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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

uCIy lIl6 CDIlNel-
tons, and get relief the hest way he
AM
II can understand just how it has
worried you" said the hotelkeeper
1.-THE fact that you couldn't reach
around and claw the itching place
with your fingers kept the matter
fresh in your memory and got on your
nerves. The pursuit of the unattain-
able always is more interesting to us
than the easier work close to hand
You had your whole person to scratch,
and might have bought a currycomb
for quarter, and had good time, but
you couldn't be happy until you had
reached the one inaccessible spot.
"a while ago I imagined I had
heart disease, and went and saw the
doctor He knows I have money in
the bank, and am considered good pay,
so he confirmed my worst fears, and
made Up his mind to have me for his
star patient, until one of us petered
out. he threw an awful scare into me.
so that I went home sweating ice cold
circus lemonade.
"Ee gave me some medicines and a
lot of Instructions. Among THIN was
one to the effect that when 7 vent to
bed should always sleep on my right
side. He cautioned me over and over
again against laying on my left side,
and LETT the impression that if I dis
0beyed him, I'd wake uE some morn
ing to- find myself a candidate for q
floral horseshoe.
''That matter looked easy at the
time, and I ASSURE the doctor I'd fol-
low his bylaws 30 the letter. When
[ went to he'd that night, I stretched
out on my right side. and in ten min
ties I was Just suffering to roll over.
don't believe I ever had such
1ankering for anything. 1t seemed to
me the height of human happiness
would lie in sleepf14g on ones left side
followed instructions for two nights,
and then I decided that life wasn't
worth such sacrifices, and rolled over
and slept on my left side, and nothing
happened. was feeling better than
usual next morning when I got up.
"Of course this experience lessened
my confidence in the doctors instruc-
tions, and I concluded that if I was
going to sidestep the instructions
might as well sidestep the medicines
too. for they tasted like low life in a
Chinese alley. and threw the whole
lot out of the window. Thus the saw
bones lost his most promising patien+
because he handed out a rule that
wasn't strictly necessary.
speaking of the unattainable, do
you know what's the matter with Silas
FurbelOwy He has everything a man
could ask, a stranger in the town
would say. He has a beautiful home
and a wife who would be considered a
success anywhere, and he has festoons
of money where it will do the most
good.
yet he has a secret sorrow.
think he's the most melancholy man
ever saw, and his trouble is that he
can't raise a good stand of whiskers.
Nowadays, when whiskers are consid-
cred an inirmity, it seems strange
that any man should grieve over such
a matter.
ale sends all over the United
States for hair growers, and half the
time his face is blistered or swollen,
and still the whiskers won't grow on
him. If some miracle happened, and
he woke up some morning to find his
countenance all covered with whiSkers,
he'd probably have them shaved Off
within a week; but because they won't
Them
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

the presidency, and her absence from
his side was a haunting sorrow to Ar
thur.
Declining to remove the collector Of
the port of New York, whom Garfield
had appointed, against his protest, he
even permitted that officeholder to
leave his post and oppose him in the
contest at the national convention.
No other president has done so little
as Arthur did to obtain second term.
II was well, not only for the sake Of
the high example he set, but for his
own sake also. Arthur's health was
not equal to the strain Of another
administration and another term in
the White House, where he lived not
wisely but too well. In less than two
years after leaving the presidency, fol-
lowed by the good viii of all the peo-
ole, ne was dead of apoplexy.
downright. 1920 by James MaSgaDaAm
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
AN ERA OF REFORM

IL one of the pranks of fate that
Il Chester A. Arthur, whom President
l1aVes put out Of the New York GUS
tom house as spokesman and a politi-
cal boss, should find himself in the
white House seven months after
flayeS left it and conducting a reform
administration. It was the mandate
and lesson of Garfield's assassination
mat we must get rid Of factions and
spoiis or the government itself might
next be struck down as it's chief had
been. Arthur saw that this was the
logic Of the tragedy which had thrust
him into the presidency and he did his
best to clean house.
The race for preferment had excited
an unnatural appetite for public office.
and the getting of job was regarded
as eXhilarating sport. From police.
man, fireman and letter carrier to
chiefship and consulship, every place
OH the payroll of city, state or nation
went by favor. Two endless process
sions were forever moving, one made
up of those who had been turned out
or turned down, and the other of those
who were struggling to get in.
The civil service law, which was
passed in Arthur's administration. took
! out of politics the departmental clerk
ships in Washington but So per cent
of the federal employees as a whole
were left under the sp0ils system.
Nevertheless, the difficult first step had
/ been taken toward the present COM
prehensiye system, when all but a few
! hundred of the hundreds of thousands
Of places are open equally to self-re-
specting applicants, regardless of par
ties or politicians.
Arthur also was the useful instru-
nlent in carrying forward the recon-
Citation of the sections. He was the
first president IN his generation who
made no reference in his annual mes
sages to the South or to a Southern
question. He was indeed almost the
first president in so years who felt
free to ignore the unhappy issues of
sectionalism.
When ne stepped into the White
hOuSe Arthur IOunu MS party rent
by factions. He left it more nearly
united than it had been before in
20 years and with at least a chance
to win again in 1884. He might him.
self have been the Republican NOM
inee in that year if he had not scrupu-
lousy refused TO take an active part
in promoting his candidacy.
He looked as well as acted the presi-
dent. The first city man in a line OF
rural or small town men, Arthur was
the best dressed man to sit in the chair
since Washington, and perhaps the
handsomest, with a tall, graceful fig
ure, the manners of the great world
and a grave but easy courtesy.
Although a widOwer president, his
sister. Mrs. McElroy, was a charming
mistress of the White House and under
them the social life of the mansion
took on a more sumptuous tone. His
son and namesake was away at school
much of the time. but his little daugh-
ter, Nellie Arthur lit up the house
hold with her song and laughter.
Mrs. Arthur died only in the year be-
fore her husbands unexpected rise to
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

eral months and tried other remedies.
/ had read of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and decided to try it.
After taking twelve bottles / found
myself much improved and I took six
more. / have never had any more
trouble in that respect since. have
done all kinds Of work and at present
am an attendant at State Hospital
and am feeling fine. / have recon-
mended your Vegetable Compound to
dozens of my friends and shall always
recommend - LILLIAN THARP, 824
S. 9th st., Carrollton, KY.
If you have any symptom about which
you would like to know write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for helpful advice given free Of
charge.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
No More Misery
After Eating
Just Takes An Eafonfc

1.-THE first dose of EatOnic did me
wonders. / take it at meals and am
no longer bothered with Indigestion"
writes Mrs. Ellen Harris.
Thousands of people, like this dear
lady, gratefully testify about Eatonic,
which does its wonders by taking up
and carrying out the excess acidity and
gases which bring on indigestion,
heartburn, bloating, belching and food
repeating. Acid stomach also causes
about seventy other non-organic all
ments. Protect yourself. A big box
of Eatonic costs but a trifle with your
druggists guarantee.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
Weary of WhirIWinds.

"You don't seem to like the idea of
a whirlwind campaign"
81 hate the mere mention of it,"
replied Farmer Corntossel. Maybe
you'd find it hard to understand. new
er havin' lived. as L did. in a part of
the country where every once in
awhile you have to get out and run
for a cyclone cellar"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

Over fifty years ago a young
physlclan practiced widely in a
IA district and became famous
~ his uniform success in the
ring of disease. This was DR..
cree, who afterwards estab-
nsned himself in Buffalo, N. Y,
n placed one of his prescriptions,
Mheh he called Golden Medical
.sovery." in the drug stores of
~ United States so that the pub
'S could easily obtain this very
n arkable tonic, corrective and
u maker. DR.. Pierce manu-
tured this Discovery" from
is and banks "a corrective
nedy, the ingredients of which
tore had put in the fields and
sts, for keeping us healthy.
W. folks or families now living
se not at sometime or other used
~ Golden Medical Discovery"
S the stomach, liver and heart.
- twenty four million bottles
thus tonic and blood remedy
w been sold in this country.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

it with either
hand, and I have
been backing up
against every teIe-
phone pole and
gttepost, rubbing
like a horse with
the mango. A
man Of my social
and commercial
standing doesn't
loO ok dignifed
while thus en-
gagged, but when
a mans back
itches, he has to
loF- d. $1,000,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
Doused, as II Were.

No man can carry water on both
shoulders and make much Roadway.
He gets cold water thrown on him
from all angles and acquires the ap-
pearance of a drowned rat.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

Teacher-What. Bobby, you say you
don't want to be president of the
United States?
Bright Lad-Not just now, thanks.
If it's all the same to you I'd rather
wait until after couple of more cleo
tions.-Ameriean LEGION Weekly.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
THE UN.ATTAINABLE

SsTHERES a spot on my back,
Il about the size of a postage
stamp, that has been itching all day"
said the retired merchant, land it has
caused me more grief than the last
attack of rheumatism. l can't reach
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
These Days.

Knicker-Was his death from, nat
ural causes?
Bocker-Yes, an automobile ran over
him.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

could not walk any
d is t ce, ride or
take any exercise at
all without resting.
If / swept the floor
or did any kind of
work it would bring
my sickness on. /
was weak and lang
had no energy,
and lifewas a misery
to me. : / was under
the care of a good
physician for sew
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

No, Luke, women don't mean it when
they kiss each other; they just do it
for practice.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
His Weak End.

Reggie is going to the country on
Saturday"
"For a week-end?"
Yes; his heads been bothering
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

Catty. ,
what a high color Grace has"
"Of course it's high. She won't use
any Of the cheap kinds"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
LIFE WAS A
MISERY To HER
Saws this Woman Until Re-
Iieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

CarrolIton, Ky.-"I suffered almost
two years with female weakness.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT
OUR PRESIDENTS
By JAMES MORGAN
CHESTER A. ARTHUR

1S3o-oet. S, Chester Alan Ar
thur, born at Fairfield,
Vermont.
1s4S-Graduated at Union Col.
lege, Schenectady.
Observation-Disclosures General
of New York State.
1S71-9-CoIlector of the Port of
New York-Removed by
Hayes.
1sao-NeVember, elected Vice
President.
18a1-Sept. 10, Took the oath
as 21st President, aged
fifty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-07
HIGH SCORES MARK
GOLF TOURNEY PLAY
Jerry Shattuck Leads Field
First Half of Round at
Bann0ckburn.

High scores marked the morning
round in qualifying play in the Ban
nockburn Golf Clubs annual fall
golf tournament today.
Jerry Shattuck of Houston. Tex.
led the field over the first half Of
the qualifying round with card of
ington Golf and Country Club had
card of "a. other scores follow:
John l.. Carr. Washington. %: NJ.
|C. Woodland. Bannockburn, 90; w. E..
Baker, Bannockburn, 90: E. ]. Doyle.
Bannockburn, 81; B. L. Howell. Wash
ington, 80: P. d. Page, Houston, Tex.
101; A. P. Hare. Bannockburn, 101 !;
H. S. Saers, Bannockburn, 100.
The best players in the field of sew
enty entrants were scheduled to start
that the score of 81 turned in by
Shattuck will stand as low score in
the qualifying round.
Best ID. C. Golfers in Tourney.
Seventy golfers. including the best
in the District of Columbia. with but
three exceptions. started out today in
the qualifying round of the Bannock-
burn Golf Clubs fall golf tourney.
Resumption by the Bannockburrf
club of it's fall golf event has found
universal commentator among Wash
ington golfers. This is shown by the
size of the entry list and the fine
players who are today competing in
the qualification round.
Robert L. Finkenstaedt, Marshall
Whitlatch and Walter r. Tuckerm
all of the Chevy Chase Club, are the
three cracks who have not entered
the event. All the rest of the golfers
who have played in tournaments about
Washington have sent in their names
and are playing today.
Hale Possible Winner.
Capt Fraser Hale of the Chevy
Chase Club stands out from the field
as a possible winner. provided he has
had sufficient practice. Hale was for
many years ranked as one of the best
of the younger golfers in the country.
He is a product of the Chicago school
of golfers, which has contributed sew
eral champions. among them Charles
Evans, jr., present national champion,
and Robert A. Gardner, former title
holder.
Donald Woodward Of the Columbia
Country Club is playing very well
and is expected to make a good show
ing in the Bannockburn event.
The Rannockburn course has been
carefully groomed for the fall fixture.
The greens have not been played on
for several weeks and are in better
condition than ever before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-07

Costumes for every formal and informal occasion
The materials are Crepe Meteors, Charmeuse, Satin
Kittens Ear Crepe, Duvetyn Tricotne and Poret Twill
The effect of the silhouette is heightened by the
use of embroidery in silk, yarns, tnsels and beads
Colorings include Alpine blue, mocha, bedouin zan-
zibar and navy blue and dryad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-07
PUSH COMMUNICATIONS
CONGRESS PLANS HERE
World Delegates to Begin Series
of Conference at State
DEPARTMENT.

Delegates from Great Britain.
France, Italy, Japan and the United
States will begin series of prelim-
mary conferences at the Department of
State tomorrow morning to fix a time
and place and program of business for
the international communications con-
ference, which is expected to establish
an improved system Of open commune
cation between all the nations of the
world.
Norman Davis. undersecretary of
state, who is head of the United States
delegation, probably will be chosen to
preside at the preliminary conferences.
His associate members are Postmaster
General Burleson, Admiral Benson and
Walter S. Rogers. F. J. Brown of the
British postal service is head of the
British delegation, NJ. Lanel of the
French foreign office. head of the
French delegation, Ambassador Avez-
zana head of the Italian delegation.
and Ambassador Shidehara, head of
the Japanese delegation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-07
Society
Continued from Eighth Page.)

afternoon, at o'clock, when Miss
Grace NJ Coventry, daughter of MT
and Mrs. William II. Coventry, for
merly of Poughkeepsie. N. Y, now of
1425 Allison street. this city, became
the bride of Mr.. William ]. McCor-
mick, formerly of Evansville, Ind,
now Of Washington.
Rev. John F. Eckenrode performed
the ceremony and the wedding music
was rendered by Miss Mary Louise
Sullivan, organist of the church. Mrs
Louis E. Florey of New York city, the
brides sister, was the matron of
honor, and the bridegroom had as his
best man, Mr.. Louis E. Florey of New
York city.
Following the cerenony. there was
a reception at the home of the brides
parents, after which Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Cormick left for wedding trip to Nj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-07
NAMED TO NEW POST.
A. v. Smell Appointed Secretary OF
Southern ORGANIZATION,

Appointment of A. v. Smell as secre-
tary of the South Atlantic States AS
ISOLATION was announced today by
Matthew Hale, president of the or
ganization. Mr.. Smell has been for
some time secretary of the Charles
ton, S. c., Chamber of Commerce and
will establish headquarters for the
association at Columbia, S. c.
The South Atlantic Association is
made up Of representatives of bust
ness and commercial interests in
North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida. Mr. Smell will be en-
gagged in extending it's mem bership.
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agara Falls and New York city. They
will be at home after October 20 at
1925 Allison street.
Among the out-of-town guests for
the wedding were Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Wallace and children Of Long
Island City, N. Y. and Mr.. MCGOWAN
Of Kansas.
| tional president of the League of
American Pen Women, left Washing
ton yesterday for New York city,
where she will attend banquet given
by the New York auxiliary of the
league at the Hotel McAlpin Friday
in New York by Mrs Larz Anderson,
Mrs. Henry Wilder Keyes. Mrs.
Charles H. Patterson. Mrs. Theodore
Tiller and other members of the ma
tional executive board who have
spent the summer at their various
New England homes, and are en- route
to Washington by way of New York.
The Arts Club of Washington will
open it's season today with a formal
dinner given to it's president, Mr..
George Julian Zolnay. recently re-
turned from the south. where he has
spent the greater part of the summer
engaged in the restoration of the
sculpture of the Patenon, which is
being reconstructed at Nashville,
eHi. AS speaker OI the evening NT.
Zolnay will illustrate and give an
account of the progress of this great
artistic undertaking.
Miss Mamie Randolph Heth, presi-
dent Of the Southern Relief Society,
who has been i'll at the Takoma Sana-
torium for several months, is greatly
improved and will soon open her
home on I street for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis II. Nance and
their daughter. Mercedes Louise of
Mount Pleasant, N. j., are visiting
the mother of Mr.. Nance, Mrs. NJ. j.
Nance at her home, 2016 P street
northwest.
! Mr.. and Mrs. I. Dean Yocum an
nounce the marriage of their daughter
Cora Mae to Mr.. John P. J. Dunn
Wednesday. October 6, the Rev. Cove
G. Johnson, pastor of Emmanuel Bap-
fist Church officiating. After Decem-
Der /, Mr.. and Mrs. Dunn will be at
home at the Riviera, on Ashmead
place,
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GOES TO NEW MEXICO.

Col. John B. Schoeffel, infantry, at the
Preside of San Francisco. has been as
signed to the oath Infantry Regiment al
Camp Furlong. N. NJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis H. Nance and
their daughter, Mercedes Louise of
Mount Pleasant, N. j., are visiting
the mother of Mr.. Nance. Mrs. NJ. J.
Nance at her home, 2016 P street
northwest
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-21
THREE SUNDAYS EVERY WEEK IN
 CONSTANTINOPLE

Keep away from ConstantinopIe They celebrate three Sundays a week there-according to Mrs. Lucy NJ. J. Garnett, who writes about How Constantinople Spends Its Sab bath"
 Friday, the Moslem Sabbath, wit nesses the picturesque parade of the Commander of the Faithful to his fa- vorite mosque, followed by a holiday celebration at one of the Bosporous resorts, probably the Sweet Waters of Europe.
 Saturday morning the Jews don their Sabbath rairnent and seek the synagogue followed by a promenade the prescribed Sabbath days journey of tue chosen people twelve thousand nand|breadths (about two thousand yards) is indulged in later.
 And on Sunday the Christian Sab bath is celebrated iD great state, es- pecialiy by the Greek Orthodox Church, followed by holiday making. Professors of the three creeds take part to some extent in the ce1ebra- tions of the others, and for three days business is in some sections at a Standsti1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-21
DIVORCES HAVE
 BROKEN ALI OF
 FORMER RECORDS

With POS divorces granted since last September it looks as if all records in the Superior court will be broken be- fore the session ends next June A total of II decrees were allowed at the morning and afternl%I sesAtons yesterday.
 Among the Bridgeport cases in which decrees were granted were: Nellie Barlow Allen from Albert AL len of this city. Intemperance was the ground. The couple were married February 15, 1909.
 Florence Gertrude Meyn was freed from William Meyn of this city on the charge of intolerajbIe cruelty. The marriage took place March T, 1913.
 The court gave Mabel Minor Jen- nings a decree from Walter H. Jen- nings of Fairfield. The couple were welded August Is, 1914, and desertioK in August, 1916, was alleged.
 George w. Jackson of this city was given a divorce from Leila F. w Jackson of parts unknown Desertio3 on July 30, 1914, was alleged