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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

IN his great struggle "a behalf OF cur Amer
can homes. Your people are largely vSso-
earners; they have prospered under . pro-
tcctive tariff, and will not am sure, vote for
such q change IN our tarIh policy as VII cut
OF from their wages that margin which ihey
are now able to lay aside for cd age o. for
their children. IApplausel
And now a word to my young friends from
Wisconsin You have come into the posses
sion OF the suffrage at an important II not q
critical time in cur public affairs The Demo
cratic party out OF POWER was party OF mega
ton 1t did not secure its present lease OF
power uron the platform or the policies it now
SUPP orts and advocates [Applausel The
campaign of 1884 was rot made uron the Plat
form OF a tar q for revenue only-lGpplausel-
our working-m men were soothed with phrases
that impl:et some regard 10 their interests,
and Democrats who believed in protective
tariff were admitted 10 the party councils aad
gladly heard in public Observation-Disclosures
four years OF power have changed Gl this.
Democrats who thought they could be pro:ec-
tionists and still maintain their party standing
have been silenced or their opinions coerced
The issue IS now distinctly made between pro-
lection and something that is not protection.
lApplause.l The Republican party ac-
cepts the issue and places itself upon the side
OF the American home and the American
working man. Cheering We invite these
young men, who were too young TO snare
the glory of the struggle for cur political
unity, to part in tbs contest for the preser-
walton Of our commercial independence. Jap
plause.l
And now, TO these friends who are the bear
ers of gifts, one word OF thanks. Especially
value this cane as token OF the confidence and
respect of the working-nen OF Bay View. Jap
plause.l I accept their gift with gratitude
and would wish you, sir, TO bear in return my
most friendly regards and good wishes to every
one OF them. / do not need to lean on this
beautiful cane, but 1 do like resting on the in
telligent confidence of the men who send il.
Great applause.l am glad to know that
they have not stumbled over the simple
problem that IS presented for their considera-
ton in this campaign. They know that an in
crease OF importation means diminished labor
in American shops. iApplause.l
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Boycotting in Switzerland.

A certain M. Alex. Seller, native of
Swiss canton, owner of the chief ho-
tel at Zermatt, a few miles from his
native town in the same canton, made
application in 1875 for leave to become
a citizen of Zermatt. The cantonal
government granted his petition, but
the commune refused to confirm it,
because M. Seller was a stranger"
not born in the town. He has contin-
ued his effort unsnccessfully ever
since, and lately he has been boycott
ted by the inhabitants, with the con-
nivance of the local authorities. He
can get nothing in the neighborhood,
but must fetch every thing for his
hotel from other towns away. He ap-
pealed to the cantonal authorities, and
they have sent gendarmes to protect
him. The commune has to pay for
the lodging and food of these officers,
and if this does not make the local au-
thorities relent it is announced that a
company of soldiers will be sent to
Zermatt to board upon the same terms
M. Seller has built up the place, and
now employs 800 servants, pays 1,500
francs a year taxes, and offers to pay
1900 francs down for the citizenship
papers--N Y Sun.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
INDUSTRIAL INTEREST.

LEATHER made from elephant SKIN is the
most costly of all varieties.
OF the two hundred gold heaters in New
York not one is a woman. while of the gold
cutters not one is man.
A NEW device in machinery has been
patented that has recently killed one hum
dred and eighty bullocks in three hours.
PARIS firm has produced porous glass
for window pancs. TIE pores are too fine
to admit draught. but they assist in venti-
lation.
IT is estimated that one-half Of all the
drugs imported into the United States are
consumed in the manufacture of patent
medicine.
THE consumption of table waters in this
country increases probably about ten per
cent. per year; that of medicinal water has
nearly doubled since 1850.
IT is estimated that there are 10000 florists
in the United States, with !, 600 acres entire
ly covered with glass. in the shape of green
houses, devoted to flowers.
AMERICA is to-day making as good limbur-
ger cheese as can be found in the world
Much of it is manufactured in Wisconsin,
but Oneida and other counties in New York
State produce Hmburger that is not to be
sneezed at.
THE Honiton lace industry is dying out.
The rage for variety aud cheapness has
driven the handmade laces from the mar
ket, machine limitations having taken their
places. Honiton lace received terrible
blow when brides took to draping them
selves with tuIle.
THE paper manufacture of Germany, and
its expectation, are shown by recent sta
tistics TO be very large Wood-pulp is
largely used in the manufacture. II rags
were depended upon, the present prod
net of paper would not be possible. 1t is
estimated that the product OF about seven
teen acres in forest is required to furnish
the amount Of wood-pulp annually con-
Sumed
IT is asserted in London paper that the
discovery made in the artificial manufact-
ure of quinine will result in the reduction
of the price Of that article to few cents
per pound The importance of this dis
covery is rendered greater by the fact that,
while hitherto dependence has been on the
cultivation of the cinchona tree for quinine,
the bark yielding only about two per cent
of the same, the new process admits of
the substance being produced without limit
from an article which can always be got in
abundance in any part of the world.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
PARAGRAPHIC PLUMBER.

LADY (at an employment agency" Have
you any recommendation! Servant Girl
"Only me- good looks, num-
: Miss CLAN, Of Bad Mans Gulch, A. T.,
recently married a Mr.. Fritter, and now
she has her cards printed: mrs. Clam
Fritter''
A LITTLE girl loyfully assured her mother,
the other day. that she had found out where
they make horses. She had seen q man
finishing one. He was mailing on his last
foot.
THE Texas steer which made lunge at
circus elephant in Tcxarkana never knew
who came out ahead. He got a whack from
a trunk line which knocked him stiff and
cold.
AFTER spending considerable sine every
Monday morning trying to compress his
head, a Connecticut genius has inven<ed an
elastic hat. OF course it will meet long
felt want
A YoUNG man who had vainly tried to get
young lady TO sit in his lap, hit upon
happy coup d'etat by contracting with her
young brother to introduce mouse into the
parlor Sunday evening.
A YOUNG miss who recently began the
study of geography in private school was
asked by her father what she knew about
New York bay. 80, 1 don't know any thing
about that" was the reply, /" but can tell
all about Asia"
A Boston lady went to call on friend
the other day. She was met by the mother
of her friend, jealous believer in faith
cure, who said alphabetically, but cheerfully:
"My daughter has belief in boil. and
can't come down"
A BosToN auctioneer thus exalted the
merits of carpet: Gentlemen and ladies,
some folks sell carpets for Brussels which
are not Brussels; but can most positively
assure you that this elegant article was
made by Mr.. Brussels himselfs'
HUSBAND -" Maria, here is a telegram
from cousin George, down in Florida. He
is Wife Tin great alarm)-'' From Flor
ida! For goodness sake, John, don't bring
it into the house. You don't know whether
it has been fumlgated or notr'
A YOUNG lady named Winter. of Wheat
lands, NJ. T., sued local editor for defama-
ton of character. She is engaged to young
man named Spring, and the editor IN abiding
to the fact quoted the remark about winter
lingering in the lap of spring.
WELL call him Benjamin Harrison"
said the proud Indiana father when the
nurse showed him the chubby infant which
was just one hour old. But the nurse
laughed and whispered IN his ear. "Then,"
growled he, "her mothGs can call her some
thing else if she wants to. Pm OF so par
ticular about names anyway
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
THE HINpoo WIDOW.
Her Unenvfable Lot Graphically Described
by One of Her CountBywomen.


Her Unenvfable Lot Graphically Described
by One of Her Countsywomen.
No sooner does Hindoo woman, be
she fifteen or fifty, lose her husband,
than the persecution of custom begins.
Her locks are ruthlessly
shaved clean off at the instigation of
the butcher-priest- In these matters
the feelings of the unfortunate victim
are Of no account, and her piteous pro-
tests are usually rudely ignored. From
this moment she is the incarnation of
all that is unlucky or inauspicious.
Her presence is stunned; she is leper
of society, doomed to pass her life in
seclusion, and not allowed to mix free
" with her people. If the unfortu-
nate creature unwittingly intrudes her
oia,iiS:s presence on any occasion of Joy
or festivity, the company curses her
presence and regards it as an evil
omen, sure to be followed by some
great calamity. Be it known that the
company which curses her very exist
ence is mostly composed of her dear
and near relatives. If an orthodox
Hindoo starts on an enterprise, but, as
i'll luck would have it. describes poor
widow on the road, he curses her to
the fourth generation, laments his un-
fortunate lot, and prays his $50, 0O0,-
600 of gods to avert the certain mis-
fortune which the evil omen q. e., the
widow portends. The widow is an OBJ
iect of contempt and scorn to her very
relatives, though occasionally these
feelings are tempered with pity. Amid
whatever luxuries Hindoo woman
might have been nurtured, no sooner
is she stamped with the stigma of wild
owhood than she must pay the pen
atty of her existence. She must put
on coarse garments and eat unsavory
food, and that, too, in many families but
once day.. The mental work of the
family becomes her lot as a matter of
course. She must observe all the fasts,
of which the Hindoo calendar is very
prolific, and for her spiritual comfort
is ostensibly prescribed round of
rigid austerities the weary monotony
and unflinching severity of which is
potent enough to extinguish whatever
spirit of mind and body she may have
at one time possessed. Any laxity in
the observance of the prescribed
course of penance is sufficient to scam
dalize the relatives of the widow and
is regarded as strange perversity, if
not downright turpitude. l
entreat my countrymen to judge of the
miseries of widows by transferring the
same penalties to men. Suppose it
had been enacted that when a man
lost his wife he should continue cell
bate, live on coarse fare, to be tabooed
from society, should continue to wear
mourning weeds for the remainder of
his life, and practice, whether he would
or no, never-ending austerities- in
short, if widowers were subjected to
the same hard lot as the widows, l
ask would my countrymen not have
long since revolted against such in
human treatment.-A Hindoo Lady.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
ITEMS FOR MECHANICS.

THE average quantity of incombustible
matter in anthracite coal is sixteen and one
half per centum.
To PREPARE zinc for painting apply sui
phuric acid and water for a quarter of an
hour, then wash OF clean with water and
dry.
WHEN wood is to be the fuel employee
under boiler, the CRATE area should be
from twenty-five to forty per centum larger
than IL coal were to be the fuel used.
PLATES of non are tested cold by punch
ing holes near the edges, and by bending
them to angles of different degrees cor
responding TO the thickness of the plates.
They should bear these tests without SHOW.
mG any signs Ct cracks o. Nominations.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Living on the Reratation of Others.

stake everything that / have but my
good name; leave me that and / am con-
tent" So said the philosopher. So say ali
manufacturers Of genuine articles to that
horde of imitators which thrives upon the
reputation of others. The good name of
ALLcoCK's Porous PLAsrERs has induced
many adventures to put in the market i'm
itations that are not only lacking in the
best elements Of the genuine article, but
are often harmful in their effects.
The public should be on their guard
against these frauds, and, when an exter-
nal remedy is needed, be sure toinsist upon
having ALLcocK's PoRoUs PLASTER.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

Frank A. Hardy claims to be the
oldest fireman in the United States.
He joined a fire company in Hollis, N.
H., on March II, 1887, and has been a
member of some department continu-
ously during the succeeding fifty-one
years. He is now secretary of the fire
department of Piqua, y.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
A GREAT mistake perhaps W;

A GREAT mistake perhaps was made when
DR.. Sherman named his great remedy
Prickly Ash BITTERs; but it is presumed
that at that time all remedies for the blood,
etc, were called Bitters. Had he called it
Prickly Ash Regulator" Curative" or
almost anything but BtteJs, it undoubtedly
would have superseded all other prepare
tons of similar character. The name Bit
tiers is misleading; it Is purely medicine,
and can not be used as a beverage.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
tn Take French I.aave.

visitant, chills and fever, to do this, we
would be fortunate. But while we can't ex
actly make it ''cut and run" we can uproot
Its hold upon the system in time with Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. This is known
wherever malaria is periodical caller. II
IS, also, matter of wide information that
the Bitters cures biliousness, dyspepsia
debility and rheumatism.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
Journalistic Catastrophe.

$50 you are from Arizona?"
Eyes"
''How is the Tombstone Rooter COM
ing on?"
Busted"
What busted it?"
"a prominent citizen shot the
editor"
What for?"
"You see he wrote Horrible Blunder'
as head line to go over an account of
a railroad accident, but the foreman
made a mistake and put it over the ac-
count of a wedding."-Teras SJtings.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

An old observer tells that ones
eyebrows are an infallible guide to his
age. No matter, he says, how young
looking the person may be, if his eye
brows lack a gloss and do not lie fiat
and smooth, he is no longer young
man.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

In a Country Oyster Saloon
Customer-"Give me a dozen raw.
How long will it take you to open
them?" Proprietor "Only about a
minute, sir. Bill, where in thunder is
that can-opener?"-Boston Transcript.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

noble men and women. The simple
but effective remedies which carried
them to green old age are now repro
duced in Warmers Tippecanoe." and
Warmers Log Cabin Sarsaparilla and
other Log Cabin Remedies.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

THE man who brings suits is always
somewhat sad. There is something plain
tiff about him.-Pittsbtuph Chronicle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

ars$cIca named shall cost more within our own
borders the grand compensation is found in
liberal wages 70 American worxmen and in
millions OF happy American homes
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

Send your address for FREE BOOK on
the Liver, its Diseases and Treatment, to
DIR. Sanford, 231 Broadway, New York
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

A SORE Throat or Cough, if suffered TO
progress, often results In an incurabie
throat or lung trouble. "Brorn's Bronchial
Trochcs' give instant relief.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

The typewriter has banished much bad
writing, but it can't overcome the bad
spelling.-N. o. Picduins.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

NITRATE of silver-the change psid FOL
q half-price telegram
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

WORDS of cheer - Hurrahl Tigerl-
Terds SVtin0s.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

MANY a fellow who is whole-souled has
to go to a shoemaker and get half-soled.-
Ddnsuillg Breeze.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

ACTORS, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

A "BRoTH OF A BOY" ought to make q
good "supe. "-HdTPer's Bazar.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

Ii afflicted with Sore Eyes use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell t.25c.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

now each one of my Magazines contains an order
emitting me to any pattern OF any size want
therefore get my pictures free, my patterns free.
and Magazine, besides, that my whole is .n
send 10 cents to the publisher, w; JENNINGS
DEMoREsT, L 5 l4th st., N. Y. you Will receive
specimen number and you will certainly lose notn-
ing for in It yoa will hnd pattern order worm ~
cents; which II you do not care TO USE You can pass
over TO me- and will give you the ~ cents mat you
paid for the specimen copy for II
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25

LOG CABINS were
strongholds of love, con-
tentment, health and hap
piness. Coon skins were
nailed to the door and
they were the happy
homes of strong, healthy,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
SMITH with smiling face)-What have

,
JoNEs-Nothing to do. Times are dull.
SMITH-Well, now, old fellow, am glad
l struck up with you. You sit right down
and write to b. F. johnson & Co., of Rich
mond, Va, and they will put you in a way
to make money faster than you ever did be-
fore. 1 was out of work, too, but began a
little correspondence with them and now
am growing fat and rich. Too busy to talk
longer now.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
MARGAREr-where

MARGARET-Whcro
did you get that beau
tiful new Water-COl-
or, Annie?
ANNIE-lt IL one OF
the series i told you
about. that they are
publishing in Demon
est's Monthly Maya
zine. Nearly every
one thinks / paid
from s. to SO for IL,
when the fact Is is
cost me nothing; for
/ consider my Maya
zine worth four or
i've times what l pay
for IL. used 20 buy
at least 50 worth OF
patterns n year, pus
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
To Teachers,

County superintendent Maxwell sent out
the following to teachers and school
trustees of Travis county yesterday:
II hereby call your attention to the law
relating the number of hours schools
shall be taught each days, etc, and
respectfully request that the trustees see
that the law is strictly complied with.
I'm no instance will the teacher be re-
quired to teach more than seven hours
each day, but when requested by the
patrons, he may IN crease the school hours
to seven and one-half or eight hours a
day.
Your attention is respectfully called to
chapter 2, section II, of the school law of
Texas, which reads as follows:
"'Publlc schools shall be taught for five
days in each week; schools to be closed on
such holidays as may be agreed on by the
trustees. A school month shall consist of
not. less than twenty days, exclusive of
given holidays, and the pablo schools
shall be taught for not less than seven
hours each day, including intermissions
and recesses.'
Legal holidays in above mentioned are
January l, February %, March 2, April
81, July 4, December %, and all days APP
pointed by the president of the United
States or by the governor, as days of
Thanksgiving, and every day in which an
election is held throughout the state.
"The following is suggested as a
schedule to govern teachers in the arrange
ment of their work:
school call, 8 a. M; intermission, ten
or fifteen minutes, 1880 a. M; noon re-
cess, II m; afternoon call, p. M; inter
mission, ten or fifteen minutes, 2:30 p. m. !;
adjournment, p. IN.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
Nasal Voices, Catarrh and False
Teeth"

A prominent English woman says the
American women all have high, shrill
nasal voices and false teeth.
Americans don't like the constant twiG-
ting they get about this nasal twang, and
yet it is fact caused by our dry stimula-
ting atmosphere, and the universal pres
ence of catarrhal difficulties.
Bat why should so many of our women
have false teeth?
That is more of poserto TIE English.
1t is quite impossible to account for it
except on the theory of deranged stom
ach action caused by imprudence in eat
ing and by want of regular exercise.
Both conditions are unnatural.
Catarrhal troubles everywhere prevail
and end in cough and consum ption, which
are promoted by mal-nutrition induced by
deranged stomach action. The condition
is modern one, one unknown to our an
oestors who prevented the catarrh, cold,
cough and consumption by abundant and
regular use of what is now known as
Warmers Log Cabin cough and consump.
ton remedy and Log Cabin sarsaparilla,
two old fashioned standard remedies
handed down from our ancestors, and now
exclusively put forth under the strongest
guarantees of purity and efficacy by the
world-famed makers of Warmers safe
cure. These two remedies beautifully used
as the fall and winter seasons advance, to-
gether with an occasional use of Warmers
Log Cabin rose cream, to strengthen and
protect the nasal membranes, give posi-
tive assurance of freedom, both from
catarrh and those dreadful and if neg
lected inevitable consequences, pneumo-
mia, lung troubles and consumption, which
so generally and fatally prevail among our
people.
Comrade Eli Fisher, of Salem, Henry
county, Ia, served four years in the late
war and contracted disease called con-
sumption by the doctors. He had frequent
hemorrhsges. After using Warmers Log
Cabin cough and consumption remedy,
ne says, under date of January 10, 1888:
II do not bleed at the lungs any more,
my cough does not bother me and do
not have any more smothering spells"
Warmers Log Cabin rose cream cured his
wife of catarrh and she is sound and
we'll"
OF course we do not like to have our
women called nose takers and false teeth
owners, but these conditions can be
readily overcome in the manner indicated.