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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
BURIED in BEAUTIFUL SPOT
Grave Of William Penn Situated In
One of EngIand's Most Charm.
ing Localities.

BY deep lanes which are jeweled
with violets in spring, through rich
glades of lockwood, pilgrims come
every year to quaint, high-roofed,
sreen-robed meeting house called Jor-
dams. In the rough little burial ground
behind it lies William Penn, the most
famous of all "the people called Quak-
ers," the founder of the state of Penn
sylvania and the author of a book
which has not yet come into its own.
All this country is rich in memories
of the great work of English litera-
ture. "Once to these silent woods
young Milton came. The greatest
man since Milton" according to sound
Wing doctrine, Edmund Burke, chose
to live hard by in that house which
he hung from top to bottom with pic
lures" and whose splendor Johnson
was content mot to envy, but ad-
mire."
Americans, the most jealous pill
grims of the modern world, are nat
urally foremost in their devotion to
states, says the London Telegraph.
The spirit Of William Penn, powerful
in Benjamin Franklin, counted for
much in shaping the destinies of the
young American republic. 1t would
not be difficult to trace its influence
in some of the statesmen who guided
the United States through the dangers
Of the next century. The reverence
of America is natural, and it may well
explain the project of which we hear,
to remove PENIS ashes to an Ameri-
can shrine. But an explanation is not
a justification. 1t is neither vulgar
jealousy nor unreasoning sentiment
which demands that the grave at Jor
Sans should be left undisturbed.
No place in America could have the
same fitness as the humble burial
ground at Jordans, with its memories
Of the days when the followers of
George Fox, prosecuted and insulted
by the powers of the day, were fight
ing their battle for freedom and the
dignity Of man. In England the fight
was won, and to England belongs the
dust of the victors. If any other coun-
try than the land of his birth and his
death, of his work and of his suffer
ings, is to claim the shrine of Penn,
not America alone, but all the civilized
world might well appeal. To him as
much as to it's founder, George Fox,
the Society Of Friends owes its power,
and the strenuous philanthropy of the
Friends has left its mark all over the
world. The poor in every country,
the savage, the criminal, and the luna
tic, owe much to the spirit of viii,
liam Penn.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
Paris Postman,s Trim

Extraordinary persistence has been
shown by Paris postman in trying
to get what he considered to be his
share of Christmas boxes. He was
removed from one Paris district to
another in the course of last year. At
the tipping season he was allotted a
share of the pooled Christmas boxes
for that quarter corresponding to the
time he had been at work there. But
he contended that by new resolution
of the Postmen's association he was
entitled to full share, as if he had
served in the district the whole
twelvemonth. He sued the associa-
ton before justice of the peace and
won his case. The association appeal.
ed, and the decision was reversed.
The postman counter-appealed several
times, always unsuccessfully until he
at last brought his momentous action
before the court of cessation, the
equivalent of the judicial committee
of the house of lords. There his ap-
peal was argued by no less a counsel
than Maitre Mornand, who was one
of the leading advocates in the Drey.
fus revision case before the court OF
cessation, and equally great lawyers
spoke on the other side. The court
finally decided that the postman was
entitled to no larger share of last
years Christmas boxes than he re.
received.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
chlIdren,s Art In japan.

Everywhere in old Nippon, the home
Of happy childhood. on beautiful sun.
ny days can be seen quiet, tiny kids
playing at making sand pictures. The
sand is bought in small boxes of four
or five colors, primitive colors, and
these infinitely cheap. These tiny
Japs for hours strew first a skeleton
outline of the picture they have in
their minds eye; then comes the fill.
ing in, with coloring and blending.
Needless to say, some of these tots
have an artistic power which would
have made Leonardo da Vinci himself
think them little witches or devils.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
Domlknows.

II you wish completely to mystify a
friend and convince him that you are
possessed of strange occult powers,
just learn this formula concerning the
good old game of dominoes and you
will always be able to tell the mark
ings of any domino that, unseen by
you, he may select at random from a
pile. Tell him to multiply either of
the numbers of spots by five, add
seven, double the result and fianally
add the second number oE spot and
then inform you what the sum is. You
now subtract IA and the remaining
digits are the number of spots on his
domino Suppose he selects the domi.
no marked 3 and 6. Following your
directions, he multiplies the by s
(15), adds (22), doubles (44), adds
the other number, and tells you that
the sum is so. You now subtract Ia
from so, leaving S6. And the two
digits, and 6, are the number OF
spots his domino is marked with.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
Vast Unknown London.

There is not a single man living
who knows all London, who has been
through every street, or into every
crescent square and terrace. This
seems hard saying, and 1t is one
which visitors from abroad or the col
onies find it impossible to believe,
but nevertheless it is absolutely and
incontrovertibly true. Let any one take
a map of London and try to mark in
red all the streets which he can hon
estly say he has visited and he will
have to confess that he knows but lit
tue of the metropolis of the world
and that the red marked streets are
but as nothing compared with those
he has had to leave untouched.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
JAS. l. STAMPER,
Auctioneer

Don't claim date for your sale until you have
seen or correspended with him. He not only has
the natural qualifications for a good auctioreer
But is well posted on qualities and prices Of liv
stock, and all merchantabe commodities and has
the mack of getting long prices for the property
which means success Tor you as well as for himself
Informtton in regard to billing and conducting
sales furnishedon application. Terms reasonable
and satisfaction guaranteed
We hereby recommend Mr.. Stamper to any
need Of his service.
LOUIS BoEnLER Cashier, Meade State Bank
f. W. CURL Cashier, First National Bank
Meade Kansas
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
The Gift of Memory.

A writer in an exchange speaks in
warm admiration of the power pos
sessed by certain people of remem-
bering faces and again recognizing
persons they have met in the most
casual way. He regards 1t as a great
gift and one much to be desired. 1t
is a gift, but it is by no means rare;
is, in fact, very common possession.
What is far more rare, and not less
to be desired, is the ability. to asso-
ciate the name of the person with his
face. Innumerable are the men and
women who remember faces well-too
well, alas-who find it trial of their
lives that the names belonging to the
persons identified by their eye vanish
from their memory utterly at the crit
ical moment.
1t is indeed desirable thing to be
able to recognize instantly the people
one has met, but only when this abil-
ity is accompanied with fairly trust
worthy memory for names. Other
wise it may be a questionable gift and
even an affliction. For you may offer
acceptable excuses for not recogniz-
ing acquaintance at sight, but when
you have friends of long standing
whom you encounter almost daily
and then forget their names-for that
there is no apology that will not be
received coldly and with suspicion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
w. H. Tracy
The Live Stock Auction.
eSP.
Pratt Kansas

If you contemplate having public sale al
any time or any place don't fall to write OIL
wire VIII. Tracy at Pratt, Kansas. He is
an up-to-date auctioneer and ha no other
business, consequently he devotes his entire
time in keeping himself posted in all lines Of
property he may have to sell and is a com
petent judge of valves of all classes of live
stock. No man is fitted to sell your stock un-
less he is posted on quality and values. is
the high dollar for you means a reputation
for him, 2nd, he will work for you from tn
time your sale is billed until the last article is
sold. His terms are reasonable and can be
had atThe Meade State Bank, First Nation
al Bank or Fowler State Ban
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
DON'T BE A SLOvEN
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE CAN AZ.
FORD TO BE UNTIDY.
Possession Of Really Brilliant Mental
Power Even Cannot Exempt Pos
SCISSOR from Proper Care
of the Person.

No man or woman is great enough
to be slovenly.
! have known-and of course you
have-many people who felt justified
in developing their minds and ignor-
ing their bodies, because they thought
the mental was so much more import
ant than the physical, writer in the
Colorado Springs Gazette says.
think that is very wrong out
look.
No mental power, however great,
exempts its possessor from the care
Of the person.
A brilliant, slovenly person may
succeed In life, but only by using
twice as much force as he need have
expended. He will never go so far as
the man or woman who takes care to
add prepossessing appearance to a
prepossessing mind.
A few months ago was much
pleased to hear that young minister
for whose brilliance l had great re-
spect had been honored by a call
from a small town where he was
preaching to one Of Boston's most
famous and beautiful churches
Yesterday l was saddened by hear
ing that his resignation had been
asked and given and that he had left
the church and gone back to a small
parish.
And the reason was simply this:
He did not keep his linen clean.
A small thing, you say?
l don't know A very large one, /
should think, if it had the power to
come between the congregation and
his message.
A woman in our town whose sloven-
liness about her dress and her person
has made her a town character took
the civil-service examination recently
She is as clever as she is slovenly
and passed at the head of the list
She has never received an appoint
ment. 1t is an open secret that her
failure to do so is simply because the
officials will not have a person of her
disgraceful appearance in a public
position.
In the college from which l was
graduated the commencement part is
one of the prizes for which the best
students strive. In awarding it last
year a girl of the highest scholarship
was passed over for one who had re-
ceived less excellent rank because the
first girl was nothing more nor less
than sloppy" The college was not
willing that girl of untidy appear
ance-no matter how brilliant her
mind, no matter how clever a speech
she might have made-should repre-
zen. it on its commencement plat
form.
A shopkeeper might have an excel
| lent stock of articles, but if his win
dow show were thick with dust and
his doorway choked with litter the
public would be pretty apt to pass by
and go to the more attractive shop
down the street, though the articles
sold there were no better or even
scarce as good.
Any one who thinks the contents
of his mind ought to make friends and
win success for him, no matter how
slovenly and unattractive his person
may be, is just such shopkeeper.
The examples l have cited have
been extreme cases, of course.
But on that account they are the
better object lessons to remind any
of us who may sometimes be careless
in some slight particular that it never
pays.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
Special Offer for 80 Days.

We make the special offer below
for the next 80 days as present to
our friends. Any subscriber renew
ing his subscription to the News for
a year, and sending us another pre-
paid subscription at the same time
will get both for $I.75. Anyone
sending us renewal for year and
two new subscribers will get the
theee for Sa.5o. Any subscriber
who sends US four prepaid subscrib-
ers we will credit with one years
subscription. The reductions made
are to pay our subscriber who spends
the time and trouble to gel new
subscribers.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13

FLOUR MILL For SALE-I5o bar
rel -four mill, roller process, for sale,
will consider good land in exchange,
located in Indiana, doing good BUSH
ness, $40, 900, Address,
Pratt Realty Co. Pratt Kansas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13

Whats the matter?" asked Benson
as he came in to dinner "You look
as if you'd been crying. There, there,
don't start it again-it's all right
dear I'm not late, am 1? I'm sure the
dinner is the finest / ever"
1T isn't yo-you or the di-dinner-"
Then it can't amount to much.
You're going to surprise me with one
of those great buildings! There isn't
any one in the block who can touch
you when 1t comes to making"
ITS that h-horrid Simpson woman.
She's the meanest thing"
"Of course che is. Every one
knows it but her idiot husband! And
when it comes to looks, she can't
touch a little woman l know Now,
what is. her latest crime"
81 went over to see the things she
bought downtown yesterday and-and
then | was going to show her mine
that got abroad and and"
"Just like her not to be impressed
by the bargains Of art you bought
She probably couldn't appreciate
81 didn't show them to her. The
mean thing has bought some of the
same things | have-got them yes.
terday in the-the bargain Easements
Her string of Venetian beads is iden.
teal with mine an-and her lace
oh, George, her lace is better bar.
gain! | was so mad l wouldn't show
her a thing | had"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13

Logs OF tne BRUSH upper en-.
A hundred thousand dollars is the
value of some thousand dogs owned
by the upper ten in Britain, and some
of these dogs are worth $4,000 apiece.
Pomeranians have maids somewhat
after the manner of babies of wealth.
These maids carry along pasteurized
milk, filtered water, cologne atomizers,
meat extract for warm beef tea,
breasts of chicken and choicest pieces
of beef; gold, ivory and silver tooth
and hair brushes and combs; lace
handkerchiefs, gloves, shoes, alcohol
stoves for warming food, jeweled feed
ing spoons and an assortment of ex-
pensive colored ribbons. These little
dogs go about in automobiles, sitting
or lying in silk-lined boxes upon pill
lows of softest down, and are covered
with quilts of eiderdown.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
Understands II Better

"She says she likes football better
now"
YES; stranger in the stand got so
excited that he Rugged her every time
there was a spectacular play"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
O A. Langford

will cry sales in Meade and adjoin-
ing counties. l have had two year,
of successful work, and solicit yous
patronage. Call phone 4 on line Tor
Fowler, Kansas, or address me at
Fowler on r. +. d. No. 2.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
Ia TOILETTE )
Weekly Magazine
The Great Progressive Weekly

The are many reasons why
you should read what it says 50
times each year. 1t is free to
tell the truth. 1t will oppose the
encroachment of special priv
ileges upon the peoples rights.
1t will call the roll on public men
and measures and inform you
who your congress work and
vote. 1t will crilicise the execu-
tive branch of government from
the highest to the lowest, if in
its Judgment the peoples in
terests are not protected. It
will spread the gospel of ideal
home life through the Woman's
Department. 1t will be conser-
vativc when good things are to
conserved, and radical when bad
things are to be exposed,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13

Subsequent events frequently DEM
onstrate that the bride was the best
man at the wedding.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-01-13
Impressiing
Mrs. Simpson

I'm glad | got ahead of Mrs. Simp-
son for once" remarked Mrs. Benson
at the breakfast table. "She was
down town all day yesterday doing
her Christmas shopping. She looked
ten years older when she came home.
Last year she said
George, you are not paying the
slightest attention to what l say Put
down that paper and listen"
Go on, my dear. / just want to
look at the headlines while you talk"
well, last year when | came home
from battling with the crowds the
day before Christmas she said she
couldn't see how woman of intelli-
gence could leave her presents till the
last moment. | suppose she meant it
for a compliment, but it sounded
George"
Yes, my dear"
"You haven't heard word said"
you misjudge me. 1 heard dis
tinctly"
What did say?"
"Um. You said Mrs. Simpson was
woman of intelligence and did her
shopping the day before Christmas"
II did not"
Benson put the paper aside. He rec
ognized the danger signal-mosture
in his wife's eyes.
Now tell me about IT," he said
Talk fast, so | won't miss my train"
"I just can't bear people who al
ways do the right thing and make out
that everybody else is wrong, can
your" began his wife.
Meaning Mrs. Simpson? Go on"
"She thinks it is smart to do every
thing ahead Of time and then sit
back and criticise others. 1t will make
her less conceited when she learns
that my Christmas shopping was all
done last summer in Europe. I've just
been crazy to show her the things
got-but | didn't. She'll be green
with envy, for they are so different
from what she can get here. She
acted last year as if tried to copy
her things, Aren't you glad, dear,
that you won't have any Christmas
bills TO pay?"
YES, my dear, for resigned myself
to my fate last summer and what you
did in the present-buying line was a
deep and abiding sufficiency"
you know | saved lot of money
by getting the things over there?"
you forgot to count the duty and
the shipping expenses"
Even counting them the things
were cheap Isn't it lovely to have
presents different from the common
run? Those beads l got in Rome are
gems And the lace! To say nothing
of the French embroidered
Those shops took lot of our time
when we might have been seeing
IF that isn't like man! Wasn't
It better to save money than to look
at foolish statues with their arms and
heads knocked off? Or galleries of
| st. Sebastians stuck full of arrows
Wasn't it more interesting to look at
the beautiful French lingerie? You
know it was, George. The things
got will make great impression on
Mrs. Simpson, | know. Must you go?
Don't be late for dinner, for l am go
ing to have one of your favorite pud-
dings."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-11
Forty Members Sign
Arizona Constitution
One Democratic Delegate Refuses to
Affix Signature and One Repub-
hcan Favors Document.

PHOENIX. Ariz.. Dec. 10.-The consutu-
tional convention OF Arizona adjourned
sine die at 5:A o'clock this afternoon, at
ter being In session sixty-one days and fl
nally adopting a constitution designated by
the majority members as the most pro-
gressive ever framed and by the minority
as the most socialistio.
only one republican, John Langdon Of
Globe, signed the doouzIent. He was given
an ovation which lasted Several minutes.
one democrat, Elhngwood OF Bisbee. de-
clined to sign. explaining that he voted
with the opposition because he believed
the recall. as applied too the judiciary,
would destroy the independence OF state
courts and invite the disapproval Of Pres
ident Taft. The final vote was 20 to u.
Souvenir hunters looted the convention
hall during the noon recess and the gavel
of President Hunt. which he intended pre-
senting TO the territorial historian. was
taken. He announced he would not sign
the pay rolls OF the employees OF the con-
vention until the gavel was returned, but
It was still missing on adjournment
The campaign for the ratification OF the
constitution by the people at the election
February 3 win begin Immediately.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-11
Washington Affairs

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1O-(Special Tele-
gram Rural carriers appointed for Me-
braska: Battle Creek, route 1, Robert J.
Call, carrier; Charles Zimmerman, subsu-
tute.
South Observation-Disclosures, route 2, George
Stevenson, carrier; no Rubsutute;.
Charles H. Vickerman has been appointed
postmaster at Ottumwa, Stanley county,
vice II. K. Carman, resigned.
Army orders Captain Francis II. Beach,
Seventh cavalry, Is relieved from duty with
cavalry equipment at Fort Seward and VIII
Join his regiment and proceed with II to
the Philippine Islands.
Second Lieutenant Harry W. Stevenson,
coast artillery corps is transferred from
Captain William Peek, coast artillery
corps, recently promoted, is assigned to the
Nineteenth company.
First Lieutenant f. NJ Goorick. coast ar
tilery corps, recently promoted, is as
signed to the SiXtieth company.
First Lieutenant Phillip Matthews, coast
to the Fifty-sixth company and placed on
the unassigned list.
Second Lieutenant Frank s. Clark, coast
artillery corps, will report to Major FRED
erick +. Reynolds, medical corps, Fort
Monroe. Va, for examination for promo
ton.
artillery corps viii assume charge o. con-
Fla, relieving First Lieutenant John w,
Pierce, coast artillery corps.
Second Lieuten3n: James A. Merritt,
Fourteenth infantry, will proceed TO this
city and report to the commanding officer
Walter Reed hospital for treatment.
Second Lieutenant Arthur II. Doig, coast
Colonel John c. W. Brooks, coast artillery
| CORDS tho Preside OF San Francisco, for
examination for promotion.
Leaves OF absence: Captain Robert 70.
| Lieutenant Alexander B. Coke, Eighth cav
airy, two months.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-11

free Of charge and save the poor parents
Of the girls and boys the tuition fee OF
from $50 to $125 when is charged by the
commercial colleges.
Mr.. BOyles also states that there is only
small percentage of graduates from the
eighth grade who enter the commercial
colleges. Assuming that his statement is
correct, II an opportunity is given to those
children TO take up a commercial course
in the high school in the first and second
year free OF charge. probably a majority
OF them would avail themselves Of that
opportunity given them in our high school,,
and while the boys and girls would take
up the commercial course in the high
school, they would be compelled to take
other branches prescribed in the curricu-
lum, such as English, commercial math-
ematics, spelling, history. etc, and thus
broaden their sphere Of knowledge which
in Mr.. Boyles opinion is so essential in
the makeup OF good business men and
women, and rightfully so.
am glad that Mr. Boyles is of the opin-
ion that the installation OF the commercial
course In the high school will help his
college financially. II was never my In
tention nor my desire to hurt any of the
commercial colleges in Omaha. My resolu-
ton in the Board OF Education was not
Tor that purpose and 1 also never intended
TO make our high school a competitor to
any commercial college. All desire is to
bring to our high school students which
never enter the same or TO hold in the high
school the ones who are dropping out dur
ing the four years, and to give them all
practical course OF studies, free OF
charge whereby they could earn a liveli-
hood' and while they are taking such
studies In the high school, to give them
also the academic branches OF practical
value which they do not receive In the
commercial colleges.
have no quarrel with Mr.. Boyles nor
with any Of the other commercial colleges,
ana II the installation OF the commercial
course in high school will help them H.
nancially. 1 am glad Of IT and 1 am sure
that no member Of the Board Of Education
will begrudge It, Respectfully,
K. HOLOVTCHINER.