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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
PLUCKY LAD EN0URES PAIN
Washington Soy, Refusing Anesthetie,
Does Not Finch While Under
going Operation.

Dayton. Wash, When l7.year-oid
Holsey Fouts was operated on for a
painful affection OF the feet and low er
limbs, he sIoutly refused 10 take an
anesthetic. DR. DCnahou finally
agreed to perform the tedious opera.
ton in face of this handicap The
youngster was strapped to the table
without removing his coat.
Suffering most excrueiating pain,
young Fouts uttered never sound,
but when the operation was over the
physician took ragged coat sleeve
out OF the lads mouth. He had most
of the sleeve between his teeth and
II was bitten to shreds,
The boys father stood near during
the operation and when he saw the
surgeon pull the sleeve from his sons
mouth, tainted away,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Good Law That Should Be Entor.

Good Law That Should Be Enfors
Anti-spitting ordinances, laws ami
regulations in more than five.eighh
of the cities and towns of the countu
are not enforced as they should b
alleges the National Association fr
the Study of tuberculosis in recsut
report. While most of the larger CITIES
of the United States have such laws
on their books, in the great majority
of cases they are ignored or over.
looked. The report covers in detail
the enforcement Of the anti,spittHg
ordinances in so of the largest cities
in the country. During the year 100!
in these 80 cities, 3,421 arrests wers
made for violation of the laws regard
ing splitting in public places, Owe
1900 convictions were secured ami
S4,100.S7 was collected in fines.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22

as the domestic cigar is to many OF
them. The cigarette would cease to
be the popular smoke 1t is If the price
were not five cents. Shoe laces would
either become luxury at a higher
price or require payment in pennies,
Turn which way one will, the FIVE
cent piece hobs up at every turn as
the most necessary coin of the realm.
Its discontinuance would inevitably in
crease the cost of thousand things
of every day life, which no dealer
now has the daring to change because
of riveted custom. There is no likeli-
hood that the government will soon
consider the elimination of this coin.
as such action would result In howl
of d!sapproval nationwide.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Old Custom Kept in London

service Tor a piece of land in Shrop.
shire.
Originally the crown demanded two
knives by way of quit rent, but when
the corporation bought the land It
substituted for the knives a sbarn
ratchet and dull billhook, and these
We're offered this year The sharp
ness OF the Ratchet and the bluntness
OF the billhook were duly attested bv
the city solicitor upon bundle of
twigs.
BY a pious fraud the horseshoes ard
nails are handed back to the civ
every year to be presented afresh, but
the Ratchet and billhook are often re-.
newed, and this year they were pre-
scented as a souvenir to the lady may.
Dress,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Mrs Fairbanks Says Court Ladies
Wore French Creations When
They Entertained Her.

New York.-Mrs Charles Warren
Fairbanks, wife of the former vice.
president of the United States inst
back from their rouud-the-world trim
declared in an interview given out
here the other day that she found in
every country she visited a wonderful
awakening among women.
The change is most notable IN
China and Japan" said Mrs Fair.
banks, The Chinese women ora
forging rapidly to the front, and II
won't be long before they are heard
from in alliance with the women Of
other countries.
The Japanese women are nv M
means cumberers of the ground The
lower classes do everything that men
do. working beside them in the feld
carrying bricks and mortar. and assist,
ing in all the labors of the stronger
sex
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Lonshorns Almost Gone

Del Rio, Textile long-horned cat.
tie nave disappeared on the range in
IeXas and are gradually going tho
same way in Old Mexico. They arc
oe'ng graded up until the high grades
and thoroughbreds of Hoisteins Hero
lords, Polled Angus, Durhams and Ter.
seys have taken their place, A bota,
at Abilene has pair of long horns
from Coahuila, Mexico, that measrra
nVe feet from tip to tip. These sneot,
mems are rare, and will soon be nnm.
bered with old-time COW men. the b,,.
ialo antelope, lobo wolf and Indians
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Six Ponderous Horseshoes, of Ancient
Date, rendered as Quit Rent
for Smithy.

London.-Stx porderous hCrseshoes.
more than 500 years old. have been
rendered to the crown by the city of
London corporation by way OF quit
rent for a bygone smithy in the
Strand. and at the same time the city
solicitor counted out 81 nails. which
the kings remembrancer pronounced
10 be good number"
The scene of the ceremony was the
royal courts of justice and among the
arowds OF interested onlookers were
he lady mayoress aud her two daugh.
ters. The corporation also did feudal
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
rrom statements mada b

From statements made b, IAN
ers and operators, the wage dispute II
the Pittsburg district Of the United
Mine Workers of America may be set
tied tentatively within week or so
despite the breaking of Of negotia
lions.
The state senate OF New York has
gone on record as In favor OF thor
ough investigation into all allegations
OF corruption in the legislature.
The First State Bank OF Haskell
Oklahoma. was robbed Of $500 early
Saturday. In leaving the bank. after
having blown the safe. the robbers
dropped a sack Of silver containing
$3.50. The robbers failed TO find 49,
900 In currency In another compart
ment OF the safe
Distinguished as the first OF the tor
pedo boat destroyer feet TO be equip.
bed with burners for burning oil ex.
clusiyely. the Paulding was launched
on Tuesday by the Bath Iron works al
Bath, Maine.
Veterans og the Civil war. those who
wore the blue aud the gray az the
battle Of Gettysburg, will meet again
on that famous battlefield this year
II the movement started by Lieutenant
Colonel ]. A. Walrous, u. 3. A., Is car
ried out.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22

Ids, MINI. @iE b,
Brookville, Ohio.-"I WAC T.,
and extremely nervous, 4 n nds9g
recommended Lydia e. pi He
Vegetable Compound to me ann
become regular and NV r"r u NJ
much better. Mrs. X KS nDSs y
Brookville, Ohio. saiEG
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vepetah,. a
pound, made from natiys rnus. Vas
herbs, contains no narcotic -O ~ I Y
full drugs, and to-day holds tb y, , mts
for the largest number of actn.i I' "
of female diseases we know 1 !. Veia "
thousands of voluntary test,n ~ "
are on file in the Pinkham lahomua.
at Lynn, Mass, from women wS0ss
been cured from almost every fnv ~ !,
female complaints, infiammst iC,l Y
ceration, displacements, fibroid tUn,ss
Irregularities, periodic pains bacEas S.
Indigestion and nervous prostrs s.
Every suffering woman owes ii toS.
self to give Lydia E. Pinkhaul;s' W. ~
table Compound a trial w
If you want special advice v,,t
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. fo,i
1t is free and always helpful
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Study Of Grasshoppers and TadpoIes
Takes Up Too Much Time Of
School Children.

New York-John J. Fox, chairman
OF local school board No. &c. borough
of the Bronx, has discovered a peril
perfectly new peril Prominent in it
Is the tadpole, abetted by the grass
hopper and backed up by the cater
pillar Mr. Fox finds that our school
children study such things too much.
neglecting what is really worth while
The other night he introduced a
resolution before the board of which
he is chairman asking that it be adopt
ed and a copy sent to the board of
education. The resolution reads:
Resolved. That we, the members of
local school board No. &c, having in
mind the interest of the parents and
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Overhenpecked.

Former Governor Pennypacker, dis
cussing at a dinner in Philadelphia
the divorce evil, said with his humur
Gus smile:
Perhaps there would be less d.
vorce if human nature we're more per,
feet. Some women, you know, hen.
peck their husbands. There is, for eS.
ample, a Bucks county farmer who
said the other day that he would Ger.
tainly apply for a divorce only bis
wife wouldn't let him."
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Music Helps Make CIGARS

south Bethlehem. Pa.-Sustainine
the logic OF Dixie, where music makes
the plantation hands work faster n
local cigar factory here has mt in .
pipe organ worked by electricity to
try Its continuous music on several
hundred employees. -
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Woman Hides Money in Hair

l was particularly impressed bv the
empress OF Japan. She wears European
oFess' and not only she. but all the
ladies' Of the court were gowned in
US" '"ileo
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
lnnortant to Mothers.


Maye--Which would you rather mar
ry-a rich bachelor or a rich widoWer!
Joy-The widower. He will have
learned to give up without strus'
gle.-Cleveland Leader.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22

Perhaps the woman whose friends
talked her to death felt that she had
20 die in self,defenss.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22

Russia while discouraging primay-
education, is still wonderipg wbn
tie Japan was able to defea, it in war
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and lnvs
crate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-eos81
tiny granules, easy to take as CANDY
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22

No, Cordelia, rain checks never
check the rain.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22

Nothing IS so discouraging as unro.
warded energy.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
AFTER
SIJFFERIN|
FOR YEAR|
Cured by Lydia 8, pi,I
Vegetable Con,no','.
Park Rapids. Minn-,tI.

year years while NV
through the SSb,,
OF Life ami \
hardly hardly, able ' M
s around. After
ing e.. six botstSj,e' .
lydia Z. Pi hisis |
V table ~
pound pound I gsinsS,
pounds an
able to do M nv 7 !,
" ork ands,I
LA Don pa ,.S
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
Enhancement BANGLE,

MISUNDERSTANDING the strong
feminist movement in England among
a certain smart set of girls, it is now
considered the proper thing doubly
to advertise ones engagement by a
wrist bangle as we'll as an engagement
ring, and sometimes even an ankle
bracelet is included among the golden
manacles proclaiming engagement
bondage. The stronger minded Eng
fish women are indignant at this latest
fad on the part of their weaker sis
tiers.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22

Character Above Money.
The essential thing is not money,
but characterize Conte.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28
TROPHY FOR SWIMMERS.
$4,000 Loving Cup Hung Up By Presi-
dent of Illinois Athletic Club.

William Hale Thompson, first pres
ident of the Illinois Athletic Club, has
hung up $1,000 silver loving cup as
a perpetual trophy for the annual
Chicago river marathon of the Hin
OILS Athletic Club, which today an
nounced the date for this years event
as Saturday, Aug. IS.
The trophy, which is near compile
ton, is the costliest prize ever given
for swimming competition and with
one exception the most valuable tro-
ply ever offered in amateur athletics
in America. The exception is the ia
nous Busch cup, captured by the Ill
inois Athletic Club at st. Louis two
years ago. The Busch trophy cost
$1,000.
Entry blanks ror this years Chi
cago river marathon swimming race
issued today announced the fact that
Mr.. Thompson has offered the cup,
the announcement being intended as
an agreeable surprise to members of
the lake front club.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28
WALSH NEEDS A REST.
Big White SOx Twirler is Nervous
and Ought to BE Given a Vacation.

Big Ed Walsh the star twirler of
the White Sox is disheartened. The
reverses that the Speed Boys" hand
ed him last week have completely
upset the Connecticut boy. These
together with the death of his brother
have rendered the former spitball
wonder bereft of his old-time effect
iveness.
Walsh was formerly one of the
most feared pitchers in the league
and especially to the Red Sox, but his
depressed feelings lately make him as
easy as the others.
II know l am not right" says the
star slab man, "but l just can't help
it. The boys know l would do any
think in the world for them and I am
personally attached to Comiskey. He
knows l will never desert him. But |
think / owe 1t to the team and myself
to take good furlough. When | left
home l knew l did not feel like my
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28
SPADE HAS SEEN SERVICE.
Cincinnati Pitcher Has Been Mem.
her of Six Different Clubs Since
His Debut.

Although Bob Spade has never
pitched for but two big league teams
he has belonged to six clubs in the
major organization. Several years
ago, when Bob was pitching for Kent,
his admirers thought him big league
stuff and Manager Clark Griffith was
induced to give him a trial. Griffith
had him report, and looked him over
for Jew days, after which he return
ed him TO Kent. me following sea-
son Fielder Jones took him in tow
for time, but let him go without
pithing in a championship game.
In the meantime Jack Bracken,
once Cleveland American, had been
let out by Little Rock to Jacksonville.
Bracken recommended Spade to Man
ager Fender of the Jax, and the lat
ter signed him. Spade pitched good
ball, but his arm went back on him
and he was traded to Macon. He then
became an outfielder and did so well,
pitching now and then on the side,
that Atlanta took him
His. work in the box for Atlanta
was such that the st. Louis Nationals
either drafted or bought him. He
failed to deliver for the Cardinals,
and back to Dixie he went. Cincinnati
4.
brand of curves to fool big leaguers,
and gave him trial. That was in
1908. His work at the start of the sea-
son was Indifferent and Manager Gan
eel asked for waivers,
Now, when you asked for waivers
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28

in the National league at that time
you had to go through with it. Man
ager McGraw of the Giants made a
claim for the Kent man. Before the
10 days were up, though, Spade pith-
ed and won four games for Cincin-
natl. The Red fans put up an awful
howl and CAMEL begged off and man
aged to square it by handing Weimer
to New York.
In 1909 Spade did not think the SAL
airy rendered him was in keeping with
the splendid work he had done for
the Reds the previous season, and he
refrained from Joining the team until
mid-season. His work was not such
that either he or the management
could enthuse. But this spring his
slab work was not much better and
when Griffith let him out not another
club in the National league wanted
him. So he drifted to the browns.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28
BEMIS Is SOME CATCHER.
Cleveland Has About the Best Man
Behind the Bat the Game Has Seen
I'm Years.

Chicago may have the greatest
catcher in John King; st. Louis may
have another in Roger Bresnahan but
to Cleveland falls the honor of pos
sessing the most perfect physical
catcher in the major leagues today.
Harry Bemis, the stocKy veteran, is
the individual of whom local baseball
lists can boast
Bemis is the most perfect physical
specimen that DR.. H. NJ. Castle, Nap
club physician, in his years of SER
vice, has ever examined. Broad-shoul-
dered, tapering waist, narrow hips,
and legs to set off the rest of his per-
son. These are the constitutional at
tributes of Bemis His body is SYM
metry personified," says DR.. Castle.
Injuries are the only causes that
ever kept Bemis out of a game. Dur
ing the playing seasons he has been
with the Maps he has never been ill.
In addition to his perfect physique,
Bemis has good baseball head, ac-
cording to DR.. Castle, and is further
regarded by the latter as the best
pinch hitte in the game
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28
WHITE, PIRATES TWlRL
Err, BENEFITED BY
CHANGE

Chicago, July 22.-According to in
formation furnished by an intimate
friend. DR.. Guy Harris White, the star
southpaw twirler of the Chicago
Americans, is to quit baseball for
good at the end of the 1910 season and
enter the field of journalism. White
recently received an alluring offer
from syndicate to write baseball
and has accepted. Should White stick
to his determination to quit the dia-
mond the White SoX pitching staff
will be greatly weakened by his alb
sence. The doctor is considered the
premier left hand pitcher in the
American league. He has everything
that a slabbist needs-good control,
speed and a collection of benders that
have caused many heavy sluggers to
stretch their arms in order to con-
meet with the sphere. White has writ
ten several entertaining baseball
stories covering the technical side of
the national game.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28
WAGNER IN BRONZE.
Statuettes of Famus Pittsburg Short
stop to Be Cast By Boston Sculptor.

Statuettes OF FamuS PIttSburg Snort
stop to Be Cast By Boston Sculptor.
Baseball fans are to have an oppor-
tunity to buy copies or the bronze
likeness of "Honus' Wagner by w.
Clarke Noble, the eminent Boston
sculptor and presented to the famous
Pittsburg shortstop as a token of
esteem from his teammates. Mr.
Noble recently conceived the idea of
making originals of some of the more
prominent of the major league base
ball stars, and spoke to Manager
Clarke, of the Pittsburg team about it.
Mr.. Clarke was greatly pleased with
the idea and ordered the likeness.
The statuette is about sixeen
inches high, and is an excellent like
ness of the famous ball-tosser, every
detail of facial and batting character
istics having been carefully studied
by the sculptor and brought out in the
cast. 1t is proposed putting these on
the market in the near future, and
later Mr.. Noble will probably make
statuettes of other famous players.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28
PITCHER WHITE OF CHI
CAGO, WHO SAYS HE
INTENDS TO QUIT

Pittsburg. July 22,-It has often
said that IL change of scene benefits
basebpii Tlayer. Such has been the
case with Kirby White of tic Pitts
burg Nationals. Last fall he twirled
good ball for the Boston Doves, but
his showing in the carry part of the
1910 campaign was very poor, and he
was sold to the Pirates in May. Since
joining Fred Clarke's Buccaneers
White has pitched consistently good
ball and, next to Camnitz, is regarded
as the most dependable twirler on the
Pittsburg staff. Recently Manager
Clarke stated that he considered
White one of the most promising
young pitchers in the big leagues to-
day
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28

CHARACTER STUDY of FRANK CHANCE
MAMA, Il OF CUBS
1t to regain the tad with such teams
as the Athletics. New York and Boston
ahead of it and all going at a winning
clip.
From present Indications 1t looks as
III there was an excellent chance of the
American league race being won by an
eastern team. The Athletics are run
ming race that will be hard to beat,
but New York is sticking pretty close,
and the Bostonians are playing in
great form. With these three teams in
such grand shape Detroit does not look
to have chance at present, but Jen-
nings' crew have been further back
than they are now and won out. They
still have chance to repeat unless the
other three clubs continue their win
ming career.
OF the Athletics. New York and Bos~
ton, the former appears the strongest
and if Mack's pitchers hold out and no
accidents occur to weaken the infeld
the Athletics have a splendid chance
to capture their third championship
pennant
The American league race looks like
a close contest to the finish and the
team with the staying qualities will
win out
The National league race is almost
as big problem to solve as the Amer
lean. Chicago looks to have the best
chance at present, but New York Is
making great fight, and the Pirates
have at last shown something of their
last seasons form. The Giants have
been playing in and out ball. however,
and with a pitching staff that cannot
be relied upon outside of Mathewson,
McGraw's clan appears to have a con-
tract on its hands that it can hardly
fill.
BY bolstering up his pitching stafr
Frank Chance put the Cubs in the
running again. and the teams hitting
strength and ability to play inside base
ball make 1t a strong choice for the
pennant. Weakness In the box has
practically kept the Pirates out of the
race so far this season, but with a
half season to go the Pirates may
make strong finish. and If the pitch
ers regain their form Chicago and New
York will have to keep hustling to bar
the Pirates out of first place.
New York's weakness so far has
been against second division teams,
Boston and Brooklyn throwing several
tolts into the Giants aspirations
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28
Killing COMPLETES LEAGUE.
Cub Catcher Makes Arrangements for
Three Cushion Billiard COmbina-

Johnny King. catcher of the Chic
ago Cubs, has perfected the organiza-
ton of the National Amateur Three
Cushion league, which will take it's
place in the billiard world next Nov
ember. The new leagues circuit will
include eight cities-Kansas City,
Chicago, st. Louis and Pittsburg in
the West, and New York, BROOKLYN,
Boston and Philadelphia in the East.
King has been working for such an
association ever since he Joined the
Chicago Club this spring While in
the East on the Cubs last trip he
rounded up the four cities from this
section of the country, then succeed
ed in interesting Pittsburg. Last week
he secured the promise of St. Louis
billiardists to go into the organiza-
ton. A meeting will be held at the
close of the baseball season, when
officers will be elected,
King already has made out a
schedule, which probably will be fol-
lowed. The season will open the first
day Of November and close on April
6. Four teams will be engaged in the
opening series Kansas City playing at
Plttsburg and Boston at New York
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-28

to perfection, and when the Brookline
boy has had the experience that Con-
neff had had the experience that Con
neff had had before making his pres
ent figures, his friends assert that he
too, may run in record-breaking fash
ion. He is but % years Of age and
from the form already displayed by
him gives promise of eventually plao,
ing new figures on the record bo1R
for the mile. On this matter, however,
he is very modest. for when asked
about the likelihood of such a feat
said: 81 am in no hurry to say such
task. 1t may be that some day shall
run in record time, but it viii only be
when l am compelled to do so in n
race. Then / shall not know it till it
is over. Till that time, if it ever does
come, my efforts will be devoted to
doing the best J can whenever | step
on the marx