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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10
WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE.
Tie Patrons of Husbandry Flushing
Ahead in Washington.

| Tie Patrons of Husbandry Flushing
Ahead in Washington.
Last week was Grange week in WASH
ington. The State Grange met at La
Comes, and was noted for the amount
of work done and for the harmony that
prevailed.
1.-THE Patrons of Washington ara
abreast of the times. The literary ex.
ercises were of the best. Politically
they are united as one man on all ques-
tions affecting our interests except the
tariff, and there is not much
difference there. The work of
the session was all completed. The
sisters had all the time asked for
for their work and all were happy.
Among those from abroad were Bro.
Cressy, treasurer of California State
Grange; Bro. John Simpson, worthy
lecturer of Oregon State Grange, and
Sister 7. L. Hillery, Oregon editor of
the Rural Press; Bro. Imbrie and wife
and son and his wife, and they were all
delighted at the fraternal feeling and
life in the State Grange of Washington.
Last July there were only three small
Oranges in Washington; now there are
thirty or thirty-one, and if nothing hap
pens there will be a large increase in
number of Oranges organized and also
in membership.
The State Grange at the close of its
business had picnic at Fourth Plain,
and Judge Hare, of Hillsborough, Ore,
addressed the people upon the subject
of Cooperation and the plan adopted at
Hillsborough, where the Patrons have
store and also a bank, and l do not
know, but think, they also have other
enterprises there. The Patrons of this
county have just opened store at Van
couver, and will, no doubt, at an early
day open others at other points. Tell
the Patrons of the East that the Patrons
of the West are at work as they never
were before. National Grange Bull
letin.
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party on. It could be made more
specific and TO that extent improveds
but there should be no change that
would take any part away or add any
thing foreign. What has been added by
the Stste, with suggestions made by
the Emporia uni6i meeting, are quite
sufficient for a comprehensive deelara.
ton of what at least ninety per cent Of
dissatisfied people wanS
As to candidates, that Is master OF
very great Importance A candidate Ia
sonletimes equal to the party's platform.
BE mas have been 50 closely identified
with some parti59lsf movement as to
suggest his platform without tts being
presented at all. Men who, from any
ekhse; have become Objectionable to
large classes of voters; should not be
set up as candidates of the Petple's
party This is a movement in which
great many persons will unite who have
fbrnerly been far apart, and their
present tiiiitifa V based upon the
reasonable belief that - sdvecato
necessary reforms does not fe4dife
any violence to opinions on issues past.
The Republican party was made up Of
men who had differed Tidely on many
questions; they came together III oppo--
sition to the proposed naturalization OF
slavery. So here, this movement among
the working people is in opposition to
the entertainments Of the Money Power,
every day becoming more apparent and
DANGEROUS: Our platform is all right,
it is entirely satisfactory to the masses
If our candidates are equally sstisfsc-
tory, enemies of the movement
viii be to that extent disarmed,
and friends Till be strengthened
in their purpose. Med who have
been much in office could serve tRi5
cause better as workers than as candi-
dates, and the man who is known as
chronic offlce-seeker" is not a good
Collector Of votes:
Men Of Convictions; men of character;
men Of courage and steadiness OF pdr-
pose, men who are earnestly and attive-
ly in sympathy with the peoples move
ment, are the men needed now. We
can not afford to fritter away our OPP
portunities with incompetent or unfit
men as our color-beareFs: SteeesS with
good men will land us far ahead the
first step.-Kansas Farmer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10

Among the nameleSS heroes, none are
more worthy of martyrdom than he who
rode down the valley of the Conemaugh,
warning the people ahead of the Johns
town food Mounted on a powerful
horse, faster and faster went the rider,
but the flood was swiftly gaining, until
It caught the unlucky horseman and
swept on, grinding, crushing, annihila-
ting both weak and strong.
In the same way is disease lurking
neas like unto the sword of DamocleS,
ready 70 i'll, without warning, on its
victim, who allows his system to be
come eiogged Mp, and Bio blood poi
soned, and thereby his health Sndan-
5ered. TO eradicate these p5isons from
the system; no matter what their IiaIne
or nature, and save yourself 3 spell OF
malarial, typhoid or bilious fever. or
eruptIons, swellings, tumors and kin.
dfeA aisfigurements, keep the liver and
kidneys healthy and vigorous, by the
use of DR.. Pierceis Golden Medical Dis
covery. It's the only plo0d=purifier sold
ON trial Your money is returned II i
doesn't do exactly as recommended. A
concentrated vegetable extract. Sold
By druggists, In large bottles, at S1.OO.
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The Way To Do 1t.

Example is better than precept- The
farmers are working out their own sal
walton with a level-headedness worthy
of all praise. Follow it up, brethren.
The Cape Cultivator says: IF one can
Judge from reports, the farmers mean
business this year, and intend to make
themselves heard. In Stoddard County
they went into the township meetings,
elected farmers to county conventions,
organized it to suit themselves, select
ed farmers to the State conven-
ton, and elected central committee,
composed entirely of farmers. A
gentleman who was present at the
convention at Bloomfield last Sstur-
day. informed US that the farmers came
there with their plans laid. and could
not be induced to deviate from them q
particle, and they carried it out to the
letter. This shows what farmers can
do when they undertake 20 use lhe
power they possess This is the MA
We have always advocated, and il the
farmers Of this and all other counties
will do as the farmers of Stoddard did.
they can control affairs, because they
arg in ths majority in both parties"
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Duels by the Thousand.

For the decade 1sSO-9O, the duel sta
tistics of Italy record for the entire king
dom 2,759 duels, most of them military.
The hotter the weather the more duels,
while in very cold weather spells the
figures tapered off. Thus seven-eighths
of the whole number took place in sum-
mer and one eighth in winter. Only
fifty deaths resulted out of all these
duels, ninety of which were fought with
the sword, ., $50 with the saber, and the
rest with the pistol. Ordinary quarrels
produced $780, press and political dis
cussions, 1, S2ss; love, 1sS; religious ques-
tions, %. Most of the duels took place
at Naples and the fewest at Venice
n Y SIM
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CAUSING TALK.
But Before Condemming Wait for the Re


49,
suits.
The Farmers Alliance of the country
is doing one thing at least: it is causing
lots of talk in newspaper circles, and is
giving the people of the country an
idea of what the poor, over-worked farm
er is. One of the ideas advanced in the
forma ton of the Alliance was to fight
trusts and monopolies of every descrip-
ton. If there is bigger trust in the
country than the Farmers Alliance we
would like to have it pointed out. They
not only want to control business, but
if they were given the opportunity,
they would make a laughing stock of
the country by passing nonsensical
laws that would bring choas upon
the country where order now exists.
We are not opposed to the Farmers
Alliance because the membership is
made up of farmers, but because it
takes wrong view of matters and at
tempts to control trade and business
through the boycott and other institu-
tions of a similar kind. Interstate
Grocer
Bide your time, good friend. Z, not
be opposed to the Farmers Alliance be-
cause of this or that, too soon. Jast
what is the wrong view of matters" OF
the right control of trade" will not
be determined in the future by your
ipse dixit, or ours, and much less by
the laws of trade as heretofore prac-
tlced by your grocery man. You @ay
pooh pooh the farmers movement as
you please, but your business depends
upon the farmers well-being and not
on their ill-doing. You can afford to
aid the work rather than discount it
The Farmers Alliance is here to stay.
Rural World
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10
The Five Was Loan-some.

About year ago you were so Kind
as to lend me s..
B.-Don't mention it There is no
hurry about your paying it back.
Aust so. Now, if you would be
kind enough to lend me $40, that would
put me in your debt to the amount of
S15.-Texas Sit tings.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10

IA new fad is to gather voices on
photographic cylinders Is the voice
hunter going to supersede the auto
granh fend? When a man sends his
voice to an applicant the latter may
hear of something to his advantage
when he turns the cylinder.-Norris-
town Herald.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10
Alasi 1 am not a poet.

have one merit-one alone knoU it,
am but a hymer, on whom rests a curse
10 talk philosophy and write in verse
There is nothing in a "A Poetaster's
Holiday to make US disagree with his
statement that the book owes its publ
cation to "a certain restless egotism of
the author" But we applaud the
honesty of the admission.
The impulse that sets man to talk
ing philosophy and writing verse is a
curse of the direst description. Some of
the most amiable of men have been
wrecked upon the rocks of rhyme, and
it is question whether an appetite for
whisky is not less injurious than con-
firmed philosophic habit to some minds.
Still, if there were no professional phil
osophers and no poetasters a great many
critics would starve, and what would
the world be like if the critics, with the
rest of the wild beasts, were to become
extinct?-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
Matters that viii Need Careful and Wig
liant Watching.

liant Watching
The name indicates the general make
of an organization forming about the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
rs a nucleus. There will be sugges-
tons from the outside and also through
iriends on the inside TO add some side
ssues to the Peoples platform. This
natter will need careful and vigilant
-atching. The platform agreed upon
It 81 Louis is broad enough to build q
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10

Should we keep our vests in the
vestry?"' asked Gilroy. Yes" replied
Larkin; and our coats in the coterie.
and | kewise orr trousers in the pantry"
-HsFper's BazaE;
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NECESSARY EVILS.
The Fellows Who Talk Philosophy and
Write In Verse.

Write In Verse.
1t is impossible for poetaster to be
modest If he were modest he would
not be a poetaster. But the nearest APP
proach to modesty in such being, as
far as we have noticed, is represented in
the preface of little book of verses
lately issued by one Fisher Unwin, who
confeSSeS-
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new PENSION Law !

800, 400 names to be added 10 the Pension blSt-
x iected ara Delayed Claims allowed IecnnitcaIts
ties vyiDef ont Have your Claim settled without
delay PATRICK o FSRRELL4 Washington d. u
rs-NA,iE THIS PAPER sJsry tus y-a -rts
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save man or woman. BY giving you
SO much earthly luxury and refinement
he lntimated that lie would have you
enjoy yourselves, but He would not
have you wrap yourself up in them as a
cloak to hide your sins. God now walks
in your garden as He did in Eden, even
in the cool of the day, and He stands by
your we'll as He did by well in Samaria,
and He would make your comfort on
earth type of your rapture in Heaven.
Furthermore: Mere soundness of
religious belief will not hide our in
EQUITIES. There are men whose heads
are as sound as Jonathan Edwards or
John WesleY'S whose hearts are as rot
ten as Tom Paine's or Charles Giteau's
1t is important that we be theoretical
Christians. 1t is utter folly in this day
Tor man to have no preference for any
one form of faith when it is so easy to
become conversant with the faith of the
different sects. An intoxicated man
staggered into. my house one night
begging for lodging. He made great
pretensions of religion. l asked where
he went to church. He said: Nowhere;
l belong to liberal Christianity" But
there are those who never become Chris
tians because their obstinacy prevents
them from ever taking fair view of
what religion is. They are like brute
beast IN the fact that their greatest
strength lies in their horns. They are
combatants, and all they are ever will
ing to do for their souls is to
enter an ecclesiastical fight
have met men who would talk all day
upon the ninth chapter of Romans who
were thoroughly helpless before the
fourteenth chapter of John. But there
are those who, having escaped from
this condition, are now depending en-
trely upon their sopndness Of religious
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-11

of IL into districts by photographic basins,
each basin consisting OF the streams ana
tributaries which they drain and when
NAV be made available for watering lands
Each basin is to have local government
similar to county government, enabling
the settlers in each to control tnelr az
fairs, subject only to the Unit.d States
laws.
In an interview General Nelson A.
Miles saws: A proposition has been made
to expend 1925 900, 900 for defense OF the
coasts of the United States washed ny
the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Accord
ing to the promoters Of the scheme this
SUN of money could be disposed OF adj
vautageously in the course of four or hve
wears but, il the usual course is pursued
with appropriations, nearly generation
will have passed away before any prac-
teal results are accomplished. This is
an important subject, and Congress can
not do a wiser thing than to authorize a
speedy outlay for protection OF the large
cities of the United States, now almost
defenseless,
1t is generally conceded that the Ore
gon delegation is one OF the hardest
working in Congress. 1t is certain that
in the matter of the introduction OF bllls
the two Senators and one Representative
are far ahead of any three men in the
Filtv-first Congress. Senator Dolph has
introduced thirty-three general bills,
mostly for the Pacific Coast, but some OF
them affecting the entire country. lie
has presented eleven memorials and pc
titions and two resolutions and private
claim and relief bills for many persons
Senator Mitchell has introduced forty
general bills, some affecting the whole
country, but the majority of them loca
to Oregon and Washington. Tie has IN
PRODUCED twenty-three memorials and pc
titions and seven resolutions and numer-
Gus private bills Representative Her
mann has introduced thirty-slx genera
bills, five memorials and two resolutions
besides private bills.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Senator Mitchell has introduced a bill
authorizing the sale of the y, cant lots in
the Fort Dalles Indian reservation. II is
represented that these lands have bee
deprecialing in value since they have
been withheld from market.
The public building fight in the st ,e
OF Washington has developed into SOM
thing interesting, and NAV result IN
trouble at home for some members OF the
delegation The cities Of Seattle. Tacoma
and Spokane Falls want public buildings
The bills for each Of these cities viii IN
doub,edly pass the Senate.
No more per cent. bonds will be pur-
chased by the Treasury Department until
further noti.e The total amount pur-
cha st,d on this account is about $l2 00O. :
0Ol. Of which =, 900 600 was surrendered
under the first cali for reduction Of he
furd OF 1850. From sixtv-fve banks in.
Guided in the second call favorable re-
sponses are already received, viii h sur
re, der over 100000 in gov rnment
bonds, thirty-two going out OF the system
altogether.
Major Lowell Of The geological survey
has prepare bill. which will soon he
introduced in the House, prs viding ion
preliminary work Tor lrrl alton OF arid
lands OF the West. II contemplates a
survey Of the arid region and the division
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CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

Joseph Hillman of Woodbury., N. j. =.
who was hung recently for the murder OF
peddler named Xedemann, was inno-
cent, il now transpires, and his living
wife the guilty one. Hillman confessed
the crime to save his wife.
Joe King the English pugilist, has
skipped from Boston, taking with him, it
is alleged, gold watch, 500 in money
and several gold medals set with dia-
monds, the ! roperty of John joyce. ex-
champion feather weight Of England,
who has been backing him.
Henry Dozier, colored, while scrubbing
a sidewalk in the streets Of st. Louis was
shot and killed by another tolored man,
who has not been captured. The cause
is not known. The nj Int before William
Brooks, arother eolored man, was called
out OF Il house OF prostitution in the same
city and stabbed to death.
At Albany George Saitmarsh, who a
short time ago married Miss Lola Riley
OF Eugene, shot her aud then himself.
After marriage they lived together but
three weeks and separated and on the
18th instant made up again. Just before
the shooting Saltmarsh told his wife he
was going away. She will recover. He
cannot live.
A pretty German girl, aged about "A
years, was found unconscious on the
street at Newark, N j. She was taken
to police headquarters, where she recov-
cred consciousness. She gave the name
Wilhelma Lestering, and said she came
from Carlstadt to find friends in the city
and had 81 900 in bills. She was lnred
by man into house, where she was
dragged, assaulted and robbed. She
could give no description OF her assailant
The bodies OF an old couple named
Jones, six miles west of Omaha, wer,
discovered hidden behind barn on theii
farm, both perforated with bullets. They
had evidently been dead some days
Frank nflitt and Jerry Lee, two resident:
OF South Omaha, have been arrested
charged with the murder. 1t was founo
that they had sold cattle stolen from the
! place to a South Omaha commission
house
special from Pickardsville, Mo-, says
| The temperance crusade in this section
Of the State is spreading. Thursday
number Of women met and decided t,
close up certain houses running in de
| tiance of the liquor laws. They assem-
| bled, armed with rocks, etc, and, pro
ceeding to the saloons, smashed in al
| the windows and doors. Then they pro
ceeded to irrigate the street with the con
tents of bottles kegs and barrels Ate
this they demolished the fixtures of TIN
saloons,
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THE ACCIDENT RECORD.

The FLY orna, winner OF the two-year-
old stakes at Santa Rosa last fall, died at
San Francisco. Her owner, Captain
Harris, had refused SO, 600 for her.
The steamer Coral Queen from Gotten
burg has been sunk off the river Tees in
collision with the Rotterdam steamer
Bruno. Sixteen persons on the Coral
Queen were drowned,
The brig John d. SpreckeIs and the
harkentine Marion came into collision
outsida san Francisco harbor. the brig
was much damaged, but managed to sail
in. Repairs to the Marion will cost 90.
The steamer Louise OF the Jacksonville
and Mayport Fla J line ran into an OH
stfuction near Hunters mill on The st.
Johns river and sank. One man was
droW ned, and the other passengers es-
capped with difficulty.
The girls seminary at San Marcos,
Tex, was burned Three Of the girls
we've seriously burned, and thirty others
only escaped de tn by jumping from the
third-story windows to gallery, from
which they escaped by ladders.
Ii il estimated that the total loss by the
Toronto university fire will be 81 go 1000
This includes the library, valued at $780,
000. The loss OF records, historical doc
uments and many valuable papers be-
longing to President Sir Daniel Wilson
cannot be estimated h dollars aud cents
Tor they cannot be replaced.
The steamer Ieandia from Australia
to San Francisco eports Il terrible gale
on January IS, just after leaving Auck-
land. Her Vheelhonse and the state-room
doors and windows were smashed in, and
her gentilato-s, sheep pens and sheer
we're washed overheard The sheep were
or Honolulu. The gale lasted two days
Jerry Legrang, an Italian who rents q
laru five miles west of Corvallis, wen
out "a the timber to cut wood. Failine
10 return in the evening, search was be
gun, and next morning he was fount
deal with fr;gEtful cash in the top o
his head, from which his brains were
protrudng. His AK lay beside him, ano
it is supposed that in ch piping it struck
an Cverhanging limb with the above re
suit
town in the Silver Mountain district
where an English company has expended
$4,000 in erecting mills and making
developments. has been seriously dam
aged by a snowslide, which carried ava,
a clearinghouse and tramway mil,
in length. The slide split at the moutl
oil a canyon, passing on both sides of tn,
residence formerly occupied by Superin
tendent Parsons. Twenty three inches
OF snow have fallen at Graham.
Daniel D5nnelly of thu firm of Don
nelly 4 Howard foundrymeu, Suite
Creek, while returning from san Fran
cisco, fell or was knocked from the plat
form OF train VIII lie crossing the bridg,
across Sutter creek. He was not misset
until the train arrived at the depot Mrs
poouely went with the train back to Il
bridge, whore She fonnd men orandun
book ard his brains atte' over tn,
bridge. Evidently the body fell into tn,
creek, and il has hot yet been found.