder that I recommend Peruna
so highly, for it cured me entirely Of
that. Not a sign OF pain has returned.
and that will soon be two years now.
81 am glad that there Is way can
speak, trusting that manya sufferer Will
read my testimonial. and not only read
but believe."-Mrs. VIM. Henderson.
FOR WOMEN ONLY.
Free Treatment During Hot Weather by
DIR. Hartman.
BY the assistance OF an experienced
staff of physicians, DIR. Hartman pro-
poses to direct the treatment OF sew
eral thousand women. who, for one
reason or another are ailing. H.IN
Each patient sends name. symp-
toms, and n short description of previ-
Gus treatment, and are entered in the
Doctors books as regular patients.
The treatment is directed from time
to time as may be found necessary
by the doctor. without charge. Every
letter and name is held strictly conf
Dental, and in no case will any one
be published except by the express
wish OF the patient herself.
These cases are treated with the
same care and fidelity as the private
patients of regular family physician.
During the past year large number OF
cases have been cured. Every item or
the treatment Is directed for which no
charge whatever Is made.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus,
Ohio. for free treatment.
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

"a man dat has sense enough to tax
good advice" said Uncle Eben. rs gin
er-ly smaht enough not to need 1t in d
fus' place"
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

Don't you think the country would be
better OF If we emptied all the whisky
barrels?" mo: l think the better plan
would be not to empty them
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

Physicians say that swinging Is
lealthful eXercise-yet many poor
fellow has met his death thereby.
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

lam sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.-Mrs. THos. RobBLNs'
Maple Street. Norwich, n. Y, Feb. II. 1900.
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

"If you can tell me of a place where
people never die" said the Irishman.
'.l'll go there an stay till the end of me
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

Lame back makes a young man feel
old. Wizard OIL makes an old man
feel young. See your druggist.
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

FITS Permanently Cured 10 1ts nervousness after
hrst days OF DIR. klne'n Great Nerve Restorer.
send Tor FREE S2.OO trial Dottle and treatise.
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrur.
For children teething softens the gums reduces In
Examination allays pain, cures wind collie 2Jc bottle
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

Two showers of frogs have fallen re.
Gently at Ithaca New York. II isn't ev.
cry locality that can get its greenbacks
so ensily
The Lamar register., 1901-08-21

the doorway with her hair blowing in
the wind, her eyes speaking more plain
ly than words that new era had be-
gun in Lamy. Her sway was absolute.
And 1t was not long before every fire.
boy and throttle-man on the Division
had had his own individual experience,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-03
AMOROUS EMBRACE
Upon o Teieph one Pole Taken
BY a Merry Wanderer--
Copper Assisted.

John Borcke, Polander. filled up on
liquid disturbance on Saturday evening
to the point where the powers of loco
motion were impaired and his naviga-
ton became unsteady and wavering.
John reached the corner of Hill and
South streets where he was compelled
to throw himself into the friendly en-
brace of a telephone pole to prevent
himself from taking rest in that lodg-
ing house which comes next after the
telephone pole, and which is commonly
known as the gutter. While John was
clinging with an amorous embrace to
the pole Officer Rownsberger happened
along and seeing Johns predicament,
with the courtesy born of true gen
t'eman, volunteered TO assist John to
n home of refuge which invitation John
accepted after a few preliminary for
nlalities had been disposed of.
The officer conveyed John to the
city's jag receptacle from which he was
later released on forfeit for his APP
pearauce before Mayor Wise on Mon
day morning at Z o'clock.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-03
SPECIAL POLICEMEN.
Bill Will be Introduced In the
Coming Legislature 70 Corr
rect the ABUSE.

Cleveland, o., Dec. 2.-Representative
Max Meisel will, at the request of Po-
lice Director Dunn, introduce a bill
that Dunn believes will work reform
in the conduct of special police
agencies in Ohio. It will provide that
any man who wears police badge and
uniform without proper authorization
shall be guilty of impersonating an Of
ficer. At present the charge cannot be
made unless the man so equipped
actually exercises police power, makes
an arrest, &c. Director Dunn says
that many men applying for commits
sions as special officers are refused for
good reason and afterward are employ
ed as Specials" although they have
no police powers and cannot make ar
rests. Dunn says the laxity of the
present law allows abuses and that bus
mess men are imposed upon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-03
May be Looked for In the
Potato Market.
APPLES ARE SCARCE
And Will Soon be q Luxury
Eggs Are Still Scarce, but
No Higher in
Price.

Potatoes are going up in price all
over the country and are selling in
Cleveland at 95 cents and 81 a bushnl.
Locally there has been no change in
prices, but it Is sure to come. The
high rates have the effect of making
the demand less and this to some ex-
tent will ease up the market. Apples,
while in fair supply, will soon be scarce,
as there is not very heavy supply
in sight, and what are on hands are
not keeping we'll, even in storage.
Fresh eggs are still scarce. but con-
tinue to sell at "a cents. No changes
are noted in other prices Monday.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-03
MAY LOSE AN EYE.

Navarro. Nov. 30.-Joe Larker, %
years old, a section hand who resides
at Navarro Station with his mother,
met with an accident while at WORK
yesterday which may cost him the
sight of an eye. He was driving a
spike when a piece Of steel few up AMI
struck him sqnarely In the optic. DR..
Shelter was summoned and 80 serious
was the case that he decided to send
the man to specialist in Cleveland
for treatment This was done last
evening. q brother going with the In
jured man.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-03
Stringency in House
Market keenIy Felt.
STIMULATES SALE
OF Building Lots and Increaaec
Valuation OF Ge Prop
'|~--Tra nsfers of the
rum Estate.

The demand for houses in Canton is
growing each day, and as the supply is
deficient many persons are compelled
to build homes in which to live. 9th
ers are erecting houses and business
places for rent, and this has had the
effect of stimulating the sale of build
ing lots. Sales are made every day,
many of them, however, not being re :.
corded or transferred, SO that they can
rot be reported.
The largest sale, however, made re-
Gently was the tranufer of 1873 lots re-
naming in the Trump estate in the
Crystal Park edition. Squire Hossler,
who was executor. in order to close up
the estate, sold the entire number to
Louis A. Loichot and Jacob l. Piper
for $10,581. These gentlemen, recog-
nizing the fact that there was to be a
big advance in prices, bought the lots
on speculation. In every addition in
the city. lots are selling rapidly and in
spite of the fact that winter is setting
in plans are being made for building.
Other transfers of real estate left for
record are as follows:
Harriet Shorb and others to Joseph
L. Loichot, lot 7742, First ward. $3.50.
John p. Zerbe to Elizabeth Festerly,
lot 4457 First ward, S2,500.
Canton Board of Trade to Harry G.
Shoot, lot 79 Second ward, $165.
Canton Board of Trade to william
Shoot. lot 303 Second ward, S165.
Canton Hoard of Trade to William
Wagner, lot 31i Second ward, $165.
Effie Wagner to Nettie M. Cahill, lot
2446 Third ward $3.50.
L. p. Funder to Emma q. Dlehl, lot
4672 Fourth ward, $1,700.
NJ. B. Cox to John l.. Parker, lots
7469 and 7470 Sixth ward, $500.
Mary L. Hoffman to Alice e. Malloy,
lot 5274 Seventh ward, 5000.
OTHER TRANSFERS.
Louisa Miller to John w. Miller, lot
A54. Massillon, $1,000.
George Reeves TO Reeves Bros COM
pany. 16 acres and five lots In Alliance,
$4,000.