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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
COST OF ARMY OPERATIONS
Huge Figures Show How Our Money
Helps

Here are some illustrative fig
ures showing the scale of army OPP
erations at the present time:
In the year 1915, $4,000 was
appropriated for aeronautics; under
the urgent deficiency act, $4,000
600. In the year 1915, for susie
nance $9,S00,000; this year, $133,-
600, 900. In the year 1915, $10,-
100000 for regular supplies; this
year almost $110 10000. In the
year 1915. for clothing and camp
garrison equipage, $6,500,000, this
year, $231, 100000. In 1915, $780,
600 for ordnance service; this year
$2,650,000. In 1915, $450,000 for
manufacture of arms this year,
something over $55,OO0,O0o. In
1915, 100000 for ordnance stores
and supplies; this year, $106,500,-
900.
Purchase have been authorized as
follows Over five million blankets
thirty-seven million yards of boz
two million cots; forty-fiye
million three hundred thousand
cotton cloth, olive drab; twenty-one
million three hundred thousand
yards unbleached drilling; six mil
lion pairs of shoes; eleven million
one hundred and ninety-one thou
sand pair light WOODEN stockings
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
SERIOUSLY CUT BY BINDER
SICKLE AS HORSES START

Harry Schlatter. the l3-year-old
son of Albert Schlatter living south
east of Chapman. met with an acct
dent that nearly caused him the
loss of both feet He was standing
in front of a binder when the team
which was hitched to the machine
Unexpectedly started up and he was
caught in the sickle. The calf OF
one leg was cut almost to the bone
and sickle guard pierced the other
leg. Fortunately the cuts did not
reach a tendon and the wounds are
now healing nicely.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
ARRESTED FOR CARRYING
CONCEALED WEAPONS

Floyd Walters OF Abilene was
arrested by Marshal Gould Tuesday
evening on the charge of carrying
concealed weapons. He was confined
in the city jail over night and Wed
nesday morning appeared before
Judge Hopkins for his hearing. He
plead guilty to the charge and was
fined 81 and costs. He was unable
to pay the fine and had to call on
his father for the money Solomon
Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
L. S. MAGAZINE ARMY RIFLE
SHOOTS 27OO FEET A SECOND

Sergeant Bare, for the purpose oil
instruction, has a regular army
rifle here. 1t weighs S.64 pounds
and will shoot 1900 feet per sec
ond. The gun is a 1903 model and
was remodeled in 1906. This model
rifle is used in every branch of the
United States service-from the
marines to the coast defense. 1t is
a 80 caliber and every time the
gun is shot, it costs the govern
ment BIZ cents. The government
price on the gun itself is about
SIG. When it is placed an an angle
of As degrees the bullet will go
1864 yards and only takes 31.3
seconds to get there.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
II. G. ENGLE SAYS l. w. w. IN
ABILENE WORST OF ALL

II. G. Engle, while in western
Kansas and Colorado, mixed with
various persons. He said he was in
the harvest field with number of
]. w. WIS. He talked with a num-
Der of these workers in the cities as
well and he said that he found no
town with the class that is in Abb
lene. Several citizens have remarked
that the I. w. VS. should be de-
ported from Abilene. The chief spent
two weeks of his vacation and helped
harvest wheat in western Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19

A new Kansas record and one
probably near the top in national
ranking was made by Miss Mary
Campbell, Is years old. Of Salina
when she swan from the Upper
Mill dam to the Western Star mill
dam in two hours and "a minutes.
She swan the four miles without
rest and used a side stroke. Her
father and J. w. Leeeh followed
her in a motor boat
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
Gun CLUB, MET AND
ELECTED NEW OFFICERS

The Abilene Gun club met last
evening and elected its officers for
the coming year The same Officers
were chosen except Harry Taylor
was elected to take the place of Abe
Forney who has joined the X ~ G.
The officers are: w. A Matte
son, president; L. A. Verckler,
treasurer, and Harry Taylor, secre-
tary.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
BROTHER OF WESLEY REEFS
TRANSFERRED TO Ell PASO

Jay Rees, brother of Wesley Rees
who Joined the engineer corps OF
the regular army in May, is now at
Ell Paso, Texas He was taking the
engineering course at Manhattan
and had but few months to com
rlete the course when he enlisted.
He belongs to Co. c, Second regi-
ment of engineers
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
BILLHURST, BELONGING TO
G. ETHERINGTON, WINS $4OC

In the regular mile pace at
Fremont, Neb. Billhurst a horse
belonging to Geo Etherington, ran
the race in 2:11A This took first
place and won for Mr.. Etherington
a $400 purse Bert Hockensmith
drove the horse and he will take
Billhurst to other cities in Me-
braska
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19

Jess Willard. worlds champion
boxer, has quit the business ant
purchased a circus.
A Denver man was found muir
dered near Hiawatha. His registra-
ton card identified him.
Hiawatha has purchased a new
auto fire truck-this makes two for
Hiawatha.
Tie lately organized garden bril-
gade will probably take ITS vacation
after next week
Kansas banks show an increase
of IS per cent in their deposits ac-
cording to the report Of June 70.
Threshing machines are thick
so are the l. w. VS. sitting in the
public parks.
A church congregation in Wich-
tia constructed a basement for a
new church. The meetings will be
held there until the kaiser stops
dropping bombs and then the church
will be finished.
The heirs to the Creech fortune
in Herington are fighting as to who
should get the biggest share.
1t is reported that the American
steamer Kansas was sunk by a
German submarine The ship was
lear the coast Of France and when
t went down so lives were lost.
When a Cottonwood Falls man
taught a rs pound wish he couldn't
1ull it out so that he chained it and |
hen had several men help him pull
t OUT. c. Union. That sounds
ike real fish story
The Fort Scott Tribune disturbs
Kansas femininity by wondering
What percentage of American sob
Tiers will bring back French wives.
So
The percentage of deaths in Kan
as due to murders from gunshot
Wounds for the first half of 1917
S greater than her sister state,
Nine states have more Red Cross
hapters than Kansas. Kansas has
9.
A thousand automobiles are run
ing on asphalt and country roads
4 Salina county this year which
re not registered. The officers are
'orried but why not give the own
RS a little time?
q q
in order. to deal with the car
heritage problem in Kansas the
anita Fe railway has purchased ]
500 new freight cars at a cost of {
8 10000. {
A@A !
A paved highway across Kansas ]
the aim of the Meridian road as
ociation, which will hold meet {
lg in Salina on July rs.
An elevator with 200 bushels of s
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19

X. u received $4,000 to build
a new music hall.
4 AA
The Kaw valley isn't raising any
eS bushels to the acre wheat, as the
Arkansas valley claims to be doing
but lot of the fields in that part
of the state are going to hit around
about on both sides of the forty
bushel mark.
Farmers near junction City are
stacking wheat and will wait for
higher prices before they thresh.
There are 100000 automobiles
in the world. Dickinson's 5000 cut
rather small figure.
Mcpherson is expecting an average
yield of 81 bushels to the acre
from her wheat fields this year.
AA &
Western Kansas papers are all
telling about the mice rains in that
portion of the state during the last
week.
Belleville's ideas are similar to
those of Abilene's. That city states
that the number of men to be
drafted from Republic county will
be small as it has already given $50
men
F. A. Allison's Ford and VIM.
Tessman's Studebaker came together
near the Thompson home just north
Of town early Tuesday night hard
enough to do a hundred dollars
worth of damage Sun.
The attendance at the final four
weeks of the X. U. summer school
promises to be large.
Sc
Several cities had street dances to
raise funds for their local compan-
les. Abilene is to have another
maybe!
The K. N. G. engineers received
their first actual military work at
Fl. Riley this week.
SO
They are still sending prohibition
lecturers to Kansas instead of to
East Atchison. Why doesn't Presi-
dent Wilson send the American army
to the north pole to fight the Ger
mans?-Atchison Globe.
A pair of pigeons are to be turned
loose at Salina. They will fly to
Buffalo, N. Y. in less than six days,
it is believed.
Why should men worry, seeing
that Kansas drouth will come
when it will come?
Potatoes are down to 5000 a
bushel and are still going.
The federal government has ap- |
proved the Kansas road plans.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
Army Raising

Under the draft several calls for
troops may be expected. II they come
married men cannot escape service.
NEW PHASES Of these and other
all important subjects are brought
TO light daily.
PROTECT YOURSELF by keeping
informed.
The Daily Drovers Telegram
and
ABILENE WEEKLY REFLECTOR
At Clubbing Prices $3.50
Specialists In News
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19

A healthy man is a king in his
own right; an unhealthy man an
unhappy slave For impure blood
and sluggish liver, use Burdock
Blood Bitters. On the market IS
years. s1.25 a bottle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19

wheat burned at Claflin. An auto
mobile was also burned.
=
Drivers continue to speed-cars
continue to turn over.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
Food Control

Governmental regulation of pro-
duction and distribution Of meats,
grains and other foodstuffs is being
seriously discussed.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19
T axation

The financing Of the war will
fall in part upon every citizen of
the United States.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-19

K. U. received $4,000 to build
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24
EVERY STATE HAS COUNCIL
All Commonwealth and the District Of
Columbia Cooperating With Uncle
Sans Defense Body.

AS one result of the national de-
fense conference of governors which
convened in Washington. all the states
Of the Union and the District Of Co.
lumbia have official state councils Of
defense cooperating with the national
council. Some of these are called
state councils OF defense, others COM
mlttees of public safety, or similar
names. ''This nationwide co-ordina-
ton of war activity Of the state coun-
ellis is an important and significant
work." says Walter s. Clifford, direct
or of the national council. "The ma
tional council is the parent body. In
each state stands the state council
ready to assist the national council in
the carrying out Of It's plans and rec
concentrations where these can best be
developed on state lines"
George f. Porter, chief Of the sec
tlon ON cooperation, with states of the
national council, in his report on the
organization and activities Of the state
council shows that number Of these
have legislative establishment with
broad powers and adequate appropria-
tlons of money for the promotion Of
war activities. AS more Of the state
legislatures come into session un-
doubtedly more of the state councils
will receive establishment, 1t is be-
I'---I
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24

90 through life with a scarcely per-
ceptible limp, only their closest friends
knowing that they are legless. Cor
pOral" James Tanner, former commits
sioner of pensions and commander in
chief Of the G. A. r., would be an alb
solutely helpless cripple without arti-
ticial legs, having lost both of his legs
nearly at the knees after three oper-
ations, yet with his artificial limbs he
moves about with perfect dignity.
General Dudley also once commits
siOner of pensions, who had but one
leg, walked with only slight limp
and many times in Washington So
ciety gracefully guided fair partner
through the mazeS of the waltz in
room full of dancers. United States
Senator NJ. c. Butler, Gen. Wade
Hampton, and many other men in pub
lie life have worn artificial legs unbe-
known to most people, but what Is
more remarkable, the best makes Of
artificial limbs will be found in use by
the thousand by men engaged in hard
manual labor coal miners, firemen,
horsemen, bicycle riders, house paint
ers, and even railroad engineers and
brakemen whose vOcatiOns require the
display Of no little agility, and doz-
ems of cases are on record where men
in all these walks of life have lost not
one but both legs.
The best artificial leg weighs from
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24
COAL OUTPUT SMALLER
Anthracite Production Fell OFF In
1916, Uncle Sam Says.
Quantity Decreased 10 Per Cent, But
vsIue Increased 90 Per Cent as
Compared With 1915.

The anthracite coal mined In 1915
amounted to 7s,195,0s3 gross tons,
valued at $202, ,009.50l. decrease in
quantity of 1.6 per cent and an In
crease in value of 9.4 per cent com
pared with 1915. The shipments de-
creased IL per cent-from 6S,666,t56
gross tons in 1915 to 67,501, 1868 tons
In 1916. The shipments of prepared
coal of sizes above pea In 1916 were
40,747,215 tons, a decrease of IL per
cent; the shipments of pea size were
7,520,S04 tons, n decrease of S.4 per
cent; and the shipments Of steam
sizes smaller than pea were 1928, ,844
tonF, a decrease Of but .05 per cent
compared with 1915. There was an
increase of nearly @ per cent In the
quantity Of anthracite sold locally and
used by employees and decrease Of
"a per cent In the quantity used for
mine fuel. The compilation of these
statistics has just been completed by
@. Il. Lesher of Uncle Sans geologl-
cal survey.
The effect of the extraordinary de-
mand for steam sizes Of anthracite
that followed the industrial activity
in 1916 and the high price of bitumin-
Gus coal is indicated in the figures
showing the output Of washery prod
uct and dredge coal. Although the
freshly mined coal in the anthracite
region, including Sullivan county,
showed decrease of 2.6 per cent in
1916 compared with 1915 there was
an Increase of 1916 per cent in the
quantity of anthracite obtained from
the washerles, which operate mainly
on old culm banks, and an increase
of 16 per cent in the quantity Of coal
dredged from rivers.
The production in the Lehigh re-
gion was 10,029,055 gross tons; in the
Schuylkill region, 23,659, ,44S tons; in
the Wyoming region, 43,111,732 tons;
and in Sullivan county (Bernice ba-
sln) 494,84S tons.
There was a large decrease in the
number of men employed In the pro-
duction of anthracite In 1916, ana the
output was maintained only through
on increase in the number of work
ing days. The number of men en-
ployed in 1914 was 1869; in 1915,
1862; and in 1916, 159,S69. The
average number Of days worked was
245 in 1914, 230 in 1915, and 253 in
1916. The average output per man
per day in 1914 was 1.S4 gross tons
in 1915, 1876 tons, and in 1916, 1.93
tons. The average output per en-
ployee for the year was 451 tons in
1914; 45O tons In 1915; and 4S9 tons
in 1916.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24
A SculptorIs Error.

Whenever there is a military parade
in Washington, d. c., and the soldiers
or Others who have had military expe-
rience are in the vicinity of the magni.
ficent statue Of General Sherman,
which stands just south Of the treas
ury, there is sure to be comment on
the blunder which the sculptor made
in connection with the equipment of
the figures at the base of the statue.
The blanket roll, which is properly
carried over the left shoulder by SOL
diers, is here shown over the right
shoulder, where, as even the small
boys know nowadays, 1t would inter-
fere with the gun.-POpular Science
Monthly.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24

An artificial cork invented in Swe-
den is made of cork waste and bind
ing paste.
Pet canaries in this country con-
sumed a total of 3,704,625 pounds of
birdseed during the last year.
Last year there were shipped into
Los Angeles 100000 pounds of but
ter at "a cents pound in carload lots.
The Puget Sound division of the
Northern Pacific railroad has adopted
the policy of employing women instead
Of men wherever women are able to
do the work required.
An Englishman is the inventor of a
device for calculating the money val
ues Of one country in the terms Of
others and applying the values to vari-
Gus weights and measures.
Marseilles, France, is the great CEN
tral market for peanuts more than
10000 metric tons of peanuts in the
shell and 100000 tons of shelled nuts
being crushed there in a single year.
The 'frontlets" or 'phylacterles' of
the Hebrews were strips of parchment
on which were written four passages
Of Scripture. EXODUS 1920, Hit;
Deuteronomy $40. 1929 in an ink
prepared for the purpose.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24
CONVERSATIONS

A plant in Germany converts 30 tons
0f peat into nine tons Of coke, with
gas and tar as by-products.
A new piano for travelling music
fans weighs but 100 pounds and can
be packed and shipped like trunk.
The increase in beet sugar produc-
tion in Sweden has almost caught up
with the nations demand for sugar.
1t is estimated that Spain has de-
veIoped not more than per cent Of
its available hydrO-electric power.
American toilet goods are increas-
ing in popularity in the Far East.
France and England, the former sup
pliers, having been unable to make
shipments recently.
A patent has been granted for an
alarm clock which, instead of making
a noise, releases a stream of cold wa
ter through a tube to hit sleeper
wherever he desires.
The railroad connecting Chile and
Bolivia. which crosses the Andes 14,105
feet above sea level, provides oxygen
chambers in which passengers can get
relief froic the rarified mir of the high
alfi'adcs
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24
Several North stara

In the known course of history there
have been several successive north
stars. When the great pyramid of
CheOps was built Alpha Draconis was
north star, and the Egyptian astron.
omers made nOrthward, sloping pass.
age several hundred feet long, from
a place deep under the base of the py.
ramid straight through it's vast mass
Of masonry, and this served them az
an immense telescope tube, without a
glass, for observing their sentinel in
the sky. The present North Star is a
huge sun, between fifty and one hun,
dred times brighter than ours.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24
SOME BIRDS AND THEIR PREY
Thrush Has Been Known to Use
Stone as Slaughter Block on
Which to Break Snail Shells.

In districts where shelled snails
are abundant it is no rare thing to
come across q stone utilized as
slaughter block by some particular
thrush. Even If the bird is not
caught in the act, numerous broken
and empty shells scattered in the
neighborhOOd betray the place where
the mollusks have been done to death.
The method adopted by the thrush
is simply that of dropping a snail from
a height time and again until the shell
is broken and the succulent body
within is exposed to the captor's beak.
But the anvil is sometimes made use
of in a different way, and with a diff
ferent end in view. In the depths
of a Highland birch wood an observer
came upon such a sacriticial stone. at
which a thrush was busily occupied.
Field glasses made evident that not
snail but a common black slug was
his captive. This he grasped by the
middle with his beak dashing 1t re-
peatedly with resounding smacks upon
the stone, whence n occasionally re-
bounded, only to be caught and ham
mered once more.
Subsequent examination of the
stone revealed with what effect the
operation had been carried out. But
what of it's purpose? Here was no
shell to be broken. 1t may be that
the thrush simply wished to kill its
prey, but the fact that thrushes swal-
low wriggling worms without hesita-
ton renders this explanation improb-
able. 1t is more likely that the skin
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24

two and quarter to four and half
pounds, vastly different thing from
the solid 'peg-leg," Moreover 1t Is
perfectly hinged at the knee and artl-
culated at the foot. The cost Of such
a leg is about 500, but it is guaran-
teed for five years. Such leg, which
must fit perfectly, cannot be turned
out like shoes by the million each one
must be particularly, personally fitted.
Although machinery is used in limb
making, there Is much exact hand
work necessary, for it is said that no
two amputatiOns are exactly alike.
However, by making a plaster cast Of
the stump and giving exact measure
ments orders can be satisfactorily hal.
died by mail.
The United States government al
lows its legless and armless veterans,
in addition to their pensions, new arti-
fetal limbs every three years, and
since European governments will
doubtless carry out a similar policy, 1t
seems unfortunately true that arti-
fetal limb factories will be assured
of busy times for many long years to
come.
There is one man among the many
manufacturers of artificial limbs In
this country who can sympathize with
the unfortunate soldiers of the Euro
pean war who have lost an arm or a
leg. He is Joseph E. Hanger of Wash
ington, d. c., who owes his present
success in life to the loss of a leg on
the battlefield during the Civil war.
Most men would have become discour-
aged to have to battle their way
through life handicapped in this way,
but, with a keen insight to conditions
brought on by that terrible conflict
Mr.. Hanger, after making his own ar
titicial leg, started into the business
in small way.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24

FIavorInc sirup.-This sirup, as its
name implies, is intended for use as a
flayorlng ingredient in the making of
punch, sherbets, ices, etc. It is quite
different from the heavy concentrated
product previously described.
To make the davoring sirup add 1
quart of water to each gallon Of crush
ed grapes and boil violently until thor
oughly cooked-that is, until easily
stirred and Of even conslstency--the
berries being broken down. Then pour
this liquid into a thick flannel jelly
Rag and let II drip into porcelain ves-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24
PecuIiarItIes Of Sleep.

A person absolutely without sleep
for nine days will die. Sufferers from
Insomnia sometimes maintain that they
have gone for weeks without sleep, but
1t has been proved that they actually
sleep without being aware of it. At
certain point sleep is inevitable, no
matter what the bodily condition, the
alternative being death. A method of
tanning wild elephants is said to be
that of depriving the animals of sleep
when first caught. In few days they
become practically spiritless and harm
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-08-24

through the summer for his chickens.
The flock can be fed daily as much of
the green clippings as they will cat.
The remainder Of the clippings can be
allowed to dry and fed molstened dur.
ing the time between lawn cuttings,
Amounts in excess can be dried for
winter use. Dried grass clippings are
a good green feed for ,rintef. They
can be dried and stored In sacks.
These dried clippings, molstened and
fed to the flock, are very fair sub.
statute for the succulent green fecio OF
summer.