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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-11-14

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be held at Rhinehars NJ. E. church
Sunday, Nov. II:
MORNING SESSION, 10 O'CLOCK.
Devotional hour. Rev. G. o. Ritter
What Are we Here For2 .......oE. A. Hasser
Sunday school lesson.
How Teach the Sunday School Lesson.
80. Observation-Disclosures. Miss Barnett
Some Things we Can Do to Improve the
Sunday Schools of Rhinehart Town
hip.................. -. KEY Ritter
Report Of township president.
appointment OF committee OF nominations.
Basket dinner.
AFTERNOON SESSION, O'CLOCK.
Praise service. ..-.............S. H, Gugeler
Some Things we Wish Every Sunday
School Worker to Know. 40. G. Towner
Personality Of the Sunday School Worker
.......................Pr Prof J. W. Hullinger
Symposlunl-Flve minute talks
a. Rally Day................A. L. H0llinger
b. Decision Day, .............W. G. DIETRICH
c. Music in Sunday School. MFRS. Betz
Good music and plenty Of it will be
q feature Of the convention. Every.
body cordially invited to attend these
sessions.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-11-14

Engraved cards, Jaccard's best, all
styles spd sizes; also engraved sta.
tionery Of all kinds at this Office. tt
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-11-14
Potatoes and Cabbage

Colorado potatoes in
10 bushel lots, SO cts
per bushel.
Choice cabbage by
the sack, 1 l-2 cts per
pound.
Everything else pro-
portionately in price.
CAS- Els GROCERY
DEPARTMENT..
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-11-14
Local Markets.

BUTTER MARKET.
prices for creamery butter at points
named for week ending today, Dickinson
county price ~ cents less than New York
" cents less than Chicago.
KANSAS oIrY-Fancy separator &c, dairy
fancy 1sc.
CHICAGO Creamery IS onx. dairy 40
10.
nv "a iSx.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-11-14
Sunday School Convention.

Rhinehart township convention to
be held at Rhinehars NJ. E. church
Sunday, Nov. II:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30

next to anything in the way Of under
brush. 1t Is Its popularity, too, that
1t eats all kinds of vegetation, even in
Guiding weeds, which other stock avoid,
and avoids those kinds which other
stock prefer. It will desert the finest
clover and blue grass for a layout Of
weeds and general vegetable rubbish
and refuse.
In those localities where valuable
land is completely subdued by brush
the Angora Is considered Of more val
ue for the purpose Of cleaning than for
either its fleece or its meat. 1t Is said
that in Oregon, where Cinnamon have
been paid as much as $40 an acre for
cleaning off brush, goats have done the
work even better. Sprouts will spring
up behind a mans work Of clearing;
but goats keep them down until they
cease to appear.
The beneficial effect Of the goat Is not
all in the clearing of the land Of brush.
In many parts of the country nutri-
tious grasses came in after the goats
have done their work. The final result
Is that goats put underbrush covered
land into condition for cultivation, and
actually go farther by converting
wilderness into a good pasture, thus
preparing the way by the cheapest
method for sheep. cattle or horses.
One man in Iowa has so acres of land
that was thus cleared up by goats. and
says that 100 Angora goats to each ~
acres of land will make it as clean and
as perfectly set in blue grass as lawn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30
#listetIameous &eading.
SATISFIED.

I jest git awful blue sometimes,
Ez blue ez can be-,
An wisht I wuz some other man
An some other man wuz me.
I wisht rs rich, er famous,
Er president, er king
I sorter feel like swappin'
For almost anything.
Bill Jenkins row, I kinder think,
Is awful hard ter hoe,
An he barely gifts a livin', but
I guess he'll keep on though,
Jest keep on piddlin' here
Till he hears the trumpet sound,
An be jest plain Bill Jenkins
A-diggin' in the ground
Which I am.
I jest git awful blue sometimes,
An I'd like to change my face,
An everything fur wunst, an take
Some other fellows place
In life and live kinder different
From the way I'm livin' now,
But when I think it over
Wunst or twict, somehow,
I guess I wouldn't change
If the row Is hard to hoe.
Riches is mostly sham, I guess,
An fame is mostly show.
I wouldn't leave Bill Jenkins wife,
An these little boys and girls,
With their laughin' little dimples
An their little sunny curls,
I wouldn't leave this home Of mine
Fur a world plum full Of gold
Why, Mandy's purifier than she WIS
Since she's grown kinder old
I guess I'd rather be myself,
Till I hear the trumpet sound
An be jest plain Bill Jenkins
A-diggin' in the ground
Which I am.
New Orleans Democrat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30
TRADE WITH THE EAST.
1t Will be of Especial Interest to
the Cotton Growers Of the South.

! the cotton Growers or the south.
Editor Yorkville Enquirer:
If an act Of congress, properly franz
ed and enacted, giving government aid
to builders for carrying the trade
and promoting the commerce between
this country and the east, will greatly
increase the amount Of our trade and
commerce, and add immensely to the
revenue of our government, as we think
1t will, then why should not all patri-
otic Democrats, as we'll as all good Re-
publicans, advocate a subsidy for this
purpose, without regard to party af-
filiation? If China, the Philippine Is
lands, and other eastern countries pro-
duce articles of commerce that are use
full to our people, and we have cotton
and other goods that they stand in
need Of, why should not we strive to
establish an increased trade and COM
merce with these eastern countries, and
draw to this country the trade, and not
let England, Germany and France take
1t all, and appropriate the lions share,
as they are now doing?
The south, as we'll as the north,
needs a wider and larger market for
their manufactured cotton goods es-
pecially; and where can we find bet
ter outlet for these goods than on
these populous eastern sections, where
such vast population requires cotton
goods for clothing? And this trade
with the east will benefit all sections Of
this country; and II 1t will benefit one
section more than another, it will ben
eft the south more than the north, be-
cause the south produces the raw ma
terial: the cotton which goes into the
makeup Of these goods. Then II this
trade increases the demand for cotton
goods, it will certainly increase the de-
mand for the raw material, and the
greater the demand for cotton, the
greater will be it's market price.
Then 1t Is plain to be seen that the
cotton planters in the south will be
greatly benefited by the increased de-
mand for the cotton, because the price
or value Of the cotton will be increased,
and the cotton planters in the south
will be as much or more benefited than
any other class. So the whole south,
including both the cotton raisers and
the cotton manufacturers, will be
greatly benefited by establishing a
regular commerce and increased trade
with the east-most probably more
benefited than any other section Of
this country. And this trade can only
be established by providing the ways
and means for carrying the articles Of
trade back and forth across the waters
Of the ocean by promoting ship-build-
ing. OBSERVER.
Lancaster, October 26.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30
TO BE CONTINUED,
CAUTION.-Amol

JAPANESE CAUTIoN.-Among the
characteristics Of the Japanese an
American at once notices their love
for children. 1t is doubtful If any ia
panese child ever got whipping.
An American woman who became ac-
quainted with a Japanese matron no
ticed that she allowed her little chill
dren to ramble through the streets
at will and one day commented on it.
Why" said the Japanese lady,
what harm can come of It? Our
children never quarrel. and no grown
person would harm child"
But" said the American, 1.-The child
might get lost"
THAT would make no trouble" was
the smiling reply, and then sne showed
how in little chidrens apparel there
were inserted cards containing their
name and address and explaining that
should they stray any person finding
them will first give them a full meal
and then bring them home.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30

BUNcoING JAPANESE.-"J. P. G.,
was only an enlisted man in Uncle
Sans navy; but his messmates called
him "the swell" because whenever he
went ashore he carried suit of civil
ian's clothes. At Yokohoma, in his fine
raiment and white felt hat, he passed
himself off to a Japanese coal mer-
chant as the paymaster Of the fleet
and contracted for several thousand
tons Of coal. The price named was $14
a ton.
What is my rake OFF," he asked the
dealer, who offered generous commits
sion. Make the price SIG ton and
have - thousand tons ready for de-
livery at the earliest possible hour to-
morrow morning." he said.
The merchant opened wine, and when
thoroughly warmed up the sailor re-
marked, looking indolently at his
watch: by the bye, I'm expected to
visit the club tonight, and it Is prob
able that l may need a little more
money than I have in my pocket. Per-
haps you had better advance me three
or four thousand dollars on account"
OF course, he got what he wanted.
Next morning the vessels. were sur
rounded with scores of barges laden
with coal, and it was all the officers
could do to prevent the Japs from un-
loading their cargoes. The dealer dar-
ed say nothing, for he had entered into
a conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment, so he pocketed his loss in ST.
lence.-NeW York Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30
CHEROKEE NOTES.
Church InformatiOn-The Ferry
Negroes Move to Pennsylvania-
Mineral Properties.

Mineral Properties.
ETA JANE, Oct. 26-Ihe young men
have started debating society at the
school house near this place. They
meet every Saturday night.
Rev. VIM. H. White, pastor of Mount
Tabor, Lockhart and Santuc Presby-
terian churches. will preach at Salem
on the first Sabbath in November at II
o'clock a. m, and then, again, at night.
Rev. Mr.. Potter Of Gaffney, is expected
to preach at o'clock p. m, on the
same day. Persons attending from
distance will do we'll to bring their
baskets and dinner. At present this
church has no pastor; but arrange
ments are being made to group 1t with
the church at Gaffney, or with the
Mt. Tabor, Lockhart and Santuc
churches.
Farmers are gathering their little
crops Of cotton as fast as 1t opens. It
will be small when it is all gathered
much more so than we have been
thinking 1t would be. This is account
ed for by a great many Of the bolls
failing to mature and open. Corn crops
are light. It is being gathered and
cribbed in good condition, though.
Several of our farmers say that they
will make plenty to do them.
Several colored people have moved
recently from this section to Pennsyl-
vania. If they can do better there
than they were doing here, we are glad
they have gone.
Since the weather has turned cool,
the blind tigers, learn, are beginning
to travel. They seem to be cold
weather species Of animal, although the
authorities make it hot for them at
times.
The free ferry at Howell's hasn't yet
been put into operation. Cherokee
county's supervisor says he Is ready to
perform his part Of the contract at any
time. We hope 1t will not be long be-
fore all the arrangements are made to
put 1t in use. The public has been
needing 1t for a long time.
Several new buildings are in course
Of erection. Contractor r. A. Foster
has his hands full and will be busy for
sometime yet
Farmers will begin sowing wheat,
rye and oats soon. Some Of them think
that wheat fed in the sheaf Is better
for stock than oats.
A new company, understand, Is to
take charge of the Brown mine, near
Hopewell, and will work 1t in the fu-
ture.
I would be glad to see the minerals
Of Western York get a fair showing.
The way most of the mines are worked
does not seem to give satisfaction to
landowners. BY the time one company
gets fairly started, change Is made
and another comes in and 1t Is hard tC
tell whether the minerals are worth
anything or not. If there wasn't some
thing in the land there we don't believe
so many miners would be willing to
spend so much time and money work.
ing at them. ]. L. s.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30

is known to be the case in a very re-
markable manner with high explosives.
This subject Is one Of great interest
in surgery and also explains at least
some Of the supposed uses of explo-
sive bullets so much talked about in
the Boer war.-New York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30
THE COURIER OF THE czAR'
'9x JULES VERNE.
CHAPTER I.

IRE, a fresh Dispatch v
"Whence?"
From Tomsk."
"Is the wire cut be-
yond that city?"
"Yes, sire, since yes
fardouo
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-30

Ar The beet sugar industry Is max
ing great strides on the Pacific coast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01
OUR FLAG TO BE FIRST AT THE POLE.
Explorer Stripes Furthes
North in the Frozen Regions.

known. Since then he has received a
bushel- basket full of applications to
help him find the pole. OF these about
one tenth have come from women
So far are Mr.. Baldwin's plans ad-
vanced that he has sailed for New
foundland to look over the ground for
hardy mariners. arrange for dogs,
sledges and other Arctic paraphernalia
to be secured there.
Mr.. Baldwin, who viii be IN supreme
charge Of the expedition, was with
Lieut.. Peary in his trip of 1S93-'94 as a
meteoro1ogist and has been on two
other expeditions. To reporter of this
newspaper who interviewed him just
before he sailed Mr.. Baldwin said:
Just when and where the expedition
will start cannot now say, but it will
be next summer early, 1 expect, may
be in June, and probably from New
York am commissioned and backed
by William Ziegler. who will pay all of
the expenses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01

be able to word his messages and proc
lamations so that they go to the hearts
Of the people This often requires
study on his part.
The newcomer must renounce titles.
He can no longer be the Honorable
William" George Washington settled
this years ago A British soldier adj
dressed him as George Washington.
etc, etc The father of his country re-
piled that he wanted no etcetera
oh" said the officer, ''etcetera means
everything"
yes. but it may mean anything"
said Washington significantly, think
ing no doubt, Of the English King ana
his title
The President must learn to bear
physical disturbance. Grant was wax
ened from his sleep at 2-so A. "A. the
morning the Butler salary grab bill
was passed. The Presidents approval
was necessary By 10 o'clock the
President had read the bill, approved
and word was carried to the Capitol
to that effect. That meant work in the
wee sma' hours. When the bill was re-
pealed the President worked none the
less faithfully.
The incoming President must learn
to make a bow He Will have to bow
down and serve many a fair Chair
man of the Executive Committee and
lead many a diplomats wife to din
ner. For this he must have learned
Characterization grace.
The President must learn to intro
duce. Not merely to pronounce names,
but to conduct the art of presentation
in a manner that shall be acceptable
to all peoples and all nations At his
wife's receptions he must pronounce
the names of the callers. if the recep-
ton be one at which the Executive
must be present also. And at dinners
he must be the gracious host, present
ing, greeting. leading the way to din
ner, denominating places and being
ready for the return trip to the draw
ing room at a mystic look from his
wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01
NEW CITIZENS
FOR UNCLE SAM.
Something About New York's Famous
Ellis Island and The Immigrants
Who Land There.
BY Constance Merrifield.

I had always thought that it was the
easiest thing in the world for a for
eigner to come over here and get a fin
ger in our pie, but I found out the other
day after a visit to the famous immi-
grant landing in New York harbor that
it wasn't. OF course. I had a general
idea that people coming from the other
side had to go through some sort of
form or another. in order to be allowed
to land-immig grants, mean-but as to
just what it was I. like a good many
other people. was woefully in the dark.
. 1t wasn't idle curiosity on my part
that inspired the investigation. either,
I can assure you, for 1 went to the
place at the special command of my
managing editor who telegraphed me
to write up this unique feature of
Gotham especially for the readers Of
this newspaper. Noticing my strange
appearance and the look of inquiry up
on my countenance one of the men at
the Barge Office stopped me to ask my
mission, and finding it out, suggested
that get passage for the boat which
runs between the Barge Office and Ellis
Island.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01
A DIFFICULT TASK.

AS there wasn't anybody around the
Barge Office whom I knew, I didn't
know exactly how I was going to get
across to the island until happened to
think that I'd make a try at the gate
man who. takes up the tickets and
passes At the entrance of the Ellis Is
land boat-dock. So I just put on my
most business-like expression, but feel
ing just about as you would if you
We're trying to go by the doorkeeper of
a theatre without ticket and marched
boldly down the dock, looking neither
to the right nor left.
Tickets, please came sharply from
the man in uniform as I hurried by the
little signal box in which he sat.
Newspaper reporter" I said brislSly
over my shoulder, and while the man
stood staring after me with a sort Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01

MISUNDERSTANDING want to 60
Some of them are women, who have Of
fered their services as cooks, house
keepers, and even stenographers. Yes,
a number of young women, tired of
tapping typewriters, have applied to
Explorer Evelyn B. Baldwin to become
members of his party in the expedition
to leave this country next June
BUSHEL OF APPLICATIONS.
It is just one month ago that Mr.
Baldwin's project to make deter
mined effort to reach the pole became
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01

How many residents of this city want
to take a trip to the North Pole with
Explorer Baldwin?
One would not think that persons
who sleep in comfortable beds, eat
fresh meat and fat turkeys, would want
to exchange these comforts for a rough
bunk, a chunk Of pemmican, a piece of
salt pork and hard tack And the
weather. Think of 80 degrees below
zero, an occasional glimpse of sunlight
and the rest all Ice.
Yet there are number Of American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01

James Watt, when he was consulted
about the mode Of carrying water by
pipes under the Clyde, along the un-
equal bed of the river, turDed his att
tention one day to the shell Of lob
ster presented at table, and from that
model he invented an iron tube. which,
when laid down. was found enectuali1
to answer the purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01
pUTTEs In ETIoUErTE.

The question of precedence is an i'm
pcrtant study for him At a White
House dinner each gentleman guest
finds in his dressing-room a card bear
ing a diagram, of the dinner table and
showing him his seat at the table
The name Of his partner is also given.
This the President personally superir-
tends. At least it VIII be his fault If
anything goes amiss. He must learn
when to shake hands. when to put bis
hands behind him. when to make q
courtIy bow. His etiqnetts Is severe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01

There is more melody in Andreas-
burg, Prussia, IN the Hartz Mountains.
than in any other town in the world.
There 25O. OGO canaries are, annually
reared, and four-hfths Of them are gent
to the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01
A JEALOUS AGENT.

Now they want me to pay thirty
five cents apiece for them" said the
girl plaintively. land Heaven knows I
haven't the money to spare. Why didn't
they tell me on the vessel that there
were charges2
"A man took them from me, and gave
me this little piece of brass. saying not
to lose it, and then I was put aboard
the boat and taken to the island, with
out ever seeing them again"
The transfer company's agent at the
steamer had evidently been over-zeai-
Gus in his employers interests in not
explaining to the girl that If her things
We're checked they would be charged
for.
She had passed her examination
promptly at Ellis Island. she said, and
had that morning come over to the
baggage room at the Barge ONCE ana
claimed her baggage, as she had been
instructed to do, but rather than pay
the-to her--large sum Of seventy cents
without a protest, she was on her way
back to the island with the rather
vague idea Of presenting the case 20
some one in authority.
Now, if there is anything am fond
err of than another it is to right the
wrongs Of people who are poor. and
without influence, so I instantly ar
rayed myself On the side Of the immi-
grant girl.
BY this time we were at the island,
and as we disembarked told the girl
who was profuse in her thanks, 20
follow me and fear nothing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01

w-did-I-know- that sort of expression
on his face, 1 rushed on down the dock
and walked aboard the little steamer
which was just about to start on its 1
o'clock trip.
Taking a seat on the bench outside
the cabin labelled For ladies' I be-
gan to take an inventory of my fellow
passengers, who seemed to me to be-
long to about every nationality under
the sun. Most of them were fairly we'll
dressed, and where there was more
than two in a party they sat in little
groups around the decks and chatted
volubly in the languages of their varf-
Gus countries
From deckhand learned that they
were the friends of foreigners who We're
undergoing examination on Ellis Is
land, and that they were going over to
join them and come back with them
when they had been duly released from
the supervision of the Federal authori-
ties.
Sitting near me on the bench 1 no.
ticed buxom young woman, with a
weli-tanned face and a clear. bright
complexion, who seemed to be In trou-
bic about something.
After one or two glances at me, as
though she would like TO speak to me.
all of which I answered in the most
encouraging way could she slid her
printed slip for my inspection, asked
me to please tell her if there was any
thing on the paper calling for the pay
ment of charges. She spoke in a pleas
ant, we'll modulated voice, and with an
accent which was so full of br-r-rs that
I took it for granted that the highlands
Of Scotland were her native hills.
The slip turned out TO be a receipt
from a transfer company for two
pieces of baggage, but the only refer
ence to money that I could find was
that which declared that the company
would not be responsible for more than
$50 damages to any one piece unless
the value had been previously declared
by the owner. When had enlightened
her to this effect the girl went on to
tell me that the two pieces Of baggage
referred to were a bundle and a valises
both of which she was perfectly able
to carry without anybody's aid. and
she looked it.