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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
A SIMPLE FORMULA
PRESCRIPTION OF AN EMINENT
SPECIALIST Is GIVEN.
Necessary Ingredients Cost Little
and Can Be Secured at Any Good
Drug Store-WiII Break a
Cold Quickly.

Mix half ounce of the Pure Virgin
Oil of Pine with two ounces of glycer-
inc and half a pint of good whisky;
shake well and use in teaspooRful
doses. A noted authority on diseases
of the throat and lungs who estab-
lished a camp for consumptives in the
pine woods of Maine, declares that
the above formula will heal the lungs
and cure any cough that is durable.
1t will break up a cold in twenty-four
hours. The ingredients can be Sc
cured from any good prescription
druggist at Small cost.
Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is put up
only in half-ounce walls for dispen-
sing; each vial is securely sealed in a
round wooden case with engraved
wrapper, showing the name-Virgin
Oil of Pine (Pure) prepared only by
Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, o.
plainly printed thereon. There are
many rank limitations Of Virgin Oil
of Pine (Pure), which are put out
under various names, such as Concen-
trated Oil of Pine, Pine Balsam, etc.
Never accept these as substitute for
the Pure Virgin Oil Of Pine, as they
will invariably produce nausea and
never effect the desired result.
Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is also
said to be a perfect neutralizing agent
for uric acid
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
MENACE TO ALL
Giant Mail Order Concerns
Are Sapping Country of
Its Wealth.
SMALLER TOWNS CRUSHED
BY Assisting In the Capitalization
of Wealth, Patrons of These In
situations Contribute to Their
Own Injury.

Copyright. 1906, by Alfred C. Clark
Every year millions upon millions of
dollars find their way from the towns,
villages and rural districts of the coun-
try to the Golfers of the mail order
houses in the cities, and go to the up
building of enormous institutions in
the centers of population. Naturally,
the sources from which the contribu-
lions are made suffer accordingly.
Figures ever tell better story thar
words. Here are figures which tel
a story so stupendous that it's full sig
nlhcance cannot be grasped in a mo-
ment, but the mere sight of which are
awe inspiring:
In the year 1905 two mail order
houses, located in Chicago, did a bust
ness amounting in round numbers to
SSO,O00,000. In the year 1904 these
same concerns did business of about
$62,OOO,O00, a gain of $4,000, 900 or
nearly 80 per cent. in a single year be-
ing thus exhibited.
These figures represent the sale last
year of one dollars worth of merchan-
disc for every man, woman and child
in the country by two catalogue houses
alone, and those operating from the
same central point. Dozens more of
varying size and importance are oper-
atiAg all over the country from coast
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
SAVES HER VISITING CARDS.
One Woman's Pet Economy Certainly
Queer One.

Women are proverbially niggardly
on one or two points; every woman
that ever existed had some pet econo-
my, no matter how extravagant she
may be in some respects. There's
the woman who spends hundreds Of
dollars on imported gowns, but hates
to give up one penny for a paper Of
pins. The paper-saving person who
drops into department stores and no.
tells to borrow stationery rather than
spend any money upon the commodity
always is with us; we all know the
stamp stealer and the match borrow
er; but the visiting-card economizer
is a new brand of woman who exists
only in the most exclusive society.
So niggardly is she on the point of
her visiting cards that she demands
them back from her intimate friends;
from her mere acquaintance she
steals them at an opportune moment
when the servants back is turned, or
when the mistress has left the room.
She puts them slyly back into her
card case. By a clever series of ma
nipulations it is said she can make
loo of them go as far as 500 went be-
fora
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
scALY ERUPTION ON BODY.
Doctors and Remedies. FruitIess-Suf-
fered 10 Years - Completely
Cured by Cuticura.

when 1 was about nine years old
small sores appeared on each of my
lower limbs. l scratched them with a
brass pin and shortly afterwards both
of those limbs became so sore that
l could scarcely walk. When 1 had
been suffering for about month
the sores began to heal, but small
scaly eruptions appeared where the
sores had been. From that time on
ward 1 was troubled by such severe
itching that, until I became accus-
toned to it, I would scratch the sores
until the blood began to flow. This
days, but scaly places would appear
again and the itching would accom-
pany them. After 1 suffered about
ten years l made renewed effort to
effect cure. The eruptions by this
time had appeared on every part of
my body except my face and hands.
The best doctors in my native coun-
ty advised me to use arsenic in small
doses and salve. l then used to
battle the sores in mixture which
gave almost intoIerable pain. In ad-
dition 1 used other remedies, such
as iodine, sulphur, zinc salve, IS
Salve, - Ointment, and in fact 1
was continually giving some remedy
fair trial, never using less than
one or two boxes or bottles. All
this was fruitless. Finally my hair
began to fall out and 1 was rapidly
becoming bald. 1 used IS -,
but it did no good. A few months
after, having used almost everything
else, 1 thought 1 would try Cuticura
Ointment, having previously used
Cuticura Soap and being pleased with
it. After using three boxes 1 was
completely cured, and my hair was
restored, after fourteen years of suf-
fering and an expenditure of at least
$50 or $50 in vainly endeavoring to
find cure. I shall be glad to write
to any one who may be interested in
my cure. B. Hiram Mattingly, Yer
million, s. Oak, Aug. IS, 1906"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

amounts in a comparative few centers
Of population.
The efore, the man who sends away
from his own community money which
he might have spent at home and per
hitted fair profit to the home mer-
chant to be retained there for the
benefit of the community, is injuring
his community, and thereby the pros
poets for his own future prosperity.
In large number of instances he is
doing more than this. Unwittingly, or
unthinkt gly. perhaps, he is violating
his own principles of right and justice,
for, at the expense of his own com
munity, he is needlessly contributing
profits to the capitalistic combinations
which he continuously cries out are
menacing the country.
The mail order giants direct their
energies particularly toward the peo-
pie of the smaller towns and the agri
cultural districts. In hundreds of
thousands of the homes of these the
catalogue of the mail order house is as
regularly received as the home paper.
The man on the farm last year sent
very large portion of eighty millions
of dollars to two of these institutions,
in one community, alone.
In all sincerity we ask: Admitting,
purely for the sake of the argument
that the farmer or the resident of the
small community can save few dol
lars on some of his purchases, or even
that he could do so on all of them, can
he afford to continue to impoverish
his own community, upon which his
own prosperity, the very value Of his
lan6 depends?
If he will ask himself this question
and consider it soberly and fairly in
all of it's phases, including the many
which cannot be touched upon within
the limits of single article, we think
his answer must be that he cannot.
The wonderful productivity of this
country has been sufficient to over
come the various adverse economic i'll
fiuences which have existed during the
period of years in which the mail CIR
der business has accomplished It's
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
AiSforic Tow


In Independence hall at Philadel-
phia there is preserved among not
able revolutionary relics a quaint lit
tie doll dressed in the fashion of
Louis XVI. Long before there was
United States this pretty Parisienne
found her way over sea, carrying with
her into William PENIS woodland a
little of the folly and fashion of the
old world, for she was not only a
plaything, but the fashion platet of
her time.
Can you picture to yourself the
countless multitude of dolls that has
followed in her way? In the last six
months, for instance, Paris sent over
to New York toys worth $21S,S19-
and over half of that sum was repre-
sented by dolls. In recent years
France has lost a little of her SUI
premacy in the toy market. She can
no longer compete with Germany in
homely toys-the trifles that are sold
for a song; but in playthings of a
finer sort she still holds her own.
Not without effort, however The
local authorities of Paris offer tempt
ing rewards for the invention of new
toys.-Vance Thompson, in Every.
body's.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

to coast and from border to border.
A fact not generally known is that
hundreds of concerns throughout the
country which now are doing business
through the regular trade channels are
awaiting only parcels post law to
unloose literature, already prepared
in many instances, which would pro-
ject them into the mail order field, and
this does not take into account the
hundreds and perhaps thousands of
entirely new mail order concerns
which inevitably would spring into ex-
istence under such friendly auspices.
The two Chicago institutions re-
ferred to, already occupying immense
buildings, found themselves cramped
for room. One of them expended not
less than 1000, 900, and probably more,
for a new home. The other lately has
secured a new location and also will
expend at least $1,000,000 for an i'm
mense new building.
Anyone who will reflect even casual
ly on the subject must become i'm
pressed that the influence of the mail
order business is toward the central
ization of wealth, and how enormous
a part it is playing in this direction
will be understood from a second
glance at the figures which have been
given above.
1t is due to himself that every patron
of the mail order house should inquire
honestly of himself what the final out
come is to be if the mail order bust
ness shall continue to make the great
strides which have marked its prog
ress during the last half decade.
1t is useless to repeat the well worn
argument of the mail order concerns
that they are selling goods enough
more cheaply than the merchants in
the regular channels of trade to leave
their customers more money than
ever to devote to home enterprises
and institutions. The fallacy of this
statement has been proved over and
over again by actual and minute COM
parsons of goods, as to their quality
and prices. TIE refute it finally and
indisputably by a simpler and more
direct method it is necessary only to
ask the reliable business men of any
of the smaller communities to show
the evidence from their books and &C.
counts of the harm the mail order
habit is doing their communities.
1t is a truth as old as the hills and
as certain as the rising and setting of
the sun that no country or section of
country can prosper unless the peo-
pie as a whole shall be prosperous.
Such general prosperity as may exist
cannot be retained if the institutions
of the already larger and weather.
communities are to continue to be
built up by contributions that should
be spent at home from the thousands
of smaller communities.
The need of the country, desper-
ate need upon which the welfare of
the individual depends, is for the
upbuilding and continued progress of
the smaller communities, so that the
wealth of the country may be distrib-
uted over the entire country, and not
congested and controlled in large
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

Since my first arrival in America
have held that the real spirit is ideal
istic and that the average individual
American is controlled by idealistic
impulses. Those who may contradict
me can not have sounded the depths
of the philosophy of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, or studied the life and read
the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and
considered their far-reaching effect on
the American people. In Lincoln's
great character nothing can be more
striking than the way in which be
combined reality and the loftiest IDEAL
with a thoroughly practical capacity
to achieve that ideal by practical
methods. This faculty seemed to give
him a far-sighted. almost superhuman
vision, which enabled him to pierce
the clouds obscuring the sight of the
keenest statesmen and thinkers of his
age-Baron Speck Won Sternburg, In
Forum.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
COSTLY PRESSURE.
Heart and Nerves Fail on Coffee.

A resident of a great western state
puts the case regarding stimulants
with comprehensive brevity that is
admirable. He says:
81 am Sc years old and have had con-
siderable experience with stimulants.
They are all alike-a mortgage on re-
served energy at ruinous interest. AS
the whip stimulates bat does not
strengthen the horse, so do stimulants
act upon the human system. Feeling
this way, l gave up coffee and all
other stimulants and began the use OF
Postum Food coffee some months ago.
'rle beneficial results have been APP
parent from the first. The rheumatism
that l used to suffer from has left me.
I sleep sounder, my nerves are stead
Ter and my brain clearer. And bear
testimony also to the food value of
Postum-something that is lacking IN
coffee" Name given by Postum C4.,
Battle Creek, Mich. There's reason.
Read THE Read to MELVILLE" the
quaint little book in pkgs.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
The Puzzle Solved.

Some time ago a merchant in Mar
blehead, Mass, was discovered in his
store at a very late hour, and in reply
ing to inquiries, he said:
MY confidential clery is missing.
And what of it?'
why, I'm looking over the books,
but they seem to be all right"
Have you counted your CASH."
Yes; and it is correct to a dollar
Looked over your bank book?"
Il have. and it is satisfactory.
That's the puzzle, you see. He's
skipped, and 1 can't make out what
for
Been home since noon?"
mo"
Perhaps he's eloped with your
wife,
He hurried home, and found this to
be the case.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

has discovered why the ballet over
here is as far in advance of the ballet
in Paris as French drama is ahead of
English drama, declares the London
Chronicle. Coming away from one of
our best music halls in ecstasies, he
put the matter briefly but clearly:
ut is true" he said, that the ladies
of your ballet have more beautiful
figures than ours, and why? In Eng
land your girls are tall and scraggy-
and you can put on. In France our
girls are short and fat-helas. mon
ami, you can not take Off"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
No Model for Him,

DR.. Stephen H. Robin, pastor of the
Columbus Avenue Uniyersalist
church, Boston, was calling on an
old lady, one of his parishioners, be-
fore going away on his summer vaca-
tiion, when his church is always
closed. The old lady evidently does
not believe in ministerial vacations,
for she said:
Doctor. remember Satan never
takes a vacation
MY dear madam" answered the
doctor, q never did believe In imi-
tating Satan"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

greatest growth. Everyone has been
getting along pretty we'll" While the
increasing flow of golden millions from
their source in the land of the coun-
try to the already great centers of
money and population has held back
the growth of the smaller communi-
ties, it has not yet occasioned a great
disaster. The test will come with the
first pinch of hard times" a condi-
ton which no country ever has been
able to escape at recurring intervals.
When this time arrives those com
munities will best stand the test which
have best conserved and husbanded
their resources.
JOHN s. POTTS.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell
and completely deraage the whole system when
entering It through the mucous surfaces Such
articles should never be used except on prescrip-
lions from reputable physicians, the damage lhey
win do is ten fold to the good you posslhl de-
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured
by F. j. Cheney Co.. Toledo, o., contains mer-
curry and Is taken internally, acting directly
the blood and mucous surfaces Of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally and made in Toledo,
Ohio, h F. j Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
Freak Poultry,

Many freaks are to be found in
the poultry yard of DR.. Dechmann at
Portland, Ore. Among the most no
ticeable is the cross he has brought
about between chickens and turkeys.
1t has been. generally considered an
impossibility to produce a hybrid of
this character which. would perpetuate
its kind, but by scientific cross-breed-
ing he has evolved such a hybrid.
which has already Matched brood of
15. These fowls are large and are
said by him to be more palatable than
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

chickens, and their eggs are larger.
The toes on each foot of the hybrids
are six in number, which is two more
than the ordinary chicken is equipped
with. There may be some question as
to the usefulness of this development
but it ought to help when it comes to
scratching for seeds or worms.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
Knew the Answer.

A motorist, who was touring In Ire
land, one day met native on the road
who was driving a donkey and cart
Thinking he would have little fun
at his expense, he began:
What is the difference, Pat, be-
tween your turnout and mine?"
The native looked at the questioner
minute or so, and then replied:
Not a great deal. The donkey's in
the shafts in the one end and on the
seat in the other"
The motorist asked no more conun-
drums.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
An Insane Mans Escapade.

Tulsa, l. T. - Rendered deranged
by fever ]. S. Hull, an oil drill
er, Wednesday night leaped through
window ten feet to the ground at
the Tusla hospital clad only in night
shirt and created reign of terror in
the neighborhood for two hours fright
ening women, children and eluding cap
ture. A Katy train ready to pull out
was standing in the yards with the
train crew sleeping in the caboose.
Hull leaped on the engine, pulled the
throttle and was about to dash out
into the night when captured.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
Autocratic RevivaIists,

vile have been holding crowded re-
ligious meetings in Shropshire, Eng
land. Both are much interested in
this kind of work. The countess was
Miss Lenora Van Marter, an American
girl, and the earl spent much of his
youth in this country. He is an ener-
getic member of the house of lords
and, like his wife, a great lover of art.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

Church attendance in rural districts,
it is said, is greatly decreased by the
prevailing motor fever" The ever
increasing use of the automobile for
Sunday touring on country roads ban
ishes the church-goer who drives with
his family to church, for the horse is
apt to take fright and life become
thereby endangered.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
convict,s Peculiar claim.

A life convict in the Andamans had
served some long period when an Or
der recently came for his release. All
the time he had been in the band, and
had evidently so far forgotten that he
was prisoner that on his release he
put in a claim for pension on ac-
count of his long and faithful service
as a government servant.-Madras
Mail
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

The director of the treasury OF
Brazil while hunting for some lost
papers has made an astonishing dis
covery A box which had not appar-
emily been disturbed for many years
was found to contain gold, silver and
diamonds to the value of at least $780,.
900. Among the valuables recovered
are the imperial crown and scepter Of
Brazil, valued at 100000, and the i'm
perial mantle, bordered with gold.
The box in which the treasure was
found is believed to have been de-
posted in the treasury since 1886.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

The constant flow of urine kept my;
system depleted, causing nervous
chills and night sweats. After trying
seven different climates and using all,
kinds of medicine 1 had the good for
tune to hear of Doan's Kidney Pills.
This remedy has cured me. 1 am as
well to-day as 1 was twenty years ago,
and my eyesight is perfect"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

Apples grown in Tasmania, south
of Australia, are shipped 1000 miles
to British markets, and yet they pay
so well that Tasmania apple orchards
have sold as high as s1,10O an acre.
Five hundred dollars an acre is a
modest valuation.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
Invention Iono Looked for.

A Paris paper devoted to scientific
subjects announces the discovery of
a practical method of shielding
watches and clocks from all magnetic
Influences. 1t is said to be the work
of a matchmaker named Leroy.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

A London medical journal suggests
that for the sake of safety steps of
stairways should be of standard size,
of uniform height and breadth the
world over, and wide enough to take
the whole foot. An equally necessary
reform is the removal of the exya
step, which in the dark one thinks >
not there, to that other place wher ,
in the dark one thinks there is <
step, and find only unsustaining all.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

The wife of an Indiana policeman
is suing rich widow on the ground
that the defendant made love to her
husband. But isn't it customary for
one to tell her troubles to a police
man?
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
A Bio War Deficit.

Washington, D. C. = Secretary
Tafts estimate of deficiencies in the
war department was submitted to con-
gress Wednesday. He says 1924, 1856
will be required to meet the deficiency
for the year ending June 80 next.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
ridaI Waxe in Lake Eric.

Cleveland, Ohio A tidal
wave in Lake Erie Tuesday wrought
havoc among dozens Of launches and
other craft at the mouth of Rocky
river just west of the city. A num-
her of boats were wrecked.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

The collar button which hid in the
bowl of a Massachusetts mans pipe
and, exploding, nearly blew his eyes
out, probably sought revenge for hav-
ing been cussed many a time.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

The smokeless condition in Berlin
is ascribed to the preponderant use
of smokeless fuel, in the form of coke
and briquettes, the skillful, scientific
construction of boiler furnaces and
chimneys and finally to the high
standard of skill taught and enforced
among firemen who stoke furnaces
with coal for steam and other pur-
poses. Before man can assume
such a charge in Berlin he must be
taught the theory and practice of
economical, scientific firing.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

Persons who think the railroad
companies do not do all that they
might for the comfort of passengers
will be interested to hear report
made recently to the Royal Meteoro-
logical society in London about the
cars on the Uganda railway in Afri-
ca. To exist amid armies of wood
eating insects the cars are built of
metal. The large ventilators are pro-
tected by gauze against mosquitoes.
The windows are of green tinted
glass, which allows the passenger to
see the landscape and at the same
time shields him from the glare of the
trOpical SUM-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
wiSe David

Wife-"Why do you always sit at
the piano, David? You know you
can't play a note!" David-"Neither
can anyone else, while l am herei"