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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
re Go. an Opinion,

While Officer Pierce, of the CITY Hall,
was rubbing his back against the wal
in the lower corridor yesterday, a
strange young man kept moving
around and watching him so attentive
ly that the officer finally asked if he
wanted anything.
YES; I'd like to talk to you," was
the reply.
"All right is it?''
"Will you give me a square up and
down honest answer to question:"
why, of course | will"
The young man shifted about I'M
easily, turned a shade and half paler.
and hesitated full minute before he
said:
If you were walking along the street
and boy called out for you to get OF
that tunnel, what would say he meant
to insinuate?"
"Why, he meant to insinuate that
you were w-legged."
And am |? Look me over and give
me an honest opinion"
Stranger" said the officer as he
stood off and squinted at him, ''you are
a bow-legged man, and don't you for
get it.'
''In both legs?''
Eyes, and you've got it bad, 1 think
it's the worse case l ever saw"
"Now, as l face away from you and
step off, do look as if l was riding Oh
a tunnel?"
Exactly. If YOU had seat on top OF
big boiler the crook in your legs
would hardly be worse"
"How is my gait as approach you?'
"Well, l should think you were
walking on each side of a sawlog. l am
sorry to tell you these things, but you
asked me for an honest opinion"
Certainly l did, and am glad you
have given it. l am twenty-four years
old. For the last fourteen years have
had suspicion that was bow-legged,
but never had manhood enough to
settle the question. Every time I've
been in the city for year past the
boys yelled at me to get off that tunnel,
and finally decided to settle the mat
ter. I'm much obleeged."
80, no thanks. Hope you don't feel
bid over it"
Feel bad! Why, sir, it's a great
burden off my mind! For dozen years
I've been walking sideways and corner
ways to make myself believe that my
legs were as straight as bean-poles. I've
wondered why l had to cover so much
land to Jump six feet. I've seen the
gals winking at each other and didn't
know what was up. I've seen strangers
halt when was working alongside the
road and gaze at me till dubbed EN-
of. I've wondered why always landed
sideways in puddle when l tried to
jump over it..
"And now?'
"And now I'm perfectly satisfied.
I'm young man on tunnel, and peO-
pie can like it or lump it! The tunnels
going home-goodbye!'-Detro Free
Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
The ColOred Voters Lamens.

Just about this time the dismal wall
of the dissatisfied polit cal darkey, who
has not been getting his share of the
Federal patronage. is heard in the land
The weary colored laborer who has
told unit he has bee me sunburnt in
the Republican vineyard, and has done
most of the hard voting. has. by some
strange oversight. been overlooked in
the distribution of offices. II frequently
ha, pened, during the war. that where
battle was raging, there were not
trees enough to protect the officers
That is pretty much the way is is in
the political campaign. There are not
offices enough for the white Republicans
hence the complaint of the colored
voters that they are not in comfortable
positions are highly unreasonable and
most outrageously ungrateful. The
colored voters have to grin and bear it.
but when the time for conventions ar
rive, they lit up their voices, and say
they want their share of Offices: and If
they do not get them, tn y. the colored
voters, are liable to fall a prey to the
enemy when the time to vote comes.
1t is self-evident fact that the Re-
loaves and fishes, does not treat the
colored voter fairly. He is not treated
as if he belonged properly to the fam
lily at all, but more as If he were a
black sheep. There may be a nigger
in the wood-pile. but there is none in
the Cabinet. When il comes to sharing
the political bed, the colored brother is
left cut in the cold. regardless of the
lowness of the temperature. He is
worse off than the boy who had . sell
fish brother, who took his half out of
the middle of the bed, and allowed his
companion to sleep on both sides of
him. The colored voter is not allowed
in the bed at all, but is kicked out of
the house, and told to hunt boarding
house where colored people are taken in
The colored man has to put up with
GOODNESS and studied neglect from ths
Administration until the Presidential
campaign opens, and then, as we have
stated, he looks black, protrudes his
lip, kicks, and otherwise behaves like
the bad little niger that he is; but he
is speedily Gained down by promises,
and threats to turn the Democrats
loose on him. When election day
comes on, he is an indignant colored
voter no longer. He votes early and
often, and in the hope of forty acres
and mule" or some foreign mission.
he rolls up the usual Republican ma
jority. He may promise during the
campaign to vote the Democratic
ticket, but when he comes to vote heis
the same unreliable darkey he always
was.-Te1GS Sifttags.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
Living Pompeii.

Our Naples correspondent writes
"A project is on foot for three DAYS
artistic festival at Pompeii, under the
direction of Professor Petra, director Of
the museum. some other distinguished
psychologists. and some of the first
artists of Naples. The proceedings will
be arranged as follows: On the first
day Circensian games will be executed
in a circus erected on the outskirts OF
Pompeii. on ground not yet excavated,
with two-wheeled chariotS and all the
ancient customs. Before the games
there will be procession. and a mo- k
Emperor will proceed to his seat in the
Imperial stand. Various factions, with
their respective colors, will take part
in the races. Afterward the city will
be visited, where several shops will be
restored to their ancient semblance, in
which vi tuals and wine will be sold in
antique vessels. On the second day
there will bea mock wedding procession
from the house of Cornelius Rufo to the
street OF Mercury. and a funeral pro-
cession will proceed from the house OF
the Faun to the Herculaneum gate.
where the mournerS viii perform funer-
al rites. During the interme late time
between these professions eXtravations
will take place at various points of 20 H.
pei: and on the third day gladiatorial
games will be executed in the ampi.
theater in presence of the mock En-
peror. The departure of the Emperor
by torck-light will conclude the festiv-
tiles, the different scenes of which vii
be careful copies of antique customs
Pieces of music will be specially COM
posed for the occasion, and performed
on instruments of anti rue devices. The
period at which this festival will take
place is not yet decisiyely fixed. as the
preparations will of course take some
time. LONDON Daily MeUs.
The Carson AnS1eGl thinks that the
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
This division leaves us with the sub
Joined list of doubtful States:
OF these 1O3 doubtful Electoral votes,

Of these 103 doubtful Electoral votes,
the Democrats will require at least
49 in order to elect their nominee.
Should they carry New York and Indi-
ana. or New York and Ohio, or New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut, or
New York and the three Pacific States,
they will win with votes to spare. But
in order to do this. they must exercise
unusual vigilance, besides nominating
strong and popular ticket. NOtwith-
standing all the stereotyped nonsense
that is talked and printed concern ng
our business interests, the vast bulk
of the intelligent business men of the
country-petted monOpolists included
are in favor of a thorough and whole
some change of administration. A
couple of hundred business men of New
York declare themselves for Arthur;
ten thousan business men in the ty
are opposed to him. The conviction is
daily gaining ground that shak ng-up
and overhauling of men and methods
at Washington would be beneficIal to
the whole country. Thus hopeful OPP
portunity is afforded the Democrats to
purify the Government, if they do not
forfeit it by laundering or neglig nee
~ y Star.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

AT yearly meeting of Friends in
Philadelphia it was asoertained through
epistles that ''in no instance was there
report of any Friend being engaged
in the manufacture or sale of intoxi-
cants. '-Pbsladelpaia Record.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

alive and leap quickly as his racer
passes the earth, unless he would be
carried back again into the outer dark.
ncSS.-Gdrreu T. SerriSs, in ". \. Sun.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
THE wife of the pronr;etor of

The wife of the proprietor of the
Haddon House, at Atlantic City, has q
room specially built and furnished for
her pet dogs. They all have little beds.
and there is swinging spring door
opening on little play-yard, through
which they can come or go at will
N y, Tunes,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

The town of Atkinson. Me-, has a
man whose principal trade is black
snithing. He has in one corner of his
shop dentists chair. and viii stop at
any time to relieve any one suffering
from toothache. When business is duh
in these two branches, he is transfGrmed
into lawyer. In addition, he Is very
good cabinet-maker.- Post.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

The Carson appeal thinks that the
real industry of Nevada is cattle. no.
mining.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26
Thorouganess Pays.

General Butler has said that a
lawyer of large practice should be a
vell-informed man. tor his cases
compel him to master subjects in al
most every department of knowl-
edge. An incident, illustrative OF
the Generals point, is told in the
life of Lord Lyndhurst. He was
employed as counsel in q case which
related to Mr.. Heathcoat's IA
nous invention of the bobbin-net
machine.
That he might conduct the case
successfully, he determined TO IN
derstand the working OF the ma
chine. Accordingly he went to Not
tingham and took his place in the
mill at one of the looms. He did
not leave it till he could make a
piece of bobbin-net with his own
hands. and understood perfectly the
details of the manufacture, as well as
its principles.
When the case came On in court,
he produced q model machine. and
worked it with such ease and skill,
and explained the nature of the in
vention with such clsarness, that
Judge, jury and spectators were
alike astonished He gained the
case, because, in the opinion of all
he had mastered the principles and
details of the invention.-YO Youth 5
Comma MON.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26
Special Car for Nuisances

" All passenger trains should have
one cattle car, and compel every
man who chews tobacco to ride in
it"
And they should also have one
fiat car" said the cross passenger,
for the fresh air woman who al
ways insists on keeping the car win
dow open. She should sit on a slab
seat on an open grated car and
breathe ashes and cinders to her
heart's content.
And dark and lonely box
car" said the tall, thin passenger,
d" for the man who whistles. The
whistlsrs could all get together in
there and sit and drum on the sides
of the car with their fingers, and
whistle all the tunes they didn't
know, and the rest of the train would
be happy"
And a Kalamazoo velocipede. "
said the fat passenger, " for the man
who drums on tbs floor with his feet
every time the train stops" Here
the man on the woodbox suddenly
ceased pounding his faverite over
ture with his heels.
by the time he had worked his
heels on express time for 45 miles, "
continued the lat passenger, without
appearing to notice anything, he
might be able to give his feet va
cation of two or three hours
And occasionally" the man on
the uoodbox said, leaning forward
to gaze earnestly into the stove,
they might put on Barnum's Jum-
DO car for the man who always has
to ride over the trucks for fear of
springing the car"
There was an embarrassing silence
for a minute or two, when the fat
passenger said something about re-
frigerator cars for the man who was
too fresh TO keep in day coach,
and then everybody began to fear
the conversation was taking Con-
gressional aspect, and so the com
mittee rose, and shortly after the
house adjourned.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26
Profit in Pig Feeding.

Sometimes more than mere stuff
ing with food is required, if rearing
and fattening OF pigs is to be made
desirable. Food and labor are be
coming more costly every year, and
to make this important industry
profitable: here must be correspond
ing reduction by losses, to be secur-
ed by more economic surroundings,
and making a little of the more ex-
pensive food 90 as far as possible in
making flesh. The first requisite is
comfort, as without this no animal
will thrive we'll. Let it be well un-
derstood, that cold and filth are de
structiye to success. Arrangements
to save labor are OF increasing i'm
portance as above noted. As to
food, one kind OILY of concentrated
diet, without change, will break
down any young pigs stomach, and
produce a feverish state in an older
one; it is unnatural for an animal
naturally constituted 10 eat every
thing. Concentrated rich food needs
a combination with coarssr kinds,
to render it less compact aRd allow
a more ready penetration Of the
gastric Juices. How can healthy ac-
ton be maintained, if the intestines
of the animal contain only mass OF
fermenting purifying stuff? | never
had autumn dropped pig grow so
fast, or show so healthy a condition
as two lots of different breeds fed
this winter on buckwheet bran.
They are in warm pig house, where
it seldom freezes the coarser part
of the -four left on the hulls supplies
food for the stomach, and the hulls
keep the intestines in a healthy con-
dition. Few farmers think of this
latter point and confine their pigs to
clean corn meal, the most heating
and unhealthful of all the cereals.
Corn is the great staple food for hogs,
and will continue to be, but il should
be utilized to the best advantage by
iudicious ombination with coarser
food. for swine as well as for men,
and for breeding as well as growing
and fattening animals. A feed once
day to fattening hogs of carrots or
beets, increases the eppetite, gives
tone to the stomach and has cool
ing effect upon it. More roots, or
other cheap succulent food is re
quired.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26
OLD CUSTOMS.
Old customs Well, our children say

Old customs Well, our children say
We get along without them
But you and /, dear, in our day
Had other thoughts about theEa-
The dear old habits of the past
| cannot choose but love them,
And sigh TO think the world at last
Has scared so far above them.
We had not, in the years gone by,
The grace that art discovers
OGr lives were calmer you and l
Were very simple loyers.
And when, our daily duties o'er,
We staid beside the rushes,
The only gem You ever wore,
We're bright and blooming bushes.
our rustic way was slow, but yet
Some good there was about it,
And many ills we now regret
Old habits would have routed.
| know our children still can see
The fifth COMMANDMENT beauty
May they obey, as we once did,
From love, and not from duty.
The world to-day IS far too high
In wisdom to confess them;
But well we know, dear, you and /,
For what we have 10 bless them.
Though love was in the heart of each,
! trembled 10 accost you
Had you required polished speech,
think / would have lost you.
No doubt our minds are slow 10 gauge
The ways we are sot needing;
Bat here upon our memory's page
Is very simple reading,
1t saws the forms we still hold fast
Were wise as well a. pleasant
The good old customs of the past
Have leavened all the present.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26
Forbidden Kisses.

Remember" said a Fort street
physician to his wife, as he was
leaving home for a few days, ''and
do not let the children kiss anyone. "
Is it possible" asked a surprised
third party who was present, that
you consider it necessary to give
such instructions as that? Where IL
the danger
"The danger is SO complicated,
and vet so certain, that it would
take too much time to describe 1t
here" said the doctor. looking at his
watch. "In my case all kinds OF
people come to NV house and office
to consult me, and they often wait
hours. If one of my children hap
pens to come in, they are almost GER
tain to talk to it, and you know al
most the first impulse with people
who notice children is to kiss them.
BAH it makes me shudder-tainted
and diseased breaths, lips blue with
cancer. foul and decayed teeth. You
would kill a stranger who would
waylav yeur young lady daughter
and kiss her by force, but the help
less, innocent, six year old child,
susceptible as a flower to every
breath that blows, can be saluted by
every one who chances to think of
/ il. | tell you it wasn't Judas alone
who was betrayed by a kiss Hun
dreds of Loving. blooming children
are kissed into their graves every
year"
But, doctor, how can a mother be
so ungracieus as to refuse TO allow
people to notice her children ?"
There need be no ungracious-
ness about it; CT, if there were,
which is the most important-the
safety and well-being of the child.
or the permitting of habit of i'll
breeding and doubtful morality at
best? Let the mother teach her
child that 1t is not a kitten or a lap
dog, to be picked up and fondled by
every stranger, and instruct it TO re-
sist any attempt to kiss it. Why,
there are agents, peddlers of house
hold wares, who make it custom
to pick up a prattling child, kiss
and pet it, and so interest the moth
er that she viii buy something she
does not want. tell you there is
death in the kiss"
"Tke beloved and lamented Crown
Prince of Germany took dIpAtheria
from the kiss of her child. and fol-
lowed it to her grave. Diphtheria,
malaria, scarlet fever, blood poison
and death lurk in these kisses.
There | shouldn't wonder if | lost
this train. Remember, no kisses.'
and, waving his hand, the doctor
drove away.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

Professor Anderton to see mel'
she exclaimed. when little Amy
Grace brought her the message, at
ten o'clock. Why, isn't that fun
ny? | was just thinking of asking
leave to speak with him.
And Octavia Weston went. with
flaming cheeks and downcast eyes
into the little reception room, where
her middle aged lover awaited her
'Octavia," he said. gently, Il have
come to ask you
please don't ask me to be mar.
ried !" interrupted the girl, because
because | think-in fact, / am al.
most sure, I've made a mistake. Oh
don't speak to me. Let me tell the
whole story out and free nv mind.
| love somebody elsel"
''Se do | said the professor. Il,
too, Miss Weston. have erred in
reading my own heart"
"0h, I'm so glad" said Octavia
brightly. And you'll really let me
off from the engagement"
Il most certainly shall absolve
you from your plighted troth," said
Professor Anderton. half smiling at
her schoolgirl earnestness.
So Octavia married Algernon Ave-
nal, and her elder lover was lett to
WOO and win sweet Olive Dent, who,
in her sweet humility, could scarce
ly believe that she was worthy any
mans affection.
She had made MP her mind to a
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

life of twilight obscurity, an exist
ence of monotony.
But are you quite sure you love
me ?" she asked of the grave profes-
sor.
Entirely sure, he responded.
But don't see why" she urged
Because, my own precious one,
Anderton answered, you are pure
and true-you are unselfish and
lovely. Octavia Weston was mere
sparkling will-o' the-wisp; you are
a star, shining high above earth's
misis and damps."
And when he put his arm around
her and looked into her eyes, Olive
Dent knew that he loved her, as she
had always hopelessly longed to be
loved.
And she had come into the bless
ed Inheritance of her womanhood at
last.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26
Prices in New York.

$50 you wish to marry my daugh-
ter. Well, l rather like you person
ally, but the question is, can you sup
port her p
Il have an income of $4,000 from
an uncle's estate
Good that will pay the rent OF a
house ?"
Il get $1,000 more from bonds
which | own"
Good again that win pay the
servants wages"
Il have 5000 year from a busi-
ness firm of which I am a silent
partner"
"Yes, that will feed you. What
else?"
THAT is all. sir"
"All And do you expect my
daughter to 90 without clothes? ? Do
you think we are Hottentots? She
can never be the wife ola peor man.
Good day, SIR"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

He began life young remarked
a writer, speaking Of an individual
who had risen to eminence. That's
the way with most of US. We began
life young. If we could begin life
old we might avoid the pain ofteeth-
ing. the danger of measles, and 9TH
er ills to which infant flesh is heir
But II seems to be necessary that we
should begin life young. Somehow
there is 10 getting over it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26
He Ain't Eager For The Contest

"Mr. Smith do you know the
character of Mr.. Jones"
Wall, | rather guess / do, Jedge.
well, what do you kno about
it?7
Wall. he amt so bad a man after
all"
Well. Mr.. Smith what we want to
know Is: Is Mr.. Jones of a quarrel
some and dangerous disposition ?"
wall, Jedge, l should say that
Tom Jones is very vivid in verbal
exercises, but when it comes to per
sonal adjustment, he hain't eager
for the contest"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

Il never can enjoy poetry when
I'm cooking" said an old lady who
dropped in on US recently. But
when l step out to feed the hogs and
hist myself on the fence, and throw
nv soul into a few lines Of 'Cap'n
jerks. it does seem as if this airth
was made to live on after all. "
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

To get rid of stumps bore with
two inch auger a hole six TO ten
inches deep in the top Of the stump,
putting in two to four ounces of salt
petre, filling up with water and then
plugging up the hole. Do this, say
in the fall, the following spring re-
move the plug and FIJI the hole with
kerosene and set fire to it. 1t is
claimed that this will burn a stump
and all it's roots.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26
How She Knew.

He-"Before you give my Overcoat
to that beggar, my dear had you
not better look through the pock-
cts 2?
She-"When did you wear It
last p
He-"The latter part Of last March
| think
She-"Then | know there's moth
ing in the pockets"
He-"how so ?"
She-"Because that was before
YOU stopped drinking.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

Should an emergency arise the
United States could raise a huge
army. Besides the Governments
regular airy of 25,000, there are now
in the several States an aggregate
organized military force of 5000 in
cluding militia-men liable to mill
tary duty if necessary-of 6,419,9l2.
If our nations naval strength and
sea coast defenses were equal to its
military rsources We could defy the
world.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

An English naturalist asserts that
the hedgehog cannot be poisoned,
neither strychnine, arsenic nor prus-
sic acid having any effect upon it.
1t eats adders regardlss of their We
nomous fangs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

A COW horn four feet eleven inch
es long and eighteen inches in diam
eter at the base is on exhibition at
Monticello, Fla.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

Mississippians feel very proud Of
their State Library in the capitol az
Jackson. 1t comprises $4,000 vol
umes.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

my opinion on the tariff" SAYS
Bowery man, SIS that a fellow has
a right to go on a tare if he wants
to"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-26

An owl measuring four feet and
two inches from tip to tip was recent
ly captured in Franklin county, Ga.