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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-11-10

IsDIARAPoILs, Nov, l0.-Indiana has
Joined the procession and is democratic
In all branches. Returns are now suffi-
GENTLY complete to give fairly reliable
estimates on all the ninety-two counties
of the state. They show that Cleveland
has carried II by at least 1000 and the
entire democratic state ticket is elected
by pluralities in the same neighbor-
hood. The peoples and prohibition
parties did not come anywhere near
their expectations. Eleven democrats
and two republicans are elected to con-
gress.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

tried to talk to birds. although they
very readily answer her imitation Oh
cries. 1t was simply for her own
amusement that she first developed
her remarkable gifts of imitation, until
now she has found that she can turn Il
to source of profit and this she l.
doing.
Her bird language was only Just
begun in Michigan. When she was q
very little girl she went to New York
to live, and since then she has had TO
depend upon bird stores and upon such
birds as she and her friends possess for
her tuition.
Now, to come back to the physiolog-
zeal feature of the matter, there are a
good many people who will tell you
just exactly how Miss Stephenson does
these wonderful limitations. 1t is moth
ing more than whistling pure and SIM
pie, many of them will say. The very
keen and knowing ones sheer even at
whistling. Nobody could whistle in
that way, they say, with just the whis-
Ting apparatus furnished by nature
Miss Stephenson, they will tell YOU.
has some ingenious little mechanics.
device for making the sounds, which
she conceals in her mouth.
All this makes the gifted bird soloist
laugh. She could not whistle q note
if she tried, she says, and as for carry
ing something IN her mouth you have
only to watch her as she gives the imi-
TO % 10 nanui,on1 hot hot &c a1l
rubbish. She simply has Il marvellous
development of the vocal chords, which
has been developed by years of prac-
tice that began when she was mere
child and when the throat muscles and
vocal chordsw were plant and flexible.
The sounds come straight from the
throat, as was remarked at the begin
ming of this article, and rs you can see
very plainly yourself if you are near
by when the limitations are given. You
will then very distinctly observe the
throat flutter, as does that of canary
when he is soaring up in the high notes
of some of his dizziest trills.
Speaking of trills, Miss Stephenson
says these, curiously enough, are the
easiest and least tiresome of the bird
songs to initiate. II is the short, sharp
twitters and the long wailing cries
which are the most trying.
If it were not that her bird limitations
are so amazing as to overshadow other
things, Miss Stephenson would be al
most as popular for her skill in recita-
tons. Her rendition of James Whit
comb Riley's "Goblns" is to high de-.
gree artistic and charming.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

mark in the form Of bulls head,
hence he received the name of Bucep-
halus, which is Greek for bulls head"
The King would have gladly bought
the horse, though the Thessalian asked
q large sum for it-about SEQ 900, orr
money-but none of the courtiers could
manage the creature. Whenever any
of them mounted him he reared and
threw his rider, with the result that lie
broke some of their bones.
Now, the young Prince Alexander,
carefully watching the horses actions,
noticed that he swerved aside and be.
came unruly from fear of his own
shadow, and, having asked and oh.
tanned his fathers permission to try his
hand, he boldly mounted the animal
and rode him full against the sunshine,
so that his shadow fell behind him.
Bucephalus, no longer seeing the object
of his dread, became quite docile and
carried the Prince quietly.
The King was SO overjoyed at the
courage and skill of his son that he
presented him with the horse, exelaim-
ing: TO, my son; seek anotner KING
dom, for Macedonia cannot suffice foI
thee"
Alexander became much attached to
his horse and took him with him
through all his campaigns in Asia.
After bearing his master safely through
many conflicts, Bucephalus is said to
have 1.ed of the wounds he received in
TIA battle with Porus, the Indian king;
but Arrian, the historian of Alexander,
says that he died of fatigue and old
age, beng then about 30 years old.
However that may be, Alexander was
deeply affected at the loss of the faith
full companion of his victories, and on
the banks of the Hydaspes he built a
city in his honor, which he named
Bucephala.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22
a Wife for GlO.

The Esquimaux wear reindeer skins
for clothing. They buy them from the
Siberian ChuclSchecs, who come over to
an international fair that is held every
summer on Kotzebue sound, just above
Behring strait on the Alaskan side.
For the pclts seal oil and walrus oil are
exchanged. There is much dancing
and feasting on these occasions, as well
as trading. All the trading is done by
barter, no sort of money being in circu-
lation. At this fair also many wives
are bought. One can purchase very
rood article of wife for $40. Wives
among the Esquimaux people are
usually bought Sometimes the women
are consulted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

AsUcecI Teony
the offer that's made by the pro.
pretors of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem.
edy. Risky for them. For yoat, if
you have Catarrh, it's a certainty.
You're certain to be cured of it, OF
to be paid $500. That's what they
offer, and in good faith they cure
you, or pay you, no matter how bac
your case, or of how long standing
Butts it so much of risk:
They have a medicine that cure,
Catarrh, not for a time, but for all
time. They've watched it for years,
curing the most hopeless cases
They know that in your case there's
every chance of success, almost no
chance of failure.
Wouldn't any one take such a
risk with such medicine +?
The only question is-aro you
willing to make the test, if the
makers arc willing to take the
risk :?
If so, the rest is easy. You pay
your druggist City cents and the
trial begins.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

other dissecting-room gayeties. But
when you see young girl open one
corner of Il small and decidedly pretty
mouth and calmly let loose whole
flock of the sweetest song birds known,
it is Il very natural thing, after the first
shock of surprise is over, to ask how on
earth she does it.
1t is really very remarkable what this
modest and gentle-faced young girl
does. She is such very quiet and un-
ODtrusve young person at first sight
that the surprise when she gives you
the first intimation of her gifts is all
the greater. You know when she APP
pears that she has nothing to do with
the delirious rubbish that is happening
on the stage, but that she is about to
do something you are sure, of course,
or she wouldn't be there. When in her
very artless way she begins her little
recitation about birds, and then sud-
denly breaks into it, and from that mo-
ment goes weaving and winding all
through it that marvellous linked chain
of all the liquid bird melody of an en-
the effect is quite startling.
Shut your eyes and you are no longer
in the frowzy atmosphere of IL thcater.
1t is an early morning in June and you
are out in the woods somewhere. There
are no electric lights and gas jets; it is
blazing summer sunlight. 1t is the
odor of the forest, not of the footlights,
that comes to you. Certainly it is a
very astonishing thing to be done just
by the loosening and contracting of
vocal chords with the valuable aid of
bronchial tubes and thoraX.
Miss Stephenson says, and after
hearing her you are quite prepared to
believe it, that she can initiate any
bird that wears wings and feathers,
and, Us wings and feathers are part of
the anatomical equipments of all birds,
it amounts to saying that she can imi-
tate them all. She can give the judi
cious and non-frivolous "quack, quacl'
of the conservative and serious-m minded
duck as accurately as she can initiate
the giddy, soaring song of the vanish
ing s<ylark. 1t was very early ac-
QUESTION with her. She took TO talk
ing bird lingo almost as soon as she
took to talking the sound commercial
English of Michigan, where she was
born.
She is true American girl, Miss
Stephenson, and she has mingled in the
very best American bird society. Hel
repertoire is almost exclusively that Of
our own sweet singing American birds
She was in England recently, and
picked up the songs of the thrush
nightingale, and slsylark, just to show
these stars of English bird opera thai
their songs were easy enough, and thai
anybody who had had II course in ar
American bird-music conservatory coulc
do them. But it is the whip-poor-will
the yellow-breast, the chicadee. the
red bird, the catbird, the meadow-larll
the swallow, the bobolinl, and, O
course, the robin with the red waist
coat-these are the birds, good Amcri
cans all, whose songs she loves best t.
sing.
Then she can give TO perfection the
weird, melancholy cry of the loon ant
can pipe so like the quail that you hav,
only to shut your eyes and fancy tina
you arc out in the brown stubble of tn,
fields. Neither the domestic goose MOI
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

AS we advance in civilization the
law becomes more refined and difficult.
the cases more complicated and its ap-
plication and determination requires
higher training Our juries have not
kept pace with these demands. We
cannot dispense with them. we must
improve them. and to do it most etfi-
GENTLY we must make its service hon.
orable and restrict its use to cases
peculiarly its province.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

p WHEN a man really has the inter-
est Of a cause at heart he will fight
for it to the extent that his courage
and his energy are adequate to sus-
tanning him. He will omit no oppor-
tunity to defend it or to advance it's
interests. The only power that can
prevent this is the appearance of
some other cause. that conflicts with
1t in which his interest is greater.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

The casting out of the devil
Of disease was once a sign
of authority.
Now we take e little more
time about it and cast out
devils by thousands-we do
it by knowledge.
Is not a man who is taken
possession of by the germ of
consumption possessed of a
devil?
A little book on CAREFUL
LIVING and SCOTS Emulsion
of cod-liver oil will tell you
how to exercise him if it can
be done.
Free.
,scorr Bowss, Chemists. re South ,th Avenue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Esnulsioo of liver
oil-ah dusgis,s-everyvlere do. 81.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

THERE is no happier indication
noticeable in the tendency of public
interest than the attention which Is
being paid by energetic people here
and there to the possibilities OF i'm
proving our country roads. 1t is u
subject which cannot be too earnestly
impressed upon the minds of people
generally. If the farmers all over
the country could be induced to take
an active hand in the matter and work
for this Improvement it would mean
a great financial gain 70 them.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

1t is straight from the throat that
Miss Mabel Stephenson lets loose upon
her audiences every evening that won
derful food of ripping, twittering bird
melody.
1t seems rather pity to have to be
physiological in speaking of such gen.
uine wild poetry of forest and meadow
as she gives us and to mix it up with
thoraxes and bronchial tubes Ind
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

Ambition has u tendency to become top.
heavy.
The horses of tho German cavalry regi-
ments are To be entirely shod with paper
shoes.
Colorado has over 20 900 square miles of
coal, and the product Of 1890 was 100000
tons.
The steel rail makers of this country n.w
have orders on hand for 6C0 900 tons o.
rails.
Four pounds OF gold have been collected
from the SCOT of the chimney OF the Roya'
mint in Berlin
Even q good woman Is more Inundated
at realizing that she loves fool than tina
shO loves u knave.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

THROUGH generations of incessant
education and practice man has devel-
oped his vocal powers to marvellous
perfection. but left his poor nose to
run itself until it has become an out
law for whose misbehavior he declines
TO be held responsible. 10 this lop-
sided development is no doubt due to
mans VIGOROUSLY defective sense of
smell. How powerfully this sense
may be developed is shown in the fox
hound. which follows tho trail by
scent alone though it be several hours
old. Man. with all his boosted SUPER
iority. could hardly do it though the
fox should drop crumb of Limburger
in every track. There are millions of
delicate odors in nature each capable
OF exciting pleasurable sensations in
insects and animals. but all lost on the
untutored sense of man. Again. while
he is free to taste or not to see or not
as he pleases. his olfactories are at
the mercy of every stencil that comes
along. A nose at once responsive to
pleasurable odors and impervious to
offensive smells at will, as the eye is
projected from hurtful light would
be an achievement worthy OF the
jsvolution philosophy.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

To USE kind language costs nothing
at all; unkind costs always more or
less oftentimes more to him who en-
ploys it than even those to whom it is
addressed. But every man is bound
to anticipate that unkind Language
will produce the fruits of unkindness.
that is, suffering in the bosom of 9TH
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

the grave and reverend owl can be
clhssed exactly among the merry warb-
ling sougsteSs of the feathered kind,
but they each have "a method of ex.
pressing disapproval similar to that
adopted by audiences before which
such pieces as "Uncle Celestin'' are
produced, and this, too, Miss Stephen
son can initiate to perfection.
She laughs when this suggestion is
made to her and says she
never has taken part in any
bird gossip, and never, indeed
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

THE proportion, the world over
OF the birth of female babies TO that
of male is as 100 to 90" Providence
ought to be the best judge of what
kind of babies there should be- Pos
sibly when boy babies grow up to be
less troublesome young men, the pro-
portion will be changed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

A WESTERN editor defines pessi-
mist as IAN alI-around dyspeptic. "
Yet the pessimist is not altogether
bad. He is man who usually pays
his debts for, having acquired the
mental habit of expecting adversely,
he is ready to meet it. when it comes
and has his little store laid up for a
rainy day. In this he is unlike the
optimistic good fellow" who lives q
life of joyous freedom from care and
leaves his wife to the mercies of the
subscription paper passed among his
friends. An old soldier said once
that it was the soured and melancholy
men who could always be depended
on to lead forlorn hopes in battle. and
in ordinary life it is usually the man
accustomed to look on the dark side
of things who comes to the front in an
emergency. In literature il is the
happy man that writes the verse Dc
societe and does the light work. but it
is the gloomy authors like Dante Car
lyle. Heine. Pope and George Eliot
who do the solid and lasting writing.
Give the pessimist his due. for he is a
man that stands without hitching."
as they say in the Western vernacular.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

A halmicss posi-
tive cure for the
worst form OF Fe-
male Complaints,
all Ovarian trou-
bles, Inflammation
an d liberation,
Falling and Dis
placements, a ! 5 o
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

IL lNiiiO'NS io''N''N -,
of the stomach, cures
Bloa4ing, Headache,
Nervous Prostitution;
General De bility,
Slceplessness, Depres-
sion, Indigestion, that
feeling of Bearin 6
down, causing pain,
weight, and backache.
All Druggists sell il, or cent
by mail, IN form Of Pllls or
Lozengcs, an recciutofS1. 90.
Liver Pills, &c. Corr
spondcncs freely answered
Address in confideicc,
LYDIA T.. PINKifAM MED. Co.,
LYNN, MASS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22
A FAMOUS HORSE
The Story of Alexander the Greats
Bucephalus.

When Alexander, the son of Philip,
King of Macedon, was II youth, Thes-
salian dealer brought to the court u
beautiful and high-spirited horse,
which he offered to the King for sale.
The animal was pure white, all but his
forehead, on which there was a black
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22
AMERICAS WARBLER.
SHE CAN TRANSPORT YOU INTO
GREEN WOODS

And Delight Your Ears With tho Notes
of Native Songsters-she Initiates
Any Bird, from tho Duck to the
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

A dust of bicarbonate of soda (bnls-
ing soda) not only will relieve burn
but it is said will soothe toothache
Oil of cloves will surely do this.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22

INTELLECTUAL men, as a rule, are
not at all averse to lying IN bed in the
mornings An intellectual man diff
Iers from mere business man in
knowing when to stop thinking. A
business man goes to bed for the
purpose of making plans for scooping
rivals; an intellectual man goes to
bed for the purpose of enjoying
natures best gift. If in doing so he re-
sembles the vacuous and foolish, so
he also resembles the beasts of the
field and the birds of the air, whose
physical and mental habits have
never been supposed to be bad or
deleterious. The biggest fool in the
world is the man who supposes that
he can beat Nature at her own game
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22
Lydia Z.
Pinl<han'S
Vegetable
Compound

Spinal Weakness and LeucorrhGa.
1t will dissolve and expel tunors from the
uterus in an early stage of Development ana
checks the tendency to cancerous huhofs'
T. romoyeo f,;r,ncss Natnlency, weakness
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22
Oh weep no more your comforts slain,
The Lord Is risen. he lives nrnin

"And now may the God of peace,
who brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus that great Sheep through
the blood of the everlasting covenant
make you perfect in every good word
and work" Hallelujah! Amen!
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-12-08
The Foreign Budget.

An order in council has been passed ex-
empting pleasure yachts passing through
the Welland canal from tolls.
1t is officially announced that the Brit
ish parliament will meet for business Jan.
81.
Richard Schenecker, the son of one of
the wealthiest men in Vienna, has commit
ted suicide. The case is being Investigated.
The governor general OF Cuba, has issued
decree ordering the removal of all quar-
antine restrictions from vessels that left
New York after Nov. 49,
The Berlin health officer reports that
there have been in Germany this year
1851 cases of cholera of which 575 have
been fatal.
Two directors of the Bank of Lisbon and
the chief of the finance department have
gone to Paris and London, it is alleged, TO
secure loan with which to meet payment
on the coupons of the external debt.
Augustus T. Kerr, the extradited Ameri-
can forger, is passenger on the Cunard
liner Aurelia, from Liverpool for New
York. Kerr is charged with embezzling
$4,000 from the Jarvis Conkin Trust Com
pany, of Kansas City.
The twenty-fifth anniversary Of the ex-
ecution of the Manchester martyrs-Allen,
Larken and o O'Brien-was quietly observed
in Dublin. A large number of citizens
marched in procession from the city to the
graves ofthe martyrs in the cemetery.
The weather in Vienna is bitterly cold,
the mercury falling to Is degrees below the
freezing point. The people in the poorer
quarters suffered intensely from the cold.
The free soup kitchens are besieged by
crowds of hungry women and children.
John Dillon, at meeting of anti-Parnell!
ties in County Roscommon, challenged the
Parnellites to show that they had received
one dollar from either America or the Brit
ish colonies in support of their cause. He
maintained that the full sympathy of Irish
men abroad was with the -Parnellites
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Times says that the North German Gazette
comments on the Generalization and po-
litical ignorance displayed in the election
to the Reichstag of Rector Ahlwerdt the
candidate of the anti-Semitic faction in the
nerwalde-Friedeberg district.
NJ. Drumont, editor of La Fibre Parole,
which accused M. Proust of accepting a
bribe from the Panama Canal Company,
declines to testify before the Panama Ca
nal investigating committee unless the gov
ernment grants him pardon so that he
will not be required to go back to prison to
finish the sentence he is now serving fol
libel.
During bull fight at Artcagan, Mex
several bulls broke down the barricade in
front of the audience and charged the
crowd. The seats in the amphitheater gave
way, the audience going down with the
ruins. Fifty people were injured. The bulls
gored one man to death and injured ten
Others
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-12-08
Record of Casualties,

Martin Repley, of Rock Island, ILL.,, pour
ed oil into stove and was burned to death.
The waterlogged bark Capella is in mid
ocean, directly in the path of steamships.
The derelict is a dangerous obstruction.
James Lovett shot and killed Harry
Downs at Barry, Ill. He didn't know the
gun was loaded"
John Owen, who lived near Greentown,
Ind, was killed by falling from WACO n
and being dregged nearly two miles.
Prairie fires near Aberdeen, S. d., start
ed by sparks from railroad LOGON olives,
spread over a large territory, burning out
several farmers.
Ridgely Wagner and Ambrose Malice, at
Madison, IL miles south of Norfolk, were
drowned while attempting to take short
cut over the ice to school house. Both
bodies were soon recovered.
The residence of Samuel Yates, near
Milan, Tunis, was destroyed by fire. Yates
perished in the flames. He was miser
and was reputed to have largesums of mon
ey concealed in the house. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
A Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul train
was wrecked by a broken wheel near Wa
basha. The coaches rolled down twenty
foot embankment. Belle Robertson and
John Poncellet, of Wabasha were injured.
During severe gale at night at Santa
Cruz Cal, people on shore observed rock
cts being sent up some distance out to sea.
It is supposed they were from some vessel
in distress, and it is feared the vessel went
down.
Jacob sinchheimer, New York tailor,
either jumped or fell in front of an engine
of the Third Avenue Elevated Road at
Ninety-ninth Street. and was instantly
killed. It was necessary to raise the en-
gine by jacks to get the body out.