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The Night After Christmas.

Twas the night after Christmas; the boys
were awake,
Ate. stutting with turkey and padding
and cake,
And douShnuts, and oysters, and plums,
and mnce pies.
There were meanings and groamings and
iyi;e u cries:
so ny sioTachn' 80 Noses 80 help"
Il shall die"
GLOW wish that | hadn't had half as
rIu"h "a
90 mother Come: hurry 80 what
shall doe
"3ring something TO cure me- '',}oc-
Loo" ami boo hoo
And mother, alarmed by the racket and
noise.
Ran in to see what she could do for the
boys.
PEEEE DNyis's PAIN KILLER she brought
for relief,
And soon made an end of their noise and
their grief:
And then there was quiet and joy in the
house.
And each of the lads was as still as .
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A Sufferer from Rheumatism

limprd about for Yeas with Il cane, and
could not bend down without eNcruriatiug
pam. Pa.ker'S Ginger Tonic effected an
astonishing cure and Keeps me well. 1t is
intalible. NJ. Guilfoyle, Binghamtom, NY.
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l Know Whersof | Sneak

a dressing to beautity gray hair every
amily needs. Parker's Hair BalSam never
ails to satisfy.
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Now clear the decks. Ii You want 10
buy anything in The way OF heavy goods
We'll meet You ON the lover t!pnr.
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HARPER'S PERIODICALS.

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B3S ACRES

more or less, of which about Ion acres cleared
and in cultivation, and the residue except small
portion which is marsh land. il covered with Il
thrifty growth OF TIMBER ana WOOD, consist
ing among other varieties Of Hickory. Oak, Chest
nut. Cedar, Locust Walnut. Pine. sc Neary
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T.! and brought into profitable cultivation.
Nearly all the cleared Land is 81 the best natural
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a full line of groceries, provisions and
canned goods. REESE
Some velveteenS that we'll sell very
cheap. REESE.
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vicinity should invest it with greater in
terest to eur people.
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The Peach Orchard contains about
Six Thousand Trees,

in fuil bearing. The fencing is good: and there l.
:ciown. upon the place large amount OF i"I.IiI4,
material. There is also upon The farm good
LANinN'i, at which the products OF the lArn.
c.tn lee shipped or lime received.
The Improvements consist Ct a sA&AI7
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27


The men were growing Hereby angry
that they could not find the key. and ons
was blaming the other that they had not
tools with which to break open the safe.
Tommy knew that they would waste no
more time, but would force him to tell
now, If they could. Something very
ike despair came over him, when, sud-
denly pressed against a window-pane,
he saw a face-a black face, surmounted
Dy a wooily Observation-Disclosures S face
1t seemed to Tommy that he must
have died and gone to Heaven when he
saw that face. But it was only the be-
ginning of a merciful Inconsistencies.
There was a crash as if the whole
world had tumbled to pieces, and when
Tommy opened his eyes it was upon
Linkum's face close beside his, some Of
ficers putting handouts upon the men,
and crowd of people pouring into the
office.
you member what you done tole
me behind de shed door?' Linkum was
explaining. ..How if dis yer nigger
was dat homesiek he couldn't stand it
nohow, to done fotch hisself home, an
you wouldn't eat bit but what he done
had his share OBJ? Dis nigger was dat
miserable homesick he fought for sure
he die, an he done come home. He
look all roun' de winders OBJ de house
| an couldn't see muffin OBJ yer, an he
hear EN- say mighty quar- yer done stay
so late. an he come to de Office, an
hear voices, but couldn't get in, an it
seem mighty quar-, SO he done climb
up de spout. an look in de winder!
Didn't take him long to fotch ossifer
an break in dat do'!''
So the safe, which contained a great
deal of money, as well as valuable
papers was untouched, and Tommy was
the hero of the hour. Everybody was
crowding around to have the privilege
of shaking hands with him. And
Linkum was not without his share of
praise.
But the best is yet to tell. Mr.. Forbes
made Tommy a present of the mortgage
deed cancelled He said Tommy had
saved him a great deal more than that,
and it was only his due. He also raised
his salary, for he said the company
could afford to pay for such services as
his. And he gave Linkum situation
in the mills, so he didn't have to go
away again Aleck said ''it really was
brand-new year!'' Sophie Sa0ett, G9s
Harper's Young People.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27
"a LITTLE NONSENSE. ;,

"A whaling company has been start
ed in San Francisco. An old-fashioned
schooImaster would make a good Presi
dent of the concern PicGystqse.
The London World tells of q new
continuance to make ladies taller. The
ladies have contrivances enough for
making men short, OFT city Blizzard.
"A man who has happened to have q
good deal of experience says: Stand
anywhere but four feet to the left of q
woman when she hurls an old bottle at
hen. :"
There was a reward offered the 9TH
er day for the recovery of ga large
leather lady's travelling bag" Whether
or not the large leather lady has got it
back has not been stated.-BufGtO En-
press.
Mrs. Spaggins was Boosting of her
new house. The windows she said were
stained. That's too bad; but won't
turpentine or benzine wash it offe''
asked the good Mrs. Oldboy.-BOstOTs
Post.
"A French Marquis was riding out
one day, when he passed an old priest,
donkey. ''Ha! ha!'' exclaimed the
Moi us AAOW sSOCDA 1LO ass gnu
father?' son horseback, my son-on
horseback replied the priest.-N =
Independent.
"A penny for your thoughts, wife. -
s.But / need two' 1.-Two whatP' Two
pennies y '.What forP'' FOR my
thoughts. - 'EI do not understand. y
''Yo1 saw my little poem of Thoughts
didn't you?'f Certainly" ''Well, the
editor says must send a two-cent stamp
if I want my Thoughts back. "-DetrOit
Post
"A splendid gilt dining room, with
almost nothing on the table to eat,
was the popularity Of New York niser.
A wag was invited to dinner, and the
host asked him if he didn't think tina
room elegant. EYES," was the reply,
.'if this were my house, you know, I
would have" looking at the ceiling,
''less gliding, and, . (here he glanced at
the dining table land more carving. y
N Y. Mail
-''Gaze upon that pure, beautiful
evening star, and swear to be true while
its light shall shiRe! Swear, my love I!
Swear by Venus p exclaimed a Boston
youth In impassiOnate accents. How
stupid you are, - answered the Boston
girl. THAT is not Venus. The right
ascension of Venus this month is 15h.
9m.; her decIination is II degrees %
minutes south, and her diameter Is
/ 10. 2. '-BOStOn Transcript.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27


Justice Pratt, Of New York. has g
permanent smile on his face, made by
bullet Wound.-N. + SssR.
The late Commodore Berrien en-
tered the navy IS q midshipman, ia
seven years.
Miss Fanny Everett, aged eighty
two has been postmistresS of West Fox
borough, Mass for twenty-five years
Boston Herald.
Mrs. Mary Helm. who died recently
st Owinsburg. Pa, aged eighty-three
years, was never inside Of 3 railroad car
= Philadelphia Press.
Emily S. Rice was elected County
Clerk of Harper County, Kan, by over
three hundred majority. She is the first
woman ever elected to the position in
Kansas. Chicago fsster Ocean.
When Mr. James T. Fields invented
the name Of MancheSter-by-th
and wrote a note to DR.. o. w. Holmes,
dated from the place, DIR. Holmes re-
piled in a note dated s.BeVerley-by-the-
Depot.
Chief tombstone, of the Canadian
Mohawks, lives in costly mansion on
a bank of the Grand River. His estate
Is called ssChiefswood. His wife is an
Englishwoman of refinement and his
daughters have been educated abroad
The chief does not draw Government ra-
tions.-D Detroit Post.
Hannibal Hamlin is not the only
distinguished parsonage who has made
practice through life of never wearing
an oyercOat. The late Canon Bladon,
whose near approach to centenarianism
viii be remembered, attributed his long
years and good health to the same &C.
centricity. Boston Post.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Miss Susan B. Anthony arrived in New
York recently from Europe, both in
good health and spirits, Notwithstanding
rather tempestuous voyage. During
their soiourn abroad these ladies met q
large number of people who sympa-
thized with the movement to secure
suffrage for women.-M I. Tribune.
The late Thos. Whitridge, of Balti-
more, whose bequest of 100000 to the
American Unitarian Association, togeth-
er with large requests to relatives and
friends, has excited much interest, was
native of Tiverton, r. l.. where he
was accustomed to pass his summers
He was eighty-two years old and had
made his large fortune in the Rio and
China trade. Baltimore San.
Prof Thomas j. Morgan, of Pots
dam, N. Y, has been chosen principal
of the Rhode Island State Normal
School. He is native of Indiana, was
graduated in the State in 1861, and
served in the army during the war,
coming out Brigadier- General. Since
then he has successfully had charge of
the work of the New York Baptist
Union for Ministerial Education, been
principal of the Nebraska State Nor
NAL School, held professorship in the
Chicago Theological Seminary and been
principal of the Normal School at Pots
DAMN. Y. Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27
PhOtOgraphing on Silk.

'Can you photograph on satln?
asked lady who hurriedly entered the
reception room of popular photo
grapher on Woodward avenue.
eve cam answered the photograph
er, pleasantly, ''or on silk. ribbon,
linen, cotton anything you wish
WELL pursued the agitated caller,
untying her bonnet strings and taking
a long breath, Eve got a piece ofmy
great-grandmother's wedding dress
here, and want my picture photo
graphed on it for crazy quilt, and l
read in the paper that you did that
kind of work"
A representative of the Free Press,
who happened to be present, asked Mr..
Friend if it was not a new art.
''No, it IS an old art revived. I have
a painter of photographs in my employ
who makes a speciality of the work.
He practiced it in Canada many years
ago.
.What has caused this sudden de
mand for silk photographs"
''Iti is not sudden. l made photo
graphs on silk of Mr.. and Mrs. Gar
field two years ago for lady in this
city who was making a pictorial quilt.
I have photographed pictures of people
on handkerchiefs, book-marks, flags,
curtains and ribbons. There is this
feature about photographing on linen:
You can gUaSh and boil the work and it
won't come out. There is some special
interest shown among society people
just now on this subject. because of some
napkins used at the banquet given to
Henry Irving, the actor, before he
left London. His photograph was on
each one, and of course it was intended
as a souvenir for the guest to take away
with him"
lis there anything secret about the
process?"
''Not at all; the parties have mega.
tives taken and the silk or cambria
is painted from the negative. There
will be a rage for it if it once gets
started, and people viii have photo
graphs printed on their curtains and
tides and in handkerchief corners.
The face of beautiful young lady on
the corner of a gentfeman's handker-
chief would be much more attractive
than monogram or initial letter. It
would be just the thing for hat Innings
and bands. The papers said that the
art of phOtographing on silk or linen
was unknown on this side of the water.
That may be true as regards the rest of
the country, but we can do the work
in the highest style of art right here in
Detroit. and have photographed whole
sets of elegant dinner napkins for
society families here before Irving ever
thought of leaving London"
Thanking the photographer for his
information the visitor withdrew, sur
missing that the family photographed on
the napkins would probably secure the
right one at meals, while the wash
would be promptly returned if the
missing pieces are to haunt the wretched
| lsundress with a vision of her customers.
AS new system of making linen, it
suggests various advantages. -Detroit
Free Press.
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! g0NG FoR- NEW 80 "

STAY vet my friends, moment stay
Sfay till the good old year,
So long companion OF our way,
Sbol<es hands and leaves us here.
Oh stay, oh stay,
One little hour, and then away
.vrbe.ve whose hopes were high and strong
Has now no hopes TO wake;
Yetone hour more of jest and song
For his familiar sake.
" Oh stay, oh stay,
One mirthful hour, and then away.
s,rbe kindly year, his liberal hands
Have laVished all his store,
And shall we turn from where he stands,
Because he gives no moreI
Oh stay, oh stay,
one grateful hour, and then away.
ravs brightly came and calmly went
While vet he was our guest;
How cheerfuly the week was spent!
How sweet the seventh days restI
oh stay, oh stay,
|. One golden hour, and then away.
Dear friends were with us, some who sleep
Beneath the coffin lid,
What pleasant memories we keep
OF all they said and did!
Oh, stay, oh stay,
One tender hour, and then away.
Even while we sing, he smiles his last
And leaves our sphere behind,
The good old year is with the past;
Oh, be the new as kind!
oh stay, oh stay,
One parting strain, and then away.
--WilLiGTn Cullen BTITd?lt
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27
On Managing Husbands.

See that your husband is properly fed
and the chances are that he viii take
pleasure in seeing that YOU are properly
clothed. The experiment is worth try
ing anyway.
When any of your husband s relatives
come always give them the spare room.
If you should give up your own apart
ment and sleep in the spare room your
self you might catch your death of
cold.
Judge man not by great deeds, but
by the little attentions of daily life. If
he nightly brings an evening paper
home to you be sure that, although
older and more carewOrn than when he
married you, he is your ardent lover
still.
Put down bedroom carpets late in
the day, VIXEN it is too dark to see
where you drop your tacks. When
your husband gets up at night and goes
searching around for paregoric he viii
find them and perhaps pick them up for
you.
| In a family of children it usually
happens that one or two are bad tenn
pered and very hard to manage. Never
lose an opportunity of reminding your
husband that they do not bear the
! slightest resemblance to any member of
your family. This will keep him from
fancying that they take after you.
1t is very necessary when business
man comes home after day of harass-
ing care and continued struggles with
! powerful competitors that his mind
| should be distracted from such subjects.
The best way to accomplish this is to
| spend the evening telling him about
the incapacity and impudence of your
/ servants.
Always keep the love letters your
! husband wrote you before marriage IN
a well-locked iron box In the darkest
corner of the attic. Nothing puts a man
| in such a temper as to stumble across
| his former illusions and read few
! pages of them. Some men under such
! circumstances have been known to kick
| themselves down stairs and be seriously
injured.
Always be in some far away part of
the house when your husband comes in
and let him hunt You up. If he finds
you in the lumber room covered with
dust and dirt, slashing around with a
wet cloth in your hand. he will know
that you are faithfully doing your
ssdooty' IF You should meet him IN
| the hall with neatly-arranged hair and
a smiling, up-turned face, he might
imagine that you had been lounging in
the parlor all day reading French
novels Philadelphia Call.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27
Good Advice.

It was only the other day that a par
ty of knights of the green cloth, seated
around the stove in a Second street sa-
loon, were discussing the merits-and
demerits-of a pawn-broker named Sol
ONION, who does business in South Lar
annie. All agreed that the old fellow
was closer than ones undergarment,
and never let dollar get out of his fin
gers without knowing that the recipient
left the equivalent of five in his hands as
security.
81 tell you boys" said one, elf old
Death himself should call on Solomon
and offer new lease of life for ten dol
lars, he'd make the old chap open his
overcoat and exhibit his dry bones be-
fore he would condescend to dicker with
him at all. He'd want to be morally
certain that it was death, and even then
he'd insist on his leaving his coat as
sort of q guarantee. you know
just then new arrival Clipped In
and asked who they were speaking of.
On being told he declared that Solomon
wasn't such an old skinfint as many
people supposed. why, said he, ''I'1l
bet fifty dollars that can go and Dor
row twenty-five dollars of him right now
without any other security than my
word of honor.
There were half a dozen takers
at once. The bet was made, the money
put up in the hands of one of the boys,
and the new arrival, accompanied by
one of the party, started for SOlomon's
place of business. Arriving there the
would-be borrower entered while the
other man remained outside, but looked
through the window to see that nothing
in the shape of a security changed
hands
The pawnbroker was soon made ac-
quainted with the terms of the bet.
'sNow," said the applicant, You lend
me the twenty-five dollars, and of
course win fifty dollars; then I'll re-
turn yon your money and also give you
half of what I WIN .
You bet off you twenty-five dollar
without any security, eh?' inquired Sol-
ONION.
Yes
'.Und your money vas oOp?"
mime trent, dot was ferry foolish
bishness tolt you What you dos you
go ind hedge! The Boomerang.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27
RuNala fn Nem York.

beg yer pardon, but do yer think I
can find Buffalo IN New York; in
quired a Nath'l Wrinkle looking got up
Englishman of an American fellow
passenger on the steamship.
Buffalo in New York; Certainlys
only about four hundred miles from the
city. AT the end Of the Central Railroad y
s.Ah, vas thank yer; teller down in
the cabin Just now said there wasn't
one thin two thousand miles Of New
York, yer know. Can't fool an old
sportsman, yer know. with that sort
Of CANNON. Boston Commercial Bal.
.etin.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27

"A Brooklyn On. Y. merchant made
his signs and windows so attractive that
the gazers blocked the streets. and his
competitors asked the courts to haul II
his attractions. and he court made The
order.-N Y Sltn.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27

81 had rousing time this morn
ing, said the small boy whose father
hauled him feet foremost out Of bed at
six o'clock.-M z JoaTRaE.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27

Good luck visits the poor as well as
the rich. Late London papers contain
a strange story about the good fortune
which has befallen miserable looking
woman, presenting an appearance be-
tokening hard struggle between gentil-
ity and restitution, who has for years
been selling cigars on the Strand. The
executors of the estate of a deceased
member of the bar, after hunting for
three years. finally found in the wretch
ed street Waif the former wife of the
dead man, and informed her that an es-
tate of over 925. 600 had been left her.
AT the inquest on the body OF
William Everhart. of Philadelphia. the
Coroner's physician testified that the
man had been accustomed to eating his
food ike wild beasts and that he had
died from strangulation. It was shown
that for twenty-five years he had re-
fused to eat either meat or vegetables
except in their raw state. When a
piece of raw meat was thrown him he
would pOunce upon It like q hungry
wolf and tear it apart with his teeth
| PlilddetlhiG Record
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27

-Sixty-eight counties have been or
ganized IN Texas the past year.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27

Mine trent, dot was ferry foolish
bishness. tolt you What you dOs you
go ind hedge! The Boomerang.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-07-14
THE MARKETS.
Cincinnati. July. IL, 1888.

Cincinnati. July. IL, 1888.
Flour--Fancy 1928 to 5 Is. Family $3.50
to 4.SO. Spring family s. .25 to SIS.
Hheat-No 2 hard Red at $l.04; No. 2
Red at $l.07.
Cnrn-No. 2 Mixed sheled at 5lac.; No.
3 at 50Ac. +
Oats-No. 2 White Acc. No. 2 Mixed at
36c.
Rye-No. 2 sold at 53ac.
Hay-No. l Timothy at SILL to 1850;
No. 2, $1,000 to 1850. trairie Hay, $500
to 100. Mixed Hay at $500 to 900.
NIL Feed-Bran at HOO; Shlpstuffs at
$l2.O0; and Middlings at $1,000 to Ii. 10 per
ton in bulk.
Potatoes-E Early Rose at $l4O per Dbl.
Burbanks at LIS at LBS per bush.
Cabbage-$2.25 to 2 so per crate.
Onions-$2.75 to 800 per Dbl.
Butter-Creamery at 23c. to 2ic.; fancy
dairy at l5c. to l7c.; prime at zoe. to &c;
common c.. to Sc.
Sorghum-25c. to 35c. per gal.
Egys-l3lc. to lac. per doz.
Pouhry-Liye turkeys at SIC. to &C. and
dressed at-c. to &C. per 10. Chickens are
at $3.50 to 400 per doz. Ducks 50 so to $50
per doz ra
i Apples -Good to prime at $500 to $50
per bbl.
Hides-Green at &c. to 79c. No. 2 at &c.
10 C; No. | green, sailed at Sc. at Sic;
dry, sailed at lie! to l2c. Sleeps pelts at
25c. to &C. for wooded aud &C. to &C. for
sheared.
Bacon-Short clear sides at sAc. to &C.;
shoulders at 74c. to &C.. breakfast at l2c.
to l2!c.; hams at l24c.
Lard-S4c. for prime steam.
Cattle-Common at $2.25 to 1926: good to
choice at $4.50 to 5.35; COWS at $3.50 to 5. 90;
be,fers at $500. to $40; oxen at $500 to 5. 90;
calves at $2.75 to 3.75. 1p
Hogs-Selected at 1925 to 5 IS; common
at $500 to 40; stock hogs 81 IS to S 25.
Sheep-Common to fair at 80 IS to $50;
good to choice at 1915 to 4. s; stock sheep
at 50 50 to 400; lambs, common to good, at
5000 to $50.