The Newtown bee., 1900-10-26
ADVERTISING RATES.
The OUTLOOK.

] ne OO l LOOh. l PEACE CONGRESS. The Intern ational Pace Congress has just held it's sesaion in Paris and adopted and issued an ap' peal to the nations in the interest of in ternational rights and universal peace It took up the Chinese question and urged that the Chinese should be treated justly and that the nations should mol divide up the ancient monarchy. The 1 Armenian massacres were also touched upon and characterized as ''the most odious deed of recent times." The sub. feet of international disarmament was also urged and attention was called to the great injury which Is being done to the Christian civilization by the vast standing armies and navies which are a huge burden of taxation to all indus trial life. The Congress may not be able to accomplish great things, and yet it is we'll that such an organization exists for the purpose of keeping the ideal of uni versal peace before the world. There is altogether too much gunpowder and iron in the blood of the nations today.
 
 THE The carrying of the CHINESE negotiations for peace IDEAS. with China and the amount of money to be paid for the out. rages brings out some of the peculiar ideas and religion of the Chinese. For instance, to satiiefy Germany the emper- or of China has offered an apology for the murder of the ambassador, Baron Von Ketteler, and has promised to pour ,ibatiors before the gods to his memory if it is desired. Whether the efter was genuine or only subtle sarcasm it may be hard to find out, but 1t is certainly rather 8 curious idea for the heather Chinese to offer sacrifice before his gods on behalf of dead Christian. Perhaps the smell of gunpowder has convinced the Chinese that all outside nations are not ''foreign devils."
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 OF THE WAT ficials at Guthrie. Okla
 RUM PATS. homa, took it into hit head to see what it cost tt prosecute the cases caused by thu saloon in Logan county. He went ovel the books carefully and found that the, had paid out $o, 900 as result of salool business. All the revenue that came t' the county was $a aO0o:
 THE COST A paper read before tn | OF CRIME. National Prison associa tion at Cleveland, O., recently, by M lEugene Smith, makes the startling state ment that the criminal classes of ou country cost the sum of $500, 900 900 an nually. The amount exceeds the valu of either the wheat or cotton crop of tn country. The city of New York spen over $1O ,O0O, ,OOO for the correction and 1e pree sion of crime. It is well to have al tention ca lied to this for we can get som idea of the way that Europe has bee
 unloading it's criminal ciasses upo
 this country. We have been tn
 great dumping ground for all the kcul |, and eff couring of the earth ard it
 about time that the sternest of represeiy
 measures were used to make it hard ft
 criminals. MT Smith figures that tt Q average habitual criminal makes abe,
 $1, 600 year by his war on society. Ia OUR There has been a gre
 SHIPPING revival of interest in shi INTERESTS. building and 1t Is sa that all the ship-yards on the Atlant
 and Pacific coasts are very busy turni1 - out vessels for the carrying trade of tl
 nation. Ten large steamers are beil A' built for trade with Cuba and Flaw,
 and there are 45 ships on the stocks f
 the Carrying trade along the coast. It
 certainly pleasant to know that t
 American flag once more fl )ats upon <
 seas.
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