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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
Why He Carried the Lantern.

A blind man In Khoota Ia Caucasian
village) came back from the river one
night, bringing a pitcher Of water and
carrying in his hand lighted lantern.
Some one, meeting him. said: You're
blind; it's all the same to you whether
It's day or night. OF what use to you
IS a lanterng" II don't carry the Ian.
tern in order to see die road" replied
the blind man, but to keep some fool
like you from running against me and
breaking my pitcher"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
DILLON

Miss Sherman, Mrs, Weatherford
and Miss Bohannon visited Mrs. Jerl
ONE Moskey Thursday afternoon.
Ford Beemer and son, Clarence,
went to Kansas City Sunday.
John Olson spent Sunday with
George Heller.
Mrs. Orr of Hope is visiting her
brother, H. Springer.
A large crowd attended the fun
eral of Mrs. A. L. Evers Sunday.
Quite number from here are
planning to attend the fair at abb
lene this week.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
TURKEY CREEK.

Miss Susie Witter has returned
from an extended visit in Colorado
Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson and fam
lily visited with Bruce Bunker's Of
Abilene Sunday.
Messrs. Fred Olsen, Chas. Hansen
and Harvey shelman attended camp
meeting at woodbine Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Anderson aud
children we're Sunday guests a. MIR.
Jim Posters.
Karl Korrell spent Sunday with
Preston Markley.
f. Funk spent Sunday at home
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner ami family
took Sunday dinner with Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Baird.
Misses Lottie Hoffman and Miner
va shanefelt and Messrs. Otis and
Chas. Hoffman were guests Of. Mr..
L. Browns Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Berton Lay and fam
lily were pleasant visitors at Mr.. Geo.
Lays Sunday.
Mrs. Olsen, Misses Hazel Eytman.
Josephine johnson. Ella olsen ard
Gladys Korrell and Calmef Byers
we're guests Of P. NJ Nemeebek's on
Sunday.
Miller school, Dist. is has added
a furnace to its many up % date inn
proEements. +
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
20 Horses and Mules

Consisting Of 1 span of matched
gray Percheron mares and years
old and both bred to Jack, | span
Of black Percheron fillies 2 years
old, span Of bay Percheron mares
8 years old, | black mare 8 years
old, black Percheron mare ten
years old, bay driving mare 4 years
old, 2 yearling horse colts, horse
colt 2 years old, 2 bay spring horse
colts, / black spring mare colt, .
black mare mules year old, black
mare. mule years old and 2 black
spring mare mule colts.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
.ARBUCKLE COULD RAISE MAINE
He Telegraphed President Taft He
Could Save the Government $780,
600 on the Work.

New York, Sept. 23.-The ship
Roosevelt, on which Commander Per.
ry last went forth, has passed into the
hands of John Arbuckle, expert In
coffee and the saving of ships. Mr.. Ar
buckle has just telegraphed President
Taft that with the aid OF lip.to-date
methods the government may be saved
$l50000 on the work Of raising the
Main from the mud OF Havana har-
Dor.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
NANEY DISTRICT.

Mr.. and Mrs VIII Nichols visited
at Mr.. Samuel Romberger's for
few days. s
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Romberger
visited at Mr.. verl McCoy's Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. W. NJ. Nichols moved to Tai
mage n Ne wipter.
Mrs, Glen Foster and children
returned home from visit in west
ern Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
HOLLAND.

Most Of the people are busy cut
ting corn.
Cora Hartman spent a couple Of
days near Gypsum.
Mrs. o. Darling Of Abilene was
out Sunday.
Mrs. Harry Leonard Of Abilene
spent few days visiting relatives
near Holland.
Mrs. C. w, Bell and Teen Koenig
we're shopping in Abilene Thursday.
Fernie Laughlin spent Sunday with
Mae Hutchison.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
Public Sale Public Sale

Having concluded to quit farming
I will sell at public sale at my farm
located 5 miles north and miles
east of Solomon, 4 miles west ard
2 miles sourh Of Talmage, ! Iaile
east and u mile north of the Buck
eye M. e. church, / mile west and
v north of U. B, church and lie
miles northwest Of Abilene OH
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29

Kansas City. Sept. five have
had heavy receipts Of cattle this week
and the best beef steers have sold
about ice lower With tops at $40.
There Is a strong demand for helyg
cows and heifers. The best, heavg
cows selling from $3.50 to 80.
Medium kinds $500 to t4.2s. Good
cutters ss.75. Gamers ,2.7s to s221-
me best stock COWS ss.zs . t3.ss.
The bess grass hsifsrs selling frnm
t5.oo 70 s5.5e. Good tiods soc
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
commlssIonsr Lane Returns.

Washington, D. C. Sept. 2S.-Frank
lin K. Lane, interstate commerce
commissioner, visited the president
Mr.. Lane recently returned from
Berne, where he attended the inter
national railway congress He brought
back with him a great greeting 10 re
president from the king OF switzer
land.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
will sell at public auction at my
place adjoining Hope on the south
on
Wednesday, October 5
commencing at 10 a. m. the fol-
lowing property;
100 head of Registered DurOC
Jersey Swine

Consisting Of about 20 head Of
sows due to farrow from now on to
November LIST, about As fall sows
and spring gifts, about 20 males anu
6 barrow shoats. | will also sell
the herd boar Silk Wonder III, No.
SOS75. The sows are bred to Col
lege Lad No. S62S9. Kansas Joe No.
SS229 and silk Wonder III, No.
SO375. MY entire herd carries as
good blood lines as are in the breed,
My sows are not fat nor in show
shape, but just in common breeding
condition.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
..i,., bl,t, wat,r Re,erve,

Seattle. Sept 2l.-Occidenial mine
No. 3 al Palmer. thirty miles southeast
Of Seattle, was flooded BY the es'
cape Of . large body Of water released
b. a miners pick. The miner vas
droFned and his seventeen comrades
barely escaped
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29

Tightwad-Did you ever notice, my
dear, that nearly. all these misers re.
ported IN the papers are single
menu
Mrs. Tightwad-Yes; but that's only
natural. Married mlsers are too com
mon 70 be worth mentioning.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29

time with d. S. Engle, expects to
start for California Wednesday.
A few more such nights and It
VIII be said the frost is on The pump
kin and the fodder is in the shock.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
NEWBERN.

Nj. and Mrs. J. B. caskey went to
Mr.. John oish's for q few days 20
cook apple butter.
D. s. Engies spent Sunday 81 Geo.
Casters
RAY Engle. Who has spent some
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
The Pioneer Produce Co. pays the
Butter Market

prices fer creamery butter az
point nAned for week ending today.
dickinson county price ~ cents
less than New York and ~ cents
less than chicagol
Kansas city creamery csc, iirts
25e.
Chicago er,amsry ii-ise, dairy
ss-a7e.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
Wednesday, October Z
commencing at 10 a. m" the follow
ing property:
7 head Of Horses
80 head Of Cattle
s Poland China Shoats
Farm Implements, Etc.

Two pure bred greyhounds fine
runners.
TERMS-All sums of $40 and UNI
der cash; sums over 10 a credit
of IL months will be given Oh note
with approved security at 10 per
cent interest; If paid when due only
8 per cent interest will be charged
No property to be removed until set
tied for. Two per cent off for cash
on sums over $40.
FREE LUCNH AT NOON
Il. A. DILLINC
]. N. BURTON, Auctioneer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
OUR SPECIAL MAnKET LETTER

Notes on this weeks Kansas Cit,
stock market writ for the Re
Hector By J. R. Van Worst Of the
NIX. at. Commission Col
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29

Man Nurse Wanted.
At the county farm. Enquire Of
DR.. T. r. Conklin or phone 1888. tt
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
LOCAL MARKETS.
(GraIn markets corrected every
Thursday morning BY Abilene Milling

Market corrected weekly By J. c.
Norman. AbIlene.)
HorF ....ssss~s.+ ssf4stA
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% head Of Cattle

Consisting of good milk cows,
some Of which will be fresh soon, 4
yearling heifers, yearling steers, 8
calves.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29

J. E. Brewer Co. pays the follow
ing prices for butter and eggs:
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-09-29
! GALLOWAY Manure spreader.

TERMs-All sums Oslo and un-
der cash. On sums over $40 a credit
Of s months will be given, purchaser
giving approved not drawing per
cent interest from date. No proper
ty to be removed until settled for.
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
New-York tribune., 1910-02-06
T H E. RE D S Y M B & L
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters

MAURICE WYNN, hero OF the tale, was an American
Vl newspaperman attached the staff OF Lord South
bourne publisher of a great London daily, and just
assigned important duty Russia He in love with
Anne Pendenns girl of remarkable beauty and his love
reciprocated.
WYNN was visited in his apartment by old. poverty
stricken Russian, who in search Of one Cassavett1
(nown to the stranger Sensk) mysterious newspaper
correspondent who posed Greek The Russian astouded
Wynn by producing photograph of Anne and mumbtng
something about a geranllm being the symbol and
that he wished her against danger At dinner
party Anne handed a red geranium to CasSavett1 and
Maurice overheard the latter eXClam under ms bret
The symbol Then it is shel'
Southbourne, in giving final instructions to Maurice
announced that Carson of his correspondents an
intimate friend of Mauces, had been murdered IN Russia
because of his connection with mysterious woman ana
produced boodstained photograph OF Anne Whlch NAG
been found his body CarsOn's hand clutched req
geTanIum.
When on the wav home late at night Maurice Anne
with rowing down the Thames. and found a
scarlet geranium on Westminster Bridge steps
New-York tribune., 1910-02-06
CHAPTER vi.
Murder Most Foul

7 NJ speaking from Charing Cross station can ~ ~
hear me- the voice Continued. We ndu - ~
ter from my father. He's i'll. and / must 60 u '~
at once I'm starting now nine o'clock.
| glanced At the clock which showed p quaI 1I~
nine. III be with YOU IN tive minutes daI'Hs ss
responded, throwing IN the last word WITH IlilN>'
dudacity. Il recon-. I'll have 70 huSJle- ND.
put up the receiver and dashed back INTO ny ,iv
room, where my cold bath fortunately sto0u 's ,,rs
Within five minutes | was running down INC Ms
If a sheriff and posse We're after me. "lHt "LSt me
Jenkins leaned over the handrdl and "aleHCU; H;,-,r
evidently under the impression that l was INC Wv
of sudden dtmcntia. +bss
There was not a cab 10 be seen, OF course. ss -
and raced the whole way to Ch-iug Cross en- ,i,ra i0
tore INTO the station. and made tor Jle Pratet
whence the Continental Mail started IN 80
official tried To stop me At the barrier. ,Wav.
Stand away there" 10, and
lie yelled after me as pushed past nth Il,'b to
scooted along the platform / had no
New-York tribune., 1910-02-06

begun. But scarcely needed it. leaned against the
parapet staring at the dark, mysterious river and the
lights that fringed and spanned it like strings of
blurred jewels, seen mistily through the driving
| was bare headed for the fierce gust of wind that
came harbinger of the Squal had swept OFT my
hat and Whired it into the water, where doubtless
it would be carried down stream the swiftly ebb
ing tide in the wake of that boat which was hasten
ing-whither? | don't think | knew at the time
that my hat gone. | have lived through some
strange and terrible experiences; but have seldom
suffered more mental agony than | did during those
few minutes that stood in the rain on Westminster
Bridge
| trembling from head to foot my soul was
sick, my mind distracted by the effort to find any
plausible explanation of the scene | had Just wit
messed. What this mystery that encompasSed
the girl | loved, that had closed round her now a
mystery that l had never even suspected till a few
this month past, ever since | first met herr
RUT, after ALL what did | know of her antecedentsa
II Next to nothing, and that | had learned mainly
from my cousin Mary Now | came to think of it
Anne had told me very little about herself. | knew
that her father, Anthony Pendennis came of an old
family and possessed house and estate in the west
of England, which he had let long lease Anne
had never seen her ancestral home for her father
lived a nomadic existence the Continent one that
she had shared since she left school at Neuillv
where she and Mary first became friends. | gathered
that she and her father devoted to each other
and that he had spared her unwlingly for this long
promised visit to her old SchOolfelow. Mary knew
would have welcomed Pendennis also; but by all
accounts he was an eccentric person. who preferred
to live anywhere rather than IN England, the land
of his birth He and Anne were birds of passage
who wintered in Italy or Spain or Egypt the whm
seized him. and spent the summer in Switzerland or
TyrOl or elsewhere. In brief, they wandered over
Europe, north and south, according to the season
avoiding only the Russian Empire and the British
Isles
l had never worried my mind with conectures as
to the reason of this unconventional mode of living.
1t had seemed to me natural enough, as | too was a
nOmad, stranger and SOJourner in many lands since
left the old homestead in Iowa twelve wears ago to
seek my fortune III the great world During these
wonderful weeks | had been Spellbound, as it were
by Anne's beauty her charm When | was with her
| could think only of her and in the intervals
| still thought of her and detected eated as
she had been cruel or kind. To me her many ca
prices had seemed but the outcome of her youthful
hight hedrtedneSS of certain naive COquetrV, which
rendered her all the more dear and desirable "a
rosebud set about with little Wu thOrns a girl
who would not be easily wooed and won and there
fore a girl we'll worth winning.
But now, now | saw her from a different view
New-York tribune., 1910-02-06
CHAPTER v.
The Mystery Thickens

.EN regained the bridge crossed
to the farther parapet and looked
down at the river. | could see
nothing of the boat; doubtless it
had passed out of sight behind a
string of bargeS that lay in the
tideWay. As | watched, the moon
was yelled again by the clouds that
rolled up from the west, heralding
a second storm, and in another
minute or so a fresh deluge had
New-York tribune., 1910-02-06

point; saw her enshrouded in dark mystery the
clue to which eluded me. Only one belief L clung to
with passionate conviction, as drowning man
clngs to a straw. She loved me- L could not doubt
that remembering the expression OF her w1stul face
as we parted under the pOrticO short time ago.
though it seemed like a lifetime. Had she planned
her flight then, if flight it was-and what else
could it be?
New-York tribune., 1910-02-06

Copyright. I''e 10y irtle Brown N Co.,
New-York tribune., 1910-02-06

it. Lost my hat too: It blew off I answered owe.
my shoulder as l up the stairs Lightly clad
though he was Jenkins seemed inclined TO stay Cos
siping there till further orders.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-22

WEALTH CLUB has the greatest
III leavening force--the greatest
strength. One teaspoon of Health
Club goes as far as two teaspoons of other
brands.
1t sells for one cent an ounce and it
is the most economical you can buy because
you need use only half as much.
Health Club is prepared of the purest
ingredients by the most skilled chemists.
Our formulas are the most exacting-
each ingredient is measured and rigidlv
tested for quality, so you can depend on the
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-22
WASH THAT ircH AWAY

II Is said that there are certain
springs In Europe that give relief and
cure TO Eczema and other skin dis
casts. II you know that by washing
In these waters you could be relieved
from that awful itch. wouldn't you
make every effort to take a trip to
Europe a. once? Would you not be
win to spend your last cent to find
the eureg
But you need not leave home for
these distant springs. Relief is right
here IN your own home town.
A simple wash of Oil OF Winter
green, Thymol and other ingredients
es compounded only in d. d. D. Pre-.
scription win bring instant relief 10
that terrible burning itch, and leave
the skin as smooth and healthy as
that OF child.
II YOU have not already tried |. get
AZ least ~ cent bottle today. We
assure you OF instant relief
Gray'e Drug Store. 1903 WestlO Olsla-
homa avenue. Guthrie. Oklahsaa. .s.Ns
I 49, IanN. a.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-22
Judalna by the Looks.

Little Margaret has the usual in
quiring mind of youth. Recently her
Great-Aunt Charlotte was visiting the
family and Margaret boldly asked the
ladys age.
How old do you think am?" re-
turned the aunt.
The little girl gazed at her earn
estly for moment and then said:
well, | don't know, Aunt Char
lotte. but you don't look newt
Woman's Home Companion for No
vember.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-22
DUEL To THE DEATH
Two Citizens of Hugo Engage
in Fatal Pistol Practice
Over Old Feud
Special TO Daily Leader.

special 10 DAILY ledder.
Hugo Okla, Nov. 22-Resultlng
from Il pistol duel al the corner OF
Broadway and Dnke streets in this
city about 6 o'clock Monday evening,
Tom Ingram is dead and DR. w II.
Norris is expected TO die.
The two men have been on the
verge of fghting since llr. Morris
shot and seriously wounded Ingram
at the same corner, in March, OF this
year.
Waen they met last evening, DR..
Morris drew his weapon first and
fred two shots before Ingram had hii
revolver out, according to Dr. Morris
own statement to County Judge Glen
Only one OF his shots took effect.
Ingram drew Immediately and fired
four shots, three of which struck the
doctor. One OF these passed through
the chest and came out under the
shoulder blade. This wound, accord
ing to physicians, will prove fatal. In
grants wound was in the right side
of the stomach
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-22
The one teaspoon
baking powder

uniformity of Health Club, which practi-
caly insures uniformity Of your bakings.
Every ounce of Health Club receives the
oven test before it is marketed. Enough
for one average baking is selected at ram,
dom from 100 pounds or more and given
test in baking.
If you want the lightest, Aakiest bis
cuits, cake or pastries, use Health Club.
Ne.,t to your own ability, it will be the big
gest factor in your baking successes. We
could charge more for Health Club and get
it, but one cent an ounce is the right price.
It's extravaganza to pay more.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-22
People Who Feel Young
(By walt Mason)

i celebrated my 50th birthday yes
terday." remarked the grocer with
the air of one who has accomplished
something worth while When | was
a boy | thought that man so years
old deserved to be classed with
Methuselah, but feel as young as /
ever did
Tell that to the Marines replied
the colonel, morosely, as he peeled
an orange. 1T always makes me
tired to hear fan say that. Oliver
Wendell Holmes remarked when cele-
brating his birthday that he was so
years young and 1t has got to be a
national habit of a man to pretend
that he feels like 3-year-old when
he is so old that he can't eat hay
Il celebrated my 10th birthday a
while ago, and point with pride to
the fact that / didn't say anything
about being 10 years young. I felt as
though ! was 500 years old, and | sal
around the house all day groanins
with the rheumatism, and did my
best TO make life burden to every
body. I'm sure the women of nly
household had far more respect FOL
me than they'd have entertained bad
/ gone around grinning like a eastiron
idol, insisting that | wanted a skip
ping rope and a rubber doll
Mr.. Spots is Just about my age,
and he goes up and down the earta
pretending that he's June bride. He
uses hair dye and sometimes his
whiskers are purple and sometimes
dark green, and he actually seems to
think that he is fooling people. He
Is all upholstered 10 make him look
as though he had flesh on his bones,
and II you stick knife into his chest
about four gallons of sawdust would
run out.
He wears false teeth and is mel
ruin in general way, yet
he fuses around pretending that he
is bubbling over with enthusiasm
and energy and you cant talk with
him Tor Two minutes without hearing
him say that a man Is just as old as
he feels. That may be true enough, /
but men are vain as peacocks aud
they won't admit how old they feel. /
feel as old as Lillian Russell or the /
movement d. anything /
else that reminds you Of medieval
Dimes and ! am not ashamed to CON
fess the fact.
You ought to see the maor some
Just when he has crawled /
out of bed and before he has taxi
dermed and upholstered himself He
looks as though ne might have been
on earth when the cave man was
bunting for raw meat. At that dread
hour he doesn't pretend TO be yonug.
But when he has donned his celluloid
Teeth and dyed his whiskers as rich
violet shade and adjusted a pair OF
Sotton-batting calves to his legs, his
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-22
A QUESTION OF BRAINS

There is at least one man in Mi,hi-
gan who is determined that his son
shall have as good an education as his
own. He recently sent the following
communication to the superintendent
of schools:
Dear Sir, my boy Johnnie come
home today with his head broke open
by bigger boy. ! wish YOU would look
into 1t. My boy comes to school to
learn brains and not to have them
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