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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-21
ALETTER'S WANDERINGS.
After Twenty-Five Years 1t Reaches the
Party 1t Was Addressed To.

After Twenty-Five Years 1t Reaches the
Party 1t Was Addressed To.
Among the many curious things that
occur in the handling of the mails, none
are more curious or out of the ordinary
than a story related by John Schomaker,
a saddler and harness maker at 1431
North Broadway and a member of Ran
som post, G. A. r. At the beginning of
the late war Mr.. Shoemaker was living
at Fort Madison, Ia, where he enlisted.
He went South and becBme member of
Company F. Fifth Iowa cavalry, which
was attached to Company G Of the
Fourth Michigan cavalry. He was un-
der General Thomas, and as a member
of the headquarters courier line carried
dispatches on the Chickamauga battle
field. April II, 1864, John II. Scho-
maker, father of the soldier, directed
letter to him from Fort Madison, Ia,
and, thinking he was in Tennessee,
wrote the following address on the en-
velope:
JOHN SCHOMAKER,
Go. F, Fifth Iowa cavalry. with Co. g,
Fourth Michigan cavalry, via Nashville
The letter reached Nashville in due
time and was forwarded to the Fifth
Iowa cavalry, lying near Chattanooga,
Tenn. But Mr.. Shoemaker had been
detailed on the headquarters courier
line and was gone few days before the
letter arrived at the camp. The letter
was sent back to Nashville, Tenn,
where it remained a few days while the
mail officials were looking up the where
abouts of the Iowa company. 1t seems
that company F of the Fifth Iowa cav
airy had about this time
gone home on veterans fur
Tough to see their wives and sweet
hearts, and were afterwards thrown
among two Iowa companies. The letter
was forwarded from Nashville, Tenn,
% the Third Minnesota cavalry at St.
Paul, MINI. But Mr.. Shoemaker, in
stead of taking advantage of the fur
Tough of the Iowa company in Tenn
essee, ha6 gene on to Georgia with Sher-
man and of course the letter did not
reach him in Minnesota. However, the
st. Paul postofice officials, think
ing t4aat Mr.. Schomaker was among the
Iowans mixed up with the Minnesota
companies, redirected the letter IS fol-
lows.
On detached duty Fort SneIling Mimi"
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AN EMPHATIC PROTEST.
Northern Citizens Ask Mr.. Harrison Il
Prevent Southern Outrages.

Northern Citizens Ask Mr.. Harrison to
Prevent Southern Outrages.
The Newport Or. L. Observer prints
the following letter, which has been
sent to President Harrison:
NEWPORT. Oct. 25, 1ss9.-To the Honorable
njdain Harrison, PresidsBt Of the ynted
Statss-Honored Sir: We approach you With q
full consciousness upon US Of the respect that Is
due you as our Chief Magistrate, and with q
complete desire to manifest the same.
public meeting Of citizens OF the city OF
Newport State Of Rhode Island was held in
our State House the nth inst The chief
magistrate Of the city presided Many Of our
distinguished citizens were present. 1t was an
overHowing meeting. 1t was unanimous and
enthusiastic. All party predictions, all sec
tartan differences, all lines referring TO nation
atty color or race were for the occasion laid
aside; its members only saw humanity brutality
outraged, the Government being undermined,
and law being trampled upon. It was called to
protest against the wholesale and unrestrained
numbering Of innocent American citizens by
thousands now going on in some Of the States
Of the South; IL was convened to protest against
the deprival in these States Of life, liberty and
property without due process Of law.
The undersigned were appointed by the meet
ing to correspond with you TO the end Of having
a stop put to this dangerous violation Of law.
this demoraliZing example, this deep iniq-
uity. .
We would ask you most earnestly, but MOST
respectfully, to use the utmost Of the moral In
fuence Of your exalted position to have a stop
put to the violation Of the law referred to-; We
beseech you to use all the force that belongs to
your high ONCE to put a stop 70 the same; We
entrest you to make the violation OF the law a
subject Of remarks and Of condemnation in your
coming message TO Congress.
With an expression Of the wish foryour health
and happiness, and that your Administration
may be illustrious through its defense Of the
weak and the outraged, we remain, most respect
fully, your obedient servants,
GEORGE DOWNING,
NJ VAN HORNE,
HENRY Y. JETER,
HENRY " WARD,
HENRY WRIGHT CL.ARKK.
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wounded in Another Charge.

We were talking about the war, when
one-armed man came up and seemed
especially interested. The Major sized
him up for an old trooper, and finally
queried:
'My friend, perhaps you lost that arm
in the charge at Trevillion StatiOn?"
''Oh, no, sir. 1t was another charge"
replied the man.
"Where?"
''Down in town in Missouri, about
five years ago. 1 charged man with
being liar, and he cut my arm off with
a corn-knife. IN. Y. Sun.
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CHAPTER ".

Ten years later. 1t is evening. Jacob is
sitting with his head bowed in his hands
alone in his home in Charles street, New
York. Suddenly knock comes at the door.
Hesprings to open it.
'Fatherl 1 knew you'd comeI knew
you'd come. Oh, father, father, father ~
sobbed out the strong young fellow, broken
H htt
"My boy-my boy, I coined as soon as ]
gotyour letter. Has-hasn'tshe come backl''
"Back!p flashed Jacob, ''nol wouldn't
mind so mucL if it wasn't for our little
Alice. She's left her, father-our little
childl OhP' groaned the young fellow,
pacing the room in hls agony, ''oh, that
never had seen herl Oh, that"
''Stop, Jacobl Don't say that. Sheis your
wife, and your child mother, and alters that
Is something TO remember. Tell me" /" he said,
laying down his old-fashioned carpet sack
on chair, and taking OF his hat, "teu me-
how long sence she left yel"
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And the letter now found its way to
this outpost in the North, while the SOL
dier to whom it was written was fighting
the Johnnies far away in Georgia. The
letter was finally advertised, according
to the postal laws, at Fort Smelling, but
on July 81, 1864, was sent TO the dead
letter Office in Washington, d. c. Up to
this time the nearest in time and space
that the letter came TO Mr.. Schomaker
was the distance from Nashville to Chat
tanOoga and the period of one day. He
left Chattanooga for Georgia one day
before the letter arrived there. But the
letter was again to follow him to the
exact place he had left only a few days
before it arrived. Mr.. Schomaker visit
ed his home in Fort Madison, Iowa, for
one month in 1864, and few days after
he left the letter was returned there to
its writer, John II. Schomaker, from the
dead-letter Office. The envelope and
letter were inclosed in a new envelope.
1t was thrown into a bureau drawer
among several old letters and relics, and
was forgotten by the family.
Mr.. Schomaker, of this city, never
visited his home again until last Sep
tember, and while there he was nosing
around among some old letters and ran
across this identical letter which his
father had written to him during the
war. The envelope was covered with
the mold of twenty-five years and the
ink had faded into dim lines at places.
Yet the sentences were entirely legible
and Mr.. Schomaker read the letter for
the first time with as much avidity as If
he had received it twenty-five years be-
fore, when it arrived in Tennessee, and
had then perused the message by the
Pickering light of the camp-fre.-St-
I.nniS Elnhn- Dam ncrat
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WORK AND SONG.
In selose little Kitchen she worked all day,

In sclose IittEe Kitchen she worked all day,
While the birds sang shrfu on the budding
trees,
And the bright earth called her to come away
And follow the track Of the laughing breeze.
She could not answer the bright earth's calls,
With lowly duties her days were filed,
And her life was bounded by kitchen walls.
Yet she sang with q JOY that would not be
stiIled-
Through Mays fresh splendors and tender
June
Through fierce July with its cruel heat
She worked on still, while the simple tune
Wened up from her heart unchanged and
sweet.
man passed by to his daily toll,
And sick of his work and his life was he,
With eyes bent down to the cherries soil
As though there was never q sky 70 see.
He heard the notes with a vacant ear
What did he care for a servants song?
Yet day by day rose the cadence clear
Till he caught its JOY as he passed along.
And his heart grew lighter about his work,
And he gained fresh strength for the daily
fight
And sottened smile in his eyes would lurk
When he heard her song coming home at
night.
And was that aIlr Sister mine!
Is It not enough if we help one soulf
Must the help be measured by rule and linef
Need we fret that we can not know the
whole?
The kitchen lass may have never known
OF the help that came from her daily song,
But the jog of singing is still her own
And she works TO music the whole day long.
Margaret G. George, in Good Housekeeping.
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H-If there is a cowardly deserter
from the Union army now drawing 4
pension, and President Eliot knows the
fact, he should inform the authorities
and have the matter corrected. II he
has no real information on this subject,
and makes this broad and malicious
libel upon the pension list without posi-
tive knowledge, it would seem to be
both unpatriotic and unjust.-Boston
Traveller.
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An Argentine Railv.v.

Probably the longest "bee'' line railway
in the world is that from Buenos Ayres to
the foot Of the Andes. It covers $40 kilo-
meters, or about 275 miles, and is as straight
as an arrow. The highest grade Is about
three feet to the mile. 1t crosses no rayine
and no stream and therefore no bridge.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-21

HThe tariff-reform issue was in
jected into the canvass in the new
States by the Democrats and the real
tariff reformers won. That is to say,
the Republicans swept the DakOtas and
Washington, and carried the Congress-
man and perhaps the Legislature in Mon
tapa--St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat
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LET US beware of the ideas to which we
give hospitality; let US not Pick them up at
random in any book or journal which falls
into our hands. There are ideas which
once admitted can be dislodged only with
great difficulty.
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fellow leaned over to Uncle Aaron and said:
''Come, I'm going now"
Uncle Aaron picked up his hat and fol-
lowed him. The young fellow stepped into
q sort of a side corridor and said. s.Mn,l
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SHOPS IN JERUSALEM.

LTO DE Continued
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08
ChiIdren's Carriages

We are still pushing things
in Our Children's Carriages.
Our sI2 Carriage has proven
to be the right thing, possessing
alike mattress, durability and
cheapness 1t cannot but please
those wanting such an article.
Many of our customers have
come prepared to invest more
money in a carriage but in the
end bought the sI2 one because
it's as good as can be bought in
other stores for $40. Plenty Of
them now in all shades Of red,
blue, old gold, golden brown,
terracotta, olive and any other
fashionable shade you may Sc
lect. Just one word for our bet
ter grade. You will find them
here as high as your pocket
book wants to go. All old
styles have been discarded and
and every thing you sec will be
fresh and new with the prices
as those advertised by Philadel.
phia manufacturers.
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08


FROM the time that President Harri.
son was inaugurated, there has been
considerable speculation in regard to
the attitude he would assume toward
the kcolored men OF the South. Not
long ago conference OF representa-.
tive colored men was held in Missis-
sippi, at which the following resolution
was adopted;
"Those who seek to introduce caste
preJu lice into the Republican party
make protection to American industri s
al excuse for their course. There are
many white men at the South, they
affirm, who believe In proteclion 10
American industries, but who do not be.
lieye In any OF the ether principles and
doctrines OF the Republican party; hence,
as an experimental policy they advise
That the party abandon all OF It's OF her
principles aud convictions and make
protection to American Industries the
sole issue before the people. 1t is appar.
ent to every Intelligent mau that ii thi.
advice should be accepted II would divide
and weaken and consequently result IL
the defeat of the party"
From this il seems that the colored
people OF the South suspect that the
President Intends TO ignore them, ant
support the now white mans Republi
can Protective party in the South. We
however, think that they ore mistaken
in this matter, and ieel assured thai
The colored element in the South will
receive due recognition from the pres
ent administration.
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08
SATU RDAY,
AUGUST II.
AT 4 O'CLOCK,

Those lots are in high dry, healthy location with all the
improvements going that could possibly be done enhance
the value Of lots Two minutes walk the Public School
that the Board Of Public Education building at Third
ue walk to Filth and Union where depot almost built
for the Eighth street extension electric line One minute
Front and Grcenh avenue which the
the Front and Union Line extended and which be
electric line One minute to Front and Webb where
take the steam o Water and Market Delaware
Company have ordered the removal of the buildings at this
point preparatory to making extensive improvements
point The streets all being graded electric lights
to replace the gasoline lamps month Now all ask you
to do is to out and look this land price land other
places consider the matter well and the Improvements location
and the chances to double and treble your money in a
short time. One hundred dollars in bank will bring
you about SI5o in ten years; SIoo here would
bring you more than double that in two to four
years and possibly four times much For home contc-
it. shade trees vegetables flowers fruits portcoes where you
may Sit instead of front steps, the pavement contracted
back yard And all of this for less than get common
house for in the city with opportunity
yer own the other Remember title any only
those whom we know to be thoroughly respectable Remember
these lots getting every day We offered the same
inducements several sell lots squares further in
but could not do day for five times the price got then
with less prospects then than for their We
do not ask you take come and look
Tor yourselves and don't far fer if further
in you could not buy for three times much lots are
now bringing. Don't expect Market property for sub
urban prices costs nothing to look and inquire Title guar
antced for years.
TERMS--So cash on each lot knocked off and
S. per month until paid for per cent oor cash. terms tc
be complied with on or before the following Saturday
Hacks leave Sixth and NJ rket at B. 20 o'clock
TEIOS. Nj. OGLE,
PETER y. FORD.
! l. w STIDIAM & SON, Auctionecrs
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08
REFRIGERATORS

During the winter months
when your mind was far from
Rcfrigators we were placing our
orders for the summer. We fig
ured on how m any W c
would sell. Had them made
up and delivered. Gu r
sales have gone beyond our
expectations, and we find
that we will have to call on
the manufacturers again 70 r
another supply. The reason
is because our prices and goods
are both right to suit you. Our
Retrigerators are constructed
on the common sense plan with
no useless parts attached tc
make it appear what it isn't
Every Refrigerator guaranteed
TO be perfectly dry and up tt
the standard in all qualities.
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08
The Daily Republican
The OFFICIALS OF the Union Nstior

HE OFfltiALs OIL the Union Nation.
oil Bank have placed themselves and
the institution which they represent in
bad position, by refusing to honor
the check OF the Street and Sewer De.
partment. Tie validity OF the trans.
fer Of the funds was matter to be de.
cided by the courts, and not by the
bank or its attorney The money was
deposited to the credit of the Commits
sion, and they had an undoubted right
to draw a part or the whole of 1t, &C.
cording 10 their pleasure, and it was
not the business of the bank to inquire
what they proposed to do with it.
Each oil the members of the commits
sion are under heavy bonds for the
performance OF their duty and the
faithful disbursement OF the funds en-
trusted TO their care, and it was not
the province OF the bank, or any one
connected with it, 10 refuse 10 honor a
check drawn by these gentlemen.
Ii a check had been given TO Mr..
Davis for the paving which he has
done on Market street there is no
doubt but 1t would have been honored
even to the amount OF ten thousand
dollars, and therefore we cannot see
what right the bank had to refuse to
pay the full amount to the credit of
the commission. There is very little
use in the bank falling back on the
fiImsy excuse that they were instructed
by the President OF City Council and
the members of the Finance Commit.
tee not to pay the check, as they had
nothing whatever to do with the mat.
Ter. and again it is stated that the
check was presented and refused at
least an hour before this protest was
received. We are of the opinion that
the officials of the bank have placed 1t
In very bad position, and that they
viii be fortunate if they escape paying
damages, in addition 10 having their
business injured by this i'll advised
action.
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08

There's nothing like Elan
mel when the mercury is
flop ping about. French
pli nted Flannel, gay with
col or, full of substance, sol,
end sensible, is perhaps the
pr ttiest. 65c.
The slightly, unshrinklng
Ceylons-tough, light, warm
= md always cheerful.
37kc.
As full a gathering of the
l2lc Outing Cloth as we've
hat 4 this season. Handsome
col ors.
Nor beast Of centre.
August prices on Boys
Ok thing. Tough, slightly,
Sh pit Trouser Suits that You
ca. save 81, 81, or S., on.
As coed as any TO patch
out the season with. Many
of them of color and weight
for early fall wear.
Lot of extra Trousers at
rs } and 81.
Nea ! Thirteenth and Market streets cor
ner.
There's a Chestnut street
wi ndowful OF Blankets that
sh Duld set you thinking
an d buying. Out of season
OF course, but 50 are the
pr ces-fulther t h an TIL {
Bla nkets. Big, lusty Blan.
Ike Is; fine wool and generou.
pc unds of it.
Blankets at 81 80 pair
Blanke's at Sc % pair
Blankets a. So. % pair
Blankets at 800 pair
Blankets at $3.50 pair
Worth laying by Tor two
vi aters away.
Southwest of centre.
JOHN WANAMAKER,
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08

In Strawberry Valley, Cal, recently
two ypung ladies' went into the woods Ia
seafc for ferns, accompanied by an Eng.
llsh uastiif. While seated on a log in an
Isolated part OF the foreat quite distar &c
from their home they were spproached
by cinnamon bear. At sight OF ihe.r
v:sitdr the girls started to run towards
home, screaming at the top Of their voices
and followed by Bruiu. The mastlfi was
not afraid and caught hold of the bear ly
the neck. A desperate struggle took place
and only ended whom two men arrived on
the sfene and shot the bear. The dog W az
so oaLily mapgled that it was feared he
would die.
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08
HAAiso ,i,d, q YIlo RAILROAD.
TDAINs S.vn IN effect Mal i Isl
N' hHsE PEI. AVE. pLpor

IRALTlMoRE a ONO RAiLRo,n
schedule In effect MAJ IL t,s,
TRAINS LEAVE DEL. Avn ~ Ky, i''l
EAST BouND. W.
Express trains.
~ 9 ~ !. week se .IaNys2 1890, 7o1o b,
NEW YoitK, Sundays. ~ ~,
| sil0s, 90 J., IS %, ~ ai o. m % " q. ~,
a. rniLA.lpktrnlA. wd eli dny4.'2is.Ta.e1
eISta oo, Soy, wv 20 ~, ~ i. f,'
"a nj o. ~ 4, q III ~ '5oS. o.. ~
op q a d Sun lays oaGio;y
ss ~ ~ = 2; m ~ 90, ~ b. gV, 'Iit
CHESTER, week days. ~ ia .5Ub to..,..
~, -, We ov, ~, IN, lO4Ga II. M. .,2mS
id sgs 20 q 'eo'. '95. Go 'Cl
10 l. ,sunlays1,e I5.'7e5 ,o,75, ao,
81 ~ y. M, 'igOs W. 23'. Sta. 4lG
'evs. 70. ~. SOFT, bJ5. 1852 y. NJ. '''
N AILAhiiS LtTf, d., MUc, u.es- 20
n'vo T. M, lV, (l2iF ON Saturday 'f--''
2aa, 500, b.os u. IN. sundays, 5t5 I"
2.n p. III. '' ~
p.,r WEST BOUND. ...
iiaSn y, NE AND WASHINGTON, siG1ssr
anilyi iOa. m. '2 IN D. m. luily az Al
PittsDurg, as Dc n. m.; Is 40 ana
M; ali daily. "''' s'' u
CHICAGO. $40 q. h.. 500 n. m. n,.,,
Cincinnati and 81. Loul, ,tt,,
and IS 90 y. m; both daily, d. m
SiNaEHLY ACCOM- UpATioH I'm
ana II 10 ID. III. daily f'"'
LAkpksBkEo ACEoMMODAr,ou ,..,.
11ays' o'sUai - ";n91 - una ~ pm. sun
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For Philadelphia ana wuv iI,t,,',
week days: 3 90. i S5 SID n NJ o..
~ "a II, T. "' euhaa Is. . % u. IN; ~ a, 20,
For baltimore, wt cls lnvs6as,,a co.,
II IS u. M; 2 10, '5 ~ D. m sunt
u thsi % anu % w n. IN.
lor Lnndenborg AVID wnv stntl,,,s ,,,,,,.
days, q 80, . ~, II So d. NJ: An y, '"',N
sundays % Is u. M; 4 is, lilo ~ In NY J. NA
MI, oiiimeinnati ,nu 70 Louis. III IS a. A.,
IL Ghicatg r. . 80 u; in. daily except sun.
a., ritt:soMrg, 50 80 aih. :. daily, except sun
LEAVE PHfLApkLPmEA ron Wtfulygroy
Dh'ly, 10, 90 10, 1000, 81 10 u. NJ nm
neon, - W, iO,3o, y 10. $50 % UiG J1,.I5l
Daily, except Sunday, 54oand ~ |
M, VI u, - 3Ouud 6 10 u. m. Sunday only.
80 IL. IN. ~
Telephone No. l93.
nH- Rates to weston points lower than
Via any other line.
CO. sCULL, J,T nDrft
oeh ass ARt' Gcn'l Manager
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08

Returned Traveler-ln Cali 'ornia saw
the Statue Of the man who first discovered
gold here 10 '49, representing hun with
one shoulder thrown grandly back aud
his tight hand pointing dramatically
downward. .
Dissruntled Mining speculator-Yes,a as
i to Jay, There is where Pm going when
get through here"
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08
PUBLIC SALES.
A DMINIsTRAToRs' SALE

OF PERSONAL rROPERTY.
VIII he sold at pn bile sale IN luse. premlses
In Newport, Delawsres on ea'
MONDAY, AUGUSTUS, isaa
All O'Clock, .. M,
the following described persona property be-
longing 70 the estdtr OF Alexander Irons, de-
a.. good work or driving horse.
10y This horse is sound and VIII
work anywhere. TWO good mich cows,
Both are In pront. One yta5linE heller.
hoi go pillow, enlusator, corn planter with
tnrutp seed attachment 2 seta oarriaae bsr-
ness, grain fan, hay cutter, hand bone mill,
carriage, horse rake, one-hoFse wagon, lot cf
forks, rakss, hoes and shovtls, seed rye, hay
AMI straw, corn In the ground, coatants oil
truck patch, including 4 lot OF grapes and 20
tatoes; chickens by the pair, lot OF lumber,
stones and brick, cid Iron and many other
articles. Also the entire houtehold furniture,
consisting Of bedroom iuI nlture, sofas sec
fethtf, Looking glasses, medical and other
TERMS. All sums of ssn and under, cash;
all over that anount.n credit Of 70 days will lie
given by purchaser giving u bankabie note
with All approved thdorser, interest added,
SAHAn E. IRONS,
VIM. J. ARMSTRONG,
Administrator.
aua-ts
l., w. StIdham A Hon Auef.
Daily Republican., 1889-08-08

THOSE who predicted that there
would be dissenlions In the Repubi.
can convention which was held at
Harrisburg yesterday. to nominate a
d ate treasurer now find that their
predictions were vain. The entire
convention was harmonious through
out, and strong platform was adop-
ted which was acceptable to all the
delegates. This platform endorses the
administration, and declares that .pro.
lection Is the co'ntr stone Of our politi.
cal faith. u ltalso pledges the party to
stand b cid diefs, and endorses
high license. Tac entire platform is
one that NO man who favors the indus.
tries of Pennsylvania and the peace
and good order of the state, can refuse
10 endorse. The extreme Prohibition,
lists will of course oppose it, and do all
they can to insure the SUCCESS of the
Democratic party by placing q ticket
In the field, but the true friends u
temperance will advance the cause, by
supporting the Republican party.