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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Call to Arms.

"Bang!" went the rifles at the ma
neuvers.
"Oo-oo," screamed the pretty girl
nice, decorous, surprised little
scream. She stepped backward into
the surprised arms of young man.
"Oh," said she, blushing, 81 was fright
ened by the rifles. / beg your par
DON"
Not at ALL" said the young man.
Lets go over and watch the artil-
lery."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Timely Reminder.

I'VE are still mining ore, growing
cotton and manufacturing Steel" said
the American host.
why do you tell me that?" in
CURED the foreign visitor.
Il just want to remind you that the
country is producing something be-
sides politics"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
rakea unllnesa PhlIoaonhloaIlv.

A man whose face is heavily pitted
through a case Of smallpox in his in.
fancy, has been able to extract amuse-
ment from his appearance. Once he
gave an explanation of 1t by say
ing that he had fallen down a shot
tower.
Asked how he was able to shave
himself, he answered.:
with belt punch"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
To Renew Chiffon

Spread wet cloth over a very hot
iron and hold the chiffon over the
steam until it is free from wrinkles.
Renew both cloth and iron as soon as
the steam flows feebly. Allow the
chiffon to dry quickly.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Good lime to Do Il.

us your daughter going to practice
on the piano this afternoonT
Yes, think So"
well, then, I'd like to borrow your
lawn mower. I've got to cut the grass
some time, anyway."-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Official Scoring.

SHOULD Butcher get the credit for
winning Waterloo?"
NO; that victory is properly cred.
tied to Wellington. Butcher didn't re-
lieve him until about the eighth In
ming"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Salmon croouettes,

Pick bones and skin from one large
can red salmon, add one raw egg, mix
with cracker crumbs In small cakes,
roll in cracker crumbs and fry In but
teT.-C. ". L
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Mean Hint.

Men are what their diet makes
them"
you must have been eating a great
deal Of sheepshead fish lately"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
unsophlstlcated.

Darling" said the fond youth, pro-
ducing ring, (which is the right fin
ger?"
For goodness sake, Algy!" re-
sponded the maiden, don't you know?
Nineteen years old and never been
engaged to girl before!"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
'PaIIiatlnu News.

"Oh, dear, officer, was my poor hus-
band shot when you got him to the
@tation?"
mo, madam; only half shot"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Not New.

First Neighbor-Have you heard
tell of them new-fangled trial mar
riages?
Second Neighbour don't see moth
ing new-fangled about 'em. Mines
been a trial for me for the last twenty
years!-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31

God has placed the genius Of wom-
en- in their hearts, because the works
of this genius are always works Of
love.-Alphonse De Lamatina.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Big Difference.

did you have any osculatory enter
tainment at your party?"
mo; only some kissing games"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31

Kitty (blushing)-I am angry with
Horace, and only gave you that kiss
through revenge.
Harry (aughing)-It reminded me
Of revenge.
Kitty-In what way?
Harry-Well, you know, revenge
is sweet"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
IeethinG, softens the gums, reduces infiamma-
Jion, allays pain, cures wind collie, 25c bottle.
Adv.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31

More firm and sure the hand OF
courage strikes when it obeys the
watchful eye of caution.-Thomson
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
Heredlty.

Miss Comeup is now in the swim"
"She ought to take naturally to it..
Her father was a mill1man."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31

1t is easy for a girl to pretend to
love an old millionaire and fool him
into thinking 1t is real.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-31
TO DRIVE OUT MAEARIA Go.

Take tho Old standard GROVES TASThLksB
CHILL Tonic. You know what you are taking.
The formula 10 plainly printed on every bottle,
showing II Is simply Quinno and Iron In taseless
form, and tho most enectual form. For grown
people and children, 20 cents. Adv.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
AWAKENED TRAIN OF THOUGHT
Little Incident That Would Have
Made Almost Any Man Super
stitious.

Seeking to dispel the pangs Of lone
someness occasioned by the absence
of his wife, who had been away for
several days visiting her parents in
another city, fashionable and we'll
known resident of the East side in
vited a number of his men friends to
his home one night last week to play
cards and clink glasses.
Being fond of music the host en-
gagged a four-piece orchestra and while
his guests exchanged deals and raised
the cut glasses to their lips he found
more pleasure in reclining in favor
lite leather cushioned chair and listen
ing to the music.
1t was nearing the time for depar-
tUre when one of the merry-makers
proposed that each guest drink toast
to the host and that he respond. When
all had followed the suggestion they
turned toward the host. Tell us what
you are thinking Of your wife," one
suggested as the party giver hesi-
tated
Raising his glass to level with his
lips Re was about to respond. Il was
thinking and wondering"
Just at that moment the orchestra
began it's rendition OF Il Wonder
Who's kissing Her Now"
The guests never heard the re-
Spouse, but if they had fingered out
side and peered through the library
window they would have seen him
writing a letter which was later en-
closed in an envelope bearing a spe-
cial delivery stamp. The contents or
the message have not been made pub
lie, but the wife came home two days
later.-Kansas City Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
SIMPLEST Way of All.

The following story the Saturday
Evening Post says is told of Col.
George w. Goethals, who at the time
it took place was an instructor in en-
cheering at West Point.
One day, in recitation he gave out
this question to class of cadets:
The post fagpole, sixty feet high,
has fallen down. You are ordered by
your commanding officer to put it up
again. You have under your command
a sergeant and ten privates of the en-
gineer corps How would you get the
pole back into placer"
Each cadet, after long consideration
and much figuring over the derricks,
blocks, tackle and so on, evolved a
different method.
NO." said Goethals, you are all
wrong. You would simply say: Ser
geant, put up that fiagpole!"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

oooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooOoo
WOFNl
William Cunningham, Jaler of New York Revolution
Martvrs'
Martyrs"

the prison ship Jersey moored on
the Brooklyn shore. Churches were
also turned into jails.
In the prison ship the captives were
herded by hundreds in dark, foul pens,
destitute of pure air and sunlight.
They were given such food as dog
might we'll scorn, and in such tiny
quantities as would not suffice to
keep a dog alive. The water they
drank was filthy. No medical care
or chance for cleanliness or exercise
was granted them. Prison fever and
other maladies scourged their ranks.
They died like so many flies. To such
fearful condition were they reduced
that the lowest city outcasts were
touched by pity and secretly sent
them food
The fate of the captives in the new
gaol, or hall of records, was little bet
ter. Here is an extract from Pin.
tard's account of their sufferings:
so closely were they packed to-
gether that when they lay down at
night to rest, on the hard oak planks,
and they wished to turn, it was all
together by word of command
right 1eft'-being so wedged as to
form almost a solid mass of human
bodies"
All war is cruel But such torture
as this was inexcusable. And Though
the British government might perhaps
have bettered matters had they chos-
en- to) the lions share Of the blame
was Cunningham's. Here is portion
of his sworn confession, made in 1891,
just before his own execution:
II shudder to think of the murders
l have been accessory to, both with
and without orders from government,
especially while in New York, during
which time there were more than two
thousand prisoners starved by stop
ping their rations (Which I soid).
There were also 275 American pris-
oners executed. A guard was des-
patched to forbid people to look out
from their doors or windows on pain
of death, after which the prisoners
were conducted, gagged, at midnight,
just behind the upper barracks, hung
without trial and then buried"
Cunningham went back to England
after the war and took to riotous Iiv-
ing. Being short of money to squan-
der on dissipation, he forged draft.
For this crime he was tried, con-
demned, and, on August 10, 1871. was
hanged.
He is said to have been responsible
for the shameful death of nearly $500
American patriots. Nor could mere
hatred for the colonists account for
this wholesale slaughter, since he dis
honestly sold for his own profit the
provisions allotted to them.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
CANADA'S PROSPERITY.

The New York Times of March %,
1912, in an article dealing with Cana
da's progress, says:
cat the present moment eight ship
loads of European immigrants are
af1oat for Canada, while there are
signs that the outward movement
which is customary with us during
labor troubles will be marked this
year. There is no such startling rec
ord of our loss to Canada Our citi-
zens quietly slip over the border in
groups or trainloads, but their going
is not advertised.
There is no mystery why Canada
is the good thing the United States
used to be. 1t is because Canada is
following in it's neighbours footsteps
that it is repeating the fortunate ex-
perience which its neighbor is envy
ing, even while deliberately turning
it's back on the teachings of the past.
A fortnight ago the Dominion budget
speech reported the unprecedented
surplus of $39,0O0,O00, and on Thurs
day the Government passed through
the Committee on Supply credits of
$38,000,000 for railways and canals.
With this assistance the railways
themselves are both enabled and COM
PEELED to increase their facilities. Ac-
cordingly we find a single road allot-
ting ten millions for work of its own.
Naturally the Canadian newspapers
contain announcements calling for
fifty thousand men for construction
work. This influx is apart from those
Americans who go with money in their
pockets obtained by cashing in their
high-priced American lands.
"a st. Paul dispatch says that with
in fortnight two thousand carloads
of farm animals and machinery nave
passed toward Canada, the property
of men who expect to pay for their
farms with the first crop"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
Oppose Eccentric Dances.

London hostesses, following the
tradition OF the land which found it's
way into the saying Write letter to
the Times" are letting newspapers
know that they will resist to the ut
most any effort to introduce the griz-
Fly bear hug and other American
dances into. English bathrooms. The
newspapers themselves do not share
the fear that these freaks of the
waXed floor Will gain a foothold there,
but one Of them says that though the
craze for freak dancing prevalent in
America has not yet invaded England,
the American influence is plainly Wis,
ible in many English bathrooms, and
eccentricities il dancing seem to be
gaining favor with a section of the
dancing public.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
WITTY, AND ACTUAL TRUTH
But Probably Explanation of Washing,
tonian Failed to Satisfy
Foreigner.

There is a certain public man III
Washington long noted for his quaint
wit One day last winter, when the
sidewalks were quite slippery by rea-
son of a fall of sleet that morning,
this official and his wife were proceed
ing down a thorOughfare carefully
picking their way. Just ahead of them
was a little foreigner, a member of
one Of the legations, who was having
just as much difficulty as they in
keeping on his feet. Finally the lit
tie fellow slipped and fell, but not
with sufficient force to injure him.
His dignity, however, received fright
full shock, for he sprawled over the
pavement in the most Iudicrous way.
The lady could not restrain a smile,
perceiving which the irate foreigner,
as soon as he had picked himself up,
rushed forward ind presented the Off
cial with his card.
The recipient looked the card over
very carefully. beg pardon" said
he, "but why am 1 thus favored?"
"Your ladee here" ragged the for
eigner, she laugh at me as fall I,
sir, demand the satisfaction"
The American gently handed back
the card. I'D like to oblige you, my
dear SIR said he, "but l think you've
addressed the wrong party I would
suggest that you go to this lady's
brother and demand of him the salts
faction Won conE Sho &c M blood
relative Of mine!"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
substitute for rhird peoree,

A New York dentist advocates
laughing gas as a substitute for the
police third degree. He believes that
this, the least dangerous of anesthet
les, lays open what already is in the
mind, unconscious or the search foI
it's secrets. He believes that if a
man who has committed a serious
crime should be questioned about it
during certain stage of recovery
from nitrous oxide, or laughing gas
anaesthesia, he would not only reply
and truthfully, but half minute later
he would realize fully what he had
said.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
Sikeston, Mo.
fered everything,

have an operation. would not listen to
that, and when friend of my husband
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, / was willing to take it.
Now l look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. I can do my own homework,
hoe my garden, and milk a COW. / can
entertain company and enjoy them.
can visit when choose, and walk as far
as any ordinary woman, any day in the
month. / wish I could talk to every
suffering woman and girl. Mrs. DEMA
BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo. q
Murrayville, Ill.-"I have taken Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
for a very bad case of female trouble
and it made me a we'll woman. My
health was all broken down, the doctors
said I must have an operation, and was
ready to go to the hospital, but dreadedit
so that began taking your Compound.
/ got along so well that l gave up the
doctors and was saved from the opera
ton. Mrs. CHARLES MOORE, R. Re
No. 8, Murrayville, Ill.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

Breucklen shore) CUNNlN0H Ham
disturb their sIumbers And they pray
that Master Cunningham, our provost
marshal, will devise some means to
keep the poor wretches quiet OF
nights"
So runs an old letter written in
New York during the darkest days OF
the American Revolution. The Brit
ish had captured New York and Phila-
delphia To both cfties-but chiefly to
New York-they brought thousands of
patriot soldiers, captured in battle,
and many non-combatants who had
risked freedom and life to help the
cause of liberty by money, gifts or by
patriotic speeches.
These unlucky captives were not
treated like prisoners of war. They
were housed and fed-or, rather,
starved-in a way the law nowadays
would not permit for cattle or swine.
And the man in charge of them was
a blackguard whose own countrymen
loathed him, William Cunningham.
Cunningham was the son of a Brit
ish dragon and was born in the
regimental barracks at Dublin. In 1874
he came to America and settled in
New York, where he made a living for
some time by big aking" colts and by
giving riding lessons. When the Revo-
luton broke out, in 1875, he became
involved in political row with some
local patriots and was forced to fee
to Boston, there to seek the protection
Of the British army
His noisy loyalty to King George
III. got him into trouble there and at
tracted the notice of Thomas Gage,
the English general. Gage appointed
him provost marshal to the royal
army. His chance for revenge" had
come.
Cunningham was sent back to New
York and was put in charge of the
Revolutionary prisoners there and in
Philadelphia There were several i'm
promptu prisons in New York where
the patriot captives were lodged. One
was the city hail. another the famous
old Sugar House." another, Kings
(now ColUmbia) college; another the
new gaoI" (the old hall of records
in City Hall park, torn down only
few years ago., and-worst of all
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

The tipsy tealot is popular nova.
days at Afternoon teas. 1t may be
found in Fifth arenue homes and in
the rooms of the Barnard college girls.
The pots are handy for brewing tea
daintily and quickly. The tipsy teapot
has six legs insteld of feet. In she
teapot is a special receptacle for the
tea, with holes for The water to percd
late from the main. 9art of the pot. TIL
tea is placed in The little compaI
ment and then the. Tot is tipped on
side, permitting tbs steaming wa
to absorb the strength Of the
leayes.-New York Fress.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
Charles IL, the Merry Monarch

parliaments rule and the people
gladly welcomed Charles home as
their king. 1t was the beginning Of
modern England, and of a reign whose
profigacy and scandals set the whole
world agog. Charles embarked at
once on a life of pleasure He turned
deaf ear to the pleas of those who
had beggared themselves in behalf of
his father and himself. He said he
had no money to spend on such peo-
pie. But he squandered fortunes at
the gambling table and in heaping
wealth and rank upon such women
as he CHANGED to fancy.
He neglected and ilI-treated his
homely little wife, broke state pledges
at will, lavished money on low favor.
ties and mismanaged the nation.
Rochester in calling him "a merry
monarch, scandalous and poor," haG
but spoken the truth.
Charles's chief advisers were five
noblemen (Clifford, Ashley, Bucking-
ham, Arlington and Lauderdale), who
aided him to defy parliament and
cheat the people. The first letters of
these mems names in order spelled
"Cabal," and the oddly coined word
has ever since been used to describe
any conspiracy against the state. To
get money for his own purposes
Charles sold two English towns to
France. He also accepted a large
yearly sum Of money from the French
king Louis XIV to act in that mon
arch's interests. All this did not add
to his popularity with his own people,
who hated France
In 1868 war broke out between
England and Holland. A Dutch fleet
invaded England sailed up the Med
way river as far as Chatham, destroy
ing everything IN it's path. London in
1865 was swept by the plague and in
1861 by fire. Plots, religious disturb
ances, national discontent-all sorts
of misfortunes piled up Through it
all the Merry Monarch pursued his
calm, blackguardly way; seriously
disturbed by nothing; enriching vice
and allowing virtue to starve; his life
and his court the scandal of the civ
ilized world He would probably have
been assassinated were it not that
= brother James-duke Of York, the
5t unpopular man in England
lid have succeeded him as king.
Charles and the queen had 10
zen.
February, 1885, Charles II. died.
last he was the Merry Mon
shimsically begging his cour-
Erdon "for being such long
dying" Courage, wit ana
Ire were his only good quail
.ere were perhaps still fewer
he did not possess
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
School Children HandicapI

Fully one-third OF all chi
the primary and grammar gri
physically or mental incap
or BOTH" says Rheta Jhilde
an article on The ChId Thd
ferent," in the Century III
dren, approximately oIe-thiIs
children under fourteen veaT
cannot keep up with the
school curriculum, which is q
meet the needs of perfectly
normal, average, well fed,
for youngsters"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
a MCuss" Woro.

land why asks the minister of his
deacon, with whom he is playing golf,
"do you exclaim 'Gatun! every time
you make poor drive or miss the
ball?"
"Well you're along" explains the
deacon. "and 'Gatun' is about the big
gest dam / know of"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
Important 70 Mothers
On the Train.

Mercy, Laura, what do you mean
by beginning to write just as soon as
the train pulls out?"
ooh, I'm just writing a post card to
my husband, telling him we arrived
safely"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

cures burning, itching and torturing skin
diseases. 1t instantly stops the pain of
burns Cures without scars. 25c and 50c
by druggists. For free sample write to
]. W. Cole & Co, Black River Fails, wis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

There is very little fighting done in
the world, considering the number of
men who go around with chips ON
their shoulders.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
WOMEN SHOULD
Be PROTECTED
Against So Many Surgical OPP
erations. How Mrs. Bethune
and Mrs. Moore Escaped.

or five days at a time
every month, and so
weak I could hardly
walk. I cramped and
had backache and
headache, and was
so nervous and weak
that l dreaded to see
anyone or have any
onemovein theroo
The doctors gave me
medicine to ease me
said that I ought to
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
AS to Coping.

Drink is the worst evil with which
we have to cope"
Eyes, and isn't it remarkable that
so many people insist on coping with
it regularity"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

courtiers and passed on. Another
man might have taken offense
at being thus lampooned. But
Charles had two remarkable traits
that saved him much bother: He
never carried a grudge and he never
felt gratitude.
He knew well enough that this par
ticular doggereI was the work Of the
graceless earl of Rochester, the man
who in another poem alluded to
Charles as ga merry monarch, scan
dalous and poor" Yet he did not
trouble himself to punish or even to
snub the earl Nor would lie have
rewarded Rochester for saving the
whole royal family from death. That
was the sort of man the MERRY Mon
arch" was.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05
In Days Soon to

"How did Jigley meet
way?"
Il believe some carele.
naut dropped a lighted G.
Oh the gas bag Of Jigle
chine" The Catholic
Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

The term reverend was first applied
to clergyman in 1857.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

There is no reason why you
shouldn't try again, even though at
first you do succeed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

YWy HIS scurril-
81 GU S verse
w a S found
scraWled one
morning on the
bedroom door of
his majesty, King
Charles II. of Eng
land. The king
read the rhyme,
smiled carelessly
at the Mortified
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

Beware of Springs sudden changes; keep
Garfield Tea at hand. Drink hot on retiring.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-05

German silver is an alloy of nickel,
copper and zinc.