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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-04
FARM

Disc harrow, 16-in; 2 lumber
wagons In good shape; rubber tired
buggy; open buggy; 2 road wagons;
hay rack; Casaday sulky plow; Sat
tley Hummer plow; John Deere lis
ter good as new; j. /. Case single
row c%ultivator; Pattee Grow cult
vator; 2-row weeder; Indiana 10
hoe disc drill in good shape; Deer
ing binder; Columbia 5-hoe corn
stalk disc drill; 2-hole corn shelter;
International feed grinder; corn
stalk cutter; double set 1A inch
work harness; single work harness;
double set driving harness; 2 sets
single driving harness; 8 sets work
flynets; 2 sets single ~flynets; sad
die and bride.
Also machine shed 2Ox30 IT. 10
IT. studding with good single roof;
calf house 24x14 board roof; sep
arator house TIKI; cob house; hog
houses; hog wire, etc; 5-ton wagon
blacksmith forge good as
new; 10 chicken coors; 5O-gallon
gasoline tank; cider press; z b. p.
gasoline engine; 10 loads OF corn
COTS; some wood; Canon City coal.
ESQ bu. oats; so bu. corn; 4 tons !
hay; so acres corn fodder I
In shock; stack oats straw; STACK
wheat straw and many other articles Il
100 numerous to mention.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS u
Two heating stoves; Ded steacs 0
machine; rocking chairs. etc. "
TERMS-All sums Of $40 and UNI !
!er cash; sums over $40 a credi. Of
2 months will be given on note I,
With approved security at 10 per
ent; If paid when due only 8 per
emit interest will be charged. No
roperty to be removed until set
ed for.
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-04
Eff. FLANAGAN

J. N. BURTON AuctiOneer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-04
2 HEAD or CATTLE

Choice mich COW, young and CIV
ing IN gallons 9 day, will be
fresh January /; calf z months old.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-04
= HEAD on HOGS

Six shoats Weighing 80 pounds;
good young boar.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-04
A HEAD OF CATTLE
a0 HEAD oF HOGS

Three mich cows; calf.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-09-04
HEAD OF HORI

Brood mare 10 years old, gelding
IA months old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
Americans Win Favor
With the Moslems.

Special Cabegram to The Star.
CAIRO. November 1J.-Peter A. Jayber
has been succeeded the American
agent of the consul general of Egypt by
Olney Arnold of Providence, who has just
arrived at Cairo. Mr.. Arnold has taken
up his residence in a magnificent villa oc-
cupied by the American agency at Kaz-
reldoubara.
Egyptians are becoming more and more
admiring of Americans. One instance of
this feeling is that number of the better
class Moslems are desiring to acquire a
knowledge of the principle upon which the
Christian religion is based. They call
regularly on Dr. Watson, who is a thor
ough Arabic scholar and head of the
American mission in Egypt. which estab-
lishment is Of great magnitude and i'm
pOrtance.
DR.. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of
the University of California, and Mrs.
Wheeler are making their first visit to
Cairo. They have been stopping at Shep
heard's Hotel preliminary to a month
trip down the Nile.
Mrs Edith Jordan, daughter of Dr. Da-
vid Starr Jordan. is accompanying them.
She will proceed to India and plans re-
turning to California next May.
Mrs. Donald Cameron, wife of the for
mer Pennsylvania senator. is now in
Cairo, the guest of her daughter. Mrs. A.
C. Lindsay. who married an Englishman.
She plans to return shortly to America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
Tit for Tat.
"a CASE Of tit for tat" said Repre-
sentative Cordell Hull, apropos Of

IS A CASE Of tit for tat said Repre-
- sentative Cordell Hull. apropos Of
an income tax dispute. 1T reminds me
Of the post Office employee.
"A man bought of this employee two
two-cent stamps then turned to go. but
the employee. laying a persuasive hand on
his arm. cooed:
"A few stamped envelopes this morn
ing. sir? We have all shapes and sizes.
No. thank you. none this morning.
said the other. coldly, and he gave start
OF surprise.
III. then. sir, you'll step round to the
left. I'll show you our choice collection OF
lock -boxes. They come very cheap by
the year. and
No, no, thank YOU
Maybe you'd like a money order this
morning Foreign or domestic. We have
a very elegant assortment.
No. certainly not
Postcards, sir? We've just got in .
fresh lot Very latest fall styles. SIR
law, no. What's eatin' your And.
with this resort to the yernacular. the
patron jerked his arm loose and angrtly
retired
THE manager. who happened along Just
then, took the employe 10 task.
WHO was that man? And what did
you insult him for?' the manager de-
manded.
~ didn't insult him. said the en-
ploye You see, hes "A barber. and every
time he shaveS me he tries to stick me
for a SINCE, shampoo, massage, haircut.
tonic and dear knows what. | thought
I'd turn the tables on him and see how
he liked it. I"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
American Hostesses in
London Start Social
Season.
Special CabIeeram 10 The Star.

Special Cabiegram 70 The Star.
LONDON, November 15.-Several wen
known American hostesses have Iounu
new homes in London. Lady Acheson'
formerly Mildred Carter, daughter o.
j. RidgeIy Carter, formerly OF me
United States embassy, has just bouSht
Lord Falmouth's ancestral mansion al
No. st. James square. A feature OF
the front of this house is row OF iron
posts, which prove on inspection 10 be
old cannon captured by one or IoTu
Falmouth's ancestors, Admiral boS-
cawen, in 1747. Another american VINO
has moved into a new house Is MIs.
Harold Barring, who was Marie Cnurchiii,
of New York. She has taken No i
Brlton street, the former residence OF hei
compatriot. Mrs. Leggett.
Lady Craven is still in deep mourn
ing for her father. Bradley Martin. but
is entertaining a few. friends every
week shooting at Coombe Abbey.
Mrs. Almeric Paget nee Whitney. who
winter in London, will spend the great
er part OF the season on the Riviera
She has hardly occupied her beautiful
house In Berkeley Square.
Lady Granard. nee Mills. wore some
wonderful pearls. crown circled with
diamonds, and a white charmeuse dress
at ST. Patrick's ball, Dublin, last Fri
day night. With her husband she re-
ceived all the guests. The function was
huge success, especially after the
affairs given by Lord and Lady Aber-
deem
Lady Decies nee Gould, will not be
in ireland this winter Mr.. and Mrs.
William Corcoran Eustis of Washing
ton have taken Lord Decies' place near
the town of Lutrelle, Ireland, and will
join the hunting colony there, arriving
before December.
Mrs. Newberry and her daughter
f11- a a. ~
Gardens, which is furnished in fine
style.
The Countess of Essex is making a
flying visit to the continent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
ORDNANCE WAR PLANS.
System Worked Out to Be Used in
Other Military Departments.

From the Army and Navy Register.
The preparations made by the army
ordnance department for performing its
work in time of war and explained in
two recently issued pamphlets, one en-
titled General War Plans of the Ord
nance Department and the other I'm
structions to Chief Ordnance Officers.
Depot Commanders and Division Depots
in the Field are said to be the most
minute and complete Of the kind ever
attempted, at least In this country. They
are the result of almost unceasing work
for five or six years by Lieut. Col John
7. Thompson of the ordnance depart
ment. Looking to the making of all pre-
liminary arrangements as far as possible
in time of peace, such as determination
OF ordnance supplies and stores needed
In any section of the United States and
their distribution accordingly and to pro-
viding for the execution of the remain
Ing steps In their proper sequence upon
declaration OF war, the ordnance depart
ment already has fully supplied, except
as to field artillery ammunition. eighteen
infantry division ordnance depots and
two cavalry division ordnance depots.
and ready for shipment and they are
fully found even to stationery, blanks,
directions and instructions. etc The sys-
tenn as 1t has been developed has pro-
yided in the office of the chief of ord
nance at Washington means for irnme-
diately putting into operation, such as
kilograms. letters and the like, ready for
dating and signature and directing the
taking of the necessary steps
The general staff has deemed the sys-
tenn as exemplitied in the form 1t has
been developed for the ordnance depart
ment so valuable and necessary To- the
expeditions placing of properly equipped
and supplied troops in the field in a short
time that IL has directed the other de-
partments of the military establishment
that have to do with supplies and equip
ment such the engineers. Quarter
master Corps medical department and
Signal Corps. To prepare similar systems,
and these staff branches already have
commenced the work. Indeed the medi-
ca. department now has in store equip
ment and supplies for number of the
various sorts of more or less mobile
hospitals that are needed for troops In
the field. The chief signal officer of the
army has directed Lieut.. Col Samuel
Reber. Maj. Edgar Russell and Capt
Charles S. Wallace of his corps as an in
formal board to proceed with the prepa-
ration of "A system for their corps. The
Quartermaster Corps not only will have
to prepare for the furnishing of quarter
master and subsistence supplies. but also
TO prepare for corporation In the matter
of transportation with the systems de
Yised By tbs other STAFF departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
Prince Alexander tt
Tour This Country.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, November 15.-In addition to
the royalties more Immediately related
to the king. the Duke of Connaught
and the Duchess and Princess Patricia,
Prince Alexander of Teck, the queens
brother. is to be appointed to command
in the Dominion at his own request He
will leave England next spring to take
over the headship of a cavalry brigade
at Petawawa Camp, and during his stay
he is expected to make tour OF the
United States. in which his highness has
always professed great interest.
Prince Alexander saw service during
the South African war and was present
at several actions. He is a major in
the I'd Life Guards. AND capable officer.
His wife. who was Princess Alice of
Albany, will probably accompany him
across the Atlantic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
In the Zone.

A PROPOS of President Wilson S linking
of the Atlantic with the Pacific by
the touch of an electric button, diplo-
mat said in Washington:
"A prominent official here told Pan
anna canal story the other day. He said
that two men were watching one of the
great Culebra dredges that lifted from the
bottom of the water, every five seconds
or SO. an enormous iron bucket filled
with mud
~ understand said the first man.
that they pay good on this government
work. How'd you like to be workin,
Gully. on that there dredge?.
Fine said the other man. Fine.
But he added. I'd hate to be one of
them fellers under the water that's film
them big iron buckets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
The Upper Crust.

MRS. FRENCH VANDERBILT. at a
4vA luncheon at Harbourview, her New
port villa, said of the nouveaux riches of
Gotham:
"These people form. undoubtedly,
very splendid and ornate society-but II
Is social upper crust based exclusively,
as it were. on the financial dough be-
Meath"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
Music as Medicine.

A REPORTER asked Oscar Hammer
\ stein the other day if he believed in
the new therapeutic idea that music was
a medicine.
Believe in it? OF course / do the i'm
presario replied. Il know at least three
operas that are drug on the market
while as for popular songs. there isn't
one of them that doesn't make me ILL.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
CyniCs in Politics.

NEW YORK reformer said at din
"A ner:
I'VE have no use for the cynic-no use
for the man who, having been asked to
define the word .reformer.' said:
Performer? oh. he's a chap who
failed to get an office out OF either
party"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
A Cricket One.
81 a. sARGEANT. the famous or,

z a. SARGEANT. the famous crickcter
told cricket story at Bensonhurst
You know Blanc. the whirlwind bowl
er?' he began. Well, Blanc one day
bowled a batsman a good one In the
mouth. breaking OFF his two front teeth
The next time this batsman came up
to bat he shouted to the whirlwind
bowler:
Are you going to try and get the
rest of my teeth this time?'
NO the bowler shouted back, it's
only your stumps I'm afterr"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16

DUTLEk GLAENZER, poet, viveur
- and raconteur was amusing group
of cronies in the bay window OF tho
Players Club in New York when an cid
erly woman in a very loud and extrava-
CANT dress ST. atted down Gramercy Park.
Mr.. Glaenzer. calling his friends atten
ton to this ludicrous figure. adjusted
his pince-nez and asked calmly:
why should an old hen wear chic
gown"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
The Ins and Outs of Il.

MFRS BURKE ROCHE. at a luncheon
AvA in Newport. summed up an auto
mobile accident neatly.
1--WE went out for q ride she said.
but miles from anywhere tho car broke
down. and we found We were In Tor
walk" :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16

THE billiard ball, that red or white
sphere which good players "caress
and poor players smash repre-
sents profound study and experiment and
patient and skillful practice in mathe-
MATES, physics and other things with
which the general run of players do not.
and have no cause to, concern themselves.
That is the substance Of what a billiard
room keeper with philosophic turn of
mind said as he busted the green cloth OF
q table, put three balls carefully away
and adjusted a line of cues in a rack.
Then, warming to his subject, he took
one of the white balls from it's case and
fondled it with the palms Of his hands
as though he would give to it even a
smoother polish and higher luster, and
continued talking, recounting the facts
that are here set forth.
All billiard balls sent out by first-class
makers are true when they start to mar
ket, but they do not as rule remain So
The usage they ordinarily get is care
less and Indifferent. Sometimes a ball
that is true in the beginning will become
untrue even with the best treatment one
can give it. Change in temper ature is
an important factor, for the ivory may
expand or contract more in one part than
In another and the ivory may be denser
in one part of the ball than III another
so that It's sphericity is disturbed. When
there is a difference in the specific gravity
Of ivory the makers aim TO utilize that
part Of the ivory which is heaviest as the
center of the ball. 1t is one Of the incest
and most delicate operations in mechanics
to turn out three balls each of which will,
be of the same size, same weight, and at
the same time shall oe exact spheres and
of the same degree of elasticity or re-
siliency.
In an old book, which may be seen
both in the British Museum and in the
Library of Congress and which was
written when the game of billiards was
Young, 1t is said that great delicacy is
required in making billiard balls, as the
center Of the ball must be the CEN
ter OF gravity, and this would not be
unless a portion of the tooth from which
II is made contained the common center
cordng to that old book. the mode of
testing the sphericity of the ball was by
means of d steel gauge, a hollow cone or
calliper- compasses. 1t continues:
There are modes of testing It's gravity
besides propelling it in straight line
SUCH for example. as dropping a marked
ball through a transparent fluid, In de-
scending through which, If perfectly
true IL will retain its position. but the
success of this experiment depends on
very nice arrangement.
Instruments of precision Of the most
faultless nicely are now made and z set
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
and they contend that it was played by

and they contend that it was played by
the Germans. Dutch, Italians and French
long before it appeared In England. But
on this matter there is room for doubt. A
number of literary references to the game
may be found in Elizabethan days Mary
Queen of Scots was an enthusiastic bill
lard player and Shakespeare seems to
make some covert reference to this fact
when III his Anthony and Cleopatra" he
makes Cleopatra play at billiards. Ben
Johnson uses the phrase smooth as a
billiard ball. Long after these men
wrote Byron makes the harmless game
of billiards rhyme with .milliards."
In all the early billiard tables there
were pockets or melted holes" When
the game was introduced into the United
States billiard tables had six pockets.
and century ago common game of
billiards was very like pool. only that 1t
was played with six balls. American pool
was no doubt derived from a German
game of billiards called the pyramid
game" which was exceedingly popular
in Vienna. 1t was billiards. and OF
course, the tables had pockets, played
with twenty-five balls, twenty-one of
which were set close together in the form
of a triangle near one end of the table.
Early four-hall billiards was called
in England 1.-THE American or four ball
game An old English writer says that
it was played with two white. one red
and one blue ball. and that the game Is
thirty-one up and is scored by winning
hazards and canons.'
Three-ball Billiards was probably a
French variation of the game called
the "camanbole game" One red and
two white balls We're used and both
canons and hazards were counted.
No doubt the cushion carom games are
descended from that form of billiards
called the "bricole game In an old
chronicle il is said of this game that THE
player is obliged to strike cushion and
make the ball reverberate or recoil from
it previous to hitting his adversary'S ball.
This is a great disadvantage and Is
reckoned between equal players equiva-
lent to about eight or nine points
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
Facts About Billiards
and Billiard Balls

OF ivory balls that satisfy the tests for
sphericity, weight and resiliency are
ma:vels OF protection In workmanship
and material. The matter Of identical re-
siliency is important because as resil-
iency differs SO will the angle at which
a ball will rebound or glance from other
balls This is one of the reasons why
great players of billiards own their bill
Hard balls. They know what these balls
will do. The balls must be true. the
cushions must be true and the table
must be true.
The standard size of billiard ball is
two and one-sixteenth inches in diam
eter. but In ordering new set 1t is well
to have them turned so. that their diam
eter will be two and three-thirty- seconds
inches. Though new balls are not
green" but well seasoned, when they
are used in the warm air expansion is
place evenly. After the balls have be-
come thoroughly "ripened' they can be
turned down to the size OF two and one
sixteenth inches.
problem. Men who are very careful with
fine trio of billiard balls will after
using them put them in a box Of saw
dust which has been saturated with
sweet oil. This will keep the ivory in
that condition in which the balls are
truest.
AS the scarcity. almost the rarity, of
ivory becomes more and more acute
that is, the particularly fine ivory re-
auired for billiard balls-the making of
artificial balls" composition balls,
grows, and these become more refined.
more accurate. serviceable and also more
numerous as the science of making them
progresses. The materials out of which
compnSition balls are made are nuner-
Gus as the cements used by dentists In
filling teeth. Once it might truthfully
be said that composition balls We're coarse
and crude, that they lacked uniformity
and sphericity, and that they were
neither So durable nor SO elastic as
ivory balls Composition balls are not
now to be compared with perfect ivory
balls, but the old gap between their
merits is not nearly SO wide it was.
Among the compositions used are benzo-
line and crystallate They are not yet so
elastic as ivory balls, and they do not
defect at the same angles as do ivory
balls MARRIED by bad usage they are.
of course. hopeless, but they are good
deal cheaper than ivory. balls. AS the
ivory ball becomes more and more costly
the composition ball becomes cheaper.
both relatively and absolutely.
There is a curious thing about the red
balls i'm old English Billiards. They were
said to have been given 1.-The guards
mans BATH The dye with which they
were colored was made from decoction
of condemned or discarded red coats OF
English soldiers and it was in this de-
coction that the balls were stepped to
turn them red. This was in those times
the finest dye procuTable, The pores OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16

One death and three non-faial accidents
each working day is the record of tho
coal mines o. West Virginia for the four
months ending October 81.
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the ivory absorb the coloring matter to

the ivory absorb the coloring matter to
q considerable depth.
The development of the billiard table
has been interesting In those far-back
become an indoor game billiard table
was about the size of big room. me
average table was thirty feet long and
eighteen feet wide. The size was gradu-
ally and irregularly decreased, until the
present standard carom table was in
PRODUCED at a billiard tournament held
in Samson Hall, Philadelphia, in 1854
Before that time the cushion of tables
layer upon layer of fine cloth. When
rubber was introduced the game was in
a certain measure revolutionlzed. A
good deal of art and mechanics is re-
first place. the cushions must be uni
form as to elasticity. They must be
.rue, else the angles at which balls will
rebound will be different. The bed must
be absolutely fiat The perfect level,
billiard table Is a delicate operation.
long level is laid on 1t and turned and
turned until the air bubble will remain
conferred. no matter how much the level
may be turned.
The beds of old tables were made
of oak or stone, and in modern tables
steel or slate Is used. The frame must
be Of sound and long-seasoned wood.
commonly of oak. In good tables Span
ish mahogany, pollard oak, ebony and
satinwood are used. 1t is not easy TO
put a limit on the money that may be
expended on a table. One was made a
good many years ago for Adelina Patti
which cost $4,000. 1t was built of rose
wood and amaranth wood, and had hand
painted panels. The table Is now at
paf fFrafO-v-NnS Wales
Cues are made of ash, with usually a
lighter wood at the handle. good
cue should balance If mans finger
be placed under the middle of it. and as
it tapers the butt must be of lighter
wood than the shaft. But there is
vast amount Of individuality in cues
The making of leather billiard cue tips
has been an industry of q particular
class of French peasants time out or
mind.
There was a time in the history of BILL
lizards that the balls were propelled by
stroke from mace and not by stroke
from cue. A mace was long slender
rod with a thick piece of mahogany or
other wood affixed to its extremity at
such an angle as to rest fiat upon the
table while the shank was held up to the
shoulder in the act of striking. but as
the size of tables was reduced and the
speed OF cushions increased the advan-
tages of the cue became acknowledged
ana the mace passed out ol .iie Sdhi.,
Billiards is game the origin OF winch
no one can with certainty tell, Like
bowling, it is thought by many to have
been derived from the ancient British
game Of bowls. When bowls could not De
played out of doors because of the
weather, a bowling green was set up in
doors, and as there was no fun in hurl-
ing the balls in such close quarters they
were struck with q mace and later with
cue. Many men believe that billiards
was not an invention but a growth, while
of hers maintain most likely because OF
the name, that it was French invention,