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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07
THE VETERAN.

An original poem by Col. Ed Jay Allen, recited
in Liberty Hail, East Liberty January II 1854, at
the public installation ceremonies of McPherson
Post, No. III, G. A. r.:
Nay. Step aside and give him space
Whose stained and threadbare suit of blue
And hating gait, and thin worn face
Tells of the veteran tried and true;
And heed not tho with vacant stare
He gives no way amid the crowd,
But presses on with absent air
Half uttering his thoughts aloud
For the crowded street has gone from his sight,
And the ring of his heel is the sentry tread
The grim old walls in the MONDAY Light
Have faded away, and over his head
Is the Southern sky, and sharp and clear
The challenge rings out, Halt! who goes there?
And the bayOnet CLEANS as he PAGES his round,
With the enemy camPed on the hills beyond.
And the wild hurrah he hears again
Where the tattered flag leads the onward way,
And the minie's scream like the whistling rain;
But the trenches are ours, and lines OF grey
Are surging back our flag sweeps on.
o the patriot fire and the might of his hand,
AS he strikes for the victory almost won,
And hear the joy bells ring through the land.
O the glory Of home sweet eyes that shine
With the glow of love when the dear name is
On the battle page. o the faith divine
That believed-and knew-when the world did
That no Bayard of old bore heart more pure,
Or courage more true, though day by day
He'd only shown the strength to endure,
And calmly plodded along his way.
No grief to-day for the shrunken limb,
No sigh for the empty sleeve at his side;
No regret for the past, though his eyes grow dim,
And the light fades out of the battle pride,
Remembering, as our lines sweep on,
How gallant hearts went down to the dead,
And he hears sigh for his comrades gone
And he walks along with a reVerent head
Stretch out long streets in narrowing line
Flow murmurOus tides of busy feet;
Beat hammer, with constant chime;
o, river, surge the wheel to greet,
Smile, reaper, in thy sylvan home
And harvest with a certain hand.
The strife is Oer-the victory won,
And gentle peace is in the land.
o veteran in whose cleaning eyes
The glory of the past doth shine
In coming years-a grander prize
A nations reverence shall be thine.
And living words shall tell the world
Thy noble deeds, who gainst the wrong
The flag of freedom first unfurled,
And suffering, made the nation strong.
And glistening eyes shall throb with tears
At names that, stamped on history's page,
Shall aye go ringing down the years,
The heroes of this patriot age.
Like martial music, sweet and strong,
Thy name with theirs shall ever be
Borne onward by the tides of song,
And crowned with Immortality.
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The NIistletOe.
Philadelphia Bulletin.

Pnladelph1d bulleLln.
In old-fashioned English families 8
branch of the mistletoe is suspended on
Christmas eve from the ceiling of the
hall. Any woman who passes beneath
the mystic spray incurs the penalty of
being then and there kissed by any man
who chooses to avail himself of the priv
ilege. One of the superstitions associated
with this custom is that the maid who
is not thus kissed at Christmas viii not
be married during the year.
This hanging of the mistletoe is a relic
of the days of Druidism handed down,
through centuries. The Druids reverence
ed the plant when found on the oak, the
favorite tree of their divinity Tutanes.
At the winter solstice great festival was
celebrated in his honor. The people,
led by their priests the Druisds, went in
procession to gather the miltletoe; when
the oak was reached on which it grew
two white bulls were bound to a tree.
The chief Druid, clothed in white, as
cended it, and with a golden knife cut
the sacred plant, which was caught by
another priest in the fold of his robe.
The bulls, and often human victims,
were sacrificed, and the mistletoe divided
into small pieces, was distributed among
the people. They hung the sprays over
the doors Of their houses as a shelter and
Precipitation to the sylvan deities during
I the season of cold.
In the Scandinavian mythology the
mistletoe is a plant of no mean impor-
lance, it, so the legend relates, having
| been the instrument of the Staying Bal
der. the god of eloquence and poetry.
Balder one day, told Friga, his mother,
that he had dreamed dream which
foreboded his DEATH She, to protect her
son, secured an oath from fire, air, earth,
/ water, the animals and plants, that they
would do Balder no harm. He, being
| thus shielded, took his place amid the
/ cOmbats of the gods, and fought without
fear
Loake, his enemy, seeing that not one
of his arrows, which fell in showers upon
Balder, did him the least harm, deter
mined to discover the secret of his irwin
| cibility. Disgusting himself as an old
woman, he paid his court to Friga, and
eomplimented her upon the valOr and
good fortune of her son.
! She, seduced by latttery, answered
that nothing could injure Balder, as all
the powers of nature had sworn not to
harm him. She added however, that
there was one plant which she had not
! invoked, thinking it too insignificant to
inflict injury on any one.
.'And what may be the name of that
| plant ?" asked LOake, in the blandest of
tones.
''It is feeble little shoot which grows
on the bark of the oak" answered the
simple Friga.
Loake Immediately procured the mis-
tletoe and made from it an arrow. En-
tering the assembly of the gods he said
to the blind Heda, "Why do you not con-
tend with the arrows of Balder?"
II am blind and have no arms" an
swered Heda.
Bladder is before thee. Shootp said
Loake, handing her the arrow of misle-
toe. Heda shot and Balder fell dead,
pierced by the insignifcant.p plant.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07
Wit and Honor.

There is town on a Missouri railroad
called Coming. It is so called because
the passengers are often in doubt Wheth-
er the town is moving toward them or
the train toward the town.
Cook Madam, why are the eggs so
small lately?" ooh, that is the fault of
the farmers wives They take the eggs
from the nests before they have time to
grow the ordinary size"
If the oldest inhabitant could be bound
in calf and kept on a shelf until wanted,
he might be useful; but he can never be
found when his facts are needed, and so
he goes for nothing.
"Where our storms come FROM" read
Mr.. BrOughne in scientific paper. "Well,
1 know where a great many of them
come from" he mentally CALCULATED, look
ing up and glancing at his wife.
There is an old proverb which says:
You cannot get more out of a bottle
than was put In it." This is a mistake.
A man can get out all that was put In
the bottle and in addition he can get $40
or thirty days.
How do the foreign artists get hold of
us to take our money away" re-echoes
ND town manager at is because as q
people we have more curiosity than have
monkeys and more money than brains"
It is now generally believed that the
celebrated remark of the Governor of
North Carolina to the Governor of South
Carolina was made just after Mr.. Evarts
had done speaking.-BOStOn Star.
Scene, a Sunday School. Young lady
catechising the children on the plaques
of Egypt. Y. land what became of
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An Odessa Horror.

A few weeks ago seven girls employed
at sugar factory In Balta, near Odessa,
in Russia, left that town in the evening
to return to their native village at some
distance. The girls, belated on the way,
resolved to pass the night in the fields
and proceed at day-break They had
located themselves near haystack in a
field adjoining the highway, and, having
some slight fears of robbery, placed their
united weeks earnings in the hands of
one of their number for greater safety.
The unfortunate girls were all fast asleep,
when they were tracked by number
of young men. The girl who had secret
ed the money in her dress had taken the
precaution to cover herself with hay.
The miscreants, finding no money on
the persons of the other six girls muir
dered them in cold blood. They then
fired the stack, and in the confagratIon
and smoke the surviving and terrified
girl effected her escape and reached the
village in safety. An alarm was given,
and the murderous band were all arrested.
The survivor had recognized the muir
derers, who were all employed in the
same factory as their victims.
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THE sNOw-CAPPED PLANET.
The Most Interesting Celestial Event of the
Year Punished bY Mars.

1OaT 4 ur1Sneu mars
Perhaps the most interesting celestial
event of the year will be the opposition
of Mars at the end of the present month.
says the New York Sun. There is so
much about this remarkable planet that
suggests a close resemblance to this
earth, and so many of its surface fea-
lures and of the natural processes occur
ring upon it are visible with telescope
aid, that every time it comes TO opposi-
ton, that is, getsin line with the earth
and sun, the earth being in the middle, a
battery Of telescopes is turned upon it with
eager expectation of interesting views,
if not of important discoveries. At OPP
position Mars appears with small tele-
scopic powers like full moon of a rud-
dy tinge. As the =magnifying power is
increased one detail after another of the
diversified surface of this distant world
comes into view, until it hangs in the
field of the telescope a real globe, mark
ed plainly with continents, oceans and
islands, and partially covered with
clouds.
The first physical features of Mars that
come into view are the snow caps SUR
rounding his poles. The southern pole
is now inclined toward the earth, and a
small telescope, say of three inches
aperture, will plainly show the circular
cleaning patch ofsnow that covers the
Antarctic region of the globe of Mars
The dark ring surrounding the snow
field. and called Phillips Sea. is almost
equally distinct, and some of the other
seas, or spots that are believed to be seas
can be seen with the same telescope
With larger telescope details are visi-
BILE, and with the largest and best all the
various features of Marian geography
which are represented on some of the
wonderfully complete maps of Mars that
have been constructed can be seen
What a surprising thing it is that men
have been able to make maps and globes
representing with high degree Of COM
pleteness the surface Of world never
much less than 100000 miles distant
from the earth
Large telescopes will, during the pres
ent opposition, also be able to show the
two tiny moons of Mars, which reYolve
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07

Mrs. Joseph Shaw, of GatesvilIe.
Tex, recently saturated her clothing
with kerosene, then dashed herself Sc
curely to q tree and set her clothes on
fire.
"A church erected by English settlers
in Isle of Wight county, five miles from
Smithfeld, Va, is said to have been
built in 1882, and to be the oldest church
now standing In the country.
The French chamber defeated proposed
measures for relief Of the laboring classes.
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seriously, said: "That poor GiIberte will
never get married"
Dear friend, will you let your friend
die victim to stupid trick I entreat
you, do not let her be the eleven thou
sand and first!
Forgive me, I am wretch; but love
you sincerely. Your old friend.-The
Modern 0e
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07

An original poem by Col Ed Jay Allen, recited
in Liberty Hail East Liberty, January IT, 1884, at
the public installation ceremonies of Mcpherson
Post, No III, G. A. r..
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07

I Preached Cologne next day. I was
sent for inconsequence of fearful acct
dent which had reduced whole family
to despair. An amputation was impera-
tive. They gave nae room in the house,
almost made a prisoner of me; 1 saw no
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-09
HILLSB0R0.
COTTON is ROLLING IN RAPIDLY
Its Price Same ns Dallas Ratos-Nicld
SmRll-Corn Better-Chapter of
Accidcnts-Town Improving
Other Notes Etc.

HILLsBoRo, Sept. s. Special. Cotton
is coming in at the rate of twenty-five
to forty bales per day, and is selling at
$50 to O.4O. The crop will not exceed
one.third of an average.
The yield of corn is better than was
generally anticipated, and is selling at
% to 80 cents per bushel. The wheatand
oat crop is fair average, and prices
offered by buyers are so far short of that
paid in former years that farmers are
holding up for more favorable terms.
No rain yet. Eleven weeks of continu-
ou' d outh.
The past few days has furnished quite
"a chapter of accidents. A little son of
Mr.. Tarbuthen, near town had one OF
his leg bones badly fractured by fall
from horse. A Mr.. Trip, living few
miles in the country, had his shoulder
dislocated and collar bone broken, and
a Mr.. Will Scrags, living few miles
west from town, received severe con
| fusion of the brain from the same cause
The town continues to improve.
The merchants are receiving their fal
stocks, which are large and well select
ed. New and substantial residents ar,
daily taking up their abode with us.
our schools and churches are in
flourishing condition, and in truth,
seems that all the conditions exist nee
essary to the prosperity of the town,
Prof. Coleman, late Of Palestine
opened the public free school to-da
with 100 little ones, and the prospect
that ere few weeks pass, the numbe
will be increased To 300.
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STATE CAPITAL.
Charters 90 Bonds Bought Certificates
Other Notes.

Charters - Bonds bought t-Certihcates-
other Notes.
AUSTIN, Sept. ESPECIAL. Charters:
Young County Nows company, OF Ora
ham, and oakwood Co operative As
sociation of Patrons of lIusbandry, capi-
tai stock $4,000.
The Comptroller purchased Demmit
county bonds to the amount of $4,000,
bearing interest at per cent, for the
benefit of the school fund, to-day.
The Printing Board awarded contracts
for the State printing as follows:
Second-class printing, Il. w. Swim
dells.
Fourth-class, Eugene Won Boeckman.
Stationery, j. A. Nagle.
The consideration Of bids for first and
third-class printing was postponed till
tomorrow.
The Governor will attend the meeting
and speak ut Lampnsas next Thursday.
The following parties who attended
the summer NOrmals have certificates
awaiting them In the Office Of the Super.
intendont of Public Instruction: II. /.
Taylor, Harrison county; Miss May
Meyers, Grayson; Is. f. Ellis, Bowie
w. NJ. Thompson, Kopporl; II. A. Rob
bins, Wood.
Several wagon-loads emigrants passed
through the city this morning, Each
wagon contained from six to nine child
rem.
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PORTLAND, ME-. Sept. s.-The citizens
OF Maine will to-day elect Governor, 4
members OF Congress, 81 State Senators,
ibl Representatives and full boards of
county officers. The gubernatorial vote
Of 1870 stood; Plaistcd, Fusion, 1878;
Davis, Republican, 1854; scattering,
5i5. Total, l41, ,SO2
Tho Presidential vote stood: Garfield,
H,052; Hancock, 65,2lli Weaver, i,i09;
Neal Dow, Q1i scattering, lN. Total,
l43,pO3.
This shows Republican plurality OF
SSH, against q minority ot l6g In the
| guhernatorial election Of September,
The presidential vote generally gains
ON the gubernatorial vote OF
the same year owing 20 slackened ut.
tontion ofthe defeated party; therefore IL
winners majority to-day may be added
u fair increase for Presidential majori
heaviest ever cast. Gov. Roberts hat
served one torn, and In popular, and o.
the highest character. John Il. Rod
man, Democratic candidate, II ayoungel
man, but popular everywhere and res
pectod. There Ia no reason why eacl
should not command u full party vote
although interest 10 in the Presidential
contest. Outside comparisons can b
made with 1880, but the figures OF tn
most recent vote, that OF 1882, will h
used for press comparisons, In con
formity with usual customs In order b
give the closest possible estimates o
what the present years. vote will be.
PORTLAND, MN, Sept. S.-Roturn
from all sections OF the state sho,
slight Republican gains over 1870.
The Congressional vote IN coming
very slow, but at 10 o'clock indication
are that all four present Congrcssme
: will be reelected
Tho Constitutional amendment WI
/, carried by good majority.
Ono hundred towns givo Rohie N,15
. Redman, 2,lg7; scattering, loo. X
publican plurality, a7ll. Some tow
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-09

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. s.-The lin
coin Savings bank, OF Fayetteville, Ten
nessee, closed its doors this morning. A
placard on the door, signed by President
James, explains that the stringency of
the money market and inability to
collect forced the suspension. The
depositors, II is said, will be
paid in null and the stockholders
will perhaps get so per cent. Deposits
are about 100000 and the assets S260,OOO
II is reported that a meeting of the
stockholders is called for Saturday,
when more will he known. In the ex-
citement that prevails it is impossible to
| get the exact figures.
The bank has u considerable part OF
its money invested in real estate, on
which cash cannot readily be raised.
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WACO wIRELINGs.



WACO, Sept. S. Special. Mr.. NJ. II.
shepherd, of New Orleans, who died at
the McClelland hotel yesterday, was
buried this morning. The deceased
who was quite an old man, was travel
ing for the McGinnis oil and Soar
works, New Orleans. Mr.. Shepherd
Y mrs ago, established the first cotton
seed oil millin New Orleans, aud msy,D,
said TO have been the pioneer In that In.
dustry His son, DR.. T.. 4. Shepherd
who is president of the New Orlean,
Medical association, arrived too late tc
see his father alive. The remains will
he disinterred when cold weather sot'
in, and carried TO Connecticut.
Cotton buyers here were taken little
aback to-day by the railroads advanc-
ing cotton freights to the East 62i4 cent
per bale. This move caused a break o
onc-eighth of cent In the local market
Receipts to-day are 53 bales. Total re
ceipts since September LIST, $50 bales.
The Texas Lantern In its next issue
will come out for Wash Jones for Gov
ernor.
= Waco Female College opened to-da,
for tho fall term with ninety-onc stu
| dents.
A New York capitalist has offered (,
take Waco bonds ut ninety-throe cents
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GREENvILLE.
A penth-Yarlous Note..

GRIBSvILLn, sept. Especial. MIR.
Joseph Mclntire, an old citizen, died
hero Saturday morning.
Yesterday some boys amused them
selves by tormenting Sam wah, the
Chinaman, who retaliated by choking
several OF thom.
The insurance mon settled the court.
house claims at $4,000, and the burned
material.
Architect Dodson IN expected her,
this week, aud the work OF rebuilding
will doubtless commence soon.
Work upon the various buildings, nov
in construction, In progressing rapidly
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Women at the Polls.

BATH, Me-, Sept s.--The vote for dov-
ornor seems to be running about the
same as In 1852. Al noon the vote was
over two to one In favor OF the Republi-
cans.
The presence of women at the Ward
room, working for the constitutional
amendment, Is novelty heretofore un-
known. The amendment will probably
| hn nnrrind horN.
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kept my mouth closed. feared an
expulsion by the directors"
Joseph Fis2er, Sr., custodian of the
Voorhees, estate, refused to diyulge
what he had not signed to release
the property held by him, when the sale
of bonds might have been effected.
"No, sir" he said "I am not such n
rascal as to take the landed estate from
the Voorhees, boys, and You will lind
mo always on the side of the weak
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Gratifying Reports from all over the
StntR.

CoRsIcASA, Sept Especial Chair
man Bryan II. Berry, Of the Democratic
Executive Committee, is receiving daily
reports OF the organization OF Demo
cratic clubs throughout tho State, and
feels satisfied the largest straight vote
ever given by tho Democracy OF Texas
will be pollod this fall.
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NEW York, Sept. s.--The suicide of
President Runyon, of the First National
Bank, New Brunswick, is said in Wall
account at the bank for about $4,000. He
also invested the banks IN ney in secu-
rites not negotiable at the value rep.
resented.
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Electrical Conferences.

pnILADElrnIA, Sept. s.-Tho United
States Electrical Conference assembled
this afternoon In the Exhibition build
ing and was called to order by Prof.
Simon Nowcomb, President.
Prof. II. A. Rowland made the open.
ing address. Thcro were also remarks
by Vice-Presidont Sir VIM. Thomson
concluding with n statement OF the OBJ
ject Of the conference and an announce
ment OF tho programme for the mex
| meeting.
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sn,i.fac,nrr ErnIanatlen.

LONDON, Sept. s.-A later dispatch
from the Times correspondent at Foo
Chow says; The Chinese nre Profound
" distressed at their mistake In hiring
on the Zephyr, and have made satisfsc-
tory explanation TO the British Al
I uiiral.
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EncouraKInr Rehorts.

AUGUSTA, GA, Sept. s.-rho sub-con-
mittee for the South Atlantic States and
the National Democratic committee
received to-day reports from North
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabsms
that prospects are encouraging.
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HopoKES, n. Y, Sept. s.-The Sow
cnth district Democratic Congressional
convention renominated William Nc
Adoo.
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The Austin stralrht-Out. select delegates

AUSTIN, Sept. 8. Special - The
straight-out Republicans held meet
ing tonight to send delegates to the Dali
las convention, but DeGress, at the hoad
of aboul 100 negroes, went In and broke
the meeting up. The scene was the most
disgraceful ever witnessed in the Travis
county court house. Tho straights
selected their delegates amid the confi-
sion and noise raised by the mob and
quietly withdrew.
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DALLAS ACADEMY

The opening OF the Dallas Academy, 1912
Jackson street, is announced for the Sth OF
September, 1884, with efficient teachers. The
Principal will maintain an earnest personal
supervision over each department, and will
aim to achieve the best physical, moral and
mental results, by a careful study of the pu-
pills character and temperament and by fol-
lowing, as sedulously AZ possible, a good and
thorough educational programme. Kinder
garten special feature.
TBRMs PER MONTH, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
hlnuerBhrten .s.... ~ W
Primary. .......................... 50
Intermediate. 8 %
Grammar. ......... .........................3 3 80
High School Observation-Disclosures. 20
Free hand drawing on blackboard and sight
singing, without charge.
RXTRA.
Board ...;...." ....,.:. ......,.,.... Sl5 @
Laundry, lights and fuel .......... go. 6 %
Auslc-Piano, organ, guitar, each ..... 5 %
latin, French, German, Spanish Elocution
and Art, at Teachers rates.
Vocal and calisthenic exercises daily, as part
OF the programme.
Mrs. JULIA b. MONTGOMERY,
Principal and Superintendent.