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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

The Latter Day Saints of Kansas are
to meet at Clay Center next week.
We hope Dell Valentine and Bion
Hutchins will not be over converted to
matrimony.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03
Delegates.

The Central Committee urges upon Repub-
licans throughout the county to attend the
Primaries ana send full delegations TO the
above named conventions to the end that
able and capable men may be p aced in NOM
ination and party victory in November be
thus made more certain.
By Order OF the Central Committee.
E. II. DINGEE, Sec'y. j.. s. HOLLIEGER.
haf
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03
INNS Is as Follows,

The democrats and republicans COM
bined have a clear majority of 1912.
The popularity of Judge Humphrey
will win him many alliance votes and
present indications are that he will
carry every county in che district.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03
Notice of Final Settlement,

STATE OF KANSAS,
Dickinson County,
In the probate court in and for said county.
In the matter of the estate of >tephen q
Rea =, deceased.
Creditors and all other persons interested
in the aforesaid eStE tP, are hereby notified
tnat ut the next regular term of the probate
court in and for said county, to be begun and
held at the court room in Abilene, county of
Dickinson ana state aforesaid, n the first
Monday in the month of October, 4. D., 1891
l shall apply to said court for a full and Anp l
settlement said estate.
MARY j. READ,
Administrators of stephen G. Read, de-
ceased.
SeIt. 2ud, ~ D, 1891. %
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

Will White, the rotund poet of FL
Dorado, is henODed by having one of
Of his fne poems in Current Literature,
the critical New York monthly, fog Sep
TENDER Score another point for the
young crowd.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

Congressman Davis has been dan
gerously i'll for several days. A man
can't carry around as many kinds of
crank ideas as he does without it tell.
ing on him sooner or later.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

An armed man entered the Canadian
Pacific railroad depot at Nelson, Man,
and. after binding the agent, opened
the safe and secured $1,000 Another
man came in and he was made to de-
liver what cash he had The robber
then disappeared.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

A Judiciary unswayed by party pol
itics or organized bodies is the ideal of
the American people.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

The republicans of Dickinson county
are in the fight to win this fall and
with the right ticket do it. "Only
good men on guard, +" is the motto.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

Abilene always leads. 1t celebrates
Labor day a week ahead of the rest of
the state.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03
NoN-PARTIsAN TICKET.

For Judge of the Eighth Judicial Dis.
trict,
JAMES HUMPHREY,
of Junction City.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

Manhattan always is bound to have
one Great Man. 1t used to be Albert
Griffin; nov It sd. c. Miner.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

There is sometimes little fitness of
things. The Gillian way of fighting is
not chilly.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

The total vote cast for the three cam
didates for governor in the counties of
Dickinson, Geary and Morris last fall
taken from the tabulated election re-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

Oklahoma is this year reveling in
prosperity. The settlers have seen
their worst days.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

Labor is king and the party which
has made it so is the republican.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

What is Kansas going to do about
its worlds far exhibit?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

Governor Humphrey will not speak
in the Ohio campaign.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

1t is slow fair association that does
not arrange for a balloon ascension
with parachutist attachment.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

The coming winter is going to be a
great season for jelly on bread.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

Put only good men on guard in the
offices.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03
On Monday, Oct. 5th, A. D. 1891,

at tie front door OF the court house, in the
city of Abilene, county OF Dickinson, state
of Kansas, ut l0O'clOck a.. m of said day, sell
to the highest bidder for cash, the following
described real esIate to wit:
The northeast quarter OF section 81, town
ship y, south IF range 4. east OF 9Th princi-
pal meridian, lying south of the Union Paci-
fic railroad, in DicSinson county, state of
Kansas.
The said real estate will be sold pursuant
to the Judgment Of the Court in said cause
recited in said order of sale.
Witness my hand this Sd Gay of Sept. a.
ID. 1891.
rs d. W. NALL
Sheriff of Dickinson Co, Kas,
CRAWFORD & SMITH,
Att rneys for Plaintiff. 2-5
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

The republicans are in it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03

The Hutchinson News has come oyer
to our way Of thinking and will hence
forth be an evening paper.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03
rss ublished in the ABILENE WEEK.
REFLECTOR, Sept.S, lSsI.I
SHERIFF'S SALE.

Under and by virtue of an order OF GALE
issued by the Clerk of the district court OF
Dickinson county, state OfKansas, in 8 cause
pending therein, wherein Peter DowliI z
guardian, is plaintiff and Ida B. Franklin
and Elizabeth Hartigsn ct al Are defend
I Wi
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-03
{. A. Nyaldt.

We are already re-
ceiving large invoices
of fall and winter Dry
Goods, Our stock will
be as varied and COM
plete as always, and
we will have many
new novelties to show
you in the way of
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-08-06
NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON D. c. THURSDAY AUGUST g. 1891

Hurt was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel,
and very soon after he was promoted to Colo
mel OF the Bloody 106th III. That was proud
day for the boys. They wanted to see the
noble man and soldier come on dress parade
with the eagle gracefully reclining on his
shoulders. How proud we felt over our dearly
beloved Colonel. No other man in the army
deserved it more than Col. Hurt. He was
brave, generous, and kind. and we all dearly
loved him. But alas in the very commence
ment Of his merited glory. even before tho
zenith was reached he was stricken down and
death claimed him. His commission had
reached him as Colonel and the eagles had been
placed upon his shoulders, but how sad TO think
that lie never got TO wear them. His death
occurred at Little Rock. If Col. Hurt had
lived 10 return home TO his good wife and
children, living at Athens, H.. he would have
returned a Major General. He had the ma
terial in him for that kind Of an officer, and
Go. X Of the Bloody 1O6th would have fol-
lowed him into the very jaws of death.-AN-
DREW MCNAMARA, Co. X, l06th H., Cotton
wood, Cal.
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tho tens Of thousands of Mexican homes the
majority Of those OF tho poor would not make
fit kennels fOr an American dog. ] wish ]
could take you into some Of the huts which i
visit here from day to day. They are Of every
possible description, and their inmates are as
queer as the houses. ] entered one yesterday
which covered an area Of Hb0Ht six feet square,
and bad 60 get down almost upon my knees
90 get I'M. Id was made OF railroad ties stood
upon end, and these were propped az against
other ties laid across the top fof q roof A little
cradle hung from one Of these tics, and there
was q sober faced baby, with a skin MS red
as boiled lobster, blinking at the holes
in the roof as entered A frowsy-hoaded
Indian woman swayed the cradle gently
10 and fro, and two other children hung
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-08-06

HE Mexican pauper!
ills name is legion.
More than Eve million
people arc living in
this country from
hand to mouth. A
million men are work
ing in Mexico. az this
writing, for less than
40 cents q day, and
there arc hundreds OF
thousands Of families
here who have been
raised on less than q
dollar n week. There
are millions Of peo-
pie whose entire
wardrobes have not
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-08-06

over is probably not moro than 30 cents day
and there are thousands OF men working on the
big estates IN this part OF Mexico for less than
lazy, but see them working everywhere, and
they seem 60 work very hard. In some parts OF
Mexico the average is 10 cents day, and one
Of the biggest estates in the country, which
employs a large number Of hands, pays ~ cents.
Down in the hot lands along the coast the peo-
pie get higher wages than they do on the Mexi-
can plateau and IN the coffee regions they re-
ceiye as high as 90 cents DAY. Fifty cents a
day is good wages for men who work on the
railroad and Won must remember that this 80
cents is equivalent 10 less than 40 cents in
American money, ms all wages here are paid in
Mexican silver Some Of the hardest working
men i'm Mexico are the porters They carry
the burdens Of the country. i have seen great
stacks Of boards moved by them, and you sec
them going on the doE-trOt along all the roads OF
Mexico, carrying everything conceivable, from
a piano 10 a ChiCken-cOOp They will carry
200 pounds without trouble for miles You can
get an you want Of them for 40 cents day,
and they board themselves. Masons get 70
cents aday II they are frst-class worllmen and
If second-clGss they receive just about half as
much. WeaYers get 50 a week, and they work
II hours day. Spinners receive - per week.
AT AgUas Calientes ordinary labor brings from
is TO - cents a day. Carpenters make from
Is to 30 cents per day, and boss carpenter gets
a dollar day. Bookkeepers If they are good,
are paid rs high as $50 a month, aud clerks re-
ceive from SIS to $50 per month and beard
themselves.
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Railroad builders in Mexico tell me that they
have had the same experience with the poems.
They pay cash for their work, and find that
they cannot hold their workmen One Of the
engineers connected with tho Mexican Central
said 10 me yesterday " ] employ great many
laborers IN laying tracks and in max ing eXcaya-
tons. pay them 30 cents day, and not long
ago ] had piece Of work that wanted pushed
through in a short time. ] called the men ia
Toe, and told them that l would give them 70
cents a day il tLey did q certain amount OF
work aud worked right along. They jumped
at the chance, aud for the next week we mad G
q great deal Of progress. The week after this
the men fcll of considerably, ard by the third
week they were doing no more than before tho
increase. Then they began 10 ask for days Oh,
aud the result was that lost about onc-four,h
Of my hands. They had gotten enough money
ahead 10 keep them for a week or so without
working and they refused 20 do anything until
their money was spent"
Mr. Rose, IN American who puts up sugar
mills in Mexico, had a similar experience, and
finding that he got no more for his increased
wages lac dropped back TO the old prices, and
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-08-06

The most Of the labor OF Mexico is on the
old peon plan. pconage was abolished by law
some years ago, but il prevails to-day, and,
strange 10 say. the people seem to like 10 get
into debt aud they have no hesitancy about
borrowing that which will make themselves
and family debt slaves for life 4 met bright
young American doctor az TampicO, who had
h0ught farm of a few thousand acres on the
PanucO River. lie said he paid cash for his
work, but that he had great trouble in keeping
his hands from getting into debt to him. Said
he Nearly thcwhoie Of the Aztec population,
or of the lahorng class, is in debt, aud 10 Is
almost impossible 10 get a man to work for you
unless YOU assume his debt. III one man owes
another here and he has agreed 10 work out
the dUbt, lie has TO get some one 10 pay that
debt before hc can leave and 20 10 n new mas
ter. The result is that IL is mighty hard 10
get worlmcn without paying a lot Of debts
which you have got 10 trust your hands TO
work out Suppose I want 80 men to work FOR
me; the probability is that these 30 men will
owe five or six thousand dollars, and II ] want
them 10 work regularly on my farm, to live
with me aud be my poems, l have got 10 as
sumo this debt or pay IL, before they would have
the legal right TO come. What VIC need here
is good labor, and with all this cheap labor Of
Mexico we have not enough in reality TO work
our farms find that the men who are not ia
debt seem anxious 10 borrow and get there, aud
] know somc employers who will not take a
man unless be is IN debt The Mexican peOn
feels that Ae has to Jay such debts and IT lie
don't have them to pay, rs soon as he gets
little ahead he viii lay OF and rest until has
money is spent His wants are few lie has
not the desire TO accumulate and he cannot
see the necessity Of working when he has
money. You see when you have a man in
det to You you pay him so much a day, but
a AaV
for the debt. ] find lhat the men work fairly
well as long as they have no money, but feast
days are so many that you cannot count on
regular work"
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE IS the only
champion the soldiers hare among the great pa
pers Of the country. The best ,ray TO help aH
reterdRs is By getting Il more Subscribers.
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spell nF this word turned an kinds Of ways
Do thr hole which formed he door TO the box
bl ck-cycl Mexican woman stood, aud when
] wcit Do i0uac two shelves nailed across its
tlies On these wore q few vegetables. half
dozen oranges, aud two o. three dozen bottles.
Tie bnftlcs contained Liquor and in this little
kennel this woman kept b saloon and housed
hcr .aH!i. and her deg. The whole thing was
nct more than five feet square, aud the roof
Naa lAlt high enough TO- mc staud up under Il
Nlltc 4 made my purchase. Tic woman, how.
eyer was very polite and hcr oranges were
pnod and chcap. She could speak some Eng
lish, aud Z asked bier how Size could mRnago 10
c09E pa such close quarters. She replied that
sic did hcr cooking out Of doors aud pointed
o. the remains 81 fire on the roadside where
arc bad evidently been gazing her break fast.
NHg's are very low IN Mexico and prices Of
all kinds arc high. Tho average the country
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MEXICAN PAUPERS.
Millions Working for Forty Cents a
Day and Families Raised on a Dol
lar a Week.

MaEes-The Debt System and Peonage-
Result Of Higher WaEes-Mexican Clothes
The HRll-sOled PRntaloOn and the Sole
heather sandal-Peasant Life in the Low
lands.
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Indian corn grows in every State Of Mexico.
and tho Indians baked the same kind Of bread
in the days Of the Monfezumas ms they do now.
They seem TO be perfectly satisfied with their
diet, aud never think of having such thing
as a piece OF fresh meat or a chicken, except on
"A feast day. Among other things they eat IS
the prickly pear. which grows on the cactus,
aud there arc times Of the year when whole
villages Of poems will leave work aud 20 out
into the cactus fields Of the desert and live
there rs long AS this crop lasts. They grow fat
on the fruit, aud they spend their time in lying
around digcsiing il. ] sec the fruit Of the cac-
tus sold ia the markets. Ii is very cheap, aud
consists Of little apples about as big round as a
lime These are of a dark-red color, aud taste
very much like a watermelon. In the hot
lands the banana is the fayOrite fruit, and the
children go around sucking sugar-cane Every
where both poor and rich cat red peppers. They
serve everything with peppers 10 such an cx-
tent that il is commonly said that neither n
yulture nor a hycna will eat a dead Mexican,
on account Of his high seasoning.
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DONALD KENNEDY
Of ROxbuTy, Mass says

Kennedy's Medical Discovery cures
HOrrid Old Sores, Deep Seated
Ulcers Of 40 years standing, In
ward Tumors, and every disease of
the skin, except Thunder Humor,
and Cancer that has taken root.
Price $3.50. Sold by every Drug
gist in the u. s. and Canada.
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his men struck. lie imported new ones 10 take
their places, and could get no satisfactory work
out Of the old hands after the increase. The
railroads have raised the wages Of Mexico along
their lines aud the farmers have TO pay more
now than they did a few years ago. ] look for
q steady increase In the wages Of the poems,
aud there will undoubtedly be "A change Ia their
habits and desires with The increase. So far
they have lived entirely from hand 10 mouth.
Their wages have been 50 small that there has
not been even the hope Of accumulation among
them. With better wages they will gradually
acquire greater wants, aud from these will come
the incentive % work. As long as a Mexican
can bc satisfied with a suit OF clothes which
costs $3.50 and with blanket which be can
buy foT S. he win see little need for continuous
labor. Five dollars a year viii az present dress
the wife Of a peon, and as 10 the childrens
clothes, these arc lu some Of tho districts up to
aye Of SIX furnished very largely by nature
IN the western part Of Mexico many Of the
people wear suits Of tanned goatskins, which
last six years And cost only about So They
have q way here IN Mexico Of halfsoling pair
o. paulalOons or lining the inside Of the legs
and the scat with tcrra-c0tta leather, aud half
Of the men it seems 10 ine wear halfsolcd pam
falcons. Many Of them wear pGntaloons made
entirely Of leather md not few have leather
rOHudah0uts. These clothes last for wears.
They are patched aud &c. patched, aud many q
pair Of pantalOous Is hali-solcd. Ii does not
take bali as much material 10 make a cloth or
leather suit ms il would in the United States.
The fashionable cut makes the leather lt close
10 the skin, aud ] shuadcT 10 think Of man
being caught cut IN tho rain with a new suit
Of these leather tights on him aud the posi-
1 bllity Of their shrinking before be gets home.
. Inc slices 81 tho Mexican peasant arc opca all
around The sides They are sandals, aud %
+ cents pair would be a high price for them.
\ They are sold when the leather is still rather
4 green. You find leather stores la every block
4 OF Mexican city They arc the raukest.
I smelling stores have ever entered. The ma.
tciial they use for the making Of sandals Is the
4 heaviest kind Of soie-leathcr These sandals
arc worn without stockings. aud the Mexican
4 day-labOrcr wears neither stockings nor draw.
7 CIs. Ills wife Oitca dispcnses with the sandals
and be b the dude Of the family. Ills ward.
robe costs twice what hers does and Il Is strange
I That these pcOn women DO not seem TO Lave
much desire f0r dress or show.
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With all the poverty Of Mexico. ] am sur
pTised 20 fiud but fow Mexican hcgpars. The
books Of travel say that Mexico is full Of them,
but j have Travelled over the principal railroads
have visited The cathedrals, the markets, aud
the places where you would naturally lnd
them, and they are few. Egypt has hundred
where Mexico has one. Ireland sWarms VI IT'D
them, aud even in Japan you fnd half dozen
times as many begGars as here. ] see lots Of
naEodness, aud ] know that ! travel among
thousands every day who do not know where
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have been directed to return all letters ad-
dressed to the company.
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their next meal Is TO come from, still am sell
dom asked for aims, and Mexican poverty is a
manly poverty. i see few evidences Of want.
The people seem happy. aud they do not lack
enough TO eat. The children arc fat, and
doubt whether there arc many who 60 TO bed
hungry in Mexico. have seen the poor Of
great part Of the world. / have Travelled
through districts in India where the children
were fed opium 10 decrease their aPpeti.cs. and
in Bengal i have gone among the laborng
classes, who. from insufficient food, were almost
living skeletons. i have seen Cinnamon howl
with hunger while they covered their half
naked bodies with pieces of coffee sacking 10
ward off the snow and the cold, aud / have had
beggars follow my donkey or carriage for miles
along the banks OF the Nile, or through the hills
Of south Ireland. Here find no importantly
whatever. The people are rich in contentmcnt
If not in money, and they are rs a rule both
polite and kind. They accept presents with
thanks and take small fees for doing big fayors.
You can get a man TO carry note here for six
cents, and for nickel your baggage will be
carried from one train 10 another.
Life among the poor Of Mexico Is different
in different parts Of the country. Work varies
largely with the necessities On the plateau /
find that the poems work harder than on the
lowlands. Down i'm the tropics their houses OF
straw aud cane cost practically nothing, aud
the weather is so warm that they need but few
clothes. Here the women wear, as q rule, one
single garment, a good deal like a long night
gown with short sleeves, cut very low at the
neck, and tied in with a string at the waist.
This, with string Of beads, constitutes the
ordinary costume. IL is very well-to-do
woman who has more than two suits As to
the children, the less said about their clothes
the better. Many Of them in these regions are
ms naked as when they arc born, aud ! saw in
the State Of Vera Cruz some quite large boys
and girls dressed like Adam and Eve before
they donned the fig leaves. Still. in these re-
giOns wages are higher than on the plateau,
but the people live largely on fruits aud their
wants are fewer.
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LEoN, MEXICO, July, 1891.
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by FRANK @. CARPENTER.
tcorYRIanr. lsal.l

Special Correspondence THE NATIONAL TRrHUEE
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NHg's are very low III Mexico, and prices Of
al binds arc high. Tic average the country