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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04

Topeka. Feb. 27,-The Anal draft
Of the administration guaranty bill
has been made, Embodied in 1t are
several provisions suggested by tae
bankers at executive sessions and the
open meeting Wednesday night. The
bankers, 50 It is stated, are we'll salts
fed, getting more consideration for
their wishes than they had expected.
On the other hand, the depositors arc
protected The bankers have inces-
sently demanded that interest-bearlng
deposits be not included in the bill.
In the final draft the demands Of the
banks were compromised by exclud-
ing the funds of one bank deposited
In another, and keeping out the trust
companies.
At the open meeting in the senate
chamber last week the bankers re-
quested that Understanding deposits
be excluded from the bill. No con-
vincing reasons for doing SO were
given, thought Governor Stubs, and
the provision allowed to remain All
deposits bearing interest of three per
cent or under were brought under
this measure. This was done, SO
atafad Tho eauaruor hooouaa fha do
posits represented largely the scrimp-
ing and saving Of the laboring
classes.
The second demand of the bankers
at this meeting was that deposits Of
other banks should not be guaran-
teed. Such a guaranty, they argued.
would be no protection to the deposit
tor and would only compel the banks
to protect each other.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04
1T CAME VERY HIGH.
Solomon Was Not Kind to This Poor
Stranger.

Stranger.
Solomon Tribune: That Solomon
has a number of tolerably good pool
players is a fact quite generally
known throughout this section Of the
state, and every once in a while
some semi-professional happens along
and makes a try for piece of easy
money" But the result is always
the same-the fellow who comes
here hunting for a game finds 1t and
when he leaves town he takes with
him a good sized chunk of expert
ence for which he paid the price.
One day last week stranger
dropped into town, and after watch
ing the local players few days, de-
cided that he could take any Of them
down the line playing rotation pool,
and not half try. He was willing to
back his judgment to the extent Of
$40 a game, and made an announce
ment to that effect. The local bunch
at one time resided in our sister state
adjoining on the east, 80 the strang-
er's money was quickly covered and
a game soon arranged. A 17-year-old
boy was pitted against the supposed
expert and in few minutes the lad
called game" The stranger might
AVE made a mis-cue, or a strange
table might have had something to
do with It, 80 they tried 1t again, and
again, and several more times, the
boy playing rings around the stranger
every game. The fellow finally got
enough. and he got Just exactly what
was coming to him. He was trying
to beat the Solomon boys out Of their
money and It cost him about s125 or
$3.50 10 make the try.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04
New Manager for Grocery.

J. NJ. Walters has taken a position
as manager of the Rice-Johntz-Nico-
lay Wholesale Grocery Co., succeed
ing W. H. Teeters who has SO success
fully filled the position since its or
ganization. Mr.. Walters is a wide
awake and energetic business man
and will make good. Mr.. Teeters
has some fine offers Of good positions
but will take a few days vacation
after 1--WE years of steady service in
wholesale grocery management
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04

for the hfth month. ending Feb. 2s;
Total number enrolled, 80; average
daily attendance, IA; number on hon
or roll, IA. Those neither sbsent nor
tardy we're Edward and Robert
vahsholtz. A very successful term Of
school was closed Feb. 20. Hazel
Jones, teacher.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04

Adam Frey, widower, to Reuben 3.
Frey. Sc Y 2s-12-2. ;s.2eo.
Frank L. Kirsch single, to Martin
Kirsch. sw X hal. 900.
Adam Frey widower. to J. A. Minter'
nwH 11-I2-2. $4,000.
Jesse A. DOdds and wife to Oscar
vanier, Y &c 1912. $4,000.
Herman N. schuerman and wife to
WIN. +. schuerman. n y lots l. 2,
ass. Z, blk. 3 Chicago add to
Abilene and pit sw Y 2i-is-2, 81.
Wm. G. Kreps and wife to l. I. Hon
man,sw X s-1s-2, $3.50.
1okn q. wurts and wife TO J. 2.
ponInrer. n * SEC 15-li-i ST.
SOC.
tl',s d ard Iohn s,e1er 70 y. p
ri,cs "a /. 3. Hrtsp, io,1 -.
is. Ia S. I.Ianra ts14.
M Ha1Irsr snl f'tt O. Et
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04
ABOUT PEOPLE.

o. L. Moore returned from Okla
homa,
Miss McShea, Of Chapman, is the
guest Of Mrs. Herbert j, Hodge,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Fells, Of
Talmage, were shopping in the city
Mrs. j. N. Engle and son Lowell
are here from Emporia visiting
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Channon leave
Monday for California where they
may locate.
Lee s. Cooley, wife and daughter
we're down from Saline county visit
ing relatives.
]. X. Forney returned from Penn
sylvania where he was called by his
fathers death.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Vandenberg left
for Keokuk, Iowa, called by the
death of relative.
A. T. Hagans, one of the energetic
farmers of Cheever, was in town and
called on the Reflector.
F. H. Hilborn was In town from
his farm northeast of the city and
made this office pleasant call.
w. A. Martin returned from
Kansas City where he was on the
market with two cars of fine stock.
Thomas Maddox, Of Des Moines,
returned home after spending the
winter with his daughter, Mrs. c. p.
Snyder.
s. W. Muenzenmayer was in town
from Junction City with new Cadil-
lac touring car. An agency may be
placed here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Heindel re-
turned to their home at Winfield af-
ter a pleasant visit at the home Of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Helm
del.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Minick and
children, Pauline and Carl, were In
the city. They have purchased q
farm north of Detroit and are nov
ing there.
Mrs. George Kirk and Mrs. W. B.
Smith, of Abilene, and Mrs. H. p.
Matteson, OF Irving, Kan, are visiting
at the home of Mort Smith Hope
Jacob Musser, who moved to Idaho
over a year ago has re-
turned to this city with his family.
The Idaho climate did not agree with
his health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hantz are
here from Hampton, Pa, and will re-
side here permanently, Mr.. Hantz be-
ing employed at the Brown power
plant at the river.
Harry Yates, one of Abilenes bright
boys who has been with the Rock
ISLAND at Harrington, is visiting here.
He win go to Parsons to take a posi-
Ion in a newspaper ONCE.
J. 2. Bowser was in town from
lis fine farm north Of town and made
he Reflector a pleasant call. He re-
emily refused a 800 per acre Of
er for his place which is one Of the
'est in the county.
Mr.. ana Mrs. 8. N. Brown were in
own. They recently returned from
northeast Colorado where they spent
year and are glad to get back 70
10 land Of plenty. They are on one
/ the Stevens farms east Of the city.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04

We desire In this public manner to
rsturn our heartfelt thanu 70 the
many Kind friends ana nelghborI who
an.sutsd rs during our reeept a1ie-
tion. Thsir niuiltlntio1s Eili rot Be
iofs0ueu. An. Baldwin and family.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04
WRITES TO SENATOR CURTIS
ABOUT THE FLOUR TARIFF.
e. s. EngIe Sets Forth the Condi-
ton In West.

ton In West.
3. S. Engle, manager of the Abb
lene mills, has written to Senator
Curtis this summary of the milling
business and what in his opinion is
needed in tariff changes:
AS you are no doubt aware, the
flour milling capacity of this country,
and the wheat raised, so enormously
in excess Of the domestic require
ments, that an export outlet for our
surplus is imperitive.
Now that Europe needs our wheat,
but the milling industry of the vari-
our countries, by more or less devil
GUS methods, attempts to disbar our
-four.
Almost one billion dollars are In
vested in flour milling plants in this
country, and hundreds Of thousands
of operators are looking to this end
for employment in these plants.
Fifteen to twenty millions of dol
lars more are paid to the farmers OF
this country for that part of the
wheat entering into domestic manu-
facture over which he would receive
for it If this wheat we're exported.
six millions Of dollars are lost to
our farmers on that part exported In
shape of wheat which would come
to him If this exported product were
turned into -four in this country.
Good economics dictate that our
wheat should go abroad as flour, the
welfare Of the American farmer,
laborer, and -four miller, demands
that it shall, and we beg to kindly
call your attention to the matter
and ask that you will immediately
lay our necessities before the ways
and means committee, and particu-
4larly drew their attention to the fol-
lowing:
list. Germany imposes discrimi-
native. tariff of approximately SAC
per Dbl. on our flour over that i'm
posed on the amount of wheat nee
essary to produce it.
End. Germany pays what amounts
to an export bounty of approximate
" 4Oc per Dbl. on every barrel OF
-four exported.
ard. Due to this bounty tariff
against -four is imminent in Holland
zone of the two free countries left
US in Europe"
4th. Belgium exposes tariff OF
S5c per Dbl. on our -four, and ad-
mits our wheat free. France and
Spain impose discriminative tariffs
on our -four.
9Th. Each of these countries ex-
ports -four. Each uses our wheat
in producing this export -four. which
enters into competition in the free
countries Of Europe against our own
manufactured product.
This is wrong and our industry
must have in new tariff law certain
corrections which are in the power
of congress to grant, and the cor
rections lie in the following:
A maximum and minimum
tariff law, the minimums at least 70
per cent below the prevailing duty.
B-PIace the application of the
minimum tariff or revised list in the
hands Of the chief executive with
instructions from congress to apply
these minimums to the products Of
the countries Of the world only when
equal tariff privileges direct and In
direct are given our wheat and our
-four by these countries.
C-Remoye entirely or impose but
a nominal specific duty on bulbs.
This last &C" to prevent IMPOSE
ton Of a tariff on -four in the Neither
lands.
AS constituents whose business
necessities demand this consideration
+. -, ,-c,,r halu
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04

The board Of education met last
night n regular session. Only TOu-
tine business va transacted
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04
- HnnIand d..

Leander Rowland. aged 81, died At
lie molhers home. On southside. he
has been an invalid sinoe eight years
cla
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10
Loo Boom Filled with Rats.

South Bend, Wash.-During a re-
markble high tide, G. Hoggfrom, boom
tender for the South Bend Mill and
Timber Company, went to see about
a boom and found the logs literally
swarming with rats. So thick were
they that he had to kick some of them
off to gain standing room, he says.
There appeared TO be scarcely room
on the logs for the swarming rats and
some were fighting fiercely for a place.
The boom is half mile long and near
ly full of logs.
The animals were what are
known as tide land mice" although
much larger than the ordinary mice.
The water front of all tide land is
a little higher than next the upland.
The tide runs up the sfoughs and
floods the tide meadows next the up
land, first and then gradually floods
the whole. In this manner the hordes
of rats were driven to the logs for
refuge, and probably millions of them
were drowned.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10

with a splash that. shot the water up
nearly to the airship. 80 long, you
Senegambian cannibaE" said Pa, as
the king struck the water, and the
airship shot up about so feet higher.
Give my love 10 40 or so of your
wives" said the cowboy, as he
sheathed his knife. Take that from
your little Hennery," says |, as lit a
giant firecracker and threw 1t down
near him, where it exploded like a
bomb. And then as we went along
through the air we watched him
loosen himself from the chair and
strike out for the shore, swearing in
negro dialect that he would eat us yet,
without salt, and then We got out of
sight of the lake, laughing at our es-
cape and wondering where we would
land.
We sailed along for couple OF
hours, and passed over villages of ma
tives, but Pa said he would not take
chances on another niger king, but
would run the ship toward the coast
as long as the gas held out, and on
we went until after midday, when the
gas bag began TO flap as though the
gas was escaping, and Pa acted nearly
crazy, because we were over a dense
jungle, filled with wild animals, and
not thing to eat.
After 2 o'clock p. m. we sighted a
clearing ahead, with nice modern
houses, and as we got nearer we could
see herds of Jersey cattle, and giraffes,
and horses and elephants, and the
queerest mixture of wild life and civ.
ilization, and the nearer we got the
more it looked like Yankee settle
ment, and when Pa saw some auto
mobiles and tennis court. with men
women and children playing tennis
and riding around in gasoline and
steam autos, and creamery and a
windmill and an ice house, he said
that was the place he was looking for
, and he pointed the airship for the
clearing, and told the cowboy to gel
the anchor ready
The people on the plantation saw
the airship and quit playing tennis
the autos pointed toward where we
were going to land, and when we
threw out the anchor and came down
TO the ground and made a landing
right on the golf links near the tennis
court, we were soon surrounded by Y
or 80 men, women and children, anC
Pa got out and took off his hat anC
made a bow that would have captured
any people of any nationality.
Pa was going to speak to the people
in French or German, but a man II
riding breeches came up and In thu
purest English, said: Il beg pardon
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10

stick right in front of where the COW.
boy always sits, and heard Pa whis.
per to the cowboy that he would head
the ship direct to the coast, and when
we got away from the camp few
miles, Pa would give the signal and
the cowboy was to cut the rawhide
rope and let the king take fall out
of himself.
Pa steered the airship south, and
occasionally the negro king would yell
and point to the east, where the tribe
was located whose wives we had de.
signs on, but Pa kept his direction,
and after running an hour or SC we
came to a beautiful lake of blue wa.
ter, and Pa told the cowboy to get
ready to throw off about 200 pounds
of dead weight. The cowboy said: :
Aye, aye, sir" and got his knife
ready. Pa let the airship down about
90 feet above the water of the lake so
the fall would not kill the negro king,
and when we got nearly across
the lake, Pa said: "Cut the rope" and
the cowboy reached over with his
knife and cut 1t, and down went Mr.
McGinty, hanging on to the rope, and
turning over in the air a dozen times
and striking the surface of the lake
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10
THE WEALTH OF FRANCE.
Better Distributed There Than In Any
Other Country.

"We never tire of telling the world
that we are great financial democ
racy, possessing immense wealth."
said Frederic F. Flahaut, banker OF
Paris, France, who is making a pleas
ure tour of this country
Frances wealth belongs to a ma
jority, and not to a minority of her
people. The rich and the excessively
opulent, possessing millions, are hard
ly TO be counted by units; they may
be designated by name. The large for
tunes are limited tc few people-pos-
sibly ten persons possess each some
thing like s20000,000 and over: 100
may have between $2,000,O00 and $10,-
900 0.000; 500 may have between 81 ,000,-
900 and $2,000,000; 1000 have from
$500, 900 to s1,000,O0O, and 10000 have
from 100000 TO 100000 each. Out of
100000 voters we have from 1000
900 TO 100000 who are capitalists
and owners of Understanding stock,
landed properties, holders of Partisan
bonds, credit foncier bonds, railroad
bonds, national bonds; members of CO.
operative bodies, people who put by
for the rainy day small sums in the
banks, that serve to assure life or in
sure against death. II is not the rich
who resort to the cooperative com
panies or to the savings banks. The
manner Of distribution of property,
real and personal, constitutes the for
tune of France"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10

but is this Mr. Roosevelt" and Pa
said: Not on your life, but just as
good a man, all right"
The man said he was expecting Mr..
Roosevelt, but not until after March
4, but he didn't know but what he
had come a little ahead OF schedule
time Pa said he was Roosevelt man
all right, though he had always been
a Democrat, and that he was an Amer
ican.
But what are you doing In African
said the man, who seemed to be the
leading citizen. oh" said Pa, as he
lighted a cigarette. Il have been taking
in large part of Africa. and just
dropped down to see II you had any
news of the election in the United
States"
The man said he was an American,
too, and lived in Michigan when at
home, but he came out here for his
wife's health, and opened up little
ranch. He said Taft was elected all
right, and Pa said he thought II would
come out that way. and then the man
asked us into the house, and the 9th
ers crowded around our airship, and
before long the cowboy was riding a
polo pony, and was playing tennis
with some boys about as big as me,
and Pa was drinking high balls and
club soda, and. as the rum went down
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10
Tries Green Paint; Hens Lay.

Ithaca, n. Y.-Willlam II. Brown,
down Newfield way, has discovered
that light green houses make the best
kind OF environment for hens, because
they lay more eggs when the hen
houses are painted that color.
Brown. who has experimental with
the effects of colors on hens for some
time, says he finds that his flock Of
hens lay from one TO three eggs more
a day since he put the green paint on
the hen house. He noticed no percep-
tible change when other colors were
tried.
The color theory is that the hens
should have the same color scheme III
their winter environment as nature of.
fers in spring and summer.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10
HE VISITS A COMPA TRIOT

Copyright, 1908, by w. G.. Chapman)
Copyright in Great Britain)
I have spent good many terrible
nights, in my time, but | never spent
such a night as | did up the tree, the
night | fired the niger chasers into
the barbecue crowd in Africa, with
hyenas and jackals sitting on their
launches and looking up at us, lick.
ing their chops, and yapping for us
to come down and be chewed.
Once when | was quite bit young
er, a party of us boys went to rob
melon patch, and the farmer shot us
In the pants with rock salt, and chased
us up a tree, while the dogs stood at
the foot of the tree all night and
barked, and the salt in our wounds
was making us smart awful, but IL
was not so dangerous as this hyens
stunt.
Once l went home from church With
a girl, and on the way back home the
father of the girl came out with
ghost sheet over him, with phosphor-
us eyes, and scared me into q hen
coop, and as | was praying to die,
negro with a dark lantern came to
steal the chickens, and when he saw
me in the coop he gave me some
chickens he had stolen from another
coop, and he run one way and | run
the other, and guess he went around
the world one way and the other,
and we met last night at the barbecue,
sure, and he started back around the
world the other way when my fire.
works went off.
But | was not as scared in the hen
coop, with the ghost, and the fright
ened negro, as | was up the tree, look
ing down the throats of the hyenas,
with the lions bowling around shifting
at the remains of the barbecue. and a
few tigers waving their tails from
side to side, waiting for us to drop
off the limbs.
Pa went to sleep a-straddle of a
limb because he was tired, and the
cowboy went to sleep on another limb
because he was drunk, and your lit
tie Hennery was on watch, crying to
be put to bed.
When daylight came the animals
slung away into the Jungle and when
it got light enough | could see black
faces peering through the bushes try
ing to find out II it was safe to re-
turn, so | woke Pa and the cowboy,
and told Pa his subjects were coming
into camp to cut his liver out, and
toast 1t on a forked stick, and Pa
climbed down from the tree and
kicked the fire, and as the negroes be.
gan to come nearer he said: wei
come to our beautiful city"
Pretty soon all of the tribe returned
but they did not kowtow to Pa like
they used to, until the old king
showed up.
He was so scared he was fairly pale
and he had a crouch too, and Pa no
ticed il for he said to the cowboy:
"You go and fill that gas bag and gel
ready to sail, because there is going
to be a mutiny, and we have got tC
get out of this country pretty precious
or they will eat u.s. and the cowboy
went to work to initiate the gas bag
Pa stood around trying to look like
a saint, and he pointed to the sun, jus
rising over the hills, and got on his
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-06-10

knees to worship the sun, and mo-
toned for all the tribe to do likewise,
but they turned their backs on Pa,
and the sun, and surrounded the old
king whose place Pa had usurped, and
by the motions they made and the
few words | could understand IL was
evident they proposed TO drive us out
of the tribe. The old king came to
Pa and said his tribe wanted to have
peace again, and wanted him to run
the shebang, and they wanted an old
fashioned cannibal feast, and that
they Insisted on eating Pa and the
cowboy and myself, roasted. Pa said
all right, he was willing to be roast
ed in the evening but not in the morn
ing. He said white meat always tast'
ed better in the evening" after ride
up in the clouds, and he proposed to
the old king that we all three, with
the king. take a nice ride In the SKY
cart, take along all the gold we had,
visit an adjoining tribe, buy all their
wives, and herd them, and let the
cowboy drive them back to camp and
then they could roast us and have the
time OF their lives.
This looked good to the old king,
and he went and dug up all the gold
and diamonds they had, and put them
in bag, which was tied TO the BAN
boo frame of the airship, and atter
breakfast we got ready to sail
We fixed sort of chair for the KING
to ride in, tied with rawhide to cross