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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30
A LITTLE TALK FROM COLONEL
TOM.

Colonel Tom Snort, of Osborne
County, a brother Of Bill. attended
the Fair at Topeka last week. To
a. crowd of farmers who were ex-
hibiting live stock, corn, wheat and
other farm products, the Colonel talk
ed about conditions, present and past
eve hear lots about robbing the con-
sumers,' Snort said. We'll, the farm
ers Of this state constitute the ma
jority Of it, consumers, for 50 per
cent Of its. Inhabitants are engaged
IN farming or its allied interests.
"What would be the result II Bris-
tow and the democrats had their way!
Would we Kansas consumers be any
better off? We had a low tariff I'M
der the last Cleveland administration
"a real, Bristow, downward revision.
Have you fellows forgotten about it!
"Well, lets see how it worked"
Col. Snort went on. eve sold our
corn for 10 cents a bpshel, our wheat
for 80 cents, our hogs for 3 cents q
pound, our cattle for 4 cents and al
most gave away our horses. We had
Just as big crops then as now, but
couldn't get anything for them. Fac
tories all over the country closed and
laboring men had no money to buy
with.
ut took 1000 bushels Of corn to
buy an ordinary cheap buggy. A
thousand bushels Of corn today will
buy a five-passenger automobile, OF
If you are afraid Of 'busz-wagons' II
will buy a moving machine, farm
wagon. good buggy, riding pillow, Cil-
.tivator, wheat drill, hay rake and
enough other machinery to run q
640-aere farm.
II notice that Bristow and his
Democratic associates shed great
many tears about the laboringman'l
condition, and point to the tariff a.
his greatest burden. What does II
matter to the laboringman how
cheap he can buy a suit Of clothes 4
be hasn't the money to buy 1t With
1t takes money to buy clothes, and Q
laborer only gets money in one way
and that is to work for it, Laborins-
men and mechanics are now rolling
in the fat Of the land. Why, ! used
to hire farm hands at s12 per month
That was when we had the low tariff
under the last Cleveland administra'
ton; the kind that Bristow and thu
little band Of so-called Insurgents
want to give us now, Now ] am pay
ing $40 a month to my man on thu
farm. Do you fellows want to g
back to the good old days Of thu
Wilson tariff bilif"
The crowd was with Col. Snort. A
democrat who had listened to TIL
Colonel's tariff talk said; Come
boys. let's go down and see the mex
race"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1905
TAFT,s PROGREssIVENEss.


Politicians and newspapers, finding
themselves crosswise with President
Taft, have begun to weep big, glob'l-
TAR tears about the presidents lack
Of progreRsiveness. They find In his
support Ut the tariff-makers an inci-
cation that he is about to abandon
all the things he and Roosevelt have
been presumed to stand for. But be
hasn't. His attitude is almost identi-
cally that of the former strenuous
president. President Roosevelt had
no use for the blatant demagogues Of
the LaFollette type, who proclaimed
themselves better than their party.
President Taft inherited, along with
the Roosevelt policies, the same dis
like, only he is even a better party
man than his predecessor. Whereas,
Mr.. Roosevelt was usually content
with swatting them one at a time
with his, big stick, President Tart
takes his golf stick and sweeps the
whole caboodle off the line at one
fell swoop.
President Taft, as disciple OF
BENJAMIN Harrison and Major McKin-
ley, realizes that without party sol
idarity nothing can be accomplished.
He knows, as all great popular lead
ers have known, that all legislation
Is compromise, and he believes that
when Republicans get together N,
making a bill, when all can't get ex-
actly what they want after making a
good fight. It is their duty to get be-
hind the best attainable and not 80
off with the Democratic goats, He
has the courage to preach that be-
lief.
II the senatorial insurgents" are
right and they do represent anything
more than an organized appetite for
public office, what President Taft has
Just done is the most impolitic thing
he ever has done. He knew that It
would array all these men who think
themselves better than their party
against him and make them try 70
defeat him for denomination, HIS
only hope is the rank and file Of the
party. Whether President Taft is the
leader Of his party in the West, as
he is in the East, or whether these
diseruntled senatorial ''iusursfnte
shalI control the party primaries and
scn,tr ton from Kansas ami rther
western states only time can
determine. with LaFollette or Cum
minis or Beveridge as their leader
they will undoubtedly try to capture
the delegations to the next national
conventions from Kansas and, other
western state against the Taft men,
ana II they are beaten and follow the
precedent they set on the tariff bill,
they will walk out Of the convention
and seek TO disrupt the party. But
perhaps the president, knowing he
couldn't trust them, deliberately de-
cided that the sooner the rupture
came the better. Anyway, he will
from now on have their answering
hostility either covertly or openly. -
Hutchinson News.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30

There are quite a sprinkling Of
Republican papers in Kansas who
want to again try the effect of some
more WiIson-Gorman tariff legisla-
ton on the country. Regardless Of
the fact, too, that come nifty ODD
Democrats in congress were thems
selves afraid Of it.-smith County
Messenger.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30

in the United States. The value OF
farm products in 1905 was about
$3.50 900, 900 and, with that of live
stock on hand, aggregated $424,S34,-
900. This was about eighty-five per
cent more than the value Of the same
items ten years before and, If equally
apportioned among the inhabitants,
would amount to $3.50 each. Yet,
scarcely thirty-three per cent of the
states area is under the dominion OF
the pillow.
"Coburn says the four big fakes
which have injured Kansas more than
anything else are fake billiards, fake
drouths, fake cyclones, fake grass
hoppers. He maintains and brings
forth the records Of the United States
weather Bureau to prove it-that
there never has been . Blizzard II
Kansas since weather records have
been kept. The time Of drouth has
passed, also, and as for cyclones, hur-
ricanes or even winds; the farmers
have lost money putting up wind
mills and waiting for breeze strong
| enough to stir them. Grasshoppers
there may have been, away back IN
the plague days, but that IL all an
Gent history now, and, like a man
that marries woman with a past
Kansans are trying to forget It,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30
Santa Fe Agent

ity openly supported Stubs backed
by the Democratic state organization.
In the campaign which followed, the
Democrats could not overcome their
record and Stubs had walk-away.
Is Brother Pearl trying to make It
easy for Bristow?"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30

The real Issue IN the next cam
palrn. DID President Tan know
What he vas talking about Wien De-
discussed tariff or dlt BrsieW ard
slubt. know rh1t they Hsfs taking
,1sal easr ta,I .s'a D. "a e'''
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30

Grains on Time Is new slogan
sunouneed for Kansas BY J. H. Engle,
and Il isa good one. Trains should
be run on time much better than
they are. and II It vas against the
Law 70 run them aany old time" they
would be run on time much better,
Hope Dispatch.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30
rAFrs snLIn ARGuMENT.

There is no rational way Of getting
around President Taft's thorough
analysis OF the tariff act, showing re-
vision downward on nearly $4,000
600 900 in values Of articles in daily
use as necessities and an increase on
but little over a quarter Of million
dollars worth Of such articles sub
ject to tariff revenues. II the insur-
gents want any more downward re-
vision than these figures imply, they
must 60 to the Democratic party fol
II, as Mr.. Taft sarcastiealIy observed
In eIassing those Republican senators
ana representatives who voted against
the tariff bill as deserters from the
party the president was clearly with
in the facts. It would be absurd e
suppose that the three hundred Of
more Republican senator's and repre-
sentatives who voted for the bill did
not keep the party faith and earn
out It's platform pledges, but that thu
score or 80 who voted against 4 vert
ihs only loyal Republicans n con
rress-as absurd and preposterous q
he slanderous assertions made b
Democrats. near-Democrais and ethel
enemies Of the Republican principle
Of tariff protection, nat me over
vhsIminr Reabllcan majority n
corrror Which foleh fol ne biil va
inIuhn,,t or cotltoilsi By ths s1ee'
81 l',1rn clu 1esfr>l'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-30

Entered as second class mail matter
at the postofice at Abilene. Kansas
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-14
$1,000 FOR ORPHAN ASYLUM.

Under the will Of the late Lazar Roth,
of South Orange, $3.50 was b~equeathed
to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan
Asylum Society, to which the family
have added $3.50. making 81. 1000, which
was received at q meeting of the board
Of directors last night.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-14

Reg. Spec.
Price. Price.
Armour's Amberoee Soap,
II Id. a ............ loo &c
Armour's Armourita Soap, q
N Id. bars. ............ 10c &c
Celebrated Q h cart
Soap. cake ............ sc 3Ac
La Parisienne Glycerine
Soap. VI lb. bars...... 10c &c
Munyon's Celebrated Witch
Hazel Soap, cake...... 10c sc
4 ID. bars Of Bocabelli
CASTLE Soap, white.... 75c 8
Sanitol Toilet Soap. violet
odor. cake ........... 1sc Use
Pure White CASTLE Soap.
cake &c 3Hc
Pure White CASTLE Soap,
cake LOG &c
Ichthyoi Toilet Soap. cake 1sc 15c
Physicians and Surgeons
Soap. cake ........... &c Sc
Cosmo Buttermilk Soap,
cake Tc DC
Omega Soap, cake. ....... 19c 0
Pompeia Toilet Soap, cake 19c Ice
DR.. Charles's Toilet Soap,
cake ..-.,t19c U
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-14
Iradia Seats

Seats just like the one here pictured-nice to
tll in here and there about the house in almost any
room: built of oak in golden finish; IS inches high.
~ inches square; strongly made; reg. sold zEc
at $i.25; will be priced for two days. 80
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-14
w. B. RedusO Corsets

w. b. Reduso Corsets modify the full
bust, define a pleasing waist line, hold fat the ab-
domen, reduce the fleshy hips aud taper off the full
lines of the back.
The effect of a very feshy woman wearing the Reduso
Corset for tho first time is the same as a marked decrease of
weight. A positive reduction of from one to five inches is
effected by the ingenious gorine the scientific construction
Of the lines, and without the use of straps and harness-hks de-
vices
Solid comfort is assured the wearer from the first SD
hour, and with fattering improvement to the figure
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
Laughter a Series Of Banks.

! Laughing is barking, say the sci
entists. The neck and head are
thrown back while series of short
barks are emitted from the throat
However musical the banks may be
they are barks. The laugh begins
with sudden and violent contraction
of the muscles of the chest and alb
domen But instead of opening to lei
the air pass out of the lungs, the voca
cords approach each other and hold il
back. But they are not strong enough
to exercise such opposition for more
. than an instant, and the air, which is
under pressure, promptly escapes. AS
1t does so it makes the vocal cords vi
brate producing the bark
This obstruction and liberation Of
the air expelled from the lungs repeats
itself again and again at intervals of q
quarter of second. There are thus
In hearty laugh four banks second
and If continued, they go on at that
rate as long as the air reserveain the
lungs holds out. The empty lungs
must then fill themselves, and this in
terval is marked by quick gasp fol
breath, after which the banks are re
newed. The barks occur in series
with gasps for breath at intervals.
When laughter is violent, the entire
body participates. The upper part Of
the trunk bends and straightens itself
alternately or sways to right and left
4 The feet stamp on the floor, while the
hands are pressed upon the loins tc
moderate the painful spasm.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
interviewing the Professor.


So you don't think Mars would re
ply, even if we did send signals?"
i am almost convinced that there
would be no response" answered Prof
.Thinktum, adjusting his glasses.
Then you don't believe that Mars
Is inhabited?"
"on the contrary, / think it ex.
tremely probable that life similar to
our own exists on the sister planet y
But you don't give those people
credit for intelligence equal to ours %
Yes. am inclined to credit them
with even greater intelligence than
We display. There are many indica.
lions that they have q civilization old
er than ours, in which case they
should have too much sense to fool
away their time on any such imprac-
tical proposition.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
1MAKEs BETTER RAILROADS."
Western Writer Pays Tribute to
=. Railroad Magnate as BuiIder-up >,
sS,a " of the Country :-zas=, ~. -

MT. Edward H. Hartman is on a
trip to 4 Europe. Ordinarily there
would need be nothing added to this
announcement beyond an exhortation
to Emperor William to chain down his
railroads and to other monarchs to
put their crowns and other valuables
in the safe at night. But Mr.. Harri-
man is going off on pleasure trip,
and so many mean things have been
said about him that it will not hurt
any to change the tune moment
while he is out of the country and
not able to take any advantage Of
the lapse from the cold attitude of Sc
verify that is usually used in men
tioning the name of Hartman.
Of all the great railroad men de-
yeloped in this generation. E. H. Har-
riman is easily the biggest and the
best, says a writer in the Hutchinson
(Kan) Daily News. The head of a
railroad company, under the rules of
the game, must work for his stock
holders, whether it is for the advan-
tage of politicians, shippers or con-
sumers. 1t is his job to do the best
he can for the interests entrusted to
his care. Hartman is not only a
financier, but he is builder and an
operator. Lucky is the town, city
or community that has Hartman
road. He insists on a good roadbed,
level track, safe track and the con-
venience and comfort of the traveller
and the shipper. The Hartman roads
are noted as the best in the coun-
try. When Hartman gets hold of a
one-horse or played-out track and
right of way he proceeds to put it in
first class condition. He does not
raise the rates of fares, although he
doubtless charges "a plenty" but he
insists that enough of the funds &c
into real improvements to make a
railroad. And that is where he stands
ahead of a good many others and why
Harrimanism is not such bad thing
as some people have been led to think
He makes better railroads, and there
is more need for improvement that
way than there is in some others
which are being discussed. So far
as we can see, he believes in giving
every interest along his road fail
deal.
He is a public benefactor from thai
standpoint. He uses his power fairly
He is a great man, and as good OF
better than the ordinary citizen who
looks upon him as the personificatior
of the money power, seeking whom
1t may devour. He is a strong mar
in the financial world, but that should
not be against him, when the finan
cial world is the object which mos
of us want to reach. He is a goot
American and he spends his money
on American railroads, not on foreign
titles, race horses, old editions o.
other bad habits. If he is not per
fect-and we don't think he is-he i.
no exception to the rule and is worth,
of the praise of his fellow citizens fol
the good he does and has done,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
The Way He Did Il.

Jenkins Well, sir. gave it to that
man straight, I can tell you. He is
twice as big aa ! : too, bat told
him exactly what ] thought Of his ras-
5cally conduct right to his face, and /
called him all the names In the die
tionaIy. and q lot Of others as IL,
Studds-And didn't he try to lit
B you. jenkins?
jenkins No. air. he didn't. And
when he tried TO answer hack, iust
hung M the telephone receiver and
walked away. 81 60 rs
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
CHILD HAD SIXTY BolLs.
And Suffered Annually with Red
ScaId-Like Humor on Her Head.
Troubles Cured by cuticura.

"When my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out in
boils. She had about sixty in all and
I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely.
Some time later humor broke out be-
hind her ears and spread up on to
her head until it was nearly half COW
cred. The humor looked like scald,
very red with a sticky, clear fluid COM
ing from it. This occurred every
spring. I always used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment which never failed to
heal it up. The last time it broke
out it became so bad that I was dis
couraged. But I continued the use of
'Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resell
vent until she was well and has never
been troubled in the last two years.
Mrs. M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells
Ave, Detroit, Mich, Feb. "a, 1908"
Potter Drug Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
Like an Earthquake.

Former High Sheriff Chesterfield c.
Middlebrooks, whose bungalow at
Highland lake stands partly over the
lake on stone and cement foundations,
was awakened at four o'clock the
other morning by loud noises which
he says shook his bungalow like an
earth tremor
He says that after the household
had been shaken out of sound sleep,
he, not waiting to dress, went outside
to ascertain the cause of the, noise.
He found, he says, that a monster
frog had it's bed directly under the
bungalow The frog weighed fully
six pounds, he says, and every time it
croaked the bungalow cracked and
shook.
Mr.. Middlebrooks bought an anchor,
strong rope and enough red flannel
to bait 100 hooks, and will try to save
his property by capturing the bull
frog.-Winsted Comm dispatch to
New York World.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12

Pierre-The Milwaukee road has
secured deeds for the tracts of state
land crossed in changing its line in
Walworth county, between the towns
of Bowdle and Selby. The road Sc
cures much better grade, but leaves
the town of Java mile off the line.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
BY GUY THORNE.
CHAPTER discontinued.

They were just clear of the station
whens with a start of surprise, both
aof them looked up.
The door of the lavatory in one side
Of the carriage opened, and bearded
man, with large, round spectacles,
emerged, and quietly sat down oppo-
site to them.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12

Hayti.-It has been discovered that
Hessian flies are busy in the barley
and macaroni wheat fields. Where
the flies are working the stalks have
turned white. At present it is inn
possible to estimate the percentage
Of damage that has been done.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12

SheI believe saw Capt. Carpooser
on the Leas this morning.
He-Don't think SO. / heard he's
Just left for India. VI I.
She-1 think It was he. He was ga
Ing into the bar Of the Waldorf.
~ He aW-er--well p'haps you're
right.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
Larger Or sn,aller7 I:

1-1I HUFl OIS7 0HIdIISr 80
Remember, said the friend, .tnat
the eyes OF pcsterity will be on you,
Yes, answered Senator Sorghum.
and I am wondering whether future
genera tons will look at me through
the big or the little end OF the tels.
scope.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-12
The Real Thing

GunnerTher goes sweet cuapas
Mr.. and Mrs. Candy -.
isuyer- WE'LL Well! And who q III
little fellow?
Gunner Oh, he's the Candy III
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-30
INEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
Jennings Lodge No. o of Dallas
Holds AnnuaI Election
and Installation.

At meeting held in Masonic hall
Monday night the annual election of
Jennings Lodge No. 8, A. F. & A. NJ,
of Dallas, took place. The commu-
nication was well attended by mem
bers and visiting brothers. Imme-
dldely following the election the
new officers were installed by re-
tiring Worshipful Master DR.. Mark
Hayter. The new officers are:
Worshipful Master, Conrad Staf-
rim; Senior Warden, J. II. Hollister;
Junior Warden, w. L.Soehren;
Treasurer, w. G. Vassall; Secretary,
E. V. Dalton; Senior Deacon, w. H..
F. Mansion; Junior Deacon, E. A.
hamilton; Senior Steward, A. b.
Muir; Junior Steward, Edward Bid
die; Tyler, D. S. Mcdonald
After the lodge closed those pjres-
ent accepted an invitation to the
home of the newly-elected worship
full master, where an enjoyable So
ciul hour was spent and an elaborate
lunch was served.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-30
OLD SETTLER RETURNS.
After an Absence of "a Years, I. u.
DUNCAN Returns TO Scene
of Childhood.

After an absence of "a years +.
l.. Dugan returned to Salem yester
day from Portland, where he has
been stopping temporarily, having
disposed of his interests in Eastern
Oregon, where he has resided most
of the time since he left this city.
Mr.. Dugan was born in Marion
county, in the vicinity of Jefferson,
and at the time he left Salem he
prided himself on knowing every
body that lived here, but informed
Journal representative that during
the time he has spent around town
he has, so far, failed to find one
person that he knew in former
days. He also expressed great sur
prise at the wonderful changes that
have taken place during his absence.
Mr.. Dugan expects to leave in a
few days for Jefferson, the scene Of
his childhood, with a view of pur-
chasing Marion county property,
where he expects to spend the re-
mainder of his days.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-30
BOARD ACCEPTS PLANS
Portland Architects Receive Bid for
the New and Modern Baker
school Building.

The building committee of the
school board of McMinnville school
district, No. 40, met Tuesday night,
last December 28) in the Oregon
Fire Relibf Association building, of
that city, to consider the plans that
had been submitted for the new
Baker school building. The design
presented by Kroner & Hum, Port
land architects, was accepted Spe-
ciiications and details are yet to be
furnished subject to the approval
of the building committee.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-30

Coughs that are tight, or tickling,
get quick and certain help from DR..
Shoop's Cough Remedy. On this ac-
count druggists everywhere are favor
ing DR.. Shoop's Cough Remedy. The
ender leaves of a harmless lung-heal-
ing mountainous shrub give to DR..
Shoop's Cough Remedy its curative
properties. Those leaves have the
power to calm the most distressing
Cough, and to soothe, and heal the
most sensitive bronchial membrane.
Mothers should, for safety's sake, al
ways demand DR.. Shoop's. 1t can
with perfect freedom be given to
even the youngest babes. Test it
once yourself, and see! Sold by Cap
ital Drug Store.