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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
A Missouri Banker Killed.

Evansville, Ind, Sept. THE police
are trying to get at the mysterious
death of Frank Ambrose who came
here and said he was bookkeeper
from st. Louis. One morning he was
picked up in the streets unconscious.
a window, but refused to give details.
Before his death he made his will and
it was learned he was worth $40, 600.
He was formerly banker at Spring
field, NO., where the body will be sent
Ambrose was 90 years of age.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

let 60 one day, finding he couldn't
keep up. He bought a piece of wild
land. entered upon the studies of the
state agricultural college, dug burrows
in the earth, planted seed in the
springtime and all that kind of print
tive thing, reaped his own little har-
vest and Just went from shop to shop
and sold out. Everything he raised
was a little bit better than that raised
by his neighbors, and besides he's got
back his health and is happy. From
few acres of wild land his investment
is now model farm; so much so that
the department of agriculture has ap-
pointed him as state lecturer to the
farmers institutes for next season. He
will begin this work in December.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Heavy DEPOSITS.

Wichita, Sept. 10.-On last Friday
there were in the banks of Wichita in
local deposits considerably more than
two millions of dollars, nearly two
and half. The entire week was ex-
traordinarily heavy with the banks,
and the forces will have to be in
creased or continue working till late
at night, as they have been for several
days. On one day the deposits at the
Kansas National bank were 800, 900,
the heaviest days business in the his
tory of that institution. On another
day the amount ran up to SCI, 900.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Siege ON British Garrison raised.

Cape Town, Sept. S.-The siege OF
Lady in Basutoland, has been
raised after several desperate attempts
to capture the town and its little gar
rison of $50 troops. The Beers who
attacked Ladybrand are estimated to
The British were summoned to sur
render September ?, but refused. and
from that time on were subjected to
continual cannon and rifle fire.. The
burghers twice tried to rush the Brit
ish position. The approach of General
Hunters relief force saved the little
garrison.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

tive professor has gained abroad. The
interferometer is a new kind of spec
troscope which Prof Nicholson has
recently constructed.
Prof. Nicholson has made new ap-
plication of his interferometer where
by the diameter of stars can be meas
ured with q very high degree of ac-
curacy. The interferometer, which
Prof. Nicholson has been engaged in
perfecting since 1880, is an instrument
by means of which it is possible to
use the wave length of light as stand
ard of length, and thus obtain accu-
rate measurements of infinitesimally
small distances and differences of OPP
tical density. So sensitive is the in
terferometer that it is capable of
measuring distances as small as the
one five-millionth part of an inch.
For measuring the diameters of stars
it is more powerful than the largest
telescope
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

ed no empty stomach and clothed no
naked feet. The world is full of hero
ines who would scream at sight of a
mouse and who would grow dizzy at
the top of a step ladder, but whose
willing hands are the support of wild
owed mothers or orphaned children.
Our admiration should not be wasted
on bridge-jumpers, on lunatics who
ride bicycles night and day to the last
heart beat, or on steeplejecks in skirts.
Such foolhardy feats should be frowned
on rather than applauded.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Not Afraid of Plague.

New York, Sept. PRESIDENT Muir
ply, of the New York city health
department, said that he had no fear
of infection from the bubonic plague.
Every precaution known to science has
been taken. Ships from infected ports
are subjected to the most rigid in
spection. Any passenger, not within
half degree of the normal tempera-
out going to the detention hospital.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
6be H1eeMY
Panorama.
Hunffneton Mousofeun.

Nearly twelve years ago in New
York, Mr.. Huntington began to build
the tomb in which his body will re-
pose. No building in the world can
compare with this tomb in strength,
massiveness and durability. Each tier
of the steps in the fifty feet of solid
rock from the roadway to the door of
the mausoleum is hewn from single
forty-ton stone. Its foundation is six
teen feet underground. The mauso-
leum is forty-two feet long, twenty
eight feet wide and twenty-four feet
high. The gates are of bronze and the
interior is of Italian marble There
are sixteen catacombs. In the struc-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Lumber for Taku.

Seattle, Wash. Sept. 1O.-The gov
eminent transport Goodwin, now at
Tacoma, is loading building lumber
for the troops in the orient She will
come to Seattle to complete her cargo
of 100000 feet, taking also 600 doors
and 800 windows, and then will sail
for Talhu, China. The war department
is to establish Cantonment, or tenn
porary post at Taku. H
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
In the Sacred City.

London, Sept. S.-General Sir Alfred
Gaselee, commander of the British
Indian troops at the Chinese capital,
wires as follows from Pekin, August
%, to Lord George Hamilton, secretary
of state for India:
THE allies marched through the
Forbidden City August %. The Brit
ish had third place in the possession,
the Russians and japanese being in
greater strength fs,t.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Count Won Waldersee, who is going
to China to clear up what is left of the
celestial empire, is old enough to think
a good deal of his personal comfort
while campaigning. Therefore, he is
taking with him a portable house built
of an asbestos preparation, light, fire
proof and weatherproof, containing
seven rooms and a bathroom. With this
section of civilization at command the
German veteran will be able to cam
paign in comfort.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Among the officers volunteering for
active service in the far east is Prince
Jaime de Bourbon, only son and heir
OF the Spanish pretender, Don Carlos
He is cornist in the Grodneo ORA
COON guards, stationed at Warsaw, and
will go with his regiment to Port
Arthur. He has commercial interest
in the far east, being part owner of a
large steamship named the Lila, trad
ing between Odessa and Russian China.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
South african Daily Gri.t.

London, Sept. 1O.-The government
expects decisive news from South
Africa within a fortnight. Parliament
will be dissolved late in this month.
There are many signs that the military
authorities regard the end of the war
as close at hand Lord Roberts is
making preparations to return to
England and has already sent four of
his chargers down to Cape Town.
Cape Town, Sept. 1o.-General
Baden-Powell was given great public
ovation upon his arrival here.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
scotch and Irish Talent.

BY the elevation Of Sir Richard
Webster to the Office of master of the
rolls, England is left unrepresented, in
the great law Offices of the kingdom,
as the new Encouragement, Sir Rob-
ert Finlay, is a Scotchman, and the
new solicitor general, Sir Edward Car
son, is an Irishmen. The latter is the
first man who has been solicitor-gen-
eral both in Ireland and in England.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Preacher TO 6ruck Farmer.

Rev. DR.. J. A. Thayer. one of the
best-known and most able clergymen
in western Pennsylvania, and who had
held the pulpit of the big Church of
Disciples in New Castle for nineteen
years, has resigned his charge and is
now conducting a truck farm near
New Castle. DR.. Thayer felt his health
going from him preaching and lectur-
ing and editing the church paper, and
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Beatrice Harraden. her grounds.
Sir Thomas Upton has started new
enterprise. He is trying to organize
the Australian wine trade with view
to pressing the colonial wines on the
British public as ne did the Ceylon
tesS-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Aivasovsky, the Russian marine
painter, some of whose pictures were
shown at the Worlds Fair. died re-
Gently at the age of 80. His native
town of Ferdosia, on the Black sea-
every gallery in Europe possesses one
or more of his works, and in the Pitt
palace at Florence his portrait is
placed between those of Leonardo da
Vinci and Michael Angelo.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Everything Free at Grandma,s.

The family had returned from an
outing at grandma's farm. The chill
dren had asked their mother to buy
something, which she explained to
them was beyond their fathers income.
whereupon one of the youngsters sug-
gested that they go back to grandma's.
where everything was free"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Counties Named for Presidents.

In the United States are 212 coun-
ties named after presidents. Every
president except Arthur and McKin-
ley is in the list. There are. thirty
one Washington counties and one
Hayes county. Next of the extremes
are Jefferson twenty and Fillmore and
Tyler two each; jackson, twenty-five,
and Buchanan and Cleveland three
each
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Robert Planquette, author of that
tuneful opera The Chimes of Nor
mandy" is to have unique honor be-
slowed upon him. The new chime of
bells is about to be rung at the village
church in Bonneville, and the leading
bell bears this inscription: Il have
caused Normandy to be sung all over
the world. The French title of the
opera, it will be remembered, is Les
Cloches de Corneville"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Slty OF Chicago,
has just b e e n
a w a = d e d the
Grand PriX" at
the Paris exposi-
ton for his exhibit
ton and applica-
ton of his new in
vention, the inter
ferometer. Presi-
dent Harper has
received word Of
the dist n c t i o n
1.I
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Etiquette Set Aside.

Another Austrian archduchess has
broken down the barriers of court eti-
quette. The widow of Emperor Francis.
Joseph's brother, Archduke Karl Lud-
wig, the Archduchess Maria Therese,-
who is princess of Braganza and in
fanta of Portugal, is going to marry her
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Telegraphic dispatches in the news
papers tell of the feat of Lefty Clifford
South Brewer, Me-, who proved her
bravery" by scaling flimsy iron lad
der leading to the top of a 126-foot
chimney. Several men had essayed the
feat but had given up and descended
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

regain lost health
on her California
ranch, has taken
up carpentry and
has become skilled
in the use of the
saw and plane.
She has become,
also, proficient as
an orchardist and
in other work upon
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Thomas Hally Howe, an old-time
musician of note. is dead in Boston.
He was best known through his musical
compositions, his more famous songs
Bright Beyond" and Beautiful Birds
Sing On" These songs were written
thirty years ago, but they have
large sale today.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

interest. Since that time the agency
has attained worldwide renown, and
it's growth and Importance were largely
due to the individual effort and genus
for organization pertaining to its prin-
cipal owner. Mr.. Dun was born at
Chillicothe. Ohio. in 1926 and began
life as an errand boy in a country store
with a salary of 81 a week.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

1t would appear that long before the
late Henry George wrote Progress and
Poverty" ex-senator Boutwell, was a
single-tax advocate. AS long ago as
1871 Wendell Phillips delivered an adj
dress before the labor party of Massa-
chusetts in which he quoted Mr.. Bout
we'll as saying that fifty years hence
the idea that a man could own land
and leave it to his children will be re-
garded as ridiculous"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

after making but
half the ascent. For
the sake of demon
strating her nerve
and winning the
SIS, together with
the plaudits of the
gaping multitude,
this fool in petit
coats jeopardized
her life and accom-
plished nothing of
any real merit. By
eli
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

L l0T. MI. DuH 10
the principal mem
Der of the famous
mercantile agency
bearing his name.
He has been asso-
ciated with t h e
concern since 1851.
In 1854 he was adj
mitted to member
ship in the firm,
and in 1859 he pur-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
a Simple Fly E;xferminofor.

People in the country who are an
noyed by flies should remember that
clusters of red clover, if hung in the
room and left to dry and shed its faint
fragrant perfume through the air, will
drive away more flies than sticky
saucers of molasses and other fytraps
and flypaper can ever collect.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Guano Poachers. severe Experience.

Guano poaching has no more charms
for the five men who were left on
Elido island by the Mexican gunboat
Democratic, and had the alternative of
starving or risking their lives in a
small boat to reach the mainland. One
of them arrived at San Diego a week
ago, after tramp of 600 miles.-New
York Post f.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Professor Oliver ]. Lodge, recently
appointed principal of the University of
Birmingham, England, is the author of
several scientific works. He is lead
ing authority on electricity.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

The eminent German oculist, Richard
Liebreich. who has lived in London
since the Franco-Prussian war, recently
celebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday. He
is the author of several scientific works,
among them one in which he claims
that the peculiarities in many of the
pictures by famous painters are due to
defects IN the vision of the painters.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Our Sfudenf Population.

The entire number of pupils in all
schools, public and private, last year
in this country was 1853, 643, out OF
an estimated population of 72,737, 100.
There are 1O1, 058 young men and wom-
en- in the universities and colleges, 3D.
231 in schools of law, medicine and
theology, 67,5SS in normal schools, TO-
$50 in business schools, % sol in re-
form schools and 97.737 in kindergar-
tens
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
wounded Burglars story.

A wounded man went to the Red
Cross hospital in New York and said
he was a soldier and had been shot in
the Philippines. 1t turned out that
he was burglar, and had been shot
in the hip.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Aged Chorus Singer.

A woman is alive in Vienna who.
sang in the chorus at the first per-
Torrance of Beethoven's choral sym
phony Her name is Frau Grebner
and she is 81 years old
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Sexes Reverse occupations.

In Chicago where men are largely
finding employment as chamber maids
and cooks an employment agency has
just furnished woman to do blowing
and other field work for a farmer liv-
Ing not far from the city.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Patriotic English Parent.

lish town. has named the triple:s
which arrived the other day Roberts,
Butler and Tugela. The latter was a
girl babV
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Pulls the Purse .SfrinGs,

Here is the latest photograph of the
Hon. w. w. Gibbs of Philadelphia,
who has been nominated by Senator
Hanna to be treasurer of the republic
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

has represented MS
state in the senate
for four terms. He
was its first sena-
tor, being chosen
in 1864, whsn it
was admitted to
the Union. He
served two terms
and in 1886 was
again chosen. In
1893 he quit the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

the order was through it's medium to
protect republican principles and the
laws of equality, and to abolish diff
ferences of rank in society, every So
cial grade being considered eligible.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Mr. Constantine Ionideo, a Greek
merchant, who died recently at Brigh-
ton, bequeathed his extensive art col
lections to the British nation
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Mrs. Laura A. Alderman of Harley,
Turner County, S. D., is said to own
one of the largest orchards in the coun-
try. 1t consists of $50 acres on which
are planted 5000 trees, besides 1000
currant bushes, 1000 gooseberry bush
es, and 500 grapevines.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

The will of Stephen Crane has just,
been probated in England. He leaves
but little money, but there are several
unpublished manuscripts which will
bring I.igh prices.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Floating Variety Theater.

floating variety theater, to be
towed from one watering place to an
other along the coast, is an English
idea for the coming summer season.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Illness of r. G. Dun.

R. G. Dun. the financial statistician
and commercial intelligencer, is i'll at
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Gains Dfsfincfion.

Prof. Albert Nicholson. head of the
department of physics in the Univer-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

can national committee. Mr.. Gibbs is
president and director of many large
corporations. He is the fourth Phila-
delphian to hold this important post
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
WHERE HIS BODY WILL REPosE.

ture there is not stone weighing less
than eighteen tons. Over the door in
severe letters is the single word
Huntington"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

RepuDIlcdH party,
joining the Populists. In 1896 he join
ed the Democrats as result of fusion.
He was born in Lyons, n. Y, Aug. 9,
1927.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

Beatrice Harraden, while trying to
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Senator .SfesOarf.

William NJ Stewart of Nevada,
has represented his
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
Current Topics
II
.SouSbf Cheap Fame.

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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-06-30
OUR LAST DAY.
Great KimbaNI Piano Sale Closes
Today.

Great KimbaKI Piano Sale Closes
Today. u
Saturday June 30th is the closing
day of that great ten days piano pur-
chasing opportunity. Have you made
your selection? Ifnot, and you want
a piano, even though you do not
need it for year or more, you should
mol fail to take advantage of the
great piano purchasing opportunity.
Be wise, consider, and save money,
This opportunity may not occur
again for you, and during this great
sale there is an actual saving to you
of $4,000 to $4,000 on the price of
your piano, and $4,000 to $4,000 is
a great deal of money to save. 4
We have sold a number of instru-
lnents here during the sale. And IN
each instance we have heard words of
surprise and admiration expressed
over our low prices and our beauti-
full stock.
Several have asked, rs it possible
you are selling SO cheap?" We ans
wered, eve are doing just as we adj
vertise." $
If you have not called you had
better do so now as we can't call your
attention to this sale again. AS we
close Saturday night June Both at
1890 o'clock.
You may be among The disap-
pointed ones next week, when YOU
realize that the opportunity has
passed to buy piano on such easy
terms and at such saving to you.
You use the piano while paying for
it. And there is no advance in price
if you buy on the payment plan So
and $40 monthly.
New pianos of different makes at
$l85, $l95, 1926 and $255.
L. w. NoRTHooTT, Morris Agent,
E. Fl. WALTERS, Special Factory
Agent.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-06-30

After seven years of faithful service
Mr.. J, j, Pimm last Sunday resigned
his position as superintendent Of the
Congregational Sunday school. Mr..
Pimm has made an admirable record
in the manner in which he has har-
moniously conducted che Sunday
school through many difficulties. By
all his departure is regretted, both by
the teachers and the taught, and a
keen interest will always be felt by
them in Mr.. Pimm's welfare though
he be far removed from Morris. AS
a mark of their esteem, the Sunday
school on Wednesday gave a picnic.
at Pomme de Terre in his honor.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-06-30
A Record in Blood.

The record of Hoods Sarsaparilla
is literally written in the blood of
millions of people to whom it has
given good health. It is all the time
curing diseases of the stomach,
nerves, kidneys ard blood, and it is
doing good every day to thousands
who are taking it for poor appetite.
tired feeling and general debility. It
& the bes medicine money can buy,
Hoods Pills are non-irritati. Pric
Is cnets.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-06-30
Bret Harte's Condensed Novels

Bret Harte's Condensed Novels.
Years ago Bret Harte wrote aseries
of stories which he called CONDENSED
novels" humorous tales, in which
lie burlesqued the style. mannerisms
and pecuIiarities of the authors of
the day.
Mr.. Harte has just completed, for
The SATURDAY EVENING PosT, a new
series of these inimitably funny liter
airy caricatures. Admirers of Conan
Doyle should read the adventures of
Remlock Jones in his quest of Tn
Stolen CigarCase; and those who
are fond of Mr.. Kipling will find
pleasure in Stories Three; tales of
Moo Kow, the Cow; Puskat, the
warmth-loving one; the adventures
of Bleareyed, Otherwise and Mulled-
wlney. In Rudolph, the Resembler,
the astute reader will find a version
of Anthony Hopes most popular
story, and will understand how much
more complicated it might have been
had there been three kings instead
of only two.
The first of these, CONDENSED
novels" The Jungle Folk-wil- ap-
pear in The SATURDAY EVENING PosT
of June 80.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-06-30

There are fifty million herd Of
cattle in the United States, of which
number from fifteen to twenty million
are dairy COWS. If every one of our
readers would get Bicycle Cow Book,
published at so cents oy the Wilmer
Atkinson Co, Philadelphia, they
could greatly increase the product
from every COW in their herd.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-06-30
That Family Skeleton.

Mrs. Whistler Tell me, Mary, why it
is that you always cry so when papa
sends you to bed In the dark when you
are naughty? There's no such things
as ghosts, and the dark doesn't hurt
you, does it?
Little Mary-No; mamma, but I'm
afraid Of that skeleton Mrs. Jones says
we got In our closet Baltimore Amer
lean.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-06-30
now Needles Are Made.
Agent.

Needles are all made by machinery
The piece Of mechanism by which the
needle is manufactured takes the rough
steel wire, cuts it into proper lengths
files the point, fattens the head, pierces
the eye, then sharpens the tiny instru.
ment and gives it that polish familiar
to the purchaser. There is also ma.
chine by which needles are counted
and placed in the papers in which they
are sold, these being afterward folded
by the same continuance.