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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

room. oh, how my heart sunk then!
y don't want to hold out any false
hopes to you people, he says. but
think with proper care from now ON,
your little girl is goin' t git we'll
Elsie. it seemed Jest like a ton OF
hay had been lifted on my chest right
there. AS fer your ma, why she Jest
busted down an cried as hard as she
could. After Doc. was gone we went
out to the kitchen an kneeled down
right there an. thanked God fer the
most glorious New Years gift he ever
give t anybody in tn world-the
health OF our baby girl. You know
your pa amt no ranter er shouter:
yer ma bein' a Baptist has furnished
most of tn r'ligion fer our house, but
Jest then l seen how 1t was that they
comes times in peoples lives when
they've Jest got to have somethin'
bigger an greater than anything hu.
man t turn to with a great joy err .
great sorrer.
We'll. it was long time yet before
you was strong enough t play out
doors. an it was a hard winter.
burned every post of the fence around
the south eighty fer firewood afore
it was over. But it seemed like we
had so much Z be thankful fer that
we was strong L care fer any any oil
tn smaller troubles that We come
acrost
1T really hain't so bad to look back
at It now after tn trouble is over. but
them hard years in Kansas drove
nearly all our neighbors Z give up
their land an move away. broke in
hopes an pocketbook. Them of US as
stayed is purity well fixed now. but
we fit fer everything we got, an fit
nard. too. An. o. yes, about tn caty-
logs. Well after you was well an
things begun t take a turn fer tn
better. one night ma brought out that
Chicago book an laid It on the kitch.
en- table an says: 'Ezry. what do you
want t do with this?' An seq: Les
burn it An your ma seq: Jest what
was thinkin'. too An so We did
burn 1t. an what's more. we amt
never had one in tn house since, an
We never send away fer anything we
can git at any of the stores in Huston.
cause we want to deal with them as
has an int'rest in the country we rivs
in, an in us people that live clost by.
Why. you needn't of put yours in
tn stove. too, Elsie. / didn't mean
yes. don't know but what it's Jest as
well y done It after ALL
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

plausible ground that H. was difficult
to live peacefully with a man who in
sisted on appearing in the parlor with
neither shoes nor stockings.
Des Moines produced. in May. a
baby who changed color three times a
day. When little Eli Rami awakes he
is proper pink. BY noon he is a
dark ginger in hue and before bedtime
is startlingiy pale. But then. he is
the son of a Hindoo father and an ILL
nois mother.
In August the hello lady" IN the
line between Meredith and Wolfboro.
n. H.. heard the voice OF a two-hour-
old subscriber. The news of his ar
rival in the world came first, and then
his infantile Endorsement Travelled
across Lake Winnipiseogee.
Hard Liquor.
Chicago and Kansas City give two
of the best of the years hard-liquor
yarns. In one case three saloon keep
ers were fined $500. to be paid the
orphans of a man who had died of
drink; and in the other a certain Sell
by Jones was sentenced to get drunk
anu stay So FOOT Jones was later ar
rested in Chicago for stealing in order
to raise the wherewith to carry out
the Kansas City sentence.
London is responsible for this: The
armchair of confirmed tippler. used
at ''psychometric lecture" made
tipsy every one who sat in it. The
signs of drinking continued upon four
subjects till the chair was burned.
when they at once sobered up.
Weird Wills
When the late Michael Dayitt be-
queathed to all his friends kind
thoughts. to my enemies the fullest
possible forgiveness, and to Ireland
my undying prayer for her absolute
freedom he did not leave the
strangest will OF the twelvemonth's
probate.
Mrs. Christina Hoch. of Brooklyn.
willed the ashes of her body. when
cremated. as fertilizer for a rose bush
on her sons grave: Mrs. Isabel Kream-
err. at Westminster. Eng. left her cork
leg to the parish poor warden; and a
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16
FREAK, HAPPENINGS OF A YEAR
The Marvellous, the Laughable, the Weird, and the
Pathetic-- Tales Extraordinary Cullsd from Press
Reports from All Ouer the Ciuiiized World-
Some Almost Unbelievable Tales Among tho
Mass of Material Gathered

he had lost down the crack as a boy
of five. He found it. And each OF
these was just three score years and
ten.
The note of pathos. which so often
sounds with age. came from Middle
town. n. V. in April. Matthew
Smedes. aged 20, could no longer re-
sist the call of the fields. He took to
the pillow again-and was found dead
in the first furrow he had Guided
in harness, as he had wished to die!
Australia may claim something near
the record. At some amateur the
atricals near Victoria. in January. two
people in the stalls. whenever the he
rome was kissed. kissed each other
loudly. The man of this couple was
husband to the stage heroine, and this
was his way of reproving behavior
across the footlights to which he was
distinctly opposed.
Babes and Divorces.
The divorce mill seems to have re-
corded new "Farthest North" A
Seattle judge separated an even dozen
couples in rs minutes in February.
one formerly fond husband receiving
the boon for which he prayed because
his wife has become Shakeress, and
another because his better half had
circulated report that he was an
anarchist
Mrs. Lorenz. on the other hand. re-
ceived divorce in Cincinnati on the
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

Night work on the farm is not to be
tolerated The old plan of working
from four O'Clock in the morning till
nine o'clock at night was responsible
for creating disgust for farm work
and both the boy and the girl shared
this disgust On many farms now no
work is done after six o'clock D. m.
and this is right. There is no reason
why hours should be longer on the
farm than in the city. But on the
farm more time needs to be taken at
noon so that the morning and evening
chores" will come further apart. We
doubt. however. If the "eight.hour
day" ever becomes the rule on the
farm, especially on the farm that is
devoted to some extent to the raising
of live stock Farm animals refuse to
adapt their needs to the eight hour
plan.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

, lady of Florence, Italy. bequeathed
$500 to the stan of local Newspaper
Tin gratitude for having been SO often
entertained by their writings"
Alphonse Strauss. one of London's
millionaire merchants, dying last May.
disposed of an estate of 81 .4S1 Jos in
just 40 words. nearly $4,000 a word:
while January brought sudden wealth
to poor French girl who attended
the sale of great-aunt's effects to buy
in some tritling memento of her. The
only bidder for a shabby old book of
devotions. she found between its
leaves a will bestowing upon her the
entire property. valued at $4,000.
Life's Little ironies.
In Milwaukee (February) one Harry
Martens, playing ghost to brighten
some negroes. fell down stairs in the
dark-and became ghost! A fellow
named Durenne, living near Quebec,
in the belief that the rope by which a
suicide has hung himself will bring a
later owner luck. stole such a rope.
only to fall to his death the next min
ute through the rotten flooring of the
belfry.
Was it not ironical. too. that a mere
fragment of the handwriting of the
English poet Chatterton should tave
sold (October) for $155. and that In
the unfortunate versifyer's native
town of Bristol. where he had died Of
starvation in his seventeenth year,
In Foreign Parts.
Europe has had many an odd tale to
tell during the year. Antrim has pro-
duced man beside whom Pooh-Bah
was laborer OF very single aim. For
this busy Irishman is land steward.
pier overseer. port pay clerk. game
keeper, mining superintendent, bog
baliff, auctioneer. real estate agent.
supervisor of shipping. and the man.
ager of private business besides.
Colored rain. in the shape of mil
lions of tiny red. green and yellow in
sects. fell at Anglers, France. in
March: while in Nantes a young fell
low. Gautier by name. has murdered
his step-father that his military sery-
ice might be year shorter through
his being the only son OF a widow
At one of London's West End clubs
a match game OF billiards was played
by two men. one clad in full armof.
save for his hands. which were en-
cased in the heaviest wooden gaunt-
lets, and the other dressed as usual.
but wearing boxing gloxves- Wool
mittens won after hard fight.
Coincidence and Paradox.
Two other all-but-unbelievable trans
Atlantic tales tell of New Zealand
horse race. which was won by a one
eyed mare, ridden by one-eyed
jockey. the two weighing-room clerks
also having but two eyes between
them: and of a Partisan June wedding
when the twin brothers Charlton mar
ried the twin sisters Voisse. twin
cousins male and female) acting as
best man and maid of honor.
Pulpit and Platform.
Buttons sewn on a silk ground
formed a scrollwork sold at a recent
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16
, no use for that species of friend
|


Protests by women in parliament
were not unknown during the Middle
ages Stow tells us approvingly of "a
crew Of stout danes" who had the
courage in li2S Ito checke a great
duke in open parliament" There was
one mistris Stokes" he preclude,
with divers other stout women of
London, of good reckoning. well ap-
parrelled. came openly to the upper
parliament and delivered letters to the
duke of Gloucester. and to the arch.
bishoppes and to other lordes there
present, containing matter of rebuke
and sharp apprehension of the duke
of Gloucester" on account of his treat.
ment of his wife Jaqueline. But what
good successe their labours tooke. my
Author reporteth not"
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

January. 1906. came in with proof
that Kentucky deacons are made OF
much the same stun as Kentucky col
onels. Two of them had an argument
rs to John d. Rockefeller's fitness for
heaven. deciding the matter with shot
guns. The churchman who upheld
Mr.. Rockefeller got two charges of
buckshot in the breast.
June brought news from Des Moines
that some highwaymen had returned
to James Morgan. their victim of the
night before. three teeth they had
''unintentionally" knocked out. They
thoughtfully suggested a pate-setting.
SO the months of 1906 have run.
In Germany. too. the year opened
oddly. One Schmeid had had carved
upon his deceased wife's tombstone
some frigid words to the effect that
she had died of INSCRIPTIONS treat
ment. whereupon libel suits followed,
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

church fair in Montreal. Canada 1t
was the work of the clergyman's wife
who thus converted into useful cash
the buttons contributed to her hus-
bands offertory baskets.
The Hon. Hoke Smith. speaking at
Atlanta in September. was enthusi.
astically Rugged by Policeman T. ].
Williams. The latter was then hauled
before his commissioners for taking
an interest in politics.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

Addressing a meeting of retail mer.
chants in Jefferson city recently. Gov.
ernor Folk. Of Missouri, said:
We are proud of our splendid
cities, and we want to increase wealth
and population. and we also want our
country towns to grow. We wish the
city merchants to build up, but we
also desire the country merchants to
prosper. l do not believe in the mail.
order citizen. II a place is good
enough for a man to live in and to
make his money in. its good enough
for him to spend his money in.
No merchant can succeed without
advertising in one way or another.
Patronize your town papers. build
them up. and they viii build the town
up in increased trade and greater op-
portunities. Do not be afraid that
business is geing to be hurt by the re.
cent exposures of wrong-doing in the
commercial world"
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16
The Fodder Binder.

wsrd movement of lever is pressed
into small compass. The band is
then readily adjusted. The whole de-
vice is supported by the square piece
C. SO that it may be moved from
place to place. We do not know to
what extent this will prove entirely
practical. but it is possible that it will
suggest useful idea to some of our
r ders.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

for We hadn't been tradin' much
with the stores in Huston. buyin'
mostly from the catylog folks y know.
an so We didn't have any credit there
to speak of. But went { Foster. tn
druggist. an 1 told him how things
was. I didn't have no money Z pay
fer tn medicine an things. an the
prospects fer the next year was as
poor er poorer than tn last
why ceEtnlee. Mr.. Williams he
says, Jest let US know what you want
an we'll carry you along till times
come better fer you We're all in a
tight pinch now. but II we hang tgeth-
or things is all goin' to come out right
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

A commercial handler of poultry
says that all fowls should be tasted
for from "a to Sc hours before killing.
Where the birds are permitted to stun
themselves with food before the kill.
ing time. the food decomposes in the
crop and tntestines. From this tbs
nesh frequently becomes .tsinAsd
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16
DEVICE FOR BINDING FODDER.
Can Be Made at Home and Is Easily
Operated.

A. H. Denison. Kansas, writes in
one of our exchanges and suggests a
plan for binding fodder. He uses
lever between two small uprights A
and B, as shown In illustration. The
loose fodder is pressed into the open
ing between and B and by down
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16
Cart Body on DRAG.

because 1t 10 down so low; and load
ing at the barn is also easy for sim
liar reason. II there Is a manure
shed to which the manure is wheeled
daily. empty the barrow into the cart.
When this is full, haul to the fields.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

A French academy hopes to COM
plete the letter C" of the eighth
edition of its dictionary by the end
of next session The edition was be-
gun in 1877. SO that at that rate the
entire work will be finished In $50
years
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

After an interval of S67 years, the
Franciscans have returned to Oxford.
The friars were driven out in the
reign of Henvy VIII. The order has
opened a training college.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16
FOR HANDLING MANURE.
Put Cart Body on Drag For Use on
the Snow.

To get out manure in winter, when
there-is a moderate amount of snow
upon the ground, try this plan, sug.
gests Farm Journal: Set the cart
body on the drag" or stone boat, AZ
suggested in the cut. The load CA
be spread in the field with great eass.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

Newspaper English may be open
to criticism more or less. but, re-
marks the Somerville Journal. 1t is
a good deal brighter. anyway. than
an English newspaper.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

out. and the demand is still great
People are now beginning to pass
sables down as heirlooms-and val
liable they are too. at $3.50 a skin
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

Louis n. Parker. the dramatist. was
born in France: his father was an
American, his mother an English
woman; his first language was Italian
and he was educated in Germany.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

The palmist who complains that his
diamond was stolen has probably con-
cluded that there are various ways of
palming.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

Count Boni is very sorry. accord
ing to his brother. which is another
way of saying that he 10 pretty hard
mp.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-16

'ulpit and Platform.

Buttons sewn on silk ground
formed a scrollwork sold at a recent
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-03-14
Handling Vicious Horses.

\ balky horse can be cured, when I'M
Cd. Turn him around in his tracks
a few times and then suddenly straight
en- his head and he will willingly, and
even gladly, go forward. This was
the method of the celebrated John s.
Rarey and has never been known to
fail.
The "jbbler" differs from the balk-
err inaSmuch as his so-called vice Is
caused by congestion of the brain. The
horse thus affected is liable to bolt or
run away after one of the attacks and
is a dangerous animal.
Rearing, although commonly termed
a vice. is often caused by too severe a
curb. Sometimes the rearing horse
loses his balance and falls backward
1t is needless to say that the rider is
lucky if he or she escapes without Sc
rious, if not fatal injury. When the
horse rears, loosen the reins and speak
to him in a soothing tone but if he
persists. give him sharp blow be
tween the ears with the butt of the
whip. This will bring him down an all
tours with amazing quickness.
Kicking is certainly a vice. Some
times, however, it is caused by fear, in
which case much can be accomplished
by gentle management. Exactly the
opposite treatment of the rearing ami
nal should be applied to the kicker.
Hold his head up with might and main,
for the horse cannot throw out both
legs at once when his head is elevat-
ed. Kicking straps are what the name
implies \ strap fastened TO the shafts
over the horses crup prevents kicking,
but this is only seryiceable when driven
in single harness. Shying is a danger
GUS fault. 1t cannot properly be term
ed vice; it is generally the result
of defective vision. Gentle treatment,
soothing words and patient persistence
in accustoming the animal to the
dreaded object will often effect a cure.
To lash a horse because he SHES or
is frightened only aggravateS the evil.
He will associate the punishment with
the frightful object and will fear it
more and more each time he encoun-
tiers it.-Country Life in America.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-03-14
Winter Care of Poultry.

Next to n draft, damp house or
roosting place is the most prolific
cause of colds in fowls. Look after
the dryness and ventilation of your
roosting quarters also.
\ plain cold can be told by the
fowls having a watery discharge at
the nostrils and eyes and the birds
throwing their heads and snecZing. \
plain cold is easily told from the roup
by absence of cheesy substance in
the throat and nostrils of the birds
This cheeSy mass always accompanies
roup. The head will frequently swell
with cold, but the swelling is more
marked in roup. \ common remedy
for colds is 10 apply kerosene to the
heads of the worst afflicted birds. \
slight film Of kerosene oil on the drink
ing water will often cure mild colds III
Il few days
Bronchitis is the cold extended to
the bronchial tubes and the fowls make
a rafting noise when breathing This
disease continues for weeks in some
clses. Treat like a severe cold with
kerosene oil, pouring the oil well down
the nostrils and throat.-Rural World
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-03-14
Varieties Of Potatoes.

In choosing varieties of potatoes for
spring planting it Is advisable to select
those that have been more re-
Gently produced from seed proyid-
ed, OF course, that their quality and
productvcncSs have been tested and are
generally known The variety that Is
newly produced from seed is gcncr-
ally more vigorous than it is likely to
be after few years contest with 30.
tato beetles and the blight aud rots,
all of which help to decrease potato
yigor and productiycness. But It is
not advisable to plant potatoes, how
ever good which are very unlike stand
ard sorts, and whose qualities are not
generally known. There Is so much
difference IN potatoes that the mere
fact that a potato is a potato is not
enough with most consumers to secure
a market for II until after they have
given it a trial
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-03-14

A skilled Northern dairyman who
went to Georgia some years ago once
wrote that lie found that he could
make as good butter there rs he made
in Vermont, could make it at lower
cost and could get better price for it.
When once the livestock industry is
well establ Shed in the South in con
nection with cotton growing, We will
soon hear less of its taking four or
five acres to make Il bale of cotton,
for the men who rotate their crops
and feed stock and make manure will
soon put j bale rs the minimum per
acre. More pea hay, more corn and
more cattle will do more for the cot
ton farmer than anything else, when
they cease TO look ON everything but
cotton merely as supplies to enable
them to plant more cotton, for they
win find that the supplies will soon
be as profitable a part Of their farm.
ing as the cotton.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-03-14

The prevailing price of concentrated
foodstuffS is arousing the interest of
farmers in the question of growing
more nesh-forming foods. Many stock
men who have used oil meal extensive
~ in the past are considering the propo-
sition of growing their own flax,
so that it can be fed without first hav-
ing the oil extracted. This is a prac-
tice that | cannot recommend too high
ly. | have found from practical ex-
pereuCe that an acre or two of flax
will produce one of the most profitable
crops that can be grown. On ordinary
soil there Will be a yield of about
twenty bushels per acre. This may
be used in feeding calves, young stock
and any other class of animals which
may for any reason be out of condi-
ton. Flax is not only a food, but is
one of the very best toncs that are
ayaiable.-W. j. Kennedy in Iowa
Homestead.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-03-14
Short Rotation of CrnnS.

Every farmer realizes the value of IA
short rotation OF crops in maintain
ing the fertility Of the soil Yet it
is not at all uncommon to seed to timo-
thy ana clover and nov the field for
three or four consecutive years till
every veStige Of clover has disappeared
and nearly all the value of the clover
plant as Il rcnovator of the soil is lost.
says a writer in Ohio Farmer. | be.
lieye sowing timothy with the clover
IS all right. always practice 1t.
Then | ana quite sure of catch, and
| get more and better hay. There are
also other advantages which space for
bids | should enumerate here. be
lieve though that the meadow should
be moved but once and never more
than twice before blowing
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-03-14
Smoke in Handling BecS.

How differently men use or misuse
even ask me if ever smoke in the
entrance" As rule, such men will
jar the hives in taking off the cover,
they pry or pull off the super with a
snap, says an exchange. About this
time the bees, angry bees, begin pour
ing out at the entrance and from the
top of the hive and then the bee
keeper begins using the smoker; but
the bees are mad now, and no amount
of smoke Will pacify them.
The most important place to use
smoke is at the entrance, and 1t should
be used there as the first step in open
ing the hive, Subdue the bees first,
then all the Earring will only make
their subsection the more complete. So
many times has some man cautioned
me about attempting to handle some
colony, saying that those bees were
perfect tigers and that | would be
stung to death / always say: Give
me the smoker give them good,
thorough smoking at the entrance be
fore attempting TO open the hive. |
then open the hive carefully, using a
little smoke if there is any sign of
obstreperousne,s
AS a rule | pass the ordeal without
Il sting, while the owner looks on with
amaZement The whole secret lies in