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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

In China the girls are not obliged to
go to school at all. Their position in
the Empire is so Insignificant that no
provision is made for their education.
Boys, on the other hand, begin their
studies at the age of six and continue,
many of them, until they are of age.
Their course is particularly hard, be-
ginning at daylight and ending at dusk.
No honors are granted to the few
women, who bursting their bonds,
somehow obtain access to an occasion
nj school.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

Mrs. MACKAY has decided to sell her
house in the Rue de Tilsit and leave
Paris. 1t is said that she feels piqued
at the want of attention on the part of
the French and, although her enter
tainments are always crowded and
costly, yet she has never succeeded in
getting into the cream of French So
ciety. Her dispute with Meissonier,
the painter, did her much harm among
the more conservative circles.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
RecoCnized.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-Henry F. Hard
ing, who yesterday boldly entered first the
Fifth National Bank and later the Com
mercial National Bank and seized good
sum in each place, but was captured, was
arraigned in the Tombs court to-day. He
pleaded not guilty and was remanded for
trial. Justice Smith recognized Harding
as the man who escaped from the
special sessions court room about
two months ago. He had been
brought to court on two charges az
that time. He was acquitted on one charge
and held on the other. Before he could be
taken into the prison Brown (that was the
name he gave at the time) left the court
room and escaped
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
Susnensinn Land Entries.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-The bill reported
to the House yesterday from the COMMITTEES
on Public Lands, relative to the suspension
of land entries, provides that all laws pro-
viding for disposal of public lands except
the Homestead law and the laws in relation
to mineral lands and the law touching the
selection Of public land by States for
educational and other purposes, shall be
suspended until the pending legislation
affecting the public lands shall be disposed
of or the present Congress shall adjourn
II further provides that during the PEN
dency of land forfeiture measures no act
of railroad companies shall in any wise
enlarge their rights or claims.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

EDWARD CoRRIGAN, of the West
Side Driving Park, Chicago, has pre-
sented Mayor Roche with a check for
81, ,06S to GO to the yellow fever suffer
ers. It consisted of the money from
the recent benefit given at the track.
The money included all the gate re-
ceipts, the jockeys mounts and part
of the purses won on that day.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

X. WLBANKs, superintendent of mails
of the Chicago post-office, has been re-
moved by order of Postmaster-Ge
Dickinson. The removal is supposed to
have grown out of recent complaints of in
efficient management
5 A CABLE dispatch has been received in
Baltimore saying that the engagement of
Miss Virginia McTavish, of Baltimore, to
the Duke of Norfolk had been announced.
Miss McTavishi is well known in Baltimore.
She is the daughter of the late Charles
Carroll McTavish, a descendant of Charles
Carroll of Carrollton.
Hon. LEVI P. MoRToN's exhibit of
Guernseys at the State fair at Elmira, n.
Y.,h have been awarded two first prizes, two
second prizes and gold medal for the best
herd. With those awarded Mr.. Morton at
Buffalo he has so far this season been
given seventeen prizes in all.
NEW YORK will hold great tobacco ex-
hibition next winter. There are 500, 900 re-
tail tobacco dealers in the United States
and 500, 600 workers interested in the man.
ufacture of smoking and chewing tobacco.
The epidemic of diphtheria which recent
ly broke out in Madrid, Spain, has assumed
serious proportions.
-A-s VI lSAlOn lever was re-
ported at Jackson, Miss, on the 10th. At
Decatur, Ala, ten cases were reported.
One hundred and thirty-one new cases
were reported at Jacksonville with fifteen
deaths.
The striking cotton operators at Bolton,
England, have resumed work on the mas
ters' terms.
TIE Interstate Commerce Commission
has filed its opinion in the case of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Kansas City, which road
charged more for a shorter than for longer
haul, in competition with the Burlington 6,
Northwestern. The Chicago road claimed
that the Burlington was carrying freight
from terminals at ruinous rates and want
ed the Commission to order it to charge
higher rates or to allow the Chicago road
the benefit of ''dissimilar conditions in
the fourth clause of the Interstate act.
The opinion was that the Commission
could not take cognizance of any rates
made by competing roads and could not
give the Chicago road the benefit of dis
similar conditions which did not exist.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

THE Republican State convention
called at Fort Worth, Tex, to nomi-
nate State ticket, adjourned after
adopting resolution declaring it in
expedient to put up State ticket, ow-
ing to the fact that there was no rea-
sonable probability of election. Ares
olution was adopted indorsing the Ma
tional ticket and deploring the troubles
in Fort Bend and Washington Coun-
fiac
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

A DOZEN cities in Wisconsin voted
on the 18th whether to fix the saloon
license fee at $500 or retain it at 5000.
There was a small vote, the saloon
keepers being the most active. High
license was carried in Dodgeville,
Marinette, Depere, West Depere and
low license prevailed in Oshkosh,
GAINESVILLE, Mansion, Waupaca, Bara-
Doe and West Superior.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

In French official circles no credit
was given to the report via San Fran
cisco that two hundred French marines
and thousands of natives had been
killed in the Marauesa islands.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

KING MILAN has formally complained
to King Charles, of Roumania, OF his
having received Queen Natalie at
Bucharest, declaring the act to have
been insulting to him.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

GENERAL WALTER c. NEwBERRY has
been appointed postmaster at Chicago,
vice S. C. Judd, resigned. Judd was
accused by the Chicago press of ex-
acting political contributions from
the post-office employees.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

THE owners of the German news
paper, the Social Demokrat, which had
been published at Zurich, Switzerland,
have moved its Office to London to
to avoid threatened suppression.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27


The raid which Larkins' dog made
upon our camp was amusing rather than
annoying. He was very friendly and in
telligent shepherd dog, probably collie.
Hardly had we sat down to our first lunch
in camp before he called on us. But as he
was disposed to be too friendly, and to
claim too large share of the lunch, we
rather gave him the cold shoulder. He did
not come again; but few evenings after
ward, as we sauntered over to the house on
some trifiing errand, the dog suddenly
conceived bright little project. He seemed
to say to himself, on seeing US: There
come both of them now, just as have been
hoping they would; now while they are
away L will run quickly over and know
what they have got that a dog can eat"
Ny companion saw the dog get up on
our arrival, and go quickly in the direc-
tion of our camp, and he said that some
thing in the ours manner suggested to
him the object of his hurried departure.
He called my attention to the fact and
we fastened back. On cautiously near
ing camp the dog was seen amidst the
pals in the shallow water of the creek,
investigating them. He had uncovered
the butter and was about to taste it when
we shouted, and he made quick steps for
home. When we met him at the house next
day he could not look us in the face, but
sneaked of, utterly crestfallen. This was
a clear case of reasoning on the part of
the dog and afterward a clear case of the
sense Of guilt from wrong doing.-J0hn
Burroughs, tn The Geptury.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

REV. DIR. TRAvELLI, of Sewickly,
Pa, father of the kindergarten system
of America, died recently.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

THE bullion in the Imperial Bank of
St. Petersburg amounts to 211, Az, 495
r.oI1hleS
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
CURRENT COMMENT.

HUNDREDS of lives have been lost
through floods in Algeria.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

THE next meeting of the sovereign
grand lodge of Odd Fellows will be
held in Columbus, O.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

THE total salmon pack of Alaska this
season is seven thousand cases.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

ALL ports in Portuguese India have
been declared infected with cholera by
the British Foreign Office.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
A SAD SUICIDE.

CHICAGO, Sept. PA local paper says
Mrs. Dulon, the widowed teacher who
committed suicide a couple of days ago be-
cause grief over the recent death of her
daughter had affected ner mind. was the
sister-in-law of General Franz Sigel, now
register in New York. She was the daugh-
ter of the old German revolutionary hero,
Rudolph Dulon, pastor of Our Lady's
Church in Bremen, Germany, and after
ward a well known pedagogue in New
York State
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27
CELESTIAL MARRIAGES.

CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-Sam Wah and his
wife, Augusta, white woman, are locked
up at the Armory police station, charged
with bringing white woman from Milwau-
kee and furnishing them for wives to Chi
namen here at S25 each. Through their
matrimonial agency, it is charged, four or
five local Cinnamon have been furnish ed
with wives.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

roubles.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

WHILE Mrs. Matt Ryan, of fLeavenworth,
was returning with two lady friends from
the Priests of Pallas ball at Kansas City
on the night of the 21st, she was assaulted
by a negro man who seized her and de-
manded her diamonds, accompanying his
demand with threats of death if the ladies
did not keep quiet. They yelled Justify.
however, and the thief fed.
POLITICS begin to ''warm up"
o. W. BUCHANAN, solicitor and adjuster
for the W. B. Grimes Dry Goods Company,
of Kansas City, was leisurely walking up
and down the depot at Hutchinson the
other morning, seemingly enjoying good
health, when he was suddenly stricken
with apoplexy. He was taken to a hotel
in dying condition.
W. d. DENSoN was shot and killed at
Springfield the other day by NJ. S. Parsons
in front of the Clarendon Hotel. The
trouble was caused by board bill which
Parsons owed. benson was a widower
and about thirty three years old. Parsons
is about twenty-five years of age and
single. He was at once arrested.
KANSAS made division all to itself in
the great G. A. r., procession at Column
bus, o.
WHILE a lawyer was examining a wom-
an in a criminal case at Wichita the other
day, he asked her if the accused man was
not her lover, whereupon her husband,
who was in court, rose up and said:
ssWhen married this woman l swore to
protect her, and will not stand here and
have her insulted by such a shyster and
pettifogger as you are"
ROBERT RIPPEToN, Santa Fe trackman
racontlv had his leo cut off hy n train at
Strong City.
ANDREW ADAMsoN, OF Cherryvale, COM
mitted suicide the other day by taking car
bolic acid. Cause, financial troubles.
j. N. BRowN's shoe store at Wichita was
recently burned. Less, 5000; insurance.
81 200. He had Just started in business.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-27

DENVER, Col, Sept. A special from
Rawlings says man supposed to be the
murderer of Wallen and Livingston was ar
rested at Lander yesterday while trying to
sell an outfit like that owned by the muir
dered hunters
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19

IT is rumored that Senator Sherman,
in his opening campaign speech, will
devote some space to Southern outrages,
This is proper. Senator Sherman has
had a personal experience with some of
the more recent cases. For instance,
after he had secured six delegates from
Louisiana, (all colored), four from Mis-
sissippi, and six from Georgia, some
internal boodler, in the interest of Gen.
Alger, bought them away from him.
All good citizens will unite with Sena-
tor Sherman to suppress these outrages
on the colored race, in the future.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19
A DEMAND FOR o

A manufacturing firm of Canton,
formerly Republican, but now way off
color on the principles of making mon
ey out of excessive taxation, have re-
ceived a circular demanding Doodle.
This circular is issued under the au-
Spices of the Republican League of the
United States, of which millionaire
Foster is president. The proposition OF
this league is to carry the election OF
Harrison aid Morton by the aid OF
money. In other words, they want
money to buy votes with. This is the
party that for erly claimed to repre-
SEM ideas and principles. This is the
party that now clamors for a free bal
lot and a fair count. This is the party
that masquerades as the friend of the
American laborer. And yet, according
to this circular, money is needed, and
a great deal of it, to insure a free bal
lot and III the interest of the laDoriLg
man. Where is this money needed ?
In the South? Oh, no! 1t is wanted
in the North. 1t is wanted in Indiana,
in New York, in New Jersey, IN Con-
neticut, and in all the close congress,
ional districts. 1t is wanted as a cor
ruptiOn fund to debauch the poor voter
and corrupt the elective franchise. 1t
is to be used TO destroy the purity of
the ballot and usurp the popular judg-
ment. The men engaged in this effort
to control the election of the President
of the United States by the use of mon
ey, ought to be arrested, tried by a jury
of honest men, and every one of them
sent to the Penitentiary for ten years
Every good and true man in this country
would applaud such a course. Every
good and true cause would receive 8
lasting benefit from such a course.
This appeal for Doodle is dated July
II, 1888, No. POP Fifth avenue, New
York, and says:
"We have the most effective organ
ization ever introduced into any cam
paign. Money contributed to thu
League will be used in every Legitimate
way to further the election OF Harrison
and Morton. Whether you can affOr(
to give much or little, we ask you tt
give what you can afford quickly anC
we promise that you shall not regret it
as eCery dollar UjU be expended IN {
Udy subscribers UOUlG UiSh."
On a separate sheet is contained
partial list of those who have alread.
put up their corruption Doodle in thi
cause. We notice the following a
among the number: Chauncy n. De
new, New York, 5000; Cornelius Bliss
New York, $500; Warren Miller, New
York, $500; VIM. NJ. Everts, New York
800; Thomas c. Plat, $500; Earl
Wilson, Troy, New York, 800, Charlie
Foster, Fostoria, Ohio, 800; Genera
R. A Alger, Michigan, $500; w. s
Gunner, Wall street, New York, $500
NJ. c. Borden, ditto, $500, &c. Of tn
So names on this circular, whose sui
&. scriptions run from 1926 up to 500
there is not one mai known to be til
friend of the American laborer, or VIII
. has ever struck one blow for the dignit
of American labor. They are boodler
and corruptionists, all.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19

A GREAT change is going on all over
the great Northwest on the question of
tariff. The Chicago platform is gener-
ally repudiated, and many Republicans
are openly against it. Congressman
Knute Nelson, one of the brightest
minds in the present Congress, says:
"Worthier, better and juster, it seems
to nv mind, would it be to give our PEG
pie, the toiling masses, cheaper food,
cheaper fuel, cheaper clothing and
cheaper shelter-cheaper because re-
leased from the heavy and unnecessary
burden of high-tariff taxes. / will put
free sugar, free coal, free salt and free
lumber against free whisky and free
tobacco under all circumstances, and SO
will the great mass of the American
peOple."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19
PROTECTION DOES NOT ALWAYS
INCREASE PRODUCTION.

Take the sugar industry, for instance.
A high tariff was put on sugar in order
to develop the sugar industry of the
United states. Note the result.
We do not produce today near as
much sugar os We did before the war.
In 1912 we produced 5~39,830,5OO
pounds of sugar; in 1885 the produc-
ton was 312, 754, 486 pounds. While our
home consumption is increasing at the
rate of 10 per cent, our home product
is decreasing.
During the past ten years we have
paid out over S455, 100000 in duties on
sugar. 1t is estimated that the ordina;
ry-sized family pays not less than So ie
duties on the amount of sugar con-
sumed in a year. Eighty-two per cent
ad valorem is the protection given SUI
gar under the present law. This pro-
lection has not increased production
but has enhanced the price.
We now pay a tax Of $56,OO0,OO0 on
sugar alone, and as the high tariff on
sugar failed to increase production,
what is the use of any further robbery
by law in this direction.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19

An INJURY was further made whether
Wade would be likely to contribute any
part of that eight millions to help the
cause Of Harrison and Morton. The
reply was: NO, not much. Wade is a
man who holds on to all he gets. In the
Democratic party he was never a
generous giver to the campaign fund,
unless he was on the ticket himself, or
had some personal interest to subserve."
The above, doubtless, is the true story
of Wade's conversion. 1t is his money
that talks for the cause of Harrison,
Morton and monopoly, against the
cause Of Cleveland Il Thurman, and the
interest Of the masses. Men who have
grown very rich through the operations
of combinations, fostered and protected
by law, will naturally drift into the
party that proposes to maintain and
perpetuate the system.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19
MORE CONVERTS.

George Washington Clarkson, a col
ored Republican, late of Louisiana is
now in Cleveland, and has concluded to
support Cleveland. He is an educated
man and has been a frequent contribu-
tor to the New Orleans P~icayune. In
a letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
he says:
"Although l am a Republican l in
tend to vote for Cleveland and Thur
man, and will do so to rebuke the aw-
full crime Of the Republican party in
proposing to flood the land with free
whisky and the vast increase of all
grades of crime consequent upon such
iniquitous a course. Were the Repub-
Leans to succeed in carrying out this
proposition they will receive the ap-
prOval of the lowest or slum class of all
the cities, and the condemnation of all
good mel of whatever color or party.
With free whisky 1t will soon be found
that all the jails and penitentiaries of
the country will need to be enlarged
fourfold to accommodate the certain
increase of criminals. My people in
New Orleans and in the South gener-
ally have no enemy except whisky. 1t
is destroying them by tens of thousands
yearly, and with free whisky, or whisky
at cheap rate that prevailed before the
war, no tongue can tell the awful con-
sequences to the colored men of the
South. This Il proposition makes
me question as | never before question
ed the sincerity of the Republican par
TVS profession of love for the colOred
men of the South. They could not do
the race a greater injury. l noticed a
marked difference in the manner of
many northern men toward my race
compared with the manner of the lead
ing white men of the South. l notice
too, many northern mel act toward my
ace as if it was conveying agreat COM
pliment to even speak to them like gen.
tlemen. From a short experience l am
free to say that northern prejudice
against my race is far deeper rooted and
stronger than it ever was in the South.
l find the northern people are deplor-
ably ignorant of the true status of the
colored men in the South. OF course
there are depraved and drunken wretch
es in all parties; there are the lowest
kind of white trash and the most bru-
talized and depraved of colOred men.
OF course this class is shown no honOrs
North or South, but every well behaved
colored mar in the state of Louisiana
is as free to exercise his political rights
as is the most wealthy and noted of
white men.
GEORGE WASHINGTON GARRISON.
Cleveland, July Is.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19

IT looks like a new alignment of par
ties. We note more political changes
than usual so early in the canvass.
Quite a number of very rich men are
going over to the Chinese ticket, and
everywhere we notice changes from
Harrison to Cleveland among the mid
die classes, the active business men and
the toilers. No prominent Republican
statesman has put the Southern ques
ton to the front, although we see much
small talk in the Republican campaign
organs about a free ballot and a fair
count. All seem to concede that the
questions at issue involve Administra-
tive reform and topics purely economic.
Hence we are likely to witness very
many changes, and a new alignment OF
parties, before the end of the campaign.
The present outlook is, the Democracy
will get the largest accessiOns, and that
the Republicans will command most of
the corporate wealth.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19

WE are unanimously of the opinion
that Senator Sherman should pay that
board and room bill Of the Ohio delega-
ton to Chicago, even if it does appear
high. We do not blame him, however,
for refusing to pay the bar bill, which
is said to exceed by several hundred
dollars the board bill. Eight years ago
you know, the bill was $4,000, which
Governor Foster paid with his
own check, and which Senator Sher-
man thought the friends of President
Garfield ought to ~liquidate. Just how
it was fixed, we never quite found out.
1t is understood that the liquor bill
this year is quite large, and as Sher-
mans present political tendencies are
toward economy, we do not blame him
for repudiating it.