Abilene Weekly Chronicle and the Dickinson County News du lieu suivant : Abilene, Kansas • 4

MAYOR PARKER. THE BOOSTERS "KNOCKED." Aa Optlmlatlo Chicago Organisation Pt Mrs. M. H. Bishop.

That Fooud Out It Was Uideu and Dlabanded, $25 TO CALIFORNIA Bntered at the poatolBce at Abilene, at ecoud class mall matter. Is it better to knock or to boost? The oft-discussed subject bus been called What's the mutter with Charles Parker for Mayor? He is a big taxpayer, a public spirited citizen and a man who has made his money right here and not on" tho people, but from abroad- He brought the money home. Parker is an Abilene boy and would make a fine mayor. He is one of our foremost citizens and Subscription $1.00 Per Year. up again by the demise of an orzuniza- tion whose purpose was set forth in its Colonel Metcalf 's statement that name, "The Booster club." The Boost WATCH SMALL AS A NICKEL.

Triumph Scored by American Workmen la Producing; the Tiny Timepiece. The smallest watch yet turned out in thiscountry has just been put on the market, although few are on sale yet. The new watch is the size of a five-cent piece, says a Chicago report. The smallest watch which American watch factories had hitherto succeeds ed in making had been as big as a quarter, so the new watch is looked upon as marking a distinct advance in the industry in this country, where watches have only been made for a little more than hulf a century. Watchmakers also regard it as indicating that the time is not far distant when Ameri Funston never swam any river, coir, er club was to boost, its motto was "Every knock is a boost." That motto is now torn from the walls of the room ing from Funston's most intimate the boosters occupied, and in its stead some member of the Press club, which friend, of course ends the discussion, It is to be hoped now that the men who did the Bwimming will get the credit.

That is the Rock Island's rate from Abilene, In effect daily, February 15 to April 30. Tickets are good in tourist sleeping cars which te Rock Island runs every day in the week through to Los Angeles and San Francisco. These cars make quicker time to Southern California than similar cars over any other line. Cars are operated over both the "Scenic" and Southern" lines. Folder giving full information mailed on request.

we should be glad to see him unanimously elected Mayor of Abilene. Lets make it unanimous, has annexed the booster room, has WHAT IT COSTS. Rev. W. A.

Quayle, the talkative ponder of the Kansas City rostrum, is going iatfi politic! by joining some The present cougress has cost the cans will soon overtake tbe old world's watchmakers, the Swiss, in turning out watches of minute size. The Swiss still make a watch small United States $2,000,000,000. Tbis is $28.57 for each man woman and (tariff league offshept. ffe hooping scrawled on the wall in pencil: "Knock, and tbe world knocks with you, Boost, and you boost alone." The Booster club was a society of optimism, say the Chicago Tribune. It was devoted to discovering the good that may be in our fellow man.

Tht boosters spoke no ill, thought no evil, decried no honest endeavor. It boosted. It boosted all day Jong and oft times far into the night, It wrb the beginning of a new cult. One booster went farther than this, He said it was the of a new er than the Americans, but the watch just put on the market here by both If you are going to California, GO NOW will cemtyou nearly $20.00 more tha fit nrnHDnf After May I it the Waltham and the Elgin compa it up to the socialists. They do say Christ was a socialist.

Thfi rouble with ftuayle is be has mpre words than he has ideas for. The K. C. Journal is inconsistent. child in the country.

Figuring that tha average family in the United Stajes poflsfsts of five persons each head of a family will feave to pay nies, the two largest watchmaking concerns' in this country, will have the advantage over the Swiss watches that all the other watches mBde here have Low rates to Montana, Idaho, Utah and Tuiret Soun-3 ar also offered by the Rock Island, See nearest Rock Island ticket agent, or, if you prefer, write the undersigned, proer, A. Cooper, D. P. A Topeka, Kansas. JPn Saturday it says nobody Thia mill ka liio aTTAtAfrA possessed, namely, that of being turned out in quantity.

Under Amer u'e Booster club is no more. Twc or three members the othernig-htarost and made addresses as to the advis ican methods the daily output in one factory is a flyt I. ability of keeping the cJubrooms. me new watch is the result of find of continuing the active organic months of patient endeavor by the watchmakers and machinists. For that every man in the United States will have to pay for the support of the government besides the taxes he pays upon bia real estate and person al property.

It must be PetBem'bered that not one" cent of the direct taxes we pay goea to make up this two billion. It is made up from the premiums we pay upon what we eat, drink and wear and usa which is usually referred to as revenue and tariff. It every new sized watch deaigired new machines have to be, and as the size of the. watch is reduced, by so much more must thse machines be tell the truth of Funston and Metcalf because they were mentioned favorably in their Wo reports. On Sunday it says, "Let us have flesh and blood on our herpes bones, If and Clay played poker and Lincoln told smutty etories let us know it." Now that 1b more sensible.

Bo if FuhBtdh made a regular business ot claiming lot himself everything done by real heroes. If Metcalf killed a man clinging to his knees and crying for pity, "let us know it." Clay, Webster, Lincoln, ljunston and Metcalf, all have their made more, delicate. tion of the club. The burden of their plaints wist "What's the use?" AfteT these speeches had been delivered member with white face arose and in hushed whispers said: "Gentlemen, dc you know whfft you are doing? We are boosters, and yet, gentlemen, you have been knocking. More than that yon have committed the crime of crimes.

Yon have knocked the Boostei club. This takes from us all that wt have claimed. We must disband." Antf it was so ordered. SLEEPING ON A KONG. A scan ia the Interior of China Mont Sleep That Way or Not Sleep at All.

would be possible for one man to own all of the real and personal Cheap Trips Southwest. One fare plus $2, round trip, first clans, to Kansas, Colsrado, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas. Greatly reduced rates for one way, second class tickets. First and third Tuesdays each mouth. For homeseekers and their fami-liesinteresting land pamphlet free.

Address General Passenger Of-- flee, Atchison, Trpeka Sonta Fe Railway, Topt ka, F. S. SALLS, Agi. Santa Fe property in the United States and AN ACCOMPLISHED PARROT. yet not pay one cent or this enor China is a land without mattresses or counterpanes.

A bed, or kong, is merely a broad wall of brick built across the side of the room. On first mous amount. BOCK ISLAND R. sons BART. No.

28 Mall iind Eiprma a. i So. Freight and AceontmoCBtlon, 3:43 i. i sons WBBT. No.

J7-Mal! and Vxpnm No. 66 Fraisbt aad Aeeom mods tion. 10:11 a HMk-ngtir trains run daily. Freight train laily except Baa piccadilloes. Every man does.

One man likes 6mutty stories, another poker, another humbug, another assassination of defenseless men. Look at Knapp who just admits choking four wives and a little girl. Murder will out. acquaintance it seems absolutely im Cahan Bird la a Indiana Tni Vocabulary of Thre? Handrail Word. And this is the "prosperity" guaranteed by the present "business posttiblc for an Anglo-Saxon, but 9 administration." man in the Interior of China must either sleep on a kong or not sleep at HOOREON METCALF.

all, says a writer in Outing. I deter J1ETCALP KNOCKS ON FUNSTON. mined that if the bricks would not yield to me I must yield to them, and, us. a means of yielding gracefully1, The following affidavit was printed MI880CK1 PACIFIC AT RBBIQTOR. oma was.

No. J01-Pimwmrr wrH i to. 71S Thronwh IH a. No. iK -Throujth Freight 'S SniN CART.

No.SOJ PaaMgrr a. a Ro.tas- Way p. a io.4iVka rrawiti Mt a. I studied tbe sleeping methods of my ia the Topeka State Journal Febru ary 27, in a K. C.

paper the day be fore in Springfield (Sfass.) fiepubli Chinese companions. I found that their practice was to climb inside of can and as associated press in the POLE WILL BE REACHED. NEW SPECIES OF HORSE. dailies generally. The statement of Moore, which arer Peary Telia Bow the Ottast-BaMtred Peat alar had been sworn to in the morning at D.

C. rente, a conductor on ihc Gas City Interurbaa line for nearly eight yeans, fees a pet parrot which came Into liiia poaaeasioa a few month ago. She tame from Cuba, and is a bird of ubamraJ beauty. Mr. and Mrs.

Penoe at once undertook to leach the bird to talk and Polly aow fcaaa vocabulary of over 800 words, rays a Gm City dispatch in tbe Indianapolis News. When Polly sneeze she at once informs tbe household that "Polly'e caught cold." When the shades of night come on, the parrot makes it known that he is tired and wants to go to bed. The bird's chief acromplishroent is her ability to hear and talk over tbf telephone. Mr. Pence says that whenever tbe bell rings Polly shouts "Hello" with as mnch clearness as an an experienced operator.

When Mr. Pence holds the bird to the telephone when her husband is talking at the other end of the line, the bird recognises Pence's voice, and erieet "Hello, kid; come borne to dinner!" The parrot has the freedom of the Pence house, 'and goes from room to room at will. When Polly is scolded, she retires to her perch and there assumes an air of injured innocence. Bi far am I from considering the genet i proposition of advance over the l- pack impracticable that I have quilted sacks, called pookas, which they tied and folded around themselves, nntll a row of men on a kong looked not unlike sealed envelope Whenever they rolled or turned ovn in their sleep, their pookas rollei! with them; in whatever position the; "happened to lie on tbe brick pile they -could not escape the ameliorat ing effect of their pookas. Obviously too, must have a pooka.

From dealer in leather, in a town througi which we passed, I bought two goaf skins. 1 had them sewn together with the hair side in. I devised system of strings by which I cool tie myself in my appliance, ami it this way 1 aaccceded in sleeping ii China. esitation in saying I believe that th nan who, with the proper party, the request of Judge Advocate-General Davis of the war department, who asked for a copy of it, was read. It is as follows Washington City, District of Columbia, to wit: This is to certify that William Moore, of Aliceville, Kansas, was formerly a member of Co.

E. 20th Kansas United States volunteers; that at the battle of Caloocan, Feb ruary 10, 1899, 1 acted as orderly to Maj. Wilder C. Metcalf, being detailed for the purpose, that I wbb with the major when our boys it iroper equipment, and proper ea-p nee, ean secure a base on the hern shore of Orismell Land, and ca begin his work with the earliest re 'ning light in February, will hold the tole in his.gmp, writes Robert IVt in McOure's Magazine. T) proper method for an effective About the most contemptible and lyinc assault on General Funston we fcave seen ia that by Col.

W. S. Met-alfin his interview in the Kansas City World of March 6 in the Tope- 1ut State Journal Metcalf says "The history of the war with the Phillipines is not correct of course, but the officers then did not write everything that was written about them. For instance General Funston never ewam the river. But he never claimed he did." Of course we all know now that Funston can't wim a river and never swam a river.

That has been proved over and over. Metcalf is an ungrateful dog to repeat it after all Funston has done for him. But hie declaration that Funston didn't write hie own pcst notices and never said he swam the river in a deliberate attempt to rob him of the only fame left irim, that of being a good advertising man. Be a man Metcalf for once. Admit that the hero of Aguinaldo's capture who wasn't present when Aguinaldo was taken at least wrote his own stuff, and that he did claim to have jtwam the river over his own signature, even though he only claimed it.

dive the devil his dues. ROOSEVELT'S OPINION OF CARMACK, A Beed rT rod la Central A a ha That DlsTers freaa Casa-eoa Kla. Prof. Kwart has recently described a new species of horse from the western islands. Until recently it has been the accepted theory that all living horses belong to one and the same species, and that- all the breeds of European horses were descendants of domestic varieties from the orient.

The etchings found on the walls of caves indicate that the horse may have been domesticated in Europe before the arrival of neolithic man, says a London paper. Horses, donkeys aad zebras differ markedly in that the two latter have no callosities such as the horse possesses. The discovery of a new variety of small horse in central Asia by Col. Przevalsky will be remembered, and now Prof. Ewart describes still another variety.

It was a pony, not a dwarf horse, -with no callosities on the hind legs and resembling: the wild SNOWFALL GROWING LESS. a Us upon the pole may be summed i i i a paragraph, A strongly built ship of maximum pew a minimum party, utilizing the Eik nos exclusively for the rank and file; the establishment of a perma-neit station or sub-base at Sabine; the I irmation of a chain of caches from ie to Hecla; the establishment of a in "base nomewhere on the North NEITHER DEAD NOR ALIVE. Thore Ire rwtr nraa la Colora. Slow Than la Forme Year. That climatic conditions are chang ing in many parts of the country bar long been a fuel recuguized by meteorologists.

The memory of the oldest inhabitants of Boulder county, Col. does not recall a time when hesnoa on the mountains was as scarce as it is now. At tbe head waters of the various branches of Boulder creek here la New (taratlOB of Traasaortatlaa Which a Hypnotised Man Flarares. crossed the insurgent trenches before Caloocan; That among the insurgent dead in the trenches wb6 found two live Filipinos who threw down their arms and surrendered, holding their hands clapped as if in prayer, Gii lell Land coast; forcing the ship to nter quarters there; the redistri- biiti of the entire tribe of Whale A railroad station agent in New England ha raised a new question in eov I Eskimos, takinsr the picked men begging for mercy. One of the offi of 1 tribe on the ship, and distribut transportation, and, what is still bet ter, has settled it, reports tbe Oseve land Plain Dealer.

cers who was utar said to Capt. Metcalf: "Metcalf, what will we do ing he others in a series of settle- met alone the Orinnell Land There was brought to him a man in a box. "Is he dead?" asked the agent with these prisoners?" Lieut. Collin Ball, who was also near, said "The nJy thing we can do with them is to send them to the rear un of tbe man who desired to ship box and contents to a dime museum in Bos der guard." An officer spoke up tofore large beds of snow hate lastec all summer, but this year they have dwindled into small cues, and when there are- usually small beds by tbt hundreds in the latter part of August there is now no enow at all. Immense basins are found at Jasper lake, Arapahoe pass, Arapahoe peak, Mount Audubon, Long's peak and intervening points.

These basins rise at each an ang-le that the melting of the snow is gradual. At the foot of these basins are lakes of various sixes, and in these the creeks virtually take their rise. There are in Boulder county many of these lakes In usual seasons, fed by hundreds of small streams, but now tbe small streams are not running, because the snow banks have disappeared crs with the rear on per. enn 1 walrus grounds at Bonn-tag bay and the head of certain sun ter navigation at Babine; and the van Hecla; and, finally, an advance, in earliest returning light of Feb-ruai from Hecla northward over the polai pack, whh a small, light pioneer part followed by a large, heavy, mali party, from which at Intervals two three sledges would drop onl and fturn nntll on Ihc last stage there woa I be but two or three sledges left and said, "No, we haven't got men to spare to send them to the rear; shoot tbem where they are at" Then Major Metcalf turned to me and said Order 1 ba ve ou ot a load in your gun?" I answered, "No." Metcalf said "Put one in and kill "President Roosevelt had a chance to express his opinion of Senator Carmackthe other day, and did it forcibly. 6.

Morgan, formerly Secretary of state for Tennessee is in town. He wants to be appointed a member of the-Isthmian Canal CommibeioB, and the Tennessee delegation in congress is favorable to the sppoiot-oent. Today the delegation, nearly all of whom are Democrats, went to the '-White House in a body, and laid before the president the claims of their Senator Carmack did act go. The President listened to tqeBD pleasantly, and said be would take the nasne under consideration. these prisoners." I said.

"I will 'IRMOWT WRESTUR8. tt a fa VaJast Mas FanMH ra saaare-nl lae Oeaa 0ae. ken I ass a bay fa Vermont," and the consequence is many of the lakes have disappeared. The glacier In. the "armchair," or Arapahoe peak, is much smaller than tt has beta as tar as anyone knows.

ton. "He is not," was the answer. "Well, he caa't be alive," responded the agent, "as he don't move when 1 speak to him, and no man who ia alive ever looked like that." "Be is hypnotized. 1 want a ticket lor him, and please hurry up." Til look at the rules and schedule," said tbe afeat. "It aays hers, so much for a live man; so much for corpse.

There is nothing about a hypnotlaee." "Well," said the other in disgust, "as I can't waken him, perhaps 1 had better kill him." can get an ax of the porter. But one thing is Tb rules donl provide for-any half-dead He can't go over this road." The bos was carried ta Boston over the turnpike la a lumber wagon. The higher railroad eflelals say the ngaat did right. TtwrMka AeasU. An American Inventor has succeeded In making a typewriting machine which prints Arabic characters.

The principal difficulties to be overcome war la allowing aome letters double the apace of others, and la providing certain ratters with three different forms, ac not Then the other officer spoke up ond said to Maj. Metcalf "Ton kill one aod I will kill the other" So Maj. Metcalf and the officer fired their revolverers, each killing prisoner. During this brief discussion the prisoners were begging far matey, one of them throwing hinself upon his knee before Msj. Metcalf horse of central Asia in having only short hairs on the upper part of the tail.

As the most typical specimen of the new variety was found in an out-of-the-way part of Iceland there is no chance that it is the result of across with the Przevalsky horse, though it was exactly of the color of the central Asian horse. Not having callosities, it agreed with the asses and zebras, and, like them, it was highly specialised In the aiae, form of the head, ears and under Hp and in the position af the eyes COAL DEALER AKD GROUHDBOG War a new Varfce Casna ta Arfaat rietar at the Aa fatal aa aa Baahlean, At least one man in this elty ba lievee that If the ground hog aces hia shadow and goes back to bla hole on Caadlcnsaa day, February there era six weeks more of winter to coma, says the Dew York Tribune A few years ago, at this tiane af year, a -eaal dealer waa struggling with the problem prevented by a big etoek af coal and sua neapaionally mild, open winter. Ba bad about de eWed that be bad beat wind up bla business and get out aa whole aa ba couM, whea a friend advised htm ta hold on. "Wait until Candlemas day," aaid the friend, "and then you can tell by the ground hog whether or not there will be cold weather enough to pull you through." fo the deslar waited for the gronnd hog's decision, and ss Candlemas day was bright end clear, prepared for plentiful sales of coal for six weeks of winter weather. The sign held true, and the dealer sold his stork at good prices.

In gratitude he adopted the ground hog aa hia emblem, and it picture appears on all his letterheads, snd is een painted on his cart. And if line drops into his office he will find a man who has a warm spot in his heart for the gronnd hog. "I am always glad," be to do anything I can for you. any recommendations that you nave I shall be glad to receive and care full consider. But there is one nember of your delegation that 1 would see in hell before I would do cording as they fall at the beginning, anything for him.

I should say Hades added the president, as an afterthought. said Representative C. fiulloway, of New Hampshire, report the Washing too I Im, "It waa tsy anaMtJoa and that af nearly every farsawr'a boy la the state, aa far aa 1 knew, to be considered champion wrestler. Probably no stats In tbe union has furnished at meat good square-hold aad atde-hoM wrestlers as the Green hlounleln state. Host of lie boys learned wrestling at tcheel, tha wrestling boufa usually talis plsee at receae.

Keen th schoolmaster took a hand in the gsrne snd ouid try his skill against the Urge. boys, and if he happened to be thrown he lost prestige among hh srholrirs. But ass at town meet-Inge that the greatest exhibitions ol skill snd strength took place. The best vrestlers in tbe townships rallied at tlese gatherings, and the people seraa to take more interest ia the ontce ne of the bouts than in the re suit at the polls. The science of squsTi-hold and side-hold wrestling has a most died ont In the state now ariayt.

Boys and young men seem te fancy football, golf and baseball, but thrrf are some fine specimens of man hood yet in the state, and it tskes a pretty good man to lay even a modrrt Verm inter on his back. The Baa4 Sanaa. A young maa who accompanied. Prof. Bllpreoht on his recent expedition to Nippur was showing some souvenirs of his trip, reports the Philadelphia Record.

"There's one thing 1 didn't bring back with me, and that's a Bagdad but ton," he said. "I'm just as well satis-fled that 1 didn't, too. A Bagdad bat-ton? Well, I'll tell yoa about it. Every parson who goes to Bagdad and stays there for six months la afflicted with a peculiar boil that leaves a scar about the else of a half dollar. It may come on the face or on some part of the body, but it is bound ta come, If you stay there long enough.

I didn't. I got out just ss soon as 1 could. Children who are born in Bagdad always come into the world with this mark, which is known as ihr Bagdad button." In Wlae Clatera. At Asti, In California, a cistern 104 feet long by 34 feet wide, and 21 feet deep, was formed in a hillside for the storage of wine. Tbe immense tank was lined with concrete two feet thick and coated inside with a glare ss impenetrable as blaaa.

The capacity of the tank is 000,000 gallons. He added that he referred to and inttiaghis arms around Metcalfe legs appeared to beg for his life. I was standing but 10 or 16 feet away wbeo these prisoners were killed. I saw the two officers point their revolvers, saw the smoke and saw the Filipinos fall dead, and know of a certain that they, the two officers and they alone, find the two shots that killed these tiro prisoners. There may have been other prisoners killed by other officers or men which I did not see but there can be no mistake as to who killed tbete two prisoners I speak of.

This killing took place at the Filipino trenches some 150 yards before the church was reached and a little to tbe right of the wagon road leading from Manila to Calooran, and between tl wagon road and the railroad. 1 Willuk Moore. Senator Cannack." tbe middle, or at the end of a word. The machine contains 84 characters, eight of which automatically supply themselves with double spare taken by the others. The machine hsa been tested by a committee of examiners at Beirut, and pronounced sstisfaetory, but some nstlve critics think several of the letters should hsve been more slegantly shaped, for in Arabic writing beauty is appreciated aamuch ss legi R.

K. UC PIKE, 0. D. 0 OSTEOPATH PHYSICIAN, onrAT or aMSRICAS 'IXL HtlMMTBT, BiRvn.i.s, o. Abilene, Kansas.

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