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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-06-06
DISASTROUS STORMS.
Wind, Rain and Hail Play Havoc
Down South.
CHILD KILLED By FALLING HOUSE.


vicksburg, Miss, June IA wind
storm, almost cyclonic in proportions
passed through the southwestern sec
ton of Claiborn county yesterday
morning, Frustrating trees, houses
and everything else in its path. Sc
far only one fatality is reported-the
fve-year-old daughter of Elijah Cope.
land, colored. Copeland's house was
crushed and three of his children
were caught under the falling tim.
bers, the little girl being instantly
killed. The Others escaped with
slight bruises. The wind was accom-.
panied by heavy hail and the damage
to crops will be heavy.
Heavy rain and hailstorms also did
great damage to growing crops in
the section around Montgomery, Ala.
At Greenville, Ala, the roof of the
courthouse was blown of and other
property was damaged.
A special from Benton, Tenn, says
terrific hailstorm passed over Polk
county Thursday evening, doing great
damage to corn and cotton and COM
pletely wiping out the wheat crop
along the Hiwasso river. The storm
was fercest near Wetmore, where
the hail drifted a foot deep.
At Dawson, Ca, the roofs were
blown off the Dawson Grocery com
pany's warehouse and the Dawson
CRATE and box factory and off the
freight houses of both the Seaboard
and Central railways. The top and
smokestack were torn off the Dawson
oil mill plant, the refinery being a
total wreck. The house of Mrs. J. w.
Adams, on Lee street, was wrecked
and Mrs. Adams arm broken by fall
ing timbers. The wind played havoc
in Negrotown, destroying great
many houses, including a new church
which has just been completed and
leaving the large Odd Fellows hall
a mass of ruins. Crops were greatly
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-06-06
Against the Liquor Habit.

Pittsburg, Pa, May 31.-The Re-
formed Presbyterian synod came to
order yesterday and was constituted
with prayer by the moderator, DR.. D.
c. Martin. The chairman of the COM
mittee on temperance, DR.. ]. A. Black,
read a very able and comprehensive
report The marked growth of the
power of the liquor traffic was clear
ly emphasized. Recommendations
were submitted by the committee
binding the church to unceasing ear
nestness in its Testimony against
the immortality of the legal sanction
given by state and nation to the ac-
cursed traffic in intoxicating drink
and reiterating its condemnation OF
the use of tobacco and traffic in the
weed"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-06-06

@tng to touch me.
4 w0Sld woyk a ill.,
M while and then
he dow. a while."
Failing to obtain
more than temper
uy relief from her
doctors treatment,
Mrs. Brown began
the use Of Doctor
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, with
the usual result-a
complete cure.
Dr.. Pierce's ia.
vorite Prescription
Il the best medicine
for the cure Of dis
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-06-06

The dizziness and faintness from while.
women suffer may be due to one Of
several causes. But the most common
cause Is disease Of the delicate womanly
organism. The story Of Mrs. Brown,
told In her letter below, gives a fair
example of the conditions under which
% many women work. " had a sick
headache nearly all The time, was so weak
eyvSsd my nuia could hardly bear any.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-06-06
Foster. miIburn Co. Buffalo, n. \

Remember the name oan's-and take no
substitute.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
NaXa In Rrlaf.

John Bruske, of Renville county,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart, because q certain
Young woman would not marry him.
On the Benedict farm. near Sabin,
in gravel pit. were found two human
skeletons. Apparently they had been
there for at least 20 years.
The dead body Of fully developed
girl baby was found near the Great
Northern tracks at Crookston. The
body is thought to have been thrown
from train.
Three boys, Stephen Lepinski, Joseph
Werdick and Felix Kobas, were arrest.
ed at Winona on a charge of entering
the residence of l. l. Lusk and steal
ing three valuable rings.
The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific took between 800 and 1000
harvest hands out of the twin cities for
the western harvest fields in one day.
John Sutterman. q l2.year'old Min
neapolis newsboy, was drowned in the
Mississippi river near Red Rock.
The state grain department reported
July receipts to the state auditor
amounting to $3.50
The state university sent a remit
lance TO- Auditor Dunn of $12, 795.7O,
representing July collections, Of which
SO, 426. Is was from the sale of so-called
salt spring lands.
The model in butter of the new Min
nesota capitol building is attracting
general attention at the Buffalo expo
sition.
A St. Paul lady left her baby on the
street cars in Minneapolis. 1t was
finally returned, much to the relief of
the mother
The missing wife of Henry Remack'
err, of Chaska. was discovered in the
insane asylum at Rochester
Permits have been taken out for the
erection Of the university buildings.
The physics building, three stories In
heiRhth, will cost $4,000, and the me-
chanics arts will cost 100000. The
buildings are to be completed by De-
cember 81.
Arthur Dingel, Of st, Paul, aged II
wears. was drowned in White Bear lake
whele bathing.
Major Fred Bracket, Of Minneapo-
lis. has been appointed auditor and
paymaster for the st. Louis exposition.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09

duke of Marlborough will preside.
The duchess of Marlborough will en-
terrain this great throng at luncheon
in huge tent especially erected upon
the historic grounds. All unionist
members of the house of commons
have been invited. The palace will be
opey1d for public inspection, and, in
fact, Blenheim will be en- fete as it
has not been for many years. A dis
tinguished house party will follow,
several of the most prominent per-
sons present remaining to the end of
the week. Among the features of
the fete will be a recital upon the
celebrated organ in the long library,
boa ting upon the lake and the render.
ing of band music during the entire
day.
The duke of Marlborough said to a
representative of the Associated
Press:
mo significance is attached to this
fete, so far as am concerned; I did
something similar five years ago, only
on a much smaller scale. I thought
this would be good for the unionist
party, effectively prove its cohesion
and the concord which prevails in the
party, and also give the leaders a
chance Of personally thanking their
agents and workers; so I asked them
all to come to Blenheim."
The duke Of Marlborough is not 60.
ing to the United States, and has not
the faintest idea of succeeding Lord
Mimic as governor general of Canada;
he characterized both reports as ut
terly unfounded:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09

scribes her as ''high flyer At fash
ion." Judging from accounts of q re-
cent Visitor to Russia, the same dis
tinction :haracterizes the husAoad
and wife. This visitor describes hfs
interview with the great author and
reformer. The count was in peasant
dress and received his guest in
plainly furnished study. But when
the two repaired to the reception
room they found the countess in
magnificent court costume, and the
ladies who were with her we're sim
ilarly attired. These things, how
ever, are mere matters of taste.
From the events of the late uprising
in Russia it would seem that the
countess has peculiar right to be
heard and honored by everyone. Her
husbands accommodation gave her
an opportunity of Issuing a public
letter which was especially appeal
ing. The brave wife closes her letter
in these words: "GOd will be lenient
to those who even outside the church
have lived life of humility, renun.
citation of the good things of this
world, love and devotion. His par
don is surer for them than for those
whose miters and decorations sparkle
with precious stones, but who strike
and expel from the church those
over whom they arc set as pastors.
Hypocrisy would vainly distort my
words, for good faith does not err
in judging peoples real intentions"
Countess Tolstoi for many years has
acted as her husbands friend, secre-
tary and critic. The romance OF
their lovemaking IL found in anna
Karenina."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09

hard to see how such q charge could
be made for such a small camera as
a quarter-plate would be. It would
take photograph only 3Ax4A
inches, and the half-plate would be
only 4Ax6H inches.
"Counting gold as worth $40 an
ounce and the lens of the camera at
500, the camera would have to weigh
nearly 500 ounces to have $4,000
worth of gold in it. That is; it would
have to weigh more than 80 pounds
avoirdupois. This is an absurdity.
Carving, jewels, engravings and the
height of ornamentation might make
q camera cost as much as $10,500, but
you couldn't prove it by q quarter
plate negative"
In general, the cost of a camera is
in the lens. For q sneak thief there
is scarcely more inviting field than
first-class photographers studio.
While men lock up bartenders in the
ice box to raid saloon cash register
with $685. in it, sneak thief easily
might unscrew $500 portrait lens
from a camera and sneak out with
the booty in his coat pocket. For a
costly camera the lens usually costs
ten times as much as the box, and it
has not hundredth part of the bulk.
The largest lens ever made for a
camera was nearly nine inches in
diameter, was ten inches long, and
lens and metal casing weighed 40
pounds. This lens, made under tho
most trying circumstances, cost 49,
600, and was designed for plate
4xs feet. The first photograph taken
through it was life size photograph
of DR.. John Alexander Dowie, short
ly before he was reincarnated into
Elijah III.
The plate which registered this
"counterfe1t presentment" of Elijah
cost 500, and it cost at least five
dollars to develop and ELK" the mega
tive, the prints from it costing about
three dollars each.
The unusual size of the lens for
this camera necessitated a camera
box AXIS feet and a focal adjustment
of 10 feet. In making the lens it
was difficult to find glass sufficiently
large and free from flaws, air bulb
bles, and ''striae." When one glass
had been cut and adjusted it had to
be thrown out because of one Of
those almost intangible blemishes
termed striae.
In a lens Of ordinary size the de-
Walton of one-thousandth of an inch
in it's thickness will make it useless
for photography, causing it to dis
tort images. Testing these lenses,
grinding and polishing and fitting
them and correcting them to hairs
breadths is the work of the human
hand and eye, but so accurately are
these experts trained that in q box
of dozen lenses of the same style
it is the boast of the manufacturers
that no man needs search to find a
best one. col
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09

crowd of boisterous boys around him.
A few days before he was arrested
a. insane, but was discharged. To the
officer who last arrested him Schlat-
ter admitted that he had been drunk
since July 3, and said he believed that
about two days. confinement would
do him good. He will have 30 days.
In his own defense Schlatter testified
that he came to Washington to find
his wife, who had deserted him, and
get her permission to sell some prop
erty in England. Becoming discour-
aged in his efforts he got drunk.
"What is your occupation?" asked
the judge.
II am . divine healer" was the an
swer.
"Then," said the court, "you should
obey the Scriptural injunction: 'Physi-
clan, heal myself
Schlatter begged to be released from
custody, but the court fined him ten
dollars, with the alternative Of 30 days
in the workhouse.
After he was taken back to his cell,
the "healer'' became alarmed lest the
prison authorities should cut off his
long blonde curls.
IF am shorn of my locks" said he,
81 will be ruined"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
THE COUNTESS ToLsTo1.
and Sociologlst Has Shown
Rare Devotion.

Countess Sophia Andrerovna Tol.
stoi, wife of the famous Russian nov.
elist and sociologist, may be account
ed one of the most remarkable wom-
Ell in Europe. She has stood fast by
her husbands side in all his ups and
downs of fortune and was his main
stay during his recent disgrace by
the Russian government for having
defended the liberty-loving students
of St. Petersburg. Countess Totsloi
is genuine wife and mother and
very different in her tastes from her
philosopher husband. The count de-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
SCHLATTER IN JAIL.
ington, ID. c., ~ . vagrant After
Long Drunk.

Francis Schlatter, who still claims
to be a divine healer, has been COM
mitted to the workhouse in Washing.
ton as = vagrant, charged with drunk
enness., Schlatter once had many fol-
lowers in the west, who believed in
his divine power as healer, but in
the police court he sat among hard
ened criminals, and the police officers
testified to finding him drunk with q
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
Iiehtning Strikes Feathers.

: The popular idea that feathers are a
nonconductor of electricity, laboring
under which delusion many people
scarv about lightning climb under
feather beds, even in summer, was ex-
ploded in a very remarkable manner
during the recent heavy thunderstorm
at Chambersburg, Pa. While the
storm was at it's worst q bolt OF light
ming struck the center Of the public
square of q country town and struck
a rooster. which was running across
the opening. It hit him square on the
head. and, of course, killed him in
stantly. and also burned all the feath-
ar. off his back and sides.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
THE FATE OF HAWAII
Politicians and Statesmen Are Much
Interested In It.
Natives Want Statehood or Annexa.
ton to Calif0rnia-Othsrs Think
Territorial Government II
Good Enou ii.

While Delegate Wilcox, of Hawaii,
is urging that the archipelago (now
o territory he admitted to the union
az = state. the recommendation is
heard in some quarters that the is
lands be annexed to California. The
Honolulu Sunday Volcano, for exam
pie, says:
THE Volcano, in advocating the an
nexation of Hawaii to California,
does 30 with the most patriotic mo-
tives. The Hawaii of to-day is carry
ing all Of its eggs to market in one
basket. We are raising two products
sugar and children. The contract
labor laws having been abolished,
children are hardly commodity OF
commerce. Hawaii under present
conditions to be prosperous must have
4 stable market for it's sugar. The
market for Hawaiian sugar is Amer
lea. Under the Downes decision OF
the United States supreme court con-
gress has the power to levy duty on
any or all goods shipped from q ter
ritory of the United States. Now we
do not believe that congress will ever
place a duty upon Hawaiian sugar.
But, believing this, would it not be
presumptuous to say that congress
never will do It? There is no telling
what an Hawaiian legislature or an
American congress will do.
"Is it not best to be safe in this
matter? Haven't the people Of Ha-
wall had enough dearly purchased ex-
perience. in assessment sugar stocks
without investing in an assessment
government. BY becoming part OF
California, Hawaii would be forever
free from q tax on its sugar. What a
strong argument this is for annex
alton to the Golden STATED"
The semi-official Philadelphia Press,
however, expresses its belief that
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
DUKE or MARLBORO
Consuelo Vanaerbilt's Husband VIII
Fete 1000 Persons At His Castle
Of Blenhelm.

The duke of Marlborough is about to
appear in Q new role. There will &C.
cur at Blenheim palace, the dukes seat
at Woodstock, Oxford, August 10, one
of the largest political demonstsa lions
of recent times. Its object is to cele-
brate the third unionist victory in the
elections. Three thousand delegates
from the conservative and liberal
unionist associations throughout the
country will be present, while the
gathering will number in all about
1000. Mr.. Balfour and Mr.. Chamber
lain will make addresses, and the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
SULTAN OF MOROCCO.
Young African Ruler Has Many
Extravagant Fads.
Pays %15.OOO for Two Cameras with
which to Photograph His wives
-Lenses Are Set in Solid
Gold Instead Of Brass.

News that the sultan Of Morocco
has bought two cameras, one guar
template and one half-plate, costing
$4,000 and $4,000, respectively, Is re-
garded by camera experts as sug-
costing that the sultan of Morocco
is q good deal more, fond rof spending
money than is the sultan of Turkey.
1t is doubted if he has any prettier
harem than has the Turkish sultan,
and if he has it is argued by experts
in camera goods that he could get
just as good a picture of his favor
ties with a 500 machine.
According to the story of the sui
tan's purchases in London all the
metal work of the quarter-plate
camera is of solid gold, even to the
screws and hinges, every piece bear
ing the British hall mark. It's total
weight is $50 ounces. The half-plate
instrument is of silver, with finest OF
mountings.'
DR.. William H. Knapp, of Chicago,
representing the manufacturers who
made the lenses for the sultan's
cameras, says in effect that the sui
tan paid through the nose for what
he got, so far as pictures are con-
cerned.
"For such cameras we couldn't
make q lens that would cost more
than $780," said DR.. Knapp to o Chi
cago Tribune reporter. "The bes:
framework for a lens is brass and
one set in gold would be less adapt
able in photography. We make the
best quarter-plate lens for ST., with
SIG more added for shutter. The
sultan hasn't got anything better,
though it may be set in solid gold. =:
"But even in solid gold, wherever
the metal could be worked in, it Is
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
Horse Corghs Up Bank Bills

Horse Copghs Up Bank balls'
Elwyn Philips, employed by 0. c.
Gardner, a baker in Southampton L.
l., lost $3.50 few days ago, and was
unable to find any trace of the money.
The bills were, in a roll held together
.by an elastic band. One of the bakers
horses had coughing fit theother day
and coughed up the roll of bank notes
intact. The rubber band had held Sc
curely, and the money was returned to
Philips. He believes that he acci-
dentally dropped the roll from his
trousers pocket, and that the horse
picked it up and swallowedit.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
A KINGS MONOGRAM.
King Edward Has Adopted New De-
sign for Use Throughout the
British Empire.

King Edward has chosen new
cipher for monogram to be worn on
all badges, buttons and other devices
used throughout the royal service and
wherever the royal monogram is borne
at present.
The new monogram is really very
pretty and is given below. The cipher
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
Wolf BOuntlo1.

The state has paid out $4.2@0. 65 in
wolf bounties during the fiscal year
Just closing. There is no appropria-
ton for the purpose for the next two
wears. and the counties will have to
cease paying bounties. Polk was the
leading wolf county this year, return
ing 12s scalps. Houston had l19; Ohm
sted. IS: Stearns. 80; Fillmore, %;
Mower, n; Sherburne, IS; Douglas, u.
The total number of scalps redeemed
was .46s.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09

Hawaii will remain a territory. 1t re-
marks:
delegate Wilcox, of Hawaii, who
is enthusiastically advocating state
hood for the territory of Hawaii, is
wasting his time. Hawaii is not fit to
become a state, and it will be long
time, if ever, before it will be so fit
ted. There is no evidence whatever
to show that Hawaii would be better
off as a state than as territory,
while it's expenses would be greatly
increased.
1.-The talk of uniting Hawaii with
California meets with no favor either
in Hawaii or in California; and Is CHI
merical. Congress would give no con"
sideration to such q proposition. I'm
der the decision of the United States
supreme court, Hawaii needs no
statehood, and, like all our other pos
sessions, can be well governed under
q territorial form Of government
such as it now has.
'As to complaints about the al
legged ignorance and corruption of its
legislature, they count for nothing
in view of what some Of our state
legislatures do, particularly that OF
Pennsylvania. No territorial legisla-
ture will probably ever exhibit such
rottenness as has characterized the
Pennsylvania legislature, or that OF
Montana, and fortunately no terri"
torial legislature would have the
power to rob the people Of the terri
tory in the way the Pennsylvania leg
islature has robbed the people OF this
state"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
ministers Have Long Lives

The longevity of ministers has long
since passed into proverb. A reader
of the Church finds that Of IL deceased
clergymen whose age was given. the
Youngest was "a, the remaining ii
were 20 years old at least, and four
were over so. The average age OF the 10
was over n.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
NEW BRITISH CIPHER.
(Adopted at the Special Command OF King
Edward Wiz

consists of "E" for Edward and "R"
for Rex, which means king, you know,
the two letters mysteriously, but
plainly woven together. In the lower
loop of the ''E' the numerals wi"
are inclosed and the whole reads:
'King Edward VII" Above the mono
gram is a crown, made very plain &C.
cording to the wish of the king. The
monogram is chosen for the whole Of
King Edwards reign, and not even
the slightest change must be made
by the workers who place it upon
the royal service. No device or orna-
ment may be placed above or upon it.
Special instructions have been given
through the secretary of war as to the
crown to be used, also. There are now
in use some half dozen crowns Of diff
ferent patterns, some of them Of
shapes and patterns foreign to the
British. The one which has been
chosen and which is to become the
sealed pattern for the army il the
Tudor "Henry VII" crown, which, It
is stated, was the favorite of Queen
Victoria, and was always used by the
late sovereign. All other patterns are
to be destroyed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
Murdered.

Two armed men got into box car
near Belle Plaine and held up two no.
boes. One of the victims, not having
any money, was taken by the neck and
thrown from the car The other man,
named Ben johnson, was shot dead
and thrown from the car. Later a
train came along and cut his head of.
The two murderers escaped The COM
panion of the man who was murdered
is detained
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09
A Freak College.

To the attractions of St. Paul will
soon be added freak medical college,
if the intention of the promoter OF the
scheme are carried through. DIR.
Matthew Rodermund, who brought
himself into notorious publicity at Mil
waukee a few months ago with his
anti-smallpox agitation, proposes to
establish college in the SANITY City,
to advance his theory of the non'con-
taQiousness of the disease, and to COM
bat the established doctors.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-08-09

Word has reached Duluth that Adolph
Hartman, son of Emil Hartman of that
city, recently won a duel with Lieut..
Pachmann, of the German army. The
lieutenant made some ~derogato'y re-
marks concerning America. which
Hartman resented with q slap on his
face. 1t was q bloody encounter, and
the Duluth boy escaped with but one
serious wound, while Lieut.. Pachmann
was grievously wounded in three
places, including the jugular vein, and
it is estimated that it will take three
months to enable him to ate nd to
military duty again.