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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
U HAVE BURNERS.
New Law Goes into Effect 18th of
This Month.

On September 18th the new san
itation law passed by the last legis-
lature will go into effect, according
to Harrison Parkman, state fire
marshal. The law was passed March
18th and provided that within six
months time householders should
provide a receptacle of iron, steel,
stone, brick of cement in which t.
deposit refuse. The list of accumu-
lations mentioned is extensive enough
to include practically all trash OF
every description. Whenever the re-
ceptacle is filled, the contents shall
be taken beyond the city limits and
burned or buried. This is to be done
at the expense of the householder,
although it is within the power. of
the city to make some provision for
doing it.
September 1S marks the final
time limit for householders to pro-
vide themselves with r~eceptacles.
The penalty for violation of the law
is a maximum fine of 800 or 80
days in jail or both fine and inn
prisonment. The space between the
rear of business establishments and
the alley is subject to the same pro-
visions as the alley in the matter of
all accumulations.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
THE VILLAGE DEACON.

The reason things go so against
some fellows is that they prefer to
depend on a four-leafed clover to
working for three dollars a day.
A neighbor of mine has nothing
but a little hand sickle, but a strang-
hearing him talk about harvest
would mink he owner fourteen bin
ders and twenty headers.
e&A
He who fingers long enough to
listen to the siren song Of an agent
Is bound to be stung.
! get on an average Of about ten
orders a day to make shoes that will
1T certain people. / am not in that
business, but l will admit that q lot
the shoes l make at random do
how a remarkable fit for certain
When l do start, II ever.
INTO the business of making shoes
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
"A DERAILED ENGINE
TIED UP THREE SYSTEMS

For the past week or more Union
Pacific train No. 104 has been from
Is minutes to two hours late. Train
men can assign no special reasons
for the delay. 1t is too late in the
season for any more grasshopper
stories. But last Sunday a derailed
Rock Island engine In the union de-
pot yards at Denver stopped passen-
ger traffic on three systems. Trains
on the Union Pacific, Rock Island
and Burlington we're held up when
the Rock Island engine left the
track Just at the outskirts Of the
yards. The Union Pacific train was
two hours late at Abilene.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
TOOK BACK THEIR CORN;
BIG PROFIT THIS YEAR

Last fall Richard and Tom Brown
of Junction City raised several thou
sand bushels of corn. A neighbor
offered so cents a bushel and they
sold to him at that price. After
the neighbor had hauled some Of the
corn he asked the Browns to keep
some of the corn themselves. The
Browns were unwilling at first, but
later. consented. They now have
more than 1000 bushels on hand.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18

The county commissioners met
Monday at the court house and made
appropriations for two bridges. one
across the Smoky Hill near Sand
Springs in Lincoln township, to cost
$4,000; one across the Smoky Hill
southeast Of town. township -, to
cost $4,000 The commissioners
viii advertise for bids at once. For
the two bridges either steel spans
with concrete floors or concrete or
reinforced concrete arches will be
considered.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
Advertised Mail.

For week ending Sept. Is, 1913:
Letters: Arthur Anderson, Miss
Ruth Austin, Earl Edwards, w. H
Hartman, F. E. Hyle, Claude Little
field, Miss Mary Merry WIDOW
Henry w. Rule, John Weir.
Cards: Arthur Anderson, P. L.
Andres, o. E. Barns. Aron Baldwin,
George r. Ballard. Miss Maude
Browne, Miss Marie Brown. Aman-
da Briscoe, Clemens Produce Co.,
Mrs. F. E. Heltsell, Mrs. Mamie
Lowry, Mrs. Nina Maddens, Mrs.
Eta Thomson, Herbert Williams IT.
Co.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
G. HOFFMAN FILLING
sILo AT ENTERPRISE.

G. Hoffman Just recently COM
pleted one Of the largest silos in
this county at his home in the west
part of Enterprise. The big ensil-
c~ontainer is built OF concrete
and stands 50 feet in heighth and is
1s feet In diameter. Workmen have
been busy the past week filling this
silo which win hold about $50 tons
Of ensiIage.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18

to fit particular persons nobody will
have the slightest excuse for mis-
taking the label.
The redeeming thing about your
safety razor is that nobody ever
wants to borrow it.
AAA
l heard a fellow say the other day,
Just wait until Opportunity does
knock at my door and l will make
all the other fellows look like thirty
cents" But he went. In the first
place he will never hear the gentle
knock of the god Of fortune. / fig
ure 1t out that way because / know
that a dozen alarm clocks will not
rouse him in the morning. He is
always late to work when he does
happen to snag a job. The. fellow
a good healthy alarm clock cannot
rouse in time to get to work in the
morning will never in the world
hear the soft tap of Opportunity.
But this fellow stays around all day
expecting to hear the knock that
will hand him a fortune. He really
thinks that the reason he Is down
and out is because Opportunity has
not gotten around to him. Nine
out of ten II he did hear
Opportunity knock he would imag-
ne 1t to be a neighbor who wanted
lin to do a small job of work and
he would refuse to go to the door.
You see this fellow every day, don't
'ou?
AA&
My greatest drawback, now that
III things are said and done, is
hat l can't trade my philosophy for
,eefsteak, groceries or ice.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
HIS COMMENT ON SLIT
SKIRT WAS COSTLY

]. s. Harris of Dwight commented
too loudly on a slit skirt worn by a
Junction City girl. His remarks
caused his arrest and conviction in
police court. with a fine of SIS. He
is a thresher.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
PETITION FOR PAVING ON
SECOND, VINE TO PINE

A petition was prepared last night
and will be circulated asking for
paving on Second street from Vine
to Pine. At the present time IL
blocks of paving is assured and
about 20 blocks under considera-
ton.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
WILL FILL RIVER
CUT NEAR JUNCTION

The county commissioners Of Geary
county awarded the contract for fill
ing in the cut on the Republican
river north of Junction City to
George C. Wilson for 1851.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
Aida, GEARY COUNTY,
REPORTS FIRST FROST

Aida, in the northern part Of
'Geary county, reports the first frost
of the season. The temperature is
reported at AZ degrees. The frost
lfEht.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18
PREPARE FOR ANNIVERSARY
Big Celebration is Planned ut Man
haitian This Fall.

haitian This Fall.
The fiftieth anniversary celebra-
ton of the Kansas state agricultural
college is drawing near. According
to estimates, 1t is going to cost about
$1,000 to pull off the celebration.
The college, having no fund for
such purposes, recently asked Man
haitian to give some financial assist
ance. The commercial club will
raise $10O.-Manhattan Nationalist.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-18

My greatest drawback, now that
all things are said and done, is
that l can't trade my philosophy for
beefsteak, groceries or ice.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
GAMBLERS GET MILLIONS
IN GUISE OF CHARITY

PARIS, May 14.--Clandestine gam
bling in Paris and the manner IN
which wealthy visitors to the city ar,
fleeced by gamblerssoperating under
the cloak of, esssrisgsswere described
in the chamber Of deputies by the vi
comte Gustave Yves De Korguezec
deputy from the Cotes-Du- Nord.
Speaking on bill for regulation
of the French governments percent.
ages taken from receipts of race
courses and recognized social club.
where betting and gambling are per.
mitted, the vicomte said he knew one
financier who made ss.000,000 out Of q
licensed gambling casino.
Another institution he declared sem
cards to people arriving at Paris no.
tells, inviting them to parties in the
interest of suppression of tuberculo-
sis under the pretended patronage OF
Nine. Armand Falliers, Nine. Emile
Loubet and Nine. Felix Faure, whose
husbands once were president.
Those who accepted invitations, he
said, found brilliant salons where pro.
fessional gamblers of both sexes swim.
died them.
The vicomte deplored the govern.
ment's partnership in gambling and
its share in responsibility for the ruin
Of hundreds of families and for many
suicides.
''The government in 1909 profited to
the extent of s9,750,OO0 in percent
ages" said the vicomte, but at what
moral cost!'
The chamber adopted by vote Of
275 to 264 a resolution for further
consideration of an amendment to the
gambling bill, The amendment re.
vokes all gambling licenses granted
under the law of 1907 It's acceptance
would close many clubs and summer
resort casinos.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
PLAN TO LESSEN POSSIBILITY
OF DISASTROUS FLOODS
United Press

United Press
WASHINGTON, d. c., May a.
An emphatic promise that the pres
ent administration will do all pos
sible to alleviate future flood raw
ages, and information that he has al
ready taken preliminary steps to that
end was given Governor James Cox
of Ohio by President Wilson in a
lengthy conference Monday.
The Ohio governor outlined plan
whereby he explained the national
government could save hundreds of
lives and millions of dollars in prop
erty by system of impounding res
ervoirs at the headwaters of the great
rivers of the country. These reser-
voirs he explained to the president,
would collect the vast quantities of
water during flood seasons and this
same water could be utilized for the
rivers in the low water periods, thus
serving double purpose.
President Wilson talked the matter
over thoroughly with the governor
and explained that he had already
requested formulation by the board OF
army engineers Of a comprehensive
plan for flood prevention and upon
their report he would Immediately
send message to congress.
The president told the governor
that he was thoroughly convinced it
was time the government took m
active part in flood prevention work
especially since the Democratic party
was pledged by its Baltimore plat
form to take such steps in the lower
Mississippi.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15

OF New York IN its last convention
declared in the most positive terms
tor direct, statewide primaries.
believe it is my duty as the governor
elected on that platform, to do every
thing In my power to carry out this
solemn pledge. Every Democrat in
the state elected ON that platform
should uphold my efforts to redeem
the pledge.
So FAR as | am concerned there will
be no step backwards. | am in the
fight to stay and to the end Hence
| urge every honest Democrat, who
believes in fair play, who wants to
keep good faith, and who favors re-
deeming party pledges, to aid me in
the struggle.
We are bound to win in the end.
The leading newspapers of the state,
seven-tenths of the voters of the state
and the overwhelming popular senti-
mept Of the people are behind tho
cause for direct primaries and now
demand the Legislation.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15

I tilth. His soil was rich in plant-fooc
elements in consequence of generous
l,applications of bone-meal and care
fully conserved and thoroughly rottet
manure. He protected his seedlings
from the ravages of insect pests by
Intensive spraying and the use of poi.
son bats, so that the crop matured
to bountiful luxuriance productive
of large, uniformly shaped, luscious
berries.
This fruit-grower kept accurate ac.
count of the expenses involved in the
production of his crop, as well as the
income from the sale of the berries
which were marketed under the di-
rection of the fruit growers associa-
ton. At the end of the season when
he figured out his net return from
the Strawberries he found that his
profit amounted to $1,000 per acre, his
gross income being S1,40O per acre.
Eight Hundred Crates per Acre
He had successfully raised eight
hundred crates of berries per one hun
dred and sixty square rode of area,
and this fruit had sold for SITS per
crate. If the price obtained for the
berries had been as high as that re-
Gently received, namely $3.50 per
crate, his gross return per acre would
have been $4,000. There are many
other cases of growers who have
gained net income of 5000 to $500
per acre, returns which, although not
nearly so striking as the foregoing
result, nevertheless indicate the Won
derful possibilities of berry culture
in the Ozarks where painstaking man.
agement is practiced in the production
and marketing of high-class berries.
OF course the fundamental key to
the success sof the Ozark strawberry
belt is the efficient marketing organ
ization which combines all the pro-
ducers and enables them to place on
the market product of uniform ex-
cellence. During full year one thou
sand carloads of Strawberries are not
uncommonly shipped out from this
district. There is one small town in
the strawberry belt that has shipped
thirty carloads of berries day and
in excess of three hundred carloads
during the season.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15

finally went to Speaker Champ Clark.
What they said to the speaker is
dark mystery, but recently that
worthy advanced to his forum, cleared
his throat the way your father used
to before he began that little stunt
(which hurt him more than it did
you" gazed rather apologetically on
the house, and, forgetting he came
from Missouri, doomed forth:
Gentlemen, just want to call at
tention to the fact that there are a
lot of new members here. That in
creases the difficulty of preserving
proper order. You know there is a
rule against smoking. There's also
rule against bringing lighted cigar
into the floor. That rule is being vio-
lated" Here the speaker again clear
ed his throat in that "darned-if-I-
don't-hate-to-maEner," and continued:
"There-ah-er with these new seats
there is less comfort than formerly
and ! see some members have started
the system of resting their feet
against the backs of the heads in
front of them. Now I've just been
told this is bad form as we'll as hard
usage of the seats--not to mention
the wear on some of the most brilliant
brains Of our times. ask that the
practice be discontinued"
At the moment Speaker Clark was
talking, there were, here and there,
several feet waving like huge ele-
phant ears on either side Of the heads
of the members who sat in front Of
the feet. Amid sighs, the feet slowly
came down from their heights and
were placed conventionally on the
floor. Congressman Strengthened up
and Congressman Alfalfa Bill" MUIR
ray of Oklahoma, who believes not in
la-de-da things, snorted, opened his
vest little wider and contemptu-
ously snapped his suspenders.
The new seats have entirely chang
ed the appearance of the house, not
to mention the appearance of the
members, who heretofore have been
able to hide from spectators in the
gallery, their rotund or otherwise
waistlines behind mahogany desks.
These desks hid the unbecoming
curves of many vain congressman,
leaving only rows of more or less
passable shoulders, faces and heads
to be seen by the public who came
to see the national Legislature in ac-
tion. The desks gave the house =
more dignified appearance, but that's
all past and gone, as has been said
before. Now there is a choice array
Of Santa Claus-like "tummies" and
legislative legs on display.
But what's to be done? Superin-
tendent Woods Of the capitol build
ing says that by the time the next
apportionment comes around he will
have to cut down the size of the pres
ent miniature seats and reduce the
space between the rows. Such gentle
men as Serene Payne and Represen-
tatiye Sims of Tennessee, whose port
liness is well known, take noticel
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
NEW SEATS IN CONGRESS
FAIL TO MAKE A HIT

WASHINGTON, d. G., May ID
It's pretty tough shedding these days
for those poor old congressman in
the house Of representatives, who
have kindly regard for their own
comfort while they are "legislating."
An air of politeness and convention
ality has crept into the house and
several comfortable stunts that con-
gressmen used to perform with tired
feet and aching brows have been put
on the bad form list which has been
given a prohibitive duty.
When the last election added to the
number of congressman in the house,
it necessitated tearing out the COM
Portable swivel chairs and little ma
hogany desks, and the installation of
long rows of seats which are a cross
between theater chairs and those
chairs on which the older of the con-
gressmen were wont to fret when
they attended the district school The
seats now used in the house are lit
tie more comfortable than some of
the seats in some theaters.
The representatives now file in and
take seat like a flock Of theater
patrons and the old members, with
sad memories of the days when they
sank luxuriously into the seats of
former days and swivelled them back
at comfortable angle with their feet
resting deliciously on line with their
chins. Today this is all changed.
There isn't place for the feet-ex-
cept of course on the floor--and if a
weary congressman slumps down into
his seat, his knees hit the hard backs
Of the chairs in front. But worst of
lall there is only one arm to two chairs
just like it is in theater, and the
man who gets there first always gets
that arm.
At first, resolved to have comfort
at any expense, some of the mem
bers nonchalantly deposited their feet
on the tops of the seat in front. As
result, the house presented here and
there, pictures of sloughing congress
men, with open vests, and feet OF
assorted sizes flapping idly against
and in the near vicinity Of some leg
islativs Uranium. Some eastern rep
resentatives who wouldn't open their
vests and flap their suspenders e'en
though they were suffocating, eyed
the Tapping fest with disfavor, and
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
PENNSYLVANIA BITTER
AGAINST REFORM MEASURE

HARRISBURG, Pa, May IA
bitter fight against the proposed law
to regulate the conditions and hours
of labor of women and children in
Pennsylvania by manufacturers and
their representatives opened here this
afternoon when the hearings on this
bill and the bill to establish a mini
mum wage commission opened at the
state house. Friends and foes of the
proposed laws were here today in
great numbers, as these hearings are
admitted by both sides to be the cru
cial test put to the Legislature to show
whether that body will place itself
on record as progressive" along these
lines. The hearing was scheduled be-
fore the special judiciary committee
of the senate. The women and child
labor bills were drafted by the leg
islative committee of the Republican
state convention and it was believed
by many that they will be favorably
acted on. Members of the Progress
sive party and certain avowedly pro-
gressive Democrats are strongly in
favor of the establishment Of the pro-
posed minimum wage commission. The
majority of the Legislators, however,
are thought to be opposed to it.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
TEAMS MASCOT ARRESTED;
CLEVELAND MAPS LOSF

CLEVELAND, o., May 14.-It all
depends on Municipal Justice Marrow
whether or not the Cleveland Amer
lean league baseball club will finish
well up in the pennant race. On a
decision which Justice Marrow ren.
ders today hangs the hopes of some
10000 Cleveland baseball fans and
the entire membership of Lajoie's
band. At least that's the way the
Maps look at it. Here's the yarn
mates.
Larry, precocious bull terrier, up
to few days ago was a member OF
the Cleveland team. All the games
won by Cleveland this year have beer
attributed solely and wholly to Larry
All the defeats of the Maps have been
attributed to Larry's absence from the
Maps ranks when Larry was Ear
rested" Larry has been the Maps
mascot. Prince Hunley, colored por-
ter extraordinary at local hotel
claimed that Larry was hisn, and he
had Larry arrested as recalcitrani
child. The dog spent a day in jail
when first attached and the Maps
lost to Chicago that day 13 to 3
Jack Graney, Cleveland outfielder
says the dog belongs to him and Ora
ney's claim looked good at the start
Of today's heading when Larry nearly
broke away from a court attendant
every time Graney snapped his fin
gers at him.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
WHY WOMAN is A MYSTERY.

CHICAGO, May 14.--In proof Of
the statement that woman not only
can change her mind, but can change
it again and again, and II necessary
again, the parents of Miss Cornelia
Mary Blake, today submitted the fol-
lowing series Of events, picturing tho
evolutions Of their young daughters
brain cells in less than two weeks:
May Miss Blake announced that
her engagement to Lawrence Garner,
son of wealthy Ottumwa, Iowa,
merchant was "off' and that on May
2s she would marry DR.. Arthur w.
Wermuth, Evanston physician.
May 2-Garner announced at Of
tJmwa he had purchased . marriage
license and intended to use It. Miss
Blake told interviewers she loved Dr..
Weir muth and the doctor gave Gar
ncr the laugh.
May 12-Miss Blake phonsd her
parents from Ottumwa that she had
changed her mind again, had married
Gamer and to tell DR.. Wsrmuth shs
was $50 sorry"
Garner met Miss Blake whsn he
was student at Northwestern un3-
versity.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
BEACHEY, NOTED AVIATOR,
QUITS FLYING FOR GOOI

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May IA
Lincoln Beachey, the dare devil of
the air" is through with the flying
game, he announced today.
"I'm DONE" he said, "you couldn't
make me enter another aeroplane at
the point of gun"
Beachey carried card on which
he has noted aviator friends who have
met their death. He scanned the list
today.
"They called me the master bird
man." he said. "The crowd applauded
my spirals, but what they paid their
money for was to see me die. The
other executed spirals because did
and they had to do it to earn the
money. Welsh told his wife he had
to do the spirals because Beachey
does them, if he wanted to get the
money.
81 met Mrs. Welsh and her two
fatherless babies at Albuquerque
when she was returning with Welsh's
body. She became hysterical when
she saw me-
"'You made him do it,, she told me.
at was the same way with the
wife of Eugene Ely.
Eugene would be with me now
if he had never seen you fly she
wrote me.
81 feel that l had murdered those
two boys"
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
WORSE
THINGS THAN
WARFARE
DIR. Lyman Abbott
DIR. Lyman Abbott

United Press
MOHONK LAKE, N. Y, May H.
At the opening of the nineteenth an
nual Lake Mohonk international ar
bitration conference, DR.. Lyman Abb
bott, editor of the Outlook, declared
that international conscience is the
only agency that can bring world
peace"
Continuing, DR.. Abbott said: "At
times war is necessary. Christianity
doesn't emasculate men. AS bad as
war is, Christianity recognizes there
are worse things. There must be de-
veloped in civilized nations sense Of
justice strong enough to overcome
race, religious and the nations pref
udice. An international conscience
which must create some permanent
tribunal, giving it official and authori.
tative expression"
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-15
AMM0NS
SIGNS TWO
MORE BILLS
United Press

United Press
DENVER, May 14.-Governor Am
mons today signed the inheritance
tax and the women's minimum wage
commission bills. The later provides
for commission of three, including
at least one woman, to investigate
conditions, and to determine the mini
mum wages to be paid women and
minors of both sexes employed in
manufacturing and mercantile con
Germs. Unless referred the measure
is effective July IA.
The boxing and racing bills the
governor has not yet taken action on.