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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

A MEXICAN shepherd made a bet
with his employer that his dog would
stay alone on the ranch for five days,
taking the sheep oVt to pasture in the
morning and penning them at night.
The dog was instructed by his master,
plenty of meat was hung up within
reach, the shepherd went off, the dog
faithfully discharged his duties, and the
bet was won.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

FARMERS in the neIghborhood of Fort
Abraham Lincoln are alarmed at the
proposition to abandon the fort at the
present time. They say they settled
in the country with the understanding
that they were to be protected against
the raids of hostile Indians, thousands
of whom are camped within a days
journey of the fort, and that if the pro-
lection is withdrawn they viii be com
PEELED to abandon their farms. A pc
tition Will be forwarded to the War De
partment.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

struCtIOnS at what rate to carry men
into several parts of the town, where
all day they may be had. Other hack
ney-men seeing this way, fOcked to the
same place, and performed their jour
neys at the same rate; so that some
times there is twenty Of them together,
which dispense up and down, that they
and others are to be had everywhere,
as watermen are to be had at the water
side. Everybody is much pleased with
it, for, whereas, before coaches could
not be had but at great rates now
man may have one much cheaper.
Garrard was mistaken about the uni
versaI popularity of the scheme, for it
is on record that many of the trades
men protested against it. They said
that when ladies and gentlemen walked
the streets they had time to stop and
make purchases, but now they were
whisked by in hackney coaches they
did not have either a chance to inspect
the goods or buy them. Lodging
house keepers on the principal streets
also complained that the noise made
by the new vehicles drove their tenants
to seek quieter quarters elsewhere.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

by the participants in civic professions
and official pageants. As a cOnse-
quence such armor is still made, and
the armorer occupies in China about
the same position that he did in Europe
in medieval times. A suit of brass
armor worn by one of the Black Flag
leaders in the TOnquin war is said to
have resisted bullets and to have bro
ken a bayonet thrust delivered by q
powerful French marine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

SAYS a house decorator in the Wash
ington Star: you can bid goOd-by to
carrara marble. It was all very we'll
up to a few years since, but the deveI-
opments of our own land and of Mexico
have driven it to the wall Its most
formidable foe is the Mexican onyx.
This, aIthoughit looks soft and creamy,
is as hard as steel, and when once pol
ished is almost indestructible. At
present it is used in small quantities,
and is chiefly known from its white
and yellow varieties. More remarkable
than the onyx is the petrifed wood of
Arizona and New Mexico. 1t comes in
all coIors, and is superior in beauty and
elegance to most of the moss agates
used in jewelry. It takes a magnificent
polish and is not so costly but that it
can be used for mantelpieces, bar
fronts, washstands, ash receivers, table
tops and bureau slabs. The supply is
inexhaustibIe
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

IT has been said that Prince Bis
naarck treats his wife with contempt.
That is incorrect; he married her for
loveand hasaaIways had profound re-
: pect for her. In 1916 he wrote to his
sister, the Countess Arnim: IF his sa-
1tanic majesty does not NEEDLE in the
affair I have decided to take unto my
self q wife. .
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
The Automatic Cash Boy.

"The inventor of this automatic cash
and parcel system" said salesman in
one of the big Twenty-third street
shops yesterday as ne switched his Gus
toners purchase and money up into
the air and sent it whirling away to a
central change and wrapping station,
"was a poor shop boy like myself. He
sold out for 800, coo, but could be max
ing a great deal more than the income
of that sum now if he had held on.
Look at this shop; the aisles are not
filed up with cash-boys or cash-girls
and the customers have more room and
better air. We have eighty automatic
stations in use, and we pay a royalty
of $40 a year for each station. That
makes a total Of 81, 900 a year for the
service. Suppose we employed fifty
cash-boys- couldn't get along with
Iess-and paid them the low figure of
Sl3O a year. We could get them for
that. cheap as 1t seems. They would
cost US Sc, 500 In a year. Quite saw
ing. isn't it? Who was the inventor
He was a Philadelphia salesman
named Blickensderfer. "-Nely York
World.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
ERectinp Tbfngs,

1t was the remark of a man who had
done good deal of public service Of
that sort which is wholly unremunera-
tive, and which must be done from a
pure love of seeing abuses righted,
that every body would apply himself to
the righting of public abuses were It
only generally known how easily things
of this sort can be done. "The first
time / undertook anything of this sort. I"
he said, 81 went into it without the
slightest hope of really accomplishing
anything more than the easing of my
own conscience, and possibly of pre-
pairing the way for some one who
should come after me and finish what
1 could not more than begin; but to
my establishment I discovered that
after all one has only to set to work to
do about what he will. The public is
so observed because it Is too INDECENT
to take the trouble to find ont that it
may have most Of the abuses which
torment it remedied almost for the
asking"
It is feared that this view is not to
be taken too literally. 1t was probably
too highly cOlOred by personal expert
ence to be reliable as far as the public
in general goes. And yet it is I'M
dOubtedly true that the people who
hold back from the attempt to have the
unpleasant and undesirable things
which vex the community righted
would be amazed at the things they
could do if they would but try. 1t is
often the mere starts that cost, as has
been so continuously remarked by
the prOverb mongers for hundreds of
years.
In matters touching the we'll being
of the community, it is almost always
to those who are anxious to retain some
hardly bought political preferment that
one must apply for relief; and the fear
Of offending possible voter is In itself
not lnfrequently sufficient to bring
matters about. It is to be noted, more
over, that as a rule people are good
natured enough to be willing to do any
thing for the public good if it is not
too much trouble, and the amount of
urging in such a case not usually large
that is needed to bring them up to the
working point. The reason that things
go undOne Is because people in general
are persuaded that it is of no use to
trouble themselves about them, while
people IN particular are apt to be so
engrOssed in following out their private
affairs that they have no time to give
to the righting of public wrongs, even
though so doing may be their manifest
and individual duty. If only folk viii
take hold with a viii it is not essential
that they have a great deal Of influence
or power, but they can effect a good
deal simply by making a beginning
by taking that first step which pro
verbally cOsts.-BOStO75 Courier.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

A FORTUNE awaits the ingenious man
who can make watch spring that won't
break. Every now and then some one
comes to the front with the claim that
he has made the discovery, but all have
SO far failed. The breaking of watch
springs is largely due to electrical infu-
enoes. After a watch spring has been
demagnetized it is less liable to break.
ofeourse. But to say that a watch spring
viii not break or that some Will break,
is nonsense.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

MORE than a century before the
Christian era there were many beauti-
full cups in China. The Portuguese, it
is said, introduced the ware into Eu-
rope about 1913, calling it China, :"
after the country 40 long pre-eminent
in its production. The first English
mandatory of earthenware found
place at Standardization, in Eliza
beth's reign. The Shakespeare Jug is
the best known of Elizabethan pot
terry.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

AN official report shows that there
are 283 Indian schools in the Dominion
OF this number 81 are managed by the
Churchof England, so Roman Catholic,
80 Methodist, 10 Presbyterian and IS
undenominational The funds for their
support are divided as follows: Roman
Catholic, $257, 500; Church of England
$186, 761; Presbyterian, $50, 439; non
UNCONVENTIONAL, $51, 941; Methodists,
$21, 541; total, 1914, 285. The Church
of England, the Presbyterian Church
and the Methodist Church supple
mented the grant quite materially, but
the Catholic Church is not known to
make any expenditure for the schools.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

IT is strange that the use Of points
for purposes of punctuation should be
sucha comparatively modern invention.
OF the four generally used points only
the period O. dates earlier than the fif-
teenth century. The colon @ is said
to have been first introduced about
1885, the comma g some thirty-fve
years later, and the semi-colon @
about 1870.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

GEORGE P. CRAIG, of Gwinnett. Ca,
has two hogs that perform the Office of
4 calf to perfection. Mr.. Craig had
been. complaining that his COWS were
falling short of milk for several
weeks, and upon close examination, to
lis establishment, he found these rogu-
ish hogs had been imbibing the milk of
the cows, both remaining in the same
lot together at night
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

ACCORDING to the results of an in
quiry instituted by the French govern
ment there are at present in France
1900, 600 households in which there has
been no child; $500, 600 in which there
was. one; $500, 600, two children; l.
100000, three; about 100000, four;
$50, 900, five; 1000, SIX; and 2OO,-
900, seven or more.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

lose tine, the Judge ordered the doors
of the courtroom to be locked, and
then impounded every person in the
audience to serve. Many of the jurors
were so exhausted by continuous ser
vice that they fell asleep In their seats,
but the trials went on.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
KANSAS

1T. was shown at a recent Methodist
conference in Maine that the average
p pay Of the preachers in its jurisdiction
was 81 cents a day.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

A NEW photograph. said to be much
simpler than any other so far intro
duced, has lately appeared in Milan.
1t can reproduce music and the human
voice IN a most marvellous manner, and
one OF It's features is its cheapness, the
wax cylinders used costing only twenty
five confines.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
A NUNBER Of interesting observations

a NU3IBER Of Interesting observations
have lately been made on the destruc-
tive power Of coffee upon various MI
crobes, and they prove that the organ
isms die In a longer or shorter period.
Good and bad coffee produce the same
effect. 1t is held that the antiseptic
effect of coffee does not depend on its
caffeine, but on the oils developed while
roasting.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

PETREoLINE has antiseptic proper
ties. and Is said to be valuable as a food
preserYatiYe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
TineniEces.


Looking In the familiar face Of ones
watch, 1t seems strange that the al
most universal pocket companion of
our day should have been unknown at
the time Of the Reformation. The
most ancient specimen of the article
was "built" in 1541. 1t is now in the
possession of an English barOnet. It
is a clumsy concern, about the size Of
a dessert plate.
Clocks came in about the middle of
the thirteenth century, and took the
place of the simple instruments that
measured time by the running Of sand
and the trickling of water. Before
these, the hours were marked, on
bright days, by the shadows cast by
the sun, and guessed at by night and
when the sun was Obscured by clouds.
At what a rate the mechanic arts have
progressed since DemOsthenes re-
quested that the clepsydrd Cor water
dripping time-measUrer) might be
stopped, in order that he might con-
tinue his OratiOni For be it remarked
that the prudent Greeks timed their
orators, thereby escaping the modern
bore of being talked at by speechifiers
who matched their tongues against old
ChrOnOs.
Five hundred years back the old
perfectly noted. Now we have an
agent that beats him in a fair race,
traversing distances in a few. seconds
which it takes him hours to pIod over.
So we gO.-NelO York Ledger.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
They Struck the Bad Place.

A loyal North Carolinian, who served
in the Union army, tells this story in
connection with the resin beds, which
are found in the turpentine districts
During Gen. Sherman's famous march
to the sea, a part of the Twentieth
Army Corps was halted in a section of
this forest and prepared to camp for
the night The soldiers were some
what mystified in finding so large a
stretch of smooth, solid rock, but con.
graduated themselves that they would
not have to bivOuac in the mud. KNAPP
sacks were unslung, guards were
mounted and fires were kindled at
different points, and the tired and
weary veterans were preparing to set
tie down for a comfortable rest. The
heat of the fires softened the resin.
First it began to sputter, then great
black clouds of smoke began to ascend,
and suddenly huge columns Of fire shot
up, seemingly from the very bowels of
the earth. The whole camp was in
cOmmOtiOn, the men beat precipitate
retreat, and soon the whole place was
a seething, roaring mass of fame. One
of the soldiers, as he grabbed his gun
and started, shouted a warning to his
comrades: "Run, boysl We've struck
-PbiIGdeLDbid Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
SOME strange judicial proceedings

SOME strange judicial proceedings
are reported from Queensland Aus
tralia. The presiding judge was in
hurry to get away, and tried cases con
tinually for thirty-six hours. At one
stage all the available jurors were occu-
pied il considering verdicts, and not to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

An inventor has patented a process
by which he claims there will be here
after no end of hemIock bark. The
trees are to be peeled standing by
means of ladders, beginning at the top
of the trunk. As the peeler descends
he removes the bark, and Immediately
covers the trunk with a preparation
of rubber dissolved in suIphuric acid.
Thus protected, the tree not only viii
not die but reproduce its bark within
one year as thick as before, and Of a
superior quality for tanning purposes.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

GERMAN experiments have proven
that sea-mud is a much better fertilizer
for rye and oats than farm-yard ma,
nure.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
His Suggestion to a BaId-He aded Mar

j. NJ. Sawyer, general freight agent
of the Great Northern Railway, during
a recent trip to California, was accosb-
ed by conductor wearing a gaudY en-
blem of the Mystic Shrine, of which
Mr.. Sawyer Is himself a prominent
member, but Is satisfied with a simple
button indicative Of his utilization. It
was the subsequent course pursued by
this conductor that firmly established
In the mind of Mr.. Sawyer the belief
that the far Western railway official
carries more nerve to the square inch
than any other class Of citizens in the
United States. Mr.. Sawyer is quite
bald, prominently, so it might be said.
To him the conductor said:
VIII you permit me to make a sug-
gestion ?"
Certainly replied Mr.. Sawyer.
Il am fit subject for almost any kind
of suggestion; second attack of the
grip, somewhat bilious, generally used
up and, as you might say, with one
foot IN the grave. But what is your
suggestion? 2"
The conductor deliberately leaned
over the seat and imPressively placed
one finger on Mr.. Sawyer's dome of IN
tellect.
"I would paint jack rabbit right
there, he said.
"a rabbit What for?"
"SOme people might take 1t for
hare. Pioneer Press.
RAPID improvement Is shown in vari-
Gus branches Of Photography yellow
green light as an illuminant instead of
ruby, yellow light Of ruby, etc. The
sodium lamp, giving a pure yellow
blaze, Is found better than the old ar
gand burner, and perfectly safe and
pleasant.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
Curious Psychic phenomena.

At a recent club meeting some
Creepy" stories we're told which may
please lovers of the marvellous, though
they deal with dreams rather than
ghosts. A certain physician-we may
call him Doctor WAS one night
awakened by man who said that his
wife was very i'll and desired the doctor
to see her. He stated that he lived in
Mr.. ks house. Doctor Z. followed
his visitor, entered the house, and was
taken into a chamber where on the bed
lay a woman in the last stages of con-
sumption. He told her husband, who
had summoned him, that she could
live but short time, but prescribed
some relieving medicine. Then he
went home, promising to return the
next day. True to his promise, he re-
turned the following morning, but was
surprised to find the building fast
closed. The man at work in the gar
den said that the house had not been
occupied for years. The doctor, amazed,
insisted on entering, and found unmis-
taxable signs of desertiOn; the place
was thick with dust and cobwebs. In
the chamber he had visited all was dust
covered and dreary. The bed had not
been used for a long time. Yet the
room seemed perfectly familiar to him,
even to the pattern Of the wall paper.
To add to the oddity of the thing, the
place had the reputation of being
haunted. A somewhat similar expert
ence was that of a gentleman who,
while at sea during a storm, distinctly
saw his wife enter his stateroom and
kiss him. When, on his arrival home,
he met her in reality, one of the first
things she said was, Did you receive
a visit from me week ago? 2" "HOw
could II" he said. We'll" said she,
81 thought you were in danger, and I.
walked over the dark water until I
came to a low, black vessel. Invent up
the side and entered the cabin, and
leaned over you and kissed you" She
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-06-11
TERMS.

Ten per cent. ofthe purchase money 20 be paid
OF secured as soon as the property is Knocked
down. and the balance on c0nhrma. ion of sale.
n b. CRITCHFIELD,
NAYS Admr of William Rodgers decd.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-06-11

Is every county Of the State contests
for Congressional nominations have been
carried on for several months past. In
no one Of them has such q shameless
warfare against candidate been pursued
as in this county. For months NJ. soull
has been followed with venomous per
sonal abuse. to which he has not and
does not propose, for the present, to
make reply. he has been honored by
his party with positions Of trust and Of
grave responsibility, ard knowing that
he has faithfully discharged every public
duty and thai his fellow citizens also
know it, he points to his past record as a
guarantee for the future. lie has lived
in this community for forty-five years,
and be believes that the character he
has established cannot be iilched from
him by the leeehes, residing in this
borough, who have combined to mis-
lead public sentiment against him.
The day may arrive when the veil will
be drawn aside and the vices Of these
men shown to the community in all their
naked desormity. 1t is for the sake OF
the innocent who must suffer, not theirs,
that we have RETAINED from showing
these parties up in their true light. But
forbearance ceases TO be a virtue when
lust and other minor vices undertake TO
dominate community OF virtuous people.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-06-11
All Doubt Settled.

WAsHINGToN, June S.-A pleasant incident
occurred here Saturday that has proved an
agreeable surprise TO the friends Of the Ad-
ministration and the occupants Of the White
House as well. Late in the day Postmaster
General Wanamaker and Editor McKean, of
the Philadelphia Ledger, called upon Mrs.
Harrison at the White House, and Mr. Nc
Kean, on behalf of a number of subscribers
to the gift, whose names are unknown, pre-
senied Mrs. Harrison with the deed and keys
to the cottage at Cape May Point where she
enjoyed herself last summer. Mrs. Harrison
is greatly delighted with the gift, and it is
probable that she will visit Cape May Point
within a week or two to inspect her new
possessions and to make preparation for re-
siding there during the summer
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-06-11
A Long Session Looked For.


WASHINGTON, June 6.-The question Of
the length Of the session is continually being
agitated The action of the caucus tonight
on the Federal Election law will probably
have some effect on the matter. 1t is gener-
ally believed on both sides of the House
that the session will last until the latter part
of August at least, and probably well into
September The Republicans are prepared
now for pretty long session, and while
they are anxious to get away as soon as pos
sible on account of the approaching cam
paign, if they have to stay until September
they expect TO put in some Of chat time in
an attempt to make Federal Election law.
Ifthe rest of the business of Congress can be
got into such shape as to make a tolerably
early adjournment possible the Federal
Election question would probably not be
allowed to prolong the session, but with the
prospect of long session anyhow they will
at least make the attempt to pass the Lodge
bill. In view of the prospect of long ses-
sion the President is prepared TO remain in
Washington all summer