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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
SHADOW PICTURES.

Years ago, when you were little,
Not so quecnly, grand and tall,
Oft saw your tiny shadow
Thrown by lamplight on the wall.
Always with the arms uplifted,
Reaching out for my caress,
Was the shadow, till the substance
Found her fathers good night kiss.
And tonight, my fair young daughter,
When / met you in the hall,
! could see again your shadow
Thrown by gaslight on the wall.
Arms thrown out and face uplifted-.
Could il be for kisses still:
Here the substance solves the question::
PA, want dollar bill"'
Buffalo Express
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10

pact mass got the word to advance.
They were coming for our battery,
which was without infantry supports.
There we stood, two thin, short lines,
representing one thousand Dragons
but not numbering one-half of that fig
ure, and body of five to one was NOV
ing down upon US. / saw several OF the
gunners look back. They saw the odds,
and wondered, perhaps, why we did not
run away.
Attention."
We had obeyed the order before it was
given.
Right dressr'
We were minute ahead of the com.
mand.
Forward draw sabers-guide right
-trot!'
All! We are off! The gray moves
north and the blue moves south. We
are going to meet in a meadow below.
We must hold them back until infantry
supports can be brought up. Every man
knows that he is moving down into
maelstrom of death, but no one lags. A
strange exultation creeps into the heart
1t is as if you had heard some grand,
good news, and wanted to shout over 1t
and tell every body of your good luck.
''Gallop-charger'
Death! Why, if one could die a score
of times instead of only once there
would be no fear. sit so lightly in the
saddle that my horse seems to have no
weight to carry. He skins over the
ground as if he had wings, and begin
cheering and yelling in chorus with my
comrades. 1t is living missile of 500
men thrown at the front of 5000. What
crash there will be- How horses will
go down and men pitch from their sad
dies! Afraid? No! Why, man, would
not miss this scene for years life! My
hand clutches the saber with a strength
1 did not know l possessed. I feel a
hunger for blood such as never felt be-
fore.
Cyl! Yil Whoop-lah!" and we strike
them fair in the center. The five hun
dred have the greatest momentum, and
we drive through the three thousand as
wedge is pounded into soft wood. Men
strike at me. There is a flash, flash,
and a pop! pop! of pistols. l strike
back. l feel the desire of the tiger to
Stay.
"RallyY
We have driven through the mass, and
the bugles sound the call to gather for
the return. The horses obey without a
touch of the rein. 1t seems that the
whole living mass is riding in circle,
and that there is blood on every man
and horse. All of sudden we shoot out
from under the smoke-cloud into the
sunshine-not the five hundred, but the
three hundred-and the battery opens
again. We are to the right of it, and it
sends grapeshot into a wild mob todrive
it back into the cover of the woods. 1t
is sight to look down over that field.
Five hundred dead and wounded men
and horses are lying there. 1t is only
as l sit on my horse and look over the
field that begin to feel weak and grow
frightened. My head begins to swim
things grow dark, and some one helps
me to the ground. l have pistol ball
in my shoulder; and the blood is run
ming down my back from a saber-cut on
the head.-Detroit Free Press.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
THE ALLIANCE IN ARKANSAS.

Brief Sketch of the Order in Arkansas.
At a regular stated meeting of the
Benton County Farmers Cooperative
Alliance, which convened at Black
Jack School-house, Benton County, on
January 2, 1890, resolution was adopt
ed requesting the undersigned TO pre-
pare short history of the origin and
present stairs Of the Alliance Of Arkan-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
CAVALRY CHARGE.
Bold Men Moving Down Into Maelstror
of Death.

OF Death.
We had been held in reserve the Sec
ond day at Gettysburg so long that men
and horses became nervous and afraid.
My horse was an old veteran who would
drop his head and pick at the green
grass with a battery firing on either
side of US; bnt IS the moments dragged
away on this occasion he evinced wOm-
ans nervousness. / looked down the
line and saw that the alignment was
constantly being broken by the horses
backing up or forging ahead. They
could see the fighting to the right and
in front and the smoke from the Union
battery TO the left and in front of us
drove back and over US and the horses
breathed it in and blew it out of their
nostrils in gasps.
A tremor of excitement-asorto of shiv
er-ran down the line.
The wind had shifted bit to blow
the smoke to our left, and down across
the meadows we saw the Confederate
cavalry forming with green woods for
background. Jeb Stuart's men were
there-Ashby's men-men from Hamp-
toms legion-Imboden's Virginians-
Rosser's rangers-guerrillas from Mos
by's command. There were fragments
from every cavalry command we had
met on the turnpikes of old Virginia,
and there wasn't a squadron which
wouldn't stand for charge The bat
terry began firing more rapidly, and
there wasn't a man of US who did not
realize what was coming long enough
before we got the word. Some of the
horses knew it, too. You could feel
them filling their lungs and stringing up
their nerves for hard work
The troopers in gray wheeled into line
under fire which must have tried the
nerves OF the brayest and then the CON-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
ON THE sKIRMIsH LINE.

The Department of Iowa has & mem
bership of $1,000.
ONLY the regular hotel prices will be
charged during the encampment week
at Boston in August next
THE Department of Connecticut has a
total membership of 6,s40 comrades, a
gain of 100 during the past year.
THE National Soldiers Home at Mil
waukee, Wis, is full. No rev appli
cants can be admitted for the pscseHt.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10

- - ~
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figsis taken; it is pleasant
and refreshingto the taste, and acts
gentlyyetpromptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sy5-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities COM
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept.
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. N.Y.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10

"A historic tree on the old Elder
Winson farm at Johnstown, r. l.. was
felled recently. 1t was chestnut, and
had been utilized by the Dorrites in
the exciting times of the Dorr war as
hiding place for guns" 1t stood in an
open field on the farm. The trunk,
which was nine feet fou- inches in
diameter, had been hollow as long as
ANY one living can remember" and a
tall man could enter and stand erect,
with several inches to spare above his
head. One of the limbs measured foul
feet in diameter. The tree was cut
down because there vas danger Of its
falling,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10

The combined forces Of the Wheel
and Farmers Alliance in Arkansasgive
it Q membership Of more than 100000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-04

It may be always said that the scrut
COW is such BY reason of its scrub owner
The cow always does as it is done by,
In my neighborhood the scrub COW
reigns supreme. 1t is born and reared
a scrub and is fed on scrub; that is. or
browse summer and winter, and never
learns the smell of hay or the taste Of
meal. Consequently it is bred TO {
scrub bull and rears a scrub calf. and
gives a gallon of milk a day at the best
for two or three months after which Z
pint tin cup holds all the milk. The
poor calf gets half the milk for month
when it is turned into the woods, and
when year old is perhaps a little
smaller than it was eleven months be
fore. Possibly. as scrubs, the common
cattle OF my present locality can scarce
ly be beaten. But as a proof of my
statement on the first line give this
record of scrub cow which have had
i've years and which have regenerateC
during that time into a very fair mixer
At first, at three years old, she gave me
three months after calving and on the
best feeding, six quarts of milk per day
By good feeding on clover pasture
clover hay and corn me al, as much a:
she can use profitably, she has come NJ
in the FIVE years to her sixth calf. anC
her udder has gradually increased in size
until it is now forty-two inches around
at it's upper part, and with her fifth
heifer calf, all of which have reared
her yield is eighteen quarts of mill
daily, from which is made eleven pound!
of butter in a week. One scrub heife
with her first calf, and two years old, il
milking fourteen quarts day ler'
can ACric ulturist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-04
HE EAsI.


CHARLES +. WILCOX, aged IL years,
was shot and killed at Fall River.
Mass. with a revolver b. Fred a. Hig-
ginbotham. Is years old. The boys did
not know the revolver was loaded.
Two BROTHERS, Samuel and Edward
Weller. were drowned near Troy. y. Y.
by breaking through the ice while skat-
ing
The death of Benjamin P. Shillaber.
the veteran humorist and author, known
the world over as Mrs. Partington,"
occurred at 6 o'clock on the evening of
the 18th at his home in Chelsea. Mass,
at the age Os 80 years. He had been
troubled with inflammatory rheumatism
for some years. He leaves four chill
rem his wife having died in 1883.
On the 25th Captain Norton, his wife
and niece sailed from New London.
Conn. in their eighteen-foot steamer.
They were bound for Liverpool via the
Azores
CHARLIE Ross. son of Christian K.
Ross. of Philadelphia, who was kid
mapped sixteen years ago. was on the
25th declared to have been found in
New York City. lie had been reared
among the lower classes of the metrop-
oils and had been taught to regard his
family with contempt being told that
they were too parsimonious to redeem
him.
A BIG stand of free seats erected at
Eastern Park in Brooklyn. n. Y,
for the Yale-Princeton football game
collapsed and hurled to the ground over
. 81 -
iured. none fatally.
THE youth in jill in Boston who
claimed TO be Charlie Ross was visited
by Mr. Ross. father of the lost boy, who
said the Boston youth was not his long
lost son.
JUpGE Z. RoCKwooD HoAR and wife
celeb ited their golden wedding at Con-
cord. Mass
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS resigned
the presidency of the Union Pacific
road and Sidney Dillon was chosen as
his successor.
THE New York World was sold for
81. OOl. O00 to Philadelphia syndicate
headed by George w. Childs. editor OF
the banker
nE urn " ID. N JdtulSpu ~ 10.
bankers and brokers at Philadelphia
failed for 81 600, OOc.
AT CLOSTT;R, y. J., John Gerhard, his
wife and their two children were in
stantly killed by train on the Northern
railroad.
The death of benjamin Wright, aged
81 years. occurred at Trenton. n. j. He
had eaten nothing for five months on
account of stomach trouble.
r LoRILI.ARp EEYNoI.Ds' residence at
/ Newton. Conn. was burned, causing a
loss OF $1,000
FoUR men. William Blythe. Harlow
Bennett James Furgeson and Calvin +.
Campbell. were drowned near Oswego.
/ \. Y. by the capsizing of boat.
/ A DENIAL was made of the reported
sale of the New York World to Phila-
7 delphia syndicate.
/ OK the 29jh ult Ira Rranienstein. of
F New York City. celebrated his Tooth
birthday. The old man was still stout
and strong. Smoking has been one of
/ his cherished habits. He began when
I he was Il and has never relinquished
the induIrence
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-04
HER BEAUTIFUL EYES.

Tlora's beautiful eyesi They are blue as the
dew
On the violets bloom when the morning is new,
And the light OF their love is the CLEAN Of the
sun
Der the meadows OF spring where the quick
shadows run.
A. the morn shifts the mist and the clouds
from the skies
SO stand in the dawn OF her beautiful eyes
And her beautiful eyes are as midday TO me.
When the hly-bell bends with the weight OF
the bee,
And the throat OF the thrush is pulse in the
heat,
And tue senses are erugged with the subtle
and sweet
And delirious breaths OF the airs iullabies-
So swoon in the noon OF her beautiful eyes.
}. her beautiful eyesl They have smitten
mine own
As a glory glanced down from the glare OF the
throne:
And reel and falter and fall as afar
Fell the shepherds that looked ON the mystical
star.
And yet dazed In the tidings that babe them
arise
So grope through the night OF her beautiful
eyes.
James whitcomb Riley. in Texas Cuttings.
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dressing-room, trifle fiurried. He was
we'll muscled. and his limbs were brown
as berries.
At this moment a long-legged indi-
vidual in a high collar sauntered up to
where / stood, and after lazily looking
the crowd over, drawled:
Amy one wawnt to bet?'
Yes / said. who do you want to
back?"
why Brown, of cawse."
ANY odds?"
'Ill make it three to fve," said the
long individual.
"Ill put up three dollars" / said.
And III go you three, young Teller, "
chimed a big-shouldered CLAP next to
me, evidently from the rural districts.
The long individual acquiesced with a
patronizing contortion OF his sallow
countenance, and as the money was de-
posted pistol shot made US glance
UP. The runners were of.
An exclamation went up as the couu-
try boy dartcd of. and in a few strides
went ahead Of his competitors He had
a beautiful stride, and ran like deer.
He'll nevah keep that up-nevahF
said the long young man VINO had
backed Brown Brown was the favor
tie. by tho way, and had splendid
record.
'ao0d boy, JimmyI" granted the big
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-04
A TUNNEL EPISODE.

How Eulet Mclone Lost Half n Dozen
sweet Kisses.
Without moments warning the train
plunged into tunnel.
There is something frightful in ttis
sudden change from the garish light of
day to the profound gloom OF Zimmerman
darkness.
One moment we see flashing past us
n wide-spreading landscape on either
hand. All is gayety animation. abound
ing life. The next moment every thing
is blotted from sight.
The noises OF the train that came 10
the ear with a gentle, diffused murmur.
are now focused into a deafening, ter
rible roar tina. assails the senses like
tho maddened rush OF John l.. Sullivan
into the field of dramatic art.
The timid traveller. with wide-open
eyes straining to pierce the horrible
gloom, braces himself to meet the shock
whose coming he feels with that vague
sense OF alarm that is worse than the
absolute foreknowledge of the impend-
ing danger.
The train plunged on into the dark
ness.
At high noon OF that day Eulet
Melone had welded Glycerine McCurdy
and the blissful pair had started on
their wedding journey.
In one of tho crowded cars OF that
train sat Eulet Melone and his lovely
bride.
In the spectacle of young welded love
on its first journey there is something
inexpressivelv weird and touching.
The manly, protecting devotion OF the
young and tender husband, the seraph, &c
glow on the cheek of the gushing, art
less bride-these, with the knowledge
that people are rushing blindly into
this kind of thing every day in the
year, move the thoughtful observer to
pensive reverie.
"Wcro you alarmed, dearest?" in
ouired Mr.. Malone. after the train had
emerged into daylight again.
"N-not much, Eulet," answered the
blushing bride.
IF ] had not been afraid this tunnel
was short one, Glycerine," he whis-
percd. II should have taken advantage
Of tho darkness and kissed you, my
love"
Didn't you kiss me, dear?" exclaimed
the wondering bride. Somebody did,
half dozen timesr--Chicago Tribune.
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II farmers would build good barns
and have their corn cut as soon as il
was cured, not letting it take any ol
the fall rains, much valuable food
might be saved. ! do not shuck the
ears in the field, says a writer in Home
and Farm, but put in the barn nice and
straight and shuck as fed. This saves
labor and the waste of fodder, as
il needs less handling. besides not be-
ing exposed to the weather. Cut corn
is generally fed in such slOvenly man
uer that much of its value is lost. II
should be fed in racks made for the
purpose. then the folder is kept clean
and the stock can eat it without wasting.
II cut up with fodder cutter and fed
carefully, all the better. The stalks
that the stock leaves make better
manure than when left in the field all
winter They will create heat in the
compost readily.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-04
Curious Freaks of steel.

The finest grades of razors are SO
delicate that even the famous Damascus
sword blades can not equal them in
texture. 1t is not generally known
that the grain of Swedish razor is so
sensitive that its general direction is
changed after a short service. When
YOU buy a fine razor the grain runs
from the upper end of the outer point
in a diagonal direction towards the
handle. Constant strapping will twist
the steel until the grain appears to be
set straight up and down. Subsequent
use will drag the grain outward from
the edge, so that after steady use for
several months the fiber of the steel &C.
cupies position exactly the reverse
Of that which it did on the day OF pur-
chase The process also affects the
temper of the blade, and when the
grain sets from the lower outer point
towards the hack. you have r zor
which can not be kept in condition,
even by the most conscientious barber.
But here's another curious freak that
will take place in the same tool Leave
the razor alone for month or two, and
when you take it up you will find that
the grain has assumed its first position.
This operation can be repeated until
the steel is worn through to the back
st. Louis Republic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-04
Trees.

The farm that has no trees upon it Il
desert-loOking place. When people
OF the East go into the new settlement:
on the treeless Western plains the frs
thing that strikes them with something
of terror is the lack of trees. Yet it is
a fact that on many farms that are OLD
enough to have trees even in the Eas
there is a woeful lack of them. Perhaps
it will never be possible to induce the
vast majority of people to plant trees
which they will never enjoy, that pos
terity may enjoy them. 1t is probable
therefore, that there never will be {
universal planting of the best trees or
our farms But we heartily wish that
if people will not plant such trees they
will plant the rapidly-growing kinds
We have often spoken OF the cotton
wood. 1t grows to be considera BILE of q
tree in four or five years 1t makes q
handsome tree, and while there are OBJ
jections to it, as we have frequently
said, it is a good many per cent better
than no tree. Western Rural.
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the State Supreme Court, occurred at
his home in Columbus on the 2sth.
The Legislature of South Carolina
convened at Columbia on the 25th.
A RECEIVER took charge of the Oregon
Improvement Company Of Portland.
Ore Its Indebtedness was said to 10
81. 600, 600 and its assets $40. COO. 001.
The Powers Dry-Goojs Company's
building at ST. Paul. Mimi. IVES burned.
causing loss of $3.50, 600.
FLAMES destroyed tho sieataboa:
Thomas T. Leathers, tine fastest stern.
/ wheel boat on the Mississippi river,
with her cargo At Fort Adams. Miss,
and five sailor, and TIE ckaiaberna;d
were lost
SES ,roK WADE HAMPTON. while
hunting in Washington County. Miss,
was accidentally shot by his son. IL
was feared that 40 would lose lhe sight
of his left eye.
ELIJAH MALoTT. living gear Washing
ton, Ind shot and killed his wl'e and
then killed himself 10 cause vas
known for the decd.
IL steam saw-miii at Scotland. Ga,
the boiler exploded, killing three mon
and injuring four others.
ii. Il. BELLS bank at Duluth, MIMI,
suspended, with liabilities of $3.50, 900
and assets OF 1000. 600.
FrsE swept away the greensboro
XVI street-car stables, and nineteen
we're burned.
drow ned BY the wrecking Of their boat.
FLAMES DESTROYED the North Pacific
Hotel and buildings OF the Oregon Pot
terry Company at Portland, causing q
/ loss of Sl50,000.
THE bark Ocean arrived at San Fran
cisco and reported the loss OF one of its
whaling boats and six men.
WILLARD and Fred Tally (brothersl.
and Fred Hawley. all little boys. were
buried under a sand-slide at Atlantic.
Ia. and sEffocated.
Mrs. CHRIS Observation-Disclosures b,rn
near State Center. Ia, was burned to
head of horses.
IN Chicago the health officer d!scov-
cred and closed a place where horses
were slaughtered for food.
JUDGE ISAAC BERGMAN, who had been
imprisoned for contempt, shot himself
at Cheyenne, Wyo. II he recovered he
would be blind, the bullet having de-
stro -ed both eyes.
THE Alabama Legislature reelected
/ United States Senator Pugh.
Mrs. JoHS PATTERSON .coloredl, of
Brazil. Ind, while laughing -uptured
the optic nerve and was stricken blind.
| PHYSICIANS said il WIS the only case OF
the kind known.
| AT Lebanon, Ind, DIR. Williamson,
| aged so years, a practicing physician
| for thirty-five years, was run over by q
buggy and fatally injured.
NEAR Rice Lake, Wis, six mon broke
| through the ice on Devils lake and
we're drowned. They were logsors re-
turning home from work.
On the Georgia Pacific road the ex-
press was robbed of $3.50 by masked mon
at Indianola. Miss. The thieves were
captured.
Two MINING experts, s. C. Orr and
Samuel Torrell. in trying TO walk across
! Fall lake near Ely, Mimi, broke
through the ice and were drowned.
THE death of Mrs Sarah Knoop the
| Oldest person in Wabash County. Ind,
occurred at her home near Liberty
| Mills, aged 100 years.