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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25


A few weeks ago We printed the com.
plant made by a mother who had tried
IN vain to keep her family around the
home hearth In the evenings.
She had taken care to see that the
hearth was clean, the fire warm, the
room inviting, and had aTrayed herself
In her brightest smiles and prettiest
gown; but all to no purpose. As soon
as dinner was over, her husband
rushed away to his Office, her boys to
their clubs, her girls to a neighbours
house and she was left alone. She
limited that her experience was that Of
many other mothers.
Perhaps these neglected mothers
may find q useful hint in the old story
of Lady Hay" who was banishcd by
her ungrateful husband g" because her
monOtonOus goodness put him to sleep"
The Greek who cast his vote against
Arjstides because he "Was tired of hear
ing him called the just" had the same
impatient temperament which is shared
by many Of his brother men today.
Nor is the WEAKNESS of mOnOtOnOus
virtues unnatural or altogether unjust.
IF one Of these neglected mothers we're
nursing a sick child she would provide
it with constant variety of dainty
dishes, knowing that the appetite soon
rejects the same unchanged food and
that the body suffers in consequence.
She ought to know that the brain
Graves a change of thought as the
body does Of meat.
1t is the strange broth that satisfies
the palate Is an old prOverb thatsuits
the mind as well as the flesh.
IF the mother and sisters wish faith
.er and brothers to stay at home during
the evenings, they must bring some
novelty, some piquancy, some fresh air
into the house. The effect will be
wholesome for their own lives, as we'll
as for the men Of the family.
Every household is likely to fall into
ruts of thought. Conversation about
the affairs of the kitchen, the neigh
bOrhOOd, or even the church, fancy
work, or the half-dozen tunes which
the girls know on the piano are apt to
pail upon the taste of school and col
lege boys. Their own gossip about
baseball or their fraternity concerns is
not whit more elevating, butt in
terests them.
The gray-haired mother of four sons
at Yale amazed a visitor by her famil-
iarity with the records of boating clubs
for many years. How can you load
your memory with such worthless rub
bish ?" she was asked.
It has helped to keep my boys
close to me during their whole college
life. Is that worthless 2" she replied.
But boys and men should remember
that it is not the duty Of the mother
and sisters alone to bring variety and
charm to the family life.
If home bores them, let them at
once go to work to make it less weari-
some, for they may be sure that when
old age or death comes to them it will
be to that old home their thoughts will
turn, not to school, nor the baseball
ground, nor the club.-EU.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
aEalzs rhetr ro51ats In Pnhttc.

Here is a scene in Oriental Ahmeda-
bad: AS the sun is just up, the people
are opening their doors and windows,
and standing up their beds against the
walls; some are performing their toilet
operations in full view of the street, and
gOssipipg with their neighbors as they
squat in their doorways. A whole row
Of them are brushing their teeth with
wood sticks in unison over the gutter.
Brown babies of all sizes are playing in
the dOorways among the chickens and
kids.
Here is a house carved like jewel
box, the heavy door is sumptuousIy
wrought with crossbeams, ornamented
with prof Getting metallic bosses. While
we are lost in admiration it suddenly
opens, and q couple of COWS rush madIy
out and clatter down the steps of the
portico; COWS in India do not object to
going up and down stairs. We are not
to suppose, however, that this is barn ;
it only happens that the COWS, in COM
ing from their quarters behind, are
obliged to traverse the lower floor of
the family mansion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

laid on a large board or table, the
various pieces are properly placed up
on ii, and are then joined together by
means Of Ieaden bands gEOOYed to-
gather on each side and bent accord
ing to the drawing. These having
been soldered together at all their IN
bersectons, the parts are all united
and the window or panel is complete
and ready for placement.
Enameled glass, that in which the
surface only is coIored, is much more
modern, and much cheaper than she
manufacture Of pot-metal glass de-
scr1bed IN the foregoing The origin
Of enameIed glass was in the futile eff
forts Of glass painters to initiate
nature more closely than was possible
by the mosaic methods. They at
tempted to produce on transparent
glass the same effects obtained by
artists on canvas, and their endeavOrs
were Of course useless. All attempts
to Initiate nature on transparent sur
faces are necessarily failures, for a
conflict Of those WeIl-dehned laws
governing the decomposition and
transmission of light ensues, and
though the resemblance to the original
may be better than in mosaic glass,
the colOrs do not possess the depth and
brilhanoy they do in pot-metal, and
there are many reasons why they
should not. Painted windows will
sooner or later become dingy, and are
not very much superior, as far as
cOlOrs are concerned, to the modern
art Of diaphanic, or the transparencies
displayed on the streets about election
time. The mosaic method, as already
stated, is the only process worthy Of
the consideration of artists, and to this
art modern manufacturers devote their
best energies.
To the different styles of English,
ancient, and medieval stained glass
We are deeply indebted to the late Mr.
Winston, of England. He classified
painted windows the same as the
lamented Hickman did architecture,
VIZ, early English, the decorated, and
the perpendicular; and SO minute were
his attentions to details that we are
now enabled to distinguish by the
peculiarities of drawing and cO1oring
the period in which any window was
painted.
Stained glass of domestic character
has rich appearance in dwellings,.
Library windows of this material give
an exceedingly happy effect, and are
by no means uncommon. Then as fire
screens, the rich, dark co1ors of
pOt-metaI glass give a cheerful tone
and glow to the apartment. Stained
glass medallions and panels hung in
windows are very pleasant decorations.
There are many ways besides these in
which stained glass may be applied to
domestic purposes, and now that we
are becoming rapidly more perceptible
to art decoration our homes as well as
places Of worship will contain more
stained glass.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
A Surprise in Store for Him.

A dozen years ago a farm lying few
miles out from Pittsburg was the home
of a man whose thrift was Of a sort
that made his neighbors like to have
things in black and white when deal
ing with him. He had a son who in
herited his fathers characteristics.
who went West at an early age and
finally died there after rather a check
cred career. It CHANGED that the old
man was very ill-at the point Of
death, indeed-when the news Of the
sons demise reached the farm house.
The only other member of the family
at home was a widowed daughter,
whose ideas upon most subiects-re-
hgiOus ones in particular-were unique.
A neighbor called at the homestead to
prefer his condolences upon the death
of the son and inquire concerning the
condition of the father
"He must have been greatly affected
to learn of his sons death, suggested
the visitor.
"Oh!" sweetIy replied the daughter;
Il have not told him. I thought it
would be such a pleasant surprise to
him when he met John In the pearly
streets of heaven
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
81 Course Sc Reerettgd q.

On one of our suburban streets re-
sides a lady who has a passionate
fOndness for plants and flowers, and
many Of these can be seen in the win
dows, which almost overhang the side
walk. Last Sunday evening I hap
pened to be strolling along the street
in question, and noticed that the gen
tleman preceding me wore an almost
supernaturally brilliant tile. As he
passed Mrs. F-'s house one of the
windows happened to be up and a
present plant was disIodged. The
fower-pot was attracted by the shiny
tile, and lit on it with resounding
thump, that sounds so funny when it's
some other fellows hat, and so sad
when it's your own. The gentleman
under the crushed gtovepipe calculated
some words certainly not from the book
under his arm, and he passed on.
Soon Mrs F. rushed out and said:
cts too bad-the only double gerani-
um I had. "-BG7zdOr NelCS,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
A Cbfld,s Herofsm.

A little boys herOlsm was tested not
long ago through mistake. The ed
itor of a contemporary relates that g
gentleman in a New England town
proposed to drive with his wife to the
beautiful cemetery beside the river
beyond the town. Calling his son, a
bright little boy some four years old,
he told him to get ready to accompany
them. The child's cOuntenance fell,
and the father said:
"Don't you want to go, Willie?"
The little lip quivered, but the child
answered: eyes, papa, if you wish"
The child was strangely silent dur
ing the drive, and when the carriage
drove under the wide archway he chung
to his mothers side and looked up in
her face with pathetic usefulness. The
party aIighted and walked among the
graves and along the tree-shadoWed
avenues, looking at the inscriptions on
the last resting-pIace of the jewellers in
the beautiful city Of the dead. After
an hour so spent, they returned to the
carriage and the father lifted his little
son to his seat The child looked sur
.prised and drew a breath of relief and
asked:
"Why, am I going back with you"
COT course you are; why not ?"
81 thought when they took little boys
to the cemetery they left them there, :"
said the child.
Many q man does not show the hero
ism in the face of death that the child
evinced in what to him had evidently
been a summons to leave the world
ECcbG9Ige.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
a ETonler-Ridden o..

The head center of all mOnkeydom
is the holy city of Muttra. or Mathura,
a sort Of supplementary Benares, on
the river Jumna. Here we find another
species, the same, I think, from which
the Organ-grinder generally selects his
partner. The principal care in life OF
the citizens is to protect themselves
and their property from the depreda-
tions Of this privileged class, for, as
they are sacred-and what animal is
not in Hindooland ?-they can not be
killed or mOlested In any manner.
Every window in the town is barred
with lattices, as not even the highest is
out Of their reach, for they could give
points to the best gymnast that ever
swung on trapeze. Along the under
side OF the highest balconies they fol
low one another in single file, Ieaping
past intervening brackets, or with one
bound they clear the street, and swing
ing from the pendant branches of q
banyan tree, in they go at some small
opening left for moment uEguardsd,
Iured by the sight Of a bowl Of milk on
the sill; and when they are chased out
again at the point Of a broomstick,
they go and console themselves among
the stalls of the frait sellers In the
baZar.-HdrpeY's
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
He Was stumped.

He stopped on the corner, gazed in
to the sky, scratched his chin, and
pulled his whiskers. Then he fumbIed
In his vest pocket, wrinkled his brOws,
pursed up his lips, scratched his head,
and blew his nose with q manner more
deliberate than the collection of a bad
debt. Anon he opened his mouth,
tugged at his lower lip, muttered to
himself, and fixed his eyes on the
chimney tops in a vacant, stony stare
that soon collected a crowd that
blockaded the sidewalk. He was a
married man. trying TO think what it
was his wife had charged him TO be
sure to get.-RGnJ's Horn.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

THERE are more ducks in the Chinese
empire, says an authority. than in all
the world outside of it. They are kept
by the Celestials on every farm, on
the private roads, on the public roads,
on streets of cities, and on all the
lakes, ponds. rivers, streams, and
brooks in the country. Every Chinese
boat also contains a batch of them.
There are innumerable Matching es-
Establishments all through the empire,
many Of which are said to turn out
about $4,000 young ducks every year.
Sailed and smoked duck and ducks
eggs constitute two Of the most com
mon and important articles Of diet in
China,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

They tell a good story about our hand
come young Sheriff. Mr.. Grant is very fond
of the society of the gentle sex. but unior-
tunately is rather bashful. He is still more
unfortunate in the fact that he can not re-
member names. He attended a reception
lately and was introduced to a very haad-
some young lady. The Sheriff made a men
tai note of the young lady's name determin-
ed that ne would not forget it. Later in the
evening he found himself again in her ccm-
pany. He remembered her name perfectly.
1t was foreign name of a celebrated piano
manufacturer. Of course he rendered it.
In the course of their conversation he had
occasion to address her by name. He be-
gan: ''Aiiss Weber, T., but the young
lady looked SO much astonished that he hest
tated- She finally with that superior wit
possessed by all the charming young ladies,
took in the situation. Looking at him with
a peculiar smile, she said; .'Weu, thet's
pretty good, but you have madea mistake in
the brand Of pianos; am Miss Decker.-New
York Star.
Mrs. VVinsIoyy's Soothing Syrup for Chill
dFen teethIng, softens the gums, reduces inflsu-
nation, ailays pain, cures wind collie. ESQ bottle.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
Woman's Ways,
(Neb,) State journal.

Lincoln, (NebO State Journal.
There Is alovely love of & woman living
in Newaygo county, Wis. She picked black
berries last fall for market, and so indus
trious was she on foot and so nibbIe OF fin
ger that her returns for the fruit were quite
considerable. What did she do with the
money? Buy new jersey and some stock
ings or winter hat? Nav. She went to
town and "blowed inn the whole business on
a fiddle fer her husband.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
The Effects of Mental Exhaustion.

Many diseases, especially those of the
nervous system, are the products of daily re-
newed mental exhaustion. Business avoca-
tiOns often involve an amount of mental
wear and tear very prejudicial to physical
health and the professions if arduOusly pur-
nerve tissue. Tt is one of the most inDort-
ant attributes of HOstetter's Stomach Bit
ters, that 1t cOmpensates for tins undue loss
Of tissue, and that it imparts new energy to
the brain and nerves. The rapidity with
which it renews weakened mental energy
and physical vitality is remarkable and
shows that its invigorating properties are of
the highest order. Besides increasing vital
mental exhaustion, this potential medicine
cures and prevents fever and ague, rheuma-
tism, chronic dyspepsia, and constipation,
kidney and uterine weakness ana other COM
plants. Physicians also commend it as a
medIcated stimulant and remedy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

resembling Orders. The places where
the side girders enter the main trunk
Of the tree are so smoothly barked over
as to make it impossible to ascertain
the manner in which nature formed the
remarkable union.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

%BUT while in Mexico on my last
trip, says a drummer in the st. Louis
Globe-Denaocrat, "I had nay breath
taken away when I saw what I guess
is the most magnifcently constructed
railroad in the world. I refer to the
Mexican Gulf Road, where ties are
made out of the finest mahogany and
bridges built of marble. The waste
seems criminal, but the builders are
actuated by motives of economy, as
they find the mahogany and marble
along the track side. The road hasn't
really cost much to construct, but if
the material were appraised at st.
Lonis or New York standard OF prices
the total would amount up in the
millions"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
me Laugh on the Cause.

"The collection viii now be taken,
said an Oklahoma divine. sand I
wish to say further that poker chips
don't 20 any more. Get EN- cashed
before YOU come and bring the money.
I an forced to this decision because Of
the fact that some of the brethren have
been showing off chips of their own
making on us and letting the laugh be
on US when we went to get them eashed
at the Dewdrop Fortune Parlors."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
$4,000 FOR 81
A Kensington sEan Who Struck 1t Rich
In the Louisiana State Lottery.

A KensingtOn Alan Who Struck 1t Rich
In the Louisiana State Lottery.
Philadelphia pa Herald, July 80.
ST told linn he might just as we'll throw
the dollar in the gutter as spend it IN a lot
terry, but I've changed my mind now as h.5
won S15, coo, with it," So spoke Mrs. w. H.
Fisher of 251S Emerald street to q Herald
reporter yesterday. Her husband held one
twentieth of ticket No. 81, 56l, which won the
first capital prize of 100000 in the Louisi-
ana State Lottery this month. '.WeI, il was
the first ticket I ever bought, said the hus-
band, ''but, he added, 'it won't be the
LAST
yesterday I got my money! draft for
SIS, OO0-and it is now In the Eighth Nation
al Bank. I haven't decided what I am going
to do with the money, but think III invest
and now that 81 invested IN the Louisiana
State Lottery has yielded me 1900 times
the original investment, I don't propose to
have it turn my head"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

"UNCLE DARE" a centenarian living
near Sheffield, Ala, has just died. He
was with Andrew jackson in the In
dian war and helped to plot Sheffield
over seventy years ago. His wife died
in 1912, and every day up to his death
he PRAYED at her grave.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

A GEORGIA editor has twenty-seven
children. He positively refuses to in
sert an advertisement announcing that
a boy or girl is wanted.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

A TRAMP named Wilson Becker bet
a Boston man that he could beat his
way to San Francisco and back to
Boston in twenty-one days, without
spending a cent. He made the trip
and won the bet.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

The smallest newspaper in the world
is published at Arp, Banks County,
GA. It is 74x5 inches. It is named
The Boss, and is edited by ". A. Har-
ris, who claims in his salutatory that
the paper is a perfectly normal prod
uct, yet it appears to be the represent
alive of literary club, a laboratory,
an alliance, a broom factory and q
flying machine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

SILK from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, with about two-thirds
the strength of ordinary silk and about
the same elasticity,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

Growing near the baths of AIliaz, in
the canton Of Vaud, Switzerland, 4, 800
feet above the level of the sea, stands
the most remarkable tree in the world
The trunk Of the tree is a little over
thirty feet at the base. At about tgo
yards above the ground it puts out on
the south side seven offshoots. Bent
and gnarIed at the bottom. these side
trunks soon straighten themselves up
and rise perpendicular and parallel to
the main stem. Another most curious
fact is that the two largest of the side
trunks are connected with the princi-
pal stem by sub-quadrangular braces
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

BISMARCK declares he never wants
to return to public Office again. He is
too old.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
whore Is It Going 10 Come on?

Miss Flutter (whO has been admit
ted to Miss Hititity's dressing ROOM
Oh, Bess, I haven't seen you
for such a long time, and I got so
many things to talk about! News OF
your engagement never reached me,
do you know, till I got to Berlin, and
oh what q lovely switch that is, Bess
-and-oh, by the way. when IS it go
ing to come off?
Miss Hititv CbewIdered) What, the
wedding or the switch?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

STRONG minds, like hardy ever
greens. are most yerdant In winter,
Then feeble ones. like tender summer
plants, are leahess,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

The leaves of the paw-paw tree are
employed by the negroes in washing
linen. as a substitute for soap. They
also have the property of rendering
meat wrapped in them, tender. owing
to the aIkalOid papain which they con-
tain and which acts as a solvent.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25
SCIENCE
By PROF. J. 2. ELsoE.
STAINED GLASS.

HE ultimate
origin Of
stained glass
is Wrapt in
the deepest
mystery, and
n o twit b .
standing the
ancient at
bributed to
PhRnieiRns
the honor of
originatingit,
careful re-
search proves
concIUsiVely
the art of its
manufactu 7 g
was known to
the Egypt
ians as early
90 TEQO r n
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

The accounts Of a pilI-maker who
has just died in England show that he
has been spending 100000 year for
advertising. His heirs, however, are
finding no particular fault with this
extravaganza, as he leaves an estate
valued at $50, 600, OO0-nn due to pills
and advertising.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

Burglar How is business with you JiuF''
Pretty poor picking"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

Mrs. BIobson: There's another bill from
KengOtt. 1 am afraid he is getting uneasy.
Mr.. BlobsOn: That's so. must step in to-
morrow and order some more goods.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

Dramatic Criticism. In the scenes of
love and passion the actress was very cold;
1t was only after she had drunk the poison
that she seemed TO acquire the force of real
life.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

In June one settles down by the sea and in
September he settles up by the sea.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

An old maid asks: If whatever is is right,
how does it happen that lam left.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

Mrs. Slimdiet-''Iam afraid this coffee is
a little week.
Old Boarder-''Yes; it isn't quite SO muds
dy as usual"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

Mother (Of spoiled child)- am greatly
obliged toyOu for bringing my little boy
back"
Organ Grinder-''I fraida he teacha munk
bada tricks''
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

Irate Guest-'iSee here Your advertise
ment said no mosquitoes"
Summer Landlord-''Ihere wasn't a
mesquite here when that advertisement was
written, not one. You must remember that
begin advertising In April
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

"OUGHr" is, Of course. a mere cipher
to any man who Is dead to sense Of
duty.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

A Lawyers life can be said to extend
over one brief period.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

Mr.. Suburb-''Where on earth is our hired
man? I can't find him anywhere"
n Mrs. Suburb-'fThere Is somebody over in
Farmer Hayseed's meadow, but I can't tell
whether he = cur man or not.
is ne standing up or sitting dOWn?"
''Standing.''
cit isn't Ourman.',