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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
2,7O0 INVALIDS
SENT HOME FROM PHILIPPINES
IN TWO MONTHS.
The Awful Cost of ImperialIsm-Im-
possible to Get Soldiers for Service in
That Unhappy Land-A Gruesome
Tale for lmperiaIists-

Invalidism among federal troops in
the Philippines is marked feature of
the military situation in that quarter
as witness the sending home of 200
lnvalids within two months past. Pop
ular knowledge of this drawback I'M
questionably adds to the difficulties
encountered by the war office in re-
cruiting new army for service on the
transpacific islands.-Philadelp Rec
ord
This is gruesome tale for the i'm
perialists-2,700m men invalided in two
months-2,70O vigorous youths ruined
Tor life-2,70o mothers mourning over
their stricken sons. And all for what?
That few spectators may obtain
more franchises-that a few more
goods may be sold-that soft places
may be furnished for some thousands
of political prostitutes-that an inno-
cent and confiding people may be plum
dered. 1t is for this we have abrogated
the Declaration of independence, pros
ttuted the constitution and made the
land of Washington and Lincoln by
word and kissing among all the lib
erty-loving people Of the world.
But what is this about the recruit
Ing business? Do not the boys voIun-
teer freely? Are they not ready to meet
privation, pestilence and sudden death?
Where are the millions of men who
voted for imperialism last November
why don't they join the army in or
der to enforce their principles? Where
are the orators that shouted for pa
triotism and strenuous endeavor? Why
don't they volunteer?
Will We have to make a draft to
get $4,000 men to face the pestilence
that walketh in darkness and the de-
struction that wasteth at MONDAY?
In all our other wars volunteers
fiocked to the starry flag before the
first call to arms ceased its reverbera-
lions. When We asked the boys to
volunteer to free Cuba from Spanish
oppression a million men rendered
their services the first week.
Give us a call to fight for freedom
anywhere in the world and soldiers
will come faster than we can furnish
arms and supplies.
If at daylight tomorrow morning
President Mckinley would ask for a
million men to go to South Africa to
help the Beers in their heroic strug
gle for liberty, the quota of every state
in the Union would be filled before
shutdown and the volunteers would be
the very flower of American manhood.
But the call to fight for Imperialism
to fight to enslave a free people
to fight for conquest instead of lib
erty, will be slow in filling and those
who volunteer will be broken men, the
unhappy ones, the disconsolate and
those who have failed in life. These
will go not for patriotism, but for
bread.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28

Speaker Whitecotton of the Missouri
legislature is said to carry toothpick
in his mouth twenty-three hours out
of the twenty-four. The habit is so
well known among his friends that
they make wagers with the unsuspect-
ing that the speaker will have a tooth
pick in his mouth on some special oc-
casion, and they invariably win their
bets. The speaker acknowledges that
the habit has a firm hold upon him..
He never chews the bit of wood; he
simply holds it between his lips. At
night he places a. fresh one in his
mouth and in the morning finds it
Tribune.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
The Cherokee Treaty.

Washington, March 22-The Chero-
kee treaty was ratified by congress
and approved by President Mckinley
on the first of March. In case the
election rejects the treaty, action of
which Chief Burlington refers dis
couragingly, the Curtis act; which has
been suspended in the Cherokee ma
tion pending action on the treaty, will
be put into immediate operation.
The terms of the treaty require sixty
days from issue of the proclamation
before election can be held, the date
fixed being about three weeks less
than the required period.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
.DUN'S COMMERCIAL REPORT.
Pronounced Activity Of Retail
Operations in the West,
GENERAL GOOD SPRING TRADE.

New York, March 25.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade says: The
position of general business is satisfac-
tory. marked this week by pronounced
activity of retail operations throughout
the west and some Atlantic seaboard
cities, which is considered the forerun-
ner of general good spring trade.
New enterprise is reflected in the
largest demand for many months for
builders hardware and general ma
terials and contracts for prompt de-
livery of all structural goods are very
difficult to place. Collections are
prompt and railroad tonnage is well
maintained. Earnings of all railroads
for the month of March to date show a
gain Of 10. s per cent over last year and
Sc per cent over 1899. The gains ex-
tend to practically the whole country.
The textile industry alone does not
improve. Short time has been adopted
by Fall River cotton mills and there
are reports that some of the southern
weaving mills are about to curtail
production but this has been without
special effect upon demand for print
cloths or heavy brown cottons. Foot
wear is firmly maintained for staple
lines although high priced grades are
easier some decrease in demand does
not disturb producers as factories are
busy on contracts that will require
months to fill. Buyers who left Bos-
ton recently are now sending in orders
freely. Especially is this noticed in
the local market for patent and
enamel shoes.
Special reports telegraphed this
week indicate that the winter wheat
crop is in good condition and an
unusually heavy acreage was planted
at the southwest, while ravages by
by Hessiau fly have been exaggerated.
Failures for the week number 224 in
the United States against 1873 last year,
and SO in Canada against 20 last year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
A BIG LIE.

To free Cuba from the clutches OF
Spain has cost the United States, di-
rectly and indirectly, 10000, 900.
The gratitude of the Cubans for the
performance is so great that they are
unwilling to trust themselves to ex-
press it in the constitution.-Mail and
Express.
The above statement is false and
the man who wrote it knew it was
lie; It did not cost over fifty mil
lions to whip Spain and free Cuba.
The other s35O,OOO,OOO were spent in
a futile attempt to enslave a free peo-
pie. The Cuban war and the Philip
pine war are entirely distinct. The
first was a war of conquest. The one
was the noblest contest in which any
nation ever engaged, and the other
will fill one of the darkest pages re-
corded in human history The one
was the heartfelt expression Of a SYM
pathizing people, the other was the
natural outcome of the greed and cru
city of heartless spectators.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
PROPOSED LAW.

The state of Maryland proposes to
dlsfranchise all her illiterate voters,
consisting Of 10000 negroes and 49,
coo whites, and it is also in contem-
plation that no voter shall receive any
assistance in the election booth unless
he be blind or armless.
Both of these provisions are right.
No man should vote who is too ignor-
ant to read his ballot. No man
should vote who cannot make out his
own ticket.
Such law will not only eliminate
the ignorant; but also the venal vot-
ers. When the illiterate are disfra1-
chised there will be but few votes for
sale-voters will not then be bought
like sheep in the shambles. Elec-
tions will not be so likely to be car
ried by the corrupt use of money.
Nebraska has less illiteracy than
any other state in the Union, but even
here the Maryland law would be d
boon to the honest voters. Such a
law would give to the city of Oma-
ha All honest administration once
more
A law like this will have another
good effect. 1t will induce the dis
1ranchised voters TO see that their
children are educated, so that they
may escape from the ban OF their
fathers.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
RerIstration in Topeka

Topeka. March a5.-The registration
was the heaviest on record. The total
figure is 15,21s; s,s94 men and 1924
women Fully 5000 were registered
in the last five days.
In addition to the election commits
sioner's Office there were fourteen
places for registration open most of the
week. AT the general election last
fall the registration of men reached
10, ia which is somewhat in excess of
the present registration of male voters
but there never were much more than
half as many women.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28

EBEN HOLDEN; by irving Bachelor,
is as unique and even more interesting
than its predecessor on the. same lines.
David Harum everybody has read by
this time, and none of its readers can
afford to miss ''Ebeh F~lden." The
best of the newspapers are praising it
and the best of the critics eulogize it in
unstinted terms; for instance; John D.
Long, secretary of the navy, says: ~
have read it, with great interest in the
honest and honely character which it
describes with SO much humor and
naturalness." The Pittsburg Times
says of Ebeh Holden, sit is Americati
to the core, and one of the best ex-
amples of recent stories illustrative OF
American life" Amelia E. Barr writes;
81 congratulate you on having given
the world pure, strong, natural story.
1t is as far above David Harum as
monday is above dawn"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28

Washington, March 93.-Advices
from Mr.. Rockhill at Pekin are in a
more hopeful tone than of late. With
out displacing the pending proposition
the United States government has ad-
vanced another and radical PROPOSE
ton, namely: To divide the total
indemnity collected-say 5000, 900, 900
into eight parts of which the United
States would receive one. 1t is true
that ten powers are represented at
PelSin; but at least two of them have
no foundation for claim of indemnity
and others have incurred unnecessary
expenses in keeping too large force
in China and otherwise.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
TAXING THEMSELVES RICH.

There was time when great many
people actually believed that the earth
rested upon the shoulders of a huge
man. 1t seems strange row that peo-
pie should have been so foolish. But
in the generations to come We will
surely be subjected TO the same kind of
sport. Think, ten thousand years
hence. of a mother beneath the shade
of a tree reciting to her children the
story of a strange nation that existed
once upon earth in which the most of
the voters believed and thought that
they could tax themselves rich; or lift
themselves over the fence by their
own boot-straps, which is essentially
the same doctrine.-Living Issues.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
i.ortrne I'm Texas Land.

New Orleans. March. 25.-Paul a.
Davis, Jr., Philadelphia importer. is
on his way to Newton county, Texas,
to view for the first time section of
land of $40 acres his ancestors &C.
quired 60 years ago. There is nothing
particularly queer in the land to view
at this time. but inasmuch as Mr..
Davis has lately received an offer of
100000 for the property, he thought
it well to go and see what he could, in
order to give an answer to the man
who made the extraordinary offer.
The fact of the matter is the tract of
$40 acres is situated eleven miles north
of Beaumont and the oil prospectors
are hot after it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
souare Mile OF CItv FIood,d

Milwaukee, Wis. March 23.-Terri-
tory more than a mile square in the
Mepominee valley. in this city, was
under five to six feet of water as a
result of thirty-six hours of storm. The
shops of the Milwaukee road at West
Milwaukee, and the shops of the FSlk
Manufacturing Company were flooded
and all work suspended. A portion of
the grade of the Chicago, Milwaukee
e st. Paul road, built across the val
ley, was washed ont. The water is
reccdiup
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
To Inspect Dairy Exports,

Washington, March 21.-Secretary
Wilson will take steps shortly to carry
out the portion of the agricultural
appropriation act empowering the de-
partment of agriculture to inspect
exports of dairy products and furnish
certificates to accompany them. Rules
and regulations will be framed and
issued whereby first-class products
will be properly identified abroad. An
agricultural expert will be stationed
ut New York for this purpose.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Another mutton For Tn. school.

Chicago, March 21.-Mrs. Emmons
Blaine, according to an announcement
by President William r. Harper at the
University of Chicago convocation, has
given 100000 to the University of
Chicago school of education, lately
organized by the utilization of the
Chicago institute and the university.
This sum is given through the trustees
of the Chicago. institute founded by
Mrs. Blaine, and is to be used partly
for purchase of ground, partly for
buildings and partly for endowment.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
TOPEKA CAPITAL is SOLD.
All OF the New Proprietors Have spent
Years on the Paper.

Years on the Paper.
Kansas City, March GA special to
the Journal says that the deal which
has been pending some weeks for the
sale of the Topeka Capital is concluded
and the new owners will take charge
of it at once. They are Arthur Capper,
proprietor of the Mail and Breeze;
Harold I. Chase. now and for many
years associate editor of the Capital;
w. b. Roby, circulation manager of
the Kansas Farmer, and Il. l.. Thomas,
bookkeeper for the Capital. All of
these men are ''oldtimersr on the Capt.
tall having been in its employ from
five to fifteen years each. Fred o.
Popcnoe has been the nominal owner
of the Capital for the past two years.
but the deal for the purchase was made
with John L. Mulvane, who has had
an equity in the paper dating back to
the proprietorship of J. X. Hudson.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Padding the Census.

Washington, March 22.-Director of
the Census Merriam has caused the
arrest of one census enumerator who
placed the names of 500 dead people
and non residents on the rolls. Mr.
Merriam says that in all cases of this
sort anywhere that are discovered there
will be prosecutions, and that it is his
policy to punish every offender. 1t is
too late, however to change the figures
of the tenth census. The penalty pro-
vided for this offense is $1,000 fine and
two years Imprisonment.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Memorial to Montgomery.

The Massachusetts, Society of Sons
of the Revolution has decided to erect
in the City of Quebec a memorial to
the revolutionary hero, General Rich
ard Montgomery, who fell in a gallant
attempt to capture Quebec for the
American colonies. The tablet is to
bear an inscription indited by the city
historian of Quebec. 1t is to be set in
a granite block OF the side of the cliff,
high enough to be out of the reach
of relic hunters The officials of Que
bee have heartily seconded the wishes
of the Massachusetts society and have
given ready permission for the cree
ton OF the proposed memorial tablet.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
New Steel Bridge Ia Fatal.

Guthrie, March Civilian Casey
aged so years. was instantly killed and
his sons, Charles Casey, John Casey, NJ.
D. Casey and stranger were seriously
injured by the collapse of Cotton
wood river bridge. 1t was a new steel
structure 81 feet above the water. The
party were going to Guthrie to court
and were driving in wagon and were
in the center of the bridge when it
fell.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
General Botha Baked on Negroes.

London, March ga published out
line of negotiations between Lord
Kitchener and General Botha, gives as
reasons for the failure to come to an
agreement. General Botha dissented
strongly from proposal TO give the
full privilege of citizenship to blacks.
He was also greatly concerned about
the position of Jewish capitalists
would occupy in the country, and was
told that Jews and Christians would
enjoy equal rights, no distinction be-
ing made in the matter of concessions
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
TRYING ON New Shoes.

To insure new shoes being the right
size, try them on the latter part of
the day, when the feet are at their
largest. for walking and standing
about causes the feet to slightly swell.
Children should always be allowed ALT
tie room for growth, unless it is mat
ter of indifference whether they wear
their boots till they are worn out or
cast them aside in few weeks because
they are too small.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
The Greed of the Powers.

Washington, March 21.-It is feared
here that the negotiations at Pekin
respecting indemnity may fail, owing
to the greed of individual nations. Mr..
Rockhill, who has been in close COM
munication with the state department,
sends discouraging reports of this
1t appears that the ministers cannot
agree upon any uniform basis of in
demnity, some of the powers demand
ing enormous sums.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Wages in Hawaii.

San Francisco, March 2O-Mail ad-
vices from Honolulu state that agents
of the United States bureau of labor
are securing information for the de-
partment. They state that while the
wages paid in the territory OF Hawaii
are larger than those on the mainland
the cost of living is much less
An attempt was made in the house
to pass bill limiting public work to
eight hours, and permitting only
American citizens to hold such poai-
tions.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28

Greenville, Miss March 25.-Fire in
the Greenville cotton compress and
adjoining property did 100000 dam
age. The cotton loss is 1900 bales,
valued at $4,000. Famed by the
wind, which was blowing a gale, the
fire crossed the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley railroad and destroyed the New
Hope Baptist church, then swept into
Steel's alley, destroying seventeen
tenement houses and most of the con-
tents
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
He Stole From the Rcd Cro,,

Springfield. Ill, March 23.-Rev. j.
Forest Marston of owensville. Ind,
pleaded guilty in the United States
district court to forging money orders
and was sentenced to eighteen years
in the Chester penitentiary. Marston
had just served eighteen months for
using the mails with intent to defraud
He falsely represented himself as au-
thorized by Clara Barton to collect for
the Red-Cross society for use in Cuba
during the war, in 1898, and secured
much money and stole it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28

Dallas, Tex, March 25.-The follow
ing telegram was received from Omaha:
-. S. Johnson, sheriff, Dallas, Texas:
Henderson confession is subterfuge
to escape from other crimes he is
charged with. We take no stock in it.
J. j. Donahue, chief of police"
The sheriff maintains that he has
right man and expresses surprise that
the Omaha authorities had declined tc
investigate.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Indian TerrItory Bauks.

Washington, March 2O.-Reports of
at the close of business on Tuesday,
February 5, indicate that the national
banking business done in Indian Terri
tory is a profitable investment. This
is shown by the large increase in their
resources and liabilities Their re-
sources amounted to s7.1O6, SEQ. 50, the
largest figure ever reached in the his
tory of the territory. The average re-
serve held is "a per cent. the largest
in the country.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Final stage of Ipsurr.c,ion.

Washington, March 21.-The war
department has received the following
cablegram from General Macarthur:
Mariana Trias, only lieutenant gen.
eral insurgent army surrendered
with nine officers and 1879 well armed
men. Trias Immediately took oath of
allegiance. Most suspicious event; in
dicates final stage armed instruction,
Prestige Trias equal to Aguinaldo.
Gen. Bates and Col. Frank D. Baldwin
entitled great credit. MAC ARTHUR.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28

OF greater age than Queen Victoria
is the Queen of Hanover, who, though
In exile, still holds her title by court
esy. Queen Marie lives in a pretty
house not far from the villa built by
the Duke Of Cumberland on the Traum
See, at Gmunden. in upper Austria.
She has few Of the infrmities Of age.
She still drives and walks out, taking
an active interest in the worlds af-
fairs. The queen of Hanover will, II
she lives, be SO next April.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Ocean Devours Lana.

An interesting calculation has re-
Gently been made public through ons
Of the many publications Of the French
Academy of Science. 1t is to the effect
that, taking into consideration the
wear and tear on the solid land by
ocean lashing, river erosion, and wind
and weather, to say nothing of prob
able volcanic action, the world will.
by the end Of the year 100000, be
completely washed away, and the
ocean will roll over, the present foun-
dations of our great continents.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
To Fre,heu Up a Room.

A room that has become stuffy either
from too much use or from too much
tobacco smoke may easily be rendered
sweet and habitable once more by plac-
ing one-half ounce of spirits of laven-
der and a lump Of salt Of ammonia in
a wide-mouthed fancy jar or bottle and
leaving it uncovered This is pleas
ant deodorizer and disinfectant, filing
the room with a delicate perfume.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
To Inspect Kitchens.

Topeka, March 23.-Gov. Stanley is
preparing to send out committee of
women to inspect the kitchens of the
various state institutions. Last year
Mrs. Stanley and two women made
tour of inspection and as result of
their report to the state board of char
tiles several employees of state institu-
tions were let out and the culinary
management of the asylums materially
chanped
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Cost of EIHIn0 ElagA

1t costs money to fly even two small
flags every day in the year. The two
small ones on the east and west fronts
of the Capitol, each about three yards
long, which is small for such an i'm
mense structure as the Capitol, fray
out so fast that it costs 500 a year to
replace them. They IRE darned every
day, and on windy days probably two
or three times.-Washingt Letter.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Helen KeIlars Progress:

Helen Kellar, the deaf and blind;
but no longer dumb student, who is
now in her freshman year at Rad
eliffe college, has been promoted in
the English composition class, on ac-
count of her extraordinary progress.
In her class there were forty students;
and above the work Of all these. that
Of the deaf. dumb and blind girl has
stood prn-eminent.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28
Andrew Carnegis's House.

Andrew Carnegie's residence to be
constructed in Fifth Avenue; New
York. will be novelty in the line Of
close-packed houses fronting that ia
nous thoroughfare. Mr.. Carnegie has
gradually been acquiring the whole
block on which he proposes to build
His house will be erected in the center
of the lot thus obtained, and will be
surrounded by spacious lawns aud
walks. 1t will be the only house in
..Millionaire's Row" SO set OFF.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28

Mrs. j. Kay, High street, Des
Moines, has discovered harmless and
Inexpensive remedy for the tobacco
habit, by which her husband and hum
dreds of friends have been cured. ANY
druggist can put it up. Prescriptions
and directions free for stamp to pay
postage;