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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
ROStlck -AshfOrth.

Miss Emily Ashforth and Benjamin Robert
Bostick we're married last evening at the
home Of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Ashforth. 800 Jefferson avenue.
Brooklyn. The Rev. DR.. Robert Rogers Of
the Church Of the Good shepherd performed
the ceremony At 5 o'clock. The bride was
az maid Of honor. Smith NJ. BOstick was
best man.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
FINDS NUGGETS ~ DUCKS CRiW.
Nebraska Farmer Thinks Fowl Has Dis
covered a liOId Mine.

BEATRICE, Neb., De-. 5.-Anton PrebiI.
a farmer living near this city, killed a luck
to-day. When he dressed Il he was sur
prised TO find its craw filled with nuggets
Of gold. There were more thar n dozen
nuggets, all of considerable size.
Prebil's home is near a creek, and his
the creek. u is believed that the nuggets
were picked up there.
The find has created great excitement.
and a search for gold is being prosecuted
on Prebil's farm.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
MILLION Acres Of Texas state Land to Re sold

AUSTIN. Tex, Dec. 5. J. J. Terrell. State
Land Commissioner, to-dau announced thai
another million acres Of State land would
be p aced upon the II srket o January I.
II will be sold TO the highest bidders in
lots of one section 10 eight sections. the
state giving purchasers forty years time
to pay for it. Most of the land il in the
western part Of the State.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
Marshau-MerrtCk

SUDLERs WILLIE. Md. Dec. 5.-Miss Martha
Louise Merrick was married here to-day to
Randolph Marshall of Markham. va. tie
Is a great grandson Of Chief Justice Ma rshaIl
The ceremony WAS performed nv Bishop
Adams of the Diocese Of Easton, assisted
by the Rev, Morrill, Hepburn. rector Of 81
Andrews Church.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
western FIremen Ash rs Per Cent. Advance.

CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-The Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Firemen. with 50. 200 men,
bers. to-day discussed a demand for a
wage increase of IS per cent. from forty
seven trunk lines in the Northwest. South
west and Middle West. Demands for an
eight hour day and better working condi-
tons will also he made. Grand Master
Hannahan said there was no talk Of a strike.
az he felt certain the roads would grant
the demands.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
kIncd hN ExnIohIng ShcII.

IoNA ISLAND, \. Y, Doc. ;. A she'll
which he had Just loaded exploded and
instantly killed Henry Slo8t or TomCkins
Cove to-day at the Government Powder
magazine, Several of the employees were
close 10 SlOat al the time and ~miraculously
escaped.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
Supreme COurt Of New HampshIre IphOIds
Inheritance TsN.

. CONCORD, y r.. Dec &. The Supreme
Court has declared valid the act of the
Legislature of 1905 imposing a tax upon
iuherltances. The opinion was rendered
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
EOrND I NEST or SMALLPOX.
Brooklyn BIOCk Guaranteed by Health
Department Order.

Brooklyn Health Department investi-
gators found twelve cases Of smallpox
last night in negro tenements at ~ Cleve-
land place. 5sJ Baltic street and Third
avenue and Baltic street. This il all in
one block and the block was put under "A
ro'ice quarantine.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
Physicians Resent q IN Life Insurance
Examination Fees.

PORTLAND. Me-, Dec. 5.-The physicians
OF Androscoggin county nave adopted
resolutions protesting against the recent
reduction Of life insurance examining fees
from t5 to So.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
Top OF a Broadway Building Burned out

The top of the building az a5i Broadway.
a little above Leonard street, occupied hv
the Hoskin Company, was burned oit last
night.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
NOMINATED ALvA ADAMS.
Colorado Democrats Had Strenuous
Sessions for Three Days and Took
stand Against Corporations.

Denver, Colo. = After three days
of strenuous sessions perhaps the
most lively and in some particulars
the most extraordinary ever witnessed
by democrats of Colorado, the demo-
cratic state convention Thursday night
adjourned sine die. A complete ticket
was named, Alva Adams of Pueblo
county being the choice for governor.
The action of the convention which
is considereds by all concerned as the
most momentus was the reading out
Of the party of the Speer faction of
Denver county because of their al
legged subserviency to local untility cor
porations The debate on this mat
ter lasted nearly whole day and the
matter was before the credentials
committee CT the convention for near
Il an entire night. The denomination
of Alva Adams was demanded in the
platform and was practically unop-
posed because of the general opinion
among democrats that he should be
indicated in his claim that he was
robbed of the governorship TWO years
ago in the Peabody-Adams contest be-
fore the SITE Legislature The plat
form of the convention endorsed
Bryan and took a decisive stand
against corporation domination of po-
litical parties and pledged the demo
cracy of the state to the enactment
of law making it felony for Off
Gals of corporations to contribute to
campaign funds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
FINDS VIRTUE IN OLD CLOTHES.
Mems Garments Shaped to the Figure
by Age Catch Artists Eye.

To the eye of the artist the gar
ments of the modern man are only
tolerable when age has adapted them
somewhat to the lines OF the figure;
to the average artist a new suit of
clothes is an abomination.
at is not only that new clothes are
more ugly than DID, said knight of
the palette who discussed the ques-
ton; Ito my mind no one can be prop
erly easy or graceful in them.
Il never feel that | properly know
man until l have met him wearing an
old suit. Certainly no man can posi-
bly, be his natural self in evening
dress.
II have noticed again and again
how different the same people are
when wearing different clothes. !
went, for instance, to a large family
gathering some time ago, and for
some reason everybody had donned
full evening dress. What a differ
ence it made. We were all on terms
of intimate friend ship, but somehow
the clothes brought in an element of
GOODNESS and formality. We all felt
it-even the women, although, of
course, the fair sex are not easily per-
suaded of the merits of well-worn gar
ments. But no man who has discov-
cred the ease and comfort of them
will readily give them up. AS for the
artistic side of modern clothes, it only
comes when they have mellowed by
usei"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
THE RAILROAD RATE LAW.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Regarding Enforcement.

Washington, d. c. - Discussing
the probable method of proceeding un-
der the new railroad rate law, Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Cock
erll said Wednesday that the first eff
fort of the commission would be to
secure the adoption by the various
railroads of uniform system of con-
Quoting the business. we are he
said, now giving most of our atten-
ton to securing the adoption of a gen,
eral system. believing that by pursu-
ing this course we will tighten our
own labors and render it possible for
the roads to materially aid us in car
rying the law into effect" He then
outlined the plans of the commission to
be to secure:
First, a uniform system of account
ing by the railroads; second a uniform
system of classification of freight
throughout the United States; third,
a uniform schedule of rates, fares and
charges, fourth, the performance by
the roads of the entire transportation
service from the place where freight
is received to the point OF destination.
Mr.. Cockrell also said that the rail
roads are manifesting a disposition to
aid the commission in the enforce
ment of the law.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
WHY EVERYBODY LIKES SAND.
Love of 1t Is Universal and Is Felt a.
All Ages.

The love of sand is universal, felt
by all, and at all ages The child finds
in it 4 ready and a plentiful material
for giving something of definiteness
to the world of his imagination, and
when experience shall have proved
the real world to be less pleasant and
not expressible in sand he neverthe-
less as a grown man tacitly admits
the attraction of the old-time medium
and spends his holidays upon it. No
watering place need trouble as to its
prosperity if it has a broad forefront
of sand.
Probably SO general and ingrained
a love is only to be accounted for as
tt ; result of a sympathetic and I'M
conscious barking back" to the feel
of the life on the dry sandy soils of
the east, upon which man first wan
dcred and in which he first delved,
says the London Spectator. He can
sit or lie with greater comfort and
ease-as he originally sat, without a
chair or lay with out couch-upon
sand than upon any other kind of
earth and upon sand he reverts read
lily and without fear of convention to
primeval barefootedness. Possibly
even the charm of the 'sanded floor"
in the concrete to- our forefathers,
the comfort and coziness of CHEEKY inn
parlors and kitchens warm with the
rudy heat of glowing logs on snowy
nights-may also be due to vaguely
assertive instinct.
| In proof it may be "eadily conclud-
ed that far distant man would not
have been long in finding out the adj
vantcges of a dry cave as a dwelling
place 1t would be found most readily
in soft. friable rocks. The natural
and further easy expansion of the
cave to meet growing demands for
house room by scraping down Of roof
and sides would result in a sanded
floor. Litter of rude cave living and
housekeeping could be more easily
swept out with the leafy Dough OF
bunch of edges acting as the original
broom when mixed with sand than
without its aid. The savage family
which swept the cave out oftenest
and most thoroughly would certainly
be the healthiest and strongest.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
NEBRASKA TORNADO.
Four Persons Were Killed and Seven
Injured by n Storm in john
son County.

Tecum e h, N lie b. - Two vio-
lent and seemingly distinct storms
visited Johnson county Friday after
noon, resulting in the death of four
persons, fatal injury of two and pain,
full injury of five others.
Three were killed by lightning near
the town of Limerick. A party of
threshers were at work on the farm
of Henry Walthers when a rain and
electric storm came up. Four of the
men crawled under the threshing ma
chine, which was shattered by light
ming bolt and three instantly killed.
Henry Walthers, jr., was badly
shocked and burned, but will proba-
bly, recover.
The second storm, tornado in vio-
lence, swept over country district
ten miles west of Tecumseh, demolish-
ing school house, killing the Koch
Ter boy, fatally injurfng two other
school children, names unknown, ana
inflicting severe injuries on four 9TH
ers in the school house.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
BURTON PLEA FILED.
The Supreme Court Is Asked to
Grant the Former Senator from
Kansas n New Hearing.

Washington, D. C. = A brief in
support of the petition of Former
United States Senator Burton, of Kan
sas, for a rehearing in the case in
which he has been found guilty of ac-
cepting a fee for services rendered the
Rialto Grain company of st. Louis,
was filed in the supreme court of the
United States Friday. The brief is in
the nature of a supplication for an.
other opportunity to present the case,
and says in part:
Believing that the trial in the court
below was not fair enc land that the
verdict rests on evidence not techni-
cally but substantially improper, evil
dence which removed the case from
the region of fact to the realm of sus-
picion, and believing also that evil
dence was excluded which alone could
meet and rebut the evidence wrong
fully decided, we earnestly pray for a
rehearing."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
NOTED SWINDLERS FREE.
Mime. Therese Humbcrt, Who Got
$12.00O.OOO Through Fraud, Re
leased from French Prison.

Paris, France. - Nine. Therese
Humbert was released from prison
on a ticket of leave. The authorities
consented to grant her her liberty on
account CT the state of her health,
which is said to be very poor. Ar
engagements are being made to re-
lease Frederick Humbert, her son.
The Humbcrts were arrested on
the charge of promoting many swim
dies, based on mythical securities
supposed to have been contained in
a large safe in the Humberts' pos
session, which involved the immense
sum of S12,OOO,O00 The arrest of
the pair and the exposure which
followed caused a great sensation.
August %, 1908, Nine. Humbert and
her son were sentenced to five years
Imprisonment
Nine. Humbert, it was said at her
trial, by reason of a fortune which
she pretended was concealed in a
safe obtained at least S12,000,000 in
cash, while at least s140,000,000 in
renewals pre-, miums and bonuses
passed through their hands.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
WELL PEOPLE TOO
Wise Doctor Gives Postum to Con
Valescents.

A wise doctor tries to give nature
its best chance by saving the little
strength of the already exhausted pa
tient, and building up wasted energy
with simple but powerful nourish
ment.
Five years ago." writes doctor,
Il commenced to use Postum in my
own family instead of coffee. l was
SO we'll pleased with the results that
1 had two eplace it in stock.
guaranteeing its sale.
Il then commenced to recommend
it to my patients in place of coffee
as nutritious beverage. The conse-
quence is, every store in town is now
selling it, as it has become house
hold necessity in many homes.
I'm sure l prescribe Postum as
often as any one remedy in the Ma
!eria Medica-in almost every case @:
Indigestion and nervousness 1 tract
and with the best results.
when 1 once introduce it into :;
family. it is quite sure to remain.
shall continue to use it and prescrib
it in families where practice.
TN convalescence from pneumonia
typhoid fever and other cases, Civ,
/ as liquid, easily absorbed die
You may use my letter as a referenc.
my way you see fit" Name given b
Postum Co.. Battle Greek, Mich. Rea
The Road to WellTfIle" in pkg
There's a reason
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
Miss KoteM eD0noId

More than likely you speak the same
words yourself, and no doubt you feel
far from well. The cause may be easily
traced to some arrangement of the fe-
male organs which manifests itself in
depression of spirits, reluctance to go
anywhere or do anything. backache.
bearing-down pains, fiatulency, nerv-
business. slecplessnesS, or other fe-
male weakness.
These symptoms are but warnings
that there is danger ahead, and unless
needed q life of suffering or serious
operation is the inevitable result.
The never. failing remedy for all these
symptoms is Lydia E. Pinl<ham's Veg
etable Compound.
Miss Kate Mcdonald of Woodbridge,
n. J., writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
Restored health has meant so much to me
that 1 cannot help from telling about it for
the sake of other suffering women.
q For a long time / suffered untold agony
with female trouble and irregularities,
which made me physical wreck. and no one
thought would recover, but Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has entirely
cured me, and made me well and strcng, and
l feel it my duty to tell other suffering women
what a splendid medicine it is.
For twenty-five years Mrs. Pinlsham,
daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinllham,
has under her direction, and since her
decease. been advising sick women free
of charge. Her advice is free and
always helpful. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20

OF Cor tonwoods have sprung up, visor-
GUS and green, standing no less than
80 feet high. In spots, on top OF the
upland, the grass is exceptionally
green, and wherever these little GASES
occur, pick and a shovel will I'M
cover living water at depth of few
feet These things the writer hereof
has seen on Syracuse creek, and MI
Henry Block, editor of the Syracuse
Journal, testifies that similar springs
break out Of the banks of the other
creeks enumerated above.
These springs are always on the
west side of the creeks, never on the
east side. Mr. Block says they occur
only where the Dakota sandstone
crops out, and from the pores of this
stone the water flows and comes down
the creek bed until it sinks in the
sand. That it is the same water found
in the depth of the Santa Fe we'll in
Syracuse is apparent from taste and
use, and being so-far away from the
fiat land of the river valley it is an in
dication at least that the same flow
of water, by boring, some day will be
found remote from that stream. At
least it is sufficient for the Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe to continue its
subterranean explorations. Sufficient
soft water for locomotive use has
been found near the track in the fats
of the valley, but water, if found in
abundance in the upland, will make
additional crops, and crops make bust
ness for the company, and SO the COM
pany will widen its scope of explora-
ton and look for water wherever
signs may invite its drillers.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
The Green Stalks May Also be Used
Probably in Production.
of the Spirit

Washington, D. C. = In the man
ufacture of alcohol from corn cobs
and corn stalks, at small cost, the
department of agriculture is develop
ing new industry that the depart
ment says is likely to be of a large
commercial value. Investigations
which the department is making at
Hoopeston, ILL.,, have proved that the
large quantities of corn cobs which
waste can be converted into alcohol
in sufficient quantities to justify the
erection of a distilling plant in con-
nection with corn cannery.
The department of agriculture sent
two chemists to Hoopeston to make
experiments at large cannery there.
They have succeeded by simple meth
DDS, in getting six gallons of alcohol
from a ton of green corn stalks. A
statement concerning the experiments
by one of the scientists OF the depart
ment reads:
"At different times during the past
% years the department has con-
Quoted experiments along the same
line, but with common field CORN
stalks. These tests show that there
are "a pounds of fermentable sub
stance in a ton of green field corn
stalks which will yield about half of
their weight in absolute alcohol. In
round numbers, ton of stalks will
produce 100 pounds of alcohol or 200
pounds of proof spirits. AS a gallon
of alcohol weighs nearly seven
pounds, there should be Is gallons of
alcohol in a tone of stalks
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
AN INCIDENT AT "OUR CLUB"
The Proud and Happy Papa Seeks q
"Seconder" for His Son.

Our club is not a large one and we
rather pride ourselves that it is not.
Our club is on a side street and we
rather pride ourselves that we are
not upon the avenue, says Arthur Cos
slett Smith in Scribner's. There is
an active but small minority that
claim that we hug ourselves because
we are not as other men are, that
we have not what some other clubs
have-a mortgaged house, stock
ticker, a keen man at the door who
can get you a box in horseshoe at
the opera or next the ropes at prize
fight, a cardroom where men may
play for stakes they cannot afford
to lose and which, if they lose. they
pay. if they pay at all, when next
they win, thus making clearing
house with no governors.
1t will be seen that we are, perhaps,
trifie old-fashioned, but the fact re-
mains that when one of us has male
child born the father takes cab
not an electric; we are still bit
sxittish about self-propelled vehicles
and drives to the club. Arrived, he
marches 10 lNe DlS DOOh CH lue ldDl0
and enters for membership the little.
lobster hued, blinking, whining bit of
protoplasm that he calls my son."
Then he looks about him for a sec
onder If it be the late afternoon
the bishop may be there If not, there
is little cardroom on the first floor,
and where no younger member ven,
lures until half past six, when the
game ends. Between the deals the
father beckons to the admiral, the
general, the banker or the judge (the
quartet of the little ROOM, and says,
viii you second my SOM" God
bless mel" says the admiral, "of
course l will; much honored, Simp-
son. We've been waiting for this
long while-had come to the conclu-
sion that Mrs. Simpson was, perhaps,
unneces sarily alarmed. What is your
son. Simpson, boy or a girl? I'll
| second anything of yours-your deal,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
They VIII Be Paid In Full.

Under the terms Of an agreement
between the trustees of the Charles
J. Devlin estate and the receiver of
the First National bank at Topeka
the depositors in the defunct bank
will be paid in full. $50 soon as /
get the necessary authority from the
comptroller of the currency and the
decree from the court" said ]. 7.
Bradley, receiver for the bank, 4
will nave enough money to pay SO IL
per cent with the SO per cent which
have already paid. 1t may take a
little time to dispose of the lands
and other property, but the other div
idends will be declared soon. Then
the bank has enough other real estate
and property to make up the remain
ing dividends and pay the depositors
dollar for dollar
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
Natural Color of Pure Water.

It was long ago discovered that the
natural color of pure water is blue,
and not white, as most of us usually
supposed. Opinions have not agreed
on the cause of the green and yellow
tints; these, it has been discovered
by w. Spring, are due to eXtraneous
substances. Dissolved calcium salts,
though apparently giving green tint,
due to a fine invisible suspension,
have no effect on the color of the
water when adequate precautions
are taken. The brown or yellow color
due to iron salts is not seen when cal
cium is present. The green tint is
often due to condition of equilibrium
between the color effect of the iron
salts and the precipitating action of
the calcium salts.-Scientifc Ameri.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
To Study Newspaper Business.

The work of the newspaper classes
of the University of Kansas during
the coming year promises to be more
attractive than in either of the two
years preceding. Last year the class
had "a members. The number of stu
dents reporting for work makes it
probable that fully as many will be
in the class this year. The work is
taken as part of the regular arts
course and only freshmen and seniors
are engaged in the newspaper writing
classes. AS last year, c. M. Harger
will have charge of the direct instruc-
ton and will meet the class regular
ly as we'll as oversee the work.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
Women Astronomers.

Mrs. Peton Fleming, who was re-
Gently elected a member of the Royal
Astronomical society, is not the only
woman who has succeeded in Compre-
hending the mysteries of the heavens.
Miss Henrietta Leavitt discovered 25
new variable stars some years ago.
Lady Higgins diligently helps her
husband Sir William Higgins, in his
astronomical observations. In their
house in South London they possess
a very finely equipped observatory,
which contains the enormous tele-
scope presented by the royal society to
Sir William in recognition of the work
accomplished by Lady Higgins and
himself in astrophysics.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-20
How Rhodes and Belt Met.

Mr. Rhodes once told a circle Of
friends after dinner the story of his
first meeting with Belt. Il called at
Porges' late one evening, he said,
land there was Belt working away as
usual DO you never take rest? l
asked. Not often he replied. We'll,
what's your gamer said l. 1 am 60
ing to control the whole diamond out
put before I am much Older he an
swered, as he got off his stool. That's
funny, l said. I have made UP my
mind to do the same; we had better
join hands," Join hands they did.
Unlike Alfred Belt, Cecil Rhodes had
small patience with arithmetical de-
tails. Once this characteristic in
volved him in difficulty. Pitching a
balance sheet into the pile of papers
before Belt, he exclaimed desperately,
Here, you understand things; for
heavens sake tell me how l stand"