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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25

Amos Bohannon was born in Put
nam county, III, Sept Z, 1912 and
died at Excelsior Springs, Mo-, May
20, 1911, after a serious illness Of
long standing. He served In the
Union army In the war Of the rebel
lion and was at different times con-
nected with the seth and 139th regi-
ments of Illinois Volunteer Infantry
He was honorably discharged from
the service at the close of the war.
He was married to Miss Catharine
Springer in 1859. To them were
born seven children all Of whom
were present to see their father
laid to rest in the cemetery near
Hope, Kansas.
Mr.. Bohannon located on a farm
16 miles southeast OF Abilene in
1873, and for many years was q
resident Of Dickinson county. His
first wife died In 1892. In 1907 he
moved to Excelsior Springs, Mo-,
where he married Mrs. Mary Moses
who survives him.
When quite young man, Mr..
Bohanon accepted Christianity, was
converted and became a member Of
the Methodist church, remaining an
acceptable member until after his
marriage to Mrs. Moses. He found
a spiritual home in the First Baptist
church at Excdlsior Springs. He
was a devoted Christian and died
in full hope Of the better life.
The funeral services were COM
Quoted by the Rev r. s. Altman in
the M. q. church at Hope, Kansas,
where a large company Of friends
and neighbors met to pay their last
tribute of respect to the deceased.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
OFF CAME THE BOXES
FROM THE SIDEWALKS.

The city ordinance prohibiting
boxes and other articles from stand
ing on the sidewalks in front q
the business houses has been abused
Of late. The commissioners Monday
ordered Marshal Engle to have then
removed. They were. Marshal En-
gle today said: "The businessmen
moved their boxes off Willingly. On
ly a couple objected"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
PRICES WERE FIXED
BY LUMBERNEN
The Big Companies Agreed to
CurtaiI Production.
SENT PRINTED PRICE LIST
First Hearing In Missouri Custer eult
ss Against Alleged Trust Brings
Out important
Facts.
SENT PRINTED PRICE LIST

st. Louis, May 23.-That the big
lumber companies agreed on the
ourtailment Of production, that prices
we're fxed by q committee and that
printed price lists we're sent to all the
firms as means of controlling the
market were established in the first
hearing Of the states custer suit
against the alleged lumber trust.
Asked about meeting Of the South
ern Lumber Manufacturers associa-
ton, which later was renamed the
Yellow Pine Manufacturers associa-
ton, in the Hoo Hoo building at the
worlds fair here in 1904, George X.
Smith, secpetary Of the Yellow Pine
Manufacturers association, testified
that the price list committee met in
executive session at that time in CON
junction with the regular semi-annqal
gathering Of the association.
He testified from his records that
the committee reported lumber was
being cut faster than it was being
shipped. They decided that 50 long
= ~ snrnlns should continue,
.,s,snls ar adyaucing values would be
impossible" "A way must be found
the report continued, TO reduce the
-r,tIs, i, he ssmands 3
~ m ~ . y -. minutes Of An az.
..',. 4 ssss,on r..S. I'll vas thought
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25

For The week ending May 22nd:
Lsttsrr: Ira Garden. Alvin Chap.
peIi. n. B. Coles. Roy AuIbaff, r
I. Rinkef az. Nm Rses Robinson,
chss Stevens
Cards. AZ T. Guy. Howard Han
J. D. Paias. ". :. shauldon, Nh,
Enna y. spencer. l1Ea r 2. Uhf
isn. n A. Eaisll Nm. waiter
3 WkRu11. p. ~
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
MRS. ). n. GOODWIN HAD
AN ARM AMPUTATED-

Yesterday Mrs. ]. R. Goodwin,
SIS North Buckeye. underwent an
operation and had one Of her arms
hmputated at the shoulder Joint,
Mrs. Goodwin has suffered from can
GER trouble for sometime and an
operation was necessary. She has
passed the danger point and is rest
ing easily. Drs. Felty, Wilmer and
Dieter performed the operation.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25

Clay Center again defeated Con-
cordia by taking the long end Of the
score yesterday which was to /.
Junction City defeated Manhattan
yesterday to 3. Junction City leads
in the average column. Clay Center
Is In the cellar.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
JUDGE ANDERSON GIVES KEY
OF MARRIAGE 10 FOUR

''No I did not marry anyone to-
day" said Probate Judge Anderson,
'but I did Issue two marriage licen-
SEES. They are: Jerome G. Stickney
and Clara Sheriff. Of Herington; D.
B. Medlock and Bertha D. Cook Of
DFIlon. This hot weather seems to
put damper on the marriage bust
ness"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25
DON'T FORGET THAT CLEAN
UP DAY is FRIDAY.

Have you sharpened your hoe and
put 1t and your rake in place
where you can find them Friday?
That is the day set aside by the COM
4missioners for . general clean up
day for Abilene. Many people are
already cleaning their premises.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25

Han One Of che Best Teams q ~
Glass IN the State.

A. H. STA. Alumni 3.
"A. H. s. IL, St. Johns o.
4 A. H. s. IA, st. Johns 2.
A. H. s. j. salina Q.
A. H. s. |. Wesleyan Q.
/ "A. H. s. 6. Enterprise N. A. ?.
I A. H. s. Z. Wesleyan ?.
\ A. H. 8. /, Ealina 8.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-05-25

Partial List Tor NAfkeJ Day
Complete set household goods
consisting OF some very fine hand
carved walnut sets.
young mules, not a blemish on
them.
good mich COW, fresh.
good gasoline stoves, in good
condition.
! range. n
/ moving machine, good shape.
spring wagon. 24d2twlt
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
SCOTCH DhLESMEN.

SII,VERWOOI.. BY Emily Jenkinson.
i2mo PIP. 31i. The Baker & Taylor Com
pany
The publishers Of this book lay entirely
too much stress. in their announcement
on its cover, that II is story of prize
ram raised in the country where Bob,
Son of Battle" herded sheep and won his
victories. The comparison thus sug-
gested is inexact in that Bob was the
hero of the remarkable story named after
him, whereas Silverwool, the ram, is not.
Animals capable of filling that role in
fiction are but few in number. and the
ram is not among them. Silverwool Is
the centre Of the plot of Miss Jenkln-
sons story, and she makes no attempt to
give him a more important place. Since.
however. her publishers have suggested
the comparison, it must be said that she
has drawn, on a smaller. less ambitious
scale. good. strong picture OF the SIM
pie life, primitive ways, the virtues and
shortcomings of the sheep raising dales-
men, in which rivalry over the coming
champion of the flocks hampers even the
course of true love. 1t is a satisfactory
piece of work. notable for the quiet, tell
ing assurance with which its author
handles character and setting.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08

glory he must be born at the proper
proper circumstance. If these be inau-
spicuous, his genius is smothered. Beau
Brummel would have been impossible
but for the regency; Beau Nash would
never have been what he became but
for Bath. D'Orsay. on the other hand,
with gifts as great was dwarfed by the
Victorian social atmosphere.
TO be a beau-we are still eXpOunding
the authors thcOry-was a lifewOrk in
itself conservation. 1t could he
achieved only by exclusive devotion to
dress and the adornment the entertain
ment Of society. Beaus mdHqHGs there
have been many, the leaders of a sea-
son, the heroes Of a single witty
repartee. unable to retain the pre-emi-
nence thus gained Mr.. Jerrold tells Of
many Of these. a beau with other in
terests-a Disraeli, for instance, suboTdi-
mating his aspirations to beaudom pure
and simple to his political Ones-becomes
a follower, a mere dandy, as does the
stinctivcly when he wrote home from
Portugal, the dandies fought well"
Even i'm the case Of Nash Mr.. Jcrrold
has a passing doubt. for he made him
self useful by making Bath what it be-
came, but fortunately he had estab-
ished his purely ornamental reputation
before that
A beau, then, being a butterfly. could
live only in butterfly society. There
fore do wc know him no more. lie has
left no successors. Mr. Jerrold. taking
this attitude, fails to remember the
French raj dc Ia gomDC, the late
Prince de Sagan. though he can present
worthy credentials II only because he
taught Paris TO wear a straw hat with
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08

its dress clothes at the summary end oi
the Paris season. Nor does our author
consider worthy of his attention the
dudes" of quarter of century ago.
VINO, too, lived only to dress and thinK
of dress. Their environment was clog
upon their genius; they were restricted TO
carrying the fashions to the extreme OF
their uniformity. Moreover. they had
the reputation. perhaps undeserved and
unjust, the result of modern prejudice, OF
possessing plentiful lack of wit.
Mr.. Jerrold has written an entertain
ing book, which follows closely his own
theory of the relation of social environ
ment to beaudom through the reigns or
Charles II. William and Mary, Queen
Anne, the Georges, the Regency and the
early Victorian days. 1t is a long, and
long forgotten, string of beaus and
dandies that he presents to us beside the
famous leaders. Buckingham and Field
ing, CoDgreve. Chesterfield, "Old o."
George Selwyn, the Macaronis, with
sketches of their social setting in Lon
don, at court. in Bath, at Whites and
Almacks. And in his chatty Geographic
chapters he does full justice to the folly
and the wit the vices and the virtues,
the extravagances and the ultimate fate
of these prominent figures of past eras in
English social life. The illustrat tions,
from contemporary sources, are numer-
Gus and selected with full appreciation
of their value to the text.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08

stranger unfamiliar with the natives
will encounter many difficulties unknown
to mountaineering elsewhere. MAJOR
Bruce's success in overcoming them was
due to his great familiarity with the
people and above all. with their needs
but what he communicates here is SUI
ficiently clear and circumstantiai TO save
the newcomer from many mistake ana
disappointment. Nor need Himalayan
travel he all strenuousness. Lighter ana
shorter excursions may be made and
multiplied i'm the medium ranges and
minor valleys which are, indeed, the
pleasantcst places Of the Himalayas'
Mrs. Bruce contributes chapter on
camping.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08

around her, Moliere and Boileau, Racine
and Corneille its greatest ornaments.
The ultimate enmity between her and
Nine. de Maintenon is, i'm accordance
with this consistent endeavor to make
as much Of her century" as possible,
dealt with at wearying length. until
Mime. Louis XIV" and her unpopularity
take the centre of the scene to the ex-
cluson Of her erstwhile friend.
So far as the known facts of Ninon's
life are concerned this book will serve
very we'll those having no previous
knowledge of them, but it contains no
well focused, we'll posed portrait; the
light shifts too often away from her to
her century" and leaves her in the
dark too long at time. And the facts
of her century" are put down without
their meaning, without the necessary en-
velope Of a vivifying atmosphere.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
FICTION.
n Ne1o Indian Legend, and
Other Stories.
TRAGEDY IN THE cArcKILLs.

THE BLACK CROSS GLOVE A story
and a study. By James Luby. f2mo,
pp. 3ss. b. w. Huebsch''
Mr.. Luby has invented picturesque
and tragic story. and told It well. II
starts with an Indian legend, or. more
probably, bit of Tcutonic folklore
transferred from its European home by
some early settler 10 the Catskills. and
adapted there to its new environment
the legend Of an Indian spirit, pinned 10
the Black Cross Glove by it's own ghostly
tomahawk as II cleft the mountain in
an attempt to kill a human rival for the
love Of a woman. The ghost is doomed
to stay there, it's own prisoner until
some other daughter Of the mortals shall
set 1t free by consenting to accompany II
TO its ghostly realm for love. The legend
Is handed down from geperation to gen
Grafton in that remote settlement, to-
gether with a tradition that no Freer
can enter the house Of an Eltringham
without meeting tragic fate. The two
local traditions are interviewer by Mr..
Luby I'm his story. which is one Of the
present day. and tells the fulilment OF
both traditions \ most interesting vent
ure into a field all too little cultivated
by American imaginative writer's.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08

dandy with reproving or, at the pesl'
with amused contempt. If that were his
attitude, this tribute to the memory of
many beaus and dandies would never
have been written. Indeed, Mr. Jerrold
evolves a philosophy of beaudom that
ends in a lament for the times that are
no more. for, paradoxcal though 1t
sounds, clothes that made the beau have
killed him by insisting upon conformity
and suppressing all initiative, such, as
the attempted introduction nowadays of
salmon colored dress clothes and lace
wrist ruffles-heroic ventures made by
beaus born and destined but stifled by
an unpropitious social environment.
Men who once set the fashions have
been reduced 10 slavishly following
them. and the best they can achieve is
dandydom. There is a great difference
between the two. as the author points
out We need not stop to take into con-
sideration the immature attempts of
youth to attract attention to itself by
eccentricities such as carrying a cane by
the wrong end, or the watch in the
trousers pocket together with a bunch of
latch keys. or even, in extreme cases,
wearing a Panama hat with fur over
coat. All that is cnfdntiUdgC, and we
are concerned with a serious topic of
historic interest
A beau is born, not made Mr.. Jerrold
Informs US. and to flower into his fullest
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
GOOD READING MATTER.

THE GOLDEN WEB. BY Anthony Part
ridge. With illustrations by William
Kirkpatrick. 12mo, PIP. 339 Boston:
Little, Brown co.
Stirling Deane has returned from South
Africa to London and there sold his rich
mine, the Golden Web, to corporation,
whose manager he is. Enter one OF his
old pals of the Johannesburg days, VINO
claims that the mine is really his and
has the documents to prove IT. His title
is cloudy, yet strong enough to lead
Deane, first to attempt to buy it, then TO
have it stolen. a murder is the result
but the grant disappears. This is the
point of departure of most satisfactory
tale Of mystery. in which are involved
two women as we'll as the financier the
murderer and another returned miner.
Mr. Partridge succeeds in mystifying the
reader as much as he bewilders his char
acters. which is but another way Of say
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
LONDON'S DIALECT.
rhe Lonlon Standard.

From The London Standard.
In a little book entitled 'London's
Dialect" Mr.. Mackenzie Macbride chal-
lenges the view expressed by the educa-
ton department OF the London County
Council that there is no London dialect
of reputable antecedents and origin"
and that "the Cockney mode OF speech
is modern corruption" He points out
that the London dialect, especially on
the south side of the Thames is a per-
fcctly recognizable child of the old Kent
ish tongue. 10 which we owe our earliest
written literature. Tibet" for that.
"benk" for bank" "keb" for cab" are
remnants of the old Kentish mode of
pronunciation
In the Kentish dialect that" was spelt
"thet" as early rs \. ID. S25. The use OF
go for "a" as i'm "lidy," was common
from the Trent 10 The Thames I'm Eliza
beths time, and John Stow. writing In
1880 gives us "bylyffe" for "bailiff The
use OF "au" for "a in such cockneyisms
as telegraph" is of very old origin.
and "abaht" and "ahtside" are both war
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
The Friendship of R. w. Emerson
and w. H. FurneSS.
RECORDS OF A LIFELONG FRIEND
SHIP. 1s07-lSS2. Ralph Waldo Emerson
and William Henry FurnesS. Edited ny
j. II. r. Illustrated l6mo' PIP III

RECORDS OF A LIFELONG FRIEND
SHIP. 1S07-lSS2 Ralph Waldo Emerson
and William Henry Furness. Edited ny
il. II. f. Illustrated l6mo, PIP. I'll
HoughtOn Mifiln Company.
More than a hundred years ago there
played together on the floor of Mrs.
Furness's chamber in an old Boston
house two small boys in petticoats. Will
lam Furness and Ralph Emerson. y
little later they went to school together
always sitting side by side and each ad-
miring the productions of the other
for Ralph was by way OF being poet
while William was a mastery wtelder
of the slate pencil in drawing. Repro
1uced i'm this volume is the still existent
manuscript OF a romantic tale in rhyme
written by little Emerson and illustrated
bv little Furness. Therein are set forth
the knightly adventures of Fortus,
stout hero, for whom lovely maid pro-
vidcs suitable guerdon. The verse Is 100
faithful an echo Of the commonplace
rhymes Of that period TO be quite iunn!'
Int there is delightful absurdity in young
Nvuliams heroine. who with smile
stretching from ear TO ear receives her
medieval knight clad I'm the gorgeous
uniform Of the Boston Huzzars OF 1coo'
DIR. Furness has noted, apropos OF these
Youthful achievements, that Ralph had
genius in abundance, but no talent. l
never knew him TO attempt 10 draw any
thing, not even the conventional cat
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
Literary .Nes0S and Criticism

that struck him and into which he NM
self probably put significance that 'le
speaker had no thought Of"
Like other special editions OF the
Riverside Press. this volume Is tEPo-
graphically thing Of beauty Inc
photogravure portraits are admirap'e'
Particularly interesting is the group we
reproduce The man of humorous eN-
preston. seated in the centre, is Sainuei
Bradford, third schoolmaster OF inc
old Boston days. DR.. Furness' MS 50"
tells MS, considered this portrait OF EN-
erson the best ever taken. In II ne
could distinctly and vividly trace '"e
features and expression of the nttie DO!
in petticoats with whom he played WIN
wooden blocks on the floor ot MS
mothers room"-the little boy 10 "hoIn'
when both were old and the memory OF
all things earthly was fading from 'he
Concord philosophers tired MIND lie
sent his Immortal love"
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
NINON De L'ENCLOS
A New Product of the Biography
Mill.

NINON De LENCLOS AND HER CEN
TURY. BY NJ G. Rowsell with Illus
tlations Svo. PIP. iX. 80 Breniano'S.
The compiling of biographies of the
historical pCrsonages, celebrities ana
notorieties of seventeenth and eighteenth
century France has been developed
chiefly in England into a profitable lit
erary industry. Proportions may be dis
torted the Importance of single HE
may be entirely overdrawn out OF all
relation 20 the period in which it was
lived. court and social scandal may be
tortured into an appearance of historical
authenticity that they probably never
possessed-it does not matter. the ann
being not historical accuracy or relia-
bility but readable and, by preference
somewhat piquant books. which, even as
biography. may venture to make sur
mise serve as the complement OF avail
able facts in case they prove To be in
sufficient for the biographer's purpose.
The author Of this life of the notorious
and famous Frenchwoman whose name
it bears tries to justify the lengths to
u
title the words "and her Century Thus
the door is opened to the inclusion of all
kinds of events and personages, no doubt
contemporary with the happenings ana
doings Of Ninon de IEnclos's prolonged
existence on this earth. but bearing,
many of them. no relation whatever to
il. She lived i'm the century of Louis
XIII and RiChelicu. of MaZarin and the
Frondc. of Louis XIV, the Revocation OF
the EdiCt of Nantes. and of many other
uersonages and events. nut the multitude
of them discussed in these pages dwarfs
the facts Of the life of NinOn herself, IN
stead of framing them. She Is not the
heroine Of her own story here, for her
biographer wanders far, far away from
her and her direct concerns through
chapter after chapter about that cen
tury." which was not hers at all in the
authors sense. SIZE did not create 1t or
even help TO shape IT, ON the contrary
she was its product and bore its stamp
Thus is a biography Of this kind eked
out To the desired length where personal
facts are lacking. The method is, per
hans. prefera Bile to that of Coloring sur
misses as facts. but even 50 the his
tory should be less fragmentary than it
is here. AS a biographer the author
goes into it too deeply. as historian
she does not go far enough.
The truth is that our authentic sources
of information concerning the life of
Ninon de rEnclos are very few. Those
we do possess are not used by the
author with the thoroughnoss one has a
right to expect The education the child
received from its father is, for instance,
dealt with too briefly: and again, the
author appears to he unconscious of the
fact that Mile. de Scudtrys "Clelie" con-
tains her portrait. At least. she forgets
IN mention this. Furthermore, st. Eyre
mont is not sufficiently i'm evidence. her
lifelong friend, often absent through
long periods. but faithful To the last
The author reviews chronOlogically the
many love affairs Of Ninon with an air
of discretion that soon becomes irri-
tating. She shows us the later intel
Iectual ,Ninon of the second most con-
spicuOus salon of Paris, but its hostess is
lost i'm the crowd of those gathered
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08

ing that his story Is a highly successful
example of its genre Of fiction. Ethically
Il is somewhat confused, for in the end
one is not sure whether justice is done or
not according to the standards OF tales
of crime and its results, but most readers
will not care. neither is there any reason
why they should in the case of book
that, frankly written only to entertain,
succeeds so well in its purpose.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
HISTORIC BUTTERFLIES
England's Leaders of Fashlon
Their Wit and Follles.

THE RFATX AND THE DANDIES. Nasnf, NfL
Rrummel and d'Orsay with ,fs ne.
Courts BY Clare Jerrod. With iroiStS snI
niece and IS illustrations. oNo' PIP ''i'
The John Lane Company
The author of this book does not Oe
LONG "a that vast majority of manNi"u'
especially of the male part ''i .ro
which looks upon the beau ana '''0
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08

Balzac's house i'm Paris has never been
scheduled among the national monu-
ments, and the state has therefore no
interest In preserving IL and the collec-
ton OF relics OF the author which Ii con
tains. The rent is I'm arrears and IL Is
more than probable that the Balzac Mu-
scum VIII soon go out of existence. II
is strange that France should take so
little pride In her greatest novelist.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
THE BAILLI DE SUFFREN.
(From the bust by Houdon.)

and whimsical description OF the travels
OF the two in the United States Of lSo2
a region rather crude in manners.
Mr.. Grove may be believed. The text Is
broken by a multitude Of the artists
sketches, mahy of them made with
borrowed gold pen, no less pen than
that which
Never writ fattery
Nor signed the page that registered lie.
The third example Of Captain John
Underhilrs "Newes from America sold
within the last twenty years, lately ap-
peared in London auction room. Mr.
Sabin secured It for S325. For a copy
OF the original edition of the 'Hypnero-
tomachia" of francesca ColOnna the sum
OF 5000 was paid.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-08

ranted by ancient use. As for ken,
and 'slep" without the final t." they ara
really uncorrupted words, the Z" being
an intruder of late date.