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

DOngola, reduced from $50 to 200.
S4.OO-Men's $500 Hand
Sewed Kangaroo or Calf Shoes now
$500.
See us on Shoes of all kinds; we
will save you money
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COUNTY TREASURER.

thereby announce myself as Candidate for
County Treasurer, subject to the action of the
Republican county convention, $1,000,
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A GREAT STORE!


Toms&
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
THIRD DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS.

THIRD UIsIhICI OOAN4
hereby announce myself candidate Tor
the Office of Commissioner Of the Inlrd dls-
trict, Dickinson county, subject to the de-
cision of the Republican county convention
RODGER DODGE.
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and hundreds of pairs of Shoes.
True, we have not made much money
on them, but we started out in this
removal sale with a determination
to move lots of goods, and our Low
Prices are doing the work.
ST ,65-Ladies' real Kid Shoes,
worked button holes, reduced from
5000 to Les.
$3.50 - Every pair of our
Ladies' fine $500 Shoes reduced to
$50.
59c-Babies' Slippers, worth
75c, S5c and LOO, choice for SOC.
SSC-Misses' Hand-Turned Toe
Slippers, sizes 10 to 2, S3c per pair.
$i.I2-Men's good solid Work
Shoes, liz pair.
SI.35--Boys' Dress Shoes, but
ton or congress, 1.35.
SI,4O-Men's fine Dress Shoes,
lace or congress, lao.
S2.0O-Men's fine Dress Shoes,
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-l2c.-

Ladies' and Children's Pure Silk
Mitts, cream, pink, blue and tans,
reduced to 12c. Silk MittS at l2c a
pair. Surprising, is it not?
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REMNANTS.

We have gone through our stock
and taken out all the remnants. We
have put prices on these remnants
to close them out. Lots of them we
have marked at less than HALF
PRICE. Look through them on
our center table.
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If there is any one thing that the
people have appreciated more than
another, it certainly is our low prices
on Shoes. We have sold hundreds
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
OTES.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Mount Holly, Lumberton and Med
ford Railroad was held at the Arcade
tors were elected:-Henry /. Budd, Cliff
ford Stanley Sims, 1. w. Stokes, Henry
C. Risdon, Daniel Suffer, Edward Wills.
H. l. Budd was elected president, G.. S.
Sims, vice president; I. w. Stokes, secre-
tary and treasurer. John r. Howell was
chairman of the stockholders meeting.
The number of shares voted was 1,097.
After the meeting dinner was served to
the stockholders and guests.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has recently
issued an order to the effect that here
after no employe of that company will be
allowed to mail a letter on the train.
This is done to discourage a growing GUS
tom and one that is not allowable by the
post office authorities. So many people
take mail matter tothe depot and entruSt
it to any employe who will be kind enough
to handle it. Hence it is thought by not
| allowing employees to be mail carriers the
practice will be abolished.
The Erie Railroad Company has ar
ranged to make a new crossing at
| Rutherford, where Sheriff Demarest was
point. The Grand Jury made a present
ment against the company last week.
A score of years ago Hackensack, the
county seat of Bergen county, and only
thirteen miles from Jersey City, had no
means of communication with New York
other thar those furnished by the lum-
boring stage coach and private vehicles.
Residents of the county, could only
reach the county seat by private vehicles,
and Hackensack was an almost isolated
village. About 1870, the Hackensack and
New York Railroad, was completed, and
though it was only a lone horse road" it
was a wonderful accommodation, and it's
effects were at once marked. A few years
later, then j. and N. Y. r. r. an extern
sion of the Hackensack r. r. through
Bergen. and Rockland Co. N. Y. to
Garnerville, a suburb of Haverstraw, was
completed, and communication with New
York, and a large section of country,
was thus established, Still later, the
track of the .. L. and W. r. r. passed
through the village, and located a depot
in its very centre.
The changes wrought by these improve
ments AVE been in the highest degree
beneficial. not only to Hackensack but
also to the sections through which the
roads run. Little villages have sprung
into life; property has been greatly en-
HANGED and hundreds of mechanics and
business men have been enabled to build
homes for themselves and families
within a reasonable distance of the city
and the frequent trains on both roads
enable them to travel to and from their
places of business within a reasonable
space of time. Hackensack has grown
rapidly, and property has advanced in
| price far beyond the most sanguine
expectations of those who projected the
first road and who builded better Than
they Knew"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
ON SECRET SOCIETIES.

Ever Faithful Council and Rising Star
Lodge Elect New Officers.
Ever Faithful Council. No. 237 A. l.. OF
H., has, at a regular meeting, elected
these oficers:-Commander, Patrick Gov
ern; Vice Commander, John H. Bana-
holtz; Orator, Bartholomew ~Stoneaam;
Secretary, Charles NJ. Hughes; Collector,
Rufus Waterbury; Treasurer, James T..
Kelly; Chaplain, John j. Hogan; Guide,
Arthur McKeever; Warden, Thomas
Holmes; Sentry, Michael McCarty; Irus-
tees, DR.. Thomas j. Mclaughlin, Jonn
Faherty and William Caunus; REPRE-
sentative Grand Council, Patrick Govern.
At a regular communication of Rising
Star Lodge No. 100, f. and A. NJ, held
Thursday evening the following officers
were unanimously elected:-W. M, Ben
jamin NJ. King; S. w, James Scoop; l..
w, Henry Otterson; S. D., Frank Cooper;
7. D., John Jelly; S. NJ. c., Daniel G.. Allen;
l. NJ. G., William Lendrum; secretary,
James n. Davis twentieth consecutive
time): treasurer, Marmaduke Tilden
eleventh consecutive time); tyler. John
Lounsbury.
The lodge is in fine condition financially
and otherwise.
fast becoming the most popular order OF
the day. 1t promises to pay its members
SIS per week when sick. or two hundred
dollars when their certificate has been in
force two years. This is an innovation
on the plan of several other fraterual
orders.
The Supreme President Thomas Davey,
of Boston, has been in Jersey City for the
last week and has already got two lodges
under way; the last one was organized
December 81, at Roche's Hall, and pro-
poses to meet there every Saturday even
ing and invites all who wish to get SIS
per week sick benefit or 5000, in two
years to come and learn how to get it.
The members and their friends who
were present had a good time, and named
the new lodge, Jersey City LODGE and
elected the following oficers:-James H.
Williams, president; Burdette p. Craig.
M. D.; William E. Davis. treasurer;
William G. Burke, secretary; William Y.
Ramsey. past president; james Gillispie,
vice president; A. l.. Brown, chaplain;
Thomas Cullen, guard; William H..
Clark, sentinel, and Edwin Davis, M. w.
English, E. A. Jocken. trustees.
Among the visitors, were noticed
Thomas Davey, Boston; Robert Griffith,
New York City; Henry A. Goodwin,
Brooklyn; M. Stillman, H. Libby, Somer-
vile, Mass, and William Hamilton,
Brookline, Commit is expected that there
will be twenty-five gentlemen and ladies
take the degree next Saturday evening.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Magazine of American History.

magazine OF american hisbOHys
The Magazine of american History
opens the new year and its twenty
third volume with a bright and read
able January number. This periodi-
cal seems to be on the flood tide of the
newly awakened popular interest in
everything that relates to the heroic
past. An admirable portrait of Will
liam Cullen Bryant forms the frontis-
piece, and an animated and welcome
paper by the clever editor treats of his
place in American history.
"a Rare Picture of Early New
York" painted on the panel of an
old Dutch war vessel, a view never
before published, is a contribution
both in text and illustration from the
famous collector DIR. Thomas Adds
Emmett. "Uncle Toms Cabin and Mrs.
Stowe,n an extract from the new
work of Mrs. McCray, is vastly enter
tanning, and this is also illustrated;
then we have from j, o. Dykman a
sketch of ''St. Anthony's Face" on
the Hudson, with a quaint picture Of
that wonderful piece of natural sculp-
ture.
OF special interest for every thought
full reader is the ably-written study by
Gerry W. Hazleton, of Milwaukee,
entitled Federal and Anti-Federal;n
next following James w. Gerard
shows with dramatic force, in the
longest paper of the number, 1.-The
Impress of Nationalities upon the City
of New York" In its several depart
ments and in all its varied features
the number for January, 1890, is fully
UP to the standard of this noble and
attractive magazine.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

General William j. Sewell has gone to Old
Point Comfort, Va, to visit the Soldiers Home.
The sub-committee to raise money for adver-
Using Atlantic City has made a report, which is
favorable to the scheme and encouraging
Samuel Garwood, superintendent of the Reading
Railroad, and Mayor Hoffman, are members of
the committee.
Jacob Dubeson, of Mays Landing, one of the
Oldest and most successful hunters OF that sec
tiou, had killed, up to Sunday last, the close of
the open season for game, 116 rabbits, z pleas
ants 10 quail, IA foxes, IS coons, 1 mink, 9
skunks and 6 opossums.
The students of Princeton College have pre-
sented each of the members of their champion
football team, as well as the manager, treasurer
and trainer, with handsome gold trophies. The
trophies are miniature footballs, and contain the
names of the team on them.
The recent appointment of A. B. Nafew as
postmaster at Eatontown is causing dissatisfac.
ton among some of the Republicans, who claim
that he is not a thorough Republican. Several
residents have secured boxes in the Red Bank
post-ofice, where they will get their mail.
Creditors have swooped down upon ex-Sheriff
James D. Brinkerhoff, who has carried on a gro
gerry pusiness dt hulHeTloru loT years, MT.
Brinkerhoff carried on a business of 100000 a
year. His father and grandfather were sheriffs
before him, and the family is one of the best
known in northern New Jersey.
The new Battan high school at Elizabeth was
opened Tuesday night for public inspection. 1t
cost originally $240, 900, while the woodwork of
the interior, oak and black walnut, cost $4,000.
Beautiful plate glass mirrors adorn the walls.
A ite SIZE portrait or Joseph Battin, who pre-
senteo the ouidlng 70 the cry hangs IN one OF
the rooms z
John Hoey, president of the Adams Express
Company, begun yesterday the erection of
iour large aquafluihs at honywooo Fark, Long
branch.
Judge William S. Banta, of Bergen county,
has resigned as a manager of the Morris
Plains Asylum owing to inability to attend to
the duties. Governor Green has appointed Dr..
John A. Wells of Englewood, to fill the va.
cancy.
Co,nsel ranrasantin, winiom T yur;,ht hou.
Glad a Nil IN soni,v in Tran+op i, On ;,,,nor+ont
ntigation over inharitonca YOUNG wriah+ i =
son of Gaorss NJ wrioht who yas stats Traas
n,er Of Nav Iarsev and who aiad in ran,or,
,sss ,eavin, nossasSions valned 81 ahort s,so
200 If was said that Az son sold bis interest IN
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
FORKS.
Interesting Facts About Their Early His
tory in Europe.

Interesting Facts About Their Early His
tory in Europe.
1t seems clear enough, in the light
of negative evidence, tina the few forks
included in the silveLware of the
middle ages were not used as forks are
used today, Since kitchen forks
served as splits and for holding roasts,
it is probable that the high born lords
and ladies of those times, who only
appear to have possessed these instru-
ments, used their silver forks tor toast
room fire. There is some direct evil
hold substances particularly disagree
able or inconvenient to handle, as
toasted cheese, which would leave an
unpleasant smell; or sticky sugared
dainties, or soft fruits, the juice of
which would stain the fingers.
Only one incident is related of the
use Of the fork in the Nineteenth cen
fury fashion, ne This was by a noble
lady of Byzantium who had married
a doge of Venice and continued lin
that city tofeat after her own custom,
cutting heR@meat very finely up and
conveying tito hermouth with a two
pronged fork. The act was regarded
in Venice, according to; Pietrus Dami-
anus, as a sign of excessive luxurySand
extreme effeminacy. 1t suggests a
probability that the fashion of eating
with forks originated at the imperial
court of Byzantium and thence ex-
tended to the west. Some hundreds
years had still to pass before it could
be domiciliated in Europe, for this
doge's Byzantine wife lived in the
Eleventh century, while the fashion
of eating with forks did not become
general till the Seventeenth century.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27

THE managers of our only competi-
tor must have been somewhat disgust
ed when, after reading in its columns
that everything was quiet at the Pol
ish Catholic Church, they read in The
JERSEY CITY NEWS the story of the
arrest Of the priest and one of the par
ishioners on cross charges of SANDER.
Perhaps our only competitor may run
across the story in time for todays
Issue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
1t Was Mean.

Although there is no more true love,
there are still lovers quarrels, and sad
partings, and much irritation, and
lying awake and misery. And when
these quarrels come the man is just as
mean as the woman They had quar-
relied, and it was final. She demanded
all her presents back, and her letters
and her photographs. He sent them.
Then she wrote him a note, saying
that he had kept one little tender
present she had made him in the days
when she thought he was good and
true and a gentleman, with the
gentleman UNDERSIGNED several
times very heavily. 1t was a lock of
hair, and she could not naturally per-
NIT him to keep that. He sent it back
with a brief note: ''It doesn't make
any difference whether | keep it or
not. Nobody would know it was
yours. You forget you were a dyed
blonde when l got it."
"It was so mean," she said, ''be-
cause my hair had only grown a few
shades darker lately.n-Sam Francisco
CR70nicIe.-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27

curdled when the alum and lead solu-
tions are mixed together.
This is the result of double decom-
position, the sulphate of lead, which
is al insoluble salt, being formed.
The sulphate of lead is taken up in
the pores of the cloth, and it is unaf-
fected by rains or moisture, and yet
it does not render the cloth alright.
Such cloth is also partly unimtiam-
able. A solution of alum itself will
render cloth, prepared as described,
partially waterproof, but it is not so
good as the sulphate of lead. Such
cloth-cotton or woolen-sheds rain
like the feathers on the back of a
duck. As to cost, alum is three cents
per pound and sugar of lead about
twenty cents per pound, and doubt
less each could be had for less in
quantities. Experience will tell the
amount of liquor necessary for, say,
a score of capes; but, anyway, the pro-
cess will be found sufficiently inexpen-
sive and effectual.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27

onel Lee and Major B. P. Holmes are the candi
dates. The odds seem to be in favor of Major
Holmes. Colonel Ropes, however, has not yet
resigned. but it is expected that he will, as his
interests are now in Texas. The change of col
onels will give the regiment the lowest position
of honor in brigade or division line, and Will
throw its location in the center of the camp next
summer instead of on the extreme right, and
will take away some of the past glory of the
regiment in many WAYS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
Ballot Reform.
Paterson Cal says:

1D6 1dGoTSOu CUGt says
Several correspondents having asked the New
York HefaId to explain how a voter who cannot
read or write can vote nnder the Australian or
secret ballot system, that paper replies:-''The
provision of the Massachusetts law is this:-A
voter who declares to the presiding election off
Ger that he cannot read, OF that by blindness
or other physical disability he is unable
to mark upon his ballot, shall upon request re-
ceive the assistance of one or two of the election
officers in the marking thereof, and such officer
or officers shall certify on the outside thereof
that it was SO marked with his or their assist
ance and shall thereafter give no information
regarding the same. That makes it perfectly
easy for an illiterate voter to cast a secret ballot.
The secret is known TO the election officer, but he
is forbidden to disclose it,"
The blind faulty of this passes all
belief. 1t proves that when a man
gets a crotchet into his head, no
absurdity of unreason will eradicate
it. Here are a lot Of men who claim
that the ballot is impure because it is
not secret, that the first step towards
political reform is absolute secresy
for the voter, and how do they go
about securing it? They dictate
that the voter-that is to say, the
weakest voter, the one who wants the
protection of secresy most-shall take
lone or two" other persons, presume
bly, professional politicians, into his
confidence, and not only expose his
own desires and opinions to them,
but having done so, then vote as they
may direct.
The wild, hilarious absurdity of the
proposition makes every sensible man
laugh. In what particular will the
voter be better off under the new than
under the old system. In New York
State, where all ballots must look
alike, the voter has some chance to
get the best of his boss or of a
bribe-giver by a little sleight of
hand. But there is no escape under
the State ballot system. The illiterate
voter must do just what the election
officer tells him and that is the end of
it. What he will be told to do, of
course depends on the honesty of the
election officer and the amount of
crooked work he is willing to do for
his party.
But the Australian" system pure
and simple is full of impossibilities in
its application to, this country. Take
the case Of the Presidential electors.
How many intelligent citizens get
the full list Into their headsl
How many would be able to
pick out the Republicans, for in
stance, from the list? 1T might not be
impossible in this State where there
are only nine names TO m~enlorize, but
how about New York, where there are
thirty-six.
Nobody can deny that we need com
plete, radical, sweeping reform in our
ELECTORAL methods, but at least let us
not substitute a worse evil for the one
we are sweeping away.
Two days ago our only competition
printed an item under the head, "How
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27

This paper is Democratic in principles
and Is Independent in its pteqos ON oil
local questions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
How to care for Furs.

NOW TO care TOT GurS.
How did you manage to get the
moth in your beaver? Nothing can
be done with it at home. You must
send it at once to a good furrier to be
dressed. Doyou put lavender in you
wardrobe aud drawers? 1t sometimes
creates moths or brings it. | do not
know which. We had to give it up on
that account. Brown paper is the
thing to put away furs and flannels
in, adding plenty of powdered bitter
apple, camphor and pepper. One
sneezes frightfully when the curtains,
t~able-covers and garments are taken
out of their seclusion and well shaken,
but those very sneezes prove that in
sects couldnot bear the neighborhood.
Mrs. Fourstars has a long-handled
cane arrangement, rather like a tennis
bat in shape, and with this she
thoroughly beats her furs and woollen
things every now and then. She is
one Of the careful people whose furni-
ture and clothes always look fresh and
new. She showed me a plush coat the
other day which she had for three
years. 1t hung in her delightful
cedar-wood wardrobe on three nails
by three loops sewn at equal dis
tances within the collar, this being
done SO as to avoid any ugly wrinkles
being creased by the strain on the
usual single loop. The sleeves were
stuffed with tissue paper, and the
body was folded round a roll of brown
paper. An old sheet enveloped the
whole, the outline of the garment
making us think of one of Bluebeard's
wives with her head cut off. When
the coat was unfolded, to the accom-
paniment of any number of sneezes, it
looked as if it were new out of the
shop.
You will kindly accept all these re-
marks as a little lecture upon your
carelessness. Send the furs, / repeat,
to a good furri5r. London Truth.
Porous Waterproof.
A porous waterproof cloth is the
best for outer garments during wet
weather for those whose duties or la
Dor cause them to perspire freely. The
bestsWa for preparing such cloth is
Eby the process adopted. for the TUNES
of the French soldiers during the
Grimean war, It is al follows:-Take
two and a half pounds of alumyand
dissolve in ten gallons of boiling
water; then, in a separate vessel, dis.
solve the same quantity OF sugar Of
lead in ten gallons of water and mix
the two solutions. The cloth is now
well handled in this liquid until every
part of it is penetrated; then it il
squeezed and dried in the air or warm
apartment, then washed in cold water
and dried again, when it is fit for use
II necessary the cloth may be dipped
in the liquid and dried twice before
being washed. The liquor appears
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27

For upwards Of nifty years Mas. wIssLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP" has been used by millions of
mothers for their children while teething with
neyer-failing safety and success, 1t soothes, the
child, softens the gums. allays all pain. regulates
the bowels, cures wind collie and is the best remedy
for diarrhea.. Mas. WIEsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP"
is for sale by druggists in every part OF the world
Price twenty-five cents = bottle.f.f
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27

VIZ expect to see spring novelties
advertised next week if this weather
keeps IN.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27

Now that the Merry Christmas is
past, let US all brace up for the happy
New Year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27

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second class mail matter.
All business communications should be ad-
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others to the Managing Editor
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-27
CORPORATION Notice.

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