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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
ssAshamed o. the weather

The Highlanders are loyal to
Scottish genius. Sir Walter Scott,
while making tour Of the Western
Highlands, wrote to the inkeeper Of
Arroouhar, Loeb Long, to have rooms
prepared for him.
On the appointed day it rained
ceaselessly. AS Scott drew near the
inn. he was met on the hill near the
house by the landlord, who, with
barred head and backing every yard
as Scott advanced, thus addressed
him:
~Gude guild US, Sir Walter! This
is Just awful Sic an doWnpOurl
Was ever the like? I really beg your
pardonl I'm sure it's no fault o.
mine. 1 Gamma think how it should
happen to rain this way just as you,
o. a. men Of the warld, should come
to see US. 1t looks amaist personal!
I can only say, for my part, I'm just
ashamed o. the weather."
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part, nervous impatience on his, APP
parently repressed any demonstration
of family affectieH Yet when she was
about to speak he stopped her roughly:
There, now; don't talk. know what
you're going to say-cOuld say it myself
if wanted to-and it's no use. Well,
then, here am. You saw her. Well,
she's my wife-we've been married three
months. Yes, my wife; married three
months ago. I'm here because I ran
away from schooI-that is, I haven't
been there for the last three months.
came out with her last steamer; we
went up to the Summit Hotel last night
where they didn't know me-unGl we
could see how the land lay, before pop
ping down on dad. happened to learn
that he was out tonight, and brought
her down here to have a talk. We can
go back again before he comes, you
know, unless"
But, interrupted the girl, with sud-
den practically, you say you amt been
at Doctor Dawson's for three months!
Why, only last week he drew on dad for
$3.50 for your extrasl"
He glanced around him and then ar
ranged his necktie in the glass above
the mantel with a nervous laugh.
~Oh, thatl fixed that up myself and
got the money for it in New York to
pay our passage with. It's all right,
you know"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
A Beaver smothered in Nrolasses.

A tame beaver kept by the soldiers
at a fort in Wyoming became quite
famous for his sagacity. Caught
while young and perfectly tanned, he
became very docile AMI a great favor
tie at the fort The little fellow
could never be cureu of his instinct
to build dams, and it is related that
he once undertook to dam the Platte
River, working for months all night
long, and returning to the fort every
morning at sunrise. He cut down
quite a number of trees, but life
proved too short for the completion
of his plans. While around the tort
he was constantly turning over every
kind of vessel that contained water
and collecting sticks to head it off as
it flowed away. One night by over
sight the beaver was locked up in the
warehouse, and during the night. in
nosing around, he discovered a ten
gallon can Of molasses that had been
left uncovered. That discovery proved
his doom. The next day he was
found gasping for life, having been
caught in the sticky mass as the can
was overturned. He never recovered
from the shock, and was tenderly
buried in the presence of a large
circle of his friends
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
Horses and Their Weirht.

Many people, even among those
who frequently make use Of horses
have little idea what an ordinary
horse weighs, and would have hard
work to guess whether a given ami
NAL, standing before their eyes,
weighed 500 pounds or 1, 500 pounds.
Yet they would have no such difficulty
with a man, and the Yankee Blade
says they would probably be able to
guess within ten or twenty pounds of
his weight. The governments of
Europe have been purchasing and
weighing horses for the military SER
vice, and transferring them from car
rage and draught employment to the
various branches of the cavalry and
artillery. The animals are ordinarily
assigned according to weight The
French military authorities find that
an ordinary light carriage or riding
horse weighs from $50 to 900 pounds.
Such horses as these are assigned to
the light cavalry corps. The next
grade above, which in civil life passes
as ''coupe horse,'' or carriage horse
of medium weight, ranges in weight
up to l, $50 pounds. This horse goes
to serve the purpose of drill for the
cavalry belonging to the reserve mill
tary forces. Above these there are
still two grades of heavy horses The
first are those used for ordinary
draught purposes and are commonly
found drawing the omnibuSes of Paris.
| These weigh from HOO pounds to
nearly 1900 pounds. The heaviest
horses are the Clydesdales and Per-
cherons, which are oxen in size and
strength and which weigh from 1, 300
pounds up to nearly 1000 pounds.
None Of these Percherons of the
heaviest weight are employed in the
military service, but some Of the
lighter ones are used for draught and
artillery purposes
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
Beet Sugar Making.

Prof. Lloyd has just made his first
report Of the work at the Sugar
School of the University of Nebraska.
The course is one of scientific research
into the culture and utilization of the
sugar-beet. The school opened in
January last with twenty-five pupils.
There were two lectures on the chem
istrY of sugars, technology OF beet
sugar manufacture and culture of the
sugar-beet, and five hours of labora-
tory work each week Under the
second head of lectures the various
processes that the beets, juice, and
sugars undergo, from the washers to
the granulator, were studied in de-
tail Both the French and German
forms of machinery were described.
AS each process was studied, the
methods of the analysis of its pro-
ducts were referred to. The study of
sugar-house control was in this way
presented to the student. The labora-
tory work of the course consisted in
analyses of the various products and
by products of the sugar factory. The
lectures were also supplemented by
practical work at the station farm.
Several students who have taken the
course, which closed May 6, are pre-
pared to do polariscopic work. in sugar
factories
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
A WINTER NIGHT At HAYS
A. Tale of Love, Desertion, and Disobe-
dience.
BY BRET HARTE.
CHAPTERI.


It was difficult to say If Hays farm
house, OF Hays" as 1t was Familiarity
called, looked any more bleak and
cherries that winter afternoon than II
usually did in the strong summer eun-
shine. Painted a cold, merciless white,
with scant projection for shadows, roof
of white pine shingles, bleaehed light
er through sun and wind, and covered
with low, uninterrupted chimneys, 1t
looked even more stark and chilly than
the drifts which had climbed its low
roadside fence, and yet seemed hopeless
of gaining a foothold on the glancing
walls, or slippery wind-swept roof. The
storm, which had already heaped the
hollows of the road with snow, hurled
its finely granulated fakes against the
building, but they were whirled along
cutters and ridges and disappeared IN
smoke-like puffs across the icy roof.
The granite outcrOp in the billy field be-
yond had long ago whitened and van
ished; the dwarf frs and 1arches. which
had at first taken uncouth shapes in the
drift. blended vaguely together, and then
merged into an unbroken wave. But
the gaunt angles and rigid outlines Of
the building remained sharp and I'M
changed. 1t would seem as if the rigors
of winter had only accented their hard
ness, as the fierceness Of summer had
previously made them intolerable.
1t was believed that some OF this un-
yielding grimness attached to Hays
himself Certain it is, that neither
hardship nor prosperity had touched his
character. Years ago his emigrant team
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
How a sparrow Hanged Himself.

In the Office of the Mobile Daily
Register a reporter brought q sample
of sisal grass, and some of this grass
was swept out into the street by the
porter and promptly appropriated by
a flock Of sparrows for building.
A few days later sparrow was OBJ
served fiuttering about under the
coping Of the express companY's
building as if struggling with an in
sect. Presently the f1uttering ceased
and the sparrow hung limp at the
end OF a string while the sparrow's
mate was flying about in an excited
manner, chipping loudly. The Office
hoy was sent up on the roof to in
Yestigate. The sparrow had taken
fiber of sisal grass. some eighteen
inches long, and worked both ends
into the nest. In doing so the fiber
made a double loop around its neck.
In flying out for more material it
frightened and became more tight as
the sparrow struggled for release.
The tragedy was over in a minute
and the sparrow's mate was so
stunned by the disaster that she sat
moving on telegraph wire, within
a foot of the boys hand, when he
reached down and secured the dead
bird.
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Zuleika with a quick laugh of confidence
as over some recognized absurdity.
Go in there" said the young man.
opening the door TO the office; I'll come
back in a minute.
AS she entered. still smiling, as if
taking part in some humorous but risky
situation, he turned quickly to Zuleika
and said. in a low voice: Where can
We TALK"
The girl held out her hand and elided
hurriedly through the passage until she
reached a door. which she opened. By
the light of dying fire he could see it
was her bedroom. Lighting acandIe
on the mantel she looked eagerly
in his face as he threw aside his muffier
and opened his coat. 1t disclosed a
spare, youthful figure, and thin, weak
IA Q that q budding mustache only
/ seemed to make still more immature.
For an instant brother and sister eazed
! at each other. Astonishment on her
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
,.Old Hutch" and HIS Gotham scheme

,tO1O Hutch and HIS Gotham Scheme.
Always noted for his eccentricities,
BENJAMIN p. Hutchinson bids fair to
distance all the eccentric moves on
the checker-board Of his busy career
by becoming the proprietor Of a res
taurant Of the ''beanery" order at
No. 20 Bridge street, New York.
From the king bull of the Chicago
grain market, where he won and lost
millions of dollars and attracted the
attention of the speculative world, to
the king bear in the bean and pump
kin pie market Of the Atlantic sea-
board town has been but question
of a few years with him.
Five years ago his brilliant manipu-
lation of a corner in wheat netted
him several millions of dollars and
'sOld Hutch was at the zenith Of his
fame. Visitors gazed upon him with
amaZement as he sat in his accustomed
place at the entrance to the wheat
pit on the board. At one time he
was estimated to be worth nearly
$50, 600, 600. Now all is changed and
none are so poor as to do him honor.
He was, and still is, mysterious,
and but little surprise is shown that
his eccentricity has manifested itself
in this novel form. He still occupies
his Zine COUCH" which was one Of
the few things he took from Chicago
with him. Living for a time in a
New street Office, he now occupies his
new restaurant, and his nightly COM
panions are the pots and pans and
beans and pies. He is hustling still,
and is bound to show up in unexpected
places when least looked for. He has
had career equaled by few, and al
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11

ways swore vigorously at the restau-
rant prices BE says he will employ
Southern negro girls only in his new
establishment, and that he will be-
gin war on rates at once Members
Of the Produce Exchange in Gotham
take great deal of interest in the
venture of the old speculator.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11

SEVERAL young ladies have been
appointed statlon-agents in Min
nesota, and engineers are keeping a
sharp lookout for misplaced switches
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-04-01
THE JAPANESE WAITRESS.
A Vision OF Perfection That Seems d
Americans Impossible.

A Vision OF Perfection That Seems 20
Americans impossible.
The Japanese waitress is evidently n
creature full OF kindliness and winning
graces, Sir Edwin Arnold met her ut q
dinner in Japan, where she contributed
greatly by her tact and courtesy to the
success of the occasion. To each guest
there entered pretty, bright, we'll
dressed Japanese waitress with hair
decked ito the mines, stuck full OF how-
ers and jeweled pins and shining like
polished black marble.
She never speaks or settles to any seri-
GUS duty OF the entertainment without
falling on her little knees, smoothing her
skirt over them and knocking her nice
little fiat nose on the floor, and will either
demurely watch you use your chopsticks
in respectful silence, or prettily converse
and even offer her advice as to the most
succulent dishes, and the best order In
which to do them justice.
1t is not very difficult to use the chop
sticks, those simple knives and forks Of
Eastern Asia. il once you learn the secret
Of the guiding finger between them.
full from the soup bowl on your shirt
front, to the gentle, but nevertheless
satirical laughter Of your waitress.
Amid the talk which buzzes around
you will have inquired Of her already,
what is your honorable name?" and
SLOW many are your honorable years."
and she will have told you that she is
miss Starr, ""Mlss Camilla or "Miss
Antelope, and that she was 1s or other
wise on her last birthday.
She counsels you to seize that tiny
lump of yellow condiment with your
chopsticks, to drop it in the soy, to stir
up and flavor these with the pink flakes
of salmon, and you get on famou.ly,
watched by her with the warmest per.
sonal interest.
Now and again she shuffles forward on
her small knees to fill your cup or to rear
range the confusion into which your lit
tie bowls and platters have somehow
fallen, always with consummate grace,
modesty and good breeding. With the
condiments her little fingers have mixed,
the uncooked trout is so good that you
cease presently to feel like voracious
seal, and wonder if it be not wrong, after
all to boil or fry anything.
Environed by all these tiny dishes, and
lightly fluttering from one to another,
you begin at last to be conscious of hav-
ing dined extraordinarily well. So you
say, "Mo yoroshm"Gt is enough), and the
service relapses little for music and
dancing. Companion.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-04-01
Indian Courage.

The annals of no country can show
any savage foe so formidable for his
number to trained regular troops of the
white race as the American Indian. The
tales of the Sepoy rebellion, replete as
they are with heroic achievements Of
British soldiers, read like absurd fairy
tales to Indian fighters Of our army The
spectacle, repeated again and again, of
score or so of these Englishmen riding
through as many thousands of opposing
Sepoys, disciplined, an thoroughly sup
piled with the best of firearms would be
a very novel one to those accustomed to
the temper Of the savage of our own
continent. Had Captain Jack or Joseph
'r Geronimo, with such warriors as they
led, been the sort of foes to attack the
english power in India, the history Of
Delhi and Lucknow would have been
written in far darker characters ON the
.lages Of English history. Self-reliant,
Intelligent, fierce in battle, inimitable
horsemen, armed with the modern rife,
our own Indians have often waged sue
cessful battle with regular troops unsu r
passed in quality and far outnumbering
them. 1t is doubtful il even the Cos
sack or Arab can be compared with them
in partisan warfare.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-04-01
A Horse with rsel,nrs.

A lame and half starved old white
horse, attached to wagon partly loaded
with ashes. stood on John r street, near
Adams, and schoolboy about 10 years
old stood with his hands in his pockets
looking At the horse, says the Detroit
Journal. -..
The owner of the rig came out Of the
cellar with basket Of ashes on his choul.
der, and after dumping them into the
wagon, he turned to the boy and said:
Look we're, boy, what yo' doin' ysre ?"
"Lookin'," was the reply.
"What you lookin' at2"
"Lookin' at the horse.
"Wall, you run right long bout your
bizness. Dat hoss has got feelin's. II
you keep lookin' at him he'll bimeby
think he's got to get up and prance and
snort around an run away an smash dis
wagin' all to squash. Den de queshun
comes up WHO'S gwine to pay de dam
ages, an your pore fadder will wish you
had nebber been bo'n."
II guess I can looki" muttered the boy
as he hloved of.
II dun tole We, boyl I shan't bodder
wild you no mo-! II your fadder is wurf
a millyon dollars an you want to take de
chances den you so right ahead but
doan' you dun sw'ar befo' de jedge dat I
didn't tole you dat hoss had feelin's an
might kick up the awfulest ambulashup
cher heard on John r street."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-04-01
DO SHARKS BITEp
Assertions That They Will Not At.
tack Swimmef,

hssertions That They VIII Not At
tack q Swimmer.
On the question whether sharks will
attack men when swimming, CORE.
spondent of the New York Sun writes as
follows:
was on Pacific mail steamer in the
Bay OF Champerico. The water was
clear and we counted seven sharks, rang
ing from about seven to eleven feet in
length. We got out shark hook and
line and baited it with pork.
Our principal assistant was little chap
who had just finished his time in the
navy. While we were at luncheon a
shark took bite at the bait. The young
seaman was too hasty, and as result
the big fish was badly hooked and
dropped off when hauled about foot out
of the water.
However, our young friend seemed to
know a lot about shark fishing and
sharks, the result Of his many cruises,
and when stories were told Of men bitten
by sharks he scoffed and put it to the
test OF experiments. To the consterna-
ton OF nearly everybody he dived from
the gangway and swan around to the
spot where the sharks were awaiting the
Kitchen refuse. In every instance where
one Of them happened to see him it acted
As If scared. and moved rapidly in all
other direction. It was the same in the
bay at st. Jose, Guatemala.
At that place there is a big spotted
shark whom tourists easily recognize as
an old friend, and call "Joe." The little
sailor chap swan after him, and he swan
in front of him and in front Of others.
Several sharks must have seen the boy,
but none showed the slightest inclination
to attack. He said the same thing had
been tried before many a time, and that
nobody in the navy now believed that
there was any danger Of attack from
sharks when swimming, although it was
possible that they might take snap at
dead floating body.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-04-01
Pat'o Device.

The following incident, told by the
Utica Times, Of the method employed by
Q clever son Of Erin to induce his passen.
gers to walk up hill, shows that grace
ful, witty hint is pretty sure to prove ir.
resistible.
Up one Of the long hills Of County
Wicklow mare was drawing . heavy
load Of travellers. The driver walked by
her side, trying to encourage her a. she
toiled slowly and wearily along.
The six passengers were too busily en-.
gagged in conversation to notice how
slowly the car progressed. Presently the
driver opened the door at tho rear Of the
car and slammed it to again. Those in.
side started, but thought that he was only
assuring himself that the door was 80.
cursly closed.
Again Pat opened and slammed to the
door. The travellers inquired angrily
why he disturbed them in that manner.
"Whist, he whispered, "don't spake 20
loud-she'll overhear us.
"Who?"
"The mare. Spaks low, he continued.
putting his hand over his mouth and
nose. "Surs, I'm desavin' the crayturel
Every time she hears the door slammin
that way she thinks one Of yez Is gettin
down to walk up the hill, and that raises
her sperrits.
The passengers took the hint. ~
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-04-01
GEOGRAPHICAL ODDITIES.
Some Little Wonders OF the Westsr,
World.

Some Little Wonders OF the Western
World.
On Lummi Island, State Of Washing
ton, there is a mountain slope Of white
sandstone, 100 feet wide and 1900 feet
long, called the Devils Slide. The
strange thing about it is, that every few
minutes scale Of sandstone comes shoot.
ing down the slide and is hurled into the
waters of the bay. The unsolved mys-
tery is this: What causes the scales to
detach themselves in this unique fashion? I?
Medical Lake is fifteen miles by rail
from the city Of Spokane Falls, State of
Washington. The lake is two miles
long, half mile wide, and sixty feet
deep. 1t is filled with saline and aka
line water, having a slightly chalybeate
admixture, and is popular health resort
Cor the people Of the northwest.
Sour Lake is small lake OF acidulous
mineral water, in Hardin county, Texas,
forty-five miles by rail east of Houston.
Its waters have considerable local repu-
tation in the treatment Of various diseases.
There is said to be a canon on the
slopes of Mount Baker Tin the State of
Washington, the walls Of which are
composed of kind of volcanic glass;
Notes and Queries.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-04-01
COLUM N nus.

& b.s~N
Behind him lay the gray Azores, " ~
Behind the gates Of Hercules; ~n&
Before him not the ghost OF shores,
Before him only shoreless seas.
The good mate said: Now must we pray,
For loi the very stars are gone.
Speak. Admiral, what shall say2"
why say, Sail onl sail on and on'
"My men grow mutinous day by day;
My men grow ghasty wan and weak
The stout mate thought Of home; spray
OF salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
what shall say. brave Admiral, say,
II we sight nsught but seas at DAWN"
why, you shall say Al break of day:
Sail onl sail on! and on! and onr"
They sailed aud sailed. as winds might blow,
Until at last the blanched mate said:
why. now. not even God would know
Should and all my mon fall dead.
These very winds forget their way,
For God from these dread seas IL eone
Now speak, brave Admiral. speak and say
He said: Sail on! sail onl and onl"
They sailed. They sailed. Then spoke his
mate:
This mad sea shows its teeth tonight.
He curls his lip he lies In wait.
With lifted teeth. as IL to bitel
Brave Admiral. say but one good word;
What shall we do when hope is gone7"
The words leaped as q leaping sword:
sail on sail onl sail onl and on"
Then. pale and worn. he kept his deck.
And peered through darkness. All, that
D d. night
OF all dark nights! And then spcck-
A light A light! A light! light!
II grew. starlit nag unfurledl
1t grew to be Times burst OF dawn,
He gained a world; he gave that world
Its grandest lesson; "on! and on."
Joaquin Miller In the Argonaut.