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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
Asthma

The doctors tell US they
cannot cure every case OF
asthma with Ayers Cherry
Pectoral. They say it is the
best thing for relief and that
it often completely cures.
We are willing to take their
word for it, are you?
"Aiter having spent hundreds o.
dollars trying to be cured ofmy asthma,
| now rely entirely on Ayers Cherry
Pectoral for the relief Of the severe
paroxysms Of coughing. II is the best
medicine for this ! can hnd."
Geo. W. Stout, Sacramento, Cal.
tse.. .Ss., ,Sl.s. J.c.AYER co., Lowell. Mas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
CHAPMAN PLAYED YELL.
Abilene Lost tho Football Game by
a. the Score 5 too.

The Abilene football team was de-
feated Saturday at Chapman by a
score Of 5 to 0. The game was hard
Tough. one and was witnessed by a
large crowd. Chapman's superior
weight and practice won the game as
their gains we're short. Abilene made
some long gains only to lose the ball
on tumble, owing to lack OF prac-
tice. A return game will be played
here next Monday and the boys will
put in some hard practice and try to
reverse the result Of the first game,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
BLANK COLUMN.
For County High School Trustees,
PREACHERS WANT IT.
Army Chaplaincy Proves an Attract
i've Place.

Senator Burton's notice that he had
been asked to recommend Baptist
preacher for an army chaplaincy
brought flood Of applications. Tel
egrams, letters, endorsements and
personal visits have piled up and are
yet arriving. The place pays $1,000
year and is life job. No wonder
it Is in demand.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
Abilene Boy's Success.

Charles Macklin, who plays the part
Of "The Rev. Thomas Singleton" in
in "Lovers' Lane" will be at the head
Of the original company next season
playing only the larger cities. His
name is Charles McElhenny and bis
home is at Abilene. "Lovers' Lane
has recently been in the western cities
and Is making great hit.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
Death at Talmage.

T. N. Whitney, one Of the leading
young farmers at Talmage, died
Monday Of typhoid fever from which
he has been suffering for several
weeks, aged 28 years. Funeral at Tai
mage M. +. church at 2 P. m. Tues
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
SCHOOL ROOM DECORATION.
Reasons Why Such q Movement Il Of
Much Value.

4"P" N'oSy 80 t6
q movement in the interest OF the
decoration OF school rooms In this
city. The details will be announced
when the plans are complete. As an
outline OF the good involved In this
movement we publish the following pa
per by Mrs. Winterbotham Of Salina
read before the Fifth district fedora
tion OF clubs last week:
SCHOOL ROOM DECORATIONS.
One Of the great questions con
fronting every teacher is that Of ap'
propriate and pleasing decorations
for the school room. A few sugges.
tions may be given which II enlarged
upon may prove source Of pleasure
and instruction. Pictures, Of course,
can be purchased at very little ex-
pense and those which mean some
thing to the children should always
be chosen. Perry pictures, daintily
mounted, can be easily obtained and
thus the love Of true art be aroused
in even the little tots who can always
appreciate picture which speaks to
them.
Flowers, too, whenever it is posi-
Bile, add much to the pleasing ap.
pearance Of room and until the cold
nights many hardy varieties may be
kept with but little care. Nothing
should be used which would collect
dust or would in short time lose its
freshness and beauty and become an
eyesore in room where children are
passing the formative period Of their
lives.
Many teachers make q pleasing
decoration from grasses and autumn
leaves. These, however, should never
be allowed to become ragged and un.
slightly. One teacher added an
aquarium Of gold fish to her room.
1t became quite a contested honor to
feed them
Sometimes a curio cabinet may be
made by allowing the children TO
bring anything particularly curious
or pretty in the way Of rocks, shells
or leaves. These should be accom-
panied by description OF the place
from which the article was obtained.
These cabinets should be carefully
closed to exclude the dust.
How many Of our school rooms are
lined and cross. lined with cracks and
what is more unsightlyp We should
at least have pictures to cover up the
cracks, II not for decoration.
For the primary rooms colored
boards are bright and cheerful, but in
the upper grades where the arms are
longer they are apt to suffer Black
boards (when you can prevail your
janitor to keep them SOY are preiera.
BILE in the upper grades.
The children can become acquaint-
ed with some OF our best literature
through gems from some OF our mas
ters in poetry and prose placed on
the boards.
Bits Of statuary in nitches around
the room and in the halls are some Of
our widest dreams. We can admire
them but never hope to obtain them
unless our chief sisters can come to
our assistance.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
School Report, District SO.

Term began Sept. Soth. First
month ended Oot. 25th. Pupils en-.
rolled 4S, girls IA, boys IA. Average
attendance girls lS, boys II. Those
neither absent nor tardy, Elmer Cook,
Verl Haynes, Clair Kicker, William
Shuey, Jessie Kilgore, Laura Kilgore,
Iva Kicker, Dora Shuey, Edna Shuey.
Number Of tardy marks, six. Par
ents and friends OF education are cor.
daily invited to visit the school.
A. C. WILSON, teacher.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
Stop Fast Driving.

Notice is hereby given that the
ordinance against driving over the
First and Third street bridges faster
than q walk will be strictly enforced.
Be sure you are not the one .to. be
fined.
BY order Of the city council.
1872 P.H, HALLECK, Mayor.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
Wants $500 From Clsmence.

Henry Starr has commenced suit
against Geo. Clemence and attached
some land near Sand Springs. Amount
at stake, 1890.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31
The lineup was:
Hs Pleaded Guilty.

Ab Carr was fined tS and costs in
police court, pleading guilty on a
charge Of nuisance in keeping decay.
ing csrcasses near bis junk shop.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31

NorE.- Alum baking powders are low
priced, as they cost but three cents
pound to make. But alum, leaves in the
bread or cake glauber salts, sulphuric
acid and hydrate Of alumina-all injuri'
Gus, the last two poisonous,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-10-31

A. C. WILSON, teacher.
The Conservative, 1901-08-01
Che Conservative.

there, but the noisy magpie and the
crested jay-hawk are gone and they are
empty and silent. The mountain side is
bare and still no chipmunk frisks over
the rocks, no woodchuck watches you
from their recesses to mock you at a safe
distance.
But in compensation, you find that
there are more people in the mountains
than you had supposed, and you see
them leading their own lives, free from
the oppression of the summer tourist.
When the torrent Of travellers, with
their tastes and their needs, and their
adjectives and exclamation points,
breaks over this devoted land, one may
imagine the inhabitants shutting their
eyes and holding their breaths until fall;
and then coming forth, when the last
tourist has taken his trunk eastward,
and the last invalid followed the
receding sun with his rug and his
medicine bottle, to resume the inter-
rupted current of their lives.
The rivers are there, but pitifully
shrunken and enfeebled. Their voices
are weak and old; how different from
the fierce tumult that fills the gorges as
they riot over rocks in their summer
strength. The canyons themselves are
vastly changed. Their sides are gray
and cold; the prickly ball of the wild
cactus nestles into crevices and shows
no spurts of variously- -colored blossom;
the skeletons of the wild currant bushes
throng the roadside, but none of them
display those showers of cool and tempt
ing fruit that glow under the August
sun; nowhere can one find the wild
strawberries and the little red rasp-
berries, so stony and so sweet, that
reward the search of the wayfaring
man in the Moon of Bucks.
There is life in the mountains, but
you can hear more of it than you can
see. AS soon as night falls the plant of
the coyote begins; and if you sleep with
a window open, for the sake of the life
giving air of the place, and the sound Of
the pine-trees and the river in the
infinite stillness-you may hear from
somewhere in the dark hideous cry,
which they will tell you in the morning
was the yell Of the mountain lion that is
bothering around their cattle.
Then, too, from the number of natives
you meet wandering about the noun
tains with guns-man's S size rifes-it is
safe to infer that something good for
food is going up and down on four legs
in that snowy Wilderness; having due
regard for the game laws, let us say
rabbits.
But the only specimen of animal life
| tbot a ctu o1lu oppoo rod to mo xuo q little
The Conservative, 1901-08-01
A WINTER GLIMPSE OF ESTES PARK.

Cn0 ROOu fdCn6T LIE SuleU, Ulldo Wliou
one travels over the plains, he feels more
inclined to prayer, meditation, conf
dence in God" The days of those long
and solitary journeys are gone by; we
lie down at night in the roaring cavern
of the train, and when, in the morning
we look out Of our curtained window,
the mountains are already there. Such
was the wonderful sleep, "likest to
DEATH" that overcame that ancient
wanderer, when after nightmare of
twenty years, he was shipped by those
mysterious islanders upon a vessel and
in the morning found himself, he knew
not why nor how, at the port of his long
desire.
There is, however, something left of
the sentiment that inspired the Jesuit
father, as one approaches the Rockies
from the east, especially by the northern
route. They are SO high, so far removed
from the affairs of daily life, so very
lovely in the early light; they rise from
the plain in such sudden wall, and the
chain of them reaches SO suggestively to
the limit of vision, with single peaks
rising into view even further beyond !;
they always hint that they are guarding
another and a different world, a land Of
healing, where it would be good for us
to be.
There are those who maintain that
certain individual mountain peaks exert
a hypnotic influence upon the worship
per at their bases. Certainly there is
character among mountains, and this is
the cause why each has it's admirers
People will go year after year to Estes
Park, and sit contentedly day by day
watching the Lily, the giant Mummy or
great Longs himself, and will tell you
that each continually grows upon them
as they watch them.
I can testify that familiarity with the
chiefs of the snowy range does not by
any means breed contempt but rather a
distinct awe and dread. Others have
spoken of a certain reluctance that grew
upon them, IN the course or SOJOurn
among those tremendous objects, to
mention one of them familiarly by the
name of any man. General Pike was a
most admirable soldier, Major Long was
equally pattern of all incompetence;
the more you move about either of the
mountains that have borne their names
now for eighty years, each whole
world of rock and ice, the more remote
and unapproachable do they appear, and
names of those or any other men.
It is lonesome in the mountains in
winter. AS you draw near you miss the
prairie-dogs, who lie sleeping their long
sleep in a hundred thousand holes, with
The Conservative, 1901-08-01

noon, nearly dark, in fact; it had
showed all day, and the flakes were still
falling, while the mountains were
already enfolded in night and snow the
boisterous St. Vrain was ice-locked,
sheeted across in the stiller places,
were heaps of ice, and plates of it pro-
jected from either bank as far as the
current would permit; and upon the
thin edge of one of these sheets there
danced tiny bird. He was no bigger
than hens egg all told, and was of a
dark slate-color; he was round as ball,
and his head was so withdrawn into the
shelter of his feathers that his sharp
little bill projected upwards; he seemed
not to be watching me nor the water,
but stood first on one foot, then on the
other, and from time to time saw a
silvery cleaning film drawn over his
eye; and there he stayed, at the edge of
the black rushing water in the gather
ing darkness, as long as chose to watch
him. Nothing, one would suppose, but
the exigencies of a livelihood, could
keep sentient creature there; and I
wondered much, as I trudged back to
Mrs. Howe's fireside, and her warm
supper and sitting-room lamp, what
provision the creator had made for that
feathered atom in the waters of that
pitiless stream.
Every day it SHOWS, and it is showing
somewhere in sight all day. Every
morning the porch of the ranch-house
is covered with light fresh snow; the
sun may shine enough during the day
to melt it off, but that is the limit of his
potency. One must walk, however, in
the Rockies, and so you travel up the
hillside, or perhaps essay an ascent into
the land of rocks, and seat yourself on
the bare ground, where some boulder
shelters you from the wind, and look
over the landscape. It is not the sum-
mer view. The empty stiffness of the
region is oppressive under the dull sky.
Probably somewhere there is blue gap,
and you watch dash Of sunshine as it
travels over the panorama; but it does
not go far toward relieving the deadness
of things. The mountains about you
grow more and more dim as they stand
further from you, and their outlines
vanish and reappear as the sea of cloud
drifts about them, so that they look
only the bigger and more formidable.
Toward the interior your view is entirely
shut off by the smother of darkness that
hides the main range, where the great
peaks are engaged in their endless
brewing of storms, piling up the snow
that is to make next summers rivers
And as you look about you, you are
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
FASTERS AND FASTING.
People Who Have Done without
Food for Long Periods.

A few DAYS ago the Ledger reported
the case Of Mrs. Jane Lynn, who lived
near Franklin, Pa, but who died after
fast of sixty-one days, during which, said
the reporter, with scrupulous exactness
''she swallowed only one ounce of food
and for fifty-five days she took absolute
ly nothing. with the exception Of small
glass OF water occasionally" The report
compared this case with that of DR.. Tan
ner. who won fame by fasting for forty
days; but DR.. Tanner has been outclassed
so often that he is no longer an object of
interest Since his time there have been
many individuals who have tasted from
thirty TO siXtS or more days, and most of
them declared that their health was much
improved by the process.
One of the most interesting of these was
Leonard Thress, of this city, who, in the
winter of 1900, tasted for fifty days, as a
cure for dropsy. At the end Of that time
he ate hearty meal smoked cigar, and
declared that he never felt better in his
life. His weight had diminished from
2o9 TO l33 pounds. but the dropsy had LETT
him and he was physically sound and
well.
Another remarkable faster Is Miss Es-
telia F. Kuen1el, also of this city, whose
case was reported in the ledger on De-
cember %, 1888, but without giving her
name. Miss Kuenzel tasted forty-hve
days, but, unlike DIR. Tanner. she did not
shut herself up in a room and take no ex-
ercise. She walked long distances almost
every day, and on the forty-fourth day of
her fast covered seven miles. Perhaps the
most remarkable thing about her ex
perience was that during her fast she lost
only twenty pounds In weight.
Just at present there seems to he sor,h
thing of an epidemic of fasting. Several
instances have appeared in recent news
reports. on August Miss Agnes Mitch
ell, OF Detroit, ended Il fast of fortv-six
days, undertaken to cure stomach trou-
Bile. She nearly collapsed during that
time, becoming deaf. dull of sight. and AT
times unconscious: but on the forty-sixth
day she surprised those about her by
saying, Il feel hungry" took some wheat
broth, and the report says, 1T is conf
IDENTIFY expected by her family that she
will regain her health"
About the same time DIR. Emmanuel
Pfeiffer. of Boston, ended a thirty days
fast undertaken In the interests of sci
ence. DR.. Pfeiffer made daily notes OF
his progress, and found that he lost in
weight nearly a pound day. He lost
little water. when he overexerted himself.
or when the heat was excessive. On some
days he gained in weight. and his whole
loss In the thirty days was twenty-six
pounds. 1t was his third experience In
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

fasting. ard he declares he viii no. he
satisfied until he has tasted sixty DAYS
without losing weight-a feat which DIR
Tanner. who is now in New York on
courages him to believe is possible. Like
Dr.. Tanner, he broke mis- fast with a uer
fectly enormous meal and felt no Ill eff
fects from 1t.
The fast OF F. H Butterfield. director
Of music in the public schools of New
Bedford. which began about July Is was
still in progress at last accounts. Mr.
Butterfield was a sufferer from indiges-
ton. He took advantage II his vacation
to camp out in the Maine woods and do
his fasting away from the curious crowd,
but to an interviewer who found him
there he said:
Il am not fasting for a record or be-
cause l enjoy 1t; I am too good an eater
for that. l stopped eating simply because
was convinced that It was the only way
to ward off a severe illness. l
have now gone over twenty five days and
have no craving for food. How long be-
fore l shall Is a question time alone can
answer. ] am not well yet: nv
tongue must look better than that before
my stomach calls halt in my fasting"
So it seems there are people to whom.
three square meals a day are not an ac-
tual necessity.-Philadelphi Ledger
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

The objects sought are principally to
soften the tissues and render them
more susceptible to the action of the
digestive juices and to improve the
flavor.
Just why cooking changes the flavor
as 1t does has apparently never peen
made the subject of investigation. In
potatoes as in other foods the cooked
starch is more agreeable to the taste
than raw. In the raw potato the sep
arate starch grains are inclosed in cells
with walls composed of crude fibre,
mateJ iaI resistant to digestive juices.
If potatoes were eaten raw the diges-
tive juices would not reach the starch
as easily unless the cell walls happened
to be ruptured mechanically, as in mas
tication.
To obtain the highest food value po-
tatoes should not be peeled before
cooking. When potatoes are peeled be-
fore cooking and placed directly in hot
water and boiled rapidly less loss of
material is sustained than when they
are cooked in water cold at the start.
The wholesomeness of potatoes cooked
in different ways is largely a matter
which each must decide for himself the
general experience being that for men
in health most of the methods followed
are satisfactory.
Although under ordinary circura-
stances potatoes are unquestionabiy
wholesome food for most persons, i'll
ness is sometimes caused by eating
them. There are undoubtedly some
persons in health with whom potatoes
do not agree, just as there are those
who cannot eat Strawberries without
distress. This is due TO personal lido
syncIasy. and not to the harmful char
acter of the food.
Cases of actual poisoning by potatoes.
however are by no means unknown.
So far as can be learned the abnormal
symptoms in such cases We're caused
by the presence of solanin in the pota-
toes. Several years ago 357 soldiers in
a battalion of the Austrian army show
ed symptoms Of solanin poisoning. The
potatoes used for food were examined.
Those which were fresh contained a
small amount of solanin, While these
WHICH Adu SIioutSu SoiitSiieu ihUSh
more, still larger amounts being found
in the sprouts than in the tubers them
selves. The potatoes undoubtedly
caused the poisoning in this case.
Potatoes a year old which have lain
in cellar and shriveled and small po-
tatoes, which have sprouted without
being planted, are considered especially
dangerous, and should not be eaten. If
perfectly fresh potatoes contain any
solanin The amount is SO small that 1t
does not cause harm.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

no steam-heated ponds for summer. even
IL he can manage n tank or two in the
winter. Furthermore he doesn't want to
toll and coax for five months before he
gets good showing of blossoms
As matter of fact. very, very few per-
sons do undertake to grow water lilies.
There Is an exceptional man in Brooklyn
who does raise them and for his own
pleasure only. This Is Mr.. McEivery, who
lives in a quaint old-fashioned house at
the corner of Fiatbush Avenue and Feni-
more Street The old white house. turn
ing its shoulder to the street, has the en-
trance at the side. breaking through a
great mass of blooming phlox.
The whole house is surrounded by n riot
OF flowers but the lily ponds are at the
back. under the jealous eye of the man
who loves them. One OF the ponds is fill
ed with pink lotus The great cool leaves
make a perfect thicket. six feet In height,
above the water. The pond IS shallow but
the plant does not adapt itself to circum-
stances. Its nature is to grow tall; IL In
the water much the better; but grow
tall 1t must, water or no water The 9TH
er day there were a dozen great buds and
blossoms standing out above this thicket
of leaves. But It is nothing to what II
will do later on. Yet the pool was no
larger than good-sized flower bed.
Neither of the pools was artificiaily
heated. The other one was somewhat
larger and contained thrifty collection
of pink. white. and yellow lilies There
were also a few tanks which could be COW
cred with glass. and these had the more
delicate specimens. Mr.. McElvery does
his own gardening, and while he has put
great deal of care into the cultivation
of his lilies, he has not put an extrava-
CANT expenditure of money into it. His
lilies. most of them. propagate them
selves. The ponds require some care. of
course. but no more than flower beds.
They have to be weeded. Wedding. in
this case. means the pulling out of the
pads which curl up as they grow old.
Mr.. McElvery is a Scotchman and Mr..
Fisher, of the park lily ponds, Is also of
foreign descent The native American
gardener seems to be a rare bird. People
with back yards might start the pastime
by having a little lily pond. They could
not raise Victoria regia perhaps, but
they could raiese other lilies only little
less beautiful and get just as wet for the
money as If they went fishing or to the
seashore.-New York Sun.