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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-25
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Latest News of Interest
Boiled Down for the
Busy Man.
Washington

In a speech in the senate, Senator
Rayner OF Maryland charged the di
rectors of the White Star line with
criminal negligence and with responl
sibility for the Titanic disaster and
bitterly arraigned Managing Director
j. Bruce islnay for cruelty and cow
ardice.
President Taft appointed Arthur L..
Edington of Watonga, John j. Bowles
OF Guthrie and Earl A. MCGOWAN of
Talipina Okla appraisers OF coal and
asphalt land OF the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations in Oklahoma.
The y. S. senate finance committee
ordered an adverse report on the
house chemical tariff revision bill. 1t
was strict party vote, the Repub-
lican members voting against it and
the Democrats for it,
Miss Julia Lathrop of Chicago has
been appointed chief of the recently
created childrens bureau of the ma
uonal government, by President Taft.
Miss Latilrop is the first woman ever
selected to direct bureau of the fed
eral government
Foreign
5Lieut. Willie Darvay was killed at
Verdan, France, while making an aero
plane flight The wing OF the ma
chine doubled up.
Two hundred looting soldiers who
recently mutinied in lNanking, China,
and were captured by loyal troops
from canton. nave been executed
The sultan of Turkey in his speech
at the opening of parliament, referring
to the war in Tripoli, said: I'VE de-
sire peace, but that peace must be on
the condition OF an effective and in
tegral maintenance of our sovereign
rights"
An official rebel report received at
Juarez, Mexico tells Of the capture of
Sierra Mojada, where there are large
American interests The report says
that thirty-seven federals were killed,
seventy-two prisoners taken and
eighty-two rifles 1882 rounds OF am
munition and LOG horses captured.
Miss Harriet Quimby, an American
Avetrice crossed the English chan
mel from Dover. landing at Hardelot,
France. Miss Quimby is the first wo-
man to accomplish the feat OF flying
across the channel alone. Her tight
occupied two hours.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-25

AS president OF the Illinois branch
of the American National Red Cross
society, Governor Deneen issued an
appeal to the people OF Illinois to con-
tribute to the aid Of the flood suffer
err in the lower Mississippi valley. The
governor estimates there are $4,000
persons homeless and destitute.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-25

The total of the Titanic's survivors
was officially placed at 705 by W. w.
Jefrries, general passenger agent Of
the White Star line. He accepts the
statement of the Carpathia as to the
number OF the survivors, giving them
by cabins as follows: First class, 202;
second class. 115; third class, IT'S;
crew. 206; officers. 4; total. 7O5.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-25

Mayor Carter II. Harrison of Chica-
go and National Committeeman Roger
G. Sullivan, refusing each suggested
basis of compromise. continued their
bitter fight for control OF the Illinois
Democracy by holding two distinct
Democratic state conventions at Pc
oria and naming two sets OF delegates
from Cook county and the state-at-
large to the Democratic national con-
vention
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-25

Judge Carpenter of the United
States district court at Chicago Will
be appointed to the circuit court Judge
ship made vacant by the resignation
several months ago of Peter S. Gross
cup. according to reports. The ap-
pointment OF Judge Carpenter by Pres
1dent Taft Is expected within the next
few days
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-25

Forty-eight delegates instructed to
vote for Theodore Roosevelt in the Re-
publican national convention were
elected from Illinois districts. Two
Taft delegates were elected from the
Fifth district. the only one in the state
carried by the president in the prefer
entail primaries.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
Public
Library
What Should
Its Attitude
Be on Fiction?


OUR TIME the has principal
expression 1t is within the best that finds the
Interpretation and the kenest criticism of life fall
lacy speak of fiction if eight literature unworthy Of
a on and all other kinds of books together without
much discrimination the only profitable reading But book that slim
uaes the imagination the emotions be the best educa
ona and many books written with distinct purpose
little real value Besides this fiction widely
other of literature and therefore through
who would move today make their appeal.
In the large there nevertheless much
said Thee that will make books and them
into the world with much dispatch they would dish of frte
and much of the fiction the day fails what somebody
called "promiscuous mediocrity.".
Standards of taste differ, and Librarians infalb
hee there fairly distinct line separating the wheat from the c
1t should always be remembered that the selection
bias and that merit novel confined its literary
but includes other Enthusiastically truth life high ideals broad
interest and the power furnish and healthy the
average reader.
These principles if applied practice will necessarily exclude many
books of the day. which six months will be forgotten But
this standard book of abiding merit will be dsregaded there
few Of Them
No public Libraries have the local conditions
books be bought without discrimination the problem of selection
faced This where the question fiction
troublesome cannot be ignored however, public library
buy ALL and only few of the the day.
p"D' the DI D.t po mGr1' ao' of to eeA
funds
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
WHERE FARMER DOES NOT SPECIALIZE
LITTLE ATTENTION is PAID TO QUALITY
Result Is That On Vast Number of Farms Where No Milk,
Cream or Butter Is Sold Cows Are Mostly Inferior
Poor Foundation for Success.

fresh meat during the entire time
when it is cold enough to keep
the meat till each family can
get its share. The only drawback to
the plan is that the beef is often on
hand at a time when the hogs are
killed and the meat sailed down, and
there are few families that do not
like fresh pork so well but that they
eat lot of 1t, both fresh and sailed.
before it is made into bacon.
OF course, this fact interferes with
the consumption of much beef on
farms after cold weather sets in; but
no family, no matter how well they
like hog meat, ought to eat 1t too
freely.
Personally like both pork and
bacon better than any but the best
and tenderest of beef; but, of course,
every farmers club ought surely to
have as good beef as can be had any
where.
Several times on my own farm we
have taken quarter of 700-pound
yearling, and 1t kept hanging in the
smokehouse from the last of Novem-
Der till we began to smoke the bacon,
and it was as good as we could get
from the best butcher. Our club
claimed to divide the animal into
quarters, and we rotated the hind
quarters and forequarters among the
four, that being the number in it.
After the hogs are killed, Of
course, almost everybody eats pork
in some form most of>the time; but
think it would be we'll to go on with
the beef club as long as the weather
keeps cold enough to keep it sound
and fresh. Having an icehouse on my
farm, we could keep beef fresh long
err than some of the others.
Probably the best plan of all would
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

Pineapple is good for indigestion,
the juice containing digestive fluid
similar to pepsin.
II you wish to preserve your teeth
take all medicines containing acids
through a glass tube
Almond oil and lanolin in equal
parts rubbed into the eyebrows will
stimulate their growth.
For a greasy, oily skin. put some
astringent. a little alcohol or toilet
vinegar, into the wash water.
Honey is excellent in nearly all
throat and lung affections. For a
sharp tickling throat cough tea
spoonful taken every few moments
will quickly allay the irritation.
The habit of biting the nails may be
conquered by will power in an older
person, but with children cut the nails
very close and dip the ends of the
fingers in quinine or little extrsc ct
of quassia.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

block, can never expect to make any
real profit out of his COWS.
OF course, the vast majority of COW
owners are those who do not sell
milk and butter, and expect to sell
veal calves or yearlings, not kept to
be butchered at home, do not get any
returns from keeping cows except
the milk and butter, and now and
then some beef or veal from an ami
NAL butchered on shares in the
neighborhood. OF course, this is no
small thing. l have been associated
with neighborhood club great
deal of the time, and we lived where
1t was handy for a bunch of neigh
bors to take turn about and butch
er a yearling and divide among
them
have found that we got more out
of an animal In that way than where
we sold to a butcher to be paid for
in fresh beef or cash and bought
fresh meat with the money.
If half dozen families join in this
plan they can begin killing in Novem-
Der and keep it up till March, and
thus all families keep supplied with
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
HARMFUL LITTLE
ENGLISH SPARROW
Expert of United States BioIogi-
cal Survey Urges War
on Small Bird.

The frequent and vigorous condem-
nation of English sparrows finds sup
port i'll recent statement of the
government \ made by Ned Dear
born, an expert in the United States
Biological Survey, who files bill of
complaint against the sparrow, and
gives reasons for waging war upon it..
1t is so vigorous and emphatic in de-
tail as to remind one of the swat the
fly" campaign that has been promi-
nent for several years. 1t has been
stated that the sparrow feeds upon
insects which perform a useful serv-
ice in agriculture and that there are
about SO counts against one in his
favor. 1t is said that he is guilty Of
destroying fruit, such as cherries.
grapes. pears and peaches, and fur.
Their says:
He gobbles up buds and flowers Of
cultivated shrubs, trees and vines.
He causes havoc in gardens by nib
bling at the peas and lettuce. He is
destructive to wheat and other grains.
Some idea of the extent of his depre-
dations is gained by the statement
that a flock of fifty of his fellows re-
Quire daily the equivalent of quart
Of grain Hence the annual loss
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

Unless we are actively engaged in
the dairy business, or raising beef
cattle. we are not apt to pay much
attention to the quality and money
value of our COWS on the farm. The
result of this is that on a vast num-
Der of farms where no milk, cream or
butter is sold, the COWS are mostly in
ferior.
OF course, this is no reference to
the men who go in for beef breeds of
cattle rather than dairy breeds. But
there are a great many men who
do more or less in the dairy line, anr
who nevertheless keep inferior stock,
says writer In the Farm Progress.
In most cases think it likely this is
due TO the fact that the owners Of
such stock are not sufficiently ia
miliar with COWS and COW values to be
influenced to secure better stock.
AS have owned large number of
COWS, l know very well what poor
investment a lot of inferior cattle
are. But, judging from what is seen
on the majority of farms over the
country, COWS are cows" and SO
long as some milk and some butter
though it may not always be in abun-
.dance-are supplied, the owners let it
go at that.
AS a rule. men who have that sort
of Indifference to their cattle, also
have scrub hogs and poultry, and in a
general way all the features about
the farm are of the scrub type. l do
not believe any man of this type can
ever be very successful farmer. The
same interests that make a man a
successful business man make the
farmer a successful one.
The farmer who owns poor scrub
COWS, not good for either milk or but
termaking, and worth little on the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
Fashionable Brown.

The return to favor which yellow
has been enjoying of late has been
confirmed for the autumn, and among
the new tints which will be placed
high on the list of fashionable colors
burnt orange appears. 1t is already
being exploited largely in Paris, and
with it also sulphur and amber. In
addition there are chartreuse, the love
ly limpid yellow of the cordial; flame
yellow, whose intensity makes 1t be-
coming only to certain compilations
and canary, another vivid hue. Brown
IN every graduation is raised to a
pinnacle of modishness, and cigar
amalgamated with black will be seen
instead of the almost inevitable mag
pie. combination. which will, however,
be modish also.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
Tea Gown Reminders.

The Powered silks can be utilized
with great charm for making the neg
ligee, but care should be taken to pro-
cure those that do not crush.
Charmeuse. crepe de chine, or wolfe
OF a plain and delicate coloring is a
satisfactory choice. Two or even
three materials may be blended In
one toilette.
Then there is chiffon to remember.
One delightful model is made of roSe
petal pink chiffon over loose under
robe of silk of the same tone. The
robe is quite without trimming, save
for tiny fiowerets made OF the chiffol
bordering the turned back fronts Of
the outer dress, which looks vsfT
much like q coat with train.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
NEWEST COLOR IN VELVET
Peculiar Shade of Green Is Called
"Absinthe" by Those Who Have
Designed It.

A peculiar greenish yellow shade
not olive and not tan, is now much
fancied for formal afternoon frocks
for bridge, reception or luncheon
wear. A costume of this sort has just
been finished for a bride of the month.
Absinthe chiffon velvet is the mate
rial and the suit includes a graceful
draped skirt and the most coquettish
of coats, short enough at the front to
reveal the black satin draped girdle
but falling at the back in long tails
to the knee. These tails slope grad
ually from the double-breasted front
and give the coat graceful cutaway
effect, viewed from the side. Enor
nous revers of the velvet are gath
cred at the top into turnover Robes
pierre collar of black velvet and
hang to the waistline over the coat
front The revers and collar open in
a deep v.
The skirt has wide front and
back panels hanging perfectly
straight, the sides being caught up
below the hips into soft transverse
drapery. To match this absinthe vel.
vet costume there are patent leather
boots with buttoned tops of pale tan
cloth and very curved French heels,
and hat of cream white MORE silk
banded with mink and having ole
green and one gold quill.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

throughout the country amounts to a
large total.
Furthermore, he is a pirate and a
disturber in the bird world He preys
on some of our most useful and at
tractive birds, among the number be.
ing bluebirds, house wrens. purple
martins, tree swallows. cliff swal.
lows, barn swallows, the wrens, cat.
birds and hooking birds.
This is a matter of Importance to
farmers as well as to city dwellers,
for the sparrows are getting out
further into the country each year
and are now found where they were
unknown year ago. The birds upon
which 1t is said to prey scatter more
or less widely from the locality where
Matched. and are of inestimable value
to farmers in many ways. The meth.
DDS OF destruction named by Mr..
Dearborn are tearing down nests,
catching the birds in nests, shooting
in large flocks and poisoning. sys.
tematic movement in villages and
small cities is recommended for their
destruction.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
Causes of Failure With Alfalfa.

Experiments at the Cornell station
have been conducted to determine the
causes of failure in alfalfa culture,
and the practical suggestions derived
from the results we're that at least a
moderately fertile soil is needed for
this crop. that the use of phosphate
as fertilizer is valuable In this con.
nection. and that incubation is fu.
tile. unless the soil is in a condition
to favor the growth Of the bacteria
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

Cloud-gray taffetas is used for the
skirt, which is trimmed at foot with
a band of embroidery on net.
The plain Magyar bodice Is of the
same; over this at top Of sleeves and
side is gray silk spotted ninon of a
lighter shade, which is continued down
sides of skirt in panier effect, the
edges being finished with insertion;
the same insertion outlines the "V' at
neck. which is filled in with piece
lace; buttons trim the front.
Materials required: Four and one
half yards taffetas AZ inches wide,
three yards ninon 40 inches wide, ten
buttons, about eight yards insertion
two yards wide, trimming for skirt
one.fourth yard lace IS inches wide.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

be to arrange with a butcher to
slaughter the beef and buy the bulk
Of 1t from the club, and it would not
then be long before the club would
be ready for another one. And, really,
it is good plan If it can be arranged,
to have the beef club continue in
operation as much of the time as
possible, so that beef may be had
more or less all the time from the
middle of fall till the middle of
spring.
OF course, each member, If he is
like me, would want some fresh pork
as well as cured bacon all along dur
ing the beef period. Maybe the time
will come when there can be farm
ers' cold storage warehouses on a
small scale to keep meats fresh as
well as help in keeping fruits in
sound condition. II such things pay
the meat packers and butchers, they
would pay farmers as we'll But this
is one of the things that not many
have given any thought to-. Yet both
health and comfort require some such
method of keeping meats, fruit, etc,
fresh and sound.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
Muscular
Work
Reduces
Brain
Power

prove this Before departing bicycle ride day fastened
the handle bars At time there clear
ward Taking advantage rode top speed urging in
legs its and at the time keeping
the watch What happened? tried read the time letters
dmmd before my The muscles my required
sment that the blood hurried there from the body
Another case have attended high school and occasions done
siderable physical labor Suppose that after hard days work.
with fatigue should have attempted solve problem geometry
write English DO suppose that brain would respond?
Hardly feeling of stnes and dull mind would
At gymnasium meets have noted that participants
pared their home work beforehand
So too regard to examinations No pupil should think study
ing the night before an "exam"
All famous athletes refrain from too much mental
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

Anyone who believes that woman's field
of activity in business is limited should be
convinced to the contrary by reading the
following figures from report of the
London board of trade Women bankrupts
were less numerous than in 1910, the figure
being 800, against 495.
The woman grocer was the least success.
full among the tradesmen of the sex, taking
the number of failures as a criterion; the
woman milliner and drcssmaker next then
the woman draper and haberdasher, and,
fourth the woman lodging house keeper.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

OF all the experiments the world has
ever known, it strikes me very forcibly that
aviation is the most preposterous and its
chances for success the most hopeless. The
other day at the Clearing aviation field an.
other life was sacrificed, thereby adding
one more name to the long list of those tina,
have been killed.
Some persist in believing that the end
for which they are striving will be accom-.
plished. But are not The odds too great
aga ~ them and the loss of such brave and
fearless men loss to the world in generals;
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
1zhue<HMAAM1.

In reply to an article in "When to
Read" it can be said that muscular
work reduces the power of the brain.
When the food is being digested the organs
conducting this work need blood The
blood therefore leaves the brain and flows
away to assist the stomach and intestines.
If, nevertheless, the brain is put to hard
reading, the blood will be drawn away to
the brain. Poor digestion and difficult
reading must certainly result. "You can't
do good work by doing two things at once"
| tried an experiment. once in order to
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
Women
Make
Good i'm
Business
Field
By J.K. HarpslOn, Boston. Mass.

Married slightly in the majority Of the failures 61) and
single greatly the minority 3D. There
bankrupt entered into many fields.
Among others the list bakers butchers
farmers five fmonge four photographers eight
taunt keepers scomsres obaccons gardeners nine
toy dealers saoners and three undertakes.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

When one realizes the anxiety and caused in each
case that action ought to be taken to prevent such
form of suicide though for reasons unknown to the vast
doubters aviation be al THAT can be wished for
dare say that humanity will never suffer for the need of it
The world will progress without it till the end Of time
The Washington times., 1912-09-25

former Speaker Joseph Walker. OF
Brookiine. as their respective candi-
dates for governor for the November
election at the Statewide primaries OF
he two parties. Governor Floss easily
defeated District Attorney Joseph q.
Pelletier, Of Boston, while Speaker
Walker had a harder contest In dispos-
ting of Col Everett c. Benton. Of Bos-
The vote for the four candidates In
y out OF bI city wards and towns in
the state was:
pemocratic-Foss. 1884; Pelletisr.
Repubican-walker. a.sa; Benton,
Fairly complete returns at midnish,
for Congress showed the following lead
First-Treadway CRep). Lewis CDem.)
Third-OConnell (Dem.).
Fifth-Rogers (Rep).. o'sullivar
sisth-schoneid tDem).
seventh-Bennett (Rep). Phslar
(Dem.)
Ninth-Boynton (Dem).
Tenth-Murray tDem.). re-.
Eleventh-Peters (Dem.).
Twelfth-Curiey CDem.).
Thirteenth-weeks Rep). Mitchell
(DemD.
Fiftenth-oreene CRep.). Coushlir
(Dem).
sixteenth-Bullock (Rep.).
The primaries. while devoted largel,
TO the Republican and Democrati,
parties, included also a small Socialis
vote, In which Roland d. Sawyer. o.
Ware. was nominated for governor.
The Washington times., 1912-09-25
ROOSEVELT TO STAY
/. At A HOTEL WHEN
He GETS TO TOWN
Invitations Of Many Who
Would Be, Hosts to Col
onel Are Declined.

The anticipated arrival Of Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt In Washington has
brought to National Committeeman
Frank Hogan host OF invitations from
Washington residents who want the
colonel to be their guest while here,
They have been declined. however, and
a suite at the willard Hotel has been
engaged for Colonel Roosevelt and he
will make his headquarters there while
In Washington.
Friday morning. October l. from New
York. During all or a part Of the day
he will probably be before the cam
mittee.
That night reception and mass meet
ihg will be held in Convention Hall.
only speaker, unless he Is detained and
cannot reach Convention Hall early.
Frank j. Hogan. national committee
man. will preside. A brass band and a
and guide the crowd along the paths Of
melody that the managers think II
should tread.
Colonel Rooseveit's present Itinerary
viii permit him to remain in Washing.
ton until Monday morning, SO that the
investigating committee. II It wishes
can examine him for two entire days.
Plans for the mass meeting and re-
ception to Colonel Roosevelt were dis
cussed at q meeting OF the Progressive
Central Committee held last night a.
the office of Elmer Carroll, Fifth ant
G. streets northwest. Noel A. Martir
and Lewis NJ. Bernstein were elected
assistant secretaries OF the committee
A committee OF one hundred veterani
of the Spanish and civil wars was add
ed to the working forcse Of the Pro
gressives In the District.