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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
a Voice from Abroad.

Prof. II. Won Hoist, the famous
German author Of "A Constitutional
History of the United States, says in
/ recent number of the Berlin Nation
that the opinion formed of Cleveland's
ability and character has proved in the
main correct.
He has now shown" says the historian, sin
II higher and wider sphere that he possesses
sound and sober jud sment, the best intentions,
high moral courage, and an unostentafiouse en-
ergy, which are proof even against the violent
and continuous attacks of those machine poll
tcians who find themselves menaced in their
most vital interests What he has already
done for his country in the display OF these
qualities sutices to link his name to those OF
the best Presidents. The bloody shirt, the
legacy OF the late war, has forever ceased to
be factor in American politics; the best
sounding phrases and the most vehement ges-
ticulations of shallow-brained trlmmers, a la
Blaine, can not snatch another shred from its
grave The more obstinately and furiously
they persist In this attempt the more surely
and rapidly they dig their own political
grave
The Republicans who applauded Won
Holst's judgments upon Jackson, Van
Buren, Pierce and Buchanan ought to
step up to the rack and say what they
shMA.-Detroa Free Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
BRILLIANT LEGISLATlNG.
Ienator Edmunds' Measure to Reform the
Much-Abused Civil Service.

Mucn-Abused Civil Service.
Senator Edmunds has brought in a
bill for the reform of the civil service.
Ii is simple measure. 1t gives the
President the appointment of all the
minor officials without the advice or
consent of the Senate, but makes them
irremovable during their term without
trial on charges before United
States judge. One does not need to
know much about the United States
civil service TO know what the result
would be. One only needs to know a
little OF human nature. No man of
capacity or business experience would
take charge of an office containing q
large number of subordinates if he
could not get rid of any of them
without formal trial in u law court.
Four-fifths at least of the things which
make clerk incompetent are small
things, any one of which woald seem
ridiculous on paper, and absurd to lay
before United States Judge. 1t is the
repetition of them which mostly de-
cides that man is not worth his sal
ary. Nothing in the whole art of ad-
ministration, whether civil or military,
is So well settled as that there can be
no proper responsibility in the chief if
he have no discretion in the selection
OF his subOrdinates. Some capable
men might be found ready to take
charge of offices under Mr.. Edmunds'
bill, but if they did SO they would
probably at once 90 to work to break
1 1ot -
and disorder have full swing, and re-
fuse to go into court with trumpery
stories about AS coming late, and BIS
drinking, and C's being unmannerly,
and DIS spelling badly, and blotting
his books, until the public offices be-
came public nuisanceS, and the law
was repealed.
Nothing is more wonderful in the
history of this whole Civil-Service re-
form movement than the way in which
public men toll and moil and twine and
twist in order to avoid having the Gov.
ernment business conducted like other
business. Every bank and corporation
in the country furnishes perfect model
of the way in which the treasury and
pOSt-Office should be manned and man
aged; and vet there is hardly any eX-
pertinent too queer or fantastic for
grave statesmen to attempt with the
service in order to avoid
initiating these old and well-tried priv
ate methods. If the stockholders of
the Pennsylvania road were to propose
that the manager should not be al
lowed to dismiss any subordinate with
out filing bill in equity against him,
we should consider them crazy; but
when a Senator proposes it about the
public offices. we bury our faces in our
hands, ponder the plan deeply, and
discuss it at great length in the public
prints. ~ !. Post.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
DEMOCRATIC SENSE.

As Mr.. Edmunds compares 1886
with 1884 he must feel sight depress-
ion of spirit, consciousness OF an
aching void beyond the consolation OF
any cocktail. He has had his private
diversion and revenge, but at what en-
pense! Now let him promise and
swear to support the Republican can
didates in 1888 or he is lost statesman.
N J. San.
President Cleveland does not be-
lieve that measles affect the spinal col
umn except in pension leases; nor that
diarrhea causes sore eyes; nor that sui
cides by drowning and morphine
poisoning were the result of injuries
received in the service. On all these
points of practical medicine he takes
issue with DR.. john a. Logan.-St.
Louis Republican.
President Cleveland's disposition
to use the veto is of bad augury for the
advocates of eXtravagant apprOpria-
tiOns. During the year and quarter
that he has been in Office he has inter-
posed many more vetoes than any OF
his predecessors; in fact he has more
than doubled the highest record thus
far, that of General Grant. Most of these
vctoes have been called forth by pri-
vate pension bills, and doubtless there
would have been many more if the
President had time to examine the
mass of this class of legislation which
has come before him. j he Presidents
disposition is happily adapted to the
needs of the time.-BradStreerS.
An elderly man in jamestown,
ID. T., it appears, has been attracting
attention by throwing away money
and revealing himself as a cousin OF
Mr.. Rutherford B. Hayes, of Fremont,
o. The first piece of evidence natur
ally threw doubt upon the second, and
the prodigal Burchard was committed
for lunacy. 1t appears, however, that
he really is a cousin of Mr.. Hayes.
When there was found among his eff.
fects letter from that statesman of
fering to pay him his annuity of 5000
down if he would take 81, or 2 per
cent, off for cash, the people of James
town could no longer dispute his claim
of kinship, though at his desperate
prodigality they marveled greatly
". 4. JtHeS.
The love of the Republican party
for the colored man was most conspic-
uously exhibited in the rejection OF
Mr.. Matthews by the Republican SEN
ate. Mr.. Matthews was nominated by
the President to succeed Fred Douglass
as recorder of the District of Columbia.
He was rejected because he was a
Democrat, Th" RcrHblic"rs are par
ticular!y hostile towards war veterans
and colored men who are Democrats.
There was not the slightest grounds for
the rejection of Mr.. Matthews beyond
the one fact that he refused to consider
the Republican party as the rightful
owner of his race. The Democratic
party has shown far more practical
good will towards the colored man
than the hypocrites in the Senate who
only seek to utilize him for political
purposes. albany Argus.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
HAIR-DOCTORING.
A Popular Female Folly and Its Deleteri-
Gus Effects.

A Popular Female Folly and Its Deleteri.
Gus Effects.
A fashionable modiste gave reporter
some points on women doctoring their
hair to obtain certain effects in color.
She said: Women are blessed with
such luxuriant hirsute adornments thev
rarely ever become bald. If they did
not attempt to doctor their hair it would
never fall out. unless some scalp dis
. ease caused it. In nearly every hair
store YOU visit will be found hair
lotion specially prepared to do some
thing wonderful either in the way OF
producing extraordinary growth or
changing the color from a sandy to a
golden. or rs desired. Women have a
tondness for experimenting with their
hair, and can not resist the temptation
to try all the nostrums offered. l say
nostrums; some of the stuff may be
good, used in moderation, but modera-
ton is rarely observed. Women are all
allopathic in hair remedies. l have
seen many beautiful suit of hair
ruined by applications of lotions. l
know young married lady who moves
in the highest circles. She had long,
wavy, blonde hair, the envy of nine
tenths of her friends. Size concluded
that she wanted it a shade lighter
soma one had told her that it would
add to its beauty. She began by using
borax and lot of prepared stuff,
guaranteed by each person who sold it
to do its work cffectually and without
harm. Her hair is now an ugly shade
of sorrel and completely dead. 1t is
also much thinner, and will all come
out, think, in few years. Her case
is but one Of many. If women would
on Y take into consideration the fact
that health, as rule, gives vitality to
hair they would not use so many n
effectual remedies. 1t is enough to
have race of bald-headed men-may
the females be spared. ~ Y. Aah
and ETDress
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
Not Ruined by a Party.

We have always held that one good
result of the last national election
would be the dissipation Of the fear
that a Democratic Administration
would bring some sort of disaster upon
the country. Some of our Republican
friends in the Presidential campaign
indulged in the widest forebodings
about the probable effect on business.
Even the Republican candidate for
President, well known as business
man, expressed grave apprehensions.
Some of Our esteemed contemporaries
really seemed to suffer anguish on ac-
count of their fears.
We have now had full fiscal year
under the Democratic Administration,
and the comparative receipts and eX-
penditures are as follows:
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
Making a Navy.

1t is evident from the way in which
the Secretary has addressed himself to
his duties that he means to inaugurate
naval establishment worthy of the
United States. He believes and snys,
and such is the opinion of all informed
and just men, that the naval
service should be considered quite
apart from the naval administration.
The naval service, the personnel of the
navy, is in the main composed, to use
his own words, "of a body of accom-
plished men. representing high, so-
cial standard of personal character,
who are deservedly respected and hon.
ored throughout the world" Contin.
uing his own language: This, unfort-
unately, can not be said with equal
justice of the Navy Department, and
whatever dissatisfaction the country
has ever experienced with the naval
arm of our Government will be found to
have had its origin, not in the naval serv-
ice, but in the naval administration,
and even there dissatisfaction should be
limited to certain branches only of the
business of the department. The plan
of business reorganization which he
outlined in his annual report has busi-
ness principles of directness, economy
and practicability on its side 1t has
commanded the appreciation of thought
full men everywhere. The evils and
blunders of the present NAL system he
laid bare with an unsparing hand; but
he was careful to discriminate between
the blame due to faulty methods and
the consideration to be extended to
honorable men who were at the mercy
of such methods Tine large discretion
of power given him under the law is to
be used by the Secretary in the drec-
ton of business-like reconstruction Of
the department itsef.-Breok!yn Eagle
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
a Friends Seif-Sacrifice.

"Darringer, have completely lost
my appetite. l haven't enjoyed any
thing for week"
lis that so, Bromley? Allow me to
suggest a remedy Have a young
turkey nicely roasted, procure the nee
cessary sauces and sida dishes, and
some good wines. Don't forget the
wines. Let the table ware be of the
most inviting kind, for even such ac-
cessories sharpen the appetite" "
''And what then?"
The things must be disposed Of"
"Yes. Darringer. But what if can't
eat them? There's where the trouble
comes in"
MY dear boy, there won't be any
trouble. The things will be eaten.
When you have every thing ready send
for me. ."-Ptitadetphia Call.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22

pressing machine of leather in the
manner just described. except that the
scrap. after being weighed, instead of
being wrapped first, is crowded into
the lower receptacle while loose and
pressed into ball. Itis then wrapped
with just enough twine to hold it to-
gether. After covering. the balls are
sent to the packing room, where they
are assorted and stamped. The max
er's name. brand and, in some in
stances, the size are stamped on the
ball. They are then packed in paste
board boxes ready to be cased for ship
ping. The finest balls are each
wrapped in silver foil and packed in a
box, which is sealed. d.-Phi,a-
delphiG Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
WALL STREETS LAMB.

Wall street had little Lamb,
It's fleece was very thick;
at every turn the market took
The Lamb was sure to STICK,
1t followed up and followed down
With every rise and fall.
Preferring to be done quite brown,
Rather than not at all
The eager brokers cleaned him out
But still he fingered near.
And waited patiently about
To get his margins clear.
The brokers got them, clear and clean,
For they were ''out of meat;
But still h" waited, starved and lean,
{ And hung about the street"
What makes the Lamb lore Wall street so?
The curious FOUNDERS cry
Why. Wall street loves the Lamb, you know
And wool is scarce and gh.
" Y World
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22

|" ANY person who takes the paper rus.
nlarlY from the post-office, whether directed
10 his name or whether he is 4 subscriber ol
not, is responsible for the pay.
The courts have decided that refusing tC
take newspapers from the pOst-offce, or It
moving and leaving them uncalled for, Is
priIna facia evidence of INTENTIONAL FFaAUI
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22

Totals. s245.6l5.T42.3S s26O, 2&s6. .935. IL
Truly, there is nothing in these figures
to Justify the fears of those who proph-
csied disaster as the inevitable result of
Democratic rule. An increase of Sl2,-
400, 900 in revenue. a decrease of S14,-
600, 900 in expenditures-of which last
pensions increase over $4,000, ,0O0-a
decrease Of S21, 100000 in ordinary ex-
penses.
On the whole. we are forced to con-
clude that Democratic Administration
is as safe as Republican and somewhat
cheaper, and that the indications of re-
turning prosperity are not unfavorably
affected by the political change. This
is a great country, with rich resources
and enormous advantages, and it will
never again be believed that only one
party can govern it.-BoSton Herald.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-22
CHEAP MONEY!
QUICK Money!

Being aware Of the annoyance,
and sometimes loss to borrowers,
by having to wait weeks and
sometimes months for mOney,we
have organized a company with
sufficient cash capital to enable
us to cash mortgages as soon as
the papers are executed, and as
We pass upon all loans here in
stead of having TO send them
East to be approved, we can COM
plete a loan and pay over the
money i'm less than half the time
usually taken.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-28
Diseases From Smoking,

A writer in The British Medical
Journal, after referring to the disagree
ment among surgeons as to whether
smoking may be the immediate cause
of cancer, remarks that there is con-
dition Of the tongue which, in many
cases, is the precursor OF epithelioma,
namely, "leucoplakia," and this dis
ease is more generally considered to
be caused by smoking. The fact is
pointed out that, among seventy-ive
recorded cases, all but four were
smokers. One authority has shown
that leucoplakia may be the starting
point Of epithelioma, and, out of the
above mentioned number of cases,
forty-four developed epithelioma, and
in one only was there afamily history
of cancer. Another authority states
that out of fifty-five cases of cancer OF
the tongue, about one-fourth had been
the seat Of leu66plakia.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-28

ing definite In many cases, even when
the kidneys are fairly broken down.
Then look out for them, as disease,
no matter where situated. to 90 per
cent: as shown by after-death exam
inat'ons. has it's origin in the breaking
down of these secreting tubes in the
interior Of tho kidney:
AS you value health, "a you desire
long life free from sickness and suffer:
ing, give these organs some attention.
Keep them ingood condition and thus
prevent as is easily done) all diseae.
Warmers Safe Cure, as it becomes
year alter year better known for it's
wonderful cures and it's power
over the kidneys, has done and is
doing more to increase the aver
age duration of life than all the physi-
clans and medicines known. Warn
er's Safe Cure is a true specific, mild
but certain, harmless but energetic
and agreeable to the taste.
Take it when sick as q cure, and
never let a month 90 by if you need it,
without taking few bottles as pre-.
ventive, that the kidneys may be Kept
in proper order, the blood pure, that
health and long life may be your bless
ing. II. H. WARNER & Co.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-28
Peter the Great.

It is related that Peter the Great
strolling incognito through the camp
came upon party of non.commission-
ed officers and grenadiers enactlng a
comedy. All at once his brow became
clouded. In the piece a soldier, in the
uniform of his guard, commits, at a
certain nome mt, a robbery. Never.
theless,he allowed the play to proceed;
the court-martial is summoned on the
stage, and tho thief is sentenced to
death. The spectators, composed of
officers and men, showed the most live
ly concern in the performance, and
laughed at the grotesque contortions
of the condemned culprit. The anna
teur actor played his part very we'll.
Here came the squad that is to execute
him. "Fire," orders the lieutenant
and the amateur dropped down dead,
his heart pierced by seven bullets.
No make believe, but dead indeed.
Whereupon the emperor dropped bis
incognito and addressed those assem-.
bled: "Asoldier of my guard who COM
mitted q robbery must die. If he did
not steal, why did he boast of it, and
soil his uniform? It is I who ordered the
loaded rifles given to the mon. i hence;
forth fofbid my soldiers to ply the
trade OF mummere."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-28
Eli Perkins on women Mason

Ell Perkins on Women Masons.
Eli Perkins is a Royal Arch Mason,
and at q Masonic celebration in Wash
lngton he undertook to answer the
question, why Women Cannot be Free
Masons.
Women sometimes complain that
chey are not permitted to enter the
lodge and work with the craft in their
labors, and learn all there is to be
learned in the institution. will ex-
plain the reason. I learn that before
the Almighty had finished His work
he was in doubt about creating Eve.
The creation OF the living and creeping
things had been accomplished, land the
Almighty had made Adam, who was
the first Mason, and created for him
the finest lodge in the world, and call
ed it Paradise No. /. Laughter He
then called all the beasts of the field
and fowls of the air to pass before
Adam, for him to name them, which
was a piece of work he had to do alone
that no confusion might thereafter
arise from Eve, who He knew
would make trouble if she was allowed
to participate in it, if He created her
beforehand. Adam being fatigued
with his first task fell asleep, and when
he awoke found Eve in the lodge with
him. Adam, being senior warden,
placed Eve as the pillar Of beauty in
the south, and the received their in
structions from the Grand Master in
the east, and when finished, she imme-
diately called the craft from labor to
reireshment. Instead of attending to
the duties of her office as she ought,
she left her station, violated the obi
cation, and let in an expelled Mason,
who had no business there, and went
around with him, leaving Adam to
look after the jewels. This fellow had
been expelled from the grand lodge,
with several others, some time before.
Finding that Eve was no longer
trustworthy, and that she had cals.
ed Adam to neglect his duty, and had
let one in whom he had ex-
PEELED, the Grand Master closed the
lodge and turned them out, setting
faithful tyler to guard the door with
a flaming sword. Adam repented of
his folly and went to work like g. man
and a good Mason, in order to get re-
instated again. Not so with Eve!
Sheeot angry about it, and commenced
raising Cain, and did it again when
she got Abel. Laughter.] Adam, on
account of his reformation, was per.
mitted to establish lodges and work in
the degrees, and while Eve was allow
ed to join him in his works OF charity
on the outside, she was never again
permitted to assist in the regular work
of the craft. Hence the reason why q
woman cannot become an inside Ma
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-28
Wit and HurnOr.

1t takes the Imagination to enjoy
wit. 1t takes thought on the part of
the hearers as we'll as the speaker.
Humor is a plain, truthful description
of a humorous scene. Dickens is g.
truthful humorist. Baron Mum
chausen is all imagination. He is q
wit.
There was startling instance of
wit in the answer of Person when
some one said: byron and Tenny-
son and the modern poets, sir, will be
read when Homer and Virgil are for
gotten"
YES" said Person, land not till
then!'
This witty answer has to be thought
over by the reader before the wit is
seen.
Humor requires no especial imagin-
alton. 1t is the truthful description
OF some incident in real life, which has
happened. Humor is description of
what has been. Wit is the imagining
of what might be. Any little scene in
actual life, if described truthfully, will
be humor.
Take the simple scene of two mar
ried women taking leave of each other
at the gate on a mild evening and de-
scribe it truthfully and it will be hu-
NOR. To illustrate, two women shake
hands and kiss each other over the
gate and then commences the CONVEX
sation:
"Good by!"
"Good-by. Come down and see us
soon."
II will. Good-by.'
"Good'by! Don't forget to come
soon."
"No. won't. Don't you forget to
come up"
II won't. Be sure and bring Sarah
Jane with you next timc."
Il will. I'd have brought her this
time, but she wasn't very we'll. She
wanted to come awfully."
"Did she, now? That was too bad!
Be sure and bring her next time"
~ will. And you be sure and bring
baby"
ii will. l forgot to tell you that
he's cut another TOOTH"
you don't say so! How many has
he now"
Give. 1t makes him awfully cross"
II dare say it does this hot wealth
err"
"Well, good-by! Don't forget to
come down."
mo, I won't. Don't you forget to
come up. Good-by!"
"Good-by" (louder.)
"Good-by!" very loud.)
The above simple dialogue is pure
humor.