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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
IMPROVING.

"Bliggins like to hear himself talk"
rs that all you have against himT'
Gould anything be worse?"
Certainly. Bliggins used to like to
hear himself sing"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
EuuivocaI,

GLADYS can't hide the fact that she
dyes her hair yellow"
You don't suppose, do you, that
she could keep it dark"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
Rubbed Hard.

The Venus of Milo explained her
missing arms.
81 tried to get the tan off" she said.
Herewith she rejoiced she hadn't
used the same method on her neck
Harpr's Bazaar.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16

Few Hens in England.
England has one hen to the acre
of territory.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16

CHRISTMAS POST CARDS FREE
Send &c stamp for five samples of my very cholc-
est Gold Embossed Christmas and New Year
Post Cards; beautiful coors and loveliest designs
Art Post Card Club 7Sl jackson St., Topeka. Kansas
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16
KEEPING SWINE HEALTHY is
OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE

There Theme Upon That Wi11
o Keep Quarters and Surroundings n SAM. r
tary Condition Where Hogs Kept
Guard Against Cholera.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-11-16

Daughter-Pa, why do you let the
furnace go out every evening Mr.. Ro-
nance comes to see me?
Father am trying to freeze out
the microbe of love, my deluded
daughter.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
Trouble and a Turkey,

Brown was boasting of the fine tur-
key he had bought for Christmas.
Biggest bird 1 ever saw; cost me
seven-dfty."
That's nothing to the turkey l had
last Christmas" said his friend Jones.
ut cost me $3.50"
Zone hundred and fifty dollars!"
positively shrieked Brown, in his in
credulity.
YES" said Jones, bitterly.
Turkeys" said Brown, looking him
straight in the eye, ARE generally to
be bought for a quarter pound. Say
yours was a quarter, then it must
have weighed about $50 pounds!"
ut only weighed twenty pounds"
said Jones, sadly; but l bought 10
alive and tried to kill it myself. It
flew all over the house first and did
$3.50 worth of damage"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
geHE7n0s EDe Legends.
HERE are several exceeding
ly touching legends concern
Ing bells. which are heard

ia Is
2&S ly touching legends concern
Ing bells, which are heard
ringing from buried cities and villages
at this season. One belongs to a vii
lage near Raleigh, in Nottingham
shire, and the story runs that once,
where there is now but valley, there
was a village which, with every trace
of life and habitation, had been swal-
lowed by an earthquake; but ever
since, at Christmas, the bells of the
buried church are heard to ring as of
old.
A similar legend is told Of Preston,
in Lancashire, and yet another and
more moving one comes from the
Netherlands. 1t is said that the city
of Been was notorious for it's black
and shameless sins, as we'll as re-
nowned for its beauty and magnifi-
cence. To the Sodom Of the middle
ages came our Savior on one ami
versary of his birth, and went as a
beggar from door to door, but not one
In all that Christmas keeping city
gave the Master of the abundance. Sin
he saw rampant on every side, but not
q trace Of Christmas bounty and good
will, and he called to the sea, which,
as Of old, obeyed his voice, and Been,
the city OF sin, was buried deep, clean
out of sight, beneath the waves. But
ever at Christmas up from beneath the
covering waters comes the sweet call
ing Of church bells buried in Been. It
is legend which appears to tell in
parable that nothing which ever be-
longed to the Christ, and was dedi-
Gated to his service, is ever wholly lost
from him and alienated from service;
that ever. and again something of their
inherent beauty and compelling sweet
ness rises from the depths through all
seeming ruin.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14

ana, Inaeeu, IJs nan-openeo cups are
like chalices Of love, and its fully
spread petals are like a happy limo
cence, fit symbols for the gifts for the
Babe Of spotless innocence, whose
heart was the vessel Of love.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14

anything very elaborate The re-
ceiver of a present which was judged
too expensive had to offer it up for
auction, when it was knocked down
to the highest bidder, and the money
appropriated by the national treasurer
of the period, Consequently, although
the Romans continued to distribute
their presents in great numbers, they
had to Contine their offerings to such
trifles as jars of olives, napkins, jel-
lied fishes, boxes Of toothpicks, can
dies, cloaks and sweetmeats.
French Proverb.
He that wants hope is the poorest
man alive. .
Fixing the Responsibility.
A girls way of making love to q
man is to make him do it to her.-M
T.. Press.
"Life."
Life is merely a dash between two
periods.-Life.
Diligence Above All.
All things are subservient to dill.
Rence.---AntiDhonus.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14


and ideals become so much
a part of the mind that the prosaic
and commonplace can never crush
them. Until the youth reaches man.
hood and independence, Christmas is
the happiest day of the year. It's gifts
and hearty good cheer impress family
affection, parental thoughtfulness and
brotherly love. The dullest and most
irresponsible of fathers and mothers
are uplifted to a vision of higher life
by the interchanges of souvenirs and
the merry meeting with children and
grandchildren at the table and fire.
side. Few can escape and all enjoy
the meaning of the festival, the les
sons 1t conveys and the inspiration
it gives, and we enter upon a brighter
future and fuller appreciation Of the
benefcence Of the practice Of faith,
hope and charity. The loved ones
who have crossed to the other side,
the loved near and far who are still
with US, the old homestead with its
precious memories, the old church
whose sacred associations tie togeth-
er childhood, maturity and age, love,
marriage and death; the schoolhouse
where the beginnings of education
were SO painful, and the ever-increas-
ing pleasures Of the pursuit Of learn
ing through the high school, academy
and college are recalled and recited,
and there is exquisite delight in these
oft-told tales, and new experiences en-,
liVen this blessed anniversary.--Les.
lies Weekly.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14

George-Ah, Lily, dear, this will be-
the jolliest Christmas I've ever spent.
Now that we're engaged l think only.
Of the future.
Liiy-Do you? Well, at this time of
the year think only of the present.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
Christmas Thanks,

When turkeys on the table laid,
And good things l may scan,
I'm thankful that l wasn't made
A vegetarian.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
Hustle in New York.

Telegraph instruments in New Yorl
city tick off $4,000 messages each da,
IN the year.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
Weddinu Notes,

The Bride-Just think of it, dear
est! Fifty years from yesterday will
be our golden anniversary.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
Pens for All the World.

The pen point production of Birm.
ingham, England, is 22O,OOOO 900 q
week.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14

The holy thorn of Glastonbury -four
ished during the centuries until the
civil wars. During those it was up
rooted; but several persons had had
trees growing from cuttings from the
original tree, and those continued to
bloom at the Christensen, just as
their parent, which had grown from
st. Joseph's staff, had bloomed. And
about the middle Of the 18th century
1t was recorded in the Gentleman's
Magazine how the famous holy thorn
would not deign to recognize the new
style calendar, which had then como
into force but would persist in bios
soming as of old on old Christmas
day!
In those days the anniversary of the
advent of the Babe had certainly
meant more to the common people
than merely a time for feasting and
revelry, for giving and receiving; 1t
had been also a season for holy OBJ
servances, for they refused to go to
church on New Christmas day, the
holy thorn not being then in blossom.
So serious became the trouble that the
clergy found it prudent to announce
that Old Christmas day should also
be kept sacred as before. Only an
other story of mems weak, supersti-
tious minds? True, perhaps; but they
are better who evidence some spiritual
weakness than those who wallow in
the wholly material, and when we
cease to be careful of the cup and the
platter, we become not over careful OF
their contents.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14


subtlety to the depth Of the appeal of
the birth of Christ Here divinelyI
spiritual symbolism and there sweet
human tenderness and pathos appear,
and, blended, they evidence the world'sI
belief that this was both Son of Man
and Son of God.
An Irish legend tells that, on Christ
mas eve, the Christ-Child wanders out,
in the darkness and cold, and the
peasants still put lighted candles I'M
their windows to guide the sacred lit
tie feet, that they may not stumble on
their way to their homes. And in,
Hungary the people go yet further In
their tenderness for the Child, they
spread feasts and leave their doors
open that He may enter at His WILL
while throughout Christendom there tsl
a belief that no evil can touch any
child who is born on Christmas eve.
The legend which tells how the very
hay which lined the nanger in which
the Holy Babe was laid put forth liv+
ing red blossoms at midwinter at the
touch of the Babes body could only
have arisen from belief In the renewal
of life through the Lord OF Life.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
When They Are Missed.

Things lost are valued most
Shakespeare.
Vaccination Long PractIced.
In some oriental countries, vaccina.
ton has been practiced for over a
thousand years.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
s0sSASHe Z9ldngeE:

kHM1J hADllION uecldTSS Indt
h within the stone manger
there was another one
Of wood, and that the stone cradle in
the Chapel Of the Nativity is, indeed,
the outer manger. Splendid is that
humble stone trough now with white
marble. softly rich with costly dra-
peries, and radiant with a silver star,
which is surrounded by 16 lamps, ever
ALT. But yet more glorious Is the
wooden manger at Rome, held to be
the Veritable manger in which the
Christ-child lay. 1t was removed to
Rome in the seventh century, during
the Mohammedan invasion of the Holy
Land, and there 1t is preserved in a
strong brazen chest, from which It is
brought forth on Christmas days,
when 1t is placed on the Grand Altar.
It Is mounted upon stand of silver,
which is inlaid with gold and gems,
and the shrine IN which 1t rests is Of
purest rock crystal. In the days In
which this was accomplished men,
whatsoever may have been their
shortcomings In other directions, gave
magnihoently to the Church Visible.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
KS GA3iStmQS Bells.

NNlSY1I77 tJ7t7TSEIIILI0 OEITo,
SW Tradition says that the
hour of the Babes birth
was the hour OF midnight,
and legend adds that from then until
dawn cooks crow. In Ireland It 30
held that whose looks into q mirror on
this eve viii see the dasu or Inaaa
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
THE FIRST PRESENTS.

The giving of Christ
mas presents was
first introduced by
the early Romans.
They exchanged gifts
freely, but in compli-
ance with a sumptu-
airy law they. were
never allowed to give
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14

Iscarlot looking. over his saoGiCcr,
surely thought sufficient to drive the
hardest soul to thought Of the i,..o-
cent Babe.
Another legend tells that, on Christ
mas eve, Judas Iscariot is released
from that hell-"his own place"-and
is allowed to return to earth that he
may cool himself in icy waters.
Wild and improbable although such
and such legends appear on their
faces, they bear study and repay it,
for we then see that they are full of
subtle spiritual expression, as 1t were;
that they are parallels of certain spir-
itual facts, and it will be i'll for us
should the Christmas day ever dawn
IN which such flowers Of tender faith
and wonder shall appear to US no
more than dry curious specimens from
the dead roots Of superstition.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
MeS8 C7lTistmas Rose.

tells how good things, at for giving,
spring up ready to the hand which
earnestly desires to give to the Child.
It is said that a certain maiden of
Bethlehem was so poor that she had
nothing to give to the Babe to whom
kings brought wealth from afar, and,
as she stood, longing and mourning,
and angel appeared to her, saying;
Look at thy feet, beneath the snow"
and 10! on obeying the maiden found
that a new flower had miraculously
sprung up and blossomed at her needs.
Every since then, runs this story, this
exquisite flower, with its snowy petals
Just touched by suggestions Of pinkish
bloom. is to be found at this season:
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14

blossomed every Christmas, and, so
ran the legend, had done ever since
St. Joseph of Arimathea, having come
as apostle to Britain, and, landing at
Glastonbury, had stuck his star Of dry
hawthorn into the soil, commanding it
to put forth leaves and blossoms. This
the stan straightway did, and thereby
was the king converted to the Chris
tian faith, the faith which preached
life from dAhth
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
aYHfaHolp Thorn

T is not SO many centuries
ago since there was that holy.
thorn at Glastonbury which
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-12-14
Wbat christmas means.

Christmas means hope and
it's realization. The child
grows eagerly expectant as
the time approaches for the
visit of Santa Claus. While
this fiction remains unques-
toned, the Imagination
opens new and wider worlds,
apd idao1c hacopoa ca much
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-20
CONTINUED from Page Two.)

ney, Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Lowrey, Mr.,
and Mrs. A. F. Knudsen, j. T. McCros-
son, Hon. Jonah Kalanianaole, Mr.. and
Mrs. "A. w. Goodfellow.
LurIine From San Francisco.
The Lurline from San Francisco was
not sighted off Koko Head until half
past ten this morning. She only
brought sixteen passengers-ten cabin
and six steerage-for this port. She
brought 1876 sacks of mail, a little
over two days accumulation.
The reason why the Lurline was
late is because she ran south in or
der to avoid some of the rough wealth
er that was prevailing when she left
San Francisco This was done in or
der to save the animals from being
roughly handled during the storm. All
reached port in good condition.
The Asia Men Released.
Somebody sQuealed," was the way
one of the trio arrested yesterday aft
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-20
WEEKS BUSINESS
UNDER REVIEW

Sales on both the local exchanges
for the week ending at noon today
comprised bonds of $4,000 par value
and 5657 shares of stocks. OF the
latter 1850 were of cheap mining and
oil stocks from California, leaving
1907 of local sugar and Industrial
stocks as having changed hands And
the market for the latter was in the
main rising one.
Dividends announced for the middle
of the month, including one today,
omount to S15O,OOO. Following is a
list of sales and prices during the
week:
Haw. Irrigation SIS, $4,000 at 1O1;
McPryde 6's, $4,000 at $3.50; O. r. &,
L. SIS, $1,000 at 1O1. Total 5000
Burlington gold mining, 100 at $3.50.
Eva, 8 At $31.12 1-2, 10 at S31.5O, so
at $3.50.
Hawaiian Agricultural, 10 at $3.50
Total, so shares.
Haw. Com. & Sugar, IS at $9S.75,
S5 at $3.50, ABS at $685.. Total, COS
shares.
Honokaa, 40 at $11.75, 2O5 at $12
Total, 245 shares.
/ Honolulu Brewing & Mailing, 300
at $21, So at $21.25. Total 365 shares
Honolulu Consolidated Oil, 1850 at
$19S.
Hutchinson, Is at SIT.
Kahuku, 10 at $3.50.
McBryde, 40 at 81.
Mutual Telephone, 10 at $15.75.
Oahu, 10 at $1,000, at $9O.37 IL
145 at $3O15. Total 800 shares.
Olaa, $50 at $3.50.
Onomea, 70 at S42.5O
Pacific Sugar Mill, rs at $115.
Pioneer, go at $2O2.5O, 10 at 1904
Total 1902.
Sierra Nevada gold mining, Is al
$12.
Waialua, 55 at STA, 8 at $113.75, III
at $113. Total IT'S.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-20
PlNEcrAR POPULARITY.

(From the National Bottlers Gazette.)
Honolulu, Hawaii, March %, 1911.
TO THE EDITOR:
Inclosed herewith please find money
orders in payment of inclosed bill
for our ad. Our business looks very
bright indeed, and we are shipping our
first contracts now, the delay being
caused, as is not unexpected in new
enterprises, by failure of bottles, cases
and tins to reach here earlier. One
thing we cannot impress too strongly
on the bottlers is to follow our bot
Ting instructions to the letter, and
there is no possible chance of the car
and qualities for months. We have
some on hand bottled last July, which
is as sweet, transparent and snappy
as the batch carbonated this week. To
every bother receiving a shipment we
are at the same time expressing SAM
pie bottles of the carbonated drink,
to show them that what we can do
here, they can accomplish anywhere
on the mainland and build up a trade
on Pinectar as their leader, which
they can guarantee to be pure, No
more synthetical pineapple prepare
lions for an up-to-date bother from
now on! Approximately one-half of
our first years output has been con-
tracted for by bottlers and grocers.
We are forwarding you under separ'
ate cover a copy of our last Satur.
days ad. in the Hawaiian Star, as
we feel that you are interested in our
efforts and have received encourage
ment from you, which is greatly ap,
preciated Our Mr.. NJ. E. Covington
will be in New York within another
80 days, and we have requested him
to call upon you and talk "Pinectar
and give you any information that you
may find of interest and might be able
to impart to bottlers calling upon
you for advice and instructions
Yours very truly,
PINECTAR SALES co. LTD.
-
I,in Tok I1rf,tt,.. % ctar na3on
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-20
i: Commercial q. Promotion


ing PISS feet South and 1922 feet
West, and the true azimuth and dis
stance from a Government Survey
Street Monument at the intersection
OIL Queen and Punchbowl Streets be-
ing 1892 so 235.g feet; thence run
ming by true azimuths:
1. 6So 49, 1889 feet along land of
]. Buckley;
2 14S' So, 55.4 feet along fence along
Castle & Cooke Limited;
3. 24Go 25' 1850 feet along T. c A.
IA 60 Manuid to galv. iron
i;pea
4 321 10, Ola feet along mqIlai side
of Queen Street to point Of be-
ginning, marked with a galv. iron
pipe
The lot contains an area Of 622O
suuare feet.
You are hereby cited to appear at
the Court of Land Registration to
I've held at the City and County of
Honolulu on the oath day of May,
A. d. 1911, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon, to show cause if any you have,
why the prayer Of said petition should
not be granted. And unless you APP
rear at said Court at the time and
place aforesaid your default will be
recorded, and the said petition will
be taken as confessed, and you will
he forever barred from contesting
said petition or any decree entered
thereon.
Witness the Honorable w. J. Rob
inson, Judge of said Court, this goth
day of April, in the year nineteen hun
dred and eleven.
Attest with Seal of said Court:
CSeaD NJ. T. SIMONTON,
Registrar.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-20
Shipping News

ernoon, expressed himself about his
arrest on a charge of having struggled
jade ashore from the P. M. S. S. Mon
golia.
William Allen, a quartermaster
first assistant engineer A. A. Cozens
and third officer A. r. Johnson, all OF
the wrecked steamer Asia, were ar
rested on the gallery of the Alakea
wharf as they stepped off the gang
way
The cases were considered by the
authorities, and early this morning
the men were released 1t is under
stood that the reason is because the
forfeiture of the goods was consider
ed sufficient punishment.
PASSENGERS.
Arrived.
Per S. S. Lurline from San Fran
cisco, May 20 Mr.. and Mrs, H.
Skatell, Miss Alfredo Van Ness, Rev
w. c. Merritt, Mr.. Hugo Rabinowitz
VIM. Jansen, e. F. Jones, Miss Agnes
Jacobsen, Miss A. Starkenberg, Mrs
N Histe.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-20
STOCK SALES

Honolulu Stock Exchange: Between
Boards-1O Hawaiian Agricultural Co
$3.50, 80 Oahu Sugar Co., $3O.75, II
do. $SO.75, 5 do. $3O.75, so do. $3O75
Is do. $3O.75, AZ Waialua $113, Is do
$113, 35 do. $113, 8 do. $113, do. $113
5 Pioneer $2O2.5O.
Session Sales-5 Eva $3.50, 10 Ka
huku $3.50.
Sugar Quotations - May 20.-8S
Analysis Beets los. AID.
Dividends - May 90 H awaiian
Agricultural Co., S1.00 share.
Hawaiian Stock Exchanged: Be
tween Boards-1O Eva $3.50.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-20
TRENT TRUST CO.
WEEKLY LETTER
Honolulu. Nav 10

Honolulu, May 10.
A noticeable feature of the trading
on the local exchange during the week
under review was the firm demand at
continually increasing prices for Eva,
and the apparent weakness in Hawa-
iian Commercial AS these two stocks
are bought largely for investment pur-
poses it has very little significance.
In the case of Eva, there are
number of orders in the market for
small lots to be purchased at the
market price; being but little offer
ing. the value increased rapidly. A
large block of H. c. & S Co. has been
offered for some time, and was finally
placed at 1926. With this stock
out of the way H. G. & S. Co. should
keep pace with the others.
There has been little or no change
in general conditions. Latest returns
from the plantations show yields far
in excess of those anticipated. The
reports from Eva, Oahu and Waialua
are especially gratifying. The mar
ket value of all three has been in
creasing largely on this account
The sugar market remains steady,
with beets at los. Cd. The last fig
ures on 90 test centrifugals was 1856.
Latest reports from Cuba are less
pessimistic, and 100000 tons is now
put forth as the final crop figures.
That any change in the sugar tar
if will be made during the present
extra session of Congress is deemed
very unlikely; in fact all agitation
on the subject seems dead for the
present.
Eva closed today at $3.50, with
light offerings at 1915; Oahu sold at
3O75, with this price bid for more;
Waialua is slightly weaker, being Of
fered at 113; Pioneer is in demand at
202.5O; H. c. & S. Co. improved a
little today, closing at 1895 bid,
with offerings at 5000. Olaa was
quite active, with sales at 4.5O; this
price is still bid; McBryde is very
quiet, with stock offering around 81.
TRENT TRUST CO., LTD.