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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30
THE NoN.vOTERs.

In 1908 William H. Taft received
7,67S,9OS votes for president.
throughout the country, and his plu-
rality over William j. Bryan was
/ 1853, 1904. 1t is estimated that not
more than 100000 votes will be
polled by Republicans in presiden-
tial primaries this year, and posi-
bly, not more than the number con-
stituting Mr.. Taft's plurality four
years ago. When one considers what
a small fraction of the Republican
vote throughout the country actually
figures in the much talked of pri-
mary victories, the danger of over
estimating or misinterpreting the re-
suits of these primary contests be-
comes apparent.
1t appears there are something
like 100000 Republicans who will
not have recorded their preference
directly for a presidential candidate
when the national convention assem-
Ibles. These Republicans live in
states where no primary contests are
held, and in other states where only
a minority, and generally a small
minority, of the party members car
ed to avail themselves of the right
to express themselves at the primar-
les. These Republicans are a factor
that certainly ought not to be en-
tirely ignored or forgotten; they will
be heard from in November. They
constitute prominently the silent.
thinking" element that in the last
analysis decides the issue Of presi-
Dental contest.
One may fairly assume that these
6 1000, 900 Republicans are, for the
most part, more conservative, less
discontinued, more given to delibera-
ton and less inclined to look to the
latest cure-all devices for solution
OF political problems than the l.
500, 900 who are voting at the pri-
maries. For any party to shape its
policies in disregard of this prepon-
derant element seems il-advised.
For any candidate or partisan Of q
candidate to assume to declare what
the viii Of the people is without con-
sidering the existence of the 6,0OO,-
900 Republicans who have not voted
In primaries. as distinguished from
1900 900 who exercise that privil-
Iege. seems hasty and rash.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30
20 DEVELOP BETTER Giles
Fourth Annual Conference Opens In
Boston to Plan for Various
improvements.

Boston, May 27.-Mayor Fitzgerald
welcomed the delegates to the fourth
national conference on city planning
this afternoon with q formal luncheon
at the Lenox. About 300 representa-
tive delegates from cities of the Unit
ed States, Canada and Europe attend
ed the affair."
In the course of his brief speech of
welcome, the mayor dwelt upon the
past performances of the conference
and announced that particular atten-
ton would be paid at this meeting to
the development of civic conditions.
The purpose of the conference is the
intelligent guidance of the physical
growth of cities and towns.
Following the luncheon the city
planners adjourned till O'Clock to
night, when the first regular session
Of the convention will be held in the
public library. At this session the
meaning and progress of city planning
will be the subject Of papers to be
read by Frederick Law Olmstead,
Prof. George e. Swain of Harvard and
Arnold W. Drummer of New York. The
deliberations of the delegates will
close on Wednesday with a dinner.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30

cago 70 the Pacific coast at an early
date.
Officials Of the Santa Fe are
hopeful that the public sentimert
which during a ten year period Of
political unrest was unfriendly to
the railroads. has taken q turn for
the better. The high cost OF living
is applicable to a railroad. same as
to the people. and officials who man
age the affairs of the Santa Fe have
tried to ekow the proposition in that
light to those who regulate the rail-
roads for the state and federal gov
ernments. Being accountable to
twenty eight bodies of public utility
regulators. consisting OF thirteen
state legislatures. thirteen public util-
ity state boards, one congress and
one interstate commerce commission.
the Santa Fe took these regulating
bodies, as well as the general public
into It's confidence, and, in a cam
paign OF publicity, told them the
whole story OF its corporate life. The
as Indicated by the newspa!
pers, and by reports from patrons,
is a more friendly attitude on the
part of the public. Apparently the
public is disposed to see that even
with the most economic manage
ment, a railroad will in time be
greatly handicapped when the price
of everything 1t has to buy, including
labor. is steadily increasing, while
the price of transportation-the on
ly thing 1t has to SELLS constantly
down"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30
According to the returns made to

According to the returns made to
the Cincinnati assessors President
Taft is $4,000 richer now than he
was last year, but it is little likely
that he has saved this amount from
his salary. Governor Harmon, on
the other hand, is poorer. The ag-
gregate wealth of neither touches
100000, but that fact is not so
of two men of national
prominence as the general public
may think it to be. 1t is noticeable
that neither President Taft nor Gov
ernor Harmon own a watch valued
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30

The latest suggestion as to how
to kill your home town are furnished
by the Sumner County Republican,
as follows; Buy from peddlers as
much and as often as possible. De-
nounce your merchants because they
make a profit on their goods. Glory
in the downfall of a man who has
done much to build up your town.
Make your town out bad place and
stab it every chance you get Refuse
to unite in any scheme for the bet
torment of the material interests of
the people. Tell your merchants that
you can buy goods great deal
cheaper in some other town and
charge them with extortion. II a
stranger comes to your town tell
him everything is overdone, and
predict a general crash in the near
future. Patronize outside newspa-
pers to the exclusion of your own
and then denounee yours for not be-
ing as large and cheap. as the city
papers. If you are a farmer, curse
the place where you trade as the
meanest on earth. Talk this over
to your neighbors and tell them the
men are robbers and thieves. 1t will
make your property much less valu-
able; but you don't care.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30
MIX Tor Flesh REDUCTION.

The simplest article containing com
plete nourishment IL milk. That 10 Dr..
Mltchell's cure for obesity, but be pats
his patients to bed while he gives Il
to them. An amount Of milk sufficient
for the nourishment Of = healthy, 80
live person presents digestive dimcul-
tieB for many. Il 10 not the simple
liquid diet Il seems, but presents q
solid mass Of curds IN the stomach.
Lime water makes 4 more digostiblo.
In the form OF buttsrmiIk. Il g easier
10 digest and makes q very elective
reduction diet. Il Il wise 70 take with
Il . little giutan bread with butter,
ainca the fata have been removed frcm
10 MIX -Hsrpor's BasaT.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30
The Battle OF Waterloo
By John CLARK Ridpath

Author of Ridpath's History of the
World
cat half-past four, everything por-
tended disaster to the allies and vic
tory to the French. To Wellington
lit appeared that the hour of fate
had struck. %. that night or Bluch-
err would comet said he, as he saw
his lines stagger and culver under
the renewed assaults of the French.
The uncertain factor in the conflict
was Blucher and his forty thousand
Prussians. If he should come with
out GrOuchy upon his rear then Ma
poleon would be defeated; but If
GrOuchy should hold him back or
beat him to the field, then not only
was the allied cause lost in this
bloody work at Waterloo, but the
old Bourbonism of Europe would be
forever exploded and blown away in
smoke. BY five o'clock there
were rumors of BIucher's coming.
Soon afterwards bugles were heard
far to the French right. and the
noise of the approaching army be-
came ominous in the distance. Was
lit Butcher or Grouchy?"
"It was Butcher. The Prussian
banners shot up in the horizon. With
Napoleon it was now or never. The
hour of his destiny had come. His
sun of Austerlitz hung low in the
western sky. Could he break that
British center? Should he not, he
was hopelessly, irretrievably ruined.
None knew it better than he. The
fate of Imperial France, which he
had builded with his genius and de-
Tended with his sword, hung trem-
bling in the balance. He called out
-four battalions of his veterans, and
then the Old Guard. More than a
hundred times in the last fifteen
years that that Guard been thrown
upon the enemy and never yet re-
QulSSu. IL uCCnCu lISOIA lhNlHCiDlC'
Would this hour add another an
other to its long list of victorious
charges? At little after seven
O'Clock In the evening just as the
June sun was setting in the horizon
of fated France, the bugle sounded,
and the finest body of horsemen that
ever careered over the field of bat
tie started to meet its doom on the
brlstling squares of wellington.
Those grim and fearless horsemen
went to their fate like heroes. The
charge rolled on like an avalanche.
|It broke upon the squares. They
reeled under the shock, then reform
ed and stood fast. Round and round
those immovable lines the fierce sol
diers Of the Empire beat with un-
awaiting courage. Then arose from
the livs of those who witnessed the
desperate, struggle the fatal cry, La
Garde reculee, La Garde reculee!"
cit was indeed true. The Old
Guard was repulsed, broken, ruined.
vainly did Marshal Ney, glorious in
his impetuous despair, attempt 60
stay the tide Of destruction. Five
horses had been shot under him. He
was on foot with the common sol
diers. His hat was gone. He was
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30
WABASH ENGINE WAS DERAlLED
Engineer Jumped in Time to Save
HE Life, But Was Severely
ScaIdedA

Columbia, Mo-, May 27.-Walter
Skinner, engineer on a Wabash pas
senger train which runs between Gen.
tralia and Columbia, jumped from his
cab when his engine left the tracks a
few miles from Centralia. He was
scalded and resolved severe injuries.
His condition Is dangerous. B. J..
Reinhart. the fireman, also jumped,
but was not injured. None Of the
coaches left the track and no pas
sengers were injured. Skinner lives
In Centralia.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30

covered with dust and blood; but
his grim face was set against the
enemy, and with sword in hand he
attempted to rally his shattered lines.
The English, now inspired by the
hope of almost certain victory, threw
forward their lines, and the Prussian
army rushed in from the right. Ma
poleon threw a single regiment of
the Guard into square, and strove
to rally the fugitives around this
nucleus of resistance. The al.
lies bore down upon it, and number
less batteries were open on this last
heroic band of the defenders of the
glory of France. There they stood.
Surrender, brave Frenchmen!' cried
an English officer, dashing up with
flag and struck with admiration
at the dauntless lines which had
planted themselves before the vic
torious allies for no other purpose
than to reach glorious death. The
Old Guard dies but never tsurren-
ders' was the defiant answers
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HODGE BROTHERS
See Sample at

at more than 500. In fact Govern
or Harmon's watch is put down as
worth only $50. There may be a
political Significance in this latter
fact, for there are millions of men
in the United States whose watches
are poor time keepers and of no
greater money value than the gov
errors. Should these men stand to-
gether at the polls there may be a
great political surprise in store for
the country.
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sOCTALTsM INCOHERENT.

DNyOhNAAAONh hkN&OAAheAhAAANA
There are innumerable social
lsns. There is no socialism, This
statement is made BY Dean Albion
w. Small OF the University OF Chi.
cago In the American Journal Of
Sociology, issued yesterday by the
University OF Chicago Press. Dean
Small writes further:
There is no socialist movement
In this county. There are countless
groups or people who call themselves
Socialists. but their incoherence II
evident in the proneness OF each
group to dispute the right Of every
other group to the name Socialist.
Socialism on the south side OF Chi
cago is not identical with the social
ism on the north side, and neither
OF these types has the precise thumb
marks of Socialism on the west side.
Socialism in Milwaukee is not
one and the same thing with Social
ism In either section of Chicago, nor
does Socialism in Haverhill, Mass,
correspond exactly with our western
tyue; while socialism In Buffalo or
Patterson or Pittsburgh has its traits
as separatistic as the different
revolutionary elements that are now
rending China.
Socialists, like other sectarians,
assemble congresses in which there
is a certain fundamental unity of
opinion. Outside of such assemblies,
which, in the nature of the case.
would be composed of the relatively
likeminded, / have never in my life
had the experience Of meeting two
Socialists in succession who indicat-
ed identical ideas of their titular doc
trine. 49, -~a@-gs
so far as my contact with Social
lists is criterion, they agree on GER
tain vague general statements, but
beyond that they disagree as widely
as chance pairs of men whom we
might stop on the street and inter-
view as to their conceptions of demo-
crazy.
"All our social problems may be
reduced to the differences of opinion
about the validity of the principle
that men are more important than
capital. 1t is a part of the trag-
edy OF life that all good men cannot
find their place on the side of the
ethical principles, and all the bad
men are mt segregated within the
trochas of immortality.
Social problems are confusion
of good and bad impulses almost
inextricably tntertangled. Our aca-
demic social scientists would serve
their generation to better purpose
II they would diminish the ratio of
attention which they give to refine
ments interesting only to their kind,
and If they would apply the saving
to tackling this radical moral prob
lem of men in general.
1.-THE Socialists, as rule, have at
tackled this problem with more zeal
than discretion. 1t would improve
the mental stock and 1t would pro-
mote the social progress If there
could be more cross breeding be-
tween presumed scientific discretion
and actual democratic zeal for hui
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Some fussy editors are compla

Some fussy editors are complain
ing because a recent war story tells
of veteran being killed by an auto.
mobile in 1866. What's a little ana
chronism like than when the story
Is all right?
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The Golden Belt road will be
marked from end to end by June 10
except Pottawatomie county which
seems to be sleeping in the by-gone
rges.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-05-30

The Republican candidates now
''claim" total OF 1879 delegates
when only 1918. are allowed by the
call. Somebody is going to suffer
disappointment
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World his
The Delta independent., 1912-05-03
several miles distant.

several miles distant.
Two Moons a Cheyenne brave, now
converted to Christianity, who took
part in the battle, has told at least
the other side of the story, and he
is of the belief that had Clusters
entire command fought as bravely as
the Gray Horse troop there would
have been no massacre.
Clusters men charged right into
he Indian camp, he says, without
any semblance of order. No Skin
mish lines were thrown out, and
when the Indians recovered from
their panic it took but a short time
to surround the cavalrymen. Then
the soldiers became panic-stricken.
According to Two Moons, many
dropped their guns and tried to
break through the Indians. Many
seemed to have become insane. Onl
the Gray Horse troop rallied, and
they fought like demons. They work
ed their way slowly up the ridge,
but the savages shot them down one
by one.
Had the whole command done tn
same, Two Moons says he doubts the
Indians would have continued the
battle. as they had squaws and
children with them, but the help
lessness of the troopers was taken
advantage of by Sitting Bull. The
battle started about IL O'Clock in
the forenoon, and according to Two
Moons lasted about an hour and a
half.
I'VE didn't allow even a yellow
dog to escape" said Two Moons, "One
ran out from somewhere, and the
Indian boys killed it."
Two Moons declared that the
Cheyennes did not recognize Gus
ter during the fighting, as all the
soldiers looked alike
The Delta independent., 1912-05-03
CRAWFORD.
Crawford Chronicle.l

lCrawford Chronlcle.J
The infant daughter of Bert Pace
has been very sick this week.
Mrs Clarence Mower of Delta is
visiting her sister, Mrs. D. w. Nc
Intyre.
Claud Childress run off the grade
in the Smith Fork canon with a
load of grain Friday, but fortunate
ly was lot hurt.
home from Illinois this evening. She
was called East a month ago by
the death of her mother.
Mr. Campbell and wife of Delta,
moved to their new house in Craw-
ford this week.
r. T. Fluke was confined to his
room several days this week on &C
count of rheumatism.
Bert Long is Nursing his shins,
the result of tu'mlDling over the
bluff Sunday, while going down to
the ball game.
l. d. Morrow, the cheerful clerk
in Gould store, is setting out 500
fruit trees on his ranch near town.
The basketball boys returned from
Hotchkiss quietly last Saturday, but
the basketball girls madsA-he welkin
ring when they came into town.
The BALL game Sunday between
Austin and Crawford was holly con-
tested from start to finish, the Aus
tin team winning by one. The
Austin.
The Delta independent., 1912-05-03
INDIAN TELLS OF CUSTER.

AS the years roll by and the
Indians become more used to the
ways of the white man further light
is shed upon that memorable battle
of June IS, 1876. wien Gen. Custer
and his 375 troopers of the Seventh
cavalry were massacred by the Sioux
and Cheyennes under Sitting Bull ON
the Little Big Horn, says a Grow
Indian Agency, Mont, dispatch to
New York Times Not trooper es-
capped, and history has had to con-
tent itself with official correspon-
dence and the story of Maj. Reno.
who, instead of going to Clusters
aid, sought safety on high bluff
The Delta independent., 1912-05-03
AGREEMENT ARRIVED AT
REGARDING STOCK KILLED.

Following an agreement recently
arrived at between the mmebers Of
the Stock Growers association, the
state board of stock commissioners
and the railroads. regarding stock
killed on railroads. the following
suggestions have been sent out:
/. II you receive notice. or II
comes to your knowledge that one
OF your animals has been killed. go
at once to the section house and
examine the evidence.
2. IL you find that the animal
killed belonged to you, without
doubt. i'm mediately make out claim
for same on blank that will be fur
nished you by the section foreman.
Should the section foreman be un-
able to furnish such blank, you ca,1
secure one from any station agent.
3. Make 1t your duty to keep an
eye upon the fences and cattle
guards along the railroad in your vi
cinity. whenever you see a fence
in bad repair or cattle guard
that will not turn stock. write let
ter to the secretary of the state
board OF stock inspection commits
sioners. giving the nearest mile post
and the location where the fence Is
out of repair, and the matter will be
imm ediateIy called to the attention
of the railroad authorities.
a. When in THE vicinity OF
section house. make an opportunity
to stop and examine the stock rec
ord. and II you have any knowledge
regarding any of the animals killed
and which are marked unknown"
on the record, or have no. been
claimed, give such Information as
you have to the section foreman and
also notify the nearest stock inspec-
The Delta independent., 1912-05-03

from Colorado. has introduced a
bill in congress providing for the re-
call of federal judges in case their
decisions do not meet with popular
approval. THE bill provides that the
judges shall be subject to recall on
ly every four years.-Mancos Tim es.
An American girl, Miss Duke. the
daughter of Dukes Mixture Nnd
granddaughter of Bull Durham, has
bought a Spanish prince named Pig
maturity. or something like that. 1t
will be great comfort to the average
American who smokes, says Charley
Finch. to remember that he con-
tributes his part of the purchase
price.-Castle Rock Journal.
The Delta independent., 1912-05-03
HOTCHKlSS.
North Fork Times.]

ID. w. Thomas and wife, Miss
Ruth Elofson and Mrs. DR.. Wood
ward drove down to Delta Tuesday.
Archie Butts, the aid to presi-
dent Taft who went down with the
Titanic Was a school mate of Mrs
Sam Cockreham of Delta.
Jessie Reynolds returned from
Salida a few days ago, where he
had been at the Red Cross hospital
to have cancerous growth cut out
of his face by DR.. Cochem.
Miss Cleola Livesay left Sunday
for Pueblo, where she will resume
her position at the St. Mary's hos
pital where she is training for a
nurse. She has been visiting home
folks for the past six weeks.
The case of the state against v.
Mcmillan, which has been contin-
ued several times in the last month,
was dismissed Monday at the conclu-
sion of the states evidence. McMil-
Ian should never have been arrested
for petty little quarrel with Tay-
lOr