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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
ALL THINGS IN PROPORTION.
InvaIid's Meal Evidently Had Not In
creased Good Humor.

For many weeks the irritable mer-
chant had been riveted to his bed by
typhoid fever. Now he was conva-
lescing. He clamored for something
to eat. declaring that he was starv-
ing.
Tomorrow you may have some
thing to eat" promised the doctor
The merchant realized that there
would be a restraint to his appetite,
yet he saw, in vision, modest, steam
ing meal placed at his bedside.
Here is your dinner" said the
nurse next day. as she gave the glow
ering patient spoonful of tapioca
pudding, "and the doctor emphasizes
that everything else you do must be
in the same proportion"
Two hours later the nurse heard a
frantic call from the bed chamber.
Nurse" breathed the man heapily,
81 want to do some reading, bring me
postage stamp"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
She Was WILLING.

Yes" says the husband, Il have
consented to accept the nomilation
q am so glad the party is begin
ming to recognize your merit" beams
the wife.
Now my DEAR" the husband con
tinues, you know that political af
fairs are not love feasts, by any
means. You must expect to see me
vilified and attacked in q scandalous
manner. No doubt the opposition will
try to dig up sensational rumors about
me, and all that sort of thing, but you
must not"
Well" she interrupts, u am really
glad of it. You have always been
strangely silent about whether or not
you ever were engaged to anyone be-
fore you met me-"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
BABY WASTED TO SKELETON.
In Torments with Terrible Sores on
Face and Body-Tore at Flesh
Cured by Cuticura.

"My little son, when about a year
and a half old began to have sores
come out on his face. They began to
come on his arms, then on other parts
of his body, and then one came on his
chest, worse than the others. At the
end of about a year and half of suf-
fering he grew so bad had to tie his
hands in cloths at night to keep him
from scratching the sores and tearing
the flesh. He got to be mere skele-
ton and was hardly able to walk. l
sent to the drug store and got cake
of Cuticura Soap and box of Cuticura
Ointment, and at the end of about two
months the sores were all we'll He
has never had any sores of any kind
since, and only for the Cuticura Rem
edies my precious child would have
died from these terrible sores. 1 used
only one cake of Soap and about three
boxes of Ointment. Mrs. Egbert Shell
don, R. F. D. No. 1, Woodville, Conn,
April %. 1905"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
WHEN A "HuNcH" HELD GOOD.
Chinese Laundry Ticket Suggested a
Bet on ewing Ting"

Kay Spence, well-known horseman
of Mexico, Mo-, won $1,000 at the
Louisville. KY, race meeting short
time ago as the result of "hunch."
Mr.. Spence has a large breeding
stable of runners" near Mexico, and
attends all the big racing events in
the country. Not long since he was
in Louisville and entered the betting
ring to see what odds were being Of
fered on the various entries. He
found that Joaquin was the favorite
at even money, and pulled his wallet
from his pocket, intending to bet on
that horse. His attention was at
tracted by something that fell from
his wallet to the ground, and he stoop-
ed and picked it up. 1t was Chi
nese laundry ticket He looked at
the books" again and found that there
was an entry with a Chinese name.
Wing Ting. at ten to one. That set
tied it. for he considered he had re-
ceived a "hunch''N that could not be
overlooked Wing Ting won handily.
Needless to say, those who backed the
favorite considered Spence the sew.
enth son of the seventh son.-Kansas
City Star.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Bellinq a Rat.

You have probably read or heard
that the best way to rid house of
rats is to catch one and fasten a bell
about its neck. A boy in Delaware
tried the experiment two months ago.
He was badly bitten in making the
bell fast, but he turned the rat loose
and expected the tinkling of that bell
would have great results. 1t did have.
In the first place, the rat who wore it
was constantly on the move all night.
and the tinkling bell kept the family
awake, and in the next the sounds
brought scores of new rats to the
house. Instead of being afraid of the
bell, they were charmed with the mu-
sic. Had the boy tied a harmonica
to another rats tail, the rodents would
have had dance every night.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
HAVE CRAZE FOR FORMULA.
Smokers Follow Fashions in the Use
of Tobacco.

MAKE me up a package of tobacco
according to the formula used by Ed
win Booth" said the man with a
southern accent. THAT is the third
man who has asked for that kind of
tobacco to-day" said the dealer 1T
is strange that people from remote
parts of the country as well as New
Workers make a fad of buying the
same brand of tobacco that Booth
smoked. And it isn't always the Booth
mixture that they want. l have filed
away the formulas for mixing the
favorite tobacco of many famous per-
sons. Smokers the country over have
heard of this collection of recipes and
one feature of every mans trip to
New York is to try a pipeful of some
big mans faeorite tobacco. In most
cases this special mixture is so
strong that the nerves of the average
smoker cannot stand it. He has to
give up after a few pipefuls and go
back to popular mixture, but he has
the satisfaction of having had the ex-
perience. The New York Sun.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

DDS, has not made itself more ridicu-
lous than any comment of ours could
make it.
Does Golfers expect to regain any
self-infiicted loss of prestige by de-
monstrating thru suits for damages,
that it can be more artful in evading
liability for libels than the humble
but resentful victims of it's defamation,
or does it hope for starting a campaign
of libel suits to silence the popular in
dignation, reproach and resentment
which. it has aroused.
Golfers can not dodge this public
controversy by private law suits. 1t
can not postpone the public judgment
against it. That great jury, the Pub
lie, will hardly blame us for not wait
ing until we get petit jury in court
room, before denouncing this prod
igal detractor of institutions founded
and fostered either by individuals or
by the public, itself.
No announcements during our entire
business career were ever made
claiming medicinal effects" for either
Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinal ef-
fects are results obtained from the
use of medicines.
Thousands of visitors go thru our
entire works each month and see for
themselves that Grape-Nuts contains
absolutely nothing but wheat, barley
and little salt; Postum absolutely
nothing but wheat and about ten per-
cent Of New Orleans Molasses. The
art of preparing these simple ele-
ments in a scientific manner to obtain
the best food value and flavor, re-
quired some work and experience to
acquire.
Now, when any publication goes far
enough out of its way to attack us be-
cause our advertising is medical" it
simply offers remarkable exhibition
of ignorance or worse.
We do claim physiological or bodily
results of favorable character follow
ing the adoption of our suggestions re-
garding the discontinuance of coffee
and foods which may not be keeping
the individual in good health. We
have no advice to offer the perfectly
healthful person. His or her health
is evidence in itself that the bever-
ages and foods used exactly fit that
person. Therefore, why change?
But to the man or woman who is
ailing, we have something to say as a
result of an unusually wide experience
in food and the result of proper feed
ing.
In the palpably ignorant attack on
us in Golfers, appeared this state
ment,-"One widely circulated para,
graph labors to induce the impression
that Grape-Nuts will obviate the ne
cessity of an operation in appendi-
citis. This is lying and potentially
deadly lying"
In reply to this exhibition of-well
bet the reader name it, the Postum Co.,
says:
Let it be understood that appendi-
citis results from long continued dis
turbaHce in the intestines. caused pri-
marily by undigested starchy food,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

such as white bread, potatoes. rice,
partly cooked cereals and such.
Starchy food is not digested in the
upper stomach but passes on into the
duodenum, or lower stomach and in
testines, where, in a healthy individ-
ual, the Transformation of the starch
into form of sugar is completed and
then the food absorbed by the blood.
But if the powers of digestion are
weakened, a part of the starchy food
will lie in the warmth and moisture of
the body and decay, generating gases
and irritating the mucous surfaces I'M
til under such conditions the whole
lower part of the alimentary canal, in
GLIDING the colon and the appendix,
becomes involved. Disease sets up
and at times takes the form known as
appendicitis.
When the symptoms of the trouble
make their appearance, would it not
be good, practical, common sense, to
discontinue the starchy food which is
causing the trouble and take a food
in which the starch has been trans
formed into form of sugar in the
process of manufacture?
This is identically the same form Of
sugar found in the human body after
starch has been perfectly digested.
Now, human food is made up very
largely of starch and is required by
the body for energy and warmth.
Naturally, therefore, its use should be
continued, if possible, and for the rea-
sons given above it is made possible
in the manufacture of Grape-Nuts.
In connection with this change of
food to bring relief from physical dis
turbances, we have suggested washing
out the intestines to get rid of the i'm
mediate cause of the disturbance
Naturally, there are cases where the
disease has lain dormant and the
abuse continued too long, until ap-
parently only the knife will avail. But
it is a well-established fact among the
best physicians who are acquainted
with the details above recited, that
preventative measures are far and
away the best.
Are we to be condemned for suggest
ing way to prevent disease by fol-
lowing natural methods and for per-
fecting food that contains no "medi-
cine and produces no medicinal ef-
fectsy but which has guided literally
thousands OF persons from sickness to
nealth! We have received during the
years past upwards of 25 900 letters
from people who have been either
helped or made entirely well by fol-
lowing cur suggestions. and they are
simple
If coffee disagrees and causes any
OF the ailments common to some cot.
Zee users quit it and take on Postum.
II white bread. potatoes, rice and
other starch foods make trouble, quit
and use Grape-Nuts food which is
largely predigested and will digest.
nourish and strengthen, when other
forms Of food do not. It's just plain
old common sense.
There's a Reason for Postum rnd
Grape-Nvts.
Postum Cereal Co. Lta.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Held Tn.

"Stop!" shouted the man on the
country road, holding up a warning
hand. Muttering something about
rural cops, the automobilist obeyed.
Turn around and come back to
town with me-" said the stranger.
You were going at least 35 miles an
hour"
You're constable, suppose" said
the automobilist, with a covert sheer,
when they had reached the village.
"Me?" replied the passenger. No,
I'm a farmer and had to come into
town when all the teams was busy.
Nice growing weather? Thanks. Good
by"
Ensuing comment is purposely omit
ed.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

The director of the Trans-Caucasian
railway, Col. Neigebauer, has issued
the following curious order: In the
course of six months of the current
year 80 officials of the Trans-Cauca-
sian line have persisted by violent
deaths. Ten among them were of the
highest ranks in the service and 20
In the lower ranks. Although it has
now become customary to ascribe
these appalling murders to revolu-
tionary organization, there are grounds
for suspecting majority have been
caused by desire to see situations
vacant. In order that such villainous
proceedings may bring no profit to
their authors, l have found it neces-
sary to order that all vacancies on the
line which have resulted from officials
having suffered violent death shall
not be filled by candidates from among
local officials, but by persons trans
ferred from the railways in European
Russia. give this notice as a guide
to future action"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
''BOO-HOO"
Shouts a Spanked Baby.

A Doctor Of Divinity, now Editor of
a well-known Religious paper, has
written regarding the controversy be-
tween Golfers Weekly and the Re-
ligious Press of the Country and 9TH
ers, Including ourselves. Also regard
ing suits for libel brought by Golfers
against US for commenting upon it's
methods.
These are his sentiments, with some
very emphatic words left out.
THE religious Press owes you a
debt of gratitude for your courage in
showing up Golfers Weekly as the
"Yell-Oh Man. Would you care to
use the inclosed article on the Boo
Hoo Baby as the "Yell-Oh Mans
successor"
"a contemporary remarks that Col
lier's has finally run against solid
hickory Post" and been damaged in
its own estimation to the tune of
$750,000.00."
Here is publication which has, in
utmost disregard of the facts, spread
broadcast damaging statements about
the Religious Press and others and
has suffered those false statements to
go uncontradicted until, not satisfied
after finding the Religious Press too
quiet, and peaceful, to resent the in
suits, it makes the mistake of wander
ing into fresh field and butts its rat
tied head against.th Post and all the
World laughs. Even Christians smile,
as the Post suddenly turns and gives
1t back dose of its own medicine.
ut is mistake to say all the World
laughs. No CHEEKY laugh comes from
Golfers, but it cries and boo hoos like
a spanked baby and wants $3.50, 100000
to soothe its tender, lacerated feel
ings."
Thank Heaven it has at last struck
man with back bone" enough to call
a spade a spade" and who believes in
telling the whole truth without fear or
favor"
Perhaps Golfers with its utmost
disregard for the facts" may say no
such letter exists. Nevertheless it is
on file in our Office and is only one of
mass of letters and other data, news
paper comments, etc., denouncing the
yellow" methods of Golfers. This
volume is so large that a man could
not well go thru it under half a days
steady work. The letters come from
various parts of America.
Usually a private controversy is not
interesting to the public, but this is
public controversy.
Golfers has been using the yellow"
methods to attract attention to itself,
but, jumping in the air, cracking heels
together and yelling Look at me"
wouldn't suffice, SO it started out on
'.Holier Than Thou" attack on the Re
liglous Press and on medicine.
We leave it to the public now, as we
did when we first resented Golfers
attacks, to say whether, in craving
for sensation and circulation, its at
tacks do not amount to systematic
mercenary bounding. We likewise
leave it to the public to say whether
Golfers, by its own policy and meth
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
The "Mound City,

st. Louis reioices in the sobriquet
of Mound City from the fact that the
original settlers found there many
elevations which it is supposed were
relics of that strange people who
.dwelt in the Ohio and Mississippi val
leys and are known to modern times
only as the Mound Builders. No ade-
quate explanation has yet been found
of their strange mode of leaving
memorials of their existence. The
limestone bluffs on which a part of
ST. Louis stands furnish solid foun-
dation for the business buildings.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

According to the latest Chinese Of
fetal investigation the total number of
Chinese in other countries is as fol-
lows. not including the students: Jap
an, 1853; Russia Asia, $1,000;
Hongkong, S14,S91; Siam. 2,755, 500;
Burmah, 134,560 Java, 1926, 200;
Australia, 34,465; Europe, 1,76O;
Korea, 11,200; Formosa, 74,5O6; Malay
STA, 1.023.50O; AMMAN, $4,000; the
Philippines, SS.7s5; Africa, 5000;
America, 272.s29. Total, 6.799, 531.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
A Break In the ceremony.

Little Tom was two years old and
talking before his proud parents took
him to be christened Though limit
ed, his vocabulary included one or
two choice words picked up from his
father. OF course, he looked like a
perfect little cherub on the eventful
day, with his wide blue eyes and shin
ing curls and mother had got him up
in great shape for the ceremony. At
the most impressive point Tom turn
ed to his father and exclaimed in ag-
gravated tones: why, damn it, he
wet my head"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
The Wax of the child.

A small boy who had recently
passed his fifth birthday was riding
in a car with his mother, when they
we're asked the customary question;
How old is the boy?" After being
told the correct age, which did not
require a fare, the conductor passed
on to the next person.
The boy sat quite still as If ponder
ing over some question, and then,
concluding that full information had
not been given, called loudly to the
conductor, then at the other end OF
the car: "And mothers 81"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
The Kaiser and Mr.. carneoIe.

During; the first meeting of Emper-
or William and Andrew Carnegie on
the deck of the Hohenzollern at Kiel,
when there came a pause in the con-
versation, Mr.. Carnegie, in a candid
spirit of banter, said to the emperor:
You know, your majesty, that
never cared very much for kings"
But there was one king you cared
a great deal for" said the emperor
quickly. And who was that?" de-
manded Mr.. Carnegie. Robert Bruce"
W ur majesty is very right" laughed
MI Carnegie.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
A Young Composer.

Rachel, aged II, wrote an compo-
sition on wild flowers in which she
praised the arbutus, the liverwort,
the spring beauty, the blood root, and
all of the other blossoms of dell and
dale. But she wrote on both sides
of her sheet of paper, and when she
asked her father, who was an editor,
to publish her article, he called her
attention to that fact
You've written on both sides of
your paper" said he.
WELL" was the reply, "and don't
you print on both sides Of yours?"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Not a Hit as an Improviser.

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 a 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, 1907-10-24

Salt water, so Strengthening Oh
dinarily, is most weakening when too
warm. On most ocean boats there is
an abundance of warm water in the
bath rooms, and the daily salt bath
is great tonic, but beware of getting
is too hot. 1t will turn you faint if
you do, even if you are accustomed to
an equally high temperature in fresf
water at home.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Saw 1t Come Out of a Cow.

A little city boy and his sister Dor
othy were taken to the country for
the first time.
The two children were happy as
the day was long. In the late after
noon they watched the cows come
home, heard with delight the tink-
ling cow-bells, and the little boy
even went in the barns to see the
milking done.
At supper, just as Dorothy was
lifting her glass to her rosy lips, the
boy cried out:
"Oh, Dorothy, don'tl You mustn't
drink that milk. It's not fit to drink
1t came out of cow. 1 saw it,"
Not Hit as an Improviser.
did you ever hear anybody impro-
vise?" he asked.
NO." said she. and he sat down to
the piano and improvised for about an
hour and half. At the end of that
time he turned around, his face full
of expression, and said to her:
What do you think of it?"
Lovely" she exclaimed. 'Beauti-
full! 1 never heard anything like it,"
But this is what she said to the hall
boy when he was gone:
IF that long, lank lunatic who i'm
provises asks for me again, you tell
him l am out"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

1t is lot better to be a model hus
band and get the dinner when wife is
at her club than to be a shocking ex-
ample of the other kind of husband
who shows up in the divorce court and
has a weakness for throwing dinner
plates at his life partner.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

Sir Thomas will have to do better
than 6S-foot boat if he wants to do
any Americas cup racing. 1t is prob
able, however, he could be accommo-
dated on proposition to race gaso-
lene launches for purse.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
A Remedy.

Young Wife (whose. husband is
scientist, to friend)-Yes, l am hap
ply. If my husband gets vexed about
anything he sits down and calculates
when the world will come to an end.
and then he is all right again.-Flie-
gende Batter.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

A Brazilian merchant has arrived in
this country with box of cigars for
Grover Cleveland, which he promised
to the sage of Princeton "a years ago,
while the latter was governor of New
York. Grover will forgive him for the
delay if the cigars are good, since they
have still to be smoked.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
New Nobility.

Four peers, IL baronets and 33
knights were created by the king Of
Great Britain on his last birthday.
Nominally the king did it, in reality
the liberal ministry did it, the birth
day honors" being one of the per-
quisites of Office.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

Writings of prehistoric man have
been found in Wyoming. and great
things are expected from their de-
ciphering. Probably when this is done
the writings will be found to be an
Gent mother-in-law jokes or letters to
the public of "veritas" and PRO
Bono Publico."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
stndxinn Esneranto.

Field Marshal Lord Roberts is study
ing Esperanto and has joined the Brit
ish Esperanto association. This an
nouncement was received with enthus-
iasm by the delegates to the Esper-
anto congress at Cambridge, England.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

There will be ss2 delegates In the
republican national convention OF
1908, with 497 votes necessary to a
choice. OF these 992 delegates SS2
will come from southern states.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

A Nashville man who was too lib
eral with his church gifts has been
arrested for stealing over $1,000 from
an express car. In this case charity
merely uncovered a multitude of sins
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Cause and Effect.

Plump figures" said the woman
who was reading the fashions, "are
going out of style"
NONSENSE" answered her husband.
Food is rather expensive. But the
situation isn't as bad as that"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

Pedro Alvarado, who once offered to
pay the Mexican national debt, is now
said to be broke. 1t isn't likely, how
ever, that Mexico will return the com
pliment and offer to pay his debts.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
His .l0h-

do you really mean to say. colonel,
that you ran for congress before you
were of age?"
Certainly, before l was 16; in fact.
was a page in the house.
phia Public Ledger.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
orInthoIooicaI.

PEARL wonder why that Mrs
Flasher is going around telling every
one she got married just as a lark?"
Ruby-Perhaps because she married
a jay.-Chicago Daily News.