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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

States army, is expected in Cleveland soon
to inspect the new Calling gun, the COM
pletion of which the inventor is now super
vising at that place. The. peculiarities Of
the gun are, first, in the composition of the
metal, which it is claimed will Withstand
any amount of firing without wearing
smooth internally, and second, that it is
cast in a solid piece and bored out, greatly
reducing the cost of manufacture. The gun
will weigh twenty-seven tons:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
Hinderance to RuraI Free Delivery.


Hon. E. +. Loud, in North American Re-
view.
The people who send first-class matter
ordinary letters and postal cardS-and who
make up the postal deficit. are entitled to
some privileges They pay annually about
$To,000,000 upon as many pounds of matter
as against the $3000.000 which 365,000,000
pounds of second-class matter yield, or a
dollar a pound for one as against ~ cent
for the other. Unless the Second-class priv
ilege is restricted to its legitimate uses the
will go beyond the point of reason and
equity in correcting this disparity. and all
publishers will suffer the penalty of wrongs
too long unredressed In 1890 this country
agreed, with others assembled in Postal
Union. to give such delivery of mail matter
here as the other countries had given TO
their people England. France, Germany
Belgium, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland
have at least one free delivery of mail per
day. Eight years have passed, and yet only
last year did this country make a substan-
tial beginning on rural free delivery. While
we doubtless have a right thus TO break
faith with the foreign countries involved
in such trade as this, we have no right Ill
equity to deny such delivery to our own
people when they pay so roundly on ilrst-
class matter. But free delivery cannot be
made general long as second-class mat
ter continues this great drain upon the
treasury.
Patrons of the postofiice should be treated
equally under the law. and the beneticiaries.
of the taxpayers bOunties should be those
interests which it is acknowledged public
policy to promote. Nhlie the newspapers
and magazines as educators and molders
of public sentiment are doubtless entitled
TO certain privileges, this theory does not
involve as u logical consequence tnat the
government should carry rubber boots
through the mails at q great loss, even
though an old almanac joke was pasted on
the left heel. One reform at a time, anu
the postal business will eventually be con-
Quoted on a business Lasis. The current
annual deficit and the outrageous inequai-
ties of the present system, which necessi-
tate a denial of rural free delivery and rem
der a reduction Of postage impossible. are
making themselves heard as arguments TOT
reform
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
Piscntorial.

''You," said the man who had kept his
mouth shut and kept his job, you are the
person who called ME a political jellyfish
during the campaign"
Yep" admitted the man who had been
fired for pernicious activity.
81 have only to say" continued the gela-
tinous one, that it is better to be jelly
fish than q sucker ma
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
Circumstancea Alter Cases.

Watts--Just got a letter from an old
schoolmate. 1t is pleasant to hear from the
friends of ones youth.
Potts-It is pleasant to hear from them
when they are doing well, and pleasant to
hear of them when they are not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

The Brooklyn Eagle says that Represent
ative Sulzer, of New York. sis more kinds
of q very uncommon kind of something
which we do not wish to say, but which
rhymes with school, tool, droo pool and
the like, than any other man in this world
that has hitherto deserved inattention."
The Eagle has lost sight of Lewis. of Wash
sn0fn,,
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Philadelphia Record.

PnlIadeIpnlL tLECOTu.
Ex-President Harrison insists that taxes
should bear with equal pressure upon all.
TO this end he would tax personal property.
There is no denying the justice of equal
taxation but if Mr.. Harrison could devise
a scheme by which the owners of personal
property might be made to disclose their
holdings and pay their share he would take
rank as the first economist of his time in
inventive skill An income tax would be the
nearest approach to equity, but dishonest
men could easilY eVade payment.
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elf Congress would pass the Loud bill at
least $4,000, 600 would be saved, which would
help out the surplus. The principal gamers
by the present second-class postage law
are a few publishers of very cheap papers
which advertise. their goods. They send
their papers. and goods by the carload.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

When the elearings of the banks in sew
enty-seven cities were 81 per cent. larger
in the February just closed than in Febru-
airy, 1897, and 20 per cent. above the Febru-
airy of 1894. no intelligent man who cares for
his reputation will make himself conspic-
nous in the ranks of the howlers of ca
ganaitv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

A surplus of $1S45.5sS in the treasury for
the month of February is a vindication of
the DingIey law as a enue-getter. 1t
was the first February since 1892 that the
receipts of the treasury exceeded the ex-
penditures. In February, 1897, the deficit
was 81 COZ 052
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

While the naval court of inquiry has not
given out q particle of information nor
authorized any statement whatever regard
ing the destruction of the Maine the testi-
mony Of intelligent newspaper correspond
ents continues to strengthen the theory that
it was caused by an explosion from the
.o.,faida
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

The last postmaster murdered in the
South was John r. Freeman, white man
OF good repute, at Ada, Ga. He was muir
dered because the friends of his predeces-
sor die not want a change. Heretofore the
pretext for shooting postmasters in the
South has been that they were colored
men, but in this case the cause was that
the appointee was not a Democrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

Il is not unlikely that the extreme care
taken in protecting the Spanish cruiser Viz
caya while she was a guest in New York
harbor was intended to strengthen posi-
BILE claim against the Spanish authorities
for failure to protect the Maine.
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philadelnhia Reeord.

That was an admirable suggestion of
Senator Cockrel. of Missouri, to put the
charge of the War Department. If after
the war soldiers had been employed to look
after the interests of soldiers, to take care
of pension OBSERVERS and to turn down UNI
observers, millions of money would have
been saved. and the judgment of such men
as Grant and Garfield would have been
indicated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

Following so close on the Maine disaster
the sending of naval vessel to Cuba with
a cargo of provisions for the relief of the
starving natives will be an evidence of
American magnanimity that will excite uni
,.arsaI admiration
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RuRnLEs IN THE AIR.


Woman said the Cornfed Philosopher,
lis creature who feels responsible for the
welfare of the whole community, but not
for what she says 1890
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

lhia North American.

Philadelphia North American
Congressman Dennis ten years hencel-
Mr. Speaker | desire to present a bill
granting Il pension to MIR. Fake Scribbler.
executor of the Hullabaloo, whose health
was ruined by the excitement consequent
upon waging in his columns the late War
against Spain
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

President Mckinley has been through one
war. Senator Mason has not. Those who
have experienced the horrors Of war are
not apt to rush into it headlong.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
TO Insure Attention.

did YOU ever make the embarrassing err
ror Of mistalNng a guest for a waiter?'
me? No. find it good plan, though,
to mistake the head waiter for guest"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

It comes from the President that the
Maine affair is only an incident, but is not
the chief issue in the Cuban matter, which
is the early ending of the war OF that ISL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

1t has been so long since the treasury
officials have seen a bona fide surplus that
they will hardly recognize it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

IL the righteous demands of the Nation
can be secured by peaceful means it is
better than to sacrifice human life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

In the affair with Spain nothing is wasted
In waiting to know all about it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

jail ia the good sense of the old Kaiser.
When in his walks he discovered a crowd
straining their neckS to read ScurrilouS
placard against himself. he directed his or
DERBY TO take it down and post il lower, so
that the people could read it at their ease.
They say what they like, and / do what /
like, he used to observe How the journal
lists OF Germany must regret him.
The most distinguished of recent arrivals
in the Riviera is the King of the Belgians
eldest daughter Disdaining such a plebian
means of locomotion as the train, the PI"n-
cess Louise drove from Monte Carlo to Nice
in a victoria drawn by four superb grays,
herself holding the ribbons. She was ac-
companied by her daughter, the young
Princess Dorothea. Princeas Louise, like
her mother. has q passion for horses. and
her arrival at the magnificent Villa III Para
disc was preceded by a stud of fourteen
first-class trotters. She will remain at
Cimiez till the end of April. and during her
stay will probably receive visits from the
King of the Belgians and her sister, the
Archduchess Stephanie of Austria.
I'd like to be a rumor for
A little while. ah me!
Just long enough, in fact, to gain
\ lot of currency.
Puck.
Who on this world of ours their eyes
In March first open shall be wise
In days of peril firm and brave,
And wear bloodstone TO their grave.
Notes and Queries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

Philadelphia North American
Senator Hanna Is too fresh from the
Ohio senatorial campaign not TO fear the
horrors Of war
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Can be found at the Following places;
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palrner House, p. q. News Co, III
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Oe Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
Death Of Mrs. Volkman.

WooDBINE, April 5.-Died, Thurs.
day, March 81, 1898, of bloodpoison.
ing, Mary, wife Of R. H. volkman.
The deceased was born February IA,
1874, and on April 26, 1898, came to
this place where she resided until her
death. The funeral services were
conducted Saturday, April 2, by Rev.
Peich, at the German Baptist church.
Many friends and relatives came to
pay their last respects to one who in
life had done her duty. The boarders
at the hotel showed their appreciation
by sending a lovely wreath and cross.
The bereaved husband and two chill
dren have the heartfelt sympathy Of
everyone.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
QUICK SETTLEMENT.
Wyandt's Agency Can Always B,
Relied Upon.

The following letter explains it
self:
ABILENE, Kas., April 4, 1898.
o. G. Wyandt, Agent Fuielity and Cas-
ualty Co.,, Abilene, Kas.
Dear Sir;-I want to thank you and
your company very sincerely for the
prompt and honorable settlement
which my claim of indemnity receiv.
ed from you. | was injured the first
OF November, and presented u total
claim for $3.50, which was settled by
your adjuster without quibbling or
excuse.
Such dealings will win for your
company many patrons shall al
ways carry my accident insurance
with your company, and very cheer
fully recommend it the insurinp
public Very truly yours,
G. A. BENIGNUs.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
THE TRAVELLERS PROPERTY.
Commissioner Belts Of Connecticut
Hunting 1t Up.

Attorney General Mylrae Of Wiscon.
sin and Assistant Insurance Commits.
sioner O'Rear OF Missouri were in the
city Monday. The object Of
their visit was to find out the amount
OF real estate and the number of real
estate mortgages owned in this coun-
ty by the Travellers Insurance COM
pany Of Connecticut.
Insurance Commissioner Belts of
Connecticut has undertaken 10 find
out the assets of the Travellers com.
pany and has asked the insurance
commissioners Of Wisconsin, Illinois
and Missouri to aid him, and it is
this quest that brings Mr. Mylrae
and Mr.. O'Rear to Kansas.
They did not call on the Travellers
Office and left at noon. They had Sc.
cured a list of the property owned
by the company here and agreed to
most of the valuations put on it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
BITTER TASTE.
1t Aids in the Detection Of Unwhole
some Food.


Daniel Webster in the famous
White trial in Salem, Mass, years
ago declared that "murder will out. 4
This maxim has been found applicable
to many other things besides murder.
Housewives know it to be true when
there is alum in baking powder. A
bitterness in the bread at once be-
trays the alum's presence. 1t can't
conceal its true nature. The alum
bitterness "will out, and because it
will, physicians, who understand the
harmful effect Of alum on the system,
are at loss to know why people con-
tinue to buy baking powders contain
ing it. All baking powders sold for
twenty-five cents pound and less
contain alum. There is surely no
economy in using these cheap pow
ders. For a pure cream OF tartar
powder, as DR.. Prices was shown TO
be al the Worlds Fair, goes SO much
farther and gives SO much better re-
suits, there is noudoubt OF its being
more economical in the long run.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
MARCH CALM AND WET.
What the Weather Reports Show
About the Month.

The signal service reports show
that the past month was an excep
tionally calm and wet March. The
State University report says: 1.-THE
past month has been the calmest
March on our record, the run of wind
having been 622 miles less than any
preceding March. The rainfall was
very much above the average, only
three Marches on our record having
had a greater precipitation" The
rainfall was 80 inches.
In Abilene the rainfall was |. .O3
inches. Last March it was 2.29.
The highest temperature was IS on
the 2lst, lowest II on the 23d.
Rainfall past twenty-four hours
1.3l inches.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
Wheat Is All Right.

Examinations made of the wheat.
fields Moniay by competent persons
show that the plant is all right and
that even where the top is blackened
by the frost the root is sound and
sending up new shoots. 1t is believed
that no damage has been done the
fields.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
Fine Nursery Stock, Etc.

We have about 80, 900 surplus apple
trees Of all the leading varieties un.
sold, also a general line Of other nur-
sery stock and about 5000 ever
greens, red cedar, Scotch and Aus
trian pine, OF all sizes. Trees are
home grown and worth double eastern
stock.
Also for sale some fine Early Ohio
seed potatoes, seed peanuts, and three
Poland China boars.
Location Of nursery, section 26,
4 miles south Of Industry. Have
opened nursery yard south Of Star
livery barn, Spruce street, Abilene.
Call and see me.
2S-4 G. II. AUMACK.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
Will Address Workmen.

Abilene lodge A. 0. U. W. has ar
ranged for an evenings address on
April n by Past supreme Master
Workman j. G. Tate who will give a
lecture on the orders condition and
prospects. He will be accompanied
by Grand Master Workman j. H..
Crider of TT. Scott.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
EsSend or bring your orders to this office at once
THE REFLECTOR, Abilene, Kas.
Shifting Soil.


~SAA'
Real Estate Transfers Reported BY George
/ Merrill, Abstracter.
W II Olapper to Mary l. W Norris liz
in X u II add Abilene, $l4OO.
} B Case to G G Huffman It's in Fair
view add Abilene, $2O.
W X Vosburg to M II Malott nwl g.
| l6-l, $500.
A V Jewett to Ella p Hart 1t 70 blk a
Abilene, Sl5.
Union Pacific r R to c Derbyshire swl
@l6'l, 5000.
Sheriff to Milford Say Bk nd swl SO.
14-3, 5000.
SwoiTord Bros to VIM Sherraden swl
mel 36-l2-3, $1,000.
Abilene Town 20 to & W Hurd Its in
fairview add Abilene, 800.
0akwood Creamery Co to Belle
Springs Creamery Go land in mel
N.l2.2 and in blk lS Chapman,
$2500.
I Seaman to j Engler nwi 1884,
$4,000.
I Kirby to Eliza M Baldwin 1t | blk
q Abilene, 800.
G Il Loudon to G R Loudon n! mel 81
1913, 5000
$ Bricker Sr, to } H Bricker sol and
81 nei lO.l3-2, $4,000.
W d Cornish to Union Pacific R r.
railroad right of way.
) M McChord to M B Mccoy Its "a
blk Al Herington, $4,000.
II + Ellison to Dora Messick land in
I " Nc add Abilene, 81.
) II Lenhart to d X Ilostettcr net 20.
1913, $4,000.
ii W Haskins to Mass Mutual l. Ins
Co Its in X & H add Abilene, 81.
Mass Mutual l. Ins Co to o |, Bates
same, 800.
) + Nissley to Lydia shockey Its on
9Th st Abilene, $1,000.
} M Sheets to Ezra Sheets sci l5-12.8.
$4,000.
Same to Belle Springs Creamery Co
one acre in lS-ll-4, 81.
Patrick Sheeran to Belle Springs Co
land in Chapman, $50.
7 Fallen to Il Steinbruck nwl mel A.
1l-3, $685..
Z + Wilson to Lydia A Holinger ej
mel sec 22 nwl 2S-lS-4, s4SO0.
Realty Trust Co to Geo Kloepfer nwl
29-l5-9, 1880.
sanford b Ladd to same Is ac in nwl
29-16.3, $l35.25.
Ezra Weis to G W Kelley and r Baker
swi 25-l3-2, 1920.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
School. Closing in District l0l.

HopE, April 5.'-Miss Jessie Taylor
closed an unusually successful term
of school last Friday in district l0l.
The entire district met with her in
the afternoon and listened to an in
teresting program rendered by the
pupils. After this all were delighted
by the liberal treat Of oranges and
bananas prepared by Miss Taylor.
The program included recitations,
songs, dialogues, etc, in which the
pupils Of the school took part.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
Charlie Westcott in Klondike

1t is reported that Charles West
cot'' well known in this county, has
gone to the Klondike. 1t is said that
his father gave him $1,000 and he
spent $3.50 for firearms, sailing from
Seattle four weeks ago prepared for
business.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
SAME OLD WAY.
Populists Will Hold a Convention tt
Select Delegates Only.

The Populist central. committee
has called convention to meet May
q to select delegates to congressional
and state conventions. Primaries
will be held May 10 at which time the
central committee will be elected.
The county ticket will be selected by
three primaries, the same as last
year, date Of the first primaries be-
ing fixed by the first convention.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
FOUR SCORE AND TEN.
Celebration Of John Vests Goth
Birthday.

Birthday.
A few invited friends spent an en-
joyabIe day with Grandfather Johl
West (as he is usually called) Mon
day, April 4, with his daughters, Mrs
D. Huggins and Mrs. J. W. Gibson
at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Hug
gins on East Eighth street, in honor
Of Mr.. Vests goth birthday. Foul
generations were present to take din
ner with him.
The following story of his life re-
lated by Mr.. West will be of interest
LIFE OF JOHN WEST.
| was born April 4, 1903, at Consley,
near Tyronne, Wiltshire, England.
In May, 1880, about l a M, was on
police duty in front of st. James
palace when the death Of King George
IV was announced from the balcony
William " was proclaimed king from
the same place near sunrse-at least
was still on duty.
If remember correctly, at a. m.
| marched in the grand procession as
far as Temple Bar, the entrance to
the city Of London, where this, the
grandest procession have ever seen,.
was admitted by the lord mayor to
hear the proclamation read proclaim
ing William " king of England. |
did not enter the city as | had to re-
port for parade duty at 10 a. m.
In June, 1880, | saw the Princess
Victoria, then II years Of age, in
High Park, London, in the royal car
riage.. She was there to witness a
sham battle in which thirteen regi-
ments were to engage. 1t did not
come off, however, as the crowd could
not be controlled although regiment
Of soldiers was there to assist the po-
lice.
In the summer Of 1880 resigned
my position on the police force and
made application for admission to the
Scotch Greys, celebrated English
regiment, but failed on examination
lacking less than one inch of the re-
quired six feet.
left England Oct. 80, 1880, landed
in New York, Jan. 3, 1881. took
out naturalization papers as soon as
the laws allowed meuand have voted
either Wing or Republican every cleo
ion since except once. Then | voted
or Henry Lifts for sheriff of Dickin-
ION county. worked on the first
'ailroad built in America-.he Ger.
nantown Il Philadelphia. Walked
welve miles to attend the funeral Of
1oratio Winterbottom at Oxford-'he
irst man killed on that railroad,
'erhaps the first man killed on a rail-
Dad in the United States. | was
hen living in Germantown, Pa.
My uncle, Thomas West, was a
lajor in the celebrated English regi-
lent known as the Cold Stream
yards. He and wife were in the h
attic of Waterloo. She always.ac- h
him and searched the bat fl
e field for three days and nights be- 81
IRE she knew whether he was dead or
i've. He was not injured. The bat.
g was fought on June IS, 1915, be-
inning at ll;30 a. m. and ending at u
80 p. m. o'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
Wreck on the Santa Fe.

A wreck on the Barnard branch of
the Santa Fe a short distance west of
Vine Creek occurred Saturday after
noon. Three freight cars and one
truck OF the baggage car went off the
track. Cars were somewhat smashed.
No one injured.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-07
Fine Vault Furniture,

Some fine steel furniture was put
in the county treasurer's office vault
Tuesday 1t cost $3.50 and is of the
most improved style. 1t accommo-
dates all the books needed and is A
great improvement on the old wood
en- fixtures. The fixtures will add
much to the safety and convenience
Of the Office.