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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-02-14
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.


Topeka, Kan, Feb. o.-Prohibition
won a signal victory in the house
yesterday, when by vote Of 81 to
80 the members in committee of the
whole recommended for passage the
county attorneys inquisition bill.
This bill gives county attorneys the
right to drag person before a JUS
tice Of the peace and take his testi-
mony and then base prosecution
upon 1t.
In the house Remington introduced
a drastic bill for the suppression Of
chicken thieves. The measure makes
IT q penitentiary offense to steal q
single chicken.
Other bills introduced were;
BY Lawrence, to appropriate $780,
600 topay the Price raid claims.
BY the ways and means committee,
to appropriate s15o,OOO for the bind
ing Irvine plant.
BY Green, to enable counties to
maintain experiment stations at coun-
ty poor farms.
BY Green, to prohibit the issuance
Of railroad passes.
BY Adams, Of Butler, to establish
q state fish hatchery and to appro.
pirate $4,000 therefor.
The horticultural committee made
q favorable report on the hill for the
creation Of state chronological
board.
The house committee on educational
institutions has reported Adversely
on the bill to fix q tuition charge in
the state university, normal school
and agricultural college. This WA
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-02-14

Two o. more counties and 20 pfovIde
foI parks n nrst clnss ctttes.
lightning roo agents must pey .
nesvy license sfter this 70 neece KAN
sas farmers y the bill Of Senator
Ward, favorsbly reported, becomes .
law. The bill fixes q license Of $500
year Tor lightning rod agents OF
steel range peddlers. In fact. u
catches iakirs OF all sorts.'-4 2 fakir
oniy wants 70 operate . week In q
county ne must pay the $500 license.
ne must get . new license In each
county.
= Dill 70 enable Kansas City, Kan,
70 carry out o plan Tor building q
boulevard from tne ioot OF Minnesota
avenue along the missouri river front
70 hansas wy MO, was introduced
N 'ne senate py onpDison. II author-
'zes "yandotte county 70 puiid $76,-
Wy Driage across tne kaw river near
~ commence win me missouri. The
nr'dge ~ NOT 70 De QUILT until the
proposed boulevard 10 completed TO
we rivers eage On eacn slde'
ror'erS niil 70 permit the old sol
a'ers u national soldiers home at
''e ~, 70 vote was INTRODUCED.
ine senate Passed tne mouse Dill Ior
y Drioge across the nav river at Lin
Wooo'
Inc Di'l urged py uov. STANLEY TO
conso''da'e tne state board OF agri-
culture anu HORTICULTURAL society was
k'lieo.
Neha,or oafpehters concurrent reso-
''l''on lor'a convention 70 cnange the
constitution was deieated IN the sen
h'e ny voe OF " 70 10.
ihc sehaie adopted the house reso-
'u'lon providing Tor the appointment
q lo'n1 committee 70 visit JEFFERSON
wy ana discuss the Feasibility OF
inform anp'grain trust law Tor KIM
Ms ana MISSOURI 70 eaten the Kansas
o''y gram dealers
me senate passed l'ranine's bill to
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-02-14
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.


Topeka, Kan, Feb. 1.-THE new
railroad bill will be introduced to-
day or Wednesday. It Is proposed to
make the railroad commissioners ap-
pointive by the executive council, one
commissioner to be q member Of the
minority political party. The COM
missioners will probably not be given
power to enforce their own orders.
They will have to proceed by manda-
mus in the supreme court. The bill,
while a better one than the law Of
1881, will follow that act in the main.
Filson, Of Lane, offered in the house
q bill creating board to revise the
assessment and taxation laws. He
proposes non-partisan board, each
member to receive salary Of $3.50 a
month, and its work is to be done and
reported to the executive council by
July 1, 1909.
The house in committee Of the
whole recommended for passage the
anti-cigarette bill.
The house committee of the whole
recommended for passage the bill pro-
viding for the organization Of cadet
corps at the three state educational
institutions.
The good roads bill was also recon-
mended for passage. It provides for
q two-mill general tax for macadam
roads and an additional Is per cent.
on that amount on all property with
in one-half mile Of the road to be i'm
proved.
The Belts bill to authorize the use
Of voting machines was recommended
for passeage. This bill was killed BY
the senate elections committee.
Among the bills recommended for
passage were the following:
To instruct the adjutant general to
turn over 200 state tents to the G.
4. r. department for reunion pur-
poses.
To provide punishment for aban-
donment Of wife or child by husband.
To provide for reappraiscment Of
state school lands.
TO provide for cattle brand inspect
ors for the protection Of cattlemen.
Wcilcp put a bill into the hopper
providing for separate schools for
white and colored pupils in second
class cities. 4Ni
Among the other bills introduced
yesterday were;
BY Ellison. to create 4 state COM
mission to revise the tax laws.
ny the banking committee, provid-
Ing for che deposit Of state funds and
requiring interest on daily deposits
TO b. paid into the state treasury.
ny Wellep. TO provide for mileage
for county high school commissioner.
BY Hutchinson. To erect a state fish
hatchery.
Senator Peterson introduced bill
providing for . commission composed
Of i've men, to b appointed by the
governor and the attorney general.
auditor and treasurer to revise the
tax laws and report to the next ses-
sion Of the legislature. Two Of the
outside members are to be lawyers,
The commissioners are to be allowed
$40 day each and $4,000 Is appropri-
ated for that purpose.
Noftxger, Of Harper, introduced q !
bill giving the guardian Of drunk.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-02-14

Tekemah, Neb., Feb. lathe rail-
road depot in this town was raided
quietly by unknown parties Sunday
night and IS cases Of liquor, consigned
to farmers and others and valued q
400, seized and destroyed. The liq-
uors were stored in the part Of the
depot used BY the express company.
Tekemah is dry town" under the
local option law and II Il believed Z
party Of women took the law into
their own banda and took this method
to stop the shipment Of liquors into
the town.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-02-14
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-02-14

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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-02-14

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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-09-28
Tax Collectors Notice.
rAx COLLECTORS OFFICE,
i'arisl, of y. 'ran,inapy.

i~ovingtoD. La, Sept. Z, 1901. J
The taxes j. ssesse for the year 1891
are set forth IN the Tux roll now on file
in my Office. and in The mortgage Office
Of this parish They ars now dse. AID
il lot pni.l will become delinquent on
the 3!st day II December. .9O1 ard will
draw one per cent. per month interest
from tilat sl;.te uE,il soll, in ace .rslan c
it'll article 2lOnt The Constitution. The
taxes on all movable properly must &c
laid Immediately.
I. +. BREWSTER,
Sheriff and Ex-Officio Tax Collector.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-09-28
Lost, Strayed or Stolen

$50 Reward will be be given for
the recovery of four head. of cattle that
have recently disappeared from Weam's
Island, now known as Prevost's Island.
Address, this. office. jelo-5m
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-09-28
Agents for School Books.

10 the Public and School Teachers:
We have been appointedby F.
+. Hansel d Bro, agent for this
district, to sell all the books
adopted by the State Board Of
Education. The books will be
sold al a standard price.
Ii. J. SMITH d SONS.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22

diplomats. He speaks only Japa.
nese, and in consequence all inter
views have to be interpreted to him
by dragomans; thus the conversation
is laborious and has to be made as
short as possible. The empress, who
belongs to one of the leading Japanese
families, is honored and revered for
her goodness and inexhaustible
charity. Although her majesty
speaks no foreign language, yet every
foreigner who enters her presence is
charmed by the marvelously express
sive play of her features.
The empress is nearly 81 years OF
age, but she shows to this day that
she is rightly entitled to her family
name, "Haruko," the Spring" Her
majesty belongs to the few women
who seem never to grow old, and who
in the autumn Of life possess the
charm of knowing how to preserve
the smiling loveliness Of their youth
She is a devoted friend of literature
and she is never so happy as when
she can celebrate the three great
festivals of the year, surrounded by
the poets attached to the court
These festivals are those of the New
Year, the Church and the Chrysan
tbemum. The empress is herself a
poetess, and has established a com
petition for Japanese poets, and for
the competition she fixes the subject
But, it is for her works of charity that
the empress is the most renowned
and she is at the head of all national
efforts in this direction. The Red
Cross society claims great deal OF
her time. and during the war with
China she was very often to be seen
attending to the wounded Japanese
London Globe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22
THE MIkADo's COURT.
Characteristics of the Japanese Ruler
and the Empress.

The western world hears very little
court of the miiado. Yet it is interest
ing in more than one respect, for the
poetical charm of it's traditions is
giving place gradually before the
advent of the spirit of the times.
The miliado Mutsuhito is regarded as
one of the cleverest and at the same
time most modest rulers recorded in
Japanese history. When he over
threw the Shotgun" in 1868 and re-
stored to his own dynasty, he won at
once the admiration and sympathy of
his people by abolishing despotic
form of government in favor of a
milder form. In his own country he
is known as hotel but he is generally
referred to abroad as the mikado, or
the honorable gate. The mikadO is
of comparatively large stature, and
his very majestic bearing is increased
by the generals uniform which he
usually wears. In his daily walks he
never passes beyond the limits of the
imperial gardens except on the oc-
casion Of the opening of parliament
aud at rare intervals for the purpose
of attending military and civic
festivals. Unlike his predecessors
the mikado is very frequently to be
seen driving in his carriage, and when
he passes through the streets the
Japanese history, When he overthrow
the Shotgun" in 1868 and was re-
disappear from the line of route or to
turn their backs toward their ruler,
It is curious to learn that this attitude
betokened a form of the highest
respect. Nowadays the people learn
that the mikado is approaching only
from the shouts Of the police: THE
milado: beware!"
But, as the Japanese are not yet
entirely accustomed to the now order
of things, striking contrasts between
the old sacred traditions and modern
ideas are often to be seen. One day
the mikado nearly lost his life
through this conflict between the old
and the newer aspect OF life in Japan.
The imperial carriage had arrived at
q railway crossing just as train
happened to be coming up. The man
in charge of the crossing did not dare
to lower the barrier before the
mikado, and the engine driver could
not bring his train to a standstill
However, the mikado escaped by a
miracle.
At home the mikado is necessarily ut
work. He makes a point of being In
formed Of everything that happens
both in Japan and In foreign
countries. He is very easy of access
for all his subjects, especially for
those OF his people whom he has in
trusted with missions abroad. On
the other hand, he can grant only
very short audiences to European
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22
CASE OF CONSCIENCE.
Servant on Her Deathbed Clears Up
Mystery.

Mystery.
Here is a queer story from France
which, while it has official voucher,
presents some features which cast
double upon its entire truthfulness.
At Laval, department Of Mayenne,
seven years ago clergyman, the Abb
be Entrammes, was murdered at his
home by his two servants. The only
other person residing in the house was
another clergyman, the Able Bruneau.
The circumstances of the case were
such that it was obvious that the
crime had been committed by some
inmate of the house. The murderers
were shrewd enough to perceive that
if NJ. Bruneau told what he knew their
guilt would inevitably be brought
home to them.
So they devised and carried out a
plan for silencing him. AS soon as
the murder had been committed and
before it had been discovered the
murderers sought out Able Bruneau
and asked him to receive, as a priest,
their confessions of their sins. He
complied and they confessed the MUIR
der, thus placing upon his lips the seal
of the confessional. Then they con-
trived to cast suspicion upon him.
He was charged with the crime, was
unable to defend himself without be-
traying secret of the confessional,
was convicted and executed. Now
one of the servants on her deathbed
has just told the whole story to the
civil authorities.
Granting that the facts are as
stated. it was certainly curious and
complicated case of conscience that
M. Bruneau had to decide. His exc
cution reveals how he decided it, and
proves that he decided 1t conscien-
tiously. He died a martyr to what he
held to be his religious and ecclesias-
teal duty.
There is in this story the plot OF a
strong drama, besides other cogent H.
lustration of the evils Of capital
punishment.-Roch Democrat and
Chronicle.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22
A La Priscilla.

The Wichita (Kan) Eagle says
there is too much cooling and kissing
in the style of Kansas counting, and II
demands campaign for more
dignity in our love matters The
Eagle has been biased by the re-
naissance of Puritanism in our litera.
turc. A recent novel. with scene IN
Massachusetts,, had two warm lovers
meet for the first time in three
weeks. and as they stood 10 feet apart
they discoursed as follows:
Hath the Lord vouchsafed to thee
a goodly time, sweet Mistress Pris.
cilla?"
81 fear thou are the worldly part
and given to vanity, John. God hath
vouchsafed to His poor worm more
than her sinfulness deserves"
And would the Eagle, in its cam.
paign for more dignity in love, havs
brace of Kansas lovers turn the
atmosphere into q cold-storage plant
like that?-Kansas City Journal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22
BUFFALO HUNT DEBT PAID.
Kansas Farmer Cancel Bonds That
Have Curious History.


Have Curious History.
Reno county has just paid off
$4,000 bond issue to an Eastern firm,
which cancels debt made seventeen
years ago to save the people of that
county from starvation. This issue OF
bonds was made fraudulently, but
the Eastern investors, when they
learned of the true conditions, failed
to prosecute the offenders. The bonds
were issued and sold by the county
clerk, who said the money was to be
used for the accommodation of an in
crease in the number of school chill.
dren. This seemed to be a pretty good
sign that the county was improving,
and hence the investors in New York
bit like the real fish they were all
through the great Kansas boom.
In 1884 grasshoppers took all the
crops, while in the two previous years
they had generally been charitable
enough to leave sufficient to feed the
families through the winter Thus
nearly destitute, and with not thing
in their houses for the winter. James
Barclay, then county clerk, called
mass meeting and volunteered to
spend his own money in going East to
sell a $4,000 issue of school bonds If
the people would vote them. They
proceeded to issue them then and
there These bonds were sold for
500 and the money brought back to
Reno county.
Like the real Kansas rainbow
chasers of early days, the people did
not try to spend the money for flour
or meat, but put it into ammunition.
They were going to kill buffalo. Most
of the inhabitants had never been
west of their own county, but they
thought buffalo existed in large num-
bers. So the whole male population,
numbering then about 500, took guns
in hand and started westward. After
they had penetrated far into Okla
homa they sighted and killed herd of
fifty. AS they were making for home
with them spell of warm weather
came on, and all the meat was spoiled.
They managed to skin the carcasses
and sold the hides for enough to pay
for the ammunition used. Then, with
only 5000 of the $1,000 left they
started in to buying the necessities Of
life The debt they had created did
not worry them in the least, but the
thrifty farmers of that county who
came there later have worried a great
deal over it of late, and at last have
I paid off the buffalo-hunt debt.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22
A Story of Wall Street.

An army officer stationed in the
Philippines has been sending home his
salary for his wife to save. She
sought to add to it by taking a flyer
in Wall street. She had invested
every dollar of her husbands savings,
and in the panic of Thursday all were
swept away. She appealed to Henry
Clews, with whose firm she had dealt
IF I show you the way to get your
money back will you promise me that
you will not speculate AGAIN." asked
the broker
Indeed, WILL" tearfully assented
the woman.
We'll, here's your money; now
keep out of the market"
Clews said afterward that he had
not invested the money.
A broker in the Waldorf-Astoria
cafe who listened to the story
laughed.
well, that's one on Clews. That
woman brought the money right over
to my office and asked me to buy
Delaware and Hudson for II. I did
So, and she made s5,4OO"-New York
World.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22
TRAIN BOY DOOMED
THE BURLINGTON BCUNcES THE
BoTHERsOME BUTCHER.
OTHER ROADS FOLIO
Good Points and Bad of the Old Sys.
tem-Passengers Averse to Being
Badgered to Buy-But the Train
Boy Has His Defenders Even
Yet.

Good bye to the butcher-the train
boy. His glory is fading, glory be, as
Dooley would say. Already on the
Burlington they are thing of the
past, and the entire system has been
abolished on that road. ~ is ex-
pected that other roads will follow
the example but as yet no action look
ing to such a consummation has been
taken in northwestern territory.
Every road running out of Madison
carries news boys. The candy privi-
lege" on all northwestern roads is let
out by contract to responsible parties.
None of the roads runs the business
with its own men. Some railroad Of
ficials are inclined to the belief that
the train boy under proper regula-
lions, is a necessary evil and that to re-
move him would work a hardship on
| the travelling public. His prices are
| high and his wares often none of the
best, but If man wants a novel or an
apple to relieve the monotony of travel
why he wants it, that's all. The but
cher supplies these and kindred things,
and his presence on passenger trains
! is regarded as a necessity. He is the
! friend of the traveller of small means
who cannot afford to patroniZe the
diner and many a poor woman has
| utilized ais candy to quiet a pestifer-
Gus young 'un" that had been worry
ing the Ife out of her. The trainboy
| business, however, has changed
nightly in the last few years. 1t is
not long ago since the train butcher
was an out-and-out confidence man
who robbed greenhorns right and left
! by three-card monte tricks and other
gambling devices. But all that has
! ben done away. Instead Of hardened
sharks who formerly heeced suCkel s
out of hundreds of dollars month,
! boys are employed to lay stacks Of
! fiery novels in passengers seats.
! These boys are good statesmen, but
! they are not crooks. A handsome rev.
enue Is derived from the sale of the
privilege by all the lines and some of.
! fCials believe the newsbOy while a
nuisance in many ways cannot be
abated. But this is nonsense: The but
cher should go. He is a bother and
! takes up ones time too freely in de-
clining to buy his wares. A good sub.
stitute is to let boys come on at GER
tain stations with papers, fruits, can.
dies, and. if need be. novels, Better
things at cheaper rates will then be
obtainable and passengers be left un.
molested most of the time.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22
George Sand interviewed.

George Sand did not always sup
port the interviewing mania" Of our
own days with magnanimity.
You had better question me-" was
her dry response to the amenities of
an Englishwoman who, notebook in
hand, had succeeded in finding her
way into the salon at Nohant. armed
with a decoration to be presented
from some British association.
cat what hour do you work,
MADAME"
81 never work"
"Ho! But-your books? When do
you make them?"
"They make themselves-morning,
evening, and night"
What is your own favorite, may |
ask, among your novels?" pursued the
bafTled questioner.
"'Olympia.'
'Ho! I do not know that one!"
Perhaps l have not yet
written it," And the victimized
author rose with this. and beat a
hasty retreat, ready to burst" as he
caught her own espiegleries being
duly iotted down in the formidable
notebook before her.-Gentleman's
Magazine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-22
Treatment of Diphtheria.

The patient should be kept in bed
during the entire active stage, and at
least a week or ten days after the
membrane has entirely disappeared;
this on account Of the tendency to
heart failure; on this account also no
excitement or violent eXertiOn should
be allowed for some time after the pa
tient is able to be about Cultures
ought to be taken from the throat two
or three times a week after the mem
brane has gone, and the patient not al
lowed to leave the room until the
bacilli have entirely disappeared.
This culture should be taken in the
morning before the throat has been
gargled or mouth washed. When the
doctor pronounCes it safe for the pa
tient to leave the sick room, the room
is to be tightly sealed and fumigated;
open the room at the end of twenty
four hours, have it well aired and
summed for another day, then give a
good sweeping and cleaning; books,
toys, etc, used by the patient while
i'll would better be burned. 1t Is not
necessary to exercise the extreme
measures advised with scarlet fever
as regards furniture, walls, etc.-Har-
per's Bazaar.