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The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
LETTER FROM GUATEMALA.
Details of the Disastrous Central
American Earthquakes.

Salt Lake. May 11.-ln II letter dated
| April 23d. Paul Iienning. elder and rep
resentative of the church in Guaic-
mnln, gives the following details of
| the disastrous earthquakes in that
country:
The whole northwestern region"
says Mr.. llenning, ''one of the richest
in Central America, is in ruins. ON
the evening of the 18th of April. about
$40, the first shock was felt. This
| lasted from thirty to forty seconds and
caused the widest panic. There was
no loss of life in Guatemala City, and
the property damage was less than at
, first feared, though walls Were cracked
all over the city. and many old houses
We're tumbled in ruins. Ever since
| then the shocks have continued with
| more or less violence.
1.-The worst damage was done in the
| uty of QueZaltcnango. the second lnrg-
est in the country. Here it is estimat-
ed from 5000 to 6.OOO people were
| killed. AT the time of the first shock
n violent thunder and rain storm was
raging The electric lighting plant of
the city had been disabled. and when
the people, panic-stricken by the rum
bling and shaking of the earthquake,
rushed from their houses, it was only to
meet death. Stumbling and falling in
the narrow winding streets. In total
darkness save when the lightning lit
| up the stumbling city with an unearth-
ly glare. the people died by thousands
under the falling walls, while other
! thousands We're caught like rats only
| to die of suifOcation or drowning. The
| puaking and rain kept mp continually
for three days. This made it almost
impossible to do any effective relief
work. and as n consequence, now that
| the hot weather again prevails, the
stencil from the thousands of bodies
buried in the ruins is unbearahle and
| fears are entertained of an epidemic.
Hundreds of bodies probably never
will be recovered"
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14

The first English daily paper was is
sued two hundred years ago last
month. 1t wis the Daily Courant,
which was published next door to the
Kings Arms Tavern at Fleetbridgc,
London. on the thoroughfare that IS
still the headquarters of English jour
nalism.
There were no cable messages ~
telegraph reports for the Courant. In
coming ships did not report 400 miles
off the coast by wireless telegraphy.
There was no organized news service.
covering the whole civilized world and
furnishing the most intimate details
of the worlds news on the day that 1t
occurred.
Such thing as foreign corre-
spondent had never been thought OF,
and the modern perfecting press, with
its output of many thousands of
many-paged newspapers an hour. was
as undreamed of as Marconis span
ming of the Atlantic with his tele-
graphic ether vibrations.
Instead. the Courant consisted of but
a single sheet of the size of half
sheet of foolscap or deed paper. and
was printed only on one side. There
was no editorial comment and no ad-
vertisements. The sole source CT
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14

A remarkable cave has been disc-i-
cred at the Abbey mine, near Kendall,
Fergus county. Mont. The cave is
about $50 feet long. part of 1t being at
an angle of 45 degrees and part per
pendicular to the formation. Another
unusual feature is that it is found in
an immense ore body.
The main chamber of the cave pre-
sents a beautiful appearance, portions
of the wall being decorated with
masses of crystallized lime and Sill
ca, while from the lofty roof hang in
Vulnerable scintillating stalactitcs.
On the floor of the cave are hundreds
of tons of cyanide gold ore, as rich as
any found in the mine proper, averag-
ing about 500 ton. and one side of
the cave is formed by the foot wall of
the ore body.
The miners were drifting to con
meet with the main ore body, and at
the end of the shift one evening last
week set off the final blasts for the
day Returning the next morning.
they discovered that the drift had
been connected with large cave. and
preparations were at once made to
explore it.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
Warning Labor Organizations.

Denver. May 12.-The News this
morning says:
The fight between the American
Federation of Labor and the Western
Labo Union has assumed serious
phases all over the western country,
and President Gompers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor now declares
that he will make one more offer OF
peace, to be followed by declaration
of war. If his offer Is not accepted. The
war between these two great labor or
ganiZations. with the Western Labor
Union backed by the miners. began six
months ago. when the American Fed
Grafton of Labor representatives OBJ
icctei to the organization of certain
crafts by the Western Labor Union.
Ill feeling has existed between the
East and West in the ranks Of labor
for some time. The American Fedora
tion of Labor objects to the Western
Labor Union organizing any union
which has an international organiZa-
tion. The fight is raging all over the
western states and will come to Il eli
max in Denver this month.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
DESTRUCTION OF ST. PIERRE
BY A DEADLY RAIN OF FIRE

France but could not reach the north
ernmost part of the island on account
of dense rain of ashes.
The captain of the Suchet further
reported that the Mont Pelee volcano
still had n threatening aspect yester-
day evening. Subterranenn roarlngs
were still heard, flashes of flame fire.
quently belched from the volcano ana
stones We're thrown ont with immense
force. A dispatch received It the CO.
lonial office here to-day from Fort DE
France says there is no doubt that
Governor Mouttet and the command
er of the troops at St Pierre, Colonel
Dain, are dead.
Other dispatches confirm the reports
that the American ana British consuls
and their families perished.
NJ. Bloch, inspector of finance, and
NJ. Labarthe, the colonial minister
secretary, who have been dispatched
by the government 10 Martinique,
sailed from Brest to-day on the French
cruiser D'Assas. which carries money,
provisions and other stores for the re-
lief of the Martinique sufferers.
\ French cable official who went to
st. Pierre reports that the company's
office has burned TO ashes and that
there is no trace of the staH. This
official adds that the cremation OF the
bodies of the victims has begun and
tnat the cable steamer Poyeur Qucrticr
is proceeding to repair the northern
cable.
The waves of lava are still reported
to be flowing northward They have
extended even to lie Carbet.
The candidates for election TO the
French Chamber of Deputies who per-
ished ut st. Pierre We're NM. Percin
and lie Clerc.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14

How many people realize the bane-
ful, often fatal, influence of unhealthy
thoughts?
How many know that ordinary un-
reasoning fear of disease may be as
deadly as an incubation of poisonous
germs?
Yet this is an established fact.
Physicians are coming more and more
to recognize the power of the mind
over the body. and almost every prac-
titioner will admit that a large part
of his work is the use of mental suE-
gestion in overcoming morbid bodily
conditions.
Every one has noted the influence of
CHEEKY personality in the sick room.
One physician by his sunny confidence
and cleverly turned assurances will
seem actually to impart new strength
and tone to the diseased body. An
other physician with solemn, gloomy
countenance and demeanor suggestive
of an undertaken will strangely de
press and retard the patient
And the same is true of ones own
thoughts. In fact, it is hardly too
much to say that every thought has
it's effect on the condition of the body.
Imagination can give one almost any
disease on the calendar.
1t is said that there is the germ of
fatal thought in nincty-nine persons
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
oHNNA%N%ANNNN-A N-ANNANGN%G&NN@
THOUGHTS THAT ARE FATAL ;
of the

out of every hundred. and that the cul-
tivation of optimism and philosophy is
practically a universal necessity.
There have occurred scores of dozens
of cases where healthy persons have
thought themselves into having tu-
mors and cancers-cases which admit
of no doubt whatever that the diseases
resulted from constant morbid fear.
We should have fewer cases of cancer
If some great doctors could assure the
world that it is not a hereditary dis
case but morbid minded persons on
hearing that there Is cancer in their
families, generally do the very worst
thing they can do under the circum
that they will be afflicted with 1t.
They dwell upon the fear constantly.
and every trining ailment which
troubles them is at first taken for the
premonitory symptoms of cancer. The
morbid condition of mind produces "A
morbid condition of body, and If the
disease does happen to be in the sys-
TEN it receives every encouragement
to develop.
A melancholy thought that fixes
itself upon ones mind needs as much
"doctoring" ms physical disease; 1t
needs to be eradicated from the mind,
or it will have just the same result as
neglected disease would have.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
-Four American Ships Lost.

Washington. May 10.-The following
cablegram has just been received ut
the State Department:
Point-a-Pitre. May 30 Secretary
of State. Washington: At = n. m. on
the Sth instant, a storm of steam, mud
and fire enveloped the city and com
munity. Not more than twenty per-
sons escaped with their lives. Eighteen
vessels were burned and sunk with all
on board. including four American ves-
sells and u steamer from Quebec,
named Roraima. The United States
consul and family are reported among
the victims. a war vessel has come
to Guadaloupe for provisions and Will
leave at . tomorrow. AIME.
Consul"
The State Department has been re-
ceiving dispatches from commercial
houses in New York asking that war;
ships be sent at once to Martinique to
afford relief. The matter is under con-
sideration.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14

Thousands of crystal pendants.
some as white as alabaster. others
with a golden tint, seemed to be try
ing to outsparkle one another in the
candle light. The walls. in places,
glstened with their beautiful deco
rations.
From this beautiful crystal palace
the explorers proceeded to the low
er chamber. Three ladders were
lashed together and lowered into the
hole. but it was found that they were
too short by at least forty feet The
chamber is about eighteen feet
square. and its walls perpendicular
as though squared by expert marble
cutters. Its color is that of the ma
tive rock, lime formation.
1t is characteristic of this cave
that the brilliant white crystal deco
rations have gold ore as back
ground, which serves to enhance their
beauty. In picking of specimens tho
soft ore comes with them. and. as
rule. the crystalIization is but thin
covering to the ore.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
NEWS FROM MARTINIQUE.
Details of the Great Disaster in Paris
Dispatches.

Paris. May 12.-The Temps yester-
D., referring to the destruction of
81 Pierre, says:
I'VE believe. from The information
received here from the island of Mar
Unique tmcaniug, doubtless. the offi-
ciaI dispatches, that the disaster sur
passes all that Imagination can CON
ceive. The whole northeastern portion
of the island Is laid waste. Three
large communities. exclusive Of st.
Pierre. have been destroyed. The vic
tins comprise two candidates for to-
days ballotaye for members of the
Chamber of Deputies"
a dispatch received here to-day
from Fort De France, Martinique,
says:
''All the hills surrounding lie Carbet
and lie Prechcur near st. Pierce are
covered with refugees to the number
of about 5000. who are being taken
away gradually. In the meanwhile
provisions are being conveyed to them.
''Of the thirty persons who were
originally rescued by the French
cruiser Suchet, the majority We're
fearfully burned and nine died Will.
on their way to the hospital.
''The corpses which are heaped on
the ruins of st. Pierre are not only
completely naked but are frightfully
mutilated."
The minister of marine. y. NJ. De
Lanessan, to-day received Il cable dis
patch from the commander of the
French cruiser Suchet. dated Fort De
France. Martinique. saying that he
conducted search at St Pierre yes
terday. The captain reports that the
town is now Il mere heap of smoking
ruins. under which the victims of the
catastrophe are buried. The Suchet
was able to convey some of the inhab-
iHSlts of lie Precheur to Fort De
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
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foreign news was the Continental pa
pers, principally those of Paris. and
credit was always given to the paper.
"for an assurance that we VIII not.
under pretensc of having private in
telligence. impose any addition OF
feigned circnr stances to an action"
The I.cst modern thing about the
Cuurant was its effort at accuracy. At
that time various weekly papers were
in existence but their news was of no
unreliable character that the jour
nails became byword for inaccuracy.
The Courant scorncd these methods
and the evils of subsidized comment.
and, in it's clean character as well as
in its very existence, opened new era
in news dissemination.
The proprietor of the Courant was
one +. Mallet. and it was he that first
showed the practicability of his own
excellent conception of clean news
paper. Samuel Buckley bought tho
Courant on April %. 1902, and added
advertisements. consisting chiefly of
announcements of new books. such AZ
"A Modest Inquiry Concerning the
Opinion of Guardian Angels"
Time and tide wal, for no man-and
n woman is always Eehind time.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
BOYS IDEA OF HIS SWEETHEART
As Dainty n Compliment as Ono Could
Desire.

As Dainty a Compliment as One Could
Desire.
young matron who lives in
Washington apartment house with her
little daughter is viewing with great
interest courtship going on under
her very eyes. The daughter Naomi,
is the most engaging, dlgnifed and
dutiful little girl of II ever seen in
that part of the city across the creek.
So she has been taken by her mother
to call upon a great many older per-
sons. and has made the acquaintance
of numerous boys of fifteen or there
abouts. Not long ago one of these
boys came to see his friends mother
very formally and sat and talked with
her until the tensity of a formal call
nearly burst his jacket. Then he arose
and with a polite bow asked for
nortralt of the little girl. The matron
demurred, of course.
Well said the young suitor, N
YOU will give me good picture OF
Naomi | will give you back picture
| have already. 1t isn't a good one at
all. But I'll give 1t back to you for
a better one.
The mother was greatly mystihed.
She decided after awhile that the boy
mas photographed her little girl on
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14

the sly. and in order to find out she
sent him word that she would make
the exchange.
Next day there came to her door
long box with note on the outside.
Il am greatly privileged to send you
Naomi's picture read the note. ut
isn't half as pretty as 1t ought to be"
The young matron opened the box
curiously, says the Washington Star.
and looked at its contents long time
without saying a word. II held q sin
gle American beauty rose.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
Senator IIanna's WISH.

A friend who was lunching with
Senator Hanna recently said to him:
Senator, you have abundant wealth, a
happy home and have been highly
honored by your fellow-citizens. but
don't you at times wish for something
more?" Yes, have wish similar to
one expressed by an ancient Roman"
said Hanna. 81 wish that | might eat
what | please and make some Demo-
crat digest it."
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
Queen wiIheImina Doing Well.

The Hague. May 1.-THE bulletins
issued at Castle Loo concerning the
condition of Queen Wilhelmina have
been reduced to one n day, and 1t Is eX-
pected that they will soon cease alto
gether. The marked improvement in
her maiesty's condition continues and
the constant attendance of her physi-
clan is no longer necessary.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14

1t is the demands. not the promises.
that make men of us; the RESPONSE
bilities. not the enjoyments. that raise
us to the stature of men and women.
p. T. Forsyth.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
Snow Tunnel Opened.

Denver. May 1O.-A News special
from Ouray Thursday says:
The road to Red Mountain has at last
been opened for traffic. after being
ulockaded for two months and half
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14

The shortest way to honesty is
around expediency.
The Lamar register., 1902-05-14

Time and tide wal, for no man-and
n woman is always Eehind time.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03

Sleepless people-and there are
many in America-should court the
sun. The very worst soporitic Is
laudanum and the very best is sun
shine Therefore il is very plain tina
poor sleepers should pass as many
hours as possible in the sunshine and
as few as possible in the shade. Many
women are martyrs, and yet they do
not know IT, They wear wells. carry
parasols and do all they possibly can
to keep of the potent influence which
is intended to give them strength,
beauty and cheerfulness. The wom-
en- Of America are pale and delicate.
They may be blooming aud strong,
and the sunlight viii be potent in
fiuence in this transformation.-Pub-
lie Health Journal.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03

One OF the saddest sights in the
world Is that Of a soul which has
been starved by Incidence, an unde-
veloped. stunted man. who has never
sufficiently exerted himself TO unfold
his godlike power, 20 cultivate his
finer sentiments and faculties. Ii is
not necessary for man 10 be active
ly bad in order TO make a failure OF
life; simple inaetion viii accomplish
il. Nature has everywhere written
her protest against idleness; every
thing which ceases 70 struggle, which
remains inactive. rapidly deteri-
CRATES. II Is the struggle toward an
ideal. the constant effort 20 get
higher and further. which develops
manhood and character.-SueeesA
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03
How To
Gain T Iesh

Persons have been known to
gain a pound a day by taking
an ounce of SCOTS EhUL.
SION. II is strange, but il often
happens.
Somehow the ounce produces
the pound; il seems to start the
digestive machinery going prop
crly. so that the patient IS able
% digest and absorb his ordinary
food, which he could not do be-
fore, and that IS the way the gain
is made.
A certain amount OF Flesh IS
necessary for health; If you have
not got il you can get It by
taking
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03
The Truth OF II.

"What! Still alive, Daniel?" ex-
claimed the king, when he visited the
lions den that morning.
"Yes, thanks be to Heaven" replied
the good man.
"Wby don't you take credit 70 your
self?" retorted the king. you are too
modest"
Perhaps suppose II / wasn't mod
est this lionizing would be the death
Of me. "-Philadelphia Pres.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03
BRIGANDS ARE HEROES.
TO Bandits as the National
Model.

The bandit is the Macedonian hero
The admiration of him is inbred.
Greek independence was won by
bandits Injured to fighting and
marches, not by townsmen. The
Greek national costume to-day-the
respondent uniform worn by the
kings crack regiments of Euzones-
u that of the Albanian brigand.
Macedonia spasmodically hopes to be
redeemed from Islam as was Greece.
In a country where poverty is the
sole safeguard against plumber the
brigand is the only hero, and he is
the only dandy. He comes into the
semi-weekly market where the wom-
en- chatter over their wares, or
strides through a railroad car
known by everybody, with his snow
white fustanella standing out about
him like a ballet dancers skirt, his
heavily tasseled cap, his embroidered
tunic stiff with cleaning metal
,wirling his fierce mustache. The ro-
mantle young envy him; their elders
at least recognize in him a familiar
burden. He is popular. The world
hears nothing Of the brigands unless
they disturb Europeans. With ma.
tives their methods are drastic
writes John Langdon Heaton, in the
Era.
That Bulgarian officials connive al
brigandage along the Turkish front
Ter is understood. The higher Off
cials at Sofia-even those educated
at Robert college in Constantinople
as so many have been-are, after all
Of the east. They. too, pin theiI
faith to a Balkan kingdom. united
and independent, in part upon the
brave men Of the hills, who must not
therefore be too much discouraged
by beheading; they, too, see hope
in perpetual discomfort perpetual
disorder, perpetual agitation. Muir
der itself does not strike one as 81
great a matter when one is within
sight Of the Balkans. The killing OF
Stambuloff, the executions ordered
by the Macedonian committee, ano
the farcical recent trials Of the pop
ular heroes who doubtless commit
ted them. show that, The political
propapandism in the debatable lano
Is carried on largely through the
schools
Disraeli is largely responsible for
Macedonian brigandage Russia hao
Turkey well whipped i'm ISIS, and by
the treaty Of San Stefano stripped
her Of nearly all her European pos
sessions. The Greece went Janina;
Bulgaria. whose sufTerings by the
"unspeakable atrocities" were one
cause Of the war. was practically
freed and made to include most OF
Macedonia.
Then Beaconsfield called the Berlii
congress. bullied Russia into giving
up the fruits Of victory, restored
Macedonia to Turkey, and received
for Great Britain, as the honest
broker" the island Of Cyprus, which
she didn't in the least need.
Poor Macedonia, thrust back into
the hands OF the Turks, was mis-.
ruled as before: the reforms that
were guaranteed as one of the condi
tions Of the new arrangement never
got beyond the parchment stage, and
the province from that day has never
seen a peaceful hour. Turkish Walls
Kaimakans. Kadis and Zaptiehs have
plundered right and left, and what
they overlooked professional bandits
have taken.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03

Mrs. Mahoole Shure, avn tn doc
tor is maxim a hog out ay Pathrick.
Mrs. O'Toole-Awn how SO, Mrs. Ma
hoole?
Mrs. Mahoole-Phoy. he forbid him
smokin' kept after meals, avn now
Pathrick ates tin meals a day.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03

The shades of the goose and the
turkey were discussing the circum-
stances which had attended their re-
speetive takings off.
Did you offer any objection when
first the cruel farmer laid hands on
you?" alphabetically inquired the
gobbler.
yes, replied his gooseship; Il cried
out: Hello, what's this?"
"What did you say next?" inquired
the now thoroughly interested fowl.
oh" the goose replied, Il did not
say anything more; just then | was
wrung off. Michigan Tyre.
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HI. Plan.

"Ah," said the great foreign actor,
81 have hit on a plan which will, in
deed, bring me distinction"
"What is it?" asked a friend.
u shall make a farewell tour of the
United States-and | shall not go
back Brooklyn Life.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03
Only One Theory.

"Now, look here" said the lawyer,
shaking his fist at the witness, Il
want you to understand that you can't
bamboozle me in this court simply be-
cause you're a woman!"
"Why?" she asked in her sweetest
tones; lis your wife present ?"-Ghi-
cago Record Herald.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03
4 sorrows Crown Of sorrow.

She-Mr. McCroesus was very rich,
wasn't he?
He-Yes; were you at his funeral2
She-Yes. 1t seemed a great effort
for his nephew TO control himself.
He-Yes. 1t must have been very
hard trying not to look cheerful
Harlem Life.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03
Approval.

at seems to me that there is a
great literary awakening in this coun-
try"
YES" answered the matter-of-fact
citizen.
81 observe it with great approval"
"Then you are fond of books"
mo. / am in the stationery bust
ness. sell pens, ink and paper
Washington Star.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-03

Mamma-What's the matter, Willie?
Didn't you have a good time at the
party?
Willie-Naw.
"Why? Didn't you get enough to
eat?"
"Yes: but ! didn't get too much
Philadelphia Record.