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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1901-02-16
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SO do drastic mineral pills, but
Doth are mighty dangerous. Don't
dynamite tho delicate machinery
of your body with calomeI, croton
oil or aloes pills, when DR. Kings
New Life Pills, which are gentle
as summer h.eeze, do the work
perfectly. Cures Headache, Con.
Nt'ppati"n. Only 25c at Craw-
ford drug store.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1901-02-16

Noah w. Grant farmer of O,
conGc county was thrown from
his buggy. and killed while goinp
home drunk Thursday.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

Welcome its responsibilities. Heavy
though they may be. they but
strengthen mind and muscles for the
coming fray. They are the skirmishes
in the battles, the campaigns that
make soldiers OF us, and teach us how
to buckle on our armor and grid our
selves for the fight
Welcome its trials. For out of
them we come purified and refined, as
the gold that is freed from the dross
and impurities that belong to its crude
and natural condition and cling to it
until they are purged away.
Welcome it's crosses and losses. For
they but emphasize and punctuate the
story of regeneration and the heroic
careers of those who kept straight on in
tn path of duty, never hesitatiGg,
never turning aside. never holding
back their hands from doing that
next thing" that the faithful look
upon as the point gained in the daily
warfare of life
Welcome its sorrows and bereave-
ments. They teach us to look upon
this world as not our permanent abid-
ing place, but that we have a house
not made with hands eternal in the
Heavens, whittier our loved ones have
gone before, and from the windows of
which they are reckoning to us to
come up higher.-Rev. John Hall.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Balancing Our Books,

When the year is ended and the
final summing up of accounts is finish
ed, it is comforting to look back and
to be able to say, in all sincerity, that
we have done the best we could for our
selves and for those about us. 1t is
more than comforting to see that we
have gained something, that our eff
forts have been crowned with success,
and that we are by this advance
ment enabled to score a victory, even
though it may be trifling, over ad-
verse circumstances. 1t encourages us
to redouble our efforts to make a bet
ter showing for the years to come, to
so order our affairs that this seasons
gain will be but the beginning of bet
ter things, and that the great and
grand fabric of our future may rise,
ever increasing, ever more and more
beautiful, and end in a noble, manly,
womanly, Christian, symmetrical char
acter that will make its possessor
known and honored of all men.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

With the coming of the New Year
all our hopes of future good for our
selves and for humanity at large re-
receive a new impulse and an accession
of power If we are alive to the wide
extension of knowledge, the conquest
of the material world, the imminence
of new and important discoveries and
changes which shall make the possibil-
tiles of life more interesting and beau
tiful, we cannot but rejoice that We
are born into this wonderful epoch.
Tennyson's poem, written in the flush
of young manhood, voiced the scien-
tific fact in eloquence that can never
be forgotten, but the thoughts of men
are widened by the process of the
suns. 1t is truly to the thoughts of men
that we owe all the triumphs of civil
ization, the triumphs of religion, art,
industry and science, as in the last re-
sort all that is and all that we hope
for resides in the thoughts of men and
in the feelings and emotions which
give birth to these thoughts, and be-
tween which there is such a constant
interaction.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
NEW BOOK ON THE GRAND CANYON.

The Santa Fe has in preparation, to
be published some time in December,
a new and magnificent book on the
Grand Canyon of Arizona. The pub
LEGATION comes at a fitting time, as
travel to the Canyon has greatly In
creased since the opening of the new
railroad to the Rim, and commod1ous
Harvey hotel is in process of erection
at the head of Bright Angel Trail. The
book will commemorate these events
events of vast importance in that land
of silence-and will be worthy OF It's
theme if the ablest pens in America
can make it so. 1t will be Handsomely
illustrated, and will contain about lzo
pages of matter. Among the authors
represented-mosto of whom wrote con-
tributions especially for this work
may be mentioned; Hamlln Garland,
the distinguished author of The Ea-
giles Heart and other popular BOOKS;
Charles F. Lummis, editor OF Gut
West" and the chosen prophet OIL
Adobeland; David Starr Jordan, presl-
dent of Stanford University; John l..
Stoddard, the lecturer; Charles Duo-
ley Warner, up to the time OF MS
death the dean of American authors;
Major ]. w. Powell the daring eXplor-
er who led the first expedition down
the Colorado, passing through the en-
tire length of the Grand Canyon; Har-
riet Monroe, the poet and Journalist;
''Fitz Mac" of Colorado Springs; Prof.
R. D. Salisbury of the University of
Chicago; Prof. Beecher of Yale, and
Charles S. Gleed, the eminent Kansas
lawyer. These and many others have
made the book the finest of its kind.
The exact date of publication has not
yet been decided, but it is expected to
appear before the end of 1901.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

By January 1st the Rock Island ex-
poets to be able to open for business its
southwestern extension to Ell Paso,
lex. This line, in connection with the
Southern Pacific and the Mexican Cen
trail railroads, will give the Rock
island the shortest line both to South
ern California and the City of Mexico,
and make it dangerous competitor of
the Santa Fe. 1t took just one year to
construct the $40 miles of the new ex-
tension from Liberal, Kan, to Ell Paso,
Tex. For the purpose of complying
with the Texas law that every railroad
within that state shall have state oper-
ating headquarters and also for general
construction facilities and convenience
the new road was placed under the
charters of five different railroad cor
porauons, viz: The Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific proper, the Chicago,
Rock Island & Mexico, the Chicago,
Rock Island & Ell Paso, the Rock Island
d Ell Paso, and the Ell Paso & North
eastern. The road from Liberal to
Santa Rosa, N. M, a distance of 272
miles, was placed under direct Rock
Island construction, with J. H. Conlen,
vice president of the Chicago. Rock
Island & Mexico, as Chief Engineer
and General Manager, while from San
ia Rosa to Carrizozo, a distance of 100
miles, the construction work was given
to the Ell Paso & Northeastern, which
already had a constructed line from Ell
Paso to Carrizozo. The road from Lib
eral to Carrizozo will be equipped with
eiGhty-pound steel rails, oak or pitch
pine ties, and modern ballasting. De-
houses, yardings, water tanks, and
Western Union telegraph lines have all
kept pace with actual road building,
and when the road is opened by the
first of next year it will be in as perfect
condition as any of the lines of the
Rock Island system that have been in
service for years. In connection with
new thirty-mile railroad which is to
develop the immense Dawson coal
fields, owned by the Rock Island, on
the Beaubien and Miranda grant, in the
northern part of Colfax county, N. NJ.
This road will leave the main Rock
Island rails at or near Liberal station,
twenty miles southwest of the Cana
dian river crossing, and run through
the New Mexican counties of San Mi
guel, Mora and Colfax. This branch
will be completed by May Is, 1902. The
coal is to feed the southeastern por-
ton of the Rock Island-El Paso line,
and probably will largely supply the
Southern Pacific railroad, in addition
to a heavy domestic custom in that
section of the country. The compile
ton of the Ell Paso line will give the
Rock Island a route of 222 miles short
er between Kansas City and Ell Paso
than that of the Santa Fe between the
same points, together with a saving
Of fifteen hours of time, the latter fact
being largely due TO the favorable
alignment and maximum l per cent
grade of the new Rock Island line. In
connection with the Southern Pacific,
the Rock Island will have a shorter
line from Chicago to Los Angeles than
will the Santa Fe. The construction
cost of the Rock Island-El Paso line
will approximate $1,000, 900, an average
of about $4,000 per mile.-Chicago
Tribune.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Players, Christmas.

No class of people contribute so
largely to making Christmas a merry
day for the public than the actors and
actresses. Yet few of them may be
said to have a merry Christmas, for
not only are they compelled to do
their regular stint upon the stage, but
at most theaters extra matinee per-
formances are given. thus compelling
the players to do double duty Yet
with all their hard labor few people
enjoy their day better than the actor
folk. Sometimes, however, the stage
door opens to admit breath of holt
day-making and the older theaters of
New York have witnessed many
scene which was in its way quite as
effective as those the audience looked
upon from the front of the house.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
|HYNrS STATEHOOD PLANS.
Expects Passage Of Enabling Act
At This Session.
n. ITO FOLLOW PRECEDENT

Wichita, Dec. 21.-Delegate Dennis
7. Flynn in an interview here said:
81 believe that bill enabling Okla
homa to become state will be passed
at the present session of congress
Sentiment in regard to the matter
among congressman has changed. Ok
lahoma's great population and numer
Gus resources has brought this about
Oklahoma will be admitted alone, and
in her constitution will consent to the
addition from time to time of parts of
the Indian Territory to the state, the
consent of the people of a state being
necessary for such addition. The man
who is for immediate statehood cannot
be for single statehood. The man who
is for single statehood is for statehood
not prior to 1906 because of Uncle Sans
treaties with the Indians; and these
treaties will not be disregarded, make
it impossible for statehood to come to
the Indian Territory as whole until
then.
Another thing. L hear no talk in
congress about the necessity for a big
state. Out here, as you know, there is
a deal of comment to the effect that
congress will demand a big state in
point of area. Congress is not demand
ing, and will not demand, anything of
the kind. If there is such demand,
it exists in the territories themselves;
and l am not one of those who favor
the bird which will befoul its own nest
by claiming that Oklahoma, as large as
Ohio is not fit for statehood by herself.
In my judgment there is nothing too
good for Oklahoma.
Congress expects the Indian Terri
tory to go through territorial form
of government before it becomes a
state. In my opinion, bill is liable
presidential appointment of governor
at good salary. This official will be
empowered to establish county lines
and fix upon county seats just as Gov
ernor Steele, the first governor of Ok
lahoma, was empowered to do in west
ern Oklahoma. This will develop affairs
in the Indian Territory to some cohe-
sive point
Being asked if the dates in his bill for
electing delegates to the constitutional
convention and the meeting of that con-
vention will stand. Mr.. Flynn said:
''That l cannot tell. 1t depends on
when the bill passes. 1t might be so
late in that respect that the dates
would have to be put further along in
the year"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

them. Come, Ray, Ill begin yours,
and Maude. don't you remember?
Make chain of three stitches and
the next row plain
They were all three fond of this kind
of work and presently forgot their
disappointment.
The sun was just setting when Es-
telle said: There, that's the last of
the wool and my mats done. But just
see what a big wad of paper Miss Gro
ker rolled her wool upon She tossed
the paper under the crate and fasten-
ed off her knitting neatly.
And mines finished" said Maude,
and here is another great roll of pa
per, and there is something hard in
it. Maude opened it slowly, laughing
as she did so. A bright five dollar
gold piece.
"Oh, look! Just look! 1 wonder if
Miss Croker meant to put it there!"
st am sure 1 don't know" answer
ed Estelle, but wait until Ray has
finished her mat then we will go
and ask her."
ct is DONE" said Ray. land here is
another five dollar gold piece. Es-
telle, you'd better get poker and pull
out that paper you threw under the
CRATE"
Estelle soon had the paper in her
hand, and sure enough, there was a
third gold piece hidden away in it.
'She must really intend them for
u.s. said Ray. q feel SO ashamed
because she heard me say, II wish
she would go home.'"
While the three girls with the money
in their hands and the mats in their
laps were wondering what they ought
to do, Miss Croker walked in.
so 1 see my mats are finished" she
said. They are very pretty and
will keep them always in remembrance
of my three little friends"
Estelle held up the shining coin. 81
found this in my ball." she said.
Il put it there as a little surprise
for you," replied Miss Croker, land
now 1 hope you can buy some small
gift for your mamma and papa. Then
she added, Come, children, hurry on
your wraps and 1 will take you down
town to choose your presents"
Never did three little girls dress in
such short time.
Miss Croker took them to such won
derful stores and was so pleasant and
kind that the three little girls never
forgot that New Years Eve.
The gifts that they carried home to
their parents, which were selected
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

Christmas is an occasion for humil-
ity, and ever-virtuous modesty should
reign at this time of the year. Like
a Christmas dinner; holiday publi-
cation is interesting and acceptable in
proportion to the variety that ii
spreads before one. A Christmas
magazine has one fault-it upsets
that noted fallacy: TOO many cocks
spoil the BROTH Perhaps, however.
since each page is a course, each course
has had a cook and our proposition
fails. But we hope that the viands
served and the. garnistings thereof by
artist and printer will meet the ap-
proval of the reader. And even if the
preparations were begun in summer
days and ended ere winter had touched
the landscape we believe there is nc
lack of Christmas spice and spirit in
the pages. and so merry Christmas to
ALEX.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

New York, Dec. 23.-'I shall use all
my money, if need be, and all my
power and energy to bring to justice
the men who have libeled me. L pro-
pose to find out whether or not men
in public life must be subjected to
upon me-" In these words Senator
Thomas C. Platt again declared his
intention of prosecuting to the bitter
end the action against McClure's mag
azine, which in its current issue pub
fished a character sketch entitled
''Platt," the author of which was
William Allen White, of Kansas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
No Hope for Improvement.

Chicago. Dec. 1S.-Relatives of Mrs.
Mckinley have little hope of her living
long, according to a statement made
by Lieutenant James Mckinley, U. S.
A, a nephew of the late president
Lieutenant Mckinley passed through
Chicago with General S. B. NJ. Young.
The lieutenant said: MY aunt in
Canton remains in about the same con-
dition that she was Immediately after
the funeral of the president. There
has been no improvement, and there
seems no hope of any,"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
NEW YEARS ADVICE.

There is a foe that watches
Your comfort to destroy,
Assuming shapes of evil
To interrupt your joy;
To keep him at a distance
Should be your purpose true,
So never trouble trouble
Till trouble troubles your
Each day he may remind you
OF sorrow that's in store;
Each day with hints and shadows
Perplex you more and more;
But go not forth to meet him
AS many people do,
And never trouble trouble
Till trouble troubles you'll"
TITS time enough to worry
When misery appears;
TITS time enough for weeping
When there's excuse for tears;
So ever at the fountain
OF prayer your faith renew,
And never trouble trouble
Till trouble troubles you'll"
For they who borrow trouble
Are never out of debt.
Ger every fancied evil
They worry, fume, and fret:
And if you would be happy
Another course pursue,
And never trouble trouble
Till trouble troubles your
Anticipating pleasure
May give relief from pain;
Anticipating sorrow
Is never any gain;
And if you would be cheerful
In mind and body, too,
Then never trouble trouble
Till trouble troubles you"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

Ardmore, l. T., Dec. 23,-P. L. Soper,
federal attorney, is in Washington to
consult department officials. Mr..
Soper has made contract with the
Creek Indians to represent that tribe
for the next four years at an annual
salary of $1,000. If the interior de-
partment will approve the contract
with the Creek nation Mr.. Soper will
resign the United States attorneyship
If the secretary refuses to approve the
contract he will continue in his present
DOSitiOn
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Colored Appointees.

Washington, Dec. 23.-The presinent
has nominated DR.. j. R. A. Grassland,
of St Joseph, Mo-, to be minister to
Liberia, and J. C. Dancy, collector of
the port at Wilmington, n. c., to be
recorder of deeds for the District of
Columbia, vice Henry P. Cheatham,
whose term of office soon expires.
Both of the new appointees are ne
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all it's
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to The
medical fraternity Catarrh being constitu-
tional disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing it's work. The pro-
prietors have SO much faith in it's curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that it fails to cure. Send for list OF
Testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, O
Sold by druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Indian Territory mortgages.

Washington, Dec. 21.-Delegate
Flynn has introduced in the house bills
for the construction of federal build
ings at Guthrie and Oklahoma City,
each to cost 100000. Representative
Cooper, of Texas introduced bill
amending san act relating to mortgage
in the Indian territory, providing that,
if the mortgagor be nonresident of
the territory the. mortgage shall be
recorded in the judicial district of the
territory in which the property is
situated
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Confident of stat.bood.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Delegate
Flynn, of Oklahoma, concerning state
hood, said: Congress will not pass a
bill making one state of both Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory" he said.
Il think we will undoubtedly get
statehood for Oklahoma, but the In
dian Territory will, in my opinion, be
provided with territorial form of
government There is really no gov
eminent in the territory now. The
Indian councils and the Dawes commits
sion are the head of the government
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Missionaries Must do it.

Constantinople, Dec. 17.-It;is under
stood here that the legations have
handed over the case of Miss Ellen NJ.
Stone and Madame Tsill1a to the mis-
sionaries, in the hope that the latter
will be able to convince the brigands
that the sum subscribed in the United
States is the actual amount of money
available for the ransom of the cap
tives. 1t is reported that the authori-
ties at Washington have cabled to
Spencer Eddy, the United States charge
d'affaires, approving of this course
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Where Girls Smoke Cigarettes.

1t seems that girls, as well as boys,
of Reykjavik, Iceland, have contract
ed the habit of smoking cigarettes, and
the law allows any adult man or wom-
an who finds a boy or girl smoking to
give the young offender a sound spank
ing and to seize and destroy any cigar
cite found in his or her possession.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

Anna Parker Cox, daughter of Guam
nah Parker, the noted Comanche In
dian statesman, who is married to q
white man, has donned her blanket
and taken up wild reservation life
again. She is a graduate of the Car
Isle Indian school
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Origin of Worlds Aiphabets.

Prof. J. C. Clark of Upper Alton, ILL.,,
has. sent to the Smithsonian Institu-
ton a unique volume, in which is COM
piled the alphabets of the world, so
tabulated as to show the origin of all
of them in tie Egyptian hieroglyphics
and t. exhibit the development Of
each from its earliest to its latest
forms
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Bestow Happiness.

In the year just dawning take note OF
the good things as well as the ill., l
have heard it told of a bright old lady
that all her life she kept a book she
called her pleasure book" and that
she always found, on looking over it
at each years end that no day had
passed without carrying in its train
some little mite of happiness.-St
Louis Republic
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Ee1 E4,atuIn.

II thy is ana c2iied aIinikoi, off
10 sorthern coast Of India, a most
e; diaT sta5e OF society exists, for
VIC nan is lo-d CT al SIZE surveys. The
y.fe is the recognized head of the
''cse. She GYMS il ana everything in
-aile awning that. her husband.
10 works very lard. can earn goes to
crease her wealth. Fer husband be-
,aEs 20 her, rao. AMI when she mar
les hin she gives I'm her name in
-te2d of taking his
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Rathing Dolls.

There are many bathing dolls this
year, real little tub dolls. and ever so
many things in the I'LL world run to
b2th-tubs and bathing arrangements.
The atting dolls are of celluloid and
Of Fa rian and are made with the idea
that they vi. take frequent baths.
They cost all prices. from 10 cents to
$50 and the ELABORATE bathing outfit
will cost more tEan thct.-New York
Tins.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

A Christmas Dinner That Was Not Eaten
because of indigestion This sorry tale
would not have been told if the system
had been regulated and the digestion per-
fected by the use of Natures remedy
Garfield Tea. This wonderful herb Inedi-
cine cures all forms of stomach, liver
and bowel arrangements, cleanses the
system, purifies the blood and lays the
foundation for long life and continued
good health. Garfield Tea is equally good
Tor young and old.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26

of the season lin ten colors) six beau
tiful heads Ton six sheets, 10x12 inch
esq, reproductions of paintings by
Moran, issued by General Passenger
Department, Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway, will be sent on receipt
of twenty-five cents. Address F. A.
Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chi
cago.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
Employment for indian Chlldren.

Miss Katherine Hughes of Ottawa,
Canada, is the leader of a movement
for providing employment for Indian
children when they leave the schools.
She is called Kateri Kaidnerenstra by
her Indian proteges, which means she
makes things go pleasantly"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
a Good Wav to Begin 1909.

Cleanse the system, purify the blood
and regulate he liver, kidneys, stomach
and bowels with the Herb medlclne, Gar,
field Tea. thus insuring happiness and
health for the New Year.