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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-22

married girls of 81 who go mad with
drink every night. and assault the ruff
fans, their associates, though to stick a
knife into man is reckoned beyond the
rules of the game. 1t was not stated
where the assault took place, or what
was the position of the wounded man,
or the relations of these twain. There
fore the case occupied five lines, and no
one paid the slightest heed to the terri
BILE wreck and ruin of a life. That
girl of q should be locked up in prison
/ for seven long years, and at the end of
that time should be separated from the
virtuous by the memory of shame, and
crime, and jail, is thing that happens
| every day. Only another of oar unhap-
py sisters come to grief. We are such
a large family that we can not love all
/ our sisters, can we?
In the city there were some persons
who showed each other the paper, and
whispered: John Stokes eldest son.
Devilish unpleasant thing" week
later the matter was clean forgotten,
save by the younger men who still re-
/ membered the romantic episode in the
life Of Harry Stoke, and still told the
tale how he was knitted in a row, by a
girl, and taken up for dead. Now, had
the case been fully reported; had GER
tain questions been asked, which should
have been asked;-had been upon the
jury would have asked these questions
namely, why this girl called upon this
young gentleman in his chambers on
Sunday afternoon? what had been their
relations? whether she brought that
knife with her? what she said before
the thing was dOne2 and so forth; there
might have been some sympathy for the
girl; the jury know nOt-might have
brought in a different verdict, and there
would have been a corresponding YER
, dict, or an equivalent sentence passed
upon the injured man by the world out
side the courts.
| Let us add one or two details not re-
; ported in the papers.
, The case was taken after luncheon.
When the prisoner was placed In the
dock, she lifted her veil and looked
! round the court with seeming curiosity
She was pale, but not trembling or con-
r fused, nor did she appear in the least
afraid If she had been a mere spec
tator she could not have been more IN
{ moved. When she had looked steadily
! at the Judge on the bench, the jury il
their box, the clerk below, the counsel
in their wigs, she lowered her veil, fold.
: ed her hands, and stood impassive. Be.
{ ing called upon to plead. she made nS
!, audible reply, but the official beside he
! leaned over her aAd Informed the COur
: that the prisoner pleaded, Not Guilty
< The principal witness was Henri
( Stoke. Considering all facts of the case
d one might have expected him to be in
& highly nervous and agitated condition O
v mind and body. 1t is always horrid Z
go into witness box and give evidence
g even when one has to give, so to speak
n outside evidence. But in such case a
o this, when ones motives may be s.
!. cruelty misinterpreted, and ones action
u harshly judged, and when one may b
n asked the most disagreeable question
about things one would willingly bur.
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[To BE CoNTINUED.l
The Pen.


The earliest mode of writing was
on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, stones,
ivory, bark, and leaves of trees; and
from the latter the term "leaVes" Of
paper is probably derived. Copper
and brass plates were very early in
use, and bill of feoffment on copper
was some years since discovered in
India, bearing the date one hundred
years B. Q. Leather was also used
as well as wooden tablets. Then the
papyrus came into vogue, and about
the eighth century the papyrus was
superseded by parchment. Paper,
however, is of great antiquity, es-
pecially among the Chinese; but the
first paper mill in England was built
in 1888, by a German, at hartford,
in Kent county. Nevertheless, it
was nearly a century and a half-in
1713-before Thomas Watkins, a sta
tioner, brought papermaking to any
thing like perfection. The first ap-
proach to a pen was the stylus, kind
Of iron bodkIn, but the Romans for
babe its use on account of it's frequent
and even fatal use in quarrels, and
then it was made of bone. Subse-
quently reeds, pointed and split like
pens as in the present day, were used.
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and forget, and when facts of a most
damaging kind may have to be admit
ted. to 90 into a witness box must be
the most disagreeable thing in the world
for a sensitive and candid soul. Only
consider what the young man might
have to confessl Yet he marched into
the box upright and confident, his cheek
a little flushed, without the least ap-
parent nervousness. The reason of this
was, suppose, little note which lay
in his pocket. 1t contained these
words:
My sister bids me tell you that she
will give no account at all of what took
about her relation with you. What you
say in your evidence shall go unques-
toned. NAOMI.
He went into the box, therefore, for
titled by the knowledge that he could
say anything he pleased. Let US be-
ieve that he did really conceive himself
to have been deliberately stabbed by
the girl; he so well deserved that pun
ishment that he had no doubt in his
mind as to her having done it on pur-
pose. He deposed simply that the girl
had called upon him, that there had
been an alteration, that the prisoner
seized a small paper-knife with a steel
blade, and that he remembered nothing
more.
The counsel for the defense said he
was instructed to ask him one question::
Could not the wound have been inflicted
by accident?
Witness said that he could not say.
There were no other questions asked,
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ishments one reads with equanirnity.
Well, he himself had become even as
great villain. That mans heart must
be as hard as the neither milestone, who
could thus send to a felon's prison the
girl whom he had loved and betrayed,
to whom he had promised so much and
lied SO foully. But he went away
bravely, with quite color in his cheek;
a handsome young man, as some of the
women in the court whispered to each
other, and no doubt abomina bly, treated
by the wicked, impudent, designing,
murderous wretch who had now re-
ceived her reward, which richly she de-
served.
The counsel for The defense walked
across Fleet street TO his chambers in
the Temple, accompanied by a friend,
brie1ess but without envy.
I was thinking, Jack" he said, but
stopped.
$50 was I" said Jack.
I was thinking he began again.
That it is a beastly shame to lock
up such a pretty girl for sven years.
Yes, poor wretch. Why wouldn the
girl ask any questions? Why did she
refuse any cross-examination? Why
wouldn't she allow me to ask what the
row was about? Did you see her face,
JackH 1t wasn't murder in that face,
my friend, it was pride. She never
meant to stab him. The only question
she would suffer me to ask revealed the
truth-what had the fellow done? They
say he's the son of a rich city man, He's
a villain, Jack; he's a villain. And he's
a cur. Jack; he's cur. Well, the girl
had the sweetest face. She let that fell
low say what he pleased-she was too
proud to defend herself. Oh, he's vii
lain; he's villain. Poor child I hope
they will be kind to her. But she's got
to come out again, and her life is ru-
med"
no BE CONTINUED.
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THE most recklessly extravagant
woman has a vein of economy some
where in her composition. Economy
is born in a woman. It may not de-
velop in a manner to prove beneficial
either to herself or her husband. Yet
there will always De some point at
which she will retrench, will look
well to the pennies and think and
calculate with the ablest f1nancier.
She may be willing to pay 800 for a
gown, but will shop all over town to
save ten cents a yard on the lining.
She may spend So for a ride in the
park, but she will begrudge five cents
car fare when out shopping. She
may stint the table at one time and
be wildly extravagant at another. She
may ruin a whole garment by the de-
sire to finish it cheaply, which desire
has remorsefully seized her at the
last moment, but there is one thing
in which she never economies. When
she loves she loves with her whole
heart. There is no stint-only Civ
ing Of all the wealth of her affection.
Therefore do not laugh at her little
economies; simply remember that a
woman to be wOmanly must be just
made up of those contradictions that
seem so ridiculous to the average
masculine mind
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s.The Jerks"

The most remarkable manifesta-
tiOn of the great religious movement
which swept over this country Just
before the war of 1912 was the phys
zeal and nervous disorder known as
''the jerks The jerks took their
name from the fact that the whole
body was affected, and that in a sim
gular fashion. The arms and legs
would be thrown about, apparently
by force beyond control of the indi-
vidual; sometimes the head would be
thrown backward and forward with
great apparent violence, while occa-
siOnally the muscles of the entire
body would be affected, the individual
would fall upon the ground and
flounce like fish.
The disorder was epidemic, fire.
quently affecting great numbers at a
time, and attacked alike the ire
ligious and the pious, those who be-
lieved in it and those who did not.
A case is on record as occurring in
Tennessee, where a slave owner, a
man of great wealth and prominence,
and irreligious, called his slaves to-
.gether one Sunday morning when a
camp meeting was in progress near
ny, duQ duuOQuCSQ his QOIlOSIdU0 liz
tention of horse whipping any one of
their number who took the jerks.
SIT is all imagination, he said,
land I'll whip any one Of you that
takes it within an inch of his life"
He went to the camp meeting, and
while conversing with a friend in the
outskirts of the ground, was told that
one of his negroes had the jerks.
Selling his horsewhip he fastened
toward the spot, and when half way
was himself seized by the jerks. The
only relief obtainable from the at
tack was to seize a sapling or tree and
hold on with both hands till the fit
had passed away. The jerks usually
left their victim much Frustrated and
in more than one instance death en-
sued during and attack, from DIS
location produced by the violence of
the commissions. The jerks lasted
from 1910 until about 1916 or 1919,
and then gradually disappeared;
though in remote country districts
an occasional instance, though rare
ly occurs.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
craft.
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HER SISTERS HONOR.
A Tale Of English Life.
By Walter Besant.

Il cannot bear it. How can I tell herr
Oh, wish was deadl How can tell
her? will kill myself" She wrung
her hands, looking round the room as If
for some help or comfort there.
They all say that, said the man.
But they don't do it, you know"
She pushed back her hair; then she
tore of her bonnet and let it fall, as if
the sight Of it oppressed her. The wild
look III her eyes and her white cheeks
frightened the man-brute as he was.
Come, Ruth, he said, -be more SEN
sible. Consider-think little. Let US
part friends" He held out his hand as
one who seeks to cOnciliate. In it was
the little dagger.
She snatched it from him. mo, she
cried. Il will never tell Naomi. You
may tell her-you. I will kill myself.
Yes-let me gO-let me go. will kill
myself.
She fought with the strength Of despair
while he tried to wrench the weapon
from her hand. Then his-her-feet
caught, and they fell upon the fiOor-he
undermost.
When the girls shrieks called in the
housekeeper from the next set of cham
bers. she was standing over Mr.. Harry
Stoke, who lay on his back-white in the
face-lying in his blood. Upon her
dress was blood; upon her hands was
blood, and in her right hand the paper
knife which she had torn from the ribs
of the wounded man was dripping blood.
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An Egg-stealing Snake.

When the farmer in South Africa
loses his eggs on several successive
nights he does not load his gun with
No. shot, and, with his handker-
chief tied tightly around his head SO
as to cover his nose, lie in wait in the
darkness for a certain little black and
white animal to appear in the hen
coop. The black and white animal is
an American, not a South African,
institution. The South African
farmer needs not the handkerchief
nor the gun; he requires only small
stick and a strong lantern. With
these, if he ventures out into the
coop when the fowls are squawking
in alright, he may be able to bring to
justice a low creeping thief in the
shape of a snake. The process will
be the more easy because his snake
ship, who is only about two feet long,
will have increased the weight and
size of his head to the extent of one
egg. His mouth is just big enough
to take in one egg, leaving the tongue
to play about on the outside.
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CHAPTER V.
THE CASE

The case, which came on for trial a
few weeks later was very briefly and
imperfectly reported in the papers. The
facts, as they appeared in the reports,
were neither sensational nor interest
ing. A certain Ruth Heron, aged 81,
unmarried, was charged with stabbing
and wounding with intent to murder one
Henry Stoke. The prisoner was repre-
scented by counsel, but there was prac-
tically no defense, and the jury found
their verdict without leaving the box.
In passing sentence, the judge told
the prisoner that only a prOviuential
interposition had prevented her
from being charged with actual muir
der; he should sentence her to the
term of seven years penal servitude.
The prisoner, who appeared perfectly
unmoved, then left the dock.
AS reported, the case looked like
nothing more than a common street
brawl among drunken and disorderly
persons. There are thousands of un-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-22
A Patent Fisherman.

One Of the ODDITIES Of the Columbia
River is the civilians patent fish
ing Wheel" an automatic disciple Of
Walton, which stands on the Oregon
side of the river about mile below
the famous cascade. The whole de-
wise consists of jetty Of rocks built
out from the shore with an outside
sluiceway in which the gigantic ''fish-
ing whee1 constantly revolves. 1t is
an undershot wheel, and, having been
built at a time when the river was
remarkably low, can be raised or
lowered according to the stage Of
water. The persons who built this
odd piscatorial device understood the
habits and instincts of the salmon,
the f1nny beauty for whose capture it
was specially erected, it being well
known that IN making their ''runs"
they follow the shore line instead of
taking to the middle of the stream.
A sluicewaY to the slackwater caused
by the jetty has been built, and the
salmon in attempting to go through
this are caught IN the net buckets
that are fastened to the arms of the
fishing wheel and safely deposited in
a trough. This trough or gutter
communicates with the ':round-up''
pen on shore, where the "catch'' is
canned and shipped to all parts Of
the world. Besides several hundred
young fish unfit for canning, from
l, 500 to 3, 600 adult salmon are caught
every day in Williams fishing novelty,
and it is safe to say that there is not
a more curious machine in the world
to-day. Louis Republic.
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A Big Pie.

The Fall River butchers and gro
GERS have arranged for the making of
an immense pie to be carried in their
procession next month. Tt will weigh
2, 900 pounds and be 8 feet long, 5
teet wide and two feet thick. It viii
contain 500 pounds of beef, 400 Of
mutton, and 500 of fowl, 300 Of POI
tatoes and a barrel of flour will be
used in making the crust.
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THE city Of New York has 1857
miIlionaires. In a 7-cent lodging
house in that city, missionary col
Iected 81. IS for the Grant monument
fund. Most of the subscribers earn
not more than 80 cents a day. But
the point is evident, Grant is to have
his tomb, and we won't rub some
things too deep.
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s'THERE is a provincial notion in
this country, says Mr.. SmalleY, Lon
don correspondent or the New York
Tribune, s'that England must get the
worst of any arbitration whatever, so
that arbitration itself is not popu-
lar.n That means that the average
Englishman is so sure that his gov
eminent is always right to the full
extent of its claims that any abate-
ment or compromise of them is I'M
lust. Yet outside of England the
British government is not usually re-
garded as the embodiment of fairness.
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Bnsiness Gbanres.

A POSITION OF secretary in reliable
"A manufacturing company 10 3 party Win
soOOO t. a. 1000, with good saafy ana N:
pIest on investment; reference. SAf Il
AND SOUND TIihMne Onlce.
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FURNISHED Rooms

~ LAFAYETTE PLACE. bnrse
as weekly snail rooms foI scnt.ehicn, 20.
~ SYST III EAST.-Newly furn,snrtd
II large and small rooms all oo'''"'
enccs reasonable; references.
- EAST i23D-ST.-Elecsnuy inf"i'"'N
d rooms II let reasonable rsg-e. -
STsT.. pa WEST. Two larae a,h ng" or
IL furnished rooms, I'd floor; tog. u,.' VI
scparats modern improvements owner- --
o.o WFsT l2D T.-Fyrnished rcons 20
700 let family private; rent nouo,"s,
ZOO pACIPlC-ST., between AilHny
1900 ana Troy ayes, RrooHiy ,mnroye.
ly furnished floor OF 8 rooms n,.e,icpt TO
Rridge. no other tenants. Rent. So
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furnished 6ouses h)anteb.

-
WI NTFD.-Smsu furnished cottage or
w part Of house. near good fishing pre-
ferred: rent not over $50 PCT m0nth. PHIL
LIPS & WELLS, Tribune Building.
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Real estate.

0ONDIT. CITY and County Real Estate,
u removed TO 81 West 23d-st
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Uressmakine.


A RTIsTIC DRESSMAKING; perec.
"A 5,tine costumes jackets and WRAPS,
handsome dresses. si2. Nine. OWEN. -'-
West 23d-st.
4 RTIsTIC DREssMAKING,.uni9usn oS.
"A signs orders at short noties anu ND ND,
e,nte charges goods purchased " acsni- vSnss
Mrs. McELR0Y. 81 East 3th-st. oppo'''0
DenDings.
ORESsMAKER.-G Good dressmakcr TO go
Dout by the day u 20 per Gay D tsed =,
ercnce. Miss J. BRozMAN, liz D. i--u-ss-
nKEssMAKING.- We'll cut, Pefi nr,scs
ID ting dresses made at moderate p,rncSS
10 ~ ILL. aud des!Rns. NJ. MACCARkON'
81 Fast i0th.st.. near Broadway
n RESSMARER from Paris dresses ss, ~, w.
- every style latest fashions shof' "o
tice. Nine. GLASS. ~ west t4,n.ss .--.
CLovE.FIrTING SUITS mae sut tr "nd NJ
tho ffss lining free Of charge. Miss MAI
LOR, oo3 kaSt Stst-St-
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AT BRANCH OFFICES,
Advertisements received at regular omes
rates until D. m. ".
25t shave. ). e. cor OF -od-st.
10 Cth.aye. cor. 18th st. ,s..
115 Colunbus-ave, near west ooen'es
JOG West l2i.st., near Oth-ave.
% West i4th.st., near 5th-ayc.
o59 West ied st. bet. eth and 9Th ayes.
l5- 4tn-aye.. cor. litb-st
a3s ri ave, between 10th and 77th sts.
a93 8d.ave., between 18th ind 10Th sts
01j 3d-ave., near 6lst-st.
,1O3 1st-ave., near syth.st
fUO 3d-ave., corner t1th.At.
hSI 3d.ave' near East 31th-st.
So Avenue A, between Sd and 4th avea
AZ Canal.st. and l57 Divison-st.
l49 Church.st, bet. Warren and Cham
bers sts.
60 Liberty-st.. near broadway.
HARLEM OFFICES:
1S6 Fast 125th.st.. near 3d-ave.
2l3 West 126th.st.. bet tn and 9Th sves'
$50 West 1t5th-st
BROOELYN OFFICES:
3o7 Fulton.st.. 63 Conrt-st. sos pc Kao'
! eva. LOO Dedfor6-ave. - b'W0s/
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Real estate tl)anteo

.trac. mountain Wild
w land in one body, Northein n. j.,
cheap for cash. BoA %z-' "o"iso"' ~ -
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n)ork Uante6.

Females.
A FOREIGN LADY with highest refer'
"A encts and long and successful expert
enco in New-York City, wishes pos,ooi,i
for the summer; violin and piano r, VIM.
painting in oil. water and mineral Al
dress S. S. E.. 1,227 Broadway.
A YOUNG LADY wants any light woik
n had experience In q store and ONCE !;
reference. j. NJ j.. IL Fast 5s'h-'t.
A ADVERTISEMENTS AND suBsGRIP-
n TONS FOR THE NEW-iORh ThlB-
uNE WILL Re RECEIyED n A. dME Va a
door north Of Thirty.nrstst.; and ADvEk'
1lSENENTS at the following Branch 81;
fees: oji sth-aye 5, 2: cor 2Sa,se ro no.
l3S c sSInsr Forty y
seventa.st. OPS Thiri.ate, near SIXTY
Gr.t.st. i. 7os First.ave lo6 West Forty
second.st 175 columeus;ave; " iioeftS 81
w No Four,eentS.st. 81 West i2d;s,. 14s
Church St. 5jf Thirdave. l. 33S Ihlrd.aye.
ID HYSICIAN'S daughter is anxious TO So.
cure position assistant boohkeepeI anu
genera! oIhcc work, including typewf,yhs /,
references from pre,ccn ont employer -'N'''
SrENoGRAPUER and TYPEwRITER.--
- Lady beginner, thoroughly drilled IN
i esp ,' house. Address TYPEWRITER.
90 Montgomery-st.. Jersey CITY.
CTLNOGKArHER and TYPEWRITER
- Young lody (beeinherj, letters ritcu.
lars. specifications assist In oilcr WORK I;
small salary TO start. 30 Centre-st.. Or
ange. y. j.
STENOGRAPHF H AND TYPFWRlTEK.
- Has had over years experience Win
knowledge Of bookkeeping salary. ~ per
week. LOUISA MAS. 100 Fast 6tth.st.
< TEXOGRAPHER.- Young lady desires
- posltlon In New-York or vicinity
ropld accurate: speed In shorthand over
100: some experience. Addrr.s .. A. W..
so Austin-st. bridgeport. Conn.
N, ANTED.-A situation a. stenoerapher
w and typewriter; gOod reforerces. "A
dress ELLA HAiIEE, Ign, ont, CANADA
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flats 90 Get, Hnfnr nishe0

LACK BUILDING, PSI 6th-ave., en-.
ID trance East 2sth-st. sunny apart
ments large ana medium sHs Apply 10
UND EPHILL & FRANCIS. c97 6thave
~ LEGANT oil light rooms .tam heat
Ia decorated. and every way desirable.
40 West o4th.st., New-York.
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Dressmakina.

= TYLIsH DRESSES, s12 up; set..fac'
~ ton guaranteed work shown. Mne.
OATES. $40 West 23d.st.
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miscellaneous.


A PATENT OBTAINED. $40; 20 years
experience best references. GEORGE
Y. THOMAS 80 Nassau
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Boar0 Uante0.

w ANTED. -First-class board ulfe, roon ON !,
w for three adults. n h!iy cS 6,s,nH. n hs.
lske orNryer; not over 80 90 VT 18th. ST.
Y. Y. City,
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Citp Real estate for Sale.

INVESTMENT.-Near Grand Central Dc
4 pot; might exchange equity over $40
900 at per cent ;. NIXON, go B'way.
NEAR 5TH-AVE. and 6lST ST.-Eltgant
house. side light. equal 10 corner, =
story extension. S. NIXON. 80 Broadway.
. STORY APARTMENT HOUSE; built
. for Investment 10 minutes ilom wal.
st.. \. Y; magnificent view fashionable
location; might exchange equity oyer
1928. 600 at Az per cent. c. II. BLISS.
Tie Rutland Broadway and 57th-st.. n. Y.
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domestic 8itnations Uanteo

Males
THE TRIBUNE
i Uptown once.
1242 Broadway. I'd door north OF 3lst-st.
Advertisements and subscriptions
received there until o'clock D. m.