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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

thanks for what Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has done for me.
l had taken other medicines but did not
find relief. Miss CORA B. FosNAUGH,
Stoutsville, Ohio, RED, No. 1.
Hundreds of such letters from moth
ers expressing their gratitude for what
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has accomplished for their daugh-
ters have been received by the Lydia E.
Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Shop Talk.

The Inventor was talking to himself
What with my heatless light, my
leakless fixtures, my invisible ash
can and my disappearing bed, l have
made the life of the urbanite well
worth the living"
"Wrong!" corrected the down
weighted Benedict You have yet to
perfect the footless meter and the
vanishing gas bill"-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Is Peruna a Laxative?

l am in re-
ceipt of a letter
from a mechan-
ic who is at the
head of a pros
porous house
hold. Peruna
has been used
in his family
for a good
many years. He
writes as fol-
lows:
"As you know,
we have used
Peruna In our
home for a num-
Der of years.
We find 1t a re-
I'LL
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

ular. A friend ad-
vised me to tax g
Lydia E. Pinkham's
We ia BILE Com
pound, and before l
had taken the whole
of two bottles /
found relief. l am
only sixteen years
old, but / have bet
ter health than for
two or three years.
/ cannot express nv
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

my breath was
short and l had
chills and back
ache. l took the
pills about a year
ago and have had
no return of the
palpitations. Am
now SO years old,
able to do lots Of
manual labor, am
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Very Hohble

Mrs. Stiles-How do you like my
new gown?
Mr.. Stiles-Reminds me Of crowd
ed theater
Mrs. Stiles-Crowded theater? How
SO?
Mr.. Sales.--future seems to be stand
ing room only.-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Would Rather Have a Horse.

Mrs. Flynn-They do be after sayin'
thot old man Kelly has got locomo-
thor ataxy.
Mr.. Flynn-Well, he's got the mon
ey to run wan av thin if he wants
ter, but fer my part I'd rather have
a good horse amy day.-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Willy Wooer.

Ardent Suitor-'T lay my fortune at
your feet" Fair Lady-"Your fortune!
didn't know you had one" Ardent
Suitor-"Well, 1t isn't much Of for
tune, put 1t will look large beside
those tiny feet."-Boston Transcript
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Not Needed.

While travelling man was waiting
for an opportunity to show his sam
pies to merchant in a little back
woods town in Missouri, a customer
came In and bought couple of night
shirts. Afterwards long, lank, lum.
herman, with his trousers stuffed in
his boots, said to the merchant:
What was them ere that Teller
bot?"
Might shirt. Can I sell you one or
two?"
''Naup, reckon not" said the Mis-
sourian; 81 don't set around much O.
nights. "-Lippincott's.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

Any candidate can get the woman
vote by running on a platform de.
manding less counting and more mar.
rying,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
His Authority.

81 thought you told me that man
was a golden-mouthed speaker"
well, / had it from his dentist"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

When woman shrugs her shout
ders at the mentionlof another wom-
ans name it's sign she can tell
something.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
JUDGE CURED, HEART TROUBLE.

I took about boxes Of Dodds Kid
ney Pills for Heart Trouble from
which / had suffered for years. l
had dizzy spells, my eyes pulled,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Reverse Proceeding.

did you find Mabel in, after all,
when you called"
Yes; that's how l found her out"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Imnortant 70 Nnotners
erms.

There is one thing I've been won
dering about"
Whats that?"
How racing men take Joy rides in
a sulky."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teethlng, softens the gums, reduces infiamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie Csc bottle Lh
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first put up
40 years ago. They regulate and invigorate
stomach, liver and bowels. 6ugar-coated
tiny granules. ADV.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Men Were SAVING country.

Daughter-Mother, why do people
think business will be better after
election.
Mother-Because then men will
have more time to give to it.-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

The more the trusts want the less
the common people get.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

Truth is stranger than fiction and
equally dangerous.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND RIiIIIl Up THE gVGTENT

Take the Old Standard GROW E'S TASTELESS
CHILL TONIC. You know what you arc taking.
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle.
showing II Is simply Qulnine and Iron In tasteess
form, and tht most enectunl form. For grown
people and children, 10 cents. Adv.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

Marriage may either form ones
character or reform 1t.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05

FOR EXCHANGE-Fine quarter section Of
land (relinquBhment). three miles from Ar
tesla, to trade for anything worth the money
$4,000 This IL extra choice land adapted to
fruit or alfalfa, and owing to location Will
become very valuable. A homeseekera OPP
portunlty For particulars address E. h.
FOSTER. Artesln. New Mexico. BOX NJ.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-12-05
Comprehensive

Comprehensive.
Uplift Theorist--Ho does the psy-
Geological drama so in this town?
Blunt Manager-It goes broke.
Evening star., 1912-09-08
A String to 1t.

D DEPRESENTATIVE BILLY" MUIR
~ RAY, the young member of Con.
gress from one of the Boston districts.
numbers among his constituents a great
many voters OF Irish. Italian and other
foreign nationalities. and. of course, hears
great many stories about them. Also.
he knows how to tell these stories in an
effective manner. Here is one:
Mulvihill and Cassidy had been sworn
enemies for years. The two had en-
gagged in a hundred hand-to-hand battles
in which brickbats and clubs had been
called to reinforce heavy Irish fists. and a
meeting between the two was always the
signal for fight.
One day. however. Mulvihill fell of the
top OF building on which he was work.
ing and was hauled away to the hos
only a matter of few hours. A friend
carried the word to Cassidy.
Now said the friend. after telling OF
theaccident. poor ould Mulvihili is about
to die. Will ye not make it up wild him.
so he will not go to purgathory wild hate
in his hear-rt FIR ye?"
Il will not said Cassidy, promptly.
But at last, won over by the arguments
of the mutual friends, Cassidy consented
to visit mis- nfelong enemy and effect q
deatilbed reconciliation. At the hospital
Cassidy, stepping softly, approached Null
vihilrs bedside.
Mike he said, Il do be hearin' ye
ar-re kilt entirely be tn fall We had. and
I'm here f-r to make II up wild ye before
we co.
An, Dinnis,'' replied Mulyihill, its
glad / am to see We widout brick in Yer
hand, seein' I'm not able to hould wan in
mine. Me SO near dead, IL seems a shame
we've been fightin' all these years. whin
we might well have been the good
frinds. An I'm glad TO know I'm goin
widout an inimy in the world now, 50
let's shake hands. Dinnis.''
The two clasped hands and talked for
a few minutes on the fooishness Of strife
and the pleasures they might have had
If they hadn't been too busy fighting and
Cassidy started to leave. As he reached
the door. however, Mulvihill called TO him.
But, Cassidy" was the dying mans
remark 'raymimber, If | get well, all
this hot air don't go. Raymimber that"
Evening star., 1912-09-08

exclusively with trot lines. These are
ropes about four or five hundred yards
long to which .'snoods,' or short lines
about eighteen inches long, are attached
every two or three feet. The trot line is
stretched diagonaly across the stream
Sinkers are attached to carry it to the
bottom. while at each end buoy. usu-
ally an empty keg, is fastened. Soon
after midnight the fishermen go out to
bait their lines. The bait is usually
spoiled beef. This is fastened to the end
of the snoods. No hook is used. The
fishermen depend on the greediness OF
the crab to hold on to the beef until he
can be landed. After batting their lines
they lie down to take maps in their boats
until daybreak, for the crabs do not begin
to bite until then. From daylight on.
however is a busy time for the crabbers.
They begin at one end of the line. place
it over the prov Of the boat and pull.
AS a snood appears to which usually a
crab is hanging. they slip a scoop net
under him and land him in the boat
BY the time they have reached the other
end of the line they are ready to begin
over again. Fifteen or twenty times dur
ing the morning is the line overhauled
and the crabs removed. This is over.
however, by 10 o'clock, as the crabs do
not bite we'll after that hour nor does
the catch keep well. owing to the heat
1t is worth while to note the peculiar
phraseology of the crabbers. The
names they have given to the crab in
Evening star., 1912-09-08
An Endless Chain.
PROMINENT official

A PROMINENT official in the Post
"A Office Department in Washington
tells story of the far-reaching ef-
fects Of an insignificant, quarter-of-a-
column notice published five or six
years ago in an obscure little Florida
newspaper.
What was the reason for It," he says.
"or on what authority the notice was
published. I do not pretend to know.
But this paper stated that the United
States government would redeem at
one-fourth of their face value all can
celed postage stamps that We're re-
turned to the Post Office Department
at Washington. How anybody could
credit such a statement is mystery.
But they did, and the notice was widely
copied. 1t at last found its way into
the patent insides so much used by
small country newspapers. Numbers
of people took 1t as literal truth and
began to save up their old stamps.
Then our troubles began.
Letters began to pour I'm from all
parts of the country. asking about the
redemption Of the cancelled stamps
And worse than that. express packages
began coming in, bringing old stamps
to be redeemed. The department was
simply overwhelmed. We finally had
to employ five or six extra clerks to
answer these letters. II was a rather
disagreeable job too. writing to all
those people that their stamps were
worthless. Some OF the letters that
came with the stamps were pathetic.
and I hate to think of the number OF
people who were disappointed. all be-
cause some rack-brained editor pub
lished that idiotic notice.
"Why, even now, and IL has been five
wears at least since that notice came
out, hardly a week passes that we do
not receive letters and packages or
Cancelled stamps. The news has just
gotten to some sequestered spots.
hope the contradiction will be as
widely copied was the original
notice. This shows that you news
paper people ought to be mighty care
whimsically.
Evening star., 1912-09-08

taceans. boat with two men aboard
will usually have attached to it three
drags. one on each side and one behind.
These drags usually have an opening of
two feet six inches to three feet six
inches in cotton bag about four feet
deep to gather in the crabs. The yes
sci must sail a little faster than the
crab can swim, SO that once in the bag
he cannot get out. The drags are drawn
up one at time and emptied into
trough on the side of the boat, the crab
is taken out and the refuse of grass and
mud thrown overheard. The drag is
again lowered into the water for other
victims. This manner Of grabbing will
last until the wind dies down. usually
about 10 o'clock. after which the fisher
man will anchor his sailing craft, get
into his small skiff and go TO shallow
water for scooping. Generally he will
get out of his skiff into the water and
with his small scoop in hand will dip up
the unresisting crab into his net
Still other crabbers have senes and
enmesh the crab as he navigates the
stream. Crabs that are caught in seines
or scoop nets are less apt to be injured
in taking. and consequently bring high
er price than those that are caught with
drag.
The days catch is carried back to Cris-
field. where it is assorted. The soft
Evening star., 1912-09-08

can see the scrape in actual operation,
see the denizens of the deep drawn up
unwillingly to the boat, see them back
off with their sidewise movement from
their captors and hoist their large
front claws for protection, alas, too
late! One can see the scooper wadfng
with his scoop net in his hand, gather
ing the crabs and filling his skiff with
the results of his work.
One can see the hard-Shell crabber
overhauling his trot line and watch
with what skill he manages to get his
scoop net beneath the wary crab be-
fore he turns loose the bait. One can
enjoy the sail over the waters of the
sound and listen to the fishermen tell
yarns of their former catches and be-
moan the falling off Of their luck in
later days.
Crisfield is located in the extreme
lower end of Somerset county, and Is
the principal distributing point for soft
shell crabs The grabbing grounds are
Tangier sound and it's tributary
waters. Holland straits and kedge
straits. But boats are sent out 10
these places from CriSfield and the
crabs are brought here for marketing
Grabbing is done in three ways. The
most important method is scraping or
dredging A fleet Of sailing boats starts
out by early dawn to scrape for the crus-
Evening star., 1912-09-08
Sight of Money Starts Panic in Land That Bars Stranger

finding in his bed letter which a
brigand chief had sent by messenger
to one Of his neutenants. arranging
certain time and planning to massacre
the prefect the foreigners and the po-
lice. The seller of Bibles warned the
hurry and the attack was beaten of:
Previously he had had no warning or
danger. and the number of soldiers In
the city could not have held 1t for an
hour.
The lot Of the Scripture vendor in the
old world isn't all danger and hard
times, however. Apparently they get
many a chuckle. like one in the Gironde,
in western France. from whom an old
woman bought Bible because her fancy
was pleased with the name Nathaniel,
which occurred in a chapter read to her
by the seller. She thought this a fine
name. and decided to propose it for
grandson Of hers who had not yet been
baptized. Some of the colporteurs must
laugh, too, at the queer bargains they
strike. Eggs often are taken In payment
for Bibles, and in Roumanian Vhiase
the Good Book was bartered for hen.
colporteur thought he had not paid
enough. so he threw in New Testament.
One Hungarian farmer paid for a Bioie
with a pig, and in a village nearby the
Gospel was taken in payment for pail
of water for the colporteur's horse. Four
yards Of homemade linen purchased the
Scriptures in Spanish village. rabbit in
another and a lot Of preserved peppers in
a third. An Arab woman in Fee insisted
on giving her silver ring for Bible, and
in another part Of Morocco q man. too
poor to pay in coin, cashed in with a
vine, the inner bark Of which is used
locally in making ropes.
The Bible now is printed in 400 different
forms of speech, and last year over
Z 600 600 copies OF tho Scriptures were dis
tributed by the British and Foreign Bible
Society.
Evening star., 1912-09-08

with the establishment of filtration plants
in cities that are represented on the map.
Another chart illustrates the reduction by
about 20 per cent of the mortality from
the ten principal communicable diseases.
In the same department is presented a
model city archaeological laboratory,
wherein 1t is shown how diagnoses of ty-
phoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis are
made; also the methods whereby serums,
anti-toxins and "bacterins" otherwise
known as vaccines) are manufactured.
Very instructive are specimens Of disease
organs from the human body. showing
the destructive effects of alcohol. Lep-
rosy also finds representation. being a
much more common disease In this coun-
try than is generally supposed. Even
Massachusetts has its leper colony. But
the most interesting fact worked out in
regard to this frightfL1 malady is that
no case of it has ever started in the
United States.
The government presents a striking ar
ray of exhibits illustrating military, ma
val and tropical hygiene. Up-to-date
Evening star., 1912-09-08

the land, and when the Zayein elders
refused to point out the place ordered
the cutting off of the right hands of
the people. One who wanted to be
funny might remark that this accounts
for the absence of the glad hand in the
country. but the fact remains that the
villagers touch neither gold nor silver
and lead strangers kindly but firmly
across the frontier. Il had" says the
colporteur thus treated an unde-
sirable alien, Ito sleep on a hilltop. in
much danger from beasts and snakes.
Both seem to have let him alone, con-
fining their attention, perhaps, to his
confreres in the same line of business,
one Of whom tells how he was about
to step on a deadly viper concealed In
the long grass" when natives yell
of warning saved his life; while an
other describes how he was treed by
leopard. He met this beast face to face
on the road to Akyab, and Tor MIN
ute or two was SO paralyzed that he
could do nothing but stare at It. The
leopard. too. hesitated a minute and
then made for him, and the Bible
sprinted for tree and got up it. This
seemed to surprise the leopard, which
crouched down in the road and did not
change it's spot for four hours. during
which the man in the tree lost several
pounds. Then it disappeared into the
jungle" and Colporteur Barnabas went
very frightened Another colporteur
in south India had a narrow squeak
with tiger.
Two sellers of the Scriptures got
lost in Siberian blizzard and would
have frozen to death had not the sound
of bell in the far distance told them
in which direction safety lay. Others
have had hairbreadth escapes in China.
In one village in that land a thief
threw a poisoned cake into a COM
pound to kill off a watchful dog and
Il child ate the cake and died, where
upon a luckless colporteur, who had
been at the house that morning. was
pounced on. If the thief had not con-
fessed 1t might have been all up with
him. Quite novel in a nutshell. too.
is the story of how n Bible seller saved
u Chinese city from attack through
Evening star., 1912-09-08

sented by delegates. and the number of
members present at the meetings OF the
various sections will run up into the
thousands. There will also be a health
exhibition. which, for purposes of demon
stration. will occupy a large building tthe
property Of the Red Cross in Potomac
Park. half a block from the Pan-Amer-
lean palace. This exhibition will begin
September Is, and will last three weeks
Twenty-six federal bureaus will take part
in IL: likewise many states and cities
scientific associations and institutions of
learning and research.
Roughly speaking, the objects of the
congress are to promote health and les
sen the ravages of disease: to prevent
needless deaths and prolong useful lives.
10 standardize hygienic methods and teach
people how to achieve greater comfort
and safety in their ways Of living
To quote the secretary general OF the
congress. DIR. John s. Fulton OF the Uni
,ersity of Maryland:
Sanitary science has reached such a
stage of development as to furnish a
practical working basis for the introduc-
lion of definite measures for the preven-
tion of disease and the Improvement of
the living conditions OF mankind. Cnfor-
tunately these measures are very far
from being generally adopted, Yet the
What seems to be chiefly required is the
education of the public in such matters.
and here is where the health exhibition Is
expected to prove useful. 1t is the first
exhibition dealing in comprehensive
way with all phases of hygiene that has
ever been held in the United states. ana.
taken as a whole. il will illustrate the
progress Of the great sanitary movement
in this country within recent years: IL
will demonstrate fundamental hyg1enic
principles. will furnish a series or stand
ards upon which local sanitary measures
may properly be modelled, will inform the
general public, the medical profession
the sanitary engineer, the chemist. the
educator. the architect and the sociologist
as to the most progressive features oi
hygienic work accomplished in various
parts of the country. and, finally. 1t VIII
show the close INTERPOLATION of the varl-
Gus phases of sanitary science and the
degree to which all OF them. when duly
applied. make for greater social and eco
nomic efficiency. and in this way increase
the wealth OF nations.
While the learned delegates and sci
Evening star., 1912-09-08

in the papers as spreading cancer
among the people"
One of them reports being set on by
a burly plumber armed with a file. and
another being attacked with great hos
tility' by a fanatical populace armed
with rakes, sticks and stones. Carbi-
neers afterward had to protect the house
where this man got a few hours indif-
ferent rest
These things. however are mere flea
bites compared to the adventures that
befall "colporteurs' in different parts of
Asia. The story Of one Of them might
have come straight out of the Arabian
Nights In Persia this Bible dealer.
whose name is Yonan, fell into the
clutches of robber band. and nothing
but the appearance on the scene OF a
masterful telegraph official saved his
life. No more was he out of this scrape
than he was arrested in kurdestan be-
cause he happened to bear the same
name as an Armenian revoluti onist. LAS
the Lord liveth." he wrote to the society,
there was but step between me and
DEATH" However, a Chaldean priest in
tervened, and the brother of the ex-shah
into whose presence the Quaking man
had been brought first. offered him, as
an alternative to death, post in his
service, and on his refusing it, gave him
a title with a firman making him a khan
This title is Translator to the king,
and it's possessor undoubtedly finds it
pleasanter to translate than TO be slated
for translation.
In most parts of the world stranger
with plenty of the circulating medium
gets the gladdest of glad hands, but a
Burmese colporteur has discovered a
tribe which Is exceedingly leary of
travellers, and even more afraid Of any
money they may have about them. The
people who harbor such remarkable
antipathies are called the Zayeins,
and they reside on the borders of Bur-
nah. The sight of gold or silver. par
ticularly. throws them almost into a
panic. 1t seems that once Il neighbor-
ing king heard that there was gold in