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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

mer, and devoted the winters to study
in preparation for college. In 1868
he entered WayIand College, and
when 20 years of age graduated with
distinction from that university. He
adopted the profession of law, went
through a course of law studies, and
in. May, 1869, was admitted to the bar
in Columbia County, Wisconsin. In
October of that year he removed to
Omaha, Neb, where he has ever since
resided. Mr.. ThurstOn has long been
known as an able lawyer, but it was
not until the assembling of the late
Republican National Convention in
Chicago, where he was made the tenn
portray presiding officer, that he
achieved a national reputation as a
forcibIe and impressive speaker. His
law practice is far more remunerative
than politics. He was a Presidential
eIectOr in 1880, and headed Nebraska's
delegation in the national convention
Of 1884
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

THERE is a report that Jay GouSl
may take up his residence in London.
His home is not the same since his
wife died, and he thinks seriously of
leaving the management of his Ameri-
can interests to his son George, and
operating himself from the other side
of the ocean.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

EDISON has in his workshop at
Orange, n. Y, q mass Of towering
shrubs and spreading palms, which
show that while the inventors mind
may be practical and mathematical, it
also has its sentimental side. There
are few men who grow flowers in their
workshop.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

The FiffeI Tower is now declared,
even by those who feared that it would
be unsightly, to have light and grace
full appearance in spite of its gigantic
size, and to be an imposing monument,
worthy of Paris"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07
The Most Famous Russian of the Day

HIT must EdAHOuS DuSSltln UL Ju6 DaFs
In Russia and out of Russia I have
found people more interested in the per-
sonality Of Count Leo TOlstoi the nov
elist, than in that of any other living
Russian. He is the first man in letters
in contemporary Russia, but that alone
would not account for the widespread
interest in his character. He is a great
original, an Independent thinker, a pro-
found philosopher, a religious teacher,
and the founder of something that is
midway between a church, a school,
and social and political organization.
He not only thinks great things, and
says them with rugged force and vivid
utterance-he does strange things; and
what is more, he induces others to do
the same. A man of genius who spends
his time IN planting potatoes and cob
bling shoes, a great literary artist who
has founded propaganda of Christian
anarchy, an aristOcrat who spends his
life as a mOuiik-such a man in any
country would command attention.
In Russia he mOnOpoizes it, and the
fame of his Originalities has spread far
and wide, until it is probable that there
are more people axiOus "to hear about
TolstOi" in Boston and San Francisco
than there are even in Petersburg and
Moscow. Il O4IGO?1 Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

AN almost inexhaustibIe mine of
kaolin has been discovered in Ebert
County, Georgia. Kaolin is used in
the manufacture of crockery and for a
good many other purposes. There is
now a mine in North Carolina, not far
from Augusta, and immense quantities
are shipped from it to the North
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

L. NJ. MCCARTNEY, of EIlensburg,
W. T., has tomcat that catches ducks.
He hides in the brake by the creek and
pounces upon its prey as it swims past.
The other day he seized a large green
head which few off with him. But
Tom finally brought the duck to earth
and killed it.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

IF the people of Dakota can hold out
against blizzard, fire, food, drought
and the railroad corporations, the day
may come when the average farmer can
pull through the year without help from
his relatives in the East.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A NEW parachutist, ". S. Young,
hopes to outstrip his rivals by dropping
with his parachute tied up in a sack.
He says that he will go so high that
he Will have time to release the para
chute and come down as usual.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

SENATOR SPooNER, of Wisconsin, is
the smallest in stature of the members
Of the United States Senate, but one of
brainest men in that body. When he
first went TO Washington he was sub
jected to no end of ridicuIe about his
size, which touched his sensitive nature
not a little.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

GEORGE W. S1IALLEY says Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the new British minister,
belongs to the new school of diplomacy,
and he ventures to predict for him both
esteem and general popularity in the
United States.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

Ex-MAYoR WEAVER, Of Pittsburgh,
"a, says there is no longer any land in
4at city available for manufacturing
sites. The lowest price for land suit
BILE for such uses is at least SIS, 600 an
acre, and that is more than manufae-
turers care to pay.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

BLESS the rising generationl A
house and lot in Syracuse worth 81, =
600 was sold for S, 900 the other day be
use the family on each side of it had
five or six children apiece. The right
sort of boys can depreciate property
20 per cent.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A COMPANY is being formed for the
purpose of establishing an extensive
railroad system in the Zambesi coun-
try in Africa. The new organization
will be known as the British Central
African Company Subscriptions to
the amount of $1,000, 600 have already
been obtained.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A WOMAN living near Romeo, Mich,
put pistol in her pocket and went out
to split wood. She did manage to es-
cape the ak, but the pistol went off and
sent a bullet into her leg. Women
should stick to fat-irons. They are
not loaded
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A REMARKABLE divorce case will be
heard j. Crawford County, Georgia.
An old gentleman, aged 80 years, who
has been married fifty years, wants to
be divorced from his wife, who is II
years old.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

UNDER the law of New Hampshire a
man who takes out a marriage certif-
cate has three days In which to sub
stitute the name of another girl, If ne
should change his mind. That's the
sort of a State to live in.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

SINCE the purchase of Alaska it can
be said of the United States what has
been said of England for the last cen
tury-that the sun never sets on her
dominions. At sunset in Alaska the
next mornings sun is an hour high in
Maine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A FEW days ago a large pond, about
two miles from AbbeviIle, Ga, sprang
a leak in the bottom and dried up.
The sound Of the escaping water re-
sembled thunder. Many fish were
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A LOUISVILLE man told a reporter
recently that after he took up the study
of that "scienee" last summer the mos
quitoes, which had greatly plagued his
children, ceased to annoy them. New
Jersey is just the field for Christian
science
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

THE United States will have early in
the coming summer a new Minister
from China. His name is Tsin HOOK
Yam. He is a man of scholarly attain
ments and holds high rank as mem
Der of the Imperial Academy of Pekin.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A RUSSIAN musical prodigy makes
Joseph Hoffman and Otto Hegner
seem grown up. Paul Kocsalsld is 4
years of age, and is said to have mas
terly execution" on a piano made to fit
his fingers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07
HERE is an argument for indigestibIe

HERE is an argument Tor indlgestibIe
food. DR.. Sarah 2. Port claims that
IF one has six hours between meals,
and continuous effort to provide for, it
would be poor policy to put into the
stomach food which would digest com
pIetely In two hours time. She thinks
the 1abOring man does well to eat
hearty foods of slow digestion, so that
his system may be gradually recuper-
ating its strength from one meal to an
other. and. as il We're. stay by him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A NAN In Orange City, Fla, gath
cred 1000 quarts of berries from two
six-year-o1d mulberry trees.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07
Very improbable.

Toni dreamed last night that I
asked you to lend me five dollars.
Dick-Was I willing to lend?
TOm-Yes; but refused to take It.
Dick-That was quite a peculiar
dream, particularly the last part.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07
Not the GROWER.

Blaek-It can't be possible that you
60 into saloon with a vessel to pur,
chase beer, White?
White-Who said I did?
Brown said SO. He told nae be
had seen you going into a saloon with
a pitcher.
W--Oh, he saw me going In with
baseball pitcher Boston Co2tr5er.
A FIRM OF great genus has offered
the British government an immense
SUM for the use Of the national postage
stamp for advertising purposes. The
advertisement Is to be printed on the
back of the stamp before the gum Is
put On, so that the purchaser of every
stamp must see the announcement be-
fore ne mOistens the gum. This is an
Australian idea.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

THE Vernon (Ala.) Courier offers a
prize of 81 for the best snake story.
These efforts are not to cover over one
side of sheet of writing per, and
are not to be chestnuts. I h is not
essential.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

A New YORK Episcopal clergyman
is said to be pining for a distinctive
Episcopal dress of shovel hat, knee
breeches, black silk stockings and sill
yer shoe buckles. The chief discour-
agement seems to be a fear of the ir-
reverent American small boy, who is
not appalled, by anything so English.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

MARIE BEDAED, the French girl who
claims to live without eating, is pro
nounced fraud by DR.. Mary Walker,
who watched her and caught her de
molishing pancakes and potatoes.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

CONCEPTION CORTEz, who died re-
Gently at Matamoras, Mexico, was one
hundred and thirteen years old. His
wife, Luz Lara, who survives him, is
nearly one hundred years old.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

FLORIDA people can hold their own
in the way of titles. The Pa1atka Her
aid remarks: Yesterday we made it
our business to keep a record of the
number of men in our town holding
some sort of title, and in less than
three hours the figures showed up six
generals, fifteen coloneIs, eight majors,
nineteen captains, ninety eight judges,
nine doctors and only twelve privates,
and they were defeated candidates for
Office
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

AN authentic picture of Phillips
Brooks has never appeared in q public
print No photograph of the great di-
vine is obtainabIe for publication, and
will never be if DR.. Brooks has his way.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

"I AM tickled to death! !" exclaimed
John Grant, a Utica man, as he heard
the climax of story. Then, consist
emily with the allegation, he fell over
and died.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

ADIRONDACK MURRAY is lecturing on
How to Make Million Dollars" He
has been trying all his life to make
$4,000, and hasn't got the half Of it,
but there is nothing in the title Of
lecture.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

TIE tall female hat now so agitates
the minds of the male frequenters Of
the London pits that it Is proposed
that the pit should be divided Ike
Quaker meeting house, the men sitting
on one side and the women on the other.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

N. S. Coon, of Roodhouse, H., re-
jCices IN the possession of a mustache
that measures tWenty-one inches from
ZIP to TIP.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

left behind and picked up, but most
Of them followed the lake.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

THE New York Postoffice is the
largest business establishment, affect
ing the greatest number of people,
under the government of the United
States. It delivers and collects every
year a number of letters, papers, etc,
six times as numerous as the entire
population of the Union. It handles
in each year over $50, 600, 900 in money
order business, while its own receipts
are over $5.OOO,OO0, and the net reve-
nue. of the Government is s., $50, 600.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07
A HEALTH CRANK
BY ALEX. E. SWEET.

He health
crank is q
man who Is
.sOrely af-
hicted with
C hrOnic
theories re-
garding the
proper way
to promote
long evity.
II g lives,
works, eats
and sleeps
and bOres
people ac-
cOrding to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

JAY GOULD says New York is good
enough for him, and he has no inten-
ton Of going to London to live, as re-
ported in the Court Journal He likes
New York so well, indeed, that he ap-
pears to have purchased most of it and
he is rapidly foreclosing his mortgages
upon the trifing remainder.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07
WAsHmaToN TERRITORY farme

A WAsHNGTON IERRITORY tanner
was digging post hole on the banks
of Smoke River when he unearthed a
skeleton richly dressed in old-fash-
Toned clothing. The coat was especial
Iy fine, and was adorned with velvet
collar and cuffs. The place where the
skeleton was found had been used as a
horse corral for the past fifteen years.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

Mr.. AND Mrs. CLEVELAND viii spend
the entire summer at Saratoga, Sara
nae, Narragansett, Port Chester, Bar
Harbor, Newport, Bethlehem, Lenox,
Long Branch and all points north,
south, east and west. For further in
formation address the leading summer
hotel proprietors.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

TIE total Indian population Of the
United States in 1886 was 2A7, 76I. and
the Indians had Do, 466 square niles
Of territory reserved for their uss.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-19

could fully show to the mind of every in
dividual the field open to him in the local
Union.
The organization of the State Union
was of no greater Importance, only as a
necessary first step, and dnucleus around
which the power generated in the local
Unions can center and revolve. Depend
upon it, the power of this Union must all
be generated in the local meetings and in
the individual minds of the members
Your head center is only storage bat
terry through which your united power
may be collected and discharged in any
direction which your interest may call for
Remember that your unity will ever be
the indicator of your power.
The geography of Florida and the char
acter of it's productions Gts citrus fruits
and early vegetables) offer the most prof
liable field for the operation of co-opera-
tive enterprises now inaugurated that
could be conceived of, and it now only re-
mains to be seen if the people
of Florida are competent to gather up
the good that lies at their door. If the
men who | met at Palatka were fair rep
resentatives ofthose who stayed athome,
we should say they were.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-19
Fruit Growers Fully Organized.

with words of cheer and encouragement.
The great question that has been before
the Florida people for the last three
months, F'Can and will the orange grow
ers Organize ?'' is solved. They can, they
will and they have. The State organi
zatiOn is now full and thorough.
At the meeting in Palatka on the 5th
of June, in which fully three-fourths of
the orange-growing counties were rep
resented, accomplished the work in a
most unanimous, harmonious and intel
ligent manner.
We were present and participated in
the work, and after hearing what was
said, and witnessing the Spirit of unity
which seemed to actuate every mind there
present, we must say that we went home
with a perfect faith in it's future success.
1t is too late in the nineteenth century
to doubt the fact that the cooperative
principal is the correct one to secure sue
cess in any business where it can possi-
bly, be applied. Its advantages over the
ISOldl0U uI0l1OOp Ill Uu0 pctSO
is greater in proportion than the power
of an army over an isolated bush-Whack
er.
We have no doubt that the nucleus
now organized will in the near future
draw every orange grower into it, and
make every citizen of Florida an ardent
supporter. And we feel justified in say
ing that from the day the Orange Grow
ers' Union was completed, the future of
Florida was assured The reasonable
prospect of success which is placed before
every man, will infuse a new hope and
abiding confidence sufficient to stimulate
the greatest possible effort to develop
the resources of Florida, which are un-
doubtedly ample to satisfy the wants and
ambitions of any man.
With confidence once established and
career of active Development Inaugural
ted, capital will not be behind hand
trying to benefit by it.
But the work of organization is not
yet completed, and will not be until every
citizen of Florida who proposes to cult
vate the soil for living has joined it,
and every neighborhOod has it's local
Union though which the Individual can
participate in it's benefits and share it's
expenses. The work of organizing the
local Unions, we expect, will now go on
with increasing rapidity, until it is fully
accomplished. And permit me to say
that above everything else it is desirable
that harmony and unity of sentiment be
the ruling principle both in the organic
ing and after-working of these bodies;
because your power will be in exact pro-
portion to your unity. Pull all together
and in one direction. Whenever you pull
apart your power is wasted, and in these
hard times we have nothing to waste.
The State office will soon have ready
distribution blanck form of constitu-
tion and bylaws adapted to the use of
local Unions, which they can fill out with
such additions as they wish.
When organized dom tforget the assem-
bling of yourselves together, for let us
tell you that no matter how much work
you may have on hand that you could
do proftably. there is cooperative work
to do in the meeting that will benefit you
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-19
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTuRIsT.
The Pecan.

Among the many nuts grown in the
Southern and Western States which is OF
late receiving great attention is the Pecan.
Mexico and Texas are the sections that
are apparently best adapted to the
growth of this nut, but it can be grown
successfully and proftably in over dozen
other States of the Union. Itcan be made
to succeed on many varieties ofsoil, and re-
quires little cultivation. The tree comes
into bearing from the seed in seven or
eightyears, andfrom that time on gives no
trouble beyond the gathering of the nuts.
An acre of land should sustain at least
fifty trees, and each tree should yield in
nuts. If the nuts can be sold at 10 cents
per pound, which is a low price for them,
the profit to the grower from an acre
would not be less than $4OO. This is a
low estimate on both price and produc-
tion, as pecan tree sometimes yields as
high as 400 pounds of nuts, and the av-
erage price has been from Is to 20 cents
per pound by the barrel. Every year we
export large quantities of these nuts, and
the demand for the paper shell variety
nearly always exceeds the supply. Grow
ing them for the market is certainly a
profitable and pleasant work.
The trees do better on rich soil that is
found along the river bottoms, and in
Texas many of the groves are SO close to
the rivers that they are annually flooded
by the water. This does not apparently
injure the trees. A great deal of our
waste bottom lands could thus be utilized
by pecan grove and turned into profit
able agricultural lands. Recent investiga-
tions go to show that it is just as neces-
sary to resort to budding or grating to
secure desirable varieties in the pecan as
it is in a peach or plum. twill not do to
depend upon seed propagation. And this
will probably explain why SO many trees
in the West and South produce small, in
different nuts. The large Texas is the
the prolific bearer, but the Paper Shell is
generally preferred, and finds the readiest
market after being picked.
HELEN WHARBURDON.
ION this subject of propagation some
of our best Florida authorities differ with
Miss Wharburdon, as they claim that
Seeding trees can be depended upon if the
seeds planted are from Seeding trees.
Has the cultivation of the pecan ever
been tried on our heavy hammocks or fiat
woods land ?-ED. F. A.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-02

crop is exceedingly profitable. This
year (lS89) the price has been So to
SO per 100 pounds, wholesale; the
retail price is 8 cents box. Plants
eight to twelve inches high can be
bought at the nurseries. They should
he set out eight feet apart each way,
or &c plants to the acre. They grow
very rapidly in the open ground, and
bear an abundant crop the first year
after transplanting, or two years from
the seed. No fears of over-produc-
ton need be entertained If the de-
nand for fresh fruit should be over,
supplied, the canneries will buy all
the crop at remunerative prices for
making jelly. The area of production
of guavas in the United States is
greatly limited, the character of the
plant being decidedly semi-tropic. Ii
guavas are grown in young orange
orchards between the trees they will
yield large profits from the first year
and surely maintain the orange
grower while he waits FIVE years for
his first crop of oranges. Hedges Of
guava shrubs are very ornamental
with their glossy evergreen foliage,
white flowers and pretty berries. The
guava resembles in taste the straw
berry, but is far more valuable for
shipping to supply the eastern market,
as it can be picked before it is quite
ripe and will mature in transit. A
journey of ten or even fourteen days
will not injure the fruit in the least.
The strawberry guava is very valu-
able fruit for Southern California, but
as yet it is hardly known. Those
few, however, who have raised it fol
profit are setting out more of the
shrubs every year.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-02
The Beautiful Country OF The
Upper Nile.

For the first five hundred or six
hundred miles of its course, from
the Victoria Nyanza to a point
somewhere north of Lado, the Nile
is known to the Arabs as the Bahr-
el-Gebel, the River of the Noun
tains. This is the most beautiful
part of the river. The country is
diversified with mountains and
forests, green hillsides and bright
brooks. For stretches of many miles
the river is broad and slow. In
other parts are wooded islands and
foaming rapids. About halfway
between the Victoria Nyanza and