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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14
The Worship of the Black Silk Dress.

Boston Transcript.
1t is really time that the awe with which the
average New England woman regards black silk
should be rooted out Some apostle should call
meeting of Yankee femininity. and address the
audience something after this fashion: sMy
dear creatures black silk is fallible It ought
not to be worshiped with the blind, unreasoning
devotion with which you regard it It is not
suitable for any and all occasions as you have
so fondly believed for generations past. It lis
good, durable stuff, and makes a much more
economical skirt for preaching, mill and mar
ket' than you have any idea Cease to make a
fetch of it. Cease. implore ycu, to wear it to
weddings. An ordinary Yankee wedding espa-
cially in the country, is always attended by q
sable robed army of women in their best black
silks"
The apostle might 10 on with relation of ex-
perience "Once went into store and tried to
get some small black buttons The girl who
ence as looked through box after box trying to
find such buttons as wanted. At last I asked
her quietly: Are these all that you have2 Have
You none more suitable for black silkg Instantly
her manner changed, the light of the silk-wor-
shipper cleaned in her eye; she became all inter-
est and obsequiousness and with the words re-
peated again and again, half to herself, "A black
silk, nice black silk she produced some such
buttons as needed
Or, II saw two ladies crossing the street on q
muddy day. One wore a black silk, which prob
ably cost making and all. about $50. The other
had on a tailor made suit that / happened to
know came from Redfern's, and cost little over
500 The policeman at the crossing ignored the
cloth suit and helped the silk dress across with
assiduous politeness." 1t is not only minor peo-
pie who revere black silk Let every woman
who hears my voice, whether Of high degree or
low look into her confidence and inouire
''An a silk worshiper2'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14
"Mussy" Styles of Hairdressing.

New York Evening Post
The fashion of allowing any number of stray
wisps of hair to float away from the sides of the
once smooth and tidy French twist 49, sad to re-
late, on the increase, the "style" having even
reached to many of the silver-locked mothers in
Israel, who walk abroad like so many gray
haired Ophelias with heads idisheveled, imagin-
ing themselves. perhaps, as fit and agreeable
themes for poets and painters. with their very
notwithstanding and far from tidy halos Of
struggling locks floating about the lower parts Of
the head and neck A more ''mussy" and unin-
teresting spectacle, however, than disheyeled
French twist" it is difficult to imagine But
fashion has decreed that this erumpled style Of
couture shall pass muster in the first ranks of
society, and SO we see on every hand the gro
tesque effects and absolutely disfguring arrange
ments of my lady's back hair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14

tainment of the bridal guests, no one could fail
to read that he had determined to Danish the en-
envy forever from his princcly home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14

the substance of all intelligent marriage cere-
monies when it says:
take thee to be my welded wife, to have and to
hold from this day forward for better worse for
richer for poorer in sckeness and in health to love
and to cherish till death do part according to Gods
holy ordinance, and thereto pledge thee my troth.
Would it not be good idea to have that print
ed in tract form and widely distributed
The fact is that many men are more kind to
everybody else's wives than to their own wives
They will let the wife carry a heavy coal-scuttle
upstairs and will at once bound clear the width
of parlor to pick up some other ladys pocket
handkerchief. There is an evil which have
seen under the sum- and it is common among
men, namely, husbands in Irritation The atten-
ton they ought to put upon their own wives
they bestow upon others They smile upon
them coyly and askarce, and with a manner
that seems to say: II wish was free from that
old drudge at home. What an i'm
provement you would be my pres
emit surroundingsp And bouquets are
sent, and accidental meetings take place, and
late at night the man comes to his proeaic home
whistling and hilarious, and wonders that the
wife is Jealous. There are thousands of men
who, while not positively immoral, need radical
correction of their habits In this direction. It
is meanness Unreasonable for a man by his
behavior to seem to say to his wife: you can't
help yourself. and will 60 where please. and ad-
mire whom please and defy your criticism"
why did you not have that put in the bond,
domestic Shylockf Why did you not have il
understood before you were pronounced husband
ana WIFE, that she should have only q part of the
dividend OF your affections: that when, as time
rolled on ana the cares OF life had erased some
OF the bright lines from her face and given
unwicldiness to her form. you would have the
reserved right TO paY obesance to cheeks more
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
CARP PONDS.

How They May be Constructed to the
Best Advantage and at Small Cost.
The cultivation of carp is of sufficient
Importance to fully warrant the con-
struction of ponds for the purpose.
But there already exist, on many farms,
ponds used for the collection of ice and
for watering live stock, which could be
converted into carp ponds at nominal
cost. There are also many hollows
and depressions in the land that, by
throwing up breastwork, could be
made to answer the purpose admira-
bly,. 1t is very desirable on several &C
counts to have your pond so you can
draw the water off any time you wish,
so the fish can be sorted and for de-
stroying the enemies to carp. By
draining the ponds once year the in
truders can be removed. The best de-
vice TO put in a pond to drain it, is
cast-irOn pipe (they are the cheapesO
six or more inches, according to the
size of your pond; get it long enough to
go clear through your dam and pro-
ject about two or three feet at each
end. Make large wooden plug.
drive it in the pipe on the inside Of
the dam, and when you want to drain
your pond, get pole and drive the
plug out of the pipe. When the pond
is dry you can drive it in again.
Never build a pond where large
stream of water flows through it, be-
cause it is liable to break your dam and
wash all the spawn and small fish
away, when there is a great amount of
rainfall. Build beside such a stream
and let the water in at the upper end
of the pond. through a tile with net
ting over it so other kinds of fish can
not get in with the carp or they will
mix and be valueless in little while.
In building breast, clay soil is the
best. but other soil will do. After you
have decided where to build your dam,
get a scraper, such as you use in work
ing the roads. A tongue scraper is the
best, as you can handle it better. Plow
up about eighteen or twenty feet wide,
the length of your dam, and scrape all
pillow again, and then scrape till your
udlH Is as niSn as you want IL. Always
keep the clay, if there is any. on the
inside of the dam. When your dam is
done seed it down to white clover, as
it will not freeze out as quick as other
kinds will, and when it is in bloom its
beauty alone will pay you for your
work without the profit on the fish.
When you make an overflow. get
pipe and put an elbow on it. The
pipe should be large enough to carry
the waste water Off Put the long end
of the pipe in your pond and the short
end through the dam. 1t will draw the
cold water from the bottom of the
pond instead of warm water. from the
top, as the warm water always rises to
the top of any pond or vessel. Carp
thrive best in warm water. 1t should
be shallow on the out edge of the pond
and three and half to four feet deep
in the middle, sloping gradually. SO if
there are any children about they can
not step off into deep hole suddenly.
If a person makes any size pond 700
can have pleasure boat on it, which
is alone worth the cost of the pond
r. Il. Israel, IL, Ohio Farmer.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
The ENGINEERS STORY.

Hanson, stranger? Yes she's purity an ez
peart ez she kin be.
Clever? Wy! she amt no chicken, but she s
good enough fur me.
What's her name! lis kind o common, ylt L
amt ashamed to tell,
She's ole Fiddler Fflkin's daughter, an her
dad he calls her Nell
wuz drivin' on the Central" jist about a
On the run from winnemucca up to Reno in
There no end o. skeery places. faint road
fur one who dreams.
With its curves an awful tres les over rocks
an mountain streams.
Twuz an afternoon in August we he'd got be-
hind an hour,
An WIZ tearin' up the mountain Ike sum-
mer thundcr-shOwer.
Round the bends an by the lodges bout eZ
fast ez we could 60,
With the mountain peaks above US an the
river down below.
Ez we come nigh to a tres'le crost q holler,
deep an wild,
Suddenly ! saw q baby, twuZ the station
keepers child,
Toddlin' 2ht along the timbers with bold
an fearless tread
Right afore the locomotive, not hundred
rods ahead
I iist jumped an grabbed the throttle an
ia Tly held nv breath.
Fur felt ! couldn't stop her till the child WIZ
crushed to death,
When woman SpranC gfore me like
sudden streak o light
Caught the toy an Nv Xt the timbers in
second sank from sight.
j list whis'Id al the brakes on. An we
worked with might an main
Till tire ire few from the drivers, but We
couldn't stop the train.
An il rumb,cd on above her. How she
screamed ez we rolled by
An the river rOarcd below us-I shell hear
her TIL die.
Then'wc stop't: the sun WIZ shinin'; 1 ran
hack along the ridge,
An ] found her-Gcgd: No, Twin. She wuZ
hangin To the bridge
Whcr she drOpt down tnrO' the croSs-ties
with one arm about a sill
An the other round the baby, who wuZ
yellIn' fur 10 Kill,
So we saved 'em. She wuz gritty. She's ez
peart Ell she kin be
Now were married; she's no chicken, but
she's good enough for me,
An ei eny ask who owns her, wy! / amt
ashamed to tell
She's my Wife. Their amt none better than
ole Eilkns daughter Nell"
-EUgeIis j. Hdu in Current.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
DEMOCRATIC TIO-BITS.

1t will save the Democratic party
a great deal of money if the Republic
ans can be fooled into renominating
Mr.. Blaine.-N Y. Star.
Senator Edmunds is still men
toned occasionally as a Presidential
possibility; but the mention appears to
be only from force of habit. Cinci:s-
natl Enquirer.
The only statesman in Pennsyl-
vania is man by the name of Quay.
We disremember whether he has ever
been in the penitentiary. If he has
never been he soon will, be for it is the
way the Republican statesmen of Penn
sylvania dedicate themselves to the
public. Constitution.
When Congressman Jim Camp
bell, of New York City. called on the
President to tell him that the boys
wouldn't stand it any longer, he was
told to tell the boys that it would be
s'all right in time" When the Con-
gresham who is or is not to be re-
elected in month or so tried to ma Ike
it appear that there was no time left,
the conversation closed by return to
the first proposition, and if the boys
can't wait, they can consult together
and see what they propose to do about
it But they'd better wait.--&. LeSs
Republicans.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
GOOD TIMES SOUTH.
Section Where Capital and Labor Seem
to BE at Peace.

Section Where Capital and Labor Seem
to BE at Peace.
1t is gratifying to observe that there
is one section of the country in which
industrial growth does not seem to be
paralyzed by strikes, lock-outs and
other forms of war between the capital
that gives employment to labor and
the labor that should be glad to be en-
ployed at remunerative wages by cap
ital. For some reason the South has
been fortunately free from these ruin
Gus disputes between labor and capital
and the result is that the industrial
growth of the South is phenomenal.
The first three months in the year
1886 show that the new manufacturing
and mining enterprises in the South,
together with some important extern
siOns of old concerns. will employ cap
ital to the amount of thirty-six and a
half millions of dollars. This capital
has been drawn largely from the North
and East and from Europe. although
Southern capitalists have invested very
literally. The new growth is not con-
fined to few industries, but extends
over almost the entire range of human
industry, from iron furnaces and cot
ton mills to fruit canneries and ice fac
tories. The list is largely made up of
small factories and workshops, in each
of which a small capital and few
workmen are employed, although there
are a few large concerns, one of which
invests two millions in new iron and
steel furnaces.
In only two of the fourteen States in
which portions of this thirty-six millions
of new capital is being invested have
there been any serious troubles of late.
They are Texas and Maryland, and it
is worth noting that in Maryland the
amount of new capital Invested is more
than a million dollars less than during
the same time last year, although the
aggregate capital invested in the whole
fourteen is nearly double what it was
in the first three months of 1885. The
South is to be congratulated on this
showing and it is ardently to
be hoped that the evident prosperity of
that section may not turn out to be a
spasmodIc boom, but steady and con-
tinuous growth. Philadelphia Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
EXPOSING CONKLING.
An Amusing and Embarrassing Scene
Which New York's Ex-senator FIJI

An Amusing and Embarrassing Scene in
Which New York's Ex-senator Fig
ures.
The threat of some of the Senators to
investigate newspaper men and their
methods of obtaining the secrets of ex-
ecutive sessions revive many stories in
regard to former attempts at this
thing, and one especially is interesting,
as it relates to Mr.. Conkling and
marks the starting point of the cool
ness between himself and the press
here. A Senator who was in a talka-
tive mood gave me an interesting ac-
count of the proceedings IN the Senate
at the time-1S74 The Senate had
just completed their work on the
Washington treaty and the great points
of settlement between Great Britain
and this country had been decided, but
were not ready for publication. The
day after the session several papers
published the entire proceedings of the
executive session. An investigation
followed and two correspondents were
arrested and locked up in the capital
because they would not testify. Dur
inc one of the sessions Roscoe Conk-
ling drew up some resolutions
in regard to the investigation
and Senator Carpenter, of Wis
consin, offered them. Next day
they were published. COnkling was
in towering rage, and took occasion
to get up in the Senate and deny hay-
ing written the resolutions. The Sem
ate galleries and floor were crowded.
The whole thing worked like a play.
Mr.. Conkling was most dramatic, as
well as emphatic, in his denial of au-
thorship of the resolutions, and de-
clared that the papers tried to place
HIM in wrong light. Having had his
say, Mr.. Conkling walked into the
cloak-room. He had hardly gone
therein before Senator Henry Wilson,
afterward Vice-President, entered the
chamber by the main door. He
walked to his seat, and, before he had
time to find out what was going on, he
arose and addressed the chair in refer
ence to these resolutions, drawn by
the Senator from New York (Mr.
Conkling) and offered by the Senator
from Wisconsin (Mr. Carpenter) in
the last executive session. He got no
further, for some one arose IN hurry
and choked the Senator off by saying
he was giving away executive secrets.
The galleries looked aghast. Mr..
Conkling came from the cloak-roOm
looking like a sheet, so white and pale.
He was caught. The press gallery
fairly shook with suppressed laughter
at his discontinue. He made an ex-
PLANTATION, but it was lame one. This
killed the investigation. The men
were discharged, and Conkling lost
ground with the press for the side he
took against them that he has never
least in Washington
Wash. Cor. indianapolis Journal.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
EORSAKEN EDMuNpS.
No Balm for His Soreness in Washingto
and Nothing But Gall for His Bitter
ness in Vermont.

No Balm for His Soreness in washingtoa
and Nothing But Gall for His Bitter
ness in Vermont.
What has become of that noble
phalanx of Republican Senators who
met in solemn conclave and bound
themselves by the most earnest assev-
eratiOns to follow the mandates of the
sexagenarian Green Mountain boy,
never, never to confirm the successor
of any poor. prosecuted Republican
turned out in the cold by the unfeeling
Democratic President? Where is that
wonderful Senatorial Uehn1gericht, be-
fore whom the unconfirmed officehold-
ers were to tremble, and the Admins
tration to shake in its collective and
individual boots? All gone away, as
Hans Breitman would say, in the et0ig-
keH. When the doors of the Sem
ate were locked and Mr.. Edmunds
called upon every Republican to
do his duty, and sit down on
South Carolina internal revenue col
lector, not less than two-thirds of his
forces not only went over to the enemy,
but intimated in effect that his judg
ment was as unreliable as the walls of
some of the Rutland marble quarries.
Other instances of mutiny against the
self-constituted leader from Vermont
have been recorded in the secret ses-
slous, and that too confident director
finds all his painfully constructed plans
of obstruction 60 the way of his King
Charles speech and end in derision and
inextinguiShable laughter Even the
congenial companiOnship of that I'M
seemly talker, Ingalls,, fails to relieve
poor Mr.. Edmunds from a crushing
sense of loneliness.
The visions of a boom increasing in
dimensions by the unquestioning acqui-
escence in his leadership in the Senate
until il should attain its full growth, in
1888, are fast fading away. The Sem
atorS kicked in their traces, not once,
but several times, and the fragments of
the boom are now strewn over the floor
of the Senate. And, worse than all, in
another year Mr.. Edmunds will have
to cast his eyes Vermontward to ascer-
tain whether he is wanted for another
term. He knows that powerful OPP
position is building up in the Green
Mountain State against him, and that
his hopes of overcoming it lie in show
ing his power in the United States Sem
ate. Thus far he has only proved his
weakness. His pettish, childish con-
duct has done much towards obliterat-
ing the good opinion of him held by
his brother Republicans, and he now
sadly exclaims: MY high-blown pride
at length broke under me-" Poor Ed
munds! He never got over the shock
of that terrible message which was sent
from the White House. He ventured
beyond his depth, ''like little wanton
boys that swim on bladders." There
is no balm for him in Washington, and
nothing but gall in albany
ArguS.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
No. 8 in the Cabinet.

A proposition to establish another
Cabinet office has come before Con-
gress, and is meeting general favor
both in Washington and throughout
the country. 1t is reasonably certain
that large majority of the members
of the House will vote to elevate the
head of the Department of Agriculture
to a seat in the Cabinet. The PROPOSE
ton as it now comes before the House
is to unite the interest of labor and ag-
riculture under the supervision of a
secretary of agriculture and labor, who
shall be the head of an executive de-
partment.-Bufdlo Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20

For your Fruit and Ornamental Trees, cen
sisting of the following kinds OF Trees, Vines
etc.: Apples, Peach, Pears, Plums, Cherry,
Ounce, Ap-icots, Crab Apples. Juneberries-
Raspoerries RlackDe1ries, Strawberries, Cur
rants, Gooseberries, Pie Plant, and all kinds
of SPADE Trees and Towering Shrubs, Ever
green's Creepers, Climbing Vines, etc. Early
Illinois Potatoes, two weeks earlier than the
Early Rose or Early Vermont; cooks dry and
meafy; can use them when only half grown
will guarantee potatoes large enough 70 ~
in six weeks from time of planting.
II you need anything in the above line zoo
vH saw money by calling on or addressing
e. EIChotTz. Detroit, kaa,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
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 Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20
If the land-prabber

IF the land-grabbers OF the past
can not be reached by law, then the
people of this country should be pro-
tected in future from the wholesale
misrepresentation of our public domain.
This country is increasing so rapidly in
population that ali the public domain
should be carefully guarded and re-
served for worthy and industrious citi-
zens, the bread-winners, who are anx-
ieus and willing to make their living
and improve their condition by honest
tol.-AuQHStG Chronicle.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20

~ ANY person who takes the paper reg
ularly from the post-office, whether directeC
to his name or whether ne is a subscriber O.
not, IS responsible for the pa-.
The courts have decided that refusing d
take newspapers from the pOst-Ofce, or Te
moving and leaving them uncalled for. !
Trims fscie evidence of INTENTIONAL FRAU!
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-20

SuAuOSO w A6O pooSCu kSO ~ W oo
saidl seven years to construct and carve
this masterpiece o. work of ivory, nacre,
pearl and ebony. The black king was the
perfect likeness Of the monarch reigning
over Labor, and who was called Goala
Sing. the lion shepherd, emblematic desig-
nation of the courage and kindness pos
Sessed by that sovereign. The white king
was the living picture of the magnani-
nous Fo-Hi, the venerable Emperor of
China, the potentate agriculturist, who had
invented two shrubs and three flowers
through a wonderful work of matching and
graft. The sixteen pawns of ivory and
ebony were carved with the most exquisite
taste. Their little eyes shone like car
buncles; they put their left foot forwad
and aimed with an arrow of nacrs resting
on filigrane of gold Bonze Dhealy had
won this chess board and pieces in tourn-
ament with the grandson of the celebrated
Kosrii. He was proud of them as the tenn
pie OF Nagpur is proud of its gates of
bronze, the MASTERPIECES Of El-Manussi, the
great sculptor.
Both players sat on the sand, before the
low reliefs representing Triarre, the be-
loved elephant of India. As soon as the
first figures were moved by Ajeeb the
bonze became aware that he had before
him the most re3outable chess player of
Asia; but he did not despair to vanquish
him. He proposed to him to play for a
stake. Generally speaking PLAYERS who
stake part of their fortune on the result
OF game often make big mistakes and
lose through timidity but as Ajeeb had only
a few more hours to live he thought it use
less to except any thing from his earthly
possessions.
81 put up all my fortune as a stake, ~
said Ajeeb to the bonze.
SIS it little or muchr' asked Dhealy.
"a rice field, a dwelling house on the
Triplican, another in Tchina-P atnam and a
ship now in Taragambur, the city of the
waves Of the ses. the queen of Coroman-
del There are the deeds of those proper
ties in this sandalwood box; they bear the
seal of our Chief Magistrate"
Take care replied the bonze, 'do you
except any thing' Think, if you lose, you
will be poorer than rice thrasher, you
will be compelled to yoke the oxes in the
Tandigel for living"
''Sun of NagpurI" answered Ajeeb,
smiling, 81 have thought of every thing u
"Aht Wen, viii place against your