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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

Mr.. Lamar is forty nine years of age.
He is one of the scholars OF the South, and
has had, probably, wider range of expe-
rience than any of his Southern associates.
He is a native of Georgia, and is related to
the family of Howell Cobb and other equal
ly noted Southern families. Mr.. Lamar
served q short time in Congress before the
war, but he made no particular mark then.
His eulOgy of Charles Sumner gave him in
stantly national reputation. Mr.. Lamar
was educated at Oxford, Ca, and graduated
at Emory College in that State. He studied
law at Macon, Ga, and was admitted to the
bar IN 1917. He soon after removed rockford,
Miss. This has been his home ever since.
Here he has been lawyer, planter, and pro-
fesSOr during a long term of years. He
was first Professor of Mathematics, and
after the war was Professor of Political
Economy and Social Science. From 1876
until his election to the Forty third Con-
greSS he was Professor of Law. He only
served part of the Forty-fourth Congress,
when he was elected to the Senate. Dur
ing the war of the rebellion he was, until
1863, a Lieutenant Colonel in Mississippi
regiment. In that year he was sent as the
Minister of the Confederate Government
to Russia. Mr.. Lamar is a wiGower and
has no fortune outside of his official
salary. He lives very quietly. He is a
man slightly above five feet ten, with a
large, well rounded figure. His head is
large and thickly covered with
Grayish- brown hair which falls in straight
parallels upon each side of his face into a
long roll. which curls i'll at the back of his
neck. His forehead is high and narrow.
His eyes are brown and deeply set. His
nose is straight. The lower part of his
face is hidden by a sweeping long NOUS
tache and heavy chin whiSkers. His COM
plexion is very sallow. He has the con-
templative air of a student, and is fond of
solitude and reflection.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

Mr.. Garland was educated at st. Marv's
and st. Joseph's College in Kentucky. He
was admitted to the practice of law in 1853
in Washington, Ark. In 1896 he went to
Little Rock. He was u member of the State
Convention in 1861 that passed the Ordi-
nance of secession. Later in that year he
was elected member of the Provisional
Congress of the ConfedeTacy that met at
Montgomery, Ala. He was after that
made a member of the Lower House
of the Confederate Congress when it met
at Richmond. Garland was later a
member of the Confederate Senate.
and was in that body at the time
the Rebellion closed. His people in 1867
elected him to the United States Senate.
He was refused admission there because
the State was not then regularly admitted
back into the Union. He made u national
reputation by raising the cOnstitutionality
of the law requiring lawyers to take the
test oath before being permitted to practice
in the United States Courts. He won his
case, and followed the practice of law
until 1874. He was elected Governor of
Arkansas, and by his great GOODNESS and
judgment was influential in settling the
disputes in that State as to which faction
should control the State Government. He
was elected to the United States Senate in
1876, succeeding Powell Clayton. He was
re-elecfed in iSS5.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
A Horrible Death.

VISCENNEs, IND, March John
Beard, farmer, met with most hor-
rible and excruciating death Saturday at
a sugar camp near Hazelton, below this
city. He was standing oyera large kettle
of boiling sugar water when he suddenly
lost his balance and fell headlong into the
kettle. No one was near at The time, and
when found he was boiling in the huge
receptacle, but was lifeless, and in a
most horrible condition. The neighbors
were sickened by the shocking occur
children.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
THE OLD COMMANDER,
Who Has Faced Death Thousand Time,
Calmly Awaiting the Grim Messenger.

Who Has Faced Death a Thousand Time:
Calmly Awaiting the Grim Messenger.
New YORK, March General Grants
condition during the day and evening, was
much improved. A constant stream o.
carriages drove up to his residence dur.
ing the afternoon, bringing friends tc
whose inquiries the same answer was
given:
"The General is seriously i'll but not in
much pain to-day"
Nearly all were denied admission to the
sick chamber. Among the few eXcep.
tons were Hamilton Fish, Roscoe Conk.
ling and Stephen B. Elkins. Mrs. Grant,
Fred Grant and wife and Jesse
Grant are in constant attendance,
and all that is possible is
being done to alleviate the Generals suf-
ferings. DR.. Fordyce Barker says that,
while he regards the Generals malady as
necessarily fatal, his extraordinary will
power may sustain him longer titan any
ordinary man, and he is therefore unable
to estimate the time which will elapse be-
fore dissolution.
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by contrast. He was, in a sense, dur
ing his early political career a protege of
Samuel j. Tilden, for whom he labored
hard in 1876, and into whose Cabinet he
would undoubtedly have gone had the
Sage of Greystone been elected. His pros
perity in business sense has been so good
from the outset of his career that he has
had no temptation to seek public Office for
the sake of money. In politics he is won
derfully clever at organizing and promot-
ing measures for definite objects. This
quality was shown potently in the Chicago
Convention, which laboriously nominated
Cleveland. Whitney was doubtless as in
huential as Dan Manning in bringing the
Cleveland venture to a successful issue. 1t
was he who nullified the Hendricks boom
and he who beat Villas with Hendricks for
the second place on the ticket.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.
An Englishman's Opinion of Its Worship In
the United States.

An Englishman's Opinion of Its Worship in
the United States.
think, whatever be said of the wor-
ship of the almighty dollar in America,
it is indubitable that rich men are re-
garded there with less envy and hatred
than rich men are in Europe. Why is
this? Because their condition is less
fixed, because government and legisla-
ton do not take them more seriously
than other people. make grandees of
them. aid them to found families and
endure. With us the chief holders of
property are grandees already, and
every rich man aspireS to become a
grandee if possible. And. therefore,
an English country gentleman regards
himself as part of the system of ma
ture; government and legislation have
invited him to do so. If the price of
wheat falls so low that his means of
expenditure are greatly reduced, he
tells you that if this lasts he can not
possibly go on as country gentleman;
and every well-bred person among us
looks sympathizing and shocked An
American would say: why should
he?" The Conservative newspapers
are fond of giving us. as an argument
for the game laws, the plea that with
out them a country gentleman could
not be induced to live on his estate.
An American would say: What does
it matter?" Perhaps to an English ear
this viii sound brutal; but the point is
that the American does not take hig
rich man so seriously as we do ours,
does not make him into a grandee; the
thing. if proposed to him, would strike
him as an absurdity. | suspect that
Mr.. Winans himself, the American mil
lionaire, who adds deer forest to deer
forest, and will not suffer a cotter to
keep pet lamb, regards lis own per-
Torrance as colossal stroke of Ameri-
can humor. illustrating the absurditieS
of the British system of property and
privilege. Ask Mr. WinaIs if he would
promote the Introduction of the British
game laws into the United States and
he would tell you with a merry laugh
that the idea is ridiculous, and that
these British follieS are for home con-
NattheU arnold, ia Nine
teeath CeRtHTU
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Burned Nv burglars.

PEORIA, Ill, March IAN exsmina-
ton of the ruins of Hesler's furniture
store destroyed by fire between three and
four O'Clock this morning leaves little
doubt that it was caused by incendiarism.
and that previously an attempt had been
made to burgIarize the safe. The safe
doors were found some distance from the
safe and bearing signs that they had been
subjected to the force of an explosion.
The thieves got nothing for their pains,
and probably fired the store out of re-
verge. The stock of furniture was COM
pletely destroyed and the building dam
aged to the extent of $1,000. The loss
on the building is fully covered.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
is EVARTS ASSURED.
The Crafty Old Politician Not So Certain
as He Pretends to BE.


as He Pretends to BE.
Mr.. Evarts. in his speech at the Union
League Club, said he believed that his
party" the grand old party'-would
enter upon 1.-The contest for the conduct
of the Government with perfect assur-
ance' that las sure as election day
shall come round we shall reinState in
the possession of that power the Re-
publican party, and then shall have set
tied forever that odiouS and dangerous
element that has disturbed us for forty
years, ii solid South The crafty old
politician is not so well assured as he
pretends to be. The Republican party
had so strongly intrcnched itself by its
corrupt methods that it was difficult for
the Democracy to overthrow it. The
Democrats had the Notes.-The Demo
Gratis had large majority of the votes
in 1876, and did triumph at the ballot
box, but Mr. EyartS' party defrauded
the majority out of their choice and
placed its figure-head in the Executive
chair. But in 1884 the Democrats
organized for victory, and the main
tenance Of their rights; and with Re,
former for their standard bearer, victory
perched upon their banners. But while
the official vote was vet unaScertained,
Mr.. Evarts came forward promptly and
offered his services to Mr. Blaine and
his fellOw-conspirators, who conceived
a bold plan to thwart the will of the
people, for it was known beyond a
doubt At the time that Mr.. Cleveland
was elected.
But the popular voice was too strong
for the Republicans. and the ''granC
old party had to surrender. Now thai
the Democracy is ''in," it will be many
years before it is out again: for ii
will give the country such wise and hon
est government that it will grow steadily
in popular favor and become stronger
and stronger in succeeding elections
Mr.. Eyarts contemnS the s'solid
South. The South has been SOLID y
for some years, but solid only fol-
honesty GersUS corruption; and as the
Democratic party has represented the
one and the Republican party the other,
it has been "solid " for Democracy.
The North and the West should be
equally as solid. As for sectionalism.
the South has been for years trying tc
break down that issue, and but for such
men as Blaine. Sherman and Evarts il |
would have long since been dead. II
will certainly pass away. Mr.. Evarts
tries to encourage his constituency by !
a bright future for the Repub- !
lican party, but with his quick mind he
must see that his party is doomed. No |
man can understand the tendency OF |
the age better than Mr. Evarts. That
tendency is directly opposed to central
ism, monopoly and governmental ex-
travagance. and those distinctive issues
constitute the policy of the Republican
party. Richmond (Ta.J State.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
THE ADMINISTRATION.
Composition Of President Cleve-
lands Cabinet.
Brief Biographical Sketches of the Gentle
men Whom President Cleveland Has
Placed at the Heads of the De-
partments.

The following cabinet has been chosen by
President Cleveland:
Secretary Of ,Stdte-Thomas F. Bayard,
of Delaware
Secretary Of tie Treasury-DanieI Man
ming, of New York.
Secretary of The LateyiOr-L. Q. c. La
mar, of Mississippi.
Secretary Of Wdr-W. C. Endicott, of
Massachusetts.
Secretary Of the Naty-William c.
Whitney, of New York
Postmaster GeneraI-W. F. Villas, of
Wisconsin.
-itt0raey- acknowledgements II. Garland,
of Arkansas.
We present the following brief sketch of
the gentlemen selected by the President as
his constitutional advisers:
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

Washington is the only one Of the
Presidents of the United States VINO has
been honored by a unanimous eicction.
James Monroe, however. virtuslly re-
ceived the same compliment upon his
reelection to the Presidency in 1920,
when two hundred and thirtv-oDe out OF
the two hundred and thirty-two votes OF
the electoral college were given him.
The odd vote was cast by an e.ector
from Vermont for John Quincy Adams,
not on account of ill-will to Monroe,
but because he was unwilling to seeany
man share the rare distinction of Wash
ington in receiving unanimous cleo
ton. CHICAGO Journal
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY.

Mr.. Whitney is the son Of the late Gem
zeral James S. Whitney, formerly politi-
clan of note in Massachusetts. He was
born at Conway, Mass, in 1910, graduated
at Yale College in 1868, at the Harvard
Law School in 1864, and then went to New
York, where he was admitted to the bar.
Whitney devoted himself without delay to
getting into politics, and thereby became
the Corporation Counsel-an appointive
orfice-on the downfall of the Tweed ring.
In business he was successful, and made a
considerable start towards fortune, when
he gained so much more of it at the altar,
by his marriage to a daughter OF Senator
Payne, of Ohio, that his own accumu-
SAtiop at the bar was Insignificant
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

An old darkey in Kentucky signs
himself Col. Henry Clay Jones. When
asked why he should prefix that title to
his name, as he had no right to it, he re-
piled: ''Yes, l has, sah.'' But YOU
are not a Colonel" dat DON mean
Colonel. boss; dat means colored. IN.
Y Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
An immense stock. comprising tbs
standard goods, guaranteed to be
strictly as represented, at
Prices Below Competition.
Wall Paper and Fine Decorations

An especially full and elegant stock
always in the house, such as is rarely
carried outside of the large cities. Also
full lines of samples of the most costly
and desirable goods in the market,
which will be promptly supplied by ex-
press, giving choice of stock such az
can be supplied by no one house in the
country.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

From local papers report of the
proceedings of the Elmira City Council
the following is clipped: Under the
head of communications the request OF
Lizzie Doherty to be excused from
school FRIDAYS was referred to the Com
mittee on Organization and Discipline. -
The Elmira solons certainly deserve tie
name of city fathers. ''-BufaLO E1-
Dress
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
BARGAINS

In Window Shades, Fixtures and Trim-
mings, Steel EngraVingS, Photographs
Goods, ChrOmOs, Pianos Of nea. iy every
make, Organs-MasOn g. Hamlrn, West
ern Cottage and others. SEWING ma
CHINES-Domestie Eldridge. Hartford,
White, Estey, Singer, and many other
kinds.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

There are about dozen Atlantic
Ocean cables, seven of which are
"duplexed. or capable of receiving
and sending at the same time over the
one wire.--N. Y San.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

The production of Bessemer steel in
The United States last year reached
1888, 300 tons. but nine per cent below
the maximum production of 1895, $50
tons in 1882
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

w G. ENDiCOTT.
EXJudge William Crowinshield Endi-
colt was born in Salem about 1877. His
father was William Putnam Endicott, and
his mother Mary, daughter of Hon. Jacob
CrOwinshield, who was j Representative in
Congress. He attended the Salem schools
and graduated from Harvard College in
the class of 1877. He married his cousin,
daughter Of George Peabody, and has
two children, a son and Il daughter.
Judge Endicott studied at Harvard
office of the late Nathaniel j.
Lord. He was admitted to the bar about
1870, and few years later formed part
continued with him until his appointment
by Governor Washburn to a seat on the
Svpreme Bench in 1873. This position he
count Of his health. In 1882 he made an
member of the Salem Common Council in
President of that board. Ee was City
Der of the Massachusetts Historical So
Harvard College. Mr.. Endicott is a
direct descendent from Governor John En-
dicott. Until the Bell and Everett cam
paign he was an old-line Wing. At that
time he went into the Democratic party.
As lawyer he has been very thorough
and in pleading case very dignified. As
judge he stood high in rank. He has
never been prominent in politics, but was
the nominee of the Democratic party of
Massachusetts for the Governorship last
fall
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
THE DEAD ONE.


Mcguire is well known in police Cir
cles, having served several terms in re-
formatory institutions. The city is in
tested with bad characters at present
who have never been known here before,
and it will not be surprising if other
schemes of similar kind are at
tempted. Every precaution is being
taken by citizens who will deal promptly
with ruflians Of the safe blowing kind.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12

Ny method of business has been 70
handle the VERY BEST GOODS, that 1
could fully guarantee, assured that In
the end it would be to the advantage OF
my customers and of my business L
do not propose to change this policy,
but if axy one wants cheap goods, will
supply them as low as any one can All
the above and very much more in sddi-
tior to the largess stock of Books and
Stationery in Central Kansas
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CO TO THE
VeStGrlH0meN Nursery
~ Miles North Of

For your Fruit and Ornamental Trees. con
sistIng of the following kinds of Trees, Vines.
etc.. Apples, Peach, Pears, Plums, Cherry.
Ounce Apricots, Crab Apples, Juneberries.
Raspoerries, BlackDeTies. Strawberries, Cur
rants, GoOseberrIes, Pie Plant and all kinda
of SPADE Tr~es and Flowering Shrubs, Ever
greens, Crc>pers, Climbing Vines, etI:. Early
Illinois Potatoes, two weeks earlier than the
Early Rose or Early Vermont; cooks dry and
Inealy: can use them when only half grown
I will guarantee potatoes large enough 10 uee
L six weeks from time of planting.
II you need anything in the above line yos
VII cave money by calling on or addressing
6. EICHoLTZ, Detroit. kaa
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09

line of this dominion, is only about
midway between our eastern and west
ern limits; and yet it is fact that the
farthest Aleutian isle, acquired in our
purchase of Russian America, is as far
to the west of that city as Eastport,
Maine, is to the east of it. Between
the northwestern limit of Washing
ton Territory and the southern limit
of Alaska there is break of
few degrees, but, with the slight
est deduction, our territory extends
through one hundred ninety-six de-
grees of longitude, or seventeen degrees
more than halfway round the globe.
Hence, when the sun is giving his
goodnight kiss to our westermost isle
on the confines of the Behring's sea,
it is already flooding the fields and
forests of Maine with its morning light,
and in the eastern part of the state is
more than an hour high. AT the very
moment when the Aleutian fisherman
warned by the approaching shades of
night, is pulling his canoe towards the
shore, the wood-chopper of Maine is
beginning to wake the forest echoes
with the stirring music of the axe.--Er
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
A Bleak Home.

On the map of Iceland may be seen
a speck of an island called Grimsey. 1t
is the most northern, and consequently
the coolest, of the Iceland group.
lightweight people, no more, live on
it. They have tried to keep few
cows, but the winters are too hard for
them. Two horses and few sheep,
with very coarse fleeces, are the only
animals of the kind on the island. A
minister, whose name is Peter Good
mansen, lives in this remote place.
He is a poet and an astronomer, and is
employed to take observations for the
Meteorological Institute at Copenhagen.
Once or twice a year some of the
islanders visit the main land; but the
stormy seas, covered with icebergs,
make the passage always dangerous.
On one side of the island, which is a
high precipice, countless birds build
their nests, and the collecting of eggs
is one chief means of living for the
little settlement. Men are let down
over the face of the rock by ropes.
They wear suits thickly wadded with
feathers, to save themselves from be-
ing hurt on the sharp rocks. Each
man carries a pole to help himself with,
and ladle for scooping up nests he
cannot reach with his hands. There is
in his frock great pocket, in which
he can put one hundred fifty eggs.
There he works with the sea roaring
beneath him. --E1chdnqe
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
The House Of Lords.

The worst upper chamber cOnceiva-
BILE to the mind of man is the house of
lords, consisting, as it does, of hered-
itary landowners, who are recruited by
additions of very rich men, or of men
who have proved failures as statesmen
and have to be shelved. Notwithstand-
ing the wealth of its members, they are
not Independent. Some of them fight
and quarrel for posts of profit, and the
greater number of them are poor prejH-
diced creatures, who obey their leaders
like sheep and vote as they direct them.
There is, moreover, permanent con-
sentative majority in this assembly.
This majority is used by the conserva-
tive leaders to emasculate all liberal
legislation when they do not dare to
run directly counter to it. That such a
legislative assembly should continue to
exist under truly democratic system
of government would be an absurdity.
Nor will it. If one thing be more GER
tain than another, it is that the hered-
itary house of landlords is doomed.
1t may be that it will be held advisable
to replace it by an elected upper house,
possessing some sort of temporary veto
upon the decisions of the lower house,
bat it is more probable that one legis-
lative assembly will be deemed suffi-
cient.-Labouchere, IN FOrtnightly Re
ylpM
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Men and Their Curiosity.

" In my room," relates Mr.. Jolly, our
Canadian liberal, who was the guest of
the Duke of Westminster, "was a Gu
rious, old-fashioned Swiss clock. Be-
low was printed notice: Please do
not touch The longer looked at the
clock the more wondered at the rea-
son for the strange request. Next day
l ventured to ask my hostess the reason
of the prohibition" You are the
twentieth gentleman who has put the
same question, and | find that you are
just like the rest of your sex. Women
are said to be proverbially curious.
That label was put there to test the ex-
tent of the same weakness in men, and
my experience is that men are just as
curious as women. keep list of all
the gentlemen who ask me the same
question you have just put, and / find
that there is only one exception"
Indeed, and may be permitted to
know who he WASP" " He was Mr..
Fawcett, the late postmaster-general
and he, poor man, was blind"