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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19

with the idea of getting it's print
ing done at less than the rate
fixed by the Legislature we do
not know. If the idea had been
followed out on goods which
the law does not fix the price of,
and merchants and auto drivers
been asked to bid for the county
contract, the whole would have
looked consistent. Moreover
there would have been much
more saved to the county. But
we are not worrying about this,
for we never could see why the
county should ask to have its
supplies furnished for less than
other buyers of the sameamount
of goods, nor why out of the
county printers are not asked to
bid as local printers are.
Says the Globe in closing its
article, this is only a starter"
Well this is not a starter, we
have not even picked up the
crank. but if in a fit of absent
mindedness, we do crank the
old machine up, we promise the
Globe run for it's money. We
do not believe these squabbles
between papers do town any
good, but the Globe has constant
ly been since it's existance yap-
ping at the heels of anyone who
tried to help the prosperity of
the town along, unless the Globe
had big slice of the pie. And
people are tired of it. It's adver-
tising of mail order houses and
booming in it's local columns a
Hutchinson house does not make
it popular with men who dc
things. We hope we will not be
forced again to refer to this
matter.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19
Copyright, by pObbs- Merrill Coz


I'm afraid it's too late, but I'm not ex-
perienced in such matters"
Together we opened the curtains,
and the doctor, bending down, gave a
comprehensive glance that took in the
rolling head, the relaxed jaw, the ugly
stain on the sheet The examination
needed only a moment. Death was
written in the clear white of the nos
trils, the colorless lips, the smooth.
ing away of the sinister lines of the
night before. With its new dignity
the face was not unhandsome; the
gray hair was still plentiful, the feat.
ures strong and we'll cut.
The doctor Strengthened himself and
turned to me. Dead for some time, u
he said, running professional finger
over the stains. These are dry and
darkened, you see, and rigor mortis
is we'll established. A friend Of
yours?"
Il don't know him at ALL" l replied.
"Never saw him but once before"
Then you don't know if he is trav.
cling alone?"
mo, he was not-that is, l don't
know anything about him." l correct
ed myself. It was my first blunder;
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19
Enforcement Of Ordinances.

The Globe for several weeks
has been bowling about the en-
forcement of city ordinances, or
the non-enforcement of same.
The idea being to discredit the
city officials, who refuse to
placate the Globe with patron
age, and thus force them to
come down with the cash. AS
to the matter of stock running
at large, it should be stopped,
and every good neighbor will see
that his stock does not become
nuisance, and every bad neigh
Dor should be forced to be good.
But the city council, having
years ago placed an ordinance
on the books forbidding the
same, have finished their duty.
The mayor in his position at the
head of the police force of the
city may and has ordered the
officers to enforce that to the
letter. The marshall has done
his full duty. 1t IS no more the
duty of the marshall of a city to
patrol the suburbs of town TO
see that the stock are not run
ming at large than it is the duty
of the sheriff to do the same
thing in the county at large.
Some years ago and while this
same ordinance was on the
books, the editor of the Globe
was mayor OF the city. During
that time bootleggers and gamb-
lers were thick in town, and
stock used the townsite for a
range. If the mayor of that
time did anything to enforce any
law against either the stock run
ming at large or against other
law breakers the public never
noticed it. The fact that law as
not enforced then would not be
an excuse for not enforcing it
now, but it calls to mind that the
righteous editor was not as good
an official as the present ones.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19

the doctor glanced up at me quickly
and then turned his attention again to
tie body. Like flash there had come
to me the vision of the woman with
the bronze hair and the tragic face,
whom l had surprised in the vesd-
bule between the cars, somewhere In
the small hours of the morning. | had
acted on my first impulee-the mascu-
line one OF shielding woman.
The doctor had unfastened the coat
of the striped pajamss and exposed
the dead mans chest. On the left
side was a small punctured wound Of
insignificant size.
h Very neatly DONE" the doctor said
with appreciation. Couldn't have
done II better myself. Right through
the intercostal space; no time even
TO grunt."
isn't the heart around there some
where!" asked. The medical man
turned toward me and smiled AZ
sterely.
That's where 1t belongs, Just under
JudL puuCtuIc, NACu ~ hph BoAAAeo
around In q mans throat or his boots. y
/ had q new respect for The doctor.
for any one indeed who could crack
even q feeble joke under Such circum'
stances, OF Who could run an imper'
sonal finger over that wound and
those stains. Odd how . healthy, nor
nal man holds the medical profession
IN half oontemptuous regard until he
gets sick. or an emergency nke this
arises, and then turns meekly to the
man who knows the ins and outs Of
his mortal tenement, takes his pills
or his patronage, ties to him Hike a
rudderless ship in gale.
Suicide, is it, doctor?" l asked.
He stood erect, after drawing the
bed-elothing over the face, and, ta'
king on his glasses, he wiped them
slowly
NO. It is not suicide" he announced
decis'7ely. 1T is murder"
OF course, I had expected that, but
the word itself brought shiver.
was just a bit dizzy. Curious faces
through the car were turned toward
us, and / could hear the porter behind
me breathing audibly. A stout won.
an in negligee came down the aisle
and querulously confronted the por-
tar. shs> Xore a pink dresGing:jacket
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19
IL 1t Consistent?

The Globe last week in one coll
umn depreciates publishing news
which reflects on the families of
wrong doers, and in another 1t
prints an article from the Kansas
City Star, relative to the frolic of
a little girl near Fowler. The pub
lication of the story was of no bene-
fit to anyone, but injurious to young
people. Children do not distin-
guish between fame and notoriety.
The fact that this child has her
name blazoned before the country
all over the west has bad influence
on other children, the more espec-
tally as she was rescued from her
indiscretion before any harm came
to her. The cruelty of it lies in the
fact that the dailies are not gener-
ally taken over the county and
many would never have heard of it
but for tine publication in the Globe.
And the further fact that her
mother, most excellent woman, is
an invalid, md the worry about the
girl will nearly kill her. This sense
less spreading of the matter before
the public will only add to her
troubles and do injury to the young.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19
disappeared.

disappeared.
Il guess that's all can DO" Ne
said. I've had enough trouble thi6
trip TO last for a. year. They dont
need Q conductor on these trains any
more; what they ought to have u 3
sheriff and posse"
The porter from the next car came
in and whispered to him. The con-
ductor rose unhappily.
Next cars caught the disease" he
grumhled. Doctor, a woman back
there has got mumps or bubonic
plague, or something. VIII you come
back?"
The strange porter stood aside.
Lady about the middle Of the car, /"
he said, "in black, sir, with Queet.look-
ing ha1r-1ort of copper color, ] think.
air."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19
The birds of the eastern wood,

The birds of the eastern woods
are now meeting here, the birds
of the plains. One morning
this week red headed wood
pecker settled on post in front
of the house, and began examin-
ing for insects, while we were
watching him a scissor tail flew
past to alight on telephone
pole.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19

The News last week at legal
rates would amount to $60.00." "
If that statement is true, and
The News did in fact receive
legal rates for that Job and the
Globe has stated the exact
amount which it figured up at
legal rates, then The News re-
ceived just what was honestly
coming to it. If on the other
hand it is not true, but false, as
was the amount of water furnish
ed by the city wells in which it
quoted Sam Ellis falsely, then it
can take 1t all back as it did that
statement. The fact is that
the Globe knew absolutely moth
ing about what the city pays for
that job of work, for bill for it
has not been filed with the city
clerk, at the time this is writ
ten. If The News sees fit to
not charge legal rates it is no
concern of anyone except the
owners OF The News. If it does
not charge legal rates 1t is be-
cause it is conducted on a fair,
live and let live basis, and the
city is just that much ahead.
Not because it is not justly en-
titled to the full rate, which the
council would have been justi-
fed in giving. Again, if it does
charge the full legal rate, it will
only be following the example
of the Globe which has for years
out of memory, at every oppor'
tunitv charged full legal rates
when it could get 1t, for any
printing done for either the
county or city. Neither is the
Globe worrying about the saving
to the city, for only a few
mouths back, it proposed in its
columns that the fair thing to dt
with the city printing, was tc
divide It equally between the
Globe and The News at lega
rates. No the Globe is not anx
ious- to save the city anything ir
it's printing bill, it is only bawl
ing because there is public
money paid out of which it gets
no share. The fact Is that the
Globe has from it's foundation
existed by and for public pap,
and now being pried lose from
the postoffice, it finds that its
allowance from the county board
contributes more wind than
sustenance. When IN the years
past the county board could have
had it's printing done for one
cent per year, and it let the con-
tract to the Globe for "A good
fair recompence, the Globe
found no fault with the economy
exercised by the board, but on
the contrary It lauded the board
as financiers and honest men.
Neither has anyone observed
that the Globe cut any bill be-
low contract price. When later
there was no competition and the
Globe could get the printing of
county and city at legal rates 1t
always charged the full price.
This is not stated as indicating
that the Globe was not entitled
Justly to the legal rate, but only
as showing that the Globe is
only anxious about public ex-
penses in spots and places,
places where the Globe can't get
the cash paid out by the munici-
palities.
One other item in the Globe
article. 1t cites as usual, its
patrons, the county board, as an
example of probity and finan-
ciers in municipal affairs. 'Let
the city printing as the county
board DID," says the Globe. The
News has no fault to find with
the county board because econ
omy struck it in that particular
spot, where the law fixes the
compensation OF the county
printer, and not on other sup
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-19

tanned one empty leather-covered flask
and pint bottle, also empty, change
of linen and some collars with the
laundry mark, 8. H. In the leather
tag on the handle was q card with the
name Simon Harrington, Pittsburg.
The conductor sat down on my un-
made berth, across, and made An en-
try of the name and address. Then,
on an old envelope, he wrote a few
words and gave it to the porter, who
Arizona republican., 1910-11-26
PROMOTING MATRIMoNY.

Newspapers, which are solving and which have solved a great many diff ficult problems in the world, may eventually be the means of equalizing supply and demand in the matrimonial market. At present there is said to be noticeable shortage in farmers wives. This is not due to a scarcity of women. but to lack of a certain and dependable means of bringing the parties who might be interested in matrimonial alliances together with view to arranging the preliminary ne gotiations. Matrimonial publications and matrimonial agencies, in the past, generally have proved to be unre liable, but it would seem that there ought to be a legitimate field for eX ploitatiOn by those who would conduct bureaus with a view to promotion of the love affairs of those who are not favorably situated to carry on court ship in the manner generally approved by society. The world has come to re- gard the man, or the woman, who seeks marriage through the uncon- tional agency of the want advertise ment, or through an appeal to mu- nicipal or charitable agencies. as somewhat strange and lacking in men. tai strength. There may be reason for taking this view of the situation. But times change.
 None will seriously question the statement that there are thousands of farmers. ranchmen. miners and work CTS in many honorables lines of em- ployment who would marry should fa-
 
 They remain single because there are no means at command through which they may form the acquaintance of those who might become desirable mates. Herein. with the progress of humanity. there ought to be opened legitimate field of enterprise. There may be discovered many points in fa- vor of preliminary courtship that is carried on through the medium of cor respondence. Marriage is a civil con tract and as such ought to be subject to the laws regulating false repre- sentations.
 The approved system of courtship is nothing more. generally, than a con test in personalities In striking con Jrast the coming system will present conditions in which the parties n- terested will of necessity from the very beginning of negotiations seek to make clear their condition and their intentions. A natural and proper matter for immediate inquiry would be the age and financial and social standing of the candidates. In every large city there are thousands of men and women who would welcome a sys- tenn which would enable them to form the acquaintance of those who would make good wives and good husbands. Society as now constituted presents no way in which this may be accom- pli5hed. Possibly a matrimonial clear ing house would eliminate this per DlexinG problem.-Woman's National Daily.
Arizona republican., 1910-11-26
EARLY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

The movement inaugurated by the | Association of Collegiate Alumnae in | behalf of early Christmas shopping l is one which deserves all the encour- agement it can possibly secure. The
 purpose of the movement is one which comments it to any good man or woman who stops a moment and
 thinks of a few of the many reasons why Christmas shopping should be
 done early. Not the least commend able feature of the effort itself is that
 it is being made by women who are not themselves affected by the prac-
 tice of putting off the Christmas shopping to the last minute, but who are inspired only by a generous sym pathy for the weary victims of this thOughtlessness on the part of shop pers.
 From year to year the movement along this line all over the country is gaining momentum, as the force of the arguments with which it is sup ported impresses itself upon al. coi- cerned. Once let the shoppers realize that they are serving their own best interests as we'll as those of the tired shop girls and the movement will be acccelerated Of course, it would be more laudable if the tired shop girls got consideration earlier in the prog ress of the movement, but human na- ture must be taken into account at all times.
 The early shoppers get the benefit of fresh assortments of goods. They avoid the rush. and escape the dis tracting confusion of the last days of the shopping season. Without ven turing any formal statistics, it may be estimated that much of the greater bulk of the Christmas shopping could be done three or four weeks before Christmas just as well as, and in fact better than. during the last week be- fore the holiday. The bulk of the money spent is expended by those who do not have to wait until the last few days to distribute their available Christmas money. A large proportion of the Christmas shopping is unavoid- ably delayed till the eve of the holi- day season, but only the thoughtless- ness of a great many shoppers. who give no consideration to the shop girls. prevents them from making most of their purchases carly. Scolding. how ever, will not make inconsiderate peo- pie and the members of the Associa- tion of Collegiate Alumnae are going about their missionary. work systc- matically and effectively. securing signers to 8 pledge to do the Christ mas shopping by December 15, ten days before Christmas. It is hoped to get 20,0O0 signatures to such pledge. and if only half this number can be secured the burden of the shop girl will be materially frightened. Kansas City Journal
Arizona republican., 1910-11-26
Fraud Orders and Prosecutions.

Postmaster General Hitchcock de- serves commendation for deciding to prosecute fraudulent users of the mails instead of only issuing fraud orders against them.
 There are always numerous swind- lers using the mails to defraud the unwary, and hitherto it has been the practice of the postoffice department to deaf with them through fraud orders'-orders to postmasters to withhold mail from persons and firms whose good faith and honesty had been impeached to the satisfaction of the department This practice sub jected the department to criticism on two grounds: That the judgment of postoffice inspectors was not always reliable, and their recommendations against suspected concerns might work injustice against honest people; and that the system of issuing fraud orders smacked too much of despotic 
 that the average American does not like to lodge with any official the power to withhold his mail, however carefully the power may be used.
 Nobody, however. can object to the governments prosecution of alleged swindlers Prosecution in the courts will determine whether the accused persons are guilty, and if guilty they will be punished as they should be punished-they will be sent to the penitentiary If they happen to be innocent, their day in court will give them an opportunity to establish their innocence.
 And it is wiser to make the punish ment fit the crime. It merely touches a swindler's pocketbook to deprive him of the mail sent him by his dupes, and it is not practicable to issue fraud orders, usually, until after the rogue has substantially completed his job. To go after him with criminal pro- secution is the right method.
 General Hitchcock is of the opinion that he will soon have some of the countrys worst swindlers behind prison bars. Good luck to him.
Arizona republican., 1910-11-26
Current Comment
ALFALFA IN THE EAST.

1 When Farmer Coburn first advocat- ed the planting of alfalfa he could scarcely have conceived the wide ex- tent of cultivation to which he was giv- ing encouragement. He had seen the plant growing in the rich lands of the warm southwest, where it had been in- troduced by the early Spanish settlers and believed that its growth under similar weather and soil conditions in Kansas was not impossible. Actual trials routed scoffers and Coburn has lived to see it the greatest forage crop of the state But in all hHs pride as a discoverer he surely never could have dreamed that it would De the crop of the city agriculturist to revive New l England's farms.
 The alfalfa cult first spread to Hi ! nois and Indiana, and with bags of seed came shipments of inoculating soil from Kansas fields to establish the crop. It spread southward into Oklahoma, and the new state received it so cordially that it named one of its counties AL falfa. With the slogan Alfalfa seed from Alfalfa county" the commercial club has undertaken to beat Coburn
 
 ganda. The most valuable carload of Oklahoma products that ever left the state for eastern markets Is described by the st. Louis Globe-Democrat:
 There were more than 500 bushels, and the prevailing price, ranging around s75O' a bushel, made the car worth about s5,O0O As a car of wheat is generally valued at about $1,00O, it is easy to see that the most valuable Oklahoma product that could be put in one car would be alfalfa seed"
 The fact that this shipment was sent east would. carry the natural inference that there was a market for the seed. Such is the case. The plant has taken root in parts of ohio and Michigan and seems to have found particularly suitable soil in New Hampshire The experiment was made on the state hos pitaI farm, near Concord, and produced ton and a half to the acre for each cutting, with three cuttings in the sea son, the fourth crop being permitted to fall and mulch the ground. As the hay brings a much higher price in New England than in the west, the cultlVa- tion proved more profitable.
  first of the kind, it is said, in New England, and according to reports II had "the Commonwealth by the ears. There was a wonderfully instructive array of products from New England farms" Says the Gazette:
 ''The exhibition has taught the farm CTS that they need not go west diamond hunting. there are acres of them Tn their stony, rockbound. rigorous New England The best of our long tra- duced locality is fully the equal of the best that has been shown us from the trumpeted regions to the westward The lesson is Stay at home, cultivate the eastern farms and realize on the markets at our very doors.'"
 The New Hampshire experiments would indicate that a crop has been found which suits the soil and for that
Arizona republican., 1910-11-26

Mexico. Madero rushed in, last spring from going. It was not long until Madero was arrested and thrown into jail on the charge that he had been overheard to make derogatory remarks concerning General Diaz. He denied the charge, and after a time was re- leased from prison, but kept under surveillance during the remainder of the campaign" which ended in July with the election of Diaz and Corral. Shortly after the election Madero es- capped into Texas. and there proceeded to organize the present revolt.
 He did not intend to command an uprising until some time this winter but the unexpected rioting in Mexico over the burning of the Mexican, Rodriguez, at Rock Springs, Texas. led Madero and his fellow conspirators to believe that the time was ripe for the rebellion to start.
 Doubtless Madero himself now rec ognizes that his rebellion was fore doomed to failure from the first. If Reyes had joined him, the revolt would have reached respectable proportions But Reyes remained in Paris, and not withstanding the bombastic proclama- tion of Madero, in which he pledges his life to the revolution, it is safe to predict that he will soon be safely on Texas soil again. Only his ig- norant followers will suffer Many of them have been killed already, and scores of others will in due course be stood up against adobe walls and shot after the severe and effectual man. ner in which the ruler Of Mexico has always dealt with rebels.
 Thus order is restored in Mexico, and things will remain quiet-on the surface-until, in the fulness of time, the aged president passes away. After his demise will come the deluge of civil war-everybody expects it. Whether out of this certain warfare of the future will come an autocrat worthy to succeed the great soldier and statesman who has guided Mex ican destinies for thirty years. and whether the victor will be Reyes, Cor ral, Greet. or Limantour-"quien sabe."
Arizona republican., 1910-11-26

Mir. Bug-Now see what that fresh kid brother of yours did, While 1 was talk ing that kiss he tied our feelers to- gether,