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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
COINED A BIG WORD.
Little Ono Wanted to Pick the "Un-
? derchildrenable" Flowers.

When the first little granddaughter
was big enough to want to pick the
garden flowers, the grandparents tried
every guileful means to save their pet
posies from devastation. A truce was
reached when it was agreed that Har-
riet should let the garden plants alone
and pick only "children's flowers" a
descriptive name bestowed at once
alike on dandelions, buttercups,
daisies and cloyers. After this there
was peace in the family. One day
Katherine, the newest granddaughter,
was contentcdly pulling grasses while
grandmother shipped OF blossoms
from the forget-me-nots. Katherine
remembered that fresh flowers had
not been gathered for the dinner ia
BILE. She ran over to grandmother and
promptly coined one of the longest
words a four-year-old ever used.
Grandmother" she begged, cant 1
pick the underchildrenable flowers
for dinner?"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
For World Wide Wireless.

North Sidney, N. S.-With the ar
engagements for wireless service be-
tween Europe and America so far
progressed that the transatlantic SER
vice may be taken lor an assured
fact, William Marconi, the Italian in
ventor, will within fortnight, leave
for the station at Clifton island, the
European terminal, where he intends
to conduct further experiments look
ing to the transmission of aerial
messages direct from Europe to the
Pacific coast. A station will be erect
ed at Vancouver, E. c., as part of
this plan, which is intended as one
of the preliminary stages of wireless
communication around the world.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Marv,a Imnortant testimony,


Justice Brewer, of the United States
supreme court is said to be the author
of this story: A witness testified in
a certain case that a person named
Mary was present when particular
conversation took place and the ques-
ton was asked: what did Mary
say?" This was objected to and after
some discussion the judge ruled out
the question. An exception to this
decision was Immediately taken and
on appeal the higher court reversed
the verdict and ordered new trial
on the ground that the question
should have been answered.
At the second trial the same inquiry
was propounded and elected the infor-
nation that "a1ary said nothing"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Laborers PiIIaaed Ereiaht Cars.

Denver, Col.-Over $500, OG0 worth of
merchandise has been stolen on the
Burlington railroad in transit between
Chicago and Denver during the past
year, and 800 Italian laborers who
pillaged freight cars have been dis
charged, according to report pub
lished in the Denver Times Thursday.
1t is said that secret service agents
ferreted out the system by which the
robberies were constantly committed
but failed to secure evidence sufficient
to convict any of the thieves.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
SANTA FE EARNINGS INCREASE.
Gross Receipts $13,ooo,ooo Greater
Than Last Year-Net Profits
100000 More.

Chicago, Ill.-Earnings of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad for
the year ending June 80 amounted to
1893 ,407, an increase of nearly $751;
100000 over the previous year. The
total income was s94,436,574.
Operating expenses of $61, 1895,
and fixed charges of s11, 4S7,933 left
earnings on stock of s21, 16S, 1928, as
against $1S,262, 170 or the previous
year. Out of the SIS 100000 left avail
able for common stock dividends, So
100000 was spent for improvements,
leaving a surplus for the year of $13,-
IT'S. This makes total surplus Of
$20,066,S74.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
MilIionaire,s Wife a BURGLAR.

Chicago.-In a remarkable confess
sion to the police Wednesday night
Mrs. Charles ]. Romadka, of Milwau-
kee, wife of millionaire manufac-
turer, admitted that she was respon-
sible for a series of burglaries and
petty thefts that has baffled the au-
thorities for weeks. Mrs. Romadka' s
confession was the latest development
following her arrest for a robbery
committed at the home of c. E. Beck,
when jewelry valued at more than
$1,000 was stolen.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Rock Islands Good Profits.

Chicago.-The annual report of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail-
way which was issued Wednesday
shows gross earnings of s60,23S, 400,
and operating expenses of SAL ,044, 100,
leaving net earnings of $19,194, 300.
Other sources of income were $745, 200,
making total net income of $685.
500 from the operation of the road.
The net income after providing for
all charges was $S,750.500. Dividends
were paid during the year of s4,116.-
700, leaving a surplus for the year
of s4,635, 800.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Yes wbv Not7

DR.. Frank C. Bostwick, official den
list to the sultan of Morocco, has been
spending his vacation in Plainfeld,
N. J., and at a recent dinner he said,
apropos of bad child:
at is wise to punish children, but
not corporally. 1 know dentist in
Gibraltar who got out birch rod to
punish his little son with one day.
The boy, looking at the rod, said pite-
ously:
Papa, would you mind giving me
gas first?'"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
DR.. ZieeIer Got 100000.

Chicago.-A jury Wednesday rem
dered verdict against the estate OF
the late Mrs. Harriet G. McVicker,
widow of the Chicago theater man
ager in favor of DR.. L. c. H. Ziegler
for 100000. Mrs. McVicker died sew.
eral years ago in California, and Zieg.
Ter claimed 100000 from the estate
by virtue of contract which he said
he made with Mrs. McVicker to give
her his exclusive attention during the
remainder of her life. She, according
to the claims advanced by DR.. Zieg.
Ter, was to have left him that amount
in her will. The jury awarded him
the full claim.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
May Be Jack simpkins, Body.

Spokane, Wash.-A body said to be
that of Jack Simpkins, the missing
member of the Western Federation of
Miners, has been found near Pierce
City, Shoshone county, Idaho, badly
decomposed, the only means of identi-
fication beng a gun bearing a silver
name plate and Simpkins' name.
Miners who knew Simpkins will posi-
lively identify the gun as one owned
by Simpkins. 1t is thought that the
man died in a snowstorm some time
last winter.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
CHICAGO and cetroit lie.

Chicago-Detroit and Chicago, lead
ers of the American and National
leagues respectively, played II strenu-
GUS innings to tie here Tuesday in
the first game of the series for the
baseball championship of the world
The contest was replete with sensa.
tional situations and when Umpire
ODay of the National league called
the play off on account of darkness
most of the 24,377 spectators sighed
with relief and went home well salts
fed with the outcome. The score stood
Chicago 8. Detroit 8.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Commerce Commission Meeting.

Washington.-Mem of the inter-
state commerce commission held the
first formal meeting Monday since
their adjournment in July for vacation.
Business transacted was principally of
a routine character, together with a
discussion of plans for the autumn and
winter. The business of the commits
sion will be greater this autumn than
ever before, several hundred cases be-
ing on the docket. Many of them will
be heard by special examiners.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

run down from $50 to 125 pounds 1
was having terrible pain in the kid
neys, and the secretions passed almost
involuntarily. My left leg swelled un-
til it was "a inches around, and the
doctor tapped it night and morning
until 1 could no longer stand it, and
then he advised amputation. 1 re-
fused, and began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. The swelling subsidized gradu-
ally, the urine became natural, and all
my pains and aches disappeared.
have been well now for nine years
since using Doan's Kidney Pills."
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y
Honest labor, on any matter, de-
serving of toll, is certain to produce
God fruit.-Carlyle.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Nebraska Roadbeds Ursafe.

Lincoln, Neb.-Railway Commission
er Williams, after an inspection of the
Missouri Pacific tracks in Nebraska,
has pronounced the roadbed unsafe.
In a report prepared Tuesday he
urges that passenger trains be restrict
ed to speed of % miles an hour and
freight trains to 20, and heavy freight
trains to Is miles. He urges the pur-
chase of a gasoline velocipede in or
der to examine the roadbed of each
line of railway in the state.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Pullman Earnings in Kansas.

Topeka, Kan.-The Pullman COM
pany filed its report of earnings in
Kansas with the state board of rail-
road commissioners Thursday. The
company filed the report under the
common carrier Law but took occasion
to scratch out the words Common car
-ier" in the blank form and substitute
Corporation. 1t gave its earnings in
Kansas for the year as s323,243 with
gross operating expenses s296,343.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
The AVERAGE Fair Paid.

Topeka, Kan.-The Santa Fe and
Rock Island Thursday filed with the
state board of railroad commissioners
reports on the blanks furnished by the
interstate commerce commission. The
report shows that the average fare per
passenger per mile received by the
Santa Fe in Kansas for the year end
ing June 80, 1907, was O2O6S; for the
entire line it was .02150; for the Rock
Island in Kansas .022S4; for the en-
tire line .02232.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
International Cotton Conference.

Atlanta. Ga.-Men who grow cotton
and men who manufacture it into
cloths and other goods for the mar
kets of the world, met in the state
capitol Monday in the International
Conference of Cotton Growers and
manufacturers. During the three days
sessions OIL the conference questions of
the utmost importance to growers and
consumers will be discussed and action
is looked for that will radically change
for the better the methods of handling
and growing the great staple of the
South.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Less Than Two Cents a Mile

Lincoln, Neb.-The annual report of
the Union Pacific railway was filed
with the state railway commission
Thursday for the period ending June
80. The statement was made that the
average amount per mile for passen-
ger travel was Log cents. The period
covered in the report includes about
eight months before the two-cent fare
law went into effect, indicating that
the railroad received a rifle less than
two cents before the law went into
operation.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

says: 81 had been
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time l was mus
tered out of the army.
but in all my life 1
never suffered as in
1897. Headaches, dir
ziness and sleepless-
ness, first, and then
dropsy. 1 was weak
and helnless having
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured BY Halls
Catarrh Cure
FL. CHENEY CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned have known +. j. Cheney
for the last Is years. and believe him perfectly hon
orabIe in all business transactions and financially
able to carry any obligations made by his firm
WALDISG. KISNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price IS cents per
bottle Sold by all Druggists
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou,
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
The Necessary Evil.

81 have friend who says he doesn't
eat much through the day." remarked
the woman, but every now and then
he takes little nip to comfort him
self, l suppose, for not eating. He
says it's very good for a man who is
on the shady side OF so to take little
nips of something strengthening
through the day."
you tell him frum me-" said the
Kentucky colonel, that when ge gifts
to be on the shady side of the sixties,
it'll ben OF only good fuh him, but it
will be absolutely necessary to his
existence"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
WITTY Iurv Verdict.

There is lot of humor and, be-
sides, a splendid moral for the young
business man in a verdict recently
rendered by a coroner's jury.
1--WE, the jury, find from the physi-
clans statement that the deceased
came to his death from heart failure,
superinduced by business failure,
which was caused by speculative fall
ure, which was in turn the result of
failure to look ahead"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Known hv His Friends.

A forlorn looking man was brought
before magistrate for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct. When asked
what he had to say for himself, he
gazed pensively at the judge, smooth
ed down remnant of gray hair, and
said:
your honor, Mans inhumanity to
man makes countless thousands
mourn I'm not as debased as Swift,
as profiigate as Byron, as dissipated
as Poe, or as debauched as"
"That will do" Numbered the mag
istrate- Thirty days! And, officer,
take list of those names and run 'em
in. They're as bad lot as he is
Lippincott's Magazine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick Dead.

Columbus, O.-Mrs. Cassie Chad.
wick, whose amazing financial trans
actions eliminated in the wrecking of
an Oberlin bank, died in the woman's
ward in the Ohio penitentiary Thurs
day night.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Chicago Took Another.

Chicago.-The Detroit American
league team suffered its second sue
cessive defeat at the hands of the
Chicago National Thursday, scoring
only one run. Chicago tailed five
times
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Drink More Water

There are so many soothing and
hygienic elements in water, just clear
water, either hot or cold, that, gen.
orally speaking, the whole human
race would be better for more varied.
If not necessarily copious, use of it.
Few persons drink enough water be-
tween meals.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Eirst Ihihet Newsnaner

A report received at Picking from
Chang Yingtang, the Chinese resident
at Lhassa, tells of the establishment
of native newspaper. the first one
guage.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
No Trouble in Central America.

San Francisco.-The United States
gunboat Yorktown, which was dis
patched six months ago to Central
American waters, arrived here Tues
day. Sne brought no news of trouble
between the republics.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Haytian President III.

Kingston. Jamaica.-General Nord
Alexis, president of the Republic of
Hayti, is SO dangerously i'll at Puer-
to Primo, that his life is despaired of,
according to private advices received
here
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Catch of Japanese Fishermen.

Consul G. H. Scidmore, of Negasah,
reports the estimated value of the
catch of the Japanese deep-sea fish
ermen in 1906 as 1851. 0S5. They also
captured fish to the value of $40, Ais
along the Korean coasts, including
whales, worth $6S,000.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
INSIGHT Not Appreciated.

It's so strange that man never ap-
preciates the wonderful insight of a
woman's mind when she refuses to
believe that the street cars were
hIOcked
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Ex-Presi6ent Cleveland Better.

Princeton, N. J.-For the first time
since his recent illness, former Presi
dent Grover Cleveland Thursday was
able to go to New York City, The
purpose of his visit Is understood "a
be private business.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
aides Can Near Shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
not. aching feet. At all Druggists, 25c. Ac-
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
All Unions in Cuba TO strik.

Havana.-The Cuban labor organiza-
tons Tuesday voted to order a gen.
eral strike of all unions in the islands
if the railways employ the strikebreak-
ers who landed here Monday from
New York.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Springfield, Mo-, Prisoners Escape

Springfield, Mo.-Four prisoners
overpowered Jailer Ed. Cannon at
noon Thursday and escaped. Cannon
was pinioned, disarmed and locked in
a cell as he was removing the din
ner dishes.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

That an article may be good as well
as cheap. and give entire satisfaction,
is proven by the extraordinary sale of
Defiance Starch each package con-
tanning one-third more Starch than
can be had of any other brand for the
same money
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes
use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 OF.
package, cents
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Honor Industrious Hen.

The London Daily Mail notes that
Swiss village has been decorated with
flags in honor of hen that has laid
her thousandth egg.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How Veteran Was Saved the Ampu-
t;ition of Limb.

B. Frank Doremus, veteran, of
Roosevelt avenue, indianapolis, Ind,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

He who receives a good turn. should
never forget it; he who does one
should never. remember it.-Charron.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

Big words seldom go with good
deeds.-Danish.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

The time is never lost that is de-
voted to work-Emerson.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Grammar and Grippe.

A professor at the University of
Virginia was endeavoring to impress
upon the youths of his class the mon
strous crime of using the adverb
badly" where the adjective bad"
should be used
Now" he said, after an exhaustive
explanation, eff a man should say to
you I feel badly what would you
Think"
I'D think he had the grippe, sir"
responded the wag of the class.
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 a
strength and smoothness never ap-
preached by other BRANDS.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them
white again. Large OF. package, cents.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
Billions in New Securities,

Close to a billion dollars Of new
bonds and shares we're issued in Wall
street from January to last July. The
railroads, which have been the great
est borrowers, issued the great bulk
of these securities. In taking its lines
Pennsylvania company has been
spending $1G0,000,0 00.-Boston Globe.
Important 60 I'll Others.
Examine carefully every bottle OF CASTORTA
a safe and sure remedy fer infants and children
and sea thai IL
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

had Catarrh for about fifteen
yoar5, and no man coC-d h2vc
been worse. I tried everyt hing
I could hear of, but no good ro-
suited. I then began s. s. s., and
could see q little Improvement
taking it a short while was CURED.
This was SIX years ago, and I am
as well tcd-J rs any man. ItA-nk
Catarrh is q blood disease, and
know there is nothing Oh earth
better for the blood than 8. 8. s..
Nobody thinks more OF 8. g. g.
than do. NJ. MAmSON.
Lapeer, Mich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01

WE could letters from people prang publish
w ing the Mark Twain Autobiography but you
tents incidentally the nstament this number especially
By the of the older days. has the reproduction the
his like appear
bring tender JOYOUS neor
Whenever magazine publishes that sets everybody talking
editors likely feel proud and naughty fifteen
jolts
attitude The Vanishing Fleets has proved be that kind of
forth without trombone effect exploitation ha
by the readers of the Sunday Magazine story the year.
Just letter. This by business
greatly d reading every A""' oe" "0uo
This particular wanted back popularity
tale has difficult for keep
We might comfortable things about this of
addition the Mark Twain Autobiography for how
The Thinking Machine tphany solved the problem The
God which proposed for his confoundg But
of future
Next week there contribution from Roy Rofe Glson author
those poetic child life story
isn't article think things
exquisite
that hold you When have will
questions only
weeks Sunday Magazine.
Wings Morning" on Fire" and Kar
extraordinary by Tracy Beginning
49, Sunday will begin
is worthy The
First ALL that thing the real love with hero and her
who have red blood their and ideas
whom will be glad Also choke
adventures and honest thrills
that combination wthove and And the illus
tatons by James Montgomery Flagg They stunning.
There lot of exceedingly good things the Sunday
Magazine. We will tell you about them later.
T<>> .,,:!z,,.:
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-16
\ Land of Crazcs.

Isn't it strange that Secy Bonaparte,
My half a dozen years ago. said that,
i think the consolidation. or comhina-
uon' of railway companies into large sys-
ems has been shown, by experience, to
De desirable" and that he expressed doubt
IS 70 the results of legislation that
sought 10 regulate or restrain Industrial
ordinations? Six years ago Mr., Bona
jarte was IN line with the thoughtful men
-eslie's weekly IL he has changed his
nind, the change. no doubt is due to the
utbreak OF hysterla In the press and in
public places, which seems to have swept
many good men on their feet There is
great dsnser that this craze, like all 9th
IN that have preceded it--"rag money"
lCpulism. and free Silver--will have to run
its course regardless of consequences The
ther cra3es had their day and died out
and are forgotten. They threatened the
BUSINESS stability of the land for Il time
out we were able 10 survive tho shock
ne present outbreak against the capt.
allied industries Of the land. fosteTed by
iemasoSues ON one side aud by ambitious
.eformers on the other, is proceeding 10
such dangerous lengths that great uneasl-
ness is felt in financial circles at home
md abroad over the possible outcome
Many leaders Of public thought are appre.
lensive OF most deplorable results from
the growing tendency TO attack the es-
abhshed Industries Of the country. They
car that this will check out prosperity
Of which we have been boasting, or break
own with all that that implies of dis
aster and ruin TO the rich and poverty and
differing TO the poor