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Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07

Russia imports annually 3e0,000, ,000 of cotton, chiefly from America and Egypt, but it is believed that recent acquisitions of the Czar in Central America are exce,lently adapted for cotton raising. Some has al- ready been grown at Khiva and Bekhara, and an extensive system of irrigation is be- ing created to develop other land for this crop.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07

Times are changing in Kentucky. Even a judge cannot get drunk there now with im- punity, as the following from the Hazel Green Herald testifes: ''It is bad enough for an ass of himself by too great indulgence in intoxicants; but when Circuit judge 50 far forgets the dignity of his position as to descend to drunkenness while his court is in session the matter becomes disgraceful, and The should step down and out that gentle man of some decency may succeed to the po- sitien" :.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07
EDHrORIAL NOTES.

The weather which has been confronting us for the last week is, in the elegant language of President Cleveland, condition and not 6 theory.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07

An organization of the Knights of Labor at Wabash, Indiana, has just expelled a member because of his obnoxious atheism. He objected to a reading of the Bible as a mart of lodge services.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07
CARD.

We wish to apologize for the small assortmenrof Ioc Books that has been found on our counter the past ten days. The publisher has been unable to fulfil his agreement and deliver the books fast enough, thereby greatly disappointing us. We have just received I,236 more of these books and can now offer the best assortment of Popular Novels at roc per copy yet shown. Respectfully,
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07
Weak. Painful Racks.

@ MKIdney and Uterine Pains and Weak. &&& &nesses relieved in one minute by the Crti- kr3 cura Anti Pain Plaster, the first and only pain killing plaster. New, instantaneous, infal- 1hle. The most perfect antidote to Pain, Infiam- nation and Weakness even compounded Vastly superior to all other plasters At all druggists' S5 cents; five for $1.00; or, postage free, of
 Potter Drug and Chemical Co.,. dele m&th&w Boston, Mass,
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07
4r1y Guuds.
4ru Bpuds. Housekeeping Goods.

We have never displayed a better line OfLinen Goods than we are now showing If Em need of Table Linen we advise you to look at our line, which is complete in style and quality and low in price.
 We show the largest line of Towels and Crashes, and the best line of Linen Napkins in all sizes-54, 10-4, 12-4, IA and 16-4 Pattern Cloths, with Napkins to match. Table and Basket Doylies, Tray Cloths. etc.
 OUR PRICES ON THESE GOODS
 Were Never Lower.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07
STRAW HATS.

Half Price. Gentlemen's Furnishings.
 A host of Bewitching Novel ties and at Ridiculously Low Prices.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07
INVENT0RSl JOHN E. EARLE, No. S6S Chapel Street,
 New Haven, Conn
Patents for Inventors.

FaC8uGS IUF IUVUUCUpSs
 IN THE
 UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES A practice of moro than thirty years, and ire nuenf visits to the Patent Office has given him familiarity with every department of and mode of rr8ceeding at, the Patent Office, which, together wfth fine fact that he now visits Washington semf- monthly to give his personal attention to the inter ess of his clients in the assertion that no ofice in this corantry is able to offer the facilities to Inventors in securing their inventions by Letter Patent-and particularly to those whose applications have been rejected-an examination Of which he will make free of charge.
 Preliminary examination. prior to application for petenf made at Patent Ofdce, at small charge. Hie facilities for pr6 c1ring Patents in Foreign Countries are unequaled.
 Refers to more than one ethousandcl1entS Tor whom he has erocured Letters Patent iYiSdEw
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07

The celebration of the one hundredth birthday of Colonel Perkins of Norwich calls do live to be one hundred years old. The French census reported 180 persons who were one hundred years old or over, but M. Leyas- seur. who has bean investigating the matter, reports to the Academy of Science that six- ty-seven of these were only believed" to be so by their relatives, and that there were only sixteen whose age could be proven to be over He estimates that there are over fifty centen- arians in tue country.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07

New York's new convict labor bill doesn't
 begin reform very promisingly. The aban-
 donnent of the State account system neces-
 aitates great changes in the arrangements at
 all the prisons, and for the present most of the conyicts are looked in their cells in en- forced idleness. The warden at Auburn states that not more than two hundred con victs can be kept employed there under the new system, which, if true, will leave one thousand prisoners with nothing to do. The same is true of the other prisons of the State.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07

A large appropriation was made for the pur- chase of material, but it is intimated that $50, 900 would be ample for all that can be proftably used in a whole year.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07

THE oARRINGToN PUBLIsHI
Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-07
site gonrma1 aud Gumrier

The eldest Daily Paper Pulp
 Eislled fn Connecticut.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
THE TAX QUESTION.
The Clear Policy Pursued by the Repub-
lican Party.


There is no issue between the par
ties as to whether taxes shall be re-
duced. The only issue is as to h0U
they shall be reduced. The Republic
an party can not be put in the attitude
OF standing as an obstacle to the re-
duction of taxes. If this charge can
be made with some degree of rea-
son against any party it can be
against the Democratic party. For
ten years that l:arty has had control of
the House of Representatives. where
all revenue measures must originate,
and it has not passed single measure
of this character. During all this time
the Republicans have had a majority
of the House in only one Congress,
and they signalized their brief term by
creating the Tariff Commission and
passing the act of 1888 revising the
tariff and reducing the surplus.
The Republicans have since the war
repeatedly reduced the taxes. They
began Immediately after the war
closed and as soon rs the immediate
and commanding necessity was over,
and they continued it at intervals as
fast rs the exigencies of the public
needs would permit. So long as they
were in power they kept the surplus
within safe bounds. On the one
hand, the growth of the coun-
try and the increased productive
ness of business served to swell
the revenue; on the other, the
gradual extinguishment of debt and
the decrease of demands diminished
the necessary expenditure. and this
was constantly tending to increase the
surplus. But just as rapidly as the con-
dition and requirements of the Treas
ury would allow the Republicans went
on reducing the taxes and curtailing
the revenue. Their last measure of
this character was passed in 1888, and
it was broad revision of the tariff
which enlarged the free list and re-
duced duties TO the extent of sixty mill
ions. From that time to this the
Democrats have controlled the House.
and while the surplus has been advanc-
ing to a point which they pronounce
dangerous. they have not passed any
measure diminishing the taxes
The Republicans stand to-day, as
they have stood at all times, in favor
of tax reduction. They present dis
tinct and definite plan. They would
abolish or reduce the internal taxes,
and they are not opposed to a revision
OF the tariff which shall correct any
inequalities and adjust rates to changed
conditions while preserving the pro-
tective principle. Their policy is clear
and they can not be placed in false
position.-Phiiadelphia Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.
West Virginia Almost Certain to Bacom
Republican State.

republican state.
Tine Republican outlook in one State
of the South is bright and inspiring.
We refer to West Virginia. Nearly
every county of that State has Re-
publican club, and from all reports
they are animated by the most vigor-
Gus and aggressive spirit. These
clubs were represented at the con-
vention in session at Wheeling, called
for the purpose of organizing a State
League to operate in connection with
the National League of Republican
Clubs. Several hundred delegates
were present, and also a multitude of
enthusiastic members of these local or
CARNATIONS throughout the State.
1t is going none too far to say that
the situation justifies the lively hope
prevailing that the Democracy has tri.
umphed for the last time in West Vir-
ginia in National contest. Certainly
the Democratic prospect for November,
1888, are fringed with deep shade OF
gloom. A thorough Republican organi.
cation nine months before the election
and five months before the National
convention; a constant growth of the
opinion in favor of protection; the re.
sentiment felt among Democrats at the
avowal of free trade policy by Presi-
dent Cleveland; the holding of public
meetings to protest against the Cieve-
land-Mills programme of placing raw
materials on the free-list; the evident
disintegration of the Democratic ranks
the whole course of political events
in that State must make clear to every
observer the probability, amounting
almost to certainty. that under wise
leadership in the coming Presidential
campaign the Republican party will
redeem West Virginia
Protection is there the strong ground
upon which the party must wage its
battle. 1t is the only ground offering
a chance of victory. What is true of
West Virginia in this respect is true
also of Virginia, Tennessee and North
Carolina. These States can probably
be won by making bold fight on
broad platform of to-day. Old preju-
dices may remain, social and politiea,
injustice may not have yet yielded t.
enlightened self interest but it is new
ertheless apparent that the popular
mind has been awakened on the vital
question of material prosperity, the
development of natural resources, the
maintenance and promotion Of manu-.
featuring industries.
The Republican party has before it's
great opportunity. Cincinnati Times
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
GERMAN AND YANKEE.
How an Independent Tin-Peddler Aston
ished An Unhos pitabie TeutOn.

How an Independent Tin-Peddler Aston
ished an ospitsbie Teuton.
A German farmer, living in Mary
land. was notorious for his stinginess.
and had never been known when any
one entered his house whilst he was al
table to practice those rites of hospital
ity SO common among country people.
He was in the habit, however. of get
ting over the omission by an impudent
sort of turn that was inimitable. II
a traveller entered the house about
noon, which is the usual hour for din
ner with American farmers, who are
generally a very hospitable race OF
people, he would say, in his Anglo
Germanic dialect: How t'ye do? Heb
you make your dinner?" And if he
received an affirmative answer, would
say: "Well, den, you peats u.s." Ii
he got negative answer, his regular
response was: "Well. den, we peats
YOU" With this established character,
an impudent Yankee tin-peddler once
tried an experiment upon his patience.
This fellow had prodigious canine
appetite. and was for this re son
the dread of the whole circuit in
which he was accustomed to sell
his tins. He had, therefore, thought
it prudent to annex to his perambula-
tions new district in Maryland; and,
hearing of this German farmer, and be-
ing in his neighborhood, he, one day,
presented himself just at the dinner
hour. '.How t'ye do? Heb you make
your dinner?" said the farmer. 81
guess l have" answered the peddler.
"Well, den, you peats uss' he replied.
you see," said the Yankee, 81 am one
of those critters that likes his dinner as
soon as he can get it; howsumdever, I'll
Jest take look at your taters till the
woman has done. and then, perhaps,
we can trade little" Upon this he
sat down. and helping himself. to one
half of the pork that was on the table,
he shot it down so rapidly that all eyes
became fixed upon him, little suspecting
that the corned beef on the table was
tOOlllcu " 1OllON IL lllSS1HtCl.
achieved the beef. he perceived near to
him two fine young cabbages, the first
that had been gathered that summer;
these, which were the Germans own
dear dish. he had the inexpressible hor-
ror to see disappear in a twinkling,
down the implacable throat of the ON
nivorous tin-peddler. Rising from his
seat, full of wrath, the farmer now
showed a huge dish of unskinned, seedy
potatoes to the fellow, that were there
for the family, and screamed out:
"Will you swallow de potatoes. too,
NIT me dish und de skins? l should
like 10 see dat" NO." said the Yam
kee, II guess 1 telled you I'd only jist
look at your taters; it amt so long to
supper time, but l can hold on. IN
Y Led1er.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
ABILENE REFLECTOR
GLAMOUR LAND.

All. dim, lost Glamourlandi
On whose confines stand,
Longing for home that home shall be no more
There stood my palace grand,
Where now, on either hand,
The fiery swords OF seraphs guard the door,
There once 1 roamed 10 Gull
Dear hopes more beautiful
Than siren thoughts that musing monks resist
Nothing too far or fair
But its Mirage was there
Pictured upon the valleys rosy mist
There each sweet day heard
Songs OF a brooding bird,
Telling OF purest pleasure yet to be:
There by the singing streams,
Faint forms OF darling dreams
Loitered and fingered hand in hand with me.
All dim. dear fancy-land!
Thy welkin, rainbOw-spanned,
The softened light OF halcyon hours o'er-past,
Fading away, away,
AL the expanse is gray
As fades the summer moon, too fair to last.
-DanSke DaHdrjdge an v. T. Independent.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
WOMAN'S PRIME DUTY.
Some Reasons Why Every Wife Should
Know How to Cook.

One of our bright New York cor
respondents tell us that the latest thing
in Gotham society is the cooking fad.
Regular lessons are given and fashion
able women are taught practical
knowledge of kitchen duties aud are
instructed in the art of preparing a
good dinner of tempting dishes. Crowds
of the best people attend the lectures,
and, rs a consequence, New York is be-
ing greatly benefited.
1t can he set down as plain truth,
which is too often disregarded, that no
woman has right to take charge of
matrimonial establishment until she
knows how to cook. A large proper
ton of the discomfort and misery of
this world comes from dissatisfaction
and indigestion caused by kitchen
ignorance. Men who would try to
carry on business without knowing
anything about it and trusting entirely
to clerks and agents would be consid-
cred fit subjects for some asylum; and
vet there are wives who endeavor to
run households without the least
practical knowledge of cooking They
give up every thing to servants who
are not ALWAYS trustworthy and
who do about as they please every day
in the week. The consequence is that
the meals are not prompt, they are in
differently served. the husband. home
from hard days work, is churlish,
and the expense of it all is twice as
great as it would be if there were an
Intelligent supervision. Much of the
increased cost of housekeeping is di-
rectly due to the lack of attention in
the kitchen. A wife who knows how
to cook can give her family better eat
ing Mt half the price than one who is
ignorant of such work can do. and she
is always mistress of her servants,
while her ignorant sister is their slave.
Such things invariably have an effect
upon the affections of men. for hus-
bands are but human, and the best of
love is not absolutely proof against the
condition of the table.
We are glad to say that most Mary
land wives are intelligent cooks. The
result is that there are fewer domestic
quarrels. fewer divorces and fewer sep
arations in Maryland than in any other
State in the Union. That is one reason
why home, presided over by Mary
land woman. is an abode of love and
health-a paradise in which man is
happy and contented. Perhaps there
may be a few of our lovely women who
are net enlightened in this respect. If
so. we pity them and we pity the man
whom they will marry. They should
remember that they may be accom-
plished in music, in art. in dress, in all
the society graces. but if they do not
know how to cook they are lacking in
one great essential of useful and sue
cessful womanhood.-Baltimore Aneri-
can.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22

travelling more than twenty miles
through swamps, tangled woods and
high mountains. he was back again.
with four of the biggest panther skins
ever stripped from the backs of any
animals of their kind in the old Ly-
coming woods. That days work of
the king of the panther slayers is re-
lated as the greatest of all the exploits
of the great hunter of the. Loyalsock.
Ldporte PA. Cor. N. Y Sun.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22
100000 IMPORTANT $IOO,000
TO MANUFACTURERS.

The ABILENE IMPROVEMENT CO. offers
100000 in BONUSES
to reliable manufacturing concerns who will
locate in Abilene. Abilene is the largest as
well as the most prosperous city IN Central
Kansas. It will soon have
THREE NEW TRUNK LINES Or RAILROADS,
making FOUR lines, which will insure un-
equaled shipping facilities.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22

An instance of throwing ones self
about was witnessed few evenings
ago at party, in the case of a young
lady, who, when asked to sing. first
tossed her head, and then pitched her
voice.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-22

After awhile distinguished people
will be those whose names never get
into the newspapers.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
Fort Worth, Texas.

from the meat storeroom, and is then
drawn into the expansion cylinder. On
being allowed to expand here, the tenn
perature of tine air falls Immediately to
about 20 degrees below zero, F.. and the
last traces of moisture are deposited as
snow. Wooden tubes then convey the
chilled air to the storerooms, which it
reaches at temperature of about zero,
F., and after circulating about the rooms
is drawn back by an aspirating shaft 10
the refrigerating machine.
The thermometer in the storerooms
never rises to the freezing point of water,
so the meat is kept continually frozen
from the day of its shipment, perhaps at
Melbourne or the La Plata river, until its
arrival in the London docks, where it is
found to be indistinguishable from the
best fresh beef and mutton. The store
rooms are protected against the entrance
of heat by conduction from the outside
by means of double walls and floors,
packed with powdered charcoal.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

Correspondence of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
AMoRILLO, Ten. Dec. 25.-ThIs is the
first cold day of the season and no snow
at all so far. Stock is all fat an grass
is good. No fear is now entertained 1y
stockmen but what stock will go through
the winter in fine shape
Amarillo shipped 60, lG8 head of cattle
during the shipping season. This is
more than any four towns on the Fort
Worth and Denver Railroad handled.
Quanah comes next on the list with
II ,464. This point viii ship next season
over $50 900 head. Your correspondent
knows of some heavy contracts already
made for next season s delivery at ANA
rillO. The heavy buyers here found out
the Texas town where they can be sup
piled. All the southwestern portion of the
Panhandle and Southeastern New Mexico
are tributary to Amarillo as stock
shipping point. Figures don't lie, and
the railroad books speak for what is above
stated as to the past year s work.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29
Ee1fHer[O,.T Notes.


Special to the Gazette.
WEATHEEFoRD, Ten, Dee. 27.-Mr.
John w. Buster, formerly resident of
this city, now a prominent cattleman of
Montana, is in the city visiting the fami-
ly of his father, Mayor Nj. W. Buster
Mr.. L. w. Christian, proprietor of the
noted Grassland farm of this county, has
called the attention of THE GAZETTE s
correspondent to a wonderful mistake
that was made in the report of the hay
production of this county which appeared
in last Sunday IS paper from the CORE
spondence from this place. 1t should
have read that considerable over 1000
tons of hay were baled i'll the county this
season instead of 1000 bales rs it ap-
peared. 1t will be remembered that hay
from this county took first premium, nc
the Dallas State Fair.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-29

avoid the increase of poor individuals in
| the herds, the Iowa Homestead holds the
following practical view of the mat ter +,
| with strong reason:
Breeding without judgment, breeding
too young, bad care and bad feeding will
just as certainly fill the herd book with
weeds and scrubs as the opposite will fill
it with choice animals. How to get rid
of them is the problem. If breeders
would only quit making them the prob
lem would be an easy one. The educa-
ton of shorthorn breeders themselves is
the best solution of the problem. That
education must be had on the farm
and along the lines of money making
The shorthorn breeders are not in the
business ''for their health, - or "for
glory - or for the ''fun of it - They
want to make money. They make it
by selling their stock for breed
ing purposes. The customer of three
fourths of them is the common
farmer, and the breeders for the farmers
are the other fourth. The farmer thinks
that from SIS TO 500 is all he can afford
to pay for bull. He would like to buy
one for $50, and he will very often buy a
poor one for $50 rather than pay 500 for
good one. The breeder concludes he
really imagines he is making more moAaS
than if he steered it. He therefore keeps
shorthorn stock that raises $50 bulls
because he thinks it pays him. Here
is the point where both the buyer
and the breeder need educating. The
farmer cannot afford to buy this bull at
any price, nor can the breeder afford
to raise him for $50. Both lose money
and both degrade and dishonOr the short
horns. Here is the key to the whole sit
uation. The farmer buys the $50 bup
and is disappointed and goes off to soffe
other breed. The breeder keeps on III
the delusion that he is making money
when in fact he is only walking around
to save funeral expenses financially.
The educated breeder will fix price be-
low which he will not sell a shorthorn !
and will steer everything which will not
bring that. This involves sending
to the grades all the females
which Will not produce calves of
that quality. Whenever he makes up
his mind to do this he will be in
fair way to make money. First, he
will have some nice steers that will sell
his bulls. When we art dealing with a
customer on the homestead farms we in
variably show him the steers first. We
point out the thoroughbreds that were
not considered good enough to sell, and
show from the grades just what can be
done by grading up. When we get
around to the bulls the sale is half made.
Second, the farmer who buys viii not be
disappointed and will stand by the breed
and the breeder. Third, the calf that is
not good enough to make a tirst-class.
steer and bring the top of the marks.
when fat, is not good enough to sell as a
bull at any price.