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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-06-18
"DoN'T STRIKE HIM WITH YOUR FIST. ?"

timacy with President Lincoln, it ap-
pears, and though it was by this time
two o'clock in the morning, he woke the
president and requested him to come
into his Office,
Mr.. Lincoln listened to the officers
story with great interest. Then he
asked few questions, and finally said:
II am sorry you had to kill the man;
but these are times of war, and great
many men deserve killing. The man, &C.
cording to your story, is one Of them; so
give yourself no uneasiness about the
matter. will stand by YOU
ut isn't that" answered the officer.
"That isn't why | came to you. knew
l did my duty, and had no fears Of your
disapproval. But felt so sorry over the
affair that wanted to talk to you about
IT,"
Mr., Lincoln saw how deeply the man
Wuo uutcltu, anu dusNtlcu MN uccOlu-
ingly, laying his hand on his shoulder
while he spoke.
swell, go home now and get some
Sleep he said. "But LET me give you
piece OF advice: hereafter, when you
have occasion to strike man, don't hit
him with your fist. Strike him with a
club, or crowbar, or something that
won't kill him.
The officer went home, but not to
sleep, says Mr.. Lamon, from whose
"Recollections" we have extracted the
story. The tragedy had produced too
great an effect upon him. But he never
forgot Mr.. Lincoln's kindness, a kind
ness Of which be must have had many
previousexperiences, or he would hardly
have called the president of the United
States out of bed in the middle of the
night to make him confidant and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Companion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-06-18

"A man takes contradiction and al
vice much more easily than people
think, only he will not bear 1t when
violently given, even though it is well
founded. Hearts are flowers; they
open 10 the soft-falling dew, but shut
up in the violent downpour Of rain.
Richter.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-06-18

Npe graduates received diplomas
FROM the Kansas Wesleyan university
at saliua
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08

the potato crop which has too often
brought the uttermost horrors of starva-
ton and famine and disease among them.
As usual the Government is doing moth
ing. The Irish Secretary's tour in the
west and northwest occurred before the
bad weather set in, and at time when
little could be predicted of the harvests.
Since then he has obtained reports from
official sources-from landlord sources
which can only be described as misleading.
The farmers on many of the large es
tates have apprised their landlords agents
that no rent can be paid this year. because
no rent has been earned. But the land
lords have entered into q com bination for
wholesale pressure on the tenants. Using
their utmost privileges under the land act
they are applying for ejectm,nt DEGREES
by the thousands, and an eviction cam
paign such as rarely has been witnessed
even in Ireland is now in progress in
many districts.
As soon as the rigors of winter set in
the demand for relief will be clamorous.
With this famine impending it will be no
wonder If Irish discontent assumes a more
active form than mere talk over legisia-
ton for home rule.
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DESTITUTE IN IRELAND
Thousands Again Face to Face
With the Gaunt Specter
Famine.
Corn, Hay and Potato Crops Ruined
and the Land ord Clamors
for His Rent.

LONDON, ENG, Nov. THE Bishop OF
Rapaoe, in recent appeal for subscrip-
lions in aid of the Irish party fund, spoke
of the bleak prospects before the agricul-
tural population as operating against the
fund. The bishop hardly seems to have
realized how desperate the situation is.
The correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, one of the most trustworthy
and least sensational papers in England,
declares that no such appalling prospect
has presented itself during the present
generation.
Concurring reports show that the pro-
longed and continuous rains of the
autumn have ruined the crops from north
TO south. The rich lower lands have been
flooded for weeks at time when the
harvest ought to have been proceeding.
Stacked corn and haystacks have been
submerged and potatoes are rotting in the
fields. In the poorer hill lands the small
farmer and cotter population are again
face to face with one of those failures Of
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than Helene, and she too is strikingly
beautiiul; but unless the Gar has given
TO her also a big dot ii is difficult to see
how her marriage with this almost penni-
less heir to the Napoleonic tradition has
been made practicable.
The promotion OF DR.. Creighton from
Peterborough 10 the See of London pleased
everybody so much that it has gone long
way toward softening the asperities
aroused by the selection of DR.. Temple for
the primacy. No academic luminarv of
his ability has succeeded in making so
few enemies and SO many friends as Dr.
Creighton, so that the unanimity of the
praise he gets may be said 10 be the only
thing against him.
Dean Gyms elevation to the See of
Peterborough attracts less attention. 1t is
a respe ciable appointment and no more,
and in cynical church circles it is assumed
that the rich vaults of Glyn's bank are to
be drawn on to restore the damaged west
front of Peterborough cathedral. All the
appeals for public subscriptions that have
been made, and they were numerous have
realized only about tenth of what is
needed.
Although in London Guy .Fawkes OBJ
servanees are said to have shown marked
decline, / hear from various sources that
In many country villages the day was ceIe-
brated this year more vigorously than in
any wear that even the oldest inha abitant
can RENE m ber The explanation suggested
is that the rural persons OF broad church
views organized these festivities in order
to protest against the recent Anglican ne
EQUATIONS a. Rome.
1t is certain the philanderings between
the Ritualists and the Vatican, even
though they came to nothing, produced a
deep feeling of resentment among the
rank ana file of the country clergy and
their friends OF the squirearchy, and 1T is
quite credible that they should have
given to the lads of their neigh borhood a
few extra half crowns 10 incite them to
hang the wretched Guy little higher
than usual.
There need be no doubt, am assured
that Mrs. Castles sentence is to pe re.
mitted without delay. There would be no
sentence at all If the existing law had not
rendered one mandatory on the magis-
trates. Formerly English iuries were
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KING
PINS
FOR
OYER
COATS.

ing to their old importance the legations
she maintains among those minor Ger
man courts which Bismarck now regrets he
did not wipe out at the creation of the
empire, since they ale used to foment
particularism and TO undermine the
supremacy OF Prussia.
Such is the Bismarckian view. and go
Tar as the Kaiser's relations with his fel-
low-sovereigns go there is only TOO much
| truth in it. but the German Liberals deny
all else. They say that If Germany is
really in danger of being deserted by her
allies and crushed between Russia and
France Bismarck ingrained falseness and
the chicanery which he displayed while
he controlled her foreign affairs explain
why she now has no friends. To make an
evil matter worse. they add, he must now
shout from the housetops all the delicate
secrets of his official career, simply be-
cause his swollen egotism is wounded by
the young cars failure to make pill
grimage 10 Frledsichsi uhe.
The Bismarckian al .egation that this
visit was in the Cars original pro-
gramme, but that the Kaiser, when they
met at Breslau, persuaded Nicholas 10
abandon the idea, is officially denied, but
it obtains very general credence in Ger
many.
From what Herbert Bismarck said in
Paris it would seem likely that there
would be further disclosures on this point
as we'll as others. Since the Counts hur.
ried return to Berlin. however, he is re-
ported as repudiating most OF the things
ne undoubtedly said in the French capi-
tai. Rumors are in the air that he has
fallen under the grave suspicion of being
the p, rson who informed his father of the
| breaking off of the Russo German COM
pact in 1890. This suspicion is based on
| the fact that he remained in the foreign
office after his ia hers dismissal and was
one of the very few men who knew of that
transaction. 1t is possible, therefore. that
he at least will be prosecuted, and if he is
nobody will mind it much.
The marriage of the Due Orleans has
been lifted from the commonplace by a
remarkable incident, which cannot but
| cause diplomatic friction between Vienna
and Paris. Nothing was thought in the
latter city of the fact that great number
of the chief noble families of France went
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TO Vienna for the ceremony. 1t was ac-
cepted as only another of thu harm less
demonstrations which these relics of
medievalism are fond of making. Care
was taken that the French AMBASSADOR
should quit Austria for holiday on Mon
wardness, and that was all.
But the duchesses and marchion esses
who accompanied the Orleanist pilgrim
age to Vienna had surprise up
their sleeves in the shape OF q big,
sumptuous crown, made on a French
mooel. IL has the Bourbon lily as deco
ratlve motif, and at this top is a huge
diamond, suspected by some to be the Re-
gent diamo oud itself and described by all
observers as rivaling the best known of
Europe's crown jewels. When they pre-
sented this pretty toy to the bride she
spoke OF it as '.the crown of France, which.
please God, my husband will some dav
wear" The Duchesse du Luynes came
out OF the room trembling with gratified
excitement and repeated Maria Dorothea' s
exact words 10 the Parisian journalist,
who were waiting 10 get details Of the
ceremony. The reproduction by them in
Paris of this significant phrase has caused
the official papers of Vienna to make a
shuffilng den al of its accuracy, bu. this /.
discredited by the fact that the bride wore
the crown at tie wedding with all the air.
of queen, and by the subsequent tone o1
the congratulations, Austrian, as well a.
French, which the newly welded pair re.
ceived. Seeing that this was all done
under the eye Of the Austrian. Emperor, il
amounts TO a desperate affront to the
French Republic and no one imagine.
that it will be swallowed meekly.
1t is understood in Paris to-day that
the Austrian Emperor has stated officially
to the French Government that the
dukes bride said nothing of the kind
stated. This is accepted as meaning thai
his disapproval OF her words wipes them
out from the diplomatic point OF view.
Another ''pretender" marriage is said
to be likely to attract French notice thi.
winter. Victor Napoleon, who is now 81
| yeras old, is understood to have been for.
mally betrothed to the Princess Anne O.
Montenegro while the recent wedding
festivities of her sister Helene were goinl
] on at Rome. Anne is only o year younger
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ON THE FIELD OF HoR0R.
Francis Kossuth, Son of the HUNGARIAN
Patriot. Seriously Wounded by
Gabriel Uoro1.

LONDON, ENG, Nov. IA dispatch to
the Central News from BUDAPEST says
that Francis Kossuth. son of the late
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
and Gabriel Ugron, leading politician
and formerly leader of the opposition,
fought duel near that city to-day. The
weapons used were sabers. Kossuth re-
ceived serious wound in the cnest. The
dispatch also says that reconciliation
was effected between the combatants be-
fore they left the field.
Another dispatch says that Kossuth re-
celved severe cut on the right arm.
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allowed large latitude in cases of klepto-
mania, but this system worked so badly
and that defense came to be pleaded in
such depressing multitude of cases that
the law had to be altered. 1t is an in
teresting fact that since the change was
made cases of undoubted kieptomania
have vastly diminished in number here.
to say nothing of the bogus ones
HAROLD FREDERIC
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Papers Serped Ia tho Santa Fe Case.
VALLEY FALLS, KANs., Nov. The
Sheriff of Jefferson County to-day served
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RAPHAEL'S fz;Ns- fzNs
/1ooted) FOR
THAT BIG, POPULAR OVER-
NY-STREET STORE. COATS.

papers in the Santa Fe receivership case
on Agent Evans of that company at this
place.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23
How the Germans Stand.

The German American Sound Money
league, OF which William Steinway Is
president. after careful canvass Of the
situation, declares that 30 per cent. Of
the German-American voters Of the
United States, without regard to past
party affiliations. will this year vote for
Mckinley electors. 1t reports that Of
the 5s1 German-American newspapers
In this country 499 are in favor Of the
present gold standard, and only 80 are
for free silver coinage. the remainder
being non -committaL The league itself
proclaims the following pithy facts as
established by history. experience and
science:
]. That commerce and industry require
enc standard Of exchange
2 That the government stamp upon coin
or paper does noe impart any intrinsic
value 10 them. bun converts them merely
into an instrument of convenience.
3. That the value Of money consists in
its purchasing power.
4. That the issue by the government Of
money which in the markets. OF the world
is not accepted for MS face value, Is a
robbery committed by the government
against ever ybody who is foreed to accept
said money at its face valutS unless the
government Is ready and able to redeem
II at is pretended vllue. .
.. That free coinage of silver would be
such u robbery. because sixteen grains Of
silver are worth only fifty-me cents in
gold. the coin metal Of the civilized world
l. That tie prevailing low prdceu Of COM
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23
AN EFFECTIVE ILLUSTRATION.

The Steuben Courier of Bath, n. Y,
says: wv. r. Sedewick has placed in his
store window the most practical illustra-
ton of the silver question which has yet
been devised. on one side are ten silver
dollars, good the world over for their face
value, by reason of the credit of Our gov
ernment. Underneath these he has a
block Of silver which Is the melted pro-
duct Of ten silver dollars, and which in
that form is worth Just $5,2i%. On the
other side Is ten-doliar gold piece. and
underneath a piece of gold obtained by
melting ten gold dollars. Both pieces Of
gold have the same value whether they
bear the government stamp or are a shape
less lump. On the silver melting, how
ever. Mr.. Sedgwick will have TO lose A.75
as he can never get that block Of silver
which is worth only sj.2ia. back into the
shape where II was worth $40. thanks to
the common-sense of Republican legisla-
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modities are not due to the demonetiza-
tion OF silver. but TO inventions and i'm
proved processes, which have cheapened
and uuickened production in ali branches
of agriculture and Industry silver min
Ing not excepted.
:. That gold has not appreciated, but
has merely remained stable.
8. That free coinage Of silver would
not increase the value Of silver. because
the greater demand for it will continue
and expand its over-production.
y. That the ruinous consequences of free
coinage would fall most disastrously upon
the workingmen and the farmers, whose
earnings would certainly be decreased,
unless they could exact from their labor
and products two dollars. where they now
receive one dollar. They also would fall
severely upon persons wholly or partly
dependent upon fixed incomes from PEN
sions, savings banks. loan societies. etc.
10 That free coinage of silver would be
contrary to the teachings Of Thomas JEFF
ferson, the founder of the Democratic
party, and, being principally demanded
for the benefit of the silver miners, II
would also be contrary to the tenet of the
Democratic party, that the government
has no right to use the taxing power Of
the country for the benefit of special
classes
II. That free coinage of silver would
cause business panic in this country.
more disastrous in its consequences,
than any the world has ever seen before
There does not seem to be any uncer-
tainty or evasion about these declara-
tions. They Will have appreciable
weight ere the campaign ends.
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"The money Of the United States,
and every kind OF form Of it, whether
Of paper, silver OF gold, must be as
good as the best in the world. II must
not only be current at its full face
value at home, but it must be counted
AT par in any and every commercial
center Of the globe. The dollar paid
to the farmer, the wage.earner and
the pensiOner must continue forever
equal in purchasing and debt.paying
power to the dollar paid to any gOv-
eminent creditor. ''.. Mckinley in His
Speech OF Acceptance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23
In the Light of Facts,

Under the gold standard, from 1870
to 1890, there was an increase of the
total material wealth of the United
States from the gold value of $4,000
100000 to the gold value of $65, 900 OOO, 900.
An increase of the number of en-
ployes in the manufacturing establish
ments of the United States from 2,O53-
600 to 4,112,OO0, and of the total wages
paid them, from the gold value of $780,
100000 to $2,2j3, ,0OO, 900. an increase of
1885 Ger cent. in number and over 25O
per cent. in wages paid with an in
crease of 60 per cent in the wages
paid each employe.
An increase in the product of cereals
from 1,239, ,OO0, 900 to 3,5lS 900 900 bushels,
and of cotton from 2,397 900. 900 pounds
to 1864. 100000.
An increase in the total of improved
acres from 1853 900, 900 to 357, 900, 900.
An Increase Of the total production Of
manufactured articles from 4,oo32 ,OOO,-
900 to 1882, ,0O0, 900 in value and several
times that i'm quantity.
An increase in the total exports Of
breadstuffs and provisions from $l16,-
100000 in 1872 to s439, 800 900 in 1892.
We never had any trouble with the
gold standard until the recent Demo-
iff sent the business of this country
into convulsions. The tariff, not the
standard, is at fault.
Senator Faulkner says he thinks Mr..
Bryan IS talking too much. There are
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23
election

1t will be seen that the Salt Lake pa
per puts I'm the Bryan column four
states which have always gone Repub-
lican-Iowa, Montana, South Dakota
and Washington-besides four others
Kansas. Nebraska, Nevada and Oregon
which have gone Republican a ma
jority of times and are therefore at
least doubtful" Subtract from
Bryan and give to Mckinley the cleo
toral vote Of the first four states ex-
cept Nevada, and take from Bryan, as
not certain, the electoral votes Of the
other four except Montana, and the
Salt Lake table will stand: Mckinley.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23
TOLD Blythe STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus
The Tribune AstrOlOger.
Astrolabe cast: 1886 a. m, for Thursday,
July 23, 1896

fST
1sl a child born on this day there will
seem no reason why Editor Lynett should
longer continue to deprive himself of the
natural chin adornment that proclaims
the wearer member of the National
Whiskers party.
The Wayne county statesman who says
that free silver will cause the profits of
the farmer to double without extra ex-
pense for mere hand,se must be the fellow
who can lift himself from the ground by
his boot straps.
There are indications that the hook OF
the Buzzard Bay fisherman needs little
fresh bait.
Facial paralysis is about the only thing
that VIII save some of the enthusiastic
currency orators of the day.
Midsummer Jingle.
y gentle summer! though thy reign
Much Joy and gladness brings
There's green fruit, too. internal pain;
Mosquitoes ana such things.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23

Half 4 column Of space is devoted in
the New York Journal to a chronicle Of
let some enterprising rival proceed to
allay the public's feverish anxiety as
to how the Democratic candidate parts
his hair
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23

The arguments of the silverites and
Populists, at St. Louis are all for BIZ
metallism; but the practical effect of
the plan which they advocate would be
to establish the rankest kind of silver
monometalllsm, inevitably supplement-
ed by fiat paper.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23

The Populists want a per capita cir
culation Of $50. On their paper basis
they might just as well demand $500.
The job printers could accomplish the
one quite as easily as the other.
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regardless OF facts

The New York Journal Is doing its
level best to work w case against
Mckinley. His election" it says.
would put the resources of the gov
ernment at the disposal of the Hanna
syndicate. 1t would mean a return to
Chinese protection and the spoliation
of the people by rapaclous ring of
mandarins. 1t would mean in the end
q popular revolt before which albright
ed conservatism might pray for lead
er with the moderate instincts of
Bryan" But somehow the people of
New York don't seem to scare worth
cent.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23

Bishop McGovern, of Harrisburg.
predicts that the Democrats will carry
the solid South and every Northern
state west Of Pennsylvania. except Cal
ifornia. Time will show how good
prophet the bishop Is.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23

Those Missouri sound money Demo-
Gratis who are talking In favor of Il
separate gold ticket must want to give
the state to Bryan.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23

The kick of the disaffected Populist
leaders Is not 50 much against Bryan
personally as 1t is to letting another
fellow share their thunder.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23

Let us, for arguments sake, con-
cede that the free coinage of silver
would raise the price of wheat. How,
then, would that benefit the farmer
ing-the cost of all the articles that
he buys-would increase proportion
ally?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23

The following table shows how these
states went in the four national cleo
tions Of 1850, 1884. lSss and 1892 and also
in the state elections two years ago:
state
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-23
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

l. Tariff, not only to furnish adequate
revenue for the necessary expenses OF me
government. but to protect American 10.
Dor from degradation to the wage leVei
Of other lands. 2. Reciprocal agreements
for open markets and discriminating au-
ties in favor Of the American merchant
marine. 3. Maintenance of the existing
gold standard and opposition to free cola.
age of silver except by international
agreement with the leading commercial
nations of the world. l. Pensions ana
preferences for veterans OF the Union
army. 5. A firm, vigorous and dignined
foreign policy land all our interests IN
the western hemisphere carefully watched
and guarded" 3. The Hawaiian Islands
to be controlled by the United states; the
Nicaraguan cshal to be built; naval sta.
ton in the West Indies. I. Protection OF
American citizens and property In Turkey.
=. Reassertion of the Monroe doctrine.
Eventual withdrawal Of European powers
from this hemisphere and union of all
English-speaking people on this continent.
8. The United States actively to use infiu-
ence to restore peace and give independ-
ence to Cuba. TO- Enlargement OF the
navy, defense of harbors and seacoaets.
H. Exclusion Of illiterate and immoral I'M
migrants. u. Reapproval Of the civil SER
vice law. 49, A free ballot and an honest
count. IA. Condemnation Of lynching. Is.
Approval Of national arbitration. 16 APP
proval Of a free homestead law. H. Ad-
mission OF the remaining territories, rep
resentation for Alaska and abolition Of
carpet-bag federal officers. 49, sympathy
with legitimate efforts to lessen intemper-
ance 19. Sympathetic reference to 1.-The
rights and interests OF woman."-Con.
densed by the Times-Herald
Honesty IS the best policy in finance
as well as in other things. The Amer
lean dollar ought never to have less