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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
THE DAYS OF SEVENTY SIX!
My Grandmother'S Story.
by p. NORNAN CIrNNISON

BY f. NORMAN GUNNISON.
IL was in the early summer,
When the drumming of the drummer,
Growing daily grum and gIummer,
Beat the time for marching men.
" hen across each shaded valley.
And through every street and alley.
Calling patriots to rally,
Came the summons once again.
We were in blaze of glory.
For our gran'sire told the story,
How the Hessian and the Tory
From the face of Washington
Fled, like sheep when sore affrighted
How their stalwart ranks were bliChted,
just as morning fires were lightet,
Ere they scarce had fired 4 gun.
How, at Princeton and at Trenton,
Troops that Howe had fondiY leant on.
Were surprised, while they were bent on
Christmas joys and hours of glee.
How their ranks were crushed and broken
As signal and token
That their death-doom should he spoken
BY the cannon OF the free.
And how Sullivan's deep thunder,
With his cannon cleaning under.
Rent the morning air asundcr.
As our Stark broke into town;
And how Forests grand artillery
Put the HeSsian troops in pillory,
Pouring forth from the "Distillery"'
Iron showers to crush them down
Oh, what shouts we gave to cheer them
Though we knew they could not hear them
Still our blessings fingered near them
We were girls and could not fight.
But we had an only brother,
He, the idol of our mother,
Shared with Stark and many another
In the glory of that night
And, all me! had a lover.
Though the calling of the plover
Sounds above the flowers which cover
His last rest on Monmouth plain.
How his eyes flashed wide with glory
As he beard our gran 'sires story,
Can IL be that, crushed and CORY,
He was buried with the slain!
He was bat boy, and tender.
And was delicate and slender
All, what service could he render?
But he took his fathers gun
Though he might be slightly froward.
lie was certainly no coward:
In the morning, Abner Howard
Joined the troops of Washington.
Then the days grew sad and cherries,
Though our men were marching fearless,
Chasing up the army, peerless,
OF the British TO the cpast.
And at MonmOuth's dreadful battle
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
THREE KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

Charlottesville Especially Lindsay
Blue, aged 13 years; Robert Snead,
aged IL, and Ralph Bethel, aged IL,
were instantly killed by lightning
They had taken shelter under a
chestnut tree, and were looking in
birds nest when the bolt struck
the tree. Ivy Blue, member of the
party, stated that his brother rose
to his feet after the stroke, but fell
back dead
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
The Finishing Bride.

A clergyman, having performed the
marriage ceremony for a couple, un-
dertook to write out the usual certifi-
cate, but, being in doubt as to the
day of the month, he asked, This
is the ninth, is it not?"
why, parson," said the blushing
bride. you do all my marrying, and
you ought TO remember that this is
only the third. Current Literature.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
Fine Climate In AIbemorle.

Richmond Especially There is no
race suicide in the neighborhood of
President Roosevelt's Virginia coun.
try home, in Albemarle County
Twins and triplets have just arrived
at the homes of James and John
Newberry, respectively. A negro
woman in the same neighborhoed
gave birth to twins at about the
same time that the Newberry young.
sters were born.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

In the last hundred years or so.
I'm game from
The point of my beall
To the star spangled tips
OF my tail feathers;
And when ! begin
To scratch gravel,
Mind your eyes!
I'm the cock of the walk,
And the henbird of the
Goddess of Liberty;
The only gallinaceous
Il pluribus unum
On record.
IN an eagle from Eagleville,
With scream on me that makes
Thunder sound like
Dropping cotton
On a still morning,
And my present address is
Hail Columbia,
u. S. A.
See! New York Sun
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
Express Packages burned

Richmond Especially "A carload
of express packages bound from New
York for Richmond and other South.
ern points was burned on the Rich.
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
tracks near Brooks Station. Accord.
ing to information received at head
quarters here, the car and contents
are a total loss.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
Ask Your Dealer For Alien. Foo

Ask four Dealer For Aliens Foot Ease.
A powder. 1t rests the feet. Cures Corns,
Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Cellous, Aching
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails Aliens
Foot-Ease ma kes new or tight shoes easy. All
all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. 40
cePt no substitute. Sample mailed FRE=
Address Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, n. Y.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
The Difference.

Father" asked Rollo, what is
a financier?"
A hEancier, my son, differs from
the ordinary business man in being
able TO make the Government sit up
and worry when his affairs do not go
right. Washington Star.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
To Drive Out Malaria and Bund Uu
the System

Take the Old Standard GROVES TAsrR-
LESS Guilt TONIC You know what Won
are taking. The formula is plainly printed
on every bottle, showing, it is simply Out
most etfectual FORM For grown people
and children. SIC
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

HY NOT let this In
dependence Day be
one on which the
hostess, too, de-
clares her indie
pendence, on which
she resolves to no
longer be bound in
SerVitude bV tho old
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
THE EAGLE SCREAMS.

am the American Eagle.
And my wings flap together.
Likewise, l roOst high,
And / eat bananas raw.
Rome may SIT on her
Seven hills and howl,
But she can not
Sit on Mel
Will she please put that
In her organ and grind 10?
] am mostly bird of peace
And j was born without teeth.
But Pve got talons
That reach from the storm
Beaten coasts of the Atlantic
10 the golden shores OF the
Placid Pacific,
And ! use the Rocky Mountains
As whetstones 20 sharpen them on.
! never caclde till
Lay an egg.
And l point with pride
10 the eggs I've laid
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

A woman wants a course dinner
If one of them has to be bread and
butter.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

FITS, ST. Vitus'Dance: Nervous Diseases per-
manentlycured by DR.. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. - trial bottle and treatise free.
Dr. H. r. Kline Id. 1881 Arch ST., PhilR., Pa.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrupfor Children
teething, softens thegums, reducesinfamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind colo, Csc "a bottle
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

The incest kind of a girl to kiss
is the one whose mother thinks she
wouldn't.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

A man will take his own religion
or politics on faith, but he insists
upon the other fellow reasoning his
ont
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
Or Get Run Over.

The world is usually willing to step
aside for a man who knows where
he Is going
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

There is hardly anything that a
woman enjoys more than doing some
thing for charity that it wouldn't be
right to do for anything else.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
ComDarison of Kisses.

Even an onion kiss in Texas is
better than wintergreen kiss in
Marvellous Manhattan. - Houston
Post.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

Clothes do not make the man, but
sometimes his wife's clothes unmake
him.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
pudIne Cures Women's

Hicks Capudine Cures Women's
Monthly Pains, Backache. Nervousness,
diately. Prescribed by physicians with best
results. loo, $50. and Soc, at drug stores.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

Hicks Capudine Cures Headache,
Whether from Cold, Heat, Stomach, OF
Mental Strain. No Acetanilid or dangerous
drugs It's Liquid Effects Immediately.
l0c., 25c., and Soc. at drug stores.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

Never borrow a crowbar for the
purpose of prying into the affairs of
others.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
ROADS ON HILLS.
How They May Be Protected from
Outlying.

Where, the road is built on steep
grade some provision should be made
to prevent the washing Of the cutters
into deep gullies. This can be done
by paving the bottoms and sides Of
the cutters with brick or field stones.
In order to make the flow as small as
possible In side bitches it is often adj
visable to construct frequent outlets
into the adjacent fields or streams, or
If possible. to lay underground pipes
or blind drains with screened open
ingy into side bitches at frequent in
tervals. The size of side bitches
should depend upon the amount of
water they are expected to carry. II
possible they should be located at
least three, feet from the edge of the
Travelled roadway.
ual fall of at least half a foot in
every 100 feet. Their sides, particu-
larly those sloping toward the road
way. should be broad and flaring, so as
to prevent accidents as well as the
caving In Of their banks. Their bot
toms should be wide enough to carry
the largest amount of water that is
likel to flow through them at any one
time. Sometimes the only bitches
necessary to carry of the surface
water are those made with the road
machine. The blade of the machine
may be set at any desired angle, and
when drawn along by horses or by a
traction engine cuts into the surface
and spreads the earth uniformly over
the travelled way.-Bulletin Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
PULP WASTE IN THE sAwMlrts
Invention May Relieve Drain or
country's Paper Supply.

Washington.-To insure a pulp wood
supply to meet adequately the future
needs of the country seems one of the
most important of the many forest
problems of the United States. Sta
tistics collected by government -ex-
perts, however, show that there are
possibilities in the field of invention
for the relief of the drain on the
county's remaining pulp-wood forests
by deyising means of utilizing saw
mill waste.
1t is estimated that there are 4,500,-
900 cords of slabs destroyed in refuse
burners of the lumber mills of the
country each year. The wood used
for pulp last year amounted to ap-
proximately 100000 cords, about a
quarter of which had to be imported.
The mill waste estimate is based on a
recent canvass of some of the larger
mills of the country by the
United States forest service, which
established the interesting fact that
mills having an aggregate cut OF
40,0O0,000 board feet had final
waste of 100000 cords of slabs after
the best had been used for lath.
Assuming these mills to be repre-
sentative, it is seen that there is still
considerable waste in forest products
at the mill, even after the earnest
efforts of lumbermen during the last
ten years to bring about closer utili.
cation of the whole tree.
The slab residue from the lumber
cut of the country is estimated to
amount to about 100000 cords. OF
which about 100000, with an aver
age value of $50 cord. is sold for
fuel, 100000 burned by the mills for
fuel. and 100000 sent to the refuse
burners. This last figure shows the
enormous quantity OF forest product
that is pure waste.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
HISTORIC SPRING DRYING UP.
Pennsylvania Drought Threatens Wa.
ter That Served Washington's Men.

Bethlehem, Pa.-For the first time
in the history of the country, the
spring which at one time served
Washington's army is drying up and
this borough is threatened with a
water famine.
Since 1741 this historic spring has
supplied the borough with water
Before that its banks we're a council
spot for the Indians Never has 1t
been known to fail as a water source
The present drought, which has
parched this part of the country for
weeks. is blamed for the springs fail
ure to supply its usual quota.
In the searly days when scouts and
trappers traced through the country
the spring was landmark. Many
times its clear, bubbling waters have
been stained with blood, shed In fierce
encounter between red men and
whites.
Washington tired troopers while
retreating before the victory flushed
army of British paused Ito quaff 8
crystal draught, and 1t is said THAI
even Gen. George Washington dranl
deep of it's water from dipper fash
Toned by birch bark
But now the spring is gradually
failing and there are only II inche:
of water In the reservoir which has
been built about It.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19

Total Annual Output Of State Is Esti
mated at $4,000 Skins.

Bangor, Me.-About $4,000 fox skins
are sold out Of Maine every year. Very
few of the sly animals are shot. Many
are killed by the use Of poisoned bait.
while hundreds of others are killed in
drives" known as the New Hamp-
shire method" This is not sportsman
like, but the fur hunters are in the
game for cash, not sport.
No accurate statistics are available
Maine in year, but some time ago
Charles E. Oak of Caribou. then land
agent, said before a committee hearing
that more than $4,000 fox skins were
sold out of Aroostook county alone
every year. Outside of Aroostook
county, where several men make a
business OF fox hunting, perhaps 25,.
900 pelts are taken IN a year, making
the total output of the state $4,000.
The price of good fox skins reached
highest notch last winter, even red
pe1ts commanding from $3.50 to IS
each, as against $3.50 two years ago.
and $3.50 five years ago. For silver
grays, which are rare, and blacks
which are very rare, prices remain
very much as in former years, though
the rates have advanced somewhat
and the market Is much steadier since
the close Of the war between Japan
and Russia, as nearly ali these ex-
pensive skins are marketed in Russia.
One fox skin In 200 is from q cross
fox and Is valued at $50; one in TO-.
900 is silver gray and is worth from
5000 to $500, and perhaps one in 500.
900 Is a pure and radiant black, which
may bring $500 or even $1,000, thus
making the coat Of the black fox the
most valuable garment worn by any
animal on top of the earth.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
FARM NOTES.


See that no one> disturbs the birds
on your farm. They are your best
friends.
Sell off few of the common rams If
you are raising sheep and invest the
money in one good animal
While blackstrap molasses can be
safely fed to grown cattle or horses,
care should be exercised in feeding II
to young stock.
Flies in daytime and mosquitoes at
night make stock lose flesh. Stables
can easily be screened and at nominal
cost.
Sunlight and air and cleanliness are
the cheapest of all disinfectants.
Black knot in plums and apple can
ker can be cured by judicious pruning
and spraying
Keep the garden free from weeds
until after frost.
For the protection Of the weaker
members of the flock grain should be
well scattered when feeding fowls.
Clean up the poultry houses and
whitewash them before frost.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
Treat smutty Seed Wheat.

II 1t is necessary to sow seed wheat
from crop which has been attacked
by sinking smut the seed should first
be treated with foFmalin. One pint
Of formalin in 40 gallons water will
treat so bushels OF wheat. Spread it
out on clean, tight floor previously
sterilized with the formalin solution.
Sprinkle thoroughly until every kerr
mel is wet. Sprinkling should be re-
peated until at least three quarts OF
solution per bushel of grain have been
absorbed. Cover the pile with cloth
Or canvas for two hours, then shovel
the grain over at intervals to dry II
and SOW at once All bags and shovels
used in handling the grain must be
carefully dfsinfected.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
SAVING Choice Seed.

have found it good plan to save
my own vegetable seed. One not only
saves many pennies, but knows just
what he is planting. The finest choice
tomatoes, cucumbers. etc.. are saved
for seed. Seed cucumbers growing
near the roots produce better and shed
less of their blossoms. never pick
a bean to use of of hills kept for
seed and those beans growing farthest
from the main vines are rejected. The
esult is beans from the roots to the tip
err. of the vines. Cabbage, beets
ra ~ IS, turnips, etc, are planted out
early in spring to produce seed and
the tops are staked to prevent falling
to the ground
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19

grindstone crank on one end and a
pinion on the other. Two strong posts
were set in the ground and the barrel
hung over two pieces of round iron
driven into the posts, says Farm and
Home. A square hole was cut on side
Of barrel and covered with a piece of
sheet iron hinged and button to
fasten.
The sand and cement were damp
ened, shoveled into the barrel and a
boy turned the crank The mixing
was done as fast as two men could
mold, with boy to sprinkle the
brick to prevent drying too fast.
Enough brick were made in two days
to build a shed 16x16 feet The cost
was not half that of lumber. The
brickiayer who laid the brick said
they were the best he ever. laid.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
HANDLING the straw stack.

Have the stacking yard as near the
barn as possible and fence it off from
the barnyard. Clean up around the
bottom of the straw stack so the stock
will begin to eat there. Do not allow
any stock to sleep in the stack yard
at night. By keeping it clean around
the stack the cattle will lick up all
the chaff and grain and at night you
will have about enough loose straw
to bed down the stock, which will
leave the stack yard clean for the
next morning. There is no waste OF
straw by this method and it is con.
verted into feed and manure with no
extra labor.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
olllNo PUBLIC ROADS.
Proving One of the Best Means Of
Producing DustIess Highway.

The application of crude oil to dirt
roads has been experimental with In
several states and it is now agreed
that it affords one of the best means
of producing solid, dustless highway
that will not break through in wet
weather Where the roads are very
sandy, an application of heavy loan
or clay is necessary.
The road is graded and well firmed,
being first plowed and pulverized to a
depth of four or five inches. Oil is
applied with sprinkler and harrow
follows the sprinkler to mix the soil
and oil. In tests in Kansas, says the
Farm and Home, heavy oiling was
given about October 1 to the amount
of about one gallon for each square
yard. The road was narrowed after
the sprinkler and aweek later 12-ton
steam roller was run over the road
several times, making it : thoroughly
firm.
After being closed one week, the
road was opened to all kinds of heavy
traffic and proved to be firm but not
dusty. Fast horses did not tear VI
the soil with their shoes. This road
was not affected by winter freezing
the coating of oil keeping the road dr..
and preventing heaving by frost.
The following June the surface. or
becoming dry, carried a light coat 0
dust which required Cne-half gallon o.
oil per square yard to thoroughly set
tie. The road stood heavy traffic dur
ing the entire season and was prac
tically free from dust. Light applica
tons of oil after merely grading up 6
road with the scraper and later roll
ing it down heavily have given Elk
cellent results. the most ,saisfactor,
features being that these roads were
almost entirely dustless.
The oil used on the tests in Kansa,
cost one and one-half cents per gallon
at the refinery or three cents when ap
piled. The cost of grading and oilint
the road varied from $500 to $3.50;
per mile, according to-distauce from
shipping point, cost of labor, etc.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
Mot = Death in Big Family.

Washington, Pa-The reunion Of
the family of Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis B..
johnson, held At the Johnson home
stead, in Cumberland township, Green
county to-day. was attended by all the
"a descendants Of the aged couple. con-
-sisting Of nine children, 65 grandchil-
.dren, ann 10 great-grandchildren.
A most remarkable circumstance in
connection with the family history is
that there has not been q single death
In the family.
Ellis B. johnson IL now 81 years OF
age, while Mrs. johnson Is SO. They
have .hesn. married for IS years
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
Guard for Neck Yoke.

tapering, while the end In front of the
neck yoke should have a shoulder one
inch long so the neck yoke ring can
pass under in case of the tugs becom-
ing unfastened.
This safety iron will catch the ring
every time, yet the neck yoke can be
PIT on or. taken on over it in ordinary
cases where rings are of the usual
size. We consider this better ar
rangement, says the Prairie Farmer,
than springs or loose bolt through
the tongue that will get bent and
make trouble.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
Get. Drunk on White Lime.

Sioux City.-Unenviable distinction
is accorded John Shea Since June 1,
s02, he has been arrested 81 times,
each time for intoxication. White lime
Is the cause Of his downfall. II is
said he drinks the stun by the pint
ss3Ie IL a harmless character. and at one
~ ime was prosperous farmer 1t is
Asaid that family troubles drove him to
sirink. For the 81 times that he has
.1,een arrested he has been sentenced
he go days in the county Jail.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
GUARD AGAINST FALLING TONGUE
Good Way TO Prevent a Freqeunt
Cause of Trouble.

To prevent the wagon tongue that is
not bolted to the neck yoke from fall
ing down when the tugs come un-
hitched or the doubletrees or single
trees break causing runaways or other
trouble, simply drill holes through the
end of the tongue irons and bore out
the wood. Have narrow piece of iron
one-half inch thick made to fit on the
lower side Of the tongue with holes
to correspond with the holes in the
tongue irons.
The front end of the iron should be
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19
The .Low-Down Wagon.

shown. For the platform, explains
Farm Journal, two poles IL feet long
are used. At two feet from the upper
end holes are bored and the poles Sfe
pinned to the crosspiece, the ends rest
ing on the bolster about two inches
from the standards. The rear wheels
are 15 inches in diameter. put on an
iron axle.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-11-19

The mortality OF Congo Free State
white employees is 35 per cent. in
Lower Congo and so per cent. in Up
Ter Congo, as recognized by Com
landant Charles Lemaire, the famous
Belgian explorer and authority on all
African questions.
The real. the terrible, the unavoid-
a BILE danger lis the African fever. Very
few white people can say that they
have visited the center of Africa
without having fallen I'LL with this
,rrible disease. Among thousands
of explorers and hunters hardly any
have been spared 8rom It, and these
for some special reason or for an ex-
1raordinary physical constitution.
"Dr. Henry Drummond. one of the
most intelligent African travellers,
speaking of this, says: I never knew
aof a white man who lived In Central
Africa three months without a dan
gerous attack Of the fever
The same is repeated by Mai
Charles Lemaire, the famous Belgian
explorer, and by James Edward Alex.
ander. Henry Rowiey. c. D. Lamp
hugh and William Walter Fitzgerald
men that have crossed Africa sew.
eral times and have explored East
Africa. An agree to the fact that no
body, under normal conditions, can
be spared from the fever"