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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21
BEAUT>-S FAILURE.
Few Hands ONE Women Nttsin superior
i.y of suv Kind.

EcW Hands ONE Women Nttsin Superior
i:y OF any Kind.
OF the beautiful women l have
known, but few have attained superior
ity of any kind, says a writer in
Ladies' Home Journal In marriage
they have frequently made failures;
why, l do not know, unless the pos
session of great loveliness is incom-
patible with the possession of an equal
amount of good judgment. So much
is expected by the woman accustomed
to admiration, that she plays and pal
ters with her fate till the crooked stick
is all that is left her. This we see ex-
emplitied again and again. While the
earnest, lofty, sweet-smiling woman of
the pale hair and doubtful line Of nose
has, perhaps, one true lover whose
worth she has time to recognize, an
acknowledged beauty will find herself
surrounded by crowd of showy ego
lists whose admiration so dazes and be-
wilders her that she is sometimes
tempted to bestow herself upon the
most impOrtunate one in order to end
the unseemly struggle.
Then the incentive to education, and
TO the cultivation of ones special
powers is lacking. Forgetting that the
triumphs which have made holiday
Of youth must lessen with the years,
many fair one neglects that training
of the mind which gives to her who is
poor in all else, an endless storehouse
Of wealth from which she can hope to
produce treasures for her own delecta-
ton and that of those about her, long
after the fitful bloom upon her hand
some sisters cheek has faded with the
roses of departed summer.
Though the world can show in
stances here and there of women in
whose dazzling glances genius and
beauty struggle for equal recognition,
are they not the exception proving the
rule? To win without effort and yet
to ignore these victories for the sake
of the more lasting and honorable ones
which follow the attainment of excel
lence in any one thing, means cbarac-
ter, and character added to loveliness
gives us those rare specimens OF wo-
manly perfection which assure us that
poetry and art are not solely in the
minds of men, but exist here and there
in an embodied form for the encourage
ment and delight of struggling human
nature.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21
Destructive HaiIstorm.

SALINA, Kan, May ia tremen-
dous burst of hail took place about four
miles west of this city Saturday even
ing. The extent of the deluge was an
area about two miles wide by eight or
ten miles long. The hail was as large
as hens eggs and almost completely
destroyed the wheat within the
above radius. One farmer lost $50 acres,
one 200 acres and others more or less.
In the low places the hail gathered
eighteen inches deep. 1t was accom-
panied by a cyclone, which, however,
did not strike the ground. The total
damage will reach about $50, 900.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21

CINCINNATI, May 19.-Whether the
representatives of the granger and
labor organizations that are gathered
here are to bring into existence third
political party, or whether definite ac-
ton is to be postponed until next
spring, when the policies of the two old
parties shall have been more fully de-
Feloped are issues that will have to be
fought out on the floor of the conven-
ton when it assemblies.
There is no question but that the
third party men are running things
to suit themselves The Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska, Minnesota and several other
delegations, however, will not get in
until morning, and while they are
counted upon to support the third party
movement the advocates of the move
ment are averse to counting their
chickens before they are hatched
"As goes Kansas, so will go the con-
vention," has been popular express
sion ever since the first contingent Of
delegates put in an appearance and the
representatives of the grasshopper
state, after a caucus that lasted several
hours, decided late last night to sup
port the organization of a third party
through thick and thin
The caucus was marked by several
decidedly lively expressions of opinion,
especially when Congressman Simp-
son and Clover endeavored to con-
vince the assemblage that discretion
was the better part Of valor,
and that it would be better to adopt
= platform containing few essential
doctrines, appoint a committee on
propagands and then adjourn until
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21
First American Coins.

The first coins struck by the United
States mint were some half-dimes, in
1862; the first dimes were struck in
France from old silver family plate
furnished by Washington, the coins
being known as Martha Washington
Dimes" from the circumstance as
noted, and an adaptation Of the liberty
head to that of Martha Washington.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21
The French Tariff Blu.

PARIS, May 19.-Although the cham
Der of deputies has debated the tariff
bill fortnight, it has not advanced a
step. The house is tired of the whole
business before the really business part
Of the discussion on the articles of the
tariff has begun. So much time has
been wasted that it will be impossible
to deal with details this session, unless
they are rushed through, in which event
the government bill viii be preferred
to the increased tariffs proposed by the
committee
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21

landed in a native boat and nearly
frightened the occupants out of their
wits. He was as playful as a kitten,
and, although he sometimes disobeyed,
he was never treacherous or unkind.
When he was lost or hid himself, as he
often did, we would look in the dark
till we saw two little balls of fire.
These were his eyes, and gave him
away every time"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21
TEA IN TIBET.
The Porters Carry Over 100 Pounds
Strapped to Their Backs.

Strapped to Their Backs.
The packages of tea, each about four
feet long, six inches broad, and three
to four thick, and weighing from seven
teen to twenty-three pounds, are
placed horizontally one above the other,
the upper ones projecting so as to come
over the pOrter's head, says Dint Rock
hill in the Century. They are held
tightly together by coir ropes and
little bamboo stakes; straps, also of
plated coir ropes, pass over the
porters shoulders, while little string
fastened to the top of the load helps to
balance the huge structure, which it
requires more knack than strength to
carry, for its weight must bear on all
the back and only slightly on the
shoulders. In their hands the porters
carry a short crutch which they place
under the load when they wish to rest
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21
Notice.

1 have $4,000 whole brick, 100000
brick bats, several cords of building
stone and large amount of broken
brick and refuse from the ruins of the
Johns carriage factory for sale.
Enquire of Mr. Shirk on the ground.
D. A. BRADLEY,
IL $3.50 4 Receiver.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21

James Hurley was killed, Thorn as
Collins fatally hurt and three more men
badly injured by the collapse Of the
roof Of building Of the Laclede gas
works u ST Louis.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21

Fresh and clean is everything at the
Elite barber shop.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

had been opposing the sub-treasury or
Government corn-crib and pawn-shop
proposition. When, however, it was
proposed in the convention, all the
Northern delegates voted for it. This
was surprise for the Southern dele
gates. What did it mean3 They began
to inquire, and. if the Jacksonville
Times Union is correctly informed, they
found out that such Northern ex-Repub-
licans as Willets, of Kansas, confessed
that they voted for it to make it an AL
lance issue, which would compel indie
pendent political action in the South
and disrupt the Democratic party.
This was a cat of another color;
and so the confessed dishonesty of
WilletS and others who voted for the
sub-treaSnry scheme, in which they
"never believed" was proclaimed. Then
the conspirators disclosed plot to debar
from membership all editors who would
not subscribe to pledge to advocate the
the sub-treasury scheme and all measures
which legislative board should ap-
prove. AS this board, of which all the
leaders, like Polk and Macune, who are
third party men, would be members,
could require the Alliance press, under
this regulation, to support third-party
movement or drop out, it will be seen
that the scheme was a very neat one.
Its discovery by the jealous Democrats
has well-nigh frightened the wits out of
some of them, who think much more of
the Democratic party than Of the AL
lance. AS this story comes from Demo-
cratic sources, and from members of the
Alliance, and discloses the duplicity of
the Northern leaders In the movement,
it is timely revelation.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
TO MAKE MONEY CHEAP
ITS EFFECT WOULD BE TO RAISE
PRICES.

Cheap Money and r ,enty of It Would Make
Everything Dear that the People Would
Want to Buy with Such Money.
The Indianapolis Journal has figured
out that the total silver output of the
world is $14O, 900, 600 year. OF this sum
the United States furnishes $55, 900, 600
These figures are approximate only, and
do not purport to be accurate. But they
are sufficiently SO for the purpose of
considering the wildcat silver schemes
that all sorts of money theorists, cranks
and spectators are Presenting to Con-
gress.
If the proposition to buy all the silver
in the market, from time to time, should
be adopted, it would require an issue of
$140, 10000 in Treasury notes a year, or
$780, 000, 900 in five years, or $1,40O, 000,-
600 in ten years. Of course the business
of the country will increase, and a great
er amount of money will be required
from year to year for its transaction.
But the increase of money should be of
good money, not money of an inferior
grade. If large additions of inferior
money are created, the result will simply
be to drive the good money out of circu-
lation, and there will be no adequate in
creased business. An addition of $780,
600, 900 in five years would cause every
dollar in gold and in currency as good as
gold to disappear out of sight
The effect of making cheap money and
plenty of it would be to make everything
dear that people should want to buy with
such money. Men earning wages would
be the principal sufferers. Men in trade,
buying and selling commodities; manu-
facturers making and selling their own
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

we know what 1t always does when it
gets that.
A GOOD many sagacious Republicans
are hoping for an extra session of the
Fffty-second Congress, in order to give
it plenty of rope.
WE have no confidence, we repeat, in
the craftsmanship that refuses to accept
the principles embodied in the Declare
tion of Independence.
The new party leaders do not seem to
have found"the lymph that will kill the
Democratic bacili in the constitution of
a Southern Alliance man.
The merchants who feel the pinch are
those who believed the free trade lies
about the general rise of prices uttered
in August, September, and October
IT is idle to suppose that tho Farmers
Alliance will not organize q third-party
movement in the South, where it already
controls the machine of the dominant
party. If it materalizes at all, it will be
in the North.
IT is asserted by SenatorWalth that all
the negroes of Mississippi are "reasona-
bly, content with their condition" They
have to be in order to escape the shot
guns of the Democratic guardians of
public honor and morality.
A PAPER in Tennessee heads a para
graph, "The Murderous Mckinley Bill"
and then proceeds to give an account of
the death of man by falling from the
roof OF wooden factory, the building of
which had been encouraged by the new
tariff law.
If the farmers of Kansas propose to
initiate their brethren of South Carolina,
then Senator ingalls, will be succeeded
by some wild man from the head waters
of Bitter Creek, who has been in the
habit of amusing himself at murder and
the like.
ONE good way to bring about financial
calamity is by predicting it. The Demo-
cratic statesmen have been powerful
factor in bringing about the present
financial stringency by frightening timid
owners of money to lock it up OF hide it
away in their old stockings.
AMONG the thirty-fve richest million
aires in the United States there are only
two who made their money by manu-
featuring articles protected by our tariff
laws, and out of the 1872 who are worth
IS, 100000 and upward not more than
twenty made their money in that way.
The platform of the Farmers ALI
ance demands "that taxation shall not
be used to build up one interest or
class at the expense of another;n and
yet the sub-treasury scheme favored by
said organization is designed to have
precisely such an effect for the benefit of
the agricultural element.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Electrical Terms.

Every trade or profession has Ian
guage OF its own, which few outsiders
can understand. Electricians are Pc
culiarly prone to the use of odd terms,
all of which have meaning, however.
Thus we hear them speak of "farad, !"
"ohms, "joules," "amperes," awatts, !"
etc. The unit of capacity is one farad /;
unit of resistance, one ohm; the unit of
work, one ioule; the unit of activity,
one watt; the unit of quantity, one
coulomb; the unit of current. one am
pere; the unit of magnetic field. one
gauss; the unit of pressure, one volt;
and the unit of force, one dyne.
Odd as these names may sound to
the ear, there is really nothing wonder
full in connection with their origin. they
all having been derived from the name
OF some man famous in his special field
of electrical study.
Thus Michael Faraday, George S.!
Ohm, and James p. Joule, famous I'm
glish and German discoveries, give
their names to the first three units
mentioned above; James Watt and
Andre M. Ampere, English and French
inventors, to the two units following !:
Charles A. Coulomb and Carl f. Gauss.
the former a Frenchman and the latter
German, give their names to the
units OF quantity and magnetic field.
The volt is named for the italian dis
coyerer, Volta; the dyne is derived
from the root word of dynamo, itself
meaning force.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

others on the free list, the Democrats
have continually dWeltnpon the few I'M
stances in which the duty is raised. The
policy Of the free trade papers has been
to take one or two articles, like tin on
pearl buttons and predict that tho
threatened advance on these goods will
bankrupt the country. The Republicans
believe that the increased duty on thess
will stimulate manufacture in this cotln-
try and that in short time the home
competition will reduce the prices to
lower point than now prevails The free
trade organs make much ado about the
threatened adyance~of quarter of a
cent in the price Of a tin cup, but they
Intentionally neglect to mention redue-
tion of two and one half cents per pound
on sugar after April next. Which is the
more important? The friends OF the
Mckinley law can afford to wait. The
verdict of the American people will not
be against the new tariff law when it
has been fairly tested and is fully under
stood As the reaction has already come
in England, so it will come here, and the
reaction whan it comes will leave the
Democrats stranded, high and dry
D2S MOilleS Register.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Mind Reading in Chicago.

P. Alexander Johnstone, the wons
d rful young mind-reader, gave an ex-
bition of his powers ON an Indiana
enue horse car that resulted in the
c. mplete decentralization of q promi-
nant South Side business man, and
furnished infinite amusement to sew
ii of his friends. The business man
is very fond of his wife, whom he af-.
fl ctionately calls Jennie, and is ex-
ccptionally proud of his three inter-
esting children, the eldest of whom ia
an auburn haired miss of Is. When
he seated himself beside tombstone,
facing his friends, he ventured a res
mark that led up to an animated con-
versation. Mind-reading was finally
preached, when tombstone, concealing
his identity, said he could duplicate
the mind-reader's work. The business
mans incredulity was expressed in his
ejaculation, 3Rats.
stake one of those letters you hold
in your hand" said tombstone, @and
think intently of the signature. I" The
man complied, and in an instant John
stone repeated the name at the bottom
of the epistle. The man looked lit
Tie surprised, but presently, glanc1ng
at the envelope, saw the signer's card
on the upper left corner. "That's only
trick" he said, snow tell me the
signature to this" holding out dainty
missive.
tombstone took the mans wrist,
closed his eyes, and, after thinking a
moment, asked If he really wanted the
full signature mentioned. "Why,
yes" said the man, doubtfully, and
betokening certain apprehension.
"Your loving little sweetheart,
Edith" tombstone replied.
The business man looked at Jehn-
stone in wild-eyed amazement. and
then hastily left the car, followed by
the uproarious laughter of his friends.
TITS good thing for Ned that Jennie
isn't here" commented one of the
friends. Chicago EUeeiag Journal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Financiering in the Dark.

There is no means of knowing how far
the farmers are likely to follow the AL
lianee-in what numbers they are likely
to act with that organization in politics.
Ii we judge from the experience of the
Greelback party, there is little danger
that the wild and destructive ideas of
the Alliance leaders will ever sway O.
ma ority of the farmers. The pro-
gramme of the Greenback party was
never as shocking as that put forward
by the Legislation Committee of the
Farmers Alliance in session in Florida
The foundation error is that more money
must make better times. The Alliance
committee argues that to double the
amount of money in circulation is to
double prices, but without doubling
the amount OF money required to pay
debts. 1t all seems very simple-the
more money the less its purchasing
power, and consequently the more the
farmer would get for his products, and
at the same time dollar would pay as
much Of q debt as now.
But nothing in finance is as simple as
it seems to be. Ii money were the sole
medium of exchange, then an increase
in the amount might be expected to in
crease prices. But most transactions
are conducted by credits, a system that
has been extended enormously by the
clearing house. 1t is important that the
volume should not diminish beyond the
proper proportion of bank reserve to
credit, but it does not matter so much If
the volume is increased, since much OF
the increase merely displaces credits,
and has little effect ON the price of
things. The dangerous part of the All.
lance plan is that which provides that
money may be borrowed from the govern
ment at a and fixed rate of interest,
without any regard for the conditions of
trade and commerce. jIeUagtkee Seilttv
mel
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
A rather Expensive Bird.

Two darkies in the country made,
In partnership, splendid cotton crop
and shipped it to New Orleans. One
of the partners came down with it to
sell it, and to buy the provisions for
the next year. After the sale of the
cotton he was walking down the street
looking for something to buy as pres,
ent for his partner. In passing bird
store on Charles street his eye was
caught by parrot, and he went in and
priced it. He was told $25. aHuh ~.
said he, $25 for that bird ?" EYES,.
said the dealer, shat bird can talk. ~
"Lemme hear him." said the darby.
And the parrot was put through his
PAGES. The darby bought him, and,
as he had to stay over and buy the
provisions for next year, he shipped
him up on the boat leaving next after.
noon, directed to his partner. The next
week he went up, and as he stepped off
the boat was met by his partner when,
after the usual salutations, the follow
ing conversation took place:
well, Tom, how did you like dat
bird I sent your"
"He wuz mighty putty bird, but he
were pow'ful tuff."
"Tuff2 Turf? You doan' mean ter
tell me dat you dun eat dat bird?"
Eat dat bird? In course dun eat
dat bird"
my Gawd, niger, dat bird cos
twenty-five dollars, an he cud talk
like or lawyer"
well, eff dat bird cud talk, when /
had him by de neck and wuz gwine
ter wiring his head off. why de debbil
didn't he say SO 2"-Neao Orleans Delta.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
THE STORY or A NEW PARTY
How southern Democrats Would Have II

p * :
That is a very fanny story which
comes from Florida, says the Chicago
Inter DC an, about the plot of the North
ern schemers in the recent convention Of
the Farmers Alliance. These men, most
of whom are not able to get from the
Republicans the Offices they crave, went
to Florida to turn the Alliance into a
third-party organization They had nc
other object When the Alliance can,
not be made polite al machine to grin(
tn IN out offices they will have no use
for it. The Southern clement controlled
the Alliance. Its leaders are Democrats,
and they do not propose to have the
organization turned to the disadvantage
of the Democratic party. The Northern
delegates were so Informed at the out
set II the Northern representatives
desired to form third party in the
North under the care of the Alliance,
but with a new name, they would be
gratified. so these farmers for politics
or Office only, from the North met in
shed while on an excursion, and, upon
declaration Of principles which one of
them drew from his pocket, they formed
new party--a dozen of them. The
Democracy applauded this-an Alliance
party for Republicans was, of all things,
the most desirable. The next day the
Alliance met to agree upon declaration
of principles. The Northern delegates
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

The murder of Benwell by Burchell
and the execution of the murderer have
caused the following remarks about
emigration frauds by a London paper:
Is there any punishment too severe for
the scoundrel who by specious lies in
duces ignorant peasants to break up
their homes and start for an imaginary
paradise beyond the Atlantic, after
parting with their all to get there? It
may be pretty safely assumed that the
thousands of Austrian Poles who have
thus been stripped bare by greedy sche-
mers would make things unpleasantly
warm for their plunderers if they could
only lay hands on the inhuman wretch
es. Unhappily, discovery is rarely
made until the swindlers have got away
to some place of safety with their swag,
and so it seems likely to prove in the
present instance. Here in England,
the game is still carried on to some ex-
tent, but in much more cautious way.
Our emigration bidders rarely address
their overture to the working classes;
they aim at higher game in the person
of the younger sons of fairly endowed
families. "What shall we do do with
our boys?" asks paterfamilias despair
ingly of the wife of his bosom. She is
as much at loss for a reply as he is
himself the young hopefuls would, she
thinks, make excellent colonists, with
their strong limbs, hatred of study, and
voracious appetites; but how are they
to get good start in the promised
land? Here is kind gentleman offer
ing-in return for paltry premium of
hundred pounds or SOTO receive the
sons of gentlemen at his farm in Bara-
taria, to give them a thorough practical
training in Barbarian agriculture, and
finally to set them up as farmers on
their own fest. 30, Tom, Dick, or
Harry is appointed to make trial of
this excellent opening, and within a
few months he either works his passage
back TO England, or adds another unit
to the substratum of some American
city. For the splendid farm proved to
be rank humbug, while the sgicultu-
raj training took the form of brutal
language, every sort of hardship, and
next to nothing to eat. Yet, although
this vulgar fraud has been perpetrated
thousand times on British parents,
the trade appears to go on rs briskly as
ever. and, no doubt, as proftably.