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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24

New York, May 10. - Mayor Nc
Clellan announced at meeting of the
rapid transit commission that crush
ed by the weight of sand and water
the roofs of the rapid transit tubes
under the East river, connecting the
subway system in Manhattan with
Brooklyn, have been flattened so
seriously at various points that they
must be rebuilt SO that trains can
pass through them.
Charles M. Jacobs, chief engineer
in charge of the Pennsylvania tun-
nels under the East and North rivers;
Gustav Lendenthal and Charles Sooy
Smith, called in as experts, declare
that the present conditions in the
East river are sufficient to cause a
delay of from two and one-half to
three years in the work. Reconstruc-
ton is expected to be absolutely
necessary for more than 1900 feet of
the section from Joralemon and Hicks
streets out under the Brooklyn water
front In addition to the defects in
the work already done, serious other
reflections in the grade of the tubes
which are being bored from the
Brooklyn shore have been discover
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
SYMPToMATIc OF SPRING.
When the Awfully Tired Man HES
Elm to the Water for Tussle
with the Fish.

Yes, my dear; the man is very
tired.
He has been working Awfully Hard
for the Past Year. Now he will pro
coed to take a Rest.
He will rest, 1 said Tomorrow he
will shoulder Fishingrod, lug a can
of Worms in one hand and q basket
of Lunch in the other and HE him
self to the River for Fishing Stunt.
Will that rest him?
He thinks it will, and that is
Enough. Five days a week for the
past year he has sat at a Desk three
Hours in the forenoon and three hours
in the afternoon, debating letters and
telling Other men what to do. This
has been very strenuous, and he is
Much Fatigued. So tomorrow he will
tramp 'steen miles through mud and
sand and brush, stand in the hot sun
drink river water, eat Cold Lunch
full of Ants and Bugs and in the
evening he will drag himself home
wondering all the way if he will ever
Get There.
In the morning he will arise as
stiff as poker and as sore as a gum
boil, but he will be Rested. 1t was
a day off from the strenuous business
life, and that is Sufficient
But it is Funny, isn't it, that man
can get Rest out of that sort OF
thing?
No, he will not get any Fish.
He will get Sunburn. Mala-'r and
Chiggers; but he will get no Fish.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
ONE UNVIoLATED RULE.
Club servitor Had Seen Them All
Broken Into Bits, Save
That One

A certain club, the name of which
need not be mentioned, has strict reg
ulations against gambling, relates the
American Spectator.
A quartette of club members decid-
ed to break the rule by a game of
poker for small stakes, so they ad-
journed to one of the small rooms and
told an old servant to bring a pack of
cards.
When he brought them one Of the
members asked: John, l suppose it
would be something utterly new in
this club if we were to do such thing
as play for money with these cards?"
The negro scratched his head and
deliberated, finally answering: BOSS.
Use been wiv dis club a long time,
and Use seen many things
Eyes. but what have you SEEM"
"I've seen ebry rule of dis club
vi'lated 'ceptin' one"
What is that one?"
de rule 'gainst gibbin' tips to de
servants"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
THE POINT OF THE PRovERB

An old proverb advises the shoe
maker to stick to his last. 1t means
that a man always succeeds best at
the business he knows. To the farmer
it means, stick to your pillow; to the
the painter, stick to your brush.
When we make experiments out of our
line they are likely to prove expen-
sive failures.
1t is amusing, however, to remark
how every one of us secretly thinks
he could do some other fellows work
better than the other fellow himself.
The painter imagines he can make
paint better than the paint manufac-
turer; the farmer thinks he can do
a job of painting better, or at least
cheaper than the painter, and so on.
A farm hand in one of Octave
Thanet's stories tells the Walking
Delegate of the Painters Union, ANY
body can slather paint" and the old
line painter tells the paint salesman
None of your ready made mixtures
for me; 1 reckon 1 ought to know
how to mix paint"
The farm hand is wrong and the
painter is wrong: Shoemaker. stick
to your last" The fancy farmer"
can farm, of course, but it is an ex.
pensive amusement. If it strikes him
as pleasant to grow strawberries at
fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs
that cost him five dollars a dozen, it
is form Of amusement, to be sure,
If he can afford it, but it's not farm
ing. If the farmer likes to slosh
around with paint brush and can at
ford the time and the expense of hay-
ing a practical painter do the job
right pretty soon afterward, it's a
harmless form of amusement. If the
painters customers can afford to
stand for paint that comes off in half
the time it should, they have a perfect
right to indulge his harmless vanity
about his skill in paint making. But
in none of these cases does the shoe
maker stick to his last.
There is just one class of men in
the world that knows how to make
paint properly and have the facilities
for doing it right; and that is the
paint manufacturers-the makers of
the standard brands of ready-prepared
paints. The painter miTes paints;
the paint manufacturer grinds them
together. In a good ready-prepared
paint every particle of one kind of
pigment is forced to join hands with
particle of another kind and every
bit of solid matter is forced, as it
were, to open its mouth and drink in
its share of linseed oil. That is the
only way good paint can be made. and
If the painter knew how to do it he
has nothing at hand to do it with. A
paint pot and a paddle are poor
substitute for power-mixers, buhr-mills
and roller-mills.
The man who owns building and
neglects to paint. it as often as it
needs paint is only degree more
short-sighted than the one who tries
to do his own painting or allows the
painter to mix his paint for him.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
BREAD DYSPEPSIA.

The Digesting Element Left Out.
Bread dyspepsia is common. 1t af-
fects the bowels because white bread is
nearly all starch, and starch is digested
In the intestines, not in the stomach
proper.
Up under the shell of the wheat berry
nature has provided a curious deposit
which is turned into diastase when it is
subjected to the saliva and to the pam
creatic juices in the human intestines.
This diastase is absolutely necessary
to digest starch and turn it into grape
sugar, which is the next form; but that
part of the wheat berry makes dark
flour, and the modern miller cannot
readily sell dark flour, so natures val
liable digester is thrown out and the
human system must handle the starch
as best it can, without the help that ma
ture intended.
Small wonder that appendicitis, peri
tonitis, constipation and all sorts of
trouble exist when we go SO contrary
to natures law. The food experts thar
perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowing
these facts, made use in their expert
ments of the entire wheat and barley.
including all the parts, and subjected
them to moisture and long continued
warmth, which allows time and the
proper conditions for developing the
diastase, outside of the human body.
In this way the starchy part is trans
formed into grape-sugar in perfect
ly natural manner, without the use of
chemicals or any outside ingredients.
The little sparkling crystals Of grape
sugar can be seen on the pieces Of
Grape-Nuts. This food therefore is
naturally pre-digested and its use in
place of bread will quickly correct the
troubles that have been brought about
by the too free use of starch in the
food. and that is very common in the
human race to-day.
TIE eeffct of eating Grape-Nuts ten
days or two weeks and the discontin-
uance of ordinary white bread is very
marked. The user will gain rapidly in
strength and physical and mental
health.
There's reason"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
LIMB RAW AS PIECE OF BEEF.
Suffered for Three Years with Itching
Humor-Cruiser Newark U. S. N.
Man Cured by Cuticura.

81 suffered with humor for about
three years off and on. I finally saw
a doctor and he gave me remedies that
did me no good, so l tried Cuticura
when my limb below the knee to the
ankle was as raw as a piece Of beef.
All used was the Cuticura Soap and
the Ointment. 1 bathed with Cuticura
Soap every day, and used about six
or seven boxes of Cuticura Ointment
1 was thoroughly cured of the humor
in three weeks, and haven't been af-
fected with it since. 1 use no other
Soap than Cuticura now. H. ]. Myers,
U. S. N, U. S. S. Newark, New York,
July 8, 1905"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
a LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES.
Inducements Held Out by Western
Canada Are Powerful.

A recent number of the Winnipeg
(Manitoba) Free Press contains an
excellent article on the prospects in
Western Canada, portion of which
we are pleased to reproduce.
The agents of the Canadian Gov
eminent, located at different centres
in the States, will be pleased to give
any further information as to rates,
and how to reach these lands.
"Just now there is a keener inter-
est than ever before on the part OF
the outside world, in regard to the
claims Of the Canadian West as a field
Of settlement. At no previous time
has there been such rush of immi-
grafton, and the amount of informa-
ton distributed broadcast is unprece-
dentedly great.
"In the majority of the States Of
the Union and in Great Britain the
opportunities for home-making and
achieving of even a modest compe-
tence are at the best limited. More
over, according to the social and in
dustrial conditions prevalent in those
communities, the future holds out no
promise of better things. 1t is not
strange, then, that energetic young
men should turn their eyes to Can
ada's great wheat belt, where every
man can pursue fortune without the
hindrance of any discouraging handi.
cap.
1.-THE inducements held out by West
ern Canada are powerful and made
manifest by the great movement now
in progress. That the prospects are
considerably more than reasonably
certain is borne out by the history of
the country and it's residents. The
promise Of gain is powerful, but when
corresponding social and civil eleva-
ton, it should prove irresistible to,
young men Of particularly desirable
class for any new country.
THE Canadian West is alive with
opportunities for the young man who
aims at becoming more than a mere
atom in the civil and national fabric.
Some of the eager young fellows who
arrive on the prairies daily are des-
tined to become more than merely
prosperous farmers. In the near fu-
ture great municipal and provincial
development will be in the hands of
the people. The stepping stone to
both financial prosperity and civil
prominence is, and will be, the farm.
For every professional opening there
are hundreds Of agricultural openings.
The Canadian prairies are teeming
with opportunities for the honest and
Industrious of all classes. but they
are specially inviting to the ambitious
young man who seeks field for the
energy and ability which he feels in
herent within him. The familiar cry
of Back to the soil" is more than
vain sounding phrase when applied
to Western Canada"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
HANGS IN BALANCE
RUSSIAN PEOPLE CAN HARDLY
AWAIT ANSWERS.
ARE LOOKING FOR CARS REPLY.
President Mourometseff Has Gone to
Peterhof to Present Reply to EN-
peror and His Majesty's Response
Is Awaited With Great Anxiety.

st. Petersburg, May 21.-The issue
of the first encounter between the
monarch and the representatives of
the people hangs for the moment in
the balance. Though the representa-
tive chamber and the council of the
empire adopted addresses in reply to
the speech from the throne, no an
swer has been given to either ad-
dress, and none is expected before
a later date. President Mouromtseff.
who had hoped to obtain an audience
with Emperor Nicholas for the pre-
sentation of the address of the lower
house received instead an invitation
to gala birthday luncheon at Peter
hof, an official function to which no
other high functionaries have been
hidden.
There is no intimation on the court
side that this invitation is connected
with the request for an audience. The
parliamentary leaders on the other
hand consider the failure to include
the other deputies who were instruct
ed to accompany President Mouromt-
self renders it out of the question for
the president of the lower house to
discuss the address even informally.
The following day is Sunday, and
hence NJ Mouromtseff is not likely to
be given an audience before Monday
The Associated Press is informed
that the imperial reply, which will be
delivered through the medium of a
speech by Premier Goremykin prob
ably at the first session of the house
after President Mouromtseff has been
received at Peterhof, will, as already
predicted, be temperate and deliber
ate, seeking to avoid occasion of rup-
ture, but on the other hand not con-
cealing the emperor's view that par
ltamena in many respects has at
tempted to infringe the imperial pre-
rogative. On these points the re-
Spouse will be a calm refusal Other
suggestions will be accepted wholly
or i'll part while other parts the en-
peror will regard simply as declara-
lions of the policy of parliament which
w uOl require iiuPSi loil SOHSiuSldliOH
until presented in the regular course
of legislation
st. Petersburg. = The critical mo-
ment which will decide whether there
will be peace or war between the
crown and the people apparently ar
rived with the adoption by the lower
house of parliament of its reply to
the speech from the throne. Presi-
dent Mourometseff has gone to Peter
hof to present the reply to the en-
peror and his majesty's response is
awaited with great anxiety.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
MANY TOWNS HAVE BEEN EN-,
TIRELY WIPED OUT
LOSS OF LIFE is NOW FEARED.
Homesseaders With Their Earthly
Possessions on Their Backs Were
Found by Train Crews at Points
Along the Right of Way.

Milwaukee Wis, May 21.-A Sen
tinel special from Ewcanaba, Mich.
says:
Driven by a heavy gale of wind
one of the most destructive forest
fires in the history of this district
laid waste a tract of land SO miles
square and at a late hour was still
spreading. 1t is definitely known
that the following cities and villages
have been completely wiped out:
Quinnesec population 1000; Schaef
er, 600; Ralphs, 600; Salvoie, 200;
Cornell, 500; Woodlawn, 200; and
Talbot, 400.
At North and several other points
on the line of the Escanaba and Lake
Superior road at six o'clock when all
communication was cut off. the fire
had reached the outskirts of the vii
lage and no hope for saving any OF
the property was held. Hundreds OF
people are homeless and are being
brought into Escanaba as fast as
trains can. be sent to the burned dis
trict. In addition to the loss of sew
eral saw mills and other buildings
millions of feet of cut timber have
been burned and great tracts of stand
ing timber badly damaged. The loss
of the l. Stephenson company OF
Wells, from burning timber alone, il
is believed, will approximate sever
al hundred thousand dollars.
AS far as known no lives have been
lost, although families of several
homesteaders living in the burned
district are missing and it is feared
that they have been burned to death
Refugees arriving in the city tell
terrible tales of their experiences in
escaping from the sweeping flames.
One man declared that the flames
were advancing in the vicinity of Cor
nell at the rate of 20 miles an hour
when he and half of the residents OF
that place were taken out on a re
lief train.
Homesteaders carrying packs of q
few personal effects, who also had
been driven from their homes, were
found by the train crews at all points
along the right of way and were pick
ed up and brought into this city OF
left at stations not threatened BY
fire. 1t is known that two companies
of the 1. Stephenson company have
been completely wiped out and large
crews of men at work in the hear
of the heavily wooded country and
with no railroad facilities offered, are
in great danger. The crew of one
numbering camp together with fifty
horses fled before the fire for dis
lance of twelve miles and were re
ported safe at Princeton.
1t is reported that several railroad
bridges have been destroyed and thai
entire trains of cars have been burn
ed on the tracks. All freight traffic
of both the Northwestern and the
Escanaba & Lake Superior roads are
suspended early and the entire, at
tention of the train crews is given
to relief trains sent out to move resi-
dents of burned towns to places Of
safety.
Owing to the fact that the rails
have been warped by the terrific
heat in many places, making it neces
sary to lay new rails, the progress OF
the trains was slow, and some of the
crews have not yet been heard from
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
He Wasn't Certain.

At Fortress Monroe, Va, ole dan
about year ago, man, accompanied
by two ladies', approached a soldier
who, with gun ON his shoulder, was
pacing to and fro near the entrance.
The warriors appearance indicated
that he was new to the service.
Can you tell u.s." asked one Of the
visitors, addressing the recruit, where
JEFF Davis was imprisoned here?"
"Yonder's the ga-a-ar-d house." he
replied. jerking thumb over his
shoulder, "but 1 dunno whether
they've still got him shut up or not"
Chicago Record-Herald.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Many Smokers Prefer Them to i0c
Cigars. Annual Sales Eight
Million 5000, OOO.)

The popularity of Lewis Single Binder
straight &c cigar is largely due to the fact
that this factory always uses thoroughly ripe
and perfectly cured tobacco, thus giving the
smoker rich, mellow tasting cigar. The
tobacco is from crops showing the best quail
ity and is graded fancy selected. Smokers
have found that they can always depend on
the same high standard of quality in the
Lewis Single Binder. The Lewis Single
Binder Factory is one of the largest holders
of fancy graded tobacco in the United
States. Lewis Single Binder cigar gives the
smoker what he wants and at the right price.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
OBESITY A DISEASE.
London Magistrate So Rules in Fin
inq Company Selling a Remedy.

London, May 81. - The question
whether fairness is disease was
raised in a police court here. A pat
ent medicine company was sued for
selling flesh-reducing medicine with
out revenue stamps being attached,
which the law requires in the case of
proprietary remedies for any dis
ease. ailment or disorder" The mag
istrate ruled that obesity is disor-
der and fined the defendants for a
breach of the law.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Somewhat of a steerer himself.

kin we tell me where I kin find
bunko steerer?" asked the rural Wis
itor.
mo, I can't" answered the police
man. What does yez want wild
bunko steerer, anyway"
I've done spent all my money, but
II 1 kin find a bunko man he'd be
good fer a dinner, b'goshi"-Leuis-
vile Courier-Journal
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
For Fine Arts Home.

New York, May LIT was learn
ed that 100000 had been condition
ally promised by a wealthy New
Yorker toward the erection and en-
dowment of united fine arts build
ing to house the dozen societies COM
posing the Fine Arts federation.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24

Albany, N. Y, May 16.-State Su-
perintendent Of Public Work Fran
chot awarded the contract to con-
struct three movable dams in the Mo-
hawk river west of Schenectady to
the. Eastern Contract Company OF
Troy and Pittsburg for S1,433,S17.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Under Federal Indictment.

Chicago, May 81. - Julius Kahn
president of the Cash Buyers First
National Cooperative Society, which
failed last winter, was indicted by the
federal grand jury, on charge of hav-
ing used the mails to defraud. He
was later released on bail.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
MADISON BANK SHORTAGE.
Topeka Accountant Finds Discrepan-
cies of $4,000.

Madison, Kan, May 81. - w. ].
Stage, expert accountant from To-
peka, has just completed an examina-
ton of the books of the Madison
bank. According to Mr. Stages re-
port there are discrepancies in the
books and accounts amounting to
nearly $4,000. The bank is one of
the strongest in this section and will
not be affected by the shortage. The
officers of the bank will begin suit
to recover and it is quite likely that
a criminal prosecution will follow.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Mrs. Davis Much Better.

New York, May 15.-Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, who is i'll in this city and
whose condition was considered
grave, was better. Physicians say
that the crisis is passed. Mrs. Davis
was 80 years old last Monday.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
A Michloan Politician Dead.

Grand Rapids, Mich. May IL
James A. Cove, one of the most promi-
nent republican politicians in Michi-
gan, and collector of customs at this
port. died suddenly from apoplexy at
his home here
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
At the Dinner Party.

Mrs. Henpeck Ito herself)-Look at
my husband, over there. disgracing us
with his frightful manners! If 1 had
that book On table etiquette here now
I'd throw it in his face!=Family
Journal
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
A SAVING Bank Mercer,

Los Angeles, May 19.-The Express
says that the Security Savings Bank
has bought the Southern California
Savings Bank and that merger will
follow. The combined resources of
the two banks are s22,020,305.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
vesuvius AGAIN Raging.

Naples. May 17.-Professor Matte
ucci, director of the royal observa-
tory, telegraphed that the volcanic
activity of Mount Vesuvius is increas-
ing and that the main crater is dis
charging a great quantity of sand
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Ereiuht Steamers Ashore.

Chicago. May 17.-Crews from the
Evanston and Chicago life saving sta
lions were summoned to the aid of
freight steamer which went aground
of Edgewater, about five miles north
of here
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
The standard,s Dividend

New York, May 1.-THE Standard
Oil company declared quarterly divi-
dend of SO share. This compares
witha SIS dividend in teh last pre-
vious quarter and one of 50 year
ago
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Killed by Unknown Persons

Tamboff, Russia, May 19.-Zhanoff,
a police officer who participated in
the brutal maltreatment of Maria
Spirdonovo, was shot and killed on
the streets here by an unknown per-
soc.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Inferred at TarrYtown.

Washington, May 19.-The business
of the interior department was practi-
cally suspended, out of respect to the
memory of Carl Schurz, former secre-
tary of the interior, whose funeral &C.
Cured here
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Ready for trouble at MOSCOW.

Moscow, May 16.-As a precaution
against disorders on May day, Gov.
ernor General Dubasiff divided the
city into districts and stationed in
each district attachments of infantry
and cavalry and machine guns.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Surprise All AROUND.

Miss Matkyns-Where is Mr.. Cash
leigh now?
Mr.. Wylkins-I don't know exact
ly. Somewhere up in Canada
"Why, 1 didn't know that he was
going away!"
'"The bank directors didn't, either"
-Somerville Journal.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
Russjan BattIeships Launched.

Sevastapol, May Is. = The battle
ship John slatoust est. JOIN of the
Golden Voice. was launched here in
the presence of Vice Admiral Chouk-
min, commander Of the Black Sea
feet.