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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-26

Palmer was formerly featherweight
champion of England. he fought
draw with George Dixon in the United
states In 1895: beat Plimmer, the Eng
lish champion in 1897 in England came
to the United states again in 1893. and
was defeated by Terry" McGoyern In
the first round of match for the
championship OF the world.
After Harry Ware had gained de-
cision over Palmer and Harry Harris
had outpoin,ed him respectively; In 1900
feated by Jim Williams in two rounds
in London January q. 1902. On septem-
Der S. 1902. Palmer met George Dixon be-
fore the National Sporting Club In Lon.
don and defeated him in fifteen round
bout. Dixon met Palmer in London In
May 1903. and the latter won on points
in an eight round match. The next time
Dixon and Palmer met In New Castle.
November 3 1908. in twSnty-round
contest Dixon won.
Palmer was defeated by Ben" Jor-
dan December IL. 1908. on points in a
contest before the National Sporting
/ club London.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-26
PRESIDENT OFF
FOR JANE S I OWN
CONTINUED from First Page)

Commander Long and Dr.. ohnesorg,
United States Navy
The President and Mrs, Roosevelt
with their children, reached the yard
about 3 o'clock, and We're met by Com
mandant Lcutze and Captain Long. OF
the MaSilower.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-26
We Want
YOu

We want you to realize that the way to
grow rich is to save money and make
that money work for you.
How to start? Bring one dollar to TINS
bank and we will open an account with
you. Then savc-save every single penny
that Is not required for living purposes
be determined that you will deposit
certain amount each week. In short
time the account will have grown won-
derfully. Besides being absolutely safe.
every dollar will earn three per cent.
compound interest.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-26
.PEDDLER PALMER
HELD FOR MURDER
Assaulted Unknown Man on
Train Because He Was
" Singing.
is FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPION

LONDON. April 25.-"Peddler, Pal
mer, the English pugilist, was arrested
yesterday on suspicion of having cans-
ed the death OF an unknown man,
whose body was found In a railroad car
coming from Epson. after the races.
and was charged at the Croydon Police
Court to-day with murder. A passen-
ger in the train testified that lie saw
Palmer strike the deceased several
blows because he rcfuNid to stop sing
ing The prisoner was remandcd.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-26
CONDITIONS YESTERDAY.

Highest temperature yesterday. 10
Lowest temperature yesterday. is
Mean temperature yesterday ..... 81
Normal temperature yesterday. 60
Departure from normal tempera tlre 02
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-26
Presidents Reception
in the Auditorium

When the last of the parade has
passed, the President will hold re-
ception in the Auditorium Building,
which will be attended BY visiting
Governors of States. the members Of
the diplomatic corps, State Commls-
sioners of the exposition and officers
of the Exposition Company.
Admission to the auditorium, TO the
reviewing stand and to the Presidents
reception will be By card.
After making q little talk at the
dinner which will be given visiting
newspaper correspondents in the Audi
torium Building, the President will go
back to the Mayfower and be taken 10
Norfolk where he Will be the guest
Of President Tucker at dinner. The
dinner, however, will be served at the
beautiful old home of Barton Myers,
Esq, owing to the fact that some of
the younger members OF Mr.. fuckers
family have measles, The list %
guests at the dinner has not been
made public The President viii board
the sylph at 10 or II o'clock tomor-
row night and early the following
morning the start up the river Will BIS
made. The President and Mrs. Roose,
Welt will visit Jamestown and several
colonial homes on the James River
Saturday.
The exposition is far from being
completed. Chairman Johnston of the
Board of Governors, said to-day that
It would not be finished before the l5th
Of May. 1t will not be completed be-
fore the 1st of June, The grounds are
In darkness tonight, owing to the in
ability OF the company to get cleo
tricity 10 the grounds, The Exposition
Company claims that this Is the fault
of the Electric Company, ana the lat =
ter says ii is the fault of the eXposi-
tion management,
The efforts Of the management have
been directed to-day to cleaning vi
the grounds, clearing the streets and
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
One Fruit That Eseaped.

A Mitchell county editor vouches
for the assurance that the hen fruit
was in nowiss damaged by the late
cold snap.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
Latest Kansas Events.
Increase Railroad Assessment.

The board of railroad assessors has
issued statement an the valuation
OF main tracks, rolling stock and ma
terials of railroads doing business in
Kansas, which shows total INCREASE
over the returns made by the compan-
les of $685., 32S This total does not
include the increases made by the
board on the valuations of the build
ings, which will amount to at least
100000; the increases assessed upon
the Pullman Company. whose standard
cars where increased from $500 to
$4,000 per car. and whose tourist cars
were increased from $1,000 to $4,000
per car; nor the raise on the valuation
of tank cars of the Standard Oil COM
pany of from $500 to $500 per car
Adding these increases to those al
ready made by the board on the line
companies and the telegraph and tel
ePhone companies, a grand total in
crease ever last year will show itself
amounting to $7,50O,00O Last year
the total valuation on railroads was
$61 $50, 900. This year it will be about
$8,O0O,000 above that figure.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
TWO BIG QUESTIONS
THE MORAL OBLIGATION" AND
docs 1T PAY?D
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
An Honest Answer to These Will
Keep the Trade with the
Home Merchant Every
Time.

Copyrighted, 1906. by Alfred c. Clark
Whan the thrifty person or his wife
sits down for the first time-or any
tme-with the mail order catalogue
and its temptations. there are two,
and only two, points to be taken into
consideration.
One of these is moral obligation,
and the chances are that that will be
dismissed as sentimental nonsense.
The other is-Will it pay? and to
that the thrifty person will be in
clined to interpret an answer from the
prices quoted in black-faced figures in
the catalogue.
Neither of these questions should
be lightly dismissed. Moral obliga-
ton is not sentimental nonsense, and
black-faced figures sometimes lie
The duty man owes to his own
community and his obligation to trade
at home are SO often reiterated in the
country press that, possibly like some
of the preaching, it has a tendency
to harden the hearts of the sinners.
Nevertheless, the principle is true as
gospel.
What has your neighboring town
given you, Mr.. Farmer? A market for
your produce. What has made 25 to
so per cent. of the present value of
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
The straphanser in London.

With the introduction of the Ameri-
can electric railroad system in Great
Britain, the straphanger at once
doomed large in the street car. The
Englishman, as everybody knows, OBJ
jects to being crowded, and so parlia-
ment has been called upon to end the
straphanging nuisance" A bill has
been introduced in the house of com
mons, says Baltimore Sun, and if it
is passed there will henceforth be no
straphangers. The Englishman who
rides in a street car will be sure of a
seat. The aisles will be kept clear.
There will be no overcrowding. In
matters relating to their personal
comfort Englishmen seem to be very
exacting. Why shouldn't the strap
hanger be welcomed as a manifesto
ton of the 3ge-of hustle, hustle and
the dell take the hindmost? The
Londoners show how much they are
behind the times when they insist
upon excluding from a street car
every person who cannot get seat.
They are slow, very slow, in London.
They will never be Americanized and
modernized until they welcome the
straphanger and sacrifice comfort to
expedition and the "get-there" spirit.
Will the Londoners never cease to
demand all they pay for?
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09

along in tie airly '7O's" says the
Eldorado Republican, when the Hon.
James R. Mead, the Hon. William
Griffenstein, Colonel M. NJ Murdoch,
Judge Henry C. Sluss, Captain Jim
Steele, Colonel Buffalo Bill, Major
Alkali Ike and other members of the
Wichita 400 wanted drink, they hik
ed to the Arkansaw river, laid down
on their stomachs and flooded their
lower levels with the pellucid nectar
that gurgled so softly over the sands
of that once beautiful stream. We
spent few hours in the windy won
der recently, and after careful sur
vey of the situation came to the more
or less painful conclusion that the
only liquid refreshments in all that
region is the kind that was so popu-
lar there a third of a century ago
just plain Arkansas river water with
out any trimmings"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
"surpris. Tests on Railroads.

It is but a few years since Ameri-
can railroads began Systematically
the use of surprise tests" These
more or less directly grew out Of an
incident that occurred on one of the
largest systems of the middle west.
To test the operations of their sig
halls some officials went out one night
and leaving a signal set at Clear"
simply removed the light. They
watched ten or twelve trains go by
and not one engineer stopped to in
quire what was the trouble, as the
rules demand This same road re-
ports that in 1906, 1000 surprise tests
were made without one resulting in
failure. The figures are a little stag
gering; human nature is not usually
so inerrant, says Carl Snyder in
Everybody's. But what is certain is
that accidents on the line have been
very materially reduced. The Penn
sylvania has had an almost identical
experience; and very recently the Off
Gals of the Lake Shore saw "a out of
20 trains go by signal purposely set
with lights out" Yet when the New
York Central system began these sur
prise tests they were threatened with
a strike.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
BRAND OF PEACE TO SEEK.
President Roosevelt Says the Best
Kind Comes to the. Just
Man Armed.

Washington, D. c. - President
Roosevelt in an address at the unveil-
ing of the statue to General George
B. s-cClellan Thursday charac-
teriZed as weakness the desire
for peace uleses it could be obtained
on the right terms. He would have
none of the so-called peace if it were
merely another name for selfindul-
gence, for sloth, for timidity, for the
avoidance of duty
The man who would do the best for
the country in peace, the president de-
clared, is the man who at need will
do well in war.
Seek the peace that comes to the
just man armed said Mr.. Roosevelt,
who will dare to defend his rights
if the need should arise. Seek the
peace granted to him who will wrong
no man and will not submit to wrong
in return. Seek the peace that comes
to us as the peace of righteousness,
the peace of justice, Ask peace by
your deeds and your powers warrant
you in asking it, and do not put your
self in the position to crave it as
something to be granted or withheld
at the within of another.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
FRIENDS HELP
St. Paul Park Incident.

after drinking coffee for breakfast
1 always felt languid and dull, having
no ambition to get to my morning
duties. Then in about an hour or so a
weak, nervous arrangement of the
heart and stomach would come over
ME with such force I would frequently
have to lie down.
AT other times l had severe head
aches; stomach finally became affect
ed ard digestion SO impaired that
had serious chronic dyspepsia and con-
stipation. A lady, for many years
State President of the W. c. T. u,
told me she had been greatly bene-
flied by quitting coffee and using
Postum Food Coffee; she was trou-
bled for years with asthma She said
it was no cross to quit coffee when
she found she could have as delicious
an article as Postum.
Another lady, who had been trou-
bled with chronic dyspepsia for years,
found immediate relief on ceasing cof-
fee and beginning Postum twice day
She was wholly scured. Still another
friend told me that Postum Food Cof
fee was Godsend to her, her heart
trouble having been relieved after
leaving of coffee and taking Postum.
so many such cases came to my
notice that / concluded coffee was the
cause Of my trouble and I quit and
took up Postum. am more than
pleased TO say that my days of trou-
bic have disappeared. / am well and
happy" There's a Reason" Read
The Road to Wellyille," in pkss.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
Markinu the Old Trail.

The Santa Fe Trail celebration at
Diamond Springs in western Morris
county, was complete success. Sew
eral hundred people came to picnic
dinner and old settlers meeting al
this famous old spring and camping
ground on the Santa Fee Trail. One
of the Santa Fee Trail monuments was
placed in a permanent position with
appropriate ceremonies. Ex-senator
Geo. P. Morehouse, whose early life
was spent on the adjoining ranch, was
the orator of the day. Many old tim
ers were there. some who had drank
of this spring so years ago..
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09

'Old Ironsides," the famous frigate
Constitution. is preparing to make
what is likely to be her last cruise
or at least the last trip prior to being
laid up in perpetuity. She is being
fitted for voyage to Hampton
roads, where she will be one of the
most interesting exhibits at the
jamestown exposition AS ship she
will not cut much of a figure along
side of the big floating steel fortresses
representing the navies of the world.
But no. vessel of all the number will
typffy as much glorious history as
"Old 1ronsides." 1t seems almost a
pity, says Troy Times, that the
famous craft, now at Brooklyn navy
yard. cannot be put in shape to sail
down the coast and into the famous
roads under her own canvas. This is
impossible, however, and the once
stately vessel will be towed to her
destination by a commonplace tug.
But even this cannot rob her of her
well-won renown.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09

your farm? The accessibility of a
market. You know what your grand
father did on that same farm? Drove
maybe rs miles to the nearest market
town, and received prices for them
that would make you howl about the
trusts. And he hauled back the fam
lily supplies for which he paid what
you would consider monopolistic
prices. Do you happen TO know what
the old farm was worth then? Well
it lacked good deal of being SIS or
800 an acre.
Yes. the home town, with its handy
market, has advanced the value of
your property and made you worth
several thousand dollars more than
your grandfather was worth. The
home town affords schooling for your
children, and perhaps social and
church privileges which your family
would not otherwise enjoy. The rural
mail routes and telephone systems,
radiating from the home town, as
spokes from a hub, bring to your
home the greatest conveniences of
modern times.
What would your farm be worth
and how many of these advantages
would you be enjoying now, if the
city from which that mail order cata-
logue came were your nearest market,
your most accessible trading point,
your only post office and social center,
the only place to which you could look
to connect you with the outside
world?
Have you ever noticed that the first
thing the settlers of a newly-opened
reservation do is to send for a wagon
load of mail order catalogues? Well, l
haven't. They lay out a town site
every six or eight miles, start two or
three general stores, build a school
house, church, a blacksmith shop,
grain elevator, petition the depart
ment for a post Office, and start
newspaper. They know, from former
experience that, with these things
close by, life will be endurable, what
ever hardships may come. They know,
also, that without them they must live
lives of isolation and endure an exist
ence that is contrary to all natural
human instincts.
On the other hand, it goes without
saying, that the average country town
cannot exist without the support of
its tributary territory. Then, # that
town affords the advantages for the
rural citizen that have been enumerat-
ed, there exists what we may call an
interdependence and a moral obliga-
ton between the two. Are you. Mr..
Thrifty Farmer, living up to that OBJ
ligatiea when you do your trading
with the mail order house?
To this line of argument the farmer
may answer that his greatest obliga-
ton, his first duty, is to his immediate
household. and that among the duties
to his family and to the heirs of his
estate is that of practicing judicious
economy-buying where he can buy
the cheapest and to the best advan-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09

tage. And this brings US to the sec
ond point in the argument-the para
mount question in this commercial
age-"Will it pay?"
BY most people an Affirmative an
swer to that question is accepted as
the call of duty. AS matter of fact,
will it pay?" is a good test to apply
to any project or proposition. There
are commercial, as well as political,
demagogues, and the man who is ap-
pealed to on the score of patriotism
or profit, duty or dollars, can scarcely
do better than to sit down by himself
and submit that question-"Will it
pay?"-to his own best judgment.
Provided always. that he goes to the
very bottom of it.
1 believe that every man ought to
know why he does so and so. Too
many OF US travel in ruts. We get the
habit of buying Sertain goods or trad
ing at certain places when we might
do better by changing, This will ap-
ply sometimes to people who trade at
home as well as to those who buy
dDTOaQ- II IS always well W iuNSoIl-
gaze 1 have known people to make
expensive trips to the city to buy
goods that the village merchant would
have sold them for less money. They
hadn't taken the trouble to investi-
gate.
What are the relative advantages of
buying at the local store and ordering
from catalogue house? Advantages,
understand, that figure in the ques-
ton, will it pay?" Don't get away
from that question. 1t certainly is
very comfortable to sit down by your
own f1reside and select dress pattern
or sulky pillow from printed des-
cription and a picture of the article;
much more comfortable, in fact, than
hitching up and driving to town on a
raw day.
A consideration more important,
perhaps, is that the printed price in
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
SEEDING COMMENCED IN
WESTERN CANADA.
The Prospects for Large Acreage to
Be Sown in Wheat.

st. Paul, April "a, 1907.-Word has
been received at the Office of the
Canadian Government in st. Paul that
seeding has commenced at various
points throughout Manitoba, Saskatch-
evan and Alberta.
The heavy snowfall during the past
winter has left the ground in splendid
shape for successful seeding opera
lions. The fine weather of the past
few days has taken much of the frost
out of the ground and during next
week there will scarcely be district
in which the seeder is not being oper-
ated. The most optimistic conditions
exist and in all districts the farmers
are busy getting things in shape.
There will be very large acreage
sown in spring wheat, oats and barley.
At many points throughout the three
provinces the newcomers are busy I'M
loading their stock and effects, work
ing night and day in order to get on
their farms and become active agen-
cies in the effort to make the year
1907 the banner year in grain produc-
| ing in Western Canada. AS compared
with districts many hundred miles
further south than this, it will be seen
that Western Canada ranks amongst
the first in the line of seeding opera
tons for the present year. 1t is safe
| to say that farmers who get in their
crop before the goth or oath of May.
| will receive magnificent returns. A
number of those coming in this spring.
who had not their land prepared last
fall. will break up enough land to get
in crop of oats and barley and prob
ably some fiax. This. together with
the vegetables they will plant, will
give them ample food for themselves
and stock during the coming summer
and winter. These early seeding oper-
atoms are not confined to one district,
but are spread over a country 900
miles long by 400 miles in width.
The agents of the Canadian Govern
ment, located at different points
throughout the United States, are
busy giving information regarding the
many new districts that are being
made available for settlers. Low rail-
way rates, information and literature
are given on application to the agent.
whose name appears in advertisement
elsewhere in this paper.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09


with BY the aid
munity is Will n he
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09

the catalogue seems, in some cases at
least, to be lower than the price
quoted at the local store. Isn't that
conclusive? Let's see. The catalogue
| describes the goods and quotes a
price; maybe it gives picture of the
article also, but you don't see the
goods. The local merchant shows you
the goods; you may examine them
critically; he may allow you to test
them or to call in an expert to advise
you. Is it fair to conclude that the
catalogue article is the cheaper just
because the price is lower?
An element that must enter into the
comparison of goods and prices is,
that in any attempt to fool the GUS
toner, the local merchant is decided
ly at disadvantage. He must show
the goods, not merely describe them
His business depends wholly upon the
limited trading area of his town and
his ability to inspire confidence within
that circle. He cannot afford to make
practice of disappearing his
goods.
down to the maxim that Honesty is
the best policy" 1t has no neighbors,
no fellow citizens, no mutual interests
with its patrons. Its trade area is
wide and always shifting. Naturally
these conditions do not demand extra
ordinary vigilance in supplying hon.
est-made goods. And where Vigilance
is not needed employee in the bust
ness he is generally taken off the paw
roll, which makes saving in expense,
as we'll as in the cost of the goods. If
lower prices are quoted by the cata-
logue house, may not this account for
it?
will 1T pay?" Is it a matter of
economy to buy inferior and damaged
goods when the same money. or even
little more, will pay for goods of the
best quality? Which course does a
mans first duty to his own household
dictate?
But to get at the bottom of that
question, we must consider the far
reaching general effect of mail order
trading. If single catalogue houses
are to be capitalized at $4,000 900.
they must be reckoned with along
with Standard Oil, the beef trust and
railroad mergers. If they are allowed
to suck the blod from our country
towns, your grandchildren will find
conditions much the same as those of
your grandfather's time Their mar
kets will be 80. so or rs miles away.
The towns and villages will be de-
serted, and the hubs will be too dis
tant to send the radiating spokes of
rural mail. telephone lines and other
modern conveniences far into the
country.
CHARLES BRADSHAW.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-09
War On The Fly,

The state board of health has been
sending out letters to the county and
municipal health officers instructing
them to see that the people of the state
clean up their premises. The letter
instructs the health officers to see
that all scioolhouses are disinfected
and fumigated to avoid infection from
typhoid fever and to see that all
slaughter houses are inspected. DR..
Crumbinc, secretary of the board, de-
votes considerable attention to the
house fly and instructs the health Of
ficers to begin a campaign of educa-
ton among the citizens to put the
fly out of business by removing all
nuisanc-s and keeping the premises
c.ean.