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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
Shifting Soil.


Real Estate Trnnri'Is Reported by George
Merrill Abstraoter.
X Chambers aud wife to II Knapp,
$1,000, land In Rinehart.
J NJ Sheets and others to S Zlok.
$3,0O0, land in dope.
5 NJ Wise To J q Cassell, 81 400, lot
In Abilene.
q Webster and wife to G T Drum
5000, lot In Industry.
NJ McChm to z Lanihan, s., 500, lots
in Herington.
Travellers Insurance Co to G. Roggen.
dorf, So, ,750. land In Jefferson.
j l. Book aud wife to z Longhoper
$4,000, land In Union.
U Rohrer and wife to A Orth, 81, 800,
land In Jefferson.
smith, sheriff, to Provident Loan and
Trust Co, 500, land in Fragrant Hin
ID B Horton and wife to NJ L Peters,
81 900, lots in Navarro.
smith, sheriff, to A s Avery, o. 500
lots in Herington.
ID II Osborn and wife to II Kramer,
$500. land In Holland.
] e &c ,rge and wife to W Rynearson,
5000, lots In Manchester.
n G. Perryman and wife to f w Morse,
500, lots In Manchester.
+ p Wideman and others to j ii Clark
$1,000, lots in Abilene.
l. L Humphrey aud wife TO j Rexroat,
lots in Chapman, 800.
J w Money and wife to O II Lee, lot
in Herington, S400.
o Il Andrew and wife to G Probasco,
land In Cheever, $3.50.
Alliance Trust Co to T Musta riand
others, land In Flora, 5000.
Sheriff Smith to NJ McChord, lots In
He iuSton, 5000.
] II Goodsell and wife to G ID Nixon,
land in Logan, sl076,
A IL Bartell and wife to ID L Scanlon,
land in Centre, $l466.
sheriff Smith 10 Travellers In Co, lot
10 Abilene, 5000,
A l. Swartswood To w RyneaTson, lot
in Manchester, $500.
W RyneaTson TO G Seely, lot in Man
chester, 1881.
T Beach aud wife 10 G A Seely, Let
In Manchester, 5000.
sheriff Smith to W Rynearson, lot in
Manchester, 1915,
Fl p Morley and wife TO Il B Beemer,
land In Grant, $500.
J W Lowe and wife to J Barrett, lots
N AAsiastaa.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
HiRh Schools 10 Contest

Prof. Hullinger Of the county high
school was in the city today in con
sultation with Superintendent Gray
and other city school officers over what
promises to be an attractive event.
Arrangements were completed for a
declamatory aud debate contest be-
tween representatives OF the county
high school at Chapman and the Abb
lene high school, to be held in the
Bonebrake opera house on the evening
Of May 8. The best declaimers of both
schools will participate and lively de-
bate will be given, the contest being
for the championship. The Chapman
teachers have already had $50 seats re-
served for visitors from that town, 1t
will be an interesting occasion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
=: BROS.

instead OF Allowing une IUrce OF men
employed TO reduce itself, naturally,
has kept up the full quota of men and
In some shops, Omaha included, has in
creased the force and reduced the stand
ard of time to eight hours for work.
ing day.
Mr.. Mcconnell, superintendent of
motive power, said that the difficulty
was not matter of wages or Of hours,
but sim ply the refusal of the company
20 sign new contracts submitted by the
the men regulating the conditions
under which they should work. The
first proposition made was submitted to
him, whibh he refused to sign. 1t was
then taken TO Mr.. Clark, who also de-
clned. One of the primary objec-
tions 10 the proposed contract was
that, when II was necessary to reduce
expenses and the men were obliged 10
work eight hours, the company should
not employ any new boiler-makers,
machinists, blacksmiths or molders
The men finally withdrew this PROPOSE
tion and presented another which pro-
vided that when working eight hours
day the company should not employ
any of the above named craftsmen
until after 10 per cent of the force had
been discharged.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
ANOTHER STRIKE.
Machinists ON the Union Pacific
Quit Work.
An EVERLASTING MISUNDERSTANDING
Cause OF the Strike Little Mystifying
Said to lie because the Company
Refused to Sign an Aree-
mept.

OMAHA, Neb., April 1s.-When the
noon whistle blew yesterday 500 EN-
ployes of the Union Pucfic shops in this
city quietly gathered their tools, blous-
es, overalls and dinner buckets togeth-
er and left the employ OF the Union
Pacific in vindication of what they
believe TO be an inherent principle of
right, the right TO voice as to who
should be employed in the depart
ments of the shops and the time when
such employment should take place
As the several departments, including
the machinlsts, boilermalxers, black
smiths, molders and pattern-makers,
mingled in the swarm OF workers going
TO their dinners, there was little or no
demonstration except that now and
then some over-zealous striker would
let out yell which might have been
taken for pean OF victory or exulta-
tion that day off had been ordered by
those who were high in authority
among them.
The carpenters, painters, bar repair
ers and car inspectors went 10 their
several lodging houses or remained eat
tb Nn~H nOonuay healS III Tue shpps'
showing little or no concern in what
was being done by their eomrade work
ore In iron. OF course, the action of
tho strikers was discussed In oil its
bearings, but the more conservative
men In the shops oounseled moderation
aud the counsols were universally re-
spected by those who are not members
OF the Federated Machinery Construct
ora, or In other wayds, taoss wNa wQyls-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Sam Barr was released this morn
ing upon paying his fine and costs, bill
time being up.
"A marriage license was granted Il
Henry Reichsrt OF Valley Falls ant
Lena Engler Of Detroit.
The elevator at Mlltonyale burned
this morning with 1000 bushels Of corr
which was stored therein.
&C. A. Hodge and J. L. Lands wer'
appointed by the county commissioner
TO examine the county treasury thi'
quarter.
The Solomon Presbytery In session
at Minneapolis honored an able ABILENE
minister, Rev. DIR. Blayney, by electint
him moderator for the coming year.
Superintendent Gray Of this city II
the newly elected secretary OF thu
Speer. winans Educational association
County Superintendent sbirk is on the
executive committee.
Another Of Dickinson county''
bright young men has started on the
way In the legal profession. j. B
Meserve OF Garfield has entered the
law Office OF Burton & Moore.
Manchester is doing pretty well fol
q little town. The Baptists have com
pleted q Ane church and there are eight
dwellings being erected. The towns
OF Dickinson county are prospecting.
The high school mandolin club OF
this city have been invited to play at
q high school contest at Minneapolis
next Friday night. The boys are
becoming known In this part OF the
State and will do themselves credit al
Minneapolis.
The world Is not 80 cold and cheer
less after all. Abilene is to have a
circus July 20. Cook & Whitby's
circus and menagerie is listed to appear
here and the advance notices say mod
estly that Among the most attractive
features are trained and educated ani-
mails, charming, intelligent creatures
whose bewildering performances are
without parallel"
This is the way Hicks sizes up the
weather for the remainder OF April:
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
&u0Sma7nO n.SruHv&,
Kansas City.
Advertised Letters.

The following il the list Of unclaimed
letters remaining in the Abilene post
office for the week ending April Is.
1893. Have your mail addressed to
street and number and 1t will BE-
prom pity delivered.
LADIEs' LIST.
Dnrkee, Mrs NIX Recover, Mr. Fannie
freeman, Miss NINA Hail ton, Mrs. Ida
Mitchell. NJ ~ Gladys
GENTS LIST.
Mcnonpld, Jrrty Lambert, A
h"ece. Ryan, James
McD, nald. II II Come, Jonn
N. B Under the late order of the
postmaster general, one cent II c.) will
be charged for advertised letters.
Persons calling for the above will
please say advertised" giving date.
DIR. GoRDEN, p. NJ.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
day school workers.

Inc reports OF oHlcer3 were next.
The rep 'ris Of the townships were the
best and most complete we ever had.
Rev. George said they were the best
he has heard In the state.
The treasurer reported enough on
hand to pay all expenses up to date and
our State pledge Of 500. This is the
first time in the history of the associa.
tion that we did not have to make a
special effort at tht county convention
to raise money to pay current expenses.
We praise the Lord for 1t. The secre-
tary ard president were given until the
afternoon session to complete their
reports.
After the question box and q song
the convention adjourned for dinner.
The afternoon session was opened
with praise service led by Mrs. W. d,
Fisher.
Rev. George followed with an inter
esting talk on "The Teacher"
Rev. Watson gave the convention q
treat by discussing Sunday school mu
sic and giving illustrations of how
singing is done and the way 1t ought Ia
be done.
Reports followed. The auditing
committee reported all accounts cor.
rect.
Resolutions we're reported. They
c0mplimented the Sunday schools ol
the county on their growth, urged dis
trict conventions, praised Comfy Mis-
sionary Wood, thanked the people oi
Enterprise, urged Sunday observance,
aud made plea foi better Efforts in
forwarding the cause Of temperance
Committee on nominations reported
AS follows: President. j. IL. Engle;
vice president, +. Il. IIollar; secretary
Q. ID. Wood; assistant secretary, II. A.
Gaffney; treasurer, +. G.. Toms; exec
utive committee, ID. +. Sbirk, A. l.
Evers. @ y Shepherd. All of which
were adopted.
i'r-oidrnt Engle reported the schools
In hjurishing condition, but urged
greater energy and close attention.
The secretary reported 81 schools
1881 scholars, M average attendance
of 4,6l5, and 306 added to the churcl.
from the schools the past year. Re.
menbering that there are over 5000
children Of school age in the count,
aud that many of the 5.53l named
above are adults, the need of work L.
apparent.
J. W. Kohler next gave class drill
on next Sundays lesson, having about
6fty little ones befors him.
At the evening session after song
and prayer the leader, Rev. Ross, an
nounced the subject, "Gathering up the
Crumbs" They were many aud good
to eat at home.
Then followed an able address by
Prof. l.. II. Wishsrd OF Solomon on
Literature of the Young"
Thirteen delegates were chosen to
represent the county at the state con
vebtion to be held In Lawrence, May
p, 10 and H.. Also each Sunday School
Of the county Is entitled to one delegate
for each 100 members OF the school or
fraction thereof DR., d. c. Miner, Of
Manhattan, delivered a most excellent
address on Temperance and the Sun
day School," 1t WAS full of life and
vigor.
This was, in many respects, the best
convention ever held in the county.
About $50 delegates were present. The
people of Enterprise entertained them
royalty. ID. f. SHIRK,
Co. Secy.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Mr.. Hrsch OF the Benefit while In
Chicago procured stand for the win
dow or counter which is also music
box playing four selections and Is
attracting much attention.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

r.L Hirsch of the Benefit received
today three gases of those famous Jack
Rabbit pants s4sry pair of which is
warranted. Any ono wanting pair
aad better call at once As they will
aoon he gone.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Inc emperor OF uernnny nus Deeu
inspecting the North sea canal. lie will
60 to Vienna May on his return from
Ro-le,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Ten high grade yearlIng short-born
bulls. Price for 30 days Ssb. Enqnire
ef John Tsyibsl Psaril Kaas~A aaU
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
Imp0rtant to Ladies'
WHEN YOU ARE READY
FOR
A NEW DRESS

we have a suggestion for you.
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and about the price you desire to pay.
Our assortment of Spring and Summer
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represents the largest and most beauti-
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
THURSDAYS SESSION.

The best meeting Of the convention
in spiritual way was the sunrise
prayer meeting About 1fty were
present,
The convention was called to order
by the temporary chairman and was
opened with song aud prayer at $50.
Rev. George gave a normal lesson on
"The Recitation" lie said teachers
should be on time, give the scholars a
cordial greeting, have as comfortable
surroundings as possible and have all
books closed.
Henry Engle of Navarro discussed
"Ilow to Study the Book" in the alb.
senoe of A. r, Bishop. He insisted on
plan Of study, daily study. prayerful
study. Edwin Wilkins recommended
the study Of Bible characters.
A short recess was tekek, after
which a number Of very interesting
ayv Riaats talks wsss Eivva " Sun
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-13

Catskill mountains. New York state,
1000 feet long, which is worked by
cables driven by drum at the summit,
where the steam engines are placed.
The works in progress for the utiliZa-
tlon of the immense power continually
running to waste at Niagara are rapidly
approaching completion. and these have
been described as but the beginning or
perhaps the most stupendous engineer
ing feat ever undertaken. The great
tunnel has just been finished.
This, which is 6,700 feet long. 2S feet
high and lS feet wide, runs from the
bottom of the great shaft 40 feet deep,
to which the water Is brought from
above the falls by large canal, and
running parallel with the river empties
itself below the cliffs under the sus-
pension bridge. after having set in
motion the series OF great turbines
which are intended to work the dynamos
to transmit power electrically to any
desired point.
Only 10000 horsepower of the IT,
0O0,0 900 which it is calculated the falls
can supply will be absorbed by the Cat
aract Construction company's works.
1t is Is intended to sell power at the
rate OF $40 per horsepower per annum
up to 5000 horsepower; for powers be-
yond the charge will be $40 per horse
power.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-13
A RACE-TRACK FIGHT
Precipitated by the Act Against
Winter Racing


NEW YORK, March l2.-The anti
winter racing bill, which was passed by
the New Jersey legislature Saturday,
has aroused the ire of the Guttenburg
people particularly. They believe they
sec the board of controls hand behind
the movement In fact, they think
that this body caused the pass.
age of the bill as direct
blow at them. Guttenburg will now
declare war on William J. Thompson
and the race tracks governed by the
board of control in New Jersey as a
retallatOry measure. Racing will be
continued until Dec. I. There will be
no intermiSSiOn, as usual, during
the summer. \ clash of the
dates with Monmouth Park, Eliz-
abeth and Linden is expected.
y new track will be built within mile
of IhompSOn'S track at Gloucester.
This viii mean another clash OF dates.
An effort will also be made to move the
indictment now pending against Thomp-
son in the Camden county court. Such
was the edict that the Guttenburg man
ayers today declared would be the
result of the anti-winter racing bill. y
conference was held today in HobOken.
EX-MayUr Foster, of Camden, asked
the managers to invest in the new track
10 be built near Gloucester. They
readily consented. The managers
openly charge that they have been de-
ceived. They say that they were en-
ticed INTO a scheme to legaliZe racing Ill
New Jersey, and after they had carried
out their programme, and when the rae
ing bills became laws, they we're given
tlfe cold shoulder and bitter pill to
swallow. without any apparent reason.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-13
ALL ABOUT LOVEMAKING.
A Californian Reduces the Passion
to Figures.

n Californian ESeuuCeS Cne L aSSiOH
to Figures.
Jenness' Miller Monthly.
Some men seem to have a genius for
statistics, and wish to reduce everything
to tabular form. Such one has re-
Gently come 10 light in San Francisco,
and he has, after reading several hun
dred novels, given us the benefit of his
researches as to how men and women
behave at the critical point when man
pays: a woman the compliment Of ask
ing her to share his burial lot with him
as we'll as the time intervening before
that uninteresting event.
Some fallacieS are exposed, the prin-
cipal one being that the ladies do not
promise to be sister to the rejected
one ottener than II times out of 80, while
she promises to be friend 26 times in
the same number.
Now, as to the gentleman's behavior,
decidedly the popular thing is for him
to declare that he cannot live without
the woman in question, and in 67 cases
in 100 he kisses her on the lips, u times
he holds her hands very tightly, and 63
times he begins ''all of a sudden"
The least popular thing for him to do
is to kiss the woman on the head, on the
nose by mistake, and Oh the shawl. He
usually sits upon chair or sofa, three
times he reclineS on the grass, four
times he goes on one knee aud twice he
goes OH two knees, so that the kneeling
business is pretty we'll evened up.
The popular thing for the lady, in
case of an acceptance, IS to sink into
the arms OF the gentleman, and this she
does 81 times out of 100, and in 81 cases
she knows that something is coming.
Seventy-two times she has eyes full
of love, and GO times she rests her head
upon the geutleman'S breast. Only
four times is she taken by surprise, and
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-13
LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE.
A June Evening at the Noted
College Town in England.

A June Evening at the Noted
College Town in England.
Albert Gillette Hyde, in his paper in
the February Atlantic on "The English
Cambridge" gives this pleasant picture
of a June evening there:
Indeed, it is hard to imagine sight
more interesting in its kind than that
which the winding, narrow thorough
fares of this ancient academic city pre-
sent on fine evening III June, particu-
larly Saturdays, the Cambridge market
day. A continuous stream of towns
men, gOwnsmen and sturdy country
folk, with the usual proportion of wOm-
ankind, passes and repasses, with
quick, echOlng tread, many of them
walking in the middle OF the clean as
phalt streets. The shops are lighted up
brilliantly, as in most provincial towns,
though twilight at this season lasts
nearly all night. In either of the main
arteries of travel-Trumpington street,
with its clear rivulets flowing at either
curb, which becomes Kings parade,
Trinity street and st. Johns before
uniting with the other, Regent street,
st. Andrews, Sidney street, etc.-and
in the narrow crOSSway, the Petty Curry,
one meets this tide at the full. The
undergraduate is necessarily cOnspicu-
Gus, walking alone, or two and two, or
three or four abreast, the toga viriliS
lightly depending from his shoulders,
sometimes in the last stage of diiapida-
tiou, and streaming from his person in
tags and ribbons. Mostly he is slight,
good-looking, youthful and beardless,
or perhaps with an incipient mustache
seldom very ruddy, but at the worst OF
healthy paleness. Naturally, it is
among the lightly-clad groups striding
in from the boats or the cricket fields
that one sees the best specimens of
physique. These, indeed, are often
admirable, though hardly so striking in
appearance as is commonly sup
posed, yet if any one doubts the
virilitY of these young Englishmen
q short walk or row with one OF
them will quickly convince him of his
error. One very pleasant feature of the
streets is the decorum usually prevail
ing among the students, in former times
(and in some quarters OF the world even
now an unruly and turbulent element
of the community. They walk together
conversing almost inaudibly in the dul
Get cambridge Tone" which "men''
from all parts OF the island are said tc
contract soon aIter coming up.
Singing, loud talking, or shouting
among them is rarely heard out OF
doors, though sounds of a mildly Bac
chanalian type sometimes issue from
college or lodging house windows. This
creditabe street behavior is doubtless
duce to Cambridge tone" as much as tC
vigilant proctoriZing; yet even in the
cricket field and among the boating
crews Except the musical wei
rowedp' at the races the undergradu
ate is rarely vociferous. The English
still take their sports sadly" and or
the whole silently.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-13
ASSERTING COLORS.
Caterpillars Owe Their Safety to
Their Assortment of Colors.

Caterpillars Owe Their Safety to
Their Assortment of Colors.
Nineteenth Century.
We have among our English caterpil-
lars no such clever and Intelligent an
architect as this, but yet among them will
be found large number in whose hab-
its and ways OF life are many points of
curious interest, and who mainly owe
their safety to the same law of color
which protects the rest of the insect
world. Among the brown twigs of the
oak or the stems of the broad-leaved
sallow, scores of small Larvae may be
found, each having trick of cooking
himself up dixie The "looper'O in an
erect position or at all angle of 45 deg.
while resting between meals, and being
of the exact hue-yellOW, gray, or brown
of their surroundings, thus escape all
notice. One may be smooth and shin
ing like young twig, the next slightly
rough, with row of knObDy eX creS-
cences along his body, which pass mus
ter for buds.
But in spite of all these cunning dis
guiseS, caterpillars as a race are hard
driven for existence, the wonder being
that so many escape. Out OF the mill
AOho VI OSSo lhiSl III -
vast number are devOured by birds,
washed away by heavy rain, or de-
stroyed by intense cold. Yet thou
sands survive all these mlschances,
and the wise mother who lays the egg
takes care not only to deposit it on the
plant exactly fit for the food OF the
future caterpillar, but oil the under side
of such leaves as most nearly resemble
him In color. and thus give him the best
chance of escaping notice. In this mat
ter a mistake might be fatal, and she
never makes it,
Thus the common white butterfly
(Pontia brassic@) Jays her eggs on the
leaves of the cabbage, which are just of
that hue of pale yellowish green most
nearly resembling the color of the future
brood of caterpillars. The small tor
toiseshell and the peacock butterfly
follow the same law in laying their
eggs on the common nettle, the stalks
and leaves of which are mostly
of dingy greenlsh gray, with here and
there a vein of darker color, and thickly
covered with hairy points. The larvae
of both these species are also hairy and
spined. the one of being of a dull mix
ture of greeniSh gray and brown, with
paler lines at the side, the other of
grayish black, family sprinkled with
white, both safe among the crowded,
hairy leaves Of the nettle in color and
general appearance.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-13
I
Soap

What is wanted of
soap for the skin is to
wash it clean and not
hurt it. Pure soap does
that. This is why we
want pure soap; and,
when we say pure, we
mean without alkali.
Pears is pure; no al
kali in it; no free alkali.
There are a thousand
virtues Of soap; this one
is enough. You can trust
a soap that has no biting
alkali in it.
All sorts of stores sell
if. especially druggists
all sorts OF people use it.