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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-05-16
Pursuits and Pleasures.

In regard to the lawfulness of certain pur-
suits. pleasures. and amusements, it is i'm
possible to lay down any fixed and general
rule: but we may confidently say that
whatever is found to unfit you for religious
duties. or to interfere with the performance
of them, whatever dissipates your mind or
coOlS the fervOr of your devotions. what
ever indispOses you to read your bibles or to
engage in prayer. wherever tie thought of
bleeding Savior or of holy God of the
hour of death or the day of judgement, falls
like cold shadow on your enjoyment. the
pleasures which you cannot thank God for.
on which you cannot ask His blessing,
whose recollectiOns will haunt dying bed,
and plant sharp thOrns in its uneasy pillow
these are not for you. These eschew; in
these be not cOnfOrlned to the world but
transformed to the renewal of your mind
Touch not, taste not, handle not" Never
go where you cannot ask God to 20 with
you; never be found where you would not
like death to find you; never indulge in any
pleasures which will not bear the mornings
reflections. Keep yourselves unspotted
from the world. not from its spots only,
but even from its suspicious. Guthrie.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-05-16

1t is the habitual thought that frames
itself into our life. 1t affects us even more
than our intimate social relations do Our
confidential friends have not 50 much to do
in shaping our lives as thoughts have which
we harbOr.--The Farmer and Manufacturer.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
THE PANAMA CANAL.
Lieutenant Rogers Predicts the UItimat
Completion of the Great Work.

Lieutenant Rogers Predicts the Ultimate
Completion of the Great Work.
No exact estimate of the time and
money required to finish the canal can
be made. as much of the data needed
is unknown. NJ Charles de Lesseps
said Ia me: in two wears the canal
will DE finished from Colon TO llilometer
forty-four, and from In Boca to
Paradise. AS to the Culebra, | leave
you to form your own conclusions. Il
is great and difficult work"
1t is evident that the Fate of excava-
ton in work of such magnitude must
be small until the plant is complete; it
is equally true that more work can be
done in given time with complete
installation than with one OF less size.
Hence it is false reasoning TO conclude
that if $4,000 0G0 cubic meters are
cxcavated in five years, it will require
twelve years to extract the remaining
IS. 000,0 G0. That such reasoning is
absurd is shown by the cube of last
Year, which was 11,727.000 cubic
meters. At this rate it would require
about seven years to complete the
canal. Il is hot probable that this
rate will be exceeded materially for
year or more.
Keeping in mind the sum already ex-
pended. and the purposes TO which it
was applied, it is unreasonable to pre-
Il, hn : Il.
will be less than 2.000,000.0 900 francs,
or about S375.O00.O00. These figures
are now acknowledged by the COM
pany; but owing to the great sacrifice
ut which che loans are obtained, the
liabilities of the company will be nearly
double this amonnt.
Any views concerning the compile
ton of the canal by the present COM
pany must be conjecturaI; but if the
present loan be expended with economy
the results will enhance the prospects
of success.
At Colon there were many residents
and foreigners not interested In the
canal. The most bitter opponents of
the enterprise We're Americans and
Engiishmen, or former employees OF the
company who had been discharged or
had = similar grievance. But from all
sources there was a free admission that
the company has both brains and
energy. that the canal presents no in
superable obstacles, ami that its COM
ple:ion is question of time and money.
Lieutenant Charles G. 12gers, ia Pop.
tlGr Science Non.h.y.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
STORIES OF ELEPHANTS.
The Esteem In Which the Huge Animal,
Were Hold by the Ancients.

| The Esteem In Which the Huge Animal.
! Were Hold by the Ancients.
The ancients, who are sparing in their
praises of the dog. (by far the larger
part of the world has always abhOrred
him rs the very type of uncleanness)
could not speak too highly of the ele.
plant. The elder Pliny, who was 8
| diiigent collector of anecdotes rather
than an observer, SURPRISES himself
when he treats of this animal. He
places him as unquestionably next tc
man. Intelligence. obedience, memory.
ambition. affection, honesty, prudence
and justice are among the catalogue of
virtues which he ascribeS to these crea.
lures. He even declares that they are
religious. worshiping the stars. the sun
and the moon, an assertion in which
he is followed by Plutarch and Eliau.
The stories which he te lis of their sa.
gacity and aptitude for acquiring ac-
complishments are marvellous. That
they should 90 through the motions OF
dance or gladiatOrial combat is cred
ible. Busbecq tells OF one which he
himself saw in Turkey that danced and
played at bail. But our faith is taxed
when we read of four elephants
walking on tight ropes. carrying
another in 4 litter. Yet the testimony
of the ancients as to this particular ac-
cOmpliShment is very strong. Possibly
the funambulism of elephants is one OF
the lost arts of antiquity. Writing
also is al accomplishment which we
fear the animal no longer acquires.
Aucianus, the friend OF Vespasian.
knew of an animal which could write a
Greek hcXameter, not, however, ont OF
its own head; and we have a pathetic
story of one which. having been beaten
for being somewhat Backward in its
reading-for the elephants own the
human trait of having ounces among
them-was found diligently coming its
task by night. 1t was, however, in
stcrner character than that of dancer
or scholar that antiquity best knew the
elephant. He was 4 most formidable
implement of war. The Carthaginians
were the first so TO utilize him in Euro
pean warfare, and it is remarkable
fact that they, and they only. have
been able to educate the African
species of the race for human uses. 1t
may be doubted, indeed, whether the
military utility of the animal compen-
stated for the enormous expense and
trouble which he must have caused. If
Hannibal had not lost ali his elephants
but one almost before he began his cam
paign he would certainly have found it
impossible to feed them. Their use, in
deed, in Western warfare has not been
frequent. One of the latest occasions
of their employment seems to have
been BY the Emperor Claudius when he
invaded Britain in the third year of his
reign. They are still found, but for
show rather than use, in the military
establishments of the East. But it is
clear that they could not exist in the
face of the arms of precision.-LOnGon
Spectator.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Strawberries are s12 n quart. Tho

Strawberries are Sl2 quart. Tiers
ought to be gold in quartz of this kline
for the producer.-Boston Bulletin.
Pulling weeds is not so unpleasant
work. particularly when they grow or
pretty little widows bonnet-Puct.
Many a broadcloth husband owe:
his prosperity to the fact that he mar
ried a Bingham girL-SaH Francisco
Bulletin.
There are no real estate agents ir
Alaska. That's why nobody pretend'
it has the most delightful climate in
the world. boston Globe.
The men who have walked bare
footed over the burning sand of tn,
desert always know all about the times
.'that tried mems soles."
-"Nothing is more pernicious thar
the habit of contracting debts" re
marked Il father to his spendthrift son.
Don't you think expanding them Is :
little worse?" asked the latter-P;tts-
6urgh Chronicle.
Some people are so sanguine il
this world that they think they car
plant handful of seed in snow-drift
and gather Il carload of Strawberries
the day after the first thaw. -DaittHiorc
american.
MA, did that comedy you saw lasi
night make all the folks cry?" Why.
no, my dear. never laughed so much
in all nv life.'' "Well, pa told Mr..
Jones everybody in the theater sat in
tiers."
-Teacher-"J Johnny, do you remem-
Der the proverb | gave YOU Yesterday
Johnny-"No'm." speech is silver
and what is it?'' Il dunno, num-" -
know" spoke up a little boy ut the
foot of the class. Very well, You
may recite it." Speech is silver. but
money talks.-N. Y Sun"
How are you and your wife com
ING on?" asked an Austin gentleman
of Il colored man. ''She has run me-
of. boss" whats the matter?' u
is to blame, boss. gave her It SPLEEN
did white silk dress, and den she got 81
proud she had no use for me. She said
was too dark to match de dress. y
Teras Sytjngs.
You have mentioned several time
during the evening"" observed ono of
the audience to lecturer, the word
pcriphrasis. Would you kindly inform
me of its precise meaning?' Ger,
tainly." said he. 'it is simply cir
cumlocutory and pleonastic circle o.
oratOr;cal sonorosity circumScribing al
atom of ideaIity lost in verbal pro-
fundity."
Anxious Father-''lwish YOU would
tell me what to 10 with my boy. lie
s willful, disobedient eG-l surly. ]
dress him down with u horsewhip q
dozen times week. and sometimes
lock him in the coal-house for half i
day to discipline him, but it does ne
good; he comes out rs defiant rs ever
What does such boy need?" Rev.
Mr.. Surplice (dccidedly)-''He needs q
change of fathers"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

"A tight roof ON the shed, a clean
fleece on the sheep.
Experiments show that it pays to
grind the cob with the grains of corn.
as it possesses nutritive qualities.
IT Your land is well underdrained
You will often be able to plow while
your neighbor who may not have under
drained is waiting for his ground u
dry off before he can begin.
Sugar Drop Cakes: One pound Of
flour. three fourths pound of sugar,
one-half pound of butter, four eggs and
one gill of rosewater; bake on paper.
This will make sixty drops.
-Coca-nut Cream Pudding: Three
tablespoons tapioca soaked over night.
one quart boiling milk; enc small cup
sugar and the yelks of four eggs.
Boil ten minutes, add three tablespoons
cocoa-nut and boil five minutes longer.
Beat whites to a stiff froth, stir in 4
little sugar and spread on top. Sprinkle
with cocoa-nut and brown. Better cold.
1t Is not safe to apply unleached
wood ashes around the base of very
young trees. Ashes give better re-
suits when spread broadcast over the
surface of the ground around the trees.
Cases are known in which young peach
trees have been injured by the applica
ton of wood ashes thickly around and
| close to the trunks.
Many swine breeders regard solid
earth floor the best for pig pen. 1t
must be high enough to be readily
drained, so rs to be dry at all times.
1t is also customary with some breeders
to remove from six to eight inches of
these earth floors every spring, drawing
the manure-soakcd earth ON to the
fields and renewing the floors with
fresh earth.
1t is desirable to have clean soil
with growing crops, but if no crops be
growing it would be better to have
weeds grow to be plowed in than to
have nothing; weeds of themselves do
not do the harm. but with growing
crops. or when allowed to seed. If
plowed in green they will return to the
soil all that has been distracted from
it. and, in addition, all that has been
drawn from the atmosphere.
Marrow Balls: Soak beef marrow
over night in cold water. Take one
third cup of marrow and rub to cream.
Add two or three rolled crackers (ac-
cOrding to size.) Add one-half tea
spoonful of salt, one teaspoOnful Of
chopped parsley and a very little nut
meg or mace, one egg. yelk and white
beaten separately. Roll in balls. Cook
in the soup five or ten minutes.
"A very pretty and useful catch-all
may be made of four pieces ofcretonne.
say about eighteen inches long and six
inches wide; cut each piece in a point
about six inches from the bottom; sew
together, putting a tass el at the point;
face the top on the inside with n color
of tassel below; stitch two rows around
an inch below the top far enough apart
to insert piece of skirt springs. or
narrow hoop enough smaller in circum-
ference to allow little fullneSs; sus-
pend with cord and tasscls. and rest as
sured it will soon merit its name, being
a receptacle for every article magma
bic.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
BEES FOR BEGINNERS.
Advice to Farmers Widow who Desires
to Engage in Agriculture.

If you have liking for outdoor par
suits, with fixed determination to sue
coed, and are not afrai id of bees, in
time you might make living. Do not
purchase more than two colonies to
start with; if you can manage these
successfully, you will have in the fall
Crowded it is 4 good seeson) four
good strong colonies and between four
and five hundred pounds of honey. Ii
you succeed, your knowledge must in
crease i'll the same ratio as Your bees.
You must also expect rover seS, like the
past season, which has been one, with
few exceptions, of entire failure all
over this continent. | met lady at
one of the conventions who had read
that charming fiction, BLESSED Bees, :"
and caught the bec-fever so badly, that
she invested 5000 at once. She later
wrote: "All that have for this invest
ment, is hives full of foundation, with
queen and handful of bees running
over it." Now if you do not wish to
buy your experience dearly. as this
lady did, commence at the bottom and
go up.
As you have lived on a farm, you
probably know how to raise chickens,
and might keep them while you are
building up an apiary. When you
have II large apiary. you will have nc
time for them. unless you manage some
what in this way. Set the hens in Feb
ruary. so the pullets will be old enough
to lay in the fall. and sell off all the old
hens and cockerels in the spring. Ii
will be little work to feed the pullets
during warm weather. and ii you have
good, warm quarters for them. and
give them the right kind of food, you
will have eggs to sell all winter. when
they bring good price. A German
who lives across the alley from me has
a hen house almost all under ground.
and the chickens lay all winter. Man
aging in this way, the busy season with
bees would be in warm weather. and
that of the fowls in cold weather.
The surest places for honey are
along water courses. and where there
are overlooked lands, but l think il
would be best for YOU to follow Long
fellow and take whatever lieth hear
YOU. and work from it thy work of art. =
Remember the story of the old lark
and her young ones, and STAY where
you can look after your property your
self. If possible rent a place sur
rounded with shrubbery and low trees
like May cherries Where an apiary
is located ear large forest trees,
swarms some times cluster very high.
and it is very difficult to hive them.
If the place is small, very near neigh
bors are not desirable, as bees are &
kind of stock not always to be con.
trolled, and are dangerous near horses.
Avoid locating near a public square,
or blacksrnith's shop know of
town where the business is very much
injured Dy an apiary located at a pub
lie square, where there are wells. drink
ing troug CHS and hitching posts foI
teams. Several accidents have oc-
Cured here, as horse. when once
stung. becomes almost frantic when
he hears bee hum. and farmers drive
off to other towns in place of coming
here for fear of the bceS.-- Prairie
Farmer.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
A MARVELLOUS MACHINE,
It Has Ruied as High AS Forty ThousaI
Lines to the Inch.

DR.. II. A. Rowland, OF the Johns Hop
kins University, has Il new engine for
ruling his plates for spectrum ANALYSIS
or decomposition of light This en-
CINE was made entirely at tie universe
T. under his personal supervision. and
is the result OF the most careful, pains
| taking effort. The most important
part of 1.-THE screw and It's attach
ments for regulating the width of the
lineS-was carefully ground under
water kept at constant temperature,
so as to avoid al error arising from ex-
pansion and contraction, and is guarded
against so small an error as one-hun-
dred-thousandth of an inch. The en-
CINE is run by water power. and is III
| closed in 4 glass case and kept in Il
double walled brick chamber in the
basement. SO as to provide rs equable
temperature rs possible. So delicate
is the machinery that while it is run
ming the case is kept closed, rs the heat
from q PERSONS body would affect it.
The new machine at first was not salts
factory, but now the worst ruled plates
by it are better than the best ruled by the
old one. The old one hardly ruled
more than 10000 lines to the inch,
while the new one has ruled Is high as
$4,000, and can be graduated to rule
an almost infinite number, but the
metal usually crumbles, and the lines
run into each other above twenty thou
sand to the inch. The plates are highly
polished, and are made of what is
known rs speculuH? metal, though glass
is sometimes used for experimental
purposes. The prepared plate is placed
on the machine, and the screw regu-
lated to the required distance, and
when the machine starts it moves the
plate the distance, say, one-twenty-
thOusandth of an inch, and a small
diamond point runs across and draws
the line while the plate is stationary.
1t is n matter of infinite care, and
several days are necessary for ruling
plate three or four inches in dia-
meter. The diamond point can be so
arranged as TO vary every fiftieth or
one-hundredth line, while at the end of
the engine is n small counting machine
for recording the number OF lines
drawn. In an adjoining room is very
costly instrument for measuring me
width of the lines, and so marvelously
accurate is it that an error of one hun
dred-thousandth part of an inch. or
even less, can be detected. The rulings
of this machine are the finest in the
world, and have been sent to different
parts of the scholarly portion of it, one
of the largest and best plates being
presented 10 Prof. HelmhOltz, the
world-famous physicist of Berlin. If
perfect machine means one that per-
fectly does the work it was designed
for this is probably the most perfect
one in the world. Sun.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
ABILENE REFLECTOR
PUBLISHED BY
REFLECTOR PUBLISHING COMPANY.
MORE FACT THAN FANCY.

Ee stayed at home. a dreamer still.
Unknown of all-with small desire
To roam beyond his native hill,
His own hearth-fire.
"A common toiler, poor and plain,
No unsuspecting eye could scar
The promise ripening in the brain
or that lone man.
His lowly life was like cloak.
That held conce 1led his conscious power,
Till one bright day his genius broke
From bud TO flower
Then great men came and grasped his hand,
And praised his work. and called him wise
And yet they could not understand
His sudden rise.
They reasoned-questioned thro' the dark
They rna-velled at his eminence:
'Theyrallcd his gift "a special mark
OF Providence
He srailed-and Quit their courtly hall;
He strobe into the midnight rllrk,
And sighed: The secret after al,
i work. work. work"
u y. AIgttLetrS ~ Indianapolis Journal.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
The Boots Gave Him AWAY.

Omaha Dame-Do you know what
time it was when you got in last night?
Extraordinarily one o'clock, l
guess. 1t was after midnight when l
got through balancing my books. Well.
we'll! This is curious; here's my hat
under the bed. must have hung i;
on this chair and it fell down
Probably"
"Where are my boots?"
ION the hat rack"-0maha World
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23

A hailstone with nucleus of gvp-
sun. probably sucked up in water
spout, fell in recent shower in France.
The National tribune., 1888-07-05
Ror 10 Redueg Yonr Expensas.

You can do it easily, and you viii not have
to deprive yourself of a single comfort; on the
contrary, you will enjoy life more than ever.
How can you accomplish this result? Easily;
cut down your doctors bills. When you lose
your appetite and become bilious and consti-
pated, and therefore low-spirited, don't rush of
to the family physician for a prescription, or,
on the other hand, wait until you are sick abed
before doing anything at all; but just go to the
druggists and for twenty-five cents get a supply
of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Take
them as directed, and our word for it, your un-
pleasant symptoms will disappear as if by
magic, you viii have no big doctors bill to
pay and everybody interested Except the doc
tori will feel happy.