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BURNED TO DEATH.
How O Mother and Child Lost Their
Liyes-Two Men Perish.

Elizabeth Tyler, aged twenty-five, wife OF
John W. Tyler, printer at the South Balti-
more Car Works. at Curtis Bay, Nd, poured
coal oil on her fire while preparing breakfast
the other morning. The oil-can exploded.
setting fro to the clothing of Mrs. Tyler and
her eight months old boy, benjamin Harrison
Tyler. burning them both so severely that
they died within few hours.
A fire destroyed Bottoms mill, near
Newaygo, Mich. Adjoining it was large
clearinghouse where the employees lodged.
Alonzo Delacey and Ole McLenny persisted
in the flames and another man. in jumping
from a window, received probably fatal in
juries. It is t11ousht that the fire was incen-
diary.
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THE DROWNING RECORD.
Seven Lives Lost in One Day in Vari'
Gus Localities.

While swimming in the Vermilion River,
short distance below Danville, ILL.,, Robert
Courtney, aged fifteen, and another lad,
were drowned.
Otto Meyers, aged twenty-three years, was
drowned at Shelton, Conn, while bathing In
the Housatonic.
A man named Arms and an unknown boy
were drowned while swimming at st. Paul,
MINI.
Mrs. Charles Cleaves and Erdine Cole, a
young woman of 16,were drowned at Spring
field, Me-, while bathing. Mrs. Cieaves
leaves four children and husband in the
West.
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CANADIAN CRUISERS.
Ordered to Seize American Vessels
Violating the Fishery Laws.

Violating the Fishery Laws.
An Ottawa dispatch says the Dominion
Government, not encouraged by the pros
poets of early adjustment of the fishery ques
tion, have instructed commanders Of
Government cruisers not to overlook
any infraction Of the fishery regula-
tions, but to seize any vessels found guilty OF
violating the law when the evidence will
warrant such step. The instructions issued
to commanders are far more stringent than
those issued last year, when there appeared
to be q possibility of an early settle'
ment of the difficulty. Last season there
was not single seizure made, but this year
the same leniency is not to be shown, and as
the mackerel have just struck in along the
coast of Pei in immense schools, closely fol-
lowed by large feet of American fishermen,
it is not improbable that number Of seizures
will be reported soon. So far only one
seizure has been made, that of the American
fishing schooner Mattie Winship, subse-
quently liberated after giving bonds to the
amount of $500.
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CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR,
Twenty-frst President Of the United
States.
Born, Oct, 5, 1880.
Died. Nov. Is. 1886.

There are also buried in the plot General
Arthur's father and mother, his wife and a
son. A fund for the erection in New York
Of statue to General Arthur has been
raised, and the money has all been paid in.
As yet no design has been adopted, but one
soon will be, and the work will then be be-
gun. The statue will doubtless be placed in
one Of the principal public squares or parks
in New York city. When it is ready to be
unveiled, the exercises that were to have been
held at the unveiling Of the Albany monu-
ment. or others similar. will be carried out
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SIX MEN KILLED.

A Constable's Posse Has Desperate
Fight in Texas.
Six men were killed in fight late at night
in Givens Point, Texas. A colored constable
named Wilson, backed by a posse, attempted
to serve warrant for horse stealing on
white man. The latter was among friends
and resisted the service, alleging that
the whole thing was a job to blacken his
character The colored officer grew abusive,
and both sides drew weapons and began firing.
They fought until their ammunition was ex-
hausted, and it was then found that four
white men and two colored men were NOR
tally wounded and about five men danger
ously shot.
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ANOTHER band of buffalo which has not
haan Generally known to have been in exist
ance has been discovered in the bad Lands
around the Bull Mountains, about halfway
between the Yellowstone and Missouri Riv'
ers in Dawson County. Montana O.:
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EATEN BY WOLVES.
The Terrible Fate of Two Little Boys
in Kansas.

Two children Of Edward Bachus, farmer
of Roster, Mo-, small village fifty miles
south of Kansas City on the Kansas line,
went to creek about mile from home to
fish. Upon their failing to return at nlght,
searching parties: were organlzed, ana ooe ene
a ledge Of rocks that had long been known
as VOLTS Den. A band Of timber wolves
have used this section for years and 1t Is
thought that the children were killed and
eaten BY the animals. The boys were aged
ten and twelve years.
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WITHIN year it is believed that the Eng
ssh svndicates vii! control at least thirty
6ye Of the seventy-two breweries In New
York and its immediate vicinity.
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ARTHUR's MONUMENT.
A Memorial Erected by His Friends
Unveiled at Albany.

The handsome granite and bronze monu.
ment erected at the grave Of the late Presi-
dent Chester A. Arthur, in Rural Cemetery,
at Albany, N. Y, by some Of his personal
admirers, has been officially unveiled, with.
out ceremony, by the donors, who inspected it.
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Majority against .................. 1876, 19s
Ac thn LATER. rat,lrns cnnla in IL Is annarent

Majority against. ................... 1S5, 19S
As the later returns come in it is apparent
that the Prohibition defeat is more complete
and Overwhelming than was ever dreamed Of.
Exact figures from fifty counties in the State
and close estimates on the other seventeen
give a majority against the -prohibitory
amendment of 20o,O57. These figures We're
not likely to be materially changed.
Returns received show that the suffrage
amendment proposing the abolition of the
ffty-cent poll tax qualification is defeated by
decided majority, notwithstanding the fact
that Philadelphia gave SO, 525 majority for its
adoption. The latest estimate from all but
twelve counties was 1886 against the poll
tax abolition.
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WET BY A BIG MAJORITY.

Prohibition Defeated in Pennsylvania
The Poll Tax Retained.
Returns from sixty -four Of the sixty-seven
counties in Pennsylvania give 164,47O ma
jority against the proposed amend
ment prohibiting the sale Of liquor.
Forty-two counties mot including Allegheny
gave 4525 majority for abolishing the poll
tax, but the rural districts voted heavily
against this amendment and it is lost.
Returns received at the Pittsburg Times
Office include every county in the State, and
are as follows:
Against the Prohibition Amendment 1s9, 10
For. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 54,5l7
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19
Education and Good Manners.

Education ana Good Manners
A keen observer of our young men
can not but be struck with a tendency,
on the part Of a great many of them,
at least, to disregard the small cOurte-
sizes of life-the intangible yet very
perceptible little things that make the
man a gentleman. Many persons con-
tend that outward manner is very
secondary. consideration if the head is
well stocked with knowledge, and that
if a young man has the faculty to get
on in the world it is a matter Of very
little Importance if his manners do not
model themselves after a Chesterfield.
That this idea is prevalent IS proved
by the great number of weL-educated
men-men of ability and pOwer-whO,
however, one would never accuse Of be
ing gentlemen-whO, clever and with
no lack of brains, are painfully def
cient in good breeding. With no in
territorial Iapses, they are awkward,
bumptiOus, presuming, even vulgar.
In most countries an educated man and
a gentleman are almost synonymous
terms. On this side of the Atlantic
they by no means always belong to the
same man. Educational advantages
are within the reach Of all classes Of
peOple-peOple who have the benefit OF
no home training for their manners, or
any cultivated persons among their ac-
quaintances One fact is true ali the
world over, that where, by some freak
of nature, a man shows himself supe-
rior to his own class in intelligence and
talents, he Is never content to remain
on the lower stave of the ladder. Many
persons assert that the self-made man
Is always the best. In point of ability
he proves without doubt that he has
within him that which has determined
his fitness for the place he has earned
for himself But because a man by his
brains, energy and pluck carves out
his own fortune, putting himself in a
prominent position, Is it not very de
sirable that he should also cultivate
the cOurtesies of life so that the talent
be not hidden by rOughness and Uncul-
tured bearing? Because a man is a
successful lawyer, it does not justify
him to say that he can be his own tail
Or. or that iII-f ttin clothes, if belong
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EXPERT burglars entered the resi-
dence of John Huntington, a Cleveland
millionaire, four years ago last Octo-
Der, and robbed it of jewels whose in
trinsic value was So, 900; but as heir
looms many times $4,000 would not
have purchased them. Detectives
sought the stolen trinkets in vain.
Among the plumber was a unique
watch, the only one of its kind in the
world This was pawned In Cincinna-
ii, and the pawbroker was so bounded
by detectives that he became insane
and died, protesting his innocence Of
the robbery to the last. A month ago
an old blind man was led into the
Office of Cineinnati's chief of detec-
tives. He had been pardoned out Of
the Ohio Penitentiary by President
Cleveland, and his name was Bill
NIills-in his day one OF the greatest
counterfeiters of the country. The
story of the Huntington robbery had
been told him by a fellow convict, and
poverty had caused him to reveal the
secrets for the rewards which had been
offered Most of the jewels have now
been recovered, and the ~obber Is
known to have been a thief named VIII
son, who is serving q ten-year sentence
in Auburn Prison.
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The poor are always with US now.
They are always in the East End
but what IS more satisfactory, they are
beginning to make their appearance in
Westminster. By an extraordinary
and unheard-of coincidence in the his
tory of what is facetiousIy called "ths
peoples House, we had actually two
discussions on the same night on the
daily lot Of the mass of boilers who
make London what it Is for themselves
and for others. We could actually
spare an hour or so from the consider
alton of affairs in Zanzibar and Samoa,
from the expenditure of the peoples
money. from the thousand and one sub
jects which touch the popular interest
about as deep as discussions on Greek
particles, to talk about the wants and
rights of the majority of London work
ers. That Is good, though not so good
as it might be. The House talked
much, but did nothing 1t is, indeed,
capable of doing little 1t is the
smaller elective institutions from which
the long lOOked-fOr dawn of hope from
the democracy VIII come-from the
Ground Rents Committee which is
about - inquire into the price-about
fifteen milions-which the people of
London pay for the privilege of work
ing IN it, and to solve the problem as to
how the fruit of the aggregate toll of
the great city can be appropriated to
the necessities OF the many instead of
to the luxuries of the few.
There We're plenty of facts given yes
terday. But we don't want facts.
Facts crowd in on us There are
three hundred thousand of the very
poor in London. That is normal
state. These people are never prop
erly housed, never properly fed, never
properly rested. After they leave
childhood they have no leisure. In the
bad times they suffer actual starvation,
relieved by the charity of their neigh
bOrs. Out of the half million inhabi-
tants of the Tower Hamlets, nearly
so, 600 are too poor to live. Twenty
shllIlngs a week IS an average wage.
A fourth of this is spent in rent. At
least los. Id, as Mrs. Barnett shows,
ought, at the lowest figure, to be spent
on food. But if all that Is spent there
Is only 3s. Sd. for the rent, instead OF
5s., and there is nothing positively
nOthIng-fOr Goals, clothes, boots, club
money, schooling, illness. That is the
normal condition; but loss of employ
ment is always a factor with the I'M
skilled IabOrer, who has often to fight
daily battle for his daily bread, and
| whO-because there are more people
! in London every year, and the land
| lords take care that there shall be no
more Iand-must, before he can even
begin that struggle, pay % per cent.
/ premium to the land mOnOpOlist. This
| IS the London of to-day. What may
/ the London of tomorrow BEN a war,
under new commercial conditions, such
as may arise in the attempt to dimin-
ish the cost of production and enhance
the price of the product-with less
work for the IabOrer and more for him
to pay for his bread, his salt and his
coal? What a prospect is this that
civilization offers its children Lon
! dom Star.
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as were built by the governors and di-
vines of New England, the landed gen
try Of New York, and the great propri-
etOrs of the South were copied from
English country houses or halls. An
example Of this style, modified to meet
the requirements of modern life, illus
trates this article.
This style is essentially a costly one.
The structure must be of ample size
to give it dignity, and a good deal of
carving and other hand-work is neces-
sary.
Following will be found a brief de-
scription of this design:
Size of structure: Width Cfront) At
feet; depth Of main part, % feet 6
inches; depth over all, 50 feet; size of
kitchen extension, % feet s inches by
20 feet.
Height of stories; Cellar, Z feet;
first story, II feet; second story, 8 feet;
attic, 8 feet.
Materials for exterior walls Founda-
tons, stone; first and second stories,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

The growth of electrie-lighting is
something wonderful. At the Con
vention of the National Electric Light
Association, President Duncan said
that one year ago there were 1000
plants in the United States; these now
number nearly 5000 One year ago
there were $4,000 arc lamps in use;
there are now 219,924. One year ago
there were 1,75OOOO incandescent
lamps in use; at the present time there
are over $500, OOO-49 per cent. in
crease. The growth in electric rail
ways is quite as startling. The coun-
try is committed to an electric age.
Steam and gas, which have headed
civilization, are being displaced. One
more quarter of a century and every
township, as we'll as city, viii be iIlu-
minated by electric lights.
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out the house. The kitchen is isolated
and has ample storage and pantry
room.
Special features: Regarded as a pure
example of the best colonial style, the
exterior characteristics of which are
a large, square structure, with a pOr.
tico having futed columns with carved
caps, a belvedere on the roof, circular
head windows, and delicate details OF
classic origin.
The cost: In the vicinity of Chicago.
well built, without extravaganza in de
tail, 81, 600 A design in this style
much smaller than the example illus
trated Will not look well, but enIarginq
the design enhances its appearance.
In conclusion, it may be said that oul
ancestors of the colonial period gave
architecture, as they gave statecraft
and the general affairs of life, wise
discretion that was in every way adj
mirable. It is fitting, indeed, that We
should keep them in grateful remem,
brance.
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c1epboards; gables Of dormers and
hiezes of the windows and pOrticO are
decorated with ornamental work; roof
shingles
Interior finish The lower hall is fin.
ished with oak and has an oak door and
staircase; the rooms throughout are
trimmed with soft woods, finished in
natural coIors or painted white An
open timber ceiling in the hall, at a cost
Of about $500. would improve appear
ance, as would, also, finishing one OF
more of the main rooms In white enamel
and gold, at an expense Of $3.50 6
room.
Accommodations The main rooms
and their sizes, closets, etc, are shown
by the floor plans given herewith.
Besides these there are three bedrooms
and a storage room in the attic, eel.
lar under the whole Of'the main house,
and a laundry and servants W. @. un-
der the kitchen. The bathroom is pro.
vided with tub, a ". c., and wash
bowl.
The halls are large and welI-ighted
commanding all the rooms through
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The North China Menus says that an
English gentleman was recently riding
on horseback near Pekin, when he saw
an excited crowd. Drawing near, he
discovered a circle of people quietly
watching a man desperately attempt
ing to commit suicide by dashing his
head against a wall. He dismounted,
restrained the man, harangued the by
ISLANDERS. and learned that this was a
coolie, who claimed that his payment
for certain porter's job was short by
ten cash-less than penny-and as
the proprietor refused to pay more he
was proceeding to take revenge by kill
ing himself on the spot, knowing that
by so doing he would get the other in
to considerable trouble.
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4 FLoatfng.IsIand Wonder.

Situated high up IN the main Rocky
Mountain divide, in the eastern part Of
Idaho, Just south of the boundary line
between that Territory and Montana,
and few miles west of the Yellowstone
National Park, is Henry Lake, beau
tiful sheet Of crystal water, having an
area of about forty square miles. The
contour of the lake is oval, and the
wooded banks bear a luxuriant growth
Of mountain grass. On a casual ex-
animation there appears to be no outlet
to this lake, but closer observation re-
yeals a small creek issuing from the
southwest side, which is the beginning
of the north fork of that mighty artery
of the Northwest, Snake River. On
this lake, sometimes on the north side
and sometimes to the southwark, or
wherever the breezes chance to bear
it, is curious floating island. It is
about 300 feet in diameter and has for
its basis mat of roots, SO dense as to
support large trees and heavy thicket
of underground. Decayed vegetation
adds to the thickness of the mat, and
forms a mold several feet in thickness.
On the edge of the floating forest, IN
summer time, may be seen a luXuriant
growth of bluejOint grass, the roots of
which form so compact a mass as to
support the weight of a horse Amy
number of men have no difficulty in
walking about on it. Farther back
among the trees one might build a
large house and make a garden and do
whatever he pleases. He would be
Just as solid and safe as though there
were not 100 or 200 feet of water be-
Meath There is a willow thicket near
the center of the island, and scattered
among these willows and contiguous to
them are a number of aspens and
dwarf pines. These catch the breezes
which float over the island and act like
sails on a boat, and move the nearly
two acres of land hither and thither
over the forty square miles of water.
This shows why one may one day see
the island on one side and the next on
the other side of the lake. Henry Lake
is exceedingly picturesque. Around it
rise snow-capped peaks, among which
are some of the highest of the CONT
nent's backbone, partly covered with a
verdue of forest and grass, and show
ing here and there formations Of granite
and unique basaltic columns. During
the hunting season the waters swarm
with Wild. fowl There are beaver,
too, and plenty of large game may be
had in the adjoining mountains Vest
CVovs1
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Queer Things About the cello.

Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is one of
the best viOlOncellO players Of the day,
This noble instrument has an increasing
fascination for the fair lady musicians,
and the reason Is not far off. The cello
is the most nearly human instrument,
because its range of tones comedies with
that Of the human voice. Its tones stir
the bosom more easily to sympathetic
romances. Its size and tension are near
" the same as the size and tension of
the human bosom, and the vibration of
one body is most apt to thrill the other
Just as that harpsTing which is most
nearly in accord with another VIII VI
brate most easily with the air waves. 1t
is a curious fact that cello players more
frequently observe than any others that
the strings Of the instrument VIII speak
out quite loudly when the voice strikes
the tone of one of its strings. Sitting
alone IN its corner or hanging in its
closet. the instrument often startles its
masters guests by suddenly adding q
loud note to a hearty laugh Of some one
Of them. And more laughable still, if
one gives his nose a resonant blow (and
the humOr of the actual fact VIII excuse
the. mention of a disagreeable operation)
the cello viii often take a spasmOdic
mort itself, as if IN sarcastic instruction
20 its masters to learn to perform that
nasal eavatina IN pianissimO tones
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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ing to him and of his own make, are as
suitable as those Of q good cut. So ii
is with the intellectual giant who takes
no heed of his manners. He may learn
much from less talented people, who
are nevertheless his superiOrs in many
things. Desirable as it may be fO1
young men to shun the extravaganza
of the aesthetic, and to despise the
shams of society, they can not afford
to neglect the courtesies of life; and
they do well who, while devoting their
energies to mathematics and the class
les, pay attention to the cultivation in
manners. It is while young that man
ners are made; the most strenuous eff
forts viii not remedy or eradicate in
after life the gaucheries formed In
youth.-TOrOq2tO Week.
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A COLONIAL HOUSE.
By B. ". sHAPPELL, ARCHITECT.

Bark wigwams and log cabins were
the almost universal dwellings, of the
first settlers of the American Colonies,
but as wealth and social dignity in
creased better habitRtiOns began to ap-
pear.
For the most part these better dwell
ings were limitations of styles prevailing
in the various Netherlands" of the colo
nists. Penn planned rows of small En-
glish cottages for the Philadelphians,
but the thrifty Germans of the interior
of Pennsylvania were long content with
houses Of hewn logs and barns Of vast
capacity. The Swedes of New Jersey
built houses with palisade sidings of
split timber, set upright. The Dutch
Of New York and the Hudson River
region closely initiated the dwellings
of their ancestors.
But the finest colonial houses, such
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Mr.. GLADSTONE attributes his health
and vigor to his habit of sleeping seven
hours out of the twenty-four and never
thinking of business after he goes to
bed Men who are unable to sleep
soundly and haven't the faculty of free
ing their minds from anxious thoughts
would be very glad to follow the En-
glish statesman's rule of life, if they
only knew how to do so.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

PETTICoAT influence appears to have
reached the beautiful land. Miss
Naunita Daisy had located a claim A
Santa Fe engineer had jumped it and
a row was the result. The engineer
shot Miss Daisy in the arm, but not
seriously. A committee of Guthrieites
called upon Miss Daisy and desired
to know if it was in accord with her
"ideears" that the engineer should be
lynched. Miss Daisy said it was not,
and the engineer was permitted to go.
Accommodating lot of frontiersmen,
those chaps.