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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

The new Fifth district seems to re-
semble the old one only in being Of a
somewhat doubtful political cast of
countenance.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Colorado boasts Of the cheap inau-
gural Of its governor Well, is bet
ter than Kansas inaugural Of a cheap
governor.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

II Abilene had turned out and
helped Ed Little might have been
senator. What's the matter with the
Pops Of Dickinson
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

The business improvement is per-
ceptible everywhere except in the
subscription lists and advertising
columns Of the free silver newspapers.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Poor old whiskers PETER, harmless,
gentle soul, pack up your things and
come home. Your dream Of glory is
ended.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Distinguished visitors to Kansas
should stay away from Topeka until
after the legislature adiourns.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

The Pops are fixing things for Re.
publican victory in 1898 very accept
ably.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Abilene don't care for any senators
this year anyway.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Abilene is always so near and yet
so far on the senatorship.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

1t is generally thought that II Dick
inson Is patient 1t can get a guard at
the penitentary.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Bryan will compete with other fast
distance freaks and try to try to write
$50 pages Of his book in eight weeks.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

The Populist party has deserted Its
idols. Harris has no whiskers.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Some papers seem astonished that
Baker and Burton are friends, They
have never been anything else.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

The war is over for good. An ex.
confederate goes to the senate from
Kansas,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Webb McNall got pretty well paid
for being political turncoat.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

For man who takes care OF his kin
commend us to Judge Doster. He
has been in office two weeks and al
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

PETER says he Is resigned to his
fate" PETERS hindsight is very
olaar
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Mr.. Leedy, won't you please give
Dickinson Populists one little job
say guard at the pen at sS5 a month";
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Hicks chuckles with unseemly glee
as he reads the weather reports from
Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

II there is anything more Leaven-
worth county wants let 1t speak up.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Kansas will lose a lot OF advertising
when it loses Granny PETER.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Private secretary is a pretty good
job after oil.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

And the dogs are still barking al
the pyramids.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Going back to the senate is an ir-
ridescent dream with Mr.. Ingalls,.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1897.

MIR. PETER has found "the way
out"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-28

Everything house Co. Our spring and goods
being New Spring Stock
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

made his winter camp in the mountains
near the divide. BY the time cold
weather had set In for good he had out
nine or ten big bats, or piles of deer.
which would attract the bears, and a
number of small bats. The wild dogs
came to that locality and before Adrian
knew it had eaten one of the piles. They
visited another when he was on a hill
overlooking it, though half a mile away.
1t was there a wolf tried to join them.
The wolf came up the canon that opens
into the park-like place where the bait was
just as the dogs went at the bait. The
wolf had not got within ten rods before it
was discovered and half the pack ran to
meet it, The wolf stopped looked over
its shoulder down its TAIL then walked
forward few steps until il met the dogs.
To the hunter it seemed as if the dogs did
not stop at all, and when they got past the
place where the wolf had been there
wasn't any wolf left. Adrian thought
for a time that the beast had joined them.
AS a matter of fact it had, all except it's
skull and two leg bones. as the man found
on arriving there Adrian shot at the
animals where they were punched on the
bait, but failed to hit though he scared
them with a tumbling bullet He poison
ed bait heaps during the next two days
and within a week had, caught six or
eight wolves. but no dog.
The most remarkable exploits of the dogs
will probably never be told, since there
were no human witnesses of them. Ger
tain it is that the whitening bones and
horns of full-grown elk found by hunters
were the relics of their hunting and that
the hunting of bull elk is dangerous to
them is proved by the presence of. dog
bones among those of the elks, as was the
case at the head waters of Tobacco river.
1t has been asserted by a dozen hunters
that the pack has killed such animals as
sorely wounded grizzlies and 2-year-old
panthers. Their regular prey have been
pitched battles between packs of wolves
and the dogs. In the old days the dogs
used to bark when on the trail of game
but now the runners are silent and
feather-footed. A man cannot hear the
pack at 100 yards
Some of those who have kept track of
the pack, after a fashion, believe that
there may be two or even more lots of
the animals. If there are not, then some
of the journeys they make in short time
are most remarkable. Within a week
they have been in places over 100 miles
apart, and the great territory where wild
dogs have been seen or heard of makes it
appear that they are either long-range
wanderers or that there are a number of
packs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
POISONING CURED BY BLEEDING
Man Rescued From what Looked
Like Death by n Novel Experiment.

From the Philadelphia Times.
with his respiration but five in five
minutes we saved him.
The speaker was DR.. Albert d. Black
burn, chief of the medical staff at the
Presbyterian hospital The man referred
to had been brought there by the patrol
wagon several weeks ago nearly dead from
the effects of quantity of laudanum
which he had swallowed with suicidal in
tent, but who now, thanks to the sudden
thought, or, more likely, the inspiration,
which seized DR.. Blackburn, when all the
usual methods were falling to restore con-
seriousness and death seemed but a mo-
ment TO finger, is mighty glad that the
breath of life still fingers in his breast
For hours we worked with him." con-
tinued the doctor. I'VE applied the stom-
ach pump, but the blood had absorbed the
poison. We tried other methods. We
worked assiduously, almost frantically Re-
luctant.y we were forced to acknowledge
that we could get no results, for the pa
tient sank lower and lower We were
at our wits end. Suddenly this line of
thought struck me; That mans respira-
ton is but five in five minutes he is prac-
ticaliy dead. The stomach pump will do
no good for the blood has absorbed the
poison and is pregnant with it. The only
way to get it out of the system is to bleed
him. to deprive him of the very essence of
life, in order to give him life! Then I
thought, blood is largely a saline solution:
we can prepare like solution with the
proportions the same, and inject this into
the body, to take the place of the poison
filled blood. The body will do the rest; it
wiz assimilate the solution and make it
blood.
''rhe chance was a desperate one, but
the circumstances called for 1t. So we
bled the man. and the two pints which we
let out were as. black as ink, so pregnant
with the poison was il. Quickly we inject
ed an equal quantity of the saline solution;
then with our anxiety at a high tension
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

we stood around to watch and await re-
suits. Once we thought we detected a
slight increase of respiration, but we dare
not trust too much. A few minutes later
we were sure of it. Slowly the respiration
began to rise and slowly but surely the
organs began once more to
resume their sfunctions. Still
we watched, fearing relapse.
None came. Then at last the man was
out of danger He stayed under our care
for a few days, and when we sent him
away he had totally recovered from the
effects of the poison which he had put
into his system. To-day he is hale and
hearty man.
1t is highly probable that this method of
overcoming poison is a novel one. No one
seems to know of any like instance At
least, several reputable physicians of this
city, when interviewed, said that no case
of a similar nature had ever come under
their notice, nor were they aware that
such method had ever been applied with
success before. However that may be, the
method is undoubtedly an esficacious one
and will probably be the means of saving
the lives of many people who have swal-
lowed deadly potions accidentally or with
desire ito take arms against a sea of
troubles, and, by opposing, end them
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

it-such shutting. miserable production!
First he tried upbraiding me; saying as
l chose to neglect his authority and had
sent no apology for my conduct, he felt
quite justified in doing what he was
about TO do. for the sake Of his own dig
nifty.
That my unseemly and ungrateful be
haYlor had convinced him l was quite I'M
worthy of his favor, and of the hsnor ne
had been about to bestow upon me; anu
that he was pleased and grauhed to re-
coSnize In my sister Amelia very differ
ent spirit and had decided TO confer upon
her the honor which had so nearly been
bestowed on me, as he believed that in
her he should find most amiable part
ner OF his house and name.
So there il was.
/ was saved the trouble and difficulty Of
writing any explanations, and-was ever
any girl in her senses 50 delighted, and
relieved, to be Tilted before! And-by a
member of the ''peerage" too!
No balm would be needed for my
mothers angry spirit-nO consolation ex-
pected for my other parents wounded
pride The only blot in their eyes be-
fore had been that / was preferred be-
fore my elder and more beautiful sister;
and now. how very smoothly it had all
settled itself.
Was ever before such a blessed end to
railway accident / wrote at once TO
Amelia, first having sent the hOusemaid
to nunt under the sofa for my ring, which
had lain there since the preceding night,
and 1 offered her my fullest congratula-
tions.
1 asked her to accept the ring, to put
amongst the priceless ones he was sure
to give her, and added-hypocrite that 1
Was-that l had for q long time felt my
self unsuited to wear it. 1 didn't say
unworthy though, I couldn't bring my
self to say that
Then, having finished my correspond
ence. I gathered together the various
wonderful illusions 1 had received from
my family, and with a light heart went
down to meet my lover.
1 don't think / looked much of an inva-
lid as 1 met Osmond in the hall. Could it
really be only twenty-four hours since I
had lain on that sofa, with tears cours-
ing down my cheeks because of my sis
ter's unkindness? 1 would never re-
proach her again, no, never! She had
not come to see me, true, but she had
gone where L had so nearly been drag
ged against my will-"into the peerage."
And so my story is told. 1t is five
years now since Osmond and ] were mar
RED but it seems like yesterday. How
time flies when one is young and happy.
l am glad Aunt Helen has not left"
me her money yet, and l don't fancy she
ever will now. For it turned out Os-
mond was not the only person she met
accidentally abroad, and before I had
been many days engaged to Osmond, Dr.
Wilfrid Isle turned up, to try and gather
up the threads of a romance of ten years
before-threads it seemed, which had
been purposely scattered by my mother,
who even then had had perfect craze for
matchmaking, and had managed to send
away Aunt Helen's lover, then only
rising young doctor with a very sore
heart.
Well, Aunt Nellie is quite the right per-
son for doctors wife, she possesses the
art of healing to perfection, and has
long ago healed that old wound to their
mutual satisfaction
The End
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
PEouLrARrr1Es OF CLEVER MEN
some Geniuses Who Found Amuse-
ment INDUCING FreaIish Pastimes

From the Philadelphia Times
Macaulay, the historian. always used to
eat his Sunday dinner alone and at a res
taurant When he had finished he gener-
ally built up a pyramid Of wine glasses.
which he delighted to see topple over.
When he left the restaurant he used to pay
literally Tor the broken glasses q 5 well as
for the dinner
Cowper. the poet, was a great hand for
pets. AT one time he possessed a squirrel a
cat, two dogs, several canary birds, a star
ling, JAY a maybe, two guinea pigs,
three hares and five rabbits
Whenever the solderly duke of Epernay
saw a hare II made him sick and once he
kept his bed for a week after one Of these
little animals touched him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
HEARTS OR DIAMONDS i?
BY Kate A. Simpson.

author
" A.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

I didn't dream that night. I slept
sweetly and soundly. and only woke when
l heard a tap at my door and the maid
entered, with a lovely bunch of flowers
in one hand and my morning letters in
the other
] knew where the flowers came from
even before I caught sight of the little
scrap of twisted paper stuck amongst
them; and after a time l turned to my
letters
one from mamma one from my sister
Amelia, and one from my devoted Err
ner."
"In keep that sweet thing till the
last" l said His last letter had made
me very angry, as he took upon himself
to lecture me for having gone away with
out consulting him. Time enough to
consult him later on, 1 had thought to
myself, and I had sent him no answer
The first letter 1 opened was from Anne
liza:
Dear Gwendoline,
leave it to Godfrey to explain matters
to you; he says he hardly understood his
own feelings at first. l hope you will
give me your good wishes and not let
your own disappointment and annoyance
make you treat dear Godfrey i'm any
thing but becoming manner. No doubt
you feel il very difficult to restrain your
jealousy, but | can only rejoice to think
how a kind Providence has interviewed to
let dear Godfrey find out his mistake ere
II is too late.
Your affectionate sister, Amelia"
month"
What did It mean? Dear Godfrey
who was the girl talking about?
] opened Viscount Erners letter in
maze. scorn 20 try to quote 1t. Os-
mondsput 1t in the fire as soon as he read
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-27
DASHED DOWN A HILL.
Three Young Men Iej ,red In . Tesrif,
Runaway as Port Byron.

Three Young Men Iej ued In . Terrific
Runaway ss Port Byron.
Port Byron, July 27.-About $3.50
last evening as William Miller. j /, I'm
Durbin and George Durbin, three
young men of Coe, were coming into
town they had an experience which
none Of them will ever care to repeat
In coming down the Cherry street
hill near the residence OF Frank Skel-
ton. part OF the harness gave way,
allo wing the shafts to slip up over
the horses back. The horse being
frightened, struck out down the hill
at terrific pace and in attempting
to turn the corner at the Methodist
church the young men were all three
thrown out onto the graveled street,
the horse going into the deep gutter
in front of the church, and the buggy
turning completely over and landing
on top Of the horse. The boys were
all bruised and cut with the rocks
on which they struck, but fortu-
Bately no bones we're broken. TDey
all went to the office of DR.. Bruner,
where their wounds were dressed.
John Durbin received an ugly
3-cornered cut on his head just above
the right temple, which required
several stitches.
When the buggy was removed so
that the horse could get out OF the
ditch he came up in good shape with
the rim OF one hind wheel around
his neck. The horse did not seem
to be injured at all, but the buggy,
which was q new one, is badly de
moraliz.d. The boys were ali able
to ride home after the doctor got
them patched up. and all felt that
they escaped very fortunately.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-27

The business department OF Angus.
tana college is becoming more and
more popular every year, and
the manner in which the people OF
the three cities have shown their in.
terest in the college during the past
years is highly commendable and en-.
couraging. Special advantages will
be offered during the next school
year. The rooms will be thoroughly
renovated. the faculty enlarged, and
the time will be IL months instead
OF nine months. To meet the wants
OF those who cannot attend during
the day, we will offer an evening
course OF four months in book-keep-
ing, arithmetic and shorthand, three
nights q week. Books, stationary, tut.
ton and all only IS. Fall term
opens Sept. l. evening school Sept.
10. Send for our announcement for
1897 and 1898, which contains all
about the courses and terms. O.
OLSON, president.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-27
The Awful Garth Fish,

A traveller in Venezuela gives an in
terestlng description of the fish of the
Orinoco country. He says the party sew
eral times came in contact with the
cariD hsh, which are the most ferocious
inhabitants of the water known. The
hsh are Lot over IA inches long, but
they travel i'll schools. Their teeth are
three corDered. Any living object which
attracts their attention is attacked with
fury. Mr.. Thompson tells of an Indian
woman who entered the water to fill IA
bucket. She was attacked by the fish
and reached shore only to die in Is
minutes. The flesh was literally torn
from her body. Mr.. Dart, who was
with Mr.. Thompson. caught one Of the
fish and pulled it upon the bank. He
held the carib under his foot while he
pointed ut the peculiar teeth with his
finger. With quick movement the car
III Hoped cut from under Mr.. Darts
foot and seized him by the finger, cut
ting that member to the bone. The FISH
frequently have been known to bite or
binary fishlooks in two.
Another fish which the party often
came ACROSS was the morocoto, the fla
vor of which is like Lake Superior
whitefsh, only more delicate The mo-
rocoto Is provided with molar teeth and
subsists on vegetable matter, which it
thoroughly mastlcates before swallow
ing. Another peculiar creature found
was the morcccy, a species of land tur-
tie, which at ni.sht utters a cry of won
derful sweetneS plaintive and clear.
Exchange
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-27
THE BRIDGE BUSINESS,
Traffic That Has Passed Over the New
Structure Since IL Opened.

Traffic That Has Passed Over the New
Structure Since 1t Opened.
The public has little conception of
the amount Of traffic the Rock Island
bridge carries in year: A glance
at the amount that has passed over
the new bridge since it opened last
Decem Der. however. affords an idea.
Since November last and up to June
l OF this year $50 engines have gone
north and Sill south, the mum Der OF
engines with trains in that time be-
ing AIS north and sos south.
The number OF passenger coaches
north were l0.9s5; south. 1928;
freight cars north, 6S,OS7; south,
,247. The street cars north bound
since the opening OF the lower deck
Dec. l, numbered 24,764; south
bound, % 272. There were 154,s3l
teams north and 1852, 9S5 south. Pc.
destrians going north mum bered
3,497; south, 214 311. Steamboats,
up river we're 745; down, 754; barges
up river. 1877; down. 156; RATS, 21I:
strings Of logs, 2.0l0; strings of lum.
Der, 1888
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-27
AFFECTS HIS MIND.
Paul Freund's Fall From a
Street Car.
DOCTORS THINK HE WAS sLUeeBD

4uscatine Man Comes To X sck Leland TO
Witt and on Returning Home Has an
Accident En- Route 20 the Depot which
Tsvmins tes ssriousy.
Paul Freund, of Muscatine, in
sighting from street Car at the
Rock Islani depot Sunday eve. ing,
fell and Sustained . few slight
bruises. He was taken to q neigh
boring drug store. HIS injuries
were pronounced Of a trivial nature,
and he left. on the 1O:45 train for
home.
But the real effects Of the fall did
not seem to appear until Freund ar
rived home, since which time his
mind has been a blank. He only re-
members that he was in Rock Island,
aud is constantly inquiring what
has happened to him. Chief Frazer,
of the Muscatine police department,
telephoped Chief Fender for details
OF the affair last night. As near as
Chief Fender has been able to learn,
Freuud, who had come to the city to
spend Sunday with lady friend,
who Is whiting here, boarded blue
line car for the Rock Island depot,
whe g he arrived about $40 He
did not ring the bell until the car
was opposite the depot, and conse-
quently the motormau did not bring
1t to a standstiil until the passenger
station was passed. Freuud, not
waiting for the car to stop. jumped
GU. onto the pavement. Louis
Jones, OF the yardmaster's office,
with others. assisted Freund. who
said that he was not injured to
amount to anything.
Think Hs Was siugsea.
The physicians at Musca;ine, Chief
Frazer says, refuse to believe that
the fall which Freunt is claimed to
have sustained would have re-
suited in his present condition
They think that he was struck with
blunt instrument.
Freund ac:ed strangely at the de-
pot before boarding the train for
Muscatine. He asked Louis Jones
to write on piece of paper how he
was injured. The young man car
ried out his request. This explana
tion OF the accident has been found
in Freund's possession, but the Mus
cat,ne people are of the opinion that
it was placed in his pocket to allay
suspicion of the facts in the case.
Chief Fender has found that
Freund had all his money and valua
bies With the txrenfion of / iS watch
charm, which is supposed to have
been lost when he fell, when be
reached home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-27

Speaker Reed in making his COM
mittee appointments remem bered
the congressman in this neck OF the
woods. G. W. Prince is placed on
the banking and currency and acous-
tics and capitol committees. Waller
Reeves is made a member of the
river and harbor committee, and is
consequently supposed to keep an
eye on all legislation concerning the
Hennepin canal. etc. Judge Cannon
and 4. B. Hit are reappointed chair
men OF the appropriations and for
eign affairs com m,ttees, respectively,
and Col. b. F. Marsh ia chairman of
the committee on militia.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-27
The Deputy Consuiship.

Editor Adam Lieberknecht, OF the
Geneseo Republic. the new consul to
Zurich, Switzerland, was in the city
today. Mr.. Lieberknecht states
that be has not yet decided upon his
deputy consul, but will bef1re he
goes abroad.
While it is difficult as yet to hazard
a guess as to which of the three can
didates here will ind the most favor
in Mr.. Lieberknecht's eye, knowing
ones say that all points to Mr..
Gaetjer, in that he is compromise
candidate as between Scott and Har-
ris. Chris has been a repu blican
long enough to get something, even
il 1t is necessary to send him abroad
TO confer the recognition.