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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Germany is meeting with some diff
.ulty in its colony in southwest AT
RIGA. one of the native tribes. the
Ovampos. being strongly opposed to
Teuton rule. Sud-west as the colony
is generally called. is = country of
magnificent distances tits area Is
about 100000 square miles,. and much
1T 1t is practically desert Along the
whole coast tsome 800 miles) and for
about 100 miles inland 1t is bowling
wilderness-first of SIND and then of
stones.
Within this belt the country I'M
proves somewhat, but the continued
drouths are sore trial to farmers
The fertile areas are generally dried
up. The country in the southern half
OF the colony is covered with scrub,
and wide stretches of undulating coun-
try alternate with high ridges. 1t is
country adapted to guerrilla war
fare.
There are several tribes living In
the erritory-Herreros. Damaras,
Ovampos. Hottentots and Bushmen.
The Herreros, Damaras and Ovampos
are of the same blood as the Zulus.
Basutos and Cape Kafirs. The two
former. who live chiefly in the central
zone. have given little trouble to the
Germans. but the Ovampos. who live
in the far north. are. still uncon-
quered, and are defiant and insolent
to the Germans. who for several
years past have planned expeditions
which SO far have had to be post
poned. The Ovampos. II fully mus
tered. could show $4,000 lighting men.
some Of them armed with rines. and
the expedition which Germany is now
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
To Am erican ValOr

A monument to American valor on
foreign soil. erected by the ancient foes
1T the Republic, is the stirring spec
,acle soon to mark the scene of the
h.codiest battle field OF the War of
aS12. 1t will commemorate In one
common epitaph the desperate courage
OF those who perished fighting for
their respective countries at the old
fort in the suburbs of Toronto, Cam
|sda.
! BY n singular fatality a calamity
iovertook the Republics soldiers on
what Is now the site of Ontario's me-
itropolis. though confronted by inferior
numbers. Moved by the spirit of re-
venge which the catastrophe provoked,
the capital was destroyed. and events
followed that led to more bitterness
than all other features OF the great
conflict. concluding with the burning
OF Washington by British forces. 1t
is significant that the coming tribute
to brave Americans comes from 3 peo-
pie but a few generations removed
from the period when these invaders
were regarded as vandals.
. Things have changed much down on
the lake front, were the magazine of
the old fort engulfed two hundred and
nifty warriors OF Gen. Pike with that
brave American officer. Still, there is
much to remind American tourists.
who frequent the vicinity in large
numbers, of the tremendous on
siaughts of the Republics forces on
the fort before the final calamity.
There are rusty guns, the abattis with
its sharpened logs pointing outward
ard upward. and the great gave where
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Twas very embarrassing to have her act
About those carnal potatoes:
So. ending his prayer. he started for
home,
But az the door closed behind him he
heard deep groan.
''Oh. give to the hungry potatoes.
And that groan followed him all the way
home,
In the midst of the night it haunted his
room.
oh. give to the hungry potatoes
He could bear 1t no longer: arose and
dressed.
From his well-filled cellar taking in haste
A bag of his best potatoes.
Again he went to the widows lone hut:
Her sleepless eyes she had not yet shut:
But there she sat In that old armchair.
sad air:
And. entering In. he poured on the floor
A bushel or more from his goodly store
Or choicest potatoes.
The Widows heart leaped up for joy
Her face was haggared and wan no more.
Yes said the widow now you may"
And he kneeled him down on the sanded
floor.
Where he had poured his goodly store
As never before his lips essayed. ''U
No longer embarrassed but free and full,
He poured out the voice Of a liberal soul:
And the widow responded aloud. Amen
But said no more of potatoes
And would you who hear this simple taia
Pray for the door: and. praying, pre-
vailr' .is
Then preface your prayer with aims and
good deeds:
Search out the poor their wants and
their needs:
Gray for peace and grace and spiritual
food.
For, wisdom and guidance. for all these
are good.
But don't forget the potatoes.
e A. b.
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In Troubled Africa

sending against them will have to be
a strong one.
The Hottentots are Of various clans.
scattered about. chiefly In the south
ern half OF the colony. They are
usually small and yellow skinned, and
their wool grows in patches. Their
language consists largely of clicks and
gurgles and is not pleasant to listen
to.
They are lazy. treacherous, thiev-
ish and untruthful. They work when
a chance of hunting, of they go. and
leave their employer in the lurch.
They will live where white man
would starve, and find water where he
would die OF thirst. Their cunning is
proverbial. and as crackers of game
they rank high. They have never
been thoroughly thrashed and are not
well disposed toward the Germans.
The pure Bushmen are probably the
lowest type OF human being in the
world. Queer little, understood. nerv-
ously grinning blacks, they cannot be
tanned. and now are approaching ex-
tinction, They live now. as they al
ways did. widely scattered. Their
language is practically succession of
clicks, and as a rule their intellects
cannot grasp any number higher than
Ave. Anything beyond that Is "a
great many"
The Bushman has apparently no
moral sense. He will live where even
a Hottentot would starve. and as a
hunter he Is hard to beat. He will fol-
low q buck until 1t drops from ex-
haustion. and his poisoned arrows are
things to be avoided.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
Lessons from DOGS

I'VE may learn good lesson from
our good friend the dog now and
then" said man who is always be-
friending members of the canine tribe
to a New Orleans .Times-Democrat
writer, land we should remember the
fact at times when we are inclined to
quarrel with some of the more worth
less members. Already we have
learned lesson in constancy of
friendship from the dog and men of
letters have scarcely praised the vir-
tues of mankind more than they have
praised this virtuous attribute Of the
dog. The dog is = good friend to his
master, faithful companion who
shares his masters fortune whatever
it may be. No dog was ever known
to desert his master because fortune
or fate had shifted from the palace to
the howell, from anluence to grinding
poverty. The dog will remain fast
when other friends higher in the scale
of animal development will desert and
pull away to where the pastures are
greener.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

formerly stood bastion and where
British and American dead lie in one
mass just as they were cast from diff
fcrent parts of the bloody field. Over
this common grave broad minded Ca
nadians think 1t fitting that common
granite shaft. telling its simple story
of brave men dying each for his own
country, should mark this bit of
flames eternal camping ground"
The threshold of the magazine which
proved the funeral pyre of Gen. Pike
ard many of his men still stands.
marked by a huge tablet. and is the
curiosity sought by all American tour
lists. Just within stood the American
commander. talking to a captive Brit
or, when the explosion came. History
has failed to determine Just how the
magazine happened to explode. Per-
haps a desperate Britisher thought to
destroy his country's foes even though
in his dying agony. Another version is
accident.
The course of events has brought
the old fort for which the British and
Americans fought that day into pos
session of the city Of Toronto. The
municipality has Just acquired the site
for 100000. 1t will be turned into a
park. The old scars of the tragic
conflict will be wiped out. and Ameri-
can tourists who visit the city next
summer will see the old relic trans
formed into a playground for chill
dren. The bastion. where lie the VIC
tins of that engagement in the sOiith-
west corner of the fort, win be the
ro'rt from which will rise a granite
shaes.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

But I was thinking more particl-
larry Of another good example which
humankind may ind in the dogs con.
duct, and II is 4 lesson which we may
ponder with profit at this season of
the year when ones diet becomes of
SO much importance In the mainte-
nance OF health. Despite popular
belief to the contrary did yon know
1t is fact that dog rarely cats
more than his stomach can handle?
Did you know that dogs as a rule eat
very lightly and very discreetly when
they are sick? Whether you know IL
or not 1t is fact, and ii is something
that We can't say OF man At least
we can't say as much for all men.
Dogs seem to know intuitively what
Is good for them. They know when
they are sick that they must eat
lightly and be careful about the Kind
of food they eat. Nature. after al.
seems to take pretty good care of the
creatures, though nature kills dogs,
just As she kills other things In her
vast domain
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
An Old Time Favorite

A an old d., LADY sat In her ?id armchair;
And hunger-worn features.
For days and for weeks her only fare,
As she sat there In her old armchair,
Had been potatoes.
Not one was left for the old iady.s food
OF those potatoes
Where shall SEND and to whom shall 1
For more potatoes?'
And she thought of the deacon over the
The deacon so ready to worship and pray.
Whose cellar was full of potatoes.
And she said. Il will send to the deacon
He'll not mind much to give me some
OF such store of potatoes.
And the deacon came over as fast as he
Thinking to do the old lady some good.
But never for once of potatoes:
And he asked her at once what was her
chief want:
And she. simple sou, expecting grant.
Immediately answered. Potatoes"
But the deacon's religion didn't lie that
He was more accustomed to preach and
to pray
Than to give of his boarded pota-
So. not hearing. of course. what the old
lady said:
He rose to pray with uncovered head;
But she only thought of potatoes.
He prayed for patience for wisdom and
grace;
But when he prayed. Lord. give her
peace
She andibTy sighed. GIVE potatoes"
And at the end Of each prayer which he
said
lie heard. or thought that he heard. in its
stead,
That same request for potatoes.
The deacon was troubled: knew not what
to do:
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

when was states attorney OF Nc
Donough county" said lawyer Will
lam Prentiss. there was an epidemic
of horse stealing there that had per-
picked and maddened the farmers ot
the district
Suspicion conferred on a man named
Jerry Willetts. When they spoke of
horse stealing they spoke of Willets
in the same breath.
Under these conditions sent down
as detective to the scene of the horse
thieves operations a little Swede
named Oliver Johnston. with instruc-
lions to pose as farm laborer in
search of work and II possible to in
gratiate himself with Willetts. He
succeeded. in gaining Willetts' conf
dence. Then one night came grand
horse-stealing raid. and the proof
seemed SO strong against Willetts that
he was arrested and charged with the
offense.
Johnston played his part we'll. To
my satisfaction he informed me that
Willetts and his counsel had suggest
ed that for a substantial bride he
should swear that he spent the night
of the horse stealing in Willetts'
although he was twenty miles
away at the time-and that Willetts
did not leave the house that night.
Here was a trap ready to spring
On my advice Johnston pretended to
acquiesce in the accused mans prop
osition. When he came to the witness
chair. however. he dropped the mask.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
In the Corn Belt.

A friend of mine, a clergyman. and
9 very close observer, told me that
upon one of his trips through the West
almost every man he met ard spoke
with used profanity. but finally he
found one man who talked to him for
twenty minutes without using an oath.
As they were about to separate mr
friend shook hands with the stranger
and said:
You don't know how glad am
to have chance to have a talk with 81
man like you. You are the frs. man
have met for three days who could
talk for 1--WE minutes without swear
ing"
The stranger was so surprised and
shocked at this deplorable state of af-
fairs that he instantly and innocently
calculated:
We'll. I'll be damned!"-Prof. T. y.
Carver In The Worlds Work.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
uNLuckY HAPPENINGS.

It's bad luck to wear a costly opal
and lose it.
It's unlucky to be run over by a
hcarse on Friday.
It's bad omen to be bit by bull
dog on a Tuesday.
It's always considered unlucky to
bet on the wrong horse.
1t amt a good omen when your rich
uncle dies and forgets to name you
in his will.
It's unlucky to call a man liar
unless you're big enuff to lex him
in 3 square fight.
It's considered unlucky to dream
tsat you're a-goin' to lose some money
and have it come true.
1t amt considered lucky to marry a
scoldin' woman on Thursday. Mon
day. Saturday. Wednesday. Sunday.
TUESDAY or friday.
It's unlucky when calm on young
lady to have the family under the i'm
preston that you're jest a-dyin to set
up with the hull crowd.
It's unlucky to wear a short-tailed
coat and pair of linen pants to a
Baptist picnic on a-Thursday and sit
down on raspberry pie.
1t amt considered lucky when
you've called on your lady love hull
lot later than you'd ought to. to hear
her fathers number 'leven boots
a-comin' down the stairs.
s'pose that there are more unluc.ly
signs that folks of a superstitious turn
OF mind might suggest. but these are
enuT to show that there are hull
lot OF things occurrin' about US every
day that set us a-thinkin' more or less.
AS said, amt a mite superstitions,
but do think it's bad sign to hear
two black cats a-yowlin' under my
window Of a June nigst Jest when I'm
a-wantin' to go to sleep.-"Hani
Sphinx" in Boston Globe.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Woe unto the politician whose nerve
has become eifete.
guys would get left.
It's tough turkey that is able to
hold over for another term.
Business is a mantle that covers a
multitude OF queer transactions
A man who is looking for trouble
can usually find it without trouble.
Great is the physician who can
cure woman OF an imaginary disease.
The race is not always to the man
who has his money down on a straight
tip.
You can't discourage the prohibit
ton movement by throwing cold water
on 1t.
Wise is the man who ~ able to keep
us mouth sHut Wheh ne mas nOtniHs
to say.
When you attempt to strike a match
in the dark the head is always on the
other end.
Perhaps the time will come when
the intelligence of the people will
make politics Improbable.
Yes. Alonzo. by all means marry a
girl who can swim; she will realize
the importance of keeping her mouth
smut.
1t sometimes happens that the man
who has a wife and an automobile
has two manageable things on his
hands at once.-Chicago News.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

All is not plump that fattens.
The last word never satisfies q won.
an; 1t takes the last vocabulary to do
It.
The way to keep on loving q woman
lie for her to keep on not marrying
him.
1t is not living but marrying. be.
yond ones means that does the mis-
chief.
Men go to the opera with their
wives Just the way women listen to
the political arguments of their hus-
bands.
It makes = man feel awful cheap to
go home and find calling on his wife
in the street car.
Tie man to pick out to appreciate
tho Joke you want to tell him Is the
fellow who is waiting to borrow IS
from you when you get through tell
ing 1t.
1t is just like a mother to do her
sons problems in algebra for him.
and then to be proud of him for 1t.
When a girl thinks how queer It
would feel to wear tights she Is afraid
to look q two-year-old boy in the face
Even when she has looked for q
man under the bed and found none
there, 1t makes \ woman blueh to
think how awkward 1t would be for
her II there was one.-lsew York
Praea
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M A. ROM ANGE<. H1
M Bound in Morocco @

Within the gates Of Taxa. the Morescan
maiden Zaza,
On a terrace in the twilight softly
strrmmed her light guitar.
While her lover. Abd-el-Alla. a young
Arab, dark and sallow.
Was fighting meath his Sultan with
his troops from Alcazar.
From Fondak there adjacent con-
vaiescent patient
Caught her warm and lustrous
glances as she languidly looked
down.
And this young Americana swept the
keys OF piano
As his look of admiration. with .
smile. chased way her frown.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
On Pressing Business.

The Hon. Champ" Clark recently
told of case brought up in Missouri
In which one OF the lawyers engaged
tried to serve his client by throwing
suspicion on q certain witness during
the course of his cross-examination.
The first question put was:
You admit that they were at the
prisoners home every evening during
this PERIOD"
Yes. SIR" replied the Witness
State whether you and he were in
terested in any special transactions.
such as, for instance. business or 9TH
erwise."
Yes, sir; We were"
"Oh, ho!" exclaimed the willy attor-
ney. Then you will no doubt be
good enough to inform us now and to
what extent. also the nature Of the
business in which you were Jointly
interested"
II haven't the least objection in the
world" cheerfully answered the oblig-
ing witness. IF you want to know
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4{ai5xlz4&zEa<
NNXA@IN @

Where were you the night Of Jan.
1, the date of the horse stealing?
asked the lawyer for the defendant.
in voice that foretold triumph.
81 spent that night at my friend
Bill Pringle's, about twenty miles dis
tant from Willetts' house. replied the
detective.
"'But-but have you not stated that
you spent that night in Willetts'
house? inquired the lawyer in sud
den dismay.
80 did, but was not on my OATH
then and l am now. Willetts asked
me to swear that was in his house
that night and l agreed to do so at
the request of the states attorney
THE lawyer for the defense. seeing
the fatal trap, hurled an imprecation
at me across the table. The defen-
dant's wife and sisters gave evidence
that he was at home all the night in
question. but this did not avail him:
he was convicted and sentenced to
three years imprisonment.
Later l discovered that Willetts
was perfectly innocent of the horse
stealing. that his neighbors had form
ed conspiracy to railroad him to the
penitentiary and. becoming aware Of
their inteptions. he had endeavored to
secure what would seem disinterested
evidence in his favor.
II got him out of prison after he had
served fifteen months of the sentence
he received on account of trying to
manufacture superfiuous alibi."-
Chicago News
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The Straying Desire

some people there be who never can see
Any value in aughs that they have.
but what others have got and what they
have not
In that which they eagerly crave.
II their neighbors have less they are fam
to confess
That riches are only a care:
But II others have more there's terri
BILE roar
because It's 30 very unfair.
II a lass has bonnet with feathers
upon 1t
The maid with the flower hat weeps;
II = lad has a marble some comrade will
MARBLE
"Oh. come. let's play marbles for keeps"
TOO oft IT'S the same with the beautiful
dame
lorgnou:
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
FLORIDA PHILOSOPHY.

People who fail in this life have to
believe in another.
If women had vote. some candi
dates would have no show.
II morality cost as much as vice.
most men would esteem 1t less.
There is no password to success.
but nothing is easier than to pass It,
II wild oats must be sown, We
should contine the crop to our own
land.
Matrimony covers 30 many sins that
we are obliged to call 1t holy in self
defense.
Many q man has achieved q reputa-
tion for courage simply because he
was afraid to run away.
Fortune may knock at mans door
hut once. but the proverbial "knocker"
is no. SO chary of his favors.
There are so many candidates nova
days that they almost hide the plat
form on which they are running
When the North Pole is discovered,
it will be time enough to look for the
woman who doesn't think well of hey
form.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

She ceased to sigh or bother as the
strains of "Hiawatha"
Came in ripping repetition through
the perfumeladened air.
And forgot her bold defender. who
was fighting the Pretender,
While her fancy rewove warp and
wool OF romance then and there.
But as the day was dying. In wild
haste the news came flying
OF Abd-etAlla having fallen. and
now the rumor says.
Zaza sits among the queenly. content
ed and serenely.
The favorite OF the Sultan, in his
palace back In Fee.
Justin Frivole. in Philadelphia Led.
ger.
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RANDOM SHOTS.

II there were no fault-nnders we
should stagnate.
There are many kinds Of tears: none
are shed from indifference.
Opportunity comes to many persons.
yet how few recognize the chary Wis
itor.
Persons who are extremely careful
of their dignity usually have very little
to spare.
The art of restful conversation con-
sits in allowing the other person to
carry the big end OF the load.
Those who have not tasted the bit
terest Of life's bitters cannot appre-
ciate the sweetest of life's sweets.
The woman with genuine seIf-con-
troll usually conceaIs her unhappy
moods and smiles with the laughing
world.
1t is never too late to learn. but
when q man thinks he knows it all
that ends the matter.-Philadelph
Inquirer.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Some other attire. some other danes
squire.
Is what she has Just set her heartOi.
How many hearts ache and how man.
break
With desires that elsewhere do roam;
Those who dolefully cry for the moon in
the sky
Would find more satisfaction at home
For there's one circumstance which
should greatly enhance
The worth OF what one may possess.
That which lie despises some one else
highly prizes
And wants, more than words can ex-
press.
To use well all ones got in his own little
lot
VIII furnish joys quite unexpected.
To mine ones own field will frequently
yield
A wealth hitherto unsupported
-Eugenia Elsie Blain.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Builds Church for Italians
Adrian Iselin, . member OF one OF
New York's wealthy families. Is build
Ing q church for poor Italian Catho-
Les at '-..x Rochelle.
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SHORT SENTENCE PHILOSOPHY.

It Is better to collect your thoughts
than to borrow other peoples.
It's the worker who succeeds In life
not the fellow who is worked.
The world suspects that a man is in
love before he knows it himself.
The fellow who would marry for
money finds 1t pretty hard work.
II a man was equipped with q safe
ty valve to carry OF his surplus talk
there wouldn't be SO many vocal az
plosions.
The people who are always looking
for bargains seldom get rich a.
quickly as those who offer them.
Some men are SO easy-going that
after awhile they cease to 90 At all.
Take care of your enemies, and your
friends will take care of themselves.
There were NO dentists In tho days
Of the Spanish Inquisitioa, but they
had Instruments of torture Just he
safne-Philadelnhia Record
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BULLETIN BUBBLES.

If women ever go to the polls will
grass widows be counted in the straw
vote?
When the bass singer tells how
heavy his voice is he doesn't always
weigh his words.
Some people acknowledge that they
have skeleton In the closet and don't
make any bones about 1t either.
An affair of the heart should not be
entered into in half-hearted sort of
way.-Philadelphia Bulletin.