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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

sesses the Ottoman's love OF firearms.
Nobody Is SO poor as not to possess at
least a dagger, and every mans ambi-
ton is to own rife. The Anticipated
fint-locks, with long barrels and
small stocks, which are still in use
here, would stock hundreds of mu-
seums. At wedding, or any other
time of iubilation, the men express
their spirits by firing of as many ball
cartridges as they can afford. / have
seen photograph of Kurdish bride
and groom taken with one holding a
pistol and the other a dagger. No
swell would think of having his pho
tograph taken without his arsenal
showing,
Yet this fierce Kurd may be seen
sitting in the sun along the public
highways knitting socks while women
are breaking stones in the road. There
is an untitled field for the suffragist
in Asia. The socks that the men knit,
and wear, are one of the unique things
of this part of the world. The endeav-
or is to crowd as many conflicting col.
ors as possible into the smallest
space. The loudest pattern on Broad.
way would be Quaker gray along
side Of them.
The socks go well with the trousers.
No somber blacks for your Kurd. He
wears wide-howing trousers, drawn in
and embroidered at the ends, with a
stripe of embroidery down the side.
The color scheme Of the background
may be anything from a red or a
green to delicate lavender, such as I
saw yesterday. Patches are SO fash
ionable that all the colors are likely
to be superimposed before the life of
the garment is ended. It is fashion
able to have wide stripes, about two
inches wide, run down the legs, half
dozen stripes to a leg. On his
shoulders the Kurd wears sort of
Elton jacket, much abbreviated, with
the long hair of the black goat on the
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

whom so much controversy has ragged
for centuries, and about whom books
are still being written.
The explanation of the matter is
perfectly simple. The tribes we're
never lost. After being carried into
Assyria as captives, and dropping out
of the Old Testament record, they all,
or a great part of them, simply re-
manned here. With that phenomenal
persistence to type which has ever
characterized the Jews, they have
kept their identity. They have their
synagogues-the captivity evidently
cured them Of their proneness to idol
atry-and they remain a peculiar peo-
pie. They are very poor, for the most
part, and their quarter of each COM
munity is about the most miserable.
All accounts agree that they have
been hereabouts from time imme-
mortal. Before it attempts to COLOMBO
Mesopotamia with Jews the Zionist
movement might we'll look into the lot
of these poor brethren, with such
tragic history, who are already on the
spot.
Another peculiar people whom one
meets along the river, and, like the
Jews, an interesting survival, are the
Yezidis, or devil-worshipers. These
pec&le seem to have a religion that
continues mixture of the old heather
cults. They will fight anybody who
says hard things about the devil-and
1 suppose Christian charity should re-
ioice that the Old Boy has somebody
to stand up for him amid all the ad-
verse criticism which he must en-
dure.
The Kurd and His Trousers.
When Xenophon came through this
region he had trouble with the Car
duchi mountaineers; and the Turkish
government has had no end Of difficult
ty with the same virile stock, who are
now known as Kurds. They are the
fellows whose penchant for massacre
ing Armenians has made the name
Kurd known to the modern world
Abdul Hamid could always count on
them for his bloodiest work. Simple
In mind, ox-like in body, the burden
carriers of all Turkey, the Kurd yet
has the primitive virtues. He values
life lightly, and has scant respect for
property rights, yet he is brave, hos
pitabIe and loyal. Russia hopes 10
draw the mountains of Kurdistan as
mart of her share when this queer con-
gIomerate of a nation goes to pieces.
To an unusual degree, the Kurd pos
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

talk TO re about the need for educa.
'ion, and for modern improvements in
all nnes-eVerybody seems Interested
IN tnese things-but always say. Let
us nave transportation for our prod.
ucts trst. We can grow unlimited
Quantities of grain here, but we have
no market for it. What is the use Of
modern pillow when the old way pre-
pares the ground for more grain than
you can use? All the improvements
Ior which our people are eager will
come with railways. Then followed
the plea which l have heard so often.
ior American engineers, American cap
ital and American enterprise. The ey-
luences which l find everywhere of
Americas vogue, and of these older
peoples childlike faith in the young
nation across the unknown sea, have
come to fill me with sort of awe.
certainly they convey a powerful
message to America.
Lost Tribes" of Israel Here,
This trip by kelek down the Tigris
N@SSSA bAh5 LhIcIGSG 10 the 0lS-
torlan, the archaeologist, the ethnolo-
glst, the geologist, the ornitholo-
gist - all of which is to say,
that there is something for every.
body in this unrolling panorama
of life. Yonder snow-capped noun
tain, "Jebil Judi" is believed by the
natives to be the one on which Noah's
ark landed.
Here in these villages one finds COM
munities of poverty-stricken Jews. I
started to gather estimates concern
ing their number, but after the total
had reached many thousands, scat
tered all over the territory that used
to be Assyria, with Diarbekir and
Mosul as principal points, gave up
the attempt. The conclusion is ines
capable, and 1T is held by everybody
hereabouts who is interested in the
Bible, that these are the mysterious
Lost Ten Tribes" of Israel, over
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
FATE AND THE FLETcHERs
Intervention That Made II Certain
Hour for Senator's Death Had
Not Struck.

Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Flor
Ida sought his berth one night on a
sleeping car on the way south from
Washington. Pulling back the cur
tains of lower nine, he saw that his
bed was already occupied.
Hi, there" called the senator,
shaking the stranger by the shoulder.
The sleeper awoke and protested
angrily.
My names Fletcher" explained
the statesman, "and this is my berth"
You've got nothing on me-" an
swered the other my names Fetch
er, and this is my berth"
My full name is Duncan U. Fetch
er, the senator elaborated.s
SOS mine," agreed the intruder.
"Ah, | see," said the senator, po-
litely. There must have been mis-
take in reserving the same berth for
two men of the same name. I'll go
into the next sleeping car"
The stranger, by this time, was fully
awake, and proceeded to apologize,
and to offer to give up the berth. This
the senator would not do, but went
into the car ahead, and found a place
to sleep.
An hour later the train was wreck
ed. The car in which the stranger
occupied the lower nine fell through
a trestle, and that Fletcher was
killed. The senator's car was not
damaged at all.-Popular Magazine.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

outside. His turban is the biggest and
bulgiest worn in this land of strange
headgears. Yet none of them seem
quite so strange as the hat; l saw a
man remove his yards of turban, with
the fez that was beneath 1t, and put
on the derby hat of returned emf
grant. The sight was greeted with
gales of laughter by all his friends
standing near. ......
The Awakening Is Coming.
Unless l am greatly mistaken hats
will become as common here as in
Japan. Everybody seems to banker,
openly or secretly, after the western
ways. 1 noticed long procession of
schoolboys in the streets of Diarbe-
kir, and every one was dressed in
European clothes, save only the hat.
This outwardly symbolized what their
schoolbooks more truly represented,
the change in ideals that modern edu-
cation is producing, even in this out
of-the-way corner of the world. The
governor himself asked me about an
American college to which he could
send MS son.
The presence of an American doc
tor in Diarbekir illustrates how one
well-furnished modern man affects a
community. DR.. Edwin st. John Ward,
the only missionary here, except his
wife and baby and trained nurse, has
in three years made place for him
self that has toned up all the native
doctors. But he has been called to
the important chair of surgery in the
Syrian Protestant college, Beirut, and
after a few months there will be
neither missionary nor representative
of America in this picturesque old
walled town. But the American spirit
is here to stay.
Copyright, 1911. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
Is Easy Money.

Suing the city seems to be profit.
able business for lawyers and clients
in Chicago as in New York Address
ing the Fire Insurance Club of Chic,
ago recently, Henry B. Bale, lawyer,
said that the city paid out each year
nearly $1,0O0000 in judgments for
personal injuries. "Since 1S99," Mr..
Bale declared, Chicago has paid 81
100000 in judgments returned in shuts
to recover for sidewalk accidents
alone. 1t has been SO easy to see the
city and win that suits have been
started by hundreds of people to get
money. There never was a liability
insurance company which could afford
to underwrite the city
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17


|snm a Vegetable Compound was rec
|fsS u y and after taking three bot
sS s has regained her health, thanks
n, !o om medicine. lean recommend it
IN a.sl female troubles. Mrs. L. A.
'n SaaESA IS, HOB Rutland Street, Balti-
n Hsu uu of such letters from moth
I,vS5SissprTesSing their gratitude for what
|pcm S Z. Plnkham's Vegetable Com
tasn my mas accomplished for them have
|ls5;a;seelYed by the Lydia E. Pinkham
ne Company, Lynn, Mass.
luong Girls, Heed This Advice.
n I i,.s who are troubled with painful
|sebs Sgular periods, baekaehe, head
sas sn ualTagging-down sensations, faint
Iam spSsiis or indigestion, should take
EesltS te action and be restored to
ghbIsr9oy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
lestto,o 99mIpound. Thousands have been
'eu TO health by its use.
! aIssr to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Ss Tor advice, free.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
Proved.

There's no question about it," said
Scribbleigh. England is the place
for an author to live in who wishes to
write perfect English. We become,
merely the expression of our environ
ment, after all, and l wish to do my
work in an atmosphere in which the
language use for the expression of
my ideas is spoken in all its pristine
purity. Do you not agree with me,
Lord Miggleton?"
by Jowve, you're bally right. old
top!" replied his lordship. -Harper's
Weekly.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
Ggg;s1;yzSssscTy-

Il ,hope of recovery. There were de-
sided dropsical symptoms, my heart
nalDItated violently and the pains in my
shack almost drove me frantic. After
factoring without benefit, began tax
~ Doan's Kidney Pills and when I
had used two boxes, was as well as
ever"
aWhen Your Back Is Lame, Remem-
herthe Name-DOAN'S." Soc, all stores,
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

daughter Alice, who
was re S tored to
health by Lydia E.
.Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound. She
was pale, with dark
circles nder her
eyes, weak and irri,
table. Two different
doctors treated her
and called it Green
Sickness, but she
grew worse all the
time. lydia e. Pink
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
Wasted Blessings.

Aunty Gust arrived your
sweet heart!
Marie-You needn't waste any of
your blessings on him, aunty.
Aunty-Him? Who?
Marie-My former sweetheart. We're
mad at each other now.-Judge.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
Gould Hardly Hear
Senses of Taste and Smell Were Also
Greatly Unmarried

81 was afflicted with catarrh," writes
took several different medicines, giving
each a fair trial, but grew worse until
| could hardly hear, taste or smell. /
was about to give up in despair, but con-
cluded to try Hoods Sarsaparilla. After
taking three bottles of this medicine I
was cured, and have not had any return
of the disease" t
Hoods Sarsaparilla effects radical and
permanent cures of catarrh.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocqlated tablets called Sarsatabs.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

neys. neglect OF
t he Sc warnings
may prove fatal.
Begin using Doan's
Kidney Pills. They
cure sick kidneys.
Mrs. M. A. Gam
bin, Russellville,
Ark, says: Il was
in such bad shape
from kidney dis
aacn fhaA r
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
How Edo Lost Out

My girl used to think lot of her
pug dog, but. I've managed to get the
edge on him since we married"
How did you work it?'
~Fido wouldn't eat her cooking, and
] did, ~
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
Mad About. IL

"Binks is just crazy about being up
to-date."
How does he show it?"
He is trying to get his parrot a
wireless cage"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
SpeciaI Talent.

Can your boy read The Had in
The original.
Not very well. But he can make
ten yards around the left end almost
every time s..r
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

Constipation causes and seriously aggra-
Yates many diseases. 1t is thoroughly
cured by DIR. Pierce's Pellets. Tiny sugar
coated granules.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
DANGER SIGNALS.

eslek kidneys give unmistakable sig
ala Of distress. Too frequent,o or scanty
"a, passages, backache, headache
~, dizzy spells tell of disordered kid.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

Even the prude has occasional
thoughts that she likes to think.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
EquivocaI.

GLADYS can't hide the fact that she
dyes her hair yellow" ....
You don't suppose, do you, that
she could keep it dark?"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

Some men have wellseated preju-
dice against giving up their place to a
woman in crowded car,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

People who take the will for the
DEED never break into the millionaire
class.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
my
|WASCURED
by Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

~ baltimore, Md.-"I send you here.
sltl the picture of nv fifteen year old
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17

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, 1911-09-21
Was He Sarcastic?

John, we have been married for
nearly twenty years. l want you
to tell me something"
oh, yes, Mary you look just as
young and girlish as you did the
first time | ever saw you. | have
learned to love you more and more
as the years have drifted by;
wouldn't be free again if had the
chance; if you were to die should
not think of marrying any other
woman. but I'd spend the rest of
my life pining for you; | admit that
your family is much superior to
mine; / realize that should never
have amounted to anything if it
had not been for your influence;
you are the best manager ! ever
saw; your new spring hat is very
becoming; you look fifteen years
younger than Mrs. Bransthwaite;
yes, like very much the way you
are wearing your hair; | think of
you steadily all day; | am sure any
young woman who would look at
me twice would do so only because
she wished to make a fool Of me,
and | acknowledge that you make
a much better showing than any
other woman could make on our
income Now is there anything
elses I'm in a good deal Of o hurry
this morning
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21
No Ducks.

why is it" asked Rose Stahl,
now playing in Maggie Pepper"
that in the spring a young wom-
ans fancy is so apt to turn to
clucking hens? Last year one Of
my best friends abandoned the
footlights and sought the actors oft
dreamed of paradise, a little home
in the country.
las a recreation she decided to
start a poultry farm, which she did
with a barnyard hen thirteen eggs
from the village store, Not hav-
ing even the most elementary
knowledge of poultry, she inquired
of a neighbor how long eggs gener-
ly took to hatch. She received the
reply
Three weeks for chickens and
four for ducks.
The neighbor met her some time
afterward, and on being asked how
the poultry farming was going Oh
she replied with a lowering counte,
nance:
Oh. I've finished with it. Al
the end of three weeks there were
no chickens, SO / took the hen of
as didn't want ducks. - October
Young's Magazine
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21
The Smallest Ever.

At the store in Snow Hill, a little
town in Missouri, the loungers were
recounting their narrow escapes
Uncle Nit" lowed he had had one
that beat any so far related.
You boys all remember the hol-
low sycamore down here by the
creek" he began: well, came all
fired near getting trapped in the
linn of that tree the other day. l
was coming back from a hunt, over
on Sugar Creek, and just as / got
to this old tree it began to rain.
Thinks sly to myself, that's a good
place to get in out of the rain, so
in crawls.
We'll, l elm up and up and up
and finally | crawled out into a
hollow linn and what do you think
the dad-gasted linn done but bend
down and closed up the hole where
l had crawled in. Mebbe you think
l wasn't some scairt | begun to
think of all the mean, low down
things | had ever done, but it didn't
seem to do no kind O. good. l
didn't seem to get no lighter, so
the linn would raise up and let me
out, and the only other opening was
a knot hole about two inches across
l had about concluded l was done
fer, when happened tosthink of
the time when l voted the Repub-
lican ticket, about six years ago
and | just nacherly swivelled up
til l crawled out of that knot hole
and got away
w. S. BROWN.
Troy, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21
Old Ironsides.


Boys and girls who are studying
the history of our country will be
interested in knowing the fate Of
the frigate Constitution" generally
known as odd Ironsides."
After Oliver Wendell Holmes had
saved the ship from being destroy
ed because she was deemed I'M
worthy, by his thrilling poem, old
Ironsides," she was rebuilt and con-
tinued in service until 1855 at
which time she was laid up at the
Portsmoth Navy Yard and used as
a training ship. In 1877, being
then ninety years old, she was
again partially rebuilt and in 1873
made another trip across the Attain
tic, which proved to be her last.
She was used for a while as a bar
rack ship, and any one visiting the
Charlestown Navy Yard at the
present time can see her.
Although there is but little left of
the original ship, yet in rebuilding
all the parts were made exactly af-
ter the pattern of the parts worn
out, and even the guns are a dupli-
cate of those she used to carry; but
the billet head of beautifully polish
ed wood was in the original vessel,
There has been no Intention of
establishing a museum on board
but as gifts were received from time
to time they were established in the
old cabin or along the gun deck.
The gapers relating to the negotia-
tons which terminated the war
with Tripoli in which odd Iron
sides" took such a leading part, are
held in the cabin. There, too, may
be seen a pair of old boarding pixies
such as might have been used in
the war with Tripoli. A pitcher
belonging to china set owned by
the ships first captain is found on a
shelf of the cabin. Also of great
interest is an abstract of the ships
log during the cruise along the AT
rican coast in 1885, giving the oc-
currences every day. In a collec-
ton are trophies of the Spanish
War, the colors belonging to the
cruiser New York" which was the
flagship of the commander-in-chief
of the fleet, and the steering wheel
and other things which the cruiser
Olympia" carried through the bat
tie Manila The American Boy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21
tuberculosis Sanatoriums.

AS an investment in the health
of their members, four large frater-
nal orders, two international labor
unions, and one of the largest in
surance companies in the United
States have established sanatoria
for the treatment of tuberculosis,
according to a statement issued to-
day by the National Association for
the study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis.
The Royal League, the first fra
ternal order to establish a sana-
forum, conducts a hospital for its
tuberculosis members at Black
Mountain. The Modern Woodmen
OF America conducts one at Colo
RADIO Springs, the Workmen's Circle.
at Liberty N. Y. and the Independ-
ent Order of Foresters have one at
Rainbow Lake, N. Y, and will soon
open second one at San Fernan-
do, Cal. The International Typo
graphical Union has since 1898
conducted a sanatorium at Colorado
Springs, and the International Print
ing Freshmen and Assistants Union
of America has recently opened a
new institution at Rogersville, Tenn
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company is now erecting a sana-
forum at Mt. McGregor, N. Y,
which will be the first of its kind to
be established by an odd line" in
.surance company.
In addition to these institutions
already established, the Benevolent
and Prospective Order of Elks, the
Foresters of America, the knights
of Columbus, the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and several other
orders are considering the advis-
ability of erecting sanatoria for
their tuberculosis members. Some
of the large fraternal orders and
labor unions, like the Ladies of the
MaCcabeeS of the World, the Inter
national Photo-Engravers Union,
and others conduct educational
campaigns against tuberculosis,
though they do not have sanatoria
of their own. The Equitable Life
Assurance Society also has recent
ly established a Conservation De-
partment" in which the prevention
of tuberculosis will be given
especial attention Other insurance
companies are considering similar
action.
Since the membership of the
leading fraternal orders alone is
nearly $15,0O0,00O, the National
Association estimates that about
10000 members of these lodges die
of tuberculosis alone every year.
Since more than half of these lives
could be saved at a comparatively
small outlay, the Association fig
ureS that the fraternal orders are
losing millions every year in death
claims which might be saved.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21
w. S. BROWN.
Troy, Mo.

Talking about profits in farming,
E. L. Hunt of Orrich, Mo-, planted
100 acres in potatoes last April and
in the latter part of July had sold
the entire crop for $11,396.O1. Ray
county is probably the best county
in the state for the production of
Irish potatoes, but there are other
localities almost as good. 1t has
often been asserted that Missouri
was the greatest state in the Union
for farming and we honestly be-
lieve the assertion will be verified
as our wonderful resources and
soil are better understood,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21

Misses Rose aud Irene Yager OF
near Indian Creek left Thursday
for St. Louis where Miss Rose will
enter a training school for nurses
Miss Irene will be the guest of sew
eral friends at Louisiana before re-
turning home.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21

The Russian Premier, P. A Stoly-
pin, was shot by a Nihilist last
Thursday and MORALLY wounded.
M Stolypin had been Premier since
1906 and was known as the iron
man" and was sometimes repre-
scented by a necktie,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21

The most delightful hair dressing
for men, women or children is Pa
risian Sage. L. M. Wood guaran-
tees it for dandruff, falling hair and
itching scalp. so cents.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21

Mrs. Guy Osbourn who has been
visiting relatives and friends here
for some time left for her home in
Nebraska, Thursday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21

We shall know in a few days
whether Canada approves reciproci-
ty with this country or not.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-09-21

Fitch Tonic and Dandruff Remov.
er is good for the hair. Have il
applied at Streams Barber Shop.