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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
PEARL

Tho Iris club and Pearl military
land held an ice cream social on
the lawn at the Pearl school Thurs
day evening. All report a fine time.
c. w. Taylor shipped a couple of
shorthorns to Colby by express last
week.
Clarence Taylor went to Herring
ton Saturday.
Woodbine b and was in Pearl
in autos Tuesday morning inviting
all to celebrate the Fourth at Wood
bine.
Some land changing hands in this
just now.
Several Of the young people at
tended a Swedish picnic north of
Pearl Wednesday
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28
LOCAL MARKETS
BRITAIN PLANS TO FIX
PRICES OF ALL FOODS

London. June 27.-The first or
der of Baron Rhondda, the new
food controller, issued today, an
nounces the formation of a depart
ment to arrive at accurate figures
as to the cost of food so as to en-
able the controller to fix prices.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28

You need to know if you need to
be economical. To be economical you
need to see Burnham about your
furniture. He sure can help you out
all o. X. Quality furniture at the
cheap prices. 27d2tw1t
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28

The household goods Of the late
Margaret Ann Nelson will be sold
at private sale at house Saturday,
June 30. Sale will commence at 8
o'clock H. j Hodge. Executor.
27d3tw1t
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28

still have a few full blooded
Hereford bull calves for sale. Pleas
ant Hill phone. j. r. Anderson.
W to 7-26'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28
Sand For Sale

BY Meme brothers on Hurd farm
at Detroit. 3lWtr
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28

Threshing Outfit For Sale
1886 oil engine, 3252 separator
In good shape. w. II. Sheets. Ma
varre, Kan. 22wtf
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28
The St. Paul Garden Bureau Encourages Community Gardening

The land has been made ready for
seeding by Staude Mak-a-Tractor made
by the 4. G. Staude Manufacturing
Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The tractor attachment IS brought into
service by removing the back wheels Of a
Ford automobile and replacing the Ford
wheels with the tractor device While the
picture shows three men operating It, the
work is generally done by one man and a
power plow.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-28

A good second hand binder for
sale cheap. Minick & Taylor. wit
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
Special Dispatch

Special Dispatch
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4-Sherwood d.
Rockefeller, motorman. would rather
play on his saxaphonc than have TO
worry about stocks and bonds.
He's a cousin of the worlds richest
man. Anyone familiar with the fea-
lures of John ID. can note the marked
resemblance between him and his
cousin, Sherwood b. Their photo
graphs tell the story Of relationship.
But that doesn't mean much IN
Sherwood D.'s happy life.
MY aunts, back east, have told me
that John d. is kin 30 us. but ] have
never bothered about 10, he explained
as he stepped off his United Railways
car and hung up his switch iron. THE
| oil king comes from the same stock
but have never tried 10 get acquaint-
ed with him or any Of the rich branch
Of the family. I'm just as happy as
! they"
For II years Sherwood d. has been
going TO work six and sometimes
seven mornings each week For as
long he has kept one hand on the
controller, the other on the air brake
and foot on the gong. He has hauled
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
Pastors pO.l'T FAVOR
REVIVA . MEETEGS
Gospel Tent at Carney's
Point Opened for Powder
Workers
PREACHERS WILL
NOT ANTAGONIZE

CARNEYS POINT. n. j.. Dec. 3.--In
a big gospel barn" erected near the
center Of thepowder villages and oppo-
site the Carney's Point postofiice, Evan
gelist" Bob" Johnson and his party open
ed a revival campaign yesterday.
The tabernacle has been built largely
by voluntary labor and the powder
workers will largely run the meetings
themselves without any organized aid
from the churches here and at Penns-
grove. The first service was held yes
terday afternoon and the night meeting
was attended by delegations Of men
from the powder plants.
Bob Johnson is known as the
"workingman's evangelist" He will hold
meetings every night, except Monday
over a period Of several weeks. In his
party are Professor l.. 7. Orlando. Choir
ister: Harlan Foulke, pianist; Miss Nora
Killian, Bible teacher, and Mrs r. c..
Johnson, woman's worker All Of them
are wcsterners.
Four of the pastors Of the leading
churches Of Pennsgrove have published
resolutions in respect TO the tabernacle
campaign. IN which they state that 1T
Is our judgment that such a campaign
is unwise and unwarranted at this time
because Of the special demands on the
peoples finances for Y. NJ. C.. A., Red
Cross and various war emergency calls"
The pastors declare, however, that they
VIII not be hostile nor antagonistic 10
this Independent religious work.
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
URGES AUSTRIA
TO INVITE FEACE
Vienna Newspaper Would
Ask England TO Open
PourparlerS
LANSDOWNE LETTER
Sl'IRS MORE COMMENT

AMSTERDAM. Dec. 3-The Vienna
Neue Freie Presse, Austria's most i'm
portant newspaper, invites England to
consider whether it is not possible to
open peace pourparlers. It considers
that such an invitation should properly
come from Austria. because the dissen'
sions between England and Germany
dating from the death of Queen Victoria
do not directly affect Austria.
The paper argues that a war of de-
structlon has already been rejected by
Landsdowne and probably by Asquith,
and that it becomes impossible on the
day Russia and Germany agree upon
peace
The Marquis Of Lansdowne's letter
continues to be commented on extern
sively by the German papers. the con-
sensus Of opinion being that pacilsm
is gaining ground in England. The
Vossische Ze'tuns says:
II we reject such efforts at arap-
prochement it is not because Of lack
Of good will. but the result Of the con-
sideratiOn thai an agreement too hastily
concluded with the island kingdom
would cut off the yaw to our neigh
bors on the Continent and also rob our
neighbors and ourselves for all time OF
our guarantees by our power against
British supremacy.
The Tagebla't believes that the Lans-
downe letter indicates unrest among the
Conservatives C in England over the way
things are going. It adds: "Lansowne
is one Of them, and he hopes TO fnd
a way out before disaster is unavoid-
able"
The Tageblatt also says the letter
proves the growing opposition Of France
and Great Britain TO their war dicta-
tors.
Count Won Reyentlow II. u" Tazes-
Zeitung says:
Lansdowne hints that he is greatly
concerned regarding the situation which
might arise in the event of the Central
Powers succeeding in arranging sepa-
rate negotiations with Russia without
Great Britains participation.
The Morgen Post says: The document
signifies the beginning Of the revival Of
common sense in England"
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
THE GOTHANITE
BY BERToN BRALEY.

Behold the blithe New Yorker
Who always throws a front,
His OUTFIT is a corker
For dressing is his stunt;
lie loves to talk Of Broadway
With all its glow and glare
And whispers in an awed way
OF fortunes sqaundered there.
The sun, he thinks, arises
And sets within Manhattan.
All "hick towns" he despises;
And from his little fiat in
Two Hundred Nineiy-third street
He boots small towns as slow,
He came from some absurd street
in Chillicothe, o.
The guards in subways mash him,
And when he goes TO play
Headwaiters stern abash him
And hat boys make him pay.
Box ofllce people job him,
Wher'er he goes he's done"
Why not? Unless you rob him
He thinks he's had no fun
He seems a chilly party
W'ih quite a frozen map.
But deep down in his heart he
is quite a decent chap.
His pose is smart and sneering.
Yet if youll learn TO see
Beneath this thin veneering
He's just like you and me.
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
A VOLUNTEER

/ didn't wait TO be drafted,
Nor led to the train by a band,
But when the call was issued
l willingly held up my hand.
l didn't wait for a banquet
No al word of good cheer
But the drafted men get all the credit
While I'm only a Volunteer.
Nobody gave me a banquet
Nobody said a kind word,
The r''~ ~ The engine, the grind Of
the wheel,
Was all the goodbye I heard.
Then to the training camp hustled
To be trained in the next half year,
And in the scuffle, forgotten,
/ was only a Volunteer.
But perhaps someday in the future,
When a little child sits on my knee,
And asks what l did in the great war,
And its little eyes look up at me,
| will look back in those little eyes
That at me so trustingly peer.
md tell the child / wasn't drafted
| was only a Volunteer.
DEL. VOLUNTEER.
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Nov. 26. 1917
Evening journal., 1917-12-03

hundreds Of thousands Of st. Louisans
to and from work and never a one
thought that IL was a Rockefeller OF
the House Of Billions guiding the des-
TIMES Of their street car.
sherwood d. is as good a motor
man as John d. is a flnancier," as
serts the street car superintendent.
And he's a better saxaphone player"
In fact, Sherwood d. can play on
the saxaphone in neater style than
his Millionaire cousin can play with
the golf sticks.
The neutrality-suspicious. not only
is a cousin, but be is a double cousin
Of the oil magnate because his mother
also was a Rockefeller. his father hav-
ing married a third cousin in New
/ York. Sherwood d. was born on a
Hudson River steamer. sept. t6, 1867
/ He is a member Of the Rockefeller
Family Association.
2 "No, I've never written TO him, If
I Sherwood D. said. THAT might look as
though I wanted some Of his money
! don't. / make all ] need running a
street car, and ] get all the joy there
is in life with my family, my home,
my friends and my saxaphone."
Evening journal., 1917-12-03

The coming week will and domestic
help advertised in the Want Ads and
all the interests OF the home under
good ruling
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
FLUE FIRES HOUSE.

The district lremen responded to an
alarm OF 1re late Saturday night. from
Box No. i62. at Tenth and Church
streets The nre was due 20 % do'ec-
tive flue in the home OF Charles Ben
son. a Negro, OF NO 81 Locust street.
The loss amounted to about $50.
Evening journal., 1917-12-03

The Want Ads give many oppor-
tunites for making extra money in
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
EVERYONE likes
This cold CURE
"Pape's Cold Compound" ends a cold
or grippe in a few
hours.

Your cold will break and sll grippe
misery end after taking a dose OF
"Pape's Cold Compound" every two
hours until three doses are taken.
1t promptly opens clogged-up nos
trils and air passages in the head
stops nasty discharge or nose running,
relieves sick headache, dullness, fever
ishness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness
and stiffness.
Don't stay stuffed-up Quit blowing
and snuffling Ease your throbbins
head-nothing else in tile world gives
such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold
Compound which costs only few
cents at any drug store. It acts with
out assistance, tastes nice, and causes
no inconvenience. Accept no substitute.
Evening journal., 1917-12-03

also administering, under Army con-
troll, the hospital at Neuilly formerly
known as the American Ambulance,
together with Or. Joseph A. Blake's
hospital in Paris.
The Red Cross is serving 3i23 mill
tary hospitals, both French and Amer
lean, through the Hospital Supply
Service, which operates sixteen ware
houses and motor transport sys-
tenn. approximately 1900 tons Of ma
teral-hospital and general relief sup
plies-are distributed monthly from
these warehouses. The Surgical Dress
ings Service reaches 1000 hospitals.
American workshops in France will
manufacture nitrous oxide, repair
hospital apparatus. make splints and
hospital appliances.
Appropriations for France.
Included in appropriations for
France are the following:
Budget for military relief, including
work for the American Army, hos
pitfalls, canteens. hospital supply ser
vice, surgical dressings service, casu-
atty service, etc, TO November 4, 81
al .225'; budget for civilian relief, in
cluding refugee and reconstruction
work, relief Of mutnated soldiers, in
fant welfare, tuberculosis prevention,
etc, TO November 4, S2.460,467; budget
for Department Of Administration in
Paris and Planning Department, Ia
November 1, sii9590.
Additional appropriations, for hos
pitfalls, etc, Si,i07,57s25; additional
appropriations, for transportation ser
vice, 81 i23,59s.90; other appropria-
tions. Si2,77s. .7s0s5.
Appropriations Outside Of France.
The total appropriations (cents
omitted) for the work outside Of
France up to November 4, are as fol-
iONs.
Evening journal., 1917-12-03

, Later the War Council appropria-
ted s75OOOO for emergency relief in
italy.
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
s3,3i02i66O
Tie Work in Enrone.


The work Of the Red Cross in Eur
ope centers necessarily in France and
Major Grayson Mp Murphy, mem
Der Of the War Council, is head Of the
commission to France and Commits
oner for Europe. Headquarters are
Paris, in a building furnished free
OF the current year for the use Of the
led Cross. The working stan in
France numbers S6i persons, CT whom
only 3i7 are paid by the Red Cross
The others are volunteers, or are
paid by their former employers or
rom funds privately subscribed, so
that the average cost to the Red
cross is only about $500 per year for
each worker.
Work for the American army is the
first and most important part Of the
Red Cross program In France More
than twelve base hospitals organized
by the Red Cross, and now mustered
into the Army Medical Corps are in
service in France. The Red Cross is
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
MISS IIrTz IMPROVES

The condition Of Miss Mildred Lutz,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs William
Lutz, who was operated on at the Ply
siclans and Surgeons Hospital for ap-
pendlcitis recently, is reported to be
improving.
Evening journal., 1917-12-03

Contrary TO carly reports, ihe
third episode of WHO IS NO. f."
entitled "THE SEA CRiNVLER,"
will be shown today and tomorrow.
Evening journal., 1917-12-03

The direct appropriations from the
war fund for work in the United
states are divided as follows:
Evening journal., 1917-12-03
"CLEON AND l."

"CLE0N AND l."
John hath a million acres, ne'er a one have l.
John dwelleth IN a paace-n cottage. l.
John hath dozen fOrtunes-not penny, /
But the poorer Of the twain is John D. and not /.
John is a slave TO grandeur-free thought l.
John d fees Of doctors-need Of have l.
Wealth surrounded vroned John fears to die
Death may come-he' find ready-happer l.
AS Poet Harvey Might Write It Today.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-30
THE CENSORSHIP

Anything of the restriction of the freedom of the press of speech s of most repugnan the American people upon sacred rights which have been assured only supreme struggle and which have been safely guarded from generation generation It only natural therefore, that there should been terrific hubbub concerning the establish of censorship But there not single citizen nor publication which does know that the there will much information which it will be nadvisabe to make public lest should be taken advantage of by the Pre dent Wilson and the department heads right assuming that Americans will operate this all other means for carving on the successful conclusion To those who feared that the censorship will be used dishonest or incapabe public officials President Wilson has issued the fol lowing assurance:
 C" approve legslation but need you and that whatever action the may de eide upon personally concerned shall not expect permit any this law apply to any ot my olclaI acts or in any way be used a shield aganlst criticism
 can imagine greater dservlce the country than to establish system of censorship that would deny to the people Of
 republic like their inCsputabe right to crlclze their public officials While exercising the great powers Of which we are passing lose the benefit of patriotic nd ttilgent
 "n trying feel only of his motives which he must try to purge seshness of every kind and patience judgment of camer day vndcae the wisdom of the he has tried consclentlousy to follow
 The censorship board otherwise the 'Comme Public In formaon has issued pamphlet form statement to the press of the United States which they forth nearly may be purposes of the censorship From perusa of the document would that who has the welfare of his country honestly object the work of the committee the The plan outlined gives such latitude the press would be considered censorship in other than an English speaking Denunciaion of such necessary will hardly be received with oaton by the Aner ran people.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-30
BERNARD SHAW APPROVES
 COURSE OF UNITED STATES

A cable from London to the New York Times quotes George Bernard Sha" as to lows:
 The entrance of the United States into thc war was inevitable fer mechanical req sens. Gcrm2ny he'd forced them to arm their shipping against submarine attack, German uHdcrsea h0ats were sinking Amer iean ships, and American ships were pre- na.ng to sink unGerseH boats in sel'dC- fense. This would have rraducod ss,ua- ton worse than war, because if an Amer can ship captured an undersea crew CT q German submarine captured en Amor-can crew which had fired Cn her thc prisoners in either case would have been not prison CTS cf war, but pirates and would pre- sumaby have been hanged as such. Under such circumstances an in.alhgcnt captain would not have taken any prisoners, and, as intelligent captains are by definition also humane captains, this alternative would have been unbearable. Gcrmany has, in fact forced the United States to accept var with her.
 President Wilson, the only great states man the war has produced has thus got an inside grip morally by keeping his head, and, having an uncommOnIy good head to keep, not to mention character in fine with the great American tradition of Lin co'n and Washington, he has placed his country in an impregnable position. She has escaped all entsnglements in European alliances, and comes into the war with a free hand and an absolutely clean record as far as aggression or provocation is con cerned The President has not made g single false step, and every American can back him without the scruples that are tearing tender conscences to pieces all over Europe, where every one of the allies has been put repeatedly into false positions by its statesmen, and the alliance as a whole has been compromised by public documents which even when practical conclusions have been justifable, and indeed, inevitable have been in tone and thought little better than the manifestos of brigands. These documents have had, among other effects, that of mak- ing it impossible for the United States to come into an alliance. 1 esteem the entry of the United States into this war as a frst-class moral asset to the common cause against junkerism.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-30
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION
can people

The publication of dispatch from Berlin announcing that our quedros yesterday dropped bombs Dover and Folkesoae" the heretofore conservative and mlman- need editor of the Seattle postntelgencer the following burst of righteous indignation signed article n that paper scornfully headed German Kultur":
 "Yes it is the atrocous truth The cowarty thing which Berlin proudly poclams and neany goats actually hap Eened censored cable London confirms Nonco- the number Of sevenyX killed most of them and chdenmangled and torn to death by bolts from the clear sky And countless others maned Such IS war German war!
 "By and comparison with the slaughter of the trenchethc aspyxation of with poisonous and the Geathdealng sheshe casualty record from Dover and Foe nfnitesmaly small only incident of the horrors But such ncldent!so wicked and diaboca and obviously bespeaking Germany's conception of war!
 "l3uhlessnes Fghtfulness! Terrorism Yes this wantol dn whose husbands and brothers engaged fair combat the battlefeth achievement of the air squadron which fills mad lords with ge and prompts boastful announcement to the world is perfect keeping with black and deous chapters that have gone before
 Remember Edith Cavel the English nursesnached from of mercy and executed the of protest and ap peal from the American minister and all civilized Europe!
 Remember the Lusitanja Can America forget?
 "Cal mind the sheng the cathedral Rheims the lay ing abandoned villages towns the sending of prison slavery and finally et still be held incedblel the awful report given through reputable channels that climax horror has been reached by the blood German mtarsts the utilization of human bodies, fallen the batteieIds, for the making of soap!
 Recalling these and other of devtry akin public sen
 es shocked afresh in contemplation of the fendsh raid Dover and Folkesone It is but minor episode of WarhS blghtng out Of the lives Of lnnOcentS Dy of aerial bombs. If there way frghtfu, slaughter would be followed So with shudder and in expectation of tng the sky assault upon the English cities passes and for transient already would be forgotten.
 War the very best there any of war hell Sherman knew and said we'll War by Germany clearly waged by demons from the nnemost depths of hell Yet is glorious. How infinitely glorious is for America go and give her clean blood and treasure righteous of ending such and enforcing just and lasting peace!
 "Cory in it? Yes, imperishable glory for America"
 +,o eaed the following dispatch from Geneva Switzerland its horrible details of German irighuness truly inon
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-30
WHAT BERNSTORFF THOUGHT
 OF CERMAN-AMERECANS

Count Won Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, before the war spoke disDaragingly of German citizens of this country, saying they had run away from their fatherland to avoid military serv ice and were "outlaWs," according to 9 statement made public at Washington on May 28 by Senator Phelan of California.
 The remarks attributed to Non Bern stoIff Senator Phe.an explained. were made during an interview which he had with the ambassador in Munich in 1913, in an effort to get Germany to participate in the Pan ama-Pacifc exposition. Phelan urged Ger man exhibit on the ground that Germans in the United States would be proud of it.
 "Hc immediately resented that" said Senator Fhelan in his statement Much to my surprise he substantially said
 DO not talk about those people We do not care what they think or want They have deserted the fa:herland They have rrn away to avcid military duty. They have been fal.e to the old traditions. They ate outlaws.
 That WIS the sentiment of the official Gormeny then, as believe it is today They regard those good people as outlaws, as men who have fled from their duty.
 '"I think our German-American citizens houid know and understand the Prussian estimate of them, and be confirmed in what i believe to ba their sincere conviction that their duty is with America ill this struggle" 7"
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-30
THE GERMAN VIEWPOINT

The newspapers of Germany are bound to play big part in the soonto-come lib eralization of the German empire. The governmental attitude is still largely that of Bismarck toward the "reptile press" The German belief in the venality of the press, which is the regular theory of operation, was evidenced only few days ago. when a story emanating from Holland said that something like $50O0O,00O had been spent by Germany in two years for the subsidiza- ton of public opinion in neutral countries, and it was added that something like $10,- 100000 had been spent in this country. If that be true, it would account for the readl- ness with which the Germans believe that all the newspapers in America not friendly to their cause are bought by British gold, in which class they place the New York Times and New York Tribune, and also the World whenever its editorial or news columns say anything unfriendly from the German viewpoint. Swope in New York World.