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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08
SAYS SPAIN WILL PROSPER.
Louis Estevs, q Barcelona Merchant In Ut.
Louis, Talks About the Wars Effects
on the Country.

st. Louis, Dec. 3.-Louis Esteve, q
member Of firm Of grain and cotton
importers of Barcelona, Spain, was a
visitor at the Merchants exchange
yesterday, lie talked Interestingly
on the subject Of the late war as
viewed from a Spanish standpoint
lie said:
was In Barcelona, which Is one Of the lead
Ing coast cities Of Spain, during the entire war
md had u good opportunity to stud the situa-
tlon In my country. | nm firmly convlnc ed
that the loss In our colonies will In the end
prove a blessing 10 Spain, although tempo
rarily 1t will prove o hardship to many Inter-
estS
With good government, Spain will now be
more prosperous than for many years, as her
colonies have been more OF burden than q
blessing for some time md the people will be
forced to develop the vast resources ut home,
which have been neglected In the endeayor to
make as much as possible out OF the colonies
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08
WHERE IS GI.LETT?


Kansas City, Mo. lee S.-Grant Gil.
lett, the runaway Kan ,as cattle plune'
err has. undoubtedly been found. His
exact whereabouts is kept secret by
those who know, but it is given out
positively that he has been arrested
at q point Just across the Mexican
border Charles A. Shacffer, live
stock commission man, swore out a
warrant for Gillett's arrest in justice
court late yesterday and with Pink
erton detective left for the southwest
last night Shaetfer charges Gillett
with obtaining $4,000 on fraudulent
representations. The kilograms an.
nouncing the apprehension of Gillett
gave his creditors Attenuation that he
had large sum OF money with him.
II Shaeffer Is unable to extradite the
fugitive he will attempt to collect the
$l9, Other officers will Immediately
be sent after Gillett.
At the stock yards commission men
and brokers were anxiously inquiring
for news OF the fugitive. 1t is known
that he took sum ranging from &c..
900 to 5000, 900 with him when he fled
and the hope Of recovering some OF
this money puts his victims on the
alert The first information Of the
direction of Gillett's fight came to
T. j. Eaman, live stock broker,
Wednesday, when some stockmen tele.
graphed that he had been seen in west
ern Texas, where he is well known.
Following this information q message
was received from point in Mexico
asking how much the stockmen would
allow out OF the money that Gillett had
with him for his arrest
A dispatch from Harrington, Kan,
near where Gillett lived, says; As
showing that Gillett had made his
plans to leave, q merchant here re-
lates that on the day he started south
Gillett remarked to him: II have been
bounded to death by those Kansas
City commission men, who wanted me
to remember them in my deals. III
remember them ALL" and he laughed
sarcastically. lie also remarked to
brother-in.law few weeks ago: II
may bust, but bet your life | won't 20
broke"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08


Kansas City, NO., Dec. Sol. and
Mrs Robert T. Van Horn, who for z
years have been residents Of Kansas
City, yesterday celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary in their beauti.
full country home near Independence.
surrounded by number Of their
most intimate friends. From 1855 until
1895, COL Van Horn was editor Of the
Kansas City Journal, the first news.
paper established In this city. He
served as colonel OF the Twenty-fifth
Missouri regiment during the war.
He also represented this district four
terms In congress-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08
IT WAS SHORT LIVED.


Managua Nicaragua, Dec. THE
attempt to effect a coalition between
the states Of Nicaragua, Honduras and
Salvador, to be conducted under a
common administration and known as
the United States Of Central America,
has failed completely. The federal
organizers formally declared the union
dissolved, the three states resuming,
respectively, absolute sovereignty.
The collapse is due to the failure Of
the troops Of Honduras, acting in be.
half Of the federal organizers, to sup.
press the outbreak in Salvador against
the proposed federation and to force
Salvador into the union.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08
NEWS NOTES

Congressman Bland will hold a com.
petitive examination in jefferson City,
Mo-, December 20 for the appointment
Of cadet to West Point military acad.
envy from the Eighth congressional
district.
In q fierce county seat war in Ran.
dolph county, W. Va, the Elkins PEG.
pie charge that large number Of the
women Of Beverly dressed up in mems
clothing and were allowed to vote.
Elkins won in the election, but Beverly
charges fraud end will contest
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08

kee senate yesterday at Ianlequan re-
fused to concur in the house bill pro.
viding for commission to treat with
the Dawes commission. The full
bloods are strongly averse TO any
change and this action OF their legis-
lature indicates that no treaty will be
made between that nation and the
United States
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Young POatNt Clerk TraDuod

Coffeyville, Kan, Dec. THE 49,
year-old son Of Postmaster Bowers, oil
Nowata, |. T., was arrested by Post
Office Inspector Houk, charged with
robbing the mails He has been sus.
pected some time and Houk set trap
for him. Houk was in Coffeyville and
mailed letter to Nowata leaving on
the same train with it He put several
marked bills in the letter and wrote
money" on the envelope, The letter
failed to get through Nowata Houk
arrested young Bowers and found the
marked bills on his person.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08

Milan, Mo, Dec 3.-The jury in the
case Of Mrs. Lumsden, charged with
killing her husband for his insurance
money, to-day returned q verdict Of
not guilty. When the case went to
the jury last night the Judge charged
the jury to find a verdict for either
murder In the first degree or acquittal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08

Washington, Dec. a-There have
died in the government hospitals many
soldiers Of whom the war department
has no record as to their relatives. In
most cases these men had trinkets or
money which the government would
gladly restore to the soldiers next Of
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08
The sixth Missouri to Go to Cuba.

Savannah, Ga, Dec. S.-Maj. Gen.
Lee received orders yesterday to pre-.
pare one division Of the Seventh Army
corps for embarkation for Cuba at once
lie has selected the Second division for
the trip, as Gen. Greene, its command.
or Is now In Cuba. The Sixth Missouri
Is In the division.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08
Deferred Until rebruarv

Washington, Dec. a-The war de-
partment has decided to adopt at once
the suggestion Of Gen. Wood, in COM
mand at Santiago, that the removal Of
the remains Of American soldiers from
that section Of Cuba be deferred unit,
February at the earliest.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-08
EusInud would RelIeve Di,trcs.,

London, Dec. SIN order to relieve
the distress in the West Indies the
government has decided to grant Bar
BADGES $40, 1000 and ST. Vincent $4,000
and TO lend each the sum Of $4,000.
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"Just such morning as this" said
he, with buoyancy in his voice, that
we went to the chapel-so many, and
What day that was! And what lot
of sunshine we have had ever since!"
"Oh, yes! And didn't the girls look
pretty-and Helen-Mrs.-Mrs. Kapu-
lette?"
I'D call her Helen-wouldnt you,
Fanny-to-day Wasn't it odd that
Helen should have been the one to in
troduce us? What a lively pair you
used to make-you two!"
A glow had come in the cheek of Mrs.
Montague and an extra brightness in
her eyes. She felt yearning toward
the girl who had been her chum-the
tall young lady who had found her mate
the matronly woman whom long she
had loved.
81 wish I could see the way" she
unused aloud; "but know she wouldn' t
meet"
what way, my dear?' said her hus-
band, when she paused. "What do you
know-about whom? Who wouldn't
meet what?"
81 was just thinking what lovely
bonnet that is on that lady ahead!" She
chatted along admiringly-as well she
might, having really the prettiest bon
net on parade-but her undercurrent of
thought was still of Helen, though she
parted the questions of her husband
with the highest digressions.
Up the steps of the miniature ca
thedral the brilliant throng of Mayfield
was swarming, faces turned-amid the
gayety of dancing plumes and blooms
that courtesied from bonnet to bonnet
to note what their neighbors had
found or created to grace the happy &C.
casion.
Within, as Mr.. and Mrs. Montague
walked calmly up the aisle, the organ
was pealing eNultantly, pouring forth
it's thousand voices of praise in an ex-
uberant and swelling river of harmony,
as if itself were the fountain of melo-
dies divine.
They took their seats, and reached.
like children. each for the hand of the
other, to exchange a gentle pressure.
No sooner had Mrs. Montague COM
menced rapid survey of the congrega-
tion-in which her glance went fitting
from one exotic to another, like but
terfly in clover-than she found herself,
abruptly, looking in the face and at the
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The Old Easter Bonn.t..

Don't make 'em like they use to-done
killed with too much style;
Fixed up with buds an ribbons till you'd
know 'em half a mile!
They all look mighty fancy, in the big store
windows hung;
But they're nothin' like the bonnets they
wore when we was young!
How much completer-neater. and sweeter
was the old
Time bonnet GOVERN rosy cheeks and
ringlets black an gold!
Plain-with no fxin's on it-with ribbons
white an blue
But kiss beneath that bonnet was as
sweet as honey-dew!
Don't make 'em like they use to, yet the
girls that wear 'em seem
Almost as lovely as the girls that made
our boyhood's dream.
But still I sigh to see 'em In the big store
windows hung:
For they're nothin' like the bonnets that
they wore when we was young!
Frank L. Stanton. in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
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get that lavenderan and pink are positively
hideous on ME, and why in the world
Hel-Mrs. Kapulette-couldn't have
managed to send my bonnet home when
she found the mistake had been made"
did she know it was yours?" asked
Henry, beginning to be rather more
insidiously sarcastic than enthusiastic
about this oft-repeated tale; did she
go along when you gave the Order?"
NO; you know she didn't! j meant
to give her a pleasant surprise-and
that was her way of receiving my eff
fort. Your questions are childish,
Henry. She might have guessed that
canary was exactly my contemporaries
ly what anyone with my taste and COM
plexion would be sure TO select-and
Miss LIE Feyre's girl"
"There--there's Billings out at the
gate. Good-by, my dear. Give Jack my
love when you write-sorry he can't be
up for Easter. Good-by." Mr.. Mon
tague clapped his hat OH his head, sa-
luted his wife, made a grab for his cane
and departed.
Then Mrs. Montague sat down to
Vi tuc VI tAihI tAihS, q AiseiS
less than year before. There never
had been in the world. she thought, such
a long and beautiful friendship as that
between herself and Helen Kapulette.
To think that after having gone to the
same Identical school together-the
best of chums-they were married the
very same day-to travel in separate di-
rectiOns later to be Sure-and both had
moved to Mayfield at last to live. Mrs.
Montague recalled every detail of her
order for that fatal Easter bonnet; ex-
actly that delicate shade of yellow, and
what the trimmings were-and every
thing. Then the changes she had Or
dered; the exasperating slowness and
stupidity of Miss LIE Fevre; the crazed
despair. when, that Saturday night she
returned so late from calling with
Helen, to find that her bonnet had not
yet arrived. And then that awful time
on Easter morning, before the girl came
weakly up the steps and handed in
the wrong bonnet-a bonnet she had
never seen before-a horrid nightmare
of thing in lavender and pink, which
she had to wear or stay at home-new
blue silk and all.
She wouldn't have believed that Helen
could have worn her own very bonnet
and with yelling over the yellow at that
and then be so hateful. She won
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bonnet of Mrs. Kapulette. And Helen
in return was looking at her and hers,
and the gaze of each was suddenly held.
transfixed.
Well might the old-time friends open
eyes of amazement-theirb onnets were
counterparts-precise reproductions
each of the other; the same moss green,
the same spray of feathers, airy and
filmy, the same mass of violets, nodding
and smiling and tossing their perfume
kisses across the aisle and seats of the
chancel.
Both in confusion at last were glad to
divert their eyes to the hymn books,
held below the pews; but neither was
reading, nor praying, nor seeing a
thing but the twin of her bonnet, and
wondering with might and main how
this singular duplication had been made
possible.
Mrs. Kapulette was guilty of stealing
a peek" from the sides of her ewes.
Mrs. Montague was timidly attempting
a similar sortie. The chances met and
fell again to the books. The service
commenced. but nothing was heard or
observed, except in a dim, uncertain,
mechanical manner, by the two. They
were quite enough engrossed with at
tempts to flank the enemy.
In the midst of the battle of chances,
which had gone SO far that each was
now feeling singularly humorous and
amused, their gaze was focused on a
striking pair of tall young people glid-
ing silently by and up the aisle side by
side.
They were Julia Kapulette, the daugh-
ter of Helen, and John Henry Monta-
que, the SON of Fanny. And they sat in
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dered vaguely if they ever would speak
to each other again. No, she didn't be-
ieve they would; she didn't believe that
Helen was half so ready to forget and
forgive as she. Well, she would just
year, and let the people of Mayfield stare
if they wished.
So at length she arose and went to her
desk to write to her grown-up hoy"
In the course of time, and several days
before Easter, the bonnet from the
great metropolis arrived along with a
note from Jack deploring the fact that
he could not have carried it home in
person. 1t was really a jewel, dainty
moss-green frame and subdued with
violets that were poised with an ex-
quisite grace, where they nodded and
smiled and seemed to be tossing the
sweetest of perfume kisses to all who
were gracious enough to behold.
But Easter morning! All, how it
brightly ~outjeweled all others of the
year. The sun shone warmly from a
fiawless sky of turquoise hue; the trees
wore freshest, fairest emerald leaves, or
pearl and ruby blossoms; the grass was
asparkle with diamond dew, and the
birds were chorusing in anthems as
clear and sweet as the crystal tinkle,
tinlle rung from pebbles by the brook
Mr.. and Mrs. Montague not only were
in harmony with all the scene, but were
really a part and parcel of it, as, with
faces gay with smiles, they slowly
walked the way to church. The bells
had never sounded half so musical and
liquid bright-that is, except on one oc-
casion, to which, indeed, Mr.. Montague
was moved now to allude.
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a pew together and sang from a single

book.
Now began, in the breasts of two in
dulgent and admiring mothers, a con-
fnct OF emotions and struggle SO in
tense that music, sermon, songs and
prayers, and all the people but them
selves, were merged in shadowy
dream of unreality, to say no word of
the puzzle in their brains. Then. to
add to their fantasy of thought and to
set them whirling in a wilder field of
conjecture, those youngsters" max
ing show of arranging the overcoat of
Jack. in their seat, at the end of hymn,
turned coyly about and smiled the gay
est, most knowing of smiles in the won
dering faces of their parents, doing first
the honor to one and then with utter
impartiality to the other.
The mothers were more than ever
amazed; but not to say that each be-
gan to entertain suspicious of some
thing unusual between their "chil-
dren" would certainly be to do no jus.
tice at all to that other sense in WON.
ankind, which is duly acknowledged
under the explanation that all possess
an intu;tive faculty of finding things
OUT
Slowly, very slowly, the face of Mrs.
Montague came squarely around, un-
abashed, un-everything but quizzical.
Likewise the countenance of Mrs. Kap-
ulette, innocent of every thing but dumb
though eloquent inquiry, turned DELHI
erately about to that of her friend.
Their chances met without a CULVER;
they scanned each others expression
for light on the mystery; then, playing
through the eyes of each, came CLEANS
of old-time merriment and sparks of
mischief, and over the face of each a
flush of color from the heart. In sec
ond they were smiling in spite of all
they could do, while the blossoms on
their bonnets insisted on nodding and
bObbing across the space intervening
in a way that was nothing short of the
veriest fellowship and sweet familiar
ity.
service was dream of music, smiling
faces and weddings of the past and the
future, but the whole was far too long.
They would fain awake and span the
gulf between-and yet were vaguely in
doubt to think of what they would say.
When at last, to the peals of glori-
Gus postludium, the congregation
turned to move to the door in calm pro-
cession, young Jack and the blushing
Julia came tripping down the aisle in
time to take their respective mothers
by the arm and halt them face to face
in the vestibule.
eve came from town to surprise you
BOTH" said Jack, "and-ahem-to--t
ask you for each other. I want Julia
and Julia wants me- and it was for that
reason we sent the bonnets.''
And the bonnets, being twins, resist
ing each other no longer, came nearer
and nearer together, till at length the
nodding violets on either one leaned for
ward and commingled lovingly with
those upon the other.-Ella Stirling
Cummins, in American Queen.
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THE PRICE OF SHOES,
1t IL Low Compared with the Cost OF
Producing Them.

1t IL Low Compared with the Cost Of
Producing Them.
The problem we find the most diff
cult to wrestle with is: What can be
the reason why shoes are SO low COM
pared with the cost of producing them,
and why does not leather bring enough
to yield any profit on the labor of man.
ufacturing it, at the lowest rates at
which hides can be bought? All this
would be readily comprehensive if it
were true that the stocks of shoes were
excessive. but the weight of evidence
supports the proposition that such is
not the case. That there will be shoes
enough to accommodate the demand
may be taken for granted. There are
extensive factories in which to make
them and ample material to make them
Of. But that there will be SO many more
than enough as to render the production
of them as unremunerativea as il is now
for any great length of time, we consid-
er highly improbable. We entertain the
belief that the surplus holdings of
vendors and consumers are essentially
reduced, that they have been using up
their reserves to such an extent that
they will require additional supplies
in sufficient quantities to establish val
lies which will admit of satisfactory
profits to producers.
Our conviction in this respect is
strengthened by the undisputed fact
that dealers are almost all asking that
the shoes they have bought or are buy
ing should be dispatched to them with
the least possible delay. The natural
inference is that they withheld their
orders as long as they could. and longer
than they have been accustomed to:
that they are accordingly running
short, and find it necessary to replen-
ish quickly. This applies. of course,
chiefly to shoes that are worn by the
masses and sold at low figures, but of
these there are vast quantities con-
sumed, and when the stocks of them in
second and third hands fall below the
average great many are needed to
make up the deficiency, especially at a
time of the year when the want of shoes
is most pressing. OF the more expensive
kinds, of which fewer are worn, prices
are less, and perhaps not at all made
quate. But we have the idea that the
rates alike of the low and the high
priced will be equally adjusted present.
ly, to the advantages equally of sellers
and buyers.-Shoe and Leather Re.
porter.
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SEA sTEwARDEssEs
Why American Women Shun This
Kind Of Ocean Service.

Why American Women Shun This
Kind of Ocean Service.
OF the several hundred women who
cave or enter the port of New York
weekly in the capacity of stewardess
On the big ocean greyhounds only two
are natives of the United States. The
salaries paid by the steamship COM
ranies are evidently not thought suffi-
GENTLY remunerative, considering the
discomforts of the calling.
AS q matter of fact, a stewardcss'
salary is not much more than that of
an ordinary housemaid. and often is
much less. Those passenger ships sail
ing to English ports pay not over SIS
or SIG q month to the head deck state
room stewardess, and less to her assist
ants, while on those vessels plying be-
tween New York and continental ports
a stewardess receives at the end of
round trip trifle in an envelope that
amounts to something less than four
dollars. The company does not supply
her with anything above and beyond
the salary except her tiny little bunk
and her three meals a day while the
vessel is at sea. The bunk is usually
slowed away in some corner, rather
black and airless, on the same deck with
the passengers, and while the ship is at
sea the stewardess lives quite off the fat
of the land. She has her share from
most of the dainty dishes, but in port.
if she stops on board the noisy boat,
her fare is the hard, simple rations Of
the wOrkmen, watchmen and the few
employees who must remain with the
ship.
In winter, when every transatlantic
line lays by a number of vessels for re-
pairs, the stewardess goes home to her
family to wait with patience for the
rush of summer travel.
The big mail steamers carry a corps
of six or eight stewardesses. while some
of the ocean palaces are obliged to
take ten or twelve along. and to secure
| berth as stewardess Il woman must
be first of all healthy, active and abso-
lutely impregnable to seasickness. She
is required, moreover, to be stout Of
limb, cheerful, respectful, sympathetic.
a good deal of philosopher, ready to
bounce out of bed at any time of night.
and she must wear a neat black dress.
a trim white apron and tidy cap.
She is quite superior person to the
bedroom steward who makes beds and
| does general housemaid's work in the
| statcrooms. Her mission is to see that
no ladies come to grief through the
rough pleasantries of old Father
Ocean. to stand by and cheer the suf-
ferer through her most awful moments
of remuneration; attend the needs of
patients too feeble to leave their pill
lows; nourish and console the de-
spondent; help to dress the more Wig
orous who are able to creep on deck:
draw baths for the sturdy of stomach,
and turn up with smile and optimistic
views of the weather whenever the cleo
trio bell summons her. - Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette
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Mrs. Cobwigger-I never think of Wis
iting my milliner's for a month or SO
after Easter.
Mrs. Dorcas-Why so, my dear?
Mrs. Cobwigger-K really isn't fit
place for a woman, because the men are
there swearing about their wives bills.
N. Y. World.
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"My wife gave me terrible shock
last night"
'What was it?"
81 offered her money for an Easter
bonnet, and she said she believed she
would spend it on a new saddle for her
wheel."-Detroits Free. Press.