The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1892 Page: 6 of 8
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CITY DIRECTORY
KCRBT SOCIETIES.
Abilene Commnderr No. 87. Knights Temp-
isr huldi It stated eonelsre In tholr Tlmo
onjij tioor rotter A ltvn building corner
Sdlth Seeond. ndl'lno streets op the seeo;.it
Vqnttar night In each month. Visiting Sir
Mights PorUlsllr IntlteU to attend.
4 J. U. CORMB
Km. Coramsnucr.
ago. 0. lUnai.ttwler.
AbUthe Chpler Nn. I'ATL A. it. Hold tti
stated convocations luo second Friday night In
vtch month Inthetr hall third floor. Potter and
ReeTM bull.luig corner line and North Secoud
suoeia. W. 840. Jounsoit Secretary.
J. nt. M K. II. r.
AbllenoTiOdse Jio.Mfc V and A M.-tloldslu
stated communication! the tint Saturday night
in each month In their hall third floor tarter
and Kecrea building corner Pine and North Sec-
ond streets w. 8. 0. Johksox Secretary
ILO.CoocW.Mv
Lao. V lleeu erery Tuesday night In the
K. of P. bail. All TUltlng brethren cordially In-
vited to attend. W U. Tntrr. N. Q.
J. W. iiam-rox. Secretary. .
6Urof the West Lodge No. 4 K. ot P. Meets
rrerr Thursday evening at lu Castle Hall. Visit-
ing Knlghu cordially inrited to attend.
a VitiDOT.C a
K. J. BvrSB.K.of R. and IS.
A. O. U. W. Meets every flrst and third Toes-
day night. InK off. lisIL All visiting biethrcn
eordlaUJtivlied. J. W Evans W W.
f. 8. Arlington tteeorder
The 'Woman'' Christian Temperance Vnlon
meets erery tint and third Tuesday in each
aionth. at 3 o'clock at Mrs. J. N. Millers residence.
JU1 ladles Interested Intemperance work are re-
ueMedlomeetvrlthus. Bessie Pavidsok.
Mas. J. K. MttLXB Secretary.
President.
Dr. SYDNEY RINCCR Professor of Modicjno at University College London
Author oftho Standard ''Handbook of Thompoutlcc" attnaUl writes as fotlowti
"jVid tho caroMI Minifies ft Prof. Atttikld an otnen I nm nnlUlltxl that
VAPJ MOUTEN'S COCOA
la In no way Inlurlmw t brol-h nlhBltlii!ccIi1Jlr mow nutritions than
other Oucon. UlArtitiUnljr "l'jiro! anil highly tlltf stlblft. I'li'Miuotittlorutln -or.
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CHURCH DIBKCTORT.
gM Daptltt Sonday1 school. 0:50 a. tn.: scr-
noes llls.m. and 8:30 p m.t prayer meeting
srery Wdtelar ulghU 1HT HANKS
A.U.KIKBV . Pastor.
anuay cnoo sqpcnnwuuu-
Methodist South Sunday school 9:30 a. in.;
terrlcesarU a. m. and 8 p. ru.t prayer mccUiiK
srery Wednesday erenlng at 8ptm.
Pastor.
Church of the Heavenly Host Services on Sun-
iaysal II a. m. and":' p. m..exeeptlns on the
rearth Sunday; Wednesday eTenlngs at 8:
Sunday achool at BU a. m.
ChrUtUn Church Sundsyschooiat1:?iia.tn.;
serrlcs erery nnday at It a ra. and 8 "p. m.;
rayer meeting Wednesday night at 5 p. m.t
communion serrlces lust alter Sunday tthool on
int and second Somfays. and Inst after teach
sag on third aud fourth bundays.
O.A.Vaihh.
lastor.
OnmtH.n.t TVfKhTtprlan ChUTCh Scrrlcea
Tory Sunday rnornlng and erenlngt holiday
icbool at 9 a. nut prayer-meeting Thursday
weulnju Kev. 1. O. peWitt pastor.
?ltt rresbytcrlan Sunday schooL 9:15 a m.;
terTlccaat 11 a. m. and at nlxht; prayer meeting
erery Wrducsday nlghw ICer.U. . Pudlty P.
D pastor.
CITT DIBECTOET.
Msjoi TI. A. Portor.
Assessor W. J. Thompson.
Treasurer Ed. 8. Iluelies.
Attorney Jno. A. -vVtlliams.
Storotary W. O. 8wanson
Marshal-jr. J. Clinton.
ALPEBMEN
J. O. Lowdon John McCtxIey.
W. 8. o. JobitMin Oeorge C Harris.
C Erana. .
Xegnlar Meetings Second and fourth Tuesdar.
catly led him into the political arena
whrre he immediately made his mark.
But there arc half a Joien other pro-
fessions he might have embarked upon
with cmi1 certainty of success. Had
he .-ollowcd the line one of his brothers
took he would have becoms a prince
among the merchants of Liverpool.
Had he taken the legal profession he
would have filled the couits with his
fame. Had he entered the church its
highest honors would have been within
his grasp
If the stage had allured him the
world would iiaVe been itcher by an-
other great actor an opportunity
some of his critics say not altogether
lost in .existing circumstances. To the
personal gifts o: a mobile c luntenancc
a voire sonorous and flexible and a
fine presence Mr Gladstone posses-
ses dramatic instincts frequently
brought into play in house of com-
mons debate or in his platform
speeches. In both his tendency is
rather comedy than tragedy. It is
the fashion to deny htm a sense of
humor a judgment that could be
passed only by a huperficial observer.
In private conversation his marvelous
memory eives forth trom its apparently
illimitable store an appropriate a.id
frequently humorous illustration of
ennent topic. If his fame had not
been established on a loftier line he
would J e known as one of the most
brilliant convtrsaMonalists of the day.
Hlnrv W.Lucy.
COURT DIRECTOKY.
DUTBICT cocar
Judee W . K. Connor
Attorney S. P. Hardr!cke.
Clerk D.J Bed.
Meets on the third Monday tn September.
coosn cocbt -
Judge O.a. 1UU.
Attorney -S. P. Iturdwicke.
Clerk David J Bed.
Meets on the first Monday la February April
one Angust October and December
coMxissiosina corn.
judge-p.o. nm.
Commissioners J. T. Tucker J no. Pratt. It
a M. Pradshaar B. a Loyns.
Begalar sclon on the second Monday In Feb--nary.
May August and November Meets as a
Mara of equalization on the first Monday in
one.
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COTOTY OFFICERS. J
)udgo-D. 0. 1IIU.
Attorney S. P. Mardwieke.
Clerk-P.J. Bed.
.Sierlff J. V. Cunningham.
Treawrer O. A. Witt.
Dur Prttornn Pensions.
i What are we to do with a pension
list that calls for $180000000 a year.
The knights of labor demand an in-
come tax to meet it and many who
would oppose such a tax unless nec-
essary as a war measure would consent
to it as a necessity of war" now that
there is no visible way of escape from
maintaining this great standing armv
of military and pseudo-nylitary depen
dents. Immense as is tins annual ex-
pense atready it has not yet reached
its maximum and there is no way of
checking it unless it can be done bv
the exposure of the frauds practiced on
the government.
As a means of facilitating this The
Repuohchas proposed that congress
should authorize the publication of "the
roll of honor" in the newspapers. The
objection to this on the ground of ex-
pense is met by an Ohio veteran who
amends it by proposing that congress
should furnish to be posted in the
courthouse of each county a list of all
pensioners tn that county. He be-
lieves that this of itself would not only
check further fraud but would lead to
a very considerable reduction of the
present expense.
We have no doubt that tins would
te (he case and congress will do well
to act on the suggestion Certainly it
must do something. If it cannot find
means of checking theUhcrcase ot tins
already enormous expense there will
be no escape from increased taxation
for the support of the most extraordi-
nary and most costly manifestation
of pre (onanism in history. St. Louis
Republic
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Gladstone.
In addition 10 a phenomenal phy-
sical constitution nature has been
lavish to Air Gladstone!! other ways.
Education association and instinct
A Great Place for Salt.
Five or sixyears ago the people of
Colin a do Citv away out on the rugged
bluffs of the Colorado river felt that
they had reached a degree of advance-
ment that justified municipal airs.
They thought they ought to have a city
council When they got that they dis-
covered thai their water supply wisn't
what it ought to be. There came irt
a class of high toned $ettlers who
weren't satisfied with whisky and water
but wanted all water and good water
too. The city council in due delibera-
tion moved in the matter. A consid-
erable fund was raised and a deep hole
was bored. The drill went down 1200
feet. It didn't find good drinking wa-
ter but it struck petroleum eighty feet
of rock salt and other th.ngs.
The bdnng stopped for awhile. Col-
orado City offered its hole for sale but
found no takers. Alter awhile some-
body thought of making use of the salt
The hole was bored deeper. It struck
fresh water which rose to within 200
or 300 feet of the surface and dissolved
the salt rock. A pump was put down.
A windmill was hoisted above the pump.
The wind raised the salt water which
warrun into a reservoir. This west
Texas sun. which shines about 340
days in the year did the rest. Colora-
do City has salL Qiher wells have
been bored. Windmills have been
hoisted in rows until Don Quixote
might think that he saw by the moon-
light a whole army defying him. The
process commends Uselt to an econom-
ical not to say a lazy man The wa-
ter dissolves the rock salt. The sun
evaporates the water and leaves the
salt on the ground.
Coutd anything be easier? Manual
labor W necessary to take up the salt
and barrel it that's all A 30 foot
windmill raises fiom 5000 to 8000 gal-
tons of salt water in an hour. Of the
Salt thus manufactured by nature's
forces Colorado City ships out several
hundred carloads a month. A chemi
cal analysis shows this salt to be 98
per cent pure. In a country where
there were less sunshine and wind salt-
making could not be carried on so
successfully. St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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Methods of Making fires.
The most curious of all known
methods of making fire is practiced by
the native tribes ot Borneo add Bur-
mah. lunntly enough the instrument
which thev employ is utilized for the
same purpose to-day by the scientific
physicist in the laboratory. The primi-
tive form of apparatus used by the bar-
barious people aboye.rcferred to is sim-
ply a cylinder of bufTdo horn with a
sort of piston that fits into it. In the
receptacle that holds this "fire syringe"
as it is called is also carried a smdl
box filled with tinder. When fire is
wanted a piece of tinder is placed in
the hollowed end of the piston which
is thereupon inserted into the mouth
of the clyinder of buffalo horn.
Holding the cylinder in the left hand
the operator strikes the knob ol the
piston a smart blow with the open
right hand the force being sufficient
to drive it home.
The determination can be made in
less than a minute by anyone who can
recognize the agreement of two simi-
lar notes. The arrangement when first
tested was so placed that the height
of water at two places near together
m ght be easily compared. I found
that a ad with an average ear for mus-
ical sounds was able la get the height
I to agree within one-eighth of an inch
of each other while a person with an
educated car adjusted the instrument
immediately to almost exact agreement
The total height to be measured was
seventeen inches.
A very .interesting monograph on
the fire making methods of the world
among which this one is referred to la
published by the Smithsonian institu-
tion. The well known process of ob-
taining the spark of ignition by drill-
ing with a revolving stick into another
piece of wood is fusf described. It
varies in manner so much that some
savages can gel fire in this way in a
fraction of a minute while the Amos
of Japan requited two hours or more
for the purpose. Next is' mentioned
the plan of making fire by sawing
which is in common use among the
Malays and throughout thejiast Indies.
A native will cut a V shaped slit in a
branch of the oil tree put a. knife edge
on a piece of irun wood saw quickly
back and forth wuh the latter in the V
and in less than three minutes he will
have set fire with the incandescent
sawdust produced by the friction to
tinder held underneath. Then he will
put the ignited tinder in a bunch of
dry leaves wrap them in dry grass.
whirl the bundle around his head and
have a flame in a 'jiffy.'
However the uual method of fire-
making by sawing practiced ly these
people is to take two pieces of bamboo
one a hollow convex strip and the
other prepatred with an edge like a
kn.fe. The former is placed with the
convex side up and the knife edge
sawed rapidly back and forth acioss it.
Presently thet hollow convex strip is
pierced through the top by the saw
ind the incandescent dust falls upon
tinder beneath igniting the latter.
Sometimes the process is reversed
and the convex piece holding the tinder
is sawed upon the bamboo knife winch
ts fixed with the edge up Bamboo is.
an excellent friction material; the silic-
eous coating is favorable for the de-
velopment of great heat .while the soft
marrowy substance inside is very in-
flamable. Quite as odd is the only method of
firemakmg known to the Polynesians
to whom it exclusively belongs name-
ly that of the "plowing stick." The
operator rubs a grove in a piece of
soft wood with the end of a suck of
hard wood the rubbing stick wearing
off particles ot soft wood and pushing
them along in a heap at the e.nd of a
groove. By acceleration of the motion
they are brought up to the point of ig-
nition. Much expertness is required
to perform the process successfully
but flame is said to be produced di-
rectly without the use of tinder.
The modern lucifer match is super-
ior to all other devices for producing
fire says the author of the monograph
quoted Mr. Walter Hough since it
combines in one instrument arrange-
ments for the creation of the spark
for catchmg it on tinder and for start-
ing a blaze stops requiring separate
operations in the primitive machines.
Of the devices which precede the
friction match the nearest likeness to
it was the splint of inflamable wood
tipped with sulphur which accompan-
ied the tinder box the invention of the
flmt and steel Strike-a-hght necessitat-
ing some dcuc to convert the spark
into a flame. For this purpose the
Eskimo applies a wick soaked in oil
and bloes it alight. .Brimstone match-
es are found in Japan in the shape of
broad thin shaving tipped along one
end with bulphur. In Mexico cotton
wicks dipped in lulphur are similarly
emyloyed.
"Spunk" the common name for
splints tipped with sulphur were in
general u$e in this country prior to
1825 and lingered in out of the way
places long after the introduction of
matches. In certain districts of France
to-day they are still in use. being much
more economical than matches from
the point of view of people of simple
habits liunt'ng parties and exploring
eypedttious bound for distant countries
usually carry besides matches strike-a-lig'.us
for use in case matches are
exhausted or meet with some of the
many accidents to which they are liable.
Patents are still sought from tima to
time for ppe lighting contrivances
involving the use of flint and steel
struck together by some more or less
simple mechanical device A variation
of the "spunk" was curled shaving;
tipped with sulphur
At the beginning a very general pre-
judice was felt against friction matches
because they were poorly made hung
fire readily absorbed moisture
emitted noxious odors and were costly.
The worst ones however were more
expeditious than the tinder box and
improvements were soon made.
Nevertheless it is seriously suggested
by Mr. Hough as worthy of in-
quiry whether the alarming deteriora-
tion of the teeth of the present genera-
tion may not be due to phosphorous
matches more thon to soft tood St.
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From now until
January 1st 1894
and
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For One Year
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J. T. PACE.
ALEX STEELE.
J TV PAGE & CO.
---a. Wholesale and Retail -.
ltar dealers in all kinds of
COHL
Office with Alex Steele first door
esst of the Windsor hotel where it
you will leave or end your orders
they Mill hare prompt attention.
Soliciting your patronage and assur-
ing you that it will bi appreciated
We are truly
J. T. PAGE & CO.
First door east of the Windsor Hotel.
Holiday r xeursiorjs
BASS BROS.
Christmas Greeting. r
You are cordially invited to come
and see our large and varied stock
Of 0ifcfN SOOfcS. (
We have many new and novel articles
well worth seeing both us ful and orna-
mental suitable for both old and young.
West Fine Street Abilene Texas.
Jo 5l?e Nouthoast
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December 20 21 and 22 1892.
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Cotton Belt Route
Tbe Through Car Excursion Line
One Fare for the Round Trip to
St. Louis Memphis
Cincinnati Louisville
And all principal points in
Tennesee Kentucky
Mississipi Alabama
Georgia North and
South Carolina.
SPAXTLDING BRO'S.
PlnmMng and Machine Shop
Full stock of Pipe and Fittings Bith Tubs
Sinks Etc. Etc. always On hand.
Machine Repairing a Specialty.
Southeast of Freight Depot Abilene Texas
vJw7illKP
Aeents for
PERKINS
UIND'
7ucit.ua
THE BEST
B&lMM0W(00.
Wholesale and Retail
Tickets good for return until
30 Days from dato of 5aIe-
GROCERS'
North Side Corner Pine and Second Streets
TWO DAILY EXCURSION TRAINS
CAKRYIJvG THROUGH COACHES TO MEMfUIS.
F6r rMes tonus mid nil firtlicr InforiuHtloii
mldrcra the neurcatt HKcnt o( tho .
COTON BELT BOTJTE
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V. II. 40NES. W. U. WINPIBI.D
Trnv. rn'r Agt Oeu'l Pawi'r Act
rr. woitTii.Tfix Tyi.iiitTt:x.
H. A. HANCOCK
Keepa In Stook.
Universality of tho Sign Language
It is a fact worth noting that the 1 Scribner's.
signs used by the Indians of North
America are identical in many instan
ce with those employed by the deaf
mutes ot to-day. A snort time ago a
friend of the writer who had spent
considerable time among the Indians
but who hail never talked with a deaf
mute befonj conversed with some pu
pils of the New York institution by
means ol signs which he had learned
from the red men Where are you
going?" and "I am going away on
horseback" wp.re the same when given
by the mutes and by the visitor.
Another instance showing the sign
language (0 be a universal one was
when the mother of the writer herself
a deaf person while attending a con
vention of instructors of the deaf in
France conversed on various topics
with a mute friend by means of signs.
The French lady had no knowledge or
the Englith language while the Ameri
can knew hardly a word of French.
Enterprise find Mills .""V
Wagons and Buggies'
Riding and Walking Plows
Pipe and Pipe Fittings
. PUMPS and a complete
line of Plumbers goods
Let me give you an estimate ' ' " '
on your plumbing.
H. A. HANCOCK.
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Hoeny, John, Jr. The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1892, newspaper, December 2, 1892; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330790/m1/6/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.