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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

The board of aid commissioners
which has been helping the western
farmers has finished its work and has
$1,000 left. 1t is probably the only
instance in the history of the world in
which an appropriation was not entirely
mead nm
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

The Capital says that when it sees
Prof. Snow looming up with an incu-
bator in one hand and a few bacteria
in the other, the little green bug in
the Russell county wheat will wish it
hadn't
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

A witness in the Botkin case testi-
fed that the judge frequently drank
over half pint of whisky without
removing the bottle from his lips.
Botkin is wasting his talents in Kan
sas: he should be exiled to Kentucky.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

The failure of the last legislature to
make the appropriation to assist in
defraying the expenses of the national
encsmpment OF the G.. A. r. in 1892,
compelled the entire abandonment of
the enterprise by the state encamp-
ment at Hutchinson this week. This
is another sample of the false economy
so freely INDUCED in by our late law
makers. 1t is useless to talk
about holding the encampment with
out assistance from the state. The
expenditure of $780, asked for by the
G.. A. R. would have brought into our
midst in 1892 fifty thousand visitors
and would have done much toward
repairing the credit Of our state abroad
and would have given US an advertise
ment which we cannot get in any other
WaV
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

1t is rumOred that the alliance will
start another paper at Enterprise, pre-
sumably to give Representative Sem a
defender in his gambling crawfShings.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

In spite of his long experience in a
newspaper Office Charlie Scott still
refers to ''the tripod" He will be
using ''ye editor" and there's our Eg5-"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

The G. A. R. encampment will not
be held in Kansas. We will have to
get along on alliance picnics.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

Blaine will be candidate in 1892.
Blaine will not be a candidate in 1892.
You buy your newspaper and take
your choice.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

William Mckinley will be the repub-
lican candidate for governor in Ohio
and will be elected. Ohio is all right.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

It is said that the alliance has
$4,000 John Willitses. The alliance
has much sympathy in its misfor-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

The opponents of the Mckinley bill
are beginning to feel that it is sugar
cured.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

Tim Mccarthy will loom up as
department commander of the Kansas
G.. A. R.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

Granulated sugar sells at Tie rate Of
% pounds for a dollar in Kansas City.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

George Francis Train is on the track
again. He should be side tracked.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

Kansas 100000 for the Worlds
fair is already row except the money.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle says that it is reported
that Minister Porter will shortly vacate
the United States legation there, leav-
ing the secretary in charCe
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

Riley county decreased lis indebted
ness $4,000 during April.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

1t is a prosperous grocer who cal
nowadays afford to eat his own straw
hnrriaa
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07
On Monday, june 8, A. D, 1891,

at the front door of the court house, in tne
city of Abilene, County of Dickinson, State
of kansas, at 10 O'Clock a. m. Of said day sell
TO the highest bidder for cash, the following
described real estate towit:
Lot number three 90 in Henry, Hodge q
Reeds subdivision of lots numbered two Cd,
four "a, six (6) eight 81 and ten l1Ol on nortn
Third Isl street in Thompson 4 McCoy's Rd-
dition 70 Abilene. in Dickinson County,
State of Kansas-
The said real estate VIII be sold pursuant
to the judgment Of the Court in said cause
recited in said order OF sale
witness my hand this 9th day of May, A
ID. 1891.
AS DIV. NALL,
Sheriff of Dickinson Co, Eas.
By5. J. ELLISON, Under Sheriff.
3. g. LIFTLB, Attorney for plaintiff.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07

Hay is at considerably less a pre-
MUM than a few days ago.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07
ABILENE MARKETS.
ABILENE, KAs., May Z.
Corrected weekly by B. F. Nelson.)
First Publication May Z, 1911
SHERIFF'S SALE.

Under aud by virtue of an order of sale is
sued by the Clerk of the District Court OF
Dickinson county, state of Kansas, in a cause
pending therein, wherein W. f. ]. Board
man is plaintiff and W. s. Hodge, Laura T.
Hodge Lewis A. Reed, Mary E. Reed, Z. ID.
Humphrey and Clyde j. MeDivitt are de-
fandanfs i will.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-07
Frank yyoodrufr Conyicted,

Ex-Gov. Crittenden is quite sick at
Kansas City, Mo.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06
4 Fish That Crosses the Ocean.

The warrior of the sea, the swordfsh,
is barring the halibut, the largest of the
food fishes, the fastest fish that swims
and withal the only one that attacks and
conquers the whale. Another remark
able fact is that the swordfish crosses the
ocean twice each year. No baby sword
fish has ever been seen on our coast, and
reward of 500 for one which was
caught here foot or less in length has
never had claimant. Swordfish breed
in Mediterranean waters, and nowhere
else are young and old found together.
When warm weather comes they go
abroad. Crossing the Atlantic the sword
fish stops awhile at Newport, Block is
land and Bar Harbor and returns in the
cool of the autumn weather to its homo
and children Swordfish average about
five or six feet in length and 300 pounds
IN weight. They are dark above and
whitish underneath, and are armed with
hard and pointed sword which projects
from their upper jaw and in length
equals about third of that of their bodies.
This sword is a most powerful weapon
and its owner does not hesitate to use it
either as means of offense or defense.
The swords have been run through dorie5
and ships bottoms and even through a
piece of solid oak five inches thick.
Many luckless sword fisherman has
lost his life on account of the quickness
and ferocity with which this remarkable
fish uses his sword. New York Tele-
gram
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06

she did not know if she was IN heaven or
Paris.
81 told my sister would stop for the
kerchief you are embroidering for her, Z
said John Arlington. It was too Geld
and too late for you to bring it. And
this bird-she said you had given yours
away But Natalie had darted for
ward and sprung open tbs sioor Of the
cage and ont hoped Cachette, laughing
in his shrillest notes.
She caught the bird to her, spread out
one of its little wings. Seer she cried,
ga feather is missingl It is the sa1neI
Cachette, jai bien de la joie de vous voir.
Il am delighted to see you.) You have
come baSx to mel It is miracle; it IS q
miracle! It was an revoir, and -
adieul Oh, monsielirv and she begasl
to weep as though her heart would
break, edging as far as possible away
from her visitor, with whom she was
now little angry as she was also a lit
tie angry with innocent Cachette, who
futtered out of her grasp and perched
upon the window cornice where he
whistled like mad. In an hour John
Abingdon went straight home to his
sister. He had heard wonderful con-
fession, and he had made one not so
wonderful. "Ameliaw he said with de-
cision, 81 am going to the library to
write to the Compile de Boncour, and |
wish you to bring Mile de Boncour here
tomorrow and keep her here with you.
Do not ask me anything more now; am
little ratified. She will tell you every
thing when you go after her in the
morning. and go early, Amelia. | see
you understand. That's square, isn't itS'
It might be square. and in circuitous
way it had become SO. For it had been
a circle before it had been squared that
is, the circle of Cachette.
THE END
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06

TAKE THAT MURDEROUS ANIMAL AWA1- =
.sRatsr' snarled Mr.. Cumbersome
Brown, his head padded in raw cotton,
for he had caught cold in his drafty
fats yesterday, though he would not
have owned that an ounce of air ever
entered those buildings without per-
NIT from the tenants. He had been sub
ject to neuralgia ever since he stopped
legitimate business and took to building
fats.
"Ratsw said he ON receipt of Cachette.
'I've heard of French coquetting before,
but this lays over it all. But Miss
Bunker is not in tout she goes next
week. Scottsl / believe the bird is
French, too. the way it winks with its
eyes"
sit could not very well wink with it's
toes" thought Mr.. Cumbersome Browns
housekeeper, Mrs. Jones, who led life
of it when her employer had one Of his
Justly celebrated attacks.
But Natalie had gone home in the
crisp evening air, shivering in her thin
coat. trying to down the sense of loss
that had come to her already now that
Caehette was gone.
Mrs. E. Plat Clayton WIS in the ele-
vator at the fats.
81 was just going to see you, madamoi-
selle,7 said she. 'How warm it is and
she threw back her sealskin cloak 1--WE
been to five teas No end of a bore, and
now l must rush home and get into a
1 tight gown and go to dinner and a
bail. Not so fine as those functions
/ where used to meet YOU in la belle
Paris, though. You are so quiet now
which is quite proper, seeing that You
are alone here Do you ever hear from
your sweet brother, the compte? MOI
But must hasten. don't know whal
Mr.. Clayton must think Of me, for an
always out. / have not seen him for fivs
days. He dislikes society. But then he
has his club. Even my brother you've
/ met him-says there is no repose in me
How can one have il in this whirl. Ny
dear, came to see you about that ker
chief. 1t is for my pet friend, who vii
marry DIR. Croll the day after tomorrow
She's aesthetic, you know, sort of silly
4 but very sweet aud faded. Do you thinl
you could have it by tomorrow evening
4 Ed like to send it around to her not late
than that, ron know 4
q They entered the fat together and Ma
talie made light. = II
Ttse1 Mn. Il. platt CIsxtal caG2ht n
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06


Croll was at the house of his bride Of
tomorrow when the cage arrived.
Misery old hunks esaid. why,
Amarylis, he has thirty thousand dollar
practice. He evidently thinks we want
our new carpets and papers ruined by
canary seed and splashings. I'D rather
tho boys should think he a sent nothing
than to see this thing tomorrow Be
sides, the bird looks sick. / know what
I'll dol The Rev. Mr.. Cameron's fec
won't be any too big tomorrow. He
shall have birdie-it may stir him up,
and the dropping seed on his bald head
be the means of producing q sermon that
is not sleepy. Clergymen are fond Of
the works of nature, any way. 1t shall
go in your name, Amarylis; it shall be
a graceful tribute from you for the hap
piness he confers upon you tomorrow.
You might have supposed that some
thing tickled Cachetts when he reached
the Rev. Mr.. Cameron's, he was SO ex-
ceedingIy buoyant. Indeed, the Rev..
Mr.. Cameron's docktailed spaniel wall
ed, and his three cherub faced little boys
rf,f, oi1f, their slllngshOts
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06
Pay OF sponge Gatherers.

The number OF persons engaged in the
business of gathering sponges in the Ba-
hamas, handling them and preparing
them in various stages for market is
from 5000 to 5000, all of whom, except
the shipowners, brokers and shippers,
are colored people. Hands employed in
clipping. washing, packing and preparing
finally for shipment abroad get from
fifty cents to seventy-ive cents per day
of ten hours. The amount earned by the
men who go fishing for sponges cannot be
given, as their pay depends entirely on
the number of sponges obtained. The
owner Of the vessel fits her out at his own
expense, and the profits of the voyage
are divided upins shares among the owner,
the master and the men.
They are never hired by the month,
nor do they ever get specified wages.
The most that can be said is that the
men make a tolerable living, and the
sponge fisherman who earns over $500 a
year is the exception. The owners of the
vessels, as a rule, have their own ships,
from which the vessels are fitted out, and
on supplies thus furnished the owner
makes profit in addition to Others The
shipowners, generally speaking, find con-
siderable profit in the business, while the
fishermen, if not able to lay up any
money from the pursuit, are yet enabled
! to rely upon it for moderate living
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06
When Men Are Tired.

Here's unique fact"
whats that2'
The stenographer, the bookkeeper and
the reporter were talking together. The
reporter added:
Il often notice after have done a
hard days work, written miles and
miles, have a strange tendency to
transpose certain letters as they flow
from my pen or pencil"
"How sol"
81 do not know why or how. l have
often tried to explain the thing. All /
know is that, mechanically, the trans
positions slip from my pen.
Let me illustrate. | am writing
James Brown was found dead today
The sentence will slip along all right
until suddenly dash down today and
it slides from the pen 'todya, or may be
Pll transfer found into .foudn.' Isn't
that strange, gentlemen
The bookkeeper smiled.
"Well, ! declare" he said, "what a
strange coincidence. / declare, we must
be on the track of some deep and hereto
fore unrecognized law of mental states.
Now what You say applies equally well
to bookkeepers. There isn't an old book
keeper in the United States who viii not
tell you that, when his mind becomes
wearied. after long work, he begins to
rranspose figures. That is one Of the
ways, in fact, that can tell that am
becoming tired. ! start to write 365,
and it slides off the pen 856; or 2S1 be-
comes 21S."
The shorthand man acknowledged that
| it was the same. too, with him,
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06

4 na1r, one eye--itldeeti she mlgnE have
opened a museum OF comparative anato-
my in q little while. And all because
she designed a coup, no less than an ex-
\ quisite plaque with Natalie upon it, in
the style OF Vatican and Poisson, the
subject, "Ariadne Deserted by Persets. :
No wonder she ordered SO many EN-
broideries, she wanted SO many uncon-
scious sittings from the girl, and model
is always best, thought she, when she
does not know she is posing.
4 She had Natalie come 20 her house be-
/ fore the girls clothes were at their shah
best, and John Abingdon, Mrs. Clayton Is
| brother, saw the little thing and laughed
long and heartily, and went to Margaret
and the rest and told them Anelia's Sc
cret, and so saved the family traditions
| for sanity.
"And what beauty the girl Isl"
thought John Abingdon. "A Dresden
sheperdess, indeed. l never thought
Amelia had good taste before.
The plaque went on and so did the
rent for Natalies fiat, and SO did Ma
tales healthy young appetite and her
power for wearing out clothing, until at
last the kerchief was all the work she
had, and the plaque was nearly finished
But, then, this was the climax, and, as
everybody knows, after climax things
can only DO worse or better, never as
they were before
Natalie picked up the kerchief one day
and set about working daisy init. All
at once diamond drop Of dew lay in the
heart Of the daisy--a tear
The sun touched the dewdrop and
flashed up to Cachettes cage, and the
bird began to shrek Ito sing heavenly,
Natalie would have said. Whereupon
up jumped Natalie, second dewdrop on
her lily cheek.
"Quel est lie prix du loyerw she said.
(What is the rentD / win soften the
heart Of my landlord, who admired Ca
Ghetto only yesterday
For the owner of the fat had paid a
doiniciliary visit to his tenants the day
before, and had snapped his finger at the
bird for making so much noise, called
Natalie "Miss Bunker" and had after
ward given the agent piece of his mind
for renting an apartment to lone girl
and letting her get in arrears for rent
at that.
My other tenants are ladies and gem
tlemen," he said, ''and ! won't have it.
Bounce her next week.
But how was Natalie to know any
thing of this?
"Ce pauvre Cachettelp (poor Cachette).
she said.
Cachette put his head to one side and
poured out flood of melody Natalie
took him from his cage and held him up
to her cheek.
"Adieu, Cachettev she said. ssThou
art all that is left. But the landlord
must be softened-did he not admire thy
song yesterday? He may give me time
in which to pay my rent"
She plucked long single feather from
the wing of the bird and dropped it into
her basket among the fosses and silver
threads with which she was embroider-
ing her daisies.
Still wavering. 10th to let it go, she
kept the little feathered thing in her
hand off and on till evening.
Then with great wrench and throb
in her throat she finally decided.
She put Cachette into his cage, threw
on her hat, and cage in hand went forth
to the brown stone apogee Of Mr.. Cum
bersome Brown, her landlord
And now let Melpomene take her nap.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06

This is what was said by old Mrs.
Thumbstall, who gave large subscrip-
lions to charities in promises for post
mortem carrying out:
MARY, tell dear Miss Ferguson shall
not forget her for this sweet tribute to-
ward Frightening up an old woman's
life. / am not ungrateful, and those
who are kind to me shall--think of.
When Mary was gone, this is what old
Mrs. Thunbstall thought:
81 don't intend to pay DIR. Jobson's
bill. I'll send him little present in
stead. He ought to have a bird to en-
liven him in his Office and entertain his
patients while they wait. I'll tell Fanny
| it flew away if she ever asks me where
it is.
When DR.. Jobson received the gift he
was preparing for a most depressing
operation, and was looking over his shin
Ing instruments preparatory to going TO
clinic.
my medicine has been too powerful
for Mrs. Thumbstall.' he cogitated,
s'and her brain mas succumbed. The
/ first time ever knew her to do Il liberal
act. But the idea of a screeching bird
/ in the Office to set my nerves on edge!
BY the way, there's young DR.. Croll--
he's to be married tomorrow, and has
sent all us old DIFFERS invitations with an
eye to presents. fIe shall have tile
diclzey bird Thonasl
He sent Thomas out for a handsome
cage into which he popped Cachette
who was silent and gaped. and n,
affairunder convoy Of Inverted Thoua'
went 70 the housa oi Dr. Cfoll' tiapcee
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06
CIRCLE Oh CACHETTE.
Il Mas Finally Squared, but Rather BY Romance Than
Mathematical Tale Of Bird
by ROBERT Q. ". MEYERS.
Copyright 1897 an Rights Reserved

cence told her autobiograpnlcalEy ., ~.
companion. She considered herself hap
py for the first time in her life. OF
course there were moments when she
suffered little from NAL du pays, when
the lilies of France meant something to
her after all. and she thought of mamma
and papa in Pere La Chaise with the bead
wreaths upon their tomb.
Yet she would look up at such times
to Cachette. her canary, which she had
brought away with her from Paris, and
say:
'.Est-ce bien vous (Are you welD, Ca
chette?' and Cachette would twitter
down to her in wicked American way
and aim for flies and say there were
none on him. But after few months
patronage fell off-you cannot encour-
ago even counts sister, might-have-
been marquise-beyond precedent. And
just then there came to town the wife of
an English baronet who was known to
have inspired tender passion in the
breast of prince, ard might have be-
come princess only that the unwritten
law of royalty forbade it. Then began
that awful quandary of the rent. This
quandary lasted several weeks.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-04
PERSONAL.

Major S. s. Sumner, who has been stationed
for four years at Vancouver, is 81 the Rainier
hotel with his wife and his sister, Mrs. Jenkins.
They are on their way East over the Canadian
Pacific. Major Sumner has been transferred to
Nebraska.
Judge and Mrs. Lchtenberg and their son
will leave for Alaska on the Queen. The party
will be absent about two weeks. The Judge
says that he is glad to have 3 brief rest, as he
feels the need OF IT,
Mr.. George C. Dalton, of Bloomington. ILL.,,
who has been the guest of Mr.. w. A. Topple
for several days. departed yesterday for the East
Mrs. ;. G. Shoudy, of Rockford, H., and Miss
Emma Tower, of Mendoza, ILL.,, are visiting with
Mrs. H. s. Parkhurst and other friends
Mr. and Mrs. L. !. Provin and Mr.. and Mrs.
W. NJ. Robertson. of Grand Rapids, Mich, are
registered at the Rainier.
Mr. Walter c. Nelson, a Chicago capitalist, IL
az the Rainier hotel on his way home from q
trip around the world
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. y. Ellis aud Miss Joe Rowell
Of Dallas, Ore, are visiting with DR.. H. f. Smith
at ga Second street
state Geologist George A. Bethune and Mrs
Bethune, of Tacoma, are at the Occidental
hotel.
Mr.. :. 5. Gere, manager of the Vancouver no
tel, is stopping at the Rainier hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l. Work. of Fort Wayne, Ind
arc stopping at the Rainier hotel
General August v ksutz is at the Griffith
house with his family.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-04
kRENITIES.

We offer choice S0xi29 loot lots near Madison
street power-house, $50. The best 6oxI10 corner
lot at 500, part cash; one OF the best lots in
Cable Line addition, near Jackson street, for
$50 a fue 5o1l2o foot lot on James street cleo
trio line, Beacon hill, at $50. only $3.50 cash.
balance on time. Cali early on II. H. Dearborn
4 Co, room l. Squire IAtimer block, 2l6 Com
rlerciai street.
The monthly estimate of the city engineer
shows that there is due Contractor Branagan for
Improvement on Decatur street, from Madison
% Nyckoff, the sum Of 81 057. a., and on its in.
tcrsections the city owes sos.
superintendent l. r, Compton has had the
city ordinances relating TO building aud plumb
ing reprinted in neat pamphlet form, and copies
OF the same may BE- had at his Office for 50 cents
In the land ofiice yesterday were fled four
homesteads, two cash entries: while the cash
receipts amounted 10 $SSi4
The regular monthly meeting OF the board of
health viii he held this afternoon at O'clock in
the HinCkley block