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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-05-05
A Cook Book Free.

liable and Kitchen" is the title OF
new cook book published by the
Price Baking Powder company, Chi.
cago. just at this time it will be
sent free il you write a postal men,
tioning the REFLECTOR. This book
has been tried by ourselves and is one
Of the very best Of its kind. Besides
containing over 400 receipts for all
kinds Of pastry and home cookery,
there are many hints for the table and
kitchen, showing how to set a table,
how to enter the dining room, etc., a
hundred and one hints in every
branch Of the culinary art. Cookery
Of the very finest and richest as well
as Of the most econc mical and home
like, is provided for. Remember
liable and Kitchen" will be sent,
postage prepaid, to any lady sending
her address name, town and State
plainly given. A copy in German or
Scandinavian will be sent II desired.
Postal card as good as letter. Ad-
dress Price Baking Powder Co., Chi
cago, III.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-05-05
Kansas City Journal One Year
to Reflector Subscribers.
Until May IS, '98,

To every one who, on or before May Is, 1893, sub
scrbes for the Weekly Reflector and pays One Year
in Advance, we will send FREE for one year the Kan
sas City Journal, Of the best general newspapers
in the country. 1t has carefully prepared farm
page and contains large amount of Kansas news.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-05-05
GONE To WAR.
CHEERS AND MUSIC As THE
BOYS DEPART.
Abilene Company Starts for the
State Capital Speeches at the De-
pot-Junction City Gets in the
Roll.

This was lively day in town. The
war probably got nearer to Abilene
than it will again in a good while.
Abilene's company was ordered to
leave for Topeka at noon and the
streets were filled with embryo vet
erans. General Orders" from Cap
tain Watson were posted in rapid
succession. More flags were put out
and cheers followed every banners
unfolding.
The boys who joined the ranks Sat-
urday evening and took the oath Of
office did not include all who were ex-
amined, several preferring to wait a
little before going into the ranks.
Much speculation was INDUCED in
by the boys as to the title Of the
company. Ed Little was in town
yesterday and said he would make it
Company A Of the First regiment but
Rafter, one Of the recruiting officers,
said be expected to 90 as surgeon
with this company and it would be in
the Third regiment under Leedy.
There is lively contest for subor-
dinate officers who are to be elected
and appointed at Topeka. E. A. Fry
Of this city is the Abilene boys choice
for the position Of first lieutenant.
Mr.. Little is understood to be for Mr..
Nicholson Of junction City. The
Dickinson county boys propose to
stand together and hold down the
positions.
Inree new recruits came into the
ranks, Guy Tate, Harry Lightner and
Jos. Lightner. junction City having
refused to come to Abilene to enlist
the recruiting officers went there
Sunday and enrolled eighteen more
men which added to the three enroll
ed here makes 2S from that county.
Company is still short about fifteen
men and these will be added at To-
peka II they can be secured.
The recruits are now sworn in only
as state troops. They must yet be
taken as national troops and as such
will have another medical examina.
ton. This will not be severe but
may be sufficient to throw out some
members.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-05-05

The best hair tonic in town can be
found at Charles Hollis barber shop.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
NEWS FROM EUROPE.
France Must Fight or Make Further Co
cessions-Germany's Posltion ON the
Philippines.

London, Nov. G.-The military au-
largest naval arsenal In Great Britain,
ate mobilization of all the troops In the
western district.
The defense committee will meet TO-
morrow.
The Daily Chronicle this ~lnorning
processes to have important military
news which it would not be advisable
TO publish without the sanction of the
war Office"
The English papers point out that
the evacuation of FashOda is only an
instalment of the satisfaction expected
by Great Britain. and that France has
yet to swallow the pill Of withdrawing
from the Bahr- FL Ghazal region. Tn
der these circumstances the debate in
the French Chamber OF Deputies on
Fashoda next week is eagerly awaited,
as the French government is then en-
pected to explain its Intentions regard
ing the remainder of the French posts
in Nile, already established by Major
Marchand.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Standard says:
'The semi-official papers have receiv-
ed hint to stop their attacks upon
America. I have good reason to be-
lieve, however, that Germany will doff
her reserve so soon as other powers
seek share in the spoils of the Phil
ippines."
The Madrid correspondent Of the
Daily Mail says: Spain will sign the
peace treaty under protest"
The Vienna correspondent of the
Times, commenting upon the irritation
Of the German press over the attitude
Of the United States towards the Phil
ippine question. says:
ut has but little Importance, and is
only likely to excite the scorn and de
fiance of the Americans and tend to
confirm them in their determination to
keep the Philippines. The Fremdenlatt,
in temperate article that gives the
German papers an example Of Impair
tiality, recognizes that 1t is purely n
question for the Americans to decide
for themselves"
The Berlin correspondent of the
Times, after giving extracts from an
other long and violent article In the
Kolnische Zeitung, declares that the
fate of the Philippines cannot be n
matter of Indifference in Germany and
expresses the opinion that such utter
anccs will only "stiffen the attitude of
the United States"
Paris, Nov. 6.-The Matin to-day coli.
firms the report that the government
will instruct Major Marchand to re-
turn to France with his expedition
from Fashoda by way of Jibutil, on
the Gulf of Alden, "the only route con-
sistent with French dignity" ,.f
The paper expresses the hope that
the national flag will not again be In
volved in such small colonial enter
prise unless success is assured before
hand, both diplomatically and by ade-
quate support" J-
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
Profitable Calling,

The Sketch gives some statistics re-
garding the inns and innksepers Of
Switzerland which seem to prove Inn
keeping in that land the most profit
able of callings. In proportion to its
size, Switzerland has far and away
more inns than any other country In
the world. Indeed. the entertainment
of tourists has become the chief Indus
try of this hospitable land-hospitabls.
that is, to paying guests. 1t now con-
tains no less than 1,700 hostelries. sta
toned for the most part on the tops OF
mountains or by the side Of glaciers.
Their receipts amount to some $z6,-
100000 year. and, when we take into
account the many millions more which
go into the pockets of other contribute
ors to the entertainment Of tourists, We
are driven to the conclusion that bar
rem peaks and glaciers are, after all.
more profitable than the most fertile
plains and valleys in the world.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
osHARp WARNING TO cusAns.
General Perez Il Ordered Not to Execute
Insurgents Accused of DsaertinE.

General Perez Is Ordered Not to Execute
Insurgents Accused of Deserving.
Santiago de Cuba, Nov. o. An in
cident has taken place here, which is
causing much talk among the Cubans
and may create ill-feeling.
The Cuban general, Perez, who has
half dozen times announced his in
tention to disband the troops under
his command, but has not yet done So
recently ordered the trial by court
martial of one of his men on charge
Of deserting from the army in time of
war. The prisoner was condemned to
death, but before the sentence was
executed notification was sent to Colo
mel Ray of the Third immune regiment
who laid the latter before General
Wood, commander of the military de
partment of Santiago.
General Perez was at once Informed
that IL the man was executed he and
the firing party would be hanged as
soon as the courts could legally SEN
tence them. He was instructed that
If man committed a crime punish.
able under the civil law he should be
turned oveo to the proper authorities,
who would look into the case, but was
told that under no circumstances
would tribunals like those of the pres
ent insurgent army be allowed to try
cases and sentence prisoners to death,
or even to Imprisonment.
Furthermore. Perez was notified that
the man now under sentence of death
must be turned over to the American
authorities If there was charge
against him, or be released.
Captain Chester of the United States
-
ficers, yesterday visited the wreck of
the Spanish cruiser. Cristobal Colon,
and finally decided that work on the
sunken warship should be abandoned.
as in their opinion there is no possible
chance of raising her.
The men Of the wrecking company
who have been at work on the Spanish
vessels have been ordered to proceed
to Santiago harbor, there to raise the
Reina Mercedes and blow up the Mer-
rimac 80 as to clear the channel.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
,. ", Browninr . Br,.,,,,.,.

Denver, Nov. 6.-J. W. Browning is
now brigadier general of the Colorado
militia. 'g
Governor Adams gave Browning his
appointment yesterday afternoon. Gen.
eral Browning WAS appointed captain
Of company E, First Colorado infantry.
on December 2, 1887. He served in
that capacity until 1889 In place of
Captain Robbins. He was made major
ON January IA. 1889. After retaining
that ONCE few years he resigned. His
advancement was the first notice of
his re-entrance into military service.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
A NEW SOCIETY,".
Veterans of the Spanish War Form an Or
ganization.


Lexington, Ky, Nov. 5.-Last night
ciety which aims to be to the soldiers
who enlisted for the Spanish-American
war what the Grand Army of the Re
public has been to the federal army of
the Civil war
THE Service Men of the Spanish
War" is the title of the new society,
and the plan of organization was con
ceived by Captain Wilson l. Davenny,
commissary of subsistence of the First
brigade, Second division, Fifth army
corps.
Commander, Colonel Leonard; vice
commander, Lieutenant Colonel Banks
adjutant and chief of staff, Captain
Dayenny: treasurer, Colonel Gunder. A
ritual and regulations will be drafted,
The plan of organization provides
that the parent organization. Henry
Clay camp No. l. shall be supreme II,
all matters pertaining to the ritual and
regulations, organization of new camps
and the general government of the 10.
ciety until a national camp is organ
ized.
The units of the organization shall be
the local camps, each to be named
after some deceased American soldier.
sailor or statesman, and numbered in
the order Of their formation.
Each local camp shall elect two rep-
resentatives to state camp. and one
of these representatives shall be deslC-
mated to attend " national camn.
charters for local camps shall be is-
sued by the commander and adiutant
of the parent camp until n national en.
campment is fully organized and pro
" InI vv-fA
GERS S'
The charter fee at tho outs., l.,
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

The Kentucky Court OF Appeals held
In the recent case Of Knauer Ts. The
City OF Louisville. that city cannot
pass an ordinance which fixes the fees
to be paid public contractor for the
removal Of the carcass Of an animal
out Of the city at such a sum as that
the owner OF the carcass could not
pay them and realize anything out oi
the body. as dead animals are not per
50 nuisances. and that an ordinance
which thus confiscates the property OF
the owner and gives 1t to the public
contractor would deprive the owner oil
property rights In the animal which dc
not cease at its death.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
cAsHay.s WONDERFUL CLOCK.
Runs for Year Without Dsns,si.s
ANY Attention.

Runs for n Year Without DsnssAi.s
Any Attcntion.
A Kankakee county man Is the pos.
SCISSOR Of one of the most wonderful
clocks in the country. This clock 10
as near a perpetual motion machine at
any piece of mechanism yet designed
The owner is not perpetual motion
crank. but is an exceedingly ingeniou.
jeweler named Peter N. Ravenskilds
Of Cabery, hustling town In the
southwestern portion Of Kankakee
county. The clock Is the product Of
many years Of study and labor and
considerable expense. 1t keeps occur.
ate time and will run for a year with.
out the least attention from Its owner.
The clock proper Is run with q wheel
sixty inches in circumference. From
the outer surface of the circumference
are suspended 120 cups, each one-hali
inch In diameter and third Of an
inch deep. Each Of forty of these cups,
which are successive contains q steel
ball three -eighths OF an inch in diam.
eter. Every minute and half, a
this weel turns by the weight of these
balls, one of them falls out Of its cup
rolls down an inclined plane twenty
inches long. when, by its own weight
1t reunites broken circuit of elec.
tricity, and is again elevated by q lit.
tie car travelling along q sleeper In.
clined plane to the top Of the wheel
where 1t falls into cup which stands
vertical for short time. After the
car discharges its cargo it returns to
Its original station from its own
weight. From the time one of these
balls Is dropped into cup until 1t Ia
again dropped into another cup 1t trav-
els thirty-six inches. Thus the work
done by all the balls is equivalent to
one ball travelling over one mile day:
400 miles in one year, and during the
lifetime of person living three score
years the distance around the elobs.
The electricity used is generated in an
ordinary storage battery. and does not
require any attention for fully year.
Another clock owned by Mr.. Ravens.
kilde is Of similar construction, but
considerably smaller. This clock u
used to attract attention in the store.
A porcelain globe is placed back Of the
clock and at night green, red and white
electric lights reflect their rays alter
nately on the face Of the clock. the col
ors being changed each time the ball 10
discharged from one of the cups ON the
timepiece. Mr.. Ravenskilde has had
many offers to exhibit his clocks, but
refuses to do so, and SO far he has not
had the mechanism patented.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

Those who talk volubly upon their
joys and their griefs are not generally
those who are capable OF the profound
est happiness or the most intense suf-
fering. Those who can put into ready
words the sanctities OF love. and fluent
ly express all its hopes and fears, have
seldom penetrated to its depths. Those
who utter glibly and unrestrainedly
all their upward strivings, their senti-
ments Of contrition. their feelings OF
reverence, their desire for worship,
are not usually the most truly relig-
ious or devout. For all that is highest,
deepest. and most profound In human
nature silence is a better exponent
than speech. Not only Is language In
adequate to convey the truth Of such
things, but they are themselves drawn
down from their high estate by being
made subjects OF ordinary conversa-
tion. Reticence on such matters is both
saiutary and becoming.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

A sick soldier who was ordered to
4 sanitarium on a mountain summit
found on arriving there that but one
room in the house was unoccupied. and
that SO shut in that no one would take
1t. A young school mistress had the
best room in the house. having en-
gagged 1t long before because Of the
grand view from the windows. When
she heard OF the poor fellow lying in
bed all day with only a dense wood
for prospect she had the clerk ex-
change the occupants of the two rooms,
bargaining that her little plan be kept
q secret
II your walls are so narrow
You cannot see far,
Knock hole in the ceiling
And look at a star
The little schoolmistress did better.
She knocked the hole in a brothers
ceiling. and opened up to him . whole
constellation Of happiness.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
Hard on the War Po.t..

1t was Lieut.. William Branners-
treuther who raised the American nas
over the Ladrones, and Capt. William
McKettrick performed like service ct
Santiago. In choosing men upon whom
to confer this honor it seems to have
been the aim of the officials to select
those with names that could not b
monkeyed with by the war poets.-
Denver Post Fi2 rF
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

at $40 for local camps. The funds ac-
cruing to the parent organization or TO
the national camp, as Its success from
charter fees. etc. shall be used to de
fray the expenses Of the administra-
ton. Local camps are permitted To
provide for benefits for needs of
worthy members, II 1t Is deemed adj
yisable.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
o.. Hundred Die ON sh,,.

Malaga, Spain, Nov. 5.-The trans
port steamer Gran Antills, Captain
Bayona, from Havana, on October 13.
vim Porto Rico, with repatriated Span
ish troops on board, has arrived here
and reports that there were 100 deaths
among the soldiers during the voyage
across the Atlantic,
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

In the English schools OF the lowest
grade there is class Of drudges known
As pupil-teachers. They are mainly
girls from thirteen to sixteen in age,
who are employed in teaching the ele-
ments OF reading, writing and arith-
metic. There are about thirteen thou
sand Of these pupil-teachers in Eng
lish schools supported by local taxa
tion. This system Of having children
as teachers has not worked we'll. 1t
was cheap and reduced expenses. 1t
was cheap also in quality and enlcien-
cy. A parliamentary committee has
recently condemned the system, and
proposed various measures for reform
ing it. 1t has advised the education
department to raise the age OF the
child-teacher from thirteen to fifteen,
and In the course OF few years to
make 1t sixteen. 1t has also proposed
\ system of training teachers for pri-
mary work. England ia far behind
America in methods Of primary in
struction.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

Among the tragic comedies which
Spain has furnished to the world dur
Ing the present year. nothing goes
ahead Of this: The municipal authori-
ties Of Barcelona gave their courteous
approval to q proposal for the estab-
tishment Of . local society for the
prevention Of cruelty to animals, and
offered to provide funds at once by
holding bull Aght!
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

The season is drawing nigh when
the plumber will have a lead-pipe
einch.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

For every man who is unable to
stand prosperity there are millions
who would like to try.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

A magazine poet says Its hard to
be poor" Well. perhaps 1t Is, but We
always imagined II was easy to bs a
seor magazine Dost,
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

A lie often cripples where cannon
would be ineffective.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

The average woman spends more
time than money when she goes shop
ping.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

The same food that stupefes the
brain by day keeps 1t unduly active at
night.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

Happiness often depends upon what
We do with our spare time.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

The tramp would rather go to Jail
than be caught In the tolls.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

The man who makes the most dollars
usually makes the fewest friends.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

The reading that maketh = man full
Is probably the wine when 1t Is red
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

Silver must be the kind Of money
that talks, as silence 10 said to be gold
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

Truth may be stranger than fiction
but 1t. Is less valuable In literature
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

The ixziel . ,uan ~ the narcer IL Ia
to discourage him.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

Cost of Electric Cab.
1t costs about $1,000 to build an cleo
tric cab of the kind now In uss n
Paris.
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
Denver Directory.
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The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
Those Eoving Girl.

Helen Young softleigh proposed
to me last night. He ought to have
known beforehand that should refuse
him.
Mattie-"Tm sure he did. dear"
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12

OXFORD HOTEL Depot, .,n st Strictly ssas ga,sa psss
The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12


garrison duty.
Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay
Evans states that up to September
Both the war with Spain had caused
the loss of the lives of 2,9O6 American
soldiers and sailors. He further declar-
ed that the statistics of his office show
that the percentage of deaths in camps
from disease during last summer was
much less than during the civil war.
Baron Won Heyking, the German
minister to China, has proposed to the
representatives of the powers at Pek-
in a joint occupation of the railway
from Shan Hal Kwan, province of Pc
Chi Ii, to Pekin, thus securing COM
munication with the coast unless the
Chinese government promptly with
draws it's troops to a safe distance
from the line.
A dispatch from Rifle to the Denver
Times says that parties who came in
from Rangley report between 400 and
500 Indians camped on Douglas
Spring, Sulphur and Cathedral creeks,
In the vicinity Of Rangley. and killing
deer in great numbers. The country
where they are camped is near the 10
cality where the killing occurred last
year. The Indians are not troubling
the settlers, but are out in such great
numbers that should trouble arise be
tween them and the settlerD It would
result In q big killing. A company Of
soldiers from Fort Duchesne Ii now
encamped at Rangley and hope to get
the Indians back to the reservation IN
the next few days, .s'
The record-union., 1898-10-19
OF INTENTION, NO. 400

Resolved, That it Isl the intention of the
Board of Trustees of the City of Sacra-
mento to order the following street work
to be done, to wit:
That the alley between and K streets,
in said city, from the east line of Tenth
street to the west line of Eleventh street,
be improved by grading and macadamiz-
ing. constructing redwood curbs and a
brick catch basin to be connected to the
sewer therein.
And notice is hereby given that all per-
sons objecting to said work are required
to file their objections in writing, in the
office of the Clerk of the Board of Trus-
tees. as required by law, stating how
much frontage on said streets is repre-
serted by the party SO objecting, and on
what street the property so represented
is located.
And the Clerk is hereby directed to post
this resolution conspicuously for two days
near the chamber door of this board: also
to publish the same for two days in the
Record Union" a daily newspaper, as
required by law.
The "Record--Un daily newspaper
is hereby designated as the paper in
law to be published by the Superintendent
of Streets of said city, in relation to the
work described aforesaid.
In Board of Trustees: Sacramento
October II, $685. Adopted by the following
Ayes-Trustees Tebbets, Kent, Paine
Douglas, Devine, Brown, Bentley Dolan
Oi io- President of the Board of Trustees .
M. J. Desmond, Clerk of the Board Of
Trustees.