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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
RELICS FROM GETTYSBURG.
Many Interesting Articles Brought Home
by a Connecticut Man.

Many Interesting Articles Brought Home
by Connecticut Man.
John Hutchinson, of Branford, a vet
eran of the navy, visited Gettysburg
with the Connecticut party which went
to this celebrated battlefield in October
to dedicate a monument erected to mark
the most advanced point reached by the
Twenty-seventh Connecticut regiment,
While there Mr.. Hutchinson purchased
a valuable collection of relics picked up
on this battlefield. There are nearly
one hundred different articles, includ-
ing bullets. rebel and Union buttons,
belts and plates, and numberless little
things, all of which were found on the
appears this certificate of genuineness:
Gettysburg, Pa, August 9, 1SsS-This
is to certify that this shingle was taken
from the roof of General Meade's head
quarters by the Battlefield Association
when repairing the house, making it
look as it did during the battle of Get
tysburg, July l, 2 and 3, 1868. n. G. VIII
son, Superintendent B. F. A. Grounds"
One of the largest relics is a broken
gun-an Enfield rifle-which was used
in Pickett's charge. The breech, lock
and stock were torn off. probably by a
she'll, leaving only the barrel and part
of the forearm. The most dangerous
looking of the relics are the butts and
sections of terrible percussion and
shrapnel shells The edges of these
are rough and serrated, and their very
lookis sufficient to convince one of the
slaughter they created. Along with
these shells are pieces of lead and iron
that were used for filling for these
missiles. Another of the relics, tree
section studded with bullets, was taken
from DEVILS Den. The tree from which
this piece was taken was bought after
the battle by man who, upon cutting
it down, found in the part between the
roots and branches $50 bullets. Pieces
of this tree can be bought at prices
ranging from 25 cents to S1.50, accord
ing to the size and number of bullets
imbedded in the piece.
Two canteens which were once the
property of a Union and Confederate
soldier are in the collection. The Union
cOAOACA OoubCOA oAnOAo AAOAH IAO OAO
carried by the Johnny" only in as
much as the edges are elliptical instead
of square. One of the articles that Mr..
Hutchinson values most is twenty
dollar Confederate note, which was
picked up ip the wheat field soon after
the close of the battle. A piece Of saber
blade which shows evidence that it was
broken in some desperate hsnd-to-hand
struggle is another Of the relies. There
Is bayonet with its point broken of,
probably from hitting some stone as its
owner fell wounded. never to rise again
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dunn sight easier time. Their perfesh
is full of trials and authorizations.
specially trials"
Then the good parson talked feelingly
on the subject of coVetousness and the
badness of pretty much every thing.
His words certainly had some effect on
the burglars mind, for that worthy
actually smiled and winked approYingly
at his soft mark. ~
Now, Mr.; Burglar, justhelp yourself
and welcome. If there isn't very much
to take remepber, pray, that donation
party was here last week"
For a moment the criminals heart was
touched, but only for a moment, and
then he proceeded to fill large bag
which he had brought expressly for this
occasion, with the parsons light and
portable valuables.
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FAT AND LEAN.
Some Practical Hints About Fattening
Hogs.


Hogs.
We hear more and more about making
a streak of fat and streak of lean in
our pork. The sensible idea is becom-
ing more prevalent that the great Jumps
of fat which we make and market are
not just what the people want. Indeed
thousands who would use pork if it had
a streak of lean and streak of fat can
not use fat pork, and there can be no
doubt that all who do use it would be
better off if it was less fat. Yet we do
not sympathize at all with the notion
that fat pork is necessarily injurious in
marked degree.
We believe that it can be shown that
pork-eaters are as healthy and long
lived as beef-eaters. Still, leaner pork
would be more palatable and more
healthful. How is it to be produced?
Some of the experiment stations have
been doing something il that line, but
they claim that their experiments have
been to degree unsatisfactory. Well,
it can not be expected that our present
hog can be made over in minute or a
day or year. 1t is the nature of the
hog to take on fat. Give it fat-forming
food and it will convert it into fat. But
there is no special secret in creating
leaner pork. We may never get the
streak of fat and streak of lean laid out
with mathematical precision, and there
never may be any 'streaks" at all in
some hogs.
But the prevailing system of feeding
can not create lean in Streaks or other
wise. Lean is simply muscle. Make
muscle and you make lean meat. Now
we all know how to make muscle. 1t is
made by maintaining the health of the
hog and by feeding muscle-forming
foods. If we feed in that line and breed
from hogs thus fed we shall in time have
leaner pork. If double the quantity of
muscle is created that the average hog
now has there will be double the guam
tity of lean meat. But we must give
the muscle time to develop. We can not
expect that two years growth of muscle
can be made in nine months Western
Rural
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ANpERsoNvILLE PRISON.
How the whilom Terror of Union Captives
V0OEa at Presapt

How the Whilom Terror of Union Captives
Looks at Present.
/ arrived at Andersonville station the
latter part of last September. The
town consists of eight or ten dwelling
houses and one hotel. l hired colored
guide, who escorted me to the old prison
inclosure. The ground is now owned by
two negroes, and a cotton cIOP Low
covers its once repulsive surface; all the
evidence of imprisonments once used
by the Confederate military authorities
have ceased to exist, save a small shed
over the once famous spring that many
claimed had supernatural origin.
Nothing to define the once ponderous
inclosure, except that the stumps of the
logs and the outline of the prison are
defined by the old water wells, dug by
the Union prisoners. There are no re-
mains of the Confederate cook house,
dead house, or Captain Wirz's headquar-
ters; only the unleveled remains of the
earthen breastworks, from which Cap
tain Wirz used to point sections of ar
tillery, with grape and canister. to
awe and bring to terms the Yankees
who dared to sing patriotic songs within
range of his guns.
The low ground or swamp between the
north and south sides of the prison is
now grown over with canebrake and
brushwood. This was the place so re-
pulsive while occupied by the prisoners.
In some other parts of the inclosure are
trees twelve to fifteen inches in diam
eter, of the persimmon and pine variety.
Time, with it's mellowing influence, is
tenderly and quietly placing the cover
of oblivion on these tragic scenes of
other days.
The cemetery, short distance from
the old prison-pen, is maintained by the
Government. The superintendent,
Captain Bryant, was a Union soldier.
The known graves number 12,7T9, and
the unknown number 933. The IN
known have square block of marble
with the solitary number in figures in
scribed on its face; the known have the
soldiers name, number and State; and
the register in the superintendent Of
flee tells you the regiment and company.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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DAYS oE THE WEEK.
Their Names Derived from Those of PoI
ular Heather Gods.

u
ular Heather Gods.
In ancient times the peop., wcr-
SHIPPED images of gods, valiant soldiers
and saints; from some of the most int
portant of these come the names appliF
to the different days of the week.
From an idol of the sun comes SundTy'
or, in other words, upon the day we
now hold sacred as the Sabbath the
ancients worshiped the sun. 1t is not
the ancient Sabbath of the Jewish Peo-
pie, and it is very doubtful even if II Is
the Lords Day." spoken of by Pau
On the second day of the week the oid
Saxons worshiped = moon and c$lled
If Moandav We h ,ve dronned on9 SOP
and call it Monday.
Tuisco, from which we derived, the
word Tuesday, was one of the most an
cient and popular gods of the Germans,
and the third day of the week was ldedi-
Gated to his worship.
Wooden, for whom we have named
Wednesday, was prince of high stand
ing among the Saxons. His image was
prayed to for victory. On the Fourth
day after each succeeding sun worship
the old Saxons spent hours inFoking
the blessing of old Wooden.
Thor, from which comes Tn Lay,
was god of the chase, and wa pre-
isented as being seated on a couch Skins
with twelve stars over his head and hold
ing scepter in his hand.
Friga, the god of Friday, ~ S some
thing of hunter himself, and was rep
resented with drawn sword in one hand
and bow in the other.
Scatter, the god of Saturday, according
to picture of him, must have been per
fectly wretched. He is thin-visaged,
long-haired, with flowing beard and
far-away look in his eye; his finger nails
are long and hooked like ird claws.
In his right hand he carries bucket
partially flied with water, strewn over
the surface with fruits and flowers. His
picture is almost counterpart of that
of old Father Time. st. Louis Re-
Dublic
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
RANDOM SHOTS.

THE Ohio Department of the Grand
Army has membership of A, ZOO.
THE first pension ever authorized was
in 1776. The first service pension was
granted in 1918.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC posts
Of Jersey City are raising funds to sup
ply with National flags the twenty-one
public schools of that city.
GENERAL LANDER PosT No. 5, Lynn,
Mass, is the largest post in the Grand
Army. 1t has 1,1O6 comrades in good
standing, and owns real estate valued at
about 500, ,OOO-1,5S7 in all have been
mustered into this post
GEORGE H HOPKINS, Adjutant-Gen-
eral of the Grand Army of the Republic,
was an enlisted man during the late
war, having carried musket for three
years He is now a successful business
man of Detroit, Mich, but is bache-
lor.
THE selection of August 10 as the date
for the next national encampment will
be Just before the ''busy season" in
Boston. The hotels will be less crowded
Iucu JHdH OEulHdH11y- anu SA1C COLlIdOco
there will be freer to assist in giving
the delegates welcome.
A COMMISSION has been organized, with
Governor Beaver at the head, to en-
deavor to secure from Congress SS,OOO,-
900 to reimburse the people of Cham
bersburg and other residents of the
southern tier of Pennsylvania counties
for the losses sustained by rebel inva-
sion. The State of Pennsylvania has
already paid these people $500, 200 on
this account
AT the breaking out of the war the
first call was for $1,000 men and the
number obtained was 90, 900. The second
and third calls for three-years men were
for SIS, 900, and the number responding
was ia, 900, besides $1,000 three-months
men. The fourth call, in July, 1852,
was for 500 900 men for three years, and
the number responding was 1872, coo.
After that the enlistment fell below the
calls because, as an exchange puts it,
the former calls had SKINNED the c1oan
Of the nations manhood.
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HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

DID you ever try dry bran for packing
apples?
TAKE a walk around the orchard and
garden. Have your note book along.
HAVE you protected the young trees
of the orchard against the attacks Of
mice?
ABOUT ten million pounds more dried
and evaporated apples were exported
this year than last.
If you have some long manure that
you wish to put to good use, spread it
among the raspberries.
If the ground is not yet frozen it will
yet do to lay down the raspberry and
blackberry bushes and the grapevines.
IT is claimed that the daily consump-
tion of good sound fruit is better than
all the cathartics in the universe. 1t is
pleasanter ''to take"
AssoRT your seeds and make list of
what you need for next years planting
do it now-when the opportunity
comes for buying you will know just what
you want
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Too Realistic to Please.

Customer am re Cont de Neces-
sity, and 1 come to America to wed re
Ma'mselle de Soper, ze Boston heiress.
1 have re desire to make ma'mselle one
present suitable to re occasion of her be-
coming re Comtesse de Necessity.
Jeweler-How would you like a pair
of scales with bag OF gold in one SCOOP
and your name in the other?-Jewelers'
Weekly.
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CHAPTER V.

The next day Rev. Mr.. Wobbles was
industriously rewriting his next Sun
days sermon. He had written it before,
but the burglar had inadvertently taken
it with the other plunder. A
knock at the door in response to the
parsons cordial Come" a stranger en-
tered. He was q meek hammered, Sc
rious visaged man. "You do not seem
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Didn't Let Him Finish.

Greenbagge-Never touch a case, INV
boy, that your conscience will not per.
NIT you to advocate and
Briefess Gnterrupting)-Why, look
here, l heard you defending Hungry
Mike, the burglar, only the other day!
Greenbagge-And, as 1 was about to
say you mightas well abandon your pro-
fesSion.-Life.
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FoRCEPs FOR PRINTING METAL LABELS.

pocket, and has sufficient purchase to be
easily worked. Any number from to
es99 can be pressed into a label with a
single impression. The number ready
for impression is also indicated by
same number appearing on top between
two of the dies, and the operator is thus
enabled to avoid all mistakes. To
avoid the necessity of setting the whole
machinery for single figures (from to
81 these figures appear second time,
and independently, on the handles. as
appearing in illustration, and impress
sions of them can be taken rapidly
without changing the wEeel-Popular
Gardening.
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to help. If he then desired to take my
goods l would make no protest, nor
would l cause his arrest would follow
him to the door and invite him to come
again.
As he read this Mr.. Wobbles' face
beamed with sympathizing assent.
''That's what 1 call good common sense"
he remarked, half aloud. ''If Providence
ever sends burglar to my house that is
just the way trust shall have the
grace to treat him.
Ali how little the reverend gentle
man knew of the present, let alone of
the future.
Even then the burglar was on his way
to him.
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Fowls in confined runs need extra at
tention or they get out of condition and
cease to lay, the ground becomes tainted,
and they feed on food defled by their
own excrement which naturally pro-
duces loss of health and condition.
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Customer-Any thing serious?
he Saved Himself I'm Tin.-

Ella-I know 1 am ugly, but love
you, Ersstus. 1 have $4,000 a year.
Win you marry me?
Erastus-Yes, my darling. I'd marry
you II you were twice as ugly-as you
think you are, my beautiful BIRDIE
Epoch.
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Fig. 1.-Dodder vine and suIe' anu o"0n
flowers upon alfalfa, caps ule bears
Fig "A. Head Of flow from two IN four
ers-natural size. .. An AiOi WV
Individual flower. q Two perfect seeds. 1t
Gelled capsule. n seed is evident, there
ing scale-like appsndages. fore, tnat IN the
branch represented there would have
been prod uced from 2, 400 to 4,sOO vital
seeds. AS these are hardy and ger
inmate readily, it is hardly necessary to
answer more explicitly the question:
SIS it bad to spread?" If one little
spray will produce so many seeds, what
number would a plant or a patch of
plants produce? The seeds (D) are OF
good stze, and often escape the fan and
sieve in nlpreparing clover seeds for mar
ket, and it is possible the plant in ques-
ton was sown with the alfalfa. Destroy
it. Do not let it ripen its seeds. The
plant will not injure cattle, but would
be offfttle benefit as feed.
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BRAzENING IT OUT.

Principal-Wen, Tommy, what can 1
do for you2
Tommy-My teacher she sent me UP
to say thatyou've been very bad, and !
am to give you severe whipping
Take off your jacket!-Puck.
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One of the smallest Of the relies, yet
one that probably caused more d struc-
ton than any of the others, is friction
primer for heavy field gun. Attached
to the loop is a small piece of the Ian
yard.-New Haven Palladium.
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CHAPTER Ill

Rev. Mr.. Wobbles explained his
friend Pentecost's system, and the burg
lar kindly offered to help put it in prac-
cal operation.
sIt's good scheme, - acquiescently re-
marked the burglar, ''and if only more
coves 'ud adopt it US blokes 'ud have
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Bowlby-I see Smithers has named
that colt Letters. Rather odd, eh?
Jockey-Well, suppose it's because
he is often left at the Post.-N. Y. Sun.
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The science of mating for best results,
not only in fine points but vigor and
fertility, requires careful study and
practical observation. Study your stock.
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4 have not eaten my hands," And
standing with arms akimbo he/ca1mly
faced the now. astonished burglar.
''WeIl. be slugged," calculated the
midnight lawbreaker.
4, He wasn't accustomed to this.
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Forceps for Numberine Labels.

The little device for numbering zinc
or lead labels is sent out by a German
firm as the best and simplest of its kind,
and costing only about $3.50. 1t is
small enough to be carried in ones
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of the sprlg re-
ceived Gig. ~
and also a de-
tailed sketch of
the flower and
,its parts Gig. p.
The vine is very
slender, almost
threadlike, and
the minute flow
ers Gig. 2, b
are produced in
heads of dozen
or more along the
vine, as repre-
sented st A, Fig.
2. Fig 1 repre-
sents! over one
bundled heads of
flowers, bout
haf of which are
Indie a t ed, t h e
others being in
ithe rear and not
shown. If each
of these heads
contained twelve
flowers, which is
a modest est1-
mate, the spray
would number
1000 flowers. At
C, Fig. 2, is shown
a capsule with
two styles. Each
flower has a cap
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BE DEPARTED.

He assisted him to the front door, and
even looked up and down the dark street
TO make sure that no police officer, &C
cidentally lingering near, should "col-
lar" his burglar.
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tRDEN. sIls

r..,t,c plant fol Which Farmers
should BE ON the Lookout.
A r BirdsilL Colorado, sends us,
larm and Ffreeide, sprig of alfalfa
with a delicate vine bearing q
> of white flowers, accompanied
te as t0llows: please tell re
inclPsed vine is. We fund
burch of it growing IN our
ass years sowing. Is it bad
; will it hurt stockto eat it?"
deferred to is species OF
4 ecuta), and belongs to the
Brder convolvulacea. It is a
:. e plant and is only nourished by
rrestrial roots until it becomes es-
Slished upon the host plant, after
! ich its connection with the earth Is
+token, and it feeds upon the juices OF
ne host plant
That the readers of Farm and fireside
nay get an intelligent idea ofthe plant
nd its flowers, we have made drawing
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LAY the climbing roses, when it is
practicable, on the ground and cover
slightly,
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W0BBLES BURGLAR.
How e Bold, Bad Thief Was Thor
oughly Reformed.
The Midnight Visitor Assisted in Cleaning
Out Residence by the Owner, Who
Invites Him to Call Again
The Outlaw Repents.
CHAPTER L

paragraph in
the Sunday Herald great
ly interested Rev. Mr..
Wobbles. 1t stated that
Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost
had said that If he
should find a burglar in
his house he would go to
him unarmed and talk
to him as l would to a
friend whom I desired
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Customer Tin barber-shop)-Is the boss
in?
Apprentice-No, sir. He is at home
sick.
Customer-Any thing serious?
Apprentice-Well, 1 shaved him ves-
terday and the doctor says he is very
weak from loss of blood.-N. Y. Ledoer
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CHAPTER VI.

This chapter, containing, as it did, the
moral to this tale, was too long for this
column and is regretfully omitted
Charles Lederer, in Chicago Herald.
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consequeh1

wish to rss,rS 80 nd give ny
self up to justice"
The burglar insisted on it; he was
turned over 70 the police. He was tried,
convicted, .xhd under the habitual Grim
inal act was sentenced to Joliet for life.
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CHAPTER ".

At last the burglar departed. Mr..
Wobbles had helped him pack the bag.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-09-13
The Democratic Platform.

The democrats and resubmission-
lists, in state convention assembled,
have adopted a platform which is
only remarkable for its obscurity
and the apparent intention of strad-
ding all issues that might be debat-
able. In short it is a platform to
catch votes and may be construed
according to the ideas of each indi-
vidual and, therefore, we may say it
is convenient platform for cam
paign purposes.
They resolve against paternalism
in government whatever that may
be; deplore the tendency manifested
by the preacher politicians. declare
the Federal Election bill a legiti-
mate offspring of the party which
filched a presidency; favor a tariff
law based upon public necessities
and not the greed of capitalists.
This sounds well, but can any one
tell what it means? Favor free
coinage Of silver; this is explicit
enough and they run no risks, for
both of the other parties have done
the same. They favor the leaving
of the circulating medium wholly in
the hands of the government. This
simply means nothing; it is so vague
and indefinite that it amounts to a
blank. Favor liberal pension laws;
we know of some who would think
that fifty cents a month would be
very liberal. They express sympa-
thy with labor, and if they would
only place their ideas of sympathy
in tangible form so that we could
see what they propose doing for the
laborer we would doubtless all con-
cur.
There is one thing upon which
they declare with no uncertain
sound. We publish the twelfth
resolution in full, as follows:
We believe that. prohibition has
brought upon the people of this
state incalculable evils, has produced
as Its legitimate result perjury and
6rloerY, has corrupted the very
foundations of justice and made even
our courts a disgrace on the admin
istration of justice.
And for fear there might be some
obscurity in this section, which they
evidently consider the vital one,