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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
CHRISTIANITY VERSUS WAR.

Erasmus, whose words have echoed
through three centuries, has this to
say of the antagonism between Christi
anity and War:
Let us imagine we hear a soldier
among these fighting Christians say
ing the Lords prayer just before bat
tle Our Father, says he. o, hardened
wretch, Can you call God Father,
when you are just going out to cut
your brothers throat? Hallowed be
Thy name. How can the name of God
be more impiously unhallowed than by
mutual bloody murder among his
sons? Thy kingdom come. Do you
pray for the coming of His kingdom
while you are endeavoring to establish
an earthly despotism by splitting the
blood of Gods sons and subjects? Thy
will be done on earth as it is in hea-
ven. His will in Heaven is for peace;
but you are now meditating war. Give
us this day our daily bread. How dare
you say this to your Father in heaven
at the moment you are going to burn
your brothers corn fields and would
rather lose the benefit of them yourself
than suffer him to enjoy them unmo-
Tested? Forgive us our trespasses as
we forgive those who trespass against
us. With what face can you pray thus,
when, so far from forgiving your
brother, you are going with all the
haste you can, to murder him in cold
blood for an alleged trespass which,
after all, is but imaginary? Lead us
not into temptation. And do you pre-
sumo to deprecate temptation or dan
ger-you who are not only rushing
into it yourself, but doing all you can
to force your brother into it? Deliver
us from evil. You pray to be delivered
from evil, that is, from the evil be-
ing, Satan, to whose impulses you are
now submitting yourself, and by whose
spirit you are guided in continuing the
greatest possible evil to your brother?"
These sentiments, set forth and COM
mented upon in the Peace Manual, are
respectfully commended to those fol-
lowers of the Nazarene who preach a
strenuous gospel of bloodshed. and who
imagine that they see Gods hand di-
recting a war waged for conquest and
the extension of trade.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21

chambermaids and generaI 4ervants.
The number of idle men in Kansas
City has increased very materially
during the last few weeks. This is not
caused by cessation in building oper-
ations or other works of progress, but
presumably by a recent influx of men
who were unable to find employment
in other cities and who have cosas here
looking for the desired chance to labor
and earn at least daily living.
I'VE could send fifteen men a day to
Eureka Springs, A &, where contracts
work is in progress. said Mr.. Howard
yesterday, ''but the men who apply
here, or large number of them, have
not even enough to pay the one cent a
mile which will take them there" The
railroad fare to Eureka Springs under
the one cent rate is S2.62 When ap-
plicants are told that such an amount
must be paid by them in order to reach
the scene of labor they turn away de-
jectedly, with despair and disappoint>
ment written in their faces
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
JUDGE HOOK REFUSES BAIL.
Captain Carter Remains in Custody
Pending Appeal.
COURT MARTIAL DECISION.

Leavenworth, Kan, Feb. 1S.-EN-
Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter, Q. S. A.,
serving sentence in the federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth for defrauding
the government on harbor contracts,
suffered another defeat in his attempt
to secure release. Judge Hook in the
United States district court refused to
release the prisoner on bail and order
ed that he be remanded to the peni-
tertiary to await the action of tho
in his habeas corpus case.
After brief argument by mis- attor-
ney, J. II. Atwood, who contended
that the court had the power to admit
the prisoner to bail and the reading of
two affidavits of physicians regarding
Carriers health, Judge Hook handed
down his decision. He held in sub
stance, judgment of the court martial
was final unless set aside by the
supreme court of the United States
II cannot" said Judge Hook in clos
ing, ''even had the court the power,
which is doubtful, see a reason for
libe-ating the prisoner on bail. Such
case has not been presented that
would authorize anything of the kind
and the motion is denied and the
Judgment of the court martial stands. ="
Carter flushed as these words wers
spoken, but soon gained his composure,
quietly putting on his overcoat and
left the court room with Warden
McLaughey to return to the peniten-
Earr
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Plague of Big Eagles.

Mountain eagles are swarming on
the Tomichi, near Gunnison, feasting
on the thousands of rabbits driven into
the valley by snow in the mountains
and foothills. The ranchmen fear that
that the ravenous hunger of the big
birds will tempt them to attack human
beings. One of the eagles met its
match a few days ago. Ferrets have
been brought into the valley to van
quish rabbits. This particular eagle
swooped down upon ferret. The fer
ret caught the eagle by the throat and
the bird flew far into the air. Only a
few minutes elapsed when the eagle
came tumbling down. The ranchman
who had watched the midair battle
ran over to the fallen bird and found
it dead. The ferret had bitten through
Inc throat and was still clinging to the
bird.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
The Gould Combination

Chicago, Feb. 16.-The Tribune
claims good authority from the state
ment that George Gould, with the
Hartman syndicate have control of
the Denver & Rio Grande, and will
coon secure control of the Rio Grande
Western and the Colorado Southern.
1t is known they are buying stock of
the st. Louis & San Francisco road
with view of controlling this proper
ty. With those acquisitions the Gould
Hartmann Rockefeller combination will
control all the principal roads in the
southwest
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21

Nero, at the beginning of the Chris
tian era, mercilessly slaughtered few
hundred Christians and for his crime
became the most execrated ruler that
ever welded the regal scepter. Today
the party despot at Washington is
slaughtering tens of thousands of
Christians in the Philippines for the
sake of carrying out a party policy.
For his crimes does not similar exc
Grafton await him? Is not such repres-
sion of the principles of freedom a di-
rect attack upon our foundation prin-
ciples of government, decidedly
retrogressive step? In material wealth
there has been undoubted progress,
but at the Same time are not thousands
starving because of our mistaken sys,
tenn of economics ?"-Justice.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Kansas House Resents II.

Topeka, Feb. 16.-The house has ex-
plunged from the record the letter from
King Edward VII, of England, ac-
knowledging the receipt of the cable
gram of sympathy sent by the 1egisla.
ture of Kansas upon the death of Queen
Victoria. The acknowledgment was
the printed stereotyped letter which
the king got up for his own subjects.
1t simply extended thanks for the
loyalty and sympathy" shown in the
bereavement of the queen. Weilep, of
Cherokee, made a move that it be
blotted out and the house adopted the
motion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
WeyIer in Command.

Madrid, Feb. 16.-Serious conflicts in
the streets here caused proclamation
of martial law by the government.
Mounted guards patrol the city and
occupy every strategetic point. GEN.
eral Weyler is in command. The
placing of the troops and the fact of
Weyler being at the head caused dis
turbances TO cease.
1t is believed that changes in the
ministry are unavoidable.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
"DEAiINo WITH CRIMES in
CANADA"

CANADA"
| tFrom the Chicago Times-Herald, on
Jan. 18th, 1901
The citizens of the Dominion of Cam
ada have just cause to be proud OF
their record as law-abiding people. The
annual report of the criminal statis-
tics OF the Dominion, which has 8
population of over 5000. 900, shows that
there were only twenty-five indict-
ments for murder in 1899. of which
only two were left without final action.
Eleven of those indicted were hanged,
nine acquitted and three confined as
insane.
Canada is a country of vast proper
tons. Its people are scattered over a
wide stretch of territory, making po-
lice surveillance particularly difficult
and in many districts impossible. Yet
city like New York or Chicago alone
furnishes a far greater criminal list
every year than the whole vast stretch
of territory from Quebec TO Vancou-
YER
The Canadians ascribe their immu-
nifty from crime to the promptness
Will Which, lnttCu Oub
to offenders. When a man is caught
red-handed in the act of robbing an
other he is not released on straw bail
by some justice of the peace from the
slums, to go out and repeat the offense.
Sharp and sure justice is melted out to
criminals of all kinds, the result being
that when the guardians of the public
/ IN h-in huo IN
the bar they are seldom called upon to
hunt him second time.
Furthermore, there are few court de-
| lays in Canada when a criminal is
brought to book They have no Dreyer
cases over there. There are no meth
| DDS whereby Canadian criminals can
have the proceedings stayed from
month to month and from year to year
or after being convicted, appeal from
one court to another until witnesses
die of old age or opportunities for cor
ruption can be found.
Nor does this swift method of treat
| ing with wrong-doers in Canada leave
the innocent unable to properly defend
themselves. They have all the oppor-
tunities and privileges that our own
laws extend to them. The extent to
shield the guilty is lacking-that is all.
The above, taken from the editorial
column of the TimesHerald, gives
some idea Of the immunity from crime
that exists in Canada, and this is one
of the many inducements held out for
Americans to settle in the district
known as Western Canada. The sea-
son of 1901 will see few new sections
of the country opened up for settle
ment. They are attractive in every
respect. 1t is understood that one Of
the best Indian Reserves in the famous
Valley of the Saskatchewan will be
opened up this year, and an invita-
| ton is extended to those desiring
homes to make inquiries. The price OF
the land is said to be nominal. Be-
sides these lands. the several railway
companies have lands to sell; also the
government. For particulars write to
the agent of the government, whose
advertisement appears elsewhere.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
HAVING A HARD TIME.

Duluth Herald; The troubles gath
ering about Mark Hanna and his sub
sidy bill are increasing with the pro
cess of the suns" Nearly every new
senator who has been elected will be
against the subsidy bill if it goes over
to the extra session. The new ones
who have come in the senate this ses-
sion in the place of those removed by
death or to fill vacancies are not in
favor of Hanna's looting scheme.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
DEFRAUDiNG THE sYNDIcATEs

Philadelphia Record: Even the firm
and adamantine gorge of the admins
tration rises at a SOS, 900, 900 river and
harbor bill-not because of its waste
fulness, but because of it's huge inroads
on the surplus at critical season
when all sorts of syndicates are clam
oring for opportunities to empty the
public treasury. Should an executive
veto be deemed essential in the party
interest the innocent would suffer with
the guilty; the important public work
with the petty private job
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
River and Harbor Bill.

Washington. Feb. 1s.-There is a
widespread belief in congress that the
rivers and harbors bill will fail. Mr.
Morgan (Ala.) has made up his mind
to offer the Nicaragua canal bill as a
rider on the rivers and harbors bill
from the committee on commerce and
the prospects are that the measure will
be loaded down with other obstacles
which will seriously handicap it. In
the words of prominent man on the
house side, the rivers and harbors bill
sis cooked. -
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Simmer County Dry.

Wellington, Feb. 15.-All the joints
in this city are closed by order of the
mayor, and it is certain they will not
reopen soon, if ever. One jointist, John
Roth, who has followed the business
here for dozen years, has thrown up
the sponge, shipping his bar and
liquors away. In the smaller towns in
the county, the citizens are organizing
to wipe out the joints. At Peck, near
here. jointist has been compelled to
leave under threats of having his build
ing burned.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
PLAGUE THE INVENTOR.

Lafayette Journal: President McKin-
ley's state papers rise to plague him
perhaps more than those of any other
man who ever sat in the presidential
chair. He said in a message to con-
gress in December, 1897, and repeated
it in another message, April II, 1898:
Recommendation was not a civilized
warfare; it was determination. The
only peace it could beget was that of
the wilderness and the grave" And
that is what his own policy in the Phil
ippines has been doing for the past two
years.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Reconsideration.

Boston, Feb. IA special meeting
of the Typographical Union voted to
call strike on all book and job print
ing plants, the point at issue being that
women typesetters shall be treated as
"journeyrnen competitors" and receive
the same wages as men, and that the
scale applies to the women members as
well as to the men, while the master
printers refuse to accept this interpre-
tation-
About 1880 persons will be affected
by the strike.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Danish Island. Purchase.

Copenhagen, Feb. 16.-The crown
prince of Denmark opposes the sale of
the Danish West Indies to the United
States. At meeting of the represen-
tatives of the budget committee and a
syndicate that desires to develop the
islands, compromise was agreed upon
to the effect that if the matter had not
been settled with the Uneted States be-
fore March 4, the budget committee is
to reject the sale and to support the
scheme of the syndicate. This is syn
dictate bluff
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21

Professor Kaufman of Breslau. Ia
comforting the degree of Phi. d. on
Fraulein Immerwahr, the first woman
who ever passed the examination at
that university. said he earnestly hoped
study among women would continue to
be the exception with the few cap
able individuals, inasmuch as it was
desirable that they should hold to their
primary and noblest calling of wife
and mother.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Mr.. choate Prefers to STAY.

Washington, Feb. 1s.-President Me-
Kinley has informed his cabinet, I'M
officially, that he has heard from Am
bassador Choate and that Mr.. Choate is
not disposed to accept the attorney
generalship. The president made the
tender of this place to Mr.. Choate sew
eral weeks ago, desiring to get the
strongest available man to succeed Mr..
Griggs. Mr.. Choate wishes to continue
as ambassador at the court of st. James,
if that is satisfactory to the President,
and no change at that post is expected.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Revision of Confession.

Washington, Feb. 16.-The Presby-
terrain committee appointed to consider
the revision of the Westminster Con-
fession of Faith has concluded its
labors and adjourned. Two reports
will be presented to the general assem-
bly,. The majority will recommend a
supplemental explanation of the creed'
The minority report will recommend a
supplemental explanatory statement
of doctrine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Raid an Express once.

Tekemah, Neb. Feb. lathe railroad
depot in this town was raided quietly
by unknown parties and eighty-five
cases of liquor, consigned to farmers
and others, and valued at $500, seized
and destroyed. The liquors were stored
in the part of the depot used by the
express company. Tekemah is dry
town, T" under the local option law, and
it is believed party of women took
the law into their own hands and took
this method to stop the shipment Of
liquors into the town.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Wichita Next Year

Woodward, o. T., Feb. 16.-A. I.
Wilson was elected president of the
Oklahoma Live Stock Association;
George W. Crowell, first vice president;
George W. Boyd, of Mangum, second
vice president: John j. Gerlach, of
Woodward. treasurer, and w. E. Boil
ton, secretary. Wichita was selected
as the place for holding the conven-
ton next year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
George of York And Cornwall.

London, Feb. 1s.-The Forthcoming
tour of the Duke and Duchess of Corn
wall and York is expected to last six
months, according to the Times. The
Ophir will touch at Gibralter, Malta,
Colombo and Singapore, at ports in all
the Australian colonies and at two
ports in New Zealand. The homeward
voyage will include Mauritius, the
Cape and possibly the West Indies, as
well as Canadian port.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Buck-Madden Contest.

Topeka, Feb. 1s.-Dennis Madden
has established his right to the seat as
Judge of the Lyon-Chase-Coffee distri It
court. The special senate committee
appointed to hear the Buck-Madden
contest, filed report declaring that a
recount of the ballots failed to show
enough illegal votes to change the
result and recommended that Madden
be declared the regularly elected judge.
The senate adopted the report.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21

London, Feb. 16.-A. J. Balfour,
the government leader, admitted that
the government had not forseen that
the leaders of the Beers would be $50
i'll advised in their own interests and
in the interests of their country as to
continue the struggle. The Beers
know that free institutions will be
introduced as soon as possible. We
have put our hand to the pillow and
be continued until it comes to the only
conclusion consistent with our honor. =
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
PROSPERITY IN KANSAS CITY
TINES"

Hundreds of idle men are walking
the streets of Kansas City in search
of employment, while women and
girls cannot be found to fill the posi-
lions available. The latter are wanted
principally for homework.
F. B. Howard, in charge of the state
employment bureau in this sity, is
fairly overrun with applications fled
by day laborers, mechanics, bookkeep-
ers and clerks, but house wives apply
to him in vain for women. cooks,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
PLENTY OF WORK FOR WILL
LIAM.

Houston Post: Now that Emperor
William of Germany has been made a
British field marshal possibly his uncle
would be exceedingly glad to have him
fill a long-felt want in South Africa.
No section of the world appears to be
so in need of military talent at present
as that corner of the British domin-
IONS
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
LIbrarle, at ARMY Posts.

One Of the important developments
the last year in Y. NJ. c. A. work has
been the introduction of library privi-
leges to the men at the army posts.
Through the generosity of friends IS
travelling libraries have been secured,
each containing from 60 to 100 vol
umes. One of these libraries is sent to
a post or to regular camp. and re-
mains three or four weeks. when 1t Is
moved to another post and is in turn
replaced by a new library
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21

Professor Koch, as a result of his
investigations in Java and New
Guinea, makes the statement that he
has reached the conclusion that gnat
bites introduce parasites into the hui
man system. The germs, he thinks,
are not passed by the gnat from one
human body to another, but that they
are developed in the gnat.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Birds Migrate a. Night.

William PENIS hat. surrounded by
electric lights on the tall tower OF
Philadelphia'ss city hail. is a fatal at
traction for migratory birds. In two
autumn months 452 dead wild birds.
of many varieties, were gathered
around the hat The testimony Of that
hat is that birds migrate all through
the night, and that nothing stops them
except a hard rain.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Public Beoue,t, I'm America.

During the year just ended the total
amount of requests in this country
was s62. 461 ,644, against s79,749,965 in
1899. The amount given to educational
institutions in 1900 was $34, .644; to
charities. s13.621,722; to churches. S.
s00.605; to museums and art galleries,
50. 145.S33, and to libraries s2,s61.ooo.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
percentage of Worlds Population.

The population of the whole world
is about 1900, 100000. OF this Great
Britain and her colonies has 2o.9 per
cent; Russia, 500 per cent; France, 6.S
per cent; United States, 81 per cent;
Germany, as per cent; Austro-Hun-
gary, 81 per cent; Italy, % per cent
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21

Peoria Herald Transcript: 1t is now
up to Andrew Carnegie to devise some
thing in the way of armor plate mir
rors and bar fixtures which will fill the
bill out in Kansas. There is a fortune
in the business if it be pushed imme-
diately.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
H0,d,nr Consumption I'm CHECK:

Deaths from consumption in Phila-
delphia are estimated to be one-third
less than they were fifteen years ago.
The health authorities say the i'm
provement is due to their continuous
battle against the disease.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Money Preserved from Third Century.

Money Preserved from Third Century.
At small village near Namur
discovery has been made of $50 pieces
of Roman money in a perfect state Of
preservation. belonging to the third
and fourth centuries, and bearing eff
figies of no fewer than Is different en-
perors and expresses.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Prohibiting Sunday sale. I'm Ohio

Prohibiting Sunday Safes In Ohio.
An effort is being made in some
places in Ohio to enforce the law
against selling goods on Sunday. A
grocer at Ashtabula was arrested and
put under bond of $500 for selling &
hound of coffee on Sunday
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
Sound Waves.

Experts say that the invent on of
Professor Pupin will make telephon-
ing around the world possibility. In
other words, the possibility is now 3
probability.-Boston Glob-.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
FIFTY-sEvENTH DAY.

The senate authorized the Indian committee
to visit Indian reservations and schools during
the recess OF congress.
Senator Cannon. by forced roll calls held the
senate for three hours, and later in the COM
mittee Of the whole, wasting most Of the day,
to force an extra session. It is now clear that
the opposition to the shipping bill led by Sena-
tor Teller, will not be permitted to come to a
vote at this session. Senator Teller announced
that determination. Senator Aldrich dehed
the opposition by declaring that the business of
the senate w"uld proceed according to the
wishes of the majority.
The senate passed the agricultural appropria-
tion bill.
It is expected that tine river and harbor bill,
when it reaches the house will be loaded with
the Nicaraguan canal bill, as q rider. If this
proves true 1t endangers the passage Of that
bill at this session.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21

Secretary Hitchcock has prepared a bill and
and sent it to congress which provides for re-
ferring the Cherokee claim on account of monies
expended in their removal to Indian Territory
to the court of claims, with right of appeal to
the supreme court.
Mr. Reeder (KansaS) has been selected with
Ray(N. W and Barham (Cal) to complete the
bill, which has been favorably reported upon
to reclaim arid lands,