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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-02-19

IS
Then came the flood of popula-
ton; land grew too valuable for
speculative wheat raising: some crop
failures followed and Henry turned
his attention to other things. In
1883 he sold all his Kansas posses
sions and moved to Colorado where
he entered on new career, basing
his operations on irrigation. Today
the visible monument Of Henry's ac-
tiyities in. Abilene Is the three story
hotel and depot Of the Union r eific,
once the Henry House and the iarg-
est building between Topeka and
Denver. But it's name is changed
now; the big wheat field is divided
into farms and the wheat king"
record has been surpassed many
times in Kansas latter day produc-
ton Of Henry's favorite cereal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29

cuttings while he was in England as
the agent of Pennsylvania; Jefferson
sent back bulbs and seeds when he
was minister at Paris; Patrick Henry
Jackson and others encouraged agri-
culture.
"Why," shouted Mr.. Chandler, "the
distribution Of eeed is an evidence OF
craftsmanship, md an evidence of the
very best philosophy and thought as
is evidenced by its advocacy by JEFF
ferson and Franklin. He who would
be a great statesman at any time
should always respond to the pulse
beats of his people and always hear
their requests and heed their desires
The people want Seed
The Summers amendment to strike
from the bill the seed distribution
authorization was defeated SO to &c
and the house is expected to stand
by it's guns when some economists
seek to strike out the mileage allow
ance."
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29
What is WOman'S
Beauty but Health
And the Basis Of Her Health and
Vigor Lies in the Careful Kegu-
latiOn OF the Bowels.

If woman's beauty depends upon
picture of lovelincss. But beauty lies
deeper than that 1t lies in health.
In the majority of cases the basis
of health. and the cause of sickness,
can be traced to the action of the
bowels.
The headache, the lassitude, the
salow skin and the lusterless eyes
are usually due to constipation. SO
many things that women do habtual-
ly conduce to this trouble. They do
not eat carefully, they eat indigesti-
Bile foods because the foods are served
daintily and they do not exercise
enough. But whatever the particular
cause may be it is important that the
condition should he corrected.
An ideal remedy for women. and
one especially suited to their delicate
requirements, is DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin, which thousands OF women
endorse highly, among them Mrs. c.
8. Vance, of 81 S. Ray street, New
Castle, Pa. At times she had spells
Of indigestion so severe that she
thought she would die. Syrup Pepsin
regulate her stomach and bowels
and she attributes her excellent
health today to this remedy.
All the family can use DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin, for thousands of
mothers give It to babies and children
It is also admirably suited to the re-
quirements of elderly people, in fact
to all who by reason of age or in
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29
TELLS DUTIES OF
PLUCkING BOARD
Composed of Five Admirals
Who Appoint When
Vacancies Occur.
IS GOOD DEFINITION
Board Is Given Absolute Power and
Its Decisions Are Not Subject
to Review.
(By SIDNEY ESPEY)

Washington, March 2S-"The pluck
ing board of the Navy is body of
five rear admirals designed to create
vacancies when death and disease do
not operate rapidly enough" s,id
Rear Admiral Wainwright, during a
recent hearing before a Senate COM
mittee when the activities of this
board came under fire. This is a
concise definition and is peculiarly
accurate.
The higher the rank in the navy,
the fewer are the positions. Promo
ton with increase of pay is the chief
incentive in time of peace to strict
performance of duty. If the upper
grades are clogged tho officers below
must wait indefinitely for promotion.
Consequently the upper grades must
be decimated by death or disease or
some artificial means.
By law it is provided that forty
vacancies shall be created above the
rank of junior lieutenant in the navy
fail to do, it is necessary for the
plucking board to do. If officers dc
not die enough of them must be plac-
ed on the retired list to provide the
proper number of vacancies in the
active list.
The plucking boiard is given abso-
lutte power of retirement. Its decis-
ions are not subject to review and ar
officer can only be placed on the &C
tive list by a special act on Congress
A score or more bills for this pur.
pose are now before Congress. The
Navy Department has invariably re
ported adversely on such bills, recog.
nizing the general necessity for the
operations of the board and desiring
to protect it against attack.
Men in the service declare that as
a general thing the decisions of the
plucking board are upheld in "shoI
talk" although occasionally the board
"gets" an officer whom his fellow
officers believe should instead for the
good of the service, be promoted ant
retained on the active list.
The plucking board has very broat
powers, it's right of selecting out" al
the operation is officially termed
being bounded only by the judgmen
of the board as to what will operate
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29

trinity cannot stand harsh salts,
cathartics, pills or purgatives. These
should always be avoided for at best
their effect is only for that day, while
a genuine remedy like Syrup Pepsin
acts mildly but permanently
1t can be conveniently obtained at
any drug store at fifty cents or one
dllar bottle. Results are always
guaranteed or money will be refund
ed. You will find it gentle in action,
pleasant in taste, and free from grip
ing, and it's tonic properties have a
distinct value to women. It is the
most widely used laxative-tonic in
America today and thousands of fami-
lies are now never without it.
Families wishing to tryl tree sam
pie bottle can obtain it postpaid by
addressing DR.. W. B. Caldwell, 419
Washington, ST., Monticello, Ill. A
postal card with your name and ad-
dress on it will do.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29
RECRUITING PARTY
HERE THIS WEEK
Officers From United States Recuit.
ing Station To Come Here On
ADril /.

Postmaster John D. Wilbourne yes
terday received a letter from L. R.
Cartridge, First Lieutenant Of Cavalry
of the United States Recruiting Sta
ton, at Little Rock, to the effect that
a number OF the officers under him
would be in the city April l for the
purpose of enljsting recruits.
During the month of January, the
officers were in the city and seven
recruits were secured. The party will
be headquartered at the local post
office and will remain in the city
for several days.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29
FREE GARDEN seed
: Brings ON TALK
Battles Over the Same Top
les Annually Take
Place in House.
BATTLESHIPS ALSO
Garden Seed Will Continue to Be Sent
Free From Department Of
~ Agriculture.
BATTLESHIPS ALSO
(By JONATHAN WINFIELD)

Washington, March 2S.-The verbal
battles, always over the same. topics,
take place annually in the House of
Representatives They concern mile
age, the free distribution of garden
seed and battleships.
The garden seed scrimmage for the
year 1914 has taken place, and, as
usual, the members of Congress re-
tanned in the agricultural appropria-
ton bill the provision authorizing
them to continue to distribute free to
furnished by the Department of Agri-
culture. Year after year hundreds Of
thousands of seed packets go through
the mails bearing the frank of mem
bers of Congress. Year after year
an effort is made to strike this item
from the agricultural budget but the
legislators from the rural districts
bowl over all such amendments.
The debate over the seed distribu-
amusing. The opponents of the
authorization assert that it is petty
graft and that seed are distributed
for vote-catching purposes. Rural
members holly refute such sugges-
tons and paint glowing pictures OF
81. 10y that comes to the farmer, his
wife and his daughter when the pack
ages of Government seed arrive.
Second in intensity to the fight
over garden seed is that centering in
the annual proposal to abolish the
mileage allowance Of Senators and
Representatives. The mileage bill for
Uncle Sans legislators now amounts
10 more than $15O,0O0 each year.
In the early days of the republic
members received 20 cents per mile
each way to pay the expenses of the
journey to and from the nations
capital. In those days, the statesmen
came by stage coach and on horse
back and the amount was not unrea-
sonable. In these days of swift trains
with their parlor coaches and Pull.
mans, the mileage allowance remains
the same and all efforts to cut il
down to the actual expense incurred
by the travelling member have been
unavailing. Some members, living al
great distances, receive as much as
$1,000 to $3.50 for mileage.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29
Just Right for Backache and Rheu.
matism.

Foley's Kidney Pills are so thor
oughly effective for backache, rheu-
matism, swollen, aching joints, wild
ney and bladder ailments that they
are recommended everywhere. A. A.
Jeffords, McGrew, Nebr., says: "My
druggist recommended Foley Kidney
Pills for pains in my back, and be-
fore finished one bottle my old trou-
BILE entirely disappeared" Seawelrs
Pharmacy.
HAPPENINGS IN THE
CITY POLICE COURT
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29

The battleship fight in the house
likewise is an annual affair There
is a mo battleshp' group, which
seeks to strike from the naval bill
any authorization for a navy increase
There are other factions known as
zone battleship" ''two batfleshYps, !"
and three battleships" groups. Repre-
sentative Hobson, of Alabama, stands
practically alone in his demand for
anywhere, from four to six new dread
naughts.
This year the naval bill carries au-
thorization for two new ships. Last
year the Democratic economists held
down the authorization to one. The
customary fights, however, are expect
ed when the legislative bill, contain
ing the mileage appropriation, and
the naval bill, providing for battle
ships, are considered.
garden seed distribution privilege
was furnished recently with the
passage of the agricultural appro-
priation bill. Mr.. Summers, Texas
Democrat, wanted to strike from the
bill the clause permitting members of
Congress to send out seed under their
franks. He proposed that the Depart
ment of Agriculture might continue
its work of testing, propagating and
distributing valuable seeds and plants,
but he asserted that the time honor
ed practice of distributing garden
and flower seeds under the congress
sional frank ought to be abolished.
Representative Page, of North Caro-
lima, declared that "for five cam
paigns in my district l have consis-
tently voted against Congressional
distribution and made it an issue in
the District I represent. l never yet
mentioned it to an audience of agri-
with me. There is not newspaper
in my district that is not opposed to
this Congressional graft, because it is
that and nothing else"
Representative Dies, of Texas, took
an opposite view.
81 am in favor of the farmer and
his sons and daughters getting the
a1 IN, ~ con1 tho
frank of his Congressman" said Mr..
Dies I know there are smart people
all over the country who poke fun at
us because we send garden seed to
our farmer constituents, but I am
not dismayed, because every mail
brings me some acknowledgment
from little boy or girl of some
humble farmer thanking me for the
seed. And there are a good many
who, when they get~these garden
seed, get about all there is left after
we have paid the bills for pensions
and battleships."
Closing the debate for the free seed
advocates, Representative Ezekiel
Gambler, of Mississippi, known as
".Tombigbee" Gambler because he al
ways is boosting the Tombigbee river
called upon the shades of Patrick
Henry, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and
others of the nations fathers, in sup
port of his argument.
Franklin, said Mr.. Candled, SEM
home silkworm eggs and mulberry
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29

The largest merchant in the
world, Marshall Field" made his
millions by offering his customers
NOT what HE WANTED, BUT what
they wanted. Then see that your GUS
toners get Genuine COCA-COLA
when they call for 1t. tt
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29
,r the good of the service"

for the good of the service"
As a result of this latitude in which
the board may find its reasons for re-
firing officers, naval officers assert
that when an officer is retired it
does not mean that he is incompetent
but, merely, that he is less Efficient
than some other officer. Included in
the question of efficiency is age and
other circumstances over which the
officers who may I've the victims OF
the board have no control.
Secretary OF the Navy Daniels de-
cded within three weeks after he
assumed office, that he would try C
reform the navy by compelling Off
GERS to take active sea duty instead
OF the easier shore duty assignments
AS a result it is now practically a
departmental rule that officers shall
have a large season of sea duty and
this will operate with respect to the
work of the plucking board, in a way
that will give that board one more
reason than it has had for retiring Of
ficers. Under the old regime there
was no fixed amount of sea duly to
be performed, under the new regula-
tons no fixed period is stated but it
is generally understood that the more
time an officer spends at sea the bet
ter will his record comport with what
the Navy Department is seeking.
Consequently officers who under the
old practice, saw little duty, will
not make a special good showing
under the new rules, and the pluck
ing board may take this delinquency
into consideration in nominating an
officer to walk the plank.
Secretary Daniels has not "made a
hit" with many officers by exertine
pressure toward sea duty. 1t is as
serted that this is not criterion OF
efficiency and the example most
frequently alluded to is Admiral
George Dewey, who before being as
signed to Eastern waters where he
fought and won in extraordinary
fashion the battle of Manila, had seer
no sea duty for eleven years.
Despite arguments the process O.
plucking will continue. Otherwise i
is stated men would become white
haired while only lieutenant com
superannuated by the time promotion
to the higher grades in which the!
would be called upon to perform thu
most important duties, came to them
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29

Matte Campbell, negress, forfeited
a fine of $500 at the morning session.
She was charged with disturbing the
peace A forfeit of $500 was also
taken from Lewis Woods, charged
with being drunk and disorderly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29

During the winter months impur-
ensities accumulate, your blood b.
comes impure and thick, your kid
news, liver and bowels fail to work,
causing so-called Spring Fever. y
You feel tired, weak and lazy. E1ec-
trio Bitters-the spring tonic and
system cleanser-is what You peed !;
they stimulate the kidneys liver and
bowels to healthy action, expel blood
impurities and restore your health,
strength and ambition. Electric Bit
tiers makes you feel like new. Start
a four weeks treatment it will put
you in fine shape for, yoar spring
work. Guaranteed. All Druggists.
SOC. and $1.00.
II. E. Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia Of
ST. Louis.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29

AT an afternoon session of the
police court yesterday, Eugene Ross
was assessed fine of $500 for vio-
lation of the city garbage ordinance.
He paid his fine and was released.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-03-29

HENRY ROBERTS & 60, Fire In"
surance, 1923 1-2 w. End Ave. Phone,
818 2-25 tt.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-09-04

ried on u Monday night, Will
find oHt later and give names. -
". II. Krueger is breaving grouI d
TO bnild another house. Just
watch rs grox. Mrs. Celia Tur
pin is visiting relatives at Wiidie
Tins week Now all the fans are
over and only one more show TO
come. We are at loss to know
what we are going to do, bat tie
campaign will get warm directly
and business Will pick up again.
Well the oyerSeer has informed
us that he wants our help again
for SIX more days to help fill up "A
few of the mudholeS and beat up a
few more rocks and then parha is
we can use the road for another
year. We'll if il aim enc blamed
thing it is another. Oh! for the
BOOneway, or something else in
/ place Of this Old song You must
work SIX days or more if neyes-
sary. j. II Walton is a Juror at
Mt. Vernon this session of court.
We have just finished reading
a letter in the Mountain Advoc te
where correspondent speaks of
the good old times forty years ago
he speaks of the old log school
houses that you could thrOw a dog
thru the cracks, the baCkless seats
the old stone chimney and last
but not least he brings to ouI
mind that blessed volume the old
blue back speller (the library in
one book 80 he is a man after
our own heart; be speaks of the
corn huskins, the log rollings, the
rail Splittings and all the things
that was i'll their glory forty year:
; ago. Then it was that The colder
, rule was complied with viz d.
f unto others as you would hav,
: others do unto you, but now it i:
! do the other fellow before he doe
you but we can t LAY much on THU
y subject for they say we aye llviny
r in the progressive age Miss
p Alice Ward has returned hom
! after a two weeks visit with rela
tives in Stanford and at Hig
n Bridge. Miss Lou Ella Brown @
q ParkSville, is visiting her cousin
Miss Ella Mae BlanfOrd Of TN
pace Mrs. w. Il. Merimee {
:. Paris, is wishing Mrs. Geo Pope
el-Miss Annie Baker OF Mt. Vel
T.. ..nou, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. +.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-09-04

". Baker of this place. Mrs,
X. j. Lemonds and daughter,
Miss Elizabeth is visiting relatives
i'll London this Neek.-Mr. aid
Mrs. Will Nicholas of Lexington
have returned home after a few
days visit with relatives here
w. 7. Francis, the dentist has
his shiugle hanging ont at the
Eight Gable.-Mr. S. &. Franklin
the mediator between Maret and
my self was here Tuesday but
claimed that he came on a peace
mission, so look out, something is
going to drOp.--We underst and
that our school will not begin I'm
til the first of October. We
would have preferred that it be
gin at an earlier date, but if we
can't get what we want we Car
take what the other fellow gives
US. Mrs. w. Ii. Cottong,m ha:
returned from London after a few
days visit with relatives Mrs
| w. A. Warren after d few day:
visit with relatives at Corbin ha.
returned home L. H. Rice o
! Paris, has been with homefolk!
fpra few days Mrs, H. NJ
Mink Of the Big hill section i
visiting her mother, Mrs. Emm;
Jones of this place--Mr. and Mrs
Ben Price of Lexington, are visit
ing Mrs. Price parents, Mr.. an
Mrs. D. K Argenbright:--R. .
Royalty of Louisville is visitin
his daughter, Mrs j. w. Terry.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-09-04
Stanford, Ky, Sept. l. - Hue

Stanford, KY, Sept. l. Hugh
Brown, Il negro, was killed early
this morning while robbing the
store Of Servance & Sons by a.
I. Bromley, senior member of the
firm Of Bromley & Bromley. Mr..
Bromley, who occupies apart
rlentS above the store, was arouS
ed early this morning by a noise
in the basement. He dressed and
went down on the street, but fail
ed to II d anyone, SO returned to
his room. lie soon heard the
noise again, and this time he got
ont on the roof of the portion of
the store that is one story. The
noise continued and in a short
while he saw the screen door open
at the back end of the basement
whereupon he fired. The burglar
ran and Mr.. Bromley, fred two
more shots. When the SECOND
shot was fired Brown dropped
the bundle of articles he had
taken from the store. Only on,
shot took effect Entering the
right leg it severed an artery anC
hebled to death.
A negro woman on her way t,
work found Brown dead in a poo
of blood. Browns body wa
taken to the courth use and await!
the Coroner's inquest
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-09-04
LIVING ST TO y.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. \. Oliver and
children are visiting relatives in
Ashville, y. C.-Miss Ethel Hays
has returuei from Cincinnati,
after an extended visit with rcla
tives there. Mrs. Moss Mullins
of Paris. is visiting her parents
here, Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Mounce
Mrs. l. L. CockerCll after d
few DAYS visit with relatives at
Stanford has returned home -
EIgeua Orlion, an engineer Oh
Louisville, is visiting his mother,
Mrs.. J. II. OrndCtf Judge Is. }
Bethurum of Somerset. and Judge
l.. w. Bethurum Of Mt. NernOl,
were here between trains Sunday
I. NJ. Foure is in Pinevllle this
week. T.. Pennington OF Lon
don, was here Tuesday on bust
ness. II NJ. Dees left for Viii
llamsburg to attend the State
Co lacil of the j. K o. L. A. Nj
which met in that city Tuesday. -
Mr. and Mrs. Geo Black have re.
turned from "a few days visit with
relatives az London. There We're
seven wagon loads of waterm -lons
sold here Monday Say Mt. Yer
non can you duplicate this and
vet it is claimed that We are the
little smoky town between the
Lills--Mr. and Mrs John Clarh
have moved back TO Livingston
after having a year in Eastern Ky
Butch Mcclure was here be
tween trains Tuesday enroutt
home at Mt. Vernon from the L
& A. r. r. where he has a posi-
ton as telegraph OperatOr.-Patri'
Donally of Lexington, was in Il
Sc his brother. J. b. DOnally o
this place Sunday John Field
the -four salesman of STANFORD
was here Tuesday. Mr.. r }
Lemonds is in Louisville for feS
days. Mrs. J. {. Mcclure ate
a few days visit with her daughte
MIS-. Alvin CaricO has reiur net
to her home in Paris Little Gee
jenkins after being confined I
hls room for few days Is able
be out again. Mr.. and Mrs. Wa
Preston and children have return
ed home from Bosion.-We Ill
derstand that a certain oOupl
went to JellIoo, Tenn, to get ma
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-09-04
Harken To The Harvest
Songs Gathering
The Sheaves
The Whole Country Will Soon be Singing q
Chorus of Prosperity, Sitting the Quar-
reis of Business and Politics, Slenoing
the GSumbies of Pessimism.

you're BLACK" shouts the
Pot of Business to the Kettle of
Politics. so are yOu," cries Poll
tics to Business in retort, what
you need is a bath Of Old-fashioned
honesty" And what you Poll
ticians need is to purge yourselves
of Hypocrisy" says Business.
While these two are bandying
epithetS, you and we, Consumers,
Tax payers. Wage earners and
small fry generally, are gritting
our teeth because of the Obsti-
nancy of these belligerents who
would rather have hard times if
they cannot have their own way
and say.
Ever since the Democrats came
INTO power-and even before that,
since their election in November of
19I2--the professional Republican
editors and spellbinderS have been
crying calamity and predicting
"sOup houses" and "panics.''
Actually they would be glad to
have disaster so that they could
chestily declare: We told you
So"
We resent these dolOrous
preachments of hard times for
partisan purposes merely. That
is the hypocrisy of which Politics
needs to be purged.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-09-04

When you have an achcv,
stretchy feeling and you are dull
tired and discouraged it is a sign
of approaching malaria or chllls.
You should act quickly TO ward off
an attack. HERBINE offers you
the help you need. 1t destroys
the malarial germ, drives out all
impurities aud makes you feel
bright. vigorous and cheerful.
Price SOC. Sold by John Robins,
Brodhead, KY.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-09-04

HERBINE is the medicine that
cures biliousness, malaria ~and
constipation. The first dose makes
you feel better, a few additional
doses cures completely. Price soc
Sold by John Robins, Brodhead,
XIV.