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The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-14
Sailors Wouldn't san With the Bride.
Atlanta Constitution


 In November last the Norwegian bark @Kate Carnie" lay at the Brunswick wharf taking naval stores for Rotterfam. While there the commander Captain L.. Lowarsez, was married to . Brunswick lady, Miss Cornell An annoying feature of the marriage was that 1t caused the captain to lose every member of his crew, who deserted, saying that 1t was bad luck to bring bride on shipboard Another crew was gotten, and Captain Lowarsens sailed for Rotterdam.
 The ill-luck feared by the sailors seemed indeedl to follow them, for on the voyage the vesseN was wrecked and abandoned Her commander and his bride, together with the crew, were picked up ana carried to New York by passenger vessel Cap tain Lowarsen now found himself without . vessel and with young bride to claim his attention, and ss the quickest way to solve the dilemma, Mrs. Lowarsen returned to her iAther's house in Bruns- wick to await the smiling of fortune again upon her husband. LowArsen crossed the water to his old home in Norway, believing that there he would be able to secure another vessel.
 His quest has been successful, and news now comes that Ae is in command of the Norwegian iron ship "City ofAgra" purchased by him recently in Grimsby, England, for sS0,00O, owners being Mr. Olsen, of Pafsgrund, and others. This vessel is described being officially ranked Al, of 1,07< tons register, and Captain Lowarsens good fortune will be received with pleasure by many Bruns- wickians.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-14

In comparison with thoss in oommsrcial pursuits Out of this hct alone, were there 10 other recom- meodations, the buslness should largely commend itself to every young man embarking In the busy Unorganized farming is very much like lot of men going into battle, each one on his own hook {; regardless of scipline-consisting of enough ma- terial to form an invincible army-but become an somewhat formidable objections against farming yet there arc some other very mbstantial facts which go to prove that farming does pay.
 Comparatively, the farmer is free iron many of the worrying cares of both the busines man and the manufacturer. His family have many oom- pentions for tho deprivations of social culture in having freedom from the turmoils and bickerings of city lilo, we'll Its temptationsof sin and its incrvased demands for fAshion and pride Then, especially, he enjoys that greatest of blessings of retirement and self culture which arc of far more value than is customary to place upon them. Then again, farming pays because of it's Independence. An unanswerable argument Of the er.nobling ten- dencies of the farmers life is the fact that the farm is the nursery furnishing . large proportion of our most useful men and women, both in litera- ture and science, well In the highest and most responsible callings in life, among us.
 The commercial men Of our largest cities, the pulpit as we'll the executive departments of the country, are largely dependent upon the genius and been born of hardship and self reliance the common heritage of every farmers boy; while very rarely, indeed, does the petted and pampered child of wealth and fashion distinguish itself in after life, in any way, that the world Is made the better by their having been born into 1t.
 While all other callings render those engaged in them, In very unpleasant sense kind Of servant, the farmer s In direct partnership with the Alwie Father, and has no concern about the whims and caprices of his customers-that both the man. ufacturer and merchant must study, ,Asd bow down before them, at their bidding. Herein consists the great underlying fact that his calling is the grand est and noblest upon earth, and eontinualy brings him into closer proximity with nature and natures God than any other class causing him to become more and more molded and fashioned after the manner of bis partner In his avocation than if his business caused him to wear away much of his life in contention and strife. His business causes him to take deeper and larger inspirations of nature, than others. He Is dependent upon none but God and himself-
 To mingie with strength and beauty
 Is the royal task of man
 fArmer's King; his throne is duty,
 And has been since his work began.
 Content he lives this is his way,
 He seeks than may unice;
 He soorns to bear naughty sway;
 And what he needs his hand supplies.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-14

Mrs. Briske-"Johnny, did the doctor call while. I was out7"
 Little Johnny (stopping his play)-"Yes'm He, felt my pulse an looked at my tongue and shook his head and said 1t was very serious case and hs left this prescription and said he'd call again before night"
 Mrs. Briske-"Gracious mel It wasn't you \ sent him to see it was the baby."-Ness Ye~A Weekly.
 Mr. Bnggs-"I wonder what women win do next! see In the paper that the women in the east are ruining their health by eating tea"
 Mrs. Briggs"Do you suppose 1t is any worse than eating coffee? Every night you come home munching coffee. and it seems to make your nose redder and redder to say nothing of the looks of your syea'-Terrs Haste Express.
 Smith-aMy house is full of heaa"
 Jones-"I can tell you how you can get rid of them"
 aHow?"
 "Give party, and then the neas wiu ro or on the guesta - Tezas SUSiAga
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-14

To mingle with strength and beauty, Is the royal task of man A fArmer's king; his throne is duty, And has been since his work began. Content he lives this Is his way,
 He seeks no more than may su nice; He scorns to bear . naughty sway;
 And what he needs his hand supplies.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
Bismarck as a Letter-Writer.

Here Is q characteristic letter from
Bismarck, apparently written between
186OI64 to John Lothrop Motley:
"JACK, MY DEAR: Where the devil
are you, and what do you do that you
never write line to me? I am work
ing from morn till night like niger,
and you have nothing to do at aIl-yOu
might as well tip me line as we'll as
looking on. your feet tilted against the
wall of God knows what q dreary color.
I cannot entertain regular correspond
ence. 1t happens to me that during
FIVE days I do not find a quarter
of an hour for a walk; but you, lazy old
chap, what keeps you from thinking OF
your old friends When just going to
bed in this moment my eye met with
yours on your portrait, and / curtaiIed
the sweet restOrer, sleep, in order to
.emind you Of auld lang syne. Why
do you never come to Berlin? tits not
q quarter of an Americans holiday
Journey from Vienna, and my wife and
me should be so happy to see you once
more in this sullen life. When can
you come, and when viii you? 1 swear
that I viii make out the time to look
with you on old LOgier's quarters, and
drink a bottle with you at GerOIt's,
where they once would not allow you
TO put your slender legs upon a chair.
Let politics be hanged and come to see
me. 1 promise that the Stars and
Stripes shall wave over our house, and
conversation and the best old hook shall
pour damnatiOn upon the rebels. Do
not forget old friends, neither their
wives, as mine wishes nearly as ardent
ly as myself to see you, or at least to
see as soon as possible a word Of your
handwriting. Sci gut ind komm oder
schreibe. Dein, Y. BISMARCK"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
WOMAN sUrFRAGE II KANSAS.
what the Women Have Done and what
They EIay Do.

what the Women Have Done and what
They bay Do.
A year ago the female voters of Oska-
Ioosa. Kansas. elected one of their num-
Der Mayor and a Council composed ex-
clusively of their sex. At the election
held this week In the same town tins
female candidates were again success
f1l. In Cottonwood Falls, also, a female
Mayor and Council were chosen.
At OskalOOsa last year the lady gov
emesses-Or perhaps we should say the
city mOthers-toOk a some what radical
position. They were not called upon to
take a position on the prohibition Ques-
ton, Kansas being a prohibition State,
but they sought opportunities of intro
ducing reforms in other directions. As
to Sunday legislation, they were less
thorough than might have been ex-
pected. They allowed the hotels, livery
stables, drug stores, and barber shops
to carry on business on Sunday, but
they stopped the sale OF bread, cigars, to
baccO, and ice cream. That they
should be lenient to the livery stables
is easily explained, for otherwise many
Of the dear creatures would miss their
weekly buggy rides. That the BARRIERS
should be allowed to work is also easy
to understand, for by their exertions rep
resentatives of the ruder sex are made
more acceptable to the ruling caste Of
OskalOOsa. But for what reason the
sale of ice cream has been forbidden
viii probably ever remain a mystery.
Among the other reforms introduced
was an ordinance requiring all boys un-
der Is to be off the streets by 8 O'Clock
at night. There was a proposition to
prohibit any one from splitting tobacco
juice from his mouth onto the sidewalks,
but it was decided by q legal opinion
that it would be contrary to the bill OF
rights, or some other part of the organic
law.
The ladies have now been endorsed.
and there Is reason to expect that they
will go further than they have done
during the past year. Being recognized
by the people they represent as sue
cessful reformers, as far as they have
gone, they may venture into new fields.
Last year they disciplined the boys,
this year they may be expected to ex-
tend the work to reform to adults OF
the subjugated sex. An ordinance re-
curing all married men to be at their
homes ut 9 o'clock at night, unless &C
companied by their wives would no
doubt fully meet the views of the town.
Provisions could be made for excep-
tionaI cases by exempting from arrest
those who hold permits from better
halves, though this would be liable to
great abuses, and would have to be
very carefully guarded. Perhaps, also,
some legislation requiring young men
visiting their sweethearts to go home at
10 or 10 80 o'clock might be attempted,
though there would be a risk that this
would be pronounced null as being in
restraint with matrimony and, therefore
against puplic policy. Henry Water
SON, IN CO2LrieT-JOljT7ldl
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
JOSH BiIIings, PbiIosoDhT.

Men are blamed for sticking their
noze into things; but it IL the only way
a dog tracks out hiz game.
The man who kan live in idIeness
successfully, muss either be too pure
or too lazy to commit emmy sin.
POetri IL a disseaze common tew all
the iterati sum hav it quite hard,
but most hay it dredfuI lite.
Inkredulity IL the wisdum ov a
phOOl; it IL only a VIE man who kan
afford tew be creduIous.
Prejudice IL a hOus plant which IL
very apt tew wither if you take it out
doors amungst phOlks.
The devil holds poor kards, but he
plays them mighty well.
What Il the next wust thing tew lie
ing? Citing ketched at it.
I am so phully aware OY the uncer-
tainty Oy the law, that If a man whom
had never seen nor heard Ov should
su me for debt Ov one hundred dol
lars, and / couldn't kOmpOund with him
for fifty, would pay the whole rather
than defend the suit.
I hav noticed this difference between
peopIe-thare are some who are not az
big phools as they look.
Most authors in writing neglekt their
punktuashuns, espeshily the full stop.
hay seen phOlks so melancholy and
so gloomy that they wouldn't admit
thare was a brite side tew ennything
in this world, not even to nu half
dollar.
If wit forms the blade, good sense
should be the handle and benevolence
the skabbard 0v the sword.
Experience L knowledge, and 1t VIII
L
gets by hard knOxs.-NeLU York
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
GuIIs I'D Their YOnng.

Every bird watches over and cares
for her own nest, though the numbers
are so great and the tumuIt so exces-
sive that 1t is difficult to conceive how
each gull can distinguish her own spot
ted eggs, placed in the midst Of so
many others, exactly similar In size,
shape and color; and when at length
the young are Matched, and are swim
ming about on the loch, or crowded to-
gether on some grassy point, the old
birds, as they come home from dis
lance with food, fly rapidly amidst
thousands Of young ones exactly similar
to their own offspring, which, roeOgniz-
ing their parents amongst all the other
birds, receive the mOrsel without any
Of the hungry little creatures around
attempting to dispute the prize, each
waiting patiently for its own parent, in
perfect confidence that its turn VIII
come in due season.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14

fully performed, but in few events has
he been very conspicuous. Gener-
He graduated from the United States
Military Academy in 1853, in the same
class with Sheridan, Mop hersOn and
Hood. Before the war he left the service
to become a professor of natural science
in a university, but at the breaking out
of hostilities he entered the army as
a volunteer. A majors commission was
rendered him at once, and Nov. 81,
1861, he had reached the grade of brig
adier-generaI. He served all through
the war; notably in the Atlanta cam
paign, and for a time was Secretary Of
War in Grants first Cabinet
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
Used Tobacco for a Hundred Years.

There lives in Breckneck Township,
this county, a coIOred man who is in
all probability the oldest person in the
State. His name is Robert Springer.
He claims that he is ia years old. He
was born in slavery in Delaware, near
New Castle, and was the slave Of John
Dent. Prior to the war of 1912 he was
set free by his master, and shortly
afterward was pressed into the Govern
ment service. In 1915 he came into
Pennsylvania to earn money to pur-
chase his wife's and childrens freedom,
but while he was trying to do so they
were sold farther South and he never
heard Of them again. He then settled
down where he is now, and has lived
there for over seyenty-fve years.
His neighbors, a number of whom
are from eighty to ninety years of age,
confirm the story of his great age, say
ing that they knew him as boys, three
quarters of a century ago when he was
a man Of considerable age. He is now
very feeble physically, although he is
bright in conversation and has an ex-
cellent memory. He smokes, chews,
and takes snuff constantly. He says
he has used tobacco continually for
about hundred years Reading (Pn.)
letter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
Copies from Nature.

Most of the sklIful devices invented
by men for doing fine work rapidly cant
be traced to nature, where for count
less centuries they have been operat-
ing, says Mechanical Progress. The
d1scOverer of each new appliance OF
mechanism might be shown that his
idea was as old as the hills. 1t is sug-
gested that the inventors of the future
VIII be those who carefully study the
natural world. The bubr stones Of the.
mills are another style of the moIar
teeth, which grind all the grists that
feed men and beasts. The hoofs OF
horses are made of parallel plates like
carriage springs. The finest file of
human manufacture is q rough affair
compared with the Dutch rush used
by cabinet makers. The jaws of the
turtle and tortoise are natural scis-
sOrs.
The squirrel carries ehiseIs in his
mouth, and the hippOpOtamus is pro-
vided with AIDES, which are constantly.
sharpened as they are worn The car
penter's plane Is found in the Jaws of
the bee. The wOOdpecker has a power
fuI little trip-hammer. The diving
bell initiates the water-spider, which
constructs a small cell under the water,
4sps a bubble of air between It's hind
Ss, and dives down to its submarine
chamber with the bubble, displa sing
the water gradually, until its abode
with fishes contains a large airy room
surrounded by water. In laying it's
eggs on the water the gnat fastens them
into the shape of a ife-boat, which it
is impossible to sink without tearing it
to pieces.
The iron mast of modern ship is
strengthened by deep ribs running
along it's interior. A porcupine quill
is strengthened by similar ribs When
engineers found that hollow beams
were stronger than solid ones, they
only discovered a principle that is very
commonly seen in nature. A wheat
straw, if solid, could not support its
head of grain. The bones of the higher
animals are porous; those of birds,
where Hghtness and strength are most
beautifully combined, are hollow. The
framework of a ship resembles the
skeleton of a herring. AerOnauts try
to copy the structure and movements
OF birds. Palissy, the French potter,
studied seashelIs to learn the best
method Of terrifying a town. The ship
worm is an admirable tunneler, boring
his way through any submerged tim
Der, and lining the round passage with
hard casing. The engineer Brunei
took hint from this animal, and was
the first to succeed in tunneling under
Water.-I7ldGJStT trial Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
The Perquisites of an Earl.

We had a very pretty little garden
at our lodgings by the gate of Warwick
Castle. It was green with holly and
shrubs, and in it the yellow jasmine
bloomed all the winter through. It
was sunny, and cosy, being sheltered
on two sides by the high outer wall of
the castle grounds, Over this wall,
the castle peacocks, both blue and
white, came daily, lending to our
small domain a medieval air. While
to us they were most welcome, to our
landlady they brought only disaster,
for they foraged on her caulihOwers
and in the end destroyed them all
why do you not complain of them ?"
we replied in answer to her complain
ings. "Why do you not demand pay
for damages 2" Enter complaint
against the peacOcks of an earl De-
mand pay for what they had eaten!
The very thought of so doing overpOw-
cred our good landlady. None but a
native of that rampant republic, the
United States Of America, could dream
of such thing There are draw
backs to the felicity of being an earl's
neighbOr. Not only must one submit
to the depredations of his peacocks,
but of his foxes upon the poultry yard.
Our landlady said that, in the part of
her native Yorkshire where she was
born, hundreds of poultry were killed
yearly by the foxes preserved for hunt
ing. The game laws Of England are
imperious and weigh heavily upon the
cottager with his few fowls +. 4. r.,
az ApTiL Vide AlUGbe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
EtFeps TOwer-1.1zs Feet High.

It takes on an average forty minutes
to walk up the spiral staircase to the top
Of the great structure By elevator the
journey can be made in one-eighth that
time. A correspondent of the New York
BUe71j7lg Post went to a little above
the 1,O0O-fOot mark, and he thus writes
of his trip: "I assembled with NJ. Glenn
enceau, Admiral Maxse, and Miss
Aaxse, a girl of Is. At ], 900 feet the
winding iron stair stopped. I crawled
across the plank over the abyss on my
hands and knees. On rising to my feet
I stumbled, but fortunately regained
my balance and did not fall off the ex-
posed platform, but the moment was
somewhat CHASTITY. Then NJ. C1emen-
ceau and I began the ascent Of ladders
about thirty feet high. The wind was
blowing hard, and there was a slight
shower of hail. 1t was bitterly cold.
the ladders shook under the ascent, and
I persuaded N. Clemenceau to desist.
His hands were so cold that he might
have slipped, and the consequences to
the republic would have been caIami-
tOus. We came down the ladder and
felt much more comfortable when We
We're once more on the staircase"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
Some Ear CrematIonists.

Cremation societies are being aug
mented in this country by women Of
the better class, who are joining them
rapidly. In New York, Brooklyn, and
Boston particularly there are a great
many Well-knOwn women enrolled
among the crematiOnists, and the move
ment is Endorsed by a still greater num-
Der who have not taken pains to become
members. Mary A Livermore. Lucy
Stone, Miss Peabody, Clara Ers5ine
Clement Waters, Edna Dean Proctor,
Lillian Whiting, Lucy LarcOm, and
Miss Whitney are among those in BOs-
ton who advocate burning the dead. In
New York there is yet greater COM
pany of literary and artistic women, and
throughout the country the numbers Of
crematiOnists are surprisingly large.
Nearly all the members of the Nine
teenth Century Club are OutspOken adj
herents to this ancient custom. Many
members of the Sorosis, of the Authors
Club, and the Artists League are crema-
Eionists, and the rank and file of hetero-
dox people are its advocates. Among
unitarians cremation is generally ac-
copied as the best mode of dispOsing of
dead bodies, and not a few orthodox
Chritians favor it earnestly. Miss
II LduClS He w 1L41LNls l41C ~ EJo1NLC44u VI
the W. @. T. u. and of the American
WOman's Council, indorses it, so like
wise do Miss Maria Mitchell, the as
trOnOmer; Harriet HOsmer, the sculp-
tor, who is in this country on a visit,
after an absence Of thirty years; Nine.
LIE Plongeon, the Archaeological, and
Mrs. Francis B. Thurber.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton believes
in cremation on hygienic grounds, as
also do Susan B. Anthony, Mrs.
Thomas, President of Sorosis, and DR..
Mary Putnam jacob Among literary
women who are avowed cremationists
are Grace Greenwood, Edith n.
Thomas, Celia Thaxter, Shirley Dare,
Helen Campbell, Mrs. Ella Wilcox,
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson, Olive
Thorne Miller, Bessie Chandler,
Sarah K. Bolton, Elizabeth Akens, Rose
Terry Cooke, Margaret J. Preston,
Laura @. Holloway, Octave Thanet,
Miss HolIey (Josiah Aliens WIFE, Kate
Field, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Mary
D. Bryan. A perfect list would include
the majority of the prominent women
writer's of the day and large percent
age of the college-bred women of the
nation EaFchH9I0e
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
Existing on His Store Of Fat.

Here is testimony to the value of
fat: On the 14th of December, 1910,
a pig was buried In its sty through the
fail of part of the cliff under Dover
Castle. The sty consisted Of a cave
In the rock about six feet square, and
boarded in front, and when the acct
dent happened the pig was in good
condition, weighing about 100 pounds.
Five months afterward, on the 23d Of
May, 1911, some workmen who were
engaged in cleaning away the debris of
the fallen cliff mentioned to DR.. Man
tell, a Wel-knOwn geOlogist of the day,
and Fellow Of the Iinnean Society,
that they were sure they heard the pig
whining. He thought the statement
incredible, but ordered them to clear
away the chalk as fast as they could !;
and, sure enough. when they got to the
sty, the pig was there, weak and en-
aciated, fallen TO only fourth Of his
former weight, but alive. In 100 days
he had been strictly self-suppo
living on the store of fat he had laid
up in more prosperous times. There
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
General scIIo3eId.
p1t0t

A correspondent, writing from Wash
ingtOn about men who draw fat salaries
and have easy times, brings in the name
of General SchOfeld. His salary is
$13, 600. Although he is the successor
Of Sheridan, who followed line of sol
diers in the Office who were national
heroes, and although he is rightfuI1y
the incumbent by reason of his services
to the country, his career has not been
such as to make his name over familiar
to the people generally. His military
life has been long and the duties faith