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The Lamar register., 1907-05-22

Some scientists assert that bees
have no ears and do not hear. but no
person has handled bees for any
length OF time without being thor
oughly convinced that bees can and do
hear readily Bees have certain signs
which seem to be understood quickly
by every bee within a hive. The hum
OF fear. that of anger and of satisfac-
tions seems to be fully understood by
every bee in the hive. Did you ever
notice at swarming time that when the
queen has gone into the hive how
quick the hum of satisfaction Is set
up and how the bees fall over one an
other In their haste to enter the hive?
During times OF great fear or starva-
ton the zeep. zeep uttered by the
queens seem to be understood by every
bee
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22

sibly have had anything to do with 1t.
Delightfully."- interesting, I'm sure!"
said MacArdel. land most appropriate
when occurring in n house alleged to
be haunted. Still. / confess l could
follow you more closely II had some
faint glimmer of an idea of what you
are talking about"
handed him the note. and he read
it slowly and thoughtfully.
when did you get it," he asked.
Found 1t on my bed this morning
when | woke" I replied.
who put 1t there?" he continued.
How the devil do I know who put
it there?" l returned, excitedly. 1.-THE
house was locked up and SO was the
room. The window was open, / ad-
nit, but I am positive that no one
could have gotten in that way. There
are too many vines about 1t, and not
a twig, was bent.
so you thought it was miracle
ana that 1t must have been I who
performed 1t. eh?" said MacArdel. Il
know you always maintained that i
worked a miracle when l cured your
typhoid" tirht
Hang 1t all. Mac!" exclaimed. 81
don't care a snap of my little finger
how 1t got on the bed! want to know
who wrote it,"
well. I didn't, anyhow" said Mac
ArdeL. ~ never heard of 1t before. /
suppose somebody wanted to play
joke on you for your temerity in sleep
ing alone in haunted house. Pretty
poor sort of joke, to be sure. but
don't see anything to warrant your
getting SO excited over it."
Sec here. Mac!" I said, drawing my
chair up close to his. you don't seem
to understand just what l mean. The
point is simply this. No one could have
written a thing like that, in such
positive way. unless he had known
that It was true. Now, you are the
only person living with whom l have
ever talked on this subject, for you
will remember that you once Init
mated pretty broadly that l was In
love with Miss Carney"
"And you denied 1t fatty" he re-
marked.
YES" l replied, Il denied 1t
fatty"
"MacArdel," said, soberly, looking
him squarely in the face. you've cor
nered me and 1 might as well tell you
the whole thing. 1t was three years ago
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22
CTo BE CoNTINUED.)
Comparing Two Generations.

DR.. William H. P. Faunce. president
OF Brown university. in the course Of
an address at Cooper union, one of a
series of public lectures. said: THE
young people of today, as compared
with those OF so years ago, are chief
Iy deficient in power of sustained at
tention and original thinking. They
cannot, or at least they usually do not,
think as clearly. as patiently and as
cogently as did their fathers. They
do not as quickly distinguish the IT.
relevant from the pertinent, the kerr
mel from the husk, as the men of the
last generation" DIR. Faunce said,
however, that the children of this gen.
Grafton have an amazing fund OF sea.
eral information.
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22

Ed Geers says: 81 think 1t is a mis-
take to jog horses too far. From three
to five miles day is ordinarily
sufficient for most horses. Some days
three miles and some four Of five
miles, but | do not believe in slow
jogging for more than one mile. After
going the frs, mile it is best to let
them jog along good and strong. as
am satisfied that from three TO five
miles stifr jogging will do horse
more good than twenty miles at slow.
polky gait. also think grea: many
horses are logged so far and slow that
II takes away their speed; besides, IL
becomes monotonous to the horse. and
1t does not take the work as cheerfully
as one that is logged short and LIVELY"
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22

carefully on my entrance. THE sub
ject is one that l cannot bear to have
trifled with. and. anyway. l cannot i'm.
agine who could have read my inner.
most thoughts SO correctly. That
puzzles me more than the mysterious
appearance of the letter in my bed"
81 fancy well be able to explain that
without much trouble said MacArdel,
lighting a fresh cigar and laying his
cigar case on the table beside him.
These mysterious occurrences always
happen in a most simple fashion. after
all is said and done. One night, last
summer l was reading in bed and just
before putting out the light laid my
eyeglasses on a little table about sir
feet from the window. | was perfectly
sure about 1t, for the spring was bent
slightly and 1 had spent several min.
utes fussing with them before l put
them down. The,next morning they
were gone and never turned up, In
spite of the most vigorous search, I'm.
til the maid found them, three or four
days later. hidden completely in ths
folds of. the lace curtain which had
blown across the table and caught
them up AS my room was on the
fourth floor and had been securely
locked all night. the affair was quito
mystifying until it was SO simply ex-
planned. Wen find out before long
how the letter got on your bed. and
that will doubtless lead to the dis.
covery of its author. Have a fresh
cigar and show me around the place
a bit 1t looks mighty interesting and
romantic"
ITO BE CONTINUED)
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22
Haaerman's Father Resigns.

Santa Fee, N. M.-Acting Governor
Reynolds received the resignation Of
J. j. Hagerman of Roswell as men,
Der of the New Mexico irrigation COM
mission. to which he had been ap:
pointed by his son, former Governor
Hagerman.
The Territorial Board of Dental Elk
aminers met here and examined for GER
tificates to practice the following: G.
NJ. Stanfil. Il. E. Petit. Charles r. Eiler.
Joseph Witchger. of Albuquerque: J.
]. Clark of Artesia. l.. Hough of Por-
tales and ]. G. Hall of Pecos.
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22
some Breeding Problems.

The laws of breeding, both in the
animal and vegetable world. are being
studied and observed to-day as they
never were befr:e. Not that the aver
age man likes to do 1t. for as rule
he Is too lazy, too negligent and too
procrastinating, but he is forced to
do 1t for financial preservation. How
any western man in this day and I'M
himself to use anything but the best
stallion or bull or boar or buck or
rooster is beyond my comprehension.
"A few crosses of n good rooster pro-
duces a fowl weighing eight pounds.
while the original hen may have
weighed only four. One sells for fifty
cents and the other for a dollar on
the same market and with the same
feed. What made the difference?
The rooster. A few crosses with
good bull will produce pure blood
steer. Say five top crosses are made.
The result of the first cross. even
though with a goat. is half-blood; the
second cross brings three-quarters
blood; the third is Il seven-eighths
blood; the fourth n fifteen sixteenth
blood and the last thirty-one-thirty-
seconds blood. Thus by five top
crosses n steer of pure blood is pro-
duced that II fattened to 1900 pounds
and made ripe will bring from $3.50
to ..7.50 per hundred weight. Yet
sevep-eighths of the steers sent to
market, being poorly bred. sell at from
two to five cents a pound. Go into
n pen of steers or stockers ana ask
the price. 1t is two and one-half cents.
In the next pen the price is four and
one-half cents although the steers are
the same age. Why the difference?
Because the steers in the first pen
are poorly bred, while those in the
second have had four or five crosses
of good pur bred sire. A 15OO-pound
gelding with three to five top crosses
of a pure bred stallion will bring from
5000 up. A good mare bred in the same
way commands to-day easily $500.
Every farmer who can should get hold
of some purebred mares. They do as
much work as any team and Will pro-
ducc a 5000 to $500 pair OF colts an
nually. A good stallion will do as
much work as any horse and breed
enough mares to pay the expenses OF
two or three hired men. and will be
much sprer colt-getter for having been
worked. / doubt whether good stall
lions will ever be much cheaper than
now. The best is always the cheap
est. A poor male is dear at any price.
We must get the best. The great law.
"thc survival of the fittest." must be
followed. The wild animals observe 1t
better than does man. The American
buffalo did not deteriorate.
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22

Trinidad. Colo.-During the terrific
snow storm which prevailed recently,
forty head of cattle on the Keystone
ranch. located on the Starkville side
of Fishers Peak, stampeded and ran
off of precipice. falling 300 feet. The
entire herd was killed.
Reports from the rangers are that
nearly the entire crop of young lambs
was destroyed as result OF the
storm. The lamblng season Is at its
height and on the ranges the sheep
have absolutely no protection.
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22

Farmers have altogether too little
rotation of crops here in the West"
saws a writer in Field and Farm. 81
know of land that has been continu-
ously cropped to wheat for thirty
years, and 1t is wonder that 1t raises
anything. In fact. 1t does not produce
much. My plan now is not to grow grain
more than two or three years in sue
cession on the same ground and then
seed down to alfalfa. This restores fer
tility and in two or three years any
thing will yield prodigiously On the
land"
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22
Railroads to Raise Rates.

Chicago.-Western roads will ad
vance rates on grain and grain prod
uc:s from the Missouri river to the
Mississippi river and Chicago ~ cents
per 100 pounds on July list. This is in
practical defiance of the action of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22
viii Attack v. S. Order.

A recent order of the United States
land Office not to approve any more
Colorado irrigation schemes that have
the upper Rio Grande river and tribu
taries as base for their water sup
ply is to be attacked in the federal
court by the Conejos Reservoir Com
pany. The reservoir company wants
site for a reservoir on the Conejos
river fourteen miles from the town oil
Coneios.
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22
asonable.
The milkman scowled.
.xr. -@.1a yaolya moro III

The milkman scowled.
"You people make more fuss about
your milk than any customers I've
got" he said.
.All we ask" said Mrs. Ferguson, is
that the bottles shall look clean, and
that there shant be any filth on the
stopper"
THAT'S exactly what I'm talking
about. Nobody else kicks about little
things like that."-Chicago Tribune.
The Lamar register., 1907-05-22
CHAPTER VIII.
A DISAPPEARING Cigar Case.

y disappearing Cigar Odse.
What on earth brings you here.
Mac?" l exclaimed. accepting his prof
fered cigar and lighting it with sud
den interest and respect for the tradi-
tional pipe of peace.
Train" said MacArdei, coupled
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

Seattle will, in the near future,
have another floating dry dock. The
dock now at Quartermaster HarbOr
has been purchased by the Heffernan
Engine Works, and will be towed to
Seattle within the next thirty days.
The price paid is at something less
than 500, 900. This dock was built
about twelve years ago ut the cost
of $3.50, 900, and is one of the best
known on the Coast. 1t is large
enough to accommodate a 2,5OO-tOn
vessel. A few days ago the en-
ployes there demanded an increase
in pay, but the owners did not see
wherein they would be justified in
in paying the advance demanded,
and for awhile the works were closed
down. The Heffernan works are now
negotiating for site along the water
front. Officials refuse to announce
the exact location of the new dock
yet. Within the next thirty days
the dock will be lowed to Seattle by
powerful tugs; in the same manner
that the famous Dewey dry dock W as
taken to Manila. 1t will be ready to
receive ships early in the summer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

The TURKEY AS INcUBAToRs.-On
the farm of Samuel Moro, near Ches-
void, Pa, it has been found that
excellent incubators may be made of
turkey hens, by giving them draughts
of whiskey, which has the effect of
producing sleep and makes them in
clined to sit on their nests. Under
two turks" thus treated fifty hens
eggs were placed, and in the course
of time forty-eight little chicks ap-
peared, which were mothered by the
turkey hens the same as though they
had been their own kind. So sue
cessful was the experiment that the
farmers wife has adopted turkeys
for permanent incubators.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

THE EMOTIONAL SIDE OF JUSTICE
The dramatic side of the Thaw trial
fairly rivals the stage effect
worked SO successfully, q few weeks
ago, at Tacoma, in the Thompson
trial. 1t was not a father making an
appeal for his son, but it is said Del
mas without that aid, drew tears in
the jurors eyes," 1t really seems
that the jury-system is after all a
misdirector of justice. While it is
right in principle, the manner of
procedure is decidedly wrong, of re-
jecting all men who have brains
enough to keep in touch with the
current news of the day and judg-
ment sufficient to distinguish right
from wrong in the jury-box. Men
who can be moved to tears by the
maudlin acts of paid lawyer, or the
unrestrained emotions of q crafty
father in defense of a degenerate son,
are not competent to safeguard the
interests of society when left to the
tender mercies of the many wolves
who masquerade in sleeps clothing,
and claim exemption from their mis-
deeds on the grounds of the higher
law which they have themselves
transgressed, or that emotional in
sanity which obscures the intellect
only long enough to sacrifice a hui
man life.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

INDIAN Boy A MUSICAL PRoDIGY.-
Thlathlo Em-arthlo-che, o full-blood
Creek Indian, twelve years of age,
has made fiddle from a gourd COW
cred with tanned squirrel-skin. The
strings are made from ordinary
thread coated with beeswax, the
bow of horse-hair. From this instru.
ment he coaxes music with exquisite
touch and remarkable technique,
His name means Little Fish.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

THE Soul HAS WEIaHr.-Dr. Dun
can McDougall, whose experiments
q short time ago was said to have dem
onstrated that the soul of man had
perceptible weight, has somewhat
verified the probability of his deduc-
tions by a similar experiment on
thirteen dogs, which demonstrates
that there is not the slightest differ
ence of weight in the CANNES body
at the time of death. One more test
is needed to fully confirm the discov-
cry. Try the experiment on q mod
ern Shylocck, and if the delicate
scales fail to show o difference in
weight the theory may be considered
fully established.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

TWENTY-FIVE years ago William H.
Vanderbilt announced that a railroad
warfare that had disturbed business
conditions was at an end but had
taught managers a severe but salu-
tary lesson" and other financial
monarchs voiced their views to the
same effect. Let us hope that the
same lesson has been taught by late
experience and that it may be seen
that it will not always pay to punish
the people by spite work.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

JAMES Hamilton Lewis, immedi-
ately after the election of Busse as
Mayor OF Chicago, resigned his posi-
ton as Corporation Counsel. He has
announced that he has been retained
by the attorney of Mrs. Dora Nc.
Donald, charged with murder.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

THERE seems to be considerable
hesitation with Eastern capitalists
about the floating of the Seattle wa
ter bonds to the amount of g, $50, 600.
1t appears that considerable of the
gilt-edge is worn off Seattle bonds,
but whether it is owing to strin-
gency OF the money market abroad,
or conditions at home, does not ap-
pear on the surface.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12
IT is said that Dolmas

IT is said that Delmas, Thaw's at
torney, took two days in summing
up the evidence in support of his mo-
ton for acquittal of the crime of
murder OF White. If there is any
such thing as talking one to death,
there will probably be no necessity
for q verdict of guilty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

THE assumed popularity" of
Roosevelt shows more than anything
else the cohesive power of public
plumber" and the danger of its de-
veloping into a "hero-worship" that
is based upon mere hope of favor that
may in some way contribute to the
selfish nature. 1t will take q larger
robe than that said to be carried by
Charity, to excuse the misdeeds of
the man who has developed so many
meretricious habits as well as venge.
full traits in public life.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

The grain-bags manufactured at
the State Penitentiary will this sea-
son be sold at 9 cents, a raise from
st cents, the price last year. The
increase in cost of jute accounts for
the raise.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12
A New Phase Of Tax Foreclosures.

In 1900, Oscar Hegquist and his
wife, Amelia Hegquist, owned lot
in one of the outlying additions to
Seattle. Through some oversight,
the owners neglected to pay the tax,
amounting to "a cents, assessed for
that year; consequently a certificate
of delinquency was issued to one ].
w. Brown on that lot. The taxes
for 1901 and 1902 were paid by the
owners. Brown paid the taxes for
1903, and assigned his certificate to
NJ. Pyatt, who instituted foreclosure
proceedings against the property.
1t appeared this lot had been as
sessed to unknown owners on the
tax-rolls, but the holder learned the
names of the real owners before he
began his action, made them parties
to the proceedings, advertised the
summons in the Auburn Argus, a
paper printed in King county of
some 400 subscribers. During all of
this time the Hegquists were living
on this lot, remained wholly ignOr-
ant of the steps which had been
taken to diveSt them of their prop
erty, which they claimed to be worth
$500. After the issuance of the tax
deed, an attempt was made to eject
them from the possession. They
then appeared in court, moved to
set aside the proceedings on the
ground of fraud, rendered the amount
of taxes paid by the holder of the
certificate of delinquency with 10 per
cent. interest. Judge A. w. Frater
of King county allowed the original
owners to come in and make their
defense. The plaintiff, Pyatt, ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court. The rul-
ing of the lower court was sustained
and it was held that the owners in
possession were entitled to personal
service of summons, because they
might have readily been found by
the plaintiff or Sheriff. Pyatt as.
Hegquist, SO Pac. 933.
This was not, of course, a county
foreclosure, in which the courts have
held is an action IN rem and publica-
ton of notices naming unknown own
ers as defendants is sufficient. How
ever, it is hard to make the distinc-
ton when the effect is considered as
against the real owners, who in many
instances are unfamiliar with i'm
perfect descriptions contained in the
notices as published, or who may
have never seen, or been aware of
the same.
According to every principle of
air-dealing, the owners, or occu-
pants, living ON real estate ought to
have personal notice before the is
suance of o tax-deed thereon, in or
der that they may have a chance to
protect their rights. It'll important
the State shall collect it's revenue,
but it is of more moment still that q
citizens holdings should not be con-
fiscated for a trifling sum. The State
owes q plain duty to it's inhabitants
in this respect,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

A CLEVELAND dispatch announces
that William J. Bryan will make the
race for President in 1903 with Nav.
or Tom L. Johnson as his Mark
Hanna" who embodies many of
those characteristics which made the
late Senator such o power in the DO.
litical world, financial finesse, execu-
tive ability, skill in organization
and winning personality.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

The President is now engaged in
an enormous amount of mollycoddling
to convince the American people
that he has not degraded his high
position by engaging in the role of o
common scold.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

Our State ranks 80 with regard to
number of inhabitants, accredited at
bl8, lob, and Oregon is two notches
lower in comparative population,
given at 413, $50.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

The wireless station at Point Iona,
Cal, lately caught a message from
the Navy yard at Pensacola, Florida,
that was being transmitted to the
National Capital, and also another
from the battleship Connecticut,
which was in communication with
the Navy Department, at Washing
ton
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

The Ottawa House OF Commons
has appropriated $3.50, 900 for a fast
fishing-protection cruiser, to be built
for service on the Pacific Coast. She
will have speed of III knots, and
take the place of the Kestrel, which
has been found too slow to overtake
American poaching vessels.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

In 1870 the center of population of
the United States was % miles east
oil Baltimore, Md. Since that date it
has moved steadily westward, a little
over AZ miles per decade, or SIG in
all, and the center is now six miles
southeast of Columbus, Ind.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

Mrs. SAGE's GRAND CONTRIBUTION
TO PHILANTHROPY. - Mrs. Russell
Sage announces that she has set
aside ten millions of dollars for en-
dowment of the Sage Foundation, an
organization to be Incorporated for
improvement of social and living
conditions in the United States. 1t
will embrace within its scope the
study of cause of adverse conditions
and suggest how they may be re-
moved, or ameliorated, and to put in
operation means for that end. The
income on this sum only will be avail
able, on the endowment plan, and the
original sum will remain untouched
for permanent and continuous work.
1t may, however, make investments
for social betterments which them
selves produce an adequate income.
She has named as trustees men and
women of experience and mature
judgment in philanthropic work.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

A CITY TURNED INTO A MINING
CAxP.-Vancouver, B. c., has been
turned into a placer mining camp.
by the discovery of nuggets and fine
gold while one of the citizens was
digging plumbers ditch at bed
rock. Being an old-time miner, the
find did not escape his eyes, and he
lost no time in getting a pan and
washing out the sand. He found
eight nuggets, one worth SIS, an
other $40 and quite an amount of
fine gold. The find was within two
blocks Of the city hall, and now
every bit of realty is staked off into
mining claims and everybody is pros
pecting in his own back yard.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-12

THE Navy Department has grant
ed a three years leave of absence to
RObt. f. Peary, for him to make
another attempt to reach the North
Pole. He will make the trip in the
steamer Roosevelt, and Capt. Bart
lett, her sailing-master, will super
intend all all details of her Quitting
for the cruise. After pushing as far
northward far as possible, sledges
will be the dependence for the final
dash across the ice from his winter
quarters on shipboard.