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, 1888-11-07

The disposition of the dead Is attract
ing much attention in England. The
question is being agitated by the English
Burial Reform association. During late
years there has been more or less discus
sion on this topic. The objection to the
present mode of burial is based on two
grounds, First, the sanitary reason, and
second, the financial cost. AS funerals
are managed in the present time they are
expensive and fall with much weight
upon the poor, who are as fond of mani
Testing their respect for the dead by large
funerals as are the rich. A medical
authority in London declares that the
average cost every year for burying the
dead in England and Wales alone is
$25, 600, 600. This would make the
average expense of every funeral about
$50. In the United States it cannot be
any less.
The sanitary objection is based upon
the reports of sanitary authorities that
communities living in the ne~ighborhood
of graveyards suffer from ailments to
which those who live a distance from the
place of burial are strangers. Disraeli,
in the house of lords, for this reason
urged that all the Gods acres in Great
Britain should be closed. These reasons
are making many converts to cremation.
The best evidence of the growth of this
idea is to be found in the strength of the
International Cremation congress, which
was held about a year ago in Milan.
The roll included representatives from
every part of the civilized world.-ne-
troit Free Press.
, 1888-11-07
How to Enjoy Life.

To enjoy life does not mean going or
staying. If you can watch a tree grow
ing, a flower blooming or the blue sky
deepening; if you can listen to a goose
squawking along a dusty lane, to a pull
let cackling over a first egg, to a sleepy
child grooming herself to sleep with a lit
tie tune; if you can watch a COW licking
her calf, a young mother sucking her
babe, and take a big interest in all these
things, feeling in the marrow of you
their meaning and that they are a true
part of life's sweetness and simplicity,
why then think you may truly answer
Yes, oh yes" when one questions you
.lDeyeH- enjoy life, good sir2"
1t is not a good habit to be bored of
things, to cultivate ennui. Every day
the sun comes up and shines, and hearts
BEAT and people are born, and some die
and some marry and some hate and
more love, so who are you and what are
you TO strut around like a fool of a tur-
key gobbler the week before Thanksgiv-
ing and say you are bored and life is too
dull for your palate? After all you fill
no more space than a fool takes on the
sidewalk or under the green grass; so be
careful how you venture to draw about
you a circle of exclusiveness. Be careful
how you fall into the way of thinking the
earth was made for you. Do not insist,
as many selfish people do, on going
through the world with an air cushion
upon which you may sit in luxurious
ease, while there are only stony benches
for the rest of poor mortality -Catharine
Cole in New Orleans Picayune.
, 1888-11-07
Bonds of Lesser Denomination.

The denominations and the distribution
of railway bonds deserve criticism. Ordi-
narily the denominations are $500 and
81, 900, but $40, 600 bonds are not IN
common and some are issued for $780,
600. These denominations hinder the
wide distribution of the securities among
the people, because they are too large to
secure purchasers among persons of
moderate means Only the rich can
afford $500 or 81, 900 investments; many
people of less means would gladly invest
in safe railway securities of $50 or 500
denominations.
To reduce the denominations of rail-
way bonds would enlarge materially the
home market for them. 1t would give
the railways a larger constituency of in
terested investors in the territories they
serve, a constituency competent to
restrain in a marked degree the excuses
of i'll considered hostile railway legisla-
ton, and to contribute in many ways to
railway stability and prosperity. 1t is
pertinent to inquire who is likely to be
able most intelligently and effectively to
participate in adjusting fairly the fire.
quently strained relations of railways
and the public, the Dutch bondholders
in Amsterdam or the American farmer
on the western prairies, who has invested
a few hundreds in securities of the roads
which carry his grain to market?-Forum.
, 1888-11-07
Asia,s Old Enete Nation.

1t will not be long before we, the ad-
vanced guard of the Aryan race, will be
in close connection and intercourse with
the parent stock in India. Our ideas are
there already, and our institutions are
admired and desired in Bombay and Cal
cutta. Our reapers are in use in their
fields and our sewing machines in their
houses. But of more importance is the
TACT that there is a native press growing
up with great rapidity all through India.
Their congress of 600 deputies is less like
the English parliament than like u
own house of representatives. Three
and one-third millions of pupils are in
state schools, while 80, 600 young men
have, within ten years, passed university
examinations. The old effete nation, or
completely ct nations, has renewed it's
youth. We may look for great events
in Asia -Globe-D Democrat.
, 1888-11-07
$50 +. CARROLL, Edito
DOING PRETTY WE'LL.

The cruel war is over and we're feeling
pretty well thank you. At this early
hour it is hazardous to venture a predic-
ton as to the delegateship. Republicans
who were wildly calling for 600 majority
for Carey must haul in their horns. He
cannot possibly have 100 majority and
very probably not that much. -Four years
ago Carey carried Laramie county by a
majority over Holiday OF 977. be will
find a tremendous falling off this year and
it will take definite returns from all over
the territory to settle the election:
Republicans this morning conceded the
election of the Democratic council ticket
Messrs. Hunter, Reel and Campbell. In
the house ticket Mr.. Guthrie Is certainly
elected. Mr.. Roedel comes next on the
list so far as heard from with Mr.. Palmer
closely following. Three, and perhaps
four Democrats are elected. OF the Re-
publicans w. R. Schnitger and perhaps
Z. It. Duffey have been successful in the
race.
John A. Mastin is elected sheriff. The
race for county clerk and county treasurer
is very close, and until the official returns
reach us the matter can not be de-
cided. The Democrats elect two and
perhaps three Of the county commission
ers. w. R. Stoll is reelected prescott
ing attorney, Frank Fl. Jones, surveyor
(by a big majority, Chafin coroner and
Charlton road supervisor. As to Maj.
Glafcke and Mrs. Breckons nothing def
mite can be ascertained from the informa-
ton at hand. The count in the second
ward has not progressed as far as justices
of the peace. The feeling is hat Judge
Carroll is certainly elected and John H.
Goddard appears to be, as he certainly
should be.
Locally the Democrats have every,reason
for much qualification. They worked at
the polls yesterday with much enthusiasm
and the effect of their work is apparent
in the big vote that was rolled up.
, 1888-11-07

d you see that cake?'' and the lady
brought out a large cake, temptingly
iced. What do you think that icing is
made Off
Usually it is made of sugar and eggs.
but this isn't. l took a t~easpoonfui of
gelatine-the stuff they make the coating
for quinine pills out of-dissolved it in a
half cup of warm water and stirred it
hard in a cup and a half of sugar, then /
added a little vinegar to whiten it.
THE gelatine does just as well as the
white of eggs and is much cheaper and
more convenient. It's a chance if half
the cakes in the bakeries aren't iced that
way. We boarding house keepers have
to keep up with the times, don't Won
know2"-New York Telegram.
, 1888-11-07
Origin of Steam Power.

The first records we have of steam
being applied as a motive power are
found in a manuscript entitled, Esprit
ALA Sen Pneumatica," written about 200
years B.. c., by Hero, a learned philoso-
pher of Alexandria.
In it he describes a little instrument
which he calls an "~eolipile" or "wind
ball" 1t consists of a hollow ball of
metal supported on %trunnions, and hay
ing a number of jets bent at right angles
and equally distant from the points of
support. Steam is admitted into the bail
through one Of the %trunnions, and as soon
as it is introduced it issues violently from
the mouth of each jet, making a noise
like the rushing of the wind, and hence
its name. On the opposite side of each
jeti presses without being able t o escape,
and this unbalanced pressure makes the
globe %revolve, giving up a form of rotary
engine by which machinery can be set in
motion.
The first really practical steam engine
was invented by Thomas Newcomer, a
blacksmith of Dartmouth, England, and
was put in operation in pumping out
mines about 1711.-'tJ. II. E" in Boston
Budget.
, 1888-11-07
Preparation of Fruit syrups.

Everybody knows, says NJ. Manche, in
The Archives de Pharmacie, that syrups
prepared from the fresh fruit juices are
far preferable to any others; but that
these syrups in their fresh state contain
a large amount of carbonic acid is usu-
ally forgotten. When the process usu-
ally in vogue is followed, and sugar is
added to the juices in the cold, a liquid
is obtained which soon becomes SO dense
that the acid finds it difficult to make its
escape when heat is subsequently ap-
piled, and the consequence is foaming,
and sometimes a partial caramelizing of
the sugar, from the fact that the syrup
makes a denser layer at the bottom while
the lighter juice is forming on top. To
avoid all this, NJ. Manche recommends
that the juice be boiled before any sugar
is added, replacing loss from evaporation
by distilled water. The result is said to
be better in every way.-Scientifc Amer
iran.
, 1888-11-07

The navies of the world have beer for
years past in a transition stage-in fact,
ever since the introduction of armor
plating for ships of war, which necessi-
tated the manufacture and use on board
ship of heavier guns, which have. since
been competing with the thickness of
armor until it seems probable that the
extreme limit has been well nigh reached
in either case, the ideal man-of-war has
beer sought for the continual change and
improvement; but on looking into the
future, nothing but further change can
be seen ahead. 1t is, therefore, essential
to find out, as far as possible, which of
our various types of ships best fuIHI1s the
requirements expected of them.
The true solution of this question, and
of many others waiting to be solved, con-
spicuous among them being the question,
What is the value of the torpedo as an
offensive and defensive ~weapon7" will
have to stand over till after the next
great naval war. The wars of late years
have not helped us much. The Ameri-
can civil war developed the defensive tor
pedo to a stage beyond which it has not
since made much advance; but from
the Franco-German and Russo-Turkish
wars but little was learned, beyond the
undoubtedly great value of torpedoes for
purposes of defense, in each case the
stronger feet being rendered innocuous
by their use. But such questions as
1.-THE best way to defend a large ocean
trade from attack by cruisers2' which to
England is of vital Importance, remain
as obscure as ever.-Blackwood's Maya
zine.
, 1888-11-07

The tale is to the effect that DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes and the venerable DIR.
Peabody, of Cambridge, once had an ap-
pointment to see q statue of Eurydice.
DR.. Holmes arrived first, and when a few
moments later his friend drove up in n
cab, he greeted him with the very OBJ
vious pun:
"Ah, you rid, 1 see."
DR.. Peabody vas wonderfully pleased
with this sally, and on his return home
attempted TO repeat it for the benefit of
his family.
'Dr, Holmes was extremely witty this
afternoon" he said. I'VE went to see
the Eurydice, and when l drove up he
said just as quick as a flash, 'Ah, doctor,
/ see you came in a buggy"
l do not vouch for the story, but tell
the tale as it was told to me.-Arlo Bates
in Providence Sunday Journal.
, 1888-11-07

Percale shirts at So cents each at Green
trees.
, 1888-11-07

Fresh oysters received daily at Saddle
Rock.
, 1888-11-07
PROF. NORRIS EDUCATED DOGS.
A New and Novel show at the Opera
House Tonight.

The parade by Prof. G. Norris and his
great troupe of educated dogs about the
streets yesterday was a novel and unusual
spectacle and attracted a great deal of
attention. The professors twenty intelli-
gent pets followed their master every
where, showing perfect training.
This great canine troupe appears at the
opera house tonight and will give a won
derful exhibition, performing all sorts of
miraculous feats.
OF the combination the Salt Lake
Tribune says:
At the matinee there was a crowded
house. 1t was the unanimous verdict
that this was one of the best exhibitions
of canine intelligence ever witnessed in
this city. The performances certainly
substantiated every claim made for these
dogs. Such acting, tumbling and almost
human understanding of these dogs is
something not to be witnessed often, and
the professor, who has had the patience
and perseverance to undertake such a
training deserves great credit. Fritz, the
king of dogs, is deserving of special men
ton. The three clown dogs kept the au-
dience in a roar of laughter. All the rest
OF the dogs acted their part equally well.
The entire entertainment gave thorough
satisfaction, as the large and appreciative
audience testified.
Prices of admission will be so, rs cents
and 81. Children, half price.
, 1888-11-07
LADIES SHOULD SEE 1T.
An Attraction at Il. SGhweickert's store
Food cooked In Fresh Air by a Pro-
cess That Has NO Equal.

The Charter Oak Stove with the won
dertul wire gauze over door is creating a
revolution wherever it is introduced. Mr..
M. w. Leet, representing the Excelsior
Manufacturing company of st. Louis,
will give an exhibition at T. Schweickert' 8
81 West Sixteenth street, on Thursday
and Friday, Nov. s and Q, showing the
practical operation of this new discovery
IN cooking. Ladies, physicians and all
persons interested in having well cooked
and healthful food are invited to call and
see the exhibition. Roasting is done
without basting, and with "a loss of only
> per cent of the weight of the meat,
while the average loss with the old STYLE.
solid oven doors, is 80 per cent. Steaks,
chops, fish, ham, oysters, etc, are ele-
gantly broiled inside the oven without
attention, retaining almost entirely their
natural Juices and flavor, and without
annoyance from smoke or unpleasant
odors. 1t is claimed and demonstrated
that the saving on meats for a family of
i've or six persons will amount to the full
value OF a cook stove or range every year.
Everybody invited, Remember the ex.
hibition closes at 5 o'clock. +. Schweick
ert agent for Cheyenne.
, 1888-11-07

Thus far lawn tennis has brought three
distinct diseases to the fore-.'tennis
elbow, " tennis leg" and "tennis arm. -
By the way, we never hear of the ancient
Greek athletes having any such disorders
New York Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06

The Democrats who lost their money
on account of the Kansas City Times
Misrepresentation of the state of affairs
in Kansas will know how to appreciai :
the following bit of editorial consola-
ton from its columns:
The Times is sorry to note the sus-
pension o. Democratic papers in Kan
sas. But be of good cheer; The Times
is still on deck, full of current inform
alton and sound Democratic doctrine.
For as we frequently take occasion to
remark, administrations may come and
SO, parties may be swept in or out of
power. but The Times with its good
Democratic principles goes on forever.
1t is believed that the Democratic
representation in the next State Senate
will be the most harmonious ever
known. There will be no fractional
divisions or strifes. The said d. r
will consist Of one member, Ed Carroll,
of Leav9nwo-th.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
THE AMERICAN NAVY.
Annual Report of Secretary whitney Pub
Iished.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Secretary Whit
ney has presented his annual report TO the
President. After giving brief review Of
the condition of the navy as it will exist
on March 4, 1889, in comparison with the
same as it existed on March 4, 1885, and
furnishing list of armored vessels here
tofore authorized by Congress, the Secre-
tary says:
$50 far as armored ships are concerned.
the subject is yet to be treated in broad
way by the department and Congress. At
the present time the conditions are such
that every thing necessary to frst-class.
fighting ships can be produced and fur
nished to the department in this country
as soon as in the course OF construction
any element or feature is required; but
this has never heretofore, until the present
time, been true, and therefore the con-
sideration of the subject has been neces-
sarily postponed by the department until
the present time"
He then dwells upon the necessity OF the
armored cruisers now building, and says:
'We can not at present protect our coast
but we can return blow for blow, for we
shall soon be in condition to launch fleet
of large and fast cruisers against the COM
merC6 Oh du euct1ly dDIc W tuIlCb bu0 uOSS
serious and lasting injury thereon"
at is gratifying to be able to report"
says the Secretary, "that notwithstand-
ing the large expenditures for the new
navy in the last three years, the reduc-
ton in other directions has made the total
expenditures of the department less for
these years than for the three years ended
June 80, 1884, the ordinary expenses of the
department having been reduced over
twenty per cent. The year 1SS4-S5 was
omitted from the table as not having been
wholly in this administration"
Total expenditures Of the department for
three years ended June 80, 1884, COM
pared with the three years ended June 30,
1888, items being taken from reports OF
the fourth auditor of the treasury and dis
tributed under the various objects of ex-
pendiutures for the year ended June 30,
1888 and 1884 were $47,979, 397 and for
the years ended June 80, 1861 and 1883,
SAG, $780, &c."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
When Do the Electors Meet?

The Abilene REFLECTOR is authority
for the statement that the time for the
Presidential electors to meet and cast
their ballots for President and vice
President has been changed from the
first Wednesday in December to the
second Monday in January. We had
been informed that change had been
made but could not satisfy ourself as
to the truth of the matter, SO we took
pains to write to Hon. E. 3. Allen.
Secretary of State, for information.
His answer was that There had been
no change in this State, but cannot say
as to any other State" Now the con-
stitution provides that the day shall be
uniform throughout the United States.
(See paragraph 4, section 1. article of
the constitutional Therefore if it has
been changed in one State it has been
in all. This is question of some impor-
lance and we would like some Informal
ton on the subject.-[Hope Dispatch.
As this matter is obscure in the
minds of many people we have taken
some pains TO look up the exact status
of the matter in the records of Con-
gIess.
A United States law passed Feb. 8,
1887, provided that the electors in each
State should meet on the second Mon
day in January to cast their votes. But
Some of the States had previously
adopted laws which provided that the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06

A writer in the Detroit Free Press
objects to the duplication of names Of
cities and Uses Detroit, Mich, as an
example and says:
Detroit is we'll named, as the city is
situated on a strait and the town was
founded by the French, so it is partic-
ularly appropriate that the name should
be from the language of the founders
and should signify the situation of the
city. Yet folks have had the cheek to
name six other places in the United
States Detroit '-places that were
never on any strait except Strengthened
circumstances, and whose inhabitants
couldn't speak word of French to save
their lives. Detroit is village in Ala
bama with an academy and two or
three shops. Detroit is also a hamlet
Of about y inhabitants in Dickinson
county, Kas.
We are in favor of giving the above
mentioned scribbler a thorough "dress-
ing down" for his libel upon Dickin-
sons live little village.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06

On election day Judge Galloway sent
out dispatch purporting to be from
Chairman Brice, giving the political
outlook for New York, New Jersey,
Indiana and Connecticut, and predict
ing that the Democrats would carry
these States with majorities ranging
from 1850 to 10000. The Barber
County Index, thoroughbred Demo-
cratic organ, says:
Such a dispatch, 12S words, collect,
cost gentleman of this city $685., and
it cost the Democrats of Barber county
over 81, 0O0in bets. Leaving the mort
gage circular out of the question,
we are of the opinion that Judge Gal
loway is a reckless and injudicious pol
itician. He did the party harm in
Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
A Notable Convert.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 30.-Rev. Steve
Holcombe, the reformed gambler, has add
ed another laurel to his crown in the con-
version of Col. Thomas P. Grasty, a news
paper man known all over the West and
South. Col. Grasty has been in this city
several weeks, somewhat under the
weather. He drifted up to the Holcombe
Mission last Sunday and was brought to
his knees by the earnest exhortation Of
the evangelist. Tonight Col. Grasty
preached an eloquent sermon telling OF his
errors in life and warming other. to avoid
treading in his footsteps. Col. Gfasty has
been connected with the Merchant ITdU-
eler and with Opie Reeds Arkdnsato IfGc-
eler. He says he will devote the balance
of his life to the ministary.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
Pupilists Fired At.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Some excitement
was caused in Kiernan's theater last night
by what is regarded as an attempt on the
life of Jake Kilrain or Charley Mitchell by
John W. Robinson, an intoxicated occu-
pant of one of the boxes. The men had
Just been introduced when shot was fired
from the rear OF box in the second tier,
which whistled past the heads Of those in
front and buried itself in the scenery at
the right of the stage. A policeman who
rushed into the box caught Robinson in the
act of laying a smoking revolver on the
floor behind him. He was arrested, as was
Henry c. Gray, who accompanied him, and
both men were taken to the First precinct
station
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06

There are said to be three classes of
newspaper workers. First, rye edi-
tor" who dresses in elegant style and
thinks himself the center about which
the universe revolves. Second, the
Journalist" slightly more modest,
but still extremely self-eonscious and
alarmingly inclined to make ''breaks."
Third, and highest of all, the "news-
paper man" who dresses plainly, keeps
himself out of the way as much as pos
sible, says the right thing at the right
time, is bright, quick, shrewd, and
handles men like puppets. He has
mounted to the highest level of al oble
profession. Brethren, it is a great
thing to be newspaper man."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06

Mayor Hewitt has made one of the
most startling announcements ever
heard in connection with an appoint
ment to Office. When one Of the gen.
tlemen whom he had chosen as school
inspector appeared to be sworn in, the
Mayor informed him that he had been
solely because of his
"cheek," which the Mayor declared to
be UNLIMITED" We know of several
individuals who would pass an extreme
ly satisfactory examination in the
aforementioned respect.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
Mail Rohharv.

OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. 50.-The discovery
was recently made by the postal authori-
ties in Ottawa that a number of registered
letters either at or en- route TO this city
had been stolen or had gone astray. The
money they contained was chiefly sent
from the West to Ottawa 1t is said that
not only were registered letters stolen,
but a whole mail that came by the Grand
Trunk railroad is missing. When the
robbery took place is a mystery. The
matter had been kept quiet until now. An
Investigation is in progress.