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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-13

Ever after, this great songstress and this
little, radiant old man were inseparable !;
near them, too, was loyal, loving Tim and
his triangle; while "mother," less particu-
lar, mellowed by opulence, but still alert
as to values, stood like rock between all
the world and Anthony Marshal's daugh
ter.-ARtOiRette Van HOeSeR, IN Chicago
Current
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-13

They were now in the central part OF the
city. As they approached the theater they
found themselves borne along by the
crowding throng, up to the brilliantly il
Illuminated entrance. and on through into
the handsome auditorium, which was al
ready crowded.
The usher looked at them doubtfully as
he took their tickets, which he exa mined
with great care.
Anthony Marshall would never have
thought of going to the opera in any other
than dress-coat.
His was of bottle-green cloth. The waist
line had been gradually rising, with his
increasing weight and size, during the
twenty wears which had passed since it
was made, until now it gave his figure s
very peculiar proportion. The half circle
of fine gray hair, below his bald crown,
was brushed carefully from the back, so
that it just peeped over each ear. With his
glass in his eye, and his self-possessed,
gentle bearing, his appearance was most
quaint and unusual; and as he and the
misshapen, roughly-clad, handsome-faced
boy passed down through the brilliant au-
dience of elegantly-dressedm men and women
of fashion, To the very best seats in the
house, they attracted an attention which
even the ringing-in of the orchestra did not
divert from them.
The curtain rose, discovering Faust in
his lonely studio, a victim of disappoint-
ment and despair.
Tim and Uncle Tony followed with bated
breath each note. When Marguerite at her
wheel was revealed to Faust, a hesitating,
anxious attention came into Anthony
Marshall's face, and he took his glass from
his eye and wiped it carefully. As the
opera advanced and Marguerite sang "How
Strange 'tis to Me-" the old man grasped
Tins arm and whispered:
"Isn't it like her, Tim: Isn't it like the
daguerreotype:-eh,T im"
Tim looked in startled way, first at the
old man and then at the stage, and replied
softly:
"Why, she is some like it, sure; sure"
In the "Jewel Scene" the old mans sup
pressed excitement grew intense, and he
exclaimed in quavering whisper:
"Tim, if it isn't her, it is cruelty, cruelty
like herl And, Tim, it certainly, certeinly
is her hand SO like her mothers hand 20
The act closed with Marguerite at the
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL BUTLER was sixty-six years of
age November 5.
DIR. TANNER, the faster, has gone to Mex
leo to live on ranch.
LIEUTENANT GREELY has leased house on
| street, Washington, for the winter.
JUDGE GRESHAM left Washington recently
for a short visit to his hou Sc in Indiana prior
to assuming his judicial duties in Chicago.
HUGH MCCULLoUGH, successor of Judge
Gresham as secretary of the treasury, has
entered upon the formal duties of his Office.
DIR. EMMA l.. CALL is the first physician
who has passed the examination admitting
women to membership in the Massachusetts
Medical society.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, the telephone
man, hopes to introduce generally into deaf
and dumb institutions the entire substitution
of articulate conversation for the present
system OF sign language.
Mr.. SINCERELY the millionaire proprietor
of the Philadelphia Record, has mania for
houses. He has already built go in the
northwestern part of Philadelphia, and in
tends to build $50 more. The 1000 will be
worth on an average about $1,000 each.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
The Gigantic Rafilesia.

One of the largest and most magnifi-
cent flowers in the world is the Ratflesia
Arnold. This wonderful plant was
discovered in 1918 by Sir Stamfo
Raffcsa, governor of settlement in
Sumatra, who on journey of eXplora-
ton through that little known island,
took with him Dr. Arnold, an ardent
young naturalist, whose drawings and
desert ptions of this gigantic flower were
left unfinished at his de ath, which occur
red shortly after, but were preserved and
perfected by his patron, and the memory
of both is preserved by naming it Rattle
STA Arnold.
flower is its enormous size. 1t is com
posed of five roundish petals, each foot
across of a brick-red color, but covered
with numerous irregular, yellowish white
swcllings. The petals surround a large
cup nearly foot wide, the margin of
which bears the stamens; and this cup
is filled with feshy disk, the surface
of which is everywhere covered with
curved projections like miniature cows
horns.
The cup, when freed from its contents
would hold about twelve pints of water.
The flower weighs about fifteen pounds.
1t is very thick, the petals being fire.
quently an inch in thickness.
Another cause of wonder to the little
band of explorers who discovered it was
that they could find no leaves connected
with it. 1t sprang from small, leafless,
creeping stem about as thick as two
fingers. Now leaves are to the plant
what the stomach is to the animal they
separate from the air the food needed
them there could be no wood no
flowers, no fruit, no seed. There are,
however, strange plants which are actu-
ally leatless, making up for this want
by using the leaves Of others. Such
plants are called parasites, be
cause they feed on the nutritivC
juices OF others. Thrusting theil
roots into the living tissues of other
plants, instead of into the earth, they
appropriate the prepared food of these
plants and at once apply it to their own
purposes for the production of stem OF
flower or fruit" The Gigantic Ratflesia
belongs to this class. Without a YES
tige of foliage, it rises at once from the
long slender stems of the wild vines OF
Sumatra immense climbers, which are
attached like cables to the largest tree:
in the forest. The buds push through
the bark like little buttons, continuing
to grow until they have the aspect OF
large, closed cabbages, and in about
three months after their first appearance
the flower expands. 1t remains but 6
short time in perfection, soon beginning
to decay, leaving only the central disk
which becomes "A large, rough fruit, filled
with multitudes of small, simple seeds
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
A Sign of Success.

While Verdi was putting the finishing
touches upon al Trovatore" he was
visited in his study by a privileged
friend, who was one of the ablest living
musicians and critics. The latter was
permitted to glance over the score and
try the "Anvil chorus" on the pianoforte
"What do you think of that r. asked
the master Trash said the connois-
seur. Verdi rubbed his hands and
chuckled. "Now look at this, and
this, and this" he said Rubbish ~
The composer rose and embraced his
friend with burst of joy. "What do
you mean by such strange conduct"
asked the critical one "My dear
friend" responded the master, II have
been composing popular opera; in it
l resolved to please everybody except
the great judges and classicists like you.
Had pleased you, should have pleased
no one else; what you say assures me of
success. In three months I'll Trovatore'
will be sung, and roared, and whistled,
and barrel organed all over Italy" And
80 is Manchester Times.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
THANKSGIVING.
Annual Proclamation issued by the
President.

The President has issued the following proc
lamation:
The season is nigh when it is the yearly
wont of this people to observe day APP
pointed for that purpose by the President, as
am especial occasion for thanksgiving unto
God.
Now, therefore, in recognition of this hal
lowed custom, |, Chester \. Arthur, Presi
dent of the United States, do hereby desig
nate as such day of general thanksgiving,
Thursday, the eth day of this present Novem-
Der. And do recommend that throughout the
land, the people ceasing from their accus-
toned occupations, do then keep holiday at
their several homes and their several places
of worship, and with heart and voice pay rev
erent acknowledgment 10 the Givcr of all
good for the countless blessings wherewith He
hath visited this nation.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seventh
day OF November, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and
of the Independence of the United States, the
one hundred and ninth
CHESTER a. ARTHUR.
BY the President:
FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYSEN,
Secretary of State.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
SELECT SIFTINGS

American railroads use more than 49,
900, 900 iron car wheels. Four wheels
weigh one ton.
In Madagascar the crocodile is sacred,
and is seldom destroyed by the inhabit-
ants, although it frequently kills cattle
and human beings.
In San Jose, near Vera Cruz, Mexico,
trench 900 feet long, three feet deep
and three feet wide was recently dug for
the burial of grasshoppcrs slaughtered by
an outraged populace.
Dahomey, Africa, takes the palm for
ingenious cruelty. The commander of
the forces having been found guilty of
high treason, he was buried chest deep
and then shot at by the Amazon regi-
ment until dead.
1t is quarter of century since Mr.
Pullman ran the first sceping-car that
ever appeared on an American railroad
1t was an August night, on the road
from Bloomington, Ill, to Chicago. and
he had four passengers, who were charged
fifty cents each for the accommodation.
At recent meeting of one of our med
ical societies list of more than 100 rem
edies for cholera was presented. Yet a
distinguished doctor stated that probably
no real improvement had been made
upon the remedies of sixty years ago,
which consisted almost wholly of calo-
mel and opium. The French doctors are
experimenting.
For some time past it has been known
that colony of bees had established
itself in the roof of Stourmouth Church,
England, but the vicar would not allow
them to be disturbed. On his death re.
Gently the bees were destroyed by fumi-
cation. ON the honey being taken there
was found to be nearly two hundred
weight of it, and the bees filled two
moderately large barrels. 1t is stated
that during hot weather the honey used
to drop into the church.
Moravian Town is little village in
the township of Oxford, Canada West,
on the bank of the river Thames, neal
which General Harrison defeated Gen
eral Proctor in the battle ON October ),
| 1918. The settlers were Indians who
had been converted to Christianity by
the Moravians, who fed to Canada from
the Muskingum, in Ohio, in 1892. BY
an order of the provincial council in
1893, about So 900 acres of land were
granted for their use, on which the.
proceeded to build church and vii
lage. At the time of the battle thi
Christian Indian village had about 10'
houses, mostly well built, a school hous
and chapel and very fine gardens.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
LATER NEWS

Much excitement was caused at Mt. Yer
non, n. ", and vicinity, by the failure of
the banking house of j. NJ. Masterson & Co.
FOR about Sl25OO0. j. NJ Masterson was
pre,id mt of the East Chester Savings bank,
and there was an immediate rush upon that
institution by frightened dep)sitorS.
AN indianapolis, In1. dispatch says: Grey
James Mcleod, pastor OF the Second Pres
byterian chuch OF this city, who formerly oc
cupied pulpit in Buffalo, says he has it on
good auth )rity that Governor Cleveland will
shortly be united in marriage with young
lady of Buffalo,
PALATKA, Fla, has been ravaged by
flames which have destroyed every business
house in the place except two groceries. The
loss is $4,000 AMI the insurance $3.50, 900.
The fire was of incendiary origin. Fifty-six
business firms were burned ont Great ex-
element prevailed, and the city was put un
der strong guard, On the following day a
negro named Gibson was captured in the aci
of starting another fire.
HORRIBLE triple murder has been un
earthed at Bryant Station, Texas, where
Bernard Schiller, an aged Bohemian, his wife
and three-year-old daughter were found
butchered, their dead bodies lying near a
straw stack.
PROFESSOR JONES, superintendent of city
schools at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, with an
other gentleman and five ladies, entered a
small skif on an artificial lake, near that
place. The boat was only intended to carry
three persons, and soon capsized Professor
Jones, Miss Ella Carpenter, teacher in the
public school, and Eta Teter and Edward
Braugh, students, were drowned.
AN explosion Of fire damp in coal mine
near Tredegar Wales, resulted in the loss OF
fifteen lives. Another similar explosion on
the same day in Belgian mine killed twenty
persons.
CUBA has new governor general-senol
Fajardo.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
A THANKSGIVING DINNER.
A BILL OF FARE FOR THE ANNUAL
DAY OF THAMES.

The Regular Roast Turkey and Gran
berry Sauce-Minco Pie, etc
Timely Hints for the Housewife.
&c. ......... go. ~
THANKSGIVING DINNER
BILL OF FARE,
Roast turkey with cranberry and apple
sauces.
White potatoes, mashed
Sweet potatoes, roasted.
Macaroni and cheese
Celery, pickles, cold slaw.
Rolls and Boston brown bread.
Mince and pumpkin pies
Sweet cider
Rasins and nuts.
Black coffee.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14

A st. Louis paper reports the shooting
Of a pelican measuring nine feet from
tip to tip.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
A Wagon Road Worth $500 a Ton

GA silver mining company that can
build wagon road out of stuff that
turns out about $500 to the ton in pure
silver ought to get along hadn't itl'
said w. l.. Billings, of Rochester. Il
think so, and / tell our folks out in
Rochester, who have got an interest in
the Horse shoe mine in Colorado, that
they've hooked on to a toerable good
thing, and had better hang on to it..
They had to have a road from their
mine to some place about three miles
away, and last summer they put men to
work to build it. As they had to draw
heavy loads over it, they took the rock
that had been taken from the shafts, and
which lay around in the way, and ma
cadamized her all the way through. The
The wagons passing over the road ground
the rock down. One day they got a
heavy rain storm, and when things got
dry again after the ram, the wind blew
the dust off the road, and all through the
roadbed' every which way, they could
sec big streaks of silver. Well, maybe
they didn't copper on to the rest of the
rock that lay around that mine. They
sent over lot to be assaycd, and when
the report came back they found the
roadbed was worth $500 ton. They've
got to have the road, though, and guess
they'll leave it, Talk about your nickel
plate railroads! Pshaw A solid silver
wagon road is good enough for us. y
Nep York Sun.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
South and West.

A SINGULAR accident occurred to the
schooner Tamos, of Boston, Kendrick, mas
ter, on her voyage from Buenos Ayres to
Apalachicola, Fla. The vessel sprung leak
of considerable magnitude during the voy-
age, and its whereabouts could not be ascer-
tanned until her arrival here, when it was
found that she had been struck by sword
fish in her bottom near the keel. The sword
of the fish had penetrated through her four
inch outer planking and through her flooring,
which is also four inches thick, and part of
the sword still remains in the wood to show
for itself
THREE railroad bridges in the now noted
Hooking Valley Ohio, were destroyed a few
nights ago and the telegraph wires cut.
There have been labor troubles of long stand
ing in that mining region
MRS. GARDNER wife of DR.. Schuyler
Gardner of Chicago, shot her husband and
young child, instantly killing both. Then
she shot herself, inficting a mortal wound.
Her mind had become unbalanced by her
husbands charges of infidelity.
SILVER PLUME, a Colorado mining town
has had a most disastrous fire, losing its entire
business section. The losses will aggregate
about 100000. Several lives were lost.
THE boiler in the sugar house on the Eames
plantation, near Lee Station, La, exploded
killing nine men and wounding several others
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Bangles on DMdes' Wrists.

Iregret to say that the number of men
who wear bangles on their wrists is
slowly increasing in New York, says a
letter from the metropolis. The fashion
has not spread with unusual rapidity, but
is surely and slowly gaining ground, and
the noticeable part of it is that the af-
fectation is more prominent among
Americans than among foreigners.
have observed that the same thing is
true of the single eye-glass. In Del
monicos at all times one may see any
where from five to a dozen men attempt
ing to eat soup and hold their glasses in
their eyes at the same time. ana it is a
rare night that does not witness one or
two accidents from this aifectation.
When man is opening his mouth in
the vicinity of the soup spoon the mus
Giles of his face naturally relax and the
eye-glass drops from mis- eye. OF course
it drops on the edge of the soup plate,
and that is the end of the SOUP the eye
glass and the dude for that particular
evening.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
CHINESE and Tonquinese forces were re.
PEELED in attacks on the French.
Inter Election News.

Blanes majority in California is close upon
10000 The Republicans elect full con
gressional delegation of six.
The next legislature of Wisconsin will stand
Senate, 20 Republicans and 10 Democrats
assembly, 81 Republicans and 81 Democrats.
The Republican plurality for Blaine in ILL
nois is $4,000. For Governor, Oglesby Ire
publican) defeats Carter Harrison by about
1000 majority.
The complete vote of Massachusetts, fol-
President and governor is as follows: Fol
President-B Blaine, 143, 1856; Cleveland, 119, 24o
Butler, 1856; st. John, 10000: Blaine I
plurality, 24,196. For governor-Robinsol
(Rep) 5,O97; Endicott Dem.) los, 26U; Nc
Cafferty Butler) 23,552; Seelye .Pro.) S,24l;
hobinson's plurality 1851.
In Michigan the Fusionists have a major
ity in both branches OF the legislature.
Official returns from all but few counties
give Blaine plurality of $4,000 in Pennsyl-
vania.
The Democratic majority in North Care
ina is %, 00).-
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Washington.

A RECENT decision of the supreme court
on the question of longevity pay affects near
" one thousand army officers, and nearly
half million dollars will be required to set
tie their claims.
THE United States supreme court has de-
cided that an Indian who has separated him
self from his tribe and taken up his residence
among the white citizens of State is not a
citizen of the United States and not entitled
to vote.
COLONEL c. j. MCCAwLEY, commandant
of the marine corps, in his annual report to
the secretary of the navy says that there
were 1902 enlisted men in the corps on Octo-
Der 1. He recommends that Congress provide
for more privates and that the number of
second leutenants be increased to thirty
THE total coinage executed at the minis
of the United States during October consisted
of 5706, 324 pieces of the value of 81 ,343, 1917,
made up as follows: ,141, 80 gold pieces,
worth Sl,S15, 900; 2,350,090 standard silver
dollars 566,474 dimes, worth S56,647.4 40 I;
2,G75,000 minor coins, worth SOL $50
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Foreign.

GENERAL WoLsELEY has telegraphed from
Dongola to London that General Gordon is
safe and Khartoum untaken. The False
Prophet, with a strong force of rebel troops
had advanced upon Alderman, opposite
Khartoum, and asked General Gordon to sur
render. General Gordon replied that he
would hold Khartoum against him for twelve
years. The Mahdi then retired days jour
ney south, declaring that he would not fight
for two months. Many of his followers left
him.
HEAVY falls of snow are reported in vari-
GUS parts of Canada
THE khedive of Egypt has invested Lord
Wolseley with the full powers to act in the
Soudan originally conferred on General
Gordon.
In the British house of commons, Mr.
Frank o Donnell, home rule member for
Dungarvan, was suspended for disregarding
the authority of the speaker.
IT is reported that negotiations for peace
between France and China are proceeding
through the Chinese legations in Europe. The
basis for peace is believed to be the abandon
ment by France of her demand for an indem-
nifty. Prime Minister Ferry has informed
Earl Granville, English secretary of state for
foreign affairs, if China accepts mediation
without delay or increasing further expense
by military operations, that France will limit
its claim of indemnity to S40,00O,0O0.
THE Marquis of Londonderry, prominent
English nobleman, is dead.
FOUR persons were instantly killed and
twenty more injured by boiler explosion in
Stafford, England.
FLOODS in Eastern Spain have caused
great damage to villages and crops
A SEVERE earthquake shock has been felt
in Columbia, Central America. In one town
church and several houses were wrecked.
REAPPEARANCE of the cholera in several
parts of France has caused considerable I'M
easiness.
MANY persons have been rendered home
less by the floods in Spain, and much distress
prevails.
VIOLENT storms in Canada have done much
damage to property. At st. Anne de Monts
fifteen houses We're destroyed and n number
of fishing boats were totally demolished.
Mr. FAwCETT, the blind English postmas
ter general, is dead