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The Lamar register., 1903-08-12

A party OF young ladies' got together
yesterday evening and had picnic down
in the fair grounds. There was quite
number of them and each one took along
a supply OF good things to eat. They
had jolly time. too.
Thomas j. Pyle, Of Colorado Springs,
was here yesterday. Mr.. Pyle is district
organizer of the Woodmen OF the World
and was here on business connected
with the log rolling which takes place
the Goth Of this month.
The fair grounds at Lamar this year
will be lit up at night with electric
lights, and the management has arrang
ed for the erection OF stage in front OF
the grand-stand where first class vaude-
vile show will be held every night.
The local camp of the Woodmen Of the
World is sending members to the vari-
GUS camps in the district. to talk up the
log rolling and work up such an interest
that the attendance is bound to be large.
There will be great "doings" on that
day.
There was game of base ball at the
fair grounds last Sunday afternoon be-
tween the Lamar second nine and a
team styling itself the Lone Stars. The
latter team was defeated by score OF
nine to four, and it is said that the game
was a very pretty one.
A couple Of our business men are hav-
ing considerable trouble over the affairs
of their partnership. They have had a
couple of personal encounters, besides
several wordy quarrels. The matter is
Of very painful nature and so we can
not afford to give names.
With an abundance of moisture from
rains, and no urgent need Of water, quite
number of the farmers under the Fort
Lyon canal closed their gates and
opeped up the inlet to the King reservoir
and the water of the week went therein
instead Of on their farm lands.
A woman applied to the county au-
thorIties for assistance last week and re-
ceised provisions to the amount OF two
dollars and a half On Monday OF this
week she returned to the county clerks
office and repaid the amount. This is
one of those instances which preserve
faith il humanity.
During the storm last Saturday, light
ming struck and killed Charles Barker
who was working about two miles east
of town. The bolt also killed his team
Mr.. Barker's father-in law was near the
scene but was not touched One of the
Newman boys, who was also near by
was knocked down by the shock, but
was not injured. The deceased was q
hard working man, who was just begin
ming to get Il good start in this country
but his sudden death leaves wife aud
five children in very Strengthened cir
cumstances. About two weeks ago Mr.
Barker took out an insurance of 81 ,OO(
but had not received his policy. 1t if
probable however, that the widow may
get tho money. Funeral services were
held Sunday afternoon.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12
Killing of the StanIeys.

Postofiice Inspector Sullivan received
dispatch from United States Marshal
Fossett at Guthrie, Okla, stating that
Sam Martin and Bill Martin, alias Sam
and Bill Stanley, we're killed last Satur-
day evening by the marsh ais deputies.
Sam and Bill Martin were the two
men who were with "Cherokee Bill"
Smith when they held up the postmast-
er at Carlton, Prowers county, Colorado,
on Thanksgiving day, 1902, and robbed
the postofiice OF s62.10 in money order
funds and for which "Cherokee Bill"
penitentiary on a sentence OF five years
The Martin boys are outlaws, and after
the robbery at Carlton, Colo, they held
up the express agent at Hennessey,
Okla. whom they robbed, and in making
their escape killed the porter at the de-
pot. There are other charges pending
against them in Oklahoma and several
cases of stealing cattle and mules are
registered rgainst them in Prowers and
Bent counties, Colorado.
Rewards aggregating $500 had been
offered for the men dead or alive. Depu-
ty Marshal Haines, who was wounded
in the fight, is in a critical condition to-
day.
Upon the arrival Of the deputies today
the first details of the fight were learned.
The fight took place at o'clock Satur-
day evening eight miles south of Paw
huska, where the outlaws were located.
fortified behind knoll in deep ravine.
AS the officers neared their camp the
outlaws opened fire, which was answer
ed, and steady exchange followed.
Will Martin was shot in the mouth and
died instantly. Sam Martin was shot
through the right side and fell while
running away. Clarence Simmons es-
capped. The officers recovered about
1000 rounds of ammunition and several
rifles.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12
MONEY TO LOAN
PIenty Of Cheap Money for
good Farm and City Loans.
Call and see mo.
L. WRIT MARkHAM.
Notice to Farmers
We have in stock large supply Of
the best Trinidad Coal.
THE LAMAR SEED co.

Remember the day the bloomer girls
play.
d. H. Bane Of Chicago and Chas. R.
Hinton of Granada were Lamar visitors
Sunday.
Miss Harnett of Chicago is visiting
her sister, Mrs E. M. Mears, at her
north side home.
Messrs. Rust and Tevabaugh, new
residents of the Granada vicinity. we're
county seat visitors Monday.
On and after the Doth of August your
shave will cost you 15 cents and haircut
25 cent, at all shops in the city.
w. A. and Oscar Leonard are here
this week from Oklahoma looking after
their Prowers county property.
Mrs. B. F. Mcclellan was called to her
old home in Illinois this week owing to
the serious illness of her mother.
Undersheriff Frisbie has gone to get a
requsition for Heckroot, the forger who
escaped from Jail last month. He was
captured in eastern Kansas.
Henry Gerstenlauer, the little Dutch
jeweler, ls visiting his old home in
Missouri this week. He and Mr.. Gerst-
enlauer will return next week.
H. T. Perry, from Oklahoma, is here
today visiting his sister, Mrs. d. L.
Silver. Mr.. Perry did not intend to
make his visit just yet, but was left here
by No. this morning, he being enroute
to California.
Miss Dena Thoman and her sister
Rose, returned from La Junta last Sat
urday morning. They had been there
for week, attending the teachers insti-
tute.
Beginning with the 20 of the month
all the barber shops in the city will
operate under their new schedule Of
prices. Shave loo haircut 25c and 30 on
down the list.
An immense dancing pavilion will be
erected on the fair grounds at Lamar
this year and dancing going on night
and day. The grounds will be lit up
with electricity.
A number Of young ladies took fish
ing excursion this afternoon, DR.. and
Mrs. Fewkes being the hosts. The affair
was given in honor of Miss Luck and
should be very successful.
Charles Clark and wife arrived in La
mar the latter part of last week and it 10
reported that they will remsin here and
that Mr.. Clark will have position in
one of the lumber yards.
Miss Halle Mourning, who has been
spending a two weeks vacation up in
the mountains and at Pueblo, returned
on Monday morning and is again at her
post, in Johnston's>dry goods store.
The Prowers County Fair at Lamar
this year, August 26, q and %. will be
continuous round Of pleasure, instruc-
tion and amusement-something going
on all the time. Everybody come and
take in the three days and nights.
The weeds are being cut down in
many places around town, but there are
many places which are receiving no at
tention. Owners of property ought to
take pride enough in the appearance Of
the town to see that 1t presents II clean
look to the crowds which will be here
during the fair and the Woodmen log
rolling. The town authorities are doing
some OF the work, but the citizens should
cooperate.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12

ed the wind, but the damage is quite
heavy as it is. No reports can be OBJ
tanned from the farming section, as the
telephone line is also aamaged.-Denver
Times
Later reports are to the effect that
Mr.. Parish has recovered and is out Of
danger
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12
Teachers Examination.

The regular county teachers examin-
alton will be held at the court house in
Lamar and at the town hall in Granada,
Thursday and Friday, August 30 and
2l, beginning at o'clock.
The attention OF teachers is called to
the fact that the law, at present, as
amended, has added the subject of the
Constitution of Colorado to the baanch-
es formerly given.
j. A. RosEBRoUGH,
Co. Supt. of Schools.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12

Mrs Jesse NJ. Johnston invites the
Social Circle of the Presbyterian church
to meet at her home next Friday, Aug.
IA, at haf-past two o'clock.
J. b. DICKINSON, Sec'y.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12

For bargains in farm lands go to
@. b. Thoman.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12

For cheap town lots see @. B.
Thoman.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12

Remember that Denning's photo.
graphs are guaranteed to please yon.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-12

Correct any tendency TO constipa.
ton with small doses 81 Ayor'o Puoo.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03
Many readers viii probablv

painted from life. Many readers VIII pr9basv
go further.
There is quaint doeUati-H. and .--e.-varo.
in MIR Carew Hdztt's treatise on .Shak-so.s,.
which makes il exceedingly diyerting. In IN.
versatility of his interests and the astoui=bir-
variety of his convictions there is sor,efbin,
that reminds one Of John RUskin. but Of a ra;ao-
and therefore humorous Euskin. shedding be
wiIdering crosslights on nothing Of corseauanca
and Illuminating mares nests Dissatisfied with
the caution of Mr. Sidney Lees biography. he fs
determined not TO lose any promising clue or
miss any valid suggestions And never wera
the possibilities OF ina aginary biography so
played with before Possibility Ee transforms IN
probability. probability to fact. with the su4AI
of a lightning change artist. Burbaee the actor
was also tavern keeper, To be a tavern keepar
was also to be a hostler: Shakespeare came tn
London; few things could be more natural tba,
the resort of Shakespear TO such a man as Bur
bage'', "a thoroughly new class Of experiences
was thrown open 10 ShakesPear'': "the purchase
and sale of horses was among his occupations
Thus Mr.. HaZlitt settles history. Poems and
plays bristle with personal illusions. The Beass
that bears me. tired with my Woe PIods DULY on
(Sonnet L. indicates Enthusiastically that Shake
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

ing To the authority Of a diary published in
1868, by Gerard Johnston. evidently very
ordinary ''mortuary artist Then we have the
engraving. prefxed to the folio, perpetrated by
one Martin Droeshout, only twenty-five at the
time. and therefore only sixteen on the day of
the poets death. Thirdly, there is a painting
known the Droeshout original and by in
ternaI evidence unquestiOnabIy copy from or
the original of the folio engraving. though moth
ing is known of its history prior to the nine
teenth century. Lastly. there is the New POr-
trait of Shakespeare of Mr.. John Corbin's essay
Of that name, known more specifically as the
Ely Palace Portrait" 1t was discovered in an
obscure brokers shop" in 1916. fe1 thence into
the possession of the Right Rev. Thomas Tur-
ton, Bishop of Ely. and after his death passed
through the generous hands of Mr. Henry
Graves, bookseller, to the collection of Shake
spearania in ShakesPeare's birthplace. at STRAIT
ford, where for twenty-seVen years il suffered
comparative neglect. This picture has no name
affixed TO it, but contains the words. Act. 80
1603," (which agrees with the age of Shake
speare in that year" 1t is this painting which
Mr.. Corbin strongly irclines to believe is the
original of the Droeshout engraving.
Both paintings are the more open to suspicion
because III times past there has been brisk
business in the forgery of Shakespeare por-
traits. The interesting chapter which Mr.
Corpln deVOteS 10 TWO ingenious Dutch
Gals engaged in this diverting business illus
trates the candor of the entire essay. Nowhere,
does he confound his own prepossessions with
proofs. The exhaustive detail with which he
takes up the for and against each painting
much more than any ex parte
1t presents a trustworthy account
of the situation. from which each reader may
make his OWE deductions. He can hardly infer
less than that the Ely Palace portrait is of the
early seventeenth century. is very probably =
likeness ot Shakespeare. and may hive been
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

speare made his first journey from StrJtf0rd 20
London in the saddle. Touchstones This Is
the very false gaIIop of verses" that his horse
stumbled. and so l. made lame by fortunes
dearest spite Sonnet XXXYID, that he met
with an accident on the way. Thus men may
grow wiser every day. Mr.. HazHtt is the only
one, it is safe to say. who would find conversion
to the Baconian hypothesis a distinctly sana-
tive process, for it would give him "a normal
environment. The cure is already in its i-c-q-
ton He suggests that Bacon may have tI--
nished the historical plays in the rough and tlat
they were refined by Shakespeare's master hand.
Shades of Della Bacon,
When ProSpero's spirits once set hold Of a
Baconiau there's knowing wher, theyl pinch
him.
se5zal.s, Th%t ,..r are We. Aperuantas:
Apen'- That You ask what You are. and 10
not know yourselves
So writes the author of TImor az Athens in
the second act of that play. Know thyselr'-
so writes Francis Bacon in Promus- In these
two Passages Mr. Edwin Reed finds identity u
authorship. His Bacon and Shake-Sprare
Paralelisms'' may be divided into eight classes
familiar quotations from the classics as this
phrase of Eacon's; proverbiaI sayings. the com
monpIaces of Elizabethan folklore. and popular
science: obvious truths. common to all think
ing men; the common use of some OF the same
English words; and fantastic resembLIncrS thIt
viii be apparent To ordinary reader The
volume is of excellent print and paper has broad
margins. and is bound after the pleasant man
ner of occasional literature. By n resour-efui
person it might be used a birthday book.
But not all Of the absurditi-s of shake
spearidu criticism Il ~ found anorS the
Baconitns. and none are shrrwder than thcS'
same EIconians at finding Il out Mr. Reed rn
Francis Bacon. Our Sh1ke-sY~lte.' arI HIS
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

But to Romeo the soul of Juliet lies open at
first view.
We have always supposed that falling IN I'Ne
at first sight on the stage WAS somewhat "a mat
ter of stage convention, We are curious 10 know
By what process Mr. Sherman has established us
sound psychologist basis. out we are far from
casting doubt on his conclusion. II is a pleasure
to think that under his happy tutelaSe th'u-
sands Of unspoiled students in the austere CO.
educational halls Of Nebraska University are
ready to believe in Italy where actual
Romeos walk the streets. more acute and IN
tense of vision than their northern brothers,
and that Juiets exist there in whose eyes mes
sages more soulful and transparent can be read
than by the light of colder suns But although
this is doubtless inspiring, it does not answer
the question Mr.. Sherman has set before HIM
self in the title of his treatise, What Is Shake
speare?" That question can be answered only
by placing Shakespeare and for this nice
literary task the author does not show the
inclination
Only four portraitUres OF Shakespeare can lay
any claim 10 being considered authentic First
there is the portrait bust in the Strdtf0Td
church referred to seven years after the poets
death in the folio of his plays, and cut, accord
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

Alas for the c0niidiugne$S Ot authors. IN
The Academy" we come upon this indignant
sentence: There would seem TO be Il quite
Obvious morality about the disposal OF auto
graph copies of books, by living authors. yet 1t
is = morality which is being continually Slnned
against" The writer has, in a number OF re
cent lists of secondhand books. sent to him ny
The, booksellers come across volumes bearing
their authors presentation signatures, and 1t
has moved him to wrath. We appreciate his
emotion but cannot that it is one to be kept
alive very long. OF course. it is not pleasant
d think OF giving Il copy OF oneS bOok 10 4
friend with an affcCtiOnate-Or pomp0uS- IN
ScriDtion. and .hen having him exchange 1t TOR
;ht, price of a dinner or of some cigars OF
course the morality of the situation Is obvious
But what is perhaps not SO Obvious IS that III
many eases no harm is done; in fact, as often
~ not The sale of the book COnferS beneflI
upon the author He is not always this au-
thor a man of colossal genius. He needs. or
thinks he needs. all the advertising he can get
ana he gets it in peculiarly 1atterins form
when it is offered to him in the guiSe OF an
entry in a booksellers catalogue 1t puts him
in the same boat with men infinitely his su-
periorS, with the classics of the autograph
hunter Perhaps once in a thousand years he
is gricycd, but not oftener than that, We ven
turc to assert.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03
SUNDAY, MAY ), 1908.

The appearance of the current number OF
SHE Pail Mall Magazine" in cover bearing
I reproduction of one of BotticelliS loveliest
ads offers an apt occasion for few remarks
IA the external chara cter of periodicals. IhlS
!; Il good cover-good because it shows what
magazine cover should be like if it is to be
pictorial at all. Many q reader must nave
regretted the day when all our magazines were
soberly clad, not because he objected to deco
often. of late years. been produced upon de
.idedly uusatiSfa ctory lines No doubt brill
liant cover is useful il attracting attention But
we wonder if it has ever occurred to the pub
fishers that in giving their magazines new ana
Fery elaborate covers nearly every month they
he purpose of a cover. to differchtiate at sight
lne magazine wearing il from every other mag
azine Nowadays the traveller fastening to
.atch his train. and pausing for only the frac-
ton of Il minute to buy magazine at the
newsstand must certainly he confused by the
array confronting him thereon, and may very
easily be led to seize upon the wrong pubica-
ton We speak of this practical point, Tor
practicality we know, is not to be neglected
in these matters But the artistic charm of
the cover we have mentioned above has served
10 remind us also of the merely aesthetic side
of the question Some good shots occur i'll the
course of the year among the magazine covers.
but good many misses have also always TO
be recorded.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

That heroic enterprise of the late Mr.. George
Smith, The Dictionary of National Biography"
having been carried 10 completion. an Index
and EpitOme" of the whole has been brought
out by Mr.. Sidney Lee, who succeeded Sir Les
lie Stephen when that gentleman withdrew
from the editorship Of the original work. In
this condensation Mr.. Lee has embodied sum-
mary of no fewer than thirty-One thousand ar
ticlcS and ii is stated that the work of nearly
seven hundred writer's has been thus epitom-
iZed. The figures are impressive. and so is the
great fact which they recall to us, that when
work of this monumental character was
PLANNED the men were forthcoming to carry 1t
out Authorship in this generation seems some
times to have gone mad, many books
wany papers and magazines are circulated
which no human creature really needs TO read,
Int for which thousands Of men and women
ar" delighted TO write On the other hand,
there never was an age like the present for the
preparation of works OF reference On great or
on a small scale. Some of thCSe-tOo many Of
them valueleSs. but large proportion of
them cannot be denied respect. and in many
.;lSeS admiration must also be granted. Fur
ih"rm0rr. much of this work is not only excel
pnt in rcSpect to the clear arrangement of we'll
~iftcd information but i'll respect to style. One
great merit for example of "1he Dictionary of
National Biography" resides in the fact that il
is not only authoritative, but has. in hundreds
Uf its articles. distinct literary quality.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25
BOWEN SAYS SETTLEMENT SOON.
Declares That He Has Good Reason to Be-
Heve Trouble Will End Shortly.

Washington. Jan pat miGnisIlc to-1igh-
Mr.. Bowen gave out the following statement
I have good reason to believe that the pend-
ing controversy between the three allied powers
and Venezuela will be settled soon and salts
factorily.
Mr.. Bowen said that he was able to make
this positive statement after number OF con-
ferences held during the day and evening with
the representatives of the allied powers He
expressed his qualification over the prospects of
a speedy settlement of the difficulty he had
nothing to say. however, as to whether the as
surances ne has received include an immediate
raising of the blockade.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

rpent and other formaities connected with the
contracts for the vessel. Instead. the Maine is
to be tested by a special inspection board, which
will be assembled by Admiral Higginson from
among the officers of his fleet.
There is no more significance in the Navy
Departments anxiety to have the Maine join
the battleship fleet rather earlier than would be
feasible If she detained in home waters for
a month or so than there is for the retention of
that fleet at the present time in sub-tropical
waters This retention. it is explained. is due
rather more to carrying out the annual winter
programme of naval visits to a climate less in
clement than that of our own coast, especially
warships not well h-ated. than as pre-
cautionary measure affecting the operations OF
the allies on the coast OF Venezuela
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25
A NEW WIRELESS SYSTEM.
Professor Braun Announces an Important
discovery.

Berlin. jan 2f.-Professor Ferdinand Braun,
of Strasburg University. whose application of
I.eyden Jars in propagatlng electric waves is
said to lave enabled MarcOni to telegraph with
out wires across the Atlantic announced before
the ctrasburg Scientific Society yesterday that
he had discovered method of producing cleo
trio energy of unlimited volume. and projecting
il into space. in the form OF electric waves to
any desired distance. Professor Braun's new
method secures create accuracy of transmits
sion through more perfect attunement of the
transmitting and receiving Instruments He
thinks he has substantially reached a method
of transmitting exclusive 20 point OF the
compass. thus avoiding interference by other
waves. The method 1t is claimed. will work
economically and simply.