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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

possible on saving their be-
loved master, persuaded him TO
re-embark; and struggling still
against contrary winds, they rounded
the point of Gaeta. Formie now lay
before them-exquisite Formia. en-
braced by its guardian capes, one of
the sweetest of Cicero's Italian homes.
But the December skies were dark
above the villa to-day, the Volscian
peaks on the horizon dim, and even the
Tyrrhene waves discolored Here,
however, being faint with seasickness
and spent with fatigue, the reluctant
fugitive would absolutely land. and,
finging himself upon a couch under
his own roof once more, he sank
into a heavy slumber. From
this he was presently reused by
his slaves, who reporting in agonized
panic that soldiers were in sight, hur-
ried him almost by force into litter,
and plunged into the thickest of the
shrubbery between the villa and the
sea- Halfway down the slope they
encountered the troop, when Cicero,
hearing the clang of arms, looked out,
and ordered his men in a loud, clear
voice to set down the litter, and offer
no resistance. Laying his left hand
on his chin, with an unconscious gest-
ure very common to him while speak
ing. he fixed his eye steadily for 8
moment on the captain OF the band,
one Herennius, whom he recognized
and called by name. Come. then.
old soldier, if you know your duty, and
strike quickly" He stretched forth
his emaciated neck, the bystanders in
voluntarily covered their eyes, and
the blow fell.
The severed head was set up above
the rostra, according to the barbarous
fashion not so long gone by, and Full
via, with half the VOLTS milk ourdled
in her veins" drew out the tongue
and pierced it with her bodkin, assail-
ing the dead man with such invective
as Roman virago might compass.
But the tickle people of the streets,
who had sat so many times entranced
under the music of that lifeless tongue.
lifted up their voices when they saw
the CHASTITY relic, and wept without
restraint. Harriet Waters Preston, in
Atlantic
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08
4 Questionable Amusement.

The telegraph brings the report that
another man is getting a barrel ready
in which he is going over Niagara Falls.
1t is not the busy season but it is all
the better for that. We suppose moth
ing can be more disagreeable than to go
over Niagara Falls when they are
crowded, aud have the barrels of total
strangers humping against your OWN.
No person who loves to travel quietly
and unostentatiOusly will go over
Niagara during the busy season.
We are sorry to see that this business
of going over Niagara Falls in BARE
Is to be resumed. We had hGpeG that
we might get through TIE su,AGeE with
few jumps from bridges, balloon as.
tensions, and so fo1th. but it seems it
is not to be. It appears to US that
going over Niagara Falls in barrel is
too exciting and wearing for most con-
LstitutionS. Complaint is made that the
average American lives too much in a
whlrl OF excitement, and it is certain
that The complaint is largely justifable.
but to get into barrel and go over the
Falls of Niagara and on down through
the rapids and whirlpool is not the
way to rest. After working and yOr-
rying for a year the man who. spends
his vacation in barrel, amid the rush
and roar of our mighty falls will come
back but little refreshed, and hut
poorly prepared for another twelve
month of business cares. With the ex-
ception Of the life of the man who does
business in. Abilene, there are sew posi-
lions, more exciting and trying than
that of a man in barnet about two
thirds of the way DOWN The American
falls.
: The people of the Old World charge
us with wearing ourselves out with
overwOrk and living on excitement. and
as a. whole, we cannot deny the arraign-
ment with very good grace. Compare
for one moment the life led by, let us
say an English country gentleman in
good circumstances, surrounded by
rural scenes, of innocence and ease and
without a. care, with the existence of
the man amid the rush and excitement
of Niagara with his barrel. Which
man will be apt to live the longer?
Who. would not prefer the English
country seat to the hurry and constant
change of the whirlpool with the best
barrel made?
1t seems as if we Americans had
enough to answer for in the rushing.
excited lives We lead, without further
the barrel trip at Niagara.
AS a way of committing suicide it, of
course, has its advantages. If, also,
you are DESTROYS of showing the world
that you have, up to now successfully
avoided the fool-killer, we can also
recommend the trip, though in this
case there ale easier and less dangerous
ways to accomplish your object; for
instance, there's the union labor party
of Kansas standing idle by Imutely |
for recruits. Join it.
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CASTE RULE IN INDIA.
Il Makes Life BurdensOme for the Unforta-
nate European.

IL Makes Life BurdensOme for the Unfortu-
nate European.
A Hindoo will make caste an excuse
for any thing. and AnglO-Indian law
will back him up in his villainy. II
in passing through a crowded bazar
your clothing should brush against
heap Of grain exposed on the ground.
as every thing is here, and if this
grain merchant should claim that this
grain was set apart for native food; il
this honest native chooses to make
you buy that heap Of grain at his own
selling price, he has the law on his
side. and the Judge also, If, as Is so
often the case. the judge be Hindoo.
You may wish to keep house in a mod
est sort Of way, and you may wish to
have as few servants about the house
as possible. In America one servant,
or two at most, would be ample, but
here on the same scale Of living you
must keep dozen at least. Your
bhistie will carry water and nothing
else; such is the rule of his caste.
Your khansama will cook your food
that is, the small portion of it that he
does not steal. but will not wait on
table; for this you must have your
khidmuggar. Your syce will drive,
but will not clean or harness your
horse; for this you must pay another
man. You must have the big
doors all around the house
wide open these hot nights or
you can not breathe, and so you
must have a chokidar (watchman),
who is generally a Gujerati, a well
known caste of acknowledged thieves.
The native police, as you would ex-
pect, are the worst of thieves in the
country. Not one of your bakers
dozen Of servants has one good, honest
half hours work in the whole twenty
four hours, but not one of them will
lift finger to do any thing which he
does not consider his work, and, as
you will see, this is a matter which he
has entirely in his own hands. For all
of which the excuse is that caste rules
will not allow them to do any other
kind of work; and although you may
know very well that this is an absurd
lie, invented only for your annoyance
and robbery, yet, what are you going
to do about it? Every man of them
steals like pickpocket, and every man
of them will lie in a way which no
white man, no matter how talented he
may be, can ever hope to initiate
You may be annoyed beyond all
endurance; the inconvenience and loss
of time and money may be most
serious; but yet, II you let your angry
passions rise and get the better of
your judgment and proceed to kick
! one of these fellows off the premises.
you will probably pay fine of one
hundred rupees, and then they will
boycott you in a way which no trades
union ever dared to do yet. Again
Anglo-Iudian law is on the side of the
native.-Cor. Minneapolis Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

WE aver that the sunfower is histor-
ically the oldest and in size the largest
of American flowers; in color the most
brilliant and typical of our clear and
favored skies; while in economic i'm
portance it has no equal among flowers
Hence we cast our vote often and IN
reservedly for the suntiower rs the
floral emblem most suitable to represent
the United States of America-[New
York Sun,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

LORD DERBY hits it about right
when he says ~ will venture to as
sert for one young man whose health
has suffered from those causes, you
will find half a dozen who have suf-
fered from idleneSs and from the
habits of life which idleness in young
men is always sure to produce. There
is no better security for steadiness of
conduct in a young man than reg
ular work for definite object. He
cannot afford to play tricks with him.
self or do anything which may unfit
him physically or mentally for the
time of trial" This indeed is, the
testimony Of all experienced. and sue
cessful men of the world, but for
all its wisdom, we witness, every
where, the vretched spectacle of rich
mems sons disdaining all kind of work
and living merely to spend their
fathers money. Better ten thousand
times over that the father had re-
manned poor, and his sons had been
compelled to work their own way up In
the struggle for sustenance and the
worlds good awards. The decadence
of character, health, honor, virtue,
which riches only too often entail, is a
terrible penalty for the fortunes which
men so struggle and scheme to acquire.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08
LANGUAGE STUDIES.
Some Excellent Comments, and Some That
Are Open to Discussion.

Some Excellent Comments, and Some That
Are Open to Discussion.
Bows trained at Elton and Harrow
are said to write better English than
bows of the same grade in American
schools, and the reason assigned is
that they are required to translate
Latin and Greek into idiomatic Eng
lish. The study of Latin and Greek Is
Injurious whenever it causes the stu
dent to lose his habitual hold upon
the structural peculiarities of his own
language. Every language has its
idioms-phrases which are con-
fusing to foreigners and which
are inexplicable upon logical princi-
pies. Lander has remarked that every
good writer has much idiOm." A
good sentence will die under the tor
ture of too much analysis, and the writ
er who undertakes to give every SEN
tence the logical eXactness and mathe-
NAUTICAL precision of an algebraic equa-
ton will end in dull and dismal fail
ure. What the writer needs above all
things, so far as style is concerned, is
to catch the spirit, the genius of his
own language. Writing in any other
fashion is like training the stems of
plants through tubes or cylinders of
glass that they may grow up straight
and without an opportunity to branch
out here and there with the spOntane-
ity and freedom and luxuriance of nat
ure.
Every word is good whose roots sus-
tain and nurture the stock of common
speech. Slang is Objectionable; but
slang consists rather in phrases than
in words. New words are made from
old words. Science and mechanical
invention go back a long way IN
speech to find terms descriptive Of
their latest discoveries and inventions.
The telegram, the telephone, the phOn-
ograph are graphic only to those who
know at least a little Greek. The
philologist is constantly struck with
the thrift with which the human mind
works US its old verbal material TO ex-
press us new lucas anu pOoSCoo4OHo'
The history of the homeliest word
is venerable and fraught with innu-
merable observation-disclosures, pa
thetic. sublime. We need feel no con-
tempt for these simple AnglO-SaxOn
words into which the Earl OF Derby
turned the ringing lines of Homer.
They are older than Greek or Latin
They were lisped by infants in their
mothers arms; they were prattled by
children at play; they were whispered
by young men and maidens in love;
they were shouted by heroes in battle;
they were spoken by sages in counsel
long before one stone was laid in the
foundation of Rome-long before Cad
mus carried letters into Greece The
broad, deep river Of English speech Is
fed by tributaries whose sources are
to be found in prehistoric ages-per-
ennial springs whose abundance has
been adequate to the expression CT the
thought and feeling of every stage Of
civilization.-N. o. Picayune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

LAST year Kansas drank 1900 bar.
rels of beer. This was probably II, zoo
barrels more than was necessary fol-
any body's health. Nebraska with a
population only half as large as Kansas
drank $50, 900 barrels of beer. So we see
at this rate prohibition really ''prohib-
tied" 343, 900 barrels of beer from Kan
sas last year. This money might have
been in the brewers pockets, instead of
the pockets of merchants, millers,
mechanics. farmers, etc.-[State Jour
nal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08
ROBINSON CRUSOE.
The Original Hermit of the Romantic Isle
of Juan Fernandez.

OF Juan Fernandez.
When Captain Waiting and his COM
pany escaped from Juan Fernandez
they left a Mosquito Indian on the
island, who was out hunting goats
when the alarm came. This Mosquito
man, named William, was the first and
the true Robinson Crusoe, the original
hermit of this romantic solitude.
A few years afterwards. when Dam
pier, the celebrated English navigator.
visited the island he and few of
Williams old friends, together with a
Mosquito-man named Robin, put off
for the shore, where they soon per-
ceived William standing ready to give
them welcome. From the heights he
had seen the ships on the preceding
day, and knowing them to be English
vessels by the way they were worked,
he had killed three goats and dressed
them with cabbage of the cabbage
tree. to have feast ready on the ar
rival of the ships. How great his
delight, as the boat neared the shore,
when Robin leaped to the land and
running up to him fell fiat on his face
at his feet! William raised up his
countryman, embraced him and in turn
Frustrated himself at Robins feet, who
lifted him up and they renewed their
embraces.
1--WE stood with pleasure" says
Dampier, ito behold the surprise,
tenderness and solemnity of their in
terview, which was exceedingly af-
fecting on. both sides; and when these
their ceremonies of civility were over,
we also, that stood gazing at them
drew near, each of us embracing him
we had found here, who was over
joyed to see so many of his old friends,
come.hither, as he thought, purposely
to fetch him"
at the time William was abandoned
heJhad with him in the woods his gun
and knife and a small quantity OF
IJOwder and shot As soon as his am
munition was expended, by notching
his knife into a saw he cut up the bar
rel of his gun into pieces, which he
converted into harpoons, lances and q
long knife. To accomplish this he
struck fire with his gun-fint and a
] piece of the barrel of his gun, which
he hardened for this purpose in way
he had seen practiced by the bucca-
neers. IN this fire he heated his pieces
of iron. hammered them out with
stones, sawed them with his jagged
knife Tor ground them to an edge and
tempe red them; (which was no more
than these Mosquito-men were accus-
tome d to do in their own country,
whe,.e they make their own fishing
and striking instruments without
eth er forge or anvil, though they
sIoe dd a good deal of time about
the m"
rhus furnished, William supplied
himself with goats flesh and fish,
though, till his instruments were
i;formed, he had been compelled to eat
fiscal. He built his house about half
ynile from the shore and lined it snugiy
with .goat-skins. with which he also
spread his couch or barbecue, which
was raised two feet from the floor. As
his clothes wore out he supplied this
want with goat-skins, and when first
. seen b Y Dampier and his companions
, he wo. 70 nothing save goats skin
, about ! us waist-N. Y. Ledger.
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rivals.

SIXTY thousand bushels Of corn will be raised
on the Saline county ranches OF Frank Wilson,
the famous Kansas defamer.-[Salina Journal.
You must be thinking too much of
New Brunswick, Sampson, to keep
track of home affairs. The only Saline
county " Kansas defamer " We ever
heard of was Frank Wilkinson. Your
item will make another interesting
chapter for your article on Errors in
Journalism.n
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

THE white frqit-canners of the Pa
cifc Coast are to hold a meeting this
week to consider, the ACCESSIBILITY of
boycotting the Chinese fruit-canners.
According to the San Francisco papers,
Cinnamon are going into this business
extensively, and are underselling their
IL Il
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

The law against dueling should be
SUSPENDED in order to allow several
belligerent Kansas editors to kill one
another instead of killing their readers
through the columns of the press.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

POwDERLY says that eight hours
are too much for q days work. We
heartily agree with him this month.
When it gets cooler, though, the eight
hours will be all right.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

BURGLARY in all it's horrors is ram
pant at Newton. The local daily says
the burglar stole ian undershirt from
Ed. Marks, four cans of fruit from S.
p Williams and half dozen eggs from
". J. TrOuSdale.n
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

TIL ey have new way OF planting
range trees near San Diego, Cal.
J hey ore small hole and drop IN
c lynam he cartridge, the explosion OF
' yhich makes hole big enough for
he tr &c, and lOosening the soil TO a
1depth of several feet enables the tree
) to take rect easier.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

KANSAS is unusually panicky this
summer. Several towns of the state
are at swords points over such insig-
nilicant incidents as base ball games
and Sunday school picnics which didn't
result tremendously.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

THE only valid objection that has
yet been raised against the sunfOwer
as the national pOsy is that it is con-
ceited, having Che big head pretty
hadlV
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

The various county treasurers of
Kansas will hold convention at To-
peka on October Is, for the purpose of
discussing matters of Importance to
them.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

THE ballet girl trust starts out with
flattering uOtoriety in the newspapers,
but it will not last long. We expect it
to be on its last legs in less than a year.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

THE Kansas City Times cOrrespon-
dent in Salina who sent in the resub-
mission specials was fined for drunken
ness Wednesday.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

LABORERS around threShing ma
chimes are being sun struck every day.
Verify, the way of the husbandman is
full of grief.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

| SULLIVAN will have harder time
knocking out the Mississippi courts
than he did Kilrain.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

THE Pilgrim Fathers at last got a
monument yesterday. Better late than
never.
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Growers Add. Hope.

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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

THESE hazy days Lave never been
equalled before in sunny Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

LAwRENCE's new daily, the Record,
will be issued next week.
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Henquenet's ed Add. Hope,
Hepouenets 1st Sub Div. Hope.

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Two Papers for the Price of One
IA A Splendid Offer.

Having made special arrangements
with the publisher of the Topeka
Weekly Capital, a splendid SPACE
family newspaper, published at Topeka,
fand worthy of patronage, We are
enabled to offer the WEEKLY REFLEC-
TOR and the Topeka Weekly Capital,
both one year, for $500. cash in ad-
vance.
Every Kansas man should have his
county paper, for rome news and a
paper from the capital of the state.
Give this combination trial. d&c-tf
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Thurston and swayze's Add Hope.

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ready for the preacher as soon as the
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t skU D and SO cent bottles for sale
g D...,os &, Northeraft. 43-c