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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-09-03

For q bilious attack take Cbamb er-
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and
a quick cure IL certain. For sale by
John M. Gleissner, druggist.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-09-03

The Colum bian club meets Tuesday
with Mrs. Keiffer. 1t is the last meet
ing o, the club year and business
session will be held. The program:
Music ..a.... Mrs. Cooper
Mexico-Past and Present ~ Mrs. Sanders
Character Sketches Of Macmillan and
Charlotte. .....'.................m rs. Huro
The Fine Arts In Mexico. .... Miss Northcraft
Mexico to San Francisco. ...... MS Spangler
Critics Report. Mrs Hoffmi n
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-09-03
UNION PACIFIC
WEST BOUND,

SANTA FE ROUTE.
All Santa Fe trains daily except Sunday.
NORTH BOUND.
No. S07, Passenger daily. $40 q. N
No. 800. Accommodation. :. ........ ..l9;O6 q. n
SOUTH BOUND,
No. 300, Passenger daily. ......... 1880 q. N
No. SSs. Accommodation daily..,.... Si15 y. III
SALIVA BRANCH.
Departs
No. s17, Accomnod ation,..n.... 80. s,ib .. m
No. $40. 1855. .iaiOB .. 10
No. 321, g ........,. 4.06 p. m
Arrives. #4
No. $780, Accommodation. ."...".. S:iO .. 10
No. $685. ....,"... n;loA. 10
No. 1914. " .......,. 1855 a. M
No. 300 reaches Kansas City at 6;2O ,, NJ.
Through chair cars Abilene TO Kansas City
and and Chicago. also for all points west. Di-
In Colorado and California. also direct con-
pections f,r all points Ia Oklahoma and
Texas. Fast time, good trains and best con-
nections for all points out OF Kansas City.
For further particulars call on or address
h. 3. Sails, agent, Santa Be. Phone d.
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
The Right Road" to and from and be-
St. Joseph, Kansas city, Omaha, Denver,
Colorado Springs Fort Worth, 81. Paul. Min
neapolis, and everywhere beyond.
Trains leave Abilene as follows;
WEST BOUND.
No. Is. Local Freight and Accom-. o 80 an
EAST BOUND.
No. 90. Local Freight and Accom-. lDp.r
No. 90 makes close connection ut Herington
for all points east and south.
Nos q and 20 daily 50 and 90, daily except
Sunday.
For sleeping car reservations, tickets
timetables, etc, apply 70 j. H. Jennes
Agent. e. W. THOMPSON,
Missouri River, Kansas City. No.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-09-03

The Twentieth Century club meets
with Mrs. T. R. Conklin Sept. 7. The
theme is Richaed III and the program:
How to organize temporary meeting,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
Nav
n Prcstn o II ernat
Em@ 20 > I'D Council O
We
NJ O. by Sacrfn o


Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president OF
the Indianapolis News, made the fol-
Flowing reply to those who see a ma
tional danger in the fact that families
are not so large as they used to be:
Our country has always suffered
from the delusion that size counts for
everything; we measure value by bulk
and by numbers, she says. This is a
surprising mistake. History teaches us
that 1t is not the countries of the great
est territorial extent that have pro-
duced the greatest civilization; it is the
small countries that have served hui
manity the most effectively. For ex-
Fample Judea, which gave US our relig-
ion; Greece, which produced our art;
Rome, which originated our laws; all
were small countries d
1T is the same erroneous judgment
which leads US to measure national inn
portance by territorial possession that
leads us to measure the Importance of
families by the number of children pro-
duCed in Them. Is ii not time that we
should attach rather more Importance
to quality than TO size?
AS for the decadence of American
families, l believe it is chiefly in the
newspapers That American society is
deCayins. II is undoubtedly true that
the average number of children born
TO d family ut the beginning of the
twentieth century is smaller than the
average number bora to q family of the
same class ut the beginning OF the
nineteenth, eighteenth or seventeenth
century,
Il dare say, however, that it is much
better that a home shall have from two
TO five children, strong in body, vigo.-
GUS in mind, all of them so equipped
that in the course of nature one may
expect them to live to maturity, than
that there should be from twelve to
eighteen, half of whom are doomed to
die in infancy and less than half of
Fwhom will be fairly educated and
equipped for life.
i quickly admit that the higher edu-
cation of, women has q tendency to di-
, mnish the number of children born to
ia family The reasons are OF lous
First, it postpones marriage. The esigh-
er education of women Is not the only
factor that has contributed to this post
ponement but it is an important fac
tor.
AT the beginning of the Nineteenth
century the average of girls Who mar
ried is reported to have been Is years
and months: at the end Of the Nine
teenth century the average Of the same
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
A Tight Squeeze,

Brazils, Ark, May Ito be
snatched from the very brink Of the
grave is a somewhat thrilling cXperi-
ence and one which Mrs. Nj. 0. Garrett
Of this place has just passed through.
Mrs. Garrett suffered With x t'$-re-
bro-Spinal affection. and had Jeel
treated by the best physicians. but
without the slightest Improvement.
For the last twelve months two doe
tors were in constant attendance. but
she only grew worse and worse, till
she could not walk, and did not have
any power to move at all.
She was so low that for the greater
part Of the time she was perfectly I'M
conscious of what was going on about
her, and her heart broken husband and
friends were hourly expecting her
death.
The doctors had given up ali hope
and no one thought she could possibly
live.
In this extremity Mr.. Garrett sent
for a box Of Dodd's Kidney Pills It
was a last hope, but happily it did not
fail.
Mrs. Garrett used in all six boxes Of
the remedy, and is completely cured.
She says:
Il am doing my own work now and
feel as well as ever l did. Dodds
Kidney Pills certainly saved me from
DEATH
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15

I class was "a years and months. why
| we should deplOre this Increased ma
| turity at marriage | am unable TO ull-
| dcrstand
We recoil with horror from the child
| marriages of India, while in reality the
| change in the custom in our own coun-
| try in the last century is quite as great
! as the change which Christianity has
| effected and seeks to effect in india.
| To my mind, one of the desirable eff
| feCls of higher education is that 1t does
postpone marriage. Let us bear in mind
| that to postpone does not mean to pre-
! Vcat.
The higher education undoubtedly
makes the girls more critical OF men
and more Independent OF them. These
! effects have both their good and their
| bad aspects.
| 1T is we'll that a girl no longer feels
| that IN order to preserve the affections
| of her own family and 10 avoid becoili-
| ing an old maid, a useless piece OF tim
| ber g ship without a rudoer or haven,
! she must marry. 1t is better for society
that the better developed faculties Of
| the co.iepebred girl have given her in
creased independence.
The well educated woman Knows
that there is no ideal homo excepting
the home created by a man and a wo-
man who are working together to
maintain it in the bonds OF love; but
S!lC also knows that, independent Of any
man, she can keep a roof over her
head, have charming social position
and share many Of the lleGsures of
| life.
Another reason the higher educa-
ton of woman diminshes the size Of
families is that the better educated,
the more intelligent, the more Develop
ed they are, the greater is their sense
/ of responsibility. Understanding the
| laws Of physiology, of hygiene and Of
Eeredity, they realize What is due chill
dlen in physical equipment. With this
increased sense of responsibility there
comes to highly educated women Il
greater sense of personal dignity that
is not felt by women less developed.
Let us not lament the diminution Of
| families; let us rather remember that
ovsrproducton in family is one of the
chief causes of asylums and poor
houses. Let US remember that wise
parents will consider how many chill
dren they can take proper care Of to
how many they can give the nurture
and culture which will be worthy the
incarnated soul, and which will enable
that soul, through the body, to serve
humanity. 1t is to the higher educated
woman, not to her untaught sister, that
bearing and rearing a child becomes q
serious. conscious, responsible bus
mess.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
AN EYE TO THE FUTURE.
A Horse That Made His Own Plans for
a Comfortable Old Ana

II 1,
Mrs. Pelton, the author of IA Tar
Heel Baron new novel Of North
Carolina which is winning general
praise by its character drawing, has
for one of her special friends among
the mountain people in her home in
North Carolina, the village assessor,
wagonmaker, blacksmith and ,vender
of paints, putty and other useful COM
modities, His various duties sit light
~ upon him, however, and he has
ample time for shrewd observations of
men and affairs, and for prolonged
chats with his friends. Last autumn
Mr.. Pelton, who was leaving the village
for the winter decided that the ex-
tremely slow pace of her horse Bird
was due entirely to old age, and after
much painful anguish she made up her
mind to..part ind definitely with the ami
NAL. After di1igent search for a proper
guardian. she found an old mountaineer
who promised to take the best of care
Of the beloved horse, and to give him
mex to no work. !, S$75 IN 8
Now, the blacksmith knew that Bird
was not very old, and that he ought to
be good for a considerable amount of
work; and he had a shrewd suspicion
that the horse would live much longer
than his new master. After Bird had
been led to his new home by the aged
sIuu3 LsepIe InouHlaineer,# MIS-, PeltOn
met the blacksmith, and after telling
him of Birds feebleness and her sor-
row at having to give up her horse,
she asked, Did you see the man who
Is to look after Bird and do you think
he Will take good care OF him?n The
man looked at her quizzically with his
ewlnkling blue eyes, and drawled in his
slow. gentle voice, sWaal,s Mis- Pelton,
II was just awonderin' II you had pro-
vided a home for Bird after the old
man Dies, 4. Ii.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15

counts in all businesses that must en-
ter into the question of success or fail
ure. You have profit and loss, wear and
tear, depreciation Of plant, etc. Fathers,
as rule, never place such accounts
against their sons. l figured out when
mine came to be about and was be-
ginning to feel his oats that I must al
low him certain amount of wear and
tear, deviltry, degeneracy, profit and
loss depreciation and futures. I agreed
with myself-and his dear mother
that in his fifth year he must raise hell
about six times a day, soil three suits of
clothes, tell a few white lies, be saucy
to his mother and chum with me.
If he exceeded the allowance for
which he was credited I entered into
communion with him. In his sixth year
learned that there was more deviltry
and wear and tear%in him than in his
fifth, so I expanded his credit, as it
were, and never interfered with his al
loWance until he exceeded it, Pretty
soon, in his seventh, eighth and ninth
years, there was a perfect understand
ing between US, and we could talk over
the matter like two partners in firm,
II l seemed to make too small an al
loWance for wear and tear he would ar
que the subject, and it was the same
with every other kind of steam that a
healthy, live boy with an active brain
must let out or burst. If I have sue
ceeded thus far in my first experiment,
may try second. My father cramped
me to death when I was growing up,
and perhaps it Is due to that recoIlec-
ton that am allowing my boy plenty
Of latitude and longitude. The main
object Is to improve the physical ami
NAL in early youth, and no boy will
grow fat and solid, hearty frank, fear
less and active If he is bounded for
every peccadillo. When my boy is 70 I
shall pay closer attention to his mental
development"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
THE CROWN WAS TOO HEAVY.
But Bit Of Stage Business Saved the
Actress, Eeelinns

Clara Morris, in McClure's: Another
happy accident came to me later on. I
could Ill support the dragging weight
or the royal robes, while the crown was
50 cruelty heavy that the pain from it
became at last almost unbearable.
When in the banquet scene the tense
Watchfulness, the swift changes rung
upon the emotions, the royal dignity
and calm assurance had all been in
vain; When the WOman's whole splen-
did line of defense had broken down
under Macbeth's second outburst Of
mad, all-revealing terror, the player
was physically as shattered, shaken,
spent as was ever Lady Macbeth spir-
ftually. 1t was the momentary pause
that followed the exit Of all the guests
that realized that, In addition to the
Weight, the unpadded edge of the metal
crown was actually cutting my brow.
Lady Macbeth's last line had been
spoken. Macbeth turned and walked
with somber mien to the r. I. E., re-
peating his exit speech. AS he reached
the line: $500
MY strange and self-abuse.
Is the initiate fear, that needs hard use, n
the queen, unable longer to endure her
suffering, raised both her hands and
lifted the crown from her head. and In
the same instant the king, turning,
noted the action with such surprised
froWn that, quick as a flash, the queen
dropped it to its place again and
bravely smiled in his face while both
We're startled by the swift-following
applause of sympathetic comprehen-
sion. He added his suggestive.
We are vet but young in deed,
and so made exit, and Lady Macbeth,
kept her forced smile till he was quite
gone then It faded. Slowly she re-
moved the crown and stood looking at
it calculating all its cost, until tears
trickled down bar wan cheeks, when
hearing q sound outside she hastily re-
sumed it and with listless hanging
arms and dropping shoulders, feebly
dragged her royal trappings, her mis-
tain fell.
That had not been the business. j
had prepared, but 1t was better ais
warm impromptu action is apt to be
superior to scoldly thought out effects.
| e
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
Where Ignorance is Bliss.

Philadelphia Press: Miss Inez Sentz-
It's true I'm engaged to Mr. FOUNDERS.
The other night he told me was the only
girl he ever loved, and
Miss Truster-Where's the ring? Didn't
he give you one?
Miss Inex Sentz-On! yes, the very next
day, but sent it back to the jeweer to
be fixed. The stupid engraver made the
Inscription, Jack to Gwendoine,' in
stead of 'Inez.''
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
One Fathers Nav !,

Victor Smith, in New York Press i
! Once in a while there is a perfect faith !
err He is the man In a million know
such a one. bringing up a boy said
he. In reply to d friendly comment upon
his 1G-year -old. lis like keeping set
of books for o wholesale and retail mer-
3 eantile house. There are certain ac-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
Locality,

Chicago Tribune: Influential Citizen
lin Laramie)-Mr. President. shake
hands with Mr.. Alipaugh. He's the
laddy of eighteen children, all alive and
kicking.
President (grasping him by the hand)
Bully.
Influential Citizen (of Boston)---Nir.
President, permit HE to introduce l:r
Paterfam. Six children call him by The
andearing appellatior of father.
Observation-Disclosures
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
handicapped.

washington Evening Star: What
profession do you think Josh had letter
adopt" asked Mrs. Corntossel
IL dunno" answered her hush4 nd.
Josh is rather handicapped by 2irci.ln-
stances. The only profession he's rat
urally adapted to is that of q capitalist,
and I don't quite see where he's $ycinf,
to get the money.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
WILLING Is Listen.

! Scraps Old Quivertul-And Sc you
want to take our daughter from Us?
You want to take her from US suddenly,
without a word of warning?
Young Goslow-Not at all, sir. If
there is anything about her you want
% warn me against I'm ready to listen.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
A Misapnrehension.

judge First Boy say, Chimn>ie.
rive a Teller cllaw Nv terbacker, viii
1er?
Small Boy-Ah. g'wan! Dis amt
erbacker I've -ot i! me cheell--ci, $
humps.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15

Always look for this trade mark: ''The
Klean, Kool Kitchen Kind The stoves
without smoke, ashes or heat. Make
comfortable cooking.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
A Good Suggestion.

Good Suggestion.
Advice to every girl
Who'd like to be belle:
Don't let your tongue too proudly clack,
And learn to chime In we'll.
Boston Globe
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
Poor, Hubby.

Life: Husband Where do you want
to go on vacation?
Wife oh. anywhere that's expensive
and reatless.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15

A corn on the toe Of a Philadelphia
man caused his death.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26

fF'ro,n the Phnadeiphia putiic LedEer).
The repcrts Of successful cotton cu'fu"e
IN Western Africa have 2 future rather
than a contemporary interest. II viii
be many years before African cotton can
enter into serious connection with the
American crop which now furnishes
molc than threa-four+hs or the wori'i's
eupnlv. Of the recorded sales Of the last
cotton year l0450.ooo ba 'es, in round
numbers were from the United States.
2. 400 900 bales from India l,i25.ooo
from Fgvnt and geo. 900 from other sourc-
es ana this proportion had changed very
slightly III five years. The American crop
win be larger this year than iast. ana
there probably viii DE some increase from
Africa: but the figures sufficiently indi-
cate how largo a margin must be over
come before our control Of the market
can he endangered.
At tile same time 1t IS 20 be observed
that The American crop Of cotton has
not increased with the general demand
or the recent imitation OF prices would
have beer Impossible. and this ircreas-
ing demand and upward tendency viii
inevitably stimulate the efforts Of other
countries to increase production. The
word must have cotton. 1t is one y
the consricuous objects OF the great en-
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26
POSSIBILITIES OF ELECTRIC CURRENT
KNOWN TO DR.. MEANS EARLY AS 1848

the young man went on horseback the
"ho-e way, crossing the Cumberland
mountains at Cumberland Gap, and rid
ing many days among the Cherokee In
dams.
Dr. Means rs a practiclng physician
AZ GTeenss boro. Madison ana Covington
was successful and 50 eminent Ia tia
department Of chemistry that when the
medical department Of the University Of
Georgia was established at Augusta no
VAS elected professor OF chemistry, ard
for nearly fifty years flied the chair with
great ability.
Experiments in Electricity
Chemistry was in love with DR.. Means
ard DR.. Means was in love with this.
his chosen science.
AL Augusta and in his laboratory In
his home al Oxford. Ga, DR. Means first
began his investigation of electricity. He
gave TO this branch OF his pTofesscrshjp
close attention. and was perhaps more
advanced in MS knowledge OF the pho
nomena of this wonderful force IN ma
tUre than any contemporaneoas chemist
II the south. il no. in the federal union.
Following q correspondence with Sir
Michael Farrady, of the Roya. institute in
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26

that patient~I'u pay the 90 cents ana
you get out OF here
And the baroer and the house surgeon
Went their ways and the sick man rolled
OK e. and fell asleep again. lie was still
sleeping when his nurse came In. That
young woman was astonished. Her patient
had been an elderly man with patri-
archal beard, but in his bed vas q man
twenty years younger and very. very
smooth shaver. There was mystery
Somewhere. The nurse rushed away In 3
CULVER Of alarm.
where IS my pauent?" she asked every
one she met; the Old man with the
y-hiskers-the big gray whiskers?"
But no one had seen him and the mys-
terry grew more and more perplexinE I'M
I'll the house surgeon who had pad the
barber appeared He explained that il
that so lately adorned his jaw.
But there were other developments yet
to grow Out Of these same Whisilers,
When The patient woke In the morning
he missed them and fhen there was 90
DO that will he long remembered at that
saritarium.
where's NY nheIers?" he cried,
"Whors got 'em2 Come ones come in
here i'm the night ard stole my beard.
That ether SPOILED en-. they're gone
ar some ones got to settle with me FER
'he loss NV 'er. I've been a-wearin EN-
and got elected hecus O. them WHISPERS
Amt 1eetice - the peace right now
count % en-? WharU my constituents
cav when 7 go back among EN- with
faoa like peeled onion? 7 had anpc1dv-
oeatrs~not Some kind or whisker dis
aaze"
Ana an that dsv he went and rnoaned
AMI ewora aud now ii is q dfTicult mat
+or for a barber to get into that santa
riun
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26
HOW ne LOST HIS BEARD.

tri,5s e. ,,,e etor,. os come ,,,,i4icaf ,spis-
lor. o,,1 shot ta,oot,,..} ~ +ba,,
Nat ,,ay,,, ,,a,,,, 49, as,o rvl,ila The mos
,,,,tt<, ,o,,,,,ar,t $, ,t1.nt, .,,sra c.ros
e. tbt- 49,, as.t,i,, ,,rot,i,s,,+ eol,tl,
-,,,o,,.;., n,i,;oior - ,,,r,nsa T., ,c.,,i,,g
~ - ~ 1,,erat.1 ~ a. on,andoitfs
~ ~ .oi,,,,.r,od 5,,r,r,, lie stay In ~.
cff,, at nrj,,,te sanitari,,n
,r,,asa c,t,telars attronted nftartio,
.,,,a,.,,,o. ,1,a,. ,,,,a saor for a man r,ias1.
Ii,.a moro than me anottod fhrce-score-
rod-fao vears AMI never see SET like
,l,A,r MT once In alt his life He might
indeed reach the octogeuarian mark
,.,iti,o,,t a,cr HAVING Toasted his ewes upon
e1ob alorious Ubiskers.
,rbo,, v,-ars lone, ANA .-ra,r and sweenina
,,,,a ~. r,oe.g NJ, oynr.,s t,oos down IN me
-. - r71o,.,ll, wan 1rae7es NV,
t,,a 4,'I,is,gere AZ hn+ b,5nnea :, melody
me- sweet aeol,an harps foaling the v .iiis
1il,o . Gallant Aor AT HE masthead OF
some shin.
Put aurandicitis respocts not vhiskers
ond fhe nrond ,,oseassor of the Iambreou!r
,,1C,~aroa,,ts 80, ,,ar,, yerv IN Ri etili
,.,.ioei+,, t.,ae ,1y,.a ard ,of{,-.
ms hatiNe eoiioSl'y vas @l1Ve a'lo 80 =.
driven almost distraught before they ap-
Piled the anaesthelics b. such questions
as. nsyVhv do Won boil the kniVeS2' or
what do vol, d. vim tha anneudices YOU
~ f+a,, eoI1s,s,,
GU l'ol,' e.. ,.,.
SUI al last tne etHcl sol IN as "o'A
and the inqurihg politician lay notion
less, silent and helpless on the operating
table. The surgeons did their work deity
and ouita soon = successful termination OF
-, l,,[,,.,,+4,.,, - 49, ,,,1., ~. $50,
INC operation was mad men the nncon-
scious patient was removed 70 ms room.
This room opened or long hallway AMI
,oinin@ 49, orannied ~, The sit, SLIM
y, -',,I sl;ti.,,J,, .,l,. ,.t+t,
Uel 'aS pou''c!@h WIS @io'ncf sure e. WIN
appendicitis. rms man mad friend across
The nall likewise recuperatins from SINH
lar operation lie had developed during
hie illness a Shaggy, aroN-tI, 81 heard ana
-, ha,.a ,bis rs,,,o,.n,7 b..d enut for q har
,.t,,t e.,' 49,. @,iei'.s., 49,, -,
- ' 10 ga - ~"
the convalescent said to the barber: