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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
Pocket
Monkeys

The latest fad in the way of pets is
the pocket monkey. 1t is only about
two years since the little fellow made
his first appearance in this country in
his present capacity, and he might be
said to have taken he hearts of pet
lovers by storm. \ W his popularity
has become so great that the men who
make a business of catering to the
whims of the people who like pets say
that the demand for the pocket mon
key is five times as great as the sup
ply. They predict a bright future for
the new favorite just as soon as the
people down in Brazil can be made to
understand what a good commercial
article they have and thus be induced
to make a regular business of captur-
ing these monkeys and shipping them
up here.
The pocket monkey dwells so far in
the interior of Brazil as to be almost
out of the reach of traders. He is,
perhaps, the smallest member of the
monkey family known, being about
five inches long, but with a tail that is
sometimes three times as long as his
body. He belongs to the marmot fam
lily of monkeys, and is extremely neat
in person and clearly of habit. If it
wasn't for those characteristics, he
would not be holding the place he does
in the hearts of those who have in
vested in him.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
"A JUDGES wife pEl sSsEP ss #
She Suffered for Years and
Felt Her Case Was Hope
1esS-Cured by
Pe-ru-na.

Mrs. Judge McAllister writes from
1917 West 3Srd St, Minneapolis, Mimi,
as follows:
81 suffered for years with pain in
the small of my back and right side.
1t interfered often with my domestic
and social duties and / never supposed
that 1 would be cured, as the doctors
medicine did not seem to help me any.
Fortunately member of our Order
advised me to try Peruna and gave it
such high praise that decided to try
it. Although l started in with little
faith, l felt so much better in week
that l felt encouraged.
Il took it faithfully for seven weeks
and am happy indeed to be able to say
that l am entirely cured. Words fail
to express my gratitude. Perfect health
once more is the best thing 1 could
wish for. and thanks to Peruna enjoy
that now."-Minnie E. McAllister.
The great popularity of Peruna as a
catarrh remedy has tempted many
people to initiate Peruna. A great
many so-called catarrh remedies and
catarrhal tonics are to be found in
many drug stores. These remedies can
be procured by the druggist much
cheaper than Peruna. Peruna can only
be obtained at uniform price, and no
druggist can get it cent cheaper.
Thus it is that druggists are tempted
to substitute the cheap limitations Of
Peruna for Peruna. 1t is done every
day without a doubt.
We would therefore caution all peo-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
Modernized Palestine.

In spite of all our philosophy the
invasion of the birthplace of Chris
tianity by modern devices and modes
of life CRATES harshly on sensitive
minds. Names hallowed by religious
associations seem out of place on rail-
way timetables or subscription lists
of long-distance telephones. or
course, all this is illogical, for we
need not expect any part Of the
world to remain in infancy, still prim-
tive habits and modes OF life are so
naturally blended with the Biblical
narrative that we cannot entirely sup
press a wish for their perpetuation.
But modern innovations are strangers
to sympathy. The railway from Joppa
TO Jerusalem, at first an experiment,
is now run on strictly business prin-
ciples, and branches are under con-
struction to familiar places UP and
down the Jordan. Trolley lines are
nroiected to connect Jerusalem with
bethlehem, Bethany the Lake of Gal
lice Samaria, Jericho, Nazareth and
other places, while in the city itself
there are electric lights, telephones
and other modern conveniences. In
stead of the workman longing his
shadow. he now consults a cheap Am
erican watch for quitting time, and
all other modern supplies are han
died by commission houses through
out Palestine and Syria. More than
900 monographs were recently i'm
ported, one-half going to Damascus
To- ,1o,,
by places.
A commission house at Beyrut has
bought & $3.50 windmill from an Illi-
nois firm, and there is an important
market for all kinds of irrigation ma
chinery. The all-conquering syndi-
cate is in evidence, and the once fer
tile valleys are to be reclaimed by ir
rigation on a large scale, and once
more transformed into a land flowing
with milk and honey. Many of the
rich foreigners making investments
are Jews and leaders in the Back to
Jerusalem" movement. The figurative
prophecy of the two women grinding
at a mill is recalled by the setting up
of a 17-horsepower Chicago windmill
in the interior west of the Jordan to
run a large grist mill. Bicycles are
common on the streets, and the NUM-
cipality of Beyrut had added a $1,000
steam roller to its public equipment
The Turkish government has given
many important commercial conces-
sions to foreign nations, and the Sui
tan is watching the undermining pro-
cess with interest. Trade is the great
cementer of nations. and is also the
great iconoclast. No spot, however
hallowed by tradition, is sacred from
its inroads. A profusion of modern
factory products thrust inconsider-
ately before every traveller widens the
gulf between the scenes of the Bibli-
cal story and the Palestine of to-day
The Turkish government has shown
its solicitude for the believers in the
Koran by providing for the sinking
of number of wells along the historic
pilgrimage route to Mecca. Each OF
these wells will be supplied with a
windmill, thus lessening the hardships
of that self-imposed infection.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

Topeka, June IF. d. Coburn, sec
rotary of the state board of agrisul-
ture does not share in the opinion Of
the ruin that will come upon Kansas
as result of the present dry spell.
The damage to hay and corn has been
serious, but the deficiency will be
nearly made up by the great crops of
Kaffir corn and alfalfa that have been
raised.
Mr.. Coburn states that there are
over 10000 acres of Kafir corn and
alfalfa in tie state, which has not
been materially affected by the dry
weather. In addition to this, thsre
are 100000, 900 bushels of old corn in
the hands of the farmers. This of it.
self is nearly fourth of the average
crop.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
stea mships In 1910 and Now


In 1910 the Cunard steamship Brit
annia built of wood, propelled by pad
die wheels, maintained a sea speed Of
about eight and one-half knots. Her
steam pressure was II pounds per
square inch. She was 207 feet long,
about 1900 tons displacement, her en-
gines developed about 750-horse power,
and her coal consumption was about
40 tons a day, or about five pounds
of coal per indicated horse power per
hour She carried a full spread Of
sail. In go years speed has increased
from S1a to % knots; the time on the
voyage has been reduced to about one
third of what 1t was in 1910; ships
have been trebled in length, about
doubled in width, and the displace-
ment has been increased tenfold. The
engine power is 40 times greater; the
ratio of horse power to the weight
driven has been increased fourfold.
The coal consumption measured per
horse power per hour has been re-
duced to one-third. In 1910 each ton
of machinery and boilers produced
only two-horse power; now each ton
develops from six to seven horse
power. At the old rate of coal con-
sumption 5000 tons (instead Of 10000,
would have been required for a voy-
age across the Atlantic. These data
enable one to estimate the enormous
development that has occurred in lit
tie more than half a century.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
HOME SEEKERS IN THE Rain.
Rock Island to Reach Lawton by
August First.
THE POSTOFFICE CONTESTED.

Ell Reno, July 2O.--The thousands of
people who are in Ell Reno rejoiced
together over the rain which fell for
more than one hour. The rain came
unannounced and when the first drop
began to fall people rushed into the
streets caring nothing for the wetting
which they received. Streets that
have been inches deep in dust are now
muddy. Men and women were in the
rain together. Business went on as
usual The man who raised an UNI
brella was roasted" until he lowered
it, and gray haired old farmers barred
their heads standing in their wagons
as they drove along with smiles On
was intense.
The registration for the day reached
1869. At Lawton the registration
was 1000.
r. P. Lawrence, chief construction
man for the Rock Island, states that
the road will be built into Lawton by
August first.
The Ell Reno fire department was
called out to extinguish blaze at the
Rock Island depot. 1t was a small
fire, but it caused plenty of excite
ment.
The rush in the morning at the
booths was unprecedented, six thou
sand being registered before noon.
1t was impossible to file all of the old
soldiers declaratory statements, at the
soldiers booths and squads of men
were taken TO the regular booths by
Governor Richards
Many of the Rock Island trains were
late leaving thousands of people to
register in the morning.
Governor Richards received a tele-
gram from Secretary Hitchcock saying
that the postmaster general would
provide for additional clerks at the
Ell Reno postoffice to relieve the con.
geSted condition which now exists.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
HOT &c
MAGNATION

Cooled by the gentle movement of
big palm-leaf fans, a party of friends
sat on the piazza, calmly talking of
the heat. Presently one of them said:
Suppose We describe in turn the
scene that our fancy pictures as illus
trating our notion of oppressive heat.
What do we think of? What time?
What place? What conditions?"
The suggestion was received with
favor and here are some of the re-
sponses:
"A new concrete sidewalk at noon,
with the sun beating down on it, and
your heels sinking in and the heat re-
flected in your face, and the air per-
vaded with the smell of tar"
THE desert, with an exhausted cara
van struggling to reach mirage that
hovers on the horizon, but doomed to
perish of thirst as persisted the man
they are passing"
Washing dishes in the kitchen,
with the thermometer at 50 out of
doors, and 100 and something within;
with your hands SO soapsudsy and
greasy that you can't lift them to your
face to wipe away the perspiration,
and with your whole being so tired
and cross and miserable that you
would cry-if you were not ashamed
to-
''The deck of a becalmed yacht, with
a CLASSY sea and a long slow roll and
the brasswork so hot that it burns
your hand; the sun high, the sky
cloudless, the sails hanging with not a
breath to stir them; the victim pros
trate and seasick, with no conscious
ness in the present except of heat
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

New York, July 1s.-A representa-
tive of the highest interests in the
United States Steel corporation au-
thorized the statement that no con-
ference concerning the steel strike
had taken place during the day, and
that none is likely to take place until
the Amalgamated association recedes
ment is made that on this point there
can be no compromise, and that the
head of the companies will not union
ize such mills as have employed nom
union men.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
Dewey MAY be Sent.

Washington; July 22.-The sugges-
ton was made by rear admiral in
high standing that Admiral Dewey
should be given command of a large
squadron, comprising the best types of
our new ships, to be present at the
coronation of King Edward VII. The
navy department has not thus far
taken up the question of naval repre-
sentation at this event, but the sug-
gestion concerning Admiral Dewey and
large squadron of fine ships meets
with approval among the officers.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
VIII Retain MORO Castle.

Washington, July 22.-In addition
to the other bases of supplies demand
ed in the Platt amendment, it is said
to be the intention of the administra-
ton to permanently retain Moro,
castle, overlooking the harbor of Hav-
ana. 1t is the intention to control and
defend the stronghold with United
States troops after the government of
the island has been handed over to the
Cubans The plan is to equip the
fortress with modern artillery in order
that Cuba may be assisted in defend
ing herself against outside interference
and also that the United States may
thus have guarantee against failure on
the part of the Cuban government to
carry out its pledges and the terms of
the treaty between this country and
Cuba. Under this treaty the retention
Of the fort is provided for.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
ST. MARY'S ACADEMY,
Notre Dame, Indiana.

We call the attention of our readers
to the advertisement of st. Mary
Academy, which appears in another
column of this paper. We do not need
to expatiate upon the scholastic advan-
tages of st. Mary's, for the catalogue
of the school shows the scope Of work
included in its curriculum, which is
of the same high standard as that Of
Vassar and Bryn Mawr, and is carried
out faithfully in the class rooms. We
simply emphasize the spirit of earnest
devotion which makes every teacher
of st. Mary's loyalty strive to develop
each young girl attendant there into
the truest, noblest, and most intelligent
womanhood. Every advantage OF
equipment in the class rooms, labora-
tories and study rooms, every care in
the matter of food and clothing, and
exceptional excellence of climatic con-
ditions-all these features are found at
st. Marys, in the perfection of develop
ment only to be obtained by the con-
secration of devoted lives to educa-
tional Christian work in a spot ia
vored by the Lord.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
Mixed Carload Freight.

Chicago, July 2O.-Judge Kohlsaat
in the United States circuit court re-
fused to issue an injunction restrain
ing the railroads from enforcing rules
against accepting mixed carload
freight. The injunction was asked for
by shipping brokers against the Grand
Trunk and the Lacllawanna roads but
the decision will be widespread in it's
effect. 1t is the custom of shipping
brokers to gather freight from several
clients, and by shipping them together
as car lots, obtain lower rate. This
was objected to by the railroads and
the position of the latter has been
sustained.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

About three-quarters of a railroads
receipts come from the freight depart
ment. The passenger department sup
plies nearly all the rest, the income
from mail, express and other privileges
being comparatively small. Carrying
passengers is a simple matter, or would
be, if state legislatures did not now
and then take a hand in prescribing
added specifications for railroad pas
senger service. In Ohio a law was
passed decreeing that the height be-
tween the platform and the lowest
steps of passenger coaches should not
exceed II inches. This cost the rail-
roads nearly 100000, and the reform
led to the abolition of a number of flag
stops where the passengers had been
quite willing to scramble up off the
ballast.-Ainslee's Magazine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

Ell Reno, July 22.-Delegate Flynn ex-
pressed the belief that Oklahoma terri
tory will gain about $4,000 in popula-
ton because Of the opening. 1 do not
say that the people will remain in the
new country, but will settle in all
parts of the territory. The man who
falls to secure farm in the drawing
will lease school and Indian lands. He
will have no difficulty in doing that,
and in time he will be an owner of Ok
lahoma lands. The people who come
here are mostly provided with money.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
Warmest CondE
tons Described
as Amusement

and nausea and no expectation for the
future but Of sunstroke."
Standing alone in the middle of a
broad, hot field that is flaming with
scarlet lilies, with no noise save the
sound of the grasshoppers and the
locusts."
Moon on a country road, which
lies between treeless. barren fields,
with no living thing in sight but an OK
team lurching slowly on its way in a
cloud of yellow dust
"A night in August, when GOODNESS
has not come with darkness; when
you cannot sleep and can hardly
breathe and when it seems that morn
ing would never come
They say it is not well to talk much
of the heat when we are feeling its
oppressive effects, says the Philadel-
phia Times, but it may be that the
drawing of such pictures as are here
described might make us forget pres
ent discomfort by contrast with what
the conditions might be.-Chicago
News
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
Kansas Grain Dealers Trust.

Topeka, July 2O.-Proceedings may
be commenced by Attorney General A.
A. GODDARD against the Kansas Grain
Dealers association under the anti
trust law. 1t is claimed the associa-
ton has formed a combine to drive out
of business the Independent dealers.
James Butler, secretary of the Farm
ers' organization formed to combat
the Grain Dealers association, has a
letter written by grain commission
firm of Kansas City, in which it is
admitted a trust exists.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
johnson at Work Again.

Racine, Wis, July 22nd:-John
johnson of No. 924 Hamilton street,
this city, is happy man.
For years he has suffered with Kid
ney and Urinary trouble. He was so
broken down that he was forced TO
quit work. Everything Ne tried failed,
till a friend of his recommended a
new remedy-Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr..
Johnson used them. and the result sur
prised him. He is as well as ever he
was, completely cured, and working
away every day.
His case is regarded by those who
knew how very bad he was, as almost
a miracle, and Dodd's Kidney Pills
are a much talked of medicine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
SETTLERS CAN RELINQUISH.
So Claimed by Land Attorneys of Guth-

rie.
Guthrie, July Gone of the pro-
blems arising out of the change in the
manner of opening lands to settlement
inaugurated in the Kiowa country is
that in relation to accomplishments of
claims. Some alleged authorities have
given out statements about the matter
that were not clear, and some newspa-
pers and attorneys have announced the
following opinion:
IF you draw a claim you will have
to file on it, and ''if you file on claim
you have to live on it,"
The facts are that, while you cannot
sell your chance or the preference right
to file acquired by being lucky in the
draw, after you have drawn and fled
on claim, you can sell your relinquish-
ment in the same manner that such
transfers have always been made, ones
equity in the land in no way varying,
after he has filed, from that obtained
in other openings.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

Washington, d. c., July 2o.-The
President appointed B. II. Tracy Uni
ted States Attorney for the district of
Kansas to succeed |. E. Lambert,
whose term has expired.
The appointment was made upon
recommendation of Senator Burton,
and received the approval of the con-
gressmen from that state.
In the case of Lit Crum, the de-
PARTNERS is likely to await U. S.
Marshal Sternes' resignation before
naming Crum.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

ware was struck by fragment of a
mortar shell fired from the Socapa
battery, and which burst in the ward
room passage of the battleship. A five
pound bit of the shell struck the bowl
on one of the stoutest parts of the
body, just where the seal of the state
of Indiana forms the central portion
of a beautiful decoration. The seal is
still there; not as the artist designed
it. for it now forms a part of 4
large, irregular indentation, which, in
the estimation of the officers and men
of the battieship, enhances the value
of the bowl thousand times over
Woman's Home Companion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

The jewellers in the north of Europe
have always been remarkable for their
use of the beard. This, of course, is due
to the cold temperature of those re-
gions. At the present day Russia is
probably the country in which boards
are most generally worn. There the
peasants wear boards to a man, while
the upper classes, adopting the French
fashion, usually affect an imperial or
a short, clipped beard.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
,JaVhawkers' Day.

Ell Reno, July 1s.-This is Kansas
day. The Rock Island expects to
bring in 1000 Kansans today. 1t
brought in five train loads of people
from the north yesterday and three
from the south. The Choctaw brought
in four trains from the east and will
have five today. Ell Reno is not only
taking good care of the homeseekers,
but it is giving many of them work. A
man can get a job here within five
minutes after striking town if he
wants II
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
Diminutive and Engage
ing Little Pets
from Brazil.

1--WE can't get enough of them"
said a man who makes a business of
selling pets. Il have one here that I
have been offered $50 for, but the av-
erage price is s25. They are the finest
little acrobats I've ever seen. For in
stance, here's cage made on purpose
for pocket monkey. You will notice
that it resembles a miniature gymns-
SUM. There are trapezes, horizontal
bars and all sorts of things of that
kind. Now, if a pocket monkey didn't
find them in his home he would be
heart broken. OF course they don't
perform just whenever one wants
them to, but in the morning, just after
they have walked up. you will find
them doing every conceivable gymnas-
tic stunt, and if you don't laugh, you
are person with no sense of humor."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

Kansas City, Mo-, July July %. Rep
resentatives of the coal miners of Dis
trict 25, which comprises all of the sub
districts of Missouri, besides Leaven-
worth county, Kansas, through John
Mitchell, national president, submitted
a blanket scale of wages for miners
and day laborers about the mines to
the operators with whom they have
been in conference. The miners say
the proposition is an ultinatum. Seven
thousand men will be effected if 4 strike
is called in this district.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
W. N. U.wIcHIrA-No.-ao-reo1

Edeu Answering Advertisements Kindly
Mention This Paper.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
DecI,ion of Eipbt Hour Dav

Wichita, July 2o.-Janitors who took
care of the Sedgwick county court
house in 1929, sued the county for
wages for excess time employed over
eight hours day. The case has been
knocking about in the several courts
since 1895 but the supreme court has
settled it by deciding that as the jani-
tors were employed by the month the
eight hour law does not apply to their
cases. This is important as it settles
the question of the application of the
law
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25

Vienna, July 19.-Deputy Bauman
has been commissioned by the repre-
sentatives of the boot and shoe trade
to question the Staathalter in the
lower Austrian diet as to what that
body intends to do with regard to the
threatened invasion of the Vienna
market by an American syndicate.
The local boot and shoe men con-
slider that American competition
menaces the very existence of the
whole local industry.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
A Big Contract.

Fort Sill, Okla, July 1s.-E. F.
Mitchell, the big cattleman of Ell Reno,
has huge contract on his hands. He
must tear down 700 miles of wire
fence, wrap it on spools and deliver it
to the Indian agencies in the Kiowa,
Comanche and Apache countries by
August 6. He now has los men and
AZ teams at work and says he will
complete the contract on schedule
time or ''bust gallus."
The average haul will be fifteen
miles.