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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-20

ers IN gas ana electro lxlures. "Uul
trade has increased so per cent. In the
last seven months. Better grades OF
goods are called for, indicating greater
ease In money matters, and consequent
" more liberality in furnishing The
home"
Business with us has increased
wonderfully in the last two years, not
alone in number OF patrons, but also In
amounts of individual checks" Mr.
Phillip Hcnrici the well-known res
taurateur declared in tones OF con
vlction, c. W. King and l.. n. Knight
who, with Mr., lIenrlci, cater to the
wants Of thousands daily, indorse this
opinion, and Mr. King added; while
some supplies may cost tritle more,
othersare less expensive. Higher wages
are paid the help, and a feeling of CON
tentment seems general"
passenger traffic on the railroads
in the west has been heavy during the
last two years, and particularly so for
a few months past was the expression
OF Mr.. =. S. Eustis, of the Huntington
Route" "Passengerearnlngs show sub
stantial increases from month to
month over corresponding periods OF
previous years. This year there seems
to be disposition to travel, conyen-
tions and other excursions draw out
large crowds, while regular business
IN all directions Is very satisfactory,
This is undoubtedly due to the fair
prices which farmers receive for their
products, and the particularly good
prices for cattle and hogs which have
prevailed"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-20
ROAST FOR BRYAN.
A New York Democratic Paper Takes
a Shy at the DemD-POp
Candidate.

When the reality Of the things that
are Is placed In contrast with the shall
low trappings of inexperienced quo
tations from departed statesmen, with
which this prose-pocm is trigged out,
then the pretentious hollowness of the
indianapolis performance Is exhibited
to view. Why, this unteachable and un.
conscious actor sustains no more rela-
ton to the Jefferson, to the Lincoln, to
the Clay, to the Webster and to the
Franklin from whom he borrows
wrested sentences than the strutting
and strident subordinates OF the stage
sustain to the imaginary dukes, the
apocyphal kings and the mythical gods
whom they would impersonate In prop
erty roles and in memorized speech.
When acting is oratory, Mr.. Bryan
will be an orator. When bad acting Is
great oratory, he will be great orator.
When staginess Is craftsmanship, he
will be statesman. When cant and
rant and roar and fustian take the
place Of sober themes, with sober men,
and when lime-light and thin thunder
outcass the sun in the sky and the
elemental forces Of the srorm, then will
populism be democracy, and then will
America conduct its affairs through the
hands Of presidents that should be
medically restrained and OF law makers
that should meet In asylums for the
insane Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.).
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-20
EVERYBODY PROSPEROUS.
All Glasses Of Men Feel the Eff
feet OF Republican Man.
agement.

"The increase in the amount Of
money deposited to the credit of saw
ings bank accounts during the last four
years has been, in round numbers, ST.
100000 in the state of Illinois alone, y
was stated by b. NJ. Chattelle, Of the
Illinois trust and savings bank. He con-
tinued: "Depositors manifest feel
ing Of complete security. The demo-
cratic prediction that the republican
party would not fulfill Its promises To
pay In gold has been proven false. The
people as whole are satisfied"
"Trade has never been so brisk" was
the report from Williamson q Co.. deal
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-20

Into the serious mistake Of defying civilization
You will never fall into the mistake Of using ii
ferior paint il you use
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-20
Kansas Builds the Cars.

An order has been issued by the
Rock Island road and is in force at
the present time, which is an import
ant one to Kansas and Kansas people.
By the terms OF this new order, all
freight equipment Of the Rock Island
system will hereafter be constructed
at the Kansas shops Of the company,
located at Horton, Kansas. This not
only includes the building of all new
freight equipment but also the re.
pairing and overhauling Of old equip
ment as it may be required.
During the past eight months there
have been built at the Horton shops,
over 1000 brand new cars, complete
from the ground up. At the present
time the shop force is working on
new order Of 500 cars and are turning
them out at the rate Of six complete
cars every day. The entire order Of
500 is 70 be finished by January
|, 1901. These cars are for the mos,
part box cars, but some are fiat cars
and some few stock cars. In addition
to this large amount Of new work
there Is an immense amount Of old
work, repairing and overhauling
which is being done and is big item
Of itself, owing to the heavy traffic or
all parts Of the Rock Island system.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-20

Bloomsbury, Pa, Sept. 1s.-All eff
forts to settle the differences between
the Reading Iron company OF Dam
vile and their employees having failed
the 600 men employed at the plant re-
fused to work yesterday morning
when the new wage scale, which
makes, cut Of 2j per cent. in the
mems wages, went into effect. The
mill is completely closed down and is
likely to remain for an indefinite
length OF time. The firm contends
that the market price of iron is less
than the cost of production and that
this step was necessary in order to
keep the plant in operation.
Horace Creitz, Missouri Pacific
brakeman, was run over by train
and killed at Baker City, Kan, early
yesterday nothing.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-20
Palace Drug Store.

address me at SOP Newark street.
N. w., this city.
Nothing would please me better
than to take the platform in Topeka
and refute the statements made BY
Mr.. Davis and others. The cause
which needs falsehood is in danger
and should not be supported by in
telligent citizens.
Respectfully yours,
1T. V. PowDERLY."
The country is victim in every
campaign Of the ravages Of the i'll in.
formed or reckless "orators" who
have no regard to facts in the pre-
sentation Of their so-called arguments.
Cyclone" Davis is typical repre-
sentative Of this class.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-20

Our shelves and loaded down with New Goods
ready your inspection We buy goods right
satisfied with small margins and will you money your
tall bill if you will favor with call.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
BRITISH CRUELTY.

A correspondent of the Bundaberg
Queensland. Australia) Patriot, re-
ferring to the charges against the
Beers of cruelty to the blacks, says
that in western Victoria, Australia,
there is a cave into which, not a great
many years ago, over hundred black
men, women and children were driven,
walled in, and then smothered by
smoke from fires lighted at the en-
trance. The correspondent also states
that 'squatter" is still living who
boasts that he exterminated the bulk
of tribe by poisoned flour, and shot
the survivors dead; that he has known,
in West Australia, "of scores Of mig
gers on the chain being marched for
over a week without their shackles be-
ing removed, and without other sus-
tenance than the scanty gleanings OBJ
tanned by their women, who followed
them from their native hunting
grounds to the outskirts of the settle
ments," when these defenseless women
were logged off by the native police
and started on their return journey
through country occupied by hostile
tribes"
The correspondent also says that
Western Australia papers during the
last few years, have reported a score
of instances of 'niggers being logged
to death by their owners (for slavery
disguised under the milder term Of
assigned service is still legal in West
Australia); and for such case brought
to the light of day there are scores
unheard of. On the Rand, just before
the outbreak of the present war, the
mine owners were attempting to in
crease the working day of 'niggers' and
whites alike from nine to ten hours a
day. but the Boer government discour-
aged the attempt"
In the face of all this, British writ
ers and journalists hypocritically
charge the Beers with cruelty to
blacks, although in all the British pos
sessions in Africa the treatment Of the
blacks is fieldish, slavery being as
openly recognized in Zanzibar as in
the Sulu islands. Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
BALANCE OF TRADE.

The following items are taken from
an article pu.nshed in the Boston
Pilot of July Z, under the title OF
Starving India" This article had a
number of facts and figures taken
mostly from yearly Famine in In
dia," ny George L. Buell. of Rochester,
IN. Y.
The wheat crop in India in 1899 was
232 ,5S5, 600 bushels. The average an
nual wheat crop for the last eight
years was 234C57.750.
Over35 400, 900 bushels of wheat were
exported from India in 1899; 5000, TAO
bushels is the average amount annual
ly exported from India for the last
eight years.
Note from the above figures that In
dia raised a little less than the aver
age of wheat last year; but that she
shipped out of the country two and
one-eighth times more than the aver
age shipped.
The Pilot comments as follows upon
the foregoing paragraphs:
According to the Favorable balance
of trade" theory, India is the most
prosperous of countries, for her ex-
ports, and especially so in famine
ports are always in excess of her i'm
years.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
WEALTHY MISSIONARIES.

Contemplating the formidable fig
ures for articles of personal apparel
incorporated in our bill against Tur-
key on the missionaries account, the
Hartford Times is moved to conclude
that our missionaries in Asia are good
dressers and do not have to sleep on
the floor. One preacher put in a
claim for $72 worth of Shoes A lady
missionary is represented by bill
of SIS for footwear The same preach
ers loss in clothing is computed at
1919, and in bedding, 1853. The lady
missionary's lost wardrobe Is invento-
ried at $1,13S, with an additional item
of $215 for bedding and another of
$500 for pictures ad photographs. A
preacher of the same name as the lady
missionary, presumably her reverend
papa, is put down as having lost ST.
342 in clothing, $1,000 in furniture and
$4,000 in notes and bonds. The per-
sional effects of this single individual
aggregate $4,000 in the bill for dam
ages. There are other claims show
ing that either the missionaries were,
as the Times infers, remarkably well
heeled," or else are gambling on the
indemnity. 1t is not strange that the
sultan refuses to be bulldozed into
summary payment of the alleged dam
ages. Monitor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
Reference The Old.

Bow low the head, boy; do reverence
to the old man. Once like you, the
vicissitudes of life have silvered the
hair and changed the round merry face
to the worn visage before you. Once
that heart beat with aspirations CO.
equal to any that you have felt; aspira-
lions crushed by disappointment, as
yours are perhaps destined to be. Once
that form stalked proudly through the
gay scenes of pleasure, the beau ideal
of grace; now the hand of time that
withers the flowers of yesterday has
warped that figure and destroyed the
noble carriage. Once at your age, he
possessed the thousand thoughts that
pass through your brain, now wishing
to accomplish deeds equal to nook in
fame; anon imagining life dream that
the sooner he awoke from the better.
But he has lived the dream very near
through. The time to awaken is very
near at hand; yet his eye ever kindle5
at old deeds of daring, and the hand
takes firmer grasp of the staff. Bow
low the head, boy, as you would in
your old age, be reverenced.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
SHORT MEMORIES.

To the average demagogue there II
no better capital on which to trade
than the short memories of the people.
Upon this he can bank with absolute
security. And of this the Republican
campaign managers take the most
complete advantage in their desperate
efforts to substitute the less trouble.
some empire for the nominal republic,
which still remains to the people.
In his opening speech at the Hanna
convention, Senator Wolcott waxed
eloquent over the prosperity which
had followed its advance agent, show
ering blessings upon the worklngmen
of the country. In this the wordy
senator banked on short memories, but
must have blushed as he recalled the
following assertion made by him in
the senate May 2S, 1898. Let the date
be noted:
For myself, Mr. President, I still
cherish, and shall cherish as long as
| live, the conviction that prosperity
can never come to this country until
it comes by restoration of both sill
yer and gold as a standard upon par
ity to be internationally agreed upon,
if you like, but in some method to be
restored to the coinage Of the world"
This statement is not worthy of COM
ment simply as coming from \ repre-
sentative of silver state. Noy is 1t
to be dignified because of the fact that
it was uttered in the faces of men who
realized how easily its author would
trim his course to suit the political
breeze. But it is important as show
ing the condition of affairs over four
teen months after the inauguration OF
the great Mckinley. Mr.. Wolcott was
speaking at time when every news
paper In the country was daily record
ing the lowering of wages and the clos
ing of mills. From all over New Eng
land there arose cries of the deceived
workingmen who had been assured Of
steady and remunerative employment
if they would only rally to the standard
of protection and elect Mckinley and
congress to aid him. Senator Wolcott
must be accepted as authority by Re-
pubicans who have lately held him up
as their chief spokesman. The words
quoted were spoken before the exigen-
cies Of war for humanity" had
drawn from the ranks of idle working
men the vast army recruited for the
purpose of land-grabbing and loot.
They were spoken more than year
after the coming of Mckinley and
after many months of the Dingley bill,
with it's notable failure to open the
workshops.
Wolcott is still alive but he is not
promised.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
S Current Topics
*
Che Legion of Honor.
* * * * X X * * X S#:

The comforting by the French gov
eminent of the decoration Of the Le-
gion of Honor on Ferdinand w. Peck,
commissioner general for the United
States to the Paris exposition, draws
attention to this order. membership
in which is greatly priced in France.
Officials of the administration at
Washington say Mr.. Peck cannot re-
tain the decoration unless authorized
by special act of congress, as pro-
vided for by the constitution.
The order of the Legion of Honor
was instituted in May 1902, by. Napo-
leon as consul. In class it is an order
"of distinction and reward for civil
Snd military services" Under the first
empire the distinctions conferred in
vested the persons decorated with the
rank of legionary, officer, commander,
grand officer Of grand cross. .Napo-
Icons ostensible intention in creating
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

The Mound City, Kansas, Standard
calls attention to the circumstances
that Cuba is little less than Kansas
in both area and population, but 1t costs
s12. OOO, 900 to govern Cuba from Wash
ington, and but s1,000,OG0 to govern
Kansas, the Cuban expenditures being
all for official salaries; also that in
Porto Rico, only 80 by "a miles in
extent, more is paid in salaries alone
than in any two of our larger states,
while even the preliminary prepara-
ton to govern the Philippines runs
I'D into the millions each year." be-
sides 100000 a day for the army and
navy. The fact is clear enough to be
seen by blind man that besides land
and franchise grabs, the only reason
for the United States holding any OF
these islands is to secure salary grabs
for politicians.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
FOR HOU SEWivE S.

The sugar trust is not for Bryan!
That is the slogan of the sugar trust
and it is being passed along the line
with all the hurrah that the trust can
muster.
But what will the American house
wives and their husbands, the Amerl-
can housekeepers, do about it?
Less than two months ago the sugar
trust compelled the surrender OF all
competitors by arbitrarily reducing
prices so that competition was out of
the question, as the subjoined figures,
taken from the York (Pa) Press will
show
The Press, after telling that the
tariff has raised prices on sugar,
quotes:
May 90, 1900, $500 per 100 pounds.
May 23, 1900, $3.50 per 100 pounds.
May rs, 1900, $5.4O per 100 pounds.
May 81, 1900, $3.50 per 100 pounds.
June l. 1900, $500 per 100 pounds.
June IA, 1900, $3.50 per 100 pounds.
June &c. 1900, $3.50 per 100 pounds.
July 5, 1900, $3.50 per 100 pounds.
July 8, 1900, So per 100 pounds.
These figures, the Press kindly in
forms its readers, ARE the refiners
card rates, from which the wholesalers
are allowed a rebate of Is points and a
discount Of / per cent. This would
make the Sc rate of today yield $7.79
per hundred pounds to the refiner.'
And yet each raise of one-tenth of a
cent per pound on sugar imposes a
gross tax of $5O0O,OO0 per year upon
the people of this country; for every
man, woman and child is sugar user,
and the annual consumption is 5,OOO,-
100000 pounds. Thus the raise from
$500 to Sc per 100 pounds is equivalent
to an additional arbitrary tax of $40.-
100000 per year, though the sugar mo-
nopolists were already drawing from
the pockets of American housewives
5000 000,0 900 a year ID excess of their
rightful profits.
But that's what the sugar trust is in
business for, and so with all other
trusts. And therefore the sugar trust
and the other trusts will not support
Mr.. Bryan. whose election would mean
their destruction.
And now what will the homemakers
and homekeepers do about it?-Deno-
crat Johnstowr.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

let go one day, finding he couldn't
keep up. He bought a piece of wild
land, entered upon the studies of the
state agricultural college, dug burrows
in the earth, planted seed in the
springtime and all that kind of print
tive thing, reaped his own little har-
vest and just went from shop to shop
and sold out. Everything he raised
was little bit better than that raised
by his neighbors, and besides he's got
back his health and is happy. From
few acres of wild land his investment
is now model farm; so much so that
the department of agriculture has APP
pointed him as state lecturer to the
farmers institutes for next season. He
will begin this work in December.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

tive professor has gained abroad. The
interferometer is new kind of spec
troscope which Prof. Nicholson has
recently constructed.
Prof. Nicholson has made new APP
plication of his interferometer where
by the diameter of stars can be meas
ured with a very high degree of &C
curacy The interferometer. which
Prof. Nicholson has been engaged in
perfecting since 1880, is an instrument
by means of which it is possible to
use the wave length of light as stand
ard of length, and thus obtain accu-
rate measurements of infinitesimally
small distances and differences of OPP
tical density. So sensitive is the in
terferometer that it is capable OF
measuring distances as small as the
one five-milionth part of an inch.
For measuring the diameters of stars
it is more powerful than the largest
telescope.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
6be HVeeklY
Panorama.
Illumination MousoIeum.

Nearly twelve years ago in New
York. Mr.. Huntington began to build
the tomb in which his body will re-
pose. No building in the world can
compare with this tomb in strength,
massiveness and durability. Each tier
Of the steps in the fifty feet of sold
rock from the roadway to the door of
the mausoleum Is hewn from a single
forty-ton stone. Its foundation is six
teen feet underground. The mauso-
leum is forty-two feet long, twenty
eight feet wide and twenty-four feet
high. The gates are of bronze and the
interior is of Italian marble. There
are sixteen catacombs. In the struc-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

ed no empty stomach and clothed no
naked feet. The world is full of hero
ines who would scream at sight of n
mouse and who would grow dizzy at
the top of step ladder, but whose
willing hands are the support of wild
Our admiration should not be wasted
on ridge-jumpers, on lunatics who
ride bicycles night and day to the last
heart beat, or on steeplejacks in skirts.
Such foolhardy feats should be frowned
ON rather than applauded.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

after making but
half the ascent. For
the sake of demon
strating her nerve
and winning the
S., together with
the plaudits of the
gaping multitude,
this fool in petit
coats jeopardized
her life and accom-
plished nothing of
any real merit. By
her daring she fill
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

Count Won Waldersee, who Is going
to China to clear up what is left of the
celestial empire, is old enough to think
a good deal of his personal comfort
while campaigning. Therefore, he is
taking with him portable house built
of an asbestos preparation, light, fire.
proof and weatherproof, containing
seven rooms and bathroom. With this
section of civilization at command the
German veteran will be able to cam
paign in comfort.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
Irsects and Malaria.

Prof. R. Blanchard, in supporting a
motion made at recent meeting OF
the Academic de Medicine in Paris re-
lating to the APT ointment of a COM
mittee on malaria, mentioned that he
had rece. ,tly made catalogue Of all
the species of Anopheles now known,
which showed that the geographical
distribution Of these insects CORE,
sponded exactly with that Of malaria
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

Aivasovsky, the Russian marine
painter, some Of whose pictures were
shown at the Worlds Fair. died re-
Gently at the age of 80. His native
town of Ferdosia, on the Black sea
gave him a public funeral. Nearly
every gallery in Europe possesses one
or more of his works. and in the Pitt
palace at Florence his portrait is
placed between those of Leonardo da
Vinci and Michael Angelo.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
SouGbf Cheap Fame.
( X * * x * X * * X !: * y \:

Telegraphic dispatches in the news
papers tell of the feat of Lefty Clifford
South Brewer, Me-, who proved heI
bravery" by scaling flimsy iron lad
der leading to the top of 126-foot
chimney. Several men had essayed the
feat but had given up and descended
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

Among the officers volunteering for
active service in the far east is Prince
Jaime de Bourbon. only son and heir
of the Spanish pretender, Don Carlos.
He is cornist in the Grodneo ORA
COON guards, stationed at Warsaw, and
will go with his regiment to Port
Arthur. He has commercial interest
in the far east, being part owner of a
large steamship named the Lila, trad
ing between Odessa and Russian China.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
Preacher TO Cruck Farmer.

Rev. DR.. j. A. Thayer, one of the
best-known and most able clergymen
in western Pennsylvania and who had
held the pulpit of the big Church OF
Disciples in New Castle for nineteen
years, has resigned his charge and is
now conducting truck farm near
New Castle. DR.. Thayer felt his health
going from him preaching and lectur-
ing and editing the church paper, and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07

1t would appear that long before the
late Henry George wrote Progress and
Poverty" ex-senator Boutwell, was a
single-tax advocate. AS long ago as
1871 Wendell Phillips delivered an ad-
dress before the labor party Of Massa-
chusetts in which he quoted Mr.. Bout
we'll as saying that fifty years hence
the idea that man could own land
and leave it to his children will be re-
garded as ridiculous"