Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Nearly always some name that's familiar
to me;
Some old-time acquaintance OF mine has
Or friends name is found in the list OF
the dead,
But one fact peculiar don't understand
I've noticed in all of the papers I've
scanned.
Hook through the "birtbs" with hope
that's foriorn,
For no one but strangers appear to be
born.
Young ladies had better be fast
asleep than fast awake.
"A farm in Franklin county is taxed
cents OF real estate and $3.50 on dogs.
Hope Dispatch: Paul s. Jacobs,
of Abilene, are fitting up the Catholic
church with new pews.
Ed Howe says that when man
can think of nothing else to do he can
get out an Injunction on somebody.
1t is reported that the receiver of
the First National will declare a diYi-
dend of 10 per cent. to all creditors in
a short time.
1t is said that one woman in Abb
Iene claims to control the ladies' votes
OF certain ward, What about boss
ism in politics?
1t does not make SO much differ
ence what the papers say after all.
There are SO many new things that Peo
pie forget the Oid.
County Clerk Bert has sent out
neat circulars announcing the basis OF
taxation agreed upon 10y the cOnven-
ton of township assessors.
Why does the man with the small
est lot always manage to make ten
times more smudge burning rubbish
than anyone else on the street?
The Solomon Sentinel says that Il
Ieap-year case is on the docket south Of
Solomon and prominent old bachelor
will be led to the altar Oh that basis.
The fashion is spreading. The
grammar department Of the Herington
schools proposes to purchase a flag for
the school before the close of the pres
ent term.
We are glad 10 find the following
item in the Solomon Valley Democrat 5
Solomon department: postmaster e.
Brunson has improved very much and
he is getting better every day. The
change in the weather was favorable"
-Herington Times: Miss Sarah
Roberts, of Hope, has been quite
dangerously i'll for the past few days.
One side of her face was completely
paralyzed, and at last accounts it was
quite doubtful as to What the results
would be.
The GIenwOod stock farm is putting
in large feed-grinding machinery Iun
by steam power. Over 275head Of cat
tie and IS horses are now On the farm
which, by the way, is proving one of
the most successful stock farms in Kan
sas under Col. Frank Balls manage
ment.
Harrington offers fortune to any
thorough business man who under
stands brick making. Kansas soil can
produce anything from eighteen foot
corn 10 twenty story brick buildings
Hutchinson News.
Abilene can, too, offer exceptional
opportunities in that line. Our clay
deposits have never been fully de-
veloped
The talk of a cooperative store is
not rapidly Undertaking.. Farmers
should consider the subject we'll before
they undertake to compete with trained
business men in business. A merchant
would not make a formidable Compel
itor Of the farmer should he go to farm
ing, nor is it to be expected that the
lifelong agriculturalists will succeed in
making better business men than the
merchants themselves.
-Emporia Republican: Dickinson
county assessors have passed resolu-
tion asking the next legislature for
more just system of assessing personal
property. They make no suggestion as
to what the system should be, but re-
ply upon the wisdom and honesty of
the legislature to do what is right.
The Dickinson county people evidently
expect the next legislature to be very
different body of men from the last
legislature.
The News growls at and scolds the
business men of Abilene for not pat
ronizing the papers, presumably be-
cause it is compelled to run several COL
umns of dead ads every week to fill its
columns. The REFLECTOR believes
that the business men Of Abilene are
as liberal with newspaper ink as those
anywhere in proportion TO their ability.
1t is seldom that there can be found a