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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
STATU QUO MAINTAINED.
No Certain News From the Lega-
tions Yet Received.
BATTLESHIP OREGON ASHORE.

London, July 2.-There is absolutely
20 word as to the whereabouts of the
legations, although abundant reports
from Chinese source say that they were
safe few days ago.
Washington, July mo official
news had been received in Washington
bearing on the report that the battle
ship Oregon had gone ashore near Che
Foo Early last week Admiral Remey
was directed to send this vessel from
Hong Kong to Taku. Captain Wilde
is her commander. She left Hong
Kong week ago, two days ahead of
her expected departure, and had on
board in addition to her regular crew
164 sailors and marines brought to
Hong Kong from Manila by the Zafiro.
Paris, July "A representative of
the Associated Press was informed that
as a result of negotiations between the
powers, an agreement has been arrived
at which provides for the maintenance
of the statu quo, as regards spheres of
influence and commercial arrange
ments and also respecting the nature
of the guarantees and compensations
which will be demanded from China.
According to the understanding the
international army of occupation will
consist of $4,000 men. Russia and
Japan will provide $4,000 each, Great
Britain will provide 10000 men, France
5000 and Germany, America and other
powers 5000 each. The Russian army
corps in Siberia, which has just been
modified, will only cross the Chinese
frontier in the event of the crisis being
aggravated.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
The Storm in Nebraska.

Omaha, June 3O.-Details of the
storm in northeast Nebraska show it
to have been more widespread and to
have caused greater damage than at
first supposed. 1t swept over a sec
ton of country 100 miles square and
while no lives were lost and no large
buildings were destroyed, immense
damage was done in the aggregate.
Wakefield suffered the worst. At this
point two residences We're wrecked.
All through the storm swept section
windmills and outbuildings were de-
stroyed. Crops are blown down, but
it is thought they will come out all
right
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
The Storm in Kansas City.

Kansas City, Kas., June 29.-The
roof of double brick tenement house
at Eleventh and Usage avenue, in this
city was blown off the house, but in
jured no one. At the same time the
glass front of Clafin's drug store was
blown out and the glass was scattered
over the street. The top of a smoke
stack in process of erection at Fowler's
packing house, was blown down, the
falling bricks breaking number of
telegraph and telephone wires and lit
tering the streets. In all parts of the
city the windows were blown in, wires
blown down, and street car traffic was
stopped for short time.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Long Distance Talks.

Wichita, Kas., June 3O.-Governor
Stanley, who was in Milwaukee at
tending the carnival and electrical
pageant, talked with the Wichita
Eagle over the lines of the Missouri
and Kansas Telephone company. The
long distance lines of this company
have just been opened and Wichita
now has telephone connection as far
east as New York. Governor Stanley
was the first person to talk over the
newly opened line. Mayor Ross talked
with parties in several cities.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
An Injunction Against bees.

A striking example of the extent to
which the injunction may be carried
is illustrated in the application of an
Ogden, Iowa, farmer, who is attempt
ing to enjoin a neighbor from keeping
bees. The grounds for the injunction
are based on the fact that the bees
while slipping honey from the plain
tiff's flowers insert their business end
in unweiccme places. The Injunction
has been granted.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
KANSANS DISAPPOINTED.
Governor Roosevelt Passes Through ON
Sunday and VIII Not Speak

Sunday and VIII Not Speak.
Topeka, June Ex-Governor Roose-
welt will make no speeches during his
trip through Kansas. NJ A. Low, of
this city, says that Mr.. Roosevelt has
positively refused to make any speeches
of political character until he is form
ally notified that he has been nomina-
ted for vice president.
1t was the intention of the Kansas
Republican League, which meets in
this city Thursday, June %, to adjourn
until July 2, when it was expected that
Mr.. Roosevelt would be pursuaded to
address the delegates. The governor
however, will go through this city on
Sunday and will not make any speech
es. A number of Kansas towns have
been telegraphing for the past week
attempting to make dates for Roose-
welt speech on this trip, and the gov
nor's decision not to speak will disap-
point them
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Doubtful Ground for Hope.

London, June 3O.-In the house of
lords, the premier, Lord Salisbury, re-
ferring to the relief of Vice Admiral
Seymour, said he knew nothing of the
position of Sir Claude M. Macdonald,
the British minister to China, or of the
members of the other legations in the
country. He thought, however, there
was ground for hoping that no violence
had been done them, but even that, he
added, could only be stated hypotheti-
cally.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Admiral Sir Erasmus ommaney,

Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommaney,
who has just received a Greenwich
hospital pension, is Sc years of age.
and entered the navy in 1926. He
fought as midshipman at the battle of
Navarino, and served in Sir James
Ross expedition to the Arctic in 1885.
He was the first to discover traces of
Sir John Franklin's expedition in 1850.
in the Crimean war, and has been ac-
tive in scientific and geological work.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
A Special Train With Troops.

Kansas City, June 30.-A special
train, composed of eight sleepers,
dining car, and baggage coaches, car
rying 22S United States marines and
officers, went west over the Santa Fe.
The men were on their way to San
Francisco. which point must be reach
ed by Saturday morning. They will
Immediately enter the naval service
and will leave for Chinese waters to-
morrow.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

I concluded to try your medicine and
1 can truly say it does all that you
claim for it to do.
Ten bottles of Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and seven pack
ages of Sanative Wash have made
new woman of me. l have had no
womb trouble since taking the fifth
bottle. weigh more than 1 have in
years can do all my own housework,
sleep well, have a good appetite and
now feel that life is worth living. /
owe all to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. 1 feel that it has saved
my life and would not be without it for
anything. 1 am always glad to recon-
mend your medicine to all my sex, for /
know if they follow your directions,
they will be cured."-MRs. ANNIE
THOMPSON, South Hot Springs, Ark.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
shortest Route to Asia.

Kansas City, June 3O.-'It is not
generally known" said Mr.. Stillwell,
''that the Hawaiian Islands are 200
miles south of a straight line drawn
across the Pacific ocean from Port
Stil1well to Manila. This means that
when our road is finished it will be the
shortest route by more than 200 miles
from New York or Chicago to Hawaii,
Manila or Hong Kong.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Sharkey Licked.

Seaside Athletic Club, Coney Island,
June 2S.-For the first time in his
pugilistic career Tom Sharkey went
down to decisive defeat in the historic
arena of the Seaside Athletic club, and
big Gus Rubin, the Ohio pugilist, was
his conquerer. 1t was a clean knock
out after fifteen rounds of fighting
that made memorable ring battle.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
successeu1 Woman Preacher.

Miss Ida G. Hutlin of Moline, ILL.,,
will not be called to the pulpit of All
Souls Unitarian church here. The
committee appointed to select the pas
tor has great respect and admiration
for her talents and womanly qualities,
but they are of the unanimous opinion
that the church requires a man instead
OF a woman for pastor.-Washingt
Letter.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
The Alabama's omcers Anxious.

Washington, July 2.-Tne battleship
Alabama, approaching completion in
the Cramps yard, will not be ready to
start on her trial trip before August 1.
All of her armor is now in the yard.
The large guns are still to be put in
place; and until this is done the ferret
tops cannot be completed. Officers
who will be assigned TO be Alabama
are anxious to have her completed, in
view of the possibility of stirring
times ahead in China, where the Ala
bama may be called into service.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Severe Storm at Atchison.

Atchison, Kan, June ga terrific
electrical storm accompanied by gale
occurred here between and o'clock
Wednesday night. Trees were blown
down and many small buildings over
turned. The roof of the Ogden block,
the largest building in Atchison, was
blown off.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Copper Reduction Works Burned.

Solomonville, Ariz., July 1.-The
reduction works of the Detroit Copper
company at Morenci, Ariz., caught fire
and the entire plant was consumeds
The works consisted of $50 ton concen-
traitor, smelter furnaces and converters.
The fire will throw large number of
men temporarily out of employment.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Diplomacy Defined.

Dickey-Is a diplomatic politician
who kncvs what to do, Uncle Christie
pher? Uncle OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Dickey; a diplomatic is politician
who knows what he intends to do after
other politicians have done what his
first move was intended to make them
do.-Life.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Polish of a Beauty.

The queen of Italy is said to be not
only the most beautiful but one of the
best educated of all European queens.
She speaks English, French, German
and Spanish, reads Latin and Greek,
knows the great poets thoroughly,
reads Darwin, Ruskin and much theo-
logical literature; is a botanist and
geolegist and devotes much time to
charitable projects.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Drouth in Arizona.

Phoenix, Arizona, June 3o.-The
prolonged drouth in Salt River valley
has done many thousand dollars worth
of damage and threatens the grain and
fruit crops not yet harvested. Cattle
are in bad condition and many ranch
ers are disposing of their stock as
rapidly as possible.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
roems bx Ruxley.

An influential London reviewer,
while housing in the library of a
friend, came upon book Of verse by
Henrietta Huxley. CHANGING through
it, he was astonished to find three
poems by Huxley himself. Apparently
this side Of the great scientists mind
had escaped the attention of his biog-
raDhers.-London Cable.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Rough on Horses.

During the American civil war the
confederate cavalry used up its horses
at the rate of eleven per man II Twelve
months. 1t is estimated that the Eng
lish mounted forces in South Africa
will need four remounts per man dur
ing the remainder of the campaign.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Gates Stops Prosecution of Jester.

Mexico, Mo-, July 2.-It is said here
that John w. Gates, the Chicago capH
italist, has decided to drop the prose-
cution of the famous case of Alexander
Jester, charged with killing his brother
Gilbert Gates, in Missouri twenty-nine
years ago. Jester, while under the
indictment for the murder, escaped
from prison twenty-eight years ago
and was only arrested year ago. He
was tried in 1899, but the jury disa-
greed. A second trial has been set for
next week at New London, Mo.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
MEDICAL BOOK FREE.

"Know Thyself," Book For Men Only,
sent Free, postpaid, sealed, to any male
reader mentioning this paper; &c for
postage. The Science of Life, or Self-Pres-
ervation, the Gold Medal Prize Treatise,
the best Medical Book of this or any age.
$40 pp., with engravings and prescriptions.
Only 25c paper covers. Library Edition,
full gilt, S1.O0. Address The Peabody Med
ical Institute, No Bulfinch ST., Boston,
Mass, the Oldest and best in this country.
Write today for these books; keys to
health and vigor.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Flx-Proof Dish Cover.

A collapsible fy-proof dish cover
has been designed, which has a CEN
trail vertical hoop, with pivoted hoops
on either side, which swing into
horizontal position to pull the net
ting which covers the frames down
into place around the dish, folding
against the central hoop when not in
USE
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
To Clean Pavements.

For use in cleaning pavements, a
German has patented flexible brush,
which is semi-circular in shape, the
center being formed of flexible shaft,
around which the bristles are inserted,
the curvature of the brush rolling the
dirt toward the center.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Miners Drive Japs Out of Town.

Redding, CAL, June 29.-Two hun
bred miners and smelter employees of
Keswick and vicinity drove twenty-one
Japanese railroad workers out of town.
The miners object to the Japanese,
who were employed to take the places
of white men.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Food for Berliners.

A society has been formed IN Berlin
which purposes to deliver cooked food
to poor families at the cheapest posi-
BILE prices. All sorts of roasted meats
and vegetables are sold on the streets.
The soup wagons receive the biggest
patronage.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Hust,ine Real Estate Women.

Mrs. Rosine Ryan and Mrs. Bette
Bryan were active delegates at the
Mississippi commercial congress,
held at Houston, Tex. They conduct
a thriving real estate business in
Houston.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Ladies' Can Wear Shoes.

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder. 1t makes tight or new
shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating,
aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and
bunions. All druggists and shoe stores,
dress Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, NY.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Read the Advertisement..

You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get in the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford most interesting study and
some excellent bargains. Our adver-
tisers are reliable and send what they
advertise.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
ORIGINAL Bryan STATES.

The four original Bryan states in
the Democratic national convention of
1896, which cast their votes for Bryan
on the first sn1 Zach of the succeeding
ballots, were Georgia, Louisiana, Ne
braska and North Carolina.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Right to a Pension.

The French Conseil d'Etat has just
decided that ill health consequent on
typhoid fever contracted by soldier
in barracks, implies the responsibility
Of the state and confers the right to
a pension.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
what WIN necome ot ohina,

None can foresee the outcome of the
quarrel between foreign powers over
the division of China. 1t is interesting
to watch the going to pieces of this
race. Many people are also going to
pieces because of dyspepsia, constipa-
ton and stomach diseases Good
health can be retained if we use Hos
letters Stomach Bitters.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

A true friend stands by you when
you are under cloud. Swarms of
insects surround you when the sun
shines.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
LIE saved by Electric Light.

An interesting calculation has re-
Gently been made by an English stat
istician, in which he shows that when
the electric light has entirely displaced
gas. oil lamps and candles in the Unit
ed Kingdom, there will be 10000 less
deaths annually, these illuminants be-
ing so much more unhealthful than
electricity.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

that their thoughts never get to the
surface.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Try Red Cross Bail Blue. 5 cents.

A woman doesn't think any more of
taking another woman's hatpin than a
man does of taking another mans UNI
brella
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Prof. Chas. P. Curd, ST. Louis. Mo-. writes:
We unhesitatingly attribute the recovery
and continued good health OF our little boy to
TEETHINA (Teething Powders).
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Tow Logs Across Ocean.

San Francisco parties are having
built at Seattle, Wash, raft of logs
which, when completed, will be 625
feet long and contain 100000 feet Of
lumber, to be tswed to Japan.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Bicycle Factories in Germany.

Germany has thirty-six fewer bicycle
facories than it had last year, and
only a few of the largest establish
ments are making money.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

When a man who boards meets one
who keeps house, each is reminded of
causes for envying the other.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

If a man was a generous uncle to his
sisters children before he married, she
always looked upon his children as in
terloperS.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Before marriage young man some
times gives his sweetheart lock of
his hair; after marriage she sometimes
helps herself
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

A clever woman always likes to sit
next to a clever woman at dinner, be-
cause clever woman never expects a
man to be.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Kansas city Convention VIII Celebrate

Kansas City, Mo-, June 30.-The
reading of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence from the platform, win be
introduced at the first session. on July
4, and, the music and decorations of
that day will be selected with a par
ticular idea of commemorating the
national holiday" The badges for the
delegates are an elaborate affair.
There is an oxidized silver bar for the
pin, below which hangs silk flag four
inches long. To the flag is attached
medallion of gold or oxidized silver.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

A vigorous growth and the original color given to
the hair by PARKER's HAIR BALsAN.
HINDERcoRSs, the best cure for corns. 15cts.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

A man who has dollhouse isn't nee
essarily florist. He may have a
scolding wife.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Wait for others to advance your in
terests and you will wait until they
are not worth advancing.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

1t is waste of time to heap Goals OF
fire on the head of the ice man.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
No Man Likes to Be Bald,

Behind every woman's success lies a
mans heart.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallfble
medicine forNcoughs and colds--N. w. SAMUEL.
Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. II, 1900
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Theatrical people apparently believe
in long engagements but short mar
riages.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Never fall in love with a pretty
woman who is very popular, or travel
on a fayOrite ship.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

1t stands to reason that the man who
follows the races should not be ahead
of them.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Every woman that ever owned a
canary bird believed in her heart that
animals go to heaven.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Nearly every man makes garden in
the spring, but only one in ten ever
raises anything.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

All the grand stand players in the
country are not in the baseball bust
ness.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

When cycling, take bar of Whites Yu-
catan. You can ride further and easier.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is constitutional cure. Price, 75c.
ARC You U.lnr Anen.s Foot-Ease9

1t is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

There is no use in denying that
there is pleasure in telling great
secret.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

The family horse never gets a good
cleaning except in the spring when he
sheds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

The trouble seems to be that most of
us have $50 tastes and S25 salaries.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

If some people would try the work
cure perhaps there would't be so much
need of the rest cure.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Red Cross Ball Blue is better than
bottle or box blue and also much
cheaper. Large ZOE. package cents.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
The Best prescription Tor Chins

Lots of people are found out when
you go to call on them.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

= If it were necessary for you to satisfy
everybody, you would have been
hanged long ago.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

A man who lives by his wits, usually
lives by dishonesty.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

A Book of Choice Recipes
Sent free by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd Dorchester,
Mass. Mention this paper.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Every girl of sixteen believes that
she can keep off the wrinkles by pure
strength of mind.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Wise is the man who selects the
obedient daughter of good mother
for his wife.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

The taxidermist makes an honorable
living at skin game.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
A Pretty Shirt Waist,

properly laundered with "Faultless Starch
is a constant delight. At grocers-10c.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

and Fever is bottle Of GROVES TAsrELEss
CHILL TONIC. 1t is simply iron and Quinine in
q tasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price, SOC.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

There is no fun in playing cards for
fun, and it is dangerous to bet.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

It is mistake to suppose that the
sun is supported in the sky by its
beams
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

No man needs to be instructed in the
art of spending money.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

The best way to prevent it is to use Coke
Dandruff Cure. Ali druggists at S1.OO.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
MIS-. Winslow,s Soothing syrup.

For children teething softens the gums reduces in
Illumination allays pain wind collie 25c bottle
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

When you meet an obstacle use it
for stepping stone.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

It is all right for man to work the
excuse of spring fever on his wife, but
he should avoid springing it on his
employer.