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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-10-08

JEFFERSON CITY, NO., Oct. l.-Gov.
Stone yesterday offered a reward Of
5000 for the arrest and conviction of
theunk nown murderers ofan unknown
man found dead in Lawrence county,
August Is, 1896
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IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Bryan Speaks to Large Crowds at Wheeling
and other Places.

bryan speaks 10 llHTEtNTOWuHhL W neetlug
and other Places.
WHEELING, W. Va, Oct. ?. The great
est demonstration given William J.
Bryan in the state Of West Virginia
was last night paid him in this city.
At the fair grounds he spoke to a
crowd the size of which was limited
only by the space in front Of the speak
ers' stand and the distance the nomi-
nees voice could be heard Neatly
uniformed marching clubs, bands
Of music and citizens in carriages and
mounted on horses made up process
sion, the equal of which the nomi-
nee has not encountered in many
a long day. During the day Mr.. Bryan
spoke also at Clarksburg, Parkersburg
and other points.
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Victory for Yale.

New HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct 1.-The first
homo game Of the football season at
tracted almost every member of the
university to Yale field yesterday after
noon. Amherst was the opposing team
and was defeated, IL to O.
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Ifrsl published In the Abilene Weekly Re
Hector Sept, "a, A. D. 1876
Publication Notice.


You are hereby notified that you have been
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Dickinson county, state of Kansas, IN an ac-
tion wherein said W. !. Allis is plaintiff and
you are defendant, and that you must ans
wer said plaintiffs petition on or before the
9Th day of November. A. d. 1903, or said
plaintiff will take Judgment against you for
Two hundred and fifty dollars lt2jO) with in
ierest thereon ut the rate Of twelve per cent
per annum from October LIST, 1894. and costs,
and forecose Il mortgage executed by you 10
one b. X. Able on the following described
real estate, situated In. Dickinson county
state Of Kansas, towit: Lots number six CO..,
seven a. and eight ~, In block number two
~ In Rice and Austins addition to the city
Of Abilene, and ordering said real estate 10
be sold and the proceeds applied toward the
satisfaction OF said judgment and costs,
STAMBAUGH 4 HURD.
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WANTED For L. s. Army, able-bodled, un-
married men, between ages Of q and 30 citi-
zens Of the United States. Of good character
and temperate habits, who can speak, read
and write English For information apply,
preferably by letter, to Recruiting Officer,
Fort Riley, Kansas, Oct 81
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-10-08

: Thieves entered the livery stable Of
Haight & Haines at Sterling, Kan.
and secured SIS in cash.
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The vidame de Beers died as he had
lived. He was still governor of Cahors
when Henry the Great attacked it on
the night of the nth of June, 1880.
Taken by surprise and wounded in the
first confusion of the assault, he still
defended himself and his charge with
desperate courage, fighting from street
to street, and house to house for five
nights and as many days. While he
lived llenry's destiny and the fate Of
France trembled in the balance. But
he fell at length, his brain pierced by
the ball of an arquebuse, and died an
hour before sunset on the ED Of June.
The garrison Immediately surrendered.
Marie and were present in this &C.
ton on the side Of the king Of Navarro,
and at the request Of that prince
hastened to pay such honors to the
body Of the vidame as were due to his
Ienown and might serve to evince our
gratitude. A year later his remains
were removed from Cshors. and laid
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one act were buried with him, that one
act alone, the act Of a French gentle
man, would be told Of him-ay! and
will be told-as long as the kingdom
Of France, and the gracious memory
Of the late king, shall endure.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-22

New York, Nov. 9O.-"There is plan
anoat." said a famous returned war cor
respondent, by which Cubans win eat
their Thanksgiving turkey in the city OF
Havana. If 1t succeeds, as it may. in spite
of governmental precautions, our Thanks
giving holiday will become their great ma
tional day their Fourth of July, and it will
be greater in Cuba than here.
1.-THE obstacle in taking Havana has been
just this-the lack of dynamite. And only
that But dynamite is to reach Cuba and
then the rest will be easy.
"Yes," continued he, "Cubans expect to
eat their Thanksgiving dinner In Havana
If they can get one necessary thing.
"And that is-dynamite.
"And I can add a very startling state
ment to this. They will get dynamite If the
states can get it to them.
81 am a patriot and Cleveland is pa
triot. He tries to prevent the sending of
ammunition until Cuba's belligerency shall
be declared, but he can't prevent people
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WITH A SCENIC ARTIST.
STAGE EFFECTS AND OTHER
TRICKS OF THE TRADE.

He Tells of the Many Changes He
Has Witnessed in the Past Few
Years - The Size, Material and
Methods All Are New-some Stages
Are Now Seventy Feet Wide-The
Old Moon Box and the New Luna
That Is Worked by Electricity.
Real Water i'm Use Now.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Away up on the paint frame under the
gridiron of the Columbia theater the ether
day the writer met Walter Burridge, the
scenic artist. Mr.. Burridge was born and
brought up in Brooklyn, and worked about
Mrs. Conway's old Park theater and
learned to paint scenes with Harley Merry.
He is very young man yet, only 3s years
of age, yet it was twenty-five years ago
when he went west.
Il don't known Brooklyn at ALL" he said.
When 1 landed here the other night, I
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blood-curdling descriptions of the fierce
manner in which the oils in the painted
scenes fed the flames. Well, the only crit
icism of that is that we don't use any
oils. Instead, we use a great quantity Of
alum, which tends to extinguish flames.
What tended to make theater fires so fierce
was the fine draught fire had on the
stage. The old theaters had no proscen-
ium wall, and only fake ceiling. They
were put up in a fiy-by-night way, as IL
the company expected to jump the town
Immediately.
when the Brooklyn theater was built,
Mrs. Conway objected to the hight of
the ceiling. She was old and conservative,
and did not think the theater was cozy.
So they faxed a ceiling and hung it up
by ropes under the roof, and they faxed
the proscenium wall and arch--it was only
of canvas. Few knew t,and it never came
out in the papers, but the reason so many
people lost their lives In the Brooklyn
theater fire was that the ropes holding
up the faxed ceiling burned through, and
1t fell down on the gallery, and the smoke
rolled under it and suffocated the people.
The Brooklyn theater fire caused the
building departments of all the cities in
the United States to wake up and insist
on solid proscenium walls, better build
ings and better exits. We couldn't work
in a fake ceiling now"
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tries. There would be no opposition to Gu
ban torpedoes.
1.-THE air plan is most ingenious. 1t beats
the wooden horse of the Greeks which
conducted armed warriors into the city.
THE plan to land armed men in the
midst of the hostile town in such numbers
that they can hold their own and cut their
way to the entrance and admit the army,
or they can subjugate the town and be
ready to receive the remainder of the
forces as they enter.
'sThe plan of firing them into the city
in bombs is an admirable one. And the
man who invented it worked il from the
neighborhood of Pixies Peak into the
valley, and again from the valley into the
mountains, and always with success. He
placed three men fully armed in each bomb
and fired the projectile 600 feet The men
landed, cut the bomb and emerged in per-
! feet condition with not a minutes dizzi-
| ness. The entire outside was provided
with inflated rubber tires, so to speak, so
that the bomb could land with no force
There were countless numbers of these
tires, so that were three or four to break
the bomb would-still bound along. In the
/ bomb there were small windows, so that
the soldiers could see where to emerge.
ITO this has been added the balloon plan.
Balloons were to be fired over the city at
night and allowed TO descend slowly
Then, by moonlight or first sunrise, the
men could land, their landing to be timed
simultaneously with the shooting of the
pneumatic bombs.
Meanwhile, the awful firing upon the
walls of the city would distract the soldiers
and lead them to be less cautious in their
outlook above.
"If war should break out between ma
lions with plenty OF money" said the war
correspondent, 1.-The result would be too
horrible TO- state. Where 5000 used to
fall by rifle, 10000 could be swept away
by these awful explosives.
"Maceo said to a corresp ondent recently
that If he could get dynamite he had ma
chimes for carrying It into the city. And
Gomez wrote personal letter begging
that nitro glycerine be brought to him in
some way, adding that he had a plan
formed for it's use
This plan, l have reason to believe, is
for firing triplet bombs in Havana.
The triplet bomb is wonderful thing.
IL is very large and is three-storied. The
outside bomb explodes in the air. II is
not very effective. The main objection
to any dynamite bomb is that 1t acts as
a boomerang. II explodes when shot of
and hurts the senders or II does its work
up among the clouds, often acting as a
rain producer and spelling the effect OF
al powder that follows It that day.
'Bu. the three-stored bomb has COM
paratively harmless outside. Still Il could
shock the upper spires of a town consid-
erably. The second bomb explodes in mid
air very near the ground, and the third
is timed to explode when the bomb lands
This is a terrific explosion, and being fill
ed with mushroom bullets, does deadly
work.
THE mushroom bullet is a queer thing.
1t flies into mans body and there ex-
plodes. One variety spreads out as though
| growing. 1t makes an awful gaping
wound, from which an army surgeon says
no man could recover. In hldeousness u
is awful to contemplate. but you must re-
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,ect mat all,s fair In love and war.

feet that airs fair In love and war.
THE Cubans are going to make an
awful effort to end the war this fall. They
want Thanksgiving day to see 1t past.
Thanksgiving day Is to Cubans now al
most what it is TO US. The island is
largely American. In long stay there 1
never knew Cuban family that had not
lived in the states or had no relatives liv-
ing there, or was not related to some one
who married in the states. All our holi-
DAYS, even to Fourth of July, are celebrat-
ed there. There are hundreds of true
blue Americans living in Havana, thous-
ands living In Cuba. They went there for
health or pleasure, and finding the island
a gold mine have remained there
"In Cuba Thanksgiving day there ale
American turkeys and cranberries
brought from Cape Cod. There are flags
and there is a Teasing.
This year there is suppressed excite
ment in headquarters when Thanksgiving
day is mentioned, and 1t is the opinion
of those in the know that the day VIII
be celebrated by a move towards Havana
with dynamite for the Spanish palate.
Albert Cameron.
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from sympathizing with the little island
sympathy is Enthusiastically for Cuba. And
it shows itself in the general manner In
which people are trying to get arms to the
Cubans.
1T was laughlngly said last week at the
Union League club that Cuba would be
freed by yankee inventors. They are so
anxious to try arms and show what can
be done in case of trouble at home.
"At Cuban headquarters it is reported
that new machines for warfare are Of
fered daily, some of them singularly in
genious; and the inventors give them
free OF charge If only they can go along
to see how the machine acts.
BE the motive point as it may there
has been batch of new inventions Of
fered recently, such as was never seen
before; and on looking over the list pre-
sented with the names of the inventors
and their residences, 1t was found that
every large city supplied its now inVen-
ton. There were names from Portland,
Ore. to Portland, Me, and south to Dali
las
THE machine that will give the Cubans
the surest guarantee of eating their
Thanksgiving dinner in Havana will be
the torpedo boat. With a torpedo boat
working in the cause Of Cuba" said the
war correspondent, spreading out chart
Of a torpedo in action, there would be
dynamite in Cuba in three days.
THE little torpedo boat would come
to the surface, receive its supplies from
some good old warrior vessel, say The
Three Friends. 1t would then sink and
steam away.
The Three Friends is so closely watch
ed that 1t could never get over the bor-
der with dynamite. But the torpedo boat
would go under the harbor, not over it,
Should a Spanish man-of-war interfere
the torpedo could fire at the boat and
sink 1t, and the dynamite would be land
ed Off the coast next day at sunrise
Gomez and Maceo, receiving each a
portion, would lay siege TO the city, and
Havana would fall. The treachery with
In would lead to an opening of the gates,
ana the city would lie at the feet Of the
invaders, and that would mean free Cuba
at once and the birth of another ma
ton with the birth of a new year. This
is the latest plan.
Some of the means Of warfare offered
Tor Thanksgiving present to Cuba are
marvelously ingenious Most OF them ar.
rive with little note saying that by this
means Cuba can know a Thanksgiving
suSn as ~ could not know otherwise.
one OF these to be used in conneetscp
" - -..Tpedo boat is a sharp dart 10
~ Is attached chain, and from the chain
bangles bomb. The torpedo boat is to
approach SPANS ship under water and
when very near a dart Is to be implanted
IN ner side under water where she Is
weakest The torpedo boat steams away
ana inside OF one minute the bomb ex.
pio9es. II has time fuse, and would ex.
p IT, anyway by the friction or striking
enc SIDE OF the boat. This is surer mar
hring shell under water. ana has th.
merit "a OF allowing the little torpedo boa
70 escape and be far away when the ~
P'0SAOA occurs. There is leeway of ,
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fun minute or even five If the fuse is so
arranged.
"This same dart is for shooting into high
towers on land. Church steeples, the up
per windows of buildings and all high
points offer a place for it, even the Tag
staffs are marks If the marksman is suf-
ficiently successful. The dart sticks fast
and In a minute the bomb expiodes. In the
explosive is nitroglycerine and powdered
glass. This falling into the heart Of the
city suggests a rain of FIRE and spreads con-
sternation as well as death. town
would not long hold out against this dart
ed mechanism.
"A gigantic threefold plan for taking
Havana and all of Cuba at once was Of
fered to a band of influential Cubans. Its
only objection is the cost. but money
seems plentiful for all Cuban enterprises
1.-The plan is a threefold one. 1t Is to be
worked at sea, on land and in the air
This is the way II is laid out, and 1t might
be a useful thing for the United States
war department to have upon It's books for
reference.
Upon the sea three torpedo boats would
do their deadly work. There Is no fighting
them except with other torpedoes, and the
torpedo plan is unknown in other coun-
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struck me most was a hoary, battered
tablet, with a long Greek inscription cut
in 1t in seven lines. 1t was discovered in
Jerusalem about the end of May, 1871 by
the French archaeologist Clermont-Gan-
neau, at a considerable depth below the
ground, in the foundations of an Arab
house, not far from the Mosque of Omar,
on what might have been the site of the
Temple of Herod.
This is one of the very few relics of that
magnificent structure which have surviv-
ed to our day. The inscription is in cap
ial monumental letters, and may Re
translated thus: mo stranger can enter
within the balustrade round the sanctuary
and enclosures. Whoever is caught will
be responsible to himself for his DEATH"
Josephus gives a graphic description of
Herods temple, and mentions that the
court of the Gentiles was separted from
the part that was restricted to the Jews
by two parallel walls, about fifteen feet
apart. The outer wall was about four
and a half feet high. 1t was an elabo-
rately carved stone balustrade with thir-
teen doors in it. bearing an inscription
In Greek and Latin forbiddlng any for
eigner to enter the enclosure on pain of
death. Josephus mentions that the Ro-
mans respected this law; and no Gentle
ever ventured to intrude beyond this
point.
The prohibition in question, however,
was long regarded as apocryphal even
although Phio spoke of the inscription,
and corroborated the statement of the
Jewish historian. But the discovery of
Clermont Ganneau has placed the matter
beyond dispute. The tablet which he
found was part of one of the columns
guarding the inner sanctuary from the
approach of unhallowed feet; and the
connection between the inscription cary
ed on il and the passage In Josephus is
most striking. The expressions and forms
are almost Identical. There Is indeed a
curious variation IN the Greek word for
"balustrade." or partition wall. In the
passage in Josephus it is druphaktos,
whereas in the inscription it is truphak-
tos: but this variation may be accounted
for by the fact that Josephus used the
correct classical term, while the inscrip-
ton spelled the word according, to the
Jewish method of pronouncing 1t, chang
ing into I. Josephus twice refers
to the inscription, once in his WARS"
and once in his Antiquities" and the
parallel passages are differently worded,
showing that he did not intend to give
the exact phraseology of the stone mon
ument, but only the sense; and, there
| fore, that the tablet should give the sense
Of Josephus' words, without his exact ex-
pressions, Is just what might have been
expected in such discovery. According
| to Clermont Ganneau, the tablet Is the
most ancient as well as the most inter-
esting, Greek inscription which archaeo-
| logical investigation In Jerusalem has
| produced. Its bearings are most impor-
tant. It supplies a standard of COMPARE
son by which to distinguish Herodian
sculpture and photographic works from
those OF previous or later date.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-22

This season vast schools of blueash
snappers and salt water mullets have an
peared off the coast Of Florida, and tbasa
from the warm water of the Gulf straar no
which at that part of the coast foIrs
northward about four miles from shora
One may stand on the beach and throw,
shells at the monsters as they pursue tbsi.
prey. Rife balls seem to have little ef-
feet on shark. Fat pork, a big hook
strong line and stout arm is the best way
to kill one. Wy
Several times this fall sharks have baor
seen in the Biscayne canal, which wss
recently cut through from Lake WortS
to Biscayne Bay. But the shark fn5a
no comfort there. 1t IS the home of tbs
good old alligator, and he ressts intrnS
sion. Every self-respecting CATER win
tackle a shark on sight.
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ALIVE WITH SHARES.
The Florida Surf Where the GuIs
Stream Runs Close to Sand.
From the Washington Star

From the Washington Star.
That part of the Atlantic which heats
upon the southeast coast of Florida is IN.
tested with sharks. 1t is probably the
"sharkiest" water at this season in the
world. Folks who have dwelt for years
in the jungles of soft palmetto and ON the
savannahs of saw grass that stretch in
land from the shell-strewn beach. in COM
menting on the more than plentitude Of
sharks, say:
81 never seen the like afore."
The blue swells that roll landward and
pound themselves into fieecy. frenzied surf
TEEN with this cruel fish. The white
shark, the basking shark, the hammer
headed shark, and othet members of the
elasmo branchiate family are there. From
Jupiter Inlet to Hillsboro Inlet thew NAV
be seen outside the breakers, in the break
ers, and inside the breakers. This sea-
son they are so numerous and vicious that
the strongest swimmer and the stoutest-
hearted sea dogs along that part of the
coast will not venture into the sea further
than knee-deep water. Even where this
precaution has been taken casualties have
been reported. 1t was only few days ago
that the son of Capt. Collins OF the Jupi-
ter llfe-saving station lost a foot by a
shark bite while standing In the surf He
would probably have been killed had not
a companion plunged a bowie knife into
the fish.
The mail from the north for Miami Co.
coanut Grove, and the settlements at the
south end OF the peninsula used to be
carried from Palm Beach by lone car
rier, who followed the beach and crossed
the lnlets in small boats. This was be-
fore the opening Of the East Coast rail-
road. 1t was just about one year ago that
this lone carrier left Palm Beach on HE
last trip. A few days later the light
keeper at Hillsboro inlet found the car
riers small boat bottom upward on tina
beach. The man was never after heard
from. There had been no foul weather.
and the settlers refused to believe that
the carrier had either absconded or had
been killed by bandits. The gunwale OF
the small boat showed that II had been
gnawed by strong, sharp teeth. A broken
oar was later picked up on the sound.
The lightkeeper reported that thousands
Of sharks were in the inlet and that they
were uncommonly bold and excited. This
taste OF human blood maddens these fisn.
The old settlers feel that they know
about how the mail carrier met death.
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--------------s-.t'--s -
MUST ONLY LOOK AHEAD.
Bicyclists Have Some Rights That
Car Companies Must Respect.

Car Companies Must Respect
From the Philadelphia Record.
New York. Nov. 15.-The Appellate de
vision in this city yesterday reversed
judgment below nonsuiting a bicyclist
who sued for injuries resulting from being
knocked down by a car while he was RID
ing his wheel upon the cable-slot. Tne
plaintiff, James II. Rocks, a minor, tes-
titled that he was suddenly knocked dow
from behind at Nineteenth street; that the
highway was quiet at the time, and tnat
he did not see or hear any other vehicles'
but heard the rumble and noise OF caDle
car behind him just as he was strucA.
There was no warning, the gong was NOT
sounded, and there was no WHISTLE cis'
or notice of any kind.
The opinion of the court, written py u
tice Barrett holds that Rocks was la" Jaw
fully upon the cable slot, although ne Was
in a place of danger and he was poulu
to exercise corresponding care. Inc op,n
ion says: 1.-THE trial court held him guil.y
OF contributory negligence because no
failed to look back No such duty was
imposed upon him as matter OF law lils s
primary duty was to look in front OF nm
indeed, to keep a good lookout a.,
around. But he could not ride upon US
bicycle at all, certainly not with saIe's'
and yet keep his head turned so as 10 on.
serve what was going on behind. Whetnes
his failure to observe the car at the tliio
of and under the circumstances surround
ing the accident amounts to conrioutols
negligence was, to say the least, cues
ton for the jury. He certainly hau
right to expect the usual warning III ..o
rear. The case upon the Iao
should have been submitted to the luig.
The defendant was the Houston, 49,
Street & Pavonia Ferry Railroad On"
vo1xt
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THANKSGIVING DAY IN CENTRAL PARK.
Chauncey Depew, With Face Like Rosy
Apple. Under Fur Collar and Robe.

of
Rather Miss His Turke Ride in Central
Soor,-ravrn aouId.L ooSi ROckefeI-
Drives ifc a