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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04
THE HARVEST.

Iwatca the golden pillows awaiting tho sickes
keen,
While the corn stands waiting yonder splen-
did, giittering sheen;
hear the reapers coming with merry shout and
song,
Then see the pillows falling in solid ranks
along.
The grain not only falling, but the tender
flowers, too,
And with them tares and thistles are scattered
through and through;
For the reaper reaps harvest that is heavy
for the blade,
While the voice of the master calleth: ut must
not be delayed
And thus is the mighty harvest in all our glori-
Gus land
The reaper blithe and happy, there IS JOY on
every hand;
For toll is sweet to the faithful, reward will
come at last,
So the reaper sings and labors until daylight
hours are past.
see the harvest over. and mountains Of golden
grain
Await the thresher's pleasure, and it shall not
wait in vain;
For hear the hum Of engines and clatter of
turning wheels
Let us wait a uoment-linCer-and see what
this reveals.
You know what we see, good farmer, in fields
90 now brown and bare:
Where the grain is kept from the thistles-from
thistle and from tare;
And only the grain is wanted, the thistles are
cast away.
While the flowers that died and withered shall
bloom another day.
see another harvest in the grain fields of this
life
The wheat is bent and shaken with labor sore
and strife:
But the reaper cometh often, with footsteps
soft as air
He takes the grain and flowers, the thistle and
the tare.
The harvest is ever ripening to the reaper's
subtle breath
To the knife Of the silent reaper, whose mystic
name is Death;
And We know not the hour Of his coming,
whether at night or day.
Nor why he should spare the thistles and take
our flowers away.
In this living and mighty harvest we are grain
or worthless cha1;
We can not serve two masters-God wants no
work by half.
And pray, when the harvest is over, at the
garnering of the wheat,
I, with the grain and flowers may kneel at the
Masters feet.
Gay Davidson, in Good Housekeeping
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04

and hurls him back five yards Skien has
wound his coat round his left arm and uses
knife with his right. The freed horse,
with dozen wolves leaping at its head,
runs straight into the rescuing party. Then
torches CLEAN and men yell and fight hand
to-hand battles with gaunt, draggled brutes
that snap at their threats, fill the air with
the strong vulpine smell Of their kind, and
when blow gets home, howl and kick out
their lives in the reddening snow.
1t was notable and terrific battle while
it lasted, and forms topic for conversation
to this day in Joksdal. Half the dogs were
killed, and more than one brave man who
rushed to the rescue will carry deep tokens
OF the fight to his grave. Svautsen came
worst on His left arm was badly torn, and
one bite in his throat must have been fatal
had the brute who made it jumped little
stronger. Skien fought Like demon, and
escaped marvellously, with scarce more
than an ugly scratch. or two. One horse
died where it fell, the other escaped with
its life, but was ruined for all practical pur-
poses. Svantsen's wife however, looked to
it that the excellent beast should live the
remainder of his days in honored idleness.
And the wolves, though decisively beaten,
can not be deemed disgraced Upon the
field they left four and twenty slain and
some eight or nine wounded to the death.
Deeply detected, torn, manned. and ex-
hausted, the survivors got back to their
deSolate forest homes; and, MAYBE, the God
that sees tit to let them live, provided an
adequate meal before the moon had set.
For, mark you, those wolves, without ex-
actly approaching the fact, had achieved
great and splendid work. They had brought
to the surface much that is noble in human
hearts; they had, in two short minutes,
done that which years OF time might not
have done; they had destroyed bitter feud
and built upon its ruins friendship which
will stand while the friends have life
LOuDDQau'S U111-iDe
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04

If the loaned book does not come
back, wait for it! A friend out West
writes that he has just had returned to
him by mail from 200 miles distant a
book which he had loaned twenty-four
years ago The borrower died many
years ago, but among some old books
left to his son it was at last found and
returned. Chicago AdUance.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04

You can't make success Of dairy
farming unless you know how many
pounds of milk and butter each indi-
vidual cow in your herd can produce
In year. CuItirator.
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80 IMPoRTANr srATE,rENr.

IN a private letter Comrade John A. Mar
tin, now Governor Of Kansas, and one Of the
Managers of the National Soldiers Homes,
says:
The Soldiers Homes are ali crowded TO excess
And my knowledge Of them, and my observation
Of the increase for the past six or seven years jusl
fes the belefthat the number or disabled soldiers
seeking their shelter viii increase rapidly for the
neat eight 10 years / find, too, that, as Il rule
the soldiers who have sought the shelter Of the
Homes during the past six or seven years are men
who have better army record than those who
originally entered. much larger proportion Of ma
tive Americans are now coming into the Homes,
and lave been for the past five or six years or the
100 or so applications for admission that have
approved during the past two years. I think that
fully nine-tenths had served three years in the
volunteer service, and a very large number had
served out two and sometimes three enlistmcnts
The cL is that the old boys are aging very rapidly,
and thousands who maintained the unequal battle
o. life FOR - years aer The close Of the war are be-
coming 50 enfeebled by disease or wounds, or the
growing iuirmides Of age, that they can no longer
maintain themselves.
Coming from the source that it does, this
statement IS entitled to unusual attention.
There is no man SO well qualified to speak
with accuracy as to the condition or The
veterans OF the entire country as one who
has served for few years on the Board Of
Managers Of the Soldiers Homes. He il
brought into direct contact with the veteran.
who need relief, and is compelled to carefully
investigate their needs and the best way O
relieving them.
Gov. Martins experience entirely coin
ciies with that Of every other man who ha
paid any attention to the condition an,
wants of the veterans. Every year an in
cUeasing proportion of the very best soldier
who followed the flag are forced to ask re
lief from the Government.
The shirks, malingerers and dead-beat
got in their work years ago. They we're a
: prompt at rallying on the Pension Bureal
at The close Of the war as they were to rail-
on the cook-house and hospital during thei
so-called service. The number Of these ha
been grossly exaggerated, but whateYe
there were Of them who got on the roll G
into the Homes did so in the few years in
mediately following the close of the wa
J The men who had pride and strength
, character enough to carry themselves cred
tably through years of service in the fell
were for long time too proud to accept
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PERSONAL.

A son Of Gen. o. o. Howard Is engaged 10 nlarrv
e young Prt3ssiau ladg Of aEistocrasic buf not
Priucely family, who is a teacher Of languages az
Andoyer.
The installation ceremonies Of Geo. r. Thomas
Post No. 2, san Francisco. Cal Tuesday. Jan ;
were pleasantly ended by the presentation Of .
magnificent gold watch and chain to uarterrnasteg
Charles II. Biinn, who, on that evening. closed the
hflh year Of the occupancy Of his Office and entered
upon the sixth The presentation was ussie by the
retiring Commander, Msj- II. BaFiliug in a very
happy little speech, and Conrsde Blinn responded
most appropriately.
Comr'de W. H. Young. Co. c. 16th H.; Co. B.
10Th No; Co A. Mississippi Marine Brigade Is now
in the real estate business a. gyandotte. Kan. lie
would ike to hear from his old Gonzales
Last week the caucus OF Republican Senator's Of
the New York Assembly decided TO confirm the
nominations Of Gen. Daniel F. sickles James Man
ming and Maj George II. Treadwell 20 be Civil
Service Commissioner
Maj. samuel spFigE Carroll T. 5 Army,
has returned to the city from two-weels visit to
Fort Monroe.
Capt Thomas W. Lord. U. s. Army. has returned
to ihe city, and viii hereafter permanently reside
IN Washington. During the war he served in she
18th Ne. but after losing leg transferred to
the Veteran Reserve Corps
ordered TO New YoEk 10 await retirement Cen
Mason was born at SteubenviHe. o.. Aug. q. 1924
HIS father was prominent physician and a Sur.
geon ia the war Of 1872 lie entered West Point in
1873 and graduated in lsi7, ninth IN a class Of g.
among his classmates were Gems. Burnside, Glib
bon, Griffin, Wilcox, Ayres, and A. p Hin and
Henry Heath, Of the rebel army: He was commits
stoned Second Lieutenant 81 L. S. Art. and sent
to Mexico. Yellow fever broke down his health,
and for long time he was an Invalid though
he continued the rolls Of the army. The ont
break OF the found him a Captain in the
IIth Inf, and Gov. Dennison appointed him
Colonel Of the 9Th Ohio. He commanded this regi
ment in the first campaign ia West Virginia until
appointed Chief Of Artillery 10 Gen. Lander. and
gained much reputation for efficiency and gal
Iantry. His regiment was attached % KimbaIFs
Brigade and subsequently to Gen. John Pope's
At Fredericksburg he commanded threeFeginents,
which composed the advance line Of skirmishers
OF COuch's Corps He was subsequently, promoted
TO Brigadier General but his health breaking,
down he accepted a command in the rear. and to-
ward the close Of the war became Major in the
18th U. 5. he was promoted 70 the Colonelcy Of
the 9th L. 5. April 2 1888
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WHO ARE TO BLAME.

1t is not the fault of the American people
that one-half of the broken-down men on
the pension-roll get less per day than a
ragged newsboy earns by halfhour's sale
of newspapers on the street corner. The
people have never intended that man
who fought brayely for them should end his
days by starving on stipend of less per
diem than negro bootblack gets for
shining up" pair of shoes.
That there are thousands of veterans on
the roll at 81, a, So, 81, 10, Il and 10 cents
a day comes as humiliating revelation. 1t
is Congress which is to blame. 1t is the
mean, cheese-paring work of Congressional
economists-of men who would pinch and
deny veteran in order to make showing
of economy. The people have been led to
believe that the veterans were amply pro-
yided for. The immense amount of the an
nual payment for pensions has beenindus-
triously descanted on, and the most has
been made of every sum-total. But in spite
of this there has been no popular demand
for a reduction of pensions.
No party ever thought of putting in its
platform plank to the effect that pensions
must be reduced. No candidate ever tried
to ingratiate himself into the hearts of the
electors by diatribes against the prodigacy
Of the pension expenditures. The contrary
is true. The people have constantly, in
convention and otherwise, declared in favor
Of much more liberal pension legislation
than we have. They have never censured
any Representative for his vote in favor OF
justice to the veteran, but on the other hand
have frequently by rebuke at the polls, by a
decisive defeat Of men who have opposed just
and liberal treatment of the veterans. This
is something that politicians should remem.
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pension or place in Home if they could
possibly avoid it. They nerved themselves
up for the race of life precisely as they
nerved themselves up for a long march, or
to assault rebel line of battle They were
Just as determined to "keep their end up"
without any linching or any aid from the
Government as they used to be that they
would not straggle on march or go to the
rear during an engagement.
But what one can do at 80 he cannot be-
gin to do at 80. 1t was possible to make
will power and enthusiasm compensate
for years after the war for natural powers
which had been diminished by the require
ments of hard service. A rheumatism which
could be made subject to the viii in 1865 is
the merciless tyrant of the viii in 1888.
Weakened lungs which could be forced to
do their work 10 years ago will stand no
forcing now.
Age is something that no man can resist
no will-power conquer. 1t humbles the
proudest spirit, and drags down the strong in
heart.
The men who now appeal to the Govern
ment for justice are the ones who not only
carried its banner through to victory, but
are the ones who came home after their
service in the field was ended and built VI
her prosperity by years Of hard toll in peace
full pursuits, by patriotic submission to oner-
GUS taxation, and by aiding with theil
strong arms every effort to place the country
on the high plane of material prosperity
she now occupies To them the country owes
everything, and they should be the objects
of her tender care. The least she can do il
to pay at once, with scrupulous fidelity, th'
debt she owes them.
DO not tiaker nth tie repenue. Use III
surplus to pay of he yeteron and the bond
! holder.
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GAR. MEN ARRESTED.
A Funeral Procession stopped By POIiremen,

Funeral Procession stopped by Policemen.
Peter Cooper Post, No 552 New York. se-
companied BY the 96th n. Y Reeimental Band,
attended the funeral of one OF its members.
Comrade Casper Hermann, Sunday afternoon
The organization was about 80 strong and in
charge of Commanders Whaleu aud Bowling.
On reaching the house OF mourning officer
informed those IN command Of the Post that
thew We're wanted on business By Capt. Gar
land at the Seventh Precines Station. Whaleu
and Bowling obeyed the summons and we're
told that the Post could not parade with the
band. 1t was verbally agreed that the 0rgaRiz2-
tion could accompany the funeral without
music. The band was dismissed, and when the
procession started for tine buTyiug-gr0nnd the
Grand Army veterans fell ia behind the heaFse
ard ahead of the Legion Of Honor, of which
the deceased was member. It had not moved
far through the crowded streets when adetaeh-
ment of police, from CapE- Garlands station,
waved their clubs aud arrested the entire body
of uniformed veterans, and escorted the pris-
oners and their eoIors to the station A great
deal OF excitement was caused, and expressions
OF indignation was common on all sides. At
the station charges were preferred only against
the Commanders OF the Post TOR violating the
city ordinances, and they were promptly baileds
under instructions to appear in the Essex
Market Police Court in the morning. Ihe
veterans held an Indignation meeting 80 night
and appointed committee Of five to prefer
charges against Capt. Garland
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RENEW IN TIME.

All subscribers should now scrutinize the
number which appears in the date line at
the head of the paper, and compare it with
that in the address slip containing their
name. This is to prevent their subscription
running out and the paper being stopt. So
much of unusual interest is now appearing
in the paper that no one can afford to lose
a single number. 1t is easy to understand
when the subscription expires. For exam
pie, the number of this paper is 337. If the
number on the yellow address slip is $685.
the subscriber will know that his subscrip-
ton expires next week; if 33s in two weeks
and so on. Let him look to it, and send his
subscription in at once and avoid the risk
OF missing paper
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

LTONET sent as Otherwise taa Unregistered letter.
postal money order, or dFajt on Aelo
9ork tsiII be al he risk Of Tie sender.
1GEETS.-IFe employ no agents. TEE NATIONAL
TRrBuNE has many 00lstsueer caa0GsseTs, aud they
arc qelercTy honest and fat9ftI but persons s0ho
confdc leir subscriptions 10 them mast be their o10
susqes u heir responsibility The paper SDtH 6s sens
osllg on receipt Of TIC subscription price.
ADDRESSES, RENEWALS Etc.-zddresses tciu
be changed as often as desired, BAT each subscriber
should IA cge case siUe The old as sVeU as fe'0 address
n reesrilg subscribers Sod be careful 10 send as NE
5abel on te last paper received and specify any cor
socsons or changes they desire made IA 'saH'se or ad-
dress.
CORRESPONDENCE eSpoHdeRee IS solicited
from eteru section IN regard 10 Grand Army. Pen
sion Military agricultural Industrial ard Household
matters and letters to The Editor sUiA GltGgs TeceiUe
s,roBsTt atclfiOn ITiic on ONE SIDE Qf lsc paper
onIv We do not return communications OF sao7tu-
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THE 18th Ohio did not have it's monument

THE 18th Ohio did not have its monument
at Gettysburg ready for dedication at the
time the rest of the Ohio regiments dedi-
Gated theirs last Fall, but the stone has now
arrived and the monument will be COM
pleted as soon as the weather permits. The
9Th Ohio monument viii also be finished
as early in the Spring as it is possible to be-
gin operations The 18th N. H. monument
will be shipped to the field in few days,
and also the marker to be located where
Gen. Arnistead fell at the head of Gen.
Picl1ett's charge. The Ordnance Depart
ment has ordered that so cannon, similar in
size to those used in the battle, be delivered
to the Gettysburg Memorial Association, to
be placed about the field, where they will
indicate the positions of the artillery. These
will include 20 12-pound brass guns, % 3.
inch iron rifles, nine 10-pound PARROTS, one
James rifle and one 2-pound rifle.
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TIE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. view.


The money-lenders do not want the Nation
to pay its debts to them. The National
debtisa great advantage to them. 1t furnishes
the best possible investment for their funds.
With his money in registered bonds of the
United States the capitalist can eat, drink
and enjoy hissoul He has his treasures where
the moth does not corrupt, nor the thieves
break through and steal Bank cashiers may
skip to Canada, and he smiles; railroads
may be wrecked, and he eats his dinner in
peace-these cannot reach his investments.
The whole United States is mortgaged to
secure payment of his quarterly interest,
and nothing viii keep him out of his money
which does not destroy the Government.
Naturally he wants this pleasant state of
things to continue, and he is very anxious
that the revenue should be cut down until
it will be impossible for the Government to
pay off its bonds as they become due.
We, speaking for the veterans and for the
people generally. insist that the pre~ent reve-
nue. of the Government shall not be dimin-
ished one dollar until the Government has
paid to its veterans what is justly due them,
and has Cancelled every dollar of its indebt-
edness to the bondholders.
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IS sCALAwAGs.r

The soldier-hating papers are beginning
to feel greatly distressed again at the num-
Der of undeserving pensioners on the rolls"
They are commencing to tune UP the old talk
about the vast numbers of bounty-jumpers,
dead-beats, coffee coolers, etc. When man
begins expatiating on this theme, he can be
set down at once as an inveterate enemy of
all soldiers No one knows better than an
old soldier that there were really great
number of worthless men in the army, but
there was an infinitely greater number of
Jealous. honest, selfsaerifcing, courageous
men.
The men whose mental vision is continue
ally filed with the shirks and slledaddlers
of the army are of precisely the same type
as the men who can see no one in churches
but the one man in a hundred members
who is liar, hypocrite and thief, and
who continually descant upon that mans
vices until they are unable to give any
credit to the other 80 members for leading
upright, selfdenying lives.
/ Human nature was the same in the army
as in civil life The great majority of men
were devoted, faithful soldiers. The shirks
dead-beats and scalawags were proportion
ately as few as they are among our acquaint-
ances to-day.
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wRoNa no TnE wonKrNomI.N.

We insist that the workingmen of the
country have deep interest in the mini
mum rate of pensions. They avestrenuously
claimed all the time that the rate of wages
paid by the Government to mechanics in its
employ have had an important influence
upon the rate paid by private employers.
They have claimed that the Government
should shut out the Chinese and other Ia
borers imported under contract, because the
way that these people are paid and live sets a
standard which is demoralizing to our citi-
zens. If this reasoning is good-and we have
always maintained that it vast applies
with still more force to the pensioners. The
standard of living which the Government
sets by its rate of pensions to broken-down
soldiers is vastly more demoralizing to
America citizenship than the meagel
living an Imported Chinaman, or Po-
ish, Italian or Belgian laborer may in
troduce. When, by an examination by
its medical officers, il decides that an old
soldier has been injured so as to be incapa.
bic of supporting himself and then gives
him, in lieu of the support that he would
have earned with his own hands had he moi
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ARTICLES FORTHCOMING.

JL1T1c0BDA BAK-Ihe Izirteenth Corps
IL Taras - 1853. By 2. g. LpJkin, Co. z,
Isl d., Ted, lie
sSEERH4N.S BUH5IERS.7 Hoo they did
uea Bork By Henry S. Sanford, CO. g,
ii Itch Engineers ead Mechanics, Green
cHe, L.A.
HAE6IBG REBEL SPIES.-ln Incident
at Fradeack, Id- during he Gettysburg
Campaign. By J. J. AnsJier, Co. 7, 18Th
a., Hape70, I0toq.
HTHE VALLEY.-ghs Shenandoah Can,-
gsiga II 1862 Bg Gen. Henry cqpetart,
FaFgo Dak
OF 10 RfCHBOED--A Graphic Narrative
q Capture and Captivity. Bg George B.
0royfoId. 60. G. Isl ~. Ia. Belisbarg. ". "a
HAWKLBs7S ZOUA VEs-7ze First Bqyo-
SIT Charge. b. J. Il E. IYLtaey, Sergeant
Co. u. eh n. =, Keu York Cag.
PORT HUDSOE-A Spirited Aceount d
this T-pOrtant Siege aud Battle. By WILDE
u EcJJlr, LeHpcsas, Ter.
PICE AED SHOVEL-C Campaigning uia
ar Eaaaeos. 81 HToItar a. Parcels CO
J.. 5l = = Eng, Leristoa Pa.
zCp0sS THE PLAIEs-A Narrative Of Z
H1id Western TIP n 1867 By ", Thorn
toa PARKER tate Aefiag Assistant Surgeon
Us ~ EarDo,t RI
CAHsBI PRISON.-Life and Deaf.ia mi
Plae 20 loafaemalt Bg @. j. Trenamoa
LEWI Campaigning and Tig1tia!
81 80 ,aaia. 81 Joba T. Booth, Ser
g 3gA ono. HaltpeH, o.
L8EE1JL PRISONS Tze graphic storg Q
Lisaf Hs. 5ls hd By Frank H. Byera
Hoshiaet1a, Id
FOET PLLOW-7Ee story Of he tragedy .
AprH - 1864 Bg = C. George, 7tE Km
Cr saeIs Pa.
DCRaagss IILL-h part Of the Peac
Tro Cak series Of bgRss IN The Aaant
a'gH By Join ligoe, Idjutam. 10,
Mich
BULL RUE. GETTYSBURG AND III
BILDERBEsS.-Ihe toork Of the carat
q hose CAMPAIGNS. y H. E. Hatt.c4s, 1
Eiet. Cgr. 5Etford, I5cE.
THE LIST BLOW At HOODS ARUK.-
Tks ehas eriiseqrd fran Nasacille and Il
Gffact Or 1is poatooas By Liead CharI
Kigk, 1911 Pa Car, Philadelphia, Pa.
JO8ESB0R0. cA-Some corrections Of
Jo7aa aor e'h nap Bg Capt J.
Iiaca,ag SSH H.