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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-03-09
ATE TALCUM POWDER, TRIED
TO DIE OF STRYCHNINE

Troy, March Clyde thinner
man, who has been adjudged insane,
mistook talcum powder for strych-
nine and tried to commit suicide
few days ago. He claims to have
purchased the "strychnine" in a st.
Joseph drug store and was in bed
trying to persuade himself that he
was dying from its effects. Col. w.
d. Sharp. who finally insisted that
he get up and go to work, received
a slight knife wound on the hand
while trying to force the dying"
man out of bed.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-03-09
PUPILS BUILD $50 BIRD
HOUSES IN SCHOOL CONTEST

Junction City, March 4.-When
several Junction City business men
offered prizes to the grade schools
Of Junction City for the best bird
houses built by the pupils, they
did not figure that the contest
would arouse the interest among
boys and girls that the returns
showed. The closing day of the
contest $50 bird houses were
brought to the George Smith public
library where they are displayed.
Many girls entered the contest
which was open to pupils from to
15 years of age.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-03-09
BARN AND CONTESTS BURNED
IN EARLY MORNING BLAZE

The big new barn on the Harry
Norman farm northeast of Chapman
was completely burned about seven
o'clock Wednesday morning, togeth-
er with about sixty tons of baled
hay, 5000 worth Of farm implements
and other contents sufficient to
bring the total loss close to $4,000,
only partly covered by insurance.
The cause for the fire remains a
mystery. Several men have been
working near the barn for several
days on the foundation for a new
house and no smoking or matches
had been seen about the barn.
Chapman Advertiser.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-03-09

Albert Miller to A. E. Schuman e
u NV u 3-12-3, $4,000.
Ella Thisler to Henry Yuhl, ne 4
Sc u, 2-14-2, $4,000.
Elias H. Book to Geo. Ayre Sc 4
1921, $4,000.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-03-09
4-INCH SNOW STOPS
TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK

New York. March 7.-Steamship
movements and street traffic here
were interrupted Modnay by a heavy
snowstorm. The weather bureau re-
ported that four inches had fallen.
A call was issued by the city for
forty thousand men to clear the
snow from the streets.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-03-09

New Basel and was respected citi-
zen Of that community for many
years. He moved to Lawrence about
five years ago.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-03-09

II you don't ges your Reflector
regularly phone IS.
Evening star., 1916-04-23

clamatory man could not be entirely
comfortable while occupying what in
theory, at least. is the second highest
office in the land.
Practically, however. the vice presi-
dency. in popular appraisement, has
never risen above the value placed on
IL by John Adams. But Adams was
evolutionary. pugnacious and strenu-
ously expectant, and so with irritation,
he exclaimed: My country in it's wis
dom fsarcasm. perhaps) has contrived
for me the most insignificant office that
ever the invention of man contriyed or
his imagination conceived"
The Adams estimate of the vice
presidency, to persons of his type has
come down the years unchanged. His
tory proves, however, that the estimate
is wrong. There is good reason for
believing. too. that Adams himself
thought better of the honor than his
outbursts would lead one to believe.
Il have really often looked at him
(referring to Adams) with surprise,
mingled with contempt" wrote old
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diana, complete the roster of Vice Pros
idents in the order of their service.
They were popular and capable men aHd
their geographical location did them 10
harm. All in all, the Vice Presidents
of the United States have been up
right. competent and worthy of the Of
flee they filed
But is the vice presidency political
grave? Does it bring to a premature
end the public lives of the men who
have gladly or reluctantly accepted it?
Col. Roosevelt is very far from being
has-been. Indiana is even now talkinS
of Fairbanks for President. Sherman
and Hobart died in office. Stevenson was
the democratic candidate for Vice Pres
ident in 1900 and candidate eight
years later for governor.
Mr.. Morton, leaving the vice presi-
dency. became Governor of New York.
Hendricks also died in office, did
Wilson. Wheeler returned to his bust
ness. Colfax dropped dead in the rail-
way station at Mankota, Mimi, while
on a lecturing tour. Hamlin was in the
Senate for twelve years and spent a
year in Spain as the minister of this
country. Expelled from the Senate be-
cause he had Joined the Confederate
army, Breckenridge, the youngest man
ever to be Vice President, rose to the
rank of major general and fought at
Shiloh. Murfreeshoro. Chickamauga,
Cold Harbor and Chattanooga
King. too. died in office. Dallas went
to London as the minister of this ma
tlon. Richard NJ. johnson, the slayer
of Tecumseh, served in the Legislature.
His vice presidency" wrote J. Ran
dolph Tucker, biographer of Calhoun.
marks the beginning of his life as a
constitutional statesman" Secretary
of State in Tyler's administration. he
died while member of the Senate
The station as Calhoun termed the
vice presidency. from its leisure gave
me a good opportunity to study the
genius of the prominent measure of the
day. called then the American system.
by which / profited." Old charges
against Tompkins. dating back to the
war of 1872 and based I'm reality on a
confusion in his accounts, ruined him
politically and caused his insanity and
death. Two more of the Vice Presi-
dents-Gerry and Clinton-died in Of
fice. OF Burr. the least said about him
the better As the presiding officer of
the Senate he had the impartiality OF
an angel and the rigor of the devil"
Four Vice Presidents Were afterward
elected President-Roosevelt. Van Bu-
rem, jefferson, and Adams. But Tyler.
Fillmore. Andrew Johnson and Arthur.
succeeding to the presidency by rea-
son of the deaths of William Henry
Harrison. Zachary Taylor. Abraham
Lincoln and James A. Garfield. were
not again acceptable to the leaders Of
their parties or to the electorate.
Copyright, 1916. by James b. Morrow
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four and Thomas r. Marshall was fifty
nine.
The. average newspaper reader, no
doubt, viii find strange names in this
list Nevertheless every man in his
day was representative American.
All were lawyers except Elbridge
Gerry, who was merchant: Andrew
johnson, who was a journeyman tailor
and a politician; Schuyler Colfax. who
was an Indiana editor; Henry Wilson,
who was shoemaker and an orator:
Levi p. Morton, who was a banker, and
Theodore Roosevelt. who was an
author.
Adams. Gerry and Roosevelt gradu-
ated at Harvard. Jefferson and Tyler
at Villa m and Mary College, Burr and
Dallas at Princeton, Tompkins at Co
luinbia. Calhoun at Yale, Richard NJ.
Johnson at .Transylvania University,
King at the University of North Caro-
lima. Breckenridge and Stevenson at
Center College. Arthur at Union COL
lege, Hendricks at Hanover College,
Hobart at Rutgers College. FAIRBANKS
Evening star., 1916-04-23

for ten years and which he resigned
to become Vice President. His last
message to the Legislature recommend
ed that "a day be fixed for the abolition
OF slavery within the bounds of the
state. The assembly accepted his sug-
Sestlon and voted that all slaves
should he free on and after July 4, 1927.
Beginning as an Office boy when he
was fourteen years old. Van Buren,. a
successful lawyer. had been a United
states senator, the Governor of New
YORK and the Secretary of State in
Jackson's cabinet before his election as
Vice President
Richard NJ. johnson of Kentucky,
while a representative in Congress, re-
crulted 1000 mounted volunteers and
LED them against the British and In
dlans during the war of 1872. At the
battle OF the Thames, in a hand to-hand
fight. he killed an Indian chief, whom
ne suPPoseu 10 De Tecumseh.
Wounded several times himself, he
was taken off the field so that he might
die back Of the firing line. Four months
Evening star., 1916-04-23
BY JAMES B. MORROW,

6NHE computable cost of the Vice
President to the taxpayers of the
nation is $1,000 A year.
Items: Salary, $4,000: private
secretary. $4,000: chauffeur, $1,000
telegraph operator. s1.50o: messenger
flor personal service mostly. $I,440, and
telegram page. $500. Also there are mar
BILE offices to be lighted and heated Sta
tionery is provided. The dwindline cash
value of the official automobile should
really be included. Then there are min
eral waters and lemonade. regularly SUD-
piled the senators. Of which. doubtless.
the Vice President partakes, and hair
tonic
Much sympathy has been wasted on the
Vice President. He is dead politically !"
those ignorant of history commonly saw.
He can't do anything" his friends COM
plain. THE great parade" they add. .is
sweeping down the street to the music Of
the bands. but he is standing still"
kF
The truth is that the Vice President has
ABOUT as nne Job as there is in the
world BE belongs. by right. to the NO
Worry Club" Nothing is more certain
than his one thousand a month. the EQUIV
aient OF 100000 in Silt-edged bonds bear
Ing per cent interest. The working day
with him begins at noon. Usually IT ends
at O'Clock During each alternate year
he has vacation Of nine months. In
other years he can leave Washington BY
midsummer and be gone, say, until two
weeks before Christmas
furthermore, he has a substitute.
There Is always a President pro tenn
pore OF the Senate. senator himself.
who presides in the absence of the Vice
President. Again. the Vice President
can call any senator to the chair give
him the gavel and hasten away to an
afternoon tea or a golf links. travelling
TO either place. of course in the auto.
mobile which the government owns.
maintains and operates.
Escaping all responsibility, never
the Senate. the Vice President should
be al peace with the nation and ALI Of
ITS inhabitants. ONCE seekers do not
bother him II the administration
And into his presence and hearing
drifts all the political and persona
small talk and large talk of the hour
-anecdotes. inner gossip and reports
pertaining TO the movements of pol
ieies. which cannot be otherwise than
entertaining and Instructive. and pos
sibly amusing. TO philosopher and a
human being like Thomas r. Marshall
OF Indianapolis. for example.
No man has enjoyed the vice presi-
dency more than has It's present
shrewd. cheerful and Appreciative in
cumbent. The world. he believes. has
used him well. That was his feeling
when. having earned mis- first fee as
lawyer and spending IL for pair
OF lavsnder-colored trousers. his horse
ran away and threw him into a ditch
filed with thin mortar of of'yelIow clay
and water. He was returning from,
!ou understand. and not going to, the
house Of his girl.
Nor. so far visible signs can be
relied on. does he hope to be Presi
dent some day himself. An ambitious,
Contentious. nervously active ana de-
Evening star., 1916-04-23

seedlings. This is another reason why
with each importation from Japan
many bulbs are found which, when the
plants begin to bloom, lack uniformity
of size and stem, time of Towering and
other characteristics. 1t is reported that
the Japanese department of agriculture
has taken the matter in hand with
view to inducing the growers to weed
out inferior seedlings and propagate
only the best.
When you look over a collection Of
blooming Easter lily plants you will
hardly fail to note the preponderance
Evening star., 1916-04-23
A Deciduous Tree.

1OHN DREW was congratulated at
~ the Players in Gramercy Park on
the abundant hair with which, despite
his years. he is still blessed.
THANK goodness" said Mr.. Drew,
complacently. I'm not like Tree.
Tree went into a Los Angeles barber
shop the other day and said:
"'Can you cut my hair without my
taking off my collar
The barber, with loud laugh
slapped Trees pink and polished dome
jocularly.
"'Why. bless your heart. Sir Herbert
he said, L could cut it without your
taking off your hat"
Evening star., 1916-04-23

of weakly, yellow-leaved plants. with
one or two flowers to each, and you can
take it for granted that these weak
lings have been grown from imported
bulbs"
of Agriculture have shown that the
best results in this country SO far have
been attained on the Pacific coast; also
that home grown bulbs from home
grown seed yield the best plants. Por-
tions of the coast lands of California
present nearly ideal conditions for the
culture of the Easter lily. The Ber-
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can be grown successfully. it may be
stated that the lily seedlings have
shown great vigor where the winter
temperature does not fall below "a de-
grees Fahrenheit. Below that point
the plants get a check to their growth
and the foliage puts on an undesirab BILE
yellowish tinge.
A few capable men in California have
been found who carried out the direc-
tions of the department with splendid
results. A plant grown in Ventura
bore thirty-five blooms. The bulb crop
is profitable one, yielding from 81 900
Evening star., 1916-04-23
-AMER1cAN -GKvwN H1AcN rHS

muda method of cultivation was tried
with imported bulbs, but while better
plants were attained than those i'm
ported, they yet showed the results of
weakness and disease.
At the instigation of DR.. b. T. Gallo
way. late chief of the bureau of plant
industry, large number of seedlings
were grown in the department green
houses few years ago, and from these
several pounds of seed resulted. This
was distributed on the Pacific coast and
in Florida. The seedlings grown in
California showed conclusively that
Evening star., 1916-04-23

with liberal treatmen first-class bulbs
can be grown by this method.
The plants were almost free from
disease: few showed it here and there
in the first generation seedlings, but in
the second and third generations it is
difficult to find an affected plant These
results have been SO encoura ging to
practical meh on the coast that sew
eral are now engaged in getting up a
stock of seedlings upon a large scale.
Although enough has not been done
in an experimental way to ascertain
fully all of the localities where lilies
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not. as it had been known, "a political
tomb
Anciently, as history shows, the Vice
President was second in the voting
among those whom the people desired
to be their President He came
under the wire in the running behind
the leader. but ahead of the field
Then, by and by, when parties came
into existence, he was nominated reg
Evening star., 1916-04-23

ffty-seven, Schuyler Colfax was forty
six, Henry Wilson was siXty-one. Will
liam A. Wheeler was ffty-eight, Ches-
ter A. Arthur was ffty-one, Thomas A.
Hendricks was sixty-siX, Levi p. Nor
ton was siXty-five, Adlai +. Stevenson
was fifty-seven, Garret A. Hobart was
ffty-three, Theodore Roosevelt was
forty-three. Charles w. Fairbanks was
fifty three, James S. Sherman was fifty
Evening star., 1916-04-23

at Ohio Wesleyan University, Sherman
at Hamilton College and Marshall at
Wabash College.
Adams. jefferson. Burr, Clinton and
Gerry, the first five Vice Presidents,
were famous men at the time of their
election. Tompkins, at thirty, was a
judge of the supreme court of the
state of New York, and at thirty-three
was elected governor, an Office he held
Evening star., 1916-04-23

office, or whether it grew out of his
own experience. no one, it may he. will
ever know, but William Mckinley. in
1900. believed that the vice presidential
candidate on the ticket with him ought
TO be seasoned and able public man,
nigh in the respect and confidence OF
the nation. IT was known to his close
friends that he preferred William B.
Allison above any one else.
senator Allison. however. did not
snare President McKinley's enthusiasm
personal matter. He. was seventy-one
years old. had been in the Senate for
more than quarter of century and
could remain there so long as he lived.
Neither would he take the office of Sec
retary or the Treasury in 1897, though
Mr.. Mckinley summoned him to Canton
and pleaded with him face to face and
by word of mouth.
After Allison, who held. nossiblv tho
ADAMS view Of the vice presidency.
Mckinley had no particular choice at
hrst; He did not want Roosevelt
11ininklng him rash and militant Dol
rhetorical and emotional. The candi-
date for Vice President" he told Mark
Hanna, should be a big enough man
to be President"
Ihus a new idea was thrust upon
the attention of the leaders among the
delegates who were to meet in Phila-
delphia. Mark Hanna Informed them.
not precisely in the words here used.
but in effect, that the vice presidency
was unlike the OK of Prometheus.
which. though large and seemingly fit
Tor the shambles, was filled with trash
and unfit for food. Availability was
not mentioned. Geography for once
was forgotten
When Hanna went from the White
rouse to Philadelphia. where he was
70 command the national convention.
mckinley knew, and knowing an,
proved Hanna's purpose to nominate
cornelius N. Bliss for Vice President.
~ may DE against good newspaper
manners. and all other kinds to bring
rehned. retiring and home-lovine
woman INTO a great political battle.
put history wo0id suffer the loss OF a
UNDUE and vital fact We're 1t not un-
derstood that Mrs. Bliss overturned
marx Hanna's plans, dashed William
Mchihleys hopes to the ground and
caused Theodore Roosevelt to become
PRESIDENT All this she did when she
persuaded her husband not to re-enter
active politics ~
Time was lost by Hanna in areu-
Ihent ana hesotiation. Roosevelt sur
rendered 10 the marching and cheer
ing delegates from the west. and the
convention. seeing its boss in a mud-
die. pushed the administration band
wagon into the mullens and tbistJes
at the side of the road Jobn n Iong
OF Massachusetts might have been
chosen. but he was deep in the Maine
woods and Hanna could not get at
him by telegraph
Therefore the grave and steady Nc
hiniey. well broken to harness. was
hftched UP. in Hanna's opinion, with
an excitable colt. This narrative of
inner facts gains its pertinence now
because it shows McKinley's effort to
give the vice presidency a character It
had lost and to impress its potentiality
upon the minds of all voters Events.
happening tragicaliy and swiftly
thereafter, showed that the Office is
Evening star., 1916-04-23

Indiana was a doubtful" state. but
Hendricks had been in the Senate. had
been governor. and. at the democratic
national convention of 1868, had received
1872 votes for President on the twenty
first ballot. Morton. banker still liv-
ing at the age of ninety-one. had spent
two years in Congress. had declined the
vice presidential nomination of his party
in 1880 and had been the American min
lister to France.
The celerity," says biographer cf
Stevenson. he displayed in removing
republicans,t while he was first assistant
postmaster general. and appointing
democrats to their places rendered him
extremely popular with his party. par
ticularly in the south, and 'Adlai's ak
became common and almost proverbial
expression"
Hobart OF New Jersey, Roosevelt of
New York. Fairbanks of Indiana, Sher-
man of New York and Marshall of IN
Evening star., 1916-04-23

William Maclay "a senator from Penn
sylvania and harsh critic Of George
Washington in his diary. which was
published. when he is in the chair and
no business is before the chamber. In
stead Of that sedate. easy air which I
would have seen him possess. he will
look on one side, then on the other.
then down on the knee Of his breeches
then dimpie his visage with the most
silly half smile which cannot well ex-
press in English.
The ScOtch-1rjsh have a word that
hits II exactly-smudging. Maclay con-
tinued with irreyerent pen God for
give rpe for the vile thought, but I can
not help thinking of a monkey in
breeches when see, him betray such
evident marks OF self-conceit."
Whether he felt that he would die in
Evening star., 1916-04-23

later. although unable to walk, he was
again in his seat in the House of Rep
resentatives. Still later. he was a sena-
tor
Nor was Tyler a nonenity when his
name was put on the Harrison ticket in
1S4o. He had been a representative and
senator in Congress and the Governor
of Virginia. Dallas, graduating at
Princeton with the highest honors had
practiced law in Philadelphia and had
served in the Senate and in Russia as
the American minister, when nomina. ed
for Vice President at the Baltimore
convention in 1874.
There were only two books within
Fillmores reach when he was boy
the Bible and a collection of hymns. 1t
is said that he did not see a map of
the United States until he was nineteen
years old. Apprenticed to d wool car
der he served his time. taught school.
read law and rose to the leadership of
the bar in western New York AS a
congressman. he was at the head of the
great committee on ways and means.
The vice presidency did not raise him
out of obScurity.
Also King of North Carolina was a
notable mana senator and minister to
France. Breckenridge who followed him
had been a major in the Mexican war
and member of Congress. He was put
on the ticket with Buchanan as a repre-
sentative of the slave-owning class
Hamin. once printer. was a senator
He left the democratic party he said,
and Lincoln. then a member of the
House of Representatives. heard him
say it, because he could not accept the
doctrine that slavery followed the
American flag. The republicans nomi-
mated him in the belief that he would
draw thousands of democrats to the
Lincoln ticket.
Four years afterward Hamlin was
put aside for Johnson, who had left
the Senate to be the military Govern
or of Tennessee and whose nomination.
the republicans thought, would
strengthen their cause in the border
states. Colfax, three times Speaker of
the House, lived in a pivotal state. Will
son, shoemaker by trade, was cele
brated as a senator and an orator.
Wheeler. railroad officer and a bank
er at Malone n. Y, also was fortunate
enough to live in an uncertain state.
but he had been elected five times to
Congress and was not unknown. Ar
thur was chosen to please the friends
of Gen. Grant. among whom was Ros-
coe Conkling.
Evening star., 1916-04-23
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neglected in the rearing of Easter
lilies, and one of the most potent fac
tors in connection with success or
failure. is observance of the fact that
lilies should not be grown for two
consecutive years upon the same field.
This is the trouble in Bermuda, whence
the lilies have mainly come in past
years. The farms are SO small and
the lily bulb crop so stable and profit
able an industry that the lily farmers
have not practiced the alienation of
crops necessary to keep the lily bulbs
up to standard. rs
AS result of these conditions and
the fact that careful selection Is not
practiced and that the most advanced
methods of propagation are not fol-
lowed, the vigor of the lily plants has
been lessened and weak and diseased
bulbs have been the result. Hence the
plants grown from Bermuda bulbs in
greenhouses in the United States are
in a more or less unsatisfactory con-
dition. In many cases from SO to 75
per cent of the-plants are diseased to
such an extent as to be practically
unstable: in fact, they are SO serious
willingly give up their cultivation al
together were it not that their patrons
demand the lily in its season.
The Japanese bulbs are better than
those sent from Bermuda. and it was
owing principally to the decadence of
the Bermuda crop that the import from
Japan has increased so markedly. The
Japanese bulbs are, however, by no
means satisfactory. They are attack
ed by mite which spoils them for
forcing purposes. and there is also a
fungous disease which affects the stems
and leaves.
Despite these defects there are over
three million Easter lily bulbs imported
present. millions of bulbs are grown
from seed each year. the demand being
10 large that enough cannot be grown
to supply IT,. Unfortunately, however
there has been no selection from the