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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-04-11

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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-04-11

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-28

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-28

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point Of destination.
In addition to this a con-
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return will be given to the
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a total of ten grand prizes.
The RULES ordinarily
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-28
The Plan

The St. Paul Globe has
decided to send six people
to any point in the United
States which they may Sc
lect on an enjoyable outing
tour. The readers Of the
paper are to decide who
shall go. In every issue
of the paper will appear an
official coupon, which, when
filled out and voted as des-
lgnated and deposited in the
ballot box in the business
office Of the Globe, will be
counted for the person
voted for,
The six persons receiving
the most votes, as stated,
will be given their choice
of trip.
Remember--any point in
the United States may be
selected.
To-for Instance
New York.
Boston.
Baltimore.
Philadelphia.
Washington.
New Orleans.
Los Angeles.
San Francisco.
Seattle.
Salt lake City.
Denver.
Niagara Falls.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Prosperous Year For Coal Men.

Pittsburg, Kas., July 16.-Thc coal
production of Kansas for 1902 was 81
go, 433 tons, an increase over 1901 of
444, OLE tons, and an increase over 1900
of 960,1 tons. As to the value of the
product, there is no way of finding
what it is, as there is no law compel
ling the operators to give the selling
price of their product. There we're, in
1902, 9.315 men and boys employed i'll
and around the coal mines of the state,
earning 81, SAT, S0s.l6 This is S457 OF
for each employc. The report of D. L.
Casselman, state mine inspector, shows
that while the production was nearly
one million tons greater, over 1000
less men were employed in 1902 than
i'll 1900, SO that the year was II very
prosperous one both for the miners
and the operators.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
unerowded Professions.

At the convention OF the American
Medical Association in New Orleans,
Dr. Billings drew attention to the fact
that the medical colleges are gradual
ing annually from 10000 to 1880
physicians, when the actual need of
this country call for only about $500.
1t seems a pity that some of these
graduates have not entered other pro-
LESSONS that are not so crowded and
can offer better prospects of remuner-
alton. Sanitary engineering, naval ar
chitecture and the comparatively new
professions of forestry. for instance,
are not oyercrowded and there will
soon be a great demand for really
competent automobile engineers, men
who combine with mechanical ability
a thorough knowledge of gas and other
engines that are competing for the
control of the field.-Scientific Amer
lean
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23


demoniac energy.
and twice Sylvia was nearly thrown
from her seat The wheels savagely
ground the rails at every curve, and
made them shrek in agony. One side
of the engine first mounted upward,
like ship upon wave. then sudden
ly sank, as if engulfed.
Yet she dared not slacken speed
The cry of Time! Time! Time!"
was dinned into her ears with every
stroke of the pisom. Her train was
but one cog on ole wheel in the vast
and complicated machine of transpor-
tation. One slip of that cog would
rudely jar the whole delicate mechan-
ism from coast to coast.
The train dashed into Carbonate,
and Sylvia made out ahead the glow
ing headlight of the eastbound train,
side-tracked and waiting for the be-
lated overland" Suppose that the
switch were open, She knew that it
must be closed, but the sickening
possibility presented itself over and
over again, with its train of horrors,
in the brief space of a few seconds
She held her breath and half closed
her eyes as they Numbered down
upon the other train; and when the
engine lurched little as it struck the
switch her heart leaped into her
mouth. The suspense was mercifully
short, though, for in an instant, they
were past the danger. and once more
securing the open country.
In spite of the half pipe of sand
which she let run as they climbed
Beechtree Hill-the last of the ITALIA
hulas-it seemed to Sylvia as if the
locomotive had lost all its vim. Yet
the speed was slow, only by contrast,
and in reality was terrific. At last,
though, the big level of the Barren
Plains was gained, and for forty
than thirty minutes-they swept
along like an albatross on the crest
of gale, smoothly and almost noise
lessly in the deadening snow.
Sylvia suspected that the engine
was doing no better right here than
it did every night of the year. Yet,
when she glanced from the time table
to the clock, as they clicked over the
switch points of Melrose she was cha
grined to discover that they were still
eight minutes behind. They were
now approaching the long twelve
mile descent of Four Mile Creek, with
a beautiful level stretch at the bottom
through the Spirit River Valley.
Sylvia came to grim determination.
Half a dozen times previously she
had wondered, in her unfamiliarity
with heavy trains, if she were falling
short of or exceeding the safety limit;
and half a dozen times she had been
on the point of appealing to the fire.
man. But her pride, even in that
momentous crisis, had restrained her.
But just before they struck the grade
the responsibility of her determine
tion-contrary, too. to her husbands
advice-seemed too much to bear
alone.
Ito be continued.)
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
HOW NATIVES SEND NEWS.
Peculiar System Of Long Distance
Communication in Africa.

-
A system of long-distance communl-
cation used by the native tribes OF
South Africa in the territory lying
west of Natal, is described by a re-
turned missionary, the Rev. Y. a.
Rideout. A drum composed OF
gourd with dried kid skin stretched
across it is beaten with a padded
drumstick and gives forth souno
which is carried across the valleys
and glens to the next village, where
it is interpreted by another guard.
There is always guard on duty 10
receive these messages. II the mes.
sage is for distant part he repeats
it on his gourd, so it is carried from
village to village, with very little loss
of time, until it reaches the person
for whom it is intended. During the
war between the British and the Beers
those who were hundreds of miles dis
tant from the scene of hostilities got
all the news with surprising rapidity
and knew every victory and every re-
verse which took place in the Orange
Free State and the Transvaal. In
several instances the news came by
the gourd air lines hours ahead OF the
message by field telegraph. The same
system is common to many OF the
African tribes and the. secret is al
ways confined to the few trained men
in each village. There appears to be
no difficulty in sending any kind of
message by the code, and it was just
as easy for the operator, compare
lively, as it would be for the man
who sits at the key in telegraph
Office. DIR. Rideout has known of mes
sages being sent nearly 1000 miles.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
The aMiIIionaire MaIadx.,

Men who have sacrificed youth and
health, scrimped their families and
injured their digestions in the ac-
quirement of a pile often think they
are public benefactors, and that hui
manity in general owes them a debt
of gratitude for being SO rich. In
consequence they resent as a cruel
injustice the fatigue, chagrin and
newspaper notoriety that money in.
variably brings in its trail 1t would
be about as consistent for little boy
who had gorged himself upon purloin.
ed apples to feel injured when an
ayenging stomachache followed glut
tony.-Eliot Gregory in The Century.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Humor of Debate In italy.

Death through strangulation of a
sailor in an Italian prison who had
been subjected for no apparent just
reason to the torture of the strait
waistcoat was the subject of heat
ed debate in the Italian chamber of
deputies recently. Toward the end of
the discussion a socialist deputy
brought the house down" by advising
all the ministers of the Italian gov
eminent to spend few years in
prison, in order that some definite
knowledge might be obtained regard
ing prison abuses. This, he said, was
the only way in which such abuses
could be satisfactorily terminated. An
other socialist deputy created still
further merriment by stating that he
knew a great deal about the interior
Of Italian prisons, having had ample
opportunity of making acquaintance
with them during an enforced sojourn
therein at the expense Of the Italian
government.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
THE TEST OF TIME.
Useful Instead of Ornamental Are the
Things Which Survive It.

Useful Instead OF Ornamental Are the
Things Which Survive It.
The tomb of Moses is unknown; but
the traveller may yet Stake his
thirst at the well of Jacob. The gor-
geous palace of the wisest and
wealthiest of monarchs, with its
cedar and its gold and its ivory, yea,
even the great Temple of Jerusalem,
hallowed by the visible glory of the
Deity himself, are gone; but Solo
mons reservoirs are as perfect as
the Holy City not one stone is left
upon another; but the Pool of Beth
saba commands the pilgrims rever-
ence at the present day. The col
umns of Persepolis are moldering in
dust. but it's cisterns and aQueducts
remain to challenge our admiration.
The gilden house of Nero is a mass
of ruins; but the Aqua Claudia still
pours into Rome its limpid stream.
The Temple of the Sun at Tadmore
in the wilderness, has long since fall
en- into decay; but its fountain yet
sparkles as brightly in the morning
sunlight as when, in days of yore,
thousands of worshipers thronged its
lofty colonnades. Thus it is that
time, through the instrumentality of
successive generations of men, per-
mits the merely ornamental to crum-
BILE away to worthless ruin while the
truly useful is preserved in all it's
pristine greatness.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
irYou are 4 brave little woman


it was necessary to defy death on the
curves and grades ahead, defy death
she would.
The sticky snow on her glass now
cut off Sylvia's vision ahead. Another
train ahead, an open switch, fallen
rock or tree-one awful crash, and the
engine would become a gridiron for
her tender flesh. while the palatial
cars behind, now SO full of warmth
and light and comfort. would sudden
ly be turned into mere shapeless heaps
of death. Yet Sylvia cautiously opened
her door little, and held it firmly
against the hurricane while she
brushed off the snow. At the same
time she noticed that the headlight
was burning dim.
1.-The headlight is covered with
snowi" she called to the fireman.
The young fellow instantly drew his
cap tigher, braced himself and swung
open his door. At the first cruel blast,
the speed of which was that of the
gale added to that Of the train, he
closed his eyes and held his breath ;
then, taking his life in his hands. he
slipped out upon the wet. treacherous
running board Of the pitching lcccme
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
LEO NO BETTER; NO WORSE.
At The End OF The Second Week OF
His IIIness

Rome, July aO.-"I cannot say the
pope is better, but he is no worse"
In these words DIR. Lapponi summed
up for the Associated Press the pom
tiff's condition at the end of the second
week of his illness, in all the varying
periods of which the pontiff has scarce
ly had a qnieter day and the official
bulletin declares him to be little less
depressed. After Il night during which
stimulants and nursing restored him to
a fairly good condition the pope com
planned of soreness due to the many
days he had passed in bed. To relieve
this and to humor him the patient was
allowed to sit in his armchair for
short time, with apparent good effect.
Doctors Lapponi and Mazzoni abso-
lutely deny the statement published in
the United States that Pope Leo is suf-
fering from cancer and ridicule it as
an ignorant invention. They say they
are sure that DR.. Rossoni takes the
same view.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Captain j. A. Mcclure.

Junction City, KS, July 2O.-Captain
j. A. Mcclure, who persisted in the
flames of the burning sanitarium at
Bonner Springs, was one of tho Oldest
residents of Junction City, and was
formerly one of the best known law
in junction City in 1854, when Kansas
was still a territory, and figured prom
inently in the early history of the
state. He attained his title as captain
during the civil war, through which
he served in the Union army. He had
also seen service during the war with
Mexico.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23

The mighty ones who wrenched the world
with pain,
Far in the past.
Attila raging of heaven. and bold Tanner
lane
Where are they now?
The dust of centuries old Time has cast
Above each brow.
Where roams the spirit of the Norman?
Where
The untamed soul
That from the sea. a lion from its lair,
Arose 'gainst England? Where the BAN
ner fair
The world saw wave
Ger Harold, resting in mans common
goal
A narrow grave?
What profits Alexander, now, that he
Bore ruin. sorrow, death and misery?
The grim phalanx WHICH irresistibly
Dust-all is dust! The war hags all are
furled,
Gone every shield!
Man lifts his voice and fills the universe
| For one short hour
| With blatant vauntings of his sword or
purse:
For God a sneer: for destiny curse.
But when it falls man withers at its pow
And bows him low.
Mans arm is strong: his footstep shakes
the land:
His iron grasp
May hold mighty nation. but his hand
Withers and falls when stops the running
sand
In old Times glass:
| Deaths finger touch-a shudder-cry-a
gasp,
The strong ones pass.
Where is the glory of the sword and
shield?
The bright spears rust:
Fond lovers stray where once the legions
wheeled,
The stolid piowman turns the battlefield;
The olive tree,
Green badge of peace, may from Cae-
sar's dust
Spring TRANQUILITY.
Oh, you. who would immortallze your
name,
Meier soulless cast
Your brothers blood upon the pyre of
shame
And call the dread black smoke immortal
famei
Though reared unseen.
The sodded mound white marble will out
last.
And still be green.
San Francisco Bulletin.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Must Deny Anarchy.

Washington, July 16.-The state de-
partment has given notice that it has
construed the naturalization law passed
by the last congress as requiring it to
reject all certificates of naturalization
issued after July 5rd, 1908, which fail
TO set forth the fact that the person
naturalized is not opposed to all or
ganized governments, and likewise is
not affiliated with any organization SO
opposed, also that he does not advocate
the killing of officers of the govern
mcnt
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23

tive, made his way forward. and
cleared the glass. Sylvia waited with
bated breath until his head appeared
in the door again.
Fire up. pleased" she exclaimed,
nervously, for the steam had fallen
off pound
As the twinkling street lamps of
Nancyville came into view, Sylvia blew
a long blast. But the wind. like some
ferocious beast of prey. bounced Upon
the sound and throttled it in the teeth
of the whistle. One-third of one hun
dred and forty-nine miles, was now
gone and still the Overland was ten
minutes behind and it seemed as if no
human power could make up the time.
They were winding through the ITALIA
hula Hills, where the road was as
crooked as a serpent's trail. The en-
CINE jerked yiciously from side to side,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23

Topeka, July 17.-An erroneous and
damaging statement i'll regard TO the
alleged decrease in number of cattle,
swine and horses in Kansas during the
past year has appeared in a prominent
stock journal of Kansas City and has
called forth vigorous denial from the
Kansas state board of agriculture.
Correct returns show an increase of
ZIG, 900 cattle over the 1902 returns.
There is also an increase of 100, 900 in
the number of swine, and 10, 900 in the
list of horses
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
THE PoPE,S PREDICTION.
Confers Upon The Secretary or state
Enlarged Authority,

Rome, July is.-At the festival of
the Carmelite Madonnsaud because of
Pope Leo's particular' c 6TSotion to this
Madonna, special prale,s on behalf of
his holiness were offcfed in all the
churches after the celebration of mass.
The pontiff's own prediction that his
death, if it were to result from the
present illness, would occur upon that
day was recalled with emotion.
The pope was sufficiently at ease to
receive Cardinal Rampolla, and his
holiness conferred upon him the en-
larged authority made necessary by
his illness
The pontiff seems to have had an in
tuition that while he lies dying Car
dinal Rampolla's adversaries are be-
ginning to take advantage of his
tottering power to pull down the idol
which until now they worshippcd, SO
his holiness leaves nothing unattempt-
ed to SHOW the world up to the last
moment how much he trusts his secre-
tary of state.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
VIII Not Dl. urb Established Routes.

Washington, July 2O-Thc postoftice
department las issued a statement that
it is not the purpose of the department
to disturb ural routes already estab-
lished uni SIS they are manifestly I'M
necessary. out that rs long as all of the
routes that are asked for cannot be
established because of the lack of suffi-
cient money, the routes that will sup
ply the greater number of families
should certainly have preference.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Counterfeit So Gold Pieces.

st. Joseph, Mo-, July 2O.-A kettle
full of counterfeit So gold pieces was
captured in Il 6ricllyard in the out
description has been put into circtila-
ton recently. Several men and two
women have been convicted of counter
feiting here, but new spurious coin
continues to be issued
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Strike Insurance.

Louisville, Ky, July 16.-The Strike
Insurance company growing out of the
discussions at the recent meetings OF
the Manufacturers association in New
Orleans is now Il fact, having been put
on permanent footing by the estab-
lishment of an underwriting bureau
hare
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23

New York, July 1.-THE grand jury
in New York concluded investigation
of the labor troubles and returned in
dictments against Samuel ]. Parks,
Richard Garvel and Timothy Mccarthy,
walking delegates, who are charged
wife cxtortion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Report Was Misleading.

Washington, July 14.-The statement
of the potato crop made in the monthly
crop report sent out by the agricul-
tural department has proved somewhat
misleading. The total estimated acre
age fer potatoes exclusive of sweet
potatoes for the entire country is
>, GIG. SS5 acres.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Return To Work.

New York, July eo.-The signing Of
the arbitration plan of the building
trades and an agreement on the wage
scale for another year by the Brick
layers Union, it is said, insures the
return to work today of $4,000 men and
the end of the building trades tic-up.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
strikers attempt to wreck.

Chicago, July 2o.-A mob gathered
around the factory of the Kellogg fac
tory at Congress and Green and at
tempted to wreck the building. Many
of the windows were smashed and dam
age amounting to $1,000 was done to
the plant.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
A Puzzle

He-Here's puzzle for you.
She-Let's have it.
He-Give a woman a bunch of nbo.
tographs to examine, including one
of her own, which one will she look Al
the longest, and why?"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23

Minneapolis, July 16.-Bishop Isaac
W. Joyce, president of the Epworth
League, does not believe the Christian
Endeavor suggestion for the amalga-
nation of the Epworth League and
Baptist Young Peoples Union is prac-
ticable.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
PavroII OfK.n.as Roads.

Topeka. July 16.-There are 1900
people employed regularly by the rail-
roads of Kansas. Their average wages
are s5s5. 90 Tie total amount paid
them in Kansas alone last year aggre-
,eated $40. 364. 5s4.57.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Services Not Needed.

La Junta. Colo, July 2O.-When the
2O3 Santa Fe shopmen who struck here
because of the non-arriral of their pay
checks, reported for work, they were
longer required.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Oklahoma Wheat.

Topeka, July 1.-two car loads OF
the Oklahoma wheat crop of 1908 were
sold here for seventy cents Il bushel
The grain weighed 5e55 pounds to the
bushel and is the 6rst of the new crop
marketed n Kansas
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
Parksvile College Remembered.

Parlssville, Mo-, july 17.-President
L. McAfee of Parlssville college an
nounces an offer from D. X. Pearsons
of Chicago of SIS, 900 on condition that
S75, 900 additional be raised. Mr.. Pear
sons makes this gift in memory of the
late DIR. John A. McAfee
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
viii Not receive Jews, Petition.

Washington, July lit is learned
here that the state department has
received "a reply from Russia stating
that it neither would receive nor con-
slider the matter of the Jewish petition
on the subject of the Kishineff incident.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
strikers Arrue yyith Revolver..

Clinton, Mass, July 16.-A body of
striking stonemasons who had been
employed on the Wachusetts dam,
armed with revolvers marched among
the other worlllnen and with threats
compelled $50 to stop work.