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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05
Aeov's t4ARpsAlPs.

gt'S hard 70 always ~ polite.
Ard nsver bang the Doors:
AID not forget 70 take my cap
RigAe ~ TO vis-tterh
Ard walt I'LL ! am spoksa %.
Bsfere I ever speak.
q ! "a that Just every tiins
Why ! might walt . wsski
It's hasa to let tbs g15is - arst
when cake b paased-I'vs found
fhs biggsst pasce b always rome
When my turn comes aroundI
IT'S hard to study all the Tina,
Except when I'm at play.
3ust because I'm gpinG to b
Our president some dayl
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05

On the Fourth Of July last year .
boy living In Lexington. Mich. st oat
- drink all the lemonade hs wanted.
In the course Of an hour he drank II
icecold glasses. and that's the reason
hi parents haven't got . boy named
Frank now. II doesn't seem - II .
fsw glasses 81 Lemonade ought to hurt
. boy. bat you cant always ten.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05

X Judse-was there any other person
with you in thisf Did you commit
the robbery quite aiousf
Prisoner-Alone. quite alone. Judge.
You sse. the trouble about having .
partner in an AFFAIR like this Il that
You can never tell whether he il hon
est or mot.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05
SKIPPING ROPE TURNS ITSELF


This skipping rops. N attrastioa for
youag psapae ct ons of The annsemsa&
places b London. b not only mecAan3-
~ but automatic = wsll. TAs rops
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05

Room and bath. sir" sail tie hntsa
cassk politely. ~ . day"
II said rpom and bawth, young
man.. intsfruptsA the pompoas man
,-Undsrstanl-baMth!" E
.@CA, room and bswth9 BEG pardon.
IN. Thea the rates win - Is Aay.-
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05
A ohsil GAME.

No more the old hen lays for ~
With cacklinys and With fuss.
ohs's In corner now and it's
Tho aGg trust lays for u.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05

He thesGht he saw an antisrsd stAs
And - ~ Arsd his gun:
He lcsksd aSaia and saw It was
T6e Village barberfs eon.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05
Poetic 0etsjhl1tieN

-TAat fellow les . psresee iteAin(
for o0cs."
.Thsn Il ssrved HIN risAt - -
0oraAeAo6 - ~ hekoSs
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05

He-Hs y very popular win ths
xeaker ga. u he notf
ohe-Why. 10! Every man I know
aetsets him.-JuAss.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05

How came such duck oe . Girl b
marry that phonsy doctorf'
why notf Isn't n natural to nnd ;
Auck with . Quack?" ~
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05
Hand snd Feet

'emithsoai has . nice ID q h
hands"
what IL III"
'-To Pat his married son q his fsst"
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05

'who was The Woman With the
ssrpsnt's Tougue'f"
The Woman with the Ssrpsnt,s
FEaaknsf- That must have .bssa Cleo.
patfa."
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-03-05

'whAt % yoa think aAost tbs, fail-
nre 70 supply the city WITH aNnsw
flroboati"
4 tAi.x thsrs are bound TO ~ sons
burning regrsts.s
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16

bureau of labor of the department of
commerce and labor for years past.
The statistics were based on the
wholesale price of commodities. The
department of Agriculture has now
taken up the question of retail prices,
and has already shown evidence to
the effect that the retailer is the man
who has been boosting the prices.
Secretary is Convinced.
Secretary Wilson is convinced there
are combinations among retailers that
are fully as effective in raising prices
as are those known to exist among
manufacturers and jobbers, who are
responsible for the paradox of caus-
ing oranges to be as high in price in
California as they are thousands of
miles away. But this question hardly
comes within the scope of his depart
ment, and he is chiefly interested in
showing why the cost of living has in
creased so rapidly in the last few
years, and in locating thu RESPONSE
bility.
There has been an increase in the
value of land upon which cattle may
be raised, and an increase in the price
of corn. due in part to a wider use OF
that cereal. The relative reduction of
meat compared with population dur
ing the past seventy years is another
factor in increasing the price of one
third of the distary list of the Ameri
can.
The wholesalers are not absolved
from blame by the secretary. They
have promoted many schemes which
are in spirit, if not in letter viola
ton of the Sherman antitrust law
The free deal" game is one which
broke up the department stores prac
tice of cutting the price just little
under the small retailer. The whole
salers have played an important par
in helping the retailers maintain pri
ces at an artificial high level.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16
10y Herbert Tempie.)

London, Jan 1j.-Mr. Jerome K. Jer-
ONE, the popular novelist, has come
out strongly in favor of the liberal par
ty and the abolition of the House OF
Lords. In the course of a speech to
an audience of workingmen he said
the other day:
For the first time in the history of
England. the lords have interfered
with finance: for the first time in the
history they have demanded the right
to levy your taxes. Once give the
lords the right to dictate finance. you
are giving them the right to throw out
the government whenever they like.
They say: We are only sending it
back to the people: they are the au-
thority' 1t sounds simple. but it
costs every man VINO fights an cleo
ton, 5000.
'Ninety-nine out of every hundred
rich men belong to the Conservative
party. The Conservatives don't mind
an election every year-they can af-
ford it: but the Liberal members and
the Labor members cannot afford it.
bly, take office again: it would be alb
solutely at the mercy of the House OF
Lords, which is Conservative, and will
always remain Conservative. If you
give them the right to do it this time
they will do it again: they will throw
out any budget they dislike.
If you should return the Liberal OIL
Labor party. they could not produces
any budget that they knew would pas:
the Lords. and yon can only pleas.
people. as far as money is concerned
by not touching their pockets. Ths
result would be. tina. it would be abso
lutely useless to vote for any but Con
servatives. There would be no com
petition: there would be a monopoly
I'm America there is only one butcn
er's shop. that beloI ging to the Ame-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16
ROADS WIN VICTORY
(American News Service)

Springfield. Ills, Jan. 1.-THE rail-
roads of Illinois won their first victory
in their fight against the two cent
fare rate today when Judge Humphrey
overruled the demurrer of the attor-
ney general in which the jurisdiction
of the federal court was questioned.
and held that the temporary injunction
granted the receivers of the Chicago
Peoria and St. Louis railroad against
the enforcement of the provisions of
the two cent fare law stand until fur.
Their ordered by the court.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16
IN GRIP OF STORM
american News Service)

news SeTtlCeJ
Newburyport, Mass, Jan. 15.-The
schooners M. L. Wetherell and Ada K.
Damon, both of Boston, which lie
stranded within a few hundred feet Of
each other, are being hammered to bits
by the furious seas that are flashing
this section of the Atlantic coast and
which threaten untold damage along
the local beaches and water front. AL
most a score of cottages that were I'M
dermined by the heavy seas in last
months blizzard stand defenseless in
the path of the sweeping tides. More
buildings will be damaged than in the
last storm.
Miles of the breakwater that protect
ed the cottages from the high tides
were washed away in the previous
storm and there is absolutely nothing
left to protect them from the storms
violence.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16
GOLD FOR CHARITY
(American News Service)

(Amerlcan news SerSlce)
Calcutta, Jan. 15.-Literally his
weight in gold has been given away in
charity by the fabulously wealth Ma
harajah of Nepal. 1t is custom
among Indian princes to return thanks
for recovery from serious illness by
vowing to give to the poor their weight
in gold, silver or grain, according to
their wealth.
The ingots of gold representing the
Maharajah's weight were Immediately
bought by goldsmitns. and the silver
coin paid for them was distributed
among a great crowd of beggars and
pilgrims.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16
| STRANGE LEGACY
(American News Service)

Vienna, Jan. ia mysterious leg
acy has been bequeathed by Prince
Rudolph Liechstenstein, first lord
chamberlain of the imperial court who
died some months ago. 1t is in the
form of a case Of documents securely
sealed. and supposed to be of great
historic interest 1t was left to the
Vienna Academy Of Science.
In announcing the legacy, the pre-
sident, Prof. Suss, said that there was
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16

seals were not to be broken for fifty
years. So the curiosity of the scien-
tific world will not be satisfied on the
subject until the year 1859.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16
JEROME IS 7VUW OUO7Zg LZOe7UZ
Popular English Novelist Is Greatly in Favor Of the Adolf
ton of the House of Lords, He States.

lean Meat Trust. There is only one
alternative for the American house.
wife when the price is too high: she
strikes, and goes without meat for
two or three weeks. Then the COM
mittee of the big trust meet in Chicago.
and say they must lower the price q
little: then the housewife goes on buy.
ing and the price is soon raised
again.
Workmen on the street car lines 1T
Abbey Wood unearthed several large
stones. which formed part of the wall
of Lesness Abbey. which was founded
in ITS. The abbey was one Of the
richest in England before the Refor.
nation. Members of the Woolwfeh
Antiquarian Society have discvover-
ed the foundations of the abbey
church and the bases of many pillars
la inertia in the air and then settle
plored.
A meeting of wholesale clothiers in
Lancashire was held in Manchester to-
day, to consider the Trade Boards Act.
which aims at stopping sweating in
the clothing trades.
II was decided to recommend tho
Board of Trade to establish a minimum
rate of wages for the whole Of the
trade.
Later in the month a conference will
be held in London between represents
atives from all the wholesale clothing
cen,ers in the United Kingdom and
Board of Trade officials. to deal with
certain suggested notifications in ths
Act. Leeds, Manchester. Liverpooi.
London. the Eastern Countries, Bris.
toll and Scotland will be represented.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-16

You needn't su6ee with sick hoa6aeho. ~.
gestion. constipafion or any other troo6les oyts-
Ing from Q disordered stomach. DE-. CaloWeu's
Syrup Pepsin win cure you 60d koep yo0 VEL
Tfy it-keep ie On ha0d sh0 year aso0D6.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
DENIED
THAT men
Will Enter Politics And
Make a Fight For In
creased Freight Rates.
BY United Press Wire.

Chicago, Sept. 27--Reports that the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
would enter politics and make fight
for increased freight hates IL the In
terstate commerce commission denies
the railroads application was emphat-
ically denied today by Warren s.
Stone, grand chief of the organization
while the engineers would like to
see freight rates increases; 1t is no
fight of ours and We shall take no
steps politically or otherwise" declar-
ed Stone. I'VE would like to see the
rates increased because 1t would help
to make the service better and the
road deserve higher rates 1t would
make no difference to the engineers
from wage point of view, as we will
get the increase in wages anyway"
Representatives of seventy -tworoads
every road west of Chicago, are here
to confer with the general managers
regarding the fifteen per cent. increase
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
rhrss q 4 Kind.

Duprcz, tie great but i'll hvoted
French tenor. was ontc walking from
the Grand Opera House in Paris with
the baritone Baroilhet. who was not
an Apollo either. They happened to
meet Perrot. the dancer. man OF very
great ability, but short and thin and
so ugly that n manager once said he
could never engage Perrot unless for
the Jardin des Plantes Geological gar.
dens). as he engaged no monkeys.
Perrot told them the story. and
when Duprez laughed at him Perrot
said; why. surely You need not laugh.
If | am ugly | am certainly not SO
ugly as either of you"
"You monkey" said Duprez, "this
difference shall soon be settled" And,
seeing stranger pass who appeared
to be gentleman. Monsieur" said he.
''will you be so good as to arbitrate
in q little difference of opinion be-
tween us?"
with pleasure said the stranger,
''if | can"
"Well," said Duprez. 'just look at
us and say whom you consider to be
the ugliest of the three"
The gentleman looked for some time
from one to the other and then said
"Gentlemen, | give 1t up; l cannot
possibly decide" and went away roar.
ing with laughter.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
Ra,t.r Late Than Not at All.

The pastor of the little country church
had been much annoyed by having the
members of his congregation straggie
In long after the service had begun.
One Sunday morning, when he felt that
further forbearance with this fault was
impossible, he decided TO rebuke some
conspicuous offender. About twenty
minutes later than the proper hour
there entered a mild hammered little
woman, one of the regular attendants
OF the church, but quite incorriglble In
her tardiuess. The minister looked up.
fixed her with his spectacles and re-
marked:
"Slster, you are very much behind
time. hope you will not be so late In
ttng into heaven"
The little woman looked up, smiled
sweetly and without a trace Of confu-
sion replied placdly:
81 shan't care about that, doctor, so
long as get there
And now the pastor feels that the
smile that went round the church some
how spoiled the effectiveness of his
reprlmand New York Tribune.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
A PLACID MERCHANT.
He Had Some Regard For tho Social
Side of Trade.

The summer visitor In small sea
port town was amazed and amused at
the assortment OF merchandise display
ed In the little store ut the head OF the
wharf. The showcase was devoted 10
an assortment Of candy ut one end and
a lot of cigars and tobacco at the 9th.
er end and no barrier between. Next
to the showcase stood motor engine
valued at several hundred dollars.
Thinking TO please the proprietor,
the visitor remarked that even the
large department stores In Boston
could not boast of such collection.
"Well," he said, II amt aping them
stores, can tell you. ! aim to keep
what my folks want. When a man
wants an engine for his bot he wants
II, and IL the fish are running he caIt
wait to send way to Portland or Bos,
ton for H.. He wants 1t when he does
then and there"
After little pause he continued
81 don't like the way they do business
In them big stores. anyway. Why
when you 80 into store up to Bos
ton the first thing you know some
body asks you what you want.
"Now, never do anything like that
IL man comes into my place pass
the time o. day and ask him 10 set
aud after he's set aud talked n whil'
IL he wants anything he'll tell Inc.
II never poster man to buy May
be he amt come TO buy: maybe he'
come to talk Youths Companion.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
WITTY ToAsTs.
Humorous Hits That Have Helped to
Enliven Bsnquets.


A publisher once gave the follow.
ing: woman, the falrcst work In all
creation. The edition Is large, aud no
man should be without n copy"
This Is fairly seconded by youth
who. giving his distant sweetheart.
said, "Dciectable dear, so sweet that
honey would blush IN her presence and
treacle stand appalled,"
Further, In regard to the fair sex,
we have: "Woman-she needs no GU
logy. She speaks for herself" "Wo-
man, the bitter half OF man."
In regard to matrlmony some bach
elor once gave, Marriage, the gate
through which the happy lover leaves
his enchanted ground aud returns to
earth"
At the marriage of deaf aud dumb
couple some wit wished them ''un.
speakable bliss"
At a supper given to a writer of
comedies wag said: The writer's
very good health. May he live to be
as old as his jokes"
From q law critic: "Thc bench and
the bar. IL It were not for the bar
there would be little use for the
bench"
A celebrated statesman while dining
with n duchess on her eightieth birth
day in proposing her health said
MAY you live, my lady duchess, un-
Ill you begin to grow ugly
II thank you. sir" she said, "and
may you long continue your taste for
antiquities. London Tit.Blts.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
WEST POINT UNIFORMS.
Cadets Mus, Sacrifice Comfort For the
Sake Of Looks.

Odke 81 GCONSs
at is true" said retired army OIL
Ger In discussion of West Pointers
with The Washington Herald, that
many West Pointers acquire figure
of perfection of symmetry and n car
riage the acme of manly grace, but
these are due not TO any ingenious ap-
plianccs, but to the systematic drills
und exercises that make tue cadet. to
certain extent, an athlete. At the
outset these young fellows are put
through what are called the setting
up exercises. their object being to
Straighten the body and develop the
chest. One might suppose that IL would
require great amount Of such eXer-
else TO make any marked showing, but
three long hours ur such exercise daily
will soon produce beneficial results In
the most stopped forms.
"'rhe cadet uniform IL also a great
help In this direction. The dress coat
Is tight. very tight. The shoulders are
heavily padded in order To give them
square effect The chest is made
lulCh. 30 lHUl lNeIe VIII W. no ullStl
Of wrlnklng Aud in size new dress
coat seems always to be designed for
boy several times smaller than the
one who is to wear 1t. A new dress
coat. in fact, Is always source of
suffering TO its owner When he first
puts 1t on II buttons readily about the
neck. but seems to lack about six
inches at the waist. The owner may
squlrm aud wrlggle and attempt to re
duce his waist to II minimum circum-
ference, but his maiden efforts are
never sufficient TO button tho new dress
coat. Experience is n great teacher
though. and the young fellow laugh
ingly requests one or two of his friends
to lend their assistance. and he finally
succeeds in buttoning the coat. Al
this for the sake OF looks Comfort has
no place IN the makeup OF n West
Pointer; It's discipline and looks"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
Chinese and the Morse Code.

Difficulties OF the Chinese language
were ably demonstrated when the
problem arose of adapting 1t to tele-
graphy. How was II possible TO apply
the Morse alphabet to language
which has no alphabet Mt all. but con-
sists of nearly $4,000 characters?
Then IL was impossible to treat Chi
nese phoneticolly. writing down the
sound of the Chinese words in Euro
pean letters and translating them into
Morse dots and dashes. because no
such system could deal with the Chi.
nese niceties of intonation. The in
genious solution came from Danish
professor. He simply codihed the
1000 commonest Chinese characters.
representing each by numerals Thus
the Chinese word for cash" became
6O3O IN the code. and the operator had
only TO send the code signal for that.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
WATCHED OVER BY SATAN.
Superstitions That Twine About tho
Mandrake Plant.

Mandrake Plant
The little plant the mandrake has
wealth of tradition centerlng round It
such as Is seldom found in floral lore
Quite an Insignificant little plant with
spindle shaped root often divided
into two or three forks and rudely re-
sembling the human form. It is doubt
less from this latter fact that it has
derived its name. Langhornc In the
latter part OF the eighteenth century
tells us to
Mark how the rooted mandrake wears
His human tco', his human hands.
while 1t was once believed that per
son pulling up mandrake would in.
stantly fall dead. This was said to
be because the mandrake had human
heart at its root and when pulled it
would scream In such fearsome man
ner as TO terrify the hearer to death or
else induce madness. Shakespeare
alludes to this where lie says:
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out OF
the earth.
That living moItals hearing them. run
mad
Anu hSulh III hliS iithiy VIZ
where Suffolk, asked by Queen Mar
garet whether he has not spirit to
curse his enemies. replies
Would curses kin. as doth the mandrako's
| grOan.
| would invent as bitter. searching terms
AS curst, as harsh. as horrible TO hear,
From time immemorial the man
drake has been associated with en-
chantments and has ever been be
lieved to be one of the most powerful
charms Of witches. Mr. Conway in
paper on "Mystlc Trees and Flowers
states that by popular superstltions
in some places It is said to be per
petually watched over by Satan, and
II 1t be pulled up at certain holy times
and with certain invocations the evil
spirit will appear to do the bidding of
the practitioner" - Westminster Re-
view
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
SENATOR CLAPP'!.
G OF MINNESOTA
speaks at Lafayette To-
night And Senator Bev-
eridge at Indianapolis.
Rv limited preaa wire.

i \
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept T-United
States Senator Moses II. Clapp, OF
Minnesota, left here today for Lafaye-
tte where he will begin compaign
tour in the interest of Senator Albert
j. Beveridge Clapp speaks at Lafaye-
tie tonight and will then tour north
ern Indiana. He feels a deep interest
in Beveridge and said today he incer
ely hopes the voters of Indiana will
return him to the senate to continue
tie work he is engaged in. Senator
Beveridge himself will speak here to.
night and from today on, the Beve'
ridge forces will carry on a whirlwind
campaign Senator Beveridge Is not
worrying over the report that the stee
trust will herd its 10000 workmen a.
Gary into the polls under orders tt
vote against him.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
stssd Smarter Than Soldier.

Trooper Brown of the British terri
torials was green" His horse, like
wise unaccustomed TO war, seemed
from its appearance and general struc'
ture to have been not very long ago n
dray horse But 1t was a wise animal
and had learned through experience
that to keep ones mouth shut Is to
avoid many troubles Much practice
had enabled II TO keep It's mouth shut
very successfully-and very tight On
the first morning parade In Trooper
Browns first camp the lieutenant rode
down the lines OF his company. "All
the men turned out, sergeant maJorF
he querled. "Yes, sir" said the ser
geant maior, "all except Trooper
Brown. He's waiting for his horse tc
,yawn SOS he can slip the bit in, but
tho worst OF II is, SIR, the brute doesn't
se,,lss i ldt tired ininlee Advertiser
|
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-28
Naturally.

1--WE gave our preacher n purse of
$500 last Sunday, and also beautiful
album containing the pictures and sig
natures of the people who had contrib
uted the money. He was greatly af-
fected and almost with tears stream
ing down his cheeks said he valued
the album much more than the purse"
"What happened them
ave went home with diminished con.
fidencc in our preacher."-Chicago
Record Herald.