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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18

take" I was informed afterward that thu
fish had beeuso frightened by the thrash
ing of that would be angler that he had
retreated to the utmost limit of his hover
under the bank, and there be had re
manned, as only trout will remain.
The cute rustic knew this would be SO
and be had simply gone down TO the spot
taken off his shoes and tucked up hi;
trousers and ''groped him out" That il
how most of the great trout are captured
but 1 never saw one that had been CROPPED
for that was not shown with a hook in bis
mouth. A gut hook does not cost much
and it looks so very much better Vile
poachipg7" No; that WAS waste land
where The big trout was got out.-Black'
woods Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18
Spoon. IN old EnrI.na.

Italian table linens in the time OF thu
virgin queen were heavily embroidered,
trimmed with lace. and with them came
massive forks and Spoons Of silver bullion,
wrought much after the fashion of tho
souvenir spoons lately introduced hy the
sllversmiths as an idea % the current time.
Not only were silver aud gold spoons used
az table by their individual owners. nap
kin being carried for cleansing them, bos
they were esteemed as helTloOms-
The possession Of any number was i'm.
porsaat enough for historical record They
were srtistieallY beautiful being hand
wrought in figures and srmorial bearings:
the apostles. twelve and thirteen. were
favorite ojectS for the smaller spoons. =
few complete sets being 90 record in the
collections OF English enthusiasts Of the
present tine.-Julies Corson in Chicago
News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18
How tn. jew. Struggled 4. Man.

Straugulstiou was a form Of death by
sutfocstion. It was effected As ia burning.
The cUlprit stood up 70 his knees in looss
earth A soft cloth containing . cord was
wound once round his neck. The ends be.
ing pulled 10 opposite directions. life WAS
soon extinct. This mode Of death was the
punishment Of Que who struck his father
or his mother, Of any enc stealing fellow
israel}te, Of a false prophet; Of al elder or
provincial, judge who taught or acted con-
trary to the decision OF the Great Synhe-
drin Of Jerusalem. and of some other
rrimss against public morals.-AmericAn
Notes and Queries.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18
Etinuetfe In the Conntrx.

"They have different etiquette in the
country than they DO here" said a man
from out of town. in Java, Wyoming
county, the young men when they come
out Of church keep their hats off until
their sweethearts come cut. saw young
fellow stand bareheaded in the hot sun for
fully five minutes requested him TO don
his hat. fearing he would be suustruck,
but it was no use. He stuck it out, and
was rewarded finally by the appearance Of
his coveted angel buffalo Enquirer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18

tons. 1t was considered the most humfh-
Rting, the most ignominious and degrad-
ing death that any man could suffer. It
was the penalty in cases of assassination
and deliberate murder. 1t was incurred
by those who willfully and wantonly slew
a man with a stone or with an implement
of stone or iron. 1t was likewise the pun
ishment melted out to all persons who re-
sided in a town the inhabitants of which
had allowed themselves 10 be seduced 10
idolatry and paganism.-American Notes
and Queries
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18
C.mnIin.nt snolI.a.

There Is such 8 tang as poisorIos al tbs
pleasant occurrences Of life e. drsps g &C.
preclztssu Yes. your exanin4ffsn papers
are always marked high" szi5 oEs scnooi.
girl 20 &ue-ksr i: m1ss be became yezr
writing IL sc plain "-Youth'E Cox p@nioz-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18

aroused by the sight of Mary, should I'M
press her personality on the cataleptic
child? And when the communication be-
tween the different minds had once been
established what should hinder its contin-
uance for an indefinite periodi"-Cor. Chi
cago Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18

4 correspondents tells rs that ihsTs ars
frogs i, Jebn AshssyzEer's pond TIA; sEvs
groSD 20 soch sBoruous size that tbsY
eaten and devoar youhg dscEs. and &C.
eaz-oca-ly leave me pond and poancs down
upeu E-ya * kizs = .eksns Ks ,
Ts-ez
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18

ol6bszu trsjecssa}-Id asvs ysH know.
NiSs Scadds, tEzs FEs &c can
Ms sca41s-I kzsS tEst. &r. Ol1Se@a-
Clans do Boz lie 20 bs E.xtJ yesrs Old
New York Egoes-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18
u. M.alan.t Iak. !.

"WOzidnt !; be lovsly II pate q lee
cream sho1d esns right Up through ire
EooTs' sa1d LAu1
NO" returned Charles. Il shozld
hate 70 have &cOslnezs spring Up between
Is -HzEpers BzEaT
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18
ohnarea Mss. Ilxsi. 20 y. w,.E.A.

Speaking q TIE taHueoos q ssr~ss4tT. a
h worth mentioning thai SGcorcsnz %
sE1l1sat phyzsoaoglsls tas osssgF5aE c.
parsGta who sosEry ate "A ne AZ slors
at % t1-n CIT criminals izzE stzss sal
s<ez-W sxE.rzsoz s-Ar
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child. she cried for CaStoria
When she became Miss, she chung to CaStoria
when she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-18
Capital Puuishm.ns Among Jews.

Decapitstion wss performed by the jews
after the taxhiaE az tia aurnAnadtA~
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
mime Months old Converts

The socialistic -Conformist in
commenting upon the possible election
Of Father PETER to the United States
senate uses this significant language:
To overthrow Ingalls, and elect a nine
months old convert would sound to the
world as very mediocre type of reform
and, as stated, could not be regarded in the
light of victory.
This must be gratifying intelligence
to Representative Harvey and other
republicans who believed they we're
charter members of a political party
in which all recruits should stand upon
an equal footing. 1t must afford them
great satisfaction to be dubbed by the
Wakefield Vincent Brothers Elder
Clemens-DaVis type of politicians as
'nine months old converts" to the
peculiar doctrines of this socialistic-
anarchistie-union labor gang of oGGice
seekers. 1t is evident from the atti-
tude and tone of the Mont onformist,
the Jeffersonian, the Junction City
Tribune and other socialistic sheets
throughout the state that they regard
the recent election as complete tri-
umph Of the peculiar doctrines and the
isms which they have promulgated
ever since their useless and dangerous
careers began. In presuming to act
with the peoples party they surrender
ed nothing. The republicans surren-
dered all and became converts" to
their social and political beliefs and
they are now looked upon as "nine
months old converts" who are still in
their political swaddling clothes, and
who must serve an apprenticeship un-l
der these old socialistic leaders before
asking for official preferment.
Slowly but with unerring certainty
it is dawning upon the minds of the
republicans that they sold their politi-
cal birthright in 1890 for a measly mess
of Observation-Disclosures ocialistic-
anarchistie pOttage and the Nom Con-
formist and Junction City Tribune and
their like do not propose they shall
eat any other kind of food. This SEN
atorial campaign promises to be a |
'compaign Of education" Let the
good work go on.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
Great Britain's Tax.

A correspondent writes the Inter
Ocean: els it not fact that the duty
levied by Great Britain on tea and cot
fee is such that the British workman
pays higher tax, if tariff be a tax,
upon what he carriesIsin his lunch pail
than the American workman pays upon
the pail that he carries his lunch in?''
Certainly, it is fact, is the reply.
The Tax" levied by. Great Britain on
tea and coffee for the year 1889 was
more than s24, 200, 600; the duty paid
on all kinds of tin-plate imported to
United States in the same year was
about 81 100000; the year before it
was about $4,000, 900.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
Didn't Work in Practice.

John Davis, the congressman-elect
from The Fifth congressional 6isuct
in his csmpaigu speeches last fall wa
very enthusiastic in favor of the gov
eminent owning and controlling the
railroads. He said it was not neces-
sary to even purchase the roads; that
the farmers in voting bonds and in the
excessive rates they had been forced to
pay, not only constructed the roads
but had paid for running them, and
that the roads now in reality belonged
to the farmers.
Some of the alliance men up in Clay
county tried to put his theory IN
practice last week and coniscated a
lot of ties, bridge timber and track
iron on the Union Pacific and the cold
hearted judge before whom they came
called it stealing. They are waiting
for Davis to get around and explain it
to the court.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
The Senate's Action.

The action of thesUnited States SEN
ate in laying aside the consideration of
the federal election bill and taking up
the financial bill be no disappointment
to the republicans of fhe west. There
will be no important national election
until 1892 and the question o. federal
elections can be better postponed than
that of our finances. The people of
the west look to this republican con-
gress for financial relief. Kansas re-
publicans demanded it in their state
platform, the same demand has been
made by the republican party in every
western state. The people of the
great west have no faith whatever in
the coming democratic congress. They
firmly believe that it will be buster
ing windbag, as every other democratic
congress has been since 1850. Western
republicans demand and expect that
this republican congress will pass such
a financial bill as will give the people
of the west a Sufficient volume of cur
rency to transact all legitimate bust
ness and develop our innumerable re-
sources. Free coinage of silver and a
law that will take out of soak the
500, 1000, 900 of money now in the bank
vaults of eastern cities and send it out
into legitimate trade channels is what
western republicans want.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
y Whv Not Give Them.

And now comes our genial acrObatic
demo-resub contemporary, the News,
and says:
There is no controversy or dispute about
her Mrs. Lease's) father dying in Ander-
sonville prison and the death of two loyal
brothers IN battle while doing duty under
the flag of the stars and stripes.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction
that exists in the minds of the News
there are those who claim to know facts
which throw kind of a dark gloomy
cloud over this pitiful story of heroic
patriotism on the part of the ancestors
of the goddess of the peoples party.
Will the News please forever settle
this controversy" by publishing the
names of the lady's father and brothers,
together with the company and regi-
ment to which each belonged? We
can then all ascertain whether the story
is true or false. 1t would be so much
better to have this important (?) con-
troversy settled beyond dispute.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
The Salary Cuts.

The report of the senatorial codify.
ing committee of which synopsis has
been given in the dispatches is being
reported more in detail and the cuts
made in salaries and other public ex-
penses are seen to be deep enough to
satisfy the most exacting. There is
but one increase in the list and that is
on lieutenant governor, whose duties
are to be increased.
The new law provides that the lieu
tenant governor shall receive Sc per
day during the session OF the legisla-
ture, and for his service as member of
the state board of assessors and such
other duties as are imposed on him ST.
500 additional. The state officers,
whose salaries have always been too
low, we're not changed.
The fees and salaries Of county Of
fcers are much reduced. The effect on
Dickinson county may be taken as a
sample. The county treasurer will re-
ceive instead of 1000 as now only 81
900 and in addition three cents a mile
for the distance necessarily travelled in
settling with the state treasurer and
necessary travelling expenses actually
paid out.
The county clerk will receive 81 800
instead of 80, 400 and fees.
The salaries of registers of deeds are
not fixed, but are so limited that they
will fall far below the old figures. The
compensation is by fees, but whenever
more than $500 is received for any
quarter, only one-half the excess goes
to the register, the remainder going to
the county trea, urer, to become part of
the general county fund.
County attorneys are limited to ST.
200 per annum with fees in addition,
which have been materially reduced.
The compensation for clerks of the
district courts, sheriffs and probate
judges is regulated by the fees received,
as was done under the old law, but
much less is allowed. County super
are limited to a salary of
81 900 per annum in counties having a
of $4,000 or over, the
minimum salary being $4O0 in counties
having population less than 5000.
Coroners and surveyors will receive
about the same.
AS this portion of the bill has prac-
tically the unanimous support Of the
senate and viii probably have that Of
the house its passage Is likely TO take |
plsce.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15

That peculiar characteristic of de-
mocracy, deception, has no better illus
tration than in its manner of discussing
the federal election BILL" The bill is
wholly unobjectional to any one who
desires fair and honest election. 1t
is not a ''force" bill in any sense Of
the word. 1t simply provides that in
case any citizen is likely to be deprived
of his right TO vote, and to have his
vote counted as cast, the government
officials shall see that such right is con-
coded. Just why any fair minded man
should object,t to such law is beyond
comprehension and can only be ex-
planned upon the theory that dishonest
elections are necessary to party
supremacy, The federal election bill
is a ''force bill'' in the same sense that
a law to prevent rascal from stealing
your house is a force bill. Such law
is terror only to those who desire to
perpetrate fraud or commit crime.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15

Since 1870 the national debt has
gone from s6l.SS to s15.s1 per capita.
The state debts have decreased from
SO 10 to S2.49 per capita, county in
debtedness from 40 to sl.S4, and
municipal Indebtedness from SlO.52 to
1892 per capita. The total per capita
Indebtedness, according to the census
bulletins, has decreased from $3.50 in
1870 to S56.25 in 1880 and to $2S in
1890. Where do the people who claim
that the nation is going to the DEM
milton bow-wows get their facts?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
First publication Jan. Is, ls9l.l
Legal Notice.
To James n. Buddin /:

To James n. Buddtn:
You are hereby notified that the under.
signed plAintiH did, on the 18th day OF De-
cember, A. d. 1890, file in the once Of the
clerk OF the district court OF Dickinson
county, Kansas, his petition against You, to-
gether with Martha j. McBlair, Isaac
McBlair, W. 81. Hield and J. T. Buen-
ing, praying Judgment upon = prom
issory tie for the sum Of three hun.
dred and eighty i've dollars and twenty
cents (83S5. 2o), with 10 per cent per anDum in
terest thereon from November Is, 1870, and
for the foreclosure Of . certain mortgage
upon the following described real estate,
situate in Dickinson county, Kansas, to-
wit:
Lots Nos. two % and three 81 on walnut
street in the city Of solomon, in said county
Of Dickinson; which said mortgage was
given to the said plaintiff by the said Martha
]. McBlair and Isaac McBlair to secure the
payment of the said pr0missory note and
the interest thereon.
And you are hereby notified that unless
you appear and plead to said petition en- or
before the 18th day Of February, A. ID. ISL,
that said petition viii be taken as true, and
judgm mt rendered according to the prayer
thereof, and the said mortgage viii be fore
closed and the premises herein described
sold TO satisfy said Judgment, and you VIII
be forever barr ed and foreclosed Of all right,
title or interest to or in said premises
By BURTON & MOORE, Plaintiff.
His Attorneys. A.5
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15

The republicans in Washington
should give heed to the remark of
Speaker Reed that whenever there is
anything to do in this country the re-
publican party does it." And in view
Of the deplorable complexion of the
next congress they should consider well
the converse proposition that whenever
there is anything that ought not to be
done in this country the democratic
party does it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
The First Great Reform.

We notice that according to the Of
fetal report of the county teachers
association meeting thu county super
intendent elect of Dickinson county
voiced the first great reform which the
new order of things proposes. Being
one of the alliance leaders of the county
he doubtless spoke authoritat1Vely.
His proposition was this: "To remove
from the readers the fiction they now
contain and replace it with articles on
political SCIENCE"
This is refreshing, gratifying. We
have been anxiously waiting for the
first trump of reformation and here we
have it. Sure enough, what wonders
can we accomplish on the rising gener-
alton by this method. Before US lie
copies of the Fourth and Fifth readers
used in nine-tenths of the schools of
the county. What change could be
made in them.
For instance here are three selections
from Little Men" by Louisa NJ. Al
colt. Now the children like these
stories immensely, but how much more
would they revel in an article on "po-
litical science" from the Non Conform
ist or the Alliance Advocate! Then a
few pages on are two or three chapters
from the boys delight, Robinson
Crusoe." What waste of white pa
per! How much better to put in one
of Mrs. Leases speeches where she
refers to the opposition as "bOodle Gov
cred Hessians, diabolical Williams
The children's minds would be so much
more rapidly developed. Then there
are chapters from 1.-THE Prairie" and
1.-THE Spy" by Cooper. Goldsmith,
Sterne and Thoreau are authors OF
other gems of iterature-but alas
they are fiction. Let us wipe them all
away and put in Peffer's "Way Out"
That would at once elevate and instruct
the minds of the boys and girls. Then
again here are selections from Dickens.
Ben Franklin, Bunyan's "Pilgrim's
Progress" Poe, Irving's rip Van
Winkle," Hawthorne, Addison and
Gethe-to be sure they are the bright
CLEANS which in the children's minds
relieve the dreary waste of the readers
heavy pages; to be sure they fill their
minds with wonderful pictures and
dreams, and make little imaginative
world of light which is cherished per.
haps through life; to be sure they
awaken a love for all that is true and
elevatiDg in literature-but how much
superior is political science!" Let us
substitute pages from 1.-The Seven Con.
spiracies," Willis speeches, Folks last
proclamation and other union labor
monstrosities.
We are glad the farmers alliance has
indicated one tangible, businesslike
reform that can be understood. When
the legislature at Topeka arranges fol
the state publication of textbooks we
hope they will consider the suggestion
that goes up from Dickinson county
and carry it Out-that is, We hope they
will if they want to make driveling
idiots of the children of the state OF
Kansas, rob them of the best lit.
erary food they can obtain and disgust
them forever with literature and the
art of enjoying it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15

The Council Grove Republican gets
In a left handed wipe on a certain
judge this way: IF the recommen-
dations Of the Senate Codifying COM
mittee are carried out Morris county
win be taken out of the Eighth judicial
district and placed in the Twelfth
which viii be composed of Wabaunsee,
Morris, Dickinson and Marion. The
district will be one of the largest in
the state, and the judge who fills it
viii not have much time for electioneer-
ing during campaign"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15

The republican members of the al
lance will doubtless be much edited
by the fact that the first action of the
county superintendent was to appoint
two of the rankest democrats
in the county as assistant ex-
aminers, one Of them who has not been
engaged in schoolroom work in eight
years. The democratic tendencies Of
institution crop out regularly.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15

No county officers ever left their
Official positions with more honor than
have the outgoing ex-oficials of the
county who have just returned to
private life after filing out the terms
for which they were elected. Their
work has been faithfully performed
and they have the fullest confidence
and commentator of the citizens of
Dickinson county. There is not a
single act Of their official careers to
which g finger can be pointed and the
records they have made viii stand in
the county's history as among the
best ever known. They have proved
themselves eminentiy worthy of the
trusts repOsed in them.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-15
First Publication Jan. Is, 1911
Publication Notice.
STATE OFKANsAs,

STATE OFk 1 s.
In the district court In and for said county.
Edwin Aldrieh, Plainttn.
vs.
Rebecca L. Beatty, James n. BeatyS a. Y.
Pierce, NJ. d. Herington and homer
Booth, Defendants.
Homer Booth will take notice that ne has
been sued in tine district court OF Dickinson
comfy in the state of Kansas BY EdWtn Al
dTich In the above entitled case, and that ne
mnst answer the petition nled in said case
On or before the 9th day Of February, lsSls
~ sstd netitIon Will be taken aS true ana
fn6oment rendered in aid action against
MIN as prayed for, foreclostng certain
morteaRe executed by Rebecca L. Beatty ana
LANES Il. Beatty on lot fifteen C5) Ia block
tsiTty Csol in the City Of Herington, as shown
nv the pIat on file in the once OF the regis
tsr Of deeds of Dickinson county Kansas
iVino and situate in the comfy Of Dtckinson
AID state oflKansas, and for the sale OF salo
real estate without appraisement 20 pay tne
debt secured by said mortgage ana costs o.
snft. and forever barring ana Iorsclosinf
sid defendants and each OF them from -
right, title and equity o. reoSsAPeioA ~
800 HUMPHREY q AUMPHhEa.
Attorneys for Piaintln-
Att sssiss' a. = 6isrE 5isRict c0ust rs