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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-08-11
THREE THOUSAND STRIKE.

Cripple Creek, Col, Aug. ll.-Three
thousand miners are out on strike.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-08-11

Occidental Hotel. cor. King and Ala.
kea.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-08-11
HARMONY LEDGE, No. 3, l. o. o. F

Meets every Monday evening at 1880
In Harmony .Iall. King street
w. F. STOREY, n. G.,
Z. r. HENDRY. Secretary.
All visiting brothers very cordially
invited.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
A Western Woolqrower.

Newcastle, Wyo.. Dec. 21.-There IS
a man in this place who claims that no
one need suffer with backache, as he
has proven in his own case that it can
be completely and permanently cured.
His name is S. C. Hoist, and he IS
a stock raiser and woolgrower.
81 was shearinS sheep at the time
the first pain came on" says Mr.. Hoist.
Il was so bad for two years after
wards that l could hardly sit down,
and when once down it was almost i'm
possible for me to get up again.
II tried all the medicine could hear
of and several doctors without help,
not even for a moment. used Dodd's
Kidney Pills and they made new
man ont of me. felt as if there was
new blood in my veins. l am as stout
in the back as mule and can lift and
work as hard as I please without an
ache or pain in any part of my body.
1T is now over a year since they
cured me and l can say there is not a
healthier man in Wyoming than l am,
and before using Dodd's Kidney Pills
there was not a more complete physi-
cal wreck in the whole country than
was"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Some Christmas Notes.

In Silesia there Is superstition
that boy born on Christmas day
must be brought up a lawyer or he
will become a thief
Christmas mince pies in the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries were
made with crust so shaped as to rep
resent the manager.
In the fourth century the celebration
CT Christmas was liked by the Latin
church for December 25th. Before
that time it had been a movable festi-
val like Easter.
In France it is a common practice to
celebrate Christmas by giving an ex.
ira ration to domestic animals. on the
theory that all creatures should unite
in rejoicing at this season.
Mince pies are first mentioned In
1886 as in common use at Christmas
time. Culinary authorities declared
that they might De eaten as early as
December IA. They were made of
mutton, mixed with raisins; cloves, all
spice, nuts, and other ingredients.
The children at Bethlehem are still
told by their mothers that on Christ
mas eve choir of angels always sing
above the place where Christ was
DCrn.. Travellers say that on this even.
ing scores. and sometimes hundreds
of children may be seen in the open
air. looking up into the sky. waiting
to hear the angels sing.
In Sweden there is superstition
that the men of the extreme northern
regions become wolves during Christ.
mas Week.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
The yaHrg Mans Success.

Why should not a young man start
ing out in life prefer to succeed rather
than fail? Let the memories of your
own youth answer this question and
try to help the lads to good idea.
Impress upon them that the man who
succeeds in the financial world is the
who learns in his youth to save his
money. One of the secrets of success
is to have money ahead with which to
grasp an opportunity when it comes
Exercise economy and you are sure to
get to the front But you can not
accomplish anything without system
attic plan of saving.
That is why the First National Bank
of Hutchinson Kansas, has Inaugural
ted a system of saving by opening a
Home Savings department Call at the
bank and open savings account by de-
posting One Dollar or more in this de-
partment. You cannot begin too soon.
You might begin too late.
Send your name and address to this
bank and they will mail ysu FREE
their little book, "Tiie Way to Sue.
cess. .
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Christmas in the South.

Fireworks are being shipped into all
parts of the South for the Christmas
and New Year holiday celebrations,
says the New York Tribune. Large
consignments have been going out
every day during the past three or
four weeks, and these shipments will
continue until after Christmas. 1t
was estimated by two prominent local
dealers last week that not less than
100000 worth of Roman candles,
rockets, pinwheels, crackers, torpe
does and colored fire powder will be
set off south of the Mason and DiXon's
line during the last week of the dying
year. In the South the Christmas
celebration takes the place of the In
dependence day celebration, there be-
ing little demonstration there on the
Fourth of July. This has been true
for many years, both of the cities and
country districts, but since the Span
ish-American war the people of the
South have entered more heartily into
the noisy observance of the Fourth.
Colored folks will spend their last
dollar for firecrackers and rockets.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
christ's Birthplace.

According to an article by Paul
Carus in The Open Court, Chicago, the
apocryphal gospels tell a somewhat
different story of Christ's birth from
the canonical books. According to the
former, Christ was born in cave and
thence transferred to a stable, where
the OK and ass worshiped him, while,
according to the canonical gospels,
the Nativity takes place in stable.
The apocryphal legends proved so
strong that in spite of the canonical
version of the story. cave near Beth
lehem came to be finally regarded as
the place of the Nativity, and a
church was erected on the spot to
commemorate the event and still
stands as a lasting monument of this
belief
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Celebrations the World Over
Holly the "HoIy" Tree.

In the middle of the Forest of Dean,
England, there stands a building call
ed the Speech House, around which
grows a number of old holly trees.
They were looked upon by the folk
of the locality with so much venera-
ton that, so recently as 1880, boughs
were cut from them and used to take
the place of the Testament in swear
ing in witnesses in the adjoining
court. 1t is said that the ancient Brit
ons held the tree as sacred, and plant
ed it round their villages in Cornwall.
When holly came to be coupled with
Christmas other notions prevailed. In
Rutlandshire it was thought unlucky
to bring 1t into the house before
Christmas. In the Western shires the
branches were taken home from the
churches which they had adorned and
Eept for luck during the following
year. School boys used to make bird
lime by chewing the bark. Because
the leaves of it's lower branches are
more spiny than those of the upper,
the tree escapes damage from cattle.
which cause harm to most trees. Deer.
however, attack little Folks.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
CeIebration at Lima. Eeru

Probably the most gorgeous Christ
mas spectacle in the world takes
in Lima, Peru, where a wonderful pro-
cession several mnes long winds
through the streets, bearing figures
of hundreds of saints and the sacred
pictures of the cathedral. Many thou
sands of soldiers in their bright uni
forms, Indian women, decked with
ribbons and flowers, and asses heavily
laden with choice fruits and harness
ed with strings OF golden bells all APP
pear in line. and on stands passed
by the parade are representations of
scenes from the Nativity. At night
the whole city makes merry with gui-
tars; castanets and weird native
dances, and the celebration ends with
great public feas,s where rich and
poor exchange greetings.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Christmas in Bohemia.

Bohemia alone, among all the Chris
tian countries, makes Christmas a
day of rigorous fasting. Even child
rem are expected to deny themselves
all food from sunrise to sunset. This
day is also a veritable collection day
for workmen of every class, and the
master of the house needs a pocketful
of money to satisfy all the demands
made upon him by the artisans, must
clans, pot-menders. bell-ringers. chin
neysweeps, cobblers, etc., who throng
the house from early dawn to wish
him Merry Christmas" and receive
from him a remembrance.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Hitchcock Discusses the Territory In
His Annual Report.
MAKES ASTONISHING STATEMENT
with Population of 100000 Having In
ve.tmen.s of s4oo.ooo.ooo; with
Room for More People and More
Profitable Investments and More
Homes.

Washington, Dec. 16.-The secretary
of the interior discussing Oklahoma
says: The annual report of the gov
ernor, Thomas b. Ferguson, presents
in an interesting and comprehensive
manner, the growth, progress and re-
sources of the territory.
The territory embraces 24,Ooo,ooo
acres of productive and fertile land.
The climate is similar to that of Tenn
essee and northern Texas.
In the space of fourteen years since
the first land was opened to settlement
the wealth of the Inhabitants has
steadily increased until at the present
time it approximates $500, 100000,
There has been a steady increase in
population, the immigration ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000 each year.
A conservative estimate o. the popu-
lation of Oklahoma at the present time
is 65O,OO The number of foreign
born is not over 5 per cent and per-
centage of illiteracy is less than that.
The Indian population is only about
$4,000 and gradually decreasing.
The amount of taxable property re.
turned by the assessors was SS4, 1874, 472,
an increase over last year of some SILL.
457, O4e. AS the value fixed by the
assessors are less than one-fourth the
actual value, the total valuation OF
taxable property in the territory may
be stated at S400,O00,OO0
There still remains 3,OS9, 76s acres Of
vacant land. There has been reserved
for the benefit of the schools of Okla
homa 2,055,00O acres, which is al
leased and brings in an income o.
1875, 900 this year. There are nearly
5000 leases.
There are 2.19l school houses, valued
at 81 BAT .257.l5; 3O3 having been erect
ed during the current year, at a cost o.
500, S61.44. There has been expended
during the year for teachers salaries
sites, buildings. rents. repairs. library
and apparatus for the common schools
the sum of s1,1f6,23O77. The expen
ditures during the same year for the
seven higher institutions of learning
were S249, 736. 80 Their combined en-
rollment was ISIS.
Oklahoma is well supplied with rail
roads, the principal trunk lines Of the
southwest being represented; every
county has some railroad mileage
Total mileage in the territory on
March 1, 1908, was 2.533.3i. Fully
900 miles of main track has been com.
pleted during this year.
The estimated wheat yield is be-
tween 81, 900, 900 and 40, 100000 bushels
and corn about $1,000. 600 The cotton
industry is growing and the crop this
year will exceed that of last which was
21s. 800 bales
There are 81 cities. having popula-
ton ranging from $500, to $4,000: most
of them having good systems of water
works. electric lights. police and fire
protection. good sidewalks, graded
streets and some public buildings,
some have paved streets of asphalt or
brick, sewer system. gas plants, cleo
trio street car lines. public parks, fine
opera houses and churches All, how
ever have good graded schools, and
many have beautiful and substantial
school buildings.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Merry Christmas.

In the rush of early morning.
When the red burns through the gray.
And the wintry world lies waiting
For the glory of the day,
Then We hear fitful rustling
Just without upon the stair.
See two small white phantoms coming,
Catch the CLEAN of sunny hair.
Are they Christmas fairies stealing
Rows of little socks to fill?
Are they angels floa ting hither
With their message of goodwill?
What sweet spell are these elves weaving
AS like larks they chirp and sing?
Are these palms of peace from heaven
That these lovely spirits bring?
Rosy feet upon the threshold,
Eager faces peeping through.
With the first red ray of sunshine.
Chanting cherubs come in view;
Mistletoe and g.eaming holly.
Symbols of blessed day,
In their chubby hands they carry,
Streaming all along the way.
Well we know them. never weary
OF this innocent surprise;
Waiting, watching. listening always
With full hearts and tender eyes.
While our little household angels.
White and golden in the sun,
Greet US with the sweet,old welcome
Merry Christmas. every one''
Louise AlcOtt
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
True. Meaninq of Christmas.

: In all the mirthmaking and the hap
piness of the coming holiday time we
should not get too far away from the
fact that of all the celebrations of the
year it Is the one that unquestionably
belongs in its higher meaning to the
humble and the poor.
And this shall be sign unto you
Ye shall find the babe wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying in a manager.
And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly
host. praising God and saying:
Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men 3"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
More side Tracks.

Topeka, Disc. 16.-The chief improve-
ments to be made by the Santa l'c sys-
TEN during the coming year will be
the extension of its yards and switches
a. various points on its main line. The
road is now crampcd for switching ana
yardage room on account OF the big in
crease of business. In central Kansas
the sidetraclls are filed with cars
The other day it took ten hours for the
local freight to do the work between
Newton and Hutchinson. Frequently
it takes twenty hours TO- the local to
do the work from Hutchinson 10 Dodge
CITY
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
The Canal Treaty.

Panama, Dec. 15.-rhe signed canal
treaty gives the United >tates the
right to build the canal and the right
to police and fortify it. America is to
control as much of the canal zone as
it pleases and is to have charge OF the
sanitation of dion and Panama. For
this privilege the United States gov
eminent is to pay the rrpubl C of Pan
anna 10 million dollars down and $685.
600 year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Woman and Little Things.

A man may look at life as through
field glasses. He gives himself wide
horizon, and does not always heed the
things which lie nearest him. A wom-
an has more of the microscopic in
stinct. She sees the Importance OF
little things, and that is how so many
have genius enough to make $40. OF
even less, provide the necessities OF .
household
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
niuersitx of Tongues.

The diversity of tongues to be found
in one country is often a matter Oh
surprise. Last year the Bible So
ciety's agents sold the scriptures In
ffty-three languages in the Russian
empire, in twenty-eight languages IN
Burmah, and in thirty in South Ma
laysia, and fifty-three in the Egyptian
agency.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Deafness Cannot be Cured.

by local applications they cannot reach the dis
eased portion OF the There is only one way TO
Deafness is caused by an infaned condition of tho
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is infamed you have rumoling sound or I'm
perfect hearing when II is entirely closed Deaf
ness is the result. and unless the Inflammation can be
taken and this tube restored to Its normal con-
diton hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases
caused by Catarrh which Is nothing but
an inhamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case OF
Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars. free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
Sold II Drngglsta. &c.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Eemlnlne Mind superlor.

Archeologists have come to the con-
clusion that the feminine mind is par
tieularly quick at deciphering the an
cient hieroglyphics and other inscrip.
tons. A number of women, both in
Europe and America, are therefore, be-
ing instructed in that art
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
c.Iia.. Education.

Records prove that the college man
at thirty is far in advance OF the man
of the same age who entered py tne
apprentice door. Even at thirty II Is
shown that four years spent at coiiess
were not wasted, and that he reaiiy
acquired the ability to learn how to GO
things
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
The one-Hundreth aieridInu

Washington. Dec. 15.--rhe work Of
blishing the oue-hundreth merid-
AN is completed. 1t takes a strip
about third of a mile wide and about
no miles long OFF Oklahoma and adds
Il to Texas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Millions In Pearls.

Within the past three years NOR
than SO 600. 900 worth of pearls NAYS
heen taken from the waters OF the
M;ss,ssinni valley. At least three
fourths of the pearls have come IRON
the Black and White rivers OF ar
kaOsaS
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Grant GilIett Cunning

Abilene, Kas., Dec. 21.-Grant Gil.
Let will meet with his creditors at Kan.
sas City December 81" said his attor'
ney, G. w. Hurd. He is anxious te
settle and will make a good proposition.
Gillett expects to make visit to hig
old home In Kansas at that time also.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Husband Gets DAMAGES.

The manager of a Paris restaurant
has obtained 81, 600 compensation from
a chemist who constantly sold NOR.
phia to his wife. The morphia habit
has gained such a hold in Paris that
the authorities are adopting severe
repressive measures.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Coufederatlon OF rarmer..

Chicago. Dec. i5.-Farmers repre-
5 nting ten states gathered in this
city to discus plan of merging their
ocal bodies into one national organi-
cation with a view to securing better
prices for their products.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Miiiane. Of wnmen

The villages near the north Italian
lakes are in summer inhabited almost
entirely by women, who till the fields.
which do not yield much. The men
go to Switzerland and bring back
their earnings in winter.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Battleehip Dertrored.

London, Dec. 91.-A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from is Copenhagen oo-re-
spondent says that the Danish battle
ship liver Hvitfeldt was destroyed by
fire and sank.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24

Georgetown, Colo, Dec. 1s.-The
trial of the union miners charged with
blowing up the Sun and Moon mine
buildings at Idaho Springs has com
menced. 1t is expected that the work
of securing jury will take some time
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
MAKING Pearls.

The japanese are making real"
pearls by forcing grain of sand into
oysters and planting them until the
pearl is formed by deposit around
the foreign substance of the material
from which the shell lining is formed.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Sod by DruggIsts, I3c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Bridal Wreaths.

While a bridal wreath in this coun-
try is usually composed of orange
blossom, Germany uses myrtle Italy
white roses, Spain red roses, Greece
vine-leaves, and Bohemia rosemary.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Preferred to Gen. Black.

Washington, Dec. 1s.-The president
has rendered the position of civil SER
vice commissioner made vacant by the
death of John R. Proctor, to General
John c. Black, of Chicago, commander
in chief of the grand army.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
FranoIpani,s valuabIe piscoverv

Count Mauritius Frangipani was the
discoverer of the process of combining
with odoriferous substances and there
by presented us with hundred aroma
tic favors, toilet waters and cosmetics
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Russian Sunar

According to the official returns
there were 275 sugar mills in operation
in European Russia last year. The
beet crop of the country amounted to
nearly 100000 tops, while the area
under cultivation was 1910 900 acres.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Russians Marry Young.

The European country in which
there is the largest number of mar
riages of men under the age Of TWEEN
ty-one is Russia.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
British Warehouses.

There are TAG warehouses in Eng
land and Wales and $50 in Scotland
The largest is at Liverpool. It &C.
commodities over 5000 inmates.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24
Revive Sun DiaIs

The sun dial, that old-time favorite
in the garden of the past, has been
revived, and it is stated on good au-
thority that no garden will be consid.
cred complete without it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24

1t came the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending tho earth
To their harps of gold;
Peace the earth, goodwill to men,
From heavens alLsracous King;
Ths world in solemn stiffness lay
the angels oing
Still through the cioven skies they
come,
With peaceful wings unfurled;
And still their heavenly music floats
Der all the weary world;
Above its sad and lonely plaine
They bend en- lowering wings,
And DER its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
o yc beneath fes crushing lead,
bending low,
Who toll along the climbing
With painful steps and sowl
for glad and golden hours
Ccm swiftly the wing;
Oh, rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-24

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-03-23
Egyptian Lace

An Egyptian lace has many queer lit
tie figures in it, all idols and cats and
strangely incongruous figures for lace
work. In the pattern there are also
wandering lines of gold, as though a
big fly, harnessed with gold silk, had
travelled over the surface.
An Egyptian skirt and blouse were
made for a fashionable woman. The
material was white silk and the Egyp-
tian feature lay in the Oriental fiounce
and in the Oriental silk on the blouse.
The style was plain. and the whole
might be carried out in black. to the
great delight Of the woman who likes
a handsome all-black gown.
The woman. in all-black has many
temptations this year, for they now
have way of combining colors that
are harmonious to the last degree. The
deep reds and the brighter reds, with a
little white and some brown, are used
in embroiderles, and these are en-
ployed to trim the gowns Of the season.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-03-23

The woman who can control herself
under the most trying circumstances Is
the woman who holds the strongest
power over men.
The average man prizes permanent
peace and content above the happiness
of possessing a beautiful, attractive
creature for a wife, and he knows that
a bad-tempered woman and peace go
not together.
The assertion from a woman that she
has bad temper, and is proud Of 1t,
has kept more than one worthy man
from asking her to share his future as
his wife.
No matter how beautiful and brainy
and fascinating the bad tempered wom-
an may be, or how lengthy her bank
account her power Is intinitesimal
compared with that Of her amiable sis
ter.
And amiability is not only power. it
is mental progression and health and
happiness and long life to ones self
and to ones friends and family.-New
York News.