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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
A HouIinrDnr

An acquaintance of mine, who trifies
with the bulls and bears down on Wall
street during the daytime and at night
devotes himself to his family in little
cottage over in Brooklyn, not long ago
invested $50 in dog. It was a doci1e
and intelligent animal, playful and
quiet enough in the daytime, but from
dark to daylight he would moan,
groan, bark and howl It is said that
city people get used to all sorts of dis
turbances at night, but the dogs
neighbors proved the exception to the
rule, for they could not overcome their
attack of insomnia. Even the master
growled occasionally; but when he re-
membered that the dog cost $50, and
that his wife protested against the
purchase, he made light of the matter
and said nothing. Occasionally, how
ever, when the bowling became in
tolerable, my broker friend would ex-
postuIate with the dog through the
medium of a barrel-stave, but without
lasting effect. At last the owner tried
to sell him, but the dogs reputation
had become too well known to all who
knew the master, SO he decided to give
him away. Soon after this determine
ton had been arrived at he encount-
cred on Broadway friend who lived
over among the marshes and mosqui-
toes of New Jersey, and to him the
broker presented the dog in a neat
little speech, setting forth all the
charms and virtues, excepting its
vocal powers. The friend was de-
lighted and took the dog away with
him. A few days later the new owner
of the dog ran across the broker again.
To the latter's surprise he grasped his
hand warmly and exclaimed:
"OId man, I wouldn't take a cool
hundred for that dog you gave me, and
I have been offered that sum already.
For the first few nights had him I
guess he missed his old surroundings,
or he didn't like Jersey air, for he
howIed numerically. But he has got
all over that now"
"How in thunder did you manage %
exclaimed the broker.
"Why, every time he began to howl
I would go out and throw a bucket of
cold we'll water over him, and you
know have got the coolest and sweet
est well water in New Jersey. Well,
when he had licked himself dry, he
would commence lit again, when I
would repeat the operation. We kept
it up three or four nights, but the dog
got tired of the game first, or else he
found out what the matter was. You
couldn't get him to howl now, even if
YOU walked all over his tail. "-NeaC
York Star.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
Our Industrial Life.

Said I to my banker friend: Estate
to me your notion of the greatest evil
in our Industrial life"
II think it is the excessive profit
everybody in trade expects to have. It
is above and outside of all legislative
assistance. We have had until recent
" laws limiting the rate of interest,
and declaring anything above per
cent. or 6 per cent. to be usury; but
so per cent. is the law of the trades
man in dealing with his customer.
You see it in beef, which costs less
than four cents pound and is sold to
the ultimate consumer at from sixteen
to twenty-five.
"The cheapest thing in the whole
market is oil, and that is the subject
of the most interference, and in reality
the declaimers against the oil interest
are those who are not satisfied to see
it cheap. In order to make oil cheap
enough for the whole world to use it,
those who control it have put down
apparatus, such as pipes and steam
engines, getting rid even of the rail-
road tax upon the product. They leave
out of their purchase system certain
wells the owners of which demand to
be bought up, and if an excessive price
was paid for superiuous wells of
course the tax would have to be put
upon the production.
"Now, there is no article which
America produces which stands the
test of prices in all countries like
American oil. It goes to Egypt, to the
Barbary States. to the Asiatic States,
to poor countries like Denmark and
Norway, where the American flag is
the familiar sign for burning oil.
Those people do not exclaim against
the price. And when you can buy the
highest refined oil for So barrel it is
the cheapest burning fluid in the world.
A barrel will almost supply farm
er's family for one year, and it costs
So; whereas your gas bills in almost
any house in a city will be So month.
"I do not take up this topic" said
the gentlman, except that it crosses
my mind. If the American people
knew, however, how mucn they have to
pay intermediates, they would see how
this rich, abundant country continues
to be the most expensive in the world.
-Gdth
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
Extra Liability to Malarlal Injection.

Persons whose blood is thin, digestion
weak and liver sluggish, are extra liable to
the attacks of malarial disease. The most
tri1ing exposure, may, under such condi-
tons, infect a system which, if healthy,
would resist the miasmatic faint. The only
way to secure immunity from malaria in To-
calities where it is prevalent, is to tone and
regulate the system by improving weakened
digestion, enriching the blood, and giving
wholesome impetus to hillary secretion.
These results are accomplished by nothing
so effectively as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which long experience has proved to be the
most reliable safeguard against fever and
ague and kindred disorders, as well as the
best remedy for them. The Bitters are,
moreover, an excellent invigorant of the or
gans of urination, and an active depurent,
eliminating from the blood those acid i'm
puritIes which originate rheumatic ailments.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
QuarreIs of Married Folk.

No third person can successfully ar
bitrate between man and wife-not
even a father-in-law. If you, Mrs.
Pepper, and you, Mr.. Pepper, must
disagree and must give vent to speech
on the subject, or die, then die mum,
or fight it out between yourselves in
the secrecy of your own chambers.
Much domestic unhappiness comes
from full rein being given to these IN
bridled tongues. Do not, my dear
woman, under any circumstances, COM
pare your husband to other men to his
disadvantage. Don't say, ~Oh, I do
wish my husband was like yours, Mrs.
B" That Is a cold-blooded sort of
cruelty that few men can forgive. I
have myself heard men say, "If I had
wife like you, Mr.. So-and-so, Pd be
glad" 1t won't do to say such things.
If your wife loves you it viii be worse
than blow to her to hear You say such
brutal things. And most of these
peppery wives and acrid husbands do
really and truly love each other, after
all. If one or the other of them should
bel taken away, if the death angel
seems to hover near for a moment
there Is such tenderness and GENTLE
ness and devotion that it is a pity that
only sickness and suffering can draw
them out.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
The Progressive Conversation Party.

The progressive conversation party
is having quite a run. Its popularity
is largely due to the fact that any
number may be invited, although not
more than twenty can be easily man
aged. Say you have that number Of
invited guests, then the chairs, two in
number, must be arranged behind each
other in a continuous line. A wide
ribbon yokes them together, a different
shade being used for each pair. In
sending out the invitation the topics
for the evening are included. A blank
card is tied with a narrow ribbon to
the connecting ribbons on the chairs.
Tally cards as In progressive euchre,
hold a tiny ribbon which matches the
card upon the chair. These are placed
upon two pIates-one for the ladies
and the other for the gentlemen OF
course the topics decided upon for each
set of chairs are entirely foreign to
each other. When all of the guests
have drawn a card they take their
seats according to the color designated
by the tally card, the ladies sitting on
the left and the gentlemen on the
right of the line. The hostess taps a
bell when the buzz of conversation be-
gins. The judges chosen pass down
the line and cridcise- Ten minutes
having expired the best conversational
list receives upon her tally card q gold
star and the vanQuished silver star.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09


over, write out your thoughts about it,
Just as I did mine some time ago, in
the following lines:
TO MAURICE THOMPSON.
I've read all your ''Songs Of Fairweather,''
J I've peered IN the depths OF your streams.
Your words and your thoughts Tow to-
Like the heart and its love in sweet
dreams.
l'Tis fresh. CHEEKY ode to the summer,
"A note in the worlds joyous song,
A happy, thrice welcome new conner
! To gladden. LIES care-Weary throng.
While sleeping my soul in its nectar,
Through memofy's wildwood away,
I wandered adown to a sylvan
Lake, clear as the skies are in Nay.
Where wood birds hold yearly reunions,
And graceful ferns sway in the air.
Where never sly, deaGhful arrow
s.: Disturbs the communion there.
oh, sweet were the unWritten measures
/ In childhood heard on the breeze,
As played, full Of JOY, by its waters,
In the shade Of the old sugar trees.
But if you should carry with you a
copy Of Charles Kingsley's poems land
you will if you have one), do not read
the bad Squire" No call to arms
was ever so vigorous and soul-stirring
Like bolt from heaven, through cold,
dark clouds, it burns through crusts
of ice and snow down deep into the hu-
man heart, until we hate, oh! how
righteopsly we hate, the sin of Merry
England" that wrung from the soul
of her sweetest singer such wall of
woe.
Perhaps it was the "Bad Squire"
that Ruskin beheld when he wrote:
The violets light the lonely hill,
The fruitful burrows load the lea
Mans heart alone is sterile still
For lack of lowly charitie.
He walks a weary vale within,
No lamp Of love in heart hath he;
His steps are death, his thoughts are sin,
For lack of gentle charitie.
If you are going to spend the hours
alone, swinging in an easy hammock,
take Shelley with you, and with
%Queen NAB" yield yourself to the
fascinating influence that closes about
you as the south wind does about the
opening flower, and you will feel a
hndling of the soul, you viii reach
out and soar aloft until you reach q
height serene above the clouds of
ennui and loneliness.
With the next rustic of Locust
Leaves you. will hear something of an
Ohio poet. J. V. II. Rooms.
MUNCIE. Ind,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

WOMAN. heal myself by using DR.. Asa Bucks
w Golden Specific. cure for all female
diseases, such as leucorrhoea. whites. ulcers in
hammaticn, falling of the womb. enlargement OF
the womb, painful nenstruation. etc. Do not
fail to try this wonderful treatment. Call or
write for free sample treatment. 1t costs you
nothing 10 try it. Large box 81 90 by mail, post
paid. WOOLVERTON BROS. druggists, s3l
Kansas Ave-. Topeka. Kansas. Western Agents.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
are four torpedo boats. The large yes
sells anchor at Buenos Ayres.

BoARDING-HoUsE inmates soon learn
to appreciate tender meat, and viii
eagerly seek the place where it is fire.
quently served. A Chicago man hit
upon an ingenious plan TO secure a
boarding house where eating would be
a pleasure instead of tiresome, teeth
grinding exercise. He asked a butcher
to direct him to the house where he
sold the best meat. The butcher cheer
fully did so, and the man was soon
thereafter installed in boarding house
where the deicacies of the table are
good and plentiful.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
Benevolent Mr.. Jones.

We were waiting at the depot at
Texarkana when a young man pulled
out thimblerigging outfit and began
to call for bets against his game. If it
was against the law no one interfered
with him, and in few minutes he had
worked up quite an excitement. I was
with q friend from Buffalo, and we
were not sin" However, as we sat
apart from the crowd a benign and be-
nevolent-lOoking man about so years
old came over to us and said:
Gentlemen, am Mr.. Jones, of st.
Louis. have four sons. This is a
wicked. wicked world, and I take every
precaution to guide them in right paths.
I have heard of this game, but never
saw it before. I want to play it-just
a little. I shall lose, of course, and
that Will make a strong point for me
when warning my boys against such
temptations. 1 can prove to them that
it is a skin game.
"Well?"
"Wen, I have no small money. If
you could change a $40 bill for me I
think I'd lose about So for the benefit
of my boys"
The Buffalo man said he'd be only
too happy to oblige, and he gave him
four fves.
The benevolent Mr.. Jones disap-
peared at once, but we didn't worry
about that. 1t was only when nv
friend went to the ticket Office and had
the $40 thrown back at him as n. e.
that we went out to look for the benign
father of four sons. The earth had
swallowed him up.-Ne1U York Sun.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
Moasn's SCHOOL sHors,-maae IN cur

MORsz's scnoon sHoEs,-maae IN cur
large shoe factory at omaha. Nebraska
Ask yOur dealer for them. Refuse to take
any others. If not kept in your town, write
US asking where to get them. They wear
loDGar and fit better than any other shoes.
Shoes have always been made too narrow.
We make them wide. A reward of Fifty
Dollars in gold paid for every pair of our
own make of shoes that contain particle
of shoddy, or anything but solid leather.
We make one hundred and fifty styles of
Women's, Misses and Children's Sewed and
Standard Screw, Grain, Glove, Kid and
Dongola. Elegant styles, wide and good
fitting. We also carry one hundred and fifty
styles of Mems Goods, Rubbers, &c.
wv. MORSE & CO.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

A HARTLAND. Mich, woman thought
she heard burglars in the house while
her husband was away and, getting out
an old horse-pistol, she blazed away at
something she saw in the road. Her
husband now bewails the loss of a 5000
mule that she fired at.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Then ali change seats, the ladies sd
vancing one seat and the gentlemen
retreating. When ten changes have
been made the one having the greatest
number of gold stars is declared the
winner of the prize.-PhiIade,phia In
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

OF health and strength renewed and of ease
and comfort follows the use of Syrup of
Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature to
efectually cleanse the system when costive
or bilious. For sale in SOC and SLIGO bottles
by all leading druggists.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

EDWIN ORRN's American circus in
vaded the State of Zacateeas, Mexico,
and the day after its arrival an cpl
demic of measles broke out among the
inhabitants. Now all the old-timers in
Zacatecas declafe it was 8 punishment
for allowing the show to come into the
State on some special saints day and
break up religious procession
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Is PRICKLY ASH BITrERs good for any
thing? Read what Frank Griggsby of
Dodge City, Kas., says: ''For three years 1
pronounced incurable. My friends had CIV
en- me up to die, when I was induced to try
your remedy. 1 took it for three months
and have gained 80 pounds in weight. Am a
well man and Prickly Ash Bitters saved my
life. I am under lifelong obligations to
this medicine, and will never cease to rec
ommend il"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

1t gives me pleasure to certify that Lieu
tenant Busick of the Central Police District
used Salvation Oil on a rheumatic arm. A
few applications relieved him and wrought a
permanent cure. Salvation Oil if called in
will verify this statement.
SERG'T. n. A. RYAN.
Central Police Station, Balto., Md.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

WILLIAM &. VANDERBILT has given
his check for $4,000 to a young man
who was bitten by one of his pet
hounds. Other young men who might
wish to be bitten by this pet hound
will learn with regret that the animal
has been shot.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

A YOUNG woman at Parsons, Kan,
who pays large tax. claims the right
to pasture her COWS in the school house
grounds because she never had any
children to send to the school. That
woman was built for a LAWYER.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

NOBODY out a woman can write scientific
ally of a woman's apparel. The man who at
tempts it is lost. It is different with DIR.
BULBS Cough Syrup. Either sex is fully ac-
quainted with the merits of this noted RENE
dy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Highway Economy. First Pedestrian:
There is scarcely any water coming from
that sprinkIIng cart
Second Pedestrian; The driver is probably
saving it for the crossings.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

A GLANCE at the military strength of
the Argentine republic in view of the
disturbances in Buenos Ayres viii
prove interesting. The army consists of
$500 men, well drilled and equipped
Beside this army there is a national
guard of militia and there are enough
generals and officers for an army of a
quarter of a million of men, The navy
Is composed of thirty vessels, the larg-
est Of which Is the AImirante Brown,
Of $500 tons displacement. Her armor
is eight inches thick. Beside these theze
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

The Bhssfeld, Mich, postmaster
has issued formal notice that he won't
lick stamps for anybody, and that here
after letters dropped in the mail box
with two cents don't go. He says the
letters viii be held for postage even if
q So bill is pinned to every one.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Mr.. GLADSTONE, in q recent speech
in the House of Commons, delivered one
sentence of 214 words, which in type
made twenty lines. 1t has been re-
marked of it that, Notwithstanding "its
extraordinary length and the more or
less extemporaneous nature of its utter
ances, the sentence was perfectly clear
and not in the least involved"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

HIRAM C. WHEELER, ODEBoLT SAC Co., Iowa.
Imported PercherOn and Shire Stations. IarS-
est Importation of draft stations to America,
this season: Quality the very best. First-class
horse, SI.Ot0, two and three years time. per
cent Enabling horse TO pay for himself.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

AN excellent way of testing tea is to
$ put teaspoonful in q glass of water
and shake it thoroughly. If the tea Is
pure the water viii be a pure amber
tint, but If +adulterated, strongly
coIOred
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

First Girl (proudly): Our baby can say
pa and ma.
Second Girl: OATS muffin. Ny cousin
wot's rich. us got er wax one wot kin do dat.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

A STRANGE and interesting class of
people live in the mountain regions of
Eastern Gahcia and Bukowina. and IN
the border mountains of Hungary. They
are called Huzuls, and are a mixture
of two tribes which were driven out of
Slavonia and Mongolia six hundred
years ago. trhey are at present about
thirty thousand in number, and live in
small settlements, seldom more than six
or seven families in a settlement.
These settlements are called "staros-
ties" the "starost, or governor, being
always the oldest son of the founder OF
the settlement, and his direct descend
ants. This governor has ultimate con-
troll of the people, but he possesses nc
more land or focks than any other man
in the starosty, as the fields and sheep
which form. the wealth, and are the
pride of the Huzuls. are the common
property of the settlement. Although
they have regular homes, they make
very little use of them as abiding places.
AS soon as the first signs of spring,
which they call the green time" APP
pear they are off, and for seven months
wander through the mountains as hunt
ers or herdsmen, and only the "black
time" of winter brings them back to the
settlement. As to their religious belief
they are heather, and are filled with all
sorts of strange superstitions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Prickly Ash r tiers is a vegetable COM
pound. pure and reliable. Give it trial, it
will help you.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

A soap that's soft is full Of rcater, half or
two thirds its weight, probably, thus you pay
seven or eight cents per pound for water. Dob
bins Electric Soap is all soap and adul-
Grafton, therefore the cheapest and best. Try
DObbinS.'
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

ALBERT BURCH, West Toledo, Ohio
says: ''Hall's Catarrh Cure saved my life.'
Write him for particulars. Sold by drug
gists, 75c.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

The men who hold up trains for robbery
should themselves be held up for example. -
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

IT is estimated that persons walking
on the sunny side of the street are in
light more than five thousand times
stronger than are the occupants of an
ordinary darkened room of a town
house, while stroliers on the seashore
in sunny weather enjoy the influence
of eighteen thousand times as much of
the same health-giving agent.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

If you are in good health you do not need
medicine, but when you are sick you do need
Prlclkly Ash Bitters.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Don't fail to read about PrickIy Ash BIZ
ters in this issue. 1t may be of benefit t.
you.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09
Miss De Pretty-s'Let's form a secre

Miss De Pretty-''Let's form secret So
Eiety."
Miss De Pink-ssLet's. Just like the Odd
Fellows, and Red Men. Call it the Ancient
Order of-of Kings Daughters
MISS De Blond-''Or the Ancient Order
of Dianas."
Miss De Young-"Orthe Ancient Order of
American-'
Miss OIdmaid-s'Oh, don't LET'S call it the
Ancient Order of anything"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

ST. Louis Girl Visiting in Boston)- IL new
er saw such lgnoramuses as you havein your
bookstores"
Boston Girl Tin amazement) -"Ignora-
muses.? Our bookstores9''
ST. Louis Girl-''Yes: asked In half a
dozen place for book of poems like yours
Mr.. Gothe's poems, you know, and they said
they never heard Of them"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Does Your Baby chafe easy7 J.nzell's
"LY-CO- DIN1' Nursery Powder positively CURES
CHAFING. Send 25c. ia stamps for large box. Sam
pie Free. Lazell, Daley i Co., Box 1913. New York
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

medicine that has been sold for years
must have merit. This is the case with
Prickly Ash Bitters
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

''Jones the coal merchant has sold out
and gone to sea- SIT is possible? How he
will cheat when he eighs the anchor
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Mrs. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup for Chill
drea teething, softens the gums. reduces inhaJn-
nation. allays pain. wind collie. Csc bottle.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

Business is picking up in the cotton re
gions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

The man who went fishing and caught a
good eel of fish did not take the usual jug
of bait along.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

1t seems to be the fate of coal to be forced
from its bed broken up and pounded to
pieces, and it is apt to be migrate.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

'It's all up with me-" said the aeronaut as
his balloon collapsed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-09

The pack-mule knows all about back ia
es.