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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
The Negro and Republicanism.

The motto of the Republican party is:
''No step backward This party will
not admit that civilization can or should
despair of a progressive successful solu-
ton of any problem. And it particu-
larly and emphatically and everlasting
~ says mo" to the cruel, un-Christian
idea of transporting our citizens of At
rican descent to another continent,
Sinking our responsibility for them,
hiding from that responsibility as the
ostrich hides it's head in the sand, and
repudiating the debt of compensation
due to their race for the wrong of
slavery. And the capabilities of the
negro himself, as developed in notable
instances by education, relieve this op-
timism from the charge Of being chimer-
ical. He has shown that he can do as
much as any other race type would do,
weighed down by similar defects of
heredity and environment, and these
defects, due to circumstance, kat in
crease the sacredness of the obliga-
tons of the stronger race to care for the
weaker, and to give it the means Of
profiting by the object lessons of prog
ress which it has around it in this coun-
try, but which would be out of its sight
in African. Y. Press.
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RANDOM SHOTS.

COMMISSIONER RAUA is issuing pen
sions at the rate of 750a week.
FORT SUMTER, South Carolina, has {
Grand Army post named Robert Ander
son.
The Department of Iowa, Woman''
Relief corps, has a membership in good
standing of 5,5SS.
THERE are sos Sons of Veterans be
longing to the camps in Vermont, and
the division has S91s.26 in is treasury.
THE silver anniversary of the birth OF
the Grand Army of the Republic, which
was organized in Decatur, Ill, on April
6, 1866, with twelve charter members,
will be celebrated at Decatur in April,
1891, and steps are now being taken &c
have the Illinois department eKaEp
ncat Ec!6 thcrc 1T that tiEo.
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OLDEST G. A. r. MAN.
He is Becoming About as Numerous as the
Oldest Mason.

He is Becoming About as Numerous as the
Oldest Mason.
At Waterville, Ne, lives Hiram Warnlell, de-
clared by Boston paper to be the Oldest living
member Of the Grand Army Of the Republic.
We are disposed 20 doubt 1t. Warmell enlisted
when fifty-one years old, and is now seventy
nine. Does not one 81 our correspondents know
of an older Grand Army man?
Well, there's you man." here is one
of your correspondents who knows of an
older one! He is now a Hoosier, as he
was when he enlisted, but he was born
Buckeye; so. if the ''oldest Grand
Army man" is to outrank the ''oldest
Mason" who has been a parsonage of
unceasing dispute since the time to
which the memory of man runneth not
back, perhaps we, Indiana, may as well
divide with Ohio the discovery of this
now-to-be distinguished old veteran
right at the jump. His name is Elisha
Mills, ST. He was born in Butler Coun-
ty, o., October 5, 1904. Hence he is in
the S6th year of his age. He was a
member of the 57th Regiment, l. V. l.,
which was organized in this city,
at ''Old Camp Wayne" and left
for the front December IS, 1861.
He now lives at Farmland, Randolph
County, this State and belongs to
Moses Heron Post, G.. A. R., No. 261.
His record there is that he enlisted in
August 1852, but whether that is mis-
take and should be August 1861, or
whether it is true that he was assigned
to the 57th after it had left here, (pre-
vious December), your correspondent
does not know, and on that point de-
ponds whether he was nearly 81
or So years of age when he enlisted. In
any event, however, he was older, when
he enlisted, by at least six years, and is
older now by at least six years, than
1.-THE man from Maine" that the Boston
papers boast about. He participated in
the battle of Shiloh and Corinth, was
under fire for fifteen days, and
took in the marches and hardships of
his regiment until September, 1868,
when, from sickness and age, he was
compelled to leave the service.-Rich-
mond Qnd) Cor. Cincinnati CONNER
cial
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CONCERNING COMPOST.
How to Make Compost Heap to Secu
Best Results.

How to Make a Compost Heap to Secur,
Best Results.
There are two main things to be con
sidered at the outset in making the best
compost heap. One is how to hasten de.
composition, and the other is how to
prevent the escape of gases that are
created. The compost heap should be
so located that it can be drained, and
the drainage saved, for necessarily it
must contain valuable fertilizing in
gradients. The site of the heap Sc
lected and drainage provided, construct
the heap. Barnyard manure and any
deposit that contains plenty of vegeta-
bic matter are the principal ingredients.
When it can be had swamp muck is just
the thing. There is one bit of caution
that ought to be given, and that is to be
careful that nothing is used in which
there are weed seeds.
The proportions should be one part OF
barnyard manure and two parts of muck
or whatever else is used. Now the foun-
dation, the basis, of the compost is
made. To this is added every thing that
is lying about the premises that can pos
sibly add to the value of the heap, and
one of the greatest advantages of the
compost is the utilizing very much OF
value as fertilizers which would other
wise go to waste. Gather up the night
soil, chicken droppings, wood ashes,
sawdust, corn stalks, leaves, straw, soap
suds, fish or meat brine and old mortar
and thoroughly mix them with the heap.
The farmer or gardener will be surprised
to see what large quantity of fertilizer
he will get by gathering up these odds
and ends. To every load of material
about twenty-five pounds of plaster
ought to be added.
Now the chemical changes begin.
Putrefaction, or fermentation-both be-
ing the same so far as the chemical OBJ
Grafton is concerned-commence The
carbon contained in the dead vegetable
matter unites with oxygen from the air
or in the water that may be in the ma
terial, and carbonic acid gas is the re-
suit. This gas acts on the silicate of
potash in the mixture, separates the
silicate from the potash and makes car
Donate of potash, and the silica being
freed becomes hydrated silica, and both
these elements are thus made at once
available for plant growth. Observe,
therefore, the benefit of composing in
thus making these two elements avail
able. Before the changes took place
both were insoluble and utterly useless.
Suppose unrotted straw had been ap-
piled TO the land. 1t would require a
year, and perhaps two years, before
these elements could be made available.
Western Rural
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fering with American trade and indus
try. ANY more reduction of the tariff
on leading articles would have the eff
feet simply to increase importations
and to increase the revenue. 1t would
carry money out of the country and re-
duce the rate of wages 1t would bring
cheap, shoddy and pauper labor prod
ucts directly into competition with the
products of American labor and enter
prise, and would produce a reaction in
business that would be calamitous if not
ruinous-
1t is apparent from these facts thai
the present true method of revenue re-
form is to remove the tax entirely from
one or two or three articles, which will
relieve the burdens of the people to
that extent, and will prevent the az
cumulations of the surplus.
To this end the Republicans in Con-
gress will totally abolish the tobacco
tax, which will deplete the revenues to
the amount of SIS, 900, 900 year. The
tobacco habit is not to be defended; it is
q vice; it is an expensive vice, but it is
one of the least of the vices. 1t is not
as ruinous to health, unless through ex-
cessive indulgence or to persons of a
peculiar nervous organization, as has
been alleged. Tobacco is peculiarly the
luxury and the solace OF the poor. To
cheaper its price by removing the tax
would be good policy, and would save to
the people directly the amount now paid
on that account. OF course the tariff on
imported tobacco, which is a luxury OF
the rich, will have to stand.
The Republican policy is also to re-
move the tariff on sugar except so far as
to produce a revenue to pay bounty to
American sugar growers. The present
sugar tariff produces a revenue of $780,
900, 900 year. Four-ifths of this could
come of, leaving an amount sufficient
to pay bounties on American sugar
equal to the amount by which it is now
protected. This would save to the peo-
pie dire city $4,000, 900 a year, and no
American trade or industry would suffer
from the change.
With the revenue reduced by these
two changes, gradual changes could be
made in the tariff schedule so as to
equalize its burdens and benefits and to
leave every interest a just amount Of
protection. 1t might be the work Of
years, but it could be better done by be-
ing gradually done.-Chicago Journal.
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The POPULAR Line

To the East is the Burlington Route
(Hannibal & st. Joseph railrOad). The
service by this line has been constantly
improved until it has reached a degree
of excellence surpassed by none, and
equaled by few. The BurlingtOn's
Eli" is probably the finest and most
popular train running between the Mis-
souri, river and Chicago, being a solid
through Vestibule train of Pullman
sleepers and free chair cars. Leaving
Kansas City, AtchisOn and st. Joseph
after supper, the passenger arrives in
Chicago at 9:15 in the morning. Hay-
ing taken breakfast on one of the Bur-
lingtOn's world renowned dining cars,
he is ready for the days business, or in
ample time to make all Eastern con-
nectiOnS.
For the convenience of passengers
from Kansas City Flip takes dining
car out of Kansas City on which east
bound passengers are served with a
supper which is equaled by few hotels.
The BurlingtOn's st. Louis line,
though comparatively new, is becoming
better known and growing in popular
favor every day until it bids fair in the
near future to be the favOrite line be-
tween the Missouri river and st. Louis.
This train, consisting of through sleep
ers, chair cars and coaches, leaves Kan
sas City, AtchisOn and st. Joseph after
supper and puts the passenger in st.
Louis for breakfast, and ample time to
make all connections.
You are also requested to bear in
mind that the Burlington Kansas City,
st. Joseph & Council Bluffs r. r. is
the only line running through Pullman
Buffet Sleepers between Kansas City
and st. Joseph and st. Paul and Mime
apolis. This is the short line between
Kansas City, st. Joseph and Omaha.
Through daily trains with sleeping and
chair cars.
In whatever direction you travel be
sure your tickets read over the Burling-
ton Route, thereby insuring yourself
the greatest amount of comfort, with
the least expense Of money and time.
Write for all information, circulars,
etc, to III. G. Orr, General Southwest
ern Passenger Agent, 800 Main street,
Kansas City, or
A. C.. DAWES,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
st. Joseph, No.
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

TT The glowing praises bestowed by
the Southern people upon Jefferson Da-
Wis alleged military ability recall the
grim sarcasm of General Grant to the ef-
feet that the Union army frequently
owed its success to the orders of the
President of the Confederacy.-St.L Louis
Globe-Democrat.
t3-A Democratic paper has it that
Cannon and Burrows, envious of the
honors conferred by Speaker Reed upon
Mckinley, have joined hands in an effort
to thwa~t the distinguished Ohioan at
every possible opportunity. In the
language of the immortal street gamin:
Rats!-Chicago Journal.
EBThe South needs tariff protec-
ton now more than the North-not
protection for robbery, but revenue to
support the Government honestly admin
istered, and to foster and legitimately
protect American labor and industries
against ruinous foreign competition
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
s-"The modern plunger" is the new
distinction given to ex-President Cleve-
land by the New York Sun. The ex-Presi-
dentchas been plunging around a good
deal in the past six years, but his last
plunge into free trade was so disastrous
to his party that he will hardly have
another pportunity.-Chic Inter Ocean.
e The South does not mean to be in
hospitable. It's error is that it thinks
the North looks upon the colored prob
lem as it regards it. 1t is hard, almost
impossible, for it to realize that the North
can not, will not ard would not regard
the colored people as rightfully fore
ordained to be kept down to a normal
condition" said condition to be defined
by those having the most interest in
excepting down" race that is struggling
hard to lift itself up. - Boston Trans
cript (Ind.).
EB BY a curious mistake the other
day Assistant Postmaster-GeneralC Clark
son came near chopping off the head of
Postmaster Roswell Beardsley, of North
Lansing, Tompkins County, n. Y. The
suspended axe was held in time, and the
oldest postmaster in the service still
holds on. Beardsley has withstood the
vicissitudes of fourteen changes of Adj
ministration, and has retained the favor
of nineteen successive Presidents. For
sixty-four years he has distributed their
mail to his neighbors, and is now the
oldest postmaster in the service.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
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ready built, 15x3O feet, to one end add a
room of any desired dimensions. Tight
ly cover this addition and let it be
sealed within tightly with half-inch
grooved spruce or some other wood
which will not impart taste to what is
stored. The exterior of the cooling
room may be the same in appearance as
the ice-house, so that the entire struct-
ure will be one building. The cooling
apartment must be lighted sufficiently,
but not extensively, and double win
dows should be used, together with two
doors or heavily-packed door. The bot
tom can be cemented, which is prefer
able, or boarded.
An aperture one foot to eighteen
inches square must be cut from the
cooling room into the apartment occu-
pied by the ice at the top of the room
and a corresponding opening made at
the bottom. This is to allow the heated
air of the cooling room to pass out and
the cold air from the ice to fall and
enter the cooling room at the bottom.
These openings must have clOsely-ftting
doors and, generally speaking, they are
kept closed. If the temperature in the
cooling room should be too high at any
time it would be necessary to open
these doors for an influx of cold air. To
the person who has ever used such an
arrangement and seen its beneficial re-
suits, return to the refrigerator would
seem like retrogression indeed. If the
cooler or retarding room can be conven-
iently located on the north side or end
of the ice-house, it will be in the most
feasible location.-Farm and Home.
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in command of the Second Corps. He
found Doubleday sitting dnder big tree.
He saluted him quickly, and said:
General Doubleday, General Han
cock has been seriously wounded, and
you will -"
just at that moment, before he had
time TO finish the sentence, assume
command of the corps,'' shell burst di-
rectly over the General. The shock half
stunned him, and he fell over, exclaim-
ing:
''Oh, am killed! am killed.
Captain Parker couldn't resist this cp-
portunity for a joke, and he rode of
rapidly in search of General Gibbon. He
found him and reported to him that
Doubleday had been killed and Han
cock had been wounded, and that he was
to take command of the corps. The news
spread rapidly that Doubleday was dead,
and Captain Parker so reported to Gen.
eral Hancock. A few hours later rail-
road train containing Hancock, his staff
and a number of wounded officers was
moving toward Baltimore. Hancock was
lying on a stretcher suffering intensely,
but his mind and sympathy went out to-
ward his division commanders and his
other officers who were dead or wounded.
Its too bad about Doubleday's death, u
said one wounded officer sitting near
him, who was shot in the arm.
doubleday isn't dead" replied the
officer Il saw him in command of the
corps after yeu were wounded and two
hours before left the field"
"Why, Joe Parker told me that he
was killed" replied Hancock.
Parker, who was in a front car with
the boys having fun, was Immediately
summoned He appeared before Han
cock, who said:
Captain Parker, didn't you tell me
that General Doubleday was killed."
Certainly 1 did," replied Joe. HE
told me was, and what the devil else
was to do but to take his word for it?''
Despite the suffering in the car there
was hearty laugh, and Parker went
back to his companions. AS he closed
the car door Hancock remarked:
THAT boy will never see any thing
serious in the most serious things of this
life''
Poor Joe Parker and his counterpart,
Colonel Wilson, are both dead, while
the old General of whom General Han
cock told this amusing story walks along
Broadway apparently as healthy and
hearty as man of fifty.-N. Y. Star.
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The ACME OE VALOR.
How Pat Helped Out His Captain at the
Critical eriod.

How Pat Helped Out His Captain at the
Critical eriod.
The presentation of an American flag
to the grammar schools of Bangor re-
minds me of similar occurrence which
took place in Maine village in the
summer of '63. A company of volun-
teers, being about to depart for tn
State capital, were drawn up on the
green to receive a flag that had been
made by the patriotic members of the
local sewing circle. The village pastor
made a sensible presentation speech,
and the banner was received by the Cap
tain of the company, who handed it to
the color-bearer, a witty Irishman.
Then, facing the worthy pastor and his
fair flock, the embarrassed Captain pro-
ceeded to acknowledge the gift, as fol-
lows:
Reverend sir and ladies: This beau
tiful flag which l see before me"
Its behind yez, Captain, interrupted
the color-bearer.
(Which l see behind me-" amended
the blushing officer, islands for some
thing more than the emblem of a pow
erful Nation. 1t is beauty's tribute to
valor, and as such it is doubly dear to
the gallant hearts around me. In thank
ing you for your gift, ladies, we pledge
ourselves faithfully to defend it. AT
the close of the campaign, those of US
who are spared will bring this flag back
to you, unless it is blown to atoms by
shot from the enemy, in which event
we'll-we'll-"
'We'll bring them back the pole'
shouted the enthusiastic Irishman, &c
the delight of the crowd and the relief
of the superior officer Lewiston (Me.)
IOuruaI
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high enough to slip between top and bot
tom strips. This frame is shown in Fig.
9. On this make the front of manger.
Mine has V-shaped cut as shown, but
every one can suit his own fancy as to
that. Slip this portable front in place
and up to bottom of manger; nail
block behind, also a block on each side
at top %. If this makes the stall too
short for the COW loosen the front. take
out manger bottom boards marked d and
and push the front up to desired posi-
ton and secure as before. can lengthen
my stalls eighteen inches, which think
Is enough. If you use a plain front
manger the side strips and b need be
only as far apart as height of manger.
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Weighing a silo.

1 cover my silage with paper, says a
farmer in the Rural New Yorker, after
it has reached a proper heat; then put
eight inches of sawdust on top of the
paper. 1 have just opened my silo and
find the silage the best have ever had.
l have sweet silage this year. 1 intend
to cover my silo another year with dried
swamp muck or peat in lieu of sawdust
and then will utilize as much as 1 can
of it with manure as an absorbent !
think this plan viii work well.
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CONSERVATIVE REFORM.

A Statesmanlike Method of Reducing the
Governments Income.
1t is reported, and probably on good
authority, that the Republicans in Con-
gress have determined to pass a tariff
and revenue bill that will have q few
simple features only, but which will
cause material reduction in the rev.
enue, and will save direct to the people
many millions of dollars. Il would be
almost impossible to enact a general
new tariff law without seriously inter
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JOE PARKER'S JOKE.
How n Fun-Loving Captain Spreaa ene
News of n Generals Death.

How n Fun-Loving Captain Spread ene
News of n Generals Death.
Only this week was reading General
Doubleday's story of Gettysburg, and
the day before 1 had seen the old Gen
eral on the street. His presence in New
York and his book combine to recall to
my mind very practical joke that was
played upon him at Gettysburg by Cap
tain Joe Parker, of General Hancock's
staff. Colonel Billy Wilson and Joe
Parker were General Hancock's pets.
They were both young, full of mischief,
and only saw the ludicrous side of every
thing, no matter how serious.
In the very white heat of the battle
on Cemetery Hill, July 5, 1868, General
Hancock was severely wounded, and
Captain Parker Immediately rode of to
find General Doubleday, who was the
senior division commander, and FGt him
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every cake of ice
has to be handled
after it is packed be-
fore it can be used
t o k e e p butter,
meats, fruits, etc.
1t is a simple matter
to arrange a cool
ing-room in connec-
ton with the ice
house. One method
is to proceed as fol-
lows: Surprising the
ioo-hOnSo 70 ha oil
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The HandsOmest Train in the World

Runs from Kansas City to Chicago over
the Santa Fe route. 1t leaves the
Union Depot every night at six O'Clock
and arrives in Chicago the following
morning at nine. This time gives good
connection for all points west of Kan
sas City and for all points east OF CHI
cago. 1t carries free reclining chair
cars, Pullman sleeping cars and dining
cars. 1t is of the VeStibule pattern and
lighted by electricity; an electrician ae-
companies the train to look after the
lights and signals.
JNO. J. BYRNE,
Asst Gen1 Pass. Agt., Chicago.
Fl. A. Bonn, Western Pass. Agent,
612 Main street. Kansas City.
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height as though l intended to Quit at
that. Stalls are ~ feet from front of
manager to drop, allowing % feet for
manager, which leaves ) feet for the
cow, but can be shortened to 81 feet if
necessary, by the method I shall now
describe.
Bald stalls as above directed. Nail
strips lal for bottom of manger ON sides
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AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
COW STALLS
Some Good Suggestions Regarding Them
How They Should BE Built.

Some Good Suggestions Regarding Them
How They Should Be Built.
I saw an inquiry a short time ago re-
garding COW stall, says writer in the
Ohio Farmer. have seen none de-
scribed like mine, and will therefore
send it. believe in a manure drop for
the comfort and cleanliness of ell con-
cerned- To have it serve the purpose
every cow must stand right. so that the
manure will be deposited in the drop.
Cows vary in length, and hence stalls all
of same length viii not bring all to the
drop; they fall short or over-reach. Ny
device will remedy this difficulty.
make my stalls, lining up between,
boarding up in front to the desired
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Of stall, and other
strips OBJ at or near
the top, all same
distance apart.
Now build in bot
tom of Manager, ~
feet, as in Fig. l.
Make a light frame,
of 2X2 inch ma
terial, that will fit
between sides of
CAn11 =, I'LL
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, Routes
To New Orleans.

For Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and further
information apply to nearest Ticket Agent or
j. Ii. LYON, w. P. A, 52s Main street,
Kansas City, Mo.
W. H. NEWMAN, Gen. Traffic Manager,
H. c. TOWNSEND, G. p. Agent,
ST. Louis NO.