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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1886
Page
6
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Ajeeb, a restless dreamer, seeks to outlive time and gain ten extra hours of life through a wager with the Nagpur bonze Dhealy. He imagines a Maldive kingdom of twelve thousand queens, awakens to a harsher truth, and finally earns fifty more years to sleep and play chess in a mythic tale spun from Elora temple visions and ancient Hindu gods.
Advice on building carp ponds at low cost using existing ice ponds or depressions, with drainage via a cast iron pipe and a wooden plug. Emphasizes avoiding streams, using upper-end inlets, clay dams, and seed with white clover. Includes guidelines on dam width, scraping methods, and water depth for proper carp cultivation.
The Vermont canvass outlines a plan to challenge Senator Edmunds through the Republican state convention. It details Gibbs role in Chittenden and Franklin counties, Governor Smith's influence, and a potential move to unseat Gibbs as state committee chairman. The piece analyzes factional maneuvers, expected arguments, and the stakes of Gibbs selection or removal.
Tchina-Patnam unfolds a fable of Ajeeb a famed wise man who on his deathbed seeks to cheat time asking the goddess Sarsutee for ten years. She grants only one day then dead, he ponders life racing toward choices as envoys offer riches and tasks, but he remains bent on living beyond the present moment.
A column notes peaceful labor capital relations across the South fueling robust growth in early 1886. It cites thirty six and a half million dollars in new capital across fourteen states, driven by iron, cotton, canneries, and ice factories, with Maryland and Texas the only spots facing recent unrest. A Cabinet reform proposal to create a Department of Agriculture and Labor gains traction in Congress, aiming to align labor and agriculture under a single secretary, while calls persist to protect public domain for productive citizens.
A provocative Alany Argus column mocks Edmunds and Vermont Senators for mutinous support against the administration. It recalls a vowed Republican phalanx in Vermont, their allegiances shifting amid Cornish political pressure, and foresees Edmunds facing reelection with dwindling strength and hard feelings from his party.
A Washington story recounts ex Senator Conkling denying authorship of resolutions amid a press clash over executive session leaks. Senator Henry Wilson interrupts, a choke stops the inquiry, and Conkling’s stance harms his press relations in Washington. Indianapolis Journal dispatch.
A collage of quotations ridicules Blaine renominating the Democrats, notes Senator Edmunds as a possible president, and questions Pennsylvania's Quay while warning Republican statecraft. It cites Parisian and St. Louis outlets on party hopes, with Jim Campbell pressed for a presidential timeline.
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