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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10

of the sections in order to facilitate the
immediate passage of the bill He
hoped it would go through without de-
lay and without amendment.
After further debate the bill was
passed, yeas 50, nays (Mr. Blodgett).
The bill as it passed is exactly as it
came from the Judiciary Committee
April 2.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!

The following is fac sime of postal card received BY
G. STERL & co. this morning. It speaks for itself:
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10

FREDoNIA, Kan, April s.-The most
exciting and hotly contested municipal
election in the history of this city oc-
CURED yesterday. There were two
tickets in the f1eld-the Republican and
Democratic. The total number of votes
cast was SIS, and the Republicans won.
The pre- emium on gold in the Argen-
tine Republic is L 81 per cent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
THE RIFLE AND BULLET.

An African Sportsman Relates the Kind He
Prefers, and the Execution They Do.
From the Illustrated News of the World
The veteran sportsman, great African trav-
eler and geographical explorer, Sir Samuel
Baker, insists on the use of solid bullets weigh
ing $50 grains, which should be of hard metal
lie compound for thick-skinned animals, but
for lions, tigers, and large deer should be of
pure lead; this latter bullet will 90 through the
body. not breaking up into little pieces like the
hollow bullet, but will expand, by pressure
against the bones and sinews, to a fattened
front width, about an inch and a half. 1t may
then be stopped by the inner surface of the
skin on the opposite side of the body, and so
much the better, for the animal is then brought
to the ground with the full force of the stroke,
reckoned at $500 pounds to the square foot
with .577 bore rifle, powder charge of six
drachms, and solid bullet. If the bullet
passes out of the body on the other side a por-
Jion of the force is lost.
But for elephants and other large thick
Skinned beasts, Sir Samuel Baker recommends
still more powerful weapon, the "ParaSox.
No. 12,'' or the Paradox. No. g." with bullet
OF IA ounces, even ounces for the No. 8, and
a charge OF 10, II, or more drachms of powder
Only strong men could use such firearms as
these, but the author once had rifle thai car
rled a three-ounce spherical bullet, four-ounce
conical, or half-pound shell, with propelling
charge of 16 drachms. There were giants in
those days. The rifle, made at Bristol in lS4O
weighed Fl pounds, and was his companion
many years in Ceylon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
British statesmen, without respect to party,
seem to be liable.
BLA1NEs GREATEST OPPORTUNITY.

james G. Blaine, whose reputation for
smartness has been celebrated in song and
story until the whole world knows of it,
seems to have now the opportunity of his
lie. AT time when the Democrats over the
country are shouting that the Mckinley bill
will not stand the test of trial, and when
such Republicans as Speaker Reed, and a
few other leaders, have been venting their
spleen against Blaine and the Senate for
the reciprocity amendment, it will be
great triumph for Mr.. Blaine if he can so use
the reciprocity powers vested in the Presi-
dent as to make the new order of things
distinguished success.
The reports from Washington that Mr..
Blaine is engaged in constant study of the
problem of trade with Cuba and with the
South American republics, and that he is
in daily conference with the official repre-
sentatives of these places, will more than
ever at this juncture direct the eyes of the
Republican party to him. The resources Of
the Secretary in this matter of reciprocity
the grasp which he has of the subiect-was
strikingly illustrated by kilograms in yes
terday's DISPATCH, showing how thor
oughly the mercantile interests of Cuba
feel themselves at the mercy of the United
States, and how eager they are to have reci-
procity laws agreed to by Spain in short order,
giving Mr.. Blaine all the free market he
may ask for American products. Like
causes are apt to produce like effects in
South America. Those countries, which
have been putting an import duty on Ameri-
can commodities while getting their own
into the United States on especially
favorable terms, are now confronted by the
power and the purpose of the Federal ad-
ministration to retaliste to their alarming
disadvantage.
What thoroughly well-posted man like
Blaine can make out of a situation of this
sort may not be measured in moment. As
things stand he has absolute power with his
party. 1t is not given him by direct vote,
to be sure, but efficient causes operate ex-
sctlY to the same end The rival leadership
of other Republicans has been practically
discredited by the results of the elections.
Mr.. Harrison no longer hesitates in which
direction TO turn; and the rank and file OF
the Republican party have not at any time
ceased to look to Blaine as the most capable
man for framing and vigorously carrying
out successful national policy.
Under the circumstances it is easy to see
how great is the opportunity which has
shaped itself for the man from Maine. Both
supporters and opponents will look with
great interest to the use he makes of 1t.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
THE GREAT DISCOVERY.

NEW YORK Tribune: There can be little
doubt that he has made discovery Of the first
importance.
NEW YORK Commercial Advertiser: The
public will watch developments with an inter-
est proportionate to the importance of the sub
ject
NEW YORK World: The final revelation
cannot now be long delayed, but until is made
the attitude of physicians toward the matter
will be one of hopeful suspension of judgment.
NEW YORK Times: The experiments Of
Prof. Koch in search of a substance by the use
of which the tubercle bacillus, and with it
tubercular diseases, can be overcome. excite
the greatest interest throughout the civilized
world.
PHILADELPHIA Press: DR.. Koch is ply
sician of worldwide renown. He has appar.
emily chosen to use his conspicuous position to
give a conspicuous instance of the sound wis
dom Of the professional rule that remedy shall
be announced for general practice only when
ali the steps in its preparation and use can be
given to the medical world.
PHILADELPHIA Record: Whatever shall re-
main to be told in the succeeding chapters, or
whatever measure of success may Immediately
attend the introduction of the new agent for
checking the spread of tuberculosis, enough is
already known to place the name OF Koch
among the immortals OF medical science, and
with the best of titles to immortal fame-that
of benefactor of his fellow-men.
NEW YORK Herald: 1t is a thrilling story of
a man of science graphing with one Of the
darkest mysteries of disease. AS far as it is
now possible to judge Prof Koch's is the most
hopeful attempt ever made to cope with the
great wasting malady of mankind-a disease to
which at least one-seventh of our death rate is
attributable and which lays low the very PRIDE
and flower of the race.
NEW YORK Sun: 1t is not what the Berlin
doctor has discovered thus far that is OF the
highest interest to the medical faculty. 1t is
the suggestiveness of DR.. Koch's discoveries
that is the most important thing about them.
They open up prospect that science may yet
give us the means of curing many diseases that
have always been regarded as incurable.
If DR.. Koch's method of treatment be
justified by experience, we may look for great
advance in the science of medicine within the
next few years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
THE SCOPE OF MIND.
Could Men Distinguished in One Sphere of
Life Have Excelled in Another.
From the Pail Mall Budget

Could Men Distinguished in One Sphere of
Life Have Excelled in Another.
From the Pail Mall Budget.l
In our own country, turning nearer home. is
not the most successful of our generals also
one of the most successful of our wrfters2 Can
anyone doubt that Lord Wolseley might have
made himself first-class reputation with his
pen If he had never touched sword in his life
far less welded the commanders batonf It is
very strange.
Are we to suppose that, at bottom, the energy
of mind is much the same, after all, which goes
to make Caesar or Shakespeare, TO equip
Newton or Napoleon? Might George Mere
d1th, under another star, have created the
combinations Of Metz, and drawn the iron ring
round Paris? Might Hellmuth Moltke, start
ing from Mr.. Merediths cradle have written
''The Ordeal of Richard FeverelP'
Whether the man who leads to a breach and
the man who writes a book are really nodded
OF tie same intellectual clay or no, one thing is
certain, the tendency of modern conditions is
to approximate them more and more More
and more in modern warfare is it possible for a
Moltke to treat the field as chessboard, and
to meet warm eulogy. as with characteristic
modesty Moltke met it so recently as a few
years ago, with the reflection, "Well. don't
feel sure now whether could set battalion
in the field"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
GouLp,s LATEST CAMPAIGN.

1t is somewhat startling to learn that one
of the chief results of the recent stock furry
is that Mr.. Jay Gould has acquired enough
Union Pacific stock to control, in conjunc-
tion with the Ames party of Boston and the
Rockefellers, the management of that cor
poration. An interview has appeared in
which Mr.. Gould is represented as declaring
this fact and asserting that Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams will be ousted from the
Presidency of the road. The truth of this
interview is denied by Mr.. Gould, but the
habits of this wary gentleman with regard
to public assertions and the denial of them
are such that Mr.. Gould's denial is regarded
as about as good evidence of what he denies
as his affirmation would be.
Mr.. Gould's record in connection with the
Union Pacific is already somewhat famous
one. The results of the notorious trans
actions by which Mr.. Gould during his
previous control saddled that corporation
with an immense load of debt, out of which
be pocketed the neat little sum of $50, ,00O,.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
THE PARNELL CASE,

The failure of Parnell to appear in the
O'Shea divorce suit at London yesterday,
taken in connection with his former positive
deniaIs, was evidently in the nature of a
surprise all round. His opponents, both in
the Courts and in politics, as we'll as per-
sonal, will, of course, make the most Of it.
Already they report his retirement from
the leadership of the Irish party in Parlia-
ment. But SO far as the merits of the Irish
question are concerned. they do not depend
merely upon one person.
Whatever be the ultimate personal posi-
ton of Parnell, the Irish home rule cause
is sure to be ably and vigorously led, not
only bv its own members, but also by the
Grand Old Man, Mr.. Gladstone, who, at
least, the public may be privileged to be-
heve, is free even from the danger of that
peculiar litigation to which so many other
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
A GRANDFATHER'S TRIBUTE TO his
WIFE.

When in the first fair flush of happy youth.
looked with loving eyes upon thy face,
1t seemed to me there could find. In truth,
The perfect type of beauty and of grace.
And as the bells rang out their gladsome chime
That day when we were wed. 1 did not dream
That ever with the mellowing of time
Could that sweet face of thine more lovely
seem.
Yet, as I see thee now-thy crown OF white;
The glory Of thy motherhood; the lines
Upon thy brow and cheek, marks of times
flight;
' The many sweetnesses thy life combines
Methinks that in my youth my judgment erred.
Despite thy beauty. seeming so benign,
This heart of mine hath never been SO stirred
AS by the loveliness that now is thine.
--JoAn Keadrick Bangs IN Harper's Weekly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
SUGGESTIVE PERSONALS.


Mr.. MOODY is growing much stouter than he
was, and a good deal of silver has crept into his
hair.
NJ. TAME has Just finished reading the proofs
Of Lis book, La Regime Moderne," In Whicn
he deals with the Napoleonic period.
DR. PAUL GIBIER, Director of the New York
Pasteur Institute. is going to Berlin to investi-
gate DR.. koch's new method of curing tuber-
culosis.
ALEXANDRA DUMAS, novelist and dramatist,
is generous and cultivated art collector, his
private gallery of modern pictures being con-
sidered the finest in Paris.
MRS. MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT, the Boston
novelist. is a woman of great beauty. She is Of
medium height. with fair complexion and
pair of expressive brown eyes, Her hair is
brown and curly.
THE renowned Spanish fencer, Baron San
Malato. has returned to Paris from America.
One result Will be the issue of 100 photographs
OF attitudes of defence and attack in tenclug
for which the Baron has posed.
Mr.. CHARLES GIBSON, an eminent Amer
lean lawyer, on whom the German Emperor's
grandfather conferred various decorations. has
received from His Majesty the Crown Order of
the First Glass.
c. F. GUNTHER, the Chicago confectioner,
possesses among his manuscripts several that
are almost invaluable. Some of them are the
the originals of "Home, Sweet Home" Burns's
"Auld Lang Syne' and Newman's LEAD
Kindly Light"
@"CoLoNEL INGERsOLL." says one Of his
friends, ''keenly realizes the fact that he can
never have career in politics, legislation or
craftsmanship. and can never hold any i'm
portant office under the Government for which
he fought"
WILLIAM MoALEER, Congressman-elect
from the Third Pennsylvania district, is in
Louisville in the interest of q rich Philadelphia
syndicate which is about to close a deal in
Eastern Kentucky mineral lands which in
wolves over S2c00,0O0.
The Rev. DR.. Meredith, who, next to Tai
mage, breaches to the largest audience in
Brooklyn, was a sailor boy. 1t was in this ca
pacity that he arrived in San Francisco. where
he remained some time. and then went to Bos-
ton to study for the ministry.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, who says he came
over this time to enjoy the vaunted New En-
gland autumn, struck a spell of weather that
must have reminded him of London at its
worst, and he has gone home again. convinced
that the much-praised glories of New England's
autumns are mythical.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
PASSPORTS ABROAD.
They Are More Necessary Now Than Before
and Americans Need Them.

They Are More Necessary Now Than Before,
and Americans Need Them.
American subjects should never travel on
the Continent of Europe without a passport.
The regulations, once SO stringent, were grad
uaIly relaxed for some time before the Franco
Prussian war. They have now been brought
back in their original force. While absolutely
essential for Germany. Austria, Greece. Portu.
gal, Russia and Turkey, they should not be
omitted in France. Spain or any other country
where the rigor is not SO intense.
If you receive registered letter, addressed
to any Posre Restante Office in France where
you happen not to be well known, and cannot
produce your passport, no entreaties will ena-
BILE you to obtain possession of that letter.
Students who wish to enter the Ecole des
Beaux Arts, to read at the Bibliotheque Nation
ale, to copy in the public art galleries, all must
be provided with passport.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
LIBERAL CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.
Organization of a Non-Sectarian Allan
Among Western Christians.

Organization of a Non-Sectarian Alliance
Among Western Christians.
CHICAGO, November 15.-The first session Of
the new-formed Liberal Christian Alliance"
to-day concluded its work, after electing David
Swing President and other officers. Ex-Sena-
tor and Minister Palmer is trustee-elect. The
following preamble and constitution was
adopted:
believing that better and more spiritual
Interpretation of Christianity is everywhere
needed in our time, and that there ought
to be more fellowship and union in spirit
and work among liberal Christians, this asso-
citation is formed for the purpose of promoting
these ends
"Article This association shall be unde-
nominational
'Article Pits basis shall be an undenomi-
national Christianity, the right of private
Judgment in the Interpretation and right Of
private conscience in action and religion.
ARTICLE 3-The Liberal Christian Alliance
shall in no way disturb either the Independents
or the existing denominational relations Of
affiliating denominations of churches.
"Article 4-This association invites the fell
lowshlp of all in sympathy with its aim"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
PERPETUAL FIRE.
Cresset-Stones in English Churches Form
erly Used for Preserving Fire.
From the CornhiIl Mapazine1

Cresset-Stones in English Churches Form
erly Used for Preserving Fire.
From the Cornhin Magazine.l
There exist still few-a very few-contriv-
ances for this perpetual fire in our churches;
they go by the name of cresset-stones. The
earliest know is not in England, but is in the
atrium outside the remarkable church of 8.
Ambrogio at Milan. 1t is q block of white
marble on a nodded base, now broken, but
banded together with iron. 1t stands feet 10
inches high, and is feet 6 inches in diameter
at top. 1t consists of a fiat surface in which
are depressed nine cuplike hollows. These
were originally filled with oil, and wicks were
placed in them and ignited.
In England one is still in stu. in the church
of Lewannick, in Cornwall. There it is not far
from the door. 1t consists of a circular block
containing on its fat upper surface, which is q
inches across, cup-like hollows AZ inches
Deep The stone stands on a rudely nodded
base, octagonal, and is in all about feet 6
inches high. In Furness Abbey among the
ruins, has been found another, with 5 cups
in it; at Calder Abbey another, with 16 such
cups for oil and wicks. At York is another
with such fre-cups, and at Stockholm
another with the same number, in square
stone table. At Wool Church. Dorset, is again
another example built into the south wall of a
small chapel on the north side of the chancel.
Is is block of Purbeck marble. and has in the
top cup-shaped cavities quite blacKened with
the oil and smoke. In some of the examples
there are traces of a metal pin around which
the wick was twisted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
THE MYSTERY OF FIRE.

Endeavored to Ascertain Its Origin.
Cornhill Magazine.l
We can well understand what puzzlement the
fire was to primitive man. He could not max g
out its nature; was it a being, an animal, a god
or what?
1t is, perhaps, hardly wonderful that he asso-
ciated it with life; he could not understand
what caused the animal heat of the body, and
as he saw that when life departed the body
waxed cold, he supposed that the human frame
contained an internal flame or fire. Even in an
Arabic romance, Yokdan, the hero. anxious to
discover what life really is, opens the heart of
an animal as it dies, and discovers little blue
flame which leaves the cavity of the heart as he
observes it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
FUN AND FANCY.

Dashaway-I have fallen into the bad
habit Of talking to myself lately.
Cleverton-I wondered why you were looking 50
bored.-Harper's SGsar.
Sunday School Teacher-And why do you
say your prayers before YOU go to your bed,
johnny
Johnny-'Causs I'd get licked II I didn't
Sparks.
''The world can't come to an end"
''why not?''i
'1t's globe, and consequently there's NO end
to t. t''-PhiLddsLphtG Times.
'I see that Robinson and some of his
friends have gone into building.n
How do they expect to pay for it?',
'"They don't. It's a church. ."-Hs,c York Sun.
Ethel-Of course, papa, want to marry
him. bus you'n have to give me up, poor dear,
won't you?
Papa-well. my dear, that's true; but then we'iI
get rid of your young man too, you see.-Harpsr's
Bazar.
Clara-How near through are you with
Maud-An but the first three chapters-Ssp
York Sun.
"Good gracious. ArabellaI What are you
doing out in such a stormP''
why Tom, this is bargain day. ."-SpdrkS
where's Mamie?'
~ really don't know. She mus. be at home,
though, for this Is her beau nightD
"Well, I've looked all over the house except the
parlor. and the lights not Lit there. ''-PhftadeE-
phiG Times.
Sauso-Brown is fine fellow, but he has
never been the same since that accident happened
to him.
Rodd-What accident2
sauso-After making his fortune he got mashed
on hlmself.-Nep York Herald
Miss Cutely-What do you regard as the
most difficult step in the progress Of diamond
from the mine TO q lady's hngerY
demonstrating for the luore TO suy it.-Ths
yetcsters' Weekly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
THE HOPE OF CoNsUNIPTIvEs.

Nothing in recent years has agitated the
medical world as has Prot. Koch's discovery.
From all parts of the Old World and of the
New The DISPATCH has procured ex-
pressions of opinion upon the new curative
agent, and widely divergent as some of the
views are, the verdict seems generally to favor
DR.. Koch. The caution of many of the
medical fraternity, both here and abroad, is
wise enough. DR.. Koch himself deprecates
to-day exaggeration of the lymph's powers,
and reminds the world that as yet the
remedy is in its experimental stage. The
conservative attitude of the discoverer is in
deed most promising feature in the case.
Science cannot gallop; it must feel its
way slowly and surely, and the triumph
OF DR.. Koch will be all the grander in the
end if he works out the salvation of suffering
humanity without single false step. Even
the most cautious and doubling. however
cannot but admit that DR.. Koch's expert
ence, re-enforced by that of his colleagues, in
the use of the inoculating fluid is full o.
/ nromise
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
How Congress Stood.

From the Washington Post.l
The following tabulation shows the political
makeup of Congress from 1872 to 1892.
FoRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Republican Senate; Republican House, 1877.
FORTY FOURTH CONGRESS.
Republican Senate; Democratic House, 1874.
FoRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Republican Senate; Democratic House, 1876.
FoRTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.
Democratic Senate; Democratic House, 1878.
FoRTY-sEvENrH CONGRESS.
Republican Senate; Republican House, 1880.
FoRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Republican Senate; Democratic House, 1882.
FoRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Republican Senate: Democratic House, 1884
FIFTIETH CONGRESS,
Republican Senate; Democratic House, 1896.
FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
Republican Senate; Republican House, 1888.
FIFTY-sECoND CONGRESS.
Republican Senate; Democratic House, 1897.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
NEW CHANCE FOR GAS,

Manufacturers of iron will find very solid
comfort in al article which The DISPATCH
prints to-day upon economy in the use of
natural gas in pudding furnaces. II Mr..
Bannister's premises are correct, the plain
deduction is that the mills will be able to
return to the use Of gas under more advan-
tageous conditions than ever before. The
bearing of these expert statements indeed
upon the whole fuel question is most i'm
portant and satisfactory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
INDUSTRIOUS DEAD.

An Enumeration of the Burial Places of
Some of England's Prominent Men.
From the New York World.1
Westminster Abbey does noe contain the
dust of all the illustrious of the earth. In the
church of st. Michael, London, is the urn in
which was deposited the head of King James
". of Scotland the slaughtered King of
Flodden Field; in the chancel of ST. Margaret
is buried the headless body of Sir Walter
Raleigh; st. Paul's contains the sarcophagus
of the Duke of Wellington; Richard Baxter,
the author of the "Saint's Rest" is buried
in Christ Church; the poet Gray sleeps not far
from the spreading yew" of which he sings in
his "Elegy;'' while in Bunhill Fields lie John
Bunyan, Isaac Watts, the hymn writer, and
Daniel Defoe.