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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
$ August.
Flower

There is a gentle
Dyspepsia. man at Ma1den-on.
the Hudson, N. "
named Captain A. G. Pareis, who
has written US letter in which it
is evident that he has made up his
mind concerning some things, and
this is what he says:
have used your preparation
called August Flower in my family
for seven or eight years. It is con.
stantly in my house, and we consider
it the best remedy for Indigestion,
and Constipation we
Indigestion. have ever used or
known. My wife is
troubled with Dyspepsia, and at
times suffers very much after eating.
The August Flower, however, re-
1ieves the difficulty. My wife FREE
quently says to me when am going
to town, we are out
Constipation of August Flower,
and think you had
better get another bottle. I am also
troubled with Indigestion, and when
ever I am, I take one or two tea
spoonfuls before eating, for day or
two, and all trouble is removed .
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

throughout Sedgwiek county. aud he
says the fields are all right yet and that
any declaration to the contrary is IN
donbtedlv false He said. here and
there in soma low spot in field where
water had stood he found the ground
hard and the wheat yellow and heading
out, but the instances were so few as
not to be worth naming. One year he
says he harvested thirty-two bushels Of
Fultz wheat to the acre, but that not
only his own but many fields seen by
him promise greater than did his field
of Fultz that year. SedgWick county
wheat is all right as yet.
Chancellor Snow says he is over
whelmed with applications for his chinch
bug Injection. On Thursday he had
forty-fiVe letters from various parts of
the state, and then he gets many in
quiries from other states. particularly
from Texas, where the chineh bug is
doing much damage to the new corn.
He can give each applicant only three
or four of the diseased bugs. With
these he sends instructions to have
them placed in a Jar with 200 or 800
fresh bugs, where they are to remain
forty eight hours. All the bugs thus
become affected and are turned out on
the wheat field. In a few days ali the
bugs in the field are diseased and die
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Amber.

This is the resin of an extinct pine,
which the fossil botanist has only OF
late learned to term the pi7lIGs sue
ci1iJeT, or amber pine. but which the
Russian peasantry, who gather amber
on the Southern shores of the Baltic,
used for ages to associate with this sub
stance, from its occurrence in a fossil
state in the same beds, as amber wood.
The ornamental character of this
precious resin seems to have been APP
preciated by the native Scotch at an
early period. Beads of amber have
been found IN the old sepulchral bar
rows of the kingdom.
Besides containing fragments of the
pine which produced it, it has been
found to contain minute pieces of four
other species of pine, with bits of cyp-
resses, yews, jumpers, oaks, poplars,
beeches, etc.-in all As different species
of shrubs and trees, which must have
fiourished In the forests where it grew.
In the amber, even the most delicate
ephemeral that ever sported for a single
summer evening in forest glade, and
there persisted as the night came on.
are preserved IN state of perfect en-
tireness.
In the amber of Prussia 800 different
kinds of insects have been determined,
most of them belonging to species, and
even genera, that appear to be distinct
from any now known; while of the
others, some are nearly related 70 in
degenous species, and some seem iden-
teal with existing forms that inhabit
the warmer climates Of the South.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Vigorous Restriction OF ImmIgra-


ton.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1.-The COM
missioner of immigration provided for in
the law passed by the last congress will be
appointed soon after the Presidents return
from the west. The selection of a competent
person for this place has been delayed by the
failure OF congress to provide in specific
terms for a salary to the Office. The salary
was fixed at $4,000, but nothing was said of
how the money was to be provided.
With the appointment of commissioner,
assistants will be chosen and the work of re-
strictlon will then be prosecuted with all the
VigoF possible. The treasury department Is
making special study of the subject of I'M
migration for the purpose of preparing suit
able regulations. These regulations will be
ready for publication IN week or ten days,
and they will not only apply to persons COM
ing to the United States over the oceans, but
over the borders on land as well. The ex-
listing laws are not as stringent as Secretary
Foster would like them to be, but he will see
that such as they are they shall have the full
benefit and assistance OF the force at his DIS
posal for that purpose. In his next report
ne will recommend to congress some such
restrictions as would be afforded by an edu-
cational test. This alone would bar out
from rs to so per cent. of Italians, Hunga-
rians and Poles, and but one tenth of per
cent. of Germans, per cent. of English and
per cent. of the Irish. 1t would seem to
draw the line Just where it is most needed.
An illustration of the need for regulating the
steamship lines bringing immigrants over IS
given at the trersury department. in the case
of a vessel having accommodations for but
$50 passengers carrying LOO people packed
together like cattle. On the ship there were
but 800 life preserYers and two RATS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
The spartan mother Rat.

When one of the bell boys at the
Washington Hotel went to the cellar
the other evening to see if the rat-trap
had caught any game, he found it occu-
pied by an immense rat. He concluded
to allow the captive to remain until the
next morning, when he would have
some sport with it in the alley. When
he went to the trap on the following
morning he was dumfounded to find 1t
was now occupied by twelve rats, where
there had been but one on the night be-
fore. The same big rat was there, and
grouped around it were eleven baby
rats, each about the size of lady's
thumb.
The mother rat became intensely ex-
cited when the bell boy came near the
cage, and when he picked it up she
threw herself against the bags in a
frenzy of impOtent rage. She seemed
to realize that she was helpless against
her enemy, and sitting down, she seemed
to think intensely for several seconds.
Then the light of stern resolve came
into her eyes, and springing among her
offspring, that were huddled together
in a corner, she destroyed them, one
after another, with marvellous rapidity.
Her method of execution was similar to
that of the Scotch terrier. She caught
each squarely across the back, and with
one craunch of her jaws broke the ribs
and backbone, and finging it aside
grabbed the next one, and so on, in
rapid succession, until there were eleven
little rat cOrpses in the corner opposite
to where there had been eleven healthy,
squeaking little rats fifteen seconds be-
fore.
The bell boy was asked if he did not
| think the mother rat was not descended
from the Spartan rats, but he replied,
4 dunno" and tossed her ont to wait
ing terrier. -PhiIadeLphiG Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

NEW York. May 11.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade says:
The struggle to sustain Russian securities
against the disfavor of the Rothschilds, the
demand for gold by German bankers, and
the threatened withdrawal of Russian gold
from deposit in England, France and Ger
many, account for much of the unusual
movement OF specie which has been il pro-
gress. The advance of 4 of per cent. at
once in the discount charged by the Bank of
England is rightly regarded as notification
that England means to fortify itself in this
great struggle by drawing gold from New
York. This sudden demand comes at the
season when this market can spare gold with
less convenience than at any other, and the
continued issues of silver notes make the
withdrawal from circulation less felt, though
the fact that A per cent. of customs receipts
at New York are now in silver paper shows
that the remedy cannot last always.
May starts OF with the great plunge in
speculative prices which has for some weeks
been anticipated. Wheat fell cents in as
many days. Sales here last week were about
IS, O0O, coo bushels, with a net decline of 81
cents. and while corn has declined 80 cents
in sympathy and, many spectators have suf-
fered, the sales have been but Il, Q10, 900
bushels. An clement Of great strength is
the accommodating evidence that the wheat
prospect at the west is remarkably good, the
acreage having increased nearly a third in
Kansas and a fourth in Washington.
The unusually cold weather, while injuring
fruit and vegetables at many points, does
not appear to have seriously affected the
larger crops, which promise exceptionally
well. After such high prices as have been
realized farmers are widely inclined to put
in greater acreage of wheat, oats and corn,
especially as the foreign advices foreshadOw
larger demand for wheat.
With such an agricultural outlook, the de-
mand for manufactured products of all
kinds is likely to improve. and thus the great
industries will be helped. Iron already feels
the stiffening influence, wool is carried and
the manufacturer is inclined to activity un-
til the new clip comes freely.
News from other points show quiet, some
what improved tone, but there is yet much
complaint. While present trade is not quite
as active as usual, the outlook would be
highly encouraging but for foreign and mon
ataru cnr.n lainfs
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Like the Alabama case,

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1.-The escape
of the Etata raises important questions of
international law. The Alabama claims,
which cost the British government $4,000,
900, arose IL similar manner, through the
equipment of a confederate vessel in an
English port and the supplying of men,
guns and ammunition to her by British yes
sells. As the Etata has been seized by the
United States at San Diego, she was techni-
cally United States property until discharged
and is therefore liable to recapture on the
high seas by a United States man-of-war OF
to confscation if she ever enters United
States DOrt.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Az Investigation into some real e.

An investigation into some real es-
tate titles. says Brandenburg, Ky,
correspondent, recently made at that
place revealed the peculiar idiosyn-
Grassy of a former resident of that
place, Louis Hamilton, in naming his
children The names of his children
are London Judge, Hebrew Fashion,
Chinese Figure, Reputable Kingdom,
Greek Wisdom It is also said that
he had a daughter, now dead. whom
he called Hell in the Kitchen
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
The Minister'S Alliance.

Topeka Journal
The Topeka ministerial union has de-
cided not to include in its membership
ministers of the Unitarian church.
This question was raised a few weeks
ago when the constitution of the union
was given to a committee for revision.
Some of the members objected to
that part OF the constitution which de-
clares that the members ~shall accept in
good faith the fundamental teachings
of the scriptures as embodied in the
Apostles Creed"
This occasiOned considerable debate.
as it shuts out the Unitarian ministers.
The question has been discussed in
several meetings, but it was decided by
ballot that that clause shall remain in
the constitution.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Nephew of a Senator.

HARTFORD, CoSS.. May 11--Charles J..
.Dixcn, who was arrested IN New York for
attempting to Kill Jay Gould, belongs to
Hartford. He has been absent for SIX or
seven years in the west. He Is the son of
Rev. DR.. Dixen. who died insane at Long
Meadows, Mass. and nephew OF the late
United States Senator Dixon
He was taken to some place in Connecticut
by his friends, where ne will be kept secret,
and after good rest they Will take him west
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Theatsr was among the buildings

PUT up fifty wooden boxes in a city,
none Of them in the least resembling
mail boxes, and paint on each one the
slgns This box is for coal orders; drop
no mail In here, and inside of forty eight
hours over 100 letters, designed for the
mail, viii be pushed into them. It's 4
way people have.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
KANSAS CHURCHES.

Kansas City Gazette: The Metro
politan Baptist church of this city, Rev
Wilton r. Boone, pastor. entered their
new edifice yesterday, corner of Wash
ington avenue and Ninth street. The
church has been made very attractive
and cosy, causing the congregation to
feel very happy. Good sermons were
preached to large and appreciative con-
gregations by Revs. Boone, Davis and
Booth. The collection for the day
amounted to $143. and everybody
seems to rejoice over the wonderful sue
cess of this church, which is only year
old.
Elder W. P. Brown, of Harvey coun-
ty, Kansas, belongs to the Whitmerite
branch of the Mormon church, and is
busily engaged IN disposing of his real
estate and personal property for the
purpose of going to Jerusalem, where
he anticipates the second coming OF
Christ and hopes to witness the event.
Elder Brown has come to the conclusion
after considerable elaboration and med
itation upon the prophecies of the Book
of Mormon, and maintains that the He'd
rickites and the Latter Day Saints have
departed from the original faith as
lodged with Robert Whitmer, who was
one of the witnesses and scribes OF
Prophet Joseph Smith. He believes
the second coming is nearer at hand
and will make due haste to get to Jeru-
salem on time. He POUNDS this belief
upon the fact that the Jews are return
ing to Jerusalem, which certainly for
BODIES the event. AS soon az his bust
ness is settled he will SAIL
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Would Re Safer out west.

Katie H. Kavanah. a New Orleans
Times Democrat poetess, patheticalIy
says:
aHush, hushi Oh. bid me not be stiI.
Just let me sing Whene'er 1 win;
AS rivers from their fountains rush
So from my heart my wild songs gush.
Come to Burlington, Katie; come to
Burlington. If the police or the Malta
interfere with your singing in New Or
leans, come to free, untrammeled Iowa.
Burlington Hal1keye.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Santa Ea shons Rurnad.

GALVESTON, Tax. May IA disastrous
ire occurred here at the Gulf. Colorado d
Santa Fe shops The fire broke out in the
oil room and destroyed the repair shops,
four locomotives. five cars loaded with oil,
passenger coaches; besides all tools belong
ing to the Workmen. one other coach and
one Pullman we're badly damaged.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

The sod house on the Kansas from
tier and the dwelling of a Greenland
Eskimo are very much alike. about the
only difference being an oTerground
burrow IN the home of the Eskimo.
All Greenland houses are of the same
size. face the same way. aud are built
OF the same material-layers of rough
granite, sod and mortar.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

How do you sell strawberries p
saked hungry-looking man as he bus
tied into q confectionery store on
Woodward avenue yesterday afternoon.
zone dollar" the clerk answered,
reaching for box of the fruit.
zone dollar a peck or a bushel p
asked the prospective purchaser. hest
tating.
"A quart. said the clerk. replacing
the box
The man staggered, - grasped the
counter for support and said IN sub
dued tones:
Give me five cents worth of figs. =
Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

Laying Out Conference Work
GRKEH CASTLE. IND. May 1.-THE bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal church are in
session in this city with closed doors, discus
sing the laying out of the conference work
for the coming year.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Harsher Measures.

LONDON. May 1.-The News correspond
ent at MOSCOW says that the expulsion of the
Jews continues. Harsher measures are ex-
pscted with the approach of the holidays.
Neither baptism nor appeal 70 foreign eonsuls
avails to secure escape.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Mountains of Water.

SANTA FE, n. NJ. May 11.-"MOuntains"
of water, is the way court officers, who have
lust returned from Terra Amiellas. put it in
speaking of what they saw on the way. They
say that the half has not been told Of the
flood that must soon sweep down the Rio
Grande.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
Bonded Warehouse Burned.

ROTTERDAM, May 1.-THE state bonded
warehouse and the main portion of its con-
tents we're destroyed by fire. The damage is
estimated at s., 250, 900.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

GEORGE SHAW. of Newark, spoke of
Mrs. Gray as an estimable lady. Gray
wasn't up in dictionary words, and he
went ont and punched Shaw's head.
When arrested the judge explained the
term to him, and he planked down $50
and apologized.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

A NEBRASKA judge announces pub
hcly that he viii confirm no foreclosure
of mortgage on a farm where failure to
pay interest was due to failure of
crops. That viii probably make him
solid with the farmers. but what viii
the eastern money-Ienders think2
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
LAWLESs INTRUSION.
This Is What Blaine Calls Ca
madam Seal Thieves.

Lord Salisbury Strangely In Error
The United States Steadily Ad-
heres 10 Its Claims Though Sails
bury Assumes That They Are
FOrSaken.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

OXFORD COUNTY, Maine, people are
laughing at fire company, the mem
beers of which were in such haste to
get to fire that they didn't even stop
to collect ladders, hose. buckets, or
pumps to take with them-in fact.
didn't even think of these important
articles until they reached the burning
BUILDING.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

The Monon ditch. 80 miles in length
and 100 feet in width and 16 feet in
depth, located in the counties of Jas
per, Pulaski, and White, in Indiana,
when completed will reclaim over IOO,-
600 acres of farming lands.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

IF You are keeping the blinds shut
to prevent the sunshine from fading
the carpet. you viii keep the carpet
all right. but likely You viii see the
blush of health fade from the cheeks
of those dear children. One rosy
childish cheek is worth factory full
of carpets.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

THE oyster is one of the strongest
creatures on the earth. The force re-
quired to open an oyster is more than
1900 times its weight.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

AN American traveller in Holland
who handed hotel waiter a quarter
was promptly arrested and fined So for
the offense. The court held that he
used undue influence to secure more
benefits than his fellow travellers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

ACCORDING to Roman doctor, who
has been fumbling over lot of skulls
found in Etruscan tombs, the ancients
wore artificial teeth, but for that mat
ter, so they do to-day.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

A YOUNG man in Hannibal. No., has
made three attempts within a week,
while on the street, to break away from
q sweetheart for whom his love has
grown torpid, and in the sprinting
matches she has run him down each
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

GEoReE W. CHmDs, it is said, for
bids any wittieism which reflects upon
woman to creep into his paper.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

On AL the railroad lines to st. Pc
tersbnrg wagons viii be placed, with
special appliances for the transporta-
ton of live fish.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

THE methods used to launch the two
dailies recently started in New York
are significant. In each case liberal
advertising has been done in the col
umns of established contemporaries.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

THE custom house officials at Phila-
delphia have seized $50 bales of wool
that had been entered as cattle hair. "
The wool was covered with thin layer
of cattle hair.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

GEORGE WASHINGTON was the father
of his country, and We celebrate his
birthday. Jason Gould is the owner
of his country, and We do not even
know the date of his birth.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

WIRE rope manufacturers say that
the dread of insects and infection in
ordinary rope has banished the latter
almost entirely from the household in
favor of their own production.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

A LARGE block Of wooden buildings
IN the Chinatown of Victoria, B. c..
has been burned by order Of the City
Council to make room for new public
market. It WAS deemed advisable to
get nd of the old rookeries In this way
instead of by removal, so As to avoid
al danger of sickness. The Chinese
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

A ST. LOUIS man has Just died of q
broken heart He did not have money
enough to buy ticket to another town.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

IT is estimated that from $4,000 TO
100000 deer feed in the forests of
Scotland, and that 1900 stays are
killed annually.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

IT is proposed to import small num-
Der of merino rams and Angora goats,
which are to be sent to Beloochistan,
India, in order that experiments for
the improvement of wool may be car
ried on in that country.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

ONE of the visitors to the New York
dog show wore a bearskin Overcoat
which he said twenty-eight dogs helped
him get.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14
MatbodIsmInKa nsas

The following statistics, showing the
strength of the Methodist church IN
Kansas at the present time, have Just
been compiled.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

IN some cases jealousy is a sign OF
love, but 1t Is more frequently proof OF
overwhelming egotism.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

SINCE the establishment in 1902 of
West Point Military Academy 1884
men have received diplomas from that
Institution.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

TIE Lord has His elbow nudged
many times by the men who remind
Him in their prayers that He must not
forget to punish their enemies.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

SENAToR-ELECT KYLE is an "Inde-
crat" in his personal apparel also
Though a Congregational minister, he
wears a stand-up collar and mustache.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

THE champion belt was given John
L. Sullivan-over the head-by a
slender, wiry brakeman on Southern
railroad, who wouldn't take any of his
sass"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-14

MARX TWAIN. among other equally
big Investments, has Sl75, 900 sunk in
typesetting machine.