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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-17

Eskridge (Kas. J Star The con
sumption Of liquor in Kansas il
only as centa per capita, while in
the entire United States IL is be-,
tween $50 and $25. Almost one,
third Of the entire population d
Kansas Is enrolled ia schools and
colleges. and illiteracy has dropped
from 40 per cent TO less than 2
per cant. Eighty seven Of the los
counties have no insane, fifty-fonI
have no feeble minded, and ninety
ak have no inebriates, Thirty.
eight poor farms have no inmates
and there is only one 20 every
5000 population. Over half Of
the county jails have no prisoners
and in a dozen others the iron
doors stand open nearly All the
year round. Grand Jaries are
almost unknown and crime has
been reduced to the minimum,
This is what prohibition has done
for Kansas. and it will do the same
thing for any other state il they
wall only try il.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-17
Notice 20 Creditors.
q Il Jacob Meyer, deceasesi.

Eatzte Of Jacob Meyer deceased
Notice is hereby giKen ~ the
undersigned as administrator Of the
Estate q Jacob Meyer, deceased, %
che creditors Of and al persons having
claims against the said deceased, 20
exhibit them with the necessary youch-
ers, within ten months after tine first
qualification 81 this notice, % the said
al niuissrator at has Office, No. 90
rmpire Building, Boise, Idaho, cpanty
OF Ada, State 81 Idaho.
Dated October 2, Isl5.
HueH &. NcELeoV,
Administrator of the Estate a
80 5 Aaever. Deceased. 23st
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Hnen b. NcELRoY.

Ths pains q ne1fsilgis selsg e'3,, ~ ~
- - s.0axssas. LA6yerttssnsatI
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14

needed help. He started south, aim
ing to get some assistance from the
Danish whaleships in North Star Bay.
With boat and sled he fought an al
most unhuman battle and reached
North Star, but too late. The last
ship had gone, there would not be an
other for another year. He appealed
to those ever kindly wild people.
They nursed him as best they could
and aided him to get back north,
aiming to get him back to my camp
at Annoatok. They did get him back
as far as Etah, only 25 miles south of
my camp, but here FRANKIE was un-
able to go another step. He was
sick; he had not had a morsel of
civilized food in two months. He lay
down on the rocks and expected to
die.
'fWhile he was lying on those
rocks, two big ships came into that
harbor flying the American flag
FRANKIE was glad; he was happy. He
pulled himself together and went out
and boarded the ship Roosevelt.
He went up to the galley and asked
for cup of coffee. That coffee was
refused, but that WASH It the worst, he
was forcibly put off that ship in the
presence of dozen other men. Here
was sick, hungry, dying man re
fused cup of coffee from an Ameri
can ship, fitted out at public expense
"Franke went back to his rock
and prayed that he might die, to b,
relieved of his misery. Those twt
ships stayed there two days. Thel
Mr.. Peary changed heart. In tn,
meantime he had learned from tn,
Eskimos that after all FRANKIE wa
] not beggar. He had no money, bu
he did have in his possession furs ant
/ ivory worth ten thousand dollars. HI
had under his direction my CAM
north of there, which camp was GU
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14

Aecused of being the colossal liar history
times feel that lies have been told about than about
anyone ever born have been guilty of mistakes
Most really themselves admit My claim
the North Pole may always be questioned. Yet when
gard the lies great small attached me- filled al
most with Indifference.
GAS popular illustration the yarns that
told let refer to the foolish fake of the gum
Someone started the story that expected reach the Pole
by brbng the Ekmos with drops; perhaps the idea
that lure them point point with regularly
issued ratons of these confections
Wherever went my lecture after my return to
the United States, much irritation, Cook gum
drops conpcuousy displayed confectionery windows
Hundreds of pounds of gum drops with
the compliments of all sides I
the gumdrop story and in almost read the
teated tale of leading Esimos Pole dangling
gum drop string before them. denied this,
denied any of the fakes printed about The
fact that heard the gum-drop until
to New York We took gum drops with Polar
trip and, my knowledge Eskimo gum drop while
with me.''-Dr. Frederick A. Cook.
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Dr. Cook Says He Colossal Liar and Attacks Peary
Been Denounced as Fraudulent by His Enemies

came forward, posing as experts to
pass upon both cases, Mr.. Peary s and
mine, to settle for all times and all
peoples the question of distribution
OF Polar honors. But whence their
authority Who are its members
For two dollars per, any man, woman
or child in this audience becomes a
geographer in that society, for the
same money the man who sweeps the
streets becomes with equal facility a
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14
Famous Polar Whose Claims of Discovery Have

plicate OF mine; that, because of the
parallel material which it contained
that it either proved my position at
the Pole, or it proved that he had
borrowed from the previously pub
lished report. You are then asked to
take this mans report as the truth,
and to take mine as a lie. Whya
Why was it necessary to put this
leprous spot upon the fabric of clean
human endeavorl Yout cannot under
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14

of his reach, but was worth twenty
five thousand dollars. Here was
thirty-fiye thousand dollars to gain
and Mr.. Peary changed heart. He
called FRANKIE aboard the ship, offered
him a cup of coffee and square
meal and gave him two big goblets
of whiskey. He then called FRANKIE
to his private cabin and there the
following conversation took place:
Mr.. Peary said to FRANKIE, You are
very sick man. If you stay here
you will die. If you go home you
may live FRANKIE knew that. You
may go home on one of these ships,
but before you do SO you must turn
over everything that belongs to your
self, and everything that belongs to
DR.. Cook. You will not be allowed
to take any records home. There
was no alternative, the man did it.
But what law of what land would
grant ita
Here is, first, dastardly under
handed trick to steal thirtyfive thou
sand dollars, but that ism It the worst
1t was deliberate attempt at muir
der. For in taking my camp, all of
my food supplies, he was attempting
to starve me out, to prevent my re-
turn to civilization. Here Mr.. Peary
did thing for which he would be
hanged, and rightly so, in mining
camp, but he next did worse. TWEEN
ty-five miles south of Etah, in a
region of bleak rocks and glaciers,
in region of death-dealing storms,
Mr.. Peary deserted two innocent,
helpless children. Two little boys,
his own flesh and blood, his own
children, were left there to starye
and freeze in that cherries world.
Those poor little ones are there to-
day, crying for bread and milk and
father. The meanest thief in all
the world would not do that. Mr..
Peary dit it. Can that man be honest
in anything7 That is the kind of
man who tried to stir heaven and
earth and the other place, mostly the
other place, to overthrow my claim.
tOne of those ships went south
carrying Frtnke with it. The Other
went north, stayed for year, came
back on the following year to this
same place at Etah, and there, from
my Eskimos, Mr.. Peary learned fol-
the first time that had reached the
Pole year ahead of him. He gath
cred all the information he could ani
then put on full speed and rushed t.
the wireless station at Labrador. Here
he sent through brief message say
ing that he also had reached the Pole
I had gotten to Copenhagen about ;
week previous to this, and haC
promptly given to the world my com
plete report. That report was public
property, as all of my material al
ways has been. That report was a
that wireless station in Labrador. Mr.
Peary took it from the operator, wen
Il behind the rocks and stayed for ;
week, digested that report and thel
came forth and issued his report
Every Arctic explorer at once sait
the Peary report was scientific du
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14

stand that unless you understand this
man, and 1 want you to understand
him.
"We next go down to Washington,
the home of the t'Steam Roller"
Here we have the so-called National
Geographical Society, an organization
which is no more national than the
National Cash Register, but they
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14

geographer in that society. Now, as
an organization of political shrimps,
that is all right, but as a scientific
body it is a colossal humbug, and
those of my readers who are mem
beers of that society are a party to
that humbug. Two-thirds of the news
paper editors of this country are two
CONTINUED on page threel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-05
Booty's Ghost.
e London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
The unsolved mystery of Booty's ghost.
to which we have referred, is probably the
only ghost story on record which has
been proved in a court of law. It was an
action brought by his widow against a
certain Capt. Barnaby for saying that he
had seen Old Booty chased by the devil
into the burning crater of Stromboli. The
trial took place in 1888 before Chief JUS
tice WrightNand a jury. The words al
legged to be spoken were admitted, but as
serted to be true. and Capt. Barnaby pro-
duced no fewer than thirty witnesses to
testify that they had also seen Old Booty
or his apparition disappear into the era
ter on the day mentioned In May. 1857.
Then the ships logs were produced, by
which the remarkable fact appeared that,
allowing for the difference in time the
apparition was seen at the exact moment
of Old Booty's death. With such evidence
it is perhaps not surprising that the lord
chief justice summed up strongly in Capt.
Barnaby's favor. saying, Lord have
mercy upon me and grant that may new
err see what you have seen. One two or
three witnesses may be mistaken, but
thirty never" AAnd so Mrs Booty lost
the dsy.
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year they sleep on a comfy cushion be-
tween truly sheets made 0 man-size
handkerchiefs-the one touch OF mascu-
Unity in the surrounding atmosphere
And, winter and summer, the comfy
rocker that holds the comfy cushion is
placed near an ever-open window-you
know how science insists on fresh air
for babies with the chair back fixed
TO keep off drafts-we can't be too careful
about drafts-now can we?
The little white settee is tagged for
scouts and Fairgrounds, and in each
tiny lap are so many dimes Not pennies
or nickels or quarters. Just dimes.
The other day an old business friend
made her first social call to the room
to descend to details two rooms, big,
sunshIny ones, with no door between.
And while the owner person swas doing
things with brown betty teapot and
toast rack the caller interviewed the
surroundings with the assurance of one
who feels perfectly sure of her well
come:
81 see you still keep your old dolls.
Did you know you had left lot OF
change in their laps?
1T isn't my change. 1t belongs to
them. You can eat four slices, can't
your
MY soul and body. Ann Blank! How
can dolls spend money! :.
They are not dolls. watch me mix
my cow
The owner person hammered two tack
failed to interest the caller woman. She
preferred her own subject:
I'D like to know what you call them,
then if they are not dolls? Money. To
spend, Well. for a sensible business
woman
But I don't claim to be sensible.
don't want to be sensible, except for so
many hours a day, at so much per. When
turn this doorknob L leave my prosaic
spinster self outside as the Turk sheds
his earth-soiled shoes at the door Of his
mosque. Listen at the kettle, will you
Talk about prirna donnas There was
hot water mountain out on our desert
that steamed like kettle forever on the
boil, but it couldn't sing like kettle
Say Ann, what can dolls do with
money? / should think you'd rather give
it to some poor child.
''They are not dolls. They are mem
cries. Atalanta belonged to my dear one
in her art student days, and c. Jim is
my only world-link to another sister who
has also travelled the way of the stars.
These two. queer little things and my
self are all that is left of way back
times when we joyed and suffered 6geth-
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tional advantages of matrimony ex
planned to the investigator that a man,
when he gets good and ready, will
strike match on himself anywhere
most convenient-with the odds in
favor OF the sole of his shoe.
But the uncultured spinster, who has
10 go by instinct-and the evidence of
faithful street overwhelmingly VEN
lures the opinion that man--if there is
any possible way of getting at it
also strikes matches on the sole he
spells with Z.
Way uptown there is a neglected tri-
angle gay with blossomy weeds. In the
weeds there are rusty green grasshop-
pers that could make the Olympic score
for high jumps look foolish, and hutter-
ing above are autumn butterfiies-black,
with blue spots, when they aren't yellow.
Also. there are hustling black ants, and
if you come at lucky time-bass-solo
bees i'm Orange-striped coats, and lady
bugs dressed in speckled red gowns with
wings of black chiffon.
1t is such a way-off weedy place. that
a woman with magnifying glass had
waded across the triangle waist-high in
wild asters and those blossomy things
that look like plates of white lace before
she came to the brother-being who lay
stretched on the jungle's outer edge.
He was such small. black and bare
legged brother being that the inference
was he had got tired of play and fallen
asleep in the grass. But he wasn't
asleep. He was watching a worm He
was so busy watching a worm as not
to notice that the woman was watching
him. II was one OF those worms that
wear overcoatS of seal brown plush, and
il wriggled with the slow Importance of
that other worm-the human one-who
boasted that time was made for slaves.
But the boys eyes didn't miss wriggle
until the woman interrupted to lend him
her glass and to ask what was going on.
And this is about how the brother being
answered:
Il wanter see If this here fever worms
Eoin' To hatch out wings an turn into
butterfly. That's the way they do at
the movies. / seen EN-. First time he's
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a eTuo-it amt the kinder grub you eats
ia-y It's other kind. Then he gets in
coon-l don't mean the kinder coon
YOU means. | means the yuther kind
that grows onto trees. l benner lopkin'
out for EN-. an they's a lot on them
willers down in P'tomac Park; / could
show EN- TO you eff you wanter-"
The woman displayed a proper krowl-
edge as to cocoons. and the boy pro-
ceeded.
''The gentman my mother washes for
knows about worms turnln' into butter
flies he's goin' TO get a book an show
me when I take the basket back Friday
night. Lady, did you know the water
was fun Of bugs and worms an them
germ things. If IL amt fresh? I seen 'em
at The ruovIes-big ones, with claws, same
crabs Don't YOU drink no water.
lady unless YOU foun it's fresh I don't
blieve this ole worm knows how to hatch.
] amt seen nair signer wings
The woman ventured a decision on the
subject and the brother being reluct-
dDtly gave up his vigil But his infor-
nation flowed righJ along He had seen
a snake shed its skin. AT the movies. And
bees make honey comb, at the movies.
And so many other wonders from the
same thrilling source. that the woman
remarked that he must be seeing every
nature tiIm that came 10 town:
Nome l don't ! wisht / could But
they won't let me i'm at the white NOV
ie. Gee. | could see "A whole heap II
'tt'N NNfutA 4ttltillt IN at the white NOV
les. One Of EN- had about what de
ants do. Why. lady. ants bulls real
houses and makes roads to travel on,
an every tssng-but they wouldn't
femme in because ] warn't white. An
Il mout not come to the colored NOV
les"
"Oh. well. Of course this sheep and
goat division Of ours is all right, from
the viewpoint We call social OF
course. il is all right. but
When You are standing waist high
in Wild asters and lace plates and look
down az the soul OF a naturalist shin
ing III "A child's eyes. YOU can't help
wondering h-if-the Jim Crow law
rules in heaven.
In this town there is "A house: in that
house there Is a room. and in that room
there Is a broad windowsill, on which
Sit two ancient dolls in a little white
s.ttec
The brown wooden one in white is AN
artists mannikin named Atalanta The
one in red kimono Is a Chinese wreck
who answers 10 Confucius Jim. Atalantas'
eyes We're carved shut. and c. .Jims
beady black orbs have gone the way of
annihilation along with his topknot: but
every daV of every year they sit to-
sethcr on the broad windOwsIl, where the
sunshine mikes It's yellow with the shade
o. lcafy trees. And every night OF every
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er, my sisters and T.. Would you rather
have gilt band cup, or my oldest
clancy one with lavender sprigs?"
"Sprigs-. But, hon. st. it's a shame
to waste care and money on two ride
ulous little images when you could make
child so happy up here. OF course, 1
appreciate the sentiment of the thing.
and all that, but what good can even
memories do with all this money
excuse me, old girl, but, for the love
Don't stint yourself Keep right on
only the dimes stand for a memory, too
can't tell you because words couldn't
explain, but. Its this way: 1 can blow
ten-dollar bill as lightly as If it were
so much fuzz on a gone-to-seed dande-
lion, but can't frivol dime. A dime is
too tragically big for me to spend on
myself. So, in memory of what it once
meant, l give every dime i get in change
to ATLANTA sand Confucius jim You
won't mind my not having a table chair,
will you? I get so tired of being a RAM
roddy spinster outside that I won't have
straight back around me up here, and
if you don't say this is the incest toast
you ever"
So they had their party, and when it
was time for the caller woman to go
she went over to the little settee and
said to its occupants
TIL give you a dime il you tell me
what you do with your money!"
But the occupants haven't answered.
yet. Perhaps they felt that too much
knowledge makes one topheavy. Per-
haps. again, they felt
On, yes. science now allows a certain
per cent of subconsciousness to mani
mate things. And so a higher authority
assures us that nothing that has lived
can die. 1t may belt may be--that Alta
lanta still feels within her the sap of a
tree that grew in the Black Forest before
a tree carver turned her into a manni-
kin, and c. Jim experience the pulse
vibrations of whatever inscrutaDie be-
ginnings there are to Chinese doll.
But they are not telling what they dc
with their dimes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-05
The French Journal Officiel. ,
ON the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
The cheapest government publication in
existence Is undoubtedly the French Jour
nal Officiel, which appears seven times a
week In addition to all the official news
published here in the London Gazette
such as promotions in the public services
bestowal OF honors and notices in bank
ruptcy, this journal gives verbatim re-
port of the debates in the senate and the
chamber OF deputies, and host of infor-
nation of a miscellaneous character like
ly to interest French traders. Each issue
averages well over 200 pages. and some
Issues extend to 800 pages. Formerly it
was published at a franc. but parlia-
mentarian, DESTROYS of wider publicity
managed TO have it reduced to a half
penny.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-05

Velvet Hats, untrimmed,
the new small rolled and me-
dunn sizes; worth consider
ably more than $z.z5. Note
black only.
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Imported Hats, untrim-
med, plush, satin, antique
and velvet. Small and me-
dunn sizes. Navy, kings
and new blue, taupe,
brown, gray. violet and
black.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-05

woman with nothing better to do
than follow wherever interest led no
ticed that an electric standard IN the
Capitol grounds was streaked with
queer downward sweeps that showed
eray-blue on the iron.
multitude of smokers had struck
matches as they passed
1t was not an isolated case. The next
electric standard was interviewed;
matches. other electric standards;
matches. Gas lamps; matches. Stone
copings. iron rails. sides OF houses,
fences. tree boXes-everything, every
where--matches. matches. matches
\ woman who possesses the educa-
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Mount.
1 20

Millinery-Ck, &c The
entire stock ofTT-;o,r,,,.,nS
Hats, marked a. r;n.,s
prices from $I2.oo t. ~
at 10 per cent discoui ns
duct one-tenth from. .,,e
price marked on the hat.
select.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19
TRIES TO SUICIDE
BY POISON ROUTE

poison said to have been taken with
suicidal intent, Daisy Boothe Julius,
80 wears Of age, wife of James Julius,
Greek, was taken from the Pacific
hotel on Rio Grande avenue to the
emergency hospital at police headquar.
ters yesterday afternoon for surgical
attention. She recovered from the eff
fects Of the drug within few hours
and was taken home by her husband,
Julius explained that he was out
looking for work when his wife took
the poison, and that she had probably
attempted her life because Of despond.
ency over i'll health He appealed to
the police to know how to prevent her
from repeating the attempt, explaining
that he had secured employment with
the gas company and could not stay
home to watch her.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19
MEAT CAUSE Of
KIDNEY TROUBLE
Take Salts to flush Kidneys II
Back hurts or Bladder
bothers.

JP Won must nave your ment every
day, eat it, but flush your kidneys WIN
salts occasionally, says g noted auIno!,
ity who tells us that meat forms M uilc
acid which almost paralyZes the KID
news in their efforts to expel IT from
the blood. They become sluggish ana ana
weaken, then you suffer with a dnii
misery in the kidney region, sharp
pains in the back or, sick headaene,
dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue
is coated and when the weather is bad
Won have rheumatic twinges Inc
urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the
channels often get sore and irrltated,
obliqing YOU to seek relief two or
three times during the night.
To neutralize these irritating aclds,
to cleanse the kidneys and flush OIL the
body's urinous waste get four ounces
of Jad Salts from any pharmacy here;
take a tablespoonful in glass OF wa"
ter before breakfast for few days
and your kidneys will then act h1e'
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com.
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush and stimulate
sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize the
acids in urine, so it no longer irritates,
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is ineXpenslye; cannot in
lure. and makes delightful efferves-
cent Ethia-water drink.
(hdyertisement)
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19
HOME CREDIT PLAN
APPROVED IN GRANITE
Record Of Pupils VIII Show Work
Done In Assisting Their
Parents.

Credit for home work will be given
the pupils Of the elementary grades in
the Granite school district, beginning
tomorrow. The plan has been worked
with success in Brigham City and also
in some Of the Mormon Sunday school
classes in this city. Where it has
been tried it is invariably enthusiast.
cally advocated as means Of bringing
the home and school into closer rela
tionship.
For chores done around the home
wood, T"Sa aI running s serrands % washing dishes Ii Sa
setting the table, and the like, the pa
rents will be asked to credit their chill
dren. At the end Of the month they
will turn in the number of hours de
voted to home work by their children
The teachers will divide the number OF
hours so spent by thirty, the number
of days in a month, and the result will
be the home credit mark.
The plan has met the approval of
the officials Of Granite district, and