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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20
SCHOOL LAND NOTICE.

Office of County Clerk. Meade County KS
Notice is herby given that petition has been
presented to the Board Of County Commissioners
# Meade County, Kansas, praying for the sale
Of the following described school land situated in
Meade County, Kansas, viz:
All Of section Sixteen Township Thirty four,
Southof Range Twenty Six, West Of Sixth Prin-
cipal meridian,
And that one year from tina date Of this publi-
cation, said Board Of County Commissioners will
appoint appraisers to appraise said school land.
After said school land has been appraised, the
County Treasurer will offer at public sale the
said land and sell TO the highest bidder, subject
to existing lease.
BY order Of the Board.
d. p. WYsoNG,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.

State of Kansas, Meade County, IS,
In the Probate court in and for said county.
In the matter Of the estate Of James W. Babb,
deceased.
Creditors and all other persons interested in
the aforesaid estate are hereby notified, that at
the next regular term of the Probate Court in
and for said County, to be begun and held at the
Court room in Meade, County of Meade and State
on the first Monday in the month of DC
tober A. d. 1908, shall apply to said Court for
full and final settlement Of said estate.
ROBERT F. BABE, Administrator
of James W. Babb, Deceased.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20
Epworth League Leaders and Sub.
lecfs.

August 80. Missionary meeting
The latest news from China.
Mr.. Stowe.
Sept. s. The call of Moses. Elk
iii, 1-I2. Mr.. Cas.een.
Sept. Is. The call of Isaiah.
lisa. vi, I-3. Lulu Flick.
Sept. 20 The call of jeremiah.
Ter. i, 4-Io. Mr.. Drummond.
Seyt. II. Missionary Meeting
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20

i, "a; Tim. ii, IS. Mayme Camp
bell.
Dec. 90. A choice for eternity.
Luke xvi, 1897. Lois Byrns.
Dec. 81. Missionary meeting-A
worldwide view-My responsible
ty. Mr.. Reace.
Buy ga Glimpse of Meade Coun-
ty." Price 5octs.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20
SCHOOL LAND NOTICE,

Office of County Clerk, Meade County,
Notice is hereby given that petition has been
presented to the Board of County Commissioners
OF Meade County, Kansas. praying for the sale OF
the following described school land, situated in
Meade County, Kansas. viz:
All SECTION Thirty Six, Township thirty, South
Of range twenty eight, west Of sixth principal
meridian.
And that one year from the date Of this publ
cation said Board Of County Commissioners will
appoint appraisers to appraise said school land
After said school land has been appraised the
County Treasurer will offer said land at public
sale and sell to the highest bidder, subject to
existing lease.
By order Of the Board.
d. p. WYsoSo,
County Clerk
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20

Call at our store and inspect the
beautiful decorated china to be
given away absolutely free.
Meals served at our store any time
from 1890 a. m. to 500 p. m.
We still have a few more COO;
drinks left and dish of ice cream.
Call and inspect our Milburn
wagons and also our Rock Island
buggles. We have samples on hand
that are guaranteed to last for one
year and will bear inspection.
FRAZIER & BURFoRD.
Fowler, Kansas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20
DELINQUENT TAX LIST.
of the lots advertised
taxes of previous When not otherwise specified
the is for the year 1902.
COUNTY rREAsuRER's OFFICE,

herebyi
Of A.
ockka the
ni n
year and previous a how n
Treasure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17

enough to pull Dray. 1t often happens
that the heavy-draft Bachelor picks out
Nudge and makes love to her, and she is so
scared at the size Of him that she hasn't
got the Nerve to throw him down.
AT any rate, the cute and dainty little
Jessaline with a Waist Measurement of II
inches. was all hooked up with the human
Mastodon who went by the name of Henry
and looked the Part.
Now it happened that Hen and Jess lived
in a nice little Town where there were
great many lonely Old Families and a
great deal of Wealth, but it was pervaded
at all Hours by Cemetery Calm The So
cial Gayeties OF the Place revolved slowly
around a Missionary Society Any one de-
string to mix a Cocktail had to pull down
all the blinds and disconnect the Telephone
and also it was advisable to wear Masks at
a Poker Party.
Jessaline would often become restless and
champ at the Bit. She had attended Select
School for Girls, at which she had learned
how to turn Handsprings and do other Par
lor Didoes. No wonder that she hated to
play Dominoes all Evening and then turn
out the Lights at $50 p. m, which, in Keen
Society is the mere Edge of the Night.
Now it CHANGED that Jessaline had a
Chum. They had eaten Olives out of the
same Bottle while attending the Select
School for Girls. Chum had gone against
the Matrimonial Came the same as Jessa-
line, only, instead of landing in Sleepy Hol-
low, she was up in the City, taking in the
Big Show.
She wrote to Jessaline, urging her to come
up and put in busy Week. After working
on the Handwriting for several Days, Jessa-
line succeeded in reading the whole Letter
and she began to tease Henry TO knock off
for a Week and take her up to the hoop-la
Metropolis and let her burn a few Holes in
the Track. She told Henry that he had been
sticking to his Desk too closely and that he
needed a good Rest.
Large Bodies move slowly and several
Days elapsed before Henry came to her
Way of Thinking although it was a Pipe
from the beginning that she would bring
him around.
Jessaline got busy and put six Women to
work building a new Evening Gown for
her. 1t was Pale Blue Cerise with Bat
tenberg Insertion, yoked with Mayonnaise
and Valenciennes, the Flounces being gath
cred in with Passementerie and the Bodice
hand-painted. When Henry got a Flash at
the Bill he allowed that, instead of taking a
Vacation, it would be better for him to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17
IMPRESSIONS IN VENICE.
City Which Is Yet Beautiful, but
Suggests Decay.

Correspondence New York Mail and Ex-
press.
Under every mood in which saw the city
there was deeper mood which was hard
TO define to myself, but which seemed Curl
ously compounded out OF its pathoS and
its squalor Venice is beautiful and yet so
pitiful. A city where the peoples of the
world have hustled and trafficked, that has
been great mart and cosmopolis and now
Is neither, is more pathetic in its decay
than any other; il is like the lonely and
desolate old age OF woman in whose salon
the wits and beaus of a vanished time had
paid their court
1t is unreasonable that any sentiment of
disrespect at its plight should arise. and yet
little, the spectacle of the fallen Bride had
In Ii something tragic yet squalid, like the
tate OF beautiful and high-born woman
whom passion or mischance had dragged
derstand the wish which Howells has ex-
pressed somewhere that the dead cities of
Italy might all be walled UP and left slowly
10 1all into ruins by themselves; their pres
ent estate is not dignified and the quest
that brings the tourist TO them comes near
Illustrating the indecency of curiosity.
The worst of IL all, so far as Venice Is
concerned, is the feeling that the cup of its
humiliation is not yet full. Those leaning
church towers. those walls that totter out
of plumb, promise other chapters in the
story that began with the fall Of the Cam
panile. The sea which Graded Venice may
some time be its grave. Little by little, you
cannot but feel these monuments will crum-
bic and disappear as the rotten piles sag
and snap under them; you shrink from pre-
saying the calamitous and bitter day when
every edifice shall have melted away into a
moldering heap, and the tides of the Adri-
attic. as they sweep back and forth, will roll
across the slime that was Venice.
Something of this thought came to me on
my last morning there, when I climbed
tower only second in height to that of st.
Marks, and looked down on the city and
the lagoons that encircled it. 1t lay there
in the sunlight, beautiful yet ruinous, small
er than had imagined-indeed, about the
size and shape of Manhattan island below
Canal street From other towers the chimes
were ringing. and the bells seemed to pro-
claim how completely the past was gone;
how far removed the city from the track of
modern commerce; how useless now the
vantage that had made II great.
am ashamed to say IL, but the same SEN
sation came 10 me that L remember when
L spent an hour in Coney Island after the
summer was gone and the concert halls
were boarded up and the Bowery lights had
been darkened-a desolate feeling quite di-
vorced from dignity. 1t was depressing,
and, believe me. was glad to leave Venice.
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and he followed with his Tongue hanging
out He did not like to admit that he could
not keep up with a 90-pound Canary who
was somewhat of an Invalid. But when he
sat and watched her eating her fourth
Hearty Meal and chatting gayly, he tried
to figure out how any one with a Waist
Measurement of II inches could manage it,
but the Problem was too much for him.
The third day of Rest included the usual
number of Eats and wound up with one of
these Dancing Parties that last until the
Germans become peevish and refuse to play
any more Henry was off In a Corner eat
ing Soda Mint Tablets. and holding on to a
Chair to keep from falling off. Jessaline was
right out in the center of the Mix-Up, look
ing as fresh as Dollar Bunch Of Russian
Violets After every Dance she would tear
out and get a few Glasses of Knockout
Punch and eat a couple of Sandwiches,
after which she would be ready to do some
more two-stepping When the Orchestra
finally struck and she had to pull out, she
found Henry in Comatose Condition lean
ing against the Hat-Rack. She aroused him
and told him the Glad News that they were
to get an Early Start and go out to nice
Road House and have something to Eat
Whereupon Henry fell in Heap and asked
to be counted out.
All the way Home in the Carriage she
toasted him and charged him with lack of
Appreciation.
"You act like Dummy" said the indig-
nant Jessaline. ''Why don't you cut in and
have a Good Time, the same as 1 do? L
don't want People to think that I married a
Rube."
'I can lift 100 pounds in Harness and 1
can play Y Holes of Golf without turning a
HAIR" said the fallen Giant, "but when it
comes to eating little Birds and taking a
new kind of Salad every twenty minutes
and holding animated Conversation with
Perfect Strangers, 1 am not in your Class.
Send for Trained Nurse. In Week or so,
I shall be able to Travel and get back to
Hard Work and rest UP. In the meantime,
go ii alone"
So Jessaline put the Weakling on the
Shelf and went out and had a Happy Week.
Morai-Capacity cannot be determined by
any Outside Measurements.
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HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS.
Doctors Would Have Less to Do IL
People Were Clean.
American Medicine.


Her child was i'll and the mother had
sought the aid of a nearby hospital. A
physical examination was necessary, but
the mysteries of the chiid's garments were
incomprehensible to the physician. To his
request that the mother undress the child
came the answer, "Aber mein Colt, / have
sewed ii in for de winter" Thrift, not
cleanliness, was uppermost in that mothers
mind. We little guess what large inf1u-
ence the so-called filth diseases" have on
the public health nor the amount of illness
directly or indirectly caused by lack of
personal cleanliness. Could the community
be kept clean the physician would be saved
many a bad half hour and the death rate
would be lowered. Could the necessity for
such notices as Patients must be clean
or they cannot be treated" be eliminated
from the dispensary there would result
material saving to our hospitals.
Were IL possible TO enforce personal
cleanliness in the community the bath
would in very many cases supersede the
need for the medicine bottle II Is at all
events the duty of every city to provide
the opportunity for cleanliness to its peo-
pie. From an economic standpoint ii pays
TO keen the citizen we'll One of the best
illustrations of this truth known to US is
the revelation being made in the health.
personal appearance and cleanliness OF
children by means OF the employment OF
thirty-one trained nurses employed by the
Nav York Board q Hsaath 70 Visit the
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90: .A#D. ES#::F "A Bile s2;::..l1
r. THE MODERN FABLE OF THE THOUGHTFUL WIFE WHO NJ
~ TRIED TO GIVE HENRY A RESTFul VACATION n
copyright. 1903. by Robert Howard RusselL1

whole Week in which to rest up and nobody
us to the Methodist Minister. I'm sure that
you will like Clara. She is a Holy Terror.
She was engaged nineteen times before she
finally hooked up, and since she got Mar
ried. People come for miles to get her to act
as Chaperon."
What is the Programmed" asked Henry.
who was mite Leary.
''Therell be something doing every Min
ute, ell right, ali right" said the Child
Wife. ASK no Questions but follow little
Bright Eyes. haven't had a touch of Real
Life since I crawled down the Lightning
Rod at the Select School for Girls
At that time Henry did not realize that
bright young Thing with a Boarding School
Education can give the stalwart Business
Man any kind of a Handicap and then
leave him somewhere back of the Flag.
Clara met them at the train with Buzz
Wagon. She had framed up List OF En-
gagements that made the Roosevelt timer
airy look like Open Time. Clara had ar
ranged to give them a little of Everything,
except Sleep. Jessaline was tickled nearly
to Death. She was waltzing all over the
Track, waiting for the word Co..
The Getaway was a Dinner of IL Courses
at which Jessaline tackled everything with
out losing any part Of the Conversation.
After that they went to the Opera, which
was little. too high for Henry, but Jessa-
line threw Connption Fit every time Sig
nor Dagolini climbed up and hit Top Note.
They went back to the Apartment and ate
Stuff out Of a Chafing-Dish until 3 G.. M.
When they turned in, Henry was on the
point Of Passing Away but Jessaline was
just beginning to warm up and be kittenish.
eve shall have Coolies of Fun tomorrow"
she said. First we have a Breakfast at the
French Restaurant, then a swell Luncheon
at the Club then a Musicale, then a Dinner
at the biggest Hotel on Earth. and then a
Show and then are all going out Slum-
ming"
az drop out" said Henry. lone day has
put me to the Bad"
Don't be a GUTTER" said Jessaline.
''Stick to me and I'll give you the Time of
your Life
Next day she took him over the Jumps
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17
THE LIF'ELIKE WAX FIGURE.
The Lovely Images in Shop Windows
Help to Sell Goods.
New York Commercial,

New YORK commercial.
Among other things a great Improvement
is noted in the wax figures that grace the
beautifully arranged display windows of
the big department stores of Broadway
and Sixth avenue and the Fffth-avenue
modistes' parlors. One cannot help but
observe how extremely lifelike they are.
A New York Commercial reporter
stepped into the Office of the oldest manu-
facturer Of wax goods in New York, on
Broadway, near Fourth street. and asked
about 1T. The manager laughed.
They are all nodded from living mod
els he said.
That accounts for it, The Oldest of us
remember the shocking wax figures of
few years ago. There was nothing TO
them, not even much shape of the human
figure. Now, the next time it occurs to
you note the difference The beautiful mani
mate bodies that grace the shop windows
to-day are true to life. Most beautiful
girls were the originals. Notice that one
with the jaunty summer hat. Doesn't
her smile say as plainly as words: Its
a peach-you can't help but admire it!'
And you can't.
The hair of these wax ladies, too, if you
will pause to notice it, is arranged a la
mode, April, 1903. There is nothing of the
be auburn, blonde, brown or black, or even
gray-as ii is in some of the elderly wax
bodies-but it is natural and beyond criti-
cism.
the women shoppers spend half their money,
and natural inclination makes them spend
the other half.
The business of manufacturing wax fig
ures is not new, nor is it confined entirely
to fashion models. This firm started fifty
years ago. 1t is the second oldest in the
world The oldest started a decade earlier,
sixty years ago, in London, where it is
still in business. 1t is as far behind our
American, however, as they are ION the
other side" in most things that way.
When an individual comes into promi-
nence and the museums make hurried de-
mands for wax figures of him the artist
takes a photograph and the dimensions of
the subject and produces his model. The
mold is made and the wax image cast In it.
They come at all prices. Those very, very
beautiful ladies you in the milliner's
and modistes cost $50 apiece.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17

The Mothers Journal.


Were more fruits eaten the doctors bills
would be smaller. Many of the common
fruits are as useful as doctors prescrip-
tons and much nicer to take. Apples, for
instance. are an excellent purifier for the
blood. Eaten plentifully or in the shape
OF apple sauce they are said to work Won
ders in giving persons who are addicted to
alcoholic beverages a distaSte for them
In this country, however, the merits Of
the apple as a temperance agent seem TO
have been overlooked by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union people. Pine
apple juice Is said to be the finest thing
in the world for cutting the funguslike
membrane which coats the throat In diph-
iberia, and, Indeed, is useful in throat af-
fections generally. Lemon Juice is valu-
able germicide when added In sufficient
quantities to drinking water. IT renders
typhoid germs practically harmless. The
typhoid germ has ilaments at each end
somewhat like the fins of fish. BY means
of these 1t propels itself. What the lemon
juice does is to shrivei up these fllaments
so that the germ is prevented from entering
the blood or penetrating the tissue 1t does
not appear that the germ is destroyed; il
is simply deprived Of its power &C attach
itself TO the system II has invaded. Once
the blood has beea entered lemon Juice Is
powerless In arresting the spread or the
poison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17
Had Been There.
,ew York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
where are you living now, old chap? 1
haven't seen you for a dogs age,' asked
the confirmed New Yorker of a friend.
''I have a cozy little place in Lonely
town." replied the friend. Have you ever
been there?"
Been there? Been there?' said the con-
firmed New Yorker, YEARLY, Il should say
SOL Why l spent whole week there one
affernoont"
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Adsuu.
Dec. 1924. CThackeray.)

Dec. 1924. CThackeray.)
The Angel came by night
(Such angels still come DOWN,
And like a winter cloud
Passed over London town;
Along its lonesome streets,
Where Want had ceased to weep.
Until it reached a house
Where a great man lay asleep;
The man OF all his time
Who knew the most OF men,
The soun6est head and heart,
The sharpest. kindest pen.
Ii paused beside his led.
And whispered in his ear;
He never turned his head,
But answered, Il am here"
Into the night they went.
At morning, side by side,
They gained the sacred Place
Where the greatest Dead abide.
Where grand olo Homer sits
In godlike state benign;
Where broods in endless thought
The awful Florentine:
Where sweet Cervantes walks,
A smile on his grave face;
Where gossips quaint Montaigne,
The wisest of his race;
Where Goethe looks through all
With that calm eye OF his;
Where-little seen but Light
The only Shakespeare is!
When the new Spirit came.
They asked him, drawing near,
art thou become like us?'
He answered, Il am here"
Richard Henry Stodda
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17

Once there was great big Burly who had
Wife about the size of a Grasshopper-
Usually she wore a gray Tailor Made that
looked as If it would have to be let out If
she gained another pound.
Any one, to look at Jessaline, would have
said that she was rather frail and Weakly,
while the he-end of the Sketch looked husky
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17

stay at Home and work about twice as hard.
But winsome Wifey had everything packed,
the Flyer.
''Ain't this Grand?" asked Jessaline, as
they sat in the palatial Parlor Car and
watched the Scenery spin by. 1--WE have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17

tions. What I like is the good red blood
and the good right hand
Now, Jabez. I'm DONE Do you still want
that money!"
The judge got tremblingly upon his feet.
cropping for the hand that was stretched out
to him.
do 1 want the money. Hiram? God
knows I do, brother. and God bless you
for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17

public schools of the city. Trachoma,
pediculosis, filthiness, etc. are disappearing
among the school children, and secondary
is not a small part of this noble reform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17
THE CARLSBAD OF AMERICA

The new West Baden Springs Hotel. ~ West
Baden. Ind, on the Monon r.. X. The most
unique hotel In the world Open throughout tha
year. Cost with furnishings, S.5oo. 90 Aneri-
with private baths and all modern convsnisnees
Absolutely nreproof
BADEN FRENCH LICK VALLEY.
Physicians prescribe West Baden waters
the best curative agents known for all aiIments
OF the stomach. liver and kidneys. Including
rheumatism and catarrhal troubles For par
ticulars address WEST BADEN SPRINGS Co.
West Baden. Ind
The Washington bee., 1903-01-31
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

OF the 600 known varieties Of COT.
ton, 400 are Asiatic, 200 African.
One-half of the imports into tn
country are of materials for manufac.
tUrers.
Germany now produces 2, 2,295, 600 tor
out Of the 6,S25,OOO tons Of beet sugar
grown in the world.
VaIasco. Tex. is to have a suga.
mill, 6Ox35O feet. with ten boilers, each
y inches in diameter.
Thick blotting paper which CanaCg
formerly got from England she nov
gets from this country.
Dundee supplies most Of the canvas
used in making pantomime transform
alton scenes in the United Kingdom.
The irrigated area of the United
States IS 7,51O,598 acres, of which Col
orado contains 1,611, ,271, and Caifor-
MIA 1,446,119.
A quarter-inch bar Of steel did not
break till 1882 pounds were put upon
it; but a bar Of iron Of the sane
diameter bore 4,50O pounds only.
After leaving Calcutta practically a
the same time five large vessels carry
ing close on 10000 bales of jute re-
Gently arrived together at Dundee