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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-05-30
IRRIGATION by WIND POWER.

lHR1ATlOS by WIND POWER.
than the ground to be watered. Lay
out the reservoir corresponding in
capacity to the power of the pump
The pump must be capable of filing it
in two or three days. Remove all sod,
placing it beyond the limits OF the
walls. Do not use it in forming the
embankment. Then plow and scrape,
dumping where the wall Of the
reservoir Is wanted. Continue UNI
til the work Is completed, driving over
the wall. Leave the inside sloping so
the waves will not injure it, When
the excavation is Of the desired size
pillow the bottom and pulverize
thoroughly. Hitch team to a block,
road scraper or other suitable object,
turn In the water and begin to puddle
by driving along one edge and continu-
ing until the whole surface Is puddled,
This will cause precipitation Of scdi-
ment which will fill the pores OF the
soil and enable 1t to hold water quite
we'll. The bottom will then be IL to IS
inches lower than the surface OF the
ground outside, but that much water
must always be lefi in the reservoir to
preserve the pudding, forifi gets dry
or freezes the work must he done over
again. II the reservoir is small, say
3Ox50x3 feet, some dirt for the wall
must be obtained from the outside,
An outlet can be made Of four s-inch
planks long enough to reach through
the wall. Saw the inner end sloping
and provide it with valve made OF p
inch board, and on the same principle
as the valve In an ordinary pump. E.
D. Smith in Orange Judd Farmer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-05-30

Practice in sowing oats and peas to-
gether differs. This is one plan: Oats
and peas, two bushels Of the former
and one Of the latter, may be sowed to-
gether, but 1t would be far better TO
sow the peas first and cultivate or pillow
them In; Tor to do well they should be
covered deeper than the oats. Then
drill in the oats, being careful not to
get them covered too deeply. As the
peas may adhere somewhat closely TO
the ground, the land should be rolled
Immediately or soon after sowing. Any
large variety Of peas may be used.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-05-30
Pasture-sIaklng IL an Art.

There Is an art in making good
pasture that every farmer should turn
his attention to- The pasture should
be as well taken care Of as any part OF
the farm. Pasture lands ought to be
made as rich as possible. They should
be seeded down with large variety Of
grasses, those Of different habits OF
growth, time Of ripening Of seed and Of
good, rich food value To the farmer
Just about TO seed down his land to
pasture one thing essential above oil
others is the thorough preparation OF
the soil. The land should be we'll
plowed and replowed, narrowed and
reharrowed, so as 70 pulveriSe II
thoroughly.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-05-30
CURES OILERS

w. sCOrr, ESQ.,. Of the U. 5. Marshalls
Office, Atlanta, Ga. writes; FOR many
years my wife has been constant sutlerev
from indigestion, sick headache, nervous pros.
tration and all other complaints that the fe-
nale sex Ia heir to, and, after trying many
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-05-30

not hear her weep.
This night the child had been de-
lirious, but for the two days past the
doctor had been uneasy over IN odd
sort Of prostration that had seized
him; it was as il in seven vcars he al
ready felt the WEAKNESS Of life. lie
was tired, silent, sad, and tossed his
little head about on the bolster, lie
had no longer smile on his poor,
thin lips, and with haggarl eye he
seemed to look at, they knew not what,
something beyond them-vcry far of.
IN Heaven, perhaps, Thought Made
leine, trembling.
When they wished him to take medi.
cine, strip or n little soup, he refused.
He refused everything
"Dost thou wish anything, Franco!s?'
mo, ! wish nothing"
1--WE must draw him out Of this the
doctor said. This torpor frlghtens
me! You are the father and mother,
you know the child we'll, Seek tor
something to reanimate his little body.
Recall to earth the spirit which runs
after the clouds"
Then he went away
Seek"
Yes, without doubt they knew him
we'll, their Francois, these worthy peo'
plel They knew how 1t amused him to
| plumber the hedges on Sunday and to
come back to Paris on his fathers
shoulders laden with hawthorn
Jacques Legrand had bought some lln'
ages, some gilded soldiers and some
Chinese shadows for Francois; nc cut
them out, put them on the child's bed
and made them dance before the
bewildered eyes OF the little one, and
with desire to weep himself he tried
to make him laugh
"Dost thou see, II is tho broken
bridge. Tire, tire, tire Ana THIS Is
the general. Thou remembered we
saw one general, once, in the Bois de
Boulognc? II thou takcst thy medicine
well will buy thee Il real one, with n
cloth tunic and gold cpaulettes. Dost
thou wish for him, the general sayY
mo" replied the child, IN the dry
voice which fever gives
"But what dost thou wish, my Fran
coIs?n asked the mother "I.et US see,
there is certainly something thou
wouldst like to have, Tell 1t, tell II to
mel 70 mel thy mother And she laid
her cheek on the pillow OF the sick boy,
and whispered thi softly in his ear, as
If II were a secret. Then the child,
with an odd accent, strengthening him
self up in his bed and stretching out his
hand eagerly toward some invisible
thing, replied suddenly in an ardent
tone at the same time duplicating and
imperative:
II want Boum. Boum!n
Poor Madeleine threw frightened
look toward her husband. What did
the little one say? Was it tho dclirium,
the frightful deliripm which had come
back apain9
lioun-Boum.
She did not know what that meant,
and she was afraid o. these singul lar
words which the child repeated with
sicl,ly persistence, ~ il, not having
dared until now to formulate his dream,
he graspcl the present time with in
yincible ohstinaoy,
eyes, Doum.Bouml Boum-l;ouml !
want Boum- Bouml
The mother had seized jacques hand
and spoke very low. and as II dcmcutcd
"What does that mean, Jacques? lie
is lost!p
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-05-30
HANDY BAG HOLDER,

Oae OF tho Best Devlcea Of Its Kind Ever
Invented.
After experimenting with number
Of homemade bag holders, I have
found this one gives the best satisfac-
ton; Procure piece Of two.inch
plank 30 inches long, and a. wide ~
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-05-30

exchange grinding We ofro and
feed while wait Our meal roller ground and guaranteed
Wehave shelter grind her sheed
enough dump
kind grain Come and We will try to please
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
yaux's Kindness TO a Stranger.

Now that both are dead it is interesting
to recall that back in the fiftios the late
Daniel Doughcrty, who had just graduated
from his law studies, one day meeting al
Sixth and Chestnut streets Dick Naux, as
his friends familiarly called him, asked
him if he knew of any Office he could rent,
saying he wanted to hang out his sign
near the old state house Vaux looked al
the young man thoughtfully, measuring
him up for moment, and said: why,
yes, l know of just the place for you.
Come right along with me. But you car
only have it on one condition, and that is
that you shall never pay rent" SO Dough
erty hung out his sign on the second fooi
of what is now the Ledger building, where
Tom Florence, subsequently member of
congress, occupied the first floor for his hat
store. Naux had his offices on the second
floor and kept Dougherty to his agreement
until he built up good practice and Went
elsewhere. e.-Philadelphia Times
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
~. worlds Fair stin Growing.

A sign on an open stretch of country in
a southern section Of the city reads:
"Twenty acres. This eligible property
for sale at bargain" Orc of tie passcn-
gers on the train said as he read the sign
from the window of his car that he bcliev-
I'd he could get up a syndicate, buy the
tract and start a now guburb Twenty
acres," he said, would make the place
Just about exclusive enough for some
"Twenty acres unimprovcd look big"
replied the man with the real estate bump
on his head "But Manufactures build
ing at Jackson park covered 80 acres. What
sort of a suburb would that have madc?"
The man who heard was silent the usu-
al minute and then said sorrowfully: "I
wonder if we will ever realize how big
that fair was? Seems to me the farther
away from it we get the bigger it grows"
Chicago Tribune
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
PUPILS OF THE GUARD.
N.noIeon Enters Them In the Service Of
His Baby Son.

And one day in tho Place Of tho Car
rousel, the great open square IN front or
tho palace of the TuilerieS, where the en-
peror held his weekly reviews of the I'M
nerial guard, there came q new surprise
1t was n beautiful August day. The
splendid palace, outlined against the clear
Partisan sky, made n grand background
for the mass Of moving color, as battalion
after battalion wheeled and circled and
charged and mareuvercd. Cavalry and in
fantry marched and counter marched, he'll
NETS glitterod, bands played, display was
everywhere.
Then, while the regiments stood at rest,
the gay strains of other military bands
were heard, and into the square, beneath
the triumphal arch crowned by the great
bronze horses of St Marks, Venice, came
rank upon rank, in soldierly array, spick
and span in their new uniforms Of green
and gold, s, 900 little foot soldiers, not one
of whom was yet in his teens.
AS steadily as veterans, as solid as the
Old Guard itself, every boy doing his best,
every eye front" every hand shouldering
a toy muskct or carrying a dwarf sword,
the Lilliputian battalions halted and faced
the smiling veterans.
Inc emperor appeared. AHc Do!S "ch1
through their maneuvcrs with precision
and ease And when the review was over
the emperor, standing midway between his
veterans and his boy brigade, pointed to
the little soldiers and said to his grena-
diers:
."Soldiers of my guard, behold your chill
drcn! These arc the pupils of the guard,
the sons of those who have fallen in battle
for France, the defenders upon whose valor
the future of my empire must rest. To
them confdc the guarding of my son, rs
l have confided myself to you. For them
l require, from you, friendship and protcc'
ton"
Then, facing the boyish brigade, he said:
My children, in attaching you to my
guard give you Il difficult duty. But
shall trust in you. l know that some day
it will be said of you, These children are
worthy of their fathers. Pupils of the
guard, from this day you are in the service
of the king of Rome. From "A Boy of
tho First Empire by Elbridgc S. Brooks,
in St. Nicholas.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

afternoon and evening, was well attended,
especially the matinee The children per
formed their parts in a very pleasing
manner to both old and young They were
all there, the dude, policeman, Indian
chief Chinaman, etc. The operetta
opened with an Indignation meeting OF
the fairies, who mourn the destruction OF
their favorite flowers, and decide to call
the Brownies to their aid. They immedi-
ately arrive in balloon, pledge their as
sistance and valiantly set out for the war.
mighty conflict takes place and the
offenders are at length captured. There is
a victorious return with the captiyes and
all ends happily.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
CHINESE CARVINGS.
Artistic Ornaments Cut Out of Nuts and
Tiny Fruit Stones.


The most curious objects which are
made subjects of the carver's art in China
are the various nuts and fruit stones.
Among the latter class may be named the
stones of the olive, plum, peach cherry,
and of the former the most common are
made upon the shells of walnuts and cocoa
nuts These seeds and nuts are collected
with great care and carefully cleaned and
dried before being taken to the carver, who
has an invariable standard of size, proper
ton, weight, hardness, etc When every
detail has been carried out to the satisfac-
ton of the artist IL nut or seed Is selected
by the designer, who roughly traces upon
it's surface an outline of the future picture.
This is handed over to apprentices, who
block out the design by cutting through
the ligenous tissue along the lines drawn
The crude carving is again passed to the
designer, who sketches second and more
intricate series of outlines, when it again
goes forward to the subordinates, who cut
out the indicated channels. After this the
designer gives the object its finishing
touches, and the assistants prepare it for
market by polishing, oilin2 and waxing
the carvings. These nut and fruit stone
carvings are shown in the shape of buttons
watch charms, sleeve links, earrings and
brooches. Collections of them strung on
silver, copper or gold wire are also used as
bracelets, anklets, necklaces rosaries and
official ornaments.
The carvings represented upon these seed
and nut ornaments are frequently of
very high order of conception and display
much of the caryer's clevcrness and dcx-
terity. Tho writer has seen single cherry
coo1, 1,pon which 1yprn mainly and artiS-
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
THE cEREMONlouS DINNER.
A Brief Besant Essay Holding One or Two
New Points.


Dinner above everything illustrates Inc
conquest of the savage. But dinner us
served 60 or 20 years ago presented points
in which the conquest was lncolnPie.o-
Thus men had to carve the food Oh eiie "a
BILE. This led to shame and misery ana ,lo
exposure of incompetence. Besides ~ io,0
the door wide open for talking ABOUT ioo".
Moreover, though men no longer ate as
much as they could, they still orahA as
much as they could.
In illustration of this history, can any
one tell me-, asks Walter Besant III inc
London Queen, first, when the custom VI
putting the wine glasses, reversed' III wa
ter glasses was abolished? some oie' L
take it. was struck with the uselesshess
and the cumbrousness OF the custom anu
boldly swept it away. Second, When were
pcople first paired off? Formerly the host
took the principal lady, and the rest 1ol-
lowed as they chose. Third, when were
the names Of the guests written ON cards
in their places? Fourth, when was dinner
first carved off the table? 1t was some time
IN the sixties. The dinner SO served was
called, if 1 remember rightly, dinner Ia
Russo and there was great deal OF oppo-
sition to it, But common sense and handi-
ness prevailed.
My correspondent informs me-a thing
which ! did not know-that when dinner
was all put on the table at once there used
to be set number of dishes, according to
the number of guests-e. g., 8 to IL guests;
hence the expression, "Covers were laid
for so many" The 'covers" were the cov-
Ncd dishes. And, she adds, when we speak
If ladies taking four glasses after dinner
We must remember that the glasses were
very tiny Big glasses, she thinks, came
in with the temperance movement, so that
a man could declare honestly that he had
taken only three glasses. Perhaps-the
temperance movement has much to answer
for. am reminded Of n certain under
graduate in ancient days. Hewas in train
ing for the boat races. Like the rest OF the
crew, he was put on an. allowance of one
glass of port a day. The day before the
race it was discovered that he had craftily
caused to be made wine glass which held
pint and half. And to this single glass
he rigidly confined himself.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
FEEDING A QUEEN.
How the Bees Nourish the Royal Jelly
Till 1t Develops.


"Do you know how they train n queen?'
asked bonnctcd old country woman us
she changed the position of her snuff stick
from one side of the mouth to the other.
You know that they have u woman ruler
and won't allow no othcr?' she continued.
| nodded my affirmative, making a mental
note of the fact to give to the woman suf-
fragists
"Well," she continued, "the throne
doesn't come down from mother to daugh-
ter, as in kingdoms, but the working bees
elect their own queen.
.Thcy are very democratic, thcn-like
We are, put in, land have their say as
to who shall govern them. "
"Thats So" she responded, "but they
don't go about it in the same way. You
see, when this hive gets too full, the work
ing bees know that 5 time to look about for
another queen. They must have IL new
hive, so 1 puO one up for them. They un-
Corstand and go about training Il queen
that shall be royal enough to rule them"
$50 they make Il robe of honey erininc
and put it on tthe shoulders of the prct
ticst girl bee who receives the popular
vote?" 1 suggested
They don't do any such thing" with a
gesture of disgust. They pick out n larvU
and begin to feed it with the quecrcst food
you ever s;Nv. They get it from certain
flowers and never use it in the making OF
honeycomb. Only once do they seek such
sweetness, and then tits on an occasion
like this. They pat tho little living germ
off to itself and nourish it on this food
We bee tenders call it the royal jelly
Whenever we see this performance going
ON we know that very soon the old queen
will be the dowasyer, and that the new hive
is to be occupied. AS soon us the larvse
reaches its proper strength it is carried by
the bees to their new home as ruler, and the
throne and sceptcl' arc given her. This
royal Jelly never makes its appearance
again until like occasion calls for it, We
call this feeding II queen. Now York
Press
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

Twenty four of the members of Ruth
Rebckah Lodge I. o. o. f., of Auburn
who composed the degree staff of that
lodge, arrived here on the afternoon train.
Thursday. In the evening there was a
special meeting of Doreas Lodge of this
city, in Sopers hall, when the visiting
team exempliled the work of the beauti
fed form of the degree Every one of the
members speak in highest terms of th,
manner in which the work was performed,
and the meeting was of great interest and
profit to every member present. Beside a
very large attendance of the members of
Dorcas Lodge there was full carload
from Good Will Lodge of Fairfield, and a
large number from K. B. Capen Lodge of
Augusta
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
Not Shopone, but Kopeen.

Professor Meyer, the pianist, at a musi-
Gale given at a private residence, before sit
ting down to play the "Polonaise" by Cho-
pin made an interesting statement to the
guests. While in Leipsic, he said, he heard
his cousin pronounce the name of Chopin
"Kopeen." He laughed at her for it, but
some years afterward in Brooklyn, while
relating the incident to Russian scholar,
he was surprised to be laughed at in turn
for pronouncing it "Shopong."
"Your cousin was right, said the Rus
sian. "Thc Polish pronunciation is Ko.
peen."
With this explanation Chopin suddenly
acquires new interest.-Washington Post
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
Mrs. Harrison's Ring.

Mrs Burton Harrison has and wears
very old fashioned ring, which she calls
her southern" ring. 1t is of gold enam.
eled in black, with the tiniest of tiny
negro figures in the center, made of black
diamonds. The whole ensemble is more
than unique, and Mrs. Harrison, whose
husband during the war was private sccre.
tary TO Jefferson Davis, is very fond and
proud of it, for it was given her just after
the war by northern friend who knew
her tendencies in favor of sccossion.-Dc-
troit Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

Work has been commenced on the
bicycle track on the Colby campus The
track will be north of Coburn hall and
the gym, and will extend nearly to thu
grand stand. thus including nearly all OF
the ball field. 1t will not, however, be
constructed SO rs to injure the field, il
fact some of the players claim that the in
tield will be improved. In consequence
of the location of the track the diamond
will be moved about 10 feet to the cast
but the points of play will remain as at
present
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

Manager Grey has crew of carpenters
at work on the college grounds, fixing up
the fences, etc. A new high fence has
been built from the grand stand and the
shed at the west, and it is probable that
the grand stand will be moved Il few fee'
toward the catcher New timbers and
seats are being placed in the open stand,
rs some of the timbers had become de-
caycd and unsafe.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
Steele.

Steele said that 1.-The Lying Lover" was
the best piece of writing he ever did. He
did not seem to think much of his essay
work on The Spectator. Most of it was
done very hastily and went to the printer
without revision of any kind. He regard
cd it as too ephemeral to be worthy of cor
rection.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
Jerusalem,

Jerusalem has no clubs. nc barrooms.
no beer gardens, no concert halls no
theaters, no lecture rooms, no places of
amusement of any kind, mo street bands,
no wandering Ministries, no wealthy or up
per classes no mayor, no aldermen, no
newspapers, no printing presses, no book
stores-except one outside the walls for the
sale OF Bibles-no cheerfulness, 10 life.
No one sings. no one dances, no one laughs
IN Jerusalem. Even the children do not
play. So writes a traveller who visited the
Holy City recently.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

sF6e steamer Kennebec arrived from
Boatnn at os44 Thursday forenoon, and
alarGe number d citizens were at the
whaH to welcome her. Although her
passSnger LIST was very small, she brought
largo freight, and also took back big
one. It was after 4 o'clock, before she
sailed. She is ofiicered as follows: Jason
Collins captain; George CorlJtn, first mate !;
W. II. Mcdonald, second Mate; Enoch
Thompson, first pilot; Capt Preble,
second pilot: Clarence Curtis chief engi-
neer; William Goblin, first assistant; Ar
thur Searles, second assistant; Jesse Tuck,
purser; NJ. J Hennessey, freight clerk !;
f. z, Dunphy, steward; William Will
fred, second steward: Silas Owen, bag
gage master.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

Sixteen of the members of the Colby
Athletic Association went to Skowbegan
on the afternoon train, Thursday together
with Prof. Jackson and Manager Hopkins.
In the evening they gave an athletic exhi-
bition in Coburn hall, similar to the one
recently given here with such good sue
cess. The company will return, this
morning
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

There was a practice game of ball on
the campus, Wednesday afternoon, be-
tween the first and second Colby teams.
The game was won by the first nine by a
score of Is to 4. The batteries were Patter-
son and Coffin, and Burton and Desmond
Patterson made long drive to right cen
ter on which he circled the bases, making
the first home run Of the season.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

Dickens considered David Coppcrfield"
his best novel. In conversation he once
declared that next to it in originality came
the ''Pickwick Papers" and after them
"Oliver Twist" A waiter in a country inn
once brought him 'Dombey and Son. to
read, not knowing, of course, who he was.
He said he read few chapters, but could
get up little interest.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

There was an adjourned meeting of the
of the Waterville & Wiscas-
set Railroad Company in the rooms Of the
Waterville Trust Company. Thursday
evening A code of bylaws was adopted
and various other matters looking toward
the early construction of the road talked
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19

The River View Tennis Club of South
Gardiner held its annual meeting, Tues
day evening, and reelected Henry Martin,
president, and Miss Estele Beedle, secrc
tary and treasurer.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-19
Daily xfnuebtf 5anrnal
CALENDAR COMING EVENTS.

Religious.
May 2-Maine Methodist Conference, Saco.
May EAST Maine Methodist Conference
Bucksport.
June 4-6-Universalist State Convention .Dex-
ter.
Temperance.
April 24-Grand Division Sons OF Tempe rance
Augusta.
Aprii M-z5-Grand Lodge Maine Good Tenn
plars, Ii wiston.
Educational.
June 6-Anniversary Eastern State Normal
School, Castine.
Grange.
April 18-Piscataquis Pomona Grange, East
Dover.
April 24-Kennebec Pomona Grange, Litchfieid.
April 2f-Sagadahoc Pomona Grange, BOW
doin.
May 1-Androscoggin Pomona Grange, LIS
bon.
May 7-Oxford Pomona Grange, Norway.
Miscellaneous.
April 25-Fast day. .,
April 26-Meeting OF Governor and Councli.
May 15-Meeting OF the Grand Lodge OF Maine
knights Of Pythias, Waterville.