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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
GOVERNMENT WAGES.

A Suggestion That the Remuneration
Should Not Be Higher Than II the EN-
ployes Were 'sPrivate Individuals"
There was force in the suggestion of
the printers employed in the Govern
ment Printing Office at Washington
that they were as well entitled to higher
wages than were paid to printers in
private employ as the clerks in the
departments are to higher salaries than
individuals and private corporations
pay for the same kind of work. The
force of the suggestion is not of kind
to strengthen the demand of the print
ers. 1t does not show or tend to show
that they should receive higher wages
for their work because they are i'll Gov
eminent service than they would for
the same work in private employ. But
it does show that the Government clerks
should be governed by the same rule.
1t is not surprising that honest arti-
sans and workingmen in the service not
only of the United States but of the
State and the city, should have their
attention called to the fact that Gov
eminent clerks are better paid than
clerks in private life. Nor is it very
surprising that they should conclude
that they should receive similar con-
sideration. But the true remedy for
the irregularity is not in making the
wOrkingmen employed by Government
faVEred class. 1t is in putting the
clerical force upon aproper basis in the
matter of wages.
There is no sound reason WHY the
Government of the Nation, the State,
or the city, should pay any more for
the service it requires than a private
individual would have to pay for the
same service. And if it were not for
the spoilS system any overpayment of
public employees would be condemned
so strongly and generally that it could
not possibly be continued. But for
that system, indeed, the notion of such
Overpavment could never have got it
self established in practice. If it had
never come to be regarded as neces-
sary that Government servant should
bear a particular party label, or that
his employment should depend upon
considerations wholly distinct from his
capacity or fitness, the idea of paving
him any more than private employee
would never have been entertained for
moment.
If the civil service ever reaches the
point-as it one day may--of absolute
divorce from polirfs and the spoils
system, this discrimination between
public and private employment, which
is one of the worst effects of the sys-
tenn, will be wiped out. A govern
ment wholly free in the manner of Sc
lecting its employees will not consent to
pay more for service rendered than
private employers do.-DetrOI Free
Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
AN UNBLUsHING STATESMAN.
John Sherman Makes Statements Which
Ought to Make a Cucumber Turn Grim
son.

John Sherman Makes Statements Which
Ought to Make a Cucumber Turn Grim
son.
Senator John Sherman, when ad-
dressing the Ohio Legislature the other
day, was kind enough to speak well of
the New York election laws as safe
guards against fraudulent voting. He
held up the New York system as an ex-
ample for Ohio to initiate. The purity
of the ballot, he thinks, is not sufficient
" protected in Ohio:
Tho time has arrived when both political
parties should address themselves to this
question, and prevent fraudulent voting. For
myself, could never see in State affairs that
politics should be brought into play 1t is
different with great National questions. In
State affairs you should be patriotic, regard
less of political affiliations, aud regard this
question from the same standpoint 1t is APP
parent that there ought to be Il general reyis-
ion of the election laws. the purity of the
ballot is dependent upon single districts and
small voting precincts. The occurrences
which have happened recently should con-
vince men of all political opinions that a rad
ical change should be made"
This plea for honest voting, for the
purity of the ballot, for additional
safeguards against fraud in elections,
sounds strange enough from the lips of
the statesman who was the chief pro-
moter in Louisiana of the fraud by
which the vote of that State was stolen
ten years ago, and who received as his
pay the office of Secretary of the
Treasury. But Sherman did not blush.
Then the unblushing statesman went
on to compliment the man whom he
helped to defraud:
81 invite your attention TO the example set
nv the great State of New York. In that
State, in 1885, great frauds were perpetrated
any party-Boss Tweed. Then it was that
men of both political parties went to work
and reformed their election laws. II 1t had
not been done civil war would have been in
evitable. Men of both parties resolved upon
reformation. and il resulted in the best elec-
non law in the world. In the dispute, last
fall. over the election, they awaited the Off
cial vote, and the matter was ended One or
the most distinguished men to bring about this
reform was Samuel j. Tilden, and am glad
to speak OF it here"
At this point the Ohio legislators
burst into applause. Perhaps it was
the name of Tilden that provoked the
demonstration. Perhaps it was the
statement that elections are purer in
New York than in Ohio or Louisiana,
for example. Perhaps it was the con-
summate audacity which enabled John
Sherman to keep his blood in his heels
while awakening memories shameful
enough to have made a cucumber turn
crimson. He never blushed.
Did any man or woman living ever
see the color of conscious guilt come
into John Sherman. cheeks?-N Y
Sun.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
COMMITTEE WORK.
Consideration of Inter. sting and Important
Matters

Consideration of Inter. sting and Important
Matters.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The House Com
mittee on Expenditures in the Department
of Justice has agreed upon a resolution
calling upon the Secretaries of the Treasury
and Interior and the Attorney General for
information as TO the amount, if any, which
has been expended by the Government in
the telephone cases recently before the
Interior Department The Chairman says
the committee did not wish to shirk any
responsibility but had no authority to open
up the telephone controversy.
The Committee on Public Buildings has
decided to report favorably bill appropri-
atng 100000 for a public building in
Atchison, Kan.
The House Committee on Judiciary has
agreed to report favOrably bill to divide
the judicial district of California into two
districts. and similar report was ordered
on bill to punish robbery in the Indian
Territory. and also bill to provide for the
settlement of the accounts of the United
States with the Mobile i Ohio Railroad
Company.
The House Committee on Commerce yes
terday agreed to report fayorably bill for
the appointment of a commission of three
to visit Mexico, the Central American
States and Brazil for the purpose of inves.i-
eating the methods pursued i'll those cou1-
tries for the protection of the people against
yellow fever The bill provides that two
members of the commission shall be ap-
pointed from among persons now in Gov,
eminent employ and the third from civil
life.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
BEN BUTLER.
He Has Poor Opinion of the Boycott, But
Thinks a Great Deal of the Ballot.

He Has Poor Opinion of the Boycott, But
Thinks a Great Deal of the Ballot.
Boston, Feb. 5.-General Benjamin Z.
Butler was interviewed by United Press
reporter last evening upon the condition
and prospects of the shoe business at Linn,
Mass. The General said that Linn would
never lose her prestige as the leading shoe
center of the country until the conditions are
materially changed and her merchants had
lost their cunning. The transportation of
bark and hides from the West, and of the
shoes back to the West again, place the
Eastern manufacturers at a disadvantage
which could be offset only by the greater
number and superior skill of Eastern me-
chanicS. AS the soil OF the West becomes
exhausted, the people will turn more to
manufacture, and eventually Lynn must
lose her cOarser grades of work, but the
finer ones she may keep. The General
said that the boycott was poor weapon.
Its principle was wrong. 1t was the weapon
of the employer, and the wage Garner
should adopt a better one. His proper
weapon is his vote. United, the wOrkingmen
can make the laws of the l3nd. The manu-
facturers that discharge operators for join
ing labor organizations, thereby preventing
them from earning an honest livelihood,
should be taxed for their support. That
is a weapon more logical than the boy
colt and which can compel the capitula-
ton of oppressors. "The great danger to
the workingmen," concluded the General,
sis that they will not stand together in
politics on matters governing their own in
tereSts The solution of the labor problem
rests in the election of some proper repre-
sentative to the Presidency. 1t will prob
ably not come in your day or mine. but ul-
timately proper representative of the ideas
of the feelings of the great masses will
come to the front only. The ballot can
solve the great labor problem OF to-day"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
JUDICIAL SALARIES.
The Bill Opposed Which Seeks Uniformity
OF Compensation.

The opposed hhlCn seeks
of Compensation.
The bill which passed the Senate
to fix the salaries of United States
district judges at uniform rate of
$4,000 annually was opposed by some
Southern and Southwestern Sem
ators, who think that the pay which
satisfies a county Judge in an agricul-
tural community ought to be enough
to command the services of 4 United
States district Judge in New York,
Philadelphia or Chicago. The fact that
State judges in large cities are paid al
most always much greater salary
than the United States judges seems to
be a matter of no consequence to the
economical opponents of the proposed
slight increase. That the Federal
courts ought not to be placed at a re-
lative disadvantage to the State courts
around them is a proposition few will
gainsay. Yet the fact that meager
salaries are paid Federal judges where
State judges receive comparatively
liberal recognition is unjust to the
United States judges and is calculated
to deprive the Federal bench of as
high order of talent as the State courts
in the same places easily SECURE.
There are thirty-SiX United States
district Judges. One, who sits in San
Francisco, gets 5000 year; one in
New Orleans receives $500; eight.
who hold court in the largest cities in
the United States, get $4,000 each,
and the forty-siX others have to be con-
tent with IS, 800. Within the last ten
wears some of the strongest judges on
the United States Circuit and District
bench have resigned their places on ac-
count of the inadequacy of the salary.
That salary was fixed long ago, when
the country was poor and the cost of
living in style betting Judge was
much less than now. 1t should have
been raised long ago, and the opposi-
ton of such men as Morgan, though
ostensibly made on the ground of
economy, is really dictated by hostility
to the Federal judges themselves. The
United States judge in Alabama,
he informed the Senate, is inferior in
attachments to every other in the State,
and therefore he is opposed to increas-
ing his salary. In spite of this
weighty objection, the Senate passed
the bill, but there is danger that the
Democrats in the House will incline to
the opinion that it is hardly worth
while to increase judicial salaries until
there are few more Democrats on the
Federsl PHILADELPHIA Press
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
Its Policy Fixed.

The decision of the House Commit
tee on Civil-Service Reform to report
adversely Mr.. Seney's bill for the re-
peal of the reform law will probably
end the idle chatter about doing away
with that measure. While there has
not been time since its passage when
a proposition to wipe it out stood any
prospect of adoption, so many threats
have been INDUCED in that the unani-
mouse action of the House committee,
composed of stalwart Democrats rs it
is, will have the effect of quoting all
agitation of the subject.
To the extent that Civil-Service re-
form has been embodied in law, it
meets the general approval of the peo-
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
Courts investigation.

Senator Payne has mailed letter 10
the chairman of the recently appointed
investigating committee of the lower
House of the Ohio Legislature, of which
the followingis copy:
UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHINGTON, Jan.
IS-The Hon. TaoS 4. COlcgiu, Chairman. Co
ttmblGS-SIR: As one branch of the General
Assembly has appointed special committee,
of which you are the chairman. TO investigate
the conduct of the Democratic caucus, which.
in January. 1884. nominated y candidate for
United States Senator. and & this matter is
thus raised to the plane of responsibility, and
placed in charge of intelligent and honorable
gentlemen. propose TO give 1t appropriate at
tention- For myself invite the most thor
ough and rigid scrutiny. Ny private CORE
spondence aud books of account will be cheer
fully submitted to your inspection. if you de-
sire it. only insist in case any testimony is
given which IN the slightest degree inculcates
me, / may be afforded an opportunity of ap-
pe2ring before the committee. am, very re-
specially, your obedient servant.
H. 3. PAYNE.
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pie. 1t has been applied as yet to not
more than fifteen per cent. of the en-
ployes of the Government. Beyond
these nothing but the promises and the
policy of the President prevent clean
sweep at any time. With the law in
force certain faithful employees are Sc
cure in their positions during good be-
havior, no matter which party may be
in the ascendancy, and the political
managers are powerless to blackmail
them for campaign purposes. The re-
peal of the law, even if it could be eff
fected, would not change the policy of
the present Administration in the
least, and it would fix on the party re-
sponsible for it stigma which could
not easily be removed. Chicago Her
DIh
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
a Family Frozen. (

GENEVA, Neb., Feb. 5.-Just before the
great storm of January the family of James
E. Lennon started for Oberlin, Kan, to
meet their father, who had homestead in
Sherman County, Kansas, near Voltaire
A letter was received here some two weeks
ago from Lennon, stating that the family
had reached Oberlin and would start the
next day if their goods arrived. Since then
nothing has been heard from them until
last evening, when report reached here
that man, his wife and their six children
had been found frozen to death near Ober-
lin. This just tallieS with the number of
the missing family. and there is hardly
doubt but that they have been lost.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
GnhbIed by Germany,

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.-Captain Hen
son, who arrived from Legiep, one of the
islands of the Marshall group, Wednesday,
relates the circumstances of the seizure of
Legiep by Germany last September. He
states that the German Vice Consul, Cap
tain and thirty armed men landed from a
German warship and raised the German
flag, against the protest of Mr.. c. II. In
gals, an American, who is one of the three
Caucasians engaged in business on the
island. The party, after being on the island
about forty-fve minutes, took the flag down
and returned to the warship, which pro-
ceeded to other islands in the group and re-
peated similar demonstrations on each.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
Bandits Making 1t Lively for a Mexican
Town.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 5.-Specials from jim
ulco, Mex, say that the whole town OF
Jimulco is in arms, and hourly the people
anticipate an attack from a large band of
Mexican mountain bandits. 1t is thought
that unknown persons in the town are IN
league with the thieves to forage the city.
No one knows how well the attack may be
planned and much apprehension exists. The
authorities are on the alert, and every avail
able piece of firearms is brought into use,
but il is feared that well prepared plot
may prove successful in overpOwering the
town people. The citizens are IN dreadful
suspense, and bloodshed is momentarily ex-
pected.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
" TIE play's the thing,

"THE plays the thing, .
Wherein I'll reach the conscience Of the king"
And equally true is it that DR.. Pierce's
pleasant Purgative Pellets (the original
Little Liver Pills. are the most efectual
means that can be used to reach the seat of
disease, cleansing the bowels and system,
and assisting nature in her recuperative
work. By druggists.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
ANY Small Boy with a Stick.

can kill t1ger-if the tiger happens to be
found when only little cub. So cOnsump-
ton, that deadliest and most feared of dis
eases, in this country, can assuredly be con-
quered and destroyed if DR.. Pierces " Gold
en- Medical Discovery" be employed early.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

" IT is not always May" sings a poet.
You are quite right; it is sometimes must.
Toledo Blade.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS cure in minute, 25c
Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

THE "Favorite Prescription" of DR. Pierce
oures "female weakness" and kindred af,
fections. By druggists.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

WHY is dirty man like fannell Because
he shrinkS from washing.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

"SURE, an wouldn't wan o. thin bear
skins make a foine buffalo robef'-N Y.
INDEPENDENT.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

OUGHT a teamster to have q teemine
fancy?-NdtiOnGL Weekly.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

THE best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 20c.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

THE reputation of the transgressor, like
his way, is hard.-LotceH Citizen.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

IT isn't much of dog that can't make
man go mad by biting him.-The Judge.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

For all ailments originating in disorders
of the stomach and liver, take Ayers Pills.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

WHEN the follicles are not destroyed
Halls Hair Remover restores hair to balC
heads.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Eye Water Druggists sell it. 25c.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

CoURTsHIP is not run by the rule of three
Merchant TrdUeler.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

WHEN girl is being courted she sets a
great deal by young man.-Chtcdgo Irlo-
une.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

WOMAN was made after man and she has
been after him ever PHILADELPHIA
Cal.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

With the decadence of pie-eating in
New England it is noticed that ghost
stories are falling off.-Boston Post.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11
As a Last Resort
A Little Girl in Albany, N. Y, Terribl!
Afflicted, Wonderfully Cured.


One Of the most remarkable cures of scrofula on
record that of the little daughter Of Mr. j. QUINN
2s5 First-st Albany. She afflicted with scrofuls
from BIRTH and physicians said It would be better for
her II she was dead. Her father says: "She had IS
running on her body, besides being absolutely
blind for months She lost the use Of her limbs and
could not walk; In fact mere skeleton wasting
away. The smell from the sores was terrible Seeing
In newspaper some cases OF scrofuac cured by Hoods
Ssrsaparilla said to myself, L will try bottle
last resort When she had taken the first half bottle
could see a change in her, and when the whole bot
tie was taken the assesses almost entirely healed
with the aid Of Hoods Olive Ointment, which must
say IS the finest ever used. / kept on giving her
Hoods Sarsaparila till she is well and healthy.
running around. She has splendid appetite. The
neighbors don't know what TO make oft"
Hoods SarSdpariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for Is Prepared only
nv Noon 4 CO Apo.hecarfes Lowell MaSs
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

ROCHESTER, n. Y, Jan. 81.
SIRs: The best proof we can give you
that the statements made by DR.. Henion
are entirely true, and would not have been
published unless strictly so, is the following
testimonial from the best citizens of Roch-
ester, and a card published by Rev. DR..
Foote. Il. II. WARNER & Co.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

1t seems impossible to doubt further in the
face of such conclusive proof.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-05-20
PLEASANT RiDGF.

Farmers are about done planting corn.
E.G Roberts was visiting friends on
4 Greenbriar Sunday.
Elwood IIutrhison Was visiting at
Judge Haws last week.
James Nelson will preach NJ Pleasant
Ridge sunday, 18Th inst.
John iiaws i supplying the farmers
with pIow.stocks .tohn knows how 10
nuke them.
stro'ner Robertsis very low with The
fever
@. G. Bradlsy aud L. 5. weIImal re-
port game scarce.
J-w. HAYES. ON boss carpenter. II
buuIldlng hilnselfa fine house
Dunlap Bradley, of Morgan, Creek,
was on the Ridge Sunday.
George Gains has moved into hi. new
house.
Theo. Pigg win farm on Il large scale
this summer.
Garfield Roberts made a flying trip to
Morgan's Greek last week,
Br. Webb, who has been sick for some
time, Is now copyalesing.
J. w. Hawes made a business trip TO
Prosperity.
Graham Wilson, Of Louisa, was on the
Ridge a few days ago.
Candidates are numerous, and each one
thinks he will be the man.
Sinclair Fugate was badly bitten by a.
spider few days ago.
W.T.. Bradley spent Sunday at ]. b.
Carter's.
John Neck. Of Brown Sage Mountain,
was at this place on business last week,
D. J. wellman and S. +. Bradley are
talking Of going West. Success to you,
boys.
It's rumored that @. 3. Carter viii
teach our school.
TcASPsevEiT.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-05-20

PAssIoS.-The man who gets 10,
to passion is said TO forget him.
self but the fact is he forgets other
poodle. The man or woman who
buys any other Saeratus or Soda
but J. Monroe Taylor's Gold Medal,
not only forgets other people and
Themselves, but runs the risk OF
scattering broadcast dyspepsia and
many other evils naturally attend
ing the human system. As you
value health and good eating, meyer
buy any other Have the Gold
Medal or none. Most everybody
sells it. Depot ll3 Water Street,
New York. Tty IT.
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Dress reform for ladies.

Our New Book, just cut, entitled
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raphy Of Worth, the King of Fash
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We also want lady Agents for our
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day give the Agent $3.50 monthly.
Our Agents report from four to
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