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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
WATCH YOUR ACCOUNTS.
Advice Which Applies as Much to

Sensible Advice Which Applies as Much to
Farmers Store-Keepers.
| Every store-keeper knows it is not
the gross profit, but the margin left
after deducting what it costs him to do
business, which enriches him. The
question is how to increase the margin
of net profit. After keeping down the
limit of waste, which is large in the
best regulated establishment, but which
we do not prOpOs" to consider at this
time, the best results will follow rigid
and persistent watchfulness of the
small and ordinary expenses. 1t will
not do to wait until the end of the year
to check up and see how things have
gone. Every store-keeper can, and
should know, not only what his yearly
routine expenses are, but, as well, what
they are, and what they should be for
every month and every week, if not
for every day. He should every day
scrutinize the expense account jeal
ously. A little sum allowed without
notice as an extraordinary expense to-
day, becomes tomorrow reEularitem
Of outgo, and by the end of the year
has grown into a serious matter. He
should guard carefully that he is not
betrayed into allowing an increase of
regular expenses by the hope or con-
lecture that there is an increase of his
business which requires and justified
larger outlay. The growth of business
on which a growth of the cost in doing
that business is predicated, should be
clear and undoubted and Enthusiastically
permanent before the additional outgo
is allowed; for while the volume of
business transacted and gross profit
earned thereby may shrink at any time
for any one of thousand reasons. the
reduction of established regular ex-
penses does not follow so easily. 1t is
much easier to keep expenses down
than to reduce them after they have
got beyond a proper limit. No man
likes to retrench. 1t is always hard to
come down to business on smaller
scale. The merchant who finds it is
costing him more to run his store than
his volume of business justifies, almost
invariably tries to enlarge his trade to
meet his expenses, rather than reduce
his expenses to meet his trade. 1t is
the courageous course to pursue. but
not more than one in ten succeeds in
the effort. -American StOrekeeper.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

one persons are missing. ninety of whom
ale known to have been drowned. Thirty
five of these are white and fifty colored.
Alligator Joe Smith. reported lost, has
turned up with three people in his boat
DIR. B. Z. Calhoun reported many people
without clothing at Sabine Pass, for
whom the relief boat RET urned. taking
clothing, at four O'Clock this morning.
lie requests the press to publish re-
quest that those who can do so wall send
aid for the sufferers to his address. II
makes no difference what the nature OF
the aid-moDey provisions, clothing
anything.
A. T. McDonough, one OF the Houston
Light Guard, mad relatives at the Pass.
He passed through Orange last night
wild with grief. His sister, Miss Jackie
McDonough, was swept awav and
drowned in sight OF Captain B. f. Nc
DonOush, her father, and Frank McDon-
Ough, her brother, WHO tried in vain 10
save her.
THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
left alive beggars description. Every.
thing is swept away. Language could
not exagserate the state of affairs. Only
two houses remain standin" in the town,
anu lncI are OH lnelr lOuHuallOnS.
Wives and children were swept
away and drowned in the pres
ence of husbands and fathers, who
were powerlesS to render them
aid. The lighthouse is over half a mile
from the Gulf. The windows are forty
feet from the ground. Captain Plum
mer and mis- family were IN this strucL-
ure. The waves from the gulf half
mile distant broke against this building
in solid walls fifty feet high and nearly
tore out the window-glass. Corpses
were picked up thirty miles from the
scene of the wreck.
Berry Foley, Captain McDOnough's
and his wife were picked up
dead on the railroad track fifty miles
from the Pass, where her body had
washed.
Captain F. A. Hyatt. of the Louisiana
Jetty and Tightening Company, had
everything swept way, but escaped
unhurt.
The nearest approximate loss to the
Inflated Pass is $780, 900.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
WelI-Grounded Conviction.

Most persons have opinions. Now
and then a person has convictions. A
man with an opinion is of small con-
sequence for or against a cause
about which he has an opinion. A
man with a conviction is always a
power in the direction of his convic-
ton. As q rule, the men who have
opinions are waiting to be led by men
who have convictions. Commonly one
man with a conviction can lead, say
from one hundred to FIVE million, men
who merely have opinions. It's a
great thing to have well grounded
conviction-on any subject; and it is
comparatively a rare things. S.
Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
Congregation National Couacn.

CHICAGO, Oct. i5.-The Natioaal Coua-
I'll Of the Congregational Church met in
this city yesterday. The total report OF
:;fe Secretary shows a total OF 4,l71
churches, with SS0,00O members; receipts
oil year were S24,9S7, and disbursements
Sl1,S6t. The election of officers re-
ulted as follows: Secretary. Rev.
Henry A. Hagen, AuburndaIe, Mass;
Treasurer, DR.. L. Perrin, Torrington,
Conn; Auditor Hon. David A. Camps,
y ew Britain, Conn; Registrar, Rev. VIII
lam Il Moore. Hartford. Conn.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
A Wife Murderer Lyncheo.

MONTICELLO, Ills, Oct. 15.-Wednes-
cay night about one O'Clock about two
hundred disguised men overpowdcred the
sheriff and broke into the jail, and took
;herefrom Henry Wildman, the WIFE
murderer, and hanged him TO a
small shade tree near the
Jail. After hanging him they
then shot him eleven times TO make sure
of their work. Wildman cut his wife's
throat on the Sd of July last near At
wood, ILL.,, and has been in Jail here since
that time.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
Apovr oil o+bar eartbIv Tile

ABOVE all other earthly ills,
hate the big, old-fashioned pills;
By slow degrees they downward wend,
And often pause, or upward tend;
With such discomfort are they fraught,
Their good effects amount to naught
Now, DR.. Pierce prepares pill
That just exactly fills the Dill
A Pellet, rather. that is all
A Pleasant Purgative, and small;
Just try them as you feel their need.
You'll find that Ispeak truth, indeed.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

Baltimore, according to a statisti-
clan, has fewer colored people than
New Orleans, and 5000 more than
Washington. Baltimore and Washing
ton together have 100000 colored peo-
pie, and Philadelphia has $4,000; Rich
mond, Va, $4,000; the little city of
Petersburg, $4,000; Oh arleston, $4,000;
Louisville, $1,000; New York City, not
5000.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

1t is said that lady's standing in socie-
ty can easily be determined by her dress
at the breakfast-table; an expensive, snowy
costume indicating that the wearer has not
yet learned the proprieties. But no one
need be afraid of being called "shoddy, !"
if her loneliness is as apparent by day
light as at the hops. Perfect beauty is
never the attendant of disease; above al,
of those diseases peculiar to women, and
which find a ready cure in DIR. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" Price reduced
to one dollar. By druggists
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

Thomas Brown, of Thorbrook, n.
S.. is seventy years old, and this yea1
sheared six hundred and sixty sheep.
He has worked in that capacity for
nearly sixty years. For one farmer
alone he has sheared for fifty years.
Louisville COurier-JOurndL.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

EVERY person is interested IN their own
affairs, and if this meets the eye OF any one
who is suffering from the effects of torpid
liver, we will admit that he is interested IN
getting well. Get bottle of Prickly Ash
Bitters, use it as directed, and you will al
ways be glad you read this item.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

Rev. FATHER MAHoNY, Dean officiating
for the Archbishop, St Mary's Cathedral,
Sydney, N. S. W., pronounces St Jacobs
Oil the greatest Of all pain-cures
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
CoNFIRMAToRY DETAILS.


HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. l5.-The reports
re 5arding The overflow and terrible disas-
'-er visited upon Sabine Pass, have been
positively confirmed. Citizens of HouS-
ton have been wiring 10 Beaumont and
trying in every possible way TO ascertain
the extent of the damage done and the
number of lives lost.
The Houston Post sent a correspondent
10 the Pass and the following facts from
the Post were ascertaned. The cores
pondent describes many heartreuding in
cidents. lie states that Major Staaford's
wife and infant were at Sabine anj tine
Major was ut Beaumont. At about nine
p. IN. Mrs. Stanford, realizing that her
house must soon be torn 10 pieces by the
Surging waters, took her baby in her
arms, and 10y desperate struggle and
great presence of mind, succeeded in
catching n good tree. Ur this she
climbed, and with her infant in her arms
chung to the tree all night.
The Pomeroy boys report that they
saw Mrs. Junker aud her sou Carlisle
[reported lOst) in the same boat when it
swamped; that they managed to reach
the roof OF house, from which they
were observed hours after. The last
they saw of Mrs .JInker and her son the
boy had one arm around his mother and
was holding on 10 Il boat with the other.
Carlisle Junker is noted for being the
most expert swimmer in all East Texas,
and his bravery and coolReSS lead has
friends to believe that his mother aud
himself are safe.
Joe Smith (Alligator Joe), agent for
II. :. Solomon, Newark, n. j., dealers in
alligator pelts, was lost by being carried
out into the gulf in boat. The candid
opinion of those best informed is that
the report Is Rot exaggerated regarding
the number Il lives lost, which is about
sixtv-tve. Relief trains have been sent
TO the Pass from Beaumont carrying led
ding, mediciRe and other Recessaries 10
assist the stricken people. Two addi-
tional trains haze been sent from Beau
mont within seven miles of the Pass.
Mrs. B. T. AcDonouah and her da1Sh-
ter, Miss Jackie, reported lost were WELL
known in Galveston and Houston, where
they formerly resided.
The people at Beaumont having friends
and loved ones at the Pass are frenzie6
with the uncertainty of the fate of those
ia whom they feel an interest. Inf0rms-
lion comes into Beaumont slowly. There
were about seventy-tve or Que hundred
houses at Sabine Pass, and not one has
been left standing.
BEAUMONT, Tex, Oct. l5.-The relief |
boat, L. Q. c. Lamar, which left Beau |
mont at ten O'Clock Wednesday night |
with the relief committee of forty men,
has returned from Sabine Pass. Twenty
five men of the forty were left behind to
search for bodies, many of which are re-
ported TO have been washed many miles
over into Louisiana. One hundred and |
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

THE postage-stanp is an insignificant
little thing but there is no man courage
Gus enough TO lick it, face to.-BOstoa Post
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

4 "sAFE burglar" is ono in tho peniten-
ilry.-Tid-BitS.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

SINCE the quakes there are some persons
who don't waLt the earth so much as they
diG.-BoStOIl transcript
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

TIE amenities of minister's position
ere very numerous-HerchdntT raveler
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

IN racing all yachts show q great deal OF
tack.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

II afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
EhompsOns Eye Water. Druggists sell it &c.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

THERE is always crewel work to be done
end dainty fingers delight in doing it.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

MOVES in the best socicty-a fan.-Rart-
ford Times
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

GLEEN's Sulphur Soap purifies and beau
tines the skin. Hills Hair and Whisker
Dye, black OF brown. Soc
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
The NFornin1 Dress.

The ancients could beat Us to death
painting pictures; but look at our frames
CHICAGO Journal
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

THE people in the far North eat candles
when they can get them This is one way
of making light meal-Boston Budget.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

ACCORDING to an exchange Chinese
dishes are becoming fashionable in this
country. Rats boston Transcript.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

A BARBER and broker occupied the oppo-
site sides of the same room. One sign
served both, viz: Shaving done here. -
Prairie Farmer
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

THE best cough medicine Is Piso's Cure
for Consumption Sold every where. 25c
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

AN article is going the rounds of the
press, headed How to manage wife"
of course the writer was a single many
y Telsgrdu
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

Our ancestors must have been tough
customers, as suit of iron or steel ermoT
was invariably the knight dress in their
day.-N Y Ledger
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

A MAINE farmer having advertised
country board" was asked by letter, what
kind of a table ne set. He replied: "a ma
hOgany extepsiOu.n
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

DoN'T fail to read ad. of McMullen Woy
en- Wire Fence Co. Name this paper.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

THE messengec boy Is not exactly re-
porter, but he takes notes.-Bur,iagtsx FIRES
Press
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

CHE-"You are the only college girl I ever
liked She-'Why, how 500" Hoo,
the others all know so much."-LJe.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

WHY is a man In the midst of q dense
crowd like a newspaper reporterf He is
connected with the press.-Boston Traveller
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

PArTING pug on TIE head Is the latest
In the way of purp-petual motion--Chi-
eGgo Ledger.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

SoME one SAYS: money is close" Grab
it then.-Nesc Hdre.s NetrS.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

IT doesn't always follow that q MAJ is q
newspaper publisher because the banks
stop his paper.-TS1Gs Szfings.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

THE "old reliable"-Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

THERE are not so many fellows wanting
the earth now since its cracked.-PhilGdeE-
phid Press
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

WIEN you double your boy across your
knee there is sure to be an knee-clips Of
the sou HiteadR Tins.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

A STATUE becomes smaller when it rains;
II is statue wet.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21

HALL's Hair Remover never fails to check
falling of the hair. Gives universal salts
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21


As aremedy for throat and lung troubles,
we recommend Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
Salt Rheum

Is the most OF all skin diseases and is Oft
en- exceedingly disagreeable- The skin becomes
dry and hot grows red and rough, and often breaks
into painful cracks while small watery pimples ap-
pear in great numbers. discharging thin sticky
fluid causing intense itching. Hoods Sarsaparilla
has wonderful power over this disease. 1t purihes
the blood and expels the humor, ana the skin heals
without q scar-
"Ihad salt rheum over nearly my entire body Il
Is impossible4 10 describe my sunerinzs- When be-
gan to take Hoods sarsaparills the disease began
TO subside. the wstery piples, with their asonzing
itch and pain disappeared, and now / am cured"
LYMAN ALLEN, No. Chicago, Ill
IL suffered from wakefulness and low spirits, and
also had eczema on the back of my head and neck,
which was very annoying I took one bottle
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and have received so much
benent that am very grateful. and am always
glad TO speak good word for Hoods Sarsaparilla"
Mrs. ]. S. SNYDER, PottsyiHe, Pa,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19

THERE NAV not be very weighty law
logic in his position, but there is a
hundred tons of every day human
common sense and justice in Bob.
Burdette's remarks about the liquor
business, on our first page. He is In
favor of paying for the breweries and
distilleries when prohibition renders
them worthless. But when that is
done he wants whisky to pay for oil
the business it has ruined and all the
property it has DESTROYED. That sug-
gestion strikes us as the most level
headed one we have seen yet. When
the State is sued by the whiskey men
why can't it use these things as set
off? When the plaintiff puts his dis
tilleries and breweries and saloon fix
lures into one of the scale :pans, sup
pose the State piles into the other the
businesses whiskey has ruined, the
property it has destroyed, the wealth
it has squandered, the litigation it has
caused. And if that is not enough let
the State add the lives it has taken,
the hearts it has broken, the hopes it
has blasted, the homes it has wrecked,
the friendships it has severed, and a
thousand other things the world has
charged up against it. Which of the
two weights, think you, would be the
heavier?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
Usage Items.

Those horrid roads dried up in short
metre. On Friday morning they were
in as bad condition as they ever get and
Sunday evening rubber boots and over.
shoes were laid aside rs unnecessary
......... Miss Lille Martin, who has been
quite sick for a couple of weeks, is bet
ter now. DR.. Jewell is attending her.
.........Mr. Willett has rented Isaac
Martins farm....... Farmers are SOW
ing more tame grass than usual.......
Nearly every farmer is sowing red oats
this asOn.,..,..A majority wanted a
school house in district No. %; then a
majority did not vote. Then a number
wanted the boundary changed then
greater number did not want it
changed. The Superintendent must
in a "dilemma." But then a man who
has been In that Office over year is
used to tribulatiOns.. Five
of Mr.. Wayne's family are not able for
duty........ The dead-beat gets in his
work as usual this spring, by allowing
his stock to forage OH his neighbors to
whatever extent he thinks their pa
tieuce will permit, and by dead-beat-
ing and borrowing, manages to live
along ut little expense in each Locality
until it gets too hot for him.
JACK AND JILL.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
Salem Sentences.

AS We could not write last weeb
some of our news will be a little old. :.
........Miss BERTHE Olson of Humboldt is
visiting her old friends and school
mates of Salem......... Mr.. and Mrs. A,
+. Mabie Of lola made visit to her
father, John Brady, last week Mrs.
Dora Black bought Mr.. Pryor's farm
for 81 200 short time ago...-........ Mrs.
Annie Eshleman, niece of j. f.. NV
Ter, was visiting him last week.. ...,,...
Several of the Salem farmers have been
lately improving the looks of their
farms by trimming their hedges.
Mrs Kinney from Nebraska is at pres
ent paying visit to her granddaugh-
ter. Mrs. Ida Smith James Baxley
was visiting his sister, Mrs. Davis, last
Sunday.......Simon Emery has moved
to farm across the river. There
was party at Mr.. JOhnson's last Fri
day night. We understand they had
q very pleasant time go. A Mrs. Riley
from Nebraska and Mrs. Clements of
humboldt were visiting at J. B.
Smiths last week. Since we wrote
last, death has come into our midst.
Mr.. T. J. Forter died March 6: Mrs.
Julia Redmond apd Mr.. Adams on the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
THE FIRST STEP GAINED
Tho Public Lands Committee Decide
to Report the Anderson Bill
Eavorably.

WASHINGTON, March II, 1856.
G. F. SCOTT, lola, Kansas:
Sub Committee decide to make favor.
able report on Anderson Bill.
J. w. SCOTT.
The above dispatch was received
yesterday morning and needs perhaps
a word of explanation. The first of
the week we had a letter from DIR.
Scott stating that at the meeting of the
Public Lands Committee on the 18th
inst, when the Anderson bill was to be
considered, nothing was done except to
refer the whole matter to a sub-cOm-
mittee. He was invited to address this
committee, and it is their action which
is announced in the above dispatch.
1t will follow as matter of course that
the report Of this subcommittee will
be adopted by the entire committee, so
that strong point has already
been gained. In fact with the bill IA
vorably reported from the Public
Lands Committee there remains little
that an outsider can do to assist its
passage through congress. Our regu-
larly elected delegation must attend to
that. And We hope they appreciate
the obligation that rests upon them 10
attend to it. 1t looks certain now that
with proper effort on the part of our
congressman and senators the bill can
be passed this session. If that effort is
not put forth they ought to be held ac-
co,lntahle
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19

corations. Over the work in the rear
OF the room, in an arch of large letters,
appeared the motto: ave do not ask
for rest, but strength for renewed eff
forts:' The exercises consisted of an
excellent paper on "WOmen as Teach
ers" by Miss Mary See; talk on "mu-
sic" by Prof Fiddler; a general talk to
tho school and patrons by J. F.. Hem
derson; very gratifying remarks to the
teacher and scholars from several of
tne patrons, and vocal music by Prof.
Fiddler and Miss Ida Barnhart. The
work shown was excellent. The most
remarkable improvement was shown in
penmanship, but the examina ton pa
pers OF other studies showed that they
had not been slighted, for they repre-
sented hard work and good progress.
The people of Liberty are lucky to Sc
cure the services of so efficient a teach
er as X. s. Russ, while Mr.. Russ NAV
rest assured that he has the hearty CO.
operation of the entire community.
OCCASIONAL.