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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
AGAINST NATIONAL PROHIBITION
Cumberland Presbyterians Won't
Garry It Into Politics

Newport News, May 25.-The
general assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian church sustained the
protest of the synod of Virginia
against the 1914 assembly's declar-
alton in favor of national prohibit
ton. 1t was emphasized, however
that the action meant no retraction
of the church's stand against the
liquor traffic or intemperance, but
mere reaffirmed the policy not to
support any political organization.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
CAPPER GIVES COMMENCEMENT
ADDRESS TO ONE GRADUATE

Topeka, May 25.-One lone boy
graduate at Maple Hill was some
what honored last night when Gov
ernor Capper drove thirty miles
through the mud and rain to deliver
a commencement address to him.
Some weeks ago the superinten-
dent of schools at Maple Hill ex-
acted a promise that the governor
would address the graduating class.
Last night the governor learned that
the aforesaid class consisted of one
lone boy. But the governor kept his
engagement just the same.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
Kansas Cancer RECORD Low

Topeka, May 25.-Cancer in Kan
sas is far less prevalent than in the
remainder of the registration area
in the United States. The New Eng
land states have the highest death
rate from that disease than any
other section Of the country, where
the registration area extends, ac-
cording to DR.. s. J. Crumbine, who
has been making a study of the sit
uation,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
KAISER DIRECTS
ADVANCE ON ITALY
Is In Personal Charge OF Teutonic
Allied Force
AUSTRIAN TOWNS CAPTURED
An Austrian Adriatic Port Shelled
by Italian Ship and Consider
able Damage Is Reported
TO Have Been Done
AUSTRIAN TOWNS CAPTURED

London, May 25, 8 p. m.-The
Emperor william is In personal
charge of the German and Austrian
forces now moving southwark TO
engage the Italian forces, according
to advices reaching here today.
Dispatches from Rome claim that
the Italians now occupy Capportol
and several other Austrian towns
and are pressing forward.
Buso, an Austrian Adriatic port
was attacked today by an Italian de-
stroyer and considerable damage
done.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
ENGLAND WIDENS
STARVATION PLAN
Will Sieze Suspicious Ships Bound
for Scandinavia or Holland
SHUT OFF GERMAN SUPPLIES
Reports of Vast Amount Of Supplies
Reaching Germany Causes
British Government
to Act

London, May %, 3 p. m.-An-
nouncement was made today that
Great Britain will hold all ships
carrying cargoes to Scandinavian
ports or Holland until satisfied that
the ultimate destination of the car
goes lis not Germany.
Reports that steamers carrying
supplies are almost openly finding
their way to ports from which their
cargoes go into German hands is the
reason for this new announcement.
The Germans have assumed the
offensive near YpreS.
New York, May 25.-The British
Russian blockade of German ports
in the North and Baltic seas is
failure. Despite the vigilance OF the
mighty fleets, more than one hun
bred vessels, loaded to their full
capacity with all manner of food
stuffs, have steamed unmolested in
to German harbors and unloaded
their precious cargOes since the
blockade was established.
So confident have the German9.
become of their ability to outwit the
enemy that an almost perfect
scheme for the steady shipment OF
foodstuffs from New York for Ger
man consumption has been organic
ed by German forces in this coun-
try.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
Hubbard Magazines to Continue

Atchison, May 25.-That the Roy
croft shop work at East Aurora, N.
Y, will be continued, despite the
death of it's founder, Ebert Hub
bard, who went down with the Lusi-
tania, is the news contained in a
letter by E. w. Howe. The Hubbard
Magazines, The Era and The Philis-
tine, will continue to print contri-
buttons by Ebert Hubbard, and
Alice, his wife, for they left mater
ial enough to fill them for two years.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
AUSTRIAN AIR.
ATTACKS BEGIN
War With ITALY
Venice and Other Coast Towns Are
BOmbarded
ITALY sIEzEs MERCHANT SHIPS
Vessels Owned by Germans and
Austrians Taken-Germany
Formally Allies Herself
With Austria

London, May "a, 8 p. m.-An
Austrian air fleet today bombarded
Venice.
Five other coast cities Of Italy
were attacked by air raiders, ac-
cording to dispatches from Rome
today.
The military authorities Of Italy
today siezed IS Austrian and Ger
man merchant ships In Italian wat
ers.
Germany has officially joined
Austria as an ally against Italy.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
CLOSE ONE FOR DE PALMA
Car Turns Over 4 Times-DriveI
and Mechanician Will Recover

Indianapolis, May 24.-John De
Palma and his mechanician. Clar-
ence Phillips, narrowly escaped
death when the car which they
were tuning up for the S00-mile
race at the Indianapolis motor
speedway May 20 turned four com
plete somersaults and crashed
through a 12-inch concrete retaining
wall. De Palma and Phillips were
rushed to a hospital, where it was
said both would recover. They suf-
fered no broken bones.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
INSANITY GROWS LESS
AS KANSAS GROWS DRIER

Topeka, May 24.-Kansas, UNI
der the operation of the prohibitory
liquor law, has reduced the percent
age of insanity, emptied her jails
and prisons and sold her poor
farms, according to report by j.
w. Howe, secretary of the state
board of control. Howe's figures,
based on official reports, show that
insanity due to intemperance has
been reduced from eight to three
per cent under the state law.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
GERMAN SUBMARINE SINKS
STEAMER, ATTACKS REsCUER

New Castle, Engle, Bay 25.-The
Norwegian steamer Minera was sunk
by a German submarine Saturday
night. The crew of the steamer was
landed here by the steamer Iris. The
c. plain Of the Iris reports that az
ter he had rescued the crew of the
Minerva, the submarine sent a tor
pedo at the Iris, narrowly missing
her.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
KANSAS ELKS WILL VISIT
LAWRENCE THIS WEEK

Lawrence, May 24.-The annual
convention of Kansas Elks will be
held in Lawrence Wednesday and
Thursday. Two hundred delegates
from all parts of the state will come
for the meetings.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
POSTAL CLERKS MEET
AT MANHATTAN MAY 81

Manhattan, May 25.-The Kan
sas branch of the United National
Association of Postoffice Clerks will
hold its seventh annual session in
Manhattan, Monday, May 81, Dec
Grafton Day. 1t will be the third
state convention for Manhattan this
month. About 100 delegates will at
tend the meeting of the postoffice
clerks.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
Rain and Hail Sunday

Topeka, May PA heavy rain
and windstorm swept northern
Kansas Sunday. In Topeka half an
inch of rain fell in five minutes and
similar reports came from Manhat-
tan, Salina, Concordia and other
points in central and northern Kan
sas. Wind damaged barns and
small buildings. There was some
hail.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
HE'S NEVER BEEN IN TROUBLE
But a Horton Negro is Scared from
Bullet and Razor Wounds

Horton, May 24.-Ernest Wells,
negro, convicted of murder in the
district court and sentenced to ths
pen, testified on trial that he had
never been in serious trouble. When
stripped for physical examination
at the penitentiary scars of eight
bullet wounds were found upon his
person and razor scars were in
evidence upon his chest, arms and
back.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
To Watch Farm Tractors Pillow

Hutchinson, May 25.-As private
farm tractor demonstrations in Kan
sas bring out crowds of 900 to 500
people, Hutchinson is looking for
10000 attendance at the great Trac-
tor Flowing Exhibit, July 10 to "a.
The leading tractor and traction
plow concerns of the country are
entering their machines.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
british SINK FOUR
SHIPS AT DARDANELLES

Paris, May 24.-An official note,
issued regarding the operations in
the Dardanelles, says a British sub
marine has sunk two torpedo boats
and two transports, one of which
was loaded with troops.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
1octor Held FOR Woman,s Death

Doctor Held Tor WOman DeaWI
Burlington, May 25.-After pre-
lminary hearing here today, DR.. c.
c. Kesner Of Leroy was placed un-
der $4,000 bond to appear in dis
trict court to answer for the death
OF Mrs. Lewis Sinclair, who died at
ter a criminal operation. Her hus-
band, Lewis Sinclair, is one of the
principal witnesses against Doctor
Kesner.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
KRAUTHOFF WINS SUIT
FOR SONS POSSESSION

Kansas City, May 24.-Edwin s.
Krauthoff today i'm the Kansas City
court of appeals, won possession OF
his SON. The mother will be al
lowed to keep her son one month in
each year.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
Fonr Ioads Of Wheat: s4s1

olathe, May 24.-The largest
loads of wheat ever hauled to Ola
the were brought in Saturday and
delivered to a local mill by Edgar
Pack, who lives west Of olathe. He
used four big Percheron mares
abreast to haul the grain. The four
loads sold for $4S1.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
Thousands Plead for Franks Life

Atlanta, Ca, May 25.-Among
more than 1000 letters urging exec
utive clemency for Leo NJ. Frank,
received today by Governor Slaton
and the state prison commission,
we're communications from U. S.
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, Hi
nois; Governor Ferguson Of Texas;
Circuit Judge G. B. Arnold, st.
Louis; Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Den
yer, and others.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
ALLIES SINK
TURK CUNBOAT
Pelenk Iberia TOrpedOed in the
Straits Today
MOST OF THE CREW WAS SAVED
Allied Fleets Follow the Sinking OF
-Four Turk Vessels With the
Destruction OF
Another
MOST OF THE CREW WAS SAVED

London, May "a, 8 p. m.-The
Turkish gunbOat Pelenk Iberia was
torpedoed and sunk inside the OAR
danelIes today by an allied submar-
inc. Most of the crew were saved.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
RUMANIA MAY JOIN
ALLIES; ARMY REVIEWED

London, May 25.-A dispatch to
the Daily Chronicle from Bucharest
says:
"The Rumanian government is ne
gotiating with the allies. King Fer
dinand has reviewed the army and
great enthusiasm prevails"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
RUSSIAN MAN-OF-WAR SUNK
IN BLACK SEA WITH 400 CREW

Berlin, by wireless to Sayville'
May 25.-The Overseas News agency
today gave out the following:
According to a Bucharest dis
patch the Russian armored man-of-
war Winteleimon has been sunk,
with 400 men, in the Black sea-"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
Appoints irrigation Commissioner

Topeka, May al. w. Tough
of Scott City was appointed state
irrigation commissioner under the
new law. The appointment becomes
effective on July 1. On that day the
present board of three elective
members goes out of existence.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
ITALY SCORES
NAVAL VICTORY
Three Small Austrian Ships Sunk,
Two Captured
COMMANDMENT Is REPELLED
Italian Consul at COnstantinopie Is
Killed, Is Report-Staly Will
Not Conclude a Separate
Peace

Rome, May 25.-The Italian fleet
commanded by the Duke OF Abruz-
H. engaged the Austrian fleet that
bombarded Ancona. Three small
Austrian boats were sunk and two
captured. Two British warships CO.
operated with the Italian fleet IN
the naval battle. The remainder OF
the Austrian fleet fled northward'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
Italy In To Stay

London, May 25.-Italy has CIV
en- her adhesion to the agreement al
ready signed by the allied powers
not to conclude a separate peace
The signature of formal document
to this effect is imminent.
Fighting Along Italian Border
Vienna, May 15.-The Austrian
war office announced today that
fighting had begun along the Ital'
ian border, where a number: of small
battles are under way. Italian cav
airy has appeared on the coast near
the frontier.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-05-27
italian Consul Killed

London, May 25.-A dispatch TO
the Exchange Telegraph from Odessa
saws that t is reported that the ltal-
ism consul at Constantinople has
been killed.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-07
When the King of Rome Cried

Many mothers might take a lesson
to heart from the following incident,
narrated by one of Napoleon's bioyra PHI
ers:
His little son. the famous King of
Rome-L'Aiglon. whom Maude Adams
portrayed as a young boy a few years
agc-was hardly more than a baby He
was in charge of a lady of high BIRTH
who acted as his governess. In addition
to gentle birth this woman possessed a
true love and thorough sympathy for
children. She understood the little King
of Rome as nobody else did. and in re-
turn for her affection and kindness he
grew very fond of her.
One day he began to cry, pettishly
and rebelliously. and would not stop
The lady ordered the windows closed.
the curtains drawn and the candles
LIGHTED
The child looked on In wonder
What are you doing?" he finally
asked.
II am closing the windows 50 that
the people Of France will not know that
their little Prince cries" said the lady.
The little Prince ran to her impul-
sively. "A thousand pardons. madame"
he. said. in the formal words in which
he had been taught. And he forthwith
stopped crying.
His governess understood that an ap-
peal to a child's sense of honor will have
more eject than all the scolding in the
world.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-07
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THE IDLE RICH.

The idle rich'' is q term used FAR too
often and too lightly. Today the term
idle. as applied to the possessor OF vast
inherited or accumulated fortunes. Is
misnomer; it is almost Impossible lot the
possessor Of vast wealth to be idle.
In America we rarely hear tne express
sion Leisure class" Practically We have
10 leisure class The leisure class Is the
product of a civilization in which one
xroup of men was relieved from indus
trial strife to be called on for war. for
government, for the church. or Whatever
was supposed to represent hlgner pur-
suits.
This is an Industrial nation. Our big
fortunes have been built up from lndus-
try. not from conquest. The descendants
Of the captains Of industry TO the 'niro
and fourth generations appreciate TINS
fact: with their fortunes they have in
herited a knowledge of responsibility TO-
ward the source of them; that Is. the
community.
Whether we believe the present indus
trial system to be Il right one or not. We
should be Just to those who nave pronted
py it, There are few. very Few, drohes
in the rank. This is as true of the women
as Of the men.
1t often occurs today that very large
fortunes are left to the widow to be used
m philauthropic and social work as she
sees nt 1t is not sentiment that inspires
man to make such a WILL. IL Is the
certainty that the woman. through years
of hard training. knowledge gained by
experience and labor, is mt to carry on
this work
In few instances do the wives CT very
rich men lead idle lives. devoted TO pleas
ure They are generally serving as the
backbone of hospital committees. organ
iziny educational reform. studying and
supporting social questions, fighting the
LIQUOR and vice element. and preaching
good citizenship.
an, thinking. as write. OF one over
worked rich woman who has been lying
on her back now for three months trying
to recover from the effects OF "A serious
operation There ire two trained nurses
in attendance. but lowering about the
sick bed are also two private secretaries
and a number of trained social workers.
taking dictation, demanding information.
advice, orders For years this woman
has devoted not only her large fortune.
but her time and intelligence, to betterins
humanity. without her sound Judgment
her trained intelligence. her experience.
her wise directions. many OF the social
and educational movements in which she
is interested would go to pieces.
In the same physical conuitloilS' tho
average poor woman would go 10 'he
hospjtaI. the well-to-do woman to
sanitarium or rest cure; but for this
woman there is no rest.
The idle class in America is not MADE
up of the very rich. 1t is made up OF
women whose husbands have made
enough money to relieve them OF all
work in the home. but they have IN
herited no sense Of responsibility. have
taken on themselves no work or labor for
the community. These are the women
The Washington herald., 1915-05-07
Who Is leila Nuttall?

II anyone named the three most noted
men in the country and You were unable
to recognize the name of one of them
you would be somewhat surprised,
wouldn't you? Yet ever since the San
Francisco Exposition committee that had
the selection of the three most noted
American women in hand named leila
Nuttall as one of the winners. women
have been asking each other who she is.
Every one knows the other two win
ners-Jane Adams. who is now in Eu-
rope as chairman of the Women's Peace
Congress at the Hague, and Katherine
Davis. whose prison reform work in New
York is almost as well known as is Miss
Adams social betterment work in Chi
cago. But this third winner puzzles us.
There are dozens, even hundreds of
women more generally known than is
Miss Nuttall. DR.. Anna Shaw, Helen
Keller. Mrs. William Cummings Storer.
Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker. Maude
Adams. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ella
Flagg Young. Anne Morgan-or even the
far-famed Mary Pickford-all these
names are better known than Miss Nut
tails.
We even have to go to the Who's
Who" to find out that she was born in
San Francisco. and that her fame rests
on her archaeological work in Mexico.
where she made many important dis
coveries. especially in picture writing for
the Peabody Museum at Harvard: that
Sha hAIn 70 hall
cieties whose membership is confined to
the most learned. and that she is a
woman of really profound intellectual
attainments.
By a popular vote Miss Nuttall would
not have been selected as one of the
three. But by the welI-qualified commit
tee which did make the choice Miss Nut
tall stood out as the most remarkable Of
all American women of purely intellec-
tual attainments.
Miss Adams genius is of another sort.
She is the sociologist. the philanthropist.
the statesman. To those who have
watched the work of Miss Katherine
Davis it is apparent that she is above all
else the student of human nature. the
friend of humanity. the woman who
understands more than any other woman
in the country the problems of the indi-
vidual offender rather than the problems
of society as whole. And to round out
the group the judges out in San Fran
cisco have chosen a woman of entirely
different type and attachments from
either of these. Miss Nuttall came from
the Far West, and 1t was but fitting that
b. while one of the candidates came from
the Middle West and another from the
East, that the third should come from
the Pacific Coast.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-07
HOUSE,
WIVES
DAILY
ECONOMY
DON'T BURN.

The careless cook who allows some
thing she has prepared to burn to a
crisp. and then blames her luck for
the happening. is hardly to be SYM
pathized with. For care and attention
can always prevent burning, either in
the oven. in the toaster, or over the
flame OF course. the woman who tries
to cook and answer the telephone and
run upstairs when the baby cries. and
rush out to the garden to gather flow
ers for the table and answer the cellar
door to let in the gas inspector and
then run to the front door to greet a
caller, may be excused if occasionally
the edges of a pie get little too
brown, of if the double boiler burns
dry.
But remember. no matter how busy
you may be. that attention will pre-
vent burning always.
To begin with. if you use gas learn
to gauge the heat in some way. An
oven thermometer will help with the
oven. but oven thermometers are
not standardized, even these are not
infallible guides. And remember that
a small flame is sufficient to keep any
thing boiling after it has once reached
the boiling point. II you use a coal
stove. the dangers of too much heat
are not SO great. But be watchful
just the same.
Always fill the bottom part of n
double boiler full as possible before
starting it to boil Then as soon as it
begins to boil, place it over lower heat.
If the heat is too great, the water
boils over. and so the boiler is more
likely to bury dry. And form the
habit-for il Is formable habit-of
looking in the boiler every fifteen min
utes to see how the water stands.
Keep a little dish of water in tho
oven This tempers the heat and often
prevents scorchlng and burning.
Unless your oven does not brown
things on the bottom, always cook cake
on n thin sheet of asbestos or on a
raised wire rack. This keeps it from
getting burned on the bottom.
Grease cake tins with lard or some
other grease rather than butter, which
burns at low temperature.
Steam things that burn easily in
stead of boiling them. Things cooked
over steam cannot boil.
Anything that Is to be cooked with
only very little water and therefore
nigh burn easily you can cook in a
double boiler. Always heat leftover
gravy. that has been thickened. or
leftover vegetables that have been
drained of water. in a double boiler.
where they are, far less likely to burn
than IL heated directly over the flame.
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The Washington herald., 1915-05-07
No Breakfast and Good Complexion

At summer camp in the mountains
last year there was a young woman
whose color and complexion were the
envy and admiration of every one She
never appeared until about 10 o'clock
when the other campers. after a leisure
" breakfast and half an hour or so
spent in waiting for the mail. had gather
ed to receive it on the steps of the lodge
where they ate and danced together
Then this girl of the lovely complexion
would appear. radiane. enthusiastic.
fresh-dressed for tennis. golf, tramping.
and boating.
The secret of her freshness lay in
an egg and an orange. Instead of eat
ing breakfast in the usual way she ate
an egg soft boiled. over a spirit lamp
and the Juice of an orange. She ate
this meager. but sustaining breakfast in
her room and so was not tempted by
the hot breads and cakes muffins and
meat dishes which were served In the
camp dininS-room. Hence. her lovely
complexion. Moreover. she saved much
time She could eat her breakfast slow
ly in ten minutes. and she could eat II
without dressing. Then she had an
hour or SO undisturbed in which she
could write letters. mend. sew, or do
anything else which needed daily atten-
ton. BY 10. freshly dressed for the
days sport she would make an appear
ance. - ~
The other girls. who had. perhaps, over
eaten at breakfast to their complexion's
harm, had wasted an hour or so daily
waiting about for the mail. Their mend
ing and letter writing were an ever I'm
finished task and burden to them. And
more than that, they had gained little
from their early. morning chat and idling
The camp never really woke up until the
middle of the morning. The talk at
Breakfast and just after II was not in
spring.
The method Of this girl might be
practiced by any one away for the sum-
ner to sthe improvement Of health, APP
pearance. and state Of mind.