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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-22
them

Way out on the prairies where tumble
weeds tumble
And roll with the breezes the whole
season through
You get mighty hungry. but don't need
to grumble.
For prairie hens lay fricassees and
plain stew.
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Then Cupid Ducks.

Love is ever lord of ALL"
"Yes, until q trust magnate heaves In
sight"
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Like to Be Qualified

Like to Be Qualified.
81 would like to be rich"
'What for:"
$50 l could discourse upon the bless
ings Of poverty"
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Information.

"Does mischief and wickedness mean
the same thing. pap
mot exactly"
"What's the difference?'
at is mere mischief when it happens
In your own family and downright
wickedness when people you don't like
do it."
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Ambiguou.

Ambiguous.
81 fear that Freddie is losing his
mind"
81 hadn't noticed that much improve
ment in him"
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Probably.

wonder why little man usually
has big wife"
"He wishes to show that his heart Is
in the right place If he Is small"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
MENACE TO ALL
Liant Mail Order Concerns
Are Sapping Country of
Its Wealth.
SMALLER TOWNS CRUSHED
S6y Assisting in the Capitalization
OF Wealth, Patrons Of These In
situations Contribute to Their
Own Injury.

Copyright. 1906. by Alfred C. CIark)
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 than
words. Here are figures which tell
a story 30 stupendous that its full sig
nifcance 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 bust
ness amounting in round numbers to
$8O,000,000. In The year 1904 these
same concerns did a business of about
S62,OOO.0O0, a gain Of $1S,000,00O or
nearly 80 per cent. in 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
an the country by two catalogue houses
alone, and those operating from the
same central point. Dozens more Of
varying size and Importance are oper-
zating all over the country from coast
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
HARD WATER.

The editor of the New Auburn
(Wis.) Times has discovered some
skating frogs. Two spotted batrach-
ians staying out late on a nightly
jamboree were frozen out of their
winter home, clear sheet of ice hav-
ing formed on the pond where they
were wont nightly to croak, "'Tain't
deep! 'Tain't deep!" The frogs, much
puzzled, would Chamber onto the bank.
get a good start and dive onto the ice.
sliding several feet across the slippery
ice at each attempt. They were try
ing to jump into the water. The ice
was clear but hard! Finally, accord
ing to the Times editor, the green
frog said to his down-hearted COM
panion, Il thought you told me that
Chippewa county was celebrated for
its soft water" and then added in a
disguised tone of voice, This is hard
er Ito get into) than any alkali that.
our North Dakota cousins ever
struck"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
IA SIMPLE FORMULA
PRESCRIPTION OF AN EMINENT
SPECIALIST is GIVEN.
Necessary Ingredients Cost Little,
and Can Be Secured at Any Good
Drug Store-Will Break a
Cold Quickly.

Mixsh half ounce of the Pure Virgin
Oil of Pine with two ounces of glycer>
inc and half pint of good whisky:
shake well and use in teaspoonful
doses. A noted authority on diseases
of the throat and lungs who estab-
ished 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 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 q
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 ara
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 perfect neutralizing agent
for uric acid
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23

When "she' was running past the
Turner mandatory at Livingston, a
month ago, Cozier and his fireman, ].
E. Downs, of Waterbury, saw Hank"
hopping and tumbling about near the
tracks. Merciful men, they halted
her and picked up the rooster. A
train had run over him, cut off wing
and, so narrow was his escape, part
of his bill. They nursed him tenderly,
and after his wounds healed Hank"
would not leave her" and those who
had befriended him.
When "she" starts Hank" jumps
on the coal in the tender, and Downs
is mighty careful not to scoop him up
in a shovel and throw him in the fire.
box. When "she" comes to a stand
still the rooster hops into the cab and
to the ground, sometimes, while his
chums oil "her" johns. Proud as he
is, Hank crows only when he is
hungry; then the engineer and fire.
man share their food with him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
CATCHES FOXES IN A CAVE.
Hunter Falls Into Pit and Finds Game
at Hand.

Port Jervis. N. Y-On the last day
of the hunting season just closed in
Pike county, Pennsylvania, John
Wurtzel, of near Promised Land
Pond, shot wild turkey, the first
killed in that county in years. There
were three turkeys in the flock, young
Wurtzel shooting the gobbIer.
In going after the bird the hunter
stumbled and fell into hole, dropping
15 feet Although bruised and much
shaken up. he picked up his gun,
which fell with him and, lighting a
match he found he was in triangular
cave some 20 feet in breadth.
In the cave were three young foxes.
A hole large enough for XWurtzel to
crawl through led out on a side hill.
A hole large enough for Wurtzel to
legs together. gained the outer world,
where he met the old fox coming to-
ward her den with the turkey he had
shot.
The hunter killed the fox and went
hcme with his trophies. The hides
brought him 81. Wurtzel considers
the days hunt profitable one.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
cLINGs DESPERATELY TO SIDE
OF FAST-FLYING TRAIN.
COLLAPSEs WHEN SAVED
Young Woman Mounts Step of Moving
Car but Vestibule Door Refuses
to Open-Operator Orders
Limited Stopped.

Logansport, Ind.-Her dresses the
plaything of the winds, her hair blow
ing in wild disorder, Miss Edith Mill
iron, one of Logansport's prettiest and
best known young women. desperately
chung to the handles of closed vesti-
bule car the other week for five miles
while the Continental limited, the Wa
bash's fastest train, tore through space
at the rate of so miles an hour. When
the cold, rushing winds were numbing
her limbs and exhaustion was loosen
ing her grip on the handles; when it
seemed that she must let go and drop
from the rushing train, to be rolled
and pushed over the frozen ground
and then left inert, bruised, battered
and dead, the train came to stop.
Operator Modricker, in Wabash, Ind,
where the girl had boarded the train
had seen her predicament and peril as
the limited was steaming out of the
station. Peru, 20 miles distant, was
the trains next scheduled stop, and
Modricker, realizing that the girl could
not possibly cling to the handles that
length of time, rushed to his Office and
furiously pounded the telegraph key,
calling the operator at Hartsman Sta
ton, five miles away. When the Con-
tinental limited Numbered into view
'at Hartsman the operator was in the
middle of the track wildly Haunting a
red flag.
With grinding jar the train came to
stop, and Miss Milliron loosened her
grasp on the car handles and sank to
the ground, where she collapsed in a
heap. She could not have held on a
moment longer.
Miss Milliorn will talk but little of
her experience. Thought of that wild
ride through space, with the wind
bowling and shrieklng in her ears and
striving to tear her from the train s
side, even now send tremors of fear
through her body. The strain which
she underwent during the time it took
would have caused a physical break
down in person less strongly consti-
tuted.
Miss Milliorn had been visiting at
the home of her sister, Mrs. John
Reed, of Lafayette, and the two went
to Wabash to visit another sister
Mrs. Reed decided to remain for sew
eral days and Miss Milliorn in the
afternoon hastily made up her mind to
take the Continental limited and re-
turn to her home in Logansport. The
decision necessitated hurried pack
ing and fast walk to the Wabash rail-
road station. Miss Milliron arrived in
the depot just as the train was pulling
out. She gave her sister a farewell
kiss, and clutching her skirts she raced
out and pluckily grabbed the handles
OF vestibuled car. She was dragged
a little before she clambered upon the
steps. The vestibule door refused to
open. 1t would not bulge. She pushed
and strained and, failing to open it,
pounded frantically on the glass, hop
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
TenaciousIy the Girl Chung to the
Handles.

notch. Fifty miles an hour rushed the
train, stirring up the dust and gravel.
To the passengers comfortably seated
inside telegraph poles along the track
appeared as picket fence, and farm
houses flashed into view only to dis
appear moment later.
Tremendously the girl chung to the
handles. The rushing wind blinded
and buffeted her. Her clothes were
the plaything of it's caprices and her
hair was blown to ribbons Loudly it
shrieked and swayed her body, striv-
ing to tear her away from the car.
Everything was forgotten except the
thought that she was soon to drop
down and meet the rushing, fleeting
earth.
But she did not. For this she has
the operator at the station in Wabash,
Modricker, by name to thank He had
seen the girl board the car as the train
was moving, ran to the telegraph Office
and had the train stopped as related
above
The rest of the journey to Logans-
port was made reclining on the cush-
ions in the train. Arriving here she
went to her home unassisted, but a re-
action set in, and as the result of her
wild ride and terrible experiences, she
was confined to the house several
days.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
French Presidents "poubIe..

M. Fallieres was, until recently. be.
Heved to be the only president of the
French republic who had no double,
but his counterpart has been found.
The man who most resembles him
physically is respectable merchant
OF the Rue Saint Honore, who plays
his part with decorum and dignity He
wears exactly the same kind of blue
butterfly necktie with white dots as
the president, the same kind of hat
and exactly so oddly cut beard. And
on his promenades he is always &C
companied by friend who could cas-
lily be taken for the presidents pri-
vate secretary. Dignified and with
measured steps, the enviable double
walks through the Faubourg Saint
Ronore and feels overjoyed at being
saluted on all sides.
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scALY ERUPTION ON BODY.
Doctors and Remedies FruitIess-Suf.
fered 10 Years - Completely
Cured by Cuticura.

When l was about nine years old,
small sores appeared on each of my.
lower limbs. / scratched them with a
brass pin and shortly afterwards both
| OF those limbs became so sore that
I could scarcely walk. When I had
been suffering for about a month
the sores began to heal, but small
scaly eruptions appeared where the
sores had been. From that time on
ward | was troubled by such severe
itching that, until 1 became accus-
toned to it, I would scratch the sores
until the blood began to flow. This
would stop the itching for a few,
days, but scaly places would appear
again and the itching would accom-
pany them. After 1 suffered about
ten years l made a renewed effort to
effect a 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 a salve. l then used to
battle the sores in a mixture which
gave almost intolerable pain. In adj
dition l used other remedies, such
as iodine, sulphur, zinc salve, -
Salve, - Ointment, and in fact I
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. / used IS -,
but it did no good A few months
after, having used almost everything
else, / thought / 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. / 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"
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GIRLS FlVE-MILE
RIDE WITH DEATH.

ing to attract the attention of porters
or passengers. Her efforts were;
drowned in the rattle and roar of the
train, and she turned to alight. Fear
seized her. The momentum was such
that she dared not risk a leap into
space. The train was increasing in
speed each passing moment. Conflict
ing emotions filed her. She wanted
to leap out, but dared not. She knew
it was the right thing to do-the only
thing to do, but her nerve failed,
Twice she nerved herself for the drop,
but each time she drew back and
frightened her hold on the handles.
Hope was in her that one of the
train crew or passengers would see
her plight and rescue her Ten, 20, 80
miles an hour sped the train. The en-
gineer was trying to make up time and
he pulled the throttle back another
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23

ppe rs n whole snail Do prosperous
Such general prosperity rs may exist
cannot be retained IL the institutions
OF the already larger and wealthie.
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, q 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
amounts in a comparative few centers
OF population.
Therefore, the man who sends away
from his own community money which
he might have spent at home and per
mitted fair profit to the home mer
chant to be retained there for the
benefit of the community, Is injurins
his community, and thereby the pros.
poets for his own future prosperity.
In large number of instances he 10
doing more than this. Unwittingly, or
unthinkingly. 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 PEG.
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 a.
regularly received as the home paper.
The man on the farm last year sent q
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
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
Can You Answerf

II you have a friend who thinks he
knows it all ask him to explain tho
difference between an Alexandrine
and woman of Alexandria; a masher
and a mashie; adenoids and aneroids;
six of one and half dozen of the
other; neoplatonism and platonio
friendship; maearonic. macaroni, and
Marconi; referendum and a referee:
irreligion and birreligion; the jungle
and Port Sunlight; Arminians and
Armenians; carpet knight and rug
headed kern-Chicago Tribune.
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OUTFITTING.

1t does seem the editor of the Mani
tou (Colo) Journal has no heart in
him or he never would have printed
this one: can old maid was taking
the wrinkles out of her face with a
constitutional through the suburbs the
other day when she came across one
of those small corner groceries which
had a sign in front to this effect:
Families Supplied Here Her mind
was evidently on the subject of matri-
mony, for she went in and ordered a
husband and three children"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
The Puzzle Solved.

Some time ago merchant IN Mar
blehead. Mass. was discovered In his
store at 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 bookA
but they seem to be all right"
Have you counted your cash?"
Yes; and 1t is correct to a dollar.
Looked over your bank book?"
have, and 1t Is satisfactory
Inats the puzzle. you see. He's
skipped, and l can't make out what
for"
Been home since noonf-
NO"
Perhaps he's eloped with your
wife"
He hurried home. and found this 70
be the case.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23

THE MAN Behind the Pillow" last year
number of millions which found
order houses. The smaller comm
were thus deprived of it, suffered
90 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 a parcels post law to
unloose literature, already prepared
In many instances, which would pro-
1ect 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-
dstence under such friendly auspices.
The two Chicago institutions re-
1erred to, already occupying immense
buildings, found themselves cramped
for room. One of them expended not
Hess than 81 900 900, and probably more,
for new home. The other lately has
secured a new location and also will
expend at least 100000 for an i'm
mense new building.
Anyone who will reflect even casual
y on the subject must become i'm
pressed that the influence of the mail
order business is toward the central
dzation of wealth, and how enormous
q part 1t is playing in this direction
will be understood from a second
lglance at the figures which have been
given above.
1t is due to himself that every patron
tof the mail order house should INQUIRE
honestly of>himself what the final out
come is to be II the mail order husi.
ness shall continue to make the great
strides which have marked its prog
ress during the last half decade. y
II is useless to repeat the well worn
argument of the mail order concerns
chat 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. Te refute 1t finally and
tndisputably by = simpler and more
direct method 1t 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 il doing their communities.
II IN truth a. old a. the hills and
90 certain as the rising and setting of
the sun that NO country or section Of
= country can proapsr unless tia pso-
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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?
II he will ask himself this question
and consider 1t soberly and fairly in
all OF its phases, including the many
which cannot be touched upon within
the limits of single article, we think
his answer must be that he cannot.s
The wonderful productivity of this
country has been sufficient to over
come the various adverse economic In
huences which have existed during the
period OF years in which the mail or
der business has accomplished its
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, 1t has not yet occasioned a great
disaster. The test will come with the
first pinch Of hard times" oondi
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 8. POTTS,
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goes the rooster, which, although
slightly disfigured, is still in the ring, y
Cozier says. the proudest bird in the
Naugatuck Valley.
She" or Cozier, has named the
rooster Hank" He has gone to Tor
rington, to Bridgeport. to New Haven
and other places. Hank" sleeps in
the engine cab o. nights at Waterbury.
and is becoming the pet of all the rail-
road men on the Naugatuck division
OF the New Haven railroad.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
NOT GOOD FORM

Young man, it is not good form to
ask woman to marry you. Only the
preacher or the justice of the peace
can do that. Ask her if she will be
your wife-and, if she will, see that
you always keep the kindling splitter
handy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
SHE LIKES 1T.

The following interesting item is
from a Chicago suburban paper:
Miss Blank, of the West Side. has
been visiting her brother this week.
She will return home as soon as she
RECEIVERS cold which she caught
while waiting for the elevated rail-
road"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
ROOSTER IS ADOPTED
BY BIG LOCOMOTIVE
Bird Lives on Engine and Travels
Everywhere with His "Foster.
Mother" and "Chums."

Winsted, Conn.-Engine No. 1899
has adopted rooster. "Her" engin-
eer, E. H. Cozier, swears "she" has,
and certainly the rooster is devotedly
attached to his ponderous foster
mother. Wherever "she" goes, there
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-23
BEWARE.

There is only one thing more dan
gerous than poking a mule with a
feather buster, and that is poking fun
at prospective father-in-law who can
not see the joke.
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Transformation in New Mexico

Three seasons of rainfall have
transformed New Mexico from an ex-
panse of unproductive territory into q
streams and happy. prosperous peo-
pie" is the report which E. w. Fox.
register Of the government land of6Se
at Clayton. n. NJ. brought to Washing
Post.