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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
Formation Of Character.

We do not sufficiently appreciate the
value of pressure in the formation oi
character "a child left to himself
bringeth lis mother to shame says the
inspired proverb. And all of US are, in
sense. children all our lives through.
The best qualities which any of us pos
sess have been given to us, or have been
made effective in Us, through some such
outside or inside pressure as a child
must have brought to bear on him 70
keep him from growing to worthless
ness, or going to ruin. There is notft-
ing that any of us can do exceptionally
we'll that we were not somehow forced
into, or trained into, by severe pressure.
All our powers of endurance also came
to us in that way. We learned to en-
dure by having to endure, whether we
wanted to or not. If we had been left
to ourselves in our misunderstanding
and training, we also should have
brought our mothers, or our mothers
children. to shame. There is nothing
we have more reason to be grateful for
than the pressure which in one way or
another has been brought to bear upon
us for the compacting and right hard
ening of our characters. Why, nova
days they are actually making railroad
car wheels out of paper; pressing pulp
into strength of resistance and endur-
ance that even itself can not equal. But
for that pressure the pulp would have
remained pulp-useless, unattractive
pulp. Because of that state the CON-
paeted and solidified pulp has become
power, and obtained mission, in the
world. Many strong character was
only pulp to begin with, and but for
providential pressure upon it, it would
have remained pulp to this day. And
there is still great deal of character
pulp which will never amount to any
thing unless it comes under a stronger
pressure than has ever been brought to
bear upon it thus far. Pressure upon
US is the last thing in the world we
ought to think OF regretting unless,
indeed, we want to remain pulp
BaptiSt Heekly.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
A Significant Victory.

The Democracy of Ohio won signifi-
cant victory on Tuesday. They car
ried the State for the sixth time since
the organization of the Republican
party, more than twenty-five years ago.
They gained the Governor and the ma
jority of the Legislature in the ante
Presidential year. when the near ap-
proach to the National contest and the
hot excitement growing out of State
questions and local contention tended
to bringing out the electors in force.
They Overcame an enemy which was
under the generalship of the best Re-
publican politicians in Ohio, who was
thoroughly equipped for the contest,
and whose political fortunes were at
stake. They survived the factional diff.
ferences and the bitterness growing out
of warm fight for the nomination for
Governor. They successfully resisted
the effort t. place on them the oppro-
brium of opposition to what the Repub-
licans claimed to be the great moral re.
form of the period. They gallantly OPP
posed the long fortification of the Re-
publican party in office in the State and
the United States. They achieved a
victory which every thoughtful man
must look upon as one of the guiding
elements in the greater contest of 1884.
Ohio is still the October State,
and she will fire the first gun in
the Presidential year. The Democrats
now have command of the artillery.
The serried ranks of the Republicans
have been broken, and the party, intoxi-
Gated with power, has been taught that
it is not invulnerable in State which
it has relied on as q Gibraltar in every
National contest since its birth. The
result of Tuesdays election means that
the books are to be overhauled; that we
are to have a much-needed change in
the administration of State affairs; that
the people have come to understand
hollow Republican pretenses; that there
is a tremendous sentiment against
fanaticism and oppression of special in
terests: that there is a popular desire N
this State for a change of party control
in this country; that there is healthy
and well-organized opposition to an
aristocratic system in the distribution
of public offices; that the civil-service
should be arranged in the interest of the
people rather than in the interest of the
holding class, with the RESPONSE
BILE party in control in every place,
major and minor; that Ohio is fighting
ground next year, and that preliminary
to that contest the people prefer the
best of the two men running for Gov.
ernor.-Cincinaat Enquirer.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Ina d. COolbrith, the poetess, h
public librarian at Oakland, Cal.
Miss Fletcher, the charming Amer
lean girl who wrote '.Kismet, has fin
shed another novel.
Miss Mira Compton. of Hancock
County, O., engaged to be married to
three different lovers, eloped with .
fourth and married him.-Detroit Post
Miss Emily McTavish. aged twen-
ty, very rich belle of Baltimore, has
given up her worldly possessions and
taken the vows of the Sisters of Charity.
Mr.. Bowker, the agent in London
for Harper's, says that more copies of
the magazine are sold there than of any
of the English magazines, except Good
Words.
MIR. Blaine has refused an offer of
800, 900 for his history From Lincoln
to Garfield" and will collect royalty
of fifty cents on each volume sold.-N.
Y Times.
IS. S. Montague, who died recently
in Southern Oregon, selected the routes,
ran the lines and made the grades of
the Central Pacific Railroad over the
Sierra Nevadas. The task had been
previously pronounced impossible by
English civil engineers.
of making books there is no end.
The American publishing houses an
nounce the forthcoming appearance OF
no less than 966 books. In the distri-
button of these books among publishing
houses, New York, Boston and Philadel-
phia are the great centers. Chicago has
two or three enterprising houses, and
Cincinnati, Baltimore, Buffalo and one
or two other points are represented
CHICAGO Journal.
Fifty years ago Rev. DR.. S. Ire
naus Prime, editor of the New York
Observer, delivered at Bedford, West
chester County, N. Y, his first sermon.
DR.. Prime preached again in the same
village recently, occupying the pulpit
of the Presbyterian Church. In con-
clusion DR.. Prime referred to the fact
that he is the oldest editor in service in
New York, having occupied that posi-
ton on the Observer forty-three years.
Every minister of the Presbytery of
New York at the time he joined it is
now dead.-N. T. Times.
Jules Verne, the French story
teller, whose "Kerahan lie Tetu" is
now in full swing in Paris, is about
fifty years old; his hair and beard are
turning white, and his once supple and
elegant figure is beginning to give way
to a comfortable embonpoint; but his
face is full of intellectual vigor. He
was originally destined for the bar, but
soon fOund that his tr11e field was liter
allure, and, after several attempts to
succeed on the exchange. at the age OF
thirty, he published his Journey
Round the World in Eighty Days."
which has attained q worldwide fame.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
A Remarkable Conjunction.

Two very remarkable persons were
chartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Friday. One was Chester A. Arthur,
the accidental President of the United
States, and the other was Rutherford B.
the United States.
The one was the recipient of much
adulation at the hands of such distin-
guished men as Police Justice Patter-
son, John Jacob Astor and Silas B.
butcher The other came and went in
the hotel like the most obscure of citi.
zens-unwelcomed, unsought and I'M
cared for
And yet only few years ago this
same r. B. Hayes, who is content now
to visit the metropolis as delegate to
Prison Reform Congress, was power
in the land. Chester A. Arthur, then
local politician, was removed from the
office of tax-gatherer in the city of New
York by this same man Hayes upon the
ground that he was corruptionist and
disinclined to perform his duties honest
". This was done with the indorse-
ment of John Sherman, Secretary of the
Treasury, and the act was Endorsed by
the Senate.
The mutations of time are really
amazing. The changes in this country
are remarkable. Now this same Chester
A. Arthur is the President of the United
States, courted, fiattered and sought
after because of his power, while the
name of r. B. Hayes would not be
worth straw if attached to petition
of d man seeking an appointment on
police force.
1t is fair to presume that if these two
men met in the corridor of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel yesterday their greeting
was not at all cordial. In fact we have
reason to believe that if these persons
met they did not speak as they passed
by.
If Mr.. Arthur is reflective man, the
presence of MIR. Hayes in his hotel at
this time VII make deep impression
upon his mind. He will see in the
studied neglect and indifference shown
Hayes the style of Nobody that he will
be in precisely eighteen months from
this date.-N. Y World.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
APPLE GATHERING.

Just such another blowy day.
With grand capriciOus sky.
And IN the orchard. glad and gay,
Were Cousin Joan and /;
Both mounted on a ladder long, the apples al
among
My seat the top. her dainty feet upon lower
rung.
And oh, how sweet the hazel eyes
That there look up at me!
The trueSt, SOftest, deepest eyes
That ever / shall See
Then what perfect mouth! 1 thought it
would be simple bliss
little kiss.
For was not her cousin, too?
And half bent my head;
But not the dreadful thing to do
No, no! I've ever said.
But she. perchance, had fancied so, and,
sudden stewards bent,
And, from the movement, to the ground the
ladder staggering went.
My graceful darling, lovely Joan
Fell lightly, without harm;
And /. as she arose alone,
Scarce felt my broken arm.
But swhen, without a glance, and looking
'scornful. cold and proud,
She turned away, then, with the twofold pain,
grCaned aloud.
She started. and her face grew white;
But then fell to my share
Such gentle ministries that light
Seemed all the pain to bear.
% fingers deft and tender, once in mine held
you fast,
And, humbly craving, got the kiss longed so
for at last.
And with it. too, my sweetheart Joan.
Whose pity grew to love:
Still who had never been my own
But for that day above
Then. at the apple-gathering in the dear old
apple tree,
When not single fruit was plucked by my
fair wife or me.
London SOctCtU.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

and town in the State, and were freely
bled to insure Republican success. Rum
candidates for high positions were in
dorsed and putforward as the candidates
of the Republican party. The whole.
sa,e use of rum and money defeated
Plaisted and elected Robbie. Dow knew
what was going on. He knew how to
break with the Republicans then as
well as now. He knew that the Pro-
hibitionists had a State ticket in the
field, which in all decency and honor he
was bound to support. Instead of so
doing, he gave aid and comfort to the
Republican bosses and did everything
in his power to assist them to another
triumph. The Republican party must
90, there is no doubt about that; but it
won't 60 for some time to come if we
must depend to any great extent upon
such inconsistent, two-faced, political
humbugs as General Neal Dow. Of
Maine, to make it go.-Bostos Post
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
Neal Dow and the Republican Party.

The latest individual of Importance
to take up this somewhat threadbare
but expressive battle-cry is General
Neal Dow of Maine. In letter to DR..
Miner, of this city, General Dow makes
the plain declaration that 'we have
fully made up our minds now to break
with the Republican party in Maine as
YOU have done in Massachusetts. This
is well said, short and to the point. But
who says it? A man whose private life
is doubtless above reproach; a man
who. despite the stories to the contrary,
would no more steal your silver plate
than he would entice you into tip
ping shop-so much for Dow the pri-
vate citizen. Dow the political agita-
tor is quite another person. Politically,
he is as shifting as the sands of the
sea, as crooked as the famous Songo,
which is one of the natural attractions
of the country in which he lives; in
short, humbug of the first water. If
he and his followers have really ''fully
determined" to make vigorous and I'M
compromising war on the Republican
party of Maine we are glad of it. But
we take no stock in BOWS
political manifestos until we see
bis promises fulfilled. Time and again
he has talked as bravely and as virtu-
ously as he does now, only to finally
sink back into the bosom of the Repub-
lican party. whose promises and pap
have seemed to satisfy him. Last year
was the time of all times for him to
have taken square and manly stand
in opposition to the Republican bosses.
The worst class of rumsellers were in al
lance with those bosses in every city
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

-" Friends and admirers of MIR. Rob-
ert Browning will be glad to hear, "
says the London World, ''that, accord
ing to latest accounts, the great poet.
philosopher is in excellent health and
spirits. He has found a new summer
retreat this year, the name of which ]
am not going to divulge, but which he
describes as the most beautiful little
cluster of cottages, in pass through
the Alps, just under Monte Rosa, 5000
feet above the sea level, and only to be
reached on mules
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

In Italy it is customary for three or
four married women to drag a bride to
her would-be husband. She pretends
to struggle desperately to get away. A
wise journalist points out that it would
take all the married women in the
country to hold back an American Girl
who had concluded to enter the con-
jugal state.-ChicaQo Inter Oceda
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
Vergennes.

VIM. Carasaw has charge of the stables
Of the Hon. f. f. Woodbridge.
Hon. j. NJ. Dyer has been in this vicin-
ity several days, buying cattle.
The blueberry season is about over.
Eight cents quart is the ruling price.
Foster Hall, John Booth and Prof. A.
B. Clark have been camping on the lake
shore, the past week.
Hiram Curler of West Ferrisburgh was
given lodgings in the Jail, last Saturday,
by Officer McDonough.
Several of the farmers In this vicinity
are threshing their grain out of doors,
drawing it direct from the field to the
machine. N
A daughter of Rama Plude, aged IA
years, died after an illness of only two or
three days. She was buried, Sunday, in
the Catholic cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. f. s. Champion have
come back from San Francisco, Cal.
whittier they went last fall. Mrs. Champ
ions health was so poor that it became
necessary to come East.
Stephen Bates, who has been stopping
with Col. Walter Scranton at New RO-
chelle, N. Y, is home again. Steve
has hosts of friends who are glad to see
him about town once more.
Cashmere Douglas, formerly Of this
city, has just buried his third wife. She
died at their residence in Rutland, or
Friday of last week, Of cholera mOrbus
She was sister of Mrs. Isaac Miller OF
this place.
Tommy Sexton. lad about IA years
( old, working for John Boderick, in Pan
ton, was thrown from horse he was
riding and badly hurt. Drs. Arthur and
Hopkins were called and attended the
boy, who is doing we'll.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
MIDDLEBURY. VT. AUGUST a. 1883
Cornwall.

Gillie Benedict is in town, visiting old
acquaintances.
The apple harvest to all appearance
will be light this fall.
Threshers with their machines are
busy and in good demand.
Mrs. DIR. Bond has returned from her
visit to her sister in Canada.
Mr.. F. Hooker's fine residence is COM
pleted, and his family will occupy 1t
soon.
Fishermen are having excellent success
on the creek with their trolling hook,
catching pickerel.
Miss En-. Scovel is home on vacation,
after a six months tour, caring for the
sick in Burlington.
The abundant hay crop, by the aid of
good weather, has been secured in fine
order. Harvesting is well under way.
One day last week, Mrs. Byron Farm
ham, with her child, took final leave of
her friends in Cornwall, for her fathers
home in Ohio.
The band which was organized not
long since is improving finely. There is
some good musical talent connected with
the band, and i'm due time they hope to
rank we'll among the brass bands of the
county.
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&fofc g1c,ps.

John w. Terry has been commissioned
postmaster at Fairfax.
The Seventh-Day Adventists will hold
a camp-meetins at Montpelier, August
30 to September 4.
The State Sunday school convention
holds its annual session ut Northtield.
September ii and II.
A 12-year-old French boy, Joseph
Brothers, was drowned at Swanton
Thursday of last week.
The State Teachers association holds
its annual meeting at Montpelier the third
or fourth week in October.
A rattlesnake measuring four feet two
inches was killed in the vicinity of
Skitchawaug mountain, Springfield.
Eugene Viets of Pawlet, by the acci-
dental discharge of a revolver, carries Il
ball in his light leg above the ankle.
The second annual Round Grove camp
meeting will be held at Farhaven,
commencing September and ending
September IL.
The manager of the Rutland opera
house has made arrangements for the
appearance of Mrs. Langtry at that place
the coming season.
The September term of the Windham
county court begins at Newfane, ,Scptem-
ber IL. The docket is not so large as
usual. Judge Rowell presides.
At meeting of the directors Of the
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance company
of Montpelier, an assessment of IL per
cent. was levied on its policies.
While hoieting a large stone in Bellows
Falls canal. Monday evening, the chain
broke and the rock struck Joseph Rose
bush. killing him instantly and badly
mutilating his body.
The next term of the Washington
county court will open September IL
the last day of service being August
six cases on the docket.
The st. Johnsbury and Lake Cham
plain railroad has elected the following
directors: Horace Fairbanks. Franklin
Fairbanks, Thomas Coggeshall, Bradley
Barlow. A. b. Jewett. A. ID. Hyde, A.
b. Harris and w. b. Fairbanks.
Miles Comstock of Strafiord was put
under bonds i'm the sum of $500 to appear
at court, and Mr.. Swami of Tunbridge
was also held In the sum of 500, for
illicir distilling of cider brandy.
Professor q. w. Stone, we'll known
through many sections of the State as an
able preacher of the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist denomination. was killed in the
railway accident at Carlyon. N. Y. lie
was Il son of Albert Stone of Eden, and
for the past two or three years he has
been located at Battle Creek, Mich.
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Bristol.

Rev. Mr.. Taylor of the NJ. f. church
preached at the Advent church last Sun
day evening.
Rev. Mr.. Coombs of the Baptist church
goes to visit his father, at Fisherville, N.
H., next week.
Elder Bosworth's horse ran away near
New Haven depot, last Monday, break
ing up the wagon somewhat.
j. j. Dumas is plastering his new
house. Messrs. Thresher and Mcclellan
of StarksbOro are doing the work.
Our village is well patronized by our
city cousins, this season. Ridley's hotel
and many private houses are well filled.
Mrs. Datus r. Gaige set out the first
maple trees for shade that were set in
this village. They were set in front OF
the premises now owned by DR.. K. G
Prime, OH the corner of North and Gar
field streets.
Mrs. William Perry, aged 81 years
living on Pine street in this village, is
the oldest person now living in town,
that was born in town. Datus h. Gaige
living on West street, comes next in or
der; he is aged II years.
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East Middelbury.

DR.. Ross wife still remains quite feeble.
j. Martin has commenced threshing
his rye, which was an abundant crop.
A little son of eleven days was buried
on the 18th inst, from the family of
Robert Currier, Rev. 5. w. Bidwell Off
ciating.
b. o. Smith has nearly finished exten-
sive repairs on his house, inside and out,
and has erected separate building for a
shoe shop.
Three of our citizens were complained
of for drunkenness, last week. One ap-
pealcd to the county court, and one dis
closed upon the other, who disclosed upon
a restaurant kept at the west village, who
was brought before Justice Maynard,
when a jury returned verdict of not
guilty.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-24
New Haven.

What ails the road from town hill to
the depot?
Mr.. Edmund Boyington of Constable,
n. Y, is in town.
Marvin ii. Dana has handsome Col
umbia bicycle, which he rides at the rate
of ten miles an hour with apparent ease.
Rev. II. b. Tobey has left town, after
spending the summer recruiting his
health, which has considerably improved.
Prof. Edwin III. Eastman left for Iowa,
last Monday. where he has charge of n
school of 700 pupils with l3 teachers.
Mr.. Oliver Eaton of Russell, Kansas, of
the firm of Clifford Il Eaton, who are en-
gagged in extensive sheep ranching, is
making brief visit in town.
Rev. C. S. Sargent and wife. after Wis
iting Montreal, Highgate Springs and
the White Mountains, are now at Bangor,
Maine. They return home next week.
The "Waddington Family" gave musi-
cal entertainments at the town hall on
Monday and Tuesday evenings, which
were well attended and favorably re-
ceived.
Quite a number of our citizens "took
in" the excursion to WillsborO Point,
Tuesday, among them Mr.. A. M. Roscoe
and family, Principal Cove and Miss
Cathie, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brooks, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Parent and others.
Rev. Geo. Brooks of Charlestown,
Mass, occupied the pulpit last Sunday
morning. giving stirring missionary ad-
dress which received close attention. In
the afternoon he spoke at East Mills.
Rev. L. ii. Byington of MonsOn, Mass,
gave fine discourse in the evening.
The attendance at Beeman this fall
will be nearly hundred students. The
library has been largely increased by
purchase and by the gift of several valu-
able works from friend who has before
remembered the institution in a substan-
tial manner. Mrs. Il. III. Meacham, Pres
ident Buckham of the University and
President Hamlin of Middlebury have
been engaged to lecture before the stu
dents this fall. Other well-known lee
turers will also address them.
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Whiting.

Rev. Mr.. Barry of Newton, Mass, will
supply the pulpit at the Baptist church
next Sunday, August &c.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15
The Trade Dollar Pool.

"About this time," as the old almanac
phrase puts it, "look out for" the trade
dollar pool. When the war upon that
Ananias of the currency the trade dol
lar, was inaugurated last summer and it
passed out of local circulation, it was
generally understood that a lobby would
be formed to induce Congress to redeem
at par the coin that had been bought at
a heavy discount from workingmen, to
whom it had been paid at its face value
be at work, and from various interested
quarters are heard cunningly worded ar
guments in favor of the debased coins
retention. Perhaps, merely perhaps,
it should be redeemed; but let there be
no sentimental gush about "the work.
ingman." He hasn't got any trade dol
lars. He sold them to the pool last
summer at a loss.-M' Y Herald.