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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
New Officers Of Grand Army Of the
Republic Chosen.
TO MINNEAPOLIS NEXT YEAR.
Resolutions Committee Commended
the Efforts of President Roosevelt
in Bringing About Peace Between
Russia and Japan.

Denver, Colo, Sept. IL. = The na-
tional encampment of the G. A. R.
voted to hold the national encamp-
ment next year at Minneapolis. Dial.
las was the only other contestant and
commandments King told the re
preventative of that city that he would
use his influence 10 secure the 1907
encampment for Dallas.
Corporal James Tanner, of New
York, was elected commander-in-
chief. The vote was as follows:
James Tanner, 447; Robert B. Brown,
1877; Charles G. Burton, AZ; George
Stone, 15
A great demonstration followed the
announcement of Corporal Tanners
election
Col. George wv. Cook, of Denver,
was unanimously elected senior vice
commander-in-chief.
Silas H. fowler, of Minnesota, was
elected junior commander-in-chief.
Rev. Father ]. F. Leary, of Chap
man, Kan, was elected chaplain-in-
chief.
The report of the resolutions COM
mittee commended the efforts of
President Roosevelt in bringing about
peace between Russia and Japan, in
dorsed the presidents appointment of
Vespian Warner as commissioner of
pensions; approved of the plan of the
committee in charge of the matter of
establishing parks on the Virginia
battlefields, and favored the plan to
remove. the remains of Past Com
mander-in-chief Paul Van De WORT
from Cuba to this country
The report was adopted. Among
the recommendations for changes in
the rules was one to increase the re-
presentation of the departments in the
national encampment A resolution
thanking the state and city officials,
railway officials and the people of
Denver, especially the local executive
committee of the encampment, was
tdopted with three cheers.
Denver.-Mrs. Abbie A. Adams of
Superior, Neb., was elected president
of the Woman's Relief Corps. There
were originally five candidates and the
balloting continued for three hours
The contest finally narrowed down to
Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Carrie E.
Sparklin of St. Louis. The decisive
ballot was: Mrs. Adams, 205; Mrs
Sparklin, 103.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
OUGHT TO HAVE KNOWN.
But Funeral Prima Donna Sang on So
Many Occasions.

mdIly OCCdSIOnS.
A certain woman in Connecticut
town has quite reputation as sing
er at funerals. Last year she sang
at 1877 of these lugubrious functions
Not only her own town, but villages
and cities for miles around, bespoke
her services on such occasions. Early
this season the woman foreswore
funerals for while and went away
for vacation. The day after her re-
turn she met neighbor, who was 40,
thin and plain spoken.
Good morning, Martha" said the
funeral prima donna. How is your
mother this morning?"
MAS dead" drawled Martha.
ooh, am so sorry" cried the sing
er. Can be of any assistance?"
mo, guess not" said Martha
The singer was surprised at that
When is your mother to be
buried?" she asked.
"She is buried" said Martha, who,
in her turn, showed establishment.
What" exclaimed the singer.
why, it is strange 1 didn't hear any
thing about it. When did she die?"
About six months ago."
The singers bewilderment increas-
ed. 81 must have been away at the
time" she said, "but it is funny that
none of my family told me anything
about it"
Il guess" said Martha, "they didn't
think it worth while to tell you, SEEM
s you was here and sang at the funer-
al"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
STALY is SHAKEN.

Rome, Sept. 11.-All Italy is suffer
ing from terrible depression because
of the news from the south, where one
of the worst earthquakes ever expert
enced occurred. Although the earth
quake was felt all over Calabria and
to a certain extent in Sicily, the worst
news comes from Pizzo and Monte
leone, and from eighteen villages
which are said to have been complete
ly destroyed. According to the latest
news received $40 persons have been
killed and great number injured. 1t
is as yet impossible even to estimate
the property losses.
The shock lasted for eighteen sec
onds at Catanzaro, and soon thereaf-
ter was felt at Messina, Riggio, Mon
teleone, Martinano, Stefacomi, Pisco-
PHO, Triparni, Zammaro, Sessaniti,
Nadia, Olivadi and other points.
The general confusion was added to
by dreadful cries from the jails,
where the prisoners were beside them
selves with fright and in some cases
mutinied, but, fortunately, all the pris-
oners were kept within bounds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
STRONGER THAN MEAT.
A Judges opinion of erape-Nuts.


A gentleman who has acquired a
judicial turn of mind from experience
on the bench out in the Sunfiower
State, writes a carefully considered
opinion as to the value Of Grape-N Nuts
as food. He says:
For the past 5 years Grape-Nuts
has been a prominent feature in our
bill of fare.
THE crisp food with the delicious,
nutty flavor has become an indispensa-
Bile necessity in my family's everyday
life.
1T has proved to be most healthful
and beneficial, and has enabled us to
practically abolish pastry and pies
from our table, for the children prefer
Grape-Nuts and do not crave rich and
unwholesome food
"Grape-Nuts keeps us all In perfect
physical condiSion-as a preventive of
disease 1t is beyond value have been
particularly impressed 10y the benefi-
cial effects Of Grape-Nuts when used
by ladies who are troubled with face
blemishes, skin eruptions, etc. 1t
clears up the complexion wonderfully.
AS to its nutritive qualities, my ex-
perience is that one small dish of
Srape-Nuts is superior to a pound of
meat for breakfast, which is an i'm
portant consideration for anyone. 1t
satisfies the appetite and strengthens
the power Of resisting fatigue, while
its use involves none of the disagree
able consequences that sometimes foI.
low a meat breakfast" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
A Mere Matter of Size.

She was corpulent and on her way
to Chicago from New York, and was
travelling with her two children, aged
respectively and years. AS far as
Buffalo she had not been asked to pay
for the children, but at that point the
train crew changed and the new con-
ductor, gruff, surly-looking indivfd-
ual, looked askance at the children
and asked for their tickets.
why, have none," said the moth
er.
How old are they?" snapped the
man in blue.
''The girl is and the boy 4, SIR
''They look pretty big for that" was
the gruff rejoinder.
''Well,'' said she of the avoirdupois,
eff you're collecting fares according
to size, you'd better get another ticket
for me-"
Needless to say, she did not pay for
the children.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Forcinu the YouthfuI Mind.

There is very general cry that chill
dren are becoming every day less
childlike, that they are being pressed
far beyond their strength. OF course,
the fanatics tell us that it is not so,
that all this cutlery is the outcome of
misplaced sentiment and of ignorance
Of the true inwardness of educational
methods. But this we know, that
forced minds are very like forced
plants-curiosities perhaps, but not
such as the experienced cultivator
keeps as stock" Nature is very jeal-
Gus for her nurslings. You may fool
considerably with adult specimens,
even to the degree of making them
hideous; you may experiment almost
indefinitely with this, and the other
kind of pruning, grating, but let a
cold wave or hot wave but once blow
upon your tender musings and they
are gone without hope of resurrection.
Philadelphia Ledger
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
NOISES IN Her HEAD
Mrs. Reagan was a Nervous Wreck,
But DR.. Williams Pink Pills
Brought Sound Health.


"Before began to take DIR. Williams
Pink Pills." said Mrs. Mary Reagan,
of No. SO Kilburn street, Fall River,
Mass, recently, az was in and out Of
bed all the time, but now I stay up all
day and do all my own work.
al was badly run down from over
work. One day noises began in my head
and almost made me crazy. My head
felt as if a tight band had been put
around it, and the pressure and the
sounds made me so uneasy that often
had to walk the floor all night.
"My stomach was i'll bad shape, and
had smothering sensations. At such
times my body seemed bloodless, my
hands were like chalk and my face
turned yellow. The doctor said had
dyspepsia in the worst form. Then my
nerves gave way and 1 was completely
Frustrated. I frequently suffered from
smothering sensations.
"The first box of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills that 1 used quieted my nerves
so that I could get good nights
sleep, which was a new experience for
me. Before / began to use them was
a nervous wreck and trembled at the
slightest sound. / was so weak that L
had to sit down and rest every few steps
when went up stairs. Now 1 can run
up whole flight at once. The smother
ing sensations have gone and the noises
in my head have stopped entirely. My
appearance has greatly improved, for
friends who were alarmed on my ac-
count before, now say: How we'll you
nre lookingp My husband spent over
hundred dollars on treatment for me that
was worthless, but few boxes of DR..
Williams Pink Pills brought me sound
health
Sold by all druggists, or sent, post
paid, on receipt of price, 80 cents per
box, six boxes for 81 so by the DR.. Will
ljams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Story of Three Boys.

Three boys were told to go and
take the exact time by the town clock.
The first came back and said: ct is
IL o'clock" He became in after life
bookseller. The second was more
exact. He said it was three minutes
after IL. He became a doctor. The
third looked at the clock, found out
how long it took him to walk back to
the house, returned to the clock, then
added the time of his walk to the
time shown, and reported the result
thus: at is at this moment IL hours,
10 minutes and Is seconds" That
boy came to distinction at Helmholtz,
the scientist
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
HIS EDITORIAL QUICKLY READY.
New York Paper Tells Good Story on
Southern Journalist.

Southern Journalist.
A certain editorial writer on the
STAFF of Southern newspaper was in
clined to dilatoriness during certain
periods of conviviality, and caused
thereby much concern in the breast of
the foreman of the composing room
just prior to the moment when the
forms must go to press. But the writ
er was a part owner of the paper and
could not well be discharged, since he
occupied the position of managing ed
itor. Many times the editorials were
late and the paper delayed in going to
press, but the delinquent writer al
ways made good after a fashion.
Finally he hit upon scheme when he
was called upon at the last moment
for copy" that may, in all justice to
expediency, be called the art of gen.
ius.
The hour was very late and no lead
ing editorial had gone to the compos-
ing room. In frantic haste the fore
man sent for the editorial writer, and
only after half an hour was he located
in nearby saloon and much the
worse for his dalliance there. He
grasped the intelligence that he had
forgotten his leading column, and
made his way as fast as he could to
his Office. Snatching piece of copy
paper in one hand, he caught up a
copy of the New York Times with the
other, and from it clipped leading
editorial, which he pasted on the pa
per. Then he wrote:
1--WE cannot agree with the New
York Times when it says"
The editorial of the Times was cop
led, the paper went to press, and the
editor back to the saloon.-New York
Times.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
UPRISING PASSES CRISIS.
But Situation Is Still Reported
Serious at Baku.

SERIOUS dI bdkus
st. Petersburg, Sept. 1.-THE up
rising in the Baku district according
to the latest dispatches has apparent
ly passed the crisis, although the situa-
ton is still serious and order is far
from having been restored. In the oil
district and even in the city of BaRu,
the belligerent factions ARE taking ev-
cry opportunity to commit murder and
to apply the torch. The troops are
steadily arriving in the districts, the
number of reinforcements to reach
there up to noon yesterday being sixty
thousand, and others are on the way.
The confagration in the pumping
establishments and reservoirs at
Balakhan, Romni, Sabunto and Biebie-
bat has not burned itself out, but in
cendiarism apparently has not made
Roadway in the refinery district of
BLACK town
The dispatches received up to this
hour bring a mass of details concern
ing the events of the week, but the
new information is of comparatively
small consequence and the extent of
the losses has not yet been establish
ed.
Representatives of the Oil companies
are yet ignorant regarding what prop
erty has burned and what has been
saved. Some of the larger companies
are taking a more optimistic view of
the losses since the receipt of dis
Oh I,
been able to prevent the wholesale de-
struction of the refinery in the "black
town" quarter, which are among the
most important factors in the indus
try. According to a director of the
Nobel company the loss in the pump
ing and pipe line equipment, though
heavy, is not irreparable and is moth
ing in comparison with the damage
which would have been caused by the
total demolition of the refneries. The
stock of crude fuel oil and naptha in
the reservoirs, the director said, is
not at present very large, as the COM
panies have been shipping it since the
opening of navigation on the Volka
and large part of the winter accu-
mutation is now in the hands of con-
sumers. 1t is declared, however, that
it would be a matter of six months be-
fore the derricks and pumping estab-
lishments could be rebuilt and that
meanwhile the productive activity
would be at standstill
The daily potential loss, he said,
would be several hundred thousand
dollars to the companies while the
consumers of fuel oil would suffer
heavily because of the scale of prices.
The director said that he feared it
would be difficult to get the workmen
to return to the oil fields, as those
among the Armenians and those who
escaped death have lost everything
they had and are reluctant to again
go to the place where they had on two
occasions been exposed to fearful dan
ger.
The newspaper estimates the loss
at between s50,0OO,O0O and s75,OOO,OO
but their bases of calculation are open
to question. The larger establish
ments are financially able to stand
the blow. but some of the smaller ones
have been hard hit. Minister of f.
nance Kokovsoff contemplates the is
suance Immediately of an edict post
poning payments.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
DROWNED IN DETROIT RIVER.

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 6. = Percy
Pound, aged 10 years, son of prom
inent Detroit attorney, and two young
ladies', Miss Maloney and Miss Anna
Waldron, were drowned by the upset
ting of canoe in the American chan
mel of the Detroit river near Belle
Isle bridge this afternoon. Byron
Mills, the fourth member of the party,
swan ashore after making a vain eff
fort to save his companions. The
accident was witnessed by many peo-
pie on a passing ferry and on Belle
Isle bridge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
MORE new CHOLERA CASES.
Only Friend Of Bacillus Is Ignorance
of PeopIe.

Berlin, Sept. 11.-An official bulle-
tin just issued announces that 10 new
cases of cholera and seven deaths
were reported during the "a hours
ending at noon, making a total of
123 cases and 80 deaths.
The new cases notified are as fol-
lows: Marienburg, 6; Thorn, 1;
Bromberg, 2; Wirsitz, 6; Gnesen, 8;
Czarnikau, 1, and Koenigsburg, 1.
Marienwider, West Prussia, Sept
11.-Four new cases of cholera were
reported here, two of which were at
Grandenz and two at Nieder-Aus-
mass.
New York, Sept II. - Chairman
Shonts, of the Panama canal commits
sion, announced that he had awarded
a concession for feeding and housing
the greater part. of the canal en-
ployes to ]. F. Markell, of Omaha,
Neb. Following a months visit to
Panama, Mr.. Markell has worked out
a comprehensive scheme, which in
cludes the early establishment of ten
hotels along the canal and railroad,
each of them to accommodate from
$50 to $50 dodgers, and twice as many
diners. These hotels, it is declared.
will compare favorably with the bet
ter class of commercial hotels in this
country and will be used chiefly by
the higher salaried employees.
For the laborens employed in the
canal or in any way identified with
that project the concessionaire will
at first establish twenty commissary
camps and later 100 additional ones,
each with kitchen and dining rooms.
Laborers will have the privilege of
buying their food cooked or uncook-
ed at these camps, and in either case
will be furnished with the necessary
table appointments
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14

There is a regular business in Italy
of making little wire cages for grass
hoppers. The insect is regarded as
lucky and if one can be kept alive in
the cage for month it is believed the
year will be prosperous. The super
stition arose from this incident: A
cardinal of the Medici family invited
a bishop to dine with him in his gar
den. The cardinal handed the bishop
from a tree into the wine and the
bishop did not drink it. The wine was
afterward found to have been poison,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Roumanian Hospitality.

The Roumanian peasantry lead a
very simple life. The principal dish
at each meal is the maize-cake Each
person in his turn breaks off a small
portion for himself. Besides this
each takes a couple of onions, small
bowl Of beans. slice of watermelon,
few plums and draught of water.
To this frugal meal is hidden any la
borer or wayfarer who may look as
though he had no dinner Roumanian
hospitality knows no limits 81 have
not even bite left for a guest" is the
bitterest complaint a housewife can
make
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Causes a Sensation.

ST. Petersburg, Sept. "a sensa-
ton has been caused at Moscow by
the suicide of NJ Khotinsky, who shot
a girl through the heart and then
turned the revolver on himself, in
fiicting a wound from which he died
after being taken to the hospital.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Chinese MAGISTRATE Arrested.

Shanghai, Sept. IL. = The Chinese
magistrate of Quinsan, near Shang-
hal, has been arrested and imprison-
ed He is reported to have tortured
a British, subject of Chinese descent,
employed on the Shanghai-Nankin
railway, although informed that the
man was a British subject.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
NEWSPAPER Man Suicides.

Austin, Tex, Sept. Harry Hay
mes, aged 81 years, a prominent news
paper man Of this city, connected with
the Austin Statesman as capitol build.
ing reporter, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
with a revolver
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
WASHINGTON NEXT YEAR.
Spanish War Veterans Elect Their
Officers.

Milwaukee, Sept. IL. = Major
Charles Miller of Cleveland was elect
ed commander-in-chief of the United
Spanish War Veterans. For senior
vice-commander, Major John M. Har-
land of Buffalo was elected, and Cap
tain E. E. Kirk of California was chos-
en- as Junior vice-commander.
Washington was chosen for the
next reunion, over San Francisco.
A resolution favoring larger scope
of the pension laws was adopted.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Much AnarchI.tic Agitation.

Barcelona, Spain. Sept. "a panic
prevails here over the anarchist agi-
tation- Tourists are abandoning their
hotels and leaving the city. The
police have seized Socialist paper
for applauding the recent bomb ex-
plosion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Plain Spoken.

81 hope, senator" yentured the up.
right citizen, that you never allowed
anyone to hint about bride in your
presence"
81 should say not" replied Senator
Doodle, with much emphasis.
"Ah, am so glad to hear it,
mo, sir, 1 never allowed them to
hint because 1t took up too much time
If they wanted anything crooked done
they had to say it right out and then
I'd listen
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
ceIebrat, Conclusion of Peace

st. Petersburg. Sept. "a thanks
giving service commemorative of the
conclusion of peace was celebrated at
Peterhof in the presence of Emperor
Nicholas and the state dignitaries.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
SUSPICIOUS.

The following item appeared in the
Bacon Ridge Banner.
Zone night last June the editor
heard someone proving about in his
chicken coop. Not having any shot
handy he loaded the gun with quinine
pills and blazed away. The intruder
was peppered. but managed to crawl
away AS there is only one man in
the village who has not had the ague
this season we have our suspicious "
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Providing Winter Quarters.

ST. Petersburg, Sept. n.-Arrange-
ments are making to provide winter
quarters for large numbers of Cos
sacks in all the villages and hamlets
around Tsarskoe-Selo. Cossacks can
torment will thus form a close cor
don around the imperial residence.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Where Oil Was Needed.


He was dying, so the schoolbook says
dying in Algiers;
There was lack of antiseptics and dearth
of woman's tears;
But a Red Cross man approached him
and he murmured soft and low
That up upon his cistern some oil would
have to go.
Now, this soldier of the legion knew Eng
lish words a few,
And to him the sound of "cistern' was
not exactly new.
Still the word conveyed but little to his
unreceptive mind,
And he asked in simple language for a
plain reply in kind.
Then they spoke in accents soothing,
how this oil the germs would kill,
And the wicked stegomyia would become
the same as nil.
But still they had to tell him and make
it to him plain
That he had been mistaken and that no
one who was sane
Could ever think that "cistern" the same
as System" meant
That never oil-excepting cod-was on
the system" spent.
And SO he died a peaceful death and
never was dismayed
When ward clubs came in his back yard
and kerosene was sprayed.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved,
my life three years ago.-MRs. THos. RoBBINs,'
Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y, Feb. IL 1900
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Bomb throwing Continues.

Bielostok, Russia, Sept. "a bomb
was thrown at the commissioner of
police. The commissioner was injur-
ed
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Gorky a Candidate.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 9. = 1t is re-
ported that Maxim Gorky, the author,
will be candidate for election to the
national assembly.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Where erasshoppers Are Popular.

cdr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
cured Brights Disease Gravel Able physicians
failed" Mrs E p. Miner. Burghil, o. eIoo BOTTLE
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14

Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest
and best or money refunded. "
ounces. 10 cents. Try 1t now.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
A friend of the home
A foe of the Trust
Calumet
Baking
Powder
Complies with the Pure Food Lave
of all States.
A friend of the home
A foe of the Trust

One blow starts the trouble and
occasionally ends it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14

Many mans financial goose has
been cooked in a jack pot
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14
Parties Made THEIR Escape,

Heisingfors, Finland, Sept. Z. = A
bomb was exploded outside the head
police office. Nobody was hurt and
three persons concerned in the ex-
plosion escaped in the darkness.
Wreckage on Coast.
Saigon, French, India, Sept. 6. : A
terrific typhoon has swept south of
Haiphong and the southern delta of
the Tonquin coast is strewn with the
wreckage of junks.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14

Lots of men who attend the races
can't win even a little sympathy.