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The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
Up-to-Date journalism. .

The country is now full OF schools
of journalism. The proprietors agree
to fit out their graduates with first
class positions and enable them to
draw salaries all the way from 81 900
to $4,000 year. One of these neo
phites secured position on paper
and here is the first copy be turned
in:
"a bad boy caught dog with a
freckled face and red hair bent on
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
County Notes

From the Holly Chieftainl
CRANKY Hillyer, Of Lamar, was
here Tuesdsy as counsel for the de-
fence in the Collier larceny case.
Mrs. G. E. Billingslea and children
returned to Holly Saturday from La
mar and will live here during the
winter.
F. g. Hoffman has about complet-
ed the stone school house in Amity.
This Is fine building and would be
an ornament and credit to any school
district.
The beet fields that were struck
by the hail two weeks ago are again
as green as ever and the indications
are that the damage to that crop is
very light and will be hardly notice
able at harvest time Thus again
is it demonstrated that sugar beets
is the safest and surest crop the farm
ers can raise.
from the Granada Times.
Miss ethel Hemphill, sister Of Mrs.
L. D. Boggs, left for Lamar, yester'
day, to visit with her brother.
Geo. d. Robinson came down
from Lamar. Sunday, on business for
his firm, and made his sister, Mrs.
D. II. Dickson, aud her family a
visit while here.
NJ. F. Dickinson has purchased the
first lot north of the track on the east
side Of Main street, and is erecting q
subetantial warehouse thereon. The
warehouse will be 25 by go feet, and
will be used by Mr.. Dickinson and
by Noble & Bolton. Joel knowlen
is doing the work.
Frank 7. Smith, from near Spring
field, Illinois, last week purchased 80
acres from Bane & Bassett, out OF
section 6 of the KY ranch. MIR.
Smith will build q good house and
put in n crop for next year. MIR.
Smith is a very successful farmer
and we welcome him among US. We
understand he expects to be back here
about September 3rd to begin the
improvement OF his land.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

Packing House Discussion Warm
Ing Up.
Business circles are agltated some
what over the absence of action on
the part of the United States Pack
ing company of Denver and other
places, in the matter of beginning
the $345,000 packing house in Pu-
eblo as per contract. If Pueblo COM
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
leasing or SELLING state Lands.

An illustration OF the wisdom OF
seiiiag state lands at reasonable
a,r,ce rather than leasing them is fur
nisbed by the case of "a tract of forty
acres situated near the town of Monte
Vista, which the state land board or
dared sold the other day to that town
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05

In this story Cyrus Townsend Brady
shows signs of acquiring literary grace and
skill. 1t is the most promising story he
has written. His pen shows an admirable
restraint, yet kis descriptions. plot and
conceit are ampls enough to make an enter
tanning tale. A member of an old and
proud Philadelphia family rescues the hero
inc of the story from a burning boarding
school. The her9ine is the daughter of the
most wealthy citizen, who controls the city
through his mary commercial and political
interests. The young lady is highly cul-
tured. but not TO the point of dulling or
specialist on thes negro question, which she
has studied only through books written
principally by New Englanders. She is the
doctor of philosophy of the story, taking
her degree sumIIa cum laude through her
thesis on the cosor problem. The hero Is a
man of the Gibson ideal type, a physician.
handsome, noble. and strong, who does not
agree with the graduate In her ideas. Mr..
Brady's plot is delicate and he fingers over
its parts in an admirable way which is a
relief from the strenuous path of such re-
cent books as Lsxon's THE One Woman"
Consequently wat the book lacks In dash
and vigor it mikes up in sweetness and
cleverness. Mr.: Brady's ironical handling
of the uncle of the hero; who opposes the
marriage of the two on the ground that his
family is vastly superior, is amusing and
will suit the more democratic taste of
readers. The end OF the story is tragic and
engrossing. Charles Scribners Sons, New
Xnrlx
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05

The Forthcoming production of "Parsifal"
by the Conreid Grand Opera Company
should make demand for this excellent
metrical translation of Wagner's music
drama. Also tbs prospective lectures of
Damrosch in Indianapolis on Wagnerian
music should maize local demand for the
book. Oliver Huckel has retold the story
worthily for the first time in English, and
In its present setting it is of interest to
lovers OF poetry. drama and opera alike
This spiritual composition has been kept
in the seclusion Gf Bayreuth, so that only
visitors to Syria have had opportunity
TO enjoy the masterpiece. The librettos
that have reached America have been
imperfect literal translations, often in
language full of faults, so this
paraphrase, in : excellent blank verse,
of Mr.. Huckels. will come as a pleas
to enter into the spirit of the opera The
theme Of "Parsffal" is one of appealing
beauty. 1t is the last. the loftiest and the
most spiritual OF Wagner's dramas. The
legend of the Eioly Grail is interviewer
with medieval thought and superstition in
such way that its significance is univer-
sal and eternal. Criticism has sometimes
held that "Parsffal' is Buddhistic rather
than Christian. hut those who are familiar
with Wagner's motive believe he tried In
"Parsifar' to express broadly and deeply
the essentials of Christian truth. Mention
of the opera as rfusic or drama is superfiu-
ford scholar. has. done much for the Ameri-
can public in presenting this work at this
time Thomas 7. Crowell & Co., New
York
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05
ToIstoys and His Message.

Ernest HovTar& Crosley is a propagandist
of Tostoy's ideSss of morals and art, but he
tries TO be fair critic nevertheless In
his little book lie says many things of in
terest, some of Shich are new. The book is
an appreciated" of Tolstoy's character
and free Interpretation of his message to
mankind The following paragraph is rep
resentative:
''Tolstoy is nos scholar, and his knowl-
edge of Greek is not profound. There are
some drawback also In his methods For
instance, when lie does not like a verse of
Scripture he silnply leaves IL out, a won
derfully simple expedient which seems to
have escaped the ingenuity of former COM
mentators and 1T is remarkable that they
never thought cf it--it is so satisfactory TO
the commentator. But, making all allow
ances for Tolstey's arbitrary ways and his
lack of scholarThi the fact remains that
his dramatic aaality of mind has enabled
him to enter iI.to the spirit of the gospel
narrative as few other writer's have ever
done He descfibes the events as IL they
had occurred in Moscow to-day, and we see
with new insight why the Pharisees spake
thus and why The disciples made such and
such an answer.
Funk e. Wagralls Company. New York.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05
THE DEMOCRATIC GOLD BRICK.

As the city campaign draws to a close the
Democratic fusillade of false pretense and
hypocrisy appears to be weakening very
perceptibly. 1t is peculiar situation and
has been a peculiar campaign from the
start Early in the spring there was very
large section of the Republican party op-
posed to the denomination of Mr.. Book
walter. for various reasons This Opposi-
ton included some who had always been
opposed to him and his friends on the
question of local party control, some who
objected to his administration as too lib
erar' In it's enforcement of the liquor
laws, the usual number of men with per-
sonal grievances on account of improve
ments they did not want to pay for, con-
not get, and that element of quasi-inde-
pendents both men and newspapers, that
like to call themselves Republican because
1t is more respectable. but who are usually
found "agin' the party in power. no mat
ter which one it happens to be.
Instead of recognizing this opposition. the
administration, in control of the party ma
chinery, made the tactical mistake of call
ing a very early convention and causing
those Republicans opposed to 1t on honest
and reasonable grounds to believe they had
not been given a full and free opportunity
to cross swords at the primaries. But Mr..
Bookwalter has asked no quarter in any
direction, and he was aggressive within
the party as be has always been fighting
the party's enemies, whether Democrats.
independent newspapers or people foolishly
trying to reform political parties from the
outside by sporadic and more or less hys-
terical methods long ago proven ineffective
in the direction of anything like permanent
reform
At this juncture there opportunity
for an Independent movement that might
have won temporary success, but that
opportunity was in part forestalled by our
perniciously active Prohibition friends in
calling a hurried convention, selecting a
man without asking anybody's advice and
advertising him an independent candi-
date; and 1t was In part frittered away by
lack of leadership, or. rather, by self-ap
pointed leaders who listened TO the prom
ises OF the willy Reach and became so
thoroughly convinced that he would nomi-
nate Mccullough that they committed their
cause to the Democratic organization. led
by man who had won his political power
by his ability to round up the worst ele-
ments of the Democratic party
And then what? Then we find Reach,
Polster. Sterling Holt and the old gang
selecting Johnny" Hoffman and putting
him forth as a reform candidate for
mayor. 1t is the first case on record of
an effort to sell a well-known and plainly
marked gold brick TO a whole community
on the theory thar all the people not di-
rectiy interested IN the profits of such a
| fraud are fools. This man was selected as
the least conspicuous of the gang. placed
on platform fuller OF promises than Chi
cago is of paving stones. and given a
| typewriter speech of the same character
| TO read before the convention and repeat
4! In the wards. And who is he? What has
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05
SOME OF THE NEW BOOKS


AS good a novel of American authorship
as has appeared so far this season is THE
Law of Life" by e,nna Mcclure Sholl. 1t
is complete story, not sketchy, drama
of manners and TIE heart in which the
dramatic perspective of the incidents is
unusually well presented. 1t also has a
strong color value, adapting a pictorial
expression to Literary use The scene is a
university town ana the story concerns it
self mostly with sife in the university.
Barbara Dale comes 10 the college at the
beginning OF the year as the ward OF DT
Penfold, a professor very much engrossed
in his work. The .ioctor becomes Ill ana
Barbara cares for him. She also becomes
his amanuensis ana assists him in many
ways that are OF much value. DR.. PenIolo
associate, Waring, "a handsome, vlvacious,
yet studious man, is attentive TO Barbara.
But through a mistaken idea or her duty
and her happiness, and mistaking the
gentleness and fasherly kindness OF her
guardian for love, 1T the end of her fresh
man year she marsies the professor so as
to be of still greater assistance 10 him.
Later she comes ~ comprehend reai love
with hers. to the soint where they would
under ordinary circumstances become in
separable. Through the Intervention or a
third person, however, nothing comes OF
their love. Outstanding this outcome
the succeeding chapters worked out
with good effect. .Waring returns TO his
editorial work and Barbara to a blank life
In the end. The college life is well drawn
In this story, the seat of learning pictured
being Cornell 1t IL the type of richly en-
dowed institutions; of slender traditions.
which nave sprung, up in the central West.
The emptiness of life when deep love Is
thwarted, the mistaken sense of high re-
sponsibiifty. in affairs of the heart-or
minc-the possibilities OF a purely chivalric
attitude in woman. make this novel one of
considerable interest. ID. Appleton & Co..
New York.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05

Guy Wetmore Carryl is whimsical as any
Partisan dare be. His French experience
was gained while he was the representative
OF New York publishing house In the
French capital. Since his first novel. THE
Lieutenant Governor" appeared. he has
been engaged on these Partisan sketches,
many of which have appeared in leading
American magazines. The book is what
might be expected from this purveyor OK
pleasing nonsense verse-a light, agreeable,
vivacious collection of short stories valuable
for their impressionistic and sketchy. rather
than their higher artistic significance There
are to be found the bourgeois, the artist or
the Latin quarter the young American IN
Paris. the impoverished nobleman, the gar
con OF the cafe, the concierge. and the man
about town-all in dainty literary portrait
ure They make a rarely entertaining vol-
ume. The book is foreign in typography and
has a Frenchy appearance. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05

William j. Bryan has repeatedly alluded
to Abraham Lincoln as an anti-expansion-
list. though never citing any proof of it.
There is some evidence to the contrary. In
1861. when on his way to Washington to
assume the presidency, Mr.. Lincoln was
given reception at Philadelphia, and in
brief speech at fiag-raising he said:
The future is in the hands of the people.
1t is on such occasion this that we
can reason together, reaffirm our devotion
to the country and the principles of the
Declaration of Independence. Let us make
up our mind that when we put new star
upon our banner ii shall be fixed one,
never to be dimmed by the horrors of war,
but frightened by the contentment and
prosperity of peace. Let us go on to extend
the area of our usefulness, add star upon
star until their light shall shine upon five
hundred millions of free and happy people.
AS the total population of the United
States, including its new island possessions,
is still far short of the mark fixed by Mr..
Lincoln it is fair to rate him an ex-
pansionist. He certainly was not a con-
tractioniSt.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Cleo De Merode has quit the stage, she
says, forever, and will live quietly in priv
ate lfe She will shortly marry a wealthy
Russian.
The fees paid by the cardinal camerlingo
to the physicians who attended Leo XIII
in his last illness are said to have been
$4,000 to DIR. Lapponi, $500 to Professor
Mazzoni and 5000 to Professor Rossoni.
Pope Plus x reads and understands
French, but he cannot converse readily in
that language. AS he does not wish to
talk to the Car. during his coming visit,
through an interpreter, his Holiness is daily
practicing French with the aid Of Mgr. Del
Val.
M Louis Andre. the well-known GRIM
inal Judge of Paris tribunals, has devoted
all his fortune for the purchasing of lands
and creating large settlements at Haut de
Saint Jean, near Chartres and Choisy,
where ex-culprits can find work and happy
surroundings.
Samuel Williams of Purcell, president Of
a bank there, probably has right to the
claim of being wheat king of Indian Ter
ritory lie has probably been more sue
cessful than any other farmer in the Ter
ritory. He has had as many as 10000 acres
of this crop in single year.
The oldest woman college graduate in
Massachusetts,, if not in all New England,
DR.. Sophronia Fletcher. recently observed
her ninety-f1fth birthday at Cambridge.
For thirty years she was the attending
physician of Wendell Phillips's invalid wife
and has had many distinguished patients.
Charles w. Condor. of Lenox, Ia. sup
piled several square inches of skin to be
grated on John W., Mallott, a railway en-
gineer, after an accident to the latter about
five years ago. subsequently he presented
a bill of $1,000 for the skin, and, having
failed to collect it. he is now suing the
engineer for the sum named. Mallott got
81 600 from the railroad company after the
accident, but lost Ii in a business venture.
Henry Labouchere, editor of London
Truth is a very rich man, but he enjoys
few of the ordinary pleasures which are
supposed to go with riches. He eats the
simplest fare; he never touches wine except
when he is bullied into taking glass or two
of mild claret by medical advice. He has
two weaknesses-one Is his love of cigarette
smoking, the other mania for changing
houses and redecoration and rebuilding.
1t is understood at Newport that the mar
riage of Miss May Goelet and the Duke of
Roxburghe, whose engagement was an
nounced two days ago. will take place in the
first week of November. If the wedding is
TO take place at Newport old Trinity Church
will undoubtedly be the scene of the cere-
mony and there will follow a reception and
breakfast at Ochre Court, the Goelet villa
on the cliffs which is one of the finest resi-
SancaS in the world.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05

author is fanciful in her historical illusions
and musings, but as her trip was over a
part OF the world that Is said TO TEEN with
romance, she has ample excuse for what
she has written. Many travellers who put
their impressions and observations IN book
form either ignore details or are too verbose
in their descriptions. Mrs. Starr has avoid
ed these faults, for she has made her
sketches really pen-pictures Of what she
saw The little details, the minor incidents,
as well as the greater happenings, are all
presented the whole forming picture Of
the scenes viewed by the author. Among
the places visited and described are Port
au-Prince Haiti; Santo Domingo, San
Juan, Porto Rico; Charlotte Amaie, st.
Thomas; Martinique: Port OF Spain. Trini-
dad; Caracas, Laguayra and Puerto Cabel-
10, Venezuela; Willemstadt; Curacao and
Kingston. Jamaica. The books are pro-
fusely illustrated from photographs taken
during the cruise. Z. c. Page & Co., Bos-
ton
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05

he ever done for this community except to
grab $500 from the county treasury and
let a lot of gamblers and divekeepers go
scot free while he was county prosecutor?
Has he ever contributed with voice. deed
money to any movement for the public
good? Has he ever done anything for any
body but his immediate family? If so, it
was done with great secrecy-and he has
never been accused OF overmuch modesty.
All we can be perfectly sure of about him
is that he is ambitious for place and
power, and that the crowd Immediately
about him is composed of men that have
been in politics a great deal, and never for
their health or for the good of the COM
munity
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05
RALLY TO THE COLORS.

The closing sentence of Senator Bever-
idge's speech Saturday night had the true
ring of party leadership. He said:
brother Republicans all over the State the
inspiring message that the Republican
party in indianapolis is still united, still
triumphant and stronger than ever for the
battles We must fight and the victories We
will win in the days TO come.
Whatever some Republicans of this city
may think of this appeal, there are more
than 100000 OF them throughout the State
who will indorse il most heartily. Repub-
licans who for personal, local or trivial
reasons may be thinking of voting against
the Republican candidate, and thereby per-
haps contributing to Democratic victory,
should remember that such a result would
have a discouraging effect on Republicans
throughout the State. The word discour
aging is not strong enough. Republicans
throughout the State will be disgusted if
the party in this city is brought to defeat
by the opposition and disaffection of Re-
publicans, and they will lay it up against
the city. Two years ago, when a consider
able number Of Republicans were hesitating
as to how to vote, the Charlottesville Jour
nal said: "If Mr.. Bookwalter is defeated
it is hardly probable that any candidate
from Marion county for State Office will
receive much encouragement from the
country districts at the state convention
next spring." Other Republican papers ex-
pressed themselves the same way, and the
porting the Republican ticket, quoted the
expressions with approval and said: "As
a party matter, it is one OF vital interest.
for. as the Charlottesville Journal puts it,
The control of the political machinery in
Indianapolis means much in a State cleo
tion. virtually turning the scale in a close
election" The Richmond Item said at
that time: THE eye of the Republican
party in Indiana is upon the Indianapolis
Republicans" So it is now, and they are
expecting Indianapolis Republicans to rally
to the colors.
AS evidence that Democratic victory in
the city election will not affect State cleo
tion anti-Bookwalter Republicans point to
the fact that although Mr. Taggart was
elected mayor in 1895 and in 1899, the Re-
publcans carried the city and county in 1896
and in 1900. Conditions are changed. Then
the Democratic party was divided into free
silver and sound money factions, and hun
dreds of Democrats voted with the Repub-
licans on national issues. 1t will not be so
next year. Next fall the Democrats will
be united, while If Mr.. Bookwalter should
be defeated by Republican votes it will be
hard for the party to get together again.
With a cunning and resourceful enemy,
officered by shrewd leaders, trying to break
our lines. the best thing for Republicans to
do is to rally to the colors.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05
A Deaf in wheat.

This volume of Frank Norris's short
stories. collected and published post
humously, is not to be estimated by the
title story. That Is by no means the best
In the book. Frank Norris's forte was not
the short story. His vision covered too
large territory Ito make him especially
effective in the more curtailed field. His
genius was better fitted to the sustained
novel, or, better siill, to the larger ground
of the trilogy WHICH he would have written.
THESE stories seens to one acquainted with
ms broader work: mere fragments. The
nrst story would s;arcely attract particular
attention to the author if it were published
In newspaper form. The second story, The
Wife of Chino" Eas more human and in
timately personal sdramatic interest and is
put together bettes as bit of writing. The
first seems somewhat disjointed. But the
force. the clean ySgOr of Norris shows in
both stories-the tnan in Norris gives evil
dence of itself. The third story, "A Bar
gain With Peg-legs" comes more within the
field of the shor, story and is Kipling-
the style to the tsleme and the clever and
unexpected endine In short, it is the star
story Of the book Ind an eminently worthy
product in its lind. The Passing OF Cock
eye Blackjack IL after the order of the
Memorandum of Sudden Death,,' 1.-Two
Hearts that Beat jas One," 1.-The Dual Per-
sonality of Slick. Dick Nickerson." "The
snip that Saw a. Ghost" THE Ghost
in the Crosstrees' and 'The Riding of
Except for the stpries of Western life the
book is not especially noteworthy; but with
all like the Peg-!eg story it would have
made Norris an --merican Kipling as well
as his other books; have made him an Amer
lean Zola. Doubleday, Page & Co.. New
York.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05
On the Menu.

Judge.
What have you in the larder?' asked the
cannbal king of his chef
Not so much to-day your elevatedness,' ex-
plained the chef. Nothing except a printer
and actor"
Oh, WELL fix them UP some way"
The chef bowed several times and rubbed his
hands together.
What are you waiting for?" asked the can
nibal King.
Would your serenely altitudnous excellency
deign to suggest some method of preparing the
Two persons-sone new dish, for instance. that
would be pleasant TO your royal palate?''
Don't go to any bother. Just put the printer
in the pi and the actor in the supe"
And the court jester stepped up and resigned
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-05

A ST. Louis paper says that unless that
city is to make friends and admirers by the
worlds fair 1t will be losing enterprise for
the city IF visitors go away to speak
unfavorably of st. Louis" says the paper,
the injury done this community will be
hard to calculate" The article cites the
case of barber at the Union Station who
recently bulldozed young man out of s6
for a trifing service. This point of extor-
ton and of inability to handle the crowds
are the ones on which many persons fear
ST. Louis will fail The show will be a
great one, but as for the rest-well time
will tell.