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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
PASSENGERS CLEVER RUSE
Helped a Lady in Distress and Got
Himself Nicely Out of the
Situation.

AS a train. was approaching Shelf
field a man seated in one of the COM
partments noticed lady looking trou-
bled, and asked her what was the mat
ter.
I've lost my ticket, and they will
charge me with fraud" said the lady.
''Oh, never mind. I'll work a little
dodge with the guard" and he got his
own ticket out of his pocket and tore
the corner off and gave the ticket to
the lady.
when the train arrived at Shelf
field the guard collected all the tick
cts but one.
where's your ticket, sir?" he asked
of the gentleman.
81 gave it to you
mo you didn't. replied the guard
81 shall have to call the station mas
ter
When the station master arrived he
said:
Where is your ticket, young mann
81 gave it to the guard. See if he
has a ticket with corner torn off, -
replied the sharp man.
On searching, of course the guard
found it.
Now" said the young man, ''see if
this fits it." as he gave him the corner
of the ticket.
A look of surprise came over the
guards face, and he crept out of the
carriage dumfounded.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12

The housewife finds herself constant
ly submitting her purchases to this
test. Her broad experience develops
her senses of taste and smell to a
high degree, and her discrimination is
often sharper and more accurate than
she herself realizes. The manufac-
turer who has developed his natural
senses most highly appreciates best
the assistance or collaboration of the
chemist, who can often come to his
relief when his own powers do not
avail. So the housewife, by a few
simple chemical tests, can broaden her
field of vision and detect many i'm
purities that are not evident to the
| senses.
DETECTION OF SALICYLIC ACID.
The determination of salicylic acid
can best be made with liquids. Solid
and semi-solid foods, such as jelly,
should be dissolved, when soluble, in
sufficient water to make them thinly
liquid. Foods containing insoluble
matter, such as jam, marmalade and
sausage, may be macerated with wa
ter and strained through a piece of
white cotton cloth. The maceration
may be performed by rubbing in a
| teacup or other convenient vessel with
a heavy spoon.
| Salicylic acid is used for preserving
| fruit products of all kinds, including
| beverages. 1t is frequently sold by
drug stores as fruit acid. Preserving
powders consisting entirely of sail
| oCid I,
to house by agents. 1t may be detect.
ed as follows:
Between two and three ounces OF
| the liquid obtained from the fruit
| products, as described above, are
placed in a narrow bottle holding five
ounces, about quarter of a teaspoon
full of cream of tartar Cor, better, a
few drops of sulphuric acid) is added
| the mixture shaken for two or three
minutes, and filtered into a second
small bottle. Three or four table
spoonfuls of chloroform are added tc
the clear liquid in the second bottle
and the liquids mixed by a somewhat
| vigorous rotary motion, poured into
an ordinary glass tumbler and allowed
| to stand till the chloroform settles out
in the bottom. Shaking is avoided, as
it causes an emulsion which is difficult
to break up. AS much as possible OF
the chloroform layer (Which now con
tains the salicylic acid) is removed
| (without any admixture of the aque
GUS liquid) by means of a medicine
dropper and placed in a test tube Oh
small bottle with about an equa
amount of water and a small fragment
"a little larger than a pinhead-oi
iron alum. The mixture is thoroughly
shaken and allowed to stand till the
chloroform again settles to the bot
tom. The presence of salicylic acit
is then indicated by the purple colol
of the upper layer of liquid.
DETECTION OF BENzoIC ACID.
Benzoic acid also is used for pre-
serving fruit products. Extract the
sample with chloroform as in the case
of salicylic acid; remove the chloro
form layer and place it in a white
saucer, or, better, in a plain glas:
dish. Set a basin of water-as warm
as the hand can bear-on the outside
window ledge and place the dish con
tanning the chloroform extract in 1t
closing the window until the chloro
form has completely evaporated. IL
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
PIERALp cANNIeAL RACE.
Savages Whose Skins Are Brown
with Pink Patches Found
by Explorer.

Piebald savages are among the inter-
esting people and things of which Mr..
A. E. Pratt writes, says the London
Mirror.
Papua is land of which, as yet, no
explorers, not even Mr.. Pratt and his
son, who accompanied him in his ex-
petitions in the virgin mountains and
forests of the land, know very much.
Fifty years ago schoolboys, looking
at their map of Africa, blessed the dark
continent for an easy place to learn,
says Mr.. Pratt in his opening pages. "A
few names fringed the coast; inland
nearly all was comprehended under the
cheerful word UNEMPLOYED
"Such in great measure is the case
with New Guinea to-day. Its 100000
square miles of territory, hels ~ Great
Britain, Germany and the Netherlands,
are destined in the course of the next
half century to enrich the worlds of COM
MERGE and of science to a degree that
may to some extent be forecast by what
is already known of very restricted
areas"
1t is difficult countryNto explore, and
that for several reasons. The noun
tains are numerous and steep, much of
the soil is broken in fashion peculiar
| ly irritating to pedestrians, and the ma
tives, without whose assistance prac-
tically nothing can be accomplished, are
difficult to deal with.
You are entirely in the hands of the
natives, without whom you cannot stir
a foot. All your impedimenta, your
food, stores, scientific implements and
trade (material for barter, the equiva-
lent of ready money! must go on the
backs of your cannibal friends, people
without organization, who are hard to
collect and hard to persuade to follow
you.
The different tribes which populate
the island differ widely in language and
character, but all appear to be more OF
strongly-built fellows, capable of i'm
mense endurance, and-at odd moments
of much hard work.
Among them are number of curious
people whom Mr.. Pratt is inclined to
take as hitherto unknown human fam
lily, although as will be seen from the
following passage, he is not yet quite
certain of this:
"An interesting feature of Hula was
the presence there of a piebald people,
he says. For the most part their bodies
were brown, but they were marked with
pinkish patches unevenly distributed
This marking might be due to a disease
contracted from too constant fish diet;
but if it were disease could not dis
cover that it gave any discomfort.
Against this theory must be set thi:
fact, that I observed one man in whom
the light markings predominated. II
fact, he was quite fresh colored, like al
European, and had light hair"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
SIMPLE TESTS FOR CERTAIN FORMS
OF FOOD ABDUL ITERATION.
Housewife Moy the Purity of Various Articles
in Common U5e-corefuIly Observe Precoutiops Gvep.

this manner the operation may be con-
Quoted with safety even by one who
is not accustomed to handling chloro-
form. In warm weather the vessel of
warm water may, of course, be omit
ted. Benzoic acid, if present in con-
siderable amount, will now appear in
the dish in characteristic fiat crys-
tails. On warming the dish the I'M
mistakable irritating odor of benzoic
acid may be obtained. This method
will detect benzoic acid in tomato
catsup or other articles in which it is
used in large quantities.
DETECTION OF BoRIC ACID AND
BORAX.
Boric acid (also called boracic acid
and its compound with sodium (borax)
are often used to preserve animal
products, such as sausage, butter and
sometimes milk. For the detection
of boric acid and borax, solids should
be macerated with a small amount of
water and strained through white
cotton cloth. The liquid obtained by
treating solids in this manner is clari-
fed somewhat by thoroughly chilling
and filtering through filter paper.
In testing butter place a heaping
teaspoonful of the sample in teacup,
add couple of teaspoonfuls of hot
water, and stand the cup in vessel
containing a little hot water until the
butter is thoroughly melted. Mix the
contents of the cup well by stirring
with teaspoon and set the cup with
+1,o - ,N1o
the butter is solid. The spoon with
the butter (Which adheres to it, is
now removed from the cup and the
turbid liquid remaining strained
through a white cotton cloth, or bet
ter, through filter paper. The liquid
will not all pass through the cloth or
filter paper, but a sufficient amount for
the test may be secured readily.
In testing milk for boric acid two or
three tablespoonful of milk are placed
in bottle with twice that amount of
a solution Of a teaspoonful of alum in
a pint of water, shaken vigorously,
and filtered through filter paper. Here
again a clear or only slightly turbid
liquid passes through the paper.
About a teaspoonful of the liquid
obtained by any one of the methods
mentioned above is placed in any dish,
not metal, and five drops of hydro
chloric (muriatic) acid added. A strip
of turmeric paper is now dipped into
the liquid and then held in warm
place-near stove or lamp-till dry.
If boric acid or borax was present
in the sample the turmeric paper be-
comes bright cherry red when dry. A
drop of household ammonia changes
the red color to dark green or green
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
Rest in Billville.

BILL" said the man in the OK cart
to the Billville postmaster, ''ain't you
goin' to open the Office to-day?"
mo, 1 amt; what do you take me
fer?"
1.-The postmaster"
mo, you don't You take me fer one
O. these perpetual motion machines
that kin run the government fer you
six days out the week, an no rest on
Sunday-that's what you take me
ferl"
BILL" said the other, 1--WE come
five miles and better to git my MALL"
'Well, eff l open up fer you all the
res II want their'n, an I've done noti-
fed the postmaster ginrul that it's my
week off, sides that, thar amt no
mail fer you-'cept letter from a
lumber man sayin' that if you don't
pay up he'll sue, an another from your
wife tellin' you to send her money to
come home. So go long an enjoy yer
honeymoon. Atlanta Constitution.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
DYsPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY.

Most of us have trouble to lend.
Love will find a way, even a way
out.
Fortune doesn't always smile on the
funny man.
Success is doing thing before some
one else does it.
Marriage is the gateway from ro-
nance to reality.
Fortune never knocks at some doors
because it can't get by the janitor.
1t doesn't pay to go entirely on the
theory that things go by contraries.
The woman who dresses better than
her friends will never be popular with
them.
Those who have greatness thrust
upon them seldom know what to do,
with it.
The fool and his money are what
keep the rest of us from starving to
death.
Riches have wings, but they are not
the kind of wings that are fashionable
in heaven.
Lots of wives never understand why
their husbands should need any spend
ing money.
Some men are so fond of sympathy
that they actually glory in being the
under dog.
If man would only pay his debts
as promptly as his grudges his credit
would be better.
When a girl begins to ask a fellow
about his life insurance, the rest
ought tc be easy.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
THE KILLED AND INJURED.
Chicago Tribune's Figures ON Fourth of
July Casualties Show 81 Dead and
1851 Injured.

Chicago, Ill. = Fifty-one lives
thrown away and 1851 celebrants
MANNED or injured, some of them ia.
tally, is the record of this years
Glorious Fourth, as compiled by cor
respondents of the Tribune up to au
early hour Friday. The loss of life al
most equals that of last year, when
SO persons were killed, while every
record for the number of injured was
broken. Almost 100 more in hospitals
Thursday or swathed in bandages than
on the day following the Fourth last
year.
That the death list will continue to
grow for several days is indicated by
a large number of dispatches record
ing injuries believed to be fatal. The
deadly toy pistol was responsible for a
big per centage of the injuries apd six
of the dead. How many of the injured
are infected with the germs of tetanus
can not be estimated.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
SAID BY THE SAGES.

Lack of desire is the greatest of
riches.-Seneca.
Ten noes are better than one lie.
From the Danish.
Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.
From the French.
An old bachelor is only the half of
a pair of scissors.-Franklin
Avarice and fidelity cannot dwell to-
gether in the same house.-Grimm.
A virtuous woman commands her
husband by obeying him.-Publius
Syrus.
Whoever undertakes a task cannot
repudiste the possibility Chinese
Maxim.
Who bangles after the great is the
last at table and the first to be cuffed.
From the Italian.
Nc man can escape the vitiating eff
feet of an offense against his own con-
science.-George Eliot.
The path of duty lies in what is
near, and men seek for it in what is
remote. The work of duty lies in
what is easy, and men seek for it in
what is difficult.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
THE FIRST COMPASS.
Was Known to Sailors Before the
Twelfth acknowledgements
Adjunct to Navigation.

Some Asian people, perhaps the Chi
nese, discovered, many centuries ago,
that kind of iron ore possessed a very
peculiar quality We call this ore
magnetic ore, in more common lam
guage, lodestone, and it is very widely
distributed, especially in the older
crystalline rocks. 1t was found that
if a bit of lodestone were placed In
water upon a piece of cork or straw
braid it would turn till the axis of the
stone assumed a north and south posi-
ton. A phenomenon of magnetism had
been discovered by means of an ore
that is peculiarly susceptible to mag
netic influence.
1t is an open question whether the
Chinese utilized the directive power Oh
the lodestone, but it is certain that the
first rude compass was not used on
European vessels before the twelfth
century of our era. By that time the
true magnetic compass had been
evolved through the discovery that II
an iron or steel needle were stroked
on lodestone it would receive the at
tractive and directive power of this
ore. With this wonderful appliance
placed at the service of navigation, the
vessels that had Rugged the coasts soon
dared to venture even out of sight OF
land. A new impetus was gradually
given to cartography, for now the true
directions of the coast lines might be
charted with some approach to accu-
racy 1t was the hapy fortune of Ital-
ian sailors to make the surprisingly ex-
cellent surveys of the directions and
lengths of the Black sea and Mediter-
ranean coasts and along the Atlantic
to British waters that have come down
to us in the so-called Portulan maps
| Cyrus c. Adams, in Harrat's.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.

An equal suffrage woman IS not
more of a freak than man who has
ambitions socially.
Was there ever a husband who
didn't say that his wife chased him
and really proposed?
If there is only one boy in fam
fly of six or seven girls, he makes as
much trouble as a girii.
If you want to see a man become
animated get him to tell you about
law suit in which he was defeated.
1t often happens that mans idea
of chivalry begins and ends with his
hat in his hand, when he talks to
woman.
Praise man to his wife for being
good to the children and she will say:
well, why shouldn't he be? They
are his
A man is always willing to admit
that woman can milk better than he
can, in order to fiattter her into TAX
ing the work off his hands.
There is one thing certain:
woman will have to spend all of next
winter apologizing to her family If
she lets her preserves burn.
1t is the opinion of every boy that
If boys were as polite as mothers say
they should be, all the boys in the
world would starve to death.
The ne4ghbors. as a rule, do not con-
denim the man who smokes half as
quickly as they condemn the woman
who won't let her husband smoke.
No man who addresses graduates is
expected to tell the truth. He is ex-
pected to f1atter them. Wouldn't the
truth do graduates more good than
fattery?
We used to know a girl who ran
everything in her neighhorhood, in
her town, and in her family. But
now she is not running anything ex-
cept baby buggy.
visiting girl in Atchison says she
suffers with nostalgia, and her hostess
thinks it must be something that has
| to be cut out to be cured. 1t does.
Nostalgia is inconsistencies, and the
thing to be cut out is the visiting
| habit.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12

We all hear a great deal about the
poisons with which our daily food is
adulterated. Simple methods for the
detection of some forms of food adul-
teration are presented by two govern
ment officials belonging to the bureau
of chemistry, United States depart
mept of agriculture: w. D. Bigelow,
chief division of foods; Burton ]. How
ard, chief microchemical laboratory
Many manufacturers and dealers in
foods have the ordinary senses so
highly developed that by their aid
alone they can form an intelligent
opinion of the nature of product, or
of the character, and sometimes even
of the proportion, of adulterants pres
ent. This is especially true of such
articles as coffee, wine, salad oils,
favoring extracts. butter and milk.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
DORY FLEETS BIG CATCH.

Provincetown, Mass.-Think of a
landsman investing 92 cents in the
morning and receiving $50 at night in
return for his outlay! Profitable? Yes,
very. Yet that is what IS happening al
most every week in ProvincetoWn-
Thousands and thousands of dollars
taken from the sea every winter by
the largest dory fleet in New England
is the proud boast of this fishing vii
lage.
The summer visitor who sees these
rugged fishermen arrayed as. typical
yachtsmen seeking to tempt the trans
tents to embark for dollar cruise at
the cost of % cents little imagines that
these same men during the winter
months ply vocation that, while haz-
ardous in the extreme, gives better re-
turns than the average ''landlubber's
position, and that what the summer
guest doles out as almost charity for
the trip is simply pin money for the
fishermen's wives
At the present time some 400 of the
townsmen are entertaining winter
SueSlS III the shape VI Cou' A-~AuuONA
and other fish. A few specimen ben
efactions, taken haphazardly from the
multitude, show that Nels Paterson
cashed in $13 in nine hours; that
Billy" Miller and his three associ-
ates whacked out s72. and Teddy
Newcomb and his two running mates
| s62 each in a fortnight, while Frank
| Crowley. otherwise known by the
sobriquet of '.Skerrp Jack" and part
ner earned $74 in seven days.
The last pair stood at the head OF
their class, hut they were closely
pushed by numerous ri~als; amounts
ranging from $40 downward to $50 be
ing their reward, while such as re-
ceived only SIS during the week were
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
No Fireworks i'm San Francisco.

San Francisco, Calf. - This city's
celebration of the national holiday was
an unusual one in many respects.
There was an utter absence of fire
works, the authorities having issued
orders against their use. The main
event of the day was the dedication at
Golden Gate park of what has been
pronounced to be the finest stadium
for athletic sports in all America.
The parade was distinctly military in
character, 800 regulars from the
Presidio, under Col. Morris, marching
through Golden Gate.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
Liquor for the old Soldiers.

Leavenworth. Kansas.-The canteen
of the Soldiers Home, south of this
city, closed Saturday by order Of
President Murphy of the board OF
managers, will reopen Wednesday
morning and liquor will be sold there
until March 4, 1907. The Bowersock
amendment to the sundry civil appro-
priation bill in the house at Washing
ton, it seems, was amended in the joint
conference between committee of both
houses to the effect that the act should
not go into effect until 1907. The can
teen clears about S15, 900 a year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
An Illegal Grain Rnte.

Omaha, Neb. = President Watt'es,
of the Omaha Grain Exchange, on
Wednesday received telegram from
Chairman Martin A. Knapp, of the in
terstate commerce commission, an
nouncing that the commission has de-
cided that the grain rate recently an
nounced by the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco read between Kansas City and
Memphis is illegal. The rate is said
to have made a four-cent discrimina-
ton against Omaha in favor of Kan
Sas City.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12

hands puffed, and became so tense
could hardly close them. l had great
difficulty in breathing, and my heart
would flutter with the least exertion.
could not walk far without stopping
again and again to rest. Since using
four boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills the
boating has gone down and the feel
ings of distress have disappeared"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
STRENGTHENS
The ENTIRE SYSTEM.

Mr.. Chas. L. Sauer, Grand Scribe,
Grand Encampment i. o. o. F. of
Texas, and Assistant City Auditor,
writes from the City Hall, San Antonio,
Tex:
Nearly two years ago l accepted
position as secretary and treasurer
with one of the leading dry goods
esta blishments of Galveston, Tex.
The sudden change from high and
dry altitude to sea level proved too
much for me and l became afflicted
with catarrh and cold in the head, and
general debility to such an extent as to
almost incapacitate me for attending
to my duties.
"I was induced TO try Peruna, and
after taking several bottles in small
doses am pleased TO say that was
entirely restored 10 my normal condf-
ton and have ever since recommended
the use of PerU09 m nv frie ude-''
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
Old Nurses Grave Green.

The grave of the Oldest person in
TERED in the vicinity of West Chester.
Pa, that of the late Mary Preston.
who was LOG years of age at the time
of her death, is mass of flowers at
Goshen Baptist cemetery. The aged
woman was at one time a nurse in the
family of j. Hopes Matlack, and for
80 years he has decorated her grave
lavishly every Memorial day, or at
this season.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
No Review for Mrs. Myers.

Jefferson City, Mo. = The state SUI
preme court in Jefferson Gig over
ruled Tuesday morning the motion to
have the case of Mrs. Aggie Myers re-
viewed by the court in banc. Mrs. My
ers is under sentence to be hanged
September for the murder of her hus-
band Her only hope now is for a
Communication of sentence by Gov. Folk
or to obtain a writ of error in the Mis-
souri, court for an appeal to the United
States supreme court.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12
Decision Against Ticket sca1pers.

Salt Lake City, Utah. - In the fed
eral court here Friday Judge John A.
Marshal made permanent an injunc-
ton restraining eleven ticket brokers
doing business in Salt Lake City and
Ogden from dealing in railroad tick
cts issued by the Rio Grande Western
railway and the Southern Pacific rail-
road company. The order of Judge
Marshal is sweeping in character and
in effect prohibits the scalDing of rail-
road tickets anywhere in Utah. The
decision was rendered after a hearing
extending over several days,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12

Washington, D. C. - Attorney Gen.
eral Lebbeus R. Wiley, of the Phil
ippine Islands, has been appointed to
the judgeship of the United States
court in China, which is to replace in
a large measure the present consular
court Judge Wiley is native Of
st. Louis, Mo-, and in 1901 was ap-
pointed judge of the court of the first
instance of the Philippines. A few
months later he was advanced to the
attorney generalship of the islands.