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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08
Farm Notes.

Trees in a cultivated field are trouble
some. but where they are not numerous
they add enough to the beauty of the land
scape to compensate.
A soil but five inches deep can not be
worth as much as another that gives free
scope to the roots of plants to whatever
depth they may penetrate in search of nu-
timent.
In order to produce the ''bunch'; celery
that is so famous in the Boston markets the
plants are given plenty of room in which to
grow, so that the suckers or side branches
will start simultaneously with the central
shoot.
By keeping land in clover. cutting the
first crop aud blowing under the second,
New York farmer Troduced 100 bushels of
shelled corn per acre. The fertilizer used
was a handful of hen manure around each
hill Of corn
Tbs amount of small fruits that can be
raised Or a mere garden patch is almost
incredible. An acre of small fruits will
yield as much profit as an eighty-acre farm
under cultivation.
1t is said that the best mode of using sui
phur about plants. in order to destroy in
sects, is to sprinkle it on the ground during
a warm day, when it will prove beneficial
without injurins the plant.
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FARM AND FiRESlDE.

Salt extracts the juices from meat
in cooking. Steaks ought not. there
fore. to be sailed until they have been
broiled.
1t is a very good plan to have two
sets OF roOsting-poles for the hens and
change tn I'm each week, setting them
outside wn I'll not N use.
DO not fleet u tie the Young
/! growth of srl2t,-vinss to the poles or
! tr.lliS from time to time so that the
wind can not whip them about the
stakes or over the wires and injure
! them Western Rural.
To sweeteu rancid butter, take
strong lime-water and work the butter
over in it just as YOU would work It if
just taken from the churn to get the
buttermiik out OF Cincinnati Times
If ants are to be killed. sponge
saturated with sweetened water. it is
said, will be quickly filled with them.
The sponge may then be dipped in
boiling water from time to time.
Lemon Tart: One cup of sugar,
two lemons, all the juice, and tea
spoonful of grated peel, one teaspoon
ful of corn starch dissolved in little
cold watar. and one and one-half dozen
ra;sins. stewed, cut in two and seeded.
Beat up well, and bake with upper and
lower crust.-The household.
"A delicious pudding is made in this
way: Chop pineapple quite fine; take
some cake which is little dry, rub it
fine in your hands or crush it on
kneading board; put it into a pudding
dish in alternate layers with the pine
apple. sweeten abundantly, moisten
with cold water and bake in moderate
oven for an hour or so.-.N. Y. Herald.
When it is understood that if
allowed to ripen to seed perfectly, the
grass loses all its rich juices, and be-
comes mere dry Straw-wOOdy fibre. 4
little silicate of pota III and very tri-
fling quantity of vegetable eXtractive
matter the importance Of cutting it at
the right time will be apparent
Indianapolis Sentinel.
To boil pudding in bag. dip the
bag (Which should be made of thick
cotton or linen) in hot water, and rub
the inside with flour before putting in
the pudding. When doae. dip the bag
in cold water and the pudding will turn
out easily. Always put plate on the
bottom of the kettle TO keep the pudding
from burning.--BGptiSt Weekly.
Usually the use of blinds cause the
very evil it is intended to remedy-shy-
ing. The horse SHES because he sees
somathin Q imparfcctly, or can not see
at all an object which makes noise,
the nature of which he does not und er-
stand. If he has not blinds to interfere
with his sight, he will shy less often.
If you. cOuli not see on either side,
only stra ght ahead. You would be far
more timid, your heart would suddenly
begin to beat faster, much oftener than
it does aow. So with a horse; blinds
make him timid. If you have Il horse
addicted to saying, remove the blinds
and be kind to hire for few days, I'M
til he has gainnd confidence in himself
and in You. This will effect radical
cure. - RuruJ NcIG Yorker.
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GRAND ARMY GOSSIP.

A Grand Army post is soon to be estab-
lished at Kimball, Cheyenne County, Neb.
The survivors of the Twent--fourth Ohio
will hold their first reunion in the State
House at Columbus, Ohio, July %.
Mount Vernon post, of Chicago, has pur-
chased fine resting place in lakewood
Cemetery for all veterans, and steps are to
be taken to erect monument in memory
of the dead heroes
D. c. Rankin, of Company E, Twenty
fourth Ohio, Lafayette. Ind, would like to
have the address of Captain George NJ. Ba-
rom, Lieutenants Samuel Reber, jeff De-
Long, or any member of Company E.
Twenty-fourth Ohio.
On June a the organization of the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States for the State of Kansas
took place at Leavenworth, with an ini-
tial number of over seventy members.
Visitors were present from several States
and the ceremonies were of a highly in
teresting order.
Edward Foulston. of Company G., Twen-
tieth Illinois infantry, was captured on or
abont July II. 1864, near Atlanta, Ga. DIR.
A. j. Miles, of Peotone, VIII County, H.,
writes that Foulston's widow is anxious
to get the address of any old soldier who
witnessed that capture, or who was ASSOC
ciated with her husband in a Confederate
prison.
A neatly prepared roster of the posts of
the department of California Grand Army
Of the Republic, has been issued. 1t shows
there are 120 posts in the State. The officer
of the department arc: Commander, W.
K. Smedburg. San Francisco; senior vice
commander, George E. Gard, Los Angeles;
junior vice commander, S. F. Daniels;
medical director, n. S. Hanlin, Marys-
vile; chaplin, W. L. Stephens st. Helena.
The Loyal Legion has sent Mrs. General
George b. Mcclellan a souvenir of Decora-
ton Day. It consists of list of the COM
mittee having the memorial services Of her
late husband in charge, together with the
exercises. The programme and each com
mittee occupies page, the top of which
bears beautiful symbol of the department
represented. The binding is sealskin. and
is tied with three ribbons, the red repre-
senting the artillery, the yellow the caval-
ry, and the blue the infantry.
A Paris Qll) editor was recently shown
tive-dollaT greenback which had been
travelling around for twenty-four years.
1t was issued in 1862 and had written on
the back, Pat. Curneen, Bat. B, Sd N. Y.
Art, March Il. 1862" which led the paper
to publish the fact and indulge in a few
remarks about the possible fate of the SOL
der. The paragraph met the eye of the
editor of the Danville 0ll.) Commercial,
who knew Pat. Curneen, the old soldier,
residing now at Danville. Mr.. Curneen
says Battery B was paid off on the steamer
Fulton, in the Chesapeake Bay, en- route to
Newburn, n. c., and from that place he
put the aforesaid five-dOllar bill afloat.
He has been a resident of DanviIle since
the 9th of August, 1879. He had a wife
and children, but they are all dead. The
old soldier is q member of Kenesaw post
No a, at Danville.
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PHILADELPHIA, July 2.-The heavy de
falcation of the treasurer of the Chesa.
peake q Delaware Canal Company, which
was discovered yesterday, continues TO be
the main topic of discussion in financial
circles. Several experts lave been set TO
work at the books of the corporation and
are busily engaged today in examining the
accounts TO ASCERTAIN whether the Specula-
tons OF jules j. Wilson, the absconding
treasurer, aggregate more than be acknnw!-
edges in his confession to President Dill
lingham. The latter has sworn out war
rants for the arrest OF both Wilson and
Henry n. Lesley, tie former secretary and
treasurer OF the company, charging them
with embeZzlement A description of Will
son was furnished 10 the detective depart
ment and telegraphed to all poiice de-
tectiyes in the United States and Canada
and in Europe and elsewhere. The chief of
detectives thinks that the fugitive has gone
to Canada,
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Invalids, Hotel and Surgical Institute.

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1855.
THE POSTAL CLERKS.

Postmaster Villas to Have a Rakin" Over
For His I:eccat Order DisciuargIng Postal
Clerks.
INDIANAPOLIS Ind, July "A promi-
nent Official of the Brotherhood of Postal
Clerks, which assemblies here Oday, gives
the subjoined outline of the programme
that will be carried out: To send COM
mittee TO Mr.. Villas to remind him OF the
unsolicited promise he made to them on
the threshold of his official career
as Postmaster General, and TO demand
that all clerks retired from the service i'll
the future be presented with copy
of the charges leading 10 their removal,
together with TIE name of the person or
persons making the charges. In addition
to this they will now demand the TeinState,
ment of those clerks VINO have been r.
moved on the charges OF conspiracy. In the
event of the Postmaster General refusing TO
perform this act of simple Justice, which
would be fralght with So much permanent
benefit to the mail service the official de-
cIareS that he will be asked to accept the res
ignatiOns of the entire brotherhood. The or
ganiZatiOn is said to number about 1000
the majority of whom are employed Oh
Western railways. The promise referred
to was contained i'm the following special
notice issued by tine Postmaster General
March 81, 1885: Railway postal clerks
who have become efficient and valuable
men, against whom no just complaint of
neglect, inattentiOn or want of fidelity,
hnnesty or ineiticiency can be brought, need
have no fears of being disturbed 81 long as
they continue to render meritoriOuS and
faithful service"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08
STOCK ITEMS.

The best bred stock costs the most money
but its produce brings deal more than the
produce of that which is badly bred.
In feeding you want to notice that some
animals are more dainty as to their choice
than others. Their likes should be respect
ed.
The advice to put cow before calving
on short rations to prevent milk fever is
bad. The food should be regular, not
forced. ... ..
Irregularity in sailing viii not conducc
to the laying on Of flesh. Especially in
dairying will irregularity in sailing show
in the milk.
1t is said that calves begin to form cuds
and ruminate as soon as they are allowed
on the pasture. but three months is soon
enough to allow them to do so OF the result
will be scourS.
Bad slough. water will mako milk that
contains fermentive organisms and that is
liable to decay. Made into butter or cheese
the latter will not keep. See that the cows
do not quench their thirst in barn-yard
pools. .3.f.
Molasses and a teaspoontul of flour OF
sulphur will relieve a sheep troubled with
constipation. A quarter pound of the sui
phur to one pound of salt placed where the
sheep can lick it will prove a valuable fac
tor in removing this sort of trouble from
a flock
The Rural Home thinks that If the farm
ers will keep good mutton sheep and send
fine carcasseS to the market they need not
bother about the wool, as the profit in sheep
is from the mutton and early lambs, to say
nothing of the fact that sheep greatly i'm
prove the soil.
The grease which is natural to wool is a
valuable substance and is extracted by t Q
French people for the purpose of various
industries. 1t contains large quantity of
potash, and consists of natural soap. SOL
uble in water and able to take up a large
quantity of it. 1t is a costly waste to wash
sheep, and the New York Times thinks in
course of time this valuable fat, which often
weighs more than the fleece, will be saved
and utilized.
Flowers of sulphur are generally often
sive to all forms of parasite life. and the
addition of it to sheep dip is beneficial.
The following are the proportions in
which tobacco and sulphur are combined
for din: Tobacco leaves and sulphur of
each IN pound, water, five gallons. Boil
the tobacco and water and then add the
sulphur. Have sufficient quantity of the
liquid in a tank to make the sheep swim,
and keep it hot while using. A non-pois-
onous and good DIP is made as follows:
Soft soap, one and one-half pounds; CO...
Donate of potash, one-fourth pound; flow
ers of sulphur, two and one-half pounds.
Boil half an hour in twenty gallons of
victor. This is enough for twenty sheep.
It should be kept hot and the animals kept
In FIVE minutes Wrsf0rn Rural
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A DISHONEST TREASURER.

Immense DefaicatiOn of the Treasurer OF
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Company.
PHILADELPHIA, July IA hasty sum-
monng Of the members of the board OF
directors of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal Company early yesterday afternoon
created Il stir III financial circles and the re-
port quickly flew about that a heavy
defaicaiion had been discovered in the ac-
counts of one of the officers. TIE company
Is one of the oldest and was in earlier
times one OF the wealthieSt corporations in
the Middle States, holding a charter under
the Legislatures of PENNSYLVANIA, Delaware
and Maryland. The first rumOr that reached
the street was that Treasurer james a.
l.. Wilson had defaUlted in his accounts
to the extent of Sis, 900. The
facts, as subsequently aScertaintd,
more accurately, were that an overdose of
bonds to the amount of S6lj,260 had been
made under the thirty-year mortgage loan
of the company of July, 1865, for 81, 100000.
The loan natures tO-mOrrOw, and prepare
lions having been made for its extension.
the return of the bonds for certificatiOn at
the office to-day would have revealed the
over issue. Treasurer Wilson did not APP
pear at the Office yesterday, but on his desk
was q note containing confession OF gully
and knowledge of the fraudulent tIanSac-
ton. He lett the city last night, it is al
legged, in company with Henry '. Lesley,
former treasurer, under whose adininistra-
ton the Overissue was made
j. A. S. Wilson, the accused defaulteT, is
about siXty-five years of age, and for over
thirty years lTas been connected with the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company,
having been Its treasurer since 1888, WHEN
he succeeded Henry V. Lesley. The aniiual
report was regarded as very good one. Il
stated that the total revenue for the year
ending My 81 was S210,974, the expenses,
Including SIG, go interest on the mortgage
lOaH were Sis, $40, and the net earnings
49,, 344, which the directors thought, COLI
siderIng the unsettled state of labor and
depression i'm business, was gratifying eX
hbit 1t was also learned al the injecting
that considerable number of the bond
holders had given their consent to the extern
sion of the cOmpamy'S Loaf loan at five per
cent for thirty years from to-day. The
amount of These bonds was supposed to be
81, 993, $50, although by the fraudulent over
issue the amount standing TO the credit Of
loan holders is s.. 6OS.9J0.
The letter LETT by Treasurer Wilson on
his desk, which was written C .OSely and Ia
some length on several small sheets of note
paper, was then read 10 the board. The
defaultiHg treasurer gave full and inelaIl-
choly account of the overisSue, which had
remained a secret for so long a time.
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Baseball Doodle

CTNCIHySATI. June S0.-The directors O.
the American Baseball Association are here
to-day in response to special summons
from President Wykof, for the purpose of
investigating the charges made by the En-
q,ttrer against Manager Taylor and Tony
Mullane. TlIeSe charges 1t VIII be remem
bered were first published about ten day
ago, and relate to the alleged selling out
games in various cities by Mulane.. Grea
interest i'm the outcome of tie investigation
is manifested by the Association clubs. on.
it is given cut that the charges will be fully
gone into and that the investigation viii
not be q whitewashed one.
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Heavy DefalCation.

BosToN, Mass, july LIB. j. Lane,
president of the Abingdon, Mass, National
bank and the ROckIand Savings bank, is on
his way TO this city. having been caught in
Portland. Me-, yesterday While in the act
of taking train for Canada. His .defaIca.
tons amount to over $4,000, all OF which,
it is said, he appropriated, To his own
use. This does not include large amount
of money and securities appropriated
from the estate of Washington Reed, He
was treasurer of church la Rockland and
large amount of the church funds are
said TO be missing. Lane has an interest
ing family and was recognized as one of the
pillars in religious circles of this State.
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Bills Approved.

WAsHISGIoS, July 2.-The. President
has approved the act to reduce the fee on
domestic orders for sums not exceeding SIS;
the act making allowances for CLERK hire &c
postmasters OF the first aud second class of.
ices; the Military, POst-office, Agriculture
and Army appropriation -oills:-fh s-ac.
granting leaves of absence to employees in
the Government printing Offices; the ACT
providing for the completing of the public
building at Hannibal, No.; the act for the
relief of the Kansas City, Fort Scott s
Gulf Railroad Company; the act authoriz
ing the Cheyenne & Northern Railway
Company to build a road across the For
Russell and Fort Laramie reservations.
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Found Dead.

Houston, Tex, June S0.-Last night at
7:3O o'clock NJ B. Cash, ayoung man about
twenty-eight years old, was found dead in
his room at Mrs. Greenaugh's restaurant on
Travis street The deceased was tie son
of j. b. Cash, prominent citizen of Brazo-
ria Co., and was well known i'm Houston,
Justice Ramey. held an inquest over the
body at 5 o'clock. The verdict was that
Cash retired last night at 1880, and r.
queSted to be aroused at 5 O'Clock
this morning. When called hv
the servant he answered but did not gel up
The servant left his watch at five O'Clock
yesterday morning aud did not Return UNI
seven last! night
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08

OLD pill boxes are spread over the land
tied by suffering humanity. What mass
of sickening, disgusting medicine the poor
stomach has TO contend with. Too much
strong medicine. Prickly Ash Bitters is
rapidly and surely taking the place of all
this class of drugs, andis curing all the ills
arising from disordered condition of the
liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08

''LovE is blind" True, true. The young
man never sees the dog until it is too late
to escape in a dignitied manner.-ChicGgo
Ledger.
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falling of the hair is arrested, and bald
ness averted, by using Halls Hair Remover.
Obstinate cases of fever and ague can be
cured by taking Ayers Ague Cure.
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CRED CLOUD" the Indian warrior, con-
templates visiting Washington. He wants
a silver lining, pOssibly.-NGtiOHGt Weekly.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08

WHEN an idler enters the sanctum Of a
busy editor, and the editor says; Glad to
see you're back what does he meant
" y I1tdeDendeIt
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08

TIE trade journals report an increased
movement in boots and shoes. That's what
makes so many cornS-TrOg Time'.
UPSIDE down-A feather bed-Life
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08

LADIES who possess the finest complex
ions are among the patrons of GLENS's
SULPHUR SOAP. HILLS HAIR AND WHISPER
DYE, Black or Brown, SOC.
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In New jersey the mosquitoes are
so bad at night thatno girl gets courted
unless she has a good mosquito bar
n. Y Mail.
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A WESTERN man has a cyclone cellar
W ich he retires to when his wife COM
mences house-cleaninG.-B CODsner-
ciGL BUlEetiH.
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IT is observed that the manageable girl
of the period talks horse because it is the
language of the groom.-Iid-B Bits.
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A MAN should be allowed to laugh at his
own jokes. Others may not see where ne
laugh comes in.
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JAY GoULD's income is said to be
ten cents every time the clock ticks. This
beats the best patronized dime museum
LotceU Courier
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You've man, never say to your sire
''You might go, father, and fare worse. y
Detroit Free Press.
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WAS the dram beaten because it called
the harp lyreH '-TeeaS SiJtings.
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A BACHELOR editor who had pretty I'M
married sister, lately wrote to one similar
ly circumstanced: please exchanged
" Y telegram.
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Man proposes; woman discloses, and then
the whole world says Il told you so. bur.
ERgton Free Press.
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SOLD again-Second-hand articles ltr.
EngtOH Free Press.
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MEN who think they mold pr. lie
opinion say to the world: please ask al
when you wish to think"-N o. Picay1t1se.
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WHEEL never tire of entertaining the cy-
clists. Let them axle they want and they
shall have it.-BOstOn Post
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USE DR.. Pierce's '.Pelletsn for constipa
ton.
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a LAWYER is not cat; bat he can bs
placed III the fee-line category.
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A WRITER says: What quaint head was
Carlyle's." Were you quaint head with
m!-Teras SittiHgS.
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GAS bills should be carefully filed; not
necessarily for preservation, but in OF lei
to reduce their size.-Jadge.
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THE small boy now dreams Of marble
hauls "-BostOH Commercial
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He covered the whole point-The man
who sat down on a carpet tack.-LJe