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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

The County Superintendent will be
in his Office every Monday and Saturday
when not attending teachers institutes.
The County Superintendent ordered
and received one hundred copies of
Speer's course Of study, and will be
pleased to furnish each teacher with a
copy of the same with a view to sys-
tematizing the work of the schools.
Each teacher should familiarize himself
with this course of study, and grade
hisschool accordingly. Teacher, please
do not neglect this matter. 1t is hoped
that when the Superintendent visits
your school he will find you doing good
work in grading the same.
School report cards can be procured
at the superintendent Office.
The Legislature this winter should
change the time of the annual school
meeting. AS the law is now the meet
ing comes just as the farmers are busy
with their harvest.
The institute in district No. III will
be held Saturday, the 18th inst.
We understand that the Normal col
lege at Enterprise is starting out very
aatteringly with an enrolment of
about forty. Dickinson county should
be glad to have such an institution
and should show her appreciation by
patronizing the same.
At the August examination there
were granted 8 first grade, Is second
grade and 10 third grade certificates,
making total of 100 certificates out
of 1S5 applicants.
Two districts are being formed in
Flora township to be known as districts
No. 121 and 122. They will be organ
lied and ready for the transaction Of
business by the first of November.
District clerks will please send report
of commencement of school term to the
County Superintendent as soon as pos
sible. Please do not wait until the
school begins before sending in the re-
port.
Mr.. Fred D. Carman lays aside the
legal profession for the time being and
takes charge of the Herington schools.
He will be ably assisted by the follow
ing ladies: Misses Clara Williams,
Fannie Hunter, Edith Halleck and
Grace Cook. They will soon get into
their new school building, which will
be one of the best in the county. Her
ington, in all her hustle of business,
with her excellent railroad facilities, |
her grand system of water works and |
electric light her magnificent opera
house, hotels and business blocks, does
not neglect the education of her chill
dren, but provides for them a commo-
dious school building with all the mod
ern improvements, and places within 1t
thoroughly equipped for their
work..
Hhs ~ Jsuait sssssGsaivn NJ NJ
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
South American Neryine.

The great conqueror of Indigestion,
Dyspepsia, all Nervous Diseases and
falling health builder beyond compari
son ever discovered and the most certain
and absolute preventive and cure for
Consumption, when used in time, ever
offered to the afflicted. 1t preforms
these marvellous cures by filing the
blood with richness and vital plasma
which rapidly heals all diseased and
broken tissues and casts on all disease
SP@ sEs1s;v xEt ~ ~
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

The four days from the 18th to the
21st Of the present month will be busy
enes. The Y. N. @. A. convention
will be in session and two of the big
gest rallies the county ever saw will be
held, the Democratic on Oct. 18th and
the Republican Oct. Goth.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

held in the central school building, Alb
ilene, Saturday, Nov. 18th. The pro.
gram will be published in due time.
Every teacher should attend the coun-
ty associations. There will be but
three meetings this year. Besides at
tending the county associations each
teacher should attend the monthly
meetings of his institute district.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

Senator Hardness and Mr.. Smith,
Union Labor candidate for Senator
from this district, will hold joint dis
cussion on the issues between the two
parties, one week in Clay county and
one week in Dickinson county. The
time and place for the Dickinson coun-
ty meetings have not yet been decided
upOG.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

The Acknowledgements base bali
game Monday resulted in a victory
for Abilene by a score of II to IL. The
Enterprise players are no slouches at
the bat and we do not much blame
Hope for hesitating to meet then.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
Twelve Years Afflicted.

BLUPFTos, IND, Feb. 9, 1887.
have been afilicted with blood poison for
twelve years. Have used prescriptions from
physicians offered me during that period. Through
the druggist, W. A. 9uteIius, procured one bot
tie OF B. B. B. and since have used three bottles,
and am satisfied 1t has done me more good than
anything ever used. I am almost well, and am
sure, within two or three weeks viii b perfect
y well, sfter twelve years suffering intensely.
Write or address JOSEPH FEST,
Wells county, Ind. Baker and Confectioner.
BLOOD BALI Co., Atlanta. Ga
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

Yhe Union Labor candidate for Rep
resentative in the 6sth district has
withdrawn and B. d. Anderson is
hungry enough for notoriety to make
the race.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

District court once more attracts
Abilene's idle population. There seems
to be something peculiarly attractive
about a court room to the average man.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
A CURE FOR DIARRHOE

A CURE FOR DIARRHoEA.-Mr. J.
A. Burnison, of Colburg, Montgomery
Co., Ia, has found out how he can cure
any case of Diarrhoea. Two of his
children had Diarrhoea, for about six
weeks he tried four different kinds of
Patent Medicines without benefit. but
he finally got hold of bottle of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrboea
Remedy, which he says completely
cured them, aud is confident it will
cure any case when the plainly printed
directions are followed. Sold by
Barnes & Northcraft.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

The REFLECTOR Office is doing more
job work than any two offices in the
city and all on account of the excellent
workmanship and taste displayed.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

The big Bonanza stove for school
houses, halls and churches has no equal
The only stove made with hood to ar
rest and retain the heat, thereby saving
the price of the stove in two years in
fuel. For sale by
JoH DVHLAyY 4 Co.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
Tor Sale.

I've young horses tive and thrs
years old) cheap for cash or on time
terms to suit purchaser. Apply .
this once or address LOCK Box 2es
Abilene, Kas. ST
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
Oak Stoves.

We carry the original Oak stew
made in Michigan. All other Oaks ar
limitations and infringements.
JOHN DUNLAvY Z Co.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

John Dunlavy & Co. are certain;
the lowest priced house on pumps j
the city. Try them. A-St-6A
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

Persons desiring to take COWS on tn
shares for two or three years will fine
it to their advantage to address Box L
Abilene, Kansas. 5-tf
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

The street cars are running the
whole length Of the track snce
more.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

We have in stock q line Of nearll
very kind of Oak stoves at prices t.
ait the hard times.
JoHE DKHAyY = CA.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

If you can winter Is head Of sattl'
address Box l., Abilene, Kansas. 81
ing prices. off
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

We will exchange stoves with you.
JOIN DUEkAvY Il CO.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

The best IS. 90 stove in the city.
JoHH DuNLAvY i %.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

FlDHFDQ-Look to your interests
FAliMAIlD and keep your hogs and
poultry free from cholera by purchas-
ing package of Haas Celebrated Hog
I'D Poultry powder Of Barnes 3 North
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

children Cry fer Pitchers Castoria
NJ ~ - DAnu q MSHyHuazAsYs'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

To vote you must register before
Oct. nth. Don't forget ID.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.

EDITED BY
J. 8. FORD, COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
Clothing Depalr ttrlent.

We will not be undersod and to prove this we want you
to call and examine goods and get our prices The
many years experience we have had in business this city
made thoroughly acquainted with the wants of the
public in this line Having in the selection of our stock
purchased large line goods from the very finest to the
strong working suit, we able to supply Livery
Person, and will warrant all to be of the BEST as
We Sell No Shoddy Goods.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15
COAL AND THE TARIFF.

Dir. Hart of the IRteUigeRcer re-
ported the st. Louis convention for
his Taper and he quotes ex Senator
Davis as saying:
Put coal on the free list and
there will not be ten miles more of
railroad built in West Virginia
while it remains there"
We doubt whether Mr.. Davis said
this. 1t is unadulterated nonsense.
If the Legislature passes the Chew
bill to compel railroad managers to
conduct their business publicly, and
not secretly, there will be no trouble
to find money for new roads. We
have the coal; it is wanted in places
distant from the mines: the trans
portation Of this coal will earn large
interest on the capital required to
build roads and coal can be mined
here as cheap as in Canada or Nova
Scotia. Coal can be delivered at
the mouth of the mine in West
Virginia as cheaply as anywhere
else. At present the same persons
own both mine and railroad, and
they want tax on foreign coal to
enable railroads to obtain higher
rates.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15

THE sTATESMAN'S FAILURE,

JOHANNESBURG, June 10.-I here
with hand you clipping from Wheel
ing paper, which speaks for itself.
II the Statesman had served the
country half as well as it served its
King it would not now be forsaken.
1 never saw in it anything the rail-
road magnates wished unpublished
1t labored to make the people dis
trust the DEMOCRAT, and always had
good words for Messrs. Camden and
Davis. As the latter was. and for
what l know still is, president of
Piedmont bank, you can account for
the milk in the cocoanut. There
has long been a suspicion that many
papers received q good deal Of mon
ey from Congressman. In conclns-
ion, the more people read you the
better they see the wide difference
between the DEMOCRAT and other
papers. The best thing for the party
to do is to raise money to make your
paper twice it's size and give it ten
subscribers where it has one.
LEX
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15

A tariff FOR REVENUE is q tax lev
led on foreign goods to raise money
to pay the expenses OF the Federal
government The larger the amount
Of foreign goods coming into this
country the greater the revenue.
A tariff FOR PROTECTION is a tax
on foreign goods to prevent them
from coming into this country; it is
a tax levied for the purpose of in
creasing the price of foreign goods
so that they will not compete with
homemade goods-yiz foreign
goods are taxed so they cannot be
sold in this country as cheap as
they are sold in England. In other
words the object of protection is to
enable the manufacturers to obtain
higher prices from their neighbors.
Profession is good thing for the
manufacturer, but very poor thing
for his neighbOr. The less the
amount of foreign goods coming into
this country the greater are the pro-
fits Of the manufacturers.
FREE-rRADE properly speaking)
means to abolish the present system
of raising revenue by taxing foreign
goods. Free-trade means raising
revenue by direct tax on property,
like the method employed for State
purposes or the method known as
the U. 5. internal revenue system.
Cleveland and the Democratic party
do not propose to abolish the tariff,
but they do propose to abolish pro-
lection and to levy the tax with the
view of putting money IN the public
treasury and not with the view OF
enabling manufacturers to exact
higher prices from the body of the
people. The literal meaning of the
term iree-trade has been lost sight
of, and the term is now used by such
men as Cleveland, Carlisle, Beck and
Frank Hurd to distinguish between
tariff for revenue and a tariff for
protection.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15
OEHM's ACME HALL.
UEHMo HUME HAHH'
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On the news from Oehm's Acme
Hall this Season and you will profit
by it.
For Practical Economy IN the
Purchase Of Dependable clothing
and FURNISHINGS our grand Estab-
lishmcnt outstrips all Competition.
We begin with
SMALL boys Kills. One and two
piece Kills, sizes from pa to 6 years. in
very attractive patterns ali beauties.
Some as low as $l..0-a large line at ESQ
and $3.50. Our Five-Dollar Counters
however, are main feature ofOur stock
and Won Will find better kits here at
that price than arc sold for 81 and -
more elsewhere. For $l2 the greatest
luxury imaginable in Kills.
Shirt Waists and Hats,
for small and large boys up Ia Is
yrs. old, fill. one entire side of our
extensive Boys Department. Thous-
ands of Waists in Linen, French
and American Percales, fancy and
plain color FlanDels, newest effects.
Prices from l2s to $3.50. A gor-
geous array of Straw Hats, Jockeys,
Tam-o' -Sbanters, DC, as well as
novelties from Paris and London in
cloth and cashmere goods. Prices
l5c. to $3.50.
Young Men and Youths
fine Suits. &c, here that have been
specially made up to please the fan
cy and ideas of young people, The
very latest designs at very moderate
prices. Suits from SIS to $25.
Furnishings.
EVERYTHING to complete gentleman's
outfit from collar button TO the richest
novelties in finest fixings from at home
and abroad. Lowest prices always.
To Order Department.
For those who prefer their Garmets
made to measure. All work high grade
and guaranteed, and best talent only
employed.
A Visit TO the Great Store
will convince you that there is not In
all Baltimore nor the South q stock OF
Mems fine Clothing that even begins to
compare with ours. ,er
The markets of the world baye been
searched to provide the "Jest" for our
customers. business, dress, and tour
lists Garments in greatest variety.
Write for Catalogue and Price-List,
and beautifully col0red cards. Mention
this paper. Our guarantee that prices
shall be lower for same quality OF mate
rial and workmanship amply protects
all purchasers.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15
ITO be contiaued.)
THE PACIFIC LUMBER RING,

The millionaire Lumber Kings OF
California had petition sent to
Congress. This petition purportcd
to come from "the manufacturers
and shippers of pine on the Pacific
Coast" and asserted that if the tar
if tax of 50 per 1000 feet was taken
off, British Columbia would supply
the Pacific slope. Congressman
Bynum pointed out that the Califor-
MIA Lumber interest was in the
hands of few men who had advanc-
ed prices $12 per 1000 during the
past year. The N. Y. Tribune the
chief organ of protection, answered
that this advance in prices was caus
ed by "the extra ordinary demand"
This answer being made in the face
of the fact that the petitions had ex-
pressly stated, that they were able
to supply the market.
The petitioners pretended that
they desired the tariff tax continued
''for the benefit of Labor" There
upon some one hunts up the file of
the Tribune and finds that on March
Is, (Iess than month before Byn-
um's speech the San Francisco
correspondent of that paper wrote
as follows:
'The Pine Lumber Pool has sue
ceeded during the past year in ad-
vancing the prices of lumber $l2 to
SIS per 1000 feet on the ground of
high shipping rates and increased
wages. The grounds for the ad.
vance are trivial, as the wages of
the men are only S. more per month
and the running expenses of the ves-
sells are no greater. The pool,
which has adopted all the methods
of newly-invented Trusts. has sim
ply made the people Of California
pay about 81, 100000 into its peck
ct. 1t controls ships and mills, and
regulates its price Of lumber to suit
itself"
Hence, prices were not put up be-
cause the demand exceeded the sup
ply, but because the Lumber Pool
agreed that they should go up, and
the excuse about labor was only a
pretense.
Again, week later the Tribune
published the career of j. b. Mont
gomery, "the croesus" of Oregon who
was shipping lumber to San Fran
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15

We notice a disposition in certain
quarters to dodge the issue made by
the st. Louis platform, and certain
gentlemen are talking as if afraid to
come square to the front and make
a bold fight. We tell them plainly
that this State is lost If we dodge
the issue. Our only hope is to make
Labor understand that protection
means rich bosses and poor work
men. This is a fact, and no man
who reads what we copy from Henry
George, unless natural born fool,
will see the truth as plain as we do.
Our only chance is to make a bold and
honest fight and appeal to the intel
ligenee Of Labor If we make this
fight from the start, before Novem-
Der comes Labor will wake up to an
appreciation of the fact that it has
been grievously deceived by the mil
liOnaire manufacturers.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15

We intended to print the st. Louis
platform, but it has been sufficiently
published by the other papers. The
Presidents position on the tariff is
well known; his views are those so
often expressed in these columns;
the platform commits the party to
the views of the President.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15

receives in wages. Necessarily
therefore, to increase the price Of
the commodities he must buy with
his money wages is to decrease his
real wages. For instance, q good
many of the highly protected Amer
lean laborers in the State of Penn
sylyania Gas in some other States
are compelled by their benevolent
protectionists employers TO make
their purchases in what the highly
protected American laborers call
spluck- me stores" In fact, it is
through these pluck-me stores that
these highly protected and prosper
GUS American workingmcn gets
their wages, because the plnck-me
bill is deducted from what is COM
ING to them as wages before any
money is turned over to them 0npay
DAYS: and many OF them being kept
constantly in debt, hardly see dol
lar from one years end to an other.
Now. it is evident that if one en-
plovers adds dollar to the prices
his men have to pay for the goods
they must buy in his "pluck-me,"
he Just as effectually cuts down their
real earnings as though he reduced
their wages by a dollar. And SO it
is evident that the protective taxes
which we impose for the purpose OF
increasing the prices of commodities
must in the way operate to reduce
the real wages of labor. Therefore
the protective scheme for raising
wages fully stated is simply this;
Wages generally are in the first
place reduced by taxes which in
crease the price of certain commod-
tiles, in order that a comparatively
few employers who profit by this
increase in the price Of what they
have to sell may bencvolently in
crease the wages of their employees,
and that this benevolent raising OF
wages in some occupations may
cause the raising of wages in all oc-
equations.
Is it not time that American
workingmen were done with such a
preposterous scheme rs this 7
There is one sense, and one sense
alone, in which protection may raise
wages. When real wages are low
enough, it may to some extent raise
nominal wages. If the protected
Pennsylvania employer were to keep
on raising the prices in his work
mems protected home market,
the pluck me store, he would come
to a point where their nominal
wages would not enable them to get
enough food and clothing tosupport
life, and where, consequently. he
would be forced to increase their
nominal wages in order to prevent
their removal or starvation. In this
way protection, like depreciation Oh
currency, may sometimes increase
nominal wages. But it can never
increase real wages. Whomsoever
protection may benefit-and analys-
is will show that it cannot even ben
eft the employing capitalists whom
it assumes to benefit, unless they
are also protected from home compe'
tition by some sort of a monopoly
it cannot benefit the laborer. 1t is
to the laborer q delusion and q
fraud-a scheme of barefaced plum
der that adds insult to injury; that
first robs him, and then tells him to
get down on his knees and thank his
robber.
ITO be continued.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-15

The coal output Of the United
States for the year 1887 amounted
l23, $3.50 tons. How much of
this was West Virginia's?-Wheel-
ing Register.
The total foreign Coal imported
was less than smilliOn tons. Why
a tariff tax on coal? The miners
say, "the wages paid them are not
sufficient to enable their families to
live like civilized beings.