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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
SALIsBURY's ATTITUDE.


London. March 16.-Ifhe Standard
says; Lord Salisbury's reply will
not be misunderstood in Washington
or in any other civilized capital.
We are grateful to the Americans for
their good wishes and we should be
delighted to accept their assistance
II it were possible. But this quarrel
is our own and we must settle it in
our own way. We have no reason
to complain of platonic and vicarious
affection for intervention, so long
as every government is quite resolved
to leave it to its neighbor to begin"
The Daily News says: 'The Brit
isb attitude is analogous to that OF
the United States in the quarrel
with Spain, an attitude respected by
us in a manner which has been
gratefully acknowledged by Gen. Al
ger in he North American Review.
n was happy circumstance that
the first message of the kind was from
quarter in which there was so little
possibility of misunderstanding.
II is quite unlikely now that France
or any other power will interfere.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
Not 4 "rriun.."

G. c, Clemens, whose popuhsm is OF
the unadulterated kind, and who was
performer" when the party had
principles and no Offices, makes a
statement of his position and 1t viii
strike the ordinary popullst as being
nearer to the facts than the appeals
of the boss who cracks the whip and
says anything to beat the republicans.
Mr.. Clemens says: II have not 'ett
the populist party. ! am waiting to
see whether, when the state commit
tee gets through with it, there will be
anything left to leave. Besides, |
find It much harder to leave the party
over whose cradle | helped watch,
than IL was to leave the party into
which was born. But cannot stand
everything. II the state ticket is to
be divided I must 90. | have written
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
FARM FIGURES.


New York, March i5.-The Ameri.
can Agriculiurist for March, in an
elaborate review of the agricultural
situation, says:
-li,e stock itself has advanced
nearly or quite as much and now en-
ceeds the high point of the rise that
reached its highest point in 1889.
Even horses are one-third higher than
four years ago. The total value OF
cattle on farms is now Al per cent.
more than five years ago, while the
average value of cattle per head has
advanced Is per cent. above the low
point of 1895. Mich cows are worth
As per cent. more than in 1892, and
their total value is 50 per cent. greater
than in 1s06, Sheep are higher than
for 90 years, worth about double on
the farm what they were five years
ago and are fully 20 per cent, higher
than during the early SOS. The to-
tai value OF sheep in the country Is
l4O per cent. greater than in 1896.
Hogs hive occasionally been worth
more than now. but are selling at n
high range, especially compared with
cheap corn. The number of hogs
is small compared with the increase
of population and growth OF export
trade.
Farm real estate deprecated sharp
" during the hard times but has more
than recovered in value and is now
estimated to be worth Sl,220,000.000
more than in 1889. The total invest
ment in American agriculture is now
placed at $l7,55O,0 100000, gain OF
nearly ten per cent. over the com
paratively high basis Of values Of 1880.
All these figures look large but when
the errors In the last agricultural
census are understood. and when il is
remembered that the sales of poul-
try and eggs in the United States
amounts to over S300,000.O00 a year,
the conservative nature of these sta
tistics can be better understood"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
G. CROOKS eco.
Successors to A. B. ROSE & co.

Natlonal Geographic Society at W....
ington, says of our new port in the
Pacific:
II would emphasize the great and
even remarkable geographical. COM
mercial and strategical Importance of
the location of the Philippines. Only
those who have repeatedly travelled
up and down that magnificent Asiatic
coast line can fully appreciate the
strength and meaning of the Philip
pines situation. From Melbourne in
Australia, to Vladivostok, in eastern
Siberia, is coast line only broken by
narrow straits, but everywhere in
dented with deep-harbors, of over
5000 miles, upon which debonch 5OO,-
100000 people, with foreign trade,
yet in its infancy, that already
amounts to 81 OO,OOO,OO0 per annum.
Fright in the very ideal center of all
this is Manila, our new oriental capt.
tai, which under the depressing mys-
FERROUS, jealous conditions of the old
regime, never awoke to its impor-
lance, nor did the rest of the world,
not even Hong Kong, its near neigh
, Dor, only $50 miles away, which has
an annual foreign trade reaching the
astounding figures of $25O,oOO,OoO,
so vital is Manla's value to us in
this point of location, and yet so gen
orally forgotten in all the discussions
of the moral issues involved, that |
wish to call attention to it in exact
terms that may be remembered. II a
circle with a radius of 1000 miles is
drawn, with Manila as the center. it
will include more ports and cities OF
prominence than any other similar
circle drawn around Singapore, Hong
Kong or Shanghai, Moreover, this
Manila circle will take within its
boundaries two such widely separated
points as Yokohama in Japan and
| Port Darwin in Australia. On the
west it will include Bangkok, the
populous capital of siam. and Ran
coon, he growing capita of Burmah.
To the southwest is Batavia, the capt.
tnl of Java, and great Dutch city in
the tropics. Just across the china
sea is Saigon. the beautiful capital OF
France in Asia, and vertiable Paris
in orient.
"Manila's harbor, opening on the
China sea, is soon to become the stop
ping point Of numberless foreign ves-
sells, simply because it is practically in
their path, and they have everything
to gain by making it port call.
"All the principal steamship lines
that run from Europe or America,
British, German, French, Austrian,
japanese and American, are shaping
their plans for the future with refer
ence to making Manila port of call,
or establishing better connections.
OF this | am directly informed by
their authorized agents, and without
exception they, who can not afford to
err, believe that the Philippines hold
out greater opportunities for develop
ing trade than any other Asiatic land
outside of China. This conclusion,
which will affect much capital, has
only been reached after consulting
the best experts.
"The strategic importance of Ma
Mia is appreciated when it is remem-
bered that on account of its central
location our vessels can steam there
from any point on the Asiatic coast
and return on their own coal capac-
ity."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

Omaha, Neb., March Il. Judge
Munger in the federal court yester-
day heard argument in the ease
brought by the railroads to restrain
the state board of transportation
from reducing freight rates. II was
concNdcd by the roads that he order
previously issued by the circuit court
OF appeals acts us an estoppal to the
board and that II cannot reduce rates
without first securing an order from
the court of appeals modifying the
injunction. The roads contend that
the maximum rate law passed in 1893,
and under which the injunction was
issued. repealed he law of 1887 which
granted the board powers to regulate
rates. II will require another day to
complete the argument and consid.
cradle time Is expected to elapse be.
fore decision is rendered.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

In 1896 Cleveland was president.
The populist leaders of Kansas had
helped make him president. The
night he was elected populists and
democrats celebrated the victory arm
in arm. 1t was demo-pop victory
and it was a demo-pop administra-
ton. Every voter in Kansas recalls
the kind of times it brought the
country. It is well remembered ev-
erywhere. They know, too, what
these same demo-pops predicted in
case Mckinley was elected. They
know what kind of times we had
under Mckinley. The contrast stares
them in the face. What Will they do
when they go to the polls in Novem-
Der?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

ana spoken 100 much in years past TO
make il possible for me to endure that
and retain my self-respect. Nor do !
purpose to become a democrat. | be-
lieye in affirmation. Mere negation
can do no good for the people. The
democratic party does not propose to
take single step in advance All its
demands amount to no more than that
we shall get back to "the good old
times Back to bimetallish; back to
where we were before the Spanish
war; back to the competitive system
which prevailed before the trusts
came. The Mississippi is requested to
withdraw from the gulf and flow
back to its source and stay. We need
not 90 back to 1872 to find everything
precisely as the democratic party
wishes things to be again. We had
bimetallsm then, and we had neither
imperialism nor trusts. Yet the peo-
pie were not happy. At that time
the Knights of Labor had been three
years in existence; the Grange had
been organized five years and had
reached even Kansas. We do not
know yet what else the democratic
party may stand for yet the populist
state committee insists upon "allying
us at this early date and upon forcing
us to give up our party to become
permanently "triuned.' ! don't pro-
pose to "triune" a little bit. lave
are not to have a populist party any
more then have an engagement else
where. And | propose to know about
II soon "
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

Every laboring man in Kansas who
has found it easier to secure work the
past three years and who has secured
better wages for his work ought to
20 the polls and vote the republican
ticket. Not even democratic and pop
ulist papers will assume that the
famine in India has affected him.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

The inquiry has been made as to
the whereabouts of the banner once
borne in populist professions which
declared that vote for Mckinley was
a vote for two cent hogs and three
cent cattle. The banner has evidently
disappeared in the same hole that
Aguinaldo went Into.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
Price. Of sugar. Advanced.

New York, March 9O.--All grades of
refined sugars were advanced five
cents per 100 pounds by the American
Sugar Refining company yesterday,
There was also advance in the pound
price of raw sugars. The advance is
said TO have resulted from the in
creased demand for the product dur.
ing the past week.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

The reduction of the national debt
by ss.OOO,OO0 in the month Of January
is an item which will probably bs
overlooked by the populist newspa-
pers. But II is something the repub-
licans can talk about and compare
with the record made Under the I'm.
lsmented Wilson bill.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

The democrats and popuiists are
urging each other to fuse on joint
ticket which will represent both par
ties. II does not necessarily follow
that all the voters who belong to
these parties will abandon their ideas
of principle in order to elect men to
office. and that is the essence Of flu
sion
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
Negotiating for Rig Tree Groves.

Washington, March 20.-ln compl-
ance with Joint resolution Of con-
gress the secretary of the interior has
entered into negotiations for the pur-
chase by the government of the lands
occupied by the Mammoth Tree grove
and South Park grove of big trees in
California.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
China to Re Represented.

Buffalo, N. Y, March sOe-The
military governor of Cuba. after a
consultation with the secretary of
war, has decided to have Cuba rep
resented at the Pan-American expo
sition in 1901.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

The enemies of the Nicaragua canal
make their first stand on opposition
to the ratification of the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty. This opposition mostly
consists of democrats who are opposed
to the measure because the republic
ans favor it, and the trans-continen-
tai railroads which know that the
canal will force reduction Of freight
ratpS
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22

Mrs. Mary FUte Beecner PERKINS,
the sister of Rev. Henry Ward
l'eecher, died at Hartford Conn, yes.
terday, aged 95 years. Rev. Thomas
X. Beecher, another brother, also died
at Elmira, N. Y, yesterday, aged 81
years.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
Tho Plague In New south wales

Sydney, N. 5. W., March so.--An-
other death from bubonis plague has
occurred here and two fresh cases are
officially reported.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
Have Prices Advanced?

Yes at wholesale and many retail stores
have advanced their goods accordingly but
we have not. Once in while you will find
an item higher than it used to be with US but
you will find more that is even lower than
ever before. 1t is simply wonderful the bar
gains to be had for spot cash in the market
today and then over three-fourths of our
stock was bought last year at old prices in
anticipation Of the advance. and we are CIV
ing our customers the benefit of it, believing
that in the long run it will pay US better. We
are very much more anxious to double our
business than we are to double our profit and
we will have no trouble in doing it if the buy
ers in Abilene will buy where they can buy
cheapest.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-03-22
slavery Abolished In Guam.
Want Certain Measure. Enacted.

Washington. March g0.--The eNecu-
tive council of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor held its regular quar-
terly meeting at headquarters here
yesterday. The Legislative committee,
Mr.. A. Furuseth for himself and Mr..
George Chance, reported the progress
which the eight-hour bill, injunction
bill and prison labor bill were making
in congress. 1t was resolved to con-
centrate all efforts of organized labor
and sympathizers with the labor
movement for the enactment of these
measures.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04
OREGON CAMPAIGN CLOSED.
Important Elections to Take Place
in That State To-day,

Portland, Ore, June 3-The campaign
in Oregon closed last night and the party
managers have been busy to-day in per-
feeling arrangements for the election.
which occurs tomorrow.
There will be elected one justice of the
Supreme Court. a state dairy and food
commissioner, two congressman, men,
bers of the Legislature. who will choose
successor to Senator Mcbride and
various district and county officers. No
unusual interest has been developed in
the campaign. There are three tickets In
the field, the Republican, the Fusionist,
composed of Democrats, Popuhsts and
Free Silver Republicans and the Pro-
hibition. The Republicans have made
expansion leading issue, and have put
forth the claim that the country Is en-
Joying unusual prosperity, owing to the
enactment of law by Congress, fixing
gold as the standard of value. The Chi
cago Platform of 1896, anti-imperialism.
ana the course of the national admins
tration on the Porto Rican question, have
served as a basis of fusion argument
Among the amendments to the constt-
tuition to be voted on tomorrow, is one
granting the right of suffrage to women.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE T. 1900

naval appropriation bill adds two battle
ships three armored cruisers, three pro-
tected cruisers and five submarine boats
TO the naval strength and may include
special legislation as to arfnor plate and
a government plant.
The Alaska code bill. giving a complete
civil system of laws 10 the territory, has
passed both houses and undoubtedly will
become a law. Other measures still pen
ding, include those for the election of sena-
tors by the people; authorizing the Presi-
dent to appoint a commission to study
commercial conditions in China and Japan;
for increasing the efficiency of the army
by making service in the staff corps tenn
porary; extending the eight-hour law; in
creasing the annual allowance to the
militia of the country from 100000 to
81 OO0O0O
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safety in travelling.

From the New York Press.
The vestibuied trains are growing heavi-
err every year, and from end 10 end are so
compact that an accident such as tele-
ecoplng is virtually impossible. With the
old-fashioned open platforms and loose
couplings te.escopings were common, one
car being rammed clean through another
and the locomotive through both, killing
whole RATS OF passengers. The limited
vestibuled trains of the day are as solid
as if made of a single redwood trunk.
and no impact Is sufficient to do much
more than Jar them. We had an illus
tration of their density few years ago,
when train of seven sleepers cut its way
through another train, on a crossing, with
out awakening the passengers in the for
mer. There are railroad men of expe-
rience who Will tell you that the safest
place in the world is on Pullman vesti-
buled train.
Fear OF Old Ocean has departed Our
modern ships are, so long that they can
ride three of the biggest waves al time
without overturning a glassful of water
on deck Table racks are rarely used. But
few years ago we were bounding with
the bounding pillows sinking in the trough
and scaling the summit OF the leapius
foam crest, dizzy, Keeling, sick. Still.
there Is just much NAL de mer as for
merly, and that Is why the ocean voyage
remains so popular--it shakes a chap out
Of his ruts into new llfe There ,ure
people who get quite as seasick on y
train as on q ship
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04
LIFE FOR LIFE is STILL THE Law
Only Five States i'm the Union Have
Abolished the Death Penalty.
From the Medical Journal.

Three legislatures have under discus
sion propositions to abolish the death
penalty. After fifty years of agitation
there are only five states in which the
death penalty is forbidden by law-Colo-
RADIO, Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan and
Wisconsin. In Michigan there is a strong
agitation for its restoration. Iowa once
abolished the death penalty, later restored
it, and later again abolished It.. Various
arguments, of which it would be impos-
sible to give even a synopsis, are employ
ed by those favoring and those opposing.
The principal points used by the advo-
Gates of the change are that capital pun
ishment is brutalizing, that it does not
act as a deterrent to crime and that it
defeats the end of justice by making jul
ries reluctant to convict when they know
that a verdict of guilty will carry with
it the death sentence. New York case
is cited in which a convict, sentenced to
life Imprisonment for murder was proved
innocent and pardoned after serving TWEEN
ty-two years. sft.t r
1t is difficult to see wherein this man
would have benefited had the death pen
atty been abolished prior to his trial That
; it was not imposed upon him is, in itself,
evidence either of Mitigating circum-
stances or of reasonable doubt and had
his innocence not been proved his life
sentence would still stand 1t is also ar
gued by those opposed to the abolition of
the death penalty that capital punish
ment does deter from crime, as shown
by careful Investigations; that convicts
under a life sentence area dangerous
charge. because If they murder their
keepers no heavier penalty than that
which they are already undergoing can
be imposed, and that through the abuse
of the pardoning power the average term
of life Imprisonment has been reduced to
confinement of about ten years. The COM
slant filling up of prisons, placing heavy
burdens upon the public, is also cited.
However, the agitations have not been
without fruit In about twenty states the
court may substitute life imprisonment.
either at its own discretion or upon the
recommendation of the jury and in New
York, Massachusetts and Ohio the cleo
trio chair has been substituted for the
hanRman's rome 49,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04

caliy. you are willing 10 buy the house.
are you II che price is right?"-the ghost
fancier had been diplomatic in his address
well, les very valuable house; pos
sesses the only superfihe, triple extract
ghost In the county, warranted to wear
your nerves TO shreds in a week. He
spoke with bitter levity. II couldn't think
OF letting 1t go for less than $4,000. which
is only three times what l paid for IT
unhaunted."
I'm take itt' the rich ghost fancier
cried. unable further to conceal his eager
ness. He had by inquiry among the
neighbors satisfied himself that the house
was really haunted; he took che doctors
desperate jest as earliest, and jumped at
the bargain.
DR.. Wiley ran his hand through his
hair and wondered II he were dreaming
or losing his mind. But there stood the
other man rendering him hundred dollar
Bill to bind the transaction and clamor-
ing for receipt
|. The ingenious Sam never found out
whether he drove off the rats or not; but
since in most haunted houses the scurry-
ing of rats usually precedes the appear
ance OF a ghost, and since in this one no
mention of any rats was ever made
even in the monograph on the subject
which The ghost fancier wrote at the re-
quest of the Society for Psychological Re-
search-it is perhaps safe to assume that
the bellcd rat did indeed brighten away
the other rats.
The bell has long since ceased to sound
in this house; but the reputation of he
place, as have said remains unalterable
and unassailable; and the rich ghost fam
cier gloats over this reputation and Is
happy. DR.. Wiley has ceased to be strug-
Cling; he is prosperous Sam developed
into a very ordinary civil engineer. and
never became famous-although this is
strictly contrary to the rules OF the story
books.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04
SOUTH CAROLINA MONUMENT.
Commissioners Mt Chfckamauga to
Select a Site.

Chattanooga. Tenn, June 3.-The Chick
amauga Park Commission of South Carroll
ma arrived in this city to-day 10 meet Gen.
H. V. Boynton, president of the national
commission, to select the site for the mag
nifcent monument authorized by the
South Carolina Legislature and now in
course of completion.
The commissioners now here are: Gov.
M. B. Insolvency., Bishop Capers, who
commanded a brigade at the battle of
Chickamauga; Adjt. Gen. j. W. Floyd.
COL J. Harvey Wilson, Gen. C. Il. Walker
and Capt. C. N. Henderson. The party
VIII visit the park tomorrow and fix upon
the site for the monument and a number
OF markers 10 be erected by the state
designating the positions Of the South
Carolina troops in the bloody engagement.
Gen. Boynton stated tonight that while
mere he would consult with the resident
members of the society of the Army of the
cumberland with reference to the prepar-
atoms to be made for the reunion of that
ofganization to be held in this city in
October
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04
NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION.
organization of Advisory Council
Was Completed.

Chicago June 3.-Thc organization of
the Advisory Council of the National Civic
Federation was completed and announced
to-day.
among those who have accepted mem
pership are ex-Gov. Ellison A. Smyth
Felzer, s. c.; John S. Cunningham, to-
bacco planter, Cunningham, N. c.; ex-
secretary Of the Interior Hoke Smith,
Atlanta.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04
COTTON MILL At HUNTSVILLE.
Ground Was Given Free and II VIII
Not he Taxed.

huntsville, Ala, June 3.-Arthur H.
Lowe, president of the Parkhill Manufac-
curing Company, OF Fitchburg, Mass,
mas secured sixty acres. of ground about
a mile from Huntsville and will erect
WVOO spindle cotton mill bleachery and
print works. The ground was donated by
citizens and the industry will be free
from taxation.