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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-17
"a GROOMING MERCY"

The Victory womsnhood Has Gained In
wyoming the Forerunner- of Grand Re
suits.
When stout-hearted Oliver Cromwell
won a victory in fight with the Kings
troops, he called it in his quaint way, "a
browning mercy" England then saw but
family the blessed and fsr-reaching re-
suits of those victories. go 'ti t''
Sowe to-day see but family the still
more blessed and greater results which
will follow the greatest browning
mercy" of our century, victory won,
not by push of pike or stroke of sword.
as Cromwelrs Ironsides won his battles,
but E-...s.. ..... D..
with the mid arms OF truth and love
Made mighty by the living Cod"
Womanhood has won in Wyoming. It
is the beginning of the end of long
struggle. That end will be that in every
State of our Union, in every govern
nent Of the world. woman will stand
beside man as helpmate and law-maker
and co-worker, and +, - n. 4 y-y.F
THE world will be the betrrfor ia =
No millenium will come, but a great
upward step has been taken. opening
the way for other steps to surely follow.
We want arbitration to take the place
of that great duel of nations which
men call war. We want the saloon-the
curse of our civilization-to bsswept
away. Women must help to these and
like good ends.
1t is said that for years past in Wyom-
ing bad men, of whatever party, have
stood but poor chance of election to Of
fee. Woman helped in this hindrance;
let her give like help elsewhere.
The tide sets toward justice as the
only true expediency. We need not be
perplexed about superiority or inferior
ity. Manhood and womanhood are I'M
like in such a way that each needs the
other. ''It is not good for man to be
alone is as true in our State as 1t vas
in Eden. Equal rights, equal oppor-
tunity, mutual helpfulness. and one
common welfare is the highest wisdom
and noblest courtesy, and the world is
moving that way. I'D,
Intelligent Englishwomen, who have
voted for years in municipal affairs, will
be glad that their sisters in the far West
have still wider rights Amelia B. Ed
wards, the gifted English lady whose
lectures on Egypt were heard by such
great audiences in this city, said to
lady here: II wonder that all American
women are not equal suffragists" In
every European country noble woman
and true men will rejoice. In distant
Hindostan, Pudita Ramabai and her OPP
pressed sisters will feel the thrill Of .
new hope. Changing the poets words,
we may say: rfs b.
''When this deed Is done for freedom.
TT ugh the broad earth's throbbing breast
Runs thrill OF joy prophetic
Pulsng Eastward from the West"
Our good land has had leading part in
favor Of national arbitration. The adj
mission Of Wyoming as State-the first
true republic in the world, with equal
rights for men and women in its organic
law-sets us in the forefront of the
nations for another wise and benehcent
movement Let those become American
ideas, part OF the ''righteouness which
exalteth a nation. ''--Giles b. Stebbins,
in Detroit Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-17
More Than One sort of Bench.

"There goes man who is said to have
smassed fortune while on the bench"
whoever said that is utterly ignorant
Of the possibilities of matchmaking.
Ones happy if he can make living at
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-17
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.

"Oh, he's not a matchmaker; he's a
nudge. n-Jewelers' Circular.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
TIVE purchase by the REFLECTOR of

TKE purchase by the REFLECTOR of
ths Abilene Gazette plant, goodwill,
ste., rs detailed elsewhere, closes the
career Of that once-famous paper as a
Sspsrste institution. Founded in 1875
lis history has been contemporaneous
Vita that Of Abilene during its rise
ffvn 'eattle town" to cultured and
prosperous city, excelled by none IN
Kansas for its push and rapid develop
nsnt. The lastfew years of its course,
which proved disastrous to the paper,
Ssut many Of its subscribers to the Re
TLKCTOR and now that the plant itself
las been absorbed by this Office it gives
sho REFLECTOR not only the best
equipped establishment in Central Kan
Sss but pre-eminently the most largely
circulated paper.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

The growing tendency of young men
in Kansas to gravitate to what they
call journalism" is one of the obvious
facts of modern life. And the young
women, too, have caught the craze, and
many of them are doing brighter Jour-
nalistic work today than the young
gentlemen. Even the overlooked
country editor" is going to speak his
little piece; ard he, surely, is entitled
to be heard, for he, if anybody, has a
hard time of it. :. In the battle of life
the country wspaper of Tie rural vii
lage has az hard a time of it as in our
old wars the poor powder monkey"
had. He grows more numerous. Every
little village of LOCO. to 1900 people
now has It's weekly paper. These pa
peys sfs useful. and are appreciated by
the community chiefly concerned. May
they all live long and prosper.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

ant secretaries and chief officers OF the
various departments and the faculty. Of
the Columbian Institute for the Deaf
and Dumb.
The next section of callers was head
ed by few survivors of the war Of
1916, closely followed by large repre-
sentation of Grand Army men and a
smaller body of gray-haired, venerable
looking men, known as the oldest in
habitants of the District of Columbia.
The reception of the public generally
was next in order and the gates to the
grounds, which had been closed up to
this time, except to the privileged few,
were thrown open and the crowd
thronged rapidly into the mansion.
The attendance was naturally smaller
than usual, on account of theinclement
weather.
The reception lasted until two
O'Clock, and it is estimated that dur
ing that time the President shook
hands with nearly 5000 people. When
it was over the President invited the
ladies who assisted him, and a number
of others, to join him in a lunch,
which had been prepared expressly for
them in the hallway up stairs.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Gnaranieed Grain Weights.

The farmers of Dickinson county and
Kansas lose hundreds and thousands
of dollars yearly by the shrinkage IN
weight Of the grain they ship between
the loading and. terminal points. 1t is
a loss which comes directly out Of the
producers pockets, as the buyers mast
so arrange the scale Of their prices as
to rerDunerate themselves for the loss
sustained in this way.
1t often happens that car of corn
or wheat will shrink in passage many
bushels, loss which the farmers can
ill afford to lose. The REFLECTOR be-
lieves that there should be such lPgis-
lation passed as will guarantee to the
farmers the delivery of as much grain
at Kansas City OF Chicago as is loaded
on the Car here. The railroad company
alone is responsible for the shrinkage.
Whether it occurs through faulty car
construction, thievery from the cars or
fraudulent weight at the terminus it
should be righted.
There is one and only one way to do
lt-that is to make it compulsory on
the railroad companies to put in guar
anteed scales at shipping points where
a considerable amount of business is
done. In Illinois, and we believe in
several other eastern states, all points
from which fifty carloads of grain are
shipped annually the statutes compel
the railroads to place scales for
the free weighing of all produce and
provide that the weight of material as
shown at the shipping point shall be
delivered at the other end of the line
or made good by the companies.
Such a law in Kansas would save
tens Of thousands ofrbushels of grain
to the farmers annually. 1t need not q,
however, apply to such small points. If
scales were put i'll at places where the
annual chipping amounts to 200 cars it
would apply to number of Dickinson
county cities. Not only Abilene but
Lexington, Hope, Solomon, Manches-
ter, Chapman, Enterprise and perhaps
Woodbine would receive the benefit.
The farmers of the county, not only
individually but through their alliances
and Institutes, should push the matter
and secure the benefit which such an
institution would give them. By a
united action on the part of the farm
ers of the state the first acts of the
next legislature can be made to include
a bill providing for such guaranteed
weights and a saving of large sums an
nually to the agriculturistS of Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
CHANGE IN RATES.
The Interstate Railway Association Adj
justs Kansas and Nebraska Charges.

The Interstate Railway Association Adj
justs Kansas and Nebraska Charges.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-The board of man.
ayers of the Interstate Commerce
Railway Association has agreed upon
a basis of freight rates to apply on
Kansas and Nebraska local traffic
to take effect January 10, making
a slight advance in Nebraska rates,
as they now exist, and proper
Tomato reduction in Kansas rates, in
order to place them on uniform basis
A meeting will be held next week to
adjust the through rates from Chicago
to Kansas and Nebraska points in con-
formity with the local rates thus estab-
lished.
A large proportion of the grain
shipped from Nebraska to the Atlantic
seaboard has recently been going
around by way of st. Paul, instead of
taking the more direct route by way of
Chicago. The reason is that the rail-
roads west of the Missouri river have
fixed the rate from Omaha to st. Paul on
the same basis that applies from Omaha
to Mississippi river points, whereas it
was customary to make the same rate
to St. Paul that is applied on Chicago
shipments from Omaha. The trouble
is that the TransmissOUri Association
authorized the lower rate to st. Paul.
Some of the Chicago lines objected to
this and meeting was held at
Chairman Walkers Office t" con-
slider the question Of whether
the TransmisSOuri Association
has n right to authorize rates to
points in the territory of the Western
Freight Association that do not con-
form to the established differentials of
the latter organization. An agreement
could not be reached and the Chicago
roads appealed the matter to the exec
utiye board for arbitration.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
or the trying 70 1Ollow more noble

for the trying 10 JOllOw more noble
paths.
at first though how happy we would
be to wipe out fhe past entirely and
start new tomorrow, but then think
that with thenistakes, the errors, the
wrongs must 90 all the good and in all
our lives there is much that we would
not wilIingi, have forgotten when our
account IS made up. viii tomorrow
not bedndeed happy New Year II II
shall mark the beginning of twelve
months record that shall contain MOTH
ing whatever that we could wish to be
forgotten or wiped out. Human fall
bility will probably not allow it to be
SO to one who reads these lines, but 1t
is permitted to US to approach that
perfection nearer than we have ever
done before if We will renew tOmOr-
rows resolutions on each day of 1890.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

ABILENE has seen some severe blows
during the past year but she is ktir the
same Abilene-the best city in central
Kansas. The financial dificalk lies have
only served to make her peopIA conser-
vative and economical. Thei town is
no worse off; the aggregate o3wealth is
no less and with the multiplicity of ag-
ricultural products that has fteen har-
vested there is no reason to far for her
future. The coming year win see the
Belle go several rounds up the ladder.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Publication Notice,

To Sara Z. LoOmis:
1oa ar hereby notified that you have been
sueo In an action commenced in the district
cOurt OF Dickinson county. Kansa,s On the 18th
Gay OF De cember, A. d. 1889, wherein The Con-
neCtiGot NJ 9Guai Life Insurance Company, cor
poration, is plaintiff and Ellsworth NJ Ward.
Laura E. ward and you. the said Sara F. Loomis,
are delendfgnts, and that you must answer or de-
!nur 70 the petition filed In said action on or be-
fore the l6t.1 day Of February, A. D. 1890. q said
Petlton VIII be taken as true and judgment L@a-
1ered again sc the said defendants, Ellsworth Il,
ward and LAURA E. Ward, for 81 54s IS with u
per cent. per annum from May LIST. 1889, and
costs OF suit and decree entered forclosing a
mortgage, g ven 70 Secure said sum, on the north
west quarter Cz)sof section five Isl township M
Teen (15) rarge one ~, east OF the 9th P. M, in
ss,q county nd state. and ordering said premises
sOla 10 satlsfJ said sum, interest and costs. and
further decreeing that you. the said sara F.
LOOMS, De forever barred, enjoined and re-
strained from setting up or claiming any right
title or interest in and TO said lands
JAMES CULBERTSON.
g-o ATTY for Plaintiff.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

DICKINSON county has in 1889 har-
vested crops that are the pride of every
citizen, that it contains. Her farmers
have more grain than they can find
shipping points and cOnveniences for.
The warm fail and early winter is car
ryiDg them along with the best of pros
poets for the outcome of the season s
and there seems no rea-
son why unbounded prosperity should
not be our portion in 1890.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

HELENA, Mont, Jan. "A joint sest
sion of the Republican Senators and
Representatives of the House was held
Yesterday at noon and the action of the
Republican caucus that nominated
Colonel w. T. Sanders Tor United
States Senator WAS ratified, he receiv-
ing the solid vote of the party, Lee
Mantle IL. Richards IL, Leayitt s,
Hershfield 1, Power ), Carpenter l..
The joint session Of the Democratic
Senators and Democratic memJers Of
the House was hell, hut there was no
quorum present amt it adjourned.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

WITH the prestige of year of pnex-
ampled prosperity, Kansas should jhave
before her twelve months of advance
ment never equalled in her history.
The tide of immigration attract ed by
the bursting bins and promising fields
of the Sunfower state will COM be this
way and the old-time push and boom
will be seen in an intensified form.
Let US begin 1890 with irRI resolu-
ton to work for Kansas throughout the
year.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
The Annual Beginning.

There is one thing the world never
grows weary of greeting the new year.
1t will be just as much a novelty to
mankind when 1890 enters the arena as
1t was when each of its hundred thou
sand or more predecessors first dawned
upon this mundane sphere. There is
something sublime in the simplicity
with which man looks upon the occas-
ion. Complacently he gazes at the
movements of the heavenly bodies
rushing on in their endless course and
puts in peg to mark starting and
stopping point. When a certain
amount of whirling has been done he
coOlly asserts that it is time to put in
another peg and celebrates the occas-
ion with as much jubilation as if each
OF the heavenly bodies had stopped,
turned square around and, throwing all
the universe into dire confusion, taken
the back track. Did it do so, man
would take all the credit to himself
and consider that the whole arrange
nent was for his especial benefit.
Why should we have a New Year?
There is no stopping or repetition of
the course of the heavenly bodies. The
earth will never retrace the path it took |
In 1889. We are not within a million
miles of where we were one year ago.
With the sun and perhaps. with the en-
Tire universe of worlds we are moving
Mankind knows all this,
but still it persists in chalking off
periods.
Z Why the custom?
4 Is 1t not because man is a reformer
eg nature? lie is always wishing to
wipe out the past and begin new; always
irving to balance the books and place
MS accounts on a\new page; always
from the narrew path of
1uty and'beggihg tei start over again.
Looked aem This light the new year is
9ne of our-gfsatest Blessings. Many a
person would become discouraged and
never get back to the road of rectitude
we're it not for havinga new beginning
place. sN6taH aressc constituted, but
iomelare. ea1sI1sa SzsT7 Hos
To- bezhenest- aboas.it, we are all
more or less affected by it, Ninety
liue out of hundred of nswiH begin
iope new line Of action OF fdrbish Fup
ONE rasty custom tOmofrow. Ws1nay
lot boast oft, We may not menlionft,
nut some aF1ee effort win be made that vel
ave notmade befoFes 5aIsas sa :. = sTasi 4ste<
1T will bean effort ao, 81 aIpR Fish E tee too. :
teone overheard Of 4 regglutignte do !
w being found for New 9Nu-
lhtter HtIetfet ftiastsa week oFqia1 s
1erth q all She year We Wi be better q
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

AN exchange announces that the
death of Browning leaves vacancy IN
the family of poets. We hasten to
nominate for the Office Col. Absolom
B. Campbell and Capt. Henry Booth.
1t is very true that neither of them is
poet, but any kind of an Office comes
in their line.-[Topeka Lance. i
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Increns.d Deatn. "a Now York.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The number of
deaths reported at thu bureau of vital
statistics during the twenty-four hours
ended at noon yesterday was 1876, or
all increase over the average of about
100 per cent. The increase is in deaths
from pneumonia, bronchitis and is
generally consumption. La grippe is
credited with being at the bottom of
the increased fatality. Policemen to
the number Of 2G5 are on the sick list.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Father Damen, of Creighton College,

Father Damen, of Creighton Colleges
Omaha, Neb., is dead.
The Servian Skupstchina has adj
jOurned until February 6.
Frederick VintOn. librarian at Prince.
ton for thirteen years, is dead.
Two New York policemen died OIL
the LIST as result of influenza.
The ''robber gas bill' has been vetoed
by Mayor Noonan, of st. Louis.
Charles II. Faxon, of Jacksonville.
Ind, committed suicide on the day of
his marriage.
Boston has ordered heroic size
bronze statue of Farragut, and will
pay $50, 500 for it.
The union printers of the Philadel-
phia Press have walked out, force of
fraternity printers having walked in.
Daniel NJ Bowman, ex-editor of the
Woodford Ky Sun, was killed recent
ly by falling off a train on the Monon
road.
Cattle dead of disease have lain in
the water drank in Reading, Pa, and
the people have typhoid fever cpl
demic.
The National Zeitung, of Berlin. has
confirmation from st. Petersburg of
the Cars serious sickness from sud-
den terror.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, of England,
thinks the trouble with Portugal is
only passing cloud. He has said so
much in a speech.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal saws
1t has strong reason to believe that
Lord Salisbury will dissolve Parliament
at the earliest moment.
Eliphalet Kimball, a veteran of the
Texan army of independence, died at
Hartford, Conn.,, recently, in the
ninetieth year of his age.
Kaiser William, of Germany, has sent
a friendly sword to Vice-Admiral Com
merell, of Great Britain, as a souvenir
Of his late visit to Portsmouth.
Bad weather affected the calling
custom of New Years day in many |
cities. There are many indications,
however, of the practice falling into
disuse.
The Khedive's Government will not |
accept the proposition made by France
IN regard to the conversion of the
preference debt and the conversion is
consequently postponed.
DIR. Barbosa, the Brazilian Minister,
estimates that the total expeni.tures
-or 1890 will be SIS, 900, 900 milres; that
ne treasury balance will be 50, OO0, 900;
md that the balance from the interior
oan will cover the deficit and allow
ne completion of the interior con-
racts.
King Carlos of Portugal opened the
ortes on the lst, but the Chamber of
Deputies viii not be organized until
ne end OF the month Questions to
e sunm ted 10y the opposition con-
errning t interim! and colonial policy
t siss Government will be discussed
arlS n February.
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
A Fnrper.s Suicide

COFFEYvILLE,K Kan, Jan. 2.-Thomas
NJ. Powell, of Cherryvale, had been ar
rested here charged with forging note
for 800 on Reeves & Co., of Kansas City,
and was to nave had his preliminary
examination before a justice of the
peace at nine O'Clock, but he was found
suspended by the neck dead in barn
in the First ward, evidently having
committed suicide. He left a wife
and two children at Cherryyale.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

EDGAR NJ. BALDWIN, of the Ellis
Headlight, has been appointed to pO-
sition in the government printing Office
at Washington. Baldwin is too bright
a Kansas editor to lose from the state
and we hope he will return when he
has made his fortune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

SPEAKING Of Kansas rye crop the
acreage harvested last year was I9l ,677
which yielded 8, 19e, ITO bushels valued
at 81 ,S5O.759. Smith county carries
the banner yith,$E3, $50 valued Dick
inson comes next with So, e5s and
Ellsworth lisa close third being $50 .295.
The total value this year, from rye, is
$3.50. 6sl.14s Ne State Ieea make a
WY face at such a sho8 ing as that. = Il
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. 2.-Chancellor
Henry r. PiersOn, State board of re-
gents, died suddenly yesterday of Rus
sian influenza He was a prominent
Republican until the Cleveland Blaine
campaign, when he came out for Cleve-
land and tariff reform. He accompa-
MED Governor Hill on his recent tour
through the Southern States.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

THE'Gaicsgo Times says "a real
genatne Kansan always spells the nam
OF his state in full, and never abbreyiy
ates: Kansas is too good name TO
treat shghlinglg, and no, true citizen
will think Of such thing. 1t was
Kansas In 1854, and it is Kansas now
Dersonifiad ,, ---- -z'7' --s-l p
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

AANsANs are burning corn for ::uel.
says the New York Press, which Ken.
tuckans would turn into whisky Bnt
Kansas IS prohibition state. while
che only prohibition in Kentucky is an
acquaintance with the man who doesn't -
drink. s.--s--s = 0N0-' - :
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

D. R.ANTHoNY was not invited to
the Brewer banquet and refused to
allow a report to appear in his paper
and called the committee hard names.
1t is not good policy to be too choleric
in such matters.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

A ~ is becoming quite notorious
IA the'eastern states for the things that
ooif tina happen here. A Kansas CITY
dispatch TO St. Louis paper saws sew.
erAi buildings were blown down in this
city last Sunday. -------- 80
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Fire at Willis. Kan.

HIAwATHA, Kan, Jan. 1.-The town
of Willis suffered by fire Monday night,
and for the second time in two years.
The Willis Grain Company loses $500;
Berl's hardware store, $1,000; Harris
grocery, 500; A. j. Stone, shop and
dwelling, 5000. The origin of the fire
Is unknown,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Publication Notice.
B fore John P. Quinn, Justice Of the Peace
wi thin and for Dickinson county. state Of Kansas
John II. Robson, Plaintiff,

VS..
Samuel Neeley and a. Loupee, Defendants.
To the above named defendant, Samuel Neeley
I parts unknown:
Gu are hereby notified that in the above enti.
tied action TIRE said justice OF the peace issued an
ord er OF attac hment against you, on the 22d day
OF October, 1872 for the sum Of SOS 90, which has
been levied upon personal property belonging TO
You, and that said cause will be heard at the Office
OF said justice of he peace, In the city Of Abb
iene. in said county and state on the first day OF
February, a. d. 1890. at O'Clock a. m.
JAM IS H. Robson, Plaintiff
attest. JOHN P. OF mn,
1873 JUST, g OF the Peace.