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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
ITCHING AND BURNING

1866 West 46th Ave, Denver, Colo.
IL had very sore leg. 1t troubled
me for some twenty years and finally
broke out to a running sore with
much fever and terrible itching and
burning. 1t burned and itched so bad
ly l could not rest day or night and
was obliged to lie in bed. The sores
were in spots just as raw as a piece
of beef used medicine, yet it
wouldn't heal. Seeing the adVertise
ment for Cuticura Soap and Ointment
I Immediately wrote for some. The
immediate cure was more remarkable
than can describe. 1 was complete.
ly cured" (Signed) Mrs. Curry
Brown, April II, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
ADV.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
HE WAS TAKING NO CHANCES
Been Excessive, but He Still
Had the Suit.

The Rev. John N. Underwood, one
of Pittsburgh's most eloquent and
earnest ministers, said the other day:
I'm temperance address in the spring
] pointed out that drunken husbands
kill every year, with revolvers and
hatchets and clubs, $500 wives. That
$500 babies are killed by drunken
fathers who crush them in bed. That
DO per cent of all our divorces are due
to drunkenness"
Mr.. Underwood paused then added:
II heard recently of little boy to
whom a warm and comfortable suit
had been given. The boys father was
q drunkard, and 1t was feared that the
suit would soon find it's way to the
pawnshop. But a week after the lad
had got the suit he was still wearing
1t.
Good for you, Johnny said city
missionary to the little chap. Still
wearing your suit, l see.'
Yes, SIR the urchin explained.
sleep in it. Chicago Record-Herald
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
Surprise for Mother.

A certain mother, given to nysti-
cism and impressive theories regard,
ing her highly natural children, one
evening was entertaining visitors.
Suddenly came the sound of little feet
pattering to the head of the stairs
The mother raised her hand in solemn
warning.
Listen" she said, softly. THE chill
dren are going to deliver their good
night message. 1t always gives me a
feeling of reverence to hear them
they are so much nearer the Creator
than we are, and they speak so won
derfully, sometimes. Hush! One o.
them is speaking now"
Then, breaking through the tense 81
lence, came a shrill whisper:
Mamma! WHY'S found a bug il
his bed"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
WEAKENING CHURCH SLEEPERs

One John Ridge is on record as
having bequeathed to the parish of
Trysull, In Shropshire, England,
twenty shilIings a year to be paid to
"a poor man" employed to go about
church In summer to keep people
awake.
At another English church, that of
Acton in Cheshire, 1t was the practice
during the middle of the last century
for one of the church wardeus to pro-
coed through the church during serv-
Ice with huge wand In his hand.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

wherewith, If any one of the congre
cation were observed to be asleep he
was instantly awakened by a tap on
the head.
In Warwickshire a similar custom
prevailed. A warden bearing a stout
wand shaped like a hayfork at the
end stepped stealthily up and down
the nave and the aisles and whenever
he saw an individual asleep he
touched him SO effectively that the
nap was broken-this being some
times accomplished by the applica-
ton of the fork to the nape of the
neck.
A more playful method obtained in
another church. The beadle went
about during service carrying a long
staff, to one end of which was at.
tached a fox's brush and to the other
knob. With the former he gently
tickled the faces of the women sleep.
| ers, while with the knob he be,
slowed sharp rap on the heads OF
male offenders.-Harper's Weekly.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
WRONG BRIDE AT THE ALTAR

The story of a bridegroom finding
the wrong bride at his side for the
wedding ceremony was told in Bonn
bay high court a short time ago. A
member of the religious sect known as
the jams, being forbidden by Jain
custom to seek for a bride for him
self, commissioned another man to
find one. After a selected bride had
been viewed" by the Jain at a rail-
way station he agreed to pay the
prospective brides father $1,000, and
$50 to an intermediary, and part of
the money was paid in advance. At
the ceremony the bride" wore a
heavy veil, and when the Jain asked
her to remove 1t he found that some
one had been trying to pass off sub
stttute for his bride. These adven-
lures are not uncommon in India.
Sometimes a very ugly girl is passed
off on a bridegroom.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
FORTUNE IN THE PUNCTURE

A puncture in an automobile tire
isn't always a misfortune. according
to the recent experience of an autoist
at Grass Valley, Ney. The reason
for his philosophy may be explained
in the fact that while driving he sud
denly heard a report, and, leaving his
scat, he looked upon the spectacle of
punctured tire and proceeded to
fix It. During the course of his labors
he had occasion to step near the lit
tie stream of water that was close
by. His eyes were caught by a sud,
den CLINT between the rocks, and
STOPPING over. he picked up a gold
nugget that proved to be worth $40
The nugget exactly fitted the cut in
the tire and caused the puncture.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

This prayer-book, office de la Dt
vine Providence a rUsage, de la
Maison Royale de Saint Louis, a
Saint Cyr ct de Tous les Fideles"--
has been identified as a relic of Marie
Antoinette, and contains probably the
last words she wrote before her execu,
ton on October 16, 1893. The inscrip.
ton, which is on the back of page 219
and in the ill-fated queens writing,
reads (translated) This day, Octo-
Der Is, at 4:30 in the morning. My
God! have pity on me. My eyes no
longer have tears to shed for you, my
poor children. Goodbye, Marie An
toinette." The prayer-book, which
has been in the museum at Chalons'
sur Marne for a long while and has
only just been recognized for what il
undoubtedly is, was printed in Paris
In 1857 There are various signs OF
Hlutilation during the revolution; the
zaeur-de-lis on the binding has been
erased and ornaments have been de
faced.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
A Nice Distinction.

Senator Gronna, discussing a knot
ty tariff problem, said in speech:
There is a nice distinction involved
here. You don't notice it at first.
Once it is pointed out to you, however,
you perceive its immense Importance.
Its the sort of distinction that
Gobsa Codes beautiful young wife
revealed to him during a conjugal
quarrel over a diamond tiara.
People say quavered the old
man, trembling with rage. People
say you only married me because had
money
The young woman smiled superbly.
g Rubbish she exclaimed. My pri-
mary reason for marrying you was
that I had no money myself
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

have an operation. Iwould not listen to
that, and when friend of my husband
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham' Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, was willing to take it.
Now I look the picture of health and feel
like it; too. can do my own homework,
hoe my garden, and milk COW. I can
entertain company and enjoy them. ]
car visit when choose, and walk as far
as any ordinary woman, any day in the
month. / wish could talk to every
suffering woman and girl. Mrs. DEMA
BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
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 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 gave up the
doctors and was saved from the opera
ton. Mrs. CHARLES MOORE, R. R.
No. 8, Murrayville, I'll.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
NAMED THE FIRST REQUISITE
Bright Boy May Have Lacked Orig
inality, but He Surely Had
Correct Answer.

This brave man, beloved by all
France, was then buried with full
military honors," Baltimore boy
read from the lesson, when his name
had been called.
What are military honors' in this
connecticut" the teacher asked, and
several boys seemed to be possessed
of the right idea.
And what must one be to receive
such honors?" was the next question.
"A general?' "A hero?" "A cap.
tain?" were a few of the tentative re,
plies. Only the bright boy" of the
class remained silent.
Have you no answer, james," the
teacher suggested, what must one
be-"
why, 1 should say dead, Miss
Mary" was the reply.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
FIRST SCULPTOR is FOUND

Dr. Captain, professor at the Col
lege de France. has had the good for
tune to discover the remains of the
first sculptor in the world, buried at
the foot of his masterpiece, executed
some 10000 years ago.
Last year the archaeological world
was deeply stirred by the unearthing
under the pick of DR.. Lalanne of Bor-
deaux of a prehistoric Venus, carved
in the native rock of a grotto near
Lauselle. The rocky pocket in which
this momentous discovery was made
was filled with archaeological deposits,
bones of animals, especially reindeer,
which were common game for the
hardy hunters of the Magdalenian
epoch in Dordogne. Many utensils
of the hunter, the fisherman and the
artist were also found-delicate
chisels, scrapers, harpoons and spears
of bone.
Most of these, evidently, could only
have served for the hunt, the house,
the kitchen or warfare; but there were
others mingled with them, exception
ally big and heavy-whose use remain
ed unexplained until the dust of ages
having been cleaned from the wall of
manned unexplained from the wall of
the grotto, five life-sized horses, cut
in the rock in free and living work
manship. were revealed. The excava-
tons were continued and soon spade
struck on the skull of the author. The
old artist lay crouching on his left
side, something in the attitude of
Robins statue, THE Thinker" which
stands outside the Pantheon at Paris.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
SURE SHOT WITH HAMMER

John Lupton of Fort Lupton, Colo.
has never taken any medal for ham
ner throwing, but believes that he is
entitled to one since his exploits
while he was at work on the roof of
a house he was building east of town
He saw a coyote about fifty feet away
running off with a hen in it's jaws
Although the animal was on the run.
Corcoran threw a hammer SO effec-
lively that he killed the animal and
liberated the chicken, which was still
alive and uninjured.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

Using the Log Angeles fashion show
for his text, DR.. Alfred Jones, distin-
guished nerve specialist of London,
now visiting the California city, made
the assertion that dress is causing
the ruination of more lives in Ameri-
ca than malignant disease" He said
the intense competition among Amer
lean women of all classes to keep up
the pace set by fashion was nerve
racking and nerve-destroying.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
LIGHTNING MUSSED HIS HAIR

Edward Kones prefers in the future
to comb his own locks and wishes
lightning would leave them alone.
When his house in Sullivan county,
Pa, was struck the electricity plowed
small burrows about sis skull, taking
the hair off his head in every place
it touched. His injuries, besides de-
stroying his hair, which will not come
in, it Is said, were slight.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
GOLD TEETH ARE PAWNED

You would be surprised at the fun
ny things that are pawned at the local
pawnshops and secondhand Stores"
said Detective Frank Elvin of Louis
vile. THE last thing that you would
suppose a person to pawn is the fill
ing out of his teeth, but it is a COM
mon practice. They don't get much
but I guess every little bit helps
with them when they need the
money"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
A Lucky Find.

"Where'd ye git your new hired
man." inquired Farmer Heck.
HE came along as a candidate, and
did a little reaping for me. l per-
suaded him that he had no chance of
election and he decided to remain
with me permanently"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01


or five days at a time
every month, and so
/ could hardly
I cramped and
had backache and
headache, and was
so nervous and weak
that / dreaded to see
anyone or have any
onemovein theroom-
The doctors gave me
medicine to ease me
said that I ought to
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
A Girls PITY,

ut was King Midas, wasn't it, who
turned everything he touched to
gold?"
Il believe so''
Poor old fellow"
why do you think he was a poor
old fellow"
He never could eat pickle with
his fingers"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
NEGATIVE Evidence.

81 hear the gentleman who is visit
ing your daughter is coming man"
He must be, for he is certainly not
O going one"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

Mrs. wInslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infiamma'
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, Csc bottle.
Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
Different Youth.

Good morning, Mrs. Ales," said o
grocery boy awaiting an order from
lady in suburban town.
please call me Allees," answered
the lady That's my name"
But / don't know you well enough
to call you Alice rejoined the youth,
confusedly.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

A woman always suspects another
woman who never sheds tears.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

A man isn't far from right when
he's willing to admit that he is in the
wrong.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
Probably.

Probably.
"a thing is never so when 1t If
not So"
"I1l bet it is If your wife says II
is
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

Mr. Beetle-At the inquest of Mr.
Bundle Bee they called in several
firefiies.
Willie Bug-Well, I suppose they
wanted more light on the subject.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

The man who invests in green goods
must want money bad.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
Important to Mothers
OF Course.

Doesn't the sight of peach make
you want to smack your lips?"
mo, indeed. The sight of a peach
makes me want to smack her lips"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
WOMEN SHOULD
Be Protected
Against So Many Surgical OPP
erations. How Mrs. Bethune
and Mrs. Moore Escaped.

Sikeston, Mo. -'For seven years Isuf.
fered everything. was in bed for four
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01

w. N. u, Salt Lake City, No. 44-1s12.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-05
HOW TO MAKE THE COUNTRY
ADVISABLE

One of the things that will help 20
lure the people pack to the soil
would be good roads. Statistics show
that just in the proportion. that good
roads and easy methods Of transpor-
tation are availabl in that proper
ton the suburban population in
creases. Students of our national
economics agree on the proposition
that the crowding Of people into cities
adds to the sum OF human wretch
edness.
For many years the cities of the
United States have been gaining in
population more rapidly than the
country districts. The last federal
census reveals the fact that many o.
the country districts actually lost pop
ulation in the preceding decade. This
tendency is in part responsible for
the high cost of living as we are in
creasing the consumers at the expense
of the producers. Something must be
done 10 turn the Tue. me solution
seems to lie in making country life
more pleasant and one way to do
this is to make the country more ac-
cessible through system of good
roads.
1t is Tor this reason that the auto
mobile is making more converts to
country life than any other one agen-
cy. The automobile makes it possible
for one to enjoy the best things OF
both city and country life. 1t re-
moves much of that lack of social re-
crea ton which has always been a
| drawback to life in the country. The
| best use of the automobile calls. fol-
| an Improvement OF the roads and II
| is this one force that is responsible
| In great measure tor the renewed and
persistent agitation just now for I'm
proved highways.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-05
Flown From Earth

Born in Ohio in 1867, in the city
where now he lies dead, Wilbur
Wright was the older by four years
OF the two brothers who have won
great glory.
Without other education than the
public schools of their native city
afforded and the practical training
OF the shops, these American me-
chanics solved problems that had baf-
fled man since first he learned to
stand erect. Highways had been start
ed even on the intractable sea, but
the viewless spaces of the air defied
all efforts to iubjugate them to mans
use
The growth of knowledge and the
multiplied conquests of science ex-
tended mans mastery over the earth
and the oceans. but the kingdoms of
the air resisted his ambitions. Prob
lens that the wisdom of the world
mad failed to solve were solved by
these two skilled American mechanics.
NOW one of them, stricken in the very
prime of his manhood and fullness
of his efficiency. lies dead.
1t Is less than ten years since Will
pur Wright made, at Kittyhawk, in
North Carolina, the first flight in a
neaVler-than-air machine operated by
Its own power. That was the genesis
of the development of the aeroplane.
Five Years of study and experiments
Followed, and then public exhibitions
OF ethciency were given. 1t seems but
Yesterday that the world was thrilled
by the accounts of the first public
trials in 1908, in Washington, ID. c.,
When the elements of new science
We're revealed to mankind and ulti-
mate mastery over the unstable air
was prophesied in performance. We
should be churlish clods not to honor
THESE men who had the courage, the
imagination, the skill and the genius
To pioneer their journeys into regions
over winch man never had been able
to assert control.
Wilbur Wright has gone now on A
long, long flight. His flying soul, borne
by Viewless powers, is swallowed up
IN the dark mists that link eternity
lie mas flown straight to the goal
where waits the Master Mechanic of
the Universe, the Maker of the i'm
mutable laws that govern motion in
the worlds visible and invisible alike,
And there, at the source of knowledge
snail this humble, modest craftsman
learn from the great Craftsman who
supplied his models, the larger Sc
crets that he sought, the greater
truths he dimly saw and could NOT
know.-L. A. Express.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-05

flciently great to get started right. II
may be because of lack of capital o.
because the right man has not been
sighted to head such move. How
ever 1t goes without saying that the
tons of fruit, now going to waste an
nally because the grower is una Bile to
get 1t to market at just the right time,
should be preserved. suggestion
was offered the writer: Why not put
into commission the large number Of
hop dryers in the valley and make
them do duty as fruit dryers? There
would be very little expense attached
Just the mere matter or few dry
ing trays. In these dryers fruit could
be evaporated and mad into as fancy;
an article as any that is upon tho
market The boxes for packing ara
made, right here at home and the
grower can find as many fancy packs
as his ingenuity would dictate. There
would be no expense attached for su.
gar, cans and expensive machinery
and every dollar thus saved would be
added to the wealth of this commun-
ity. The Yakima valley can turn out
as nice evaporated apricots, peaches
and prunes as California 1t only
needs someone to take the initiative
and put the hop drying kilns to work
at a season when they are not needed
for the purpose for which they were
erected. Now. editor Herald, keen
the evaporation idea before the grow.
ers. 1t is the saving of this great
waste that will put many of them ON
cay street.
s. EvAPORATOR
North Yakima, May 81.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-05
If These Conditions Were More Gen.
oral


In what is known as the Dutch
Fork Community" in South Carolina.
there are conditions of agricultural
self support, in the economic sense,
that are worthy of study to the end
that they may be more widely insti-
tuted. An official demonstration in
farmers demonstration work was in
that community not long since and
there was a gathering of the farmers
at the school house to hear what this
official and state commissioner in
the same line of activity had to say.
AS it developed the interesting pro-
ceedings at that gathering did not
comprise SO much what the officials
said as what the people themselves
said. The matter Is best given in the
language of one of the officials as
it appears in the current number Of
the Worlds Work. This official pro-
pounded to the people a certain limo
of questions touching the question of
how near their crop production came
to satisfying their domestic needs
The questions and answers follow:
II first asked them how many of
them produced all the corn that was
needed for family use and for feed
ing their livestock. Every hand was
raised. I asked how many of them
grew wheat, and every hand went up.
L dSheu tIleIl HOW MANY Oh tnetn LOOK
their wheat and corn to the mill there
in Dutch Fork and had it ground
into meal and -four for the use Of
their families, and every hand was
raised l asked them how many of
them produced their own hay, which
was a material question In view of the
fact that hay was worth about $35
a ton in Columbia at the time, and
found that practically every farmer
in that section produced his own hay
! asked them how many Of them kept
hogs and produced their own meat,
and found that this also was the GUS
tom of every farmer. They also kept
c. ikens. Finally one of the farmers
from the audience said to me: Mr..
Knapp, we are proud of the fact IN
this section that we go to Columbia
and other market places with our
wagons full of produce, and we come
back with wagons empty, except for
such few things as cannot be produced
in this section!"
Here is a model policy for any and
every farming community which may
not hold good as to every line of
production--as for example one cou,d
hardly expect to raise wheat in con-
nection with an apple orchard-but
in the main the policy applies to all
agricultural activity and in a general
way to every agricultural community.
1T would be to the general economic
advantage of every section If the
farm communities were not customers
in the municipal markets for those
things which they could raise on their
own lands more cheaply than they
could buy. Furthermore the more
general adoption of such a policy
would make small farming more
profitable and more attractive--a
more forcible argument in support of
the back-to-the-land movement
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