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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
The SCHENCK FAMILY.
1t Was Well Represented in the Army,
as One of Its Members Found Out.

1t Was Well Represented in the Army,
as One of Its Members Found Out.
When the war of the rebellion broke
out, General Robert c. Schenck had
been so long in public life and away
from Ohio that he didn't know, even by
sight, half of the numerous nephews
who were the sons of his half-dozen
brothers. He was appointed Brigadier-
General, and it so happened that one
of the regiments assigned to his brig
ade over in Virginia was the Second
Ohio, commanded by Colonel Alexan-
der Mcdowell McCook.
Several of the companies of this reg
iment were raised in and around Day
ton, where the Schencks lived in
swarms, and as the family was loyal all
through, there was a goodly number Of
Scheucks in Company B and Company
F of that regiment 1t so happened
that the Schenck contingent in the reg
iment was thoroughly imbued with a
love of fun, and when any mischief
was on foot the Schencks were sure to
have hand in tiff a party was haul
ed up for discipline, one or more
Schencks was sure to be of the number.
This fact was very annoying to
the General, as might have
been expected. and he did not
try to conceal his annoyance. While
the brigade lay near Fairfax Court
House strict orders against foraging
were issued; believe it was even
threatened to have foragers shot One
morning a party of five foragers, cap
tured the night before, was brought be-
fore General ScheDck for examination.
The General looked at the faces closely,
but recognized none, and then asked
the first man:
What is your name and regiment"
Peter Brown, Second Ohio. sir"
''Ohr' lin a relieved tone of voice)
Il was afraid you might be one of
those blank Schencks."
What IS your name?" he inquired of
the next
The youth looked the General
straight in the eye and answered
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
TANNER AND GARLAND,
The Difference Between a Republican n
q DemocratIc AdmInistr ation.

The Difference Between a Republican and
Democratic Admins tratiOn-
Pension Commissioner Tanner was
accused of strong favoritism towards
the veterans of the war-a pardonable
fault, to be sure-of unbusiness-like
methods, of talking too much and of
inability to agree with his superior in
Office, Secretary Noble. That was the
extent of his offending. Not a word
was alleged against his personal hon
esty or honor But he had to go, in
obedience to a public sentiment that
requires in a Republican high official
certain qualities of mind and a degree
of capacity for business that unfortu-
nately he did not possess. The Demo-
Gratis are disposed to make a good deal
of noise about his case. They would
appear to better advantage if
they kept still. They simply call at
tention to the fact that President
Cleveland kept Acknowledgement Gar
land in Office for years after his cor
rupt use of his official position to fur
Their the interests of the Pan Electric
Telephone Company, in which he was
a large stakeholder, was exposed. He
prostituted the Judiciary Department
of The Government, which of all the
departments should be most above sus-
picion, to put money in his own pocket.
The proof was ample and undeniable,
and some of the leading Democratic
journals repeatedly demanded his dis
missal, but President Cleveland kept
him in Office until the people voted the
whole Democratic aggregation into re-
tirement. The two cases well illus
trate the difference between a Repub-
lican and a Democratic adIninistra-
ton. Cleveland Leader.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
AT HARPER'S FERRY.
The Unfiinching Courage OF Lieutena
Stevens in the Face of Death

The Unf1inching Courage OF Lieutenant
Stevens in the Face of Death.
During the John Brown raid at Har-
per's Ferry, while Brown held the ar
mory yard and engine-house, he had
pickets stationed at different points
commanding the approaches John
Browns right-hand man, Lieutenant
Stevens, with four men held the end Of
the bridge which crosses the Potomac
until they were driven thence by the
citizen of Harper's Ferry. They then
retreated towards the engine-house
held by John Brown. Meantime ten
or twelve men (citizens) entered the
Gait House by means of the rear en-
trance, and by firing from the windows
and doorway of the bar-room of the
saloon, they were able to command the
street from the end of the bridge to the
engine-house. As Stevens and party
retreated along this street they were
fired upon by the men in the Gait
House, and one of the men, Thompson
by name, fell
Stevens did not know this until he
reached the engine-house. Nothing
daunted, in the face of almost certain
death, he returned alone, and tried to
carry his friend and comrade, Thompson,
away. He was fired at, and fell badly
wounded. but not before he had re-
turned the fire. He and Thompson
were then carried into the Shenandoah
Hotel Then Thompson was immedi-
ately taken out on the bridge and shot,
and his body thrown into the river.
The crowd then returned for Stevens.
Just as they entered the room, Mrs.
Foulke, the wife of the landlord, en-
tered, and with the tender heart and
love Of mercy of woman, pleaded with
the crowd to spare Stevens life.
Stevens, supposing they were going to
kill him then and there, with an effort
raised himself on his elbow and said:
Gentlemen. have respect for the lady;
do not kill me in her presence, but take
me out and kill me-" His bravery
saved his life for the time. He was
taken to Charleston, and afterwards
tried. convicted and hanged. He
mounted the scaffold firm and unfiinch-
ing, with smile on his countenance. -
Philadelphia Press.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
DRIFT OF OPINION.

@=As a Democratic member O.
Congress there is no doubt whatever
that John L. Sullivan would adequate
ly represent the party constituency
that votes for Hmm. Y. Mail and
Express.
EHHon. William E. $cott's next
Democratic campaign contribution
ought not to be less than $50, 900. The
charitable people of Illinois and other
Western States will see that his coal
miners out here are kept from actual
starvation.-ChicagU Tribune,
RH%It is due to Mr. Tanner to say
that it is unequivocally stated that his
integrity is not called in question. On
the contrary he is given a complete
vindication from all Democratic SLAM
ders. 1t is a clear case of incompati-
bility between the Commissioner and
his superior officer, the Secretary of
the Interior. Chicago Inter Ocean.
R%The St. Louis Republic charac-
terizes the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie as "a mere ASSOCIATE of loafers,
viewing the country's treasury with
greedy eyes" Majah Jones, of Flor
ida, seems to be smarting yet from the
licking those loafers gave him back in
the sixties, but Just the same they will
assist in giving him and his gang an
other one in 1892 minneapolis Trib-
une.
@Whenever a few hundred york
men in the United States strike the
free-trade papers at once declare that
our tariff is the source of such labor
troubles, yet strangely enough they
are very mute as to the cause of the
great London strike in the land of free
trade. 1t would be just as logical to
assert that the London strike is caused
by free trade as to assert that strike
in the United States is caused By ouF
tariff. Milwaukee Sentinel
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
SAVED THE TRAIN.
How An Iowa Soldier Won the Respect of
His Commanding Officers.

How An Iowa Soldier Won the Respect of
His Commanding Officers
The following personal "reminiscences
has never been published, but will
doubtless be read with much interest
by many old soldiers who were in the
Twenty ninth Iowa at Little Rock.
Ark, in the fall of 1864. and other com
rades under the command of General
Steele, whose command was then sta
toned there.
After the battle OF Saline River Gen
eral Steele fell back to Little Rock,
and during the summer train Of cars
was sent out toward White river on the
prairie about twenty miles from camp
with details from different regiments
of the army TO make hay for the cav
airy.
While the troops were all busily en-
gagged with their assigned WORK in the
forenoon of the day (he date IS now
forgotten) quite large force Of Gen
eral Shelby's men came dashing down
upon our farmer soldiers without any
notice or previous warning whatever,
and commenced a general firing in all
directions.
OF course our men were taken by
surprise. and many were killed and
wounded. Among those killed were
the engineer and fireman of the train.
who were at their post of duty, their
bodies falling inside the engine car.
Jacob Barnhart, a private in Company
l, Twenty-ninth Iowa, was lodging
about behind bales of hay, and ran to
the engine, which he Immediately
mounted and pulled the handle of the
boiler throttle, putting on full steam, at
which the train started suddenly on its
return to Little Rock, twenty miles
away The rebels were so busily en-
gagged shooting and rounding up pris-
oners that they were unable, after the
train started, to overtake it or to shoot
Barnhart, who was the only living man
on it when it arrived at Little Rock.
The soldier was not experienced in
handling or managing an engine. but
having opened up steam lay fiat down
and let Providence and full head of
steam do the rest of the work, and
amid a storm of bullets he left his COM
rades in the fields of newly-made hay
to all be taken prisoners of war only
two of them escaping. This soldier
was honored by many thanks from the
commanding General and given gen.
eral pass to go in and out of camp DUR
lug the remainder of his term Of serv-
ice.
He is now an invalid from wounds
and disease contracted during his se.v-
ice, and awaiting the issuing of a PEN
sion certificate. His neighbors at Dex-
ter, Cowley County, Kan, know him as
one of their most respected citizens.
Cor. National Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

If the whites in the South. n .hsfr
anxiety to find some way to get out of
doing justice to the blacks, should
force them away they would find that
they themselves were the chief suf-
ferers. They must depend chiefly on
colored labor in the cotton States. 1t
has its defects. Though docile and
shiftless, it is better than none and
better than white laziness The
Southern whites are accustomed to its
faults. If the colored men were
driven away whites would not come to
take their places. and a fatal blow
would be dealt at the prosperity of
that part OF the country. How much
simpler it would be to be just, to give
the negro his rights Then the whole
difficulty would be solved, and there
would be no need to resort to emf
grafton and similar deadly remedies
Chicago Tribune,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
RANDOM SHOTS.

THE battle of Antietam was fought
September 10, II, 1862
SEPTEMBER 1928, 1868, the battle of
Chickamauga, Ga, was fought The
Union losses were 1851, the Confed-
crate Il. PSI men.
A COMPANY has been incorporated in
Washington, d. c., for the purchase
and occupancy of large tract of land
in Virginia. including the field of APP
pomattox. One of the incorporators is
General S. S Burdett formerly in COM
mand of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. The capital stock is $3.50, ZOO.
The Union army during the war of
the rebellion had on its rolls 2,S83, 900.
The Confederate armies had on their
rolls 1852, 900. OF the Union army
one-fourth, 100000. still survive, of
whom 400, 900 are enrolled in the Grand
Army of the Republic. Al least $780,
600 Confederates live to recount the
stories of hardship, peril and want
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
THE RACE PROBLEM,
Give the Negro His flights and 1t VIII
Solve Itself

Give the Negro His flights and 1t Will
Solve Itself
The Charleston News and Courier is
getting sick of the perpetual BULLDOG
ings and frauds which are necessary to
get Democratic white majorities in
South Carolina 1t is not that its
conscience is touched, or that it be-
lieves in giving the cOlored voter a
show, but it fears lest the growing
feeling in the North over Gulf State
methods of running National elections
may lead to Congressional interference
which can not be resisted by force or
evaded by fraud.
So it wants the colored men to leave
the State. 1t hopes that the report is
true that one immigration agent has
sent 5000 colored people from the Car
olinas and Georgia to the Yazoo delta,
and believes many more can be spared
1t says: The negro question will go
with the negro, and we can well spare
the one to get finally rid of the other"
1t wants thousands and thousands of
the colOred people to go to the West or
the Southwest, and thinks it would be
good policy for the whites of South
Carolina to pay their expenses there.
There is no doubt that if enough
blacks could be induced to go from the
State to leave a white majority in each
Congressional district it would do away
with the necessity for wholesale ballot
box stuffing and other forms of fraud.
But there would have to be a good deal
of an exodus of blacks before that result
was reached. and the first census taken
after it would cut down materially the
number of Representatives and Presi-
dental electors from the Palmetto
State The Seventh Congressional dis
trict casts about 1000 white to IS. 600
black votes There are $4,000 whites,
men, women and children, and I56, 900
blacks. To get rid of enough of the
latter to put the whites in the majority
would mean the removal of $50, 600
persons from one district alone. Were
that to happen, either the fields would
remain untitled or labor would have
to flow in from other quarters. But if
1t came it would be black, not white,
labor, for there need be little expecta-
ton that white working-men will 90
there till the coIored men are all gone.
Ihsrefore there would be nobody to
work the ground or the old conditions
OF negro supremacy" would be re.
established.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
YOUNG REPUBLICANS.
Why They Have No Earthly Use for tn,
Democratic Party.

Why They Have No Earthly Use for the
Democratic Party.
Some of the Democratic and assist
ant Democratic papers of this country
have been devoting a considerable
amount of their editorial space of late
to jeers and vilifcation Of the young
men" who, according to these carping
critics, are writing editorial articles
for various Republican papers. We
believe it to be fact that a large pro-
portion Of the workers of the Repub-
ican press are young men Of the able
and energetic sort who naturally come
to the front in a party which is emf
nently progressive, and which, unlike
the Democracy, looks forward into the
future and not backward into the past.
We suspect that a knowledge of this
is just what is troubling some of the
superlatively omniscient crOakers on
the Democratic side. 1t is precisely
because the past history of the Demo-
cratic party and the present attitude
of that party on the great questions of
VIC nun oil z 81 LII CdlClIdIOO W dIII dCb
intelligent and patriotic young men to
its ranks that the Democracy is so
weak.
How can any young man of sense
and patriotism consent to ally himself
for one moment with the party which
was the avOwed champion of human
slavery; which lent aid and comfort to
the enemies of the Nation and de-
clared the war for the preservation of
the Union a failure; which advocated
the reputation of the National debt;
which is to-day the enemy of the in
dustrial independence of America;
which holds down by armed force the
Republican majority in the Southern
States; which draws its most steadfast
support from the slums of the great
cities and finds its surest and most
faithful allies in the saloons?
1t is no wonder that American
young men refuse to join such a party
as this, and it is not strange that the
Democratic leaders and spokesman are
unable to conceal their wrath and
chagrin over the fact. N. Y. Mail
and Express.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
SOME FAMOUS GIANTS.
a Number of Those Whose Height Ex-
ceeded Seven and q Half Eeat.

Number of Those Whose Height Ex-
ceeded Seven and . Half Feet.
The Greek, Orestes, was III feet tall.
Galabro, an Arabian. was 10 feet
tall.
Farnum, the Scotchman. was II!
feet tall.
The Emperor Maximinus was 81 feet
tall.
Evans, who lived in King Charles
LIS times. was feet tall.
Walter Parsons, the famous porter
of King Charles L of England. was Z
feet inches in height
Colonel Orr. who died some seven
years ago. was Z feet / inches in
height and weighed $40 pounds.
The Chinese giant, Chang Woo
Cow, was doubtlsse the tallest man
ever exhibited in America. He was s
feet inches high.
Daniel Lambert, the largest man
known to history, measured 9 feet 1
inches around the body. 3 feet inch
around the legs. and weighed about
740 pounds.
There appeared in Old England
three years ago an Austrian named
Winkelmeier, whose height was feet
9 inches.
Miles Darden was born in North
Carolina in 1898. and died in Tennes-
see January %, 1857. He was feet
2 inches in height. and at the time of
his death his weight was upward of
1000 pounds
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
CONCLAvE; KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
The TrienniaI Reunion to Be Held in
Washington Cd. CD Oct. Sth to IIth,
1889, Inclusive.

The TrienniaI Reunion to Be Held in
Washington Cd. CD Oct. Sth to I1th,
1889, Inclusive.
Tickets for this occasion via the Chicago.
Rock Island q Pacific Railway, will be sold
at One Fare the Round Trip, conditions and
dates of sales as follows: Al all stations on
the east of the Missouri River, Oct Sd to
5th inclusive, good for going passage not
later than trains arriving in Washington
Oct. Sth, and for return passage to starting
point On or before Nov. 2d, 1889; at stations
in Kansas and Nebraska, Oct. 81 to 5th,
good for going passage not later than trains
arriving in Washington Oct. Sth, and for
return, Nov. Sd, 1899; at Colorado points,
Oct. 1st 10 4th inclusive, limited going, 10
Oct Sth, and for return. to Nov. 9Th,
1889. Stop over allowed only on re-
turn coupons at junction points east
of Buffalo and Pittsburgh. Persons de-
string to go or return via New York, can DO
so by paying 80 additional To secure
sleeping accommodations via c., r. l. & p
R'y, applications should be made at once
No effort will be spared by the Rock Island
to make the trip of every person passing
over its line on this occasion satisfactory
and pleasant. For tickets or further infor-
nation, apply to any of our representatives,
or address, JOHN SEBASTIAN, General Ticket
& Passenger Agent, at Chicago.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

cheerily: why, General. I'm one Of
those blank Schencks"
The officers standing by did not try
to restrain their boisterous mirth.
while the General glared furiously at
the unabashed Buckeye youngsteE. In
moment he shouted to the officer of
the guard:
Take these scoundrels away; l will
attend to them at another time" The
culprits were marched off and the Gen
eral had time to just get into his tent
before he broke out in a prolonged fit
of laughter. N. Y Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
A New DeDarture

From ordinary business methods is made
by the manufacturers of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, in guaranteeing this
world-famed remedy to cure all diseases
arising from arrangements of the liver or
stomach, as indigestion, or dyspepsia, bill
Iousness or oliver complaint" or from i'm
pure blood, as bolls, blotches, pimples, erup-
tons, scalp disease, salt-rheum, scrofulous
sores and swellings and kindred ailments.
Money paid for Discovery" promptly re-
turned if, on fair trial, it don't cure.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

HAVE you suffered long by reason of Ma
laria; tried everything. and finally come to
the conclusion that "all men are lIars?''
Send one dollar to DR.. A. T. Shallenberger,
Rochester, Pa, and get bottle of his Anti
dote for Malaria. If not cured in a week,
say so, and the money will be Immediately
returned to you.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

You hardly realize that it is medicine, when
taking Carriers Little Liver Pills; they are
very small; no bad effects ell troubles from
torpid liver are relieved by their use.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

THOSE who use Dobbins' Electric Soar
(Gnd their name is le7iOhi) save their clothes
and strength, and let the soap do the work
Did yoal ever try it! II not, do so next Mon
day sure Ask your grocer for 1t.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

PAIN in the Side nearly always comes from
a disordered liver and is promptly relieved by
Carter's Little Liver Pills. Don't forget this.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

THE Prince Of Wales is showing q dis
position to make himself useful as well as
Ornamental He has invented a velvet
dress coat.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

HISTORY is not fable agreed upon but
truth disagreed upon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

Poor little King Alexandria, of Servia,
was merely anointed, not crowned, because
the royal excheQuer could not stand the ex
pense Of procuring crown and other re-
0Hlia
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

EMPEROR WILLIAM, Of Germany, has be
come an active member of the Goethe So
ciety, which has its headquarters at Wei
mar
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

II afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson 5 Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25c
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

REMEMBER impertinence isn't wit, any
more than insolence is brilliancy.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

He who waits to do a great deal at once
will seldom do any thing at all.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

For Cough or Sore Throat the best medi-
cine is Hale's Honey of HOrehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

DON'T indulge in the luxury of strong
opinions in the presence of your elders
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

WORK for workers! Are you ready TO
work, and do you want TO make money.
Then write to B. F. Johnson & Co., of Rich
mond, Va, and see if they can not help you.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

BEST. easiest to use and cheapest Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 25c.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

ENTIRE freedom from injurious drugs makes
'Tansilrs Punch DC. Cigars most popular
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

Oregon, the Paradise OF Farmers.
Mild. equablee climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, STOCK country
in the world. Full Information free. Address
Oregon Immigration Board, Portland, Oregon
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

GRATITUDE is the music of the heart when
its chords are moved by kindness.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

A LITTLE seeing saves much looking; a
little speaking saves much talking.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

THE birth-rate of Ireland is less than that
IF any European country but France, Rus
STA standing at the head Of the list.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

Don't hawk, hawk, blow, spit, and disgust
everybody with your offensive breath, but
use DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and end it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

If young men will not believe in them
selves no man or woman can believe il
them.