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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
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floor and dances with rolling eyes and
gaping mouth to the time of the print
tive drum.
Now. bat flutters out of the shad.
ows and brushes your face, while you
stir out of cramping muscles with a
muttered word of relief. Drip, drip,
drip, the rain seeps in, steadily, now.
like clock ticking.
You mount flight of broad and
creaking walnut stairs and pause at
the first landing to view pink and
lilac tracery on the wall which once
represented a painting of De Soto's
first view of the Mississippi.
Led by the chatelaine.
You glance at two holes high up in
the outer wall which show the light
like pair of prying eyes under shag'
gy brows, then you take a bracing
breath and go on. But you halt alb
cuptly at the sound of an opening
door and the echo of slow and drag
ging feet coming nearer and nearer
In moment woman short and heavy
of build, with the mingled air of gra'
ciousness and reserve, is before you
She is the chatelaine. You know it
before she says "Entrez!" in her
charming throaty French. She has on
skirt of faded crimson and blue
with basquelike bodice of luminous
green She wears cap of soiled
D'Alencon lace, and fine odd brooch
of jet as sparkling black as her deep
set eyes. Instinctively you drop a
silver piece into the bag which bangles
with bunch of keys from her ample
waist, and follow her shutting lead.
To the accompaniment of her ex'
planatory and also rapid French, you
are shown salons with cracked and
sunken marble fireplaces. salons with
vanished onyx floors, once pressed by
the satin-clad feet of many beautiful
women, widowed mirrors made in the
days of the first empire, crystal
chandeliers with broken pear-shaped
prisms, and walls from which price
less frescoes and friezes and medal
lions have been removed, bits Of
bronze from an old balustrade, the bat
tered fragments of fountain
One Room Still Home.
When you have looked into count
| less chambers and Leard the history
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

to me at times. Lydia u. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills re-
stored me to health and I want to thank
you for the good they have done me. !
have had quite bit Of trouble and
worry but it does not affect my youth
full looks. My friends say why do you
look SO young and well?' lowe it all
to the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies"
Mrs. RoBT. SToPIEL, Moore Avenue,
Washington Park, Illinois.
We wish every woman who suffers
from female troubles, nervousness,
backache or the blues could see the let
tiers written by women made well by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham' Vegetable Compound.
If you have any symptom about which
you would like to know write to tho
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for helpful advice given free OF
charge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
''CASCARETS' FOR
SLUGGISH BOWELS
No sick headache, sour stomach.
biIiousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 1O.cent box now.


Turn the rascals out-the headache,
biliousness, indigestion, the sick. sour
stomach and foul gases-turD them
ont tonight and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions Of men and women take q
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom-
ach.
Don't put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove, the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret tonight straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head.
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chill
dren love Cascarets because they
never grippe or sicken. ADV.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
STOMACH MISERY
GAS, INDIGESTION
"Pape's Diapepsin" fixes sick,
sour, gassy stomaChs in
five minutes.

Time It! In five minutes all stomach
distress will go. No indigestion, heart
burn, sourness or belching of gas, acid.
or quotations Of undigested food, no
dizziness, bloating, or foul breath.
Pape's Diapepsin is noted for its
speed in regulating upset stomachs.
1t is the surest, quickest and most GER
tain indigestion remedy in the whole
world, and besides it is harmless
Please for your sake, get large
fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin
from any store and put your stomach
right. Don't keep on being miserable
life is too short-you are not here
long, so make your stay agreeable.
Eat what you like and digest 1t; en-
Joy it, without dread of rebellion In
the stomach.
Papes Diapepsin belongs in your
home anyway. Should one Of the fam
fly eat something which doesn't agree
with them, or in case of an attack of
indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis or
stomach arrangement at daytime or
during the night, 1t is handy to give
the quickest relief known. Adv.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

| OF each. you come upon half-open
door which reveals scene of homely
comfort. Here lives the chatelaine,
alone, save for a white cockatoo, q
canary and tortoise shell cat.
There's one old mended antique chair
upholstered in gay colored chintz, a
spindle-legged table rich with carving
and black with age, shelf set with q
row of clean blue dishes and shining
pots and pans. A kettle singing over
the fire gives out the appetizing smell
of shrimp pot-pourri. On the broad
window ledge is a box of kitchen
bouquet; basil, cheval, cortland sr, and
on the odd little balcony jutting out
from it sweet box garden Of pc.
tunias, cypress vines and myrtle.
Above it freighted clotheslile flaps
in the wind and rain.
Here you say "B'soir," and insist
that you can find your way without
further guidance. You retrace your
steps. hating now and then to be Ger
tain of your direction, and come nj
last to view the ruin of a fine old
tapestry. On you go to the great
ground floor and linger moment for
one last look at the slave mart. Then
your feet find the quiet street and a
cool, mist-driven wind smites your
face refreshingly. You swing back
easily to the present and everyday
realities, but the old Hotel St Louis
is craven upon your heart, 1t will
slip into your thoughts again and
again no matter where you may be
At the theater perhaps, at the dance,
in the busy, noisy rounds of life rath.
er than in the sllences. you will re.
member, you will re-see it, re-live it
And you will hear the sound of rail-
eeeping in-drip, drip, drip-the plain
tive chirp of cricket and the scut
ter of rat in the broken wainscotinR
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
WHEN KIDNEYS ACT BAD
TAKE GLASS OF SALTS
Eat Less Meat If Kidneys Hurt or You
Have Backache or Bladder Misery
Meat Forms Uric Acid.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make mistake by flush
ing the kidneys occasionally, says
well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which clogs the kidney pores
so they sluggishly filter or strain only
part of the waste and poisons from
the blood, then you get sick. Nearly
all rheumatism, headaches, liver trou-
BILE, nervousness, constipation, dizzi-
ness, sleeplessness, bladder disorders
come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache In
the kidneys or your back hurts, or II
the urine. is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by sensation of scalding, get
about four ounces of Jad Salts from
any reliable pharmacy and take q
tablespoonful in a glass of water be.
fore breakfast for few days and your
kidneys will then act fine. This IA
nous salts is made from the acid Of
grapes and lemon juice, combined with
lithia and has been used for genera
lions to flush clogged kidneys and
stimulate them to activity, also to neu-
tralize the acids in urine so 1t no
longer causes irritation, thus ending
bladder disorders
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
tnjure; makes a delightful efferves-
cent Whitewater drink which all reg.
ular meat eaters should take now and
then to keep the kidneys clean and
the blood pure, thereby avoiding Sc
rioua kidney combinations
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

strong and will sell for several thou
sand dollars. In moment she stands
on the block and the voice of the auc-
tioDeer leaps out like whip lash:
Gentlemen, this is a likely wench.
What am l bid for herr" There fol.
lows a rapid. sing-song recital of the
girls salable points, ending with
scarcely a noticeable break In the
crisp, persuasive challenge:
What am bid?"
Bidding for the Slaves.
A prosperous looking planter strides
forward and touches her arms ap'
praisingly, then his hand falls I'M
abashed to her strong bare ankles.
He steps back obviously pleased. call
ing out with assumed indifference:
"One thousand dollars!" Higher the
bids go, higher and higher; voices rise
and fall, rise and soar and swell, un-
til at last the hammer falls. the bah
BILE subsidies and the octoroon steps
down to her new master. AS by no
volition of your own, your mind slips
back to the cells and to a buxom,
kind-faced nanny, created and en-
dowed to nurse the offspring Of white
mothers. She will bring but modest
price in the mart, for there are many
of her kind. Here is young quad
room, there a gray old Creole darby,
somewhere else a very black and
strapping halfgrown negress. You
sense their speaking voices, deep and
melodious, a jargon of French AMI
Spanish inlaid with many little Eng.
lish words. Suddenly, in the cells
occupied by the men, the coarser
blacks break out in a burst of wild,
weird song, cut through by the tam
tam of drum made of gourd GOV.
cred with sb.oepskin.
tail and sinewy negro rises and
steps out quickly to the center of the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
Germans Lead in Wireless.

There are about ten wireless sta
itions in France, the most powerful be.
ing that of the Eiffel tower. The Ger.
mans have many more. and especially
the great station of Nauen. with a
constant transmitting power of 5000
miles. occasionally raised to 1900
miles. They have similar post in
Spain. and another at Sayville. l.. l..
opposite New York. The three pylons
of the latter. each nearly 500 feet high
with the antennae and all the appa
ratus, we're manufactured In Germany
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

on are lover of the quaint,
" the picturesque, the old, or you
would not find yourself in the
old slave mart of LIE Vieux
Care de New Orleans on a glowering
day, when the storm clouds over
hanging the East are sending out
streaks of lightning.
Presently you pass through an or
nate entrance to the ground floor of a
huge old wrinkled building, peeling off
for its final plunge into oblivion 1t
is the historic Hotel St. Louis, erected
in 1886. Don Pedro, emperor of Brazil,
and afterward his grandson, were its
guests. Here banqueted statesmen,
princes and famous men, and here, be-
fore the changing of the tides, were
sittings of legislative bodies, says the
Kansas City Star.
AS you stand in the listening 81.
lence, in the dampness of mold and
decay, you unconsciously visualize the
life of a long-gone yesterday. Now
suddenly you start, disturbed by an
impression Of sound down a long,
dark, dusty passageway. 1t is only
the rain seeping in, drip, drip, every
spatter echoing holloway in the empti-
ness. Again you drift back to your
dreams, and again your nerves twang,
this time at the scuttle of rat in the
broken wainscoting behind an old
slave block. showing the crumbling
though quite distinguishable, name of
famous auctioneer of ante.bellum
days. Beyond the block and the mart
about it your searching eyes find a
wide expanse of earth and cement
floor bordered by rows of cells almost
wholly stripped of bars
With swift intake of breath YOU
reach the rusty gratings and peer into
the dusky interior. You catch a Whit
of chill, earthly air and the plaintive
chirp of cricket. 1t requires but O
slight turn of your imagination to
people the prison with soft-eyed pa
tient slaves awaiting orders with the
stolidity and obedience that was part
of their nature. You see the old and
the young, the strong and the weak
and all the various types, from d
coarse Herculean African to a slender
clear-eyed octoroon. The octoroor
holds your attention. She is young AMI
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

TO Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegl
etable Compound.
Washington Park, nl.-"I am tho
mother of four children and have suf-

Tered with female
trouble, backache,
nervous spells and
the blues. My chill
dren's loud talking
and romping would
make me so nervous
/ could just tear
everything to pieces
and / would ache all
over and feel so sick
that / would not
want anyone to talk
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

WoMAN's GROWING GLORY
Is her hair. If yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. use La Gre
ole" Hair Dressing and change 1t In
the natural way. Price $1.00.-Adv.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
Movement Worth while.

If we cared wisely and deeply every
thing in the world would straighten it.
self out. We Should be amazed in the
change in ourselves. Then we should
marvel at the change in the people
about US.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Woman Seeks Nomination.-Mi
Lizzie e. Wooster Of Salina has an.
nounced her candidacy for state super
intendent Of public instruction, at the
Republican primary. Miss Wooster
said she had received assurance of
support from prominent men and wo-
men in every section of the state.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
Miuht Be.

What is the Pan-American con.
gress, pa?"
Il don't know exactly, but 1t sounds
as If it might be a convention Of our
hyphenated fellow citizens"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
Their Trade.

II wonder more spectators don't
make aviation trips"
why speculators"
Because they're used to taking
flyers"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

and sent from Rotterdam to Hoboken
by a Holland-Amerika steamer. When
the cables connecting America with
Germany were cut she had already
prepared perfect substitute, or near.
ly so.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Atchison Judge Dead-William Dean
Webb, former judge Of the district
court at Atchison, is dead. He was
so years old In 1892 he was elected
Judge Of the district court Of Atchison
county, serving four years.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
The ONLY One.

Can you propose any remedy for
this deadlock"
yes; why not use skeleton key?"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
The Sort.

What kind of ships do they have
dog watches on?"
why, banks, of course"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

What Did He Meant
Mrs. Dough-How do / look in my
new furs7
Mr.. Dough-out Of sight
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

New Teacher at X. U.-Peter Ap-
pleboom, formerly a teacher in West
port High school, Kansas City, Mo-,
has been appointed instructor in ro-
nance languages at the University of
Kansas for the coming semester.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
Ir,norton, A Mothera
A New Broom.

Gillet-How many people work in
your Office?
Perry-Only one. He came today.
The others have been with us some
time.-Life.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
RANGE PRICES ARE HIGHER
Owners Of Pasture Land in Kansas are
Asking More Money for Grass
This Year.

Men who are trying to get pasture
rights for this summer in Kansas are
confronted with the highest prices
ever asked in the history OF the range.
Pasture men In Chase, Ellsworth and
Greenwood counties, who attended the
Kansas Live Stock Association at
Wichita, say there is a strong inquiry
for grass at the present prices and
that the pastures of Kansas will be
filled with cattle by the early part of
May. The northward movement prob
ably will begin in April
B. C. Crocker of Bazaar says the
best grass in his country has been con.
tracted at So to SO, alloting about four
and half acres to the steer. In case
of cows with calves, five to six acres
have been granted, but the price Is
$40. Compared with last year, these
prices are 81 to $3.50 head higher
and the highest ever paid for Kansas
grass. They have practically doubled
in the last few years.
Many Texas cattlemen were at the
meeting OF the Kansas Live Stock AS.
ISOLATION expressly to get in touch
with Kansas pasture men and by the
time this convention closes the ques-
ton of Kansas grass will be fairly
well settled.
j. II. Avery OF Amarillo. Tex, said
that the entire Southwest is coming
through the winter in better shape
than at any time In the last thirteen
years. There is an abundance OF
rough feed still available, moisture is
plentiful and in so far as the breeding
side of the cattle industry Is concern
ed, more money was made in the last
two years than ever before.
X X X
Country Club for Manhattan.-As-
surance that Manhattan would have
a Country Club was made recently
when 1t was announced by the organi-
cation committee that the necessary
one hundred members had been Sc
cured.
Trust Company Chartered.-A state
charter for the new Commerce Trust
Company of Atchison, which has
paid up capital of 100000, has been
received. the application having sue.
cessfully passed the state charter
board
X X X
Oil at Mound City.-The first oil
we'll in the new Mound City field was
shot recently, and Frank McClelland,
who has the lease, said that 1t will run
between twelve and fifteen barrels
day. Two other oil men are In this
field signing up leases.
X X x
New Teacher at X. u.-Peter Ap-
pleboom, formerly teacher in West
port High school, Kansas City, Mo-,
has been appointed instructor in ro-
nance languages at the University of
Kansas for the coming semester.
X X X
Woman Seeks Nomlnatlon.-M
Lizzie e. Wooster of Salina has an.
nounced her candidacy for state super.
intendent Of public instruction, at the
Republican primary. Miss Wooster
said she had received assurance of
support from prominent men and wo-
men in every section of the state.
X 4 4
Atchison Judge Dead-William Dean
Webb, former judge Of the district
court at Atchison, is dead. He was
so years old. In 1892 he was elected
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Oil at Mound City.-The first oil
we'll in the new Mound City field was
shot recently, and Frank McClelland,
who has the lease, said that 1t will run
between twelve and fifteen barrels
day. Two other oil men are In this
field signing up leases.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

THIS Is THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger If you
darken your ugly. grizzly, gray hairs BY
using la Creole" Hair Dressing ADV.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Best Test.
How was the shown"
Great. You know 1t was a failure
In New York"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Trust Company chartered.-A state
charter for the new Commerce Trust
Company of Atchison. which has a
paid up capital of 100000, has been
received. the application having sue
cessfully passed the state charter
board.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Country Club for Manhattan.-As
surance that Manhattan would have
Country Club was made recently
when 1t was announced by the organi
cation committee that the necessary
one hundred members had been Sc
cured.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

School Heads Meet. - The annual
conference of the superintendent of
Kansas schools, in cities of the first
and second classes, closed at Emporia
with the election of officers. ]. o.
Hall of Hutchinson is the new, presi.
dent; r. G. Mueller of Seneca, vice
president; H. P. Study, Neodesha,
secretary-treasurer. The next meet
ing will be held in Emporia next Octo.
Der and will consist of five sessions
Instead of three, as have been held
heretofore.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Funds for Farm 6ureau.-The Lyon
County Board of Commissioners has
appropriated $1,000 to the use of the
Lyon County Farm Bureau for 1916.
The request for the appropriation was
made by delegation Of farmers repre-
senting the 260 members. Under the
state law, the bureau will receive a
like amount from the state agricul-
tural college.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Atchison Attorney Dies--C. s. Hull,
So years old, an Atchison attorney for
twenty-five years and a resident of
the city for thirty-five years, is dead
there. He was graduate Of Oska-
loosa college, now Drake university,
at Des Moines.
x r
Must Serve His Sentence.-John B.
Pe-ors, who escaped from the Hutchin.
sen reformatory eight years ago, is
held in Spokane, Wash, and will be
returned to serve out his sentence,
which will keep him eight years
longer.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24

Dog Brought Help-Bob Dunbar, a
negro who lives on an island in the
Arkansas river near the south limits
of Wichita, heard his dog barking fu-
riously the other day and upon going
to the scene found man caught in a
barbed wire fence that stretched
across the channel and calling for
help. The man had broken through
the ice and soon would have frozen
had not the dog called attention to his
plight Dunbar saved him. He was
n member of camping party.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-19
tbI..AltbN.

July 1.-THE rain wednesday
and Thursday has been a great hell
to corn and tobacco. There will be
large crop of corn raised around
Olaton. There is but a small acre.
age of the latter. The wheat crop
was much shorter than expected. We
had fine crops of oats and grass.
Gardens never better.
Young & Cummings shipped a
carload of hogs from Olaton last
week.
Misses Gladys Foreman, Narrows.
and Myrtle Canaan attended the ice
cream supper at Sulphur Springs
last evening.
Prayer meeting resumed at the
Methodist church yesterday evening
with good attendance.
Miss Bessie May was awarded the
banner at Sunday School yesterday.
Fred Mitchell has bought and
moved into the Harvey Taught
house.
Wilbert Hall is building a store
house on the lot purchased OF w. B.
Mcdaniel. He will start a ten-cent
store.
Mr.. T. w. Daniel visited his sons
and families in greensboro a few
days last week.
Mr.. Whittinghill began our school
last week.
The grand jury is over and the
Olaton boys were not molested. The
work of the court of inquiry went to
Miss Gladys Foreman, Narrows. is
the guest of Miss Myrtle Canaan this
week
Mrs. Henry Stevens is improving
slowly. Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lyons
are on the sick list.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-19
NOTED TRIAL Is ENDED
WM. :. ORPET ACQUITTED

Waukegan. H., July 15.-Wil-
liam S. Orpet, university student,
charged with numbering his former
sweetheart, Marion Lambert, a high
school girl. was found not guilty
here tonight by jury in Judge
Donnelly's court, after five hours
elaboration.
Three ballots We're taken. The
first two stood eleven to one for ac-
quittal.
Orpet was silent through excess
of emotion. He was barely able To
return the handclasp of his attor-
neys. He made his way to the ju-
rors and shook hands with them one
by one, smiling wanly. but saying
nothing.
The mother received the verdict
as IL matter of routine. She noted
a newspaper camera man trying to
snap a picture of herself and son,
warned him and held a paper in
front of her face.
Important events of the trial all
occurred on the fifteenth of the
month in which they came. The
selection of the jury began May Is,
the thking of testimony June IS,
and acquittal July Is.