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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-08-11
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Did you see any democrats in the
processionp
An ugly man deserves no credit
for being virtuous.
The question of morals is a local
issue to great extent.
The republicans kept In sight this
year when the band wagon went by.
The Chapman Courier issued q
handsome high school edition last
week.
The republicans will have the
biggest rally Of the campaign soon in
Abilene.
One Of our alliance county officers
is getting gay. lie got caught at 1t the
other night.
Two weddings on the tapis-the
educational profession involved-can't
give names just yet.
There we're SO teams and 1903
voters, counting the bands. Some
smaller than two years ago.
Two thousand republicans stood
on the sidewalk to sec one hundred
and three calamity howlers go by.
--Chas. Neis and Louisa Kelzow, Of
Ridge township, were joined in matri'
mony by Judge Bryson this morning,
&C. 9. Sterl & Co., with its usual
enterprise, had barrel Of Sand Springs
ice water for the suffering public Sat
urday.
1t always makes woman mad to
hear a man refer to her children as
"kids." This is worth remembering.
led Howe,
Speaking of bankrupts, we would
like to have the calamity party polled.
They can show two to one to any other
party on earth,
Bessie, the 2.year-old daughter Of
MIR. and Mrs. Luke living at ralmage,
died yesterday and was buried this
afternoon.
One cannot help being impressed
with the fact today that some mems
dishonesty is only limited by their
opportunity.
The Office of county attorney Is not
quite equal to that of minister tc
Egypt but 1t will do to occupy the time
until the larger office gets here.
The county commissioners
adjourned last night. While in session
they were successful in placing OH the
tax roll over $4,000 worth of judgments
"A vote was taken on the merry-go
round this afternoon and 1t was founC
that thirty were for Weaver and ily'
for Bidwell, the rest being women anC
children.
"A look at an ordinary politica
procession convinces one of the fac
that greatness must have been thrus
upon some men. They could not get l
any other way.
1t was wise move for the popu
lists to hold their picnic on the sam
day of the republican county conven
tion. The democrats always used I
meet on circus day.
Cards are out for the wedding @
Ralph V. Dyer and Miss Mimi
Broughton, Aug. II. A reception wi
be given at their home at 1915 We'
Third street and they will be "a
home" after Sept. /.
The census of school children
the district foots up llil, All increaa
of 81 over last year. The usual mutt
pie to ascertain the population is
making the districts population 57C
unless there is larger proportion
children here than elsewhere in Il
world.
-Abilene's magnificent spring wat,
receives much praise from the Knigh
Templars stopping for meals at II
Pacific. Every train load makes
pilgrimage to the fountain and hu
dreds carry bottles of the water
drink on the way. They declare 1t h
finest they ever saw.
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-08-11

by using Halls Hair Renewer, gray,
faded or discolored hair assumes the
natural color of youth, and grows
luxurlant aud strong pleasing every
body.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-08-11

When an Egyptian dog wlsnes 10
drink at the Nile he goes a short dis
tance up the river and howls for some
time, The crocodiles being attracted
by the sound, Immediately crowd to the
place, while the dog hastily runs to the
part which the crocodiles have left and
drinks In safety.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-08-11
Another WAY ofPut,,nrIt.

Miss Emerson lot Bostonl-Are you
quite satisfied that he loves you?
Miss Bleecher (of New Yorkl-Dead
sure.
Miss Emerson--But what makes you
90 fatally conhdent2-NJudge,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-08-11

l., II. Long, j. Goodwin,
II, Il. Aldrich, Lyman Field,
DIR. Ayers, ). ii. McElhaney,
G. NJ. Case, j. Latto,
The convention then adjourned after
having chosen central committee.
CONVENTION ECHOES,
No more successful & businesslike
county convention ever was held in
Dickinson county than that which
adjourned Saturday evening at the
courtroom. The republicans are in the
campaign to win.
The following central committee was
chosen to act for the coming year;
Abilene, First ward, A. 5. Davidson;
Second, S, j. Ellison; Third, NJ, IL.
Bert; Fourth, j.. NJ, Hodge; Banner,
|. B. Lacey; Cheever, A. Il. Monroe;
Buckeye, j. IL. Hooper; Center, G. V,
Topping; Flora, A s. Green; Detroit,
w. II. Lamb; Fragrant Hill, Q. +
Collier; Garfield, T, w. Meserve;
Grant, ID. W. Jacoby; Hayes, l.. IL,
Long; Hope, Phil Koch; Holland, j,
b. Baxter; Jefferson, II. Springer;
Logan, Il. II, Dingee; Liberty, j. W,
Gillett; Noble, Wm. Drain, Newbern,
W. NJ, Sherwood; Ridge, W. j, Ora
ham; Solomon, II. b. Aldrich; Sand
Springs, II. Korn; Sherman, S. Z. Nc
Elhaney; Willowdale, W. G, Lewis
Wheatland, W. II. Logan; Union, @
II, Kgpke.
The committee is a good one ant
will handle the campaign in excellen
style,
G. f. Mead made an excellent ant
well timed address to the delegates
pledging his earnest support to th,
ticket. lie is doing some torcible worl
on the stump and will continue Il
advance the interests OF republicanism
"a splendid ticket" is the verdict OF
every side.
d. W. Naill's efficient work as chair
man of the central committee duriu
the past year received much praise.
W. s. Stamhaugh and DIR, j. M
Hodge we've on band az usual and tVO
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-08-11

George Granam was killed at Par
sons, Kan, by falling from the water
tower.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-08-11

MISSOURI PACiFIc-AT HKRiNGToN.
QnInn Wnal
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13
pt7FtLE or T-s
MIC aRaGUA CANAL

surface Of the earth. Lake Nicaragua
will constitute a harbor sufficient to ac-
commodate the nayies and commerce of
the world. 1t is 10 miles long, 80 miles
wide and is go feet at its deepest points.
Vessels entering the canal from the At
lantic ocean will sail on a level with the
ocean for l. 81 miles, at the end of which
they will be raised by three locks to the
level of the lake. They will sail along the
san Juan river and the lake on the lake
level to a point within three and one half
miles of the Pacific ocean. Here they will
be lowered by the locks to the level of the
Pacific ocean.
The committee says the cost, including
the payment OF interest during the prog
ress of the work, will be less than $780,
600, 600, and the time required for the
completion of the work is within five
years. The climate OF Nicaragua is
healthy, and out of /, 900 northern men
employed in constructing a railroad
through swamp only two died during
a period of four months. OF 200 north
ern engineers and skilled mechanics, who
have worked for the canal company for
three years, not one has died from a dis
ease incident to the country. BY the Mic
aragua canal the distance saved is shown
by this table:
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13

greater Importance to the Western hemis-
phere than the Suez Canal is to the East
ern. 1t Is said that no precedent can be
cited upon which to predict the future of
American commerce when the gateway of
the Inter Oceanic Canal across Nicaragua
shall be open to it.
All surveys and examination of strata re
quiring removal have been completed
The jetty has been constructed and the
harbor of Greytown has been restored so
that vessels of Infect draft have an easy
entrance. Extensive wharves, landing
places and permanent buildings have been
constructed, temporary camps erected, a
telegraph line made, the canal cleared of
timber for twenty miles, and a railroad
twelve miles in length constructed and
equipped. The biggest dredging plant in
America, that formerly used at Panama,
has been purchased, and over mile of
the canal has been dredged The exclu-
sive franchise for the steam navigation of
the San Juan river and Lake Nicaragua
and an extensive plant for the Navigation
Company have been acquired. The Gov
eminent of Nicaragua has acknowledged
that the company has complied with the
canal grant, which provided that 81 O0O,-
900 must be expended the first year. 1t
is shown that the amount OF money spent
to date on the enterprise is over So, 00O,-
600 The enterprise is endorsed by the
leading business men of the country, and
that it will be judiciously and economical
ly managed is assured by the character of
the board of directors, who, by the char
ter of the company, are accountable to
the Government of the United States
The Secretary Of the Interior has the
power to make public all the details of
the corporate management, thus protect
ing the investor against misuse of his
money.
The Suez Canal, it is shown, saves only
5000 miles around the Cape of Good
Hope, as against over 10000 miles saved
by the Nicaragua Canal, and the follow
ing table shows the number of ships pas
sing through, the net tonnage and the
gross receipts of the SueZ Canal f,l six
separate years:
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13
The Nicaragua Canal.

The committee appointed by the Ma
tional Nicaragua Canal Convention at its
meeting i'll st. Louis, June I'd and Sd, to
prepare an address to the American peo-
pie, giving information as to the feasibility
of the Nicaragua canal and its commercial
and other advantages to the United States,
has just finished the preparation of such
an address. The committee is composed of
John S. Jones, of Arkansas; ex-Congress-
man Converse, of Ohio; Il. w. Millsap,
the prominent banker of Mississippi; Capt.
j. F. Merry, of Manchester, Iowa; S. H.
Hawkins, the railroad president, of Geor-
gia; Capt. Ambrose Snow, president OF
the New York Board of Trade and Trans
portation, and eN-Gov. John S. Pillsbury,
of Minnesota.
The address is supplementary to the
resolutions adopted by the St. Louis Con-
vention, which pointed out the advantages
of the canal and urged its construction,
ownership and control by the American
people rather than the English, French or
any other nation. 1t takes the position
that canal, joining the Atlantic and Pa
citic oceans, should be constructed for the
most important commercial, strategic and
patriotic reasons, and says that the sub
iect of such a canal is the most vital con
nected with the welfare, growth and pros
perity of the United States. 1t declares
that the only feasible route for such q
canal is by way OF Nicaragua, and points
out that the conventions of the two great
political parties have endorsed the pro
ject.
1t appears that all the engineers have
agreed i'll expressing a decided preference
Tor the Nicaragua route, because, among
other reasons, only 26 81 miles of the Ell
tire distance of 1863 1-2 miles from the At
lantic to the Pacific ocean through Nicara
qua will have to be eXcavated. The othe1
142 81 miles consist of Lake Nicaragua
the San Juan river and depressions in the
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13

The tonnage tributary now to Tic Mica
ragua Canal. and which would pass through
after its opening, is over 5000, 600 tons a
year. At 81 per ton, the charge made by
the Suez Canal. this would be ST., 900, 900
in tolls. The cost of operation and main
tenance is placed at less than 81 900, 600,
and 5000, 600 tons would show a net in
come of S11 900, 600 per annllm. The COM
mittee is confident that within five years
the income will be over $50. 900, 600.
The committee says it is no longer IL
question whether the canal will be built
or not. The only question is as to who
shall build it, and who shall control it
when built? 1t says it has been informed
that European syndicates have already
made overtures to the canal company but
the committee believes the United States
cannot afford by carelessness, hesitation
or neglect to permit an enterprise of such
magnitude and of such far reaching adj
vantage to pass under the control Of any
foreign company. cit therefore behooves
us, the address concludes, las a nation,
conscious of the power we WELD and of
the greater influence we may exert upon
the destinies of this continent to perform
the duties without delay which we deny
other nations the privilege of assuming,
and to adopt now the best means of Sc
curing the early completion of this work,
whose advantages we are willing to share
with the orld, but whose control should
never he allowed to pass out of our
hands,
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13

amounts of coal the canal company itself
would use. At the entrance of the Suez
canal last year l, 800, 600 tons Of coal We're
sold. In competition with England for
Pacific Ocean trade the Nicaragua Canal
would give American commerce an advan-
tage of 2, 700 miles, while besides the
specific benefits, the committee thinks
great general benefits will accrue to the
entire Mississippi Valley, the lake ports,
and the Atlantic coast. Shipbuilding and
the shipping interests in New England
will receive a new impetus. A new coast
ing trade will spring up and American
tonnage on the high seas will largely in
crease
The committee says that great trans-At-
lantic powers are looking with covetous
eyes toward the Nicaragua project and
that foreign governments would very
cheerfully and eagerly embrace an oppor-
tunity to take advantage of the enterprise
with unlimited capital and prompt energy,
but it conceives it to be the patriotic and
political privilege of the United States to
complete the canal. The commercial and
naval supremacy of the nation which
might secure control of the canal demands
imperatively that its control should not
pass away from the people of the United
Stdtes. IL is lhdue pldll ulldu TWO leeen
would be required to block an American
fleet in Nicaragua where one would be
, necessary elsewhere. AS Il foothold from
which to attack OF defend, to threaten on
protect all the coasts, islands and adjacent
seas, it is a more commanding power than
Gibraltar.
Among the beneficial results foreseen
are more practical drawing together OF
the remote parts of the vast domain OF the
world and a tirmer cohesion of the widely
separated sections OF the United States,
added to a stronger feeling of neighbor-
hood and community between the Atlantic
and Pacific seaboards. The consummation
of the work, whose feasibility has already
been demons trated, is asserted to be of Il,
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13
Between

The wheat crop of the Pacific coast in
1891 was over 800, 600 tons and eighty
per cent. of the wheat was exported by
sailing vessels and a large proportion of it
passed around the Horn. The Nicaragua
Canal by shortening the route to Atlantic
ports would not only save the producer
cost of freight but the revenue of the
canal at 81 per ton toll would be nearly
s., 900, 600 on wheat alone. 1t is shown
that there are 800, 600. 600 thousand feet
of merchantable timber in Washington
and Oregon to the value of which over 81
per thousand feet would be added by
cheap water transportation via the Mic
aragua Canal. The GROSS addition to the
value would amount to the enormous sum
of 81, OOO 600, 600, even at this 10 esti
mate of 81 additional The fruit industry
of California would quadruple in two
years from the opening of the canal for
business and fast refrigerator steamers
would deliver fruit from California to
New York i'll ten days. to Liverpool in
fourteen days, and to New Orleans in
eight days. The mountains of the Pacific
coast are rich in lead copper, silver and
gold. while the plateaux and valleys af-
ford a cereal belt with a soil more dur
able, and more favorable seasons for seed
ing and harvesting than any part of the
world, and the committee thinks the COM
pletion of the Nicaragua Canal is only
needed to develop that country to pro-
duction OF gigantic proportions and double
the population of the Pacific Coast in a
few years. The cotton growing sections
of the gulf States have undergone de-
PRESTON and the committee believes that
nothing could be of greater Immediate adj
vantage than the canal in relieving that de-
preston, and making market for Amer
lean cotton in Japan, China and Corea,
where already the people are beginning to
manufacture cotton goods by machinery.
Japan imported over 1000, 600 pounds of
American cotton in 1891, most of which
was shipped from New Orleans to New
York and then by rail to Vancouver and
steamship to Japan.
Atpresent the coal trade Of South Amer
lea and the Pacific coast is monopolized
by the English. The committee thinks
that if the Nicaragua Canal were opened
the Alabama and West Virginia coal would
have a decided advantage over English
competitors, not to mention the enormous
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13
Literary News and Notes.

LucyLarcom, an intimate friend of the
poet Whittier, contributes To the October
New England Magazine a descriptive arti-
de. really Il prose poem, dealing with
The Ossipee Park, " long the summer
resort of Whittier. 1t is finely Illustrated
with pictures taken specially for the pur-
pose,
1t was Nh Whittier 5 wish that Mr.. 5.
T. Pickald, of Portland. whom he named
a. his literary executor should prepare "a
biography. if there should be any call for
an account of his life This work has
been undertaken by Mr.. Pickard. who re-
quests that those who have letters of the
poet 5, which might prove Serviceable in
the preparation of a biography will send
them to him. They will he carefully kept
and promptly returned.
The Acadian Province by the-Sea. : is
The attractive title of an interesting article
Ill the October New England Magazine on
the historic Province OF Nova Scotia so
closely allied to American history, as the
wilderness of the loyaliSt exodus at the
close of the War of independence. The
article is brightly and fascinatingly writ
ten 10y Arthur Wentworth Eaton. who is
an authority OH Nova >cotian legends.
traditions md history 1t is finely illus
trated by Lonis A. Holman, a rising Young
Boston artist, who made special pilgrim
AGE to Acadia to make the Sketches
Approaching very near its semi-centen-
Mai, that venerable and only eclectic
weekly, Lirtelf Living Age. is apparent
ly as young. vigorous. and valuable as in
its earliest Years. The issue for October
lst, No. 25lS is the initial number of the
l"3th volume and appears in an entirely
new dress. Its old. familiar dlab-colored
covers remain unchanged, but its interior
has been transformed. With new, clear.
and handsome type, and the great i'm
provement noticeable in its general make
up, with its excellent paper and fine
press-work. it compares favorably with
amy other magazine published: and. com
bined with the high intrinsic excellence
which has ever characterized its contents.
The Living Age must prove an even more
delightful and desirable visitor than ever
and enter its Year of Jubilee under highly
encouraging prospects.
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13
Drive Out These Foreign Tramps !.

Gun Foreign Commerce is at present car
ried by foreign ships to the extent of fully
30 per cent. These ships are able to thrive
upon rates that would yield nothing but
loss to American ships. That fact is amp
ly demonstrated in the evidence before
our eyes OF the charter OF British ships of
the tramp variety by some of the best lines
engaged in Central and South American
trade.
This is done for several rcasons-none
OF which are embarrassing to Americans.
1t is because a foreign tramp can be man
ned by cheap foreigners. who are fed
proporionatey and this difference alone
is what make tramps profitable when
American vessels cannot be made to pay.
Must we wait until our officers and our
men in the merchant service will come
down to the level of these cheap foreigners
Never!
Then the alternative is protection to
American slipping-of all kinds-upon
the seas. This alone will meet and over
come the difficulty. This will drive out
these foreign tramps which carry most of
our foreign commerce. This will fill our
shipyards with employment. This will
Tehabilitate our merchant marine.
All American shipping needs protection
from competition with foreign pauper
labor.
Are we to deny to our ships upon the
worlds highways, where competition is
keen and trade is free, the same safeguards
which we freely give to our industries up
on the land?
Must American protection halt at the
American shipyard?
For over thirty years it has. And the
result is a stagnant shipping, albeit the
greatest foreign commerce of any nation
in the world.
Then protect American shipping upon
the sea, and drive out foreign freighters!
[Seaboard.
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13

tell CIT, ana sne pre-
sented a pitiable condi-
ton. We tried almost
everything, tut she
onlinued to get
worse Then We tried
one of our best ply.
sicians, but all to no
purpose. Finally my
wife believed that the
CUTICVRA REMEDIES
wou!,i cure her. After
she had used nine
boxes of CUTICURA,
and about a dozen
CAKES Of CUTICURA
rt-TrfttpA RFSOIyENT.
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13
Famed i'm Song and Story.

Octave Thanet's "Story of Western
Town. now running in Scrbner's Maya
zine, is one of the best stories illustrating
Western life and character which has been
published for years. In the October number
is described with an illustration 'Three
Kickapoo Indians, splendid in paint and
feathers, peacefully vending the Famous
Kickapoo Sagwa.''
The Republican journal., 1892-10-13
CRUSTS and SCALES
Hair and Eyebrows Fell Off. Doctor
and Many Remedies No BENEFIT.
Entirely Cured and Hair
Restored by Cuticura.

My wife has been troubled for years with dry
crusts and scales on her head and eyebrows,
SYSTEM it broke out over Year ago in all its fury.
Her hair came out in Zig patches or eyebrows all
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-30
Waived Examination.

This morning Andrew Bennett, charged
with assault with intent TO murder, and
Andrew Irving, charged with assault ana
battery, were brought before Justice Gritf
Jones to have their examining trial.
Both waived examination. Bennett was
put under a $500 bond and Irving's bond
was fixed at $50. Bennett made state
ment this morning saying that Irving
had threatened to kill him and send him
"over the road for having sent Roy Kelly
"oyer the road" that he had called him
some very hard names, and that was the
cause of the difficulty. .Irving's wife, whom
Bennett claims has not lived with her
husband for four years, is his washwoman-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-30
Tied. Tried and United.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 30.-Escambia
County comes to the front with one of
the briefest marriage experiences record
ed, and at the same time marriage re-
markable because of the age Of the bride
and groom. Yesterday week ago Mrs.
six children, and c. Fulton. barely IS
years old, left their home at Pollard, Ala,
and went to Mobile, Ala, where they
were married by the Rev. Father Shaw.
They returned to their home in Pollard
on Tuesday, and on Wednesday they en-
gagged the services of Judge Green to
draw up papers of separation. The arti-
cles were drawn up and have been filed
for record in the office Of the Probate
Judgeef Escambia County at Brewton.
The cause of the separation Is not made
public. The Justice who drew up the ar
ticles of separation is the same official
who drew up the last will of the late
Rube Burrows.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-30
Cattle Frozen to Death.

WICHITA, Kas.. Dec. 30.-Cattemen in
today from Clark county report that the
intense cold the last three weeks has
caused terrible loss of stock in that
vicinity. On the ranges of No Mans Land
thousands of cattle are dead and dying,
and the losses promise to equal, II they do
not exceed, the fataliti's of the severe
winters of 1884 and 1885 None of the
cattlemen were prepared for such severe
billiards this early in the winter, and
their herds are without shelter or food,
the deep and frozen snow precluding them
from reaching the grass. The blizzard is
causing intense distress to the Cherokee
Strip boomers who are strung out along
the Kansas border