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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26

All tea and coffee drinkers can tell
by their taste if the water from which
the beverage is made has not boiled
or has boiled too much. Either Of
these conditions will spoil the flavor
Of the costliest tea or the best coffee
berry. But not every one knows the
reason or how to avoid the result.
The secret is in putting good fresh
water INTO a clean kettle already warm
and setting it to boil quickly, then
taking it right off to use tea, coffee,
and other drinks before it is spoiled.
If the water is allowed to steam and
simmer and evaporate till all the
good of the water is in the air, and
the lime. iron and dregs left in the
kettle, you must not expect a well
favored cup of tea or coftee.-Scj-
e1ltitic American.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
A SAFE INVESTMENT.

Is one which IS guaranteed to bring
you satisfactory results, or in case Of
failure return OF purchase price. On
this safe plan you can buy Of our ad
yertised Druggist, q bottle ofDr. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. It is
guaranteed to bring relief in every case.
when used for any affection Of Throat.
Lungs or Chest, such as Consumption
inflammation Of Lungs Bronchitis
Asthma, WhoOping COugh, Groups etc,
etc. It Is pleasant and agreeable bO
taste, perfectly safe and can always be
depended upon. Trial bottle free at
G. w. Biekford's Drug Store.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
Reforming tho Effective System.

Reforming the Elective System.
Laws have been passed within the
year in the states of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Michigan,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ten
nessee and Montana providing adj
ditiOnal safeguards for the secrecy
and freedom of the ballot.
The principal features of the new
systems established in those nine
states are that the ballots are printed
at public expense and none but of
fetal ballots are to be used. Booths
or stalls are provided at the pol
ling-place, into which the voter re-
tires after receiving his ballot and
prepares it for voting without being
observed. Provision is made for vot-
ers who are unable to read or are
physically disabled to have their bal
lots prepared according to their
wishes by sworn officials, Indepen-
dent nominations are also provided
for enabling citizens who may be dis
satisfied with the regular nominations
to unite upon separate candidates and
have their names also put upon the
official ballots for distribution.
These laws have been largely the
result of the agitation begun in New
York State, but the legislature has
been twice prevented by executive
veto from placing a similar law upon
the statute books of this state-NelU
| York Irish World.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26

pHopOse to dable a little in politics
to- and have such amendments at
Tackled to the Colorado laws as will
enhance their business"
II had nay way would have the
Colorado Legislature nip that scheme
ia the bud instanteF, and not only
that but I would have a Law enacted
that aliens could not acquire title to
lands In this country, and I would
add a section limiting the amount Of
land any one individual or company
could claim absolute little TO. This
personal unlimited ownership Of land
IS fast growing into an important
question, and it is high time oar law
makers and statesmen were studying
into it, Already Europeans own over
twenty-five millions Of American real
estate, and they are rapidly buying
more. Instead Of constantly manu-
featuring party buncomb, Congress
should be seriously considering these
great questions which lie at the bot
tom of our free institutions and Re
publican government.
The land problem" is more i'm
portant than the tariff question, the
currency or any other industrial ques-
ton although the tariff and currency
are important subjects.
No man or set of men should be
allowed to own and monopolize land
any more than air or sunshine. The
holding Of large tracts of land fol
speculation is wrong, and ought no
to be encouraged or allowed. Ancient
nations have gone into decay ant
ruin because the land passed from
small holdings to large ones-passet
from the occupancy of the many t.
that Of the few. Let the United States
learn wisdom from the mistakes o
other Governments. r. A. D4GUE.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
$50 IN ADVANCE

this is incident to the training Of the
farmer. But nevertheless this does
not repair the damage, To succeed,
the farmer must know how to control
his time within the limits of possibil-
ity, to be thorough in his habits of
business, to buy and sell to the best
advantage, and to get out of his
product all there is in it.-Iotra
Homestead.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
BIG CREEK.

Health in these parts is good.
Farmers have been very busy tax
ing care of their grain and killing
weeds.
We never saw a better prospect for
corn than there is at present, not only
on Big Greek, but all over these
broad prairies. Mr.. B. Smith has
about 80 acres, well tended, no weeds;
also Mr.. r. E. Trow has fine pros
pect for corn, and we think he will
without doubt, have a good crop,
for he has been very liberal and made
more than one ministers heart glad
by giving several bushels of corn.
Mrs. Lower and her daughter, Mrs.
May johnson, Miss Ella johnson and
Miss Ollie Owens are visiting friends
and relatives at Norton.
Frank Larlzin is visiting friends in
Cawker City.
Mr.. D. Lower has a letter from his
father stating that he has purchased
a farm and it has all kinds of fruit on
it. He is down in the hilly country
Of southern Missouri.
L. P. johnson has IS or 40 acres of
wheat and he says he will not have
to eat corn bread and fat meat as he
did in Missouri.
pFNcrTTEG-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
PrairieVieW Business Directory.

Notary Public ............. ......JACoB PoPPEN.
Justice Peace and Notary Public, D. D. BE8us.
Druggist and Physician. ..........H. c. SPBAGUE.
General Merchants, ..-.-..- POFPEN & VAN DIEsT.
.............D. W. THOMAS.
Logan Lumber Co., Manager. 90. j. W. BOWMAN.
Harness Dealer ...............WM. HUEDERMAN.
Livery and Feed Stable. ..........J JOHN CU9INGs
Hardware and Implements. ~. S. FARMER.
Blacksmith Shop -.,. ......... VINzENT BoLTE.
Flour Store. ............ Mrs. Ii. HODGINs.
Carpenter and Contractor ............G ZvIERs.
Commercial Hotel ..... ...........L. c. TAYLOR.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
Is the Earth in Danger from the
DriuP


Prof. Joseph f. Jones answers, in
a recent issue OF the Popular Science
Monthly, the question: ''Is it safe to
drill the earth too much?' The pro-
fessor assumes the earth to be q hOl-
low sphere filed with q gaseous sub
stance, called by US natural gas, and
he thinks that tapping these reser-
voirs will cause disastrous explo-
sions, resulting from the lighted gas
coming in contact with that which is
escaping. He compares the earth to
a balloon fioated and kept distended
by the gas in the interior, which, if
exhausted, will cause the crust to
collapse, affect the motion of the
earth in It's orbit, cause it to lose its
place among the heavenly bodies, and
fall in pieces.
Another writer thinks that drilling
should be prohibited by stringent
laws. He, too, thinks there is a pos
sibility of an explosion, though from
another cause. Should such a disas-
ter occur, ''the country along the gas
belt from Toledo through OHIO, In
diana and Kentucky will be ripped
up to the depth of /, 200 feet or 1850
#, and topped over like a pancake,
leaving a chasm through which the
waters of Lake Erie will come down,
filling the Ohio and Mississippi val
leys, and blobting them out forever"
Still another theOrist has invegtI-
gated the gas wells with telephones
and delicate thermometers, and he an
nounces startling discoveries. He
distinguished sounds like the boiling
of rocks, and estimated that a mile
and one half or so beneath the Ohio
and Indiana gas field the temPeFa-
ture of the earth is 3, 800 degrees.
The scientist says an immense cav
ity exists, and that here the gas is
stored, that mile below the bottom
of the cavity is a mass of roaring,
seeth1ng flame, which is gradually
eating into the rock floor of the cav
ern and thinning It. Eventually the
flames will reach the gas, and a ter
rife explosion will Scientific
american.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26
CHURCHES.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. - Rev. Thee.
Bracken, Pastor. Sunday School at 10 a; m
Dreaching at IL a. m. !-rayer meetings, We'd
nesday evening OF each week Young people :
meeting Saturday evenings
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-26

A WAREINe.- Young man, I say to
you, looking back to the fire where /
lay scorching, looking back at the past
and standing as I do now under the
arch of the bow, one end of which
rests in darkness, and the other on the
sunny slopes of paradise Isay to you.
Beware! Touch not the aecursed
thing! and may God forbid that you
should ever suffer as I have suffered,
or be called to fight as / have fought
for body and for soul john ..
Cough.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
A Su.pntltufiOn.


An odd ease came up before a Justice of
the peace yesterday, says the Milwat-
kee Sentinel. A young swell, whose name
not i~nfrequently appears in the society
|, columns of the papers, met a friend who
owns u handsome diamond ~solitair Of con-
siderable value. He saw the gem scintil-
late on the finger of the latter, engaged
him i'm conversation, and i'm an unaffected
way remarked;
"By the way, let me have your ring un-
til tomorrow. TIM going to a party to-
night and would like to wear it,"
Certainly" and the ring sparkled on
the hand of the swell young man.
The next day the young blood returned
the ring to its owner AS he had promised
to- do. There was something about the
diamond. however, that aroused thes us-
picion of the owner, and when he took il "a
n jewcler the latter at once pronounced
the gem paste.s Without waste
of time the owner of the diamond had the
young blood summoned before a Justice
yesterday and the latter confessed that ns
had substituted paste for the diamond and
lrawned the real stone for $50. BY means
Of copious promises to get the diamond
cut OF pawn within "a certain time he got
himself out of a bad scrape.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
MONTANA NEWS.

Believing that thu greatest precautions,
Should be ken against the further npffa4l
Of scarlet fever In the town, this Minis9df4
a~ssociatiou of Boulder, at a meeting. IA~f
Monday evening, decided tn recomIAdh&
TO the Sunday school superintendents of
this place the closing OF their respective
schools for the present. II would seem
that 10 continue the Sunday schOole rtoW
would be TO nullify the action of the trus-
tees in closing the public schools, and the
above action was AIKEN accordingly The
Age.
The enrolment Of scholars at the Mis-
soula schools has increased 50 rapidly
that IL seems almost necessary to open
another room tn give proper ~ttention tn
all the pupils. There are now 25 names
ON the rolls and the scholarship Is con-
stantly Observation-Disclosures.
Mr.. lexande Swan came up from Hel-
ena Monday, where he has resided Cor
she past fifteen years, to secure a resi-
dcnce i'm this city. lie is Interested i'm
mining property in the Neihart region
and proposes to make Great Falls his
home.-Great Falls Leader.
After this week trains on the Park
branch will he run t~ri-weekly Instead of
daily az at present. The tourist seasoii i'm
the park will close OH the 18th. and there
will no longer he n necessity for daily
trains. But few tourists arc now going tn
the park, and the season may be said to
have virtually closed, although the hotels
will he kept open for some time yet. The
travel has been greater this year than any
previous year, Notwithstanding the alb
sence of large excursion parties that
heretofore have made up n large per cent
Of the tourists to observation-disclosures
Enterprise.
We understand that the official registry
check list of voters at Smiths ranrh,
Little Rocky mOuntaiCs, together with the
tally sheet tn he used at that precinct,
were found Oh the prairie. near the track
of the Manitoba railway. Exeter
and Malta. The package had been APP
parently broken open and the packaRe
thrown away. 1t was well known and
conceded that Smiths ranch would cast
; bctween b and 81 straight democratic
, votes. Four sets of poll books were at
different times sent to this precinct and
not one reached there. There il room for
investigation here. There has evidently
been some funny business going on
Rirer Press.
Mr.. Ben SwiGert came in the other even
ing with his wagon loaded with excellent
Birch creek coal, which be readily sold.
Mr.. Swigert informs us that n couple of
to n contract to get out several hundr
tons of coal, which will be sold at Dupiiy-
err aud Chotcau, as well as shipped to Fort
Benton. The mine is opened by "a tunnel,
which is well timbered and is now i'm some
200 feet. The roof il of sandstone, and
there il no water to interfere with the
easy and cheap working of the mine. The
coal in bituminous and the best found i'm
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press.
The grand lodge Of Good Templars of
Montana will meet i'm Missoula ON
Wednesday of next week. II will convene
at 10 o'clock a. M, and last three days.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
He Cn.hed His Check.


From the Chicago Times.
Another story about being iGentiHAkl ~
u bank il related Of IL Kentuckian whose
farm was adjacent to n river. There he
raised fruit and vegetables and instead of
sending them to market by the railroad or
by his wagons he built n raft on which he
loaded the produce and fioated the whole
crop down the stream to the big city.
There he had no difficulty i'm disposing of
the entire load at good prices, and in part
payment he received n check for a hand
some mount A check was only SO much
worthless paper i'm the place where he
lived, and SO before going home the raw
boned Kentuckian entered n bank to have
IL cashed. He was dressed In q suit of
brown jeans, his whiskers were unkcmpt,
and his general appearance belied his
prosperity. The cashier q at him
doubtfully.
"You Will have to bs idcntihed,' he
said.
"wail, I reckon not" replied the
farmer. "Thiz check air payable to me,
an / mean to have the money."
"But / don't know you. Who are you,
"My name air tho same as is signed
to the rear end q that air check.
an as to whar l am from. why, l air from
Bush Bottom, up river"
pcct me to know IL what you tell me is
true. How did you get down here 2" -.
"Git here? Wall, now. / jest jumped
onto a rainbow and slid here, mister. An
I tell you tvs pretty quick travelling, but
il amt half SO sudden as he slide you'll
take into eternity Of you don't hand owe
that money mighty sudden" ,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11

Parrot IN . Car.
"Ah. there.. baby ~ screamed the parrot
hid behind n paper which Willie had
placed over the care.
The old maid looked startled, says the
Philadelphia North -ARseric0a, and q grin
appeared an the faces of several Of the
other passengers.
..Oh, mamma 2" crnaked the bird.
The old maid glared ut each passenger,
highly indignant.
know ." went ON the irreprcssible bird.
The clerical passenger l,oke up in
alarm "nS then fsit his hat In hasty rom
ripple OF suppressed laughter went over
the car.
"Ah, there. w~hiskers."
The clerical man leaped tn his feet and
near the front.
''Ding. ding; two more fares out OF the
ccmpany's pocke,s;'
into the car from the back platform.
.who said that ." hc demanded.
Willie looked as dcmurc as am angel.
"Johuny, get your hair cut"
An old man with long hair made a pre-
cipitate departure from the car.
A, Broad street Willie lifted the paper.
grabbsn the cage. and got oil the car,
Then the passengers
Knew IL to his sorrow.
From the New York Weekly.
Inquiring Spectator ,at the races,-
Which horse was il that won:
Speculative S~pcculator- tgloonily i
don't know the name of the. horse that
won. b,t l know the names of most OF the
horses that didn't win.
why 1t 4. AddsJl
From the New York Sun.
"Papa,' asked Freddy Cumso, "What
docs :tiie earth and the fuilness thereof
mean:
why" replied Cumso. '''ttc fullness
thereof ia put in tn show that kentucky is
included"
The Railing Passion.
From The Texas Siftings.
HighwsVnan Ito pawnbrokerl up
| your hands.
Pownbroker-How much will I git on
them?
Inconsistency.
Like the song ~ the bird that has suddenly
In the midst of its melody. frightened away.
DIR the silence that falls when the soinbre-robsd
priest,
As the vrspcrs have finished. kpccl> slowly to
The song in my heart that with laughter was
laden
Dies out, ere IL got to my lips, with "a moan.
And in place III some lines tO a dreamy eyesi
maiden,
I find I've been writing to ask for a loan.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
Very Awkward.

Prom the New York sun.
He (sittinG at the pianol-what shall l
play, Miss DE Temps?
She-Oh, 1 do wish you would play that
favoritc of yours, 'The Races" I think il
is called.
He-I don't understand.
She innocentlyD-Why, Mr.. Brown told
me yesterday when / X him whore you
WERE, that you were out at the park play
willing to play il for me.
He under his breath) till I catch
II ON Brown.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11

Fl ON the Denver News.
General Dandy, who is on a tour of i'm
spection of the national cemeteries. has
recently visited the Custer battle ground,
and finds the spot in good condition. As
the battle was fought OH "a high ridge. il
has been cut into gullies by storms and
many bodies have been exhInied. The
monument is still standing but has been
considerably chipped oil by tourists, who
annually overrun the ground. General
Dandy will recommend "a S15.ODO appro-
priation FOR the purpose of putting AN iron
fence about the memorable spot where 50
many of the Seventh cavalry and its gal
Kant colonel laid down their lives.
Not subject to Surgical Treatment
From the Lowell Citizen.
Surgcon-Anything happened while I've
been away:
Office Boy-Nothing but "a broken joint.
1 guess you wouldn't have attended il il
you'd been here.
Surgeon will attend to anything!
What about it?
Office Boy-It was AN opium Joint the
police broke up.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
Worried and Annoyed.

From the Merchant Traveller.
"That was n wonderful act" said one
travelling man to another, referring to the
performance of the strong man i'm the
circus.
"Yes, but il annoyed me-"
"Were you worried ?"
ayes. and disappointed. was afaid he
wouldn't hurt himself, and he didn't
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
An Appropriate Costume.

From brakes Magazine.
"My friend" observed Mr.. McCrackle
TO the living skeleton i'm the dime museum,
''your attire is not altogether appro-
priate."
"What is the matter with it,"
swell. i'm the first place, You tn
wear a skull cap
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11

A.C. INFS. Gen. Manager, Helena.
n. N. LANGLEY, Gen. Pnss- All, Helena.
o.. 4. DAWSON. Gen. Agent, Butte
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
Revised.

From the PORTLAND AdNertiser.
Lord Tennyson begins his new poem
with the untimely assertion: a.
Summer is coming Summer il coming.
l know il, 1 know II. l know il.
That is undoubtedly true. but .winttF is
coming first, oh blow il. oh blow II, oh
blow il!
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
LOST,

A spaniel pup, three months old. He wore u
collar, no name ON IL. 4 liberal reward will he
given for the return Of the dog to its owner,
James NJ. Moore, postmaster.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
The Diplomatic Maiden.

From the New York sun.
ado You love me for my wealth or briins?'
He asked the maid with words intense.
To which she made tlis wise reply:
! love you, dearest, for your sensr
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
Rosie Wasn't Afraid tai Use the Knife
From the New York sun.

NDsh ~ wv -"
From the New York sun.
Rosie Memmo is n young English wo-
man who married an Italian named Jo-
seph Memmo. They both work with DO
seph Feleci, a shoemaker, at IA East
167th street. All three live back of the
shop. When Feleci came home on Tues
day night he and Memmo began to fight.
He says that m picked mp II shoe
makers knife, but was afraid to Use il.
Memmo handed il to his wife, who had
been helping him To the best of her
ability. ..Jab il i'm him." Mcmnio cried,
and Rosie ob~ediently drove the keen
blade into Fcleci's back. Felcci ran tn
the street with the knife still in his back.
Officer Tobin arrested Mr.. and Mrs.
Memmo. Feleci was able to appear in the
Norrisania court yesterday. and the pris-
oners were held by Justice Taintor for
trial. Rosie said Fclcci had her
down OH the floor choking him when she
used the knife. Her husband was ''nu
good" she said. else he could have
thrashcd Felcci, who is the smaller of the
two.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-07-18
i Russian Towns Misfortune.
AnrUL BUTCAehf

ST. PETERSBURG July 10 -One-haf OF the
town Of Diarkerd, in Semiretchinsk, has
been destroyed By an earthquake
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-07-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WAsHINGToN, July H. Secretary Rusk
says he has not accepted the Percheron
mare which he rode when he drove the
hay-wagon with the newspaper man to
General Argus farm at Nacirema few
weeks ago. General Argus, he says, called
upon him Tuesday, and during the course
of very pleasant chat there was some
thing said by the way of pleasantly of
driving the horse up to the Secretarys pri-
waite stable. but the Secretary said that the
idea of his accepting such a present in
sober earnestness from any one did not re-
quire serious contradiction.
WASHINGTON, July ll.-Admiral Gherardi
has advised the State Department thaI
comparative quiet reigns in Hayti Legi-
time continues to hold Port aux Prince,
while Hippolyte reuains camped With his
army on the outskirts of the city No tight
ing Of any consequences has taken place
since Admiral Gherardi's arrival
WASHINGTON July l2--The President has
made these appointments: Collectors of
internal Revenue. william II. Gabriel, for
the Eighteenth district of Ohio; John
steekete, Tor the fourth district Of Mich
igep.
wAsHINcToy, July l2-The Secretary OF
the Treasury has decided that all iInmi-
grants wb9 come to this country under con-
citlons sImilar 10 those OF the seven En-
glish Immigrants who recently arrived at
New York they agreeing before leaving
bone to accept the first employment offered
them are prohibited from landing under
the provisions Of the Alien Contract Labor
law
WASHINGTON. July i2-President Harri-
son yesterday made the following appoint
ments; United States c0nsuls-Emmons
Clark, OF New York. at Hayre; Archibald J.
Sampson, Of Colorado, at AxapRlco; Ros-
Well g. Hoar. Of Michigan, AZ Valparaiso:
James +. Hartigan, OF Washington, D. q,
for the port oE Trieste and all other ports
in the Austrian dominions
WAsHIN6TOS. July 13 --Jhe President has
granted s respite till August In the cases
e Jack sganisrd, Jgssph Martin and ESQ