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The Lamar register., 1915-10-20
Distinction of Ditch Water For
Drinking Purposes

Wherever ditch water is used for
drinking purposes, its use is always
attended with more or less danger
from typhoid fever and dysentery.
This risk can be considerably reduced
by treating the water with hypochlor-
lite of lime or bleaching powder, which
can be purchased in one-pound sealed
packages from any drug store for
about twenty-five cents per pound.
Water in cisterns may be treated as
follows:
For 5000 gallons, place one ounce
of the bleaching powder (so-called
Chloride of lime') in a vessel con-
tanning approximately two gallons of
water; stir rapidly for about one min
ute; allow it to stand for five minutes
so that the insoluble parts of the lime
will settle to the bottom; pour the
solution into the cistern containing the
ditch water, and by means of a long
paddle stir vigorously so as to mix
the hypochlorite of lime thoroughly
with the water. After thirty minutes
the water may be used.-Walter G.
Sackett, Bacterologist, Colorado Ex-
pertinent Station, Fort Collins, Colo
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20
Uncle Jud's Advice to Advertisers

Newspaper advertising should be look
ed on in this way;
It's either an investment, worth the
cost, and bound to pay,
Or it's something that fellows bet
ter not attempt at all
To dabble in it makes what wicked
waste would call.
First rid yourself of the idea, whoever
put it there,
That you will spend some amount
whatever you can spare
If you expect from your investment
adequate returns;
If you'd increase and multiply the
sum your money earns,
The volume of the returns desired
should be proportionate to
The sum you spend-I hope, my
friend, make this plain to you.
The merchant whose announcements
are worth money, say, to me,
viii find his customers increasing very
rapidly;
While if the other fellows advertis-
ing outshines yours,
Folks will believe his goods are best,
and buy them just as sure's
I'm writing this; if of the melon you
too want a slice
You'll ponder on these words and
profit reap from my advice.
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20
Crab Grass In Lawns

This weed comes at this season in
poorly established or poorly kept
lawns, its appearance being marked
by dead, brownish patches. 1t gains
entrance along with grass seed, with
stable manures or the seed may be
blown in from neighboring waste
places. Grab grass is an annual, that
is, it dies down each year at frost
time. 1t gets ahead in lawns that are
in poor condition or lack vigor, be-
coming started in the bare spaces or
where the grass cover is thin.
The failure of the lawn may be due
to one, or more of several factors:
lack of water, poor soil, poor drain
age, low grade of seed, thin seeding,
irregular moving or lack of fertilizer.
A select bluegrass seed weighing
eighteen to twenty-five pounds per
bushel, is after all the cheapest sort
The ordinary grade of lawn seed av-
lr yes twelve to fifteen pounds per
J4shel. 1t is well to use an excessive
-..4ount of seed, four to five bushels
per acre of bluegrasss, in mixture, or
SIXTY pounds when not mixed, is not
too much. In the maintenance Of a
lawn, reseeding every year or so is an
excellent practice. Irregular moving is
very detrimental to a lawn. Stable
manure is the best lawn fertilizer, pro-
yiding it carries no weed seed. Com
mercial fertilizers, like ground bone,
have an advantage over manure in
that they are free Of weed seed.
At this season the patches Of crab
grass should be cleaned out, for in
the spring the areas are not easily
distinguished. The bare places should
be raked over and seeded heavily with
a frst-class lawn seed. This should
give such a thick growth Of bluegrass
that the seeds of crab grass which
terminate will find little opportunity
to grow. This procedure should be
followed up with the best Of care Of
the lawn. Deep digging will not be
necessary in removing crab grass. 1t
possesses no underground stems.-W.
W. Robbins, Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20
FREE UNTIL 1916

Have you subscribed yet for The
Youths Companion for 1916? Now is
the time to do it, if you are not al
ready a subscriber, for you will get
all the issues for the remaining weeks
of 1915-free from the time your sub
scription with $500 is received.
The fifty-two issues of 1916 will be
crowded with good reading for young
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20

An apple eaten before breakfas
serves as a natural stimulant for thu
digestive organs.
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20

Hub-"Have you much shopping to
do today?" Wife, don't know. dear.
How much money have you?"-Boston
Transcript.
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20

Daily Optimistic Thought.
II is madness to live In penury that
you may die rich
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20
unols Eb.n,. Philosophy.

DE man dat sells de dice" said
Uncle Eben, is de only one dat
makes sure money out'n a crap game"
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20
Calls.

knowledge is a call to action; an
insight into the way OF perfection is q
call to perfection.-Newman
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20
No One Dodpes u.

Prosperity has spoiled many a man.
but no one lodges 1t on that account
The Lamar register., 1915-10-20
FOR SALE

High Grade Goose Eggs
can be secured from L. Writ
Markham.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-23

that of unpreparedness speaking
from experience.
Had the entente allies only been
prepared, says Lloyd George, they
should now be witnessing "the tri-
umphant spectacle of their guns
pouring out a stream of shot and
shell which would deluge the Ger
man trenches with fire and scorch
the German legions back across the
frontier" But in the absence of this
preparedness. "the iron heel of Ger
many has sunk deeper than ever in
to Belgian and French soil, Poland
is entirely German, and Lithuania is
rapidly following. Russian for
tresses deemed impregnable are fall
ing like sand castles before the ruth
less tide of Teutonic INVASION"
The appeal of the British states
man to his countrymen is remark
ably plain. He points out that Rus
sia has done more than her share,
that France cannot be expected to
sustain any heavier burdens, and
that Italy is putting her strength in
to the fight. 1t remains for Britain
to fill the gap or see her liberties
pass. She has the raw Material, but
she must mobilize ~id utilize 1t.
After this what American will
stand in the way of bringing the de-
fenses of this country up to rea-
snnable standard7-Pitfsbnrg Post.
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RUSSIA AND HER LOSSES

All the weaving mills in Poland are
in the hands OF the Germans. One
fifth OF the wooden mills in Russia
are in the hands of the Germans. A
large portion Of the flax industry in
Russia Is in the hands OF the Ger
mans. The chief centers of the Rus
sian iron and steel industry in Poland
are in the hands of the Germans
More than one-third of the potato
acreage OF Russia is In the hands Of
the Germans The zinc mines Of
Russian Poland and the copper mines
o. Poland are in the hands OF the Ger
mans and the great coal fields OF
Poland are in the hands OF the Ger
mans. Today Germany controls near
lv one.fifth Of Russia's population.
These figures are cleaned from an
article prepared by William Bayard
Hale an intimate friend OF President
Wilson. Dne-seyenth of the horses
cattle. sheen, goats. and pigs nave
heeu captured from Russia by tae
Germans About one-sixth Ct Rus
sias railways are held by the Ger
mans. Russia has lost her ten high
lv productive Polish provinces. These
figures are MIR. Hale's Jap'n des't
Russia staggering blow NOW the
central powers are stripping Russia ~
her industries and her territory lt
must be true that war is he'.-.or
the losers.
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Views OF The [ Press
A Tribute To Preparedness

T LLOYD GEORGES latest arraign-
ment of German ''militarism"
has the effect of arguing for
preparedness rather than against it.
He only emphasizes how the en-
tente allies have suffered through
lacking the preparedness of the cen
trail allies and points out that the
only hope Of victory for the former
lies in bringing their equipment. up
to the standard of the latter. In
other words, the entente allies must
now recognize what Germany recoS-
nized FIRST. ih' ''e'' " fi,-~-~
This view, of course, discards the
dream of disarmament. at least for
the moment. 1t is easy enough for
the British minister Of munitions to
talk Of crushing German "mili-
tarism" forever, but to do this, we
find. calls for more "militarism."
The situation at this stage also is un-
affected by the question of which OF
the belligerents is responsible for
the war. Now it is only emphasized
that the spirit of war is as strong in
the human race to-day as ever, and
that the only way to guarantee Sc
curity is to be prepared at all times
tc fight for It. There is no oppor-
tunity here for an academic discus
sion of theories for doing away. with
war. The voice Of Lloyd George is
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-23
THE GIRL FROM NUMBER IS, by

& ueSlndlQ I16U6T TdttISUu. MdCduldy
Company, New York. $1.25 net
In this story Of Madame Mccoy
and her establishment at Number 13
( Tarragon Street. some very pointed
truths are driven home to reformers,
who think they are engaged in a
righteous crusade when they drive
the wretched women of the under
world from pillar to post. Because
these truths are presented in the
form of a melodramatic novel, they
are none the less important and wor-
thy of study.
The lesson to be learned from a
book of this character is that society
is no better than its victim and that
the necessary evil is a financial and
economic one rather than moral or
physical one.
Until society gives square deal
to women in the matter of industrial
training, there will always be a girl
from Number 13.
THE LOVABLE MEDDLER, by
Leona Dalrymple. Reilly & Britton,
Chicago. $1.35 net.
The pictures of home life in "The
Lovable Meddler" belong to a past
generation. We seldom nowadays
see daughters and wives devoting
every thought to the encouragement
and comfort of the father and hus-
band. But it is exactly this feature
of the book that makes 1t so quaint
and charming a love story.
The lover who seeks to win "Leddy
Rose" finds a powerful rival in the
indolent, vain, good-looking artist
father who accepts the devotion and
eelf-sacrifice Of his family as an al
most divine right. The natural
humility of decent man in love
with a beautiful girl Of high ideals
makes the lover sometimes too timid
and easily discouraged, but he has a
strong ally in "The Iavable Med
der" an old Scotch physician who is
too full of Scotch aggressiveness to
be content with merely minding his
own business.
The contrast between the old doc
tor, who is on the job every minute
taking care of the whole neighbor-
hood, and Roses father, who thinks
his artistic temperament entities
him to large leisure, is the best
feature of the story. 1t is the touch
Of literary genius in the author
whose earlier book, diane of the
Green Van,'' was the winner Of the
$4,000 pile novel contest
ON TRIAL, by Elmer L. Reizen-
stein. Dod7, head G Co., New York.
s1.25 net.
"Should a woman confess her past
experiences to the man who wants
to marry her? Has a husband the
right to kill the destroyer OF his
homer"
The woman's answer to the first
question is no. The jury's answer to
the second is yes. Both answers have
their roots In that law of nature
which puts penalty on IL 0pu.isy in
the Mother of the race.
"On Trial" was first presented as a
play which had extraordinary sue
cesses last season in New York and
Chicago. The story opens with e
murder mystery. A prominent fnan-
cier is killed by friend and busi-
ness associate. The same night
$4,000 disappear from safe in the
room where the crime was commit
ted. The murderer was caught red
handed but the money was not re-
covered. The question was, "Whc
and where was the accomplice?"
When the case comes up for trial
the accused man pleads guilty to the
charge of murder and refuses to
make any defence toNthe charge Of
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-23

TF MY home should take fire, the
fire department would hasten to
the rescue, not as matter OF
charity, but as duty. / am entitled
to the service II pay my taxes.
And there is no stigma of charity
connected with the service of the
fire department. The firemen are
all paid salaries for rendering SER
vice when needed.
But IL | am taken sick when l
have no money, and l am forced to
enter the free ward in the city hos
pital, become an involuntary bene-
fciary Of charity. | have contributed
my share toward the expenses Of the
hospital. / have done as much to
support the hospital as / have done
to support the fire department, yet I
must receive charity. Even when I
pay a few dollars week for my
board in the hospital, am still
there by the grace of charity, be-
cause the physicians on the staff
render their service without pay.
Perhaps my illness comes upon me
suddenly in the middle of the night.
No matter. am rushed to the hos
pital in the ambulance and the at
tending physician or surgeon is
hastily summoned from his home to
care for me-although he receives
nothing for his service.
The city hospital should be con-
Quoted on the same plan as the fire
department. Charity should have no
place in it's management; either the
city should run the hospital in q
businesslike way or 1t should keep
hands off. They do this thing bet
ter abroad. In Europe, the hospital
is under government auspices and
the citizen may enter and receive
treatment without becoming a bene-
ficiary of charity.
Lay management of public hos
pitals is crying evil in this country.
The layman on the board of mana
gers is often handicap to the doc
tor on the staff. If the doctors are
capable of doing their work in the
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-23

is responsible for bad street car
service, long sermons, thieving poll
ticians, taxicabs that run a mile and
a half in the same spot, short
weight coal dealers, trust magnates,
pre-Adamite humor on the stage,
hobble skirts, waste basket hats, de-
tachable hair and man-eating auto
mobiles. Having learned how to be
good natured under all circum-
stances, mankind must now learn
how to forget to be good natured
when he is imposed upon. Good
natured men are forever going about
on their merry ways, being imposed
upon by villains, and meekly en-
during it, thus encouraging said viii
lains to continue in crime. One good
ill-natured man can reform more
ticket agents than a million good
natured travellers, and the man who
can't stay mad from tke disclosure
until the election is peril to tna
republic.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-23

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Sloan's Linimeut-brinss new fresh
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fee md vorr pain leaves as II by
masie The nature Of its qualities
renetr-tce immediately to the sore
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Il means instant relief Price 25c.
ard SOC s0a hottie holds six times
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Is worng; lhe editor Is wrong
the things they do are wrong
and they arc doing them in the
wrong way, anyhow believe
could fix things, II they would
let me. If they don't | viii get
lot OF other fellows like my
SELF and we Will have law naae-
ed to make others do things tpe
way we want them done.
am opposed to fun and hap
piness when at funeral fe-
jieye Ia starting reforms that
take the Joy out Of life IT'S q.
sad world, and am glad OF It.
Amen. 49,
There Is lots OF sunshine in this
old world. Taere IS lots Of the mli
Of human klndness. There IS moth
inz In knck!ng There Is lots N
building and promoting and doing the
hest YOU can. Why wear long
face? God gave that special priyil
ege to the horse. There is lots ol
pros3erity IN tho Southwest as well
as this nation over. There are rain
bcws everyWhere In the sky. Peace
"a coming in Mexico. There is peace
everywhere within the borders OF ouI
country. The war in Europe may
destroy militarism and humble in the
dust monarehs who claim to rule by
divine right. Never subscribe to the
Knockers creed. DO the best you
can. Scatter little sunshine and
let II 60 at that.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-23

n OOD nature is a combined
" strength and weakness of
mind which enables man to
endure placidly scolding wife, an
aching tooth, late train, thievish
Office holder, a chronic hope and in
sulting ticket agent, small boy who
has just asked his 1,111th question,
an automobile suffering from mulish-
ness and the telephone in all its
phases and conditions.
Good nature is the breeding
ground Of laughter, the guardian of
friendship, the lubricant of smooth
running families, the solace of fat
men, the anasthetic of misfortune
and the curse of republics. With
good nature a man can endure hard
work, enjoy a large family, forget
an insurgent corn and enjoy the
jokes of Moses. Without good nature
a man can possess twenty million
Gcllars and get apoplexy because he
has been short-changed five cents by
q street car conductor. With good
nature man can run four blocks
fer a train that proves to be two
hours late and can enjoy telling the
incident for a week. Without good
nature, a man will reach station
fifteen minutes early and try to sue
the railroad company because he had
to wait for the gates to open. Try
ing to endure the complications of
modern life without good nature is
like trying to run an automobile
without lubricating oil. The result
is heat, noise, sorrow and disaster.
Good-Aatured men are more val
liable than statesmen to the world.
A good-natured man can go through
mob of ten thousand people and
make less trouble about it than an
ill-humored man can make all by
himself in a church. If it were not
for the good-natured men who lose
there would be no fun in winning
baseball games, billiard tournaments,
track meets, golf matches and politi-
cal bets. If it were not for good
natured men, there would be no
amateur theatricals, concerts or art
exhibitions, and half the babies in
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O1tAqinOn!,!Agl1i !,!
leSfRic1SSD M.lGluthMS.,, :,
W l4Tl l ~


Dear BILL am not writing you
because sfHH
Last night violated natures laws
BY eating Cardiff rabbit and what
not 81 fAs f
Down town at some Dutch-labelled
lobster-pot.
'Twould be bum stuff, that / right
now would say
That's why am not writing you
to-day. tft
One ought to wait until 1t bubbles
out
From facile pen-most letters, past
a doubt,
Are punk affairs. They don't tell
anything,
And usually use the bummest Eng
Lish in them--now look what, that
time.
] had to do to make this fool thing
rhyme!
So, Bin, don't you expect a word
from me.
This sample shows how bad the
thing might be.
Nobody ought to write while still
4A he feels
He's lately had lot too many
meals.
Soon as have forgot the "royal
8 gorge"
I'll write you. Till that time. yours
truly, George.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-23

Two striking things have been said
OF France lately. Lord Cromer, re-
generator OF Egypt, remarked that If
France is destroyed the world will
lose its smile AS if to bear cut
the very figure OF that tribute a story
is told, from Germany, that the Kais-
er the other day when speaking OF
the fatality that viii befall beautiful
France and that can not be escaped,
broke down and wept. 1t must have
been a spectacle to wiring tears from
Turkish cheetah.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-23
Pepper Talks
br GEORGE MATTHEW A-A,,1
The Keystone

What of the keystone in the
arch of your Success? Are your
eyes centered toward its position as
you begin every day, and during
the succeeding days as you review
with pride what you have done?
Remember that the Keystone rep-
resents the highest ideals of IL
builder.
There is a Keystone to every day
that you live. There is Keystone
to every job you do. There is a
Keystone to the ideals that cluster
In your brain and that formulate
the one big ideal of your life tee
ideal to win worthily or lose.
AS the building dates from the
keystone, so must your success.
Just as people formulate their
ideas of the builder from the Key
stone in his building, so do people
as they catch glimpses Of the Key
stone ideal back of a mans work
begin to understand the man.
Let people gather the best Ideas
of the builder of your life work
from the Keystone you select. ---
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w1 Il n ~ VI n n & d q - q q a
~ THE MAIL ORDER g
h, BUSINESS; THE REASON q
Ex - u m ~ xE 81 - y "a N


The first of last week there came
TO the local postoffiee one thousand
catalogues from a big mail order
house in Chicago Carmen got ike
number; Aline received a supply;
Helena was likewise honored; Am
orita and Byron vii come in for their
share and this catalogue will be
found in every farm home in Alfalfa
county. This is only from one store.
There are scores Of these in Kansas
City in Dallas, in New York and IN
Chicago. by the end OF this month
tens of Thousands of dollars will go
from this section Of Oklahoma into
the coffers or these huge concerns
and they never return. This is
act. 1t is one that the small town
merchant should wake up to. AS
general thing the home merchant
rroans and complains but he fails to
do the only thing that will stop the
havoc-he fails to advertise. Nobody
can blame the farmers for sending
off TO mail order houses whose wares
are constantly displayed to them IN
the most tempting fashion. Ihe
mail order house could not exist with
out advertising and neither can the
small town merchant only the latter
does not know 1t. Those big houses
in Kansas City and Chicago keen the
mails rot with folders and pamphlets
and circulars, and personal letters.
whenever they secure a customer,
thev never let go He is constanty
hearing frcm them. He gets an end
less stream. Of, mail and constant
dropping win wear away Il stone, as
every body knows. That is the way
these big concerns have been built
IN in the first place, and it is the
wav in which they have become NIL
lionaires. If 1t were possible Tor
them TO do so they would leep loud
and clomorous advertisement In ev-
ery small town paper in the state,
hut the newspapers refuse to take
their advertising. They turn down
good money SO as to protect thd
trade OF the home merchant who
wouid drop dead II he We're asked TO
have a page ad once year, It might
appear at a first glance as If the
newspaper men we're crazy but on
second thought one must admit that
they are a little off, they have
nothing on the home merchant who
fails to advertise his wares.-Chero-
kee Republican,