Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-12-12
Reflector Supplement.
vss aefieftor.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER II, 1889.
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

The fact is plain society
Just now's inclined to hops.
Holiday goods begin to make the
merchants shelves attractive.
-Manchester's school has forty pu-
pills. W. NJ. Campbell, the veteran
pedagogue, is the teacher.
j. n. Wallace, Waco, Texas, and
Mrs, Ella Potter, of Kansas City, Mo-,
were granted a marriage license.
Why would not an anti-horsethief
and protective union in Dickinson
county be good thing to organize?
The Santa Fe line could run one or
two more trains loaded with grain from
central Kansas every day if cars could
be procured.
The Council Grove Republican has
not got over election yet and is run
ming a serial on the cause and effect of
the defeat it suffered.
The Hope Dispatch says that the
horse and buggy stolen from r. Blesh,
of Hope, the other night has been re-
covered in Herington.
Taxpayers throng the county
treasurer's Office and put up the stuff
to keep the government a-going with
cOmmendable promptness.
The Harrington people claim to
have some big thing in the way of
mandatory on hand. They will not
tell whether rubber crowbars or left
handed raZor-strOpS are to be the out
put.
Don't be too certain that the small
hoy who suddenly gets religious and
joins the Sunday school just now is
concerned about his soul. He may be
only concerned about his Christmas
stocking,
The stars and stripes float over the
school building at Chapman and have
done so for a week. Principal Engle
believes in keeping up with the times
and does not let the other cities get
ahead of him.
II. A. Dill, of this city, husked and
cribbed yesterday between the hours of
a. N. and p. N. 113 bushels Of corn
for McMaster Bros. Doc Swore on the
almanac in cur presence that the fore
going statement was true.
Manchester Sun: The members of
Prairiedale church have had the build
ing remOdeled inside; ceiled, plastered,
painted and repaired The work was
done by Spears& Mansfield, of Abilene,
and is a credit to them in workman
ship and design.
"A man should have pretty clean
personal political record to voluntarily
Jump into d discussion that does not
concern him. If Mr.. Mahan has any
thing to tell about any member of the
REFLECTOR staff let lin stand up and
tell it If the truth is told it will be a
record which any republican can be
proud Of.
We have received a handy calandar
with slips for each day of the year
from Messrs. Pope, the bicycle manu-
facturers, with a request TO publish
about a half-column notice of their
machines. AS we have no guarantee
that they would give us a bicycle for a
sample copy of the REFLECTOR, We
shall carefully refrain from SO doing.
Tribune: NJ. d. Harrington returned
from his Texas trip the first of tie
week. While gone lie purchased l 900
head of cattle, 800 of which he shipped
into Kansas City, the remaining 300
here, where he will winter them with
his large herd of native stock. This
will prove bonanza for farmers and
small feeders. who have feed to sell,
and we trust big strike'' for NJ. D.
Who weeps with you when you are
sad, and laughs with you when you are
glad, and smiles at you when you are
mad? The editor. Who has to be
both kind and wise, and never hardly
ever lies, and when he does, creates
surprise? The editor. Who owns
heart as well as cheek, possessed of
spirit, yet is meek, and lives on forty
cents a week? The editor Parsons
Daily Journal.
How near still are to the times
which nest of this generation regard
as the remote past-the formative
period of this republics occasionally
brought to mind with startling force.
Witness the following, from the Brigh-
ton Citizen of Nov. 18th: 'Died: In
Brighton, on Nov. Sth, 1889, at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Lee, Mrs.
Mary Edwards Clark, aged 81 years.
Mrs. Clark was great granddaughter
of the celebrated divine, Jonathan Ed
wards, president of the Princeton col