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Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
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lap not long ago. "One thing is that
we have a city named New York.
The other thing is that we have a
man named Roosevelt If Roosevelt
goes to France it will put heart in
the French soldier such as nothing
else can do, and verify believe
run" But President Wilson refuses!
"a - -
The lower house of congress has
passed the war revenue bill Claude
Kitchin, chairman of the ways and
means committee, announced: II
shall vote for it with my eyes shut.
This is the sort of craftsmanship
the seniority system of promotions
gives us in congress. Mr.. Kitchin, a
"one-horse" lawyer in a little town
in North Carolina, heads the ways
and means committee merely be-
cause he. is the senior Democrat
thereon because of his length of
service.
~ - -
There are three Taft children. The =
oldest son, Robert, while yet a stu !
dent at college, took issue with his
father, then president, on the con-
stitutionality of the Webb-Kenyon
aw-and the supreme court lined up
NTH the son. The second son, altho
lot yet of age, has enlisted as az
private in an artillery company
md his picture has never been in
he papers. The daughter was elect
ID dean Of Bryn Mawr college a few
lays ago and has a degree of Doctor
# Philosophy from Yale. William
Howard Taft was never much of a
uccess as politician; but he GER
ainly has no call to be ashamed Of
lis record as a father.-Iola Regis
er
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

Homer Engle filled the pulpit at
the Newbern church Sunday morn
ing and evening.
Cyrus and Emma Lenhert spent
several days visiting friends in
Brown county.
Miss Fanny Hershey of this place
and Ruth Engle OF Thomas, Okla,
were entertained at Hiram Engle's
near Eureka Sunday
Jacob n. Engle spent Saturday
and Sunday in Brown county in the
interest of church work.
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Lenhert made
2 business trip to Abilene Monday.
Vim. scheufele spent the week
end in Abilene.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
M Fz N
KANSAS PATRIOTISM

Kansas must not be judged by
the fanatical actions of few per-
sons whose aim in life is to destroy
established government. The people
of Kansas have shown in many ways
their patriotism. The enlistments
here have been larger in proportion
than in any state east of the Mis-
sissippi; the subscriptions for the
Liberty loan will be double our
proportion; newspapers, men and
women, rganizatons- the people
as a whole believe in fighting for
the ultimate peace which is our
dream. 1t is a disgrace to Kansas
that the disloyalty of a few should
be heralded abroad with a Kansas
tag. Let the state show by its ac-
tions that their acts are a libel on
the commonwealth.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

Mr.. and Mrs. John Humbarger
entertained John Stotts and family
of Navarro and Fred Felbush and
family Sunday.
Ethel and Roy Logan are out
from Abilene visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Kaufman and
baby took Sunday dinner at Geo.
Weber's.
Rev. Sherry of Mcpherson preach
ed very interesting sermon at Hol-
land Sunday evening.
Charley Howie has the mumps
Mrs. Will Hutchison is better,
after being sick a few days.
Arthur Darling and family were
out Sunday and spent the day visit
ing relatives.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

penses; recently they gave 1t still
bigger boost by adding S1.20 more.
In the opinion of impartial observ-
ers this is nothing more nor less
than an effort to gouge the public.
II is an INSCRIPTIONS attempt to get
rich quick through war profits.
Meanwhile the government needs
thousands of tons Of coal to make
rifle barrels. Some harsh things have
been said and some harsh things
ought to be done The indictment is
very simple In time of national
crisis the coal men, for their own
profit, are holding up not only the
public but the government itself
Chicago Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
(First published in Abilene Weekly
Reflector June Z, 1910
SHERIFF'S SALE
Case No. 1904
G. A. BURKE, ct al, Plaintiffs,

VS..
ELLA LILIES, ct AL Defendants.
Under and by virtue of an order
of sale issued by the clerk of the
district court of the Eighth judicial
district, within and for Dickinson
county state of Kansas, in the
above entitled case, and to me di-
rected and delivered, ! will on Mon
day. the 9Th day of July, A. D. 1917
at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day at
the front door of the court house
in the city of Abilene, Dickinson
county, state of Kansas, with ap-
praisement, sell to the highest bid
der, for cash in hand, the following,
to-wit: Lots 1917, 109, iii, on Third
street, Solomon, and lots SO, 81, 90,
on Fifth street, Solomon, all in
Dickinson county. state of Kansas.
The said real estate will be sold
pursuant to the judgment of the
court in said cause recited in said
order of sale.
Witness my hand this 7th day of
May, 1917.
JOHN H. SHERMAN,
Sheriff of Dickinson County. Kansas
S. S. Smith, Attorney for Plaintiff.
SO
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

at war. The attorney general is a
seventh or eighth rate Texas law
yer that nobody ever heard OF until
the president lifted him from his
Cbscurity and made him head of the
department OF Justice"
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
DONEGAL

Several from this place attended
the dedication services at the Evan
gelical church in Abilene Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Hoffman of
mer's brother, L. L. Hoffman.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
SAVING THE MONEY

1t was a fine exhibition of uu-
selfish devotion that while the
registrars of Kansas for draft dav
might have received 81 each for
the days work. enough men and
women volunteered to fill everv Of
flee saving to the government of
$4,000 simply because the Kansas
people want to do their share in
fighting the battle Of freedom.
It would be a good idea for con-
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
"a Ia IA
A BARBARIAN VIEW

Gen. Hindenburg, the German war
chief, gives this as his idea of war:
War is the natural occupation
of a soldier when not engaged in
fighting, however he may be occu-
pied, he is occupied uselessly He
is like a barrister without briefs or
a surgeon without patients.
Barbarians understand war bet
ter than we Europeans They have
no rules, no code, no conventions
in war. Kill your enemy in any
way you can, and when you have
killed him in sufficient numbers so
that he can not longer resist You,
enslave him. That is the barbar-
ian's theory of war, and it is the
right one"
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
THE COAL SCANDAL

For eold-blooded profiteering IL
would be hard to beat the present
manipulation Of coal prices. 1T is
the first big scandal of the war.
A 800 per cent increase in prices
Is unwarranted and dishonest.
There is no shortage Of coal: in
fact some of the mines are not
being operated. the purpose being
1t is said, to cut down the supply.
Neither is there the slightest war
rant for anything like such a price
advance on account Of war eondi-
tions.
The mine owners first added 65
cents to last years price to take
care OF increased operating e1-
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

The year 1917 marks the four
hundredth anniversary of that great
modern historical movement known
as the Reformation. The modern
period of history is sharply distin-
guished from that known as the Me-
dieyal. religiously, socially, eduea-
tionally, commercially and political
ly. 1t is the Reformation that marks
the line of separation and consti-
tutes the transition from the one to
the other. The event is being cele-
brated at Atchison this week.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

sress to take look at Kansas. The
members of the house have added
over 100000 to the allowance ia
the members for clerk hire com
mencing July when congress will
probably have adjourned. A large
part of this goes to the members
and families as the clerkships fire.
quently are held by wives or chill
dren
There is much criticism of spend
ing millions for food survey. Con-
gressman Campbell states that it
means 1900 jobs at $500 to $2500
TO perform a service that ought to
be performed by the agricultural
department with its thousands OF
officials the country over, the state
agricultural colleges and the state
agricultural departments. If these
expenditures were unnecessary and
could have been done by a little
more effort on the part of the Off
GERS already appointed, it is a.
waste. This nation is willing to do
its share, man for man, but it wants
the men i'll positions of trust to do
theirs also and use the same econ
omy in public affairs that every
family must in its own concerns.
H- "a w.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

Captain Rex Dunlap of Kansas
City served two years as ambulance
driver in the battle Of Verdun. He
has travelled all over France and
knows the peasant and the poilu and
the officers and middle and upper
class people. THE common people
Of France know only two things
about America" said Captain Dun
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
NEED CABINET CHANGE

Topeka Capital: The greatest
need in Washington today is re-
organized cabinet"
The speaker was representative
Philip P. Campbell of the Third
Kansas district, Republican member
of the rules committee Of the popu-
lar branch of congress, who is in
Kansas for the commencement week
exercises of his alma mater, Baker
university Yes, he repeated, 'the
greatest need in this country right
now is a new cabinet. Not necessar-
lily coalition cabinet, tho there
should be no objection even to that
on the part of the Democrats, but,
il not that, then a cabinet of really
big Democrats. There are Democrats
big enough to fill these places-for
the navy, to be specific, Padgett,
Of Tennessee, who for twenty years
has studied navy problems as a
of the house committee. |
w ith lHV cOuully tHlcIlHS Oh |
war, which will end nobody knows
when, we should have the very best
men in the country at the head of
he state, navy and war depart
nents and as attorney general. In
tead, we have as secretary of state
pleasant enough gentleman, but
10 great executive like we should
ave there. At the head of the war
apartment is a mere chairman of
Democratic county committee. The
ecretary of the navy is a little
'emocratic country editor, with no t
nowledge of the navy and it's needs
merely another deserving Demo-
rat bad enough in times of peace !
ut impossible when the country is /
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

If you don't get your Reflector
regularly phone 95.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
THE EASIEST WAY

/ THE EASIEST WAY
Ring w. Lardner in Chicago Tri
bune: The population of the worlt
is 1,675, 100000, including tn,
Bronx, and it is estimated that al
but one of this number dislike Will.
, liam Hohenzollern and wish he
would resign. He has been told this
but he doesn't believe it.
Just because 79,000,O00 Ger.
mans, 50,O00,000 Austrians and
Hungarians, and 27,O00,000 Bull
garians and Turks, of whom more
than 22,000,000 are wrestlers, break
down and cry when he scolds he
thinks he is Grand Exalted Ruler of
the Ancient Order of Humans and
first cousin to the Lord.
He won't quit of his own accord,
but he will if 1,519,0O0,000 of us
insist on It,
The most effective way of insist
ing is to get into the trenches. A
great many have done it and a great
many more intend to. A vastly
greater many can't or won't.
The next most effective way, and
the easiest way, is to buy a Liberty
bond.
You may be too young or too old
or too i'll or too timid or too poor
to fight. None of these alibis applies
to the Liberty loan. The age limit
for purchasers is one minute to 147
years old. If you are sick, send Ken
meth or Dorothy,
Timidity and poverty don't enter
into the case, The bonds are as safe
as buttermilk and as cheap as YOU
want to make them. You can buy
one for $50 and pay for it as you
would an encyclopedias, and no taxes
an touch you.
Your neighbor who is killed at
he front gives his life for his eoun-
ry and his country gives him cred
t. You who buy a Liberty bond
i've your country nothing but your
upport and confidence and your
ountry gives you Il per cent.
When you take three people to
uneh and it costs you IS you NAV
e doing good to four people. your
uests and the proprietor.
When you deposit SIS for a Liber-
bond you are doing good to 1.-l
t4'sss'sSs people, including the
,sl5,101 Norwegians and Swedes
] but five of whom are blondes.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

The gist Of it from the Chicago
Tribune: Whether the man in the
street will understand that this war
is to protect the United States we
do not know. 1t is whether the fact
can be conyincingly presented or
not. But the man in the street can
understand one thing. at least. We
have started something we have to
finish. That is a plain enough axiom
of every day life We have to win
sor be whipped. There is no argu-
ment about that, and no need of
explaining it.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
"a "a "a

One congressman used up four
hours the other day in a speech try
ing to prove that oleomargarine is
better than creamery butter Great
is craftsmanship.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

Unquestionably the administra-
tion lost great opportunity for en-
thusing the nation the armies at
the front and the cause of the war
generally when it refused to allow
Theodore Roosevelt to take his
company of fighters to France. The
people had endorsed it, congress
had endorsed it: the allies urged
but it was not done. Roosevelt has
accepted the order with his usual
Americanism and has not complain
ed of the injustice the people
have not forgotten it.
There is yet open the law pro-
viding that he may be sent Mr.. Will
son could do nothing better for our
cause than to allow the ex-president
to act. Grants name was often said
to be worth $4,000 men to the
Union army; Rooseyets name and
will be worth a half mil
lion men to the present war. 1t is !
never too late to do the right thing
and the nation would approve
change in the presidents position.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

Good U-boats are at the bottom
of the sea-but those we are after
are still afloat.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

w. r. Stubbs suggests that the
federal government pass a law con-
scripting for service in munitions
plants or other public work, all wo-
men frequenting army camps for
immoral purposes. If the govern
ment has the right to conscript the
law abiding men of the nation for
war, 1t has the right to conscript the
law breaking women of the nation
for the public good.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

Defense council note by Jay
House: We wish to supplement the
advice from the state agricultural
college to the effect that chickens
be kept clean. We also suggest, in
the connection, that some of them
be compelled to wear more cloth
ing.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
p = -

Prussia, considering a tax on
bachelors and spinsters, passes over
a wide field of widows and orphans,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07
NR Na Ea

The rich young men who are
fleeing the country to escape the
draft could probably be brought
back by confiscating their property
and it wouldn't be such bad
idea.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1917-06-07

Secretary McAdoo Is wasting lis
time developing ocor for presi-
dent. Indications now are that the
next president OF the United States
will wear glasses, have prominent
teeth and be addicted to used the
word "delighted."
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Free Flower Seed
Hastings Catalogue
Tells You About t

No matter whether you farm on g
large scale or only plant vegetables
or flowers in q small way, you need
Hastings 1917 Seed Catalog. It's
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In addition to showing you about all
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Good seeds of almost every kind
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You are going to garden or farm
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Write today for Hastings 1917
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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01

It is a good thing for us occasion
ally to get ourselves, with the aid of
observation and imagination, into an
other world than ours, though COW
cred by the same sky and based up
on the same earth-a world whose
inhabitants are not framed on our
plan, though made of similar chem
ical elements, and capable of their
own peculiar enjoyments. We think
too continuously, perhaps, of the su-
periority of the back boned creatures.
The insects have no backbones. But
they have heads and limbs, and some
times they give indications of having
affections and passions.
They are as musical as birds, even
if their music is usually less agree
able to our ears. I see no reason
why cicada's song would not sound
we'll in heaven, or why the flash Of
a butter1y's wing would not appear
beautiful there.
Notwithstanding the bad habits of
the fly we should miss the insects if
they were taken away from the earth.
Did you ever think of the significance
of their numbers? Science knows of
about 512,500 species of animal life
on this globe, and of these 100000
are insects! Our well-beloved man.
NAL group includes only 4,500 spe-
cies. Numerically the insects own
the earth!
I do not see why an album of in
sect photographs, like those made by
Miss Dickerson, should not be as
attractive as some of the other pho
tograph albums that many amateurs
are fond of filling. Pictures of but
terfies, beetles, caterpillars, leaf in
sects, stick-insects, and other imi-
tative forms and of the wonderful
metamorphoses that insects undergo,
would furnish amusement and in
struction, and the making of them
would provide a new occupation for
amateur photographers P.
Serviss.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01

but the bee is born with that knowl-
edge, and proceeds to make her hex
agonal cells on a scheme of inter-
secting circles by instinct, thus miss
ing the joy of seeing calculations
come out correct.
Nowadays it is possible to take
along your camera and bring back,
with it's aid, most interesting photo
graphs of personages and scenes in
the world of the insects. Of course,
you must have the right kind of cam
era and know how to use it. Miss
Mary Cythia Dickerson has some pho
tographs of this kind in the journal
of the American Natural History Mu-
scum, which suggested this writing.
1t is a funny sight to see a meadow
grasshopper, perched on a grass pole
and performing on his banjo in the
attitude of long-limbed fiddler of
the old days, finging out high-keyed
strains to set the dancers in motion
on the board floor of an antique New
England tavern.
The grasshopper fiddler is more
tireless than his human prototype, or
imitator. AS Miss Dickerson says, he
is true "instrumentalist." He
seems to enjoy his own music. If
you could only interpret the express
sion of his face you would perhaps
find that he is grinning with delight
over his own skill and the effects he
produces upon his listeners.
1t may be all Imagination, but any
how it is pleasing to suppose that in
sects that produce music have an es-
thetic appreciation of it. When the
bullfrogs set up their laundering
chorus in a swamp, what do they do
it for? Do you not suppose that they
enjoy it? But bullfrog is not an
insect. Well, then, katydid, is and
the katydids can make concert ca
pable of driving the sense of loneli-
ness from country road at night.
Cicadas with their snare drums
make a drowsy summer afternoon
dangerously enjoyable, and may
soothe you into delicious half
slumber as you lie stretched at length
under an apple tree They are not
doing it for you, however. They are
probably unaware of your existence,
and care nothing about you. They
are playing for their mates.
1t is an unwarranted assumption
on our part that the joys Of society
and of domesticity are confined to
the human plane of existence. The
insect world is full of musicians, and
therefore of lovers of music. The
''cricket on the hearth" is welcome
music-maker, even for naughty man.
He has got himself into more than
one proud literature. l have not
heard him for years, but I carry his
memory with me.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
New Quarters and Halves Not Rare.

Washington, Jan. 26.-Reports
have reached the treasury depart
ment from numerous sources that the
newly designed quarters and half dol
lars coined in 1916 have been sold
at premium by persons represent
ing that the new coins are rare. To
correct any impression that the coins
are rare, officials today authorized
the statement that 100000 halves
and $4,000 quarters of the new de-
sign were struck off in 1916.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Wonders of the Insect World.

The caterpillar of the monarch
butterfly-hanging head downward
is ready for the metamorphosis. 1t
matches from a minute egg in late
summer and has grown for two
weeks. 1t stopped eating and wan
dered restlessly about, and has now
chosen a secure spot on which it has
spun a small, thick carpet of silk.
It walked over this until the hind
feet, with their many minute hooks
were entangled in the silk; then, let
ting go it's hold with the other pair
Of feet, it hung head downward, mo-
tionless. The skin now loosens, and
after twenty-four hours, splits over
the head. At this stage the caterpil-
lar becomes very active; by muscu-
lar contraction it works the skin off
upward into a small, shriveled mass;
then, during the few seconds longer
that it still remains attached to the
skin, it reaches out it's slender end
(Which also is supplied with hooks)
and, with great effort and force,
pushes it up into the silk carpet.
The whole process has taken but
three or four minutes by the watch.
The creature now rests. Slowly the
shape changes, the segments above
contracting, the form rounding out
and behold an emerald-green chry-
sails studded with golden spots! In
this form the insect is wholly immov-
able-althoug wonderful changes
are taking place within, absorption
of structures useful to the caterpil-
lar and perfecting of others neces
sary for the new life of the butter
fly. In two weeks the pattern of the
butterfly's brown and orange wings
begins to show through; finally the
chrysalis skin, in it's turn, splits over
the head, and the butterfly crawls
out. Such is one of the simplest and
best known stories of insect meta
morphosis.
When you get temporarily weary
of studying human beings go to the
insects. They will entertain you and
give you lot to think about. They
will make you laugh, for they are
great mimics and performers. They
will make you wonder, for they have
strangely wise ways which, if not
the result Of reasoning, prove that
Providence looks out for them more
carefully than for us, giving them
the results of intelligent thought
without the trouble of thinking.
However, if that be so, they are
the losers and not We, for it is de-
light to run the machinery of the in
tellect. We have the pleasure of
learning for ourselves that the sides
of a hexagon form chords equal to
the radius of circumscribed circle,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
A Meteorological Motto.

The Lord sends the sunshine and
the rain, but the farmer must do his
own plowing.-Christian Herald.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01

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