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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
A Japanese Earthquake.


The first earthquake that I ever felt
took place about two a. m. on April 10,
1876. On this night, which was soon
after my arrival in Yedo, had been in
stalled in new house. To be absolute
" alone in a large, partially furnished
dwelling, in strange land, and then in
the dead'of night to be awakened by a
swinging motion of the bedstead,
rafting of windows, creaking of the
timbers and Tapping Of the pictures was
more than bewildering. For some time
after the motion had died away, which
motion had several maXima and minima,
some little rings upon the bedstead which
had been caused to swiag kept up gentle
clicking, and a night light upon basin
of oil, as it swayed from side to side,
cast long flickering shadows across the
room. The general behavior of things
was ghostly, and it was some time before
I could assure myself that what I had
experienced was an earthquake, Next
morning, however, my doubts were dis
sipated by my neighbOrs making jOcUlar
inquiries about the nature of my expert
epces. Earthquake conversation, may
remark, is often used in YedO to fill up
the gaps in conversation, which in En-
gland are usually stopped by queries and
truisms about the weather. This was
my first earthquake Since my first
earthquake have had the opportunity
during the last six years of studying
. rather more than 400 other shakings.
One of these shook down chimneys, un-
rooted houses, twisted grave stones and
by its action generally entitled Itself to
be called destructive and alarming. The
effect that this earthquake produced upon
tie nerves of many people was quite as
great as that which might be produced
upon children with an Imaginary ghost
2 AS, residents in Japan are so often
alarmed by earthquakes it is only natural
that they should be led to study these
phenomena. among the first instru-
ments which were employed for their
Investigation were, as might be antici-
-pated, small columns, bowls of liquid
and other contrivances, which are found
described in books and papers treating
of obserYational neutrality-suspicious..
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

THE VoLTAIc BELT Co., Marshall, Mich, win
send DR.. Dyes Celebrated Electro Voltaic
Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for
thirty days to men young o. Old) who are af-
nicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and
kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and
complete restoration of health and manly vigor.
Address as above. n. B.-No risk is incurred
as thirty days trial Is allowed
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
SwtndIers Abroad.

If any one has epresented that we are in
any way interested in any bogus bitters or
cheating honest folks, or that we will pay any
of their bills or debts, they are frauds and
swindlers, and the victims should punish
them. We deal in and pay only the bills for
the genuine Hop Bitters, the purest and best
medicine on earth.
HoP BITrERs MANUFACTURING Co.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

DR.. PIERCE's pleasant Purgative Pellets
are sugar-c1ated and inciosed in glass bottles,
their virtues icing thereby preserve unim-
sothat they are always fresh and rehab.e. No
cheap wooden or pasteboard boxes. By
druggists.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

Sick headache, nervous headache, neural gia,
nervousness, paralysis, dyspe psia, slice Jless-
ness and brain diseases, positively cured by
DR.. z. w. Benson's Celery and Cha .omiIe
Pills. They contain no opium, quinine, or
other harmful drug. Sold by drugg SITS. Price
so cts. per box, 81 for two, 81, 80 for six post
age free. DR.. G. w. Benson, Baltimore, Md.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

Edouard Reintard, of New York, writes to q
friend: 1t gives me great pleasure tosay that a
single box of HENRY's CARBoLIc SALvE eff
fected a complete cure of Piles with which
had been troubled Tor over a year, and which
nothing else that I used would cure.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

+a*"Example is better than precept." It is
headache and many other ills only be
cured by removing their cause. Kidney-Wort
has been proved to be the most effectual RENE
dy for these. and for habitual costiVeness,
people.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

"WHY should not women whistle?" Trey
do. a good many Of them when they want a
new bonnet have to whistle for it.-PhlG-
deLDhiG NeaOS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

AUTUMN leaves, somebody has found out,
are symbolical of misfortune. AS they are
rem inder of the melancholy days, ''the saGdest
of the year." gay and giddy giris are advised
to leave them severely alone.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

WHEN Mrs. Fogg saw the man at the circus
riding four horses abreast she thought it
must be quite painful. 1T is, replied Fogg {:
tFessn r-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

ONLY one man out of nineteen forgets to
pay postage on a letter, but on the other
hard one woman out of every eleven makes
a bIunder in the directions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

For AN IRRITATED THROAT. Cough, OR
COLD. ''BroaO1t'S Bronchial 1'roches'' are Of
fered with the fullest confidence in their
efficacy. Sold only IN boxes at % cts. a boa.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

SOME one has discovered that Mrs. Lang
try was born in the year -. and is there
fore -Old. We supposed sic was much old
er.-NoTTiStOlCa Herald.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

THE latest cOnundrum exchanged between
variety actors in New York is: whats the
difference between Ne York and Brooklyn?'
The jocose reply is: 1.-TWO cents or swim"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

Col. c. w. HERBERT, of the Forest Park
Restaurant, st. Louis, Mo-, was entirely cured
of rheumatism by st. Jacobs Oil, says the st.
Louis Posi-, DISPATCH
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

A COUNTRY editor has been made the vic
tim of a diamond robbery. His opponent
stole the ace of that suit out of the pack
Boston Post
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

You will be good deal older than you are
now when you discover one woman adoring
another for her beauty Globe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

~ For five cents, Wells, Richardson g Co.,
Bui lington, VT, will send colOred sa uples of
all coIOrs of Diamond Dyes, with directions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

AS A TONIC and nervine for debilitated wom-
en- nothing snrpasses DR.. Pierces "FaVOrite
Prescript on" By druggists.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

THE rapidity with which the coin, drilled
by thieves, went out of sight as soon as the
government refused to accept it, was eau
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

*Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
strengthens the stomach and kidneys and aids
digestion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

EARTH has nothing softer than woman 8
heart, unless, perhaps, it is a tomato in the
prime of life.-LO1geH Citizen.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

WELLS ROUGH ON CORNs. 15c. Ask forit. Com
plete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
PersouaII

1T doesn't do to engage in a dispute with a
chemist. for he always has a retOrt ready
R0cEldnd COltrier-Gdzette
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

THERE won't be any need of searching for
the North Pole for the next four months. u.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

"A New York doctor and his patient
died on the same day, the doctor little
while before the patient. ESQ
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

WOULD not be without Redding's Russia
Salve is the verdict of all who use it. Price 25c
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

HaIe,s Honey of HOrehOund and Tar
Stop the most violent explosions of coughing.
Pixies Toothache drops cure in one minute
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

ALL our lady friends will be glad to hear that
Cragin 81 Co. l1S S.4th st, Ihila., send first class
piano sheet music, vocal and Instrumental gra-
tbs. mo advertising on it, Write for catalogue.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

STRAIGHTEN old boots and shoes with Lyons
Patent Heel Stiffeners, and wear them again.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

While Maryland hotel lost S3. 600
in eighteen months the porter thereof
laid away. 1915, in the same length of
time. All landlords would be porters-if
there was room in the professionals.
troll Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
How to Cure the piles.

THE Mobile (Ala.) Register claims that what
Mobile has lost in cotton she is fast making
up in other branches of trade
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

SINGING irritation, Inflammation, all Kid
ney Complaints, cured by g Buchupaiba." 81.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21

"A writer In Temple Bar says that tie
''most unobtrusively well behaved nam
toward woman Is q well-bred American"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
A Half Dollar Trial,

Mr.. Ernest King, editor OF the FAN River
(BIass.) San, thus discourses upon the merits
of st. Jacobs Oil: Suffering with rheumatic
pains was Didymus as to remedies. Tread
of st. Jacobs Oil and said here goes for a half
dollar trial bought bottle and before it
was half used the screw-wrench pains had
gone aud troubled me no longer"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
or BITTERs MANUFACTURING CO.
Why VIII Won snRsrl

FLATTERY, like sugar plums, is very sweet,
but not remarkably nourishing.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
OutVittGd E.

A simple and durable RUEsGL4 AEs-E'Et DOR
LOCK AT ia CEsNE1NE. 1t be readily attached to
lock securely faStenS the door il cannot be
from the outside 1t takes the place Of bolts
and DOES NOT DEFACE DOOR CASING Every
house will buy one or more AeiE2N IS WANTED for
this other articles which lady agents handle.
Address Kendall CO., AGENCY EMPORIUM -
Room e, 1sBS Ontario Street. Cleveland Ohio.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-21
SPECIAL NOTICE.

All we ask is a fair trial, but be sure. and
follow directions.
The Gargling. Oil and Merchants Worm
Tablets are for sale by all druggists and deal
ers in general merchandise throughout the
world.
Small Size for family Use % C.
Manufactured at LOckport, n. Y, by Mer-
chants Gargling Oil Company.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
ID glht...

l have known three or four women living
happily IN one house. Speaking OF women'-
rights in [ tab, it has been asserted that wo-
men vote at any age and without naturaliza-
ton, provided they are married. That Is
false. 4 woman must be twenty-One years
OF age and naturalized, unless she ! native
born or the daughter OF q naturaiIZed citizen.
no matter whether she Is married or not be-
fore she can vote. She must also gain
residence by living one year in the Territory,
six months in the county and three months
in the precinct before she l. entitled 10 the
franchise. The ballot Is absolutely free IRON
dictatIon OF any sort, 50 lar as the Church Is
concerned. The principle Of our form OF
government Is that the majority shall rule.
The minority in Utah are not willing to con-
cede this. they want to control the whole
Territorial civil government. In conclusion
let me say one thing more. Our women have
been painted to the world as degraded Crea-
lures, ut subjects for the prayers and sympa-
thies OF all the virtuOus women in christen-
dom. Now, consider myself fair speci
men OF the women OF [ tab, and IL anybody
can see anything degraded about me should
like to have him or her accuse me. When |
came East intended 10 lecture, but have
been unable to do so because ! could not get
a place unless | hired a high-priced hall,
which / was not able TO do. | even asked
Henry Ward Beecher for his lecture-room,
telling him there was another side 10 Nor
mOnism besides the one he had been in the
habit of looking at. His reply was: Thank
God, l never saw but one side, and l do not
want TOP Permission TO lecture in his pull
pit was refused as it was in every other
church | applied for. When Beecher visited
Salt Lake City he was asked by Brigham
Young to preach in the temple. So was DR..
Newman. Talmage was not. Our people
invite discussion and are not afraid of the
truth. 1t is misrepresentation and falsehood
and deceit that we object to and deplored."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
CHICAGO TRADE.
An Average Days Business, with No
Great Activity in Any Branch.

CHICAGO, March 23-Wheat ruled decid-
edly weak and was somewhat lower to-day.
At times the activity savored OF excitement,
and as the day developed warm, spriDg-like
weather the pressure to sell increased. Ad-
vices from the outside markets were rather
tame. The market opened 1@1lc lower
than yesterdays call, ruled heavy, declined
&c more, then firmed up and advanced ls0
l3c, but again weakened, declining l 4c, fuc-
tusted and closed l DC lower for May, &c Tor
June, ic for July. Sales were made at
81 35i@1 81 April, 81 29I@I BOG May,
81 27fGBl PSI June, 81 24Ca1I 251 July, 81 II
al l3f August On call there were lib
eral transactions, and prices were higher, the
advance being 4G5c.
Corn was fairly active and. steady and
lGlc lower followed by little reaction
and then another slight drop, closing at ga
b. Sales were made at 62I6623 April; 675
(g6Sc May; 81 s@67 &c June; 81 ia 67sc July.
On call prices were about &c higher, but the
advance was chiefly on the deferred options.
Oats were quiet and slow, with little de-
cline all around. Sales were made at 4456
444c May; 43g@}433c June. On call there
were small sales and firmer prices.
Pork moderately active and offerings fair;
prices decliRed 5@l0c early, rallied later, but
again dropped. Sales were made at SD 81
G312 924 April, SIG 924Ggl7 125 May, 81 10
GGlS So June. On call there were better
prices but Insignificant transactions.
Lard was in liberal supply and demand
fair; prices declined 5Ggl0c, and closed weak.
Sales were made at 1857 @l065c April,
l03@l0S0c May, I0S2@l0.9Oc June On
call prices were firm and a shade higher;
sales were very small
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
Lecture at Des Arc by Mrs. Elizabeth
Avery MeriWether.

To the Editors OF the Appeal;
DIES ARC, March 16.-Perhaps it may be a
little presumptuous TO impose communica-
tions upon the intelligent readers of your
valuable and popular paper, but prompt
ing within forces me to give you a few lines
relative to one of Menphis's bright and re-
splendent intellectual satellites. The person
to whom / allude is Mrs. +. A. Meriwether,
of whom We NAV truthfully say, she is the
great orator of the South. u pom the special
solicitation of the WOman's Christian Tenn
perance Union Of Des Arc, Mrs. Meriwether
came to our town and delivered two lectures
in the Methodist Episcopal church, which
was beautifully decorated with flowers and
evergreens for the occasion. These lectures
were replete with eloquence, pathos and wit.
Our Circuit Court in session, and the
Judge and members of the bar honored her
by attending. The church was crowded both
nights by the leading citizens OF Des Arc. 1t is
useless for me TO speak of the nature Of these
lectures, suffice il to say that Mrs, Meri-
wether ably advocated wcman's rights from
the Bible standpoint, and plainly proved
that the Creator as well as the Savior in
tended the equality of the sexes. The legal
side OF her subject she handled with the
ease and proficiency of a well-versed baris-
] ter and with more wit and logic than many
| baristers are capable OF. At the close OF her
! second lecture she called on all who were
!
/ hand. The Hon NJ NJ. Erwin, ex-state
| legislator, was the first TO put up his hand.
! Others followed. Mr.. Erwin then stepped
! to the front and made ten-minute talk in
! favor of woman's suffrage moral power.
| He was full OF enthusiasm and brought
| down the house with applause. The
/ Hon. Jesse \. Cypert, Judge presiding
/ of this circuit, followed with a few remarks,
( in which he paid Mira. Meriwether the high
! est compliment, and expressed the wish that
Z there were 10000 such women to work for
the elevation of the race. The Judge de-
[ clared himself almost a convert. He wanted
to see women have every right that man en-
Z joyed except the franchise, and he would
! grant that Immediately if he were sure that
the ballot would 70: pull woman down from
that high moral plane they now occupy.
| Mrs. Meriwether, in five-minute rejoin1er,
put to rout the judges .fallacious argument
1 that the ballot would degrade woman. She
[ thought woman with the ballot would ele-
4 vate msn-would drive drunkenness, o4ths
and fights from the polls. The judge came
up for another short talk. He said he
was not quite converted, but was on
the anxious bench. He believed, whether
. he favored womsn's suffrage or not, il
was coming, it was only a question Of
time; it had gained immense strength in the
last ten years. Mrs. Meriwether concluded
the entertainment with burst Of eloquence.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
MAGNIFICENT sTUPIDIrf /.

The fact that protection, ancient and mod
ern, has driven American shipping so nearly
from foreign ports that our national flag is
rarely seen at those places, is so weunding to
American pride, and so injurious to Ameri-
can prosperity, that the people at large are
justly indignant that such fact should exist.
The American ship-builders cannot, under
the present tariff, build iron steamships
that can compete successfully with foreign
built vessels. The Philadelphia Telegraph
and Philadelphia is not place given to say
much that is unfavorable to protection
states that "there are ON all the seas only
four American ships, few shiPyards, few ship
mechanics, few American sailors, few any
thing American in the sea-going line, and
hundred millions paid by the United States
yearly to foreign ship.owners for freight and
passage" OF the many denominations that
go to open the eyes CT the people to the stu
pidity OF protection, none is really compre-
hended, none arouses so much remark as this.
Where an evil OF such a magnitude as is
here exposed exists, it is evident that no
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Columbia has now fifty gas-lights; citizens
want to see hundred.
Knoxville boasts that it has only moderate
sectarianism and few bigots.
Cleveland claims to be a great Sunday
stopping place for drummers.
A detective at Nashville recovered two
wagon loads of stolen property on Saturday.
war on dogs, keen and pitiless, is going
on at Knoxville. Every morning reveals
the corpses of the slain.
The population of Columbia and suburbs
has nearly doubled during the last ten years,
and that town has now three banks.
A vote is to be taken as to whether the
city charter OF Manchester shall be surren-
dered, that the whisky shops may be got
rid Of
Elder John Morgan, a well-known Nor
mon, is expected in Chattanooga this week,
when he will take charge of a number of
Mormons whom he will conduct to Colorado.
Columbia will soon be in daily commune
cation with Fayetteville, and the place can
be reached from East Tennessee and Georgia
without going TO Nashville.
The Nashville Bonner says the wheat
about Manchester is finer and with larger
area than for years, and so forward that there
is apprehensions from cold mornings.
Columbia farmers are working indusLri-
ously putting in corn. A large acreage of
oats is in and looking well. Wheat is ad.
vanced, much of it jointed, which causes
great fear from possible frosts.
Nashville Bonner: There is a great
scarcity of feed and seed-corn in the country
districts. Farmers in some of the adjoining
counties are depending on Nashville for their
supplies. Seed corn is worth 81 p per
bushel."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
THE RED CROSS,
The Association Makes its First Call
Upon the American People.

WASHINGTON, March 23.-The following
call has been issued:
To the American People:
The President having signed the treaty
of the Geneva conference and the Senate
having ratified the Presidents action, the
American Association of the Red Cross,
organized under the provisions of said
treaty, purposes at once to send Its agents
among the sufferers by the recent floods, with
a view to ameliorating their condition so far
eau be done by human aid and the means
at hand will admit of. Contributions are
urgently solicited. Remittances in money
may be made to the Hon. Charles J. FolgeI,
secretary of the treasury and chairman Of
the board of trustees, or to his associates
the Hon. Robert I. Lincoln, secretary OF
war, and the Hon. George B. Loring, COM
missioner of agriculture. Contributions of
wearing apparel, bedding and provisions
should be addressed to the Red Cross agent
at Memphis, Tenn, Vicksburg, Miss, and
Helena Ark.
The address is signed by Clara Barton,
Bancroft Davis, Frederick Douglass, Alex
Y. P. Garnett, Mrs. Omar d. Conger, a. S
Solomons, Mrs. S. \. Martha Cantield, r. d.
MuSaey
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24

The Insurance Chronicle, with great skill
and industry, complies monthly report of
the fires occurring in this country. In its
last issue it presented a startling array OF
facts and figures by comparing the losses by
fire with the value of an equal loss in some
given commodity. "If the world" says the
Chronicle, SHOULD awaken some morning and
receive the news that the agricultural pro-
ducts of eight States OF the Union had fallen
a victim to some horrible calamity; that the
whole years labor of producing millions had
been engulphed by sudden ruin and gone for
naught, CONSERVATION very naturally would
run high" Yet recklessness, carelessness,
folly, and crime really, as far as the value of
the articles destroyed go, do all this. The
total loss last year by such fires as have
been recorded was SS1 ,2SO, 9O0-a sum
equal to the aggregate value OF the
annual farm product of these eight States,
viz: Rhode Island, Florida, Delaware, Oregon,
New Hampshire, West Virginia, Massachu-
sets and Connecticut. The population of
these eight States numbers 4 ,236, APP, and
their annual farm product is $50, l40, l19.
Inc nre waste OF the country Is Tor 1901
more by 81 ,140,7S1 than the total crop pro-
duction of the 1885, 22 people living in
these eight States. 1t is greater by two and
half times than the cotton crop OF Missis-
sippi-the best cotton State. 1t is five times
greater than Louisiana's great sugar product,
and one-seventh greater than Illinois's corn
crop, and not much less than the aggregate
annual grain product OF Iowa itself. The
Chronicle, in the following table, by actual
collation. OF statistical returns, shows what
specified crops yielded in the various States
were equivalent in value to the losses by fire;
for instance, Tennessee lost much by fire
in 1881 as if, instead of house and merchan-
disc, four parts out of five of all the hay it
produced had been burned up.