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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Hiawatha World; A newspaper II
like a man-becAuse generally 1t re
lects some man-ant 1t IS a mar
should be judged on the whole. Nc
man lives q perfect life; no editor
prints perfect paper. II an editor
is honest be is bound to offend some
one every day Of his life. II be
doesn't offend some one the editor Ii
Mandy PANTY and aabby. The same
Is true OF the average man. A news
paper is bound to make mistakes; in
getting news it must necessarily take
hearsay. But II In the long run and
in the main, week after week and
year after year, a paper stands for
decency, for honest thinking and
clean living, II 1t speaks fair for those
who are trying to do good and con-
dems sneaks and cheats, that is good
paper.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

We have not been informed Of the
subject on which Secretary Of Agri-
culture james Wilson Is to address
the Dickinson county farmers when
he comes here next week. II he will
accept q suggestion, 1t might be
limited to him that they are most In
need Of clear, definite and practical
advice on: "EnsilAge for the Money
Crops or, How to Preserve, Utilize
and Care for the Accommodations Of
Cash.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

The game Of jacks which the little
girls play a good deal has been played
BY little girls for over two-thousaud
years, being older than the New Tesla
msnt. This fact has been brought to
light BY the recent excavation Of a
mural painting in Hsrculaneum. the
buried city, Of Eve girls playing
...knucklsbonss.n The Sams shaped
jsckstonss are employed by the Greek
girls in the picture as are used BY
the little girls in Abilene. In the
painting q Greek girl With the jacks
Is playing her ''elsvsAs." Evident
ly the rules Of she game, banded
down from child TO child through all
the centuries, hhvs never changed.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11
Encouraging Capital.


A few years ago the appearance Of
an individual or a company in any
American town, large or small, with
a purpose to invest money in a pro-
ductive enterprise was hailed by prac-
ticaIly the entire community with en-
thusiastic favor.
;, In this way prosperous towns and
great cities were built. 1t was held
that no town was too large to ignore
opportunities Of this description and
in many cases there was such lively
competition between places which
were DESTROYS of increasing their
wealth and population that bonuses
Of considerable sizes we're offered to
new industries to secure their loca-
ton.
While this policy was carried to an
extreme by some towns and was taken
advantage Of by promoters who did
not have as much capital as they were
supposed to have, the communities
which were most hOspitable to new
industries, everything else being
equal, we're the ones which came to
the front In the race for municipal su.
premacy.
That lesson has not been forgotten.
After a period Of indifference, there
come faom every part Of the country
reports Of a revival Of the old-time
enthusiasm on the part of communal
ties in favor Of new enterprises Of the
right sort.
1t is as true today as it was thirty
or fifty years ago that the man Of
means who engages in extensive bust
ness or industrial enterprises does SO
with as good a prospect Of loss as Of
gain. Indeed, ii many respects the
legitimate and necessary risk is
greater today than 1t ever was before.
When in addition to this inevitable
risk the investor must meet public
and private hostility the difficulty be.
comes greater.
There is magnificent optimism in
business, just as there is an uucon-
querable faith in the average Amer
lean in the ultimate right-minded-
ness OF his fellow citizens, but It
would seem that no argument is
needed to establish the fact that there
is limit somewhere to the burdens
which capital and enterprise can bear
and that when that point is reached
both will retire, to the injury Of many
other interests besides their own.
No people, whether comprising
nation, state or municipality, who
were persistent in their hostility to
capital ever grew or prospered
Americans will be no exceptions TO
the rule. The people who treat
as public enemies will
fad themselves without
II they treat them as
friends they will attract others.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

In another column Of airing Of bis
iancIsd grievances, 2. @. W. Kieisr,
ImprosssriO and promoter. fails to en-
Tighten the public on the very matters
in which the town 10 Interested. Of
course his silly and false assertions
concerning the REFLECTOR deceive no
ons--thiS paper has bssn too well
known for % years for the public 10
DO miSlsd regarding II. Such JOB
work as was done ct this office for
him was given OF generous discount
from regular charges because he was
presumed to be going about doing
good and those who have been done
good--no pun intended-hsve had
their eyes opened sufficiently BY this
time to understand that the trust In
him was entirely misplaced. What
he should have done instead OF weak
~ crawHshing In the matter was to
admit that his anger at this paper
arose when we refused to allow the
town to think the Choral society re-
ceiyed the benefit Of his various
schemes aud stated frankly that he
gathered In oil the receipts person
ally. He doubtless will recall his in
dignant protest at the revelation
How far his objections on that occaS-
sion were due to an alleged agree"
ment (as reported to this office by .
member Of the society that the
Choral society was to share in the
proceeds Of all public entertainments
and to have the music after the per-
iormances, though no financial &C.
counting has ever been made and no
music divided, we do not know
nor care. That is matter for the
society to settle for itself. II no
has been as careless with the truth
elsewhere as In his relations with this
office, In the advertising he has put
out through the local press and In the
articles he is now INJECTING on long
suffering public, it explains some
things that have happened recently.
The REFLECTOR has never before en-
gagged in controversy with an indi'
vidual outside OF politics and regrets
that it became necessary to do soin this
instance, being forced thereto BY Mr..
Kiefer's malicious attempt In a signed
card to diScredlt the REFLECTOR in
the community. 1t has printed more
columns of encouragement for worthy
enterprises than any paper in the
county; it voluntarily favorably intro
duced Mr. Kieier to the public, and
materially and without charge as
sisted him until 1t became convinced
that the town was entitled to know
all the facts and not part Of them.
The interests Of Abilene, the towns
good Standing with its country trade
and the upbuilding OF the community
demanded that some paper have the
courage to tell the truth-and the
truth seems to have hurt.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

1t is entirely possible to overdo thu
railroad regulation question, ever
from the points Of view OF the EN-
ploye and patron. Georgia has beer
INDUCING in cutting down rates tt
low figure and dispatch from At
lanta tells how 1t strikes those most
interested; 1.-THE recent proposition
Of J. Pope Brown, chairman OF the
Georgia Railroad Commission, to 70.
duce the passenger rate in Georgia
from three to two cents per mile was
protested against by the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers, the Order
Of Railway Conductors, the unions Of
the blacksmiths, machinists and tsle-
graphers, boiler-makers, railway train
men, carpenters and joiners, clerks
and car men. These organizations
employed an attorney especially to
represent them, who urged that such
q reduction would work against the
prosperity Of the state and lead to q
reduction in the number Of railroad
employees as we'll as Of their wages.
The Travellers Protective Association
also protested that reduction as pro-
posed would result In fewer trains
and poorservice." There seems to be
good sence In fairness toward rail-
roads as well as toward individuals.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Both Mr.. Roosevelt ahd Mr.. Fair
banks won't into Masonry sitter they
had been chosen for the Office Of vice
president. Mr.. Roosevelt WAS pcpu.
larry elected in November, 1900. and
before the winter was over he bad b.
come member Of Matiuecock lodge,
at Oyster Bay. He has been elected
to receIve the degrees In the Royal
Arch chapter, but has never taken
them, because Of the pressure Of
public business. He might, Of
course, take these degrees during the
summer vacations at Oyster Bay, but
this would now attract 90 much at
tention 90 to embarraSS him and the
chapter at that place. and 80 he has
decided to wait till after his term IS
president has expired. and be 10 once
more private citizen.
Mr.. Fairbanks took the symbolic
blue lodge degrees at indianapolis.
under dispensation from the grand
master at Indiana, during the recent
holiday recess. the three degrees be-
ing conferred in one day. He has
since. immediately following the adj
journment Of the special session Of the
senate, taken the chapter degrees,
also under dispenSation, and In one
day. It 10 said to be his purpose
during the present year to take tho
remaining degrees Of the York rite.
ending with that Of knight TemPlar.
and then to take the Scottish Rite de-
grees, up to and including the thirty
second. He will thus bs shown all
the mysteries Of the order far ahead
Of the man whose place in the White
House he hopes to ill after 1908.
1t 10 rather a noteworthy fact that
the great majority OF presidents Of
the United States, from Washington
down to Roosevelt, have been mem
hers Of the Masonic fraternity. In
the later years the best known Of
these are Garfield, Harrison and Nc
Kihley. Garfield was Knight
Templar and held his membership in
all the York rite bodies in Washington.
He was charter member ola Wash.
ington blue lodge, and remained on
its rolls until his death. Mckinley
was also a Knight Templar, but his
mem bership was in Ohio.
John Quincy Adams, who came into
the presidency during the days Of the
excitement, talked and
wrote against the order with consid-
cradle vigor. Andrew jackson WAS
at one time grand master Of the grand
lodge Of Tennessee.
An informal poll was made Of the
two houses Of congress a few years
ago BY Washington Mason, and it
was discovered that more than 81
per cent Of the members OF the house
we're in the order, and more than 80
per cent Of the members Of the sen.
ate.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

pending 4,O4S petitions for additional
routes. Each Of the rural routes es-
tablished means an average monthly
deficit Of S25 to the government, or a
total annual deficit OF about $1,000
900 in conducting the rural mail ser
vice. But what do we have a rich
government for il it is not to benefit
the people who live under itP
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

President Roosevelt has issued an
order that the name white House"
must be used In all official documents
instead Of Executive Mansion" It's
8 cinch that II Grover Cleveland ever
gets back to the White House he will
change 1t back to Executive Mansion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Hiram Oronk. the last survivor Of
thelwAr Of 1919, was lO5 last wsdnes-
day, but be refuses to die, although
the New York aldermen have voted
him q public funeral when he will
aOcspt. With such an iuducsmsns
one would expect . rush for the tomb.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11
A Revolver hattie.

St. Charles, Mo-, May S.-A revolver
battle between members of the Brad
shaw and Mathews families at West
Alton, 20 miles from here, resulted in
the death of William Matthews, and
two others being wounded. Sheriff
Hines of st. Charles county. hes been
summoned to West Alton to restore
order.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Elmer Rugh'sname seems to be hoodoo TO
this ofice Last week Mr.. Rugh was on the
program at the Democratic banquet but the
News failed to mention hlm.-lNews.
Yet when tbs same accident occur
red in Mike MAlott's name in one is.
sue Of the REFLEoToR you abused
this paper for half column. Seep
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11
Sighted wnr.hipu. Again.

London, May S.-A dispatch 10 tha
Daily Mail dated Labuan, British Bnr-
neo, May 6, says; "The stpame:
Chiengmai reports that Friday night
she passed a fleet or warships and 9TH
er vessels off the Mantanano islands.
northwest Of Borneo. The warships
apparently were cdalipg"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Representative Hearst has secured
Q judgment for $1,000 against his col
league, Representative Towne' for
borrowed money. This helps out con-
siderAbly toward the great Demo-
cratic harmony programme.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Dear old Tommy Lawson, Of
Bostlug, is not dead yet. On the
contrary, no is very much alive. and
waits Anxiously for Panic that will
smash up most everything organic
and Inorganic.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Gov. Hoch has started in TO close
the Kansas joints and has begun with
Topeka. Topeka will not like that.
The Topeka rsiOrmers prefer to be-
gin with Cheyenne and Hamilton
counties and gradually work east
ward.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Western Kansas land values are
climbing Skyward. The tide Of Popu-
latiOn Is reaching the jumping on
place and does not want to jump.
Hence people will never pay less for
land than they do tOday-PrOvidSd Il
keeps on raining.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Chicago girl. who worked in a
drug store. has sued her employer for
els. 900 damage because be Rugged
her, Il seems grsspIng TO ask money
from q man who merely took an
obVioui way Of expressing apPrecia.
don Of bis clerks attention 70 duty.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Roosevelt has been already sug-
gested as candidate for the mayor
Atty Of New York in 1910, SO that 1t
looks as II he will soon have few dates
vacant between this and the end OF
the century.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Areapsry company AdvertIsss that
lis stock viii pay $50 per osnt
profit Msbbs 90 but i'm IL jusl tie
ssus ven ,aksss per cen. certificate
Of deposit IN an Abilene bank.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Huge battleships are the thing just
now, and the nation that isn't laying
down the biggest ever built is as
much out OF 1t as q woman wearing
last vear,s hat.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Governor HoCh thought he had Q
hard time trying to please both ms
chine and boss busters but wait until
he tries to close the Wichita and
Leavenworth saloons.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Chicago's strikers admit that the
non. union may die, and permit them
to be taken to the graveyard in union
hearses. Death is the great scab.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

The Swede ball team Of Lindsborg
claims to have invlncible luck but II
1t had mot rAined when the boys came
hereto play ball that notion would
have been taken from them mighty
mick.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

1t 10 strange that some enterPriSing
correspondent does not hover over
President Roosevelt's hunting grounds
In q balloon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Carnegle's Palace Of Peace at The
Hague bids fair to be completed In
time ioE the next war.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

The grand jury in Chicago Is inves'
tigating the manufacture Of sauSAges'
Here, Fido!
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Salina man fell from . "treSsle"
and It took him three days to get
over 1t. Wonder 1t did not take
longer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

"The sun never sets on the Mis-
souri, mule" says Governor Folk.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

The Topeka Capital delicately an
nounces 1t thus: As we understand
1t, Kermit's nose is soon to be put out
Of Joint.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Earthquakes are wasting their lime
in Switzerland, for that county
oouldn't be any more OrumPlsd up
than a. present.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

Paderewski has strained his neck.
II used to be that he strained other
PEOPLES.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11

The numbsr Of rural mail routes
In operation on ths arst Of March
I.al was as.ogs. Thsts weIt Ihsa
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-05-11
THURSDAY. MAY II. 1905.

Almost time for the sis 1t hot
enough for you" man.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-30
BALFOUR DEALT
ANOTHER BLOW
Opposition Has the House of
Commons All to Itself and
Scores the Fiscal Policy
WARNING FOR PREMIER
Daily Mail Declares That He
Has Reduced Proceedings
Close to the Farcical

LONDON. March 29.-The House OF
Commons spent another night in one
sided debate of the fiscal question. No
member Of the Ministry was present.
Osmond Williams. Liberal, offered
motion declaring that in the opinion
of the House grave injury would be
caused to the shipping industry and
other industries dependent thereon by
the adoption Of the changes in the ex-
listing fiscal system proposed by Joseph
Chamberlain In the course Of the dis
cussion both the mover and Denny, the
seconder of the resolution, referred to
the condition OF American shipping
and ship building as an argument IN
favor of free trade. The speaker said
that British shipping and ship build
ing may be ruined by protection
MacIvor. Conservative and tariff re-
former, opposed the resolution on be-
half of the shipping interests Of LIVER
pool. He pointed out that American
duties on ship-building materials were
reimbursed In the cases OF vessels built
in the United States for the foreign
and coasting trade. He said the rea-
son America did not build more ships
was the higher wages prevailing tn the
United States.
Rea, Radical, In responding said
commission in Washington had testt-
fed that drawbacks on ship-building
material were illusory and he asserted
that statistics showed that Great Brit
ain was not losing her position In tho
ship-building world.
Osmond Williams motion was
adopted without division.
The opposition will have another
inning on April IL. Tuff (Unionistl
has secured by ballot the right to in
troduce on that day an anti-home rule
resolution, the terms OF which have
not yet been announced, but which IL
Is understood will condemn the utter
ances of both Liberal and Nationalist
members on the home rule question.
1t Is stated in the lobbies of the House
tonight that the Liberals will not
take up the challenge, but will re-
fuse to participate in the debate and
division on the motion.
LONDON, March 30.-The Daily Mall
editorially this morning warns Balfour
that he is wrecking the party TO save
the Cabinet and declares that Parlia-
mentary proceedings have now been re-
duced TO level which borders danger
ously near the farcical. 1t will be much
better, the Daily Mail says, to face the
issue fearlessly and dissolve Parlia-
ment
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-30
PERSONAL.

Oscar j. Smith, a capitalist Of
Reno, is at the Palace.
Z Ted Hayes, a wealthy stockman of
Butte, Is at the st. Francis.
Homer s. Taber, a real estate man
of San Diego, is at the Palace.
j. H. Hall and wife. Of Colorado
Springs, are at the Occidental.
Frank Pixley, well-known, writer
of New York. is at the Occidental.
j. B. Wise, Mayor of watertown,
n. Y, is among the latest arrivals at
the ST. Francis.
Philip Crovat, New York represen-
tative of the Stanford estate, Is reg
istered at the St. Francis.
Captain C. H. Slocum OF the United
States cavalry service, who has just
arrived from ST. Louis. and his wife
are registered at the Palace.
w. S. P. Prentice of New York,
who is related by marriage to the
Rockefellers, and a party of friends
arrived here yesterday in a private
car. They are staying at the st.
Francis.
Among the notables at the ST.
Francis is j. w. Simpson, New York s
most famous pawnbroker, who bears
the Q1StlncI1On OF Do1n8 the only
multi-millionaire pawnbroker in the
United States. He has been visiting
Southern California and is now on his
way home.
j. r. Burrow. Secretary Of State Of
Kansas. and Mrs. Burrow are guests
at the Palace. Secretary Burrow is
the president of the Bank of Smith
Center, Kans., a position he has held
for more than thirty years. Mrs. Bur-
row will be remembered by old Cali
fornians as the daughter of Captain
Ingalls,, U. S. A, who was stationed
at Alcatraz Island for a number Of
years. Her husbands last visit to San
Francisco was twenty-five years ago.
John Crosby Brown, head of the
banking firm of Brown Brothers &
Co. of New York. and who financed
the United Railroads and has been
prominently identified with educa-
tional matters in the East, arrived
here yesterday in a private car and is
staying at the st. Francis. The visitor
is a director in many of the leading
institutions in the East, among them
Columbia College. the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Union Theological
Seminary, the United Trust Company
and several railroads, banks and in
surance companies. He is here on a
pleasure trip.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-30
SAYS POLICE FORCE
SHOULD BE INCREASED
Acting Chief Spillane Files Estimate
Of Approximation Required for
His Department.

Acting Chief OF Police Spillane yes
terday submitted to the Supervisors
an estimate of the appropriation
needed to conduct the Police Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1906. The sum of S941.6S0 is
asked for salaries as constituted to-
day. of which $t56,S4S is for 602 pa
trolmen.
Spillane says that under the char
ter provisions and estimating the
population of this city at 100000, the
department should be increased by
the following additional officers:
Two hundred patrolmen, s244, 500;
2 captains of police, s4S00: 4-lieuten-
ants. $6720; 16 sergeants. $4,000; Z
corporals, $982s; 10 detective SER
geants, $4,000. Total. $30S,14S.
For the police patrol $24,055 will
be required, s3084 for rents OF po-
lice stations, $24,450 for miscellaneous
expenses; $4,000 to employ two car
penters and one painter. Spillane
recommends that Is horses used in
the department be condemned and
new horses purchased.
To obviate the expenditure for rents
Spillane recommends that new sta
tions be erected where the city has
suitable ground, as follows: Golden
Gate Park, $4,000; North End, 500
600; South San Francisco, $4,000;
Potrero station. $4,000; Ocean View.
S6000