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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-12-16

AoAs $50 ~
Thousands of people who are sufFerin,
with colds are about today. Tomnrrol[.s
they may be Frustrated with penumonis
an ounce Of prevention is worth pound
80 VI cure; yet a Is cent bottle of Nun.
yohs Cold Cure at the nearest DINO
store. This bottle may be conveniently Gre N II
carried IN the vest pocket. If Won are
h9t satisfied with the effects of the rem.
eqg' send us your empty bottle and We
TliI refund your money. MUNYON'S Cold
11te WllI speedily break up ali forms OF
II checks discharges Of the nose and eUes
sstops sneezing, allays inflammation and
teyeer, and tones up the system, ''-'1
MI you need Medical Advice write to
Mgiunyon's Doctors. They will carefuIIy
ulakno s your case and advise you by
Philadelphia, Pa. 'Hst '0h "'Fee'S'
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-12-16

When a woman refuses a man and
he takes to drink. it's a question
whether he is trying to drown his sor-
row or is celebrating his escape.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-12-16
Chamhermaid Repartee

First Chambermaid-Look You let
your pillow slip.
Second Chambermaid-No; the COW
erlet it.-Exchange.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14

the colonel, to whom, 1t is hoped, a
special Invitation will be sent 9. o. d.,
or by registered mail, so that 1t Will
DC known that he receives 1t. He Is
pold bad man, and would welcome
ehe opportunity of defying tho
scoundrel to his face: but 1t IS morally
certain that Mr.. Taft will not be there.
and we do not know OF any Demo-
Gratis except those WHO voted for
Loflner in the Illinois Legislature
VINO VIII attend, and possibly a few
OF the sovoreigns who are very b,,nprv
VI VIII be time enough for LorImer.s
iiielos to give him dinner after he
mas proved his innocence or ,ha
charges brought against him. or after
mas served out his sentence I'm
jan or penitentlary. The majority or
the people OF this country have re.
sehted his brutal treatment by the
Soiohei. because 1t was such a mon
strous breach of good manners. h,t
that does not mean that they thin,
'iter is innocent or that he IS
W.T. Wy or any conspicuous attention
on account OF his public services or
80 h'sh character Better cut out tho
"ti'iei' AT least until the investigation
Is over.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
A CLEAN SWEEP 1S NAME.

The weather was perfect in Maine an
Monday. and the election was ono of
the duletest that has been held in
years The vote was full vote. ag
gregating something like 100000
There had been no Summing by the
Colonel the issue was Republican OK
traVagance in the administration OF
the affairs of the State and Ma
ton. and the rural vote" which
the Republicans have been count
ing on for years in all their
times Oh tribulation and fooling every
'itne they got chance, swelled the
democratic vote to such proportions
mat the party managers gave IN the
hight early in the evening and went
nome or to the club to Strike a blow
lor llperty. Not only did the Demo-
Gratis elect the Governor, but they mada
clean sweep of the Congressional
districts electing every member OF Con.
gress. lnaddition they elected n majority
OIL state senators, and it may turn out
that they Will have a small working
majority in the House, which would
mean of course, another Democratic
Senator at Washington.
The Republican bosses are stunned:
the Democrats are correspondence
happy Judge Parker made three
speeches in the State during the cam
paign, and he attributes the Demo-
CRATIC victory. the most significant for
years to the straight fight the party
made for the old Democratic doctrines.
ana the determination of tie people
of Maine to turn the rascals out. They
did IT. and Maine can now be added
TO the Democratic column for 1919, the
people of that state having very
tenacious way OF making up their
mind and sticking TO it.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
YOUNG LORD CLIFFORD
is COMING FOR VISIT

the castle. The man escaped, but tho
tree killed Lord Clifford.
I Another superstition OF Yester per-
tains, to one OF those ancestral "lucks.
| which are occasionally to be found
| in the Oldest families of Europe, and
| like the glass goblet sung by Long.
I fellow as The Luck of Eden Hail.
1 the Pennington Cup OF the Lords OF
4 Muncaster, and the Lee Penny OF tho
/ Lockharts. which Sir Walter Scott
has made the theme of one Of his m most ,3
! man" The Yester luck is known az
the colstoun Pear"
| There are many alliances between
| the Giffordssand the Hays, and when
! daughter, Jean Hay, married George
| Broun OF Colstouh. her grandfather
plucked pear from his orchard a;
fester. and gave 1t 10 the young couple.
| with the assurance that as long as IL
was kept intact their descendants
would prosper. In Charles is reign
one OF the women of Coistoun bit
piece out of the pear. with the result
that her family got into terrible lit
igation. and had to sell all the best
farms OF the estate in order to pay
the. law expenses. The pear IL nov
entirely, fossilized: but as related by
Sir Walter Scott, VINO in his "Dfary''
describes having seen and handled
the talisman At Dalhousie Castle. IL
1879, II still shows the marks OF tho
lady's teeth. A few years after this
inspection of tie pear by Sir Wafer
Scott. the town OF Haddington pre-
sented the Lord Dalhousie OF the day
with a silver casket for this precious
heirloom. 1T had come into Lord Dai-
housie's hands through The matrias.
OF the ninth earl to Miss Christian
Bronn the only child and sole heress
at whose death the Colstoun property
passes out of the Broun family II
was on the death OF the tenth eurl
and the first Marquis of Dalhousie.
rElDhrHtaT e. val NJ
India that the pear of Colstoun passed,
not to his distant cousin and successor,
the eleventh Earl OF Da1housie, but TO
his kinsman. Lord Tweeddale, return
ing in this way TO the place where i,
mad been grown 500 years previously.
The Giffords were Lords of the Castle
OF Yester until 141S when in default
9 9puabi male e. heir el i passed e Joana
married Sir William Hay, head OF
junior branch of the Hay family.
headed by the Earl of Enroll. and their
son was created Lord Hay of Yester
the Lord Hay OF Yester Of his
day was advanced to the rank
OF Earl OF Twceddale. his son in turn
being made Marquis of Tweeddale in
lb94. lie was president OF the last
scottish parliament, and instrumental
IN bringing about the union of Eng
land L. and Scotland, and in floating the
famous but disastrous. parien Scheme.
founder of the Bank of England.
AL the principal tribes of Gipsies In
the United Kingdom make their head
quarters on the Yester estate of Lord
Tweeddale. who has often been de-
scrtbed as the King of the Gipses. md
has never had occasion to regret his
Kindness to these nomads, who hold
their periodical meetings under his
Copyright, 1910 by the Brentwood
Company
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14

largely by private subscription, tc
which was added "a small county FUND
and State convict aid of sixty mon
The work was started In May OF las,
year. The construction was carried
on under the supervision OF com.
mittee and of the chairman OF the
Board Of Supervisors OF Botetourt
county.
Funds have been provided for an
other macadam road out OF Roanoke.
Several other roads are to be macad-
ariized. The good roads reform, seems
to have taken firm hold upon the
people in and around Roanoke, and
unless other cities awake to their duty,
1t may soon be said "all good roads
lead to Roanoke"
The interest of the people who took
part In the construction of this road
Is not only commendable, but inspir-
ing. Their progressiveness speaks for
itself. Their example ought TO be fol-
lowed In every part of Virginia.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14

| vanity, eocentricity In dress. Such n
paranoiac lis said to be capable OF a
great deal of mischief as me often
surrounds himself by other psy-
chopatMc and visionary reformers,
who pay tribute to tseir abnorma1
associate AS KrafYt-Ebine has said !.
"The danger or suggestion Is In :
credible in an incendiary community,
and 1t Is not difficult to inrlame the I'm
controlled passions of large number
of people. especially as the lost SER.
control and diseased Judgment lend the
psSehopathic to attack all the orderly
institutions which as rule are dis.
agreeable IL not intolerable to thosa
who rebel at authority, who are COM
munlstic, or who are constantIv nro-
REASONABLY or otherwise. engaged in
making trouble for their rellowmen...
THIS Is most interesting ana i'm
portant subject for the people 70
lhink about, in view of the psychopathic
period through which this country 1.
now passing. Before we have all lost
our reason, 1t would be we'll for those
who arc not insane to reflect seriously
upon the condition OF those who evi-
IDENTIFY have devGfoped a form n mnn,,
which If it should fully seize the
country would speedily convert this
nation of freemen into a nation or
Tools, thus making the United states
what 1t has been calletI--nn ,sy,,,,,,
for an the word
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
KEEPING TT HOLY.

| The Colonel denied himself to all
! visitors on Sunday, and for the day.
we are told, "relapsed into the com
| forts and seclusion of his family life.'
| which consisted partly, 1t is said. IN
answering something like thousand
letters or SO that had poured into
oyster Bay during his absence and re-
CURED immediate attention even on
the Lords Day. The religious people
of the country must have been i'm
pressed by the manner in which the
Colonel remembered the Sabbath Day
and kept 1t holy while he was out on
his advertising tour, paid for by the
religious publication with which he
is connected The whole of Sunday
before last he spent in railroad travel
and in making speeches from the tall
end of bis car to the religious crowds
which assembled to hear him at almost
every railroad station, and we have no
doubt that the Rev. Lawrence Abbott.
the minister in charge of this mission
airy expedition, regarded his work az
altogether of a highly spiritual sort
OH sunday and making poll
teal speeches. even of the Rollo Book
order and writing letters on Sunday
are two manifestations of niety that
are not distinctly recognized, we be-
lieve, in the constitution OF the Dutch
Reformed Church; but that is the fault
OF the constitution. IN view Of the
coionefs recent sunday activities, can
it be any longer contended that in this
country we have not outgrown the old
doctrine of Sunday observance?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
sTurrING Mn. rArr

duncan Mckinley spent two dnv,
win Mr.. Taft at Beverly last wee1, !,
aiso'iss the political situation: but we
4e'r .rat he did not tell the President
me truth. For example after st,,nn-
ihs In Maine for week he assured
,he President that the Republicans
"ouii squeeze out victory by ma
Jority of from 1000 to 5000" The
democrats are still counting the bal
iots cast for their candidates, ana ,h,vc
u majority of from 5000 to 10000
Mckinley also told the President
mat while it might be a rather close
call on the State ticket Maine would
surely elect all four of the Republican
candidates for Congress. Instead, four
Democrats We're elected
Mckinley told the President, further,
that the issues involved in the State
contest were purely local. Mr. Plaistcd.
the successful Democratic candidate
for Governor, with all the facts before
him, says: Local conditions We're not
responsible. The people of Maine vot-
ed on National issues, high prices, con-,
troll of the Republican party in the
interests OF the trusts ana Cannon,sm
all these contributed"
Mr.. Taft was assured by Mr. McKin-
ley that, after pretty thorough can
vass of the country. the next Congress
will be Republican by majority of
from ten to twelve.
Mr. Taft can judge of the value of
Mr.. McKinley's last named prophecy
by the accuracy of his statements
touching the state of things in the
State of Maine. The best thing Mr.
Taft can do is to appoint some more
Democrats to important Offices SO that
he will have some friends left in the
country when he has completed his
present term of office.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
THE COLONEL AND THE CROOKS

THE COLONEL AND THE CROOKS.
The Colonel is treating the disclos.
ures of Mr.. Earle in the Sugar Trus,
matter with the same contemptuous ST.
lence he displayed when Earle tried to
get him to deal with the thieves when
he was in power. Does Mr.. Earle hap
pen to know how much the Sugar
Trust Clipped in for the election OF
Mr. Roosevelt? The Colonel wont tell
and he won't let Mr.. Cortelyou tell
Has Mr.. Earle run across any memor.
anda that had n suspicious polltica
look in the course of his excavations.
1t is important, In a historical sense at
least, that all the facts should ccme
out, and we would suggest that the
commission to send for Cortelyou and
all his papers and for the several
Trusts and all their papers so that we
may find out how many of the political
crooks got away from the Colonel
when he was President. In order tina.
there might be full statement of the
proceedings" we should think tkat all
the Trusts and other contributors
might be assured of immunity from
prosecution if they only tell the truth.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14

| provide tho school OF good manners
ind good behavior for the child
! 1t has been three quarters of a cen.
| fury since the venerable John Marshall,
| whose name the new high school bears.
looked out from the windows OF tho
little house that now stands ut tho
corner of the high school grounds One
cannot but wonder that, were 1t posi-
! BILE for him to look out of that same
window to-day, how marvellous n mat
ter our modern school would seem to
him. Just as the great high school
building to-day overshadows the little
brick dwelling that was Marshail's
home, so, in many respects, does tho
education of the present loom apuvc
the education of his time. There was
no fine public school for Marshall to
attend In his youth; no high school
with It's splendid equipment. Instead,
he rode hundred miles from home TO
spend year with q minister who
taught him the rudiments of the class
les Add to that two or three years
more of reading the Latin and Greek
authors under another clergyman VINO
had other duties to perform, and you
have almost all that Marshall received
as an education in his youth. Perhaps
IL he lived to-day. he might not wish to
exchange his thoroughness in the
classics for knowledge of some Of the
more recently developed sciences, but,
for all that, would he not look upon
the public school as the greatest por.
sible factor in the npbuiding of that
nation for which he labored 50 long
and wrought SO we'll?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
LOOK AFTER THE LUNCHES.

Just now when the schools are about
to open, 1t may not be inopportuae to
state the results Of the experimenting
with school lunches which has been
carried on in New York for the last
two years by the school authorities. \
committee was organized there TO IN
vestigate the matter of school lunches
and 1t has reported that "a ,three-cent
lunch, well cooked and scientifically
planned to give a well balanced ration.
comes nearer to the solution of the
problem of the backward child than
anything else thus far tried The com
mittee has found that the underfed
children are those who fall behind in
their class worll---and here it is well
to emphasize the fact that thera is q
difference between hunger and malnu-
triton. and that an ill-nourished child
is not necessarily a hungry child
This simply means that instead OF
giving child banana or cake or
candy or something like that SUI
astantial food ought to be substi-
tuted. Good food, plain food. we'll
cooked, that is all that is needed
something digestible, with nor too
much sweet in it and not too much
of it. Whether we adopt the Boston.
theory that beans make brains or not,
we must all agree that what they
have found out in New York is true.
Give the child a simple lunch with
plain, nourishng food.-that is all
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
n DINNER no LONINLER.

Some of Senator Lorimers TOOL
friends in Chicago are talking about
giving a mammoth dinner in his honor
in the Coliseum with covers as
they call the plates down In Charles
ton, for ten thousand persons. Presi-
dent Taft Is to be invited to sit at
the head table, and party lines are
not TO be drawn, but Democrats are
10 be seated at the dinner along WITH
Republicans. and 1T Will be loVe
feast in honor Of the Junior SENATOR
and all his friends are to be present.
regardless of their political athlia-
tons" Speaker Cannon is said to have
accepted an invitation to be present,
and all the Illinois congressmen Will
be hidden to the feast.
1t Is a great scheme, but we don't
thipls 1t will work, Doubtless Lee
OMEN Browne would be willing 10
attend, and it might be possible to
set ten thousand men OF one sort ana
another in Chicago to turn out for
the feed IL not for Its occasions but
the affair -,willno be complete without
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14
THE CITY COUNCIL Committees.

/ Much public interest will be takei,
in the personnel of the City Council
committees announced last night into
the care of these committees is en-
trusted the main business of our city
/ government. 1t is, therefore, incun-
| bent upon those who have in their
power the appointment of these COM
mittees to select the best available men
! for important service, and to impose
| upon members of the Council such du-
| ties as are commensurate with their
| ability and experience in public affairs.
The committee appointments made
last night measure UP to such a test.
In the selection of committeeman,
President Whittet of the Board Of Al
dermen, and President Peters, Of the
Common Council, displayed much wis
dom and care. and are to be commend
ed for the manner in which they per-
formed this most important public
duty
1t will be noted that the members of
the Finance Committee have no other
assignments, in conformity with the
rule lately passed exempting members
of that committee from connection
with any other. This was in the ma
ture of reform measure, and it is
hoped that it will result in more effec-
tive and equitable work by this COM
mittee. Heretofore, members of the
Finance Committee have also been
members of departmental and other
committees, thus aifordng opportunity
for members of the Finance Committee
to have special pleas and to be con-
sciously or unconsciously preiudicedI
toward some department Of our city
government
In sevcring the ties between MEM
bers of other committees and the FL
nance Committee its members should
have an unbiased view Of the city as
whole, without reference to any single
department or activity of the city.
More time for work and for thought on
the financial questions confronting thesI
city will, by the new order Of things.
be given to members of the Finance
Committee. The effect of this new rule
will be watched With keen interest py
those who arc in touch with local mu
ncipal affairs,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14

There will be sweeping investiga-
ton of the political tangle in the Nor
folk district. At its meeting last nigh.
the State Democratic Committee unan-
imously resolved upon this course A
special committee, consisting of nine
members. one from each Congressional
District, except the Norfolk district
will so to Norfolk and thoroughly in
vestigate all the charges of corruption
that have been made and report their
findings to the state Committee in
Richmond on October A.
This is the only course the State
Committee could have taken in view o,
the serious charges that have been pre-
ferred by Maynard as to the crooked
ness of the recent Democrtlic primary.
1t is hoped and expected that the whole
truth will be brought out, hurt whom
1t may. If we cannot be honest with
ourselves in our own party, we cannon
be honest wifi the people in the adj
ministration of their affairs.
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THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOLS.

ihe nashville American speaks o
me returning of millions of schoo
pupiis TO work this week as
pageant compared with which III
otier paseants dwindle into insirni,;
ediIee. IL is by far the most importnn
| aLu iar-reaching annual event tba
.iiis or any other country witnesses
ne SLOW, quiet work of the schools /,
not TO be compared in value-in dollars
ana cents, to say nothing of spiri+u,'
ahq moral values-with the work of nj
other institutions and Industries. rhe
work OF the latter. in fact. depends 10
large extent, if not entirely, upon
that done in the schools"
There can be no question as 10 The
tremendous practical value of its edu-
cational plant to a city. Espoc,allv
mas Richmond cause to be proud of its
school system, with It's unusually veil
trained corps of teachers, its enc
school homes, its splendid new hieh
school building, all directed in con-
fofmlty to the most modern ideas OF
municipal education. This week the
schools here open their doors to fifteen
thousand six hundred pupils or more.
None can estimate exactly now what
the increase in enrolment will be over
last year. but probably 1t will amount
to several hundred, BY the last re-
port the Increase was three hundred
and twehty-eight pupils. III is a fact
worth noting that the teaching STAFF
will nave several additions this wear,
made necessary by the increased de-
mands on the schools.
The new John Marshall High school,
Of which any city in the country might
we'll be proud, begins this week its
FIRST complete session in its beautiful
home 1t has been lately equipped with
apparatus in its science department
costing more than ten thousand dol
lars, This equipment will be used in
the teaching of physics, chemistry. hi
ology and physical geography. Tho
courses given in these sciences will
prepare young men for work in tech
meal schools and the best colleges
without condition." The manual
training department Of the high school
is in excellent order, and the domestic
science department is in fine condition.
The city Is we'll equipped to do it's
part in the education and training OF
the pupil from the elementary grades
on through the last grade of the high
school. II only remains for the pa
rents and guardians of the pupils to
take the proper interest in their ch,l.
dren and wards in reference to the
school. 1t cannot be expected that
TEACHERS in the schools must do all the
work in training pupils and in seeing
TO IL that they keep up to the standard
of good work. Due exercise of author
ity at home, stimulation there of the
ambition Of the pupil, taking care
there that the pupil does his work
Well and regularly at home alter
school Yourselves are duties which
paro'lts should carefully perform Tho
parent should always cooperate with
the tesacher for the good of the pupl, |
II IL al home that the proper respect,
FOR the teacher should be instilled into
his pupil, and IL is the home that must
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14

The only brand of Insurgency tina
is worth while is the Maine brand. Il
is an Insurgency that insurges. anc
not mere change OF one set of Repub.
lican rascais for another set, and
doubtless worse set, of Republican
rascals. What's the use of killing Can
non and so-called Cannonism without
killing the Republican party which is
Cannonism? Maine glorious old Maine.
has set the example for the honest
people of all the states in our BLESSED
Union.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-14

Our Candidate for the Presidency IN
1912 and until 1922, If he can last that
long. and longer still If he shall con-
tinue TO hold out, made six speeches in
Arkansas during the campaign which
closed on Monday. and swept the state
for the initiative and referendum.
Yet some persons say that they think
that Mr.. Bryan will not be candidate
In 1912.