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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17
Important Decision.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 6.-Secre-
tary Noble today rendered an impor-
tant decision in the case of James
Hair, of Kirwin, Kansas, an appeal
from the Commissioner of the Gen
eraI Land Office, in which hereverses
the rulings of the department during
the last administration, relating to
the amount Of timber allowable on
timber culture land entries, Hair, in
his application, makes oath that on
the land in question there are two cot
tonwood trees and four cottonwood
sprouts two inches in diameter. The
section was returned by the official
surveyor as timber land, under rul-
ing of the department that the words
devoid of timber in the timber cul-
ture act necessarily means without
TIMBER or destitute of timber" The
entry was therefore not allowed.
The Secretary says: ''No arbitrary
rule can be established for the gov
eminent of every case. 1t should be
the desire of the Department to ascer-
tain what the intent and purpose OF
congress was in the passage Of the
act Clearly it was to encourage the
artificial growth Of timber in prairie
country. It is within the experience
Of all mankind living in prairie
lands that ravines are to be found
thereon, and 1t would not seem that
Congress intended to exclude every
tract of that kind It stands to rea-
son that it was not the purpose to de
prive the occupants Of the great
Drairies of the West of the benefits o.
/ the act If there happened to be a sin
ole tree on their claims Z take i
/ that the words devoid Of timber
mean. practically, and to give the act
/ the construction placed upon it by
the last decision just cited, according
to their legitimate deductions anC
fair conclusions, would prevent al
entry Of any land that had any tim
/ Der of any character upon itstanding
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17
Child Labor.

Appalling stories are told of the
lives of the women and children nail
and chain makers of England. The
slender hands Of women strain and
tug at the iron from which they fash
ION the heaviest spikes used In ship
building; child hands which should
know no heavier weight than doll or
kite, lift and hammer the links of
great chains. Link by link as the
terrible chains are made, the feeble
little lives are wrought into them. a
child's soul goes up to heaven to cry
out against those who ground out its
innocent life, inch by inch,
A few years finishes the lives OF
the nail makers of England, men,
women and children. Whole fami-
lies Of them thus toll more than half
the hours of the twenty-four fol
wretched food and shelter.
The story harrows up the soul. But
the United States is not much better
Massachusetts has to-day 1000 child
ren under IA working In her factories
and for wages elsewhere. Connecti
cut, too, has several thousand. Rhode
Island has children no more than
years old weaving their helpless child
lives INTO the fabrics Of her cotton anC
wooden mills. The ones that do reael
maturity are stunted, deformed ane
stiffened, little old men and wome1
IN their teens.
STATISTICS Of labor show that as wa
ges go down, more and more mem
bers Of a family are employed in th
same manufactures. 1t must be so t
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17
The Hutchinson Tornado.

A tornado on the 8th, inst, passed
through a portion of Pratt, Stafford
and Rice counties, killing one and
wounding twenty or thirty persons,
Great damage was done to property.
The same day heavy wind damaged
Sioux Falls Dakota. AT Yankton the
windstorm assumed the violence of a
hurricane. The city hotel, new
and staunch building, rocked so that
the council hastily adjourned and
went into the street. The storm was
followed by a soaking rain.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

keep up the amount of the family
earnings. The devourer of human
flesh asks always for more and more.
Younger and younger the children
are drawn into the fatal swirl, lower
and lower sink the wages. The birth
right of all children is sunshine, mer-
riment and play. Whatever robs
them Of this is a black crime. It is a
crime that no state in the Union
out to suffer for a day.-Creston Ia.
Gazette.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

The Republican leagues of Kansas
recently met in state convention at
Wichita. The Hon. w. S. Siam
baugh, of Abilene, was called out and
made a brief talk. He excused him
self from making a political speech.
The day for the old fashioned stump
speech, the speaker declared, was
passed. The press has become the
political educator of the times, and
the fellows whose mission was once
to instruct should now endeavor to
entertain.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

The New York Press is fighting
valiantly for the unemployed poor of
that city. In a recent issue it de-
mands, first, a board Of education
abreast of the times" and then it
calls for about two thousand teachers
IN public schools for sixty thousand
children; next it asks for ten thousand
teachers for kinder garten schools,
and for builders, carpenters, masons,
bod carriers and labOrers of all sorts
to build theneeded new school houses.
These things viii cost the city some
thing, the Press says, ''but so do the
unemployed. And is It not cheaper
to pay the salaries of teachers and
the cost Of building schools to keep
the children in school than to pay out
the money for charitable institutions,
iaiIs, reformatories and almsbouses 90
That is practical reform, and the Ia
Dor problem must be solved along
that line.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

The most offensive and ridiculous
of all cranks is the religious crank.
One Of these writes to the Church
Times, of London, protesting against
the special service in Westminster
Abbey in memory Of John Bright, on
the ground that John Bright was not
a Christian but a Quaker. Atchjson
ChampiOn.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17
rHEIR RuslNEss RoomlNo.

Probably no one thing has caused
sueh a general revival Of trade At g.
w. Bickford's drug store. as their Civ
ing away 20 their customers Of so many
free trial bottles OF L)r. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption. Their
trade IS simply enormous in this very
valuable article from the fact that it al
ways cures and never disappoiuts.
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis.
Group, and all throas and lung dis
eases quickly cured. You can test It
before buying by getting 8 trial bottle
free. large size 81. Every bottle war
Fantef.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

The Clay Center Dispatch has dis
covered that forty tons of bones gath
cred in Egypt have been shipped to
New York for use in making baking
powder. Such are the dangers and
destiny Of becoming a mummy. It is
enough to cause the average citizen to
turn over in his grave when he thinks
about entering into the composition
of a hot biscuit A. D. $500.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

I tell you women are more prudent
than men. 7 tell you, as rule,
women are more truthful than men
ten times as faithful as men.
I never saw a man pursue MS wife
into the very ditch of degradation
and take her up in his arms. I new
er saw a man standing at the shore
where she had been morally wrecked,
waiting for. the waves to bring back
even her corpse to his arms, but 1
have seen women do it, I have seen
woman with her white arms lift man
from the mire Of egraiation, and
hold him to her bosom as though he
were an angel THger8OL
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

fallen or otherwise. This is certainly
too narrow a view to be taken of the
act, and perhaps it goes as far to one
extreme as one of the cases first cited
does to the other.
AS the testimony in this case is con-
ficting as to the amount of timber
on Hairs claim a further examination
IS ordered.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

Prof G. G. Blake, the Kansas
weather prophet, says that IN the
main the northern states VIII have a
blighting drouth, and no crops this
year, but Kansas viii have a full
crop, and her farmers viii get good
prices. He places Kansas City IN the
center Of the fortunate region, and
advises: .sThe drouth this summer
viii be so severe IN many states that
we do not see how to give any advice,
as the crops simply dry up long be
fore maturity. But in Kansas, part
Of Missouri and the South the great
est efforts should be made to plant
every available acre with corn assoon
as possible.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

Harrison Kelley was nominated on
the 218th ballot by the Republicans
of the Fourth Congressional district
to fill the vacancy in Congress made
BY the resignation of Thomas Ryan.
Mr.. Kelley is a resident of Coffee
county, and a young man with very
bright career before him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

A tract of land nearly as large as
Kansas has been given to railway
companies in Manitoba in consider
alton of the building of roads in that
region. In a recent discussion OF the
subject in the Canadian parliament it
was shown that upwardsof forty mil
lion acres of land had thus been dis
posed of.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

We look upon New York as a great
city, but it has only 100000 popula-
ton, while London has 1888, Al, and
Paris 1858. 023.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17
$3.50 IN ADVANCE

A bill, introducing the Australian
ballot in cities of 5000 population
and upward, has passed the Missouri
legislature.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17
PTairieVieW Business Directory.

Notary Public JACOB. PoPPE,.
Justice Peace and Notary Public, D. D. BBsus
Druggist and Physician. ..........H. C. SPRAGUE.
General Merchants, ........P oPPEN s. VAN D1Esr.
I'D. ". THOMAS.
Logan Lumber Co, Manager. o. j. ". Bowman.
Harness Dealer ....-.-......... WIN. HUEDERsiA1J.
Livery and Feed Stable. .......... JOHN CUMMINGS
Hardware and Implements e. 81. S. FARMER.
Blacksmith Shop &C.. .......... V1EzENr BoLTE.
Flour Store .-...-....... .....M Mrs H. HODGINs.
Carpenter and Contractor. ...........G ZwrERs.
Commercial Hotel .... .....:.....L. c. TAYLOR.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

For the past two weeks forest fires
have been raging in Michigan and
vast amount of property has been
destroyed and some lives lost
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
LAKE DISASTER.
Destructive Gale on Lake Ontario-A Yes
sci Goes Ashore.

Destructive Gale on Lake Ontario-A Yes
sci Goes Ashore.
KINGSTON, Ont, May 3J.-The worst dis.
aster that has occurred on Lake Ontario
in many years took place Tuesday. The
steam barge. D. d. Calvin. of Kingston.
with a tow OF schooners with timber from
St Ignace, was struck by gale off Long
Point. The tow line parted and the Nor
way, Valencia and Bavaria were in the
trough of the sea- The two former man
aged to come to anchor after being
waterlogged, and were picked up
by the Calvin and Armenia and
brought here. The crews were
perched on cabin tops for twenty -four
hours. without food and with the waves
washing over them. and suffered terribly.
The Bavaria went ashore ON Calico
island, sixty miles from here, and the
crew were: Captain John Marshall, wife
and three children, of Kingston; First
Mate Felix Campau. wife and six children,
of Garden Island; Second Mate John Smell
leaves a widowed mother; William Nc
Clarity, Garden Island; Sandy Berry,
Pittsburg; Archy Borley and Elias Borley,
St PauPs bay. all seamen and single, and
Bella Hartman, cook.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
NOTES OF THE HOUR.

~"Send me-" wrote the Missis-
sippi hardware merchant. zone 'Argu-
ment Against Negro Suffrage 16mo.,
with 100 tracts on the same subject"
And the jobber filled the order by
sending him a Winchester rifle and
100 rounds of ammunition. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
EaFThe tariff does not shut the
American producer out of foreign
markets; neither would the abolition
of the tariff help the American pro-
Queer to control foreign markets. I'M
less he could sell cheaper and better
goods than his competitors. Boston
Journal
B9 After the rascalc are all turned
out and public affairs once more in
trusted to good and true men, then it
will be time enough to consider the
question of tenure of Office, which
seems to give the unhappy mug
so much anxious concern--Iowa State
Register.
ESA Southern statesman thinks
that the only way to settle the negro
problem in the South is for them to
divide their votes between the two
parties 1t is not the negro that
causes the trouble at all. 1t is ths
white men. Let the whites divide up
their votes and we will soon hear the
last of race troubles in the old llavs
States--Peoria QlL) Journal
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
THE LATE CYCLONE.
Further Particulars of the Kansas Tornad
Extent of the Damage.

Further Particulars of the Kansas Tornado
Extent of the Damage.
EMPoRIA. Kan, May Sa-Tne cyclone
which visited Chase County Tuesday,
twenty-three miles west of this city, was
terribly destructive Of property and one
life was lost with almost a certainty of
another, and about a dozen were more or
less injured. Latest reports from the
scene state that not house nor fence of
any kind has been left standing for near
" four miles in the track of the cyclone
and only bare trunks or s;umps of trees.
The point of most damage was near the
Santa Fe railroad track, about two
miles west of a small town named
Clements, on the farm of Milton
Brown, whose house was RACED to
the foundation and he himself almost
instantly killed. His wife was fatally in
jured and his oldest son. Edward, had his
leg broken. His daughter. Sarah, was
badly hurt internally and one of her legs
was broken, and his little baby's head
bruised almost out of shape. portion
of the house roof fell on and crushed Mr.
Browns head almost fat and he lived but
few minutes. The residence of Spencer
Pickard was totally destroyed to the
foundation. s. ID. Haston lost all his bee
hives, barns. outhouses and had his resi-
dence badly damaged. The residence of B.
~ Chappell was lifted and blown fifteen
feet off its foundation and dropped on the
ground total wreck. Job Johnson lost his
windmill, orchard, residence, outhouses,
barns, etc. and himself and daughter
were injured, the latter so badly as TO be
unable to be about. William Dawson was
also hurt in the wreck of Johnson's house.
At least fifteen or twenty other farmers
lost residences or crops or both and there
is no estimating the monetary loss to
those visited by the wild winds. Some
wonderful escapes from death are chron.
icled among them that of the family of
Milt Hunt who took refuge in their ce liar
and escaped without a scratch to any Of
them, although the house was blown to
fragments from over the heads. Another
family named Hoff escaped by flying to
the cellar of Mr.. Brown. who himself was
killed. Many peculiarities of the storm
were noted. Among them was the snap.
ping off of huge elm tree by
the wind while not ten feet away
was a very small soft maple with
seemingly not a leaf missing. At
one place the fence posts for long dis
lance were stripped of their wire. it hav-
ing seemingly been blown away, and in
other places the posts themselves were
gone and the wire lay around loose. The
storm took with slight deviations an al
most due east course and barely passed
the town Of Clements by possibly half a
mile. Had it struck the town the loss of
life and property would have been fearful
to contemplate. Mr. Brown, who was
killed, was formerly from Rush County,
Ohio, and has relatives here. He also has
relatives named Stevenson, who reside at
Burlington, Kan. He was a we'll to-do
farmer nearly fifty years age, and served
during the war in the Ninety first Ohio
infantry, and was mustered out as Cap
tain of a company in that regiment
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
MUGWUMPS MOURNING.
Lamentations Not Likely to Cease Until a
Democrat Is Elected.

/
Democrat Is Elected
The sorrow of the mugwump over
the fact that the present National
Administration is Republican is the
only mournful sound these days. This
grief is all the more hopeless because
the mugwump made up his mind to be
unhappy long before the Inauguration
of President Harrison. He said. in eff
feet, last fall that If the country would
persist in electing the candidate whom
BE opposed. that the country might go
to the devil. This was hard blow to
the country, but nevertheless it de-
cided to celebrate the beginning of a
second century of the Republican ex-
pertinent, and to keep up appearances
little longer. in the hope that the
mugwump will relent. But will the
mugwump relent? Frankly, we do not
believe that he will. A human being
who was able to uphold Mr.. Cleve-
lands failures and commend his sort
Of Civil-Service reform, doubtless will
be able to find fault with another Pres
ident during an equal length Of time.
Four years is not a long period of
dumps for the mugxump, and since
he has elected himself chief mourner
at the demise of the Democracy, his
baying, probably. will be heard at
every full moon from now to 1898. 1t
is a comforting thought that every
body, including the mugwump, is in
the joke. but the rest of us will never
believe that the great political humor-
ist appreciates to the full how funny he
can be- For example, there is the
Bishop of New York who refused to be
happy during the centennial. but
PREACHED at a public thanksgiv-
ing service on the dangers to
the Republic, which he has dis
covered in immigration and the
rule of the majority. OF course. these
dangers never having been thought of
before, it was wise to warn the public
of them while there were strangers in
town, in order that the information
might travel to Harrisburg, Albany
and the other outposts of civilization.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06

by word of mouth. there being no
other way to spread the news in. these
primitive times. If the good Bishop
had gone over to the East-side tene-
ment district after his ieremiad, he
would have found that if bunting is
any indication of loyalty, the poor and
the foreign-born residents of New
York are among the most patriotic OF
our citizens. We have improved our
patriotism in some respects since
Washington was inaugurated. Even
the religious denomination to which
the Bishop of New York belongs was a
Tory sect hundred years ago,
and bitterly opposed both indie
pendence and union. 1t is loyal
now. But there were other dangers
and other fault-fnders in plenty a
century ago. Small critics assaulted
the fathers of the Republic then, just
as the mugwump now pitches into the
persons who are unfortunate enough
to have incurred his contempt by not
agreeing with him. five patriots are
looking for somebody to find fault with
over the centennial, why not condemn
the owner of white stone palace in
Fifth avenue who put a wooden jacket
over the accessible parts of his resi-
dence to keep the public off carving
which cost stone-cutter his eyes, but
who forgot to swing out the stars and
stripes in honor of Washington? Or
fce-seekers and immigrants do not
constitute the only dangers of repub-
lic.-Time.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
DISTINCTION.

He sat apart, and stern, grim-visaged men
Looked on with awe, unvoiced at first and
As though their wonder had o'ercome their
They tried to speak, but could not for their
tears
questioned who il was that could so wake
The worship OF such men, so deeply shake
Their selfish souls given Ger 10 greed or worse,
So drew near and then approached him thus:
Were you on Chickamauga's bloody field
To take command when weaker men would
yield
Or bore the flag in triumph TO the top
OF Mission Ridge, and not star let drop!
''Were you the man who led The hope forlorn
With troops whose ranks with shot and shell
were torn:
Or he who with minimum OF men,
Held fast the fort against ten score and tent
"Perchance, then, it was you whose precedence
keen
Saw victory's road, by all men else unseen;
To you 1t may be, that we owe to-day
The tribute OF a nation saved for aye.
"Or hEply, you have memoirs yet unseen
Within the page OF book magazine;
Some private cipher that viii give the key
To much that stIll remains mystery:
you're none OF this, then tell me why they
stare
At you, as at some unknown thing or rareg'
The old man spake as man ne'er spake before;
" was a private, sir, clear through the war;!
Louise Phillips, in Yankee Blade.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
RANDOM SHOTS.

THERE are now 400 inmates, big and
little, in the Soldiers Orphans Home
in Davenport
The Union ex-prisoners of war will
hold their annual convention at Mil
waukee, Wis, August p and 2S
FRANCIS E WARREN, Governor of
Wyoming, is veteran. He served q
Massachusetts, regiment enlisting at
the age Of seventeen. He served
throughout the war and was mustered
out at the close, in 1865, with rank of
Captain.
The relatives of Captain Robert E
Travis, killed by bushwhackers while
serving in an Arkansas cavalry regi-
ment, can learn full particulars of his
death and place of burial by address
ing Comrade Robert A Houston,
Southwest City. No. James o. VIII
liams, wounded at the same time, il
living, is requested to communicate
with Comrade Houston
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
THE WOOL TARIFF.
Results of the Tinkering OF 1883 on Amor
lean sheep Husbandry.

The new Agricultural Department
has just published the annual report
of the number of sheep in each State
and Territory of the Union on January
last. Below is given a table which
has been prepared for the purpose Of
showing the effect OF tariff legislation
upon the sheep industry of the United
States. The first column shows the
number OF sheep in each State and
Territory by the census of 1860, under
the low tariff of 1857, which was taken
one year before the Morrill, (protect-
ive) tariff began its operations. The
second column shows the number in
1880, according to the census. In 1888
the wool tariff was reduced. and the
third column gives the number of
sheep at the first enumeration there
after. The fourth column is the re-
port for January last.
The States are arranged in sections.
with totals for each section, for con-
venience OF comparison. A compar-
ison of the figures for any State or
Territory or of the totals for any sec
ton, between the first two columns,
shows the effect of protection for the
twenty years from 1860 to 1880; be-
tween the second and third columns
the effect of four years of protection;
between the third and fourth, the re-
suit OF lower prices for wool conse-
quent upon the reduction of duties.
1t will be seen that there was a steady
increase in the greater number of
States up to 1884. and that since then
there has been a great decrease, save
in localities where the enormous in
crease of the farming population has
been SO great as to overcome this.
The table is as follows: