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The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Are We Getting parker7

No one could have attended the
class day of Columbia college. says the
New York World. without being struck
by the prevalence of dark young men.
Out of 120 or so there were two with
hair of fiery red and three with faxen
locks five blondes in all. The rest
were either decidedly dark looking in
their black gowns like young priests
in Rome. or were darkish brown of
hair and eyes.
A study of names and faces re.
vealed French. Welsh, Flemish, Span
ish and Jewish derivation in many
cases. but perhaps a majority were ma
tive Americans by many generations,
and of the native American tint, dark
brown.
The professors. older men, show a
much larger proportion of blondes.
Gladstone used to say that during
his long life the average English COM
plexlon visibly darkened. Is the same
process going on here more rapidly :?
BY A. d. 1000 will the "sandy-com.
plected" American be a rarity?
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
BACK TO SIMPLE GIFTS.
People Now Club Together to Buy
Bride Wedding Presents.

1t may break the hearts of certain
newly rich persons to be forced into
the background, but it seems that the
giving of costly presents at weddings
is ceasing to be required absolutely,
says the New York Press. Glad news,
however, for the folk who try to main
tain a place in societys forefront on
small incomes and who really have to
cut down household expenses to the
starvation point to be able to give
here, and give there. and give other
where as the daughters of various ac-
quaintances are married of. A glad
some morning sun of relief has
beamed in this springs season of we'd
dings. Judging from the displays of
presents there is a revival Of the GUS
tom, long considered old-fashioned. of
sending framed etchings and engrav-
ings. That the giving of silver has
been overdone was shown recently
by the announcement that one Of the
wealthy young brides of last year had
sent large quantity of such gifts to
a secondhand shop. Dealers in etch-
ings and engravings say that within
the last two months they have sold
more pictures for wedding gifts than
in any like period in the last ten
years. AS these pictures range from
$50 to 5000 in price and are reproduc.
tions by famous etchers of even more
famous paintings, they are acquisitions
to any home and the chances of dupli-
cation are decreased materially.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
WAITED LONG FOR BRIDE.
peath-eed Wedding After Decades Of
Eaithfuiness.

Pathetic interest is attached to the
recent marriage of an aged couple in
Bohemia. For seventy-five long years
Franz Rossner had been faithful to his
early love. Although he was sincerely
devoted to her. and she reciprocated
his affections with equal warmth,
there were always obstacles in the way
OF their becoming man and wife. At
last. when he was on his death-bed,
he sent for his long-waiting sweet
heart, and they were married. The
husband had passed his hundredth
birthday, and his wife was ninety
three. Forty-eight hours after the
ce,emony Rossner died.
there have been numerous instances
OF people marrying whose ages were
vastly different; but the recent case
of Senior Alviti and his wife Is prob
ably the most unequal love match that
has been chronicled during the last
hundred years. Alviti was an Italian
lawyer. and widower. At the ad
vanced age of 1O1 he became en-
amored of young woman of 26. So
ardently did he press his suit that
she accepted him, and the ill-assorted
pair were made man and wife.
In 1853 there was solemnized one of
the most extraordinary marriages that
have ever been heard of. At little
chapel in Derbyshire. an old woman
of so was married by the full consent
OF his parents to lad of IA years.
So infirm was the bride that she had
to be carried to and from the altar in
chair. After the ceremony she
called for her crutches. and COM
manding her youthful husband to
dance. she shuffied herself as well as
she could.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Census Statistics.

A table has been prepared In the
Genius office to show the increasing
age Ct population from decade to dec
pde. In the volume of the census re-
Gently published, this increase was
shown for the period from 1880 to
1900, by computing the average age
of the population of the United States.
In 1880 the average age was 24.6
years, in 1890 it was 256 years, in
1900, 1858 years. The medium age
of the colored population from 1880
to 1900 increased only about one-half
as fast as that of the whites. Many
complex influences have co-operated
in producing as a resultant this steady
change in the age composition of the
population. Among these may be men,
toned the rapid progress Of medical
and sanitary science, which has tend
ed to increase the average length of
life; the decrease in the relative num-
Der Of children born, which has made
the earlier age periods less preponder-
ant numerically in the total population,
and the influx, especially from 1910,
of great numbers of adult emigrants,
increasing the number in the older
age periods. The difference between
the white and colored populations is
doubtless due in great measure to the
fact that these influences have
wrought more powerfully upon the
white than upon the colored race.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
SIGNALS UNDER THE SEA.
Many Boats Are Now Being Equipped
with the APPARATUS,

Many Boats Are Now Being Equipped
with the Apparatus.
References have been made hereto
fore to the new system of submarine
signaling through the water and the
announcement is now made that a
very considerable interest in the
company has been secured by ]. p.
Morgan & Co., says the Philadelphia
Record.
Vessels equipped with the company .
receivers can detect and announce the
tolling of bells at distance of five
miles and occasionally ten miles, and
also determine the exact direction
from which the sound comes, the
transmitter carrying the wave sounds
direct to the pilot house. Mr.. Morgan
has found the patents successful on
his yacht Corsair.
The signals consist of submerged
bells to be used in connection with
light houses and lightships at danger
GUS points of navigation. The COM
pany's receivers can hear and locate
the sound of these bells at a distance
of from five to ten miles and thus
guard from or warn a vessel Of I'M
pending peril. The bells are now be-
ing used at various points along the
Atlantic coast. The North German
Lloyd, Hamburg-American transatlan-
tice lines and the Metropolitan line 10
Boston are equipped with the receiv-
ers. 1t is expected that the Lucania
will be equipped with the receivers on
her arrival at this port.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
SKULL WEIGHS 44o POUNDS.
Skeleton of Huge Prehistoric Animal
Loaned to Library.

Skeleton of Huge Prehistoric Animal
Loaned to Library.
The fossil remains of prehistoric
animal, the name or classification of
which scientists, naturalists or arch
aeologists who have examined 1t have
been unable to determine, has been
loaned for display to the public libra
ry museum by the Hutchin- Hanks
Realty company. says the Kansas City
Journal Only part of what consti-
tuted the complete skeleton of the
animal is on display other parts not
having been found where these were
discovered.
The most interesting portions of the
animals skeleton are the skull and
one of its ribs. The skull is seven and
a half feet in diameter and the nasal
bone from tip to top of skull Is twelve
feet in length. The eye sockets are
four feet by thirty-one inches and the
brain cavity will hold about half
bushel. A portion of one rib Is four.
teen feet long. seven feet having been
broken of. Its weight is PIG pounds.
Naturalists who have examined the
bones believe the animal in its natural
otatc Husl nave medSuTeu from ooU "
$50 feet in length and from forty to
eighty feet in height. 1t is presumed
that the animal during life possessed
two large feet or paddles. as the be-
lief is that it was either water AMI.
nal or an amphibian.
1t was discovered in the Cherokee
strip on a sandbar of the Little Bear
creek in September. 1893, by r. II.
Phelps of Wichita. Kan. Its nasal
bone was projecting above the surface
of the sand about eighteen inches.
The sand in which 1t was embedded
was of very fine grain and 1t is said
that this accounts for the bones hav.
ing been preserved so we'll The curl.
osity has been on display at Fairmount
park since the season opened this
year.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Got Even with the Professor,

Prof. Robert C. Brooks of Swarth-
more college is great stickler for
hard. persistent work on the part of
his students, and is correspondingly
disinclined to regard with favor any
thing savoring of dilettanteism. One
day recently a young lady of the col
lege approached him with request to
be allowed to attend certain lecture
course he was giving, at the same
time expressing her great regret that
she was unable to register for regular
work in It.
Certainly. certainly. the oxygen's
free. l suppose" answered the profess
sor rather sententiously.
The students smiled as the young
lady took her seat with dazed ex-
preston, but at the next meeting of
the class she had her revenge. Pass
ing the professors desk at the begin
ming of the hour, she inquired sweetly
SIS the hot air still free. professor?"-
New York Times.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Gettinq a Loan.

George w. Perkins is credited with
this story: A certain banker with
whom he is well acquainted was SIT
ting at his desk the other day whe1 a
wellknown broker came in on bust
ness. The broker was carrying little
handbag. and he seemed In a great
hurry. Il want to borrow a million, -
he exclaimed before he had even taken
chair. The banker, though a man of
long experience with many men. was
bit taken by surprise. "a million
dollar loan is not such a small mat
ter" he replied; sit down and we'll
talk it over. Let me take your bag"
Mot on your life," interrupted the
broker. I've already got three mill
lions in there" And he opened the
bag to convince the banker, who made
no further delay in granting the loan.
New York Times.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
A Mother Snn1

- WOtneF oOn8.
Under my heart nestle closer and tighter.
Out In the darkness the world rushes
on.
The bonds of the world shall grow slight
er and sliShter
While We hold communion here; / and
my son.
Tenderest love brought thy body to be-
ing,
That Will I foster in fullest control
But the father Omnipotent. all wise, all
Brcathed on that body and gave it a
soul.
Flesh of my flesh. thou'rt the child of
Ambition.
In my Dream chariot Prlde holds the
rein.
Thou. by my loving. relentless tuition.
Shalt fashion in stone all my castles Of
Spain.
Yet, in my heart. hold / fear of that
morrow
To whose Irresistible coming yield
Alas! must my loneliness. labor and sor-
Find thee. ere the Reason for pain be
revealed?
Child of the World. thy new Kingdoms $
before theei
Long is the pathway that millions have
trod.
Wilt thou reproach that in travail Lore
thee.
And gave thee to men when took thee
from God?
Margaret Horton Potter in Harn.r
Bazaar.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19

tie up n great estate like that of the
Fitzgeralds. Well. well waive that.
Now, 1t is proposed to settle on your
wife a million dollars in gilt-edged
bonds. and securities. 1t is further
intended to settle on her the house at
No. avenue You will as
sign your courtesy interest in your
prospective wife's estate. For a con-
sideration Il might say 1t is proposed
to settle on you a life interest in a
very comfortable fortune which will
yield you an income of fifteen or
twenty thousand dollars) for this con.
sideration. l say you will formally re-
linquish all claims you have or may
acquire in the fortune of Florence
Helen Fitzgerald
Markham stared at the lawyer in
amazement His ardent passion was
beginning to pale before this on.
slaught of details and figures.
60 on" he said.
In case of the death of your wife
without issue your income will cease"
and the lawyer added another formid-
able document to the growing pile in
front Of Markham. And your wife's
fortune will revert to the Fitzgerald
family.
IN case of your death before your
wife, without ISSUE" went on the law
yer. selecting another paper, "the for
tune invested for you will revert to
her" He laid the mass of type
writing on top of the rest.
ANY other mortuary matters ?"
asked Markham.
Yes" replied the lawyer. "if you
die and there is issue. your estate
will pass to the children of you and
Florence Helen Fitzgerald in equal
parts"
VERY interesting" ventured Mark.
ham. biting the end off ciga-
"If Florence Helen Fitzgerald dies
before you with issue, her estate will
go to trustee for the benefit of her
children. and your income will con.
tinue until the children die, you die,
or are married again"
Yes. yes: married again" murmur.
ed Markham. brushing his hand across
his eyes.
In case of divorce or separation"
continued the lawyer. -"
"Divorce!' shriekcd Markham. drop
ping his cigar.
Yes. yes" went on the lawyer
soothingly. I'VE must provide against
all contingencies. you know In case
of divorce or separation your income
reverts to her"
By this time Markham was in a tow.
ering rage.
"Is that all?" he demanded, sarcas.
tically.
NO" said the lawyer. crossing mis-
legs judiciously. There is the matter
of who is to pay the household ex.
penses, and in what proportion"
Don't mention it," replied Mark.
ham. Il intend to take up collection
for the purpose"
at is usual for the husband to
take care of all regular expenses. ="
went on the lawyer. although the
wife sometimes takes care of extra.
ordinary entertaining"
We might shake dice every morn
ing to determine as to that days
bills" suggested Gene.
He picked up his hat and strobe out.
When he arrived at his studio he
found messenger there with all the
formidable documents Lawyer Gam
mon had been handling over all day
He took them inside. looked first at
them. then at the picture of Florence
Fitzgerald on the mantel. Then he
gathered legal documents and picture
together and pitched them all into
the CRATE Then he wrote this note
D Miss Fitzrerald:
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
NURSE DID FANCY WORK.
He Was Middle Aged and Wore a
HEAVY Brown Mustache.

nSaNy Brown MuStaCne.
There was sick man in bachelor
apartment the other day and a nurse
was needed. 1t was not deemed de-
sirable to have a woman nurse. as
three men occupied the apartment to-
gether. So a man nurse was employ
ed although there was some fear ex-
pressed that the tenderness and gen
.ieaess of a woman nurse might be
missed.
But the masculine substitute, who
was middle-aged person in glasses
soon proved that he was not going to
be brutal
May l have one of those big boxes
that the roses came in?" he asked
soon after settling down. They'd
be so splendid for my embroidery"
Embroidery? repeated the person
addressed. What do you mean by
that?"
why. my centerpieces." he repeat
ed, pulling at a heavy brown mus.
tache. ut would be Just the thing for
them. l really can do wonderful EN-.
broidery. Some time I'll bring some
around"
He kept his word and one night sat
under the lamp embroidering large
centerpiece while his patient slept.
The next day he asked what was
going to be done with basket in
which some fruit had been sent.
BE just the thing for my knitting, -
he murmured in explanation.
He got the basket and the next
night knit a pair of gray wool socks.
So nobody need ever try to prove
that women nurses have all the gen.
tleness on their side.-New York Sun.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
FINDS WHAT WAS BURNING.
Circle Around the Stove Puzzled by
the Unusual Odor.

Circle Around the Stove Puzzled by
the Unusual odor.
The noses OF little group of men
around the stove in the box office of
the op'ry house went up in the air
simultaneously. whats that burn
ing?" said Jake Bentley. twisting his
body half around and examining his
coattails. Must be somebody's S
boots" Everybody took his feet from
the stove hearth and felt of his soles.
Peleg Hostetter made a minute ex-
animation of the smooth yellow cigar
he was smoking.
II hope nobody's been putin rub
ber comb teeth In my pipe" said I'm
Gle Sam Rankin. as he opened the lit
tie cap over the bowl. knocked the
contents out on the hearth and began
stirring among the ashes.
ITS matches in somebody's pock-
ets." said Jason Snodgrass. And then
everybody turned his match pockets
inside out.
"Well. this'll help some" said Sam
knight. as he filed his pipe with 'tur-
tie" tobacco and lit 1t.
Its somethin, sure" said Abijah
Novel.
"'Tis So" said Eph Baker.
Smells like somebody set fire to a
wet dog" said Jake Bentley.
Suddenly large clout of smoke
settled over the group. Everybody
arose and peeked out Of the little win
dow. Wilson Snozer. the manager,
was standing in front OF the store with
an advance agent, who was smoking a
cigarette.-Boston Post.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Steamship for Hiahest Lake.

A second steamship is to be placed
in service upon Lake Titicaca, in Peru,
the highest lake in the world. $4,000
feet above sea level. There is already
one vessel engaged in traffic upon this
sheet of water. The latest vessel will
carry about $50 tons dead weight. 1t
has ample arrangements and facilities
for working cargo, and is provided
with accommodations for twenty-four
passengers. The dimensions art 22O
feet in length by 80 feet beam and IA
feet depth.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Pork and Beans,

These two articles SO largely $50
ciated together as favorite Cish
with the working classes, and exto led
for their strengthening propert les,
are now charged with occasioning an
epidemic of jaundice in a regimen: of
soldiers. The proof in the case sas
conclusive. AS the pork and be ins
were eaten together, they were. of
course, together held responsible for
the disease, but from the fact that
beans alone have never been kn, wn
to produce any such disturbance.
while pork is a notable cause of bill
iousness." we should rot hesitate to
charge the jaundice to the eating of
tho pork rather than the beans.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Beauty

There is not anything the soul more
Graves
Than Beauty 1t exalts the merest
line
That through our everyday experience
waves
Seeks blindly the Divine.
For what in very truth Is this we crave,
Which neither leads the board nor fills
the purse.
Yet. wanting which. the earth were hut
grave.
And life itself curse?
The visual presence OF the living God.
That permcates creation, comes and
goes.
In substance and In shadow. greens the
sod.
And paints and scents the rose:
And flows through man into his works
of art
The pictures glow, the statues breath
ing CLEAN:
For not touch of beauty stirs the heart.
But comes of the Supreme!
Robert Leighton.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Bank Notes From 1892.

One hundred and thirteen years
ago, on June IA. 1892, the Hartford
Bank was organized under the charter
granted by the state few weeks be-
fore, and its doors were opened for
business on Aug. s. 1892. 1t has had a
continuous business existence since
that date.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
christians in Japanese otfici.Idon

Christians are now found in dispro-
portionately large numbers in official
life in Japan; the present Diet con-
tains seven out of 379 members, one
in fifty-four. There are now about
100000 protesting Christians of all
denominations in Japan, 100000 of
whom are Protestants. or one in every
thousand of population. yet in the I'm
perial House of Representatives they
stand one in fifty-four.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Countess of Mintn Ropular.

The countess of Mimic has written
so delightful an appreciation of the
glories and beauties of the Canadas,
from east to far northwest, that she
may come close to the countess of
Aberdeen and Dufferin in popularity
as the chief lady of the dominion.
This paper is calculated to open Brit
ish eyes to the importance of this
great colony
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19

my dear Miss Fitzgerald-Upon
comforting with my physician l deeply
regret to learn that 1t will be many
years before I will be able to take up
the serious and manifold obligations
of marriage. In fact. am ordered to
go abroad at once. and | leave to-
night. Please forgive and forget
With the greatest respect. remain
EUGENE MARKHAM"
Which explains why Gene is still
a bachelor
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
Copyright. 1906. by Dali. Story Pub. Coz

Eugene Markham was getting along
famousiy enough before he fell in love
and then with his usual luck he fell
heels over head in love with an heir
css. The other fellows were not en-
yious of his success in his work
that was all honest enough. But for
a man who had weathered the finan-
cial storm far enough to be self-sup-
porting by his work as sculptor. to
fall into a cool million Just because
the favor of petticoats-that was the
uncomfortable thing about 1t.
All of us had had our little affairs
with petticoats: were having them all
the time, in fact. and still are. but
the idea OF that longlegged. lantern
jawed. tow-headed dabbler in mud.
who shied at the fair sex, and had
never had a real bona fide affair any
way. falling into the very midst of the
Four Hundred the first fiop-well. 1t
tended to discourage honest endeavor.
Gene was In love all right. though.
Nobody could discount that. He left
on work almost entirely and took up
poetry for diversion. The old crowd
saw little OF him, and we did not lose
much at that When he did drop in
TO the particular studio where the
pipes and beer were In evidence. he
was stupid enough. He seemed to be
sort of turned inwards. He even gave
up the Saturday nights at MaHloli's:
said he'd have to cut out the wine
now that he was about to be allied
to an angel-or some such stun as
that
The only time he ever woke up and
noticed things during those weeks
was when somebody would listen TO
him talk about her. Then he was all
enthusiasm. She certainly had him
going all right.
And I reckon she was about as bad
1y gone on him. She really was
pretty sort OF glrl-not the most acute
person, despite all the fol-de-rols she
was surrounded with. And swell
well. there was no doubt about that
Clothes and carriages and footmen
and coachmen. and all the fixings of
the upper crust. It used to give the
boys the 1im-jams to see her drive up
to the door of the little old building
where most of us drew our drawings.
made our music. constructed our poet
ry or rehearsed our parts. Well. we
never could get reconciled to that
carriage and team. and as for the
coachman and footman-well. I be-
iIeve somebody would have murder
ed them only that they seemed to
be great snap for Van Blinks. the
cartoonist. who certainly did set
abundant use out of them. often
wondered IL those menials or anybody
in the Fitzgerald family ever saw the
papers; still I don't suppose they
would have recognized themselves.
! The funny thing was that the girls
family didn't make any row over the
match. I reckon Miss Florence came
pretty near having her own way in
the house anyway. Old Fitzgerald,
pere. was definct. and mere took
things pretty easy. AS for the girl.
she not only was very much in love
with him. but was Immensely proud
of his artistic attainments.
Well. time ran on. as Houston is for
ever saying In his novels that never
get beyond the seventeenth chapter.
md the happy day was set-that is.
informally. Then funny thing hap
poned. You see Gene had no idea
how things were done among the rich
end great. and after he and the girl
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
London Revival Is Failure

Torrey and Alexander admit that
their revival campaign in London was
failure, and DR.. Torrey remarked in
a recent address there: 81 suppose it
would be safe to say that during the
last year there have not been five per-
sons definitely converted in any one
church or chapel in London"
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
! eIacksmith,s Son Is Scientist,

William Watt, who has been ap-
pointed director of the Duesseldorfer
Science and Art Institute, is the Sec
ond son of blacksmith of Port Glas-
gov, Scotland. Starting with no all
vao'age of birth or money or inGu-
enue he has largely educated himself
He is 80 years old.
The Lamar register., 1905-07-19
A WobbIy Proposition,

A Billville exchange says it takes a
mighty spry rattlesnake to catch a
Georgia fisherman. The rattler strikes
out straight and the average fisherman
generally "wobbles" so-when the jug
is in evidence-no snake can hit him!
Atlanta Constitution.