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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

The French people are afraid to in
vest in American securities. 1t is
feared that some of our tourists have
been leaving Wall street tips in Paris
that did not pan out.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Still, this statement by southern
professor that Irish potatoes breed
malaria in the human system is not
likely to chill the ardor of the man
who likes EN- baked, split open, with
a big dab of butter in the middle.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

A wrestler who weighs $50 pounds
has come over from Makadoland to
gather in American coin. If the Rus
slams had had such Japs to shoot at
they might have hit a few thousand
more than they did.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

1t is a pity that those fanatical
Moors should waste their picturesque
ness on the desert air when they
would make such a hit in any amuse-
ment park
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
French Parliament onens

Paris.-Parliament was reopened
Tuesday with the usual ceremonies.
Premier Clemenceau, in behalf of the
government Expressed readiness to re-
spolG TO any interpretations.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

It may be scientifically possible"
to erect an office building $50 stories
high, but would it be scientifically pos
sible to put out a fire in the one. hun.
dred and forty second story and res
cue all the tenants up above? =.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
EI.et Win -ori.LIv p..,,,

Washington was learned here
that Presi ,ent Roosevelt has no idea
of leaving Admiral Evans fleet in the
Pacific. but intends to order its return
within 80 days of its arrival on the
California coast.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Malmo, Sweden.-The Russian
steamer Lituania, from Libau for
Copenhagen, and New York and hav-
ing about 500 passengers on board,
went ashore off Skillinge Tuesday,
during thick fog.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
A Wichita Editor Dead

Wichita, Kan.-Editor F.. w. Frasius
If the Southwest Grim and Flour
Journal of this city, and secretary of
the local board of trade, died here
Tuesday morning. aged 60 years. He
was i'll two years.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
Another Missouri County ~prx.!

Bolivar, Mo.-Polk county voted for
Prohibition Tuesday, 2,045 to 633,
every precinct in the county voting
against liquor. The county has only
one saloon at Bolivar, the county
seat
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Perhaps the greatest requisite 1or
druggist is not knowledge but sufil-
cient presence of mind to avoid put
ting the strychnine in the quinlne
bottle
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
Heavy Fines for westinobous,

ITSHVJ 'ICS TOT VcSHIIIYIIOuSG.
st. Petersburg.-Them municipality of
st. Petersburg has imposed fines ag-
gregating 100000 on the Westing-
house Electric company for failure to
complete the street railway lines of
this city.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
WAN Street Feels Some Setter.

New York.-The recent tension OF
the banking community was Monday
considerably relieved and the day
passed with no adverse developments
of serious character, but with much
that was reas juring.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
Lusitania Breaks Another Rec

Queenstown.-Th Lusitania arrived
here at $3.50 Thursday evening, break
ing the eastward record of five days
four hours and 10 minutes held by
herself. Her passage this time was
four DAYS % hours and As minutes.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

So many women have been detected
smuggling that lodging the customs
ofncers would seem to rival bridge as
a feminine fad
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Starch, like everything else, is be-
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market rs years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery--Defiance Starch-all in
furious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch
strength and smoothness never ap-
preached by other brands.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Prince Scipone Berghese has &C
complished the extraordinary feat of
running an automobile from Picking
to Paris in 60 days without running
over anybody.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

If Sir Thomas Upton builds two
yachts to race against each other and
let him pick the better, there will
probably be half a dozen turned loose
in this country
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Germany's crown princess has sent
her chef to the United States to study
American cooking. The crown prin-
cess may want Goldfish balls for break
fast and huckleberry pie for lunch.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
jackson Amends His e.ti.io.

Topeka, Kan.-Attorney General
Jackson thursday filed an amended
petition against the fire insurance
companies in the state using the FL
bridge rate book,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Carping critics who object to prize
ring taking should remember that IN
the pugilism business the box ONCE
most naturally figure largely.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

The Pail Mall Gazette states that
nobody has ever really seen the sum-
Probably meaning, nobody in London.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
ONLY ROYAL Doctor.

The only royal doctor in Europe is
Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria. Few
German princes have had a more ro-
mantle career than Duke Carl Theo-
dore. He recently completed, with
his wife as his assistant, his five-thou-
sandth operation for cataract.
Poor people flock to his hospital,
where they are treated free, the duke
asking payment only from those who
can easily afford it. He it was who
successfully treated the kaiser, when.
eight years ago, he was temporarily
blinded by a swinging rope when
cruising on the Hobenzollern in the
North sea.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Prudence and desperation character
lie the great general; the first quality
prepares him for fight and the last
wins with one grand charge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Wireless telegraphy, turbines and
floating hotels are taking the romance
out of the mighty deep and substitute
ing solid comfort for it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

A Pullman conductor says the up
per berth is just as comfortable as the
lower" OF course. And it is even
more picturesque to get into.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Will England send fleet to the
Pacific, too?
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

EIks Lay Cornerstone. = The cor
nerstone of the new Elks' home at
Hutchinson was laid in the presence
of several thousand people. 200 being
members of the lodge. This is the
beginning of work on the $4,000
building. Rev. C. H. Rogers. chap
lain of the lodge. delivered the ad
dress
Merchant a Suicide AT Milford J
L. Dollips shot and killed himself in
his store. He left note saying thai
his poor health caused him to com
nit suicide.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

The shortest and surest way to live
with honor in the world is to be in
reality what we would appear to be-
De Scales.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
Crnnn,ueIl,s Boots.

In London the other day a pair of
riding boots worn by Oliver Cromwell
were sold for SAB. They were discov-
cred 80 years ago during some exca-
vations at Canonbury Tower, Isling-
ton.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

the income from the crop reached its
highest mark, or $685., 200, although
the largest production, GO,511, $50
pounds. was in 1896"
Died From Nose-BIeed-Otis Rob
inson, the 1O-year-old son of Ell Rob
inson. of Falum, Saline county. is
dead, having bled to death from the
nose. For year or more the child
suffered from no=e-bleed. Occasion
ally the hemorrhage would continue
for 10 or IL hours. Preceding his
death the hemorrhage lasted for "a
hours.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

trade as an important broom corn
producer. Interest in the crop among
Kansans, however, seems to be wan
ing. in face of the fact that the re-
turns of assessors to the state board
of agriculture for this year show the
broom corn area of 1907 to be 20 per
cent more than in the preceding year.
when the area aggregated 23,591
acres. with a production of 10,715,665
pounds. worth $751; 32- A quarter of
a century previous. or in 1882. the
area in broom corn was 1O7.6OS
aces. and it was in that. year that
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Suspects Escape From Jaii-Frank
Smith and Jim Mccoy, awaiting trial
for burglary, broke jail at Mankato
after. beating Under Sheriff Hoyte in
sensible when he's went in with their
supper. Smith was recaptured.
New Bank at GIasco.-The Farm
ers' State bank of Giasco has been
organized, to begin business Decem-
Der 1. capital $4,000 F. ]. Atwood,
president of the First National bank
of Concordia. is president; in
Brock. vice president, and R. NJ. Saw.
bill, cashier.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Still Looking for Child Labor
State Labor Commissioner Johnson ie
sending out uniform card to all fac
tories in the state to be flied out by
youthful employees who may come I'M
der the child labor law. Il do this, =
said Mr.. Johnson, so that / will get
just the information 1 want and l am
certain that in all instances the right
questions will be asked"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

Raise Broom Corn, Too.-The fact
that Kansas is an important factor IN
the production of the nations output
of broom corn is made the subject of
the following discussion by Secretary
F. D. Coburn. of the. Kansas state
board of agriculture While broom
corn is of minor importance as a
state crop in the nations output that
produced by Kansas is considerable
of factor. Although Insignificant
when compared with the states
wheat, corn and hay, Kansas never
thcless has been regarded by the
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For Violating Stock Laws.-The
-nited States is asking the Rock
lind and Frisco railroads to pay
$4,000 in fines for violating the TWEEN
tyeight-hour feed and water law re
ating to cattle. Suitswere institut-
ed in the circuit court at Topeka by
United States Attorney Bone.
For tuberculosis Hospital The
state board of control is preparing to
urge upon the next legislature the
institution OF a state hospital where
safe-ers from consumption can be
red for at a low cost,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-12-04

a stoien trade Secret.

The manufacture of tinware IN Eng
land originated in stolen secret. Few
readers neei to be informed that tin
ware is simply thin sheet iron plated
with tin by being dipped into the mott
en- natal. In theory it is an easy mat
ter to clean the surface Of iron. Dip
the iron in a bath OF boiling tin and
remove it enveIoped in the silvery met
al to place of cooling. In practice,
however, the process is one of the most
difficult of arts. 1t was discovered in
Holland and guarded from publicity
with the utmost vigilance for nearly
half q century. England tried to dis
cover the secret in vain until James
Sherman, q Cornish miner, crossed the
channel, insinuated hlenself surrepti-
tiously into tin plata mandatory,
made himself master Of the secret and
brought it home.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-12-04

Notice, Notice.
I take this means of informing
my fricnds that l am still with
r. S. McCreary & Co., Augnsta's
leading Clothiers and Furnishers.
I shall be pleased to serve my
Edgsfeld friends at all times. Call
to see me when in the city.
G. M. Rauton.
Store under Albion Hotel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-12-04
Tax Notice.

The County Treaaurer's office will
he open for the purpose of receiving
taxes from the 10th day of Oct. 1907 to
the 18th day of March 1908 inclusive.
a penalty of one per cent will be
added to all unpaid taxes after the
! st day OF Jar.to the 3lst of Jan 1908
of two per cent, from the 1st day of
Feb to the last day of Feb. 1908 and
penalty of five per cent from he
first day of March to the 15, Of Marh,
1908.
The tax ievies for the year 1907 Gre
as follows: For state purposes, AZ
mills; for school purposes, mills;
for ordinary county purposes mile:
for special purposes, u nills; for K,
r bonds, Pickens township. 3 mills;
r r.. bonds, Wise township, IN
mills: r. R. bonds, Shaw town sh ip
IL mills; r.. r. bonds, Johnston
township, s mills; r. r. bonds, Pine
Grove, 5 mills; X. K. bonds, Town of
Edgefeld. y mills; School bonds town
of Edgefeld, l mill; Corporation pur-
poses town Of Edgetield, 2R mills;
! pecial school, Bacon, 8. D. 2 mills;
especial schools, Johnston. 8. D. 2
mills; special school Edgefield, 8
mills; special school, White Town
mills.
Allmale citizens between the ages
of 81 years and go years except those
exem pit By law are lid BILE to poll tax
of one dollar each. A capitation tax
of 30 ents each is to be paid on all
dogs.
A com n. utation road tax of $500
each must.be paid by able bodied male
citizens tetween the ages OF Is and
so years.
No checks or drafts will be accept
ed in payment of taxes unless the
party giving san can be held person
ally respons BILE for its payment,
j II. PATTISON,
CO Treas. e. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-12-04

Just received fresh lot repu
Apple and White Wine Vinegar.
Something that will keep pickles.
Don't forget US when in need of
pure vinegar for making pickles,
also all spices, etc.
G. L. Penn & Son.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-12-04
Valuable Farm Lands for Sale. :

valuable Farm LANDS ior SaIe. >
I offer for sale my improved
farm containing some 300 acres
in Tolbert township. known IS the
Barker place. aud my two farms
in Moss township, known as the
Col. Jack Cheatham place, and
also my Dunton tract adjoining.
For terms apply to
S. Cheatham,
Wofford, s. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-12-04
Women and JeweIry.

"Women know a great deal more
about buying jewelry now than they
knew twenty-five years ago." said
jeweler. "When I first started in the
business a clerk with persuasive
tongue could talk woman into buy
ing most anything. 1t wasn't safe for
her to step inside chop unless she
had man along. Now the average
woman knows more about jewels than
the average man. OF course they can
be fooled-anybody Gun but an expert
but as a rule she buys with sur
prising knowledge Of value, and her
taste In the cutting and setting Is ex-
cellent."-New York Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
QUAKER IsEFLECI1oSs-

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
They speak for themselves deaf
mutes hands.
The wages of sin may be cut for
good behaviour.
The difference between firmness ana
obstinacy is merely a matter of sex.
Lots of fellows would be satisfied
with any kind of job they can't get.
The trouble with a man of few
words is that he generally says them
SO often.
Money is necessary even in reform.
but you can't always right wrong by
writing check.
No man likes to have put off till to-
morrow the things other people will
do for him today.
1t would be a relief in reading now
els to occasionally come across a but
Ter whose name isn't James
The Bible tells us to turn the other
cheek to our enemy who smites ~
but what are we to do If he swats us
on tho nose?
Youngpop-"I tell you that kid Of
mine is as good as a play" Wigwar-
well, I don't hear any loud cries for
the author"
The optimist rejoices that every "a
hours brings him a day nearer sprfnr
but the pessimist growls because II
brings him just that much nearer NEXT
winter.
''The rumor is quite groundIess "a
marked the trust magnate. Pardon
me-" replied the interviewer. "but for
groundless rumor it seems 70 cor,oa
ground very rapidly"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
KANSAS RELIED

Philip Pitt Campbell has advertised
himself-and incidentally advertised
his state-in the calling down he gave
Willis Moore. chief of the weather
bureau service, in congress recently
for intimating that Kansas is the dry
and arid locality it was a generation
or two ago when this region was
branded in the Biographies as the
Great American Desert.
The newspapers of the east are sit
ting up and taking notice of Con-
gresham Campbelrs remarks. Here,
for instance. are a few editorial COM
ments from the Chicago Post on the
subject:
There was one cyclone last week
that the weather bureau could not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
THE CRISIS.

This is a momentous week in Kan
sas. On the results of what the Kan
sas legislature does during the next
few days depends the continuation or
the end of the domination of Kansas
politics by corporate interests. If real
anti-pass and primary election bills
are adopted it will mean that the peo-
pie will run the politics of the state IN
the Internationally securing leg
islatures and executive officials who
will do their bidding. If these meas
ures are defeated the corporations and
their politicians will continue to DOM
mate Kansas politics to a great extent.
There are other important measures
to come up in the legislature within
few days, among them the two-cene
fare and maximum rate bills. These
do not affect politics and the politi-
clans, however, as do the other meas
ures. 1t is to prevent the passage or
such laws that the railroads wish to
control political affairs. And 1T is to
serve their own interests that certain
class of politicians join with the rail-
roads in fighting the anti-pass and
primary propositions.
The two-cent fare and maximum
rate measures have to do directly with
the levfeS made on the people Dy the
railroads. In dealing with them the
legislature should be careful to be just
to both sides. The people can not af-
ford to have any injustice done the
railroads, but at the same time the
railroads must be made to deal justly
with the public.
With the pass and the convention
abolished, the professional politician
will be put out of business to a great
extent He will no longer be able to
buy favors with passes nor dictate pol
iticaI nominations through deals and
trades in conventions. And it is the
professional politician who usually
does the detail work for the corpora
tons.
This week will probably tell the tale
for these measures in the Kansas leg
islature. 1t is the crisis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
JAYHz WKER JOTS

A Yates Center woman contributed
a box of angels food to the News Of
fee the other day. It was much APP
preciated by the devil.
An Emporia man, says the Gazette,
was Dragging today that his brother
once knew a girl who roomed in the
same house with Evelyn Thaw, when
she was plain Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus
girl.
A hog weighing 655 pounds was re-
Gently marketed in Harper, bringing
$35. This" says the Sentinel, was
the biggest hog that has been In Har-
per for years, outside of the two legged
ones 77A7ifftEa
The Smith Center electric light
plant ran from Sunday evening till the
following Sunday morning recently,
1872 hours, without a stop, which Smith
Center thinks is going some, consider
ing that the plant is new.
Doniphan county also gets into the
early bird class. A farmer up there
telephoned the Troy Chief that he al
to prove it he held one of the chicks
up to the telephone and allowed it to
speak for itself.
Dramatic criticism in the st. John
News: The Railroad jack show at
Convention hall last Sa turday night
was devilish poor. Between acts no
music was rendered and this fact cou-
pied with the fact that the furnace en-
gineer went to sleep at the switch and
allowed the audience to play a little
game of freeze-out, made the show
drag"
Here is a chance for a new guessing
contest: Was this item in the HoXie
Sentinel written by the sporting editor
or the society editor? ''The rabbit
hunt at Guy last Friday resulted in
the capture of $50 of the long-eared
pests Frank Brandram captained the
north side and John Morrison the
south side. In the evening the neigh
bors gathered at the home of Charles
Currier, where the oyster supper was
served. Music and games were the
good time was the verdict of those
present"
Osborne Farmer: About four years
ago Old Bill Shiftless concluded that
he would patch up the holes in the
roof of the house. He came to town
and bought a part of a bundle of shin
giles. When he got home he threw the
shingles down by the rain barrel at
the corner of the house. About half
the shingles are still there. but they
have become useless from lying in the
water that runs off the roof during the
rain The holes in the roof are lit
tie larger than they were four years
ago. Bill has a standing joke about
the roof. which he read in a book.
neighbor said to him: "Bill. why
don't you fix your roof" well" re-
don't rain L don't need it fixed, and
when it does rain 1 amt going out in
the storm to fix it, Mrs. Shiftless still
puts the dishpan in the corner of the
bedroom to catch the water which
leaks through the roof when it rains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

he does to me and here he shall stay
until we know all about it. You sit
down in the hall and wait for the tel
| ephone and I'll keep him under my
eyes,
Aunt Ruth leaned back in her chair,
folded her arms. compressed her lips
and fastened her eyes on Mr.. Gray,
and had he been a bunco man OF ten
years standing he must have been dis
concerted. AS it was he coughed and
bIushed and crossed and recrossed his
legs. When the aunt broke the silence
1t was to impart no cheerful informa-
ton. What she said was:
"It makes you squirm to realize that
you've reached the end of your rope
at last. but you'll squirm more still
when the judge pronounceS sentence.
While / pity your poor mother, L
hope you'll get at least ten years"
Mr.. Gray made no reply. He could
MT find words. About every ten min
utes for the next hour he received
brief vigorous lecture until he was al
most worked up to the point where he
thought of jumping through window
and taking his chances when mans
step was heard. There was an: "Oh,
papa" from Miss Winnie in the han,
and Col. Graves stalked in to exclaim;
What in the devil is the matter
here?"
"There he sits!" replied Aunt Ruth,
as she pointed to the culprit-
1t took about ten minutes to un-
TdN6l InlnSS-IndL 10 SSldDlAoh VIZ
cent Gray's identity. Fortunately, by
this time the telephone was working.
and fortunately Mr.. Jones was in his
office. 1t took five minutes more to
discover that Winnie had given the
false messenger Honduras instead or
Mexican bonds and that the colonel
was simply relieved of some waste pa
per.
When it came to apologies and in
viting Mr.. Gray to forgive and forget
and stay to dinner. perhaps full
quarter of an hour was consumed, but
1t Is not on record that Mr.. Gray re-
garded the time as thrown away.
Now when the colonel smiles and
throws out hints at his prospective
son-in-law Miss Winnie bushes and
protests, Aunt Ruth assumes one or
her sweetest looks and says:
'I don't say I shall leave when he
becomes one of the family, but I do
say that I shall always lock up my
jewelry when go to bed and lock and
bolt the door!" copyrighted, 1907, by
Homer Sprague.)