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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
A MINNESOTA FARMER
WRITES OF WESTERN CANADA
WHERE HE'S NOW LOCATED.
Being Rapidly Taken Up by Former
Residents of the United States.

The following extracts from a letter
written to Mr.. Benz. Davies, Canadian
government agent at ST. Paul, Mimi,
give an excellent idea of what is said
of Western Canada by those who have
gone there during the past two or three
years.
When we first arrived here and took
up our homes on the prairie near
Dalesboro, ASA, for short time we
had a fit of the blues but now all
hands are settled to business, hale,
hearty and contented, enjoying the
finest winter we have ever seen. We
have got very comfortably situated,
with considerable preparations for
crop, and all hopeful. l think this is
a very fine country, and if the past sea-
sons crop is not an exception, which
to be the wheat field of the West. 1t
is filling up fast. In this township last
spring there were % quarter-sections
OF land vacant and today there is not
one. l can stand at my house and
count ten houses where there was not
one last spring, with six more to go up
this spring. This is only sample of
what is going on all round. We intend
to build a church next summer, right
close to my place, so we will be strictly
in line. 1t would have amused you to
have been here last spring. There
were crowds of land-seekers, and some
times in the spring the prairie is not
very inviting, and of course lots were
discontinued. There was one in the
crowd who jumped on me for putting
letter in the paper, only for which
he never would have come here, and
he was very hostile, but eventually he
got place and today claims he would
not take a thousand dollars and move
out, so 1 am glad he is satisfied.
well, my dear sir, as Arthur Fin
ney is about to move out in March,
with his family, and also one of my
sons, anything you can do for them to
assist them along and to make things
smooth as possible, will be greatly
appreciated by me. I will close for
this time, and will write from time to
time to let you know we are living.
Drop US few lines to let us know
how things are moving in st. Paul.
Yours Respectfully,
ALEX. CAMERON"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
The Blood Red Banner.

Royal and national colors vary with
nations and times, but since Cain slew
Abel blood-red has been the sign of
revolt. In the earliest revolt known
to history, when the Persians rose
against their king 1000 years ago, they
were led by blood-red banner, and
during the riots which took place in
Paris the men in the blood-red caps
were followed by the mob. A blood
red flag waved over Bunker hill when
he-Americans fought for liberty,
and it was the emblem of the German
peasants in their great uprisings in
1924, 1892 and 1925. Blood-red was
the color of the trade union flags dur
ing the middle ages, and it formed the
background of the emblem of the Swiss
confederacy in 1915.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
SIX NINETY SIX, MAIN

tits strange" said blue-eyed cen
trar' to central with gray-green
eyes, that no one ever calls up 500 on
this circuit. The phone has been in
three or four months now, and 1 test
the wire regularly every morning, but
there is no further communication with
the house day in and day out"
who answers when you call?" in
quired the girl with the gray-green
eyes.
"a man. His voice sounds as though
he were old. l suppose it is Mr.. Rum
ford himself"
"Rumford, you say?"
George Whitman Rumford. That's
his whole name. l looked him up in
the city directory No place of bust
ness is given. There is no occupation
mentioned in connection with his
name"
my goodness, he is a mystery!"
cried the girl with the gray-green
eyes. Have you tested the wires yet
this morning?"
mo"
LET me try it then"
She rang up briskly. A voice an
swered:
Good morning"
Testing the wire," responded Gen
trail cheerfully.
"The wire responds" said the voice.
The gray-eyed Central" turned to the
blue-eyed Central"
mo one ever answered me that way
BEFORE" she observed. HE said: The
wire responds"
Eyes, he always says that. 1t seems
a sensible thing to say, but it sounds
curious. I think he doesn't know what
people are in the habit of saying over
the telephone"
The weeks went by. From time to
time the girl with gray eyes would say
to Ida Nelson, the girl with blue
eyes:
HAS 696 been called yet?"
Never" said Miss Nelson, "but the
wire still responds"
One day Miss Nelson, against all
rules and regulations, attempted di-
version.
ct is an electrical sort Of morn
ing" she observed. cit makes the
voice sound unnatural over the wire"
There was an accent of eagerness in
the voice that replied.
at does, indeed" observed 696; but
don't you think voice always sounds
little strange in the telephone?"
Miss Nelson was quite aware that
she had no right to continue the con-
versation, but she had held her Curl
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
First Row in radise.

A Russian correspondent sends us
details of very interesting and anus
ing tale told by a Russian veterinary
surgeon who was sent into the Ural
district to buy horses and hay for the
peasants of the famine-stricken prov
inces. He had to do mostly with the
natives (kirghis), who are half-savage,
but who, nevertheless, were found to
be extremely honest and absolutely
trustworthy in all buying and selling,
some of them even offering to give
horses for the starving peasants. Quite
a different story has the surgeon to tell
of the Ural Cossacks, who did their
level best to cheat him in the most
barefaced manner, and on whom no
reliance was to be placed. And yet
these Cossacks are very religious and
so simple in certain respects that a
swindler succeeded in selling them
quite a number of tickets for-para-
disc. The veterinary surgeon saw sew
eral of these tickets, which were
marked First rows" and sold for rs
rubles, back seats bringing consid-
erably 1ess.-Commercial intelligence.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
GIRLS USE COLLEGE SLANG.
Some of Their Expressions Would To
toll

Some of Their Expressions Would To-
tally Upset Their Elders.
Miss Mary Charlotte Crothers, 1901,
Crothers, Pa, read a paper on Col
lege Slang" recently, says the Balti-
more Sun, in which she said: ANY
one who has been to Annapolis has
heard the remark that certain cadet
'bilged because he gauged;' and who
would guess the sentence translated
runs the cadet was expelled because
he cheated You would be puzzled il
told that Cadet Brown was 'ratey,' and
so could go out in town after the
femme he was to drag to the hop;
but it means only that he has privil-
eyes which enable him to go out of the
yard for the girl he is to escort to the
ball. At West Point a modest little
maiden was greatly startled by ca
diets asking her to spoon with him
the next day at 4:30. She drew herself
up haughtily and was about to admin
lister rebuke when the youth hasten
ed to explain that at West Point to
spoon meant to take a girl walking.
At Wesleyan the boys call the goods
quail and their dormitory the quail
roost.' But if we have no slang pc
culiar to our own college, we cannot
f1atter ourselves that we are free from
the evil, for any one who spends half
day within our sacred portals will
hear an appalling amount of the jar
gon issuing from the lips of our state
ly upper classmen. 1 don't think a
girl has much right to set down as
rough and unpublished poor little
freshman's English when her own vo-
cabulary consists in the main of such
expressions as bone dig pull"
cram grind 'tacky,.' 'waddy,'
'woolly,' simply great perfectly gor-
geous;' proud to DEATH I care for
that forget it, how CHASTITY 'fustie,'
'fiendish,' fierce and that girl looks
like a peanut The freshman soon
adds to her list all our slangish abb
breviations as SYM 'chem.,' 'psych.,'
'soch,,' quiz 1ab.,' and 'math.' These
belong strictly to a college, and until
she is fully versed in the lore, she
doesn't feel able to converse on equal
ground with an upper classman."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01

osity in check for months in the face
of a mystery, and she could endure it
no longer.
You do not use your phone much"
she said politely.
mo, no." responded the voice, some
what sadly, Pm not acquainted in the
city. 1 haven't much use for tele-
phone, it is true. But it's great in
vention. 1 enjoy it very much when
you call me up in the morning.
can see what great convenience it
would be if l wanted to ask anything
of anybody"
There was something so wistful in
the voice that Miss Nelson made an
apology to herself for the tears that
came in her eyes.
1t was a monotonous life that she
led. It had not much happiness in it,
and no romance. So it was not sur
prising that she endeavored to probe
this, her first mystery. She took the
pains one Sunday afternoon when she
was at leisure to call at the house of
George Whitman Rumford to make an
inquiry about fictitious address. The
house was new, and of red sandstone,
elegant, and plain, and the yard, the
walk, and the steps were in condi-
ton of scrupulous neatness. A young
colored man answered the door. Miss
Nelson, blushing at her deceit, made
her inquiry in a loud tone of voice. AS
she had hoped and expected, this
brought an elderly gentleman out of
the library.
What is it the lady wants to know,
John? Can 1 be of any assistance,
madam"
Miss Nelson, hating herself for her
duplicity, repeated the question.
The tall gentleman shook his head
regretfully.
ST really can be of no assistance to
you," he said. 81 know so few persons
in the neighborhood. But if you will
do me the honor to come in and wait
1 will send John out to make in
quiries''
"Oh, no, no." protested Miss Nelson.
81 shall have to give up trying to find
my friends, think. 1t is evidently a
mistake 1t is sometimes hard to To-
CdIC OAC l11CAQ0 III a City 1lhO IAlo.
ct is, indeed, l suppose. Unfor-
tunately, have no friends here"
MOP"
mo; 1 have recently come here. 1
have always lived in a little town,
but 1 thought l would like to see what
life in the city was like"
"Yes''
'I have built this house. Won't you
step in a moment and look at it? 1
take great pleasure out of it. The post
man kindly stepped in the other day
and looked at it, and he admired it
much"
Miss Nelson hesitated between pru-
dence and amiability, and then, cast
ing selfish caution to the winds, she
went in. A prim, expensive, exquis-
itely neat, and altogether unhomelike
interior met her view.
Il had to do it quite alone" ex-
planned Mr.. Rumford. 81 dare cay
lady can discover many deficiencies in
it. and l should be glad of sugges-
TONS"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
MORPHINE BEAT THE DEAL BOX
Young Gambler Persuaded to Stop
While He Was a Winner.

Young Gambler Persuaded to Stop
While He Was a Winner.
II see gambling is running wide
open in Colorado again. said Walter
Harris, a cattleman of Topeka to a
Denver Republican reporter. 81 don't
suppose, though, it is as wide open
now as it was in the late sos. was
in Manitou every summer at that time
and the high games that used to run
at some of the clubs would be an eye
opener to the gamblers of the present
day. Cattlemen were making money
then, as were the miners, and they
used to meet in Manitou and try for
each others pocketbooks, with the re-
suit that the professional gamblers got
the money. / remember how one
young fellow was made to quit winner
against his will His name was Rich.
He was nephew of one of the big
reaper men and his folks kept him
supplied with money, regular allow
ance. He had been gambling every
cent of it, letting bills pile up for no.
tel and livery and everything else. His
people sent word that they wouldn't
send any more money, and said if he
got into trouble he'd have to get out
himself. His creditors were just about
ready to jump onto him, when one
night he made a big winning. He
was playing faro in the club that's
torn down now. 1t used to stand
over from the depot and was the place
for high play. suppose he had $4,000
or $4,000 in front of him when his
friends began trying to persuade him
to quit. He was just like all the rest
of them, going to break the bank and
all that sort of thing, and he wouldn't
quit. 1t was red hot night for Man
itou, and with the excitement and all
Rich had pulled off his coat and rolled
up his sleeves. There was doctor
among his friends, and though he
hadn't said anything to Rich, 1 sup
pose he felt responsibility, because
the young fellow had come out here
for his health and had been referred
to the Manitou doctor by the doctor
he had at home 1 was watching the
play, though 1 didn't know any of the
people. 1 saw the doctor turn his
back to the crowd for a minute and
fiddle with something he had taken
out of his pocket. Then he walked
over to Rich and put his hand on his
bare arm. You need a sedative, he
said. Quick as a flash he took the hy-
podermic syringe he had in his hand
and fired a charge into Rich's arm.
Rich said 'ouch,' and grabbed at the
place where he had been pricked, but
the deal was going on, and he turned
to that again. Before half the cards
were out his head settled on the table,
he commenced to draw good long
breaths and was asleep. The doctor
took the chips, cashed them in, then
he took and wrote a receipt for the
money and gave it to another friend
of Rich's to keep. Then he took Rich,
loaded him into a carriage, took him
out to his office, and watched over him
until he came around the next day.
Rich paid his bills, but he did no more
gambling in Manitou. They wouldn't
let him play again"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
MANY SAWS ARE MISLEADING.
Proverbs In Common Use That Are the
Reverse of Truthful

Proverbs In Common Use That Are the
Reverse of Truthful
A great many proverbs glibly quoted
would be much more useful to humani-
ty if amplified or revised. For instance,
the old one, take no thought for the
morrow" ETC., is habitually miscon-
strued. The meaning of it is, Have
such hustle on you looking after your
interests today that you have no time
to think about tomorrow" The glib
quotationists go on and refer to the
passage, Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow" Well, how do
they grow? By taking in all the sum
shine and dew and rain that come their
way every day. No one ever knew a
lily of the field to LAY off, day, or
to miss anything in the way of an
opportunity for self-improvement that
came within reach. "They toll not,
neither do they spin" Of course they
don't. If they did they wouldn't be
lilies, and that's what they were made
for. There is a lesson of individuality
in it, too, as we'll as of industry-of be-
ing as well as doing. Another trite
saying that causes many to be shift
less is, ''All things come to him who
waits" Yes, but no waiter you ever
saw at a crowded railroad restaurant
just before train time has any more oc-
casion for getting a move" than the
individual who waits for success.
Every moment of waiting must be
filled with work. 1.-The world owes
every man a living" is another mis-
leading statement in its common &C
ceptance. 1t is true, but man must
transform himself into a mighty busy
collecting agency before the debt is
\abSolved.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01

The Pedagogical society of Prussia
has been collecting statistics bearing
on the often-discussed question of the
effect of education on the prevalence
of crime. From these statistics it ap-
pears that in the eastern provinces of
Prussia, where attendance at school
Is not vigorously enforced, the annual
number of crimes committed bears
much larger proportion to the popula-
ton than in the western provinces. In
the eastern provinces, from fourteen
to nineteen ordinary criminal offenses
occur yearly for each 1000 inhabitants:
in the western, only rs TO 10 per 1000.
A similar difference is shown in Of
lenses against church and state and
public order. Even in the east the
number of crimes has been steadily
falling off since 1890, when many pub
lie schools were established.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
TERRIFIC FIGHT WITH DEER.
Infatuated Buck Nearly Kills a Woman
and Her Son.

and Her Son.
Mrs. D. P. Thompson OF Portland,
Ore, and her son Ralph had terrific
encounter with an infuriated deer a
few days ago at Mr. Thompson's farm,
near Vancouver, during which both
were painfully injured. Mr.. Thompson
keeps on his farm a number of deer
and other animals, inclosed in a fif-
teen-acre park. The deer that made
the ferocious attack is a large 5-year-
old buck, and until a few weeks ago
was as docile as lamb. Ralph Thomp-
son is living on the farm with the
man who cares for the place. Mrs.
Thompson visited the place and walked
through the park, accompanied by
Ralph. On their return to the house
they noticed that this large buck had
escaped from the park and was with
some cattle and goats in an adjoining
field. Ralph went back to close the
gate, and in his absence the deer made
a fierce attack on Mrs. Thompson. He
struck her in the chest with his horns
and then jumped on her with his feet.
By that time Ralph came back and
seized the brute by the horns. The
deer wrenched loose and made a lunge
at the young mans head, one branch
of his antlers going on each side OF
his face. Ralph was able to hold him
for few minutes only, when he made
another attack on Mrs. Thompson.
Finally the young man got both arms
and legs around the deer's neck and
was able to hold on, but the now fren-
zied buck was cutting his legs with
his hoofs in frightful manner. Ralph
told his mother to run for her life.
Mrs. Thompson ran to the house, only
to find the man away. She then went,
still running, to the home of Mr.. Story.
half mile away, for help. Mr. Story
came to the rescue as quickly as posi-
BILE with a gun, but in the meantime
Ralph had escaped to the barn. After
a life and death struggle between
Ralph Thompson and the deer had
gone on for about twenty minutes, the
cows in the field had gathered around,
and the deer made an attack on them.
This allowed the young man to es-
cape, and to this fact he probably owes
his life.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01

1t may be noted that while the pro-
fessors are disputing as to the COM
mercial utility of liquid air as pow
er, the main engine work of the world
is still done by steam. Electricity came
long before liquid air. 1t has been
put to commercial uses for twenty
years, and immense advances have
been made in it's production and appli-
cation. Yet the extent to which it
has actually superseded steam as an
applied power is really trivia1-and
there is steam engine behind every
current of electricity that is put to
commercial uses. Within few special
lines electricity is practicable as an
agency for distributing the power
originally generated in a steam engine;
but the day when steam shall cease
ito be the driving power of the world
seems to be as far off as ever.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
Uncle SANS Laundry Bill

Uncle Sans laundry bill costs many
thousands OF dollars each year, al
though it is all done under contract
screwed down to the lowest figure.
Most of the towels are manufactured
on purpose, too, at an exceedingly
cheap price. They are red-bordered,
and have. the letters ~. So in the
center of each. A large supply is kept
on hand in fair-sized warehouse.
The treasury department alone has
1000 towels, and uses over 1000 every
day. The interior department uses
$50, and the pension Office 500 day.
Then there are the post Office depart
ment, the great state, war and navy
departments, the library, the agricul-
tural department, the printing bureau,
the patent Office, the bureaus of educa-
ton, of labor, of Indian affairs, the
census, the geological survey and
many others. soiling thousands upon
thousands of towels every day.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
Names of Denmark.s Kings.

Denmarks kings for 1874 years have
all been named Christian or Frederick.
This is not the result of accident 1t
is the law of Denmark that Christian
must be succeeded by Frederick and
Frederick by Christian. To attain this,
and without the changing of names, in
case of death or other reason, every
Danish prince, no matter what other
names he may receive, always includes
Christian and Frederick among them.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
.eYou must find it pleasant living on

"You must find it pleasant living on
the boulevard" said Miss Nelson.
"Oh, very, very! So many people
go by. would like to ask some of
them in, at times, but they might think
1t strange. I'm much obliged to you
for coming in. 1t has made a very
agreeable break in the day. I'm lit
tie solitary, you know. If it were not
for John 1 should be quite dull"
Miss Nelson was moved to shake
hands in saying farewell, and the hand
that took hers was unexpectedly hard
with ancient callouses. She could not
make the man out. He was more of a
mystery than ever.
She got in the way, after this, of
adding some little word over the
phone, after the daily test of the wires,
and finally she confessed that it was
she who had called. Mr.. George
Whitman Rumford was greatly pleased
at this. He laughed and chatted about
it till Miss Nelson was obliged to ring
on. He wanted to send her little
gift, but she refused-very gently-to
receive it. He asked to take her to
church Sunday evening, but she felt it
to be best to refuse that courtesy, too.
He inquired whether he might not call
for her and escort her home. But she
did not accord him the permission. He
took these rebuffs sadly. One morn
ing there was no response when she
rang the bell, and after many trials
she made out that John was making
futile attempts to be heard. 1t was
John who mumbled over the wires for
four successive mornings.
Miss Nelson grew anxious, and called
personally at the house. John came to
the door, weeping.
"Mistah Rumfo'd he pass way dis
moh'nin', ma'am. He ask me ovah
and ovah las night, did you tes' the
wiahs yet. He mighty fon' OBJ answer
ing the phone, Mistah Rumfo'd."
Ida Nelson suffered a pang such as
she had never felt before. 1t was re-
morse.
She went into the roora where the
undertaken and his assistants were,
having just finished their sorry task,
and she looked with penitence at the
white face of the loneliest man she had
ever known.
Il ought to have had less propriety
and more humanity" she said to her.
self.
1t was Miss Nelson, John, two or
three of the neighbors, and Mr.. Rum
ford's man of business who followed
the black coffin to the place of the
dead.
And the next week Miss Nelson had
all the mystery solved. The man of
business brought her manuscript. 1t
was written for her by the dead man,
and it contained simple story of
man whose money had brought him
only isolation. With the manuscript
was a gift.
when you receive this" the donor
had written, 81 shall be where you
cannot return it to me-
'My contemplate, selfish proprietyi"
sobbed Ida Nelson. my cowardly
discretion! It's the biggest chance l
ever had for giving happiness, and /
missed it. l let it co.
She was glad when her circuit was
changed, so that she would have no
further occasion to ring up Six-ninety-
six, Main."-Chicago Tribune.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01

The bridge of boats which now forms
the only means of crossing the Bos-
phorus is entirely insufficient to meet
the demands and it is suggested to
build a tubular tunnel from shore to
shore, so that traffic may go on with
out interruption. Because of the lack
of suitable foundation, this tube must
be suspended or fioated below the sur
face of the water. The scheme sounds
somewhat impracticable, but it is be-
ing seriously considered.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-01
Swords May Be Abolished.

The suggestion of substituting a
Martini-Metford carbine for the sword
an officer usually carries is being large
ly discussed in military circles. The
objection against the sword is that,
when marching through billy country.
it hampers an officers movements in
getting over rough ground, while
carbine could be used as a walking
stick, thus being great help and sup
port