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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

nE What is the name OF the Big
% Cash Store in Abilene? II IS
the store where cash talks and talks
loud. when it comes to buying mer-
chandise. This store has an I'M
mense stock OF general merchandise
fCeluding farm machinery, hard :
ware. steel tanks. etc. The cash sys-
TEN has been in force at this store
for the past two years and Is prov
ing a genuine advantage to the
nublic. for il enables this firm to
sell much cheaper. Home Of the
Range Eternal ond Colonial Heat
ore sandusky washing machines
everything to eat and wear. what
is the name? sc and Zoe coupon
books.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

IN What is the name of the pop
* ular hostelry on the south
side?" Some ten years ago the pro
prietor of this hotel started in bust
ness with few rooms, and the
place has grown, and is still grow
ing A new annex is now in course
of construction, which viii be mod
ern in every respect, and will
make in all over 60 rooms. This
hotel also has commodious dining
room and serves the best OF meals
An air of wholesouled courtesy is
displayed here and every guest is
made to feel at home. This and
good service combine to make this
a popular hotel. What is the name?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

E7 There is one store in Abilene
III where you can buy almost
anything you need in the way OF
new and second hand household ar
ticles. If you are feeling blue be-
cause your money won't do all you
want il to, join the throng who
make their way to this store when
in need of any of the many necessi-
ties of the home in the way of fur
niture and furnishings. If you have
anything for sale or wish to ex-
change the old for the new, you
can get a satisfactory deal at this
store on West Third. The name?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

"a There is a firm of monument
Of dealers in Abilene which Tor
their fine work. and materials is
not excelled by any in the state.
This firm has been here for years
and. when you buy from them Won
are taking no chances whateaer.,
for they guarantee all their work
and this means a great deal to the
nubtic. Their work is made from
the finest Vermont and Italian mar
BILE and granite. They carry in STOCK
a large line of monuments OF the
most beautiful designs and they
can supply you in any size and style
a. most reasonable prices. One long
and one short name.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

m Where do you go for your
OF holiday good? This number
represents a store on North Broad
way which has changed hands a
number OF times and has been
known by such names as variety,
racket. etc, but win henceforth be
known as The Bargain Shop, and IS
now owned by a sticker, who will
stay. stuck. Both back and front are
torn up just at the present, the pace
being remodeled and replenlsaee.
What is the name? The managemeht
is adding a new stock of goods and
win run good store with snort
prices. Trunks, valices, underwear,
hosiery, art goods, all kinds OF
household necessities and novelties.
And a hustler behind the business
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

40 Aladdin rubbed his lamp
ri but the modern household
touches a button. Thanks to cleo
tricity (and the progressive people
who installed this service in Abb
lene) the commonplace happenings
Of today are more marvellous than
anything the hero of the Arabian
Knights ever did What is the name
of the company which furnishes
this good service? This company
furnishes both electricity and gas,
and will be glad to talk over the
proposition of putting these con-
veniences in your home.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

rE The firm this number repre-
GJ sents has recently taken
charge of an old established grocery
and market in the east section OF
the citv and has a large stock OF
stapie and fancy groceries. vege-
tabies and fresh and cured meats;
They invite your patfonage anu
will appreciate it, and viii always
endeavor to merit it. What Is the
name? The store has white iroht
and in their dealings will treat
Won white. Aside from boosting its
own business. the management OF
this store is also a booster for ADJ,
lene as we'll. Always welcome ana
call again.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

IN The subject of this sketch
% makes farm loans and have
been in business in Abilene tor
wears and years This firm probably
knows Dickinson county land bet
ter than anyone in this line. IAey
sellrrgol estate and If you are
docking for an investment they Have
a large list of bargains III larlhs
and also in city property. They can
fit YOU out with any kind OF a pTop-
osition. What is the nameZ one
mas eleven letters. the other nine.
Their office is in that funny Aooh-
ing building, upstairs.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

En Who is the leading feed and
Ok produce dealer in Abilene?
This firm handles the best brands
of flour and meal, and can supply
you with hay, oats, chops. bran, etc.
This firm has recently moved from
Buckeye to Second, where they
have ample room and carry larg-
er stock than ever. After January
this firm will adopt cash plan
of selling its merchandise and will
make the proposition of interest to
the public Last four letters of name
spell what this firm wifi henceforth
have no cause to send you. Highest
prices for poultry and eggs.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

E0 The store of quality, progress
10 and service. This store car
ries a complete line of hardware,
farm machinery and vehicles, with
the mast complete stock of repairs
in the state. You win find here the
best stock of tools, cutlery and
other shelf hardware. Just think
how pleased the housewife would
be to get one of those Malleable or
Garland ranges. In furniture and
floor coverings. you win always find
a big assortment of the finest goods
to select from. A Royal Easy chair
for tire living room. Then those.
beautiful massive steel and brass
bedsteads and those soft mattress
es. Everything to make the home
CHEEKY. -Four big sales floors. one
name of the firm ends with "es"
and the other does not.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-12-07

EA When. YOU have plumbing
Jf troubles and warft instaatt re-
lief where do you go? This plumb
ing and heating firm has been do
ing business, in this city for quite
a while and has never found
cause thev couldn't cure. They have
"a shop on Broadway where they do
all Kinds of repair work in their
line. What is the manner one OI
the words IN the preceding sentehoe
is the last part of the name. Fur.
mace work is a special feature OF
their business. and tkey have nice
line of bath and kitchen fixtures
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12

When the war began almost every
rho had ever owned a dachshund or
y" ~ frankfurter wrote a book about
Germany. By jan
uu,T D'YOU uary, 1916, the
NON ABOUT American output of
T rl RUSSIANS? volumes about Ger
many had become
large that it must have had a ma
,srisl influence on the shortage of print
,sDer. In that busy year and half
~ writer's had told us much more
sh,r, Germany and the Germans than
there was to know.
Meanwhile there has sprung up
.onnter-current Of books about Russia.
Most Of these naturally have come from
r,clisb sources. Russia seems far
.vsv from us. further than China and
I,nan and few Americans know 1t IN
timately. Even in time of peace not
often does an American traveller vent
.ro far within its closely guarded
hor5ers. To get in you have to have
1,..norts and things, and even then
thew nav turn you back because they
don't like the cut of your waistcoat or
the cut of your nose.
Most of US know very little ABOUT
Russia except that it is great country
,,-avlinq over more than half OF Eu-
,,De and A big patch of Asia; that Its
roverpment doesn't seem to gybe with
tho democratic ideas of Jefferson and
Lincoln; that seventy Of its people out
# every hundred cannot read or write;
that occasionally there are staged
within ifs borders horrible outbreaks
against persons of the same race as the
earliest Christians. Remnants OF these
INITIATED families have escaped to our
shores from time to time, some OF them
Scared with wounds, and after a while
they 90 into the cloak and suit business
and their children take most of the first
prizes in our public schools.
On the whole, we haven't been par
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12
A SHOCKED REPUBLICAN

partial returns give Hughes 31s,729, Will
son 1892"
Cheers, mingled with laughter. 1t was too
easy. Somebody at blackboard chalked up
the fgures-apparently that was just what
he had been waiting for.
Important" roared the announcer I'm
portant, pleased" Everybody quit congratulate
ing everybody else and gave attention. Here's
a state that's always been Democratic strong
hold Listen! Texas
Applause.
Returns up to 9:15 give Hughes S7,625"--
Wilson,
Laughter.
WILSON, The voice was somewhat
weaker. -Wilson-er-well-no-o mere
we are-NEW JERSEY
There was silence. Evidently something
was the matter with Texas. Mr.. wilson must
have received more votes than the announcer
had anticipated. Somebody muttered. 1t was
evident that the temper of the crowd was de-
cidedly hostile to Texas. | think that mo-
ton TO give Texas TO Mexico, if put at that
moment. would have been carried unanimous
w But there was better news coming. Chair
man Hatfield of Ohio telephoned that every
thing was jolly out his way, with only couple
of thousand districts stll to be heard from
So "24" went down in the Hughes column for
Ohio Applause. dispatch from Massachu-
sets said that they couldn't tell how 1t was
going, so they put IL down for Hughes Moro
applause. The news came that Mr. Wilson
was only little ahead in Maryland. Down
went Maryland for Hughes.
Presently the announcer came forward
again.
Here's a good one!" he shouted. "Vance
Mccormick claims the reelection of Wilson
with go electoral votes"
Overwhelming laughter.
returned to the press room. A couple of
messenger boys were wrapping up six dollars
worth of Republican sandwiches in a copy of
"The Evening Telegram. Early in the even
ing | would have told on them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12

heaped with zakouska, always hun
bred little groups telling stories, loudly
arguing, laughing uproariously, always
little parties of card players. Meals oc-
Cured whenever anybody got hungry.
Some went to bed others rose after a
long sleep and had breakfast"
Messrs. Reed and Robinson spent
most of their time in Russia under ar
rest, so they did not have the oppor-
tunity to become intimate with life in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12

ley Washburn ("Victory in DefeatO
the Russians even let the Germans
build some of their forts.
Our war correspondents, such as Mr..
Mccormick and Mr.. Washburn, give us
good pictures of the Russian army, but
astonishingly little about the Russian
people. John Reed, who strolled into
Russia in a highly unconventional man.
ner, saw much more Of the social life
and in addition his 'War in Eastern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12

maker and Mr.. Fraser agree that in
many respects the Russian is more
democratic than we are. "The nation
with the most autocratic government in
the world is yet the most democratic"
says Mr.. Fraser, mot as an outcome of
politics, but because such is Slav con-
dtion of mind"
This is admirable, but none the less
Mr.. Reeds experience with jolly Rus
sian colonel sticks in my mind. The
colonel was travelling with his regiment
toward the front and Reed had dinner
with him.
"My Cossacks are splendid fellows"
remarked the colonel, 80 full of spirits.
Every town we come to they will rush
off, the rascals, and go killing the Jews.
And, after all, what does it matter?"
Such callous brutality must come
with a shock to every humane Ameri-
can, including all the good citizens of
Georgia, the abode of the late Leo
Frank.
Whatever nations are destroyed in
this war, no vital hurt can come to Rus
STA. 1t is too big for that, and there
are too many Russians-nearly twice as
many as there are of US.
Between Russia and any great
HARM" says Mr.. Shoemaker, "still lie
those impenetrable spaces where the
armies of Napoleon lie buried-those
armies that Europe has not forgotten.
When the swords that are now flashing
are put up and the game is over Ger
many and Austria or England and
France may divide the present, but the
future belongs to Russia"
Under the circumstances we need TO
know all we can about the Russians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12
THE BURIED SAVIOUR

quality in this wretched neighborhood, he had
decided that it would be best to write to Kat
towitz. It might be desirable to order a whole
new outfit, without regard to cost.
Picha agreed All the suppressed love of
years gone by blossomed out in these two
rough men while they talked of the little girls
future.
Then they heard sharp clatter from the
direction of the trenches.
The soldiers listened
at seems to be getting serious Let us get
ready to march, at any rate" said Fabig.
They strapped on their knapsacks, seized
their rifles and looked about for the child, to
say goodby.
She was leaning in sitting posture against
the stable wall, with the doll in her arms. Her
head was bent slightly forward, her face as
pale as a ghosts. She seemed perfectly mo-
tionless.
MARIA" cried Picha.
He took her hand in his. 1t was already
cold
A little hole in her cloak and in her body
showed the path which stray bullet had
taken. The doctor whom they called could only
tell them that she was dead.
"We will bury her where we first met her."
sobbed Fabig, unable TO control himself.
Pcha lifted the little body and carried it
away. b. the stump Of the cross they show
elled out grave. In digging it they uncov-
cred the gilded image Of the Saviour.
Fabig didn't know what to do with this.
He held it in his hand doubtfully, with sort
of religious reverence. Picha took the image
and placed it in the little maiden's lefs arm,
her right still holding fast TO the doll. Then
he said softly:
I'VE will leave Him with our child. Now
He is dead. He will rise with her."
They filled the grave and raised a little
mound over IT, Next they placed the splin-
tered cross at the graves head. Picha wrote
with chalk on the cross: MARIA"
After that they said silent Pater Noster
and FASTENED away to battle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12

there. But perhaps in a nation Of tired
business men such a condition is not
possible. There are few tired business
men in Russia. In fact the average
Slav does not take business very seri-
ously. Robert r. Mccormick, in with
the Russian Army" tells us that before
the war much of the business of Russia
was controlled by Germans who acted
as middlemen between Russia and the
rest of the world According to Stan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12
By TANSY M'NAB

Europe" has the advantage of splendid
illustrations by Boardman Robinson.
In describing life in Russian house
hold he speaks of "samovars perpetually
steaming, servants shuffling in and out
with fresh water and tea leaves, laugh
ing and joining in the perpetual clatter
of conversation. In and out flowed an
unbroken stream of relatives, friends,
comparative strangers. There was al
ways tea, always a long sideboard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12

ticularly attracted toward the Cars
country.
The more recent English books deal
ing with Russia give more favorable
picture, so favorable indeed that one can
believe English children must now be
told to pray that if they die they may
go to Russia. Apparently every Eng
fish writer except Bernard Shaw and
Israel Zangwill believes that the Rus
sian government is almost too good to
be true and the grand dukes and bu-
reaucrats really should wear wings and
halos. This attitude is sometimes
carried to such lengths that no sane
American in search of facts can read
through some of these books, such as
Stephen Grahams Russia and the
World" without becoming violently i'll
or violently pro-German.
It is curious that most of these later
books about Russia give us so little
about the Russians. One has to dig
and dig through interminable pages
about the Cars relatives and the Greek
Church and descriptions of the cities
and the boundless countryside, but in
the end there is virtually nothing to
show what the Russian people are like
and what they are thinking about.
After a long diet of Russian novels
we picture the country as populated
principally with Gloomy Guses who
have adopted suicide as one of their
favorite pastimes. But according to
American and English writer's the Rus
slams are really a jolly sort. They like
particularly to talk about their souls,
and they are good takers.
John Foster Frazer, whose Russia
of To-day" is one of the best balanced
English books about Russia since the
war. says: "The Russian, cultured and
travelled, speaking several languages,
does not bluff himself that he is the
equal Oh DTllOUS Oh Gcl ludllS VI Nliicli-
cans in the mechanical arts. No people
| know are so childishly, lovingly frank
in the recognition of their own short
comings. But they possess something
which they would not sacrifice for all
the mechanical skill in the world-a
soul, imagination, deep love of beauty
in sound and the written word. They
are mystics; they are dreamers."
"The Russians" says John Reed, get
drunk on their talk; voices ring, eyes
flash, they are exalted with passion OF
self-revelation. In Petrograd l have
seen a crowded cafe at 2 o'clock in the
morning-of course no liquor was to be
had-shouting and singing and pound
ing on the table, quite intoxicated with
ideas"
Ideas instead of alcohol! We can
learn something from the Russians
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12
By GEORGE S. KAUFMAN.

).
DERHAPS the Democrats are even worse
r don't know anything about them
Ny information is confined to the ne
pubhcans, but what l know / know well. l
an not going to .theorize about them; TINS
shall be a record Of what / saw and hearo'
Il took place last Tuesday night at Republican
National Headquarters, where an unfortunate
series Of events necessitated my spending the
evening And the text of the thing is that
the Republicans are just about the poorest
sports you can imagine, although l suspect
that the Democrats are as bad.
went in there a Republican, but don l
Know what ! came out. AT the beginning
was merely surprised. Posted consplcuously
in the main room was a list of the states
Of .he Union. with Republican and Democratic
columns 70 their right. Now, L had Always
been taught that Alabama was the frst state
in the Union. alphabetically. But 1t WASH
here. I looked further Arkansas and Ken
lucky and Louisiana and Mississippi and
couple Of others were missing, too. ] said 10
myself "Ths is a bigger story than the one
cane after All these states nave seceueo
from the Union, and down at the Office they
DON'T know thing about it. Me for teie-
phone"
Being Of magnanimous disposition now
ger decided to split it with. the other lei
oSs, and the very first one | talked to DIS
Hlusioned me- 1t seemed that all those STATES
hadn't quit at all The Republicans were
SIMPLY ignoring them because they were con-
~ten'ly Democratic states.
drifted back 10 the main room, just IN
Tune to hear an important announcement by
man with sheaf Of bulletins
Eight hundred and forty-one precincts out
o. lib in West Virginia" he announced
I've he looked at the papers, "Suther-
ana Republican nominee for Senator, 62,l39;
milton, Democratic, 57,s26."
There were wild cheers from the assembled
Republicans.
Ia Pennsylvania"--
Anticipatory applause.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12
Continued from Page Four

He got needle and thread out of his KNAPP
sack and began to sew up the wound. Maria
perched herself on his knee, watched him and
gave him good advice, which he followed con-
scientiousy as far as possible.
All at once she grasped the old bachelor
around the neck, kissed him and said, with con-
viction:
81 like you very much
Picha made a foolish face such as man
usually makes under such circumstances,
looked at Comrade Fabig to see whether he
was still sleeping, smiled helplessly, and yet
felt himself bound to respond in true father
ly manner to this exhibition of affection.
II was astonishing to him to find how much
real tenderness he was capable Of developing.
1t must have dawned upon him how poverty
stricken in this respect had been his empty
achelor's existence.
When Fabg awakened Pcha explained what
he had been doing Then he took a little walk
into the village, returning half an hour later.
"Fabig, you know that we are both pach-
elors."
Since that fact was indisputable, and Fabig
didn't see at what his friend was driving, he
contented himself with mere grunt Of assent.
1.-THE little maiden peases me-"
me, too" answered Fabig.
"She has neither father nor mother, and no
other near relatives, as have just found out
from her. How would it be il we adopted her?
will be the father, you the mother"
Fabig slapped himself on the chest. He
meant by that that with him the maternal role
would be in the best hands. He had already
discovered, for example, that Maria needed
new underclothes. Since it was doubtful
whether one could procure clothes Of . good
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-12
SWEEPINGS FROM INKPOT ALLEY

the country districts and give us a pict-
ure of the deplorable ignorance and the
terrible poverty. For this life have to
refer to Annie Boutronutia. Annie
cannot write, but she can cook. She
cooks for Mrs. McNab. She was born
in Lithuana, fifty miles or so west OF
Wilma. There were seven in the family,
five children. They lived in one-room
board house with a matched roof and
earthen floor. The furniture was a
bed, two wooden benches, great clay
stove. The five children slept on top
of the stove. The kitchen utensils con-
sisted of large iron pot for cooking
the daily stew or porridge, seven
wooden spoons and one steel knife.
The nearest school was thirty-odd miles
from home.
In the open season every one down to
the children worked from dawn to dusk
in the family's patch of ground, several
miles away. Even this strenuous toll
scarcely sufficed to keep them and pay
the rental of SO year. Life was con-
slant struggle against starvation. Be-
fore Annie came to this country she had
never had any butter or tea or coffee.
Such luxuries as nightgowns and bath
tubs she had never dreamed Of. But
poor as they were they always barri-
caded the door at night for fear that
members of the local Russian gendarm-
erie would break in and steal their flour
or the steel knife or one OF the girls.
Such things had occurred in the district.
They were particularly worried about
the precious knife.
However, they do some things in Rus
STA better than we do. Of late years
the water wagon question has stranged
all constructive political thought in
many American states. But after the
war began Russia, which had been
spending half billion dollars a year
on vodka and other strong drink, went
on the water wagon over night. The
Car wrote a decree and that was the
end of booze.
1t took us several decades of political
controversy and four years of bloody
war to accomplish the freeing OF our
slaves. Russia freed her serfs, fifty
millions of them, year before we did,
quietly, by imperial decree. Moreover,
the Car turned over to the Russian
freedmen, on ffty-year payments, the
land which they had been tilling for
years. We gave our freedmen the vote,
which they were untitled for, but no
land. For the most part they have since
been deprived of the vote.
You may read about this in 1.-THE
World Storm" by Edwin Davies Schoon-
maker, which is incidentally one Of the
best interpretive books on problems
raised by the war. Both Mr.. Schoon-