Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-11-20
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

RECENT REFLECTIONS.
AS Thanksgiving day walks down this way
The strutting turkey is i'll at ease;
I'm poor as the turkey OF JOB" says he;
though and unfit to eat, you see;
gobble no more of my pedigree,
Lest some poor fellow should gobble me;
And a turkey buzzard 1 think I'll be,
For the present, if you please"
There is no more fear of a dry
winter.
The approach of Christmas fills the
stores with holiday goods.
The merchants are buying turkeys
by the wholesale.
The colored people will have a
dance in the city hall Thanksgiving
evening.
Judge PETERS real beliefs when he
is not running for office are seen on our
editorial page.
"A large sale of cattle and flaming
goods will be held on the n. G. Her
shey place near Belle Springs Dec. End
and Sd.
The corn crop of the country
makes the smallest yield this year
(19.9 bushels) ever reported, excepting
only that of 1881, which was 1876.
The WaterwOrks company pays its
ditch diggers by the foot. One man
earned one dollar in 8 hours and 10
minutes yesterday, digging 20 feet of
ditch.
The News is fawning its level best
on the alliance to get patronage. Bosh!
the people are not fools. They see
through such tricks and respect indie
pendence.
The Herington Times has slid off
the protection woodpile upon tariff
reform ground and says the Mckinley
bill is no good. We didn't think it
of you, Crary.
lola Register: A dispatch from
Dickinson county says the Hessian fly
is in tie wheat and the fall sowing is
greatly damaged. Never mind. The
alliance legislature will make this all
right.
IF an alliance representative
votes for Ingalls,, pray God 1 may be
permitted to pull the other end of
rope which swings him into eternity"
Mrs. Lease at the Clay Center Iatif
cation.
Quail shooting is being INDUCED
in at rate that threatens the exter-
mination of the pretty creatures in this
section of the state. The farmers
should prevent such wholesale destruc-
ton on their lands.
George" said a young Abilene
wife to her husband, ''do you know we
grow dearer to each other every day?"
''Of course, of course" replied demo-
cratic George absent mindedly, result
CT the Mckinley bill, it makes every
thing dearer."
Harrington Tribune: The dispatch
''to watch the board of commissioners
to see that they honestly counted the
votes of Dickinson county" was an I'M
merited insult to the hoard of county
commissioners and will be resented by
their friends.
The Hessian fly is getting in more
deadly work in the vicinity of Abb
lene than the peoples party did
Newton Republican.
We don't know about that. The
fly seem to be about done for but the
p. p. is still on deck.
The Topolobampo excursionists
left Enterprise Saturday. Nearly two
hundred from all parts of the state and
southern Nebraska went on the vain
and sorrowful quest for happiness
among the deserts of Mexico. The
men who lead them to the desolate
region deserve punishment.
"A noticeable tendency to cash deal
ing is gathering force with merchants
generally. 1t is also hopeful sign of
better times. When all merchants alb
solutely refuse to sell goods except for
cash down, there will be less failure in
business, and more "forehandedn la
boring men and farmers.
The senatorial problem in Kansas
is still further complicated by the ques-
ton whether the first paper in the state
TO nominate Prof. Garfield was the
Abilene REFLECTOR or the Topeka
Journal. TX. c. Star,
So far as the REFLECTOR is con-
concerned it is willing, if Frank Mac
Lehman is agreed, to call it twins.