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The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

suAacient Vitality, an operation for
ovarian troubles- Not very cheerful
prospect, to be sure. I, however, was
advised to try Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and SAN
etive Wash; did SO, fortunately
for me: Before month had passed
felt that my general health had Inn
proved; In three months moro was
cured, and \ have been in perfect
heslth since. I did not lose an engage
mcnt or miss meal.
Your Vegetable Compound II GER
tainly wonderful, and well worthy tho
praise your admiring friends who have
been cured are ready to give you.
always speak highly Of 1t. and you
will admit have good reason to do
so.s-MRs. G. BRucE, Lansing, Mich.
$4,000 fe.5sft " abeos tsstimosfai 10 NJ ssnsins
The fullest counsel on this
subject can be secured without
cost by writing to Mrs Pinlkham,
Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be
entirely c0nfidential
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
lonDons pvsL,c KITCHENS.


cheaper ana Setter dinners IMAM Can
De Cooked at Homs.
In one respect London is in advance
OF the progressive American cities.
Some years ago . man of means, who
combined good business sense and
philanthropic disposition and who be-
lieved that people of moderate in
comes suffered from kitchen extrava-
gance and also from poor cooking. es-
tablished system Of public kitchens.
At the start the press paid much at
tention to the enterprise. but after the
novelty wore of nothing was said
about 1t. A recent experience shows
that Its success has been positive and
1t may well prove an example for all
the world.
Large kitchens were placed in vari-
GUS crowded centers, within the reach
Of people Of small but assured In
comes. From one of these = family
may order dinner from an attractive
bill Of fare and have it delivered at q
given minute in perfect condition. The
establishment will. II required. pro
vide the help to serve the meal. Or
II 1t be preferred. the housewife may
do her own marketing and have her
own roast and other articles prepared
for the table in the public kitchen.
1t is obvious that q dinner for q
thousand persons can be cooked at q
lower rate for each than can a dinner
for an ordinary family. Not only IL
there a saving In the fuel. but by buy
Ing In large quantities it Is practicable
to get everything at lower price. All
the work and annoyance and heat Of
cooking. the time and labor Of dish
washing and the like. are avoided
The head cook employed in the public
kitchen is an expert and an artist. II
has been announced that family may
get better dinner for much lower
price from the kitchen than 1t can ge,
under the home cooking system
Philadelphia Record.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
Languages Of tn. World.

Although 1t is the Chinese language
which is spoken by the largest number
Of people on the face of the earth, 1t
is in English that more than half of all
existing newspapers are written.
Against population of nearly 400
100000. which speak Chinese. English
is spoken by about 100. 100000. Next
comes German. with $4,000 900; then
Russian. with 65.O0.OO0. French and
Spanish are each the native tongue to
100000 Italian Of 30.OO0.000 and
Portuguese OF only $1,000, 000.-Chica-
go Chronicle.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
rsIepn one. Arc lndl.pe ns.bIe.

The growth of the telephone busi-
ness has been enormous in recent
years. The statement has been made
that there are now In use Ia the
country upward of 100000 telephone
instruments and that great majority
of these have been put in place during
the past ten years. More than 200 900
telephones have been placed in farm
houses within a few years. The in
crease In farm telephones is proper
tionately greater than f. any other
branch OF the business.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
AUDITORIUM STOCK CONTEST.
Number Of Tickets Sold and Interest
In Il Increasing Every Day.

Number Of Tickets Sold and Interest
In II increasing Every Day.
Interest in the Auditorium Stock
Contest. which was opened In Omaha
July /, has increased steadily every
day since that time and the project
promises to be q great success in ev-
cry way. The plan adopted for dispos-
ing Of suficient amount of the COM
mon stock OF the Omaha Auditorium
Company to complete and furnish
what will be the largest and handsom-
est building Of Its kind In the north
west, is very simple. The common
stock has been divided into shares Of
twenty-five cents each, and with each
share the purchaser Ia given two
guesses, one on q special prize and one
on list Of 1.001 prizes.
The capital prize of 5000 in gold,
contributed by the Defiance Starch
Co. of Omaha, Neb., and 1000 other
prizes. ranging In value from $3.50 up
to 81, 500, contributed by the business
men Of Omaha. will be awarded i'm
mediately after the election next No.
vember, but the contest for them has
already opened, and will close Octo-
Der 20, or as much sooner as the
shares OF stock are sold. The capital
prize will be awarded to the person
guessing closest to the total vote
which will be cast for governor Of
New York, November I, 1909. and the
othe.. prizes to the 1000 persons max
Ing the next closest guesses. The total
vote at the last i've elections was:
1891, 1859 1894. 1.275.671; 1896.
1,4s4, O46; 1898. 1883. 100; 1900. 1885,
$40.
There will be seven more special
cash prizes, to be awarded the first and
fifteenth Of each month until Novem-
Der, and persons buying tickets now
have one guess with each share of
stock on them as well as on the other
prizes. Each special prize will be in
cash, and not less than $50 nor more
than $500. The prize, divided into
small bills and change" will b d.
vided and put into two sacks without
being counted, and the person CUES
sing nearest the amount In the larger
sack will be given the contents Of both
sacks. Tho contest is not confined to
residents Of Omaha or limited to any
number of tickets. Anyone desiring
further information or tickets should
address Omaha Auditorium Co.
Omaha, Nebraska.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
A Pretty Navy Habit.

In the wardrooms of the vessels Of
the American navy there is still kept
up q custom worthy of imitation. II
is as follows: At 8 o'clock in the even
ing the captain or commander will
order glasses to be filled, and. rising.
will deliver this sentiment: Gentle
men, ask you to drink to sweethearts
and wives. May the sweetheart be-
come the wife and the wife always re-
main the sweetheart" The assembled
oficials drink the toast In silence
Chicago Journal.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

AssAss 0uay's sweet PswAsrs fer ChiiArsn
Successfully assd BY Mother Gray, aurss
In the Child ems Home In New York. Cures
FsvssishnSss, Bed Stomach, Tsething Dis.
ordsrs, move end regulate the Bowels and
Destroy Worms. Over &c, 0oO testimonials.
At all druggists. 25e. Sample FREE. Ad-
drVes Allen ). Olmstsd, Leaoy, N. 7.
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the SETTER AALr.

One Of the finest books about the
Irrigated West II 1.-The Conquest Of
Arid America" 1t 10 now entirely out
Of print, but, fortunately. permission
i was given. to reprint the best portion
The Better Hall OF the United States"
Every western man ought to read this
4and send II to eastern friends. For .
copy with other literature about the
Esunny San Luis valley, send four cents
I'm stamps to Zeph. Chas. Felt. 1O2 Bos-
! ton building, Denver. Colorado.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
A Tip - Cripple Greek Over the Flor.
eneo q Ceippla Crock Railroad.

, Turned inside out. upside down, In
loop. under the bears den, over the
eagles merit. through small crevices,
crooks and turns In the massive rocks
and returned In the original package
feeling better than ever before.
The grandest mountain scenery in
the world Greatly reduced rates now
In effect. Trains connect with the
A,enver 4 Rio Grande railroad at
Canon City and Florence. l.. II. Ford,
vice president and traffic manager.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

The Littleton Creamery Company OF
Denver have In stock the finest line OF
dairy goods In the state. They have IL
wonderful business in the western
states AMI are always pleased to see
the dairymcn of the West and have
buttermilk IN tap for their out-of-tOwn
friends
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
SURGICAL OPERATIONS
~ ~. Bruce, . Noted Opera
Escaped IN Operation.
That Many Operations
yarian Troubles are I'm
sssary.

.lSHAH MRa. PINKnAM Travelling
tot years ON the road, with irregular
meals and sleep and damp beds, broke
down my health 20 completely two
rars ago that the physician advised .
pmpleta rest, and w6an had gained
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

Prospective Boarder-Got good air?
Silas Straw -Yaas. Prospective Board
er-Fresh milk and eggs? Silas Straw
-Yaas. Prospective Boarder-Grass,
hoppers? Sllas Straw-Gosh, l didn't
know " wanted 'em.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

The Wife-Oh. George, I've lost my
bathing suit! What shall do! The
Husband Don't ray anything about 1t
and 1t wort h+. missed.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

gent-I am agent, sir, for the Great
(inericap Universal Encyclopedia of
History, Biography, Art. science and
Literature complete In two hundred
vol" Business Man-Don't need II.
I married q Boston girl.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

Storekeepers report that the extra
quantity. together with the superior
quality. of Defiance Starch makes 1t
next to impossible to sell any other
brand
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

To Cure . Cold in Ono day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. A
dTuggistsrsfund money II itfails to cure. 25<
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

When a woman Is sure It In the cat
down stairs and not burglar. abe
wants her husband to 90 down and see
about 1t y she can tell him afterward
bow BRAVE he is.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
Eden Wa. In Alaska.

After much careful study and two
trips to the polar regions Louis Dyche.
professor Of natural history at the
Kansas university. has arrived at the
conclusion that the first human beings
were born and lived in the Arctic zone.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
HAll's Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, TIC.

mo. George" said the girl regretfully.
"1ll not sit in the hammock with you
this evening. Papa has attached pat
ent device to II that registers the
weight
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

ALL UP TO DATE HOUsEKEEPERs
use Defiance Cold Water Starch. because
It is better and OF. more OF It for same
money.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

Mr.. WlnsRow's Soothing syrup.
For chdres teethinG. softsus the gums. re iuces h
aammasioa, ailays pain, curss Wind collie. ~ eose
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

Sensible Houssksspsrs.
will have Defiance Starch. not alone
because they get one-third more for
the same money, but also because Of
superior quality.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

"Jedge," said the colored prisoner. lis
I expected to tell de TRUTH "Of course
you are.' well. then. des go ahead en-
sentence me fust!"
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

A pen used to be defined as a quill
taken from the pinions of one goose to
spread the opinions of another.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

Miss FrizzIeface-Do you take photo
graphs which look like your subjects?
Photographer-Oh. no. madam. We aim
to please.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

After 1t ia all simmered down the new
woman seems to be pretty much the
same old girl.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

He-Nice dog, Have you taught him
any tricks since l was here last? oh.
yes he'll fetch your hat II you whistle
said she sWeetly.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

Dealers say that rs soon as . Gus
toner tries Defiance Starch 1t II impos.
sible to sell them any other cold water
starch. It can be used cold or boiled.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

Mamma-Willie. shut that windo W.
screen. You're letting the nies In. VII
Iie-Well. you've got to let some of 'em
in. Msmma-Why? WiIIie-'Cause II
you don't let 'em In how are they goIn'
to get on the ny-paper?
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
PERRIN sho rthand, rypewritina.

SO weekly position after eight weeks
study. $50. bookkeeping. etc. Write for
circular.
THE ROYAL COLLEGE. Denver.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

LAdSso Caa WsoS DASoo
One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, . powder. 1t makes tight or new
shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot ,sweating
sching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and
bunionA All druggists and shoe stores
Csc. Trial package FREE By nail Ad-
dreos Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02

II you desire self-imprOvement. re.
member that fauitless people never
and fault.
The Meeker herald., 1902-08-02
Denver Directory.
SADDLES and hARNES.

lbie team hAsn0es
With breechtng
for N; 80 8Ssd
Horn Stock - I
die for ~. %
neooa Horn oAAdle
s,o@s$ stn r. -
- eocssvod b.
worthless tmie6-
Hoaa bslA $500
Foug order dtre0e
10 " md pst tbs
h0e Gonafno oak
tan ed hAr1sss
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19
PLAYED Ioke on Kitchener.

Years ago Kitchener was in com
mand of raw Arab troops at Korosko,
on the Nile. There with a few other
English officers he schooled in civil.
lied warfare Sheik Arnold and his
wild tribesmen throughout the long
summer months. And during the
schooling some one put up a joke
upon the Arab chieftain and taught
him and all his men to heave a harm.
less and unwilling insult at their dis
tinguished leader. The whole band,
yelling wildly. used to dash down to-
ward the Nile bank. on which was
Kitchener's tent, and hating sudden
~ used to salute in these words:
Kitchener damfool! Kitchener muf-
fin man" 1t was a harmless imbecil-
ity. and its object was as much
amused by it as any one. though, of
course, the salute had to be altered.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19
Wrecked BY MAGNETIC Sand.

"In the district OF Stavanger. in the
southwestern part of Norway, there is
a place called Jaederen. a fiat strip of
coast less than a mile long. which is
notorious for shipwrecks, says Car
tenlaube (April 22) Now a Norwe-
gian physicist has discovered that the
sand of Jaederen is strongly magnetic,
owing to an admixture Of magnetic
iron ore. He found, also, that at
distance of three miles from the shore
a ships compass showed a deviation
Of a whole degree from its true posi-
tdM The cause of the numerous ship
wrecks, therefore. is obvious" The
writer suggests that this effect on the
compass may have originated the old
stories of the destruction of vessels by
magnetic mountains, although these
stories seem to have been current be-
fore the compass was in common use.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19
mo Good to Can Here. i"

their more respectable feilow-crea-
lures, have been forced, in sheer self
defence, to aid and assist one an
other. There is no particular bond
Of sympathy between tramp and
tramp; but the necessity for self
preservation compels the members of
this strange fraternity of wayiarers
and work-haters to cooperate to a
certain extent One Of the most in
terestlng forms which this co-opera-
ton takes is the silent, but none the
less powerful. medium of a sign-lan-
guage, whereby any member of the
brotherhood, following in the steps
Of a pioneer, may learn what fate has
in store for him in the way of good
or bad luck at the various places he
visits. The writer was recently priv
ileged to have this curious sign-lan-
guage explained to him by a venera-
bic and grizzled member of the tramp
fraternity-an interesting old ruffian
who confessed that he had been
tramping the high-roads and by-ways
for the last forty years. during which
period he had done about a fortnight's
honest work.
The signs have the merit of being
easily made; a piece Of chalk or
whiting and handy wall or fence
are all that is required. When made
they are quite unintelligible to the
layman. and lool. very like the mean
ingless scrawls of school children,
who have purloined a fragment of the
teachers chalk. ThaAthe marks are
not meaningless, however, will be
abundantly proved by the following
illustrations. which were prepared I'M
der the supervision of my tramp
friend.
The members of the fraternity not
being. as a rule, artistically gifted,
the marks are distinguished by their
absolute simplicity. There is no sign
which cannot be drawn in an instant
by the most unskilled hand. Take,
for instance, the first sign we repro
duce here. This shows a simple cir
Gle, drawn on wall, and yet it con-
veys to the eye of the initiated tramp
the unwelcome information; NO good
TO call here" Some other tramp has
happened along this way, has called
at this farm house with q modest re-
quest for food or money. and has been
repulsed. Therefore he has left be-
hind him a warning to any fellow
tramp who may be on the same road.
And Weary Willie gives the inhospita-
bic dwelling a wide berth.
We have seen that plain circle
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19

read this, looking for the only help
that ever comes to them in their soil
tudes, where ice and gala lock them
away from all their human kind. Scat
tered along more than one thousand
miles of coast, fishing smacks, crowd
ed not only with men but with women
who are driven by need to fish for a
living, hail the little ship as the only
place of refuge for any who become
i'll or manned in the hard calling.
There is no spot on the globe where
life is harder or serious accidents of
all kinds are more frequent than along
that stormy stretch of coast from St
Johns, Newfoundland, to Cape Chill
dey at the opening into Hudson strait.
The intense cold, far below zero for
the greater part of the year, causes in
Vulnerable cases of frost-bite, that,
with no surgical help, soon develop
into gangrene.
Every year there is a lack of food,
and starvation weakens the people un-
til they are easy prey to typhoid, con-
sumption and intestinal diseases of
almost all the painful kinds known to
medical science. The only methods
for obtaining food are seal hunting,
whaling and fishing. Generally they
are carried on in poor craft, and
frightful injuries. from broken bones
to gunshot WOUNDS, are necessarily
frequent. For nowhere is the pursuit
of either animals or fish so fraught
with 1fN3oylfv anJ ,,nril
Yet, although the barren land is in
habited by nearly twelve thousand per-
sons, while from tewenty to twenty
FIVE thousand sail to it every year in
June and July to fish for cod. there
was not single doctor to be found
in all its thousand miles until ten
years ago, when the Royal National
Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen sent
a little 97-ton sailing vessel, the Al
bert, there under DR.. Wilfred Gren-
fell
Month after month the little Albert
worked her way through ice and snow
and gale, through hundreds OF miles
of uncharted and unlighted waters,
over reefs pounded by mountain seas,
seeking out whom she might succor
When her sail was seen men came in
skin kayaks, in birch canoes, in all
sorts of craft, crazy or stanch. bear
ing their sick ard wounded to the
visitors.
Too often the visitors were too late
to do more than ease the dying mo-
ments of some poor wretch They
found whole settlements that had been
wiped out by diphtheria. In one place
they saw the rude graves, scooped into
the hard Laurentian rocks, of twenty
nine persons who had died absolutely
without any attempt at saving them.
They found one man whose little
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19
Lord Roberts in Fiction.

A character called Lord Roberts,
and representing the British Com
mander-in-Chief. is the villain of a ro-
nance entitled Gold Fever" now run
ming in the Neues Wiener Journal Of
Vienna.
Here is specimen passage: Lord
Roberts went suddenly pale. almost
sallow. He knew that everything de-
pended upon the successful carrying
out of his plans; but in spite of this
he soon regained his composure. Only
an extremely careful observer would
have noticed the evil flicker of his
beast-of-pr ey-like eyes"
Needless to say Lord Roberts" is
hopelessly in love with the heroine,
for whom he plays the piano
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19

marked, his appearance is usually dis
tinctly against him. and some of the
species have an awkward habit of
annexing little unconsidered trifles
which come in their way. Moreover.
farmers suspect them of an unhappy
''penchant" for sleeping in stacks ana
accidentally setting them on fire.
Hence it is that poor Weary William
is as often as not forcibly elected
from the premises or else driven of
by some ferocious watch dog. When
this fate happens to a tramp he is in
duty bound to do his best to prevent
his comrades from walking into the
same trap. Therefore, if circum-
stances permit and no pursuit is at
tempted, he affixes TO the farm a sign
setting forth the facts.
At certain times of the year, how
ever, particularly at such busy sea
sons as seedtime and harvest, farmers
can often do with the temporary SER
vices of unskilled men, and when
tramps offer themselves they are fire.
quently taken on A tramp who has
fallen upon a place of this sort
sketches on some convenient fence a
sign, which means. practically, Food
and money here If you care to work. I"
AS many tramps have a rooted objec-
ton to manual labor, it is not all
of them who hail this sign with ioy.
Money. by the way is usually indi-
Gated in the signlanguage by tiny
circles, but as tramps do not often
receive money the sign is not much
used.
Il anything could dash tramp's
hopes it is the sign we have just dis.
cribed. For this sign tells the foot
sore tramp that his journey has been
more or less IN vain; that he viii
meet with nothing hut unkindness in
the village; and that the best thing
he can do is to drag his tired limbs
EDWARDS to some other and more hos
pitable hamlet For the pioneer tramp
tells us here: Get out Of this village
as soon as yen can; there is nothing
any good to be got here" What coul5
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
Hold Most Successful ConVentio

The recent convention of the Anal
gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen, held in East ST. Louis, was
the most successful in the history of
the organization. A number of i'm
portant resolutions were introduced,
one of them being to divide the or
ganization so as to admit only skilled
workmen to membership. This was
Overwhelmingly defeated, as the ma.
jority of the delegates believed it
was necessary to have the unskilled
men organized to properly protect
the interests of the skilled workmen.
Another resolution to increase the
monthly per capita tax was defeated,
the delegates arguing that they had
no power to raise the dues without
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19

one had frozen both her feet There
was nothing in the whole settlement
with which to help her, and before
long both feet began to gangrene. And
when the Albert returned to St John s
she carried back the terrible story
of how the unhappy father had been
forced at last. being in utter despair
and knowing that 1t was the only hope
of saving the child from a death of
torture, to take a Ratchet and cut off
both the little ones feet.
With such knowledge as this to
sustain him, Or. Grenfell and his band
of doctors and nurses-Drs. A. O.
Bobardt and Eliot Curwen and the
Misses Cecilia Williams and Ada Car
wardine-fought their way through
the long seasons on the coast. and
then, on their brief visits TO civiliza.
ton, fought to arouse men TO help
them in their efforts. Bit by bit they
obtained assistance. First they got
a rowboat Then somebody else
helped them to buy steam launch.
Finally another sailing vessel was
added to their tiny fleet. But still
they knew that all this was merely a
scratching at the outside of noun
tain of misery. And they fought on
until now they have the little but
beautifully equipped steamship Strath-
coma, given largely through The efforts
of Lord Strathcona. while two hos
pitfalls are established on the coast,