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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-14

this business OF toy
making. They grow
up in the midst Of II.
all their hereditary
ideas are colored by 1t.
the history OF the city
speaks of II.
Inside of half a doz-
en- blocks you have
trains. up-to-date no
tells. electricity. motor
cars. Partisan frocks.
primitive carts drawn
by hugs mastifYs. funny
tucked-away inns near
the market place full
Of peasant women In
wide black silk aprons
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-14

THE much talked of Bernhard CIR
de is one of the latest Partisan
novelties Like many other at
tractive pieces of self-adornment. the
purchase of this exceedingly smart
girdle entails some expense Any girl.
however, who is a bit handy with her
needle and general sewing equipment.
can easily avoid the expenditure by
making the girdle herself.
The Bernhard girdle' is made Of
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-14

res done by the aid Of machines. but
otner machines separate and sort the
berries.-Christian Herald
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-14

The hairs Of our haeds are num-
bered. But then 30 are the automo-
biles and trolley cars.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-14

Silver dress trimmings may be
cleaned by covering them with pow
dered magnesia and leaving them for
two hours. Rub the magnesia well In
and brush It OF with q brush.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-14

gun metal cloth and ornamented with
embroidered serpents of golden brown
color: the serpents are being destroyed
by the mongoose. little animal made
famous by Kipling. The girdle il
very ornamental. and may be worn
either with the tabs front or back. II.
together with collars and cuffs. would
make an attractive garniture for an
otherwise untrtmmed gown
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-14

turn into the quiet winding streets the irregular
hilly passages dovetalled by houses older than any
thing in the oldest parts of the United States.
House rises above house full of history roman
tic the proudest mansion of city streets.
and yet marked by a simplicity and single-hearted-
ness seldom present in things modern. 1t is here
that the toys are made which you buy in your home
across the Here in the quietness of the
modern the playthings are invented and perfected
for your restless. buoyant children You read
made in Germany" with skeptical tilt of the
eyebrow. but the fact remains that by far the
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-14

ROM the rush and hustle OF busy
American city streets. alive at
this season of the year with
Christmas shoppers. back to old
Nuremberg. in Germany. where
.he Christmas spirit lasts the
year around, where Santa Claus
spends his working months for
the joy of the worlds children
surely the step is not too great
for the Imagination nor its goal
embarrassing as study. Come
out of your crowded streets.
your people-packed stores. leave
off for the time being your
breathless chase after that
troublesome last present." and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
Romance of the Sweet Pea

yellowest bloom at present known is the creamy
Clara Curtis
A novelty in the form of striped flower was
offered in the year 1887 by Mr.. James Carter and
in the year 1860 there appeared the first bloom
of the choice picotee-edged varieties which
so popular today. The latter raised by Major
Trevor Clarke. 1t a fine white flower with
an edging of blue, and Major Clarke scored
double triumph, for his flower was also the
first pea with blue coloring-
The greatest revolution in the history of the
sweet pea, however, inaugurated July 25
1901, when, at the National Sweet Pea society's
first exhibition, held in the old Royal Aquarium.
London Mr. Silas Cole. Earl Spencer's gardener
at Althorp park. displayed the famous Countess
Spencer beautiful pink variety with wavy
instead of the conventional smooth standard The
loneliness of the form the hearts or all
growers and during the last ten years so
great has been the increase of wavy frilled
rieties after the Spencer type that the latter
rules the sweet pea world.
Some hybridists engaged particularly at
present in adding to the list of marbed varieties
of which the blue-veined Helen Pierce is choice
effort may be expended in future in the attempt
venation.
Just few figures in conclusion showing not
the least striking phase of the romance of the
sweet pea The Sicilian monks ponderously
named plant has become about 500 different vari-
cites grouped into 81 classes, according color.
Over the culture of these flowers a national soci-
ETY. numbering 93s members and mebracing 101
afiliated societies watches.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

The storm passed and there followed the silences,
things underfoot Ultimately she heard the splash
ing of kindly American boots, and looking outside
wet specimen of Private Sammy, marching
phi1osophically up and down sentry 60 She
called to him, half hysterical, and he answered
her with cheering words. Reassured, she waited
for her husbands appearance, wrapped In an
army blanket, chilled to the heart. Later, when
her husband and daylight had come, she learned
that she had been sitting opposite window with
a lighted candle by her, offering splendid mark
for the prowling Filipino sharpshooters.
This experience and which the fat
gentleman in the bank had never imagined. To
the army this ignorance and narrowness is incom-
prehensible. The agony and bloody sweat of
hiding death had gripped him often that Pri
vate Sam cannot understand why the gentlemen
who employ him for this class of work do not
realize that there particular horrors connected
with it. Being of the army, he does not speak of
them, but his george rises within him when fat
gentlemen sneer at the uniform which he has
made respected
But he remembers the pursuit of happiness
and the day when he is ordered home.
Then it is that the army and it's women, gathered
aft, watch the walls of Manila fade from their
vision. The crowding thoughts chase each other
across their brains, forming themselves into mem
cries, horrible and happy, of cholera and poisoned
bolo, of the perfume of the ihlangihlang and the
love fourishing while the constabuary band
played songs of home, around the the Luneta--
San Francisco Call
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
HIS HANDS CRACKED OPEN

''I am a man seventy years old. Ny
hands were very sore and cracked
open on the insides for over a year
with large sores. They would crack
open and bleed, itch, burn and ache
no that I could not sleep and could do
but little work. They were so bad
that I could not dress myself in the
morning. They would bleed and the
blood dropped on the floor. I called
on two doctors. but they did me no
good. / could get nothing to do any
good till 1 got the Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment About a year
ago my daughter got a cake of Cutt-
cura Soap and one box of Cuticura
Ointment and in one week from the
time 1 began to use them my hands
were all healed up and they have not
been mite sore since. l would not
be without the Cuticura Remedies.
They also cured bad sore on the
hand of one of my neighbours children,
and they think very highly of the Cuti-
cura Remedies. John W. Hasty, So Eff
bingham. N. H. Mar. 5, and Apr. IL, 'O9."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
The Place of Honor.

Farmer Hodge was of the good, old
fashioned school, and he always gave
a feast to his hands at harvest time.
1t was harvest time and the feast
was about to commence.
Giles was the oldest hand and the
hostess, with beaming cordially, mo-
toned him to the seat by her right
hand. But Giles remained silently un-
responsive.
Come" said the hostess, don't be
bashful, Mr.. Giles"-he was just Giles
on ordinary occasions q
right to the place of honor. you know"
Giles deliberated a moment. then
spoke.
Thank you kindly, Mrs. Hodge,"
he said, but If it's all the same to
you. I'd rather sit opposite this pud-
den"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

The most highly regarded and widely grown
annual in Canadian gardens of today, matter
where in this fowerloving country the garden be.
whether it belong to cottager man of means.
toiling clerk park-owning municipality, the
sweet pea first came to from the Stellar nuns.
Franciscus Cupani, monk. who was also a
botanist. sent the first seeds to England in the
year 1899, consigned to Enfield schoolmaster
named DR. Uvedale. The old Middlesex dominic
both a botanist and horticulturist, and he
grew the first sweet peas seen in England
Cupani called the plant Lathyrus distoplaty-
phyllus hirsutis, mollis ct odorus-an unwieldy
name, out of all harmony with the winged grace
of the sweet pea Later Linnaeus cut down the
clumsy designation to its present form of Lathy-
odoratus
Dr. Uvedale found the seeds produced plant
with purple flowers, and here we have the
color of the original sweet pea
The stock gradually multiplied. and about
thirty years later one Robert Furber, Kensing-
sale
slow in those remote days. and it not
until the year 1898 (near1y century later than
Cupanis consignment of seeds) that any col
ors became known. In the year mentioned how
ever. a catalogue issued, which described
black, scarlet and white varieties
What became of the black and scarlet sorts, If
known The black must have been deep purple.
Bolton In this connection. seeing that for years
pure yellow sweet pea. 1t may be said that the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
History of Red Cross Seal.

Charity stamps" first used In
Boston in 1862 for the soldiers relief
funds during the Civil war, were the
original forerunners of the Red Cross
Christmas seal, which will be used
this year to bring happiness and cheer
to millions. The Delaware Anti-Tu-
berculosis society in 1907 for the first
time in America made use of a stamp
for the purpose of getting revenue to
fight consumption. In a hastily or
ganized campaign of only three weeks
they realized $4,000. The next year.
1908, the American Red Cross con-
Quoted the first national tuberculosis
stamp campaign. From this sale $135.-
900 was realized for the anti-tubercu-
losis movement. In 1909, under many
adverse conditions, s250,000 was rea-
liked from these stamps. This year
the slogan of the tuberculosis fighters
and the Red Cross is "a Million for
Tuberculosis From Red Cross Seals
in 1910"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

lessly Pools were under the house and cholera
unusually the rampage. The rain came
down in such gusts that she had to fasten down
the windows thereby making the house too dark
for reading purposes. So the day long, while her
doctor husband wandered about through mud and
rain with chlorodyne in hand she peered through
the stats, gazing at the bamboo palmtrees whip
ping to and fro before the fury of the storm AT
the appointed time she prepared dinner She pro-
duced her of In her girlhood days
there a household joke What we cannot eat
can, Now she gazed at the canned milk,
the canned butter the canned meats she
wondered if she could all they can. Some
how or other the fleeing thought of the girlhood
days made her choke. You it was the rain
and the storm and the centipedes and things
which got on her nerves.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
An APMY OFFICERS WIFE

Her husband came In for dinner and rushed
away again. Whereupon little Mrs Army woman
went to her trunk and for the first time unpackeu
all the finery of the days that had been
st found a dress which had worn at oane1
at the Preside the last time she SAID. anu
cried / cried"
Before leaving, the husband had pushed cnese
against the door. locking her In completeiy. lnls
being deemed the safest plan therefore On 80
;n.- he had to crawl through the window. and as
he hung on the window sill she bent forward anu
kissed him Then she heard him drop with
smash into the disease infested pools below Alto
getber it was as nice spot for the pursuit of hap
piuess as could be found.
Then she went to the loneliness and the dark
and the centipedes and cried. The wind whipped
+bo banana Mains against the house. the rain
slashed down, she heard the lizards scuddlns
around and big outside, in mango tree
called .tuck-coo" that she jumped up In Iear
and alarm waiting and wondering.
All through the night she lived the horrors
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
"Tha0k YOu'Sv

The man who is not thankful for
the lessons he learned in adversely
didn't learn any.
There must be plenty of thankful
ness in the world if those who have
loved and lost could know just what
they have lost.
why are you giving thanks? They
took $4,000 from you in Wall street
little while ago, didn't they?"
Yes; but 1 got out with $40 they
didn't know l had"-Iudge
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

tor husband to Manila
They were ordered at
once to a native village
up the valley, where a
company of infantry had
been stationed to guard
the water supply for Ma
Mia The natives, you
see, had a habit of throw
ing the bodies of victims
of cholera into the riv-
ers and wells, thereby
making life most I'M
pleasant for those whites
who had to drink. Such
things are not mentioned
in the society reports of
the press.
OF course the wife
could have remained be-
hind, but she did not
She was possessed with
the archaic belief COM
mon to the army that
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
Just Guessed.

Mrs. Wadsworth, 1 am very glad,
indeed. to meet you But, haven't
had the honor of being introduced to
you before? What was your name
formerly. IL may ask?"
My maiden name?"
! mo: your name before you were
divorced"
How did you know I had been d.
yorced?"
why. hasn't everybody"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

also for washing.
There was so much
cholera" she explained
The meals were served
with wire MEETINGS over
the dishes and above and
about them and around
them was the one thought
cholera. There were
other delights. The Moros
were out. A sentry had
been boloed. The roads
were knee deep in mud
and the rain poured down
in torrents.
There came a night
when the very soul of her
was tried to its uttermost.
The rain had fallen cease
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
He Knew.

A small boy brought up by a fire.
eating father to hato anything con-
nected with England or the English
was consigned recently to eat dinner
with the nurse while the family enter
tanned a genuine English lord In the
dining room The grown-ups' meal had
come to that twenty minutes past~
stage where conversation halts direct
ly, when a childish treble fell upon
the dumb-waiter shaft from the
kitchen This is what the astonished
nobleman heard:
"Fe, f. 70, fun,
Il smell the blood of an English
mun."-Wasp.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
How's This?

we offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that be cured by HaIi
CAtarrh Cure
F. J. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. O.
We. the undersigned. have known F. ]. Cheney
for the last Is and believe perfectly
orabie In all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his arm.
WALDISG. KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. ectfna
directly upon the blood mucous surfaces of ths
system Testimonials sent free Price pal
bottle Sold by all Druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

troll my nerves. After I started using
Doan's Kidney Pills, I began to feel
better and soon I was cured. I ann a
living testimonial of their merit"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. so cents .
box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. 7.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

tons were like blood
and I arose s to 10
times at night to void
them. 1 became fright
ened at my condition
My sight began to
fail and pains in my
back were like knife
thrusts. I cried for
hours, unable to con-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
OLD SOLDIER WISHES TO HELP
SUFFERERS FROM KIDNEY, LN-
Err AND BLADDER TROUBLES

am frequently troubled with kidney and
bladder trouble, especially in the Spring
and Fall Being old veteran of the
Civil War, little exposure cold settles
on my kidneys, and then I am laid up
with kidney or bladder trouble. Your
Swamp-Root was recommended to me .
number of years ago, and took q number
of bottles of it and was more than pleased
with the results. consider Swamp-Rooe
the greatest and best kidney medicine on
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trouble and lame back.
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root has done ma
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poor sufferers that you are at liberty To
use this letter as you see ht.
Yours very truly,
GEORGE w. ATCHLEY,
Des Moines, La
State of Iowa
Polk County
A. R. Hansen, retail druggist of this
city, being first duly sworn, deposes and
says. that he Is well acquainted with
George W. Atchley, who gave the above
testimonial; that said Atchley made and
signed said testimonial in my presence
and that 1 have sold said Atchley a part
testimonial. Affiant further says that
George W. Atchley is a well known citi-
zen of this city and honorable man
and that it was Mr.. Atchley's desire to
give said testimonial.
A R. HANSEN,
Subscribed to in my presence and
sworn to before me, this 23rd of March,
1909.
E. J. FISK, Notary Public.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

Considering what most people are
willing to do for money it's a wonder
there are not more mi1lionaires-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
News to Her.

HeConcerning love, everything
possible has been said and thought
She (coyly)-But not to me.-Flie-
gende Blaetter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
TERRIBLE SUFFERING ENDED.
How An Aliegan, Mich, Woman Re
gained Her Health.
TERRI BILE


Mrs Robert Schwabe, R. F. d. No.
3, Allegan, Mich, says: Doctors could
not cure me and / was rapidly running
into Bright's disease. Kidney score
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

IF YoU USE BALL BLUE.
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IE/E0ZlIo
ZZEH

the place OF the wife is by her
husband. So with him she plunged
through the jungle to the camp She
was the first white woman in the
place and the only other one of her
kind was 20 miles away. The situa-
ton was decidedly pleasant The
house was like an inverted waste
paper basket, a three-roomed bam-
boo shack set up on bamboo poles
One room was dubbed the centipe-
dorium because-well, because ev-
cry time the bride went in it she
found centipedes and other things.
There were other advantages. There
was no stove and the cooking had
to be done over hot Goals. Also the
water had to be boiled and par
boiled; not alone the water for
drinking DurDOSeS, but
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
AGAINST Orders.

Eff you refuse me, Miss Gladys.
shall get a rope and commit suicide"
NO. colonel. you must not do that
>apa said distinctly he would not
nave you hanging about here"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

and somebody else does things
and behold, there spring up from
somewhere sundry happily profane
soldiery who carry civilization in
their cartridges and progress at the
point of the bayonet. For, in mo-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

To accept defeat gracefully. start
your retreat in time.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
Letter to
Dr. Eflmer d Co.
BinShamton. n 7.
Prove What Swamp-Root WIN DO For You

Send to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bingham1
ton, n. Y, for sample bottle. 1t viii
convince anyone. You will also receive
a booklet of valuable information, telling
all about the kidneys and bladder. When
writing, be sure and mention this paper.
For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty
cents and one-doliar
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name, who took the town of 7 nm e+,n d.
k l as Vanns' and who, prior thereto helped
the department of information of the british eno
pire, with the judicious administrator of his
cleaning rod Which goes to show that batvaen
ta aaee sammy and Private Tommy there a
heallny Anglo-Saxon ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
as regards the treatment of black and brown
brothers.
All this is merely preamble but when the
Moro has been carted away and the congressional
committee has committed itself and the garlands
are forgotten Private Sammy goes hack to his
own EIe' which to him is highly important af-
fair Somewhere, somehow, there remains in his
brain an impression that he is allowed the pur-
suit of happiness-and he pursues it. He does
1t in his own way and in divers places The tur-
bulent tides of Juan de Fuca which race by the
gun-crested heights of Fort Worden have heard
his raucous chorus; the watermelon patches dot
ting the desolation of Fort Riley know his foot
print On Florida sandspit, in the SHOWS of
Alaska, in the heat of the islands, he pursues it
and catches what little there is of 1t.
The world which praises and abuses him
snows him not, nor his life The point of view
is entirely different ponderous civilian at
the window of the paying teller of local bank
observed an officer in uniform standing behind
him.
Well guess the country is safe" observed
the rotund one gazing superciliously at the uni
form.
Thank you, SIR said the officer, saluting.
This officer boy lieutenant, and his sar-
casm natural For within his short space
of years he had played with the fangs of death
and made snooks at the powers of darkness. A
|
| to find the bodies of two soldiers that had been
murdered The orders to find the bodies
so of they went and did. With seven
troopers and surgeon he pursued his way
through jungle scrub and cholera infested lands,
without food. drenched with rain, sleeping in
swamps. They found them One tied alive
over red-ant hill, after being slashed with
bolo and the other had been knitted and gagged
with portion of his flesh Presumably the
supercilious circumferential gentleman did
know of such things and-this is what stings-
there seem to be so many citizens of the
try whose ideas of the work of the army equally
limited Unfortunately, the men who do big
things cannot talk about them
1t follows that what the of the army has
to undergo so must the woman of the army The
outside world knows the army woman she is
not 1t sees in her life succession of society
events and realizes not the horrible other side
Here is an illustration:
Some years ago. in 1.-THE days of the empire"
| /. little army woman went bride with her doc
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29

Constipation causes and asgravates many serious
diseases II is thoroughly cured by DIR. Piercc'n
Pleasant Pellets The favories family LAXATIVE
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-29
Important to Mothers

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Infants and children, and see that it
Bears the ~ <<0z
Signature of NXZG1<zSE
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